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Mornin’!
Good morning! 🙂
It is. Very observant 😛
The horror of Monday morning after pulling a 3am bloodborne session…
Oh god, and you are at work already? You da real MVP!
Somehow I feel it was worth it.
Totally worth it.
Ha ha. It’s like that isn’t it? Sometimes I feel myself moaning. “eeuuuuuuuhhh…so cold… dear sister…”
I was good last night. Only 12.30am.
I wish i had that level of self control.
I feel like a kid playing dragons trap on the master system again.
I haven’t felt this enamored in a long time, ive sunk huge hours into games before ie wow but not actually been sucked in this hard since being a kid.
Also i realise im very old now. Ouch.
Hi everybody! Hope your weekends were good!
Mine was good. I had a launch event for Undad at Impact Comics here in Canberra. Despite not having any printed copies of the book on hand (except for a proof), the store tells me they took a few pre-orders, including one guy who came straight into the store wanting to buy Undad. Lesson learned: internet hype is real, and can work. This weekend: Comic Gong in Wollongong! Will the books have arrived by then? WHO KNOWS.
Also, this happened. Awesome. I’m not even going to be humble about this brag.
@scree and @georgestmichael, your packages are in the mail!
Hat’s off to you my friend.
You crazy.
Yeah, I know, but I just can’t get off this writing train :\
Thank you!
Hats off indeed! Just Demon’s Souls to go now?
And my PS4 copy of Dark Souls 2. I’m counting it as a fresh venture.
Cheers.
Hey everybody,
How was your weekends? I didn’t manage to play the Splatoon demo because of lots of family time, how was it?
I did however play some Mario Kart 8, managed to win my first 3-star trophy for 200cc. I only just finished winning 3-star for all of the 150cc and 150 mirror cups. Some of the new DLC courses were so hard because i was less familiar with them. Much improved now.
And to kick off the morning; Who is your favourite Nintendo character and why?
There was a Splatoon demo? Dang, I really need to boot up my Wii-U again. I haven’t played any games recently really, Nintendo or otherwise :/
And what a broad question! Ness from Earthbound holds a special place for me; a kid with a good heart, doing what’s right, even if it isn’t easy.
You definitely need to boot it up again!
Would you be willing to join us in some Mario Kartin?
@bendaman too!
Most definitely!
I would!
I played the new DLC tracks for the first time last night. They’re pretty cool! Haven’t fired up 200cc yet – it looks insane! Kudos on the 3 stars.
Does Phoenix Wright count as a Nintendo character? If so, it’s absolutely him… or possibly Maya. Or Gumshoe. Someone from that series at any rate!
I love Wild Woods and Big Blue from the DLC.
I think he counts as Nintendo platform character, so that will do.
Played the splatoon demo, colour me impressed!
Nice balance between the weapons, and plenty of hidden depth. My favourite special was the bubble shield, you can buff your whole team with it and smash through bottlenecks. I got a quad kill with it, trapping their whole team in a hallway!
People were complaining that the roller was OP, but they clearly didn’t know you could just jump over it! I surprised a hell of a lot of people with that trick.
As a veteran of competititve tribes, this has the most interesting metagame of any console shooter I’ve played, and the gyro controls saved DA for me, they worked very precisely.
I wish the vgs system had more depth, but it should work well enough in such a short game.
My only real gripe was that you couldn’t select your loadout after the teams were formed. That made it very risky to play as sniper (more than one and your team is boned in turf war).
Wow, thanks for that great overview. I’m actually really keen to play this now. How accessible is it? I.e. Would a wife who doesn’t play shooters be able to jump in and have fun?
It’s very accessible, and the gyro controls have a shorter learning curve than traditional controls once you get your head around them. They are conceptually tricky, but the tutorial is pretty good at explaining it.
Non-fps fans will still enjoy going around and laying paint, especially with the roller as it doesn’t require the ability to aim. I was seriously thinking of handing the gamepad over to my partner to see how a first timer got on, but I was feeling a bit (lot) selfish. 😛
It’s definitely the best shot you have of converting someone to the genre!
Thanks, i will keep it in mind.
I always forgot I could jump!
My favourite character is Toad, because my first Nintendo game was Mario Kart 64, and he won a special place in my memory because of his funny voice acting and the hilarity that came when he had gold mushroom boost and i was constantly mashing the Z button.
Splatoon demo was great. I really liked it. It’s got a nice balance between competitive and fun-for-all, I think. Even if you’re not good at shooters you can just focus on inking the ground and still have fun.
Can’t wait for the full game.
I found the roller wasn’t as good as people thought as you have to get in the enemies face to kill them. Plenty of time for someone with a splattershot to kill them.
Goooood morning kittens! I’ve had a headache for three days. I think it likes me and wants to stick around; I’m going to name it, “Killme” 😀 D: 😀
Also saw Age of Ultron on Saturday – probably missed all the discussion on it here!
Now we can have all the discussion again! =D
What did you think?
I liked the movie, I have to say I was a little confused though about a few of the things that were confusing me: Not a massive spoiler but it might be annoying to other folks.
Like I thought Shield was still a thing in this movie, when did they get shut down?
I really enjoyed learning more about ScarJo’s character she is S2 haha
At the end of Captain America: Winter Solider, SHIELD is disbanded.IT ALL MAKES SENSE!
I didn’t see Winter Soldier 🙁SEE IT SEE IT SEE IT SEE IT!
It’s so so good and probably my top Marvel movie 😀
Chris Evans is my style icon, I’m actually kinda surprised I haven’t seen it yet. I try and get my hair cut like him but mine is too thick for a like for like :@@highperformance DUDE. Then you haaaaaave to see this! He looks super good. Also, you’ve seen Snowpiercer, yes?
I’ve not seen Snowpiercer (nor heard of it truthfully) but the concept sounds so awesome! I think I’ll pop down to JB Hi Fi and grab a copy this week. Gruff looking Chris Evans I wouldn’t be able to pull off I think though :*(
@highperformance Oooh let me know what you think because you’re gonna looooooove it!
Only a scale of 1-10. How good is James Spader as Ultron?
11.
His performance was pretty solid, like 8/10. Didn’t really care about the character though :/
5.
He started as a 9 all threatening and kind of terrifying. Then next scene he was cartooonish and “witty” and I lost all interest, he just became another forgettable Marvel villain that doesn’t stand out at all.
Kinda have to admit that the villains from almost all of the Marvel films get a bit goofy but the Avengers are particularly prominent in this regard. My favourite villain of all of the MCU so far has actually been Christopher Eccleston’s bad guy in Thor 2. Never changed from being a distinctly threatening villain which I liked.
It’s a by product of Marvel making everything completely about their heroes. No one else has any room to be anything beyond support or motivation for the mains.
That said, for every amazing villain DC has they have 5 that are completely into ridiculous territory
The Suicide Squad movie will be interesting simply because they have a few of the more oddball DC villains. Captain Boomerang in particular was never really anything but ridiculous so it’ll be interesting to see how they try and make them gritty.
I saw Ultron too. Way better than first movie. (Though Linda Cardelinni’s presence ensured that on its own.)
I think I liked the first Avengers better for Loki, but I was glad Hawkguy actually got some decent screentime this go around. It just didn’t give me the warm and fuzzies like I was hoping it would. I do want to rewatch Days of Future Past now though.
You mean X-Men: the Retcon Movie? 😛
But seriously, Days of Future Past was the best X-Men movie since the second one.
The Rogue cut of the film comes out on bluray in a few months. Can’t wait.
For me this movie had a lot more heart, as well as all the action and one-liners i was expecting.
The Vision! *swoon*
Yay, so did I.
I thought they overdid the witty banter a bit. Particularly in the last part it was every other scene and kinda made it feel like no-one was taking things seriously. Also red superman guy seemed a bit of a cop-out silver bullet, but I’m sure he will be relevant in the next movies.But fun.
So, I was annoyed at the other players get my character killed in D&D the other week. But we were amazed at what happened to someone else yesterday. Now, a harsh GM would have your life rely on a single d20 saving throw. A normal GM will work in 3-4 d20 saving throws. A nice GM will think up about 8-10 d20 saving throws.
But yesterday I saw someone fail 30 d20 saving throws and drown naked with a key up his butt.
Aside from that I finally finished my Halo 2 review. It’s currently split into 3 long parts and I’m planning on editing out half the content into a new video.
I was trying to play D&D with a few friends. None of us know how to play, and our dm saw some of his work mates play and that’s the most knowledge and/or experience we had. Had that 4.5 guide/campaign, quickly got into an argument because the other 2 guys wanted to steal the dank cart rather than deliver it to its destination. In the end we could’ve taken the cart to explore around and still deliver the damn thing, I’m just opposed to stealing and back stabbing. In the end we split when we got to town, I don’t know if that’s even allowed, and I got all the money rewards, but not so much on the exp. points. Still don’t know how to play it properly though.
It’s hard when players try to break or derail the game. In the back of your mind you need to listen to that little voice that says, “Oh man, the DM will suffer if we do this.” As a DM you need to be so flexible to avoid hours of prep work going to waste when players decide that a tangent is more important than the actual adventure.
We’ve elicited more than one exasperated sigh from @popdart5 in our sessions.
Still not as bad as my other group who used spaceships to carve a dick and balls on a planet’s surface. 😛
@freezespreston, I’m disappointed you haven’t tried this yet. You’re obviously not playing to your full potential.
That’s the thing. One of the guys I played with was things like “nah, let’s steal the cart and go back the way we came from” 2 mins into the damn thing. I was like wth, we are all noobs so yeah.
You can split. When you are in a village or city with some downtime it’s actually expected for you to split and do your own thing. Some people can run off to earn some coin working at the blacksmith or modifying weapons while working there, or go to their respective guilds. Your DM might have someone get jumped by a thief if the player has been an idiot, but normally it’s expected of you to split.
Just don’t split out in the wilds or in a dungeon (or a city if you’re wanted or it’s controlled by a tyrant). That’s a gauranteed character death.
If you got all the money for doing the quest because they nicked off then that’s their problem. You can keep all the money if you decide to, just hope that none of the other characters gets wind of it.
Cool. Well, we were all noobs, so I doubt our dm would’ve caused anyone to be jumped in the town, unless the book suggested it.
You should all speak with your DM and each other with what you all want from the game. Need to get that figured out early as you don’t want the bored, ‘just here for fighting’ player to swing his axe at the city guard the ‘wants to roleplay everything’ player is currently talking to.
Currently we’re doing a ‘all actions effect the world’ game so something that we did months ago might have an effect in the next session. As such we’re all seeking friends and alliances to keep us out of trouble and to allow us to avoid getting screwed over. Which also includes me asking the ‘info NPC’ last night to keep an ear out for anybody seeking my character, as I am unsure if they will be hostile or not.
Our DM is quite harsh, but fair. If the players act like tits and rush into dangerous or unknown situations, there is little to no mercy. That has made our group much more cautious and ‘realistic’ adventurers, unless someone is having a crazy day and decides ‘fuck it, I’m going to go balls-to-the-wall’. In such moments are heroes born.
My problem is that the other players act like dicks and defend themselves with, “I’m just playing my character”.
My counter to those types of players: “Well, you’re being jerks. Maybe that NPC you were a jerk to a while back has paid a few thugs to beat you up and they surprise you when you’re not expecting it.”
Everything has consequences and there’s a reason why nasty people tended to not last long in medieval times.
It’s how my first character got killed. Being the healer in-game, and out of game wanting to keep the other players going, resulted in a zombie beholder blowing him up.
Now that his character drowned, he went back to his first character that attacked a death knight and has already threatend innocents with an axe. I was honestly going to leave him to his fate when he was swallowed by an Ooze in the sewers. He’s just lucky the DM (obviouse to me) lowered the HP.
Sounds like fun.
Morning TAY! Hope you all had a great Mother’s Day, especially our Mums amongst us! On the weekend we played out a tough 2-1 win to put us too of the table in soccer, and spent my Saturday night working on this: http://imgur.com/W0jwBNg
Working on that? Like, you made him?!
I didn’t make him in the sense Dr. Light created him (:P) but I did piece him together from one of those packages you can buy from Ebay:
http://www.amazon.com/Kotobukiya-Protoman-Rockman-Plastic-Model/dp/B0045UAEGG
Oh my, that’s awesome! Could you make a blue one for me with a white cape? I’d pay you for it! 😀
Unfortunately I don’t have the ability to make him myself, I just bought a figure model kit off of Amazon. If you bought the kit and painted it in the colours you want you’d have your blue Protoman!
I had a great Mothers Day, staying in bed until lunch, reading my new books and hanging out with my kids.
Today is the other side of Motherhood. Sacrificing your regular Monday morning anime catch-up for cleaning up vomit. 😛
Ooh, what are you reading?
Not novels, I got books on natural dying, applique, hand sewing, and free motion quilting for Mothers Day. 😀
Natural dying?
The art of using natural things like bark, flowers, onion peel to dye fabric and thread different colours.
Not natural ways to die. 😛
Well that’s just a reply fail. I’ll come up with some witty reply strange when I’ve woken up 😛 in the meantime, have some ramblings
I spent all day trying to get a hold of my mother after making sure my day was clear and sitting at home waiting to go over to see her and do a few things. She had her mobile turned off and wasn’t answering her home phone. Then she has a passive aggressive bitch on Facebook about how some mothers are appreciated on mothers day.
Yay mothers day.
Mine moved countries without telling me! 😀
Was it your vomit? I’d imagine that’s the sort of incident that you teach your children about proper cleaning methods 😀
I want new books. It’s been a long time since I’ve read any sort of book 🙁 damn you internet and being constantly distracting with absolutely nothing of value
I can help you out with new books!
Shameless self plug alert 😛 hehe when I have monies I will get around to checking your stuff out 🙂
Went away with the wife and kid at the weekend had an awesome time so only managed to scrape in a little gaming last night and that was with Wolfenstien the old blood so far really enjoying it well worth the money.
Early notice that we WILL be having an Oktoberfest Brisbane meat again this year. Interstate folk are welcomed. Haven’t nailed down a weekend yet. STAY TUNED.
Keen.
I always get sad when I think of Oktoberfest because I don’t drink beer but then I remember ‘SCHNAPPS’ 😀
And bratwurst! And observing drunken TAYbies dancing with strangers! (Oh wait, that was me.)
I’ve got the videos!
And I’ve got a blackmail file and a gentlemen’s agreement not to post it on the interwebs. 😛
A gentleman’s agreement! Huzzah!
My friends have made it a thing over the past year of going to the Brathaus every Thursday. Now I play indoor football every Thursday in combination with being poor, I’m very deprived of bratwurst D: and I haven’t been to the German Club in years either DD:
Damn the Germans for having delicious food
I want to come! And I will try very very very hard not to be scary.
Haha! You’re not scary, whoever told you that must be an idiot. (Oh wait, that was me.)
😀 First pretzel’s on me 😀
I will be the guy obnoxiously singing made up lyrics to 99 Luftballons!
Anyone know what the end of financial year PS4 bundles will look like?
A PS4 in a blue and white box?
A blue and white box in a PS4
Finished Orange Is The New Black last night. Damn good TV.
Wife and I may have high fived each other at the last scene.
Now to wait a month for the next season.
Show got picked up for fourth season already, too. Hooray!
2 more seasons of Captain Janeway doing a Russian accent? Excellent 😀
I love that final scene. I was hoping it would happen, figured it would happen, loved it when it happened, big smiles 😀
I hear good things about that show. Is it worth the time investment?
It’s amazing and you’ll know if you like it pretty early.
Yes. Yes it is. Very well written and the performances are all spot on.
I must investigate this. ^_^
I thought it felt like they were running out of ideas in season 2. Like they didn’t know where to go with the story.
First half it did, picked up through the second half though. Guess they were going for a slice of life thing.
Interesting.
Yeah, I stopped a few episodes into season 2. I probably should finish it before the next season comes out.
Carrying a bowling ball to work so you can go straight to the bowling alley after work is a pain. Learn from my mistakes people
Weekend was spent going to Go Lounge in Stones Corner (for Brisbane peeps who know of it) and playing a few board games including an initiation to Settlers of Catan. Also noticeable for it being the first proper outing for the missus since she broke her ankle apart from hospital and doctor visits. It’s weird seeing someone going stir crazy from spending 6 weeks trapped inside the house
Yesterday I trundled off the the model railway show and got a few good ideas of what I want to do. First things first though, save up a shed load of money. Why do I pick hobbies and interests that come with a substantial price tag?
Happy New-TAY-day everyone
Rolled credits on Bloodborne.
Looked up trophy list and things that I just missed:
Collectibles – missed the claw in the forestUpgrades – did everything except walking back into the right room to grab the blood stone. That one hurts.
Ending – I had the three cords at the end but didn’t consume them. Ah well.
Also a few others that need chalice stuff – got to 3-3 of the p chalice and the random boss was
romFuck. That. Might reroll a new dungeon.Thanks to Netflix, also rewatched GotG, and started Vikings (7 episodes in), and Orange is the New Black (3 episodes).
Don’t worry. You have two more playthroughs to get the extra endings and easy enough to pick up the missing items to legitimately earn the platinum trophy.
That’s a very bold point you seem to be making about legitimacy… Have people been cheesing or glitching / hacking stuff?
Actually, I think it’s a dig at me, because I used a backed up save file to see all three endings with my first playthrough.
I’m not angry, just very disappointed.
I’m far more tempted to just do 2 clean runs instead of NG+(+) to get the other 2 endings. Fairly confident I can do the whole game with starter gear.
I finished the game with the saw cleaver and hunter pistol. Never found anything else I was comfortable with.
My plan was to do another clean run to pick up everything I missed then either venture into NG+ for the last one or attempt a Bloodtinge ranged build.
After staying at yours, I couldn’t use the Hunter Axe anymore. I’m halfway through NG+ and have finished the Chalice Dungeons, and I used the Saw Cleaver all the way.
Yep, saw cleaver and blunderbuss the whole way for me, because cover art.
Additional point about Guardians of the Galaxy:
As someone that generally doesn’t watch or read something more than once, I really enjoyed watching this movie a second time. More than I thought I would.
Additional point about Bloodborne:
Thus game gives me a headache. Literally. Somewhere between 1 and 2 hours in I’ll start getting a headache, and as that gets worse the nausea joins in.
Pity too since that’s about when I start getting in the zone for playing efficiently, so it’s an internal struggle of discomfort vs ability to play.
That happens to me on lots of games. Some will be fine, but others give me splitting headaches. I don’t know if it is the graphics, seeing as I’ve never had this problem on my PS4.
Generally hasn’t ever been a problem for me before over my many years in the PC Mastah Race, which makes me wonder what’s different here.
Edit: Maybe it’s just because I’m getting old…
I distinctly remember it happened when I played Duke Nukem Forever on my PS3.
*Insert joke at Duke Nukem Forever’s expense here*
Don’t re-roll the dungeon. Only the ones with ‘root’ in the title are randomised. Others are all set in stone. Rom is a boss you’ll need to take out. I didn’t find him that hard in the Chalice Dungeon, though…Also, I’m not sure the claw is in the forest… is it? I had to grind through a Chalice Dungeon to find it.The item (beast hand thing), not the weapon.
Ahhh right, sorry. Disregard me.
Good thing about that is that the quickest way to finish that cheevo will be to just run back to it in NG+ since I got to keep the other special items. Only 2 mandatory bosses between the start and there.
Make sure you pick up a second lot of Red Jelly as well (Nightmare Lecture Building bottom floor). You’ll need it for the Chalice achievements, and the road there requires you to have set foot in the forest at least once.
Claw is in an Ailing Loran chalice dungeon (Layer 2 I believe) as I just got it last night.
Blood Stone – those Winter Gardens are real bastards to get past. I recommend lowering insight to under 20 and wearing a +200 Res. Frenzy rune as well as some good anti-frenzy clothing.
I’m pretty sure all the non-Root chalice dungeons are not random. Only the root chalice ones are. With chalice dungeon Rom you really need to use the pillars as cover against the meteor strikes because otherwise you don’t really have the room to manoeuvre.
I’m still going hard after the platinum myself. Just got to finish the chalice dungeons and the true final boss and I’m set. So easy to get distracted by co-op though 🙂
OOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Insight = frenzy weakness. It all makes sense now.
WEEKEND! I DID THINGS, LOTS OF THINGS!
I had a coffee and there was a weird fussball stuck in my belly button, that kept me entertained for AT LEAST 30 minutes…
I lead an interesting life I swear!
Oh, I did rewatch Alien, whilst playing Elite and getting drunk on red wine… Then I caught myself belching out Bohemian Rhapsody at the top of my lungs… Must have been a sad sight but it was worth it!
Yeah I killed some random player on elite, because he was marked as wanted. Collected 159 credits bounty. He had a sidewinder so I guess he just has to pay for modules. Felt bad after it, but he did say he just got a 23k bounty, so I guess I just kinda teleported him to the station so that he may hand his bounty in. Still though, he wpuldve had to pay for his ship being blown up.
I’m about 10k LY out at the moment and just enjoying the solitude… So many pretty sights! 😀
My saturday night was quite similar except I was drinking red wine and playing heroes of the storm =P I’m sure there was a point in the night where I started randomly singing and dancing to the utter dismay of my mrs =D
Had a pretty decent weekend. Went to the local farmers market with my parents on Saturday morning. Mum and Dad got some nice fruit and vegies and we had breakfast there. My parents tried okonomiyaki for the first time and really enjoyed it. I had a haloumi and chorizo burger which was really good. Also discovered that one of the local coffee roasters does $2 espressos at its stall.
After the farmers market, my parents took me shopping and then we visited my Uncle and Aunty. We went to Maccas for lunch and I had a create your own burger with bacon, pineapple, jalapenos, caramelised onion, and chipotle mayo. It was great.
Didn’t do much yesterday, but I did watch Edge of Tomorrow again. I enjoyed it a lot. Finally, I’ve given up soft drink again and I’m looking at upgrading my coffee machine from a pod machine to a proper coffee machine.
http://www.pippinbarr.com/games/letsplaytheshining/ mmhmm
Urge to play…. rising… rising…rising…
Hola Tayberinos
BIG SYDNEY WEEKEND
PART THE FIRST
Friday I flew out about Lunchtime here, arriving in Sydney about 3:00. Navigated to my Hotel, which was in Leumeah, which is pretty remote- just outside Campbelltown and apparently chain fast food central. (Hooters is apparently a thing in Sydney? Also Sizzler??) Dumped my stuff in the hotel then got back on the train to head into the CBD.
@cj had picked out a bar to meet at, but it was kinda hidden, so I wandered down the road to look for it. Suddenly, a wild @alexpants appeared! We found that we’d walked right past CJ, so we queued up with him to go to Stitch and were joined by @mrtaco.
Stitch is really cool, lots of old sewing machines as decor. Friday being Friday, when we arrived the place was packed out and we had to wait ages for a table, so we stood near the bar and chatted until we could get a table. We got a booth, and Alex and I were fascinated by the wallpaper which included a diagram of the urinary system from an old almanac among many others. We were then joined by @dkzeitgeist and moved onto Mojos, where more beer and conversation was had.
PHOTO!
https://twitter.com/redartifice/status/596645231015038976
NEXT ENTRY: THE GODDAMNED MEGAGAME
Reminds me of the time I walked straight past @freezespreston at the airport for PAX last year… then called him going “where are you? you said you’d be at the terminal… I’m cold and lonely…”
And then he told me to turn around and all was well…
#coolstory
*farts*
Get this man a show on FOX.
MARIO KART!
What days and times work best for everyone?
1997
Tonight or Thursday night? Sometime after 7pm?
Mondays are no good for me, because I’ve taken up basketball again. Most other nights should be okay. I will never be on before 8pm.
Best not to plan around me, though. I’m very unreliable.
My son was playing Minecraft yesterday and yelled for me to come and check out his new house. I asked if he built it and his response was “Nah, I stole it from a villager. But it’s okay, I killed them first. With my IRON SWORD!”
Pretty sure he broke no laws.
PAID THE IRON PRICE
Might be of relevance to @redartifice or @popdart or other RPG fans
D&D5 50% off: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/193665
I would be interested however I already own all of the core books. 😛
Figured you probably did. Ah well.
Hah, cool.
I’m not playing D&D atm, but if I was that’d be a steal (I have the PF book)
I think PF has a leg up on D&D atm due solely to the fact that PF information is freely available online and there are PDF versions of all of the books. D&D 5E is either physical book or nothing except the absolute basic rules.
Did you see the new Dragon+ app Wizards released?
I saw it but it seems to be just a e-zine type thing that gives you updates on new products and things like that. I’ll download it when I get the chance.
It’s similar to the old Dragon magazine stuff (though less in depth). Could be cool if they do Dungeon+ (which is apparently on the cards)
Yeah, this is a massive reason why I think Pathfinder’s largely displaced D&D.
It was one of the big roadblocks for me for setting up an Edge of the Empire game as well. They don’t even have the basic rules available for free.
I managed to acquire a *ahem* “free” version of the PDF for EotE but apparently I lucked out because no one else I know has been able to find one.
Jesus. Lego Dimensions, which is Lego’s spin on Disney Infinity and Skylanders, is going to have Doctor Who & Portal 2 expansions, which means we’ll see Peter Capaldi and Chell in lego form.
We’ve hit the Fanfiction Singularity, folks. Gandalf wielding a Portal Gun and Harry Potter equipped with Batman’s utility belt, along with trusty pet K9, go back in time in the DeLorean to save Springfield from Dinosaurs from Jurassic World.
Wow. so that weekend happened.
Friday
Naked Magicians – there was magic, there was nakedness. would recommend!
Saturday
Megagame! – I was a mage in a maritime country, I may have caused a volcano to blow up right next to my city. But at least my god liked me! even when I helped banish magic from the realm…
10/10 would recommend
A bigger write up of this is coming, watch this space
Alt-J – I almost fell asleep but the concert was amazing!
Sunday
BOARD GAMES! – @redartifice @trjn @mrtaco @freya all came over – we played Cosmic encounter (Sooooo goood need to play more!) and 7 Wonders with Babel (Also good)
Gardening – ITS BULB PLANTING SEASON, PUT YOUR BULBS IN PEOPLE!
I planted Freesias, Daffodils, Tulips, Anemones and Ranunculi. My balcony is going to look so pretty in spring 🙂
How was everyone elses weekend?
Everyone was casting huge magic spells to wreck the land while @alexpants was just sitting around looking at his ponies.
related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbnoG2dsUk0
I don’t even need context for this.
I gave him an activity book, with stickers!
You put your bulbs in people? Monster!!!!!
http://33.media.tumblr.com/60c8ef1cca243b137657b6bef17cebd4/tumblr_inline_n3mke3fY0Y1rnite0.png
Lawdy I love that show more than I should. No, fuck that. It’s an ace show. Fucking gorgeous. \o/
there should probably be a comma in there somewhere, but its funnier as is 😛
We were going to go ice skating for Mothers’ Day but my wife fell over while rollerblading and hurt her elbow. So ended up just wandering down to a nice bakery for some lunch (all day breakfast woohoo!).
Got some good gaming sessions in. Finally finished Bravely Default (awesome ending credits sequence). Almost finished Bloodborne. Looking forward to Witcher 3 coming soon. My first Witcher game 🙂
I would strongly encourage you to check out Witcher 2 before you dive into Witcher 3. I don’t know how much of the story will directly continue but there’s a lot of background information and general world-building that goes on that serves as a nice introduction into the world.
Think I might make a start on Witcher 2 today. Hopefully if I buckle down I’ll be able to finish it by next Tuesday.
anyone else watch supernatural? spent my weekend doing that, up to S5, except most of Sunday i spent with my mum
*raises hand*
Haven’t watched the last half of the latest season yet, got distracted. It’s kind of terrible but I have fun with it.
I stopped season 2 >_>
Season 9 finished so well, and then 10 just went into what-the-fucksville after about 3 or 4 episodes and I stopped. Been meaning to get back on it, housemate loves it and reckons it’s picked up again.
I’ve only seen up to season 6. Was just telling myself last night I need to watch all the rest of the seasons.
Yeah I’ve watched it; have no clue where I’m up to now though (season 9-10 if there are that many seasons? last I remember. Probably end story spoilers ahead
Angels fell to earth and some massive war broke out between angelsAt the end of season five stop. Just burn the rest of it and maybe rewatch the first five seasons. The show has this amazingly well written and structured plot for seasons one to five that’s so subtle you don’t even realise what it’s done.
There’s this overall plan for the show that is incredible compared to the other stuff that was being released at the time. It’s funny, I would have never believed at the time that Lost was the one making it up episode to episode and Supernatural was the one that had the entire story mapped out from day one.
Then at season six they didn’t want to cancel the show even though the story was over, so they kept writing new stuff and lumping it on. I gave up around season seven so it might have made a recovery later on, but to me it’s all fan fiction past season five.
I forgot how much of a slog Borderlands 2 is when you’re soloing it. It just keeps going.
Yep, pretty much. I’ve been doing a new solo run with an sniper assassin on PC, I’m still one shotting a lot of the lesser minions, bigger guys take two/three, badasses about a clip.
I forgot why I never bothered finishing it. Thanks for the reminder.
Yeah while it’s a fun game co-op on it’s own it gets very grindy!
This is pretty much exactly why I haven’t finished the Presequel.
This is why I’ve never finished it. Got close to the end but fuck me it gets repetitive after a while.
First one was way better IMO because it wasn’t so sprawling.
I only made it through BL1 because my wife used her free time to slog through it then carried me through with her overlevelled character. BL2 was mostly co-opped but she was always a few missions ahead of me.
Great game, but I’m glad I didn’t have to do all the hard work myself.
Hey, TAY.
Weekend was okay, played Splatoon on Saturday, went with my parents for Mother’s Day on Sunday.
What did you think of Splatoon? I’m thinking of picking it up when it’s out!
Same, though I’d have to see some of the single-player before I can pass judgement.
PART TWO: THE MEGAGAME
Right.
So after a train and a bus I lobbed Saturday morning at the Narellan public library in my tricorn hat. After the initial “Oh god am I in the right place where the fuck am I why am I even in sydney” I spotted @trjn and @gingerchris86 so it was OK. After a wait and a mix-up with the badges we were shown to the Azmont table (me, Bun and @alexpants’ nation) which we discovered was next door to our ancient rivals, the Ezren (boooooo). We had a pretty clear plan going in- as a western nation hemmed in by two mountain regions, we needed to be a major player in whatever happened in the centre of the shared continent. The basic set up was that an external force (The imperials) had landed ships on the north and south coast and their intentions were unknown, and the 8 nations of Idrinor each had to respond int heir own way
First up we had a briefing on our roles. I was playing the Aristocrat, which was the team diplomat and was a purely social role- I had to talk. and talk. and talk. and talk.
And lie and persuade and wheedle and drop misinformation and argue.
Each round of the game, I had to attend a council meeting, where I and my corresponding numbers in the other teams would discuss matters. Occasionally these would descend into trivial matters, but often it would be a pretty high-level discussion and alliance brokering. We’d decided that as the Azmont our goal was to keep the roads open and trade flowing through the centre without imperial presence, and that’s what I pushed for in every meeting- as other nations got bogged down in cults and plagues and rebellions, we continued to push our agenda relatively unmolested.
In the first council briefing, one of the other teams said “Follow us on twitter.” The second I heard that, I knew we had to have one too:
https://twitter.com/azmont
So over the day I’d go back to the council and push whatever our agenda was at the time, while helping Bun stitch up alliances and deals with other nations. We quickly cut a deal with the nation to our South East, the Revani, and worked with them and the nation to our east to control the centre of the map. Our path wasn’t always smooth, but our general managed to keep a lot of it contained.
At least until some of the nations got awfully trigger happy with magical nukes (and, in @gingerchris86′ case, with Tsunamis). That destabilised a lot of the board and brought a whole bunch of issues to the fore, including a council session that was cut short by a GIANT FUCKING FIREBALL.
There was also one side issue that affected us that I thought was a little bit poor taste. Someone on the Idrinor hashtag had claimed one of the nations was against gay marriage, which was an obvious imperial disinformation campaign. The issue came up at the council, and rather than make it a thing, we just passed a unanimous resolution in favour of marriage equality.
Yaaaaaaay!
Except two rounds later, one of the city states within our borders apparently started lynching homosexuals and suddenly I had to go before the council and explain it.
Booooooo.
One, it was a side issue to the actual game, and two, how the hell did we get from armies and dragons to persecuting gay people? I thought it was a bit tonally inappropriate on behalf of the moderators. I said to our mod that we’d deal with the problem but I didn’t want the issue to arise again and he agreed, apparently it was a left hand/right hand thing.
Anyway, other things I did:
– We let the imperials on the council for a time, and I had to stop a council session from turning into an inquisition. Some people were getting pretty damn intense
– We stitched up an aid deal for a couple of plague starved nations
– I acted as a neutral mediator between to other warring nations
– I supported Bun to stitch up a five nation alliance against the imps
– Towards the end, I tabled a motion for TOTAL WAR against the imperials, especially after we found out the gods favoured our victory (I won’t spoil how)
Anyway, we got to the end of the day having repelled the imperial threat. After helping pack up we went to the pub and they handed out awards:
https://twitter.com/redartifice/status/596958865800859649/photo/1
Yaaaaaaay!
All in all, I had a great day. Would totally megagame again, and I may even see if I can scrape something together here in Adelaide. @shiggyninty put the idea in my head about a cyberpunk themed game and it wont stop rattling around in there…
Megagame! Spoilered for length.
Here are the basics of the megagame: the game was set on the continent of Idrinor where there were a handful of provinces that formed after the emperor was something something. I was the head of Azmont, the descendants of the first men who placed a great deal of importance of holding down our land. @RedArtifice was our diplomat, @alexpants was our mage and a woman with a possibly broken foot, Linda, was our warlord.Red went to council meetings and did diplomacy stuff, Pants sat around playing with ponies because he didn’t have any useful spells and Linda went about claiming all of the Western quarter of the continent. I bossed them around.An Imperial army had landed on our shores and nobody really knew what their intentions were. There were also a group of scribes wandering around trying to work out what was going on.From the start, I wanted control of a fort that was between our territory and the Revani’s (the province that held the south coast). We were meant to be friendly with them from the start so we used that to say we wanted the fort as a launching point to help protect them. It became our first alliance and held for the entire game. I think I spent more time at their table then ours.The Imperials came to everyone in the south (Jeycahn, Revani, Ezren and Azmont) asking for permission to move their troops through our collective territories so that they could deal with our “mutual enemy” the Varlsuh (the province to our north with a mountain range in the way). We told the Imperials that they can go around us but not to step foot on our territory while the other provinces were more “okay, go through but don’t mess with us”. We didn’t trust them and once they said they wanted to unite Idrinor under “a banner”, we were pretty sure that they were here as conquerors.We formed an alliance pretty quickly with Jeycahn to lock down the center of the map and that became an informal alliance between the four southern provinces. It turns out that the Revani’s goal for the game was to form this alliance. That’s okay, our goal was to expand our territory to their borders and then protect it from any threats. This alliance meant that our immediate neighbours were doing all of the heavy lifting (and meant we had our allies armies along our northern borders dealing with the Imperials for most of the game).It didn’t take long for the Imperials to wreck the Varlsuh’s faces and they moved in to a fort immediately north of our capital. At the time, it wasn’t clear if the Varlsuh had rolled over and made a deal or if they just got smashed. So we asked them to prove their loyalty to Idrinor by staging an attack on the fort. They would lead, we would support.The Imperials told Varlsuh that they would back off out of the fort. After saying this for two turns, we finally convinced the Varlsuh to take the fort back. It was really lucky that we did. Although there were dragons mucking about there, so it wasn’t easy. Apparently, I don’t really know, I was pretty removed from all combat.Around this time, the Imperials were also assaulting a fort on our borders held by the Revani and shared with the Jeycahn, while trying to take our fort to the south. I think the Revani and Jeycahn held it while we lost our fort.Because Varlsuh had proven themselves, I was trying to bring them into our alliance to turn it into the Five Nation Alliance. It was going to be all sorted out at the Council except for one small hitch: the council meeting got interrupted thanks to some unusual storms. Of fire. Many died.So the Scribes decided it was time to let everyone know that they were in fact the gods that we’d been making token sacrifices to all game. More importantly, they were siding with Idrinor and not the Imperials. So some holy armies showed up and all of the leaders banded together in an alliance (which we’d already sorted out but the three remaining leaders that were excluded from everything were now on board).You would think the god of war with his holy armies could deal with the imperial threat. To be honest, they could. Aside from one small hitch: the imperial armies had a spell that reversed the outcome of one battle (turning a routing into a euphoric victory) and another spell that made zombies out of all the soldiers that died in battle.Not great.So Varlsuh retaliated by dropping the equivalent of a magical nuke on top of the Imperial forces in Jeycahn.Because we were all sick of the nonsense spells the Imperials were pulling off (they also kept pulling dragons out of their asses), the mages all banded together and banished magic from the realm. It would have been a clever move that secured victory for us aside from one minor detail. The Imperials had already blown their wad and were basically out of magic.Still, it seemed like a good idea at the time.From this point on, Azmont didn’t really do anything. I had our warlord out trying to reclaim some territory we lost to barbarians while using the rest of our troops to assault forts that the Imperials held. She probably would have been successful but due to time constraints, she didn’t get to act in the last two turns.In the end, the Imperials weren’t strong enough to conquer us and ran away with their tails between their legs. Their goal was to capture and occupy five forts across Idrinor for three turns. They came close several times but didn’t pull it off.At the end of the day, I feel like we had won. We had captured and controlled the territories relevant to us. We had a strong alliance who were actively defending our territories for us and I found out that you can achieve quite a lot of diplomacy by offering lot and lots of gummi bears.TL;DR Gummi bear diplomacy > fireball diplomacy.
My post is stuck in moderation
Posts with multiple links are fun like that.
Yeah. I think I’ll do a more in depth write-up when I’m at home with my notes, I’ll flick it to you if you want to cannibalise anything for your article.
I’m starting to think that writing about the specific events probably won’t work too well. Happy to cannibalise anyway, just in case there’s a tasty, tasty liver in there.
Yeah, experiential rather than blow-by-blow is probably better.
I read all of that, that game seems like fun. super duper fun.
It really was, would 100% recommend people try a megagame at some point.
Main criticism was that @alexpants didn’t have a lot to do a lot of the time- me and @trjn were running around all game, and our general was off fighting wars, but he had to kinda go “Are we using spells this turn? No? OK.”
I mentioned that in the feedback form. My logic is that our spells were much, much more powerful if you assume that resources were more scarce. We could boost resource production and move our armies easily. Those are both really useful if everyone doesn’t have so many resources that they’re casually dropping 200 food off at their ally so that it doesn’t rot.
I mentioned a bunch of stuff in my feedback, including that.
Patrick posted someone’s feedback on the Facebook page:
That could have been pretty much anyone we were allied with.
It was really, really fun.
Being the leader, a lot of it was Red coming to me with stuff about the council and me going “I don’t know, I just care about making sure the Imperials aren’t doing X”. Meanwhile, our warlord would be sitting at the table furiously working out how much food it would take to move our armies and capture specific territories. Which would always be immediately followed by her asking if we had the resources to do it (typically 5-15 food) and me saying “oh yeah, we have like 300 food, go nuts”.
Then there was the running around to other people, throwing gummi bears in their faces and telling them to defend our homeland.
It was so much fun, I’ll be writing my post, and about the seahorse stuff too, soon
week 3 with no employment.
I really want to build some stuff but i need money to buy tools that i want to not spent for stuff like rent and food.
I have applied for a few jobs but if i cant find anything in the next month im gonna move back home and just figure my shit out, ive been doing the same thing for 7 years, so maybe i need to re-evaluate and see if its what i want to do. Maybe go back and study electronic engineering. Maybe start a small business. I just know that im sick of dealing with asshole bosses who are just cruel and only worry about the bottom line and dont care if they get it unethically or unsafely.
I hope you can find something good, or be able to do your own thing 🙂
After working 6 years in the engineering sector I finally realised I didn’t like it. It’s never, ever too late for an upgrade/career switch
Its scary because its all ive ever known, I still enjoy working with electronics, but i feel like its not something i can do with my current knowledge and qualifications.
So I really wanted to see Ex Machina. Arrange to see it. @sughly wants to see earlier session which is fucking hard for me to get to. I rearrange my whole day including pulling my eldest out of school to go with my wife to work so I don’t have to drop her off at 9 and pay $100 short notice fee to get my youngest into daycare. I get up there 10mins late after travelling over two hours and can’t find the entrance. Texts from @dc tell me the movie hasn’t started. Hey can you get me?
We’ll see you after the movie.
Thanks guys. Thanks a whole fucking bunch.
Two of my only real friends and I’m not even worth more than some fucking trailers.
Guess it’s just confirmation how worthless I am in general. Stupid of me to think otherwise.
You arent worthless,
Hugs man.
Woah! I don’t wanna get involved and pick sides, but fuck!
Also, you’re not worthless. I think you’re pretty awesome man.
*brohug*
You are not worthless mate, *sends massive hugs*
You’re not worthless mate, the fact you jumped on a train from Gold Coast to Brisbane to make me feel welcome in this community is proof of that. Hope all is well.
Mate, you are not worthless. Don’t go down the path of self-blame/criticism it never ends well and is a bad thing to get into the habit of, I should know, I did it for 16 years and it never got me anywhere but depressed. All you can do is be yourself and do your best. I wish you well.
I wasn’t there so I’m not going to offer an opinion on what happened.
What I do know is that you are anything but worthless. There are times where I think about asking advice on shoes and such, or asking you to engrave the Alan wake logo on a torch. Stuff I know I couldn’t do as well as you or alone.
I also want to add, this place would not be the same without you. Your humour and wisdom is highly valued.
The crappy customer stories are pretty great too (i can’t spell customer)
Oi
You
You aint worthless.
Aint.
Aw man, that really sucks 🙁
It probably doesn’t mean anything right now, but for the record, you are one of the best people I know. One of my favourites, too. You’re straightforward and honest, and generous to an extreme fault. I sincerely value you as a friend, and am glad to have you in my life.
In before @blaghman’s obligatory “GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY”
Ugh, you people know me too well.
I’m gonna need a new shtick.
*waddles away insulting himself and crying over how sad and pathetic his hair is now while simultaneously singing songs from Broadway versions of Disney movies*
Also flexing.
Both arms and legs now
Not worthless. Ever. I know worthless people. You don’t strike me as one. Don’t ever let other people dictate to you your self worth. I’ve never met you, but I count you one of the most no-bullshit people on here, and as someone who hates bullshit with the fire of a thousand suns, you have my respect.
I’m not going to get involved, but you’re far from worthless, Freezy.
You should go have a killer day by yourself!
Go to Max Brenners!
Go to that comic book store with the figures!
Go have fun!
Chin up, Freezy 🙂
That’s… weird. Surprising.
Hope you still went and saw a later session or something to salvage the trip, but I can’t say if I were in your place I wouldn’t have been too bummed out to bother.
Freeeeze, cmon man. Honestly, your messages before we went in were ‘I’m not far away’, we had no reason to think you wouldnt find it. I never got any message about getting picked up? I thought of offering it when you said about the train getting in 10 minutes before the film, but I know it can take a long take to find parks (which it did, took me nearly 20 mins), and knew it would much quicker timewise for you to just walk over – I figured with google maps and stuff its pretty easy to navigate. We only went in because we thought you were definitely going to make it, we just didnt know how late and figured it didnt make sense for all of us to miss some of the beginning.
If I knew it was such a hassle to go to this session I would never have agreed, but you made it out that 10am was fine and that you just had to get up a bit earlier. I’m sorry you missed it man, I would never have agreed to this time if I knew it was such a hassle and so costly too, I had no idea! But, you know, we werent doing anything intentionally malicious.
Probably not the place for this, mate.
Actually, now that I’ve thought on it, I think it’s been a miscommunication.
They probably thought you’d still go in to the movie, and then you’d all meet up outside after the movie and hangout.
Still pretty lame, like, one of them could (should) have come and got you to sit with them. That’s what going to the movies together is, all sitting together…
Still, hopefully you go do something else fun in the meantime 🙂
It was probably just a miscommunication…
I tried to play Dragon Age: Inquisition to push past the boring. However after a massive patch it looks like EA have broken the game again as it can’t register the game (????) with the EA servers…
Back on the shit pile with you Dragon Age.
I just can’t get into the game. Everyone seems to love it but I’m not feeling much connection with the story or character. Maybe I need to get further, but to me it’s more about completing and collecting everything rather than focusing on the story. I haven’t loaded it up in a while though
Exactly the same. I was conned again by reviews even when I waited until after launch.
It’s ok Cufc and monkey you guys aren’t alone. I pushed the through the boredom and basically just had a collecting game to show for it in the end. There’s nothing compelling about collecting any of the hundreds of things scattered around the world and while its definitely a pretty game that’s about as far my interest in it went. I think BioWare designed this game without remembering any of the previous DA titles and I should’ve realized the tweet telling people to get out of the Hinterlands was confirmation of that. In DA:Origins you had to search under every goddamned rock to unlock side quests and stories you could really easily miss, in DA:I you can look under every goddamned rock and find the same pointless variation of a side quest.
Ironically for me the best part of the game (which wasn’t even all that good) was the multiplayer component.
The side quests are mostly rubbish. They’re not even really quests, they’re just collecting things for the sake of collecting things. The main story isn’t that great either. I do think the game occasionally has its moments though, and there is a certain charm about it.
Really hoping that future DA games (and ME too) do away with all the collection stuff, but given how heavily the game has been praised I doubt they’ll bother doing much different from DA:I.
Yea, I had a lot of trouble getting into it. The story felt like it was diluted by all the MMO-like side-stuff – there’s an army of demons on the horizon, better pick some herbs for that lady so she doesn’t need to brave the dangers of her own freaking garden. *sigh* Maybe I’ll jump back into it after the Witcher 3, set it to “enemies fall over when I glance at them” difficulty and focus on the story, which is rather good, from what I hear.
I loved it, but I read… everything. Including codex entries.
Also, the gathering REALLY got in the way. Like seriously. Many materials you actually needed to re-visit areas to get enough of them to be useful. Farming like in an MMO. That’s… not ideal.
I would prefer rarer non respawning materials that you had to genuinely search for in order to unlock or craft upgrades; ideally not having enough resources to craft every single upgrade so that your choices have genuine consequences on your play style.
But like os pointed out the game rated well an EA/BioWare are no longer known for their innovation so they’ll just keep rehashing the same crap over and over again.
I finished the game easily while barely bothering with crafting. Definitely never went out of my way to farm anything.
I had this response too, took two complete restarts to get into the game properly. It takes forever to really get moving, never hits the same sort of highs as other bioware stuff, and the actual story content is way out of balance with the amount of shit you can muck around doing. It’s an okay game but it’s nowhere near the standard I expected. I actually enjoyed DA2 more. :\
Tips:
– Get out of the Hinterlands ASAP
– Advance the story to the point you can pick up some better companions. Varric is fine and Cassandra develops nicely further in, but the bulk of the time they’re boring. Even their banter’s uninteresting. You need to have Dorian in your party. And Iron Bull if he fits in (but he’s great to have around regardless).
– Each area after the Hinterlands has a sort of ‘area story’ which is worth following through. Some of the areas are pretty great, like the one with the rift underneath the lake – reminded me of Jade Empire.
Everything is go at work this morning. Finally get a chance to do a weekend post.
Pretty good weekend! Made the trip home to see Mum for Mothers Day. I’d made a big tart to give her. When I got there I saw she’d already bought a cheesecake for dessert. So we had two desserts. I didn’t complain.
Managed to sneak in a play of the Splatoon demo too which was great fun. Really looking forward to that now.
Also I finished my If You Are The One candidate costume. There’s a photo on my Twitter. I should just wear it all the time.
Welp, still no fatebringer, and my warlock is still hat-less. Did score another Gjally, and the Fang of Ir Yut (last weapon I wanted from Crota), so not a total wash.
Also saw two amazing movies – Guardians of the Galaxy (finally) and Knights of Badassdom. The former was quite likely the first movie that lived up to its hype. The latter was cheesy as hell, and absolutely hilarious.
I mean, where else can you see Peter Dinklage charging at a demon screaming “Fuck you and the moustache you rode in on!” XD And that last fight… so good!The Fang is probably my favourite weapon right now
Yea, I’m really liking it – spray and play works really well, and as an arc primary it’s easier to handle than Oversoul Edict or Praedyth’s; just wish it had full auto in there somewhere – VoC has spoiled me in that regard.
SYDNEY REPORT: PART THE THIRD
Sunday I went to @gingerchris86’s lovely house and played Board Games with him, Anton, @trjn, @freya and @mrtaco
Cosmic Encounter is almost a perfect Red game: It’s all about wheeling and dealing in SPAAAAAAAAACE! Managed to cruise to a Coalition victory with Anton.
Also, 7 wonders. Bun scooped me by a point
Then I flew home and back to reality. Booooooo.
It was such a good morning, apologies for kicking you all out, but we had stuff to do.
I need to play more Cosmic, Having withdrawals.
I lost Cosmic by a point and won 7 Wonders by a point. I’m okay with that.
What’s your point?
No point he just likes winning.
ALOT
Is anyone here a particularly good cook? I need some suggestions.
Last year when my mum had an operation, I ended up doing a bunch of cooking of fancy things for her and came up with a really crispy fried eggplant thing that she loved and I’ve never been able to replicate since. I was using the char grilled eggplant slices you can get in a jar of oil and when I cooked it the first time, it ended up really crisp like bacon tends to but every time I’ve tried it since it’s just gotten hot & limp (make your own lewd jokes there).
I definitely squeezed most of the oil out when I did it right, eggplant seems to be basically a sponge (which explains the taste) so I wanted to make sure it wasn’t just going to be wet & greasy when pan fried. I’ve never managed to get it as crisp as the first time, any suggestions as to what I’m doing wrong?
Best suggestions I can give: use thin slices of eggplant and a really hot pan.
Also, if possible, use fresh eggplant rather than the stuff in oil as it will dry out quicker on the heat, which I think is what you’re after- something closer to a chip than a slice? Try getting your eggplant slices fairly thin, pre-bake them on a tray, then put them in a hot skillet or, even better, a griddle or barbecue plate
The oil is actually important to help crisp it up. Think about roast potatoes, you can’t get them crisp without some sort of fat.
Yeah, you add that to the pan or griddle and get it crispy through there. Important part is you remove a lot of the moisture before hitting the oil
That’s why Thrice cooked chips are so great
thrice cooked chips, oh godddd, I miss chips.
If you crumb it you might have better results, make sure the pan is super hot and only put a few slices in, too many slices and you will make the temp of the oil go down dramatically which will result in limp eggplant.
Even a basic flouring and salting will wick moisture to the surface.
I have never seen the word wick used in that way. i now understand why its called solder wick. 😛 IT SUCKS THE SOLDER UP
Also why sports socks claim to “wick” sweat away.
Also also John Wick wicks Johns.
Hahahah god, that movie 😀
It’s also the function of the wick in a candle. It wicks the melted wax up to the flame.
cc: @janexo & @cookingmama
My friend! Cornstarch is what you need here; it will work better than regular flour.
I would take a fresh aubergine, slice it to desired thickness (if we’re talking that real crunchy crispness, make them nice fine little slices, or if you like it crispy on the outside, a little chewy on the inside, go maybe half a cm), coat with the cornstarch and shake off excess, dip slices one at a time into a beaten egg white and then dip into your breadcrumbs (panko would be excellent for this, with maybe some parmesan and pepper added in), and then fry until all crispy and gold.
I would also suggest using Sesame or Peanut oil (best for high heats), and use the three step method for heating – 1) allow your cooktop to get to the right heat (high) 2) add your griddle or frying pan and allow that to heat through 3) add your oil and allow that to heat through – best way to tell is to drop a little piece of bread in – you’ll hear that lovely sizzle and bubbles will form around it quickly.
Good luck!
Hmm, certainly sounds promising. I can’t say I eat the nasty muck myself but I’m trying to make it for mum so as long as she likes it…
Is cornstarch the same as cornflour? What does heating the pan before adding the oil accomplish, does it work better if the oil is added to a hot pan? I’ve never really noticed a difference but then it’s not something I’ve really taken the time to analyse
Cornstarch is a little thicker, but cornflour is fine if you have it. You want it to have that kind of weird, squeaky feeling when you grab a handful of it.
The three-heating method is really great to ensure an even cooking surface and that the consistency of the oil is the same – this is particularly helpful as well if your cooktop or pan is not entirely even, or has hotspots. It allows the food to cook more evenly all over.
Kind of like when you think “I’ll just pick up that ball of fluff” and it turns out to be a mouse?
Hmm, I’ll have to give the heating tip a try, I always thought that adding oil to a hot pan would just scorch it & generate more smoke than effect
There are already some excellent tips here. One of my favourite variations is to crumb the eggplant in polenta instead of breadcrumbs. You get a really dense, crunchy crust. Serve it with a spicy tomato sauce: http://www.thriftyveggiemama.com/2013/01/cornmeal-crusted-baked-eggplant/
Another thought is that small young lebanese eggplant have much less water than their bigger cousins. Simply slice them in half and cook. I really like them grilled like this – it’s not crispy like fried eggplant but it’s super delicious: http://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/miso-grilled-eggplant-dengaku-nasu
Hmm, polenta is a good thought and especially handy since I bought a fairly large bag of it for a deep dish pizza dough experiment and ended up using less than 50g of it. Might try that crumbed eggplant thing substituting zucchini & see how that works.
So I fixed up dead island riptide’s Fov, so if anyone is up for 4 player shenanigans, let me know.
@sernobulus @shane @freezespreston
http://9gag.com/gag/aB3beMP
I have now seen the best gif ever made and ever will be made … What do I do with my life now?
I forgot to tag @markserrels
Woo! I’m up for some Riptide shenanigans!
So i read reddit DIY a fair bit and my god people are fucking dumb. So many people who dont even know what a multimeter is are doing there own electrical work, then when you tell them its probably a bad idea, they get all pissy saying this is a DIY thread. So i feel the need to post this here too
UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING 100% and even if you do know what you are doing dont fuck around with electricity. I have heard so many stories of burns or other shitty things happening just because people dont know what they are doing. I knew a guy in TAFE who ran a cable that wasn’t suited to the load of the circuit he was using it for. The wire heated up, melted the outer sheath and nearly caused a fire.
Anyway rant over, Be safe pumpkins.
How… How can you do anything close to electrical work without knowing what a multimeter is?
Wha?
How?
Ergh.
Yep.
A big part of why i quit my job was because the boss wanted me to work on 240V stuff. I know enough about mains electricity to stay safe when testing stuff but aint no way in hell would I be rewiring or changing out breakers. Even though i know how. The simple fact is that the doubt of not knowing exactly what goes to where and why can kill or injure you severely. So even though i have my restricted electrical license i won’t touch anything 240V live or not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
They’re too incompetent to understand they’re incompetent.
Yeah, I don’t touch anything electrical because that’s not something I’m willing to try and fumble my way through until I get something right or I end up dead. Anything else around the house I’m willing to have a go at sorting out but there’s a reason why people need to be qualified before they can run around calling themselves electricians
On the radio this morning, the acting head of Victorian police urged everyone to keep an eye out for suspicious behaviour, especially things like young people taking an interest in how things work, like electricity and batteries.
I’M ON TO YOU, ROCKET.
Magnets how do they work?
Alchemy and metaphysics. Various forbidden magicks.
Angels. Very small ones. Invisible. They stand on each other’s shoulders and find the iron bits and bring it back with them. That’s why the bigger the magnet is the further it can pull iron from – there’s more miniature angels on the magnet so they can make a bigger stack.
Electricity and batteries?
Really? They said that? Goddammit.
“Young people taking an interest in how things work” “especially batteries” (I recall these exact quotes from ABC radio this morning)
I am not shitting you. The context was in regards to the 17 year old arrested in the northern suburbs of Melbourne for planning to bomb a public event, but even so, that kind of generalised fear mongering is just fucked up.
hahahah that is just so terrible in so many ways.
Beware of young people with an interest in how things work? Otherwise known as a sign of intelligence?
Bloody hell.
Governments don’t like smart people. Smart people figure out their schemes.
That’s why school funding is always on a knife-edge and teachers are paid peanuts. Good teachers and well-funded schools could disrupt the controlling hold that casual racism and fearmongering have granted our leaders.
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-11/melbourne-teen-terror-suspect-in-court/6459070
Gotta watch those young people. Why, just the other day, my two year old tried to stick a fork in an electrical outlet. When we told him it was unsafe, he asked why. Of course, being responsible citizens, we refused to answer the question, and restrained him bodily until police could attend the scene. I feel relieved that we responded appropriately.
“Police arrest a three year old this morning for asking “Why?” too many times, questioning the Australian way of life and in turn, under suspicion for terrorism”
#alertbutnotalarmed
CURIOSITY SHALL NOT BE COUNTENANCED
CONSUME
OBEY
CONSUME
OBEY
I still remember my dad’s words. He started life as a sparky (he’s now high up in QLD Public Service as some Accreditation manager for trains) (NOTE: No, he is not responsible for the timetable/public works – you wouldn’t know him, because he and his department are effing brilliant at their job).
Day 1 of apprenticeship of being a sparky: Oh yeah, I got this. Goes home. Works on my nan’s light, switching a light fitting. She mentions that a powerpoint isn’t working well. He pops the cover off and gets to work…and promptly gets blown across the room and can’t stop shaking for three days.
He still has the entry burn scar on his thumb.
And that kids is why I always call a sparky, even if it’s something stupid like changing a light fitting.
Scary shit. I accidentally grabbed an extension lead that was plugged in right on top of a light puddle outdoors once. Didn’t quite get blasted, but got a fairly unsettling buzz off it and a decidedly weird taste in my mouth for about an hour after. That was enough to teach me a lesson on electricity.
YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME
*licks 9v battery*
It’s not even like multimeters are a) expensive or b) hard to use. They’re like a kitchen scale!
They’re so useful to have around the house, even if you just use them for testing batteries 🙂
God I suck. Started on Guacamelee: Super Turbo Fancy Schmancy Edition this morning, only up to the Temple Of Rain and I’m already stuck and have to look up walkthrough videos.
So yeah, I guess it might be better to post this earlier in the week.
I’m not planning to make this a regular weekly thing again… (I don’t want to risk influencing people’s posting patterns.)
Would people prefer me not to do mentions so they don’t get spammed about “zomg, someone mentioned you!” via email?
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Post #1: @evilmonkey on May 4, 2015 8:31 am
Post #1000: @shane on May 7, 2015 8:43 am
You know, you are a pretty great dude.
Like this is fucking cool. HI 5 mang.
\o
Was @jocon writing essays? 😛
Best kind of posts. 🙂
Nah, just one way too long reply to Beavwa.
The what if I could rule the world with a master device reply!
That works as well 😀
There was a time when I was getting something like 800 words/post because I was throwing entire stories up in TAY. Now I’m smart and just link them instead. 😛
I love stats. Great work, Fled.
Dear ______________,
Thanks for your (encouragement|
viscious criticism|basket of chocolate chip cookies).The (
plague|statistics|poorly timed stand up comedy bit) I recently released on this (internet forum|isolated amazonian village|stage, in front of a crowd I can count on my thumbs,) was mostly (made up on the spot|the result of a bet that I lost involving a nest of ants and three dozen eggs|a script) that I (endured|spent time in jail for|wrote) back in 2012.While I haven’t (
danced the samba|posted the output|contemplated the meaning of life) in a while, it’s mostly due to my (gastrointestinal problems|laziness|planet needs me, I must go).Be assured, all (feedback is|
cookies are|enormous piles of cookies are) appreciated, and I hope (your time travelling expedition|your day|Cthulhu) is (great|pleased with your offering|happy with your choice of decor).(
Hail Hydra|Regards|C is for cookie, that’s good enough for me.)–fled
P.S. If anyone is (
a goat|interested|an interested goat), the (script|magic|science) is based on (a secret I’m not allowed to tell|a magnetic monopole|a hackjob of python, using BeautifulSoup).Well, you’ve just won TAY for this week.
I can’t tell if the post is sad or brilliant…. Most definitely the sign of an evil genius.
Oh man, now I want to play Evil Genius
Yeah that game was amazing; EA are probably going to make a F2P mobile game if people talk about it too often though!
Dammit, I’ve ruined it now 🙁 I was thinking though that Counterspy has a really similar artwork to Evil Genius and that would’ve tied in well to playing missions when you select them from your base. Shame the games are about a decade apart in the making
Brilliance.
Has the sheer number of upvotes given you inspiration to hack in some sort of upvote counter as well?
I dropped a place, fuarrrrr
I went from 6th to 19th. 🙁
Now we use these stats to shame whoever’s slacking behind!! Clearly they’re the problem spots of TAY!
Also yay #10!! I knew my constant procrastination of work would one day amount to something!
Well there’s some unexpected nostalgia. Now I have even more regrets over not posting last week.
#4. Not bad, but I won’t rest until I’ve reclaimed my once-firm Top 2 position.
Edit: and post 1000. Shit yeah. I’m gonna go for that again!
What was that you said about changing post patterns?
I won’t let you claim that spot without a fight!! THE POST WARS HAVE BEGUN!
Yeah, as good as it was, it’s better not to have it, so as not to risk anyone spamming.
I don’t mind spam, as long as it has some flavour to it! Every week, folks lament that TAY is slowing down. If someone can entertain me with a series of weird rants, more power to them.
Yeah, but then you get pages that are just filled so people can try and up their post count. It’s pretty annoying.
60? Ah jesus, now I gotta decide between assassinating the lower numbers or dividing the list into social classes and start a revolution.
Why not do both! \o/
I’M NOT LISTENING TO YOUR PROPOGANDA, NUMBER FOUR.
I used to post so much I feel bad that I dont post heaps anymore
I remember…
I remember the glory days…
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-157/comment-page-3/#comment-621162
I’m sorry… but who even are you?!
I JOKE! =PHuh. I’ve been weirdly consistent.
I like looking through that list, because there’s like three of me there, and about a dozen from Pez.
There were posts there from refertodice, redactedfish, and retartedfice.
You do realise ‘retardedface’ is never going away. I must periodically remind you. Cannot. Unsee.
man i used to post alot, i can’t even think of 289 things i would need to say in a week. Like did i comment every time i think i found a pube?
It was mostly lovable and endearing stories about how Rockets fucked up or did something funny that day, if memory serves.
Better than commenting every time you got even so much as a sideways glance from a girl 😛
Shit. Forgot how long I’ve been pottering around this place. Huh. There you go.
I was below Yellowius…
Quietly proud of my avg words/post stats.
Yes I was 60, I will climb higher
Wow first time I have ever ranked before.
Guess I did have something to contribute this time :o)
Spoiled the wife rotten yesterday with a huge platter of cheeses and nibbles. Cleaned the house, looked after the kid. Didn’t help she was getting over a cold.
Also finished Broken Age last night with the wife. That is unfortunately the ONLY game of 2015 I’ve finished. My (pile of) shame knows no bounds.
Broken Age wasn’t that hard for me, simply because I grew up on Sierra Adventure games and have adventure game logic burned into my brain. BUT
Spoilered:
It really sucks from a game design point of view that you HAVE to switch between the characters to learn something AS THE PLAYER – NOT AS A CHARACTER – to use on the other character. A number of times.Also, gotta say the story was a bit of a let down. Introducing the major big bad in the final third of the game? Nah, not cool.All in all, I give it 7.5/10 with the majority of that being for the dialogue and the art direction.
CHEESE. Bring me some brie, jarlsberg and some wensleydale with cranberries. Bliss
Anyone doing Lite n Easy, I heartily recommend the lamb rogan josh. Yes I just had a dinner for my lunch. Yes I’ll need to resist the temptation not to have another dinner for dinner. Yes I would’ve lost weight this weekend if I hadn’t’ve eaten Maccas and KFC over the weekend
My advice to folks at the gym is that there are no real ‘dinner/breakfast’ foods, some foods are better than others at certain times of days for physiological reasons though.
As long as the foods have the nutrients you need over the course of the day, then eat! 😀
It’s all about a balanced diet and moderation rather than cutting stuff out completely, but yeah I know there’s no problem with having a big meal at lunch and then having a smaller one at the end of the day a few hours before bed. In fact, it’s probably more beneficial for weightloss to do it like that so you’re still burning off the majority of your food while you’re still up and about and doing things.
Whatever works for each individual though. I get annoyed when people are stubborn in their advice in saying ‘this worked for me, you must be doing it wrong if it isn’t working for you’, whether it be for weight loss or bulking up.
I also just like Lite n Easy because I’m lazy 😀 we did do 5.4 but the variety of meals wasn’t as good but the quality of meals were a bit better
What people fail to understand with diets and exercise is sustainability. If you can find a routine and a meal set that you enjoy incorporating into your life then you’re more likely to stick with it which is more important even if its less effective than what personal trainers or body builders are on!
Persistence is key in any kind of weight loss/exercise program as the human body is one stubborn piece of meat =@
Edit: Moral of the story is do what works for you! If you think it doesn’t work then change it up; if it does then stick with it!
Its official I have caught a cold/flu this is it I’ve had a good run *dead*
Your username finally caught up with you then?
No, if there’s fever as well, he’d be WarmCamV…
Doctors love to confuse people.
‘Are you running a high temperature?’
‘Yes’
‘You have a cold’
‘…’
It makes no sense to me either
I sound like a katy perry song
I only watch her videos
You’re a Teenage Dream?
Exactly if it wasnt for need of money id take the whole week off
Busy weekend. Had a good time hanging out with Red and co on Friday and Sunday. Cosmic Encounter was fun, it was nice playing a game where I had some idea of what was going on. 7 Wonders I mostly just looked around confused and picked random cards 😛
Mum went and found out more stuff about her surprise new family, ended up chancing upon someone putting together a family tree that looked to involve her birth mum which seems to be a cousin of hers, so met up with her on Saturday and found out a bunch of things and got some pictures. Still seems to have more of a resemblance to my grandparents than any of this lot though 😛
Through a combination of save-scumming and editing, I twisted the RNG to my will so I could unlock the Crystal Cruiser in FTL and move on with things. Still need to beat it with the Slug ship of all the B types, I got to the end with it last night and earnt the C but got decimated by the rebel ship thanks mostly to the Repair stations being too far away and getting overrun before I could reach them. The crappy weapons set didn’t help.
I still smell like smoke from roasting chestnuts for dessert last night. But it’s not as nice as usual. I probably shouldn’t have thrown all the shells onto the fire, it seems to have worked out for the worse 😛
I’m just gonna sit here and count down to May 19th because there’s no other games for me to talk about until then :'(
May 19th for Witcher 3, May 20th for House of Wolves I think it was.
As excited as I am for both, June is my month to look forward to. Arkham Knight and then Bethesda conference at E3 😀 there’d better be no ‘behind doors’ gameplay reveals of Fallout 4. Plus it’s my birthday next month 😀
Arkham Knight is my “buy a PS4” game
Uncharted 4 for me… *waits patiently*
Is this the real life?
Or just Fanta sea…
*fast forward to Wayne’s World headbanging*
Cordina landslide,
Noah’s cape from reality
Open doll eyes
Luke up to his sky’s and see
I’m just appalled, boy
I.D.’d your symphony
Because I’m squeezy gum, squiggie glue
Lit a lie,
Lead too low
In the way of windows,
Does reveal a mat
Unto me?
Tomb E.
I may have been drunk just about every time this has been sung at meats, but I’m at least 94% sure we got all the lyrics right, good job guys!
Every time I call up our work places HelpDesk hotline and I talk to a new lady HelpDesk employee she invariably sounds like a total babe (For context I call often and have spoken to about 6 different people, I normally get the same guys but I talk to a new girl seemingly every 2nd month). This has led me to believe a large percentile of the IT Servicing industry are made up of babes.
I know some of us here have worked in the IT service industry, please help me with this musing I have every time I speak to a lady helping me with my I.T/Anything issue.
Can anyone please confirm or deny if my theory is correct?
It’s probably a dude using a voice modulator.
…I mean, no, we don’t do that. Don’t be silly.
This was my fear.
It always happens to me though, from the other side of it. I had a client a while ago that I always assumed was roughly my age from the voice over the phone. I went in to their office one day to run a training session, met her and realised she was about 50 years old 😛
I just stop assuming now.
And that is why Pow doesn’t arrange dates over the phone anymore
Thank god for google stalking.
And this is why you shouldn’t ask questions you don’t want the answer to =P
Until now I thought it was only for advertisements purposes that they put a cutie in a blouse and wearing a headset, giving you a “please call me” kinda look. Think of it as an old more modest version of “Come play, my lord” 😛
There are some lady IT people, and they are invariably amazing people and babes.
I had something similar happen with iPrimus in the olden days. Every time I’d have a problem I couldn’t resolve from my end I’d call up and get put on the line with a nice, helpful girl in a professionally friendly mood. I only made like half a dozen calls to them over the years and they obviously had a good system in place, but it still seems like a weird coincidence.
One of the support people we used to talk to in my last job had the most amazingly sexy Californian accent.
Never got to meet her of course but I know what you mean.
I’m glad I am not alone on this.
I know what you’re talking about.
One of the girls I used to work with in a call centre had one of those voices.
Nice as hell, great sense of humour, enthusiastic and smart – sharp and quick. A real firecracker. Bit of a geek, too. The voice conjured images of those stock photos.
We had a lot of regular callers from the wholesalers: TPG, iiNet, Optus, etc. And you wouldn’t believe how many of them would ask after her. You’d get awkward questions, “Hey, that [name]. She sounds really… uh. Fun. What’s she… like? If you know what I mean.” Which is subtle-as-a-brick guy-code for, “Is she hot?”
Because she was so well-liked in the team, none of the crew ever actually had the heart to tell would-be suitors, “I don’t think she looks like what you’re picturing.” I wonder if anyone asked her out… she deserved that kind of compliment, I think. Nice pick-me-up.
That’s not universal, though. I’ve taken that ‘she sounds hot and we banter nicely, why not ask her out?’ gamble a few times myself, and it’s paid off pretty well. About 2/3 were my type.
It’s not just guys do it, either. Back when I had a facebook, I found out that a few of the girls I’d been in semi-regular contact with from vendors/suppliers were frustrated by my sparse online presence when trying to facebook-stalk me.
Ahhh, Face-stalking: the precursor to actually asking someone out once you’ve scouted out what they look like who they’re friends with if they’re single what movies/books/music/food they like instead of organically discovering all that through the dating process…
Your name was near the top of my list for people whom I was hoping would reply to this question.
That’s awesome, if I ever end up single again I’ll be sure to try this again. I have been guilty of Facebook-Fact-Checking following a good meeting also lol.
Update: I overreacted and took something way out of proportion and let it break me with every other stress I’m under.
I’m a shitty person who needs to calm down and take a breath every now and then before I do something stupid like I have.
I’m sorry @dc and @sughly.
Everyone has their moments Freeze
The blurst
Take care mate. Sometimes it is easier to lash out at friends rather than things you can’t control or that have bigger consequences. Straw, camels back and all that. And that first point was a statement of concern for you, not caution in case it reads that way.You’re not a shitty person. I’m sorry you’re stressed to breaking point and beyond, though. *hugasaurus*
Don’t put yourself down dude. Not a good place to be. My advice, see someone about your way of thinking. It’s not normal to put yourself down like you are doing and it is a warning sign of depression/severe stress. You’ll be right mate, just stay positive and keep being awesome.
Yeah man, maybe you just need to chill out.
(•_•) / ( •_•)>⌐■-■ / (⌐■_■)
😛Man, I’d probably have reacted the same way. Seems like a miscommunication but when things just pile up like that it’s easy to take personally. I’m sure there’s no hard feelings.
Did EA ever try and justify why Battlefield Hardline is more expensive? I’m really in the mood for some Battlefield and I usually get way more than the RRP + Premium out of them, but I just can’t bring myself to pay $179 without at least hearing them defend the price increase.
“Because we’re EA.”
$179? How much are they charging for the premium? I picked up Hardline for around 80-90 dollars from memory.
An arm and a leg.
No, really, though they never said it had to be yours.
$99.95 for the regular. $109.95 for the Deluxe. $179.70 for the Ultimate Edition. I think I can get that down to $169.90 for regular plus Premium ($69.95) but that’s a pretty big jump from BF4 where if I remember correctly it was like $70 for the game and $40 for Premium.
I could probably pick it up cheaper on disc but Battlefield is one of those games I really prefer to be able to just load up at will.
Dang that’s expensive!
As someone who has played Battlefield 4 and Hardline I can say that the new game modes are fun, however there was something I couldn’t articulate that didn’t get me coming back to play it. My microphone/headset doesn’t work and I have a 400kb/s connection so playing against folks with awesome connections made me resent playing it a little I think.
I do like how that you earn money to purchase items, rather than playing to a certain level to get access to certain equipment if only you get to work out your favoured play-style early with the gear you want rather than constantly experimenting with loadouts. I played the same three maps regularly it seemed with two different play sessions, so hopefully the premium will include maps for some more variety.
Huh… so “monies” is a word 😛
I thought money could also be used as a plural? WORDS, AMIRITE?!
I have paid monies into the account
I have paid money into the account
Both valid
But “monies” just looks a bit silly 😀
You look a bit silly, but you don’t see us mentioning it.
It’s silly how dashingly handsome I am ;D
*flex*
Silly how dashingly daft you are, more like it 😛
Been playing a lot of Battlefield Hardline. Will probably finish all the achievements this week besides the one where you need 25 kills with a mac10 and 25 kills with a double barrel shotgun, its frustrating because you need to do a boatload of stuff before even unlocking those weapons. Which after playing a lot of multiplayer before the single player and not concentrating on these is really annoying. So unless anyone wants to help me with those somehow, I guess I will just skip it.
How is this iteration of Battlefield? I usually skip a few generations because it tends to be a rehash of the same ol’ formula which is EA’s signature move I guess.
Really enjoy it. Single player isn’t bad, its a different take on things. Multi-player is awesome fun.
I’ve been playing a lot of Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd recently. Finally cleared all the songs on normal today. Nice to be able to see the improvement over time – I could barely clear everything on easy when I started. I’d played multiple previous games in the series but never gotten as into it as this one. I think mainly the track list is really good. IMO Two Breaths Walking is the best in there. Also whoever thought it would be a good idea to put 2D Dream Fever in a rhythm game deserves to be first against the wall when the revolution comes. Aside from a couple of stretches it doesn’t have a tune, it has tempo changes and no rhythm, you can’t actually tell what the notes are synced up to half the time, and it’s ridiculously fast and not particularly interesting to listen to either. Finally managed to clear it on normal and never again. Starting to do stuff on Hard now, and there’s surprisingly not a huge skill gap between the levels.
It’s actually a really interesting game to think about from a technical perspective. How would you go about making a game that needs to play at a constant framerate while running some pretty elaborate videos in the background? They’re all 3D rendered, AFAIK pre-cooked (you can change the character and their costumes and stuff) so building an engine that can do what the artists want to do in some of the videos would probably be pretty tricky. Some of the background videos (especially those that are just minor updates to songs from older games in the series) are just Miku dancing around, like for example DLC song Sekiranun Graffiti which was originally in one of the PSP releases. Simple case of building an environment, animating her through a dance and then moving the camera around. But then you have something like Envy Cat Walk which is all full of random text and banners flying about and rapid-fire cuts of different stuff and must have been a nightmare to put together.
So, funny story about resetting in Pokémon.
For the first few shiny legendaries, I approached it as follows – save file is right before the encounter, mash A once the game starts until encounter begins, if not shiny, hit home, X to close, then mash A until next encounter.
Rate was about 8 in 5 minutes, and the ‘number of times played’ in the activity log told me exactly how many resets it took.
Turns out this was all wrong and I’d been hard resetting instead of soft resetting for the first ~6000 resets. Correct way is to hit L+R+Start/Select to reset without closing. New way is 25% faster and nets about 10 a minute.
Downside is no exact count, just playtime estimates. Of course the next one I use this faster technique on is taking *forever*, and I need sound to back the process up since I’m trying for the most difficult one (Regice, looks exactly the damn same so only the shiny bling at the start is the way to know for certain).
Long story short, I’m now about 46 hours of resetting time in, so to be on the safe side I’d call it at around 4000 resets at this point.
Looking forward to anything else after this one since none of the others need sound… And the startup / menu / cave / battle sequence is starting to wear a little thin…
I DID say this would test the limits of my (in)sanity. Be careful what you wish for.
Can I ask why you’re doing this?
Just checking the ol’ sanity.
I have to think and be sane and stuff at work all day so it’s kinda relaxing to just do something completely pointless, except I get special shiny little trophies every now and again to show off as insanity tolerance merit badges of sorts.
…
… You really weren’t here for the whole Secret of the Magic Crystals thing, were you?
Confused the hell out me the other night… notification light kept pinging as you were going online/offline.
PS. I don’t know how you stick with it…. but whatever floats your boat right! =P
I don’t really know how I stick with it either. I guess it’s good patience training?
And, oh shit, I should probably turn off the wireless when I do this at home so it doesn’t constantly bug others.
Sorry.
But but… I told you about soft resetting!
Since when does this process sound synonymous with things like ‘following good advice’?
I looked up shiny Regice.
It makes me sad 😛
It makes for an even greater prize!
But… soft-resetting has been a thing since possibly even the first Game Boy I think 😛
Gotta learn some lessons the hard way. Turns out I’ve always hard reset over the years.
I’m hardly behaving rationally at this stage :p
You weren’t soft resetting this whole time? :O Oh, Beavwa!
I would have got away with it too, if it wasn’t for you meddling kids!
3 days of essentially no internet.
2 weeks of dozens of drops outs daily, sync speeds coming down to 4000kbps.
4 weeks of hopeless support from TPG when jack f*cking squat has changed at my house.
20 minutes on phone to Telstra today.
Cable should be hooked up by end of the week.
10 years of history with TPG… going… going… gooooonnnneee!!
My weekend was one filled with frustration and the regular use of colourful language at no-one in particular. Only bright spot was an amazingly relaxed lunch on mothers day with the inlaws where no-one blew up and left in a huff. Also, Brisbane, after a crappy few weekends the weather for the past 3 days has been absolutely stunning.
Anyone have any suggestions on how to catch up uni study with a 2 year old running rampant every night after work? Suggestions must be more attractive than Netflix, Bravely Default, procrasTAYnating and browsing a steam library of games I’ll never play.
I am in the same boat. And all the paddles are sabotaged, covered in play doh and crayon squiggles.
Send help.
*prepares new email*
To: quiz_b
Subject: Help
*clicks send*
*goes back to checking text book req’s for Macroeconomics*
I’ll assume you’re studying economics or some variance of then? Finished my economics degree 7 years ago. 7 years since I finished uni? Damn *curls up in a ball about getting old*
I saw ‘3 days no internet’ and that’s all I needed to read.
You’re lucky to be alive man! I’ve heard Telstra cable rules, great choice.
It’s a bit pricey… you get what you pay for.
I’ve been stuck paying TPG and Telstra (line rental) for years as TPG won’t let me move to a ‘naked’ service without significant downtime (saying anywhere from 4 – 10 days) which is ridiculous.
Works out to be $20 more a month for 30Mbps with no issues compared to 4 – 8Mbps that constantly falls over. Drop in quota from 500 to 200GB but most I’ve used in a month in the last 6 months is 174GB, so not overly concerned.
My study aid was Simpsons DVDs on repeat (literally repeating them every day two) and Football Manager.
Contact your lecturers, ask what sort of advice they’d give. Say you’re falling behind, try to do some homework and provide them useful feedback on where you started falling behind and what you’re confident you’ve grasped.
The old truism applies that a certain number of ANY type of person will be jerks, but in my experience lecturers are always pleasantly surprised when someone is actively engaged in the learning process instead of phoning it in or ‘just doing what comes next’, and will work with you to help where they can.
I’ve never had a lecturer turn me away when I’ve asked for help or advice. Even if that request was the somewhat embarrassingly arrogant and ignorant, “I know I’m doing 6 work… how do I do 7 work? What sort of thing really shows ‘above and beyond’?”
(Which is kind of one of those, “If you have to ask…” questions. But all the same, they did their best.)
Weird. I managed to get an extra 100km over usual from my last tank of petrol, yet it was about five litres less than my last fill-up. Same petrol, same driving habits, no particular deviations from the usual.
Weird 😛
Did you fill up at night last time, and during the day this time?
Nah, it’s usually afternoon. Though I think this time I did morning, and if anything last time would have been hotter than it was this time. So I should have had less fuel/travel last time and more fuel (and should get more travel out of) this time due to expansion?
Maybe all your roads are slowly starting to slope downhill. Are you living on a giant sinkhole?
Here is a weird one, i had a mattress in my ute covered by a tarp and it was spinning at 2000rpm, took the tarp off and it started spinning at 2800rpm at the same speed. I cant figure it out.
Maybe without the tarp there was some kind of drag that was slowing you down? Weird.
TAY KART!
I’ve created a new tournament which should run… Daily from 8pm-10pm? (I can’t remember what settings I chose :P). But it’ll just be like the old tournament so we can still play outside of those times (it just won’t count scores)
I’ve set it at 150cc for all tracks (including DLC). I’m not sure what happens if you don’t own the DLC, whether it’ll not let you join, or whether it’ll just only select non-DLC tracks while you’re in the room.
Room is called TAY Kart DLC and the code is 1578-3484-1433
sUGLY and I will be on at 8:30pm tomorrow! Does that time work for everyone else? 😀
@evilmonkey @gemini @scree @crazyguy1990 @freezespreston @sughly @powalen @dc @gutsoup @shane @doc_what @shiggyninty @bendaman @janexo (and anyone else that is interested)
Mmmm… maybe! I’ll try my best to make it! 🙂
All I see is:
Shane
I’ll …make it! 🙂
Why not 200cc?
*shrug*
I thought about doing another 200cc tournament since I haven’t really played 200cc and it would be good but….. yeah 😛
Maybe if enough people want it, @sughly can make it and we can swap between them? 😀
Wait why you no make it 200cc!? UGH, I knew I couldnt trust you to do it! But srsly, 200cc would be like 100x more fun
Yeah, I should be able to get on.
I’ll try I’ll try!
I might be able to get on later in the evening, but it’s the Mrs bday…so yeah, missing that would be political suicide.
I’ll play when I can! Work tends to occupy my night times as of late.
SYDTAYERS
My Brother will be MCing the COMEDY LOUNGE this Sunday
Kicks off at 7pm
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Comedy-Lounge-Cafe-Lounge/265515110137916?__mref=message_bubble
Go on, do it
Weather’s been fine for the last week and a half *gets excited to be flying a plane this weekend*. Weather is going to be rainy and cloudy from Friday *sulks*
It’d better hold up to be decent weather. You can never trust BOM
Iga’s new Metroidvania is up on kickstarter!:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iga/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night
Backed! 😀
MEGAGAME WRITE UP! Spoilered for length 🙂
Preamble – I was a mage for the seafaring grup known as the Anua, sharing an Island with our Allies we were the Naval Power in the game. Before the game, I had decided I didnt like the idea of an outside force, so I had decided I was against the idea of the Imperials, but would be happy to be proven wrong
Pregame – @alexpants and I started talking about an alliance which didnt really happen, but I made up cards for us! (we were going to be the seahorses)Turn 1 – Not needed – everyone seemed to have things to do, while I was told to just sit back and relax for a while, so I drank teaTurn 2 – Not needed + look at our new outsider friends – Once again I was told to sit back and relax, while the leader went and made friends with the Imperials – I spoke to my seahorse friend to say I would be happy to get out at this pointTurn 3 – Not needed + Alliance + Tattletale – After being told for the third time that my forces were not needed I started to get a little bitchy. I took aside one of the wondering scribes, the keepers of this history of Idrinor, and I said that if they could find others who wanted an extra mage, but didnt like the Imperials, I would gladly move.Turn 4 – Volcano Explodes – A volcano next to our city explodes, this is funny because our leader had let the imperials move in to a fortress 4 spaces away. missed them, hurt us.Turn 5 – Needed, Finally! – after being ignored for 2 hours I get told I can cast spells, and it seemed like we started moving away from the imperials
Turn 6 – More Spells! Our Powers combined comment – this turn I was allowed to cast spells at combat. this was fun as I got to meet other mages. Whilst waiting I made a comment about imagine what we could do if we worked together”By our powers combined!”
Turn 7 – Another alliance, don’t use magic – We enter an alliance with the Vargul and they stipulate that I can’t use magic. I then ask @redartifice for help, he calls them lame in the council meeting – I start doing everything the leader says not to so that turn 4 things happened, two fire storms, a tidal wave and a Great storm. Miraculously our Ships were the only thing not affected. Everyone starts accusing us of being awful. My leader offers everyone gems to make up for it –Turn 8 – The Gods Reveal themselves – The scribes revealed themselves to be gods. I then went to use my magic against the imperials, but am stopped – they had crazy spells that reflected attacks and created Zombies more whispers between mages about my earlier comment.
turn 9 – the mages convene- talking about combining our powers, I start laughingturn 10 – more plotting – all the mages keep working on what we can do. we approach the game designer, he gives us an option: 7 Gems each to fix the problem
turn 11 – the magic god plots with us – turns out to be the scribe I Tattled to earlier, everything falls into place, turns out I caused a volcano to explode. I get given free spells for the next turn, which was pointless because:
turn 12 – the Mages banish magic from the realm, which was good because despite the fact that their gems were gone the imperials could do magic in other ways.Endgame – The imperials were thwarted from Conquering Idrinor! Hooray!
I had so much fun, and it was good to see people I hadn’t seen in a while!
You missed the part where you sent me secret messages and I accused the Vargul of being totes lame in the council
Oh yes thats right. I forgot that. heh fun times
Hi TAY’ers, is anyone trialling Xbox on Windows 10? I’m buggered if I can work out how to share clips and screenshots using the App. All it seems to do is store them in one spot and let me view them. Is this feature still to come? The internet has failed me. :/
Great, the security certificate for the user profile page has expired. This means I can’t access it without my anti-virus flipping its shit. Anyone else having this issue?
Not me sorry mang
I think I had a similar problem when posting last week. I used my phone browser to post, and a couple days later everything fixed itself. Or I guess you could use the ‘contact’ page and provide the report.
Figured seeing as I’ve got a few days of leave left I might as well try and finish off some games that I left unfinished. First up, Destiny.
Don’t do it! Wait til’ House of Wolves comes out, and then enjoy the game because you’ll get a longer story to enjoy in one go!
Oh really? I’ve got the Limited Edition, so I’ve got the Expansion Pass. When does it come out? Thanks for the heads up btw.
Oh sweet, that’s nice. House of Wolves drops on the 19th of May. One of the main criticisms of Destiny is that the story is substantially lacking , if you put all of the DLC together I imagine it would amount to something approaching an acceptable story length.
Cool, but if it’s out on the 19th it’ll have to wait a while longer as I’ll be buried in The Witcher 3.
Yoshi’s Woolly World Yarn Yoshi Amiibo’s are officially up for pre-order, and it says “Strictly one per customer”. It’s good to see that EB are cracking down on scalpers, but I seriously hope they mean one of each. Must… have… them… all… HRRRRNNNGGGHHH!!!!
https://www.ebgames.com.au/featured/yoshi-s-woolly-world
@powalen, @greenius, @scree, @mrtaco etc etc
Yoshi is for chumps!
😛
(it’s pretty cool that they’re doing these special amiibos though. Now I just want some Codename STEAM amiibo that produce real steam! Or a Splatoon amiibo that is an actual real-life squid stuck to the base)
So how about that Witcher 3 Collector’s Edition. It’s pretty friggin’ huge. With all the collector’s editions I’ve bought over the last few years I’m running out of space very quickly, but to hell with it, I’ma see if the manager at my local EB can swing one my way.
http://cdn4.dualshockers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ZePmpMf.jpg
I had one fully paid off June last year, then they announced that MS gave them a big pile o’ money to make the xbone CE better than the other two.
So I cancelled it.
Had the same problem myself, in the end I ended up throwing out a bunch of collector’s edition boxes, it was either that or use gum tree to sell and meet complete strangers or ship awkward sized boxes over eBay, both felt like too much effort.
@saturday prepare yourself for Chocolatey goodness in 7 or less business days 😉
AWWW YYEEAAAHHH I HOPE SERRELS* IS READY TO SPEND 30 MINUTES REVIEWING A POST IN MODERATION ABOUT GOD FUCKING TIM TAMS
*or whoever else reviews posts in moderation on TAY
Should’ve waited until this Vegemite chocolate comes out!
I was thinking that, poor Saturday has been waiting a long time for this chocolate.
I love both of these things, but I don’t know if they were ever meant to get together like this.
I do not object to a follow-up package of sweets. Au Gratis, of course.
Haha sure, that’s fair I think.
WAIT NO I WAS KIDDING THAT’S TOO KIND OF YOU.
As @highperformance has just informed me that I should hold off on finishing Destiny for now can you guys help me choose which game I should go back and finish.
Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Lords Of The Fallen
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Far cry 4
Middle Earth: Shadow Of Mordor
GTA V
Diablo III
Shadow Warrior
The Evil Within
Bloodborne
Alien: Isolation
Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)
Resident Evil Revelations 2
The Walking Dead Season 1 or
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Shadow Warrior
Seconded.
How much time do you have available?
Today and tomorrow, then back to work Thursday. Doesn’t mean I won’t continue with it after I go back though.
OK, so for a medium length single stretch of time, I’d lean towards alien isolation. Enough time to get through the whole experience. (Disclaimer, haven’t played it myself)
Alien Isolation, because I can’t bring myself to finish it :'(
I just finished Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) – my wife and I played co-op. It was fantastic. Some of the later bits are pretty janky… but stick with it. I loved all the Cultural Insights – I ended up going back to collect all the ones I missed and got all trophies. Won’t take long to complete either 🙂
Valiant Hearts. Not too long so you can knock it over easily. Also it’s fantastic.
GTAV! It has some really cool missions in the story.
Already played through it on 360, but bought it again on PS4 and haven’t got very far. Awesome game though, Trevor’s the tits, except when he
tortures that guyFair enough. Yeah i should i have played that scene on mute with graphics settings turned right down. (PC)
Well Dragon Age: Inquisition is excellent. I change my vote to that.
Ok, so far
2 for Shadow Warrior
2 for Alien: Isolation
1 for Valiant Hearts
1 for Never Alone and
1 for Dragon Age: Inquisition
Add 3 more for Valiant Hearts. I saw some guys over there that agree with me and they told me to vote for it for them.
Wait, cancel that out. I once heard three guys say “UGH, Bens“, and, well, they’re kind of right.
Well if three people said it, it must be true.
DA:I is way too long to look at completing before the Witcher 3 gets out and if you’re going for story based games you’d be better off with the Walking Dead Season 1 if you still haven’t finished that!
Edit: However you are likely to finish that game in a single day/sitting as with most Telltale games! Following that you could probably finish Diablo 3 + RoS story in a single day?
The Walking Dead Season 1 will give you a good return for “time invested” vs “enjoyment of story / game”, I’d suspect.
So… GST on Steam purchases is looking unpopular… http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/05/joe-hockey-confirms-that-australians-will-be-paying-tax-on-steam/
With that being the case – how does Steam treats a purchase made via VPN? Say I logged into my account from the US, purchased game, then disable VPN… Does it lock you out of the purchase?
I’ve grabbed keys in the past from GMG and similar without an issue, but just wondering if VPN purchases are treated any differently.
On a similar note, I’ve seen some people say that if you transfer funds into a Steam wallet and purchase through that, it might sidestep the issue of GST as well. Because it would be one thing to pay GST on stores selling products in AUD but it would create a whole other issue if they were going to try and apply GST against products sold in other currencies.
The whole thing is going to be convoluted and exceptionally difficult to manage and actually collect the revenue. Then you have other issues with things like Kickstarter because you’re not technically purchasing a good when you make a contribution. But, depending on how the legislation is written, GST could still be applied anyway because the current politicians barely know anything about online commerce.
If your ‘shop region’ (which you can see on your account page) is Australia, you’ll get the region-locks and GST and other region-based goodies, regardless of how you pay. Paypal, US credit card, whatever. You can choose to change your region in the account settings, but I haven’t tried it.
I’m wondering what would happen with a second account with US store selected, VPN in, purchase and gift back to my Australian account.
I know that gifting from some countries were blocked a while back. But not sure about bigger markets like US, UK etc.
I’m starting to think buying keys from other sites is just going to be easier.
Until they implement region-blocking for keys in Australia (like they already do for some other regions), you’re probably right.
So I’ve been sitting back and I cant anymore. I actually dont think it’s a bad idea. The only problem with it I agree with is that it could cost more than it brings in to collect.
I have the sneaking suspicion they’ll throw monitoring, regulation, enforcement out the window (the really huge costs) and just target the largest providers. It won’t be fair, and it’ll leave the system open to evasion, but it’s the only way I can see it being even remotely feasible.
I agree. I don’t really have an issue with it except on same grounds as you, which Transient filled me in on last week.
Steam provides a service, Netflix provides a service, Amazon provides a service you get the picture… It’s a ‘Goods and Services Tax’
That being said – whilst I don’t mind paying it, if there is a relatively easy and essentially risk free way to avoid paying it… I will. 2 main reasons are firstly I don’t like paying more than I need to and secondly I’m happy to send Abbott & Co. a small “go get [redacted]!” message.
I can totally agree with the sending the government a go and get x’ed, thats why I’m getting married to a man on British soil above Australian soil (Sydney Consulate) Not the sole reason, but it helps
Hey @powalen we’re finally up to a new episode of Game of Thrones so I’m sure you’re as eager for an update as I am. The fifth episode was craaaazy.
Reek has PTSD-flashbacks to his time as a soldier in Vietnam but can’t remember which side he was on.
After an argument about division of labour, Brienne and Podrick agree to switch jobs for a day. Podrick accidentally cuts his own ear off while playing with Brienne’s Valyrian steel sword. In a continuity flub the ear is back in the next scene and the accident is never referred to again.
With Jorah re-exiled and free of his pedo-vibe, Daenerys has a celebratory barbecue. Jorah walks away from Mereen muttering self-affirmations about how he never even wanted to ride dragons and dragons are stupid and he’s glad he got exiled.
Meanwhile at the wall Jon Snow gets a badass tattoo of a dragon on his back and gets into an argument with Lord Commander Samwell who thinks gryphons are way cooler. Stannis takes Jon’s side not because he agrees, but believe he believes Samwell is responsible for short-sheeting his bed. Melisandre resolves the dispute by undressing in front of them, at which point they all agree that naked woman are definitely way cooler than dragons or gryphons, then part ways for some alone time.
Varys and Tyrion get kicked out of their hotel room as they spent almost all of their money on ballet tickets. Varys and Tyrion agree no more petty games or fooling around, they’re going to get serious about finding Daenerys. As soon as his back is turned, Tyrion knocks Varys out and runs away, muttering “well, this is another fine mess you’ve gotten us into”.
SPOILERS >:(
Powalen wants spoilers, Powalen gets spoilers.
I have no idea if you’re being serious.I upvoted your post as a clue.
Ah, I can’t see the up/downvotes at work because we’re on a version of Internet Explorer that pre-dates the concept. 😛
I enjoyed that.
Then I have failed. 🙁
You need to work on being worse.
Does anyone here know howto get better at RTS in terms of building units?
I seem to be taking too long to get an army up…
Specific game or just generally?
Just in general.
If there is an economy to the game (ie. workers gathering resources or similar), maximise your economy quickly and minimise the time it takes to return to your deposit source. The more efficient your economy is, the more money you’ll have and the faster you can build an army.
Also, standard choices for building an army: a small, highly effective force but each unit lost will hurt; a cheap and nasty horde of units that will die en masse but overwhelm with sheer numbers; or a blend between these two extremes. The common zerg rush is easier to rush an army out (or an army of peasants in Total War) but they’ll collapse against any remotely skilled or improved unit.
Work on a lean principle- don’t wait to queue a bunch of units up, buy them as you can afford them.
Which RTS?
My strategy is to always rush people with like 5 semi non terrible units, it never works.
I generally build a lot of defence to take some of the brunt while I build some powerful units 🙂
Which Game?
This was my Starcraft strategy in high school I felt like it made for a more exciting game. Then my friends all discovered zerg rushing and I stopped playing Starcraft. I guess I could have learned how to be better at the game but I think when I got right down to it, I was more interested in building defences than I was advancing an attack. Thankfully the tower defense genre was invented.
luckily I play games with a no rush timer :p
I kinda miss those more defensive style games. I always liked Stronghold for that reason because you needed a good defense to win.
Supreme commander is still an awesome game and pretty good for that 🙂
Age of Empires… ALL THE WALLS! Need more gates and walls and another layer of walls!
lines of towers!
WITH WALLS…
WALLS!
Now to test your defenses!
Few things I absolutely love about Supreme Commander is you can automate a LOT of things once you have the economy sorted out. You put unit builds on a loop, even a set of units on a loop (Say one tank, two attack droids and an artillery, always builds in that order and loops it), but my main cool thing is the Air Patrol system. You can even put down repair/refuelling stations near the patrol line and your aircraft automatically land and repair/refuel then take off again back on its assigned patrol.
Edit: Oh geez how did I forget the Transport rally point system, that’s the best thing! You have a group of air transports and set this rally point to transport to a rendezvous point, then just click your ground troops to go to that rally point and they automatically get picked up and taken across.
Edit2: Damn it now I’m going to want to play it again! 🙁
Where’s my Project CARS? Hmmmm?
“With Australia Post for delivery today”. C’mon c’mon.
PS4, Xbone, or PC?
PS4.
I may get it on PC eventually, especially as PS4 doesn’t support my wheel *shakes fist at Logitech*
EDIT: My 1000th comment! \o/
It’s here! I got 2 packages!!!
one had the game!
the other had a single DLC sheet… 😮
Since my question about which game to play has so far proven inconclusive I might as well do my third AdVenture Capitalist reset for the day while I wait.
Start Destiny.
You’ll be able to finish the main game and the Dark Below stuff probably just in time for House of Wolves.
4 coffees this morning…
Ifeelgreat! 0_0
This afternoon is going to hurt isn’t it?
Hey guys.
Does anyone have a copy of Kirby’s Epic Yarn they no longer want? I think my mum would enjoy the game but it’s a pain in the arse to find
Called insurance company again, apparently steps had already been taken without notifying me and i should get a pay out for the car in about a week. This whole ordeal has made me hate everything though. Sure the car was insured so its not as big a deal as it could’ve been but im wasted hours on the phone and had lots of stress dealing with this. Plus i don’t think ill get more than a few thousand for the car as it was oldish and not in the greatest condition.
Crime sucks donkey balls.
I dunno, murder pays pretty well.
So I, uh, hear.
I forgot you were a 14th century ninja assassin.
Bureaucracy is the worst.
I did something I haven’t done for weeks last night.
I actually played a vidyer gaem!
Broken Age Part 2! I have that whole Adventure game thing of “I know what I need to do I just need to get there from here” going. Playing Shay’s perspective.
Beyond here spoilers
I got the antigrav drive off of Harm’ny Lightbeard, which took a bit of back and forth on the knots but was straightforward enough. I love the characters on what was Vella’s side, like Curtis thelumberjackmetalworker and the cloud peopleIf anyone wants to buy me this book you are more than welcome too.
http://www.bookdepository.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/9780521809269
Hah, I’ll buy it for rockets for a laugh and-
$140? You’re on your own buddy.
Supporting my hometown eh? I used to play cricket behind Cambridge University Press
TAY RPG Rogue Trader tonight starring:
@freezespreston @tech_knight @gingerchris86
After fending off the Ur-ghuls, the group must make their way deeper into the warren of tunnels to find the elusive Dark Eldar.
Please let me know if you will be able to make it tonight.
Yes from me 🙂
I might not be able to make it, I’m going to be moving things around in the house to prepare for window works happening in that room tomorrow, which may include knocking out internet for tonight. So if I don’t show up, that’s why
All good. Thanks for letting me know.
One of them days – I prefer to fix this stuff myself… but can’t…
Asked someone to fix an accounting error last month (not my fault).
Completing this month’s reconciliation.
Have an odd balance.
I don’t have a matching entry.
*penny drops*
They’ve processed entries in reverse and doubled it.
Check my original request to fix.
It’s correct.
Begin writing up new request to fix their mess.
*sigh*
I think it’s time for lunch.
Gaahhh some of the moronic comments in the AC article today make me want to pull my hair out =@ Why is it such a big issue if you get to play as a female character?!
At this point I couldn’t care less if you got to play as an alien ninja wearing a tutu. The series has been thrashed to hell.
I’d be pretty keen for a current-gen remaster of Rogue. By all reports, that’s the game I’d have preferred Unity to be. More of the same of AC4, which I loved to death and consider GOTY.
I may just have to bite the bullet and buy it for the PS3.
(Edit: Oi! Unity! Syndicate! You can’t just give a man an upgradeable pirate ship then take it away! You just can’t! It’s cruel!)
Rogue is also on PC if you have a remotely decent machine to play it on. It’s good but it’s not quite as tight as AC4 was. Still heavily naval-based and I enjoyed my time with it, where I have tried to play Unity twice and lost interest within about 20 mins each time.
I was riding high on a fresh playthrough of AC4 and feeling pretty benevolent towards its stealth/tailing bullshit and general assassiny politics and other lore crap. Edward is such a great character, to me. All the things that went unmentioned or unsaid but awareness of which coloured your perception. His attitude, his demeanour, and the slow evolution of both. Great character.
Arno and Unity, however… meh. More spry but also more fragile. Sums up the game, the avatar, the character’s personality. Between not really liking the character, not having a pirate ship, not liking the new control scheme which broke what wasn’t broken in an attempt to ‘fix’ it, a tediously familiar story beginning, and the whole english/french mess, it was a miracle I managed to stick with it long enough to even join the assassins in the first place.
I think I got a couple hours tops out of it. Most of which were spent waiting for the fun to kick in. 🙁 Not my best purchase.
“which broke what wasn’t broken”
Mate. Maaaaaaate.
The AssCreed control system suuuucked. They mostly alleviated the problem in 3 & 4 through map design, but it still falls apart once you hit city-like environments. Unity was problematic, but I really grew to like it (the only noticeable difference in controls was being able to DESCEND A BUILDING LIKE A NORMAL PERSON RATHER THAN JUST JUMPING INTO THE SIDE OF THE NEXT BUILDING). Also, it still had a better protagonist than any of Ezio’s games.
Still had a shittonne of issues, admittedly, but ehh.
I found the controls in unity to be incredibly difficult as well. There’s a weird weight to them and I really was struggling to make him do anything that I wanted him to do, especially the shit where you need to chase people down.
Previous AC games movement had some problems, sure. Sometimes jumping in a different direction to where you were aiming, sometimes not climbing up unless you jiggled the stick, periodic issues of starting to climb when it wasn’t necessary. But I agree with @transientmind, I don’t think Unity’s approach of blowing it all away and making the muscle memory I picked up learning to move fluidly in the game over seven previous installments into a hindrance was the right way to ‘fix’ the issues.
COMPETENT, Merchant, Ranger… (Cadet, Outsider…)
Got involved in a few rumbles in a Vulture. Was in a conflict zone, smashing Pythons and Anacondas. Lots of combat bonds. Rank up!
And now my next expedition begins.
Ship: Asp.
No shields, no weapons… (!)
Minimum power plant (if I want to repair modules, I’ll need to drop out of cruise, and shut down most stuff in order to fire up the repair units).
Maximum FSD.
6C Fuel scoop, Advanced Discovery Scanner, Detailed Surface Scanner.
A5, 2x A3 repair modules.
D everything else.
34.91ly jump range!
I did get interdicted once on my shake-down trip to Pratchett’s Disc. All power to engines. max throttle, and watched the 3-ship wing disappear into the distance (probably shaking their fists and yelling “Next time, Commander!”). It’s so light that it’s pretty quick… Wouldn’t want to get caught by a pack of light fighters, but I reckon as long as it’s full of fuel as I hit the edge worlds on my way back, then a couple of fast jumps and I’m well into high sec systems and ready to sell data.
Wish me luck…
Cant tell if amazing dream or if your playing elite dangerous
There’s a difference? 🙂
I’m thinking of using the Beta release of 1.3 to screw around a bit, try a bunch of different ships since they tend to be at stupidly cheap prices so people can test out everything etc. Maybe actually seek out other players and try get into some fights.
Yes. Most ships at 100cr, just so lots of people can fly them.
I’m not bothering much with betas now, I get little enough time to play my main character. Glad I backed early though, was worth it to see it happen.
BRISBANIERS
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
I will be up in the CBD for a conference NEXT MONDAY AND TUESDAY nights.
We should haaaaaaaaang.
Mon is prob better but i’ll take suggestions.
Isn’t Monday Pathfinder night? ISN’T IT? I guess I can show up and talk really quickly and go on about how I’m helping and then spout of some ancient knowledge and then trip over my shoes.
True knowledge: There have been a couple of business trips I’ve taken where I’ve been a D&D drop-in in a games store on one of the nights because bored.
@popdart5 – Pathfinder LIVE™?
I have no idea how that would work but it is a novel idea.
Skype people in, play on a tablet?
Unfortunately I do not own a tablet with which to test this.
Monday looks like it might actually work for me next week.
I’m up for a drink or two and some grub
Monday works for me!
Also, the preferred nomenclature is BRISBABES or BRISBANERDS. Thank you.
I always thought it was Brisbanites, but Brisbanerds is much better (for TAYbies at least).
Brisbagels.
I like Brisbaniers. I think I’d prefer Brisbaneers though. More like bucaneers. Arrr!
I was thinking Bombardiers.
That’s good, too!
Also, Buccaneer comes from Boucanier, which comes from OG pirates using a Boucan, which is a frame for smoking/cooking meat.
Basically, Bacon or Barbecue eater.
I am so happy I know this now.
This makes pirates even more awesome. If that was even possible.
(Apart from the whole murdering etc.)
You should read On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers.
Pirates of the Carribean stole SO much from it, and it’s a direct inspiration for Monkey Island.
Pirates of the Carribean I couldn’t care less about since the first movie, but Monkey Island series would easily make my top ten games of all time.
I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’ve always gone with BRISWEGIANS.
Possibly! I’ll have to get back to you on that one
And now he’s got your attention, I’m in Brisbane Friday night to Sunday morning.
Will be at the Suncorp on Friday night for the Reds vs Rebels match and out for a few ales around Caxton after if anyone fancies RUGBY or BEER or BOTH.
Saturday no idea…
Sunday fly back to Melbourne hopefully in time for the A-League Grand Final, to which I have a ticket. 🙂
A weeknight?
I’ll see if I can pull it.
Might be possible. I think I’m on 10-6 shift next week.
I’m seeing Alice Cooper and Motley Crue on the Tuesday night so Monday would definitely work better for me. Having said that though, the fact I’m going out Tuesday will make it more difficult to do Monday but I’ll see what I can do!
Monday’s good for me.
‘No buying new games 2015’ isn’t even halfway and it’s hard, guys. REALLY HARD.
So here’s what I absolutely definitely would have bought this year if not for this resolution. (There are others I would be on the fence about but lean towards):
Dying Light ($72)TESO ($50)
Frayed Knights ($12)
Convoy ($14)
Republique Remastered ($25)
StarCrawlers ($20)
Grim Fandango Remastered ($10)
War in a Box: Paper Tanks ($5)
Ziggurat ($15)
Warhammer 40K: Armageddon ($40)
GemCraft ($10)
Hero Generations ($15)
Tengami ($10)
Blue Estate ($13)
Life is Strange ($22)
Ryse ($40)
Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell ($20)
Project Aura ($15)
Fallen: A2P Protocol ($15)
Last Word ($8)
TIE Fighter ($10)
Sunrider Academy ($30)
Battle Ranch ($7)
Defend Your Life ($5)
Dex ($20)
Highlands ($15)
Ironcast ($15)
3D Realms Anthology ($30)
HuniePop ($10)
Pixel Heroes ($9)
Letter Quest ($8)
Pillars of Eternity ($45)
The Repopulation ($20)
State of Decay: Year One ($30)
KeeperRL ($15)
Dark Souls 2 Scholar of First Sin($55)
Kaiju-A-GoGo ($13)
GRAV ($20)
Telltale’s Game of Thrones ($30)
Heroes of Might & Magic 7 ($55)
Pier Solar ($15)
Homeworld Remastered ($35)
Invisible Inc (TBA)
Betrayer ($4)
In Verbis Virtus ($20)
Crypt of the NecroDancer ($15)
Eldritch ($15)
Chroma Squad ($15)
Risen 3 ($30)
FF3 ($15)
Magicka 2 ($15)
Sniper Elite 3 ($50)
Killing Floor 2 ($30)
War for the Overworld ($30)
Westerado ($15)
868-HACK ($6)
Hyperdimension Neptunia ($30)
Majestic Nights ($5)
Grey Goo ($50)
Armello ($25)
Solarix ($20)
Offworld Trading Company ($40)
Citizens of Earth ($15)
99 Spirits ($10)
Cities: Skylines ($30)
Darkest Dungeon ($20)
Dungeons 2 ($40)
Planet Stronghold ($20)
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood ($35)
I have bought Bloodborne. I WILL buy Final Fantasy 15 if it comes out. I am leaving a third wildcard for just in case. It might just be Witcher 3.
So, y’know. That’s saved me around $1500 in five months… not too shabby. BUT TEH GAEMZ YOU GUISE THE GAMEZ.
Are you like a secret millionaire?!?
Edit: Oh and you aren’t missing anything great with Armello; it plays much like a board game meaning it only truly shines when you get to play with friends! Hero Generations would be great on a mobile device but lacks an underlying layer of complexity to make it one of those one-more-turn games.
Edit: If you’re looking for some fun F2P games to check out Marvel Heroes is a pretty cool guy and so is Heroes of the Storm =] I’ve been gaming on a budget myself this year with only upcoming games I’m likely to buy being the FFX remake and Witcher 3.
He’s like a Googolionaire.
In AdVenture Capitalist 😛Armello is awesome, as myself and @rize can attest to. If you’re also playing it, and Transient is playing it, we can have a 4 player Armello throwdowwwwwwwwwn.
Yeah I can see Armello being fun with a group of friends maybe over Skype or TS or something but by playing it alone is pretty damn dull =P
ok……
:'(
I don’t have my Steam list open, I forget who’s got it! I only remember Rize does because he responded to a tweet I sent @ the Armello folk this afternoon.
I’ve done some F2P and really wish someone had pointed me at Zombies Monsters Robots sooner – it’s a pretty cool guy, like Left 4 Dead meets Gears of War on a low-rent engine with some F2P BS in there, but it’s actually pretty fun to spin up for a round or two.
And nooooo, not secret millionaire… $1500 in 5 months is like… $300 a month in games! $150 per pay, or $75 per week. And that’s with mostly pre-sale prices. Knock off sale discounts and it’s probably just as affordable! 😀
Gaming taken SRSLY.
Lol transient my yearly budget for games is like $500-$700 =P How in the world you manage $1500 over 5 is beyond me xD Ergo you’re secretly a millionaire!! My logic is flawless.
That’s a lot of games to add to the list of shame when they don’t get completed 😛
Damn son! That’s some list, haven’t even heard of half of them.
Good luck my friend, you’re gonna need it.
Ok guys, taking bets on how long it’ll take before @transientmind breaks.
Batman?
No no it’s just me puppetmaster, it’s easy to get mistaken though!
Actually @freezespreston is Batman /oldoldtayjokes
Enh. I always get a couple hours into each of the games then get bored and stop. Asylum, City, Origins… The new one is totally not on my radar.
DEAD TO ME!
The new one IS my radar.
I can relate; I’ve played the last three and while this new one looks good I’ll probably skip it until its a lot cheaper and I’m going through a gaming drought =P
Yes it is.
I have bought Cities: Skylines, Dreamfall Chapters and Project CARS.
Now I feel picky
They’re all just special, unique snowflakes with something great to offer if only someone would just give them a chance! I can see what they have to offer and want to give them some love.
Admittedly, a small portion of my love as there’s only so much of me to go around, and there’s so many special snowflakes to attend to.
I’m 99% certain that Final Fantasy XV won’t be out this year.
You take that back! You take that back right now!
Persona 5
Put it this way: if it comes out this year then they won’t have had time to fix all the incredibly irritating technical problems around the camera and the targeting and everything. So you would probably not want to play it. I’d rather they take some time with it.
:C
There are no flaws! At all! I… I…
Dammit.
Wait to Christmas sale next year. Get entire list for $150
You should buy ArmelloFor those stats freaks I have done some analysis around Transientminds saved monies (thanks @greenius).
– The games (excluding Invisible Inc) would have totalled $1563, which now leaves him able to purchase around 3.2 homes in Detroit, USA.
– There are 69 ( ;] ) games in Transients list, with an average price of $22.65 per copy.
– He has more willpower than me.
So… PC Gamer found a linkedin profile of a CG artist who’s listet a Fallout 4 CG as one of his most recent experiences; this with Bethesda having their own show at E3….. Could it be?? Is it time?! WILL THERE BE A FALLOUT 4?!
Also Darkest Dungeon is a really cool dude; turn based RPG fans should defs check it out.
Or maybe he just wants to get hired by being famous for fucking with people. 🙂
NOOOOOOO!! Don’t jinx it dammit! 0.0
BEHOLD! MY FAITH HAS BEEN REWARDED!!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/05/fallout-4-is-driving-everyone-insane/
The absence of evidence is clearly the evidence of FALLOUT 4!!
Wake me up when they get Obsidian to do the Fallout 4 sequel. Bethesda’s games are boring.
I want to believe, I really do but I don’t think I can take anymore heartbreak after all the false Fallout 4 announcements. ='(
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/05/whats-so-great-about-banjo-kazooie/
Answer: Everything. God I love that game.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/05/131-million-for-metadata-retention-in-todays-2015-budget/
So this is what the Netflix tax is gonna pay for.
Coffee….system….left…. I…. *thud!*
Huh.
You should have a coffee, perk y’self up.
Or a coke. Or an energy drink. Or two.
Totally won’t impact sleeping habits at all. Nope.
Just got the heads from a senior colleague up that my employer is considering promoting someone ahead of me who has about a quarter my the experience and comes to me for help on a daily basis, because she sneakily gets other people to do her work when there’s no management around and she happens to have a law degree (that she’s never used to actually, you know, practice law).
A few months ago I very directly asked management if my lack of degree was a barrier to career progression and was told no. My manager and his manager have no degrees and reassured me I’m a top performer, etc. They gave me advice on which areas to work on such as better marketing with brokers. Of course the law-degree holder is not being held to the same standard. Basically I’m being given a bunch of arbitrary hoops to jump through to keep me occupied while they sneakily advance her on the side.
To say I am annoyed would be like calling hiroshima a campfire.
If you were graded based on ability to make amazing similes you would get that promotion. That sucks man. Hope a resolution can be found for you that’s benefits you.
I told them months ago that if the next promotion doesn’t go to me, I wouldn’t stick around to wait for the next one. I fully intend to follow through on that promise, should this situation not resolve in my favour.
It may seem like I’m being unreasonable or acting out of jealousy but the reason my senior colleage pulled me aside to quietly discuss this is because she has already indicated to them how unfair they are being and that it’s a bullshit decision if that’s what happens. This senior colleague has basically spent the last year covering for and helping train up this other person and she’s still underperforming.
Damn dude that sucks =\ I know this is almost definitely going to be easier said than done but there’s one of two things that you can likely do now. One is to say nothing take it on the chin but slowly let it eat away at your enthusiasm at work as you rightly feel wronged by being passed of a promotion. That said if you enjoy your workplace for the most part and this is a one-off discrepancy this would be the preferred option.
The other is to call a meeting with your manager/management and raise the issue with them straight up and ask them why they passed on a more experienced employee for the upcoming promotion. While this is likely to give management a heads up that your ‘disgruntled’ at the very least you get to air the dirty laundry without letting your seniors shove it under the rug.
That said whatever you decide to do; do it tomorrow. Nothing good comes of carrying out work interactions while you’re pissed off; a good night’s sleep will clear your head and present you with the best course of action.
At the moment this is all unofficial and to be treated with discretion. The reason for the conversation was to give me a heads up that should I have an opportunity to discuss [person]’s performance I should be honest about how much help she gets from the team and not cover for her in the name of niceness or “being a team player”, because apparently that’s the sole reason they think she’s doing better than she is – people being too nice to be honest.
If nothing I do makes a difference and the promote underperformers based on management being hoodwinked, then I don’t want to be here anyway.
Well that changes things! You have a third option to consider before resorting to options 1 and 2. Throw the idiot law degree waving employee under the bus and see how management take it; you’ll probably have to be diplomatic with how you do it i.e. let your management think they came to the conclusion on their own as opposed to you feeding it to them. Perhaps a bit of passive sabotage by putting said employee under the spotlight when management ARE around so she can’t get away with faking her way through the role.
Also from the sounds of things this seems like a last straw kind of deal for you so probably wouldn’t hurt to update your resume and apply for a few jobs. Worst case scenario it leads nowhere, best case you have an all new bargaining chip to take back to your bosses with an alternate job offer.
Disclaimer – Yes I know all this sounds awful but in my experience there’s only two kinds of people in a workplace; people you can call your friends and people you want to throw your desk at. More often than not you get the latter so you might as well play the game of thrones/house of cards when you need to.
Edit: Be careful taking an open stance against her if your management ask you for your opinion; its one thing to be critical but never make it look personal. It will only serve to muddy the opinion you have given and long term provide management with a detrimental view of your judgement when it comes to employees. Winning a battle and losing the war is a poor play in any situation.
The thing is I like working here, but I’m not going to throw an opportunity for career advancement away and sit on my hands for another few years because my employer will advance the career of someone with a piece of paper over someone who has a proven track record of success.
Yeah I can definitely appreciate that, a happy workplace without any career advancement will soon to turn into a rut. It certainly sounds like you deserve the promotion so the worst that could happen from you fighting for it is coming to the realization this might not be the work place for you and its always better to figure something like that out sooner rather than later.
Getting passed over for promotion in favour of someone whose ass you have been wiping is the most infuriating things ever. That is something I would find incredibly difficult to take gracefully.
Oh, I have no intention of taking it gracefully.
Just don’t go too scorched earth, generally not worth it
Aye people forget that a job ends up being a referee for at least the next 2 jobs you are likely to apply for and if you don’t provide the 2 most recent employees as referees it raises alarm bells.
My employer actually forbids personal references. At best you get a letter from HR confirming (at your discretion) how long you were employed, your length of employment, and your last few performance review ratings (all of mine have been overwhelmingly positive).
Basically I’ll leave. The half dozen critical projects I’m babysitting/contributing to can go hang. That’s about it.
Best way
Do whatever they ask during transfer, if they ask you to stay longer to train up refuse. Feel free to be honest with them, you promoted somebody, I think I’m better. You said this and didn’t follow through so I’m gone.
I can attest to this… not only was I doing that for the guy that got promoted, he was consistently throwing me under the bus, leaving me in really shitty situations where I’m staying 5-6 hours overtime since he promised I would do it for them without even asking if I had the time to spare.
Applying for jobs is fun.
oh wait no, i want to neck myself.
Nah its not that bad, I just hate selling myself.
Im a confident young man with marketable skills, someone will take a chance on me.
As always, happy to read over CVs/letters.
Applying for jobs is like a game; a horrible F2P energy based grindy as fuck RPG. The key is to spam everyone on facebook with invites until they get sick of your spam and just give in =P AKA drive HR consultants insane with your calls and sooner or later they’ll get you a job just to get rid of you!
Persistence defeats resistance!
http://gematsu.com/2015/05/grandia-ii-coming-steam
O_O
Grandia II!
Why do I always think Grandia is a schmup?
I do too. Thanks, Gradius.
That would be why
Because Gradius is rad.
Haha yup, I always think the same thing.
Because you never experienced one of the best JRPGs ever due to not owning a Dreamcast?
That would be the other reason
Guess you can finally fix part of that problem then!
Apparently the Steam Summer Sales are starting on the 26th of May…
D:
*buries head*
*cries*
No. I can do this. I can be strong.
I believe in you! Look at how many games you already own, what’s the point in buying more that you’ll never play?
I mean though, if you’re not going to play them anyway, but if they have prices that tempting you can always buy fifty copies of HuniePop to gift to people.
Isn’t buying tons of games that you’ll never play the whole point of steam sales.
I think I’ve at least fired up every game I’ve bought individually in a steam sale.
It’s the bundled ones I’ve not touched.
Just had a quick look at my library, I’ve bought 486 games and started about 76 of them, of those I don’t think I’ve actually finished any.
I own 171 games, of which I’ve played 80.
Of the unplayed ones, there’s maybe 4 that I bought individually and never got to:
Rochard
Rainslick precipice of darkness
Deus Ex
FTL
There’s a couple showing as zero hours that I’d either played and it’s not logged for some reason or that I played on another platform (like Thomas was Alone)
What do you mean you haven’t played FTL :O
EVERYBODY, PREPARE TO BE GIFTED!
HE’S GONE MAD!
Shame it doesn’t start until Tuesday because then it would be a MAD MONKEY MONDAY! 😛
What do you mean gone?
I’ve always been like this.
Gift monkey coming back for the winter it seems
Good thing I only have 136 items on my wishlist 0.O
@redartifice So I found this while perusing the Internet. It’s not official but I reckon it’s a nice little supplement that could be interesting, particularly as it fleshes out the Strange and introduces a lot of new foci. The price isn’t too bad either for a PDF.
100s of new Foci would really help, because I think that’s probably the thing that’s most lacking in the current set. When you translate you’ve got just a handful of things to choose from so I think most games would end up running the risk of being “samey” after a while.
Also Viktor just found a new Earth focus. “Employs Sex Appeal”
Can we add an addendum to that, which is “badly”?
Nothing in that statement says he’s successful. Just that he employs it. So yes, we can add that.
He’ll probably do that vigorously now he has his penis back 🙂
For reference, here is the Tier 6 ability for “Employs Sex Appeal”:
Yep. I want this focus.
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/146313/In-Translation-The-Strange-Character-Options
I started watching Unlimited Blade Works last night, because I figured it was halfway through its second (and last) season, so I could hit an episode every now and again and hopefully be roughly up to date for the last episode.
I am now caught up on Unlimited Blade Works. Man, how about that nice animation. My two biggest issues of Fate/Zero (that a lot of characters sort of looked similar, and it took me a few episodes to tell which dark clothed dark haired dude it was, and that its fight scenes were like “our swords are hitting each other a lot”) are gone, so it’s pretty great.
Unlimited Budget Works.
Seriously, ufotable have to be the best TV anime studio out there right now in terms of animation quality. Unlimited Blade Works has trumped Fate/Zero’s animation completely, and that was pretty stellar quality too.
@blaghman
Asking as someone who found Fate/Stay average at best; does Bladeworks really bring anything new to the table?
Watched the first couple of episodes and it did not seem like it.
I would not recommend it. UBW is no exception to the hit/miss series that is Fate. Except for excellent animation, as stated above.
Please ignore @saturday as he is wrong.
Fate/Stay Night the old 2008 or so anime was an utterly terrible adaption of the most boring arc of the game. Unlimited Blade Works is extremely faithful to its source material and additionally is Rin’s story arc so unquestionably better. It has vastly better action, better plot and the feel of it is much closer to Fate/Zero (though I think ufotable’s upcoming adaption of the Heaven’s Feel route will be even closer as it gets extremely dark).
However you should probably take my opinion with a little salt, as I’m enough of a nut for ufotable’s Type-Moon works that I own all the Japanese BD box sets including their super deluxe Kara no Kyoukai set.
UBW isn’t perfect – Zero has better plot & characters, since it’s written by a better author and not hamstrung by the fact it has to be a visual novel. But it’s still pretty good. Also it’s very easy to get hold of legitimately and try it out since it’s simulcasted by Madman on animelab:
https://www.animelab.com/shows/fatestay-night-unlimited-blade-works
So it’s not like you’ve got anything to lose except maybe an hour or so while you try the first couple of episodes.
S’ funny because we’ve talked about this on TAY, I think.
I will concede, however, that UBW is the most natural extension to Fate/Zero. So I’ll simply shrug at @jocon this time, unless he goes into depth about what he thought was so average about his last viewing.
Nah, Heaven’s Feel will be the natural extension since it’s really the ‘true’ route for the game. Plus it also continues Fate/Zero’s theme shitting on
Sakurafrom a great height.Heaven’s Feel got Kirei, but UBW is aaaaalllllllllll about that hero complex. Oh man, being a hero is rad. You know what’s also rad? swords. man, I wish I was a sword. AND A HERO. A HERO THAT USES SWORDS. MY FUTURE? BEIN A HERO ANNNDDD SWOOOORORRRRDDSSSSSS
And thus sums up my problem with a chunk of Fate.
Namely Shirou and Archer.Except that’s not really what UBW is like. At least not when adapted properly. The shitty film adaption kind of makes it that way and Deen’s Fate adaption had that going too, but it’s missing the point.
I’ll give it another crack then.
Should probably watch fate/zero while I’m at it.
Yeah, watch that first I think. It’ll add some extra depth to a few things in UBW.
The original anime was probably the worst iteration of the franchise; even I found it average at best. Fate/Zero is just brilliant and UBW has a darker and grimmer storyline to it that I’m thoroughly enjoying so far. The good guys dont always win in this iteration of Fate/Stay and the animation is gorgeous so I would definitely recommend checking it out if you found the premise of the original anime interesting.
The first episode was good, but didn’t impress me in animation quality that much. Then it hit the fight scenes. Oh yes, dem fight scenes.
I think the first point where you really saw the huge step up from Zero was a few episodes in when Ilya shows up. It’s not just the animation quality, it’s the seamless blending of CG and 2D stuff and the use of CG particle effects and things. Takes it to a whole new level.
Oh yeah, its CG is a definite step above most Anime.
It uses CG better than several shows that are fully CG, like Knights of Sidonia for example.
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It better not be just me and Sughly 😛
I FORGOT
SO DID MOST PEOPLE! ;_;
It was basically just me and Sughly :P. At least Sugs came with a +1 and Crazyguy joined us for a bit 😀
Also… I’m totally watching MasterChef now and I’m SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hungry omfg, worst decision ever
So I was drafting up a gem shaped block for my hand-pieced quilt when someone on Instagram mentioned it looked like a Star Destroyer. So now I’m drafting a Star Destroyer block instead. And because it’s called “The Circle Game” quilt, I’m now also attempting to draft a Death Star block. 😛
Anyone who eats food should watch Chef’s Table on Netflix, super interesting doco series about innovative chefs.
I’ve only seen the first Ep but I can vouch for its watchableness. I like how easy Netflix shows are to recommend since subscribers can literally just watch it instantly 😀
The second and especially the third are amazing
I’ve watched the first two. I thought the first was incredible, and then I got to the second and was blown away all over again. So, so good!
I started watching the first one with Massimo and just wanted to sit there eating cheese the entire time.
Is Homeworld Remastered worth getting if you already have Homeworld 2?
If you liked Homeworld 2, I would say so – if you can afford it. It’s the same thing, but muuuuuch prettier. I say this as someone who has the Homeworld 2 disc sitting in my TV cabinet.
The Homeworld 1 conversion is a little disappointing. They used the same engine for that, making things uncomfortably different to the original. MUUUUUUCH prettier though. Like crazy.
Urgh, this assignment is kicking my arse!
There’s so much to do! :O
I have to:
– Design three separate apple juice packages (including all nutritional info, ingredients, etc)
– Design a 4 or 6 pack carry case for said apple juice
– Design the shipping carton for said apple juice
– Get each label, carry case, and shipping container ready for print (both proof and print files)
– Make 3 touchpoints (advert and advert locations?)
– Put all designs onto A3 mounted boards for presentation
– Complete weekly activities
– Put all workings into a journal
So far, I’ve made the three packages, and made the touchpoints…
Eep…
I’ve got ideas for the shipping cartons and carry case though.
None of it is particularly hard, just very very time consuming.
I need to get it done this week so I can do my other assignments! :O :O :O
When’s it due?
In about 2 weeks. Still got plenty of time, but I have other assignments to do too, which is the stressful part :O
Surely a shipping carton is black and white version of company logo with name on 2 or 4 sides of a box?
Remember that you don’t need to make *new* designs for the carrier or the carton. Think of a beer carton or a soft drink carton. The design on the bottle, carrier and carton are all the same (or very very similar) so that the buyer can identify the product no matter how it’s been displayed on the shelf.
Probably come up with a design you like for the box itself and then use iterations of it for the remaining designs, consistency across a brand generates goodwill and if it’s for a marketing presentation it should play in your favor. If it’s for something like industrial design though you’ll probably want to differentiate your designs physically while maintaining consistent imagery.
Haha, I did it kind of opposite.
I came up with an idea for the branding / bottles (which I’m really happy with), then applied that to the shipping carton.
Still need to make the carry case though :S
The design isn’t what’s so hard, I really like design after all. The hard part is that I need to get each and every design ready as if it were to go to be made.
That means setting up print files 100% correctly for every label used, and for the box and carry case, which is easier said than done, as I need all the artwork to fit correctly, the outline of the box and carry case to get cut out, the proof and print files, etc.
Lots and lots of work to do behind the deign stuff, kind of thing.
Basically, we have to do the project as though we could send all the files off o actually have everything made.
Vikings is on Netflix. This is fantastic.
So much water and rain and clouds. And that intro… damn I love that intro.
The colourized eyes can be a little unsettling sometimes, no-one goes that blue… but otherwise, yeah. That show makes me want to grow a top-knot. Shame I buzzed down to a 2 again today. Oh well. Next time.
Still have to get around to starting on that, after Game Of Thrones, Daredevil and Orphan Black that is.
I’m really enjoying it too. I’m almost done with season 2.
Floki continues to steal the show whenever he comes on screen.
Hipster!
Goodnight, sweet princes and princesses!
What, no @liondrive :* face?!
I didn’t see this page last night! :O
I’ll do better :'(
Good morning, Crazy :*
Just finished Mad Max 2, now just have to watch Beyond Thunderdome tomorrow and I’m all caught up for Fury Road on Thursday.
Just watched #2 last night actually.
Good movie, refreshingly different style to Hollywood.
Don’t watch the third movie!
http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20141202083121/epicrapbattlesofhistory/images/e/e9/Its-a-trap-what-happens-when-advertisers-dont-meet-twitters-spending-quotas.jpg
My terrible secret: the third one is the only one I’ve seen.
You… monster.
Mad Max 1 is king.
So apparently Mum got a bunch of calls from the newfound half-siblings. They’d heard about things from their cousin and were all keen to find stuff out. Apparently word had come out about things a little while back and they wanted to try track her down, but didn’t have enough info to go on from their end. Seems kind of a shame the mum passed (from what I gather anyway, hasn’t been said outright) before being able to find out though. But yeah, story seems to have had most of its gaps filled in now, so that’s good.
That’s awesome, my grandpa met his half sister a handful of years ago after they were separated as kids a few years ago. It’s cool getting to meet family from somewhere new.
Well that’s just great, last day of leave, think I’ve got a nice relaxing day ahead of me, but no. Just got called by a work colleague, her son’s sick and she can’t work and apparently I’m the only one that can fill in. Fuck.
That’s a whole can of nope for me.
I’m on annual leave.
I’m not available.
I’m anywhere but near my place of work.
Even if I’m on the couch covered in chip crumbs surrounded by empty red bull cans.
This. My leave is a holy thing that will not be messed with. Say no dude, you’ve already got plans.
If i have to cancel my lease early its gonna be super annoying and costly to do so isnt it? I can just tell that the property manager isnt gonna be cool and agree to cancel early no matter what the circumstances and im gonna be liable for rent until the lease is finished. I really do enjoy fucking myself over.
The main thing with early lease breaks is having to cover advertising costs to find a replacement, but you shouldn’t have to cover the entire lease’s worth of rent.
Yeah If i talk to the real estate i might be able to sort it out a bit better than me just worrying.
This depends entirely on the lease and the standard lease rules for the state you’re in. For NSW I believe you’re liable to lose your bond or there’s a breakage cost involved in exiting the lease. Outside that I’ve never been aware of any other expenses in associated with an exit, i.e. like paying rent until the next tenant gets in there.
I’ve been fucked on this one before. Had to keep paying the entire time the place was vacant until they could find a replacement.
Not that they had particularly strong incentive, with like… six months still to go. I wouldn’t be surprised if they skimped on advertising because they knew they didn’t really have to.
That’s not reasonable, but it’s one you have to go to tribunal to argue if the real estate are going to be dicks like that.
It shouldn’t cost you anything.
Read up on your rights, bud.
After 21 hours of printing the first half of my first real 3D print is done. Shame the PLA plastic is semi-transparent and hates my phone camera so no details are visible.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/82751694/print.jpg
Got to clean it up post print, but man the detail is great
Jesus that is amazing resolution. Can you paint on the PLA okay?
Yeah. Just use some filler primer and it’s good to go
Also i would totally love to design a tiny LCD and driver for that thing. REAL LIFE PIP BOY
Please do!
I would think the coolest way to do it would be to intergrate a rasberry Pi with a 2.8 LCD as the screen. How big is the border for the LCD?
Approx 95 x 70mm (granted, a small part of that is covered by the screen buttons). So about a 4.5″ corner to corner screen size would work
Although I think I’ll scale it up a TINY bit, make it so a 5″ screen will fit (and make it fit around my fat arm).
http://www.adafruit.com/products/1678
would be perfect 🙂
But how do we make it battery portable?
probably have to carry a lit-ion battery and make a switch mode power supply circuit to power the screen and the rasberry Pi seperately. Ive seen it done, doesn’t look too difficult. The other option is just to find a LCD “hat” to chuck onto of a Pi and they typically use the 5v supply from the PI.
http://www.modmypi.com/raspberry-pi/hacking-and-prototyping/power-and-batteries/piborg-battborg
I’ve got one of these for my robot project I’m doing, Can connect any batterycase type you need
You nerds are way smarter than me.
With one of these or a RasPi you totally could
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer/video_share
I dont trust kickstarters, especially for hardware. Sure it might be cool but it will take 14 years for me to receive the unit. Plus with it being more than 2000% funded those wait times will be fucking dreadful.
Absoloutely agreed 🙂
Hey Rockets, what were you saying about looking for a new line of work but weren’t sure how useful your current skill set would be?
Yeah but i can’t wire electronics for props for a living. 😛
Not YET.
But if you started it as a hobby, there’s a chance the trickle turns into a flood…
Exactly. That’s how some of the biggest prop makers started. Volpin props started out just doing stuff on the side for fun and now he gets contracted out to Microsoft and stuff.
JOIN ME, @rocketman
Cool, I’ve been thinking about getting a 3D printer for a while, Are they fairly easy to use? What one would you recommend?
They can be a nightmare to setup. I had to use totally different settings to most because my room ambient temp is fairly different to most. Adjusting the build platform has been horrific. Otherwise great fun! I’m only using ReplicatorG software at the moment, which isn’t very user friendly.
I have a Flashforge Creator Pro. Don’t really know enough to recommend one model over another 😛 But this one is pretty open source and has a large build platform.
I just found my source of Zeitgeist action figures.
What would a Zeitgeist action figure have instead of a Karate Chop action?
“Press Dan’s back to hear a GameBoy Colour Story”
“Karl comes complete with Xenophobia(tm)!”
Facebook tells me it’s
@SimonPegg’s@markserrels’ birthday today! Happy birthday Mark!It’s going in my diary so I will never forget.
Old man Serrels is now older and probably manlier. He may even be more Serrels.
I’ll need a coffee before I can process if this is a good or a bad thing.
We should have a massive bag of steel cut oats delivered to his desk
Funny story, I watched Hot Fuzz for the first time last week having never experienced a Simon Pegg film previously.
First fifteen minutes I’m like “wait, why does he have an English accent?” It was actually throwing me off because I wasn’t hearing the Serrels brogue and it took me a while to figure out why I was confused.
Happy birthday @markserrels, Hope that Q-Ball spoils you
What’s that universe? Lets stop Chris from trying to do his work by making him the only person on his team? Therefore stopping him from being able to reach the deadline on his project? but also at the same time restricting him to a 10 hour day?
Thanks universe, you’re awesome!
/sarcasmI also got in 2.5 hours early to try knock over the project, only to get a call saying hey you’re the only one from your team, can you just do normal work today?
*thumbs-up* Woo Universe!
Fuck that guy.
Paradox Interactive are doing the Humble Bundle this fortnight so I am PHYSICALLY COMPELLED to tell you to get it so you can play Crusader Kings II.
Also EUIV
https://www.humblebundle.com/
But my life…
Your life needs to be put on hold until you can deal with those bastardly Spaniards/French/English/Danes/Russians/Ottomans/Austrians.
Fucking Mongols, man.
Always kinda liked that about the old Medieval Total War games. Mongols everywhere.
Then the sequel gave them elephants with cannons. If CK2 has elephants with cannons, I’m sold.
https://kingtoko.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/crusader-kings-ii-rajas-of-india.jpg?w=500
….damn it. *waves goodbye to free time*
FWIW the elephants are DLC
I think it’s generally the Mongols that do the fucking.
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
TONIGHT 7:30 SA TIME?
cc @popdart5 @tech_knight @blaghman
I should be okay for tonight.
I’ll be there.
Has anyone seen this
Looks to me a bit like Reign of Kings/Rust/Whatever else X with Jurassic Park. On consoles and PC. Looks epic to me.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/05/please-steam-dinosaur-game-dont-suck/
I’ve been burned on Dino D-Day and Orion already. I will not be investing my precious, scarce resource of ‘hope’ in this title.
Primal Carnage was great but I never managed to get enough TAYbies interested to fill out the teams 😛
Well, that was an interesting night. Got my nightfalls done (ascendant energy, coins, and Ruin wings with 1 more strength than the fully levelled pair I was wearing… thanks, RNG), got called into Normal Deathsinger to do Crota on Normal twice, followed by a full hard run and two more Crota Hards.
Internet decided it was going to throttle about thirty-five minutes before the end of my month – during the second hard mode, and party chat took up all the bandwidth, meaning I got kicked to orbit as soon as I landed in the raid. Still managed to get a decent haul – five exotics that will probably be sharded, more helms for my hunter and titan (sadly, my warlock is still searching for his wizard hat…), plus a second fang and a second abyss defiant. Kinda makes up for the nightfalls, I guess, tho I’m still looking for the elusive Monte Carlo and 4th Horseman. One day…
I feel like this week will be spent ruthlessly disassembling legendary weapons, so I can move stuff around once more…
Has anyone tried GoG’s new Galaxy app yet? Thoughts?
I’m thinking about giving it a whirl for the Witcher 3 preload.
(Yeah… it’s looking like Witcher 3 is going to be my 3rd title purchased this year. FF15 2015 IS REAL don’t listen to Neg’s lies!)
I have it and used it to preload TW3. It seems okay. Too early to tell how well it works but it’s basically looking on par with Origin at least.
Why do you make Gaben cry?
I’ve installed it, and also uninstalled all my GoG games that I installed manually and haven’t actually played yet (since the manager doesn’t detect their existence automatically) and will use the manager to reinstall them when I actually think I will play them.
Bahahaha it’s official then; transient has spoken. Witcher 3 beats Batman =P Welcome to the fold!
*looks puzzled* What kind of person would think anything even close to otherwise? It’s not even a contest.
*looks at @redartifice* =P
I enjoy the face people overprice the fuck outta things on gumtree. Nobody is going to buy a used tool for $200 when you can get the same new one for $90
Listen brah, I paid $900 for this iPhone 4 brand new in 2012 and it’s only got like one crack in the screen. I reckon at $850 it’s a bargain, right?
Tell’im ‘e’s dreamin’.
Lunch time roll call!
Today I’ve got rice, steamed veggies and some roast beef! 😀
I had a lamb burger from the pub near work. It was free as well so it tasted even better 😛
Ahh to be pretty…
Tight pants basically pay for themselves.
Tikka Masala curry from a box
Two sandwiches from 7-eleven (Which are surprisingly good), one egg and lettuce, and one tandoori chicken and lettuce
I used to smash a 7-11 Sandwich in my weekend sports coaching days, the Tandoori chicken was the bomb-diggity.
Woolworth’s Greek Salad. A mere 281 calories!
Yesterday was much more interesting. For the entree I had Jewish artichoke soup with scallops (the soup was almost a kind of puree, served as a tiny puddle in a bowl approximately the size of the SCG), and the main was “Porchetta two-ways” meaning a couple of tiny pork fillets alongside a chunk of pork belly with an orange puree. On the side there was some mashed potato that was probably 90% butter to begin with and then drowned in truffle oil, which I avoided because I am strongly opposed to having a massive heart attack this year.
Sounds glorious, what makes an artichoke soup Jewish? haha
perhaps the artichokes were circumcised? Otherwise did you have a crazy-haired woman insisting that you needed another six servings because you’re wasting away and she spent all night making this big eight course dinner and why don’t you ever call or write do you want me to die of a broken heart because your father just sits reading the paper and I don’t know what I did wrong as a parent to make you hate me so much and why haven’t you given me grandchildren yet are you trying to do Hitler’s work for him I won’t be around forever to do your laundry you know…
(this is purely speculative from stereotypes and not at all personal experience coming from a traditional Jewish household >_>)
I think it’s the artichokes that are jewish. I don’t know man, I just picked the one entree that wasn’t pasta or fish or pate.
Well, the main course there certainly wasn’t jewish.
I could have had steamed barramundi but I’m just trying to avoid heart attacks, not give up on life entirely.
At first I upvoted, but then I downvoted for the mashed potato avoidance. And then I realised I don’t want you to have a heart attack, so I upvoted again. 😛
Seriously it was like a pool of melted butter floating in an island of oil. To even call it potato is to stretch the definition to it’s very limits. If the soupy bowl of artery clogging deliciousness had a nutrional information table, they wouldn’t legally be required to have listed potato as one of the additives. It looked so good.
I went to Nghi Ngan Quan and had Pho Bo.
buuuuuuurp.
2 peanut butter sandwiches, cos I’m still in primary school
Chicken Maryland and gravy from the cafe downstairs. JUST the chicken, no salad or vegies.
Was it stuffed or no stuffing?
No stuffing. Just seasoned meat and skin on the bone.
My Mum was here and has strict dietary needs due to allergies and medical conditions so we couldn’t do what we usually do and eat at the foodcourt of whatever shops we happen to be at.
So we bought some stuff at the supermarket and brought it home to cook. I made a paste of garlic, salt, thyme and olive oil which I then massaged into some chicken wings which then went into the deep fryer. I also made kale chips in the oven, seasoned with sea salt and tumeric. And Mum made a caramelized carrot and fennel thing which was so good I think even my kids would eat it. Good lunch. 😀
And now I’m ruining all that good food eating by sitting down eating Cadbury’s Marvellous Creations chocolate while I wait for the kids to get home from school. 😛*drool* Now I sorta get why people watch those ridiculous cooking shows. Descriptions and depictions of food are fantastic.
For my money, though, they should scrap all the bullshit ‘human drama’ crap that drives me away from even acknowledging their existence. I don’t give a shit about some pack of divas and assholes getting catty at each other while they cook… just show me the bloody food.
WATCH CHEF’S TABLE ON NETFLIX
Also, Masterchef is really the best food-centric reality show because it keeps a strong focus on the food.
I made my Mum watch the Dan Barber episode while she was here today. 😀
Francis Mallmann has been my favourite so far, though Barber was also really good. I loved how Barber was getting them to breed wheat for taste
I’m up to ep 5. Each one is unique which is so great
Plus, I have no idea why the judges clothes aren’t flying off when they try the food….
With three hundred word technical essays on the chemical reactions which generate the flavours being experienced!
Wow, I would say the chocolate is complementing what sounds like the best chicken wings of all times.
The best chicken wings of all times is KFC. Korean Fried Chicken.
http://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/dakgangjeong
Seriously good. So good that when I make them we consider letting the kids have their favourite Mi Goreng for dinner and sending them to bed, so we can eat ALL the wings and not have to share. 😀
Looks good, though I’m not big into deep frying stuff myself.
I nearly didn’t upvote for KFC, but I like the acronym. Every time I eat Korean food (whilst rarely) I am always satisfied, so yummy!
Interesting. The first Witcher 3 content discussion article is up. *stands up, starts stretching to prepare for a couple of weeks of spoiler-dodging*
@shane Why did you send me $20?
Don’t ask questions you won’t like the answers to! Gosh did you learn nothing from @highperformance ‘s helpline fiasco?! =P
Proceeds from your sales!
But I told you that you could have it.
Hi scree this is Shane apparently you have not met before.
Like how he gave me his books when i lent him games. He wouldn’t accept my money. D=
He tried to give me one of his books for free when I had cash ready to pay for it. Shane is ridiculously generous.
Why can’t you accept our generosity @shane D=
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/undad-comic-miniseries-season-2 😛
@shane Woo! 1800! That’s jumped a bit since I last looked
So the federal budget’s out; any thoughts on this year’s outlook with the budget folks?
I haven’t seen it! Where is eeeet?
Lol google federal budget 2015 =p I think SMH’s website has an article that sums it up quite nicely but go to the budget website for a more in-depth read.
Pray…
[REDACTED]
It’s pretty milquetoast compared to last years.
GST on digital items is annoying for consumers, but the rationale isn’t bad. Enforcing it is going to be next to impossible.
Doesn’t encourage innovation at all.
Small business stuff is usually good, lots of businesses are small
Still don’t like the usual cuts to research, education, health, welfare etc.
Cutting from the Australia council is a bit crap
No commitment to Australian built subs.
At some point, the government (whoever it is) is going to have to increase taxes. With revenue the way it is, they need to get more money from somewhere
I’m actually happy to concede the GST on digital transactions if the government comes through on their crackdown of multi-national corporations. I think the general public are normally open to more stringent taxing if its for the good of the country and shows fair treatment across the board i.e. same rules apply to corporations and the top 1%.
Aside from those two items though it’s been a very financially and politically neutral budget, I think the coalition realizes how low their goodwill reserves with the public have gotten and are going to skim the issues that need dealing with until they’ve locked in another term. I think its a sign of things to come for the remainder of this governments term and it probably translates to an increased likelihood of a recession over the next few years.
I think GST on digital isn’t unfair. I doubt we’ll actually see Steam games rise in price because the publishers are intent on maintaining price parity with physical for now, so I think it’ll just be absorbed. Multi-national tax evasion is hardly a uniquely Australian problem, and I don’t think anyone has a great solution to it yet.
I don’t think it’s a populist budget, I think it’s a safe budget. You’re right about the government not having political capital to spend, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we’re heading for a recession. I think the main thing that’d kill us is the dollar + commodity prices jumping back up and dutch disease-ing us to death.
More than anything, there’s a distinct lack of vision to this government.
Oh the recession doesn’t have anything to do with government; we’re just long due for one and I think we’re finally seeing the signs of wear and tear on the economy that we didn’t properly suffer through during the GFC. Rising unemployment rates, volatile stock prices, falling commodity prices taking a good chunk of GDP with it, a low interest rate environment, weak wage growth, along with unsustainable real estate growth (this comes coupled with increased liability and poor serviceability on loans i.e. income neutral purchases). The economy has been wheezing along since the GFC and it needs to reset, this happens in one of two ways. We wear a recession and out of necessity this will bring about policy change that revitalizes the country or the government decides to be bloody proactive for once and incorporates policy changes before shit hits the fan. The RBA can no longer bail them out and it’s going to take innovative if not controversial leadership to see us through the next few years. Let’s bear in mind while our economy is slowing down the rest of the world is starting to recover from what the GFC did; this coupled with reduced chinese growth/demand for our natural resources makes for a very interesting mix of factors. All just waiting to be tipped over.
If anything, we should be using this time when debt is super cheap to invest in infrastructure.
Agreed 100%; this would’ve been one of the policies this government could’ve implemented to make a long term difference and drive our economy away from the possibility of a recession. Also I would’ve gained a lot more respect for this leadership.
Quick addendum to my reply; just for the record I enjoy our little debates red; forgive me if I get overly passionate and cross any line in my replies!
I’ve mentioned this before on TAY, but I used to coach debating.
I can argue either way on almost anything, and I never take it personal.
The $20,000 instant deduction for asset purchases by small business seems pretty stupid. I can see that creating many issues with people trying to shove all sorts of purchases under a small business tag.
Aye there will be issues for people shoving stuff under that tax bracket, but in order for people to do that they have to purchase said items and regardless of how unrelated it is to the business any business/consumer spending is a stimulant to the economy. While I don’t think its nearly enough to brace us for the coming recession at least its a step in the right direction.
That Gizmodo picture down the bottom for “How to get to first base” is amazing and I’ve been giggling at it for like half an hour now.
Also, ugh. Now that we’re developing our project, our client has decided to take the “this won’t make us as much money, do this instead!!!!!!!1” stance :l It’s really hard to try and develop to what they want to the expectations of what the unit is assessed on.
Heh. Scope creep.
Good real world experience.
Ooh, should we tell him about the triple constraint?
Time is the only thing that’s really the problem for us. They can spend tens of thousands of dollars, make stupid requests, but we have to turn everything down because we only have 2 more weeks to get release 1 done.
There’s an ever growing list of nice to have’s though!
Ask them what their Minimum Viable Product is.
Tragedy strikes!
Apparently our super-glossy new shiny PC monitors are generating glare and usability complaints to the point that IT is planning on a mass rollout of matte screen covers to reduce reflection.
This is a big problem for me. But how do I frame my objection and desire to opt-out without simply advising that I rely on the gloss to stare at my own reflection whenever I need a pick-me-up?
This is the worst thing about UTAS replacing all their matte Dell monitors wit iMac’s. The glare. So much glare. Go back to PC’s and nice monitors 🙁
The glare is VITAL! It’s the only way to stare soulfully into your own gorgeous eyes and look like you’re working!
Well we can’t all have your eyes now can we transient? =p
Not all at the same time anyway.
You’re like a budgie.
So I just found out the female character in AC is actually a twin and it’s played with a male and female character. Maybe I’m being picky but this feels like bit of a politically correct cop-out by Ubi? They don’t want to upset anyone so they’ll create two main characters?
I would’ve honestly been more likely to purchase the upcoming game if it was just a female character, it would’ve shown at least some sense of innovation from the company.
I think it’s sad that a female protagonist can even be thought of as innovative.
I guess what I’m saying is, BUY MIRROR’S EDGE 2
All change at one point or another is innovative =P What’s important I guess is that it’s innovation in the right direction?
No it aint, not in this context
This isn’t specifically related to Ubisoft (While they were rightly criticised for Unity), but the idea that “ooh female protagonists” constitutes anything innovative is setting a pretty low bar for innovation.
Going back to AC: Sure, it’s cool, and hopefully it’ll be an interesting dynamic- it could still actually be an innovative way of telling a story. Just putting a female character in it though shouldn’t be seen as an innovative thing in itself.
A female playable character in a AAA game is pretty innovative, not in the sense it’s taken this long for the games industry to do something like this. Yes its a low bar but it’s a bar above where we were a year ago. Is it about time? Yes. Is it innovative in the sense it hasn’t been done before as well? Yes. A fixed female protagonist as a playable character in a AAA mainstream franchise. Not something niche or only known by gamers. Something someone in the general public will recognise. It might not be enough; and it might not have been soon enough but no change for the better ever is.
You’re right in the sense this shouldn’t be enough to call a game innovative and I agree it isn’t. However I use the word to describe a change in the industry and in that sense I think Ubisoft are doing something innovative.
Um, Tomb Raider called from 1997.
Or Mirror’s Edge.
Hell, even Bayonetta.
Am I criticising them adding a female protagonist? No, it’s great (conceptually, we’ll see how it plays out). I’m all for more female-led franchises, and my number one most anticipated game atm is Mirror’s Edge 2.
I just don’t think it’s particularly worth being called out as innovative. If this is a signifier of a shift in the industry to greater diversity in protagonists (not just gender) that’s really good.
FWIW, other than the Unity thing, the AC games have been pretty good at including an ethnically diverse cast, and portraying them with a little bit of nuance.
See, I think it’s their damage control that should be criticised in Unity’s case. The actual answer was that you played as a dude in singleplayer, and you played as the same character in multi. Thus, dudebroing it up in multi.
They just happened to have a dev say something stupid and wrong, people misinterpreted what he said, and it just so happened to fall at an appropriate cultural breaking point that it felt the scrutiny and disdain that were owed to decades of boy’s club developer comments.
Yeah, it feels like a rushed addition after the critism given to Unity. I doubt the female character will be as story important as the guy, and there won’t be nearly as many missions where you play as her.
Yeah that’s the feeling I got as well; some PR rep somewhere went to the studio working on Syndicate and said “@*!$ Get a token female character in there ASAP! The token black characters are no longer working!”
If it was any other studio, I’d agree with you, but not the AC teams. This is a franchise that had an installment with a black female lead. If anything, we should be praising them for listening to feedback and offering a choice.
Not for one of their flagship titles though; they weren’t willing to risk Liberation as one of their main games. Given the size and the frequency of the AC games they release I’m not going to give them credit for having a black/female lead in one of their side games.
Telltale had a black female lead in one of their main franchises and they’re a much smaller studio than Ubisoft. They were willing to risk doing something different that you wouldn’t get from focus test groups.
I’ll happily eat my words if the female lead in Syndicate is an integral part of the game/story however if Ubisoft have just tacked this on so they can wear it as a PR badge of honor I’ll be sorely disappointed.
Is there co-op? It’d be pretty cool if there was.
I’ve wanted a Bonnie & Clyde-style olde time heist game for ages. Something like LA Noire but you play as the baddies (with optional co-op)
Assassin’s Creed isn’t that, but still. C’mon, Rockstar!
No MP.
I’m pretty sure there said there’s no multi in it.
Any time soon, the closest you’re likely to get is a new Red Dead game. Which, admittedly, is unlikely to be later than pre-war, compared to Bonnie and Clyde’s depression era. But I’d love a co-op western bank heist or two.
After the GTA V heists I imagine that old school bank/train robberies would be on the feature list for a new Red Dead MP day one.
Also, Rockstar:
Red Dead pls
pls Rockstar
pls Red Dead
As I was checking when Red Dead Redemption was set, to make sure I got my era right (was originally going to say Edwardian, but then it’s set in the US, so pre-war will do), there were a couple of articles up saying October 2016 for the next Red Dead game.
They were almost certainly talking out of their arses, but it’s a reasonably, err, reasonable timeframe.
From memory it’s set in 1911
You don’t understand though. They have enough money to animate female characters now!
*Take off hat* What an economy we live in!
Saw Avengers Age of Ultron.
Was okay, but not fantastic.
Greetings and Salutations people of TAY!
I’ve come before you, to stand behind you, to tell you something I know nothing about!
Ok.. so maybe that’s a lie… I know that I have a Steam key for a game called Battlepaths (http://store.steampowered.com/app/296050/) which I am going to give away to some person who wishes to play/own that game! Who’s it gonna be?!!?!?! Step right up!!!
*heavy breathing*
Haha yeah I saw that last week; pretty awesome news! =]
Yeah, I’m only just seeing it now. I tend to get most of my news (especially when it comes to the entertainment industry) by referral (e.g. if I need to know about it, I’ll come across it) so today was first I’d seen of it. So grood.
Taronga Zoo is not a great place to be when it is raining and you don’t have an umbrella.
Okay so now that I have my bookmarks, did anyone want any?
I’ll sell them for $3+postage unless you would like the royal emblem foiled. I have to buy foil.
Available is:
Link
Zelda
Epona
Midna
Cucco
Anyone interested?
http://imgur.com/a/zhwNg
Ugh, not a page six page get!
Just had a look online, if it’s 5 or under, it’s 70 cents postage =D For more, it’s $1.40
You should do this. They are stunning. The Midna one is my personal favourite!
Did you keep one for yourself?
Yep! Took a Princess Zelda one as well for my eldest, who uses it every day! Thanks.
Not at all. I’m glad she likes it.
I’ll take a set. DM me on Twitter about deets for payment. Won’t be able to pay for them till at least Friday though.
I’ll make sure I flash ’em around too, try and get you some more sales.
They have to contact me directly atm as I haven’t decided if I want to sell them via a store….and I’m a lazy shit. =P
Nah, I was just gonna be the middle man. That way you’ll only have to post them to me (hopefully in one bulk lot to keep the postage down.
Alright, sounds like a great idea =P
I just hope I can make some sale for you, don’t want to get your hopes up.
Not sure if I have that many. I’ll have to check
Remind me what they all look like?
I will edit the top post or post the links…you know what I mean.
I think that’s the first I’ve seen of the Cucco. Sucka looks bada$$!
Gimme a whole set. I can’t decide.
I posted it when it was dead so I think a few people missed it. Can I contact you via twitter like evilmonkey?
Absolutely 🙂
Link
I changed my mind! D=
Any estimate on the foil costs scree? I was thinking 2 of Zelda and 2 of Link, one plain one foiled for each!
Probably an extra dollar. There are kits in Australia for $10 excluding postage. I wouldn’t charge more than $5 though.
Cool =] Hit me up via
its dot reuben at hot males dot comwith estimated cost and bank deets!I need to get the foil first. Unfortuntely, it’s being a pain in the bum to get as Jones tones no longer sells them. I have to find a replacement and I’m trying to find one that isn’t too expensive
All good scree no rush =] Whenever you have them ready I’ll jump on the proverbial band wagon =p
Edit: Go play some D3 😉
NO TIME! =P
I may still be able to get gold pretty easily. I’m just being a little lazy because I haven’t contacted evilmonkey or Bob
I always knew @evilmonkey was secretly swimming in gold aka Ducktales. This confirms it.
Oh, oh oh oh @haggis
Page 6 Haggis, you know what this means
*bites nails in anticipation*
I tried to get a table at my local library but I couldn’t.
It was fully booked #dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeSo, apparently Japan outlawed tattoos and it just went into effect. Parlors are being closed and artists are being arrested.
Seems sudden.
Wonder if they had any inkling it was going to happen,
As Captain Kidd was led to the gallows the guards asked him “So, where are your buccaneers?” to which he replied “Yarr, where d’ye think they be, on me bucc’n head!”
Next gen, here we come.
I’VE WAITED YEARS, BUT I’VE FOUND IT
When I was a kid, there was a kids show I used to watch. Even as a kid, I had trouble remembering the name. So as I got older and tried to find the show again, I couldn’t remember anything about it., All I remember was the pink elephant and their was a tortoise at one point. That wasn’t enough information to track down what it was. Then some YouTube comment mentioned the name ‘Johnson and Friends.’ I absent-mindedly google searched it to figure out what the comment was referring to. And here we are. Woot.
Dear god, this show is terrifying. I don’t quite know how I watched it as a kid.
Oh god I haven’t seen that show in yearssssss. I could never work out if I loved the show or was completely creeped out by it.
I have a secret:
Johnson’s got a big nose!I love that accordian dood
Man, you should’ve asked here. I could’ve saved you years of your life!
I didn’t remember enough to provide an adequate description!
Been there, man. Been there.
Mate. How could you forget Johnson and Friends.
That shit is cash money.
People also search for… Plasmo. Gogs.Postman Pat. Mr. Squiggle. Bananas in Pyjamas.
These people are alright.
Hey gang, UNDAD is 50% funded! Huzzah!
Here’s some sample promo art, in the style I’ll be bringing to the final issue. Rocking the cel-shaded look. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/undad-comic-miniseries-season-2/posts/1229862
And because it’s page six…
Undad is a book that wears its heart on its sleeve… and its other sleeve. And a bit down the front of its shirt. It’s a book with heart, all right… and braaaaaaaaaaains. Definite food for thought.
I spent al my money on Bloodstained D:
It’s cool, man. I totally understand. I just have to unfriend you now, that’s all.
Somebody tell @ash I wasn’t avoiding him on Twitter, he was @ing the wrong account!
I love you, waifu!
Don’t lie! Why do you lie? He was totes avoiding you man.
Waifu?!
Who. The F**K. Is @ash?!
We used to talk about our crushes on anime girls.
SATAYbie. Lives in the Barossa.
Thats why you gotta decant the wine before you drink it otherwise you can taste their odour
Don’t stress, I haven’t used Twitter for so long, I wouldn’t remember my login details!
Ps Chie moves amazing in P4:DAN 😉I haven’t the rhythm for such things
Fun fact page six!
Did you know that my fun fact last week wasn’t entirely true? Neither did I.
Credit goes to @beeawwb for pointing it out. What a champion.
This weeks fun fact:
Platypodes (the technically correct plural, although everyone uses Platypuses) lose their teeth as they grow up. They are born with teeth, then they drop out.
They also only have one functioning ovary. The left one.
They also have no stomach.
Literally no stomach. They have a digestion ‘dip’ in their intestine but technically no stomach.
Platypodes are pretty pucked up creatures.
I thought the plural was Platypi, like Octopus and Cactus.
I did as well, for pretty much my entire life up until a week ago when researching it.
Apparently, the “i” is for plural…ing (??) Latin words. Greek root words don’t get the “i”.
I feel like an absolute nob.
I think you mean @sernobulus
Nob, Inspector Nob.
*sips martini*
Yep, it’s a greek/latin thing.
Octopus is also a Greek origin word so it should become ocotopodes too. I think octopuses is also considered correct, or at least less incorrect than octopi.
Fun(?) fact (man mine are specific):
Since you mentioned Latin words above, did you know that the word order is completely irrelevant in Latin? The reason for this is that form is based on the inflection used, as opposed to anything else, so while there’s a “preferred” structure, it’s not necessary (Form even extends to names, where Marcus is the subject form, and Marco the indirect object, to use the Wikipedia example).
What this means is that while in English, a sentence would be something like “the bear went down to the store.” In Latin, “(to) the store went down the bear” is exactly as correct as “went the bear down to the store” or any other combination you’d wish, regardless of how awkward they’d look to us (god my facts lack fun).
I’ve been doing a bit of work toward my enormous anime backlog recently. Have tons of shows that I got a little way into then stopped and I wanted to fix that a bit. Yesterday I finished up 2014’s Argevollen (it was okay but completely lost cohesion at the end) and now I’m not sure what to move on to. I’m mainly looking at semi-recent stuff and my current short list is:
– Akatsuki no Yona (really liked the look of this but for some reason only watched 1 episode)
– Seven Deadly Sins (the group subtitling it disappeared at ep 16 of 24 and I only recently obtained the rest)
– Shirobako (I had too much happening last season so got behind and haven’t seen the second half)
– Log Horizon S2 (Finished the first arc but the second half wasn’t really doing much for me and it fell by the wayside)
– Your Lie in April (got about 5-6 eps in, liked it, but felt like I got out right before it turned into a music battle show or something)
– Suisei no Gargantia (I was close to the end but stopped 1-2 episodes short back when it was running, and since then there’s been som OVAs released too)
– Anohana (This one’s older, I got halfway in back in the day but stopped because it had all the feels and I didn’t want to feel them at the time and have always regretted not seeing it through)
Open to thoughts / suggestions.
I really, really enjoyed seven deadly sins
I was enjoying it a lot until the fansubs dried up too, it’s currently my front-runner for next in line.
Yeah, it wasn’t considered too popular because of the other series that people were more interested in.
I don’t know why. It’s good all the way through. Maybe a bit simple but that’s fine. I ended up finishing it last night 🙂
It doesn’t really stop either. I found it incredibly enjoyable and was annoyed that people were ignoring it. Plus, talking pig.
Hawk is the best character by a mile.
I love Hawk’s Mum too
I like Anohana, but it is deliberately manipulative, though I didn’t find it as feels filled as some other shows (so there’s my no. 1 recommendation on your list). Suisei no Gargantia’s ending wasn’t anything special, though I haven’t seen the OVAs, but if you don’t have that much left you may as well knock it over.
Otherwise, I’d say Log Horizon S2 so you can tell me if it’s overall worth going through.
Akatsuki no Yona is good, not hugely innovative but quite enjoyable.
Big fan of Log Horizon, so that.
Gargantia… I think I stopped about when you did now I think of it.
Have not seen the others.
@blaghman @scree @jocon: Thanks for the suggestions. I ended up taking Scree’s suggestion and finishing up Seven Deadly Sins, and have subsequently started back into Log Horizon. Hope to knock that one out soonish and then I’ll revisit my options.
Also, would just like to point out that while American Gods hasn’t got to the screen yet, there’s an official trailer for another of Neil Gaiman’s works: Lucifer.
It looks vaguely good. Like, not god-level (hah) television, but damned (hah) close.
I think Gaiman is having a meeting with the network about American Gods this week. We should hear something soon after.
So tired. As some of you may know, I locked myself out of my flat today, and found out my landlady was in Melbourne. I rang my parents and my Mum suggested I ring my uncle, which I did. He wasn’t able to pick me up until 3, so I went and had lunch at the local cafe. Had a big bowl of chips with garlic aioli and tomato sauce. Really good, and very filling. I then walked into town and had a wander round the shops. Then my uncle picked me up and I went to his place. I was there until basketball, so I had tea with them. Had seafood soup, spaghetti bolognaise with zucchini spaghetti, and a piece of gateau for dessert. Played Mortal Kombat X with my cousin, which was fun. Certainly a lot more fun than basketball, which we lost 97-7. Anyway, despite the mishap, I had a pretty decent day. Glad to be home though.
Getting locked out of the apartment can often an excellent opportunity to go do some urban wandering, eat at fun places or go see a movie. Takes some of the sting out of the sometimes inevitable locksmith bill.
Except when you get locked out of the apartment you’re staying in via AirBnB, which just so happens to be in Boston… and you’ve locked your shoes in behind the door… and are sitting on the doorstep in socks, and the owner doesn’t get home from work for another 3 hours…
That was fun…
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
SCRAPPA (@tech_knight): Got his first kiss
ELANDAR (@popdart5): Got distracted by a naked old coot
BLAGHS: (@blaghman): Bet on robots!
Thanks for playing!
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fezfL0RGTMg
How is it running a 3 man group as opposed to 4+? I’ve never played any RPG smaller than 5 for extended sessions and the odd 4-man game.
More space for attention to individual characters, need to sometimes moderate combat encounters.
In this session, for example, I could break away to Blaghs betting on robots, Techie examining said robots, and Popdart chasing information as seperate conversations. It’s not like some RPGs where “an audience with the king” is like 8 dudes talking to a monarch at once.
We’ve got a balanced team of a fighter, mage and ranged engineer. Popdart rerolled a character to make this work and it’s actually been working quite well. Also our current campaign is about saving Aleph’s character that’s no longer physically with us, we’re on the final stretch of that storyline now as we just reached the city where we can find the final piece of the puzzle.
A man returned home one day to find every lamp had been stolen from his house. He was absolutely delighted.
Played a game of Age of Empires 2 against the AI, game went for just under two hours, and I got out-built and out-aged. 🙁
GOODNIGHT CRAZY-GEE!!! :* :* :*
Well that’s an interesting development. Or a series thereof.
Lol. Should be awesome, can’t wait for E3.
They’ve just announced the major talent for the Ratchet & Clank movie. Along with the cast from the game they’re also bringing on board, Sylvester Stallone, John Goodman, Paul Giamatti, Rosario Dawson and Bella Thorne.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-16197-Ratchet—Clank-Movie-Cast-Includes-Sly-Stallone–Rosario-Dawson–John-Goodman.html
By the holy Omnissiar… it’s beautiful! :’D
….. I’m like 99% certain Stallone is Quark xD
Lol nah, they’ve got the voice actor from the game for him.
Woo! Been paid early again. Gonna pick up copies of Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster, Puzzle Dragons Z and Kirby And The Rainbow Paintbrush on the way to work.
Also gonna pre-order The Witcher 3, Splatoon, Yoshi’s Woolly World and their respective Amiibo’s.
Happy Mad Max Day! Go and see it guys, it’s brilliant.
I’m excited – just trying to coordinate with busy friends who also want to see it.
It’s certainly telling that, as a movie described primarily as an extended chase scene, it sat at 98% on the Tomatometer until release, then went up to 99%! :p
I’m seeing it on Saturday. Then seeing When Marnie Was There on Sunday!
Where are you planning on seeing When Marnie Was There?
man down. man down.
a head cold has knocked me for six.
Curling up on couch with blankets and Netflix today.
Any suggestions that are easy to follow in my brain addled state?
Nature documentaries! Just look at pretty pictures for a few hours.
CHEF’S TABLE
I just back to back watched misfits, pretty sure thats on netflix otherwise dual survival is a good show
A 1970s documentary on the plight of moustachioed pool cleaners?
Taybies with Kids: The company that makes Numenera is kickstarting a new kid friendly RPG: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/montecookgames/no-thank-you-evil-a-game-of-make-believe-for-famil
Looks pretty neat as an intro RPG
That’s pretty awesome. Great way to hook them early. It’s a gateway RPG!
Before you know it they’ll have Pure China Hero System hooked into their veins and be turning tricks on the street for dice.
They grow up so fast.
Just about to do my third restart in AdVenture Capitalist for the day. Making some serious dosh now. Yay capitalism \o/
I’m ready for a reset, just starting to wonder if this is the point where @freezespreston gave up. I’ve got 2500 of everything (up to 4000 of some) and to get to 2600 of everything (just need newspapers) will take 33 DuoQuadragintillion, when I’m only earning UnQuadragintillion at the moment.
Granted I’ve got 15 Octodecillion angels waiting in the reset (currently using 389 Septendecillion) so it’ll be another huge boost to profit speed.
Edit: I reset. Look at those Unquadragintillions flyyyyyy!
I got through one restart and don’t want to again. Whole game burned out for me in 3 days.
HOLY SHIT DUDE! Way to burst my bubble.
*sadface*
I’m almost done with all the earth-based upgrades on my ipad. One upgrade left to purchase then there’s nothing else to buy.
The moon looks like it might take a bit more time, though.
The moon is so screwed. I’ve been playing it since this weekend and I hate it.
I don’t mind it.
Early on, only the oxygen farms and cheese factories are worth anything at all. Once you can afford a few of them and their upgrades, the werewolves really come into their own. It’s interestingly different from earth where everything just sort of scales up equally.
Yeah, that’s kind of where my mind is at. I’m pumping everything in to oxygen and cheese and wondering when the hell I’ll even be able to get 100 lasers to hit the next speed boost. I do like the scaling of some though, e.g. 8/16/32/64 for the cheeses.
SHUTUP! Still haven’t made it to the moon yet, gotta wait till Sunday or I can afford to pay to bring the clock forward.
I don’t understand the point of this game!! >.
Like pretty much anything, manipulate numbers to make other numbers go up. 🙂
Click click click click click click click click, wait a bit, profit, click clickity click click, reset and click some more. Rinse and repeat.
Don’t know what it is, but for some reason I find it highly addictive. Damn you @transientmind.
*shakes fist*
….. but that’s what I do at work >.< Why does it need to be made into a game?!
Wanna swap jobs?
I think it would bring you closer to your name than you would like =P I barely maintain my sanity as is!
It’s time.
Couldn’t bring my road kill collection aboard plane. Only allowed two pieces of carrion.
To the guy that returned my empty wallet….
I don’t know how to repay you.
Why are there no pain killers in the jungle?
Because parrots-eat-em-all…A Mexican magician says he’ll disappear on the count of three.
Uno… Dos… Poof
He disappeared…
Without a tres.
What happens to a frog’s car when it breaks down?
It gets toad away.A boy is selling fish on a corner. To get his customers’ attention, he is yelling, “Dam fish for sale! Get your dam fish here!” A pastor hears this and asks, “Why are you calling them ‘dam fish.’” The boy responds, “Because I caught these fish at the local dam.”
The pastor buys a couple fish, takes them home to his wife, and asks her to cook the dam fish. The wife responds surprised, “I didn’t know it was acceptable for a preacher to speak that way.” He explains to her why they are dam fish. Later at the dinner table, he asks his son to pass the dam fish. He responds, “That’s the spirit, Dad! Now pass the f*cking potatoes!”
What did the blanket say when it fell of the bed?
“Oh sheet!”A teacher asked, “Johnny, can you tell me the name of three great kings who have brought happiness and peace into people’s lives?” Little Johnny responded, “Drin-king, smo-king, and f*c-king.”
You’re a good man, Haggis.
***
How do you make Holy water?
Boil the Hell out of it.
Only just managed to take a squiz at page 6…completely missed it yesterday/this morning and we’re on to page 7 now…was scrolling down…and down…started panicking…sweating…and then…
Aw yeah.
About to order the hardcover re-issue Final Fantasy VII VIII IX guidebooks for no other reason than I want them…
Help…
Bleh. Seem to have woken up with the sick. Half blocked ears, sharp weirdness up the back of my nose/throat. This is what I get for venturing outside.
#gookyget
I got that last week, that’s what I get for going to a hospital & being surrounded by sickos
So I managed to get a sealed copy of LittleBigPlanet 3 for $18 yesterday as part of EB Games Pre-Owned Sale. Seems a lot of people bought the PS4 package deal that it as part of the pack and they traded it in for some reason. Apparently, there is a lot of them at the store I went to, so if you’re after a copy, it might be worth asking EB Games for a sealed copy.
Every time I see someone talk about LittleBigPlanet I subconsciously read it as Little Big Adventure and get really excited I’m going to get to see Twinsen and pals again.
Yeah, that would be awesome. I loved that game!
Man, LBA was the sheez! Such great games! Spent way too long in number 2 just running around exploring Desert Island
Yeah, my local has about 30 copies of it and Drive Club.
Fools… I traded mine in at CEX and got $80! 😛
Gilmore Girls marathon or anime marathon.
Either way i need to consume some media.
Gilmore Girls rules. But you should also probably be watching Food Wars.
Food wars huh?
Well im going to check out Fate stay/night and a few other random shows so ill add that to the list. I havent really watched anime since the second season of FREE. It was so beautiful and easy to watch. also i think its time to rewatch ATTACK ON TITAN on my big tv.
Anime marathon.
Give Girls und Panzer a go.
I did, then i stopped. I could get behind the concept. I couldn’t watch it without feeling a little bit creepy though.
Trust me, that’s nothing compared to Strike Witches and Vividred Operation… *shudder*
You ever seen valverave the liberator
Vampire mecha rape scene.
its @saturday fave show
[TRIGGERED]
Yeah, I quit Strike Witches very early in disgust.
🙁 I really like Strike Witches. 🙁
I dunno. Maybe there was a nice story in there somewhere, but the trappings turned me off way too much. Did some reading up on it and there was a particular audience who really loved it for all the wrong reasons and once I learned that, it was all over for me.
I enjoyed it for largely the sort of reasons I enjoy Kantai Collection. Because it’s stupid fluff with historical bits added. Also helped that it involved two artists I really like. Kazuhiro Takamura (Mahoromatic and others) directed it and did the character designs adapting Shimada Fumikane’s original designs. Interesting seeing Vividred mentioned – Takamura’s the director and character designer for that as well.
In terms of what’s actually in the show and related media, though, things are usually played with a pretty straight bat aside from the preponderance of panty shots, largely resulting from the fact that no one wears pants or long skirts, presumably because they’d get in the way of the enormous fucking propellers they attach to their legs. I think maybe I enjoyed the sheer ridiculousness of it a bit.
There’s certainly people out there with shall we say deviant preferences, but they’ll pop out of the woodwork for practically any anime show. I learned a long time ago that if you let the way that other people respond to things dictate your own opinion of it you’ll never enjoy anything. Also I guess the internet and especially the horrific Japanese fanart / doujinshi stuff I’ve encountered over the years has desensitized me to just about anything.
Smell of a sausage sizzle wafting in through the office window…
No! It’s not lunch time yet I need to… get back to… sizzle…
I’M SORRY I HAVE TO GO
you work near a bunnings?
I just found that Blizzard added their own way to make Starcraft playable without the CD in a later patch.
You just have to patch the game, copy the install.exe file from the CD and rename it to “StarCraft.mpq” or “BroodWar.mpq”, depending on whether you have the original or the Brood War expansion.
Pretty sure I did something similar with Diablo and/or Diablo 2. Became handy in later years when CD’s were completely superfluous. Alternatively, you can register the keys from your original SC/WC3/D/D2 titles on your Battle.net account and just download pure digital versions. Really useful. Don’t even have my original CD’s for those games anymore.
I’m not sure if I’ll be able to do that, seeing as I bought the game from an antiques shop…
THURSDAY TAYDRENALIN SHOT
It’s the future
The Apocalypse has hit and we’re now in a postapocalyptic wasteland (more Mad Max than The Road).
Who on TAY is in your intrepid band of survivors? And what’s your survivor band gimmick?
Shotgun @transientmind because #mostinterestingmanontay and all that
I would take @rize @blaghman @cakesmith and @pixel_the_ferret_viking
I know that they can drive tractors at high speeds and we would rule the lands with our tractor gang
JUST CAUSE 2 multiplayer is just training for the apocalypse.
And we can fly big cargo aircraft like champs!
And then there’s @rize’s laugh to keep us entertained.
Thinking about it, us as a gang is a terrible idea! Someone gets bored, runs off for a minute, “AND SUDDENLY A BEHRING” and wipes the entire gang from existence 😛
Or if GTA has taught us anything:
STICKY BOMBS FOR ALL!
Bahaha way to save transient from being tagged like a 100 times =P
I would take… Freeze & Strange they seem like they could throw down if it came to it, cookingmama for keeping us alive (yes I’ve seen your TAY recipes!), DC to be the moral centre of the group (he’ll probably die early) and Saturday and Blagh’s to maintain group morale! Oh and rocketman cos he seems to know how to build things with his hands and stuff =P I’ll also toss out dibs on Quiz_b and Kermitron as strategic and information based companions =D
The rest of TAY unfortunately dies a heroic death in a bandit raid!
Edit: Sorry @redartifice you don’t get chosen because you’re clearly the evil dictator we’re attempting to over throw!
Double edit: Also give me highperformance and liondrive because I know they bench! =P
I RUN BARTERTOWN
“To maintain group morale”
You mean to regale the group with tales of our ineptitude, right?
Ehh, a job’s a job.
You say tomato I say tomahto; what’s the difference blaghsy?! =P
In the 2015 Apocalypse Draft Highperformance selects:
@strange For cooking prowess, you need food in an apocalypse
@DC for survivalist experience, gained from living as a self confessed hermit
@saturday as a Canadian he will know where the Hersheys factory is that we can scavenge for Reeces… I mean food
I’d bring all of TAY, and we’d get an underground bunker, tonnes of couches and then steal all the consoles and all the pc’s and all the games.
Sure, we’d probably die within days, but we’d be going out doing what we loved.
“doing what we loved”
you mean being overly sarcastic and making pop culture references nobody really understands.
Hm. Excuse me… I’d like to speak to a manager? There appears to be something wrong with my doomsday harem.
We should blame @mrtaco. No point trying to maintain a harem within a hundred miles of him…
Rocketman because if Pacific Rim taught us anything is that analogue devices are hardy, so we’d need someone to fix analogue electronic devices and up where Rocket lives they’ve advanced so far that they’re currently using 1980s analogue technology.
f4ction because he could probably be that one guy levelling up in nothing but melee, then running around punching peoples heads off all the time, like in games.
Freyr because she is a doctor and helpful and valuable and definitely not because I am afraid that if we weren’t on the same team she would find a way to bury me under a tractor hahahahaha no not that at all
EMP BLASTS STILL TAKE OUT ANALOGUE CIRCUITS
fucking pacific rim
Also between the two of us i think we could make @f4ction into Iron man
I love that line.
You how shows like Futurama and even Big Bang Theory have nerds to make sure their science dialogue means something?
Someone at Pacific Rim writing headquarters was like “Hahahaha no screw that I had a Casio calculator watch in the 90s, I know what’s up”
“You could type 5318008 into that watch it was the best thing ever”
To be fair… it was the best thing ever.
I don’t think there’s enough metal to make a suit for me.
*sniff*
Don’t worry, I’m in the same boat. Appears there ain’t no monkey love.
Wanna be on my team?
We can have our own postapocalyptic wasteland. With blackjack! And hookers!
Thought I’d do better at Starcraft than Age of Empires 2… I only lasted ten minutes. D:
Starcraft is one of those games where if you don’t have psychic commandos who fire nuclear bombs in the first few minutes, you lose.
Try Civilization!
“never know what hit ’em”
Build three workers. Build a house.
Build four more workers. Build your tier 1 unit building.
Build more workers. Build another house. Get doene vespene in there somewhere.
Build three more tier 1 buildings.
Rage that you always lose even though you’ve ducked your econ by sitting on one base for too long.
I used to play zerg and I just loved putting hatcheries everywhere and churning out swarms of units.
I never really won but when I did it was fun. Like that time I flanked with ultralisks. 😛
I was pretty good at StarCraft 2, back in the day, but I always sucked at getting my second expansion. I could usually do a safe, economic expansion at the start, then I’d lose control of my econ, and never be able to properly defend my expo, of just not take it, and everything would fall apart.
It also doesn’t help that StarCraft 2 was absolutely brutal when playing against other people. If you weren’t on the ball with everything then you were likely to fall behind unless your opponent was doing worse than you. If you macro and focus on economy too much, you lose out on harass and aren’t building enough offence. Too much offence and your economy tanks. It is not a noob friendly game.
Do you prefer tactical RTS, strategy RTS, or grand strategy RTS? I think maybe a less micro-intensive game might suit you.
<3 the cafe downstairs.
Dollar for dollar they may not be able to beat Maccas for a ham+cheese+tomato toastie as a snack… but where they win is in adding grilled onion.
Ah nuts.
http://au.ign.com/articles/2015/05/13/telltales-the-walking-dead-season-3-not-coming-in-2015
So I got myself a pair of those blue light blocking glasses, and they’re really weird. They tint everything orange, as expected, and you don’t really notice much difference when looking at a screen apart from that tint, but it complete removes that blue glow given off by power buttons to such a degree that it’s bizarre to think about. I had way more fun than I should have taking them off and putting them back on again. Blue light, no light, blue light, no light. Magic.
I hate those bright blue power LEDs. It’s pretty much the only thing I liked about the new 3DS, the power LED on it is much dimmer than the old XL. Won’t blind you in the darkness.
My Wii U has two little blobs of thinly-smeared UHU-tac on it because the lights on it were annoyingly bright in my room at night. Especially the white one for when there’s a disc in the drive.
Does anyone actually know what their favourite game is?
I have a lot of games I love, but I can’t name a specific favourite :O
I saw your tweet and it’s a tricky question. There’s a lot of stuff that I like but putting one on a pedestal above everything else is hard, especially when nostalgia tends to colour things.
My favourite game of all time which is the one that I enjoyed the most and valued my time the most: Morrowind. I like a lot of the Elder Scrolls games but Morrowind was the one that shined over everything else.
Mine is easy and generic
Guitar Hero 3
in combines all the things i love: The Killers and big hunks of plastic.
Crusader Kings 2, surprising no-one
DARK SOOOOOOOOULS
Honourable mentions go to all other Souls/Bloodborne titles, Metal Gear Solid, Telltale’s The Walking Dead, and the Ace Attorney series.
Are we talking a current favourite or an all-time favourite?
All time.
I can’t pinpoint what mine would be :S
I can’t either :*(
JOURNEY!
Really ? i would never of guessed that. You hardly ever talk about it.
MOTHERFUCKING SCARVES!
I’d guess I’d have to split this up between game spent most time playing and game I most enjoy playing to the point I completed a few times. The first would go to World of Warcraft and the second would have to be Knights of the Old Republic 2. Kreia helped shape much of my ethical principles when I was a kid (suck on that mom! You thought the bible and church was going to do that! BAHAHAHA).
Nah, I don’t. At best I can maybe do something specific, like “favourite GameCube game”. Way too indecisive to choose one above all others forever. It’d probably change even if you asked me an hour later.
Favourites by system:
NES – Battletoads
SNES – Unirally
N64 – Perfect Dark
64DD – F-Zero X (ha, technicalities)
GCN – Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
Wii – de Blob
Wii U – Wonderful 101
GB – X
GBC – Zelda Oracle of Seasons
GBA – Metroid Zero Mission
DS – Rhythm Heaven
3DS – Shinobi
And pretty much every single one of those could be swapped out for an alternative if I tried to write the list again.
Yeah. For example, NES should really be Kirby.
If I’d ever had it 😛 First Kirby ended up being… Canvas Curse on the DS, actually. Followed by Squeak Squad, if you want a “proper” Kirby. Though that was first I owned, I’d had a few goes of various friends’ Dreamland on GB over the years. I was totally hanging out for the Crystal Shards game or whatever it was on 64, but whatever I was following for news at the time had me thinking it never came out here, I didn’t hear anything about a release at all and had never seen it at the shops in all my time getting other stuff.
Alternative would’ve had to probably be Pinball Quest. You could maybe say SMB3, but I liked the All-Stars version better. And the GBA version even better than that. But then I got reminded of what Captain Skyhawk was and sourced a copy, so now that can go in there as well.
Nope. 😛 Given a genre (or maybe a release year), I could give a top 5… maybe… but choosing between them all? Impossible.
Newp.
One of my favourite things about gaming is the variety. If I could only ever play one game… I’d. Well. I’d probably read a shit-tonne of different types of books.
I crave variety. I need it.
Oh, I would never want to only play CK2. In a given week I can go from strategy to shooter to racer to adventure game. CK2, for me, is a game I always know I could fire up and get lost in for a 4-5 hour stretch and come out of that feeling like I’ve enjoyed myself, and that’s why it’s my favourite.
Oh yes… of course.
I appear to have internally jumped a few steps and replied to my OWN question which is, ‘how do you measure your favourite?’ “Hell if I know. What one game would you be OK with being the only one in your library?”
Hard decision. A few years ago I would have said Dark Souls but I actually thought about this the other day and I would have to say Fallout. Namely Fallout: New Vegas
This choice is Red approved.
I must continue my Forrest Gump run…
my favourite run so far has been my “cowboy” run (use only revolvers and lever action weapons, equip cowboy appropriate clothing and listen to this on repeat).
EDIT: for hard mode: drink all alcohol you come across and never use any kind of technological equipment. I.e. Never use computers unless you have too)
I always default to small guns and repair/lockpicking usually as my three starters, but my most entertaining Fallout playthrough to date has been my Fallout 3 stealth/explosives/melee playthrough.
The unbridled joy of wrecking almost anyone or anything with a well place mine or hand grenade is unparalleled. That and destroying super mutant behemoths with a couple of bottle cap mines, that after your skills and perks are placed correctly might as well be mini-nukes.
Also Jingwei’s Shock sword and the stealth armor from Operation Anchorage. Amazing.
<3 stealth armor. If only because when I played it, some kind of bug with it also allowed you to wear a headband, goggles, and hat, all at once. EXTRA ARMOR AND STATS!
Ace Combat: The Belkan War I think is my all time favourite, air combat in fighter jets at consistent 60FPS, and this was on the PS2! So glorious.
All time? Doom 2. Without even the slightest hesitation or doubt.
Okami. Nier is a very very close second but Okami is my definite favourite 😛
Final Fantasy VII.
Probably mainly nostalgia.
Yeah…it’s nostalgia.
Halo 3, on the sheer amount of fun had playing it.
Or Dark Souls, on it’s own merits as a game.
There was this thing on TAY a few months ago about choosing your favourite games. I think it was for a GoodGame competion. (Somehow The Last of Us ended up being #1 outright)
I had it narrowed it down to Katawa Shoujo, Pokemon Gold, and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness and Time. Katawa Shoujo isn’t actually a video game, so that narrowed it down to Pokemon Gold and Mystery Dungeon Explorers. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness in Time wins outright.
Story is such a tricky thing in video games. Using story to manipulate emotions is harder. Explorers played with my emotions better than any game I’ve ever played since. The soundtrack was also phenomenal, and composed mostly on a flute. How the hell do you make boss battle music so filled with raw emotion? I don’t know how they did it. The game also pushed limits that no Pokemon game has any right to. I’m not spoiling how. It’s just a pity I’ve lost the cartridge, I’d like to play it again.
Depends on when you ask me 😛
Most frequent response, and presumably then my favourite, would probably be Morrowind.
Attack of the Friday Monsters!
Am I going crazy, or has Steam dropped The Old Blood’s price by $5? Coulda sworn it was $39.95 a few days ago… I mean, it’s still a 75% aussie tax, and GMG are selling it for $16 at the moment, so the point is moot, but can’t help but wonder…
Price tracker says yes.
https://www.steamprices.com/au/app/350080/wolfenstein-the-old-blood
Ah, thanks, I was looking for something like that. SteamDB records historical prices, but since our prices are in USD, our region gets ignored, and NZ’s price hasn’t changed.
*narrows eyes at cinema times*
3D Mad Max at 4pm before I have any hope of getting there… or at 9:30 when it’ll be damn near midnight by the time I get home.
Whatchu playin’ at, cinemas? Where’s the eminently more senisble 5-6pm 3D showings?
*shakes fist at mild inconveniences*
The problem is you’re trying to see it in 3D.
Why 3D? Even George Miller says see it in 2D
It’s a post-conversion job and is apparently not a good one. Like, at all.
Maybe… but Avengers was totally better in 3D and a lot of people said otherwise. I tend to consider the 3D version the ‘real’ version these days. (Without a heck of a lot to back that up.)
See, I saw Avengers in 3D and really, really had trouble following it.
I’ve had precisely 3 worthy 3D experiences at the movies
1. Coraline
2. Avatar
3. Gravity
Maaaaaaybe The Hobbit at a stretch.
Beyond that, I’ve always had trouble with it. The common element there is those films were all shot in 3D, most weren’t. In post converted 3D, I hate having my point of focus jerked around so much, with films where the edits are so fast it’s hard to adjust.
I saw Coraline in 3D as well, that was fantastic. Really well done.
Apparently the problem with Mad Max is the stunts in the movie “…are rendered unrealistic by the noticeably perceptible forced perimeter around objects imposed by the 3D processes. It has the tendency to make certain live action scenes indistinguishable from those filmed in front of a green screen.”
Basically, it makes all the effort of the RL stunts look like something shot against a green screen.
Oh, booooo. 🙁
You don’t want that now, do you?
*kicks at the dirt, looking sullen*
No, sir.
Is that the bit where it looks like objects are on the wrong plane? Watching Age of Ultron in 3D, there were a lot of scenes where VFX objects looked too far forwards or backwards, like they were transplanted on top with a green screen.
Yep.
It’s because while the CG is rendered in 3D, the film components are flat. So it looks all messed up.
http://www.realorfake3d.com/
You’re welcome.
I saw the first Avengers movie in 3D and it was terrible. I eventually took off the glasses because I couldn’t tell the difference. I think the only movie I’ve seen where 3D changed a damn thing (besides Avatar) was Men In Black 3. And it was only because of the film’s overuse of wide angle lenses.
So the Australian government is demanding Johnny Depp returns his dogs to the US or they’ll kill them.
Or they’ll be seized. Seized doesn’t make nearly as entertaining a headline though. Media! \o/
I dunno. Just watched a video where Barnaby Joyce was anything but gracious and definitely mentioned killing them.
“Basically it looks like he snuck them in. We found out he snuck them in because we saw him taking them a poodle groomer.” *rolls eyes* “Now… Mr Depp has to either take his dogs back to California… or, we’re gonna have to euthanase them. This is uh… he has now got about fifty hours left to remove the dogs.”
*long explanation of the reasons for quarantine laws*
“So it’s time that Pistol and Boo [the dog’s names] buggered off back to the United States.”
Dude’s got a serious bug up his ass because he sees a movie star ignoring the rules, and he’s used that anger as an excuse to threaten to kill someone’s dog.
No winners here.
Piss poor way of going about it, to be sure. Always count on a pollie to open his mouth and make things worse.
I once heard the Nationals referred to as “Liberals for people who think Shepherd’s Pie is too ethnic”.
Quarantine is really important though.
It’s not like Depp can’t get them returned easily.
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
drink all alcohol you come across and never use any kind of technological equipment
*calls parents*
*talking through tears*
Guys, it happened. Red used one of my posts in a TAY Tagline.
Awww, you earned it buddy.
TAYlist for the 14th of May 2015
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by the assholes who want me to hit on Pyrean’s sisterBryan Adams – Can’t Stop This Thing We Started
Regurgitator – Song Formerly Known As
Powderfinger – Pick You Up
Crowded House – When You Come
Milky Chance – Flashed Junk Mind
Phil Collins – I Wish It Would Rain Down
Pink – Bad Influence
CDB – Let’s Groove
INXS & Jimmy Barnes – Good Times
Daniel Beddingfield – James Dean (I Wanna Know)
Bruce Springsteen – Born In The USA
So I went ahead and took the plunge today with a craft your own burger meal at maccas. Beef patty; swiss cheese; grilled onions; strips of bacon and pickles. I was pleasantly surprised by how much it actually seemed like a real burger and the flavours actually tasted like food. And to their credit it was an actual beef patty; not the crap you get in a big mac.
This could be a problem for my gym routine D=
Reminds me of a few years back when they did the ‘name-it’ burger, coupled with a ‘name it’ competition to name the burger, which was – I think quite appropriately – eventually named the ‘backyard burger’. Because it really was made up of ingredients you’d probably put together in a backyard BBQ. A very tasty chunk of meat, beetroot, lettuce leaves that hadn’t been fucking shredded, cheese that wasn’t plastic, and a bun that wasn’t a sugar-bun.
I would order several of those on their own – sans fries or other combos – and wolf them all down at once. Best burger they ever had on the menu.
Obviously too good to be sustainable.
I tried one of those burgers last Saturday. I had the brioche bun, the patty (so damn good), bacon, grilled pineapple, jalapenos, caramelised onions, colby jack cheese and chipotle mayo. Hands down the best thing I ever ate at Maccas.
Yeah it’s caught me pleasantly by surprise; I foresee financial growth in macca’s future if they can find a way to make this menu sustainable/profitable.
Get the corn chips on the burger. Life changing.
Harry Shearer just quit/got fired from the Simpsons.
Hopefully the series will now end.
Pretty sure that was always going to be the catalyst for its end. One of the key voice actors getting jack of it and asking for too much money, or… dying.
How weird is it going to be when there’s no new Simpsons? I haven’t watched it in years but it’s one of those things that’s just always been there, literally the whole time I’ve been alive.
Nope. There’s two more seasons coming. Shearer’s just not going to be a part of it.
You thought the show had gone downhill before? Imagine what it’ll be like without Burns, Smithers, Skinner, Lovejoy, Brockman and Lenny. Not Lenny!
Ned Flanders, Hibbert, Jasper, Otto, McBain and Scratchy too.
Not to mention Johnny Tightlips but he ain’t saying nothin’.
I thought it ended years ago? I heard that there was a money dispute between the voice actors and it got cancelled after season 24.
What?
That’s like, half the characters gone.
Sorry, exaggerating.
A third of the characters gone.
Calling it, it’s finished.
Considering he’s been the only vocal opposition to it continuing, this is good news.
Imagine if they lost Hank Azaria.
They could probably keep it going without Azaria, same way that they can without Shearer.
Losing Dan Castallaneta or Nancy Cartwright would be the end of the show. The others, I’m fairly sure they can replace or work around either by not having their secondary characters appear, or by just finding someone that can do a close approximation of those voices.
A few decades of impressionists growing up on Simpsons… yeah. I imagine there’s some passable facsimiles out there.
They probably would need multiple people to do the voices one person provided, but it’s the fucking Simpsons. They can afford it.
Sometimes it can be really surprising people that can step into certain roles too. Like when they had Troy Baker do the Joker in Arkham Origins. If you didn’t know better you’d swear that was Mark Hamill.
http://www.goodsmile.info/en/nendoroid_yamato we wants it. Holy crap. So many parts.
O.O
I’d buy that and I don’t even play the game.
Ugh stuck at work till 8pm today =[ TAY keep me company!! D=
Dearest TAY,
You know I ask for so little from you *cough*
Anyway, I’ve entered the Undad trailer in a competition. The prize is $5000 worth of advertising! It’s decided on audience votes… so, I need votes, please.
https://www.thisisnew.com/stories/786
I think you need to sign up for an account. Sorry.
Done and done, buddy 🙂
Good luck! 😀
Many thanks!
Checking multiple places for foil.
I found this one for $9.75 plus $3.95 postage
http://www.polymerclay.com.au/gflbkgluefoiladhesivemetallicfoilmetallicblack-p-19121.html
Otherwise I have to overseas for the stuff.
What do you guys think? I may be able to get gold at Lincraft, so that’s less of a hassle.
SURVIVOR EP 13:
Dan: “I suck at life” HAHAHA! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmBnaiQQzvw SO cringeworthy… “hero” “self-aware” “not stubborn” oh man… OH MAN!@powalen @sughly @phoenix @masha2932 @mrtaco
Ugggggh for eff’s sake… why do people keep saying Mike’s paranoid!! These other people are so dumbbbbb. Maybe if they listened to Mike for once. Ugh its a struggle to finish that Dan video, watched mostly to see other people. Anyway. Episode! Good one! Nice and close immunity, with Mike winning = perfect. I actually totally forgot Mama C’s idol until she played it! Haha, that was pretty cool. FINALLY, Dan gone. Now just to get rid of Rodney and Will and it’ll be perfect.edit:
but i know that wont happen T__T at least it cant be a Dan/Will/Rodney final any more. Even if Rodney and Will are in the final, whoever sits with them, I’ll be ok with them winningTo be fair he is super paranoid but HE’S ALSO TOTALLY RIGHT, SHUT THE FUCK UP DAN. OMFG. So happy when Mike won Immunity and Carolyn played her idol. Dan got to waste his advantage 😀 (would’ve been pointless anyway since she played the idol, but seeing his smug face change was awesomeeeee).I still have a very bad feeling that the final 3 will be Rodney, Will and Sierra and it will totally suck… But so much better than Dan, Will and Rodney! (remember our fears in S28 of a Kass and Trish final? *shudder*). If the final 3 sucks, I hope the Jury will tear them a new one maybe and it’ll be somewhat entertaining. Or maybe Mike or Carolyn will win and then in S32 (if the winner is bought back) they’d get voted out super early for being the only winner on the season 😛
It’s not paranoia if it’s true!
Also, freakin Rodney. Ugh.
EXACTLYYYY ARGH, he cant be paranoid if he keeps picking up on true things! This is starting to drive me nuts*Looks up definition*
My bad! I thought it just meant acting nervous and stuff all the time
Haha, I just meant it in a “if the conspiracies are true then I mustn’t be crazy!” sense 😛
I believe it’s the irrational fear that someone or something is out to get you. Pretty rational when it’s true given the context of the game though 😛
I reckon you can still be irrational even if you’re right though. Like getting the correct answer to a maths question but all your working is wrong.
OH SHIT! GUYS GUYS GUYS
Apparently the “Second Chance” Season is Season 31, even though it’ll be the 32rd Season to film (weird how it’s all out of place)
AND (discussion on the cast list)
If Mike or Carolyn win in S30, then they’ll be ineligible for the Second Chance season :O! So I guess including their faces in the season isn’t a spoiler? CAN THEY STILL MAKE TOP 3!?YESSSS! How did you find this out..?
WIKIPEDIASSSSSS
But I also did some Googling and read it in an interview EW had with Jeff Probst, so I’m pretty sure it’s legit!
This is way too confusing.“If Mike or Carolyn win in S30, then they’ll be ineligible for the Second Chance season :O! So I guess including their faces in the season [which season? the new one?] isn’t a spoiler? CAN THEY STILL MAKE TOP 3!?”
Explain that to me again. How can they be part of the second chance vote if they win this season?
If either of them won, any votes cast for them would be invalid and so they wouldn’t return in the second chance season. But I’m sure the producers and whatnot already know who wins, so I still think it’s unlikely to be either of them. They probably decided to reveal their faces for the vote now so that they can ride the hype as the current season airs and by allowing votes to be cast now, it let’s them announce the second chance cast on the live reunion at the end of the current season.Ohhhh. I see!
Haaaaa, Dan.Looks like the final is going to be Will, Rodney and blonde girl who I still can’t remember the name of. What a horrible final.
ps. No more outside-of-the-show spoilers, Greenius!
Outside of the show spoilers?
You’re the only one thats made us think Mike and Mama C wont be in the final!It’s not exactly spoiler-y. On the CBS website it says you can vote for the people you’d like to see have a second chance in season 32, and they have Mike and Carolyn’s faces up as people you can vote for. That’s what made people think they don’t win this season and need a second chance. But now that’s been cleared up, and if they do win this season then any votes cast for them will be ignored. Does that make sense?Yeah I do know that, I’m just reiterating what pow was saying about no more outside show spoilers
It’s just thinking out loud! Wouldn’t make sense to have winners on a Second Chance season, but that’s been cleared up now!ugh yessss BUT pows just saying no more surprises on us like that please!
More of a jerk? Wow. P.S. That’s the first Ponderosa video I’ve watched…So happy for Mike, and Carolyn as well. As soon as Dan played his advantage Carolyn knew she had to play her idol. I totally wasn’t going for Mike earlier, but I like a good underdog story. AND RODNEY DID FLIP! SERIOUSLY! HE WAS RIGHT! I hope that gets brought up at the reunion. Carolyn is my second favourite to win.The way I see it is Will, Rodney, Sierra, Carolyn, Mike. That’s my order. If someone takes Will and Rodney to the end they’ll probably win. Just a matter of who it will be sitting with them…Oh yeah! It’s weird how the order of the advantages work, which meant Dan’s playing his gave a pretty clear “heads up” for CarolynArtistic cohesion is actually quite important. With Steam flooded with poor-quality games littered with storebought Unity assets with no artistic consistency, the topic has come into greater focus.
I decided to play Skullgirls today for the first time in a few months. It was fun. I think I magically became good between play sessions. The game has been updated with a new DLC character, so I got to fight him in arcade mode. The new character is a wrestler dude that is also a furry. A bit tame considering the last DLC character was a zombie opera singer with a British plesiosaur skeleton sidekick, but he seems to fit into the universe.
One thing that doesn’t fit into the universe is the new character’s stage. It’s a boxing ring. Par for the course in fighting games, they feature in damn near every one. But why doesn’t a boxing ring work in Skullgirls? I suppose it would look weird amongst the other stages, which are usually an assortment of casinos and footpaths. The music is really out of place as well. Typically stage themes would be jazzy, piano or acoustic-based arrangements, yet this one is… a rock ballad?
It’s so weird for a fighting game with a wrestler in it and a stage set in a boxing ring with a rock tune to come off as so bizarrely alien.
Grabbed GOG Galaxy app today…
There is no pause button on downloads… Only abort… What the?
GOG Page get!
What do you think of it beside the abort button?
My username there is (unsurprisingly) redartifice, add me!
Here’s a question – how the hell do you add people?
It appears you can only add people via their reviews/forum posts/wishlists…
Me too. Got a free copy of The Witcher 3 thanks to the GTX 980/970/960 promo, was going to start downloading, but no pausing sucks!
I think what is needed is a kickstarter to build an actual tie fighter: Nasa’s hall effect thruster, Soyuz capsule, elon musks solar array for the hexagonal panels. I’m bored with games. I want real things.
From the brief poking around I did it’s pretty slick. Certainly has a better looking UI than Steam or Origin.
It’ll be interesting to see if can be kept clean and simple as it grows.
They have some big plans, although some of them seem like their solutions to problems only a few people will have (being able to roll back versions?) so I’ll happily keep an eye on it to see where they take it.
Ugh… Reply fail. Damn clunky mobile interface.
@highperformance
Well, GoG’s entire application is definitely all about solutions to problems very few (if any?) people ever have.
I mean hell, they’re espcially proud of the whole ‘no DRM’ angle when compared to Steam, but Steam’s is so utterly innocuous that the actual number of practical differences between them could probably be counted on the fingers of a clumsy butcher’s hand unless you actually start including piracy.
We are not talking about normal ‘install and play’ users, here.
Woo, graduated from Competent to Expert!
Looks at Steam list.
Transientmind is playing something called Clicker Heroes. I wonder what that’s like.
*Downloads*
Oh damn you @transientmind. You’ve done it again. Damn you…
Clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick
Damn you.
clickclickclickclickclickclick
Must… resist… urge… to…. ah who am I kidding, we all know I’ll be downloading it and clicking my brains out.
I’m currently watching him click on a level 45 Oversized Ratty
Steam broadcasting is totally a thing now, I guess!
It is so weird. And so cool. I like the idea of friend-requesting to see what someone’s up to in-game. The settings look like you can even make it so people can watch what you’re doing even if you don’t immediately know about it or didn’t intentionally start broadcasting.
(Edit: A friend who hasn’t gamed much in years since having two kids and joining the military was asking what Valve were up to on Half-Life 3. I told him it was a running gaming joke that it’s not coming out or being developed. He asked what on earth the were doing other than facilitating hat-making and collecting Steam money… I guess this is one answer.)
=^.^=
Oh good, unlike all the other incremental games I get to lord it over you mere mortals, as I sit at level 2236, with over 300 ascensions to my name.
That said, I haven’t played it for a while, since I’ve been stuck into Tap Titans, which is more or less the same (though has some aggressive ads), but has twice weekly tournaments which are fun.
I’ve got just far enough that I know what that means.
Wooooooooooowww.
Just accepted the offer I had. Moving permanently to the USA some time in the next 2-3 months.
Melbourne TAY, we should have some meats before then.
Let me know when and I’ll do my best to make it. What state you moving to?
@liondrive: moving to Seattle, WA. Not sure exactly where I’ll set up base camp but I’ll be working in Redmond.
Whaaaaaat?!
I’d love to live is Seattle!
I’m gonna move there myself! (much later in life though)
Put lots of pictures up for me when you’ve settled in!!! 😀
I intend to get a place with a guest bedroom so feel free to look me up if you want to come to the area!
Careful, I might take you up on that offer in the future! ;P
Are you working for Microsoft?
Oh, that’s so cool!
Where abouts are you moving too!?
Also if any of you guys need someone to act as a proxy buyer for getting US-exclusive stuff shipped to you I’d be happy to do so.
You’re about to become America’s number one board game reshipper I suspect
Or cheese in a can.
I wasn’t really thinking of that sort of thing but if you really want I can ship you cheese in a can. Don’t know why you’d want that though.
The only sentence where the phrase “cheese in a can” should be uttered is “I cannot think of a worse idea than cheese in a can.”
They also sell bread in a can. Are you sure you can’t think of a worse idea than cheese in a can?
http://cdn-wac.emirates247.com/polopoly_fs/1.374404.1301378373!/image/2131723244.jpg
@freezespreston I remember seeing that on TV or something a while ago, so gross. I would definitely rather eat cheese in a can than that.
Here I just read that as you suggesting @negativezero was going to become cheese in a can.
That’d be great, I’ve got this armoured knight hoodie I’d love to get from the US 🙂
Gratsticles!
Exciting times. Meats indeed.
Wow, grats man.
Wow, dude. That’s big news! Congratulations! Looking forward to the adventure?
Sort of? I guess? I didn’t really have a lot of choice in the matter since my job disappeared and I couldn’t find much in Australia that wasn’t a massive step backward career-wise. Downside is that I can’t see myself attending PAX AU. Upside is that I can attend the real one.
As an American, I offer the following advice.
Buy as many boxes of Cheez-Its as you can. Eat them all in one sitting. Repeat.
As a TAYbie, I offer my congratulations.
Congratulations!
Exciting times and adventures ahead.
What’s your favourite places to eat? We could go there
That’s so cool! Congrats!
I wouldn’t mind working over there for a few years, not sure if I could live there permanently.
What’s happening with your figure collection? Taking it with you?
Edit: whoops didn’t see post below
FUCKING SICK YOU LUCKY DUCK!!!
Okay, goodnight folks.
:*
Thief! >:O
*:
My laughter always sounds like evil villain laughter. It just naturally sounds like that. I’m not sure why. There’s got to be some way I can capitalize on this unique skillset.
You’ll just have to engage in proper villainy. Only thing for it
I love how much relish Jim Sterling takes in uttering his new catch phrase “Fuck Konami”. He really enjoys saying that.
Who doesn’t?
Cause he’s Jim Fucking Sterling, son!
So, given my post a bit further up, I’m probably going to want to lighten the load so to speak so that I’m not moving boxes of clutter I don’t need to move.
As such, I’ll probably be selling my Wii U. I’m not going to want a PAL-regioned system and I’d have to replace the power adapters and everything anyway. Plus I only have 2 games and haven’t turned it on at all during 2015, and aside from Xenoblade I have no intention to turn it on this year. Worst gaming purchase I’ve ever made, I think.
Will also be going through and clearing out a lot of my games, paring it down to just the stuff I feel strongly about. The bulk of my collection is PS2 and Xbox 360 but there’s a good whack of PS3, some Wii, quite a bit of DS and misc stuff eg Xbox, PS1, Dreamcast. Will sort it and list everything. Expect me to do the same with a lot of my anime DVDs – have been in storage for about five years so I don’t feel that attached. Most of that is Region 1 (US) but some is Region 4 (AU).
Probably will take the chance to cull my anime figure collection too. Not the Nendoroids, but I’ve got a big chunk of around 70-80 scale figures, most of them sans box, which I haven’t had any desire to put back out on display. Hoping I can at least move some of the Madoka Magica stuff I still have as new in box, never opened. Bought the set of Goodsmile figures plus all of the Figmas but by the time they shipped I was kind of over the series.
If any of these things sound of interest to you then let me know and I’ll tag you when I get around to making up some lists.
@zetrox2k were you interested in a Premium-model Wii U + Mario Kart + Hyrule Warriors?
I might be interested in some of the games (depending what you’ve got).
Definitely tag me, please!
Tag me, I’m always interested in that kind of stuff. Might even be interested in the Wiiiiiiieww.
I would like to be tagged please. Especially on Dreamcast games. Also wow, that’s huge move to undertake, I think it will all work out well for you in the end though, and hopefully the transition period isn’t too stressful. *hugasaurus*
*raises hand*
Count me in!
Count me in! Might be interested in Dreamcast stuff or maybe some figures
I too would like to be a vulture circling the corpse of your Australian life.
Sure, tag my w ay if you please.
I’m interested in the wii games, so please tag me.
Tag me please!
Tag me please.
Also, didn’t say it before but best of luck, this move sounds awesome for you and don’t forget to keep posting!
Grats on the move negative =] Tag me for any of this stuff; I’m defs interested in the WiiU and any related games!
Tag me please. I might be interested in bidding on a 2nd hand Wii U and/or other things.
Tag me please!
Yerp, tag me too!
I know of an aussie facebook group where you can sell your scales other anime stuff if you need as well.
I’d be interested to hear more about the Wii games and anime figures 🙂
Interested in the prospect of PS1 games. I still play with my PS1. I guess I’m supposed to request that you tag me, I guess? Now I’m worried I committed a social faux paus.
Whelp, Konami just came out and confirmed themselves dead.
We all knew it was happening, doesn’t make the blow weaker.
Sauce?
Also I couldn’t find anything about the Japan tattoo thing you mentioned the other day.
According to what I read on Polygon, they are shifting their focus. They think mobile is the future of gaming and are going to use that as their main platform for game releases.
Dunno what they’ve been smoking, but I sure as hell don’t want to play a Silent Hill or Castlevania game on my mobile phone.
I just see this as a great big fuck you to gamers that have supported them over the years. First they pull P.T. and cancel Silent Hills, now this, I’m not a MGS fan, but I was thinking about buying The Phantom Pain, don’t think I want to now.
http://www.polygon.com/2015/5/14/8605313/konami-interview-mobile-is-where-the-future-of-gaming-lies
I’ll be buying The Phantom Pain because Metal Gear.
Sony should drive a dump truck of money up to Konami and guarantee exclusive Kojima games for the rest of the PS4’s life.
I’m more expecting Kojima to set himself up in a new studio and bathe in the Sony dollars that they’ll pay him for exclusivity.
Just sucks that the Fox engine is licensed by Konami so if he wants to keep using it he now needs to pay them for it.
Speaking of Chicken in a Can, here’s the ever reliable LA Beast eating a whole cold Chicken in a Can.
The upvote is also a downvote.
Aw man, why would someone do that to themselves. I reckon I would’ve spewed after the first mouthful.
Look at this guy, too good for roadkill chicken.
HOLY SHEET. More True Detective coming, June 21st!
Here’s a trailer: http://www.indiewire.com/article/watch-true-detective-season-2-trailer-shows-its-best-self-20150514
MY DICK!
Repost from prev page:
I’ve entered the Undad trailer in a competition. The prize is $5000 worth of advertising! It’s decided partly on audience votes… so, I need votes, please. Please consider logging in here and throwing some likes my way!
https://www.thisisnew.com/stories/786
Thanks everyone.
Boot up Final Fantasy X HD Remaster for the first time and on the main menu there was an option for “Credits & Bonus Audio”, so stupidly I chose it thinking that it would take me to another menu where I could choose to either watch the credits or listen to this “Bonus Audio”. Instead it just played the credits with all these different characters having conversations about stuff I know nothing about and it won’t let me back out of it. I swear it’s been going for like 10 minutes and it’s still going. Guess there’s no point listening to what their talking about till I’ve actually finished the game, so I’ll just play AdVenture Capitalist till it’s finished.
Edit: Finally, now to actually start this friggin’ game and see if I like it or not.
Main Menu
> Credits & Bonus Audio
> Bonus Audio
> *plays ten hour loop of Tidus and Yuna laughing*
For some stupid reason I thought “Bonus Audio” meant extra music.
Also, kind of annoyed me that they pronounce it as “Teedus”, I would pronounce it as “Taidus”.
It’s pronounced TEE-dus?! The dude has water magic, plays an aquatic sport, and his name ISN’T TIDE-us? :\
Still annoys me to hear it pronounced that way. To me if they wanted it pronounced like that they should’ve spelt it Teedus not, Tidus.
HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!
The bonus audio is an epilogue for X-2 so basically you’ve just listened to the ending of the series.
Good thing I wasn’t paying attention then.
I played X-2 first and it made no sense to me whatsoever. Then I went back and played X. I have a habit of playing games/movies/TV shows out of order and getting spoiled.
Am I gaming right? 😛
No! Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong! Put down your controller and remain stationary. Responsible Gaming Enforcement Agents will be attending you momentarily to retrieve your console for rehabilitation*. It’ll be going to a good home, where people play games right.
*if I can wish hard enough to wish them into existence.
Jokes on them! I don’t even have a console any more. 😛
*shakes fist*
Truly a villain nearly as cunning and nefarious as the notorious Carmen Sandiego.
Graaaah, I feel like I’ve had a cold for the last 5 or 6 weeks. Seriously feel like I’ve had more days where I’m not feeling well than those where I’m feeling normal or even 90% normal. Screw you, Winter! I don’t care if you’re coming, I hate you!
Also screw anything related to winter. Or Winters. Yes, that includes you @freezespreston – you’re somehow to blame for me being sick.
People usually start feeling sick when they see me.
#TheDoctorIsOut Biaaattttch
Physician, heal thyself
Fuck this shit I’m going to Thailand.
EDIT: For a holiday. Taking my mum away for her birthday. Away for a week. \o/
This is a Pax meat post. If you are not attending, please disregard. It’s just easier to tag everyone.
@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 @beavwa @budgieishere @chuloopa @coldcamv @crazyguy1990 @f4ction @greenius @jordi @mad_danny @negativezero @pixel_the_ferret_viking @scree @smurfydog @tech_knight @tigerion @tofu @trikeabout @zetrox2k @beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__ @bdkiaf @blaghman @rize @shane @fled @grandmasterb-funk @hindenlagen @liondrive @phlanispo @phoenix @platinum-urchin @thecracks @ash @banderdash @benny @jacksonwryan @jocon @lucifer9783 @redartifice @wilburThose who are uncertain, it’s fine. You don’t have to pay up until you’re certain you’re coming. Even if it is on the day.
The venue is costing us $1045 for 5 hours, so that’s not bad. Catering is going to be done separately to make things flexible. This is just for venue hire.
Techie has already paid for the venue, but now we need to pay him back.
I had roughly 35 confirmed attendants, so I have divided 1045 by 35 to come up to $30. (I’ve rounded this up). When the amount of people attending goes up, we will refund the excess paid.
@tech_knight will post his paypal details later.
Please post if you are confirmed to come. If you are unsure, don’t worry about it.
I forgot to add, this will be Techie and I’s last pax meat. It tends to stress us both out a bit, so this will be the last time =P
Confirmed. Also, @quiz_b and @freezespreston, we should book accommodation
Too right. Let me look into it over the next day or so, I’ll tag you two when I find something that won’t cost an arm and a leg.
Do we need to accommodate anybody else, or just us?
@thecracks wants in also. Makes it 4 which is a manageable number.
Yarp
/waves
Confirmed
Very unlikely.
Sorry
I’ve never done this sort of thing with my PayPal before (Cuz in principle I’ve never had to ask for “donations” before), is it just my email address that you guys need? If so it’s:
sdcdragonman[at]hotmail[dot]com
Edit: Something I forgot to mention, if you can put in your name or something when you send it across, it’ll help me confirm who sent me what 🙂
I make the money to you for meat deposit, yes?
Yep, I can withdraw it back afterwards :). I’m sure that’s how it works 😛
I have sent you $30 for me, plus another $30 as a free space for anyone that needs it.
I will be there.
Confirmed!
Confirmed.
Confirmed for 3.
CONFORM!
I mean, yes, confirmed.
Sorry, definitely will not be there.
Should we kickstarter it? =P
Yes + 1
+1? 😮
From memory, Nob’s sister.
You need to work harder at being Creepius.
Confirmed
Ooh Pax meat! What day was it set for? (not sure if I missed previous discussions with actual event details)
Saturday of PAX is traditional
Saturday 31 of October. 7pm to Midnight. (we can show up at 6:30 though.)
that sounds like something I can probably 60% confirm for now until I can check other details for the weekend 🙂
Just let us know
Confirmed +1. Will pay when I get paid next week
That’s fine. Gives me time to adjust prices if I need to
I can confirm that I will not be attending this year’s PAX.
As of this very moment I am confirmed, however given the state of things in the workplace this may change in the future.
I will leave you as a maybe. @gorzilla told me last night what was happening.
Righto
Confirmed.
Whoa this sounds amazingly awesome! What date etc. were you looking at?
@dc @redartifice and @trjn got me thinking on Twitter about what my top 5 Simpsons episodes are. So, for a Friday morning TAY booster-shot, what are your top 5?
Mine, in alphabetical order:
Cape Feare
Homer’s Phobia
Marge vs. The Monorail
Treehouse of Horror VII (The Thing and I, The Genesis Tub, Citizen Kang)
You Only Move Twice
Oh god, there’s just so many.
*head explodes*
Edit: I think I’ll go with Man Getting Hit By Football
I know, right!? I had to leave out gems like Bart vs Australia (it’s even more funny having seen it before I moved to Australia and then seeing it again now that I live here), Whacking Day, A Fish Called Selma, Lisa’s Substitute… I could go on and on and on.
Could you believe that a certain actor didn’t want to be credited for Lisa’s Substitute, even when half the episode referenced his other work? Seems a bit daft.
Lisa it’s your birthday… Happy birthday, Lisa.
Wait. Wrong uncredited guest star.
Beer it is.
In reverse alphabetical order:
You Only Move Twice (Hammock district)
Marge vs the Monorail (I shouldn’t’ve stopped for that haircut)
Last Exit to Springfield (Lisa needs braces)
Itchy and Scratchy Land (That’s the first thing that’s ever gone wrong)
Cape Feare (Sideshow Bob performs HMS Pinafore)
Other options include:
Bart the Lover
Homer’s Enemy
A Fish Called Selma
You only move twice is pretty great. Probably my favourite.
The one where they visit Australia. That one was great.
Bart vs Australia.
Some very quotable bits there. “That’s a bloody outrage that is! I’m going to take it all the way to the prime minister! Hey! Mr. Prime Minister! Oy, Andy!”
“Australia was founded as a settlement for British convicts!? Lisa, watch your camera!”
http://i.imgur.com/w0WHRaz.png
You Only Move Twice
El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer
The City of New York vs Homer Simpson
Marge vs the Monorail
22 Short Films About Springfield
Really, you’re into insanity peppers and Johnny Cash?
Homer! Find Your Soul Mate!
Wait a minute, @redartifice can’t talk!
CRAP, I forgot about that one! If I had to bump one for that it’d be the Treehouse of Horror but I do love that Genesis Tub.
Homer vs new yourk is such a great episode, i particularly loved then ending driving home with the wheel lock on.
I love the big animated pan out from the car
22 Short Films was a goddam revelation.
It’s great, but both that and You Only Move Twice are episodes I think you only truly appreciate when you see them after knowing what a “regular” Simpsons episode looks like
Don’t know if I can pick 5 off the top of my head but “You only move twice” is definitely one of them.
Oh good god. That’s IMPOSSIBLE.
My top episode is “And Maggie Makes Three”
Other favourites include
“A Streetcar Named Marge”
“Homer’s Triple Bypass”
“Lisa On Ice”
“Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”
They may not be the laugh-out-loud funniest ones, but the ones that really stick are the ones that make me think or feel.
Edit: ah, crap. So many I’ve missed.
The Christmas Special nearly killed the series before it began due to it’s shitty animation.
Also how shit it is.
I still like it, man. It’s where it all started (except for the shorts). So many of the iconic lines and running jokes had their genesis right here.
Fo’ sho’ bro.
The Boy Who Knew Too Much
You Only Move Twice
El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou
Mr. Plow
Goddamn you! Now all I want to do is watch The Simpsons all day.
In fact I think I’ll do just that. Think I’ll start with Season 6.
The Best Season! Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise!
I think it’s probably been at least a good five years since I last saw any Simpsons at all, new or old. Probably more. Though even if I could remember names of things at all I’d probably struggle to put a list together.
Oh, how about Brother From Another Series. I like that one just for the title 😛 I could probably better put together a list of songs from the show. Pretty sure I’ve got those two CDs basically memorised still. Used to listen to them endlessly when I was a kid.
‘Frasier’ is a hit show on the NBC television network.
It’s the Simpson family smile-time variety hour, featuring the Weyland Smithers dancers.
“I don’t know”
I dunno if I could do a top 5, but still to this day, my #1 fav is the fat Homer ep (The one with the Mumu)
King-Size Homer. It’s your window to weight gain!
Bye Bye Everybody! *waves through the paper*
I guess I’ll have to create a shortlist first.
-Dead Putting Society (S2)
-The Front (S4)
-Itchy & Scratchy Land (S6)
-Homer the Great (S6)
-And Maggie Makes Three (S6)
-Who Shot Mr Burns? Part I (S6)
-Team Homer (S7)
-The Secret War of Lisa Simpson (S8)
-Girly Edition (S9)
-Trash of the Titans (S9)
-Maximum Homerdrive (S10)
-Day of the Jackanapes (S12)
-The Blunder Years (S13)
-I Am Furious (Yellow) (S13)
-‘Tis the Fifteenth Season S15)
(I simply gave up looking at the episode list after Season 15, as notable episodes were too few and far between and it was too time-consuming. Also, it was meant to be one episode per season, but season 6 is too good.)
Now to narrow it down!
…sigh.
1. Who Shot Mr Burns? Part I
2. Trash of the Titans
3. Itchy & Scratchy Land
4. Homer the Great
5. And Maggie Makes Three
Going through the list of episodes was a further reminder as to how season 6 is the best season ever, and that season 8 might be underrapreciated.
So, Brisbanitarians, where’s a good place in the CBD we should meat next monday night? I’m staying on the upper end of Queen Street so anywhere in the CBD is well doable.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
Buffalo Bar?
MAX BRENNERS!!!
When I had my Brissy meat a couple of months ago we went to a Chinese place that had heaps of food. If you like Asian delicacy, I would recommend 4/5 would eat again.
@freezepreston was our intrepid leader, he’ll know the name of the place!
If you gents don’t go to Buffalo Bar or The End it’s like, for Chrissakes, you know?
I’m still not certain if I can make it or not. Will depend on where you guys finally decide to eat I guess. I have no preference of food type (except I’m not a fan of Thai food) so pretty much anywhere is ok for me food wise, but my attendance really depends on how far away I will need to park to get there. Being on crutches makes travelling large distances under my own power, extremely tiring and sore!
Hey, I’m working in the valley again. We should lunch some time
cool! sounds like a plan! Probably not for a couple of weeks though. By the time I got to the Valley Metro or anywhere around there at the moment, my lunch break would be over! 😉 So damn slow on crutches. Definitely up for it after I can walk properly again though!
Crutches? What happened??
I’m only here til the end of June atm.
oh i should be off them before then. I dislocated my hip. I’m in week 4 atm. Currently working on easing my way off the crutches, so in a week or two I might be ok for lunch meat! 🙂
Swoit!
Am easy. Point me in the direction of food and drink
@redartifice @trjn http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/140279/clacks-discworld-board-game
I was talking about this on Twitter yesterday. The game itself looks pretty weak. Use cards to change the lights on the board between on and off to form letters. Get all your letters to spell a word and win.
These are the people behind Guards! Guards! Which, from memory, was not well received.
Ok thats good to know. Guards guards was ok but nowhere near the beauty of the wallace games
‘Tis a fine barn, but sure ’tis no pool english.
Grace, come here, there’s a sinister-looking kid I want you to see.
Kippers for breakfast, Aunt Helga? Is it St. Swithin’s Day already?
Do not be alarmed, continue swimming naked… oh c’mon… continue… Alright Lou open fire.
Bart of Darkness would absolutely be in my top 10.See, “epidermis” means your hair. So technically it’s true. That’s what makes it so funny.
Listen, Ned Flanders murdered his wife.
But why, she’s such a fox…I mean, what’s on Fox tonight, something ribald no doubt.
I understand. Let us celebrate our new arrangement with the adding of chocolate to milk.
Think it was @beeawwb @transientmind and @freezespreston who were talking about the whisky tasting the other week.
Cobbler Bar in West End cropped up on my Facebook feed and does tastings. http://www.cobblerbar.com.au
Unless of course this is the place you went to… Either way looks like a place I’d enjoy sinking a few drinks at at some point in the near future.
That’s very much the place where we went. It’s a fantastic bar, my personal favourite. Next time we organise to go to one (they do them once a month) will make sure to tag you. 🙂
I’m very much in favour of this.
I’m not a big whisky drinker so probably wouldn’t fully appreciate the subtleties of what’s on offer BUT I’m always happy to enjoy a few drinks in good company.
Don’t worry, we’re not the most educated palates in existence. The nights are casual and relaxed, just a good chance to enjoy some drinks and learn a bit about whisky.
Yeah, @beeawwb’s got the truth of it – I usually spend most of the time comparing them to each other rather than to my (actually not all that varied) own personal whisky history, which is easy in such close proximity.
The plant called and said if you don’t come in tomorrow, don’t bother coming in Monday.
Woohoo, four day weekend!
So i started watching Fate Stay/Night unlimited blade works and i gotta say its pretty okay. I really enjoy that the characters are pulled from history it allows for a lot of amazing stories for the characters. Its also super pretty, fight scenes are like the most gorgeous anime fight scenes I have scenes. However the show has some MAAAAD pacing issues, nothing happens for whole episodes at a time which can be kinda boring. The motivations of the characters themselves is a little silly too but all the main characters are generally likable and easy to root for. All in all its a fun watch that is insanely pretty. Would recommend.
A little spoiler tidbit with regards to who one of the heroes/historical aliases are – DONT CLICK if you haven’t seen Fate/Zero or the original Fate/stay.
Berserker I believe is meant to be Hercules or Herakles; And saber is actually King Arthur. There’s also quite the plot twist on who Archer is meant to be =pThe whole universe the show is based on is actually quite intricate and detailed with there being various instances and variations of the grail war. Quite lore-riffic =]
I actually guessed the twist last night. PRETTY GR8
Haha yeah it’s kind of insane as to how he turns into a spirit of the holy grail war.DUDE SPOILERIZE THAT COMMENT ASAP
Whaaaaa but by itself it means nothing!! D=
Man, Target’s “click and collect” is pretty useless. More like in-store delivery, you have to wait until it actually gets delivered to the store you selected so you can pick it up a couple of days later. Of course there’s nothing to tell you this during the checkout process or anything.
And then once you get there you get handed your thing in a box, just like picking it up from the post office. Apparently a Wii U game needs a 12x26x30cm box to be safely delivered.
Scary part is I’ve done a click and collect thing from Harvey Norman before, and walked in and picked it up from them that same day. You’ve got problems if you’re lagging behind them 😛
Hah, I used Target Click and Collect to get a copy of Xenoblade https://twitter.com/PowalenAU/status/587821878875570176
I was considering using it to get Codename STEAM since the code that got this marked down expires after it comes out, and that got me wondering if they’d use the same gigantic box to house a 3DS game.
Good to know 😛
Is that the GAME15 or something code? I thought it expired after Saturday? (was planning to do the same thing).
I just might skip Codey all together though…
Yeah, something like that. I thought it expired on the 19th while the game comes out on the 16th.
Whooooops! That’s the same thing I thought. I mis-read your comment as saying it expired before STEAM came out 😛
😀
Essentially it’s the same salesbait as the undercut prices. Pity they’ve taken the most simple approach possible instead of integrating it properly:
We could ship that item to you, or we’ll cover the shipping costs in order to make you walk into the store and maybe buy something else.
They’d just add it to their regular shipments, wouldn’t they? In which case shipping to the store from the warehouse would be a fraction of actual postal costs.
No, it was an actual couriered package, exactly the same as what they’d send me directly, except with the store address.
Well then, I will agree with you all that it’s stupid and dumb at every level (aside from getting you in store).
Yeah, they sent it there by Toll. Which explains why it’s only free when you spend over $40, otherwise it’ll cost you $7.50 or something like that.
Thing is though it seems like it’d be even more costly to do what they do now than to do what I thought would make more sense – when you put the order in, it goes through to the store and they go grab the item off the shelf and hold it at the Layby counter for you. You come in and show your order form, they mark it off and that’s that. And only then if they don’t have it in stock do you get notified it has to be shipped in and you have to wait a day or two for it to get shipped. Or alternatively, it comes up before then whether the store you’ve chosen has stock available or not and you can choose a different one as the pickup point if that’s at all convenient for you.
Surely that would be cheaper and more efficient to run than the current model.
Whatcha buyyyy
Kirby Candy Curse
So, I’ve gone without soft drinks for a week now. I’ve been drinking mostly water and cordial, with the occasional coffee. The cordial has been there to ease the transition, but I’ll probably cut that out soon too. Haven’t had any major problems with the lower sugar intake, so hopefully I’ll be able to keep it going/
Nice work man! o/
Soft drinks are dead calories, they just end up feeling less sated when you eat other foods with it.
I was sitting there last Thursday night drinking a 2 litre bottle of Coke (Yep, straight from the bottle), and I was thinking ‘Why am I doing this?’ Also looking at the pile of bottles I had on my floor was making me feel bad. I’ve given up soft drink a couple of times before, but only a month at a time. Hopefully this will stick.
I find soda water is a good replacement for soft drink when you want that zing from the bubbles. A little lemon or lime juice gives it a splash of flavour, but I’m happy drinking it plain.
Do you drink tea? Whenever I find I’m overdoing it on the coffee/etc it’s because I’ve stopped drinking tea. I replace coffees with teas and feel much better for it.
Love soda water… Why we got a Soda Stream when they first started coming down in price in Australia a few years ago.
When I win the lotto I’m getting the fridge/zip tap that dispenses cold soda water
I’ve heard about them!
I wonder if you can add a tonic flavour to it…
I need to stop or I’ll buy one tomorrow.
In theory, you’d just set it up like a soda fountain so you can pipe whatever flavours you want into it.
I’m now three years without soft drinks. It becomes easier as you go.
Pity I haven’t cut down on some of the other sugary stuff I consume…
I hate sequins.
Urge to kill rising.
Pretty much.
Glitter is worse! particularly if you sleep with a drag queen – it ends up EVERYWHERE!
Don’t worry. I’ll hate that when I’m working on the cape
Noted.
*cancels Saturday night plans*
I have a 4 year old in my house. We can’t craft without glitter. It’s against the rules.
Yes, the land versions are much better. Some of them even become Medicine Women.
That was a stretch bob.
I know, and page 6 was ages ago so I can’t even claim it was intentionally bad.
Lol quite the stretch indeed =P See this is what happens when we try to have a page 6 outside of page 6!
I’m why we can’t have nice things.
Think I’ll take Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster back, didn’t like it, found it kinda boring. While I’m at it I might as well trade in FF Type-0. If it’s more of the same then it’s probably best if I didn’t bother even trying it. I’ll either get something else, or put the credit towards The Witcher 3.
Shame I use the code for FF XV: Episode Duscae, don’t think I’ll ever play it, could’ve given it to one of you guys.
Edit: Puzzle & Dragons is pretty good though for a time waster, if you have a 3DS I recommend it, was only $39 at Target.
X and Type-0 are very different games.
Fair enough, but a bunch of you guys told me that X was a better starting point. If X is better than Type-0, then it’s pretty safe to say I wouldn’t like it.
Type-0 throws too many PC’s at you all at once; I found it very hard to get attached to any of them… And in the time I’ve stopped playing it I’ve completely forgotten about them =\ And I couldn’t help shake the feeling this was a hand-held game pretending to be a console (i.e. it works great in short bursts maybe 15-20 min plays). As a console game where you sit down and invest a solid amount of time into playing it grows dull very quickly and loses that novelty it would’ve held as a handheld.
It was a hand-held game that was given a new coat of paint.
Aye I know; I’d like to shoot the moron that made it a console port =@
If it’s not your thing, it’s not your thing.
Personally I’m hoping that lots of people bought the X remaster so we get a XII remaster.
Boo ten. Yay twelve. Although… I preferred 10’s mechanics to 12’s, but 12’s characters were better than 10’s.
(Except for Auron and Lulu.)
Balthier is the best FF character. Basch and Ashe were interesting too.
It’s the lack of interesting people like that that made XIII such a slog.
I prefer Basch because I love the story that goes on with his character.
That said, any Cid character is a winner in my books.
XII was just awful in every possible way. Notable only for marking the beginning of the the death of the series.
To be fair there were more likeable characters in 12 than 10; the only notable ones in 10 were Auron/Kimahri.
Yeah, disagree wholeheartedly there.
A lot of people do.
XII was amazing!
To each their own, but your own is wrong!
Agree on gameplay. Disagree on plot and characters though Vaan can die in a fire with his stupid waistcoat
True the characters in 12 were more interesting but the gameplay/combat drove me absolutely insane!!!
I enjoyed the gameplay and combat because it was flashy but I admit that once you set up your gambits correctly you basically didn’t have to do anything. Status effects were a waste of time and staggered casting was a bit borked considering auto-attacks ignored the “I must wait my turn now”.
That said, I found first Dragon Age to be very similar combat wise which I also enjoyed. I enjoy the semi-tactical style of it and where good planning and knowledge of combos would carry you through most fights.
The old FF games were very slow compared to the pace of games we have these days both in story pace and battle pace. But it was that pace that got you so attached to some of those characters (screw you Tidus!). FF-X was the last final fantasy game I found that held true to the original formula I fell in love with, all the subsequent games play very differently from the original game and from each other so don’t be too quick to write off anything after FF-X.
Personally I was interested in Type-0 for about 3-4 hours and then got completely and utterly sick of the combat and how nauseated the camera movements made me (I have a fairly large screen for a TV and when you dodge 80% of the screen is blurry as fuck). Maybe give it a try cos it seems like the traditional FF games aren’t you cup of tea?
Everyone played X for Auron anyway
Because he was the best.
I call FFX “Auron and his minions”
Auron
Fucking Tidus (he’s not so bad)
Yuna’s talking… still talking
Belt Goth
Ball dude
Blue bro
And Rikku
To be fair Kimahri was pretty cool =P The rest were just there to help keep Auron and Kimahri alive!
In mine, somehow Yuna became super, super tank with Auto haste.
She’d wreck face in melee like four times before Auron even got a swing off.
See that’s what I loved about 10!! The Sphere Grid!! It meant just about everyone had different experiences of the same game! Very early on (just after getting the 2nd Aeon) I blew all my money on a weapon for Wakka that had Stonetouch so 1 hit KO’s. This had the accidental effect of allowing Wakka to kill off enemies way way more powerful than my whole group could turning him into a powerhouse next to Auron and Kimahri for my playthrough =]
I’m sure plenty of peeps have had different levelling experiences through the sphere grid which was pretty awesome for a game from that time :’)
If you want something with a bit more action too, look at the Kingdom Hearts remasters.
Yeah, I played a bit of it when it came out on the PS2 and I didn’t mind it.
Hmmm, let me know what the trade value of the games is. I might be able to offer a little more!
Sorry man, too late, I went and did it around 5 o’clock. They gave me $68.40 for the two.
It’s all good – that’s way better than I expected you’d get!
Man. I’m sitting here thinking “What can I play next? Ehhhh, can’t think of anything. There’s nothing to play.”
Nevermind that I only just brought home a new game a couple of hours ago.
I am smart.
The plight of a Nintendo gamer 😛
Doing a bit of a look at PS4 deals going round atm, and I notice there’s one with the Playstation TV. Anyone got one? Worth it?
I was super keen for one but apparently it is very limited and the remote PS4 play doesn’t work very well with it. Saw enough reviewers panning it that I didn’t end up getting one.
Hmm, looks a bit underfeatured, and no Netflix might make it a dealbreaker.
Idea was get one and stick it on my treadmill second telly, but not if it’s so underbaked.
Tablet/Smartphone paired with a Chromecast works pretty magically for Netflix. I set one up for my mother the other day and was very impressed.
Yeah, I need a cheap HDTV but I thought if I comboed it with this I could use it in lieu of a chromecast.
Chromecast it will have to be then
@transientmind
Not sure if you knew but Clicker Heroes has an offline collection. Just booted it back up after wife turned it off this morning to be greeted with 800T.
Right, Brisbanidoos, lets lock it down.
Buffalo Bar, 7pm Monday
Be there or be non-Euclidean.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__Can’t make it. I work week nights. ='(
Ack. I’m alas only up mon & tue nights.
Also I’m going to see When Marnie Was There (Subbed) (12:30pm) and Fury Road (3:50pm) at Dendy Portside through the day if anyone is interested.
I’ll prob FURY ROAD the tuesday night.
Conference nights are boooooooring.
I’ll be there. Anybody be around beforehand between the end of work and 7pm?
I’m having some stomach issues atm, that sort of food doesn’t sit well with me :-/
Apologies.
I’ll be there! Mrs McMuttonchops, alas, will not be. She works super early the next morning.
Oh, god, kill me…
I bought the Starcraft 2 Battle Chest…
D:
Uh, don’t they have to release the third game before they can make a Battle Chest?
Not according to Diablo 2…
Didn’t that come out before they even thought of making a third game?
Yep.
And there’s about 12 years between Starcraft 1 and 2…
Well that’s a bit scary… Just reclassify a department as an enforcement agency to get access to metadata without any other approval.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/australian-government-quietly-expands-access-to-retained-data/
Wow, fuck that.
That’s just scum-level stuff right there.
Urgh.
Urgh.
The slippery slope is already sliding!
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I saw an interesting news story come up on Twitter the other day. Apparently the NSA has so much data coming in, it’s more than they can actually process. So even though they have unprecedented levels of surveillance happening in the name of terrorism prevention, the reality is that they’re probably more likely to miss things because there is essentially more noise from all the junk data being generated.
Ugh, now I can’t seem to login to Starcraft 2…
D:
EDIT: After a bit of work, it’s working fine now.
Hey, does anyone play Katamari around here? If so, who is your favourite cousin to play as?
For me, it’s Ichigo.
Aldi Snow Gear Sale:
D:
I heard it was crazy but honestly, it wasn’t too bad! There were about 50 people lining up 5 mins before my local store opened and as soon as it did, people just casually walked to the snow section and picked what they wanted. I waited a minute or so for the crowd to go down and then easily found what I wanted.
Ended up buying more than I thought I would (I assumed I wouldn’t be able to find anything) so I’m pretty happy. They had some green things too! 😀
I was tempted to downvote, just because of the green things (ergh, green). But my love of snowsports won out in the end.
(and @cookingmama)
What do I wear with ski pants? They seem like just a shell but it feels like it’ll be too cold to just wear thermals under them. Is there anything else or are thermals the usual thing?
I usually just wear the pants. Fat man cold resistance fo lyf. Cold days you should be right with just thermals, although there are some ski pants that have absolutely no inners, and if you have them then I will just weep for you.
I’ve always just worn thermal leggings and a tshirt under ski pants and jacket. You’d be surprised how warm you get, to the point of unzipping the jacket.
Gloves are necessity though.
What the other guys said. Start with a single layer of thermals under your waterproof layer. If you’re still feeling cold, just and another layer. If you’re keeping out the wind and wet, you should be fine.
Oh, and DO NOT FORGET sunscreen and sunglasses/goggles. The thin air in the mountains means higher UV and you can easily get sunburnt.
Man, you didn’t even get to bring home some chunks of hair as a trophy? What’s the point of going to sales then.
The madness definitely varies from store to store. I’m very happy, I got a pair of the touchscreen gloves, some little boy fleece gloves and a softshell jacket. All up, just $80.
Since TAY is all quiet and all…
I want to make use of all this snow gear I just spent alotta money on. TAY snow trips anyone? 😛
Where do y’all usually ski/board? Are y’all the type of fancy people who go to places specifically for that? I’d love to do that, but it won’t be as fun solo 😛
Most of my experience is with Perisher, and second to that is Thredbo. Both are decent, though ‘Bo is worse in bad seasons, and a much smaller skiing area.
I’ve also been to
flatfalls creek a coupla times (it’s where I went when I was young and lived in Brisbane, and I went to Interschool Nationals there… three times?). It’s alright, and probably the most convenient for you, since it’s Vic. So yes, I go places purely to ski (and drink lots of alcohol).Oh but that’s not as fancy as trips to Europe, America or Asia or something just for the snow 😛
Oh, well I didn’t want to mention them, because I was worried I’d sound like a prat.
I’ve been to Canada twice (Big White / Silver Star, just there for that, Whistler / Blackcomb with an attached trip ’round the US), Switzerland (attached to a trip to Egypt and England), Italy (again, attached to an Italy trip), and Japan (my family was basically just there to ski, though I stayed a bit longer and then did the Trans-Mongolian / Trans-Siberian).
I keep meaning to do an NZ trip for snow shenanigans, but they don’t have any ski in ski off, which is a let down, and if I can be bothered I’ll probably be back in Nozawa Onsen at the end of this year for more skiing.
Can I be part of your family? 🙁
We usually go to Queenstown NZ. Awesome place with awesome food and bars. Cheap too. Much cheaper than an Australian ski trip. Choice of two ski fields as well. Remarkables and Coronet Peak (I prefer Coronet). You can get to Cardrona as well but it’s a bit of a trek and I can’t speak to what it’s like. Never been.
NZ is high on my list of places to visit. It’s close and I’m always seeing sales on airfares.
It’s good that I can consider going there for snow stuff now that I have the gear 😀
Kirby And The Rainbow Paintbrush is a pretty cool guy. You can use the Kirby, Meta Knight and King Dedede Amiibo’s to power him up. But only once per level, per day. Have to track down Meta Knight and King Dedede.
I have a spare Dedede that I need to get rid of. And Metaknight should be pretty easy to find, since he got a restock recently. Seen lots of him around my local stores.
Max fell off her tower, I ended up getting a couple of accidental scratches on the throat. 🙁
We went to the RSPCA this morning, sat down in the cat area, and a small grey cat jumped straight into my lap and snuggled in for cuddles.
I’ve been told this isn’t normal for cats.
You’ve officially been adopted by a cat.
@sughly
Thoughts on Etrian?
COMPARE NOTES.
@mrtaco can you holler if you find Codename S.T.E.A.M. on Target? I’ve been checking online every now and then but still nothing :/
I don’t really have the time or desire to play it now but I wouldn’t mind getting it for $40 as I doubt it’s going to get cheaper by the time I do want to play it…
Exactly what I’m doing/my thoughts 😛
I shall holler you if I see it then!
$48 is still a great price but… EHH!
I’ve got so many 3DS games in the pile now :(. Ace Attorney 5, Professor Layton 5 and 6, Star Fox, Mario and Luigi, SMTIV… :'(
I still gotta pick up M&L. Haven’t seen it for a while, or at a good price.
I’ve still got Kirby, Rhythm Thief, Cubic Ninja (:P) and that WayForward Transformers TBS game. Oh and Majora I guess.
I knew I was forgetting things :/. Majora’s for me too and that pricey Pin Edition wasn’t really worth it… I think buying that bummed me out and I also had no motivation to play it since MH4U came out and I’ve finished MM before.
Just looked at my shelf and I’ve also got Shinobi (which you love) and Virtue’s Last Reward.
I was bummed out with the Majora thing because ugh 3DS WHY AREN’T YOU A PROPER REMAKE and also the nXL was crappy.
Anyone else go to Beta Bar’s BioShock thing? Not as BioShock as I thought it would be, but still fun.
No matter how many times I hear it, Beta Bar still sounds like a terrible name for the place.
I’d agree with you but I couldn’t think of anything better. Also it’s semi-appropriate in that while they aren’t perfect they are willing to experiment.
Sorry guys, I just had to share this because I thought you’d appreciate it.
http://imgur.com/gallery/LlQ6Sag
THAT MAN SHALL LEAD US
I’m more impressed that somebody left a gif of Childrens Hospital as a reply 😛 I got the impression I was the only person who watched it!
Decisions, desicions…
Should I play Starcraft or Smash Bros?
Smash Starcraft, bro!
Smashcraft?
Interesting…
A-League Grand Final, Let The Sportsball COMMENCE
I do believe it’s pronounced football
See? You get it.
Hey @bish , is there any way to tell which skills in Etrian Odyssey will be learnt when levelling another, or if they’ll just be unlocked?
I’m playing Story mode in Untold and some skills are automatically learnt (with one skill point put into them) when I level up previous skills, however, sometimes these skills are just “opened” up for me to put skill points in, so they aren’t active yet (if that makes sense?)
Why does this happen? 🙁
Thankssss
I dunno!
Haven’t played story mode. Are you sure they auto level though? Because normally you invest points into skills and once hit hit a certain level the next skill unlocks. But completely optional if you want to invest points into the next one.
Yeah it’s weird…
I’ll level up a base skill for an Alchemist and once I hit the level requirement for the next skill unlock, it automatically puts a point into each of the newly unlocked next tier spells (so they’re level 1 instead of 0).
But sometimes it just unlocks the next skills and doesn’t level them to 1 and I have no idea how to tell them apart :/
@beavwa
How’s Rocksmith going? 😛
I totally forgot you bought it and that was a thing that happened… 😀
I saw the deal again and damnnnn it was good! It still makes me want to buy it ;D
Haven’t found a spot in the weekly routine for it yet. So while it is taking up space, it’s taking up less space than the guitar hero piles of plastic that I got rid of.
And I broke his car.
Monster.
There’s a pretty bloody huge flash sale going on at the US PSN store. https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/194380
See you all in new TAY!
See you in new TAY, Crazy 🙂 :*