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Good morning TAY!
Won 5-2 in Soccer yesterday, but am paying for it today limpin’ round like I’ve been shot.
Managed to finish Battlefield Hardline and Dying Lights single player modes last week, it feels good taking some baby steps towards clearing the backlog.
Edit: Page 1 TAYget, this is going to be a good week ^-^
Congrats! And I know how you feel, I went for a couple of runs on the weekend and added some lunges to the mix. Ouch
Lunges suck, don’t they?
I gave football a miss last week, this week we have a bye so I have 2 weeks until our next match and lots of hills around my house just begging me to stay inside playing games and watching Netflix instead of running up them to get some form of fitness together…I wish I was a teenager again and could run around for a couple of hours without breaking a sweat, stupid 30s
That’s rough, if there’s one thing that’ll get your fitness up in two weeks are hill sprints. What position are you playing at your club?
I’m only playing 5-a-side at the moment. I did play ‘proper’ football a couple of years ago and could get through a match easier than 5-a-side match that’s half the length hahaha
I literally play anywhere though. I’m a pretty decent keeper (can’t take a goalkick for toffee on a full sized pitch though), usually go in defence although I love playing as a defensive midfielder as I can read a game pretty well. In my 5-a-side team though I’ve been playing up front as I’m the only one who’s got a decent shot 😀
MORNING ALL!
I was at the Aurealis Awards ceremony on Saturday night. I spent the pre-event cocktail time in the corner with Mrs Shane being as anti-social as possible. I didn’t end up winning, which is disappointing, but hey, there’s always next year. And it’s still a big deal to have been nominated two years running! And at least I looked pretty dapper, thanks to @liondrive’s timeless fashion advice from last year.
Undad Season Two launches TOMORROW. That kind of crept up. Stay tuned and get those wallets ready. Have been posting some awesome art samples the last couple of days. It’s going to be HUGE.
On Thursday I fly out to the Gold Coast for Supanova!
Next week: nervous breakdown. Pencilled in, pending a clear schedule.
Loving the artwork samples. Looking forward to throwing my wallet at the screen tomorrow. 😛
Thanks! Oh, by the way, I’ve used some of your Twitter Undad titles from the other day, and EvilMonkey’s too, in the campaign video. Let me know if you want public credit for them, and I’ll make it happen.
The credit for puns is that they’re puns.
Looking forward to receiving my copies of Undad next month. Will definitely be throwing some money your way for Season 2.
Can’t wait for Undad: The Musical 😛
Good luck at Supanova man.
Thanks! Oh, by the way, I’ve used some of your Twitter Undad titles from the other day, and B-ob’s too, in the campaign video. Let me know if you want public credit for them, and I’ll make it happen.
Really? I feel kind of honoured, I was just blurting out stupid shit that came into my head.
Yeah, you can put my name to it if you want.
You’re alright man.
As handsome this year as you were last 😉
Shame you didn’t win, but nominations are great for exposure, and being nominated is still a great honour!
Good work, Shane! 🙂
Also, you missed a chance for a pun!
You should have said:
My god, I’m becoming a monster…
Morning TAY. How did your weekends go?
I think I’m near the end of Bloodborne now. It has felt great to just play one game for a while and really get into it.
Hey, EDC! 🙂
My weekend was pretty good.
I still really need to pick up Bloodborne! :O
Everybody finishing it, and I don’t even own it yet! :O
It’s pretty great. If you’ve played a Souls game you know what you’re getting in for, except the regain system changes combat to be pretty different. I went back to Dark Souls the other day and died promptly after forgetting you don’t regain health Woops!
Ah man, I don’t want to go back to school.
You do as you’re told 😛
Woke up, and the first thing I saw on my phone was news; “Hillary Rodham Clinton running for President”. Excellent way to start the day 😀 😀 😀
Also, had a pretty awesome weekend and now I’m all sleepy but satisfied.
It’s definitely a nice progression.
I remember the election one before Obama when it was old white redneck vs old white redneck. Only one possible outcome.
Except for that one time with party-lovin’ Al Gore.
Shame he didn’t get in.
I gotta admit, I was thinking of Hilary in policy and popularity terms and wondering how hard the ‘unsecured cell phone’ stuff was going to impact the campaign or who she could be running against, or with… Until you brought that up, and now I’m like, “Oh, right. Female president!” So, y’know. Points there.
You could have a monkey running for the democrats and that would still be a better option than anyone the republicans could put up. That’s not to say Hilary isn’t a decent candidate; rather more to illustrate the idiocy that is the republican party.
and I’m sure the mansplaining has already begun.
Sooooooo, how about that Game of Thrones then…good job to cut down on the piracy by releasing 4 episodes to the press. I’m not sure why in this day and age, and especially on Season 5 of one of the most popular TV shows around (if not the most popular), they felt the need to send preview copies out.
Weekend, the missus went back into hospital with really bad cramps on her broken ankle. The diagnosis, she wasn’t moving her leg about enough after telling her to stay off her leg as much as possible. She’s now in a moonboot and then was told to move around more on a walking frame but the doctor that discharged her said it’s her fault and she’s “non-compliant” with a plaster cast because she was getting up off the toilet and putting a small amount of weight on her foot. My diagnosis, public hospital doctors don’t talk to each other, will tell you completely different things from one to the next and the trainee doctors are really lacking in people skills and any sense of empathy
Says it all, really.
Re: Medstuff. I’ve noticed some folks in the industry are dismissive of Occupational Therapists, but they really should come more highly recommended by doctors for providing actual roadmaps for recovery in cases that impact mobility.
Oh for sure, we’ve noticed that the doctors have been focused pretty much on the bone healing but it’s been the physio at the hospital (plus she’s pretty well aware of it’s not just a case of the bone healing and bam you’re back at 100% again) who’s said anything about post cast/moonboot treatment. Yes I guess that’s why they have a physio at hospitals so doctors don’t need to focus so much on that, but it seems like they’re just not aware of it and a patient’s needs, like simple things as getting off the toilet with a broken foot. Her GP suggested a while ago to go to the Wesley though for weightloss but they’ve also got physios, therapists, nutritionists and what have you. He is a private doctor though. Shame that with healthcare you have to pay to get any level of care over the minimum level required
When I broke my toes a couple years ago, I had private health and it covered nothing so I’m not sure you get better care by paying for it.
Probably depends on how much you’re paying in your premiums. I swear, the very concept of paying an ‘excess’ is the biggest load of fucking bullshit the insurance industry has ever come up with.
Double edged sword. You could easily rate all policies to have $0 excess / deductible (USA terminology) but then premiums correspondingly rise, which most people wouldn’t want. Some companies will let you increase your premium to reduce your excess to nil but they’re getting fewer and farther between.
That just means the rates are too high. I really don’t think insurance is something that should be the private sector in the first place, considering the underlying principle of it as consumers understand it, or what they rely on it for. As it stands at the moment, insurance is the world’s shittiest discount card. Customers need it to safeguard against the unexpected, and insurers need to turn out increased profits every year, stay competitive, and not go broke. I would think that it should be a public sector enterprise, or public service, but a) that genie’s out of the bottle, and b) I’m with a supposedly non-profit (HCF) and there’s not a hell of a lot of difference in their premiums to for-profits.
All I know is that I didn’t get health insurance until I absolutely had to, (thanks to that frustrating penalty they impose for every year after age 30). But by not having the insurance until then, I saved thousands of dollars. If those thousands were eaten up subsidizing someone who did need insurance, then why is it so expensive? …My argument is really that more should be covered by medicare.
If specifically talking about health insurance I’d tend to agree with you. The problem is that too few people think about the higher concepts of insurance – a pool of funds from all members (premiums) to be paid out to the members who need them at such time that a policy specifies (claim).
At its most basic you could take the premiums that you’re paying to an insurance policy (of any type), put it in to a savings account and then only access those funds when you’d make a claim on your policy. Hell, even open up a spreadsheet and do it as a thought exercise over the last 5 or 10 years. Do you come out on top? Some will, some won’t. I’d suggest most people would come out in front of their health funds (but remember to take in to account tax penalties, etc etc when calculating those ones).
I was never allowed a moonboot when I had a broken foot since more mobility would likely mean more me doing things I shouldn’t be.
C’mon, I only played one game of tennis!
moooooon boooooot. What a time to be alive
You’d think a moonboot would only help with tennis. I’ve never worn one myself but I’d imagine they lessen the pull of gravity and you can jump up high and never get lobbed
Exactly. No moon boot for me. Just had to play in a full cast. Lots of hopping.
Well, what’s sport without a challenge?
Happy Mortal Kombat week!
Game of Thrones week!
Some people (not saying if me or not 😛 ) might now have to wait a month until they see another new episode now 😀 the internet is a truly blunderful thing
The prospect of being spoiled by jerks on the internet outweighs the prospect of it being over a month before seeing a new episode.
We just finished marathonning season 4 last night, having picked up the blu-rays about two weeks ago. I think a rewatch of seasons 1-3 is is order too.
I want to pick up the blu-rays but am kind of wanting to hold out until the show is finished with and I can get the super-duper-trooper boxset. I think I’ve only gone through the seasons once though.
How’d you like the end of season 4 btw?
I liked how it ended but one thing that’s always niggled at me (as I JUST finished reading the books before finishing the season)
is how in the show Varys is astonished that Tyrion killed Tywin and incredibly annoyed by it, whereas in the books he’s clearly manipulating Tyrion into doing it by telling him “do NOT kill Tywin… but I will wait for you here here by this ladder that leads directly to his private chambers”.Also I got crazy irritated watching Arya sail off on the Braavosi ship all over again, being reminded that was the cliffhanger that we’ve been sitting on for a year.
Where do we sit on the matter of spoiler tags for this? I feel like this might need to be tagged.
Yeah, I realised maybe not everyone has gotten to the end of season 4 yet after I saw @evilmonkey’s post below mine.
I’d spoiler tag that for evil monkey 😛
Yeah, last season was good for leaving us hanging, probably the best season yet for it. I’ve got the books on my bookcase but have yet to get into them, I’m wanting to smash through the Wheel of Time books first instead. I might change that tonight though and get cracking with the first got book
I wasn’t expecting it to be Tywin that he killed. I figured he was going to kill someone, I was hoping it’d be Cersei though hahahaJust finished episode 9 of season 3 last night. Hopefully I’ll be able to finish it off and get stuck into season 4 tonight.
Piracy week? =P
Tabletop Day was a thing. I dragged Blaghs and Freya to The Games Capital where we played Rokoko and Dixit, they left and I then played Kolejka with a bunch of strangers. Oh, we also nabbed some promotional Fluxx cards and I got the Wil card for 7 Wonders (but forgot to put my name down for the Felicia Day card for Dead of Winter).
Rokoko is a pretty rad game. You’re dress makers preparing for a ball held by King Louis XV. We had basically no idea what we were doing and, yet again, Freya beat me by a point. The game seems to fill a pretty similar niche to Village, so it’s appropriate that Freya and I hotly contested victory while Blaghs lost by a lot. I’d been thinking about grabbing Rokoko but now that I realise how similar to Village it is, I think I’d be better off just hunting down the expansions for Village.
Village is a super rad worker placement where you kill you family members if they get too old. This happens frequently and there’s some strategy in killing particular people quickly.
We completely forgot how to play Dixit but worked it out quickly enough. A random kid joined us and he did just terribly. Can’t blame him, the game is all about giving hints that you think some people in the group will understand. Being a stranger is one hell of a disadvantage. Playing with me when I give clues like “Charlie was a man” for a card with vine and a machete.
As for Kolejka, well I played that with 4 strangers and it was a hit. It took a little bit to get everyone’s heads around the relatively simple game but that was my own fault. Turns out I didn’t have the rules quite as memorised as I thought. Another player and I were desperately trying to finish off the game before anyone else could win, but were blocked at every turn. Finally, the kid that got crushed at Dixit managed to prove he was the best at communism and queueing literally right before I could win.
One person at the table was very keen on picking up a copy for herself and I think another person was considering it. That’s a win, right?
All in all, a day of almost victories. I’ll take it.
I figured I’d make this a separate post. We bought a pressure cooker on the weekend. Now I need all of your delicious pressure cooker recipes. If it’s tasty, I’ll try making it.
Recipe for using a pressure/slow cooker:
1. Put food in cooker
2. Power up cooker to begin the cooking process
We did not follow this order and we no longer have one because of that.
I will tweet you many recipes.
The best thing is being able to buy the cheap, tough cuts of meat, and with half an hour of magic (science) they come out meltingly tender.
Also, there’s a Women’s Weekly pressure cooking cookbook which is great with lots of explanations as well as recipes. If you can’t find a copy, I can send you mine. The main trick is just timing. If you leave vegies in there for too long you get a pot of soup.
I like stews where the vegetables have broken down and turn the sauce into something awesome. So I don’t see that as being a huge problem, yet 🙂
Yeah, my mum used to buy the really cheap cuts, cut them up and chuck them in the pressure cooker with gravy, vegies and dumplings, mmmm so good.
Just wait a bit. I’ll send a letter to my great grandmother via horse mail and shall send a telegram to you promptly upon recieving recipes.
Use the Mafuba and seal Piccolo into it for a period of time.
Hola Tay
Good weekend, Daredevilled for a lot of it (will post thoughts later). Went and had Dumplings for Saturday lunch with friends, then drove back to Kapunda for an engagement show (Disney themed one). Had good fun with old friends. Yesterday drove home then did not much, went for a run then finished Daredevil and watched some of the Magic the Gathering pro tour.
A Monday Morning Question: Now that Daredevil has had its Netflix miniseries, what other superheroes need one? Invalid answers: Jessica Jones, Luke Cage.
Howard the Duck?
The Mask… Hardly a super hero but could be alright in an episodic format.
Captain Planet, new and improved with extra grit and cutting edge social commentary.
Y’know what, it’d be nice for the Phantom to get a respectful treatment like this. That Billy Zane movie was probably worse than the Affleck Daredevil, and it’s been long enough that a clean slate could be started.
There was a Syfy mini series. It was abysmal.
Lock it away in the History Vault with the Mortal Kombat TV series and pretend it never happened. Then daredevil it properly.
I kind of liked the Billy Zane movie.
when I was 12.
Yeah, the Ghost Who Walks would make an excellent character for the Daredevil treatment.
I still really want Section 8 on some sort of screen. TV series would work much better than a movie in their case.
Me too me too! I binge watched all of Daredevil when I was supposed to be studying over the weekend =P Personally I’ve found it to be the best super hero show out there atm; given the other options are the 2 dimensional A-Team cartoon characters in arrow, shield and flash (haven’t checked out Gotham).
Edit: I’d like to see a PI series around Jamie Madrox =]
Spiderman. Seeing as they’re rebooting him again, but we really don’t need another Spiderman origin movie. I would be all for a Spiderman origin miniseries though. Just as an introduction to this version of the character. Because if civil war is the first movie he’s going to be in it’s going to be a bit crowded and might be hard to properly introduce the character.
I just think “Hey it’s Spiderman” is about all you need at this point.
Something Spiderman 2 (Raimi ver) did really well is recap the plot of the first one with still paintings over the opening credits.
Didn’t do a hell of a lot this weekend, Friday bought two Disney Infinity 2.0 figures at Kmart (Falcon and Hiro Hamada), then went to Target and saw they’d discounted their figures to $7.50, so naturally I rummaged through all of them and bought all the ones they had that I needed (Stitch, Merida, Aladdin, Princess Jasmine, Maleficent, Donald Duck, Yondu and Crystal Sorcerer’s Apprentice Mickey). Only need to get 3 now to complete the set (Tinkerbell, Ronan The Accuser and Baymax) and 4 crystal figures from the first game (Lone Ranger, Agent P, Buzz Lightyear and Lightning McQueen), more than likely have to get them off Ebay. also bought Game Of Thrones Season 4 on Blu-Ray
Worked till quarter to one Friday night, went home, watched another episode of Game Of Thrones (only one more episode to go and I’ve finished season3) and got to bed at quarter to two, then got up at 7am to go to a swap meet with my father in-law, afterwards we drank probably a few more beers than we should have and I got to bed around midnight.
Sunday was spent sleeping in till almost lunch time and lazing around playing Hangman with my wife and son and playing Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare and Disney Infinity 1.0.
What did you guys get up to?
I need 6 more from 2.0 then I have every infinity figure released so far anyway.
Friday night I finished Tiny Tina’s DLC again but in normal only so I can help other get loot from the dragons. The only problem with that is that it takes longer to load a game the. It does for me to kill them.
Saturday I cleaned everything out of the garage and cleaned it then put everything back.
Sunday I cleaned the patio and fixed a baby toy.
The figures aren’t the worst it’s the power discs, it’s so hard to get a full set because they come in blind bags. Noticed my local Kmart marked theirs down to $2.80 so I might head down before work tomorrow and grab a bunch of packs.
Hanging out for the 3.0 announcement (Star Wars). Got the feeling they’re gonna do it on Star Wars day (May the 4th).
So weekend was good. Had a 1,500 point 2v2 40K game on Sunday with me as Eldar teamed up with a Space Marine player versus a Tau and another Space Marine. I fielded eighteen units and lost all but three but I didn’t lose an entire squad so yay me. 😀 Kinda felt bad though because my Jetbikes absolutely tore through the Tau and the Space Marine Dreadnought on our side actually took down the Riptide battlesuit.
In other news, didn’t actually do anything on International Tabletop Day. Feel like I probably should have but I slept instead. Looking forward to this next weekend as I’ll be at Supanova Gold Coast helping out at one of the booths. Should be good.
Lol sounds like that dreadnought got some lucky rolls; Riptides don’t go down easy; and they shouldn’t for the number of points they take!
It was an Ironclad Dreadnought with dual power fists and a melta so it had the armament to take it down. The Riptide also tried to escape melee to bring its heavier weapons to bear and got super unlucky on the escape roll and was crushed. Just how the dice go sometimes.
Yeah the right gear seems to have worked to the benefit of your Dreadnought but it also sounds like your enemies didn’t know how to use a Riptide; you’ve got to treat em like a Trebuchet and prevent any enemies from closing in, hard with the Tau options but a Kroot squad would’ve been enough for the Riptide to take down the dreadnought. That said power fist and melta cannon are pure AV weaponry so would’ve been close =P
I can’t remember the exact name of it but the Riptide had one of the wargear options that granted a blast rating to its main fusion gun/cannon/thing that prevented it from really firing too close into a melee fracas. Also the fact that everyone from both sides took no super-specialised melee units at all (no Assault Marines, no Kroot, no Banshees, etc) and it really turned into a shooting fest as the commanders were probably the most tricked out for melee. Respective command squads were Librarian with Terminators, Farseer with Dark Reapers, Tau Commander with Drone Squadron equipped with markerlights, and Librarian with a Tactical Squad.
Saw Rocky horror yesterday. I think I prefer the more traditional productions to the jokey/silliness of the Australian productions, but Craig McLaughlin did a great job as Frank and Bert Newton is now my personal favourite narrator.
Please spoil Game of Thrones for me.
There’s like this throne and then they all play GAEMS.
THE END
Prince Charles refuses to abdicate and becomes a mad, power hungry king.
Richard the Second gets overthrown by Bolingbroke then murdered in prison. Bolingbroke, now Henry IV, goes to Jerusalem to cleanse his sins
George Martin has advised he made a typo and actually wanted to write a gardening manual about how to make pruning a rose bush fun called ‘Game of Thorns’.
The bad guys were about to win when suddenly Han Solo fly the Millennium Falcon down and tells them to get off his plane. Then all the dead characters are like “We’re not really dead, we were just injured for a while” so they all have a dance party with fairy bread.
The first episode of season 5 opens with a lovely garden ceremony between Daenerys and Drogon, which carries on uninterrupted for 18 minutes until Jorah returns from exile, reporting that he infinity+1 promises to never betray Daenerys again. Drogon is annoyed at first, but they discuss their differences over tea and ultimately agree that Daenerys gets Jorah on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, Drogon will have him Mondays, Wednesdays and sundays. Friday is Jorah’s choice.
Meanwhile on the wall, Samwell “the slayer” Tarly is voted in as the new Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch when Maester Aemon reveals that the candidacy is about 85% reliant on a pie eating competition, and the other 15% is a literal dick measuring contest. Sam wins by a huge margin on both counts.
In a weird diversion from the books, Arya reveals her sword fighting lessons were actually dancing classes all along and joins a Braavosi ballet production of “The Mad King and I”.
Tyrion escapes his shipping crate to find himself in the smoking ruins of old Valyria. He and Varys look at each other , put their hands on their hips and say in unison “well this is another fine mess you’ve gotten us into”. Then they just kind of stand there for the last 25 minutes. It actually got kind of awkward but then at the 21 minute mark they dubbed in that “screeching hawk” sound effect, you know, the one that gives you the impression of a large open space and isolation? Really clever stuff.
I…kinda wanna watch this
Everyone dies.
I’m having a slow morning at work so I decided to recap episode 2 for you.
Arya is promoted to “first slipper” when the lead falls and breaks her ankle. Everyone considers it well deserved, but one of the other dancers later witnesses her throwing a bottle of oil into the bay.
Having lost Arya, Brienne and Podrick continue to wander completely aimlessly around a hundred acres of wetland, since you don’t mess with a winning formula.
Jamie and Cersei make love next to the corpse of Tywin in an inconceivably misguided bid to make a new father.
Sansa convinces Littlefinger to let her paint the walls of her bedroom black as part of her “disguise” since the real Sansa would never do such a thing. He reluctantly concedes the point, but strictly forbids the playing of rock music after 10pm.
Stannis and Samwell argue over who gets to stay in the Lord Commander’s quarters at Castle Black. They are Sam’s quarters following his promotion, but Stannis declares as king, he can stay where he wants. Melisandre exposes her breasts for no particular reason.
After leaving Old Valyria, Tyrion and Varys are shipwrecked on a desert island. They look at each other, put their hands on their hips and say in unison “well this is another fine mess you’ve gotten us into”.
These are amazing.
I’m pretty proud of this one in particular, actually.
Episode 3
Stannis and Samwell agree to share the Lord Commander’s quarters but divide the space by drawing a line down the centre of the room.
Prince Doran Martell of Dorne sits in a wheelchair on his back porch and watches the neighbourhood children playing in his swimming pool. This is not at all creepy, because the script doesn’t say it is.
Arya’s new understudy, the dancer who saw her disposing of evidence, tries to blackmail her. They have a dance off, and Arya wins effortlessly. Shamed, the dancer is bound by law to become a stripper. There is a five minute closeup of her merkin.
Brienne and Podrick secretly fall in love with each other, but wind up constantly arguing as they struggle to keep their true feelings hidden.
Tyrion and Varys get confused while rebuilding their ship and make love on the beach. This works, somehow. They set sail for Braavos again and Varys embraces Tyrion as they guide the ship together. They both whisper in unison “well this is another fine mess you’ve gotten us into”.
I haven’t watched episode 4 yet, so I don’t know when i’ll be able to write my next recap.
In stitches at work.
I demand a similar synopsis for every episode this season!
Had a waitress spill Frangelico on my pants on Friday.
Ate off-the-scale hot Sichuan hot-pot in Hurstville on Saturday.
Had some old mates over on Sunday for a yarn about the separation one is going through 🙁
Almost reads like the Friday and Sunday incident are connected =P
Edit: Jokes aside separation’s are tough; sorry to hear about it =\
Ha ha, yeah. I ordered an affogato and the waitress, for whom it was her first ever shift, tipped the serving plate a bit far and I ended up getting a full shot glass of Frangelico on my newish suit and tie. The restaurant agreed to pay for cleaning after I asked about it, but like an idiot I threw my tie into the wash (albeit in a mesh bag) – ruined 🙁 At least I’m getting the pants done professionally.
Yeah separation is tough – I see a bit as a solicitor, but always worse when friends involved. Luckily I’m not acting for him so I can sympathise, strategise but leave the nitty gritty to his lawyer (who seems good). The worst is when one parent is trying to prevent the other from seeing the kids with no good reason. Breaks your heart.
Sorry to hear about Friday and Sunday, if it makes you feel better you’re much braver than I for eating extra hot Sichuan anything lol.
I’ve always loved spicy Chinese food. When I lived in China there were only two occasions the hotpot was too spicy. Once in Wuhan and once in Chengdu. On those occasions I had to stop after about half an hour as the lining of my mouth was getting too sore. I was crying tears of appreciation though. I reckon hotpot loaded with chili is hard to beat, especially with some nice cold beers to take the edge off.
The downside is the sensation of crapping lava that you get when its on the way back out.
Strangely enough I enjoy that aspect too, in a weird sort of way ^_^
Finally got a good chunk of time to start on Bloodborne, and for the last hour or so I’ve just been sitting here procrastinating. What is wrong with me?
I know the feeling. The anticipation of sitting down to a session of Bloodborne is like pre-game nerves for me, a feeling of dread and apprehension overwhelms me and I think, I’ll just have a few more minutes of Bravely Default before taking the plunge into Yharnam’s nightmare world.
Morning TAY!
Had a pretty lazy weekend did some house work, plonked a bit of time into cities skylines (I’m tempted to start my 5th city…), bit more Bravely Default (Ringabel/Edea still cracking me up) and some study and work stuff.
On Sunday took our little one to the park to feed the ducks and there is a field set aside for RC Model Plane flying and we heard rather loud noises coming over the hill so walked over to check it out… They were flying large scale replicas… Huge 2m wingspans… As tall as my 2 year old… Was amazing stuff to watch.
Snagged some video of a jet plane (they also had bi-planes, WW2 Era fixed wings aswell.. http://youtu.be/b_aAZt1J500
Next up… Me having a crack at being proactive in meating some taybies… I’m working out of the city this whole week so am able to get out and about a bit! Anyone interested in lunch or something after work this week?
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
ugh Brisbane has all the interesting TAY’s *sulk*
Where abouts in the city are you working? I’m in the Valley (except for today cos I’m not at work.) For the rest of the week I’m working 10am-6pm though, so I’d be happy to meet for dinner after I finish, but would depend where. I get free parking in the Valley Metro carpark this month, so if you want to meet somewhere around the Valley for dinner, I’d be up for it! If you can’t get to the Valley, I’ll have to check on parking though to see if I can get any at a reasonable price. Perhaps @beardymcmuttonchops might be keen to go for some Chinese at that place he likes in the Valley one night this week?
Working at Edward St end of Queen St mall – so lunch somewhere nearby. Dinner can be organised – just need to make sure the wife isn’t working late so someone remembers to do pick up at day care. I’m sure there’s a bus that’ll get me into the Valley though…
Chinese is always good, especially if there are dumplings… I had dumplings last night for dinner… 10/10 would eat again today.
School holidays means you picked the worst week for this for me. I’ll have to sit this one out.
I’m off sick! 😀
P’aps later in the week??
I might be able to do an evening. I’m not in the city at all this week, unfortunately. If you’re doing something with @welbot of an evening, let me know? I’m down with all the Chinese/whatever Valley/CBD eating; easy enough for me to get to, whether from work or home.
Well I’m good for any day, and any cuisine. Just thought since @beardymcmuttonchops had tried to arrange an outing to this chinese place, that he might be up for it. Haven’t seen him in here much though. Might have to try see if I can hunt him down on fb
Well sounds like Beardy could be keen. Asian Fusion on Brunswick St was the place. He asked about Thursday night. I’m cool with that or any other night, but I told him we’d need to check with everyone. Advised him that we tagged him in the post, but just in case he doesn’t pop in to join in, I’ll keep an eye on things. So far we got @sunsoar77, with @jimu and @transientmind as maybe’s? If you guys can settle on a day, we’ll make it happen somehow 🙂
Any day except Friday works for me, I’m meeting my Dad then.
Beardy said “Fuck yeah! I’m up for that! How’s Thursday?”
So yeah.. if @jimu and @sunsoar77 are good for Thursday, we can book ahead!
Thursday works perfect for me. Just jumped on to suggest it.
Lock in a time that suits as I can finish up at work any time after 5.
Ok. Will post deets once I know more!
My Dr gave me a note not to go back to work til Friday & work says they won’t let me back til Friday. No argument from me.
side effect being, I won’t be in town Thursday
Fair enough. I probably shouldn’t be going to work either with my leg/hip the way it is, but I’ve had a few days off recently due to illness, so I’m gonna trek in and do what I can. I left early today due to the pain, but the injury was fresh from last night. Tried to get a dr appt this morning, but only one they had was at 9am, which was too close to my leave time to get to work. Thankfully my team leader was totally understanding, and since it actually happened right next to one of my colleagues last night, he was able to acknowledge that it really did happen. Still… so much time of work… hopefully I’ve got enough leave to cover it, or at least hoping the HR people don’t get shitty with me. Can only wait and see!
Yo, TAY!
Cats were rubbish, and my watch battery died… but MKX drops tomorrow! \o/
I don’t know what you’re talking about. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the Cats. 😛
Tomorrow? I thought it was out Wednesday.
I’m hoping it breaks street date, looks like ‘mericans get it tomorrow we get it Wednesday. I can’t wait, 9 was amazing.
Uni break week is over which means I have an exam for my most difficult class. Atleast it’s on Friday so I have a bit more time for studying!
How was everyone’s weekend? I had a pretty cool one. Watched up to episode four of Daredevil and had to force myself to stop, don’t want to blow through the show in one night. =P
I also played some ESO with @rize and @cakesmith, we ended up going the Daggerfall faction. I haven’t played it since beta and the changes they’ve made are pretty great. I also made a Dominon faction character to solo with and think I am actually enjoying the story more on my solo character. Much more interesting characters that have made me chuckle. If you played the game during the Beta I would say it’s worth trying out on the free weekend coming up.
ESO is going full free to play in June or something like that right? I admit I was curious about ESO when I first played it but I couldn’t justify shelling out a subscription for it.
It’s what they’re calling Pay-To-Play (P2P). Think Guild Wars 2. You still have to buy the game, but there’s no required subscriptions.
This is somewhere between Guild Wars 2 and The Old Republic. You can still pay a monthly sub for extra crowns (in game store currency) and an XP boost as well as getting all DLC unlocked without extra charges.
Buy game, play game. It came into effect March 17th, so $60ish will get you the full game now.
OK, be straight with me here… is TESO really something I should check out again?
When I played TESO in beta, I was pretty appalled that it was a bog-standard MMO with some Elder Scrolls artificial flavouring added.
* Rapid respawns meant you were either always moving to the next destination or always fighting (meaning that exploring always = fighting your way back through mobs you just killed, turning me off on the concept).
* Arbitrarily-determined containers were intermittently available to loot.
* The class system was locked down pretty tight, with clear restrictions and obvious cookie-cutter ‘best skill choices’ by class.
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Random noobsFellow unique Chosen Ones were everywhere, bunny-hopping and flailing their weapons around like windmills, kill-stealing to meet their 10-rats quotas.* Stealth was pointless except as a minor buff to 1st-shot damage.
* And archery… Archery – the ESSENTIAL part of any ES game, to me – was both ineffectual and shoddily implemented. My preferred combat tool was heavily-affected by lag and partly auto-aimed while trying not to look like it was auto-aimed.
Are those problems still there?
Daredevil.
Discuss.
I’ve only seen two episodes.
The first episode was good. The second was boring. 😛
I hope the rest of the season is more like the first episode.
I can’t help but feel that whoever wrote the noun example is a bit of a sadist
I know some people were angry that they changed the Kingpin into a black guy but I thought Michael Clarke Duncan did a good job.
He was pretty much the only good thing about that movie.
Bullseye was enjoyable to watch for how goofy he played the role (I accidently typed Target because of the Nostalgia Critic).
I really don’t care what excuse people use, there needs to be more Michael Clarke Duncan in everything.
You know he died, right?
Is that a good enough excuse?
…I did not know this. ;_;
Although, these days, with digital ef—noooooope.
Oh man, I’m pretty bummed about that, now. I dunno how I missed it. He was so good in so much stuff. 🙁
DAREDEVIL DISCUSSION, FULL SERIES
Finished it last night. The Good– Cast is uniformly excellent
– Finally a marvel property with some visual panache
– Intelligent treatment of many characters, and resisted the narrative trap of marginalising Karen Page once her first plot was done
– Action scenes are really well done. Super impressed that the one take fight scene in ep 2 apparently WAS one take
The Bad
– Dour. A little more levity at points would have been nice, I know it’s supposed to be dark but it was pretty grim
– The episode weren’t super propulsive- was kinda hushed convo hushed convo hushed convo ACTION SCENE hushed convo. I think that’s a consequence of it being on a streaming service and not having to plot around commercial breaks. Episode six, the one where he’s holed up with the bleeding russian, was the exception to this- established the stakes early and well and had a clear escalation.
– Rosario Dawson was great, I wish she’d been in it more.
– Couple of things, like Gao and Stick, obviously setting up for one of the later series. Less a criticism of the way it’s done, but the payoff better be good
– Can anyone really tell me what the Yakuza was up to? They never really laid out what Kingpin’s plot actually was- a big property development, sure, but they could have made it clearer and establsihed the stakes better
– kinda bummed they offed Ben Urich, his interaction with Jessica Jones was always fun
I’m actually absolutely loving how dark and grimy the series is; and enjoying the pace of the series so far. While I see what you mean about the hushed convos; it didn’t really affect me all that much because the actors delivering did such a brilliant job filling out their characters with the lines they had.
My only criticism was with the final fight scene in the final episode; it felt relatively poorly choreographed compared to everything else I’d seen up to this point.
Very much agree with the point about Kingpins motivations. He sort of just doing crime because he’s a criminal. Annoying me a little as the series feels a little directionless.Haven’t seen any yet, trying to finish off Game Of Thrones before I get into anything else, hopefully I’ll be able to burn through it between GoT and starting back on the MCU films.
Happy birthday @jackunit13!
Thanks buddy. 🙂
Happy birthday
Happy birthday, Jack!
I hope it’s a good one! 😀
Happy borthday!
Question about Foxtel play, if I sign up is it like a free to air type of deal where programs are on at certain times, or can I just watch what I want when I want?
Reason I’m asking is for Game Of Thrones, I won’t be able to start on season 5 for a few days, and if it’s only going to be on at 11am today then I won’t bother and just wait for Blu-Ray.
Edit: My bad. I was thinking of Foxtel Go, rather than the Foxtel Play service.
I am pretty sure if something is listed as “catch up” on the Play list, then you can watch it whenever without having to save it to a device manually first (such as using your Xbox One console instead of an iQ unit).
Hello Tay.
I have not had a great week.
On Wednesday I managed to pull my lower back muscles and have been in vary degrees of pain every since.
On Saturday, something I ate didn’t agree with me and I ended up with stomach cramps.
On Sunday, I was getting shopping out of the boot of the taxi and the taxi driver let go of the boot which then proceeded to fall on my head. I ended up with a concussion.
At least I haven’t broken a bone. Yet.
Wow, that’s a pretty bad run. Hope you get better soon.
A concussion is a hell of an effort
I couldn’t do any work on Techie’s cosplay and I felt absolutely terrible about it (I apologised so much). I still feel a bit foggy so I’m going to work on Elsa which requires less mental alertness than Pulsefire Ezreal.
There were many tiny Elsas at the party I was at on Saturday. Was talking to a cosplaying friend and mentioned you’d been having an issue with the cloak or something but couldn’t remember specifics?
I was trying to movie perfect the cloak but I’ve got it
Sounds like you should have broken a bone of the taxi driver’s
It was an accident. I think.
On the bright side at least he didn’t slam it on your hands? >.< that said dude’s company is totally liable for any damage you suffered however given how capitalism works they would’ve probably just fired him =,=
That would lead to me a week of hiding indoors wrapped in a duvet refusing to go near anything. Hopefully the back pain isn’t anything too serious as it’s hard to do anything if that flares up bad 🙁
Standing up and sitting down are what seems to flare it up
That sounds not fun at all. Get better soon buddy. Lots of codeine I reckon
I’m having naps instead. The sleep helps the brain recover
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FINAL WEEK
ANGUS HODGE in
SLOW DEATH OF THE SPIRIT ANIMAL
http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2015/season/shows/slow-death-of-the-spirit-animal-angus-hodge
Locker Room, Portland Hotel, Thursday-Saturday
“Do yourself a favour and see Angus Hodge at the Portland Hotel while he’s still here. Good laughs!” – @mythamphetamine
@freezespreston @rize @tech_knight @sernobulus @gingerchris86
TAY RPG 40K Rogue Trader talk. Figured I’d ask this now rather than wait until tomorrow. Given that daylight savings has ended, does anyone have a preference for when we sit down to play? Does a two-hour session once a fortnight on Tuesday at 8pm AEST still work for everyone or would something else work better? The current plan is to run one tomorrow night if that suits.
Works for me just fine! Hopefully we get the numbers cuz I’ve been missing the gretchen!
Probably won’t be able to make it home until 8:30ish
The swift and silent Striking Scorpion always arrives exactly when he is needed. 😛
If that works for you, you can jump in whenever you get home and we’ll still aim to start around 8pm as usual. You shouldn’t miss too much stuff.
Generally that is in the path of a few bullets or the swing of a melee weapon.
dounds good to me 🙂
repost for shameless and crass commercialness:
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FINAL WEEK
ANGUS HODGE in
SLOW DEATH OF THE SPIRIT ANIMAL
http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2015/season/shows/slow-death-of-the-spirit-animal-angus-hodge
Locker Room, Portland Hotel, Thursday-Saturday
“Do yourself a favour and see Angus Hodge at the Portland Hotel while he’s still here. Good laughs!” – @mythamphetamine
Time for random TAY question! What is the one game you are most looking forward to in the next 6 months and why?!
No Witcher 3 does not count; get some individuality why dontcha! =PAll I’m really looking forward to are the next 3 episodes of Telltale’s Game of Thrones and the house of Wolves DLC for Destiny. I’m not even sure what new games are even coming out in the next 6 months. I guess in October we’ll be due for a new Assassin’s Creed, maybe it’ll be good? I haven’t gotten around to Rogue or Unity yet but it seems everyone was pretty underwhelmed by them. I want to play Rogue but i’m hoping for a current-gen port since it recently ported to PC.
Edit:
Did a search on upcoming game releases. I want to be hyped for Witcher 3 but I only ever got about an hour into 1 & 2 so I don’t really think I want to jump into this one, even though it looks amazing. Maybe if I finally get to 2 and like it, I’ll get 3 sometime down the road.
Apparently there’s a remaster of state of Decay coming to Xbox One. since it runs like ass on my PC with it’s shitty graphics card, I might pick this up. My wife is hyped for Wolfenstein: the Old Blood, so I’ll check it out. I loved The New Order so I don’t see how they can go wrong at this point.
Not interested in Arkham Knight. I’ve enjoyed both Asylum and City, skipped origins. I tired of these games too quickly. I enjoy them, but then I lose interest. I might look into it if my wife insists on picking it up, she enjoyed them far more than I did.
I can’t touch episodic games until all the episodes are out =P Much the same with my TV series; are they expecting to finish of the GoT episodes within the next 6 months? Telltale are pretty fast and loose with their release dates!
That said outside of Witcher the 3 this year is looking even more barren than the last =\
Edit: To reply to your edit; Witcher 2 is amazing and I cannot recommend you playing it enough!!!!!! Takes about 15 hours to really get started out!
I think TT episodes typically come out every 2nd month (except in the case of a substantial delay like when The Wolf Among Us allegedly underwent a huge rewrite) and GoT I think has come out faster than expected. I think it launched in december and episode 3 came out in March? I expect it will probably wrap up around the same time current TV series is ending.
If it helps, State of Decay runs like ass on my tiny infant godling PC with its brand new, high-end graphics card, too. It seems to have been optimized poorly and it REALLY doesn’t like keyboard/mouse.
Ah, fair enough. Well maybe I’ll give it another go on PC before I commit to buying a remaster. I want to know it’s something I’ll put some time into.
BATMAN
because BATMAN
nuff said =P
You mean BATMAN because Val Kilmer, the man who was the BATMAN 😉
Seriously, Val Kimer.
Most looking forward to (presuming I’m limited to new games only) would be Vermintide because you stole my Witcher 3 dang it. 😛
If I was allowed to say expansions and such, Path of Exile: the Awakening takes the cake because sweet everything the lore will just flood through that expansion. That said, the DLC for Shovel Knight looks like it could be pretty interesting.
Batman: Arkham Knight.
I actually don’t have any games I’m looking forward to playing, I think thought it’s because I haven’t been paying that much attention. I’ll be watching this thread to see what people recommend on Xbone 😛
We need to get you a PS4 =p
Just over 6 months, but Halo 5. I need a competitive FPS fix and I loved the beta.
And if that doesn’t count…Batman, because I didn’t play Origins, so I’m extra pumped.
Toss-up between Codename Steam and Splatoon, probably. Hopefully a few TAYbies get Splatoon so we can all play one night.
The Witche…oh. Arkham Knight probably. Asylum and City were 2 of the best games of the last generation. I’m keen to see how Assassins Creed Victory turns out as Victorian London is something I’d love to run around in
The thing I’m most looking forward to this year thoguh is Bethesda’s E3 conference. C’mon Fallout 4 and Skyrim remaster for new consoles. Actually the Elder Scrolls collection they released on PC would be good to see on PS4 at some point (wishful thinking and yeah I know, just get it on PC :P)
We are long overdue for a Bethesda game hey… I’d love another Fallout or Elder Scrolls (most likely fallout as its up next in the cycle)
Final Fantasy fif-yesitwillreleaseintwenty-FIFTEEN.
The first open-world final fantasy in years, redeeming the series from the godawfulness of 13! Increased visual fidelity and party interactions! (B)road-trip with J-Pop boy-band members! IT’S SO PRETTY. Teleport-slashing/grappling looks cool.
Also: It’s Final Fantasy! A series for which even the worst entry I’ve bought twice.
I just wanna play FFIX again. Might have to blow the dust off my PSOne soon seeing as my PS3’s kicked the dust so no PSN version for me ;(
It might be more than 6 months until Witcher 3 is stable enough to consider a purchase.
All my hype kinda blew early this year with Monster Hunter and Bloodborne. Hype levels for anything else are depleted.
Hatsune Miku Project Mirai DX for the 3DS because it has my favourite Miku song on it ~1/6 out of the gravity~ which so far I have been unable to play on any other Miku game I have. The downside is that it looks like an import job from the UK because according to EB Games there is no Australian release planned.
At least we’re getting it in English. And it’s a compilation of the content of both games too.
Has 1/6 out of the gravity really never been in any of the games before? I could have sworn it was in one of the PSP Project Divas…
Might have been (Wikipedia says yes), but I only came to the party with the Project Diva f/F and F 2nd. Now if I could get Project Diva as a download from the Playstation Store! Alas…
Oh! Late-comer entry: Little Devil Inside. I REALLY hope it lives up to its potential as a Chibi Dark Souls + exploration game.
Probably MKX and and Project CARS.
That’s about it, really. :\
Project CARS. If it makes it out in the next 6 months. I’m not getting my hopes up…
I don’t think there’s anything I’m majorly looking forward to this year. I guess maybe Killing Floor 2, since the first one was a lot of fun.
There are games coming out? Does House of Wolves and the subsequent Comet count? #DestinyTunnelVision 😛
Obligatory hype for Witcher 3, and Arkham Knight will probably be a day one purchase for me, but other than that… not really sure what’s coming out. GTAV tomorrow on PC, which will probably run like arse for a few weeks, then settle down after a few patches. MKX looks interesting, but never really been into fighting games.
Keen to see what Comet will bring beyond the extra content. There needs to be some new crucible matches, ctf is surely a given, as well as a new quest giver or two like the Queen’s emissary was. Just something extra to do. I really think they shot themselves in the foot though with an initial level cap at 20 and exotics being the mess they are. After House of Wolves will be interesting as The Dark Below and this were planned before all the feedback they’ve gotten so Comet’s pretty much the first stuff they’ll have that will take onboard all the backlash they’ve had
Comet is supposed to add a substantial number of multiplayer maps, I assume gametypes as well. HoW will probably give us a questgiver in addition to Eris Morn.
They keep saying the Queen’s Wrath isn’t ready for a comeback but people are aching for any kind of event other than iron banner. There Queen’s ship/emblem/shaders/weapons are among the rarest in the game simply because they’ve not been available since the month the game launches! There were many people who didn’t start playing til afterwards, and only a small sample were able to enjoy it because it threw level 28 missions at us in a time when most people were struggling to get to 26. Now that it’s easy to get to 31, they could bring it back and put the missions on par with the high end of the weekly heroic strikes or something.
Queen’s Wrath may not have added a lot of content but at least it changed up the bounties somewhat, gave us something to do.
They need more than just the Queens Emissary and the Iron Banner though.
Two cycling events aren’t enough.
They should do unique class missions given out by the mentors, Xur (or, “the Nine”) missions, maybe even the Speaker missions, and make Eris sell better stuff.
Have some more public events, like have a Fallen invasion of Earth where there’s Walkers everywhere, Have a surge on the moon where Hive flood out from underground, etc.
Make them proper events though.
They should also introduce a survival mode (like waves of enemies), capture the flag, large clash (12 – 20 on each side), king of the hill, and ability-free clash.
And improve raids. Maybe make them dynamic so it’s not the same every time.
Still, looking forward to what the expansions will bring!
I don’t know if you’ve ever seen this but have you ever seen the public event where it says “the enemy is moving against each other” and then there is this massive battle between vex and fallen or fallen and hive, or whatever? Those battles are amazing. You’re just in the middle wrecking shit while everything is just firing at everything else. They seem to run on the a public event timer but don’t actually count as a public event so there’s no reward (except all the senseless murder you do).
I’d like to see more of them.
I’ve only ever seen it on Earth between the Fallen and the Hive.
I love when it happens though!
I’d like to see a proper event out of something like that! 🙂
Does it happen anywhere else, do you know?
Venus if you go through the Library and out into the next open area with the crashed ship in the middle the Fallen and Vex have a battle.
Mars down the bottom of the first area where there are a handful of Cabal and Vex sometimes does the full battlezone.
Moon it’s along the side of the Hellmouth, Fallen and Hive.
The first time I was in the middle of one of them in the cosmodrome, it was one of the highlights of the game for me. So much fun in 5 minutes, yeah just running around killing things for no reward, but it’s still fun.
I agree with @liondrive though, there needs to be more random events (more MMO like events) where you need to come together with more than 2 or 3 other guardians. The game still feels quite empty. The same handful of enemies respawning in the same areas doesn’t get the juices flowing the 100th time. What I’ve found fun was a brand new account and a new character and running through the missions (again again). Class missions would be great though, or introducing enemies that can only be killed by certain guardians.
As has been said a thousand times before, the core game is there, but the content is not. I feel there needs to be a LOT more content to keep everyone happy, hopefully with Destiny 2 that will be the case (whether everyone will still be keen for it come next September is another question). Hopefully with Comet there’ll be enough content what should’ve been in the vanilla game really if the rumoured 2 new raids are true. 4 raids, a lot more strikes and missions.
The thing that requires the most amount of work though is the reward system. Exotics aren’t that exotic when you can buy them each week and get roughly 1 drop every week or 2 if you play for a few hours each week. The exotic bounties are the only way you should be able to get them imo and I reckon only hold 1 per mission rather than being able to swap them out as you fancy. Make people really think about what weapons and gear they wanna take on a mission
I still have fun playing the game, but damn there’s a heck of a load of things I’d want to see changed about it
Part of those specific complaints seems to stem from the fact it’s a big game that had to be scaled down to operate on last-gen hardware. Even with graphics and some functionality scaled back ,the game pushes 360/PS3 to the limit but has to be identical to the new console experience in terms of content. This means people on One/PS4 feel like they’re getting a sub-par experience.
Some theories around Comet is that this is the point where old-gen will get left behind. Again, no details are available, but it’s believed that Comet will be an incentive for people to upgrade to the new gen for a fee as the entire base game will be revamped and the old-gen will only receive limited support moving forward, with the liklihood that the two DLC expansions to follow Comet will likewise be next-gen only.
@kermitron
Hopefully House of Wolves will be the final last-gen piece of pie. There’s 20 million sold PS4s now and I’m guessing north of 15 million Xbones so it’s not like the consumer base isn’t there now. Fact is though they really need to show the game as being properly next-gen now. There are now the games available that people will happily ignore Destiny
This is Destiny talk and I have no idea what you guys mean, I am that out of the loop from playing it’s scary lol.
Comet is a rumoured title update/expansion that will come out later this year, after the second DLC (House of Wolves). There are no details, just rampant speculation based on a very small leak.
It’s very unlike the games community to indulge in random speculation. I’m shocked.
Comet? I hadn’t heard of this ’til now. I shall discuss with you at length tomorrow night. 🙂
HMMMM… now that Bloodborne is out, that’s a toughie.
Either the continuation of the Telltale games (GoT, Borderlands, or maybe TWD if we’re lucky), or Batman: Arkham Knight!
Kirby Candy Curse. Because Canvas curse was THE SHIT, and this one looks so pretty. I want to lick it.
Also I refuse to acknowledge the awful name they’ve given it here.
Nothing. I’ve been burned by getting excited for games so many times now that I’ve learned to assume they’ll be shit and then when they’re not I can be pleasantly surprised.
Elite: Dangerous 1.3 – mammoth update incoming. New mission structure (apparently it’s a complete rewrite of the whole mission back end), and some new structure. Plus mining drones, fuel tanks and some surprises. I like surprises.
WHAT IS POWERPLAY?
Also don’t forget the Diamondback.
I had forgotten the Diamondback. Thank you.
DIAMONDBACK!!! I could not believe that in the FB post announcing the Diamondback there was a person complaining about the snake names. It’s Elite. It’s all about the snake names, heathen. Apart from the Gecko which they’ve not yet reinvented for Dangerous.
Speaking of, my Premium Backers box arrived. “Excellent,” my fiancee said, “More stuff to sit on the shelf.” Yes, correct.
Where was I? Ah yes, Powerplay.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=135952
So we wait. Still, I’m having lots of fun. Currently hauling goods around in a Type-7, making trading money quite fast (150k-250k a run fairly reliably) and building up cash for next ship up. Asp is in dock, fully upgraded and tuned for expedition (with even larger jump range than last time…), I’m just saving for a decent fuel scoop (B5 at least).
Novice, Merchant, Pathfinder…
Mostly Batman but I’m hoping that in the next 6 months, I’ll pick up a PS4 and get to play Bloodborne.
The best thing about being behind the times is that I can still look forward to things everyone else is enjoying. Wait, that’s not a good thing at all.
Nearly just put in a pre-order for an Apple Watch.
Somebody please talk me out of this before I spend $700 on a sports watch…
It’s expensive, version one, and won’t make you rich nor cure the common cold.
But if you can figure out a way to cure the common cold you can probably get rich and then buy an iWatch.
This is acceptable, yes.
*rolls up newspaper and whacks highperformance on the nose*
BAD HIGHPERFORMANCE!
Buying an Apple Watch, that’s a paddlin’.
For its price it’s not even worth half of it, and do you really think they won’t give this the iPhone treatment where it’ll become obsolete in under a year?
This is my fear, I’m an Apple consumer. I’ve has three gen of iPhones (3, 4, 5) and an iPad 2. I suppose the desire for one is that my current Garmin is cracked and I’m contracting the hype for the watch.
Don’t do it and give me half the money for stopping you from doing it
Actually, giving me your money would stop you from being able to buy one, so yes, do that 😛
Because there’s better watches you can buy for $700 :S
That and it’s ugly as sin, none of the bands actually look good, you shouldn’t have to charge a watch daily, and, most importantly, it’ll be worthless in a couple of years. A good watch can more or less hold most of its value.
You can get sports features for much less money from a fitness tracker. You will have to stay in the Apple system if you have an Apple Watch. You get all the features from it on your phone anyway.
It will become obsolete as quickly as phones do and then you will have 2 expensive items to replace instead of just one.
This is true, I’m predominantly liking the look of it with the digital face and how it has a bunch of features in the watch. If I’m being honest with myself in just looking for a replacement for my Garmin watch which I really only use for the stop watch setting anyway.
Ok, this is it, after spending most of the morning procrastinating and spending an hour on the phone to my friend in Adelaide I’m finally gonna start on Bloodborne. Reckon I’ll just wipe my save and start again, was only about an hour into it anyway.
Highly recommend going Skill/Bloodtinge with the threaded cane and hunter pistol. It’s surprisingly dapper.
Been reading a few guides and they recommend going with the Lone Survivor class and the Hunter’s Axe.
That sounds reasonable. I just like prancing about and whipping people (monsters) with a cane, then shooting them when they get in my face. I imagine my hunter is quite the sadist 🙂
Hunter’s Axe is a pretty freaking good weapon. I’ve seen no reason to switch from it yet!
I was pretty disappointed to jump on the wiki and discover that the Kirkhammer obtained SUPER EARLY which I have been using for most of my playthrough, is actually one of the best STR-build weapons in the entire game and I am unlikely to find anything better. That was actually super depressing, I was hoping for a quantum leap in power on equipping something ‘better’. It seems like nothing in Bloodborne (armour or weapons) is ever actually ‘better’ as much as ‘different’.
I kind of like that it becomes about mastery rather than equipment. This game is really forcing us to git gud at it, rather than cheesing with beefed up mega-equipment.
See, you SAY that, but I say that just means I need another twenty levels. 😉
What a tiring weekend… Tried to play Bloodborne, but really wasn’t feeling it for some reason Staying up until 2:30am Friday night probably didn’t help 😛
Killed the first hunter in Old Yharnam, got to the BSB and died a lot. DId manage to parry him a few times, but jeezus that poison is annoying… Might leave him for a while and try Amelia.The result was a lot of time in Destiny, running bounties more for fun than XP – don’t have much left to level at the moment – scored a Word of Crota on Friday night, and had it fully upgraded by Saturday night. Got my hunter through her first hard mode run last night, which makes one full HM run on every character. I’m now down to four items I still want from drops – Monte Carlo, Fatebringer, Fang of Crota, and No Backup Plans. So… nightfalls, Atheon, Gorgon chest, Deathsinger and Crota. Might try to find a HM VoG group tonight, see if I can score a Fatebringer…
Oh, if you have a gorgon chest checkpoint and don’t mind me grabbing loot tonight…?
Sure, no probs. 🙂
\o/
Good raiding the other night – a group of friendly souls makes it well worthwhile. I just couldn’t keep my eyes open any longer.
Hey all. Was my birthday yesterday. Didn’t do anything for it or anything. It was actually a rather stressful weekend. Got an email from Uni on Friday saying because I hadn’t filled out a form my enrollment was canceled. Couldn’t get in contact with them because it was already after hours so I’ve spent the whole weekend stressing about that. Went in this morning and cleared it all up though. I had filled out the form but it hadn’t properly submitted when I’d tried to post it online, so I had to fill out the form again. Luckily it all seems to have gone through even though it was past the cutoff date for submitting the form, and I have their assurance that I should still be enrolled and all that’s fine.
Played the second episode of Life is Strange on the weekend because I needed a game to help me relax and the first episode was so comfy. I’m enjoying the game a lot more than I though I would. From the screenshots I’d seen I was a bit worried the dialogue would be a bit cringy but it sounds a lot better actually being spoken than just reading the subtitles.
Also gravatar change, because I finally got around to watching Attack on Titan and finished it off the other week, and this Frozen one has far outlived its welcome (I didn’t even intend to be using it as long as I have, but I was too lazy to change it).
Belated happy birthday and great news with uni. They’re usually flexible with stuff like that if you have a reasonable enough excuse. Now begin the stress free stress of being a student 😛
Yes, finally beat a mission in Monster Hunter that has been a thorn in my side for too long, I thought thank f$#@ I’;ll never have to do that again, then I realized I’m gonna need to farm it for bits I need for my new set of armor :/ .
Is it Khezu?
What a giant, flying dick.
Right here. (NSFW)
Nah, furious Rajang, they deal absurd damage, I have an easier time with Apex Rajangs. To add to that their attack pattern is different and the have much smaller vulnerable windows, haven’t had anywhere near as much trouble with anything else. Had to do it solo cause it’s a caravan quest, tried the online version and never seen matches end so fast, even with teams full of gold crown G rankers over level 200, if he wants you dead you die. So annoying, got him limping on like 4 different tries before I finally got him.
Fuck Khezu. The dickest of dicks.
Secret to good egg salad sandwiches: If you think you’ve put enough mayo in it, you haven’t.
Also curry powder.
Don’t forget the eggs
You can never have too much egg in your egg salad sandwich
Hope they fix the issue with load times in Bloodborne soon, only up to that first group of enemies standing around a bonfire and I’ve already died 4 times.
I’m pleasantly surprised at how little I’ve been dying, I expected much worse after hearing about their previous games. It just reminds me of older games. For once hooray for being old.
Just got past that area and promptly got smashed into oblivion by the troll that was bashing on the big door.Edit:
Had to use two blood vials, but I finally got the troll, phew.Tip:
Try to stay at a distance to bait them into pointing their brick-arm forward and charging at you to close the distance. If you shoot them during their charge, it’ll riposte.Cheers man. Was starting to get a bit frustrated with it and was considering turning it off, but persistence paid off and I’m enjoying it more now I’ve got a bit more used to the combat and enemy placement/actions. Think I’ll be up to the Cleric Best shortly.
Edit: Should have know better than to get too comfortable with a FROM Software game, everytime you do you get your arse handed to you.
That’s one of the bosses I stumbled upon by accident with way more echoes than I wanted to lose. Fortunately it was a one-shot.
Tip:
Hug the ankle of the same side as his tiny arm, roll behind him whenever he goes for a swipe, or back the fuck away. Whenever he does a giant leap if you’re too far away, roll FORWARD, not backward. Stay locked on at all times.And just got destroyed by the werewolves on the bridge.FUCK FUCKING SHIT FUCK!!!!
Dead again, think it’s time to give up for the day.
If you want to succeed even if it means not feeling very good about yourself (like I may or may not have done), you can cheese those two. In my opinion, they’re actually harder than the Cleric Beast, because they’re faster, more aggressive, and hit you more easily… and there’s two of them.
CHEESE:
You know when you ran past the bonfire and discovered the brick-troll banging on the gates? Go a similar way, but instead of turning right and doing a bit of a u-turn downstairs to check out the noisy guy, hug the left wall until you see a tonne of wooden coffins just before a red lamp with some cackling ladies who mock your fortune for being left outside on the Hunt. Smashing the coffins on the left reveals an area you can drop down to, with a bunch of dogs in cages and some not in cages. If you head left from that way, you’ll head upwards toward a house with an openable door, terrible lighting and some hostile humans inside, and another openable door. If you take the stairs up inside that house, you’ll see some more steps that lead up to the bridge where the werewolves are. You can bait them back to the house, but they won’t fit through the door, leaving them snapping and snarling at you. A long-reach weapon will let you take them out, risk-free. Cheese!It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!
I did the unthinkable this weekend. I hope this revelation won’t colour your impression of me. I’m usually a pretty reasonable person, honestly.
I spent money on a Free-2-Play game.
Pokemon Rumble is pretty fun though! Somehow managed to rack up 8 or 9 hours played over the weekend. Would play for half an hour or so to clear out all the maps then put it away for a few hours to let the maps “recharge” before playing again as soon as they were available. Really enjoying it despite that. It’s the perfect play/wait ratio to keep you from getting bored I think.Boo-urns. 😛
PogeyMangs Rumble dealie is a great game. Downloaded it this morning and have enjoyed what I’ve played so far.
My best Pokemon (which had the “Most Powerful” tag) for a while was a Charizard. It would go around just blowing things up and not caring.
Played again last night and now my Charizard has been overtaken as “Most Powerful” by a cute little Oddish.
I love this game 😛
My “most powerful” Pokemon is a Rattata. Stronger then my Charmeleon and whatever the 2nd form of the fire/psychic fox thing is called.
Delphox?
Also, in Poca(hontas)Mon Ramble dealie, is there any way to summon friends? Or is it just randoms?
The “call someone online” thing is completely random as far as I can tell. Only ever get Japanese people 😛
I managed to get Beavwa (twice), Jimu and another of my 3DS friends through Spotpass. It’ll tell you to check the Visitors screen whenever someone is there. Just leave your 3DS Wifi on while it’s closed and you should get us eventually.
Yeah I got some super high level Japaneese players too. Do you get to see if/when peole summon you?
Nope, it’s all just passive I think. Maybe there’s a stat or something that tracks it but I’m not sure.
You can set Partner Pokemon once you buy a certain item too but the partners don’t seem to actually do anything other than letting you brag to people that you’ve got something rare 😛
My bragging Pokemon is Azumaril. The 3 peope I summoned had legendaries. ='(
Also, I’m glad peope don’t know that I summoned them. Don’t want some random in Japan that I will never meet to be all “OMG, look at this terrible level 1 player he sucks”. =P
Been watching a lot of the Simpsons lately as Fox 8 is showing all the episodes. The Simpsons is one show I can watch at any time and it always cheers me up. What shows cheer you up when you’re feeling down?
Probably Friends. Very comforting. 🙂
Gilmore Girls.
Edit: oh! and Treme.
Girls und Panzer.
Specifically, the end credits.
Firefly.
Until you run out of episodes 🙁
Shows like The Simpsons, Family Guy, Mrs. Brown’s Boys, and Seinfeld always put a smile on my face.
Simpsons.
Invader Zim.
Scrubs.
(Edit: OH! Of course! I forgot Archer. Thanks @liondrive for the reminder.)
Simpsons.Futurama.Invader Zim.
Scrubs.
FTFY.
Awh, but Futurama makes me sad more. With the life of Philip J. Fry named after his uncle, or Fry’s fossilized dog…
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia or Arrested Development.
BEAK
The Simpsons is my go to show for pretty much any mood. Other than that, Father Ted I can watch over and over again. I’ll throw Star Trek TNG on top of them as well for when I’m not in a comedy mood
Arrested Developement, Scrubs and first 10 seasons of The Simpsons.
Black Swan.
I know it’s not a show, but it’s my go-to cheer up movie 😀
Closest to a cheer up show would probably be either 30 Rock or Bob’s Burgers 🙂
Russell Howard’s Good News
Top Gear
Spongebob
They all put a smile on my face
Simpsons
South Park
Modern Family
Seinfeld
In that order I reckon.
Another weekend filled with Elite and Monster Hunter. Found myself a home in Alliance space after much searching, already ended up friendly with the locals. MH, I was farming frenzy Brach and Azure Rathalos for parts (mainly just trying to get a pair of god damn rubies), ended up with Rath Soul armour with HG Earplugs and Crit +3 I think. Spent a while trying to dispatch the pair of black Gravioses, second one kept finishing me off.
Sister’s boyfriend was over on Saturday night, they were looking for something to watch when he came over to me holding a DVD, asking if I minded if they put it on. It was The Host, a movie I got for free with a Hyper subscription renewal way back when. Still sealed, it’d been sitting there for what… 7, 8 years now? Something like that. Figured it was about time it got watched 😛
Also found out from Wingman that my best friend from college was getting married. As in his wedding was on that day, not sure if it was yesterday or the day before because time differences between here and Canada. Need to hassle her for photos and stuff. Haven’t spoken to him in about a year or so, he’s so hard to get a hold of these days.
Been chasing other ghosts of the past out of the woodwork too. Still trying to organise a catch-up with the friend that messaged me out of nowhere the other day, also shot off a message to another friend I haven’t really seen in a couple of years (since before another of our group also went to Canada) so we’re gonna go catch Fast & Furious 7 this weekend, as tradition dictates. Got another couple of lapsed friendships in mind that I’d like to dust off, should get around to firing off a few more messages soon.
Also last night I finished listening to the rest of Zeitgeist. Wonder how healthy it is to have listened to it all over the course of a week 😛 Dunno how much of the above games I’m going to get through now I don’t have something to listen to while grinding away. @dkzeitgeist, where’s seasons 2 and 3? 😛
Someone finally watched The Host! :’D Such a great movie.
You have a lot to learn from this man, @liondrive.
I’ll watch it, one of these days! XP
Hey I watched that when it first came out, awesome movie indeed. (the Korean one I don’t know of this other one)
Going to go see a Fast&Furious movie ‘as tradition dictates’. What an age to live in.
We are of a generation where we will probably be able to claim doing things at the time of a Spiderman origin story movie as part of tradition, too. 😛
Heh. Ahh, The Host. I really thought that was going to be a different kind of movie, from the trailers. I didn’t mind the premise, but the heroine with multiple suitors part was very… teen-girl’s diary’ish. Also, people threw the L word around way too freely. It was a very ‘chick flick’ sci-fi, for my tastes. I was bemoaning the writing to someone more clued in on who makes things, and she laughed and said I should’ve checked with her first… because it was made by the same person who had written Twilight. (This wouldn’t have stopped me, but it would’ve set expectations appropriately so I was less disappointed.)
Still, I was in south-east Asia, desperate for some entertainment that didn’t involve drinking, or gawking at landmarks and hiking. It was either that, or locally-produced low-budget stuff in a language I didn’t understand. Which sounds like a good time, but you get homesick sometimes.
(I think he’s talking about the Korean “The Host” from the “7/8 years ago” bit)
At least, I sincerely hope so otherwise I retract my above comment 😛
Ohhhh. Knowing @mrtaco, this is more likely. Because I wouldn’t have pegged the more recent ‘The Host’ movie to have been attached to a Hyper mag. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was, because I expect it did pretty poorly enough to be given away. But I didn’t know there was any other ‘The Host’. Now I have to look it up!
It’s one of my favourite movies ever!
EDIT; AND it’s on Netflix so none of you have an excuse.
Can I use your terribad suggestion of Rubber as an excuse to not trust your weirdo film tastes?
😛
Been meaning to watch that for a few years now.
Haha, well it’s more a thing specific to the group, we’ve seen all the previous movies together (save for Tokyo Drift which I missed for whatever reason) so it kind of became a running joke thing. Except then it turned out that the 5th movie was ridiculously awesome, and now I actually want to keep going and seeing them.
That movie you’re talking about there sounds… unfamiliar. I was talking about the 2007 Korean monster movie. @powalen too, in case 😛
From what I understand the 2013 movie The Host is a science-fiction/romantic Twilight type dealy, that’s based on a book that was written by the woman who wrote the Twilight series.
So basically It’s a load of bollocks.
The Host (2013) takes place in a dystopian post-apocalyptic future, where humanity is held captive by an advanced society of planet-hopping body-snatcher alien parasites who steal memories, thoughts, and override human will, to effectively assert dominance of their new bodies. A young woman discovers she can resist the aliens’ impulses, and heads to find the Resistance.
Now take that badass scenario and make it about forbidden love and feelings.
Sounds kind of like The Body Snatchers meets Warm Bodies? I liked that one.
*eyenarrows* JUST BECAUSE I SAY SOMETHING IS BAD DOESN’T MEAN YOU SHOULD ASSUME YOU WILL LIKE IT.
(Actually, it wasn’t all that bad for a romance story. Just a bit… wussy and often far too contrived. Romance stories shouldn’t have the audience arching skeptical eyebrows.)
As someone who has read all the Twilight books, and The Host, it isn’t too bad a book.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s not good. It’s derivative, simplistic, unrealistic, badly written and contrived as all hell, but I’ve read way worse (and given up on way better).
Hahaha, was just musing on Warm Bodies. This other Host doesn’t sound like it has anything for me at all 😛
TUNE HER PIANO
Maybe later.
Tune my piano? 😀
Maybe later.
Can we synchro Maple Leaf Rag’it?
Absolutely.
Two and Three used to be on… Podbean?
But they don’t seem to be there anymore, so that doesn’t really help.
I’ve seen the first eight episodes of Better Call Saul on STAN.
I think it’s much, much better than it had any right to be. The eighth episode was amazing, by far my favourite yet. And it’s achieved the impossible: it’s made me kind of want to watch Breaking Bad again.
DISCUSS!
SAY MY NAME!
Oh right. Now I don’t really want to watch it again. Thanks! 🙂
Posting again because I am a terrible person.
I am booking in backlot which is available. I am booking it from 7pm to Midnight. Is that okay for everyone?
If making multiple posts about the same topic makes you a terrible person, then I must be positively evil…… oh wait.
Nice save? I wanted to ask you a question anyway. What are some of your favourite JSRF characters?
Confession: I’ve never really played JSRF, but I love the art style.
No problem. I may just make some of a few of the teams then. There’s over 30 playable characters so picking a few for bookmarks is hard
If that’s the best one in your opinion then I’m happy for you to choose it. I really don’t mind where we go.
I asked many people and most prefered backlot or Belgian Beer cafe. They would’ve been equal, but the cost and the fact that we would have to share with the public is what made me and Techie decide backlot would be better.
Fine by me!
Works for me, was realistically happy with any of them.
Okay with me!
Game of Thrones:
(Not really a spoiler, but better safe than sorry)
Selyse is creepy as fuuuuuuuuuucccccckkkkk.Hey, Blaghman! 😀
I felt bad that this post got overlooked :S
How you do’in, buddy?
I don’t need your pity!
*cuts to a Quack in a coat*
“Observe how he lashes out at those around him, desperate for attention, but unwilling to show emotional vulnerability.”
(I’m good, Stu-stu, what’s the hip hop happenings?)
You don’t need my pity, but you will always have it 🙂
Nothing’s happening here, same old same old 😛
Full McBain movie hidden throughout Simpsons episodes:
Apparently Mortal Kombat X will be on sale at Target for PS4 and Xbone at $69. Know where I’m getting my copy.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/190098
Same price at Big W too.
Well.
I had my TAFE holiday last week. It was cool. The Internet dying from Friday (and not being repaired yet) kinda soiled it, but it was good. I was ready to go back to TAFE today.
I notice something is different, though. Where are the people? There’s a security guard, and not much else.
Oh. Apparently it’s TAFE holidays this week. But wait, wasn’t that last week? Did I… did I celebrate my TAFE holiday one week early?
The Internet is (hopefully) getting fixed on Wednesday. Maybe. I tried all the things people recommended, but none of them worked. Guess I’m going back to marathoning How I Met Your Mother. Still relying on my local library for Internet. Luckily, my 30-minute trial keeps getting extended due to a glitch. Woo!
Being able to drive when I want is strangely surreal.
Since I didn’t have Internet to watch a stream, I drove to the local pub and tried to watch an AFL game on the TVs they had there. I bought some potato chips so I wouldn’t seem like an asshole that was trying to watch football for free, but it plagued my conscience all night. Should I have ordered a lemonade as well?
Anyway, I got there in the second quarter. Unfortunately, I was supporting one of the many teams that got smashed this weekend. Also, watching it without sound kind of sucks. At half-time, I got told by a staff member that the table that I was sitting at was reserved, and the people were coming in a few minutes. With every other table and stool occupied, I decided to leave.
I decided to the toilet first. When I went to my car, I noticed something. Where was my bag? Oh god, I left my bag in the toilet. (Yeah, I brought my bag to the toilet, someone would have stolen it if I left it at the table) What if someone steals it? I ran from the carpark to the pub. Problem was, there was a gigantic puddle at the entrance due to the rain, so I slipped on it, fell painfully on my knees, and slid a good three metres due to momentum and the water. Always observe the yellow pyramid signs, people.
My bag was still in the toilet, and still at risk of being stolen. I limp-jogged to the toilet, pushing away concerned staff and patrons. When I opened the door, a man was waiting for me. He must have been the owner or something. He asked me if I came here to meet someone, or to exchange goods.
I realized at this point that this man thought that I left the bag in the toilet to exchange drugs. I blurted out a confused mess of me falling over, and being in my car, and watching the football game. I had to get to my bag. What if someone was stealing from it as I was being interrogated?
I think the man let me go with a glare. I found my bag, hopefully untouched. As I was leaving the bar, I became aware of the pain I was in. Unable to drive with what felt like shattered knees, I spent five awkward minutes recovering in a chair near the exit before I was okay to go.
Would I have been less suspicious if I bought a lemonade?
My library internet minutes keep getting extended this is fantastic
OH GOD EXTEND EXTEND
WHY WON’T YOU EXTEND?
*slowly backs out of TAY*
Erectile dysfunction got you down?
Dammit.
This story is just the best.
As is this reply, pointing out the fact that this is a reply to @phlanispo…
This isn’t a reply, the one above it is.
Well, I mean technically they’re all replies but this one… wait… the one above the one above this one is a reply to @phlanispo.
Capiche?
Keep up the good work. We appreciate what you bring to the role, here.
Daredevil finale
You guys were right. That final fight scene was horrendously shot. That said, my theory is D’Onofrio was the limiting factor there. I thought he played the character fantastically, with some of the character quirks he lent really adding to it (never looking anyone in the face unless angry) however I really don’t think he was able to give a well done fight choreography because damn, the dude has gotten all sorts of old and out of shape. Hence all the jump cuts of single punches.QLD folks! @beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
I’M COMING YOUR WAY SOON.
Can I expect to see you this weekend? At Supanova Gold Coast if at no other time…?
I won’t be at Supanova, and I have a concert to go to Saturday night, so I’m probably out.
First Rocketman, now you.
It’s like, do I smell or something?
I mean, yeah, I do. But it’s a heady musk and the secret to my suck(lol)cess.
I thought you were a Sydney-folk now…? My bad?
Oh I am, but everyone comes to town as soon as ol’ Dan leaves.
I get it…
I’ll be in Sydney in June!
I expect you gone by then.
Either way you’re gonna be disappointed!
Will you be in Brisbane at any time?
Don’t think so, I’m afraid.
🙁 I was looking forward to Supanova as well but the missus breaking her ankle and not being able to work has put a massive dent in finances recently 🙁 Come to the Brisbane Supanova in November 😛
Sorry 🙁
If you’re not in Brisbane proper, then I’m afraid not D:
I’ll be at Supanova both days over the weekend volunteering at one of the booths. I’ll see if I can duck away at one point and come say hi.
Awesome! It’ll be good to see you!
30 hours until MKX!
🙁
And it’s $31.72 to Pre-order on G2A… :\
But I want it noooooooooow.
Street date broken. @gutsoup
Shiny hunting update:
Jacked my false swiping and thieving absol up to level 100, discovered that this was a minor tactical mistake – thief now one shots level 50 legendaries, so I can’t use it any more.
Oops.
Heh
I’ve spent a whole lotta money on clothes lately. Am I becoming Liondrive?
PLEASE NO!
D:
Ugh, Fashionablius
Err’body wants to be like @liondrive.
Dudes got mad style, just ask @shane, @dc, and after next Brisbane visit, @freezespreston.
It’s gonna happen, Freezy. You’ll see… >:)
And hey, I wanted to go shopping with you while you were here! :O
Could have given you some styling tips too 😉
I’ll give you some slobbing tips, dahhhhling
Don’t need yo tips!
;D
Trust me, you need my tips —.- —.-
Skinny jeans and western shirts, right?
Assless chaps
Just finished watching Game Of Throne Season 4 Episode 2
Joffrey’s dead \o/ It’s about time that pompous, arrogant little piece of scum bit the dust. Hopefully his bitch of a mother will be next.Here’s what I think about it. He was absolutely a repulsive character, but the show and the books benefited so much from his presence. It’s like wishing Richard III dropped dead in Act 2. I, for one, am sad he’s gone.Had to actually look up Richard the III, the only Shakespeare I’ve read is The Merchant Of Venice, and that’s because they made us for school, that stuff is really tough reading. I have heard the line, “Now is the winter of our discontent though”. The only thing I’m sad about is that his death wasn’t drawn out, he really deserved to be tortured and made to suffer, and that Tyrion has been locked up for something (I believe) he didn’t do.But hey, everyone’s entitled to their opinion.
I agree, he was a brilliant character but the way he was it was only a matter of time before someone off’d him. Wish he’d’ve hung around for a little while longer thoughHoly shit there was actually an update for Nokia Maps just a couple of weeks ago. First one in like two years or something! Awesome.
Is it an update to redirect you to Google Maps? 😛
M8, Nokia’s maps have always been better 😛
Although Google’s routing for navigation has probably always been better. The Maps app really needed an update or two especially to get via points added in, but that’ll never happen now. Thanks, Elop.
You haven’t tried to use their maps in Japan. It only had ‘major’ roads. So for example, Osaka was the intersection of two streets. :\
Oh, I did. They don’t have maps for there, Jordan or… Korea I think? For some reason. Though I could hardly ever get a GPS signal while I was over there anyway, so it didn’t really matter too much.
Yo! @DC https://igcdn-photos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t51.2885-15/1527518_662524577186392_105159827_n.jpg
Are you sure that TAY is the most appropriate place for such saucy images
MotoXXX singles look to ride in your area!
Goddammit, where is that man? @DC
Well, it took a few days, but that clown charged with murdering the schoolteacher has been linked to Nazis, video games, and Stargate fan fiction.
Edit: allegedly is a bit soft when it comes to the whole not being defamatory thing. Charged with seems a better fit.
Yeah typical dross from “journalists”…. Both Fairfax and News Corp articles follow same structure.
Looks like copy and paste journalism.
News corp one is actually a report on the Fairfax report that then just copies and pastes it after acknowledging this.
And this is how the media works these days…
SERIOUSLY??? MODERATION?
Moderation? Explains why I don’t have a notification for this reply.
Morning all! Isn’t it a fine morning?
I don’t really have anything to say. Just wanted to say good morning.
I hope your day today is worthy of you.
Sincerely,
Shane
Heeeeey, those three links are all to the same thing! You lied to me! Well… implicitly.
What links?
There it is again! Maybe I’m going crazy. I should consult a serious medical doctor for his opinion.
At least he didn’t lie to us through song, I hate it when people do that.
I’m a bit disappointed at least one of them links isn’t to Rick Astley
The way @shane is going it’ll probably happen sooner or later. Never gonna give up hope.
You got the lyrics wrong.
Lyrics?
It’s not ‘never gonna give up hope’! Although it fits the tune.
@transientmind I don’t know to which tune you are referring? I am simply making a statement that I shall be ever vigilant in my hope that Shane eventually links to this “Rick Astley” fellow, whomever he may be.
Hey man. Here’s your dream come true: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
It also explains Transientmind’s posts.
I JUST now had to look up rickrolling to see if Homer’s complaint about ‘lying to us through song’ was actually a rick-roll reference. Nope… 13yrs difference. Huh. I didn’t think that episode was that old… that makes it like, twenty years old. But… but I remember it like it was yesterday.
Oooooollllllldddddd!
Like a fine wine 😉Who Needs The Kwik-E Mart is one of the greatest musical numbers ever written.
That Team Diaverik art is so dope.
Isn’t it just?
Thanks for pledging, too! You want your likeness to be in the Diaverik issue? We can make it happen.
Definitely.
I just discovered that Kickstarter lets you add ‘notes to self’ against backers on the dashboard. (Every day’s a school day.) So there’s no way I can forget this now.
Very much liking the artwork shown here!
Not so much the rewards though. Don’t really think I need second copies of all your stuffs! 😛
Sorry, I know I was running a little short on inspiration for innovative rewards this time around. What would you like to see? Would custom artwork from an Undad artist appeal, a sketch of whatever you want?
Ooh, that sounds good! Except I doubt I’ll be able to afford a tier that awesome. Others with fatter wallets than I would probably jump at the chance, so if you could add something like that I think it would be great.
I had it last time, and only one person chose it! And they still haven’t told me what they want done, so nothing’s happened yet! 😛
Yo @beeawwb , what’s the go with the Simpsons trivia? I’ve been a tad pre-occupied running around after the missus with a broken ankle as, well, she can’t do much running around herself atm 😀
Yeah, I’ve actually been trying to follow up the organisers after a ticketing SNAFU meant I got given tickets for the Thursday, April 30th trivia session. Have been trying to get them to either move or cancel the tickets so we can get the Friday.
Alternatively I can possibly organise another team of 6 for the Thursday (@freezespreston expressed mild interest) and then try and buy new tickets for the Friday session but I’m not sure what ticket availability is like.
Ah bottoms, let me know what’s the outcome then. Thursday I can do as well if it comes to that. I had a quick look the other day though for tickets and I couldn’t see anything available on the Friday or Saturday 🙁
Activision have released a teaser for a new Guitar Hero.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-15942-Activision-Teases-the-Return-of-Guitar-Hero.html
Apparently they’re going to make the full official announcement at some point today (probably tomorrow for us).
Also, just found out they’re releasing an Age Of Ultron table for Zen Pinball 2, it’s due out next week.
http://blog.zenstudios.com/?p=5173
I do miss playing Guitar Hero. Tracking down a couple of guitars and drums might turn into a priority at some point I think in preparation.
That’s assuming Activision follow Harmonix and allow all the old “instruments” to work with the new game, but hey, this is Activision we’re talking about, I wouldn’t get your hopes up.
Can only hope. If not, if they’re anything like the last GH & Rockband games, the tracklists will be fairly similar so Rockband it will be
I have 2 Logitech guitars, 2 Logitech drums and a mic. Just putting that out there.
If you want to sell one of those drum sets, let me know!
I’d rather play them! \o/
Yoink. Yoink?! That’s good danish. Be they PS3?
360.
Then I will watch you and @strange have a drum-off 😛
Oh man. I so badly want Guitar Hero back, but that phrasing makes me worried. “It’s about to get real”, feels like it implies things that would involve taking the series away from its old direction. Also I wonder if they’d even bother doing a Wii U version.
What the hell, so Harmonix are like ‘it’s time for more Rock Band’ and then Activision are like WELP TIME TO RUN IT TO THE GROUND AGAIN…
One more day till Mortal Kombat X Wooo!
Disappointed that I won’t have the arcade stick I was planning to buy on launch, but oh well, I’ll grab it in a couple of weeks.
Just broke. EB are selling it.
Question about Bloodborne: Do the enemies disappear after you kill them a certain number of times a-la Dark Souls II, or are they always there no matter what?
Oh, and @shane, the Strategy Guide releases today.
http://www.amazon.com/Bloodborne-Collectors-Strategy-Guide-Future/dp/3869930691/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428966444&sr=8-1&keywords=Bloodborne+Guide+Book
Yay! I preordered it ages ago from Book Depository. Apparently the book is pretty heavy on lore-explanation, so I’m very keen for it! 🙂
If it gives any advice of Chalice dungeon loot and blood gem farming locations it would be a worthwhile read
Here’s a community list I found on GameFAQs for Chalice Dungeon loots:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k4GzUMm4-PdLK_mzkMpEdb7cOf5_mdV15tR9G0w2mbA/htmlview?usp=sharing&pli=1&sle=true
Hmmmm…. This actually seems quite worthwhile.
We have a long running conversation in our house about the sanctity of the ‘first play’. Not knowing, exploring, finding things out for yourself. You only get that discovery *once*, and watching videos to find out what’s ahead (how she got into dark souls) means that you get it zero times instead of once.
Lately she’s been watching videos of experienced dark souls players playing with aggression mods and another mod that changes the main weapon to something random every seven seconds. I’ve pointed out that it seems like they’re going a long way to squeeze a little more of the fear of the unknown out of the game, just like that first play.
But anyway, that was a long tangent. Finding out all the stuff in this guide is sounding really appealing *after* the first playthrough.
Dammit book
suppositoryrepository!Now I’ve ordered one.
… It would be mean if I wrapped it up and labeled it to only be unwrapped once the game is finished, wouldn’t it?
Seem to be always there. I haven’t done any experimenting, though.
I’ve done like over 80-90 Mergo’s Lunarium farming clears, safe to say that enemies are always there.
I just bought GTA 5 on PC. Not less than a month ago I bought GTA 5 for the PS4.
I’m just the worst.
You should change your name to Monday you’re that bad.
*Loads GTA5 on PC*
*Goes directly to settings*
*Only has an option for 59 frames per second, not the glorious 60 that was promised*
WORST PORT
*throws computer into the bin*
Morning, Have you ever thought about covering pinball? Its made quite a resurgence in the past few years.
Morning!
Can’t say I’ve really thought about covering pinball, personally.
Hello! You were probably trying to contact Mark. http://www.kotaku.com.au/contact/ is your best bet.
But you’re welcome here. Tell us things about yourself!
I’m gonna are a wild guess and say he likes pinball.
Maybe a pinball machine crushed his parents, and he wants Mark to do an article about how bad pinball is?
YOU DON’T KNOW HIS STORY, FREEZY!
It’s made quite a resurgence in the past few years… and we must act to stop it.
They are lead by a powerful former human, now known as… the Pinball Wizard.
Thanks. I own a few and nearly own every console ever made. Pinball is quite more enjoyable and way less predictable. So thought I would suggest kotaku covering it.
I really enjoy pinball FX 2 although I’m a few tables behind in the DLC release so far
As for actual pinball, I like the idea o fit but that will be as far as I go. To much work, too much room
Nothing like the real thing 🙂
I lost a huge amount of my teenage years to Crystal Caliburn on the Mac. That was a rad pinball game. Never found anything since that grabbed me the same way.
I’d love to (have the space to) own a working pinball cabinet but they take a fair bit of maintenance and weigh a ton.
Pinball is the best. Though not entirely a huge fan of the newer Stern machines I’ve seen around, the print quality on them is pretty ugly once you get up close.
They have gotten better but you’re right , that crap pixelated quality is quite sad.
Metallicas master of puppets LE pin is beautiful tho.
I get that it’s probably cheaper for them to be able to print the designs on like that, rather than silk-screening or whatever they’d do traditionally. Plus being able to just replace the label/wrap on the outside of the box in the case of a repair would be much simpler. It’s just a shame that there’s so much of a tradeoff in quality because of it.
Agree with the above though, there’s nothing like the real thing. Virtual pinball never quite feels right in comparison, there’s always just something too weird and floaty about it.
Do you have any machines yourself?
Yes I have 6 machines.
Oh wow. Which ones? You must be the coolest guy any of your friends know 😛
Tron Limited edition, Metallica LImited edition, Star Trek Limited edition, Twilight zone, Indiana jones and medieval madness.
Oooh my partners in the paper. so proud 🙂
Oh no! He finally got caught!?
Bloody brits, if they get caught on our soil they should get whats coming to them 😛
…forced to get citizenship?
hahaha yes. and to stop calling things “butties”
LOL That’s only a subset of Brits. 🙂 The same subset who have chips with everything.
Including chip butties.
Yes, them. “A chip buttie and chips please”
and then theres the vegetable language mismatch
Conversation I had with my mum when she last visited…
Me: “Pass the zucchini”
Mum: “The what?”
Me: “…the courgette…”
Mum: “Why can’t you use the English name? You’ve picked up all these strange words in Australia.”
Me: “…the English name? OK, pass the baby marrow please…”
If Oasis were to re-form, but couldn’t use the name “Oasis”, would “Caldera” be more accurate?
Someone asked me to play Wonderwall on the guitar once. I said maybe.
#earlypagesix
As much as I dislike paying for DLC I really hope they add more characters into Mortal Kombat X, they are missing some of my favorites, where are Baraka, Noob Saibot, Sindel, Cyrax, Sektor, Nightwolf, Kabal, Stryker, Rain, Sheeva or Smoke. That’s a lot of awesome characters to leave out. Hopefully some of them will be unlockable, MK9 did have 2 hidden characters.
Really! I had no idea they left out that many characters. Like you I hope they’re unlockable, but somehow I’ve got the feeling they’ll be paid DLC.
Watched GoT season 5 episode 4 last night, so here’s a recap just for @powalen
Brienne and Podrick visit a haunted castle where they are visited by the ghost of Catelyn Stark. This is followed by a confusing chase sequence where they catch the ghost, but it turns out it was really old man Jenkins all along.
Tommen mistakenly believes he is an accomplished juggler as he is unable to differentiate between genuine admiration and sycophancy. His juggling skills are above average, at best. Margarey manages to explain this to him and let him down gently, something Cersei swears to never forgive her for.
Drogon and Jorah get into a fight about the “forced capture” rule during a heated game of checkers. Despite the fact Jorah is correct, Daenerys takes Drogon’s side and Jorah is exiled again.
Jamie and a masked man get into a left-handed swordfight atop the cliffs of insanity. Despite losing, Jamie is left alive as a mark of respect. Humiliated, Jamie sends himself into exile.
Varys and Tyrion finally arrive in the free cities of Braavos and visit a ballet. Despite Arya’s sensational performance, both are too bored to pay attention and fail to recognise her. Both of them forget whose idea this was and sit in bitter silence, only once muttering in unison “well this is another fine mess you’ve gotten us into”.
This is hilarious!
Might want to remove the “King” from Tommen’s name though,because I know some people aren’t even up to the end of last season.Everything I know about Game of Thrones has come from these posts. Hopefully the real show is as funny 😛
It’s basically this but with way more boobs.
I feel like the deleted scenes would contain a Benny Hill chase scene through forests, mountains and marshlands
Just watched episode 14 of Unlimited Blade Works. I am very much not used to having to wait for my next episode of anime and it’s driving me nuts. 😛
I glanced at the comments and noticed people keep mentioning a Visual Novel. Is that worth checking out, @negativezero?
Watched the first episode of the new season of Game Of Thrones last night. On Foxtel. So, entirely legally for the first time. Except my cheap sub to Foxtel Play ran out today, so probably the last time. 😛
I suck at Bloodborne. Spectacularly. I can’t even reach the first boss so I’ve never been able to even level up. I think it might have something to do with me not being able to completely focus on games while I’m playing them anymore because I always have a million quilting things on my to-do list. So I can’t just dedicate the time needed to train myself. Regardless of the reason, I don’t think I’ll be able to play it. Which sucks in so many ways, not least of which is that I’m completely in love with the game. I’ve seen Mr. Strange play a great deal of it and the atmosphere is amazing,and some of those enemy designs are stunningly beautiful, in a disgusting kind of way.
One other thing about Bloodborne that is awesome is that our son is in love with it too (like all Souls games. Yes, we let our 6yo watch us play them. He doesn’t get scared, he loves that kind of creepy stuff. He has to tell me it’s not real. :P) And he’s learning from watching us play. Usually when he’s playing games himself, he gets frustrated and just ragequits. But after seeing us try Souls and Bloodborne parts over and over again, he’s learned to persevere. And on the weekend, he was playing a bit of Skylander’s Giants that was getting him completely frustrated, and I caught him saying to himself as he played “You can do it. You can do it. You can do it!”. He finished the game. \o/
https://twitter.com/FreezeSPreston/status/587601274658426881
You too? Oh man, I really thought I’d be the only one on account of my unco-factor. It doesn’t help that I keep seeing people complain that it’s too easy. Those people make me want to splatter them with my axe.
I don’t think the pressure of others forging further ahead or complaining how easy it is really helps either. It’s a big part of the souls experience to ‘get it’ in your own time, and that shared experience during the process can be almost counterproductive.
Fantastic to talk about afterwards, yes, but scaling a mountain may only be more frustrating and less satisfying when you can already see others holding a dance party at the top.
I definitely don’t think it’s easy. But in the main quest, the first area is the hardest one I’ve faced so far (because of the combination of low-level character and rather alarmingly large groups of enemies).
For my part, I’ve hit a huge wall in the Chalice Fungeons (deliberate typo), a boss that I just cannot beat because my reflexes stink.
I’m going to have to leave that until I level up massively and then just steamroll him later.
I’ve taken to just running past all those dudes gathered at the fire. They don’t follow past the doorway. I think I might be able to make progress but I just don’t feel committed enough to try anymore.
I wonder if that’s the same boss I stopped at…
Round scythe guy? Was at 2-3 in the P dungeonPthumerian Descendant. The guy with the scythe who splits his weapon in half when you get him to 50% health. Man, that guy. Burned through over a hundred blood vials and fifty bullets trying to take him down.Yep, same guy. When I ran low on vials I started learning, and I could get him to 50% pretty well with no healing, but that second form… Is it a 5 or 15 hit combo coming? No telegraphing to tell you how many – you only know how many hits in a combo once he stops swingingYeah, I’m the same. First form isn’t too tricky, but he just demolishes me in the second form.Want to co-op the dude? I’m sure we can arrange something.
How does chalice co-op work?
Good job self, I replied to me, and editing in a tag won’t help.
So.. Uhhh… Up there, how does chalice co-op work?
Same way the normal one does. We need to be in the same area at the same time, and within a certain 10% level cap of each other (I’m around level 60, I think). Apparently it helps if you set a multiplayer password, too, but we still might be standing around for some time.
I’m keen if you are. It’ll have to be tonight, though, because I’m heading up Gold Coast way on Thursday morning… and probably after about 10pm. Is that do-able?
(cc. @shane )
I don’t know if co-op will work if you’re in different instances of the same dungeon, Saturday and I always join one of our dungeons using the glyph to make sure it works.
As some additional tips, make sure you’d standing in roughly the same area (generally the lantern near the start is a good place), and it seems to work a whole lot faster if the person being summoned in (resonant bell) rings their bell about five seconds before the person summoning (beckoning bell). Our wait times are usually less than 30 seconds, sometimes as low as five, doing the above.
Yeah, sounds good. I reckon I can get something sorted. Might have to make sure I get an hour or two in before that to get back in the groove.
So we don’t need to share the same chalice seed or anything? Just both go stand in 2-3 and do some bell ringing?
I think I’m somewhere around that level too, will need to double check. I think it was 57 last I looked but not sure if that was before or after my last batch of levelling.
I don’t know for sure. I thought it was only the root dungeons that were randomised…?
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/805577-bloodborne/71597225 Here’s some guidelines. What password do you want to use? How does TAYFUN sound?
@shane Sounds good.
And OHHHHHHH… The rest mode thing makes sense why it doesn’t work so well after the first few days. I’ll restart my PS4 before I start the game up tonight.
I share your pain, I too suck at Bloodborne. Tried to make it through the first area yesterday, died a bunch of times, then I slowly learned the enemy placement/attacks and started to find it much easier, then I tried to push forward towards the first boss and got my arse handed to me, tried a few more times and got devoured by Werewolves. Eventually I quit in frustration.
I think playstyle has a lot to do with it, I just keep wanting to rush in and wail on the enemies, I have to force myself to dodge and wait for the perfect moment to strike, but my instinct (not sure if you’d call it that) inevitably tells me to go for the extra hit, and I get punished every time, you think I’d learn.
Today I’m back on Disney Infinity 2.0 because I’m just so daunted of the prospect of going back to Bloodborne and getting spanked. Hopefully I’ll be able to muster up the courage to give it another crack tomorrow.
I took the Bloodborne disc out of the PS4 while Mr. Strange was away last week and put the Inquisition disc back in. I finished it a second time, and progressed some more in one of my alternate characters. I just couldn’t face more frustration.
Fate/stay night is a pretty cool visual novel, though it does suffer a little from being an “adult” VN, in that they felt the need to add hilarious sex scenes to it
I stopped reading it right around the point they decided the main character needed to regenerate Saber’s magical energy by boning her.From memory there’s a bunch of different story arcs, the first anime was of the first route (Fate?), UBW is obviously enough of the Unlimited Blade Works story, and I think there’s at least a third one that’s considered the “true” one, but I may well be wrong.
So, I think it’s worth checking out, but be ready for a lot of words. Like, so many words. They did not skimp on the novel part (It probably just felt a lot longer than it was because of all the pictures and stuff).
The first anime was ostensibly an adaption of Fate but it incorporated (badly) chunks of the other two arcs as well eg
Sakura going dark-mode and stuff, in the original arc they don’t even reveal that Sakura and Rin are sisters and Sakura gets sidelined after Rider is defeated early on.I’m honestly not sure what was more off, the sex scene you described or the sequence with the weird CG dragon that they replaced it with in the anime. I’d probably lean toward the former simply because
it also involved Rin, and it spawned a hilarious meme. The other scenes are less ‘why the hell are you doing that now’ and just feel unnecessary.The console versions (Realta Nua IIRC) don’t have the sex in them. Don’t know if anyone’s put out translation patches for those versions though.
My suspicion is that we’ll eventually see the VN in English officially. I’d also argue that ufotable’s adaption of UBW is so good and accurate you could probably skip the arc in the VN. They’re doing a movie adaption of Heaven’s Feel apparently as well.
Re: Unlimited Blade Works, the visual novel is pretty good aside from some unnecessary sexual content shoehorned in. You also need to know that the current anime is only adapting one of the three separate story arcs in the game – they all start similarly but develop differently and are focused on different characters (though unfortunately Shirou is the protagonist in all of them).
The first arc was kind of adapted as a TV anime years ago and the studio that did it didn’t have anywhere near the attention to detail that ufotable does, so it’s honestly not a great show. It’s also the weakest arc as it’s focused on Saber. It’s really just intended to whet the appetite and introduce you to some of the characters and concepts. Unlimited Blade Works is focused on Rin (who is by far the best character) and has many deeper themes. Caster’s the main antagonist
until Gilgamesh shows upand it’s overall a pretty good story arc. The third arc, Heaven’s Feel, is really the ‘true’ route for the game. I don’t know if you saw Fate/Zero (go watch it if you didn’t!) but Heaven’s Feel is tonally more in line with Zero. It’s dark and disturbing and quite tragic, focused on Sakura who is basically the franchise whipping boy (if you’ve seen Zero you already know a bit of her back story).Spoilers for Unlimted Blade Works:
It’s just about to go pretty dark and tragic, FYI. Gilgamesh is a complete jerk and a lot of characters you might have liked are going to get dead. On the upside, this is the arc where Lancer isn’t completely useless.Oh and if you like ufotable’s handling of Type-Moon stuff, you should hunt down Kara no Kyoukai. It was a series of seven OVAs plus a subsequent extra one that the studio did before Fate/Zero. Not quite the same crazy high budget animation but pretty good and it has some moments which made it really clear how good ufotable are. It’s a personal fave of mine, and they were awesome and subtitled the Bluray release in Japan so I imported it at crazy expense. It’s one of the coolest things in my collection. Fantastic soundtrack too, highly atmospheric.
I watched Zero on Netflix, which is why I’m watching UBW now. I actually didn’t realise it was a new thing, because I’d heard of Fate Stay/Night years ago so that’s why I was surprised it was ongoing.
Definitely will track down Kara No Kyoukai though, thanks!
Well if you’ve already seen Zero then you’re already acquainted with how much of a douche Gilgamesh is, though IMO all the characters are vastly better written and more nuanced in Zero. Even the carry-over characters are more interesting in Zero – Kirei in Zero for example is a nihilist and really interesting villain, where in the original stuff he’s more of a nutjob. Every character is written to have some subtleties to their characters and you even have some great sequences like Zero’s Rider, Archer and Saber getting together to discuss their differing philosophies on kingship. You just don’t get that in the original visual novel.
But that’s because the original writer, Nasu, is simply not as good a writer as Urobuchi is. FYI Fate/Zero was written many years down the track, by Gen Urobuchi who is a visual novel and anime writer. His VN credits include Saya no Uta
(which I think you see a big chunk of inspiration from in Fate/Zero actually – it’s a horror novel about a dude that has an accident and after it every human he sees as a grotesque mound of heaving flesh except Saya, who appears to him as a young girl. Of course, anyone who sees Saya describes her as some kind of creeping lovecraftian nightmare, right before she murders them…)and Phantom of Inferno (which has a good anime adaption, Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom. Yes that’s a dumb title) and anime-wise he wrote Psycho-pass, Aldnoah Zero, Gargantia and Puella Magi Madoka Magica, all of which are top-end shows worth your time to look into.That is the most adorable thing ever, from the Strangeling.
I was thinking about our gamer-parents here when reading the most recent Penny Arcade posts/comic about Gabe going to his kid’s school PTA to talk to parents about video games and internet.
I really feel for all of them. It seems hard enough to raise a kid and not fuck them up without having to do it with them submerged in a world you know nothing about.
Bloodborne:
(re: the very first boss to level up: I don’t think you need to kill the ‘first boss’, I think you just have to kill ‘A’ boss. I got access to the doll after killing the apparently optional Cleric Beast on the bridge (after running into him by accident. THIS IS WHY EXPLORING SCARES ME, I never know when I’m going to run into a boss and lose all my stuff! I didn’t that time, but that was mostly luck and latching onto its ankle while screaming and extended-blade slashing. Plus the panicked use of some molotovs.)You don’t even have to kill. You just have to FIND. That gets you 1 Insight point, and that’s what awakens the doll, unlocks levelling and MP.Oh cool! OK, THAT is a great tip.
Silicon Valley S02E01:
I’m really disappointed that they decided to replace Peter Gregory with a very similar character. He served as a great contrast to the main characters. Someone who was all over the place but knew what the hell he was doing. Throwing in someone with his mannerisms without that element just seems like it’s inviting comparison. Here’s hoping she evolves as a character and quickly.I should watch silicon Valley at some point. I got like five minutes into the first episode then got sidetracked and haven’t gone back. I have season 1 ready to go… but just out of curiousity is this on Netflix/Stan or anything, or will I have to continue to seek it out via other means?
It’s not on Netflix and I’ve been using other means. In theory you could go with HBO’s thing, if you’re willing to proxy up.
Really, really worth watching. I’m getting this week to week while I’m waiting to binge Game of Thrones at end of season.
Ahhh! Mortal Kombat X just broke street date!
Woo! \o/
And it drops on Steam in 3 hours! 😀
Remember, $34.60 on G2A!
EDIT: Annnnd purchased! \o/
Isn’t today the release date though?
For the rest of the world maybe, tomorrow was for Australia.
Coolio.
Yeah, just read the article.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/04/mortal-kombat-x-has-broken-street-date-in-australia/
@gutsoup
aaaah,
*runs*
Edit: Bah, EB are the only ones near me selling it, not sure I wanna fork over $100.
hehe, I watched the movie last night in anticipation 😛 and it’s still pretty terrible.
Anyone found a retailer other than EB that have broken street date? All stores around me so no good until tomorrow.
Price-matching?
they wouldn’t because the other retailers weren’t selling it.
Could try now? I’ve heard JB is now, too. At my local EB they always just call up if it’s in doubt. 🙂
Edit: Oh, saw your post about getting it at JB. Nevermind. 😛
Yeah, got it from JB, they finally caught on. They refused to believe me this morning.
“Hey, look up ‘kotaku.com.au’ on your phone and tell me what the featured posts are.”
I’ve done that with showing the Big W price and release date for one price-match.
@freezespreston @rize @tech_knight @sernobulus @gingerchris86
TAY RPG 40K Rogue Trader makes a return tonight at 8pm AEST. Now to remember what was even happening and how to play the game. 😛 Let me know if you can make it tonight or when you’ll be able to join in.
The group parleyed with some Dark Eldar Mandrakes and are looking to speak with the overall leader of this Kabal. This is all while leading a small band of Gretchin through the Underhive of the city.
I’m in!
I should be good to go.
I’m in 🙂
@negativezero How’s the job hunting going?
Possibility in Canberra working for the government, but it’s like a 30% pay cut so don’t think I can make it work and feels like a backward step a bit.
I’ve been told that if I apply, I will be offered a job with paid relocation on my old team over in Redmond. Need to make a decision on that soon though. This one seems the best option for me but holy shit, it’s the other side of the world in a place where I don’t really know anyone and I’ve never visited, so it’s pretty daunting.
Local market has jobs that I could probably apply for and get, but I think I’d gain no job satisfaction from them at all. A lot of them I’d struggle with as well simply because I’m not a general .NET programmer (I know C# well but haven’t ever built a UI or anything) and I’ve not got a lot of relevant web-related experience. But mainly I feel like after doing the sort of advanced, specialized development I’ve been doing, I need to either continue that or find something similarly challenging otherwise it’d be a backward step both career and personal satisfaction-wise.
Technical screening with a company that makes internet things and phone things (you know who) on Wednesday next week but I don’t think they’re going to be able to come through with a competitive offer to me fast enough that I can overlook a bird in the hand so to speak. Also there are benefits to Seattle over the SF Bay Area – cost of living is significantly lower, and tax is lower (they have sales tax but no state income tax, only federal).
Had intended to talk to someone who approached me from the social network people (you know who) too, but I’ve been sick the last few days with a really bad sore throat so I didn’t want to be up for an 8am phone conversation while my throat felt like I’d been gargling razor blades. May still have a chat but I don’t think it’ll come through in time, same as the other possibility. I can’t guarantee I’d get an offer from either of them.
I suspect there may be some others in my situation who will also make the pilgrimage to the US. There’s just lots of opportunities there.
We should do a Melbourne TAY gathering some time though. If I do move to the US I’ll be here for a while working remotely while visas clear.
Well, that’s certainly a big opportunity. All the best for that.
If you know anyone in the .NET space looking to stay in Melbourne, our ‘finder’s bonus’ just got doubled, so I’d be happy to split that with you if there’s anyone you want to refer this way (same goes for the ‘normal’ bonus for anyone not in that specifically targeted .NET area)We definitely need to get another TAY meat happening before you Bish us all.
Yay! Destiny 1.1.2 is out tonight, by the sounds of it. Finally, I’ll be able to hear my party chat over the game audio. Also, something about vault space and a shader library that I couldn’t quite make out over the sound of Dinkbot shouting about an Arkon, from the Prison of Elders.
They’re adding an extra 4 vault slots to each section. I don’t store a lot of armor or weapons so all this does is give me a whopping 4 spaces for my extra ships, sparrows, shaders, spinmetal, spirit bloom, relic iron, helium filaments, weapon telemetries, silken codexes, axiomatic beads, black wax idols, house banners, exotic shards, crucible commendations, vanguard commendations, strange coins and motes of light.
I’m hoping they turn shaders into unlocks rather than a physical item. I get the appeal of having them as drops and having them as unlock slightly reduces the novelty of some of the rarer ones, but the current system is needlessly fiddly and shaders I don’t leave on any particular character because it isn’t suitable for their current armor (but could look good on future armor) take up between 6-8 inventory slots.
I guet I could leave them all in my character’s inventories or whatever but I feel like that’s nothing more than a stopgap measure. I’ve already had to clear all my duplicates (though granted, the only dupes I had were for shaders that drop every 5 minutes anyway like Cytherean Bloom, Achilles, Beowulf and Gilgamesh).
I believe the weapons storage is going to 36, which will be nice – that’s been getting increasingly awkward of late. Would have preferred an extensible paging system, but, eh. But even with that, I think I’m still mostly excited about the audio options. 😛
Kinda annoyed I seem to have imagined the part about the shader library… 🙁 They really should be account-wide unlocks.
I’m terrible at Spelunky.
I was mucking about and managed to get two jetpacks in the first shop (one in a gift box). So I did the only reasonable thing: try and complete a double jetpack run. It’s just a run where you equip one jetpack and carry the other through to Olmec.
There’s a reason for doing this, Olmec is a puzzle boss that you beat by making him fall into the lava below his lair. If you drop a jetpack into the lava where he is going to drop, the jetpack explodes and causes the lava to drain. Then you can ride around on top of Olmec on the bottom of his lair.
It’s kind of neat.
I got up to 4-2 (the third last level) easily. There was a thwomp next to the exit, so I got cautious and tried to bomb it. When trying to bomb it, I triggered it and got crushed. If I’d just rushed the exit, I wouldn’t have been hit.
I’m terrible at Spelunky.
I got to level 1-2 once… That was a proud moment
People really overstate how difficult Spelunky is. Sure, everything can kill you but it often doesn’t.
“Terrible”.
I’ve never finished a low% run. Hell, I’ve died to Olmec on low% runs more times than I’ve killed Yama.
Terrible.
I don’t think I’ve made it past level 3.
1-3 in the mines or 3-1 in the ice caves?
Either way, I can help. I want other people to get as obsessed as I am, so that they understand my ramblings.
The simplest way to get better is to just slow down. There’s very little that can get you in the game if you’re just taking your time and dealing with threats as they come. Always ledge grab and look down before descending. Don’t be worried about going back to a safe place to take out the enemies approaching.
The whip is your friend. Learn to use it and soon you’ll be whipping arrow traps and backwhipping giant spiders when you go under them. Getting good with the whip is a million times better than trying to carry something around to trigger traps/kill enemies etc.
1-3 in the mines. Maybe 1-4 if that’s a thing? I think you lost me at backwhipping, but in all fairness I haven’t spent a lot of time with the game. I will try to spend some time getting good at it, but I’ve been playing lots of other stuff.
1-4 is a thing.
There are four main areas of the game: Mines, Jungle, Ice Caves and Temple. Each of them has 4 sub-levels. So the third area of the Jungle would be 2-3 and the fourth area of the Mines is 1-4. It gets messy when dealing with the Mothership but it’s a fairly easy system to keep track of where you are.
Backwhipping is just whipping something behind you. When you activate the whip, the first frame or two of the animation is behind you, so if you time it right you can whip something right behind you. It doesn’t come up often but you feel like a complete badass when it works.
Fair enough. I think I made it to the jungle once. When you reach a new area it opens a shortcut, right? I think I have a shortcut to the jungle, but I wouldn’t quote me on that since I haven’t opened the game in months.
@kermitron When you reach a new area, the Tunnel Man will offer to open up a shortcut if you give him something. You have to do that three times for the shortcut to unlock.
Ah, ok, then I probably haven’t actually unlocked the shortcut. I might have given him something once.
Mortal Kombat get \o/
Can’t play it till tonight :'(
I’m not willing to fork out $100, so unless someone else near me breaks date I’ll be waiting until tomorrow. Just saw the price on the Kombat pack $44.95 for 4 characters and 3 skins what the f*%# that is some of the worst gouging I’ve seen.
Bloodborne update
Think I’ve settled in freaking finally. Only died three times after getting past those two werewolves on the bridge and all three to Father Gascoigne. Had a feeling I may have gone the wrong way by how badly he was destroying me and how little I was damaging him so went back even though the battle was a ton of fun. Eventually found the Cleric Beast and got him first go. Really is just a repeat of the Taurus Demon so was a little disappointed with that. Onwards!Father Gascoigne Spoilers
did you have the tiny music box? that made him a lot easier in his frenzied state.I thought of that after the fact when I found the brooch. Oh well.nah you get it before and if you use it in the battle he gets stunned, the little girl says it’ll remind him of his familyYeah, I got it before but it didn’t cross my mind to try using it until after I’d already beaten himRe: Father Gascoigne
I could never get the music box to work properly. I got that it stunned him for a bit, but could never get the separation to use it, so I would just stand still holding it out before being ground to a pulp. He would be stunned for a bit post pulping, but by then the damage was done.On a side note I managed to kill the werewolves on the bridge for the first time ever last night, I was happier with that achievement than any other so far in the game. Those bastards got me so many times early in the game
No idea what that is.
item you get from Gascoigne’s daughter, she’s in the first area. Helps with her quest line, not sure if you can do it after Gascoigne or not.The first couple times I died to Gascoigne was because
I lost all my health trying to activate the damned music box. That thing was a fucking liability, I did much better when I just ignored it and focused on parrying him and getting out of the way of his bullets.I got Cleric Beast first time, too. My favourite thing about this boss is that he’s guarding a dead end!I thought I was doing something wrong after I beat him because it’s a dead endI got squashed big time by cleric beast first go /egoYOU DEFEATED@rize @pyrean – sorry for missing your Titanfall messages guys, have been in all sorts with a tooth infection and other crap, ill be back on board today/tomorrow! id love to jump on a few games tonight but i think i got a couple of peeps coming over for birthday related shenanigans…
No worries, we’ve had limited success due to disconnects the last couple of days anyway. Something funky is happening with the Internet in peak hours in NSW.
THE PC VERSION OF MORTAL KOMBAT X DOESN’T WORK AND I’M MAD ARGH
🙁 I hope you get it sorted.
I hope steam/nether realm get it sorted because no one can play it at the moment haha.
shit, that sucks, they better do something or they’ll have a lot of disgruntled folk to deal with.
I keep getting “haha” replies via email from people in my office, but I never actually hear anybody laughing.
…I’ll take it anyway.
Haha.
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140708210759/clubpenguinpookie/images/5/57/Nelson_haha.jpg
The push to Friendfund my life continues.
And it will NEVER stop.Actually, it will stop. On May 29. And won’t start up again.Is it exclusively friends or can enemies donate too?
I’m so desperate that even BENs can donate.
Good god, man! Think of your soul!
I have no soul.
It’s all about the Yarnham blood now.Wait, you turned Ginger?
*insert Tim Minchin song*
I don’t know how I feel about donating to this cause anymore …
Lowest common denominator capitalism.
Soulless, man, soulless.
See above.
Woo \o/
I’ll probably back this again once I figure out what my future employment looks like.
Thanks, man. Good luck with it all!
(For the record, I was already hoping that things would go well.)
Mortal Kombat X get, JB broke street date, $79. They tried to upsell me to the steel book edition which is $99 and only included 1 extra skin that can be bought on the PSN for $3 ish bucks. Dude at the counter next to me overheard me saying “I’m not paying $20 for an outfit, especially when it’s $3 on the PSN” he promptly swapped his for the standard edition and stopped me on my way out to thank me for the info. Now to download the day 1 patch of 1.8GB and Goro. I’m really freaking excited to play it.
Outfit is $2.95 on PSN, it claims the proceeds go into the prize pool for the “Who’s Next” tournament.
…. and my hype turns to despair, after installing I can play but the disc drive sounds like it wants to explode, keeps spinning really fast then clunking to a halt, really doesn’t sound healthy, upon exiting the game the disc keeps spinning and crashes my ps4 if I try turn it off, F%$#
Sorry to hear, gutsoup. D:
Goddamn that sucks! I’ll let you know if I have any issues.
piece of mortal krap X – Steam-ING pile of krap edition… the damn thing crashes more than a 2 yo using the flatmobile in Flatout 2….
Not much better on console, I concerned it’s going to break my ps4, I’ve never heard it sound so unhealthy before. Wish I’d gone digital, if only the prices were reasonable.
hmm… i was planning on buying it on PS4 but my friend ended up gifting it to me today for my birthday… it has one of those weird-arse in game download while you play things that is horribly broken suprise suprise. steam install is on 3gb, whereas the internal download is another 24gb…
Seem to have it working now but all modes are locked except single fight?
Edit: Nope if I exit the game it locks up the ps4 and the disc drive goes psycho again. Starting to regret this purchase.
*turns off console*
Aaah, tried again, still having disc spasms and cannot access anything other than training or single fight.
Have you tried giving it a hard reset (turning it off and pulling the power cord out)? Has the update completely finished downloading?
I waited for the update to finish before I even loaded it up, did 2 hard resets and several forced resets because it locked up. Just deleted it, trying a re-install.
I’m downloading the update now,should be done in 3 or 4 hours. I’ll let you know how I get on.
@evilmonkey no good exactly the same after a re-install. Every time I close it my ps4 locks up, makes horrible noises and turns itself off. Going to give up for now before I mess up my hard drive from all these sudden shut downs. Similar issues killed a hard drive on my ps3.
yup thats exactly whats happening to everyone… apparently when you first l;aunch it 23 Kombat packs get queued on the steam download list….
Julia Gillard is writing Game of Thrones recaps and analysis for the Guardian.
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/apr/14/julia-gillard-on-game-of-thrones-series-five-enjoy-carefully
Did it for last season too, as an entree to the season.
Apparently one of the few programs she was current on while in power.
Well she certainly has some experience with political intrigue, knives in the back, shady courtroom deals to sieze the throne etc…
Feeling so tired, think I might be coming down with something.
Yep, definitely bone-itis.
Lol nah, I feel really tired, can feel in the back of my nose like I’m going to get a cold, my forhead’s warm and my joints are aching a little. Usually a sure sign of the flu for me.
I can give him something for that…
*bow-chika-wow-wow*
It’s a suppository…
*bow-chika-wow-wow*
Well, if you think it’ll help Dr. Liondrive.
*unzipping sound*
It’s a 15cm by 15 cm pill that is slow to dissolve and that can’t be lubed due to chemical reactions.
No eating for 5 days afterwards, no bowel movements, no sitting down, no coughing, no sneezing, and no yelling. You don’t want to dislodge it.
It’s the only cure for bone-itis.
You agreed to this.
I don’t know what you were expecting.
Sounds hot!
*bow-chika-wow-wow*
No penis should ever be 15cm by 15cm unless you’re in the process of doing magic tricks with it.
Goddamn it, my penis is not 15×15! :O
It’s 20×20…
*wink*
Screw you Mortal Kombat. I give up, someone let me know if it starts working please. Crashes my PS4 every time I exit it.
GTA V PC Crew? Any takers?
o/ currently downloading 62GB of awesome! At this stage I’ll get to play by Christmas 😀
Name: TAY-PC (20 character limit)
Tag: TAY (Obviously)
Crew Colour: F13158 (the pink in the header image)
Motto: TBD (64 character limit, any suggestions?)
Crew Type: Soldiers? (open to change)
Crew is up, peeps can join through R* Social Club without being in-game
http://socialclub.rockstargames.com/crew/tay-pc
There was the Potaku clan too
Was there, I didn’t know, I just made a group for the PC players..
There’s a Kotaku AU group set up by @thecracks during the console release.
http://socialclub.rockstargames.com/crew/kotaku_australia
Haha oh yeah!
Holy hell it has almost 300 members o.O
Still waiting for my Mortal Kombat X Steam code… 🙁
Maybe you’ll get it by the time the game actually starts working.
But I don’t want to wait that long… 🙁
If you’re like me you’ll go from hyped to frustrated to angry and then disappointed. I really want to play it, the couple of rounds I had were pretty great.
Played another few rounds in the hope that it is doing a background install, no good but wow, some of the fatalities are awesome.
Chucking this out here before I get rid of it
I have a copy of Star wars Trivial pursuit (DVD edition). I’m unlikely to play it again so I am clearing space.
Free to any taybie who wants it, either pickup or just fix me up for postage.
Also a copy of scene it and the da vinci code board game on offer
How much would postage be to the rainy Sunshine State? Also, which scene it?
The original scene it I believe (can confirm when I get home but it isn’t themed)
As for postage I have no idea, that would involve being organised. I’ll do some measurements tonight and see if I can work it out
Based on the aus post calculator it is $17 to get to brisbane
How could you not want to watch this season @strange ! 😛
@freezespreston @tech_knight @gingerchris86
TAY RPG 40K Rogue Trader completed for another night. Things died, including a Gretchin with a big nose whom lost his nose. Mumbles and Boomz survived although it was very close as the group fended off a pack of Ur-Ghuls.
Woohoo, my MKX key arrived! \o/
Thanks @beavwa for the Chalice co-op this evening. It was awesome fun.
PRAISE THE SUN!
…Seriously though, that was a stack of fun. It’s a rather different game doing a co-op run of a dungeon.
That crazy bastard @TheCracks bought me GTA V on Steam after I complained about seeing ads for it on Steam.
I love the TAY community. EXCEPT FOR @BLAGHMAN, THAT MONSTER.
Well, in a way, @blaghman makes us all look better then we really are. =P
Since I’m most likely looking down the barrel of a relocation to the US, I’ll most likely be selling a bunch of stuff because otherwise I’ll have to move with all this trash and then put it in storage. Details soon but expect some crazy clearance deals on a bunch of quality anime figurines (most unfortunately sans box), some books and probably a fair whack of old video games (PS2, 360 and PS3 making up the bulk). There also might be some board games and whitegoods and various other electrical doodads. Watch this space.
*subscribes*
Colour me interested … which I guess would be some kind of bright interesting colour like Yellow or Pink?
Pellow? Yink?
The US is a far cry from Canberra. 😛
BOARD GAEMS!
http://minifigs.me/ this is an actual thing that exists?!
Wow, dangerous for Lego lovers.
Wow, some of those look amazing!
I couldn’t sleep so I got up and made something. A quilty thing. It was kind of painful for me, and you’ll see why in a second. It’s not my type of thing but apparently very much my swap partner’s thing.
It’s a little mugrug/mini quilt and on it I quilted a picture of the Enterprise, and attached some little fabric squares by quilting letters over them that spell “Make It Sew”. I’m kind of proud of it and horrified by it at the same time. 😛
I also just watched the second episode of Shokugeki No Soma while trying to make my brain switch off again. Will definitely keep watching. Has the potential to be fun.
Strange made a dad (mam?) joke! We’re proud of you!
One of us… one of us…
In 2 pages time you can post a picture of this glorious piece of work
Pictures!
It sounds cool, and I wanna see it! 😀
Thanks, Lion! I’ll put a picture on Twitter once my swap partner has received it and try and remember to link to it in TAY. 🙂
http://www.polygon.com/2015/4/14/8407161/guitar-hero-live-news-hands-on
Ehhhhhhhhhh. Colour me nega-hyped. I mean I’m trying to steer clear of just reflexively going “change == bad”, but still feel inclined to say this isn’t Guitar Hero.
@os42 @trikeabout @pixel_the_ferret_viking @other Elite guys especially ones with their sights set on a Clipper – looks like the community goal for cheap Clippers maxed out and completed, there’s a 29% discount on them for the next 14 days at… some system or other (Syromyatnikov Horizon, in Nu), bringing them down from 22mil to 15mil. That’s three quarters of my savings at the moment, but I’m considering stashing one away for later once I’m done soloing the Sidey 😛
Oh maaaaaaaaan… 5k LY out at the moment and increasing… Doubt that I’ll be back in time XD
I flew through Nu the other night by chance. Full load of metal in my Type-7. Didn’t check bulletin board. Sold it all. Went to bulletin board. Swore a bit. Got over it, moved on. 🙂
I’ve joined the main PvE group Mobius, just so I can go to Lave/Leesti etc with peoples but without paying bloody taxes and buying region pass from the pirates…
I’m part of Mobius as well, suspect I’ll have to jump in there when I return to civilised space XD
super paranoid of getting killed with millions worth of exploration data
Yeah, I soloed the last few hundred LY after my last expedition.
Where have you got to?
Currently sight seeing the Lagoon nebula (very pretty) before fast tracking it to the core… Thor’s Eye was pretty spectacular and I highly recommend checking it out! Should be able to do another 500’ish LY tonight
Feeling itchy for another expedition, but I’ve got a nice little 2-station trade route netting me around $250,000 per trip with the two ends only 3 jumps apart so I’m going to tap that until the profit drops (unless all the type-9s have found it and done that before I get home…).
And then, I’ll aim to meet up with you at Sag A*…
@transientmind @jimu @sunsoar77 Think we’ve got it nailed down to 6pm Thursday at Asian Fusion. Address 149 Wickham St Fortitude Valley. Let us know if that’s gonna be an issue for anyone!
My old housemate stole a fancy bottle opener from there while we were out for my gf’s mum’s birthday. Her mum was mortified 😀 hahahaha
lol apparently Beardy is on a first name basis with the owner, cos him and his Mrs have been there so many times! 🙂 Will you be joining us?
@transientmind @sunsoar77 Just to let you guys know, I finish work at 6pm, so I wont be there right away, but I only work just down from the Valley Metro, so I shouldn’t be too long, but longer than it would normally take me to walk, as I dislocated my hip at work yesterday (popped out and in again, which has happened numerous times before,) but this time it seems I might have torn something (muscle, tendon.. not sure, but damn it hurts!!) So yeah. I may not get there til 6:15-6:20 depending, but I will be there for sure! Feel free to entertain yourselves with food and drink prior to my getting there if you feel so inclined. You don’t have to wait for me to start if you’re starving! 🙂
If I had more money and a missus without a broken ankle to tend to I would. I’m packed out with birthdays this weekend so got to scrimp whatever spare change I do have for them 🙁
mmm i have times of the year very similar to that myself. Oct-Feb pretty much… birthdays galore, then nothing til Oct again!
Not gonna make it, sorry 🙁
awww dang! Sorry to hear that man! Would be great to see you again! Been ages!!
first meet nerves.
First *meat* nerves…
*bow-chika-wow-wow*
@gutsoup and any other MK Xers, didn’t get a chance to play any last night, spent the majority of the night lying down on the couch drifting in and out of sleep, ended up going to bed at about 8:30pm, feel better today, but still feel pretty crappy.
Got up this morning and started it up, it started playing the Faction Wars intro, was in the middle of choosing my faction and it booted me out to the dashboard and came up with an error. I gave it about five minutes and tried again, this time I chose my faction, did the tutorial, left it on pause while I dropped my son at the bus, just starting story mode now and there doesn’t seem to be any problems.
I would suggest giving it another go and if your PS4 still makes noises there’s probably something wrong with your console.
if its any consolation yesterday was my birthday and my wife was working till late, bro was on night shift and my other friends forgot my birthday. Was looking forward to spending my bday beating the shit out of people on line but gave up at about 9:30 and went to bed also… worst. birthday. ever.
I blame NetherRealm!
Definately the disc. put other discs in works fine, put in MKX it clunks away, even just to load it up I have to try, listen to it bump and grind get booted out and told there is an error then retry and it works fine with no noises. Still unable to access anything other than single fight, I’ve left it running several times for over an hour hoping it’s doing a background instal like people have suggested, no luck. Just about ready to return the broken pos.
Nooooooooo!
Yeah sucks, I was really hyped no I’m annoyed. Still trying to get it to work, will let you know if it works.
Anyone gotten Mortal Kombat X on PC to work yet? had no luck yesterday. streaming download wasn’t queuing.
@grandmasterb-funk @gutsoup @evilmonkey
See my above post, I’m on PS4 though with a disc copy.
Last night after about 12 packs downloading it finally downloaded a stage that i could play on.
Annoyingly my computer shut down in the middle of the night, so i haven’t finished the last pack so i can’t test if the online/story works.
So far the game doesn’t seem well optimized, i downloaded a graphics driver that helped, but i’m runnning everything on low quality, and still can’t hit a solid 60 fps. i do have an older rig, but it shouldn’t be this bad…
hopefully they patch it and fix it, otherwise i may have to wait till i get my new computer next month before i can seriously play it online and such.
Games fun though, even at 45 fps.
Heroes of the Storm Beta get! \o/ Can’t wait to give this a whirl!
Heroes of the Storm is a huge change from the traditional MOBAs.
Well it’s pretty much the best candidate for organised teams, on paper anyway, with there being no such thing as “losing cuz X is fed”, losing is entirely based on teamwork and objectives. I’m intrigued to say the least
I’ve found so far that it if your team starts to fall behind it is quite difficult to come back into a competitive position. Most games I’ve played it turns into either a very, very close match or an absolute dominance by one team.
No individual character can be fed but yes too many won teamfights/skirmishes can make it snowball pretty hard with all the enemy team levelling higher than yours. You can make the map help you though with killing mercs, doing the map objectives and careful tactical fighting to get back in, so again, good teamwork could get you out of it.
I’m guessing at this stage though cuz I haven’t even played it 😛
Word of advice: Don’t bother playing Murky. He’s absolutely terrible on every map except Dragon Knight.
I’m more interested in the Siege tank character at this moment
Yesterday I spent over an hour discussing when a business day ends (as in what time). It was the most fun I’ve had at work all week.
I think I need to get out more.
I want to know whose idea it was that a standard business day should be 8 hours long. I want to push for 6 hours. I’d wager that productivity would go up, the amount of sickies would go down. Also, shorter hours would definitely help you in getting out more 😉
I would like to see a 4-day work week. Keep the weekend uniform, but I would like for everyone, everywhere, to get random/rostered/cycling days off during the week, for rest/recuperation, and running errands. Unless a workplace only has one person working, everywhere should still be open, unlike extending the weekend, where if one place does it, EVERYONE does it, so there’s STILL nowhere open for you to run errands, so you run into that fucking problem like with banks and post offices – only ever open when you’re busy working, because y’know. Your work hours are THEIR work hours, too.
I’m actually happy to do 4 days of 10-12 hours of work, had it in a job once where flexibility was the only decent aspect of the role and once you get used to working 10-12 hours it isn’t all that bad!
One problem with your theory: human nature.
How many people use that fifth day to work another job to ‘get ahead’. How long until enough do it that the extra work is to ‘catch up’ instead of get ahead. And so on…
Hey, I’m more than happy for people to do that. 🙂
But if most people do it, then anyone that doesn’t is left behind, which defeats the purpose of the whole thing.
Don’t worry. Most people won’t do it. I have complete faith in the Australian people that the bare minimum will be far more popular than ‘getting ahead’. 😉 Even if people did work to ‘get ahead’, they’d still just be working a 5-day week, and… what. Have more money than other people? Not after the 2nd-job taxes (unless those were removed). At the kind of job that’s happy to only have them part-time (either 1 day a week or sharing 2-3 of their 5 days). Bully for them.
You know there’s no such thing as a second job tax. Same tax rate whether day 5 is job 1 or job 2…
@beavwa No such thing as a second job tax YET. Give this government time. Cut minimum wages so companies can pay everyone less and less, everyone needs a second job just to survive and then make that second job something they can double tax as a luxury…
I had this conversation with a friend about 3 or 4 years ago about a hypothetical 4 day week as a by product of technology meaning that there’s less work that needs to be done, but it would just lead to people inventing more work because of the ingrained ‘value’ of work, and so on…
Mostly it was just a one way conversation of me verbally traversing the paths of subsequent effects… After a while he told me that I think about this too much.
I think it spawned from the question “why does rego cost so much” and I went because managers because less actual work because need to create value of work because working less wouldn’t work since people would then work more to get ahead which then makes ahead just normal and normal is behind because human nature and … yeah. It was a slow day at work.
In other news of “more interesting” things that I do with my time, I’m now on the 400-500 egg stretch of the current shiny project…
Y’know, if I ever get around to making games, my crowning masterpiece will probably be some sort of menial work simulator. Simple repetitive tasks no sane person will ever want to stick with. And a special ending Easter egg for anyone insane enough to go that far.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/270850/
@Beavwa My proudest gaming moment: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=159807393
Not buying the DLC in DLC Quest which bypasses the ten thousand anvil-hammering actions required to forge your weapon.
I guess there isn’t an “X” anymore on your keyboard and it’s just a blank key? 😛
Impressive.
haha I did the same thing. Shame you don’t get a real Steam achievement for it though!
I’m talking worse than that. I am capable of achieving something far more terrible than that.
Candy box? Cookie clicker? Progress Quest? AdVenture Capitalist?
Haven’t got that solid a concept yet. Just the insanity of what I seem to sidetrack myself doing in some games minus the rest of the game.
So, how were peoples evenings?
Daredevil is pretty cool.
Pretty good, I saved a gretchen after he covered our flank during a fight we were having in the underhive.
#JustRogueTraderThings 🙂
Hey guys, guys! I just found a new, and more socially acceptable way to enjoy my apricots and toothpaste combination. Dried apricots and Minties.
I used to down whole packets of dried apricots when I was younger but I can’t do that any more. Taste buds aren’t as accommodating to that flavour sensation any more.
*eyes dubiously* Hm. I’m not sure I approve of your weird flavour combination having a more socially-acceptable outlet. Shame serves a valuable social purpose, like keeping such dangerous weirdness from spreading.
Next time there’s one of those flavour competitions for potato chips, I am gonna enter and it’s gonna be so good.
*pales*
*covers mouth with hands*
Dont forget *holds back barf*
Can’t be worse than one time a decade or so back that smiths had a new allegedly tomato & basil variety. They were so vile I had to save them in an airtight box for 2 weeks until my sister came down from Canberra just so she could experience the horror because there was no way I was finishing them and hell would have to first exist and then freeze over before I would buy a second pack so she could try them.
How can you even screw up tomato & basil? It should be nigh on impossible but somehow they managed it.
If you want socially acceptable, why not just cut a slit in the dried apricots and put toothpaste in there? Then nobody who sees you eat the apricots will know what a vomitous combination you’re actually eating.
I think I just mentally dry heaved.
@janexo You could also achieve the same flavour combination by using the minties as earplugs all morning before you eat them.
Just out of curiosity, do you eat toothpaste by itself or does it have to be with something else?
I’m not a freak.
*keeps mouth covered by hands*
(“CHICKENFOOT COME BACK! You’re not a freak!”)
Disgusting.
Denial is the first step in acceptance….. No wait that’s the 5 stages of death…. I take it back you’re screwed =P
I have to ask, are you expecting any manner of tooth protection out of this combination or is it just the flavour?
You know, I hear they have this plant nowdays called “Mint” that has a very similar taste and may evoke a few less looks of horror (unless that’s a flavour enhancing agent)
Well, just the flavour really. I could probably do this with Tic Tacs or something, too. I like mint leaves (the actual plants) but only diced up real nicely in a salad or on a steak or with strawberries.
I had a girlfriend who was legit addicted to tic-tacs. She could tell from tapping a container how fresh they were, when they would expire. She could not go anywhere unless she had some on her, and could get rapid access to them. They wreaked havoc on her teeth.
Tic-tacs are a slippery slope, my friend. Be wary.
Haha jeez. To be fair, when I do eat Tic Tacs, which is not often, I usually end up swallowing a bunch of them whole at once and then choking and throwing the rest away :/
I’ve swallowed a potent eclipse mint before… my esophagus and stomach felt minty fresh somehow. Weird, but minty. Some things are not meant to be minty. Your gut is one of them.
Three more parts to download, and then MKX is all ready…
😀
Tried to play whilst other parts were downloading, but it was too laggy.
My gas line has been switched off, and probably wont come back until Saturday, and my GTA 5 download stopped in the middle of the night and made next to no progress. Blegh.
I can only conclude that your internet is gas powered
Does that mean he uses Steampunk to play his games?
Ha! Well played.
They used to have gas powered radios so that’s not entirely impossible
Thanks Mortal Kombat X
PS4 hard drive corrupted, rebuild database. Ok done, nope reloads and crashes, rebuild database. Ok done. Nope database corrupted, rebuild database. Ok done seems to have been successful, try reloading, still only have single player. What a joke,
Hey @evilmonkey what is your total size on MKX on the PS4 after the patch and stuff?
35.89GB.
Have you tried deleting it, disconnect the internet, then installing it. Maybe it’ll work for you without the patch.
I’ll try that next, this is my third install.
no good, still not working, completed all the tutorials in case that had something to do with it, nope, played about 12 single matches. Haven’t been this disappointed in a game in a long time.
Are you sure it’s fully installed?
Highlight it, click options then details or file size or whatever.
I know when I installed Hardline it did this and then I figured out it wasn’t fully installed when I’d try to start it.
My disc was faulty, started getting disc read failure messages and more crashes. Swapped the disc and it’s been smooth sailing through the bloody seas of kombat!
Fugg yeah.
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
The party has found the impossible blade! Where to from here?
TONIGHT 7:30 SA TIME
cc @blaghman @popdart5 @tech_knight
And now we journey to prepare a facility to cure Blaghs’ fatal illness of musclitis… until we get at least 20km away from that area and never come back 😛
Happy to go wherever honestly. That said, Harmuth sounds lovely this time of year what with the coastline probably studded with glass cliffs or something like that.
Did you see the new glimmer product that MCG brought out? I reckon I’ll pick it up as it’s seriously dirt cheap.
Which one?
I think it was the one about GM Intrusions and special effects. “Grabbing it by the Tail” or something like that (can’t double check at work sorry).
My son has been binge watching Mythbusters on Netflix yesterday and today. I never thought I’d say this, but I’m getting really tired of explosions. D:
He (or she) who is tired of explosions is tired of life, as the old saying goes.
Hello everyone.
I just went for a ride to my local shops and I have come to the conclusion that my back is still borked. (And considering what i typed, so is my head.)
In other news, @sernobulus got me playing pokemon rumble. I kind of want some of those pokemon toys as they’re adorable.
You could always nip down to Bunnings, grab a length of PVC piping & just replace your spine. Every time I pass the aisle with hinges I think that I could probably replace my dodgy knees & elbows with a dodgy DIY job
Dr. Kreiger, is that you?
Hey gang,
Hope your day is going well. I’m on the countdown to my flight to the Gold Coast, and I am POSITIVE that I’ve forgotten something important.
I was thinking about taking lube for when I’m locked in @Freezespreston’s underground dungeon, but I’m pretty close to the weight limit with my bags, and he probably has some on hand anyway (*snigger* at “on hand”).Here’s something I haven’t forgotten, though: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/undad-comic-miniseries-season-2 – probably the last time I’ll post this here until mid-next week!
Aw man, I’m gonna miss my family. And Bloodborne.
I think I speak for all of us when I say the thing we’re looking forward to most in Undad Season 2 is the return of doctor @beeawwb.
He didn’t pay for a likeness this time around, so the role of super serious Dr Beeawwb will now be played by a tiny South American woman.
This is a ploy to get me to up my pledge, isn’t it.
Haha, don’t worry. If the good doctor needs to be written in for story reasons
(unlikely at this stage)… he’ll look like you. No need to buy another likeness.Honestly that’s (the bit in spoiler tags) why I didn’t pledge for a likeness. I thought that story wise there wasn’t any “need” or reason for Brett to go back to see a serious medical doctor so it would be a bit silly or redundant to go there again, especially when I was so pleased with the results already; although I do love some of the new artists.
Bring on the tiny South American woman with sideburns, I say.
You could pledge again and have an identical twin.
Bob’s twin brother Rob.
Short for Robin.
@redartifice – I already go by Rob[/ert] when at work.
I hope the book marks get to you on time
You can only take 100ml of liquid on the plane and that definitely isn’t enough KY.
Productive night last night. Three nightfalls, three weeklies, three Gorgon chests, and one and a half raids. *collapses*
There’s going to be a second F-Zero track added in the next Mario Kart 8 DLC.
On one hand, cool! On the other… RIP F-Zero.
Ha, just the other night my friends were discussing this rumour about three unknown tracks in the DLC, after someone posted some filename stuff that revealed Baby Park and Neo Bowser City (Koopa City) were going to be in there. There were three others called ANIMAL, METRO and WOODS, I figured it was Animal Crossing, something F-Zero and Lost Woods to fit with the rest of the AC/F-Zero/Zelda dealie.
But yeah. Screw you Nintendo, give us a proper F-Zero.
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
Bring on the tiny South American woman with sideburns, I say.
*mic drop*
\o/
For my last three tasks I’ve been assigned tracking numbers which consist of pairs of double digits.
Today is obviously going to be a great day.
*buys hammer to deal with apartment hallway smoke detector which shrieks in low-battery warning every 30-seconds with a battery which can’t be adjusted without specialist tools*
…Of course sometimes you MAKE your great days. And a hammer can be a ‘specialist tool’.
Hammers are specialist tools, they’re specialised in dealing with nails. Also with annoying tools but that tends to get the police involved if you’re not really careful. You’ll need specialised tools like shovels or bathtubs of acid to get rid of evidence.
Not that I know about these things of course…
It’s the other voices in my head that tell me these things…
REF 559944! I AM INVEENCEEBLE
I must buy lottery ticket
You and my colleague Ray, would get along just fine! He too is an advocate of the hammer! I swear not a day goes by when I don’t hear him mention something needing an adjustment from a hammer!
Well, you know how the saying goes. “When you have a hammer, all you see are nails… and annoying shit you can break with your hammer.”
So, MKX is pretty cool, apart from the ridiculously large background install.
Takeda may just become my new main; Sorry, Liu Kang.
If you’re among the lucky who can get it to work.
@shane The bookmarks cost 55c to make. I would suggest selling them for $2-3 each. If you sell all 50 at $2, You and @beardymcmuttonchops would get $50 each. If you sell them at $3, it’ll be $75 each.
May I suggest trying to sell them for $3 on the Saturday and drop them to $2 if they’re not selling on Sunday?
Does that sound fair? Am I being fair here? ._.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any coins in my float – just $5 increments. So I’ll have to sell them 2 or 3 at a time. Or bump the price to $5 each, 3 for $10. Just tell me what you want me to do!
Do what you feel you need to. I don’t know what Beardy has. I’m happy to try anything.
Make sure to price in initial capital investment and costs to distribute and sell and then add in a healthy profit margin (20-25% is a decent base imo unless your COGS are ridiculously low).
It was 55 cents a bookmark for 100 bookmarks.
Well back to Bloodborne for now. MKX is a broken POS that I wish I hadn’t wasted money on.
You should return it, and then get it again later when the price has come down and the game is fixed. You’re entitled under law to a refund if the product doesn’t work.
I think I probably will. So much disappointment.
If everyone did this then the retailers would push back on the publishers to stop releasing broken shit. Ahhhh, utopia.
Reckon they might’ve got a bit of a lesson on that in the Steam reviews. Their score is kinda tanked at the moment.
Low scores just mean no bonus payments. Publishers will only pay attention if something hurts their sales figures (like a big ‘legally obligated refund’ figure) – especially if retailers send the stock back because they’re not going to resell it or keep it on hand while they wait for a fix.
Could only happen if there were serious mass refund claims going on.
You should definitely follow @shane’s advice. It’ll be great at some point, but you shouldn’t have to pay premium launch prices for that.
Plus the pre-order / day one DLC has already been claimed and they can’t take that back, which is a nice bonus down the line when you get a cheaper functional copy.
Too many broken day one returns might also hurt that practice. Win!
It’s really confusing though, I had one little hiccup when I first started it, been running like a dream since. Can’t understand why you’re having so many problems.
Maybe it’s a problem with the disc.
Yeah no idea, now it’s started crashing during single matches. I’m pretty furious. Most hyped I’ve been for a game in ages and biggest let down in ages.
haha, this is retarded, I just exited single match and the Krypt is locked off now too, it was open earlier and I bought things in there. If I was rich I would burn it lol
That is retarded.
Heated up a can of Minestrone soup for lunch and it tastes really bleh. Oh well, don’t really feel like eating anyway.
That’s because Minestrone is the worst type of soup.
Go get some Pumpkin in you instead!
Minestrone is the best kind of soup, you monster.
Nahhh Minestrone is definitely the worst. You gotta trust us on this one, we’re Ben’s.
You’ve just never had my Nanna’s minestrone 😛
So what you’re saying is that Bens have bad taste in soup in addition to no souls? 😛
@greenius: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOMmE6bsl_c 17 mins of soundtrack samples from Xenoblade Chronicles X
Every time Green and I talk it’s just constant complaining the whole time that we don’t like most of the music 😛
I don’t like it as much as the first game, there doesn’t seem to be anything as amazingly catchy as eg Bionis Leg, but Sawano has a more sweeping scale and consistent sound and I suspect the music will be better when you’re playing. But I like his work.
Oh I have no doubt it’ll sound better in the context of actually playing the game. I usually avoid listening to any soundtracks before playing due to that!
Remember that rambling about jetpacks and Spelunky I did yesterday? How I was trying to do a double jetpack run and fucked it up? Well, I tried again today and also fucked it up. Except I fucked it up in such a way that I could still continue. On the same level too.
This time, I mistimed getting to the exit and got hit by the angry shopkeeper. It’s okay, I had 18 life thanks to the Kapala. So he just shot me a bunch of times until he got sick of me (and I was on 1 life). Then I went on my merry way and drained the lava in Olmec’s lair.
I recorded the Olmec fight. Might stick it up on Youtube for reference but there’s not much point. This is an old trick and’s been done a million times. It’s just the first time that I’ve done it. I also found out that the kill plane in Olmec’s lair is super low. Trying to jetpack around under the lava layer is daft.
Stupid sun. 🙁
Thickened cream in hot chocolate. Great idea at the time, now my stomach is not agreeing
Is this related to @crazyguy1990’s previous post?
Expected / wanted that video. Was not disappointed. 10/10 would click again.
Hopefully it wasn’t left out in the sun. Video will be watched when youtube isn’t blocked at work or I get home, whichever happens first 😀
You’re all quiet today.
So.
Um.
How bout them board games, huh? I’m going to the Hungry Hippo on Friday
Better then the waiting game
I’m running D&D at Supanova this weekend. Possibly also going to play some giant Jenga if they have it.
Woo D&D
5e?
5e indeed. See how many people jump in for it. I find it’s probably one of the better systems for quick games because of how simplified the mechanics are. I haven’t enjoyed it in a longer form or campaign yet unfortunately.
Haven’t enjoyed it or haven’t played it?
The only 5e I’ve done was the Potaku podcasts, though I may have talked some friends into doing a one-shot soon
I’ve tried to run a few sessions of a campaign but had to give it up because no-one was really enjoying it. It mostly came down to the fact that most of us were relatively experienced at RPGs and D&D and the lack of choice in terms of character advancement and progression felt unnecessarily simplistic to us. I like the character creation process but it certainly felt like once you sunk yourself into a path then you were pretty much stuck there with very little room to customise.
That’s a shame.
Reminds me though, I still need to level Abelas up properly. Trying to push him towards more and more of an improvised and fast combatant
See this is what happens when I eventually get back to work; TAY dies D=
I like board games. Not many people know that about me.
Huh, me too. You know what would be cool? some kind of giant team board game we could play with @alexpants.
That might not be a terrible idea but I think we’d need someone we know to be a part of another team. Someone like @gingerchris86.
NegativeZero’s Anime Impressions Round 3
Watching the new season because why the hell not. Part 2 here.
Houkago Pleiades
I was actually quite disappointed by this. This is a TV adaption of a short OVA from a few years ago that was made as part of a joint project between studio GAINAX and Subaru, the car manufacturer. Subaru, for those that don’t know, is the Japanese name for the Pleiades star cluster, and is what their company logo depicts. This is a fairly conventional Mahou Shoujo (Magical Girl) show. The protagonist, Subaru, is an amateur astronomer and while trying to set up her telescope on the school roof so she can watch a meteor shower, she encounters a bunch of girls who take her out flying in the sky on broomsticks that make car sounds. It’s a bit dumb. I enjoyed the original OVA and thought it had a lot of potential – the character designs are cute and the story was conventional but executed well. I didn’t get that feeling with this TV adaption though. It covers the same material as the first OVA episode but there was something off about it I can’t put my finger on. Disappointing but I don’t think I’ll bother.Ghost in the Shell Arise: Alternative Architecture
This is basically just a TV adaption of the 4 Arise OVAs. However it starts with the 4th OVA, which I hadn’t seen yet, and it’s okay. It’s very much Ghost in the Shell. Complicated science fiction dialogue, lots of talking, not a lot of exposition or explanation. Arise is meant to be sort of an origin story that can slot into either the film or the TV continuities. It’s good, but it’s not amazing. The character designs are a bit generic anime looking, animation’s pretty good but obviously not on the level of the films. Maaya Sakamoto is generally excellent at her job, but I don’t think she’s as good as Kusanagi, plus having a ‘younger’ voice for the prequel makes no sense since she’s a grown adult and has a cybernetic body anyway. The biggest letdown though is the utterly pedestrian and often not even there score. GitS has had amazing soundtrack pedigree previously – Kenji Kawai’s work in the movies is striking, with those anachronistic Noh chants and orchestral sections backed with Taiko drums, and Stand Alone Complex had some of Yoko Kanno’s peak work as well. But overall, this is worth watching. Might be better to just watch the 4 Arise OVAs though, they’re all out there already.Nisekoi:
Second season of this, and pretty much more of the same, which is a good thing. Nisekoi is a really well-witten and well-produced classic RomCom. Protagonist Raku is the son of a Yakuza boss. Chitoge, a pretty half-Japanese, half-American girl, transfers into his school. The two have extremely contrasting personalities and don’t seem to get on, but it turns out that Chitoge’s father heads a rival mafia syndicate, and in order to prevent an all out gang war between their families’ organizations, they’re forced to pretend to be lovers. Complicating matters, Raku has a vague memory of promising to marry a girl he met as a child, and kept her photo in a locket which he still wears – his destined partner has the key, but he can’t remember who it was. Also, he has a crush on another girl. And things get more and more complicated from there, in hilarious ways. The anime adaption is by Shaft and directed by Akiyuki Shinbo who’s one of the better TV anime directors out there, which a personal visual style that’s quite distinctive. Lots of rapid-fire cuts, close-ups, angle shots, color filters, odd texturing and so on. This will likely be one of the most entertaining shows of the season.The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan
I’d been forewarned and yes, this is pretty bad. It’s the equivalent of bad fanfiction you encounter periodically, where someone takes the characters from something they like, and then puts them in a completely different situation and gives them completely different characterization and they become barely recognizable as the characters they’re supposed to be aside from sharing the same name. Supposedly this takes place in the world of the Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, but while the Nagato in that world was a bit different, she wasn’t a moeblob like this. It’s pretty sad that this is what we’re getting from the franchise now, after all this time. The only redeeming factors really are that Kyon is still the wise-cracking straight man, and that Tsuruya turns up halfway into the episode and hasn’t been fucked around with at all. It’s nice to see some of these characters again, but I wish it was under different circumstances. I’ll probably watch more in spite of my best judgementPunch Line
Didn’t like this at all. It seems pretty stupid. The main character has some kind of disorder where if he sees a girl’s panties, he’ll pass out. After a bizzare set of circumstances involving a ghost cat and an attempted hijacking of a bus, he finds his soul has been separated from his body. Additionally, now, when he sees panties, he powers up super-saiyan style. But if he sees them a second time, a meteor will strike the earth and wipe out humanity. Luckily he can rewind time and avoid the accidental glance. Also he lives in a dorm filled with really weird people, including a girl that appears to be a self-styled superhero and stuff. It didn’t seem very good at all. More groan-worthy than anything. On the other hand, this is running in the Noitamina block, which usually runs stuff that is pretty good, so maybe I’m just missing something and it’ll improve. Certainly it has a good writer involved – the same guy that wrote 999 and Virtue’s Last Reward among other things. I may give it another few episodes.Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold
I think that Saint Seiya was never big in Australia and New Zealand like it was in a lot of other parts of the world, so I’m not intimately familiar with the franchise. I know a bit about it and I’ve watched parts here and there. If you were going to boil it right down, it’s basically the Mahou Shoujo formula, but applied to a boy’s anime. Anyway, the setup for this is a bunch of the Gold Saints from the original show died during it, sacrificing themselves to help the core cast defeat Hades. They’ve been resurrected in Asgard as Einherjar, so suddenly in a different mythology. I tried to watch Saint Seiya Omega a few years back, which was effectively a reboot, but it was very hard to get into due to weird art and plodding pace. This one seems far more interesting and I’m probably going to stick with it for a bit as it seems to only be a single cour. It also looks like there won’t be some agonizing training arc or idiot-kid-learns-how-to-be-a-hero bits because at least the main character is an established and experienced guy for once.Urawa no Usagi-chan
3 minute episode show, which put me off straight away as I just don’t think you can do anything worthwhile in that time space. This was some kind of promotional anime for the town of Urawa in Saitama, but I don’t know how it’s promoting the town. It was bland and boring school slice of life stuff, largely. Not going to bother with it.Yamada-kun & the Seven Witches
This was another of the shows I picked up the first manga volume for while in Japan. It’s okay. Dumb romance comedy stuff largely. The adaption is a bit better as well, skipping over an unnecessary chapter in the manga toward the start in order to set up the show’s premise much faster. Ryu Yamada is a delinquent student and problem child with some serious attitude problems. Through a series of unfortunate events he trips down the stairs and hits into a girl from his class who is a model student. And it turns out she’s being bullied but has been silently dealing with it. As it turns out, their lips had touched in the fall, which was the reason for their body swapping. The school council president figures this out and strongarms the pair into joining the Occult Research club, which he is the only member of. Presumably the other six ‘witches’ will come along as things develop. I only read a bit of the manga – it didn’t grab me – so I don’t really know what direction this is going to go, but it was entertaining enough to give a few more episodes to. Still, if you only picked one show like this, I’d pick Nisekoi ahead of it in a heartbeat.Re-Kan
Didn’t like this one at all. Main character transfers into a new school and it turns out she can see ghosts. Everywhere. And no one else can, so she’ll suddenly stare off into space or talk to people that aren’t there or whatever, which really creeps everyone out. The other major character is really uneasy around that sort of occult stuff but ends up making friends with her regardless. I just couldn’t see a plot to this. I saw a setup, but not much else. No space for a conflict or anything, and it’s not got any real comedic elements or anything, it’s played pretty much straight. Not my sort of thing maybe. Unlikely to watch much more.New Ghost in the Shell may be the one anime series I watch. Loved Stand Alone Complex.
Don’t go in expecting Stand Alone Complex. It’s not on that level. Not even close.
Few things are.
I’m just a hopeless fanboy for Disappearance. Even though it’s a completely different fanfiction of the main show I still really enjoy it 😛
To be fair the second episode is a lot more ‘realistic’ than the first was when it comes to the characterisation.
I haven’t gotten to ep 2 yet.
I actually kinda liked Nagato, possibly because I haven’t seen Haruhi. It’s nice and warm, and the characters are a little different from the archetypes I’ve grown tired of. They really kind of stand out.
Shame about GitS. That really did a number on me when I saw it at uni. S.A.C. continued to impress just by doing unexpected things. (I kinda like being surprised in sensible, realistic ways. I think that’s why I loved the Patlabor movies so much.)
How did you manage to not see Haruhi? That series was absolutely enormous back in the day.
You should go watch it some time. In broadcast order though. The home video releases re-ordered the episodes into chronological order and that ruins it.
You might’ve covered this in a previous part, I admit to being too lazy to check; did you check out Ore Monogatari? It’s just the most damn adorable thing ever.
I didn’t. It doesn’t look like my sort of thing and probably also hits a bit close to home based on the summary I’ve seen.
Soooo tired. Good thing i called in sick for work tonight, might have a lie down.
Transfer foil is a pain in the bum to find, let alone buy. Well, Gold is easy enough, but black is hell.
A very successful shopping day today. The boy and I have new tshirts 🙂
https://twitter.com/CookingMamaAUS/status/588244820189020160
Now… the big question for MKX… pad or fightstick?
Guitar Hero drum kit.
DJ Hero turntable?
If I had a fightstick I’d be using it, but I don’t… yet.
So yeah, fightstick.
DK bongos.
Beatmania controller. 😛
Steel Battalion controller
Does anyone else think the mask part (specifically the eyes) of the new Daredevil costume looks a bit goofy/derpy?
http://esq.h-cdn.co/assets/15/15/980×490/landscape-1428603033-daredevil-red-suit-high-res.jpg
Just me? 😛
That was all I took from the teaser trailer thing someone posted somewhere the other day.
They should have left the triangle parts off it.
Or taken off the eye section all together (cause he’s blind).
I’m a big fan of his makeshift vigilante costume he wears most of the time though.
They should have based his actual costume off that.
He’s like a blind, swordless Zorro.
Actually, it reminded me more of the Dread Pirate Westley
Which reminds me that I still need to watch Princess Bride.
It’s on Netflix. You have no excuse 😛
He keeps the eyes so that people don’t realise he’s blind
Yarp. I think the whole head part needs work.
(and @liondrive, he’s supposed to have eyes that stand out on the costume, since he needs all the help he can get in keeping his secret identity, since he’s rubbish at it)
Why not just make his entire helmet an eye?
“Guys, I can totally see, my entire head is an eye. I have 20/20 vision. I hate seeing eye dogs. How do these walking canes work?! *thrashes walking cane around*”
I don’t think not having eyes on the costume would really matter 😛
Now I really want a Daredevil TV show where Matt plays up his blind-ness by constantly running into things and falling over, while Daredevil tries to play up that he’s not blind by over-reacting when stuff gets thrown in his eyes, and by constantly spouting how he can see the enemies movements, plans, etc…
The greatest thing since Undercover Nerd.
I preferred his first costume with the eyeless mask way better. His proper costume just seems a bit cheesy.
Yeah the helm really needs work; the weird black triangle things on his cheek just ruin the whole helm imo.
Been playing Zenoblade Chronicles 3D.
Really enjoying it – roughly a dozen or so hours in.
You’re one of the good Bens.
Actually… most Bens have played and enjoyed Xeno 😛
The one redeeming factor!
Ouch… I just broke my finger. But, on the other hand, I’m fine.
#Page6 #BroughtToYouByUndad2ZombieBoogaloo
A big Texan cowboy stopped at a local restaurant following a day of drinking and roaming around in Mexico. While sipping his tequila, he noticed a sizzling, scrumptious looking platter being served at the next table. Not only did it look good, but the smell was wonderful..
He asked the waiter, “What is that you just served?” The waiter replied, “Ah Senor, you have excellent taste! Those are bull’s testicles from the bullfight this morning. A delicacy!”
The cowboy, undaunted, said, “What the heck, I’m on vacation, I’ll have some!” The waiter replied, “I am so sorry Senor. There is only one serving per day because there is only one bullfight each morning. If you place your order now, we will be sure to save you this delicacy for tomorrow”
The cowboy placed the order and the next evening he was served the one and only special delicacy of the day. After a few bites, and inspecting the contents of his platter, he called to the waiter and said, “These are delicious, but they are much smaller than the ones I saw you serve yesterday”
The waiter shrugged his shoulders and replied, “Si, Senor … sometimes the bull wins.”
To VPN or not to VPN?
If there is something not on Netflix I want to watch (Kings Chair Gaems etc) I use an SSL connection to Usenet so theoretically ISP can’t see what I’m doing but certainly server on the other end does.
I’m certainly not super paranoid, but curious if it’s worth setting up now just so I’ve got an immediate option to dial out if I needed it.
Anyone got suggestions – happy to pay a reasonable amount and a few providers (PIA and Torguard seem to come up alot) have plenty of features I like the look of…
Wish I could help you mayn, I will not purchase a streaming service until I have greater than 600kb/s dl connection.
Oh, hey Page Six!
https://twitter.com/Strangist/status/588212151816290304
#dadjokepagesix #ifeeldirty Hi @redartifice!Well, that’s it. I’ve now seen everything. Some very @strange things going on here in Page Six…
Also… in the spirit of page 6 normally comes by on Wednesday’s I was kinda on the look out for excuses to roll out poor dad jokes.
Today a colleague called me up and asked for a hand.
I asked if they’d lost one somewhere.
They didn’t get it.
I don’t think I’ll try again any time soon.
You can stay.
I heard Pinocchio has a new wooden girlfriend.
They met on Tinder.
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strange I see you beat me to it this weekThere were sparks from the very start.
Booooo.
You could’ve said:
– Pinocchio was stoked to get a spark out of her.
– They’re kindling their relationship.
– It took a bit of twisting to get a spark from het.
– I don’t know if they’ll marry-or-not (like marionette, cause they’re puppets)
I’m particularly proud* of that last one.
*deeply, deeply disappointed.NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
The party met some nice merchants and @tech_knight got a robot Orangutan buddy.
Thanks for playing!
cc @popdart5 @blaghman
A bunch of toilets were stolen from a local precinct.
Police say they have nothing to go on.
Watched the first 5 episodes of Daredevil since everyone’s talking it up. Deserves to be talked up, I think.
Also a while back people were asking whether there’s another superhero out there where you could make an Arkham-style game and have it work, aside from maybe Spider-man? Daredevil would absolutely work. You could lift the batman hand-to-hand combat wholesale, and he has a lot of batman-like abilities too. Less tool-based and more innate ability is all. Add in some conversational stuff as well, like remember the conversations in Deus Ex: HR if you had the full conversation package where you could read people’s sweat levels and heartbeats and stuff to find the right way to influence them? That. Steal that. (Why has no one stolen that idea yet?!)
I really don’t know why anyone hasn’t stolen that idea. Even though it does seem to be a variant on puzzle-game + branching conversations. Seems like even the best RPGs these days are terrified of branching conversations, let alone plots, though. Setting and referring to flags quickly turns into a complicated spiderweb of illusion-of-choice, and it must just be the industry standard to decide that’s too much work and not resilient enough to sweeping executive change. Which is a shame, because that is SO my jam.
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/04/14/game-arts-asks-games-want-ported-pc/ everyone needs to go over here and tell them to port Grandia II to Steam so I can play it again without having to repair my Dreamcast.
What.
I just hit the credits in MH4. Somehot felled the frenzied Deviljho first go in a couple of days, then the apex Seregios was gone in one go (regular Seregios was a bit of a pushover too, on his own anyway. PITA when chiming on other battles). Then this… I don’t even remember what it was called. Keza McDonald dragon thing. Another of those stupid battles where you’re running around doing something that I don’t know what it is exactly, and things are just going on around you while there’s no real clue as to what’s actually supposed to be happening. It practically played itself, and then it was over. No fight, no difficulty, no challenge. Then credits. Ultra lame. The Ceadeus battle in Tri was a million times harder than this, and a million times better too. Even though I hated it and couldn’t deal with the lack of depth perception making me miss all my hits/get run over by the damn thing all the time.
Ugh/10, try harder next time.
Yeah that Kushala Daora fight was so stupid. It’s much more fun to fight normally.
The path to G Rank was more satisfying, they should’ve made Dalamadur the final battle or something instead!
Shovel head was a good fight for that last unlock.
I fought the Kushala normally. I knocked it out of the sky with one cannon thingo then just jumped down and wailed on it normally. Didn’t realise you weren’t meant to do that until it told me to use the big cannon to finish it off 😛
Damit windows!
It decided last night was the time to update and restart my computer. Now I still have half of GTAV left to download 🙁
Yeah, those windows are a real pain, I prefer doors myself
badum tish
#dadjokepagesix
I have a feeling I’m going to crack soon and end up buying GTA V. Unless someone were to buy it for me! Donate to the Nob fund! Don’t miss out on some good hard fun with nob!
Last night mine decided to update Skype. While I was in the middle of using it. Even though I’d disabled auto-update, and done a thing to prevent it downloading the update in the background so it could bug me with a message about it every time I loaded it up, because I don’t want that shitty awful ugly useless bubble version.
I was angry.
The PAX Aus Pokemon League applications are open! http://paxpokemonleague.net/
The countdown to PAX begins once again! Time to start working on my costume I suppose…
I suggest a sophisticated Caterpie.
No, this year he is a metapod! Then next year? A Charizard obviously!
I don’t know where you come up with these crazy ideas.
I see you’ve used harden… on your heart.
It’s super effective! *runs away crying*
Well, there’s my application in…
Should be a nice big roster this year with an E4 and champ… I’m happy to be a speed bump on the way.
Past PPL experience: “I was the idiot with the all shiny team” – not sure if that helps or hinders the application.
A lot of the leaders from last year seem to want to return again so we should easily have enough for a full league this time.
So no room for newbies?!?
At what point in this process do I collapse in a nervous wreck? Need to get it pencilled in on the calendar.
You’re basically guaranteed a spot as long as you don’t sound like a complete horror in your application so I wouldn’t worry!
Popping into the forums occasionally ahead of time will boost your chances as well (there’s an introduction thread). They like people to get involved.
Ooh. I created an account.
I remember having a glance at the forums last year and seeing time between posts most commonly measured in days. It was a little quiet. Perhaps I should go make a few posts once the account is approved.
Yeah it’s not an active place at all. You don’t have to post constantly or anything, just poke your head in.
Back in my day we’d be on at least page 23 by a Thursday *shakes walking stick*
Who is this g-etc…
Back in *my* day, we were lucky if we ever hit page 3…
HEY GUYS!
Sorry I’ve been super slack with TAYing lately – work is crazy, and working on book stuff every chance I get when I’m at home.
I understand there’s a dinner thing tonight that I’ve kind of been organising through FB Chat with @welbot. I’m not sure who’s coming but here’s the details:
Where: Asian Fusion – 149 Wickham Street, Fortitude Valley.
What: best damn Asian food you’ll ever eat
When: 6pm or until everyone arrives.
Who: not sure, but my wife and I will be there around 6. Look for the big dude in the Evangelion shirt and the girl with the bright green hair.
How much: Depends how hungry you are. We usually order a bunch of plates and share them among everyone. Literally everything as Asian Fusion is amazing. It usually ends up around $20-$30 per person.
If anyone knows who is coming, please tag them here!
Sounds awesome! Unfortunately I will be working then. Wish I could join.
Next time, Nobs!
I’ll be there… first meat for me! *play it cool – don’t look too excited*
Look out for the guy in business wear (work uniform) working up the courage to go through the door.
Believe @transientmind is also coming.
We’re not scary at all man! We’ll see you there 😀
Yep, I’m coming. Might bring my little brother, too. Maybe.
Sweet! The more the merrier!
Rulebooks for Unrest in Idrinor are being sent out. Aww yeah, motherfucking megagames.
GAEMS
The guy behind the megagame has followed me on Twitter and just sent me a friend request on Facebook. I don’t really do Facebook.
Yeah, he followed me too.
The fact that rules books are being sent probably means I should organise flights and accommodation huh.
That seems like a good idea. I should probably work out where I’m staying too. Probably work out what to do with the puppy too.
Kennel. How’s the tenancy board stuff going?
House inspection tomorrow, mediation next week. Hopefully it all sorts itself out.
I think we’re going to leave Alice with a relative. She goes on puppy play dates with their dog all the time, I’m sure it’ll be fine.
I don’t have anything interesting to say but just wanted to say hi so…
…
Hi!
Oh hai.
*waves*
Hello.
Bit of a glitch in Mortal Kombat X story mode, was up to the final battle with Corrupted Shinnok (whose a real bitch by the way). After losing about 5 times instead of retrying I exited to the main menu to see what the difficulty was set to, turns out it’s set to medium by default, so I set it to very easy, went to “continue story” and it instantly started playing the final cutscene as if I’d won the fight.
Pretty big glitch if you ask me, feel kind of cheated.
*cries*
Sorry.
My disc was faulty, swapped and it’s all good 😀
13000. What do I win?
A reply from me.
Who’s this guy?
No one important.
Here, I made you this cake*
*The cake is a lie.Something I just noticed with MKX, when you’re sitting on the main menu you’ve got Faction Wars on the Left and Living Towers on the right which scrolls to “coming soon” there’s a picture of an original Mortal Kombat arcade cabinet, then one of a hockey mask, which says to me that they’re planning on releasing the original MK and Jason Vorhees as a playable character as DLC.
Not really fussed about Jason (never really watched any Friday The 13th movies), but original MK, yes please.
Did a bit of searching and it turns out it is Jason, and also Predator.
Also, I’d like Predator and the alternate Carl Weathers from Predator skin for Jax, but 45 bucks for the season pass which only includes four characters and fifteen skins is ridiculous.
Time for a THURSDAY TAYDRENALIN SHOT
So, you’ve been given control of a major Australian Newspaper and all of its resources for two weeks. What do you spotlight in its news coverage for this time period?
Not refugees. There aren’t any. The Coalition took care of that!
Refugees? You mean those weird people coming across the ocean? Bah we don’t have room for them! Send em to Nazi detention camps in PNG instead!
The Victorian State Liberals and putting Labor between a rock and a hard place due to their deal on the East West Link, cuz those dickheads need to be held accountable for that compensation bill.
Reporting almost exclusively on lies. Anytime anyone who should have the public or consumer trust… abuses it. Totally bipartisan. All lies are welcome if they can be exposed.
(Edit: And in the process, be directly responsible for them building a better
mouseratcockroach.)Just got an email from the tenancy tribunal with the submission from the real estate agent.
They repeatedly state that we were told not to keep Alice on the premises. They told me that I might get into trouble with body corporate if I did, but when asked if I should keep her at a relatives, they gave no answer (I have emails with this). I also said that I would be willing to leave Alice with a relative but never went ahead with it because they never told me that I had to.
This is frustrating.
EDIT: Apparently I was told we couldn’t have Alice for the following reasons:
1. It is a puppy and she [the owner] doesn’t want it destroying the house and yard.
2. A puppy will bark consitituently (sp) and disturb the neighbours.
3. She originally pre-approved a dog that was older and a smaller type dog.
First of all, this is the first time I’ve heard about point 2. The funny thing is that it’s patently false. Alice creates some noise but my immediate neighbours have told me that they cannot hear her and wouldn’t mind if they could.
Point 1 is happily countered by the house inspection happening tomorrow, where I can show the only damage she has done to the house is to the fly screen. Something that any dog could do and also something we will happily replace when leaving.
As for point 3, nuts to that. Alice’s age was never discussed and they had ample opportunity to say no when we applied to the RSPCA. We did originally ask for a small to medium sized dog but again, ample time.
There is a non-zero chance of me getting shouty at this meeting.
Don’t get shouty. tribunals get shouty people all the time.
Get facty.
I’ve already emailed them to ask if I should address the parts that I feel are false now or if I should wait until the meeting.
I won’t get shouty but it’s so damned tempting.
I’d come prepared with a response.
I’ve been told that it’s too late for formal submissions now. Still, I’m going to try and get some signed letters from my neighbours and use the emails that I included in my submissions as argument against their claims.
It’s pretty simple to dismiss their claims.
The only thing that is a real point of contention is that they did tell me not to keep Alice on the property without body corporate approval. My neighbour, who moved in around January, has a dog that is not approved through the body corporate. Since moving in, she hasn’t been able to complete the process to get approval.
How the hell am I meant to adopt a dog if it takes 3+ months to get the body corporate to give approval? It’s unreasonable.
Body corporates are great at taking your money (if you’re paying them) and doing nothing at all. The vast majority of them just treat buildings as gold mines and will do the minimal work on them. I would start the process of getting body corporate approval though if you haven’t already so you can point to the fact that you’re doing everything they asked you to. If the body corporate are having the issue then it’s onto them to make a decision on the approval process either way rather than sitting on it. (sorry if that’s not the case, I haven’t been keeping up with TAY recently).
If you can get your neighbours to respond in writing that’s great as it would put one of their points immediately to rest and also point to the fact that in your lease you’re probably charged with repairing or replacing any damaged property when your lease is up anyway
Shouty bad 😛
I tried to start the process of body corporate approval. It requires the owner put in a signed letter requesting permission for us to have the pet. I gave the owner a letter before we adopted Alice and it hasn’t moved past that point.
I’ll be talking to my neighbours this evening (they’re at work right now) about getting a signed letter and there are emails saying that we’ll repair any damages caused. Not only that, there’s an inspection tomorrow where they can see that the only damage done is some scratching on the fly screen.
Best of luck.
I was wondering if that typo was theirs.
There is also a non-zero chance that the real estate agents won’t even bother to represent the landlord at the mediation (it’s seriously not worth their time) and if that happens, the tribunal finds in your favour by default. I suspect this letter is a last-minute attempt to intimidate you.
Is the fly screen actually torn or does it just have marks?
Fingers crossed for you!
I’ll take any chance to mock a typo.
The real estate agent is almost definitely going to be at the meeting. The letter was from the tribunal with the real estate agent’s claims for the meeting. The worst thing about it being last minute is that it’s harder to get a decent response to them in the appropriate fashion.
There are a couple of small tears in the fly screen. Enough to justify replacing it when we move.
Good luck man.
If waves are the ocean saying hi, then is a tsunami the ocean getting all up in your face?
Page 6 is thataway
I tried to this morning, it wouldn’t fit. 🙁
Oh noes @dc, Diddy’s been nerfed.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/04/the-most-hated-character-in-smash-bros-gets-nerfed/
Repost because I should have counted the posts:
Time for a THURSDAY TAYDRENALIN SHOT
So, you’ve been given control of a major Australian Newspaper and all of its resources for two weeks. What do you spotlight in its news coverage for this time period?
I would get darts and a world map and keep tossing until I hit anything aside from the Ocean or the poles. Chances are as long as it landed on a country I’d be covering more *news than any news agency in Australia.
I’d highlight how crappy and biased its coverage has been; take it down from the inside. Two weeks is a long time 😛
SHOCKING internal communications from the editor of this VERY publication show clear corporate interference in editorial content, including censorship of issues which would embarrass or cast negative light on advertisers, board members, and politicians who the board has donated to the campaigns of!
NBA Playoffs m9.
I’d borrow the plot from Tomorrow Never Dies and live out my life on a stealth yacht before being taken down by MI6
Is it wrong that I have no interest in covering anything? I just went to NineMSN and found every article featured to be utterly banal.
Every newspaper is a single sheet saying “no news today”.
The rest of it that would have otherwise been used is then used to make the world’s largest paper mache sculpture.
All happy and good news. Try to change the tone of society somewhat away from fear and anger.
Yes!
so heres a weird request…. im hunting around for an OUYA controller…. specifically this colour
http://f.tqn.com/y/portables/1/S/c/L/Ouya-Controller-0.jpg
dont care if its second hand or whatever. I manage to pickup 3 from a cash-converters type store, for just under $17ea… need a 4th one, thought id use the powers of TAY to see whats around!
ebay prices are ridiculous…
Turns out Daredevil’s pretty alright. Up to episode 3, and really enjoying it.
Except that scene with the eye stabbing… *shudders*Okay. I finished Daredevil last night, and am hooked. Some thoughts below.
SPOILERS FOR ENTIRE SERIES ENCLOSED BELOW. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Firstly, the red suit. Not bad, but I kinda liked his first ‘costume’.Have to say, I was a bit disappointed when Wesley was offed. I actually really liked that character (even if he was a bad guy), and wanted to see him develop more in his own right, rather than merely as Fisk’s 2IC.I liked the Cinematic Universe reference/tie-in just before Ben was murdered, where he was looking through some of his framed reports from the office and there was one on the Battle of New York. Nice touch.The fight scene at the end of episode 2 was easily the best in the entire series. A bit of a shame that they didn’t have any others to compare to that one, as it was an awesome piece of filming and martial arts choreography.Final thought – there wasn’t enough lawyering in the show. Apart from that one trial to prove themselves to Wesley, there wasn’t much on show in the legal side of things. The show kept talking up Matt and Foggy’s legal prowess, but never really let us see it.I was more disappointed that Urich was offed. Wesley was good, but I felt his purpose in the narrative was better served.What do we think the odds are on Madame Gao being the main villain in Iron FIst, and that Stick will turn up in it as an opposition figure?
I actually thought Madame Gao and Stick and all that Ninja crap going on could be a tie in to Dr. Strange cos of the weird mystic scene there was with Stick and that asian dude in front of a smoldering fire? That said Iron Fist is also very possible but I have a feeling the most likely tie in is going to be to Elektra via the Triad/Japanese peeps and Stick either works for them or against them.Well, Daredevil did mention that greek girl he was into.The japanese people were pretty much The Hand, which are Daredevil baddies- the red ninja suit is a dead giveaway. Iron Fist is more Chinese in his origins (well, where he got his powers- Danny Rand is generally a white dude though thy could change that), and the fact that Gao said she was heading “far from here” sounds like K’un L’un, which is a magical city where he learned to fight. Stick has generally been opposed to The Hand, which is why he’d be killing their weapon
Iron Fist is weird.
Just the first episode had a handful of references to the destruction of NYC from The Avengers. I thought it was nice how they used it as an excuse for the cheap real estate in Hell’s Kitchen. Well, aside from Hell’s Kitchen being Hell’s Kitchen.Yeah, RL Hell’s Kitchen is well gentrified.I thought the flashbacks were interesting in that regard- they alluded to a mean streets 70s thing, but for Daredevil he realistically should have been growing up in the late 80s/early 90s. Hell, the actor is only a couple years older than me.
Makes more sense for Kingpin’s flashbacks.
I thought that Daredevil’s Hell’s Kitchen is stuck in the 70s because otherwise his character doesn’t exactly work. I’ve only watched the first episode btw, I just don’t care about spoilers because it doesn’t seem like the sort of show where spoilers matter.The idea about it going to shit following The Avengers was a neat dodgeI haven’t seen any of it yet.I bet someone else has also made this joke, but I don’t want to click the spoiler buttons so I won’t find out until I’m caught up.
On another note, I started watching Danger 5 last night. Only saw the first half of the first episode before I went to bed, but what an episode. I can only think of it as some bizarre love child of Thunderbirds and Mighty Boosh. Amazing.
Everybody I’ve shown it to has loved it.
Except for my brother. He hated it.
I don’t have a brother any more.
Oh, and Kill Hitler.
Still need to get back to that. It was just a random DVD I saw on the shelf at JB when looking for Christmas presents, it looked like the kind of thing my dad would like. Think we’ve only watched maybe the first two eps or so.
It’s on Netflix,
This is so frustrating.
I still haven’t gotten GTA V running. It’s taken forever to download because their servers kept slowing to about 4KBps instead of 4 MBps. Finally got it down to less then 1 gig remaining and now it just refuses to connect to their servers at all.
I feel like I could probably go back to 2013 and see this exact same comment.
Haha omg I just found this PC Gamer article, probably the best lunch read I’ve had in ages xD
http://www.pcgamer.com/pc-gaming-terms-and-their-true-meanings/
This surprised me with how funny I’m finding it.
Ironically the list can only truly be appreciated by veteran pc gamers for all the little references across the ages xD Loved “Assassin’s Creed – Ubisoft’s way of wishing you a Happy New Year”
Ugh. So much this.
In honor of page 6 which I sadly missed 🙁
Major: “I didn’t see you at camouflage training this morning, Sergeant!”
Sergeant: “Thank you, Sir!!”
Told my wife I thought her trousers needed taking in
“Do you think I’ve lost weight?” she smiled
“No” I said “it’s started raining”
My wife told me to stop impersonating a flamingo. I had to put my foot down.
I bought one of those telescopic ladders. It’s useless – I climbed all the way to the top, and the moon is still no clearer.
I gots MKX (XB1) wahooo!!
Kinda (not verry) funny story how I come to possess it…
My gf got me a fitbit from JB Hi Fi for my bday ($98.) She knew I may want to return it so she got a gift receipt. I really had no interest in it and returned it on Tuesday, exchanging it for a guitar amp that I spotted on the online store ($98.) They were very understanding.
I brought the guitar amp home and realised that I didn’t really want a guitar amp. Duhh. So this morning I put it back in the box and resealed it with some tape. Took it back to JB, said I already had one and asked if I could exchange it for MKX (negative karma points for me.) Well it worked alright and I gots the game and a $19 gift card.
Hopefully it doesn’t break my XB1 as it seems to be doing to PCs and PS4s. Really excited to try it out tonight!
@scree the bookmarks arrived and holy shit but do they look good. The images you’ve been sharing don’t do them justice.
I’m sorry.
*shifty eyes*
…
Ducktales woo-oo
*runs away*
D-d-d-danger!
(I don’t know the rest D:)
I believe the next line is:No one told you life was going to be this way.
…you taco Nazi, look around and count on Lassie?
Hang on, wrong language.
You’ve got the theme stuck in my head now
MONSTER! … wait, the other thing, HERO!
Life is like a hurricane,
Here in Duckberg!
Racecars, lasers, aeroplanes,
It’s a duck-blur!
You might solve a mystery, or re-write history!
DUCKTALES! Wooo-OOO!
Let’s
get
DANGEROUS!
DARKWING DUCK!
You.
I like you.
All bosses left early today leaving me and the new girl in the office.
PARTY TIME
*grabs popcorn*
Ernie.jpg
My first Ernie!
That was a strange interlude on TAY.
Party time ay? Wink wink nudge nudge say-no-more say-no-more
Is she a goer? Does she go?
For a long, long time, I’ve wanted to swap my Twitter account to Trjn instead of TrjnRabbit. By some stroke of luck, Twitter is one of the few places on the internet where Trjn was taken by someone other than me.
I checked again today and now it’s coming up blank when I search for Trjn but it won’t let me change my name because:
I’ve tweeted at the support thingy in the hopes that I’ll get a response. I doubt anything will happen.
I could change to Trjn_ or something similar. That seems like a bad idea. Either way, I want a shorter name. 10 characters is a lot in Twitterworld.
Twitter is the only place I’ve ever come across on the internet where my username was taken. Worse still is the account has never tweeted 😛 Give it to me!
Also, yeah, avoid the underscore! My original twitter name was @powalen_ and everybody forgot the underscore.
I took my username on it in 2009 and have held onto it for dear life.
Mine’s been taken everywhere except League of Legends apparently, I had to go “Tech_Knight_Blue” for my Origin account.
It baffles me how frequently my usernames are taken in the strangest of places.
Meanwhile, I’m the only one on Steam. The only one!
#TheMostInterestingManOnSteam
Hit and miss for me. I’ve long given up predictions.
My handle way back in the day used to be Innuendo. These days, CUFCfan616 is unique to me as far as I’m aware, any google searches for it will just bring up me. I like that 😀
Woot, just won a Mexican cookbook from Dymocks!
They’ve been good to me with their twitter comps, jagged a couple movie tickets form them too
*obligatory “I couldn’t eat a whole one” joke*
I’ll have a fajita and a few enchiladas please
Also, there’s a cookbook on how to use El Paso dinner kits? 😛
Step 1) throw them out. Well, keep the tacos/tortillas if you’re being lazy.
And keep the fajita seasoning. Don’t use it for fajitas, but it’s still pretty damn tasty.
I read yesterday during the day about the Destiny patch. I didn’t register how big it was. Got home, had some dinner, watched a bit of TV with the missus then booted PS4. Look in notifications – patch installed. Lovely. Wait, 6.5GB?!? Ah well, it’s all good. Started playing after a couple of minutes of install screen, got in a party. Wahay.
After a bit another regular joined the party after getting home from the gym. Apparently he turns his PS4 off completely. There was swearing. I think I heard the words “nine” and “hours”.
Thank you PS4 snooze mode.
Yeah, I was shocked about that too and yesterday I needed to download the ESO client as well for the free weekend this weekend. That was another 90GB hahaha Hooray for the unlimited internet plan we just went on to
I think mine’s something stupid like 500GB off-peak, 500GB on-peak that I’ll never ever uyse in a month. Even if a hard-drive fails and I re-download my Steam library.
You’re the devil for not turning your machine off properly.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/03/how-standby-modes-on-game-consoles-suck-up-energy/
Turned off USB ports on PS4… NOT EVIL. :-p
Dat Wii U consumption.
Oh. Darn. I haven’t… I guess I am evil alone.
(Like… REALLY evil. I don’t even bother with standby, I just put the controller down, turn off the TV and walk away.)
I can hear you cackling maniacally from here.
The geek-savvy new guy in the office was able to slip into conversation with his nearby coworkers, “You’re tearing me apart, Lisa!”
Crickets. “…No? Anyone?”
Without getting up to wander over and lend him support, I simply emailed, “No-one is going to get that reference.”
Reply:
“Well, at least I know someone got it! These people are so uncultured!”
“No! No. This is not a good thing. We are both worse off for this dark knowledge and doubly damned for allowing it to spread.”
New guy’s nickname is now Mark. Every time you see him, “Oh, hi Mark.”
I considered this. I don’t want it to turn into a Thing, though.
Throw him an American football and see what he does
HI DENNY
Owch. I thought we were friends!
“These people are so uncultured!””
Now that’s a phrase that needs a slap in the face.
I am hoping that it was a self-deprecating joke.
Since @shane has decided to grace us with his presence for a few days, anyone want to make a night of it Thursday or Friday night?
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
Next week, not this week?
This week. He’s sitting on my couch now.
And yes, I know. Short notice.
I thought that was a long’ish stay… well. Some of us are doing dinner in the Valley tonight. If you were up for the trip you could probably join us if you left right now.
I’m occupied Friday. Also it doesn’t look like I’m going to gatecrash anything on the weekend either. No @shane for meee. 🙁
yeah.. bit late I’m afraid for tonight. Given my condition, I doubt I’ll be able to trek down there tomorrow either though. Right now, I’m just glad I made it home!
Might be able to do Friday. Already have plans tonight in West End.
Friday would work.
I might be able to make it if something happens tomorrow.
I’m as sick as a dawg
Also, not feeling well.
Might be able to do something on Friday. Been working pretty late the last few days though so kinda not sure. I’m sure I’ll see you guys over the weekend at Supanova at some point.
I’d love to see Shane but it’s not possible for me. 🙁
Mmm, can’t do, got an old uni friend visiting :/
Ooh, a package from NAL. All the others are getting their Smash soundtracks, must be my turn!
*it’s the 3D World soundtrack*
…Sakuraaaaaaaaaaai!
http://stevivor.com/2015/04/nintendo-australia-details-digital-content-that-can-be-purchased-with-club-nintendo-stars/
Interesting.
Guess I might maybe get the MK8 DLC there. That is if there’s absolutely nothing at all left to spend my points on by the end of things.
Would you race with your TAY peers? :'(
Maybe one day.
Sweet, sweet, Internet. Never leave me.
I think we should see other service providers.
Hey @dc what are your thoughts on the games in The Daedalic Armageddon Bundle
A few I wasn’t too interested in but as a group could be worth it.
Give me a break down and make me spend money
Fuzzy kitty is now acting as my lap warmer.
She’s comfy, I’m comfy, it’s all good. 😀
Just got home from work to find that my Smash Bros. CD soundtrack arrived from Nintendo \o/
Oooh, page get too, should’ve bought a Powerball ticket.
I got mine too.
Me three! *immediately throws on pile of CDs that will never be listened to*
I didn’t get mine … that’s fine … I didn’t want to be in your stupid club of awesome SSB music for dummies anyway.
*runs off crying*
Didn’t get mine either. Normally a PO Box means I get the jump by a day rather than get something late.
Me neither, why nintendo, WHY!?!?
Perth? Perth.
Perth 🙁
Definitely Perth. 😐
Yay for me living 5 mins away from Ninty HQ
*waits for @powalen @sughly @phoenix @masha2932 to post Survivor talk*
That bit where they did the thing to the person with the other thing was good.
*whispers* Is this working?
NO! That was the worst bit!
I disrespectfully disagree and call your favourite auntie an oft slubberdegullion nincompoop! Take that!
How dare you insult a nun! 😛
No! Not Joe! Super impressed by his jewellery-making skills. Awesome play from him, and to be fair awesome play by Mike. Disappointed in Jen. I would’ve liked to see her shake things up without Hali, not shake things up so she can leave instead of Joe.I’m backing Tyler now. I liked him at the start but we haven’t really seen too much from him, Very strategic. If he and Caroline can position themselves right they could help the blues flip on the other blues and make it to the end.P.S. I loved Tyler when he was voting: “I have no idea what is happening.”Joe :(. We’ve pretty much lost Jenn too now that she’s all negative Nancy and doesn’t have the drive anymore. I’ve liked those two ever since the “love triangle” incident in episode 1 with Vince. I was super impressed with his jewellery making skills too, so I was hoping Jeff wouldn’t toss the fake idol into the fire (they didn’t show it but I don’t know if he did or not) :D. The play was good but not good enough :(, seemed so close though!I like Tyler and Carolyn too but I also don’t mind Mike. At least Mike’s playing the game more than others. Dan, Rodney and Shirin are still annoying though… This season I found myself not really backing anyone in particular but liking various people on all sides. Kinda more enjoyable this way since I’m less devastated when the person I like goes (Rupert in every season ever :P)
Dan and Will flopping around on the slide in the challenge lololol. Rodney’s impressions made me laugh too and I also had a chuckle when Tyler and Rodney said they both had no idea what was happening 😀
I feel like Shirin could get to the end though or close to it. I don’t think she’d win but she’s getting more air time. I just hate how she thinks she’s the greatest person ever out there :/
Ugh, I can’t stand Mike 😛
Is that the chocolate one? We just finished watching it now.
All I was thinking was that’s gonna be a huge diarrhoea fest… 😛I was thinking they need to just scoff as much as they can, get those energy stores up.
Also they gon’ crash so haaaaaaard 😛
FIIIIIIIINE!
‘Kay, Shireen was totally annoying but, after everyone told her she was annoying she hasnt been annoying? I wanted Joe to stay in longer but… not win. Just stay and win a bit and stress everyone out, but oh well. Mike is quite cool, but… makes me tired watching him work constantly (take a rest dude, srsly). Tyler seems really cool, I like how he’s playing the quiet, calm, collected game. Also I think Carolyn is making for a good hush hush ally with him too. Smart people these two. Jenn, she was also a fave of mine for ages but, stop being all sulky and make a new alliance dammit!! Try and change things up! Stop being a sook. Dan, I think I hate him more than anyone else thats been on the show ever, he is ridiculously obnoxious and self centred and patronising and idiotic, UGGGH. Also, So going in ep 1 was the WORST, she was so purdy T___T In short… Tyler for the win, or maybe Mike. Jenn if she starts cheering up and being cool againFun fact! I think So and Malcolm are dating!
:O
(jelly)
Morgan McLeod pls 😛
huh?
edit: ohhh…. right. eh. nah.
Yeah I’d take others over her but I waz just playin’
Gooodnight, TAY.
Good night, Crazy :*
See you in the morning 🙂
Just put the Smash Bros. CD in the car to drop my son at the bus, the main theme started playing and he goes “I like this”, he’s played a bit of Smash before, but not for a few months and he still recognized it. Then we got to the bus stop and he wanted to sit in the car while we waited so we could listen to more, while we were waiting he asked me “do you work today Dad?” “no, not today” I said, “can you pick me up in your car” he asked, I asked him why and he said “so we can listen to the blue disc”.
So proud.
*wipes tear*
In two minds about whether or not to watch that new Star Wars trailer. I don’t because I want to go into the movie fresh, but on the other hand it’s Star Wars.
8 months to go, that’s gonna be a loooong wait.
I watched it. I was sort of half excited half meh… til the last 10 seconds… I’m sold!
Ah screw it, everyone’s gonna be talking about it and I’ll just find out what happens in it anyway, so I might as well watch it now before that happens.
Edit: OH MY GOD! JUST HOOK IT TO MY VEINS!!!
I did the same for the first trailer, because, well, the internet I’ve seen it all anyway in picture and gif form so today I just thought bollocks to it, might as well have a looksie. So glad it’s not a major trailer, just enough to tease and leave you begging for more
I actually got chills – it’s really Star Wars 🙂
So did I!! Soon as that last bit appeared! Actually felt the shudder go up my spine! I honestly think this is gonna be a good’n for sure!
My reaction all the way through: “be sceptical, be scepti-OMGOMGOMGOMGSQUEEEEEEEEE”
And that’s my review of the latest trailer 15/10.35 bananaramas, would watch again.
I’m just happy it doesn’t seem (of the 30 seconds or so we’ve seen) that it’ll be kid friendly, or at least kid focused
Only in Japan… http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/new-japanese-game-show-attracts-some-stiff-competition/story-e6frfmyi-1227306975294
Probably should edit – embedded YouTube clip is a bit NSFW-ish.
O.o
Fighting Cassie Cage as Sub Zero, mid fight she says “you’re less than zero”.
Come on, ge-g-g-g-get down.
STAR WARS
STAR WARS
STAR WARS
STAR WARSSO.DAMN.GOOD
@starwars?
The farts are strong with this one.
For me there’s one massive disappointment. That I won’t be able to take my son with me to share the experience when it comes out because he’s too young.
REMEMBER THAT TRAILER WHERE THINGS WERE LIKE *VROOOOOOM* AND THEN LIKE *BOOOOOOOOM* AND THEN *ZIOOOOOM… it was pretty amazing
That first shot with the destroyed star destroyer is now my wallpaper.
I’m about as excited as a “SPACESHIP” yelling Benny right now.
Massive nerdgasm.
I finally got someone around for a Let’s Play recording. Gonna try and upload the first part this weekend.
What game?
MGSV.
Just bought Home, White Night and Defense Grid 2 as well as the Deadpool, Avengers Chronicles, Star Wars, South Park, Plants Vs. Zombies and Guardians Of The Galaxy tables for Zen Pinball 2.
Now to wait for them all to download.
Do you like Chaps? Do you like Cats? Well you may well like this French website: http://deshommesetdeschatons.tumblr.com/
It doesn’t really matter if you can’t read French, there’s not many words and the chances are good that if you answered yes to the first 2 questions, you won’t be trying to read them anyway…
Finished watching Daredevil last night.
By myself.
Because it got too boring in the second half and dropped in ranking to below the interest level of another Dark Souls LP recording.And that outfit looked stupid. No wonder they saved it for minimum possible screen time. Outside of the ‘final’ battle that was nothing like how he fought for the rest of the series, that ending sequence seemed like a promo shoot that they just dusted off and reused.
Too much story and not enough of just being with the characters and setting in the second half (especially the complete lack of lawyering)
Pity too, because all the actors involved did a bloody good job.
Rated a big pile of meh out of a mountain of promise.
And now it’s time for BLASPHEMY FRIDAY to tie in with what I just said:
Hey Firefly fans. What if Firefly as it stood was like the first half of Daredevil, and could have been tarnished by attempts to bring in story arc completion?Woooo, gonna make some enemies with that one.
So, following on from the thought patterns just established, I’m curious about the space between TV shows ending ‘too soon’ or going on for ‘too long’…
So, I’m looking for submissions. What can we list that is a satisfyingly completed and entertaining piece of television entertainment that we strongly hold the belief has passed the ‘ending too soon’ mark but didn’t go on for ‘too long’. Pretty much every TV series I’ve seen goes in one of these two categories so I’m genuinely interested in what can be suggested here.
Edit: throwing the doors open to classic stuff here too, not just the last decade. After all, it was Happy Days that coined the term ‘jumping the shark’ for crossing the too long line.
The West Wing could have ended two seasons sooner but was still an interesting and compelling show for the non-White House portion. I’d say it was still in the ‘just right’ zone although edging towards running too long.
The Wire is in the same boat. It could have done without the last season but that didn’t detract from the show overall.
Fawlty Towers was definitely just right.
It’s cheating to mention mini-series but Generation Kill and Band of Brothers would easily qualify if it wasn’t cheating.
Well it’s a funny thing, band of brothers as a ‘mini-series’ was longer than a season of game of thrones.
But is that the answer? By declaring something a miniseries, does that then give reign to making a complete, satisfactory works rather than something that fails to meet potential or grinds on too long?
Having a set length definitely helps. It doesn’t have to be a mini-series though.
Avatar: The Last Airbender was contracted for 3 seasons from the start. That worked out pretty damned well. The Legend of Korra was originally a single season, then that order got split into two half seasons then… well, the point is that they chopped and changed the order so many times that it was a bit of a mess.
Similarly, Supernatural was originally meant to only run for five seasons. If it had ended at that point, it would most definitely qualify for this list. Except it kept going. Worse, it kept going without the original show runner.
Do spin offs disqualify the original works if they then make a mess in that creative universe?
I’d like to say no.
Korra is a bit of a weird situation in all this. It was handled poorly by the network and the show suffered because of it. The first season was rushed, the second completely terrible (again, in part for being rushed), the third season was fantastic and the fourth was good but not at the same heights of the third (and also had some production issues towards the end).
If it’d be handled the same as The Last Airbender, it would have also been ‘just right’ in length. The problem with the show was simply that the quality, and particularly the pacing, was inconsistent.
OK, so for the purposes of this exercise let’s leave out the miniseries…
That’s a yes for avatar and Fawlty Towers, and no for Korra…
With @powalen’s suggestion, we’re up to 3!
West Wing and Wire are both debatable. They could have stopped sooner but didn’t suffer for it.
@trjn very grey area then… I haven’t watched either that far to agree or disagree personally.
I’ve got a weekend project for you. Probably a several weekend long project.
Seriously, those two shows are some of the greatest TV ever produced.
@trjn Can’t be much harder than sitting through 7 seasons of doctor who…
Depends how motivated other members of our household get… I never get back to a lot of incomplete series once they get too ‘slow’ or ‘boring’ (hell, nearly faltered at season 3 of doctor who purely because ‘not rose’)
I’m with @Trjn on both The Wire and the West Wing. Astonishingly great television.
That’s not a problem for either of these shows.
I think 30 Rock ended with good timing.
Breaking Bad, of course.
The Wire bowed out when it should
Fringe, I’d cut the back half of S4 but keep S5 and it’d still work
The UK Life on Mars had a perfect ending. Such an underrated show
The last season of The Wire was the weakest, but that’s a bit like complaining about being the least talented member of The Beatles. You’re still Ringo fucking Starr.
I think Stargate ran for a good period of time, was 10 season but I think most of them were strong
M*A*S*H is endlessly watchable for the entire series
Life on Mars was short and sharp as it had to be
I’ve previously classified Stargate as ‘too long’ but happy to see different opinions.
I have no idea how long MASH actually was since it’s one of those series that works pretty well out of order and endlessly repeated.
Life on Mars – is there a US/UK thing with that?
There was no US series.
There was no US series
See, that sort of thing disqualifies a series from this list since creators and rights holders have to be part of those decisions.
Really, this is the realised potential, then left well enough alone list.
I only saw the US series.
I liked it 😛
My wife checked out the first two episodes of the US remake of Life on Mars and decided we wouldn’t be watching it, I’m happy to defer to her expertise. The UK version is perfect. The sequel Ashes to Ashes was also excellent.
I originally thought that SG1 was too long when you asked the question because it went for 10 seasons. But then when I thought further I was still enjoying it in season 10
MASH was 11 season, 250 odd episodes.
I hear good things about boardwalk empire and the sopranos but haven’t seen enough of them to comment for sure.
Dexter overstayed its welcome by about four seasons. The last season was a lesson in how you shouldn’t finish a show.
Dexter is definitely a show that stuck around too long. I think I watched to season 4 or 5 and thought that.
Some of you guys might appreciate this as some of you are fans of the show “If you are the one”.
My girlfriend broke up with her ex boyfriend because he cheated on her. She made a mistake and took him back and then he cheated on her again. They broke up and she hasn’t spoken to him for a couple years.
He just messaged her to tell her he was going to be a contestant on “if you are the one” and he will be telling a back story about his relationship with her but will say they broke up because she decided to move overseas to study. She is pissed beyond belief.
I think filming was last week, so I’m guessing it will be on soon.
Douchebag doesn’t deserve to live rent-free in her head or yours. Send a metaphorical eviction notice by way of incredibly distracting reminders of your superiority. Thorough, comprehensive, and multiple reminders.
http://i.imgur.com/fpnJQY3.jpg
Haha I love this scene in Mad Men, although to be fair Don was being a douche.
This was the advice I gave my gf as well. We’re still of curious to see the show though.
Don Draper is possibly the worst role model there is, but he does occasional have some potent lines.
I wonder what would happen if she went and exposed the truth online or wherever and his rep/chances on the show took a hit. She’d be telling the truth and is under no contractual obligation to keep it to herself. Hmm.
I honestly don’t think it will make much of a difference. If he does get a girl out of this she will definitely find out the truth though.
Hey everyone. Please let me know if you’re interested in pax meat. No comiment necessary, I just want to get an estimate of numbers. Also, if you have friends coming to pax, they are allowed to come too. A few came last year and it was nice seeing some new faces.
Just post yes or something so i can grab numbers for the booking process.
Yes. I’ll probably be flying solo
Han Solo.
I would like to register similar interest to previous years – me +2.
I haven’t booked my tickets yet, but if I do come I’d be interested in coming to the meat.
Yes for me, maybe for Freya. She may be working during PAX week.
I will PAX Meat
Me.
You might want to tag everyone or something though, a lot of people who would probably want to come don’t hang around TAY much these days.
ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?! (thanks for reminding me.)
Depends on expense – casual meat almost certainly. Money-up-front possibly not as getting married the week before and finances stretched… 🙂
That may not be a problem. We’re hoping to have like a hardship fund thingy. People pay a bit extra if they choose to and it allows for those for may not be able to come otherwise. I’m happy to pay extra if more people come.
May be able to offer a room to interstaters anyway.
Should be fine, Just Depends. 🙂
I will put you down for a maybe
Ya
I’m keen, also my sister is head to PAX with me so put me down as maybe 2
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Yus! 😀
Hello!
I’m assuming it’s a yes then?
Nope 😀
(I couldn’t see the question at first & if you scroll down you’ll see my informed answer)
Put me down as a maybe i wont be at PAX but i might be able to swing by and see everyone
A bunch of friends and I are road tripping to PAX this year, so put us down as a tentative maybe. There might be me, my brother and 4 of my friends.
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Thanks for the invite, but I’m a no.
Unfortunately i am unable to attend.
Both pax or the meet.
Hopefully next year.
If I am in Melbourne for PAX then I will 100% be at the PAX meat. I just can’t commit to being there at this point. Will have most likely moved to the US by then and I want to get back for it, but I want to get back to spend Christmas in Australia more and I might not be able to afford both.
I’ll put you down anyway. I’d rather have more then less
Replied on FB, I’m in.
I will not be attending PAX this year unfortunately 🙁
But thanks for the invite/heads up.
Late yes
Quick response. =P
Yup
Is Ebony interested in coming?
Not sure at this stage, haven’t spoken to her about it… Put it down as just me for now but I’ll let you know if that changes
Alright
Yeah sure just leave Ivory out why dntcha!
Yarp.
… Damn, now I want to rewatch Hot Fuzz :-P… The Hound in his finest role to date
I never realized that was him, gonna have to watch it again.
When I realised my mind was blown XD
Yup.
Sorry Scree, don’t think I’ll be going to PAX.
All good. Maybe in years to come.
I will say yes, I should be there!
I will honestly not know if I’m going until about a week or two before the event but I hope to be there. If I am free I’ll always attend this stuff so count me in. 🙂
also Hi TAYbies.
Indeedily.
Should be!
PAX is my go-to con since most of the others either homogenised or outright shut down – it’ll be good to put faces to names, especially for some of the other Melbourne locals since I haven’t been to a TAY meat yet 🙂
Possibly if I go, would probably be with 1 in tow. Need to work out my budget though
Won’t be making the trip to melbourne this year, have a great time though and thanks for the invite!
Sorry to hear that. Maybe some other time!
Yes or something.
Yes!
I can’t come 😀
Boo
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I’m not sure if I can make it, yet.
But when I know, you’ll know.
And I’ll ruin everything.
Everyone will be looking forward to it
Currently I’m a yes, potentially my wife as well. Will let you know further down the line.
Suuure am!
Definitely keen. Potentially +1 but not sure on that yet
Yes. Even though I haven’t got tickets yet.
Yiiisss
Will be overseas this time so no D:
Tonight: Tripod. MSO. Woohoo!
Is that one show?
Yes, or no, depending what you mean.
Tripod are playing at Hamer Hall with the MSO as their backing band, so yes it’s one show…
But there are two shows, tonight and tomorrow night.
http://www.mso.com.au/whats-on/2015-season-2/tripod-2/ 🙂
All the Jelly
It was SO good.
I saw a single member if the axis of awesome last night, VERY funny lol
OK, longer review (and @markserrels – I really hope you have someone there to do an official review, but if you don’t here’s my effort!)
Tripod, the musical comedy trio, have long been into games and gaming. Touring is hard and lonely work, and the group often relaxed after a show by playing Halo in their motel room until the small hours.
This love of gaming led Tripod to write This Gaming Life, their musical love letter to games. To bring a sense of pomp and power to their performance, they have teamed up with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and multi-award winning composer Austin Wintory, who is best known for his haunting and magical score to Journey. Wintory conducted the show and provided the orchestral arrangements, as well as joining in with some of the banter and skits.
The show begins with a stirring overture, with Tripod providing snippets of conversation overheard from just about any multiplayer combat session and drawing knowing laughs from the audience, including my partner who whispered “this sounds like every night after I’ve gone to bed”. No dear, they played Halo, I play Destiny. It’s TOTALLY DIFFERENT. Really. It is. OK, you’re right. I’ll try to be quieter.
Interweaving the songs were spoken skits and commentary linking several themes often discussed here at Kotaku.
First was the difficulty of getting certain players to step out of one genre with a stirring song called “Does It Have Guns?” and the show then weaved through coping with real life conflict being different to in game (apparently, the solution to being chased down Heidelberg Road by an axe-wielding maniac in a ute is just to flee, not to pull out an M16 and press triangle. Noted.), terrible character design – the observation that every female character has the same “smokin’ body” – and balancing family time with gaming.
We were also given the rare treat to hear the MSO perform the powerful main theme to Journey conducted by Austin Wintory himself. That alone would have been worth the admission price to me.
Tripod’s long history with games was also highlighted by their playing of their score to C64 game Drive King and other early (and forgotten) games. Check out http://www.driveking.net …
The gig (sorry Tripod, “oratorio”!) moved along at good pace with plenty of laughs. The only flat spot was towards the end where the group tried to get the audience to sing-along to part of a song and this didn’t work too well. Maybe we gamers are a bit introverted after all… who knew?
Despite that, the evening was excellent with lots of knowing observations, excellent tunes and clever jokes. It’s only playing for two nights sadly, but if you’re in Melbourne and there are still seats available tonight, I highly recommend you get down there.
Started considering dropping in to the Pokemon VGC regionals in a few weeks to get a feel for the battling thing again.
Thought I better look up the rules, found them listed on smogon, but the subsequent comment thread just left me shitting myself about how little I know and how badly I’d be stomped.
1. Charizard
2. Flamethrower
3. Win everything.
If this is for the league I wouldn’t worry too much about being super competitive! The organisers try and have a spread of difficulty levels for the gyms anyway. We had a couple of leaders deliberately gimp themselves last year because the average difficulty was too high.
90% of people that challenged me last year weren’t competitive (most just brought their in-game teams).
Doesn’t hurt to bone up though so you can come up with a strategy that is fun for challengers to beat (at the end of the day the goal is to lose after all :P)
I’m cool with the PPL, but I’m just getting second thoughts about jumping in at regionals ‘for a bit of fun’ – a complete gut stomping for failing to follow the meta isn’t sounding so fun.
Ohhhh, I thought you meant dropping into Regionals to get a feel before PAX. I was going to say! Regionals would be way more advanced than PAX will be 😛
Can’t really give you any advice there I’m afraid! Not really my kind of thing.
Given PAX is pretty much the only time I’ve ever battled, figured a bit of experience might be good. Not if it’s too serious though.
I’m happy to have a friendly battle whenever you want to test things out. I’m sure @novacascade wouldn’t either!
Using Pokemon Online is really helpful for learning the metagame as well because it cuts out having to train things (plus it has a live text chat so we can talk while battling). Once you find something that works you’ll know what you need to breed/train/etc for in the real game. Happy to jump on there with you for a while as well!
I want test my snakes against your birds at some point
I actually haven’t even planned my team yet!
@powalen Times ticking 😛
Does your snake team have a MEGA STEELIX?
@beavwa Sure does. But surprisingly I don’t have an Arbok
That could be a very long match if we have a mega steelix-off.
Having watched some VGC style matches on YouTube, that shit is intense. Definitely recommend trying it out on Showdown or PO first to see if you can get a feel for it. It being doubles is what always gets me. Why can’t Nintendo do a normal 6v6 Singles tournament?? I don’t mind coming up with a team of things I’ve seen and helping you test things.
The Unrest in Idrinor rules are out.
I’m going through them right now and it’s kind of funny, my job for the day is basically telling @redartifice and @alexpants what to do. I can totally do that.
I’mma diplomacy so hard.
So hard.
By the way, did you actually request that thing posted on Facebook? I asked for pretty much the same thing on Twitter. It’d be funny if we both asked for the same thing at the same time.
I did not, but I’ll take it.
I thought that might be the case but didn’t want to correct them.
I’ve also got a pretty good idea of the direction I want our province to go in from the start. How long we can maintain that goal is a different issue entirely.
Actually, maybe I did mention it a while back, dunno. I think we should discuss initial strategy, but not here, there are Anua spies.
We should start a fb chat and get the deets of our warlord.
Definitely not here.
I don’t think we need to get into too much detail about what we’re doing. The brief is pretty clear (I assume the team briefing is the same for all of us). It’s just a matter of how to achieve that and most of that will have to be decided on the fly.
Suffice to say, I think you’re going to be busy.
Scored my cheap Clipper last night. Took forever to get it back home, didn’t have enough money left to upgrade it all that much, only had about an 8ly jump range. For now it’ll have to just sit in the garage til I earn enough to kit it out properly, so it’s back to the Sidey 😛
Also finally got around to watching Iron Man 3. Haven’t seen any of the post-Avengers MCU movies, needed to get around to doing that before the next one hits.
So much Star Wars. All of the Star Wars.
Hook it to my veins.
Amen brother!
I think i’m officially going into turtle mode for star wars, no more trailers or news stories to be watched/read by me, don’t want anything else spoiled.
STAR WARS! Some coworkers are excited and were talking about their earliest Star Wars memories.
For me, it was the Ewoks cartoon, and seeing the still-wrapped mint-condition figurines a friend had. (I couldn’t understand the point of toys if you didn’t play with them.)
I think I wore out a VHS tape where we had recorded one episode, “The Three Lessons.”
The first time seeing an actual movie, however, wasn’t until much later.
Parents would take us to Ikea when we were kids, and drop us off in the kids room. Which was awesome, because there were blocks, crayons, other kids, and a motherfreakin’ ball-pit, son. I loved that ball pit so much.
One time we went, I was deemed ‘too old’ for the kids room (age… 8?) and I was taken to another room. A darkened dome room, which had seat-shaped indent in the wall with booth-style cushioning, and in the centre, a pit of beanbags and cushions. It was occupied by sullen-eyed teens glancing up sharply at the intrusion of light into their cave. On the only flat wall was a large-screen TV, and on it… was Return of the Jedi. I arrived in time to watch Leia strangle the hutt, and I fell in love with her. “Willing to strangle her captors with her bonds,” has ever since been one of my criteria for the perfect partner.
What’s your earliest Star Wars memory?
Earliest earliest is when I was five and I was in the womens and children’s hospital. I was sharing a TV with the kid in the next bed and Star wars was on and that bastard kept changing the channel.
My real flirtation with all things Star Was came when I was given The Crystal Star (EU novel, awful in hindsight) for my birthday, I think my tenth or twelfth?
You poor bastard. The Crystal Star is truly awful, possibly the absolute worst EU novel.
I think for me it was probably the Ewoks or Droids cartoons. I’m not sure when I first watched the movies, but it was either on tv or VHS. I’ve seen every movie at the cinema, either in original release (Prequel trilogy) or rerelease (Original trilogy).
mine is was watching caravan of courage and having nightmares about that god damn spider.
I still think that is a very good movie even if it still gets a bad rap.
Mrs Tigs and I still use the shorthand of “starcruiser” to mean running out of energy and crashing.
The year, 1994. I was 5 years old.
My dad sat me down on a Saturday night and said he was going to show me something. He reached into the draws of the wall unit. Draws filled with VHS tapes. At the back, was a row of 18 blank tapes, all numbered and placed in order, along with a little book of what was on each one. Out came a well worn tape, with ‘A New Hope’ written in masking tape on the spine. I still remember the tape number. It was number 7. And so, with my dad next to me, I sat there and watched it. That Monday after school, I tried to watch it again, before my mum told me I couldn’t because it was a school night. The next Saturday, we watched a tape with The Empire Strikes Back written on the spine. The Saturday after, Return of the Jedi.
From there came a crazy obsession. Slowly, the Power Rangers toys got used less and less and the Star Wars toys grew.
In 1997, I was given a card from my parents for my birthday. No presents? This seems odd. I opened the card and inside were 4 tickets to see Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (Special Edition) that night. Opening night. This was still at the age where seeing a movie in the cinema was a big deal, I can recall seeing about 4 others before this. I still have those ticket stubs.
My dad has said he has never seen someone sit there with as big a smile on my face as I did when that opening crawl started.
It’s weird to think that The Force Awakens will be the first Star Wars movie I won’t see with my dad (although, it does come out during the holiday break, so I might have to drag him along when I go home for Christmas).
Small child, no idea what age, but old enough to have seen an Indiana Jones movie…
Walked out of my room.
Dad motioned to the TV “Look, it’s Indiana Jones”.
I looked at Chewbacca, thought ” No, it isn’t “, then walked back into my room.
I really have no idea. I was young. 4, 5 or 6 or something like that, I remember seeing some of A New Hope and not seeing any Star Wars again for ages. All I remember was the space battles though. Then 2-3 years later I remember Return of the Jedi and all I remember from that was Lando and whatshisface fish boy next to him in the Falcon yahooing their way out of a blowing up Death Star.
I don’t think I ever watched the original trilogy from IV to VI in a row until I was 16ish and got them on VHS/DVD
Also, in secondary school, the Star Wars CCG came out and I was obsessed with collecting them. I still have my collection somewhere. Shame they lost the licence for it and stopped making it. It fleshed out a load of background characters and was my first experience of the expanded universe
Star Wars CCG was huge for me too. Still have all mine in a box somewhere. Played from the original Premiere release through to the point they started doing Episode 1 stuff. Must have spent thousands on those cards all up.
1995 for me, just before the release of Star Wars SPECIAL EDITION vhs, TV2(one of our free to air channels) marathoned all 3 movies 1 week apart… After A New Hope I was sold… Collected all the Star Wars Action Fleet (anyone remember action fleet? AMAZING MODELS! I should get them sent down here, have so damned many) played X-wing, Rebel Assault and anything else Star Wars I could get my hands on… My first true obsession
Come to think of it, I’ve owned just about all the movies on all the mediums they’ve come out on except bluray… Recorded originals on vhs, got the special editions on vhs, got the first DVD release of the trilogy and purchased again down here because I was too lazy to get them sent down after my move XD
Dammit now I’ve started looking at pictures of Action Fleet 😛
Never realised it was Micro Machines that made them… I’m going to have to get them sent down here… I remember absolutely losing my shit the year I got the X-wing for Christmas
I refuse to buy them again unless I can get an unaltered cut, but I want the ~1994 THX remaster version ideally. I still have the THX remaster VHS tapes.
A few seconds after this. Where he does that backflippy twist.
EDIT: I have no idea how old I was…but that scene is etched in my memory.
EDIT 2: @highperformance there we go.
Links broken, I wanna see m9
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to go down memory lane. I think if we don’t think of stuff like this we’ll forget awesome memories like your first Star Wars memory.
Mine was in 1994 much like @cakesmith, I was farmed off to my aunty and uncles place for them to mind me while my parents were away. One of my favourite things to do while going to my aunt & uncles place was have fish and chips sitting up on the massive swivel chairs, reading the blurb of the video we had hired to watch waiting in anticipation.
I would go into the front room with a TV that was small enough to fit on one of the shelf cupboards in their bedroom, put the video in the VCR and sit on the edge of the bed craning my neck at a ridiculous angle and squinting to see the figures.
I watched my first Star Wars A New Hope, and the moment I knew I would submit myself to ForeverHype (tm) to SW was during the Trench Run watching all of the individual battles and the excitement of the Rebels and Empire being picked off. I ended up watching all of the Star Wars originals, they are literally the only movies (Aside from The Land Before Time series :P) I would rewatch.
I can’t wait for the new movies, I’m going to a 12am show even if it literally kills me.
My son’s almost 7 and I’ve been thinking about starting to watch Star Wars with him (starting at Episode IV obviously) and whether it would be appropriate for him to see.
My first Star Wars memory was begging my father (who has absolutely no interest in anything Sci-Fi) to take me to see Return Of The Jedi at the Picadilly Cinema in Adelaide when it first released. I would’ve been about 7 and a half and the Rancor scared the absolute shite out of me, I did live a pretty sheltered life though, my parents were pretty strict on what they allowed us to watch on TV, so I have no idea why he agreed to take me to it, probably just to shut me up I guess.
So, I’m not sure if I should let my son watch it just yet, there are a few potentially scary bits, and also the whole brother kissing sister thing, but I think he’s a lot better adjusted than I was at his age.
Don’t forget that you don’t find out about them being brother and sister till well after that happens.
What is the worst that can happen if he watches it now?
Machete order! IV, V, II, III, VI. And make sure it’s the Despecialized editions of IV-VI!
As far as I’m concerned the only order to watch them is IV, V, VI, I, II, III, then VII, VIII and IX (once they’re released).
The reason for putting II and III in before VI is that it preserves the overall narrative of the films, but also preserves the twist. Machete is designed for introducing new viewers (especially children) to the movies without Lucasing them.
You start with IV and V because this way the biggest twist is preserved – Darth Vader’s identity. That moment for kids that don’t know it’s coming is still really powerful. They start asking how that could be the case. Then you go to II and III (because Episode 1 is utter wank that has no bearing on anything at all and can be excised completely) and show how Anakin fell to the dark side. Why it’s such a big thing. Also he works as a nice contrast to Luke. Finally, having found out the history, you go to Return of the Jedi, where Luke confronts the Emperor and redeems his father. The whole arc of the films is the fall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker, and the machete order preserves that far better.
There is probably actually an argument for sitting kids down with IV, V, II, and then all the clone wars TV series, then III & VI. Clone Wars makes all those badly written characters so much more likeable.
I understand the reasoning behind it, but I like to watch them in the order of release, although I don’t even own the prequel trilogy yet, haven’t seen any of them since I saw them at the cinema.
So hard to say. All I know is we had the three movies on tape, recorded from the TV. I feel like I remember watching the stormtroopers and Vader bursting into the rebel ship at the start and being scared of him. Couldn’t give an age or anything for certain.
It’s just kind of one of those things that’s “always been”.
I have no idea when or how old I was when I first watched Star Wars.
The earliest movies I remember watching where who framed roger rabbit at the movies. Also robocop 2 when I was 8.
I watched Star Wars for the first time when I was barely two years old. I would sit infront of a pirated VHS tape of it and watch the battle of yavin sequence over and over while playing with lego and stuff. I don’t remember a huge amount of early childhood but what I do remember of it, Star Wars made up a big chunk of.
It’s also one of my earliest video games memories. My uncle owned an early system of some description (I think it was an Amstrad) and had the port of the Star Wars arcade game along with the Empire Strikes Back version that had vector graphics AT-ATs. Remember being blown away by that as a three year old.
Fuzzy memories of the Ewoks cartoon.
I do remember that I saw Ep 1 about five times at the movies (shaddup, I was young and impressionable).
And I can remember having watched the original trilogy at least once per year since.
Whoo, turns out I had a faulty disc for Mortal Kombat X. Tested out a few things and worked it out, swapped it and it works no problems.
Finally Kombat Kan Kommence!
Sorry Ya’ll had to put up with my whinging 😛
Edit: Also I have a spare Goro code for the PS4 if anyone didn’t get him.
You are the blurst
Have fun
\o/ hooray for happy ending! Have fun buddy
\o/
KKK, errr that’s not good.
Glad you got it sorted man. Which faction did you join? I’m with the Lin Kuei for now.
Working at the desk 1 on 1 with a difficult client, and in comes another gym member to workout.
“Hey Lenny, really good to see you mate!” I say thankful for his intrusion.
Lenny is legally blindI don’t want to, but I say it every time he walks in. Every. Damn. Time.
I knew a blind guy who said he actually learned to hear the exact moment when someone realizes they’ve said ‘see you later’ or ‘You see, it goes like…’ or, ‘so it seems’, any other sight-related saying and feels guilty about it. (He said he really, really didn’t mind that people use the phrase, but quietly, privately… I wonder.)
I’m definitely that guy: “I’ll see…-catch you later mate”.
I didn’t press because I was embarrassed and awkward enough as it was, but I got the impression he meant just a hitch of breath after saying something when you realize what you’ve done… It’s entirely possible he was fucking with me. Because really, why wouldn’t you?
My mum told me a funny story the other day related to this.
My mum was queuing up in a line one time, and every time the line moved forward, the person behind her bumped into her.
Thinking they were just being impatient, she let it go, though it was a long line.
Finally after about 7 bumps, my mum spun around and snapped, “Are you blind or something?!”.
They were.
Oh dear, the look on her face would’ve been priceless.
Shame the guy would’ve missed out on it 😛
It’s extra funny, cause my mum is this little old gentle lady who wouldnt hurt a fly, hahahaha! :’D
Did you see… anything at all?
Defined in The Meaning Of Liff. This is a “wigan”.
MORTAL KOMBAT X I LOVE YOU SO
BUT WHY IS THE NETCODE ON PC SO TERRIBLE, WHY!?!?
Has anyone else here played Elite: Dangerous?
If so, is it worth it?
No. I haven’t, Gooky, OS42, and Pixel haven’t either…
First rule of… etc etc.
Did you ever play the original Elite, or Freelancer, or Privateer, or X: Beyond The Frontier? If you like fairly freeform space combat/trading/exploring with some missions and a bit of lore but mostly make your own fun and just play the game to get bigger better ships and weapons… then you’ll love it. If you want to play the open universe, do it but be aware there are factions of Commanders controlling certain areas (like he border systems or Lave/Zaonce/Leesti etc) and they will kill you. I joined a large PvE private group called Mobius.
Novice, Merchant, Pathfinder. 🙂
Same name as here, feel free to add me if you get it. I’ll happily run trading runs with you if you need some muscle in the early days. That is, if I’m not out on my way to the Core.
Or, you can do what I did and play semi-offline – solo-only. 😀
Come play with us. We’re your FRIENDS!!!
*hide cargo scanner behind back and whistles innocently*
There is a thing out there that allows you to download the single player combat training as kind of a free demo, if you want to try it out at all. It’s not exactly officially supported, but at the same time they don’t block it.
Amazon has the best customer service.
Discuss.
Okay.
Yes, yes it does. Item lost in transit, no problem we can send you another one sir. The book has a slight bit of damage, no worries, here’s another one.
Fast and the Furious 7 was awesome.
The end tho. So many feels.
Screw it, for probably the 4th time, I’m going to try to figure out how to get League of Legends running. It stopped working in December of 2013 when the patcher kept patching forever, and I haven’t been able to play it since. I miss that game so much.
@tech_knight Apparently when I tried to reinstall it last time, it didn’t work because of something to do with server regions. I was originally on the NA server, but switched to OCE when the servers first launched. Does this mean I have to log in to the NA server initially or something?
I can’t remember what I did wrong. I’m asking in case you’ve had this problem before, feel free to ignore if you no idea what I’m talking about.
I got it to work! Riot changed the download interface and made it more easy to understand what I was doing wrong. Sorry for the useless notification, Techie.
Why did you think @tech_knight had a useless notification?
All @tech_knight notifications are useful!
You’re godsdamn right!
cc @phlanispo @beavwa
Not that I know of, I transferred my account from NA to OCE and had no problems since just logging into OCE straight up. I’m happy you’ve finally got it working in some form though
I wasn’t able to log in for a year. Glad it’s resolved. Thank god Riot changed the patcher.
BATTLEFRONT … HOLY SHIT. BATTLEFRONT!
Holllyyyyyy shhhiiiitttttt I have so much hype for Star Wars everything right now.
I’ve never played a Battlefront game before, don’t know why but for some reason I thought it was an RTS game or something. Just watched the trailer and man am I excited, day one purchase for sure. Hopefully they have a collector’s edition with an AT-AT statue or something.
There must be a reason for it – I thought it was an RTS too. What is it instead?
Team based first person shooter
Third* !
There’s vehicle and spacey stuff too
Galactic Battlegrounds (and the clone campaigns expansion) were RTS (based on the Age of Empires 2 engine), there was also another RTS that I can’t remember the name of.
Battlefront is a team based shooter, with an emphasis on multiple classes (including droidekas, jetpack troopers, and a bunch of things that are irrelevant because they’re neither of the above), and a variety of different vehicles to control.
Empire At War was the other RTS. I quite enjoyed it
So what bookmark series should I do next?
List is
Jet Set Radio Future (cel)
The World Ends With You (cel)
Okami (Sumi-e)
Pokemon (minimalist)
Just wanted to say, you’ve done a bang up job with the Legend of Zelda bookmarks Scree. Really nice work.
I still haven’t seen the printed ones myself =P
Thought this was pretty cool and worth sharing. The Last of Us Remastered for $US15 (and another few cents off if you like their page first). You’ll need a US PSN account to redeem it, but that’s pretty easy to do and damn near mandatory nowadays if you want access to sweet deals.
This game makes me want to buy a PS4.
MmmmPS4
Blergh, didn’t get the job.
Oh-well! They’re hiring again about mid May they said, so I’ll try again then 🙂
Hearing back from somewhere was still nice for a change.
Gave me a little boost of hope 🙂
I think my sense of fashion actually worked against me this time.
Lots of people were dressed pretty casual, where as I, as it was an interview, was dressed in interview apparel (tight button up shirt, business pants, etc).
I think they were after casual :S
Should have expected that, being the movies and all…
I really do hate group interviews though…
Oh well!
I think I’ll spend the day applying for more jobs, to make myself feel worse / better.
Well that kind of sucks, maybe you should lose yourself in pictures of men & cats…
Good on you for going in.
Interview fashion can be tricky, I guess… I’ve always had success with standard suit-and-tie. Ditch the jacket and loosen the tie or put it in your jacket pocket for the degree of ‘casual’ you see in your interviewers/the other staff. Roll up the sleeves. An open collar and rolled up sleeves is pretty damn casual.
I want to get Elite: Dangerous, but I can’t bring myself to justify the price.
🙁
SPAAAAAACE!
But is it worth $60?
That’s up to you, really. But to me it is. I mean, that’s just the standard price of a new game so it’s no real biggie.
Do you plan to play it with a joystick? If you’ve got flight sim stuff then I’d say definitely yes
Well, now that it’s on Steam, I’d say it’s only a matter of time before you see a sale. Tag it on your wishlist. 🙂
[Edit: *reads further down* Oh. Nevermind. 🙂 ]
Just wondering how to submit videos to kotaku.
Use this form: http://www.kotaku.com.au/contact/ it’s for tips and story ideas and whatever else. There’s room to attach a file, or you can simply include the link if the video is online.
It’s always good to watch these cast assessments halfway through the season 😀
@powalen @sughly @phoenix @masha2932 @mrtaco
Wahhhh just makes me sad about some of the more promising players who got voted already…
Kelly especially. And…. So ^^Kelly was a bit unlucky (since they didn’t expect the idol play) but I think So had it coming since she and Joaquin were on the outs since they lied at the start. Which sucks because they could’ve been kewl!Speaking of Kelly, we never got to discuss that crazy head injury she had. Sheesh that challenge was a disastrous idea!
Unrelated: but how good was that mini love triangle thing at the no collar tribe in the first ep lolol. Vince’s jealous stares… ;D
Hahahaha! That love triangle was AMAZING haha, he was so ridiculously jealous, I loved it. Yeah but theyve had that blindfold stuff with raising platforms plenty of times, it was just… these guys were determined to drop them in the most dangerous way possible every time. She was awesome though!And So… she totally didnt even seemed convinced about lying! That Joaquin guy was like ‘no we have no choice’, but she looked just as bad as he did in the end. And then he slipped through after!
Haha, somehow I’ve managed to finish MH4 with exactly the same average play time as Pokemon Y – both of them 43:35.
Although I have no idea how I’ve managed to play 22.5 hours less MH according to Activity Log than I have according to the in-game clock :/
Cuz you used it with your MM N3DS ya goof
…I totally forgot that was even a thing.
Fool of a took.
*Gook
:'( I thought the days of me being called that were over
;_;
@mrtaco @aliasalpha
Bit the bullet and picked up Elite: Dangerous! \o/
Bring on the buyer’s remorse!
Well, I’ve gotten a head-tracking program to work with my webcam, so hopefully it’ll all be set up and working once I run Elite:Dangerous! 😀
UPDATE: Got the head tracking to work with the webcam, but I just need to reconfigure the sensitivity, as I’m really having to turn my head quite a bit in relation to the game’s tracking output.
Is it FaceTrackNoIR? I’ve heard that’s at best a bit on the patchy side.
If you’re interested in head tracking, you can’t get better than a TrackIR5 with Track Clip Pro attachment (I sound like the “Ask me about LOOM” guy from Monkey Island). It clips onto the side of your headphones & tracks the LEDs on the track clip’s armature to register the inputs rather than trying to mess about detecting the position of your face. Not the cheapest thing in the world but it’s definitely awesome and whilst it took a while to get used to, I know I eventually found myself getting so used to it that I’ve caught myself turning my head to move the camera even when I’m playing a console game just because I came to associate wearing the headphones with having head based camera control.
Head tracking is awesome no matter what system you use (as long as it works), nothing beats being able to look into a turn when you’re driving or glancing over your shoulder when you’re moving around in a game to see if there’s a threat on your flank.
Hey, long time no see – what is a game that everyone keeps coming back to that I can jump in on?
Not sure if it’s something everyone will jump back on but I know a few of us would be playing Mario Kart 8 again since the new DLC is coming out 😀
man o man… Frenzal was fucking amazeballs last night! One of the best gig’s I’ve ever attended! All 3 acts were just mind blowingly awesome! Seriously haven’t been to a punk gig that good since the mid 90’s! So so so so good! Local Resident Failure and Obserd were the opening acts. First time to see Obserd, and wow! So good! Turns out, the work colleague I took to the show, actually knows the guitarist from the band too! Such an epic night! \m/
A little sample of what last night was like! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOEzAQBc8w8
Broke out the old Logitech Attack 3 to use as a lateral and vertical thrust for Elite: Dangerous. 😀
That’s why I’m glad I have a Logitech G940. The analogue hat is lovely for thrusters, so much gentle thrusting it’s difficult to not snigger in an immature manner…
Some days you really get a sharp reminder of how fast technology becomes obsolescent.
I’m burning a few discs of stuff for my nephew and for a minute I was literally stumped as to where my optical drive even was much less where the eject button was. I nearly pressed the power button since it’s the only physical interaction I have with my tower that doesn’t involve inserting USBs or opening it up for upgrades or troubleshooting and then when I realised it wasn’t the right button, I went sideways looking for some button in the array of USB ports and 3.5mm audio jacks. It never even occurred to me that the optical drive might be the next thing down…
I just pressed the eject button my my disk drive just for kicks. Wow, that took me back 😛
See you all in new TAY 🙂
Not if I see you first! 😛
Ooooooh, you!
*shakes fist happily*