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Well that’s a shitty start to the week.
I tried searching for it via the PS4 but couldn’t find it, so here’s the direct web store link so you can ‘buy’ and download it before it’s pulled:
https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-au/games/pt-demo/cid=EP4511-CUSA01114_00-PPPPPPPPTTTTTTTT
Lol. Won’t argue with that.
I found it via the PS4, go to Games > Demos and it’s there.
Ah. I just went Games -> P and couldn’t find it. Also did a global search and found a bunch of ‘P!nk’ albums but no demo.
I imagine Pink would’ve left you just as terrified!
Probably more.
The women’s bathrooms at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre are all P!nk themed and it is more terrifying than the P.T. bathroom.
The men’s toilets are themed as a dilapidated hell hole no one treats respectfully! We all have problems! 😛
Pink is one of my secret shames.
Haha! I don’t mind her actually, it’s just the terrifying frenzy that happens every time she tours and performs 150 shows in one city. 😛
Not anymore.
I like Pink. I enjoy probably about half of her songs which makes the majority of her albums comfortably listenable-to. I didn’t know she was seen as a guilty pleasure.
Yesterday was just the worst day for me. Did terrible and came last in my Warmachine tournament and have officially given up on using epic Reznik.
Then when I went to D&D, everybody thought it would be funny to get my character raped by some 50 year old inn keeper, then they tossed me in front of an undead Beholder and watched me die. Only then did they realise that they could die and it was the only time they gave a shit about having a cleric.
@SerNobulus joined our game with a brand new character and first thing I did was get him addicted to Dwarven Fire Ale.
RPGs are fun.
I still can’t believe you did that 😛
Our group was fighting in a crypt and the end boss climbed out if his sarcophagus. My mate who hates my character because I’m a necromancer laid down in the sarcophagus and then I leered over him and successfully rolled to appear sexually appealing to him. I then did the same with another character I was controlling while my housemate was at work 😀
Holy shit.
I only wanted to try Turn Undead so that I could find the one innocent person they dragged into this dungeon and get out. It succeeded then rolled a 4 for disintegrate ray, minimum of 40 damage. My max HP is only 33 and the special rules state my body shatters to dust once I reach 0 HP.
Oh, by the way, they had no problem forcing double duty of tank and healer onto me.
It’s pretty funny though when tank/healer goes down and everyone realises they are glass cannons or ‘specialist’ characters on their own with no-one to hide behind. All of the combat then becomes like Bloodborne where you are constantly retreating and trying to attack at the same time, or just running away 🙂
Like I said, it’s the only time they actually gave a damn about my character. Once I was gone. They immediately ran to the closet city.
Or if you’re like me, picking fights with ogrekin as a sorcerer 😛 (I got one shot but I did hit my attack first so HA!)
I achieved something when playing Dark Heresy on the weekend. I died when I fell off a moving train. I was also hit by the train when we chose to explode part of it.
It’s okay though. I only lost two out of three nipples.
Bloodborne slow progression continues. Cleared through to the
dream hostthen spent the rest of my time derping around and dying a lot in a side area with thosestupid eye brain frenzy things. Pulled a lever and dropped *something* to *somewhere*, didn’t quite make it to the chest though.Edit: oh yeah, also had a fun death during the first time I felt I was going to beat
the one rebornwhen I rolled and promptly got stuck in a wall. Fun times.Blue Exilir works reasonably well to help you sneak up on them. They will still sense you when you get close, though, but it helps a bit with the long-distance frenzy. I died so many times in that area. The good news is that once you get that chest, you have no reason to ever deal with those dumb brain things ever again.Those were the worst. I died way more to those things than I did to some bossses
Same here.
I must have died six or seven times trying to reach the chest in that area. No other point in the game had that many deaths for me. Most (non-Chalice) bosses were first/second-try victories.Edit: haha, meant to say:
The wiki video explaining how to find that chest is hilarious. The guy just sprints for the chest, opens it and gets killed. I think he must have given up trying to survive that encounter too 😛I thought about trying that out next play session since it’s cheaper than burning items to fight.
Exactly. Put on your frenzy resist gear, run and hope you can spam your controller enough to pick up the item before you die
I miss Bloodborne. My PS4 just randomly enters sleep mode when playing Bloodborne.
Urgh. Those brain things and their stupid singing. You’re off key. Stop singing. Stick to what you’re good at, killing me over and over again until I give up on that chest.
Broken Age Act 2 week! Wooo!
Things I did on the weekend: I watched The Princess and the Frog. Played Mario Kart with Greenius and Sughly.
TAYKart tonight?
Do you know if Broken Age is going to be released on PS4 this week, or is it just Act 2 for PC?
Dunno, friend. Intentionally been trying not to follow this too closely to avoid spoilers.
Apparently it is being released on the same day as PC \o/
The Princess and the Frog is sooo goddamn lovely.
Insanely beautiful animation and catchy jazz songs and a cool setting. Wasn’t up there with the Disney greats, but still pretty damn worthy and great all the same. <3
I think it’s up there, tbh. Of all Disney movies release in the last five or six years, this one is my top pick (except maybe Toy Story 3, but that film’s just out-and-out exploitative).
I think my mind compartmentalizes the stuff I saw as a kid in a league of its own. Realistically, it’s probably just as good. Damn good movie!
Dammit, Monday. I was looking forward to you, why’d you’d have to turn on me?
What do you do if you buy a brand new, sealed copy of FF Type-0 from Target, but when you put your code for the FFXV demo into the PSN it tells you it’s already been used? Do I contact Target, or Sony, or someone else entirely?
Hmm, I doubt Target would understand the issue, so maybe try Sony first? I’ve always found their helpline to actually be pretty helpful. If that doesn’t work, then yeah, maybe ask to exchange it at Target.
Thanks, Jane.
Although I guess I should let Target know if it’s because one of their employees “stole” the code. They only put the seal/sticker on as they were selling it to me, and it wasn’t sealed in plastic so maybe someone on staff decided they wanted to check out the FFXV demo, but not buy Type-0.
If the box has the advert for the FFXV demo on it then you can tell Target unless they issue a replacement or refund you they will be in breach of section 29 of the Australian Consumer Law. Link: http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/caca2010265/sch2.html
It’s printed directly onto the game’s cover as part of it, so this is handy to know. Thanks.
Both Target and Kmart don’t sell sealed games, they get the contents from a drawer and put it in the case, so there’s every chance a staff member wrote down or took a picture of the code out the back and used it.
Hmmm, have you tried entering it again to make sure you didn’t make a mistake when entering it the first time?
If it has been used, I’d probably try Target first (I doubt they’ll do anything, but it’s worth a shot). If you have no success there, I’d probably try Sony and or Squeenix, via their Facebook or Twitter.
That was the first thing I did. Even though I knew I hadn’t made a mistake because I always check it a bazillion times to avoid having to go through the tedious process again. 😛
Aw man, you should kick asses and take names!
Just don’t get that mixed up.
Everyone, separately. Shotgun-scatter approach!
Seriously though, if the FF15 code is advertised as part of the package you buy, my understanding of consumer law is that it’s the retailer’s job to source the missing, advertised component.
https://www.accc.gov.au/business/treating-customers-fairly/consumers-rights-obligations#fixing-something-that-is-the-manufacturer-s-fault
Prime points for highlighting:
The problem with going back to Target is how are they going to give me a new code? Even if they still had another copy of the game, I’d essentially then be stealing it from that potential new owner.
This proves that you’re very kind, but shrug – damaged stock / request new codes from the supplier. EB knows that process in and out, and even though Target/Big W/K-Mart etc stores management is completely out of touch with the electronics section, the folks inside it who do the liaising with distributors are going to be a bit more clued-in.
In many stores pre-order codes, retailer-exclusive codes and the like don’t actually come included with the copy of the game. They get a sheaf of codes separately which they slide into the game boxes before they shrink-wrap ’em. Far as I know, it’s more likely that someone missed your box in that process, and there should be someone in a distribution centre who has a bunch of them spare.
…Every chance those already got used up thanks to employees ‘distributing’ them (to mates), but there should definitely be someone knows where they are and they’re not specifically linked to the disc they get stuffed with.
Thank you. This is exactly the kind of thing I wanted to know. I like to be armed with info like this before complaining so I know exactly what is reasonable to ask for.
They should open another copy of the game to give you the code, then contact their supplier for a replacement, or just discount it.
You wouldn’t really be taking a code from another player. If something is taken out of a new product (game) it shouldn’t be sold.
More like Moanday, amirite.
Save it for page six! >:|
Also, HEY JANE!
Nooooope. Just because we dad joke on page six doesn’t mean we can’t joke on other pages. Your humourless ways don’t influence us DC!
Humour? I have humour! I’ve been finding a lot of things funny lately! *stares blankly into the distance*
Also, the save it for page six thing was supposed to be a joke. D:I know 🙂LET’S NEVER FIGHT AGAIN, BAE!What even is a bae?I dunno. I was using it as a substitute for nemesis!One of @pixel_the_ferret_viking’s bowel movements I’m lead to believe.Bae = Before Anyone ElseHASHTAG-EVERY-PAGE-IS-PAGE-SIX!
*throws up*
HEY DUDE 😀
ALSO @highperformance get outta here, really?! That’s what “bae” means?! Crikey, I thought kids were just slack-jawing on ‘babe’. hahahahah.
I think there’s a little bit of that going on, I know that’s what I was getting at when I would call my girlfiend bae at first.
There are different ideas of what bae means I suppose, somebody in these hallowed halls once explained ‘bae‘ is actually the Danish word for poo.
And everyone knows poo is just short form for pookie! Hence the connection! Dammit HP stop confusing TAY =P
hahahahahahah oh man it gets better.
They are =,= highperformance is pulling acronyms out of thin air!
Hola Tay
Back at work today after 3 days sick last week.
Still have not seen Avengers.
Yesterday was feeling a bit better so went to the Discworld fan club’s regular board game day. Played Stone Age, a prototype NASA-themed games some guys were working on, and Dead of Winter. Also won the door prize, a copy of the Spartacus game (which looks like it could be OK) and got an interesting offer from the head of the club.
They’re running the 2017 Discworld convention and have asked if I’d like to run the board game room for it!
They’ve also asked if I could help them retheme a couple of gateway games to discworld themes, starting with Ticket to Ride. Apparently they’ve done Love Letter, and I’ve suggested Coup, so my Monday morning Question:
Which board games should be rethemed to discworld? And which board games need a retheme in general? We’ve recently seen Batman and The Hobbit Love Letter, for instance
We need more Monopoly variants! *decisive nod*
GET OUT
GET OUT
Actually, in all seriousness, an Ankh Morpork themed Monopoly could possibly work pretty well. For the utilities, you could use The Clacks and the Post Office, and the railway is sorted. Tokens could include a Wizzard hat.
But it’d still be monopoly.
And we all know Monopoly is the best board game!
I own three different monopolies! 😀
YOU ARE THE WORST STEWART ON THIS SITE
MONOPOLY BROS HIGH-FIVE
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Okay, that looks like a frog.
^ o/\o ^
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Okay, now it looks like a space fighter. Pew Pew!
I think Dominion could work pretty well as a Discworld themed game.
I think an Unseen University version of Cluedo would be fantastic.
“It was the Lecturer in Recent Runes in the H.E.M. building with a ground-glass-and-black-pudding.”
Once upon a time murder was a well-established means of succession in the wizarding world, but ever since the instatement of Ridcully as Archchancellor it has been nearly impossible so all the wizards have become fat and lazy.
I don’t know if Cluedo would drivep layers to find out who finally offed Ridcully, or if we’d have to repurpose the game to fit some lesser crime.
Also, I would want to play as Hex.
Or set it in pre-Ridcully days.
You could also avoid that entirely and use P.I. as a base instead. It’s similar to Clue but every player is solving a different crime. You have a set of locations on the board (easily replaced with Ankh-Morpork locations) and tiles representing characters and crimes. Each location has tiles for a character and a crime placed on them during set up.
To make things more interesting, on top of the usual mundane crimes, you can throw in a whole bunch of the random things Nobby and Vimes mentioned in Night Watch.
Bonus points: It’s a Martin Wallace game and he makes the Discworld licensed titles.
I have no idea what P.I. is but I think I want to check it out now.
It’s better than Clue but not exactly an instant classic. Just a solid deduction game that seemed appropriate here.
BGG link.
I’ll be in Sydney for the megagame next weekend. I think we’re doing board games on the Friday (May 8). I can bring it if you’re going to come and things actually get organised.
Ah, don’t bring it on my account, I didn’t know about any plans for a meetup thing so I don’t imagine I’ll be there.
Guess Who.
Risk-world
That’s actually happening in a way – theres a game called The Gods coming out – its a risk/Dominion combination style thing.
My usual movie going companion is currently in the US so wanna go see Ultron this week? If you don’t have other plans for it.
Hey man, sorry, just saw this. I’m Ultronning tonight with some peeps
Thanks to Raising Steam, the Ticket to Ride retheme basically sorts itself out.
As for other rethemes, I just don’t like the idea. Love Letter in particular is a terrible offender here. When it was the new hotness everyone on /r/boardgames and bgg was doing their own rethemes. Worst of all? They were terrible. After a few months, people lost interest in that and AEG decided to start doing official rethemes. It’s just unnecessary.
At least with Munchkin and Fluxx they remake the game slightly for the rethemes.
Oh and there’s a Munchkin Love Letter too (called Loot Letter).
Then again, I’m one of those odd people that don’t pay too much attention to theme in board games anyhow. I’m a mechanics nerd. I’m a Melvin not a Vorthos.
Certainly does retheme itself, we’re just going to do one on a Discworld Mapp. May even keep the same points/route distances as OG TTR, just make the map and destinations discworldy.
The Europe map is balanced a bit better. The central corridor in the base game is a little congested while Europe gives a good East/West divide.
I’m working on simplicity, not “the best game”
I’ve got till 2017 to fiddle with it anyway
Well, there’s also the fact that the EU board has a lot of congestion around Paris, which would be the perfect place to slap Ankh-Morpork. The more spaced out and open parts of Eastern Europe would work well for parts of the Disc that are a bit further apart (Ramtops or maybe Uberwald).
EDIT: And Scandinavia lends itself perfectly to being Klatch/Djelibaybi etc.
Oh, and I saw The Avengers: Age Of Ultron yesterday. It was…okay.
Is… is this for serious-serious? Your restrained enthusiasm is meant to be a dignified cover for your true, rapturous admiration? Or are you actually, as DC claims, a monster? I haven’t seen this yet, everything I’ve read says I’m meant to wet my pants with joy when I do! 🙁
I found the first movie pretty overrated. We’re all monsters now.
If by “all” you mean yourself and @strange then yes, you’re ALL monsters!
I’m the biggest monster of all.
I really didn’t like it, not even a little bit.I shall join the ‘monster’ ranks by fanboyishly criticising you for having a contrary opinion to the one I have formed about something I haven’t even seen yet.
First Avengers or second? I haven’t seen the second, and probably won’t bother with it.
Good LORD, man! I thought you were talking about the second! You’re breaking my heart.
I think half the reason may have been his expectations. See, I’m doing you a favour by lowering yours! 😛
Also, I’m not sure if it relates at all but Shane, Strange and I have all been hardcore Joss Whedon fanatics at some point. Maybe our experiences of other Joss stuff has coloured our expectations here? I DUNNO!
I avoided buying into the hype but still enjoyed it. I also liked Gravity and expect to enjoy Interstellar when I get around to it, all movies the internet simply cannot stop jacking off about hating while simultaneously calling overrated.
I absolutely love both Gravity and Interstellar.
Well, someone needs to keep your expectations down! If you go into expecting it to be pants-wettingly awesome, you have nowhere else to go but down. But if you go into it expecting “…okay”, you have nowhere else to go but up.
Heh. I am always saying this is probably the primary reason I’ve enjoyed a lot of movies everyone’s ragged on as crap.
It’s a very convenient excuse for my poor taste in movies.
I found it okay too. Not amazing or great.
I thought it was okay as well. But I assumed I only felt that way because I never watched any of the lead-in movies and was completely lost the whole time 😛
I was planning on watching Iron Man 3 beforehand, as it was the only one I’ve missed, but didn’t get around to it as we had to grab yesterday’s childless movie chance while we could. It was probably one of the more important ones to have seen, though. 😛
Don’t! Iron Man 3 is awful! Don’t listen to anyone else aside from me or evilmonkey with regards to this opinion! They’re all crazy!
You’re crazy!
I enjoyed it. It was better than the first Avengers movie, but inferior to the stand-alones like Winter Soldier and GotG. Seeing it at Hoyts LUX in a recliner with a G&T probably helped 😉
I also went and saw Insurgent because I had a freebie ticket that had to be used before the end of April. It was meh.
Had you seen Divergent before you watched Insurgent?
I’ve been told if you haven’t you’ll have no idea what’s going on.
I had seen Divergent. It was a perfectly serviceable SciFi action movie. There’s some nice effects, but the story is pretty pedestrian. Tagging @transientmind because this answers his q as well.
Had you already seen Divergent? Those movies are ones I was curious about but also wary. On account of seeing them to be kinda uh… Twilight’ish Teen Romance flicks more than post-apocalyptic/dystopian future sci-fi.
Isn’t that a summation of all the Marvel movies? They all fun and entertaining but not exactly amazing movies.
I agree with your sentiments wholeheartedly.
I would say that it reached the bar set by the first one. Problem being that we’ve already been there before with the first one.
Did not notice the passage of 2+ hours, definitely got that going for it.
I have to agree
This. Saw it on Friday and it was an okay action film with some major flaws preventing it being amazing.
Played Little Wizards with my 7 and 5 year old daughters. My older daughter really loved it but younger daughter couldn’t really concentrate for long enough. I’m thinking 30 minute sessions are best.
Had a lot of Bloodborne too! Enjoyed some co-op and the odd inadvertent PVP (I joined the Vilebloods covenant).
Still reading RJ’s Dragon Reborn (for the umpteenth time) and slowly getting through Bravely Default.
So P.T. is being pulled and Silent Hills cancelled, yet Collar Doody is still being released year after year. How depressing.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/04/heres-the-call-of-duty-black-ops-iii-trailer/
I’m actually pretty hype for Dorito eating and Mountain Dew Simulator, I like Treyarchs take on the franchise (I really like the Zombies mode and not much else of the game lol)
Question for tabletop RPG people of all sorts (GMs and players): which type of game do you prefer? More rules or less rules?
I tend to like to come up with solutions by working around existing boundaries so put me in the more rules camp but not F.A.T.A.L levels.
Didn’t I tell you not to google that
You know exactly what happens when you tell someone not to google something.
Less.
I’d say Numenera has it just right in terms of rules of all the RPGs I’ve played, but I like more complex ones like Rogue Trader, though both has the same outcome with me, I feel really useful with all my skills at my disposal 🙂
Constraints foster creativity, but not when there’s so many they get in the way.
I dunno, our fiascoes have been plenty creative.
We must do another sometime, I’m sure @freezespreston would be keen
Always keen for a Fiasco.
Fiasco is the exception to the rule. And I’m always keen for Roleplay Practice Night.
Count me in too 🙂
Less rules.
Games need a strong framework for everything to happen but a game with clear, simple rules gives a lot of freedom to the players (and especially the GM) to work within. Restrictions are important to foster creativity but should be an element of the campaign (aside from obvious things like Magic X is Magic X).
It depends.
I probably lean toward having more rules than less, because the rules can help add structure, but too many and all you’re doing is looking up this and that table and not actually playing the game. I’d say I like more mechanics. More options for a given situation. But not more rules that restrict what you can do.
Eg I don’t like what I played of Numenera much because the whole system is far too open and that makes it really hard for me to have anything to really grab onto.
You guys, I’m going to talk about Mario Kart 200cc again. I only have 2 cups left to get a 3-star rating in. The cup with the new Rainbow Road and the cup that has Electrodrome. I just can’t get the hang of those courses at such high speed! I was SO close at one point, but, yeah… Watch this video: https://twitter.com/PowalenAU/status/592160562638761984 I just sat there with my mouth open for a few minutes after that…
Totally fun though.
@sughly did the same thing to me last night in Cheese Land. He made a (not-so) powerful enemy that day!
The worst part is that it was completely my fault. If I’d just held onto the shell instead of trying to fire it backwards like a dumbo I would’ve won 😛
Ssssssh. Never take the blame yourself. Blame everyone else but you! 😛
Damn Koopa Troopa.
I can’t complain though, because this also happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGMVJXGbXmM
Amazing!
Also, you’re the only one I know who actually uses the Mario Kart video upload dealy! 😀
hahaha! I don’t think I hit you though, I just did one of those drift speed up things by driving behind you :3
I’ve changed it in my mind to be more dramatic than it really was! 😀
That’s what you get for picking Toad.
A fun time? Yeah I know!
Pow etches “FOR A FUN TIME PICK TOAD” on a wall somewhere.
Spending all weekend playing single player mario kart instead of with us :'(
NPCs don’t cry when they lose.
I really shouldn’t trash talk…The running joke that Pow cheats was just something we picked up from Greenius. Really hope it’s not keeping you from playing. We’ve all improved now as well, so way more level than it was back in the day. Don’t not play because of our stupid comments. :'(Don’t know about all of us improving. Pretty sure I haven’t, but then again this weekend was the first time I played since about a week after the first DLC came out.@dc For some reason can’t reply to your spoilered post above…Working now 😛 For some reason I can’t post comments with single or double quotes…No, no, nothing to do that. It just got to the point where I got way too worked up while competing with people. Trying to maintain a rep or something. Didn’t feel good.
Same reason I could never be a pro athlete 😛
BIG WORDS FOR MR NON CONTENDER
200cc is crazy, so fast, I have only played a couple of levels but I need to totally change my Kart set up, new levels are pretty awesome too.
Yeah, I had to change my kart setup too. I love how the tracks play now. Should show the “Mario Kart requires no skill” people at least 😛
I saw Age of Ultron on the weekend. Underwhelming was the first thing that came to mind as the credits began to roll.
On a seemingly neverending shopping spree of Nerf guns and related accessories, I have bought 200 darts on amazon for a good ol’ $15 or so. If that ain’t a bargain, I dunno what the hell is. Now I’m eyeing those $100 giant motorized ones that I’m pretty sure veers from the target demographic of kids to “adults with no fiscal responsibility or conscience.”
Also: You guys should really watch If You Are The One with me. Last night a guy came on wearing a flanno over a t-shirt, the girls made fun of him for it, he failed to get a date, one of the hosts walked over and ripped the flanno off him, took a lighter out of his pocket and tried to burn it in front of him while saying something about “a fresh start”.
It’s. Amazing.
I guess the lumberjack look hasn’t come to China yet.
Watch out for people in China, DC. They have lighters.
Obviously the show isn’t set in Melbourne where a tartan flanno and a t-shirt is a hipster staple.
That show can make you crack up whenever its on
Anyone been watching Bojack Horseman? I was about to give up on it when it finally settled into a coherent story arc that’s more a drama series wrapped in a comedy than a meaningless series of jokes. Watched episode… I want to say six… last night and the final 10 minutes or so kept punching the feels pretty relentlessly.
I’d seen a few clips here and there and finally watched it when we got Netflix. I think I was tuned into the humour by episode 3 but yeah, the show doesn’t really seem to have a point until around episode 5 or 6. In retrospect, this might have been deliberate narratively, but taking that long to give viewers a reason to watch is risky.
I really liked it, looking forward to a second season (which I assume is coming).
I like the continuity of his house. Things like his footstool in the background being charred and all the photos still have David Boreanez’ face taped to them.I semi-binged watched it, though it was more of a background show for while I did assignments.
Funny enough to have on and listen to, but not too distracting.
I like what I saw of it though!
I watched the first ep and it left me with absolutely no desire to watch more. Just couldn’t get into it.
Good Monday, all. Weekend was pretty good. Plenty of AFL watching over the 3 days and Freo now sitting clear on top of the ladder (it’s Round 4… marathon, not a sprint, be patient…) I’m in a pretty good mood. Of course I could have done without the minor heart-attacks watching the 2nd half against Sydney.
Yesterday went to Cirque du Soleil, had an amazing time. Managed to book front row, centre aisle seats when I booked the tickets a literal year ago, and it’s fantastic to be so close to the stage. Also made enjoyable when one of the clowns chose to include me in his pre-show warm up act by “re-seating” me and putting another couple in my seat, then “kicking me out” of the tent. Got a handshake for being a good sport about it, and a memory to last me for a long time.
This week is shaping up pretty good too! Tomorrow got whisky tasting at Cobbler with @transientmind and @freezespreston – I’ll be there probably around 6 or so, for a 7 start. Really looking forward to it.
Then later in the week, but earlier than initially planned… @janexo, @cufcfan616 +2, and @sernobulus – Wasn’t able to sort out the ticketing SNAFU so our table of 6 for Simpsons Trivia is now Thursday 30th April. If you’re unable to make it on Thursday please let me know ASAP so I can organise replacement players. I know Freeze was interested and I’ve got non-TAYfolk who can step in if needed as well.
As I work late at night it might be safe to say I won’t be there.
@freezespreston – A spot just opened up on the team.
Hmm. Very close to the whiskey night. Can I get back to you by this afternoon? If I don’t just get someone else.
Aye aye, Cap’n.
We all know that Whisky Tasting is just a cover for fight club, Bob. We can read between the lines!
The first rule about whisky tasting is you do not talk about whisky tasting.
Huh. That’s why I barely remember that bar that night in Brisbane.
Crikey. Can you twitter-DM me your bank details for payment?
Haha, yeah it’s kind of crept up hasn’t it? If you’d prefer to just give me cash on the night I’m fine with that too.
Yeah, let’s do that, since it’s tomorrow.
I’m told by a reliable source that it’s only a day away.
This is very confronting for me. Gorillaz told me that tomorrow comes today. I’m going to have to do some research on this.
Well, if it helps, Sheryl Crow informed me that tomorrow never dies…?
Thursday is good for me, even better than Friday for my mate and should be ok for the missus, she’s hobbling around a bit better now, just getting xrayed to see how well her ankle’s healing. Just making sure though, there should be room to walk through with a walking frame you reckon? I’ve never been there. And money on the night ok?
I’ve never been there myself but I’d say there’ll be room to walk. Public safety / accessibility codes and whatnot should take care of that. Can always show up a little earlier if needed to have less people around for manoeuvring purposes. Cash on the night is fine. 🙂
Well x-ray this morning has come back and she still has one fracture that still looks quite nasty and the doc said to keep off her foot as much as possible so she’s going to be out I’m afraid. Just me +1 now. Never mind though, I’m the one who always wins Simpsons Scene It 😀
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/04/there-could-be-a-second-bid-to-buy-iinet/
The company that owns Dodo is looking to buy iiNet now. Can’t decide if this is just as bad as TPG or worse.
Dodo is still a thing?
That’s much, much worse.
Dodo are the worst.
I’m genuinely surprised that after all these years, dodo haven’t done something that gets them barred from trading in Australia.
How is it that way around?! I don’t even… I’ve heard nothing but bad things about Dodo
You know what’s weird is that when I was doing wholesale for Telstra, we didn’t get a lot of Dodo tickets. TONNES of Optus and TPG, but not a heck of a lot of Dodo. I’m not sure why that is.
Also, volume of tickets submitted wasn’t particularly important. Not as much as why they were being submitted. TPG for example, were notorious for submitting authentication failure tickets that were not auth failures, amongst many other things that made us roll our eyes and comment on how their tech support area was being run by idiotic chucklefucks who didn’t care about frivolously wasting customer time by adding Telstra processing delays where they didn’t need to.
iiNet, westnet, Adam Internet, Internode would all submit quite a few tickets too, but they were usually legit faults that needed Telstra input to fix, and they’d done their homework first, reducing needless waste of time on back-and-forth. Optus were a mixed bag, being one of the biggest, the quality of their reporting largely resting on who was submitting the faults; they had good guys and bad guys. Dodo? Pretty rare. Which was weird.
Not sure if that was a good thing or not. Good that they weren’t having faults, or bad that they weren’t dealing with legit faults? Maybe a function if it being early 00s, and still relying way too much on dial-up for their customer base?
Played Destiny all weekend in the hopes of phat loot drops. I’m still desperately seeking a Gjallarhorn, my wife is waiting for the day RNGesus blesses her with even a single legendary ship. Seriously, she runs more strikes than I do and I’ve had about seven ships drop, while she continues to be stuck with the least ugly rares scrounged from the shipmaster.
I also watched two movies. I rewatched Superbad because even though I hated it the first time around, the fact that everyone else on the internet loves it had me questioning my sanity. While I didn’t hate it as much upon a second viewing, I still don’t see the appeal apart from a handful of very quoteable Jonah Hill scenes. I guess this is the same deal with Napoleon Dynamite, which I still refuse to watch.
The other movie was the Get Smart movie starring Steve Carell which I watched for the first time. It wasn’t terrible as a standalone spy comedy, but branding it as “Get Smart” was clearly a cheap ploy to sell tickets. Apart from shoehorned in references such as one liners like “missed it by that much” which weren’t even delivered in a way that made sense in the context, it bore no resemblance to the childhood staple of a TV show I grew up watching.
I picked up a Hawkmoon in a drop at the end of the week.
Also, after complaining loudly last night that I still don’t have a 32 character, realised that my Titan has 3 pieces of Crota gear – chest, arms and feet. I have an exotic helmet, so I CAN reach 32 after all! Woohoo.
The RNG are still being fickle though – I cannot get Crota gloves for my Warlock. 🙁
I have three pieces of Crota gear for my Titan, also missing a helmet, but since the best Titan exotics are helmets I don’t mind. If I need to be a 32 for anything I’ve got my Helm of Inmost Light/Helm of Saint-14/Insurmountable Skullfort to choose from.
Warlock has the chest and gloves, I’d love for the boots to drop so I can reach 32 with my Obsidian Mind/Light Beyond Nemesis/Skull of Dire Ahamkara – but for Warlocks I feel that the best exotics are chest and gauntlets (such as Heart of the Praxic Fire and Claws of Ahamkara).
My hunter fares worst of all. I have the chest and gauntlets for him too, but as much as I love the exotic helmets I think my favourite hunter exotic are my Radiant Dance Machines. Since you need to beat Crota for the helmet to drop, I think I’m perma-31 on my Hunter until House of Wolves drops.
I like my Argumentarium chest for Titan. Two grenades in Striker is really handy. But I have a maxed Glasshouse and I think an Inmost Light so I’ll make that work.
I’d say if I had to rank my titan exotics I’d put them something like:
Helm of Saint-14 > Armamentarium > Helm of Inmost Light > Ruin Wings > Insurmountable Skullfort > Crest of Alpha Lupi > No Backup Plans > Mk. 44 Stand-Asides.
Which is strange because Mk. 44 Stand-Asides are basically the Titan equivalent of Radiant Dance Machines, which are probably my favourite Hunter exotics after Achlyophage Symbiote. Of course it’s all context-sensitive. I switch to the Skullfort when fighting Crota because I can pick up orbs to heal instead of needing the chalice.
I’ve been tempted to buy Glasshouse in the past just because it looks cool but I don’t think it would be that much more useful than my current array of helmets.
I spent most of the weekend playing Destiny… Got lucky and scored a few raid invites. After three Crota Normals and a Crota Hard, I requested to run VoG so I could try for a Fatebringer. So we start VoG… from the Gatekeepers. Twice. *sigh* Fatebringer will always be beyond my reach…
I only have Vision of Confluence and Hezen Vengeance from Vault of Glass, very much looking forward to seeing how they perform after I can raise the damage cap to 365 after HoW.
I really just need a void primary for Void nightfalls, I don’t care exactly what it is. I have Confluence, three oversoul edicts and two abyss defiants. Arc and Solar are more than covered across all three characters.
I should try and run VoG more. I’ve only completed it twice. It’s just so time consuming and no one I play with likes to split it across multiple nights so if you don’t have six people willing to invest the several hours to get through it in one sitting, you don’t have a group.
Of course it seems the void primaries are all locked behind the Hard Mode wall. I guess HM isn’t that big a deal for VoG since we can hit 32 now, but my usual group aren’t exactly elite raiders.
Atheon’s Epilogue isn’t a hard mode-only drop, so if you want an easier time of it, just do normal. VoG’s still hard if you’re 32 – you need a team that knows the encounters, more than anything else. But, I certainly agree – arc and solar seem over-represented in primary weapons. At least arc-burn comes up relatively often in the weeklies…
I think the people who really track this stuff on reddit had stats that suggest Arc Burn has come up about 60% of the time in nightfall (I assume that includes weeks like this one that include “rainbox” burn – or all three burns being active). I have no idea what the weekly heroic stats are sicne burns aren’t very common.
*rainbow, not rainbox. I can’t edit posts at the moment for some reason. :/
Yep, arc sits at 54% including rainbows. Without rainbows… about 40%. Heroics… 20% arc burn, 14% void, 8% solar. Such a pity about solar… solar burn is a bunch of fun as a sunsinger. 😀
Is it just me, or does the running and walking in GTAV feel clunky as all hell?
The shooting wasn’t overly great either, after playing Saints Row (which admittedly can go to far)
running and shooting just feel horribly clunky.
Does anyone else feel the same?
I think it’s just because GTA is a bit slower paced and more grounded in realism. SR1 was a GTA clone, SR2 was similarly grounded in some respects while being crazy in others. SR3 really made the player character pretty OP, while SR4 was off-the-charts ridiculous.
You can’t really compare them anymore, but I agree about how they feel to play.
Yeah, I’m disregarding the perfect car handling and super powered played. But more of how it was just so much easier to walk from place to place.
I know it’s grounded in realism but I can turn around and start off in the opposite direction in about 1-2 seconds (I just timed it)
Watched The Matrix for the first time in years. I forgot how god damned exciting that film was when it first came out. The sequels never stood a chance at holding up to them
Yeah, that film has held up incredibly well. I watched it recently too!
The sequels are offensively bad, though 😛
Netflix is giving me the opportunity to re-watch a lot of older stuff 😀
The sequels weren’t horrific (mainly the second one, the third one…was I guess 😀 ) but didn’t have any of the intrigue of the first film and took it in a completely stupid direction. The additional characters they introduced were interesting but they then jumped from one to the next without expanding on them at all instead focusing on ridiculous fights scenes and making 10 minutes of robots shooting at other robots, which is normally awesome, completely boring and irrelevant (I think that’s where Michael Bay got Transformers inspiration from). Plus the kid who has a manchild crush on Neo is completely annoying
Yeah…they’re offensively bad 😛
I make a habit of watching quite a few trilogies on a yearly basis so yeah that movie series ages pretty well =]
It just sucks that nowadays any moderately successful film has 2 sequels tacked on that weren’t planned out well when the first one was made.
Elite: Dangerous get! Now I need a Joystick!
Or two.
Definitely two.
How does that work?
One stick for ship pitch, yaw, and roll; other stick for lateral and vertical throttle.
I ended up getting a Razer Tartarus so I use that to control most of that stuff anyway
Accidentally played Mario Kart until 4 am last night. Multiplayer with friends is awesome. Also picked up Terraria on PS4 because it’s only $8 at the moment (cross buy for Vita too) so I’ll be heading back down that rabbit hole soon. I hope you all had a great weekend.
Do a search for Terraria on the PSN, type in TER, the second thing in the list is “Farts Of Darkness: The Making Of Terror Firmer” =S
Edit: Watched the trailer for it, only one mention of the word “fart” and no actual farting. I am disappoint.
So this morning my phone decided it wanted to act like the home button was being pressed all the time. Even when it was just sitting on my desk.
Managed to back it up and do a factory reset, Restored and now the button has stopped working completely. Yay!
Earliest I can book it in to get looked at is Wednesday.
Over this week already.
Why don’t you buy a real phone instead of a children’s toy? /nerdhat
But… I thought he already had an iphone.
The “childrens toy” comment remains relevant.
You are the worst Master Racer you know that right?
I’m from The Internet. My racial passive is Immunity to Self-Awareness. It gives me extra saving throws against Shame, and Pointing Out Obvious Double Hypocrisy.
I’m finding it incredibly difficult to continue this parody without cringing.
Someone on Twitter linked to this over the weekend. An unofficial guide that tells you when new stuff is added to Netflix. Thought you guys might be interested!
http://netflixanz.maft.uk/
Awesome, thanks man.
Bookmarked!
They’re down rating the hell out of Skyrim on Steam because of this paid mods thing, apparently in less than a day it’s gone from 98% positive to 86% positive. All the showing reviews are negative at the moment.
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Grunt. I love Steam reviews for informing my purchase decisions… and I usually turn to the negatives for games that I think I’ll like, just to see if there’s any legit dealbreakers in there or to lower my expectations suitably so I don’t get surprised or feel ambushed by glaring faults.
But it’s really hard to rely on the ‘overall’ total sometimes for reasons like this.
Whenever you see a ‘mixed’ review or ‘mostly negative’ for something that looks like it might be pretty good, you shouldn’t have to ask, “Yeahyeah, they pissed off reddit or their Kickstarter backers or their beta-testers or some bullshit so that promises I never even fucking heard about didn’t get fulfilled, but is it any good?”
Yeah, that is one of the things I actually really like the negative reviews for. The positive ones are usually twee and useless to me, but if I can see what people don’t like about a thing and see if that matches up with things I wouldn’t like about a thing, it’s handy.
Steam’s reviews are pretty good generally, it’s just cases like this or when someone pokes the outrage machine that stuff tends to go to shit.
Ah, internet.
*ruffles internet’s hair*
Hence why Metacritic shouldn’t be used for anything but shits n giggles 😛
Do people actually use the Metacritic ratings for anything other than “that’s a number, hey” though?
IIRC there was a scandal when Obsidian were promised a multi-million dollar bonus contingent on their Metacritic rating for Fallout New Vegas staying above 85. Due to some bugs at launch, it was criticised rather harshly and only reached about 83.
I really hope nothing that stupid ever happens again.
Oh. Oh no. That’s terrible, why would anyone agree to something stupid like that?
Because it’s that or no money at all.
Oh yeah no, I get that I was being. Not sarcastic, but the other word I can’t think of at the moment.
Rhetorical?
@beavwa YES that is exactly the word I couldn’t think of. Thank you.
Sorry that I’m not really on side with the subtleties today.
@beavwa Nah it’s totally fine, it’s Monday and I understand completely.
If Metacritic didn’t exist, publishers would create their own, in-house.
Money people like numbers, not un-rated, subjective opinions on art. ‘Quality’ is just another metric to be compared to the others when trying to figure out who contributed to a product’s success. Was the quality low but sales were high? Then marketing did well. Was the quality high but sales low? Marketing failed. Quality is subjective, but if you look at anything on a macro scale… numbers don’t lie.
Howdy TAY people! I bought and tried out a couple of new games on the weekend. Well, technically not “new” as they have been on Early Access for a while and just got released recently but anything on Early Access may as well not exist in my opinion. Aaaaaaaaanyway, that’s a whole other issue, GAEMS!
Convoy
A 1978 movie, a song and now a video game!? Best way to explain this game is it has mechanics very similar to FTL (randomly generated map, random encounters and random quests) and the setting is very Mad Max like. For some reason also I get a Fallout vibe, kinda reminds me of getting the car in Fallout 2 and just randomly driving around and seeing what random encounters I trigger. Story is pretty simple, player crash lands on warring planet and must gather replacement parts for their ship. Game is split into 2 bits, exploration and combat. Exploration is pretty simple, players control their cargo truck. You can randomly explore or rush to the stuff they need to collect. Combat is a tonne of fun. Players control up to 4 cars protecting the cargo truck and must destroy any enemy cars. The combat is a heap of fun, there’s nothing more satisfying then ramming an opposing car of a cliff. Players can modify the cargo truck and escourt cars at camps to make them tougher or faster and buy weapons from shops. Best bet is if you are a fan of FTL, you will love this game.TL:DR: Mad max and FTL had a love child and this is it. Fallout (1 & 2) is the weird uncle that visits every 1 or so years. Try this if you are a fan of FTL!
Crypt of the Necrodancer
This is a game I have been keen to try out for a while! It’s a roguelike dungeon-NO WAIT DON’T STOP READING IT GETS GOOD I SWEAR JUST KEEP READING UNTIL THE END! Everything you would expect in a *yawns* rougelike dungeon crawler game is in this game, weapons, armour, spells, traps, barrels, unique enemies, strong minibosses, and overpowered bosses. Here’s the thing, the character can only move and attack to the beat of the music. In fact, everything happens to the beat of the music. enemies move, spells are cast, barrels rolls, explosions tick down, EVERYTHING happens to the sound of the beat. It’s kinda tricky to get used to get right away but there’s a moment when something just clicks and (this is going to sound really cheesy) you completely lose yourself in the music. Your movement becomes like a heartbeat and you aren’t just exploring a dungeon but creating art as you slice that goblin in two. It’s just a fantastic experience and would recommend it to anyone that’s a fan of rhythm games and anyone that’s a fan of roguelike dungeon crawler games (if you are still alive). I give roguelike’s (especially dungeon crawlers) a tonne of shit because well … there’s a tonne of shit roguelikes on Steam. However THIS game is one of the good ones so do yourselves a favour guys and try out this game. Now if you will excuse me I need to go throw up for saying rogueli-*vomits* … to late.TL:DR; A Rhythm game mixed with a good roguelike dungeon crawler game. Try this if you like rhythm games and/or dungeon crawlers
I totally bookmarked both of those to look at later. Good to hear they’re worth it. 🙂
Convoy seems like a winner, will have to check that out.
BUT I AM CHEAP!
Phrasing!
Convoy sounds pretty sweet.
Also, I may want to buy a dancemat just to use with this game …
I’ve heard that the game isn’t properly optimised for the dance pad though. Like, it’ll ask you to stamp in a single direction 18 times, and then your leg gets tired and you can’t play any more.
Have you fought King Conga yet? Best fight.
Purchased based on that song alone.
Necrodancer was at AGDQ in January, and when I saw it I thought “this is the type of shit that I can get into” and now it’s hit full release and I still haven’t bought it, got to do that sooner or later.
We should remind each other
My teacher showed me Crypt of the Necrodancer when I mentioned rhythm games last year. Totally forgot to keep an eye on it.
I think I need it.
Ugh @strange you made me post in old TAY! :p
I blame Powalen.
Ugh Greenius you made me post in old TAY! 😛
I also blame Powalen.
That damn rascal.
So, last year a while before Christmas I picked up Far Cry 4 and Assassin’s Creed Unity for a song, as well as uber-cheap versions of AC4 for PS4 and Killzone Shadowfall. Now I have finally played them!
MINI REVIEW TIEM
(of things everyone else has already played)
I gave Killzone a whirl and was pretty turned off.
It plays… OK. It’s not bad for a shooter. They tried to do some interesting things with it, and I admire their fumbling ‘open world’, ‘choose your own objective’ efforts. That’s a fantastic thing that more FPSes should do. But the story, and the characters and the writing… Are players meant to sympathize with the protagonist and his war-mongering surrogate father? Are we meant to – SpecOps: The Line style – realize that we are the bad guys? It didn’t seem very self-aware. I have so many problems with the premise that I don’t know where to begin and if I start with everything wrong with it, I know I won’t stop. In the end, I got through maybe half a dozen missions before I pulled the disc out and put it away. Maybe I’ll come back to ‘Killzone: Why The World Hates America’ sometime later for completionist reasons, but oh my god that was painful.AC4: Black Flag continues to be fucking amazing, no surprise.
I’m sure it has higher-fidelity graphics on PS4, but I didn’t notice the difference, probably because I wasn’t playing them side-by-side. What I DID notice was load-times weren’t teeth-grinding incentives to play in a way that minimizes load-screens. God I love that game. That has to be one of my all-time favourites.I loved playing Black Flag so much that it put me in the mood to see more of the AC franchise.
Feeling very benevolent towards the series, I popped Unity in.
Man, did they squander that goodwill fast.
Oh AC: Unity…
I was looking at the art book I got, and the loving crafting of this world and how much effort people put into it and thought it was going to go really well. I feel so bad for them.I know, I know… it’s not fair to compare Unity to Black Flag when you know that every chest you open for money is going towards… who cares some bullshit that isn’t upgrading a pirate ship. Or collectibles that aren’t treasure maps to buried gold, and plans for more pirate ship upgrades. It’s very difficult to get past the fact that you had a kickass pirate ship and now they’ve taken that away from you. But I’d read that the stealth mechanics were better and that tailing/eavesdropping etc had been refined to be less painful and maybe the story would be good.
Who knows? Maybe it is. The English accents for a game supposedly set in France were so disconcerting that I restarted the game and started from scratch with French spoken and English subtitles. Which meant that I missed a lot of call-out combat/direction queues. And French is so alien to me that I couldn’t internally ‘read’ any of the emotional language used, to the point that I seriously don’t give a shit about any of these characters yet, even several missions in.
This, plus the controls… Arno’s an impressively nimble little guy and a poor man’s Ezio in the lovable rogue stakes, but damned if he isn’t as likeable as Edward Kenway, or as robust in combat, or sure-footed in his direction. I found myself swearing at the controls for fucking up what wasn’t broken with AC4’s controls. The movement is not fluid. If you had told me that they had found a way to make parkour WORSE than AC4, I wouldn’t have believed you. But they did! It far too often ‘sticks’, in that you’ll be pushing to move in a certain direction and it won’t recognize it until you stop pushing and try somewhere else. It’s frustrating as hell and actively sabotages my immersion and enjoyment. Plus incidents of straight-out bad design. Example: Escaping the Bastille, you run past a locked chest which taunts you tantalizingly. Attempting to open it advises you to lockpick it. A few metres out the door, you pick up a lockpick off one of your fallen foes. The game wants you to continue running onward, but… I JUST GOT A LOCKPICK AND THERE IS A PICKABLE CHEST BACK THERE. It fails the mission if you go back to try open it. Idiotic design. Apparently this was meant to be some big, dramatic moment, too, impelling you onwards… way to break flow, guys. It’s just one instance, but typical of many other instances, such as failing a jumping puzzle (UGH, JUMPING PUZZLES?) resulting in forcing you through some tediously long cutscenes. Things that make you want to quit the game should be caught early and kept to a minimum.
The patch I installed straight-up is reported to have improved load times, framerate drops (which I still noticed in crowds), and skeletal-horror bugs, but this is still far from being as intuitive an experience as AC4 was. They done goofed, and goofed bad. I was enthusiastic to get into this world, but language/voice-acting, design failings, controls, and absence of kickass pirate ship make this a disturbingly unappealing experience. Even TRYING to consider it in a vacuum, ignoring everything it broke from AC4, I was not enjoying myself. What a waste of so much talent and hard work and beautiful art and world-crafting.
I’m pretty disappointed. I really wanted to enjoy this one. I’ll push through to see if things get better as the meta expands a bit, but the game is fighting me every step of the way. At some point I’ll let it win and I’ll give up.
You lasted far longer in Killzone than I did. I didn’t mind the earlier ones, they felt solid and fun to play mechanically. Shadowfall was just bland in every respect from the get go. Even the nice graphics were ruined by the most generic looking Sci Fi design I’ve ever seen.
Agreed with the Unity language stuff. English language voices alone wouldn’t bother me, it was the really out of place accents. Didn’t even try for French accents, but more like Cockney etc, which really broke any hope of immersion. So I also changed it to French spoken with English subtitles. Much better.
Shadowfall, it was enjoyable for a launch title, I played Resogun waaaaaaaaaay more than Shadowfall when I got my PS4 though and it’s since been traded in.
Black Flag, I love it. I’m not a fan of the AC franchise, but being a pirate (as previously stated) fits the gameplay so well. It’s interesting though as I was thinking about picking up Unity if I saw it cheap, looks like I won’t be though. PIcked up Dying Light instead 😀 I am still keen more for AC Victory though cos I’d much rather run around Victorian London than smelly France.
AC: Black Flag was an incredible game, it really was, I loved it. I should go back to it and finish all the side content. That said, there was so much side content that I felt kinda overwhelmed by it, to the point that I kind of missed the relative simplicity of AC3. I’m really looking forward to playing Rogue, which I am sure will be ported to current-gen any day now since it’s had a PC port.
I think I’m going to give Unity a miss entirely since it apparently doesn’t progress the modern-day storyline, which will make it the first game in the main franchise I don’t even give a chance – I hated Revelations but I still sunk about 6 hours into it, and ultimately I feel like AC3 and Black Flag got me caught up on the details I might have missed. I’ve not bothered with the handheld spinoffs at all, but I’m going to assume they aren’t important to the story.
Relative simplicity of 3? See, I felt the exact opposite. I felt 4’s side-content was neatly segmented compared to 3’s more micro-management-heavy and interdependent homestead trading.
I’m also looking forward to a Rogue port to PS4. By all reports, it’s the better game AND better story than Unity.
If you’re narrative focussed like me… well. Unity is such a swing and a miss for me, in its storytelling. Several missions in and they’ve already glossed over the MAJOR points of the French Revolution. You have to be a French History fan (or just French – which may be a major blind-spot on Ubi’s part, not realizing how little the rest of the world knows of French history) to really get the importance of events which are used as little more than confusing or uninteresting backdrops. King Louis’ address to the ‘Third Estate’ or its links to the storming of the Bastille… never explained. Never examined. Never commented on in-game (outside of codex entries no-one reads).
If you know your history, they probably would’ve been ominous foreshadowing, scene-setters that gave a sense of time and place. For an Aussie who knows dick about French history? They were nothing. Literally nothing. “Oh look, everything’s turned to shit with no build-up, explanation, or foreshadowing. Only people seem to also sort of be going about their business. Which is it?”
AC3’s trading/homestead system was a bit perplexing but really only affected the completionist aspect of the game. The ship-based missions were limited and while I would have welcomed a more extensive trade route management system that AC4 gave us, just the sheer volume of stuff to do felt overwhleming.
So, I bought a bunch of games on the Playstation Store on Friday.
LA Cops – it’s ok, but definitely not worth the 20 odd dollars I paid for it, got old fast.
Infinity Runner – Crappy “runner” game filled with QTE’s.
Scram Kitty DX – Pretty meh.
Retro City Rampage – Haven’t played much, but it seems ok.
Mercenary Kings – haven’t played it yet.
Woah Dave – Kinda old school, pretty good time-waster and for whatever reason it’s free.
Telltale Games Pack – currently re-playing The Walking Dead Season 1, can’t wait to get to Season 2, then I’ll re-play The Wolf Among Us.
So basically, I should’ve just bought the Telltale Games pack and nothing else, oh well.
I note you mentioned that TWDs1 and TWAU are re-plays but TWDs2 you didn’t specify, will this be the first time for you? Also, did that sale include GoT and Borderlands, and have you played those yet? I’ve picked up both on PC but haven’t gotten to Borderlands yet.
Yeah, already owned GoT and Borderlands before I bought the pack. Played up to the end of the current eps, they’re both great.
I’ve played through TWD S1 on PS3 and TWAU on 360, but I’m happy to play through them both again on PS4. Haven’t played through TWD S2 before, so it’ll be my first time. Currently almost at the end of TWD S1 Ep. 2.
…I’m hyped for Call of Duty Black Ops III, THERE I SAID IT!
*Cowers behind work chair ready for downvote avalanche*
What if I told you, that I don’t care and am happy that you like something you enjoy?
Mind. Blown.
Oh my god, are you okay?! =P
THAT’S NOT HOW YOU INTERNET!
Fine, I’ll just make my own internet! With blackjack! And Hookers!
That sounds awfully similar to the current internet.
Nuh uh, my internet will be superior.
Hmm, your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Well I never! I’ll have you know-
Wait, you’re being nice to me? Where am I and where did the old Internet go?
It’s around here somewhere…waiting…
I always leap frog the CoD games so I’m actually looking forward to this one as well =] Yeah completely skipped the last iteration.
Side question; does anyone else wish they’d go back to the historic games that started the series?
Edit: Also leap frog the AC games, have they announced this year’s game yet?
I don’t think they have a release date, but it’s in development as far as I understand.
Edit: Yes on both fronts, historically accurate ftw! I remember walking around San Marco’s Piazza and wanting to at ACII instantly lol
Back when CoD was first A Thing, Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers were still fresh in everyones’ memories and Medal of Honor was revisiting the Normandy landings and French campaigns, CoD showed us things we hadn’t seen so much yet, and I really appreciated that.
The Russian campaign, being handed an ammo clip and told to pick up a gun from a corpse in front of you is one of the most vivid and powerful video gaming moments I remember from the franchise. (Behind the AC130 mission in CoD4:MW)
We got to see so many more theatres of war than just the famous American favourites. I thought that was a great thing, in the CoD historical series.
*looks at every CoD game released on my shelf*
*looks at every COD game ever released in Steam library and stares off into the middle distancing, remembering the last one that was actually played was MW3*
I think it’s likely to be a very solid shooter, with interesting themes of transhumanism and what it means to be a soldier. Unfortunately, I think all of that will be buried under a story that’s about as intelligent as my pet rock, and it will handle its themes with all the subtlety of catapulting doves as a means of declaring war.
Should be fun though, I probably won’t buy it since I haven’t even finished Advanced Warfare, even though it’s a pretty enjoyable game.
That’s what I liked the look of with the last COD, the idea of transhumanism wasn’t fleshed out as much as I was hoping.
But then again, how much do I know about transhumanism and who am I then to critique other peoples ideas on it? lol
The last CoD game I played was MW3.
I enjoyed it.
But I only play CoD games for the single-player campaigns. Yes, they’re goofy and unrealstic and filled with over-the-top set-pieces, but that’s a big part of why I like them. I can’t stand the multiplayer. Which is a real shame, because I’m pretty sure the persistent relevance of multiplayer is what keeps the games’ prices inflated to the point that any CoD game can be 2-3yrs old and still charging launch prices. 😛 I’ve been meaning to buy all the entries since MW3 for ages, telling myself I’ll snap them up when they’re deep-discounted, but they never, ever get deep-discounted. Just… lightly-discounted. I strongly suspect the lowest I’ll ever be able to buy one of those games is the same price as a standard US AAA launch price.
Which is fine, in a vaccum – it’s not a bad purchase. But when curiosity and the knowledge of a few hours fun is all that’s driving me, it’s very hard to make the final sale when it stacks up against new and interesting things which are much, much, much cheaper.
I’ll get around to it one day.
Say you’re buying it purely for the Campaign, it might go for around 10 hours (just a rough guess). You’re paying $10 for an hours worth of entertainment (some would say this is good value :P), which doesn’t stack up for many folks for a AAA game.
I can’t say I’m a die hard multiplayer lover but I more or less buy the game for the Zombies mode and dabble in the multi when I’m burnt out. My internet connection isn’t conducive to multiplayer gaming particularly when folks are using ADSL2+ and I’m getting shot before I even see someone with my 400kb/s dl limit.
I hate Call Of Duty, but that’s for my own reasons. I love it when people aren’t afraid to be proud of what they like and are looking forward to. Things that make other people happy, make me happy. Within reason, of course. 😛
Exactly, I don’t like Life Is Strange, but @dc loves it, so that makes me happy.
It fills me with rage and I won’t rest until @dc admits he’s just a contrarian hipster who only likes things because I don’t. *shakes fist in @dc’s general direction*
But I liked it before you even played it. *flicks fringe*
You just know me to well now and getting better at pre-empting me.
That’s really nice of you to say. Without trying to raise your ire what is it about COD that makes you hate it?
Strange doesn’t like to talk about… the incident.
To be brief: guns, war, killing actual people. There’s obviously more to it than that, but I guess that would be the nutshell version.
I tried to explain to my nan when I was a kid why I should be allowed to play games like Goldeneye in which you shoot people.
I’m pretty desensitized to it now, which I think is kind of a bad thing, but that’s cool those themes aren’t to your taste (not that killing people and guns are things I’m interested in though :P). Thanks for sharing 🙂
Call of Duty games are fun, they just burn me out, the last one i played was the original black ops, so i’m probably gonna pick up advanced warfare in a steam sale soon, as it appeals to me with all the exoskeleton stuff. then in 3 or 4 years i’ll probably pick up another one.
All I want is a decent AAA WW2 shooter again with a decent single player
So much this, me too.
I really disliked BlOps and MW3 was a bit of a washout so I haven’t bothered with BlOps2 or Ghosts. I’ve been tempted by Advanced Warfare but I don’t think I want another multiplayer-heavy title with all the time I’m still sinking into Destiny. I re-bought Titanfall when the DLC was free so my wife and I could play together and still haven’t played that yet.
I know some people have said BlOps2 was actually pretty good but I think I’ll stay away from the franchise. BlOpsIII will have to be CoD4-level amazing to pull me back in.
That said, I don’t begrudge anyone for liking it. The fucking elitism around all that is breathtakingly stupid.
Haha you guys are too deep into destiny to play almost anything else I think, once you make a clean break you’ll be free to play every game you have in your backlog.
I’ll probably take a couple of weeks off before House of Wolves drops, which will finally nable me to play something else. I have a couple of games in mind I can probably knock over pretty easily if I don’t care too much about completionism, but there are other games I really want to sink some time into as well.
I really liked Modern Warfare 1 and 2, but Modern Warfare kind of left a bad taste in my mouth. I could go on for ages about everything that went wrong with Modern Warfare 3, but I shall restrain myself. It did enough to alienate me from the series entirely. Every time a new CoD is released, I tell myself that I will buy it and relive the awesomeness of MW1 LANs, but I never do. To me, Infinity ward died after MW2, and was reborn as Respawn. I hope Titanfall 2 fixes Titanfall’s issues and has more variety and depth.
Titanfall 2? I’ve not heard of this!
If it hasn’t been announced, I can guarantee you that it is in development. It made too much money.
Had my first session with a psychologist… That was… Something… There was definitely no manly tears at all… Neeeerp… Crying is for babies amirite? o/
On a lighter note the missus got her delayed birthday present from me on the weekend (pics on Twitter… I’m usually not a fan of tattoos but damn! I’m very impressed with the artists skill
If you don’t cry in front of your psychologist, you’re doing it wrong.
I came out thinking my psych was a mentally challenged loon and never went back.
That’s doesn’t sound right. Did you try a different one?
Did he have sock puppets? He had sock puppets didn’t he?
He kept sticking his finger in my face and waving it around in silence for 60 seconds them asking me what I was thinking. Didn’t have the heart to tell him exactly what.
Wow that’s… Wow
That’s…weird. Try a different one.
I’ll be your psych, Freezy!
So tell me…
Does my outfit look “psychologist” enough to you?
Should I* sew patches onto the sleeves?
*get @strange to
First you say you’re a doctor and try to give me a suppository, now you’re a psych.
You’re a phoney, fakey phoney fraud!
Someone’s a bit testy.
I have a suppository for that…
Don’t talk about my Testes.
Ah, now we’ve reached around to the bottom of the problem.
I’ll talk about whoevers testes I want, I’m a goddamn doctor! >:(
Did he have both hands on your shoulders when you felt the suppository go in? Because I have some difficult news for you.
This is pretty much what happened in mine. Did you read Issue 3 of Undad yet? About half of that appointment is directly quoted from my real life.
My wife would kill me if she knew I said anything, but we went for marriage counselling roughly 5 years ago, we went once as a couple and once individually, and that’s all I could take. I found it boring and a pain in the arse. Also his tone of voice just drove me up the wall and made me angry, so I never went back.
Long story short, we’re still together.
There’s no shame in seeking help, even if you decide afterwards it’s not the right thing… I deliberately went with a female psychologist because I find it difficult to open up to males and I’m glad I did… It was a good experience and I like her approach to this
I’m glad it’s working out for you man.
Well done on taking that first step. It’s always hard but it’s definitely worth it. I hope it works out for you!
I had a few sessions with a counselor(?) maybe 8 years ago, and I don’t actually remember a damn thing about it.
Like, at all.
Maybe they used some sort of mind wipe on me.
I hope you find what you need from the psychologist. I’m pleased that you’ve started doing something.
Every time I see someone talk about Mad Max my brain auto-corrects it to “Mad Mex” and I imagine a movie about renegade takeaway burritos.
Fighting against the tyrannical superiority of the GYG Imperium.
YOU TAKE THAT BACK.
Uh, fighting against the inferior GYG?
No. No. That doesn’t sound right.
I swear I remember a movie or book or something from way back where they had the “Fast Food Wars”. Apparently depending on which country the story was sold, there was a different victor. USA had Taco Bell and I think the UK had Pizza Hut.
That’s Demolition Man
Thank you.
You are an incredibly sensitive man, who inspires joy-joy feelings in all those around you.
I’d watch that.
So killing floor 2 has gone the dota 2 route and made its sequel just be the exact same game with better graphics… Perfect, Killing floor doesn’t need to change.
It’s simply just a wave survival game sure, but it’s a game that has been perfectly tuned for the genre, and it just works. Also any game that lets me use Melee weapons instead of guns and be just as effective is great in my books.
I accidentally skimmed over “4444” comments, and am now sad 🙁
So I was looking for a simple game to play on the weekend…look through Steam, see what my friends are playing…
Oh look @transientmind has spent hours on this game AdVenture Capitalist. And it’s free. Might give it a whirl.
Damn you Transient…I’m now addicted to yet ANOTHER Cookie Clicker clone.
Yup. I just leave it running like… 24/7. It will probably be my highest-hours game shortly. And it’s not even really a ‘game’. 😛
Same here, always running in the background. Stupid cookie clicker. I need to unlock EVERYTHING.
AND THEN RESTART AND GET ANGEL INVESTORS.
The funny thing is that you don’t actually NEED to leave it running. Unlike Cookie Clicker, it tracks your progress while it’s offline. You only have to re-open it and collect your offline cash.
I hate you and @transientmind right now. Also discovered this morning it has an iPhone version. Soooo more clicking and waiting!
After the first 50 or so, try to reset your angel investors every time you’ve at least doubled your current amount. 😀
Yeah haven’t been playing long enough to warrant a reset. My phone has only got 6 Angels waiting. When I get home tonight though my PC should be ripe for a reset. I’ve got at least 25 of everything since I woke up an went to work (downloaded last night) so there should be a big ol pile of cash to convert.
And so it begins…
EXACTLY.
Hence, I hate you.
I’m curious as to see if all the people currently hating on Bethesda and Skyrim will ignore and ‘boycott’ them when they bring out Fallout 4
Also, I was watching The Fellowship Of The Ring on Netflix so it’s not the extended version, it’s been a couple of years since I watched the extended version, but I’m almost certain that in the opening to and fro with Gandalf and Frodo there’s little snippets of conversation that aren’t in the extended one. Can anyone clarify? Really small throw away lines that I can’t remember at all
Fallout 4 could be made with funds supplied by Robert Mugabe and I would still buy the shit out of it. Same as I always knew an EA boycott was futile as soon as they announced DA:I.
Well… I guess there’s always piracy. I guess. But that only serves to reinforce, to my mind, what the film/TV industry should be cottoning on to. The pirated copy is going to be inferior to the one that could be in my Steam library. If the TV/movie industry could say the same thing about their products and pirated versions, the world would be a very different place. Or at least, the world of tech-news reporting.
There’s no point boycotting gaming companies; in this day and age there’s so few of them that sooner or later a game you really really want is going to come from a company you dislike. However I do exhibit restraint in purchasing games from a company I dislike; e.g. anyone could release Witcher 3 and I’d buy it however EA could release the next DA game and I’m unlikely to jump unless I could snag it for a bargain.
On that note it is worth pointing out the current modding fiasco is more Steam’s doing than the publishers. There was a way to support the modding community and there was a way to increase they company’s income/profit from an existing platform. Steam chose the latter but would like to paint it as the former; personally this has just left a bad taste in my mouth with Valve. I bear no ill will towards Bethesda or any modders who choose to exercise this option.
Probably my favourite line from Telltale’s The Walking Dead Season 1
Clementine: “It’s called a salt lick, but don’t lick it, it’s gross”. Lee: “Did you lick it?” Clementine: “I don’t know”.I remember letting out a little “awww” and chuckle at that scene.
I loved the whole dynamic between Clem and Lee :’)
Still don’t really like Clementine, but that line made me grin.
Uh,
“That’s it! I’ll just pre order every Amiibo I want from now on. At least then I’ll know I’ll get one”
EB didn’t/couldn’t get enough in to fill more than one preorder (ie. Not me :P). Gotta wait until they call me to come in.
You don’t make it easy to unconditionally love you, Nintendo 😛
cc @mrtaco
Apparently Nintendo doesn’t like money.
I keep saying – preorders are for chumps 😛
I know right.
It’s been less than a year since my previous shopping montage, but I think I need to buy some new shirts. THE HORROR.
Tie dye is so hot right now.
Confirmed: DC wants me to take him on another shopping spree! 😀
I suppose I could take both you and Freezy next visit, kill 2 birds with 1 stone 😛
Nah, take Freeze one-on-one. I think I know how to do this now. Maybe. MAYBE.
Haha, won’t be for ages anyway, unfortunately ;P
You’ll more than likely have to take the plunge by yourself.
Though next visit, if you don’t go shopping with me, you have to at least go to Max Brenners with me! 😀
“One clothes please!”
Liondrive makes you try things on. He’s a monster. He also teams up with the evil shop assistant enabling me to do things I don’t want to! D:
That shop assistant was fawning over you, and a guy in the store even stopped to check you out 😉
So yeah, pretty nightmarish all round!
YOU LOVED THE ATTENTION YOU LIAR! 😀
Nah, I know I joke, but if I did, I didn’t mean to make you feel too uncomfortable or anything.Just wanted to push you out of comfort zones a bit, but in a friendly, helpful way.
@liondrive: Haha, don’t worry, pal. It was a fun day. 😛
I can go with you if you like….
Might take you up on that! *ponders* 😀
We can visit all the cheap stores Lion wouldn’t dream of setting foot in! 😛
Liondrive would know. He has eyes everywhere.
I see all, know all, and judge all.
Don’t undo all my hard work, Strangey! :’O
Nah, you proved yourself with your shopping prowess.
I trust you to only let him buy the nicest of things XP
(and to force him to try on clothes!)
Conclusive proof; liondrive kills birds!! D=
Only the ones with wings.
I’ve been hearing good things about mus- er- dark yellow pants.
I’m hating you so hard right now >:(
I have bought like 2 shirts in the last year. >.>
They’re all so worn out and destroyed, but errggghh, shopping.
You can look at photos of me and accurately guess the year based on the shirts I’m wearing. XD
See, if you’re self conscious about stuff like that, do what I do; Buy 200 red hoodies in one order and just cycle through clean and new versions the exact same outfit.
I do the same thing, only with black button-up collared shirts and dark blue jeans.
I buy basically all of my clothes online now. It suits my reclusive lifestyle.
Last time I bought a pair of pants that wasn’t for work was probably 2 years ago. Got a couple of t-shirts from “loot crates”, bought two shirts on the weekend, one long sleeved Sons Of Anarchy top and one Game Of Thrones t-shirt, both from Kmart.
I bought a flannel shirt over the weekend. It’ll be my first flannel 😮
Lumberjack shirts are a DC staple!
Burn it
Was it green? That’s the dream!
Red 🙁
Awwwww. 🙁
Burn him! 😛
I bought some shirts for work yesterday.
$280 later…
Mustard pants are currently being endorsed by @alexpants
The guy seems to know his pants!
Can confirm. I look and feel as beautiful as my self-help books tell me I am.
Also getting lots of looks from people, and I’m hoping at least one of them is thinking kindly.
I am not thinking kindly.
I can’t hear you, my pants are too loud.
Spent most of the weekend playing Destiny… I was going to try to finish the last chapter of The Witcher 2, but I seem to have lost my old save, and the farthest any of my saves go is still before the Kayran. So, I got daunted, and went off to shoot stuff.
Got invited into a raid group by some very nice people, and knocked off three CE normals (update: Crota still seems to have no warlock hats in stock) and a CE hard (wherein I received the Crux, which turned a useless auto rifle into a useless auto rifle with a Michael Bay modifier (random explosions!!!), but more importantly, I got a new ship :D). I politely requested to run VoG so I could try for a Fatebringer, so we ran VoG, twice. From Gatekeepers. *cries* Given what dropped for me over that six-raid-period (at least three duplicate exotics, the Necrochasm, duplicate kick-arse CE weapons, new VoG gear for my alts, and a bunch of radiant mats), I feel guilty for complaining, but the closest I got to getting a drop I actually wanted was that damn ship. I shall treasure it forever. It shall be dubbed “The quest for Fatebringer”.Monday question because work I’d slow and I’m bored.
You have unlimited funds to make a comic book/video game movie of your choice. Can be a new one or existing one. Who are you hiring to direct and who are you casting?
Edit: Dear @dc, saying Beyond: Two Souls with David Cage and Ellen Page is cheating and will see you disqualified.
J J Abrams – Mass Effect!
Who’s Shepard?
Think carefully, touchy subject where everyone will judge you by your answer.
Oh yeah no pressure with that statement AT ALL. It would have to be George Clooney because you know…. its George Clooney!
George is a Shephard I could believe in.
No way in hell would George Clooney make a good captain Shepard.
I would rather claw my own eyes out.
They should go the Fem-Shep route anyway.
A strong looking female though.
Maybe Lena Headey.
I wouldn’t claw my eyes out, but Lena Headey is a great suggestion.
Have Clooney mocap Garrus.
And leave the original Garrus voice as-is, because oh my god, if anyone else DARES to touch those purring tones, I will #NOTMYGARRUS SO HARD.
The actor that plays him has appeared in live action things I’ve seen (he was also in LA Noire).
Garrus’ voice should not come out of a Human.
That is terrible casting, I don’t want to see Clooney with bewbs
Shirley Manson
Harvey Firestein.
Beyond: Two Souls! David Cage! Ellen Page!
Oooh, that’s a paddlin’!
Can people other than @dc say Beyond: Two Souls with David Cage / Ellen Page, or is it a blanket ban?
Who would want to ban blankets?
Me. Then everyone would have to buy quilts! \o/
Hey, you changed the question.
If I had to make a superhero movie, it would just be something minus everything serious. I’m pretty sure the seriousness is why I don’t like recent superhero movies 😛
You know what could make a cool (niche…) video game movie though? Attack of the Friday Monsters. That would be great. It would follow the group of kids in their small town over a single Friday. Starts extremely peacefully in the morning and slowly builds up to the climax of when the monsters arrive at the end.
Man, I really want to see this now.
Maybe not my top choice, but it’s the first one that comes to mind. I’d love to see a Red Dead movie, probably with Quentin Tarantino directing as I absolutely loved Django Unchained. Not sure who I’d pick for the title role.
I’m bad at this.
I just want a Red Dead 2
Hellboy 3 with the cast and crew from the first 2 following on.
Or, a pre-Fallout movie of the resource war between the countries showing the US being split into the 13 Commonwealths/states, the UN being dissolve and China and America having a massive war until BOOM. It would be a series of films though. Not sure who to direct and produce, Ron Howard most likely as he seemed keen to take on The Dark Tower
I’m still keen to see a Ron Howard directed big budget adaptation of The Dark Tower, even though I’ve only gotten halfway through the first book. What can I say I struggle to find motivation to read. I’m only 180 odd pages into Game Of Thrones (haven’t read any for probably 6 months) and I’m still roughly a hundred pages from the end of a 515 page (I think) book (The Great Zoo Of China) I started in like November last year.
Still haven’t read any of @shane’s books or Metro 7 either.
The pacing of the 1st book is a bit slow compared to the other books although it does speed up and then slow right down through the others. They’re really easy to read though I found compared to something like GoT which I just can’t bring myself to get into. The Dark Tower was the first fantasy series I ever read I believe as well. I still love it
I think Ron Howard’s no longer directing it though, or if he is he’s only doing 1 or 2 of the films rather than all of it. It’s still got the green light though last I heard
My books suck. Don’t worry about them.
Also: help me make another one.
Sales pitch of the century.
“Support Shane W Smith’s books! There’s bound to be a good one eventually.”
Now you’ve just made me sad Hellboy 3 isn’t being picked up by anybody despite Del Toro and Perlman ready to go.
I know. Hellboy is one of my favourite comic book characters, hell, one of my favourite characters from anything and Ron Perlman’s one of my favourite actors ever too. So friggin annoying when you consider some of the films getting greenlit
At least we’ve got Pacific Rim 2 to look forward to.
Edit: really hope Del Toro eventually gets around to making the reboots of Steven King’s It and Pet Semetary that he said he wanted to do.
Only after his version of Slaughterhouse Five.
Edgar Wright’s Borderlands.
Where can I pre-order my tickets?
Tiny Tina and Claptrap have both gotta be in it or no sale.
Nap time! *plop… snooooore*
Full Throttle, starring Jeff Bridges, directed by Wes Anderson.
Alternatively he can direct Day Of The Tentacle, but I don’t know who to cast.
Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man.
…..
Wait a minute….
Monaco, directed by the Coen Brothers, with JK Simmons as the Gentleman.
I was going to say I’d like to remake Tank Girl but that’s blasphemy. That movie was perfect.
So instead, I’ll take a movie adaptation of The Dig, with Robert Patrick reprising his role as Commander Boston Low, and Anna Hathaway as Maggie Robbins. I appreciate that their age difference may defuse any potential sexual tension between the two leads, but I don’t think my movie will need to be reliant on it. Alexsander Skaarsgard can be Ludger Brink, even though he’s from the wrong part of europe. He spends most of the movie dead anyway.
THE DIG \o/
The Lesser Fucking Evil.
We’ll make it on a shoestring budget and use the rest of the money attempting to justify the unnecessary profanity in court against people who were offended by our advertising on kids’ television, and paying out ludicrous settlements.
It’s the best plan.
Edit: I don’t want anything to do with it, though. I want to be all Hank Moody about the book-to-film process and rail about how these dicks ruined the book… while I’m counting my rolls of cash.
I have an iPhone we can use as a camera…
Nah, I’m thinking we can go a bit further downmarket, but thanks anyway.
I’m guessing Zune?
I don’t know what that is, so it sounds like something a little closer to what we’ll need!
My phone has a reputation for having the worst camera in a decent spec smartphone, and I’ve managed to lose the cover so it doesn’t seem to want to focus properly anymore!
YOU’RE HIRED.
Then in a few decades you can have a ‘Saving Mr Banks’-style biomovie made about you starring Ryan Gosling.
Mrs Shane might insist on James Van Der Beek’s first male offspring instead. Also, I can’t imagine something duller than a biopic of my life 😛
Someone once told me that if a movie was ever made about me it would star Jason Biggs. I was horrified.
A movie about @powalen and @shane where they’re played by Jason Biggs and James Van Der Beek.
Hmmm…
I’ve figured it out they’re really Jay and Silent Bob. Your cover’s blown boys.
Just make sure that movie isn’t made by those Miramax fucks.
“The Sandman”
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Right after he finishes making At The Mountains of Madness…
EDIT: I truly want to believe that Warcraft will be the first proper video game movie. So far everything is looking promising… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHqsLQieUyQ
I’d vote Edgar W directing this.
The movie – not my idea. Stolen from Reddit.
Then Comic-Con is over run with Terrorists and its up to the Batmens to put aside their differences, team up and save the day.
Also
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness and Time. Have it completely live-action with practical effects. Nathan Fillion as Grovyle! Jeremy Irons as Dusknoir! It would be completely awful, yet the amazing story of the game it’s based on will somehow pull it into being a good film.
Emoticons in work emails, urrggghh. I don’t know why they rankle me so much but they just scream unprofessional to me. Particularly when the emails come from your supposed ‘management’. /rant
I had to file a compliment for someone that contained eight exclamation points, shared over two sentences.
Telltales The Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 2
Clementine just witnessed me killing one of the brothers in the barn with the pitchfork. Good, it might make her harden the fuck up a bit.I think you’re the first person I’ve ever seen that didn’t like Clementine 😛
@shane’s wife?
No, she liked Clem. She just didn’t get as attached as I did. “She’s just one of the group.”
http://www.pixel-otaku.com/mrs-shane-vs-the-walking-dead/
Duck’s pretty annoying too. They’re just so whiny.
Edit: to be fair though I’m not really attached to any of the characters except Lee.
And y’all know how that works out.That was the first decision that made me quit and replay from an earlier checkpoint, and realise that I needed to act like the man I wanted Clem to think I was – just in case.
I guess if you hate Clem, you get a different vibe from it. Like how I enjoyed the Office UK more when I accepted that I should let my dislike of Ricky Gervais colour how I felt about his character instead of forcing myself to sympathise with him.
Now that I’ve finished Bloodborne, I’m watching through some speed runs. Geez.
Alright, you don’t have to be angry about it.
@redartifice Thinking about your Discworld retheme thing, P.I. is definitely a good fit. The game itself is simple to teach and it’s easily reskinnable.
There are 12 suspects, 10 crimes and 14 locations on the board. Swapping those with characters and locations from Ankh-Morpork and crimes that are more in-line with Discworld is fairly trivial.
The tricky bit would be making the 22 tiles for each suspect and crime and 72 cards. 2 cards for each suspect, location and crime. One as a deck to be used as clues for deduction, the other lot to be used in set up so that everyone has a suspect/location/crime combination for another player to solve. You’d also have to reprint the board with the locations changed.
Appropriate artwork could be taken from Discworld: Ankh-Morpork or fan art.
Really, it depends on how much effort you’re going to put into this effort but it’s definitely viable.
I’ve never played it, how gateway is it?
I can teach it in the time it takes to set up and it’s not a complicated setup.
Show me in Sydney.
I’ve got time here, and not all the games will be Discworld themed, it’s just a couple of easy gateway games that they want to theme. I need more details anyway, as he asked me on my way out the door last night.
Will do. It’s a dead simple game and I like to sell it as a better Clue. Most people will grok it without too much hassle. Although there are some people who are just goddamned terrible at it.
@redartifice I only just finished the write-up for the last Uturi’s Pit/Impossible Blade session in Numenera so I figured you might enjoy some statistics. I’ll post the write-up later tonight.
– This Wednesday will mark the 30th session of Numenera.
– We played our first session on the 2nd of October 2013, 572 days ago.
– During this time, we have played approximately 58 hours of Numenera. This is approximately 0.4% of the time that has elapsed since we first started playing.
– The longest individual adventure/plot arc that we’ve followed has been the Devil’s Spine series of adventures, which has gone for 18 sessions so far and was first started on 26th of March 2014.
– So far, I have written 90,199 words in these session write-ups.
– The second year anniversary of TAY Numenera will happen on approximately 30th September 2014.
And after all that time I have a robo fighting buddy! \o/
That’s like two novels worth or writeups!
Whole article on taking advantage of exploits and no one admits to staying out of aggro range of mini bosses in Dark/Demons Souls and filling them with a few hundred arrows.
A hundred poison arrows.
Oh man. The poison knives in Bloodborne are so ridiculously effective for that.
I was having moderate success with those on the [REDACTED NSFW] hunter in the church. And then someone pointed out I could just let him poison himself and walk away. I did it. Because that fucker’s a [STRING OF EXPLETIVES THAT WOULD MAKE A PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE PALE].
That reminds me of Seymour Flux in FFX. I didn’t have any limit break weapons at that point and he auto-kills everything with his Annihiliation move as soon as an attack takes him below 10k HP. Getting past him was a science. I found a poison ball on Mt. Gagazhet which I used to poison him but leave him above 10k. He dropped below 10k on his turn, which enabled me to hit him with 9,999 damage on my next turn, finishing him before he could use Annihilation on my party.
I guess that’s not really an exploit, but it’s similar in spirit.
Everyone always forgets about the Defend command…
That’s probably the answer but I swear I tried that and it was useless.
That’d require buying arrows.
I also can’t use any item that I can’t easily replenish, because I might need it later.
Tears are the only item I need.
Anyone up for TAYKart tonight?
@dc, @powalen, @greenius, @liondrive, @scree, @shane, Freezespreston etc etc.
Dammit! @freezespreston
Nah, I have none of the DLC and no plans to get it. Pretty sure I’m done with Nintendo home consoles. They have nothing for me.
I think a new TAY Kart group would need to be started to include DLC tracks.
I can’t commit to tonight, alas. But if you guys are playing and I can make it, I’ll join in!
Also @sughly, @gemini and @gutsoup are Mario Karters too!
hrm…I may have to emerge from my EVE induced coma to run some laps. 200cc of course, because shit needs to be real. 😉
I haven’t even unlocked 200cc yet, so will I be able to race with you guys if that’s what you pick?
Is it locked? I just downloaded it and it worked.
Apparently you have to have gotten all gold trophies in the 150cc grand prix. I’ve only got one.
Doh!
I’m workin’ on it.
I kind of want to, but, I’m not sure if I can. I need to keep on sewing
Broken Aging! Sorry 😀
Just redeemed all my remaining stars from Club Nintendo (all 1200 of them).
Ordered a shiny new white Nintendo DS game case.
Go on admit it, you’re jealous.
No. But I am happy for you. 🙂
I’m so downloading A Link To The Past, Super Mario 64 and Donkey Kong 64 off the Eshop on payday this week.
No matter what I do I can’t even pass the first staff ghost time trial in Mario Kart 8. Even tried using the same Kart setup, but I still lose.
Time to face facts I guess. I just straight up suck.
To be fair, they’re supposed to be relatively hard to beat!
What setup are you using? What are you having trouble with?
Also, you can have a go at 200cc in VS mode (without unlocking anything) if you want to check it out.
Was using the Sports Coupe Kart, normal wheels and super glider.
Trying to beat the time trial of Nin*Chris (1:59.781) on Mario Kart Stadium.
Just for reference, I use the Sports Coupe as well with Retro Off Road wheels (same stats as Normal wheels) and the Parafoil (slightly more Acc and less weight than the Super Glider). Using Toad as well (lightweight – characters affect stats too). Basically the same! You’ve got to find whether that play style works for you though.
The setup I use requires you to drift basically constantly. Usually trying to get multiple boosts per turn by starting your drift earlier than normal. Needs to take advantage of the good handling and acceleration to make up for your lack of speed. Practice drifting as much as possible!
If that doesn’t work for you, you’ll probably want to try the other end of the spectrum with a Heavy character (bowser, Wario, waluigi, Rosalina, metal chars and a couple of the koopalings) and focus on speed/acceleration over handling.
There are also two types of drifting as well, so try them both to see which you prefer. One type is sort of an inside drift (char leans into the drift) that a lot of the bikes do while the other makes you fish-tail (which I prefer because you get greater control over a long drift)
Tl;dr: if you want to keep that setup, practice drifting! I think I’ve uploaded a few of my time trial ghosts to some tracks so if you can download those to watch (not sure if this is even possible?) it could help you!
Thanks for the tips man, all I did was change to using Donkey Kong and I beat him first shot by over 2 seconds \o/
Awesome.
You probably don’t need it anymore but I just went on and uploaded my ghost for Mario Stadium to Miiverse if you still wanted it (you should be able to search for it in the Time Trial mode somehow. Not sure if it will show me in your list though)
It’s not the best time ever but it’ll show you what I mean by early drifts.
BROKEN AGE!
Dammit Tim Schafer, I’ve got errands to do tonight.
ERRANDS!
THEN FIX IT! LAZYIUS!
IF IT AIN’T FIXEN THEN DON’T BROKE IT
I’ve been thinking about the Mas Effect movie, and I think, if it happens, they should try and leave the actor/actress playing Shepard anonymous through all the promotional stuff so that the reveal is a big surprise in the cinema (since it could technically be anybody).
It’ll never happen, but I thought it’d be cool (like, have them helmeted in promo material, have the body figure be androgynous, etc).
Barring that, I’ve sold myself on Lena Headey.
Lena Headey all the way! 😀
You’ve sold me too.
She’d be perfect!
Fem-Shep is the only way to go, and Lena Headey has that strong feminine look to her which would be perfect!
She’s also a great actress and has been in similar roles before (Sarah Conner Chronicles), and I think is probably one of, if not the best choice.
I’mma be super disappointed when it doesn’t happen 🙁
The only reason I dislike this is it may stop her playing Captain Marvel
I don’t think you understand, when you have a big name like George Clooney as Shepard, you’d want to promote it to the high heavens themselves.
I will cut you.
Kevin James.
He can put on the N7 suit, shit himself then make a bunch of unfunny fat jokes sprinkled with homophobia and racism.
Adam Sandler as Garrus.
Roy Scheider as Mordin.
David Spade as Thane.
Drew Barrymore as Miranda.
Steve Buscemi as Grunt.
Chris Rock as Jacob.
Me as the guy killing myself at the thought of this.
Since you mentioned the rest of the Adam Sandler crew I’m assuming you meant Rob Schneider (Deuce Bigalow), not Roy Scheider (the guy from Jaws).
I stand by my decisions.
We’re gonna need a bigger lab.
6K Kotaku Komments
*drops mic*
NEARLY 32K
*drops mic further*
(waits for D.C.)
Boo-urns!
6KKK?
Mr. Strange plays Bloodborne, part the zillionth:
He’s hanging out killing stuff in the Forbidden Forest, and before I can say “wait, that looks like an NPC!” he swings his weapon and hits this half nekkid guy…who then turns into a giant fucking beast and growls something like “Have you got a screw loose?! You Hunters have too much blood on your hands.” Mr. Strange freaks out and for a second forgets he’s still playing the game as he looks at me and goes “what the hell just happened?!”, and it destroys him.Did you end up getting a replacement code?
Nope!
I’m pretty sick at the moment and was actually outside locking my front door so I could catch a bus and visit Target before I realised I wasn’t physically up for that. So I went back inside and stayed in bed until Mr. Strange got home.
Mr. Strange then took me up to Target but they had no more codes and all the dude did was offer to give me a partial refund, which we both then forgot about as I almost burst into tears saying “but I wanted to play that demo!”. So he told me to contact Sony. And I walked away because I was about to pass out. Probably should have just stayed in bed and tried to deal with it when I’m better. 😛
Damn that really sucks, hope you feel better soon Strangey. Hope you have some luck with Sony.
Shit. Sorry I didn’t mention to call first, instead of taking the trouble to make a trip for something that they’d have to order in.
Refunding is pretty much the least they can do, and it sounds like they’re going for the least. 🙁
Oh, don’t be sorry. It’s my fault for being afraid to make phonecalls! 😛
As much as I know I should show some form of sympathy, that just makes me giggle 😛
Happy to be of service. 😀
Ha. @shane watched me do exactly that.
…
I was there too. I see how it is, Freezey. Message recieved! 😛
You weren’t watching. You were judging.
Only with my eyes!
What else could you have been judging with?????
His fingers?
I went looking everywhere (or so I thought) for that guy and never found him. I was still looking for him when I stumbled upon the Shadows of Yarnham.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2015/04/why-we-spell-focusing-and-focused-with-just-one-s/
Because then it would be Fo’ cussing, duh.
Received a $10 off eBay voucher from a PayPal email about a month ago.
Put off buying anything until the last minute (it expires tomorrow).
Didn’t really want or need anything but figured I’d have a look a things to find something.
Found some socks.
Tried to apply the discount code and it wouldn’t work.
Sadness.
Called PayPal.
Was about to hang up after being on hold for 10 minutes when someone picked up.
Got $10 credited into my account to make up for it.
Now receiving socks.
Pretty good day.
They’d better be green socks…. 😛
They were not 🙁
I’ve failed…
Something has changed within you. Something is not the same. D:
He’s through with playing by the rules of someone else’s game.
#rebelius
That’s not how you spe– ohhhhhh.
Just been informed that a party I’m going to on the weekend is decidedly more formal than I realised. Now… the only suit I have is the one I wore to my year 12 formal x years ago… The only decent tie I have is a bright green one that was once used in a Halloween costume… And the only nice shoes I have are basically flippers on my feet…
Hm. Maybe I need to go shopping…
Cue montage.
Two montages. A clothes-trying-on one and a standing-in-front-of-bathroom-mirror-attempting-a-“hairstyle” one.
TWO montages?! Who do you think you are?!
They call me Alex.
I know how you can solve the second problem!
https://instagram.com/p/1w-LtSNahd/
Shopping, yes. Stick to a basic suit – black or very dark grey is always a safe bet, and flexible with different shirts/ties. Navy is harder to match. Get a three piece suit that includes a waistcoat and get a SPARE PAIR of pants – you’ll get more wear out of it. Get a nice shirt with french cuffs and some fun cufflinks. The important thing is to go to a store where they can fit you properly.
If you really want to look sharp, do what ladies do – book a visit to the barber in the morning. Shave, trim, you’ll look suave.
If you don’t think you’ll get much wear out of a suit, then go hire one. Good way to try out a style without having to commit too much money.
Thanks FashionMama
SHOPPINGSHOPPINGSHOPPINGSHOPPINGSHOPPINGSHOPPINGSHOPPINGSHOPPINGSHOPPINGSHOPPINGSHOPPING!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
I should really be a personal shopper or something :\
I’ve had reasonable success walking into a suit store and when the attendant asks if they can help, reply, “Yes. I’ve got $x. Make me look good.”
HEY FOLKS.
The missus and I are going to be in Melbourne for a weekend from 22nd of May to 25th May. The 23rd is our 7th wedding anniversary! Yay!
We’re thinking of seeing if anyone wants to catch up on the night of the 22nd? We’ve got plans on the 23rd and 24th, but seeing you lovely folks on the Friday night would be awesome.
We’re staying at the Radisson, which I believe is right in the CBD. Anyone keen to grab dinner or something?
Can someone do the tagging Melbourne folks thing? I haven’t posted on TAY in….. waaaaaaaaay too long 🙁
@beavwa @budgieishere @chuloopa @coldcamv @crazyguy1990 @f4ction @greenius @jordi @mad_danny @negativezero @pixel_the_ferret_viking @scree @smurfydog @tech_knight @tigerion @tofu @trikeabout @zetrox2k
@mythamphetamine
He’s a Melbournite now? How did I miss this?
I didn’t realise they were in Melbourne now, either! I need to hang out on Twitter with the cool kids more, I guess.
@highperformance :'(
I just copied and pasted from Taytags:
http://www.taytags.com/
I’m keen, let me know details as they emerge!
Sounds interesting but I’m not sure if I’ll be in the country.
Possibly! I don’t like going into the city on a weekday (after work) though since it’s so far 🙁
darned Fridays! >.<
(can never do Fridays, which is annoying because of all the stuff I miss out on then)
I can try. Night travel is a little difficult for me because my public transport sucks.
Friday night I have football, but I can come for a bit!
That might be something I can certainly show up to, just need to ensure I’m not on recall for work. Other than that, I’m in!
Edit: Just checked I’m not on recall so I’m certainly up for attending this dinner event!
I would like to officially register my interest.
I’m interested.
Public transport is pretty crappy for me too so I’ll probably drive. @scree I could give you a lift home if you like.
I’m in the west. I don’t want you to go out of your way. I can save up and get a taxi if I really need to.
I’ll be freeeee
Been listening to the extra-Priestular works of Rob Halford, since I’d heard talk of how his stuff then “sounds more like Priest than Priest” at the time, and I discovered the other day I’d forgotten they were sitting on my hard drive waiting to be listened to.
Fight wasn’t really my thing, although some of it did sound quite a lot like a bunch of the Redeemer of Souls stuff. And 2wo, I don’t even know what that was 😛 Sounded more like something my sister would have listened to. Tonight I got to Halford though. Yeah, this is more my speed 😛 Although it made me more think Maiden than Priest, in terms of sound.
If you stopped wishing everything sounded like Priest, you might find more music you liked. 😛
How good would it be if it did though 😛
Nah, it’s not that. I just seem to have a fairly narrow range of what I like when it comes to this kind of music, it has to have a certain level of speed/excitement and a good amount of melody otherwise it just isn’t enjoyable enough for me to want to listen to. I don’t know how accurate a statement that is since I don’t actually know what I’m talking about, but it feels approximate enough 😛 Whatever it is, it’s less that I want things to sound like Priest and more that Priest seems to happen to be just about the only thing I’ve found that sits perfectly in the range of what I like.
I find that the more I vary my listening, the more I discover that my tastes are wider than I thought they were. I’ve also found that while I used to think it was vocals that was my hook into a band, apparently I love a certain guitar sound as well.
I hope you end up finding new things you love though, as much as I love repeating old favourites over and over, sometimes I just crave something new, and finding new stuff that’s perfect for me is such a great feeling.
Oh and also, I hope you’re giving all the stuff that’s not Priest that you try a few listens. My most favourite ever albums I almost always didn’t like at first.
Oh yeah, I’ll leave them in for a few rotations yet. I mean I didn’t even like the Painkiller album all that much when I first listened to it, but now it’s ended up one of my most favourite.
It’s not often I get new stuff though. I don’t know how to find or look for music at all, it’s never really been something I’ve sought out so much as just being things I’ve chanced upon.
Maybe you should sign up for the free trial of Google’s Play Music or something similar, where you can look up Judas Priest and find out what it thinks are “similar” artists, and you can use your favourite songs to help you find other songs/artists you might like. After I’ve listened to certain songs a few times it offers to play me a “radio station” based on that song. It’s how I’ve found all my recent favourite bands. I think the free trial is a month, so that should be enough to show you some new stuff.
Is that kind of like that Pandora thing? I completely forgot about that, at one stage I was listening to it at uni (since woo, free internets). But I have no friggen clue what I plugged into there to end up with what I was listening to. It was kind of… gypsy music? Usually with violin playing the melody over a strummed guitar. That kind of thing. It’s the weirdest memory, I have no idea how it came about, just that it happened. I wonder if maybe it was the theme from Monk that I plugged in (not the Randy Newman one with vocals), that’s the only possibility that comes to mind. Weird 😛
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World – Twenty-Eighth Session Recap (1st April 2015) starring:
– Blaghs aka @blaghman the tough Glaive who masters weaponry,
– Elandar Kintan aka @popdart5 the foolish Nano who controls gravity.
– Scrappa aka @tech_knight the mechanical Jack who talks to machines, and
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales.
Blaghs and Scrappa stood on the edge of the large, vaunted chamber that was deep inside this mysterious structure that they had found inside Uturi’s Pit. They were on the trail of the Impossible Blade, an ancient artefact and Numenera device that had been buried in Queen Stalliset’s tomb deep in the Pit. The artefact had been stolen from the tomb and they had tracked it to this strange and alien structure. Elandar had ventured ahead to scout and had so far avoided the Erulians that infested the chamber ahead and he had stolen into a side chamber. Unfortunately for Elandar, he had ventured into a room that contained a giant Erulian that calmly floated through the air. He hadn’t been noticed yet, however Elandar’s eye was drawn to a nearby workbench where a thin and immaculate blade rested on the surface. The Impossible Blade had been found.
Read more at http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/. Now with pictures so you can see exactly what the Erulians look like!
Finished the story mode of Lego Marvel Superheroes. Pretty standard Marvel story, but a lot of fun to play. Now I have all the side missions, 100%ing the main missions and collecting all the collectables to go. That’s going to take a while.
Everytime I pick that game up, I get baffled by the controls. The switching between characters is also driving me mad. I suppose I just need to take a good run at it.
Definitely easier playing on PS4 with a controller.
My favorite Lego game. I really enjoyed the diversity of super powers, a lot of characters actually feel unique unlike in most other lego games I’ve played where there are 50 identical characters in different skins. I really enjoyed all the little side quests in the open world bit.
Tip: Get all the stud multipliers, they stack and you get ridiculous amounts of studs (like billions). Also if you have trouble in the timed “fly through all these rings” missions (I did) use the shrink cheat you can unlock, makes handling so much easier.
Ok guys, the best burger place in Hobart has just premiered their new burger.
The Heisenburger.
The Heisenburger; Its a thick beef patty, cheese, bacon onion jam, blue cheese dressing and pickles.
…blue cheese. Heh. But anyway, they had me at bacon onion jam.
Okay, so my Dad’s down in Hobart at the moment (clearing through my Grandfather’s stuff).
Can I convince you to deliver one of those to Sandy Bay so he can bring it home to me? >.>
Uhm, done. But I may have to advise deep-freezing it first.
(Also, seriously, if you can think of a way to get it back to you, I will gladly drop it to him!)
Now I’m seeing a little movie in my head of you rocking up to the main street in Sandy Bay, burger in hand like a waiter and yelling “Old man Blaghs?! I have your Heisenburger!”. My head is a strange place.
I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS
…and delivers your burger.
Also, Sandy Bay is where we’ll be staying in July. They still have that super awesome proper German bakery? (I haven’t been there in 15 years….)
Edit: and last time I was there, I was pregnant with my daughter and any food that wasn’t McDonalds double cheeseburgers made me throw up. What a waste of a trip to Tasmania, the biggest reason to go is the food!
Oh man I am going to give you so many recommendations for food.
So many.
When you’re nearly down here, give me a hoy on TAY or Twitter and I will fill you guys with so many recommendations. It’s become nirvana down here.
Also, I think the bakery closed down. Sorry.
Dammit, Germans! 😛
I saw that. Pretty crazy. There’s a new place in Launceston that’s opening a proper cafe after having had a market stall for a while. They’ll be doing stuff like Reubens, Philly Cheesesteaks and other awesome things like that, plus good coffee. Definitely sounds like a place I’ll be visiting regularly.
And I’ll visit it with you when I finally get up Launceston!
SAY ITS NAME.
Holy crap, it’s late.
Where?!
In general.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/04/27/konami-delists-itself-from-the-new-york-stock-exchange/
Hmm.
The numbers Mason, what do they mean?
So has anyone here got 10,000 coins in Mario Kart 8 to unlock the gold glider customisation?
I only got to 2,000 last night.
I’ve got the coins! I play way too much Mario Kart! 😛
Only half that 😛
Playing local multiplayer helps, you get everyone’s coins,
Sweet! Did not know that.
Does anybody have any friends I could borrow?
Nope, sorry.
Friends?
Get a helper monkey!
I’m available for the position. What’s the pay?
The pay is feeling good for helping Pow get coins so he can crush you in races!
I’ll do it. Now to tell the wife I’m moving to Sydney to live with a guy and help him play video games.
Be right back.
hahahahaha Brave man
I’d gladly come play mariokart – particularly this week, Anton’s doing Experiments and I’m home alone *starts singing all by myself*
I’m only up to about 3500.
SYDNEY FLIGHTS BOOKED
Related: Who wants to hang out next friday arvo in Sydney?
Gimme a time and a place and I’ll be there.
Apparently the “place” is going to be miles away from anything, but we’ll figure something out
I thought there was talk of Newtown on the Friday night?
I work ’til 7 is all so if it’s a bit of a ways out I’ll probably not be able to make it.
Ooh. Steam is removing the paid mods thing. That didn’t last long.
http://steamcommunity.com/games/SteamWorkshop/announcements/detail/208632365253244218
Don’t mean to be blunt but: good!
I’m all for the opportunity to donate to modders who’s work in enjoy, but the way valve handled it was… Not great
Yarp. Molding scene has been around a LONG time and for Valve to come blundering into the middle of that trying to take it over… yeah. Was only ending one way.
I am genuinely surprised. I really thought this was the way of the dystopian future that I would shake my walking cane at.
Not that I should be surprised.
Of interest… Gaben’s reddit discussion on the subject saw most of his posts hidden due to downvotes, in the thousands. Apparently the first time this has EVER happened to our
False GodLord & Saviourpopular cult leader.And the online petition managed to secure over not just a couple thousand signatures, but a hundred and thirty three thousand. That’s a LOT of users. I don’t think I’ve seen any petitions ever get that high about REAL issues, let alone internet ones.
I saw Avengers 2 and I loved it. I will probably see it again. (I now have confirmation that all those who thought it was ‘only OK’ are monsters.)
My only complaint with the movie is that there was only one post-credit scene after the animated, big-name star credits and I sat through the text-roll expecting a second one, only to be disappointed. 😛
I watched this on the weekend and the people working at the cinema was kind enough to walk and shout out after the post credit scene that “there’s nothing more to see” so I didn’t have to sit through the credit roll 😛
Oh and yes, fantastic film!
I do that. Every Marvel movie we get I even offer to skip to the scene, nobody ever declines. Funny that.
Seems only me, you, @jimu and @beardymcmuttonchops thought it was awesome, everyone else MONSTERS!
Also, I did warn everyone that there was only one extra scene.
Also, @pixel_the_ferret_viking
Everyone else is on “the list”.
The more I think on it, the more convinced I am that 2 is the better one.
Making it the best Marvel movie yet.
There’s just no way (without planning to flush the franchise in the eye’s of the majority of the movie going public) that it could have possibly been a better movie.
But @evilmonkey warned us! I remembered he’d said there was one about 60 seconds after the end, but nothing after that .
Also, how can I be a monster when I was kind enough to lower your expectations so you could enjoy it more?! 😛
Heh, yes, the Monkey’s name is a misnomer, he is good peoples… but I’m pretty sure I skimmed over anything Avenger 2-related to keep myself spoiler free. Sorry @evilmonkey!
I think I’m seeing it today.
We can spend tonight arguing about it.
Excellent. Any opportunity to
jam my fingers in my ears and pretend I’m unquestionably right on all things in the face of evidence and reason*cough* demonstrate my unassailable position of logic is a good thing.Srsly tho, I’ll be interested to hear more views on it. I did love it. It made me feel and happy and laugh and empathise and all those good things that is the best I can ever really hope for in a movie… People not being too impressed is mystifying to me.
You two can talk about it all you want so long as you avoid spoilers when I’m around. >:|
Or you can skip lunch to watch the movie and join us. 😉
Unfortunately the 2 showings I could realistically work my way in to either clash with a meeting or would finish after the tasting starts. But I like the way you think.
That little tickle in the back of your throat? It could be the start of something serious. Better take today from work to be on the safe side.
Yeah, @beeawwb you can’t be too careful. Also, treat the source of the problem with some ‘medicine’ to kill bacteria.
Hulk buster!’nuff said
Loved that scene.
Especially when
He punches Hulk in the face and he just spits out a tooth, turns and gives him a look like “you are fucked” and Tony goes “I’m sorry”. Friggin gold.I lost it during the
continual punching “gotosleepgotosleepgotosleep” sequence… Just brilliantYeah, that was good. But it was like
He’s the Hulk, all you’re doing is making him more angry.I think it was just too easy to see the “formula” in this one. It had some awesome moments, and I even let out a few hearty guffaws, but the parts were greater than the sum.It’s all about The Vision. So superhero comic.
Just avoided my first blue shell ever, then came 3rd anyway.
*shakes fist*
The blue shell conspires against us all!
Lets play a little game…. “Who’s having a depressing Tuesday Morning & Why?”
Ill start,
for me it all begun when i realized i need to download the Microsoft Zune software….
My condolences.
Egads… sorry to hear that
Oh by the way, my compliments to the chef that made those crumb sundaes on Saturday, that was really delicious! Hope you had a great birthday LAN party, I was really sad that I had to leave so soon.
haha, ill let the missus know, thats her specialty…. you should try her choc ripple cake!
I certainly will next chance I get.
100cc Lightning cup is giving me the shits, but I’m determined to unlock 200cc by weeks end.
I ate all the grape liquorice and now there’s no more. GRAPE LIQUORICE. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
Costco?
https://twitter.com/hermitdc/status/592840449536176129
Darrell Lea!
Wowsers. I just tend to assume anything grape flavoured is in some way American.
Wait, Darrel Lea is still around? I thought it went out of business when the owner wanted to be given an AC-130 to kill rabbits and they got the pants sued off them by Cadbury.
Really, just a great time to be an adult. I recently bought just a tonne of packets of Pez. No dispensers… screw that nonsense, for the same money you could get MORE PEZ. And the time you spend loading the dispensers can be spent eating an entire packet of Pez. Pez, Pez, Pez.
…I need to find out if there’s somewhere you can bulk-buy Pez. If I ever get to meet my past, kid-self, I will tell him that in the future he is buying tonnes of Pez, and he will be stoked.
The dispenser is the most important part of the pez experience!
Only if you get a tweety-bird one, and only if you pretend your fingers are its wings clapping. Otherwise? Get outta here!
One of these days we’re gonna resolve our differences with fisticuffs. That won’t go well for me. D:
What are you a mental defective or something?
50 pieces bulk enough for you, or are you talking more?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/PEZ-Candy-Refills-Fruit-Flavoured-Lollies-50-Pieces-/271837106062?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_15&hash=item3f4ac10f8e
I still have all those packs you gave me in Cairns.
They are for EATING! Should take them into the movie.
I bought some Woolworths-brand red liquorice last week and it’s still sitting in my cupboard because it makes my tongue go numb 😛 It’s… not great.
Maybe your tongue is not good. Stop blaming the red liquorice! 😛
A wise man once said “Never take the blame yourself. Blame everyone else but you!”
He sounds as wise as he is super handsome!
I like his modesty.
Oh man, I slept in until 9am, realised I don’t have to go to work, I have to go see Avengers 2 with my wife, then I’m stuck going to a Glenfiddich tasting night with a pair of interesting conversationalists.
Just terrible.
You’ve got another whisky tasting tonight?! You two-timing bast…… wait a minute.
Worst day ever!
@rocketman is winning at worst tuesday.
Steve-o is competing powerfully at being Tuesday’s biggest champ, though.
I found out the guy sitting next to me, who had a bit of a cough the past week, is off sick with whooping cough. Need to book a doctors appointment to get myself tested. Fun times ahead.
I think you win, tho. Zune… I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.HahaHAHAHA- oh erhm I’m sorry for your loss
So I saw Ross Noble last night on the second attempt, after Saturday’s show was cancelled to “God getting angry”. I’ve seen him several times, but this was probably one of the more enjoyable times. This was probably helped by sitting in the front middle and getting into a conversation with him as soon as he walked on stage. We were apparently going to get all oiled up and recreate Dirty Dancing together. Obviously.
@cookingmama wasn’t able to make it last night, but she’s going tonight instead. Ross has promised that he will “sort out an upgrade” from sitting up the back. At one point he was suggesting that she will be on a couch in the middle of the stage and he will dance around her all show. I really hope this happens, but am disappointed that I won’t be there to see it 😉
He also gave me some free stuff at the end. But this wasn’t all that exciting, given that I could buy it outside and all the money went to charity, so I made a donation anyway.
I saw him on sunday, he’s pretty good 🙂 Awesome that you got to interact with him. We had one guy wearing a fancy hat and when Ross put the hat on a lady took her jumper off, Hillarity ensued
For the record, I really hope I’m not sitting on a couch on the stage.
Spoilsport.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/04/mario-kart-8s-new-dlc-is-stuffed-with-inside-jokes/
Cool.
Anyone else picking up Kirby And The Rainbow Paintbrush next week?
It’ll be my first Kirby game. Only 2 other Wii U games I plan on picking up this year are Yoshi’s Woolly World and Star Fox. Really hanging for Yoshi, Yoshi’s Story is one of my all time favourite N64 games.
I’m going to, Canvas Curse on DS was great. But it’s not really a Kirby game, it’s just that they need to put a round character into a game concept they dreamed up. Real Kirby games are much slower paced and platformy (and kinda boring IMO).
Batboy has been asking me about “the playdough Kirby game” for weeks now. Every time we walk past an EB.
Clearly a kid that knows his stuff 😛
Oh that’s next week? Awesome.
Finished Bojack Horseman last night.
Wow. That got fucking dark.
Strongly recommend. Need to get past the first few episodes. They’re Family Guy style trash that aren’t funny but turns out that deliberate. Show’s actual humour isn’t obvious and more of a subtle undercurrent.
8.5/10
Well thanks for piquing curiosity. I am now grudgingly compelled to give that another shot at some point. 😛
I have a recommendation from a colleague of mine who tends to love all the same stuff I do. He was gonna give me all the eps he had, but then I discovered it on Netflix! Looking forward to finding out what it’s all about 🙂
That’s pretty much my thoughts on it too. Nearly gave up on it multiple times.
MSNBSea
OOOOOOH!
Considering @freezespreston will be busy whisky-ing it up tonight, did @tech_knight and @gingerchris86 still want to play Rogue Trader tonight? If you want to take a night off, that’s fine with me otherwise we can have the grand adventures of Kharaga and Jarallius with their two Gretchin sidekicks, Mumbles and Boomz.
I’m not tanky enough to be confident in such adventures taking place as of yet (At least until I get The Flesh is Weak talents rolling) so I’ll say no to this 😛
As someone who has played with many a Techpriest, the Flesh is Weak is a rather powerful talent, especially if you jack yourself up with cybernetics galore.
And yeah, we’ll reconvene in two weeks if that suits.
Well if my rolls are anything to go by during this whole series, the Omnissiah’s grand master plan for Jarallius is to be a melee fighter, I must prepare accordingly :P.
I’ll have to look at the skills again to see what other cybernetics I want to get but when I read up on “The Flesh is Weak”, geez you could be the tankiest guy in the game!
Yeah if it’s just us we might need to hold it for tonight.
I’d got my new desk set up and everything. Oh Well 🙂
Life comes before RPGs unfortunately. We’ll reconvene in two weeks for more adventures and more chances for Kharaga to eat stuff. 😛
It’s almost like a game, What will Kharaga eat this week?
It’s like watching Bear Grills eat pretty much anything. Except Kharaga gets better.
Also, I feel I should warn you that overconsumption of certain “undesirable” lifeforms may impart negative qualities to you. You quite literally are what you eat.
That sounds like an even better game! What surprise problem will Kharaga get from eating?
Well… let’s just say that my options are quite open in this regard. 😛
So I shouldnt eat too many Gretchen then? Although I don’t think that will be much of a problem with @freezespreston killing them all
Anyone else get the feeling that they delayed the new Zelda so they can release it as a launch game for the NX.
Or maybe a dual platform like Twilight Princess?
I can see the point in doing so but that would make the WiiU effectively have had no new Zelda games released on it. Wind Waker HD was nice but Skyward Sword was released four years ago. That’s a rather long time to wait.
Oh, it was delayed? D:
Yeah, was meant to be out this year.
I still thought it was. DAMN IT! *shakes fist*
I only learnt this too, shake harder boy!!
Is the NX more than a rumour of a rumour though?
It’s official, in that it’s a thing that Nintendo have said exists, and that they’ll have more details of it next year (they also said it would have a new “concept” so expect a wacky Nintendo hook that will either be great, or fall flat on its face).
My guess for it is some form of handheld, probably out in the first half of 2017.
I dunno. We don’t even know if the “NX” is even a home console at this point (going off timing it’d be more likely to be a handheld). From what they’ve talked though about it sounds more like NX is a shared OS for their next handheld/console (like iOS across many iphones/ipads), not hardware.
But yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if they did a Twilight Princess dealy again with Zelda WiiU coming out in 2016 and the new console launching in 2017.
Just 3-starred all the 100cc cups \o/
Gonna continue with the 150cc cups when I get home from work later. 200cc here I come.
Last weekend was not a very good weekend. The stress of TAFE has gotten to me. I was thinking all weekend about how to phrase my anxiety on TAFE, and I never ended up being able to do it. So all I’ll say is this: I’m not in a good way right now. It was really quite hard for me to get to TAFE today.
What I’m taking away from this is that you fought some powerful anxiety and you won. Which means you have what it takes to do it again. Good job. Even if you don’t perform, just getting to somewhere you don’t want to be is a victory over all kinds of resistance.
Keep putting one foot in front of the other.
Hope you’re still keeping up with all the support contacts you can, if you need to.
Ugh… 🙁
So the Nexus Player looks interesting… Looks like Chromecast and Google Play had a baby.
http://www.google.com/nexus/player/
hey peeps if anyone happens to spot a cheap WIIU deal let me know.. Dont mind if new or second as long as its in good nic. Its a stretch but at present only looking at spending around $150 (obviously not expecting a premium version).
its one of those cases where i dont really need it, but if i find a cheap one ill grab it… only really wanting to get stuck into mario kart and smash bros…
spewing i missed all those WII U Basic deals at start of the year… may possibly sstill be a couple somewhere so anyway just thought id throw out some feelers.
There might be some in my local Target, I’ll have a look next time I’m in there and let you know. Are you in Melbourne?
yup! definitely let me know!
If you’re willing to wait, the toy sales will be upon us soon and they’ll have some decent deals
yeahim not in a hurry, like i said, its just one of those “if i see it at the right price ill grab it”
That’s how I’m going to get my new 3DS
Oh hai Melbourne. I’m going to be in you this weekend. Catching up with family. I may have some time to myself on Saturday afternoon though. What’s up?
Is the Pacquiao and Mayweather fight on Saturday? If so, that’s what’s up!
Saturday in the US. Sunday morning in Aus
Okay. Avengers 2 was pretty great. Didn’t take Winter Soldier’s crown as Best Marvel Movie but it came close.
When I first came out of the cinema, I couldn’t figure out if I’d rank it above or below Iron Man 3 (5th or 6th).
After thinking about the movie for a couple of days, I can’t decided if I would rank it above or below Avengers 1 (3rd or 4th).
Also, more Scarlet Witch please… (Yes, I know she will be in Civil War)
I hate to bring workstuff into relaxy place, but I wonder… does anyone ever get their hands deep in the guts of ServiceNow? I could do with some private pinging on some corporate BS-free advice on it. Everyone I can reach from my desk has an agenda I don’t trust.
I know nothing about it except we’re switching to it soon… That’s about it sorry 😛
We just switched to it late last year. I use it daily, though I don’t know much about it past my day-to-day work.
Thanks guys, Pixel, Archer. I should’ve mentioned I meant sysadmin and developer.
Heads up, Broken Age is released for non-backers now too.
Dammit, I’m probably not going to get to play it until…
Maybe sunday?
You’ve waited this long, Red. It’ll keep. Play it when you really feel like playing and you’ll enjoy it all the more!
I feel like playing it now, I just have had very little video game time for weeks.
Atleast it’s the kind of game you can chip away in small playthroughs.
So who’s replaying Act 1 first? You best believe I am! (Cause there’s achievements now too, so extra and completely unnecessary incentive!)
I never even finished Act 1 so I’ll be starting fresh for sure.
I feel like there’s so many minor details I’ll miss if I go straight to Act 2. Refresh is in order!
I don’t know if all my save files have survived, given I played it one computer and two windows installs ago, so probably.
Found that my reinstall last week had kept all of my steam game files (yay!) but not my Gog saves, so I’ll have to restart Grim Fandango.
What’s a “Broken Age”? 😛
The age where you realise that kids are stupid and adults are lying to you.
Or that adults behave like said children
So basically anything over 13.
Cool, might start on it tonight.
Life lesson – Never get into a philosophical or societal argument with your boss, all you’ll have to show for it is knowing your boss is a moron and probably getting on his bad side while at it =,=
@popdart5 @tech_knight @blaghman
Unfortunately I have a work thing on tomorrow, so I won’t be able to Numenera. We’ll readjourn in a fortnight with Scrappa’s new pet robot Orangutan!
Zippa and Scrappa, the best of friends.
All good about tomorrow. It gives me more time to catch up on the last recap.
Fair enough, more LoL time for me before I go on recall 🙂
Eugh, I wish people could just donate money to me so I could get a 3D printer. I would love to do a Fallout themed 30th and give everyone who attends something.
Kickstarter or similar, with you printing cool stuff for backers as a reward?
Not going to lie, I would give money to that Kickstarter so fast if it was real.
But what sort of stuff would you want printed? Anything in particular?
I’d have to sit down and really think about it. I know I’d be able to get a miniature of most of the standard fantasy things that I can think of but they cost a lot from people like Wizards. There was a guy on Reddit who was 3D printing the entire Monster Manual of creatures before he was told to stop which would be awesome to just start collecting.
Ooh, a Rak’gol from 40K would be something cool to get printed as I don’t think they’ve ever had miniatures cast.
Edit: This is just me pie-in-the-sky idea rambling as I have no idea how much I’d want to shell out for such stuff. I was seriously considering throwing money at people on DeviantArt for commissioned artwork but everything seems so expensive. I know I have absolutely no idea of the true value of such stuff and would not know if paying someone for 3D printing was good value for money.
I wonder what sort of legal/copyright issues would come up using someone else’s IP as a reward?
Yeah, generally the answer would be “don’t”
Yep. Which limits 3D printing stuff for people 🙁 Prop makers basically get away with it buy being commission and small scale but I’ve read of a fair few getting shut down.
I think that as long as a company’s IP isn’t used in the production of something that already exists, like replicating other models or figurines that are sold, then you should be right. Artists and cartoonists and stuff make money by selling prints and things of various popular culture stuff that is their original artwork and not just duplications of existing art. I think it would be a fine line to tread for sure but duplicating existing products and then selling them/offering them as rewards would probably cross the line.
For instance, a generic goblin is a generic goblin and Tolkien, Blizzard, Wizards, etc would have a hard time chasing you down for that. But if you specifically branded it as a X version Goblin then you might have some issues.
How about the Fallout stuff you’re thinking of making already?
More complex stuff, custom jobs, etc, for higher tiers. (I’m still interested in commissioning some work too, btw)
Same question as just above re legal/copyright issues printing someone else’s IP 😛
Valve just released the patch notes for Dota 2 6.84.
The short version? Aghanim’s Scepter upgrades for everyone! Centaur’s stampede now gives free pathing and damage reduction. Weaver can now cast time lapse on allies. Techies can now make his invisible mines super invisible. Nyx Assassin is now a Lurker. As for Alchemist? Alchemist eats scepters and can give the buff to allies.
Icefrog wasn’t content being Oprah, he made a hero Oprah.
…. I’m almost afraid to ask, how do you make invisible mines super invisible? And what dyu mean by eats scepters? Is that a new game mechanic (haven’t played dota 2 in about a year)
Mines within range of the minefield sign (which was originally just a cosmetic thing) don’t show up under detection. Super invisible!
Alchemist’s Aghs upgrade is that the item is a consumable for him. He can cast the consumed scepter on himself to get the stats or his ally so they get the stats and their aghs upgrade. It only works once per hero but that means you can 7 slot your whole team if the game goes late. That’s pretty rad.
Edit: Worth noting that while people are excited about this, even money says that it’s not viable.
Aghs is a very expensive buff; so yeah probably not viable if the cost is effectively a team slot. That said not sure how many heroes would really benefit from the new ags mechanic, the ones who were ult focussed already benefited to start with but it should be interesting to see how it buffs the various heroes.
(That said a double ags buff on a Juggernaut would be awesome xD)
The buff itself is actually really good. The last couple of patches have given most of the cast an Aghs upgrade and improved some of the existing ones.
There are a decent handful of heroes where buying an Aghs is a good idea in certain situations (or universally good but not as good as having other items take up the slots). Using Alchemist’s upgrade on them would definitely be very strong.
The hard part is getting the farm on Alchemist. If you have him as a 1 position carry you’re eating up a lot of the map for limitedish benefit. If you have him as a 4 position ganking support that moves into the jungle after a certain point, you can probably buy an Aghs without negatively impacting the rest of the team and not putting yourself too far behind.
It’s an interesting proposition.
Oh and you can’t give double Aghs to someone. If they’ve already got one, they can sell theirs off to open up an item slot.
Wait the buff from alch doesn’t stack?! That’s awful! I take it back agh’s is still a useless item =,=
I can’t think of a way that Aghs could stack. Would Tiny carry two trees?
The point is that heroes can have the Aghs upgrade without using the item slot. Imagine Tiny with an extra item slot, that’s the kind of thing we’re talking about here. Item slots matter a lot in late game situations.
I just want a juggernaut ulti with 25 slashes =P
Oooh TAY you looking fiiiiine today. Did you get your hair done?
I aint got my hair dun did, but thanks anyway champ! You’re not so bad yourself ey!
Oooh, you noticed!
Was going to ask you as a sydneysider: Accommodation wise, for our thing, where should I be looking?
@shiggyninty’s bed
HOT!
this thing is in the ass end of sydney and so is the drinks thing afterwards so I’d say out that way….
What Gingerchris said, honestly (but I don’t know locations at all so couldn’t recommend). It’s quite a bit of a ways out from the city. I’ll be train-travelling over 90 minutes each way. HOORAY!
Sydney is too big. For a 90 minute train ride I could go visit Freeze and have time to spare.
For a ninety minute train ride I could get on the train at Noarlunga and get to gawler with a 15-20 minute stopover in the city.
And it’d only cost you… what’s a MetroTicket cost these days? (I previously commuted from Davoren Park to the CBD by train.)
$3.40 on-peak if I use my metrocard, $5.10 for a single trip paper ticket
I used to commute Ascot Park -> Mawson Lakes by train. Got a lot of reading done
Also, Davoren Park. Ouch.
Yeah, wasn’t by choice. Got out of there as soon as I could and moved to the CBD.
I’m in that train right now.
*blushes*
Why yes! I cut it myself on the weekend.
You cut into yourself?! :O
How’d it turn out?!
You’re a brave woman, Mama!
My hair curls a lot, and the sad thing is that I’ve had worse cuts than this done by hairdressers.
It turned out fine – it’s just a shaggy layered bob with a long fringe – I just snip little bits until it’s back to a length where it sits nicely.
Don’t worry, this (probably) isn’t a permanent development. I’m just having a boring year growing out my last hair colour while I work out what to do with all this silver that’s appeared.
Yeah actually, just on Sunday night.
Friday afternoon. I’m surprised it took you this long to say anything. *runs away crying*
I’m just so busy, I’m sorry! Don’t leave me!
Wow lots of people actually did get their hair done.
No, but it’s reached the point where I have to sweep my fringe over my ears rather than let it hang, because it’s getting in my eyes.
Don’t know why, but I didn’t realize that Splatoon was a Wii U exclusive. Might have to pick it up. From the screenshots I’ve seen it reminds me a lot of De Blob, which I loved.
Spoiler tag cos longer than I thought, and some may be aware already!
Man.. what a week.. or two really…
For those who don’t do fb, I dislocated my hip at work… while sitting down.. all I did was lean forward in my chair and POP!
I’ve had loose joints all my life, and it’s not the first time it’s happened, but it’s the first time it actually hurt…. a LOT! Obviously the way it pops out usually has enough slack in the ligaments from it happening every so often, that it doesn’t hurt (apart from the jolting shock of it popping.)
This time it must have gone out a different way and pulled on a ligament that wasn’t used to it. So I’ve been hobbling around on crutches for a while now, and will continue to do so for a few more weeks I guess.
The same day I did that, I lost my car park swipe card, which I pay a set fee of $270 for, and it allows me to enter and exit the car park any time, with no extra fees.
I notified them, and was told I could just get a ticket, pay the fee for the day to get me out of the car park (full day rate of $39!) and then call up and they would refund or credit to my account.
So did all that, and sent off the email about refund etc. then didn’t get a reply for ages, so I have just been booking my parking online using my credit card, so I have somewhere to park. After 2 weeks of bookings, I sent them the receipts and asked if they could be refunded/credited, as I have an account etc. and already paid for it essentially.
I got a very blunt response of “Should the customer not be in possession of their pass, they are liable to pay the daily parking tariff.”
Totally different to what I was told on the phone by their sales team and whoever helped me the day I lost it. So naturally, I sent off a scathing email expressing my disgust that even though I’ve paid for a whole month already, I now have to pay again, as well as pay a $60 fee for the replacement card.
Today at work, I got a phone call from them! (Apparently has nothing to do with my email, as they weren’t aware of it.)
The person who processed my replacement card, did so on the 16th, and sent it to the car park, but forgot to tell me, or the car park attendants, so to make up for their mistake, and the fact I’ve been paying for parking in the meantime, they’ve given me next month free, and waived the $60 replacement fee! SO MUCH WIN!
Considering how much pain I’ve endured physically in the past weeks (and will continue to endure for a while yet) it’s nice to have a great result to quash my mental anguish! 1 issue is enough to deal with at the moment!
Broken Age Act 2 finished.
Nowhere near as good as act 1 🙁 Some of the puzzles are ridiculous.
Why you gotta be so
(•_•) / ( •_•)>⌐■-■ / (⌐■_■)
Negative?
Zero
Get it out of your system early, Bob.
Nah, he’s just warming up.
@cookingmama @freya @transientmind
Who won the weekend warrior challenge? I couldn’t log into my account no matter how many times I requested a password change lol.
Ohhh, I didn’t even sign up to that one.
There’ll be another one soon. Need to get @gorzilla on board!
Meeeee and you really should reset your account!
It was, of course @freya. I’m on restricted activity until my physio gives me the OK to run (and probably some orthotics)
Is this like a gym thing?? I need a gym thing! I’ve been horribly slack the past 2-3 weeks with no swimming or gymming at all!! =@
It’s a walking/running thang.
Fitbit! You race your buddies for supremacy!
SYDTAYERS WITH CHILDREN/NIECES & NEPHEWS/YOUNGER SIBLINGS/KIDS YOU FOUND ON THE STREET
My brother will be performing in “Mr Snot Bottom” in Sydney on the 16th and 17th of May
“Mr Snot Bottom is a deeeesgusting kids comedian brimming with all the gooey, smelly and yucky topics kids love! Be repulsed by horrible stories, gross gags and just wrong routines in this rollercoaster of weirdness that is perfect for kids aged 4-10.
With hilarious audio-visual effects and a cast of bizarre characters The Mr Snot bottom show is guaranteed to make children and their parents groan, gasp and howl with delight.”
For those who’ve missed me plugging this show before, Angus plays Mr Snot Bottom’s long suffering sidekick Derek the Handkerchief. It’s as humiliating as it sounds.
http://www.mrsnotbottom.com/Sydney_2015.html
He’s also likely to have some more adult gigs around the time that I’ll post here.
I’ll share it around my mummy networks 🙂
http://gematsu.com/2015/04/final-fantasy-xv-feedback-live-stream-full-report-episode-duscae-2-0-coming-mid-may I’m kind of digging the new, more open conversational approach Squenix took with FFXIV and really like that Tabata seems to be doing the same thing for FFXV.
Also it sounds like they’re planning to fix just about all the issues I had with the FFXV demo.
I really hope this proves to be an attractive option for other developers in the same space and we see a bit of a consumer-collaborative cultural shift. Squenix are not alone in their history of being notoriously opaque and intractible in development.
When the new CEO took over from Wada a year or two ago he was sort of saying he wanted more of this sort of thing so I think it’s a cultural shift coming from the top.
Thing is, being open about these things and willing to take feedback and update the game accordingly etc. will really increase player engagement. People who care more are going to be more likely to buy it.
And this more open, collaborative process was part of how Yoshida managed to completely turn FFXIV around to the point they had to revise earnings estimates significantly upward because of how well it’s doing, so that will have gotten a lot of attention.
Numbers don’t lie. But they do equivocate and do not correct you if you misinterpret them.
God damn I am so freakin exhausted. Worst night’s sleep, woke up roughly a million times before it finally stuck. Now too tired to do anything. Including sleep.
Dirt Rally looks like the perfect marriage of Richard Burns Rally and the early Colin Mcrae Rally games.
Cannot wait for it. 😀
To the MPQ folks, excluding the traitorous @Mawt
Ultron is at half health, if we hit it hard we might be able to get this round finished before the event ends. Good luck guys
Oh, oops. I haven’t even played for days and didn’t even know there was an Ultron event. Sorry guys!
Edit: I just played it then. I picked the absolute worst time to not play, didn’t I? 😛
Don’t think we can make it, just do all the unlocked prime missions if you haven’t already.
Each one is a guaranteed Heroic event token
I just tried to do some more with my main account, on my mobile but it won’t connect to the internet. So I updated the one on Steam and tried that, but same thing. I guess the servers are down? Pretty interesting timing….
Conspiracy against TAY by the lizard men in charge of the big publishers. You heard it here first
As we all discussed previously…
It’s @mawt ‘s fault we didn’t down Ultron.
*Shakes fist in Mawts direction*
*feels bad*
Is ok Mawt, we understand…
So much hat 🙁
How far did you guys get? There were about infinity problems with the event and it seems like compensation rewards are going to get handed out.
We were nearly getting him to the 2nd last token Node (node 5?).
Then my app crashed and I couldn’t get in to finish the job. 🙁
To bed I go… nighty-ho.
I swear Mario Kart 8 is based on luck not skill. Must’ve restarted the 150cc Star Cup at least 20 times, finally get 3 1sts and then get bombarded by everyone while I get crappy items in the last race, and come 2nd, making me miss out on 3 stars.
FUCK YOU PEACH!
*rage quits*
You don’t need 3 stars for 200cc do you? My understanding was just get a gold trophy on each cup.
Nah, you don’t need 3 stars to unlock 200cc as far as I know, I’m just being a completionist. I guess I’ll just leave it at a gold trophy for now and come back to it another time.
I think the Joker has taken over WB. 60 bucks for the Arkham Knight season pass, they can’t be serious.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-16062-Batman–Arkham-Knight-Premium-Edition-and-Season-Pass-Revealed.html
New story missions and stuff then?
So I should hold off buying it until the end of the year or so when everything is in a bundle for $40. Cool.
It’s just a few title menu skins and a different pitch for the batmobile’s engine sound.
Oh, and a line of dialogue is changed so one of the bad guys say Christmas themed threats.
Well, it’s not really the same voice actor but we swear it’s totally worth it!
Just do what I do with all DLC ever since the concept of this crap was announcned. Boycott the crap out of it until they release a collected edition at a fraction of the price of the original game! If you didn’t enjoy a game enough to replay it with DLC then you probably shouldnt have gotten a season pass =P
The biggest issue with it for me is that the sort of games I’m most interested in story DLC for are the sort of games I’m really hyped to play and will jump in and get going on day 1 and usually finish within release month (except when they turn out badly, but if that happens I probably wouldn’t buy DLC!)
The issue is that I never want to replay the game just for the DLC. By the time it’s all out, I’m usually basically done with the game and have moved on to something else. Sucks because it actually can often mean missing out on some really good content – Bioware’s games have great story DLC usually, for example.
While I love the Arkham games, I remember with City it was completely shit that they had the day 1 ‘DLC’ for the Catwoman missions.
All I can say is, since I’m paying $250 for the Batmobile edition, it’d better well include a season pass *queue me finding out it doesn’t…*
Why would it? You’ve already demonstrated your willingness to splash out large amounts of money for Batman goodies – it makes no business sense not to milk you for every penny they can.
Yeah, I don’t think it does. I’ll just get this edition and then get the GOTY edition on a Steam sale in a year or so when it’s all out.
Also, having a look and they are doing the whole ‘pre-order now to play as Harley Quinn’ ‘DLC’
That’s what half of my Steam library is: games I’ve already played on console, but picked up with DLC in a sale for less than the DLC price on console.
So many times, Fallout 3, New Vegas or Skyrim on sale on Steam with all DLC for under $10 while the DLC on PS Store is still $15-20 each.
Morning folks, what’s everyone up too? Ive got work for another 2.5 hours then free till Friday.
I’m at work early doing budgets today! \o/
…..
Who am I kidding -> /o\
On the plus side when its over its most of the way to the weekend \o/
(Which is when I work /o\)
Friendly reminder how ace Killzone Mercenary on Vita is. Just mind blowing what they packed onto the Vita, and it’s more a Killzone game than Shadowfall. Plus, botzone! AI multiplayer offline, anytime!
EDIT: Dickmen.
I did love in Killzone 3 the offline multiplayer with bots. It’s not perfect but it’s not something that gets put in enough, mainly I reckon because developers know it’d show up their shoddy ai. The Team Fortress 2 bots are fantastic though
I always enjoyed the option of having some simple, bot killing fun offline available. For times you don’r really want to deal with online, waiting, lobbies, people, mics, etc. Just sit down and get some shootin’ done in peace.
Hello friends!
Last night I went to the movies and saw a movie I was pretty keen for and holy shit it was amazing.
No, it wasn’t Avengers, it was called It Follows. And it’s one of the best horror movies I’ve seen in a long time.
I’m a big horror fan, so this has been on my radar for a while now and it lived up to the hype. It does have a VERY limited release (it’s only playing in 1 cinema in Sydney), but if you can track it down I highly recommend.
Don’t expect gore, expect atmosphere and suspense. And that soundtrack…oh that soundtrack.
Trailer
Yeah, RedLetterMedia seemed to like it so I may actually enjoy a horror movie released in the last few years?!
Probably would’ve been more well known if IT TOOK 12 YEARS TO MAKE!
TWELVE YEARS TO MAKE!
@sunsoar77 – you bastard, you work for Google dont you?!?!?
you make me peek at the google nexus link, and an hour later im off to the JB HiFi around the corner from my house parting away with $129…. it was so new, the embargo only got lifted today and the guy had to grab it from their warehouse in the back…
i get home and disappointment sinks in…. my internet isnt working… as in my modem isnt even picking up a dsl connection on the line. spent an hour on phone with technical and they’ve escalated the issue. fingers crossed its working when i get home from work. I do have services which will come online automatically and notify me at work if the service starts working, so fingers crossed!
…
I wish I did. 🙂
Got an email from Dicksmith about the nexus player and immediately wanted one. Probably shouldn’t as Chromecast is working perfectly right now and we don’t have a second TV in the house to migrate it to.
My internet has also been on the fritz lately too… Keeps dropping connection, resync’s within 30 seconds but then won’t handshake with TPG to get online. Have to leave it for a few minutes and reboot modem. Tempted to jump onto Telstra cable right now as I’m getting sick of it dropping sync mid-episode when I’m watching House of Cards.
Is Nexus player literally just Google’s version of Apple TV? I thought Chromecast already filled that role.
Key difference is that Nexus Player has an onboard CPU. A much better Chromecast basically… Can run run native apps like games, google play etc.
I need to stop waking up at 5:30am… 🙁
welcome to my life 🙁 i hate work…
I do that every weekday
You and I both
Made the mistake of listening to the news this morning – now a bit depressed and have “Good Morning Baltimore” from Hairspray stuck in my head >.
Hey everyone. Has anyone here ever done any programming for mods and such?
I’m considering doing one, but I need to know how difficult it would be to do something small. I’m not the best with programming, but I need to know if it’s doable.
Thanks
It really depends on what engine you’re using. I was able to implement Source engine changes really easily thanks to a combination of simple (but seemingly messy?) code and PLENTY of documentation available.
I’m trying to figure out what engine to use
Depends on the thing you’re modding. Some stuff is easy, some stuff is really hard. I’ve done a bit here and there. Back when I was a kid I released a whole big scenario module for a mac game I used to like as a shareware release and made a hundred or so off it.
I haven’t decided on an engine. I know I want small cutscenes (30 seconds to a minute) and maybe a few very simple puzzles. No combat though.
Wait so you want to make a brand new game in an existing engine? That’s not just modding, that’s development.
Best thing to look at would be GameMaker Studio if you don’t mind 2D – there’s commercial games eg Hotline Miami, Gunpoint made in it and it uses a simple scripting language that’s apparently fairly non-coder friendly.
If you want 3D the best engine to use in terms of the cost and the amount of support and it being a useful thing to learn is Unity, but it will require you to code in C#.
C# is easy enough to learn right? It’s C++ that’s the difficult one? I forgot to mention I have done some python programming and action script.
C# is derived from C++ but it is definitely easier – you generally don’t need to worry about pointers at all, and memory management isn’t necessary until you get into advanced usage. You do need to understand Object-Oriented concepts to some degree though.
Basically C# is like they took the best parts of C++ and Java and smashed them together. I really like it as a language personally and I think for a beginner it’s a really good entry point – better than Java.
I may have to check it out of code academy. If I do a little bit each night, by the time I’m ready to make it, I might actually be able to do it.
So… I took the plunge yesterday and went and saw Age of Ultron with the mrs. All in all I actually quite enjoyed the whole movie. My only qualm which is kind of turning into one of those itches you just can’t scratch –
Its how they decided to describe and implement the scarlet witch’s powers; it’s like some moron picked up the first 3 avengers comics that featured the witch and said oh yeah she does weird shit, lets just make it a mix of telekinesis and some other random crap we don’t really want to explain. I mean for fucks sake she calculates the probability of multiple eventualities and has the ability to increase the odds of any one of those eventualities occurring, the less likely it is to occur the longer she takes to calculate what it would take to make it happen! I’m kind of annoyed they dumbed it down because the vision and the witch only hook up because they connect over the fact they’re the only two people in the world who function on a level of intellect that the other understands. Now they just have her blasting shit with red blasts. Great. Idiots. Let’s just make the joker someone who draws lipstick on his face while we’re at it.However outside that pretty solid film, James Spader <3 was a pretty sick Ultron voice and performance and while I wish the characters had more individual cameo to further develop the joint action sequences were great fan service. So all in all a pleasant experience and probably the second best Marvel movie I’ve seen to date; GotG still has no.1 in my heart =D That said it did leave me very hyped for phase 3 of the marvel movies! Also definitely worth watching on the big screen in VMAX or something similar.
I have very little experience with the comics so I have a different thing that bugs me:
It’s how they deal with The Hulk. In the first Avengers movie there was a scene where he Hulks out mindlessly, but in the final battle he’s able to be conscious of what he’s doing and help the team and go for the bad guys. Then Avengers 2 comes around and oh dear, here’s the Hulk Hulking out mindlessly again, destroying randomly, followed by being able to make conscious choices again while Hulked up in the final battle. It’s like the first Avengers never happened and it makes any perceived character developments appear pointless, and it also makes you feel like nothing has consequences, so if bad stuff happens, don’t worry, they’ll just hit “reset” for the next movie as well.I’m a little confused; the only section in the movie where the Hulk goes berserk and starts destroying crap was when the Scarlet Witch does that weird mind thing to him and drives him crazy, outside that you see the Hulk at the start of the movie and at the end and both times he appears to have some semblance of a conscious mind e.g. when Black Widow calls for backup in taking out a bunker when Hawkeye gets shot. Which scene did you feel he wasn’t in control of himself?Edit:
That said it looks like they’re retiring the following heroes for the time being – Iron Man, Hawkeye, Hulk and we’re getting new heavy hitters with War Machine, Vision backed up by Falcon and Scarlet Witch so chances we aren’t going to see the others until Infinity War Part 2? Most likely see Iron Man in the next Cap America film though – Civil WarAgreed
I felt that Banner was pretty much in control of the Hulk the whole time, except for when Scarlet Witch made him rage.Edit:
Yeah, it looks like Iron Man has bowed out (for now), but as you said they’re meeting up again in Cap 3, so maybe that’ll lead into him reviving and becoming the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. like he does in the comics (apparently), not sure if they’ve got anything planned for him after Avengers: IW Part 2. Thor’s still around, keen for Ragnarok. and Hulk has pretty much gone AWOL, was hoping that it would lead into a Planet Hulk film, but I doubt it, although Mark Ruffalo said he’s keen to do it. Really looking forward to Ant-Man and phase 3, especially Guardians 2.I just hope Civil War shows Iron Man to be the JERKWAD he was in the comic saga.I’m actually completely uninterested for Ant-Man, it’s like Marvel are running out of decent heroes. I have a feeling Ant-Man is going to end up being released as a movie and then cameo’d for their TV shows and games etc like some cheap fan service. Never liked the hero in the comic and I like him even less with the actor who’s playing him in the movie.
That said going off what Marvel seem to be doing with the movies I think we can assume Siege is going to be in Phase 4/5. The reason I say this is because we have a reboot of the Spiderman franchise under Marvel coming through and Civil War is taking place which is where
IM takes control of Shield and fucks up and this provides the opening for a rehabilitated Green Goblin to take over Shield instead and run it as the Iron Patriot basically turning all the Avengers into outlaws. That said the only 2 major decent arcs from Marvel that remains to be seen is Secret Wars and Siege so it would be pretty remiss of them to leave it out of any of the movie Phases.Order of Hype for Phase 4 – GotG2, Inhumans (sadly the last movie in phase 4), Black Panther, Dr Strange, Avengers Parts 1 & 2, and probably least hyped for Captain Marvel (I just find the character very vanilla) and Spiderman (cos there’s been like a thousand films about this character already, Sony absolutely bastardized the hero).
I admit like @strange I’ve never read any of the comics, I find out as much as I can from the internet, but I’m still learning new stuff about characters and story arcs all the time.
Have no idea about Siege or Secret Wars, so I’m gonna have to start reading up on it. Seeing as we’re going to Adelaide the weekend after this one and I know where there’s a comic book store I might have to pick some up while we’re there.
Also, I thought Age Of Ultron was the end of phase 2 and Ant-Man the start of phase 3, but according to Wikipedia Ant-Man’s the end of phase 2, Cap 3 kicks off phase 3 and ends with Inhumans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe
I understand a reason was provided, but my complaint is that it’s part of what it seem to be just the same movie again.Fair enough; I guess if you only watch the movies then seeing the Hulk go berserk each movie for whatever reason gets pretty rehashed. That said it fits in well with the theme established within the comics because the Hulk has been manipulated against the Avengers countless times to the point where Iron Man does build a suit just to counter him in such an instance. Banner never obtains complete control over the creature (while there have been some arcs that the Hulk is in control) overall he’s meant to be always be walking a fine line of brutish power and some semblance of control. Also you can’t deny the fan service of seeing a Hulk Buster in action =Preply fail 🙁
…yourang? 😛
I got a notification for that comment as well but it’s gone now. The mystery!
The intrigue!
Ultron’s voice – the effects they put on it and the intonation especially – reminded me strongly of the Reapers from Mass Effect. More Harbinger than Sovereign (I don’t think anything, movies or otherwise, has managed to pull off the sinister tone that Sovereign has) but I couldn’t stop hearing it.
RE: Scarlet Witch
Try explaining that through the movie to Jim and Bob without Christopher Nolan levels of boring exposition that will put the audience to sleep.Plus comic Scarlet Witch is OP as shit and then you have a X-Men Days of Future Past Quicksilver conundrumTrue I appreciate the challenge of completely explaining the powers but maybe there wasn’t a need to? I mean Marvel has some pretty far fetched themes going on at the moment which are yet to be fully fleshed out (Gems, Thanos, Wakanda); I’m just kind of annoyed they explained away the Witches powers as telekinesis as opposed to probability manipulation. I appreciate the difficulty in explaining it but still… she would make for a much more interesting character if they stuck to the original abilities.The movie also didn’t explain her powers completely. When Hill is talking to Cap about their powers she lists off a bunch of stuff she can do, he clearly doesn’t understand so just sums it up to “He’s fast, she’s weird”. That’s a very broad spectrum for them to play with.Avengers 2 seems to be set close to the end of Cap 2 and it’s clear their powers are relatively new there, like she’s just getting the hang of them, so who knows where they could potentially go with them, just like the other things you mentioned.Wakanda is new to the movie universe and Black Panther is getting his own movie, so expect more there. The stones have been hinted at in a couple now, and at the end Thor said he was going to find out more, so I would expect them to play some part in Thor: Ragnarok and Avengers 3/4 have been confirmed to be about the Infinity Gems and Thanos.Yay, Dethklok 3-pack for Rocksmith! Crap, it’s all in c-standard tuning. *tunes down two steps, winces at floppy strings* I really should just get another guitar so I can actually play all the stuff Rocksmith has at D/D-drop-C/C tunings on a regular basis… one day.
Into the Water is amazing, as expected. The lead parts for Thunderhorse and Awaken laugh at my pathetic attempts. The rhythm sections look like they *might* be playable by mere mortals, though… maybe.
HORSE.
THUNDER.
Man, the bikes are so much harder to control in Mario Kart 8. Think I’ll give it a rest for a while.
Is it me or are TAY and Twitter really quiet today.
Must be time for the last played song game.
Because It’s Midnite – Limozeen
Dealing with customers mainly, work work work…
Since I’m listening to Spotify right now this should be easy for me to find out, You’re My Best Friend by Queen…and the live version just popped up on shuffle 2 songs later 😀 I’m in a Queen mood today
Diary of a Madman – Ozzy Osbourne.
Megitsune – Baby Metal
SHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Bruce Hornsby & The Range – Lost Soul
But you’re making me want to listen to “These Peoples Try To Fade Me”
I’m so old school… they tore the school down.
The Back Harlow Road – 36 Crazyfists
I’m sure my workmate whose birthday is today really needed to see a picture of me posing in a swimming costume. Could’ve been better though I guess, should’ve worn speedos
AdVenture Capitalist gets it. Click here to watch Kate Upton’s boobs bounce for 10 seconds and get double income for 4 hours.
Why yes, yes I will.
@transientmind More of us, more of us!
No-one said anything about it involving watching bouncing boobs.
(o)(o)
Be right back, I’m off to download AdVenture Capitalist.
Man, you get all the good ads; I haven’t gotten anything even remotely close to that. The last one I had was some cricketer telling me to buy my Mum an electric toothbrush.
Everybody who is interested in Batman: Arkham Knight (and, just like me, is breaking their “no preorder” rule for this game because we’re suckers)
With a little trickery, you can preorder for $34 AUD!!!
http://www.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/comments/33r9ev/nuuvem_batman_arkham_knight_2707_usd/
Just gotta use a Geounblocker. Don’t think this is illegal, if it is I’ll remove this post, but it’s a beautiful way around the Australia Tax(R*).
(* R doesn’t stand for Registered Trademark, it stands for “Well Rogered by the Aus Tax”)
the * being the starfish where the rogering takes place…
I would if I didn’t have the Batmobile edition on pre-order. I’m trusting Rocksteady to not screw Knight up. The last Collector’s Edition thing I got was Rome 2 Total War so if this somehow ends up crap, I’ll give up on pre-ordering all together 😀
Anyone here tried Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown? I’m sort of tempted by it since I’ve been on a major Shadowrun kick in the last few weeks but I’ve not really seen much about the game and what with it not being made by Harebrained Schemes, I’m not just going to throw money at it on the basis of the setting alone.
I mean sure the launch trailer looks kind of shit but then launch trailers for turn based games usually do since they try to make them look exciting and action packed to appeal to morons so I’m pretty much writing that off as useless. I’d sooner get some input from people who might have played the early access or be playing the newly released version.
Weird. I just looked this up thinking it was a new game I’d never heard of – only just realised it was formerly ‘Shadowrun Online’ which I purchased last year. It was pitched to be a sort of turn based MMO, and the alphas I played were complete, utter garbage. Didn’t get updated for ages and I gave up on it.
Seems they’ve diverted it’s development somewhat from last time I looked. I’ll download it again sometime this week and check, but it’s even more concerning that it’s changed it’s name and direction.
Oooo, Might & Magic on the Humble Bundle has Dark Messiah on it. I never finished it but remember having a fair bit of fun as one of the first first person RPGs with decent physics
Best kicking Orcs off cliffs simulator I’ve ever played.
And into spikes.
“The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot Deathboot in the Land of Conspiculously placed Spike Racks” was fun, but I too never came even close to finishing it.
Decided last night it was about time I cracked out Rayman Legends. Worked my way through the first two worlds so far, good stuff but the Murfy levels are annoying me. I mean they’re well made for what they are and everything, but I hate the slower pace of them compared to the rest of the game. I’d rather trade them out for having the time trials back in on all the levels.
The music levels are the best.
BAM BA LAM
Gloo Gloo
OHHH-A BLACK BETTY
I love Mariachi Madness! That and Gloo Gloo.
Got up to the last boss in Crypt of the Necrodancer. Here I thought the game couldn’t get any more difficult. /o\
Also guys, just got an email from Steam – PC’ers, Valiant Hearts is down to $3.75 USD (so about $5 aus). I’m finally buying it and giving it a go.
It’s fantastic!
Just took FF Type 0 back to Target and got a refund.
Quite honestly, the only reason I bought it when I did was to check out the demo. I didn’t even start the game, as I don’t have time. I did have time on Monday when I’d planned to (and had been looking forward all weekend to) play it, but no code made that impossible.
So I decided I wanted my money back.
Thanks so much to everyone who provided advice on Monday. It’s because of you guys that I was able to stand my ground calmly and firmly, and be sure of myself. (Even though the guy who served me was all pretty and looked a bit like @shiggyninty. :P)
I hope you shaked your fist and uttered the words ‘raise hell’ a couple of times along with ‘in my day…’
PSA:
Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim, is out on Steam. $16.99 US for the next week.
It’s a good game. The first of the ‘modern’ games in the series. Fairly old now but they’ve updated the engine it’s running on heavily compared to the old Japanese PC release.
Ys (said like the ‘eas’ in ‘easy’) is a long-running Japanese Action RPG series from Falcom, first released in the 80s. Aside from Ys Origin (which is the backstory to Ys I & II) they star Adol Christin, a red-haired swordsman and all-around good guy. The most modern offerings (Ys Seven on PSP and Ys: Memories of Celceta on Vita) are more RPG-ish, but the games on the Ys VI engine (VI, Oath in Felghana, Origins) are action-heavy.
Things you can expect:
– Adol stabbing heaps of things
– Some Platforming puzzles
– Fairly hard boss fights
– Rad music
Also Ys VI was the first ‘modern’ Ys. Ys V was generally regarded to be terrible and the franchise went onto the back burner for many years. Ys VI was the start of a modernization of the series – subsequently they re-released Ys I & II with updated music and some graphics enhancements, remade Ys III in the VI engine as “Oath in Felghana” and then released Ys Origin, Ys Seven and remade the two externally-produced Ys IV games as Memories of Celceta. Ys Eight is also in development, due to release some time this year in Japan. Ys VI also informed the direction of several of Falcom’s other action games including the sadly never-localized Nayuta no Kiseki and Gurumin (which is also on Steam).
So basically, this game’s a really good starting point for Ys as a franchise, if you don’t want to start with I & II since they’re very old-fashioned (Ys II is amazing though).
I don’t know why, but Ys II hasn’t grabbed me. Maybe because at the start it’s designed to feel really similar to the first? I dunno.
Kind of tempted by this though.
How far in did you get?
Maybe half an hour in? Really not very far.
So it starts out like Ys I but everything changes when you get the ability to throw fireballs.
It’s also got a way stronger and more complex plot.
Bored and thinking about what game I was most excited to buy at the shop and get home to play. I think it was Gauntlet 4 on the Megadrive after years of playing the original on my Spectrum as a kid. I was excited as anything that it had a proper single player campaign to play through. Metal Gear Solid probably a close second after reading up on every scrap of info I could and then rushing to town, being too impatient to wait for a bus and walking 3-4 miles home while reading the manual…probably not the best idea when walking along a busy main road with no footpaths…ho hum
Question time you TAY, what’s the most excited you got when buying a game?
C&C on PC.
Spent hours reading the manual over and over with its blurry little pictures of units.
I did that but with Civ games. I laughed at the Civ IV manual when I unwrapped it sitting on the bus, then I spent the next 45 minute ride home reading a manual the size of a DVD case 😀 I’m actually quite saddened about the decline of the game manual
Red Alert 2 is one of my favourite games though. It’s been a long long time since I’ve played it. Back from the day when EA weren’t completely bad
Mass Effect 3.
I actually turned up to the midnight launch, which is not something I would normally do. I had just completed fresh runs of ME1 and 2 in preparation (YES, including discovering every single collectible in that fucking Mako, complete with all the load screens and interminable crawling up hills to the point that I was having the most bland nightmares in the world about it). I had used savegame editors to pick over and review every single possible decision to make sure my Shepard was perfectly ready per the contruct of my memory.
I preordered the collector’s edition. I was hype. I was SO hype.
I haven’t been that excited about an impending release since. The closest has probably been Bloodborne which I was struggling to stifle.
I never gave Mass Effect a proper chance. I wasn’t paying attention to much so didn’t really get into it. I’d say I’ll turn that around, but I currently have DA:I & Skyrim saves on the go and really don’t want to start a new RPG. Definitely a series I want to go back to and get into properly, but with something like The Witcher 3 coming up, time is not a luxury it would seem 😀
I loved the Mako. The only in-game vehicle I’ve ever been good at driving. 😀
With the jump engines that did nothing other than just make you giggle while jumping around while driving straight, any other use it was mainly “Needlessly jump off the edge of the mountain you’re trying to climb”.
I did love the mako though, making enemies fly almost a kilometre with the cannon shot was satisfying every time, they just vanish from your scoped view
Either Soul Calibur or Final Fantasy VIII.
I was excited for VIII and while I loved the gameplay, I’m still not a fan of the story or character development, Rinoa in particular. Then I wasn’t so pumped for IX but now it’s my favourite FF 😀
VIII is still one of my most favourite ever games. I’ve played it at least five times, putting well over 100 hours into each playthrough.
The gameplay I love. It’s probably my favourite FF to run around and collect everything in it. From memory though there’s 1 card you have to use to get a GF or something or to refine for some weappn? Can’t quite remember. The story though, yeah, Rinoa’s too whiny and clingy and screws up the whole assassinate Edea so annoys me 😛
There is a very good chance I have put lifetime 100hrs into the intro to FF8.
It’s the game I always turn to when I’m sick, to cheer me up. Like a comfy blanket kind of game.
You can all prepare to shun me, but mine was Final Fantasy XIII.
I was waiting for it for ages, caught the schoolbus to school, immediately ditched school and ran to the shops, then caught public transport home and played for the rest of the day 😀
It was a good day 🙂
I enjoyed Final Fantasy XIII. Especially on release day. I was super excited because Mr. Strange had the day off so he took me to pick it up in the morning, and then I was waiting and waiting for my son’s naptime so I could play, so my hype was just building and building. 😀
I was keen for it. I first played it on an old CRT tv though and VSync was non existent in every cut scene. I didn’t play it again until I got an HDTV and was blown away by how good looking it was. I am one of the many that isn’t a fan though. I think the first thing I got trul annoyed about was the summons. They didn’t feel like proper summons to me. The linearity wasn’t as much of an issue as FFVII has that through the first 10 hours or so while you get out of Midgar
But hey, no need to be ashamed about what you get hyped for 🙂
Similar to me. But mine was Final Fantasy VIII (hi @strange).
Hang on. You said XIII?
Get off mi’ lawn, blasted young’un.
Arkham City.
Only time I’ve ever bought a game that broke street date.
I don’t think I got overly hyped for City. I loved Asylum, it was one of my favourite games up until that point but I wasn’t sure how much they could expand on it. I was pleasantly surprised 😀
I actually loathed City when it came out. I couldn’t play through the first few levels, I was so infuriated, because I loved Asylum so much. It wasn’t until I played it again that I realised this was The Dark Knight of video games, and I had an awesome time.
Dark Souls 2.
I took a week off for it, waited outside for the store to open, raced home and played 90 hours in that week.
In retrospect I really didn’t need to do that…
I think the only time I took time off eork for a new release was Rome 2 Total War. My missus ended up being sick for those few days though so I was looking after her more than playing. In retrospect with the release it got, probably a good idea.
Now, Fallout 4’s probably the only game I’ll take time off work for.
Hard to pick any one specifically. I’m not sure what would make one particularly more exciting than the other at all, I would always read the manuals on the trip home if applicable, or otherwise pore over them before starting the game. I remember we got Banjo-Kazooie and Bomberman 64 at the duty free shop before going on what I think was a three week holiday to America, and I was just staring at the boxes whenever I could throughout the whole trip. Longest holiday ever 😛
Also remember the trip home from the shops when I picked up Conker, and reading the manual in the car. And reading out to Mum and my sister the hilarious difficulty labels for the AI in the multiplayer – Inbred, Crap, Normal, Bastard, Einstein. And the slight thrill of getting away with swearing while Mum could hear 😛
Back on a family holiday GTA 3 came out. I decided that it would be a good idea while my family went for a walk to go off by myself in a small country village I didn’t know and go buy it. It was 18 rated (UK) and me being 17 didn’t have ID and of course the only shop in the village ID’d me. Queue me jumping on a bus to the nearest city and finding a a store staffed by teenagers who wouldn’t ID one of their own 😀 good job I could remember the bus I got on as I didn’t remember the name of the village we were at and still. No idea why I didn’t wait til I got home to buy it
Also, yay ‘legal’ swearing in front of parents 😀
Interesting question. Probably would have to say Super Mario Sunshine. I remember when I bought the GameCube, it was the first console I had ever purchased myself. I was extremely proud of myself and stayed up all night playing it.
the joys of that new console feeling made better by the fact that it’s all yours 😀 I scrounged up my paperround money to get the PSOne but didn’t have enough for a memory card so there I was writing down save codes in a notepad. Good times
Final Fantasy X, the first FF game I ever owned (all the others were borrowed from friends) and I spent almost 350 hours in that game on the PS2 =]
When I first bought FFX I was pumped. Got fairly far in it and loved playing Blitzball. Then my PS2 got nicked out from my living room in the middle of the day, FFX disc and memory card still inserted. I was devastated. Still am really but have never gotten as far again in X as that first save 🙁
Was so damn excited when I bought The Last of Us. Box in hand, bought and ready to play. Then I went to @strange’s house for lunch with her and Sughly and the anticipation, man. IT WAS PRETTY CRAZY.
DC excitement overload 😀 gotta love them distractions stopping you from playing a new game, although lunch with friends is acceptablr…just 😛 the worst is gettong home and realising you have housework to do or, even worse, have to go later that night D:
Interesting side note: wife is a high school teacher at an all boys school.
Sometimes the Principal will send an email out saying “We seem to be having a massive outbreak of cold AND flu right now – about 20% of the students are sick.”
Wifey is smart, looks up release dates and – yep. CoD/Battlefield just got released.
Seriously. Up to 300 kids at the last release wagged to stay home to hit it up.
Funny footnote: The Principal even called in a health expert to give the kids a lecture a week or two later on how to avoid catching things like the cold and flu.
Technically, staying at home and avoiding contact with others is a pretty effective method of not catching a cold/flu
True true. And you need to keep yourself entertained while staying at home…
Also on FIFA release 😛
Don’t know if this counts, but the first time I rented (Yes, rented) Burnout 3: Takedown. It was a game I’d played the demo the absolute hell out of the month prior, and I was friggin hooked. So, when I took my 13 year old self down to my favourite game rental place at the time, Mr.Magic, I was figuratively pooping myself with excitement. I’d asked them for weeks when they’d have the game available for rental, and once I finally got my grubby mitts on it, I tried to get as much non-school time playing it for the week I’d rented it.
I evetually picked it up just after Christmas in 2004, and my love for it had not waned at all over those 3 months prior.
To this date, I still have 200+ hours played over the five years I spent putting time into it. It still remains my most played game ever, and is one of my favourite games of all time.
I do miss a decent Burnout game. Paradise was good, but didn’t have the feel of old school Burnout.
Great question!
Probably a toss up between Zeus: Master of Olympus (An age of empires like RTS) and Destiny. Destiny was the first game I ever played a beta for, I was so incredibly hype for the story and playing all of the different classes.
What do you call the owner of a bicycle store?
A Spokesperson #dadjokepagesix #hi@strange
What’s the difference between a well dressed man riding a bicycle, and a poorly dressed man riding a unicycle?
AttireDON’T UPVOTE THIS!
I’M CLEARLY IN A DOWNWARD SPIRAL HERE! :’O
http://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/57506188.jpg
So the reflection of the sun on one of the buildings was bugging the manager sitting next to me and was just getting frustrated trying to find the right pulley for the blind that faces his desk. I find it quickly and shut the blind for him and he says to me “Thanks for the help, sorry I’m just really busy right now and I just have no patience” and I replied to him “Obviously not, cuz you’re not a doctor”
PROMOTE THAT MAN.
Funny thing is that above is a true story that happened today after lunch, he gave me a “…really?” kind of look, and I was all silently going *:D*
Ah, the classic ‘expectant moray eel’ look.
I always prefer this one, way cuter
@haggis needs that as his profile picture.
They announced a new Dragon Ball TV series today and I haven’t taken a breath in about eight hours.
This is the mother of all hype trains.
That or you’re hyper-ventilating =P
Maybe the train should stop travelling at hyperspeed
Either way I need help
Kick the Hype Train to Kaio-Ken Times 10!
Here’s hoping they give the tfs guys a go at the English dub, considering Takahata101 is ok Xenoverse!
I’m just *dons sunnies* Sayian… WAKA WAKA!
@redartifice If you wanted me at the Adelaide Fringe Festival you could have told me Puddles Pity Party was there.
Hah
https://instagram.com/p/1LLa1qJ9-m/
I’ll admit to some jealousy.
I don’t know anything about Puddles other than he sings good
Our top story today: Convicted hit-man Jimmy “Two Shoes” McClardy confessed today that he was once hired to beat a cow to death in a rice field, using only two small porcelain figures. Police admit that this may be the first known case of a knick-knack paddy whack. #Page6
I’ve changed. Not only did I get a refund for a game, I’m now excited to respend that money. Not on another game, on fabric. Fabric for a quilt I’m making entirely by hand. No machine will touch it until I throw it in the washing machine when it’s done. I’m starting to believe I really am getting old! D: 😛
You should’ve gone down to Melbourne for the quilting con the other week. Joined my Mum in commenting on how old everyone was, and you could have excised any need for gaming cons to fully complete your transition into #OldLadyStrange.
Edit: And good luck! Hand quilting looks like a hctib elttil.
My hype for quilting conventions has already exceeded my hype for any gaming conventions. Maybe I’ve been old all along and just didn’t notice? 😛 Oh man, I reckon it would be pretty fun going to AQC with your Mum! Tell her if she wants to comment on how young everyone is, she should go to Quiltcon in America, run by the Modern Quilt Guild. 😀
Yeah, biggest issue was since day 1 was for classic quilting, my Mum felt rather young (and also very skinny). It was less bad on the other days, so far as I’m aware.
And she definitely wants to go to the US for one of their quilt things, but she’d need to squeeze it in between one of her many other international trips.
Love the Looking For Group reference… Well done!
Someone needs to make Quilting Simulator 2016.
Que to hundreds of youtube videos in 2016, hours upon hours of accidentally stabbing themselves with the needle and causing blood to spill everywhere while they try to do a Let’s Play
It’s not a quilt ’til you’ve bled on it. 😀
https://instagram.com/p/1pYfx6IYK4/
Oh hell, that would actually probably do really, really well.
I’m just getting excited at the prospect of finally having everything paid off and maybe, just maybe I can have some proper spending money that I won’t have to feel guilty about. So many things to buy, not enough lists to write them all down on
Finished Broken Age. Loved it. <3
I’m going to sit here and patiently wait for the DC written sequels, Broken Face, which stars an author who’s punched in the face by a hermit, and Broken Sternum, which features a Stan whose sternum is assaulted by a recluse.
Went down to the bus stop to pick up my son, stopped at the shop and got me a Peanut Butter & Jam Maxibon and some Pop Rocks.
#livingthehighlife
There’s a Jam Maxibon now?!
Yup, PB&J.
http://www.peters.com.au/brands/maxibon/
You know I never actually tried PB&J, I’ve tried PB ice cream courtesy of Ben and Jerry’s but that was becoming a chore to finish off due to the taste. It’s great for a sandwich but ice cream? Bit too much for me. So is PB&J actually good?
Never tried a PB&J sandwich, (don’t know if I’m game), but I like the Coles Peanut Butter ice cream and the Maxibon isn’t too bad.
Never actually had peanut butter & jelly sammich american style, but I am quite fond of peanut butter and honey on a sandwich, or peanut butter and strawberry jam. I didn’t get a lot of food cravings when I was pregnant (more like food aversions) but I *really* enjoyed a peanut butter and jam sandwich for afternoon tea. American peanut butter tends to be pretty sweet, so adding jelly would be pretty overwhelming, I would think.
As part of my cultural heritage I am legally obligated to espouse on the virtues of the PB&J sandwich. They are delicious.
But that’s why you have children, so you can relive your childhood using them as an excuse 😀
Obligatory It’s Peanut Butter Jelly time!
So I recently dropped a class on humour; it’s crappy, never reached the class about set-ups. I mean, the professor is so old..
Ok. Sorry guys, my battery ran out before I got to fix my mistake earlier.
@35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @cakesmith @cj @dkzeitgeist @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @harli @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @mawt @morkai @markserrels @mrtaco @novacascade @powalen @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggyninty
Just an FYI for Sydney peeps that The Axis of Awesome are playing at The Concourse this weekend, and later in May at The Factory.
http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=AXISOFA15
Lee Naimo is married to my cousin, he’s a real stand up guy!
I watched the first episode of Blood Blockade Battlefront and surprisingly enjoyed it. The atmosphere reminded me of The World Ends With You.
I also have been watching Wild China on Netflix. So much stunning beauty. I always forget how freaking huge China is.
*adds wild china to list*
Fun fact page six!
(Tell me if I’ve done this one before).
Ever wondered why you cry when cutting onions?
There is a special compound in onions that reacts with the surface of your eyes.
Well, duh I hear you say.
Know why you’re crying?
The special compound reacts with the surface of your eyes to create H2SO4. Otherwise known as Sulphuric Acid.
When you cut an onion, you break cells, releasing their contents. Amino acid sulfoxides form sulfenic acids. Which slowly creeps up to your eyes (or if you’re really unlucky, droplets get in there straight away).
This gas reacts with the water in your tears to form sulphuric acid. The sulphuric acid burns, stimulating your eyes to release more tears to wash the irritant away.
Which, of course, means more fuel to make more sulphuric acid.
Sulphuric acid eats organic material like a nasty mofo.
In short – you’re crying because your eyes are eating themselves.
The M on Mario’s hat stands for Mario.
I like stories.
My cat’s breath smells like cat food.
Also, diluting sulfuric acid is extremely exothermic, meaning that more water from tears makes things hot as well as acidic.
It’s weird, but my eyes only ever tear up if I think about it before or when I’m cutting onions. I usually get away unscathed cutting them these days.
Unless it’s red onions. I look like my family’s been murdered when chopping red onions. I hate chopping red onions.
It’s because your eyes now produce an alkali-like compound as an evolutionary mechanism to counter-act the formation of sulphuric acid… DUH! =P (I may or may not have made that all up)
That’s not fun at all!
Funner fact: Hydrofluoric acid is so corrosive that it can’t be stored in glass containers.
Nor bathtubs.
Dammit Jesse.
Walter wouldn’t have had access to so much HF as easy as he did in the show, due to how lethal that stuff is.
Plastic is fine, though.
Also, hyrdofluoric acid is incredibly toxic. Spilling it on yourself can actually kill you, if you don’t treat with calcium gluconate gel.
A chemist in WA many years ago (90s) spilled some on himself (~10% of total body surface area on his leg). He hosed himself off, jumped in a nearby pool to wait for the ambulance. Ended up having the leg amputated, but still died within two weeks of the incident from the HF.
http://www.monash.edu.au/ohs/topics/hazard-alerts/hydrofluoric-acid-fatality.html
Ick.
I used to have to safety test the showers in a HF lab. it was locked (of course) and goggles on the second you came near.
Who needs r/ELI5!
Next time I cut onions I’m going to imagine a thousand tiny eyes with sharp teeth knawing away on my eye balls.
I’m really sick of hearing about these guys in Bali that got executed. They did the wrong thing and they would’ve known the penalty, but they did it anyway.
Now, I don’t necessarily agree with capital punishment, but I can’t help thinking that if there were more countries that had it that there wouldn’t be as much crime. People get off too lightly in Australia if you ask me.
The research on capital punishment shows that it does not act as a deterrent. It’s a failure of any justice system that uses it.
Anyhow, the countries with the lowest crime rates and the least recidivism don’t use prisons as punishment but for rehabilitation while using social policies to deal with issues.
Carrot beats stick.
This. Social problems more often than not act as the source of crime and other societal issues. Ignoring the source and treating the symptoms is a pretty poor way of dealing with any disease.
That said Indonesia is using capital punishment more as a political manoeuvre than an ethical stance. It shows their population they’re willing to fight drug related crime seriously (however the results will never be published) and it also shows their population that they won’t be intimidated by international pressure. At the end of the day votes will always matter more than lives. And its easier (not to mention faster, i.e. more likely to be accomplished within a government’s term) to kill people than finding the resources or energy to deal with the underlying issues that plague the country.
tl;dr The world is a fucked up place, always will be always has been. #l2livewithit
I hope you don’t mind me respectfully disagreeing.
I think the problem was that they didn’t do the wrong thing but rather they were rehabilitated. They worked on getting people off drugs and making their lives better. It seems very stupid to kill them when they were trying to stop the problem they had been convicted of. When they broke the law, they were young, stupid and the allure of money is great. They knew they did the wrong thing and they redeemed themselves by helping the prisoners cope.
I can’t help but feel it’s a pointless waste of life.
PS. The media will keep going on and on about it until we’re all fed up with it. It’s what they do.
Nope.
State sanctioned murder is still murder.
Funny you mention that.
Once heard a soldier ask an army padre about the whole ‘thou shalt not kill’ thing – padre responded to say that it was thou shall not commit murder, and murder is unlawful killing…
Complete crap really, but an interesting justification perspective.
There’s a world of difference between a military action and a cold blooded execution
Was he a chaplain or a defence attorney?
Chaplain
Like I said, I don’t agree with it, but if people knew they would die if they got caught wouldn’t you think twice before you did it? I know I sure as hell would.
I don’t believe rehabilitation is the answer, yes it does work for some people, but a lot would just go through it thinking the whole time “what a bunch of morons, they’re letting me off easy”. finish their “rehabilitation”, then walk out the door and do exactly the same thing that put them there because they know they’ll get off lightly.
Edit: Plus if a loved one died because of an overdose and all the drug runner/dealer that made those drugs available to them got was rehabilitation wouldn’t you be pissed off? I would. These people destroy countless lives with their “product”, so yeah maybe not the death penalty, but the punishment needs to be harsh.
Nope. No death penalty.
as @trjn said, It’s not a deterrent.
If we don’t work on rehabilitation programs, you end up with, unsurprisingly, incredibly high rates of recidivism. That’s not to say prison terms can’t be long or even for life, but the goal of prison should be to allow someone to pay their debt to society and emerge from prison ready to be a productive member of said society.
And as for your “harsh punishment,” a long prison sentence is a harsh punishment, adding a death sentence doesn’t change that. Of course I’d be upset if someone I knew had ODed, but compassion is much more important.
Responding to your edit: No, I wouldn’t want someone else to die if a loved one died. Sure, they make the product available, but it was my hypothetical loved one’s choices that led them there. If not that runner/dealer, then another would have provided it.
I think you guys are just not understanding what I’m trying to say, or I’m doing a really bad job of explaining it. So I’ll just say this, I don’t want them to die, but giving them a slap on the wrist and telling them it’ll be ok is not the answer.
Anyway, I think I’ve said enough, I’ll leave now.
Prison focused on rehabilitation is still prison. It’s not a slap on the wrist. It’s still a punishment with a goal of stopping the need for more punishment. More importantly, it’s the only system we know of that works.
Criminals don’t typically compare the benefits of doing the crime against the potential punishment. They compare the benefits against their current situation. Strong social policy improves their situation and reduces the relative benefits of committing crime. Rehabilitation improves their post-prison situation and reduces the relative benefits of reoffending.
No. Because people never think they’re going to get caught. It’s not a deterrent.
There are two separate issues:
1) Is the death penalty ever justified? This is a good debate, but is not the relevant one in this case.
2) Given that the death penalty has been handed down, does the legal system support the application of the death penalty and should the execution proceed. And in this case, and the reason most people are angry is that the system in Indonesia is categorically unjust and the death penalty is applied in a way that does not support justice. Allegations of bribes, the difference in sentencing between Indonesians and foreigners, the fact that there were still 2 matters to be decided before the Indonesian court, that due process was not followed, the fact that people can be pardoned or have their sentence commuted to life on a whim. These are all massive issues with a system that is doling out the ultimate and irreversible punishment (and it’s no less of an issue in the USA – see the Innocence Project, and how often prosecutorial misconduct has led to horrific injustice).
8 people that were already in prison, that had already been punished for 10 years and could be kept in prison indefinitely, were tied to planks and shot. One of them was so mentally ill he only realised what was happening when he was being chained. “Am I being executed? This is wrong”. At least two of them still had live appeals in place. One more was due to be shot but was reprieved at literally the eleventh hour (really, at 11pm) after the Phillipines president called and said she was needed as a witness in a trafficking case in the Phillipines.
This is not justice. It’s murder.
Kid: This photo doesn’t do me justice.
Dad: You don’t want justice, you want mercy.
What kind of noise annoys an oyster?
A noisy noise annoys an oyster.
What was Beethoven’s fifth favourite fruit?
Bananana.
How did Bob Marley like his doughnuts?
With jam in.
Why did the hooker get a job as a postman?
She thought it would be better than walking the streets.
Why isn’t your nose twelve inches long?
Because then it would be a foot.
What sits around rubbish tips singing?
Sting of the dump.
What’s black, underground and shouts “Underwear”?
Refined Oil.
You can thank @shane and the book he gave me when he came up for these… uh… gems…
You’re welcome.
The last 3 days I’ve been working with one of the nicest guys I’ve met. He’s super positive and always assumes the best of people. However, he has one fault that I don’t think I can overlook …
His name is Ben. UghIt’s all a ploy! DON’T TRUST HIM
Bens are the greatest!
WE SHALL RULE THE WORLD!
After some recent psychological setbacks, my mother is committed to getting me to take anti-anxiety medication. This makes me kind of uneasy. My mother arranged for me to meet the GP to get a prescription today, but wanted to listen to the conversation by calling in and getting me to put the phone on speakerphone. this concept was rejected by the doctor for being insane.
I talked with the doctor, and the doctor said that she won’t prescribe them due to iffiness of laws for under-21s, and the fact that this stuff is really out of her field of expertise.
Since the doctor wouldn’t prescribe them to me, my mother has instead arranged an appointment with a doctor who will.
This whole thing… ergh. I don’t think I really want to take anti-anxiety pills. I guess I view them as a commodity in more serious cases than mine. Maybe I’m just worried about the side-effects of these things, and think the cons outweigh the pros. I’m not sure what to think. Am I being stubborn?
My two pieces of advice:
1) The doctor was absolutely right to shut your mother out of the conversation. it’s YOUR choice whether she can listen in, not hers. Her doctor-shopping over HER beliefs in what you should be prescribed is really gross, and remember this is the same person that wanted to send you to yoghurt-lamp.
2) Work with a doctor to find a solution. Keep an open mind towards medication, as it helps a lot of people. I know there’s a stigma to it, and you’re concerned with side effects, but have that discussion, don’t dismiss it out of hand. The doc may have non medicine based strategies too, but the main point is you should discuss them and follow their advice
There shouldn’t be iffiness of laws for under 21 year olds being treated with psychotropic medications. Under 18 without the knowledge of their parents, maybe but 18-21 year olds are classified as adults.
They may have been referring to the evidence for therapy which in younger people is conflicting (depending on the medication) partly because it’s a harder group to enrol in trials and test.
If you are over 16, you are entitled to
1) Have your own personal medicare card that is yours alone. If you are still on your parents card, then get your own. All it takes is a form and some ID.
2) go see a GP on your own and receive any treatment you need for a medical condition. There may be some cases where parental consent is required, but if you’re over 18, you are an adult, and responsible for your own care, and it’s none of your family’s business unless you want it to be.
3). The “iffiness” is most likely based on the fact that cognitive development continues until around 25, and that there is probably a lack of evidence for the benefits of certain medications in young patients, especially where other treatments for anxiety, such as cognitive behavioural therapy, and lifestyle changes (diet, exercise, etc) often prove to work just as well with fewer side effects.
Find a GP that *you* trust and take charge of your own health. A good GP will listen to your concerns, and refer you on to another doctor, or a psychologist if what you need is beyond their expertise.
There are also organisations like Beyond Blue, The Black Dog Institute and Headspace.org who have a lot of information about mental health and where to look for help. Headspace is particularly focused on youth mental health.
WOO SURVIVOR!
(random Jenn “I hate XYZ” clip)
It’s month end and I was planning on staying back late again tomorrow to get stuff done but then I saw my weekly “Survivor” reminder in my phone and got happy and now I’ll get the heck out of work ASAP to watch me some Survivor 😀
Urgh. Every decision I make in Telltales Game of Thrones seems to be the wrong one. It’s not going well. Almost want to replay the episode and try to fix it. Almost. Can’t do that. Live with the choices.
Least in Borderlands my decisions feel more like my decisions rather than my fuck ups.
TBH, I think it’s the point in GoT. I haven’t replayed anything yet, but I’m pretty sure the entire thing is geared to make EVERY decision look like a total balls-up mistake.
So, exactly like every decision in the books/show, then. 😛
Exactly. I’ve praised this game in the past for capturing that exact feeling.
I only have three trophies to get in Bloodborne, but all three of them require me to grind Chalice dungeons. Having a look at the sheer number of the bloody things I’d have to slog through to get my platinum, and I’m starting to think I might not bother… at least for a while.
So what’s the deal with AdVenture Capitalist? From what I understand there’s supposed to be a little TV in the bottom right corner to click on to watch ads to double your profits, but I’ve had 10 hours play time and it’s never been there from the beginning. Normally I wouldn’t complain, but you know, DOUBLE PROFITS! Plus Kate Upton.
@transientmind, @quiz_b
Phone versions vs Steam version.
Ah, I’m on Steam. Cheers.
I’m on both. Send help.
Sorry, you’re a lost cause.
That said, think I’m gonna download it for Android as well when I get my new phone on Monday.
It’s well suited to phones, I think. Touching the buttons is much more satisfying than clicking them with your mouse. Plus, ad bonuses.
Oh jesus… I’d avoided it on PC… Why did you have to tell me it was on mobile…
I’ve been spending all my free time playing Crypt of the Necrodancer. I honestly think it might be my GOTY. Big shock seeing as Bloodborne came out this year but honestly, I haven’t been able to play much of it and any time I do play it my PS4 breaks. =(
So, Thursday morning question. What’s your most surprising GOTY? As in the game just came out of nowhere to top the list?
Just searched the Steam store for this saw it was on sale, then proceeded to check my account to see if I had enough funds and lo and behold I’ve been paid a day early \o/ so insta-purchase.
As for my GOTY, I don’t know, I think it’s too early in the year to call it, but I think Arkham Knight is going to be right up there for me.
I wasn’t expecting the first season of Telltale’s The Walking Dead to be all that good. I was incredibly surprised by how good it was. Nowadays, we expect quality work from them, but they were very hit-and-miss before TWD.
I also wasn’t expecting Arkham Asylum to be nearly as good as it was.
Licenced games, huh? Making a comeback!
Crusader Kings II.
I AM THE GREETEST QUEEN OF SWEDEN
Is your name Helga from Sveden?
Europa Universalis IV for me, ruling most of western Europe as Byzantium.
10/10 GOTY 2013
Kerbal Space Program has it’s 1.0 release out now, so it easily gets my GOTY. But otherwise I haven’t played enough to find a surprise hit. Oh, unless you count board games in GOTY. THEN THINGS MAY CHANGE
MOAR LEIK BOARD… oh wait, you spelled it correctly. My mistake.
Wolfenstein The New Order; I’ve got to say I wasn’t expecting too much from this game but goddamn IS GOOD!
Probably Sleeping Dogs.
Was expecting a decent game with martial arts attacks.
Received a beautifully realised urban Hong Kong setting, with an interesting story about the internal and external conflicts of an undercover detective involved with the Triads. And the martial arts was insanely fun. Way more so than the gunplay (which they thankfully restricted until significantly later in the game).
Absolutely loved Sleepy Dawgs.
Wonderful 101. Didn’t really know what to expect from it at all, then I got it and HOLYSHITTHISISTHEBESTTHINGEVEROMGGGGGGGGGGG
EDIT: For some reason you can’t do multi-line quotes anymore. Bah 😛
Spam email I just received:
Hey bro,
You know with the wedding coming up and all that stuff I’ve been panicking about all the money that Angie is spending on everything.
I was neck deep in my overdraft last month!
Nick recommended this stuff for me to try – he’s been using it as well – check it out.
===> Click here now
[spam link]
I made about $10k in no time at all just using it in my spare time!
Looks like we’ll be able to get that honeymoon in Bali after all!
Why don’t you get on this as well and then we can go large for the bachelor party?
Talk soon,
Clark
That’s the best written Spam I’ve ever seen. The machines have gained sentience. There’s not much time left. Hug your loved ones.
Uhh…
Give him a break. He said he’s panicking about his upcoming wedding. Grammar isn’t his priority right now. Geez. 😛
I think I’m more concerned that he’s got spare time when his wedding is relatively close, what a lazy fracker, making the missus do all the final preparations 😛
Meanwhile Clark is sobbing at his computer as no one wants to go to his bachelor party.
What the hell!? Nick gets him free money and he’s not his best man? Clark is a dick!
If you’re not going to take him up on that, can you send me that email? I could do with $10k right about now…
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Despite writing in great detail about why Kickstarter marketing companies are all scams, I still find myself opening up every single soliciting email I get, hoping (I suppose) to find a company that will magically help me achieve my goal for no big investment on my behalf.
There’s this odd desperate feeling that sets in when you’re managing a campaign. Even if you know it’s coming, it still does weird things to your perspective.
Not really any point to this – I’m just watching my behaviour from a hundred feet, and shaking my head in bemusement.
Out of curiosity and you don’t have to answer but I noticed none of the artists you’ve commissioned are promoting the books at all. Not even a off hand mention on any of their pages. You’d think since its their work and they are getting paid if it goes ahead they’d be a little more invested in its success. Is there something preventing them?
All right, you caught me. None of them are real people, and none of them have agreed to work on the book. It’s all a big scam.
More seriously, I realised the same thing the other day… although it’s broadly in line with what happened with the last campaign too. I actually sent them all emails last night asking if they’d be happy to join in the promotion. We’ll see what happens.I guess work-for-hire is easy enough for these folks to come by that if this job falls through, they’ll just get another one… perhaps? I don’t know.I think established ‘best-practice’ is still so poorly defined that even relatively clued-in folks aren’t necessarily on top of it all out of habit. Anyone with only a casual interest wouldn’t likely have much chance at all.
Oh, that reminds me, I recently got my credit card re-issued and working smoothly… you wouldn’t happen to have the link to your latest kickstarter, would you?
I know I could find it with about one minute’s reserach, but…
*bats eyelashes*
Sure do, man! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/undad-comic-miniseries-season-2
How’d you get over the line last time?
http://shanewsmith.com/blog/2014/12/17/the-undad-kickstarter-debrief/
TL;DR: 92% of the money raised came from friends and family. Approximately half of all money raised came from TAY, IIRC.
http://shanewsmith.com/blog/2014/11/17/promoting-my-kickstarter-campaign-what-worked-and-what-didnt/
TL;DR: The most effective tactic by far was to PM friends on Facebook and ask them to check out the Kickstarter page. Not really convinced that’ll work a second time (and I’d rather not have to do it if I can avoid it), but if I have to give it a try, I will.
Are there other networks you can push it out to? What about things like targeted ads (ie on parts of reddit or fb ads) or some other content you can produce?
I’ve presently got about three dozen unanswered submissions to various comics-related blogs, podcasts, and websites, hoping for at least a couple of nibbles. I’ve made myself available for guest posts, interviews, and I’ve sent them all a copy of Undad Volume One, hoping for reviews. If I get picked up by any of those sites, I’ll have to write a unique guest post for each of those.
I was trying to push the Undad Kickstarter at Supanova, and got some nibbles, and handed out promotional materials re: same, and plan to do the same at both my launch event on the 9th, and at ComicGong the weekend after.
Facebook thinks my credit card is fraudulent, and there’s no procedure for recourse (at all – there’s literally no appeal process), so I’m unable to access Facebook ads at all. I have no idea about reddit – I’ve never really used it, but I’ll see what I can do.
I don’t know which mail you check most regularly, but check it now?
Thanks, man. Have replied now.
Why did no one tell me Doctor Who: Legacy was a thing?
Because it’s definitely a thing. A thing that has sucked up more of time in the last few days than I care to mention
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@beeawwb what time we meeting up tonight? Me and friend are likely to be at the Melbourne at about 5ish. And most importantly, do we have a team name yet?
I’ve not heard back from others and been unable to secure any other team mates, so I think I’m going to pull the plug on this one and write it off to poor planning on my part. Will keep an eye out for future ones and do some better organising, will make sure you’re down as priority for a future event and team.
🙁 is it worth putting word out and seeing if I can get 2/3 others?
I’m happy to email you the tickets if you want to organise to fill the vacancies, but I’m probably not in the mood to go myself.
Have asked around but not getting any bites 🙁
I failed at page 6 yet again *sigh*. That won’t stop me! #everypageispage6
How do you tell the difference between a crocodile and an alligator?
You will see one later and one in a while.I’ve discovered a formula for invisibility.
All I need to do now is find the piece of paper I wrote it on.
When kissing flowers, tulips are better than one.
I remember the last thing my grandpa said before he kicked the bucket. He said, “Hey how far do you think I can kick this bucket?”
A teddy bear is working on a building site. He goes for a tea break and when he returns he notices his pick has been stolen. The bear is angry and reports the theft to the foreman. The foreman grins at the bear and says “Oh, I forgot to tell you, today’s the day the teddy bears have their pick nicked.”
He had to dig with his hands for the rest of the day. Come knock-off time, he was stuffed.
Did you hear Chris Hemsworth is starring in the next Frozen movie?
They hope he might Thor it out.
<3
These posts makes me giggle way more then they should
Vegeta! I can’t believe it!
Oh you-a-making-me-so-mad!
“Looks like he’s been… disarmed”
*gust of wind silence*
“I get it!”
You’re doing important work here, Haggis. Important work.
What can I say, I’m a man of the people for the people *holds head up high with integrity and dignity*
So, Bungie shed some light on the Trials of Osiris…
It’s very… yellow. I guess.What, you were expecting enthusiasm over PvP? 😛 I just hope it keeps the teams out of crucible over the weekends so I can have a chance at getting a Thorn.Note to self:
Play Crucible over the weekend.
Kill os42 as much as possible.
And here I was about to ask you for some help. My KDR was still below 0.5 last time I got help in crucible, so I doubt I’ll get the thorn any time soon, regardless. But this weekend I’ll be either trying to get that IB chestpiece for my warlock (purely for aesthetics, of course :P). If IB grates too much, I’ll still give normal crucible a go – Bad Juju doesn’t require skill, just persistence.
Hahaha, I’m only kidding! 😀
I can try to help, but it’s a lot harder to help in PvP. There’s only so much you can do to help someone, kinda thing :S
It’s more about learning for yourself, but I’m happy to try and assist 🙂
My advice (which only applies for the Thorn bounty): Play control matches, And play as smart and as cheap as possible. If you’re not very good at PvP, then play cheaply. Stick with other team-mates, steal their kills, don’t bother about actually trying to capture zones, camp, etc.
If you’re on a heavily losing side for a match, and can’t seem to get a kill easily, jump ship.
No point wasting your progress.
So long as your K/D is above one at the end of each match, you should be earning progress (granted you’re using void damage for all your kills).
I’ll happily help with the Trials of Osiris too.
Might be an area I can actually prove my worth, haha!
If I could ever drag myself away from Witcher 3, I may end up looking for Trials of Osiris buddies…
I know 😛
I’d appreciate it, even if it’s just the increased situational awareness of having another set of eyes, and someone who knows the maps. Control was the plan. As for K/D above one… that’s mostly why I’m hoping for Bad Juju more than Thorn. I think I got a 1.07, once… that was the game that brought my average all the way up to 0.48, which is almost enough to break even on the Thorn bounty. 😛
I’ll probably be staying out of ToO when it launches – I know a lot of people will enjoy it, but it’s not really my cup of tea. Prison of Elders, on the other hand… Finally, something to do after nightfalls that isn’t just “more bounties.”
I’d be keen to play a lil bit of Crucible some time over the weekend, fellas!
I’ll play with you 🙂
If we find enough people, I wouldn’t even mind giving some raids a go, if you guys want to too.
Wait, it’s what?
…
Uggggh. So, they abandoned a raid and everyone assumed it was because they were working on something potentially better (horde mode!). But instead…?
Wow.
There’s a term somewhere about someone who gets the same abuse done to them repeatedly but they keep expecting it to change…
Optimist, right?
*looks hopeful*
At least now we know what direction they are going with in Destiny. Kinda answers the question of “should I try Destiny again” for me personally.
I’m still not sure what they’re doing – they seem to be doing their darndest to please everyone, and that means everyone only gets half of what they want. They seem to be trying to split PvE and PvP properly, and allow both sides to have avenues to max level and good weapons. And with ToO and Prison of Elders they’re still trying to provide challenging, tactical content for max level teams.
I just hope they’ve learned from the Thorn/Bad Juju/Invective bounties…
The only thing concerning me about those bounties (particularly Thorn) is how they changed PvP to limit the amount of Special Ammo available.
I think it’s a good change mind you (I’ve seen far less shotgun use), but I hope they cut back the bounty requirements too :S
Well, I’d be happy if there were more options for void primaries, if for no other reason than to camouflage the fact that you’re attempting the Thorn bounty. Even now, the choice is limited to Epilogue or Word of Crota, as far as I’m aware… At least WoC isn’t terrible, I guess…
I did mine with a random rare void fusion rifle and heavy machine gun, haha! I had nothing else to use, and Crucible only takes into account perks, which you can work around :3
There is a horde mode (Prison of Elders) – that’ll be revealed properly next week. It’s a 3-person cooperative raid-tier activity with its own loot, basically the PvE to ToO’s PvP. Really looking forward to it.
Oh! Well that’s alright then. I totally mixed up the two.
I remain… optimistic.
It’s been ages since I’ve played any Crucible. I’ve just been concentrating on leveling up weapons. I miss that the vehicle maps got taken out of the main rotation though. The Moon one was great fun, even if you ignore the vehicles.
Hey, time for my show, live now at http://www.5yyy.com.au
Oh God, caffeine crashing… *head desk*
Early shift does not agree with me
George Weidman (aka SuperBunnyHop) did an investigative journalistic piece on Konami, Kojima, and the future of Silent Hills and Metal Gear Solid. Although Weidman’s sources have remained anonymous and it may have to be taken with a grain of salt, it paints an overaching picture that exposes the entire organisation’s structure.
Kojima vs Konami: An Investigation
Really beginning to respect Weidman. A games journalist with a journalist degree is becoming kind of rare these days. Check out his other work, his Dragon Con video was fantastic.
Tagging @evilmonkey and @freezespreston since they seemed interested in the fate of Silent Hills.
Yeeeeee-ikes. Things aren’t looking too good over Konami-way.
THURSDAY TAYDRENALIN SHOT
So Hideo Kojima and Konami may not be a thing for much longer. What should Kojima do after Metal Gear?
I want to see Hideo Kojima team up with Ubisoft for Watch Dogs 2
Original IP with Hideki Kamiya.
Retire.
Kojima is a man who desperately needs someone to reign him in. No studio in the world is going to offer that.
Collaboration with del Toro as planned. Obviously not Silent Hill… but something.
I don’t know anything about Kojima but I want someone to rip Castlevania and Contra from the festering, shambling corpse of Konami before it’s too late.
Team up with Platinum Games for Metal Gear Solid Revengeance 2: The Revengeaning.
TAYlist for the 30th of April 2015
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by why am I always so tiredAngels – Let The Night Roll On
Joan Osborne – One Of Us
Hall & Oates – Kiss On My List
Short Stack – Planets
Christin Aguilera – Genie in A Bottle
Radiators – Comin’ Home
Tkay Maizda – U-Huh (Radelaide artists are rad)
Christin Aguilera – Genie in A Bottle (This song played twice in 2 hours, that shoud not be happening)
Kelly Clarkson – Because Of You
Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse Of The Heart
Slow Down Honey – One I Know
Hoodoo Gurus – Bittersweet
Blondie – Heart Of Glass
Ellie Goulding – Love Me Like You Do
Brooke Fraiser – Something In The Water
Killing Heidi – Outside Of Me
Grinspoon – No Reason
Len – Steal My Sunshine
Fine Young Cannibals – She Drives Me Crazy
Beautifully overcast and drizzly with an insouciantly amiable chill appearing with a drink in its hand, acting like it had always been there.
This is sleep-in & gaming weather.
I am going to get to bed early, I think, so I can simulate sleeping in tomorrow. And then I will view Avengers 2 again, in fucking gold class. Because nachos and booze are an excellent accompaniment to good cinema.
Yeah, I think I need to see it again.
Didn’t really impact me much either way, but I was a) tired and b) seeing it in post-converted 3D, which saps my attention a bit. Think i need to go see it again in 2D to pass judgment properly.
Besides the fact that you get a different experience when you watch actions while knowing everyone’s motivations (which I’m into – also, I would listen to Ultron reading the phone book, so more of that is always a good thing), I also noticed there were a lot of moments where there was something I wanted to get a closer look at, moments I wanted to pause and rewind the cinema. Until it hits digital, this is as close as I get.
Not spoilery but going to spoiler text it anyway
For me, the main issue was it didn’t seem to have room to breathe. It was “let’s have a quiet bit-NOPE ACTIONSCENE” which meant that I never felt the gags hit. That still may have been fatigue from the 3D.That said, the gag with Vision picking up Thor’s hammer? Perfect.
Yes. It definitely felt rushed. Apparently the DVD/Blu-Ray will have an ‘extended’ director’s cut which is like… three and a half hours or something, and probably more indicative of ‘ideal’ pacing that really probably needed 1.5 movies. People talk shit about expectations of game length, but holy hell does Hollywood have that metric squared away HARD.Upvote for listening to Ultron reading the phone book.
I usually love this weather, but trying to get around on crutches in wet weather is not fun 🙁
Slipped on the wet concrete in the car park this arvo, and ended up with my full body weight on my bad leg :\ Not one person even asked if I was ok. Assholes!
*wince*
Well. At least you got those crutches teed up. But that’s been a while, man… like, several weeks. Is that… normal?
Two weeks today since it first happened, and yeah apparently normal for what I’ve done. Pulled the shortest ligament in the joint, almost to the point of tearing it. Doc said I should keep weight off it for few weeks, then slowly start walking with it again aided by the crutches until I can walk normally without pain. He said it’s damaged the ligaments in the labrum capsule, which is where the femur joins to the hip (the one that allows all that rotational motion), and apparently I already had femoral acetabular impingement, which is decreased joint clearance between the junction of the femoral head and neck with the acetabular rim. That’s most likely caused by the fact that it’s always been a “loose” joint, and dislocated many times before, but just not in the same way it went this time. He said I should be ok without needing surgery, which is good, cos recovery times for the surgery are average of 4-6 months 😐
I remember hearing something once in regards to roof tilers, how they’d wear woollen socks up there when it was raining because it actually grips in the wet wet unlike the rubber of shoe soles which just slips.
Wrap some socks around the bottom of your crutches? 😛
Yeah I was thinking of trying to wrap something around them, but I don’t have any socks I can do without right now! I’ll just have to be extra careful for now I think.
Not being outside weather though. I swear to god, the second a drop of water falls from the sky 90% of drivers forget how to drive. I hate this weather, until I’m home, then I love this weather
Even in the dry the don’t know how to fucking drive in Brisbane. Damn freeway is a carpark in certain spots every damn day for no good reason at all, other than people just being fuckwits
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=77 – replace ‘snow’ with ‘rain’.
YES! THIS! SO MANY THIS!
Left my PS4 and PC in Melbourne. Not sure what to do now.
Awaiting further instruction.
Netflix, wifi connection and phone will get you through! 😀
Do all that stuff old people complain that you could ‘be doing with your life/making the world a better place’ if you weren’t wasting time playing video games, but which they don’t do themselves.
Turns out those tasks involve fixing / upgrading the family PC that I built back in ’08.
Yay upgrades.
Went over the river to Rosny today and went shopping for exercising clothes. Bough some ‘sports trackpants’ and ‘training tops’, huzzah!
…And then I caught the bus back to the city. Omg. If you’re ever looking for a reason to go to Uni and try and do something for yourself, catch that bus. Oh and did I say I caught that bus when all the high school kids were going home? Do all teenage girls ponder on how many minutes of their lives they’ve ‘racked up’ kissing guys? One girl said it’s probably in the millions for hers. Then they pondered on whether you spend more time standing or sitting. There were nothing but real in depth conversations happening here. Oh and there was also the guy that they were friends with who turned 18 yesterday and got angry cos the bouncer at O Bar (ugh) didn’t bother saying happy birthday to him after checking his ID.
I felt like getting off the bus and jumping in front of it at this point.
BUT ANYWAY there’s a company in Hobart that I’m looking at working for next year and they’re hosting an event for 20 IT/IS/business students tomorrow with free alcohol and pizza so that should be alright.
Oh and we had a meeting with our client for our project and they’re legit planning a launch party at the end of the year with a bunch of government officials and CEO’s and champagne and shit and we have to go, so I’m sure that’s going to be a ton of fun. ‘Networking opportunity’ is how they pitched it to us.
All I can see is you going jogging in yoga pants and a sports bra.
I’ll see what I can do for you, Freeze
You’re having one of these moments
“Millions?” MILLIONS?
Assuming she did mean the plural, indicating a minimum of 2 million minutes spent kissing, that’s approx four full years of her life, or six years sans typical sleeping time, or between 31-46% of her entire waking life, kissing without a break.
She was not the brightest of souls 😛
Went to Target after work today and picked up Mario Party 10, it was only $10 more to get the edition with the Mario Amiibo, so I thought eh, why not. Then I went to the counter to pay for it and saw Lucina, Robin, Charizard and Wario Amiibo’s lined up and I just couldn’t resist. I stopped caring about Amiibo after wave 2 released and I wasn’t able to get any, but now the Amiibo bug has bitten me again and I just can’t help myself. Think I might have to pre-order the Splatoon triple pack and the Yarn Yoshi Amiibo.
I already preordered the triple pack and the yarn yoshi. I AM THE WORST!
I hate Amiibos and everything they stand for, but I think I want a yarn yoshi! D:
I hate everything the non-Smash amiibos stand for. I’m still not clear on why the Splatoon ones need to exist, nor entirely the Yarn Yoshi ones. Though even just a Yarn Yoshi plushie would be fine, they look great.
Preordered 3 varieties of yarn yoshi.
Worster.
Crap! I thought there was just one variant.
GREEN, BLUE, PINK!
Is that in-store? I can’t see it online 🙁
I still don’t get the whole amiibo thing but the Yoshis are jus abswutley kyoooot
GREEN BLUE PINK
Must…. get…. them all….
http://i1.cdnds.net/15/14/618×347/cbigfr9wgae5sd1.png
Green is the original. I could’ve pre-ordered the others.
I preordered the triple Splatoon pack as well.
SURVIVOR EP 11!
OMG THAT TRIBAL! Wow, next episode is going to be good if Dan and Sierra stop being so stupid and side with Mike again. Sad to see Shirin go as I was starting to like her but I’m team Mike all the way now. I still like Tyler to an extent but I just want Mike to win (which he probably won’t :P). The immunity challenge would’ve been so good if Shirin and Mike won, so closeeeeeee@powalen @sughly @phoenix @masha2932 @mrtaco
HUH!?
Rumours is there will be a poll to vote on the returning cast members for Season 32?!
rumours ey
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CCG6-hWWEAEmmpO.pngWho I wouldn’t mind back:
– Ciera
– Tash
– Kass
– Kelley
– Greg
– Andrew
– Shane
– Terry
– Stephen
– Hayden
– John
– Vytas
– Spencer
– Woo
– Jeremy
– Keith
Shit I forgot how awesome Keith was lol. He pretty much made S29!
A lot of these people (especially the girls) are like WTF? WHY THEM!?. There are a fair few people I can’t even recall despite seeing the seasons somewhat recently. Supposedly all one time players.
Tash and Jtia! The dream team returns!
also why isn’t Morgan an optionUgh I would NOT want Kass back. Yeah theres lots of cool people there! Ciera, Spencer, Keith, and Stephen stand out. Stephen was awesome, just… being against JT is a tough one. Vytas would be good. I remember Peih Gee being cool? I think? I remember Andrew pretty well too, which is surprising since hes s7
I want Kass back!
But you said you like people who arent dumb! Now whos the hypocrite ^^
She wasn’t dumb! Just… not smart? 😛
I dunno, I liked to hate her haha
Haha I think “I like to hate her” are my feelings too
#ChaosKass
@powalen
Hahaha, yeahhh wouldve been so sweet. I cant help but wonder if the producers are like, we have to do womens and mens so MAYBE Mike and Shirin can win! But, I dunno, Shirin didnt look *that* close to winning. But yeah, it didnt surprise me Mike didnt follow through giving her the idol, but I LOVED that it stirred up random votes for Dan. Dan is driving me insaaaaaane. He is so. Damn. Dumb. But he parades around like hes the smartest guy there. I just keep thinking to myself, I hope he sees how dumb he is when he watches this back. Also I thought I couldnt hate him more, but, that whole ‘nodding my head and smiling caus thats what women want’ thing, but doing it to Shirin being upset about the Will thing… Dan managed to make me hate him more, he did it. Team Mike all the way.I don’t understand how either of you can like Mike. He’s the second most annoying person there now, close behind Dan. Are we watching the same season? 😛Dan is just horrible though. But I had to laugh at his whole “I’m adopted” bit haha. How he convinced himself that is as bad as Shirins situation I don’t know, but it’s hilarious. At this point I don’t really care who wins. Everybody I liked is gone 😛
WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING POWALEN
for me it’s not so much that I really like Mike, it’s just that I dislike the others more 😛 (minus maybe Tyler)Youre so hard to please with survivor people though! What’s so bad about him?
I’m easy to please! Just don’t be dumb 😛
Seems like a hypocrite to me. Talking about trust and such when he’s easily the most devious player there.
But… he heard/saw Rodney making an alliance to take out his alliance!! What are you even saying? You sound like Dan!The only reason hes copping flack for it is because people like Rodney and Tyler who know hes right are perpetuating Dan and Sierra’s perspective that hes sneaky and crazyLet’s just put this all aside and agree that all this “final six” business is the stupidest Survivor idea in a long time. You can’t have a final that large! 😛I DECLARE DANS THE NEW BENS
Yeah, my worst enemy is named Dan. D:
Mine too!
BOARDGAEMS
This time instead of Dark Star, we were introduced to one of its inspirations. A well-worn, mildew covered copy of Cosmic Encounter. For once we actually reached the end of a game 😛
First match was interesting. The Changeling was in play, so that messed up powers a fair bit. I had Vacuum so took a lot of other guys down with me, also had the Amoeba power to move troops all around the place, but it was taken away. Assassin was also in play, picking someone off every turn as well as… Resurrection? Or was it Regeneration. The one that gives you a new power whenever you lose a challenge. Oh and Antimatter. In the end, my friend managed to win because I am dumb and tried to nullify his Antimatter power with a Cosmic Zap, when I should have nullified Amoeba instead. I’d ended up with the Resurrection power giving me Judgement, and I was too stuck trying to think whether I could add a win or lose condition to the battle that would somehow stop him from winning, and then whether I could tie that to an Edict card I had that made the defeated defender gain something, and blah.
Second match had such a terrible group of powers. I can’t remember all of them, but my friend had both Healing and Mind or something which letting him look at anyone’s cards. I had Magnetic to bring in or deny allies however I saw fit, and Sceptic which I didn’t really end up using much. Really early on in the game, my boss went to take a base which would have made him win, but if I joined then I could have also win. Didn’t expect that. But rather than take the joint win, I decided to use my Magnetic to deny him the win just to see what happened 😛 While the other guy stole a turn with a Timegash, it turned out the boss had a power that let him keep having turns so long as he had cards for it. We ended up back at the same position as before, where if I joined him on the attack on my friend, then we could have a joint win. This time though, I didn’t use Magnetic to get the other guy to join in. And he revealed his second power. Demonic, which let him take the place of my boss and stole the victory away from him. So only I won, even though it was entirely undeservedly. Horrible match 😛
Really cool game though, less difficult to wrap heads around than the last one.
That is a game I really want to play 🙂
For funsies, I’ve been replying to some of the Kickstarter spam solicitation emails I’ve been getting. This one, I cannot make head or tails of, and no matter how many times I ask for clarification, I keep running into what might be a language barrier.
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Hello Shane,
Thank you so much for affording me the opportunity to serve you. You’re very kind and generous.
My name is Wil. I’m a U.S.-based mobile app and a Web developer. I personally developed a unique social media app with which I promote crowdfunding projects and ventures like yours.
That’s what this Exclusive Offer is about.
Regarding your inquiry, I’d be honored to promote ONLY 1 crowdfunding campaign… for 90 DAYS.
Here’s the deal:
1. I’ll create, promote and manage your campaign on Twitter.
2. Also, I’ll use my social media app to craft, schedule and post customized messages to promote your campaign.
3. No worries. If you don’t have a Twitter account, I’ll create one for you… FREE. No problem.
TRUTH: Some campaigns I manage, to which “GENEROUS DONORS” have given m.oney, has meet or exceed their goals; however, I can’t guarantee every campaign will “SUCCEED.”
If this offer is right for you, make a well-informed buying decision before accepting it. Take your time in deciding. There’s no rush.
If you’re not interested, I respect your decision and wish you great success. I truly mean that.
Sincerely,
Wil, your faithful service provider
—
Hi Wil,
I’m still not sure what this gig is about, sorry. What exactly does your app do?
Thanks,
Shane
—
Hello,
Thank you so much for your reply and for your patience. You’re very kind and generous.
After reading, and re-reading your inquiry, I’ve realized that there’s a miscommunication or misunderstanding about my what my app does; I’m sorry and embarrassed, most important, I’m truly sorry.
To clarify any miscommunication or misunderstanding, I would like to state that this gig pertains to “PROMOTING CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGNS.” Let me repeat, this gig pertains to “PROMOTING CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGNS.”
As I stated earlier, I personally developed a unique social media app with which I promote crowdfunding projects and ventures like yours ON CUSTOMIZED TWITTER PAGES THAT IT CREATES.
The reality is… Finding the right advertising solution to promote your crowdfunding project or venture is essential to your crowdfunding success. Because most crowdfunder avoids using Twitter’s micro-blogging system, I’m here to offer that service of which many crowdfunders are “avoiding” or “overlooking.”
I hope that all makes sense to you about my social media app does.
Thank you for your inquiry. Serving you is a pleasure.
Sincerely,
Wil, your faithful service provider
—
So… if I’m reading this correctly, he’ll post automated tweets. Is that the business he’s trying to sell to me?
Sounds like he has a spam bot that will probably follow anyone that has zombie in their tweets and start spamming them with links.
Yup. Definitely one to avoid.
Then again, sentences like:
make me want to what other nonsense they have to say.
Hahaha, don’t worry – they’re ALL ones to avoid. I just couldn’t make head or tails of what this one was trying to sell me.
Oh, cool. That could be useful. *hires on the spot*
This sounds almost like a public service! Create a clever algorithm which detects peoples’ interests, then match them up with related kickstarters that they would be interested in! Everyone wins! Especially me, after I program it to only go looking to support the things I already like.
Woah, he’ll create you a Twitter account for FREE? Talk about generous!
Project CARS full car list has been revealed and I must say it’s a pretty small list. Was expecting at least some production cars (especially high-end ones), but nope, just race cars. Oh well, should still be great though.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-16083-Project-CARS-Complete-Car-List-Revealed-with-New-Screens.html
cc@crazyguy1990
Third day of ITIL Training. Wish me luck people 🙂
Uggghhhh… ITIL.
Sounds fun! Almost as fun as falling down a flight of stairs repeatedly
Ew.
Important, but still, ew.
So board games, amirite?
Freya, Red and I are going to be in Sydney next week for reasons. Friday evening seems like a good time to hang out and play board games (or Sunday late morning/early afternoon depending on @redartifice’s flights).
We need a patsy to volunteer their house but does this seem like something people would like to do? Wait. Let me rephrase that. Is there anyone who doesn’t want to show up? Because I imagine whoever is hosting may struggle with the hoard of people willing to take part.
My flight out isn’t till 5:25 Sydney time on Sunday, so I can do either, just bear in mind 1) I’m probably going to book accommodation in campbelltown and 2) I will need EXPLICIT directions to get anywhere in sydney other than “Circular quay”
Explicit directions, hey?
In 500M, sexily turn right on to boner avenue.
CRAZY SYDNEY TALK
Download the free app tripview lite; its pretty straightforward in its use and will give you directions and stopovers if you’re using trains to travel. Buses is a different ball game.
Are they on google maps these days?
No clue; tripview is just easier =p Also it tracks the trains via gps so will let you know where they are and if they’re running late.
Also pretty sure its an app developed by the NSW transport whatever so its about as close as you’re going to get to an accurate* travel itinerary while in Sydney =p *I use the word accurate loosely.
Train tracking is good. I will install it ASAP
Sometimes but the last time I used that in Sydney was a bit… interesting.
Yep!
I used Google Maps public transport info a fair bit when I first got here and if you just use common sense it’s pretty difficult to get lost.
@35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @cakesmith @cj @cookingmama @dkzeitgeist @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @harli @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @mawt @morkai @markserrels @mrtaco @novacascade @powalen @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggyninty
cc @redartiface
Next weekend as in May 9/10? If so then I can’t come, I’ll be down at home for Mothers Day.
Let’s try that again… @redartifice
Next weekend yeah.
Could you do Friday night?
I’m not sure yet, to be honest. I sometimes need to catch the train back home straight after work depending on what my family has going on. Can’t really say until it gets a bit closer sorry!
I would be interested to see serious people play board games for serious.
I work until 7pm Fridays so if it’s not in the Newtown/CBD/Northern Beaches area, chances are I won’t be able to make it.
Not sure about plans for the Sunday but keep me updated.
Serious?
Fully.
Sick.
The only problem is that there’s nowhere to do this. Kind of dampens plans.
Well if you can’t find a place for board games you know I’m also partial to seriously drinking.
Seriously.
Registering interest.
Ello.
Hi.
You still need to tell me how you can wizard so I can tell you how to wizard.
I sure do! Can’t put off the reading any longer. I’ll be in touch!
Im interested, if there’s nowhere to play and everyone wants to go drinking we could hit up Spawn Point for awhile. They have vidya games, its alright. Fairly small though so might be hard to get everyone in after 8pm
So I downloaded AdVenture Capitalist on my phone yesterday and in about 20 hours I’ve made more money than I have in the Steam version in about 36 hours.
But now, it won’t let me watch any ads. It keeps saying that there are no ads available to watch. Don’t know why.
Check your net connection, maybe? I had that issue crop up once but it turned out my connection had dropped.
Situation: I want hot chocolate (something about the weather…)
Problem: Don’t want to go out in the rain.
Solutions: ….?
Milo?
Speak not of these instant (and icky) products. Hot chocolate is chocolate that has been melted and added to milk.
Sure, Hot Chocolate is the tits, but Milo’s better than nothing right?
Nope. Rather have nothing. Can’t stand Milo.
Leftover Easter eggs? #helping
What are these “leftover”s you speak of?
Bribe a caffeine addicted Co-worker, exploit their weakness as they need to battle the weather anyway to get their fix!
Trying to bribe Mrs B-ob in to making a hot chocolate run but she’s not having a bar of it.
Offer her chocolate buttons instead of a bar. #HIYOpagesix
Oh, you!
If only I believed in miracles.
Tickets for the whole family to see Van Canto in Hobart on July 11th acquired. The day before my birthday. 😀
So this means we’ll definitely be in Tasmania on July 11th, and for probably the whole week prior. Who else wants to invade Tasmania with me and visit @ontargett and @quiz_b?!
(Tickets for Van Canto can be found here.)
Never heard of Van Canto before. 5 Singers, One Drummer and no other instruments. Hard to imagine a metal band without even one guitar.
Edit: Listened to one of their songs on youtube, they’re definitely different. It’s ok, but I don’t think I could listen to a whole album/concert of it though. You can hear the guy doing the guitar part going “didel-e-didel-e-didel-e-de”. Give ’em points for originality though.
I might have to come to Hobart for that concert. I had a look at the video they had on the page, and Van Canto sound awesome.
I am up for time being spent. Also I like food. So…what I think I’m saying is you guys are going to eat with me/my family.
A lot.
So, I got a new-ish car. Bought my dad’s 2007 Ford Falcon to replace my 1997 Toyota Camry and geez could I feel the difference. Those extra two cylinders are going to take some getting used to.
Word of advice, I haven’t driven the 2007 model, but I have driven the BA’s (2002-2005 I think), whatever you do DO NOT TURN OFF THE TRACTION CONTROL. They’re very tail happy.
Playing Mario Kart 8 and AdVenture Capitalist on PC and Mobile all at the same time.
Who said males can’t multitask.
http://www.vooks.net/yooka-laylee-is-the-spiritual-successor-to-banjo-kazooie/
YOOKA-LAYLEE!
Not sure how I feel about this. Nothing can replace Banjo-Kazooie, but they’re pretty much all ex-Rare staff, so if anyone can make a great platformer it’s them, plus, how can you go wrong with Grant Kirkhope.
That said, I just wish Rare would make a proper Banjo-Threeie instead of that Nuts & Bolts shite they gave us.
Oh, and apparetnly there’s a Kickstarter for Yooka-Laylee kicking off at about 2am tomorrow.
I think Rare is Rare in name only. None of the people you want to make a new Banjo game are actually at the company any more. (They’re all making Yooka. :D) Too bad they couldn’t get the Banjo IP for it.
Nuts & Bolts was rad.
Oh god, that title 😛
Cakesmith attempts to watch 100 movies in 2015 that he has never seen before!
A pretty good month overall. Again, there was no standout “bad” movie, just ones that were better than others.
It Follows…man, I loved this movie. When you read/hear the premise it sounds like the worst thing ever, but it was just such a well done movie. Give it a chance if you can track it down. Yes, ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ was in there too. It was pretty good and I’ve actually come to like it more now after thinking about it then when I first walked out of the theater and would put it as either #3 or #4 on the Marvel Cinematic Universe list.
Other standouts/movies people may not know about were ‘The Voices’ with Ryan Reynolds, which was again, a really well done movie and ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’ which I may have watched purely because Elizabeth Olsen is in it, but I actually quite enjoyed it.
Month:
Best Movie: It Follows
Worst Movie: Cake (Not a bad movie, but very melodramatic. Jennifer Aniston is great in it though.)
Year:
Best Movie: Whiplash
Worst Movie: Taken 3 (I really don’t know what it’s going to take to dethrone this.)
Total Movies Watched:
Jan – 15
Feb – 8
Mar – 3
Apr – 9
Total – 35
Full list: http://letterboxd.com/asharples/films/diary/year/2015/
I’m looking forward to the next couple of months, there’s some movies I’m really keen to see coming out. May is going to be very busy with new releases.
May:
Ex Machina
Pitch Perfect 2
Clouds of Sils Maria
Mad Max: Fury Road
Tomorrowland
Insidious: Chapter 3
June:
Jurassic World
Minions
Ted 2
Inside Out
EDIT: Feel free to give me suggestions on movies you think I should watch.
I watched Age of Ultron this year!
*decisive nod*
DC? Is that you?
*decisive head shake*
Taken 3 can’t possibly be that bad! It has Liam Neeson, right? I’m going to have to catch up by re-watching Taken, Taken 2 and then get on to Taken 3 just to prove that Liam Neeson can do no wrong.
*eyes DVD copy of The Phantom Menace*
Yes. I understand that these delusional ramblings may sound a teensy bit like when your idiot friend tells you they’re getting back together with their ex, or a 16yr old tries to tell you they’ve met ‘The One’.
BUT NO-ONE UNDERSTANDS OUR LOVE.
Thank you.
That’s all I want to say.
I haven’t seen Non-Stop yet, but those guys be crazy.
Key and Peele are the best.
Ah, I remember finding ‘The One’… in a second hand DVD sale. That scene where Jet Li fights himself was amazing to my 15yo mind.
That’s not Liam’s fault. The fact that the prequels had actors of his caliber and still ended up a steaming bucket of shit is down to the crap direction and awful script. No one could read those lines and make them interesting or believable.
Oh man….Taken 3…where to begin?
The camera work looks like it was done by Michael J. Fox on a bad day.
You could make a drinking game out of “spot the stunt double”.
The film is edited like this, but seriously – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkK2djaSpJk
The story is just The Fugitive remade, but worse.
The dialogue is just dumb as shit, even compared to the first 2 movies.
Hahahahaha! That’s exactly what Taken 3 is like, FOR THE WHOLE FUCKING FILM. It’s beyond terrible.
Hot Fuzz though, yarp! Might have to watch that again tonight.
Unknown.
You should join the TAY Asian Film Club! You can be the… third member 😛 That makes you Treasurer by default!
We have a long, long list of recommendations…
I’ve watched a lot of Asian films, just none yet this year.
But feel free to suggest things!
First off the bat is The Host (the Korean monster one, not the sci-fi wanna-be teen romantic crap).
Seen it 🙂
Director did an equally awesome film called Memories of Murder. He even made a film with THE Doona Bae called Barking Dogs Never Bite which I quite liked but, pow not as much. But… Doona Bae!!
ugh, cc @cakesmith
I’m surprised neither of you two (Hi @powalen!) mentioned ‘Mother’ by Bong Joon-ho.
Yeah it was good… I dunno, wasnt great though
@sughly
But it’s such a great film on a technical level
Yah for sure! But, all his films are as good. Memories of Murder included, but with (imo) a much more compelling story
If you’re ever home-alone and in the mood for something sad, watch Departures (2008). One of my favourites! There’s also Still Walking that’s in a similar vein.
More upbeat stuff: Swing Girls was pretty fun if you want a comedy, Linda Linda Linda is similar as well (less comedy, more slice of life) if you liked that.
As One (might have to search “As One Korea”) was fantastic too, equal parts fun and drama. Also one of my favs. Air Doll was also really great.
Those are just the ones that came to mind. @sughly is like an encyclopaedia with an ever-lasting supply of recommendations, so I’m sure he can weigh in if you need more. (We should really come up with a must-watch list to give people when we are kidnapping them into this club)
I agree with all of this! I keep telling people to watch the vengeance trilogy but noone is listening to that T___T aka Sympathy for Mr Vengeance/ oldboy/ Sympathy for Mrs Vengeance (I realise chances are you will say seen oldboy because everyone says that, but the other two are just as good if not better)
Also, Martha Marcy May Marlene is SO good. Olsen kills it in that film.
er oops that was meant to be for cakesmith but er, yeah you too pow! Every movie you named though is SO GOOD
cc@cakesmith
Anyone have any input on the new State of Decay re-release on new gen (Xbone)? I’m an avid PS4 girl, but this game really piqued my attention. Am currently waiting to head home after work to give it a play! Who loved it, who hated it, who’s indifferent?
http://www.vooks.net/yooka-laylee-is-the-spiritual-successor-to-banjo-kazooie/
Really psyched for Yooka-Laylee. Will scratch that 3D platforming itch that Super Mario 3D World couldn’t scratch.
I never played Banjo back in the day but looking forward to this! Cartoony games are my jam.
I love richer 3D platforming environments. The 3D galaxy games were amazing, but I didn’t like how concise and small and disconnected Super Mario 3D World felt. Hope we get that cohesiveness here.
Bring back Ratchet and Clank!
I’ve… never played it. D:
What.
You crazy!! CRRAAAAAYYY ZEEEEE!
*slowly backs to exit door while yelling*
Oh man, how could you have never played that series.
It’s great, what’s wrong with you DC!
*reaches door, opens door, exits room*
I’ve only played one game and really disliked it
*slams door and runs away*
Neither have I! I’ve seen someone play it.
It did not inspire me to ‘want a go’.
WHAAAAAAT!!!!!!!
Ratchet and Clank: A crack in time is one of my favourite games. At least play that one. It’s on PS3.
It’s because Mario doesn’t have a on-the-shoulder companion who can scratch those hard-to-reach places.
Yes.
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=59
You have pretty much an encyclopaedic knowledge of webcomics, don’t you?
It’s not very hard to know VG cats back to front since it only updates six times a year.
I sent a mail to Ian McConville once, and mentioned that his site, Penny Arcade, and VGcats were the only artists I followed updates for daily.
He replied back and said that my list was pretty close to his, but instead of his site, he follows that French artist he was so enamoured of.
We both lamented the pressure on poor Scott. And I printed out the email from one of my heroes and framed it and vowed never to wash that wall ever again.
3D World is an incredible challenge in the post game stuff. Getting all the green stars in that 30 something star room was intense
Ten Headlines @DC Won’t Click On (You Won’t Believe Number Six)
http://redartifice.tumblr.com/post/117814900965/ten-headlines-dc-wont-click-on-you-wont-believe
How bored are you?!?! =P
You won’t believe how bored @redartifice is!
Find out the top ten reasons why! (You won’t believe number 5!)
That’s for someone else to clickbait up.
The Things Red Will Do To Avoid Boredom Will Shock You!
(So Bad The Police Won’t Even Comment!)
TransientMind discovers Red’s boredom. Find out the unique mind trip he used to find out
…Then USE it to earn $10,000/month from home. Doctors will hate you.
Well, it’s been a long and gruelling morning, but I’m finally caught up with Dan and Karl’s Zeitgeist (cc @dkzeitgeist). Good stuff, gents!
Thanks, chap!
Woke up at 5am and downloaded the Mewtwo DLC for Smash on Wii U.
Then Max decided to say “Good morning” to me.
Wanna go back to bed… :\
Seems like a lot of places got restocks of a lot of Amiibos today, if anybody still cares about them 😛 Go check your local stores.
Finally got an Ike!
Huh. They have Sonic and Metaknight at EB across from me.
Still no Shulk. Literally the only one I want and it’s never anywhere.
Heard about that. Are they Japanese restocks, or English ones?
Mix of both. I would say “I posted a pic on Twitter” but…
I hope everyone in Brisbane is safe and dry today.
The rain is amazing. It’s all Minority Report blue filtered-looking outside and cold and awesome. 😀
I’m so in love with this weather.
I gotta spend the next 6ish hours driving!
Take care!
I don’t get outside, locked in at work. Sometimes I forget what weather is.
The drab olive green walls of my windowless office don’t let me see the weather…
But the growing wet patches in the ceiling tiles indicate that it’s raining alot outside.
Thank you for thinking of us!
I am very safe, but definitely not dry!
A few miscommunications and a website mix-up meant I’ve had to go for a walk in the downpour twice today. If I had gumboots it might even have been fun. 😀
It’s very wet here too, but at least there are no scary wind warnings for Sydney this time. My mother in law works in Taree, and the river is rising there quite quickly, so I really hope she gets home before they start closing roads.
My train’s the only one on the Northside running atm. All I know is that I’m a lot dryer than everyone huddled on an open platform. Not looking forward to the walk home from the station though
Remember when this was the height of cool and awesome?
I know. I know. *pats you in the shoulder with a grimace* Me too buddy. Me too.
No
Freeze’s experiences aren’t universal, it seems. Let’s all judge him! 😀
That’s because babby.
Yes.
But I do actually remember that song getting played a lot at school… I think during some dance thing that we did for PE? I distinctly remember the entire class would simultaneously stomp our feet so hard that it would make the stereo turn off and the teacher would have to reset it 😛
I remember when Queen was cool. But not this.
It’s was the number 3 song for the year in Australia.
1 in the UK.
Proving that the UK has even worse taste than we do.
Yeah, but “Do the Bartman” hit Number 1 in the UK in 1990 and stayed there for sometime.
Your argument is invalid.
Also, that is Queen. At least May and Taylor.
Queen without Freddie isn’t Queen.
*Sigh*
I just remember that as young whippersnapper rubbish ruining proper music
I know how our parents must have felt when Ice Ice Baby and U Can’t Touch This came out. The horror.
https://wwe.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ga6WAH7dd4
That’s right. This Christmas version charted in your teenage years. This is your music. These are your people. Embrace it.
Heh. Yep.
I hate this just as much as I hated Robbie Williams thinking he could do a Queen cover.
Thr only acceptable other version of We Will Rock You is when they used to start a concert with it speeded up
Finished Ys VI last night. First time through the whole thing. XSeed have done a great job with the PC port, it shits all over the old Japanese PC version and it’s night and day compared to the original PS2 release.
However, while it’s a fun game and I enjoyed it a lot, it’s showing its age. Brief history lesson: Ys I-III were developed by Falcom in the late 80s and early 90s. For the 4th part they licensed it out to two companies who produced two different games that have some common features. Then in the mid 90s they released Ys V on SNES. It adopted a more Legend of Zelda-like style to combat etc. doing away with the ‘Bump’ gameplay and it was also seen to be too easy. It got some re-releases later with fixes, but it basically killed the franchise for an extended period. Ys VI was their first ‘modern’ Ys in a 3D engine and building off the gameplay they made for V. All of the 3D Ys games (Oath in Felghana through Memories of Celceta) are built off Ys VI, so it’s sort of the granddaddy.
And the issue is basically that because they were new to it, there’s some stuff they did in the game which feels dreadfully unfair or frustratingly difficult. I was playing with a guide so I could get through quickly, but there’s a few spots where you need specific items to continue and I have no idea how you could know you need to go to some areas – the game does a poor job of breadcrumbing. There’s also some immensely frustrating platforming sections which involve doing a special dash-jump (tap a direction, pause, then hit both jump and attack). Also a few of the bosses are stupidly hard because they require hitting things that are in the air. Jump-attacks are really annoying and I think Falcom know it, because every subsequent game reduced the number of them until they basically took them out entirely in Ys Seven. They also have a few cases of enemies that go into an attack and charge you and you can only knock them out of it for the briefest moments by hitting them, but most of the time they’ll just stun-lock you. Very annoying to fight at lower levels when you can’t kill them in 1-2 hits.
Story-wise it cleaves closer to the earlier games than the later ones. The plot is more of a framework than a full RPG narrative like you get in Ys Seven and Memories of Celceta. I don’t mind that and I think the plot’s fairly good in spite of it. It ties directly into Seven – Adol and Dogi are actually traveling to Altago, the area you explore in Ys Seven, when they get sucked into a massive vortex and Adol is swept off the ship and shipwrecked. I’m not sure if the pirate ship they were on ties into Ys V but I assume so since the characters seemed to know Adol fairly well. Obviously, it’s a Ys game, so it starts with Adol unconscious and being woken up by a pretty girl (I love how they poked fun at this trope in Celceta, by having him woken up by a burly dude). I think they deliberately made Olha’s design hearken back to Feena’s from Ys I & II, similar hair and similar personality. Story ties as well.
Overall, I think it’s a good game. However I also feel like it might be a hard sell if you’re not invested in the franchise, given that it has a lot of clunky bits to it and frustrating elements. Worth it for me because I love these games. Maybe not for everyone. For classic gameplay, I&II are the peak. Best combat gameplay is probably Origins (and it’s the biggest game since it has three routes with three different playable characters) and best overall is by far Ys Seven. You could jump in on any of them though, they’re all self-contained and while they have callouts to other games, you never need to know the details to enjoy the games.
Did you ever play Alundra on PS1?
That bit about needing items and being shit at breadcrumbing leading to “Where the hell do I go now…?” feels very much how I felt with Alundra.
I loved that game to bits but it was fucking frustrating as a 14 y/o who didn’t understand JRPGs outside of Final Fantasy.
Nope, never played Alundra. I believe it shares some similarities with Ys VI and derived games though.
Dammit TAY! It’s Friday and page 8 just isn’t good enough!!
Join Twitter.
I would rather die. Painfully. A thousand times. Then a thousand more. Then a thousand more even more painfully.
*shrugs* Then contend with slow tay.
But sometimes I post nudes.
But I did that and it didn’t change TAY at all!
So the study of Pokemon continues in my house. Topics inclide why Pikachu hasn’t evolved, all the different starter pokemon (Teppig seems to be a favourite) and it’s been declared that a Pokedex is required.
My son wants to be a Pokemon trainer when he grows up (you have to be 10, according to the TV show). Or a policeman, or an astronaut.
Well he can’t be a Pokemon policeman. You need to be called Jenny to do that. 😛
Pikachu clearly doesn’t evolve because losing it’s cuteness would go against concept of natural selection. Hence why it must be forced through the cosmic energy held within a thunderstone!
Also, not enough XP!
It’s a shame they don’t make the Pokemon Stadium games anymore. Those were great for little kids to just jump in with.
Yes – pokemon has too many words for preschoolers to play. The Pokemon safari game where you took photos (N64?) was a good game for littlies.
The Pokemon Rumble series might be something to look into though! They’re just button mashers really so should be easy to understand. Basically walk around and press A. Lots of Pokemon to collect too.
There’s two on 3DS, one retail game and a Free to Play one on the eShop. Just an idea!
Pokemon Snap was the greatest.
and biggies and well, everyone. (I loved Pokemon Snap)
Didn’t you watch the episode where Ash beats LT Surge!
That was like 40 years ago. Times may have changed!
Yes, but Mr 4 hasn’t. So naturally, he has noticed that Pikachu can evolve, but hasn’t, even though other pokemon that Ash has have evolved, and was wondering when it was going to happen (and the answer is, it’s not going to because he likes being Pikachu)
What an awesome thing to want to be when you grow up!
Mine just wants to be a Stegosaurus.
Stegosauruses are pretty cool, can’t blame him.
Got a friend’s wedding tomorrow, first one of our group that has known each other since being babies. I need to try on my suit to make sure it still fits. But I am feeling too lazy to.
Suit is probably fine, but check your nice shirt. I remember one morning before a wedding I had to do an emergency shirt run at Myer because a certain husband handn’t bothered to check whether his shirt was still nice, when in fact it had been sitting in the wardrobe for so long it had gone all yellow and there was no time to get it drycleaned. Hazards of the casual work wardrobe.
Actually I think that was supposed to be the idea for me to check my shirts were ok today and then we could sort things at the shops if they weren’t. But then I ended up sleeping like crap and kinda lost the day. Oh well it’s not til the afternoon, still got tomorrow morning right? 😛 Which I’ll inevitably end up sleeping through >_>
Last night on my way home from my futsal game at 11.30 I saw something strange lying across a speed hump just around the corner from my house. As I pulled to the curb I see this dog lying on it’s tummy, spring up to attention and dart across to the other side of the road!
Another guy pulled his car over, and helped catch the dog (without too much coaxing, the dog was quickly licking our hands while we tried to read her collar). I call the number and it rings out, so I volunteer to look after the dog overnight while we wait for the person to ring us back.
Eventually I brought the dog to the Vet, thinking the owner would ring me and just pick it up from their or the local council. It’s 4pm the next day and they still haven’t text me back or rung which worries me.
I don’t know what will happen to the dog, but for those more experience than I please help me. I’ve not condemned this dog to be put down if his owner doesn’t come to pick her up? Is there a way I could find out how the dog is going? The poor little thing was less than 2 years old, a little malnourished Kelpie named Bonnie who was really sweet and I’d be devastated if I put her in danger of being put down.
Apologies for poor grammar, running on 3 hours sleep.
I feel like there’s chunks of the story missing? If you left the dog at the vet aren’t you able to contact the vet? Perhaps pick up the doggie for the weekend in hopes the owner rings back?
The Vet mentioned they would pass the dog on to the local council for safe keeping. It’s not my dog so I don’t think it’d be likely they’d let me pick it up for the weekend 🙁
Unfortunately the dog didn’t get along too well with my dog Arnie, a 16 year old Brittany Spaniel who’s got a bung leg. I have a feeling that if I left them alone Arnie would get hurt, he likes to hang around on our back decking and has trouble getting down the steps. I imagine he’d get knocked off by this lively new dog.
Might need to contact the vet to confirm your referral to the local council if you’re really worried. At this point your options would either be to go through the vet to see if you can take the dog or try and contact the owner again to let them know what’s happened. Your third option which not ideal is always an option is forget about the pup and hope for the best.
That said it’s odd the contact number would keep ringing out; entirely possible they abandoned the dog or changed contact numbers but haven’t changed the puppies collar. Have any notices for a missing dog gone up around the area where you found the pup?
You’re right on all of those counts, I am thinking about ringing up for the Dog today to see if it’s been picked up. There’s a fair bit of consideration I need to make with this dog though if I ever got to keep it, I think I’ll catch up with my buddy who works at the lost dogs home who could help me lol.
You’re a good man, HP, but sometimes there’s only so much you can do.
Hope it works out for you.
Thanks mate, last night was a lesson in why someone should think ahead with a plan rather than flying be the seat of their pants.
ADOPT THE PUPPY!
Cc @highperformance *cough*duracell*cough
To s what? TO S WHAT? Was it suspense? I think it was suspense.
Last night on my way home from my futsal game at 11.30 I saw something strange lying across a speed hump just around the corner from my house. As I pulled to the curb I see this dog lying on it’s tummy, spring up to attention and dart across to the other side of the road!
😛
Maybe do a bit of google fu and find an animal rescue/adoption group that could take her in.
http://www.sadogrescue.com would be the go in SA but I dunno where you live.
I live in Melbz, I’ll have a look around that’s a great idea!
Why hello Friday night. I like you – you have macaroni cheese, fluffy slippers and netflix.
Plus Bundy and coke.
Perfect weather for it.
I like how you’re a little booze-hound, Sunny! 😀
I’m guessing at least 2 of those 3 things happened back home in my absence.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playtonic/yooka-laylee-a-3d-platformer-rare-vival
Aaaaand the numbers are flying. Gotta be only minutes before it cracks its goal. Already at 1600 backers and 80k.
Welp, only took them 39 minutes. And have now hit the first stretch goal.
This is officially the first thing I’ve ever backed (on Kickstarter)
Start a trend.
Fuck you, Gorzy and Pyrean.
This would make considerably more sense with context.
*Flips off context*
Monster
Huh, looks like I’m done with Rayman already. Thought there was tonnes to go, only to realise they’d just chucked in half of Origins instead. Bleh. I’ve already been through that, I’m not doing it again.
Seem to be demolishing my backlog at a pretty decent rate. Impressive even, for me. Not sure what to pick next.
Xenyblayd
Mayhaps. Though I’d probably give stronger preference to Wii U and 3DS libraries.
Though that said, Bayo has left me with a bit of an itch to check out Vanquish, Metal Gear Rising or Anarchy Reigns over on 360.
You never played the aforementioned Platinum games?
Vanquish and Metal Gear Rising are great. Anarchy Reigns is kind of meh and feels very unpolished. A regrettable purchase 😛
Bought, never played. The usual story 😛
I grabbed AR because it was like ten bucks and basically the only Platinum game I was missing. Plus hey, Jack’s a pretty cool guy.
I bought it at launch for launch prices
;_;
Perfectly fine for $10 though :P!
ETRIAN ODYSSEY/PERSONA Q! (I recall @bish and @blaghman @sernobulus playing them? Probably @saturday too?)
Thoughts? I’ve played a tiny bit of the original Etrian Odyssey on DS but not enough to really judge it. I’ve always liked the idea of drawing your own maps though but are the levels randomised or set? Is there much of a story in each game or is it just going through dungeons and fighting things?
I’m thinking of either getting EOIV or EOUntold but I’m leaning more towards Untold as I think it has an added story mode of sorts with a set party since I prefer a set party over the “make your own dudes” style.
Is Persona Q like Etrian Odyssey with some added Persona things (I’m not sure what changes it has to the EO “formula” but I believe you use Personas to fight instead?). Does it still have map drawing and would playing it spoil any of the story of P3 (which I haven’t finished)?
Also do these games have a chump mode difficulty that can be swapped mid-game in case I struggle? 😛
Thankssssssssss <3
I bought Persona Q but still haven’t played it.
UGH SER HELPULUS 😛
Is Crypt of the Necrodancer amazing? 😀
It’s my GOTY so far.
The maps are the same. Not much of a story- there is one, but it’s, y’know, a overall thing- Untold is a fantastic remake, it has both the story mode and the classic mode where you can create your own party. There is a easy mode difficulty, and I *think* it’s changeable in game. I think.
Persona Q is pretty much EO with a persona skin. It has map drawing. As far as I can recall it doesn’t spoil P3.
Answers in order:
1. I enjoy it, for reasons I will explain later.
2. Maps/dungeon levels are set.
3. EO 1-3 have no story, EO4 tries. Nothing riveting though. As you’ve gathered,Untold adds story into the mix.
4. Persona Q is indeed EO: Persona, with a few tweaks. Makes it a bit easier than the usual EO fare.
5. Persona Q references characters in both games, so as long as you’ve hit a point where you know people exist, there’s nothing spoiler-y after that. Not like they scream to the world major plot events.
6. I think you can switch difficulty mid-game unless you start with hard mode, then you’re locked in.
1. So the reason I enjoy is mostly the party thing. Apparently not a big deal for you, but when I get a team working like clockwork, that’s where the satisfaction kicks in. Optimal builds. Maximum damage for least cost. Efficiency. All that, because I’m a big ‘ole nerd. Also the sense of slow progression as you adventure in a dungeon. Very much a slow burn, but I dig it.
It’s mostly because I get somewhat overwhelmed with choices when needing to create or pick between classes (e.g. job systems in RPGs)
Thanks for the answers everyone, looks like I’ll go the Untold route.
I think these pants might be a little more snug than they were last time after all. Stupid butt.
Nothing at all…
And of course now we’re all getting ready to go, the rain’s started up again. Even had sunshine this morning…
I’m sure you’ll still have fun 🙂
A lot of nothing happening right now, though I did pick up Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse on Wii U… it’s a really good game.
guys it was horrible, i was out drinking and then i drove home but there was a police checkpoint, and i almost broke down in tears, i thought i was gonna lose my license and get fined and have my life ruined and then i remembered i wasnt the one driving so all was well
My sister, who is now a cop, once drove home drunk.
She had been playing a drinking game where you got drawn on, so ended up with drawn on glasses, a Harry Potter scare, moustache, beard, etc.
They waved her through without testing her…
I saw this ad, http://suchpun.com/?utm_source=nar&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=nan_sidebar and immediately thought of you lot
Bookmarked for tax time. Thanks Scree!
No problem. I should’ve added that it was brought to you by page 6 =P
So I need a new pair of shoes and I hate shoe shopping. I want to spend a lot to get some that are comfortable and won’t fall to bits. My Globe shoes I’ve got have lasted almost 2 years but are losing the rubber on the bottom which when mixed with rain = not great.
So anybody know of any brands or where to go to get decent shoes (preferably skate shoes) that should last a while? 😛
DC.
Both the brand, and the man.
@dc
No, really. I have two pairs of DC high-tops that are frigging awesome.
Also, @dc is a pretty cool guy.
I’ve got a random pair of unworn skate shoes that have been sitting in the corner of my room for the past 3ish years.
#Helping
Sounds like you need something soon but the last few pairs of shoes I’ve bought have been from Amazon US/UK (US for some runners and soccer shoes and UK for some hiking boots)
I could probably make them last for however long it takes something to arrive from Amazon, if not I have a few pairs of runners that I can make do with 😛
Am leaning towards DC shoes though. The general consensus is they last a lot longer than Vans at least (Vans don’t last long).
Foot locker. I bought a pair of work shoes from there in my second year at McDonalds. That was in 2006. While I don’t have them any more (I donated them to charity) they lasted me 5 years.
I usually buy my skate shoes from a place called Surf Stitch. They’ve got shop (or two?) in NSW but they’ve also got a pretty sweet website with a really nice range. They use their own models/photos rather than some stretched out thumbnail the manufacturer sent them so you can get a real good look at what you’re buying. They’re quick responding to orders and although their sizes are accurate enough that I’ve never had to return anything they seem to have pretty good/clear return and exchange policies. I’ve brought a fair bit of stuff from them over the years and never got factory seconds or anything that wouldn’t meet the quality standards you’d get in stores.
As for the shoes themselves I recommend the Globe Tilts. They’re not hugely expensive and they’re about as comfortable as a shoe can get. Skate shoes can get expensive fast but I’ve always found them to be super comfy and reasonably tough/long lasting (although I grew up with K-Mart shoes so anything that lasts more than two weeks is magic to me).
Also the Globe Focus slides are sweet for wearing around the house.
Oh yeah, if you go with them make sure to check out the sales and gift pages before you go through the checkout. If you’re spending enough to get shoes there’s almost always a code you can enter to get a ‘free’ gift. They rarely have anything you’d spend extra to qualify for, but if you’re spending the money anyway you might as well take a look. Last time I brought something I got a free beanie just to keep on my desk at work. =P
I can;’t feel my lips. Nor teeth. Or cheeks, or face. Even th0ugh it’s been ages and there was a trip in the car from the city and everything.
Mum requested Thriller. Even though it’s been six years since I jumped up and did it properly at my sister’s I still attempted it. Only remember maybe half, also ran out of breath many times. Damn I;’m unfit. Apparent;y the girls at our table made wow faces at what I was doing. Both mum and my sister kept telling me to ask one (or both)_ of them to dance, insisting they wanted to. But I just stuck with our family friend who I was next to, becaue chicken 4eva.
Oh yeah. I enderd upwith the headband [edit: was meant to be “garter”. GG, me]. Was reluctant to join in, stood at the back. But then all the other guys fumbled it. Sister’s boyfriend intentionally avoided it, they’d been getting enough “so when’s yours” type talk all night. But then it landed on the floor next to me. And for some reason I picked it up.
Before long I could be seen wearing it as a headband. This is what I get for being my own wine fairy this time. Wait staff did a terrible job, had an empty glass so many times over the course of the night.
Ugh, stay away from the computer you drunken idiot.
I think I speak on behalf of the rest of Tay when I say: Please don’t.
Right hip right hip right hip in out, left hip left hip in and ROAR! Stomp, stomp, road sweep roar sweep roar sweep, stomp, stomp, roar sweep roar sweep jump an land, circle, shake-it-and-a-uppa-and-a-shake-it-and-a-uppa-and-a stomp stomp stomp and crouch, one two three four…
Holy shit, I had the best victory in League of Legends.
As you should know, I am quite bad at League of Legends. There’s a reason I stick to games vs bots. I got to level 27 purely from bot matches. I dip into PvP quite rarely, and when I do, it’s always a shameful display. But I played one tonight, and I did well. Probably the first time I’ve had more kills than deaths. And I did it with stride. I went 15/4/6. From my teams 21 kills. I had 100% kill participation. 100%. I was practically the captain of the team, leading the charge for every kill, dragon attack, and turret push. I was equal-second for CS. That was my coming of age game.
I’m not trying brag. In truth, I’ve never had anything to really brag about, so I don’t know how to brag.
Man, sewing on sequins is taking forever and I keep freaking out over things not being uniform. I have to keep telling myself that it will be okay as I need to do a second layer.
I hate the way my brain works sometimes.
The thing with sequins is nobody will ever have them right up in their face like you do when you’re sewing them. Take a whole bunch of steps back and analyse it as a whole from across the room and I’m sure you’ll find it’s working out great. 🙂
That’s the plan once I’ve done the first layer. I just panic for no reason, I know.
But once you’ve had your face up close you can never unsee that sequin #1,529 is half a millimeter higher than it should be. =P
Dammit, @dogman…and here I was just thinking that if there was still a Community Kudos then I would nominate you for it because you’re always so helpful! 😛