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I’ve got a day off, I’m getting a new phone aaaand it’s international Star Wars day. Does it get any better than this?
Also, debating whether or not I should allow my almost 7 year old son to watch Star Wars tonight. Should be ok.
Oh, and er, May the 4th be with you.
For what it’s worth, I was about that age when I watched them, and it was one of the best weekends of my childhood.
I’m planning to show them to my kids in October (my 30th birthday present to myself). My girl will be nearly six by then, and my boy almost three-and-a-half.
I would have been almost 8 when I saw Star Wars for the first time. It was Return Of The Jedi and I literally had to beg my dad to take me. Don’t remember much about it, but the Rancor scared the absolute shite out of me. I reckon my son’s a lot better adjusted than I was at his age though.
The funny thing is: times have really changed. I think the big snowman thing in Frozen is actually a bit scarier than the rancor in a lot of ways. 😛
I’ve only seen a few minutes of Frozen (even though we own a copy), so I’m not really sure what your talking about. A few minutes was enough for me, I know I just couldn’t handle watching the whole thing.
Frozen sucks.
*hides*
I don’t think it completely sucks, but I think it’s ridiculously overrated, and desperately needed a rewrite or two.
Fixed from the viewpoint of a Disney executive.
Don’t like Frozen. Tangled is far superior
Agreed. And Princess and the Frog is better than both of them.
I watched Tangled last night. It is unquestionably the best Disney-princess flick ever.*
I completely lost it at, “You should know, this is the strangest thing I have ever done!”
* Not a complete contradiction with @shane as I have not yet seen Princess and the Frog. It’s up next. Actually maybe Frozen first, which I also have not seen yet.
Oh yes, I had Rancor nightmares when I first saw it. That and the Saarlac. Although to be fair, the Saarlac does kind of look like a gaping anus with multiple rings of teeth…
Stop the presses! Headline reads: New analysis of Return of the Jedi proves that George Lucas has unresolved issues with anal sex.
He should’ve used lube instead of treating porn as educational material.Does yours not have rings of teeth?
I think the main reason I’m kind of apathetic towards Star Wars is that I didn’t watch them too much as a kid. All I remember is my father getting me to watch Return of the Jedi when I was about 8, and me not understanding the plot at all. I don’t think I watched any of the others as a kid. I watched them all later, when I was about 14-ish, and I watched them in chronological order because no one told me what order they were released in.
For reference of what I thought the plot was about as a kid, I thought the main villain was the Sarlac Pit and the movie was about a pilot trying to get home.
I was about 7 when I watched Star Wars for the first time
I can only offer 1 warning in relation to Star Wars exposure at such a young age
I was addicted from that very day :o)
I’m sure you could at least show him the original trilogy. Cover his eyes for any really scary bits.
What’s your new phone?
Sounds like a great day ahead of you btw. 🙂
Oh, I would never ever ever ever ever let someones first Star Wars experience be any of the prequel movies. Would start where any Star Wars fan that’s worth his salt would, Episode IV.
Edit: Haven’t decided 100% which phone yet. Leaning towards the Sony Xperia Z3, but I might have a look at the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and the HTC One M9 when I go down to the store.
Very nice. My brother has the Z3 and has owned the Z2 as well. It’s a very fast and sturdy phone, i really like the camera too. He’s a welder so it suits his trade. I love the visual design of the M9, front facing stereo speakers, all high end smart phones should have them!
I have an iPhone 6, went Apple because we have a lot of Apple gear at my work, useful for testing Apple TV’s with Airplay etc, i also have 2 Apple TV’s at home, which i use quite a bit.
I love my Z1 so I imagine the Z3 is three times as good….
Interesting logic. I have the original Xperia Z, so that must mean it’s 4 times as good. 😛
My son’s been watching those movies since he was four, so I’m sure almost seven will be fine.
Mrs. Monkey has done a good job of making him scared of things though. He won’t go near even the smallest little spider, or even a Daddy Long Legs, even though I tell him that they won’t hurt him. And about a week ago I tried to watch Jumanji with him and roughly 20 or 30 minutes in it’s building up to when the Lion appears and he starts freaking out and balling his eyes out, nothing I said would calm him down, I had to turn it off
Well, to be fair Jumanji is pretty scary! I didn’t let my son watch that for ages. I even let him watch some ‘M’ rated movies before Jumanji! It does all depend on the child though. My son is always the one who has to tell me “it’s just a movie”. 😛
Jumanji is freaky. I remember going to the cinema to see it when I was 8, and had nightmares about being turned into a monkey for weeks.
I loved Star Wars as a kid, do it do it do it
I have a friend with a little girl about that age (a bit older). She LOVES episode 1 – because the main character is a little kid.
I’ve got the feeling little monkey would love Jar Jar, so I think it’s best to wait until he’s older to show him the prequel trilogy. Good thing I don’t own any of them.
I kind of love this.
“I have a feeling my kid would love the characters I hate, so I have to wait til he’s older to properly imprint the appropriate degree of disdain on him.”
It makes sense, I swear! Jar Jar is terrible!
Lol. Other than series staples like R2, 3P0, Yoda, etc etc my favourite character in Episode one was actually Watto. Didn’t like the little kid as Anakin, he gave me the shits, actually like Jar Jar better than him.
That poor kid.
Jar Jar is actually okay in the Clone Wars cartoon. Rather than being stupid slapstick, he’s made into some kind of idiot savant and almost like some kind of walking act of god or something.
Like, if he was a D&D character, he’d basically have a 1 for every stat but always roll natural 20s.
That might be the best description of the clone wars jar jar I’ve ever read
What order are you going to show him the films?
There’s only 1 order I will ever watch them in, and that’s IV, V VI, and then if you really must I, II, and III.
But when the sequel trilogy is finished it’ll be IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, then I, II and III as optional extras.
No Machete Order?
I can respect wanting to keep it to the original trilogy though. Also he might be close to old enough for Rebels / Clone Wars as well, both of those are actually really good.
Nope, I’m kinda old school like that.
Been seriously thinking about starting on Rebels and Clone Wars for a while now. Do you know if any of them are on Netflix?
Clone Wars is. Rebels not yet but I think it will be, Disney seems to be pretty happy to have their stuff up on there.
Cool.
I think I saw something last night about how they were doing a Rebels marathon on TV today. From like 11:30 til 5:30 or something crazy like that.
Yeah, on 7Mate apparently. I’m gonna miss it all 🙁
I would’ve checked it out but that would have required both getting up early and missing the end when leaving for climbing 😛
Morning TAYbies, I had a pretty chill weekend, painted a bit more of the ladyfriend’s car, watched a few movies on Netflix and cleaned up my house. Pretty chill weekend. Now on to the pretty chill week because unemployment has some benifits. What did you guys get up too?
Went to QLD but didn’t tell anyone.
Came back, cleared out a small forest of weeds from out front of our place so the council doesn’t fine us.
Have probably reset about 2000 times so far but no shiny regice yet.
D:
I know, right? So many resets.
Guardians of the Galaxy is on Netflix now too!
So the GM decided my character really did die and everybody else blamed me for it.
At least I finally started finishing off my Halo 2 review.
Monday mornings are anime mornings. Best way to start the week, catching up on anime with breakfast. 🙂 I’m glad there’s only two shows I’m currently watching by the week, though. I’m not good at waiting!
I’ve also given myself the day off, so it may turn into a whole day of anime, or I might even play a a game for once. Although usually when I give myself permission to not work on important stuff for the day, I end up working on it anyway. I guess it’s just more fun when I don’t “have” to do it. 😛
Speaking of important stuff: @bdkiaf which version of Harley Quinn is your favourite?
Sounds so good. Much superior to Monday Work Mornings. (Boring)
I like to give myself Mondays off every now and then because weekends are always the busiest for me, so I don’t really get a holiday for weekends like everyone else. I don’t even get a holiday when we go away on holidays as I still have to cook and do dishes and distract the kids so they don’t get bored and pick on each other. 😛
Morning TAYbies
The wedding went great and next up…
Japan tomorrow :o)
(Stay tuned for some pics for those who are interested, particularly the outer perimeter of the Studio Ghibli Museum)
Oh,
and I scored myself a shiny new PS4 and PS Vita over the weekend, amazing kit :o)
Welcome to the Vita club! Do you do much portable gaming?
Thanks :o)
I played some DS/3DS but Im loving the Vita!
Going to get some real portable gaming time in on the flight tomorrow
So jelly. I wanted to do the Ghibli Museum when I was there but I didn’t want to go alone and no one else on the trip was available during the extra days I had. In retrospect should have gone anyway.
Hopefully they still have it open next time I’m in Tokyo and it doesn’t end up going the way of the rest of Ghibli.
EDIT: Also the Vita’s an amazing piece of hardware, probably my favourite dedicated gaming system right now.
I have been in love/awe of Ghibli since I saw Howel’s Moving Castle many years ago!
So psyched to be going :o)
I am super impressed with the Vita
Tinkered with the remote play function and did a little MKX over the wi-fi, the performance was much better than I was expecting.
I have FF VII and FF X lined up along with Muramasa – Rebirth for the flights :o)
I got into anime in the late 90s so my first exposure to Ghibli was when Disney made a big push with Princess Mononoke, which was the first of their films I ever saw and still one of my absolute favourites. Didn’t really get into them in a big way until a few years later when I picked up Nausicaa on DVD in Hong Kong, and also a set of bootlegged copies of most of their works in China. Subsequently replaced them all with Madman’s DVD releases, then have replaced all those with the Japanese blurays. Which, by the way, are all subtitled in English at least, and all of the releases pre-Ponyo have the english dub on the disc, so if you see one you want in Japan you shouldn’t hesitate (When Marnie Was There came out while I was in Japan in April so aside from Ocean Waves, all the Ghibli films can be gotten fairly easily on BD there)
I really like Muramasa. Did you play it back on the Wii? For the Vita version, Aksys re-translated it from scratch and it’s miles better, actually makes sense!
The PS1-era FF games are brilliant on it. VIII and IX especially end up not looking anywhere near as dated as they actually are.
Oh, one thing that I only found out recently about the Vita: in the settings, there’s an option called ‘Use WiFi in low power mode’ or something similar to that. It does not do what you expect. You need to turn it off.
It sounds like it’s allowing the WiFi to run when the system’s in sleep, but what it’s actually doing is reducing the WiFi chip to run at half power so that you conserve some battery life. What this actually ends up doing is causing the signal to drop out a lot which can affect remote play and more importantly can affect your ability to download stuff from PSN at decent speeds and not have it constantly break off and pause the download mid-way. I’d had the problem for years without realizing you could solve it this way.
After Howel’s I made it my personal mission to hunt down as many Ghiblia titles I could find.
My Neighbour Totoro is my all time favourite (obviously) but Spirited Away, Porco Rosso and all the others are very close behind.
I read a lot about Muramasa, thats why I chose it, seems right up my alley, if only someone would do a new Wonderboy In Monsterland!
I noticed that about the Vita’s wi-fi, thanks for the heads up, I’ll turn that off now
Morning TAYbytes.
Hope everyones weekends were good and fun and stuff. I know mine was. Played a good amount of GTAV (PC), really enjoying it, it definitely has my favourite narrative of any GTA game, even if it is truly ridiculous, that’s kind of the point.
Went to the drive-in with the wifey and saw F&F7 and Avengers both for the third time, haha! That was really fun, haven’t been in quite a while.
Played some more GTAV, Mario Kart 8 DLC and F&F meets Forza Horizon thingo.
Bought Avengers 1 on 3D Bluray (JB finally had it at a reasonable price) Went out for Pho with friends at Sunnybank for dinner last night. 🙂
What happened in your weekends?
Im just firing up GTA V for the 1st time (PS4)
Played some MKX over the weekend, great fun but damn I suck at fighters now after 10+yrs break
Still have Bloodborne in its shiny, shrink wrapped goodness, to fire up yet :o)
Oooh you’re in for a real treat. I love the intro missions/sequence.
I’m sure i would equally suck at MKX. The last 7 years, the only fighting games i’ve played is Super Smash Bros Wii & Wii U. I wish i had the chance to try Bloodbourne, alas i don’t have a PS4 (yet, haha)
Awww man!
That opening sequence was AWESOME!
Hey gang,
How’s it hanging? I unlocked a couple more Bloodborne trophies last night. I only have ONE MORE TO GET.
Pthumerian Queen in the deepest Chalice Dungeon. I started the Defiled Chalice yesterday. Half health SUCKS. Hoping to get some co-op going just to get through it…The Undad Kickstarter continues. There’ll be a few articles popping up on the internet about it soon, hopefully. We’ll see if they draw an audience. My guess: probably not.
I have the Undad launch event this weekend, but my printer shafted me and sat on my order for more than three weeks before beginning the printing, and now they might not get here in time. Stressful times. REALLY hope I don’t have to cancel that.
Hope you all are well on this evil, evil Monday.
I’m on that same trophy but I’m only up to the end of the Central Pthumeran Chalice. Luckily I got the collector’s edition guide, which is so comforting. Some of those chalice dungeons look diabolical.
Lower Pthumerian isn’t that bad (note, though, that it’s got 4 levels instead of 3, so don’t quit out of it too early! :P). It’s a bit of a slog in places, but I got through it without too much difficulty. Defiled Chalice is looking like a brutal challenge, though… I’m up to the first boss, but haven’t gone inside yet.
Saw Ex Machina yesterday. If you enjoyed that Quantic Dream tech demo of the robot lady (ahem @DC), then you’ll probably dig this. Oscar Isaac is crazy good.
ALSO, I fiiiiiinally saw Guardians of the Galaxy, you guys! And I liked it, and I was able to ignore that dumb song. It was silly but totally fun and very pretty.
Man, that tech demo hit me right in the feels.
…And again when I learned no-one was picking it up to do anything with it, or likely ever will.
Yeah, it was SO good! This movie is as close as it’s gonna get.
The tech demo before Heavy Rain had a similar feel to that game, so maybe QD’s next game will have a similar feel too? WHO KNOWS! I absolutely loved it, though.
I like how she showed up as a supporting character in the game. Though I think I did get her killed in my first playthrough…
D:
Yesssss. I was investigating that movie last week and couldn’t find anywhere showing it. Where’d you see it, Janey?
Palace Centro. So lovely, going to try to see films there more often.
Oooooh! I even looked at the Palace Barracks times. Didn’t even think to check there. *shakes fist at self* 😀
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter is playing there too!
Morning TAY… How are we? Weekend was great… Went to the Dog Lovers show on Saturday at the royal exhibition building… Imagine PAX but for dogs 😛
Was allot bigger then expected but was a great experience…
Sunday i had completely forgotten was my birthday until the missus reminded me… So I had cake and it was good
Happy Birthday for yesterday! Also, Dog Lovers?! Amazing!
Yeah it was fantastic! Could have spent way too much money there, so much cool stuff!
And they had a booth called “Hug a Pug”
We didn’t go in though because the line was ridiculous..
Walked away with 10-15 bags of free samples and give aways XD
And waaaaay to many new toys because we’re terrible and can’t help ourselves
Happy Birthday for yesterday mang. I don’t like to play favourites, but you’re totally one of my favourites. Check your Steam inbox buddy.
Daaaaaw shugs thanks man, it’s nice to be appreciated sometimes
You’re pretty great yourselfHappy birthday!
My parents used to go to dog shows with our older dogs. The last dog we had was also show-quality but we only ever took him once, as a puppy, and then he got really sick with amoebic meningitis and we decided we’d rather just enjoy having him as a pet. I never really liked shows, because rather than celebrating what’s good about the animals it always felt like everyone was just wanting to point out every flaw instead. So negative.
Happy belated birthday, we’re only a week apart! How old are you now? Not old enough to join @strange and I in the old folks corner I assume
Well @strange is still 21 right? 😛
I’ve managed to steer the globe around the sun 27 times now without crashing, so I’m doing pretty well XD
Random Monday TAY post. Hello all. Don’t think I’ve got much motivation this week…again. Orange hot chocolate is the answer
I swear, every English person I know has a thing for chocolate orange! Terry’s and the Jaffa cakes and all that business. Ugh, no thanks 😀
What is this blasphemy?
The Australian palate, mate! An’ if youse don’t like it you can get yourself some chocolate orange because it doesn’t affect me.
I’m with you Jane, i don’t like it either. Normal HC for me thanks.
It’s not Terry’s, it’s mine (Dawn French would say that in tv adverts for it fyi). Jaffa Cakes are the nuts 😀
Haha, I remember those ads!
I’m not English (New Zealander by birth though…) and I quite like chocolate and orange. I wouldn’t go for it in a hot chocolate though. If I’m going to add another flavor to HC then I’d rather it be mint or hazelnut.
Ooh mint hot chocolate yes please. I’ve made this before by just throwing pieces of an Aero bar into hot chocolate. Good lord it’s good.
I’m a dirty heathen that drinks capsule coffee, and this is relevant because a while back I discovered there’s a company that makes nespresso-compatible hot chocolate capsules and they do a choc mint one and it’s pretty good.
Makes sense. Mint-choc-chip is the best flavour of ice-cream in the world, stands to reason the same flavour would be good when hot.
I don’t know about best flavour in the world (since maple walnut exists, and there’s some fancy-pants flavours like liquorice or orange & cardamom that are quite interesting), but you’re right it’s certainly up there.
The difference is that we’re talking choc-mint, not mint-with-bits-of-choc. So it’s more choc than mint. The mint just adds sort of high notes to the overall flavor profile.
Heathen!
Sitting here waiting for my gear vr to get delivered.
Played a truckload of MKX over the weekend my thumb is feeling the after effects today
Time to play some motion control games to give your thumb a break! Hehe
Woahwoahwoah, let’s not get crazy and do something we might regret, here…
I know it hurts, but there’s never any reason to go to that kind of extreme now.
Time to pull the dusty Wii Balance board out. KIDDING. 😉
MKX on a DDR dance pad!
Sounds like you need to get an arcade stick.
@evilmonkey YOU GLORIOUS AND WONDERFUL MAN! That wasn’t necessary at all but thank you so much!
Edit – I guess I should clarify, SOMEONE just gifted me Project CARS on Steam… SO.DAMN.KIND!
It’s all good. Hope you enjoy it friend.
Ooh, let me know how it is. I’m pretty keen on it.
Wet weekend saw me binge on Bloodborne. I put in about 12-15 hours overall, including an 8-hour marathon on Saturday night/Sunday morning. Just loving the co-op / pvp and chalice dungeon crawling.
Went to Macquarie Centre and visited EB Games and JB Hifi. I think I haven’t bought anything from EB Games in the last dozen times I’ve visted. Don’t know why I keep going. Maybe on the off-chance there will be some pre-owned gem that is available at a somewhat low price? Almost picked up a copy of Wet for PS3 at JB. It was $9 but in the end I was too apathetic to do so.
I’m the same, I do think to myself I wonder why I’m here when JB and other stores invariably have better prices. I do think it’s because it’s a specialist video game store though, maybe they’ve got their store set up in the right way to keep us there?
I think the set-up has something to do with it. We all like shiny things. I do choke sometimes when I see the prices EB puts on older games. I think you’d have to be mad to buy new games from EB that weren’t supply limited or special editions or something. I don’t trade in old games myself, but I understand that the EB trading regime is great for those that take advantage of it.
Totally agree with you I haven’t bought a game from EB in years but when im at the mall and im over shopping with the wife I will pop in and splutter at some of the crazy high prices they have stuck on some pretty old games. but hey they have a PS4 and a X1 to play and sometimes playing through the knack demo for the 50th time is better than going to another clothes shop.
And now it’s time for yet another AdVenture Capitalist reset.
*shakes fist at hyper hippo*
I’m resetting about once a day… get everything humming and then let it run overnight. Grab angels and go again.
Bwuahahahahahaha all shall fall to the lure of the recursive revolution!
How about dat boxing? Pretty disappointing for a “fight of the century”.
Pretty slow century. There’s a reason why MMA is taking off though. Boxing is going the way of Formula 1
It’s hardly surprising, though… I mean, no one was ever going to top that Balboa/Creed rematch.
I’m like that guy who single-handedly built the rocket and flew to the moon. What was his name? Apollo Creed?
Yeah, pretty disappointing actually.
My Grandpa summed it up nicely that he’s seen better fights outside of the local boozer than he did on Sunday. There were some exciting parts, but a big part of me wanted to see them go toe to toe trading punches.
Yeah I’m no boxing fan/expert but it seemed like Pacquiao was the only one fighting and Mayweather was only chipping in counter jabs for the points. If that is how he won all his other fights I don’t think he should be able to call himself ‘the greatest’ against Ali.
And now apparently Guardians Of The Galaxy is now on Netflix. Awww yeah. Today just keeps on getting better and better. Thanks to @redartifice for the heads up on Twitter.
That’s pretty cool. Between this and the Ace Attorney movie, Netflix is getting harder to harder to resist…
They’ve added a few decent things recently. Still getting annoyed though at second films being on there but not the first films like Thor & Captain America.
Yeah, that IS frustrating. I saw The Raid 2 on there, and everyone raves about The Raid but it’s not on there!
…I don’t know why this is a problem, I can, uh… ‘source’ that film whenever I want. But comfort, dammit!
Yeah, I bought The Raid 2 recently and desperately want to watch it, but I’ve only seen the first one once. I hired it from the video shop and fell asleep about halfway into it because I was so tired. Hopefully grab a copy of it when I go to Adelaide this weekend.
I’m frustrated by that too. I saw that The Raid 2 was there so for a moment I got all excited thinking I would finally get to see The Raid. Dammit Netflix!
And none of the Iron Man movies! What the hell netflix! =@
Weekend was great. Had Friday off, got the paperwork to go and pick up my first rifle – went and picked it up, then spent about 4 hours at the range on Saturday. Was a lot of fun, and I sucked a lot less than I was anticipating. Rest of the weekend was spent with GW2 – started looking at building my first legendary weapon. Holy balls there’s a lot of work involved. Watched the first couple of episodes of Black Sails because my housemate is bonkers for it – enjoyed it, but not smitten as yet. Will investigate further.
Orphan Black is pretty freaking amazing. I’ve watched the first five eps on STAN, and am totally hooked.
That’s exactly where I’m up to. Put it on hold to get caught up on Game Of Thrones (got 9 eps to go), then I want to marathon Daredevil before going back to Orphan Black.
That’s not to say it’s a bad show, it’s pretty great.
So I’ve just struggled through the 1st ep and am halfway through the second. Does it pick up soon?
If you didn’t like the first two eps, I wouldn’t bother continuing.
Thanks, I guess it’s not for everyone…
I’ve finished the first season and watched the first two episodes of the second, but that was months upon months ago and I’m stuck in limbo now waiting for Mr. Strange to want to watch it. It never comes up on his list of “what there is to watch” that he rattles off each night, that’s really just the list of what he wants to watch. 😛
Mrf. This title has come up so often that I am finding myself compelled to give it a look. Even if it sounds way too similar to that Sarah Michelle-Geller series which apparently had the same premise, which I enjoyed even if it didn’t get rave reviews.
That SMG series was awful. I couldn’t get past the first few episodes it was so painfully bad. I’m still not sure how much of that was due to how bad(and annoying) of an actress SMG is and how much was other factors.
Buffy was great in spite of her, and because it had a strong ensemble, so for her to carry a different show on her scrawny little shoulders was always going to be difficult.
Wow that’s harsh! I liked it! Not so much for SMG acting, but more for the very soap-opera-defenderish desire to know what was going to happen next. (I mean come on… No-one watches soap-operas for the acting. I mean they’re doing something, but it’s not acting.)
I have that desire to know what happens and it’s why I’ve watched a great deal of sub par shows and movies all the way to their conclusions, so if even I couldn’t get through it, it must be bad. 😛
Oh, and when I first left school I became addicted to soap operas. It was just before the internet was a thing so there wasn’t really anything much else to do of an afternoon.
I watched the first season and enjoyed it. Yet somehow I just haven’t felt like I wanted more. It just feels like a show that’s going to run out of momentum, so I figured I’d cut myself off before it gets to the inevitably disappointing filler.
Start of season 2 felt a little filler-ish… but towards the end I think they cut themselves short and tried to cram too much in the last 2 or 3 episodes and it started getting more complicated than it’s ever been.
Ends with a band and sets up Season 3 to go down a very very different path to first 2 seasons.
Twins! Looks like we spent the weekend doing the same thing! I’m nine eps into season one after watching on Netflix, and am totally hooked. 😛
Hola Tay
I played Magic all weekend- hosted people at mine on Saturday for Commander and then got invited into a cube draft on Sunday, built a sweet Green-White-Black deck.
Hell week until Thursday this week, then GODDAMNED MEGAGAME!
A Monday Morning Question: I’m heading to Sydney, which is fine but not my favourite other Australian city. What is your favourite Australian city that you don’t live in?
Melbourne. I don’t live there. I want to live there.
Probably not fair for me to make a decision as I’ve only been to Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. But out of those my top two would be Adelaide and Brisbane without a doubt.
Melbs!
I’ve been to all the cities on the east coast, Sydney is the scariest, Brisbane feels most like home, Melbourne is the best place to visit, but I think Canberra is the place I would like to live the most. It has the feeling of a big small town and I don’t think I would ever be super comfortable in a big city.
Melbourne has the most sportsball and an active board gaming scene (that includes a bar underneath a board game store).
If I can put up with Canberra being cold as balls, I can deal with Melbourne’s weather.
I… I was not aware about this bar underneath a board game store. Apparently I need to get out more often?
The Alchemist’s Refuge, under Games Laboratory on Little Lonsdale. I only heard about it because a couple Melbourne based people I follow on Twitter are regulars.
I really need to visit some Tasmanian cities so I can make a more informed decision. By all reports their weather and landscape is ideal for me.
pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease
I’m gonna say Brisbane, I travel along the Eastern seaboard for work and Brissy is the one for me.
In a few weeks/months I may be able to say Melbourne 🙁
Adelaide, actually. It’s just so… pleasant. And cheap, too 😛
Got caught up on my Marvel phase 2 movies on Netflix over the weekend since my wife and I plan to go see Avengers 2 shortly.
(minor plot allusions which could be spoilers, tagging to be safe)
Thor: The Dark World
The Thor movies have really surprised me with how much I’ve enjoyed them. I was never into comics as a kid so aside from the Avengers yet to have their own movies (who probably never will, like Hawkeye and Black Widow) Thor was one of the comic heroes I was less familiar with. Of course I vaguely know about the Norse mythology, just not how the comic adaptation carried over. But for some reason I find these movies some of the more interesting comic adaptations. Maybe it speaks to the quality of the movies as a whole.Anyway, I really enjoyed this. It had some great action but wasn’t overwhelming, there were a lot of great character moments, and managed to surprise me a few times. It was also the first time I saw an aircraft taken down in hand-to-hand combat on a bridge, which is always worth a couple of extra points on the scale.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
(Definite spoilers)
I was always aware of the character of Captain America but never thought it was a character I would identify with, but the previous movie Captain America: The First Avenger, convinced me that there is more to the character than patriotic propoganda for a country I don’t live in. The social commentary about freedom and surveillance was a bit heavy-handed in this one but overall it was a nice framework for Captain America to operate within. The idea of S.H.I.E.L.D. being completely compromised was a great turn in the story and I liked the way it played out, if slightly idealistic.The hand-to-aircraft combat on a bridge in this movie was also even more impressive than in The Dark World.
Guardians of the Galaxy
My wife lingered on the “Play” option for a long time before launching this movie, bemoaning the utter ridiculousness of the cover art. How could she take this movie seriously, when it has a Raccoon as one the characters? I reminded her that this was one of the most popular movies to date, but it was still difficult for her to commit.Then all that was forgotten about 10 minutes. It was more of a comedy, sure, but a very self-aware comedy that didn’t allow it’s humour to make excuses for the action sequences being any less amazing than the other entries into the franchise. I honestly expected it to be a letdown after all the hype and it was not in the slightest.
The movie was weakened considerably by the absence of someone fist-fighting an aircraft on a bridge, but I’ve also never seen a raccoon fly a prison watchtower before so I’m going to give it some points back for that.
Which of the three is your favourite? Mine is Capt: WS.
I felt like it had so much more dramatic tension that the other marvel movies, which was a nice change. I agree the plot twists were great.
I think I’d say Winter Soldier was my favourite of the three, as well. I really enjoyed them all but WS really built so well on the Captain America/Avengers storylines. I feel like Black Widow had room for a much bigger part in this one, and the introduction of Falcon was just awesome. Heck with the ensemble cast it was almost like a mini-Avengers movie.
Yep, i completely agree. Mini-avengers, with less comedy and more tension.
Weekend spent mostly doing Iron Banner in Destiny. Upside: Saturday’s run scored me 3/4 of the rep I needed to get the nice warlock robes, and the PvP side to three exotic bounties, and I had a decent time ignoring the game objective and pursuing my own – lost maybe 1-2 of every three games played. Downside: As good as Saturday’s run was, Sunday’s was the exact opposite… lost 4-5 games between wins, but I got the last 1200 rep I needed. By Sunday night, I had a Thorn, an Invective, a Bad Juju, the IB Warlock robes, Efrideet’s Spear, a throbbing headache, and determination to never touch PvP again. Worth it.
Didn’t even realise Iron Banner was on until Friday, had a look at what he had, Timur’s Lash at level 5 rep? I’ve had 2/3 of them drop during matches. The scout rifle from a couple of events ago and the felwinter’s lie, they were worth getting the rep up for, but Timur’s Lash?
I saw Avengers 2 on the weekend. Was pretty good.
James Spader had the perfect voice for Ultron so whoever cast him for the role, bravo. Considering I didn’t/don’t watch Agents of Shield or Winter Soldier, I’m sure I missed a few nods to the prior movies but aside from that I enjoyed it a lot. I kinda feel like Avengers 1 had the better climax and a solid ending whereas Age of Ultron kind of petered out. Also on a direct villain to villain comparison, I think Loki was much more threatening than Ultron. Wanting to conquer the world rather than destroying it outright made him a much more dangerous villain in my mind.James Spader is also great in the TV show The Blacklist (even though the show itself is a bit wet sometimes). He’s always worth a look in!
Let’s not forget Boston Legal. The Blacklist is a joke compared to Boston Legal D=
If you didn’t watch Winter Soldier, but did watch Avengers 2, I think you could still watch WS and not be totally spoiled or fully realize what major plot developments happened in it to set the stage for Age of Ultron.
(Edit: Also, oh my god. Ultron. So perfectly characterized and such melodic synthesized rumbling. I have to buy the extended edition DVD on the off-chance there’s additional Spader-time.)
If Bioware ever do a new Mass Effect and don’t cast James Spader to be a Reaper they’re doing it wrong.
I was going to make some snarky comment about Hollywood actors in games, but then I remembered Martin Sheen really added to the Illusive Man. Any actor could’ve played him, but I think few could’ve lent that ‘star power’ that conveys power and authority.
Plus obviously, y’know, Keith motherfucking David. Damn he was good.
Martin Sheen rocked that role so hard that whenever I hear him or see him in other stuff now I expect him to whip out a cigar and call someone ‘shepard’ in that particular way he does it.
If there’s one thing that Bioware just nails it’s voice direction.
Also Sheen and Keith David aren’t the only recognizable traditional actors they’ve used in their games. Kate Mulgrew does Flemeth in the Dragon Age games and she’s incredibly good in the role, for example. Seth Green (Joker), Tricia Helfer (EDI), Carrie-Anne Moss (Aria), Lance Henriksen (Admiral Hackett) and Freddie Prinze Jr. (James Vega, also Iron Bull in Dragon Age Inquisition) all are fairly well-known actors that are in Mass Effect. I think it’s just that they’re big enough and have a big enough budget that they can hire from outside the usual game voice acting pool.
Oh my god. I can’t believe I neglected Joker, EDI and Hackett. (Vega I didn’t care about.) They rocked their roles so fucking hard, too. I can’t imagine anyone else in those roles.
I think the best thing is that with a Mass Effect movie, actually most of those actors could probably play their characters. Illusive Man is meant to look a lot younger than Martin Sheen, so that’s the only one that would be iffy, but I think they could probably pull an Arnold with CGI and it would look pretty viable, given the lighting effects of the areas he resides in, or being a hologram already anyway.
Well then, you haven’t watched the best Marvel movie yet! (Cap: WS) Get right onto that! It’s on Netflix!
I don’t have Netflix! 😛 But yeah, I’ll get around to Winter Soldier eventually.
There were a couple of things that confused me about the film.
Plot spoilers
I thought Dr. Cheol was shot and killedn, nek minut she’s working at the Avengers Hq? When did ‘S.H.I.E.L.D disband, I must have missed this part. Who was the guy in red who killed Ultron at the end, he said that didn’t want to work with Captain America but wanted to kill Ulton… Nek Minut he’s an Avenger, wtf! So many things confusing me lolRegarding the Dr Cheol, I was led to believe she died but I guess she didn’t. She was still alive when Cap left her so I guess she got better.I think SHIELD disbanded in either Agents of Shield or Winter Soldier. Haven’t watched either so can’t tell you if that’s right or not.
The guy in red was Vision. Having not read the comics, I think he’s just going to hang around and watch humanity while being a pseudo-Avenger. I can only guess at this point.
Thanks for the clarification!
The Vision is a cool character really. He can alter his density at will, so he can become almost incorporeal and float around, or he can become stupidly heavy. Also has extreme analytical speed.In the comics he and Scarlet Witch were a pair for a bit. There’s a subplot around him trying to become more ‘human’.
That’s awesome insight, for half a second I thought in my mind as he seemed to change colour when he was looking out of the window… Is he going to become the Silver Surfer? :O
It was wrong on so many levels so I put it out of my mind quickly lol.
In the comics Vision was a full member of the Avengers. He was also married to Scarlet Witch. So i wonder if they are going to do some sort of strange AI/human romance in the next Avengers.
So I tried out Spotify for the first time this weekend and I’m a little underwhelmed tbh.
I’m sure it’s great if you like a broad spectrum of popular music and have a massive data cap.
But while there was far more metal than I was expecting, many older/obscurer bands were not and some artists were missing albums or often bonus tracks.
Combined with average streaming stability I’d have to listen to the music I want in offline playlists for an optimal experience.
Which is what I do already without paying $12 a month :/
I never tried Spotify, but I did try both Sony’s Music Unlimited and Google’s Play Music. I found Google’s to be the most comprehensive, at least in terms of its metal selection. I don’t have much money, but I do not regret the $11 a month I spend on that subscription. The amount of bands it has introduced me to that have now become favourites of mine make it worth it for that alone.
Yeah the finding new stuff part is pretty cool.
I’ll give Google’s offering a go, see how it compares.
I’m a tad miffed as a metalhead as Nuclear Blast withdrew the majority of their stuff off streaming sites as they reckon that’s the cause of falling record sales…
I’m fairly happy with Spotify though. Even moreso that I get it free on my Vodafone plan and now that Sony have merged their Music Unlimited service into Spotify
From what I’ve read, streaming sites also pay complete crap so it probably wasn’t worth it for them to keep things up there.
Well that’s their argument, but I really don’t think it’s the cause for dropping sales. Record companies will need to face the facts that people just don’t buy physical copies en masse anymore. I think a lot of record companies will go down the drain in the next 5-10 years and streaming services will replace them with artists putting their music on there independently. It won’t get them much money (I don’t know how it’s split, if your music is played more you get a bigger cut) but it would give them somewhere to put their music without getting a record deal
Oh it’d not be the reason for declining sales, just that the low pay is likely the real reason they’re doing it, just not making the money they hoped for.
I’ve heard mixed things about NB as a publisher over the years so it’s hard to guess if they actually care about their artists not getting paid for anything
Spotify doesn’t have Peter and the wolf but it does have Tubby the Tuba and Baby beluga.
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I do that regularly when I’m tired. I wake up and it’s like ‘Damn! What have I missed?’ I even do it at the cinema. The first one I remember doing that for was Reign of Fire (Christian Bale dragon movie). Falling asleep during The Raid was definitely tiredness, because I certainly wasn’t bored by that.
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A Monday morning question, what movies have you fallen asleep in? not necessarily because you didn’t like it, could just be because you were extremely tired. Can also be at the cinema or at home.
Can honestly say I’ve never fallen asleep during a movie at the cinema, but at home I’ve fallen asleep during at least 4 movies. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street, The Raid, Max Payne and The Book Of Eli.
I watched The Hangover 3 for the first time on Friday night (in bed.) It was fantastic at putting me to sleep.
I almost always fall asleep when watching a movie at home by myself 😛 Even films I’m enjoying. Then when I catch myself I have to rewind back to the point where I was last concious…
I watched Sympathy for Lady Vengeance yesterday afternoon which I was super in to (fantastic movie, people, go watch it) and I still managed to drift off part way through.
Tragically, I fell asleep for my first watching of True Lies. This is tragic because it is easily one of my top 10 movies of all time, probably even top 5. I was in that half-asleep stage of sleep where everything you hear sounds as if it’s coming through water with an echo or whatever, unable to penetrate your consciousness but fuelling dreams… but I didn’t get any good dreams out of it, I just straight-up passed out.
I was tired. I don’t know why. Probably because I was still a young person with all their hormones and crap and their need for 10hrs sleep a day.
The Dark Knight. Made it about halfway and zonked out. I was pretty tired but it also wasn’t gripping me like I thought it would / should. Haven’t given it (or any other in the trilogy) a second chance since.
Honestly, I don’t think you missed all that much. Batman Begins is where it’s at.
I saw Batman Begins on DVD but I have zero memories of it. Don’t think it made that much of an impression on me. This, coupled with me falling asleep during TDK, means I’m perhaps missing out on all the fun of Dark Knight Rises. But oh well.
There is no fun in DKR, don’t worry about that 😛
I fell asleep to the star trek movie reboot twice, it wasnt boring just i seem to want to watch it tired. Also 3 seperate james bond movies but i think it was more because i used to like watching james bond movies late at night when i could sleep.
I don’t fall asleep on planes or through boring movies. SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH ME.
My mind just wants me to endure the unpleasantness. 😛
It’s a good thing mang, you can use the flight time to play gaems or read and stuff!
I instantly feel tired on the plane, so I sleep usually everytime I fly to Sydney/Brisbane.
Not good for flying long haul. Sixteen hours or longer to London or LA just staring blankly in the dark, while everyone else sleeps. Haha!
Fuaaaarrrrr, I’d go by boat if I couldn’t go to sleep haha 😛
When I went to see League of Extraordinary Gentlemen I had been in the middle of a huge DDR binge when I at the peak of my weeaboo phase and had delusions of adequacy. I’d joined a friend on a Friday afternoon to set up Madman’s stall at one of the first SMASH! expos at Sydney Uni, capped off by us drinking and playing DDR at the uni bar. I get up the next morning a bit stiff and sore but went into the city to meet with friends to see a movie. I was heaps early so I played a whole bunch more DDR before they arrived. When we did meet up around lunchtime I was ravenously hungry and destroyed a large whopper meal before we went into the cinema.
Now, the movie was pretty bad and completely failed to hold my interest but I think primarily between fatigue and the last 24 hours involving me overworking myself quite a bit I dozed off, slipping in and out of conciousness and seeing 90% of the movie through some kind of fever-dream filter. Once it was over my friends had to half-carry me out of the cinema, though thankfully I perked up a bit once out in the fresh air.
All that said, I keep thinking I should rewatch LXG to give it a fair chance but the idea of the movie kind of makes my head start swimming by association. Plus, I heard pretty much everyone thought it sucked so I don’t feel like I missed anything.
Apparently I’m the only one that likes it.
As bad as it was, I enjoyed it because it was a bit silly overall. The 1800s fiction mash-up had a few redeeming features, almost all of which stemming from Sean Connery.
*Sheepishly puts hand up*
Yeah, you’re not alone.
I don’t think I’ve ever fallen asleep watching a movie.
The only thing I distinctly remember falling asleep while watching, on multiple occasions, and observing it have the same effect on multiple other people, is Record of Lodoss War. It’s a great old anime series but there’s something about it that’s soporific (and weirdly it’s not a boring show)
I’ve never fallen asleep in a film, my Grandpa fell asleep taking me to see The Pokemon movie though haha.
I have fallen asleep in Love Never Dies though in Sydney a few years ago, I woke up and ACT II was about to start! The parts I saw though I thoroughly enjoyed.
When it was in the cinemas, I saw Serenity three times in one day (why? Because I was/am a complete weirdo). I nodded off the third time.
Edit: also, Freeze showed me Office Space when I was at his place. I didn’t quite fall asleep, but I was on the brink and couldn’t remember anything at all from the last half hour until I looked up a plot summary online a week later.
Is Office Space one of those movies that has aged horribly? I found it hilarious but in the passing years people I’ve shown it to have been deliberately “meh” about it.
Yes, and no. I thought it was pretty good, and had some great moments. The comedy holds true. The cringe-worthy office moments hold true. The overarching story was very silly and has not dated well at all, though.
My wife fell asleep watching Hurt Locker.
Still not sure how…
Empire Strikes Back but that was when I was around 12 and it was a trilogy showing at a drive in (when those were still a thing) on a Friday night after I’d done school and crap like that. It’s certainly not a film I’ve ever fallen asleep watching any other time what with it being the best one.
Miami Vice and Alien Vs Predator 2, both of which I did fall asleep because I was ridiculously bored. Miami Vice is probably the worst film I’ve ever seen.
Out of tiredness, without fail I’ll watch Fellowship of the Ring, put on The Two Towers straight away and fall asleep just before the end of the first disc.
My mum fell asleep at the cinema when we went to see I Am Legend 😀
Falling asleep while watching something is not an achievement of mine yet.
I’m fine with sleeping on planes, since I can think “it’s sleep time” and go to sleep, but I generally don’t sleep if I don’t explicitly think that it’s sleep time, like watching movie time. Make sense?
Rush Hour 3; the only movie I’ve ever fallen asleep to.
As a very young kid I went to a drive-in theatre of The Matrix. I was way too young for that movie, it really quite scared me. I didn’t know what it was going in, and when I saw the Village Roadshow logo, I thought it would be a kids movie, as the Village Roadshow logo played before all my Wiggles VHS tapes. The reason I fell asleep is that the seats had already been pulled back to form a makeshift bed, and when in Rome, sleep in the middle of scary movies.
I haven’t seen the Matrix since. I should watch it one of these days.
A reminder that @redartifice @freya and I are going to be in Sydney this weekend and BOARD GAMES should happen on the Friday evening. The only problem? We have nowhere to go!
People have said they’re interested in joining in but without a table to put the table top games on top of, it’s going to be a little difficult.
@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
I knew that was coming, which is why I didn’t bother :p
Worse comes to worse we find a table in a pub with people and play stuff.
Bearing in mind I’m going to book accommodation in campbelltown
Scratch that, have booked accommodation in campbelltown
We only booked accommodation the other day. In Strathfield because I have to drop Freya off at Sydney Uni before heading to the megagame.
We have a video game bar in Sydney now its alright. They have the big box for Card Against Humanity and Im sure they wouldn’t mind us bringing other games but Friday is their busiest night so I wouldn’t.
Alternatively if people just want to go regular drinking I know many awesome places, like places where they put tiny rubber ducks in your drink.
A regular drink or two would be good, pick us a nice bar near public transport and I’m in 🙂
So any where in the CBD then
I’m sorry, not available on friday, Sunday morning I could do at my place if people are interested (I’m close to Airport for those going to airport)
That would work quite well
That probably has the best chance of actually happening.
I shall advise Anton we will be having guests 🙂 although it could be funnier if I dont :p
Ew, mornings 😛
I went to a friend’s engagement party on Saturday night. Pretty fun! Was a small party and mostly his/her family but it was a really good time. Especially because I don’t really get to see a lot of my non-TAY friends much these days now that everybody lives so far apart.
Also I bought a few domain names on the weekend because I noticed there was a bunch available with my name. Including http://benclark.rocks
Where’s the ‘e’, Ben? WHERE’S THE ‘E’?
Here: Ben
Ugh. Ben’s truly are the worst. 😛
Say that to my face. 😛
Challenge accepted!
(just don’t bring your chainsword)
I forgot about that… It’s been lost to the Chaos God of Moving Houses.
HAHAHA! Brilliant!
I love to hate this.
So we’re going to Adelaide this weekend, unfortunately there won’t be enough time for a meat, but I will definitely be making a stop at the comic book store in the Citi Centre arcade at some point. I only ever read mums old Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics as a kid, but seeing all the superhero movies over the years has made me want to start. Might pick up a copy of The Killing Joke if I find it for the right price.
Recommendations? Also, any you’d recommend for my son? I mentioned to him the other day that there are Big Hero 6 comics and he seemed pretty interested.
You already took the biggest step and ordered my books. I have nothing else to recommend.
Actually, that’s not true. Here are the absolutely objectively best (and pretty accessible) comics in the world. I would not hesitate to recommend any of the following five titles/series to anybody:
Watchmen – Alan Moore (1986ish)
Y: The Last Man series – Brian K Vaughan (series 2002-2008)
Saga – Brian K Vaughan (series 2013-ongoing)
Ex Machina – Brian K Vaughan (series 2005-2010)
The Sculptor – Scott McCloud (2015)
And if you must superhero:
The Dark Knight Returns – Frank Miller (1986ish)
And for a slightly indier feel:
Maus – Art Spiegelman (winner of the Pulitzer Prize) (1980s, I think)
(I love it, but it may not be everyone’s bag)
I wouldn’t jump straight into DKR as a superhero thing, it’s good but isn’t really a typical outing.
Same with Watchmen, really, it’s a deconstruction. I’d work up to it.
Y and Saga are fantastic, as is Maus. I didn’t enjoy Ex Machina as much as Y
I took a long hiatus from comics (between about ages 8-20). DKR and Watchmen were the first comics handed to me when I asked my uni tutor for recommendations. I’m glad about that.
Figuring that they have re-read potential, if you really want to get a feel for the best in the graphic novel form right off the bat, you might as well start with these, and come back to them later as well.
Y: The Last Man and The Sculptor are by far my favourite two comics ever. They are head, shoulders, torso and hips above everything else I’ve read.
They’re seminal, yes, but Graphic Novels as a specific subset of comics have come a long way from the 80s (and those two you’ve named were originally printed as issues). If you’re going to get into comics now, I’d look a little bit more contemporary.
DKR is an interesting exercise, but I don’t think it’s the best batman story ever. at the time it was a fresh take, but it’s really a curio. I’m really not looking forward to Miller’s second sequel to it.
Oh god, me neither. The first sequel to it was so incredibly bad that I wanted to scrub my brain with sulphuric acid after reading it. I won’t be getting this one.
Yeah, it was awful. Frank Miller really got worse over time, which is a shame.
Excellent recommends. I’d add V For Vendetta if reading the classics.
DKR is great. The sequel… not so much. Really poor.
I picked up Maus recently at the 2nd hand book market at Fed Square. Score. Looking forward to reading it.
Also @shane I was in my local comic shop today (All Star in Melbourne). and noticed they had a large “LOCAL” section. Asked if they deal with individual creators/self-publishers and they do, gladly. Dunno if that’s helpful to you. 🙂
Thanks, some of my books should already be in their “Local” section 😀
Oh cool – I did have a look but didn’t see any. Mind you I was only downstairs in the issues section, didn’t go up the stairs to collected/graphic novels. I shall look harder next time…
Loved the V For Vendetta movie, so I’d definitely be interested in giving the books a look.
Maus is goooood.
I just spent 25 minutes absorbed in reading the wikipedia entry for Maus without posting. Huh.
Killing Joke is OK, but it’s not super recent. Art is great though. If I was going to get into older batman stuff, I’d go The Long Halloween, which is set just after Year One (also good)
If I was starting on superheroes, I’d go:
Batman: Hush (Jeph Loeb)- uses all of Batman’s villains really well
Hawkeye (1st Trade, Matt Fraction)- what Hawkguy does when he’s not an Avenger. Hilarious take on what it takes for a normal dude to match it with the big guys
Superior Spiderman- Doctor Octopus takes over Peter Parker’s body and becomes Spiderman. He’s surprisingly effective at it. Cool spidey story.
For kids? There’s avengers and spidey comics aimed specifically at kids, and I think there’s a Teen Titans book aimed at them too.
Also: Joss Whedon’s run on Astonishing X Men is a great entry point to X-men, and @shane reminded me of Brian K Vaughan’s Runaways, which is one of the great lamented comic runs from a mainstream publisher.
Also also: I’d steer clear of the major crossover “events” from either publisher. They can be confusing to read from a single trade. If you want to read them, I’ve just subscribed to Marvel Unlimited, which is a good way to catch up. Marvel’s big events seem to be an easier read than DC’s
Also Also Also: Scott Snyder’s run on Batman (first issue: Batman Volume 2 #1 in 2011, printed as a trade) has been really good
Also x 4: Iron Man: Extremis is a good self contained-ish modern Iron Man story, was a major inspiration for Iron Man 3
Also x 5: Anything Mark Waid has done with Daredevil (2011-on) is great. Go into either the Comics centre or Pulp Fiction COmics on King William Road and ask
Oh yeah, Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men was pretty good, and the artwork was gorgeous. Was my intro point to X-Men (it was also my outro, but that’s not the fault of the series).
Runaways was really great when Vaughan was at the helm. I lost interest when Joss Whedon took it over (went time-travelly IIRC) and I didn’t really follow it past that.
Whedon’s Astonishing X-Mens is incredible.
Get him the complete works for Transmetropolitan for when he turns 16 or something.
It’s not mind-safe for kids, but whena teen he’ll love it.
Transmetropolitan is the bees pyjamas.
If we want to go off-superhero, I’d list that, Preacher, Hellblazer, Sandman and Fables all as more than worthy reads.
Oh yes, since playing The Wolf Among Us I’ve been pretty interested in starting on the Fables comics.
The first six issues are quite different to the rest, so just be aware of that. Starts out much more “Bigby Wolf: Fable detective” and then launches further into the myth arc and never looks back.
Yeah, those plus Transmet would pretty much define my top 5.
I think Sandman would be number one for me, discovered it in high school and loved it.
I think I’m two issues behind in Sandman: Overture, really must catch up.
Thanks heaps for the advice and recommendations @shane and @redartifice, so much info. I’ll bookmark this page.
Also, thanks to @trjn and @transientmind (the most interesting man on TAY).
All you guys have been a wealth of information.
If you’re interested in seeing how Superman can be incredibly interesting try Red Son, All Star Superman or (my personal favourite) Kingdom Come.
Green Lantern: Rebirth was good and leads into Sinestro Corps Wars/Darkest Night. It’s a good way to dip your toe into the waters and then build up to one of DC comics infamous Crisis Crossovers. They did a similar run with The Flash shortly afterwards that lead to Flashpoint (which then lead to New 52) which I didn’t like as much.
Ultimate Spider-man is pretty good although the entire Ultimate universe got kind of wonky after a while, defeating the purpose of being the accessible non-continuity locked version of Marvel. One of those series you should just back out of once you feel like it’s not that good. Apparently it picked up again once Mile Moranis came into the picture but I haven’t read any of that.
Speaking of the Ultimate universe, The Ultimates 1 and 2 are great. Just don’t bother with Ultimates 3. There’s a whole lot of terrible going on there (the guy that wrote it was going through personal issues, didn’t care about the differences between Ultimate and main universe characters and decided that Quicksilver/Scarlet Witch incest was totally cool).
Demon in a Bottle is the only Iron Man story that I enjoyed, so there’s that too.
Red Son and All Star are great Superman tales. Also Superman: A Man for All Seasons.
You’re also spot on about The Ultimates.
I re-read Kingdom Come every now and again just to gawk at the artwork. Alex Ross is in a class by himself.
Can confirm: Ultimate Spider-Man (from what I’ve read) is good. The only comic book series that spends 17 pages with Aunt May talking to her psychiatrist, right after an action scene.
OH! I know! I remember reading a graphic novel version of The Hobbit, as a kid. So it would’ve probably been made sometime in the 80s, maybe early 90s. It was amazing. Eye-opening.
Maybe there are graphic novel versions of other books that kids like…
Plus, the Asterix and Obelix books STILL hold up.
I’ve still got a bunch of Asterix books, haven’t read them in ages. Tintin was pretty good too.
Tintin is pretty kid friendly.
Frankly, any of the kids cartoon tie-in comics are probably a pretty good entry point. I started with The Phantom, who’s always pretty PG, around the age of ten (but from memory your son is younger than that). This list I googled looks pretty OK too: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2013/08/15-great-new-upcoming-comic-books-for-kids.html
Yeah, I want to watch the movie with him, but a work colleague has borrowed my copy and hasn’t given it back yet.
It’s on Netflix
Asterix holds up because the translations from the French are so good. Love it. Got an almost complete set. 😀
When I was a kid, the Archie Comics version of Ninja Turtles was the thing, and I thought it was pretty great. Nowadays, though, the Turtles are a bit more adult-focussed, so I really don’t know what to recommend beyond Richie Rich and Casper the Friendly Ghost 😛
Turtles started really adult focused, it’s only when they became a cartoon that they kidified.
Yeah, I know – I’ve read the originals. My childhood just happened to coincide with that lovely period of totally family-friendly TMNT.
AWESOME!
*Clicks link, hoping for ChevyNova*
…
Not what I was hoping for, but I still wasn’t disappointed! It was a shell of a good time.
I can personally recommend Jonathon Hickman’s works. Definitely Look at the Manhattan Projects (alternate Bizarro Science) also The Nightly News.
I’m slowly collecting Hellblazer (love it so much)
Hellblazer is pretty great
Public Service Announcement for Twitter Peeps:
You need to follow this bot:
https://twitter.com/anagramatron
It periodically retweets pairs of tweets, where one is an anagram of the other, and paired they are brilliant.
Recent example:
“How come hogwarts isnt real” “Swear I’m at the wrong school”
HOW DOES IT EVEN WORK?! It’s some kind of wizardry.
I Fit Iron Dick
TAY RPG Pathfinder tonight at 8pm AEST and 7:30pm ACST. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
Let me know if you will be available tonight and we shall continue our adventure. The abandoned town of Auld Forte lies to the east and the bridge across the Muirden is in front of you.
I’ll be there, if slightly sick. Stupid winter.
@popdart5 – Currently rating myself 50/50 of staying awake past 6. If I’m not around at 8 I’ll be passed out.
All good. This weather has not been kind to many people so feel free to rest up.
I’m in
Aulde Phorte.
I’ll definitely be there but my ‘net has been on the fritz for a week or two. Telstra ‘upgraded’ the cable in my exchange and now I get random storms of packet loss, getting really bad during peak hours.
If it’s not working I’ll tether to my phone I guess.
I’ll be there, but I am on recall for work so if I have to drop out for a fault, then so be it.
Holy crap my arms hurt so much! Who would have thought a lot of reps of bench pressing a low weight would hurt?
“Do 50 to warm up” says my trainer, no weight on the bar, piece of piss I think. My arms were a bit sore by the end of that 50 but then he kept putting an extra 5kg on and dropping the reps by 10, by the time I got down to just doing the last 10, my pecs & shoulders were aching like mad.
Then he says “Okay, lets go & do some shoulder press”, basically the same thing over again, I’d have hit him if I could have lifted my arms…
I’m not sure I’ll be using my arms for the rest of the day. They say exercise is supposed to be good for you!
That’s an interesting warm up protocol, what are your gym goals?
Just put muscle on really, it seems to be the thing that’s helping me finally drop a bit of weight so I’m happy with that at least
My neck is sore today from picking up and throwing chunks of concrete yesterday. Weird.
That’s some pretty intense lifting, guessing you’ve told your trainer you want to bulk up your upper body? Make sure you’re on the appropriate diet if you’re lifting weights to that degree; otherwise it’ll be all pain no gain.
Mostly I’m trying to build up everything, it seems to be doing pretty well so far but damn it hurts…
Yeah starting with light weights high reps and moving to heavy weights low reps is a traditional bulking technique; good luck man =] Do make sure you’re eating tons of protein though to see the results come through; otherwise your body will lack the necessary resources to rebuild the muscle.
Hey everyone!! Hasn’t that weather just been insane?? Works good, things are good, how are you all??
Last song played game I hear you clamouring? Beat the World by Pressure 4-5
Get Lucky – Daft Punk
Pretty sure it was Don’t Look Back In Anger – Oasis in the car this morning
It was Bitch by Meredith Brooks on Orphan Black, followed by laughter.
Florence & the Machine – I’m Not Calling You a Liar (unreleased Dragon Age 2 end-credit version *hair-flick*)
Painted – MS MR
Steal Away (The Night) – Ozzy Osbourne. Which, sadly, wasn’t enough to get the previous rubbish out of my head (Beautiful Dangerous, quite possibly the only bad track on Slash’s self-titled album).
Namir (Trailer Edit) – Michael McCann, Deus Ex Human Revolution OST
Beautiful Mine – The Butterfly Effect
The Living End – All Torn Down
I picked the first album I could find on my wife’s iPod shuffle in the car, as she’d last been listening to Alex Lloyd which I cannot stand.
Go K.K. Rider! – Super Smash Bros Brawl Version. On the classier side, I listened to some Mozart as I went to bed last night, but don’t remember the name because all the names sound the damn same.
Don’t Call It A Comeback by Motion City Soundtrack
Here’s a piece I wrote for Horror Talk on the zombie metaphor, particularly as it pertains to Undad.
Also included: some horribly misinformed generalisations about zombie fiction, including a dismissal of most of the genre as “a glut of gleefully B-grade gore porn.”
Ok, Joker is a laugh, but the others in the Suicide Squad actually look ok.
(Twitter pics, so sorry if you’re not on Twitter – hopefully somebody can find a website pic to embed instead, no time, have Uni assignment due in 3 hourOHMYGODIHAVENOTIME)
https://twitter.com/DavidAyerMovies/status/595025398456430593/photo/1
Deadshot – Will Smith, full get up
https://twitter.com/DavidAyerMovies/status/595000883420749824/photo/1
Full group, no Joker (suspiciously)
I…actually like Killer Croc’s look in this. Unlike the Arkham games *runs for cover*
Harley Quinn! <3
Cautiously optimistic.
But I liked that they were doing something different with the Joker, so apparently I’m a bad geek.
It’s not that I don’t like that they’re trying to do something different with the Joker, it just doesn’t look right to me.
Then again he might be absolutely fantastic. I remember when I heard that Heath Ledger was going to portray him in The Dark Knight, I was like “it’s gonna be shit. Jack Nicholson is the best Joker”. Then I finally got around to seeing it and OH MY GOD! What a brilliant performance, it just blew me away.
So hopefully this’ll be one of those type of deals, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
My problem with the Joker is simple: his tattoos are all existing Joker artwork. It’s like someone went through a gallery of iconic Joker images and just slapped them on his body. They don’t look right. They don’t look like tattoos the Joker would have.
Maybe they’re not tattoos! Maybe he just went silly with a magic marker because they kept hosing down his cell walls when he drew on them. Or maybe someone else went silly on his behalf while he slept. 😛
I haven’t paid a great deal of attention to the new joker, but I saw that he had ‘dangerous’ tattooed on his face. That seems thoroughly un-Jokerlike. Why would the joker have tattoos, let alone a ‘dangerous’ tattoo?
Why wouldn’t the Joker have tattoos?
Seems like a very un-Joker thing to me. I gave up and starting looking at ‘The Internet Reacts To The New Joker’ article, and looked at a few comments, just to get some alternative views. The prevailing argument is that they are sculpted, very precisely-crafted tattoos, that require maintenance by the Joker. That’s not a very Joker thing to do. And the idea of Joker sitting in a tatoo parlour, letting a tattoo artist cut into and draw on his skin, and not murdering the poor fool midway. What I’m trying to say is that it doesn’t fit the character.
The Joker pays a lot of attention to appearances, he’s all about the visual showmanship. That’s why he clowns every item he owns up.
If he was getting tattoos done, he’s wait it out. He’s got his own logic, which is precisely why he’s dangerous- he’s not a wanton killer, he’s insane, and there’s a difference there. So I could totally see the Joker getting tats done if he wanted them to have a theatrical effect.
Somehow I doubt that’s Will Smith in that Deadpool getup. His hands are white.
Good spot!
Someone on Reddit pointed it out.
I think it might be just the lighting that makes his hands look pale. Although considering the costume, it would be hard to tell if it’s actually Will Smith or not.
Look at the group photo. His hands are clearly different.
EDIT: Taking a look at the picture again, it looks like a composite of quite a few elements. The gun, mask and eye under the mask were all definitely added after the fact.
Huh. Yeah it certainly looks like the photo has been manipulated to a degree. It will be interesting to see if Warner Bros and DC have the chops for this type of unusual ensemble movie.
Looking at the lineup I can almost guess how it’ll go.
– Harley’s working with Mistah J, but will ultimately help the team out because she’s fundamentally OK inside
– Deadshot will be the nominal anti-hero
– Enchantress (zombie lady) and the dude she’s leaning on? Traitors. Dude that’s being leaned on is nominal team leader
– Captain Boomerang (blue coat) will serve the mission, clash with Deadshot. Probably
– Guy on left is cannon fodder. He’ll either die early or, more likely, get his head exploded by Waller.
– Killer Croc is antagonistic towards everyone else but will heroically sacrifice himself
– Dude on the right is probably late game fodder and a little bit “Steve Buscemi in Con Air”
– Katana is a handler/plant on the team by Waller and will be torn between serving the mission and saving people.
The traitor that’s nominal group leader is Rick Flag, the only voluntary member of Task Force X and their leader. Don’t forget that the team is only a team in the sense that Waller has forced them into working for a “good” cause. They’ll be at each other’s throats the entire time otherwise, what’s the point?
I forgot Rick Flag was in this because Rick Flag has never made any impression on me. I’m not convinced I’ve ever even read a comic with him in it.
I still think he’s a traitor because he’s obviously too clean cut.
@redartifice He is a bit like that. Seriously though, he’s the only truly loyal member of the group. So you are right but coming from the wrong direction.
You’ve just reminded me of Sherlock.
The eye is definitely post-processed there. I wonder if it’s a CG element or a prop
Sorry to be as stickler, and I’m amazed nobody else picked it up, but it’s DeadSHOT, not Deadpool.
Well, it seems appropriate to make a trivial but apparently unnoticeable cockup.
Funny part is Deadpool is a knock-off of Deathstroke, not Deadshot.
Love Deadshots look, Harley Quinn and Killer Croc look different, I think he needs to be a lot bigger though. Still not keen on the new look Joker (even though as stated he’s curiously absent). Don’t know any of the other characters.
I think some of their choices are very interesting, but like @redartifice I’m cautiously optimistic for this. Really hoping DC can pull off a cinematic universe the way Marvel has.
Joker’s absent because he’s not part of the “Squad”- rumour is he’ll be more of a Hannibal Lecter in prison type
Sydney TAY (or anybody else who wants to make the trip)
Want to go to the Pokemon Symphony Concert at the Opera House on Saturday 21st Nov 2pm? Pre-sale tickets have just gone up. Ticket prices range from $50-$99 depending on where we can slot in (they seem to be going awfully fast) – most likely around the $80 range unless everybody wants to go to for the cheaper option.
Let me know if you want to come ASAP and I’ll book tickets tonight.
@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
EDIT: Buying tickets in about half an hour or so (6:30ish)! Let me know if you want in! Confirmed so far: Me, Blaghs, Pants and Nova.
EDIT2: Bought!
Sorry man, that’s in my lockout period (I’m likely to be going crazy at this point)
I think I’m going to take a pass on this. Thanks for the heads up though.
YES!
I think I am still keen.
Definitely count me in
Would Ash want to come? Need to buy tickets all at once if we want to sit together.
Hrrrrrnnnggghhhh… Really can’t justify the $300-600 to come over for it.
Fingers crossed for a Melbourne show at some point.
Melbourne has a video gamey concert thingy in July(?)!
#comicbookpage2
It is a comicbook page kinda day 2day.
I am reading the 2015 Howard the Duck, I’m not usually a comic book guy but me likey.
might be paraphrasing here: uggghh boo hoo uncle ben boo hoo
ah, remembering that puts a smile on my face.
With great power comes great something something.
Confession time… Excepting Undad Issue 1 I’ve not read a comic book outside of the Sunday paper…
Unless Footrot Flats counts…
Am I an uncouth monster?
Yes.
You should read The Lesser Evil. And then everything will be all right.
Also: I’m very, very sorry to have been your first. Don’t judge all comics based on mine…
I think my first comic book was a huge Garfield collection. Which I read through several times, before getting another couple.
Otherwise the only ones would be a couple of X-men ones or something I got from the Easter Show in showbags.
To continue the comic theme – if you’re in Melbourne, All Star Comics still have a sizable pile of leftover Free Comic Book Day comics to hand out so get yourself down there. 53 Queen Street.
Still on the comic book tip @jimu just tweeted that apparently Marvel has now got the rights back for The Punisher, Ghost Rider and Blade.
It’s a good day.
With Spidey a Marvel/Sony co production & Clenched in seemingly good hands, all we need is for Fantastic four to flop/be awesome & thingsll be great!
Clenched?
X-men, thank you, autocorrect
Was actually wondering what that was meant to be.
My butt hole, obviously
Ended up watching Iron Man 3 again last night, since I had the TV on for the end of Tron Legacy while pottering around in Elite then I was too busy with that to change channel. Then thought hey I don’t think I’ve seen Iron Man 2 since I saw it in the cinemas, maybe I’ll watch that again. Then when that was done, thought it had been ages since Iron Man 1 so may as well watch that too 😛 Interesting watching it that way, you pick up on more stuff in the earlier movies that you wouldn’t have noticed otherwise I think, eg if I’d watched the three in order again (before I first saw 3, anyway) I wouldn’t have noticed that the Mandarin used the same Ten Rings symbol from the first movie.
Otherwise, lost the entirety of yesterday to sleep, following the uh… big afternoon/evening preceding it >_>
Mandarin is my biggest issue with Iron Man 3. Admittedly my knowledge of the comic books isn’t very comprehensive, but I was under the impression that Mandarin was supposed to be this massively powerful villain and was Iron Man’s nemesis. I was all hyped up expecting a massive battle between the two of them, then he comes out and goes “oh hey, I’m Trevor, I’m just an actor” WTF! They just made it a great big friggin’ joke, and that really pissed me off.they decided to go for something completely different to, I assume, comment on real life goings on.Mandarin in the comic is sorta racist being a product of the 60s.
They did a follow up short suggesting there is an actual mandarin out there, so, you never know what’ll come up in the future
I’d only done a cursory look-up of it before the movie came out since a friend was telling me some of the things about it (he’s my go-to comic guy), so I was originally expecting more than what we ended up getting. But I loved that twist, I thought it was hilarious 😛
What does piss me off though is apparently there are these “One Shots” things a friend mentioned the other night when we got talking about Marvel stuff. Apparently they’re extras on the DVDs or something, and one for IM3 shows the real Mandarin picking up Trevor or something like that. I dunno, it bugs me that there’s this added information that is hidden away like that as something I’d never end up coming across, rather than being stuck at the end of the credits or something like that. Something actually attached to the movie in one of the places I would have seen it (ie, cinema or TV).
Yeah, apparently the “One shots” are only on the special features of the Blu-Rays. Which is a bloody joke. As you suggested they should be tacked on to the end of the credits or something instead of a sales tactic to try and sell more copies of a certain format.YouTube
https://youtu.be/Ja5ngzBOziQ
@evilmonkey
All of them are up there:-)
Cool, thanks Jim JIm.
That’s not even the full thing, whoops.
Pretty sure it’s up there somewhere /o\
Well that’s a bit poo.
Still more effort than I should have to go to 😛
What’s your Elite status? I’m pottering around the Empire in a Vulture at the mo.
Competent, Dealer, Trailblazer. Allied/Post Commander, Allied/Earl, Neutral. Currently allied with the minor Alliance faction I’m shacked up with, just kicking around there while I build up rep. I picked up a cheap Clipper while the 29% discount was on, that left me with just under 4mil in the bank so I’ve parked that in the garage and am back in the Sidey while I continue with what I was doing before. It can be like a project car or something 😛
Nice. I see you’ve been focused on ranking major powers… I’m following the Empire story a bit at the moment, shenanigans. It’s also interesting to see the backlash against the Code pirates.
Novice, Merchant, Ranger, Cadet, Outsider still. I’ve got a nice swathe of friendly stations and I’m hoping I’ll get some more ranking missions soon.
That was my initial goal, yeah. I was running missions to earn credits, figured once I’d hit Allied with one I may as well move on to the other. Then I thought it’d be cool to hit Elite in a Sidewinder, since apparently the rank of the ships you kill as well as the disparity between your ship and theirs factors into how you rank up. And assassination missions became my main source of income, shooting down elite anacondas, so I figured it might be doable 😛 But then in the latest patch the space police stopped showing up during those missions, so they weren’t doable any more. Can’t take the concentrated firepower. Although the ones that show up with the target as General so-and-so are doable, since they turn up in a Dropship which is a total piece of piss to take down without even taking a hit. Although in the Empire they show up in a Clipper, which is a bit more tough. Still doable though, just have to switch from close-range circling to more of a zoom-and-boom tactic.
There’s something familiar about this Monday TAY post. Hello all. Still don’t have much motivation…again. More orange hot chocolate is the answer
I downloaded the new Android OS (Lollipop) on Saturday. There is a Flappy Birdesque Easter Egg hidden in the software. I’m pretty sure it’s way harder than Flappy Bird and worth checking out. 😛
What are we all playing lately?
AdVenture Capitalist.
BLOODBOOORRRRRNE
HOLD IT! Also, the Ace Attorney series.
Borderlands 2 and League of Legends. Both are fun as I’m playing them with friends
One Finger Death Punch between games. 🙂
OFDP FTW! So addictive.
Have you had a bash (haha) at survival mode yet or you still going through the levels?
Lol, nah, haven’t played it for ages. I was using my Xbone controller on my laptop and I’ve since gotten rid of it (the Xbone). Really need to pick up another controller just for PC gaming, My Battlefield 4 wired 360 controller should work though, shouldn’t it?
I use mouse on mine, works just as well for me :). I think I got to 3800 last time I tried it.
Haven’t tried mouse, but when it comes to games I always prefer controller over mouse and keyboard.
Yeah but this game is only using the mouse for left click and right click, you can literally play with one hand on this game. You just have to keep your mouse cursor in the window you’re playing in (If you play OFDP in a window like I do)
@tech_knight I might give it a go, if I can drag myself away from AdVenture Capitalist.
I was playing Dark Souls but then I started re-playing Xenoblade instead 😛
#Nakedblade
Bought into the closed beta for the Path of Exile expansion because apparently all the other games which I own but haven’t yet played/finished aren’t interesting enough.
Destiny. Elite: Dangerous.
Send help. And muffins.
PILLARS
Though I’ve had little time for computer gaming of late.
Bloodborne, AdVenture Capitalist, AC4: Black Flag (PS4 version), AC5: Unity, shitty mobile games on my ipad, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, Netflix, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Director’s Cut.
I hop between them, OK?!
Destiny. *hugs knees to chest, rocks back and forth, mumbling something about “two more weeks…”*
I just jumped back into that after taking a little while off for Borderlands Handsome Collection and Mortal Kombat X, was so much fun to play again
I need more Strange Coins, I forgot I had used them all up last time I played 🙁
Are you on PS4, or Xbox?
Xbox One, sorry for replying so late
Now that I think about it – Nothing. Huh.
Been back into Hearthstone a bit due to new expansion, while watching the Clone Wars show on Netflix.
Also GTA V on PC.
Looking forward to Destiny expansion and Witcher 3.
So hype for Project CARS, but I’ll be damned if Assetto Corsa doesn’t look fine as hell. Not sure if my laptop will run it, but screw it I’ma buy it anyway and take the chance.
Project CARS looks sooooooooooooo pretty.
Are you getting it? And which format? I’m getting it on PS4.
I meant to reply to you. Hmmph. Silly Kotaku.
PS4 initially. My PC’s pretty good but not THAT good…
Yeah, I’m gonna buy it on PC as well later on down the track when I’ve built a rig worthy of it.
Not even sure if Project CARS has multi.
Steam says yes. Has multi. May 7
That it does.
Never really got into sim racing games but I am tempted.
Vroooom.
Anyone here own an electronic drum kit or know about them?
I feel like buying one and wouldn’t mind some pro tipz
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I have a Guitar Hero drumkit. It seems to run on electricity.
I like to bash mine every now and then when I’m sitting on the edge of the couch closest to the corner the drum set is collecting dust in.
There’s a $3000 one in my room back home that dad bought and I’ve played around with.
It’s pretty friggen cool. The console takes a bit of time to learn all the features but it’s not too bad. Lots of cords though. Lots and lots of cords.
My only issue with it is that I couldn’t really get it to simulate a real symbol. If you hit it, it rings out. You can’t simulate grabbing it or anything to stop the sound.
Edit: http://i.imgur.com/PE5cvoh.jpg
Is that the Alesis DM10?
The ones I’m looking at have chokeable cymbals so that shouldn’t be an issue. Thinking of the Roland TD-11KV 🙂
I was looking at getting one for a long time. Had 10 drum lessons on an electric kit too which I enjoyed. Came really close to getting a Roland TD kit. I personally found that I preferred these types of pads though compared to the mesh/net type ones on the KV kits.
It’s a good kit though, just make sure you have something extra to support the bass drum (my teacher suggested sandbags) as that’s one of the first things to go typically on those types of kits with the smaller bass drums.
What’s the difference? That looks like the mesh stuff to me? 😛
How does it go for noise? Obviously hitting anything with some force makes noise, but is it padded at all or would it still require a separate soundproofed room? I’m not in the position to get one any time soon but it’s something I’ve considered many times
Doesn’t sound too much different to a Guitar Hero/Rock Band kit. Really convenient sound wise and also portability wise.
This one’s a bit louder than my Band Hero drums I had. You definitely don’t need a soundproof room, but you probably wouldn’t play it at 3am when somebody’s trying to sleep in the room next to it 😛
TAY RPG Pathfinder completed for another night. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
GM Summary: Needs more doom. 😛 But you successfully convinced the Orcs that you mean no harm.
Well… we did mean harm, just not by us 😛
I just got home from work and can confirm that @saturday is a really, really good guy but also a giant enabler.
Pics to follow!!
YO IGNORE THAT NOTE AND SHIT I WAS DRUNK WHEN I TYPED IT UP
Oh yeah. Today we had a visitor in the backyard. And then he showed up in the front yard with his friend. Eating all Dad’s plants, apparently 😛
http://imgur.com/a/xCxFp
Be vewy vewy quiet.
So he comes over with the promise of board games only to go out back and eat your plants… okay good to know
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World – Twenty-Ninth Session Recap (15th 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.
The party had just escaped with their looted artefacts and relics from the danger of Uturi’s Pit as they began trekking northwards deeper into the Cloudcrystal Skyfields. To the south lay Barrow Town, a dread place that they had all sworn never to visit again. East was the city of Uxphon however the journey there was several days of hard travel with the constant threat of roving bands of marauders. A desolate expanse spread out to the horizon to the west and the great sea was somewhere many leagues beyond. North to a merchant’s waystation was the wisest choice at this point and it would also allow Scrappa, Blaghs, and Elandar a chance to sell their valuable treasures.
Read more at http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/.
Let the adventure begin!
22hrs until we land in Osaka :o)
Jealous! I’m not back there until October.
So I gave Assetto Corsa a quick blast last night. my laptop can run it, but I know it could look miles better, so this and Project CARS can be my motivation to finally build myself an awesome gaming rig. Also, I need to adjust the sensitivity of my left analog stick in the options, was way to sensitive. Pretty minor issue, and easily fixed, would rather have a proper setup with a wheel though.
So, all in all I haven’t had much time with it, but it seems like a pretty cool guy albeit let down by my crappy equipment.
This post brought to you by Netflix. Bringing me the content I want to watch when I want to watch it.
Why did I wait so long to watch Guardians of the Galaxy!?
Characters – fun (although some back stories felt a little rushed)
Casting – excellent – John C. Reilly, despite being a small role, nailed it.
Soundtrack – amazing.
Dialog – so much fun with so many well paced lines that made me laugh.
Story – interesting enough to keep me paying attention.
Groot’s smile after raging in the corridor – amazing.
Give it a solid 4.5/5 dancing baby Groots.
I’m not a comic reader (see earlier confession post) but finally the films are linking up for me and I’m actually starting to recognize some tertiary characters/themes/items.
Now only have to watch Thor 2 and Avengers 2 to catch up on Marvel film universe.
Group of misfits stop the bad guys 😛
I haven’t watched the first Thor and it’s annoying it’s not on Netflix yet. Thor didn’t interest me as a superhero though so I didn’t watch either when they came out
He is pretty vanilla as a character in the movies; his reboot in the comics was decent though with the Marvel NOW release (started about a year and a half ago). Haven’t followed it much after the first arc ended but definitely worth a read as it kind of explores how the god of thunder became who he is and who he will eventually become –
i.e. All Father ThorWell he joined the Avengers as a god (in the films at least, I haven’t read a comic in years) so he always seemed to me to be out of place compared to a bunch of flawed, mortal characters charged with protecting Earth
My favourite moment in the whole movie came in the first five minutes. It was the moment of the title reveal. It just promised so much about the tone and feel of the movie – most of which turned out to be true – and I thought it was a brilliant moment.
It was enough to force me to put aside my usual unreasonable prejudice against (super)hero movies, and I ended up enjoying the film quite a bit.
That’s my second favourite moment.
Favourite moment is
The Jackson Pollock joke. And not so much the joke, but Mrs B-ob laughing longer and louder than the rest of the cinema and then the kids asking why that was so funny. NO ANSWER.The only thing I really know about Jackson Pollock is that one of Dave Lister’s vomits got sold to a Texan tourist in Paris having been passed off as a genuine Jackson Pollock 😀
I think it’s about time for yet another Red Dwarf marathonJust in time for seasons 11 & 12 \o/
There is a very large Jackson Pollock (Blue Poles) in the National Art Gallery in Canberra. It was bought in the 70s and at the time it was considered a scandal/outrage/waste of taxpayer money. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_11,_1952_(painting)
There are obviously a lot of people who like that style, but I think it’s all complete tosh. It’s sad to me that traditional artists creating scenes of whatever on canvas have largely gone into obscurity and been replaced by people painting seemingly random colours. Count me among those that would’ve been outraged at the time and still gets overly miffed whenever public money is spent on abstract art to prove how ‘hip’ and with the times a town/city/government is
But that’s part of what art is – art reflects the artist and the society and era in which it was created, and it’s always changing, often challenging.
Blue Poles was also purchased nearly 20 years after it was painted. Hardly hip, but an investment in a significant piece of modern art. And best of all, it’s still free to go and look it at whenever you like.
Oh man, I swear I was the only one laughing at the Jackson Pollock joke. Got a few funny looks.
That intro sequence was absolutely amazing.
So happy it’s on Netflix, still haven’t bought myself a copy yet, even though I love it I just can’t bring myself to pay the $40-$50 every retailer I’ve come across wants.
Now Star Wars day is over I’ll have to sit the wife down and watch this with her tonight.
I wanted to guy Guardians of the Galaxy for months but I kept getting annoyed by JB Hi-Fi advertising it at $19.95 on their in-store dispaly then telling me at the counter that’s only the DVD price. Well stop putting the blu-rays under where it says $19.95 and not anywhere on your display saying the blu-ray is $29.95, jackholes! I know it’s only an extra $10 but I objected to giving them the sale, just in principle. Now I’ve watched it on Netflix, so bugger ’em. I might buy it in the bargain bin in a few years if it’s no longer on Netflix and I just *have* to have a copy.
The thing I liked the least about the entire movie was John C. Reilly. Because it was John C. Reilly playing a John C. Reilly role in an otherwise well fleshed out universe where everything else belonged.
Like Amelia Pond. She was in there, but she sure wasn’t doing the Amy thing. Vin Diesel was in there but he wasn’t doing the Vin Diesel thing. Which leads me to pet hate number 2 with that movie… STOP CREDITING VIN DIESEL AHEAD OF BRADLEY COOPER.
Hell, while I’m at it, point of detraction #3 for me was the trailers. Just reaffirmed why I try to not watch trailers before a movie, since these trailers had different versions of stuff that ended up on the cutting room floor (like the main ‘guardians’ speech).
Rant over.
John C. Reilly was a surprise and your dislike is fair, his is a love/hate kinda guy. For me, if he’d been playing any other speaking role with any sort of seriousness I’d have dismissed it as out of place. However, when I saw him on screen the character delivered exactly what I was expecting. My guess is the lines were written for him.
Agree didn’t get the Vin Diesel credit… credits indicate he was just the voice… he had 5 words…?
For me it wasn’t Vin Diesel that I loved, It was Groot himself. But I’m a little biased, my favourite Marvel characters are some of the biggest ones, ie Hulk, Groot, Thing.
That said Rocket Raccoon was pretty freakin’ awesome.
I don’t dislike the guy or what he does, but it felt out of place to see him transplanted in and doing what he does when the entire rest of the movie felt so well self-contained. The amount of care and attention that took place for all the main casting is really at odds with sticking John C. Reilly in there.
Edit: to continue on this point, I also think the biggest misstep in the main avengers movies has been Nick Fury. I have NFI who he is as a character since all we got is Samuel L. Jackson doing the Samuel L. Jackson thing.
Winter Soldier spoiler re: Samuel L. Jackson:
Did you notice Fury’s gravestone at the end had part of his “path of a righteous man” speech from Pulp Fiction on it? That amused me but it did make me wonder if comic-Fury is anything like Sam Jackson’s portrayal or if we just got a movie full of Sam Jackson being Sam Jackson. Don’t get me wrong, I love his work, I think his portrayal of Fury is exactly what the Avenger movies need from that character – but as I’ve never read the comics I don’t know what I should have expected.I should probably watch Pulp Fiction one of these days…
Well jeez, I didn’t expect to spoil part of Pulp Fiction for you. Though in fairness he delivers that speech a bunch of times in the movie, including in the first five minutes. It’s no more a spoiler than mentioning Nick fury wears an eyepatch.
Sorry, I wasn’t suggesting you spoiled anything. Just sayin’ it’s really something I should get around to watching.
Any idea if it’s on Netflix?
The Netflix Australia website suggests Pulp Fiction is on it, but it’s hard for me to confirm since I’m on a US server at work and don’t have the Netflix app on my phone.
Yes. Yes you should.
Sam Jackson’s Fury is a pretty big departure from comic Fury who is a square-jawed hard man spy, a caricature who emerged from a mash-up of the most hard-boiled of detective/spy dime novels. He’s basically Chuck Norris’ disapproving father. He’s the best.
Sam Jackson isn’t the same, but like Kermitron said, I think he’s probably what the MCU needed.
Ultimate Nick Fury is explicitly based on Samuel L Jackson.
In fact, Jackson approved the look as long as he was first choice for Fury in any live action adaptation.
Well, yes. I meant the egg, not the chicken. (The egg came first. It is known.) I wasn’t including Ultimate. I meant the longer-running Fury, the original.
I noticed that thing.
Watched it last night too.
Second fav movie besides Avengers in the MCU.
Groot’s smile was my #1 moment. Microphone rat #2. #3 was the wrestler Batista nailing Drax the Destroyer so well. I think he had a higher ratio of quotable lines than any other character.
“I like this knife. I will keep it.”
“Awww.”
“His species are literal – they don’t understand metaphors, it’ll go over his head.”
“Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too good.”
I’ve heard that Drax is a very popular character with autism spectrum kids because they can relate to his way of thinking (and he’s awesome for it, not diminished)
I hope that presentation was submitted before hitting play on Netflix…
We share #1 moment, #2 I’d put Quinn dancing in front of Ronan badly singing and dancing…
Ronan: What are you doing?
Quill: Distracting you, you big turd blossom.
Yep. It was my reward. 🙂
Now it’s time to give Thor 2 a go tonight. Maybe.
Drax was my favourite performance in that movie. Bautista fucking nailed every line.
EFTPOS machine down for the second day in a row at my station so this week isn’t going too bad. It could be going better though. I woke up twice this morning so doesn’t that mean it’s now Wednesday? Apparently not according to the meanies at work 🙁
Don’t listen to those jerks. You’ll be laughing when you get your weekend a day earlier than everyone else \o/
Well I have Friday off anyway, so tomorrow’s the last day of the week for me 😀
Seriously thought that Disney and Avalanche Software would have seized the opportunity to finally officially announce Disney Infinity 3.0: Star Wars yesterday.
How wrong I was. They’re sure taking their sweet ass time.
There have been so damn few Star Wars games released in recent years. It’s very upsetting. If you’re not into Lego or MMOs, there’s been pretty much nothing since The Force Unleashed II five years ago.
#PeripherallyRelevant
Never fear Battlefront is coming. Gonna be so good.
I was reminiscing about Rogue Squadron last night and I was surprised that there hasn’t been any other X-Wing/TIE Fighter/space combat Star Wars in the last ten years. It’s not like there’s any major competition in that space.
The Old Republic also first released five years ago but yeah, the Old Republic series is completely distinct from the cinematic universe. Feels weird not having any movie-connected Star Wars games.
I can’t believe they haven’t re-made TIE Fighter – the greatest Star Wars flight-sim ever created.
(NO, X-WING VS TIE THAT MULTI-FOCUSED PILE OF CRAP DOES NOT COUNT AS A REMAKE.)
I liked XvT. Not as much as Tie Fighter, but I still liked it. I really liked being able to create custom missions and campaigns. The online community was insanely talented at some of this. Can’t even count the 1000s of hours I put into that game.
X-Wing: Alliance is the closest you’re going to get.
Yeah, but that sucks because it’s from the point of view of the rebels, who are crap. Empire forever!
Does anyone know how you can suggest shows and stuff for netflix?
They don’t seem to have a dedicated channel for that kind of feedback, so I recommend going the “Help” route, and asking if they intend to get show X or movie Y in their catalogue in the near future.
https://help.netflix.com/help
Thank you!
Used live chat and they were super helpful.
Suggesting RWBY?
Nah, the travel channel shows that Mum and I both watch, including mysteries at the museum.
Why bother, it’s free on Rooster Teeth’s website (as well as crunchyroll), also scree owns both seasons on bluray
Spreading the light to the world!
I know I have, uh… ‘copies’ of some films I’ve been meaning to show my brother, but where available, I use Netflix instead. 🙂
Bloodborne:
Getting my ass handed to me in the Defiled Chalice dungeon. I knew it would be tough, and I’ve been levelling accordingly (now have VIT of 50), but I’m still getting one-shotted by the first boss. You have to be perfect to triumph, and I’m just not there yet…I would ask if it’s time for co-op but I think I’d be miles behind the level match…
I’m around 105 at the moment, which I believe means I can co-op with folks +-20 levels (approx.)
I’m in one of the fextralife wiki shared Chalice Dungeons, which is pretty good for co-op. But even with co-op, it’s hard. One hit and you’re gone regardless.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2015/05/how-mcdonalds-australia-will-change-under-its-turnaround-plan/
So, McDonald’s is “restructuring” because it’s only making massive profits, but not growing. Clearly too much money is never enough.
Was going to write a post about why it’s not always a bad thing… but it got too complicated for a Tuesday morning.
Eh, it’s a publicly traded company, it has a responsibility to make as much money as possible.
So what your saying is, greed is good.
I don’t think anyone would say that greed is good, but on the other hand, there’s nothing inherently evil in wanting to make money. Individuals do it when they apply for promotions or negotiate their salaries, small businesses do it when they compete for advertising space in local papers, and multinationals do it too.
A corporate restructure is a pretty ordinary occurrence. It’s good business for any company to take stock of its position and trajectory, and make corrections if necessary, be they huge multinationals like McDonalds, or the local fish and chip shop.
McDonald’s might go under one day. It might not. But if it does, at least it won’t be because the company got complacent and wasted away – I may not respect all their business decisions, but I can’t get down on them for being self-reflexive.
The company made $1.07 Billion Dollars net (profit) in the third quarter last year. The poor things, my heart bleeds for them.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurengensler/2014/10/21/mcdonalds-profit-down-30-on-sales-slump/
I’m not saying we should feel sorry for them. I’m not saying they deserve to profit more than they do. But why shouldn’t they try? Their stockholders certainly want them to make more money.
I’m just confused about the hostility. Is it just because they’ve decided to make some changes?
I’d say the hostility is centered around how they choose to make that extra money, and who they’re taking it from. Because money doesn’t come from nowhere.
Don’t worry about it, not going to discuss it further, wish I hadn’t said anything to start with. Like I said in a comment further down the page, obviously a lot of you guys have very different opinions to me. You guys are pretty cool, and I’d rather not risk causing an argument and making you guys hate me, so I think it’s best if I just keep my mouth shut
This place isn’t like everywhere else on the internet.
Here in TAY, it seems that (more often than not) a difference of opinion is just fodder for interesting discussions, where people can take on board a range of perspectives and all grow together!
Now let’s hug it out.
We don’t have to discuss further if you don’t want to though!
@shane Yeah, sorry man, but I just feel like I’ve been pissing people off a lot lately.
*brohug*
CommBank made $8.6 billion profit last reporting year… Of it over $6 billion got paid back in dividends (to people like you and me as part of our superannuation). Remainder is held and reinvested in the company.
It’s that remainder that is important – a business without capital cannot invest in future products and research to respond to market movements. That’s when companies go belly up. If Macca’s can’t remain relevant in the fast food industry then they’ll slowly fade away.
Happens in markets all over the world – great example is the bookshop. Border’s couldn’t keep up with the rapid industry movements, particularly with Amazon leading the charge, and closed up shop.
Every company needs to respond to changing markets. Yes, they made what seems like a large profit, but that billion dollar net profit from $6.9 billion in revenue is a 15% profit, which is healthy but not stellar (especially when falling).
If you can implement a better strategy to increase that, that’s good. Also notable, the CEO mentioned that one of the things he hoped to achieve was to pay a better living wage to its staff, which they can do if they can get the margins up.
This is the fucking frustrating thing about private enterprise. The wealthiest corporations on earth hold the majority of its resources, but they’re not content with that… they’re only happy if they hold more of the pie this year than they did last year. But how can they do this when they already have so much? Cutting wages, higher prices, exploitative double-dipping, nickel-and-diming, tax loopholes, anything to extract more money from the masses. Where will it end? When they have EVERYTHING?
It’s kind of like that political obsession with population growth. We have an increasingly aging population, so to support them we need population growth to create more tax payers… who will also age and require more tax payers who will also age and OH MY FUCKING GOD EVEN A CHILD COULD SEE WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS.
UNLIMITED, UNCHECKED, UNSUSTAINABLE GROWTH FOREVER is a bit of an 80s hold over that even a modern child can discern as being an unrealistic strategy. This may be another area where we have to wait for the dinosaurs to die off since that’ll happen sooner than a change of mindset.
The market is funny in that sense evilmonkey; investors pull out of companies that don’t show any growth so while MacDonald’s, Apple, Facebook, Twitter and even LinkedIn are massive revenue based corporations if they don’t show analyst anticipated growth investors pull out shaving off billions of dollars in share value. Case in point what happened to Twitter and LinkedIn shares recently when their growth was less than expected; once again this is a company that did grow but just not to the degree the market believed it would.
If a publicly traded company stops growing in investor terms its a dead company because it means there’s no more room for capital growth or increased dividends. Growth for large companies is less about greed and more about keeping above water; mainly because a large portion of their share value is driven by sentiment based on expected growth. When the expected growth fails like in the dot com boom you have a market crash and companies shut down people lose money and jobs. So yes in a sense greed is good because that’s the market system as it exists.
Edit: Grammar; also people forget that large portions of a country’s GDP is driven by publicly traded companies. If you want multi-billion dollar companies to stop growing then also be willing to accept that the country they inhabit is likely to face an economic recession or depression and eventually lose its standing in the world as a first world country. Sentiment-wise I see people’s issues with how public company’s run things but changing things now comes at a massive cost to a nation’s population. It’s why large companies have so much pull/weight on a political level.
Not to mention the micro benefits.
Companies like McDonald’s employ thousands upon thousands of people who might otherwise struggle to find employment: students who need a few extra bucks, undereducated unskilled workers, persons with disability, and other people who need flexible hours of work. They offer, at least here in Australia, access to accredited training, and management training, and really push the personal development angle for those who want it – even for those who they know won’t be sticking around in the long-term. I personally know a number of people whose previously delinquent lives were turned around entirely because of the discipline and trust placed in them by employment at McDonald’s. They may pay peanuts, but there are still plenty of benefits for workers, and for many, it’s the difference between having a job and not.
And they also do considerable charity work. Of course it’s a tax shelter and PR boost for McDonald’s, but do you think that makes a difference to the little cancer-ridden kid who’s been given a once-in-a-lifetime experience of pure joy before succumbing to their illness? Starlight Foundation can’t take care of them all; without the charity work of McDonald’s, I’m pretty sure that some of them would be missing out entirely.
On the other hand, of course, is mass deforestation, overfarming, using corporate weight to rip off farmers, low wages, exploitative advertising, etc, etc. It’s up to each individual to decide whether or not the world is overall better off with corporations holding the reins, but let’s not pretend that everything they do is pure evil and works entirely and solely to the detriment of humanity. Because it’s a lot more complex than that.
Hits the nail on the head.
We, the average consumer, make thousands of decisions every day using what information we have to hand. The simple decision to grab a meal at McDonald’s is made up of hundreds of smaller decisions…
For me there’s the immediate choice in weighing up the speed/convenience of getting a meal against the nutritional value of the meal. Several other decisions follow (what to get, eat in or out, do I tell my wife I had macca’s for lunch) that are made very quickly without much thought.
However, all of that isn’t going to happen if you’re not comfortable with McDonald’s (in Australia at least) as a company. For me, on balance, I think they are a reasonable corporate citizen.
I sound like a diehard liberal in these posts… *runs from self*It’s like the poor unfortunate souls running Westpac. $3.7 BILLION profit in 6 months and their share price dropped over 3% because apparently that wasn’t good enough. Three. Point. Seven. BILLION. Dollars.
To be fair the banking sector has been driven up quite a bit over the past few months by yield driven investing in a low interest rate environment; it’s probably to the banks benefit their less than ideal half yearly results popped that bubble because I’m sure quite a few decent investors would have looked to short the bank stocks if this bubble persisted for much longer. ANZ and CBA have also dropped 3-4% in the past week.
To be fair though banks are expected to grow because they act as a gauge for a country’s economy; the fact that Westpac’s profit hasn’t grown is a very bad sign for the Australian economy as a whole, it means we’re hitting a point of stagnation and could lapse into recession if our government doesn’t wake the fuck up.
Hey 40K Peoples!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/322910/
I’m so getting this tonight 🙂
Also – sydney based studio!
I knew it was coming out but I didn’t realise it was so soon. Definitely grabbing it.
High school chess captain 2008 represent! 😛
Don’t. It’s just chess.
There is the normal mode yes, but then theres also the “Regicide mode” Which is Chess with extra stuff like grenades and telekinesis
They tried to bury the fact that it’s just chess by only mentioning it when describing the classic mode.
I’ll still give it a go 🙂
Wait…Warhammer Battle Chess?
Sign me up!
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So Joss Whedon has just quit Twitter… apparently because of the Black Widow backlash in AoU. I haven’t seen the film, and probably won’t, but the allegation is that the portrayal of Black Widow and Natasha (?) fly in the face of his public support for feminism.
Here’s some of the tweets that have been flying at him in the last day or two: https://storify.com/Astojap/wehdon-twitter-hate
Seriously, though, even if the allegations were true… this is a pretty extreme response to it. Doesn’t matter how famous and how respected you get… that kind of shitstorm has really gotta hurt, especially when you’ve built a career based pretty much on the passion of fans. 🙁
Wut….
**SPOILERS FOR AOU**
From what I can tell it’s because there’s a line where Black Widow reveals to Banner that she’s sterilised and says something along the lines of “being a monster too” and people are taking this as Whedon saying that “women are only meant to pump out babies”.For the record, that’s not something that Whedon made up for the movies. It’s an integral part of her backstory in the comics.r/KotakuInAction is going to have a field day over this…
Was going to comment, but I think I’ll stay out of this one. Seems most TAYbies have very different opinions to me on a lot of subjects, so rather than piss people off I’ll just keep my mouth shut.
You shouldn’t have to moderate yourself just because you think some of us might take it poorly. If you have an opinion, you most definitely have the freedom to say it, as much as anyone who wants to disagree with you.
We might have a small hivemind/echo chamber banging around in here, but by no means should that ever make any feel uncomfortable to express their opinions.
If you feel like you need some momentum, I can start.
I think Telltale’s The Walking Dead Season 1 was a turd, and have no desire to play Season 2 because I bet they try to emotionally manipulate you into caring again by throwing some small, defenceless, naive creature at you. You play as Clementine, right? You probably have to protect a baby or small dog or something. No thanks, you didn’t guilt me into caring the first time, and I don’t care enough for you to try it again.
Lol, I appreciate it man, but seriously I think I’ve pissed off a few people with my comments lately, so I think it’s best if I just stay quiet on certain subjects.
That said, even though people have been disagreeing with me I haven’t noticed one downvote, so at least you guys have some level of respect for me, which I appreciate.
Lol one of the reasons I enjoy TAY is even though people disagree here it seems to be a corner of the internet where disagreement acts as fertilizer for rational discussion. I’ve always believed the day I find I agree with everyone on the planet is probably the day I should kill myself because it means there’s nothing interesting left in the world.
Differences, debate and discussions are the founding tenet’s of societal evolution; without that we would still have slavery; rape and murder being sensationalized in stadiums and religious wars running rampant. While disagreement seems to breed trolls and griefers in the other parts of the internet I’ve always found in TAY that not to be the case; so if you disagree with anyone’s comments or opinions I would hope you feel the freedom to argue it out =] I for one always do and more often than not its allowed me to obtain a new view on a topic I thought I knew all about =]
You’re wrong. End of discussion.
:pIs joke.Seriously, just a joke. That’s all these spoiler tags are for pointing outI’M JUST JOKING. IT’S NOT EVEN A VERY GOOD JOKE.I’m sorry. Please don’t hate me.Hey, me too!
Not the downvoting thing, but the pissing people off part.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/02/you-can-now-watch-the-first-episode-of-good-game-pocket/#comment-3206011
Not that I mind because they’re all wrong.
That is some rather inflammatory language you choose to use there. Is your goal to share opinions and have a discussion, or are you purely trying to piss people off?
I meant no offence when I said this. I just meant that to show that is how I am not disheartened by the negative reaction I received in such example. That’s all.
Nah, I haven’t been kicked off Tay yet so you’ll be fine.
It’s very rare that a TAY ‘argument’ has spilled over into anything more than a heated discussion. TAY is a place of awesomeness, frequented by some of the best people around. Feel free to disagree and express opinions.
I’ll be honest and say I’ve only watched playthroughs of it and never played it myself but one thing that’s been mainly bugging me about how these are done is that you choose between X or Y, seems very important but further down the line it didn’t seem to matter as Z happens anyway.
It is a teensy bit disappointing when you do a few exploratory playthroughs and see behind the smoke and mirrors. But the pretty blatant psychological manipulation of telling you what characters will remember etc… I was impressed.
Trick is to play through once and only once. No reloading or redos.own your decisions and live with them.
That’s probably a good way to preserve your memories of the story.
I know that I definitely compartmentalize my first, true, no-guides, no-spoilers run as the ‘true’ run, and preserve that in my memory. It’s why I went to all the trouble of taking my Xbox Mass Effect and Dragon Age saves to PC, to preserve the ‘true’ Warden and Shepard.
But I get curious. I want to see the alternate, false universes. Where like… Shepard is a man, or other equally preposterous ideas.
Wolf Among Us spoilers:
I tellya, that SO came back to bite me in Wolf Among Us. I tore off Gren’s arm and when the fight between the twins rolled around and Gren couldn’t do shit, MAN did I regret that.Err, @transientmind you forgot to label what your spoiler was for. I had no idea it would be Wolf Among Us related!
Awh noooooo. Sorry @strange.
That’s okay…my old lady brain’s getting increasingly more old lady like so by the time I get around to playing more of The Wolf Among Us I’ll hopefully have forgotten what I just read. 😀
@strange is old? Pfffft. This from someone who looks younger than me. 😛
(WHY HAVE YOU NOT PLAYED WOLF?! Bigby is so dreamy!)
I played a lot of the first episode on the plane on the way back from the US earlier this year which was enough to realise I need to get the whole thing on a better platform. I just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
The other issue is that she gets Damselised, which is partially mitigated because she sends the distress message, but it still ain’t exactly progressive cinema, and I’d expect a better escape attempt than that from her.She was taken. Big deal. There are 2 regular humans with no powers or mech suits to wear or who aren’t gods. In the first movie, Hawkeye was taken by the bad guys. In this one, it was Black Widow. Was Hawkeye the damsel in distress in The Avengers? No.At no point in any movie that she’s appeared in has she been shown to be anything but hypercompetent and completely equal with the rest of the team. Actually, usually more so than most of the men she interacts with. Even at the end of the movie, she’s shown to be the co-leader of the Avengers with Captain America.But to say so is to ignore the history of cinema, and the power of ingrained tropes. Is it the end of the world? Is he deserving of any level of internet hate for it? No, of course not, that would be fucking stupid. But he should do better, and I’d expect better from him.Moviegoing masses don’t read the big people picture books.
Still, devoid of all the context, the monster line does seem kind of odd to me… not that it’s an excuse for Twitter to go apeshit at Whedon.I interpreted the monster line as a reference to all the nasty shit she had to do to people in the backstory, rather than a reference to her infertility.On a similar note,
blaming Joss Whedon for the portrayal of any of the Avengers is pretty cheap considering these characters have decades of backstory to convey on screen. The specific example of Black Widow really kinda reinforces that even she has been changed from an ordinary human into what she is. It serves a nice contrast with the completely ordinary Hawkeye but it also juxtaposes Black Widow against Captain America: both were effectively transformed into living weapons however Cap volunteered whereas it was forced on Black Widow.So yeah, blaming Joss Whedon for being faithful to the comics doesn’t really make sense. The example doesn’t even indicate any sort of political statement. The only thing it does is tie into the overall theme of AoU in that humanity is its own monster.
Bah she calls herself a monster for the number of innocent people she’s killed; her sterility doesn’t have any impact on that line and it’s bit of a far reach to think it does.Here’s a perfect example of why I hate social media; it’s our generation’s version of an angry mob. Find something for people to be enraged by and they’ll jump on social media and rally; we might be past the age of pitchforks and torches literally but metaphorically its nice to see the majority of humanity has gone unchanged.
Edit : Spoilered >.
Might want to spoiler that first part just in case 🙂
Yeah, but not sure that that line is really what people are objecting to though.
It’s that she was forcibly sterilized, seemingly for no good reason other than to take the place of some actual character development. It’s a really, really bad character development trope akin to Rape as Backstory and it’s a really unempowering and ill thought out concept.But it’s also part of the original comic book character’s backstory and it’s not something Whedon should be blamed for if it was required by the Powers That Be that that be kept as part of her story.
I’ve seen a lot of this argument in role-playing circles. Complaints about lazy writing in backstories or crafting characters.
There are certain tropes which can be attached or descriptions which mark a character as less ‘character’ and more ‘archetype’. The thing that’s often neglected is that an archetype played well is one of the best characters there is. The REASON it’s often neglected is because that in a lot of writing, the archetype is not played well.
If anything, MCU’s Black Widow seems too light and fluffy to me. Her ruthless dedication to the mission rarely conflicts with actually Doing The Right Thing. The closest we got was probably keeping secrets from Cap on-mission in Winter Soldier. Which is pretty benign as far as remorseless spy/assassin goes.
The Red Room did seem a bit ham-fisted to me, a sort of, “Oh yeah… tragic, dark past, I totally forgot about that,” but only because the rest of the films did actually seem to have forgotten about that, giving only the most oblique hints.
The problem isn’t when it’s part of a backstory. Handled well (it’s exceedingly hard to handle well) it can certainly work. The problem is when it takes the place of backstory or character development. It’s lazy and shitty writing. And it’s more poignant in this case because you’re seeing it with one of the major characters in the highest-grossing movie franchise out there.
Also, more notably, the only primary recurring female character in the highest grossing movie franchise out there.
Well if you want to get technical that’s not actually true, since Thor’s girlfriend is in two films and she’s a central character for both. Couldn’t tell you her name though. Was going to joke that it’s padme. 😛 Also there was the (former) SHIELD agent Maria Hill who’s in multiple films, though she’s a side character.
And I think they’re aware of the gender imbalance issue as well. There’s the Jessica Jones TV series in the works, Scarlet Witch will end up a repeated character when the next Captain America film airs, it should grow some more repeated female characters when Guardians of the Galaxy 2 airs, and let’s not forget there’s a Captain Marvel film in the works, which will be giving top billing to a female superhero.
The issues I had were more that
her relationship with Banner seemed like it came out of nowhere, and also it felt like a lot of character development and nuance to her character was thrown out the window especially compared to the way she was portrayed in Winter Soldier.But then, I didn’t really like Avengers 2 very much. The more I reflect on it the less good I feel about it. I think the biggest issue is having too big a cast to give any one character a decent amount of attention.
Yeah I can agree with all those points; her character was very different to what it was originally portrayed as and too huge a cast meant the only person with any real screen time was Ultron xD
Huh. I didn’t feel like it came out of nowhere.
I totally paired them after watching Avengers 1, sensing tension there. More than with Hawkeye, for sure. There’s some pretty decent back-and-forth in the recruitment scene that hints at it. It’s obvious he’s one of the very few men she doesn’t actually feel superior to/disdainful of. (Tell me you could watch Avengers and WS without detecting some condescension or patronizing fondness even towards Cap. It’s justified on account how how much she kicks ass without being superpowered and how much knowledge she has access to, but that would have to affect your worldview.) She is, in fact, sometimes scared of Banner/Hulk’s power… but she also tames the beast (to an extent). That’s not necessarily progressive, but it’s a very common and popular fantasy (*fantasy/real life motivator). Just read some romance novels sometime.I’ve seen the first Avengers a few times and I never got that out of the two of them remotely. If anything, the take-away I had was that she’s not really interested in anyone for various reasons.I just felt like in this film, she didn’t feel like she was written right. The confidence and general moxie is just not there. She feels like the bulk of the time her role in the film is to be used as a character development point to try and make you sympathetic toward Banner, and to provide some ass shots.
And I think part of the problem is that there’s almost zero chemistry between the two of them and it really shows.
The ass shots were more blatant in Cap 2, to the extent that they edited one in early on that wasn’t even the actress playing her.
That sounds less like feminists or “SJWs” and more like the type of people that make a face when they refer to parents as “breeders”.
My wife and I are firm non-breeders. While I’m fairly complacent/indifferent about it all, my wife (as someone who is repeatedly bingo’d with lines like “you’ll change your mind when you’re older”) hates when people ruin characters by making them become parents. She never watched an episode of HIMYM but she joined in on the internet outrage when Robin got upset about not being able to have kids in one of the later seasons, as up until that point she’d been staunchly opposed to having them in the first place.
I imagine as a non-reader of comics she’ll probably be annoyed by this development in Avengers 2. I doubt she’ll grab a pitchfork and go after Whedon, but I understand the kneejerk reaction to any female character having any part of her defined by her capacity to reproduce (or not).
I don’t have a problem with people choosing not to have kids. Their life. Not my issue. I have a rather large one with people who treat those who do with sneering contempt. No different than homophobic, racism or religious bigotry (religionism? Theism?) .
Edit: that said the other way is just as messed up. People should worry about their own lives and stay the hell out if everyone else’s.
Speaking purely from my own experience:
I think we’ve got enough kids now. I don’t know if we’re actually done, but I think I’d be okay stopping here. And yet even with that, there’s this kind of cellular primitive horror that seizes you by the guts in a strangulating hold if you find yourself suddenly with an unexpected inability to conceive. From a purely objective perspective, I can acknowledge that intermittent failure of my giblets is far from ideal, but it’s not disastrous… but biologically, from something rooted deep in the subconscious, it’s pure blind terror, end of the world stuff. I wasn’t expecting it, I couldn’t have predicted it… but I can’t deny it happened.I can’t speak for non-breeders, to use your term, but I imagine that there’d be a decent proportion (not all, obviously, but some, like Robin) who would have a similar reaction when something like this happens, when that door slams shut forever.
Not having a go – just trying to put words to a perspective that may assist a mutual understanding!
I totally agree with you, and tried to explain that to my wife, whose response was essentially “I understand, but…”
JOHN WICK 2!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fuckyes.
Don’t click if you haven’t seen Age Of Ultron
Language #captainamericaAargh, they did the one thing I didn’t want them to do and brought back Keanu. The world they’ve built there can support so many stories and Keanu’s was pretty self contained and wrapped up nicely. Now it will just seem contrived.
Eesh. Felt the story wrapped up pretty cleanly in the first one. This one’s a prequel, right? It’s a interesting world, so I guess they could make some good stories off it, I guess.
Wait, what?
Yessssss.
A Hatsune Miku guitar effects pedal? If I played, I’d probably own one of these already.
Now I’m really not sure whether or not to get Project CARS…
Why?
Because I already have Assetto Corsa… and I don’t know if it’ll be as good…
Only one way to find out. You can get it cheaper from Greenmangaming ($50) and according to @thecracks you can get it even cheaper with a voucher ($38.50USD)
THE STRANGE: THE SERIES
Hi All, I’m currently looking to proceed with Episode Two of The Strange from the 20th of May or so, and am looking for players! There are 6-7 slots, and they’re open to returning players and new players alike, so if you’ve never RPGed this is a good chance to try it out.
The commitment for this adventure is probably 3-4 sessions, run fortnightly through a Google hangout.
Let us know if you’re keen and I’ll distribute more information
I hereby volunteer!! LETS DO THiS! *throws money at screen*
excellent. Indicate your email address to me somehow and I’ll flick you some stuff.
Sure its
its dot reuben at hot males dot comAngsty page 3.
I’ve read that almonds are a great snack food as they’re healthier than all the other nuts, but man am I regretting my decision. These things are bland as fuck.
I think it’s a damned travesty that all the good tasting food is bad for you and all the food which is good for you tastes terrible (anyone who says otherwise is a LIAR or being held hostage by stockholm syndrome). Who’s responsible for this evolutionary cock-up?
Whoa, worst time I’ve been caught out by this theory was when subway introduced flatbread. It tasted like cardboard so I figured that it must be healthy, until a few weeks later when I read the fine print and IT WAS WORSE THAN REGULAR BREAD.
Almonds are supposed to be good for getting over smoking apparently. But yeah, there are better tasting nuts *giggles* than almonds. Give me a cashew, a pistachio or a walnut any day of the week
Fun thing about almonds:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1273391/
Gaaaah! EVERYTHING IS TRYING TO KILL ME! They can’t tell what does or doesn’t give you cancer, they’re always changing your mind, and someone told me that cosmic radiation is somehow sleeting through the entire fucking earth, gradually misaligning our cells and causing decay!
I JUST WANT TO LIVE FOREVER IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK!?
yes
Oh. *looks crestfallen*
…Oh. Well. Darn. Well this kind of changes everything. :C
Oh wait, If you take hug a ginger regularly, it’s said to give you immortality!
Not medically tested, for proper advice, consult your physicianIs that because they steal you soul and leave you undead?
@shane shhhhhhhhhhh! How am I supposed to get more souls if you tell everyone?
Want a hug?
To quote Neil Gaiman:
I went to the market yesterday and got a big bag of mixed nuts. Actually a good mix of them unlike the 85% peanut mixed nuts you get from a supermarket. Some almonds but not a huge number.
I eat a far few almonds as they are one that work for Mrs Tigs so we normally have some in the house.
I am shocked. Shocked!
You don’t do the Pete Evans thing and activate your almonds?
/sarcasmPete Evans is an idiotAll my raging teenage hormones are levelling out, so I’m no longer an angsty teen, alas.
I’m, whatever you are in your twenties.
Uptight twenties?
Insert rude comment about tightness here :p
Perv 😛
That’s part of why I like you 😉Hello, today I’d like to take the time to rant about something thats happening in my personal life if thats alright. Will put in spoilers as will probably be long.
So just under 3 weeks ago Cathryn’s “half sister” moved in with us from queensland because Cathryn’s dad said he didn’t have the room for her so she’s living in our garage. We had known for about 3 weeks before she came down That she was coming down, theb it was her an her and her boyfriend none of us had met coming down then they broke up because he was smoking alot of weed and she wanted to get off the stuff so it was just her again. When she arrived everything was good few minor annoyances coming from the fact she said she’d give us $50 a week and hasnt, also, she has 2 showers a day minimum and never uses the same towels.Anywho two week ago things took a turn for the ugly when at 4am on the thursday her ex boyfriend showed up on our doorstep without warning as he drove all the Way from queensland so she sees it as “true love” and got back with him on the spot. That thursday he arrived we were heading upto melbourne and said we weren’t comfortable with him staying here by himself he said its fine and that he has friends in melbourne and will stay there. I felt suss of him and asked my neighbours to let me know if they see his ute out the front. Lo and behold his ute was out the front of the house all night thursday, all day friday and saturday while we were away. She left the backdoor unlocked for him and he jumped the fence, then lied to us about it even though our neighbour saw him do it.
just been a shit time and things just keep getting shitter
You are a bigger man than I coldcam; I would’ve probably kicked out the mrs’s half sister on the street by now lol
Yeah cathryn was seething she was gonna kick her to the curb the day before her birthday but now they moving out some time this week
Hooray \o/
Ah man. I’ve been there with my brother before. It sucks. We ended up kicking him out. Didn’t want to and really didn’t feel good about it but it doesn’t change for the better, just keeps getting worse. I mean disrespecting your house that much after only two weeks? You need to do something about that.
Yeah she’s been told that she has to find a new place and apparently they moving this week
I’ll never understand people that act a bit shit towards family but then still expect things from them. It wouldn’t fly very far with friends, so why treat family any different?
Hmmm… So where do you see things going from here?
Yeah she openly admitted she doesnt care what any of the family down here thinks of her and doesnt think of cathryns auntie and uncle as hers or care what they think of her which is why her and her bf rocked up drunk to a family dinner at a nice restaurant
They gettib the boot
Nice that she’s willing to admit she doesn’t care for family and then at the same time shacks up with said family. If you have an opinion at least have the damned discipline and self-respect to act on it!
Yeah especially since she was all super nice to their faces even though they knew what she said
Man I’m surprised you even let her into your place to start with…. That said from everything you’re saying she sounds like a young’un late teens early twenty’s who thinks she’s got it all figured out.
You’re probably heaving a sigh of relief knowing there’s an expiry date on the nightmare =P
I was against it from the start but we got the short straw.
Shes a year younger than me me so 23, and she wants to get pregnant and be a stay at home mum who only works 2 days a week and they have to be short Shifts
People who have that plan because they figure it’s easy have no idea…
It’s tough when it’s family, but can I ask why when she moved out of her dad’s place she didn’t have anywhere in QLD to go at all, even her boyfriend’s place?
But yeah, those talks are always hard to broach and hard to enforce your opinion when their defence will be ‘I’m sorry, I’ll change’ and ‘But he’s not hurting anyone being here’. I’d put down an ultimatum that she moves out or needs to start pulling her weight around your house but more importantly, she needs to start respecting your property and your wishes. As said though, enforcing that is something so hard to achieve when the attempted guilt trip comes out.
I wish there was an easy option, but in my experience with situations like this, there isn’t 🙁
She was living with her boyfriend originally, then she decided she wanted to come down by herself, then he wanted to come down, then they broke up and so she came down by herself an now we are here.
Yeah they are moving out some time this week but half our shits been used like we had a brand new thing of honey and now theirs only a quater left and the floor is sticky in spots. Not to mention bugs everywhere as they leave our backdoor open all day and night
That sucks but at least they’ve been given their marching orders already then. My missus loves having a change of heart for thinking she’s being too hard on people when she tells it like it is. She’s not sounding like a family member to keep on the Christmas card list though. Hopefully it all goes smoothly with her moving out and you guys can get back to normality 🙂
Yeah pretty much it seems once she moves out no one in the family wants to keep in contact with her
I’ve had to deal with worse, knew someone who did this and waited until 20+ towels pooled up before they attempted to clean it.
People are the worse D:
Lol I thought you’d died =P Way to be a stranger red! What’s been happening bro?
Slammed with EOFY yet?Can’t complain, definately feel more relaxed since I dropped WoW, this year seems to be moving too fast though *shakes fist*
But nah, tax season doesn’t start until July, so I got nothing to worry about until late June, so plenty of short hours and days off until than.
Lol shortly after I dropped it I just felt this massive weight being lifted off my back so I definitely know how you feel =P Been playing anything new? I’ve been mucking around with HotS and started a season 3 character on Diablo!
Trust me I never had doubts you didn’t, still surprised you made it out alive.
As for anything new? been hopping around a few games some old some new you know how it goes been very non-committal lately nothing I’d classify as ‘playing anything new’, definitely going to play Witcher when its out in a few weeks 😛
Yeah goddamned Witcher 3!!! It clashes right into my next set of exams; should be great!! =@
That said I have a feeling I’m going to take like a week off in June and play it non-stop =P What platform you getting it on?
Also let me know if you’re interesting in rolling a season toon for co-op in Diablo
Obligatory @jocon =P
Xbox One.
But yeah. Witcher 3, woooo!
What platform you Diabloing on?
@jocon PC MASTER RACE!!! Also season heroes are only available on PC as I understand it!
Yeah but she wont do the washing, we werent here on tuesday and we told her that its bin night and she didnt put the bins out instead she started filling the neighbours bins with their trash so we got the blame because the neighbour cant use their bin now
@zambayoshi was that you in Bloodborne co-op last night?
It was fun while it lasted. That invader was a total dick, attacking you while you bowed – and he ended up killing everyone, so I can’t even say I avenged you 😛
Unless that wasn’t you… in which case this post will sound a bit odd.
I killed a guy who was bowing, in the original Dark Souls.
It still haunts me. I’ve done some questionable things in moments of weakness, but that’s pretty up there. I panicked! I didn’t realize what he was doing straight away! …Noooooooo. Honour should be rewarded, not punished.
It’s the PC Master Race in you. Ganking and greifing is in your blood. It’s who you are.
“No. No! That’s not true! That’s impossible!“
A day late and a dollar short. Just like a PC port.
Ow. Too real man. Too real.
Ha ha, could have been. Central Yarnham, around about 11.30pm or so, I think it was NG+ and I was rocking the Cainhurst armor with Chikage/Evelyn at about level 115. Yeah, I wasn’t too upset but I had a chuckle about it. The guy was either worried he couldn’t take on three opponents and decided to get in a pre-emptive strike, or he panicked because he thought my bow was some arcane spell 🙂
It was you! \o/
Hopefully the gods of matchmaking will help us get our revenge, lol.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/05/telstra-breached-privacy-law-by-refusing-to-give-customer-his-metadata
So Telstra are arguing that they don’t have to give metadata to customers as it is impossible to identify someone from it.
What does that mean for the government’s scheme? Useless?
Customers are the enemy, governments and corporations are good, any bullshit you have to spin to maintain the status quo is worth it. Same as always. I’m too tired by the whole thing to even go on some self-parodic rant. The constant erosion of privacy and wealth distribution is just so exhausting and depressing. The bad guys won a long time ago, we know that, but the constant insult to injury gets a bit much.
Frankly, I’m still incredibly rattled by the 4 Corners ‘borderline-slavery’ migrant worker exploitation piece.
I’ve worked in large companies and I believe the chains stocking the tainted product quite likely would have no idea what kind of conditions their suppliers produce under, and may have some boilerplate feelgood ‘ticked a box’ bullshit to stand in favour of ethical treatment.
…But what the fuck did they think the race to the lowest price would mean?
What it always means. Exploitative assholes standing over others, reaping unduly high rewards from the efforts of the less ambitious. Sociopaths convinced that their ‘having the idea and taking the initiative’ justifies their obscenely disproportionate reward for effort. And for those of us who can live comfortably exploited, that’s fine. A lot aren’t comfortable, though. Not even close. And those who are VERY comfortable? They’ve passed saturation point of what comfort can be achieved. Now they’re just keeping fucking score like other peoples’ suffering is an invisible byproduct of some kind of game.
How long was that percolating before it came out?
Thirty-something years of perceived injustice? I dunno. Since last night, discovering that article while in a particularly impressionable state and alternating between anger and dejection.
It’s days like these that make me wonder if more advanced aliens already found us, took one look and said “fuck no, we’ll leave them to self destruct”
‘Personal data’ is information that points to and identifies a specific individual, like name, address, phone number, credit card number, etc.
Metadata is information collected about an individual – phone calls, location, etc. Looking at this data doesn’t allow you to figure out the individual, but it tells you more about them once you know who it is. You can’t use a list of phone calls to verify your identity like your address, DOB, etc.
The interesting thing is that the privacy commissioner was approached under the stance that all data about a customer is ‘personal information’, and they agreed and ruled as such.
It’s a bit of a precedent that at a rough estimate, no company would actually be compliant with.
Interesting times.
Edit: y’know, the more I think about it, the more I agree with the ruling. This kind of shit lets you piece together someone’s regular routine and predict where and when you can find them. Old processes and procedures haven’t caught up with how dense and information rich these data sets are these days.
Well, I’m glad I didn’t wait to book those pre-sale tickets for the Pokemon Symphony that went up yesterday. There are already only a handful of seats left.
Now to wait for November…
Here’s a joke, courtesy of one of my uni lecturers.
A chemist, a physicist and an economist survive a shipwreck and wash up on a deserted island. The only food they have to eat is canned food washed up from the shopwreck. They start brainstorming how to open the cans. The chemist says “We make a fire, and place the cans in it. Once the cans hit a critical temperature they will explode open”. The physicist says “That’s too complicated, all we need is a sharp enough rock to pierce the can.” The physicist and the chemist turn to the economist and ask “any ideas”. The economist thinks for a while and replies “okay, let’s assume we have a can opener”.
Every page is page 6 etc…Oh that is actually quite witty. Also why I grew to dislike economics so much when I was studying it.
I love it.
Similar comparison vein, but I sw this today which was quite good: http://xkcd.com/1520/
Reminds me of the one about the Surveyor, Engineer and Statistician.
The three are shipwrecked on a large island, and have no food. They start looking in the forest and find a deer. The surveyor quickly sharpens a stick to a point, uses his professional eye, and throws the spear.
It lands 20 metres behind the deer.
The Engineer says “No, no, you’re doing it all wrong” and grabs a more aerodynamic stick, sharpens it carefully to a point, and throws the spear.
It lands 20 metres in front of the deer.
The statistician starts whooping and jumping up and down – scaring away the deer. The Surveyor says “What did you do that for?”, and the statistician replies “We got him!”
Well known Artillery precept: If your first shot comes up short, your next one better be long.
Bracketing.
Yep
Then you know exactly how to put the next 20 where you want them.
@john_stalvern : I finally finished Hotline Miami 2. I get what you were saying before, I enjoyed the characters more as it went on, and the action is fantastic, even though they relied much more on guns this time that the original. The levels are varied and usually very well designed. I also began to get into the story, with the mystery behind the ‘Miami Mutilator” and the pizza guy.
The only thing I can’t forgive, however, is that ending. JESUS CHRIST, that ending was terrible. I just can’t comprehend how much of a pointless ending that is. It essentially means the entire two games was building up to absolutely nothing. It’s a Deus Ex Machina ending without a Deus Ex Machina to end it. It feels like the developers ran out of time to finish the game the way they wanted, so they just shoved in that ending in order to meet the deadline, regardless of finishing the plot points or not.
Anyway, what are your thoughts on this?
TAY, help me here. I want to add to my pile of shame. This is not good.
WWE2k15 is calling to me, mainly because it would be my first wrasslin game in a long time, and I enjoyed the others I had back in the day a lot.
But it’s stripped back a lot – even though PC is getting mod support, which (knowing the crowd complaining in reviews) means create a wrestler/diva (on a side note, if I was going to create a female wrestler, she’d be a bloody wrestler, not a damn diva) will get a boost when modding kicks in.
I just…I dunno. I feel this one calling to me over the last few days.
Don’t you know pro wrestling is fake?
My whole life is a lie!
I’ve brought a few wrestling games over the years and everytime I get disappointed that they’re not WCW/nWo Revenge.
WWE2k15 is calling me too, my question to you is though do you know any of the characters?
Nope. Well, aside from the ones that have been around forever.
But Hitman v Heartbreak Kid man!!
No Hulkamania? :O
They’re obviously not thinking of the millions… *stares off into the distance for a sec* and millions of the Rock’s fans as well
Can ya smeelllllllllllllllll……
… what the Rock… is cooking?
Edit: Hang on hang on!
J:) << meant to be the eyebrow raise on the left side 😛
Don’t do it! As someone who used to play the PS2-PS3 WWE games as a kid I can safely say they’re all alike and you’ll be burnt out on playing it after 2-3 days max!
Oh god http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/05/watch-a-terrifying-worm-bug-thing-shoot-out-a-spiderman-esque-web-goo/
Nightmare material for the next 2 weeks D=
I had a great night last night, perhaps the most beautiful woman who works out at my gym complimented me on my physique.
Goodbye compliments: http://i.imgur.com/GvTpZLM.jpg
Thank you @Saturday for such an awesome candy exchange, I will be sending through a large variety of Tim Tams (Of which there are tonnes in Aus recently) to repay you greatly on the morrow!
EDIT: Also, don’t regret sending anything Reeses related. Not even once.
Gotta love em gym compliments! =D Nice work dude; now use that as the opener to get her number =P
Lol I couldn’t! It was a passing thing, I’m not reading into it too much 😛 Besides, my partner would kill me in my sleep if she knew…
*deletes internet history*
*snapchats screen shot through instagram to her tinder account*
Uh, that’s how the kids are doing it these days right?
Hahahaha, the thought of Hannah with a Tinder account is probably the funniest thing I’ve heard.
Hahaha. Haha. Ha. Ha….
*Jealous boyfriend mode, engaged*
Start going through her phone and laptop while screaming accusations at her and don’t let her go out alone.
It’s the only way to save the relationship.
-Uncle Freeze
… I thought, uh, you sent it already
Like for the last few days I’ve been looking out on my doorstep wondering when your package would arrive because my shipment was taking pretty long
….
Oh god, I’m gonna have the crazy top priority shipping I promise 😛
Oh man, I don’t know if I want to saddle that on you. Postage is gonna be a bitch.
Don’t worry, it’s fine I have my connections whom will make the process quick and painless ^-^
I can feel the diabetes oozing out of the screen.
That worm gif at the bottom of the page is just gross.
I think it’s pretty cool 😛
I agree, it’s fascinating that such a thing exists.
But still gross. 😛
But you’re the weirdo who likes bugs…
😛
it’s kind of cool how it branches out*arches eyebrow* Oh?
*turns images back on in blocker-plugin*
*barf* Bleeurgh.
*images off*
You’ve seen it now. You can’t turn off the image blocker in your brain.
Decided to boot up FTL again tonight for some reason. Picked the Rock cruiser, since I still had to unlock Type B. Managed to end up with the Crystal guy first go. Then of course there was no friggen Rock Homeworld anywhere afterwards, was there. Spent the rest of the night replaying the first sector over and over again, every time the sectors spun up for me either had no reds at the end or no/the wrong greens at the start. Or had the two separated by paths that wouldn’t meet.
RNG hates me. Never gonna get that crystal ship.
I think I wound up using a mod to unlock the crystal ship after having a dozen runs just like yours.
Oooooooh @trikeabout and other Elite players… I convinced one of my colleagues whose handy with an Arduino to build me one of these: http://edtracker.org.uk
And it works fantastically!
Managed to get all the components for $16 all up and it’s really improved my enjoyment of the game…
Be interesting to see if I can get it to work with Project CARS now 😀
@mrtaco, @crazyguy1990
Yeah, I made one out of my old Xbox webcam, three IR LEDs and a battery
This one purely works with a magneto meter that gets translated into a joystick axis by the drivers… Works great for all games that allows you to assign axis to look around
Wow. 😀
I wasn’t really sold on the idea at first – surely, if I turn my head to look left, I’ll have to look right to be able to see what’s to my left, cos the screen is still directly in front of me, right? But I got one of those a few weeks ago, and with a lot of fiddling about with acceleration profiles and such, it works amazingly well. Small smooth motions to look around, it just feels so natural. I can actually find where to dock without rotating my ship every which way! \o/ I spent a good ten minutes that night just circling a station to have a good look around. Need to find time to play it, now.
I’ve been meaning to try and see if I can use Opentrack to get ED to detect my Hydra as a head tracking device. Apparently it should be doable, people use the program to use other things as trackers. Though I don’t know if it can be done in conjunction with the Rift, which would be the main thing I’d want it for.
Sorry for being a bit of a dick lately guys, if I pissed anyone off I apologize.
Anywho, any of you guys planning on signing up for the GOG Galaxy Beta? I just did.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/05/gogs-take-on-steam-goes-live-today/
Don’t be scared off by the prices, while almost every game I searched for was cheaper on Steam, GOG is offering something called a “Fair Price Package”, meaning that if they’re selling a game cheaper than the amount you pay in a different region they’ll refund the difference to your account as a store credit. Not quite as awesome as just giving a straight out discount, but hey it’s still pretty awesome.
Wait you’ve been a dick?
I lurk a lot more then post lately and this is news to me!
Never change man 🙂
I think I may have signed up for the beta when I signed up to receive Aliens vs predator for free XD
Haven’t tried anything yet though
Why you lurk? We love you mang.
I think the same reason why you feel like you’ve been a dick XD
Over thinking things and not much interesting stuff to say 😛
I have this same problem
I did the same thing to get Alien vs. Predator, and I don’t think I ever used the beta in the entire time it was around.
Edit: Actually… just realised it went into beta today. I’m so smart.
You gifted someone Project Cars the other day, you’re in credit mang!
You haven’t been a dick! Having different opinions doesn’t make you a dick. I’m sorry us discussing these things with you made you feel like a dick, I’m fairly certain that was nobody’s intention. I think when people here are discussing differences of opinion they’re mostly just trying to get to the other side to understand their side.
It’s not you guys, it’s me. Sometimes I take things personally. I have self-esteem issues.
On a side note: So many mentions of the word dick, where’s @liondrive when you need him 😛
Is it hot in here?
*fans self*
#pg18cameearly
I’m know for my quickness
*dammit @dc*
I’ve spent a long, long time arguing with people on the internet. Life gets such much easier when you learn to separate the person from the argument. I never take someone disagreeing with me personally unless they make it personal. That’s the point where I back out.
It’s a useful trick to have but I probably only gained it by being a colossal dick online for a decade.
Just found out that The Witcher 3 is $80.99AUD on GOG, but it’s 38.99USD on Greenmangaming. Curiously it says that it will be delivered as a GOG key, could’ve sworn it said Steam key just the other day.
Couldn’t be bothered getting my new phone on Monday, so I got it on the way to work yesterday. Ended up getting the Sony Xperia Z3, it’s a tad bigger than my original Z. Haven’t had much time with it, but so far it’s a pretty cool guy.
I hope Sony keeps making great phones, I can’t imagine ever using anything else now.
I love my Z1 and only have one complaint: it takes absolutely forever to recharge. It’s plugged in for 15 minutes and I get about 1% charge, whereas my previous phone (which was also a Sony) gets around 25% charge in the same amount of time.
That sounds like a dud battery… or charger.
Can you get to battery on Z1 or does it need a shop visit to access is it?
I may have been exaggerating a tad. 😛
24 HOURS TILL PROJECT CARS, SO DAMN HYPE!
SQUEEEEE!!!!
Already downloading \o/
BRING ON TOMOZ!
SYDTAYERS
FRIDAY (red) MEAT
@cj has suggested a bar called Stitch for a meat this Friday at around 6:30 pm. He’s looking to book us a table, so please let us know if you can attend
The bar: http://www.stitchbar.com/bar/
I’ll be there! Also possibly @trjn and @freya
@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
I’m at a show that night, Sorry guys, this weekend is pretty horrid for me.
I finish work at 7 near Newtown so I’ll head in after that. I’d say I’ll be there close to 8.
How the shit does it take you an hour to get from Newtown to the city?
It takes less than an hour to walk that. I know, I’ve done it.
Security takes 10 mins to clear me out of the building, 15 minute walk across the park to St Peters, train at 7:30, 15-20 mins to Wynyard, 5 – 10 minute walk to brews with bros.
Mate, that’s an hour.
Hah!
It’s the lamest.
That sounds like a huge park.
I like to take my time and hide in bushes.
One day I will make the trip across the bridge and do the St Peters parkrun
Its more like 2mins from Wynyard
Sorry all, my Friday/weekend is all booked up. Next time.
Dammit, I’ve already got plans this Friday. Sorry man.
Bad human.
We’re also invading @gingerchris86’s apartment for board games on Sunday (late morning? We probably need to leave for Canberra in the early/mid afternoon).
Speaking of, what do you want me to throw in from the collection? Travel Qwirkle is a must, and I could possibly lug Dead of Winter that far
I’ve recently got Cosmic Encounter, also Anton and I have a lot of games.
I figured you did, just if there’s any curios in my collection you wanted to try.
That said I’d love to learn Cosmic
I’ve been meaning to play Cosmic for a long time. We were going to try and play it at CanCon but that fell through.
I’m going to bring P.I. so you can try it out and maybe something like Village but otherwise, I’m just going to rely on Chris’s collection. I’ve seen it, there’s plenty in there worth playing.
Right, I’ll travel light then.
Besides, I can’t guarantee that I won’t go board game shopping in Sydney anyway…
Yup, I get the feeling that’s going to happen.
Wait wait wait… *reads other comments*
You mean there’d be a game I’ve played that the others haven’t?
…Not that it’d make much of a difference to anything, I’d probably still take forever on all my turns no matter how well I understood any of these games 😛
Yeah, I’ve wanted to play it for ages though.
You could always teach! :p
Board games from 10:30 or whenever people show up sounds good to me 🙂
Can you dm me your address? then I can plan public transport
Only if you promise not to laugh
I know where you live. It would be an empty promise.
I’m free.
Given the start time and the numbers I think we should be fine to just walking in and grab a table, but ill still go confirm.
I’ll likely be around, but given how early it looks like I’ll need to be up to get all the way to the event the next day (of which I’m still not sure how to get there which is good) I don’t know how long I’ll be around for.
Browsing around the internet trying to find a new job or more specifically a career that interests me is fucking depressing. Apparently still having 30-40 years left in my working life means I’m past it and no one’s interested.
Even jobs I’ve been trying with the idea of entering for a few years have suddenly added a full uni degree requirement. Easy enough when you have the time :/
And once you graduate after 5 years of part time work because you have real life responsibilities you then find out you need work experience in that field on top of that.
Hopefully I’ll get to start doing accounting at some point though and hope that being kind of related (accounts payable) gets me in somewhere
Experience and a degree count for naught in the face of networking and real life connections; I had trouble getting accounting jobs until I started constantly forcing connections with people in HR companies (i.e. calling them every week and asking got work yet?!).
Edit: Also accounting sucks and I’m glad I quit the career =P
Agree, I was made redundant but I’m glad to be out of accounts.
Go through your networks.
Or work through a recruiter.
Second this.
Apply to a shit-tonne of recruitment agencies until you meet a recruiter who obviously isn’t all false smiles and apathy and actually gives a shit about figuring out where you could fit in their portfolio of clients.
…Might take a while.
That sounds about right.
Are you straight out of school?
Yes/No
If no please use closest exit
I was lucky that I was kept on from a Christmas casual from a job I got because I had connections with someone that works there.
I know the feeling, been looking for almost 3 months now, it really starting to wear me down. Good luck man, I hope you find something.
Yep, been over a year for me. I have a casual job that gives me one shift a week (thanks to my brother being a manager). Super depressed most of the time. Good luck to you too, gutsoup!
Thanks man, sucks about your situation too, let’s all band together and form a company that’ll make us all millions.
Step 1: steal underpants
Step 2: ?
Step 3: profit?
@gutsoup Just don’t give up guys; the greatest nemesis in being jobless and looking for work is the attrition effect of rejection. After 1-2 months you lose all enthusiasm and clicking apply on a job ad just becomes a ritual; I used to reward myself with mini-treats every week after getting through a certain number of job applications to keep my spirits up.
Ritual? I’d be lucky to still be able to keep bothering at all after two months.
Assuming I’d bothered at all in the meantime 😛
At least you didn’t do arts at uni.
So, no news of a new Pokemon game this year yet, huh? Ever since 2005 new mainline games have always been announced before mid-May. That’s really close!
Honestly, I kinda hope they skip this year and really focus on getting the game engine up to scratch performance-wise. No more framerate issues please.
This year should be a skip year. No need to keep pushing *something* out the door as a shoddy, rushed mess for the sake of it.
Do you think with how prevalent the online trading thing is now, that they might even depart from the 2 games / 70% roster thing for the first time ever in the next main release?
I dunno. I think the two-versions thing is such a tradition now that there’s no major reason to get rid of it. Especially because there are lots of people who still buy both versions when they don’t need to. Plus if you could catch everything in one game, there wouldn’t be much point in using the online trading anyway.
If anything I’d like more of a reason to buy both versions to be honest. Give them completely different stories or something. But then that’s defeating the whole point of two-versions in the first place 😛
The main new feature I really, really want is a hard mode. Make the whole game use the more advanced AI that they use in the Battle Tower/Frontier/Subway/Maison.
How about NG+ ?
I guess that would be okay. I don’t really replay the games these days though. Just want something a bit more challenging from the get-go!
They had a hard mode in Black/White but it had silly unlock requirements and you couldn’t use it on your first playthrough so it was kinda useless.
Hmmm… How about a game that doesn’t give you starters and a traditional playthrough – you need to bring your own team from XYORAS…
Dunno exactly what I’m getting to here, but something with a little more permanence, a platform of some sort, rather than just starting as a ‘new’ trainer every game.
…Sounds suspiciously like I’m suggesting an MMO here though, and that’s dangerous territory.
Hah, yeah. The games are already pretty much single-player MMOs.
I like starting fresh each game and training a new team every time. It’s just that the games are balanced to make it accessible for people who haven’t played before. Maybe now that systems are more advanced with accounts and such we could get something like the game will see that you’ve played a Pokemon game before and after the whole ‘Are you a boy or girl?’ setup they could add ‘How would you like an extra challenge?’
I dunno, I’m not a game designer 😛
While I too would like a harder version of Pokemon, I think Nintendo has stuck itself into making games for kids and teenagers. I’d be awesome if they put in a few more elements that really increased the depth of gameplay for the older players, I can’t really see it happening.
And I know it’s a bit of a cop out but I find Nuzlockes to be a way to increase the difficulty. Often feels arbitrarily limiting but I like it.
Oh I’m not suggesting they make it harder for everyone. That would be horrible 😛 It would just be nice to have an optional mode that increases levels, AI difficulty, etc for people like me who want it.
Gameplay is already super deep, I’d just like the option of seeing more of that in the single player.
4k @200fps or go home?
Realistic damage physics and blood effects.
AND meta-progression, competitive multi, leaderboards, always-online-enabled ‘features’, premium currency, VIP perks, and Twitter/Facebook account-linking bonuses.
Funny thing is the games already have 4/7 of those 😛
So much :C
Weelllll… I’m stretching the truth a tiny bit to get there 😛
Competitive multi = online battles
Leaderboards = online rankings (only after official opt-in tournament events)
Always-online-enabled features = lots of communication features if you play while your 3DS is online
VIP perks = I’m considering Pokemon Bank a ‘VIP’ feature because you pay for it here, even if it’s only a few bucks a year.
I was hyped for the old Apogee titles going up on steam but I just logged in to look at them now that they’ve unlocked and apparently you can only buy the games by getting the Apogee/3D Realms throwback bundle, which is $29.99 USD until May 12th, at which point it reverts to $39.99 USD. I guess for 32 games that’s fine value, but $30 (or roughly a quarter of a million dollary-doos after currency conversion) is a little more than I wanted to spend this week. :/
It’s ok, Pharaoh’s Tomb already went freeware years ago.
I watched the first three episodes of Food Wars last night. It is an… interesting anime. Not sure if I like it but it’s certainly quirky and has a few humorous moments. Veers into some overly sexualised stuff in some instances which I think are unnecessary but I think I’ll keep watching. A cooking anime is rather unusual so I want to see where it ends up.
Oh man, I’m loving that show! The foodgasm stuff is hilarious. 😀 Certainly not something I’d want to watch anywhere there’s a chance someone could walk in and glimpse it and ask what the hell I’m watching, though. 😛
I’m so happy to be watching anime again, it’s like I lost part of myself for a while there! It’s also perfect for this point in my life where it’s easier to fit in one anime episode than a regular 45 minute episode show.
I’ve just a minute ago finished the fourth episode of Blood Blockade Battlefront on Anime Lab and I’m surprised how much I’m enjoying that one, too.
I found it rather ridiculous how they’ve taken foodgasm and taken it to its literal conclusion. Not going to lie though, it is pretty damn funny and the characters are actually pretty good so far.
I’m trying to watch more anime lately but I have a terrible habit of watching about halfway into a series and just dropping it. Still am yet to finish Attack of Titan, No Game No Life, and Sword Art Online. Although apparently I sort of dodged a bullet with SAO because I think I stopped at episode 7 or 8 before it got all weird.
I just finished the second season of SAO and actually ended up quite enjoying it, after getting through the stupid second half of the first season.
I loved No Game No Life up until I dunno… there were two episodes that acted as a speed bump for me. But once I got past those, it was a race to the finish.
Have you watched Log Horizon? Its 2nd season just finished up and it is a pretty fantastic trip for anyone who’s familiar with MMOs. I’ve loved it so far.
I’ve heard it’s good but I haven’t gotten around to watching any of it yet. It’s on my radar but I want to actually finish some of what I have on the backburner before I jump into something new.
I have Log Horizon in my queue. I haven’t started it yet because just looking at the title gets that Ren And Stimpy Log song stuck in my head….
You should play Senran Kagura Bon Appetit.
Considering I predominantly play 3DS on the bus, I think I’ll avoid that. 😛
‘Wow, fanservice much?’ was my first cringing thought, but then there was something really special – just magical – about seeing a trio of yakuza guys in nude foodgasm, basted and trussed up in ham-string bondage.
For some reason the ‘horrifying’ naked cherubs with Soma’s face and creepy laughs just crack me up.
My god, though, the food porn… the lovingly detailed descriptions, with a rich, evocative lexicon, dripping in verbal imagery that is somehow matched by some of the finest food art – hell, ANY art – I’ve yet seen in anime.
Oh yeah, you do not want to watch Food Wars on an empty stomach because everything looks so delicious. I was surprised as well because they actually go into some of the science of cooking and how certain techniques work. Episode 3 with the beef bourguignon was impressive with how they explained it all.
The cherubs with Soma’s face were great but I found the bees were even better. I like anime that switches its art style around like that with differing levels of detail. It’s wacky but I think it really revels in the fact that its animated.
What is that like a Cooking Master Boy for the modern age? (Old anime I used to pick up from SE Asia while living in PNG)
I have no idea honestly but Food Wars has transitioned into a high school/cooking anime that apparently also has the potential to develop into cooking battles a la Iron Chef. That’s kinda what it’s like at the moment.
Cooking Master Boy was about a kid traveling around China after his mum died to become the best chef. Set in 1800s I remember some cooking battles.
So I discovered after that big chunk of rain we had up here that the boot of my car doubles as a wading pool. Opened it to load up for a small trip and found the bit that my spare tire goes in was full of water…… full, bailed out a good 10l of water, now to figure out where it’s getting in from.
Does anyone here other than @pixel_the_ferret_viking have Dragon Ball Xenoverse on PC? I need to start teaming up with people to get through some of the Parallel Quests…
I do!
Oh wait, I thought you meant on a gaming platform, not a word processor. Sorry.
Oh look, the peasant has his pitchfork out again.
I’d be worried about you revolting again, but you’re always revolting…especially the smell.
Can’t do his taxes on his Nintendo Playstation 360, can he?
Check and mate.
Well yeah, but the smell is just genetics, nothing to do with gaming, and it’s rude of you to point it out. I can’t help it.
How much does it cost these days? Still $90?
I picked it up from G2A for (i think it was) $50AUD. There’s cheaper options, but they tend to start looking dodgy.
Steam key?
Yep, it’s actually a Steamworks game.
Whoops, my finger slipped…
How does the game play? Should I watch some Let’s Play videos?
It’s a less complex fighter compared to other DBZ games, mostly due to the RPG part of it. This isn’t a negative, just making sure you don’t go in expecting something that plays like a typical 1v1 fighter.
I’m having a lot of fun with it, especially because they made sure the quirky nature of Dragon Ball is always a part of the gameplay.
Honestly, watch the TFS Let’s Plays of it. It’ll give you a good idea of the game and it’s bloody entertaining. Though, some of them suck at the game so they sometimes make it look harder than it is 😛
Watching them now \o/
Be prepared that very far it becomes pretty brutal 😛
But so much fun… Also Dumplin is the best!
DEMON GOD DUMPLIN!
I do! Oh wait 😛
Don’t be afraid to hit me up whenever, I’m happy to jump in and help/fail with you
ps Sorry for being so unreliable to come online and play… Real life had kinda been… Getting in the way latelyAlso I need to play more GTA online again but I don’t want to annoy you guys 😛
The last couple of nights we’ve just been dicking around in the overworld. And it has been so much fun.
You should join next time.
You must learn the ways of Choo ChooUgh feelings
I’d like that but for reasons I don’t want to get into because emotions and other gaaaaaay things I’ve been too insecure to hit you guys up 😛Life permitting i will do this tonight!
Alright, I’ll just add you to the list of people to yell at on Steam when we’re about to play.
THE TRAIN IS LOVE. THE TRAIN IS LIFE. THE TRAIN NOURISHES AND PROTECTS.
I CHOO CHOO CHOOSE HIM.
Figure I’d ask around for a third person cause you can do them as a team of 3.
Also, no reason to apologise. Im trying to play 3 games at once lately so trying to organise multi is rough 😛
Yep definitely… Also Team Three Star definitely needs to be a thing
I’m waiting for it to go on sale. I think $40 is the max I’m willing to spend on it.
I feel like going to a meat/meet 🙁
Fly to sydney! Flights from Avalon can’t be too much
~$150 return to Avalon buuut I’d have to crash at someone’s place etc since flights on Friday and Sunday are twice as expensive as, say, Saturday morning and Monday arvo. Sounds like so much work.
Where are we going?
Steak and Kidney!
Sounds grand!
DRIVING FOR 8 HOURS OR FLYING? These are the important questions.
Everyone come to Wagga. 5 hours drive from Sydney, 5 hours from Melbourne!
Brisbane people…uuuh…..its probably 5 hours to fly here?
And quadruple Wagga’s population for a weekend? Could work 😛
Thats alot of breeding
Keen.
Is there anyone going to PAX that hasn’t organised accommodation yet?
Is there anyone going to PAX who has organised accommodation yet?
The past 5 people I’ve asked about sharing accommodation have.
That or they just don’t want to be anywhere near me, which is plausible.
Really?
Man, I was going to go with my old last minute organisation thing again…
Simple, stay with Pixel, you buy him tickets. *nod nod*
You know what happens when people suggest these things to me….
I haven’t even got tickets yet XD
Day the tickets went on sale / I pre-ordered my pass, actually.
Seriously. It feels way too early!
But it’s really not…
Is there anyone going to PAX who hasnt organised anything even tickets yet?
Yes. I shall be sleeping in my own bed. 🙂
I haven’t. Need a roomie?
That was the intent begins the question, yes.
Let’s do it.
Last year I stayed at the Arrow on Swanston, bit of a hike to the venue but the rooms were a) nice and b) cheap. Have friends staying there again this year: http://www.arrowswanston.com.au/
Sounds like a plan. I’m in. Let me know the details.
Cool. I prob can’t book this month (credit card cannae take nae more) but I’ll look at it at the end of month. I’m probably going to fly in thurs and out mon
Quick scan of wotif shows a good balance of cheap and close at Apartments of Melbourne Northbank
I’ll have a look there too
A few of us stayed practically across the road from the convention centre in a short stay apartment. Worked out to be pretty great value, even though the amount of people in the apartment fluctuated from day to day.
EDIT: Link.
I am, at present, planning on going. I don’t know if I’ll stay at my house or the warehouse?
Thank you! You just reminded me to hassle backlot
Same here – can’t afford accommodation until tax return time, but don’t want to stay at my mothers house.
A) she lives in Sunshine.
B) I plan on getting home late.
A+B=Mugging, according to most Melbournians I’ve talked to.
Plus, I’m no longer 18/19/20. I don’t like my mum seeing me half drunk stumbling in the door at 1am.
EDIT: What I suppose I’m trying to say is, I’d love a roomie somewhere. If there’s enough of us, maybe we can book out a room in a backpackers? It’ll be cheap and us TAYbies can stay up late getting dru…playing 3ds.
@redartifice?
We can work something out there, absolutely.
Alright Red, hit me up via Twitter and we will get it organised over the next few days, eh? I’ll find room in the budget to book it now.
and @freezespreston
http://urbancentral.com.au/accommodation/family-room.html ?
If we get 4 people it would be slightly over $210 ($850 total) each for the 4 nights.
Seems reasonable.
Maybe @cakesmith?
@thecracks
Was that for the Thursday/Friday/Saturday/Sunday?
If so, I’m interested. Very interested.
It is! \o/
Awesome! And it’s in a pretty decent location, too!
By which I mean sign me up.
Rockin. We got a posse.
I haven’t but don’t know if I’ll have a baby with me or not yet.
I’m still tossing up the idea of Fri/sat accommodation so we can do late nights / drinking without worrying about an hour of travel (and make the most of Friday night actually at PAX instead of cutting it short)
I have tickets, but neither airfares, accommodation nor time off work yet. Winning!
It’s trying to rain, but not quite able to do so…
Also, I still need to get something for mum for Mother’s Day.
Hey, haven’t done this in a while, Requests?
Do a funny dance while singing the French national anthem.
Wait… you meant song requests for your show.
Same thing. Or Bruce Hornsby & The Range – The Way It Is
I want you to perform a live on air kazoo cover of Honey 2 The Bee by Billie.
Space Age Love Song – A Flock of Seagulls
Blue Swede – Hooked on a Feeling.
In honour of watching Guardians of the Galaxy the other night.
Cherry Bomb – The Runaways
In honour of Stan watching Guardians of the Galaxy the other night.
Come and get your love – Redbone
In honour of @dc honouring Stan watching Guardians of the Galaxy the other night
Chvrches – Recover
or
New Order – Crystal
Toxic – Britney Spears
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
Shot at the Night – The Killers
I second these except for the last one which is crap.
Thems fightin’ words, Transient.
I ain’t afraid of messin’ up that pretty face of yours either.
Well you’re not so bad yourself, handsome!
I’d feel bad messing up your face, though, since it’s all you’ve got. 😉
HOOOOOOOOOOOOH SOMEBODY CALL THE HOSPITAL, TELL THEM TO PREP THE BURRRRRRRNS WARD!
(Edit: OhmygodIfeelsoguiltyaboutthat even though I know you can take a joke and you know it’s not true because of your talents who knows which hidden insecurities lie beneath the surface, struck upon inadvertently? I’m so sorrry!)
:'(
Date with the Night – Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Everclear – Wonderful
Yessss!! Such a good song
World Party – Ship of Fools
Everything Is Alright by Motion City Soundtrack
@markserrels Any word on the Miyazaki collected works competition?
I’MMA WIIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!
NOT!Cc @jimu
Yep, I lost. Left a snarky bad loser comment already
Another guy who hadn’t seen any of them won (runner-up), even though I said please and thank you in my entry 🙁
What?!
Manners never get you anywhere, apparently :’P
After re-watching Iron Man 3 last night (re-watching the entire MCU in rapid succession), I have decided that the film now falls under the category of Romantic Comedy. Maybe just romance, for the ‘awwwwws’.
The forbidden love between a man and his semi-intelligent suit?
J.A.R.V.I.S. is just dreamy.
He has a very soothing voice
If you’ve seen avengers 2:
Jarvis is amazeballs now.Educational message:
If you open your car door and cause a hazard to another road user, you are in the wrong. “I missed you” is not an excuse.
If a cyclist has to swerve out of the bike lane into motorised traffic to avoid you because you’ve got out of your car without looking, you are in the wrong, no matter how far you think the gap was between your door and the cyclist.
Message ends.
The only issue there is “cyclist in the bike lane”. Not sure I’ve ever seen that.
There are lots of reasons why riders ride to the extreme right of a bike lane or avoid them entirely. Glass, potholes and tree branches among them. That they’re too narrow or take odd routes no where a rider is going also.
But the biggest is dooring.
This happened to me this morning. Had to swerve hard to avoid a door, managed an “Oi”, got a “Fuck off, I was nowhere near you” in return. Nowhere near me because of my avoiding move and because I knew I had the room to swerve as I head check frequently.
This is from yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaCV4Qis2NA
My drive to work has a 1km section of several blind corners of one lane each way with no shoulder. Every morning traffic is hopelessly jammed up for several kilometres because of the Lycra brigade in the middle of the road.
There’s a relatively new dedicated cycle track running parallel to it. They refuse to use it and I know it’s in perfect condition as I use it regularly.
Edit: it’s just a personal irritation I have to deal with every morning that gets me cranky. It has far more to do with the type of people on the Gold Coast than anything else. The paddle boarders on the creek tend to upset me as well.
Is that you riding? Those bike lanes are massive and that dickwad still manages to occupy it for 50 meters!?
Also, who the f*ck throws a car into a slide like that through a suburban intersection?
Yeah, that’s my very own bike cam footage. Been using a Fly6 for a while now. It’s a rear light with a camera built in.
That’s one of the better bike lanes, it’s a full metre wide and actually goes somewhere useful. Still is a dooring risk especially past the Carlton ground and adjacent to Melbourne Uni, but it’s wide enough that taking a position to the right of the lane leaves room for cars to pass and to avoid a dooring.
As I commented elsewhere, it was a nice piece of car control but a terrible piece of driving.
A few folks in the office are cycling enthusiasts. They fit go-pros to their bikes and helmets now, thanks to the truly staggering number of incidents of (actually illegal) abuse and road rage.
They brought some in. It was fucking insane. Made me furious.
I always see motorists complaining on any online forum about bikes coming out of nowhere, not following the rules, but you sit down and watch this go-pro footage as a supercut… multiple incidents a week, sometimes daily. It’s crazy. And you can see from the footage that they haven’t been doing anything wrong, it’s just motorists being pricks. It’s just BAFFLING. People being complete fucking assholes for no discernible reason.
I can only think that it’s some psychology of not wanting to share the road. Plus a healthy dollop of ignorance of the laws, so they THINK cyclists are breaking the law, when they’re actually following it.
I couldn’t do it. I’d be in jail already.
I’ve had one guy refuse to give way to me on a roundabout. Seems harmless and just done out of impatience until you take into account I was already in the roundabout at the time. He slams on the accelerator as he’s about to enter the roundabout where I’m about to pass (I wasn’t turning I was going straight on) I managed to skid to a stop side on and I was literally millimeters from the car mirror. I was that close to being hit by a car going 50-60km/h, I still get the shakes thinking about it
Statistics. Here’s an oversimplification.
Let’s say, for argument’s sake, that 1% of drivers are complete nutters. As a driver yourself, you come across a subset (x) of the driving population in a similar place and at a similar time to you, thereby giving you a chance of 0.99 to the power of x of not encountering a nutter. Out of interest, you cross the 50% mark when x is greater than 68 other drivers.
Riders move 2 to 3 times slower, so over the same trip they most likely encounter 2-3 times as many drivers. So over the same stretch of road where you as a driver have a 50% nutter encounter rate, a rider has a 74-87% nutter encounter rate.
Yes indeed. That’s a reasonable analysis. Doesn’t make it any less scary…
Also also I’m not implying drivers are any better because holy shit most people turn into dribbling imbeciles once you put a wheel in front of them.
Pretty sure I hate just about everyone on the road.
LOL Yep. I get plenty of clips of riders doing dumb stuff too, and I’ve got no time for Strava warriors on shared paths.
Wednesday afternoon thought exercise:
You are a sufficiently evil yet benevolent that has created or discovered a magical device that creates all of our basic needs – food, water, any raw material you could want, cures for any possible disease or ailment, and copies of itself.
How do you use this invention to advance our race as a whole, without civilisation as we know it collapsing and self destructing?
Edit: I want to tweak the wording on this. There’s no need to preserve society as we know it, but the goal is still to retain and/or advance a modern society. No bombing each other back to the stone age.
Civilisation as we know it could use a good collapsing so screw it, flood the market with free stuff.
I make a whole boatload of rare things, devaluing them, then flip off humanity as we inevitably self destruct.
Manufacture my own robot uprising.
It’s not collapsing civilisation, nor is it self destructing. It’s the birth of true civilisation
Valid. That’s why I said ‘sufficiently evil’. Room for these sorts of things while still wanting a greater good outcome.
Nacho fountain.
That’s the toughie, isn’t it! I’d be giving free shit to everyone eveywhere for a utopian society that undoubtedly goes horribly wrong, because humanity seems hardwired to define what they have by what others do… or don’t.
Without the collapse of civilization? Benevolent world dictatorship. Offering the carrot of resources under my banner… the stick of tanking the economies of those who do not follow by oversupplying their only exports and refusing to let them import what they lack.
Civilization would either band together in a world government of resource-sharing against me, or flourish under my reign. Either way is a success.
Given that the device can make perfect copies of itself, I assume you’d be taking measures to not let any out of your control then?
Of course. The basic principle is control.
There will only ever be two. The one used to dominate the world with supply and demand, and the other used to colonize new spaces, unbeknownst to all but the hand-picked volunteers.
Question: If this thing can create anything, does this include landmass or otherwise habitable space?
If anyone can have anything whenever they wanted space would be the only thing left to fight about.
Yes, it creates mass of any known variety.
Jokes aside, I think the obvious choice is for the devices to be made available to every human on the planet, and to set up a special high school in Japan where young prodigies learn to harness the power of their custom-modified devices. Out of class, they form an elite unit of device-enforcers who ensure the power of the device can not be used for evil. In class, they test the limits of their understanding of the devices. They learn… they love.
So if everyone had one, what would people do with their lives?
What would happen to education? Social structures? Ambitions? Purpose?
How would you stop people that want to be violent and take over?
There will always be people with ambition and purpose. Hell, if I had nothing but time to worry about I’d totally be learning everything I could and be disappearing into space exploration (I can make spaceships).
Having access to power is not the equalizer you may think – how you USE power is vital. When the power is available to all, it quickly becomes apparent that there will always be those who can control the devices better than others in combat – more imaginative, faster reflexes, better knowledge of tactics and counter-production tactics. Those individuals are the holders of true power, the ability to enforce their will through force. And that power initially sets them above others… but against each other.
After The War, ‘civilization’ is kept intact by an agreement of collectivist societies who convened to maintain peace and order by allowing the smartest, the most ruthless, the most powerful device-users to stomp down trouble-makers for the benefit of humanity. In short: the benevolent philosophy holds more adherents than the individualist philosophies.
When physical, material needs are met, humans find that they crave other advantages – love, acceptance, knowledge, influence, respect. This desire is held by enough of the sufficiently power to allow the unanimous acceptance of the social contract to assure mankind of a peaceful existence of intellectual pursuit.
You can never completely stamp out crime, however, and there will always be those willing to test their power against others… and so, Neo Tokyo is home to the Academy of Magic Sciences, where brilliant young teenagers strive to fight for justice… and love.
You can have your petty and small minded power on Earth. I’ve just created my own planet with hookers and blackjack and space exploration.
This is why you wouldn’t be in control. You’re thinking incredibly small scale with a device with unlimited potential.
Unregulated space travel is prohibited under The Convention, one of the highest crimes to be policed by the elite and feared dimension-rippers. It would be far too simple for a rogue element to destroy the earth entirely by something as simple as meteor! Or at least, such is the official story. In truth, the secret, galaxy-spanning alien societies who have known and wielded these powers for far longer than earth and who would think nothing of extinguishing us in an instant, have made space travel prohibition one of their few mandatory requests for inscrutable purposes.
Which isn’t to say that it doesn’t happen… The Soulless are big proponents, willing to sacrifice their soulless clones endlessly in pursuit of galactic freedom. The hiddden, invisible war rages.
(This is why the real answer is to never ever ever ever allow this technology to fall into someone else’s hands. Some nihilist somewhere will end everything for everywhere ever.)
Hah. This is why restrictions exist. When you allow yourself the absolute freedom to create, experience anything, everything… what is left? What challenge, what boundaries, what learning? Have you ever cheated in a video game and felt it rob you of challenge and experience? Magnify that by infinity.
God created man of such finite and tiny power because he was bored.
You’re still thinking small scale purely in the realm of what we know. Unlimited resources would open up the possibilities for discovery of unprecedented levels. Humans could progress far far beyond what we are currently, even evolutionary wise with what the universe still has hidden away from us.
Ah, but here’s the thing. ALL humans do. But humanity? This thing is a cheat code to the end level, with god mode. That’s terrible. You’re skipping the entire game. Playing is merely a formality, with nothing to do at the end. And besides that, you never know that it’s not going to crash the whole thing. It only takes one moron to ruin everything for everyone else. Create a supernova in the middle of your galactic playground, accelerate the Singularity and make it hostile, create negative space that doesn’t support ANY kind of existence on any plane.
One moron. All it takes. Humans, at the micro level, aren’t clever enough to handle this. But humanity?
We need to consider the species as an entity. A brain. You can’t trust this with one neuron. You have to let the species evolve. We’ve been around for the blink of an eye on a planetary scale let alone a galactic one. A baby crying and shitting itself in its first breath. You don’t give that baby a gun and expect it to know how to use it.
Human evolution needs to be curated, but much slower. The individual pieces don’t matter.
At this point you’re just taking the lines from every politician in history, keeping control for yourself, dividing society into haves and have nots at your discretion while fighting for the status quo. Also you’re assuming that once we move forward with that that it’s the end of the line. I’d argue it’s just the step in the journey. Your dad getting you a good job at the company he works for. Having the machine for all isn’t a shortcut to the end, it’s the bus that takes you to the airport to start your journey.
Uh, forgot to tag @transientmind there.
Species-wide extinction at the hands of one idiot who wondered what would happen if he created a black hole? Unless you believe in God, I doubt that’s our ticket to experiencing the next plane of existence.
@transientmind you’re still only seeing a narrow field based upon what is now, not what will be. This machine cures EVERYTHING. Including mental illnesses, the ill wired or missing synapses that prevent empathy. You’re letting fear rule a decision based on a limited scope.
You unleash it tomorrow? You give it to everyone? That’s exactly what happens. Black hole-induced species extinction.
But you introduce it slowly? Solve problems one at a time, let humanity explore more slowly? You restrict access to ensure the nihilists can’t get their hands on it until we’ve found a way to resolve their issues?
Why, I do believe you’re headed over to my side. 🙂
@transientmind Nearly every atrocity in history has been enacted by a governing body that knows best with the best intentions. Every movement for societal change has come from the people. Your way ensures either you or everyone else dies in a bloody revolution. How is that a better way?
Bloody revolutions come and go… humanity masters every new step of technology it encounters, yes? The trump card, meanwhile, a clone of the device and myself lies secretly on the periphery coming up with alternatives, quietly curating… As ever, humanity evolves.
…Hail Hydra.
But from the point of view of anyone else, that’s exactly where it is. Someone Else’s hands.
Heh. This dovetails nicely with my intended response to Freeze in a minute…
I wonder what the viability would be of creating a second Earth, and how it would impact the things. Like if you spawned it within the same orbit as our own so it had all the same properties in terms of heating, light, gravity, time, etc. But it sat over on the opposite side of the sun. Or maybe there could be two new Earths, equidistant from each other so then each one can always see the other two.
I’d assume a new planetary body in the system would throw all sorts of things out of whack.
Well you said it creates any raw material you want… so presumably you’d still need to be able to know how to use those to make more complex things.
It’s what makes people spend hours building things in Minecraft and learning how to do new stuff, so I don’t see why it shouldn’t happen in real life too 😛
If it can create copies of itself, wouldn’t that lead to a massive waste problem with people just chucking out their magical devices because who cares I have 2- no, 4- no, 8 more back home.
Let’s also say it can convert material back into ‘nothing’. It is a perfect device without side effects.
So it can be used to ‘murder’ people as well…
Lol any device that can create matter can be used to murder people in theory =P
As the answers have rolled in, I’ve come up with my own answer (much more boring than @transientmind’s offering though)
Religion. Ticks the boxes for control and life ambition.
Base level members get access to basic life sustenance – food, water, medicine.
As you progress through the ranks, you gain more privileges for additional uses, with the higher ranks in different streams working to better the human race – space colonisation, missionary work, even meting out justice of some form.
I would create a company; copyright the device and associate a cost to any materials it can be used to create however at a margin below present market values. I would then create a depreciation schedule for the core products it will be used to create on a yearly basis and slowly wean humanity away from a capitalist regime until people were able to afford anything and everything. Society takes time to adapt to new technology; game changing technology such as this can only be introduced in drips and drabs lest we destroy civilization.
My greatest concern would be one of a plagiarizing nature to avoid copies of the device leaking and destabilizing the entire economical ecosystem.
Edit: The end game once humanity and society have sufficiently adapted would be to create copies of the device itself for free use amongst the population. However the copies would need to be amended so that they could not create devices that could directly harm another human being.
These sort of answers are exactly why the human species has stagnated into where we are and will never improve. You’re not fixing or changing anything, just extending the problems we have.
The alternative being what? Trust in humanity and give everyone the device? I would rather avoid a complete social implosion by using the existing infrastructure to create a new status quo. Tossing the existing system out on the street is a surefire way to destroy countless lives.
Edit: Historically power to the masses has resulted in complete and utter anarchy. No one agrees and once enough people disagree we have war. What you would have is everyone equally armed so everyone who disagrees can wipe each other out. As I see it that isn’t the next step for human societal evolution, its extinction. The majority of people abuse power; which is why even in a democracy the power is centralized to a small number. Give enough people unlimited power and you have complete annihilation.
Again, you’re taking the drives and needs of a resource starved world and applying them to a world that is utterly different. Short sighted at best, idiotic and dangerous at worst.
And you’re forgetting that we exist in a resource starved world and believe humanity evolves instantly. Do you really think people will forget as soon as this device is available? Even if you made it available to every single human at the same time our current world has enemies, paranoia, governments and government officials who wish to consolidate their power. You think they would let people keep the devices? How long before terrorist teleport bombs into cities? How long before they create their versions of nuclear bombs? Our problems aren’t resource based freeze. You’re looking at the end without asking how we get there. Do you really think this perfect end you’re envisioning is going to happen without people raising up against it? If so then you’re more short sighted and idiotic than you claim I am and possibly infinitely more dangerous. Because idealism without an anchor in reality is how fanaticism is birthed.
This is clearly something that strikes a nerve with you and I’m ending this debate here; your responses neither elaborate nor explain. Rather you’ve chosen to be provocative and defend your position without sufficient evidence. I have all of human history reinforcing mine; you have your imagination.
Uh, I’m just arguing a hypothetical with no right or wrong answer and just enjoying the debate. You’re the one seemingly getting angsty about it.
Edit: For the record I tend to lean towards the side of rules. I hate it when they get broken in games (TA Speedruns are the devil) and I was aiming to join the police.
I’m sorry I took offense with your previous comment because I thought it implied I was an idiot for taking my stance; which I don’t mind usually if there’s some rationalization to the claim =P
Forgive me good sir, I was overly defensive!
@pupp3tmast3r S’all good. I enjoy arguing when there’s no stakes involved. I just picked a side no one was really taking and ran with it.
@freezespreston Aye I can appreciate that =] Unfortunately I have the bad habit of getting overly passionate (shut up I’m being diplomatic), thanks for being a sport freeze =D
@freezespreston @pupp3tmast3r @transientmind You’ve all been fantastic sports and generated some very engrossing brain candy. Appreciate the efforts put in to this fun little exercise!
@freezespreston @pupp3tmast3r Between the two of you, you’ve pretty much danced around my plan B – just destroy the device. Fuck it, we’re not ready as a species and by the time we’re ready we might have the capability to do similar.
I fix the fucking environment.
Humanity needs to pay the price for the damage it’s done; fixing the environment is the parental equivalent of having your kids eat nothing but dessert for dinner minus the tummy ache. If we have become the architects of our own demise so be it; about time we left the planet for the superior species anyways. Roaches.
We’ve invented post-scarcity machines. We can remediate the environment.
Also also: I don’t keep civilisation as we know it. Post-scarcity societies will be a fundamentally different form of civilisation.
Bit late to the party but…
First off, give yourself godhood: Immortal, all seeing, all knowing ect.
Then use The Device to create slave versions of The Device that have their abilities locked until changed by the master Device.
Then give one to everyone, in fact embed the slave Devices into the genetic code of all humanity so that everyone who lives and ever will live henceforth has it’s power.
Then, bit by bit, from your deific position; unlock the capabilities of the slave Devices and upload relevant schematics.
Start with creating basic food and water and curing all diseases.
Humanity is the same just no-one is dying of pestilence or famine.
Agricultural and healthcare/pharmaceutical industries will crumble, hundreds of thousands out of work. But no-one is starving – for the poorest of the poor the only basic need not met is shelter.
The construction industry will boom – all that money people spent on health and food they now spend on walls and electricity. All those unemployed will become builders, architects, electricians.
The focus of supply and demand will shift towards luxury goods rather than basic ones. New markets and products will open up.
Unemployment will be high but it won’t matter so much – people will work because they want to or they want things, not because they will die if they don’t. Job/life satisfaction rises.
The pace of technology rises are more and more people focus their energy on it.
Crime drops. No more crime of desperation, just greed.
Drugs become more recreational – negative side affects are just wished away. The drug market becomes accepted and regulated, drug crime drops.
Wars are fewer, confined to ideological fanatics – why risk dying when you can live to 120 by sitting on your ass doing nothing?
The strain on the planet’s resources will increase by an order of magnitude. The world will increase it’s focus on renewabls but it will still be too little too late.
By this point humanity will have reached a state of relativly accepting stability with it’s new power.
Next unlock knowledge and ablility of power generation.
Not infinite, not tons, just enough.
Enough for an average person to keep an average home powered.
People will use it individually to live sedate, consumerist lives and collectively to further all the things.
Others will start wars.
WW3 will start. No one person can cause an apocalypse but enough fanatics will band together to try.
Millions will die and from the ashes a shell shocked world tightens it’s grip.
The world reshuffles – country borders meaningless in a much smaller world, humanity groups into a few large cultural/ geographical blocks.
Government control increases but so does a focus on space exploration and psychological science.
Humanity manages to colonise space, probably habitats first, based around asteroids or moons with high base resource yield.
These will be at first segregated along cultural block lines (asia habitats, european habitats ect) with some minor skirmishes over resources.
As humanity expands further out planetary governments loose control and corporations rule.
Society is run by the ambitious and the rest just follow along. But the average lot of the people is so easy only the ambitious and philosophers care.
Beyond that I’m not sure. But keep unlocking things bit by bit until humanity reaches you in godhood.
Niiice work on fleshing that one out. It’d take me days to go that far.
Fuck off to another planet and start a colony.
Oh, cool, a blues pack this week. That should be fun! *checks tracks* Freddie King, Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker… Johnny Winter? D’:
Hey gang!
Your daily reminder about the Undad Kickstarter. (Nah, not gonna link it today. REPRIEVE)
In more important news, making some progress towards the final trophy in Bloodborne:
I soloed the Keeper in the first layer of the Defiled Chalice. I was pretty goddamned freaking proud after that. That’s a tough fight to have to do without getting hit.I’m now on the second level boss, which is the giant flaming dog thing. Awesome boss battle, but he has SO MANY hit points this time around, and it’s an incredibly hard fight to do without getting hit. Thankfully, not all his moves are OHK, but there are two or three of them that are absolutely deadly. Summoned help, and managed to die by bellyflop with only a sliver of health left. Since then, have been studying all its moves on Youtube. It’s gonna be a tough slog for sure, but I’ll get there.Jatz or Ritz?
Which side are you on?
Savoys, Vita-Weats, Tim Tams.
Anything else is blasphemy.
Whichever side has the cheeseboard. :3
Whichever side of the plate has the bikkies, and there had better be some french onion dip to go with them.
Topz from Aldi will suffice.
Aren’t… aren’t they the same thing?
Jatz. Get that mushy ritz shit away from me.
I’ll eat both, but Jatz are better.
Does it matter? Same stuff, different names.
Jatz.
They are a bit firmer than Ritz, I find.
Just got everything sorted and will be in Brisbane from the 2nd-9th July 😀
Time for an Ugh, Bens Meat?
😀
Will definitely pull myself away from Oliver for an afternoon/night/whatever you guys do if anyone/everyone wants to have a meat 😛
That’s kind of funny because that’s almost exactly when I’ll be in Tasmania…. 😛
Eh shit 😛
I love old-school pizza shops. I am full of cask wine, wood-fired supreme and gelato. Perfection.
Edit: What the?
TWO PAGE GETS IN TWO DAYS!?
Time to buy a lottery ticket!
They must be kinda like Thor’s hammer. (Appreciation of pizza and cask wine is eminently worthy.) Let’s check the other pages… Hm. Yeah, no.
No, its just a slow Tay week when *I’m* getting page gets…
Lately every week is a slow TAY week D=
ALDI SNOW STUFF!
Anyone ever bought/used it? Thoughts?
I’m hearing good things about it but apparently the day it goes on sale is hectic. I’ll give it a shot though :P!
I’ve always wanted to snowboard ever since I played SSX as a kiddo. Luckily a bunch of people at work are into it as well and we’re planning a snow trip planned at some point in the future.
I’ve never used it, but some people I used to ski with brought it with them for Japan, and… Italy maybe? Not sure if they were buying it back then. They recommended it, good prices, very good quality for said price, definitely good enough for 98% of what Australia will throw at you.
From my online readings it seems like the snow quality is WAY better in other places that aren’t Australia, so I’m assuming if this stuff is good enough for the wet snow in Australia it’ll be good for other places? (Europe, Asia, NZ)
Yeah, it’ll definitely handle the cold, I don’t really know how waterproof it is, since the people I was talking to shun Australian snow, and in Japan at least even the snow was polite (it’d fall heavily sometimes, but it was generally light and fluffy, and was always dry).
20k/20k something something words I don’t understand
https://www.aldi.com.au/en/special-buys/snow-gear-sat-16-may/saturday-detail-wk-20/ps/p/mens-premium-2-in-1-ski-shell-jacket/
Any tips of what sort of layering things I’ll need? Definitely got my eyes on the jacket, pants and shoes. Thinking of the thermals as well and probably some sort of mid layer (jumper/fleece) but I’m guessing it doesn’t get that cold in Australia so that should be enough (any idea on a ballpark Celsius figure?)
Typically it’ll be somewhere in the -5 to 5 range, though I’ve had days of -12 with stupidly strong winds in the middle of a blizzard, and days of 12 where the snow forms little rivers in the lower areas. I tend to go for just pants, T-Shirt, Jacket, that way if it’s warm I can pop the jacket open, take off my gloves, and ski down with a sick* cape-jacket (also, my School’s jackets had removable sleeves, and a pouch for them, so you could vest it up!). But I don’t feel the cold in my legs at all (some nights I’d hop in the shower, touch my legs and they’d be freezing to the touch, but feel fine!), so you’ll probably want thermals.
*Not at all sick, maybe makes people sick, I dunno
Oh, also, as a note: Gloves.
Good gloves are goddamn essential. If you’re boarding, you’ll want boarding ones (thanks Captain Obvious), which will have reinforced fingertips. I personally like ones with a warm inner, and a waterproof outer, though they’re a lot more pricey than simpler ones, but they work better in most weather.
Also also, helmets save lives. They’re annoying, and bulky, and they warm up too much, and you look really uncool in one, but with the number of times I’ve smashed my head into things, I can’t imagine skiing without one (despite the fact that I did in Listvyanka, but I was only skiing for a few hours). This warning has been brought to you by a boring old man.
Yeah, I had the ALDI gloves and helmet in mind too! But they seemed like things I could pick up for reasonable prices elsewhere if I wasn’t able to get them
Aldi stuff is often imports from Europe, don’t underestimate it.
The trick to staying warm is layers, and staying dry, and keeping the wind out. Avoid cotton (including denim). Polypro, fleece and merino (wool) will all keep you warm even if they get damp. I used to paddle through winter in merino socks. Even soaking wet they kept my feet warm.
So thermals with a light waterproof and windproof shell is a good bet for general activities. If you are specifically skiing or boarding, the get decent pants so you don’t have to mess round with your boots.
The fleece stuff is top quality. I love my fleece headband.
Get in early and be prepared – it gets ugly in there!
Edit: I know plenty of people who love the Aldi stuff – buying it often works out cheaper than hiring it. I haven’t bought a lot of the ski stuff specifically, but the other Aldi clothing I’ve bought has been good quality.
I found a copy of Starcraft for $5 at a second-hand goods place today.
I’m looking to see if there’s any way to make it run at 1680×1050, but apparently there isn’t one. 🙁
Finally, Disney Infinity 3.0 Star Wars has been officially announced. Way to miss the perfect day to announce it guys.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-16120-Disney-infinity-3-0-Officially-Announced-with-Three-Star-Wars-Sets.html
cc@pixel_the_ferret_viking
Also, Mirror’s Edge 2 has finally been announced for a 2016 release.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-16121-Mirror-s-Edge-2-Set-For-Early-2016-Release.html
It’s Disney. They don’t need gimmicks to generate hype. You’ll get hype or they’ll ram that hype right into your kneecaps.
I’m curious; how is Infinity as a game as opposed to a gimmick?
Edit: Genuine interest; however I’m wary of getting interested cos I’m a sucker for collectibles =p
HHNNNNGGGHHH
https://www.oculus.com/blog/first-look-at-the-rift-shipping-q1-2016/
FINALLY
BLOODBORNE
DEFILED WATCH DOG IS DONE! The platinum is getting closer! Hells yeah!Dammit people, do you not want my money! 😛
Found some site (Derringers? I think they’re big in Adelaide?) selling musical thingies I’m interested in. Said they had a “quote phone” which you could text. So I’ve done that and emailed them earlier in the week but still no response for what seemed like a simple request 🙁
TAKE MY MONEY.
If you insist!
*throws money*
‘Contact for a quote’ for no good reason is a sales technique that makes my vision go spotty with rage.
The mini and unrelated adventures of Blaghs and Mum:
So my Mum had surgery on Friday (Knee Reconstruction), and I was talking to a nurse at work today, and apparently she was doing her best Homer Simpson impression that night at the hospital. I have no idea if she was thinking of The Simpsons, or if she really was just high as a kite (my sister’s comment was that at least her eyes were focussing this time, since when my Mum had her ankle fusion thingy she was totally out of it for a good few days).
Comparatively, on Saturday night I was waiting for the bus and there was this couple across the road from me who were just disgusting. They were like, staring into each other’s eyes, and constantly touching each other, and having these long drawn out kisses, and I nearly turned into Ted, because I was so close to throwing rocks at them. Why should they be happy (but seriously people, keep that shit out of public, you sicken me)?
Those kinds of couples are cute.
I want to find someone who makes me want to be like that :*
Me too.
…so I can return the favour of grossing out all my friends who currently act like that. Ugh 😛
No, they’re horrifying. If I was Malevolent Dictator I’d instigate a 6 foot pole policy, wherein any sickening couples must be kept at least six feet apart while in public. They’d still make gooey eyes at one another, but at least they wouldn’t be climbing inside each other’s mouths.
This sounds like you’re a little envious 😛
Just walk up and smack their heads together… I may have been playing too much GTA lately
Got the map working on the second screen in Supreme Commander.
It’s a pretty cool feature. 😀
Very cool feature. Why have a minimap when you can just zoom all the way in and out on 2 maps…
My main PC was built to handle this when the game came out in ’07, and I’ve used the dual screens for precisely zero other games since then.
BY THE BEARD OF ZEUS! IT’S FINALLY HERE, HAPPY PROJECT CARS DAY!
Pick up my copy in about half an hour.
All teh car porn \o/
*drools*
Day 1 patch delayed 3 weeks.
Don’t even joke about that!
ODIN’S BEARD so it is!
Preloaded it last night \o/
Is it home time yet?
For me it is, first day of a week of leave.
*rubbingitin
“Guitar Hero Live is coming in Fall 2015 for $99 USD. Confirmed artists include The Black Keys, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Gary Clark, Jr., Green Day, Ed Sheeran, The War on Drugs, The Killers, Skrillex, The Rolling Stones, The Lumineers, Pierce the Veil and Blitz Kids”
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. At least it makes my decision to completely ignore Guitar Hero a lot easier. Skrillex? Seriously? Do you use a microphone to go WUB WUB WUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUB instead of a guitar?
The only thing I like is The killers and green day if it’s their old music.
And the Stones?
You can’t always get what you want…
But if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
Goddamit now it’s stuck in my head >.< !!
Try this on for size.
And the stones. I totally skipped over their name!
They’re trying to be new and hip (do people even say hip anymore?).
What they aren’t thinking of is the average gamer is in their 30’s, So they need to have a setlist with mostly 70’s and 80’s Hard/Classic Rock and Metal.
If they want to appeal to the younger peoples, they should’ve made DJ Hero 3: Wub Wub edition.
Guitar Hero. Who’re guitar heroes? Green Day? Ed Sheeran? Fall Out Boy? All renowned for they’re* excellent levels of guitar playing…
But yeah, I agree. They’re aiming for the wrong crowd with this. They’re probably assuming though that anyone who played it back in the day will automatically buy it so they just have to focus on getting younger people in
*their
Green Day the 4 chord heroes. Sometimes, they even make it 7!
Clearly I am mistaken *rips up Van Halen posters*
Heathen!
You did just give me a great idea though. Gonna blast Van Halen in the car on the way to pick up Project CARS.
Ohohoho. That’s very cynical, but probably also depressingly accurate.
Cynical. Depressing. Accurate.
Describe me in 3 words 😛
Depending on the songs chosen, I think Green Day, MCR, The Killers, and the Rolling Stones could be okay. Not much else that really interests me in that list, though, and nothing that makes me feel like I need to own it.
Rock Band and Rocksmith are where it’s at.
Basically, anything with “Rock” in it.
Not sure I agree.
Agreed. Especially so that all of Rock Band’s previous songs will work with the new game. That’s got my attention and that’s all I want.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0965393/
Ok ok, you and @shane have made your point. Sheesh!
ROCK LOBSTER
It’s almost as if you’re not their target audience. Personally, that list of artists works just fine for me.
Obviously it’s not the full list and there’ll probably be some harder and heavier stuff on there, but they’re not bands or artists I’d immediately think of wanting to have fun playing with 2-3 mates and a few drinks
Welp, I’ll stick to Rocksmith then, where I already have some Green Day, FoB, MCR, GC-Jr, Black Keys, Killers, Stones and Lumineers to play.
TAY just seems to be getting slower and slower. It’s already Thursday and we’re not even at page 6 yet.
It’s definitely @dc’s fault.
Also, all the jerks who now have jobs that won’t let them post during the day.
And the crazy cats who migrated to Twitter.
Everyone kill Twitter NAOW!
When @dc’s not posting on TAY everyone should say “where’s @dc?”
You mean like “where’s @dc ?”
BEHIND YOU.
Hey, I tried. Problem with generating a big discussion is that replies don’t add more pages.
Sorry, I just have nothing much to talk about
Day 1 down. Osaka is amazing, especially at night. Off to Osaka Castle and the Shitennoji Temple today :o)
I didn’t even realise when you spoke about “wedding” earlier in the week that it was you who got married! #oldladystrange
Congratulations, and hope your honeymoon continues to be amazing. 😀
Osaka Castle is seriously impressive.
Osaka Castle is nuts!
I can barely believe it was taken by an aggressor
So I played Diablo 3 last night because my friend wanted to play with me. Because I had the starter edition, we couldn’t play. =( She went to bed at 9:30 and I played for nearly an extra hour.
I felt really guilty afterwards, because cosplay D=
Yes how dare you enjoy a game! Tis the forbidden fruit!
Jokes aside just going off your posts it sounds like you work pretty hard with cosplay stuff; no need to feel guilty when you decide to indulge in some relaxation!
I know, but it’ll never get done if I don’t keep working on it. I will have some photos eventually.
True but it’ll also never get done if you burn yourself out =P
I know but I need to work.
If I burn myself out, I will have a nap and be fine
It starts with just one hour extra. Then you find yourself playing hours upon hours on end.
No, I refuse DX I refuse to start playing again =P
There is a cure though. Start a Hardcore character, play it carefully and progress normally until you die to some cheap BS. I haven’t touched the game since getting sucker punched by the stupid expansion bubble.
I had a hardcore witch doctor I was levelling up for the trophy. Got to 64 when that stupid instakill sparkle pony was waiting right at the entrance to Whimsyshire.
Wasn’t happy.
You know when I play games when I should be doing something else?
Everytime.
That’s why I haven’t really bought any new wiiU games
Ok, people want a TAY discussion stimulation shot…
The latest series of Big Brother has been cast and in a shocking grab for low ratings they’ve populated the house entirely with TAYbies. Who is in the house? What are they doing? Who goes crazy first? Is @dc still manning the censorship button or has he been thrown in the residence?
The temperature is a balmy 25 degrees. Queenslander housemates turn up in ski gear and try to start a fire in the living room to avoid freezing to death. The other housemates put out the fire with an extinguisher, and it turns into a giant foam party that’s profoundly embarrassing for all involved.
There’s one odd chap who only wears green. As part of a contracted prank, the other housemates dye all his clothes red, and he cries every night and boycotts clothing entirely until he gets voted out.
There’s a stack of books on every piece of furniture. No one knows who put them there; everyone agrees that they’re rubbish. They get used as doorstops, footrests, coasters and toilet paper. The author of the books is in the house, and smiles stoicly throughout as his dreams slowly disintegrate around him. He starts to sneak vodka into all his drinks, and even though everyone knows he’s doing it, they agree that he is much better company after this… except for when he starts crying.
Scree constantly does favours for the other housemates, and does all the housework, and apologises constantly for it.
There seems to be another housemate, but no one has ever seen him. There’s a mysterious locked door at the end of the hallway, but no one has a key. Its shadowy inhabitant only seems to come out at night. Cheesecake never stands a chance in the house, but no one will admit to eating it. Every now and again, they can hear agonising thrashing around, as if there’s someone having a nightmare. One night, everyone is woken up by a scream, “IT WAS A HOMONYM!” but no one ever owns up to saying it. It’s a mystery worthy of Inspector Nob, who famously declares the noise to be shifting rafters and the disappearing cheesecake to be a case of extreme rapid dehydration, and life returns to normal… sans cheesecake.
The housemates attempt to institute a Funny Friday, where everything said has to be a pun or witty wordplay. Although approximately half the housemates claim to dread Funny Friday, they end up being the most prolific participants. The network hates the idea, and puts re-runs of Rex Hunt’s Fishing Australia on Fridays instead.
Thousands of women pool their resources and discover the location of the house. They descend upon the site in droves, banging on the windows, demanding to meet MrTaco. The network realises that if the women are here, they’re not at home driving up the ratings, and send MrTaco out on a suicide mission to greet his screaming fans. He never returns.
Every night the housemates gather around and listen to the Most Interesting Man telling stories and doling out life advice. These sessions last anywhere from six hours to three-and-a-half weeks. Eventually, the network sabotages him, though, when it’s revealed that he’s having too positive an impact upon the harmony of the household, and people are actually switching off advertising giant Dr Phil in favour of him. After unsuccessfully attempting to manufacture Jerry-Springer-esque conflict in Dr Phil, the network, fearing change, elect to return to the status quo. They plant drugs in The Most Interesting Man’s luggage, and even though everybody else tries to take the rap for him, he’s evicted from the house. He lands on his feet, though, with a multi-billion dollar consultative career just waiting for him.
There’s a cranky three hundred year old man wandering the house constantly. No one knows for sure whether he’s an official housemate, but every now and again, he’ll take one of the housemates aside for an interrogation. He never finds out who stole the cookies.
No one knows who brought the pets, but there’s a monkey and a ferret for starters. They seem to treat the Big Brother house like a competition, as if they were in the running for the grand prize. They’re evicted by the network when they refuse to start slinging poop around the living room.
There’s one housemate who’s particularly @strange.
Liondrive attempts to shock everyone by turning up in assless chaps, but it ends up being a source of great amusement. The conservative network disagrees, and carefully edits the show so that viewers never even find out he’s in the house. Consequently, he never gets voted out and wins the grand prize.
I dunno about me doing housework, I’m actually pretty lazy, although, if it got too dirty…I probably would.
I would totally fling my poop.
I’ll have to edit the post to include a lynching, then. I was hoping to avoid that 😛
Every time I read this post it just gets better and better. 10/10, would not evict.
I had heaps of fun writing it. Great conversation starter!
May or may not have come about as a result of my semi-inebriated ramblings with Freeze and MostInterestingMan. Not tagging them. They know what they did.
<3
Big Brother is pointless unless there’s fighting and an after hours special edition where we see all the nipple slips and under-the-cover handies.
I’m prepared to walk around shirtless, but I feel like this won’t help anything. Anywhere. Ever.
This sounds familiar….
I wonder why…?
It wouldn’t be so bad. Everyone would automatically know exactly where the bread is.
In the microwave?
I dm for the other people in the house. Winning ratings right there.
You do DM style commentary for what people are doing around the house.
*Shane drops a fork on the floor*
“Looks like Shane rolled too low on his Dexterity check”
*Shane bobs down trying to pick up the fork and everything else he was carrying slips out of his hands*
“Make that a natural 1 on his Dexterity check”
I’m helping!
“Oh, look, Shane’s forking the floor.”
“Shut up, Freeze. Entendre puns are fine for a while…”
“fine for a while”
That’s what she said.
I’m the weird neighbour who pops up at the window every now and again but isn’t there for every episode 😛
After watching the “Honest Trailer” for 50 Shades of Grey I almost want to watch the movie just to see how lame it actually turned out, but I don’t want to reward the people responsible for its existence because ironically-generated revenue is still revenue.
I thought that at first too, but then I realised they were going to make a shit ton of money anyway, so I went and saw it at the cinemas.
The dialogue is the best part, in a terrible way. “This is my play room.” “What, do you have an X-box in there?”
All up, I knew I was wasting my money on this filth, but after watching it, I didn’t feel like I was cheated out of it, like other films this year (turns and glares at Dumb and Dumber To).
I have a costume party coming up. Theme is “TV show characters”.
Thinking I’ll go as an If You Are The One contestant with a big Failed to get a date banner.
Bonus is you wouldn’t even need the banner!
HEYO!
I’m sorry. That was mean.
But without the banner… it’s not a costume…
Think these things through, Freeze. Honestly.
I did this before with Liondrive and regretted it deeply.
This one.
Will edit if I find an ever better pic.
No, this one
Hahahaha, well, there’s no topping that!
Just wear a sport jacket and button-down shirt with a loosely-knotted tie and be every male sitcom character since 1981.
Pokemon is a TV show
Pikachu Onesie
My work here is done.
COME ON COME ON! STILL HALF AN HOUR TO WAIT FOR THE PROJECT CARS DAY ONE PATCH TO DOWNLOAD!
I find it really sad that it’s just expected that every single game will have a day 1 patch nowadays.
One thing that Sony and Microsoft need to consider doing is making Day 1 patches available a couple of days early for people to preload.
Waiting around for x additional hours after buying a new game SUCKS.
I’m thinking of picking up a Seagate Expansion Desktop Hard Drive (4TB) for use with my XBOX One and was wondering if anyone here had any experience with them? Last week I dug up an enclosure and spare hard drive that should have worked fine, but it was constantly disconnecting so I’m a little paranoid I’ll make the same mistake again.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2015/05/no-your-beard-is-not-full-of-poop/
Well, that’s a relief.
Huh. I’m actually a little disappointed.
Pretty easy problem to fix though!
Has anyone played the new Wolfenstein game/DLC yet? How is it?
Dear @shane ,
I would love to help back the Kickstarter of Undad. Unfortunately, the website does not allow Paypal payments on the website. Is there any other way of backing the project, without using Kickstarter?
Sadly no there isn’t, if there is, it’s well hidden. This is the major gripe that bugs me about Kickstarter as well, otherwise I’d pledge to more of them. I’m personally really paranoid about typing my credit card details directly into any online form.
I just use a visa debit card linked to a seperate account that rarely has anything on it. If they steal the numbers they’re not getting very far with it.
There’s also prepaid ones you can use if super paranoid.
I am super paranoid, so I might try that.
I had problems with Kickstarter not accepting my Australia Post pre-paid, btw. Could’ve been an issue with credit limits, could’ve been an issue with the name.
But the Debit + second account is what I use with MasterCard and it’s proven to be very handy. I don’t have to worry about interest, debt, or much in the way of fees, and it’s accepted everywhere because it’s actually ‘legit’ instead of the ‘Valued Cardholder’ name that the Oz Post ones generate.
That… may be an issue, seeing as I don’t have a credit card at all, if that’s what MasterCard is (cause I don’t really know).
Yup. The big ‘credit card’ companies which are accepted are usually Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Diner’s Club. Your bank keycard doesn’t count, you can’t input those digits into anywhere that will accept it online. Conventionally, a ‘credit’ card is associated with an account that is… well. Credit. You buy with the card up to a nominated value, you pay for it later – spending money you don’t have. Dangerous, can get out of hand. It did for me, so I cancelled mine.
When you sign up for a pre-paid card with Australia Post, they sign you up with a Visa account, but instead of spending and getting a bill, you put the money on the account first, and anything you spend over it gets rejected.
Banks will often issue a card for you as well, with whichever credit company they’re partnered with. Commbank, for example, pairs with MasterCard. You can have your standard key card replaced with a ‘credit’-capable card, which CAN be input into online shopping systems. This has the advantage that transactions will be rejected if there isn’t enough money in your account to pay for them, keeping you from running away with spending money you don’t have. Because you’re not borrowing though, it’s not a credit card… it’s a Debit card.
The catch is that there is usually an annual fee for having that facility available to you, for the banks to pay to the credit companies. Some will do various deals which reduce or eliminate that fee, depending. But there’s always a catch.
I find having a Debit card like that to be incredibly useful, but I pay for that use.
Damn. That’s a shame.
I would be willing to facilitate on @shane’s behalf. I.e. up my pledge accordingly and then
ifwhen the campaign is successful, have you PayPal me the amount.That does depend, however, on the rewards you are already pledging for. I really want the paperback of Undad reward, so if you’ve already pledged $50, there is no way I could receive it.
You underestimate the extent @shane will debase himself for pledges 😛
To be fair, everyone underestimates that.
He’s the one who issues the rewards, so he can tee something up I’m sure. 🙂
Shane makes things happen. In the original campaign I wanted 2 mutually incompatible pledges. I just got in touch with him and he made it happen. See below where he wants to make it happen for you. What customer service! What attention to detail. Who is this mysterious, handsome @shane?
https://twitter.com/ScarredSweetly/status/595536100233322496/photo/1
Also, I don’t understand why this is a big thing. You guys want to give me MONEY. It seems like the absolute least I could possibly do is make sure you’re getting what you wanted :\
You’re awesome, man. Thank you.
It’s not necessary, though, as I’m happy to accept off-the-Kickstarter-books money.
Hey man,
Thank you for your interest! I’ve taken cash pledges from other people already, so I’m happy to accommodate non-Kickstarter options. I manage my backer list using Excel and emails, and I’ll be keeping all campaign updates public, so you won’t miss out on anything by sending me cash separately. You’ll still get your name on a dedication page, and the exclusive rewards, etc.
(Obviously cash pledges won’t be counted towards the funding target of $3,500. But if I have to, I’ll be funnelling all cash pledges through a family member to make up $$ towards the target – if I don’t need to, I’ll save the Kickstarter fees, hang onto the cash, and be 9% better off!)
Paypal is totally fine – shane@shanewsmith.com – and just whatever amount you want (aligning with a reward tier is preferred if possible).
cc @tech_knight (and anyone else who hates Kickstarter)
PS: Was it you who bought a book on my site yesterday? If so, thanks! I’ll be sending it out hopefully tomorrow!
I ended up paying through my bank account because Kickstarter kept trying to take money out when I hadn’t been paid and then cracked it. Shane sends me stuff related to my tier and I’m super happy with the service. 10/10 would fund again.
Ps. Shane, did you send those 50 bookmarks? Aus post can be funny sometimes.
…eeek. They’re still in my convention suitcase. I’ll send them out tomorrow as well. SORRY! 🙁
No problem! I just was making sure Aus Post hadn’t stuffed up.
Also, I would like to back the $30 tier, but I’m lazy and don’t want to put in my details
Thanks for that, that really helps out.
Also, yes that was me.
You don’t have to thank me.
THANK YOU. You made the effort to reach out and contribute, even though it’s not convenient.
Also, is it Australian dollars, or American?
Whatever you prefer! The Kickstarter campaign is in AUD, though.
Moneys received – thank you! You are on the official backer spreadsheet! 🙂
Yeah!
I’m always surprised when I get a smooth, easy and great customer service experience from an online retailer.
Bought some work shoes from the iconic end of January. Noticed in last weeks downpour my socks were soaked. Flipped shoes over and soles had worn through already. Got onto their live chat, they opened a ticket, got an email straight away to send a few photos to. Sent email yesterday morning and by that afternoon I had a pre-paid Australia Post consignment note to return the shoes.
They also offered full refund of 110% store credit. Took the store credit and then another email came through a few minutes later with a $10 voucher.
One of my best online shopping experiences to date, and easily the best faulty product return experience I’ve had ever.
Just wish some other retailers would catch up… So many places with clunky and dumb online store fronts with overly difficult checkout processes.
Not like that @shane guy.
I like to make things as hard as possible (#entendre). Leaving it open for you. (#double-entendre)
Yooka-Laylee is very close to AUD$3 million.
I really hope they manage this one well. Only the second kickstarter video game I’ve backed. Please don’t fuck it up.
More concerned they’re going to get over-funded now and people’s expectations are going to be sky-high.
Could be worse, they could have Tim Schafer level of money management and only end up making half the game!
I think this is the downfall.
You want to make a game, you say it’ll take 1 million to make… people give you three, they want a game three times bigger. That’s a big problem. Because it really doesn’t work that way.
Given that a number of people back projects not as a donation to make something real but as a pre-order, you’d really think that it would be more acceptable for crowdfunding past the required total to be considered the same as sales. Revenue for them to do with as they please – including continue to fund the project past any unexpected (and fucking inevitable) delays.
But apparently that makes backers shitty for some reason I really cannot understand. Like they’re expecting that the first batch of sales shouldn’t count as ‘sales’ when it comes to earning a profit.
They actually addressed bloat in their pitch and said they wouldn’t be using extra funds to add, only to polish and refine.
This. There was actually a really interesting article I read the other day about a project that incurred all these extra costs because it was way too successful. Fulfilling pledges is a time-consuming and expensive process all of its own, and the bigger the backer list gets, the more complicated it all gets.
Most people don’t cost out the stretch goals.
Was kinda on the fence about whether to back it or not. Bugger it, I might as well.
I’m not going to bother. Never ended up playing the Double Fine game I backed way back when 😛
I’ll just get it when it comes out. Not like they’re struggling!
I kinda wanna, even though I never feel like backing a game on Kickstarter. But since it needs either the eShop or Steam it makes the decision easier 😛
Tune in to hear my dulcet tones, live now at http://www.5yyy.com.au
Hi e’rybody.
Terraria pulled me back in, send help.
End Transmission
D’oh, totally not get worthy :/
Terraria is always worthy!
Technically, it’s page 6 worthy. 🙂
*clears throat*
HAAAAAAAAAAAGGIIIIIIIIIIIIS!
@haggisIT’S YOUR TIME TO SHINE, OH HAAAAAAAAAAAGGIIIIIIIIIIIIS!
I really do love that guy.
How is adding a 10% tax on overseas purchases going to “level the playing field” when locally it’s still going to be double to quintuple the price for the same thing? Someone on high seems to be a tad deluded on what the price disparity is exactly.
Bah. Wrong tab. Still. Question stands.
Damn i thought it was an elaborate joke in the spirit of Page 6
Maybe it still is.
It is a joke, and not a very funny one.
It’s made for Page Six.
You take that back! You’re practically the AMBASSADOR of page 6!
Are you really so ashamed of your creation?!
(And Red. Never forget Red.)
(And Strange. Hi @strange. I know you don’t get the notification, but I also know you secretly love reading page 6 and you’ll see this.)
Seems page 6 appropriate
The long and short of it is that politicians don’t care if it is illogical to do something because their stakeholders/party/funders/etc tell them to do that something. Collecting GST on online purchases is likely to not be as lucrative as people think. Sure it may collect revenue of $1 billion but that won’t really mean that much if it costs $800 million to collect. I have no idea how much it is likely to end up costing to administer but it’s going to be tricky considering there are already a tonne of issues just collecting GST from businesses within Australia.
I’ve found that purchasing a physical good from overseas and then shipping it costs about the same as if I purchased it in Australia if it cost less than $50. Otherwise, online purchases tend to win hands down.
Yeah as opposed to making changes to superannuation or finding better ways to bridge the economic inequality gap that seems to be systemic in developed countries let just find a way to tax online services. They can’t get multi-billion dollar corporations to pay tax, they can’t keep the financial services industry or the big four banks in check but when it comes to whacking a tax bill to your average consumer the coalition are all for it.
The only thing this government has done is cut spending across the government sector during a time in the economy where increased regulation is required.
For those of you not on Twitter, here are some Page6UndadJokes
Share yours here, and we can all laugh at my paltry sense of humour and my pathetic insecure inability to take my dreams seriously.
I have no jokes but you can have some back-of-the-box review quotes!
Literarily! \o/
snorted at the last one and don’t really want to explain it to those around me.
Pleaaaase…. You have to spread the word about Undad!
Feel free to use that one.
OK, here we go! Hold on tight kids!
What do you call crystal clear urine?
1080pDid you get a hair cut?
No, I got all of them cut!
Obe wan kenobi and Luke Skywalker went to a chinese restaurant. After watching Luke struggle for half an hour to eat with chopsticks, Obe Wan says ‘Luke, use the forks.”
Darth Vader: “Luke…I know what you’re getting for Xmas! I felt your presents.”
Icarus and Daedalus, after building wings of wax and feathers, took to the skies to escape the labyrinth of the Minoans. But, as the story goes, Icarus flew too close to the sun, and his wings melted.
As he dropped from the sky, Icarus said what any sane mortal would: “Help, I’m falling!”
Daedalus turned to his son, and before he could catch him, he uttered “Nice to meet you falling. I’m Dad-alus.”
Perfection
This is so good. So good.
I’m putting this one away for posterity. This is one that needs to be preserved for future generations.
Yessssssss 😀
What’s the difference between a tuna and a piano?
You can tuna piano but you can’t piano a tunaWhy is it so hard for women to find men that are sensitive, caring, and good-looking?
Because those men already have boyfriends.Perfect. You win the internets.
I love you.
I haven’t heard that since my wife left me *awkward silence*. In other words, I love you too.
How do you kill a vegetarian vampire?
With a steak to the heart.Why can’t you hear a pterodactyl go to the bathroom?
Because the P is silent.What’s the difference between ignorance and apathy?
I don’t know, and I don’t care.You get my up vote, good sir.
Bob was blind.
His friends bought him a silver-coated nutmeg grater for Christmas.
When they asked how he like it, he said it was the most violent story he’d ever read.
Eye say.
What happens to liars when they die?
They lie still #dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeHaven’t heard that one before. That’s a good one.
Wait what? Beetlejuice 2 is about to start filming?
Why?
I’m just gonna come out and say it…
The cartoon series was better than the movie.
There. Now it’s out there. I’ve said it.
I can only vaguely recall the cartoon series, but I know I watched a fair bit of it and long before I ever saw the movie.
I could probably agree with that.
Keaton just did Birdman, he’s probably short on cash. It wasn’t that good or successful.
Maybe he should do Birdman 4 and give the people what they want.
Waaah, he’s going to do Bird-a-man 4?!
Now I think on it, how rad would it be to release Birdman 4 with Keaton playing Riggan playing Birdman?
That is though (Birdman spoilers)
Whether you believe he was dead or did die at the end or if it was just symbolising him letting go.Ha Ha!
Never seen the first one.
It’s a great movie but there’s no real way to do a sequel without retreading the first one.
That’s never stopped them …
Aww, Penny Arcade has a nice story up.
You killed TAY with this comment transient D=!!!
I thought it was cute!
I concur it’s just TAY went silent soon after you’d posted =P
Hey people.
Those attending pax meat would you prefer the meat was 3 hours like last year or 5 like the previous one?
3 hours $645
5 hours $1075
Neither of these prices include food as catering has to be done separately.
Last year’s one seemed to fly by pretty fast.
So, 5 hours?
3 hours is barely enough time to get comfortable honestly.
I’m guessing you’re also going for 5?
Either/or.
Indecision! \o/
Not helping! \o/
It’s my first time meeting people at PAX!
I have nothing to actually contribute to this discussion, except that interjection letting everybody know that I’m excited.
Are you doing pax meat?
Maybe. What does it entail?
(newbie, remember)
Food, people and karaoke. We’re hiring out a private cinema with a bar and catering. It’s pretty fun.
Is there a rigorous application system I have to go through, or do I just promise to turn up and pay?
You just show up pretty much
I’m sad since I probably won’t be able to get back to AU for PAX without it using up leave I’ll want to take to come back for Christmas.
Say you have the flu and won’t be in for 5 days >_>
It’s not that easy. I’m almost guaranteed to be moving to the US.
I know, but I can try
I might be able to get unpaid leave to do it but not sure if I can afford. I need to work for them for another couple of years before I get up to the point that they give me the same leave entitlements I get in Australia and it will really depend on when my visa comes through and I actually move there because up until then I’m employed in Australia.
Sounds really complicated
Yeah, basically to work in the US you need a green card. Easiest way is to be sponsored by a company that wants to fill a job position, but even the waiting period on that is 6-8 weeks minimum, can be longer. So I’ll be here until August or so at the current rate I think.
US doesn’t have minimum annual leave. Don’t even require you to be paid for holidays if the business closes for them. Luckily my employer offers 15 days a year in the US which is really good, and once you’ve worked for 7 years with them it goes up to 20 days, and I think 25 days at 12 years. Australia’s is 20 days (4 work weeks) and long service leave after 10 years.
Basically I want to take time off to be back in Australia for Christmas, maybe Christmas to New Years, but the issue is having enough leave to take off here plus get to and from the US, which takes the good part of a day each way.
@negativezero
Christmas is more important. You should spend time with your family. Maybe we could have a meat during that period if people aren’t too busy.
While I have you though. I’m having an issue with my windows 8 phone. If there is a youtube video embedded in the website (and it’s not youtube itself) it shuts down the windows explorer page. I tried with another free browser, same thing. I’ve tried to trouble shoot it myself but I came up blank
https://twitter.com/infernal_monkey/status/596188818539028480
YOU MANIACS
Curiosity will get the better of me.
Me too, I think.
Life was okay while it lasted.
I can see myself trying it too.
And I can’t see it ending in a positive experience.
That… actually doesn’t sound terrible, if correctly balanced.
This sounds too good to be true.
If it is true, I am going to be sooooo fat.
HELP PLEASE!
I’ve been looking at this music site/shop called Derringers which are based in South Australia.
It looks like their quoted prices can only be paid by a direct deposit/bank transfer and that just seemed a lil suss to me as I’ve never seen other retailers do it like that. I know PayPal can cover you if you pay for something and never receive it, but are there even consumer policies for that kind of payment to make sure I get what I paid for rather than them just running away with money (which I doubt would happen, but I’m just slightly concerned since I’m unfamiliar with that type of payment).
Surely it’s not that uncommon for businesses? Thoughts anyone?
I’m looking at spending around $2k, so it’s definitely a pretty decent amount I’d rather not lose :3
SATAYs!
I just wanted to know if you’ve heard of them/been there/your thoughts etc.? They do like… actually exist, right?
@ash @banderdash @benny @jacksonwryan @jocon @lucifer9783 @redartifice @wilbur
Thanks <3
Future Drummerius
I’ve been in the Derringers store, back when I used to live in Adelaide, was probably a decade or so ago though. They seem like a reputable business, although I’ve never had any financial dealings with them. Odd that they don’t even take payments by credit card.
Edit: Just looked at their site and they do take payments by credit card, just not Paypal by the looks.
http://www.derringers.com.au/
It looks like they do on their site but that’ll be at “site prices” [EDIT: they called me to discuss a bundle price of sorts since I was interested in a few items]. Credit card companies would have a similar policy (as PayPal) to cover you, right? (assuming the transaction doesn’t sound super dodgy – like an eBay/Gumtree direct deposit)
Get any orders or pricing in writing before paying anything.
You should be able to see a list of all items, a description, the price incl. GST, and any additional delivery costs.
If they’re not willing to give you written quote upfront then they probably don’t deserve your money and you’re better off finding another store that does business better.
If they’re just paranoid that you’re trying to price match or undercut them, then again, find a business that has better service.
What @cookingmama said… Just ask for a tax invoice with total payment required before providing any payment details.
They are indeed a real, established company. Never bought from them though.
They are not a huge company I think so they might just have not got with the times.
Dunno about buyer protection with credit cards but as long as you get an official quote and receipt you will have a leg to stand on.
Good point on the invoice but I still don’t feel 100% safe doing the bank deposit thing. JB has the same kit for about $100 more and I’d have to buy some of the extra things I wanted separately. The quality of the extra things probably wouldn’t be as good (JB just has some cheap ones) but I trust JB/PayPal a lot more than some rando Adelaide shop 😀
Cheerio. NO MONEY FOR YOU DERRINGERS
You can’t get the stuff you want from any of the Melbourne music shops? I’d have thought most of them would be specialist enough that if there’s something you want they can order it even if they don’t stock it. Especially if JB are carrying it.
It’s all a bit more expensive but I’m seeing if they’ll do a price match/beat of sort
Very reputable company. Used them for sound hire for stuff before.
See if you can do credit card over the phone? Then at least the credit card co can do a chargeback?
They said they can’t do credit card over the phone or let me buy it first online and get a partial refund.
I know where it is… but I’ve not been in there.
Sorry.
They’ve been around for quite a long time… and their real estate in Adelaide is quite an expensive bit of land.
Adelaide is a small enough town that they would’ve been put out of business by now if they were too shonky.
SURVIVOR!
@powalen @sughly @phoenix @masha2932 @mrtaco
STOP WHINING RODNEY OMFG. “Itz ma berfdai”. SHUT. UP. Also, every time I see or hear from Will I just think “Ughhhhhhhhhhhh” …that guy is seriously the worst. I was pretty surprised that Tyler got out, didn’t think the others were smart enough to make a move, but you’d think Dan’s advantage would be pretty scary (especially since Carolyn and Tyler KNEW about it). My golly gosh Dan is so, so, soooo dumb. Team Mike all the way now! I’d honestly be a bit annoyed of anyone else won…The rumours about the next season are true! The cast list from the leaked picture I posted last time is accurate + it has also revealed those from season 30 (link below – although potential spoilers for S30 cast members)
http://www.cbs.com/shows/survivor/second-chance/ – this seemed spoilery since these are all one time players and non-winners. Looks like Carolyn and Mike are there too (indicating they didn’t win this season? – I bet this season will have a disappointing winner then :/)I just made an account to vote and it seems to have worked! The terms say voting is open for US residents only but *shrug*
My thoughts from last time are still valid. Out of those listed, there were a lot more guys I wanted to see return than the girls since most of those girls are such randos who did absolutely nothing in their seasons… gah!
BONUS REALITY TV DISCUSSION:
Anyone else watching MasterChef? 😛
@dc
Master Chef is dangerous watching.
So damn hungry, every time.
aww if you didnt even point out why you thought that was spoilery I wouldnt have even thought about it! :'(
ep…
I knowwww, far out, rodney stfu. such a kid, bouhou. Dan is ridiculously dumb, which is what is on Carolyns mind. Some kind of ally to Tyler she was – ‘hes the only one that knows i have an idol, so i should maybe get rid of him’. Carolyn, its called an ally, he knows because you wanted an ally. UGH. I thought Mike wasnt going to play it for a second there. How did Tyler not just throw a vote to Dan? I wouldve! Last chance to stay in, hell, screw voting for Mike. But yeah, I think Dan’s advantage is too much of a threat, they shouldve done something about it. I guess theyre counting on Dan being an idiot and it not causing problems for them? Which is probably true enough.edit: also, not too sure the girls thing is true, I’m seeing a lot of girl faces I remember being quite intelligent or interesting in some way. I think a lot of them just had unfortunate alliances and stuff like that.
edit2: ok on closer inspection, maybe not so many :/ I think Kelly Wentworth is a good one though, she seemed like she could play really well but, she unfortunately had her lame-o dad with her. You know its also ‘vote everyday until the final’. Aint no way I’m doing that!
Pretty sure Carolyn told Tyler she had an idol… :/. But she knew she probably wouldn’t win against him.I could be wrong though, or it could mean they’re in the finals but uh… pretty sure filming would be over and the producers would know who wins and loses :P. Oh well! I didn’t even notice Mike there initially and just saw Carolyn. But I mean against the odds it seemed unlikely that Mike would win anyway since everyone on the Jury likes him and everyone else is against him. No one would want to sit at the end with him.Thoughts on:
Girls:
*Ciera – she’s awesome and will play the game!*Kass – wasn’t really a fan of her but she definitely provided some entertainment and at least she was playing the game and was part of some of the best moments (lol llama talk)
Monica – barely remember her but I’m pretty sure she did nothing and sucked at challenges.
Natalie – did nothing and was carried to the end for an easy win by Boston Rob
Peih – literally don’t remember her so can’t really comment!
Sabrina – don’t remember much about her either but I feel like Kim just used her to get to the end
Stephanie – didn’t do anything. Her and some blonde lady aligned with Russell because they thought it’ll get them to the end but it got all 3 of them voted out very early on…
*Tasha – YES! THE BEST! BRING HER BACK PLS!
Teresa – didn’t do anything
Carolyn – I mean I don’t mind if she’s in (I’d take her over some of the others)
*Kelley – she was cool but was kinda “held back” by having her father there like you said, so it would be good to see her play on her own
Kelly – would be interesting as the first Survivor finalist. Man, she looks SO different!
Kimmi – didn’t really do anything except have an attitude and fall in love with chickens
Mikayla – didn’t do anything except make Brandon fall in love with her :/
*Shirin – was super annoying at the start but she’s totes cool now. I’m sure she’ll try to tone it back in her 2nd time and could be pretty awesome!
Abi – ugh! I hated watching her. Do you remember our hatred for her?! DO YOU?! At least she’d stir up some shit, so I don’t mind if she’s in
Guys:
*Jeremy – I liked him, but he did seem super cocky at times. Wouldn’t mind seeing him return thoughJim – bit of an ass (especially to Cochran :'( ) so I don’t really want to see him return…
*Keith – HELL YEAH! Haha Keith!!!
*Shane – OMG! He’s chubby now! I’d love to see him come back. I think he was supposed to come back for other seasons but couldn’t. He was funny as hell (if you don’t recall he’s the one who “quit” smoking a day before Survivor and then went super nuts. On a reward they went to a village and he was so happy when the random villagers had cigarettes :D)
*Stephen – Was a good player and I’d like to see him again. I’m still surprised he didn’t get any votes in the end to win
Jeff – was funny but I don’t recall him really strategising much
*Joe – I’d like to see him play again!
Max – wasn’t really a big fan but I don’t hate him (that toe wart thing was nasty)
*Mike – yeah, give him another shot! Wasn’t a fan of him at the start but once every one else starting going I didn’t have many options left to support :P. And he STOOD up for Shirin so kudos to him
*Spencer – YEAH!
Troyzan – was pretty funny/entertaining but I don’t think he really did anything
*Woo – WOO! He was a pretty “dumb” player but he had a cool personality and seemed like a cool dude, so I think he deserves another shot!
Terry – I was kinda against him in his season but he was kind of an underdog and I wouldn’t mind seeing him again (since I had to pick only 10 I dropped my vote for him)
*Andrew – He was cool and a good player who was voted early for being a threat.
Brad – hmm, not sure how he’ll be without Monica but I recall not liking him very much 😛
*Vytas – I liked him and wouldn’t mind seeing him back. I can’t remember if Aras had “held him back” but I feel like he probably did as they were a strong pair
Yeah I agree with all the guys! Er, girls, I think you remember more than me about them :/ and I couldnt be bothered looking up cast pics to remember their seasons ^^ except Peih-Gee, I’m pretty confident she was a good player, from memory she was a bit aggressive strategically so, she was a little in peoples faces
TOLD YOU THEY WERE DUDS
Ok I wasn’t really watching it, just vaguely listening to it and holy shit, who let a six year old on the show? All I heard was this constant whining.
Wurst berfay eva
Aw man, spoilers! I didn’t know that Season 30 was the one we’re watching now 😛
I thought it was odd that Survivor maybe spoiled Survivor :/
If Tasha doesn’t get back in on this Second Chance thing then I’m going to go crazy. I think she’s my favourite Survivor person ever 😛
I also want Keith, Spencer, Kass, Woo, Joe and maybe Shirin. Literally don’t remember any of the others…
Also I want J’Tia to make a surprise entry even though she’s not an option. For the next next season they should bring back all of the craziest players all at once. That would be great. Everyone who has ever had a meltdown.
@sughly
Jeff will be giving so many Brandonesque calm down backrubs
I agree with everything said above. Including the stuff about next season 🙂
But who do YOU wanna see return the most? 😀
Do I need to spoiler it?
Spencer, probably. He was stuck in a lousy tribe, got sooo close to the end, but didn’t quite make it. I wouldn’t mind watching Kass, Tasha or Woo again. I guess I really liked that season. After them probably Ciera, Shirin, Jeremy, Joe and Vytas. But seriously, why list Carolyn and Mike?I know, a bit stupid of them :/
Man, S28 was so good. I love that season so much!
Found an old pack of Windows 3.1 floppy disks lying around.
Doubt they’d be worth anything more than a soft serve cone from Macca’s, but it’s still cool to find stuff like that. 🙂
mount them on some board and make them into wall art
Nah, they’re not MS-DOS 4.0, that means they’re actually worth something. 😛
I have an 800k Mac floppy disk that contains Word 1.0 for Mac. The first version of Word designed with a WYSIWYG interface.
TAYlist for the 7th of May 2015
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by It’s my birthday tomorrow, yayMadonna – Beautiful Stranger
Redbone – come And Get Your Love (Requested by @pixel_the_ferret_viking)
Pat Benatar – Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Jimmy Barnes – When Your Love Is Gone
Bruce Hornsby & The Range – The Way It Is (Requested by @beeawwb)
Sarah McLeod & Chris Chen – Private School Kid
Motion City Soundtrack – Everything is Alright (Requested by @thecracks)
ZZ Top – Legs
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Requested by @liondrive)
John Farnham – Age Of Reason
Blue Swede – Hooked On A Feeling (Requested by @quiz_b)
Runaways – Cherry Bomb (Requested by @dc)
Carly Simon – You’re So Vain
Deadstar – Deeper Water
New Order – Crystal (Requested by @Gingerchris86)
Grinspoon – Premonitions
Everclear – Wonderful (Requested by @haggis)
World Party – Ship Of Fools (Requested by @trikeabout)
The presets – If I Know You
That’s a pretty fucking cool playlist.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
This is a great list. I’m just sad I didn’t see it til this morning.
I didn’t post it until almost 9 so that one is on me.
Oh wait, fun fact page six is here (I know, I don’t hold a candle to @haggis, but this is my little corner of TAY at the bottom of page six and damnit I will hold onto it ).
In 1664, on the 5th of December, a ship sank in the Menai straits off the coast of Wales (UK). All 81 passengers and crew died, except one man named Hugh Williams.
In 1785, on the 5th of December, a ship sank on the Isle of Man (UK). All 60 passengers and crew died, except one man…named Hugh Williams.
In 1820, on the 5th of August, a ship sank in the Menai straits off the coast of Wales (UK). All 25 passengers and crew died, except one man…named Richard Thomas.
…Oh wait, a second guy survived that last shipwreck.
His name was Hugh Williams.
In 1889, on the 19th of August, a coal barge with 9 men aboard floudered and all died, except one man…named Hugh Williams.
…Oh wait, a second guy survived that last shipwreck.
His name was Hugh Williams as well. He was the other Hugh Williams’ nephew.
In 1940, on the 10th of July, a British trawler was hit by a German mine run. All perished, except two men. Hugh Williams, and his nephew, Hugh Williams.
Tl;dr: If you’re on a cruise and a guy introduces himself to you as Hugh Williams, push the f*cker overboard, pronto.
I’ve seen it crop up online a bit relatively recently (though they miss a lot of details), but after realising that people were making clothes out of their feed bags (particularly flour sacks), the companies started printing patterns onto them that they’d release in limited batches (although really popular patterns would later become available as yardage). This meant that women (let’s be blunt about roles in the 30s here) could create more appealing clothes out of things that the household got anyway, but it also acted as incentive to potentially buy more than was needed, since the average dress was made of 3 bags (being a 2 feed bag girl was actually a point of pride for your skinny skinny waist), which was more than the average household (typically farms, not normal houses) would need at any immediate point.
Noted. This information may save lives.
(Oh God, what if he’s like The Phantom, only he only uses Hugh Williams as a cover name when interviewed after the incidents, but BEFORE them, he doesn’t use that name at all! YOU’D NEVER KNOW UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE.)
…If I’m ever a sole survivor, I really hope I have the presence of mind to tell rescuers my name is Hugh Williams.
The Ghost Who Swims.
*cough*
http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2012/07/the-unsinkable-hugh-williams-truth-behind-the-legend/
I had a ten minute discussion with my sister tonight about various different things in the Marvel universe (how great Kamala Khan is, the death of Wolverine, stuff about the movies and Daredevil, how Secret Wars is gonna mess everything up (and hopefully be a good thing), and the stuff about Iceman), and my poor mother had to sit there near us, looking at us with this blank look, wondering about how she managed to create two children who are this goddamn geeky.
She should know, she really should.
A lot of the time when my Dad comes to visit, it’s the only time all three of his sons are in the one place, so we geek it up pretty hard. I always feel a little bad when it’s stuff he really, very clearly, obviously knows nothing about and cannot participate in. 🙁
It’s usually not too bad, since both my parents watch Doctor Who, and they’re pretty big geeks overall.
But when it comes to comics (something that I’m intermittently engaged in, and my sister knows thanks to her boyfriend’s friends), my parents have no idea.
Goodnight.
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/05/07/kaden-shojo-like-kancolle-household-appliance-girls/
I’ve probably made jokes about marrying my coffee machine but this is probably taking it a bit far…
Well that’s pretty cool. Just got my GOG Beta invite, I’ve never bought a game from them before, I signed up and used the code, went to my account and they’ve given me 7 free games. Dragonsphere, Tyrian 2000, Ultima IV: Quest Of The Avatar, Ultima: The Savage Empire, Beneath A Steel Sky, Treasure Adventure Game and Warsow. It’s not much, but they could’ve just as easily given me nothing.
Day 3:
We are heading to Mt Koya, the “home” of Bhudsism in Japan.
1st Shinkansen ride and expecting some magnificent views :o)
Little Stormtrooper says to his father “What’s for dinner Dad?”, “Miniature Wookie steaks the father replies”. “Is it any good” asks the son, to which the father replies ” It’s a little chewie”.
BLOOOOOOODBOORRRRRRRRRRNE
Huge night last night. I finished off the Cursed Defiled Chalice Dungeon
by soloing Amygdala. That was a pretty great feeling, I gotta say. That’s a tough boss. Turned out that all the wikis that recommend staying behind her and hitting her tail are giving bad advice. I could never make that tactic work. With the half-health handicap, I just got curb-stomped before even getting her down to 70% health.Staying in front. That’s the ticket. Staying just out of range, dodging laser attacks, running in to hit arms when the boss sprawls to the ground, that’s a much more interesting fight. You do way more damage in front (at least 5 times as much per hit), and it seems like an easier battle overall. Then, when she rips her own arms off to use as weapons, that’s when you get behind her and start chasing her around the map.
The one bit of good advice the wiki gives, though, is that if she jumps in the air, stand absolutely still, and you will never get hit. SO WEIRD. The obvious instinct is to dodge, and it was really hard to put aside that impulse.
Not only that, though, but I also cleared the first boss in the Great Pthumerian Ihyll dungeon: the Pthumerian Descendant. I had to summon help for this one, because this guy is a total bastard to fight. He’s crazy fast, hits hard, and the arena is not big this time around. You can parry him reasonably easily in his first mode, but his second mode ramps up damage, aggression and speed, and he is just a nightmare to tackle solo.Getting so close to the Platinum! So, so close.
Just gonna power through this Level 5 dungeon. Enemies are tough, and traps are OHK. I’m not even bothering fighting enemies. I’m just sprinting around, opening doors until I find the Unlock Lever. Most enemies don’t have enough aggro range to chase, so it’s a surprisingly viable tactic.
Last night I figured it was time for me to level a bit when a single corridor of 13 enemies (loft to nurse) gave me enough echoes to level up twice. So a few runs got me from 60 to 80…
NG+ nightmare lecture building is insane for echoes. You can get 80,000 in the space of about two minutes. I power-levelled from 100-127 in just a couple of nights, using just L4 Chalice Dungeon bosses, NG+ co-op helping, and Lecture Building guys.
This nightmare stretch on first play gave me 55k, and if you just run past the right way at least 60% of the enemies take each other out.
Got an email from Nintendo telling me about a new game called Puzzle Dragons. Never heard of it before, looks alright though, might pick up a copy tomorrow if funds permit, if not and I have to choose between that and Kirby, I’ll pick Kirby.
https://www.ebgames.com.au/3ds-157963-Puzzle-and-Dragons-Z–Puzzle-and-Dragons-Super-Mario-Bros-Edition-Nintendo-3DS
I played the demo and I quite enjoyed it.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-16139-Risen-3–Titan-Lords—Enhanced-Edition-Coming-to-PS4-in-August.html
Hmm, Interesting. I’ll probably pick it up. Hoping the rumoured Arkham remastered collection (whatever it was called) is coming out too.
So apparently Nintendo’s financial report they released suggested more DLC might be on the way for Mario Kart 8. Woo hoo! @dc
Also more possible DLC for Smash Bros, but who cares about that 😛
Wow, that’s cool.
I still haven’t played the second DLC yet, though… :\
You should, the Baby Park track is a crazy fun race, however the luck factor needed to win it is a lot higher than other maps.
Lucas is confirmed at least. Still holding out for Snake, Nos wrecked shop as Snake in Brawl
They also supposedly reported an operating profit.
NINTENDO IS DOOMED.
The end-times are here. My only option is clearly to marry my attractive twin cousins.
(Like I needed an excuse.)
Happy Birthday @lucifer9783, hope it’s a good one.
Happy Birthday!
The Big 21, let’s hope so.
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Question: Is Hearthstone out on Android yet?
cc@pupp3tmast3r
Yes I believe it is
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blizzard.wtcg.hearthstone&hl=en
Cool thanks.
Yep yep probably a better game on mobile devices imo!
They’re having a Witcher franchise sale on Steam.
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director’s Cut – $1.49
The Witcher 2: Assassin’s Of Kings Enhanced Edition – $2.99 and
The Witcher Adventure Game $4.99
Already got 1 and 2, so I’ll just pick up The Adventure Game.
Also, question: If I haven’t played the previous Witcher games will I be lost in The Witcher 3?
If you haven’t played 2, you’ll be pretty lost however you should be right to not play 1. Witcher 1 was a good introduction to the universe and it really served to ground a number of the characters. The only downside is that the Witcher 1, to this day, has a couple of issues in terms of optimal performance.
I played Witcher 2 first (probably not going to play 1 at this point) and it was fairly good at getting new players up to speed with the world. It’s basically normal fantasy + a few cool things so it’s not hard to pick up.
Not too super dooper long either so if you’re dedicated you can get through it before 3 comes out. It’s worth playing regardless!
Also you can bring your saves across all Mass Effect style.
No idea!
I played Witcher 1 first and found it pretty clunky and impenetrable at the time. I was probably just having a stupidbrain time. It was very good at establishing the lore and feel, the themes of the world.
I picked up Witcher 2 and really enjoyed that (the storytelling anyway – not the combat), but I could kinda just see behind the smoke and mirrors where it was obvious there were plot points being pulled in that would have been decided from the previous game, and I got paranoid that I’d loaded a shitty, inferior ‘default’ world and needed to go back to 1 to make sure the universe was ordered correctly.
It took me a while to get into Witcher 1 again, but I eventually got up some pretty decent momentum.
Unfortunately, a crash wiped out my saves and an entire chapter’s progress, which pretty much killed it for me.
I’ve really gotta do that one again. I’m thinking maybe I’ll use some cheats or a trainer or something and a walkthrough just to make sure I save in the right places and don’t miss things, because I’m really just there to curate the story at this point. There will be no re-plays.
From memory, regarding the follow on from Witcher 1 to Witcher 2, (I’ll spoiler it just in case you don’t want major Witcher 1 spoilers [there are actual spoilers])
I think the overlap is very, very minor. Specifically you might be treated to a few characters that might be alive in Witcher 2 if you decided to not kill them in Witcher 1. The characters that I know pop up in Witcher 2 from Witcher 1 are:– Queen Adda who married the King Radovid of Redania
– Siegfried (I think that’s his name) who shows up with the Order of the Burning Rose
– I think one or two of the elves from Chapter 4 show up if you save them from being killed
There’s also a little bit of extra dialogue from Triss, Dandelion, and Zoltan that reflects on your choices in the first game. Also a little bit right from King Foltest of Temeria right at the start of the game if I remember correctly.
Hmm. Maybe I should look for a full-run let’s play or something. One of those ‘primarily cinematics’ kinda deals. Grab a savegame online with the choices I like best.
@transientmind this is basically correct. The way it boils down at the end of the game there’s three paths. Side with the humans, side with the non-humans, or be a true Witcher and side with neither (which means fighting both factions at the end). Depending on how you choose you can end up killing a few characters that can show up in TW2 but generally there’s not much that carries over.
The pertinent bits of the first game are around the Wild Hunt, which ties into how Geralt is still alive (he’s supposed to have been dead at the start of the first game) and other things.
I expect they’ll have a quick summary in there. Probably will have an ‘official’ path through the game chosen if you’re not taking a save over.
You should play 2 at least. It’s a magnificent game. The first one’s excellent but you can skip it without too much issue. 2 has a branching plot where the entire second act of the game changes. It’s also a case study in how to make an RPG with meaningful decisions. Every major thing you do – and even some minor things – has an effect and can have consequences beyond what you expect.
Yeah what everyone else has said; Witcher 1 is kind of stand alone but from everything I’ve seen of Witcher 3 it has some themes that were there in Witcher 2 as well. Also Witcher 2 is an amazing game that everyone should play twice (2 separate stories that start on their own path relatively early on based on what you choose). And it’s better optimized and has smoother controls and a more fleshed out RPG system than the first Witcher had! DO IT!! DO EEEEETT!!
This.
And if the combat’s too hard, just drop the difficulty. The rest of it is worth it.
I’ve been parking in the same car space at work for three years now. Last two weeks every time I get here there’s this other cat parked in it.
I’m getting unreasonably upset by it. It’s not even a problem as there’s 100 other parks just as close but damn it that’s my spot.
You shouldn’t have gone to Japan.
Time to play the ‘passive aggressive not actually sure if both parties know they’re playing‘ game! Begin by arriving earlier and earlier until you can figure out what ‘their’ time is, then arrive before it. Indefinitely. They will soon understand.
…Unless they start playing the game too.
Then clearly your only option is to gather stout men and stouter arms to put the fear in the blighters, by Jove! A jolly good seeing-to should learn the devils their place!
(Edit: Alternately, grab a stencil and some paint and mark out your spot as ‘reserved’. I’ve always wanted to do this but never mustered the gumption.)
Sprinkle thumb tacks and nails all over the spot in the middle of the night. You’ll soon see how committed your opponent is.
“Hello driver, I want to play a game” *Thumbtacks all around his car*
Freeze stomps into TAY, fuming.
“How’d it go, buddy?”
“Still there! They actually gathered up all the tacks and nails!”
“That’s impressive. Well, at least you can–”
“No, that’s not the worst part. They put the nails and crap in a tupperware container and left it next to the spot, sorted in compartments.”
“I… uh. What?”
“It has a helpful post-it note on it saying, ‘Found’ and an itemized list of the contents and the date they were found.”
“Yeah, you need to quit right now. You are not dealing with a sane person.”
At that point, just leave your car there all the time and catch the bus home. That’ll show ’em.
Or just get big burly men to pick up the car and move it 2 spots away.
*raises finger and opens mouth to argue*
*pauses*
*closes mouth and frowns*
Hm. There’s something I disapprove of about this and I think it’s the lack of monstrous and unwarranted violence.
…And that it’s smarter than my suggestion.
He didn’t say “In the same position as it was before”, which means his plan is to move it 2 spots away, but it’ll be also upside down.
Mrrowww. Claws are coming out.
The cat’s out of the bag now.
No need to get catty.
MEOW!
@redartifice > > http://www.montecookgames.com/take-your-campaign-to-the-limits-of-your-imagination-with-the-cypher-system-rulebook/
I reckon I’ll be grabbing this as a preorder. I can see a dedicated cypher game working wonderfully in a Lovecraftian setting or a pulpy Indiana Jones setting. The system is versatile enough that I could see it working.
Looks pretty cool. I’ve heard Savage Worlds does a pretty decent Indy
I like this. I’ve found that The Strange and Numenera aren’t very interesting to me because the settings are way too open and wishy-washy and I’ve never felt like there was anything substantial there to actually grasp, but the mechanics behind the games are great.
I was about to get up at 8, until Max decided that she wanted to sleep on my bed, on my legs.
It’s cold, and she’s acting as a fuzzy heater…
Bought The Penguins Of Madagascar on DVD on Sunday, since then my son has watched it 3 times.
What movie character has the filthiest mouth?
Clearly, the answer is R2D2. They beeped out every friggin’ word he said.
Serious answer: Joe Pesci in Goodfellas? It’s the first that comes to mind – I really have no idea.
Fucking love that movie, Casino too.
I was just trying to be funny btw.
There’s actually a scene in A New Hope where R2-D2 clearly beeps ‘well fuck you’ at C-3PO, who responds ‘you watch your language’.
Wait that’s a trick answer.
R2 doesn’t have a mouth!
FRRRIIIIDDAAAYYYY!!
Yyeeewwww!!
I think I might catch up on a month’s worth of study… =|
Currently deciding which gaming devices to take with me for the weekend. So far 3DS, Vita and phone. Don’t think I’ll need my laptop.
I was telling @welbot the other day but I’ve finally cracked the code on Marvel: Puzzle quest
I was having no luck at all with getting 3 star covers and I’m at the stage where anything less than 3 star is pointless. So I worked out a special trick to beat the RNG, I get my little girl involved.
I had 14 heroic covers on my mobile account so I got her to press the screen to open the cover. Out of the 10 she opened I got 7 three star covers, Of the 4 I opened I got none.
After talk to Welbot about this I tried her on my steam account.
Rubbing her belly before opening the cover.
Results:
4 covers – 2 three star
2 covers – 2 three star
lol nice work! 🙂 I managed to get a Deadpool cover this morning from a random. Good thing too, cos I forgot to log back in and finish the Deadpool daily yesterday, so I missed out on that Deadpool cover. Had my 356’th login today! Gave me a Devil Dinosaur finally! And looks like for the next 2 days running, I’ll get another 2 covers for him! w00t!
Just remember he is a joke character and you won’t be getting more covers for him
haha it’s all good! It’s all a bit pokemon to me! Gotta catch em all!!!
So I ended up playing Regicide last night (cc @gingerchris86). I need to detach my habits from how I play chess because I got creamed. I lost my queen, aka my Librarian, not from a standard chess play but because of focused dakka from a Flash Git and some Shoota Boyz. It took me a while to get a hang of the tactical phase after the ordinary chess phase and that’s where I kept getting screwed.
I love the tactics part of it. But I also want to play the chess one too.
The animated chess moves were pretty great. There were quite a lot of giblets.
mmmmm giblets!
I can only assume this whole PT thing is just a vast prank that will cumulate in the reveal that Snake is actually voiced by David Hayter for most of Phantom Pain.
Must be.
I would be very sad if David Hayter was replaced again, and by someone called David Hayes 🙁
Ha, I have a friend named that and seems autocorrect is jealous.
Hayters gonna Hayes.
PT is removed from store.
Everybody loses hope of it ever happening
Phantom Pain releases
Starts as a normal Metal Gear game
Snake voiced by the new guy after all. No Hayter.
Subtly the game gets darker as you play
Fades to black
Noises
Ghost girl from PT appears on screen
Kills new Snake
Game resets itself
Snake walks on screen
“Sorry to keep you waiting”
Voiced by Norman Reedus.
Perfect.
And that’s when they confirm Half Life 3.
As a MOBA.
oh god
On mobile devices
I kinda want to see that just to see the tidal wave of rage wash over Valve.
I would totally tear down my gaben shrin–whaaaaaat… who said that?
Where is your faith? It would be the great MOBA of all time, making the DOTA 2 international look like a schoolyard tiddlywinks competition
Of course Snake is in the game. They just replaced the voice of Big Boss because it would be weird for two characters with the same voice talking to each other.
WOOO! SYDNEY!
Leaving for the airport now
See some of you tonight!
YEAH
Safe travels! And just in case, leave your phone unlocked with a text message lined up for rescuers to find and relate to your contacts list, like I do!
Uh… ahem.
(Don’t mind me… no neuroses on display here, nope!)
I just want to thank you guys for being awesome. It seems like most times when I go out in public I get so frustrated at the attitudes of some people.
Then I come on here and remember there are still some good people in the world
I’m sure you mean “here” in most abstract sense.
I mean, there’s people like Blaghman and Freeze and some donut freezing jackass in here.
Seriously, how can freezing donuts be a thing?
I’d totally just eat them before I could even reach the freezer, and I assume that’s what everyone else does.
Right?
…
Right?
It’s time for another thrilling instalment of…
Powalen’s Adventures with Clients at Work! *jingle*
Schools are so funny.
Doing a website for an all-boys school. They featured the same young, female teacher in all of the staged photos they have given us. I can just imagine the school board sitting down to talk about this.
“Okay people, we need some teacher photos for our new website. Someone who embodies the spirit of the school! Someone who is representative of our strong morals and ethics! Someone who is a good brand-ambassador for the community!”
“…who’s the hottest teacher we’ve got?”
My sister works at a school (kindergarten to year 12) up on the Central Coast.
Every so often they want a picture of her to plaster up on their website to show how ethnically diverse they are, even though she’s like, one of five asians in the entirety of the school.
On the one hand… lol fake diversity.
On the other hand… well. Isn’t this the argument people are always making about equality and getting ‘better representation’ of different demographics?
‘Dress for the ethnicities you want, not the ethnicities you have’ kinda thing, I guess.
Back in high school I remember they brought in models for the photos. They wanted to show off our diversity but the teachers didn’t particularly like the four black students we had. I remember everyone laughing at it but in retrospect I don’t think anyone was ever officially called out on it.
My takeaway from this is your job is to ogle pictures of hot teachers all day.
How often do you take your work home with you?
I knew a guy who use to do the site-design and image sourcing for a porn site in the early 00s. He took his work home with him – had terrabytes of the stuff across multiple hard-drives.
It also apparently kinda ruined porn for him. He’d look at the images and all he’d see would be stuff like… I dunno. The relative cost of the performer, the age and profile of the catalogue, and he’d internally be rating the material by the photographer (yeah, in those days it was mostly photos, not videos) rather than the performers.
Fury Road in less than a week now.
*emits high pitched keening noise*
Witcher 3 in about the same time!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
HYPE LEVELS APPROACHING…. UH… um… zero to be honest. I played a few hours of the first one, got angry at playing a third person game with accounting software controls and walked away. Never went back.
To be fair the first one was quite the rough edged diamond; you really had to persist for like 10 hours before getting to the good parts of the game. Witcher 2 is a much better and more fluent game; should definitely give it a shot! =o
Keep meaning to. I have 3 copies even (Steam GOG and 360). Time and motivation are a problem however. Also the weirdo side of me that doesn’t like playing one not having finished the other.
Pfft… at least those accounting software controls don’t need help aiming ranged weaponry unlike something else I’d rather not mention. 😛
Move the cursor over the target and click. Just like opening a word document!
There’s games where keyboard and mouse are vastly superior but third person games are definitely not that.
Yeah I’ll give you that; I’m glad there’s a console version this time around.
And House of Wolves! \o/ Woo!
… woo?… *awkward silence*… *os42 quietly sidles to doorway, flees*😛 Tbh, I’m still far more excited for TW3.I really wanted House of Wolves to give me a reason to jump back into Destiny but…. so far it hasn’t given me much incentive =\ I guess I’ll just have to wait till Destiny 2!
The only thing that I’ve seen thus far that looks interesting is PoE. I’m in two minds about the progression system – on the one hand, you know exactly what gear you’ll be getting if you beat PoE on a given difficulty, which is amazing; on the other hand, I can see a route to getting a (albeit terribly statted) 34 warlock in about two weeks, and my other two characters to 34 in two more. PoE looks like it’ll be enough fun to continue running each week alongside nightfalls and weeklies, but I’m not sure how long that’ll last.
I’m tempted to go preorder the witcher and then cancel it on release day.
Vegemite-Filled Chocolate. What a time to be alive
More evidence of the End of Days. Abominations stalk the earth, angels breed with devils.
The dreaded half-breed Anvils shall dominate the world.
This explains so much about Wile E. Coyote.
Abominations unwilling to embrace to future of Ozzie chocolate
That unwillingness is all that can save humanity from such an unpleasant end.
Officially known as iSnack 3.0
(I must try it)
I saw that… that sounds disgusting 😛
I am so keen.
As keen as mustard.
Some people just want to watch the world burn!
Anybody here interested in Splatoon? There’s a demo event happening this weekend (that I won’t be able to play because I’m not home, ugh)
Online multiplayer goes online for a couple of hours spread over the weekend. I guess it’s sort of like a beta? Stress-test for the online? Either way, good chance to have a look if you haven’t. If you download the demo before Sunday you can get 10% off the game on release too.
Downloading it now
Sweet, might give to a go on the weekend.
Ugh, went to have nap but am now even more tired than beforehand. Stupid psycho dreams.
Happy Friday everyone, see you on the other side.
*Rides motorbike into the sunset of a brand new TAY*
HiiiiiiiiWAY to the TAYngerzone….
*insert slightly homo-erotic volleyball sequence*
Playin’ with tha boiiizzz
Glancing through TAY and misread that as Fappy Friday. I don’t know what this says about me.
Depends if you’ve got Pixel in his homoerotic volleyball montage included or not.
He posted that while I was replying so now things are extra awkward.
@pixel_the_ferret_viking MAY 8, 2015 6:57 PM
@negativezero MAY 8, 2015 7:05 PM
Methinks the lady doth homoerotic volleyball too much.
I had the tab open for a bit while I was reading everything.
After chasing sunsets / One of life’s simple joys / Is playing with the boys.
So who’s playing Project Cars in 12K?
🙁
…
:`(
Okay, here we go. This’ll be a long one. For a long time, I have struggled at TAFE. But I always thought I’d pull through in the end. However, one of my lecturers has recommended I withdraw outright. He thinks I am doomed to fail this course, and withdrawals are looked a more favorably than fails on an academic record. He thinks I should choose a different career path entirely. This has hit quite hard. I have no idea what I’m going to do instead, what the hell I’m going to tell my mother.
Okay, this wasn’t a long one at all. Maybe I’ll provide more context at home once/if I’m up to it.
What is the course? What is it that you want to do?
Certificate III in Information, Digital Media and Technology- Network Administration.
Is there anything that you can side-step into? So something that’s similar?
The lecturer recommends that I step away from technical courses altogether.
Is there anything else you’d like to do then?
I guess the big question is do you think you can pass the course if you really try? If there isn’t much left of the course and you think you can pass but don’t think you’ll be successful with it as a career then I’d recommend sticking with it, passing, then moving on from there. It’ll give you some time to think and sort through your options, and a completed course with no applicable skills still helps you find work.
If you don’t mind me asking, what exactly is holding you back? Is it something that’s going to become an issue in any course you try? Will it persist as a problem when you get a job? These are pretty scary questions to ask but they will help you find answers long term. I have huge problems with the way I work. Essentially I work very well… when the mood strikes me. The rest of the time I’m unmotivated to the point of paralysis. It makes me almost completely incompatible with school and most working environments. Being totally honest with myself and understanding this went a great way towards finding an employment solution that worked for me (granted I came to this realisation after a lot of time spent thinking I was hopeless because I could *gasp* never work in an office).
If we can nail down what makes it hard for you to make progress at TAFE maybe we can find something we can work on to improve it, or failing that find an alternative that is more complementary to how you work.
Most importantly don’t let yourself get confused between how important this is to your plans and how important it is in general. It’s easy to be crushed in a situation like this if you let it overwhelm you. Yes it’s a big part of your life right now and yes it’s less than an ideal outcome, but it’s not the end. No matter what happens you’ll eventually move past it.
Remembered about this today and it has been a while, so here we go.
[Edit: This is for last week’s TAY]
[Edit2: Tried to edit out the URLs to stop it getting caught in moderation, but no dice afaict.]
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Post #1: @evilmonkey on April 27, 2015 8:31 am
Post #1000: @greenius on April 29, 2015 9:21 pm
Have a great weekend!
Man I’ve fallen off the perch dramatically XD
Me too! Hi five!
I won \0/
A worthy TAY 1000th comment
Can we make this a thing again?
I’m in the Top 15, yeaahhhhh
Well, I’m gonna jump into Assetto Corsa.
Have a good night, folks!
So any TAYbies going to splatooning it up tomorrow at 1PM and 9PM? should be a fun timed exclusive demo, suppose to be some Nintendo staff joining the fray aswell, be cool if I come across any.
Maybe Techie and I
I will! 🙂
Can’t, not at home this weekend, so no Wii U.
Looking into racing wheels for the PS4 and it seems my choices are $120 for something terrible or $600 for something great but gorram $600.
Might hold off Project Cars for a bit. Maybe a good one will be released alongside GT7 in 2043.
Do you have a wheel? I have a G25 and apparently there’s a thingummy what will allow it to be used with PS4.
Or the wheel will keep being used with PS3 Launch Game™ Gran Turismo 6. 🙂
I’ve got a Driving Force GT and all I can find online is a bunch of complaints about it not working.
Apparently @fled mentioned me, but the link brings me here…
I got it too
Maybe it’s in approval limbo?
Better then any explanation I can come up with
There was an empty page here for a bit so that’s what it would be.
Let’s leave this to the professionals please.
Hmmmm, *smokes pipe*
@Fled obviously sent a post on TAY from the future warning us of an apocalyptic event but due to the mechanics of quantum physics his message has not appeared yet.
*Inspector Nob takes another smoke of his pipe*
Another case closed by Inspector Nob. Take him away boys.
The officers look to each other, nod… and each grab an arm, taking away Inspector Nob.
Me three. Well, probably more than three by now.
Me three
He posted a TABTOL, but it’s stuck in moderation.
What on Earth is a TABTOL? Google won’t tell me.
The Awesome Batguy Table Of Legends.
Now why wouldn’t Google tell me something like that?
Seriously though, I have no idea what it is.
It’s a list of who posts the most for the week
Oh, thanks.
Edit: Also apologies @freezespreston . I totally thought you made that up on the spot.
We kinda stopped doing them after we got caught up in a race to the top, which produced a bunch of spammy comments, and upwards of 20 pages of TAY…
Was fun while it lasted, though, haha.
@thecracks
It was actually kind of fun. I’m almost up to 15000 comments.
@scree
I haven’t even cracked 10k yet!
Not sure why I should rate a mention then, I haven’t nearly been as yappy as I could be.
Same. By my standards I’ve been practically mute.
@renne @dogman @phlanispo
It includes everyone who posts. So it’s a most posted to least posted.
@scree Ahhhhh that makes all the sense then.
But I’ve posted about six times in the last eight weeks.
Does it include comments, or just posts?
Comments and posts on Tay only.
Urm? I have also been dragged to this page and I’m barely even a proper TaYbie yet.
You’re the best TAYbie cause you play Destiny with me! 😀
Unlike the rest of this pack of jerks.
I would but that would involve playing Destiny.
Awwwww shucks *squirm* 🙂
I haven’t played destiny in ages
Melbourne folks, it looks like the proposed dinner on the 22nd is not gonna happen 🙁 Really sorry to get anyone’s hopes up – the missus has booked something for us that night, and I don’t think we’re going to get a chance to hang out at any other point that weekend 🙁
That’s a shame. Thanks for letting us know.
Dayum, next time!
Just realised that two days ago it was the fifth anniversary of my first ever TAY post.
Crazy long time, filled with crazy awesome people.
You guys are the best.
OLD
I AM THE ELDER BEN
BOW DOWN BEFORE ME
Man, the five months you spent without Blaghs in TAY must have been some rough times indeed.
They were dark times…
Aw, my 5 year one was just under 3 weeks ago 😛
5 years. Jesus. I only just passed 1.5 years about a month ago.
No, YOU are
My sixth year is next month.
I passed my 6th anniversary in Japan with awesome TAYbies. \o/
Oh wow it was my two year anniversary three days ago.
Wait no, that’s post-midnight time. So the same day as you!
Also I thought I had that thing bookmarked, so just went through a whole load of random TAY bookmarks that I didn’t even know what they were trying to find it (it wasn’t there). Hoooooly shit some of that 2013 stuff. Barely even recognise that guy.
I don’t even know what mine is. I feel like it’s only been a year though.
23rd November 2011
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-150/comment-page-10/#comment-450770
4 years? But I swear I joined before Greenius did.
I thought I was after you but it seems I was 9 days earlier.
I started posting on Kotaku in 2010. Tay in 2011.
Yeah, TAY isn’t something to go diving straight into.
I kinda forget sometimes how daunting it was.
Completely agree
I assume you mean “you guys” in the most abstract sense, considering we have people like Greenius and Pants and people who vehemently abhor the idea of pineapple on pizza here.
I love you, Bishy. 😀
Next Thursday will be my 3.5 year anniversary of scaring @strange
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-135/comment-page-2/#comment-438279
I remember seeing you AFK in Realm of the Mad God
You is all ninja-y and stuff. 😀
Things I like: Rebels winning on a Friday night. Victory winning on a Friday night.
Things I like less: Sitting at my desk doing firmware upgrades on switches on a Friday night after returning to the office from one of the above mentioned events…
Things that make things I like less slightly more tolerable: Discovering a Banco de Gaia track I have no recollection of… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S-c6Rui5e0
Things that make the night weird: Getting a call from the other half that when she got home from rugby the back door was unlocked and open a crack…
MasterChef hype!
Kudos to Ten as well. Nice and easy to stream the episodes online and they upload them really quickly 😀
When Mum wanted to watch I’m a celebrity get me out of here and My kitchen rules, Ten made it really easy for her to watch the episodes she missed on my computer.
Don’t even know how i found this, but it’s awesome:
300 cosplay in London’s Tube
Less than 40 minutes till the Splatoon Global Testfire goes live!
Get hype!
So fun! I came 2nd in my first game and was at the top for the remaining games. My team was undefeated 😀
Roller is easy mode!
Pizza came though so now I’m eating :P. I want to try out the other weapons in the next run though (which I think is 9pm?)
Worth downloading for the last window tonight?
Definitely. I thought the game looked okay and was probably going to buy it anyway, so I was planning to pass on this demo but I gave it a shot and it’s fun!
I think there’s only one game mode available (“which team can paint most of the map”) but it’s fun enough 😀
Rolled around a bit, it was interesting enough. Context and progression free with all randoms doesn’t really keep me engaged for an extended time though.
I ended up skipping the 9pm sesh :P. I liked the 30 mins or so I played so I was “convinced” enough. Not sure how long the game will last me but the TAY multiplayer sessions should keep it going on for a while.
Hell yes.
I think it’ts less than 2GB, so that’s a plus.
I think 600mb?
How much of a nerd am I if I think one of the coolest things happening this year is that the New Horizons probe will be doing a flyby of Pluto on July 14th?
The idea that
a) We have something that far out in the solar system,
b) we can take relatively close photos of Pluto, and
c) we can actually communicate with something so unbelievably far away is pretty fucking cool IMO.
No more a nerd than I. Exciting, isn’t it? 🙂
It really is. It’ll answer so many questions.
Just finished the Splatoon timed demo.
Paint rollers are op =( if your up against 4 of them in a turf war expect to lose big time.
Also aiming in the game is a big pain in the ass, expect to reset your camera over and over and over… probably contributes to why easy weapons like the paint roller dominate.
Than again its just a demo with choice of 4 weapons we’ll see if it more diversive in the full release I guess.
Agreed.
Lost count of how many times I was swearing at deaths via Paint Roller. 🙁
I think you can turn off motion controls (which I assume would give you normal right analog stick aiming). It took a while to adjust to the controls as well and I would’ve preferred if I could use the right stick to move up and down in addition to the motion. Seems weird that it only does right and left :/
(something like the OoT 3D where you could aim using the stick but make small adjustments using motion)
I think you just need to get used to the controls. By the end of the hour I was really getting the hang of fine aiming. Worked pretty well I thought.
I’m also not very experienced at motion controls, last time i remember using them was with Skyward Sword, had all types of nightmares trying to use that scarab thing.
@tech_knight was using a rifle but it’s really terrible for close combat. If he’d been up high he probably could’ve taken out the pesky rollers.
Anyone looked at the HumbleBundle site today? They have a big arse sale on and it’s got some really good discounts, well worth looking at if you’re in the market for a bargain.
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/search/sort/discount
A few notable prices:
Skyrim: $10
Fallout New Vegas Ultimate: $12 (Though Fallout 3 GOTY is $24 for some reason)
Dark Souls: $5
Antichamber: $2
Legend Of Grimrock: $3
FTL: $5
There really are some very good sales at Humble today.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter $6.66
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West $4.99
@strange
Why haven’t you watched Malcolm’s first season yet!
😛
Because I’m an old lady. 😛
BOO OLD LADY BRAINS
Run out of games I feel excited to play. Wolfenstein: Old Blood was a good 6-7 hour diversion but need something a bit more substantial, and The Witcher 3 isn’t out for another week and a bit.
Not sure what to do. I’m so unsure that I’m actually tossing up giving Assassin’s Creed No Face Edition another go. Or playing more of Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth since that’s actually okay (the original game was horrid in comparison).
Games finished in 2015:
• January
1. The Wolf Among Us (Episode 3-5)
2. Halo 3
• February
3. Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
4. Captain Toad
• March
5. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
• May
6. Broken Age
Pathetic list compared to last year 😛
Games finished in 2015 off the top of my head (suspect I have a few more):
– Shadow of Mordor
– Dragon Age Inquisition
– Danganronpa
– Danganronpa 2
– Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris (Co-op with my sister)
– Assassin’s Creed: Rogue
– Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim
– Broken Age
– Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
You should make a @dc inspired list! It’s pretty cool looking back on what games you’ve completed each year. I thought about doing a “games I played” list as some of the Kotaku US editors too but it seems a bit pointless, especially if I’m just derping around for 5 minutes in some mobile game.
Yeah I probably should. I’ve definitely played more games than I’ve finished, eg spent a lot of time recently on Hatsune Miku Project Diva 2nd – cleared all the tracks except The Intense Voice of Hatsune Miku (which is fucking insane) on Easy and started into clearing the ones I like on Hard. But that’s the sort of game you don’t really ‘finish’ so much as just stop playing, usually when a sequel comes out.
Games finished in 2015:
1 – Dragon Age: Inquisition.
2 – DragonAge: Inquisition.
None. No games finished. I’m playing Destiny and Elite, neither have an “end”… :/
Destiny had a “story mode” so I considered that finished when that was beaten and the credits rolled.
…
…
Yep, in the nothing crowd.
The only games I have even played in the last six months are WoW, DA:I and Bloodborne, aside from brief pokes at a couple others.
Stellar year.
Games finished in 2015:
• January
1. The Wolf Among Us (Episode 3-5)
2. Halo 3
• February
3. Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
4. Captain Toad
• March
5. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
• May
6. Broken Age
A pathetic list when compared to last year :P. There were a few other games I started and kind of gave up on or held of temporarily (Grim Fandango – probably won’t go back to that any time soon, and Bloodborne – I’ll probably finish this soon).
Act 2 of Broken Age kind of bummed me out 😛
Whaaat? I think I’m actually ahead of you this year. The world’s gone crazy.
Listy list it!
Bloodborne
Borderlands The PreSequel
Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls (Platinum)
Destiny (PvE Core game)
Wolf Among Us
Grim Fandango
Link Between World’s (finally)
Resident Evil ReRemake
I don’t even remember what I’ve finished. Captain Toad, Bloodborne, Grim Fandango, err, others? Probably some others.
Wait, why did that post twice with my “first draft” version being posted too? WEIRDDDDDDD
FINALLY started Wolfenstein and it’s awesome. Just the type of SHOOT ALL THE THINGS game I was after 😀
New Order? It starts out as shoot all the things but then once it gets going it’s so much more than that. I mean, it’s always doing shoot all the things, but the bits around it are amazingly well done. Hell, BJ himself becomes effectively a commentary on Wolfenstein’s place in modern gaming – he’s essentially a meathead that knows nothing but killing Nazis, transported into a world where that is no longer necessary or interesting and where he is effectively obsolete and outdated. There’s insane amounts of detail in it all. You could write essays on the way it handles some of its stuff. New Order was my game of the year last year by a mile.
Old Blood which just came out is basically about murdering Nazis and not much else. Primarily just the combat parts of it. There’s still some amazingly well written internal monologues though.
I love the way they periodically will have internal monologue lines from BJ on entering some areas or similar where he will talk about something from his childhood or similar, because it’s a brilliant way for them to convey the atmosphere of an area in a really subtle way. Old Blood had one point where he starts talking about the smell of the area reminding him of his neighbour’s abandoned farm, talking about rotting plants and the smell of damp wood. That gives you a bunch of extra detail to the area you’re in in a really sophisticated way, and conveys things about the environment that the game will never be able to convey to you.
I have a favourite fabric designer and ordered some fabrics from her recently (with the money I got back from returning FF Type 0 and an undisclosed extra amount 😛 ), but I’d ordered too much to go in the regular international shipping bag she uses so we’ve been emailing back and forth to sort it out (I ordered more fabric to make the extra postage worth it).
In one email she mentioned she was looking forward to seeing what I do with her fabric so I told her about the hashtag I’ve been using on Instagram for the quilt I’m making completely by hand with her fabrics. Turns out she’s noticed it already and asked me to tag her in future posts about it so she can keep up with my progress! Which is kind of awesome. 😀
I missed something, but how come you returned Type-0?
I didn’t have time to play it yet, mostly just wanted to check out the FFXV demo, but the code was “already used” and they didn’t have any left to give me so I asked for my money back.
Fair enough! I bought it at launch and haven’t touched it :/
FFXV demo was cool though but it would’ve been a bummer if the code was already used 🙁
HATS OFF.
Congrats man, I don’t even want to imagine what you sacrificed for that.
Pretty much nothing.
Woo, got the crystal cruiser!
…by cheating a little 😛
Wondered if there was a way to determine the sector layout without having to get to the end of the first sector, then found out about the seed value for the sector tree stored within the save. Found someone who claimed to have the number of a successful map, but while I got the crystal guy I didn’t get the rock homeworlds. Tried again to check the other branch, and nope. Got sick of it and went back to my pre-branch save, then went through with the save modifier tool incrementing the seed until I got a rock homeworld up next. Screw battling with the RNG any more.
Oops, that took a while.
Double oops, I forgot I had to wrap mother’s day presents still.
Crap, it’s mother’s day tomorrow. Uh. Maybe I can’t do board games after all. @redartifice @trjn @gingerchris86
Although my sister’s not getting here til sometime later, so it might be a possibility. Assuming I don’t sleep in til then. Though I don’t even know where it is and didn’t think to ask on Friday. Dammit.
Does anyone else have Steam games “uninstall” themselves?
They disappear from my Installed Games section but when I click to Install it again it just rediscovers the existing files and everything is normal again :/
It’s just mildly inconvenient since the rediscovering of files can take a while. For smaller games it’s just been a couple of minutes but Wolfenstein’s 44GB seems to be taking forever 🙁
Yeah, it happens sometimes.
I recommend crying.
Does everyone who plays Mario Kart have both DLC packs? @sughly and I are thinking of playing some more TAY Mario Kart again but I’m just wondering what sort of limitations we’ll have if someone joins a tournament without the DLC Packs. I’m assuming the majority of people will have them though (except probably @mrtaco because he’s a monster and doesn’t play with TAY people anyway…)
So, who’s interested in playing some more TAY Kart again? 😀
@alexpants @batguy @cakesmith @cj @cookingmama @dkzeitgeist @doc_what@mawt @morkai @powalen @shiggyninty @beavwa @coldcamv @crazyguy1990 @pixel_the_ferret_viking @scree @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @sernobulus @blaghman @rize @shane @fled @liondrive @thecracks @benny
(can’t remember who has the game or not but I just got a list from TAY tags and edited it down to whoever I thought played it at some point?)
Feel free to add anyone else!
@evilmonkey @gemini @distantdrop
Yeah sure, why not. Got both DLC packs.
It’s not just you.
Observe: my MK8 stats as of just the other day.
Monster.
Do you just not enjoy fun or are there other elements at play here? :p
It came out when I was in the middle of trying to finish off SM3DW, attempting to speed-run/complete the final level. Then something or other happened and I never got back to either of them, not powering on my Wii U til Smash rolled around.
I hung around looking for a race last week, but I couldn’t find anyone. Maybe it was held in the “No Gemini’s” clubhouse that week? :'(
I might be able to play. Maybe 3 races or something
Very specific!
I would feel guilty otherwise
I’ll be up for it! 😀
@sughly will organise it…
😛
😀
……..nah :3 good try getting everyone together though! Enough people for a night of tourney I think. You should totally organise it!
But you said you’d organise it if I rallied the troops! 😛
NEVER! LIES
I have approximately none of the DLC.
Count me out.
Sorry guys, not in a Mario Kart mood.
I have the DLC, happy to join in, let me know when you guys are thinking of doing it. Also I’m terrible at 200cc, so fast.
I’m interested. Monday nights don’t do it for me anymore, though.
Don’t own the DLC, or the game at all for that matter.
Boo!
Call me when there’s battle arenas (that everyone else around here seems to hate so could be pointless anyway)
AHHH!!!
My WiiU is in Brisbane and I totally forgot the DLC came out!
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
I gots them!
ay yo i got em both brooooooooooooooooooo
Sik m8
No WiiU here, sorry pal 🙁
So playing Dance of the necrodancer and I just want to say to newbies, don’t start with Cadence who is the main character you start with. Start off with Bard as monsters will move when he moves and it gives you time to get used to how the monsters move. I have gotten past Zone 2 this way.
Did anyone else play the Splatoon demo? It was pretty fun with some interesting ideas but I can see it getting stale pretty quick, not sure I’d fork out full price for it. What did you guys think?
Edit: only my 8th post on this TAY and it’s another get, I’m going to go buy some lotto tickets while the gettin’s good 😛
I enjoyed it, but I think it’s a short burst game. Great to jump on and play a few quick games.
Yeah, I hope there are more options in the full game, 2 v 2 local couch battles could be fun, bots might be useful too. I had fun but didn’t get that “must play another round” feeling.
I think it’s the control scheme which kind of ruins it.
at least they let me turn off motion control.
Really? I couldn’t
It was the first thing I did,, swinging around the gamepad didn’t feel good at all. I think it was just in settings, made it so much easier.
now i feel like an idiot
I’ve always felt like it looked like a fun $20 downloadable game.
Full retail though? Fuck no. Maybe if I was 19 and living in a university dorm.
It depends on what they do with the rest of it.
Yeah I thought it was awesome fun! Y’all are such downers in here! It will be much more interesting in full game with experience points and upgradeable clothing/guns, finding what stats you want to push for. And also the single player campaigns! There’s a lot more variety to the multiplayer than what we got in the demo too. Cant wait for full game! Ya bunch of downers
Calm down, nerd.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/05/rock-opera-video-game-somehow-totally-works/
Oh yeah, I forgot about Karmaflow. I should set it up so I can play on my TV and through my sound system. Or even better, have someone else play while I just listen because platforming frustrates me. 😛
Do Bugbear exist anymore?
I’m worried about the status of NCG: Wreckfest…
🙁
Their devs posted stuff around Wreckfest on their company forums late last month so I’d say they’re still around:
http://community.bugbeargames.com/index.php/topic,7517.0.html?PHPSESSID=fba68ab587aa7a1d8a215c8af7dd50e1
Sounds like they’re a bit iffy on the way the game’s developing and looking for user feedback to guide them.
Just roasted a bunch of chestnuts in the pizza oven, my contribution to the mother’s day cooking. There was a cinnamon and butter sauce for them afterwards. SOOO GOOOOOOOOOD.