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Mornin’ peeps, whassup?
Eh, I think my netbook is on the way out. It’s old as all hell but even with the USB NIC I put in, the upload I started to youtube last night was at 75% when I went to bed last night and is at 98% now despite not being that big overall.
Netlimiter is telling me that the transfer rate is flickering on & off at about 2K/s every so often, I’m guessing it’s the machine rather than youtube or IE since I’ve never seen that behaviour from either of them on other machines… Might have to transition to using my media PC as an upload machine
Anyone else toying with the idea of getting a Steam machine? I’ve looked at the Alienware Alpha, but it seems a little expensive for what it is. I like the idea of a single box for under the TV, and the execution and distribution of games seems good, but that price, wow…
Do the prices get adjusted for Australia?
…Can we even order them here?
JB hifi have them:
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/Search/results/?keywords=alienware%20alpha
I get that a high-end PC costs money to make, but these aren’t really hitting the price point that’ll make console gamers jump ship.
That i3 isn’t badly priced at all. I was looking at a similar specc’d machine for a file server kinda dealy, without a dedicated GPU and 4tb of storage it came to like 120 bucks less, with a lesser CPU, no wifi, no bluetooth and no operating system.
I mainly play on consoles and I have a decent PC hooked up to a TV in the bedroom. There is literally zero reason I can see as to why I should want one of these things.
because our lord and saviour Gabe Newell demands it!
I will be interesting to see what other makers bring to the table. Alienware have always been super pricey. Probably not looking at a steam machine but the steam link is of great interest to me
Nah I’m too addicted to building and optimizing my own stuff to do that… Whacked steamOS on a laptop once though, went: “Neat” and promptly installed Win7 on it again 😛
I can certainly see an appeal for a Steam Machine but there would have to be a significant price drop for me to even consider the notion of a PC dedicated to Steam
Not really. Seems bad value for money.
Yesterday on Reddit, people were talking about sites they used to spend a lot of time on. Gaia Online came up. Holy shit did I spend a lot of time there.
Gaia is a forum with little dress up dolls. To dress up your avatar, you need to earn gold to buy items. When I started back in 2004, earning 40,000g to buy some Fairy Wings from the store was considered a reasonable quest for new users. I went a little overboard and earned 400,000g to buy an Angelic Sash (a limited edition item you got by donating to the site) from another user.
From there I became a bit of a market whore and when I quit the site, I had tens of millions of gold worth of items. Maybe hundreds of millions. The numbers are fuzzy because I didn’t care.
For reference, this is what my little doll looked like. I alternated between a male and female avatar based on what I wanted to look like, mostly because I was pretty rich.
It turns out that after the site got sold off and they introduced some new stuff, inflation really took hold. My sash, that I paid 400k for and was worth several million when I quit, is now worth several billion. Dozens of items on my account are worth billions or even hundreds of billions of gold. My mule account, that I stored extra items on, is currently worth 4.5 trillion gold.
It’s honestly amazing to see how the economy of the site, an economy that was once carefully managed and only showing minor signs of inflation, has gone to complete and utter shit. Items that were unobtainable, even to someone like me who could earn ridiculous amounts of gold when that meant something, can be bought for a mere couple of billion gold.
I’d love to see a proper analysis of how it all went to shit. A valueless digital currency made completely worthless after years of management. My basic understanding of how collectible marketplaces work comes almost entirely from Gaia. A basic understanding of how those marketplaces shit themselves would also be fun to have.
I used to spend my high school years on a emulation forum. I think it’s where part of my personality came from; especially where I became such a cynical, jaded old man.
Sometimes I go back there and see what’s up because old habits die hard I guess… but it’s like… Do you guys ever run into old friends have a chat, and then come to the quick realisation that they’re a-holes?
And then you think “Oh my god… if they’re a-holes, I must have been an a-hole! How did I not see this before? These people are the cancer of society!”.
I mean, at least with you guys, you’re all jerks but we all know it.
Let’s put it this way, I was part of a group called Gaia’s Prominent Members.
In fairness, that was a time when the GD was pretty small and there really were a handful of standout members who everyone knew. Then those people receded into their private guilds or left Gaia.
Then the GD got big, and everyone was trying really hard to be someone, to be the unflushed turd nugget in the mighty ocean of piss.
The hangout threads in GD really helped keep things together. Booting everyone off into guilds kind of made it hard for any particular voice to stand out without spamming/trolling.
Admittedly, I think at least one of us was involved in getting rid of the hangout threads from GD.
The GD pretty much ground to a standstill during my month-long reign of terror as a mod. People realised how many of their “discussion” threads were really just bullshit spam/hangouts when I started turfing them to the Chatterbox and I think they ultimately decided they liked it better that way.
Discuss: Cheese.
Wait are you… are you serious? Is cheese a slang word here, or can I finally throw down about my favourite Brie?
@janexo The General Discussion forum on Gaia (GD, where Kermi and I hung out) had a sticky outlining how threads were meant to be made. All threads had to generate discussion and people tried to get around it by adding “discussion tags”. The example from the sticky about how not to do it was “Discuss: Cheese”.
So yes, this is an in joke from a decade ago.
God.Damn.It
😉
I logged back in and somehow successfully navigated to a list of my own topics, which includes a number of Chatterbox threads I created in a deluded attempt to unlock the “invisible” achievement, when for some reason I thought I was going to go back and actually spend time on Gaia again back in 2008.
I think I reached peak wankerness with this post, which was an expression of my feelings on “returning” to the GD after being away for a couple of years:
This was met with the response:
Which says it all, really.
Oh, and here’s my little cyber dolly, unchanged for 1,565 days apparently.
I used to hang out on /b/ and hl2world’s spin-off Flamehaus forum. So many a-holes
Neopets!
Oh no 🙁 I wonder how my Scorchio, Shoyru and Lupe are doing.
Ha /b/ those were the days.. Got a mate who now frequents 4chan specifically /b/ makes me wonder if he missed out on 4chan in his teen years or something given the amount of stuff he links to me and my other mates from there lol.
I don’t know how anyone sticks around any of the chans for too long. I was on /b/ and /v/ for a decent while. Maybe a year or two. Once I left, I never looked back and any time I see chan culture pop up on other sites I just facepalm.
Yeah, i’m not sure either.. There was this time in my teen years when 4chan was new and the cool place to go on the internet, but that soon fizzled out.
Wait, when you were a teenager?
Wasn’t that when dinosaurs roamed the Earth?
For me it was Roleplaying MUSHes. I still have a few folks reaching out to try to tempt me to play again, but nooooooope. That hobby devours hours like no other.
I do still have a few of the old chatlogs, though, fondly remembered. They were the primary tool for logging the RP, but a lot of nattering always got caught up in it.
What it highlights is that I was a lot more naive, then. Also, much, much funnier. I wonder what happened…
Holy fuck.. Gaia online, there’s something I haven’t been on in like 10 years..
Reminds me what else I was apart of back then too, Pure Pwnage was big back then, that was a great community, made a fair few mates from that place. Same with a Green Day forum I was part of. When I think about it, it’s kind of a shame forums like I remember are a thing of the past now.
Places like Reddit have really killed the old BBS. Content driven sites with active communities are just much easier to draw people towards.
True. Shame I think Reddits layout is awful, otherwise I may actually go there haha.
You get used to it. Reddit Enhancement Suite helps.
So a mild case of Stockholm syndrome?
Severe.
@kermitron You still have the zombie skin too. Damn. I kind of wish I had kept my colossal clusterfuck avatar.
They made some changes to the avatar system at some point that stopped it from working. I also had a topless batgirl avatar at some point.
I think it’s a vampire skin actually, I’m not sure. It’s very similar to the zombie skin but I think the eyes are different and there’s a little fang in the corner of the mouth I can’t change it to have a better look because it reverts to the standard anime-ish style when I change anything. I think awhile back they were going to make it possible to choose skins from old events since people liked them so much but I wouldn’t be able to tell you how that’s possible. The site is so different from when I last visited it regularly that I don’t even know how to navigate it anymore.
Overall a decent weekend this time around… Had a rather deep and long talk with the missus about where we’re headed, goals, values and other things that are rather boring to other peoples people then her and me :P… Safe to say it put a lot of concerns and doubts at rest and I’m feeling pretty freaking happy with the future at the moment \o/
Sunday was board games and more board games… Star Munchkin, Stone Age, Carcasonne, Ticket to Ride and Takenoko was played and it was great fun…
Tops weekend all up 11/10 would play again
Board games \o/
I played so much Sentinels this weekend, both Tabletop Sim and Real-life Sim. GLORIOUS.
I played nothing /o\
I really should join you guys for table top sim… Give me a shout out next time you play and have a spot open, and I’ll jump in as well… If you guys wouldn’t mind of course
I’m up for more tonight, personally!
Depending on how late it is I may be too, I have to get up at 5 am all week so can’t stay up too late because I’m an old man and need my sleep XD
I like a game where I can play as a Time Cowboy and a Guy-that-can-turn-into-a-Crocodile
I think this is the most board games we’ve crammed into a day so far! We started relatively early though and most games were relatively quick, except for Stone Age and Ticket to Ride(Ticket to Ride was the fancy 10th anniversary edition which my brother-in-law paid way to much for as well!)
I really want to spend just the right amount on the fancy 10th anniversary edition. One day, that might be possible.
It is pretty amazing looking with its spruced up carriages, in individual tins etc etc but as far as I understand he paid a crazy amount for it… He wouldn’t tell me how much aside from that is the most expensive game he owns 😛
That sounds amazing. I’m actually looking to buy Ticket to Ride atm, and this is very tempting…
Ticket to Ride: Europe is probably the safer bet. Better map and it costs half as much.
Sure, you don’t get the shiny, shininess that is the Anniversary Edition but if you don’t have any TTR games then Europe is the best starting point.
Sorry, I should have made myself clearer. I have played Ticket to Ride with my brother and family, but they live far away so it’s time to get my own copy! Europe is still probably the way to go though, so I can introduce the game more easily to friends 🙂
Ah, good old D&Ms with the missus. Not so fun but wholly necessary!
Stumbled across a neat collection of vidya gaems yesterday.
Hope ya’ll are well on this fine Monday morning.
Whoa.
Woah is right. I love the comments on the site, too.
“I’m 27, but I would very much like to be adopted by this family.”
And my favourite: “I bet Gamestop would give you like ten bucks for that.”
*faints
I picked up Space run on the weekend, it seemed interesting and a “new spin” on the Tower Defence genre, where you have to build upgrades onto a cargo ship floying through space to defend it from pirates etc. It seemed like you would progressively upgrade your ship in some sort of career mode, facing an ongoing series of challenges.
What you really get is a puzzle game where you have to run the same mission over and over until you figure out the perfect alignment of upgrades to adequately defend yourself then click like mad to repair everything between waves of almost impossible enemies. At first I thought “this game has a really steep learning curve” but that’s not strictly true. The game teaches you the basics then you run into a wall. You spend three hours learning to climb that wall then when you get to the top you find out that the other side of the wall instead of an obstacle course, there is a vast maze with a single meandering path through the middle, and if you ever look down any of the side passages someone punches you in the face and makes fun of how stupid you look, bleeding like that.
It was on sale for $3.74 USD ($4.98 AUD) and I am glad I didn’t pay more than that.
Looking for other tower defence-style games I remembered I have Castle Storm and spent a few hours on it again. Great fun.
That exchange rate is pretty great!
Damn it, I proof-read that post like five times because I can’t edit posts at work and didn’t see the missing decimal point. 😛
Edit: Never mind, turns out I CAN edit my posts at work now. I got a laptop to replace my PC last week so I guess this one actually works. All proofreading can go to hell!
It is basically galaxy truckers the video game.
I love galaxy truckers but considering the missus has spacial issues it isn’t one that I’ll buy
I’m really enjoying it and will probably play it through until the end. It is a game that really appeals to me. I do love me some TD, it practically based on a board game I really enjoy and the humour in it hits just the right not for me.
I loved most things about it – the humour, the style, the characters, the visual design, the mechanics, etc. I just don’t like the way the levels are more of a level-to-level puzzle than a career progression. I guess I don’t mind being destined to fail until I figure out the level and try, try again once you learn the pattern of enemies etc., but Space Run took it to a frustrating extreme, which is why I went running back to Castle Storm which is downright casual by comparison – as I’m sure you well know since you’re at the top of my friends leaderboards on that as well. 😛
CASTLE STORM \o/
Love that game, which I guess you could work out considering I’ve gone through and100%’d it
I haven’t had much trouble with space run so far, I didn’t have to restart a mission until I got to Weirdling modules or whatever it is called. I think it will get very, very puzzle like if I decide to 100% it and trying to get 5 stars on all missions. So I can see where you are coming from but for me at the moment whatever on the fly strat I’m using seems to get me through
Yeah, Weirding Modules was the mission I got up to as well. I tried re-doing some earlier missions to grind some upgrades to weapons and whatnot but it just made me lose interest.
Busy weekend. Friday night I got invited around to Wingman’s place, she had Pillowmaker and a few others over. Partway through the night I got a call from a highschool friend, turned out he was staying fairly nearby at his girlfriend’s place, I usually end up staying the night so we organised to meet up for breakfast the next day. Had a good catch up, finally got to meet his girlfriend after god knows how long, then we went off to catch a movie, Focus. Though along the way I discovered that the grinding gravely sound I heard in the carpark was actually coming from my car’s window, and on trying to take a (hands-free, of course) call in the car discovered that the window would no longer wind up. Great. So that was a pretty tense movie, sitting there hoping that my car would still be there when we got back. Thankfully it was, along with everything inside it.
Got back home from that with just slightly not enough time to have a quick shave and shower before the Wingman and Pillowmaker showed up, being driven by another of their friends. They were going to Mardi Gras, and I got invited along so figured hey, never actually been before. Why not. Once we’d parked in the city, luck of all luck we managed to run into Sketchbook coming down the street. Don’t think we’ve seen her since early last year. So she joined us for dinner, yet another good catch-up. Then we parted ways, and the rest of us went on a big long walk to go and stand around watching people bounce down a street. The ground seemed to be covered in a million pieces of gum, all our shoes were just caked with leaves and crap stuck to them. Weird.
Yesterday was a total write-off, terrible terrible sleep. This morning I’ve taken my car down to get looked at, the guy reckons it’ll be somewhere from 200-400 to fix. Oh and also on Friday night my Majora nXL sold for over $300, so that was nice. Just took it down to the post office to get sent off. Glad that’s out of the way.
Now to figure out what else needs doing. Spoiler: A lot.
Oh yeah, the worst part. Saturday night was the breaking-in of the woodfire pizza oven we got Mum for Christmas. So I missed out on that 🙁
Goooooooood morning pumpkins.
Weekend rundown:
Friday night: MEAT! Oh boy. Way less scary than I thought, and super good. Thanks to ALL of you Taybes, but especially to @alexpants for tolerating sitting next to me, @powalen for being very sweet and to @DC for making a girl feel special, haahah 😉 Also, got far more drunk than I intended to, so oops.
Saturday: nursing that hangover, good lord. Also being hung over in 33 degree heat at a children’s party is weird. But I got to hang out with my brothers which was surprisingly funny.
Sunday: went for a night ride and it was totally awesome.
Here’s to a good week!
Was excellent meeting you! You were a hit! A HIT! *decisive nod*
Don’t know where you got ‘sweet’ from after that horrible first impression 😛 but it was great meeting you too! I had fun.
True story, when I kept leaving the table I was going outside and pacing. I had a little freak out. XD
On the plus side, contactable via SMS to order food.
Take your victories where you can get ’em, right?
You’re still the TAYbie I find most terrifying to speak to one-on-one, so my freakout was compounded by the fact that I had to subject you to awkward hermit small talk. SORRY MAN.
Awh, I’m not that scary, surely? That’s kind of the opposite of what I’m going for with friends. Well, if there’s anything I can do to put you at ease, lemme know. 🙂
Nah, the problem is mine. I was just on high alert any way, because of all the people. ALL THE PEOPLE. *flails arms*
Yeah, it’s always good to see everyone, but small meats are pretty great, too. You get to hear what everyone’s saying without having your attention divided, or have to seat-hop like I did to make sure you can even just say hi to everyone.
I figured it was something like that. Do whatever you need to survive, friend ;D
Oh hush, you were all lovely and coy and polite, haha.
Ooh, horrible first impressions? I need details.
Is it better or worse than that time I introduced myself to Rocketto’s Girlfriend by saying “My God, Rocket wasn’t kidding when he said you were tiny!”
Definitely not that bad 😛 I’m doing a write-up now.
When I met Freya I said: “I thought you were a midget!”
D:
It was fun!
I have envy!
The result of having an hour to kill on a Sunday afternoon.
Sydney TAYbies Movie World Adventure
Gotta get ready for a 50 point Warmachine tournament.
As someone who grew up playing Warhammer when I hear of 50 point games I think “wow that’s a tiny game of 2-4 troops” even though I know better.
A friend of mine wants to instruct me in the ways of 40K so he wants to kick things off with a ‘small’ game of 500 points and go up from there. I’m going to need a hell of a lot more models if we get to 2,000 points.
Tanks tanks and more tanks (may not be the most flexible army but fills the points quickly) 🙂 Any armies that you’re interested in getting?
I have some Eldar models that I’m looking to build on. Still need to get around to painting and assembling them as well so there’s more time and money I need to spend.
There’s always more money to spend with Warhammer lol.
A couple of different models that could change your whole play style.
I found it helped a lot with my motivation when I made sure my models were assembled first and started playing with them. I got much more attached and quickly wanted to spend the time getting them up to scratch.
Don’t ever be afraid to mix things up either and do things that aren’t in the conventional rules. Some of the best fun can be had that way if you and your friends agree lol.
Are you playing the new league rules with the hero advancement? I’ve just joined a small local league and am currently trying to get enough experience to get my Skalock thrall to turn into a flying bomb.
League is on but we weren’t playing with those rules. It would be unfair for those who have managed to get a large amount of experience or those who weren’t participating.
My weekend was good – Luna Park on friday, Mardi Gras at a pub overlooking the parade on saturday and sleep yesterday.
Also introduced Anton to Star realms, He really likes it too. So it looks like our current rotation of gamings will be Roll for the Galaxy and Star Realms. Until I get a new laptop that is. I’m really having withdrawal symptoms
How is everyone else going?
I picked up Star Realms from that Humble Bundle. Not sure when it’s being shipped but I doubt I’ll see it this month.
I have the Android version though, should really give it a try.
It’s really good. I enjoy it a lot.
People were talking it up right before the humble bundle hit. Then I got the bundle and suddenly everyone shut up about it.
probably because they don’t have time to talk because they’re addicted
That seems likely.
I ended up picking up an extra physical copy so I can play with 3 or 4 if needed 🙂
Morning friends, happy labour day for everyone in victoria.
I’m stuck in a completely empty office for the next 7 and a half hours because my helpdesk must always be manned when it’s not a national holiday. I’m super sick and really didn’t want to come in, but no one actually puts things through today and I get paid double time and a half, so I sucked it up, rode in and am getting some data entry done.
I think I’m finally ready to move on from Destiny after it’s basically sucked all my gaming time for the past 7 months, might give alien isolation some love. How is everyone?
Oh man. I have to go back to Alien: isolation.
I gave up in despair after the fucker caught me in a locker in the medical section. I had subconsciously been labouring under the delusion that I might possibly be the first person in the world to not die in the game. Now, in my head-canon, Amanda is dead and Sevastapol doomed.
Turning up to work even when sick is totally virtuous and will earn you some karma to spend away on something truly sinful. Think of it as banking up fun sin later!
Well, I took last thursday off because I couldn’t keep my balance and everything was a fever dream … figured it was safer to stay in bed than attempt the ride in. Came in on friday because I could stand and I genuinely hate having to spend half my day in a doctors office just for a medical certificate. Everyone was saying I looked like death and should leave, I ended up getting to leave 10 minutes early.
In Alien Isolation, think I’ve gotten up to comms section where you’re supposed to send a message to the Torrens and it just gut punches you and says no! go away! Probably the best and worst decision was to play that with my good headphones and that game becomes a fantastic creeping with noise maker at the ready simulator. My goal is to not encounter the alien at all. I’ll make it feel so isolated!
Yeah, that was my goal, too… then at one point, it just… well. You’ll see.
Damn if that thing isn’t horrifyingly beautiful in the way it just kind of uncoils and almost drips out of the ceiling.
I could be wrong, but that may be the part you get up to before the installation is complete? I haven’t played nj ages either, I get to the part where you pick up the scanner for the first time but I ran away from the people and was too scared to get out of the locker lol.
I was playing a bit more tonight, had my first death because I heard a noise, froze while I tried to figure out where it was and then an android was beating the crud out of me and I didn’t want to use the handgun because noise. I’ve just found samuels and whats her face in the med sector and decided I’d had enough dread for the night
How does one summon up the great Cody? @cody @ynefl @code-e ???
What’s the word on Freedom Wars?
I’m suddenly interested & wasn’t before.
Someone help me out here, what’s Cody’s tag???
You’re guess is as good as mine … @ynefel ?
Oh my god! What a guess!
No need to thank me but expect a bill in the mail.
Cheers
@ynefel
Also, cheers
@bloodymary
@sanchorodriguezcalimarivontuestio
Sia’s Chandelier music video without the music is slightly terrifying.
Hello nightmares.
To be fair, the video’s slightly terrifying with the music.
Ooh also on Sunday I played a bunch of games!
– Full Throttle (got a SCUMM emulator running, except my Mac is running Mountain Lion and there’s a discrepancies with the OS’s APIs, and anyway, it just meant I could only run it windowed, instead of full screen, but still, amazing as always).
– CounterSpy (really fun, but the cover mechanic is a bit janky)
– Hotline Miami (listening to a podcast instead of the -awesome- soundtrack actually makes that game easier)
– Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments (totally bummed out by how bad this is)
It’s possible to play Hotline Miami without the soundtrack? Why would anyone do that to themselves?
Have to agree. The soundtrack elevates Hotline Miami to being a truly great game. Just by itself the game can be frustrating but the music keeps you coming back.
Oh, don’t get me wrong – I looooove that soundtrack. I work out to it, but I’m so used to hearing it in long play because of that, you know? So it feels very disjointed only hear small segments of the songs during the missions, and I think that is a contributing factor to the stress and failure rate in the game.
Some of the sequel’s music is online, and sounds pretty good.
Oh yeah, I saw that HM2 soundtrack just this morning on youtube on the way in to work! I’d been listening to the full run-through of the HM1 soundtrack but thanks to dicking around with itunes it wasn’t on my phone and I’d had to go the rough and dodgy way of ripping from teh ‘tubes.
I didn’t start listening to the soundtrack outside of the game until I had beaten the game. So it works just fine for me.
I liked Sherlock but I went in with zero expectations and the first two cases are pretty average. But yeah, if you’re not feeling it, you’re not feeling it.
FULL THROTTLE! *flails arms*
Felt the same way about CounterSpy. Very fun most of the time, let down by mechanics for the rest.
I must not have been paying attention to the tut for Counterspy, because I just kept doing missions for each side, not realising that was counter intuitive. Oops.
Full throttle, the first game to make me want to ride a motorcycle.
What is the main characters name again? I’m thinking Danny.
Ben!
THANK YOU!!!
Ben Throttle 😀
Discuss: Cheese
Jarlsberg!
It’s nutty, it’s sweet, it’s tender, it’s smooth and it’s criminally underrated and underused.
Making a sandwich? Slap some Jarlsberg in it. It’ll be great!
What’s that you say? You have a dairy allergy and can’t eat cheese?
I’m sorry, did I god damn stutter? The next time you make a sandwich, put. Some. JARLSBERG. In. It.
Chevre is pretty damned amazing.
I like kolbe
Well,I’ll just sit over here by myself in the corner eating this block by my lonesome *sobs*
Jarlsberg is the standard cheese up in Denmark as opposed to cheddar down here… I have nothing else to add other than Jarlsberg is a pretty cool guy
*takes picture*
St. Angel.
I’m not really a sophisticated cheese guy. Give me a bitey piece of aged cheddar and I’m pretty happy.
Eww, Jarslberg. Havarti’s where it’s at!
What on earth is “Jarslberg”?
Jarlsberg is eww, too. @ruffleberg is not bad, though. 😛
…I wouldn’t put him in a sandwich though.
😉
I love me some strong creamy cheese. Triple cream brie and I are lovers forever.
Yeah, I don’t know from cheese much. I like brie and camembert, good and meltied on crackers (or pizza – thank you, Dominos for showing us the way! You’re not as bad as everyone says!) but can never remember the names of the cheeses my fancier middle brother keeps trotting out.
Except for blue cheese. Blue cheese makes me want to vomit. Because it smells like it. I remember THAT one, for safety’s sake… to avoid it.
Jarlsberg is amazing on anything. But for something on it’s own, a good blue brie is where it’s at. Or a nice, spicy, crumbly vintage cheddar…
Haloumi cheese, I used to work in a Greek restaurant 10 years (DAMN IM OLD) that had an abundance of it so I are it all the time. Magnificent cheese, Greeks do food so well.
As my palette slowly is refining I’m partial to Blue and I think it’s Jarlsberg? Usually comes with a biscuit and dip platter.
Ooh haloumi! I make haloumi fries to go with delicious burgers pretty often.
Haloumi fries?…
You get it guy, you get what this whole food thing is about.
We definitely need a TAYCook Up to enjoy the culinary genius some of us no doubt have!!
Oh god, a TAY Cook Up would be the best!
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/52a474b4e4b0d82de8bb5240/t/536a161de4b0504793ed7d65/1399461415063/?format=750w – Haloumi Fries
Morning all. How was your weekend? I spent the weekend recovering from a cold that’s lingered around, but Dark Souls finally “clicked” for me. Now I’m even more excited for Bloodborne
Are you gonna start calling us skin bags too?
I think I would need to at least beat the game until I get the ability to call people skin bags haha
I’m going to guess that you rung the first bell.
I caved and broke my self-imposed media embargo. Watched a half hour run-through of Bloodborne. I was swearing so much at the asshole who refused to stop and explore… anything, who was basically speed-running and being bad, but I think it was probably for the best. I want to do the exploring myself. If the demo-player had done all that exploring FOR me, I’d know what was in all those corners and wouldn’t need to explore for myself.
You would still want to explore only to make sure that they did not miss anything.
Well, y’know. Gotta pick up all dem souls. Blood. Whatever. And constantly bash the X button in case of hidden bookshelf-doors.
I feel the same, though when I watched it I was specifically looking at how the combat differs, so I didn’t mind too much.
I had a pretty amazing weekend. Saturday I went to Hobart to see Ireland play Zimbabwe in the World Cup. It was a pretty brilliant game, probably the best match I’ve seen live. I also got to have Nandos for lunch, which is a real treat as we don’t have Nandos in Launceston. Didn’t get home until 2 am though, which sucked.
Yesterday was pretty great too. Went to church and then spent the rest of the day hanging out with my mate John because it was his birthday. Didn’t do a lot, just had lunch and watched Australia beat Sri Lanka. He lent me Old Man Logan, so I’ll be reading that some time this week.
All in all, pretty great.
This can’t be right, nobody seems to be reporting Fallout 4’s announcement :-s
Was the Bethesda press conference today?
Nah, heaps of pre PAX articles predicting it. 🙁
Ah, I guess I’m normally more tuned into hype but I’d almost forgot about PAX until Saturday morning when I got a bunch of Twitter notifications blowing up about some apparent threat against Brianna Wu.
Glad I missed that. Humans is jerks
Allegedly it was one of the Enforcers, too. Tweeted a photo of her (which he presumably took while standing maybe 15 feet away) then said some shit about having a knife with him. Like, what the fuck?
Awh hell, whaat? I thought the role of enforcer was a noble profession, one I aspired to myself one day! That’s really disheartening. I mean, it’s good to be able to actually find one of those normally-anonymous [CENSORED], but the betrayal… 🙁
You’re surprised that those assbags would be attracted to the idea of being given a measure of power and control?
@freezespreston When you put it like that… wow I’m naive still.
Maybe he was using it as a warning to anyone trying to harass her?.. maybe? That’s the best explanation I can come up with, the guy is obviously a dick.
I have more things to do today than could possibly even by a miracle be completed in one day. *puts Dragon Age on instead*
Can’t wait for Bloodborne when I’ll finally have something new to talk about! 😛
Good morning everyone. Hope you’re all well. I had to put up with the semi-parade of people walking past my house to Soundwave over the weekend because apparently taking the bus there is too hard/not cool. I didn’t get up to too much on the weekend. Cleaned house for a rental inspection on Saturday while Sunday was an attempt at playing RPGs but life intervened for everyone. That said, hell of a cliffhanger to leave on:
That moment when you have a burst cannon aimed at the back of your head because a Tau Stealth Suit sneaked up on you.Today is looking like it’ll be bad because the air-conditioning is on the fritz. Woo.
Soundwave? That was Feb 28/March 1 in Brisbane at the RNA Showgrounds. It was Future Music Festival this past weekend lol 😛
Lol just goes to show how much attention I pay to festivals. My bad.
Haha, all good. I only knew it was on this weekend because I saw a piece in the news about cops seizing something like 7,000 ecstasy tablets headed for the festival ha.
Ooooh, so that’s why there was all these extremely young people in barely any clothes at Central Station. Jimu and I were all: “THESE PEOPLE SHOULD COVER UP!” 😛
So. Damn. Old.
Seriously though, I would have been the same.
These people looked like they were 14, though. It was extremely confronting. Haha!
Oh man, that’s even WORSE lol. Still not as bad as the 18 year olds who’re at their first festival as an 18 year old. So many annoying drunk girls in groups, that is scary 😐
Hahaha. Yep. Those people at festivals are so annoying too :/
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2015/03/06/passing-the-hat-an-in-depth-look-at-the-new-kings-quest.aspx
I must play this.
I enjoyed reading that article because I played all of the King’s Quests growing up. Hearing where the familiar names were at was like catching up with old friends.
It’s a good time for me to get back into adventure games – Looking after a child makes action/real time games difficult as you constantly have to divide your attention, but solving puzzles at a leisurely pace with my kids sounds like fun.
But seriously – WHERE IS MY NEW QUEST FOR GLORY?
I bought the Sierra Bundle on GOG.com about a year ago. Every Space Quest, Police Quest, King’s Quest and Quest for Glory. Dutifully installed each and every one.
Have not played any of them. I might make that my mission now, once I finally finish the Broken Sword series and various Wadjet Eye games….
I loved that game when I was a teen. It was pretty subversive by those day’s standards. I heard there was a remake, with the main character as a woman instead, which I had pretty high on my internal list of things to get to on the pile of shame. But I now can’t find anything about it…
Do you mean this game that is easily accessible via steam and free to download
Quite likely! That sounds very familiar, even though I can’t view it here.
It is. Heroine’s Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok
I have in installed and ready to go but haven’t got around to playing it yet
Cheers mang! I don’t know how I missed this – Now I’ve got to fight this off so I won’t skip footy training tonight though 😛
Gotta level up your Con
Labour Day! \o/
Spent most of the weekend playing FIFA 15 on PC.
I’m eyeing off an Xbox 360 Controller for Windows…
Also, I picked up a decent tablet stand from Aldi yesterday.
And Max won’t stop cuddling and biting.
If you don’t mind the extra cost, I’d recommend an XBone controller. Just plug it into the PC with a micro-USB cable.
Hola Tay
My weekend is still ongoing, it’s the Adelaide Cup here!
Friday night went to the ancestral home, as my cousin and his wife are over from Canberra for a visit. Played with the puppy, who really needs to get out of her jumpy habits.
Saturday morning, went to a mate’s at gawler to help him build his Pergola. Progress was made, but pretty sore after. Sat night went to the Royal Croquet Club (part of the fringe) then to Set List, as my brother was doing a spot.
Yesterday had a bit of a nothing day, then went in to the Garden of Unearthly Delights with friends for some drinks. Night there was cut short though when I got a worrying phone call from my cousin, who has been a bit distant from the family for a little while. Raced out to see him, he’s in a pretty bad way, depressed. Sat with him and chatted for a few hours, gonna run interference for him for a bit while he contacts a help service (and if he hasn’t by the time I check in with him I’ll ring them with him). A bit of a worrying thing to deal with, but at least he reached out to someone.
I was supposed to go help with pergola part 3 today, but given I didn’t get home till 3am I piked. Plan for today is to chill, maybe watch a stream or two, and at some point have the conversation with my aunt which promises to be fraught.
A Monday Arvo question: pergolas are cool, I guess, but which video game structure do you really want to see built?
I don’t understand the question and I won’t respond to it.
#dchatsbuildings
The mothership from Homeworld. Or just its scaffold, if a spacecraft seems like cheating.
(Edit: Wait… ARVO? It’s not afternoon ye–ohgodwhathaveIdonewiththeday?!)
Spencer Mansion.
That would make a pretty swell horror attraction.
That place from Antichamber.
Temporal Tower? I don’t know. Maybe the Cortex Vortex. Or maybe the party zeppelin in Just Cause 2.
Ooh ooh! Great Wall from Civ! That thing was awesome for defense in the early game. It would be great if that existed in real life.
Was just thinking about it the other day, one of those massive ‘Eco domes’ from SimCity. Can’t remember what it’s called but I always remember putting up about 10 in a city lol.
Arcology. Don’t mention that word around @dc.
Just tried making a foamcore insert for Suburbia. I gave up before making the outer shell bit. I’m sure I can manage to play the game just fine without mucking about anymore.
What’s it like to work with?
Not that terrible. Getting a clean cut can be difficult. The problem there might be more to do with my knife than the material. Getting a clean 90 degree cut is where I’m really falling apart. If the cuts aren’t square then the whole thing is going to fall apart.
I don’t know how to make the cuts square.
I don’t know if something like this would help?
http://www.thebestthings.com/newtools/graphics/starrett_square.jpg
Probably but this is also something I don’t really want to invest too much time and money into.
If I can spend a couple of hours putting something together so a game with terrible storage can be busted out quickly, so be it. I don’t think that’s ever going to be the case. Dumping Agricola into a Plano and some deck boxes worked. Anything more complicated is probably stretching it.
yeah gotta agree with you there. I tried a 3dprint but it ends up being not worth it.
Hey @greenius , you’ve played Monster Hunters before, how does the HR thing work? I need to get a bit from a Molten Tigrex but the interweb says it’s a HR7 quest but to unlock it I have to be HR50, seems weird. Encountered it a few times with different bits I need. It’s like a catch 22 or something. To get better gear you must beat hard monsters that you need the better gear to beat. If I get to HR50 wouldn’t HR7 stuff be irrelevant, very confusing.
I can only speak from experience in MH3U, but I assume it works in a similar way in MH4U.
For Low, High and early G Rank you’ll need to complete the key quests in a set of HR quests and it’ll unlock the Urgent Quest. Once you complete that it unlocks the next set of HR quests. This is probably what you’re familiar with, but in MH3U once you finished the HR7 urgent and hit the set of HR8 quests, the HR cap is broken and you’ll most likely jump up to a rank that is much higher than HR8.
Every quest you do will give you experience towards the next level of HR but you won’t see the effect unless you break the HR cap. I did quite a bit of quests in MH3U as I took my time then and didn’t just rush through the key quests. Once I broke the HR cap I immediately jumped up to something like HR48 (I can’t remember my exact rank but I think this was it?).
I assume you’re already in G Rank? It sounds like you’ve fought it before so you should be able to join someone’s room that has the quest and farm it (most people have farming rooms), or just keep doing quests to increase your HR until you unlock it yourself (i.e. play MH with your buddy Greenius! :P)
In MH3U there were certain quests that were easy to do that gave a lot of points towards the next HR. There’s probably similar quests in MH4U that you can do over and over again to get the most experience in the last amount of time.
Apparently I’ve been at uni for four weeks. I could have sworn I stated just the other day.
I miss uni… well. I miss being YOUNG and at uni. The last time I was studying (JERNALISM!), foreign students kept mistaking me for one of the professors and kept asking me for assistance.
… *grabs popcorn*
Oooo, I’ve seen this one. It’s good.
I’ve been at uni for 2 weeks… It feels closer to 2 months.
You don’t like it?
Nah I love it. Final year project. It’s just a ton of work is all. I logged 22 hours on the project last week, on top of my other 3 classes.
I see. I’ve only just started, and I already love it. It’s nice being able to only do what you love.
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 trolls are vanquished but something else roars in the distance. What new beast comes to terrorise Newfort?
Working tonight so I will be a no show.
Thanks for letting me know Nob.
A soon to be dead one.
If it roars, we can kill it.
Rather depressingly, I don’t know if I’m going to be able to make any RPG stuff for at least the next 3 weeks due to work.
I’ll let you know if this changes but it may mean my characters end up walking off into the sunset…
At least Al Gore will keep you company. Thanks for letting me know Rize.
Why do holidays have to end?
Had a great time in Brisbane over the last few days. Was fantastic to finally say hello to a few of the TAYbies I still hadn’t met (there’s not many of you left, now!) Haven’t done a good old-fashioned write-up in a while, so here goes!
Wednesday:
Packed my bags the night before due to overexcitement. Got ready too quickly in the morning leaving me with 3 hours to waste due to overexcitement. Somehow got to the airport 40mins earlier than our (already quite early) meeting time due to overexcitement. Managed to find Pants lurking behind me in the airport and met up with Cake soon after.
The rest of the day was pretty straightforward. Got flights, entered hotel, cased the joint for everything that wasn’t nailed down. You know, normal stuff.
Oh, and I watched If You Are The One with the Alexs. That was fun.
Thursday:
Wet and/or Wild! It was almost 40 degrees on this day, so it was perfect. We arrived at Central station well ahead of time. Got to platform 1, ready to go… Wait, why is the train going to Platform 2 now? OK, let’s move over there… Hang on, it’s back on Platform 1! Ugh… Wait, it’s not listed on the board at all anymore! WHY! Not a good first impression, Brisbane Trains 😛
Freeze met us at the train station and gave us a lift to the theme park. They took our pictures for the park ticket as we went through. Mine made me look like a large-eyebrowed worm.
Wet n Wild was super fun. We went on all the big stuff first, the ones where we all crammed into a big floaty and were pushed down a tube. Poor Pants was forced to face backwards most of the time. He and physics don’t get along well.
At some point we got an extremely disappointing lunch (after being stuck behind two women attempting to order enough food for a small country) and went on the relaxing tube circuit. I think I won that one, I had a yellow tube and paid attention to my racing lines.
Poor Cake sustained an injury or two and sat out the last few rides of the day while Freeze and I went on the more… thrilling of the rides. We ended the day by sitting in the wave pool for a while. By the end of the day the searing-hot concrete we walked on throughout the day had left my feet babies-bum-smooth. I don’t think I have toe-prints anymore.
Friday:
Movieworld! We travelled down to the gold coast again where we met DC. The first thing he said to me was “I thought you’d be taller”.
DC is a pretty cool guy, though. If a bit fidgety at first 😛 Freeze arrived soon after and we got the bus to the park, trying not to gossip the whole way (but totally did).
Yesterday established that Pants didn’t like to go down rides backwards. The first thing we decided to go on was the Scooby Doo rollercoaster, which Pants had never been on. Let’s just say he wasn’t impressed we didn’t tell him about the huge backwards drop in that ride.
DC, Freeze and I went on the bigger rollercoasters for a while. Followed by another disappointing lunch. We went on a Justice League “ride” which had literally no line and was… let’s say… lackluster. Our guns stopped working part way through and the entire ride stopped at some point with a looping soundbite of Superman saying something stupid. On Twitter there is a photo of us towards the end of the ride with expressionless faces which accurately sums it all up.
Breaking off again DC, Freeze and I went on more rollercoasters, ending on the Superman one (best rollercoaster)
Trip back to Brisbane for the big Meat! Met a whole bunch of new people here! I ordered some chicken wings that were labelled “The Seasoned Jerk”, which I thought were appropriate. Unfortunately, living up to their jerk-name, did a number on me causing me to basically shut down for the rest of the night. Jane tried desperately to join me in on the conversation but it just wasn’t happening 😛
At some point I also learned the secret Plaid-shirt Club secret handshake with DC and Mrs. Hellscream. I did not get to make full use of it.
We moved to a bar in Queen St Mall soon after (which, by the way, is totally cooler than Sydney’s Pitt St Mall). They talked at length about games while I sat in the corner feeling sick, chirping in every now and then and covering my ears whenever The Last of Us was mentioned.
I had a lot of fun this night despite not feeling well. Thanks all for coming! Easily the best day of the trip. Highlights included meeting DC (who, despite mentioning how I should be taller multiple times, was really easy to talk to 😛 – also he mentioned I was one of his favourite TAYbies at some point where I promptly got embarrassed, pulled a stupid face and looked away #smooth – even though he’s among my favourites too)
Saturday:
We were all tired so resolved to have a rest day. We went for a wander through the city, grabbed some lunch, went to some shops, etc. I bought a DVD of Danger 5 from JB, intending to show Pants the first episode. We ended up watching four… (I hope you’ll find a way to watch the last two!)
We also went out and watched The Kingsmen at the cinema. Pretty fantastic movie! Didn’t really know what to expect going in but it was great. I mentioned it to the guys afterwards, but I love a movie that has: a) action scenes set in time to music, and b) a ‘gimmicky’ henchman who is so much better at everything than the Big Bad. I liked it.
We played board games and watched things and it was a good relaxing day!
Sunday:
Basically nothing. Went home, died on bed from tired.
“DC is a pretty cool guy, though. If a bit fidgety at first.”
Haha! That’s the DC experience. Everyone witnesses the awkwardness at first. I usually calm down though. Was great meeting you and you are one of my favourite TAYbies. *decisive nod*
The rest of us are right here, you know.
Wet ‘n Wild and I just don’t mix I’ve decided. Every single time I’ve been there I’ve ended up injured.
Also linked on the previous page but here it is again: Sydney TAYbies Take On Movie World
EDIT: Can confirm @dc lives up to and exceeds the hype.
But we synco-Xeno’d on Sunday :'(
EDIT: everyone lemme know when the next “interstate people go to Brisbane to meet D.C. and the rest of the gang” meat happens because I want to be a part of it too! 😛
I’m ready for round 2 already.
I’m really keen to see what a PAX gathering is like after the awesomeness of Friday!
Oh my god, what if… D.C. and the rest of the gang came to Melbourne! 😛
We had lunch/dinner/did something basically every day so even if you don’t actually go to PAX there would still be plenty of meet-ups to go to!
…and a possible museum and movie session with Greenius!
Immigration Museum.
Aww good writeup! Poor backwards Alex.
You could just leave it at that for almost everything, really ;D
There is no possible way this directive could be abused. 🙂
😮 I didn’t realise you were ill on Friday night! I’m sorry!
I thought for a while that he might have hated me when he got all silent. 😛
You make it sound like it was your fault!
I mean, I blame you completely, but still.
😛No. It’s not good enough. We’ll have to redo the night.
CALL THE AIRPORT.
Sorry I couldn’t pop my head up somewhere to say hi. Still having a few hiccups here and there financially as I get back in to the swing of things, and these things always seem to happen halfway through my pay cycle. Which, given the random nature of said hiccups, leaves me in a precarious situation of needing to hang on to extra money just in case.
Still, all said and done, it’s great to read about your adventure at least 😉 I can easily imagine what it was like given I’m familiar with a lot of the places already!
@shane The game got here. Also I totally forgot about sending you the money yet again. I’ll do that now.
Also holy shit I had no idea this was a thing. Like, a proper MKDD that actually came with the Zelda disc. I thought it only came on its own. Europe, you crazy.
Yeah, from what I understand, it’s pretty damn rare. Thanks for the $$!
Honestly, I’ve half a mind to keep it for myself. Actually come to think of it, I have a secondary AU copy of MK already (for LAN), as well as a secondary sealed Euro copy of Zelda that a weird guy gave me for free for some reason. So maybe I could just do a swap or something 😛
I’m beginning to dislike Crota… not the whole raid, which is generally good fun, just that blue sod.
I got invited to three raids over the weekend; two of those times we made it to Crota, where we got stuck until 2-3am and I had to sleep. Still really not keen on the idea of only one person being able to damage the boss… Oh well, at least I got a pair of gloves for my titan… and another 25 radiant mats should I get something to upgrade in the future.Right about now would be a fantastic time for a modern-day-monk-trained St. Bernard to come dig me out of an avalanche of paperwork, with maybe an energy-drink strapped to its collar.
Obviously my only recourse is to waste time on the Internet. That will make things better. Right? Surely.
What a weekend! The Canadian baby is back on her way to Sydney with her mum and dad.
I went on a Gin-venture over the weekend my mate ad I got through the better part of 2 bottles of the stuff… Never been a gin drinker but hotdamn was it refreshing in the stupid heat Brisbane has had the last few days. First up was ‘No. 3 London Dry Gin’ which had a nice bite to it. Then we moved onto Hendricks, which was super smooth but tasted like a flower garden smells. I think I might start drinking it more often!
Also, Brisbane was good to us this weekend… crammed so much stuff into 2 and a half days and had an awesome time all around. Looks like holidays next year will be to Canada at the rate we’re going.
Now to spend the rest of today recovering and catching up on uni work.
Hendricks! \o/
Man…anyone else struggle with seeing bones break and alike? I just saw the worst thing I have seen since accidently watching MTV’s Scarred years ago. *shivers* ughhhhhh.
Spoilered because if I was to even read this, I’d want to curl up in a ball on the floor and rock myself like a scared baby being comforted.
Gif of woman doing leg press on some fancy new leg press machine. On the second rep, she fully extends her legs and locks her knees. Her legs bend a way I thought was only possible in nightmares. Mad panic by everyone as her legs hyperextend further and further. End gif. Scratch eyes out.Oh fek man, the worst break I saw live was during the USA Blue v Red trial game last year. Can’t remember who but it was bad.
Ahh shit yeah Paul George. That was horrible. Hes just about getting ready to play competitively again now which is good!
I need your help TAY dwellers. I need a name for a noble knightly order as well as the fiendish evil knights that oppose them. Unfortunately my brain is failing to come up with any good names and so I turn to you talented individuals for assistance.
The Order of the Vigilant VS The Crusaders of Dark.
FIGHT.
No, I don’t know, I’m terrible at this. What’s it for?
RPG stuff as is my wont. Those are pretty good, thanks for the suggestions.
I tellyawhut though… the BEST monastic order names sound like they could be tossing a coin between good and evil. In fact, I highly recommend you pick a bunch of things that you think are the coolest, and actually toss a coin.
In general… evil, under delusions of grandeur and remaking the world. Rising/Ascendant/Veiled Dawn/Star,
Are we going with a format of, “Knights of…” or “Order of…”? There’s other variants you could go in that, too. The Protectors of, or The Vigilant of. Militant, religious… whatever.
You could always toss in random symbolism and hopefully that’ll inspire some interesting backstories.
Spitballing:
Protectors of the Fallen Bough
The Vigilant of Silver Lake
Knights of the Bleeding Rose
Faithful of Winter’s Tower
Guardians of the East/West/South
Wardens of Dawn
Fists of [Deity/Ruler]
Hand of [Deity]
Sons of [Deity/Ruler]
Vanguard of Dusk
Heralds of the Verdant Sigil
Keepers of the Emerald Flame
[Deity]’s Shield
If they’re a more mercenary or militant order, nastier names may be needed. The ‘Black Talons’ for example. Animalistic, visceral words.
Order of the Shattered Tusk
Talons of [Deity]
Sentinels of the Wolf/Crow/Raven/Bear
Etc, etc. So much fun letting the name come first and the theme fall out of it. 🙂
Besides which, who thinks of themselves as evil? No one, outside of cartoon villains. Everyone believes they have a righteous cause. So, the Heralds of the Pure Dawn could be just as likely to be sacrificing virgins as the Iron Fists of the Blooded Bear are to be upstanding keepers of the king’s peace.
The Order of the Phoenix!
And ummm evil knights…. The Cult of the Twilight Flame!
The Knighty Knights and the Nighty Knights.
Monday Knights and Tuesday Mournings
Good guys:
– Heavens Guard
– Order of the King
– Keepers of Dawn
– Virtues Blade
– Imperial Crusaders
– The Holy Knights
– The Royal Word
Bad guys:
– Lights Last Glimpse
– Order of Thorns
– Death Dealers
– The Hangman’s Noose
– the Damned
– The Devils Hands
– Deaths Miasma
Bad guy names are so much more fun than good guy names! :3
The Heralds, The Children, The Angel Outfit, The Worthy, The Order of the Lion, The Viper Union, The Guild of Chivarly, The Sodality of the Swan, The Gathering of the Impala, The Priests of (continent name)
Most are interchangeable between good and evil. I might use some of these.
I just bought insurance for my motorcycle and gear, and am feeling very responsible. Go team.
Responsible/poorer?
Actually it wasn’t as expensive as I expected, so more the former!
Well that’s actually kind of reassuring for when I no I am not going to start learning to ride, we’ve been over this Transient.
Doooooo ittttttttt 😀
And that’s how TAY became a gang.
I thought TAY was already a gang.
I don’t know what to believe anymore.
Twitter is terrifying:
My last week:
Hey Jimu, 12 Monkeys is seven episodes in. (FAVOURITED BY SHOW CREATOR.)
Dreamfall Chapters is pretty great. (FAVOURITED BY DREAMFALL CREATOR.)
Valiant Hearts was awesome. (FAVOURITED BY VALIANT HEARTS WRITER.)
How good does this new King’s Quest look? (FAVOURITED BY KING’S QUEST DEV.)
Brandi Maxxxx in Parks & Rec is great! (FAVOURITED BY BRANDI MAXXXX ACTRESS.)
D:
I don’t tag these guys or any thing.
They have alerts for word mentions – and that’s awesome! I love that little feeling like, “aww, they know I love them and they appreciate me, yay” 😀
At least you weren’t dissing anyone and they saw it! :O
I never diss any one. (Publicly. :P)
I want Sandra Bullock to see my hatred for her >:)
But she’s America’s sweet heart! 😛
She’s…
Urgh.
LOL. My guess is bot software that targets certain keywords..
I’ve personally decided to stop talking about any Microsoft products…
I said that the Office 365 Outlook web app is really clunky (it is! It’s awful) and they replied with “is it this dress that’s making us look clunky?”
That dress. I don’t even know
PS Brandi Maxxxx is probably my favourite character in Parks and Rec 😛 She’s like the local superhero. “Is that Brandy Maxxxx?”
Found my old leather jacket from when I was 20 in my wardrobe somehow. Still in perfect condition and somehow miraculously still fits! Huzzah!
Also found a cd of Weezer’s Green album. Double huzzah!
Relieving your 20’s already? Does this mean you’re having a mid life crisis? 😛
So now you just need a bike to go with the jacket, right?
This drawing uni class is weird.
It’s all about the art side of drawing, which is cool, but I wanna get better at drawing, not so much better at art (as in, easles, charcoal drawings, ink drawings, etc).
Still interesting, and I think I’m getting better at drawing, but I’d rather a drawing focused class :3
Creative courses at uni tend to be really, really generic because they can’t afford to run dedicated classes for things. I did creative writing a few years ago and there wasn’t really a course in itself that told you how to get better at writing a novel. There were lots of classes on understanding the classics and popular literature as well as understanding formal grammar and punctuation but not so many true practice/teaching classes on how to write better stories.
Yeah, I’m treating this class purely as practice for the foundations, which I think is helping me improve…
Time will tell! 😀
I just wish there was a dedicated drawing class though (i.e, drawing in a sketchbook with only pencil)
Popdart is right, even universities that ‘specialise’ in creative arts don’t have it as an elective. That’s awesome you’re interested though, there are heaps of people that are good at it, terrible at it but not necessarily wanting to improve.
Maybe ask someone you know who’s good for tips? #helping
I do my besticles to consult drawing books and to get advice from the lecturers where I can, and do my hardest to practice every week too :3
Practice practice practice, yadda yadda yadda! 😀
360 controller for windows get!
Also got Rush on Blu ray, and Cold war kids’ new album.
Rush is great. Chris Hemsworth is brilliant, as is Daniel Bruhl. I really enjoyed it, and you don’t have to be into Formula 1 to enjoy it (although I do like Formula 1).
Saw it on Foxtel this arvo, which is why I picked it up.
Damn great film, F1 and otherwise.
So tempted to pick up one of the wireless ones now that EB are selling them for Windows again. Would prefer one of the XB1 ones for Windows, but eh, i’ll take what I can get I guess.
Thank you Kotaku for putting a big picture of Justin Bieber’s ass on the sidebar, with no way to get rid of it. Thank you.
it could always be worse
Well the Lifehacker article thumbnail with the naked woman covered in honey is pretty bad, too.
Those pictures are great though.
You should check it out, if you haven’t already.
Clearing your search history can help stop relevant ads from popping up.
Nah, man, I was using Private Browsing at the time.
Install AdBlock for Chrome or Firefox? I’m never going to click an ad, and it stops other sites spamming me with really annoying flash ads or even pop ups..
Does Adblock Plus stop Gizmodo and Lifehacker articles from getting promoted? I don’t remember it doing that when I used to use it.
Nope. Just the annoying side & banner ads all 3 sites run.
Wahay, hello TAYbies. Back from Taswegia to stay in a cabin near Launceston with the other half’s half-sister, brother-in-law and their sprogs (6 months and 3.5 – the 3.5 year old is HILARIOUS), and the other half’s dad and step-mum in their caravan. Lovely weekend – good weather, amazing food.
Yesterday went down to Campbelltown to see a display on local military history for the WW1 centenary – the other half’s dad, gramps and great gramps all served so there was some stuff on the family which was cool. We walked in and the old bloke who’s curating the exhibit went “you wouldn’t be *****’s daughter, would you?” This happens a lot…
Lovely walk this morning in the Tamar Wetlands. Ducks, a Great Egret, some other birdlife. 🙂
If anyone wants a Dalek, there’s one for sale at the Evandale market…
Got back this arvo having played only a little Grim Fandango on the Vita on the flights. After a weekend of talking to people and hectic small children, we both need to chill with some alone time, so she’s watching Musketeers, and I’m playing some Elite… (Mostly Harmless, Dealer, Surveyor).
Oh, and luckily I remembered I’ve got a PAX pass, because we very nearly booked our honeymoon over that weekend. 😮
But did you go to Burger Me when you were in Campbell Town? That’s the important question 😛
There was much discussion. In the end we went to the JJs Bakery down near the bridge as dog friendly…
I’ll assume it’s the same JJs bakery as the one in Longford (I grew up there). Their sausage rolls. So good.
Yeah, that’s the one. Seems to be expanding, possibly trying for a franchise model.
I can highly recommend the steak, bacon and cheese pie and the custard tart was fabulous.
Hey legends,
I hope you all had a good weekend. I watched Kevin Spacey swing his trouser snake around in House of Cards season 3 and didn’t die from Salmonella. Enjoy your week!
There was very little sex in season 03.
Far more in season 01.
Ah yes yes agreed, I actually meant it as a metaphor for Frank’s egotistical and arrogant ways.
I know exactly how you meant it.
Just seemed like a convoluted way about saying it was all.
Then I am confused about your initial reply but all good!
Sometimes I do things to make myself chuckle.
This was one such time.
Carry on.
Monster Hunty now? Me and @powalen are playing!
@mrtaco @beavwa @princesspipster @gutsoup @piat
I was farming Silver Rathalos, Almost have enough mats for a whole set. Might get a gold set too, not too far off having what I need for that. I wanna upgrade my gear more before finishing off the story.
Gold rathian is a nice set to use by default – the luck boost really helps with farming other monster parts.
Got my silver set, time to work on a gold one next 🙂
Ah! Family emergency last night so wouldn’t of been able to make it. But I am playing most nights still. Finished the caravan story and now G2 ranked, G rank is kicking my ass so trying to work on my armour sets and farm armour spheres
I just discovered Theaterythem Curtain Call has Nier songs available as DLC. Got all 3 of them since I had money in my Nintendo wallet.
The Bravely Default ones are also tempting me but I would have to add more money to my account.
w8 wat? It has Nier songs?!
I may have to buy Curtain Call immediately.
w8 wat? You don’t already have it?
I couldn’t justify it after already owning the first one and playing it to death 😛
There’s like 200 new songs, you know that right?
Yeah, but more so I just got bored of it and didn’t think I’d wanna commit myself to it again.
Worst.
Speaking of you being the worst yesterday I was showing somebody the photos I took of that F1 car in federation square the other week and they thought it was cool! 😛
But how am I the worst if I work for the company that help makes such fine pieces of machinery 😛
Umm… Hmmm…
Shoosh 😛
Reasonable. I was tempted not to buy DLC because I’m assuming there will be a new version in a year or so featuring most of it but Nier was too much to resist.
Lol. Got a mate here getting all upset about people who choose to have male to female operations. Then he went on to attack me because I have the nerve to be rational and accepting about the people who choose to do that. I see nothing wrong with it, and anyway that is their choice and it should have no effect on me.
Also who am I to judge others, I get enough of it from the general public for the music I listen to, sometimes having unkempt hair, wearing “scary” band shirts & playing video games a lot of society think are “wrong”. I don’t think it’s fair to pass judgment on others just because they’re different to me, for all I know that different person could be one of the most amazing people this world has known.
tl;dr my mates a bigot and gets upset when I tell him he is that.
If people want to change their sex that’s their choice, but I do believe that they should be honest and upfront about it with any partners (even if it’s just a one night stand). They have a right to know.
I guess it’d go the other way too, like if a woman had a sex change to become a man, and then entered a gay relationship with a man without telling them they used to be a woman. I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on this @liondrive.
Edit: Most people are automatically afraid of things that are perceived as different or not “normal”. In the words of the great master Yoda: Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to…. suffering.
Oh yeah, i’m with you there, sure, that would be wrong on their behalf, but then again sadly I can see why they would not want to disclose that for fear of rejection, and potential abuse that they may receive as a result :/
But my mate is just being an intolerant piece of shit about these people and judging them because they don’t feel right as the sex they were born. I’m also pretty sure he has a problem with homosexuals too, just he doesn’t get riled up as much on it, but has made passing comments which has made me wonder at times.
If the guy is cute and / or nice, I don’t particularly care if they used to be a girl.
I’m not going to be like, “Eww, you used to have a vagina?! Gross!”. I’m going to be like, “I assume your penis works as intended, so let’s go for it!” (maybe not that eager, but for arguments sake)
Might be a little strange, sure, but if they’re fine with it then I’m fine with it.
I think it’s got stigma the other way around (guy getting with a girl who used to be a guy) because of the whole gay aspect, which I can understand from a particular view point, but would you pass up on a nice cute girl just because they used to be a guy?
The only thing I’d have an issue with is if I got into a relationship and then my partner said that they wanted sex change surgery.
I’d be there to support them, but I’m sorry, I’m not attracted to women, and that wouldn’t change.
I only care about who you are now with regards to stuff like this, not your past.
A right to know? Hmm, I’m not sure I agree with that.
The other day I went out with a group of friends and one of them brought along a guy who only just recently became a guy and I got over it the second I saw that they looked like a human being cos why the fuck does it matter to anybody else? Can’t say I even really had any issue the couple of times he rubbed my leg. (Why does everybody rub my leg?)
Because you have super soft legs? I’m not sure 😛
I just rubbed my leg and realised that I like rubbing my leg because these jeans feel amazing.
Probably that 😛
http://www.essentialkids.com.au/entertaining-kids/tv-and-movies/peppa-pig-episode-banned-in-australia-for-sending-the-wrong-message-about-spiders-20150217-13h04u.html
I uh.. Spiders are small & harmless? Guess i’ll just go and find myself a nice small & harmless Sydney Funnel Web then..
I believe they edited the ending to better suit the Australian needs for spiders.
http://tinyurl.com/od9dyyp
I saw that. Ridiculous. Maybe someone needs to remind them that spiders – even the Australian poison variety – might be scary-looking, but they aren’t actually all that dangerous to people.
(By the way, you can still buy that episode on DVD, so I’m not sure what the couch activists think they’ve accomplished)
SPIDCISTS!
Bought and built a cat tower for Max…
Now she’s sitting on my lap, purring.
:3
Just came across this.
Gilbert Gottfried reading an excerpt from 50 Shades Of Grey. I have absolutely zero interest in reading the book or seeing the film, but holy fuckballs is this funny. I’d love to hear him read the whole thing, I’d absolutely piss myself laughing.
Hey Gang, Dan here.
This is a message for the Sydney people.
This Saturday, I want to be welcomed. I wanna be welcomed so hard.
Mojos, 7:00pm.
Welcome the shit out of me.
@35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @cakesmith @cj @cookingmama @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @harli @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @mawt @morkai @markserrels @mrtaco @novacascade @powalen @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggyninty
Anyone who doesn’t show wears wet nappies.
Dan’s great! Everyone go see Dan!
He’s trying to forget us and move on.
We are pretty forgettable!
I feel there is subliminal messaging here…
Superliminal.
..Kill the infidels?
Hey, You Guys! Join the Navy!
Yvan Eht Nioj!
Crap. I’m already double booked, so it looks like it’s damp undergarments for me.
Sounds good.
Oop, Gooky is coming.
NO NEED FOR UNDIES, YOU GUYS, THEY’LL JUST GET IN THE WAY.
Ok fine I’ll stay at home!
Why you gotta be like that, Gooky :'(
Sounds very good. I’ll try convince the boy and make sure I havent been booked for anything else 🙂
Fugg yeah.
probably;
You’re a real piece of work.
I’ll be working the weekend as usual 🙁
Working till 10pm that night so I wont be in till like 11-11:30.
But round on me when I get there
I will be there! Unless I’m not. But probably the first one
TAY RPG Pathfinder completed for another day. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
GM Summary: The Ettin was slain by a combination of hubris, slashing, magic, and shouting. Also, ding. LEVEL UP!
I stabbed a giant 2 headed guy just to watch him die.
goodtimes.jpg
Seriously starting to think about ditching this character and re-rolling completely to something that’s a bit less dead weight. Haven’t managed to land a spell in the school I’m supposedly focused in since we fought the ogres.
I think the thing about the way that your character is structured is that your power spike occurs a bit later than most other spellcasters but, when it happens, your power/options greatly expand. Charming and mind-affecting magic is the trickiest to work because it tends to have the most ways that they can be negated (language barriers, immunity to mind-affecting, hit dice, etc) but they can completely change the dynamic of a situation.
Unfortunately you’ve specialised in a long-term investment plan and I think you only start getting really powerful enchantment spells once you gain access to 3rd level spells.
The ever-present challenge of the DM. How to keep spellcasters engaged at low level when they’re underpowered and the fighters are stabbing everything, and how to keep fighters engaged at high level when the spellcasters are altering the fabric of reality and they’re going “I stab it again.”
The main reason why I enjoy playing spellcasters. Arcanist is kinda perfect for my playstyle 🙂
I’ve never played a proper spellcaster, personally. I’ve thought about it, but I always end up playing somebody a little more martial. Drewan is probably the furthest I’ve strayed from my comfort zone… but I’m enjoying it/him. 😛
Really? Your RPing is always incredible with Drewan, up to the point where people ar epicking up “tolerate cat” skill checks haha. I’m basically being a “blow shit up” spellcaster (Which I LOVE doing, especially with Electricity) with the flexibility to take another approach if I want to, which is where Arcanist makes it worthwhile. Sorcerer I like with the amount of charges each spell level, but you’re VERY restricted on your daily arsenal, you can only do X, Y and Z and that’s all. If you pick a spell and it isn’t as cracked up to be, you’re stuck with it for a further few levels until you switch it out with something else.
Ah, but RP is different. If I can slip in to the mind of the character I’m playing I find it easy to RP as them regardless of what role I’ve got. Drewan happens to be an annoying, naive, know-it-all skill monkey, but if I’d gone a different direction with his character creation I’d be having just as much fun RPing him, just with a different personality.
Fiasco (ping @redartifice) is great “practice” for the RP side of things, you should join one! Get in to somebodies head for 2 to 3 hours, then discard them. Unless it’s Becky Hardcastle, may she rest in peace.
(Also: Thanks, I take it as a big compliment that my RP is being appreciated. :D)
@beeawwb Fiasco is really an RP masterclass, especially with no GM. I think we’ve all had the best results when we’ve totally overcommitted to the parts, like @freezespreston’s minor party senator and…GIOVANNI! GET SOME RED EYE (cc@coldcamv)
I dunno, just having higher level spells isn’t going to help that much. Enchantment seems to just have been broken in Pathfinder. Too many of the spells have a hit die limitation and you start hitting monsters which are too strong for it well before you actually get spells that will continue to affect anything. That Ettin for example was 10 HD right? That’s the absolute top range of what can be affected by the Bungle spell, so effectively pretty soon there’s nothing at level 1 or 2 in the enchantment school that’s remotely valuable in combat and once we go beyond that it kills most of the combat-useful level 3 spells as well. I went in thinking there was a lot more variety in the school, but I think they’ve moved a lot of Enchantment spells into Illusion and Transmutation for Pathfinder. Disagree that level 3 spells will make any difference.
The last time I actually affected something with a useful enchantment spell was the ogres in the cave. I basically feel like I’m contributing nothing and have a character that’s wrong for the sort of campaign we’re doing.
Gotta say when you look at it from that perspective you’ve kind of got a point. E.g. Level 3 Enchantment: Deep Slumber. Puts 10HD of creatures to sleep. Suggestion is language dependant, etc etc.
Can’t use charm / dominate because everyone else will notice. Removing the somatic and verbal components of a charm spell with metamagic would make it +2 levels and require you to blow two feats to pick up the metamagic feats before you could even use it. The selection of spells that actually do anything is extremely limited and just about everything has drawbacks or major flaws. Lots of the spells become straight up useless.
It’s a nice concept but it just doesn’t work in practice within Pathfinder’s systems and in a traditional campaign.
I thought I mentioned it but you can roll Stealth to hide the fact that you’re spellcasting. And I wasn’t directly saying that people would burn you as a witch if you cast magic on a peasant but some people might treat you differently IF they notice. Some areas of the world are actively anti-magic but so far you haven’t encountered those areas yet. In general though, how people perceive magic and how people perceive magic users varies from community to community and you can’t really be sure that everyone will react to magic in the same way.
So far, your enchantment spells have been less effective because I’ve been using a lot of tougher, individual creatures. Once I start introducing packs or warbands of low CR, low HD creatures, that’s when enchantment and other similar status-effect spells begin to shine. Enchantment is built for crowd control and I haven’t really thrown crowds at you guys yet.
Just a teensy, tiny spoiler: I am looking to rectify that and have a larger fight against more enemies/minions/mooks.
Edit: The main reason I haven’t done that yet is because more enemies take more time to manoeuvre and can make combat drag out. Bigger enemies take longer to go down but it’s less a case of managing multiple different things at once.
Oooh. That will make the Dazzling Display feat I took last night incredibly effective. cc @negativezero
Yeah, it will eventually.
Is that just you dropping your pants?
That’s exactly what I said
There’s nothing that says it can’t be that.
Means I get to spend a round to intimidate all enemies in a 30ft radius and if successful they get -2 to every roll they make.
@freezespreston Potentially more too if you roll really well. Hence why the Ettin decided to flee from you rather than just get frightened and take a penalty.
Yay, zombie horde time!
🙁
Not wanting to overplay my hand here but there are other creatures aside from zombies in the near future.
Also, something to keep in mind that would allow you to charm/enchant undead creatures is the Threnodic Spell metamagic feat. You would require some hefty prerequisites but it would work to make things a bit easier around undead.
+2 spell level and requires at least another 4 levels to get it, even if I wanted it. So at level 9 I could use level 2 spells on zombies. Yay. :\
@negativezero The way Pathfinder is designed is that nothing in the world works 100% of the time. Magic missile is easily negated by the Shield spell, different weapons are diminished or ignored by damage reduction, some creatures are immune to sneak attacks and critical hits, etc. That’s kinda why diversification is encouraged not only in the party but also in individual characters as soon situations are not favourable towards certain play styles. Magic gets hit with penalties/unfavourable circumstances more than any other style because the potential power you can wield is huge. It’s a clumsy way of balancing but it helps to keep everyone on a relatively even playing field.
@popdart5: the problem is that I’m using spells that should work in situations that they are appropriate for, and they still don’t.
Like @tech_knight’s suggestion of using a crossbow for example – why would I do that? Aside from it being wildly out of character, when would I choose to use it? Fair enough against zombies or something, but against things that should be easily affected, why would I choose to use a crossbow and not my magic? The issue is stuff just resisting all over the place and now we’re into an awkward zone where the enemies have outstripped the crowd control spells because they haven’t put any thought into the spell tiers for the enchantment school.
What it boils down to is that I’m not enjoying playing with the character and I’m not sure that’ll change. We’re not in a good position to replace her so I’ll stick it out for a bit, but next major town we get to, I think it might be time to pull the plug.
@negativezero Spell DCs are determined in the same manner across the board no matter what spell it is or what school of magic it is. It’s not a case that the Enchantment school was shafted in terms of its capabilities but it’s simply a case of the dice have not been wanting to work in your favour. It’s unfortunate that a lot of my good rolls for monsters have been either resisting your magic or critically striking Tech. In addition, spell DCs is something that forces the monster to roll to resist. It isn’t a case of you rolling an attack or spellcraft check or something like that but the Will save of a monster resisting it so it kinda takes away some of your player agency. The dice just seem to want to roll really high when these monsters don’t have great Will saves (that Ettin had a +5 and rolled a 15 so it only just beat the DC).
I’m not saying you must stick with your current character at all. If you want to change, that’s perfectly fine. However I’ve also played characters where the dice just do not like me at all. Sometimes random chance wants to dictate that your character is not fantastic at certain things and you have to work around those issues. Diversify your magic, use magic scrolls, start wielding a weapon, use the environment. There are ways around the roadblocks that dice results tend to throw up. I don’t game or fudge my rolls at all and the dice just fall as they do, which unfortunately has not been to your benefit thus far. And I apologise for that as I know it’s not fun at all.
@popdart5: I know how spell DCs work, thanks. That’s not what I’m saying. I’ve mitigated the DCs as much as possible – if I take Greater Spell Focus this level-up I can get the DCs to 20 + spell level! – the problem is that the enchantment school itself is broken. It has no diversity, a whole pile of shit spells and a lot of spells that either become useless within a level or two (eg Sleep is now just taking up a spell slot for me) or have tons of limitations.
The whole character concept was built around *not* having to take traditional blasting spells. If that’s my only option for actually being able to do anything then the concept’s failed. Same if I have to always fall back to using a weapon. Obviously that’s different in a case where you need to adjust tactics because something clearly won’t work (no use trying to charm monster on an ooze) and obviously I could diversify my spell list and stuff, but the issue I hit thinking about doing that is that it feels extremely out of character to do so. If I was just thinking in terms of game utility then I’d have a pretty different build I think.
I don’t really want to abandon the character but it’s just not going to work out. Technically there’s not even much reason for her to be hanging out with the rest of the group either, it hasn’t advanced her own goals remotely.
@negativezero I vaguely recall that you’ve already swapped out one of your spells when you hit level 4 earlier but I’m willing to allow you to swap out another one of your cantrips, 1st level, or 2nd level spells if you want.
Considering your character concept, I can see your character using a lot of illusion magic as well to complement your enchantments. Sure your bloodline and race are conducive to being really good at enchantment but illusion is also potentially a very situationally powerful school of magic, just like all of the schools of magic. You can make an effective caster that doesn’t have any outwardly showy magic and still be effective in combat. It just requires a bit more thought process and creativity rather than just blasting the enemy with fireballs.
@popdart5: I looked at Illusion as an option as well, but the issue is that illusion has most of the same drawbacks as enchantment – save vs will to negate, requires intelligence etc. and I’d be casting without any of the DC bonuses I have for enchantment. Not going to make any difference.
Dear @tech_knight and @beeawwb
Not sure which of you is Conjuration school but something to work towards?
Storm of VengeanceSchool conjuration (summoning); Level cleric 9, druid 9
Casting Time 1 round
Components V, S
Range long (400 ft. + 40 ft./level)
Effect 360-ft.-radius storm cloud
Duration concentration (maximum 10 rounds) (D)
Saving Throw see text; Spell Resistance yes
You create a huge black storm cloud in the air. Each creature under the cloud must succeed on a Fortitude save or be deafened for 1d4 × 10 minutes. Each round you continue to concentrate, the spell generates additional effects as noted below. Each effect occurs on your turn.
2nd Round: Acid rains down in the area, dealing 1d6 points of acid damage (no save).
3rd Round: You call six bolts of lightning down from the cloud. You decide where the bolts strike. No two bolts may be directed at the same target. Each bolt deals 10d6 points of electricity damage. A creature struck can attempt a Reflex save for half damage.
4th Round: Hailstones rain down in the area, dealing 5d6 points of bludgeoning damage (no save).
5th through 10th Rounds: Violent rain and wind gusts reduce visibility. The rain obscures all sight, including darkvision, beyond 5 feet. A creature 5 feet away has concealment (attacks have a 20% miss chance). Creatures farther away have total concealment (50% miss chance, and the attacker cannot use sight to locate the target). Speed is reduced by three-quarters.
Ranged attacks within the area of the storm are impossible. Spells cast within the area are disrupted unless the caster succeeds on a Concentration check against a DC equal to the storm of vengeance’s save DC + the level of the spell the caster is trying to cast.
I’m not a Cleric or a Druid sadly so no I can’t use this sadly
Dear @freezespreston,
I too am not a Cleric or a Druid. My “best” high level spell is probably this one. Maybe not best in terms of actual effect, but in terms of description.
Also just for clarification, that’s a druid/cleric 9th level spell which they wouldn’t get access to until around level 17. Something to aim for sure but way off in the distance.
Sorry that I haven’t let you know about the upgrades I’m picking yet, Hangouts did its thing again last night where it drops me and then refuses to even load Roll20 after that. I’ve picked my Arcanist Exploit and I think I finalised my feat pick as well as my two new spells.
Trying to watch what I eat, since I’m starting to feel pudgy, so I ordered only a burger and small chips for dinner (rather than large chips w/gravy)
Go to pick up my order and the really nice lady was like, “we made the wrong burger by accident, so you get an extra burger for free!”.
Goddamn you universe, I love / hate you.
\o/ free burger.
Ooooooh, I ate it all, now feel super full / sick / fat :S
Gonna do some pity situps to feel less fat / more sick :S
I wish I could get full from two burgers >.<
If you do a lot of sit ups just becareful because if you build up you mussle around there a lot it will push out your gut more.
This just became my new excuse.
Having made the decision to play my waning PS3 console until it dies, I picked up Beyond Two Souls for a $12 song at my local second-hand-store. I know opinions on this game, and QD games in general, are divided here, but so far, I gotta say I agree with @dc on this one. It’s pretty compelling!
Not without its flaws, but I absolutely love it. Glad you’re digging it. 🙂
I should start it.
I say this a lot. PILE OF SHAME.
God I wanted to enjoy that game 🙁
Some people are just born with the monster gene or exposed to it in a laboratory explosion! It’s not your fault you’re a monster! Take solace in that!
And you’re allergic to monsters, which is why you wouldn’t sit with me! IT ALL MAKES SENSE.
(Side note, I would replay the first bit of that game, just because she has a motorcycle and I bet it’s totally wrong and I’d like to know for certain, ahahah).
MONSTER!
*assembles towns folk with torches and pitch forks*
Jane’s Monster.
Maybe she’s born with it… maybe it’s monster-gene!
Also, that works as monster-Jane if you’re OK with assonance (in which case you truly ARE a monster), but I prefer gene so it can be used on the other monsters in our midst.
Maybe the people who don’t like it are the normal ones and you’re the actual monster?! :O
I’m okay with that.
Hmm I have had it since it came out. Maybe I should finally play it >.
In my mind, that along with Remember Me and The Last Of Us are all the same game. Don’t even know why, they just are.
NOPE.
YUH HUH.
Yeah, gonna have to go with NOPE, buddeh. 🙂
You people don’t get to control my thoughts 😛
(it’s because they all came out/got media hype around a similar time and I didn’t care about them enough to pay any attention, so the amorphous blob in my peripheral vision is pretty much the same regardless of which is actually standing there. Kind of like how I’m pretty sure Titanfall and Destiny are the same game too)
Ah, if only I could control your thoughts, Gooky.
Still, you can rely on me to always be at the ready to tell you that your subjective opinions are – objectively – wrong. 😀
Yeah, that’s cool… everyone keep having fun with their ancient PS3 consoles. I’ll be over here waiting for PS4 remasters which everyone loves to complain about, but which I totally buy. 🙂
I’m not envious at all or nuffin’. Totally.
…That game looked pretty interesting, hey.
*fidgets*
I was totally prepared to do that too, but no one wanted to buy my PS3. Seemed silly to leave it to rust when I could have played these exclusive games on the cheap. 🙂
I was thinking about trading the PS3 in but then thought about all the free games with PS+ and decided to keep it.
So today was the second day of not smoking and it sucks.
I used to enjoy driving cause I would smoke while I drive. Now I can’t smoke driving sucks.
I have smoked for over half the amount of time I have been alive.
*sigh* have to try and get used to not smoking.
That is going to be hard.
I wonder how long I will be able to last.
*sigh*
5, 4, 3, 2, 1…
No, Welbot!
You have to be supportive!
@platinum-urchin
Good work on choosing to quit, buddy!
Just remember, quitting can be hard.
If you slip up, don’t beat yourself up about it.
Try not to slip up, obviously, but I’ve seen too many people slip up and immediately give up on trying to quit.
Hopefully you can kick it for good though with minimal hassles! 🙂
I’m not being un-supportive. Was just being cynically funny 😉 I hope he can kick it for good too! He’s clearly got more gusto than me when it comes to quitting. I’m nowhere near ready to give up just yet!
Well done on quitting, man. No one said it would be easy, but you’re doing great! Keep up the resolve! 🙂
Try and start enjoying driving cos of the car instead. Feel the road in the steering wheel, find racing lines on empty roads etc etc 😛 Best part of driving!
Alternately, blast 90s pop/rap and scream along to it so loud that people can hear it even from behind those highway sound-barrier fences.
It’s hard to give up smoking, I know. It took me many tries before I actually quit for good. You have to actually want to do it for yourself and not be doing it because other people want you to.
Also, one thing that helped is that I realized that smoking (or any other habit) is all to do with association. I used to mentally associate certain activities with having a cigarette ie having a coffee, getting in the car, waking up, having a beer etc etc. Once you can break that mental association you’re gold.
Good luck friend.
Breaking addictive habits is hard. Really hard 🙁
I went two weeks without snacks/sugar/chocolate, but fell back into it tonight. Just couldn’t handle it anymore. #DailyInspiration
Good luck!
I like driving because of the stuff Ben J said. Also in the last few years I’ve taken to blasting music too while bellowing along to it as loud as I can. So now I hate it whenever I have to drive with someone else, since I can’t do either of those things. And they often wind their window up, and/or try to get me to close mine as well. But at least I can still get enjoyment out of their complaints of me “driving like a maniac” despite the fact I’m not even speeding or anything 😛
At least you have one huge incentive to quit
Just stick with it, it’s for the best and remember if you do ‘fail’ and have a smoke that doesn’t mean you have failed quitting. It was just a setback and you can still quit after that.
So many people have a loss of willpower, have a smoke, decide they have failed quitting and then go right back to smoking. Just stick with it
Not sure why, maybe it’s because Kevin Smith is in Lego Batman 3, but I Just had the urge to re-watch Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back, and I still think it’s funny. Just goes to show you, I may be creeping up on 40, but I’m an immature little fucker that likes dick and fart jokes.
I’m a total literary snob in almost all regards, but I still love the crass humour of Clerks and Inbetweeners. It’s an odd thing.
http://www.gamedev.net/topic/666419-what-are-your-opinions-on-dx12vulkanmantle/#entry5215019
Came across this. Interesting read.
Computers are scary.
Anyone know when the new piracy stuff comes into effect? I’m gonna get a VPN, but just waiting until closer to the date.
It’s not legislated yet
Hopefully it won’t kick in til after this year’s season of Game of Thrones. I’m pretty sure everything else I can buy on iTunes or stream via Stan (and hopefully Netflix).
Hi Friends!
Over the years I have built up a pretty major list of games I’ve bought through the humble bundle sales. So it has come to the time where I would like to give them away.
Let me know if you want any of these 🙂
Spoilered due to length
A Valley Without Wind 1 and 2 Steam Key
AI War + 4 DLC packs & Tidalis Steam Key
AI War: Vengeance Steam Key
Anodyne
Anomaly Korea
Aquaria Steam key
BIT.TRIP Presents… Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
BioShock
BioShock 2
BioShock Infinite
BloodRealm: Battlegrounds “Gaul” Campaign (Early Access)
BloodRealm: Battlegrounds Debut Champion “Lora” + 3 Elite Packs (Early Access)
Broken Sword: Director’s Cut Steam key
Broken Sword: Director’s Cut Steam key
Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box Origin Key
Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box Steam Key
Card City Nights
Card Hunter — Basic Edition
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 – Uprising Origin Key
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 – Uprising Steam Key
Crysis 2 Maximum Edition Origin Key
Crysis 2 Maximum Edition Steam Key
Dead Space 3 Origin Key
Dead Space Origin Key
Dead Space Steam Key
Dominion Online — Intrigue + Prosperity Expansions
Dominion Online — Seaside Expansion
Dungeonland Steam Key
Europa Universalis 3 Complete Steam Key
Fractal Steam key
Frozen Synapse Multiplayer and Steam key
Gratuitous Space Battles Multiplayer Key
Greed Corp
HOARD
Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle Desura Key
Humble Frozenbyte Bundle Desura Key
Humble Indie Bundle #3 Steam Key
Incredipede
Joe Danger 2: The Movie
Mafia II
McPixel Steam key
Medal of Honor Origin Key
Medal of Honor Steam Key
Mirror’s Edge Origin Key
Mirror’s Edge Steam Key
Multiwinia Multiplayer Key
Neighbours From Hell Compilation
Neighbours From Hell Compilation
Nightsky Steam key
Organ Trail: Director’s Cut Steam key
Organ Trail: Director’s Cut Steam key
Painkiller: Hell & Damnation, ArcaniA, Darksiders II, and SpellForce 2: Faith in Destiny
Painkiller: Hell & Damnation, ArcaniA, Darksiders II, and SpellForce 2: Faith in Destiny
Papo & Yo
Reus
Scrolls Exclusive Avatar Heads
Scrolls Full Version
Scrolls Humble Bundle Deluxe Pack
Shattered Haven Steam Key
Sid Meier’s Civilization® III: Complete
Sid Meier’s Civilization V
Sid Meier’s Civilization® V: Gods and Kings DLC
Sid Meier’s Pirates!
Sid Meier’s Civilization® III: Complete
Sid Meier’s Civilization V
Sid Meier’s Civilization® V: Gods and Kings DLC
Sid Meier’s Civilization® V: Brave New World DLC
Skyward Collapse Steam Key
Skyward Collapse: Nihon no Mura DLC Steam Key
SolForge — Dinosaur Starter (Early Access)
SolForge — Starter Pack 1 (Early Access)
Spec Ops: The Line
Stealth Bastard Deluxe Steam key
Strike Suit Zero
Supreme Commander, Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, The Guild 2, and Red Faction: Armageddon
Surgeon Simulator 2013
Talisman Prologue
Talisman: Digital Edition
Talisman: Digital Edition: Gambler Character Packs
Talisman: Digital Edition: Martyr Character Packs
The Bard’s Tale
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
The Darkness II
The Showdown Effect Steam Key
The Sims 3 Date Night Key
The Sims 3 High End Loft Stuff Key
The Sims 3 Key
The Sims 3 Late Night Key
To the Moon
Toki Tori 2+
Waking Mars Steam key
War of the Roses: Kingmaker Steam Key
Warlock Steam Key
Worms Reloaded
X-COM: Apocalypse
X-COM: Enforcer
X-COM: Interceptor
X-COM: Terror from the Deep
X-COM: UFO Defense
Could I please have Brave New World?
Done Mr – Check your twitter
That’s a nice, shiny Surgeon Simulator you’ve got there. Mind if I steal it?
There you go, go and stimulate all the sturgeons!
Fish breeding just got freaky.
Can I grab Waking Mars?
It won’t let me gift that key 🙁 Sorry
Oop, worked around it. Check twitter 🙂
Cheers!
Played that on an iPad. Liked it so much played it again on PC later on. Lovely short clever arcade adventure, nice science-fiction. Good mechanics.
Bioshock Infinite or Dead Space 3 would be lovely – one or the other, whichever.
That sucks, Sam Simon co-creator of The Simpsons has passed away =(
We’ll always have the memories.
BLOODBORNE
15 days to go, wastes of skin
Free Bloodborne themes for everyone!
HOLY SHIT WE CAN PLAY THE GAME WITH FRIENDS.
Bloodborne on PC? Be sceptical.
Urk. Why are they plastering the game’s cover on everything like it’s something awesome that didn’t take just five seconds of thought to design?
Edit: That was in reference to the free theme. Also, is your countdown correct? The article that pictured the theme said 24th for US and 27th for Europe. Are we somewhere in the middle?
My MightyApe preorder (https://www.mightyape.com.au/product/Bloodborne-Collectors-Edition/22996823) says 25th. I’m going with that until further notice.
EB says 25th… Wednesday is a funny release day.
Yeah, this is also why I was wondering. Thursday is usually the day unless it’s a simultaneous worldwide release.
If Europe isn’t until the 27th, are we going to have the same launch day ‘server issues’ that happened with Dark Souls 2 then got magically fixed when the game released in Europe?
Good question! It will be interesting to see what happens.
Twist!
It’s not Bamco this time. It’s all Sony. So I guess I’ll just have to wait and see.
Hook it to my veins!
Seriously doubt we will see this on PC and I kind of hope not too, sick of staggered releases for PC as it is my platform of choice and very tired of publishers milking it by making people double dip or treating it as an after thought. Plus my very slight Playstation fanboyism screams noooooo.
Doubt it would see a PC release. Sony is publishing it right? They’ll want to keep it exclusive to sell more consoles.
Coolios. co-op Chalice Dungeons sound like fun.
Kinda sad I will not be able to play it on day 1, but at least I took an additional week off for it.
Oh hey, Anita Sarkeesian is in Australia. I expect reasoned discourse on THAT around this site.
Surely.
Everyone is going to be all “I disagree with her but understand and respect she is coming from a different position and perspective than I am in an all inclusive hobby that is for everyone.”
Then we’ll all retire to our mansions and catch up on our free government funded university study while being massaged by mermen and fed cocaine dusted grapes by unicorns made from rainbows.
Sounds like you might’ve got the chronological order wrong… most of that starts with the cocaine, right?
Okay, so I took on board the constructive criticism I received from here and facebook. If you’re my facebook friend, you’ve probably already seen this.
However, I would like to sell these, so if there is anything that would stop you from buying this, please tell me.
Front
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Back
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Someone has suggested removing the text here
Less is more imo; would look nicer with just the symbols and artwork =]
If the text is a direct quote from a game (i.e. “canonical” text) then I’d keep it. Otherwise it would annoy me, personally. The art is fantastic though.
Not a direct quote. Just me bullshitting
This looks really cool; are you making it into a scarf? If so where would I purchase one =O
It’s a bookmark. Don’t give me ideas, i have enough already =P
Ohhh, looks good. In regards to the back I think I would like it without the text but maybe you can offer both?
Aye I’d love two without the text \o/
Consider the text removed.
Look forward to the next one, please!
Let me know when they’re up for sale =]
(If they were scarves I would totally jump on em 0,0) That design’s quite fashion conscious tbh.
It’s probably too wide for a scarf
Looks awesome.
Going by some comments it is a bookmark?
I would buy it if I had money 🙁
Yeah, it’s not for sale as yet, so no stress =P
Well right now stress is the last thing I want >.<
I shall try and save up.
It’d be like $2 or something. I’ll be test running them first before I decide on price because I would probably prefer quality over cheapness myself.
Anyone here bought Helldivers on PS4? If you have be very careful to make sure your controller doesn’t shut off, at least until they patch this bug.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/03/helldivers-bug-erases-progress-if-your-ps4-controller-dies-seriously/
I got my conditional acceptance letter for my work visa to Canada, a week and a half ahead of schedule. Yay! Few bits of paperwork to do and then I am good to go.
Are you going to hang out with Bish in Canadia? I’ve heard they don’t even have innernet there… Bish’s comments are sent via carrier pigeon to the nearest telegraph office and entered via an operator by Morse code… This is set least 95% true
My condolences!
Gosh, you are doing it wrong! You aren’t supposed to tell anyone you have any kind of plan to go to Canada and then one day be all “Oh by the way I am in Canada”. I think it’s called “Bishing”
Let’s not forget the part where he attends a meat literally the night before he flies halfway across the world and still doesn’t mention it to most people.
I won’t be able to lick him goodbye…
Oh gross. What’s with the “You May Also Like” links for crappy click bait articles at the bottom of Kotaku articles? Makes the website look cheap and detracting from any look of legitimacy.
Feels kind of cluttered now >.< meh
Edit: Actually looking at it doesn’t even seem to be coded into the site properly; its like someone took some sticky tape and tacked it on.
< tape > clickbait=open tape>
Maybe it’s a dodgy embedded job on some of the US articles that have trickled across?
The two sites have completely different layouts. I don’t think that’s the case.
I think they’re playing with a few things and this is something that might stick around. You’ll also notice that TAY has not been showing up in the Most Commented bit of the sidebar, like it usually does. They might be pushing anything that counts as a regular out of there.
Side… bar?
(Mobile)
Huh. I did notice that when I went looking for TAY on the Monday, but didn’t really think much of it because it was also in the regulars section and I was all, “Oh. There you are. Hullo TAY!”
Mixed opinion on that. It’s always good for people to get curious and click on the link and jump into the stream. But having TWO out of four entries there nearly permanently kinda tends to skew the purpose of showing the ‘most commented’ articles.
I’m not getting them, I just get the normal “Across the network” articles.
Very jarring on the mobile site. Especially for short articles – two paragraphs, followed by two screens worth of ads, then comments section. And as @pupp3tmast3r says, the code looks like it was just taped on.
How long until I can go on another holiday?
If you quit your job, not very long at all!
Inherent Vice is finally out this week! And Chappie.
We watched a Chappie trailer over the weekend. As soon as Hugh Jackman started talking @alexpants and I burst out laughing. The mullet didn’t help.
Haha the reason I like Neil Blomkopf movies (mostly) is for the accents!
I’m probably going to see Chappie if only for Hugh Jackman and his magnificent mullet.
RIGHT.
Damn it, looks like Chappie isn’t coming out this week in Launceston. That sucks.
I’ve heard conflicting stories about Chappie. Some people like it but some really don’t. I hope that’s not the case because it looks interesting enough.
Lot of people hated Elysium too but I still dug it.
I found it so boring 🙁
I’d throw a tantrum and tell you that no it’s you that is boring but I’m much too classy for that.
I always think of Elysium as “that movie with the weird accents.” Nothing against South African, but Foster’s “French” accent was so inconsistent… ranging from a deep aristocratic accent I can’t quite place, to her normal, higher-pitched American. I’ll admit I thought they’d dubbed over her until I started noticing her normal accent slipping in through the cracks.
Not sure if we’re even gonna get chappie here at all, which really sucks because I’m super keen for it.
Also, I think the first episode of that exclusive PS+ show Powers is out today. Have to check the PS store when I get home later.
Dammit @f4ction @cakesmith @rize @sernobulus… Finding myself sitting here entertaining the idea of purchasing Dead of Winter… Was good fun!
Woohoo! Dell Just committed to repairing my laptop for free!
And Work have commited to doing another salary sacrifice Laptop for me!
So I should have a laptop sometime in the next 2 weeks!
I have not played Silent Hill 2 is about a hundred years, but I think about it an awful lot. And now I’m sitting at my desk, quietly barking the little dog-ending song to myself.
Bark bark bark, bark bark bark…
Your coworkers must think you’re… barking mad.
*Clap* Well done. That was a bit paw form though.
Definitely sounded a bit ruff to me.
Well, to be fair, doing a pun well is a bitch.
Yup, you guys boned it. Total dog’s breakfast.
Got a bit hairy for sure
Well, at least we’ve all been dogged in pointing out the failures.
It’s like we’ve all suddenly been unleashed on the issue.
Sometimes you just have to collar spade a spade.
Edit: Hm. Duplicate? Whatever.
I’m going to blame the new machines we just got installed at work. Windows 8!
I’ll tell you what, though… I’m kind of in love with these new GIANT touchscreens they installed for us. When I’ve been showing coworkers how to adjust the settings, I used to tap the screen where they should click… now it does it for me! Disconcerting for all involved, but awesome.
Also, they have one fantastic feature which was highly unexpected: They’re extremely glossy. There is basically a giant mirror in front of me while I work. Which is really all I could want. Any time I need a break, I’ll just lock the screen and get lost in my beautiful blue eyes.
Transient’s porn has all been photoshopped with his head on everyone involved.
I’ve never met him… And as a result I’m now imagining giant yellow smiley faces banging.
… Thanks?
That’s pretty much how it is anyway.
#mostinterestingmanontay
http://i.imgur.com/0XXaerU.jpg
Or change the background colour to whatever you want your eyes to be! Green! Brown! Orange! Puce!
Puppy non-update: On Thursday, the real estate agent called to say that they’re giving us a Notice to Remedy. Basically saying that we’ve broken the lease and have seven days to fix it.
First of all, Notice to Remedies are meant to be 14 days, not seven. Second of all, there was a public holiday on Monday. I checked the mail and it still isn’t here. At best, we’d have one day to actually deal with the notice if it arrives tomorrow.
It’s also not a breach of the lease. We were told the owner is okay with us having pets when we requested a small/medium sized dog. That was before we signed out lease. We kept the real estate agent up to date with everything involving Alice’s adoption (including the fact that she would likely be medium/large sized). They had more than a week to object but did not raise any objections until the day after she had been adopted.
This whole thing is just a mess. Hopefully the Tenants’ Union calls me back (again) just to walk me through appealing against this Notice to Remedy (and the likely Notice to Vacate that will follow if we don’t comply).
Seriously dude, good on both of you for standing up for yourselves. It sucks being a tenant and getting trodden on, I’m glad you’re actually going to bat for it.
I dunno how it is down there, but hopefully the tenant’s union will also be advising you to formally contest the notice of breach.
When I had a notice to remedy breach for the spots of greases on the rangehood and the water marks on the bathroom mirror, I didn’t contest it, I just rolled my eyes and said, “Whatever, asshole,” and when the agent came back – sans-owner – he signed off on it being remedied without me having done a fucking thing. It was obviously to placate the fucking deranged asshole prick owner. But after chatting to a property manager mate, he said that because I hadn’t disputed the breach, it was now on my file. 😛
You know my feelings on this, You guys are awesome for standing your ground!
Hooray, car’s fixed!
Baw, $350 gone.
Hooray, that’s less than half the price it would’ve been with a new part instead of second-hand!
Baw, the froghurt is also cursed.
Am I incompetent or do others find New ‘n’ Tasty: Abe’s Oddysee brutally tough as well? I’ve died so many times. I think it’s the weight of the character that’s putting me off. He doesn’t jump when I want him to jump and doesn’t have the precision of Rayman and newer platformer folk.
I’m enjoying the game, but I’m reeeeeally not good at it. 😀
Maybe you’ve grown old and slow? I’ve revisited some old games of late and it’s kind of amazing how different they are from what I remember. Disturbingly, when it comes to platforming or action, I often find myself wondering how I ever achieved anything with it. Like Mario 3, or Raptor.
(Heh, I remember dying in Raptor after a few levels and shrugging. Oh well, I’ll just loa– oh god no autosave! That is when my younger self looked at me with disdain from inside, declaring me WEAK and coddled.)
Haha! That’s certainly true, I think new games have conditioned us to let our guard down a little. Hand holding and all that. The skills have atrophied. In this instance though I feel like the game might be more on the clunky side.
Edit: Though I think that old games get a free pass sometimes. People assume cause they did it first, they did it best. This was what we had to put up with to play a game and we associate the punishing toughness with the nostalgia of it, but I think game design has come a looooong way. Your past self should be celebrating the innovation of autosave. 😛
Though I am weak too. The only way I got through all those old SNES games to the end is playing them on emulators years later and saving too often. 😛
Also, action-replaying them. Woo, custom code-generating! 🙂
Same, I gave up because I felt like an idiot playing it
Only thing keeping me going is it check points so damn often and has those adventure/puzzle-game like “OOOOH, I GET IT NOW!” moments! (Addictive.)
Oh Yeah, but I spent 1 day on one section and just felt I was going no-where at that point
And it’s really not fun when you know exactly what to do, but the game is punishingly tough to implement it.
Absolutely! so frustrating
The controls are just as fucking terrible as they were back on the PS1. They updated so much of the game but didn’t fix the bit where it’s a frustrating shitfest sometimes because you’re busy trying to make the game actually work right.
I’m watching the Lifestyle Food channel while doing some hand stitching.
Mistake.
I’m now really hungry and the only thing I have in the house for lunch is Cheezels. 😛
The only question is whether there are enough cheezels to make you feel not hungry
There were. But I’d had them for breakfast as well….
Sounds like every other weekend for me. 🙂
“What do you want for dinner?”
“Nothing. I just ate a can of pringles.”
4hrs later…
“I’m a bit peckish, but it’s too late for a proper meal, I guess I’ll try to make some more progress on this bag of skittles.”
It’s the little things which matter. Now when I get up from the desk and lock the PC down, when I come back I can simply say warmly, “Hey you,” and reach over to touch it with one finger, adding, “Boop,” to wake it back up.
This will never get old.
Are we taking bets on how long until you start pashing the screen?
Someone cut me in and it may go the way you want.
Transientmind looked around his office furtively, searching for the eyes of coworkers, whom he was sure would mock him, or stare dismissively.
Silence.
No-one was looking in his direction, caught up as they were in the hustle of their own work, dreaming of the beer at the end of the day or the girl they’d met on the weekend. Caught up in any number of domestic concerns, wondering idly about what they’d cook for tea or whether the traffic would be heavy on the commute home.
Sensing his utter lack of notice from anyone around, @transientmind leaned in closely to his new touchscreen. The gentle glow. The cool faux-aluminium frame, and the bezel, oh gods, the bezel.
He leaned in close, his breath fogging on the glass-covered LCD
“I Love you,” he whispered
Man I have not written TAY fanfic in ages.
Regretting that you’ve let it go for so long?
It’s inevitably a highly amusing exercise
“Why are you doing that to your monitor? And why is it wearing a blonde wig and lipstick?”
Oh god, I know, right? I’m so ashamed. It was all I could find… there weren’t any dark-haired wigs around.
Booping the PC has got old. My once-pristine screen is now smeared with finger-prints, and it’s easier for me to just hit ‘enter’ because I have to do exactly that again to prompt it to ask for my password.
The magic is gone. It wasn’t you, baby… it was me… trying to pretend that it wasn’t you.
When I got my new work laptop on Friday (all “critical” staff have been upgraded from desktops in case of another incident like the Martin Place siege where we need to vacate the office on short notice) the IT guy setting me up warned me not to draw too much attention to it, because it’s a sleek newer model, thinner, lighter with a solid state drive. Some, but not all, of the staff who already have laptops and regularly work from home are being upgraded.
In the event one of those staff made a case for “needing” a slightly slimmer/lighter laptop as they are more mobile, someone like me who will rarely need to work away from the office might get their brand new laptop jacked – basically, someone gets mad jelly about how little Matty K has a schmick piece of tat, they’re going to have a cry until someone agrees to swapsies.
I thought he was exaggerating, but every day since then I’ve had one of the seniors or managers walk past and eye the laptop off, sitting there on my desk, looking totally sweet. I might have to hide it behind something if this goes on, since my understanding is that most managers haven’t developed object permanence yet.
You would be surprised how often some departments have managers who order the latest and greatest in mobile technology, then try to do the same thing again six months later, and pitch a fit that they’re expected to pay an early termination of contract fee for doing so… they’d much prefer we discover some kind of way to have their new phone on a new contract and give their not-quite-latest shiny toy to ‘someone (unspecified) else’ and transfer the costs to them.
Kinda just want to scream that it’s the FUCKING PUBLIC SERVICE, YOU ARE NOT HERE TO PICK UP FUCKING STATUS SYMBOLS ON THE PUBLIC DIME YOU ENORMOUS WANKER.
I can see this turning in to a Joey style “Hey….. How you doin’?” in no time!
@highperformance Hey man I got your text but no credit, strange that they had so many returns, I love the game ay, story is nothing amazing and some pretty boring characters but the gameplay is really fun specially with mates, I reckon GOTY so far for sure. Think I’m about 30-40hrs played and I’m just over 50% complete.
I’ll pick it up today :p
What do you think so faR?
I feel lukewarmly to it thus far, I am feeling like though I should have started off on Hard Mode. I haven’t been out at night though so I may not be seeing how hard the game actually is.
Spoilered for where I am in the game
I am still in the First Assignment quest, I haven’t been out at night yet either. I’m kinda scared to be out because of the chance of dying and losing experience points. I’ve helped out Gazi and killed the drug dealersI’m in Brisbane all this week and am kinda bummed I can’t play, which leads me to believe I do like it.
I wouldn’t worry too much about the losing xp from dying, early in the game you only lose about 200-400xp, pretty sure thats only like 5 or 6 kills (i could be wrong) I died HEAPS and never felt like I was losing allot from it. Haha I can’t wait till you go out at night, first time scared the shit out of me and I was playing coop with mates.
I’ll let you know how I go lol
Am I the only one seeing these Taboola promoted links?
They’re bloody annoying.
Now I’m even less likely to venture outside of TAY.
Thing is, I’m seeing them in TAY…
I wasn’t before, but I am now. Part of that is how I access TAY (via my profile page / notifications) so I skip straight to the comments.
They’re a bit obstructive, especially on short articles.
I may or may not have just eaten two sandwiches and five lamingtons for lunch.
#imafatpig
No-SnackTaku lasted fourteen days of a planned mumblemumble days.
Giving up wasn’t my fault, though! Woolworths put Cadbury Marvellous Creation blocks at half price… and on that day, I’d already turned down Donut King donuts, a Magnum, and a McDonald’s soft serve… I was just completely out of willpower.
TransientmindShane looked around his office furtively, searching for the eyes of coworkers, whom he was sure would mock him, or stare dismissively.Silence.
No-one was looking in his direction, caught up as they were in the hustle of their own work, dreaming of the beer at the end of the day or the girl they’d met on the weekend. Caught up in any number of domestic concerns, wondering idly about what they’d cook for tea or whether the traffic would be heavy on the commute home.
Sensing his utter lack of notice from anyone around, @shane leaned in closely to his afternoon snack, and breathed in deeply. The cocoa. The feel and slight smell of crisp plastic packaging. A hint of brazil nuts, and a sweet milkyness.
He leaned in close, his mouth watering at the thought of his afternoon salvation. His refuge of sweetness. His treat
“I Love you,” he whispered
I’m allergic to nuts 🙁
That’s what she said, too.Don’t worry about it. I’m sure your wife loves the fat, unfit you
Thanks, man. Much appreciated.
Slipping up != Giving up
You can slip up and get right back on that No-SnackTaku horse, Shane! 😀
Nah, I was grumpy and hungry all the time. It sucked, and just wasn’t worth it.
Doesn’t matter – the only years I’ll be shaving off my life are the old crotchety ones at the end where I’d be complaining about rheumatism and ‘kids these days’. I can manage without those.
Eh, you’ll have mad comic book money at that point so it won’t matter.
comic book money and diabetes.
Nah I got tested for all that. Cholesterol was good, blood sugar good, blood pressure good. The only worrying thing was the slightly-too-much-weight.
So I’m going to assume it’s because I’m a stacked rippling hunk of muscle man (fanfic fodder – enjoy) and keep on keeping on.
Shane took the chocolate bar in his mighty paw, though his grip was soft and yielding. As he lifted the chocolate bar to his sensuous mouth, his muscles rippled, the product of many long hours writing.
He enclosed the chocolate bar within his lips, slowly pulling it out as he bit, and let out a quiet moan.
“Just remember,” he said to his colleagues, “I don’t handle nuts”
Well then, rather than quit snacking, why don’t you try replacing what you snack on?
Cut out the junk food and replace them with healthy food, kinda thing.
@shane It’s all about controlling portion sizes. Instead of eating a whole Mars bar, try cutting it in half first. Then you can have twice as many!
I’ve voted Freeze as PM of TAY before. I vote for you for Finance minister.
I think Australians are sick of being lectured by the United TAYtions about having to deny themselves the basic pleasures of life. They worked hard to be born in a country of privilege, and they deserve everything that comes with that.
hashtagshaneforpm
I thought you were minister for Culture and shanewsmith.com
@redartifice, what, I can’t be ambitious? Also, I didn’t realise I had a position already. 😛
The budget deficit would be pretty easy to fix if we just invested in printing more cash.
I understand the theory, but even when I buy the bite sized ones, I just eat ten of them at once 😛
Portion control is something I don’t think I will ever actually master. It doesn’t sound like much fun anyway.
I can’t tell if you took that seriously or not 😛
Let’s just say nobody should ever take weight-loss advice from me.
See, I’m trying to be helpful here, Pow…
>:P
And I’m trying to be funny but you’re making it very difficult!
Trying to be funny.
Trying.
Well, I’m done trying to be helpful.
Only ever turns into jokes anyway.
@liondrive C’mon man, I was just kidding around. I wasn’t trying to invalidate your advice or anything like that. Sorry if you thought I was.
Ahhh, I’ve just been super testy lately is all.
Ignore me, just been quick to grump lately :3
I feel like this when I offer my expertise on stuff too, Stew. Don’t take it personally! TAY is generally a light hearted commentary on many things, some at our own expense 🙂
*Shifty eyes waiting for someone to make fun of this post, I dare you, you damned ingrates*
HAH “INGRATES” CHECK OUT THE FANCY INSULT GUY WHAT A LOSER
Sometimes I just feel like everything’s made a joke of, you know?
I was trying to offer some advice, and be serious, but it always ends with joking…
Hey, don’t knock it til you’ve tried it… I’m digging grumbling about the ‘kids these days’ and complaining about how fucking up the simple act of sleeping has fucked my back. 😉
Shane in two weeks.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/01/02/article-2532756-1A62F52700000578-114_634x522.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2560/3699368901_623c781602.jpg
Wooooooooo!
For starters!
This is what Steam sales and humble bundles and Ozgameshop/GoG email updates and are doing to me with ‘no game purchase 2015’.
It may have been mentioned and I know it’s not going to fill any sweet cravings, but having recently found carrot sticks and hummus, I cannot recommend it enough. A maz ing and you can eat loads without feeling like crap.
Love that food, but last time I had that, my mouth swelled up and cracked open. Very painful. 0/10 will not repeat.
No Kotaku. I’m not interested in the hidden dangers of opioid induced constipation and the secret treatments.
And no, I won’t be interested in being shocked to the answer of if women talk more than men.
Jesus Christ I am genuinely hating these ads.
It weirds me out whenever I end up on a browser without adblock. Far too used to having it there.
Oh god I haven’t gotten around to installing adblock on chrome in one of the computer labs at uni and I was searching for the price of a monitor (29″ Dell ultra wide. They’ve been upgrading all the standalone monitors at uni to them and I want one :P) and I went on Facebook and I had 3 ads down the side for them :S Creeped me out.
29″ ultra-wide is awesome – I’ve got an ASUS one at home. 2560×1080 resolution. Love it.
I don’t want to adblock kotaku but they are bloody annoying
I’ve just gone through and added a host entry file for the main domains of taboola.
Will see how it goes
They’re even in TAY now.
I had adblock off on Kotaku but now I have it on. Those ads really irritate me.
When I was at eb games the other day buying my vita the guy told me that he’d used the remote play feature at a hotel in Melbourne, which is 300 odd k’s away.
What’s the furthest distance you’ve used the remote play feature on your vita?
Also, there’s a bunnings near my work, do you think it would work with the bunnings free Wi-Fi?
I had trouble using it in the room directly above my PS4. So, like, 3-5 metres?
I can’t use it in the same room as my PS4, so it’s a good 0 metres for me. :/
Same!
Hey, you’re back!
First day back at work in 6 weeks. It’s rough.
First day back at work after 3 days for me.
Also rough.
Welcome back! \o/
Mine works fine in the lounge room, tried the Bunnings wi-fi at work and it didn’t work, don’t think the signal was strong enough.
Toilet
Hey, PS4 owners. I have a question.
Where’s the rest of the menu? Feels like there’s not enough there.
I like how streamlined it is!
What are you looking for?
I dunno, more stuff? Like ps3 levels of stuff. That was a menu that had all the things.
Up?
Found that bit. Feels like I’ve found about 40% of menu stuff.
That’s cos you’re only reading the last page!
If you’ve got a heap of games and can’t see them all, go all the way to the right and click on “library”, they’ll all be in there along with your apps.
The issue isn’t that there’s not enough there, it’s that it’s filled with irrelevant crap and bullshit and you can’t get rid of anything or move anything around.
XMB was soooooo much better 🙁
Errrrr, yeah, that’s part of it. If it’s meant to be streamlined then it’d be nice if someone pointed me to the option where I remove the irrelevant junk.
It gets worse once you have a library beyond about 10 games. :\
I already have 30 (thank you PS+)
Sydney TAYbies!
I figured I might as well put this out there on TAY before going to gumtree; I’m in the market for a flatmate for a 2 bedroom apartment in the northern suburbs. If anyone is interested let me know and I’ll put up my personal e-mail address to continue the conversation =]
(also if someone kind enough could tag the Sydney Taybies cos I have no idea where that list is >.<)
http://powalen.com/tags/ says
@35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @cakesmith @cj @cookingmama @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @harli @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @mawt @morkai @markserrels @mrtaco @novacascade @powalen @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggyninty
Also now @dkzeitgeist
http://powalen.com/tags/
http://www.taytags.com
Holy snap, what is this majesty?!
This is how you stalk us on Steam, XBL, and PSN. 🙂
Nah, that’s http://www.tinyurl.com/taynames
Oh man, that Random Genius tab still makes me laugh.
No, that’s TAY Names: http://www.taytags.com/names.html
TAY Tags is just the city listing of usernames.
Oh no, no, I mean who MADE it? It’s incredible!
Oh I have no idea. I assume a wizard did it.
@powalen if im not mistaken
Indeed a wizard @powalen is.
This makes sense. He did tell me he does web things at the meat. I just did not realise how cool and beneficial they are 😀
Wow. I am happy to be added to this. 🙂
I presume I make @powalen aware of the informations?
If you follow the links on the top right, it’ll take you to a shared google doc which you can update with your own information. 🙂
(I would link the taynames spreadsheet directly, but I am afeared of the link-scooping bots.)
I discovered this, but was unsure if protocol.
Free for all yeah!
Which state(s) do you want to be added to?
Victoria.
Gas and/or Plasma.
Disrepute.
All done!
Are you on twitter?
I don’t social media anymore =P Also the idea of having a conversation with a word limit boggles the very core of my being =,=
You can reach me on its dot reuben at hotmail dot comWill do 🙂
Heeeeeeey! I could be interested in this! [doc at pixel-otaku.com]
Has anyone played the Vita game – Oreshika Tainted Bloodlines? Just got an e-mail advertising it from the PS store today and it looks quite RPGy and Turn basedy; two things I love in my VIta games =P
Just came out, I’m super keen but can’t afford atm.
Have a read about it somewhere, has some interesting mechanic involving breeding with demi gods & only living 2 years a person.
Lots of positive reviews, looks very pretty. I was looking forward to it and I grabbed it but I need to finish Tales of Hearts R before I start it.
Also I don’t know about AU pricing but the US release was only $20.
“Hi Jane, here’s a shitty and almost illegible scan of the error message we’re getting. I could have just typed the words out for you, but that would be too easy. Instead I printed it, ran over it with my car, scanned it back in at lowest res possible, faxed it to myself, scanned that back in, and then emailed it to you. Help.”
“By the way, the car thing took way longer than I thought, so if you could resolve this within the next twenty-four seconds, that’d be swell. Thanks.”
Urrrrgh. I lost it at Jane’s ‘car’, but yours was too real. Too real.
She called me approximately four point three minutes after I got the email, “Did you fix it yet?”
Thank goodness there aren’t any coffee stains on the scan. Phew you had me worried there for a second!
At least you still got it instead of that mythical “thing I senchya”.
Shouldn’t have put “I enjoy a challenge” on your resume. They are just trying to keep you interested.
Yeah, that’s not right. They’re meant to print it out, put it on a table and take a photo and then print the photo out and scan and email it to you.
I think that might be the school all of my Clients attend. Jesus fuck.
Red looked around his office furtively, searching for the eyes of coworkers, whom he was sure would mock him, or stare dismissively.
Silence.
No-one was looking in his direction, caught up as they were in the hustle of their own work, dreaming of the beer at the end of the day or the girl they’d met on the weekend. Caught up in any number of domestic concerns, wondering idly about what they’d cook for tea or whether the traffic would be heavy on the commute home.
Sensing his utter lack of notice from anyone around, Red leaned in closely to his coffee filter. the warmth of the ceramic mug. The slight metal-on-metal sound of the lid. The aroma of the coffee as it brewed, and the subtle drip, drip, drip as it filtered into the mug below
He leaned in close, staring at the filter’s aluminium surface
“I love you,” he whispered
I’ve no joke seen someone do this.
STOP SPYING ON ME TRANSIENT
I gotta admit, I thought there’d be a great deal more appreciation for the challenges involved in watching everything you do. I wasn’t expecting indignation. I’m surprised and disappointed.
(Edit: Include something topical and clever about ‘if the government does it’ etc, etc, look I have a headache, alright? And I already used up my daily quota of cleverness on ‘barking mad’.)
Between the amount I tweet, post here, post on facebook, automate tracking of fitness and playstation notifications, and stream RPGs, you’re not gaining much.
That’s true romance.
I kiss my bike goodbye everyday when I leave for work.
I pat my car on the roof when I go for the train after parking at the station each day saying “Be good Chief”. For those that don’t know, my car has the number plate “WIG” as the letters, so I call it Chief, reminds me of Chief Wiggum
Oooh that’s a good name. I love the Chief.
#objectophiliapage4
Oh god. I hadn’t even thought of what I was going to tell the iPad… we’ve been spending so much time together lately that it probably doesn’t realize I use other devices.
Well. That’s going to be an uncomfortable discussion… better get it out of the way soon.
#redsawfulslashficpage4
@shane – Walking Dead Compendium received well packed and as described. A+ Seller, would buy again.
Only A+? I won’t buy from any less than an A++++++++++ Seller.
Character limit. Shane’s got more ++++++++++++++++++s than I can fit in a feedback form.
Hey, he said up top he was trying to lose weight, don’t be so mean.
Awesome, man. Glad it got there okay! Thanks for the $$
Courteous buyer, paid immediately. A+++++++++ hope to deal with you again!
Happy page 4, friends.
A couple of people have asked me where I’ve been these last few weeks- OK NOBODY ASKED WHY I WAS GONE, I GET IT!
Over the past couple of months I have been working on an Online Fitness Challenge, in a similar vain to; The Michelle Bridges 12 Week Body Challenge, Kayla Itsines 12 Week Bikini Body, etc. predominantly for the students of the University I work for.
I wanted to share it with you for a couple of reasons, mainly because I’m proud of it and I’d like to show off my work but also for the fitness-conscientious of us who would be interested in doing an exercise program that might be a little more tailored than that of say FItocracy. I’ve been working on it since August of last year, so it’s been pretty pain staking and I’m glad I can sit back and (kinda) enjoy what happens with it.
If you would like to check it out, slap this link in your browser and check it out with your email address: https://orgsync.com/102827/chapter
So what you’re saying is, now you’ve got a bangin’ bikini bod.
What I’m saying is, that I’m not saying I don’t have a bikini bod that is bangin’.
Wait… what?
Really though, congrats dude, that looks really detailed and well-created.
Thanks! :3
You obviously never met the guy, seriously I was swooning a little during the first meat I met him. 😛
I didn’t ask…but I know how hard you been working man. Congrats on getting it out the door and I hope it takes off big time. :))
Cheers mayng, I’m hoping it gets so big I can quit and live out my livelihood in an island off of East Timor writing programs from the worlds fastest internet.
I like to think that all the fat I have is just muscle that is asleep and relaxed.
Energy reserves.
Whilst everyone is getting worked up/upset over the new Apple Watch dealy. Can we focus on how neat that new MacBook is? Especially that it looks like this this underneath when you remove the batteries! That thing has a 256gb SSD, with 8GB DDR3 RAM & the low power Intel Core M CPU, all on that one small logic board, pretty awesome if you ask me. The screen resolution is awesome too, likewise the fact it weighs only 920 grams.
But saying that I still think it’s got quite a few negatives. Like i’m not sure how sold I am on it just having one port though, USB Type-C. I really wish they had stuck with the MagSafe for the charging adapter and USB Type-C for everything else. Cause that MagSafe is genius on the MacBook range. I still think the MacBook Air is better with the larger screen option, and reguarl USB 3.0 and the regular charging port. Still I need to replace my semi-dead 8 year old MacBook, so I dunno it’s a possibility I guess.. Then again the Dell XPS13 is a pretty awesome Ultrabook too.
Edit: also fuck the Australian price of 1800 dollars. I’m better off buying the new 13 inch MacBook Pro retina for the same price :/
It’s a really nice looking computer, but jesus h am I glad I don’t work for Apple anymore, haha – Force Touch is going to be hellllll.
Yeah it’s really nice, but yeah, bugger that launch likewise the watch haha. But i’m sad they bumped up the prices of the MacBook Air with the refresh damn exchange rates >=[
Yeah, the exchange on that is disgusting. Like, that’s practically war profiteering on Apple’s part.
Yeah. I accidentally went to the US Apple site this morning and saw the new MacBook was $1299 and thought “damn that’s in a price range i’m happy to pay for an Ultrabook” then I realised my mistake and got sad when I went to the Australian site and saw it was as much as I paid for mine back in ’07…
Our exchange rate is so bad right now 🙁 Looking through US and AU prices though it’s not really unfair though when taking GST into account too.
As for me though, no interest in that thing. I need a decent CPU and a decent amount of ports.
That’s the other thing, they don’t even include a type-c to USB 2.0 or 3.0 or 3.1 connector that is EXTRA. Which I feel shouldn’t be allowed, but it will. Stupid >_>
Oh god. I just heard of something called the Mango Fly so I googled it.
Turns out it’s proper name is Cordylobia anthropophaga and I should not have googled it.
Someone tweeted something about a certain type of fly the other day, so I googled it and then I stopped eating my lunch and was sad for awhile.
Screw Worm Flies are always a barrel of dry heaving.
Dem’s arrived @Shane
Tanx :-3
No worries, man. Sorry they took so long!
PS: You might as well keep them. I didn’t especially enjoy them, not enough to want to re-read.
I can’t do that unless you except something in return.
I have a shiny old Boyond Too Seouls
I bought it over the weekend for $12! Am already a few hours in. Thanks, though!
I think I paid similar, well worth it.
I’ll borrow it when you come down to Melbourne!
(which is never :'( )
Why would I go to Melbourne?
To visit me ;D
Nah, if Idid, I’d travel within a short, convenient train ride away & not make the effort. I’d claim to be scared of knives or some-such.
I never said the knife thing!
@greenius I’ll ad-lib it.
I wish type 0 were out 🙁
I kinda don’t want to start it yet because Bloodborne is out so soon. Might just play the FFXV demo and toss it on the pile 😛
😀
@greenius if I win bloodborne (I won’t cos serrels hats me) then it’ll be the one on the pile 🙂
I’ll post it to you, then you post something to @Shane
Can’t say it’s every day I come home and find a cert III in transport and logistics sitting at my front door with my name on it…
Hooray! Congrats man!
Achieved: March 2009
It’s taken a while to find its way to me.
Sounds like someone needs to do something about the logistics of transporting this.
The irony is almost overwhelming.
As a young lad, I played a lot of a Playstation 1 game called The Simpsons Wrestling. I loved it. I’d play it at every opportunity. Then my Playstation died, and my childhood died with it. About five years ago, I bought a new Playstation, and I could still play all my old games on it. The only notable absences were Crash Team Racing and The Simpsons Wrestling. I quickly rectified this, and bought Crash Team Racing on eBay. Still amazing. I was going to buy the Simpsons Wrestling, but I decided to look at Internet people first so I could hear them praise this game.
They were not praising the game, they were damning it. The game has a 30% score on Metacritic. Nobody likes it. I decided to avoid buying the game again and tried to ignore it for the next five years. But it ate away at me. I really wanted to see whether I would still like this game.
On Saturday I cracked and bought it on eBay. It will arrive very shortly. I’m dying to play it, see if it’s any good. I’m flowing with nostalgia, thinking of all the characters you could play as, trying to remember their moves. Homer punches with square, throws a bowling ball with triangle, and does… something with his circle attack.
Oh right, he eats food and it makes him bigger. I played that game for months not knowing how the move worked and how I was supposed to pull it off. Like, does getting bigger increase his attacks? Increase his range? And what were any of Marge’s attacks anyway? I never played as her. Oh, man. You forgot about Bumblebee Man. He was the shit. He had like a, yo-yo, I think, and a brokenly overpowered puppy attack.
I want to play it so much. But it won’t arrive until at least tomorrow. And I know it’s bad. . Can my rose-tinted glasses see me through?
DON’T DO IT, MAN! IT’S NOT WORTH THE RISK!
BUT KRUSTY THROWS PIES IN APU’S FACE IT’S FUNNY
Haha. I’m in stitches from this video. Yeah it’s probably slack i’m laughing at it. But god damn, how can people be this intellectually challenged?
Wait, Trish (or whatever her name is) is still getting attention? I thought people realised she’s built her career on baiting for clicks by now. She’s been doing this for years.
She just went and ruined a Van Halen classic, ‘Hot For Teacher’ with a video clip which looked like it had all the intentions of being of pornographic nature and god damn David Lee Roth introduced the video, he of all people shouldn’t encourage the destruction of the music which made him famous >=[
The first ep of “Powers” is (legitimately) up on Youtube.
I’m about ten minutes in, too early to judge
I lasted three minutes. The start was a bit clunky and then they dropped an infodump in the form of a celebrity gossip story. It might be good. It isn’t for me.
Pretty slow. Picks up a bit after that, but that start is clunky as shit.
Austin?
Sneak peak!
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t31.0-8/s960x960/11011077_907444199275595_2506737320619381513_o.jpg
Ugh, wrong link! =P
So you’re going to photograph weddings cosplaying as a Stormtrooper?
Is this what you’re after?
So I bought some stuff on eBay one came with a tracking number, which makes me wonder why was it ‘received’ by Aus Post on Friday but today it was marked as ‘picked up from sender’ err.. That doesn’t sound right?
Depends, if it’s from a business they can (I think) send the item numbers through digitally
As far as I could tell, was just some guy sellin’ his stuff on eBay that he didn’t want. But yeah may have been that I guess.
Could also just be a processing lag
Yeah that’d be pretty plausible ha.
Steam won’t let me update Besiege…
And I really want to play it… 🙁
And now it’s downloading! \o/
Finished Abe’s Oddysee. Got the bad ending. Won’t be going back. It was fun, but too much a battle with controls and an exercise in frustration a good chunk of the time. (Though excellent setting, art direction and interesting if unhoned mechanics.) Checked the criteria for getting this bad ending and think I messed up early on in the game when I was still learning. BAH! 😛
Now on to Olliolli 2?
I tried. I got riled up on the first level. As someone who has legit OCD, not my game.
Though I’ve completed Valiant Hearts, CounterSpy and Abe! Not bad, PS Plus. Not bad. 😀
I haven’t played anything except Olliolli 2 and think I’ve alrrady got my money’s worth with PSN+ =P
Fun Fact:
My mum threw my copy of Abe’s Oddysee in the bin when I was little cause she didn’t like how you could make Abe fart…
Hahaha! Yeah, I remember they used to proudly promote that feature on the commercial. XD
I have no idea how I even got that game in the first place…
Doesn’t seem like something Mum would’ve bought for us, and we were too little to buy it…
Oh well! In the bin it went!
I think she saw something go into a meat grinder in the game, but we all knew she threw it out because of the farting >:3
It’s a pretty dark game. Most def not kid appropriate. Haha!
Yeah, I would have been like, 4 or 5 years old…
😀
Truth is I never got that far into it despite playing often. I spent too long laughing at the farting :3
Lucky that she never got you Boogerman on the Sega Megadrive
All o’ ya! * farts*
*slaps*
actually just realised what a messed up kid I used to be, making 2 npcs fight each other by getting them to stand right in front of each other and fart in one of them’s gave until he got angry and slapped, hitting the other one, who would then retaliate and so on… I’m messed up!Ooh, Elite: Dangerous’ Wings update is up!
Also,
http://senrankagura2.com/projects/bring-senran-kagura-2-to-europe/
Totally had an Ultimate edition ready to go at the checkout, then it error’d and I lost it. Baw.
Ooooohhhh yay! Won’t be able to play for the next few days but been looking forward to this update!
Extensive changelog: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=123776
Got taken out by an Elite Anaconda last night while minding my own business – was scanning the last system (and a productive one – lots of metal worlds and a water world, and some big ringed gas giants) on a route before dropping into a station for repairs and supplies. 🙁 Hour’s work down the toilet, about 400,000 exploration credits and 14T of rares onboard.
Mostly Harmless, Dealer, Trailblazer.
The cost of that Fer-de-lance! Such a pretty ship but damn!
Also… DEBUG CAM 😀
LOL! “naffy”
Haha yeah, the number of non-Brit/AU folk going “wtf is naffy?” has been pretty hilarious.
Player or wild anaconda? Did it get you with the plasma accelerator or something?
I think it was NPC. All over very quickly…
Plasma accelerator smashed my shields, beams finished me off. I would probably have got away if I’d put everything to engines and fled at full throttle straightway as they’re not that quick but I waited a fraction too long. 🙁 5 seconds or something. Smash smash dead.
I’ve been upgrading scanners and stuff, as it’s usually riskiest crossing the edge systems and the first 100 or so LY beyond inhabited space, once you’re out beyond that it’s quiet and lonely and pleasant and I can go hunting black holes in peace. Heading out to the Witch Head Nebula tonight, then the Horsehead, then on to the Crab Pulsar. I wonder if there are other pulsars out there.
YESSSSSSS
http://www.polygon.com/2015/3/8/8170233/tales-from-the-borderlands-episode-2-march-release-date
Only a few days to go! \o/
Can’t wait, really enjoyed the first episode.
Me too. It was fantastic.
\o/
Time to see how many Shade is going to scare the ever living crap out of me… Seriously EVERY.DAMN.TIME he appeared in the first episode!I just wish all the episodes would come out already so I could play them. =P
WOO last day at work for a week and a half! \o/
And even more WOOOOOOOOO GRAND PRIX STARTS TOMORROW! 4 days of pure awesome coming up!
Much power of horses to be had in these races 🙂
Indeed! Is going to be a magnificent display of how many horses you can cram into small places of you fold and stack them right!
Because I’m bored…
You wake up in a field. A strong gust of wind draws your attention to the fact that you’re mysteriously naked. Next to you is a small satchel bag containing two metres of rope, a bottle of water, and the third season of Friends on DVD.
You get up. It’s difficult to stand. Your legs are wobbling with the effort, but you give yourself time to adjust by observing the horizon in all four cardinal directions.
To the north is a looming forest, the east, a mansion way off in the distance. There is a limousine parked south of you, though no driver appears to be in sight, and to the west is a slow-moving conga line that stretches as far as the eye can see.
What will you do?
Curl up on the ground and wait for the sweet embrace of death.
Ask Faction if I can have his stuff.
All he has is that small satchel bag, and maybe he drank the water before he went!
Call my fiance to pick me up and tell her that it’s happened again…
Is the phone in your bum or something?
He was probably just yelling really loudly.
Would explain the shit reception.
heyo!
Head to the Mansion!
Nothing bad happens in remote mansions.
We should take the limo to get there, though. In case a getaway car is needed. And we can drive alongside the conga line, asking for people to hand over any spare clothes they have. The possibilities are endless!
You stroll on over to the mansion in the east. Your legs recover over time. You reach the front entrance very quickly, strolling through the front gardens without incident. At the front door, you can see that there are several lights on across the mansion, but you can’t hear anyone from where you stand. There is a doorknocker, a doorbell, and a third button with a label above it, but the text is too faded to read.
I was waiting for someone else to jump in, but I can go again!
I would use the doorknocker. From experience, every time somebody sees the doorknocker on my front door, they use it. No matter how much more effective a normal knock would be 😛
But a door knocker won’t hurt your knuckles!
Which way is the conga line going?
Away from everything else, but who knows how far?
Ok I pick up the satchel and the water and join the conga line
Craft some sort of garish outfit out of the Friends DVD and the rope
Is it a spooky lookin forest?
So we all saw that gritty reboot of Power Rangers, but this is just taking it too far: http://tinyurl.com/nrj5nky
Skint this week, no GP for me this year. TV only. 🙁
Edit: this was supposed to be a reply to Pixel above. Yes I’m referring to the Grand Prix.
I’m not sure what ‘GP’ stands for in this context. I’m taking it to mean that you’re too poor to go see a doctor and are going to take your medical advice from free-to-air medical dramas and reality shows.
This is what I took from it, but on reflection he might mean a Grand Prix of some sort?
Secured my tickets in July last year specifically so that wouldn’t happen :P… 5 years in a row this year! \o/
Yeah. Enjoy! You grandstand, or have a favoured position on the banking? I like the bank just after turn 2 – can see much of the straight and there’s often action there. And the beer tent is right behind… I take a couple of camp chairs and a very large umbrella, and some cable ties. Personal shaded area. 🙂
Yeah that’s a great spot to stand… Got grand stand for the last few years in the Jones stand which is the grandstand opposite from there, on the inside of turn 2… Fantastic viewing from there
Maybe next year I can be persuaded into the stands…
Is it just me or does anyone else find the new “you may like” click bait in every article annoying?
Yep, it annoys me!
Extremely
It certainly isn’t just you
Morning all!
Question for the early internet adopters from the mid-late 90’s!
Ive been trying to recall the name of a website i used to spend a lot of time on… basically they used to do flash video game videos, similar to the 16-bit style dorkly videos, except no voice overs. they mainly used to feature unlikely video game battles like mario vs sonic, ryu vs pacman, etc….
the website was pretty huge back then… considering how small the internet was back then!
Newgrounds?
nah, i think it was abreviated as well from memory, VGDC rings a bell…
@tech_knight – wait… VGDC that was it… *facepalm* need to use google more efficiently… the site is STILL going!
http://www.videogamedc.com/
also, it appears as though it does have some newgrounds roots intertwined…
Yeah I must’ve been too young or too focussed on Neopets during the early years of my internet browsing (Yeah most likely the Neopets), I don’t remember this site.
hmmm.. sad news. site isnt technically still going, hasnt been updated for 2 years. apparently Randy Solem, the guy that started it died two years ago at 36. man that is sad…
Man, I used to *live* on VGDC! That was my first forum, learning the ropes of the internet 😛
And yeah, had one of the ghosts of the past pop up around when that happened. Major spinout to hear.
I would have missed that. When I first got the internet at home, Flash didn’t exist, my 28.8kbps modem was state of the art and the bulk of my internet time was spent in telnet playing MUDs.
yep that sounds like my beginnings… only mine was a 14.4kbps modem! later i upgraded to a 28.8kbps Tasmanian Devil V330, and eventually bought a chipset upgrade for it which bumped it to 33.6kbps. I was amazed when i eventually bought my US Robotics 56.6kbps modem which boosted my download speeds by roughly 600 bytes
also i spent a disturbing amount of time on mIRC
Forgot to mention yesterday that I was seeing The Eagles last night. Please commence with your mandatory Dude references post haste.
I hate the fucking Eagles man
Ahhhhh, now I feel better. I needed that.
Wait, what? It was LAST night.. I thought the tour was back in early Feb, fuck =(
Well that explains why there was a heap of Eagles songs on the radio yesterday/
It started in Feb in Perth, from memory. But stretched out across many weeks and locations.
Argh. I had the idea the 2 shows in Brisbane were this time last month >.< doesn’t matter anyway, I couldn’t afford the 600 dollar tickets that were left anyway 😛
Also who the hell did they have replace Don Felder in the touring line up, did they even get another guitarist?
Bernie Leadon for half the show. They had 2 other backup guitarists, a couple backup percussionists, pianists, etc. In total there was about 6 to 10 people on stage at any given time.
That’s cool since he’s a founding member. Yeah, I remember watching The Hell Freezes Over tour DVD they had a fair few others on stage with them. Gonna be a shame when bands like the Eagles and others of their time cease to be, makes me wonder will we ever see bands of that caliber again, I some how doubt it :/
So I guess you’re taking it easy this morning?
I’ve been out ridin’ fences for so long now.
You know what’s a pretty cool show? Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. I’ve only watched the first few episodes because I couldn’t wait for Netflix to launch, but it’s very funny so far. Pretty similar to 30 Rock (in a good way), but that’s to be expected considering the people involved.
Also, the second season of Helix is so great! Much more consistently interesting than the first season, I think. Can’t wait to see what they do if they get a third season.
TV is pretty good, huh.
I’m much more indifferent to Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. I love Tina Fey, Ellie Kemper and 30 Rock but I just don’t care one way or another about UKS. I believe I’m up to episode 8.
Also, I wonder what will happen to Top Gear given the recent news.
Huh, just looked up the Top Gear thing. Apparently they won’t be airing the rest of the season. That kind of sucks.
Ugh. One of the few shows i’ve been enjoying this year, damn it Clarkson D=
Dammit, we forgot to discuss Helix on Friday night! You know, when I was sitting next to you the whole dinner and you didn’t even mention me in your write-up…. 😛
Haha, sorry Strange!
Woohoo! Laptop is on its way for repairs! \o/ waiting on the cheque for my other laptop today.
Still going to be laptopless for at least a week /o\
I’ve got a lap you can top if need be.
I top you mothers lap! /viktor
Yees. All da mothers.
*giggles* oh you!
Laptopless looks like far more exciting a word than it is.
So I decided to take up Borderlands 2 again, but this time with a few friends of mine, much more enjoyable than playing alone. Half of our time was spent ramming each other with the cars though or shooting big guys in the face with a shotgun :P.
This game is certainly something I can pick up again during my recall weeks
Yep that sounds like the quintessential borderlands experience 😛
It is amazing fun, though I even enjoyed it as a lone wolf… Damn now I wanna play through the presequel again 😛
Single player just felt so empty and got repetitively boring and battles just dragged on and on which made me eventually quit. It got a point where a single enemy took so long to die and they throw a dozen at me at once at least, so I just pop up, attack, hide cuz my shield went down quickly, wait then rinse and repeat, got annoying. At least with coop I’m helping my friends survive and able to focus weak spots (I think I’m number 1 in revivals at the moment) and I’m maining shotgun and SMG being the gunzerker.
I could never get into the presequel despite putting hundreds of hours into Borderlands 2. Maybe it’s due to a lack of Kreig.
I completed my play through as Handsome Jack and loved it… But maybe that’s it, you didn’t like the characters as much?
I have yet to finish the pre sequel >.
I have done the same thing.
But I have been playing solo.
Doing all the side quests in the DLCs before I go and finish ultimate vult hunter mode again.
Never finished it on 360, I always played solo though because I have no friends. Would be cool if my son was old enough to co-op with me, sadly he’s not, don’t want to expose him to that sort of violence and profanity just yet.
Anyone planning on picking up The Handsome Collection on PS4?
I am hoping to get it for ps4.
Cool, let me know if you do, maybe we can get some co-op happening, that is if I can drag myself away from Battlefield: Hardline.
Will do. Until then I will keep playing it on the PS3
@trjn @beeawwb @gingerchris86 @blaghman @quiz_b @freezespreston
THE STRANGE: THE SERIES
You found a thing! And blaghs killed a mummy! What do?
8pm SA time! May be a slight complication, on a business trip today, but should be all good
Any chance I can get a recap?
We found a thing, and I killed a mummy.
Looks like I know all that I need to know!
Did anyone end up swapping when you guys translated?
Didn’t translate yet
Ooh, surprised you haven’t thrown them in the deep end of the Strange just yet. I ran a once off session for a few people that involved the players playing as themselves and having come into contact with an artefact. It ended in the players going to the police for help but then getting chased by quickened secret agents. I think I actually said something along the lines of “As you drive away from Logan Hyperdome in your commandeered police car”. They ended up using the artefact to find an inapposite gate and ended up in Ruk in a bioengineering street doc clinic. Yeah, things get weird very quickly in the Strange.
They’re looking right at the gate 🙂
@popdart5 Red stopped me from attempting to steal it.
I stole a painting and a bunch of the dudes underwear.
I am going to burn the fuck down out of this guy’s house, man. I’m serious. You watch. From a safe distance.
I wont be able to join tonight unfortunately. Lack of laptop not helping 🙁
Ok then, is simple. I just burn the fuck down out of you. Except you not watch.
I must have missed a lot. You’ve gone from mothers to burning as your thing.
Mothers is still thing. Always thing. Just this guy, man. His whole house is front. Let’s see how front he can be when I blow the thing up.
Woo! Night Witches RPG is finally on its way to me after I helped kickstart it however long ago. Pretty excited to add this to the collection.
Powalen’s Mini-Adventures with Clients at Work! *slightly different spin-off jingle*
Client (a high school): We urgently need you to update the header of our website!
Me: Sure, what do you want me to change?
Client: Just remove the line “Boys succeed at [high school name]”.
Does… does that mean they no longer succeed at your school?
Is it an all boys school? It might be them trying to seem less sexist 😛
Haha, yes it is a boys school.
Though it would be funny if instead they had us squish “And Girls too!” onto the end or something 😛
Being sued by someone for promising unreasonable expectations?
It means that they’ve probably had legal advice that they can’t make such statements because it might be interpreted as some sort of guarantee, and “Most boys succeed at…” doesn’t make for good marketing.
Big Hero 6 is out on DVD and Blu-ray in two weeks! \o/
BalalaLAlaLa!
We really have to remember to make that our new meat greeting.
Sweet! Hanging out to watch it, missed it during its cinema run, although my son watched it twice.
*shakes fist*
Man, i love John Oliver
Sooo, do you guys wanna help me name my moto? I feel like she deserves a name of her own. The plate letters are MJ (which is cool, but I prefer Gwen Stacy).
Kermit.
MJ stands for mecha-Jane?
Something slutty. You know, because it gets around?
What’s your mother’s name again, Freezy?
Just outta curiosity…
That one shouldn’t be a problem. His father’s name though……
Stewart.
What a slut!
HeyWaitaMinute!
Black Jesus.
Steve.
Excitebike?
Mach Rider!
Lady Godiva
I’m a huge fan of Scrubs so I am going to suggest Sasha which is what JD named his Scooter.
Oooohhh brilliant idea! Then she can even wear a bracelet that says “Sasha Forever”!
I’d be too worried about her going down in a hail of bullets. Sasha, that is, not Jane.
FITBIT. I bought one. I am totally loving having one. I came last in our steps competition.
My heart rate was the most elevated during a public speaking thing I did rather than during exercise. WELL DONE ME, I AM GOOD AT NOT ANXIETY.
Does anyone else want to be fitbit friends?
I’ve been thinking about getting one, mainly for the heart rate monitor and sleep tracker (or whatever the hell it’s called).
I love the heart rate monitor. The sleep tracker seems less accurate but I think that’s because I go chill in bed for a bit before going to sleep, and I probably need to up the sensitivity on it.
I also like the steps counter and the ability to have mini competitions. It makes me actually try to do a bit more exercise and use the stairs more.
I usually go to bed so late that I’m asleep within seconds because I’m so tired.
I’ll let you know if I get one.
I’m curious about stat-tracking my life like a video game, but I don’t want to wear a strap around my wrist.
When are Fitbit bringing out their microchip-under-the-skin version? 😛
I actually am getting used to wearing it. At first it was a bit strange but now I only notice it when I have to do procedures (hand washing up to elbows, so it gets removed) and when the puppy tries to bite it.
You can always wear it around the ankle like a sex offender!
Sold. It is a day for impulse purchases.
(Edit: Huh. Those are actually a lot cheaper than I was expecting.)
Yay!! More fitbit friend 🙂
I have no idea how that all works, but if it’s some sort of stat-sharing system, then all I can say is you best be prepared to be impressed…
…by how much more exercise than me you do.
We all have to start somewhere. 🙂
I’ll 1v1 u bra
https://www.fitbit.com/user/2ZN7QX
You’ll need this to add me to your friend list.
I am trying to get 10k steps every day this week. It’s not easy but I’m up to 4 days in a row, AND I’ve lost a little bit of weight this week \o/
I have not managed to get to 10K steps yet this week but maybe from today! I got the Marathon badge so pretty pumped.
I only *just* managed it today with the help of the treadmill. Days mostly at home are the hardest.
Even after walking the puppy, I only made it to 6,000 because we were mostly at home. UGH.
OK so with the fitbit peeplz mine is all set up. I saw a link to @cookingmama’s fitbit profile page and added her. Now to add everyone else! Freya, @highperformance and… potentially @kermitron?
Also @alexandhispants and @sharples (?)
Flexes were on sale at JB for $99 \o/
My wife has one, not me, but I’m actually on my way into the city as I type this and picking up a Charge HR might be part of today’s adventure…
Yeah, I was sold once I realized it told the time, because I’d been looking for a new watch, and short of getting something ultra-fancy and ultra-expensive for being dressy, I figured people would consider seeing a fitbit in meetings as ultra… uh. ‘Trendy’. Yeah.
I accidentally replied to cookingmama. Oops.
Anyway, I opted for the Flex since they were on sale for $99. I think $197 for the HR is a bit steep and I was tempted by the charge but ultimately decided to try the Flex and see how we do.
I have the flex and I like it. I might eventually upgrade to the Charge HR, maybe for Christmas.
The watch part was actually the final selling point! I almost bought an Up! because it’s not this chunky obviously tech head type thing that looks overly masculine, and was cheaper…but it doesn’t have a watch feature and I really did want a watch as well. I realise I paid like $200 for a “watch” but I wanted the other features of the HR monitor etc, and it isn’t obviously gendered.
I can’t remember my username currently and I haven’t charged it for a fortnight, but I reckon I’ll charge it up again tonight. Once I work out it out I’ll let you know what my name is. My email if you can search for it is nathanATnathanmcleandotcomdotau, I think my account is linked through FB
Count me in.
https://www.fitbit.com/user/39PDZS
Ugh. So there’s an old mature aged student who works at UTAS in my audio class and he’s taken it upon himself to try and be friends with me, as mature age students do. As mature age students do, they ask question after question about what you’re doing at uni and what you’re hoping to get out of it, and remember everything you say so they can bring it up again at 9am on a Wednesday morning when all you’re thinking about is food and sleep. Anyways, he asked me how my project was going stating exactly what it was and I do not remember telling him but he must have asked last Wednesday at 9am when I was also thinking about food and sleep and nothing else.
Then he asked me what projects other people are doing, to which I replied with ‘a lot of people are making games’, to which he replied with a wonderful speech about how ‘they’re not doing anything useful then’ and ‘they’re just wasting their time’ because ‘games are the biggest waste of time imaginable’ and all the people who are looking at getting a job in the games industry are ‘away with the fairies’ and jesus christ I wanted to punch the dumb fuck.
God damn fucking mature age student pricks.
What a total git. What’s he doing for his project then? Probably a study of being a twat.
He’s a marine biologist, so I’m guessing that entails really fun things.
Ask him if he’s ever fished a golf ball out of a whale’s blowhole.
Using a microscope to look at crustacean genitalia, mainly. I speak from experience.
Wow. That’s so harsh. Poor crustaceans…
I know one of those. She spends a lot of time up to her waist in mud looking for worms.
Yes! Damn those mature age students… always with the trying to answer questions in tutorials and lectures, and sitting at the front and stuff. They’re not cool like us hip, young people!
*shakes fist* *fidgets*
He can answer questions all he wants. That means he has less time to talk to me 😛
wait, I am a mature age student
I’m sure you’re fine if you’re not spouting your disdain at somebody for everything they like when they never asked to hear it 😛
Yes. I save that for the Internet! 😀
Video games are the tool of the devil I tells ya!
Think of all that time that could have been spent looking at crab dick!
Used to work with someone like that. Didn’t play games because they were a ‘waste of time’ and ‘not productive’ and so on. I mean, that’s a fine opinion to have, but there’s ways you can express it without being a huge douche.
Yeah. A simple ‘I don’t like games’ would have been enough. I couldn’t care less what he does and doesn’t like, but I didn’t need that. I think he thought I agreed with him at first too. Nup.
He also has wonderful views on people who don’t natively speak English, FWIW.
My wife’s aunt sarcastically refers to gaming as “doing something constructive”, when she spends like 5 hours a nice begging out in front if the TV complaining about how all the shows in Foxtel are shit. Fuck people and their opinions.
People suck.
Him being a dickhead is probably not at all related to him being a mature age student, he was probably always like that. 😛
We’re having a fund raising bake sale in my office, and I just very merrily got to eat a bit thing of guacamole and corn chips for a buck and I am really happy right now. Ahhhh.
That sounds like an excellent inspiration for stress relief and I am going to follow your example.
That’s kinda like working in the security industry. You never get to talk specifics because of privacy and security concerns.
Helps there really isn’t much interesting to talk about.
Yup. Pre-edit didn’t give anything away, but that kind of moaning is best saved for your inside-own-head voices while drinking.
Guac, chips, and salsa acquired. Stress levels decreasing, and thank you.
Also, wow. I had the option of choosing between discounted CC’s original and CC’s salted, and I went with original… holy crap, that’s the UN-salted? What’d they do for the ‘salted’ version, heavily sprinkle some corn-chips into a bag of salt? Nowait, I can do better than that… something something salt-lick, think we’re livestock, no, herbivores and salsa/guac… no, that’s… ugh.
Look, I’m still recharging comedy levels from the genius of ‘barking mad’ yesterday, I’ll come up with something later.
Haha I am so happy you get to share the corn chippy joy!
They are a good thing. When my brothers and I have a dispute to resolve, we challenge each other to a duel. Nachos to first blood.
First one to get something on them loses.
Where’s the Bloodborne competition winners?
I wanted to read the posts but didn’t want to sift through 350+
(I was hoping the 20 odd winning posts would be up so I could see the best of the best, sir)
Really sick of these goddamn ads at the top of every friggin’ article. Wish they’d just fuck off and die.
Out of curiosity I just turned adblock off. Yep nup.
Adblock gets rid of them I’ve found. Really hate having to do that on my most visited site but hate how obnoxious they are.
I think I turned adblock on for this site right around the point there was an interactive Nokia Lumia ad that covered the entire site and brought my computer to a halt.
Oh god, those things. They’d always kill my computer at college, the full background ads. Grinding halt, every time.
Finally bothered to un-Adblock and check them out.
Yep. Nup.
Stuff that got announced last night which I am interested in and/or excited about but most likely no one else cares at all:
– Senran Kagura 2 coming to US & PAL 3DS this year. Limited physical copy run which requires expensive preorder. Not sure what region to get. I hear this plays a whole lot better than the original game, closer to Shinovi Versus. Wish it was on Vita.
– Etrian Odyssey Untold 2 coming to US 3DS this year. Presumably NISA will release in Europe/Australia like normal for Atlus stuff. I didn’t grab the first Untold yet – basically these are remakes of the original Etrian games but with a pre-generated party and marginally stronger plot elements, which sounds good to me (I wish I had more time to devote to an EO game, they’re great but so long)
– Onechanbara Z2 coming to US & PAL PS4s this year. XSEED and NISA joint or something? Not sure what’s the go here. I hear that this game is actually kind of alright, though obviously completely stupid (It is about a vampire girl who slaughters zombies while wearing a bikini and a cowboy hat…) I actually had the old X360 release, from the same line of games that brought us EDF2017 and it’s got similar production values and is kind of fun. So might get this. Maybe.
– Imageepoch’s Stella Glow isn’t dead after all. It was completed back in November but everything went pear-shaped around their publishing. Sega’s handling it now. I really hope that it comes out in English eventually just because one of the character designers is Ideolo and I absolutely love his work. You can see an example on the
I gave the original Onechanbara a shot on the 360 in part because I couldn’t believe it was a real thing which was real and was available on a games DVD rental service I was using.
Very low-polish, pretty sluggish, interesting hook (yeah, despite appearances) and a potentially interesting RPG/levelling mechanic, if you could stand to struggle through the inadequate controls and bland combat/environments. There was possibly a good game underneath all the fluff and frustration, if I’d persisted, but life is too short.
Still haven’t touched my 360 copy of onechanbara.
You haven’t missed out on much.
Yeah. Kind of fun, but not very polished and not that great. “similar production values to EDF2017” isn’t a compliment.
EDIT: The EDF comparison is valid because both the original PlayStation 2 EDF and Onechanbara were part of the same low-budget ‘Simple’ series from D3 Publisher. Most of those games were shit that were churned out and sold for 1500-2000 yen so like $15-20.
The difference is that the ORIGINAL Earth Defense Force on 360 was fucking amazing and I wish I’d bought it outright. 🙂
The original EDF was on PS2. Simple 2000 Vol. 31: The Earth Defense Force. PAL release was ‘Monster Attack’.
Second one was also on PS2, released as Global Defense Force, and it got a strategy sequel, Global Defense Force Tactics.
Xbox 360 one is EDF 2017 and it’s actually the fourth EDF game. 🙂
EDIT: Also it is awesome.
Woo hoo! Free chicken ramen soup for lunch!
Thanks Boss Lady.
Damn son! I want a boss lady like that! Free ramen is ALWAYS welcome!
The only thing I get for free is soft drink.
But I do work at schweppes and it is only while I work.
Only thing I get free is my phone bill! Certainly can’t complain. Saves me $50 a month, which is better value than a free lunch, but still… free lunch is awesome too! Even more so when it’s ramen!!
Listening to the girls in my uni class talk about their business card ideas:
“I’m thinking I’ll have a black card with gold writing”
“Maybe even a white card with silver writing”
“What about a white card and gold writing?!”
They sound like they’re all going to have the same card, which is the same as every business card ever made…
If only there was some way you could slip them some subtle excerpts from American Psycho about business cards.
Oh, that reminds me I never gave you a photo of one of mine (not personalised, just generic company ones). Do you still need examples?
Any examples are good examples!
Oh, sorry about snapping at you the other day too.
That was unwarranted, and I never did apologize.
No harm done!
I’ll grab you a photo today when I get the chance.
Here ya go! Top row are the old ones, bottom row are the ones we use now (front on the left, back on the right)
http://oi60.tinypic.com/sd08bo.jpg
Much fancier than my old work ones. Channel Seven logo on the right, centre, personal details on the right. I think they started to roll out cards with red backs after I left but otherwise plain as can be!
Just poo into a glad snap lock bag and write the details on with a sharpie.
Partial credit for originality.
Ohwait… http://poopsenders.com/
(Edit: Tragically, I know someone who has both used and endorses the effectiveness of this product.)
This would’ve made some of my revenge schemes so much easier…
Classy, I like it 😀
Clearly that card is black & blue, not white & gold.
—.- —.-
This is as close as I can get to side-eyeing someone on TAY 😛
I saw my chance and took it 😛
How are you meant to read a white card with silver writing…. =,=
Being from the business industry I can safely say black cards make you look like you’re promoting an escort service. And white and gold is so cliche and wannabe I don’t think I’ve even seen any businesses that use it anymore.
Classic is classy; White background with black imprints for the information and a metallic grey silvery feel for the logo. It should be minimalist; with just the logo on one side and information with a small logo on the other.
I like to take things a little further by having little strips of perfume cards mixed in with my stash of business cards so that when they’re handed out they smell divine =P Just a nice little touch imo.
Yeah, a white card with silver writing isn’t a business card, it’s a place holder for a wedding table.
Here’s mine!
http://shanewsmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/business-card.png
Shane’s got style =P
ESCORT SERVICE STYLE *dons pimp hat, struts down the street*
Awesome!
Did you create that type font, or is it a pre-made one?
http://www.fontpalace.com/font-download/Bank+Gothic+Medium/
White, black writing, corporate logo.
I have about 50 cards on my desk and they’re all basically the same, though I work in insurance and like 90% of them are for solicitors or loss adjusters. The unusual ones are mainly for restaurants.
Rounded corners is where it is at
Don’t do a different shaped card or something silly like that. People have a pile of cards that they want to keep and if yours doesn’t fit neatly in the pile it is likely to get discarded.
Hey guys, I’m fairly new here but thought I’d say g’day.
Anyone doing anything exciting today? I’m having a thrilling day at work. But hanging out to play some more Prison Architect and DA: Inquisition.
Woo, new person! \o/
Hi! 🙂
Hi 🙂 Thanks man.
Hello new guy!
I’m currently at uni trying to make some business cards :3
Maybe you should get something with a subtle off white colouring? A tasteful thickness, maybe a watermark even? 😀
Hey new person! I started uni recently. Which means I have a reason to lurk here again after being afk for like 3 months. Also hey everyone I’m back and started uni recently! 🙂
Oh nice, what’re you studying?
I.T. videogame and multimedia design
Oh that’s cool. Enjoying it?
Hallo! Welcome!
I was pretty surprised by Prison Architect, hey. I’d known about it for a while and the ‘THIS IS BUGGY’ trailers set expectations appropriately low, but when I picked it up on a Steam sale for a song and installed it to get some cards, I found myself tooling around in it just for kicks and the next thing I knew I had spent an entire day.
Yeah that’s how I got it as well. I can’t believe it’s been in Alpha for almost 3 years now I think lol. I started it up again over the weekend because I hadn’t for about 6 months and was very happy with the improvements.
Fresh meat!
…
I mean HI!
Not much exciting today… Work, elite dangerous tonight… The usual… What about yourself my friend? What brings you to these parts?
Hello! I am at work. Working. And not reading TAY at all.
Are you me. Cos that is totally what I’m doing too
Yes.
Haha yes as am I. Completely committed to working right now…….
Shhh! Can’t you see I’m trying to work? Geez!
Hello, fairly new person!
I’m into my second playthrough of DA:Inquisition. So I have important questions for you. What’s your character like, and who are they romancing? 😀
My character is a noble human warrior and I’ve been concentrating on romancing Cassandra but I have to admit I’m kinda into Sera now too.
Sera is awesome. I haven’t romanced her but I take her with me most places. Also, if her regular scenes are anything to go by, her romance scenes will be super fun. But yeah, Cass is great once you get to see beyond her prickly exterior. Some of the conversations between her and Varric are hilarious.
I played as a female elf rogue who romanced Solas for my first playthrough. For my second playthrough I’m having trouble choosing between Iron Bull and Cullen. I also have a male human warrior character I started who wants to have a fling with Dorian. 😀
How far along in the game are you?
Ah so I can’t romance Sera. But I will on my next playthrough.
Cass is awesome. I like once she starts to get talking.
At the moment I’ve just gotten escaped from Corypheus and gotten to Skyhold. I haven’t done any missions from there yet but I’m excited to.Oh man, you have good stuff ahead of you! The game really hits its stride once you reach Skyhold. The first time I reached Skyhold I spent a good few hours there, exploring and just repeatedly talking to my companions until they had nothing new to say. That was the point where I really started loving the game.AWesome, I can’t wait to get some good long sessions on it. I might take the weekend to get through some.
No love for the bearded Blackwall?
He’s too easy. He fell in love with my character practically the first time we spoke. So he clearly just wants her for her body. 😛
Xenoblade? 😀
Xenoblade?
Doya like it?
I haven’t played it sorry. I used to be a massive Nintendo fan but I haven’t played anything since Super Mario Galaxy – Wii or Scribblenauts on the DS
Saying that though. I’ve been looking at getting a New 3DS this week as I’m constantly all over the place and can’t afford a gaming laptop that I’d consider good enough(compared to my desktop).
Everyone needs a portable Xenoblade machine 😀
Monster Hunter is sweet as well!
Fixed.
@Doc_What Zelda is my favourite vidya game series but I still haven’t touched MM3D. I think it’s mostly due to me finishing MM before and MH4U is all “new”
Can’t wait for payday now then. I was always a bit of a sucker for the harvest moon games and scribblenauts on the DS was amazing.
Welcome friend!
Thank you friend! Well met.
Haha are you a hearthstone man?
I’ve been meaning to play it. Thanks for the reminder I just downloaded it on my iPad. My username will undoubtedly be Apocalypticfish as that’s me everywhere.
I’m highperforma on Hearthstone, are you an xbone or PS4 guy?
Xbone and PC myself
Hi there!
As a side note to everyone else: Do we not use the Oar anymore? No? 🙁
http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/3/4/7/6/2/3/webimg/493545114_tp.jpg ??
Needs more spikes….
The mighty Oar of Thorns was truly terrifying in aspect.
There is no Oar. TAYbies They don’t make ’em like they used to…. 😛
I have Alandria stuck in my head…
You are not me.
Any requests for my radio show, tomorrow?
Foo Fighters – Alandria
Would’ve never seen this coming…
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
Thinking About You – Calvin Harris ft. Ayah Marar
Hear Me – Imagine Dragons
I Want You Back – Jackson 5
Eagles? I blame @beeawwb
Tool – Forty-Six & 2.
Puddle of Mudd – She Hates Me (if you have radio friendly version)
If not: Weezer – Hash Pipe
She Hates Me is good.
I like Blurry better.
Kansas – Carry On Wayward Son
The Presets – If I know you
Neil Young – Old Man
Cornershop – Brimful of Asha
Paperback Writer – the Beatles
Speaking of Paperback Writer, seen this?
Radiohead – Karma Police
Kokomo – The beach boys
Taco – Putting on the Ritz
A whiter shade of pale – procol harum
Just a girl – No doubt
What’s The Frequency Kenneth?
by REM.
Closing requests now, thanks everyone, for the songs.
Wow.. The new thing that recommends articles to you above the comments just directed to a 5 year old article, what the fuck?
Gawker media has finally joined other tabloid websites in look; let us applaud.
Jokes aside worst bloody addition to what was a pretty decent website layout.
Edit: Hope they’re getting paid shitloads for it =,=
Ugh I can’t stand it. I had adblock turned off for kotaku because it wasn’t too bad and I like the site, but nope not anymore.
Allure.
Gawker owns the US sites and jumped off of that cliff years ago.
Yeah, slightly unnerving thought to imagine Kotaku going the way of Joystiq. Could cast Mark’s Big Question article in a sinister light. Normally I assume he’s trying to reassure himself that he’s not the perverted deviant (ie: doesn’t like the things I like as much as I do) that society and twitter tells him he is, but what if… *holds torch in front of face* …what if, ‘Hey, that always generates an argument, let’s post it!’ was about pageviews? ooooo-ooo-ooo-oooooh
Worse case scenario Mark starts his own website and we all follow him to bigger and better things. Like phpBB and flash intros! WOOO!
Probably the single worst change Allure Media have made in memory.
Or for those who love exaggerating…
The single worst change in human history.
Achievement Unlocked: “This is How You Internet.”
(Press ‘share’ button to post to Twitter!)
You will require a Gold account to post comments more than once per day.
Oh god
Literally worse than Hitler.
Anyone getting pumped for GoT yet? If only foxtel would let me pay for GoT only….
I try not to get pumped for stuff that’s still over a month away 🙁
Only 282 days, 10 hours, 28mins 51secs until The Force Awakens!
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and then the Star Citizen PU alpha should launch and squadron 42… MORE SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE
I still have to watch seasons 3 and 4 yet.
Hoping to get caught up before season 5 starts next month, but I won’t be able to buy season 4 for about 2 weeks.
I AM SO PUMPED. I have Foxtel Go because my parents have Foxtel, and MY BODY IS READY FOR IT NNGGGGGGHOMG
Man, it’s probably time for me to get caught up on the rest of it… I haven’t seen anything since the end of season 2.
I think I am at the end/almost at the end of season 1
Guys! It’s nearly March 14!
The day where nothing exciting is happening.
Is that the day we all prepare for the Ides of March?
17th is where it’s at.
St. Paddy’s Day \0/
Heard about the Irishman who went to the toilet?
He wiped the chain & pulled himself.
I’m having a steak dinner on March 14! \o/
Halfway there! \o/
Edit: Wife tells me she’s happy to cook a steak for dinner….
You should marry that woman.
I did. Probably why I’m only getting the steak.
Woo, when that comes around means only one week until I get to see Helen \o/
That’s your early holiday is it? What’re you doing the week prior to us stuffing ourselves into flying aluminium people-traps full of recycled farts for eight hours?
Fart arseing around not achieving much I’d imagine.
Sounds like a fantastic plan. Wish I was doing that.
Glad to hear you’re so excited for my birthday …
Woo, the day we welcome DAN! to Sydney!
At least you know what to welcome him with.
Hugs?
Pi day?
Actually, this year will be a special one for Pi enthusiasts. It’s 2015, so the date will be 3/14/15!
Even better at 9:26:53 am.
I’m at Port Lincoln today, a town known for its fishing. I thought while I’m here i’d see what I thought was an aquatic musical, but it turned out to be an awful noise
because you can’t tuna fish!#dadjokepagesix #hi@strange
I don’t get it? Did you forget a word? Can’t followed by a noun doesn’t make sense.
Ugh. Those clickbait things are now in full force and they’re even worse on mobile – each one is just about a full screen size.
Genuinely unpleasant – I’ve never considered this before, but how can they be blocked on Android?
https://adblockplus.org/en/android-install
I’d assume TAY would be worth a tonne of as revenue as a single article and it’s a bit sad we’re all turning on Adblock but goddamn who thought they’d be a good idea?
It’s even better when the article is’ 8 shocking ways coconut oil will change your life’ with a massive picture of a fungal big toe.
I personally sent them a lovely email from the Contact link at the bottom of the page. Everyone should send them lovely emails!
@jocon @transientmind @novacascade Show of hands, who’s received their Japan docs and who hasn’t? I know @freezespreston has.
Trying to get an idea of where things are mail-wise since it seems like maybe the stuff was sent standard post so fuck knows if it’ll ever arrive.
Relatedly, what are you guys planning to do re: clothing? We’re away for long enough that I’m thinking taking that many changes of clothes is going to be a pain (especially since it’s still quite cold in parts). Planning on doing laundry at some point? We’re not really in one place for that long so was thinking this might be tricky.
I’m sure it can’t be that hard to do a wash at a hotel every now and then? At least what we were planning to do.
Yeah, shouldn’t be too hard I think. Just got to be one that we’re there for long enough to actually get done.
@freezespreston is planning on taking a single lumberjack shirt and nothing else, terrifying the locals with his bottomless antics.
Wait. Is this the real life, or just Pathfinder fantasy?
Coincidentally, one of the coworkers was just singing, “Thunder and lightning, very very frightening..” (To a completely different tune, just to mess with everyone.)
I haven’t got docs, but I do have a notice to pick something up. But I’m expecting a few things.
I hadn’t thought about clothes. I was just going to do what I always do, all the time, anywhere. Pack around 4 days worth of clothes in a duffel, plus some toiletries, chargers, dress shoes or boots (whichever I’m not wearing), a notepad and a pack of cards. Doesn’t take up much space and can be slung over one shoulder. Even on short business trips that’s how I roll. (No need for a suit-bag, just wear the jacket or sling it over your shoulder – everyone always looks fucking rumpled when they travel anyway, and I’m 90% sure it’s thanks to folded up suit-bags and wearing suit-jackets for hours. So you either dry-clean and press where you land, or sling over your arm.)
At any rate, I figure they’ll either have hotel laundry service for overnight where we stay, or they’ll have laundromats within a half-hour’s distance and that’ll be novel. We’re doing day-on, day-off, I figured one lazy day off will be a laundry day. Maybe I’ll buy something over there to match the local fashion, but far more likely I’m just going to get about in what I do now.
I won’t be fooling any of the locals into not realizing I’m a tourist. I hear beards and blue eyes aren’t that common and the accent is unmistakably not Japanese.
Full disclosure in regards to postage – when I arranged the group and you all booked, there was never an issue with posting docs to clients. A month or so before i left, the manager came down with a decree that all postage had to be at the clients expense, not really sure why, but I’m guessing it had to do with a couple of decisions they made in regards to the business that cost them a ton of money. But I didn’t really think about it for you guys. Had I known at the beginning, I’d have added $15 to the quote and no one would have been any the wiser. When Tegan called and spoke to me, my argument was that it had never been discussed with you all, and that you shouldn’t be asking for more money only 2 weeks before people leave, all thats going to do is piss people off. After a bit of back and forth, I told tegan to send me the receipts and I would cover the cost. Looking at them now, they should have all been sent as Signature on Delivery.
Fuck that, it is what it is, you shouldn’t have to wear it. I’ll send you the money direct or buy you a few drinks. Whatever you prefer.
@novacascade This.
Definitely this @novacascade. You shouldn’t have to pay for that although I understand the urge to feel you have to.
It’s cool guys, really. As with most special groups, the guy organising it ends up travelling basically for free, so I didn’t mind chipping in a bit for the postage to keep everything flowing smoothly.
I asked her and got a couple of tracking numbers (she wasn’t sure which of them was the right one for mine since three were sent at the same time on Monday) so at least some were registered post.
Yeah, I got my docs, in a swanky folder and everything.
I’ll probably do similar to @transientmind and go with a backpack with about 5 days of clothing and do laundry.
Days 3, 8 are free days so would be good for doing that.
Speaking of, anyone got any plans for things to do at Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo on the free days? At Kyoto, heading to Nara and seeing the temples and such like the itinerary says could be good. And Akihabara is a must for Tokyo of course.
Also, do we need to get any immunizations or anything? I vaguely recall something about people traveling overseas needing to do something like that.
@novacascade @freezespreston
I honestly haven’t looked at immunizations, but I don’t think it’d be much of an issue.
I have made absolutely zero plans. Definitely want to do Akiba, but that’s it. I’d be up for Nara if you want company. I’d also be up for visiting some of the spots which aren’t on our list to do in Kyoto itself though. For example IIRC I don’t think we’re going to the Fushimi Inari shrine and that place is pretty impressive.
Not sure about Osaka. Den-den town is supposedly better than Akihabara now, resembles the way it used to be 10-15 years ago before otaku culture really took over and everything commercialized into maid cafes and such.
Shrine looks rad, defs go there if I can fit it in with Nara.
And Den-den town it is then.
I don’t think you could do both :(. Also going through the entire Inari complex would take 2-3 hours and it involves walking the trail up the mountain. Though you don’t have to go all the way up I guess. The density of the gates decreases further up apparently. It looks very cool. Apparently there’s rest stops along the paths that sell food and stuff too. Esp. Kitsune Udon & Inari Sushi.
I mentioned this to someone else, but the Osaka aqaurium is worth spending at least half a day on. They have one of the biggest tanks in the world – an WHALE SHARKS \o/
Going to Universal Studios in Osaka on the 20th. Had several people tell me Nara should be on the to do list now. Going to Disneyland in Tokyo on the 4th. Outside of that didn’t have any other plans organised.
Looking at the vaccinations it says make sure you’re up to date with the standard ones you should already have and there’s a maybe depending on where you’re going rurally for Japanese Encephalitis.
I’m definitely heading over to Nara on our free day in Kyoto. Been to Japan and Kyoto specifically twice, but never made the hop over to Nara.
(also @freezespreston) Nara is basically the same temples and stuff as Kyoto, but a slightly older feel, plus deer. It’s nice, but you you may get a bit bored if you’re already over the whole temple thing by the time you get there (like we were when I visited).
The comments on the Facebook link to the Anita Sarkeesian article make me so, so very sad.
http://i.imgur.com/WBDCmwD.png
Depressing.
Stop the world, I’d like to get off now, please.
Wouldn’t we all 😉
The temptation to comment in response to these… “people” is high, but I know it will achieve nothing.
Holy crap, I’m sad and bored. 🙁
Random conversations from today!
“OH MY GOD FREDDOS.”
“Yeah, the usual fundraising choc-box got stuffed up and we got these instead. Can’t complain, though… there’s peppermint and strawberry in there. Not expecting the rest to move as fast.”
“Have you ever had 100s and 1000s freddos?”
“Nope.”
“You HAVE to try these 100s and 1000s freddos.”
“Fair’nuff. How many are in there?”
“Oooh… I think you might be out of luck, because there’s only one and I’m–ohwait, there’s two. You’re in luck!”
“Yeah. Reckon I’ll grab that now then, put it away for later.”
LATER
*frantic rummaging*
“Where is it? WHERE IS IT? There’s meant to be a 100s and 1000s freddo in here!”
“Do not tell me you wanted something badly, knew you were going to have it, and then left it in the box for others to buy.”
“Who would do that to me though?!”
“They might have been doing it for themselves, rather than to inconvenience you specifically. You did say they were good.”
“SO GOOD. Oh no… what am I going to do?”
“Well. You may be in luck. I may or may not happen to have one stashed in my drawer.”
“But… but you said you hadn’t tried it?”
“Yeah. But you can swap this with a strawberry and I’ll be pretty happy.”
“No! No, I can’t allow this… you have to experience the joy of the 100s and 1000s freddo.”
“Really, you can just take it. Not knowing what it’s like means I don’t know what I’m missing.”
“No! I won’t hear of it. I insist you keep the freddo and enjoy it.”
“Fair enough.”
“Good!”
“Good argument. Let’s have another one like that sometime.”
“Mm?”
“I like this thing where I get what I want and get credit for being virtuous at the same time.”
On an equally important note, are 100’s and 1000 freddos a thing or is hoping for such a thing too much?
I haven’t actually eaten it yet! I intend to do so after a stressy meeting today, so I’ll let you know. They are a real thing… I don’t know if they are a GOOD thing.
They are a real thing and they are an OK thing. They’re superior to regular ‘freckles’ that you’d buy to fill a cup full of lollies at Target self-serve (back when that was a thing that actually existed, I don’t know where you source freckles, now), but inferior to any similar kind of chocolate that is studded with candy that is actually, y’know… pop rocks.
Spanner in the works! :O
My buisness card is only allowed to use 2 colours!
(more like 199 when you take into account percentages of said colour, but still)
Might have to revisit the drawing board :S
I’m thinking, purple and black (leaving the paper white).
Black is purely for the text.
Flicking notepad design, but greyscale? I meant it when I said it makes good use of whitespace.
So you can definitely print two colours onto a white card, that “white” won’t count as one of your colours?
Here’s a couple of totally monochromatic cards I have lying around:
http://imgur.com/XAgjJBn (front)
http://imgur.com/un599yo (back)
You can use two colours of ink, and even then, you can have varying degrees of the colours you choose.
I can pick a dark purple, then use that colour at say 50% strength, resulting in a lighter, more dull purple which is still technically the same colour.
Just means I can’t use more than two types of ink.
Gonna have to simplify my designs :S
I reckon if you can use a wide gradient of a single colour you have a lot of flexibility still. I have a couple like that I can show you tomorrow if you like.
Yeah, but the lighter you start going, the grosser the colour starts to become.
Rather than using two nice purples, I get one, then a washed out version of it :S
As promised, here’s a couple of cards I had that I think use colour gradients in an interesting way. You could probably argue that the Crawford’s one really only uses one colour, but they’ve accomplished a lot with it.
http://imgur.com/yPXYqvO
Black text on a white card.
Use Comic Sans or Jokerman font so people know you’re a fun guy.
I think that kind of card would definitely tell you everything you need to know about a person.
No, papyrus, suggests long established experience. Also, fluorescent green is eye catching
Lime Green and hot pink.
Ahhhh the old kotaku, back in those days you could travel one one end of tay to another and not need to stop for a drink, and you could ……*snore*
Works for ABC2…
Subtle off-white coloring. Tasteful thickness. Watermark.
Well that was a waste of 5 bucks damn it. Bought a bumper case on eBay for my iPhone 4.. Yeah forgot about the whole atennagate thing & the fact an aluminium bumper case would infact block signal all together. Oh well lol.
Faraday cages strike again!
Oh yeah 😛 Despite the foam lining & cut outs for the antennas, it’s registers at anything between -110 signal strength & -116 which is no signal at all lol.
That’s like those stickers that claim they block radiation from phones. Even if they DID work you’d effectively be blocking the signal!
Ah yeah, the ones that go over the ear piece.. I also swear the old brick phones those things were aimed at you couldn’t lose signal just by cupping the darn thing in your hands lol.
“The adventures of Sean: Ouch, my feelings”
It was the newish Nurse’s birthday today, and it turns out she turned 24, making her only a few months older than me. Sensing one of the rare opportunities to insult me, perfect as I am, my Mum said “See Sean, it is possible for someone your age to have a real job, and to have done something with their life.”
http://www.mannatechblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/image001.png
Luckily he’s in a hospital to get the sick burn treated.
“Only if they’ve been raised properly!”
I aspire to be like your mum with my adopted children 😀
That right there provides the only reasonable argument against gay dudes adopting. I hope you know what you’ve done. >:(
I kid, in regards to it being a negative thing, my Mum’s greatYay me!
😛
#Helping
A blind guy runs into a bar…
His labrador used the dog flap.
I’m my own worst enemy.
25 hours into Tales of Hearts R about a week ago. Airship unlocks. Presumably sidequests unlock. Sieze up. Need a decent FAQ to tell me all the stuff I can do before I continue the plot. Can’t find one. Stop playing. 🙁
Oreshika came out. I was looking forward to it. Bought it. Haven’t touched it yet. Tales of Hearts first.
Assassin’s Creed Rogue came out yesterday so naturally rather than play either of those two games, I buy AC:R and play that for several hours. 🙁
Hotline Miami came out this morning. I bought it and it downloaded super fast. Trainer at the gym (I changed to a new gym last night because my old one closed down, but my trainer moved to one that’s only 5 mins away from home \o/) cancelled this morning. Turned out that was good because there was an 8am all-hands meeting so I jumped onto that to listen in.
Hotline Miami is right there on my Vita. So I played Kantai Collection for an hour and then went to work. What the fuck is wrong with me?
You should play Xillia 2 one day and be my buddy 😛
Or I should just pretend $60 got stolen from me and never touch the game again. It’s still sitting in my PS3 unplayed for months… so, so bad…
I keep forgetting Hearts R is a thing. I’ll probably pick it up during some sort of PSN sale. I’ve noticed the Tales games go real cheap on PSN really soon after launch.
Hearts is good. Traditional and largely unremarkable but solid. Reminds me of Graces aside from the combat’s nowhere near as good. Xillia 2 seems like shit. I should probably play my copy of it some day though. Have other things to play on the PS3 first though.
Why doesn’t a chicken wear pants?
Because it’s peckers on its head.What did the O say to the Q?
Dude, your dicks hanging out.What happend to the Chinese man who ran into a wall with an erection?
He broke his nose.Genitalia!
I’ve only ever seen that last one when it’s about a Jew running into a wall lol.
Those jokes were kinda dicky, Stew.
😉
Making dick jokes is as close as I can get to page 18 these days :'(
It just got crazy dark, windy, wet and rumbly here.
I’m still at work and had to run out and fetch our dumpster that was blowing around the car park.
That’s what she said!
W: I’m sooooooo topical ~
W: 😛
G: if you were any more topical
G: you’d be an ointment
W: don’t say anything about oint- damn it [Gooky]
G: hahaha
Wow. I have a folder in my email where I put all the confirmations for jobs i’ve applied for over the years since, January 2012 i’ve applied for 214 jobs… That’s just the jobs I get an automated confirmation from, fucking hell :/
Take that Hotline Miami 2 Devs, i found a way to legitimately buy your game instead of pirating it like you asked, sucked in, ENJOY MY MONEY DAMN IT.
(PS plz don’t tell the cops)
The only thing better than cuddles is kitty cuddles.
:3
http://i.imgur.com/EmhARnM.jpg
I just ran into it on /r/all
Not to be confused with kiddy cuddles.
They can also land you on certain lists..
Damn Marvel Puzzle Quest!! I can’t get in to any fights!!!!! ARRRRRRRRRRRRRG!
That sucks.
Have you tried the old uninstall and reinstall trick?
Anyone else getting Ori and The Blind Forest? I thought it looked pretty kewl when I saw the announcement at E3. Figured it would be one of those “pick it up when it’s cheap” games on Steam but I recently found out that my converted to REAL money MS Points expire soon(ish) so I guess I’ll be buying it pretty soon!
Looks like it’s getting some good reviews 😀
@DC tell me how awesome it is!
Don’t have an Xbone or controller for Steam. Super keen for it eventually though.
But I thought you were using your PS3/4 one on PC? 😮
Seems the type of game that demands to be played on a HDTV in the dark, though.
Will wait for Xbone.
So connect your computer up to the TV and use a controller? 😛
I will grab it eventually for Xbone. Not straight away though, too much other stuff.
Today has been a good day… Finished up work for over a week, came home and finally got my shiny new phone \o/
Overall pretty tops day… Early start tomorrow because of Grand Prix… Expect way too many tweets from me with photos 😛
I might have to turn notifications on for you! I *really* hope Daniel Ricciardo has a good race this weekend after last year’s fiasco.
He is one of the few that truly deserves that win! The uproar in the crowd last year when he initially took pole during quali was just incredible!
http://comicsalliance.com/spider-man-statue-south-korea-gigantic-boner-eunsuk-yoo/
@gingerchris86 I saw an article on tumblr that someone screencapped the first paragraph of, followed the source and saw a familiar name.
hahaha not me
Ok, the “Illegitimate” copies of Illustrator and Indesign I got were pretty trash.
looks like I’m going to have to *gulp*, buy them! :O
Who found the link to the student version of Adobe suite? @beeawwb, I think it may have been?
Software pirating is easy 😛 My CS5 is going strong 5 years on haha.
The versions I got weren’t very responsive :S
Also, they were still slightly out of date, despite being the best I could get :S
This one? http://www.adobe.com/au/creativecloud/buy/students.html
Yeah! I found your old response first though. Thanks, Bobby! 😀
Just in case you didn’t know, you can get a legitimate copy of CS2 (photoshop, illustrator, etc) from Adobe for free (need to sign up for an Adobe account)
Obviously CS2 is about 10 years old now, but it could do in a pinch. I use it at home if I ever need to take some work home with me (but then I don’t really do anything too intensive)
I should wait longer before buying next time :S
Just purchased the latest one…
$15 a month isn’t so bad though, I guess :S
It’s really not if you need to use it a lot. Honestly would’ve expected it to be a lot pricier.
70% reduced for students and teachers 😛
(for those bad at maths, that’s $50 a month for everyone else)
Edit: Considering it’s for their entire catalogue of software (as far as I’m aware), it’s pretty cheap!
Lots of the software has “try” rather than “install” as the only option though, which is concerning…
Boy, you don’t have to tell me. We just finished moving the whole office over to Creative Cloud and I almost spat out my fistful of office lollies when I overheard the overall cost 😛
$15/mo. is a really good deal. I’d pay that and get back to fiddling around in Illustrator if I could get that sort of pricing. Adobe gouge non-students like crazy 🙁
Like Photoshopping UFOs in my pics?
Yes… Photoshop…
You’re doing it wrong… 😉
See Twitter DM 🙂
THE STRANGE: THE SERIES
Episode 1 part 3
The party translated for the first time to Ardeyn, a world of magic and stone golems! They’re on the trail of Tom Mallard, who is going to be VERY pissed off at the state of his house.
@beeawwb found that despite being made of stone in Ardeyn, he’s not hard in the one area that counts
@freezespreston tried and failed to steal a flagon that fills with limitless ale
@quiz_b proved that Bazza was not adept at safecracking
@blaghman was so, so racist.
@trjn nicked some flares, which may or may not blow up in his face.
Thanks for playing guys!
This game was both the best, and the f***ing worst, man. I hate this place.
Also, I do apologise if I’m being a little railroady, I kinda want to get you through this first adventure and give you a feel for the mechanics and everything before we do something a little more gonzo.
I’m not entirely sure why I’m being such a contrary pain in the ass for this thing.
You’re being contrary?
I just had a sudden revelation.
Flares are phallic.
So how’s it feel to have many dicks?
Much, much better than @beawwb does about his lack of any dicks.
Is just the worst, man.
Was just browsing the internet and came across the Ouya. I’d completely forgotten that it even existed. Does anybody here still have one, and do you still use it?
Watching that whole marketing campaign behind it, I kind of felt bad for its creators who thought it would have been this great machine… 🙁
Those poor misguided fools :'(
EDIT: Whoops, wasn’t meant as a reply.
It kinda reminds me of that console you make at the end of Game Dev Tycoon. The one that’s next next gen but never really does that well regardless of all the research you’ve put into it.
Just completed Lego Batman 3 Including all the DLC to 100%. it’s good to see they’ve fixed certain things like not having to turn on the extras (cheats) every time you start the game, but they still haven’t done anything about having nothing to spend your money on after you complete the game. I mean they could’ve made you pay for all the characters from the DLC’s instead of just unlocking them for free when you purchase and download it. I was sitting on about 15 billion studs when I 100%’ed the main game, now I’ve got over 28 billion and not one goddamn thing I can spend it on.
Build a big building.
Put all your studs in the building.
Then swim in your studs.
Scrooge McDuck style. I like the way you think.
You get to swim and not wear pants ever.
What more could you want in life.
3 weeks till project CARS finally releases. HYPE!
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Dis is wha I lern at uny. Is a side-eye…
GRAPHIC DESIGN!
I’m super bored, you guys.Ahh hah I get it.
It took a couple of seconds *sigh*
=^. .^= *meow*
I left school at the end of year 10 and can make a catCracked has an article espousing the accuracy of an algorithm that predicts your personality based purely on your Facebook likes.
Out of curiosity I followed the links and submitted my profile to see what they came up with.
Apparently I’m a 23 year old, conservative, homophobic atheist who is not in a relationship and is of below average intelligence.
For reference, a good chunk of my likes are things like Dan & Karl’s Zeitgeist, Matthew J Hellscream, Shiggy’s art thing, Sughly’s game studio, Potaku, Scott Ludlam and a couple of other friend’s businesses.
Bang on.
Here’s the link for interested parties.
http://applymagicsauce.com/test.html
Here are my results.
I’m 26, more feminine than masculine, most likely not in a relationship, 53rd percentile for intelligence, 6% gay (presumably meaning 94% straight), 33% chance of no religion, almost 50% chance of being “other Christian”, 45th percentile for life satisfaction, below average in all five personality traits, and NFI what I studied.
VERDICT: It’s not so accurate.
http://applymagicsauce.com/test.html#progress
Run by the University of Cambridge.
Ah thanks. I found it 🙂
Five personality traits:
Prediction from Uni of Cambridge Facebook analysis:
Openness: 48%
Conscientiousness: 42%
Extraversion: 35%
Agreeableness: 39%
Neuroticism: 41%
My results from http://tests.e-psychometrics.com/personality.html
Openness: 58%
Conscientiousness: 60%
Extraversion: 11%
Agreeableness: 50%
Neuroticism: 76%
I was going to do this but then Hotline Miami 2 finished downloading
Yeah, apparently I’m a liberal voter and only have a 44% rating for happiness. DAFUQ?
What got me for accuracy was in the 88% intelligence rating, this would be based on my non-chalant liking of I fucking love sciences page lol.
Given that I probably haven’t liked anything on Facebook for at least 5 years, the algorithm will probably predict that I’m
Dead.
Haha, I’m a 27 year old male who is probably not in a relationship!
39% life satisfaction, 90% intelligence. I’d have put those the other way round….
My education pie chart’s all over the place, with the biggest probabilities being 16% IT, 13% psychology. And in personality I’m above average for Openness, with below average for the rest, including only 2% in extraversion. That one result (the extraversion one) is probably the only accurate thing on there. 😛
My fakebook personality apparently has too few likes to match anything in their database.
Much like my old real one.
From this we can discern that I’m socially and technologically ‘not with it’, and a bit of a square who seems to have only used facebook properly when it comes to giving likes in exchange for free stuff in freemium games.
It’s not too bad for me. 25 year old male, and apparently I’m only 4% gay, which is remarkably low. 50 something percent chance that I’m not in a relationship. Personality wise its thing is reasonably close, though not perfect.
It thinks I have an art education, which is laughable, but IT and Engineering both have a decent amount of the pie, so it’s not too bad.
Religion wise it’s mostly none, which is right. And political views it has no idea because apparently I’m slightly more conservative than liberal, and libertarian appears on the graph at all.
Life satisfaction and intelligence are both a bit lower than I’d expect, at 48 and 69, respectively.
So, eh, not too bad given how rarely I’ve used Facebook in the last few years.
Only a little bit gay.
I didn’t know it was a sliding scale?
Well, I’m not gay, but some days I look at the physio at work and think “well if I was going to bone a dude, I’d want it to be this well muscled specimen of a man” ya know?
I dunno, some of my friends like to refer to themselves by the ‘Kinsey scale’. 🙂
‘Kinsey 6’ as a badge of pride. (Pun unintended.)
Funny little thing.
It got my age right.
Claims I’m a manly man with only a tiny bit of femininity, and 0% gay.
Most of those pie charts are so all over the place as to be meaningless.
Also, no mathematics or science on the education chart. Ugh. Closest would be engineering. More ugh. Also, tiny slice for education degree – the one that currently has me employed haha.
99th percentile for intelligence is correct.
Only 52% life satisfaction – a bit low I think.
It thinks I’m more likely to be some kind of Christian than anything else. Nope.
Not the most accurate in all areas haha.
@shane games arrived cheers man!
Awesome. Thanks for the moneys! Enjoy! 🙂
420(0) blaze it, losers!
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Nooooo! 2 of my most looked forward to games this year have been delayed. First, Uncharted 4 until next year, and second Project CARS has been delayed AGAIN until mid May. if it means we get a better game in the end then I can live with that, but I just want to play them so badly. I don’t have a lot of faith in the new Project CARS projected release date, they’re only giving us a target month, at least last time they gave us a specific date, got the feeling it’s going to get pushed back even further by the end of April. At this rate Gran Turismo 7 and Forza 6 will be out first.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-15701-Uncharted-4–A-Thief-s-End-Delayed-Until-Spring-2016.html
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-15707-Project-CARS-is-Delayed-Once-Again–This-Time-Until-Mid-May.html
Your wallet is smiling
Uncharted got pushed to 2016? That’s unfortunate.
Though I bet the Tomb Raider devs are cheering they get the holiday to themselves. But also probably crying that Tomb Raider and Uncharted might get released around the same time on PS4… 😛
Don’t care if they get released at the same time, I’ll still buy both. It’ll just be super hard to decide which one to play first.
I’m cool with that. Q2 is usually really sparse for games and I’m sick of everything coming out in November.
EDIT: Also after the last outings of their respective games, I am way more excited by Tomb Raider.
OH MY GOD! Just browsing the Playstation store, looking at the new releases, see a big picture for Hotline Miami 2, excitedly I click it hoping I can download it before they notice it’s up, and the damn thing takes me to the original Hotline Miami. FUCK YOU PLAYSTATION, WHY YOU TEASE ME LIKE DAT!
So my keyboard arrived this morning.. And well, all I can say is the seller is a moron… They stuck it in a regular padded Aus Post bag so naturally it totally destroyed it to the point it was just sticking out of the bag, also they didn’t have the audacity to even wipe the keyboard down, so it had some sticky residue on the god damn shift and enter keys >_> and there was no box unlike advertised.. So yeah, not impressed for the money I paid. At least it works fine I guess.
But incoming negative feedback on their eBay profile.
That’s pretty sucky, I’ve been really lucky with the handful of items I’ve bought off EBay, they’ve all arrived sufficiently packaged and in excellent condition. Can you return it and get your money back because it was not as described? If you can I saw the Logitech G710 mechanical keyboard in the new Dick Smith catalogue for I think $120.
I could, and probably should. But there’s nothing wrong with the keyboard, and I paid somewhere around half price as what it would be brand new. I’ll give it a day or two see how I feel I think.
Audacious!
Sounds like they sent you a used one?
Yeah, it was listed as second hand lol. It was someone selling off their computer gear, they had a monitor and other stuff too. It hasn’t had much use looking at it. More than anything it has sat collecting dust by the looks.
Decisions decisions, can’t decide whether to finish off The Order 1886 or start The Last Of Us: Remastered.
How far into The Order are you? It’s only like 5 hours long.. Whilst I didn’t think it was the best PS4 game to come out in recent, it wasn’t bad. But The Last Of Us is better.
From memory I think I’m at about chapter 11, or thereabouts.
Yeah i’d continue with the order if I were you at that point, you’re not far off finishing it 5 or 6 chapters I think?
Yeah, Just started it up, I’m halfway through chapter 11.
Last of Us Remastered is the only PS4 game I want at the moment. I could just play the PS3 version again, but I want to save my second time for a special occasion.
The dlc is ace if you didn’t buy it before.
Yeah, I haven’t. That’s part of what’s going to get me to wait – I know I’ll get a PS4 eventually (when they’re a lot cheaper and there’s a larger library of games I’m actually interested in) so instead of buying the DLC and doing more playthroughs, I’m just going to wait.
Definitely finish The Order. I imagine if you start something else now, you’ll never go back to it, and if you’ve been playing enough to get to chapter 11 then I’d say you may as well see it through.
Yeah, I’ve already gone through Lego Marvel and Lego Batman 3 (about 40 hours each) since I stopped. Hopefully be able to knock out The Order before work, then I can start on The Last Of Us tonight, but then again I still haven’t finished Shadow Of Mordor, Far Cry 4 or CoD: Advanced Warfare, so I should probably finish off those too.
At least The Order shouldn’t take too long to finish, according to the internet outrage over how short it is. 😛
Given the circumstances I can only suggest either SHin Megami Tensei IV on 3DS or Persona4 Golden on Vita.
#brokenrecord
Why do I keep hoping that comments on Sarkeesian articles here will be reasonable places?
Because you’re living in a world of make-believe. With flowers and bells and leprechauns, and magic frogs with funny little hats.
I want to live in a world like that!
Mmmmmmaybe… but can we skip the leprechauns? They creep me out.
Are you sure your name isn’t Garth Algar?
Racist.
Ye’re just jealous o me pot o gold
*shudder*
How dare you say that the week of St Patrick’s Day! Your penance is to drink a pint of Guinness on Tuesday.
*hangs head sheepishly*
Yes’m.
Wooooo
I can’t decide whether “Tembo the Badass Elephant” is the best or worst title for a video game ever 😛
It’s odd seeing Game Freak (the Pokemon devs) making a game for Steam/PS4/Xbone too (even though there’s nothing stopping them from doing so). I liked Harmoknight so I’ll probably give it a look-see when it comes out.
Yeah, ill check it out.
silly or not, it might be *gasp*,fun!
Wait, there’s a female Wiggle? When did that happen?
Ages ago, the yellow one. After the original yellow one retired, then came back, then retired again
I seem to remember some of the dads at work talking about it a few years ago, I’d say it’s been a while… around the first PAX AU maybe?
Ever since… The Incident.
Fun fact: You know why the wiggles do that pointy finger thing? it’s so you can always see their hands and they could never be accused of inappropriate contact with kids
That’s… kind of terrible and sad.
It’s incredibly clever.
The original wiggles were all studying early childhood education, and the way that you’re taught to handle kids in that area – ie, no touching – is part of it.
I meant its sad they have to do that at all. Not knocking them in the slightest. Just everyone else.
I thought it was to signify a dying cockroach.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/12/01/1133311137232.html?page=fullpage
near the end
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cockroaches
Attempt at a joke 😛
lol, I saw a news headline to the effect of “rumour confirmed, purple wiggle shagging yellow wiggle”. I was like “I KNEW IT” then I find out the yellow wiggle is a girl and the purple wiggle isn’t Jeff anymore and the new version of “Wake Up Jeff” is terrible and oh god I never even liked the Wiggles but they’re such an institution that this all feels WRONG.
Yes, “Wake up Lachie!” isn’t quite as catchy. 🙂
Yep. Emma the yellow wiggle. And she’s great! She wear glasses and plays the drums. Not that I watch the wiggles daily or anything…
My kids never really got into the Wiggles. Hi 5 was their favoured choice.
My kids *touch wood* were into Play School in the pre-narrative stages, and now love shows with stories. I think we’ve managed to bypass Wiggle and Hi-5 fever! \o/
Kitty using my hand for biting practice is not good.
Also, interview with The Pulse today!
94.7 FM, or look for them on TuneIn.
They’re a local radio station that I volunteered to work at.
I’m nervous, but excited!*crosses fingers*
Break a leg.
Your own, not theirs, then milk it for sympathy.
It’s that time of the week again! Where I round up completely random things that just make me want to pound my head against a wall.
First up is these amazing new ads we have all over Allure media websites! Yay for aggravation!
Second up this week is people defending the use of excessive force by racist cops! Yay for intolerance and self defence!
Last but not least; oh yes this one’s a doozy so be prepared! Gizmodo publishing an article comparing Kanye West to Steve Jobs! Yay for making completely pointless and borderline delusional comparisons!
The moral of this series is and will always be; there is no reason to venture out of TAY =P
Does TAY not get a repost in the morning anymore?
Am I eeven in the right TAY?
You are traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination.
Next stop, the Twilight TAY
Combined with the new ads, it’s making it harder to just visit TAY, let alone read the other articles.
Mentioned it to Mark, he’s chasing it up with the person responsible 😀
@redartifice I don’t know if you’ve got it yet but I got access to the In Translation: Strange Character Options book. It looks pretty good and it has a few things that I really like (suggested ideas for super-powered recursions and such was pretty cool). Could probably blend things across with Numenera without too much difficulty but it’s nice that there’s now a wide variety of options.
Also the Recursion Codex is filled with a lot of really good ideas. I thought the Pokemon influenced recursion was really clever and quite subversive actually but the Groundhog Day one was also fantastic.
Huh, the email about it had been gobbled by my junk folder. I’ll have a look tonight, but I already know where my next two recursions are going.
I like that they give ideas on potential recursions but the Strange always feels to me to be the ultimate fictional Lego-verse. Build whatever you want and have fun because the possibilities are nigh on endless.
I wonder if Red will do a bit of a Numenera-The Strange crossover at some point where the Strange guys see Scrappa, Elendar and Blaghs as a sort of easter egg 😛
…shut up
Groundhog Day is literally one of my top 5 movies of all time. That recursion would fill me with so much joy. I want to be Ned Ryerson.
Abbott’s leadership ends in _ days…
Place your bets!
I say 25!
Wait it started? When?!
I’ll say 70. Budget time is when he’ll probably get booted.
Joe: “I’m sorry Tony but we just can’t afford to keep you as PM, just look at the money you spent on budgie smugglers in the first financial quarter. We can’t afford you mate so we’re gonna have to let you go.”
You know, they could solve all their budget problems if they put a big bet of public money on an unlikely Libspill date, and then engineered things to make it happen.
Is something happening or did his approval level drop below 30% again?
He said that living in an aboriginal remote community was a lifestyle choice.
Which is really, really, the wrong thing to say to an already dispossessed people with a spiritual connection to the land.
I couldn’t even get past the first sentence in Andrew Bolt’s latest defence rant of Tony Abbott in the paper this morning too. Geez… and also the comments from readers is just as disappointing.
Andrew Bolt is a capital. C.
chowderhead.
He and his ilk are cancers on Australian public polity and I frankly wish them a succession of kicks to the balls.
Oh right, isn’t he saying that it’s too expensive to support remote/rural indigenous communities and that the government shouldn’t provide services to them anymore, like they’re a bunch of hillbilly yahoos who just want to live off the grid on the government dime?
Colin Barnett has been shrieking that line for a while. I believe he’s already acted on it too and Abbott is just following on nationally.
Yeah, it’s Barnett’s decision that Abbott has backed.
Barnett is a cock. Not so tough now that the iron ore price has dropped.
Didn’t look into it closely but apparently the hillbilly yahoos living in the same type of community are still right to be supported.
It is just the 2 aboriginal communities that are being shut down. Headline reading only so take with a truck load of salt.
Our pantry is overflowing with half empty bottles of all kinds of chilli sauces. Seriously considering pouring them all into the same bottle. I wonder if this would affect the heat levels at all?
Mix all the chilli sauce.
Only one way to find out.
It will be great or horrible.
Mix a small amount from each bottle and try. If it is good. Mix it all up.
Your small amount idea is sensible. Too sensible for me. 😛
Well it is more that if it does not taste good it would be a waste of good chilli sauce 😛
I’m more likely to impulsively just throw everything in the one bottle and worry about if I’d wasted it later, than do the sensible thing though. 😛
After you have done that spoon feed it to @powalen ?
I’ve mixed Thai red chilli sauce and Mexican chilli sauce together for chilli con carne and found it to be quite nice actually. Definitely had a secondary after-burn though so you might not enjoy that sensation.
We have enough types that when mixing I’d keep the flavour profiles separate. Definitely don’t want the smokiness of a mexican style sauce messing up the tanginess of a different style.
Mix them all in a big bottle, store it at the back of the pantry and save it for when your enemies come to dinner.
So, when are you coming over for dinner? I can make you Jerk Wings with “special” sauce! 😛
Hmm.
Sleeping dogs for PS4 is $17:95.
Maybe I might grab it.
Maybe.
If you haven’t played it, you should. Fantastic game.
Aye if you haven’t played it one of the best games I’ve ever played.
Great game, first game I ever platnumed actually.
The office radio has been set to an 80s Hits station for the last few days. About every second song one of my bosses chirps up “Pow, do you even know this song?”
One time I responded “It’s the jingle from that insurance ad, right?”, trying to be funny. But they took it seriously and now it’s become a whole thing. Like that time I mentioned I hadn’t seen most of Star Wars and now I have a reputation for not liking all sci-fi.
I really want somebody my own age to start working here. Mostly to take some of the ‘new guy’ heat off me 😛Wait, how old are you? Who doesn’t know 80s hits and Star Wars? Are you a teenager? Are you two children wearing a long coat? What’s wrong with you? Go back to kindergarten, scrub.
I’d be more surprised if anybody didn’t know these 80s hits considering how often they’re played everywhere.
Fair point. I used to have WSFM on in the car and even given how seldomly I drive I was slightly surprised by how often I was hearing the same songs in rotation.
My wife, on the other hand, plugs in her phone and listens to the same David Guetta album over and over again.
Oh man, I’ll never understand people who listen to the same album over and over again. There’s a whole world of music out there waiting to be discovered! *puts on Pathfinder’s Fifth Element for the eleventy bazillionth time* 😛
In fairness it’s only in the car and she does occasionally listen to Maroon 5 (which doesn’t help because I don’t care for the most recent album at all), but it seems like nearly every time she’s picked me up from somewhere in the car I’m hearing that album.
WSFM have started putting 90s music in.
I don’t like it, no sir. Music from 25 years ago is too modern for me.
In my day WSFM was called 2WS and WE LIKED IT.
Yeah, it’s a bit disconcerting when I hear 90s songs. It means I’m old and in their demographic :O
But I LOVE Jukebox Saturday night. Bestest driving music.
You could be taller too. I’m just saying.
You sounded really disappointed.
Never meet your heroes. 😛
I’m sorry.
If I was any taller I don’t think I’d be visible side-on.
But nah, I was just awkwardly making conversation and waiting for something to stick. I accidentally insult people all the time. Late at night I think maybe it wasn’t the best idea for a first line to @janexo saying you’re not disfigured with a Phantom of the Opera mask at all. 😛
To be fair, I did set that one up for myself. My scar is hardly that cool at all, and definitely not music-hall haunting worthy.
I’m sorry, though. Really should’ve said something like: “Hello, Jane. It’s nice to meet you!”
😛
@DC Oh hush, it was totally fine! I prefer the memorable ;D
Nah, that’s a good one. Shows you were paying attention and remembered the things she had to say! Even if they were awkward. 😉
This is making me sad that our meeting was so utterly mundane. Neither of us made a huge fool of ourselves, and where’s the fun in that?
You didn’t get the proper Brisbane meat experience. Remember I told the TAYbies something important that morning and things were slightly off. Next time you’ll have to come back and I’ll talk to you and everything! 😀
@dc
Oh, don’t get me wrong, I completely understand why things were like that, but that doesn’t mean I won’t try to guilt trip you over it. :p
And I should be there again in August, just to torment you. :p
Unlike the time that we met, Blaghs, and you said I wasn’t ginger enough!
But I have heroes I wanna meet
Some of the office attitudes I’ve seen just baffle me at times. Some people quite literally treat a day at work as if they’re at home and either swear their heads off or have extremely loud personal calls.
Can’t say I’ve ever been in the same situation as you though. There was one place I worked where I was the youngest by far with most people over the age of 50 and I was constantly being called ‘champ’ or ‘you’re a darl’. Not fun at all.
Edit: Also goddamn mobile phones and no-one putting things on silent. It’s not that hard people!
Got something you need to get off your chest, champ?
😛
Sorry, that was a bit ranty. Didn’t mean to detract from your own workplace woes.
Haha, I was just kidding. No need to apologise!
Comments sparking tangential conversations is one of my favourite parts of TAY.
*ruffles hair* Ah, kids!
Paul would’ve known.
By ‘haven’t seen most of Star Wars’ you mean you’ve only seen the original Trilogy right?
Pretty sure I’ve only seen Return of the Jedi.
The best one!
*prepares to fight people*
Best one I’ve seen.
It’s all down hill from there!
Pfft young people these days.
It’s so weird that they call your Pow at work.
I saw a mudcrab the other day.
Did you get to answer the age-old question of “Who would win in a fight: an Apocalyptic Fish or a mudcrab?” once and for all?
as the audience, we would win.
Unfortunately I avoid them when I can.
Horrible creatures.
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3iiNnc5bzjA/maxresdefault.jpg
I forgot what Skyrim looked like on PS3.
I really made the right decision switching my game across to PC.
Haha a very different game indeed hey.
Today is going to be sooooo exciting!
Not really… Just trying to fake till I make it…You so crazy!
So crazy I’m about to toss my keyboard out the window…
… wait
I don’t have windows at work…
Today is going to be amazing!!!
I had a really great interaction at work today. Everyone involved was friendly, receptive, understood what was being communicated and the issues involved, and expressed appreciation for my time and efforts and for seeming to actually care. Which is nice, because (perhaps unfashionably) I actually do.
I hope the rest of the day can go as well.
Isn’t it funny when you end up in a job you enjoy doing that genuine care for the role/team and its attendant responsibilities is often misconstrued as… well… alot of other things.
Also find myself taking on too much work which has landed me in today/tomorrow’s situation.
Hey everyone, remember that megagame thing @shiggyninty’s friends are doing in May? People who are planning on attending should probably co-ordinate in some way.
You have to buy a ticket for your role ahead of time and all players are put into teams of four. If anyone else is going, we should try and get onto the same team. Looking at what’s left, there are 3 spots open on the Azmont team and 2 on the Ezren. Everything else is a one-off (or a scribe, which I don’t like the sound of). That page links to a PDF explaining the teams and roles if you want to look into it a bit more.
So… planning? Are we capable of that?
EDIT: Looks like we can plan. I’m going to be the Azmont Leader. @Redartifice is our Aristocrat and @alexpants is our High Mage. A random nabbed the Warlord role but Red is trying to find a way to get them to swap so that @cakesmith can do it. With some luck, we could have a full team of TAYbies totally ruining everything for everyone!
Well, I was talking about it.
Bugger it.
Let’s do Azmont. I’ll grab a ticket and then if it falls through I’ll onsell it.
Done. I’ll take leader or aristocrat.
Edit: Going with leader because it’s probably easiest to sort out.
You be leader, I’ll be aristocrat.
We should recruit a third TAYbie as High Mage.
Who’s in sydney and would like to play a game with us?
=O What is this?!
edit: Scratch that I could never make it out to Narellan >.
I have no idea where Narellan is in relation to anything
It’s west. That’s all I know. Somewhere west.
@jocon @novacascade @transientmind @freezespreston: My Japan documents arrived. Haven’t looked through everything yet but wasn’t expecting it to come in a nice wallet like that. Hopefully this means everyone else’s will be arriving soon too if you haven’t gotten already.
Probably. I did talk to Tegan about ours when she called to confirm my address (and good thing she did, because when we started this thing, I was living somewhere else) and she mentioned it would be in a nice wallet for us to potentially store all our other documents in as well – tickets, insurance crap, etc. Those are always really great to have when travelling. A little folder or what-have-you with all your itinerary, street directions, reference numbers, contact numbers, flight times, etc on. Useful as hell.
You get a pen and fake leather luggage tags too.
ooooo-oooooh, fancy!
No joking… I really like this kind of thing.
@novacascade: I was just going through everything and noticed that there’s a 1 bag, 20kgs limit for our internal travel around Japan? Is that correct? Just need to plan appropriately. I doubt I’d get close to 20kg anyway, but I know that when I went there last time I thought that too, but I ended up coming back with all 28 volumes of the Rurouni Kenshin manga among other things…
I think that’s just a general guide to stop people rocking up with multiple massive suitcases. As long as you have just the one bag I’m sure it’ll be fine. And Singapore Airlines give you 30kgs anyway
Yeah, probably going to be less dickish about it than airlines are (especially Jetstar, fuck those guys). I guess the bulk of shopping that might result in heavier items can be done in Tokyo at the end, and I was probably just going to get a taxi to Haneda when leaving.
When she says Brutal Porn, does she mean with people hurting each other, or what?
I’m so not clicking on that article. Not at work, not at home, there are things I’m better off not knowing. The lengths to which people will take Rule 34 is one of those things.
(I don’t have any strong objection, I’m just pretty well aware of what will make my life better.)
I like porn, but not ALL porn.
& yeah NSFW
Upvote for NSFW tag, I’m not condoning porn!
…!
I was kinda wondering more what her usage of the word Brutal meant in this instance.
One person’s brutal could be another’s hard core.
Or not.
Spoilered quote because off putting
In one particularly gruesome scene in Kunoichi, a giant demon penetrates Kasumi so deeply that every thrust by the demon lifts Kasumi’s ribcage up. Kasumi screams in pain — the demon is tearing her up inside. Eventually, she gets hurt so badly, she collapses into a “mindbreak” state. The demon pulls out, and Kasumi crawls after him, asking for more. From that point forward, the men no longer have to force Kasumi into submission — she enthusiastically participates in the gangbangs.Sounds pretty typical. :\
!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FFG1NqKzCg
Spoilering because self-incriminating:
Unfortunately that sounds like a description of just about every second hentai anime being produced nowadays. Back in the day there were some that had some semblance of a plot and so on and the truly fucked up stuff was rarer, but everything now is like they’ve started a competition to see who pukes first. I tend to steer away from that sort of stuff now but in general the internet has ruined me. In fact, that description sounds kind of tame compared to some of the revolting shit I’ve seen over the years.Upvoted in solidarity / commiseration. I hear you.
Upvoting for upvote.
Upvoting for upvoting and upvote.
“Uh, Jane, there’s an… email… for you, I guess. Got sent to the main account by accident, I’ll forward it to you.”
“… Alright?”
*Opens inbox*
Email:
Subject: (blank)
Body: “I need some help”
Attachment: Poorly scanned letter hand-written in cramped cursive outlining technical issues occurring for a site.
Reply: “I’m sorry, the attachment appears not to have worked. Could you please type out the nature of the issue you are encountering?”
FFS.
This kind of thing is why our organization has instituted mandatory typing lessons for anyone testing at under 30 wpm. For some people, handwriting IS actually faster than typing. 😛
Make’m play http://play.typeracer.com/ !
WOO! 131ish and that’s when I messed up at the end big time 🙁 😀
Oh man, so much effort went into writing that out and scanning it. It’s amazing that this is the ‘easier’ method for someone. D: It’s no wonder they’re having tech issues.
I repeatedly call and tell people they don’t need to print, sign, and scan our forms. We don’t have a ‘signature’ field on there for a reason… but they insist on coming up with their own or taking a few good stabs in the dark at where they think it should be.
I try to frame it as, “It’ll save you some time,” which is true… but my primary motivator is saving ME time.
I remember perusing a forum a while back where, every so often, someone would start a thread with the purpose of conversing via scanned images of handwritten replies. This was a pen-enthusiast site, tho, so everyone had beautiful handwriting – so many different styles, different pens, different coloured inks… It was a beautiful concept, even if it was extremely inefficient.
I’ve seen that as well, with text messages, that someone wrote theirs out for a week and took photos of them to reply. But that’s ‘art’ and for a cause and shit. This is just crazy dumb people.
Relevant: http://www.booksofadam.com/2014/11/friends-with-words.html
I’ve done this with my brother before and it’s quite fun, if exhausting to maintain.
Cursed moderation!
Well. If you saw the original before I royally screwed it with multi-domain links, then per my subsequent update: ‘Oooh, and there’s more…’ https://instagram.com/wordswithbffs/)
Well, yea, there’s a time and a place for everything. Wasn’t saying it was appropriate for tech support, just appreciating that it can be an interesting way to converse online in other situations, when speed and efficiency aren’t a top priority.
I was sooo tempted to handwrite this post 😛A patient started complaining about the receptionist he talked to over the phone earlier.
While standing 2 metres from her.
He then criticised her for doing her job, and proclaimed that he could go and get scripts for free because he knows the president of the AMA.
Please do, buddy. Please go and get an illegal script without an appointment from a Doctor who undoubtedly has nothing better to do than help you, and most certainly won’t be closely scrutinised on their Medicare/PBS use due to their prominence.
I’ll wait.
Fucking people, man.
“Appointment from a Doctor who…”
My mind wandered at this part.
I still giggle internally whenever I hear “Doctor who” at work, and I hear it a lot.
“Yeah, in fact I might just call my friend ‘President of the AMA’ right now! Hold on, I’ve got another call coming in from my lawyer. Probably about the big merger. What? She’s leaving me? WITH YOU?! I TRUSTED YOU, JEFF!”
Of course I read this during that hourly quiet lull in the office, and snorted aloud.
I like to imagine that at this point, asshole-phone-user ran, crying, and jumped through the reception’s plate glass window to fall to the pavement below – which, because it was the ground floor, was all of a metre or so. Where he rolled around blaming the government and threatening to call A Current Affair.
…There’s a President of Ask Me Anythings?
I used to work for a company called Frank O’Neill Locksmiths and the amount of people I’d have come in and tell me they were great mates with Frank and if I don’t give them everything they’ll make sure I’m fired was insane. Especially when you take into account Frank had died 2 years prior…
HAAAAAAA – we just DID get an email from the head of the AMA. Ahahahahahahah.
Telling you to give free drugs to his mate?
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/015/437/di5rhtwztqcsflwemz8l.jpg
Relevant.
Well, I guess I’m coming to Sydney in May! Dunno when I’m flying in/out, but we should meat!
Ask him about Soviet Arcologies! (I SAW THAT POST. MOSTLY CAUSE YOU TAGGED ME. :P)
I’m amazed it took you this long
Was biding my time. Watching. Waiting.
Yay! Just tag everyone when you have dates and I’m sure we can arrange something 🙂
well, me and @trjn and @alexpants are playing in a GODDAMNED MEGAGAME on the 9th of May, so it’ll be in and around there depending on how I get from/to sydney 🙂
I feel like “Goddamned Megagame” needs to have an announcer saying it at all times.
The same guy who says “FINISH HIM”
Toasty!
Now that Uncharted has been delayed I’m mainly only looking forward to indie games this year. So many indie games. And Batman: Arkham Knight. *decisive nod*
RacistHipster.*flicks fringe* I likes me some AAA games. I just can’t think of many that are coming out soon. (Quantum Break on Xbone, but I gots no Xbone! D:)
& Persona 5 which probably won’t even come out *stares*
Just give it like 7 years once the PS4 has retired; we’ll get it translated to english then =P
Yokai Watch also looks really promising….
At least I know Persona brings in enough dollars that we will get it.
So many games I’ll never play 🙁
Also Yakuza 5 which probably won’t come out!
\o/
No, 5 is being played for by Sony, digital only 😀
Now they should pay for Phantasy Star Nova!!
To celebrate us being organised enough to scramble together a team for the Western Sydney Mega Games Society thing in May, here’s some British people playing a mega game with aliens.
Yeah, I’m excited.
Our team has a flag! It’s green and black and has a horse on it! (on the fb group)
Suddenly horse masks seem like a good idea.
Or we could all get hobby horses 🙂
I’m in a fb thread with the lady that’s our warlord, she’s weighing her options to see if she wants to switch. If not, I’ve told her we’re more than happy for her to be on our team
Neat. I couldn’t see it on the page but it’d be nice to see how it plays out.
It’s on the event page
Found it. I’m not very good at navigating Facebook.
Mega Game? What? when? etc?
These guys on May 9. Our team is 3 TAYbies + 1 lady who I think is going to stick around and be our warlord. There are a handful of other positions still open, including scribes (which nobody seems to want to be).
What team are you guys?
Azmont. I’m the Leader, Red’s the Aristocrat and Pants is the High Mage.
there looks to be a space for high mage still?
I guess Pants hasn’t registered yet. He said he was going to try on his phone and if that didn’t work do it when he came home. You can ask him to give up the spot if you want it.
Nah it’s cool, I’ll watch for the next game, or see if maybe another team looks good 😛
So I’ve bought a ticket 🙂 MEGAGAMES HERE WE COME!
oh I see, probably means he doesnt have the ticket yet. All good. I’ll just watch for the next one 🙂
See if another team looks good or be a scribe. There’s a definite lack of scribes and I’m sure they’d appreciate them.
Ahhh, traffic. Robbing me of precious, precious time. (I now have 3.5hrs to do everything, everything, everything, all of the things, everything, before facing more traffic agai– GO.)
While I am still adamant that the world would be a better place if I were given special dispensation to install a button on my dashboard which launches traffic-clearing missiles, I can grudgingly accept that the loss of life may be of concern to a number of individuals. But you can’t stop me from pretending that button exists and visualizing the results, accompanied by mouth-produced sound-effects.
I am willing to negotiate down to a button which produces an array of powerful, robotic spider-legs which will allow me to navigate over the traffic and/or pierce the engine-blocks (and/or driver-side roof) of more obnoxious traffic-blockers.
You drive? I always assumed you were a public transporter for lyf.
For personal use and day to day I public transport, but sometimes for site visits I drive. Depends on the task.
(Idle thoughts: I’m thinking on my car-mod wishlist I should also request a camera-detection unit. So that I know when I’m being recorded, in order to laugh maniacally, as appropriate. I think it would send the wrong message to be engaging in vehicular carnage while singing The Girl from Ipanema to myself.)
I hum, not loudly but loud enough for people to hear, the Girl from Ipanema in elevators.
Also fun is an under-your-breath not-whistle. A sort of ‘doot… de doot… de doot-doot de dootdedoot,’ thing.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that thinks like this, except my thoughts aren’t as maniacal as blowing people up (I’ve not been burned out by bureaucracy… Yet).
I wish that I could be in the car, shrink it down to the size of a dice and fly through the air at top speed to fly over cars until I’m home again. I want to freeze myself to see if ever this technology can be realised.
I’ve been craving awesome food all week. Since the Buffalo Bar. Watching the Food Network and falling down a Serious Eats rabbithole didn’t help.
Usually it wouldn’t be a problem, as I’d just cook some awesome food myself. But these are the final days before Mr. Strange’s monthly payday so we’re down to the last bits and pieces of stuff, none of which really combine together to make great tasting stuff. Me from the start of the pay-cycle never thinks properly about the end of the pay-cycle. 😛
Oh man, I’m going to cook a mountain of awesome buffalo wings, ribs, and cornbread when Mr. Strange gets paid!
What did you order at the Buffalo Bar, Strangey?
Not the same thing as @powalen that’s for sure.
You folks should all go back at lunch time. They make amazing Hoagies. There’s a turkey one I need to try. TURKEY.
It’s turkey time. Gobble, gobble.
Noooooo! No noooo D: D: D:
I just love bringing up traumatic memories. >:P
That was the worrrrrrst scene in the worst movie. Ugh.
Hahahah. I just assumed you were saying words that made vague sense when you said that, but Jane’s reaction made me look it up.
HILARIOUS. I love it. I must mental note to use that.
I’m not as innocent as I first appear. I’m a monster.
I’ll get right on a plane and do that.
I grabbed the cornbread and some Cranberry Chilli Caramel wings. So tasty! I was full way too early though. I still had three wings leftover out of the eight. D:
Oh, that’s right. I think I asked you on the night, but I was on auto-pilot for a whole lot of that evening. Cornbread. Mmmmmmmm.
I didn’t like the cornbread 😛
I feel like we failed you. Should have gone to Grill’d instead!
*runs away from @Strange*
The wings I had were super delicious! To the point where I ignored that niggling feeling I had part-way through that I should slow down 😛
I inhaled my food. Was so damn hungry that it was gone in seconds. And then I fidgeted with the cutlery for a while to appear busy.
I love cornbread, and that was definitely a confronting piece of cornbread. I much prefer the sweeter versions. With maple butter. That bacony butter was pretty awesome, but together with the cornbread it was all a bit in your face.
*photoshops Cornbread with sunglasses on*
It’s not the kind of cornbread you would introduce to your parents, that’s for sure.
In the very back of the freezer I found out I still had some Chilli Jam and Chicken Gyoza from Costco left. Helloooo tasty lunch! 😀
Is there an actual written law somewhere that states telcos have to be as painful to deal with as humanly possible?
Like seriously. I give you money and you give me a phone. One time straight up exchange done by billions of people a day and somehow that idea is beyond them.
One them ‘unwritten-laws-of-the-universe’ deals I’ve come to believe.
But they have to super careful that they always know everything about any person who might possibly possess a phone to make sure that phones can all be traced back to someone in case they are used for crime or terrorism!
Also to make sure that you get signed up to things and can’t avoid getting fucked by fees and add-ons etc.
It’s a common misconception, but phone plans and infrastructure aren’t actually the main profit sources of telcos. Their primary income comes from leasing underground ducts, where they are paid to funnel the collected frustration and murderous desire of their customers through horrific, government-subsidised channels into the gates of hell to be absorbed by the glorious almighty Satan.
The More You Know
Took every key cap off the new keyboard and cleaned them along with the board itself, it looks so much better now.
And god damn it, typing on it is soooooooooo satisfying, makes me want to just type stuff out for the fun of it. I also might look at replacement key caps because why not, I reckon!
I remember the exact path you’re on. Let me know if you do go ahead with custom keycaps, I could go for a new set.
I think I just want to replace the WASD and arrow keys really. But if there is anything compatible that is decent is the next question.
Quite a lot of brands come with replacement WASD and arrow keys. I’m sure if you go to a dodgy Asian computer store that has Ducky keyboards on display, you can easily pick some up.
A full set of keycaps is a bit different. Most people seem to get custom ones online.
Hmm, fair enough. From what i’ve read though Razer are dicks and their key size doesn’t really allow for replaceable other keys that are not theirs >_>
My Corsair comes with replacement caps for 1 – 6 and WASD.
That being said I only use the WASD as it look a bit silly on 1 – 6 too…
TAYlist for the 12th of March 2015
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by the common coldMidnight Oil – King Of The Mountain
Cornershop – Brimful of Asha (Requested by @steve-o_the_deve-o)
Robert Palmer – Simply Irresistable
Eagles – Hotel California (Requested by @virus__)
Jackson 5 – I Want You Back (Requested by @liondrive)
Taco – Puttin’ On The Ritz (Requested by @smurfydog)
Foo Fighters – Arlandria (Requested by @crazyguy1990)
No Doubt – Just A Girl (Requested by @scree)
Mondo Rock – Cool World
Beatles – Paperback Writer (Requested by @shane, I hate you)
Radiohead – Karma Police (Requested by @kermitron)
Crowded House – Everything Is Good For You
REM – What’s The Frequency, Kenneth? (Requested by @thecracks)
Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade Of Pale (Requested by @redartifice)
Beach Boys – Kokomo (Requested by @tigerion)
Models – Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind
Presets – If I Know You (Requested by @gingerchris86)
Weezer – Hash Pipe (Requested by @freezespreston)
You know what, this list is so damn good I’ll even forgive the inclusion of Midnight Oil and the exclusion of Kansas.
So what you’re saying is you want him to Carry On?
Not if he carries on with more Midnight Oil.
Yes, that is a bit Wayward.
Side vote.
Kansas is good, but so is Midnight Oil.
I’m pleased I could contribute something to the arts that wasn’t penis-centric for a change.
Next week: Chuck Berry – My Dingaling.
Next week we should all request songs that sing about sex.
CCR – Looking Out My Backdoor
TISM – Everyone else has had more sex than me
Dawn (Featuring Tony Orlando) – Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree
It’s a metaphor
Let’s Talk About Sex
I Wanna Sex You up
Sexual Healing
Turning Japanese
Sex and Candy by Marcy Playground.
I said next week!
How about every week?
You. I like you.
Nine Inch Nails – Closer
Big Balls – AC/DC
Flight of the Conchords – Business Time
Tripod – Gonna Make You Happy Tonight
Yay me \o/
Jesus, that’s a killer list
That’s a brilliant list, well done sir 🙂
Two cops have just been shot in Ferguson. That should calm things down, right?
Oh dear. here we go 🙁
Ohhhhhh shit.
Huh, seems like that post I made from my phone last night disappeared. Probably for the better 😛
*reluctantly puts away popcorn*
You might wanna keep that >_>
Since I’m still on holidays and super bored I decided to wander into the city this morning, ended up strolling around Circular Quay and getting into the background of like a thousand tourist photos of the opera house, had lunch with other!Alex, caught up with my sister and bought a super sick Goku statue.
I should be spontaneous more often. Probably the only day I’ve felt good since coming back from Brisbane.
Solution: Come back to Brisbane, feel good.
Hmm. Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
ISSUE 1: HOW CAN WE STEAL TAYBIES FROM OTHER CITIES AND BUILD A SUPER TAYTROPOLIS?
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Hey @strange there’s a long haired guy in this season of Survivor you’d probably like. NEW MALCOLM MAYBE?!
(nah Malcolm is still cooler :P)
I was just going through some music on my PC and thought of a discussion point: Albums from groups where the album was critically panned and/or commercially unsuccessful but you really like it.
One example for me: Blue Oyster Cult’s ‘Imaginos’. When anyone talks about BOC pieces it’s always Don’t Fear The Reaper, Godzilla or Astronomy (and usually in that last case it’s followed by “Metallica’s cover is better”). Imaginos was pushed out without any marketing and hardly anyone’s heard it, but it’s an absolutely spectacular album. It’s a concept album with a dark, Lovecraftian theme running through it all, and it’s also probably the heaviest album the band ever produced, sitting just this side of being a Metal album. It also has a re-arrangement of Astronomy that is IMO miles better than the original version and Metallica’s excellent cover of that version. Joe Satriani even played session guitar on one of the tracks. Yet the album was a complete flop, no marketing push, and has only ever been reissued once, in 2007, as an afterthought so hardly anyone’s ever even heard it. 🙁
Jamiroquai’s “Dynamite” album wasn’t very well received, from memory, but I really enjoy it. The reason it didn’t do well was the continued moving away from the “funk” elements of the early Jamiroquai albums and more embracing the disco styles from, say, some tracks on Synkronized. That’s what really works for me though. I’m a big fan of disco (I know, right?) so to combine the things I love about disco with Jamiroquai was always going to be a winner in my books.
I like that album, heard it at a rollerblade disco and really liked!
For me, the #1 example that pops in to my head, is The Melniks – Fairway to Seven. It was their last album, and usually disregarded as kind of poppy and shit by people (the few people who even know who The Melniks are anyway) but I love it! Not my favourite album of theirs, but I do love it. I am a little biased though, cos one of the songs on the album is actually about me! :p
Never understood critical reviews of music. There isn’t anything else that is more intensely and personally subjective that the concept of one person reviewing it is laughably ridiculous.
STEAM WHY WILL YOU NOT LET ME GIVE YOU MONEY
BECAUSE YOU’RE A FILTHY COMMUNIST, “RED”
I JUST WANT TO BUILD CITIES WITH BRUTALIST ARCHITECTURE AND WIDE LANEWAYS FOR TANKS AND PARTY MEMBERS TO DRIVE DOWN
ALSO, ROOM FOR BREADLINES
FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITY, TO EACH ACCORDING TO THEIR NEED
Oh thank Jebus, EZTV is back. Was starting to get lost.
EZTV would be the perfect place to get Lost.
Is it, is it really? It’s been coming and going for the last week.
Much like every torrent site that goes down and back up I assume HONEYPOT
At this point, that means they all are.
Although Demonoid almost definitely is. I don’t trust it at all anymore.
Torrent Day & IP Torrents don’t do that 😛
Torrentleech.
Just finished The Order: 1886, and while it was short and filled with QTE’s I did enjoy my time with it. Just have to go back in chapter select and get a few collectibles I missed for the platinum. The one thing about the game that stood out to me the most was the orchestral score it really was fantastic, I could happily just sit down and listen to the whole thing beginning to end.
Story 4/5
Length 2/5
Gameplay 2.5/5
Visuals 4.5/5
Soundtrack 5/5
Overall I’d give it 3.5 out of 5 monkeys.
It’s a shame that a few areas like the length of it let it down, but I’m really hoping they do a sequel and make it even better (and longer).
Edit:
Seems fitting after finishing it that I watch Underworld, haven’t seen it in such a long time, and besides I haven’t seen the 3rd and 4th one yet, so I might as well start again from the beginning.did the story make it worthwhile?
I still don’t think it should’ve been a full priced game. I mean the game has 16 chapters, a prologue and an epilogue, but numerous chapters are just cut-scenes and absolutely no gameplay whatsoever. I’m confident though that if a sequel happens Ready At Dawn will listen to all the criticisms and make it better.
And yeah, the story was great.
Looks like I will wait till it drops in price before I try and get it.
I do like a good story.
Shame about everything else in the game.
I’m keen to play this when the price drops. Looks like fun for what it is but definitely not worth $80
Relevant:
http://www.dankarlszeitgeist.com/quantifying-the-order-1886-or-why-reviewing-games-must-suck-sometimes/
Went to the footy in Geelong…
I feel like I’m losing interest in it…
I just sit there, and I get what’s happening, but….
It’s no longer… interesting. 🙁
I feel exactly the same, you need to get on board the a-league now.
Or better yet, W-League. There’s something magical about watching women play a typically make dominated sport, and watching their performance improve over time.
The way you put that makes it look like you think they sucked at first and it was because they were women….
Damn, I probably shouldn’t TAY after 8 o’clock. When I’m sleepy I suppose I’m not using my finest prose.
For me, women’s sport is exciting not because I think they suck (they don’t btw) and then they do something good but many of the players are gaining experience along the way and the passion they exude is exciting.
Some context, working as a gym manager and women’s AFL coach I thoroughly enjoy seeing people who are new to something and working to gain a mastery of it. For women’s sport, whom have been marginalised for a long time I take great pleasure in seeing them playing at a high level. Does this make me seem like less of a misogynist now?
Haha, I knew your heart was in the right place, which is why I didn’t downvote or yell at you. 😛
Thank you! 🙂
It kind of still gives the impression that you like watching women’s sport because they go from being new at something to playing at a high level. I realise you’re not trying to sound all “women suck but they can get better!” but it comes across that way a bit.
I think he just likes to watch women and is diggin himself a hole by trying to explain it. 😛
I think you are spot on lol.
Yeah, I see how what I’m saying can be misconstrued.
I came to watch the W-League with an open mind, not knowing what the players were capable of technically (passing, shooting, etc).
Is it wrong for me though to enjoy it because it’s new, and it doesn’t quite have the history of male competition? I don’t feel like it is, I like the A-league for the same reason because it’s new and exciting to see players reach new heights. The a-league improves in quality every year exponentially, I
I certainly didn’t write this to be derogatory to women, I was hoping to share my enjoyable experience of watching women’s sport.
Why don’t you just go and going gamergate you sexist pig 😛
The problem with what you are saying is that when you started watching W-league the standard of play was much lower than the men. There is numerous reason for this but a large part of it is not having a regular high level league to compete in.
Most of the A-league players do that for a career, they spend all week training and preparing for playing the sportsball.
Since the money is different the women don’t have the ability to do that so they train less, and have trained and played less than the equivalent men’s team.
Having a large match each week, has them getting game pressure practice which has lead to them improving rapidly over a shorter period of time.
Ok, let’s go with that. I am enjoying seeing the emphasis being put on competing with extra resources? I like to think of myself as an advocate for women, I don’t want players or folk think I’m denigrating them lol.
Also @freya I don’t like leaving things unsaid. I apologize if I seemed condescending, I’m happy to reevaluate my viewpoint if that’s how it seems. I think we’ve gotten off on the wrong foot this week, I like you though! haha. Have a great weekend.
Reddit is a lovely place.
Did someone say that to you?!
I’ll beat them up for you, little Phlanisbro, just tell me when and where >:D
Pretty sure a 6’5 guy would be pretty intimidating! 😀
Everyone knows you’re 6’4 liondrive! Sheesh =P
I thought I was 6’4, but other people say they’re 6’4 and I’m usually taller than them :S
RIP Terry Pratchett, Ankh Morpork feels a little lonlier without you.
:`(
I was getting up and dealing with the puppy when Freya came out of the bedroom to tell me. That was half an hour ago and I still don’t know how to process this.
I’ve tried putting my thoughts into words. I can’t.
The world inside Pterry’s head was too brilliant to ignore, too real to dismiss and too big not to be engulfed by it. He shared it with us and for that I’m grateful.
GNU Terry Pratchett.
Ook*
🙁 Wife woke me up to the news.
The world has lost a mind as vast as the ocean, as salty as the dead sea and as humorous as a fart at a funeral (because we all know a fart at a funeral would be freaking hilarious, but we’d never admit it because socially we feel like we shouldn’t think that way but inside we’d be crying with laughter).
He was so sharp that I swear he’d cut himself while shaving with his wit alone.
The author who got me into writing, the author who got me into reading full stop…and satire, and fun, and lampooning fantasy while being able to be classified as fantasy and being better fantasy than a lot of other fantasy out there.
Vale Terry Pratchett, you grumpy old bastard. May you finally meet your death face on, and tell him how much you like cats.
Heard the name before, but I had to look him up to see who he actually was. I’ve heard of Discworld, but I’ve never read anything the man’s written.
In my defense, when I was growing up we only read old Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics, because that’s all we had, and my parents were pretty strict on what we read and watched.
Now is as good a time as any to see what all the fuss is about. There’s a lot of discussion amongst fans about where to start. The first few books aren’t very good, Pterry takes a little while to really work out what he was doing. Not only that, the books focus on different characters so it’s good idea to read the books containing specific characters in chronological order.
Mort is probably the best starting point. It’s the first book where the world feels properly realised (as opposed to a hodgepodge D&D campaign) and establishes one of the most important characters in the series: Death.
Other good starting points are the one off books like Small Gods, Pyramids, The Truth (although it features a lot of established characters) or Monstrous Regiment.
The first Witches book, Wyrd Sisters, is a great parody of Hamlet/Macbeth while the first Night Watch book, Guards! Guards!, is a great police procedural.
There’s not really a wrong place to start with Discworld. Well, that’s not true. Don’t read Thief of Time first. That book serves as a bit of a cosmic retcon.
I actually read Thief of Time first!
I luckily had half remembered parts of the Soul Music cartoon to fall back on
You’re weird.
I find it funny that Night Watch is a great starting point, despite happening parallel to Thief of Time.
My first real memory of Discworld is listening to an audiobook of The Truth on a family trip to Noosa. I may have watched some of the cartoons before then and not realised what they were. It wasn’t long before I was devouring every Discworld book at the local library, particularly The Last Continent because it was the only one that seemed to be consistently on shelf. I still remember that battered copy with the shitty American cover.
My Aunt gave me Thief of Time for christmas in 2001, and I devoured it in two days.
Since then, I’ve eagerly awaited every book, catching up on them all. purchasing most (I’d have to check, I think there’s 4 or 5 I don’t have, but certainly everything from Thief on).
My greatest Terry Pratchett fan moment, though, was going to the Unseen University Convivium here in Adelaide, where we had him via video link up. He was very generous with his time, and questions, and he complimented my Moist von Lipwig hat.
My first exposure to Discworld was through the Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters cartoons. I watched them without any real context and didn’t get them. Fortunately, in grade 12, I was introduced to the books by a friend who gave me a copy of The Colour of Magic. I only went to that school for one year, and never saw that friend after graduation, but I am so grateful that I met her, or I probably wouldn’t have read any of the Discworld novels.
You’re a crazy person. The initial books might not stand up to the rest but they marvellously introduce the reader to the world and more importantly, Rincewind, Twoflower, the Luggage and Cohen.
Start with The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic.
No, I agree. Mort is the first one that I think is a tonal fit with the rest.
That’s where I started and, despite really liking the first two books, I only lasted a couple of books past that.
Crazy like a fox!
Many of the early books do a great job of establishing/re-establishing the world. Mort in particular hits on some of the most important elements of Discworld.
The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic should be read, just not first.
Alright, fair enough, I guess since my first book was Interesting Times, I would have liked to have known a little bit more about the world before a failed student wizzard was magically catapulted to the counterweight continent to help some old men steal an empire.
The Colour Of Magic was the one I was given. I only made it a little way into it before putting it down. I dunno, couldn’t get into it or something (it was a long time ago now, all I remember is something or other about a giant space turtle).
I was so sad that that news was the first I woke up to this morning. I can’t remember the name of my friend who introduced me to his books, but I am eternally grateful that she did. But (and this might sound a bit selfish) why did he have to die the day before my birthday and make me so sad?!!!!!
Obviously as a fan of Pratchett I’ve been dreading his passing for a long time as he’s grown more and more ill and contemplated assisted suicide – so given that, I think I was prepared to see him go. A wonderful writer, excellent satirist, and as far as I understand it, generally a great man.
It’s a tragedy he had to suffer so much in his final years, after contributing so much to the arts.
Absolutely agree.
The last few tweets that Rhianna wrote on his behalf are very him
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31858156
:C
nooo.
It’s early & I should be getting ready for work
Work can suck a rotten egg.
I have video games I want to play.
Did the annoying ads / “suggested” sites disappear from the articles? O’ Happy Day!
And there was much rejoicing.
This x1000
And on a Friday too! Double good news! =D
So I can remove the line that hides those divs from my tampermonkey script now? \o/ Guilt assuaged.
Big Rockstar sale on the PSN store. Check it out. https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-au/rockstar-deals/cid=STORE-MSF75508-RKSTARDEAL
Example: the Tales From [insert name] City games are only a couple of dollars each at the moment.
The Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition (PS4) is $17.95 right now as well. https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-au/games/sleeping-dogs-definitive-edition/cid=EP0082-CUSA01004_00-0000SLEEPINGDOGS
I won’t be getting this, as I played it to completion on 360, and am happy enough with that.
There are also emulated PS2 classics for the PS3 that are pretty cool games:
BULLY: $2.99
VICE CITY: $2.99
and so on.
Although money is pretty tight for the next couple of weeks, and I’m only just gonna be able to scrape enough money together to buy all the games I want, I might have to see if I can stretch it just a little bit further and pick up The Warriors.
CAN YOU DIG IT!
I’d never heard of this game, but I just looked it up and it seems to have gotten some pretty good reviews… *into the cart it goes*
Oh man, you’re gonna love it. It’s probably the only game based on a movie that I think is actually better than the movie, not that the movie is bad.
Word of warning, from memory it’s pretty violent.
It’s under three dollars. I’ll take the chance. Thanks, though!
I picked up The Warriors on PS2 and never got far into it, but I heard really good things. I guess for $3 why not? I have a PS3 gathering dust.
Any clue when this sale ends? I’m poor until Monday :/
But I so want GTA III, Vice City, Liberty City Stories, Vice City Stories, Bully & Max Payne, damn it.
Err I also need to send you money for the GTA game, shit. So sorry man I completely forgot 🙁
Yeah man, you’ve got until the 26th, I believe.
Re: GTA, no hurry. It’s not going anywhere. I can send it to you now if you want.
Oh sweet!
All good i’ll pay you the money today, it was shane [at] shanewsmith [dot] com, right?
Some weird reason I didn’t get a notification you replied to me :/ Good thing I came looking for this post to find the deals again haha.
That’s the one!
Sweet, cheers!
and done!
Thanks man. Money and message received. Game will (hopefully) go out tomorrow!
All good, whenever you can!
Morning my little motos! (My bike is the last thing I pet on the way out now, you see).
Frrrrrrrrriday yeah! I started reading my first satisfying new book of the year, I’m wearing my favourite denim jacket, and tonight my brother is going to come over to help with my riding technique, so things are pretty rosy.
What’s everyone’s weekend plans? Hopefully going to see a movie (Inherent Vice) and then cleaning my house for an inspection.
Video games today, work tonight, then 3 day weekend, so all teh vidya gaemz \o/
What’re you playing?
Just platinum’d The Order, going to finish off Shadow Of Mordor now, then I might blast through Murdered: Soul Suspect (I’ve heard it’s pretty short), then finally start on The Last Of Us: Remastered. Also, when my son’s around and I can’t play any of those, probably Lego: The Hobbit or something on the Vita, or I might even finally get my arse into gear and finish the book I’m on so I can get back to the Song Of Ice And Fire series.
What about your good self?
I’ll probably finish CounterSpy this weekend; I’ve been playing it in little bursts and enjoying it quite a bit. I kind of want something else to sink my teeth into, since it’s been awhile since I’ve played anything I really, really loved :/
Did you play TLOU on PS3, or is this your first experience?
Oh yeah, I’ve had a quick go of CounterSpy and it is quite fun.
Yeah, I played through TLOU on PS3 and loved it, bought the season pass when I bought the game and then promptly traded it in when I completed the campaign like the moron I am, so it’ll be my first time playing through the DLC.
Oof, the Left Behind DLC is soooooo flipping good. Also the camera mode on PS4 is outstanding.
Video games tonight, tomorrow it’s continuing my cosplay with Scree and board games in the evening, Sunday most likely more games.
Uhhh, the weekend is pretty much the only free time I get so I will probably be studying for uni and doing assignments.
Step 1: Don’t fall off
Step 2: If you do fall off, punch the person honking you in the face
Step 3: Ride off into the sunset
Oh shit, shut it down, I’ve got this on lock.
Nah, just do This.
Motos is almost as good as pumpkins. 😀
We’re taking our son to the Planetarium for the first time. It’s a surprise. I can’t wait to see his face when he realises where we’re going.
And the boring part of the weekend will be some decluttering. We have some rooms overflowing with stuff that need to be streamlined to make them more livable. Most notably, the kids rooms. I don’t remember buying them this much stuff! 😛
With enough work you could probably motorise a pumpkin
Hey, Aliasalpha! I feel like I hardly ever see you around anymore. Is that true, or just my old lady brain kicking in? How’s things in Aliasalphaland, anyway?
Same old same old really, I’ve not been too social lately so I’ve only really been lurking rather than posting and mostly playing XCOM. Oh and then in the last week thinking “I should edit some of that video of XCOM I’ve been recording” and then when I looked at how long it was, realising it was nearly a day worth of footage so I’ve been doing nothing but editing for the last week…
I think feeling social is one of those funny things you have to actually do to start feeling like it. Like energy. I was saying to my Mum the other day how it was funny how to get some “get up and go” I had to actually “get up and go”. 😛
Anyway, *hugasaurus*. Hope you manage to stop the aliens from killing/changing us all! You’re our only hope! 😀
Yeah social is not a thing I’ve ever been that good at, starting conversations is a weird and foreign superpower as far as I’m concerned and without that I can’t really do anything unless someone talks to me…
This is why I love TAY so much. I can practice being social, risk free. 😀
Working.
Folks get the keys to the warehouse & house today so I’ll be going to see what work I need to do.
And I have to clean out the kitchen this weekend since it’s being demolished and renovated on Monday. EUGH.
Stresstastic week, I’m going to DRINK tonight, pretty much straight after work.
Then I’ll probably go home and tool around in video games for hours, sleep, wake up, keep tooling around in games.
I am absolutely certain that I have Responsible Adult Type Person things to be doing as well, but hell if I can remember them. I save my organization brain for work only.
Games tonight, then more games over the weekend. :3 Mostly Cities: Skylines and Destiny.
Also need to do a bit of tidying up at some point, as our building is having its “annual” council inspection on Thursday – the first I’ve seen in the three years I’ve been there. And, considering I’ve been on about 5-6 hours sleep for the last month and a half, I might try to catch up on that, too.
Dunno, boy’s soccer practice Sat morning.
Hoping to have a beer or two.
Staring at the PS4 longingly waiting for Type 0.
Well it looks like they’re doing a Titanfall sequel, and it’s coming to Playstation.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-15721-Titanfall-Sequel-Coming-to-PlayStation–Respawn-Confirms.html
In other news, Holy Shit! TPG is buying iiNet.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/03/tpg-is-buying-iinet/
*Checks calendar*
Not April 1st.
What is this sorcery that TPG is pulling…
With iiNet being consumed there goes our last bastion against the government cramming new copyright laws down our throats.
Sad news.
Sooo…. even LESS chance of a decent service upgrade then? Do TPG count uploads for their off-network adsl2?
The only thing TPG will do for you is allow you to choke on their turgid, boil covered member as they force it down your throat while licking the tears off your face.
You write in a very visual style, Freeze. It’s very unfortunate because now I need my brain scrubbed of the visuals you provoked, please! 😛
No one appreciates my talents 🙁
Hm. I see.
*twists picture around in head* Well then. They’re either very flexible, or their pustulent dongs are located very near or on their faces. This would help prove my own theory about them.
So standard ISP contract for rural Australia then?
I think (hope) that they’re smart enough to keep iiNet playing to its strengths. I really don’t want to see their customer service moved offshore… iiNet’s support have always been helpful and informative.
I got an email less than 8 hours after applying for my Federal Police Check saying it was in the mail. A government body that is actually efficient?! It’s like I’m being willed to Canada (so far every part of the process has been so very much ahead of schedule).
Which part of Canada, eh?
ALL OF THE PARTS.
Toronto, most likely. Visit Bish! But I’ll go where I can find work. I’ll visit Saturday in Vancouver too!
Jelly! One of my best buds lives in Toronto! Want to go visit him someday! He’s lead rigger at Ubisoft! I’ll get a special tour of their facilities if I ever make it over there!
You planning on a perma move, or just working holiday? I can always ask him if there’s any jobs at Ubi you could apply for.. maybe something in QA?
That would be amazing, welbot friend. Like, I think I would actually cry if I got work out of it. Any help would be appreciated. Working move for now but I’d like it to become permanent if things go well (ie if I get a job).
Also – rigging is something I am terrible at and pretty much the sole reason I never made a crummy game.
With no industry experience, it’s gonna be tough to get in an active position on any team in a development sense, but with QA, credentials are not just a big deal, and could be a good starting point. If you can land something like that, you could demonstrate your skills over time and have prior knowledge of new roles, so probably get preferential treatment in applying for them. All depends if they have anything though. And whether there are any complications for them to employ you. I guess if you have a working holiday visa prior to going it should be pretty simple, but we’ll just have to wait and see! Hopefully they are even looking atm!
Yeah, my experience is in IT administration then team leadership in television so not the most suitable work. But I’d be happy as a janitor, to be honest 😛 So anything sounds good. Will wait and see!
WELL FRIEND. I used to live in Toronto. It’s um… well, I can recommend some cool places to visit if you like? Ultimately it didn’t work out for me, so I hauled over to Vancouver which is where I ended up being the happiest and having the best Canadian experience (it was beautiful there, people were friendly, there was snow in the middle of summer.)
My favourite memory of Vancouver (aside from my family there) was going for a walk to a forest near my aunt’s house. She lives in Coquitlam, which is a major city in BC, and I only had to walk about 10 minutes before I felt like I was completely secluded and lost in the wilderness. Like, I saw a tree that had been felled by a bear very recently. It was amazing.
Go right ahead with recommendations. I’m not much of a touristy tourist though, I just wanted a change 😛
No, I get that. It’s still fun to do touristy stuff in your own town. Like, the CN tower, museum, art gallery and stuff are all really quality places to visit.
• Kom Jug Yuen on Spadina – best Chinese food I’ve ever had – and I went to China after Canada! Also, holy crap they have a website now, amazing. Seriously, go there.
• The Beguiling on Markham – really great book and art store; comics and posters and just great stuff.
• Sneaky Dee’s on College – holy crap, their nachos are incredible.
• All of Kensington market – great for just about everything.• Magic Pony on Bay – lots of cool, quirky toys and art (tokidoki, kidrobot, that sort of thing)
• Silver Snail on Yonge – really cool comic book shop
• Hairy Tarantula on Yonge – a more kooky comic book shop
• Don Valley Brick Works – okay, this is not what it used to be. It was an abandoned warehouse that was totally rad for zombie/survival adventure roleplay haha, but now I think it’s a farmers market. Still pretty good.
Let it be noted that Kensington Markets has not one, but two dedicated cheese shops.
That alone makes it glorious.
oh my god someone i can share my pain with
jane lets complain about toronto all the time
we can be friends based on this one sole piece of common ground
RIGHT. RIGHT?!
WHAT IS WITH THESE TIM HORTONS STORES EVERY 12 METERS
DONUTS ARE NOT EVEN THAT GOOD, WORLD.
Yeah, that’s right, I SAID IT.
Yo
@janexo
@bish
YO
THIS IS JIMMYING MY RUSTLES.
I DON’T UNDERSTAND THE HATE FOR TIMMY HO’S
You don’t get the donuts and the coffee anyway you go for the novelty of timbits and their adequate soups and sandwiches, you learn this after a while
jesus guys
So rustled.
So when I first moved there, I lived in this teeny little studio on Dundas Street West, right near Dufferin. It was ooookay (I liked Dufferin Mall – it had Walmart and a liquor store, I was set), and then I moved to a really nice apartment with a gay couple on Trinity Bellwoods, which was way better in every way.
BUT I just remember walking through like, Little Italy and Polish town on my way to work and having to step out into the street to avoid the old men who would stand in doorways and spit, for like, fun :/
Oh man, I walked by Dufferin Mall with Aleph once, (@alephnull ?). Looked like somewhere I would get stabbed.
I think this is where I have gone wrong in life; I clearly need to live with a gay couple to get some excitement in my life (errr…).
Mostly avoid downtown though. Live and work on the Eastern-ish side of North York, so just have to deal with crazy drivers from Scarborough and borderline ghetto peeps.
Oh god, the drivers in Toronto, wtffff. I was terrified and would avoid getting into cars in the city whenever possible; streetcar forever!
@janexo
Their “you can turn right even when it’s red” rule is so awful. I get that it keeps traffic flowing if people turn when it’s safe, but all you end up doing is getting people recklessly turning into a lane because it’s not illegal.
And oh my god. Roundabouts. I’ve seen one roundabout, and three cars from three different directions stopped at the roundabout puzzled as to what to do. They don’t understand them. How.
You lived in Canada? Faction’s gonna live in Canada? Bish lives in Canada? The fuck, I thought being Canadian was MY thing.
Alright alright, Timbits were pretty okay. And I do recall eating a pretty good bagel there once or twice.
They already had your file open because they’re monitoring you so were able to just put it in the mail. 😛
@saturday Get in here and prepare to welcome faction! =O
Edit: In other news wish you and blaghs would join our shenanigans in WoW =P
I haven’t played WoW since closed beta. I just don’t think MMORPGs are my thing.
I meant with regards to you going to Canada =P
The other comment was a throwback to our Destiny raiding days xD
I’m afraid of commitment.
“Saturday, you attended a raiding party in Destiny routinely for over half a month, if not more.”
Shut up.
Chapter 2 of Dreamfall Chapters is out today for the three people who care.
For everyone else, Dreamfall Chapters is the episodic third game in The Longest Journey series.
Tell me about Loom.
You mean the latest masterpiece of fantasy storytelling from LucasFilm’s Brian Moriarty?
A FRIDAY TAYDRENALIN SHOT
So, in the last week we’ve lost Leonard Nimoy and Terry Pratchett, both pop culture figures that I have a deep connection to.
A question for you all then: Whose loss will leave you inconsolable?
When Bowie goes, I’m going to lock myself away and listen to Station to Station fro a week.
Douglas Adams / Carl Sagan. I still can’t get over them.
I was too young for Carl Sagan, but Douglas Adams really upset me at the time. Along with Pratchett and Kurt Vonnegut, part of my humanistic trio of guiding philosophers.
Morbid. D:
Hell, I’ve been getting upset enough by the Skyrim modder article this morning, thankyouverymuch!
This was the one that I thought would do it. I’m coping better than expected but it’s still a tough one.
Alan Alda is the only one I can think of.
And my wife/kids.
Well, yeah, family, friends, of course. I meant more in a public figure sense.
Honestly? None. I’ve never defined myself by the media I consume, more by the company I keep.
That is to say that unless I know someone personally I struggle to make much of a connection. I recognise the loss of a talent and some great art forms but it doesn’t diminish the work they’ve produced.
Ergh, I’m struggling to explain myself here. So over share time I guess? One person that I feel has shaped me somewhat in recent years is yourself Red. I genuinely respect you and look up to you. Even when you make me feel like a fool I can recognise why and try to better myself from it. Same with a number of other people here. There’s a two way interaction there that I value far higher than any one way consumption of a book or film or music can possibly affect me.
Oh man, that’s really touching, and I get what you mean
See I think it’s a bit silly to be affected so much by the deaths of people who weren’t actually close to us, but I feel like art transcends boundaries like that. People who communicate with us through writing and film and music will always be special and deeply personal to us, if we cared about their art.
In the last 6 or 7 months we’ve lost Robin Williams, Leonard Nimoy and Terry Pratchett, who are icons to me. I grew up with them. They engaged with me. They made me laugh, they made me cry, and they will continue to do so for as long as I can consume their work.
But the feeling of loss will take some time to reconcile.
Ugh, I cannot even bear to think of losing Tom Waits 🙁
fuuuuuuck that’s gonna be awful.
Waits will never die, he’ll drive off into American legend and turn up 50 years later in a carnival
Carnivale!
I don’t have any popular figures that I idolise enough for that. Losing only specific person will leave me inconsolable, and that’s my overseas ex.
Hopefully I never live to see the day, but if my son died before me, that would be the worst thing that could ever happen to me.
My grandfather was diagnosed with brain cancer last night and they found two tumours on his brain.
🙁
Sorry to hear that, buddy. 🙁 All the best to you and yours.
Oh man, that’s so terrible.
I remember the shock when my Grandma got diagnosed with her cancer, it’s the most awful thing. Good luck man, and we’re all here for you*hugs* thats an awful thing All the best to you and your family
That sucks. I hope you are doing okay.
Any of my immediate family. I won’t know what to do.
Probably something very, very stupid. It is the habit.
(Oh, you meant in pop culture, maybe? In that case… not anyone, really.)
Mr.Strange gets teary at just about anyone famous who gets ill or passes away, yet he can’t muster any sympathy or support when I get sick or am in pain so I’ve become a bit immune to feeling too much when famous people are gone. Because I am a selfish person, and it just makes me angry to see his emotional reaction to people he’s never met.
I think you need to get famous, Strangey.
Haha, good strategy! 😀
Well @strange is TAY famous, that’s about the same really.
TAYmous.
I don’t get all emotional about celebrity deaths, to be honest.
I don’t know them, you know?
I need to know someone if I’m going to get emotional about them.
Any immediate family members (excluding dad) or any close friends, sure, but not celebrities.
I really don’t know. Generally celebrity deaths don’t affect me be occasionally they will just hit much harder than expected. Anything relating to drug OD or something like that generally just gloss over. Pratchett hit hard but it wasn’t unexpected.
The last one that hit really hard was probably Wouter Weylandt. That one really rattled me and through me off kilter for a while. Certainly seeing it happen made the impact much greater.
I think another one that will rattle me will be somebody like Tom Hiddleston. Takes fame in his stride, spends so much time working on humanitarian issue.
When Paul Gray of Slipknot died, I felt shit. I guess I could put it down to mostly because the music he created with Slipknot is something that has been apart of my life for the greater part of a decade now, and he was one of the reasons why I started playing bass 8 years ago. Saying that it still sucks when the anniversary of his death comes around. I am glad the band continued on without him, especially given he was one of the main driving forces in the band. But damn, he was such a great guy, so nice and gentle, always took time for the fans. Something that a lot of people seemed to dismiss about him :/
Yeah, nah. I don’t get any feeling when celebrities pass no matter how much I enjoy their work.
BOWIE WILL NEVER DIE BECAUSE HE IS TESLA AND IMMORTAL.
I don’t usually feel deeply about celebrity deaths and often find it kind of weird. Because we only know their public persona and it feels weird to be experiencing deep emotions in regard to that. That being said, I am pretty upset about Pratchett. His writing has affected a lot of my understanding of the world and I was planning to have some of it at my wedding. The fact that Bun also enjoys his work is a big part of our relationship too and it is weird how upsetting it is.
I also think that we both expected this for a while so it’s not as raw as some of the unexpected ones.
I don’t think I ever get too emotional about celebrities passing. It’s not like I knew them personally.
I miss Carl Sagan. The world needed more people like him, people of science and reason that are also articulate and poetic.
I suspect that the next big one in nerd circles might be Buzz Aldrin and that makes me sad to think about.
Like a lot of others, I’ve struggled to feel much beyond “oh that’s sad” on celebrity deaths. Though when Yamauchi died the other year and I was reading through a neogaf thread about it, with people talking about all the things he did at the company and stuff that started to make me tear up a bit, somehow kinda made it feel more like having lost a grandfather or something. So I dunno whose loss would “leave me inconsolable”, really. It could probably be anyone, given the right circumstances. It’s hard to even think of any big celebrity type names that have a large influence in my life at all. Maybe Rob Halford or something? That’d suck pretty badly.
@negativezero Kantai Collection latest episode.
That one scene explained the entire course of the series so far. Dang Admiral and his desire to be married to Fubuki. Seems a little odd to shoehorn that into the series considering it has absolutely no context to anyone who hasn’t played the game. Oh well.Operation MI is a go. I felt that the scenes with Soryuu and Hiryuu are kinda compensation for the fact that they’re likely to get sunk. I still don’t think they’re going to go the whole hog and wipe out Akagi and Kaga as well but I’m waiting to be surprised. Hopefully the finale is a good battle because we haven’t really had a proper full-on fight since Coral Sea and I think the series has suffered a bit for that. There are such drastic shifts in tone and idea between the social side of things and the war that it makes things feel like they would have been better off just doing one or the other and not trying to awkwardly combine them. Just my thought though.
Admiral is a creeper confirmed. At least he doesn’t have his sights set on Inazuma or something I guess.They’ve actually deviated from history by putting Fubuki in as an escort for Akagi. In reality, the IJN divided the First Fleet into two parts – the Main Body and the Carrier Strike Force. The main body was built around Yamato, Nagato & Mutsu and Fubuki was just one of the carriers assigned to anti-submarine screens (with Sendai the flagship for that group). The plan had been for the carriers to destroy the air base at Midway and then provide fighter cover and strike any carriers that were there (they expected one carrier – they thought Yorktown was sunk and didn’t know Hornet was in the Pacific, leaving only Enterprise) while their two Battleship escorts, Haruna and Kirishima, would finish off any surface ships in the area. The main force was then going to shell the island to soften it up before landing troops.
If Fubuki is actually in the carrier fleet with Akagi, then she’s likely going to be the factor that changes the battle, especially now that she’s gotten her Kai-2 remodel. They must have made the one in the game, which came out the week the anime started, specially to tie into that, because in the anime she’s got an AA Fire Director which is something that was only added to the game late last year with Akizuki. AA Fire Directors let surface ships armed with anti-air capable guns to perform an AA cut-in attack during the air combat phase of a battle and shoot down a ton of enemy planes.
I’m hoping they completely deviate from history, just so we can see Mutsu and Nagato in combat. Mutsu has quickly ended up becoming one of my favourites in the anime, actually. They basically have been slowly moving away from historical stuff as it is. I mean, technically Shimakaze has no right even existing yet as she wasn’t even launched until May 1943, and Midway was June 1942, and there’s been other stuff that’s wrong too. So I’d love to see them blow everything wide open.
I disagree on the tonal stuff personally. They’ve done exactly what I expected with it. What I hoped is they’d go a lot more into the Abyssal fleet’s origins etc. and maybe expand on the theory that they’re infected/fallen shipgirls. None of them have even had dialogue, which isn’t true to the game. I’m also a bit disappointed they haven’t shown any of the bosses since we saw the Anchorage Hime in the opening battle in episode 1. It was probably outside what they could have planned for but not having Hoppo-chan was a big miss (though if the anime sends a fleet to the Aleutians then maybe this can still happen – Hoppo (Northern Hime) was the boss for the AL segment of the Midway event in the game). I feel like maybe the problem there is they simply haven’t decided what the Abyssals are in the game yet either, because they’re trying to leave things open for the possibility of adding USN and Royal Navy shipgirls in the future. The game’s director says he wants to do that, but it’s potentially problematic since the unspoken thing is that the Abyssals are allied ships and installations. And also I have visions of crazy Japanese players recording themselves deliberately sinking Enterprise-chan and similar. But on the other hand, the idea of having IJN and Allied ships together in one fleet is oddly compelling.
The other thing I’m a bit disappointed in is the lack of submarines. The subs are very popular in the game and they’ve been in for years (I-168 and I-58 added to the game the same time as Yamato IIRC) so it’s weird they didn’t get a look. Perhaps they were considered to be too fanservicey?
Unrelatedly, if you like the idea of ‘what if’ WW2-era anime then something you might find interesting is an older show called Zipang. It has a kind of non-ending which sucks, but basically it’s a Final Countdown-style scenario where a modern JSDF AEGIS Cruiser travels through a time vortex and ends up in the pacific near Midway the day before the battle, and the crew basically has to struggle with the fact they’re Japanese, but from a post-war environment where they see all the negative things about Imperial Japan and consider whether they should change history or not, but their very presence in the area causes things to change anyway. It’s pretty interesting.
On a similar note to your last point, I highly recommend the Axis of Time trilogy by John Birmingham if you haven’t read it yet. Similar plot context to Zipang but rather than a single ship being sent back in time it’s the majority of a UN strikeforce that was preparing to attack an Islamic jihadist caliphate. Of course the twist though is that the ships were not only scattered through time but also space so while the majority of the ships ended up in Midway but some of the others were scattered all over.I suppose my main issue (and it’s not even a big issue, I’m still enjoying the series a lot) is that the story kinda jumps around a lot in terms of what it wants to look at and can’t seem to settle into a particular narrative. The fact that they tend to introduce characters that you think are going to play a role throughout the series kinda get sidelined in some episodes but highlighted in others. Yuudachi and Mutsuki in particular kinda felt like they were ignored when the Fifth Fleet was formed but then they came right back when they all went to Truk.
I know its kinda petty but this is a pretty blatant fanservice series. If I hadn’t played the game or didn’t get all of the historical references I would probably enjoy it far less than I currently am. I think if they do produce a second season, they would probably delve into the ideas that you’ve suggested (I too would want to know what the official perspective is on Abyssals) but I can see Midway being a pretty intense two-episode finale.
As an aside, totally agree with you about Mutsu. Such a great character when thrown up beside super-serious Nagato.
TAY, how do you play with your pets?
Do you have toys for them (whether bought or made), or do you use your hands?
Euphemism?
I made hanging perches for my parrots from branches I had to cut off the trees in our back yard, seemed a shame to waste them. They seem to enjoy stripping the bark from them at least. One of them also enjoys pulling apart mums empty cotton reels, the other is a wuss & is afraid of everything I put in his cage
It depends where we are. I took my dogs to the park last night and they just ran themselves ragged while I was reading, so I didn’t need to engage them much. Otherwise sometimes toys or roughing them up, my generally they play with each other. They come to me for tender head scratchies and kisses.
For the dogs generally have a ball to kick / throw has been the way.
But a bit of rough and tumble and giving them a good belly whack works too
My parents current dog actually fetches.
As far as dogs they’ve owned goes, this is a new experience.
My dogs have some chew toys, some tennis balls and some squeaky toys. Generally they play with each other (such as play biting faces). I also play with them by hand.
Best thing about mutts is giving them a quick slap around the chops.
“Oi, dog!” *slap*
Best. Game. Ever.
Mostly toys. I’ll run around with Alice and whatnot but she has a bunch of toys that she seems to enjoy playing with. Most importantly, having her play with toys means that she can easily entertain herself.
Our dog has a lot of toys. She also picks up bits of bark and rocks, so, you know, we could have just left her in the backyard and she would have been happy.
Our dogs had tons of tennis balls. My mum also had a dummy that was basically a woolen sock packed with newspaper that she’d hide around the place and get them to find, but that was more for training them in retrieval for shows and stuff back when she and dad bothered with that.
For our cat, you’d be amazed how much fun they can get out of an old shoelace or a wad of crumpled paper.
My dog fetches, she also just likes to play, which is mostly me winding her up to the point mum gets cranky cause the dog is now hyper active 😛
The bird likes to climb around on me or put on its back and scratched, tart of a thing. It also likes clothes pegs.
@f4ction how are you finding Cities: Skylines? Grabbed it last night and suddenly it was nearly 1am 🙂
Been years since I’ve been deep into a “builder” game, it’s pretty damn slick. A little fiddly in parts, but my as yet unnamed city is soon to be a global capital
The first person mod sounds awesome
Sudden ‘oh crap it’s in the am and I haven’t got to bed yet’ games are the worst.
I mean, obviously the best.
No, the worst.
Dammit.
I should really set aside a category for them in my Steam library. The number of culprits is adding up.
There’s a reason I only play Civ V on summer holidays.
I’ve got one called “Time-wasters,” reserved for anything I have started playing on a Friday evening, and woken up on the following Monday morning wondering who stole my weekend. Skylines will likely make that list in a few days. 😛
It is so much fun. I can’t wait to play it for 24 hours straight! Traffic is a bit annoying sometimes though!
Hmm, and so it begins. Looks like Disney are starting to do to Star Wars what they’ve done with Marvel, a whole cinematic universe thing releasing multiple movies per year. Not that I’m complaining. As long as they’re great I’m happy. Had the feeling the first standalone Star Wars movie was going to be a Boba Fett one, oh well, I’m sure it’ll come eventually.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/03/rogue-one-heres-the-first-standalone-star-wars-movie/
I’m much more interested in this than in a Boba Fett film.
I think Fett works best in small doses as a mysterious character, not as a protagonist. Fett should be the guy who’s one step ahead of you and deadly as all hell, never sympathetic.
Yeah, as much as I enjoyed jango in TPT, I felt it took away from Bobba more than added.
Way back when they made the $4bn purchase, they outright announced their intention to release at least one Star Wars film a year. I’m kind of glad they’re following through, and cautiously excited for this Rogue One announcement.
Rogue Squadron >>>>> Boba Fett, especially now that Fett’s just a clone of Temuera Morrison.
The Rogues already had some of the absolute best spinoff novels and stuff, so this sounds rad. Obviously all that stuff would be discarded, and you’d expect this is probably based around characters in the new Trilogy, but what I’d hope is that they get Denis Lawson back as Wedge. He turned down a cameo in Episode VII, but that was because he didn’t want to reprise the role unless he was doing a major part, so fingers crossed.
I really dig the fiction of the Republic Commando troopers.
The X-Wing books were by far my favourite things to come out of the EU. When I culled my collection of Star Wars books a couple years back, they were almost the only survivors.
So… needless to say, I am pretty damn hype for this movie, if it turns out to be an X-Wing flick. And equally hype for the X-Wing game series revival which will accompany it.
Corran Horn 4 lyf
I like Corran, but I’m definitely a Wedge/Janson fan! \o/
This. Corran was okay but had a bit of a whiff of gary stu sometimes. The group of Wedge/Janson/Hobbie esp. as written by Aaron Allston was fantastic.
In the absence of today’s remember this, I notice that serrels has been completely off the grid – wonder if he’s out taking care of the Bloodborne ‘winner’ (since I assume they want that wrapped and out in the public domain in time for launch)
Really hating these demons in Murdered: Soul Suspect no matter what I do I can’t seem to get close enough to execute them, and the one time I did, I mucked up and pressed the wrong button. Running away doesn’t help either, it doesn’t seem to matter how much I try and hide, they always find me.
#frustrating
Edit: That’d be right, straight after I type this out I give it one more try and get two straight off the bat.
CBA finally added NFC support for phones that aren’t Samsungs! \o/
It’s less functional than my card but it’s a start!
This.
Tried using it 3 times and it’s caused the terminals to shit themselves each time. Then it says insert / swipe card and I’ve gotta dig out my wallet.
My PayTag was working each and every time.
Vroom!
OH! We watched Haywire last night – mostly picked because look at the cast and ooh fighting and hey a tight 93 minutes – but it was super boring and rubbish and there was not NEARLY enough fights and Ewen McGregor’s haircut was awful.
ANYHOO, this is my 1989th post on Kotaku 😀 So I’m going to listen to Taylor Swift to celebrate.
New thread fail lol
Cause she’ll never go out of style, she’ll never go out of style.
Sid Meier’s Starships GET! – I like it. simple enough to work out. currently playing on iPad but will get it on laptop once I have one back (*sobs uncontrollably*)
Really liking it. cant stop playing it. which is dangerous at work. but am just managing to pull myself away after lunch 🙂
I’m curious about it. Did you play ace patrol.
I picked it up on sale one day out of curiosity. I was curious about how a turn based WWI dogfighting game would work.
Chuck in designed by Sid and developed by Firaxis and I was sold
I played Ace Patrol and quite enjoyed it. Is Starships anything like Ace Patrol? TBH I haven’t looked in to Starships much. If it is, consider me sold.
I wasn’t sure but doesn’t look like it. Looks more like a generic 4x strategy game with turn based 2d combat
Yes and No? I’ll think up a more verbose response to this later…
Hi friends, I’ll be working from Brisbane all of next week and so that I don’t spend 4 nights eating by myself I was thinking about having a meat one day.
If anyone wants a mid-week dinner, I’ll be happy to have some company! 🙂
This also sounds tempting.
Dear @dc,
I suggest on Tuesday that we meet up in the city, hang for a bit, go see Chappie then proceed to have dinner with @highperformance.
Sincerely
Your Sci Fi Buddy Freeze
I’ll have to think about this some. New TAYbies are terrifying. D:
Okay, I’m in!
😀
Edit: Also, no pressure to hang out either!
Make sure you wear one of these
Practice safe swooningI’m up for lunches in Cbd, dinners are harder to do.
Dayyummm I’m working in Banyo, next time I’m chilling out up there during the day I’ll ask again. If you end up getting that Tuesday free on the off chance feel free!
Dick Smith selling the RS170’s for $180 is damn tempting…
Shouldn’t you not be spending your money because of your impending trip to Japan and needing a new phone? 😛
Quiet you.
<3
“I would like my pudding now nurse. And then I think I’d like to… write… something… I don’t remember what.”
Standing in the corner, he waits. The sand slowly flows, but it nears it’s end. The old man still glows, as thousands of threads spread away from him.
SQUEAK.
I AGREE. IT IS A SHAME TO SEE HIM THIS WAY.
SQUEAK.
NO. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN…. BUT I CANNOT WAIT TO ASK HIM HOW IT ALL ENDS.
The old man looks up, through them at first… and then he sees them. For once, the smile on the hooded figure’s skull is genuine.
“I… I remember you. The anth… ant…”
ANTHROPOMORPHIC PERSONIFICATION.
“Yes, that. We knew each other?”
ONCE. AND WILL AGAIN, SIR.
He so rarely said it, and these feelings… remembering his young aprentice, and beloved daughter. The beautiful child they have.
“There… is a girl, yes?”
SHE IS SPEAKING TO THE AUDITORS, SIR. THEY ARE UNWILLING TO LISTEN.
“Well then. You know what they say, two things you cannot avoid. Taxes and…” He looks into the firey blue eyes, and becomes aware.
SQUEAK.
“Quite right. Is it time already? I have so much left to do.”
YOU HAVE GIVEN ALL YOU CAN SIR.
“No, not cancer. Alzheimers.”
I AM AWARE.
“So, where is the boy? I remember a boy.”
CARRIAGE ACCIDENT.
“Ahh. Never much trusted cars. Or horses.”
THEY GET YOU WHERE YOU WANT TO GO.
“Must I?”
SOON. BUT WE MAY SIT HERE AWHILE.
SQUEAK
DO YOU HAVE ANY BISCUITS?
“No. Shame really.”
YES.
“Is it truely turtles?”
ALL THE WAY DOWN. I HAVE SEEN THEM.
“Ahh. I would love to see it. Perhaps a small trip before?”
IT WOULD BE MY PLEASURE.
“The light is slower there… and there’s a monkey….”
ORANGUTAN. SAME PRINCIPLE.
“Yes… will they remember me?”
SQUEAK.
“What was that? I could not hear you.”
HE SAYS WE WILL, SIR.
“I never much liked the trouble people had with you. You seem like a nice fellow.”
I HAVE MY DAYS.
“Don’t we all?”
SOME LESS THAN OTHERS.
“Is it quick?”
YES. AND I BROUGHT THE SWORD. CEREMONY DICTATES IT.
“Ahh. How about a cup of tea?”
I WOULD ENJOY IT. DO YOU PLAY CHESS?
“No. how about checkers?”
And so they sat, two old friends regaling each other, though the old man could not remember all of the details, the cloaked man and his rat filled him in, when it was needed.
Puppy update:
We sent an email yesterday addressing the Notice to Remedy, stating why we thought it was not a breach, why we were given the impression of having permission and how Alice isn’t actually that big (we even bought scales to weigh her!).
Today, we received the NTR. It has lines like:
and
The real estate agent has made a few paperwork errors already, including sending us a letter saying they haven’t received our entry report three weeks after sending us a letter saying they’ve received our entry report.
We’re starting to feel like if they were half way competent, things would never have reached this point.
I think Real Estate agent by default don’t give a flying crap about renters. That said why would they? It’s more admin work and it’s only a small fraction of their income. Renters are meant to be passive income you never have to worry about; not actually work for.
Nail on the head. Renters’ rights are an inconvenience to property managers and landlords.
Clearly the monkey that operates their typewriter is very tired. :/
Does item 7 of your agreement actually say anything?
It’s the no pets clause.
Ok, so I’ll be the one to say that try and make sure this dispute doesn’t end up on your permanent tenants record…
If you’re in the clear (which by all accounts from what I hear, you should be), make sure that it isn’t put down that your argumentative tenants or anything.
You can contest the claim, but try and stay on a good (well, as good as you can be) foot with your estate agent…
@pupp3tmast3r @jocon
I’m sure you saw the recent bluepost on MMO Champ about legendary catchup schemes for alts, so don’t be scared to reroll!
I’m still to lazy though.
You stop thinking about re-rolling =P I need my tanks where they are!!!
I do however need healers XD on that note we’re probably going to run a shorter raid this weekend guys; maybe do some heroic BRF. Not keen to drop in tons of effort on imp when we’re missing one of our tanks especially given that over the next 2 weekends we’re going to have more core raiders being awol. We’ll just have to look at making progression up over Easter or something.
Edit: And that boost to alts is quite useful; wonder how much of a boost.
I keep forgetting to tell you guys that I’ve resubbed into WoW. I’m really enjoying the new expansion.
Lol welcome back =P what server you on nob?
Barthilas
Whaaa how come we dont have you in the guild? Whats your toons name? I’ll try and add/whisper you later tonight
Well i seriously only just resubbed which is probably why. =P Character’s name it Talkaz
@distantdrop @jocon Peeps if I’m not on till later tonight can you toss nob an invite into the guild?
Nob for you reference our guild’s name is Fallen Guardians
I’ll have to keep that name in mind. So used to decline invitations from randoms. =P
Link?
http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/4763-Legendary-Boost-on-Alts-March-11-Hotfixes-Blue-Posts-Blue-Tweets-WC3-Fan-Remake
Nothing ground shattering, just a blizzard tweet confirming that if your main finishes a chapter your alts will receive increased raid-dropped quest items for the legendary quest.
Ahh, handy.
So I’m thinknig of buying a new router to replace the 6 year old one we got when we originally signed up with TPG. It’s so old it hasn’t even had a firmware update since 2010 which I think contributed to our slow internet/networking issues from time to time, plus we one one with a better wi-fi signal since we’ve recently stopped getting reception more then ten feet away (though for some reason I still get a weak signal on my phone when standing outside our building, and we live on the second floor).
Any recommendations on a decent router, preferably one with at least 6 ethernet ports? I’m thinking I probably need to drop at least $200, but I’d prefer to not go much higher than that.
Too pricey and not much range…but look at it?!
I’ve been looking at that one, but I think the review summarises my feelings perfectly:
Following some links to articles it was compared to I guess I’m thinking more along the lines of the Asus RT-AC68U which was only $220 back in 2013 and seems to be available from JB for $205-ish.
So that is what I have (I think) and don’t believe that has a modem built into it. So you need a modem or router to supply it with internet. Good piece of hardware that does everything I need, but might not be what you are looking for
Pretty sure that’s what mine is, and I installed dd-wrt firmware, which is cool. Really solid bit of tech.
But yeah, that ASUS is only a router, not a modem.
Are you after just the router or the modem/router combo thing?
I assumed all routers were modem/routers these days, so… modem/router.
Most are but you might be able to find a great 4 port modem/router for a decent price and then a second 4 port router to use as a switch to get the extra ports. It can work out to be cheaper and allow for a bit more flexibility in your set up.
I don’t like the idea of a seperate router as I feel like more devices = more latency but I guess I could hook devices where that matters (like the Xboxes) into the modem and the other devices through the router.
Thanks for the suggestion.
If it’s done right, you won’t notice any extra latency. It’s still extra effort so I can totally understand not bothering.
Also gets a bit more separate when you start getting into wireless. I have a separate wireless router which in turn connects to my original router
Hey, @beeawwb! Any chance you could link to where you got your phone case? I wanna show my brother who’s got reservations about an upgrade.
https://www.twelvesouth.com/product/bookbook-for-iphone-6
A couple links in AU as well, no guarantee how they are though.
http://www.tryandbyte.com.au/products/Twelve-South-BookBook-iPhone-6-Plus-Vintage-Brown
http://www.mobilezap.com.au/51148-twelve-south-bookbook-iphone-6-plus-leather-wallet-case-black.htm
Well these are sick.
I had the “original” BookBook for iPhone 4, these are everything that’s cool about that made even better and more functional. Hands down my favourite case above all other cases.
I really like them but they’re kind of spoiled by the fact they’re iPhone only. I was thinking of getting a 6+ but using my old 5 is irritating me too much to go apple again 🙁
Thankyou for that. Almost makes me want to get one of my own.
Personally speaking the ability to undock the phone from the wallet portion has been *amazing* and is almost a worthy feature on its own. That it’s stylish too? Icing.
But… no, don’t get one. Then I’m the only person with one.
That ‘uniqueness’ was actually a factor that I thought of when considering asking.
But now that you’ve mentioned it, the asshole/contrarian in me wants one even more. 🙂
I will kick you right in the nuts.
Nah, seriously wouldn’t bother me. Back in Perth a friend absolutely loved my 4 version, got him one for his birthday. Of course it made it difficult trying to work out whose was whose when we were out. 😛Bobs on it.
That’s what they aaaaaaall say.
(Then get him off it! There are ladies and men of sound character present!)
Really? Where?
…Oh. Right.
Nevermind then.
Popcorn?
Remember when I was banging on about that kickstarter for Orion Trail (the Oregon Trail in SPACE)? Totally got backed to 108% Awww yissssss.
You’re all going to die of space dysentery.
Yes, but some of us get to die of Space Dysentery in early access. Can’t wait!
It does look good. I was a huge fan of the Organ Trail.
In the meantime, the Flame in the Flood may scratch that itch.
Sounds brutal ‘Organ Trail’
Oregon Trail with zombies. 🙂
Was a fun game. I did a small live tweet run through with a bunch of taybies once
Maybe I should do another, hmmm
ooohhhh ooohhhhh put me in the team
Imagine cleaning that up in zero G.
I really didn’t want to be doing that. I am now. eeeeewwwwwwwww
Another Kickstarter game that I backed that I probably won’t actually play when it comes out!
\o/ i’m gonna be in the local paper at some point. I guess it pays off being a long time resident of this average town 😛
Mega Game Thingy!
There’s only one non-scribe slot left for the event so sign up here if you want it.
So far four of us have signed up. I’m going to be the leader of the Azmont, @redartifice is our aristocrat and @alexpants is our high mage. Meanwhile, the traitorous @gingerchris86 is the high mage for the Anua.
This looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun, so anyone able to get to Narallen in Western Sydney on May 9 should try to take that last slot. Or be a scribe. I’m sure scribes are totally cool and definitely something everyone wants to do. The reason nobody else has taken a scribe spot must be because they didn’t want to look greedy and take the best role for themselves.
Plus there’s a bunch of scribe slots.
Also, the Anua always smell like a fishmonger’s slop tray.
Plus, you know…
I believe we covered this ground last night 😛
We tend to keep a horse between us and the ground.
If you know what I mean.
I’m tempted to bring props for the sledging…. I’ve got a couple of months to set it up :p
Wait till we see the rulebook.
Also, there are crest for each of the houses on the fb page
Yeah, I’m waiting to see exactly what we’re meant to be doing before getting gimmicky. Should find out about a fortnight before the event.
I thought this was a joke: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_SLDI9U0AAlIJo.jpg
Then my brother sent me a screenshot of something on his phone, which happened to show his unread mail icon.
9,267.
@sernobulus has like that many unread emails on his phone, I was all like “wtf dude?” and he was all “blame Apple” or something like that. Which seemed reasonable.
Inbox zero feels so damned good.
Freya does not understand this. I was tempted to leave her when I saw her inbox. We powered through despite what some would consider irreconcilable differences.
I swear I’m going to find out what his PIN is and on our next roadtrip when I’m pretending to select the tunes, I’m going to fix this.
God just seeing that red icon on my mailbox drives me insane >.< My phone needs to be perfect; no notifications anywhere =@
Inbox (3,552)
@trjn worth it
>:|
WHERE DO YOU LIVE I WILL FIND YOUR PHONE AND I WILL CORRECT THIS GRIEV–I… ‘respect’ your life choices, even if I do not understand them.
(Unrelated – is it possible to injure yourself or damage your teeth from clenching them too tight?)
I’m not that bad, my other email account is much better. Only 438 unread in that one
I think I had over 12k at one point as @virus__ said. I did eventually fix it up. Back up to about 800ish again
That stupid mail client 😛 haha
Is it really worth being a monster?
You crazy, man! YOU CRAZY!
Inbox Zero for life.
I have a few e-mails left as unread because I have to get back to them at some point. Only like 1-3 per inbox.
Most of them are a couple of years old by now.
Sounds like my wife’s phone.
Dammit Freeze stop confusing me. I was trying to workout what joke this was the punchline for
Keep going, you’re almost there.
I clean up my mailbox about once a month. My personal is at 57 and my work is at 371. I think I’m doing well this month
I can’t believe it’s over 9000.
Vegeta.jpg
4,616 on Hotmail at the moment. It would probably be like 10,000 or so but a few years ago something happened and it made all my emails (at the time) read :'(
Inbox unread > 0 means I haven’t read my mail in the last couple of hours.
I have mail rules and stuff to filter things into boxes and make sure I can maintain a state of inbox zero.
People with thousands unread are monsters.
One of my colleagues had over 13000 unread emails as of yesterday. I made her mark all as read.
Just went to the kitchen to grab my left-overs for late-lunch. Saw a coworker poking at the sandwich-press cooker thing… at what looked to be a couple thin layers of aluminium foil.
I watched as she removed then unfolded the alfoil to unveil a layer of toasted cheese. I arched an eyebrow and she said, “I’m off bread, but I love cheese toasties. So I’m having just the cheese, toasted! It’s great!”
I walked back to my desk mouthing, “Ohhhkaaaaay…” skeptically, then tipped my remaining corn-chip fragments into my remaining salsa, then mixed in the guac for my chip/salsa/guac mash, to be eaten with a spoon. Unlike weird cheese-eater, I am a culinary genius.
(Edit: Actually, the cheese thing sounds pretty great.)
Taco in a bowl! Best way to use up the leftovers from tacos the next day. It’s usually mostly just the meat that’s left over, so once that’s warmed up it gets some salsa and cheese, and whatever paltry amounts of any other fillings are left, along with that one single remaining taco shell, which gets crushed up and sprinkled in.
If you’d swiped some of her cheese, then it would have been genius. 😀
Is… is that a euphemism? Because I’m not sure if I know how to do that one…
Never leave me alone with a sandwich press toaster, a loaf of bread and a lot of cheese.
Only cause you would come back to no bread and no cheese.
Today was a day of many things.
Firstly we got our project back on track assuming that UTAS are happy (they should be now) after a lot of negotiating. We got given a solid number regarding the budget for it which is… a lot higher than I thought it would be and not an amount of money I wanna be responsible for spending. We do in fact have lawyers now which I assumed we’d have from the beginning but was never sure, so that’ll be fun I’m sure, aaaaaand I found out through the girl in my group that’s also working with my brother on another project that he’s gay. I kinda assumed it for a while but was never really sure, but apparently he’s really open about it which is news to me! Oh well, good for him 😛
I have to say I had no idea this project thing would get so involved. I don’t think groups are meant to have lawyers and money to throw around…
I was NOT the first person to find out about my brother coming out.
He was a little nervous about it, so he just sort of casually dropped into conversation some things about hanging out with his boyfriend, and when I was like, “Wait… boyfriend?” he was all, “Oh, didn’t you know?”
No. No I did not.
But anyway, I thought you were at uni, what’s all this about budgets and lawyers for your group project?
Yup this is our uni project for a business, and that’s why UTAS weren’t too happy. Some of it isn’t exactly the most ethical stuff you’ve ever seen so we need lawyers to go over it and okay things, and they need lawyers to go over what we’ve proposed, and we need to make sure that we don’t do anything to get us in trouble (doubtful) and yeah we have a lot of money to hire other people or buy things and that.
It’s not something that’s been done before as far as we can tell and I can’t say much but I’m me and I’m not gonna do things that don’t put up a fight 😛
As far as my brother is concerned though I kinda suspected it since when I saw him at the start of the year, and the girl that told me doesn’t want me telling him she told me (she thought I knew) so I guess I’ll pretend not to know 😛
Uni for the real world… I think I approve, it sounds fascinating.
It’s great. I actually feel challenged for once. I could probably count the times I’ve felt challenged over the past 15 years at school on two hands. They said they weren’t expecting our concept documents to be so professional and thorough too which is nice. The time we put into all of it wasn’t for nothing at least.
Bloody hell, Disney announces Frozen 2 and it’s stock price jumps by 5%.
Interesting if it turns out to be a REAL sequel that actually uses the original cast and doesn’t go straight to video… I don’t think they’ve ever done that before.
John Lasseter killed that practise after the Disney/Pixar merger and most of the studios responsible don’t exist anymore.
Ohhh, right. All those pixar movies were technically Disney movies after all…
Technically.
Disney owned the property, Pixar had creative control. Disney tried to make Toy Story 2 as a direct to video piece of shit until Pixar demanded they be able to make it their way.
The Rescuers Down Under would like a word with you.
They also announced that they’re running Star Wars like the Marvel movies.
They might as well have said they were going to start printing money.
Company is currently valued at 25% more than this time last year so they are experiencing some growth…
That number becomes even scarier when you realise just how big the mouse is.
I just checked their stock profile. 1,699,563,000 shares outstanding at a close of market price of $107.17 means at this moment the company is worth $182,142,166,710.
Anyone have a spare $250 billion lying around so we can force a takeover of Disney?
If I did, I’d probably spend a fair amount of it on avoiding that kind of responsibility. 😛
We could buy 100 Disneylands for that amount of money.
Repurpose them into RPGLands?
@freezespreston We could but that might send the wrong message to the children. Also the parents might not appreciate children wandering around and whacking things for EXP and loot.
The stock market is full of sentiment following idiots; which means there’s always money to be made off the sentiment following idiots =P
Well the bigger portion of that is super fund accounts, run by junior graduates, which follow the digital herd. Can be a scary, scary thing.
I didn’t realize Americans had super >.
Bah, I call it super but whatever they use. 103k or something isn’t it?
Basically large sums of money in managed funds. And those managed funds in the hands of inexperienced people. A single advisor working for a big number of faceless people.
You basically described every single company in the financial industry =P
401K
Which Ms Archer siphoned.
I was switching between 301 and 103 but neither looked right.
5pm!
Time to get drunk!
\o/
No, it’s 4:20 here in QLD. Time to. … oh.
I swear it was 4:20 when I hit post.
Your reactions were slowed.
And my hands were huuuuuge.
They call them fingers but I’ve never seen them fing.
If you insist \o/
Bloody hell… One of the neighbours has a rabbit which was just in our yard.. This will go down well if our dog spots it, I am sure. I am also guessing it is the neighbours who have had multiple rabbits in the past, of which were either killed by their kids or let roam so they got into surrounding neighbours yards and killed by their dog/s.
Playing Elite for the first time since January.
Been too long, I totally can’t remember the lay of the land in this area, what systems would provide me with what items, which ones had incorrect trade data on the galaxy map, etc. Doesn’t help that I had pretty much only just moved here then either, I didn’t know it anywhere near as well as I did Suyarang.
So had a super-stressy heap-big-importante critical meeting today, in which I was mostly an observer. Observing a fucking plane crash in slow motion, spending 90% of the time desperately looking for a politically-correct opportunity to help pull it out of its fucking nosedive.
POLITICS.
I swear… I HATE the whole ‘tread lightly’ atmosphere that suffuses any ultra-important interactions. It really ties your hands on the truth-telling that makes things happen the way they should. At any rate, was able to successfully avert complete disaster with some strategically-directed ‘casual’ observations at the last minute, which earned some goodwill and back-slaps after. And probably made enemies. Yay.
I figured I’d wind down with TAY-postin’, drinkin’ and workin’ late to catch-up on low-stress ACTUAL grunt-work that I missed. This plan was going well until I ran into a wall of stupidity. Including a research scientist and a doctor… how does that work?
Shrug. I’m out. Time to go home and video-game. Oh, and pick up my fitbit so I can track the impact of emails on my health.
Just keep telling yourself: 5 days.
*fistbump* Onsen!
Edit: Maybe too weird there…
It’s OK. I know what you’re looking forward to. 🙂
You’re going to those Japaneese bathhouse things right? Maybe my handwritten freeze & transient fanfic will become reality!
The documents received specify no clothes of any kind are allowed and they’re group open baths.
So Freeze/Transient/Neg/Nova/Jo fanfic.
It’s my ultimate fanfic.
If I could sit in an onsen every day, I would. The best part is the moment when the heat reaches your brain and *click* it just turns off. Bliss.
And then you and your friends start running between the boilingest hottest pool and the iciest coldest pool, and climbing up to the tiered one and slipping over on entry splashing the poor guy already in there, and generally living up to the “baka gaijin” name.
And then come out of it feeling kind of exhausted and like you should have done it at the end of the day instead of before a bunch of other stuff.
Anyone else wanna High Rank hunt with @powalen and I 2nite?
@beavwa @princesspipster @gutsoup @piat
Sure what rank you talking though? I’m HR 52 & G1
(and @piat)
Pow and I are HR6. I haven’t done any quests in HR6 yet but I’m happy to do the keys and progress further if you guys are!
I think I’m near the end of whatever I’ve unlocked in singleplayer (killed Fatalis last night) so just looking to go further from now on.
Do I have you on 3DS gutsoup?
Oh and do y’all have Steam? We usually use that to chat since there’s no in-game communication (outside of the gathering hall) 🙁
I have Steam, who should I add
Well I don’t know Pow’s Steam ID but I’m just “Greenius” with the same picture so I’d probably be easier to add.
sent
Yeah I’ll be around from about 8, I’m G2 but I can downgrade my gear a bit if you wanna keep the challenge up
I got the spidery charge blade last night, after the spider huntathon. It’s pretty cool. Makes lightsabre vwing sounds.
Real hunters use axes that transform into swords not the other way around! >:|
But cool dudes do what they want, not what the rest of everyone is doing 😎
Also it’s annoying that it seems like I’d be able to build high-rank spider armour before I am even able to build low-rank pumpkin armour. BECAUSE I STILL CAN’T GET THE GOD DAMN NOVACRYSTALS.
Room keeps changing because connection problems :/
who do i join, are you locking the room with a key? Also I’ve added you’re friend code but it doesn’t look like you’ve accepted/added me or whatever.
Piat made a room since I kept disconnecting. Pass: 1111 (randoms kept joining)
45-0843-4852-8982
Thanks for hunting, guys!
Okay then.. My comments are now being moderated on Gizmodo. I must’ve upset someone to the point where they reported one of my comments I guess..
Yeah, me too, since yesterday I think. None of them are missing or down voted into oblivion though, so I can’t imagine what it was.
I reckon it’s one of the Apple articles, i’ve had issues in them before where i’ve either taken a neutral opinion or a positive one and greatly upset people to the point they have reported me o.O
They’re a touchy bunch over on Giz! Have to be careful what you say over there or you’ll end up sparking a riot!
Yeah especially if it isn’t anti-apple, they get really upset then 😛
Wooow, some of the people I know and my mates know are inconsiderate idiots. So Mick Thomson of guitarist of Slipknot was stabbed in the back of the head with a knife by his brother yesterday in an alleged intoxicated argument.
He was lucky to suffer non life threatening wounds, and I see my mates & their mates who’re fans exclaiming how “metal” that is. What the fuck? Is this the type of fan that’s around these days that think violence is “cool” last I checked violence ain’t cool, or fun to be on the receiving end of at all..
I guess it just sits closer to me since i’ve had a few mates stabbed when defending themselves, and know it’s no laughing matter.
Mind you one of these mates is one who actually met Mick only a few weeks back when the band was here in Australia for Soundwave and wouldn’t stop bragging about, show a little respect to the man you supposedly admire. Ugh, people.
I blame “nu-metal” and “metalcore”. 😛
Yeah, i’d blame Limp Bizkit, Korn & Linkin Park too.
Maybe they were talking about the composition of the knife.
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World – Twenty-Seventh Session Recap (4th March 2015) starring:
– Elandar Kintan aka @popdart5 the foolish Nano who controls gravity.
– Scrappa aka @tech_knight the mechanical Jack who talks to machines, and
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales.
And unfortunately absent:
– Blaghs aka @blaghman the tough Glaive who masters weaponry.
The group sat down for a moment and rested after their tense encounter with the mysterious doppelganger creatures. Scrappa carefully stowed the chemicals that he had managed to extract from the machine while Elandar and Blaghs plopped down after an especially tiring day. The party glanced around the now empty room and noticed that there was no way out of this chamber aside from the passage that they had come through. Scrappa stood up and began searching around the room and came across a large, cylindrical tube that had been built into the wall. Beside this mysterious tube, he saw a control panel with two buttons: one yellow and one red.
Read more at http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
Awesome. The famous skateboarding cat is back with a new video, and some of video was shot in the skate park near my place \o/
Didga FTW 🙂
Mum: “… anyway, I liked Kale before it got all popular. It’s not as good as *some other plant* anyway.”
Me: “You know, with a comment like that you sound like some sort of… hipster hipster.”
Mum: “I can’t be a hipster, I don’t have a beard. And there’s no way I’d ride a fixed gear bike up this hill.”
Mrs Blaghs is awesome
I can’t be the only one who imagines @blaghman acting out these scenes wearing a really bad wig and using his “impersonation” voice while doing his mothers parts can I?
Your mum is so hipster she doesn’t ride fixies.
I’M DRUNK TAYING! Quick, @liondrive, what do I do?
Cease typing correctly immediately!
Dance against someone and try to TAY at the same time! 😀
Cold, cold, go away.
Noooooo cold come and stay, cold is much better than hot
TAAAAAAAAY
I went to Cafe de Vilis and had a Pie Floater and got totally racially oppressed.
As a white South Australian, I can’t claim much as unique ethnic food. Pie Floaters are one of those things.
To my former friend matthew: You are fucking wrong, a Pie Floater is an institution and by besmirching it you besmirch all my ancestors struggled for.
#drunkTay
Well yeah but like… couldn’t it at least be a good institution?
I have never had a pie floater and am not even sure what it is 😛
Also the name has always made me giggle because it sounds gross.
I agree with Red, the Pie Floater is a South Australian icon, and part of our culture, but although I was born and lived most of my life there, I’ve never had one. Just the thought of a pie floating in pea soup makes me not want to try one. I mean, doesn’t it make the pastry all soggy and yuck?
Also, they look like something you’ve thrown up after a night of heavy drinking rather than something you would eat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_floater
Also also, Red, you sir are a disgrace, drunk TAYing and I did not see even one misspelled word. You mustn’t have been drunk enough.
I gotta say, I’m getting real sick of this “Being awake at 4:30am” thing…
I’ve just been waking up at that time for the last couple of days, and it’s really annoying the hell out of me… 🙁
I know your pain. I’ve been getting up at 5:30 for a bit (and before that some random time between 4am and 6:30am). Last night, I went to bed around 9pm because it’s almost the same as getting to sleep in.
Last week I was doing 7-3 shift at work, so I was getting up earlier than usual, but this week I’ve been on 10-6. Of course, today I woke up at like 5am and couldn’t get back to sleep!
Ooh the BBC did not think the Clarkson suspension through very well. Apparently networks which air Top Gear around the world might be chasing the BBC for lost revenue for their decision to not release/air the last 3 episodes of the current series.
They should fire him.
and what, risk destroying brand Top Gear, of which they receive hundreds of millions of pounds from? He’s been apart of the show for 27 years, a lot of people watch Top Gear for the chemistry between the 3 presenters, remove one of them and the show will flop. The UK version is watched by 350+ million people in 170+ countries every week, it has 6 spin offs around the world which generate something stupid like 20 million pounds a year for the BBC
If the BBC is stupid enough to fire Clarkson and essentially kill Top Gear, then they’ll regret it when they realise they’ve shot their golden goose which is Top Gear.
But hey, you’re entitled to an opinion, like i’m entitled to disagree with it 😉
If Clarkson assaulted a producer, IDGAF how much the show makes, they should fire him. You don’t get a free pass just because your show is popular.
Yes, Top Gear makes a shedload of cash, but one man isn’t bigger than a network.
We don’t even know the true story, neither Clarkson or the producer in question have explained what actually happened, just these apparent eye witnesses, a few of which don’t even have the same sounding story. One story I heard from an eye witness said all 3 presenters were, yet James May has already said he has no real idea what happened because he was not present.
I have a hard time believing what’s being said in the media at the moment over any of it. Because well it’s the god damn media, and Jeremy being the hot headed moron he can be makes for an easy target when he does something wrong, even if he apologises and admits he was wrong he is still crucified by them.
It’s true, we don’t know. Given the money involved, I’m skeptical anyone’s actually ever going to know.
Anyone else who assaulted a coworker would be fired pretty much on the spot, but because he’s an earner, there’ll be a lot of money thrown around to make it go away.
He’s done all manner of offensive bullshit in the past without so much as a rap on the knuckles, no-one cares what he says that might be trouble, it makes sense that it would take actual physical violence to get him suspended.
If that IS what happened then yeah, he should probably be fired. The desire of millions to watch some guy being a smarmy asshole shouldn’t really override ethics. You know… One rule for the poor, one for the wealthy, all that.
Yeah, i’ve now seen as of this morning about 4 different variations on what happened from a slap to a full on punch to the mouth where teeth were knocked out along with it bringing a river of blood. I’ve also seen claims he apologised to the producer and the BBC for what happened, others i’ve seen he hasn’t done anything to rectify what happened. It’s all media bullshit, and yeah you’re right we probably will never know the truth. Unless we see filmed footage of it I guess.
He’s a complete fuckwit, I know that. In fact I despised Jeremy Clarkson for years and really could not tolerate the early series’ of the new look Top Gear. Even though he is all that, he still happens to be one of the more popular and amusing entertainers on a show like that, it’s also a shame he acts the way he does at times given he is apparently quite a nice guy and rather intelligent according to friends who have met him.
Also one thing about him getting in bother like has done famously every few years for something he said or did on Top Gear that annoys me is how the hell is getting into so much trouble because of what he has done on screen makes me questions question the motives of the shows producers, executives, lawyers etc and how they some how thought his actions & words were acceptable to air on a publicly funded broadcaster like the BBC. Again maybe they did that so it keeps appealing to their fan base & continue the revenue coming in. If so then they’re just as much to blame for Jeremy’s behaviour as Jeremy is.
But saying that, there would appear to be a strong rumour going around that Sky (Rupert Murdoch’s pay-tv channel thingo) is looking to poach Jeremy for themselves for a motoring show, of which he’ll apparently take Hammond & May with him. Which wouldn’t be a bad thing, because I was thinking the other night when watching Top Gear they’re relying too heavily on stupid shenanigans now instead of balancing it out with car reviews and other interesting motoring news like it was not too long ago.
I know what he allegedly did was wrong on so many levels, but i’m sick of seeing the media jump on the bash wagon and either string it out for weeks on end or amp it up to make it sound like something 100 times worse than it ever was :/
Last day of work before six weeks of holidays.
Somewhat hype.
@bish @saturday @anyone-else-not-in-aus
If i sent you guys $20 (or equivalent in games) would you buy and gift me a copy of Hotline Miami 2?
Apparently gifts are now playlocked.
Which means since it’s banned in Australia, apparently even though it may appear in your Steam list, you could only ever play it whilst in Canada.
Look, I’m not your real dad so I’m not going to tell you how to live your life, but I would highly recommend against moving to Canada just to play one game.
Or moving to Canada full stop.
Does Canada still get blamed in song for everything?
I love Nvidia hardware, I’ve always been a fan but I have to say that their attitude towards software cleanup is a fucking nightmare.
I’m having trouble rendering this massive XCOM video that turned out to be 2 hours long, 3 times in a row it’s ended up in a 1kb file after 3 hours worth of rendering and I had a feeling it might have been because of the “low drive space on Sathanas (C)” warnings that kept popping up every 30s while it was working. It seems that magix movie edit pro doesn’t like using anything other than the C drive for it’s temporary storage which is a bit of a bugger when combined with a 12GB estimated file size and a 60GB boot SSD.
“What the hell does this have to do with Nvidia??” you’re asking… well, I had a look to see what was taking up all of my SSD space, it looks like a lot of it was drivers, redundant drivers, redundant Nvidia drivers. They don’t delete anything. Ever. They used to store a copy of their drivers in C:\nvidia which was a nice easy spot to delete them from but they stopped doing that when they changed to this new GeForce experience bollocks. They didn’t stop storing them in a redundant way like anyone sensible would, oh no, now they store them in “Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Installer2” where I’d accumulated about 5GB worth of the bloody things without it bothering to mention it or anyone in charge of the design thinking that PERHAPS I might not want to roll back to a driver from 12 months ago if I haven’t by now. Radical idea Nvidia: keep 3 versions, the current one, the one it just replaced and the one before that to give you somewhere to roll back to in an emergency. Saves drive space and keeps a realistic fallback without turning every fucking PC of you customers into a driver repository.
Which segues me neatly to my next rant! The windows driver repository! Microsoft did what seemed like a fairly sensible move and made Windows keep a backup copy of all the drivers you install so you’ve got a fallback in case of a driver malfunction but the problem is that they made the exact same mistake as Nvidia. They just store everything on the assumption that storage is infinite without any regard to the actual real world usage of the systems. During my investigation of my low drive space, WinDirStat (which is, incidentally, an amazing little program for anyone who needs to find out what’s eating their drivespace) reported that the windows driver store was consuming a whopping 7.5GB of space so I started looking for some information to see if there was a safe way to clean it out. It’s not uncommon for Windows to install stuff like archaic printer drivers just in case you feel the need to (and can find a way to) plug in that parallel port dot matrix ribbon printer you have sitting in a box in the shed, failing the ability to delete stuff I was thinking I was just going to compress the ever living shit out of the directory, since it’s only a long term storage and hardly needs to have rapid access, compression wouldn’t make it perform any worse. Then I had an epiphany, what problem had I just been dealing with? Oh yeah, driver bloatware… I selected every directory starting with NV and got the total file size: TADA… 6.5GB… Say hello to my delete key you drive wasting bastard, join your friends in bit-hell and I hope you see a 2…
Fucking hell I hate sloppy software engineers…
I just went to have a look at mine and I hate how in Explorer now there’s no “parent directory” type button any more. Normally it’s just like “oh hey you can click the one in the URL bar thingie”, except when you go there through a search it’s not there. The only “parent” is the search you just came from. And of course despite having Expand To Current Folder enabled in the tree on the left, no such thing has happened so you can’t even click it there either and now I’m all ragey because THIS IS STUPID.
I miss win98. Things were better there.
Bloody kids on the lawn! Map a programmable mouse button to run CD\ and see if that works. Or just a shortcut to the computer root
Also, to quote the late great Terry Pratchett, this driver store thing is a distinct embuggerance. Permission hell all over the place, even when I have full permissions and am the owner I STILL can’t delete stuff, I THINK it might be because the system has to approve it since it’s still got permissions but if I’m wrong and I remove it’s permissions, I might end up with 6.5GB of files no one can delete…
Oh and the video I rendered last night didn’t work because “fuck you that’s why” so I have to rebuild the project from scratch because of COURSE I deleted the backups as part of this desperate drivespace reclamation process…
Embuggerance aplenty…
I miss the days of old too, when people were too scared to use computers because they had to type stuff. Only people who understood computers used them, and things were oh so much better! Also a hell of a lot less stupid questions from parents and such. It used to be, if they did manage to get in to the computer, they would ask something, and after explaining how to do it, or fix it, they would get up and walk away grumbling “This is all too much for me”
Anyone else watching the F1 qualifying?
Been busy doing shopping and shit the last few hours, completely forgot about it, I’ll have to chuck it on the tele in a minute.
I was there looking at stuff
(u jelly @benj ?)
Very jelly
Did you think Sebastian Vettel looked a lot more more in control of his car this year than last? Could you feel Daniel Ricciardo’s disappointment with his car? I bet it was good to see it was business as usual for Mercedes. I reckon Jensen Button’s just about at the end of his F1 career now, don’t you? I bet it was pretty disappointing for him.
I for one am looking forward to the race tomorrow 😛
Ricci’s car stopped in front of us during the practice lap or something… I think…
Holy crap those Imperial Clippers are tough nuts to crack! Dunno if it’s because they’re more nimble than the Federal Dropship or if it’s because there’s been a change to the AI since I last did a federal ascension mission, but (partly in thanks to the security ships showing up on the fringe of my radar, and promptly falling out of range thus being of no help at all) it seemed just as hard if not harder than the elite anacondas I was taking down previously.
Weird, I’ve just got a whole pile of promotion missions one after the other. Flying up the ranks!
Haha, jumped from Serf to Lord within a couple of hours.
I’m considering buying an international game from ebay. It’s DJ Max Technika Tune.
I freaking love DJ Technika the arcade game and plus having another vita game is always a plus. Not sure if I should buy it though. I’m not sure if I can purchase it anywhere aside from ebay.
Anyone have any ideas?
Game
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/DJ-Max-Technika-Tune-PS-VITA-NEW-FREE-SHIPPING-/321667127267?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ae4dad7e3
Amazon also have it, same price as eBay.
http://www.amazon.com/DJMAX-Technika-America-Sony-PS-Vita/dp/B00AMQMMEO
They won’t deliver here
Use an in-between mail service like Price USA or similar?
I bought it from Ebay. I’ve never bought anything from Amazon due to them not really delivering here
Ah fair enough. I’ve only bought from the UK one, since the US one just wants stupid amounts for shipping :/
Same issue there usually. For me at least
Go for it.
I’m gonna buy the crap out of it next week.
I will ask my mum =P I would normally put that money towards the credit card. hm…I’ll dig into my savings and that way the credit card won’t suffer.
I bought it.
Woo, I met Pez!
Double woo, night rider pulled in right as I got to the station!
As in anon-pessimist, or the rapper?
I do not know how to comprehend this sentence.
You met Pez.. TAY Pez, or this Pez?
TAY Pez. I dunno who that other guy is 😛
haha fair enough. TAY Pez is pretty awesome! I met him at @dkzeitgeist’s party! We went on an adventure to the bottleshop and much laughter was had!
Glad to hear he’s still alive! Always good news
@pupp3tmast3r @jocon
http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/4771-Blackrock-Foundry-Crafted-and-Apexis-Gear-Item-Level-Increase
If you needed an excuse to push H BRF progression we definately have it now =/ after this hits live we prob need to consider ditching H HM or at the very least only do IMP/BRACK progression.
Not sure why we have been doing HM at all tbh.
Aye boggle mentioned that yesterday, the only reason we’ve been in HM is for the progression, you can’ deny at the very least imp is a fun fight and it’d be nice to have him under our belt.
@jocon
Soo does anyone have a spare 45 million dollars, so I can buy the Scarface mansion?
Pretty sure it was up for sale a while ago, But yeah, if I had that sort of dough I’d buy it in a second.
Yeah, pretty sure it was, not too long ago, maybe 18 months? I like the part how it’s actually in California not Miami. Rockstar should buy it and make a it into a Vice City attraction haha.
Monster Hunter tonight with @powalen and I? (8:30pmish)
@piat @gutsoup whoever elseeee
I’m also happy to play during the day too, just lemme know!
Yeah should be up for it, I’ve been having a terrible run online with randoms lately yesterday I played about 20 missions and we failed about 18, 99% was other people dying, I died like once, so much time wasted. At least I finally got my Gold Rath set.
For the night sesh or day sesh?
Add me on Steam if you can! (I’m “Greenius” on there with the same picture). If it’s not too annoying, we use that to type to each other while we play. It’s handy in case there are disconnects or something so we can communicate outside of the game.
But I know for some people they prefer to play when not near a computer/Steam so they can’t really do it 🙁
I’m up for it, you can see me in all my G3 glory lol
Piat and I are on now!
61-1818-8685-1814
I don’t understand LinkedIn 😛
Should I add you TAYbies? I need connections, man.
Just went nuts and added everyone to everything (on Facebook at least)
can add me if you want. New connections will link you with other people, and you’d be surprised at who ends up looking at you. Could come in handy in future. A lot of employers search applicants to positions too.
I can’t find you :P. Unless I need the umlaut over the Os? 😀
EDIT: oops nevermind! 😀
🙂 All done!
What is LinkedIn?
Social Network for work stuff!
Eww social work stuff.
Two things that should never be put together.
I don’t know what the hell the Facebook iOS app is thinking, but lately (as in probably 6 months ago) it decided I did not need to know about notifications on my; timeline, photos, statuses etc.. But it would happily inform me that someone commented on a friends status or photo or whatever that I happened to comment on like a year ago. There is the rare occasion it will give me notifications, but usually it won’t. I’ve no idea what its issue is…
Every so often I get notifications about random people on my friends list putting up a post or a pic.
Stupid Facebook app
I’ve been getting that with Twitter, like person x & person y you follow favourited person z who you follows tweet, or person x & person y you follow are both talking about this event, it’s really weird :/
I’ve also gotten the Facebook one before when friends have added a life event, it’s weird. Like seriously Facebook, I don’t care. I would prefer you show me all my friends posts instead of those you think I interact with most >_>
Bah I get them for people on my friends list I don’t interact with at all.
They are only there cause I think I went to high school with them >.
Haha, yeah I hear that. I just cleaned out my friends list the other night, don’t recognise/remember them obviously don’t need them on my facebook 😛
Well that’s something I never thought i’d see, a dog climbing a ladder.
And here I was thinking if you get chased by a dog you climb a ladder.
Well that has gone out the window.
Damn dogs, becoming more like us every day…
Next they will be climbing trees and building tree houses.
Well one person in the comments of that gif said their dog used to climb the ladder to their tree house haha.
Well this has to be an awful roller coaster experience for those poor people :/
WE ARE ___________!
NO ONE CAN TELL US WE’RE _____________!
_____________ OUR _______________ FOR SO LOOOOOONG!
__________ OF US ____________!
____________ IS A _____________!
Butts?
Fully expected this as a response.
Originality is definitely a TAY strong point.
Don’t want to let the team down. There’s a reputation on the line here.
strong
wrong
hearts
???
Love
It was meant to be a fill in your own, but whatever 😛
Oh, um.
We are Tay,
No one can tell us we’re lame
Searching our internet for so looooong!
All of us trolling?
Kotaku’s a battlefield
Not bad, Scree.
Not bad at all! 😛
WE ARE HUNGRY!
NO ONE CAN TELL US WE’RE FULL!
STUFFING OUR MOUTHS FOR SO LOOOOOONG!
ALL OF US EATING!
DESSERT IS A PAVLOVA!
I don’t know what is happening.
I was bored and thought it’d be fun 😛
Never buying a German cement mixer again. It destroyed the drive belt, and of course it’s an extremely obscure size to obtain here in Australia. I finally managed to find the size it takes from a washing machine parts seller in the UK..