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I dislike mornings. I dislike the cold. It is a cold morning.
Fuck this noise, where’s a blanket?
Ooh no, I love a chilly morning 😀
Depends how early you have to get up.
I got up before dawn.
They’re the blurst.
The ‘blurst’? You stupid monkey!
I love some chill in the air, and I love mornings… sort of. I love seeing mornings at the end of my day. When the world is waking up and the sun is rising, that’s my cue to hunker down and skip the worst part of the day (the sunshine).
I really miss working shift.
And will you just LOOK at that upvote disparity? I can’t believe the TAYbies are such… uh. Summer-lovers. (Yes. Definitely not a pejorative.)
Sanity prevails 😛
I started another stupid Let’s Play series that probably go nowhere. The shtick is that I’m getting a dudebro who is only familiar with Call of Duty to play other games.
“Yo bro dude, like, where’s the Lipton button?”?
Monday mornings…the worst. Cold Melbourne mornings…even worse.
On another note though, been playing the Heroes Of The Storm beta. Actually really good. Very approachable and a lot of fun with a team of friends.
Anyone else been playing?
I tried it yesterday for the first time and I’m a little mixed about it. I’ve got major framerate tanking when larger fights start when there’s a lot on the screen but most of the time it runs pretty well. I’ve so far lost every game but it’s been closer every time xD. This is mainly cuz I’ve been playing it at my native resolution in windowed borderless, might try full screen small resolution for next time, not ideal but if it helps the larger teamfights, then why not?
For an american server I barely notice that much lag, it’s pretty good, compared to something like Dawngate while that was still around (RIP). The game itself has its ups and downs but I’m in agreement with other people that have played, it’s the hardest game of its genre to date when it comes to comebacks due to the way it can snowball. Since nobody can actually carry the game, unless you get your team’s act together early, there’s nothing you can do once the fed enemy team moves as 5.
I would say in total, I have put around 15 hours into it so far. I’ve only really used Raynor. Using a team of 3 attackers and 2 supports, we’ve had some success. Of about 20 matches, we have lost 3. Each time we lost though, we clearly saw what our mistake was and made sure we put together a plan to correct it. For example, we saw the enemy heroes (on higher difficulties) would never target the minions, instead, they would always go after the enemy heroes. Although it seems obvious, you get heaps more points that way and therefore you level up faster. We also saw that they would keep 2 lanes busy and have someone else in the fields getting support units and collecting the gems/seeds etc. Once we starting mimicing these tactics, we found the game got a lot more interesting. In terms of tactics though, I’d say we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg. Really cool how the map has a unique objective to it as well, which can basically swing the game one way or another.
That’s one of the major ups, your sub-objectives are pretty much different each game with the different maps, you’re not doing the same thing over and over, so you gotta keep on your toes. The amount of maps they have I was really impressed with too.
I’ve personally only played 3, lost 3, had the best luck with this griffon rider character who had an awesome mount ability where he just jumps to the point you click on. His slow was awesome and a Lux-like ultimate sold it for me too, a lot of fun playing him. My other two were Uther and Malfurion, both of them were kinda meh, Uther’s stun wouldn’t go off a lot and Malf’s snaring ability would never seem to actually snare. I must be simply using it wrong or underestimating the time until the snare took place after casting
Another HOTS player at last!! I’ve probably sunk like 50 hours into the game so far and love how it doesn’t play like any other traditional MOBAS out there.
That said players who’ve played LoL and DotA and attempt to use the same mentality in HotS will undoubtedly lose every match because the game pulls all focus away from laning and camping and item builds. It’s incredibly team focused and I’ve personally had a number of matches where we’ve pulled a win from the jaws of defeat in a single late game rally where we lost every battle except for the very last fight wipe the enemy team, and charge straight to their core. It’s a MOBA where team composition and learning a hero take priority over getting the highest number of kills or having the most damage done to the enemy towers.
@tech_knight Given you’re a traditional MOBA vet techy my only recommendation for you with this game is drop everything you know about the genre and go in fresh, because anything you try to carry forward from other MOBA’s is likely to cause your team to lose e.g. pushing a single lane or killing neutral creeps. It’s very objective/team battle focused and while playing a hero is easy, truly mastering them will take you a minimum of 20-30 matches. As an example you mention you enjoy Falstad versus Malfurion and Uther, this is because all three characters have very different play styles. Malfurion is core support meaning all his abilities are there to heal, snare or boost the endurance of his team. You should always be the last person to die in a team fight and in order to learn him as a hero you’ll need to master switching your build each match to either something very heals focused or something with more aoe dps and chasing ability. With regards to his snare it takes approximately 1.5 seconds before it captures someone (i.e. the whole circle must become green to snare) so never cast it where someone is standing, you’ll need to cast it somewhere you don’t want the enemy hero to go unless another hero on your team has a snare or slow of their own like Nazeebo’s Zombies or Kerrigan’s grab. Falstad is part Specialist, part ranged assassin meaning he’s squishy as hell but works great for hit and runs. Uther is a tank + support meaning you’ll never dish out any damage but you should play the hero with the mentality of the being the first into a fight to eat all the damage and first out so you can heal your teammates and don’t die at the start of the battle.
If either of you are interested in teaming up I usually play 2-3 matches on weekdays and 5-7 on weekends (Mains – Illidan and Tyrael and I play a decent Malf) –
Chyrone#1100I’d be up for that certainly after work, my ID is TechKnight#6803. At the moment I’m just randoming and playing what I get, see which ones I end up liking and Falstad is my favourite out of the ones I’ve played so far.
Sounds like a plan, I’ll log on and toss you an invite after work!
Won’t be able to play much tonight after 8pm unless you’ll be up after 10:30ish cuz I have Pathfinder tonight but I’ll definitely add you tonight.
Yeah all good Techy, I usually don’t play after 8PM myself most nights, I should be on around 6.30 tonight so if you’re free then we’ll hit up a few matches!
It feels a bit like Fisher Price: My First MOBA, but that’s OK because MOBA’s are stupid hard and it’s good to see theres a giant studio investing in making one more accessible to newer players.
Agree. I think that it is a simplified version of MOBA’s but I think that’s good. I played DOTA 2 and found the learning curve to be too harsh and it put me off. I only have a very limited time each week to play games and didn’t want to spend it being frustrated by a system I didn’t have time to learn. HOTS allows you to jump on and once you go through the tutorial and a few practice matches, you get the basics and can hold your own mostly.
Morning kittens! I feel like trash 🙁 I think I’m getting a cold.
I’m just getting over one, so stay away.
@shane How did supanova go? Did you sell all the books?
Morning all. How were your weekends?
I spent the day in Newcastle on Saturday playing an awesome session of Pathfinder, then spent 40 minutes walking up and down hills when I got of the train back in Sydney because Saturday night plus rain equals no taxis. My legs hurt now because I was carrying all my pathfinder books and portable game consoles etc.
Ouch. Am now googling pathfinder!
It’s like D&D except when D&D went apeshit in 4th and to a lesser extent 5th edition, Pathfinder stayed with the D&D 3.5 ed rules but updated them to be a lot more consistent, in addition to making certain classes worth playing. Having said that, Pathfinder is now releasing as many splat books as 3.5 did 😛
Lousy, my soccer game was called off so no fun exercise for me 🙁 I finished Dragonball Xenoverses story mode so thats a plus! 😀
Damn, though playing on a muddy field is never that fun haha
Oh oh OH. I watched seven episodes of Daredevil.
I really, really, really like it a lot.
Soooo, good. I think I got up to episode 5 or 6 so far.
God, that fight scene at the end of The Cut (ep 2) was SO frigging incredible. I cannot stop thinking about it.
I’m currently in the middle of watching the MCU movies (only got a couple to go), then I’m gonna watch Avengers: Age Of Ultron, then finish catching up on Game Of Thrones, then and only then will I be free to watch Daredevil. Pretty keen for it, I’ve heard great things.
Yep, as a fan if some of the comics, I enjoyed even more than I anticipated. Can’t wait for AKA Jessica Jones
Yeah, I made some pretty good progress on that on the weekend myself.
I’m really loving how the protagonist is just so far behind the 8-ball the entire time, fumbling in the metaphorical dark and getting his ass beat. It’s kind of how I imagine my forays into vigilante work would go, if I wasn’t killed or crippled on my first night.
Yeah, he seemed really real. Matt Murdock is just a dude – he’s blind and has enhanced senses – like, super enhanced through training – but he’s still fallible and human, and you can see in this fight that he’s hurt and exhausted and slumps against walls and trips and it’s so good
Greetings computational constructs. Weekend summary incoming. Report.
User ill. Functions diminished. Solution: Watch AFL. Saturday: Nothing enjoyable. Solution: Run diagnostics on laptop to trace BSODs specifically when playing game from 2009.
Sunday: Continue diagnostics. Geelong vs Gold Coast enjoyable. Remark: CrazyGuy should be pleased with result. West Coast vs Fremantle: Enjoyable. Remark: GingerChris should be devastated with result. Laugh. “The West is Ours.” Laugh. Finish diagnostics. Restore laptop to 2011 factory settings. Game from 2009 appears to work. Further testing required.
its almost as if West Coast are the new Carlton…
And Carlton have got an old West Coast coach. And an old West Coast player. 😛
Hey, at least you can blame the result on losing the entire backline to injury. Hope McGovern is okay. It’s not going to be a pretty year for the Eagles, though. It might force them into a rebuild.
Yeah, you never want to see injuries and WC are just having a horrible run with them at the moment. Think I saw McGovern will be ~4 weeks, which is a real shame. He was one of their best players yesterday even injured.
I’m still happy with the result of the Geelong game. I don’t have Foxtel and couldn’t get a third party stream, so I had to listen to the radio. Weird experience, the commentators are very detailed but you have no idea where on the field the ball actually is, so when it says that the key forward takes a mark, you don’t know if they are ready to take a set shot, or have dropped back to defense. I’ll watch the replay tonight.
It sounds like Gold Coast actually tried to play football, which is positive. It would have been awesome if GC had won, because being the first team to make them lose back-to-back at their home ground since 2002 would make for some decent bragging rights.
Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised by the game. I tuned in just as a “to watch before the Derby” thing and ended up watching an actual contest. I’d watched the GC v Saints match the week prior (as Mrs B-ob was at the game live) and the Suns were just woeful. I really couldn’t believe some of the errors and poor decision making (Malceski especially. Expect better from him.) so I was expecting much of the same, especially with Geelong reeling from getting defeated at home by Freo the week prior as well.
Worth watching. Probably the most interesting game (apart from the Derby, go Freo) I watched all weekend, TBH, though it sounds like Port v North Melbourne would have been entertaining.
GTA V online is a hell of a lot fun with friends. Spent most of last night cruising around with @f4ction dishing out vigilante justice* to every player we ran into.
*unbiased murder
Vigilante justice is the best justice
Much better then regular justice!
Justice, but faster and sexier and not necessarily true to the material… just like any video game movie.
I decided late Friday to download, still have just under 10gb to download after putting it on pause during the days so people could use the internet without it being almost too slow to use.
So.many.retries with @blaghman @rize @cakesmith… But so damn fun too… The last 2 missions with the stealth (perfect timing) and my mad piloting skillz was just great
Those mad piloting skills where you landed the helicopter in the water twice?
i didn’t think I was that terrible was I?
Hola Tay
Busyish weekend. Went out Friday to the Hungry Hippo and played BOARD GAMES! Saturday Night went out for a friend’s birthday thing for cocktails, and therefore Sunday was a write-off.
A Monday Morning Question: If you were to open a themed cafe, what would it be themed around?
Fallout themed!
so very much this
10/10 Would set the world on fire.
Nightstalker Tail (Octopus?)
Crunchy Mutfruit (Quince?)
Gecko Kebab (As suggested 😉
Is that a trick question?
More seriously, it’d be a board game cafe with Mad Hatter tea party decor.
I would go to that.
I’d do a generic fantasy RPG themed cafe, where you can come in and join an RPG session at any time using pregenerated characters. The DMs would be employed by the cafe and the cafe would serve good coffee as well as pastries, but also ‘fantasy’ food like flagons of ale, shanks of meat, rustic pies etc. The cafe would not make any money, but this would be my retirement project (next door to a board gaming cafe).
How about a cafe themed cafe?
Nah, boring. I see cafes pretending to be cafes all over the place!
Probably the “80’s” cafe from Back to the Future II
Pretty happy with my weekend. Saturday I bought the last copy of Final Fantasy Type-0 from my local Target for $54. Spent the rest of the day alternating between playing Type-0 and watching tv. Saturday arvo, I got a phone call from my uncle asking me if I wanted to see the Hawks play the Bulldogs, which of course I did.
Sunday, I had church, followed by going to Aurora Stadium to watch the footy. Hodge, Roughead and Lewis were all brilliant, and Rioli took a couple of speccies. Definitely worth going, particularly as I hadn’t been to an AFL game since 2009.
10/10 would do again.
Morning, TAY.
Stuffed around in Elite Dangerous over the weekend.
Still on the training levels, but I’m really enjoying the game so far.
Such a great game if you’re ok with a slower paced game where you most literally make your own fortunes!
Oh yeah, don’t get disheartened if you can’t beat Incursion. That’s a bastard of a training mission that even seasoned veterans will struggle to complete.
Goddamn it’s cold this morning. Winter is coming.
Spoilered for adult themes.
http://i1.wp.com/memecollection.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ygritte-meme-snow-already-came.jpgNot clicking at work.
Weekend has been ordinary. Felt crap all weekend, GTA has taken a good 24 hours of downloading time to download. My football team and my AFL team both lost. Liverpool lost last night, did wake up to the Cavs winning game 1. Been busy playing Battlefield Hardline, absolutely love it. Dominated a stretch of Team Deathmatches where my team was terrible and we lost 6 games in a row, but i averaged around 22 kills 11 deaths.
Yeah, the FA Cup semi final was pretty disappointing. Villa was the better team and deserved to win, but Balotelli’s goal should not have been given offside. Shame that Gerrard doesn’t get the send off he deserves.
This weekend I punched @shane right in his handsome face. *decisive nod*
https://instagram.com/p/1kRBMRtarN/
I would do it again, too. >:|
I’m seein’ double.
I see four Krusties!
Wait a minute… You look nothing like your profile picture.
The internet has lied to me.
So how ’bout them Star Wars.
Feeling excited for Battlefront, mainly because of the authentic ‘pew pew’ laser noises and the possibility of going up against Darth Vader (or playing as him!)
I am hype AF for the movie and the game.
What’s a Star Wars?
Anyone gonna be Mario Karting this week?
You know it, home slice!
Hm, maybe.
Don’t worry, the pressure to win is on @dc now 😀
Had a pretty relaxing weekend all up. Dinner on Friday night for a friends birthday, had breakfast out on Saturday morning before going to see my wife’s grandfather who has taken a turn for the worse in the last few months – he turns 95 in a few weeks! Wife was a bit shook up for the rest of the day so just dagged about at home in the garden with the dogs and daughter.
Sunday equally relaxing – back to swimming lessons over winter, so down to the pool. Wasn’t feeling to well though so had a nap at 1pm – then it was 4pm. Dangerous Sunday naps!
Put in a few more hours into Bravely Default – just activated the first crystal with some summon help after wiping a few times. Got started on House of Cards which I’m hooked and enjoying, not sure wife is enjoying so much. Watched Casino Royale again last night… It’s still easily my favourite bond outing.
Got to work today to half a team… 1 on leave, 2 sick… Going to be an interesting day!
Can I just say that Ticketek’s site is a real piece of poo?
Wanted to buy AC/DC tickets this morning. Got onto the site at 9:00am sharp this morning, and progressed through the ticket buying process, refreshing the page several times along the way as it timed out or threw error codes. Got to the point where I was submitting my payment, clicked Next, then the site kicked me out.
WTF.
It sent me back into the queue, and after a few page refreshes it allowed me back in, but of course I had lost the awesome tickets I originally had. Managed to buy more, even though they aren’t what I originally wanted, they’ll have to do.
But seriously Ticketek, it’s 2015, your site shouldn’t be falling over when a major event like this goes on sale. Fix it.
And then they announce a second show, haha.
Jumped onto that straight away and got awesome tickets that I wanted.
Only problem is now I have three tickets from the first show I need to try to get a refund for, and if I can’t do that then I’ll need to sell them.
Interesting that they’re only playing Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide, usually Melbourne gets in over Adelaide pretty much every time. Victorians won’t be happy about that.
They are playing Melbourne, but Ticketmaster is selling for Melbourne.
That’s weird.
Yeah they are playing Melbourne, don’t worry 🙂
Hopefully for your sake Ticketmaster’s site is a little more solid than Ticketek’s.
You reckon Fallout 4 will have vehicles??
I would love this game to be announced, I really really liked Fallout 3 and New Vegas.
If it has a new engine, yeah. Gamebryo makes me sad.
Surely it will?
Don’t know if it will, and don’t call him Shirley.
Hope not.
Oh, I dunno… watch the Fury Road trailer again!
That game is already coming. I don’t want another one. I want Fallout.
Won’t be as fun as Fallout with bikes
Why?
Motorbikes would be ace!
Because Fallout has never really had vehicles. It’s about wandering the wasteland. Vehicles would just be pushing it further and further into not Fallout.
See, my first experience of Fallout was Fallout 2, and getting the Highwayman (which felt so Mad Maxy) was always a powerful, memorable milestone for me. The first activity on the list – get some wheels.
It’s so heavily influenced by Mad Max, seems like a natural progression to me.
Hey y’all.
Sounds like cold/flu is in full force right now. I can feel something going on (sore throat, slight cough) and I’m really hoping it doesn’t get any worse. Healthy thoughts going out to all of the infected.
Mortal Kombat is fun. I just don’t yet know who I am going to focus on as a main…just slowly making my way through story mode and playing the odd Single Fight here and there. I have typically always gone Jax, but I don’t really like him in this. I’m quite partial to Ermac and Takeda so far. Who do you guys like?
I also saw that the one and only Goat Simulator made its way on to XB1 (for $13.95.) I may well pick this up if I get an urge for a new game in the near future. Haven’t played it yet as I don’t master race, but I think it looks great. 😛
EDIT: Added the word ‘to’.
I main Takeda.
Nice. I was playing with him for the first time last night. On his 3rd sub-skill or whatever you call it. The one with enhanced whip moves. Really liked the amount and variety of special moves he had. His X-ray move is pretty brutal as well.
Had a lazy weekend. Rage quit Destiny, went back to it a few hours later. 2pm Sunday afternoon my wife remembered we were going to reorganise the master bedroom, which meant vacuuming under the bed for the first time in five years, a real challenge for the new vaccum we bought a few weeks ago. We also found a number of empty pepsi max cans (thankfully pepsi max doesn’t have sugar, so that is NOT how you get ants) and empty cigarette packets (bearing in mind our last cigarettes were November 2012).
I feel like shit today. Seems to be going around \o/
I’ve been sick & watching movies mostly.
Been playing Pokemon Rumble World, great sick game.
Last night I finally got an Insight point in Bloodborne!
Previously, all I’ve had in the back of my mind while playing it was “I should be working!” which probably wasn’t putting me in the right frame of mind. I love the design, the atmosphere, and the music though so I was determined I’d keep playing when I could.
Then last night I was hand quilting something that has a deadline this week (but my personal deadline for it was yesterday because I have other deadlines this week as well), and I put my thimble down, and then put my quilt down on top of it. The quilt had my needle stuck through it to store. Usually I put it through twice so that the point is on top of the quilt, but it mustn’t have gone all the way through this time, so the needle point was sticking out under the quilt. I put my hand under the quilt to grab my thimble and start quilting again, but jammed my thumb into the hidden needle point. It went in at least half a centimetre. There was blood everywhere.
With an injured thumb it was extremely difficult to continue quilting so I gave myself a free pass for the night.
Mr. Strange told me I should play Bloodborne (he’s on NG+ now, and wanted to have a chance to actually see the game without focusing on enemies and the stress), and with my bandaged thumb I wasn’t even sure if I could but I ended up getting all the way to the Cleric Beast and was halfway to taking him down before I did something stupid and got killed.
Not sure if it was being able to play guilt-free, or just that I apparently play better when injured. 😛
I watched Shane and Freeze play the other night. Skills to pay the bills. Also convinced me that no, I don’t want to play this game. 😛
Watching it is fun. So pretty!
There you have it, quilting is a health hazard.
Oh man, everything is a health hazard to me!
Last night alone I stabbed my left thumb with a needle, pinched my right index finger in the dishwasher handle, shut my left index finger in my laptop and stubbed my left pinky toe on my son’s dominoes tin. 😛
It turned out the right mindset was bloodborne after all? 😛
Hmm, instinct is to upvote, but pun. Downvote. 😛
Hey you’re the one who enacted the pun!
Walking to the train station I get puddle-splashed by a moron in a hatchback… running a red light… by overtaking a fire engine… via the outside lane. Dammit, where’s natural selection when you need it? Thankfully, laptop and phone avoided the deluge. The rest of me… not so much.
The only problem with natural selection in that situation is that it’d probably kill someone who didn’t deserve it unless there was some incredibly lucky convergence where 2 such arseholes were going in opposite directions simultaneously…
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
TAY RPG Pathfinder on tonight at 8pm AEST and 7:30pm ACST. Let me know if you can make it. Figured I’d post this early because I’ll be mostly absent from TAY today.
Oh yeah, just on the weekend side of things, I bought some of @shane’s and @scree’s stuff at Supanova. Pretty swanky if I do say so myself. Still feel like I robbed both of you though as that was some seriously good value for money.
Jokes on you! I let Shane keep the profit as thanks. =P
Looking forward to it 😀
I will be there
I’ll have to read through my spellbook again to remember what I have on me but I look forward to blowing more shit up! 😀
It’s been ages. We leveled up last time right? I think I need to update my character still.
Yeah you guys are all reached level 5 last time.
Checked and yeah, I did level up after all. Took an offensive spell too.
Also greater spell focus (enchantment). One of these days I’ll get that DC high enough that my spells will actually work.
Can’t see why not.
No matter how many times I try, I just can’t seem to pull off Kung Lao’s Brutality. Have to try and unlock some more (I’m assuming they’re all in the Krypt), hopefully the others will be easier
I am the type of person who would buy the ‘easier fatalities’ DLC, just so that I could see/do them on-demand without worrying about gamer cred/epeen.
The Fatalities aren’t actually too hard to pull off, it’s the Brutalities I’m having trouble with.
Also, what happened to Babalities? They should bring them back.
…I mentally lump all the finishers together in the one category and sincerely hope the DLC for it does, too. Otherwise I’d be the kind of person who would buy it, be surprised and disappointed that it doesn’t cover the other finishers, and rage about it on the Internet, starting a frustrated comment thread (which has more evocative language than is appropriate for my actual – lower – degree of annoyance) in the Steam forum then deleting the thread three months later when I REALLY don’t care about it but people keep replying to it and you can’t unsub from your own-created threads.
Back in my day they used to be cheat codes! *shakes old man fist*
luckily Erron Black has some of the easiest Brutalities to pull off in the game, no silly requirements like “punch a dude in the balls 50 times in the match” all of them just require you to press buttons when you use the move.
Today is cold and rainy and I just want to go home and play video games under a blanket.
I started re-playing Xenoblade over the weekend (in HD on my PC this time). It’s still such a fantastic game. So good for just running around and exploring. It’s great for a re-play too because I’m picking up on A LOT of foreshadowing that I didn’t think twice about the first time.
Also, I’ve started playing #Nakedblade and it’s pretty hilarious (The armour you put on your characters is remembered during cutscenes – same if you don’t wear any). Always gives me a giggle during a super serious cutscene when half the characters on screen are in their underwear for no reason 😛
Extended weekend round-up:
Ross Noble: meh. Either he just doesn’t have enough material for a 2 hour show, or he’s not moving along fast enough, and gurning for 3 minutes to stretch out a one liner just isn’t funny. Also, fat jokes? His toddler shouting “juice juice” at the park when there are some Orthodox Jews there? 15 minutes on “porcupine” being about having sex with furniture, trees and air freshener… Really disappointed as I’ve seen him before and he was fantastic last time.
Tripod with the MSO, This Gaming Life: wrote a review in TAY on Friday night. Brilliant. Loved it. https://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-323/comment-page-8/#comment-3307463
Saturday: Carlton vs Essendon – Better than I feared, worse than I hoped. My mate’s 40th – just brilliant. Brumbies vs Rebels – YES!!! GO REBELS!!!
Sunday: Pub lunch in the country. Nom nom nom. Bloody cold though. My friends just bought in the town, and their furniture hasn’t arrived yet so we bought them beanbags as a house warming present… 🙂
Gaming: some Destiny, some Elite… 🙂 Started working on Empire ranking a bit while I’m in the Empire worlds and the next reasonable trading ship up from the Type-7 is a Clipper… it’s a big gap to the Python.
Clipper is my goal once I return… Almost through the slow slog that is the local cluster and are starting to hit assume very interesting systems… Black holes, neutron stars and more… Very awesome
Interesting point about ‘doesn’t have material for a 2 hour show’ – I thought the very core of what Ross Noble does is a stream of consciousness show that doesn’t rely on pre-prepared material.
We saw him on Saturday and none of the things you mentioned were part of that show. He kept it moving along enough that it didn’t feel like 2 hours. Potentially that could be a problem with the format, could have good nights and bad nights. Not a risk I’d want to take with what ticket prices have been like previous years, but I was lucky to get some cheap ones for this show.
Yes, he could’ve just had a bad night. As I said, seen him previously and he was great.
Oh right, I’m going to see Ross Noble on Saturday night. Completely forgot! Fingers crossed that he’s in form on the night.
Also going to see Dave Anthony tonight. You should check him out, he’s pretty funny.
Jealous about Tripod and the MSO. I’ve seen most of their other shows (didn’t really know them when they did Tosswinkle the Pirate, unfortunately) and really hope this one makes it out nationally.
Been working on E:D off and on for a while – the Python is also my goal, but hoo boy is it slow going. Currently flying a Vulture worth about 12m, and have about 5m banked. ‘Only’ need about another 40m before I’m flying one, and that’s not even buying anything for it.
I usually just roam RES with a buddy and his Vulture. Highly profitable killscanning targets and blowing up anyone who’s wanted. If I get a good spawn (Anacondas, Pythons, Clippers and Dropships) I can make an easy mil in 45-60 minutes. But spawns aren’t always good, and even then – still a lot of farming. Definitely don’t have it in me to go mining, and I used trading to get started – that killed me.
Mining should improve drastically with 1.3. Trading works provided you have a target in mind and a route to get there – Sidey – Hauler – Cobra – doesn’t take too long to work up to a type-6 and then trading becomes nicely profitable. Worked up to Asp, traded and explored until could afford type-7, kitted Asp out for distant exploring. Asp is a good all-rounder (it’s really a mega-Cobra) and I was happily bounty hunting in it for a bit too… With my type-7 I was up to 200-300k every trip (a trip being 4 or 5 jumps), so that’s approaching 2 or 3 million credits an hour.
What were you trading – is that with rares? I’ve read up on it, but sounds like I need to find a good route. I mean if it’s that level of profitable, I’d happily start trading. The end goal is a nasty Python gunboat and rampant piracy with a friend, but I’m willing to change job roles to get there.
Yes, rare trading route with around 11-12 systems that’ll net around a million an hour, you need an Asp rigged for trading or a type-6 to do this. Type-6 is probably best as the insurance is cheap and they’ve got a big range. Also, probably best to do this in Solo or a private PvE group where you can fend off pirates but don’t have to worry about organised Commander interdiction groups.
Here’s a nice rare route run – note the warnings about Lave/Leesti as in open play they’re very dangerous if you haven’t paid off the open play protection racket operating in those systems…
http://www.reddit.com/r/EliteTraders/comments/2q3goa/lazy_rare_goods_circuit_by_cmdr_daggoo/
With the Type-7 I’m not bothering with rares, I just have a hunt and find a couple of systems a few hops apart where I can average around 2000cr/t profit for the round trip. 300cr/t is very doable. With 216t capacity, the money builds up quickly.
Feel free to add me, I’m trikeabout. I’m usually in Open Play or in the MOBIUS PvE group (public, just request to join).
Lurking near Achenar in a Viper at the moment. 🙂
Novice, Merchant, Ranger, Cadet, Outsider… 🙂
Turns out pass the controller “co-op” in Bloodborne is an absolute tonne of fun. Having a blast stumbling through the game with Shane.
So, Supanova was just a ruse for @shane to go to your house and play Bloodborne together.
Uses to play heaps of games this way 🙁
After a long hard year of getting over a 13 year relationship, I now feel the need to find another future ex-wife. Anyone have a spare one I could borrow?
You can take mine for a while if you want 😛
Thanks man! Sharing is caring.
I know a way you can double your odds…
*bow-chika-wow-wow*
So, what’s your opinion on penis?
I have one, I’m quite attached to it.
Does this answer your question? *unzipping sound*
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/04/this-is-what-you-get-when-you-buy-a-10000-pc/
*drools*
Oh, god. The Witcher 3 comes out the same day as House of Wolves. Multiplayer game with social obligations takes precedence over my most hyped game of this year, I guess… Also, should probably finish TW2 at some point in the next few weeks…
I’ll play HoW for you.
I would like to officially raise a motion for this day to be summed up as “urg”.
I feel like there should have been more weekend.
Urg to kill, rising?
urg
Urg!
Urg.
Actually, today I sound pretty Urg, a hangover from my hangover.
Blurgleurgleurg!
Urg, that Sydney weather, feels like I’m back in Melbourne.
Or just in Sydney, really. Our weather has been very ordinary recently.urg
Hate urgs. Can’t wait for yay.
That’s been basically my life since I got back from Japan 🙁
Sorry to hear that. How’s the plans coming along?
Guess it’s all getting a little scary at this point?
Yeah. Putting in an application for a position in Redmond today after considering it for a while. Then have to wait to get a formal offer and make sure the numbers work.
So i bought a new graphics card for the computer i’m going to build from whatever cash i get from my 21st… the only problem being that my 21st is in 3 weeks… but i couldn’t pass on this special offer, i actually paid what americans would pay for graphics cards! take that australia tax!
So now i have a $500 graphics card just sitting here all alone, not allowed to be with it’s friends motherboard and CPU. 🙁
Rest my little GTX 970, you will have your day soon.
Nice! You must play GTAV when it’s finished! It’s sooo good!
Yeah my current laptop wouldn’t be able to handle GTAV at any settings higher than low, so i’d rather wait for my new one to get it.
1080p 60fps here i come.
Don’t cheap out on your CPU, GTAV is very heavy on the CPU, especially with population density turned right up. 😉
i’m planning on buying a 4790k, i think i’ll be fine haha
Yeah that will be excellent. I’ve been having a look at some GTAV performance comparisons and it seems it has extremely high CPU usage, especially if with the population density cranked right up. My i5 3470 overclocked to 3.6Ghz is hitting 85-100% CPU usage on all 4 cores with a GTX 980, even after the update that was supposed to remove the CPU load caused by the launcher. I’m looking at upgrading to a 4690K when i can afford to and hoping to overclock to 4.5Ghz.
Finally got my Smash Bros CD! MY LIFE CAN BEGIN NOW!
*places on shelf and instantly forgets about it*
Fuck me I can’t take this anymore… my nephew has been in my house for the last 2 weeks and it’s been a constant pressure in the back of my brain which I could just tolerate. I hate children at the best of times and 2 weeks of regular small interruptions I can’t escape are just enough to keep me topped up on child hate for years at a stretch.
2 days ago his sister came back (she’d mercifully been at her other grandparent’s place) and the stress levels have tripled at least because they do little more than argue and piss each other off. Then yesterday my brother and his wife arrived and are going to be taking them home today at about 10am, it’s now quarter past 1, there’s been no sign of packing and the children and their mother are still shouting at each other (their mother’s only interface with the world is shouting) and all I want to do is physically throw them all out the door with their stuff and tell them to never come back. I’d like to see my brother again but the rest… fuck off forever…
I’m legitimately thinking of starting to stockpile money for the next time they come down so I can hide in a hotel.
Tough gig.
For a certain age child, revenge against the parents is best served by purchasing ‘gifts’ which are incredibly loud and annoying. As they age, I’m sure you can find an equivalent. For the younger ones, it’s leaving them with a ticking sugar time-bomb inside, just as they’re about to leave. An ageless one is being the ‘cool’ uncle who let them do all sorts of brain-polluting things. As they age, maybe it’s an itunes gift voucher and some obnoxious phone-compatible speakers, drum lessons, or a skydiving birthday present.
I am the parent of a toddler. I condone this action.
However, if you give it to my kid, I will smash the loud plastic toy into tiny pieces, then cut you.
With each piece.
Well if I can afford the parts, I’m thinking of building them a PC for a family christmas present, that’ll at least provoke a few arguments and make it look like I like them enough to do stuff for them. Not much in the way of revenge but it’ll let me build a PC so it’s more selfish than altruistic.
I only just got up.
I have returned to the days of unemployed Blaghman (my hair is even returning to stupid lengths). I don’t like this. Well, the hair is fine, it’s impossible for my hair not to look stupid, so that’s manageable.
In unrelated news, I’m considering running a short run of Shadowrun runs (a campaign of probably six sessions, and probably a character setup one), and was wondering if anyone would be interested, assuming there’s anywhere left in the week to slot it in.
Does that mean we need to start making jokes when you wake up before noon?
No.
Hoi Chummer
I’d like to try it but I’d rather others play first, especially those who have never played an RPG before. I know there were a couple of Shadowrun Returns fans around
Don’t make me laugh, I’m at work.
Oh man, what happened with your old job?
Oh, right, yeah, I’m still employed, just seemed reminiscent of when I was an unemployed bum.
Hey.
Been busy being a stay at home dad. Not really gaming much, unless you count Fantasy Life on the 3ds and Marvel Puzzle Quest.
Having a good old fashioned slump, so slowly climbing out of that black hole and getting better.
Been stalking you all. You all still seem nice. Stalking will continue.
Monday question: If you could create an animatronic statue of any game character/villain/enemy and stick it in your front yard/front hallway, what would it be?
Does it have to be game? Because I think Invader Zim Lawn Defence Gnomes would be great to have out front. Maybe a dog-suited GIR.
Games, though… uhm. Uhm. SHODAN.
(Edit: Or, in a very similar vein – the Marker from Dead Space. It totally counts, and it’s an attractive landscape feature.)
Thinking about it, I’d get Pyramid Head and set him up in my front hall every night.
Awesome anti-theft device.
Dr Salvador would be a similarly good anti-theft device.
Our very own @jacksonwryan is tweeting as Adelaide this week: https://twitter.com/WeAreADL
What a dreamboat!
DC! Play Shadowrun!
Red! No! 😛
C’mooooooon
C’mooooooooooooooooooooon
What is this?
Like, what does this actually mean?
It’s a twitter account that represents people from Adelaide- it gets passed around to a different adelaidean each week to do whatever with for seven days.
The most well known and successful one of these RoCur accounts is @ Sweden
Oh, that’s kind of cool.
You know some racist is going to ruin it.
It’s been going for a long time, I think there’s some sort of selection process.
Final note while I’m feeling all social and stuff.
How good was the Ant-Man trailer just released? I thought it would be a bit of a sucky film, to be honest. Glad to see they’ve thrown a tonne of humour in there.
Love the Thomas cameo. Choo-choo motherfuckers!
I think this, the Avengers-lift-mjolnir, Guardians of the Galaxy is what people are thinking of when they complain about, “Yawn, it’s dark and gritty, booo,” for the Supes vs Bats trailer.
Hell, on the Gizmodo article, Luke said:
It’s fucking Batman vs Superman. The fucked-up personification of Detective Noir taking the Man of Steel, and is driven to fighting him. Because that’s obviously the first step you take when sorting out a potential ‘delivery of justice’ misunderstanding with a fucking demigod. Nothing bad could have happened to lead to that kind of confrontation as the only possible outcome. That kind of scenario couldn’t happen in a universe with even a shred of good humour. What was he expecting, YouTube Celebrity Death Battle? No shit it looks humourless. Humour is NOT what it’s trying to achieve. You might as well ask why an infrastructure documentary looks completely sexless.
Don’t get me wrong. The Deadpool movie poster made me squeal and pee my pants a little with excitement. But Deadpool is Deadpool and Batman vs Supes is a completely different thing.
*cough* Batman Forever *cough cough*
*choke*
*splutter*
Or yes, that. That’s exactly what we want to avoid. Batman & Robin.
In saying that, I still think Jim Carry is a damned good Riddler. I’d like to see him try a grittier version. He camped it up because the movie was camp.
Alternatively, get Beneflictally Cuminaditch. He’d be gooood.
YES. He would be a good Riddler.
Batman v Supes is about two friends, who respect each other, having such an ideological/contextual difference that they resort to battle.
Supes tries his hardest to contain his powers and NOT be a gigantic alien overlord. He wants to integrate into humanity, not stand apart from it. He could be Supes, 24/7, and there wouldn’t be any issue – except to him. He wants to join the faceless masses, and protect them.
Bats tries his hardest to contain his powers and NOT be the be all and end all of crime prevention in his city. He can’t integrate into humanity. He wants to be Bats, 24/7, but there would be massive issues with that. He doesn’t want to be human, really.
In short, you have a battle between the best humanity has to offer – an alien that is uplifting and wholesome and doesn’t become ‘rule with an iron fist’ because of his hopes and trust in humanity – and the other best humanity has to offer – a man whose vision of the world is so dark, cynical and twisted, it’s only his own rules that stop him from becoming a ‘rule with an iron fist’ because he only trusts himself (barely).
An alien wearing a human skin trying to integrate, and a human who is completely alienated from the world.
Where’s the humour in that? Answer: None.
Acceptable alternative answer: None, but by god the action sequences had better be amazing.
Great analysis.
This past week was pretty good for Steam sales – anyone else here cave on Amplitude’s Endless weekend? 🙂
Aaaand… I believe I’ve probably just reached peak neckbeard for my time on the internet thus far.
Torn between going out of my way to be more silly and make up for it, or withdraw for a few days since the damage is done.
Slightly better than porn stache?
I think the only way I could have neckbearded any harder yesterday would have been to quote the Art of War and/or discuss martial arts philosophy.
So to make up for that I present the following:
Argle blargle CHOMP
Confirmed: I took my TAFE holiday a week early, missed a week of TAFE, tried to go to TAFE on holiday week.
Hope you didn’t miss anything important. I imagine a few people at my Uni would have done something similar since the mid semester break was split between two weeks.
Damn it. I had a complete epihany on Saturday, and I’ve already forgotten it.
I get that every now and then. Well. Epiphanies or remembering a novel solution to a work problem, or even what I’m meant to be doing for work, or what I was going to the fridge for.
The fridge one gets me all the time…
Stand there staring into the light with barely a single conscious thought in my head.
“The Adventures of Sean”
Noting my previous post, wherein I discussed that I had only just woken up, I feel the need to add another point, which is that unless it’s the middle of winter, I tend to sleep naked (no, you didn’t need that mental image, but I have to deal with the actual image, and it’s even worse than you can imagine). I bring this up not solely to scar your mentally, but also so that you understand that if nobody else is home, I’ll typically walk around the house naked. Which isn’t usually a problem.
Ten minutes ago, while standing in the kitchen, applying some Vegemite to a Vita-Weat, I heard the sound of a key entering the front door, and moving about. Mustering the intelligence and great speed* I have generated over the years, I did the only sane thing, and ran out of the kitchen, and dove behind the dining room table. Unfortunately, this left me in a position where I had to attempt to shuffle around the table as my Mother moved through the kitchen.
Upon hearing my movement, and seeing the disaster that was my setup, partially strewn throughout the kitchen during my panic, she rather wisely posted an open question, wondering what was going on, and if someone was there. As the honest soul that I am, I then had to respond, by popping my head over the table, and while in this position, attempting to explain exactly what happened (while my Mother laughed at me).
If you need me, I’ll be tying this noose around my neck.
#ohblaghs
I really needed that, I laughed so hard I’m sore.
Thank you 🙂
If you need a hole to bury yourself in, Alice has started digging several that may be to your liking.
Unrelated but filling the holes with her own poo is a great way to discourage that behaviour
As luck would have it, Alice’s poop is in plentiful supply.
Who doesn’t sleep naked?!
I mean, c’mon!
Sleeping naked is the worst. I only tend to do it if I’ve had… uh… company. I FEEL NAKED WITHOUT MY CLOTHES. 😛
TMI, Danny boy.
TMI…
XP
I sleep in a hoodie because warmth
I love your Mum, Blaghs. 😀
She went to her room, and I ran downside to throw some clothes on, so I had to come up to finish making food.
All the while we were trying to pretend we could hold a normal conversation, while giggling like idiots.
This is actually the best part of the story.
She also proved that she had more foresight than I do. She said that last week she’d gone downstairs to do a load of washing, considered throwing the shirt she was wearing in, and decided that it wasn’t worth the risk of being seen by me.
I love it.
Uhm. Grab a fry-pan next time?
(Unless the Blags is so well-endowed that a fry-pan is insufficient coverage and a dining-room table is actually necessary.)
Despite the fact that I spend a decent amount of time unclothed, and despite the fact that my Mum’s a Doctor who’s undoubtedly seen far worse, I don’t like the idea of her seeing me sans clothes, pecker covered or not.
Geez. I’ll tell you what I told the police: As long as your bits are covered, it’s not naked!
Fantastique.
While I’m engaging in talking amongst myself:
IT people of TAY (@rize, @cakesmith, @welbot et al.)
We recently changed all the networks in my house, and the short story is that we now have a router acting as a VPN. All’s well on the functioning point, but I don’t have a wi-fi card in my PC, and I’m plugged into the main router, so currently to connect to it I’m tethering my phone to act as a wi-fi dongle.
I just had a flick through the windows internet wizards, and I don’t think any of them will do what I want (again though, as repeatedly stated, I’m an idiot), so is there a way to set it up so that I can internet via the VPN more easily than my current stupid strategy?
USB Wifi adapter?
http://www.jaycar.com.au/IT-Products/Networking/Wireless-Hardware-%26-Accessories/N300-Mini-USB-2-0-Wireless-Network-Adaptor/p/YN8307
Ok after more research.
tethering and hotspotting is generally more for providing a bridge to the mobile data connection, not to the wifi connection, I think some can do that, but I don’t know how.
A USB wifi adapter costs $20 and will often come with software or be picked up by the computer almost instantly.
I’ve just bought one for a project I’m doing and found it easy (once i bought the one that was supported by the OS I was using[linux])
Ginger is correct. Tethering is more for if you want to run your laptop off your mobile phone’s data connection. I need to get some things straight though.. you have a wifi adaptor in your PC, but you’re also plugged in to the router via ethernet? If so, why do you need the wifi?
Using my phone as a wi-fi adapter does work, but it’s a little clunky, and does have a tendency to drop out, which is why I’m asking for insight. I’m plugged into the main router (192.168.0.1) via ethernet, and my PC does not have a wi-fi adapter, so I’m asking if there’s a way to route my connection through the VPN (192.168.2.3, it’s “behind” the main router) so that I can easily switch between the two without having to futz about with the wi-fi.
ahh ok. well.. I’m not getting the vpn biz..when you say vpn, do you mean an actual vpn you connect to through windows, or do you simply mean a subnet? (my guess is subnet?, and you’re looking for a way to be able to access the main modem/router, and any pc’s on the 192.168.0.x range? )
If that’s what you want, then yes it’s entirely possible. I have it setup at my place. I will however need to know what the 2 models your routers are before I can offer advice on how to actually set it up.
Know idea if this is possible but can you work around it and somehow set up a new Ethernet connection in Windows? So it generates a new MAC… then set the IP of the new connection to 192.168.2.3?
Then it should be as simple as enabling/disabling the connections when you want to swap?
I think I’d have to have a chat on TS to get my head around your specific setup. Give me a shout tomorrow night if you still need help!
I didn’t realise Sword Art Online had a second season so I’m catching up now. A game in this one is abbreviated to GGO so now I have that old ad stuck in my head about a man insuring his Goggomobil….
I was channel surfing the other day and stumbled onto an episode of Sword Art Online on ABC3. It seemed alright and I’m thinking I’ll have to check it out. Apparantly the second season isn’t that good though.
The second half of the first season was nowhere near as good as the first half, so I went into the second season with low expectations. It’s not bad so far. Not sure exactly how much of that opinion has to do with my low expectations though. 😛
the 3rd arc is way better than the shit show that was the 2nd arc…
but then again i never really liked SAO, i loved the concept though and that’s what kept me reading it. (i read the novels, i’ve only seen the first arc in the anime)
@strange basically this. SAO is great as long as you can turn your brain off. If you start poking at the setting or character motivations or anything it will unravel quite fast.
It’s also super super obvious that originally the story was just the first arc (first 13 episodes of season 1) and that when it was suddenly successful the author pulled a continuation out of his arse. Sudden characterization shifts and stuff. Also dreadful mishandling of Asuna, though one of the arcs in season 2 focused on her is quite good.
yeah you pretty much nailed my feelings on the show.
Low expectations is probably the only reason I enjoy all the movies that I do.
Kind of loving how much anime is on Netflix too, but the difficulty of finding it sort of highlights how terrible its searching is.
Yeah, I can’t find anything on Netflix, it’s so disorganised. It’s where I watched Fate:Zero and the first season of SAO though. And it did lead to me finally getting a Crunchyroll subscription. It’s been ages since I regularly watched anime, and I almost forgot how much I love it!
Because we are friends I am going to work especially hard to avoid overenthusiastically spamming you with recommendations of my favourite series.
Because we are friends, how ’bout spamming me with five of your favourites?
Oh god this is a huge responsibility! Uhm uhm uhm! I’ll skip all the ones everyone else probably recommends, the Cowboy Bebops and Ghost in the Shells, etc, because you’ve probably already seen them/know about them.
1. Kaichou wa Maid-sama: It’s older but I love it. Soppy-goofy rom-com. I could rewatch this one plenty for personal reasons.
2. Log Horizon: This one’s pretty recent, 2 seasons. Very similar to SAO, but the MMO is less-clearly explained and things take a mysterious turn. Fun, likeable characters, it relies on its ensemble a bit more than SAO does, and is stronger for it.
3. Black Lagoon: A Japanese salaryman has the misfortunate of being taken hostage by pirates in the south china seas. The company doesn’t bother to pay his ransom, leaving him high-and-dry, and in a fit of pique he joins the pirate crew as their accountant/diplomat. It’s a gangster story, but a really different kind of one (and in the genre I’d otherwise have awarded ‘best in show’ to Gungrave, if not for the supernatural turn that one takes).
4. Usagi Drop: Maybe this one won’t speak to you as much as it did to me, but a bachelor salaryman in his 30s goes to his grandfather’s funeral only to discover the old man had a young child daughter (effectively his 6yr old aunt). The family sqabbles over what to do with her and their focus on ‘the scandal of it’ instead of the girl’s welfare causes him to volunteer to adopt her. The short series is about them learning to live together as she grows.
5. Uhm… Bleach? It’s, uh… 366 episodes, plus movies. Serialized supernatural-fantasy battle anime. I watched the whole thing. I liked it.
I don’t think any of my favorites are on Crunchyroll or if they are, they don’t stream to Australia 🙁
@transientmind
Oh man, I’ve been meaning to check out Bleach for ages, but the thought of it is so daunting!
I’ve added Log Horizon and Usagi Drop to my queue along with Bleach. If you have anything else you’d like to overenthusiastically spam at me about feel free! My favourite things tend to feature swords and be very violent, but my tastes aren’t limited to that.
@negativezero
Yeah, I was really interested in checking out Nisekoi after you spoke about it in TAY but it’s region locked.
@strange:
https://www.animelab.com/shows/nisekoi-false-love 🙂 All of season 1 + they’ve got a simulcast of S2 on a 1-week delay.
Netflix is amazing in almost every way, except for finding things in the interface. It seems like a massive oversight. :S
I signed up to animelab the other week in the hopes that some of my old favourites will go there in time
I would not be intimidated by Bleach I’d say… it’s just a really good serial and I guess you know it has an ending. It’s one of those shows I watched every week when new stuff came out. The characters are like old friends.
Re: Finding things like Nisekoi being region-blocked, if you’re OK with the ethics of paying for a crunchyroll sub and bypassing the region-blocks with torrents, there’s always
nyaa dot se. Set the category to english-translated anime, filter ‘trusted only’ and you’ve got yourself a pretty decent source.Swords and violence, eh? Bleach really will be up your alley, perhaps, though it is a bit low-stakes. Lighter stuff that’s TOTALLY worth watching in the swords-and-violence area are probably Chrome Shelled Regios, or Blue Exorcist. Claymore is much grittier, it’s very similar to Berserk and Attack on Titan for your gore-fest violence.
The latest episode of Food Wars is out and is fantastic still… For a fight-club version of something similar, try looking up ‘Ben-to’. It’s basically about an underground fighting circuit of youths who kick the shit out of each other in supermarkets and convenience stores for the privilege of taking home pre-closing-hour half-price Ben-to. (Lunch boxes.) They take it very seriously. It’s fantastic.
@strange: as a big fan of the Claymore manga, I recommend staying clear of the anime. They play up the role of the shitty generic male protagonist kid who is the most irritating of all anime tropes: the incompetent male who has to protect the completely competent and talented female lead because he has a penis and thinks it’s his role in life. 😐
It also has an “oh god there’s three episodes left and they’re not going to give us money to make another one we need a conclusion ASAP” ending. 🙁 The manga’s pretty good, I’d recommend just reading that.
If you want something exactly like Food Wars then there’s an older show for you to look up: Yakitate Japan. It’s the same Iron Chef style food battles, same crazy over the top reactions, same sports / fighting formula. The only real difference is that the main character bakes bread. It ran for like 50+ episodes in the mid-00s so might be tricky to find legit is the only issue.
If you like swords and violence, have you ever seen Sword of the Stranger? It’s a samurai drama film, and has some of the best traditionally animated swordfights you’ll ever see.
Another one would be the Rurouni Kenshin Tsuiokuhen / Reflection OVA, also released in English as ‘Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal’). 4 episodes, stand-alone from the rest of the franchise (it’s the main character’s backstory). Amazing soundtrack, great animation, really good story. Just don’t watch the other OVAs because they’re all awful (The TV series first two seasons are great too, but the rest isn’t worth your time).
From what I’ve seen so far SA:O peaked with the first half of the first season, nothing I’ve seen in the second season or the second half of the 1st season even come close to how the show did at the start.
Actually I just remembered… have you seen Detroit Metal City? I feel like it’d appeal to you.
TAY is showing up in ‘Most Commented’ again…?
A few less clicks to get my fix is always welcome.
Hey Sunsoar, how did you do with last Friday?
Unless you don’t want to talk about it.
I avoided studying over weekend… =/
completely forgot until I was checking some presentation stuff.
Did better than I expected with 15.5/20 scraped by with content and structure made it up with Excel and Process Models. Got slammed for references only using 3… What gave me the shits was the difficulty in finding accurate and relevant references for such a broad topic.
How’d you end up? I only just decided to do the Augmented Reality topic, what have you picked for presentation?
Grats man!
I got 14.00/20, so just scraped into a Distinction. Got hammered over how I wrote the references, not the number. 🙁
I haven’t picked a topic yet (I should get on that, but I’m writing the quiz for tomorrow night so…I am studying to a degree).
Nice work.
Assignment for another subject I got pulled up for my reference list because apparently it was written wrong… I checked after and I couldn’t see what was wrong as I’d used their Harvard referencing guide. I think their brains turn to mush reading 150 assignments so they nit-pick on stuff that only has a right/wrong state.
What a dark, cold, wet, windy, terrible day. So much sideways rain pelting against my window.
I don’t even know what happened to the weekend. Friday I caught up with a friend I haven’t seen in a couple of years, seeing Fast & Furious 7 together. It was pretty awesome, the end was full of sads though. Found out another of our friends who went to Canada is due to come back in September, so looking forward to that.
Started catching up on the Marvel movies I’ve missed, done Iron Man 3 and Thor 2 now, just need to get Captain America 2 off my sister then I’m set. And probably chase up my friends I saw Avengers with, see if anything’s getting organised for that.
Also with Monster Hunter out of the way I decided to crack open Captain Toad. It’s been great, I spent the rest of the weekend playing through it. Nearly done now, I just need to beat that stupid Mummy-Me Forever thing. I spent hours last night trying to get 5000 coins, then I finally got over 6k and died, only to find out that that didn’t check off the challenge. I guess the “Forever” part of the title is actually a peninsula. Bastards.
Winter Soldier is amaaaaazing. My favourite Marvel movie tied with Guardians of the Galaxy.
So I keep hearing. Looking forward to it. Also hi DC!
Hey buddy! Hope you’re well!
Likewise! TAY’s felt rather quiet lately. In general, not just in terms of lack of DC 😛
Yeah, it seems to be a bit dead, alas. :'( I wonder if that’s why the link is back in the most commented section again.
Scarlet Johanssen in civvies makes me reconsider passing her over to side with Emma Stone in the fanboys-arguing-over-women-who-don’t-know-they-exist stakes. (WHY IS THIS A THING?)
Channel 7 have been showing a few Marvel movies lately, so I recorded a few to catch up. I’m still far behind, though. The only Marvel movies I’ve actually seen are the Iron Man ones and Guardians of the Galaxy. I’ve got a long way to go.
The most worthwhile ones 😛 Although I’d put Captain America in that pile too (along with the sequel, apparently).
Just been informed that I’ll be watching Avengers: Age Of Ultron tomorrow night \o/
SO FUCKING HYPE!!!
Bastard.
Bastard
That’s very probably my favourite word. It’s just so much fun to say.
Bleh. Best I could do is 22nd. I elected not to and will see if I can go with friends instead.
…I am just now realizing for the first time that the ‘instead’ part of that sentence was completely unnecessary and I can go more than once.
Edit:
…I am just now realizing that the 22nd may well have meant… 12am on the 22nd, which is in fact tomorrow night.
This has been valuable insight into the thought processes of the most interesting man on TAY.
I am going to claim that I am not smart today because I am tired and it is Monday, as if this were a decision that I only reached today, and not sometime last week.
I think I’m going this Friday.
Seeing as you paid for a ticket already, I hope you are.
Huh, I didn’t realise that’s out this week.
…What do I need to have watched between the last Avengers and this one? And how much of the answer to that is on Netflix?
Watch Captain America 2, it’s the most direct Lead in.
And maybe Iron Man 3.
I still haven’t watched Iron Man 2
Not missing much. IM3 directly follows Stark’s arc in the Avengers, specifically the ending
Cap 2 is really the one to watch.
Thor 2 is OK, but I don’t think it’ll have a great deal of impact on Age of Ultron.
Yeah, Cap 2 was really good, kinda pissed off they felt the need to include Tony Stark/Iron Man in Cap 3 to help “sell” the film, It’s already going to have Spider-Man and Black Panther in it.
Heathen! RDJ-Stark must be in all things ever because he is sooo gooood. Accept this blessing for what it is! A treat we heathens are unworthy of!
Not saying I don’t like Iron Man/Tony Stark/RDJ, I just think that Cap/Chris Evans is a big enough draw card now to be able to stand on his own.
Because a Civil War arc without Iron Man would totally work…
I admit to not knowing a lot about the comics, but after having a quick read of the gist of that story arc I understand and retract my previous statement.
Edit: Although it makes more sense (to me at least) to call it Captain America Vs. Iron Man: Civil War.
Iron Man 3 (although it’s the worst MCU movie by far imo), Thor: The Dark World and Captain America The Winter Soldier.
Luckily for you the last two are on Netflix.
I liked Iron Man 3.
For me, worst MCU movie is Thor.
I also liked IM3.
I also liked the first Thor as I liked that it specifically had lower stakes- it wasn’t city blocks being razed, it was all in a small country town.
Thor 2 was kinda inconsequential.
Yeah, the only thing I really got out of Thor 2 was
obviously Loki has managed to escape and will probably pop up somewhere, and that bit at the end about the infinity gems gives a tiny bit of background to Guardians of the Galaxy. Although I wouldn’t have thought much of it if I’d seen it at the time prior to Guardians, probably would’ve just been confused by it especially without my go-to comic guy on hand to get some clarification from.Each to their own.
I’m going into it having not seen anything since the first Avengers. I expect I’ll be whispering “who’s that guy?”, “what’s her name?”, “why is one guy big and green?” a whole lot.
Only things you’ll probably be confused by is
Who Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are.But if you watch Cap 2 you should be fine.
That’s probably not going to happen 😛
I’ll just make up my own back stories, it’ll be fine.
Fun fact about those two characters; they’re technically part of the X-men licensing that Sony holds on to for their films about Hugh Jack – Wolvy however given they’re also part of the Avengers cast from the comics its created a grey area allowing Marvel to use them in their licensed films as well! =D Don’t count on seeing Magneto enter the Avenger movies as their dad though! Or anything relating to M-Day!
Yeah, I know all about that Fox are allowing Disney to have them in the film, but they’re not allowed to be Magneto’s kids anymore.Sucks, but what’re you gonna do.
*shrugs*
I would die if there was a genuine reboot of X-Men from the Marvel writers; they’ve done a hell of a job with the Avengers. Looking at the X-Men Sony/Fox have done they seem 2-dimensional compared to the multi-tier film franchise that Marvel/Disney have turned the Avengers into.
Things you need to know:
Iron Man 3
Tony Stark has PTSD. Gets his little arc reactor removed. Declares he is still Iron Man.Thor 2
Probably nothing…Captain America 2 (You should probably just watch this one, it’s really good)
SHIELD was HYDRA all along! Nick Fury is “dead”. HYDRA have Loki’s spear from the first movie are making “miracles” (Quicksilver/Scarlett Witch)What Red said, except for the bit about IM2, why haven’t you done that, what is wrong with you? Watch that. And the Thor movies. Both of them. And the entire series runs of Daredevil and Agents of SHIELD and uhm… Agent Peggy Carter. (Only 8 eps, don’t worry.)
Yeah, I actually liked Iron Man 2.
I’d seen Iron Man 1, Cap 1 and Thor 1 before Avengers…
Cap/Thor 1 bored me but I understand that they were necessary so Avengers wasn’t tied down with origin crap.
Daredevil. Watching this now. Drooling. So good.
Love the throw away lines about the Avengers in it.
“Everytime one of those freaks punches someone through a wall, our profit margins go up 3%.”
“If it was a guy in an Iron Suit, or a guy with a magical hammer, I’d understand. But it’s a guy in a black mask. Deal with it.”
Saturday in IMAX for me.
Can’t effing wait to see a true IMAX projection.
Cinema 5 at South Bank cries a single tear.
The sooner that cinema burns down, the better.
So many ruined films.
Yeah man, saw a proper IMAX at London and it doesn’t even compare. *shakes fist*
I saw Jurassic Park 3D at the IMAX back when that was a thing. That was pretty darn good and it didn’t even have a fraction of the explosions that I’m sure Avengers will have.
Would’ve had more if Michael Bay had directed it.
I’ve heard IMAX 3D is considerably better than conventional cinema 3D.
Any thoughts?
I’ve never seen a made-for-3D movie in IMAX so it’s a bit hard to judge but what I saw was pretty great. I guess because you don’t notice the edges of the screen as much?
I’m sure something like Gravity would be amazing to see in IMAX.
Hmm. I saw Avatar there, and even though I was in the third row from the front which made things a bit of a strain at times, it was pretty good. Not sure I’ve seen any from better spots… actually I was dragged to the final Harry Potter there, it was annoying since they only had 3D in certain parts so you had to put on and take off the glasses. I dunno if I found it noticeably different to regular cinema 3D though. The only time I’ve noticed a difference in 3D is between Thor and The Avengers. Thor’s 3D “upscaling” looked like a bunch of cardboard cutouts, like a cheap N64 cutscene. Whereas Avengers, if I hadn’t known it was upscaled in the same way I would’ve thought it was just filmed like that.
Oh actually… dammit, I can’t remember if Gravity was in 3D when I saw it there or not. Generally I’m not someone who has much of a problem with 3D though (never turn it off on my 3DS unless I’m battling with sunlight or looking to squeeze some more battery life out of it) so I’m probably not in the best position to say.
As someone with screwed peripheral vision:
Fuck IMAX.
This’ll be my first true IMAX experience since I was 15 or 16.
I am so excited.
Get hype Dan!
I’ve only been to IMAX a handful of times. With school when 3D was just a new thing we saw some IMAX movie that was basically just a show reel…I fell asleep because it used shutter glasses which meant I couldn’t see shit when the right eye closed out.
Last time I went was to see Star Trek Into Darkness. And while enjoyable, not having peripheral vision for the right side of the screen was just the worst. Had mad neck muscles after that one.
Ooh, it’s in proper Imax? Might have to consider it.
I watched a movie on Netflix called “Thirst” over the weekend. It’s a Korean movie about a priest who gets turned into a vampire after some genetic experiment or something (honestly wasn’t too clear on how it actually happened even though they showed the entire thing :P). Had the main dude from The Host in it.
Wasn’t too bad! Not the best movie ever but enjoyable enough. Lots of different characters hopping between different roles at once. The person you thought you were meant to be rooting for actually turns out to be the bad one while the bad one is actually good but then they turn sympathetic again while the third character also flips sides and argh. I kinda liked that even if it was a bit confusing.
3.5 Stars!
cc Asian Film Club members… Okay just @sughly.
Yeah I’ve seen Thirst! Same director as the Vengeance trilogy (oldboy, lady vengenace, mr vengeance). I… yeah I liked the elements you talked about too, but I felt a bit tired of the film towards the end, didn’t really feel like it headed to a satisfying conclusion for me.
But his vengeance films are about a million times better! And he also did an older film called JSA, which is super super great too, about soliders working on the border of South and North Korea, but its a more personal story about how some soldiers from the north and south interact with each other
I still gotta see the two Vengeance films, I’d forgotten about them. Oldboy was awesome.
Lady vengeance is so gosh darn stylish, love the main actress to bits. Mr vengeance is an amazingly well done story, it really looks at the idea of vengeance in a super clever way, maybe even more so than oldboy. Maybe ^^ since oldboy’s look at vengeance is pretty darn interesting itself
I would’ve liked some more satisfying endings for some characters but I kinda liked the way it ended for the main two. But then I always like movies that don’t end in a bang 😛
I haven’t seen the last two Vengeance films either but rest assured they’re on The List!
Afternoon errbody hows every little thing? This weekend I beat Dying Light, I beat the kid gohan story in the HD rerelease game and I got bent over and sent crying by a shitty abductor in Freedom Wars..all in all gaming wise weekend was dandy. Everything else wise..nuisensey. Other news! Im still alive so thats a plus ALSO picked up origin bundle for Generals multi when people are keen.. like the mustard.
anyway internet is now hooked up at the dromana house so I can now do more gaems online as well as make appearances on TS among other things
I’ve been getting back into League of Legends after a long unrequested hiatus. I’m going into it with a fresh mind to before. If there’s a champion I’m curious about, I’ll just buy it. I have 30,000 IP and I’m too stupid to use runes anyway, so I’m not losing anything.
So I bought Poppy on a whim. From what I can gather, what people think of Poppy is that they don’t think of her. She was never relevant, and never will be. Perfect.
Even when I played a lot, I almost never touched PvP. I only played it about six times in the space of nine months, and I aim to continue that trend. It’s scary. Co-op vs AI all the way.
@tech_knight want to play later?
Don’t play vs AI too often, you’ll develop bad habits which will punish you super hard in PvP later. just play vs AI when you’re trying a champion for the very first time and want to get a feel for the abilities and recommended builds, etc.
If I’m not stuck playing with my normal LoL group that I tag up with almost every night and Puppetmaster in HOTS, then sure I’ll play along with you.
Poppy is usually played Top and can be very easily underestimated due to the lack of people playing her. With Trinity Force she’s a hell of a force to be reckoned with. I got smashed in lane by one recently since her damage reduction passive made killing her with my Garen extremely difficult so I couldn’t bully her that easily. Also that Poppy was a Diamond level player… so all in all I think I did really well. I’m at Silver/Gold level according to friends, so yeah been playing for years but I’m far from good lol
I know about the bad habits thing, but people are so much friendlier vs AI! And I don’t know how to ward without sacrificing CS and experience! And roles are much less flexible, I might be forced to jungle or something!
I got to level 27 purely in AI matches, it’ll be hard to go change. But I suppose my hiatus could be used as a re-learning experience. I guess. I don’t know, PvP is awfully intimidating.
I think the biggest problem with Poppy is that I don’t know how to play top lane. I almost exclusively play mid-lane Ziggs or a random support, I don’t know what required of me. Poppy is also one of the squishiest top-laners going around, does this mean I’m meant to be getting the kills? Or will I be seen as kill-stealing by the ADC? Argh, maybe I should go back to Ziggs.
Come join us in HotS instead; its way friendlier =P
Jokes aside if you want a beta code let me know I’m sure I have some lying around.
Edit: Disclaimer HotS is a more demanding game graphically and bandwidth wise than other existing MOBA’s given its still in Beta and hasn’t been optimized for Aus latency or weaker machines yet.
Join us in Dota 2, it’s way less friendly but everything is free!
Ish.
I mean, there’s the whole hats thing but you don’t have to buy into that.
But you will.Edit: Just FYI, Dota 2 runs on Source engine, HotS runs on the SC2 engine (both ridiculously modified). League of Legends has it’s own engine. All are made to run on PC cafe potatoes in South East Asia. If your computer can run a modern operating system, you should be able to play any of them to some degree. Maybe not well but it’d be playable.
lol played DoTa 1 for about 3 years, HoN for about 2 and DotA 2 for at least another 2.5 years. The one thing I took away from all those years is how I have 0 patience for the toxic community =P HotS is the first MOBA I’ve played where the community hasn’t been toxic, hence me willing to invest into it as much as I have =] Thanks for the invite though =P
It wasn’t a serious invite, it was mostly hats.
I’d rather not throw months of trying to understand the rules and strategies of LoL out the window and learn everything again.
Quite a lot of that is transferable and I doubt you’ve specialised in any MOBA to the point where jumping into another one is going to be that difficult.
Nice little maths problem at io9: http://io9.com/ready-this-simple-puzzle-once-stumped-96-of-americas-1698814691
Probably got it wrong, because I’m an idiot and never finished high school, but.
If the circumference of the rod is 4cm and the string goes around the rod 4 times then the length of the string should be 4x4cm which is 16cm.Except it spans the length of the cylinder. If it was wound on the spot, it would be 16.That would mean that the length of the string is 12cm.No, it’s higher than that. Solution below:
We know the string has to cover 12cm in a horizontal direction (length of the cylinder) and 16cm in the other (wound around the cylinder 4 times). So we can set up a Right angled triangle, with 16cm on one edge and 12cm on the other edge, then use pythagoras’ theorem to find the length of the hypotenuse (x), which is the length of the string.So our answer is that x squared = 16 squared + 12 squared, which means x squared is 400, therefore x, the length of the string, is 20cm
This is one of the many reasons why I left school.
fuck Pythagoras’ theoremMy brain hurts.
I worked it out by dropping it to four rectangles of 4×3, though obviously enough the answer’s the same.that’s a good solution – it is a 3-4-5 triangle in ratioWould have been more fun if the radius of the cylinder was 4cm radius instead of circumference. Could have used pi then. 2 of them even.
I like pi.
Mmmmm, pie.
*makes gurgling sound*
Neeeeeeeerd.Took me a bit of thinking to realize that the movement of the string down the cylinder could be expressed as the side of a triangle.That seems… worrying, that it was so hard for so many. I mean I don’t think I’m all that smart and am well out of practise in using my brain, but it still seemed pretty obvious. I have no idea how to say this without sounding like a brag, but y’know 😛
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/04/snatcher-now-onvirtual-boy/
@mrtaco
I just came across that last night. So cool.
Forgot I meant to pass it on to someone, actually.
Hello everyone.
So i went to the doctors because my sore back wasn’t getting any better. He said it’s a strain, take anti inflammatory’s, don’t lift and don’t bend.
Part of being a carer is I have to lift Mums walker into taxi and such. He said keep it to a minimum. Alright, that’s unlikely.
So we went to the supermarket to get the tablets and food. We got the food and forgot the tablets. Oops.
At home, I decided to work on Numbers’ pattern. I was leaning over it when I realised my back was hurting more then usual. I had pulled/strained yet another lower back muscle. Bollocks.
Tl:dr
Scree has borked back still.
Sitting for a bit in a hot bath can do wonders for back pain.
EDIT: Heat packs (wheat heat etc) can help a bit too.
I tried that when I first injured it. It helped somewhat.
Yay Amazon customer service <3
Also… send help because I’ve been watching a lot of random BuzzFeed videos on YouTube lately D:
So my weekend was good.
Woke up with headache Saturday morning. Went out and got a galaxy S5 had a nap followed by a couple of drinks.
Sunday cleaned out the shed and built a shelf unit for storage. Think i done good seeing as I have never done anything like that before. Now just have to get used to the phone.
It’s cold and windy. I am not prepared for this. Walking Alice at 8pm was… difficult. I had to put on my heavy jacket and some gloves. A scarf wouldn’t have gone amiss either. This was for a 20min walk.
It’s not even winter yet.
Why did I agree to move to Canberra? We could be living in Orange where the weather isn’t anywhere near this silly. Yet.
The weather in Sydney tonight is terrifying. So much wind and rain.
Whenever someone follows me on Twitter out of the blue, I tend to check their profile to see if they’re a spam bot. Sometimes it’s not immediately clear. Profiles like this don’t help:
Could be randomly generated. Could just be the ravings of someone with a twitter account. The distinction is hard to make out.
I just scroll through all the recent tweets – if there’s nothing but ‘witty’ posts and no actual conversation, then it doesn’t matter if it’s a bot or person, I treat them like a bot.
Whenever anyone follows me out of the blue without ever interacting with me I assume they’re a bot & block them. I don’t post enough to make it worth following me so there’s no one that would other than bots & weirdos. I know enough weirdos in real life and on here
Found something cool on Youtube, “The making of Elite” the 1984 space trading game :
Watch it here
Damn, that was pretty cool, nice find
TAY RPG Pathfinder completed for another night. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @negativezero @beeawwb
GM Summary: Orc mercenary mariachi band known as the Matadors of Moloch are aiming to claim the treasure of Oldfort for themselves. Not if the party can help it though.
http://yo-yoyoyo.deviantart.com/art/Orc-Mariachi-Designs-478709236
You mean Old Phorte right?
Of course. Just been stuck in the mindset of the uncultured villagers. 😛
Fortay. Pronounced for-tay
Auld Phaughte
Had another beast mode climbing night tonight, smashed a whole bunch of problems that I couldn’t get in previous weeks. I am liking this trend 😛
Longest initial run to a shiny – 875 eggs!
(Longest drought still stands at attempt 2 of Magnemite last year, abandoned at 1200 eggs because PAX was in a few days and I still needed to start on a togepi that only ended up hatching IN LINE to get into PAX and trained up while waiting for the Rift)
Wow! That’s a serious commitment! How many Shinies have you got now?
I have now *hatched* 10 shinies after 5100 eggs.
I’ve caught 10 in the safari (gave 6 of those away), 3 in the wild, and 5 legendaries so far.
So… Personal collection should be 22?
Not counting trades here though, don’t really remember or track those.
Edit: Correction on the numbers as I remember things
Wow, that is amazing. I think i have only ever caught 2. I haven’t tried egg hatching though.
Some say commitment, I say insanity 😛
So do I
Stupid 5:30am wake-up…
*grumble*
Watched Thor: The Dark World last night, watching Captain America: The Winter Soldier now, So hype for tonight.
Was in at work last night and we’ve got some special Avengers cups and popcorn tins in for it, also the stuff from Disney arrived which we’ll use for prizes for our cosplay competition. We put the details on our Facebook page and we’ve already had a bit of interest.
I’ll put some pics on Twitter when I get to work and take some, also put some up of the cosplayers on Thursday night, hope we get a good turnout.
I was wondering where everyone is, but then I looked at the time.
I should still be in bed.
First day back at work after six weeks off.
Bllllllllllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh………….
It’s 9:06am. At work for an hour. Today can go die in a hole. Really. Sick of the theatrics going around at the moment.
Hah. I had a colleague say “I’m sorry” first thing when I got here to read my email.
It’s definitely shaping up to be one of those shitty weeks so far; the torrential rain doesn’t help either =,=
Morning all!
17°C and cloudy with a chill breeze. Canberra might be sub-zero and Sydney might be drowning, but Brisbane has basically perfect weather. If only it could be like this all the time. Better enjoy it. This might be the closest we get to ‘Winter’.
Chill breeze?
I got plenty of time to get familiar with our 6°C wind chill yesterday afternoon when I made the fatal mistake of expecting the 5.15 bus to turn up at 5.15.
It’s a balmy 14 degrees here.
*speaks underwater whilst drowning*
Jerk.
Had a complete stranger passing me this morning say “It’s a bit cold today!” I responded “It’s perfect!”
That’s probably more polite than my response of “It’s a bit go f*** yourself today!” would have been.
There was no point bringing an umbrella today, the wind is too strong. Instead I loaded a bag with a complete change of clothes, put on my biggest, most waterproof jacket and my oldest, rattiest shoes and started walking.
Got to work completely drenched but at least I know I wouldn’t have made it onto the nightly wild weather news reel of people slipping/umbrellas turning inside out 😛
(ps. It amazes me that even in a downpour drivers will still not give way to pedestrians trying to cross the road legally. It’s okay, I’m just standing here getting soaked. No need to let me cross :P)
Luckily the traffic near me was standstill so I just walked in front of the cars as they glared at me.
Also – so glad I didnt drive. My tiny car would have been like Mary Poppins in a cyclone
I love it. Cold enough at night to justify wrapping up in a duvet but not cold enough outside to ditch the shorts and tshirts yet. Mind you, I did live in Leeds for 4 years and would sleep next to an open window when it was snowing. Nothing like a nice cool refreshing breeze through the cockles to wake you up
Y’all need Tassie in yo life.
14 at the moment, max of 18 and barely any wind. Chilly morning, warm day, cold night to justify snuggling under a blanket with that special someone. Or on the couch with a controller.
Or both.
My wife is a bit over the Brisbane heat (temperature, not the cricket team) and her list of new residence locations include Tasmania, Canada and Utah.
I hear that Tasmania also has forests, ocean, and mountains in abundant supply. These are all things I would love to have within close proximity to each other.
My ideal retirement place may well be Tasmania. I’d previously considered Scotland – the ancestral family home – but that’s probably too damn cold even for me. Somewhere in the Pacific NorthWest of the US looks almost perfect… if it wasn’t for the fact that it’s fucking America… that story ain’t going to end well.
Mr. Strange and I dream of retiring to Europe but obviously that’s next to impossible without the right passports so I’m planning on convincing him to try Tasmania instead. I spent a great deal of my childhood there and loved it. When we moved away it was only because we didn’t get to buy the farm we’d had our eye on. I often dream about how cool it would have been to live on that Tasmanian farm. I think when we visit this July if he can get past the weather I’ll be able to convince Mr.Strange.
I sometimes daydream of running a farm. Except that it’s a fuck of a lot of work sometimes… but at least at times that make sense. And it’s not 24/7, depending on the type. Plenty of time for games, or a 2nd trade.
Well, I hate to rub it into you…but I’m currently sitting:
20 minute drive away from the summit of a mountain (and all the walks associated with it)
10 minute drive away from bush/forest
10 minute drive away from a beach on a river (I wouldn’t swim there though)
30 minute drive away from a surfing/swimming beach
And I’m staring at mountains, forest and hills within an hours drive out my window.
Things Brisbane / Gold Coast has that we don’t: Civilisation.
Ugh… so tired, even after two cups of coffee. 🙁
So now that I’ve had some time free up I’m feeling the itch for another game. (Be that tabletop or otherwise). But I feel like playing with others. there any good games that people are interested in playing co-op or multiplayer? or anyone thinking of doing a new Tabletop RPG?
Paging @pupp3tmast3r, maybe another HOTS player to join us? 🙂
Hm.. meant to be a reply to @gingerchris86
How tough is it? like compared to LoL. I remember being fine playing with you lot but being really unhappy playing my own way (because of being told I was S**T all the time with randoms)
Well you don’t have to worry about farming or buying items in HOTS, it’s much simpler and way more focused on objective taking and teamfighting
Ooh, and now I’m intrigued 🙂
I may be losing every game so far, but I’m having fun learning this game, it’s taken an “easy to learn” to a very accessible level for even newbies to grab (In fact it’s more recommended as my LoL experience is biting me in the arse with my habits) since all you need to learn is the hero’s abilities as a base. Forget needing to memorise builds, what skill to max first, etc.
And Like that I’m willing to say yes 🙂
Could I have a beta invite please?
I can jump in occasionally if you need another HOTS person. Can’t remember my battletag off the top of my head sorry so I’ll message you later.
With you plus Puppet, Chris and @james_m if you want to pass us your battlenet ID we can have a full team of 5. I mainly use Curse for voice comms these days, so easy to use, just create and join rooms via URLs in the client at any time.
Sorry for the delayed response…only just checked my messages. GamerTag is PowerAddict#1808
I have absolutely no idea why it’s that, but it’ll do.
Probably see you all online 🙂
Going to the tribunal for conference today. It’s basically mediation. Under no circumstances are we getting rid of Alice, even if she is a little shit that keeps jumping on the couch. Yes Alice. I see you there. Get off.
Good luck, stay calm, good luck
My main line of argument is that permission was taken away after the fact, that the hoops we’re being asked to jump through with the body corporate are unreasonable and that the claims made by the real estate agent are not consistent with our email records.
Good Luck Mr man, sending many hugs and good feels your way. Try and stay calm and many good lucks
Cheers.
The fight for puppies, this is always one I can get behind!
Just the one puppy. This time. My crusade may extend to all puppies soon.
Good luck!
Thanks. I’m sitting outside the meeting room now. Only slightly suppressing the urge to vomit.
Good luck!
I thought this might be relevant given a milestone I just hit yesterday. 🙂
It’s… 1006…
Sorry scouter was upside down, it’s 9001
*crunch*
Why do you sound so bored?
My arm doesn’t bend that way, MY ARM DOESN’T BEND THAT WAY *crunch*
Oh, now it does
Du-duuu dududu… bana nana du du-du du… bana nana du duuu du-du du du-du du du-du du du-du du Imma chargin’ my attack
Perhaps, on second thought, a whole five minute start up time is pretty abysmal in terms of usability in battle.
First of 4 free bowling lessons at AMF yesterday, mainly consisting of focusing on the approach and getting that right. Had a quick game afterwards and got 187 which I’m pretty chuffed about considering I’ve bowled 3 or 4 times in 6.5 years of being over here and my average before then was just over 130. It’ll be time to get back into bowling I reckon after these lessons are done with
Making steady progress (finally) in DA:I and played through Counterspy on the weekend which was quite fun for a PS Plus game
The only thing you need to bowl well is to get @rocketman to blow on your fingers for luck before you pick up the ball. I got a few strikes in a row with this method at last PAX 😛
Getting blown by Rocketman is a good way to improve anything.
If it weakens me at the knees then I might be a bit haphazard in my run up 😛
To be fair, when @rocketman makes eye contact with anyone they get weak at the knees.
Time for everyone’s yearly reminder that the anime Denno Coil is brilliant and also probably prescient, showing the natural evolution of VR and AR technology.
Where would I obtain said coils?
Australia’s like the only country that got an official english release!
http://www.sirenvisual.com.au/Product/510.php
Unfortunately only available on DVD. No BDs 🙁
They rebuilt my shop from the ground up while I was gone and now I have no idea where anything is.
Did you at least get new* equipment?
Couple of years newer then your previous equipment but still a few years out of dateHaha, a hahaha, ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
*wipes away tear*
Good one Nob.
But if they weren’t going to refit, then why did they rebuild? Were there… structural deficiencies, the remedy of which you can take as consolation?
Majority of shopping centres have a rule of refit after 3 years, rebuild after six.
Hello Taybies.
I am considering doing Archer bookmarks and I want to know, what are some of your favourite Archer quotes.
THAT’S HOW YOU GET ANTS
Dangerzone!
RAMPAGE
“…Do you not?”
“Phrasing!”
“Lana. Lana. Lana! LANA. LAANAAAAAAAAAAAA!” (/alternatively: LANAAAAAAAA)
“Hang on… I swear to god I had something for this.”
“It is figuratively killing me.”
“Sploosh” / “Shitsnacks!”
I guess ‘Danger zone,’ is pretty iconic but I never really cared for that one.
girl please…. Nobody’s that gay
Oh please, you invented racism? Also, you’re just a reconstructed light field produced by firing a Laser through a beam splitter..
Lana: You’re looking for Predator aren’t you? A, he’s invisible.
Archer: Not totally, he has a tall tell shimmer.
It’s an allegorical novella about Stalinism by George Orwell and spoiler alert, IT SUCKS!
“Because I told you to buy lemon curd, Woodhouse. Now what am I going to spread on my toast? Your tears?”
“I don’t know if they grade it, but… coarse.”
“No Cyril, when they’re dead, they’re just hookers!”
“I can’t hear you over the sound of my giant, throbbing erection!”
“I’m scared that if I stop all at once, the cumulative hangover will literally kill me.”
So I may be Brisbane-ing on the 19th and 20th of May
Time for a Red Meat?
The other other white meat.
Once I know my timings, most def.
I’m there 15th-16th. REBELS!!!! 🙂
Bored games?
I will let all y’all know.
Hmm, I’ve noticed Shadowwarrior404 has been downvoting all my recent comments in order to get my profile changed to ‘guest’ status. Is this abusing the system? Can I report him for that?
SUUUUUPAAAAANOOOOOOOOVAAAAAA! *shakes fist*
So, as it turns out, the main reason to hit the Gold Coast was to play Bloodborne with @freezespreston. I also got interviewed by ABC Radio, and might have met an artist who can do the cover for Undad Season Two (still being Kickstarted).
And so much Bloodborne!
Managed to sell 6 of @scree’s bookmarks, though plenty of people agreed they were beautifully done (myself included). I’ll send the rest back soon, @scree. It was a tough go selling them, because both the authors on the tables either side of me were giving away self-promotional bookmarks for nothing.
I ate like a king at the Freezes’ place (and like a Burger King when in transit), and felt welcome the entire time I was there. They even pretended to like the little tchotchkes I brought for them. These guys are just the best, nicest people out there.
Did I sell many books?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
No. No, I did not.
What was the radio interview for? Your books? Supanova boothers? Either case, cool!
Well, when you’re multi-award nominee and kickstarter success story Shane W. Smith it shouldn’t be a surprise that you’re getting interviews with the media…
I’m sorry you didn’t sell too many. How much did you sell them for?
I sent you a dm on twitter
@tech_knight @gingerchris86 @popdart5 @james_m New page new post! If you guys are interested in running a HotS team (personally the most team dependant MOBA I’ve ever played) lets see if we can get some organization going!
First off for the newcomers if anyone needs a beta code (have to shell out $45 without one) let me know and I’ll toss one your way. Second off HotS is a very very team centric game meaning hero composition will effectively make or break a match and if we have 5 peeps who are interested we’ll need to stick to a good mix (e.g. at least one support hero, etc.). Thirdly and optionally if newcomers want I’m happy to run a few training sessions and get people up to speed on the games mechanics (e.g. how to effectively save/spend your gold so you dont need to shell out cash, best tactics for the different objectives on maps, so on so forth!! ^^).
P.S. Techy way to bail on me yday! D= :'( *runs away crying* That said I had some amazing matches as illidan, tyrael and zaggara!
B T A G for interested parties –
Chyrone#1100Been playing mostly Sonja, Diablo, and Uther lately so I can face-tank with the best of them. That said, I like going ham with Sgt Hammer so I could swap out to a specialist role if need be (also have Azmodan and hopefully Nazeebo soon as well for variety).
Nice; a good Diablo can pretty much carry a team to victory, dude has a chaser, stun, AoE and lightning breath. Not to mention shit tons of HP and a quick respawn. Personally I like to swap between my heroes but I always stay focused on mastering like 4-5 of them; Zagarra was exceptionally interesting to learn, I lost about 6 matches before I learnt how to play her properly. I’m guessing Sgt Hammer and Azmodan are similar, their abilities don’t really synergize however they specialize in lane advantage.
Sort of but not really. Azmodan works well as a summoner/minion buffer specialist while Hammer is a long-range sieger/damage specialist. Azmodan is superior for pushing lanes because he is far more mobile than Hammer however Hammer is better in team fights (in my opinion).
Yeah good Azmodan’s I’ve seen work well as solo lane pushers however with Hammer I’ve never seen a decent team based Hammer. Whenever they get caught up in team battles they’re only effective if they’re not too far from their own tower defenses. Even with the rocket boost ability I’ve only lost against Hammers that focus on lane destruction as opposed to team battles. The good siege ones usually break the middle lane and then start spamming that stupid goddamned rocket you cant defend against and attack your core 1% at a time.
Had Pathfinder last night and then the LoL guys grabbed pretty much straight after as they finished their last game, sorry I can only play one MOBA at once :(. Also I couldn’t hear the chat notification as I was shooting up lots of bandits and aircraft in Borderlands 2 beforehand, so sorry about that.
I’ve already spent gold on unlocking Raynor so I have one character I can main if need be but I’ll still random cuz I find that way more fun 🙂
Lol why Techy!! Raynor is the worst god damned hero in the roster! He’s the hero to learn the game with but competitively you’ll never see him because his abilities have 0 synergy with other heroes >.<
That said straight off the bat refrain from spending gold until you’ve tried out at least half the heroes in the game. Up for some matches tonight?
Hey I’m a newbie on this game, I don’t know any better :P. Also I don’t understand what you mean by him being bad, he’s got a Q knockback (Which you can also add a slow onto with talents?), his W buffs all around him to push harder, and his ultimate is just raining dakka from the sky, that’d work wonders against a locked down enemy team with only one way they can get out. That’s just how I see it, if I’m wrong tell me. I’m up for matches always, you just gotta catch me first, that’s kinda how I work with my free time, first in, first served :P. I got LoL I keep up with as well with my other friends that I play almost daily with
HotS is all about how well the team synergizes in battle; e.g. Diablo + Malf + Zagarra can pretty much stun an entire team together and wipe them before they’re out. Competitively Raynor gets very little play time mainly because he just cant be played with other heroes as well as his alternatives like Nova. Let’s examine – He’s a ranged assassin who can’t dish out heavy burst damage, has no escape/chase abilities, has moderate health, and a fairly mediocre self heal that is redundant if your team ever has any support heroes. His Q knocks opponents back however to be useful in a team battle you need to flank the enemy team; given he doesnt have enough HP or an escape ability flanking is extremely dangerous in late game matches and in early game his Q only helps enemies run away as it never does nearly enough % damage. His W buffs allies with attack speed but the buff is so minor its actually more useful for him to use it to run away – reasoning being only other assassin heroes would benefit from attack speed increases but the heroes that need it already have amazing attack speed like illidan or zeratul, tanks/support spend maybe 15% of every clash using normal attacks mainly because their roles are so specialized their abilities will always take priority over default attack in any given situation. However Raynor’s W can’t even be used to run away effectively because any heroes that chase him will undoubtedly have a better chase ability than his boost to movement speed e.g. Muradin’s leap or Illidan’s charge. His self-heal once again as it cant be activated is only useful if you’re willing to risk getting yourself killed, late game Raynor can’t risk taking damage to trigger that ability because any decent assassin class will out DPS its heals in a second (e.g. Nova’s triple shot). Finally we have his AoE ulti – sure it has great AoE but what does it do in that AoE? It moves slowly in a straight line does light AoE damage that only really impacts other assassins (Arthas has a similar ult that moves in a straight line but its so much faster and locks an enemy team + fortresses down); 9/10 I guarantee you use it the enemy team will spread out in a circle run around it and resume battle. If you’re winning all it does is cause the enemy team to disperse making it harder for your allies to get them together and use disables and finish them off. His other ulti is probably his only useful ability but the cooldown on it is so high and enemy heroes can just out run it that it pales in comparison utility and damage wise to other assassins. All in all he’s a great all round hero to learn the game; but he teaches you to play the game the wrong way; he’s an incredibly easy hero to master but once mastered you realize he’s about 50% as effective as other options.
Edit: If you like Raynor you’re going to love Nova!
I mainly like Raynor cuz sending in dakka from the sky is awesome and I thought “Well for a first character he’ll do while I try out the free rotations on the side” 😛
Confession: I thought the same thing =P I think I played Raynor for like 30-40 matches as I was adamant to make him good….. I want my 2000 gold back =@
I’d have to say that Murky is probably the worst hero by far. The only map I’ve seen him on that he’s more than an annoyance is Dragon Shrine.
Raynor is pretty average but he has a few things that work well in team fights (that attack speed and movement buff on his W works wonders with the right composition). The banshee ult is better than the battlecruiser ult and the rest of his kit is okay without being good or bad.
Murky is actually pretty damned good – whenever Murky dies he only gives players 0.25 of a kill. You’ll see him used A LOT in competitive play because he’s got an invulnerability, aoe and a ridiculously long stun ulti. As he’s a specialist and incredibly useless early game you’ve got to use him as hit and runs or be willing to die to save a team mate because a dead Murky is only a 1/4 of the price for another team mate dying. A good Murky is probably one of the best heroes I’ve ever seen.
I’m interested. I think I may need a beta code. I cant remember if I have one or not.
Toss me an invite on bnet; I’ll send over a code if you need one!
Oh James m came back with his ID if you didn’t see it on the previous page
PowerAddict#1808
If you need a 5th I might jump in. Have not played HotS yet and probably need a beta key but I enjoyed LoL teams back in the day.
Mostly mained AP carries, so something like that?
HotS is kind of weird when it comes to carries because the very concept of a carry isn’t team oriented. The only hero I think that dishes out single target ability based damage at range is Nova but she’s ridiculously squishy even late game (i.e. will die in 3-5 seconds of being hit). It’s the same with all the other assassin classes they’re either glass cannons or tanky middle damage dealers so you’re forced into hit and runs or attrition based fights =P
Hit me up when you’re online on bnet next; ill toss you the beta code!
Battletag is Popdart10#1722 just so you have it.
Cheers pop was out last night; impromptu dinner with the mrs will toss everyone invites later tonight! =]
Just came back from the tribunal. It kind of went alright, I guess?
The short version is that we’re going to put our submission to the body corporate and have to go from there.
The long version is that the real estate agent has done an absolutely terrible job of communicating things between the owner and me. The owner claims she instantly said no to our request to have Alice because of her age. We didn’t find out about that until after we’d adopted her. They also made an unreasonable amount of assumptions about Alice because another property they’ve had was damaged by someone with a puppy.
Now to put together my application to the body corporate. Going to try and get some references and whatnot. Guess I should call the RSPCA and start pestering the neighbours.
Ok, gonna play the bad side here, cause you should be prepared for either outcome.
If they do decide to side with the property owner, what are you going to do?
Are you going to give Alice back to the RSPCA and try to stay in the house, or are you going to look for a new house and try to keep Alice?
Most likely the latter. At this point, getting rid of Alice just isn’t an option. Two months is a long time with a puppy and I’ve put a lot of work into making her become slightly less of a muppet than she once was.
Gah. This weather is getting worse again. I can’t honestly remember the last time the weather made me this nervous.
agreed, sick of this
In Melbourne the sun is shining but I’m freezing my arse off. =(
[Edit: Just read that the weather is actually bad bad NSW. Makes my bitching a little stupid…]
I’d be happy if it was just cold. But I’m seriously spending the whole day with heightened anxiety that the wind is going to put a tree on the house, or on the car, or that bits of the house are just going to blow away, or that we’ll flood, or that we’ll lose power, or have a car accident if we have to drive somewhere, and I’m not even in one of the worst-affected areas. There are trees down all over the place, and the SES are so stretched that unless a tree is *actually* on your home, or tangled in live power lines, then they’re just leaving them. Even big ones that are blocking roads.
Yeah. I just read about all that. Sounds pretty freaky but I’m sure you’ll be fine. Just try to calm yourself down and only focus on the stuff you can control. Maybe try and find something productive you can do to keep yourself occupied. I know all that’s easier said than done but it’s best not to get caught up in thinking about losing power when that’s out of your hands.
Just go make sure the torches have batteries. Maybe throw them in some ziplock bags if you’ve got them. Pack a few lunches while you’re at it. If you’ve got pets get their leads or travel cases ready in case you need them. It sounds dumb but you’ll stress less if your hands are occupied.
I’m ok – I’m not actually freaking out, it’s just that heightened level of anxiety that is a bit exhausting. And having a 4 year old with cabin fever because he hasn’t been outside for three days.
That’s the bit that’s scary. I’m amazed that the hail we had in Brisbane before Christmas didn’t kill anyone. I’m pretty sure it’s because everyone was lucky or sensible, but I kid you not I saw a block of hail the size of a house-brick. I watched a bus window get smashed. One of the trees opposite our building was snapped in half, and covered in marks that made it look like it’d been sawn through by a machinegun. We all saw the pics posted in TAY of cars that wouldn’t look out of place on foreign correspondent with someone talking about a military coup.
Be very very vigilant about fallen trees and power lines. Even if you can’t see the lines nearby or down or whatever, just don’t go near fallen trees. When New York had that big storm a couple years ago and like 8 people died… it wasn’t from being hit by debris, it was after the storm had died down, from electrocution.
Vigilance is where it’s at.
It’s a lie, the sun is a lie
Whaaaaaaat.
Not too long ago, everyone here was Praising the Sun.
\[+]/
It was lovely and crisp when I rode in to the city this morning. OK I did have a jacket and long-fingered gloves on, but it was beautiful.
Sunday’s storms I can do without though.
Puppy pictures?
PUPPY PICTURES!
Really? REALLY???
Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!Really!!!
Awww those eyes! Adorable
Yeah, Luigi has the cutest eyes!
Who else picked up the Origin Humble Bundle and is also keen for some Generals Multi tonight? I dont know who’s picked it up so just tag people you know
So after recommendations from my family and hearing people on TAY talk about I I finally decided to get a Fitbit.
I’ve only had a a few days but so far it’s convinced me I should probably already be dead.
Didn’t pretty much everyone who bought a fitbit in the last wave of insanity injure themselves in some way?
My injury was from old sneakers, not the fitbit. 🙁
I didn’t say the fitbits directly caused the injuries.
not me! the only thing hurting me is the flu and my brain
Mine was an old recurring injury!
I did injure my ankle a month or two ago. Was that during the last wave of firbits? maybe I prematurely injured myself in anticipation of getting one.
I got sick. I don’t think it counts.
It counts because I say it counts.
My injury is around a decade old that just gets worse any time I move, no biggie
https://www.fitbit.com/user/2ZN7QX
Lame.
Xiaomi MiBand is where it’s at!
I think this might be one of my most upvoted posts ever…and it’s mostly just a copy/paste from Reddit…
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/04/jurassic-world-continues-to-be-powerfully-stupid-im-okay-with-this/comment-page-1/#comment-3309166
We got a Kotaku detective over here!
Fuck this stupid shitty weather.
Took forever to get to sleep last night with all the rain pelting against my window. But even once I did I was barely down for an hour or so before being woken by the sideways rain or another surge in the wind. So god damn exhausted right now. Good thing I don’t have anywhere to be or anything to do.
We’ve been sleeping in the guest room for this very reason; it’s ridiculous how loud the damn rain is; didn’t get any sleep at all Sunday night and now my stupid back hurts from sleeping on the shitty guest room mattress =@
I have an app on my phone that just plays the noise of rain and lightning through the night.
This is pretty much all my PS3 was for, for a real long time. TV on, towel over the screen (to reduce the glow), speakers playing rainymood.com on the PS3’s internet.
Normal rain I can tolerate. Sideways rain, nope.
My sister arrived back from a three-week student exchange Italy thingy a few days ago. Although it was weird not having her around for the first week, I literally forgot she existed for a while there. I don’t know what that says about me.
Probably says you should get yourself checked for Alzheimers? =P
Pretty sure it says time to move out and get your own place. Or possibly time to move your sister out. Whichever is easier.
Take that Shadows of Yharnam!
kept dying to their stupid snake summoning thing, would be doing fine full health 1 dude to go then SNAKES!!! you die. I just beat the fight in literally about a minute and a half, they didn’t summon snakes once and it was a breeze, didn’t feel like the same fight. Finally out of the woodsWait, have I overtaken you? How did that happen?
Mortal Kombat has been occupying me a bit and I got a little frustrated with Bloodborne and gave it a rest for a couple days. I’m also progressing really ridiculously slowly because I’m searching everywhere and not reading guides (only read guides regarding NPCs to try and complete their quests). I am taking a very long time though,
Also a tree killed me in Bloodborne, I jumped off a ledge landed in the tree, hovered there for a good thirty seconds then blood started flying outta my dude followed by a death scream and “you died”. Such a hostile world 😛
You know how. *hero pose*
…Snakes? The only snakes I saw were the ones that popped out of their head after I got them down to like… 33% health. Snakes on the ground would’ve been a roll-tastic pain in the ass.They explode randomly out of the ground. Big giant ones that come straight up then retract. Large AoE. I only saw them once.That’s what was weird, they’d spam me with snakes like literally as the last ones went back into the ground they’d summon a new batch, they killed me at least 6 times, then in the last fight they did’t summon any and it was easyOh, this makes me think there is a really good chance I benefited from the 12hr+ easy-boss bug.
Okay, the fight works that once any dude gets down to 33% health, they’ll snake it up, and then once you’re down to one dude they’ll snake summon. But, it’s pretty easy if you’ve only got one of them left to kill them without them ever summoning, since they need to channel to do it (in my case I left the mage until last, and just ran up and smashed it repeatedly).Ohhh. Well that’d explain why it was so easy. I kept ’em good and separated and myself out of fireballs and focused each one at a time. Aggressive sword dude first (very parryable), then mage dude, then lantern dude. Just kept stabbing that guy anytime he made a move to do something because he wasn’t playing nice and attacking in easily-parried ways. And the kirkhammer stab interrupts pretty well.I played super cheap. I got them all down to 40% ish health so as not to pop phase 2, then I murdered swordy, lantern, then magey. Super duper cheap.you’re lucky, they were the only thing that’d get me, huge eruption of gigantic snakes that pummel you into submission. When I beat them they didn’t summon any, it felt like a completely different fight, more like fighting a couple of regular enemies with big health barsI need to clean my ears out.
Blergh. 🙁
*gets firehose and cordless drill* I’ll help!
I don’t understand why people never accept my help.I said “ear”, not rear. 😛
Oh…My!
The next Kantai Collection event starts April 28. I am not prepared. 🙁
It sounds like it’s going to be a big event. Combined fleets with an aircraft carrier focus, based around a ‘what if’ scenario involving the planned but never carried out invasion of Ceylon. One of the big things is that they’re adding a new Battleship as a reward – this time it’ll be an Italian ship. Lots of speculation that it would be Littorio / Italia, but those people are crazy as it’s going to be Vitorrio Veneto which had a better combat record and also happened to have been commissioned on April 28th…I’ve been stockpiling instant repairs for a while and I’m up to 120, and also close to resource cap, so preparation there is fine. I also followed through on a few of my plans after seeing areas of deficiency in my fleet during the last event – I now have Mutsu and Nagato above level 50, leveled Kaga and Akagi up significantly so I have the Kido Butai carriers largely ready to go, Akizuki nearly at 50 and maxed out (really missed having her for Anti-Air in the last event) and I spent some significant time getting Yamashiro up to level 80 and burned a blueprint turning her into a top-end Aviation Battleship which was something I really needed during the event. I’ve also finally gotten Isuzu to her Kai-2 remodel stage, and Hibiki is now Verniy-ized.
Trouble is, they’re saying that this event will require a well-trained carrier fleet. I do have carriers – Souryuu and Hiryuu are above level 80 (Hiryuu no longer my highest level ship, surpassed by Haruna a few weeks ago) and Akagi is high 70s and Kaga mid 60s. The issue is that beyond that, I have Shoukaku and Zuikaku at mid 40s, and I have no solid light carriers. My plan had been to work either Ryuujou or Jun’you up to Kai-2, but they’re both a huge time investment (requires 75 and 80 respectively) and I don’t think I have time. Jun’you would be the better investment since she gets a free Reppuu and those fighters are insanely hard to get.
My other issues are I’m still deficient in light fleet stuff. I have Shigure, Yuudachi and Verniy above 70, plus Ushio at 63, Shimakaze, Yukikaze and Murasame in the low 50s, and Akizuki at 47. I’ve got only one high-level cruiser (Sendai, at 70) and then also Yura, Naka and Isuzu above 50. The issues are that several of them are very specialized toward certain roles – Akizuki is AACI-based, Verniy, Isuzu and Yura are all for anti-sub… they’re not general-purpose. I had been intending on leveling a few more destroyers and also Jintsuu to help shore this area up but I haven’t had time. If I did pick a destroyer to work with it’d probably need to be Fubuki or Ayanami as they’re generally extremely good, but Hatsuharu or Hatsushimo are also a possibility. Murakumo recently got a Kai-2 but I don’t like her art, and on the 23rd they’re giving Mutsuki and one other ship of her class a Kai-2, but generally the Mutsukis are intended for use on expeditions, not for combat. Also my Mutsukis are all pretty low level except Nagatsuki.
The final issue I have is a lack of solid heavy cruisers. I’ve got a pair of fantastic performers in Haguro and Myoukou, but I haven’t invested in this class heavily enough. My Prinz Eugen still isn’t at Kai (which is a problem because her first remodel has some seriously good gear), I’ve still only got Tone and Suzuya for Aviation Cruisers – haven’t spent time with Chikuma or Kumano, and then weighing on my mind is the fact that Choukai and Maya both recently got Kai-2s and their art is fucking amazing. Especially Maya.
My big issue is really that I finished with my long-term goals of Yamashiro and Verniy to Kai-2 and don’t know what to focus on next, I think.
Hey what online bookshops do you all use?
Amazon US/UK, Booksuppository
Booko for comparisons
Never had a book suppository before, sounds pretty uncomfortable.
It’s certainly educational.
Whatever’s coming up as cheapest on Booko.com.au.
It’s the only real answer.
Did you get my twitter message?
*checks*
Yep, got it! Will reply tomorrow
I have received four books from book depository in the last two days.
So yeah.
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/04/21/psp-rpgs-localized-care-gaijinworks/ :O
NeoGAF sleuthing suggests this will probably be Class of Heroes 3 and one of the Summon Night games (3 & 4 were remade for PSP in 2012 or so) which I’m totally fine with. But there’s so many other possibilities and I’m super glad to think maybe there’s still a market for the old PSP games we never saw in English.
Wish it was Sakura Wars though.
I am having so many issues drawing archer. I am so tempted to trace it, but I also don’t want to. I’m just feeling uber flat
Spoke with my next door neighbour about the whole Alice thing. Mostly it was to make sure she wasn’t disturbing him by being a shithead in the morning but the body corporate stuff was also a major factor. Turns out he can’t hear Alice at all.
There was a body corporate meeting this evening and I may have slightly overreacted when he was not so positive about the person that owns my place. So he may invite me over to play poker.
Anyhow, he’s pretty much on my side in all this but the deck is slightly stacked. The person that owns my place lives in another unit in the complex that’s owned by her mother. That’s two votes against Alice. Another person lives in Perth and sometimes sends a proxy, that’s probably a null vote. One unit just got sold so we don’t really know if the owner is going to be around or care at this point. The rest are the ones that I can probably politic my way into coming on side.
I think I can pull that off.
And so the Game of Thrones continues… or is it House of Cards… I feel like there’s a puppy joke somewhere in here. Haggis help me out!
There is but I believe it might be inappropriate. Something about stacked and puppies.
For any Nintendo console owners/star club point collectors, Nintendo Australia has finally made a set of games available for purchase off the Club Nintendo store! I picked up:
Metroid Fusion
Advance Wars
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
LttP is the only thing I’m likely to buy, I just can’t see myself playing any of the other stuff (and I do have a decent number of them thanks to the ambassador program).
I had 4900 stars so I figured I may aswell spend them all before they phase them out.
Wow, some decent stuff there, I don’t know what to pick, I’ve got 4000 stars and still have a few games to register, pretty cool they have Mario Kart DLC on there too.
CAPTAIN TOAD DEFEATED
Stupid mummy maze.
That’s the only thing I have left in CT.
I will never finish that game.
I think the only way to beat it is to cheese your way through as hard as possible, mashing on the touch screen to paralyse any and every enemy.
@tech_knight The LoL PvP match did not go well. Despite the fact that my Internet had been fine until then, I spent most of the match at 2,000 ping. Then the jungler dropped out for about 7 minutes. I somehow blundered my way to the score of 8/13/6. There were three attempts at a surrender vote. Also, no one believed that I was a level 27 player that never played PvP.
I was spectating the early stages before I went to bed, but you were getting fed by their own greed pretty much, like the double kill they gave you under tower. One thing you really need to practice on is your farming, as the support had more CS than you did by the time I left the spectator. If you’re attacking minions too much before last hitting you can push your lane to their side which makes you more vulnerable to ganks from their jungler. I could give you some quick lessons with a 1v1 custom game if you need help in understanding without the stress of being in a PvP if you like. That kind of thing will be more manageable for a late night thing as I’m not concentrating so hard to play the game. Up to you though, offer’s always open
Thanks for the offer, we can do that whenever is best for you. I had no idea how to CS when there were two people in lane. Every time I would try to attack a minion, they would jump me. Since I usually play mages, I’m used to ranged champions. Weirdly, when I play ranged champs, I’m too aggressive. When I play melee, I’m too cautious.
Also, I’m glad the people I’m laning against were incompetent. How the hell did I even get that double kill? They just walked under the turret.
If you hit them at least once during a certain time (I think it’s within 10 seconds) before the tower starts damaging them, you will get the kill, any time during turret attacks if you hit them once you’ll get it, pretty sure it’s the last character that hit them will get the kill if tower finishes them off. But yeah them jumping you while you’re going for CS is a normal thing for your opponent to do, goes for any lane really. I’ll teach you why whenever we’re both online and I’ll just give you lessons while you face me 1v1, not serious at all, just so we can run the game without issues. I’ll give you pointers on how to farm, dealing with your opponent and preparation for ganking potential (i.e warding) plus more, we can do each lane as well if you like.
I’m just going off my extensive MOBA experience here but to last hit effectively as a mage in these games you need to know the range, attack speed and % creep damage of your hero instinctively. From the sounds of things you’re laning against 2 other heroes who are more aggressive than you so you’d wait for your own creeps to deal damage to the enemy creeps and jump into range for the very last hit cop 1/2 hits from the enemy team and pull back. This does mean the enemy creeps are likely to reach your towers first, all you need to do there is learn to attack around the tower’s damage to get the last hit. This is pure practice at the end of the day and goes faster if you decide to stick to a single hero and get used to their attack speed/damage first =]
OKTHATSENOUGHRAINNOWPLZSTOPKTHX
Captain America 2 was pretty cool.
…and now that it’s over, of *course* the wind and rain have fired up again.
Did you watch the extra scene at the end?
I like that they put it after the “initial” credits now, not after the entire thing.
Winter Soldier might actually be my most favourite of the Marvel movies.
*high five* Tied with Guardians of the Galaxy for me.
I liked the Daredevil series more than most of the Marvel movies too.
Yep. I still haven’t seen Guardians of the Galaxy, but amen to Daredevil.
Jane. See Guardians of the Galaxy. There’s a talking raccoon and a tree sidekick! *decisive nod*
And rocking 70’s/80’s music!
I can’t stop this feeling,
Deep inside of me.
Girl you just don’t realise,
What you do to me.
And handsome Chris Pratt being handsome! So handsome! Handsome!
he’s pretty damned swoon worthy!
Still not entirely sold on the Chris Pratt as a babe thing.
@janexo More Chris Pratt for the rest of us, then! *folds arms* 😛
Ooga chaka ooga ooga ooga chaka
Oh I actually really, really do not like that song. Fuck you, Ally McBeal.
I Want You Back by Jackson Five is in that movie too. I DARE YOU NOT TO DANCE IN YOUR SEAT TO IT!
@DC Jackson Five is fine! It’s just that one dancing baby song.
I understand the Ally McBeal hate, but the dancing baby song from it only samples the “ooga chaka” line.
The original song goes like this.
Guardians will reset that unpleasant association nicely for you.
You must remedy this ASAP!
Go now, I’ll wait.
“How’s that report coming?”
“Bit of a standstill. I’m waiting for someone to finish watching Guardians of the Galaxy.”
“Oh man how good was that movie? Right, well, I’ll leave you to it.”
“Ta.”
I think it might be my fave thinking about it, and I have seen Guardians of the Galaxy (I thought it was entertaining but can’t understand the hype)
Hmm. It was good, but I think I’ll always like Iron Man best.
I like Iron Man 3 the second best, I think. I THINK.
Funny, so many people seemed to be poo-pooing it when it came out, nobody seemed to speak positively of it at all. Having finally watched it now, I don’t get it at all. Seemed pretty good to me.
I was distinctly unimpressed by some of the slapstick, and the Mandarin. Also, pretty uncomfortable with RDJ’s portrayal of PTSD sometimes. Seemed almost like taking the piss and ill-informed. But that may not be entirely fair, purely disliked it because it didn’t mesh with my experience. It may well be accurate for some.
Sorry to rub it in guys, but Avengers: Age Of Ultron was pretty awesome.
Also, don’t bother hanging around till the end of the credits, there’s one extra scene roughly 60 seconds or so after the credits start and that’s it, so don’t waste your time, unless you really want to read all those names.
Probably watch it again Thursday night.
Don’t know if you guys realize, but the PS4 version of Costume Quest 2 finally popped up on the Aus Playstation Store a week ago.
cc @dc, @janexo
😀 D: 😀 😀
Thanks for the heads up. I’m sort of bummed over that game, and to be honest, I didn’t love it as much as I did the first one? If it was free I’d get it on PS4, but I’m not going to pay for it again :/
Got very grindy towards the end. Overstayed its welcome. I think the RPG-ness of the series needs a bit more complexity.
I feel the opposite, I found costume quest to be a nice RPG-lite game. The story and comedy was enough to keep me going which is what a story focused game should do. I just felt the RPG mechanics got in the way with Costume Quest 2
Yeah same, I got into Costume Quest really late. (I played it for the first time last year) and loved it! I played Costume Quest 2 when it was released and was disappointed. Didn’t enjoy the changes they made to the game. =(
Erf. Dat feel. Disappointment in something you were totally hyped for and which isn’t bad enough that you can complain about it, but just… wasn’t what you were hoping for and you feel a little ashamed of your own disappointment because it’s not really fair… but it’s totally there.
I played it long ago. Good times! 😀
http://dcpresents.tumblr.com/post/108634613094/costume-quest-2
Sorry about last night. I was really down because I am terrible at drawing faces. I have never been so frustrated/depressed in my life. It made me realise I have so many ideas and not many ways of actually making them happen.
All i can say is, dammit Archer.
LANAAAAA
Anyone else buy Titan Souls?
Yup, played a bit of it. Killed the first area bosses haven’t played it since then though. Been really busy. =(
Definitely worth picking up though. Can’t recommend it enough!
Still downloading. Reckon I’ll give it a good bash over the weekend.
Prepare to die … a lot! It’s an extremely unforgiving game.
Ohhh, a double post. It’s been a while since one of these have happened!
I played the demo.
It certainly distills certain elements of the Dark Souls experience.
Just bosses. Just one tool. No health, just death.
And you’re all, “Oh fucking what? I die that quick? Fine, I’ll watch for that.”
*squish*
“Oh get fucked, how am I meant to shoot when I can’t move? Ugh. I just gotta get more distance.”
*squish*
“MOTHERFUCKER. OK, so it’s fast.”
*squish*
“DAMMIT. I got greedy.”
*squish*
“HOW THE FUCK AM I MEANT TO HIT THE EYE IF THE ONLY ANGLE IS WHEN IT’S A LAZ0R. THIS BULLSHIT IS IMPOSSIBLE WHO THE FUCK WOULD FIND THIS ‘FUN’?! Hm. Unless I guess if you shoot at an angle…”
*squish*
“[REDACTED]”
*squish*
“That’s it. I’m out. THis isn’t fun. Though I should probably check the other bosses.”
*squish*
“Holy fuck, I’m going back to the cube, at least it wasn’t as bullshit as THAT.”
*squish*
“[INCOHERENT RAGE – NSFW]”
*squish*
“…Y’know what? I don’t even care anymore.”
*squish*
“DAMMIT!”
*squish*
“OK, one more then I quit.”
*squish*
“Ugh. I’m just going to fire blindly at it to practice lining up shots then moving again.”
*YOU WIN*
“Dafuq? What bullshit is that, it’s a solid block the arrow should’ve just ‘tinked’ off! I WAS TRYING TO SHOOT THE EYE. Whatever. I’ll take it. OK, next up… fist-fucker. Nowait, that sounds bad.”
This sounds quite similar to my time with Monster Hunter.
It looks good and I want to give it a try. I don’t know if the reset time between failures is going to work though. It’s enough of a niggle that I’m putting off getting the game until it’s on sale. Definitely not enough to stop me wanting to play the game.
I feel like death warmed up today. Ergh.
Dragged m’self into work to do a thing, but after that I am going to go home and die.
I am sick today as well. Making a slow cooked casserole and sprawling out in front of Netflix. Feel better, bud.
I’m also aboard the sickness train to Blehsville. I hate the transition weeks when the temperature goes hot then cold then freezing then back to mild. Bleh.
Supanova Pox!
@pupp3tmast3r – I sent a friend request. Also played the tutorials. all good and ready to go 🙂
Don’t buy Raynor! =P What dyu reckon so far?
Like it alot
On the weekend @freezespreston and I were talking about the cold weather, @shane scoffed at our soft Queensland-ness. WELL IT’S EVEN COLDER TODAY! D:
Almost beloved hoodie weather! 😀
I’ve started to wear a hoody! A.HOODY! THAT DOESN’T HAPPEN IN QUEENSLAND!
Soon I will cover my scrawny arms with one and all will be right with the world.
It’s the main reason to like Winter.
brrblblblblblglglgblggglglglglgl *Talking whilst underwater*
It’s like opposite week. Sydney is flooding and Brisbane is cold. 😛
Jacket weather, sweater weather, yeahhhhh cold weather!
Go away, cold weather. ):
MQFT
T
L
H
N
R
S
W
T.
R cos R is awesome!
N
So far the MQFT is inconclusive.
Come on people, I need moar votes.
L is the second letter in Bloodborne, so I’m voting for bLoodborne.
Inconclusive, eh? W! #helping 😛
T… Cause its one of my nicknames.
Although then I’d better pick H around these parts…
W for winning
Two for T and two for W.
Either S or W seeing as they’re my initials 😛
Who’s the smart guy who just happened to make a buttload of pumpkin soup on Sunday just in time for all this miserable weather this week?
Me! \o/
Or original Pow before this replicant impostor took over! D:
I think original Pow should be referred to as Pow Prime.
I do not know what it is you are talking about.
Had a good time with MKX last night. Went through the Klassic tower on Medium with Ermac. I like Ermac’s moves a lot. Just a shame he seems so evil, he doesn’t really fit in with my White Lotus faction.
I accumulated about 7,500 Koins so I went exploring in the Krypt. Stumbled across the Spider Caves for the first time and in there, found a couple of items to add to my inventory which was a nice surprise (didn’t realise this was a feature.) Also, spider attacks are the worst. :'(
Ermac is pretty awesome, really tough to fight him on higher difficulties or online, so hard to predict when to block his telepathic attacks. I liked the Krypt, throwing in some puzzles made it more entertaining for sure, although one stumped me and I had to look online, to get an item you have to gamble a specific number of koins at an alter but there wasn’t even a hint that you had to. You’ll get around 60 000 koins from solving all the puzzles too.
Picked up a Ronan The Accuser figure for Disney Infinity 2.0 yesterday. The only one I’m missing now is Baymax, man is that fat tub of goo hard to find. Probably end up having to get him off Ebay.
Wednesday question for everyone: what was the last game that you played single-player for over 50 hours? I’ve found myself playing a stack of multiplayer games recently and the last few games where I’ve truly sunk hours of my life in a solo experience are 3DS stuff like Bravely Default. I haven’t even gotten around to start playing the monumental PC and console RPGs that have come out recently.
Heaps! Can’t remember the most recent one though. Maybe Monster Hunter? (hard to tell how much time was actually spent in single though). Hyrule Warriors? Definitely Pokemon. I’m re-playing Xenoblade now which is almost guaranteed to be close to 100 hours.
Single player is where it’s at.
In a sort of “one-game-only” time or over time switching between games? If the latter, it’d most likely for me be Torchlight 2
Probably Dark Souls 2. That was a sixty hour plat, IIRC.
Though if you count the time I spent sabotaging Freeze’s Bloodborne playthrough, I’d be edging up on 50 hours in Bloodborne.
Spelunky. So much goddamned Spelunky.
Aside from the fact that I’m trying to do speedruns of the game (and the closest I’ve come is a 12min Hell run), I’m trying various challenge runs too. I will throw an eggplant at Yama’s face some day.
Edit: I’m at over 200 hours in it. It’s a game that I can beat in about 5 minutes.
Probably the biggest time sink for me in the last few years has been dying light, played roughly 60 hours of that sucka, although it doesn’t come close to my all time biggest which according to the Rockstar Social Club is 190 odd hours in Red Dead Redemption.
I believe the Diablo 3 platinum took me a couple of hundred hours.
Before that it was the Souls games.
Current FFVIII playthrough is 40 something.
Future will definitely be Bloodborne.
Last game? Disgaea 4 or Project X Zone
Skyrim, Total War or Football Manager. Take your pick
Going to have to disqualify the following due to multiplayer elements:
Bloodborne
Monster Hunter 4U
Pokémon Y / OR
Dark Souls 2 (not sure if this even made 50)
Monster Hunter 3U
Dark Souls
Minecraft
Don’t think I made it to 50 on my partial Ni No Kuni playthrough…
This is actually quite difficult… Checked Steam and it’s a pretty short list of not just my playtime.
So by my estimates based on living locations, I would say the most recent few in reverse chronological order would be:
Fire Emblem Awakening
Pokémon Soul Silver
Skyrim
(Red Dead Redemption?)
GTA 4
Tales of Vesperia
And I think I’ve stretched myself back to 2009 just to list those.
Europa Universalis IV.
Well according to steam my complete list is
Torchlight 2
Puzzle quest 2
Torchlight
Mount and Blade
Skyrim
Civ V
Just Cause 2
Puzzle Kingdoms
Kingdoms of alamamadingdong
Dungeons of dreadmor
Children of the nile
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
Reus
Of those Kingdoms of alamamadingdong would be the most recent of them
Dark Souls I think, thought my Dragon Age Inquisition playthrough might have been close to 50 as well.
Monster Hunter 4 was 153 hours. Pokemon Y was 87 hours. I think RE Revelations was something like 130 hours, and Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars was 60 hours.
Elite: Dangerous I have no idea where that’s at but it’s probably somewhere around the 150 mark by now. Even though technically since I play Open it hasn’t been single player, but I’ve hardly come across or interacted with any other commanders so I have basically been playing it single player anyway 😛
Kerbal Space Program.
Does 100 hours of vs AI skirmishes in Supreme Commader count? If not that, I’ve put close to 200 hours in AFL Live 2 by now.
Hmm… House of Wolves will bring an upgrade path for VoG raid gear… trailer teasing their preview livestream tomorrow morning shows a titan in full VoG gear at level 34. And suddenly, the VoG is relevant again. \o/
Edit: also, no more “all max-level characters look the same,” which is a plus.
Awesome – let’s run some VoG then… 🙂
I’m totally up for that! So much loot I’ve yet to get from the VoG… Shall we try to organise a group? Zephyr said he was keen to focus on raiding this week, but not sure if he was expecting VoG 😛
Aside: I just ran the numbers – with VoG, CE, Prison of Elders, Trials of Osiris and Iron Banner, plus existing and upcoming exotics, that means 2125 possible gear permutations per class. Woot! I wonder what the cost/prereq’s for upgrades will be…
🙂 I need to learn VoG better:
Door Battle – no worries
Templar confluxes – OK provided I pay attention and we’ve got a group communicating well.
Templar battle – can hold my own. I quite like the method of 5 sitting on the ledge and one with the relic, but just doing it normally is OK too.
Jumping puzzle – Warlock fine, Titan flakey but i can get down, Hunter is a joke.
Portals – cool on normal. Hard’s a stretch but I’m ok
Conflux – titan OK.
Atheon. I’m ok as long as I don’t get teleported, I just haven’t played enough to learn the oracle locations.
If you need someone to fill out the team, I’ll jump in.
Only if you need more players, that is.
I don’t want to intrude or anything.
You’re always welcome as far as I’m concerned. 🙂 Jump in any time to our party and say hi, see what’s going on. os42 and zephyr and a couple of others are always on, and there are a few others who dip in and out who you’ve met a few of.
Will keep you in mind. You certainly pulled your weight in Crota’s. 🙂
I hardly did anything in Crota, hahaha! 😀
You guys were all talking tactics at one point while I was trying to balance on other guardians heads, jump over you all at the same time in one jump, and throw my knife at peoples heads, hahaha!
I mean, I’m good at raiding. Pick me… *cough*
I know I died a lot more than you did. Tactics can be learned almost through osmosis; skill comes at a higher price; and you’ve definitely got skill. 🙂
Looking at your profile… Wait, you’ve only got one Vault completion? We need to fix that. 😀 As trike said, if we’re online, feel free to jump into our party – it’s usually open – and see what’s up. The more the merrier! As a rough guide, Tuesday nights tend to be nightfalls, and weeklies if there’s time, but at the moment the rest of the week is essentially bounties and hoping enough people come online and feel like raiding (which has been a bit hit and miss thus far).
@os42
Yeah, I’ve only done the VoG once before.
I’ve helped out at parts of Crota, but never done the whole thing start to finish.
I think my play style is a fair bit different from you other guys cause I spend most of my time in the Crucible, rather than doing PvE.
Gotta have them fast reflexes, only aim for the head, and I tend to jump and move around a lot while fighting :3
I’ll jump in with you guys more often then though! 🙂
In return, you can be my crucible mentor. I just don’t get it and could really do with playing with someone experienced to get my head round it… 🙂
And we have our fair share of mucking about – there are several points in a raid where there’s a “natural break” and people will go refresh their drink, have a smoke, use the bog, and whoever’s waiting will have a chat and fool around. 🙂
My missus is away tonight at a conference so I’ll be on.
@trikeabout
It’s hard to teach Crucible, but I’ll do my best, if you like! 🙂
It’s more a “learn through experience” thing.
I’ll jump on tonight at some stage and see if you guys are playing 🙂
I’ll need to pay attention tomorrow. Will all the legendary gear be upgradeable do you know? I love VoG as well btw, much more enjoyable than Crota. I still need Fatebringer though but the Word of Crota is pretty handy for them Praetorians and their void shields 😀 I’m also excited as I didn’t get a single piece of VoG armour until after Crota was out and then I got a full set for my warlock within 2 run throughs of it. Typical
Just no more upgrading through Xur. Make it gameplay related or something like adding a final upgrade circle for each piece of armour
I’m in the same boat – only weapons I’m missing from VoG are Fatebringer and the Praetorian Foil, but because of the “VoG is irrelevant” mindset, I’ve not had the opportunity to run VoG more than a couple of times since December. Would be cool to get the other five gear pieces I need for my alts, too.
Word is nice, but I think Praetorians would be utterly screwed by a team of people with an aggressive Swordbreaker on each plate – it two-shots praetorians from full shields. 😛
Looks like there’ll be an “upgrade” node… not sure how it will work tho. I don’t mind re-levelling legendaries if need be – exotics take ages, but I maxed my Word of Crota in two days running bounties. And gear is even easier, thanks to dailies.
I keep on forgetting about swordbreaker 😀 shotguns are brilliant now in PVE. Fusion rifles still a bit naff though in PVE. I’ve got a fair few other weapons from VoG to get, VoC the main one I want other than Fatebringer as I love scout rifles. I still enjoy running through it. We seem to do it every weekend or two for something different to do. It’d be great to do it at a higher level though. I guess now might be the time to try and smash through it without dying to get that trophy before they up the level again though 😀
Shotguns are awesome. Universal remote + Swordbreaker is a combination that needs to be experienced – mid-range shotgun with a backup shotgun for close-range. 😀 As for fusion rifles, I kinda agree – the only one I really like is the Mytho, and that feels more like an auto rifle than a fusion rifle. I only really want the Foil because I don’t have one yet 😛 VoC is definitely worth getting – I’m very much looking forward to upgrading mine in HoW – I used that thing as my default non-exotic primary for months, until I found a nice 331 hand cannon.
Plan-C causes carnage. Fusion rifles are best for large groups of thralls. Kill 4 or 5 at once…
Murmur is great too. My kit has a Murmur and a Final Rest (Void) so that’s all the fusion damage.
I’m glad they’ve cottoned on to parallel paths for growth, and expanding your world instead of replacing it. It’s bad enough that there’s fuck-all content, the last thing they need to be doing is making all but one raid/strike obsolete at the same time. Obsolesence of valuable content is a problem that even the gold standard MMOs are only just recently looking at tackling, like WoW’s time-shifted dungeons and mythic 5-mans.
I’m not naive enough to think that a single right move is the herald of a revolution in design sensibility that will fix all the other problems I have with the game, but any step in the right direction is a good one. I WANT to love Destiny, I really do… the shooting of guns is just great. But all the meta around it is dramatically inferior to every other game out there doing anything even remotely similar, and it doesn’t need to be.
They’re reinventing the wheel from scratch, and it’s baffling and frustrating. When you see something that works, and you see how and why it works, then you should incorporate those principles into your philosophy and work from them, instead of starting at a base level that ignores good design’s existence and starts from scratch, repeating all the errors everyone else has already made and learned from.
Er… I mean. Yay, new Destiny stuff sounds promising.
Pretty accurate review of AoU. Goes without saying story spoilers contained within, read at your own risk.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/04/avengers-age-of-ultron-australian-review/
It’s gonna be a loooong wait till Avengers 3, but at least we get Ant-Man, Cap 3, Dr. Strange, Guardians 2 and Thor 3 while we wait.
Damnit. The Black Flag article on the front page has gotten me excited for AC Victory again. I’m trying not to build up my hopes too much, but Victorian London is something I could happily run around in for ages.
Whelp, my day is completely and utterly ruined.
My fruit salad tub only had one piece of pineapple.Not sure I can recover from this.
It was mostly honeydew. Has anyone ever gone out of their way for the tasteless bland sensation that is honeydew? Feh! Filler!You should’ve joined the Stonecutters when you had the chance.
I’m not sure which is worse, honeydew or cantaloupe/rockmelon. Watermelon is great though.Never had honeydew but I like rockmelon. I agree on watermelon being great but I like the taste of both and can’t honestly say which is my favourite.Rockmelon is awesome!
*shakes fist*
Too sweet!
I enjoy melons of all typesFruit based innuendos aren’t used enoughI’ve always loved honeydew ever since I first tried it as a kid (I can actually still remember that first time). Only problem is it’s hard to get one that’s properly ripe and sweet, much like rockmelon.
Downloading Killingfloor 2 now. It’s 10 gigs. I only have 15 gigs left on my harddrive. I should really start clearing some stuff off it.
Praise the sun! \o/
…and it’s raining again.
So, quick show of interest, who would be keen on a kickstarter to get @Powalen on If You Are The One.
$500 tier you can be one of his “friends”.
All contributions will go towards one of the biggest disasters in the show’s history. I don’t think they’ve ever had a candidate who doesn’t speak any Chinese before.
Repeat after me:
Wo bu mingbai ni shou shenme.
There you go, now you know how to say “I don’t understand what you’re saying.”
First stretch goal can be a phrasebook you can take on the show with you.
Second stretch goal is manufacturing our own dodgy but legitimate looking phrasebook…
In Hungarian.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
I will not buy this record, it is scratched
You can’t fight if you can’t understand each other! 😛
That’s not true. You can always hit each other.*
*I’m not advocating that, by the way. I’ve been punched in the face twice before, and it hurts.*Not physically… but emotionally.
Dark.
I like it.
What the hell TAY! Give me page 6 already!! We’re at Wednesday dammit!!
Edit: Hallelujah!! HAGGIS GET IN HERE!
<3 @Haggis.
Posted this on Twitter…
My month of Netflix:
Television:
Friday Night Lights (s1-5) (@shane, you should watch this. One of my all-time favourites now.)
Daredevil (s1)
Bloodline (s1)
Unbreakable Kimmy Schimdt (s1)
Ja’mie Private School Girl (s1)
Movies:
Weekend
Mrs Doubtfire
Lilo & Stitch
Easy A
Mean Girls
Juno
Pacific Rim
Watched four eps of Arrow, but decided it wasn’t for me. I think I like my super hero stuff less super hero-like. (Yeah, I know that doesn’t make any sense. :P)
Arrow is a superhero show? From the ads I just assumed it was a promotional series for a gym.
It’s like Batman had sex with the Count of Monte Cristo in a gym and then they went back to his place to watch Lost.
I WILL HEAR NOTHING BAD SAID ABOUT THE ALMIGHTY SALMON LADDER
Robin Hood has a cross fit gym.
Nah, it’s not crossfit. If it was, he’d be telling everyone about how he does crossfit.
You are right 😀
See, with Arrow I like my super hero shows less garbage. Which, to be honest, with my taste leaves me with Batman: TAS and that extended universe, Young Justice, and Daredevil.
I do not have the patience for all the crap in most of those shows, and I say that as someone who watched the shit out of the Batman animated series set in like 2050 where they went to raves every second night, while worrying about the prom.
The main problem with Arrow is just terrible terrible writing. The characters are cut-outs, the plot makes no sense most of the time, the “villians” aren’t interesting and the constant flashbacks are just distracting because they’re more interesting than the main storyline. I watched a bunch of eps last night (a welcome distraction from the storm). It looks ok, but there’s just no depth there.
Daredevil just does everything better.
This. I started watching it because I wanted more Daredevil after finishing that since it’s pretty much excellent.
Arrow feels like there’s the seed of a good idea there, but the execution is lacking. The way that the dude’s family feels like they stepped off The OC or some shit like that really doesn’t help. Also the lack of depth to everything as you said. Daredevil has all those interesting shades of grey to it, the internal conflict and everything. Arrow is just a dude murdering people because his Dad said they’re bad.
Batman Beyond was rad. Most importantly, Return of the Joker is technically part of Batman Beyond and not Batman: TAS. That was a good movie.
Admittedly, it was rad because of old Bats but that’s beside the point.
It’s definitely rad, but that’s also part of its problem. It’s radical, and cool, and FUTURISTIC.
And rather dumb. I still like it though.
LILO AND STITCH IS SO AWESOME
Yeah, it’s up there with my favourite Disney movies now. It warmed my cold black heart! 🙂
On the weekend wife and I were discussing the popularity/takings of the most recent Fast and Furious. Which got me thinking about how many movie franchises have made it to 6 or more movies. After some brief discussion on a short drive we came up with lots that come close. There are plenty of trilogies but not many hexologies (I googled to make sure that’s a word).
Leads me to a Wednesday afternoon/evening question: What movie franchises have made it to 6 or more movies or which franchises do you think should have more feature length films?
Thinking back to the weekend conversation we came up with these;
– Fast and Furious
– Harry Potter
– Star Wars (I know some may debate it’s only 3…)
– James Bond
… may have been more but can’t remember now.
Star Trek? Planet of the Apes?
Depends if you count Marvel movies as individual films or as a franchise.
Saw?
The Room.
Edit 1: also: Gigli, Reefer Madness, Battlefield Earth, Eyes Wide Shut, and Paul Blart: Mall Cop. All need to have 6-movie runs.)
Edit 2: If (when) they make a sixth Die Hard movie, I will watch it. Probably multiple times.
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 looks to be so bad that it has to be good. Right? Right!?
It’s weird, Mall Cop 1 was a film with a lot of heart, but didn’t have the writing chops to do what the producers wanted. Mall Cop 2 looks soulless and terrible.
X-Men, kinda.
You just know that if someone had come up with a way to make six movies out of The Hobbit, they would have.
If Star Wars counts then Lord of the Rings counts.
Rocky!
It’s not all one continuity, but there’s at least six Superman films, seven if you count the upcoming one. Same for batman though arguably the Nolan ones were a separate trilogy.
There’s six Incredible Hulk films. Six X-Men films (seven if you count The Wolverine).
There was a ton of Police Academy films back in the day. I think up to seven?
I feel like there was a lot of Universal Soldier films over time. Direct to video mainly.
I remember there being a bunch of Pink Panther films, were there six?
Lone Wolf & Cub had a series of six live-action films in the 70s.
Heaps of Muppets films, when you start adding them up.
Some of the classic horror series have an insane number of entries. Halloween, Friday the 13th, Hellraiser…
Lots of those old Japanese stop-motion monster films too. Gamera, Mothra and especially Godzilla must run into at least ten.
Fairly sure I remember being horrified at the length of the Land Before Time series now, and I looked it up just now and there’s fourteen of them. Jesus.
Not that uncommon in anime. There’s IIRC six Urusei Yatsura films. Naruto has a ton. Pokemon and Bleach have heaps. There’s at least one film for each Precure season so at least ten of them I think. Kara no Kyoukai has eight. Depending on whether you count Flashback 2012, Macross has either six or seven (DYRL, II, Plus, Zero, and 2 Frontier films). Galaxy Express 999 has a fair number, I think more than six. One Piece has a metric fuckton, so does Dragon Ball. Case Closed / Detective Conan has a huge amount too. Really long-running kids anime like Crayon Shin-chan and Doraemon have dozens of films.
Having tried to get into the film series a while back, I know for sure that there’s over twenty Zatoichi films.
It’s probably cheating to throw all the Kamen Rider stuff together but there’s a fair bit of that.
Checked and the 2014 Godzilla was the 30th Godzilla film. :O
There were 31 Carry-On movies – second biggest british movie franchise behind the Bond movies.
Two words: Police Academy.
Saw.
The Pink Panther.
Tarzan.
The Muppets.
I had a joke I was going to tell about construction, but I’m still working on it.
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeStill putting it together?
He’s building up to it.
@shane Any movement on the Bloodborne strategy guide at book dep?
17th has passed but my order still says ‘awaiting publication’ even though the main listing has a nice green ‘available’
I got an email yesterday saying it’d been posted.
Yeah,
mine just shipped. Guess there was a bit of a backlog.Edit: Correction, email just said it’s been ‘made available’, hasn’t shipped yet.
What did Little Miss Muffett and Saddam Hussein have in common?
They both had curds in their way.
I’m fuming :l
I’m doing a first year business communication class and we have to do a group assignment. It’s an analysis of 4 examples of communication from a business. I’m doing all the analysis (which is 75% of the assignment anyway) and earlier today I got dumped with everybody else’s work and got told to have a near final version ready by tomorrow.
It’s a complete mess! One girl was meant to be writing recommendations. She just copied everything out of the textbook and not a single sentence is relevant to the cases, the ‘group leader’ was meant to write the introduction and conclusion (based on what I wrote), and then told me to ‘make sure your analysis relates back to what’s written in the conclusion’. Umm… the last time I wrote a report (last week) you draw the conclusion off your findings. Her conclusion covers NOTHING. It’s all just fluff!
Nevermind the fact that I have a 30,000 word document due for project on Friday (that we did in 2 weeks, not 1500 words in a month and a half).
Fuck ’em. :l
Unless I’m remembering incorrectly, you seem to have some awful luck with group assignments.
Does anybody have any luck with group assignments? 😛
Our project team is working really well together now, FWIW!
I had pretty good luck with mine at the end of uni. The workload divided pretty evenly between C, php, I think database stuff? and C. Which meant that each of the four people in our group got to do exactly the thing they’re good at and enjoy. No real dramas or anything at all, save for one guy being away fairly often. It all went smoothly though. Might’ve been a miracle.
I had one group where there were five of us, everyone pulled their weight, we got shit done on time and all got a really good mark for the class.
We also all knew each other before starting the assignment and one of the people in the team was a really efficient organizer / manager type, which helped enormously.
Also we stayed friends afterward!
All the rest of my group assignments aside from that at University were shit though.
I had pretty good luck all through uni. Only recall three group assignments where people didn’t pull their weight. One of those was a 14-week 20-something person group project in our final year, building a system that would sort poker chips by colour. Three quarters of the group couldn’t code, so while the five of us who could did high-level design, hardware abstraction and basic functionality, some of them took to documentation (of which there was a f-tonne), others learned C# and worked on the GUI, and two decided to attempt to disguise the fact they weren’t doing anything. Those last two got kicked out of the subject by mid-sem. All went smoothly after that – the final demonstration was a complete failure, but we’d demonstrated it working in the preceding weeks, and our documentation was pretty good, so we all scored highly.
I see that you’re experiencing group assignments. Would you like to:
a) Set everyone on fire.
b) Set everything on fire.
c) Set everything on fire and then throw everyone in the fire.
d) Get really, really, really drunk.
Speaking to someone running the class about your group is never a terrible idea. At least you’d have the chance to protect yourself against the incompetence of the rest of your group. Then again, I’m sure the entire point of group assignments is to teach you that everyone else is useless.
Group assignments are the fucking worst. You always end up in groups where there’s someone that contributes nothing.
I remember a few group assignments where I basically did it all myself.
Even worse is when you get peer assessed group work. Had that once and had people mark stuff down because of things that weren’t part of the marking criteria (eg assignment to make a game that ran in Javascript in IE. One fucker gave our ‘group’ (two of four people contributed!) a 0 because it didn’t run in Mozilla or some shit, but that wasn’t even the brief!)
Glad I’m not in university any more.
All my group computing assignments are peer assessed and it affects marks. This one (it’s in the business school) has peer assessment, but it doesn’t change anything.
One of my friends who did the class last year said everybody was so lazy that beyond writing the entire assignment herself she wrote everybody’s peer assessments, because just having them is a part of the group’s grade :l
Ha, we had a term for that.
It was “the Brad” because it was always fucking Brad.
I heard he became a Priest.
Dunno how the priesthood would feel about him always fucking Brad…
I don’t know which priesthood. Some of them are into that
Ahahaha
Ahaha
hahaha
ha…
‘group leader’ got back to me talking about how vital her part of the project is and that’s what we need to focus on the most.
An introduction and conclusion.
I’ll write them up in like 10 minutes.
Hm. So you’re in a project where your team is full of chuckleheads who don’t know how to do their jobs, and your competence is rewarded with the expectation that you will pick up their slack and the certain knowledge that those involved will claim credit for your work if it succeeds and you’ll suffer a negative review if they fail, regardless of the quality of your work?
Never let it be said that universities don’t prepare students for the real world.
Pretty much.
I kinda feel sorry for first year business students. They have to do this class and it’s a terrible introduction to group assignments and communication practices. We have to have 6 academic peer reviewed references and as annoyed as I am with them coming back with websites they found on Google, nobody’s taught them how to find any proper references :S Even I struggled a bit finding anything relevant.
I understand that the group communication process is kinda introducing people to how businesses communicate, but for a 1500 word assignment between 5 people holding formal meetings and taking minutes just takes time away from being productive. If it were just me I’d have had the assignment done in just a couple of days work. It’s stupidly small and easy! Like I said, my project team wrote and put together a 30000 word (150 pages) document in 2 weeks because we know how to talk to each other and we’re not bound by stupid procedures. The ‘group leader’ in this project on the other hand didn’t even know how to send an email until I showed her many times.
Ugh. It’ll get done somehow.
@tech_knight @gingerchris86 @popdart5 @jocon gonna be on Hots for the next hour and bit, log on if you peeps wants a few matches! @james_m ? not sure about that last tag =p
I’ll be on Battlenet the moment I log onto my PC, you’ll have better luck reaching me there after 5pm 🙂
Got my Stars Catalogue games:
Metroid 2, Link’s Awakening & Mario Land.
Oh YEEEEEEEAH
Slept for 3 hours.
I could have done one mission in Elite: Dangerous… 🙁
Why did the ibis cross the road?
To get some chipsThis #page6 was brought to you by Batboy’s favourite joke at the zooYo.
I kind of want to grow my hair out a bit longer again, but the whole “in-between” phase is kinda weird looking since my hair grows out straight and most of the time I give up and just shave it or go short again 😛
Pro tipz?
Depends on how you want to grow your hair out. But generally, smaller frequent trims will help to keep your hair neat while you’re growing sections out. For example, if you want a longer fringe/crown section, then keep your sides and back short while you let the top grow out. Use product to control it until it’s the length you’re happy with. Your hairdresser/barber should have suggestions on styles too. I’ve had my hair from a #2 undercut through to shoulder length, so I’ve done the growing out thing loads of times.
Hats. That’s what I’d do. A roster of geek-brands beanies and as the hair lengthens to that shoulder-length I hate, you begin a top-knot kinda thing under the beanie.
Er… Wearing them indoors, people may either think you’re weird or secretly have cancer. I dunno. I’m not coming up with any good alternatives here.
Or maybe just that it’s cold inside and the cold is stupid.
I’m sure they thought I was weird for a multitude of other reasons already.BECAUSE YOU LIKE ALL THE WRONG THINGS AND HATE THINGS WHICH ARE RAD
Wax for short hair, gel for long hair.
That’s my motto, anyway.
Depends on how short we’re talking though.
Grow the section you want out first, and experiment with styles along the way:
– Full shaved
– Shaved sides, back, and top (not front)
– Shaved sides and back
– etc
If you want to go full long, I reckon grow it all out at once, but get it cut and styled very occasionally to how you want it to look, and so that it’s a bit more manageable through the process.
Is there a style you’d like to try specifically?
Wig.
Hair, just like everybody else
What did Cinderella do when she got to the ball?
She choked!
#UncleCrazyguy
You.
I like you.
*blushes*
😀
Claimed the last of my Club Nintendo stars:
Zelda 1, Zelda 2, LttP.
Also finally caught a shiny Ho-oh after getting around to triggering round 2. Bred and raised a whole new team to be able to give myself a 99.999999999992% chance if the battle grinds out to several hundred capture opportunities. Spent twenty turns setting up for the long haul, threw the first premier ball, and *click*, in it goes. Heh. Haaaaaaaaa…
Next up, the one that you’re really just going to have to take my word on when I catch it because it doesn’t look any different. Challenging!
If your name was Gus would you want to be known as being fun?
Every guy should ask himself a similar question.
My MQFT yesterday didn’t go exactly as planned, it was all tied up, then @cufcfan616 wasn’t sure if he wanted to vote for W or S. If it’s W then it wins, if it’s S then it’s a stalemate, so I guess it’s W which was White Night, so it looks like I’m playing that.
These are what the choices were
Titan Souls (which I ended up playing anyway
Lone Survivor
Hotline Miami
Never Alone
Resident Evil: Revelations 2
Spelunky
and of course
White Night
I’m allowed to be indecisive sometimes 😛
I used to be indecisive, but now I’m not so sure.
Happy Ultron day everyone.
I got an email from Zavvi asking if I wanted to pre-order the DVD of this movie. Ridiculous.
It’s like they don’t even care that you’ve already pre-ordered at JB.
That fucking Gizmodo anti-vacc ad picture at the bottom of every Kotaku page I open is not what I need to repeatedly see.
Edit: I also ranted about it on the article in question but I left out a question mark, and I can’t edit it because it’s a rant! 😛 (It’s in moderation, anyway…maybe I could ask them to edit it in? 😀 )
Phew, all gone picture! Never underestimate the power of a polite rant!
Watchu talkin bout Willis
Not sure if serious question or just wanting to show off how old you are. 😛
The anti-vac doofusheads put up a picture on their FB page comparing vaccinations to rape. It was a fairly objectionable picture so FB removed it. And when Gizmodo reported on it, they were stupid enough to use that picture as their main picture for the article. So every time I refreshed TAY or opened a Kotaku article that picture was staring at me. I politely ranted about it in the article’s comments and Campbell Simpson was nice enough to respond and remove it. 🙂
Now the world don’t move to the beat of just one drum
Well I’ve been reminded several times in the last week or so that my hair seems to be receeding and thinning so I guess it’s time to embrace my age :D/D:
And yeah, I just stay away from the whole vaccination argument these days but putting something like that on a ‘professional’ website is idiotic.
Mario Kart DLC day! I think! Unless timezones! D:
Woah. That snuck up. I thought it wasn’t coming out until May…?
Eight new tracks, Shane. Eight new tracks. (And one of them has different seasons every time you play! D:)
Nah. Game isn’t for me. *folds arms stubbornly*
That’s okay, Freeze. You tried! And that’s all we can ever do as people! Now let’s hug it out!
All I want is a block fort battle arena re-release and I’ll rebuy it.
I always hated the original battle mode, so didn’t miss it here. (I imagine it would suck if you were a fan, though. :S)
Probably timzoned.
That’s fine though. I have no interest playing it at the moment anyway.
After 7pm today apparently!
Eh.
You guys enjoy.
Dammit! I won’t be on tonight because I’ll be watching Age Of Ultron again. When are we gonna organize the next TAYKart for, Monday night?
Bloody hell! Replyfail to @dc
So much for the MQFT, started White Night and I’m not really in the mood for it, gonna go back to Titan Souls.
That’s the spirit 😛
That happens to me so often though. I’ll sit at work all day thinking ‘I could sure go for a 3-4 hour Skyrim session or start off a Total War game’, get home and nope, I just wanna switch between 5 different games before staring at Netflix. Good times
It’s been so long since I blogged (Instagram replaced my blog because it’s way less work. :P) but I’m entering a “Challenge” that has prizes so I need to do a blog post. So you guys will be able to make “strangest itches” jokes again soon.
The lady that does all the office work decided to buy us all “Avengers” T-shirts for the launch tonight, I took one look at it and said “Um, Daredevil isn’t in The Avengers!”. She just said “That was all they had”.
Apparently in the comics he’s in the “New” Avengers, but he’s not in the films, so I’ll just wear my personal Avengers shirt.
Maybe she secretly works for Netflix. 😛
Speaking of Daredevil, can’t wait to see what Netflix does with The Defenders!
What are these Defenders of which you speak?
Edit: Nevermind, just Wiki’d it.
Team of marvel heroes. Traditionally has had people like Dr Strange and Namor.
For the purposes of Netflix: Basically, they’re doing 4 mini-series focused on 1 character (Dardevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist) and then a series that’s a big team-up called The Defenders.
Daredevil got renewed for second season yesterday, in case you haven’t heard! 😀
I did! That’s cool, but it’s not Luke Cage cool (Sweet Christmas, Cage is one of my favourite Marvel characters)
The thing that excites me about Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist is I know NOTHING about them. I knew the basics of Daredevil, but this is gonna be all new, uncharted terrain for me. Can’t wait to discover these new characters.
Jessica Jones is going to be interesting, especially if they use David Tennant in the way I suspect.
He’s gonna be scary as fuck.
@redartifice (@dc DO NOT CLICK)
Purple?@quiz_b
Yeah, it’s him, and given how they used him in the original Jessica Jones series he’s going to be scary, scary, scaryCool, I’m almost finished with Game Of Thrones, probably watch Daredevil over the weekend. Love how Netflix just release a whole season in one go.
Until the realization at the end of the last episode that you’ve got to wait a whole year for the next. 😀
That’s seriously sweet, love getting gifts at work like that. She sounds like a good office lady!
It was nice of her to do it, she didn’t pay for them though, the boss did.
Mmmm, Weet Bix with brown sugar, breakfast of kings I tell you.
Anybody watch @markserrels’ Twitch stream of Titan souls yesterday? I found it quite entertaining, hope he does more of them.
Sick again. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
Me too, Red. Me too. :'( Feel better, friend!
Already been sent home from work. And had to cancel a date. Errrrrrrrgh.
Arrrgh! That’s unfortunate! :S
The one, precious up-side to being sick for a long time (as in, multiple weeks/months) is that once you get used to it, the feeling of finally getting healthy and strong is unbelievable. Something you really just can’t experience or appreciate when you’re used to being healthy – an extraordinary and steady increase in strength and energy which logically can’t continue on that same trajectory without you turning into Superman. That feeling… the only thing to look forward to.
A little bit excited to play the Mario Kart DLC tonight.
There’s a new bug-shaped cart with little wings that flip up when you do a trick. I can play as Toad in a bug cart. If I wasn’t convinced this is the best Mario Kart yet, I am now.
I can’t wait to see the new tracks. Avoided even screenshots of most of them. Love the sense of discovery on the new tracks. It’s a level playing field for everyone, trying to decipher its secrets! 😀
I’ve already seen videos on them and they’re fantastic. Better than the last DLC pack, I think.
Oh, and note for everyone: You have to have completed 150cc (
3-stars on every track) before the new 200cc mode will unlock. Hope you’ve all already done that!EDIT: Actually, no that’s not right. Just have to have come first in every cup like normal!
Yessssss *fist pump* I’m ready.
I wasn’t even aware. =P
Also: When I got in to work this morning there was a white powder on my desk…
Just like a replicant would use to simulate human colours. WHERE’S POW PRIME?
Wait, Pow’s a replicant?
@powalen: You’re in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. It’s crawling toward you. You reach down and flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can’t. Not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that, Pow?
What do you mean, I’m not helping?
I mean you’re not helping! Why is that, Pow?
Do you make up these questions? Or do they write them down for you?
They’re just questions, Pow. In answer to your query, they’re written down for me. It’s a test designed to provoke an emotional response.
Not as good as the Bonelli Bone Test.
Also, I lasted maybe halfway through Blade Runner before I turned it off, yet Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is one of my all-time favourite books.
Well, it was nice knowing you. You’ll either be arrested or dead by days end.
People at your work really party hard don’t they …
EDIT: yes Apple, peole is definitely a reasonable autocorrect
Could have corrected it to proles, which would prove that apple is big brother once and for all.
Pshhhh, that’s crazy talk. Apple don’t have any con-BUY AN APPLE WATCH BUY AN APPLE WATCH BUY AN APPLE WATCH BUY AN APPLE WATCH BUY AN APPLE WATCH-trol over what I post.
http://i.imgur.com/pLxCjk1.gif
Our oldest cat, Tilly, passed away in her sleep this morning.
She was 17 years old, so she’d had a good run.
We knew she was getting close, especially once she lost her sense of direction.
Still, feels pretty crappy. 🙁
Oh man, I’m so sorry to hear this. 🙁 All the best to you and yours. Atleast she went peacefully after a long life, take solace in that pal.
Family pet deaths is hard man. Sorry to hear that. =(
Upvote for my sympathies, sorry to hear mate.
Awh, damn. That’s no good. Sorry to hear it.
Hugs.
Just went to load my Titan Souls save, 3 hours 19 minutes and 36 seconds playtime (an hour of that was spent idle while I watched Mark play it), 6 killed and 99 deaths, didn’t realize I died THAT much.
A Thursday morning question. What is your favourite theme song from an 80’s TV Show?
The ones that come to mind for me are The A-Team and Knight Rider. Or if we’re including music during closing credits then it’d be The Lonely Man from The Incredible Hulk (which I know started in the late 70’s, but continued into the 80’s).
Monkey’s olllllllllld.
*shakes walking stick*
If anyones answer isn’t Ducktales they are incorrect.
EDIT: aaaand the theme song is now stuck in your head. You’re welcome!
Like minds think alike! A-woo-hoo.
Well, now we’re at an impasse.
Ooooh, good one. Still remember going to see the movie with my sister at the cinema.
Edit: probably a little NSFW due to language.
HA!
I liked Talespin, but it’s not 80s.
Yeeeessssss
Also not 80s, but Darkwing Duck.
*shakes fist*
Ducktales, a-woo-hoo!
Scot-rail oh-ay
If your answer is anything but Gummi Bears then your answer is wrong.
Bouncing here and there and everywhohgoddammit, between this and Ducktales I’m doomed for the rest of the day.
Dashing and daring,
Courageous and caring
The over the top cheese of Aaron Spelling shows are always endearing. Love the Star Trek: The Next Gen theme too.
Police Quest! was pretty great too. And Red Dwarf. Also I think The Simpsons just managed to squeak into the dying gasps of the 80s.
Only just.
What are “the 80’s”? 😛
Get orf my lorrrrn
I didn’t actually exist in the 80s so I’m relying on 80s shows that I watched later. I started watching Monkey Magic in the 00s and dang it that is just a feel good, dance in your seat theme song.
The Racoons. Perfect cheesey 80s synth pop. 🙂
Why the hell has nobody said Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
No one remembers thne TMNT theme song, the lyrics are too complicated.
Inspector Gadget, Voltron and Transformers. My three favourite tv shows growing up all had awesome theme tunes. Ducktales is also great.
Haha was just thinking I should have mentioned Inspector Gadget too. So good.
Next time!
How has no one posted this….
https://youtu.be/O5C0G9Ol7_Q
I’m going to cheat because I didn’t actually watch these in the 80s…
Fist of the North Star II – Tough Boy is one of the most 80s things you’ll ever hear. And it’s fucking awesome.
Saint Seiya’s first opening, Pegasus Fantasy, is a complete classic. Heaps of metal covers out there, apparently it was huge in latin america.
Dirty Pair had a super catchy mid-80s opening.
I’d nominate some of the Bubblegum Crisis stuff since it’s rad, but technically it wasn’t a TV show (direct to video). Same for ‘Ai no Senshi / Soldiers of Sorrow’ from original Gundam which is an amazing piece with absolutely harrowing lyrics set to an upbeat tune (Andrew W.K. did an amazing English cover of it with translated lyrics, if you want to find out how morbid it was) but it originates in one of the three compilation movies they put together from the TV Series footage.
Same issue goes for Gunbuster. It has some amazing music (Active Heart is a personal fave) and the Gunbuster March is one of the most badass orchestral themes ever, but it was an OVA series, not for TV 🙁
It’s honestly probably Ducktales though.
15,000 Comments!
It’s an (dubious) honour! Hooray!
Hooray indeed!
My comment count is all over the shop because I’ve changed my email address. Originally I was posting under this email address. Then a few years ago, I changed to one at my domain name. Most of my comments are under that address. When I changed back to this email (because I ditched the domain), my comment count dropped dramatically.
You can link several emails to one account! Check account settings \o/
It’s just a number. I don’t really gain anything by putting that dead email back on this account.
I wasn’t sure if the Ace Attorney games would stand up to multiple playthroughs. I’m pleased to announce that I am having an absolute blast playing through the remastered 3DS collection now.
These games are so damned good. Probably my second favourite game series behind Souls/FROM games.
Have you been keeping up to date on The Great Ace Attorney game? It looks spectacular! The 3D animation is so much improved from AA5 (which was already pretty good).
Please localise!
I haven’t, actually. I rarely venture beyond the walls of Kotaku… unless it was for my Bloodborne countdown.
Off to Google!
Here are some gifs to wet your whistle! http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=159134698
Noooooo, it’s still so far away 🙁
Probably next year for us (if at all :P)
I will buy this game.
It’s amazing. So funny. And one of the best localisations I’ve ever seen, too. Can’t believe the original is 14 years old.
The only Ace Attorney I’ve played was the Prof Layton crossover. Should I rectify this?
Of course.
I failed at page 6 again :(. Oh well, you can’t stop this train!
I told my wife she drew her eyebrows too high.
She seemed surprised.
Why do trees seem suspicious on sunny days?
Dunno, they’re just a bit shady.A man gasping of thirst in the desert sees a trio of brightly coloured tents. He goes to the first to beg for water, sorry sir the occupant says we only have custard.
The thirsty man goes to tent numbers two and asks for water. Sorry sir only have jello ( or jelly). Oh said the man and heads to tent 3.
Water water he demands, but the owner has only cream and fruit. This is odd said the man, yes sir said the man in tent it’s a trifle bazaar.
Me: What do you want to be when you grow up?
Friend: I think I want to clean mirrors
Me: Why would you want to do that?
Friend: Well.. it’s the only job I can see myself doing.
Why can’t your nose be 12 inches long?
Because then it would be a foot.Bloodborne is killing me (no pun intended), i just cant seem to consistently get the combat right. ive played for about 8hrs now and cant get past cleric beast Or kill that big dude in the alley…..
Ill give it one more decent shot this weekend and see if it clicks.
load times suck though.
I found I was a bit rubbish at it until I tried with the Hunter’s Axe. Spin to win, baby.
So if you haven’t already, try experimenting with weapons. Also, that guy in the alley is a jerk, and the environment works against you there, so don’t feel too bad about that.
And I was about 15 hours in before it finally clicked properly, though I’d made decent progress by then
Will do thanks for the advice 🙂
Ill keep at it for now, and put a good session in over the weekend, maybe itll click.
Thanks for the tips! Managed to kill cleric beast and clear the sewers and open some shortcuts 🙂 spin to win indeed. …
thanks again
No problem, good luck with what’s ahead!
My daughter asked me if she could go to a 50 cent concert. I said sure, here’s a dollar, take your brother.
So, turns out all legendary weapons and gear will be upgradable to 42 light/365 attack. Upgrades will require “etheric light” (cos of course we need another material to collect -_-), one per upgrade; etheric light will be obtainable in Nightfalls, Weeklies, Prison of Elders and Trials of Osiris, by the sound of it. Exotics will upgrade as they currently do, but directly from your inventory (no Xur necessary), and for only 1500 glimmer and an exotic shard – and it will not reset progress or re-roll stats. So, in theory, if you’ve got all legendary gear, you have a path to level 34. Still no idea on EL drop rates, but it’ll do wonders for diversity…
The economy is getting a bit more fleshed out, with the Speaker exchanging ascendant shards for energy and vice versa (1 for 1, with 5 glimmer), asc. shards for motes of light (2 for 1), and will buy asc. shards for 250 glimmer. Looks to be the same for radiant mats – same exchanges, cost, etc.
Gunsmith will be able to re-roll HoW weapons, too, for a mote, 3 weapon parts and 250 glimmer… and so it came to pass, that PvE guardians joined their Iron Banner brethren in gambling away all their money.
And I’ll just leave this here. 😛
These are fantastic changes. I’m looking optimistic about playing again when the next major content pack drops. (Comet, right?)
This DLC is actually tempting to jump back into; that said I’ll wait for the sequel before re-investing =P
Yea, next major content pack should be comet, although they teased another “raid-tier activity” that they’ll reveal in a couple of weeks (I’m guessing they’ll talk about in around 13/5). If the leaked release schedule is still vaguely accurate, comet will be mid September. Realistically, I’d expect it sometime Q4.
I think the “raid tier” activity they’re currently talking about is just Prison of Elders. Urk said originally there will be a new raid later, but no confirmation on whether it would be related to HoW or not. Current leaks/rumours/speculation suggests Comet (likely due around September, i.e.: 1 year from launch) is a massive content update that will significantly revamp much of the game, and then a second season of DLC expansions.
Given that the House of Wolves expansion sounds like the Fallen House rebels against the Queen; highly likely that the Prison of Elders (which holds the likes of that Archon you fight in that one strike) will be connected with the house attempting to recover an imprisoned leader or some such loretastic nonsense?
Yeah, Prison of Elders is related to House of Wolves but it’s not a raid. It’s co-op PvE battle arena (which most people assume means horde/firefight mode). Urk said House of wolves “will not have a raid” but then mentioned a raid would come later in the year. Whether it’s related to HoW or not is speculation, as is any future expansions such as “Comet” or DLC beyond Comet.
Of course we can assume that the next DLC will revolve around the Cabal since:
1) the base game relates to the Vex’s “gods” such the Heart of the Black Garden and Atheon, Time’s Conflux;
2) The Dark Below revolves around Eris’ escaping the Temple of Crota after an extended period stuck down there with the Hive, and Crota’s End being us killing Crota, a Hive God;
3) House of Wolves is apparently the Queen’s tame Fallen betraying her so she reaches out to the Guardians (who “owe” her) to wreck their shit.
The only unrepresented faction is the Cabal, who are also hugely underrepresented in the campaign. Apparently they’re supposed to be allies of the Fallen, but you’d miss that pretty easily since you never get to see them interact in the game. Also, I haven’t seen anything in the game they worship as a god, so I’d really like to know more more about them, and what’s important to them. So I can shoot it.
According to the leaked release schedule late last year, it’ll be Comet (“A Plague of Darkness”, which sounds like more hive) followed by a Vex expansion (“Vex Void”), and another expansion after that (“Forge of the Gods”, which might be cabal). Might be waiting a while for lore on the Cabal, unfortunately…
Unless they fix the fact that I am forced to do PvP with an exotic weapon I got from PvEing I don’t think I am going back to the game.
You mean the Thorn/Bad Juju/Invective bounty? They’re a pain. I think Bad Juju is the easiest because you can’t lose progress and it’s probably the best of the three. Thorn is worth having but I’m glad I did it like 5 months ago and am not doing it now.
That said, they’re not really necessary.
It’s not the fact that it’s necessary or not. It’s the fact it’s a shit mechanic. I don’t want to PvP, I’ve never PvP’d why the fuck are they giving me a PvP quest?
EDIT: Also, the mechanic just funnels people that don’t want to be in PvP into PvP. So you have a team where 1 player doesn’t want to be there so isn’t really playing, which ruins it for everyone else in the PvP game.
Yeah they really need to compartmentalize those two sections of the game more and have optional or cosmetic rewards for players who excel at both PvE and PvP. I wouldn’t have cared if there were a few legendaries you could only get from PvP as long as there were a few only from PvE.
or make it so each objective of a bounty has both a PvE and a PvP requirement but you only need to fulfil one. Something like, “Get 2000 points in kills to unlock this weapon. Guardian kills grant 10 points and Nightfall mode enemies grant 5 kills”. That way people that exclusively PvP, people that exclusive PvE and people that both PvE and PvP are happy and don’t miss out on anything
That’s much cleverer than what I would’ve suggested.
(what I would’ve suggested at the time of attempting the bounty would’ve resulted in a very awkward doctor’s visit for Bungie and restrained laughter in the x-ray department).
I struggled with a couple of those for a while before eventually just writing them off. Life’s too short to spend it swearing and gritting my teeth during anything other than sex, or an epic dump.
It was incredibly shitty of Bungie to drive PVEers into PVP when they don’t want to be there especially as a bait-and-switch when the early stages were PVE and once you’d done them you didn’t want to lose your progress. But the other exotics were easy enough to come by that it didn’t matter. Especially since the reward exotics aren’t particularly spectacular.
I kind of sadly expected the PVP focus. MP was a huge part of Halo’s success, and it’s pretty common for MMOs to try and pad out their lack of content by funnelling players into ‘user generated content’ (ie: non-content, just interact with each other, typically PVP). At best, it’s divisive and a distraction from ‘true’ (ie: PVE, ie: the stuff I like) content generation. At worst, it’s cynical and lazy.
Upvote for first paragraph, grinding your teeth is bad for you but I’m glad you qualified the statement 😛
Is it too late for me to pick this up again? I stopped playing after cheesing Crota twice lol.
Seems to me like Crota didn’t win a lot of fans and these changes are aimed squarely at folks who are asking that exact question.
Fair point, I can’t actually remember the reason why I stopped playing. I literally did the Crota Raid, turned off the Xbone and went to bed never to put Destiny back into my Xbox again.
I think it might not be a good idea though to get back into it, I went into a really heavy game funk which made me not enjoy almost any game for a good 2 months after burning out.
I might not make it back.
Crota was a bit broken and not nearly as complex as VoG (hence the fact you cheesed it twice). It didn’t add anything we hadn’t already done except more grind, which the base game had enough of already.
House of Wolves looks like it will fix some issues, and the stuff it’s adding looks to be a welcome change (though part of what it’s adding seems to pretty much just being the Queen’s Wrath, which was rolled out back in the first month after launch and never seen again).
Yeah, I wonder if House of Wolves is actually something for me other than multiplayer maps and maybe some new weapons. I enjoy PvE so I’m worried I might not genuinely enjoy what’s added.
Prison of Elders = 3-man fire team co-op battle arena (with matchmaking, I think), which people figure is probably horde mode. All the PvE with none of that tedious walking around \o/
Some call me… Tim.
Hey everyone guess what? Not dead \o/
Feel like its been ages since I’ve been on here, full time work kinda puts a downer on any tay-ing. But all thats over with now. I’ve taken on a new role temporarily which means I’ll be working from home for our US office. It means working crazy hours starting at 4am, but it also means my work is done by 11. And I was already waking up at 5:30 for my normal commute to Sydney, so an extra hour so earlier doesn’t make that much difference to me. Also get extra pay, and no travelling, so there’s really no down side.
Still doing the same job, just talking with US agents instead of Aussie ones. First day was today and it went well.
Now that I have a bunch of extra time on my hands I’ve got some serious backlog to work through. Games, movies, TV shows, I’ve got a list a mile long of each. Hopefully I’ll be able to whittle it down a bit at a time. First priority is to finish Borderlands 2 and potentially move on to the PreSequel. I ended up restarting a playthrough not long before I went to Japan, so I’m still not particularly far in, but I’m getting there. Does anyone know, if I buy the season pass now does it still get me all 5 DLC addons, or do I have to get them individually?
Does that mean an eventual transfer to the US is on the cards for you?
Nah, it’s only temporary while one of their staff is on maternity leave
Ah.
For a second I thought I might have a moving-to-the-US buddy.
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Said this on Twitter this morning, but I picked up Lego Marvel Superheroes and Alien: Isolation today. Played some Lego, hadn’t played one of the games since Lego Indy. Loving it so far. Looking forward to playing Isolation, but possibly when it’s dark.
Be careful playing Alien at night.
They mostly come at night. Mostly.
Alien Isolation can be tough in parts, don’t be a afraid to pick up (In my humble opinion) a FAQ and read to where you are up to.
I was adamant I would be the first man to play this game without being killed by the Alien, I died literally the first chance it had to sneak up on me and I’m just getting excited about the prospect of playing again now after two weeks away from it lol.
@freezespreston, I think I’m just about up to where you’re up to in Bloodborne
Have unlocked the Upper Cathedral Ward, but haven’t progressed too far in it yet. Have unlocked the Lecture Building, but haven’t explored that yet either. I’m now Level 80.I haven’t actually played since you left. So I’ll have to catch up in levels :/
Netflix question; has anyone got a reliable source of upcoming Netflix releases in Australia?
So RPG Peoples. Anyone interested in being a guinea pig?
this vague post brought to you by Ginger: the throat cleanerThat depends. A guinea pig for what?
And so it begins….
Been working on a Short game about corporations – RPG style in that a GM controls the overall Market and that each PC is a corporation. Also fairly free flowing in almost anything is possible.
just need a few people to bounce it off is all.
From the sounds of it, it seems more of a player-versus-player type of RPG than a collaborative game. It sounds interesting but for some reason I’m getting a vibe of a board game that does something similar (no, it’s not Monopoly).
If you want to bounce ideas, feel free and I can chip in. You’ve got my email or we can have discussions on TAY if you want.
kool, thanks. I’ll drop you something in the next week or so
deets?
brief description above. let me know if you’re interested 🙂
drop us a line, yeah.
In Queensland, rabbits are illegal. A lot of rabbit owners claim they own long-eared guinea pigs.
Hi.
While I’m here thought I might say thanks to those who played HOTS with me last night, really enjoyed it. I need to play again though, probably saturday
Thanks for joining in! =D Lol if you enjoyed losing I wonder what you’ll say once we start winning =P
I think it’ll be a while until we start winning, we got stomped every time in PvP so far, with coop is the exact opposite, seriously I was able to 1v2 easily 😛
Edit: Though to be fair Nazebo is pretty fun to play, his kit is ridiculous, a circular trap that also attacks the trapped enemy!
As Puppet has said, HotS comes down to team composition a lot more than LoL or Dota. Once you find the good combos between heroes, things can get really ridiculous. Things like stun locking for close to 10 seconds, taking over half of a team out of the fight for a good chunk of time, and synergising heals and things to make characters effectively unkillable.
I’m mainly randoming right now to see what I can make work and Nazebo was my latest one
If you get a chance, you should try Rehgar. He’s classed as a support but he’s probably one of the more interesting heroes available as he can literally be and do anything.
Oi stop telling him to steal my hero =P I’m maining rehgar atm; while he can do anything he should only be healing. The lightning shield/bloodlust build is only viable if the team has another support. His healing ulti is way too OP to be skipped in any other situation (fully upgraded AoE 60% of a characters HP to target and surrounding teammates).
Also bloodlust’s animation is so obvious (giant red demon grows out of rehgar) that it pretty much alerts the entire enemy team to run away for 30 seconds and come back into the fray. So it’s very stunlock dependant, probably best used in maps like mines/gardens.
Yeah but be careful with Nazeebo techy; his circle trap has friendly fire so if you don’t learn to use him properly you’ll end up trapping a team mate for the enemy team to kill. It’s happened to me a few times when I’ve played illidan and our team’s nazeebo will get me trapped and i’ll have to waste my leap attack to jump out. His other ability worth noting is his spirit beast thingy; not the zombie. The spirit beast ulti does lots of dot; almost likey Viper from DoTA but Naz is a specialist so he doesn’t overly synergize in any team and forces whoevers playing him to learn him inside and out and be ridiculously efficient with him.
Hit me up after 6PM tonight for a few matches techy; i’ll probably only play one or two today (enough for daily quests) cos I want to get stuck into FF Type-0 =P
Yeah that we LoL players call “I’m Jarvan and I’m helping” where his ultimate he jumps on an enemy creating a walled circle arena with him and his opponent inside to duke it out, but others can get trapped inside too, friendly or enemy alike. However, Jarvan can cancel the wall anytime he wants (Unless CC’d)
Wait he has a second ultimate spirit beast?! I only knew of the megazombie
Mhm but you;ve noticed how quickly heroes die in HotS so even one misplaced trap with Nazeebo can result in your teammates dying; especially if you end up trapping the support on your team!
And yeah his second ult summons some kind of spirit beast thingy that acts like a dot. All heroes unlock their second ulti at hero level 2, and their expert talents by level 4.
TAYlist for the 23rd of April 2015
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by Grand Theft Auto Online, Career Criminal Simulator 2013/14/15Ace Of Base – All That She Wants
Hoodoo Gurus – Miss Freelove ’69
Michael Jackson – Rock With You
Young Divas – Turn Me Loose
Was Not Was – Walk The Dinosaur
Owl City – Shooting Star
1927 – That’s When I Think Of You
Angel Haze ft. Sia – Battle Cry
PNAU – The Truth
Eurogliders – Heaven (Must Be There)
Sophie Monk – Inside Out
IT HAS BEEN TWO DAYS BUT MY HOUSE FINALLY HAS POWER AGAIN I HAVE MISSED EVERYTHING SO MUCH
Now for the horrible task of throwing out pretty much everything in the fridge.
Hooray!
I would also like to point out to TAY that CookingMama here is the nicest person under the sun and has been checking in on me all week and offering me dinners. There’s nobody more kind!
You didn’t eat everything in the fridge when the power first went out?
Has your power gone out before?
Uncooked meat isn’t particularly appealing. Or in the case of chicken, healthy.
You don’t have a BBQ?
It’s like you like throwing food away! >:O
Well, the BBQ was out in the torrential rain for most of the time, but it IS true that I didn’t even think of that at all.
I didn’t mean to guilt trip you.
I just *sniff*, love food, so so much :’)
Wow. So many posts in moderation on that Ghibli competition we’re onto a second page and there’s only *five* showing on the first.
Haha, and ten on the second.
Three on page 4. And nothing on page six. Amazing 😛
Yeah, because people just sign up to try and win a prize, then grab their winnings and bugger off.
There was almost three hundred entries last I checked…
With the release of Age of Ultron, I’ve been discussing the Marvel movies at work with a bunch of nerdy co-workers and we started
arguingtalking about what order we’d put them in from best to worst.This is what I’ve got:
Guardians of the Galaxy
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
The Avengers
Iron Man
Iron Man 3
Thor
Captain America: The First Avenger
Thor 2
The Incredible Hulk
Iron Man 2
Discuss.
1. Guardians of the Galaxy
2. The Avengers
That’s all I’ve seen 😛
UNTIL TOMORROW
Guardians of the galaxy and Iron man for me =P
Personally:
– Captain America: Winter Soldier
– The Avengers
– Thor
– Thor 2
– Guardians of the Galaxy
– Iron Man
– Iron Man 3
– Iron Man 2
– The Incredible Hulk
– Captain America: The First Avenger
I just don’t get the appeal of Guardians. It’s a well-made, enjoyable film like the rest of them, but it seems to mainly trade on humor and nostalgia for 80s music that I personally don’t like a lot. And personally I just really like Thor. The whole norse mythology really does it for me. I also think that Loki is by far the best villain the movie franchise has produced, though I’m hoping they give him a rest for a bit.
That looks a lot closer to what my list would be, though I’d put Avengers ahead of Winter Soldier.
They’re pretty close for me, but what edges Cap ahead for me personally is the believable internal conflict they worked in there. The core characters have nuance and depth to them and the villain isn’t a puppy-kicking evil asshole. Redford’s fallen / failed hero is a vastly more interesting villain than, say, Hugo Weaving’s Angry Man With a Red Head or GotG’s Angry Blue Dude.
I’d argue that one of the big things that’s made Daredevil so successful is the same elements. The depth of the characters, the internal conflicts and the contrast where both the hero and the villain are not that far apart, achieving noble goals through inappropriate means.
I also like Winter Soldier because they give Black Widow a lot of development and screen time and she’s important enough that you could argue she’s as much the lead as Cap is. Black Widow’s an interesting character and I felt like she was primarily in Avengers so they could put her in tight leather pants and stick in some ass shots.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; her best scenes were when she was in that hoodie and jeans, being human…ish.
Has anybody made a single supermovie with all of these films in it yet?
I’d be stunned if no one has done it yet.
*raises hand*
@alexpants has seen the work in progress.
AND YOU CALL ME A NERD
I’d have put Iron Man 2 ahead of The Incredible Hulk. That would rank last, closely followed by the first Captain America. I’m so uncertain about the top end of that list because depending on my mood, they would all edge each other out.
Yeah. The top was easy for me, the tail was not.
There’s no real bad movie in there. Yes, some are not as good as others, but they’re all enjoyable in their own right.
When you think about it, it’s pretty amazing that they’ve had such a good run of movies.
At some point they’ve managed to crack the code on how to make good films out of (Marvel?) comic books. The last couple of X-Men films were great and hell, even the recent Spider-man reboot wasn’t that bad, just not that interesting (and the first of them had Martin Sheen in it and it’s very hard not to hear the Illusive Man when he talks)
Rankings are hard. But I’d have Thor at the bottom, and would probably need to see Iron Man 2 again to judge where I’d place it. Also would possibly bump up Captain America above Iron Man 3. Maybe. I dunno.
I enjoyed Iron Man 2 but it was pretty weak storywise. Most of it was just kind of all over the place. I was surprised by how good Thor actually was, but I’m not all that engaged with the character and his mythos so I don’t have high hopes for when I get around to seeing Thor 2.
Based on what I’ve seen:
Iron Man
Avengers
Captain America: the Winter Soldier*
Guardians of the Galaxy*
Captain America: the First Avenger
Iron Man 3
Thor
Thor 2*
Iron Man 2
I haven’t seen those marked with a * but that’s is my impression based on what I have seen in trailers etc. They could easily move up or down once I get around to seeing them.
I’m really not interested in The Incredible Hulk so I won’t give it a ranking until I get around to it.
I’ve never understood all the hat for Iron Man 2, I quite enjoyed it. The worst for me is definitely Iron Man 3, I mean
Tony was hardly in the suit at all iirc, and what they did with Mandarin (Trevor) was just unforgivable as far as I’m concerned.With the exception of IM3 the movies just seem to be getting better and better with each release.
THANK YOU! I absolutely hated Iron Man 3 as well, the Mandarin was a joke and wtf
lets give Pepper super powers cos what the hell and lets assume Iron Man’s suit can be recharged in a garage cos once again what the hell!I liked Thor 2 way better than Thor….
Captain America: Winter Soldier
Iron Man
Avengers
Guardians of the Galaxy
Iron Man 3
Thor
Captain America
Incredible Hulk
Iron Man 2
Thor 2
Have only watched Phase 1 movies once each and none of phase 2 yet. Will be working on getting through all of them over the next few weeks, then I’ll get back to you
Hmmm tough call but I’d go with –
1. Guardians of the Galaxy
2. Avengers
3. Iron Man (First Marvel hero movie I watched that didn’t have me face palming the whole time)
4. The Incredible Hulk
5. Iron Man 2
6. The Winter Soldier
7. The First Avenger
8. Thor 2
9. Thor
10. Iron Man 3
So who’s watching Age Of Ultron tonight?
*puts hand up*
o\
:'(
I always wait a week to watch big releases so that I can safely avoid the crushing crowds =P
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Mario Kart DLC is online now, pals. HEADS UP!
What a coincidence, I was just thinking I should play something else on Wii U.
I went with Bayo 2 😛
Good god but is Charlie Pickering trying REAL hard to be John Oliver. Imitating everything including his mannerisms and cadence. It’s actually kind of cringeworthy.
Lots of Jon Stewart in there as well.
As much as I dislike the guy, the show would be a tonne better if he was Charlie Pickering. At the moment it’s just an off brand knock off.
Really hoping the show will improve over a couple of weeks when he relaxes a bit. Other than the first show nerves, I enjoyed the show – the content was good.
I thought he was OK, but he needs to relax and grow into it a bit.
Tom Gleeson and Kitty Flanagan can go away though, their schtick is kinda tired.
Yeah, I’m not a fan of Kitty.
Also, it’s very hard being the act after the most excellent Mad As Hell.
He really ends up selling himself short with the stuff he does. I remember hearing him interviewed on the radio years back when Channel 10 was making inroads toward setting up their own news service and everything and I was pretty impressed with him in that case. I feel like the persona the guy projects on TV is fairly manufactured and ends up working against him.
I only watched the piracy bit that Gizmodo put up. I thought it was okay, but it was trying real hard with some of the humour. Still, it was much better than I expected it to be.
Apparently, EA’s version of Star Wars: Battlefront is going to have less content than SW: Battlefront 2, smaller player maps than SW:BF2, and is just going be a turd compared to SW:BF2 .
TL;DR: Get Star Wars Battlefront 2 off of Steam instead.
:'(
🙁
Really hoping it turns out to be amazing, regardless.
OMG!!! SURVIVOR EP 10!
Oh man… a lot of shit went down this episode :/. I was thinking about how the first thing in Survivor auctions are never too bad and then was like D: when Will got sent back to camp. Mike’s decision to not get the loved one letter was so stupid… why would you betray everyone’s trust like that AND then go back on your own decision? Ugh!!I thought it was interesting that Will was still given a “clue” (which I thought was to the Immunity Idol) at camp. It seemed rational to think there could’ve been something more to his reward (the whole season started with that Bean lie thing) but oh boy… what he did was so uncalled for. He went into full cunt mode… what the fuck!? Those personal attacks :(.
I used to think Shirin was kind of annoying but now she’s the best. Gotta love the underdog :P, but I was so happy that she voted against that Will stepping out of the challenge thing. I guess it’s easy to go crazy when you’ve got nothing to lose.
I was starting to like Jenn too once she was all against the others and just wanted to stay in the game to get rid of them :D. But that final vote was so… anticlimactic. Ah well…
Still annoyed about the Will thing though, Jesus… I’m sensing a Reunion apology and a crowd booing. Probably some tears too :P. I feel like Mike and/or Shirin are going to make the Final 3. It just feels set up like that? Especially Shirin, she’s had a lot of screen time lately… HMM! The rest of the season is going to be insane
@powalen @sughly @phoenix @masha2932 @mrtaco
I’ve seen everything up until tribal. Still at work right now. Will finish watching and comment when I get home 🙂 Pretty epic start to the episode though, did not see that coming.
forgot to mention Dan’s advantage! Pretty interesting, I wonder if it works for the final jury vote too? :P. Kinda less useful now that everyone will know about it soon. I kinda hate all the seedy looking through bagsness that goes on.That ep was keraaaaazy. But, I feel dirty after seeing it because there was no underdog come back from it all, it was just… grossness. Will, seriously… wtf. What an utter douchebag. And to turn around and make fun of her ‘acting the victim’. I dunno, game aside, how can a person even talk like that, after theyre discussing something like that in turn. Ugh, I dunno, so disgusting. Cant stand the guy at all any more. Least we can take solace in knowing he has no hope of winning in the end anyway. My lingering hope is that Shireen and Mike do go further. There is Tyler still, but… hes in with the lame people! Stupid Tyler. The only thing Dan’s double vote can be good for is helping get numbers when Rodney’s inner alliance is more obvious, unless people knowing about it causes problems before then…He acted like such a goddamn child when she was crying during Tribal Council, like seriously dude?! I should find his original Leno YouTube vid and downvote that shit >:|EDIT:
Oh yeah and I would’ve loved if Carolyn got blindsided (with her idol) and Shirin made a super smug face and was happy and everyone held hands and became friends again <3I WANTED THIS SO BADLY!! My heart was broken when even Mike and Shireen voted Jenn too, *sobs violently*Yeah! I thought maybe Shirin changed her vote but once I realised they both did and the editors just decided to leave the suspense in I was all ugh! :P. Kinda glad it was Jenn though, would make Ponderosa more fun now that those 3 no collars are chillin’.Ehhh but I’m still bummed Jenn didnt get to make a comeback. I liked that she was finding her pep within her hatred hahaha, I wouldve loved to have seen her go to the end motivated by not wanting the others there ^^So…
There’s nobody I like in the game now. Ugh. Everyone is stupid. Voting my three favourite people out all in a row like that D: Can’t stand Mike, can’t stand Dan, can’t stand anyone 😛 Not even in a love-to-hate kinda way. Actually, no, Rodney kinda falls into that category. I can’t even remember what Tylers voice sounds like he barely does anything. Can’t remember the blonde girls name 😛 Will has completely lost any shred of nice feeling I had for him and Caroline is just kinda there as well. So I guess Shirin wins my new favourite by default? What an honour 😛It was a pretty great episode though. The vote was a total let down, is all!
@sughly @phoenix @masha2932 @mrtaco
Surely even with that you’d still reckon it’s been an alright season? Definitely better than 29, definitely not better than 28. I’d probably rank it somewhere in the middle, the lack of any real favourites being successful from the start has made it really hard to like 😛It’s been okay. Nothing will top Brains/Brawn/Beauty though 😛
Cook Islands does! It has a brainy strong beautiful man :P. And everyone’s favourite Survivor babeeee
@powalen @sughly @greenius @masha2932 @mrtaco
I agree with everyone’s sentiments.
I’m kinda leaning towards Tyler. I feel like he’s been playing the game quite sneakily, staying under the radar. He might be able to get a challenge win or two (maybe…) and if he starts playing people, calling the shots subtly, he could get up. I don’t think he’s put anyone off… yet.See, I like Tyler because he seems nice but he hasn’t really done anything except just follow along. Looks like he’s going to stir up some shit though by going through Dan’s bagTo be fair, he hasnt needed to do anything. I think hes a very clever player, and will try and do something when he can, but so far he’s played his best hand I think. It just sucks for us watching because we lose interest on him as he starts looking more comfortable 🙁@phoenix @powalen @greenius @masha2932 @mrtaco
*Late night EDM jingle*
Welcome to late night Tay, where the smarty pants come to play!
Here’s a late night trivia trio for you, name these three movies I was watching on a flight tonight but didn’t hear any sound for!
1. Keanu Reeves kills everyone and everything, at one point he is in a nightclub stealth killing guards.
2. Older Tom Cruise runs around singing what look to be cult classics, with guest appearances from Russel Brand and Alec Baldwin.
3. Jake Gyllenhaal has lost almost all of his muscle, and takes cameras around to crime scenes and I think sells them for money.
First person to answer wins a cookie!
Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Die Hard With A Vengeance.
John Wick, Rock of Ages, Nightcrawler.
WINNARË
The Matrix
Risky Business
Donnie Darko
…
Wait a minute…
The Matrix: Reloaded
Mission Impossible 4
Zodiac
Can confirm Bloodborne loading times are now under 15 seconds with new patch.
And there was much rejoicing.
Huzzah!
What’s the new “Sticky White Stuff”/”Praise The Sun” for Bloodborne? Did Dark Souls 2 even have one? 😛
Hunter’s Bone
*jazzpop starts playing*
Off to bed.
G’night.
Dropped my mobile phone in the toilet.
It won’t turn on.
Well, fuck. 🙁
Put it in an airtight container with rice over night.
It’ll dry it out as much as possible.
Good night Crazy.
Hopefully your phone works after the rice trick.
Cheers, mate.
Trying it now. 🙂
*crosses fingers for luck*
Did it work?
One thing I’ve never understood is that if someone drops their phone in the toilet even if it still works why would you want to put it up to your face, let alone touch it.
Yuck.
Because if it works you can sell it on eBay.
Remind me to never buy used phones from you.
Hey, @benny – just a friendly reminder to not buy used phones from @benny because @benny said so, ok @benny?
You can sanitise them.
I just bought Retro City Rampage DX, Scram Kitty DX, Mercenary Kings, Infinity Runner, LA Cops, the Avengers: Age Of Ultron table for Zen Pinball 2 and the season pass for Rabbids Invasion.
Help me.
I miss game-purchasing binges. I really want to buy Dying Light. And Westerado and Convoy. And Hero Generations. And just like… a tonne of stuff that caught my eye and/or was fucking NINENTEEN CENTS ON SALE. Why wouldn’t you, for 19c?
Still. Not being distracted by new stuff is really freeing me to get some old stuff explored that totally deserved it.
Have you tried LA Cops? Looks interesting like a less crazy Hotline Miami or something.
Yeah, it’s basically go through the level and kill/arrest all the baddies, it’s ok I guess, but I would definitely recommend waiting till it goes on sale, like in the sub $10 range.
200cc Mario Kart is way more fun than I expected (and I had high expectations!) Completely changes how the tracks are raced. What used to be the ‘long’ way is now the shortcut because everyone’s turning circles are much wider. In some cases it’s actually faster to just cut through the rough even without a boosting item 😛
I’ve had to completely change my cart customisation strategy as well (still fine-tuning). Tracks that were already fast and tight like Donut Plains and any of the Rainbow Roads are just nuts now. I said on Twitter last night that it almost feels like being on a rollercoaster on some tracks.
Anyway, gushing over. I hope it stays as a series staple. Can’t wait to play a little bit more tonight.
New tracks are pretty damn special too. Love Wild Woods in particular! <3
*shoves fingers into ears* LALALALALA I AM NOT LISTENING TO SPOILERS
That’s a spoiler? Sorry, man. :S
Of course it’s not. I’m just being cautious.
You sent me down a shame spiral! 😛
Mission accomplished *flips forelock*
Wild Woods reminds me of a location from Xenoblade! @greenius
I can’t get enough of the music in Super Bell Subway and Big Blue. So good!
I like how we see where Shy Guy’s work in Shy Guy Falls and now we see where they live here. It’s the little touches, you know? 😛Also… also… did you notice the yarn Yoshi’s in Ribbon Road! <3 Love how the music speeds up each lap in Baby Park as well. That’s just chaos. 😀In the Wild Woods track, there are actually working elevators and ladders to each of the platforms that the spectators stand on. There’s even a long elevator that goes from the village at the bottom of the tree up to the starting line.And in the Super Bell Subway, there are maps of a full rail network that connects all of the other tracks in the game.
Details, man!
Ribbon Road just reminds me of Andy’s room from Toy Story.“Make room, Mario! This is where my Call of Duty guns go!” *sad room-changing montage*
:'( They’ll come back to Mario. They always come back.
I was thinking if they should do more Mario Kart DLC last night and then remembered the Diddy Kong Racing 2 rumours. 😀 😀 😀
**Paging all Netflix TAYbies**
Go watch Orphan Black.
That is all.
**End transmission**
SBS-2 has been telling me the same thing for months. If I didn’t listen to them what makes you think I’ll listen to you? 😛
SBS can’t swear in ads (I don’t think…)
It’s a fucking great show! The lead actor plays half a dozen characters so damn well. Best bit of BBC America TV I’ve seen in a long time.
That said – glad I finished season 2 last night. I switched back to TV (to watch Brit’s in trouble in Thailand which is fucking hilarious
I mean a guy jumped into the ocean to try get away from the cops… how did he think that was going to end?) and immediately saw an ad for Season 3 that kinda gave away the twist at the end of season 2.**additional**
Orphan Black is also on STAN
I feel like we should reward the distributor for letting this be on multiple services! *decisive nod*
EVERYONE WATCH ORPHAN BLACK!
@beeawwb will you listen to wise @dc?
He’s not that wise. He doesn’t like buildings or Dark Souls.
@dc is a monster!
No.
Ouch.
It is quite good. Writing could be a little better… but the acting and premise more than makes up for it.
Chucking this out here one more time for those who missed 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. I know @cufcfan616 had some level of interest, shipping looks like it’s about $17 up to Brisbane so let me know if you are interested or not
Also a copy of scene it and the da vinci code board game on offer
Oh yeah, forgot to get back to you, I’m keen but won’t have monies until at least my next pay on the 15th (having a partner out of work with a broken ankle is not good on the wallet) but if anyone else wants to take it in the meantime then go ahead 🙂
Cool, no worries on the cash, get it to me when you can
If you can send through you address either as a DM on twitter or to my gmail which is just tigerion then I’ll get it out to you. It will probably take me until the 15th to get around to posting it to you anyway.
Were just just after the star wars one or did you want the scene it as well? Not sure on how much less the shipping will be for 2 but worst case would be double.
I started Life On Mars last night. It’s been on my to-watch list for ages, and I noticed that Stan had it. Decision made.
I’m two eps in, and really enjoying the concept. Enough to push forward with it for sure.
Anyone here seen it?
Yes, It’s great. British ver is anyway
It’s really good, one of the ones that I said should be n @beavwa’s list of TV shows that went for the right length.
Ashes to Ashes is good as well (The sequel)
Stan doesn’t seem to have that one :\
Oh man, that was my introduction to John Simms and it was amazing.
And then he was on Doctor Who and I was like
OH MY GOD ITS SAM TYLER EXCEPT REALLY HAMMY AND EVIL THIS IS REALLY CONFUSING FOR ME
But yeah, quality BBC drama that is.
Have you seen State of Play? He’s great in that too
Bish! You’re still alive!
When I die, you’ll know about it.
I can see the headline now
“Australian man instantly shot after insulting Canada’s national pride”
“A two hundred and fifty five year old Australian national was gunned down today after being overheard saying ‘Tim Hortons donuts are okay I guess’. Local spectators were horrified at his profanity laden rant and rang the police. Upon arrival on the scene, the Canadian Special Forces moose team deemed he was a threat to national security and unfortunately had to silence the man for the good of the nation.”
Then, after killing you they’ll tell you they’re sorry aboot it eh.
Ah, good. I’ll keep an eye out for that.
I loved Life on Mars, but don’t forget the nearly as awesome follow up, Ashes to Ashes.
Sadly, Stan doesn’t have that.
British version of Life on Mars was awesome. US version wasn’t too bad.
Follow up UK series Ashes to Ashes wasn’t as good.
And it’s a godawful small affair…
Anyone remember this little nugget.
Not sure what made me think of it just now, but watching that trailer again has made me all hype again. Can’t wait for this game, 2016 is so far away though, I hope it releases early in the year.
Hopefully they’ll release some more info on it at E3.
Moar Destiny talk. Cos, well, they keep revealing new stuff on HoW. 😛
Wow… mixed feelings on the commendations idea – they’re being completely scrapped. No more will be earned after 1.2.0, no vendors will ask for them after 1.2.0. Any you have will be burnable for 250 rep apiece. I agree they were a terrible idea, and needlessly extended the grind, but I was hoping I could cash them in for the appropriate marks, at least, so I could buy crucible gear without doing crucible… I want those Dead Orbit robes, darnit. 🙁
I thought they were cash-able at the crucible… Maybe it’s been too long, but I remember turning in TONNES of some grindable crap at the crucible for all the Dead Orbit gear. Because it’s pretty, dammit.
Edit: Maybe I’m mistaking currencies.
Crucible marks are the currency, only obtainable by doing crucible. Vanguard marks are the PvE equivalent. Commendations were added with TDB to gate half the vendor gear behind two extra reputation levels – you got them in reputation packages at rank 3 and above, and they are literally only used to gate those two vendor items. I guess the idea was to prevent people getting complete 33 light gear on day one. Which a lot of people completely bypassed by aligning their next rank up with the expansion release, thereby attaining enough commendations for at least one character to get full 33 light gear on day one.
Although, originally you could trade materials (spinmetal, helium, relic iron, etc) into the Crucible quartermaster for crucible marks… maybe that’s what you’re thinking of? I wish they brought that back…
Yup. That’s what I’m thinking of. I’d have stacks of those bloody things and nothing to do with them, so they pretty much provided me all my faction rep levels.
Yea… they reversed that so PvP guys didn’t have to farm resources. Now us PvE guys have no recourse for getting crucible marks without doing PvP. But that DO gear looks so cool… ;-;
Super annoying.
I got a call back from a job I applied for the other day, but was busy at the time so missed the call, so I called them back within 10 minutes.
Get told the guy I have to talk with is currently busy, so I leave my details and they say he’ll call me back.
I don’t get a callback for the entire day, so call up again the next day (yesterday) and get told the guy I have to talk with isn’t in again till next Tuesday :O
I really don’t wanna miss an opportunity :S
Why, that level of bureaucratic flexibility sounds almost like government work!
Important people taking the day before a long weekend off? Sounds exactly like government work!
NO-ONE else can process that job, even in the same team of potentially half a dozen to a dozen people? Government work!
Man, I’d love a cushy government job! 😀
Sitting at a desk, in an office, doing my business. Sounds like a dream!
Man, I’d love a cushy government job! 😀
Sitting at a desk, in an office, making it look like i’m working while I TAY. Sounds like a dream!
There fixed.
In an open-plan cubicle, you mean. 🙂 And what Monkey said.
I like working, so I’d work hard and climb that corporate ladder! 😀
…andtayoccasionally…
that sucks, but I hope it works out 🙂
Yeah, it’s kind of annoying, but it’s nice to have a sudden influx of interest in my applications!
Hopefully this trend continues! 😀
When it rains, it pours. Good luck Stu!
Thanks, buddy! 😀
Man. I am missing quite a few things about Japan. How flat everywhere was. How neat and tidy even their side-streets were. How there were so many short people that I frequently felt like a giant. The politeness everyone offered by default, the dignity most people comported themselves with. (Except little old ladies.) How quiet and scarce their drunks were. The cool weather. The cheap price of food. The fact that there was always a 7-11 within two minutes or less walking distance. The reliability and speed of public transport. (Maybe not all the stairs.) The neat and even somewhat uniform aesthetic of all the old wooden buildings. How compact everything is. How fresh and high-quality their restaurant food seemed. (And/or just plain compatible with me – I didn’t get reflux a single day I was there, without paying any attention to what I should or shouldn’t eat.)
Maybe I mostly just miss that I wasn’t working, and was staying in really nice hotels? But that other stuff is really great, too. Maybe I should look into finding work as a bartender/gigolo. I hear there’s demand. Hm. I wonder where I study to get some paper qualifications.
School of Hard Knock(er)s.
#MostInterestingGigoloOnTAY
Grass is greener on the other side. I went across the world to Australia thinking it’d be a far better place than Canada and it turns out it’s kinda a crappy place. So then I want to go back to Canada and then once I’m back I remember it’s a shitty country!
Lesson is, chances are no matter where you are in the world, it’ll probably be shit.
/joking, kinda.No more Tim Tams for you.
Did I say Australia sucks? I meant Austria. I get easily confused.
No more Schwarzenegger for you!
Did I mean Austria? I meant Anguilla. I get easily confused.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure the thing I miss most is getting paid without working.
A couple of things have happened since I last went to Japan that have made it bearable.
1. Daiso store.
2. Finding Tokyo Mart in Northbridge
3. Finding Nami’s Just One Cookbook and learning how to cook all the things I enjoyed cooking in Japan. My party trick is making Okonomiyaki.
Japan is an incredible place.
NowShane: Man, eating cheese and crackers for lunch was an inspired idea. I’m a genius.
FutureShane: Urrrgh, why did I eat all that cheese for lunch? I’m an IDIOT.
FRIDAY \o/
Ooh. Shiny.
http://store.bethsoft.com/brands/fallout/nuka-cola-messenger-bag.html
Don’t spill anything on it.
I may or may not have just pre-ordered Magicka 2 on PS4.
Well… DID YOU OR DIDN’T YOU?
*on edge of seat*
Oh god. I just had that new green-can coca-cola ‘life’.
Well. I had some of it. I tipped the rest out. Jesus christ. No. Ew, no. If you’re concerned about calories, don’t drink a can of coke ‘life’, just drink half a can of regular coke. Bleurgh!
But don’t you want life?
Headline: Innovative Coca Cola aversion therapy SAVES LIFE.
Headline: Coca Cola Life slogan “Get a Life!” offends those without.
I’m a regular coke drinker and I can barely taste a difference… Vast improvement over that swill “zero”
Heathen!
Monster!
I see you have a differing opinion to mine… I don’t like that!
I challenge thee to a dual! Dildos at dawn!
*throws down gauntlet*
j/k <3Actually, I love regular coke. However, I usually drink zero because the amount of sugar in regular coke scares me when I’m having 3 or 4 600ml bottles a week.
I could just never get past the after-taste of zero, always seemed bitter to me, and left me feeling a bit nauseous for some reason… But I guess, different strokes for different folks 😀
…
Dual still stands though
Sounds like you guys need to watch That Sugar Film
Uh, sure. A week…
Nono, trust me – you hate the taste. I know this better than you do. Your tastebads are screaming, your brain is just protecting you from their agony. Regular coke 4 lyfe.
*nods firmly*
Well you are the most interesting and most well versed man on TAY… Okay fine
“Eeeeeewww it taste like they distilled coke through a horse and is so gross”
…
Did I do it right? 😛
Very good! Your malleability is admirable. Next lesson: Changing where your wages are direct deposited.
Tried it last week and it was pretty revolting. I was left with a oily/greasy coating in my mouth and the feeling that someone had pulled a swifty on my tastebuds.
I actually don’t mind it.
Wait… aren’t you one of those people who defiles pizza with the taint of pineapple?
The term is taste.
I stand by my choice.
Perception is a funny thing. The more people that say that it tastes terrible, the more likely I am to think “It’s not that bad” when I try it…
Monsters! Everywhere! All I ever did was try to save you all from the horror! *rails away on a ten minute rant*
Anyone watched The Babadook? I just did, and it’s one of the creepiest movies I’ve ever seen. I swear, if anyone had knocked on my door while i was watching it, I would probably have shat myself. Absolutely brilliant movie, though. Essie Davis is great as is Noah Wiseman. Definitely worth watching, although be prepared to be scared.
I’ll have to keep an eye out for that one. Is it on Netflix?
I’ve heard The Tunnel (2011) is meant to be really good too.
I think it may be on Netflix. It’s an Aussie film, so you’d hope it’s on Aussie Netflix.
I just googled it; damn that shit looks creepy 0,0
*note to self stay away from movie until you’re ready to never sleep again*
It is creepy, which is why I watched it in the middle of the day. I don’t usually get scared by horror movies, but The Babadook had me going. Definitely worth a watch though.
Nope sorry can’t do horror movies. I didn’t sleep properly for a fortnight and couldn’t go to the damned bathroom at night for a month after watching The Ring. Never indulging in horror movies again >.< Though I do get curious enough to google =P
If you can’t handle The Ring, then definitely don’t watch The Babadook.
Goddamn page 8 and it’s already Friday D= WHY TAY WHY?!
I thought we’ve had more pages then 8 before? :S
Lots more. TAY has slowed down considerably in the last few months. All the cool kids are on Twitter. Or possibly somewhere else because I’m not really one of them and I’m on Twitter.
That’s what I mean!! D= When I first joined TAY we used to average 12-13 pages :'(
Was only September last year we got to page 19.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/09/talk-amongst-yourselves-293/comment-page-19/#comments
Wha happen?
You stopped gifting people presents with every new post!! =P ITS ALL YOUR FAULT!!
Sorry.
We used to get 30+.
Yeah and then you guys went to Japan and TAY died!!!!
Hey, I thought it was all MY fault.
Way to eavesdrop on comments monkey! Sheesh how rude can you get!! =P
So how about all those things?
Also, stuff is pretty good. I like stuff.
Avengers in… 4 hours.
I hope there are superheroes in it.
RUMOURS. AMAZING RUMOURS.
http://www.kdramastars.com/articles/80503/20150403/telltale-games-walking-dead-season-3-release-date.htm
WARNING: SEASON TWO SPOILERS (thanks @powalen)
That seems way sooner than I expected!
Also: Major Spoiler warning for people who haven’t finished all of Season 2 in that article.
Thanks for the warning man.
Good thing too, the third sentence spoils one of the major choices in the last episode 😛
Yeah, just clicked it, read the heading and then got the hell outta dodge.
I think it’s probably BS.
But it says “confirmed” in the title. In caps!
Just clicked on it to find out the date. Damn that’s sooner than I expected, so now they’re gonna have three games on the go at once. Does it mention anything about the 400 Days-esque bridge episode?
Might have to buy that Telltale pack now. Shame you can’t gift extra copies of games on PSN.
No, it just cobbles together a series of ‘allegedly’s and other speculation to produce clickbait. But still, May would be a pretty cool time for new content! 🙂
Why would G.O.T and Tales from Borderlands ‘Likely receive precedent?’
Best guess: because they’re both already in mid-season, and therefore full development. Telltale is still a relatively small developer IIRC
Ooh, details on Elite’s Powerplay update. Unexpected surprise.
Looks so damned good! Will work excellently with what my group is focusing on! Also Imperial Courier, HYPE!
PAGE 9 WOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
WE DID IT! Just 4 more pages to go!!!
Just bought the Telltale games pack off PSN, couldn’t resist.
If I even think about spending any more money on games this week somebody slap me.
Woah Dave! has the best trophy ever.
“Enter POO as your initials!”
This is my proudest achievement.
Remember when games gave you only 3 letters to enter your high score and you tried so hard to think of something rude other than ‘ass’ or ‘poo’ 😀
Whoa, shit. New amiibos this weekend!
I thought they weren’t til next month or something. Blah. Also Anzac day screwing up with everything. Much more people gonna be awake at 1pm I imagine.
Yeah, I got a text from EB this afternoon.
Reckon they’ll hold it for me until Monday? 😛
They hold preorder items for 48 hours don’t they?
Yeah got a call from them. My store isn’t open on Saturday so they said I could pick it up on Sunday
So, Best Of Fitness just followed me on Twitter. Obviously they missed the memo that I’m the laziest person in the universe.
And that all changed when Best of Fitness inspired you to greatness! WELL DONE!
I can see the midday movie about it now.
Or the morning show infomercial!
\o/
TMBG are coming back to Australia THIS YEAR!
*happy dance*
I know some basic woodwork and DIY, however, I never have time to do any of it. Mum keeps asking me to do things, and I just don’t have time. It’s frustrating because my brother doesn’t help.
Gahhhhh!
Trying out my new phone.
It’s an LG Spirit 4G.
I take it you couldn’t fix the one you dropped in the toilet? :\
He sold it on eBay.
I hope @benny reminded @benny not to buy any phones off of @crazyguy1990…
Who’d buy a waterlogged, non-operational phone?
Nope.
When one of Mum’s phones landed in a glass of water, she couldn’t get it working again for 6 months.
By which time, she’d already gotten a new phone anyway.
*Looks around*
Jeez. It’s Friday night and I’m only just caught up reading TAY, and it’s only 9 pages. AND I missed fun fact page six/Haggis page again.
(We call it @haggis page instead of dad joke page now, right? 🙂 )
Fine. Fun fact on Saturday instead.
Also, I’m trying to convince the wife to let me watch an episode of Daredevil considering how much work I did today. It’s not going down well. She wants Star Trek.
I’d never thought I would say this…but screw Star Trek, I want my goram Daredevil.
I’ve been watching Arrow because @batguy has had some late nights at work and I didn’t want to watch Daredevil without him, even though I could have watched ALL of them by now.
Arrow is a poor substitute for Daredevil.
It really is. 🙁
I once asked out a girl in 8th grade who was so flustered on the spot she yelled out “FUCK!” in the middle of a school hallway.
This is why getting married is bad. 😛
I find something I want to watch, tell Mr. Strange about in passing,and all of a sudden I’m stuck waiting for him, to be able to watch any of it. And he only likes watching one episode of things at a time, whereas I love to mainline a whole show and immerse myself in it before moving on to the next show.
Aaaand that’s Bayo polished off. With how short everyone was saying it was, it felt surprisingly long to me. Though I guess I did get through it in two nights.
Wonder what’s next.
#Page(NeverGonnaReach)18
It’s OK, page 18 just came early.
*sniggers*
early…
Only 7 days till I can upgrade my phone \o/
Currently trying to decide between the Sony Xperia Z3, Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and Samsung Galaxy S5/6.
I’m liking the Z3. I had Samsungs prior to this and I like it a lot more. Recent update has changed the UI all over the shop though and will take some time to get used to though
Or, you could drop it in a toilet…
Wouldn’t recommend it, though.
HELP!
I’m looking for suggestions for some sick albums/artists to listen to while running/exercising! I like most genres and will listen to anything as long as it’s generally considered good 😀
(I recall some stuff ya’ll like sounded pretty good @rocketman @sughly)
Cheerio
Judas Priest, obvs.
I love anything electronic. My playlists are stacked with things Chemical Brothers, Prodigy and The Presets.
You are full of suprises. Never would of picked that 😛
I was 18 in 1998. Fat of the Land is still one of my favourite albums.
Cheers! Grabbed Presets. The random songs I picked from Prodigy and CB to listen to were a bit too fast for what I was after. Maybe next time if I ever do some intense workouts :P!
Muse is also pretty good for epic workout music – Knights of Cydonia is always a good one to get the heart rate up!
If you like the Presets, you should also check out Midnight Juggernauts; Regurgitator; Skunkhour and Sonic Animation.
Another brilliant album is Decksanddrumsandrockandroll (Yes, all one word) by Propellerheads.
I second the suggest of Daft Punk – Homework, Discovery and the soundtrack to Tron: Legacy
And I think I might have suggested podrunner before, but they have loads of great mixes for running set to specific BPM to help you keep up the pace. http://www.djsteveboy.com/podrunner.html
@sughly you’re supposed to post with the stuff you like so I can look it up again!
Oooo… running. Ok, hmmm… I would echo the electronic sentiment in general. Anything with a high tempo, or at least is an upbeat song. You’re better off making a playlist of random songs like this imo. If I was naming albums though that at least mostly fitted this mould (not a lot would though, most will have slower points) I might sayyy…
Tanlines – Mixed Emotions
Phoenix – It’s Never Been Like That
Jupiter – Juicy Lucy
Anamanaguchi – Endless Fantasy (or Scott Pilgrim the Game OST)
The Strokes – Room on Fire
Naked & Famous – Passive Me, Aggressive You
Frederick – Oddloop (if youre willing to delve into alternative Japanese)
The Blue Hearts – self titled (if youre willing to delve into old school Japanese punk rock)
Savages – Silence Yourself
Ah I got bored of doing this, thats enough. Generally considered good is a loose term green. ‘Generally good’ kind of implies pop music, which I cant recommend :|Taste is a very varied thing and I wont be surprised if you say you dont like most of these ^^
Actually this is a better example for Blue Hearts, love this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoRmQZpQptY
I had plenty of Japanese suggestions since that’s my jam these days, but… probably not yours :3
But I wanted to use a loose term so that people will post their tastes and I can secretly judge them >:|
Well here’s some ALBUMS which are pretty good for moving to the beat
CHVCHES-the bones of what you believe
Any daft punk album but discovery is my fave
Nero’s last album is full of hard electronic music which is great for running.
Do they have to be sick? Ok then:
Disturbed – The Sickness
Carcass – Symphonies of Sickness
Anthrax – Spreading The Disease
Iced Earth – Plagues Of Babylon
Morbid Angel – Blessed Are The Sick
Toxic Holocaust – Radiation Sickness
It’s a very strange theme to want to exercise to
Ooo WA AAA AHA AHH AHHHH
I only think of Dawn Of The Dead now when I think of Disturbed 😀 damned Richard Cheese
Billy Talent.
Never heard of them.
-_-
😀
I find LCD Soundsystems 44:33 a good excercise album
https://soundcloud.com/maddecent/blood-bros-first-blood
There’s like eight Stan Bush tracks back to back in the middle.
Love this stuff. Haven’t listened in ages.
The best thing actually is about halfway in which is right at that point in a hard workout where you’re like FUCK THIS I’M DONE and it quietens down and plays that bit from Rocky Balboa where Sly talks about how life is about how well you can take a hit and get back up and keep pushing forward. It’s exactly what you need to hear.
Also… are we Mario Karting this weekend?
Dunno, but I’m free basically every night barring any unforseen circumstances. I was under the impression that everyone else wanted Monday night though.
Happy to play on the weekend and Monday 😀
Argh, I keep forgetting about Mario Kart! Haven’t even tried the new tracks yet.
WHEN IS THIS EVER HAPPENING??? #soneedy
This arvo? A friend is coming over so I’d be playing anyway. Are people keen?
@shane @powalen @dc @liondrive @evilmonkey @sernobulus
Maybe 12ish?
Playing now, I’d love to join but I think we’re going around to the in-laws at 1, not sure when we’ll be home, but I’ll jump on when I do. Either that or I should be able to do after tea.
Edit: actually might not be able to do after tea, might be going to watch Avengers again. so If not tonight definitely Monday night.
No problem! I’ll probably put a call out on Twitter around 1ish anyway and see who’s interested
Nope.
Maybe another time.
What’s the matter, you chicken?
*makes clucking sound*
Busy.
And not in a Mario Kart mood anyway.
Now I know that people are not supposed to get horny about technology but I think I’m going to make an exception for this one: http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=210_902_909&products_id=31517
Setting aside the capacity (and the PRICE!!!), just look at the read/write speed on that thing!
Well that was surprisingly easy. Got all the amiibos pretty much uncontested. They had two of everyone except Wario and Charizard (“Charizord”) who got like four and six respectively, and someone had already grabbed a Robin and Lucina (“Lucia”). Oh actually they only had one Pac Man.
Walked in to my local EB, said dunno what the prices are, maybe 17 at target? Eh, haven’t bothered to look.
They said that’s cool, we’ll put them through for 16.
Not complaining.
I always forget to ask about price matching. Should’ve told them Kmart were still off fetching the box when I was there or something.
cc @jackunit13
Ori and The Blind Forest. This may just be one of the best games I’ve ever played, if you haven’t played it yet buy it and thank me later.
Wow. I haven’t got it yet, but I was 100% going to get it. I just thought of trying to get through a bit more of some of my current games and/or maybe wait for it to pop up in a sale.
However…with that recommendation, I will probably pick it up this week.
You can definitely save some money on it if you wait, I loved it though.
Excited now. Are you contemplating Destinying again when HoW drops? :S
I was, I then went over some old comments I made here to find out when I played my last game and remembered how much of my soul was sucked from me because of the Grind.
I think I will though 😛
Uggghhh I’m in the same boat. I was tempted by it over the weekend, but I knew exactly what I was in store for if I put it in. Grindfest 3000. However, I do love Survival type modes, so I will probably at least hop in the arena and give it a go…and that’ll be it…no more than that…I swear…
My Bloodborne all-trophies run is going fairly smoothly now.
Only have one more boss: the Wet Nurse, before proceeding to endgame(s) and Chalice Dungeons. Only have two more weapons to find: Beast Claw (Chalice) and Burial Blades (NG+). Then, it’s the impossible slog through all the Chalice Dungeons to find and kill that Queen. That’s the one I’m really not confident about at all.Co-op?
Also, 3 end game trophies require 2 more run through. NG+ is way harder too. First villagers took 5 hits with Saw Cleaver +10.
I’m still considering using this tactic to get the endgame trophies.
And yep, I’m keen for co-op. I actually have a couple of hours free now if you want. Will DM you.
I haven’t posted on TAY in like 6 months. Don’t worry I’m not dead. I can’t post at work though. Oh well hope you are all doing great
*hugasaurus* 😀
Ily hotross
Without you here I’ve had to become increasingly awkward and inept at simple things so as to fill the Hotross shaped hole.
Hey Rocket *waves*
Nup, still don’t wanna get out from under my duvet. Half a bottle of vodka last night though and happy to see I still don’t get hangovers now that I’m in my 30s. People hate me for that.
Dying Light purchased last night as well as a decent GURPS session, decent meaning our group got through more than 1 fight in 3-4 hours worth of mucking around. Being a necromancer is good fun, moreso when one of the other characters despises the undead 😀
Also, sorry to ask again @beeawwb , has the Simpsons trivia been sorted? It was at the end of this week wasn’t it?
I’m gonna get out of bed today when my cats decide to move. I don’t think I’m going anywhere today
I don’t get hangovers with vodka either. If I have even one sip of beer or wine these days though I’m pretty much guaranteed a hangover. I think most of my “hangovers” when I was young were actually from the cigarette smoke, not the alcohol anyway.
The only thing I’ve experienced is a sugar hangover 😀 nothing a good fry up won’t fix. Speaking of, that sounds like a good idea followed by roast pork 😀
Nothing
worsebetter than when a cat decides to make itself comfy on top of you.Max wouldn’t get off of me until just before 11am. :\
Urgh. New Joker look.
Urgh.
Urrgh.
Yeah, not real keen on it, but I’ll wait till I see him in action before I pass final Judgement.
I’d like to see Mark Hamill in a live action Joker role.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HA HA HAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA HA HA HAHA HAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I don’t mind it. Don’t hate it, don’t love it. I reckon it’ll all come down to performance and Jared Leto commits to his parts, so am pretty excited!
I’m one of the only people that likes it apparently. Not sure what tone for the movie they’re going for but this looks like they could come up with a completely psychotic and brutally violent version that still is grounded more in reality than a comic book universe.
I mean, go through some sites full of mugshots of career criminals and have a look at their tatts. Subtlety and grace isn’t their defining feature.
I don’t hate it – everyone underestimated Heath Ledger…
If he doesn’t look like this, it’ll probably be ok.
Played GTA online for around 6 and a half hours with Oliver last night. Was fun! Haven’t had a chance to sit down and play a game like that for so long. I think that’s probably the longest I’ve ever spent playing a game in one sitting too 😛
Some of the design in GTA online is really clumsy to the point it’s just infuriating though.
Oliver I or Oliver II?
Oliver I 😛
Goodbye good win rate against @Sughly
Hello hatred for Sughly again
looololol. I had a terrible run later on with just Ash online, was getting hammered like nobodies business.
Boo! I just downloaded like 2GB worth of music for a music App (MOG) only to find another App (Google Play) that has more music and a better UI. Now I’ll probably have to re-download it all for this better App 😛
Just complaining and providing new refresh material since weekend TAY is so quiet these days! 😀
Did you find anything else you like?
There were so many suggestions I haven’t really had the chance to give most things a good listen. I managed to listen to maybe 80% of Juicy Lucy by Jupiter on my run earlier though!
I kind of don’t want any new suggestions now that I have so much to listen to D:
Have fun listening 🙂
This is because you don’t pay attention to me now that I don’t watch Survivor! I always talk about how much I love Google’s Play Music.
Did someone say something?
Thought I was done with Bayo, but then the Witch Trials opened up.
…and I spent at least the last eight hours of game time attempting the third one. Possibly more. BUT I FINALLY BEAT IT!
Now onto the next one ;_;
G’night TAY, see you in the new TAY.
…wait…
T3T
@strange protips for Google Play Music on iOS? I’m finding it downloads stuff super slowly 🙁
I never really considered it until I found out I could charge it to my prepaid credit so it’s technically free 😀
I tried following your handle to get to this post but your profile is private. Did not even know that was a thing.
It kind of sucks on iOS compared to on Android. Although that might be because I can’t update to the latest version because my very old iPod Touch can’t update to the latest versions of iOS….
Here’s what I’ve learned from my experience with that though, if I need to make or edit a playlist, I’ll do it on my laptop, and then Refresh the app on my iPod. The functionality of the Apple app is not as great as the functionality of the app on my Android phone, and removing things from playlists is an excruciating task because of this.
It might be slow in downloading (and for me everything has always been frustratingly slow to download ), but once it’s downloaded, it’s fine. It’s when it’s not set to “downloaded only” that it’ll run into problems for me. It likes to just suddenly pause, or even quit out of itself at random times. Even during songs that have been downloaded.
But like I said, not sure how much of this is due to the Apple version of the program, and how much is due to the oldness of my device. It might even be because I use it too much. I pretty much have my iPod permanently sitting in a little mini sound system, and have it playing music through Google Play for most of the day non-stop. I love it for introducing me to new music, though. I’ve discovered so much stuff I love just by putting on the “radio station” of a song I love.