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I don’t like Scholar of the First Sin on PS4. Enemy placement is bullshit and tailored for Co op.
Fin.
Added to that they’ve removed the point where they’ll give up chasing you so now will chase you until they die. So speed running g is out as if you stop to pull a switch you’re suddenly surrounded by 15 enemies.
They’ve literally changed the mobs to high level Knights and surrounded them by archers you can’t reach. Then repeat. It’s a slog trying to get through solo now.
Good to know, will avoid.
I thought they were meant to fix enemy placement, not break it even more.
https://twitter.com/FreezeSPreston/status/599912221963997184
So Dark Souls 2 is a complete write-off at this point?
Excellent, I can go back to not being able to play Bloodborne.
Damn. I was looking forward to firing that up.
The enemy placements have been patched into all the earlier versions too, haven’t they? So I can’t even replay on 360 without having to deal with the new regime.
I’d be lying if I said I knew.
Let me know when you start playing, maybe we could start running it together. Had fun when I have had help, even just the NPC summons.
Yeah, that’d be cool! I’ll let you know for sure.
MORNING. I flew a plane for the first time on Saturday 😀 definitely something I’d recommend anyone to do if you get the opportunity.
Now to decide whether to get The Witcher 3 tomorrow or wait until more funds are available
Oh god it is tomorrow, excite! 😀
Many EXCITES!! I Preloaded over the weekend. 🙂
How old are you and where did you fly??
Soon to hit 31. I flew partly over Moreton Bay but it was lightly raining over that way so we turned around and flew over the Glasshouse Mountains instead
Cool, so in like a Cessna?
Did you do a barrel roll?
Morning peoples, how were your weekends?
I mainly worked, but was able to squeeze in a few hours of AdVenture Capitalist. Also watched Russell Peters – Notorious stand up comedy routine on Netflix last night, was pretty funny.
Anyways, Witcher 3 tomorrow, Wooo!
Also, have any of you guys seen this trailer for Magicka 2? It’s kinda funny.
I periodically checked in on AdVenture Capitalist over the weekend. I unlocked all the businesses and managers then reset when I noticed I would get 34 Angel Investors. Now I see that some upgrades take billions of angels to unlock, so I don’t know when it is actually a good time to reset. Presumably as I reset repeatedly and gather more investors it goes faster and faster each time. I mean, this just goes on and on, generating a number so I can make bigger numbers? I guess it’s an amusing distraction but to keep me amused for any longer it would really need to, I dunno, do something else. Be funny. Something.
And of course it’s a freemium game so if you want to pay ludicrous sums of money you be buy gold to unlock everything and completely subvert the point of playing, I guess? Does anyone ever do that?
Anyway, I bought into the hype, checked it out, and now I think you’re all loonies.
I generally do a reset every time my angel investors either equals or exceeds my current total of investors.
What’s the point of incremental games? What’s the appeal? I’m not sure, really. Loonies is probably right.
MONDAY MORNING PHILOSOPHY! If you want to get potentially too deep, I think part of the appeal stems from the fact that you can observe incremental progress towards a goal, with your late-game gains making your previous struggles seem insignificant by comparison.
Guaranteed progress with persistence and measurable improvement? That’s something that we don’t often get to have, in real life.
Additionally, the ‘reset’ mechanisms allow you to have a ‘do-over’, re-visiting your earliest trials but with the benefit of experience and resources, allowing you to perform better. That’s a recurring fantasy for a lot of people, too. (“What would you do if you could go back again, knowing what you know now?”)
They also neatly provide an alternative to bypassing the plateau that you reach and experiencing that rush of rapid gains again. Anyone who’s ever reached a plateau (in their career, artistic skills, gym training) knows how frustrating that can be and how much they’d love to be able to bypass it. So that’s another itch scratched.
It’s a different kind of skinner box – a simplistic mechanism for scratching psychological itches we can’t so easily (if ever) scratch in our real lives.
I think all of that is true and it’s how games with those progression/reset systems work but here in particular (and I guess with cookie clicker too, though I never “played” that, I watched a friend of mine do so for several hours) it’s progression for the sake of progression. It doesn’t feel like a goal is being worked towards. There’s no apparent terminus, so there’s no reason why I couldn’t buy a few lemonade stands, hire a manager to run them, then never revisit the game again.
At least once I prestige is Call of Duty I have a little emblem that tells people I’ve done with all before but in this game there’s no multiplayer, no leaderboard. You’re doing it entirely for the sake of yourself. I mean there’s a “swag” screen that’s just a dude, presumably your in-game avatar, standing in an empty field next to a bag of money. The only part the changes is the banner that says “millionaire” or “trillionaire” or whatever to reflect the highest “-aire” you’re reached. What if I could use my trillions to build a house or fund a hospital or something? Apparently such pursuits are beneath me. When I log into the game after an absence the game gives me the money I earned while I was away then reminds me I can use the money to buy more businesses and make more money which I guess creates jobs or something.
If anything it reminds us that because we don’t have the ability to go back and do things better over and over into absolute perpetuity that time is precious and we should use it spending time on things that have meaning or matter, which emphasises the pointlessness of the game to begin with. Why would I do this when I could be playing a game that’s actually entertaining? Or watching a film, looking at really weird porn, or reading a book?
Hey, I never said there was any virtue in it… just that it scratches an itch. People like scratching itches, even (especially?) when that turns out to be more harmful than leaving it alone.
(Also, you do get more swag as you gain more money, house, boat, clothes, uh… moonbase. You just need to earn several times more money than actually exists in the world. Like millions of angel investors.)
But really, if you want to go there… what is the point in doing anything? Is there REALLY that much more virtue in leaving a ‘prestige’ sign for a community of others who have surpassed your achievement or don’t care and either way definitely won’t remember it or you?
Watching a good movie is JUST as pointless. No-one will know what you saw, played, read, or even did… maybe a few dozen people, a couple hundred if you’re locally noteworthy. And even then, that ‘living memory’ is finite. Without exception you will die, your memory will fade, it will serve as a point of interest.
EVERYTHING we do is a temporary way to please ourselves, and even if it’s the basest of psychological manipulations, that doesn’t logically leave it without as much merit.
Nihilism is the logical progression of that line of thought. What is all of human existence if not the pursuit of the self-delusion that we in some way matter? What are ALL leisure pursuits if not a momentary distraction from the awareness that we are mortal, that we and our name and deeds will pass, fade, and be as nothing? We can try to attain some level of genetic immortality by creating children to leave behind, we can turn to religion to believe that we will persist on some level past death… but ultimately, all activities, all ‘achievements’ are a placebo, distracting us from their ultimate futility and insignificance.
*thumbs up* Cheerful Monday thoughts! 😀
I understand where you’re going but I wouldn’t go that far. Ultimately everything is pointless and fruitless, but what makes things important is a degree of personal satisfaction and accomplishment. Doing something fun or difficult. These things give your time on earth some meaning.
AdVenture Capitalist seems to simply underscore that fact that time is being wasted.
Morning All!
I had a lovely weekend.
Friends over for dinner on friday – Made Lamb Shanks in our slow cooker – followed by Cards against Humanity.
Saturday I Baked all day – Had friends over for boardgames(Star trek attack wing – 1 TOS ship each, followed by Cosmic encounter) and dinner (Baked Vegan crepes with Vegan Ricotta, Spinach, tomato and Zuchinni filling) and Dessert (Vegan Key Lime Pies) and Charlies Angels (Because we can!)
I lost both games, I had the win stolen from me in Cosmic encounter. everyone turned against me at 4 VP’s Bastard. I thought I had won. but no, someone Zapped a power 🙁
Sunday was relaxing, Haircut, and 5 hour marathon of House of Cards
Food was awesome, so say the Carnivores at the table, as well as the vegan 🙂
How was everyone elses weekend?
Sounds like an amazing food and fun weekend.
Love playing Cards Against Humanity with our friends. One of them insists on always picking the least gross/offensive cards because he feels bad picking the bad ones. It’s like he’s trying to lose!
You made Cards Against Humanity in your slow cooker? 😮
well it does sound kinda like gluten free bread
Putting Cards Against Humanity in your slow cooker seems like the best use of the game.
SATURDAY WATCHES MAD MAX WITH FRIENDS
“saturday is this what australia was like”
“absolutely”
I’m pretty sure it’s a documentary.
It’s rammed home when you watch the version with David Attenborough voice over.
They’re mainly out in the wasteland because the trees are where all the thousands of species of animals that can kill you are.. Only out in the wasteland is where one can truly escape the horror of the drop bears.
“saturday is this what australia was like”
“absolutely” (interchange with ” ‘kin oath mate!” “too right!” “stone the flamin’ crows!” etc etc at will.)
whenever I’m told to do an australian accent I go straight to the bad british accent and sayings thereof. Pip pip cheerio, bangers and mash, etc.
Sometimes, they don’t notice the difference. :/
Man, the number of times I would be playing against Americans in COD or BF3 and be asked
“Are you English?”
“No…”
“Canadian?”
*headdesk*
Mornin’ all.
I’m stuck in that weird position of waiting where I’m not sure what to do until I can play either The Witcher 3 or Life is Strange ep. 3. Considering curling up with a book, or maybe looking through the 2013 (?) New Avengers (?) run (the thing that leads into secret wars) since I have some of it the other day. Dunno though, dunno.
Had a good weekend, made a veggie lasagne and cupcakes, so I’m feeling very domesticated, but they both turned out well. Now I’m trying to think of barbs for my mother, since she wanted to get up at a normal time today (trying to readjust to work hours), and she’s still in bed.
How are we all?
I really love the majority of that New Avengers run. Ends on Seige, which is a lot better than Secret Invasion.
(Actually there’s a nice special one shot issue after Seige that actually sort of has an ending, which is nice. You know, because super hero comics always end on a CLIFFHANGER)
Marvel confuses me with all their stuff.
That said, at least I haven’t come across any 16 part crossovers like I did trying to read new 52 Batgirl.
I should probably just stick to reading Ms. Marvel (I’m a fake comic book nerd).
What’s confusing?
I used to read single issues, so I guess it’s easier to keep up month by month rather than trying to read oddly collected TPBs.
Best part of singles was not having to buy the shitty filler issues. The worst is storing the fuckers.
Man, these morning posts are so homogenous, much like the milk I’ve added to my first attempt at cold brewed coffee. *starts shaking from caffeine*
What sort of cupcakes? also, what do you put in a Veggie lasagne?
The cupcakes were white chocolate (which I still refuse to accept as chocolate, but hey), and the lasagne was eggplant, sweet potato and zucchini, it was supposed to have capsicum as well, but after roasting them I promptly forgot about them, and so they were just sitting on my bench when it went in the oven (I think sweating the eggplant made a huge difference to its overall taste). Both really good recipes that Bish gave me.
YEAH!
Food, bitch!
Food is awesome !
Considering many others will be jumping on the Witcher bandwagon, it might be fun to come along for the ride and have some interesting chats about it. I find that can be half the fun of jumping on the bandwagon early, engaging with the community as they share their experiences in hopefully spoiler free ways.
Yeah, it’s one of the reasons I like Dark Souls 2 more than I probably should, since I was playing at the same time as other people, and we shared our hatred of the Shrine of Amana together, whereas I was well late for the DS1 bandwagon.
Still, I’m off work this week so I may end up steaming waaaaaaay ahead of most players, which will be annoying.
Split your time between a few different games? That way you make plenty of progress on multiple fronts, and won’t steam too far ahead of everyone else. Haha
I really cant get into the current run of Marvel comics tying into Secret Wars; too close to DC’s multiversal revamp crap. I’ll probably jump back in once this event has passed on and the Marvel universe is somewhat back to normal.
Boodstained & Hooks-Laylee, woooop!
I still have issues wrapping my head around putting $40 down now and not seeing anything until 2016/2017.
Bloodstained looks like it’ll be a great game and has an excellent pedigree. But that wait time…
I just didn’t think about that part.
I only backed Bloodstained because it offered a backer only physical edition.
Yooka can wait til it’s up on PSN.
Yeah, have to hold off on buying Shovel Knight now because I’ve blown my budget.
I blew my budget on the weekend… picked up Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD for PS3.
Still playing Bravely Default, have Xeno 3D and Majora 3D waiting too… =/
apart from Xenobladder, all great choices.
Budgets suck 😐
Amen.
Might back Bladstan tonight if funding date lines up with a payday.
Bladstan: Stan evacuated his bladder
So our Dwarven Paladin of Vengeance decided to read a random scroll. Several weeks later he turned into a woman.
Better than the story about a Gnome Psionicist who read a scroll and turned into a cat. He ended up staying as a cat because his character’s stats actually improved. 😛
We were in an area of random chaos magic effects with pools of chaos lakes. The damn wizard, paladin and bard wanted to play around in it. The wizard ended up turning his familiar into a Nothic. Then swapped bodies with it. Then swapped back and turned into a sheep with wings.
They started sticking objects and themselves into the chaos lake. So the paladin got a blue arm and his hand turned invisible.
“Let’s stick body parts into this weird magical lake. Nothing can possibly go wrong.”
Do these guys just flail through the game and somehow succeed? Random magic can go all the way from changing colour to now you’re on the Plane of Fire to having a unicorn spawn inside your torso. If I was playing a character with even a modicum of intelligence I wouldn’t touch such a thing with a 10-foot pole.
Speaking of Unicorns…
They drenched their weapons in the stuff. Now whenever the paladin uses his handaxes he rolls on the chart. The first handaxe got cloud fog on himself twice, so we’ve determined that’s what it does. The second handaxe was used by different people and both times summoned a Unicorn.
Also the wizard was playing around in the stuff so much it’s now replaced his blood. He’s making chaos rolls after every spell now.
Jesus. At least you’ll always have some excitement because the wizard is now the magical equivalent of dynamite. You never know when he’s going to explode in everyone’s face.
The wizard was thinking about doing that. We saw a legion of orcs marching and he was thinking about what would happend if he jumped into the middle of them and chugged his snakeskin of chaos magic he nicked behind everybodys back.
The DM pretty much answered him that he would kill the entire legion, but would guarenteed to explode and die.
They’ve all got low wisdom and intelligence scores perhaps?
There’s a difference between someone being stupid, someone willingly gambling with fate, or someone being almost wanting to die.
It’s like the Deck of Many Things. It’s a magic item that has potentially bad stuff and also potentially good stuff on each and every card. Generally the wisdom is to hope to god that you pull the ace and get showered in riches or power or what have you. I have read far too many stories of people drawing 20 cards from the Deck at a time which summons demons, transforms themselves, or just outright kills them. Magic that has no control is downright scary.
Its how lucky do you feel, id probably be tempted to do it. Its like if you find ye olde slot machines of life hidden in the tavern on the edge of the world. I doubt it exists but someone has to drop the gold coin and cross their fingers for free spins
Morning TAYbees.
Hope you all had a fantastic weekend! I did, played lots of GTAV & Witcher 2. So pumped for Witcher 3 this week! xD I also picked up Towerfall Ascension on steam for like 5 bucks, this is an awesome game, looking forward to playing multiplayer with friends sometime.
I’m still chipping away at 3-star cups for 200cc Mario Kart 8, i’ve managed to do 5/12 so far.
Went out for breakfast and had some fantastic potted eggs with chorizo and tapenade. So good!! Making me hungry just thinking about it!
What were your weekend highlights?
So after more than 5000 resets, it finally happened:
https://twitter.com/CannonFodderJnr/status/599805575640158210?s=09
Yeah, totally shiny. Trust me, it’s not just because I’ve gone crazy and started seeing things.
Then the gods of RNG were taking pity on me after such a long stretch, and a few hours later:
https://twitter.com/CannonFodderJnr/status/599912468878462977?s=09
That’s more like it.
Grats. The crazy part is I read 5000+ resets and think ‘yeah, I should totally try for a Shiny Legendary sometime’.
I’ve had 3 in the 400s, a 700, 1500 (missed at 1200, second chance at 1500), 1600, 1800 and 5200.
It shouldn’t normally take that long. Statistically speaking, it’s a 50% chance at around 1850 resets. This one was just all the more nasty since you have to watch and listen at the initial encounter otherwise you could miss it. I’m not going to miss listening to that musical pattern 5000 times.
Every other shiny doesn’t need sound, since it’s pretty obvious.
Thanks to the big one, that’s over 13,000 resets for 9 encounters, so I haven’t got the best strike rate any more, but I am still below the 50% tipping point.
Top of the mornin’ to ya TAY,
Yesterday I scored a goal for my Sunday league team, watched the A-League Grand Final and watched The Snowpiercer upon @janexo’s recommendation. I didn’t know whether to be charmed or repulsed by the movie, absolutely loved it.
I watched Snowpiercer a few months ago, was awesome. Definitely something different for Chris Evans, especially when we’re used to seeing him as Cap.
Yeah, that movie was great! I watched it late last year. Had borrowed a projector at the time and watched it with a bunch of mates.
Can’t believe they were eating jelly bricks made of cockroaches!I actually liked the look of protein blocks, I think I’d eat one lol.Man, my takeaway from that movie was that Captain America ate babies.Like, that’s supposed to be a big thing, and it is a big thing, but I genuinely feel like the significance is more pronounced because it is Chris Evans.
So great right?! I knew you’d enjoy it 😀
Thanks for the recommendation 🙂
There were parts when I was enjoying the banter between characters, nek minut I’m watching a pregnant woman get stabbed in the neck. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie where a pregnant woman has been killed, or wielded an uzi lolOhhh I know! And then Edgar dying, oh noooo. That fight in the dark was just, oh man, so so good.Just read this in the description for The Witcher 3 on Wikipedia.
Why don’t more games feature a dynamic beard growth system?
They will after this, I bet.
We can only hope.
*strokes own beard thoughtfully*
Aye and then they’ll call it innovative when they put it in their respective AC/CoD/Destiny game and sell the crap out of it at E3! Yay for PR and marketing departments!
Good Morning TAY!
Well, Mrs Fizz and I are back from our adventures in Japan.
What an amazing country, I loved every minute of it!
Here are the pics I took around Ghibli for those interested :o)
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=1bffab33ec313fe0!1614&authkey=!ALCb1eLgqlwfafA&ithint=album%2c
Morning all long time no post. Surely you’ve all missed me. Im one hour away from my weekend and Witcher 3 is out tomorrow so yay.
Also I just go to complete a alarm response with the note “Whole Bunch of Cats” was like 8 of them.
Guys.
Mad Max: Fury Road.
Holy shit.
That is all.
Finally seeing it in about 2 hours.
Find the biggest, loudest cinema you can that’s showing a 2D session.
VMax at the newest cinema near me.
That is an excellent recc.
So good, my expectations were high when I went in and it was still better then I expected!
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
That’s my review. Seven 😀 out of Seven 😀
Good morning! Saw Mad Max and omgholyshithahahwow.
TAYfolk, for those who know a lot about cats… Are domestic shorthairs usually so highly predatory?
Because Max has been chasing the antenna cable on my radio, and I don’t wamt her getting zapped.
Misread that as “cars” and was wondering how the hell your car was chasing an antenna.
Same, but I clicked as soon as I read “domestic shorthair”.
AllMost cats are.That being said, I doubt a radio antenna has enough voltage in it to actually zap the cat or you for that matter. Probably get a better tickle from a 9V battery to the tongue.
Research is showing that unlike dogs and livestock, cats are only partially-domesticated and may in fact never actually be fully-domesticated.
http://www.latimes.com/science/space/la-sci-sn-cat-genome-20141107-story.html
Those murderous instincts are strong. Some of the stories of house-cat survival in the wild are quite gruesome and even chilling in their predatory cunning.
Weekend win. Spent Friday night at a mate’s place hanging out, talking shit and generally not doing a lot. Spent about 5 hours at the range with said mate on Saturday, spent about 300 rounds, made progress with my new rifle and breathing/aiming techniques. Still a long way to go, but really enjoying it. Next comes my Remington 700 Police in .308 if the taxman is good to me.
Spent Saturday evening and Sunday on Diablo 3, BF4 and Guild Wars 2. Sought out cow portals in D3, and items for my Monk’s new dash build, and have almost completed it. Can solo mid 30’s Grifts which is making me happy.
Feel much happier finding a hobby that gets me out of the house for better part of a day at a time, and then can spend the rest of the weekend chilling out and playing video games. Feels like a much better balance. Plus when the zombies come, I’ll already have guns, ammo and knowledge on their use. Win win.
What’s the current rifle? I’ve only ever fired handguns. Though one of them was the 1911 which I’m a fan of so that was cool, surprisingly heavy too.
My first rifle, it’s a Ruger 77/22 bolt action (.22LR), with the 10 round rotary magazine. Only planning on target shooting at this stage. Had it for a month or so, and been to the range twice, for about half to full day each time. I didn’t suck as bad as I thought I would, and it’s a lot of fun to boot.
Although, the urge to step up to a bigger calibre is soundly in place, and it’s going to get expensive. But – good thing is, if you look after a rifle, it’s basically for life and you don’t need to upgrade.
Never fired a pistol – they’re difficult to get a license for and maintain, in Victoria at least. 1911s are beast, would love to have a crack at one someday!
Step 1 go to Thailand. Step 2 get in a tuk tuk. Step 3 say you want to go shooting. Step 4 walk in sign name fire gun.
Oh man, I went to Thailand once, and tuk tuks are the shit. Except when they’re going dodge on you at major tourist attractions and telling you they’re closed – and then trying to take you to indian fabric shops and get you to buy stuff.
How much was it to get your rifle licence and stuff? I wanted to get a handgun licence but like you said they are difficult to get. Last gun I fired was 6 years ago and it was an MP5sd sub machine gun at the WA rapid response training centre
You’re Victorian too, from memory?
Cost wise it wasn’t that much – 5 year license was about $250, plus about $9 for each permit to acquire (permit you have to get for each gun you’re going to buy) and that’s about it.
You just have to do a safety course at your nearest police station that runs it, and then it’s about 4 weeks (28 day cooling off period) from submitting your license application to getting your approval on paper.
After that, you get a photo, pay your $250 and wait for them to send your card – that part takes a week or so. It’s not terribly difficult, just takes time. So all up, about 5+ weeks from sending the form to having the plastic license in your hand.
Number one tip if you’re going to do it is to post your permit to acquire for your first gun along with your license. Otherwise, there’ll be a second 28 day waiting period for the permit to acquire to clear after the license itself.
Yeah Victorian
Thanks for the tips ive also gotta look into gunranges on the peninsula as well as guns haha
What’s the GW2 draw atm? (I guess besides trying to get expansion beta drops?)
I haven’t played since S2 ended.
Well it’s mostly that I only played off and on in the 2 or 3 years I’ve had it because I didn’t know anyone else that played. Got my Necro to max, pottered around and quit because I couldn’t break into high end stuff like fractals or explorable modes.
This time around a friend has started up, so I’ve got someone to play with. Busying myself building ascended gear, finishing world exploration and levelling an alt or two. Got the precursor for Twilight, and debating making it for my Mesmer – plus Necros will be able use GS in the expansion.
Got pretty lucky with the beta drop – got one in Silverwastes after half an hour or so of just doing events which I was already doing for ascended materials anyway.
@popdart5 @pupp3tmast3r
I won my first PvP game of HOTS last night!
And it was with the character I was most interested in trying out, Sgt Hammer. 😀
I think I lost so many times I got a low enough rating to smash now, and they kept underestimating my damage in siege form, kiting with the knockback and mines, and her ultimate is kinda like Ezreal’s where it passes through enemies in a line, I thought it was like Jinx’s at first, being a rocket and all and it would explode on the first hero hit. Still, lots of fun to play
I find the napalm strike to be a more reliable form of damage but there is a lot of satisfaction from firing a massive rocket.
If your passive is up as Ham girl, you can Z and boost your way straight out of siege mode to give yourself more mobility and quickly get out of danger. Took me a while to realise that but it’s so useful.
Wait you can use that while in siege mode?! I had no idea of that!
I was mainly doing supporting fire with lifestealing splash shots, being able to destroy forts and turrets from outside of their range is very useful, and putting mines in blind spot brushes is also hilarious when they try to jump me and they get 3-5 mines in the face with strong slows.
I find that strategy works okay until you get a jumper or a blinker. I hate Illidan for this very reason as he can shadow himself or something and make himself immune to damage for about 2 seconds. Can completely negate your mines while he jumps onto your face.
Yeah Illidan did try that on me several times, I shoved him back immediately with my knockback shot, by the time he got back within face hugging range I had backup.
Yeah Illidan has an ability call Evasion which negates all incoming damage from “normal” attacks for about 3 seconds. It can be boosted to provide him with a shield that scales with level but most Illidan players only skill into that if they’re expecting a lot of burst damage from normal attacks (so shouldn’t be able to avoid mines).
Experienced Illidan players also won’t go for Metamorphosis and instead go for the other ultimate “The Hunt” aka Spiritbreakers ulti from Dota 2. It basically makes it impossible to run away from him @tech_knight so something to watch out for against experienced Illidan players (they usually have colored skins to warn you early).
Hahah nice one dude =] Hammer is a very weird toon to play in a team based objective oriented MOBA as she primarily focussed on creating lane pressure and toppling some towers early game to get your team the XP lead.
The best Hammers I’ve gone up against use that jet ability/cloak (pretty sure they have a temporary cloak) and the movement in siege mode talent. I’ve never played her but I do enjoy killing her as Nova/Illidan xD My advice to you if you like her as a hero is play a few matches as the heroes you have the most trouble against; it’ll educate you on what those heroes blindspots are how you can take advantage of that as hammer. (e.g. I now run two separate Illidan builds based on the enemy team’s heroes)
I’m also starting to reach that stage in the game where I’m aching for ranked modes with experienced players. Once you learn the basics of how to boost team level (i.e. towers/hero kills/early game ganks) it gets very frustrating to play with people who decide to go farm merc camps.
The merc camp thing is why I’ve taken to going Bribe on most heroes that have access to it. Buccaneer Bay becomes very interesting when you can speed clear siege giants once every few minutes.
I also run a few different builds depending on the hero but I tend to stick to a primary build eg. lane creep buffer/pusher Azmodan and auto-attack Valla. I’ve actually had more success going a full-tank Sonja and a damage-based Diablo considering I originally built them the other way around. Heal bot Uther is also funny considering his after-death heals can be very frustrating.
Is bribe even worth it? The only decent times I’ve noticed where its worth looking at mercenary camps if when the enemy team is down 1-2 heroes and you want to push the advantage but not risk another fight.
I’ve found bribe is useful on maps where heroes get taken out of lane a lot (which is almost every map now that I think about it). Particularly on something like Dead Mines where you can bribe the mercs to push the lane while you tussle in the mines for skulls. Allows you to push the lane without you having to be there.
The only decent use of siege giants I’ve seen is when you grab the spawn point behind enemy lines (each map has at least one) and have those giants chip away at the enemy forts without them realizing it. Most of the time when I’ve seen bribe its seemed to expensive when there are better alternatives in that skill tier to be taken *shrug* to each their own I guess =p
I just get pissed off when there’s a team fight and the team uther is busy standing in a camp of neutrals healing himself trying to solo it while the whole team gets wiped! (Happened to me in 3 separate games over the weekend and it was always a fucking uther!! :@)
As in a full ranked team? I’m far from ready to do that yet, I’m just still running random and playing what I get and try to make it work (I like this challenge with HOTS). But yeah that’s how I was using her, basically a nuisance to make them keep abandoning objectives to try to deal with me, I jet off and knock my enemy back, rinse a repeat. hehe
Haha no HotS has two ranked modes; both of which only unlock at player level 30, I’m only 26 at the moment and I’m craving the solo ranked mode. I.e. quick match but with ranks.
Oh right 😛
I would be up for ranked modes too, once I figure out what the heck I’m doing at last 10% of the time 😛
For what its worth I’m still learning new stuff in Hots and I’m slowly approaching that stage where I’m learning how to use blindspots on the different maps and tactics on manipulating locations for the different objectives. You know you’re getting there when you can anticipate where a Nova/Zeratul are likely to be in a team fight =P
Indeed there’s so many blind spots in a game without warding.
For what its worth I believe Tassadar is able to reveal invisible units; and a few other heroes have abilities that’ll force them out of hiding like Zagarra’s Hydralisk DoT.
Hola Tay
Had a good weekend. Finally knocked off Witcher 2 on Friday- turns out I was closer to the end than I’d thought. Saturday did laundry (yaaaay.) then went to the Hungry Hippo with a Lady Friend and some of her friends. Obviously made an impression, because I went to hers and boardgamed some more on Sunday. That’s not a euphemism, you pre-verts.
Then I went home and packed a bunch of stuff for Brisbane. I WILL SEE SEVERAL OF YOU AT THE BUFFALO BAR AT SEVEN. BE THERE OR…DON’T BUT I’LL BE SAD
A monday morning question: Now we’re here on Witcher eve, what other property deserves a blockbuster game? “fantasy novel x” is a cop out answer.
So a none fantasy series.
Well the obvious answer is Jurassic park.
Make it open world (i.e. the entire Island).
Give me a quad bike.
Let me hunt the bloody T-Rex.
I’ll be very happy with that.
A game about the rise and fall of the Blockbuster Video empire.
Reskin an existing Kairosoft mobile game and you’d nearly be there…
If you wanted it to be 8-bit, F2P on iOS and Android…
Out of curiosity, which path did you take for Witcher 2?
Also, I won’t be able to make it tonight sorry. Been roped into something else tonight (which also means no Pathfinder but something else entirely made that impossible).
Roche. Iorveth did nothing to impress me.I went with Iorveth. Some prior choices I made led to me being absolutely against Roche and I didn’t feel like I really owed him for saving my life back in prison.Iorveth didn’t impress me at all either, but Roche actively made me really mad.
At the end of Chapter 1 by being a complete idiot. Which sucks because up until that point I kinda liked him. But seriously… Geralt has Letho cornered with a scoia’tael commander and a unit of archers. No matter how good Letho is, he’s not walking away easily from that…. right?But what does Roche do? Charge the whole lot out of nowhere and start killing everyone who was keeping the Letho pinned, giving the Kingslayer – the very man he’d been hunting – the perfect opportunity to escape. Why? Because he saw a bunch of elves in one place and got greedy. Completely lost his priorities. When I saw Roche charging, I actually cried out loud, “What the fuck are you doing?! You IDIOT!”
On top of that, when he loses a bunch of his men in open fighting, that gives the Commander in town the perfect excuse to unleash a racist bloodbath in the name of his ethnic cleansing.
Iorveth is a terrorist and a sadistic murderous prick to boot (ants? Seriously?), but oh my God. I almost wanted to make the boring trek to Flotsam then back to the Elven ruins JUST to plunge a sword through Roche’s idiotic face and cleanse the town of all the murderous racist goons on my way out. I may even look up a wiki to see if that was an option and go back to do just that, if so.
That moron Roche was directly responsible for Triss’ capture. If he hadn’t been a greedy/hate-blinded half-wit, they wouldn’t have been in that situation.
The game had a good contrast between the two choices. Roche was all about maintaining stability of the kingdom even if goes to the extent of massacring known terrorists and their support networks while enabling a complete prick of a town mayor. Seriously, that mayor was a massive prick.Iorveth on the other hand actually had a modicum of reason but he realised that the Scoia’tael had to continue playing up their role as terrorists because appealing to be freedom fighters wouldn’t work thanks to the Elven kingdom under Francesca Findabair (basically a puppet for the Nilfgardians). And I have to say that it plays into things very well with the second act in that Iorveth wanted to enact change regardless of the potential collapse of all society while Roche was all about the status quo, no matter how screwed up it was.
Regarding that last point,
I totally didn’t go and save Triss in my game. Made the final confrontation with Letho all the more interesting.There’s no winners in either of their politics, and I don’t particularly care about them. What I REALLY care about is that fucker
Roche screwed up my sting operation and jeopardized my girl!Boardgaming With Lady Friend
An erotically charged adventure game thriller exploring the darkest depths of human desire.
You’re the worst person on this site.
Well, second, behind @mcgarnical.
More like broadgaming amirite?
Well done
I know that it’s a cop-out answer, but I had this grand plan for an ongoing open world series a few years back.
Hogwarts, the game.
Basically, since Hogwarts is easily the best part of any Hairy Porter game, I envisioned a game where you turn up as an ickle widdle first year, get sorted into a house, and then play out a sort of Bully like game with this entire goddamn magical playground around you.
Original plan was to set you up as either one or two years younger than Hairy Porter (so you see recognisable characters, but you’re engrossed within your own adventures because goddamn you know that some shit was going down outside what the books told you), and you’d get to experience the uprising at Hogwarts, evil defense against the dark arts teachers, and then fuck it, why not another Tri Wizard tournament? BECAUSE THE LAST ONE WENT SO WELL, THAT’S WHY!
HEY GANG, WANT TO GO AND HANG OUT IN THE FORBIDDEN FOREST, GET ATTACKED BY HORRIFIC MAGICAL CREATURES, AND HAVE A GRAND OL’ TIME? FUCK YEAH YOU DO.
WANT TO GO TO HOGSMEADE, AND PLAY PRANKS ON OTHER STUDENTS? OF COURSE YOU MOTHERLICKING DO!
HEY, LET’S EXPLORE DOWN THIS CORRIDOR! WHY IS THERE AN OUROBOROS CHILLING IN THE FIRST BASEMENT LEVEL? WHO KNOWS, LET’S KILL IT FOR SCIENCE!
I don’t ever want to hear more about how the HP world works, because the more you think about it the more it falls down.
Maaaagggggiiiiiiccccccc.
Done, problem solved.
Did she blow on your dice for luck? Giovanni would.
The hunger games really needs a game. Chose your sector, customise your character, train in the facilities and go head to head in PvPvE may the odds be forever in your favour.
Ugh, I really need to play the Witcher 2. Its been sitting on my desk still in the plastic for years.
Had a pretty good weekend. Finished Bloodborne (reluctantly) and also the campaign in GTAV. Thought I’d clear the decks for Witcher 3 (whenever it arrives in the mail) but then thought, nah, I’ll totally be able to finish Metal Gear Solid 4 before it arrives. I found out I’m looking at about 20 hours so I’ll have to rush it as much as I can!
In other happenings, I learnt how to make an origami boat with my younger daughter, fixed up a bike for her, made date scones, watched Return of the Jedi (stupid song replacing Yub Nub at the end), ate pizza, drank beer, read about 200 pages of my next book club book, played Playstation Allstars Battle Royale with the kids (also Tintin and Tokyo Jungle) and spent some quality time with the missus 😉
Had to go out Saturday night with a bunch of my wife’s friends whose names I barely know. Had an OK time.
Feeling a bit burned out. I feel like I’m due for some time off work but the way things have been going around here I’m worried my undeserving colleague will sneakily get promoted when my back is turned so I don’t dare take leave. I know that’s not how things work but this bullshit has really got me on edge.
New Destiny content has been fun, can’t wait til the DLC proper unlocked tomorrow – though apparently the DLC won’t go live until about 8 hours after the daily reset, so, around 3am here. Guess I won’t play it til Wednesday night.
I’m still on the fence about the new bounties… but then I may be a little burnt out after spending a solid twelve hours farming for treasure keys on Saturday. Loot obtained: 4 legendary engrams, 3 treasure keys, about 120 special ammo synths, and every possible inventory slot on three characters (including vault and lost items) filled with undecryptable blue engrams. Can’t wait for Wednesday so I can start actually using my inventory again. 😛
I wasn’t farming very hard but I have a lot of blues, two purples (both for heavy weapons) and no keys. I hope keys will drop inside the Prison of Elders itself and these chests aren’t the only way to get them.
From what I hear, keys have a relatively high chance to drop from the PoE boss. But you can only use one key per PoE run, so any extras from these events will just be backups should one not drop from the boss.
Hmm, I thought there were more chests than that. Besides which, I understand when you open a chest it opens for your entire team? I think?
Maybe… like I said, don’t have much information to go on, as everyone’s been sworn to secrecy about the PoE treasure room. Going mostly off the IGN podcast for the moment – no way for me to verify what they’re saying. Would be cool if one key opened the chest for everyone… would mean I can run the PoE six times in the first week 😛
I think you can only get rewards once per week, but apparently the rewards don’t stack at each difficult level, so you have to run it at each level (I think 30, 32 and 34) to get each set of rewards.
I have as much information (or possible misinformation) as you, I guess. We’ll find out in two more days!
Yep, rewards don’t stack, but the level 28 one is repeatable. 32, 34 and 35 will only drop rewards (ie the armour core/weapon core/etheric light) once per week, but there will be a chest at the end that’s only openable with a treasure key; so your second time through the (eg.) 32 PoE, you won’t get another armour core, but if you’ve got another key, you’ll be able to open the chest again for an exotic or legendary item. Gives an incentive to help others through if you’ve already done it that week, I guess.
I guess we’ll find out on Wednesday, and sort the rumour from the fact for ourselves.
I have borrowed the DM Guide from my friend for the latest edition of D&D. I give up. No-one else is going to DM so I guess I’ll have to get back into it 🙁
I like some of the variant rules in the DMG for 5E but it seems the book is mostly about giving tips on how to construct an adventure and a campaign. Good for new GMs but if you’ve had any experience (which it sounds like you have) it’s not really that helpful in my opinion.
That said, I share your slight annoyance at having to GM because no one else wants to. My other gripe is time as I always want to run more games but I’m restricted to once a week at most with my in-person group.
Kotaku hates me replying to this comment and keeps checking if I’m a robot.
http://www.madadventurers.com/angry-rants-creating-gms/
That article really hits the nail on the head. I admit I am a lazy GM and generally rule things on the fly but I enjoy it because I can tell a story. Sure the story often goes on wild tangents and has silly things because PCs happen but that’s part of the fun as well.
I used to love GMing but sometimes you just want to actually play as a character in someone else’s world
If you can baby me through it im keen
So I have started on a new bookmark series. This one is Katamari.
So far I have done prince and Ichigo. Next one, is Dipp.
Question. Should I start putting a watermark on the preview images?
Prince
https://scontent-nrt.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/11214129_942421309111217_9060524279199804806_n.jpg?oh=892cd18097197444cfc2513145f93a6b&oe=5601607B
Ichigo
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xtf1/v/t1.0-9/11255049_942421302444551_1111254308201787572_n.jpg?oh=930d1620520e99ac1bd7ee89e143c684&oe=56039EF2&__gda__=1443713193_31a278ac6b31cbad12f7b7877bd60ee5
Yes watermark. Also
Na, na na na na na na na, Katamari damacy!
Yeah definitely watermark them; always better to be safe than sorry! (Might want to update links once done)
You should definitely put some sort of watermark on the preview images. Even if you don’t care about being ripped off from a financial perspective it’d be a massive bummer to have some shop start selling them using your designs without even asking. That sort of thing can be a huge blow to your motivation to do anything creative at all. Plus it doesn’t hurt to have a store watermark or something people can track you down with if they want to buy one.
Also if you’re taking suggestions one with a tiny little Prince pushing a Katamari core on the end that hangs out, so when it’s in the book it looks like he’s rolling your book, would be hilarious. Sadly I’m not really a book guy so all these designs are wasted on the likes of me. =(
I think that bookmark would require being hand made. You could always display the bookmarks as art, if that’s what you prefer
My weekend was kinda all over the place with good things. Sold my old car for scrap and scored $350 which I felt was pretty good considering it was 18 years old and the gearbox was on its last legs. Then my internet dropped out due to a line fault and Optus says they’ll fix it sometime before the 28th. 🙁 Unfortunately this means that there will be no Pathfinder tonight for the players.
Yesterday was the Eagle Farm markets in the morning which was nice until it started to rain. Then I had Dark Heresy for the rest of the day.
My players are actively avoiding combat because they are super paranoid about what I’m doing. I had a Dead Space scenario aboard a space station and they immediately cut their losses and evacuated. Although this was after I threw a Beast of Nurgle and a swarm of Nurglings that came bubbling out of the plasma generators and cut their life support so it was probably a wise choice on their part.It’s all good though. As much as I want to take them down a couple of pegs, members of the group are becoming more insane and corrupt so I’m winning the battle against their souls. And, for every one of their “victories”, Papa Nurgle’s presence is growing stronger. A space station of 25,000 people only managed to evacuate 3,500 so that’s a very hollow victory to deny the enemy. This was also after they orbital bombarded a penal colony into the dust because of a huge flesh beast that had grown from the accumulated buried dead. Chalk up another 50 million deaths of convicts.
How awesome are the Eagle Farm markets?
I could go there and just eat food for hours… then buy fresh everything go home, cook and continue to eat for several more hours. Then eat whatever it was I cooked.
They have a tonne of really nice food but the bakery stalls are just the best. It’s better than the Queen Street Markets by far.
Mornin, TAY.
So Mad Max is a pretty chrome film. I liked it.
I also bought Codename S.T.E.A.M on Saturday. I’m really enjoying it! Can’t say I’ve ever played another game where Abraham Lincoln orders a team made up of Tom Sawyer, Tiger Lily from Peter Pan, Queequeg from Moby Dick and the Lion from Wizard of Oz to save Queen Victoria from Lovecraft-inspired ice aliens using steampunk weaponry.
It’s a very cliche story.
Steampunk is so played out. I’m going to make a stonepunk game where everything has twigs and shit tied on for no reason instead of gleaming brass pipes that don’t do anything. The protagonist’s signature weapon will be a modern-day Heckler & Koch MP5 but will have an inlaid faux-pebble grip and a mud-dipped stock.
Stonepunk it up like The Flintstones. They were stoning it up before it was cool. 😛
I should really pick this up but with The Witcher 3 just around the corner I doubt I will get anything else done.
@redartifice Don’t think I’ll be making it tonight for dinner 😐 Major accidents on the freeway this morning, so I’m gonna be massively late to work. Probably gonna have to work back to make it up. Sorry for the short notice. Hope you all have a ripper night!
No prob man, next time!
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
Hopped onto Elite briefly yesterday, saw you on. Must be very bright where you are! Are you still on the outbound trip?
Slowly but surely moving towards the centre 😛
It’s slow progress but I kinda enjoy the nothingness…
A bit over half way now and more than 1200 scanned system
Excellent. I shall have to attempt to meet you out there somewhere…
It’s a totally different feel to the game out there. Just don’t know what you’re going to find!
Nice. I’ve heard that a run to the Core and back should get you close to Elite, if not there. As it should, it’s quite a feat.
I saw Mad Max with @sernobulus yesterday. Holy damn, so good. That is all.
Yeah nob is pretty great.
Last time just us two saw a movie was World War Z. Nob HATED it.
The pressure was on this time!
HE HATED BRAD PITT WHAT A MONSTER
SO.DAMN.BAD!
World War Z is the definition of average.
Change the name and I would’ve probably rated it higher. The book is excellent.
I enjoyed World War Z. Looking back on it, I shouldn’t have as much as I did. But I did.
There you go.
Then I found ten dollars.
SO.DAMN.GOOD!
Old work has now called me 12 times in the last two weeks about how to do repairs on things or where things are or who to call at the other service centre. I was there for 4 months, and zero of my questions got answered. I had to figure shit for myself. I keep on answering and helping though because i feel a little bad, the other techs weren’t at fault nor was the service manager, it was just the guy who owns the place. So i feel obliged to help them since me leaving meant a bigger workload for them. BUT in saying that the accounts manager made sure i was paid out as little as possible.
you’d be in your rights to suggest a consulting fee
I most definitely would, but im way to frightened to ever ask for that.
If you really don’t want to help them anymore just send them an invoice for your time at whatever your old rate was. They’ll either stop calling, or you can at least give them the excuse that you don’t do work for clients when there’s accounts outstanding.
Defs invoice rocket; if I recall you weren’t overly happy at that workplace and until it starts hurting the bossman’s pocked he isn’t going to do much to make it any better for existing employees.
Nah, totes get yoself paid for that stuff man.
When my dad got made redundant ages back his work called up and was all “turns out you are the only one who knew how to operate this machine, can you train someone?“
And he said sure, for tripple what I was on, jerks. And they.did.
It was hilarious.
That is hilarious.
Knock that on the head right now. You don’t work there.
As others have said, invoice (or threaten to).
Another week and still completely obsessed with bloodborne.
Im too old to be playing like im 8 aan wonderboy had me hooked.
Wifey has been cool with it so far though, which is nice.
It is such an awesome game. Make the most of that wifely understanding while you can.
I think the biggest criticism I can come up with is that it’s a more lonely and sparsely populated feeling game. Demon’s, Dark, Dark 2 all had a central area with a range of NPCs, but that’s not really a Bloodborne thing.
Don’t know if I can even call that a criticism, it gives the game more of a … personal(?) feel.
Im a souls newbie so I cant compare bb is my first foray into From Software.
I struggled at the start but a poster on Tay gave me some tips and i havent looked back.
Its really refreshing to play something as difficult as this without needing to organize 10ppl in an mmo.
it never feels cheap and i like how I can go at my own pace.
Im just completely sucked in right now, i dread the day I finish, like getting to the end of a tv series binge, ie brwaking bad, got…
You may consider it good news that I’m still really enjoying it after finishing it once. Or bad news for your free time.
Life is Strange ep 3 comes out tomorrow on the same day as The Witcher 3.
WHEN IT RAINS, IT POURS!
And Destiny House of Wolves!
So… much… gaming…. hhnnnnggggg
This cinema is filled with a very certain type of person. Mid 40’s, shaved head, very muscular, fitness clothes.
Weird.
Seeing the spongebob movie??
You don’t think they’re MRA, do you? D:
He didn’t mention fedoras.
Intrigued by the term ‘MRA’ I dig some digging. Sweet Jesus and Mary am I glad I don’t read anything on the internet that isn’t TAY or SBS news.
People. What a bunch of bastards.
EDIT: ‘dig’ some digging? I can’t bring myself to correct that typo.
When I first saw the “Return of Kings” website, I thought it was satirical.
It isn’t.
Right?
After reading a piece there my first reaction was to type “is Return of K” and by that point it auto-filled with “is Return of Kings for real”. Sadly it is.
Oh god. I searched for it, and I’m browsing it now. Are we entirely sure it’s not satirical?
I just… what.
Articles like :
‘Females Have to Earn Your Respect’
‘Why I Am Proud To Be Called a Misgoynist’
‘Embrace Your Local Sausage Fest’
‘How To Free Yourself From the Need For Women’
My sincerest hope is that with such a deep-seated fear and loathing of women, it will reduce their chances of procreation. Optimistic, I know – but please. Please.
“Embrace Your Local Sausage Fest”
There’s no way that isn’t satirical! No way!
…right?
We must stand together and hope beyond hope that it ain’t so, Pow.
Stand with me and pray.
If RoK is satire then either it’s fooled the entirety of /r/theredpill or TRP is also in on the joke which doesn’t seem to be the case. If you ever want to know what happens in the mind of a 35 year old neckbeard perma-virgin when he imagines what happens when he goes outside armed with “alpha male” knowledge, head on over to that subreddit and read one of the “field reports”, where they report back on actual real events that definitely actually happened when they applied the teachings of The Red Pill to their encounters with real live women who really exist.
I honestly don’t think I can. I feel damaged enough from RoK alone.
Read their “about” page. It’s amazing. @powalen
http://www.returnofkings.com/about
…wat.
Reminder: Not satire.
Nope, they think Mad Max has a feminist agenda because there’s women in the movie that aren’t just eye candy. So they’re all boycotting it.
It’s sort of funny. Their outrage has gotten lots of people curious about the film who wouldn’t otherwise be keen. They’ve done the box office a favour!
Especially feminists, who all flocked once they learned it would piss off MRAs.
What? These women went outside? Without the express permission of their husband?
Weekend was pretty good although a bit too much work
Manged to get Trivial pursuit mailed out to @cufcfan616 so at least that was taken care of.
Saturday was management meeting in the morning then ducked out to a catch-up with my cousins and their kids. Was the first time we had taken Tiglet to one of those play centre type things and she seemed to enjoy it. Took her into the ball pit (the baby one so only 1 layer of balls) and she liked that. When I first put her down she was just turning in circles chasing the balls. was nice to see my cousins although didn’t get much of a chance to talk. or see the kids ass they were off everywhere.
Did some shopping afterwards, got a bunch of outfits for Tiglet as pumpkin patch had 30% off.
After we got home we finally got around to signing up for Netflix, seems to work ok with our setup. Watched Maleficent which I really enjoyed, was one that we missed at the cinema.
Had a nice stout while I watched that and then opened a bottle of wine with dinner. Ended up staying up late, drinkign wine, watching the giro, playing MPQ and working. Ended up really late by the time I got to bed.
Sunday I looked after Tiglet in the morning so Mrs Tigs could go to the market. She got a few things including a really cool wooden block set, probably a little advanced for Tiglet at the moment but cool. Has stores and school and other buildings so will be lots of fun.
Spent the day finishing off my work and cleaning the house.
Watched a new TV series that Netflix recommended for Mrs Tigs called The paradise. I was working while it was on but was drawn into it, we only watched the first 2 episodes. Very similar in style I guess to something like Mr Suffrage. Victorian drama with the focus on class differences. Set around The paradise, which is basically the UKs first ever department store.
Oh sweet, cheers 🙂 did you reply with bank details? I can shoot through money now before I waste it all on blow and hookers
I got back into Dead State after the recent patch and I have to say, it’s bloody good. I first loaded it to test out my new 1440p monitor and then before I knew it I’d played more than a month worth of the game and have barely tried anything else.
It’s kind of surprising how engaging it is given that it’s not the most polished game ever and there’s quite a few features I’d like to see added (mostly more conversational options). There’s a few bugs that caused me to lose quite a bit of progress in one mission, the gun combat is at best questionably balanced and the gun totting enemies occasionally focus on your main character to the exclusion of tactics like when there’s 2 zombies immediately surrounding the gunman and my main character is 8 tiles away and yet the biker shoots at me instead of the 2 zombies that would be breathing down his neck if they had working lungs.
All that said, it’s still bloody good fun and has some interesting management challenges with the shelter. Definitely worth playing if you’re a fan of turn based games & management themed RPGs.
Had a nice weekend recovering from illness and spending decent time with the family. Plus made a start on a uni assignment I’ve been putting off.
Went to New Farm park and toodled around the markets there snacking on fresh bread, raspberries, tomatoes and freshly squeezed juice. Went to the playground there for my daughter which is massive and has been built around a few ancient fig trees. She ran herself flat and had a massive sleep which was good for quality time with wifey.
Started watching Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Bladeworks over the weekend… After 2 episodes I think I’ve got a better grip on the story/mechanics than I did after watching the entire season of Fate/Stay Zero.
Ye
Ah, looking back I think Fate/Zero was written with the assumption that the target audience would already be familiar with the setting and doesn’t ease you in as carefully.
It did not at all which is why i only watched 2 episodes of zero yet marathoned all of unlimited blade works in 2 days 😛
NOW I NEED NEW ANIME to feed the addiction.
I enjoyed Zero – took me a while to get through the last 4 or 5 episodes.
But in the last 2 episodes it went a bit wild… But it’s also set up some background for Bladeworks which is kinda nice. I actually understand some of the references and ep 2 explained why Zero ended how it did.
Both series are done by ufotable but I’m enjoying the drawing/animation more in Bladeworks than Zero for some reason…
Go back to Fate/Zero then? It’s got a better plot and characters and you understand the setting now…
@popdart5 I can’t see myself making it for pathfinder today. 3 hour time diff and not sure what I am doing this afternoon and evening.
All good. My internet has carked it anyway so it Pathfinder won’t be happening today regardless.
Fyi @tech_knight @freezespreston @beeawwb
So the guy who runs the Super Mario Bros Movie Archive dropped me a message yesterday. They’re looking into having a comic series based on the movie made, by Boom Studios (the guys who published that awesome comic everyone’s talking about, Teen Dog). Apparently John Leguizamo and Samantha Mathis are on board, and Ryan North (who I didn’t realise at the time was the Dinosaur Comics guy) said he’s up for writing it. Apparently they’re doing six-part prequels for Big Trouble In Little China and Bill & Ted, so why not SMB too?
Problem is, I’m not that useful 😛 He’s looking to drum up support on Twitter, showing Boom that there’s some demand for such a thing. From our convo – “So, if you have an account we’d appreciate the help. An @ tweet or two or at least just favorites and re-tweets of what’s already on our feed. The relevant handles are @mattegagnon @boomstudios @ryanqnorth @johnleguizamo and we’ve been using #BringBackTheBros and/or #TrustTheFungus when we can fit it.” Thus my not-so-usefulness.
But you guys, you guys like the tweet! You should do the tweet thing, if you like the sounds of it! I do, I’d totally jump on that series and add it to my comic collection that doesn’t really exist at all.
If I can be involved, I’ll get involved.
Edit: yep, with writing like that, I’m a sure thing.
I was thinking of adding an “atshaneisthishowIpromo” note at the end 😛
I actually unfollowed Ryan North awhile back because it seemed like all of his tweets for awhile were either about his work on Aventure Time or Squrrel Girl, neither of which I gave a shit about. I think he does great work, just lately on things I’m not interested in.
This however, I will try to investigate further.
I end up unfollowing celebrities because, although I enjoy their work, they’re online attitude shits me.
So no Ricky Gervais painting for charity but lots of Rob Liefeld making a testicle of himself.
Been replaying Igavanias in celebration of Bloodstained.
But the other night watching YouTube I saw something(?) on Elder Scrolls & after throwing Oblivion in , being immediately disgusted by the beige & Brown menus, I put in Skyrim again.
Skyrim is fun!
I seem to come back to it every once in a while. Last time I finished the main quest. On the weekend I freed the Nords from Imperial rule & am leader of the werewolf guys.
Now me and my vampire buddy are questing for the College.
Any other interesting questlines?
I’ve got the thief & assassination ones lined up & done most of the two big dlc packs.
Assassin is always the most fun side quest line in an elder scrolls game.
That’s what I’ve heard, always put it off because I fear for my status.
That said, I got the shits in one town & spent a significant time killing guards
Finally signed up for Netflix on the weekend. The only thing I’ve watched so far is the first 6 episodes of Daredevil. Holy hell is it good. Never though I’d see an MCU thing that was of that quality.
Also spent most of Sunday out on a farm helping a guy do some filming for a group assignment for one of my Uni classes. I think I’ve put in more effort on this assignment then any I’ve done in the past, mainly because this assignment requires me to go out and talk to people and stuff instead of just doing everything from home. Hopefully we’ll all get good marks for the effort we’ve put in.
So about 5 years ago (I think it’s been five – it’s been awhile anyway) my wife’s aunt married a much younger man who was here from India on a student visa. They were in a relationship but shortly after they started dating the school he was going to turned out to be dodgy and he discontinued his studies, which put him at risk of being deported so they married in order to allow him to stay in the country. Of course there are a few red flags here but a few years later he was granted citizenship and immigration was satisfied it wasn’t just a “greencard marriage” (which it kind of was, but not exactly).
This story is not heading in the direction you probably think it is by now.
The husband, let’s call him “H”, has a brother, “B”. B is a bit of a vagabond, travlling all around the world with his young children in tow (which he has refused to give any kind of schooling). We aren’t sure what he does for work but when he tried to visit H in Australia he was stopped by immigration because he had a suspicious sum of Australian currency in his account (as in hundreds of thousands of dollars) and was unable to offer any explanation for it, since he didn’t have a legitimate reportable source of income or explanation as to why it was in AUD since he was living in Europe at the time.
So H, against his better judgement, agreed to take out a substantial personal loan to pay the government as a bond for B to visit. He visited, spent a couple of weeks here, then left. The bond was refunded and the loan was paid back. This was around the beginning of the year. Now B wants to visit again, but immigration still considers him suspect and wants an even larger bond this time. H is reluctant to take out another loan, which resulted in B going on a tirade, calling him a joke and a failure and telling him he should kill himself – because apparently they have other friends from India who have become successful businessmen and own their own homes, whereas H is not qualified to do anything in Australia (he was a photographer/cameraman for a TV network in India but can’t do it here for some reason) and lives in his wife’s house, working three part-time jobs. Keep in mind this guy is only like 30 years old so it’s not like his life is over, things just haven’t exactly gone to plan for him.
For some reason this bullshit tirade from his dodgy bro really hit him hard and now he’s planning to drop everything and return home permanently to India. When his wife, my wife’s aunt, asked “well what about our marriage” his response was “I don’t want to divorce but I know you won’t come to India with me, so I’ll just send you money”.
She doesn’t need or want his money, she just doesn’t want him to abandon her and go to India because his brother is a huge asshole! It doesn’t even make sense. It’s not like him going back to India will enable his brother to enter Australia. It solves literally no problems but introduces several new ones!
Ugh!
🙁 it’s always sad. Sometimes the most toxic people in your life can be family.
Culturally though there are different expectations. From what I understand it’s much less forgiving. There are bigger expectations for young men there. If he grew up there it could be quite the shake up to realise everyone he grew up with either succeeded or failed by now, which means he has in the failure category simply because he hasn’t succeeded.
A midlife crisis can be triggered by the dumbest things while still being very real. It’s like an evil eureka moment. You’re sitting in the bath tub and then BAM! You realise this isn’t what you thought married life would be like and that the little compromises you went along with to make life work added up to something that doesn’t make you happy.
His brother sounds like a dick but the conversation seems to have touched something real. He’s been in a marriage that was prompted in part by a greencard situation. From what you’ve said after five years of being married he doesn’t have kids and he doesn’t have the career achievements that would have justified skipping that part of family life.
Going back to India might not solve anything but regardless of how he feels about your aunt there’s a good chance the bulk of the things that bother him about his life stem from his decision to come/stay here. It probably feels like if he can change that he can get things back on track.
These are all good points, there has been some concern that he might be rethinking his marriage and this might be an opportunity for him to find a way “out”. The fact he’s unwilling to discuss it further and is adamant he’s returning to India as if this will somehow solve everything lends credibility to the theory.
We hope he reconsiders but there is a real possibility his mind can’t be changed.
That sucks man, here’s hoping for a good solution for your wifes aunt.
As someone quite familiar with Indian culture (I HATE IT; YOU’ll NEVER TAKE ME BACK!!) as I grew up there when I was quite young before my parents relocated etc etc etc. It’s very culturally common for men in those countries to leave their wives/children behind with their parental families and work overseas and send money back home. While it makes absolutely no sense from a western cultural perspective marriage in India is more of a survival mechanism and less a romantic commitment. It allows the men to work without worrying about whether their homes are taken care of and it protects women (to an extent) from being outcast/taken advantage of/exploited by their society for being single at a young age. While there are definitely sections of the country that have modernized with time (i.e. Delhi and other major capitals) a large portion of the country still maintains this mentality. It’s probably why he’s even under the impression its socially/culturally acceptable to leave his partner here just to send her money.
Secondly as a culture India is extremely appearance/wealth oriented. Like ridiculously counter-productively so. People will spend out of their means to maintain appearances even if the money could be better used as an investment. So if your Aunt’s partner is in his 30’s and his friends/family are doing more with their lives than he is culturally his family back home will look at him as some kind of pariah who’s doing nothing with his life. You might think I’m exaggerating but it’s really not the case and it’s not unheard of for families to cut off communication with branches of relatives that don’t maintain a certain degree of appearances.
As dogman has stated below an additional factor is the lack of any children. Having a family/kids in India is pretty much expected; if you don’t pop out a few kids within a year or two into the marriage people start to talk.
tl:dr it sounds like he’s still very invested in his family back home and seems like its where his heart is or at the very least its where his guilt is. If anyone can change his mind its probably your aunt but he’d be giving up a lot to stay here; effectively cultural suicide. That said it also sounds like there’s something his brother’s said to him that’s resonated and is forcing him back. 9/10 Indian families don’t share their problems with “outsiders” (this can even extend to close relatives living in another country; as they arent physically present they’re considered outsiders as well and an appearance must be maintained) and a lot of it is kept hush-hush, its also very possible he’s found out something from his brother and he feels the only way to make things right is to go back home.
This is an astonishing insight, I might share it with my wife and her aunt. I don’t think it’ll help, but it might enable them to understand.
Go for it kermit; I’m sorry for how it’s playing for your aunt though, Indian culture is excruciatingly frustrating to deal with in the best of circumstances. That said I hope it works out for her!
I spent my Saturday reinstalling Skyrim, adding an insane amount of graphical mods to make it beautiful, adding more customisation mods, more content and whole bunch of other stuff.
Then spent all of Sunday getting the load order right, the config files correct and watching it crash over a hundred times.
But for 5 minutes on Sunday night before bed, I got it to load perfectly and it looked gloriously. Was probably worth it.
Modding Skyrim is akin to tending a Zen Garden, really.
It truly is, and when it all works its such a great feeling.
Of my around 30 hours logged in pc skyrim, at least 25 is just from messing around with and tweaking mods.
I’ve got over 100 in the standard game. This is the first time I’ve decided to go the full force with mods of every type. Such a different experience.
I have very likely spent more time browsing, examining, configuring and testing Skyrim mods than I have spent playing Skyrim.
@greenius Code Name STEAM just went up on Target!
Also, I got this yesterday. Hopefully, the saga will be over soon.
I need to call Nintendo.
Wats dat?
A replacement receptacle for my old eShop account.
And thanks! Just snuck off to buy it on my phone 🙂
Huh, I just searched on there and couldn’t find it. Did you manage to get it?
I only chanced upon the page thanks to checking their catalogue, and seeing that it linked through to it from there. Don’t know if there’s any other way to get to it at the moment.
Yeah that’s how I did it after a search failed. Would’ve thought it wasn’t there otherwise.
It’s so furn! @greenius
Can be frustrating though. Enemies constantly use my same tactics against me! It’s unfair! 😛
Holy shit.
Mad Max Fury Road.
Holy.
Shit.
That about sums it up! 😀
Best action film I’ve seen since The Raid 2.
It’s a better action movie than The Raid 2 *ducks*
Eh, apples and oranges.
Don’t get me wrong, still great.
I’m not entirely sure that’s possible taking into consideration the constraints of REALITY IN GENERAL.
OK then. Guess we should make time for it at some point soon.
Yeeeeeeeep.
I think I might have to drag the wife to the movies again this weekend.
Seems to be the general consensus.
Would it still be as good for someone completely unfamiliar with the series?
I saw it with @alexpants. He had not seen any of the previous movies or knew anything about them except the fact there’s a character called Max who is mad. I, on the other hand, had seen all of them.
I think he enjoyed it more than I did. And I enjoyed it a lot.
Awesome.
Beauty of Mad Max films is they really aren’t connected beyond setting and main character. All self contained stories.
I know, right.
A bit of trivia on the film for everyone that’s seen it.
The main villain (Immortan Joe) is actually the actor that played Toecutter in the original Mad Max.I’m likely to get to see one movie
Age of Ultron or Mad Max?
Mad Max is the better film by far. Ultron is a Marvel movie and doesn’t deviate from that. Not a bad movie by any stretch, actually very good but you know what you’re seeing.
I’m remarkably hyped for Splatoon, kinda reminds me of Ratchet & Clank, with elements of de Blob mixed in.
Really fun to play as well! There’s going to be another online demo this weekend too. 8am Sunday AEST I think.
8am exists on a Sunday?
What’s an 8am?
Woohoo! \o/
Afternoon errbody hows every little thing? My weekend was in geelong. Dealing with a housewarming, a couple who are together but dont want to be together and a wild goose chase for a 4 litre gas tank.
On Friday cathryn and I drove to geelong for our friends housewarming which was happening on saturday. We got there the day earlier as they wanted to go out for dinner that night, they wanted something small and because they lived there we went wherever they said. Ended up at sporting globe bar and what was meant to be small and cheap ended up being $120 dinner followed by walking to three more pubs for more drinks and all getting home at 11 and calling it a night because the girl whos house it was got too drunk and got shitty.
Saturday involved helping them clean the new place, something that hadn’t been done in the 2 weeks since they moved in and the place took 3 hours to clean. Then we had to drive aroubd half of geelong looking for the cheapest place to buy a gas bottle ended up at bunnings buying one for $50. Party involved more booze more arguments, a weird guy who death stared everyone and was up himself saying hes a gamer who only plays single player because online is boring and he makes his living selling YuGiOh cards, yep.
Sunday was fallout of the night before, the couple hosting the housewarming saying their relationship is done and they’ll now sleep in seperate rooms and general awkwardness. drive back to melbourne and nothing exciting there and that’s it.
I have no question to ask but hope yall are doing well
Christ that sounds like an awkwardness-filled weekend if ever I heard of one. Glad to hear you emerged unscathed.
Wow. Dysfunctionality. 🙁
$450 for a (long overdue) major car service.
There are times this whole Adult thing is really overrated.
Make up for it by exercising your adult freedom to eat breakfast for dinner.
Brinner.
It’s called Brinner, you heathen.
Isn’t a meal between breakfast and dinner just called … lunch?
Yes, but breakfast FOR dinner is Brinner.
Breakfast between breakfast and lunch is Brunch, or Second Breakfast.
Breakfast for Lunch doesn’t have a word, but it damn well should.
Breakfast 2: Revenge of Breakfast.
This guy knows his food eating dealios!
Well excuse me if’n I ain’t awares of them la di dah fancywords used by them book-larnin’ city types!
That’s why I’m glad I own an almost 20 year old car as I can do most repairs/maintenance myself. It’s just a bonus that I have a father-in-law that happens to be a mechanic if I get stuck.
My car is like my phone – I depend on it as the device that solely fulfills a necessary function and because of that I won’t mess with it, which also means a roadblock for self-teaching this kind of stuff.
Suppose I should do a “What I did at the weekend” post…
Thursday had a meal out at Spice Temple. Very good. Really enjoyed it.
Friday was due to fly to Brisbane, and was supposed to fly back Sunday lunchtime landing at 2:20pm.
Couple of hours before I’m due to fly on Friday, the airline cancelled my plane and moved me to a later flight. This made me very nervous about my return flight as I had acquired a ticket to the A-League final at 4pm on Sunday…
So I rearranged to come home Saturday. Went up on Friday, watched the Rebels get soundly beaten by the Reds, drank a skinful, had a dodgy sausage somewhere on Caxton Street…
Came back Saturday and had a nice evening with the fiancee and Sunday made it to the footie with my friends and their 2 little kids… brilliant day out, great atmosphere, the kids had fun and WHAT A RESULT.
Fiancee’s birthday today so a pub meal and a few drinks in order tonight in Melbourne. Nom.
You weren’t going to post that? That’s an awesome weekend man, good you made it to the game. i was in the Fan Zone. Not as many people as I thought that would be there but getting the chance to meet Bozza was brilliant lol.
Nice! I got down there nice and early, ambled through the fan zone, saw the Foxtel gazebo, inadvertently got involved in someone else’s kickabout (I was standing out of the way facebooking and a ball kept landing near me, so returned it several times…), then got a call from my dad reminding me it was Mum’s birthday (I knew that…) and that they would be out for the day (What am I, PSYCHIC?!?) so I better call her soon… …so I called her from my seat. Apparently it was very loud. 😀
How was the Fan Zone during the game?
Called Nintendo. Didn’t have heart attack.
Success.
Phones are more afraid of you then you are of them.
:’)
So proud.
God sometimes I really hate technology. Got infected with ransomware and locked out of my computer this morning, then spent the majority of the morning regaining access to my computer and getting rid of the ransomware.
Sometimes I feel like life would be so much better/easier and less stressful if I just cut myself off from the phone/internet.
Edit: Page get, ugh.
Richard Bransonware?
I’m wearing long pants for the first time in years. It feels weird.
They’re so uncomfy and hard to wear.
Any opportunity to cover my scrawny limbs, the better…
Don’t you make this an out-scrawning competition, DC. You won’t win.
I’ve noticed a lot while shopping online that most stores definition of “thin” is wayyy more muscular than mine haha
*clears throat*
A-hem.
Anything to cover my mountains of flab. :/
Skeletor legs?
…is what I say about shorts 😛
Shots fired.
Shorts fired.
Shorts are the worst. I mean, they’re fine for children but adults? Nah.
“short” shorts like footy shorts, I would completely agree, but shorts that come down to or past the knee are the only kind of shorts to wear.
None of them seem to feel comfortable for outside wear though. I mean, they’re fine around the house, I’ve got no problems there. But if I go out in shorts it feels weird, in a “nothin’ at all” way 😛 Plus having to carry phone, keys and wallet in them… either it makes things way too bulky and they look stupid, or it’s all too heavy and makes them fall down, or the pockets are stupid and all the stuff just falls out all over the place whenever you sit down.
Shorts are too awkward.
I never wear anything shorter than jeans.
My legs are so white. They look like someone rolled a vanilla paddle-pop over a black cat.
Some people have the legs for shorts. I on the other hand, do not 😛
I own one pair of shorts and I feel like a total dork whenever I put them on.
You don’t wear jeans?
God no. Jeans are terrible. Haven’t worn them after a ‘zipper accident’ when I was 4. Once I finally got over my phobia of zippers, I realised jeans were uncomfortable. Knee-length shorts all the way! My wearing of trousers yesterday was an aberration.
Any one still slightly unsure about going to cinema to see Fury Road:
I went in with sky high expectations based on near perfect reviews and everyone ranting about it.
It still blew me away with how far it exceeded them.
Go see it.
Three best action films in the last five years (no order) :
The Raid 2
John Wick
Fury Road
What about Kingsman: The Secret Service?
Definitely entertaining but wouldn’t peg it as one of the greats. Too showy and not really enough substance.
I did love it however.
I’ve got a pass from Mrs Shane to see it. It’s been years since I went to the cinema and actually enjoyed myself. The stakes could not be higher. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Right!? So good!
EDIT: the way you worded before you said you loved it made me think you didn’t like it. I’m glad you liked it, don’t really want to end this friendship.
Would you like some more to dwell on:
George Millar was meant to make a Justice League movie before WB decided to go down the dark and brooding route courtesy of Christopher Nolan.
:C
Honestly I’m kind of glad he didn’t. George Miller does George Miller best. He works best with slightly more high concept stuff and concentrating on his own thing. Not sure an established franchise with rules kind of set in stone would work too well for him.
Only one issue I had (spoilers)
When Nux crashed the War Rig and the steering wheel came flying out and hovered around the screen unnaturally before camera zoomed through it. Cheap, tacky and ugly. Completely incongruous to the rest of the film. Wonder if it was added at the insistence of WB wanting more “zazz” for their 3D. Just….. Urgh.HI ALL!
UNDAD KICKSTARTER: Only $1030 to raise! I’ve also received a whole bunch of cash pledges to funnel into the Kickstarter, which will take us very, VERY close to our funding goal. If anyone who hasn’t backed Undad wants to volunteer their Kickstarter account for me to push that money into the campaign, please let me know. I’ll make it worth your while!
Comic Gong on the weekend was pretty great. I’m currently working on a longer write-up, but it was all good.
I hope you had the chance to stop and take in the various odours of Wollongong.
I held my breath all day and brought my own water, just to be safe.
I’ll happily up my pledge to
laundertransfer some of those funds for you. I feel bad that I can’t afford as much as last time.Thanks, man! Can you please email me your bank details, so I can funnel some extra cash your way? Cheers! shane@shanewsmith.com
Explain what you mean re: Cash pledges? Id be okay with upping my amount if you need.
People at conventions are giving me cash, on the understanding that it would go into the Kickstarter, and they would receive the requisite reward. That cash is currently sitting in a small pile in my study.
The proposal here is that I would send TAY folks some of that cash, and they would pledge an equivalent amount to the Undad campaign in their name.
I believe I am yet to back.
Would you be happy to be a money launderer for me? If so, shoot me an email with your bank deets, and I’ll get you some cash. Thanks! shane@shanewsmith.com
Now, who went to the Buffalo Bar last time and had the BBQ Beef Short Ribs?
http://buffalobar.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Buffalo-Bar-Sit-Down-Menu.pdf
Because the brisket was melt-in-your-mouth amazing and I’m inclined to try it again, but I just noticed that the ribs are making an incredibly compelling case thanks to coming with sweet potato fries.
This is the kind of thing I’m going to be turning over in my head for the next two and a half hours.
I had the ‘Seasoned Jerk’ wings and was sick for the rest of the night.
Get those!
Seasoned jerk huh…
Appropriate. 😛
That would be me.
They were delicious. And filling.
*remembers I have to work tonight*
*begins sobbing uncontrollably*
Let’s go tomorrow too!
I work week nights so no weeknight meats for old nob.
The wings were so good. Bear in mind I’m making this statement before actually going to the toilet, it’s open to revision.
I think we’re all missing the fact that “Warhead Wings” are one of the strangest and most unique wing seasonings in history.
Game of Thrones
Oh, Game of Thrones…I had noodles that tasted like noodles. A few hours later I reheated them and they looked and tasted like pasta.
Best of both worlds.
It’s all the extra bacteria.
So I updated my laptops chipset as it was 4 versions out of date, upon doing so my laptop is now REALLY unresponsive, even loading web pages it is jittery and almost feels like its lagging trying to scroll down. playing games that ran smoothly on medium are jerky now even on the lowest setting
@jimu
Regarding your tweet about what makes “great level design”.
I think it incorporates all the things you mentioned.
I look for a tight, technical precision that makes the world and / or level believable (in its context)
That’s why I adore Dark Souls level design, but despise Dark Souls 2 level design.
DS1 was so interconnected that it felt real.
DS2 had little to no interconnectivity.
Even then, each of the areas in DS2 felt really uninspired by themselves.
Artistically, something visually striking and appealing is always good.
Wether that’s a unique look, colour pallet, design, etc. The visuals should make the level be either believable (think how the Last of Us looks like a real world), or believable in the games regard (how Portal looks like a real test facility)
A level can be technically correct, but if it’s not memorable, it’s not great.
I think gameplay can be a little independent of what makes a level great, depending on the game.
It’s important for certain games, but you can have gameplay that’s independent of design)
That’s why I think Mirrors Edge is one of the pinnacles of level design.
Great artistically, technically, and they were designed for the specific gameplay.
Other honourable mentions go to the Last of Us, Portal, and Ratchet and Clank.
you young!
What about that makes me young?! :O
Nothing before PS2 🙂
Maybe because nothing before PS2 had any decent level design compared to now.
Super Metroid, Symphony of the Night, Mario 64, Resident Evil 2, Monster Boy the Dragons Trap, Alex Kidd.
I can go on…
Good for their time. If released today would merely be okay.
Nah, Super Metroid especially stands out as great design, even today.
Maybe not Mario 64, but it was inventing as it went.
(I didn’t mean ” you’re young, so your opinion is invalid” or anything, just an observation)
So, not sure what the TAY feeling is around here on this topic, but anyway…
EUROVISION
LEE-LEE CHIN IS ANNOUNCING OUR VOTES *I hope she gets to be a snarky bitch while doing it, she’s always best as a snarky bitch*
But…how do we vote? It’s at 5am on Sunday morning live. How the hell do we vote?
There’s nothing I can see on the SBS website.
This might be the year I actually watch it 😛
I’m not fond of the whole Guy Sebastian thing though…
Taken from the SBS Eurovision website
Thank you mister!
You should. It’s terrigood.
(As in, both terrible and good at the same time)
Eurovision is relatively big on TwitTAY… TAYter… TAY TWITTER each year! (in that there is at least two or three other people who watch it :P)
Last year they had informal voting on the SBS website, but I have no idea if they’ll do that again now that it’s the real deal.
In any case, you’ll probably find a few of us tweeting about it.
EDIT: Ah, would help if I actually read the comments above mine first 😛
I like legit covered Eurovision last year for a group assignment 😛
I should start tweeting again! https://twitter.com/EurovisNews get around that shit
Like, the website still gets a lot of hits and I don’t understand why.
Everyone’s all excited about The Witcher 3, whilst I’m sitting here waving my Carmageddon: Reincarnation flag…
22nd of May, folks! \o/
MGSV, Persona 5 & Final fantasy XV for me.
(5,5,15!)
PPPPUUUUURRRSSSSSSEEEEEOOOOOWWWWWNNNNNEEEEERRRRR!
I loaned a friend my Vita on the condition that she return it to me before P4 Dancing comes out. I’m trying to get a stranglehold on Persona hype.
P5 will probably be my AAAAA of the year
That trailer was made of pure fucking hype.
It had sexy time with my ear, eyes & heart!
https://twitter.com/DOOM/status/600305424097751040
Ok, guess I’ve got something to look forward to at E3 this year.
Cool
The Bethesda conference will blow everything else out of the water. All they need to do is Doom gameplay trailer which is now confirmed and Fallout 4. I’ll be forgetting all about any other upcoming games
I just had to complete a Captcha D:
They’re not that hard generally, you didn’t need a walkthrough did you?
Yes, thankfully Gamefaqs had a very comprehensive one.
Just woke up. First thing I think about: The Witcher.
I pre-ordered today to get the super-special ‘already have games’ price on Steam.
It’s funny, but it was like… ten bucks cheaper today than it was last week. I WAS going to get it on GoG because they offered ten bucks ‘fair price’ credit, but now I guess Steam has the fair price?
Marketing/pricing guys really make me shake my head sometimes.
Do you think this is the kind of game that would be enjoyed more on a gaming PC than a console?
ALVAYS! ZER PC IS SUPERIOR!
(I dunno. Some people seem to be happy enough with the PS4 version; there were apparently a LOT of bugs in the pre-release review versions on console but these should be addressed by the day one patch? I do like the eye-candy and my machine’s a monster compared to my PS4, so that’s a factor for me. And I almost always prefer keyboard & mouse to gamepad.)
I’m a little concerned at the lack of PC review code.
That could be due to the lack of an available optimised driver for AMD cards at this time.
Isn’t that something that reviewers should be able to tell people that are expecting a product of sufficient functionality – to be in the position to say “don’t buy it yet if you have an ATI card” seems more useful than “the PS4 version works pretty well”
I completely agree with you. That said, it doesn’t take much these days to create an artificial controversy, leading to PR crapstorm, which they would likely believe to harm their sales/company image.
Even with a game like Witcher? I tried playing the PC versions of the first two and they did a good job with the controls but they still feel sort of weird. Although I’ll admit the console versions camera took me a bit to get used to as well. It sort of goes right to max speed.
I use a controller on PC whenever possible 😛 It’s the best of both worlds!
I drag a XBOX One controller around in my laptop bag at all times. =P
You can use a One controller with your pc? :O
How does one use this?!? You need to plug it in with a USB cable right?
@highperformance Yep. Like most of the XBOX One’s great idea features there’s one nagging bit of stupidity to it. You’ve got to plug it in via USB. There isn’t even an optional dongle this time. The upshot is that it converts itself to a wired controller when plugged in via USB (even when you do it with the console, which is handy for fighters).
I can see how it works, I bought a headset the other day for my Xbox One and had to plug in a multi-usb cable to download the update to my controller. Thanks again @dogman!
cc: @blackdahlianz I can talk again! \o/
@highperformance haha why didnt you just send the old one back to MS? they replace all repairs free
ALVAYS! I prefer WASD move/mouse-camera so much more than the gamepad. It’s usually much more responsive on KB&M. Even in 3rd-person games, the only time I find a gamepad to be better is when it’s a port that’s been handled shittily, like Assassin’s Creed or Deadspace 1.
It’s not actually inherent to the 3rd-person gameplay style, as proven by good ports being absolutely possible – and in those cases KB&M continues to reign supreme, like in Max Payne 3 or GTA4.
I once tried playing TF2 with a controller.
…You’re a monster, Zorg.
I’m the opposite, my PS4 is more powerful than my laptop (desktop is even worse) and I always prefer using a controller to keyboard and mouse. Will only use kb&m if it’s the only option. I guess that’s probably due to me being a console gamer all my life though.
I’m with Trans on this. Although if you have anything less than the recommended specs, you’re probably better off just playing it on console. Unless you want to drop the resolution to something lower than 1080P, to maintain higher graphics settings. I’m a big fan of using XBONE controllers for third person games though.
Wait until you find out there is 3 games
@blackdahlianz because I am a stupid head.
No Witcher for Monkey today. Son’s home sick from school and I can’t really drag him out with me. If I’m lucky I might be able to sneak out and grab a copy after the missus gets home, but if not I’ll have to wait till tomorrow :’C
Well, your son DOES need some Vitamin D…? 😛
Right, somebody near monkey needs to go pick up his copy and home deliver it, stat!
Ha! The closest any of guys would live to me would be about 300 k’s away.
Edit: can’t even buy it on Steam because my laptop won’t run it.
Right, …no, I’m out of ideas. Aside from knocking the kid out with a stiff shot of whiskey and getting a neighbor to look after him for 30 minutes.
Well you could buy it on steam, there’s just not that much point
Gotta wait until Friday for The Witcher 3 🙁 Ah well, Motley Crue and Alice Cooper tonight and then I can get on with House of Wolves tomorrow until the weekend 😀
How big is the update? I’m scared I’ll need to download 16 gig or something 😛
There was a patch last week that was 6GB, I think that’s the main files for HoW. It goes live early tomorrow morning for us though I think 🙁
6GB I can handle 😀
If you haven’t already you should jump back in and do the new Queen’s Wrath bounties before House of Wolves launches. Rather than daily bounties they’re one off missions that revolve around new open world events. They’re not hard to do, just a few waves of enemies, but the shields on the boss enemy go right back up the second you stop to reload and they’ve got a mountain of health. Makes them super frustrating to do solo, so if anyone on XBOX One needs a second set of bullets tonight my gamertag is in my profile.
Will do today!
Oh yeah, save your purple engrams if you get any. Apparently they’ll decrypt into better gear once House of Wolves launches.
I’ll be at Alice Cooper tonight! We’ll probably leave before Motley Crue finish to avoid the exit traffic jam though.
I have no idea what our plans are. We’ve gotta get there early, pick up my ticket, find the disabled area so the missus can sit down her moonboot and then sit around for an hour afterwards for enough people to clear out of the car park so we can taxi home without spending $50 just sitting around waiting for cars to move. This is why I have tomorrow off work 😀
Telltale’s Game Of Thrones Episode 4 is coming “soon”.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-16224-Game-of-Thrones-Episode-4–Sons-of-Winter–Coming–Soon-.html
It’s usually only a matter of days once they start posting images. YESSSSSSSS
Day 1 on Antidepressants. This will be interesting.
First two weeks will mess with you bad, but it’ll level out.
Don’t be surprised if you have no energy, it’s a pretty common reaction. It’s probably a good idea to take notes on how you’re feeling each day since that’s one of the things a psych tends to ask. If nothing else it’s a good way to track whether its the right AD for your brain, I had to go through 3 before I hit on the one that did the least amount of brain dampening and took a good enough chunk out of the whole ‘wanting to be dead’ thing.
If your brain is anything like mine, it’ll take a month or so before your brain gets used to it and you can figure out if it’s stopping the symptoms while letting you function properly rather than just leaving you staring blankly at the wall without realising that it’s not the best way to spend your day.
@evilmonkey and @beeawwb Your bookmarks are on their way.
@pupp3tmast3r I have the foil, I just need to find time to foil them.
Awesome, I’ll get some money to you by the end of the week.
Thanks again.
Yaaaaaaaaaay!
Yay =] Can’t wait! Hit me up with the payment deets scree!
Where would you prefer?
Did you get my e-mail deets from your previous post last week?
Oh right. I forgot about them. I’ll find the post and get the email
its dot reuben at the hotmales dot comThere ya go =]
I have a head cold and I don’t understand.
My email scree(at)y7mail(dot)com
Haha sorry scree, I’ll toss you an e-mail shortly!
It’s not your fault that I am sick.
Everyone talking about Witcher 3 but there’s no love for the real standout of this year also released today:
Farming Simulator 2015. Now on PS4!
I’d rave about Bloodborne except the PS4 has been unavailable the last few days while a new run of Demon’s Souls has been happening.
Fun at the old Simpson farm. Might have to plant some Tomacco.
The Brisbane folk went to Buffalo Bar last night to meet Red. I forgot to ask about Soviet Arcologies!
The only good Arcology is a Launch Arcology
You wouldn’t have liked my answer
#whosthisguy etc
*sits down on toilet at work*
ATTENTION ALL OCCUPANTS. EVACUATION DRILL WILL NOW COMMENCE.
Nice you warn everyone I suppose…
BLOOOOOOOODBORRRRRRRNE
Countdown: minus 55 days
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/bloodborne-sales-surprised-sony/1100-6427389/
Bloodborne has sold over a million copies, a figure that surprised Sony and made them very happy.
Still don’t regret getting a PS4 just for Bloodborne.
Main reason I bought one too. Zero regret.
I bought mine for Destiny.
No regret on the console part, it’s proved its worth. Mild regret on the Destiny digital collector’s edition, though. Should’ve gone with a standard edition, which would’ve been great value for money.
I bought mine for Destiny too. So much regret.
There’s someone in the comments saying Lords of the Fallen is a much superior game…
The error is actually yours because you read the comments.
(I read that one too. It follows on from a claim that the animations in Bloodborne were bad.)
The one I was reading was talking about the controls and game play. There’s more than one? *shudder*
Ugh. PEOPLE >:(
@redartifice – the morning has slipped away and soon it shall be lunch time. How were the wings? >:D
As the old saying goes: The measure of a friend is their level of interest in your bowel movements.
I feel like we all proved ourselves as best friends by not taking photos of his dripping nose last night. XD
I regret nothing
I was secretly hoping it would be a page-get.
Not too bad. I wouldn’t go into toilet cubicle 2 at the Royal convention centre for a bit though
What are your thoughts in regards to playing stereotypes in D&D? Personally I hate them because they make the character boring and uninteresting, but I’ve been dealing with someone playing a dwarf so straight we’re comtemplating killing him to get rid of him.
If they’re new to D&D I don’t see a problem with it, especially if they have absolutely no RP experience prior.
He is new but we’ve been trying so hard to show him that stereotypes aren’t the standard (or rather his character is kinda stupid). I even started out as a dwarf cleric that wasn’t a stereotype and his only reaction was to keep saying he wasn’t a dwarf.
Check my reply to Quiz_b below, use that. Try to put together scenarios and get him to tell you his character’s side of the story during his character creation, if you only get backstory then yeah, without the experience he’ll fall back to stereotypes, but if you poke with these kinds of questions it’ll also encourage him to make his own for his next character (Well hopefully it will). I’ve learned to do this from watching youtube D&D/Warhammer40K party RPGs being run and I put it in my own character histories. This is in order by earliest to most recent character creation that I’ve done.
My examples since my first in this list is my very first tabletop RPG character
Numenera – Mechanical Jack that talks to Machines
I had next to zero backstory for this guy, so I made him a generic good guy engineer that can fix anything, overtime I managed to evolve him to a more fleshed out character, wanting to bring back the machines of previous civilisations to their former glory, his quest being to one day find a machine that could reshape the world into a better place for everyone and bring it back to life.
Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader – Explorator
Very similar to my previous one being an engineer, but this guy being of the Cult Mechanicus he’s got a code to adhere to, his loyalty to the Omnissiar and the machine spirit, following their teachings but in his own way due to his history of being abandoned in battle by the Imperial Guard he was serving alongside at the time, so he’s not so much on the side of the Imperium anymore due to that betrayal.
Pathfinder – Elven Arcanist
This guy was something different entirely, a spellcaster that’s only seen by others as a noble out of his depth but there’s other reasoning behind why he’s so far away from home (Won’t spoil too much as this campaign’s still active). I’ve put in a lot more to this guy’s own story and even created an entire city and society of multiple races with its own history for the DM to add into his world that he could potentially use in the campaign one day, or not, who knows. I’m still proud I managed to do that.
We have tried that and he usually has no answer or refuses to answer because either ‘Dwarfs don’t answer that’ or ‘I have no reason to trust your characters’.
Brain slug to force a change to his personality, and radioactive goo to mutate his body in a variety of unpredictable ways. *nod*
Already done the latter, he’s now a woman.
Try to introduce something that completely challenges the stereotype.
Dwarf? Is he playing as a Tolkein dwarf?
He’s suddenly allergic to gold.
Or make him one-armed.
If the player can’t introduce depth to the character, then get the DM to do it. Challenge the player in such a way that they have to not play the character straight.
Or kill him. Either way is fine. (All’s fair in love and D&D).
One thing I’ve seen DMs do in the past is they have a bunch of questions to ask during character creation, like if you were putting together a thief-like character they ask “One time you tried to perform a heist and it went badly, who was it that you were stealing from, what went wrong and why were you taking part in this heist?”. It’s a great way for the players to think on their feet (Or in their chair) to make their own story up to try and give more depth to their characters.
Edit: Plus it gives the DM something to engage their characters on with that story cuz something like that can easily bite them in the ass at an unspecified place and time. 🙂
The DM changed his gender. He kinda just shrugged.
Sometimes the most annoying characters are the best characters.
I’m helping!
Seriously though, I’m with Techie. If they’re new to RP then it may be difficult for them to get used to, and the stereotypes provide a comfortable framework for them to operate within. They “know” what is expected of a Dwarf, so they can play to that. Give them time. Obviously you started playing with them in your group for a reason, don’t go kicking them out / killing them off just because they’re not meeting your expectation of what their character should be.
Work around him. Make your characters get annoyed by how he his. My Barbarian has a Tolerate Cat skill to deal with @beeawwb’s character set for him to completely lose it if I ever roll under a 3. Play the foil to his straight man.
And now we know the DC for that roll xD
I’m just waiting for that roll to fail one day. I will be as amused as Drewan is bleeding.
We do, he ‘roleplays his character’ and swings his ax at us.
It depends on what the player gets out of it. Some people just like playing the game so a bland, cookie cutter character isn’t a problem to them. In MMORPGs I never really look at my own character so he’s always just a generic tank I use as a way to enjoy playing in the world around him. If they’re a DM it can be a problem, but as a fellow player just roll with it.
That said you could try to bait them into discovering parts of the RP side they might enjoy. Give them chances to have decisions come back and remain relevant, so it becomes their stereotypical dwarf. They may take the most obvious, boring path when it comes to character development but eventually the character will have enough history to be fleshed out enough that they think more about what the character would do than what a generic dwarf would do.
He’s being so selfish about the whole thing. Regularly walking off by himself and annoying the DM for having more than one group to keep track of.
We have been using roleplay to point out his problems. The DM even gave him items that will make him rage and attack random people. The reason being he was given it by the gith based on his nature.
If you have a problem player, the best thing is to talk to them openly. From what I’ve read here, you’re upset he’s playing a cliche, but honestly? If that’s what he wants to play, you’re not going to dissuade him
As for the “splittiting from the party thing,” oif the gm wants to discourage that, he has Means.
I don’t mind that he’s a cliche, I’m more bothered by how what he thinks is a cliche is standard across all dwarfs. Some belief that every dwarf he will come across is exactly the same as him.
and the DM has been taking advantage of that. He once had him get attacked by bandits and lose, but was saved by an NPC. His first reaction was to grab the NPCs face and shove it into his campfire.
First part: have other dwarfs call him weird, or a throwback, or a dinosaur.
Second part? Gods have been known to walk world’s in mortal form, it would be a shame if he happened to stick Bahamut’s face into a fire…
So if the group goes into a dwarf tavern he (the player) will get pissy with the DM/group if they’re not all gold crazed, ale loving jerks? That’s a bit harder to deal with unless you’re willing to do something drastic/stupid like teleport the group to a non-fantasy setting. I guess the only other way to deal with that without direct confrontation is to just avoid those situations when possible, but given the way stereotypical dwarfs interacts with everything avoiding those situations will at best minimize the problem.
Sounds rough given how a berserker is like pure anti-plot. You can only use their impulses as a trap so many times before it gets just as boring as letting headbutting the artifact be a successful way of ending the story.
First problem is that we had someone else be the DM to introduce the players to this world and then shift it to the new DM. He had a dwarf tavern and had everybody in there be a stereotype. The new DM is currently experiencing problems where all the other players are doing their own thing and ignoring the team.
Thing is, he’s not a berserker. He’s a paladin. Doesn’t understand why we were against him threatening an innocent miner with his ax. He’s also murdered 4 kids.
Situation like that I think you need the DM to step in and force an alignment shift and strip them of their Paladin ranks / whatever needs to happen. I was once playing in a group and some of our group straight up murdered a problem PC (as an aside he too was wandering off on his own, got ambushed by enemies, kidnapped, and was on the sacrificial altar… and our group finished the ritual) – we were all forced to shift alignment (2 steps for those who did the act, 1 step for those of us who knew and let it happen) and it had an effect.
I’ve always felt a little guilty about that (hence above response) because we let our frustrations as people get in the way of our characters development. Maybe I’m just a softie.
Yeah play-style is not really something you can fluff out. Best case scenario you let him keep being a paladin on paper since he probably chose the class for it’s abilities, but have him disowned by any actual paladins, have them curse him with something akin to Spike’s chip in Buffy, then always try to work it so there’s always a tough guy angle he can take without derailing the story. Make it so that he can still be the psychopath and he can still fight monsters, but he can’t set fire to the wandering traveler you’re meant to befriend or skim information from. Sort of a ‘you can only fight enemies of God’ or ‘there’s an elf in your brain that paralyzes you when you do something it doesn’t agree with’ type deal.
That sounds ok in theory but it’s forcing him to change the way he plays to suit you rather than finding a way he enjoys playing that’s compatible, so you may just kill his motivation to play. Plus if you do the obvious thing of having other groups of paladins hunting him down for plot encounters that attitude and predictable response is always going to reduce it to a brawl. It makes it so he’ll always be a hard character to bring into the story.
Actually best scenario is that he gets a new job with crazy hours or a horrible girlfriend that won’t let him play and he gets replaced by someone whose character rallies the group and helps bring them together for a common cause, but that’s sort of a douchebaggy thing to hope for. =P
@janexo @cookingmama
Thanks for the cooking suggestions. I ended up doing a crumbed vegetable platter; zucchini, eggplant & beetroot with a coating of polenta, breadcrumbs & powdered parmesan and baked rather than pan fried it. Mum ended up loving it so I’m quite happy with the result.
She also loved the cheesecake I made her with a layer of peach bits in but even the worst of my cheesecakes are really good so I wasn’t expecting her to hate that…
That all sounds delicious! 🙂
Forgot my girlfriends birthday is tomorrow, any last minute gift suggestions would be appreciated.
*Googles ‘Awesome birthday presents’*
The Witcher 3.
Donation in her name to The Human Fund?
http://www.the-human-fund.org/
Awkward.
LIKENESS IN A COMIC
I do intend to buy my likeness again, I’m not sure whether that would be something she’s interested in 😛
You could always buy her a tonne of comics at the same time…
Her, or me?
It’s important to share interests as a couple and do things together… like read UnDad or the collected works of Shane W. Smith.
*hands Transient a hessian bag*
“Oh good, my laundry is done.”
A present for one is a present for all.
Something nicely wrapped
Is it meat day at the grocery store already?
Hot air balloon ride…
Hot lap in a V8 racing car…
Swimming with sharks…
Picnic somewhere nice…
What does she like to do?
I ask her this ALL THE TIME. She works 7 days a week, and her favourite things to do after she comes home is watch Suits or sell and buy stuff on Ebay. I ask her what she likes to do, but she cannot to this day physically explain to me what she likes to do which I find fascinating and quite sad at the same time.
I literally just booked a Sunday Afternoon tea at a cafe in Mount Dandenong, and take her for a little hike before hand which she has enjoyed in the past.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Have dinner ready for her when she gets home, candles lit, rose petals leading to the couch, and Suits on TV ready to go.
Also, Jewellery never fails.
I’d go a nice silver necklace. It depends if she prefers gold or silver though.
Rose petals are only good if you promise to vacuum the damn things up later.
Obviously 😛
They are pretty and romantic though :*
Stu, you get it guy. I’m struggling to organize ‘an evening’ of stuff because she’s in the middle of studying for exams as well. She’s pretty up tight with everything on her plate, so I think your dinner and episode of suits ready as soon as she gets home is an awesome idea.
I think it’s be really sweet.
Gestures are sometimes better than actual gifts 😛
My wife is somewhat the same… She hasn’t nailed down a hobby so I’m always having a hard time finding good gifts.
It’ll probably be a bit late, or another present for later, but if she loves Suits you could try track down a bottle of whatever whisky it is that Harvey drinks?
She doesn’t like alcohol.
She sounds like a lot of fun doesn’t sheBut I like the idea of Suits paraphernalia!Tie a ribbon around your penis and stand over her on the bed naked until she wakes up.
Oh jesus haha.
Freeze tied a ring to the ribbon, then that was how he proposed
Somehow that’s not as bad as how I actually did it…
Unless it was while standing in the bathroom while you both look at a positive pregnancy test, it wasn’t the worse case scenario.
You’re half right.
In a hotel bathroom.
Please, please, tell us a story, Unca Freezie.
@shane, not much of one really. Went on a weekend to Sydney with the ring in my pocket and some grand plans. Never seemed like the right moment so I panicked and just popped the question while she was laughing about there being a phone next to the toilet.
I kind of regret it but she said yes and still gives me shit about it so I couldn’t have stuffed it up too badly.
Old Freezey Casanova eh, shelling out for the toilet phone suite. Impressive.
Hotel bathroom club!
Only, change ‘weekend in Sydney’ to ‘week in Tasmania’, and ‘laughing about there being a phone next to the toilet’ to ‘cracking the shits about me having not proposed the whole holiday thus far’.
And ‘panicked’ to ‘was relieved when the necessary moment arrived’
I misread ‘popped’ the question as ‘pooped’ the question. Thanks, bathroom associations.
I’ve done something disturbingly similar to this.
I, uh… ‘gifted’ someone the gift of Me. I’m pretty sure this was before the Justin Timberlake skit.
It happened somewhat organically.
Please, please, tell us a story, Unca Transient.
A couch facing the door, a rose for putting between my teeth, a box of chocolates covering some parts where there were no clothes.
….And no actual idea of arrival time.
Boredom. Hunger. Mild resentment. Temptation… bliss. Shame. A real roller-coaster of emotions.
The box was expensive and a good prop, but now empty. UNLESS… inspiration!
I actually don’t know what I was expecting for a reaction. But what I GOT was laughter.
It was the first time someone laughed at my junk, but probably not the last.
Not if I have a say in the matter.
If you pull that shit at PAX accommodation, I swear to God I will punch you.
In the nicest possible way, of course.
Scotch! In true Suits fashion, and some bonus fine glassware with her initials on. Oh man, you’d get all the thanks.
She doesn’t drink! Otherwise that would rock :*(
Try and make a scotch looking Mocktail to go inside it?
Are you still looking for gift suggestions? If so, given your description of her (a busy woman who enjoys the downtime she gets):
– Nice candles (Glasshouse is excellent) for burning while she unwinds
– Rich, luxurious creams she can use for hands and feet (The Aromatherapy Co has a very nice and well priced range at David Jones)
– Good quality tea, coffee or wine, and something nice to drink it from
Also, what kinds of things does she buy on eBay? That might be an idea.
Real advice? Uncalled for.
#oldladyjane
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgir7fsTho1qh59n0o1_400.gif
The tea idea is a good one. Pretty much *anything* in the T2 shop makes a great gift.
I am also looking for gift suggestions, she’s a succubus for material goods so I need as many ideas as I can get! 😛
She went through a candle phase and she has a green or chai tea every night. I think I’ll put a candle and some green tea in a little gift box so she has something physically on her birthday so that she doesn’t have to wait until June to go on a hike!
She buys designer clothes on ebay *gulp*, she usually buys them cheap and sells them for a profit or wears them lol.
Massage or mani/pedi/spa voucher?
Surprise flowers/chocs at work?
Bottle of bubbly?
The flowers at work thing could be good.
If she spends as long there as you seem to imply then that level of public extravagance could have good value
My brothers and I have an understanding with our mother that the greatest value in the gift of Mothers’ Day flowers is the jealousy of her co-workers. Even if it means they turn up a day early if she’s got the day off prior, we make sure the bouquet always arrives at work when plenty of people will see and comment on it and envy her.
Valentines day I bought her a voucher to a Daylesford Day Spa, and I bought her flowers last week for no reason (DAMNIT). She doesn’t drink either so I’m struggling Mama!
Does she do coffee at work? How about a keepcup?
http://www.keepcup.com.au/
A mani-pedi is always a good gift. Nails always need doing, splash out and get her shellac polish too, maybe you can get one too!
Or
Gold class movie night
Bath stuff from Lush
Dessert at a fancy hotel
A dinner of prawns and/or oysters at the beach
High Tea
Last year I got mine a Gucci purse and a Beats headset. Needless to say I won the competition that is our birthdays last year. The prize was lording it over her head until her next birthday =p
YOU MUST WIN HIGHPERFORMANCE!
I got my wife a brand new boat and $1000 at BCF to pimp it out for her 30th.
Not sure she’ll ever beat that one.
….. Freeze did you gift your wife a present you wanted for yourself?! =p
One week before Christmas last year, I found out she had booked a flight and accommodation to Hamilton Island for my Christmas gift. I hate losing so I booked a couple of flights to Europe. THAT’LL LEARN HER FOR TRYING TO BEAT ME, I DON’T LOSE BAYBEEEEEE
Does she have a nice tablet? If you’ve got the money/time spare pick one up it sounds like she’d use it (particularly with winter being too friggin’ cold to be at a PC). Also grab a roll of pink and red vinyl, cut some love hearts out stick them to the back. Then put some nice photos on it. It’s stupid but people like stupid gestures.
Failing that just do what I’m planning on doing tomorrow and order a bunch of random crap from Signet for her. There’s something that changes in your brain when you do a lot of shipping that makes it so that randomly sized boxes, threaded tape and 100m rolls of bubble wrap cut into appropriate widths to match shipping satchels just make you happy. If you really want to get some action chicks go wild for pre-printed sender’s address labels.
Well I thought so, I bought her one of those Tablet/Mini Laptops a couple of Christmas’ ago which she doesn’t use. She spends about 6 days a week at my place but uses my laptop when she’s here, it was the ultimate present but she says she prefers mine because it’s easier to use with Windows 8 :S
Ah man, apparently The Witcher 3 released in retail a day early, but I ordered it online so I’ll get it on its actual release date. Maybe even a day after.
/firstworldproblems
*pat pat* It’ll be ok Saturday; tell you what I’ll play it when I get home today for the both of us; how does that sound?
*pats on the back* This guy! So generous.
So it comes to this … Post 5000.
Looking back in the account history, and it’s been more than 6 years since my first Kotaku AU post (17 April 2009), but it was only 5 days ago that marked 3.5 years since my first TAY post.
I did a goodly amount of lurking between those 2 points, and after seeing such a fantastic community grow around actually being good people, I decided that I wanted me some of that being a better human being thing too.
Seriously, this community has been a huge inspiration for me to grow as a person, and I want to thank each and every one of you, past and present, for being you. I wouldn’t want it any other way.
Alright, my moment to shine is here.
HHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!Nailed it.
I just reached 6,000.
Naww yay!
Jane beavwa was clearly talking to me! Gosh! =P
He absolutely was. I was “naww” ing at your blossoming love.
You’re welcome. Continue growing, or I’ll be reeeaaaally disappointed.
But… I really need to cut back on the eating thing at the moment.
You and pip are some of the best and kindest people i have ever met. You are just such a awesome dude and im glad to call you a IRL friend 🙂
I’m glad I met the two of you those years ago. You two are some of the greatest humans I’ve ever known, hell I go on a road trip with the two of you to Canberra and I loved every minute of the drive while Pip had half a truckload of blankets and pillows keeping her comfortable in the back seat. If I didn’t live so far away I’d want to visit you two way more often, you’re just great people to be around.
Keep being amazing Beavwa, and Pip too! 🙂
This place really is the best, isn’t it?
Hey all! I’m running a RPG for my brothers and a friend of mine online and thought I’d open up invitations here. It looks like I’m going to be running Interface Zero 2.0 (Savage worlds Ruleset)
It’s a Cyberpunk style setting and should be pretty awesome.
feel free to email me at djdimsim at le googlemailys if you are interested. I’ve got probably 2 or 3 spots free 🙂
Interesting… what timelines are you doing, fortnightly like our others, and if so, which day?
Yeah Probably Fortnightly. I haven’t got a day yet. waiting on the others. I’m hoping a thursday but I can work to everyone else
Colour me potentially interested in tagging along, though I’m not familiar with the Savage Worlds Ruleset
All good, I’ll be doing a rundown in the first session anyway 🙂
I feel like I could run a vigilante-fighter kind of character in a world like that, getting tired of not smashing things the old fashioned way, sure I had a power axe on Jarallius but it’s just not the same 😛
We have Mechs in that world too, might take a bit to get you one, but it’s doable 😛
…okay change “potentially” to “very” interested
How heavily armed are these mechs? We talking armoured core mechs or zoids style mechs?
@coldcamv Heavy armour Chassis with upgradable weapons (Rockets, machine guns and more)about 10 m high so really a walking tank
Colour me Tech Knight levels of interested nothing says fun like machine guns and stupidely large missile pods!
Sent you an email with some info 🙂
This might interest those of you frustrated by Australia’s tech-related policy.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/renai/the-frustrated-state
Disclaimer: I know the dude writing this book. He’s a nice guy, and smart, and I hope he succeeds in making something important.
This is all riding on the assumption that our elected officials will read this though 😛
Not really. That’s not the only benefit of a book critiquing government policy.
True, I was just having a subtle jab towards the Libs about their dismissal of previous written “criticism” towards their policies :).
I will be checking this out more closely tonight
I thought he was working for the Greens?
Yup, he’s an advisor to Senator Ludlum. His short-term contract is up in June or July or something, and isn’t being renewed.
That’s a shame. So I guess this means Delimiter is about to revived.
If the campaign hits target, that’s the goal, apparently.
$25k for 12 months of full time work with no real commercial aspect to it? Let’s be honest, the only people who are going to buy the book are backing this. If he’s not doing something on the side, like Delimiter or some more consulting, I don’t think that’s enough money.
I don’t really know enough about the family finances to comment either way. But you’ve got a point: it could be a risk. There isn’t much information about the money side of things.
Delimiter is coming back.
Got an email a few days back covering book, website and 1 other thing I can’t recall…
To be honest I was a bit disappointed he dropped delimiter (conflict of interets etc… I get it) because I don’t recall the Greens getting a single mention in any of the Australian politics/tech news I’ve read in the last 12 months.
Powalen’s Adventures with
ClientsBosses at Work! *jingle*Cleaning out the office because we’re moving out this week.
Boss: “I forgot we had this old Xbox 360 back here. Hey, Pow, want a free Xbox?”
Me: “Yes.”
I now own my first ever Xbox 360.
So lucky! 🙂
Let’s hope it actually works 😛
Finally get to play Halo 3 if it does. I’ve waited a long time…
I’ve got a whole bunch of games I’m trying to get rid of. Want dibs?
Yes.
(More seriously: I’ll wait to see if it works before sticking my grubby hand out for more stuff 😛 Plus I’ve already got to start The Last of Us that Cakesmith lent to me an age ago. Too many games!)
No worries. Just let me know. They’re not going anywhere, and there are some decent titles.
I like the simplicity of this.
There really is only one answer to that question.
“Yes.”
No qualifiers, no ‘what do I have to do for it?’ or ‘What’s the catch?’ or ‘wow, really?’
Nothing that will put ideas in their head to attach conditions or re-think.
There is only the fact that: Yes… you totally do want a free xbox.
Do you actually do work at work, your boss seems to make you cake and give free xboxes for work. Or maybe its really shit you are just a insanely positive person. 😛
That’s actually how he gets paid.
Oh my god, we need to start a kickstarter
“Give pow money so he can pay rent since he is paid in mudcake and xbox 360’s”
I like this idea. Especially the first three words.
Not content with mere employment, Pow set his goal on becoming a god
He gets paid in insane positivity? And he chooses to spend it here?
Pow! Spend more wisely!
You make it sound like I’m feasting on cake and getting free Xboxes every day!
That stuff only happens like every second day.
Niiiiiice!
Time to catch up on those old classics, like Nuts & Bolts! Kameo! Perfect Dark Zero!
…come to think of it I can’t remember if I’ve gotten around to grabbing Kameo yet.
If you’d waited just a few more weeks you could be using mine. 😛
I’m impatient.
You waited [however long the 360 has been out] years!
Tension already.
Hug it out lads.
It’s gonna be the Odd Couple to end all Odd Couples.
When does your show broadcast? And does it feature @rocketman bursting through the door Kramer style every now and then?
It bloody well better.
Hi impatient, I’m Nob!
Ho! Ho ho!
Ahhhhh this guy!!
My little girl turns 1 today!
I’m not a completely inept parent!
AFFIRMATION! \o/
In other news – the X-Wing miniatures game is still freakin’ awesome and SPAYSH MAUREEN!!!
How is everyone?!
Primarch Loops still breathes, thank the Emperor!
I’ve been up and down in terms of mood, mainly down but that’s just due to stuff happening in life right now. How’s being a dad been going for you?
*loops hugs*
Happy birthday Loop’s daughter.
Don’t forget to give her a birthday punch.
Woah… I’m only meant to do that on her birthday?
…Shit
Niiiiiice. \o/
I don’t believe you, I need pictures to confirm this. Lots and lots of adorable pictures of Mini Loops
If you want pictures you need to sit on my face….
….book
I thought i already had you on my face…….. book?
Man, Facebook sucks. I don’t get updates from 90% of my friends list, unless I look people up specifically.
End rant. Look at pictures. NAAWWWWWWWWWWWW. Have now liked your post.
Yeah – Facebook is a real Rex Hunt… but what can you do *shrugs*
Do what I do! Set up a Fakebook that you never check and only link to stupid mobile games!
So adorable
You will be happy to know that she now has arms and not just claws! 😀
Ya dun good Loops, ya dun good
I think I tried to friend you but the invite is still pending
Really?
Shazbot…
OK FOUND IT!!!
Really sorry about that – i get quite a few spam requests, so I tend not to check them all properly all the time.
You have been added like a baws! 😀
Well she’s still alive so you must be doing something right! =P
I know right?!?!
I was super worried at the start considering I couldn’t even sustain plants!
Hooray! Birthdays only get better from here 🙂
Holy shit, it’s been a year already?!
Time goes by so quickly.
HI!
HELLO! 😀
Game of Thrones Ep 6 thoughts. Controversial.
Ok, so this may sound a bit stupid to some but I have been thinking about how many people have decided to not cover Game of Thrones or people who have said they will stop watching Game of Thrones because of the Sansa rape scene. Why is this the final straw for people? From what I have read, people are complaining that the other rape scene featured last season was enough and this is pushing it too far.Why do people look straight past the other crazy things that happen in this show, like murder and torture. I haven’t seen a single complaint yet about the fact the Sparrows are murdering and torturing gays or prostitutes. I didn’t see people pulling the same stunts when Theon was castrated. I didn’t see anything when kids were burnt too death.
I may sound like an absolute dick, but why is the “normalization of rape culture” worse than any of those things?
As I understand the argument –
All the other scenes you’ve mentioned happen in the book providing justification for their recreation within the TV show for accuracy’s sake. The rape scene in question is not covered in the book and was materialized purely for the sake of the show and most likely for its inherent shock/entertainment value. Given the increase in rape awareness we’re seeing across the world over the past few years the backlash for the episode condemns the use of rape as a storytelling mechanism; one that was not in the original tale and one that is hardly justified outside of getting gasps from the audience. Personally I felt the rape scene in the earlier season between Cersei and Jaime was also pointless and was used for cheap shock value.While I understand your argument with regards to there being worse scenes in the TV show; those things you’ve mentioned rarely happen in the real world when compared to the prevalence of rape crimes/rape kits that go untested, unsolved or unreported because of a victim blaming culture that society has chosen to take historically. Given the spotlight the crime is finally under these days its understandable to boycott/blackball a popular cultural reference that chooses to sensationalize a criminal act that does unspeakable damage to a person and one which has gone largely ignored by society for such a large scope of time.
Nice breakdown.
Hanging around TAY tends to have that effect =P
Gonna start by saying I agree with your breakdown, but as some additional points (no, this isn’t the equivalent of “I’m not racist, but”):
Last season:
From what I read, the intention of the Cersei/Jaime scene was to make it start a little forced, and for her to become a willing participant (there’s also the argument that in the books you see that scene from Jaime’s point of view, so he may have simply been making up that she agreed to it), but as it stands they seemed to fail terribly at the latter part, making the whole thing look really really bad and creepy.The latest ep:
In regards to the most recent incident this scene was worse in the book in some ways (Ramsay orders Theon to act as a fluffer, essentially), but had way less impact since it occurred to the fake Arya Stark, so there was both the lack of internal character history, and the lack of the reader’s history with the character (also, I’m assuming it was a “Reek” chapter, so the description of it I think feels different than what we get in the show.This article sums it up pretty well.
Below are the relevant parts:
Game of Thrones has always been about the gray areas between good and evil. In almost every situation we can see why someone does something, even if those actions are horrid. The one truly “honorable” character was killed in the first season, and everything since has been a war of compromises and hard choices.There are plans within plans in Game of Thrones, and this Dune-like aspect of the show has always been appealing when everything comes to a head and we get to see who laid the more cunning trap. We’re often forced to root for someone we didn’t expect, or to examine why we want one side to win over the other. It’s one of the most interesting aspects of watching the show.And it’s pretty much gone after this episode. We knew Ramsay was a monster, the writers and directors of the past few seasons have spent a significant number of scenes painting Ramsay as a dime-store monster; someone who is excited by torture and manipulation. There is no gray in his heart, nothing we see that can be redeemed.The final scene of the show offered almost no skin to the viewer, but it felt pornographic in a way that’s rare for the series. It wanted to rub our noses in the fact that Ramsay is awful, and poor Sansa pays the price.Which is why that scene felt so gratuitous and wrong. It’s one thing to put your characters through awful situations to move the story ahead, but what did that moment prove? One of the season’s best characters was stripped of her agency and dignity in order to remind the viewer of something we already knew; that Ramsay is a terrible human being.It’s a shocking scene that’s hard to watch, but it gives us no new information, nor does it move the story along. It feels like yet another horrific thing that Ramsay does for pleasure in a long series of horrific things the character has done, and when a piece of dramatic storytelling goes this far to rub our noses into someone else’s terrible acts it’s usually a sign that person is going to die and we’re supposed to be feel good about it. It doesn’t feel like clever writing or powerful drama, it feels manipulative.I actually stopped watching about halfway through and went and did other things.
I’m getting rather bored by Game of Thrones at the moment.
I’m not feeling it as much as previous seasons but I’m not as disappointed as others seem to be.
Still the best contemporary tv show.
HI TAY. HOW’S THINGS?
#35’sQuarterlyTAYVisit
GOOD! We’ve missed you!
Hey dude!
Who’s this guy?
A talking beard I’d guess.
Why did I ever, EVER think going back to Uni would be a good thing?
I forgot all the stress you end up under.
ARGH.
One week to get this assignment done, then one week until the exam.
You’ve got this, man.
Peas make degrees!
I can relate I’ve got my assignment and exam due in 2 weeks 🙁 AND WITCHER 3 IS SITTING ON MY DESK!! WHY LIFE WHY?!
I’m starting to remember why I started smoking all those many years ago…..
Stress? At uni?
Looks like somebody is doing it wrong
Double relate.
I’ve got 3 assignments due in just under 2 weeks, 2 of which are almost done, one I haven’t started.
Then I have an art piece I need to do, which sounds easy enough, but is actually super difficult :S
Luckily I don’t have exams though.
You’ll get it all done, don’t stress.
My motto throughout all of Uni was “It’s not the end of the world”
It started as a joke but ended up being surprisingly effective at preventing a lot of stress 😛
Support upvotes for everybody.
I’m kinda glad uni is behind me. And that I’m successfully stomping on all the temptations I keep having to go back.
Breath man, breath.
You need a break. Keeping a 2 year old entertained is not a break. I repeat… not a break.
Schedule a night this week where you don’t look at the books or coursework and don’t even think about it for at least one night. Then get stuck back into the next day.
I hit the assignment/course work 3 days in a row Friday through Sunday. I’m still 3 weeks behind in coursework and 1200 words short of an assignment but I did sweet f*ck all last night. Cooked dinner, a little cleaning, did some conversing with the wife, watched a few eps of anime whilst she watched that married at first sight show.
Also – if you wanna compare notes on exam prep let me know… was going to throw together a bit of a cheat sheet for each question section.
It’s almost like you have been there before
Freaky coincidence but we’re both doing the same unit at the moment… and I also have a 2 year old.
Hard. Work.
If I can type a 1500 word essay 24 hours before it’s due (not accounting for working) and still get above a pass you will be fine. =P
Something I found was that many of my ‘did it the morning it was due’ assignments got ridiculously good marks. I think it may have had something to do with the ‘last minute’ forcing you to really strip out the fat and focus ONLY on your criteria and hitting the key points succinctly, with brevity. An apparently welcome departure from my otherwise navel-gazing verbosity.
There’s something to be said for just laying it out and doing it in one session. Everything is relatively fresh in your mind. You carry over when you’re doing into every area. You don’t forget your own points or where you were going between sessions. Granted it has it’s downsides too.
My best effort was writing a 3000 word peer reviewed and academically referenced (11 references) in the 24 hours before it was due. Got a credit.
I always write smaller ones in like the last 24 or 48 hours and do really well. If I spend too much time on them they turn out shit because I’m not under any pressure to do anything.
I managed to make a 6 000 word, 20-page, 24-reference assignment in the three days before it was due. Proud of it at the time, now it’s a constant reminder to how much worse at learning I am now.
I know that feeling and I’m not even at uni any more. Been supporting Ash through her Masters, she had to finish by the end of this year before the uni forced her 18 month course to become 2 years. And she thought it would be a good idea to condense it even further and fit it into 12 months plus summer school. Tried to talk her out of it but she wouldn’t listen. Thankfully she also only has a couple more weeks of prac and then 1 exam before its over
I can tell you would probably have to be the calm one while she is the stressed one. Thats why you two make a lovely couple 🙂
Aww thanks Rockets. And yeah you’re right. Ash can get quite stressed. We’ll both be glad when its all over and done with
Ooooh stress from Uni! I know that feeling quite well right now! 😛 One and a half weeks to get… 3 assignments and release 1 of a project done!
Life is Strange Ep 3 is amazing. *flails arms* Love this series so much!
End spoilers:
That was pretty damn upsetting. 🙁 I knew that nothing good would come from altering history that significantly.I’ll play it tonight and then talk with you about it tomorrow.
A guy at TAFE just bought 1,500 pairs of socks.
Well, it is getting rather chilly.
Is his name Bonds?
Long distance relationship?
Best reply.
…Gavin?
I was greedy and bought two expensive water bottles and now I can’t decide which ones to use omg man
Ugh, Richius.
I buy the expensive lunches at work too!
(@powalen)
*looks at pre-prepared ham n cheese sandwich*
My tears. Like twin waterfalls.
Bottle those tears!
Cheaper than what @greenius is buying.
It’s the German intern’s last week so he’s planning to make and bring in all these crazy German food for us tomorrow.
FREE FOOD WOO
Aww man all i get is free drinks all day.
I KNOW STOP RUBBING IT IN
Crisis averted! I decided which one to bring to work.
10/10
Man, I go through this every day pretty much. “Which $40 pen do I want to take to uni today? Urghhhhh I really need to leave… that one!”
These are the real issues that the world should be tackling.
Oh and “Do I wanna bring the $400 earphones or the $250 headphones?” is a big one for me. Life is tough.
Wow look at Mr. Moneybags over here!
Working in an office is the best for my stationery situation now though… TAKE ALL THE THINGS!
Urrgh, Clicker Heroes has a upgrade step of 12 orders of magnitude (10e28 to 10e40).
It kills the progression and slams a paywall down which makes me not want to mess with it anymore. They all do this. Thinking I might be done with incrementals now.
Ha.
Clicker Heroes only added the pay stuff recently, last few months (after I’d stopped playing it regularly). A while before that they didn’t have any heroes past Frostleaf, which meant you’d reach him, and then sit around sadly, which was interesting, which is why it seems like such a wall past that, all the later heroes were designed for people who’d been playing for a long while.
As it stands, cost efficiency in the later heroes (I don’t think Frostleaf is included in this, but the one after him onwards are) only becomes worse than the next one along once you’ve got 1550 or so of them, and bought the roughly equivalent cost block of the next one along, so you’re actually better to sit on them for quite a while after you can bypass them (obviously, the first 100 levels of the highest you can afford are always worth it, then they scale down.
I wouldn’t mind setting up another Torchlight 2 multiplayer session sometime this week if anyone’s interested… 😀
Vanilla or with Synergies mod?
Vanilla.
Can’t be arsed modding it.
Wooooooo Eurovision.
I voted!
I picked up the collectors edtion of the Witcher 3 yesterday morning and took it back with me to work last night to unpack.
I feel much less crazy for spending so much money on it now. The art book is really nice though I’ve only looked at the start of it as it contains spoilers. The statue is pretty big and would probably retail for a few hundred by itself. The amulet is a good solid chunk of metal and doesn’t feel cheap to me. I feel like I got my money’s worth.
Also, something I noticed that seemed to show how much design they put into the box set. They Styrofoam the statue is packed in even has the witcher emblem on it.
At various points I saw a few guys on the transit system carrying large PS4 Witcher 3 boxes, last night. I kinda wanted to high-five them.
I was a little disappointed I didn’t run into any witcher fans whilst hauling it back through the shopping centre to the car park.
High five would have been tricky to achieve without dropping the box though. That thing was huge.
I’m considering buying the Collector’s Edition of the Prima guide. It comes with a 96 page Grimoire and will only have one print run.
I’m so damned keen to pick mine up. Been hearing a lot of positives about the quality of everything in it.
Morning all. Last night I was interviewed by a Canberra-based podcast about Undad and my writing career. The interview went for over an hour, which is far longer than I’ve ever had to talk about myself in the past. I was nervous as hell about it, but the interviewer had done heaps of prep work for it, and had a whole bunch of interesting questions that covered quite a wide breadth of topics. In the end, it was a heap of fun, and (I think) the best interview I’ve done to date.
It also didn’t hurt that he’d bought a copy of all my books, and was really digging The Lesser Evil.
Should be up tomorrow, and I’ll link you to it.
Saw the email a bout the printing. Dood!
I was reluctant to back 2 from the fear of not liking the first & had planned to read it then decide (before spending my cash on another kickstarter /o\)
I know, I know, I have the pdf, but I always find them uncomfortable to read and negatively impact my experience so I wanted the paper.
(I don’t own a comfortable device to read comics, probably won’t for quite a while).
And er, my point…
I have enjoyed your work in the past, but me and zombie stories have a strange relationship (I’m obsessed with resident evil 2 but think the walking dead comic is boring)
I kind of want to apologise for not having more faith, I guess.
I have no idea why you’re apologising, my friend, but it’s not a problem – I totally get it. It was always my hope/intention to get the paperbacks to all the backers of the first book ASAP to give them time to read it and decide whether or not they liked it enough to check out the second book.
Circumstances, time and timing all worked against me, unfortunately. But that’s my problem, not yours. You’ve got nothing to apologise for.
As cool as it’s been having friends backing the comic, honestly, I’d rather fail to meet the funding target than feel that I’d made people feel obligated to back the project against their wishes.
(For the record, I think The Walking Dead comic is pretty boring, too. Not trying to sway you here, but Undad could not be more different from it in pretty much all respects.)
I didn’t get the impression it would be, I was trying to cut down on the wordses(which I shouldn’t have bothered with, this not being Twitter).
I tell you right now, I wouldn’t of backed you if I didn’t already think your work was good. I don’t have a lot of cash to throw around & you cut into my game budget! :p
So, two pints I’m attempting to make. The first, I wasn’t backing it as a friend (although thank you for thinking of me as one).
& two, my love of zombies is oddly particular (but have an oddly particular taste in all things I guess).
Is Twitter down? D:
Not for me.
Since finding out I can play this ‘Clicker Heroes’ thing in-browser, I thought I’d give it a go.
Bad move. Bad, bad move.
I got hooked at about 6pm last night and was playing on my work computer. I created a personal account for some reason unbeknownst to me now. At 11pm I was in bed, remotely logged in to my work computer on my phone upgrading everything. I knew dark times were ahead.
Just got in this morning to find myself with about $300B to spend. Spent it all and moved up a few levels to the next boss. Logged in again as I thought that would save my process and it reset to L10. I think it was a blessing in disguise.
I can’t play the Witcher any more. I can only play in 30min sessions without wanting to kill myself and can’t focus on the story or what’s happening so I have no idea what’s happening or why or what half the features are.
I hate the KB+M that much in this game. It’s genuinely ruined a game that could be awesome.
So the question is, how much will I lose by skipping the first game? Just read a wiki summary of the plot and move onto 2?
KB+M?
I started playing at 2 & he was an amnesiac, so it worked.
Keyboard and mouse. First game doesn’t have controller support.
And really? He had amnesia at the start of the first. Sounds like Geralt has a rather severe brain injury :/
Isn’t there programs where you can map the controls to a control?
I remember hearing W1 just controlled poorly for everyone. Surely there’s a controls good patch.
I mean, that’s why they’re the master race right? They can make ANYTHING superior!
It’s the same amnesia if I remember correctly. And yeah, serious brain injury from essentially dying in a battle at the start of W1
I missed this edition, that’s lame
Generally the stories seem to be fairly well encapsulated – recurring cast of characters but not too much carry over. There were more references from the first book than the first game in TW2…
I would skip 1.
A LOT of it is world-building, and you can get just as much of that from playing Witcher 2 without missing much.
The story of one is actually kind of small-scale by comparison to the other games, and is pretty neatly self-contained without too much in the way of knock-on effects from your decisions.
I recommend watching some primer videos. There’s some which do ‘just cutscenes’ run-throughs, and some pretty nifty heavily-stylized animated ones, too.
(Here, I think: http://kotaku.com/5898645/before-you-play-the-witcher-2-heres-what-happened-in-the-witcher)
I actually watched quite a few of these and in combination with what I played, I really think it gave me the handle on the world, story and characters that I needed.
There’s probably videos out there that will fill you in on the story of 1 better than just reading it. Reading a summary will mostly make you question who the hell they’re talking about.
EDIT: Also, I should mention that if I was forced to use a controller in either 1 or 2 there’d have been no chance I’d finish either. WE’RE TOO DIFFERENT AND I DON’T KNOW IF I CAN CONTINUE OUR RELATIONSHIP.
What a lot of people have already said; skip 1 and play 2. Alternatively the glossary in-game seems to have fairly decent backstory’s for some of the major characters; that said I’m only in the first 5 minutes of the game as I’ve already dropped the main quest and rode off into the distance searching for adventures =P
Skip it. Most of it isn’t relevant to the subsequent game. Only thing you really need to know is that racial tensions flare up in Vizima and Geralt sides with one or the other or fights both. Also he was supposed to be dead and he has history with the Wild Hunt which is a big factor for the next two games.
No Twitter at work makes jimu…something something
Actually have to do work…?
Don’t be ridiculous
Watch porn?
Don’t mind if I do!
Crazy?
Also don’t mind if I do!
Does anyone else feel a bit disappointed (can’t think of a better word right now) in video games in general. With all the pushing back of release dates and large day one patches, by the time I actually get around to playing the game the feeling of excitement has changed to relief that I can just finally play the damn thing. This has been the case with the last few games I’ve been really hyped for (Bloodborne and Project CARS), I play for just a few hours before I’m tired of it and turn it off.
I really hope this isn’t the case with The Witcher 3. Finally picked up a copy about an hour ago and the patch still has 4 minutes to go.
I’m finding I’m enjoying smaller games more these days. I’ve got more play time out of AdVenture Capitalist and Clicker Heroes lately than all of the big budget releases I’ve bought in the last 3 or 4 months combined.
Yes & no.
I’m starting to see a pattern form where the real talent behind the games are ditching the mobile & dlc obsessed companies to form their own smaller studios to make fun games.
I don’t just hope Bloodstained & Yooka-layperson succeed because I enjoy those games, I also want it to inspire more humans to break free of the corporate shackles & just make GOOD games.
This may mean less pushing the envelope from a technical perspective, but lucky for me, PSX games are good enough to entertain.
Shit looks shit now, but the bubble is bursting, there’s hope on the horizon & I’m mixing my metaphors
I’ve been quite impressed that Bloodborne didn’t devolve into the nerf-tacular post release for Dark Souls (1 and 2), so that’s probably been the biggest release to live up to my personal hype since… well, since only Smash Bros. Wii U, or Monster Hunter 4U, or Monster Hunter 3U, uhhh … not really making the point that I want to here … but if I go back BEFORE those, it’d probably have to be the 2010 release of Tales of Vesperia…
Seems a little cheating that a lot of those on my list are just localisations of mature, existing products. Maybe that’s one of the redeeming features that has drawn me to them over the years.
Last Launch launch game (aside from Smash), well, probably … Half Life 2? Although that did have the whole forced Steam shenanigans…
So… err… Game I got on release day with maximum hype AND no release day issues AT ALL… Uhhh… (was gonna say Pokémon Silver in 2000 but that still had 11 months localisation) … erhm…
OOH, GOT ONE.
Max Payne (2001). And Max Payne 2 (2003). And MP2 had shit sales to the point that Take 2 had to revise their earnings forecast. Good, rock-solid games did not mean sales.
Edit: The moment I post, my brain screamed an objection.
Journey!
JOURNEY.
They went broke making that.
Dragon Age INQUISITION for me, although the dlc thing is lame, I am patient
I haven’t purchased a game on launch day since Destiny. Other than batman, I can’t see one on the horizon that I’ll line up on day one for.
There’s nothing wrong with enjoying smaller games. Tastes change, and sometimes you go through periods where you play a bunch of small stuff then switch back to a big thing.
Be an omnivorous gamer
I generally play games with a significant lag on release. So I generally don’t get all choo choo upped for releases so if there is a delay it means nothing to me.
I have always played smaller games and a wide range of them so a ‘failure’ of a couple of big AAA titles to live up to expectations doesn’t bother me.
Part of the issue I think is games are starting to become more than just the straight run and gun type of thing but haven’t embraced that enough to live up to the potential we see in them.
Been sitting on the “New Game” screen of The Witcher 3 for about 30 minutes now. Honestly don’t know if I can be bothered starting it.
What is wrong with me?
Do it for ME who’s steam won’t connect to download it, LIVE SO I MAY DIE
Space madness?
It’s my ice cream bar!
I get this all the time, don’t force game. Go read or watch something. Have fun elsewhere.
Happened last night, I loaded up Skyrim for the 3rd or 4th night in a row but just wasn’t feeling it. Read half of Asimov’s The End of Eternity instead. 😀
If you don’t feel like playing the game leave it for another time when you’re in the mood; when this happens to me it just cos I don’t want to invest the time required with a new game the size of Witcher 3. While I’ve jumped into it last night I’m probably only going to be playing HotS and Marvel Heroes until the weekend when I can afford to spend a bit more time in a game like that.
That’s the thing though, I have all day to play it.
YOU MONSTER!
This is pretty much why I had to force myself to not buy the game. I think what it is is that I want one of these huge games, and that’s sort of tricking me into ignoring that nothing about The Witcher really grabs me. I think if I had of brought it right now I’d be sitting there fresh out of the tutorial wanting it to be something else.
How are people finding the HoW expansion? I’m hearing good things….yet to try it myself though, but I think this may be the weekend where I dive back in to Destiny. Maybe.
This will probably be my weekend where I do the same.
I played it for about 30 minutes this morning, I’ve only played a little bit of the first story mission but I’m going to leave a little earlier today to get stuck into it 😀
I logged in this morning to cash in all the engrams I built up over the weekend, got a few legendary weapons out of it (two machine guns, a rocket launcher and a sniper) that I’m looking forward to trying out. I briefly visited the reef with one character just to walk around and it looks neat. FYI the “new” cryptarch carries over your faction rep so you don’t start from scratch – also I was not able to distinguish any difference between what he gives you compared to Master Rahool – with both of them all my blue decrypts were the usual trash and my legendaries were all new with the Expansion II marker. Interestingly though one of my items receives was a Dead Orbit branded rocket launcher with the same name as one my wife got from an engram yesterday but mine is marked with the Expansion II brand and my wife’s isn’t. I assume mine has a different perk roll.
I haven’t done any of the missions yet, the DLC only actually went live at around 3am and I couldn’t fit any real play time in before work – I only logged in this morning because I wanted to see if the DLC was available for purchase since I bought The Dark Below by itself instead of in a bundle.
I was planning to hop in this morning to start offloading my engrams… but my internet was down. So I played an hour and a half of Witcher 3 instead. But tonight… tonight, I’m going to start emptying my inventories. And postmaster. And vault. I will finally have room to put new things! 😀
Last night I got home, negotiated PLAYSTATION TIME, and discovered the reset wasn’t until 3am. Bollocks.
Now I’m stuck at work. I have a horrible headache and cough. No idea if I’ll even get online tonight.
THIS SUCKS.
Yeah a vey awkward time indeed considering everything else is done between 7-9pm AEST. Bugger. Well I hope you feel better and get some quality Destinying in at some point soon.
Heart of Winter was a great expansion. Added some great extra content to Icewind Dale. 😛
Peeps playing Witcher 3; how big is the visual difference between the PC and PS4 versions? I’m on PS4 and a lot of the textures just seem flat? I recall the Witcher 2 on PC being a prettier game than this….
I’m still deep in the guts of Chapter 2 of Witcher 2, but I loaded W3 up briefly to get nvidia experience to recognize and optimize the game (which is puzzling because it turned AA off for some reason… I’ll look into that later).
The live-rendering title screen was very pretty.
They used to be a PC first, console second company (probably still are?) so you may be right.
I’m on PC and don’t know what it looks like on PS4… but Geralt’s hair is fabulous, at a sprightly 25FPS.
Got rid of the hair thing, still looks pretty good with everything else on high, but now runs at 45.Faces are amazingly detailed (Vesimyr’s nose is amazing! :P), lipsync/speech is amazing, and although trees and shrubs look a little flat, general textures look pretty good.
I watched Mad Max: Fury Road. Everyone is right: It was great. I enjoyed it very much and may possibly see it again. Because it just won’t be the same on the small screen and I’m sure there’s more details to drink in.
The Australian accents and mannerisms in particular were fantastic. I love the quasi-viking/buddhist religion/culture/car-worship mash.
“By my deeds he shall know me… V8!”
On the Aussie accents
I liked Charlize Theron’s character, but everytime she spoke, her American accent just felt so out of place in amongst all the Australian ones. Probably should’ve cast an “unkown” Aussie female actor instead.Anyway, that was my only gripe about an otherwise fantastic filum.
She’s not even American.
I did not know that. She has a US accent in everything I’ve seen her in.
Yeah, except arrested development
Haven’t seen that.
Her character was British in that
She spent months intentionally developing an american accent so she’d get more work, probably why it seems exaggerated at times.
They should have let her use her South African accent. That would have sounded less out of place.
I thought her thing was that she she didn’t practice English a lot until she hit the US, so her learning English and its vocabulary was largely molded with an American accent.
You can hear the South African when she’s speaking Afrikaans, but her English is American because that’s the way she learned it.
Edit: Is that a thing? I don’t know if that’s an actual thing now that I think about it.
You’re probably right, but I would think it wouldn’t take too much effort for her to do a respectable Aussie or SA accent – she would have an ear for all the vowels already.
*South African
It’s just cool to hear more than one Aus accent in a blockbuster film.
Yeah, usually when there’s an Aussie in a big budget movie they’re putting on a US accent.
You see the VMax?
We did. So purdy
I’m seeing it tomorrow on Hoyts ExtremeScreen! \o/
You’re going to love it
I don’t recall ever seeing a movie release with such a unanimously positive reception. If I don’t like it, I think I’ll be turning in all my remaining humanity cards 😛
Anyone who doesn’t at least appreciate Mad Max doesn’t appreciate cinema.
Yeah I went there
Heh. If it helps, I did read a piece full of absolute wank on ABC’s ‘the Drum’ with the author saying she despised it for being uncultured pandering whose sole benefit was a grudging resignation that Aussie film-makers need to ‘pay the bills’ once in a while to support making better films.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-19/rosewarne-the-mad-max-monstrosity-still-pleases-the-hordes/6479620
My favourite comment:
The tropes skewered by this comment are pretty much why ‘Great Australian Drama’ is damning praise to me, more likely to draw suspicion or a snicker than curiosity or enthusiasm.
Is it just me or does that read as “but I understand sometimes the industry need to make movies that people want to watch.”
Whatever satisfies the proles.
Ha. Every negative review I’ve seen about it never talks about the films faults but is instead concerned with how far above it the reviewers are.
Speaks volumes.
One of us! One of us!
Hmm, haven’t watched all the other movies yet, might want to see them first. I’ve heard that all the movies are self-contained, though, right?
Yeah, you don’t need to watch them. It stands on its own. The only thing that MIGHT count is he talks about how he’s slightly haunted in the first minute of the movie by ‘the people he couldn’t save’, which MAY (or may not) be a reference to people who bought the farm in prior movies, but should probably just be taken as, “He’s got a past.” Minimal impact on the film.
(Honestly, it’s just plain better than the others. I’d say just go watch.)
@freezespreston
Here you go:
The Witcher Retrospective
And if other people are interested:
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Retrospective
Am I the only idiot that watched Eurovision live this morning?
Yup.
I usually just watch the final 😛
Only watching the final means you miss out on things like last year’s Parachuting Sex Offender.
Edit: And 2013’s Rapping Astronauts
I’ll watch the catch-up showings!
And Lithuania’s 2010 pants song
With kazoos!
Kazoos!
Yes, but not because you’re an idiot. Or more to the point, you’re not the only idiot that WANTS to.
You’re just the only idiot that DID.
I’ll try harder to be up tomorrow morning.
Don’t try too hard, it’s not on tomorrow.
I didn’t 100% intend to this morning, until my brain screamed “AWAKE” at 4.30 and I thought hey, why not.
Oh heck, I thought it was.
Hang on, Friday is Semi 1, Sat Semi 2, Sun Final, right?
I have a number of early starts ahead of me.
Semi 1: Live 0500 – 0700 Wednesday, delayed Friday night
Semi 2: Live 0500 – 0700 Friday, delayed Saturday night
Final: 0500 – ‘unno Sunday, delayed Sunday night.
I’ll get up for the live final on Sunday. I’ll just watch the other ones delayed though.
I’m highly amused at some of the media buzz saying that Guy’s been pretty popular and maybe he’ll win (and that AU has been asked to pick an EU partner for hosting next year in case he does win)…
Pfffft… Auto finalist entries never win. Except Germany in 2010 being the one anomaly on that scale…
Argh, and this was the year where I was going to make a converted effort to watch it, and I’m working during the semis. Should be able to get up and watch the final, especially as I have monday and tuesday off (Yay for American public holidays).
It’s OK, it’s also meant to be on the SBS on demand app once the live broadcast is done, so just watch the two semis at your leisure before Sunday.
Aside from no spoilers, the other upside to watching live is also that I get to feel less useless by actually voting!
I probably won’t be voting either way. I’ll just complain on Twitter that my favourite didn’t win as usual.
Max’s claws feel like tiny hypodermic needles.
Not fun when they make you bleed.
Max’s claws feel like gigantic theropod talons.
Not fun when he playfully bats me in the nose and I bleed for a week. 🙁
Motley Crue and Alice Cooper last night. Alice Cooper was absolutely amazing. 67 years old and still putting everything into his live show. Nita Strauss, if there’s a guitarist for men to fall over for, it’s her 😀
Motley Crue, time has taken it’s toll on Vince Neil 🙁 it started out great, songs got a bit tedious to the middle of the set but the hits at the end of the set put a big smile on my face. A bit crap that Tommy Lee’s drumcoaster failed to work though. The visuals though were great. Top light show and more pyro than a Rammstein gig.
All in all though, it makes me sad that I missed out on concerts in the 80s when hard rock and metal were massive on account of me being born in the 80s. Glad to see a lot of bands have been bringing the spectacle back to arenas but there’s not a great deal of bands to replace them in the next 10 years or so. Live music will sorely miss the amount of characters larger than life currently in their 50s & 60s.
Also, brief chat with @strange 😀 my missus did more talking I think though
Now for my day off, House of Wolves, The Witcher 3 will be gotten on Friday in time for the weekend 😀
Finally, humble bundle has Europa Universalis IV for donating over $15
WOO EUIV
if I didn’t own pretty much everything in that bundle I’d get that tshirt package
Yeah, Alice Cooper was incredible. Great musicians, great showmanship, absolutely everything I expected and more. Snakes, beheadings, giant monsters, scary nurses.
Motley Crue were just as disappointing as I knew they’d be. 17 year old me would have done anything to get so see them, but I wasn’t really looking forward to it. The pyrotechnics were awesome but that’s about all the good I have to say. 😛
Vince Neil was so tuneless and the sound was so muddy in the pit that I didn’t even recognise what half the songs were until they were nearly over. Plus I was in so much obvious pain from my stoopid old lady body that one of the ushers actually came up to me and offered to give me a seated ticket! I didn’t take it though, as we’d decided we’d only stay until the we saw the drum kit take a ride. Shame it didn’t work, but at least it moved a little bit!
Mr. Strange knew what the encore songs would be because he always spoilerises himself and check recent setlists online, so I asked him what the encore songs would be, as we were trying to decide if it would be worth it to stick around. After he told me what they were I realised I didn’t want any more teen fantasies and memories butchered so I told him I was ready to go when he was. Bonus was that it only took us a minute to get out of the carpark, instead of the usual hour or so if you leave with everyone else. 😛
I guess I’ve seen way too many bands now who rely on their talent and personal showmanship to be impressed any more by one who relies solely on nostalgia, dancing half naked ladies, and pyrotechnics. The only other band I’ve ever seen put on such a production was Iron Maiden and they still have the skill to back it up.
Alice cooper is truly a wonderful dude from all the stuff ive seen and read from interviews, just a down to earth dude who enjoys showmanship and music. He speaks so well and expresses his opinion without being disrespectful. Its funny how different his onstage persona of old is to how i see him in real life.
Local radio station broadcasts his radio show every night. Guy is great to listen to,he knows so freaking much about music and is full of personal stories about nearly every band.
They ran a competition a few weeks ago and the prize was 18 holes of golf with Alice while he was here. Think they had the game a couple of days ago.
The only thing I miss more than listening to his show on the radio on the night time drive home is listening to Spoonman’s show on… some kind of other night time drive home.
And so it came to pass, that a lone warlock, every pocket stuffed with undecipherable blue engrams, was invited to journey to the blackest depths of the Hive world… to slay the son of a god. And slay he did, making room in his pockets for any bounty he might reclaim. And in the aftermath, he saw a glinting speck among the rubble. Bending low, he fished the item from the dirt, and dusting it off, sighed contentedly to himself. Placing it atop his head, he spied another shiny object, hidden beneath his new prize – a weapon of immense power he had dreamt of for months.
And so, calling his brethren, he made way for a hunter, who, upon once again slaying the beast, sadly, did not fare so well, and found only bits and pieces, shards of amour long since eroded by time.
But, ever hopeful, she did call to their last comrade, a stalwart titan, to try his luck. He also brought the glowing demigod to his knees, and plundered his riches, pulling from the ashes a strangely modern and sleek rifle that he had sought for many a month, always a reward to those around him, but always passing him by.
Fuelled by his newfound faith in the gods of the mysterious Arr’enjii, he accepted his comrades’ offer to slay the beast once more, in his true arena. But the gods were fickle, and refused to part with more of their riches, so he passed the baton back to the hunter; but this new arena proved too much for her, and she perished. However, she was reborn, and in thanks, she took her new friends deep into the Vex vault on Venus, where she bestowed on them a scout rifle of universal application, and … a lot of mostly useless tat.
Translation: Got invited to a raid last night, where my warlock finally scored his Crota helm, and a 4th Horseman, and my Titan scored a Monte Carlo. In thanks, I gave them the Gorgon checkpoint, and someone got a MIDA multitool. Still kinda ecstatic that the last raid item and two exotic weapons I needed for the collection dropped three hours before the expansion unlocked. 😀I’ve still not gotten a single Crota raid helm but then again I’ve only actually beaten Crota a handful of times despite running the abyss/cheesing the bridge tons of times.
Incidentally, I think this last patch has fixed the bridge jump on CE. I’ve done it a handful of times perfectly with my Hunter but last night I got killed by the architects three times in a row so I don’t think it was user error. Would be happy to be wrong though.
This was my warlock’s ninth Crota completion. My hunter and titan have had three helms drop each in their eleven and nine completions, respectively – I’m kinda glad I don’t need to go back – there is nothing in the loot tables I haven’t got at this point.
I might have to check the patch notes… and give the bridge a try this weekend. But it seems to me that if they didn’t want the chasm to be traversable without the bridge, all they’d need is a kill-wall linked to the bridge… and after all this time, it seems an odd time to fix that particular cheese.
I didn’t understand what was going on, but it sure was beautifully written. 😀
Aww, thanks. 😀 I felt I kinda ran out of steam about halfway… kinda hard to shoehorn in “we switched to our other characters and ran the boss twice more, hoping for cool loot” without breaking the tone 😛
<3 Scout Rifles.
Same here… but the guy it dropped for didn’t share our enthusiasm, and dismantled it. I can understand not liking it – everyone has their own preferences, I guess – but to destroy it immediately? Blasphemy.
Ol’ TAY seems rather quiet these days…
It’s your fault, whoever you are.
I’m you, 20 years from now.
Man, Pow got so much shorter. @dc will not be impressed. At all.
Been quite slow for a couple of months now?
I’m holding up my end of the bargain, 35 posts a week average mang!
There’s a bunch of really cool stuff coming to the Nintendo Star Catalogue. Unfortunately, I already spent all my stars on stuff I didn’t really want because I thought that would be the final release.
But now there are Mario Kart trophies, Luigi Mansion dioramas, Captain Toad figurines… GAH.
Was just about to post this exact thing 😛
I shouldn’t have spent all my points. Didn’t think they’d bother bringing back more physical stuff before it all shut down.
I knew I was holding off for a reason 😀
Same, spent all my stars on something I didn’t really want a few weeks ago.
“We’re closing Club Nintendo, so spend your stars, but we won’t tell you that we’ll add some really awesome stuff in the last few months. Bwahahahaha!”
Bollocks!
I figured once we got past the ‘no more stars with games’ threshold then there’d be nothing much else added to the catalogue.
Bugger all left here too. Oh well.
Does that mean I can’t claim all the things I forgot to? Or just that they stopped including registration things with new games? I assumed they stopped accepting them already and I’ve never really been that interested in the stuff you can get so I’ve got a fair stack.
[Edit: Hmm. I’ve only got 2600 for some reason tied to my account. I don’t remember buying anthing and I know I entered a bunch of these in.]
The codes expire after a period of time and can’t be claimed (had this issue with Pokémon Black last year), and I think we crossed the point where new games no longer come with them packed in (nor was the New 3DS worth anything)
Majora’s Mask statue!
Nintendo’s gonna Nintendo.
Wait what where I can’t see them don’t tell me they’re gone already D:
Now I see why people always bitch about transcribing.
17 minutes done (of nearly 2 hours) and it’s up to 2.9k words. I need another coffee.
Freelancer that shit
Pay someone else to do it? But my time is worth very little, might as well use it here :p
Update: 33 minutes, 5811 words.
@dc haven’t played Life is Strange ep 3 yet cause of download issues, but I’ll play it tonight and then we can have a long discussion about how Kate Marsh is clearly the best girl and should have taken the place of Chloe.
Work be busy. So very busy. But, I come to TAY to advise you of stuff.
Actual Cannibal Shia Labeouf: the RPG
Based on the song from a few years back, you must escape from a series of increasingly ridiculous semantics of actual cannibal Shia Labeouf. Or swap in your own crazy celebrity or individual (I read a Korean version that had Actual Cannibal Pororo which was basically Bananas in Pyjamas).
This RPG factoid brought to you by Popdart5.
I only just recently watched the filmed version of the song with the absurd production values. I had no idea it existed before then.
Going to finish this project earlier than expected, so I can get back home and pick up my Witcher 3 CE.
*dances, trips, smashes through the window*
*sees the shattered glass on the floor* Ahh welcome back Rize!
*sees shattered glass and Techy welcoming @rize back*
For god’s sake! I just finished replacing this after @blaghman’s antics last week!
This is why we can’t have nice things.
In my defence, it was Pyrean’s fault.
*Hurriedly waddles off*
http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/05/19/mad-max-fury-road-as-reviewed-by-my-70-year-old-mother-in-law
Spoilers within.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Nailed it.
Just about to resign from my job, eep!
1. Poo into top draw of boss’ desk
2. Double bird to everyone
3. Moonwalk out holding birds
You have now successfully quit.
Freeze is all class.
Sounds like you’ve done this before.
That’s your solution for everything.
good luck mang.
Cheers Mang! I sent the email (I tried calling my boss as well to no avail :S) Hopefully he rings me back in the next hour or so, it’s a weird feeling.
In all seriousness though, I hope everything’s ok and you’ve got another job lined up.
Thanks man, all is good. It’s a little sideways-y kinda move, but in the role I was in unfortunately there isn’t a well defined career path. It’s for more money and working underneath one of my mentors so I’m nervous but also a little excited too for the role.
Uh… congratulations? I think?
Fuck it. CONGRATULATIONS!
Thanks! I think it’s a cause for celebration, I’ve raised my wage level and will have me focusing on developing relationships more which I think is my strength.
The new role is as a marketing officer for for the college of arts and social sciences at a University, the move is a sideways one but the career path is a little more defined (and the role is permanent rather than my fixed term currently and a better salary).
@Powalen I don’t know if you’re ready for this but the sixth episode of season 5 of Game of Thrones was a bit controversial.
Desperation following negative survey results about the rising unemployment levels in Mereen causes Daenerys to inadvertently sign a decree agreeing to reintroduce slavery. Grey Worm leaves her service in disgust and is reunited with his long lost testicles.
The Braavosi ballet production of “The Mad King and I” wins a prestigious award. During her acceptance speech Arya reveals that her swordfighting lessons she said were ballet lessons were really swordfighting lessons all along, and her role in the ballet was part of an elaborate plot to assassinate the ceremoney’s co-host, a former child celebrity who owes a lot of money to an underground gambling circuit. This takes so long to explain to the audience that the target escapes. The ballet’s investors agree to fund a second tour.
Sansa is married to a magic Weirwood tree against the tree’s wishes. She asserts that the tree does not have a say in the matter, because her roots in Winterfell run deeper.
Jamie meets a sphinx that challenges him to answer three riddles. He declines and continues walking, which makes his appearance in this episode extremely dull.
Varys stands on a balcony under a full moon and sings a heartfelt duet about lost loves. As he wrongly assumes that Tyrion is somewhere in the world singing half the lines which will be paired in post-production, the dialogue becomes extremely disjointed.
Tyrion starts dating a man who looks very similar to Varys but instead of saying “well this is another fine mess you’ve gotten us into” at comedically appropriate moments, the new man says “uh oh, here we go again!” which actually makes Tyrion physically ill.
Why are these so funny. I don’t even know any of the characters.
I feel like Game of Thrones is just so relatable, even though it’s set in a medieval-esque fantasy world.
Some scholars say that there’s really only a limited number of stories that can be told, so even if the details are different the stories are basically all the same – and through my exploration to try and understand makes Game of Thrones really resonate with the audience, I’ve really come to believe that this is true.
I like the whole ‘Gambit Pile-up’ method of freshening up the limited number of available stories by having them all collide with each other.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GambitPileup?from=Main.ThirtyXanatosPileup
So I won a Destiny competition this morning, apparently.
I feel a little guilty, cause I already own the game, but not the art stuff the prize comes with (which is what I wanted) :O
I never thought I’d win, but here I am.
So, if there is anyone with a PS4 who doesn’t own Destiny, who would like the game, just ask.
Free of charge, new, maybe opened (depending on where the art stuff I want is), no hassles.
I’d feel too guilty selling it :O
I don’t own Destiny, but I also don’t own a PS4. Can you send me one of those too?
If I won a PS4 too I probably would have ;P
I KNOW YOUR ADDRESS! >:D
And still no PS4.
Undankbar SCHWEIN!!!
Maybe hold on to the game until you win a PS4 too and send them both to Pow =p
I saw that on Twitter, congratulations man.
You win! Congrats, man!
I have a PS4 and don’t have Destiny… But I don’t really want Destiny. This post was mainly for congrats.
It seems weird saying thanks for being congratulated on winning a prize, haha!
I didn’t do anything!
If I can’t find anyone who wants it, you can still give it a try, if you’d like 😮
Oh! OH!
@jimu! @jimu!
I won something!
I hate you so much right now
Who’s the loser now, JIMU?! >:D
Do you have Destiny? If you want it, you can have it. Then we’re both winners! 😀Git!
Nah, I wontt play it much, got anything else? :pNothing else but my heart, but you already have that :*
Dawwwwwww
Why guilty? It’s yours to do whatever you want with, nothing wrong with selling it. You’re basically just trading it for something else you don’t have yet.
I had a good couple of years there where most of my game purchases were fuelled by comp prizes I either already had or just didn’t need by the time they got to me 😛
Nah, I can’t sell something that was given to me when it could have gone to someone else for free.
Seems too rude.
Why enter the competition if you’re just going to sell the prize? :O
Usually because the comp wouldn’t close til after the game had come out, so I wouldn’t want to wait around to be able to play it/couldn’t be sure that I would win and didn’t want to miss out on the introductory special at the shops. Or otherwise because the competition looked like fun and I had an idea for something to enter into it.
Besides, nothing wrong with selling the secondary copy. You already paid for the game, now you’re getting it for free. By selling it, you’re just regaining the cost of the original purchase, thereby getting the game for free in the end. All evens out on the grand scale of things 😛
Nah, I can’t justify to myself selling it.
I’d feel much more comfortable giving it away for free.
To each their own though.
Congratulations on your win.
Can’t decide if I should buy TW3 on PS4, buy a new graphics card and get it on PC (getting a new card is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while anyway), buy an Xbone at EB since it comes with TW3 as well as the MC collection and I’ll need a Xbone eventually to play Halo 5 anyway, or just do none of the above.
Instead of none of the above, what about all of the above?
I’m helping!
Well it is called The Witcher 3, so buying 3 copies of the game would only be fitting.
Better buy 3 graphics cards then. You’ll want to be prepared for the future.
3 x Geforce Titan X’s in Tri-SLI.
Only way to be sure.
Get the graphics card.
Yeah, I’d probably go with the graphics card and an Xbone controller (unless you prefer keyboard & mouse).
Got my PS4 controller for when a game has shitty keyboard and mouse controls. I just have to trick my PC into thinking it’s an Xbox controller.
Haven’t tried a PS4 one on my laptop, but I know the Xbone one works a treat.
While no games recognise it, one cool little gimmick I like is that I can control my mouse cursor using the touchpad on the controller.
Are you interested in the Rift?
If so, hold off and get an even shinier card next year when it comes out.
That’d be right. Only bought Assetto Corsa a few weeks ago, now it’s on sale for 50% off ($25). GRRR!!!
*shakes fist at GabeN*
But the DLC is discounted at the moment as well…
Currently US$10.49, a 30% saving…
Frodo ripped a man’s limb off and beat him to death with it…
The man was Legolas.
I saw an elf get really drunk, he was Legolas
Can’t tell if really sore from climbing still, or from sleeping badly.
Maybe/probably both.
Sleep climbing will do that to you.
Just booted up The Witcher 3, and even on my Alienware I can barely run the game on it’s lowest video and post production settings. I have an Alienware 17 and a 17-4710MQ Processor, what am I doing wrong? Surely the expense of this laptop means it should run the program better lol
The Witcher has always been a difficult beast to master. One wrong setting and it goes from smooth fps, to chugging more than a fratboy on party night.
If your laptop (I’m assuming it’s laptop by the MQ) has an nvidia graphics card, download geforce experience, and let it optimize the config for the game.
I started playing witcher 2 on my system with everything maxed, and it wouldn’t even consistently put out 5fps. Geforce experience tweaked 1 setting (can’t recall which cos it was ages ago) and it jumped to 60fps, and I honestly couldn’t see any visual difference in details.
I was hoping you’d reply! It would seem I have an AMD Radeon 9 M290x dang!!
Welbot is amazing.
‘AMD Gaming Evolved’ is the equivalent program to track down. Have it running on my desktop which is handy.
Thank you kind sir!!!
So I had a little play, I dropped the screen size to the smallest setting and post processing and video to the lowest presettings.
The game is running pretty smoothly even at 60fps!
I also downloaded the ‘Catalyst’ driver which I don’t think helps lol.
Catalyst is just the name they give to their normal driver package isn’t it?
Yeah and the last update fucked up my resolution color settings some how =@ Dammit AMD!
lol yeah.. they have a bit of a reputation for shitty drivers unfortunately :\
Love the fratboy line.
I just played a game of Dota 2 that lasted 1 hour and 24 minutes. Seven Divine Rapiers were bought. At least seven. Our Kunkka bought five of them.
I bought back three times and had 577 last hits.
Suffice to say, it was nuts.
Did anyone on here ever play the Chip ‘n Dale Rescue rangers games on the NES (I think it was NES, I had them on my Ending Man). The music keeps popping into my head, they were pretty great platformers, especially in co op, using your pal as a projectile never gets old. The first one was released in 1990, 25 years ago, I now feel. It’s always weird tracking down old games sound tracks, my brain always upgrades them over the years to sound better and I’m always surprised how different they are in my head compared to reality. Golden Axe is another one that in my head there are guitars and the music is epic and such but in reality it’s all chip tuney. Same goes with graphics I’ll often remember things looking better. I guess it’s the whole looking back at something with rose colored glasses effect, fond memories often seem better than they were or something. Does this ever happen to any of you?
Absolutely happens to me all the damn time… at the oddest times too… walking down the st, and suddenly I find myself humming the theme from The New Zealand Story, or music from Super Mario World. Sometimes I’ll start humming something, and for the life of me, can’t put my finger on what it’s from. That annoys me, cos I spend the entire day trying to recall where I’ve heard it before!
For some reason, I thought I’d re-watch Kickassia on the weekend. I looked for a YouTube video that had all the episodes in one video, and watched it as if it were a film instead of a mini-series.
It’s weird, whilst it’s clearly bad, I kind of like it. Good jokes are few and far between, but when they hit, they really hit. I’m still cracking up at the ladder scene.
The cinematography and general camera work is abysmal, with all shots of the face of the character talking at a ‘bad touch’ level of distance away from their face. Kickassia struggles with trying to keep it’s “all-star” line-up of internet reviewers (half of which faded into obscurity years ago) decent film time. I feel the Nostalgia Chick was horrendously underused, whereas that 2D/3D guy had no relevance after 20 minutes yet kept popping up.
At least the plot is okay. It doesn’t have 29 sub-plots going on like To Boldly Flee did.
I think I should also talk about the fight sequences. It’s always the same 10 obviously missed punches with the stock sound effect and the film sped up. But I still liked it. I’m just about to start watching the semi-sequel, Suburban Knights. I remember this being the strongest of the trilogy.
Watch Roger Explosion. Best fight scenes.
I have a friend who makes dolphin noises. He says it’s inadvertent, but I think he does it on porpoise
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strrangeLet me help out here hi @strange =P
I was going to correct it, but she’s already upvoted it so eh.
Man… Euro Truck Simulator 2 is just… man… so damn good. 😀
That Xbox 360 I got for free?
No controller.
EDIT: Hey Xboxers: A Wired 360 controller will work on both the 360 and PC, right? Do they just have a USB cord? Might get one of those if so.
That’s next month’s salary.
Aw man. That’s the worst thing to be missing… you don’t even have anything to throw in frustration!
I might have a spare around my place if you’d like one? It’s wireless!
Geez! A free 360 AND a free controller. Everything’s coming up POW!
That’s okay, thanks for the offer though!
I can confirm a wired one does work on PC. I have a Battlefield 4 360 controller and it works just fine. If you can’t find a wired one you should be able to use a wireless one with a play and charge kit, that’s how I used my Xbone controller with my laptop.
Both wired and wireless work on PC – wireless just needs a $10 dongle from eBay.
I expect the wired 360 controller should work with a 360 but I’ve never tried.
I’d return it then 😛
I have an Xbox 360 controller for my PC for games that support it, it also works on the Xbox 360 just fine (has the guide button and everything even though Windows doesn’t generally use it).
I recommend it as an investment for your PC games even if you do score a 360 controller elsewhere.
So it just connects to the 360 via USB? Couldn’t see any special controller ports.
Yes, a wired controller (or a wireless one with a play and charge kit) will plug into an XBox or PC via USB.
Okay cool, thanks everyone. I knew a wired one would work for PC but didn’t know if they were made especially for PC 😛
To JB HiFi!
They did release one, (in red packaging iirc) that was made specifically for PC with a wireless dongle. Not sure if you can get them anymore though.
Yeah, I have a PC/Windows specific Xbox 360 controller. It’s literally just a 360 controller with a hardwired cable instead of a battery pack and charge & play kit. It was designed for PC but works on either (and came in a red package because it’s considered a Windows peripheral).
You know what pisses me off at 8am on a Thursday?
One. Line. Emails.
“Can you stop requesting access to system x, it’s not for your role, I will keep denying it.”
I don’t even know what the system is and my manager doesn’t even have the option to request the access… Pick the damn phone up and ring me you lazy SOB.
/end rant
Thanks for letting me get that out of my system. Hope everyone has a rockin’ Thursday!
I have a coffee, so it’s starting off pretty good!
Watched Man Of Steel for the first time last night, thank you Netflix 🙂 I liked it
this is not a #dadjokepagesixI’ll be renting a place for 2 months, with fast interwebz so I’ll be smashing Netflix! 😀
Even with my dodgy wifi reception in my bedroom, Netflix still runs at HD pretty solidly. I’ve had no buffering at all compared to something like iView. Prepare to lose the majority of your spare time
Have yet to watch that, hopefully remedy that situation in the next week or so. Heard mixed reports on it though, some say it’s fantastic, others say it’s crap.
I was never a fan of the Christopher Reeve films and as a result I’m not really fussed on Superman as a character, but I thought it was done well. The beginning’s a bit disjointed though
Only Superman movie I’ve ever seen is Superman Returns. Can’t remember a lot about it, but I remember thinking it was pretty good.
It was a loud, dumb and fun movie that wasn’t a particularly good Superman film.
Plus Henry Cavill is fun to watch, even straight. When he came out of the ocean, jeez.
Join me and @jordi in the man of steel fan club!
It’s lonely. Real lonely.
I didn’t mind it.
It was a bit dumb, but I dug the whole bit where he was being secret, early on.
I would’ve liked that to last longer.
There’s a new trailer out for LEGO: Dimensions and it stars a famous actor that we all know and love. Reckon it’s worth a watch even if you’re not really interested in the game.
https://youtu.be/VdM51rSLEvY
SO DAMN HYPE!!!
After an unfortunate incident as of late, I’ve developed a phobia of elevators.
I’m taking steps to avoid them.
#damnitfeelsgoodtobeapunster
thatescalatedquickly.jpg
Ah, this gave me the lift I needed this morning.
I know I’m in disbelief of your pun, but I just can’t help it but to stop and stair.
I’m in disbelief too. It was pretty poor and I really need to elevate my game.
We’ve got to keep a level head about this, or else the mods will come through with the banister hammer.
So I’ve had a copy of The Witcher 3 ordered for Xbox for a while now, I was going to pick it up tonight, but now I’m thinking I should get it on PC, seeing as it’s not an xbox exclusive (I told myself when I bought the Xbone it would only be for exclusives, and everything else would be on PC)
I have heard the KB/M controls are a bit awkward, but I’ve got both a 360 pad and an Xbone pad I can use on the PC… Plus, I can get the game for like $30 on PC… Win/Win, right?
Win for sure. Don’t game on a Mac. #PageSix
I haven’t tried picking it up with an Xbone pad yet, I can’t get past the tutorial currently because I can’t work out the button to throw a bomb haha.
If you have a strong gaming rig I imagine you would love it on PC.
Currently running a 6 year old i7 920 with a 2Gb GTX 670, but that’s enough to pull 60-80fps in BF4 (2560×1440 with everything on High)
I know nothing about laptops, but it sounds mighty powerful!
It’s a desktop PC 😀
If you have a rig that’ll run it better than the Xbone I’d go with PC.
As you said, the game is cheaper and you can use the Xbone controller. So unless you’re an XBox achievement whore the choice is a no-brainer.
I went into the computer lab this morning and all the computers were shouting at each other.
Yep, they certainly were Mad Macs.
Speaking of which, I’m going to the movies this afternoon! \o/
#PageSixNoApologies
That was terrible, even for you.
Thank you! 🙂
Was it in the “Main Jet Room”? 😛
Hint: it’s an anagram.
http://anagram-solver.net/mainjetroom
???
Hahahaha! That’s what you get for cheating.
All will be revealed after you see the movie.
To be fair, if I hadn’t cheated, I quite clearly would never have gotten it 😛
Motor enjima?
Can I just say, I love page 6, it’s the only way I can find puns to throw back at Anton
I do this as well. The worst ones I tend to read out to inflict on coworkers.
Been thinking about becoming a master racer recently. I mean, most games on PC these days have controller support, the games are cheaper and they can look so much better (if you have a good enough rig). I only use my Wii U for Nintendo exclusives, so why not do the same with my PS4 and buy all the multi-plat stuff on PC.
Reckon I’ll do it, it’ll just take a while to get the funds together to build the rig I want.
I like having physical copies of games, and I never thought I’d say this, but I think it’s time to go all digital. I’m just running out of room.
I put some new shelves up in our place jsut for our games because our combination games/DVD/bluray shelf was overfull and we had shit all over the place.
I don’t want to go all-digital for console games *yet* since I share most games with my wife (apart from games we simply have to play together like Destiny) and using discs enables us to have that flexibility, but maybe when we have all purchases tied to one unified account with multiple console permissions that might become a thing.
We’d also need consoles with more than 500 gigs storage. >:(
That’s exactly my point, if I went PC for all multi-plat games it would clear so much room on my already over full shelves as I would only have physical copies of exclusive games. Likewise for my PS4 hard drive, don’t think I’ve even had it for 12 months yet and I already have to delete games on a regular basis just to install new ones.
I reckon I’m probably near due for a PC upgrade and when I do it I plan to go all out. It’s not that I want to be a “master racer”, it’s just that I want the luxury of knowing that if I buy a game on Steam my PC will actually run it, a confidence I currently only experience when I put a new disc into my Xbox consoles.
I’ve got about 15 games on Steam that just won’t launch at all or make it to splash screens before crashing.
Never 100% confidence with PC and Steam doesn’t like to refund.
My thoughts exactly.
I think I need to plan a major upgrade for next year if I want to get a consumer Rift.
Probably major enough that it’ll just involve building a new PC rather than upgrading the current one. Seeing as I’m still running a Core2Duo, going to need the MB/CPU/RAM guts update, might as well get a new HDD to go with that, GPU is nothing special so that’ll need a bump, monitor is old, scratched and not full HD (goes to 1680), love my classic G5/G15 combo but a decade is probably time enough to retire the old KB/M…
So that leaves case and PSU, and the current hulking monstrosity isn’t really necessary for new hardware (plus means I can just leave the old PC as a running machine for some sort of repurposed).
So yeah, a ~$300 Rift is more like a ~$2000 new rig… I should start saving for that.
This is what I’m doing now too. PC as primary, get any exclusives on consoles.
http://feednewz.com/top-news/537089/the-witcher-4-will-be-ios-exclusive-22704
Really hope they announce a release date for No Man’s Sky at E3 this year. They got me all hyped last year, it’s been like 11 months since they announced it at E3 2014 and we’ve heard virtually nothing since.
Check out the New Yorker, they had a bunch of stuff on it like last week.
Cool, thanks man.
Just looked it up, here’s a link to a couple of articles if anyone’s interested.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/world-without-end-raffi-khatchadourian
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/what-a-dragons-mating-scream-sounds-like
Longer. It was announced at the 2013 VGX.
Didn’t know that.
The Witcher 3 is pretty incredible. Love moseying about, taking in the sights and sounds. Making steady progress on the main quest too while doing hunts and the like on the side. I find myself crippled with choice at the moment, though. Haha! Do I progress to this next town, or wait for a main quest to take me there? So now I’m here procrastinating. 😛
What build are you rocking?
I’ve gone straight magic, so now that I hit level 8, and put on the full set I made earlier (I was so underlevelled when I grabbed it), I’m rocking like 80% bonus spell power, plus my stamina regen is nuts.
Keep having issues with encumberance though, so I just bought a +70 weight saddle bag, and it still won’t help. :/
…
A bit all over the place at the moment with the build. I just hit level 8, though. I suppose I should focus soon. D:
Ehh, variety is the spice of life.
I just need stamina regen because I’m rubbish at the game, and need Quen to be up every three seconds (also because I’m playing it on hard, and can’t meditate to heal, so I start most of my fights at 20% health or so because I don’t want to waste another Swallow).
Oh, I’m playing on the default setting. Still get my ass kicked from time-to-time, so feel happy with this choice. 😀
Making a point to learn all the game’s systems early, though. There was stuff in Pillars of Eternity that I worked out towards the end of the game that made it so much easier/funner, so want to find that stuff early.
I love how reading the beastiary early tells you strengths/weaknesses of creatures. Makes me actually read the extended lore.
Did you see that tips for playing The Witcher 3 article on Kotaku yesterday? I haven’t played the game, but I read the article, and it seemed to have some good advice in there.
Haha! I never click on those. I don’t like Kotaku telling me how to play games, damn it! 😛
Also it’s fun to work this stuff out on your own. 😀
Fair enough. Here’s what seemed to be the most useful tips.
Meditating refills all your potions if you have [something, I forget what] in your inventory. Quen should be cast immediately before battle, and again during.@shane: Woooo! I’m playing right! That’s been my strategy already! 😀 Thanks, bud.
@shane
I think that tip should be QUEN SHOULD BE CAST ALL THE TIME FOREVER AND EVER IT IS THE BEST SPELL AND YOU SHOULD ALL WANT TO MARRY IT!
Or, you know, something.
I will happily get smashed by two wolves, but when I was level 5 I went and fought a level… 14? Wyvern, and killed it on my first go (After spending an hour trying to beat an 11 Vampire like thing in a cave, where I finally got comfortable in 1v1 combat).
Admittedly, it was a rather long and dull fight, since my strategy was “Quen all day every day, all other spells are bunk” but I won!
That was my Skyrim strategy. Wander, find trouble.
This is probably why I have never completed the main story of Skyrim.
“OK, so I gotta go here, huh? Oh, but this person has a quest. Hm. This quest is taking me close to this area I can explore to leave a fast-travel marker. Better go get that. OK, I’m getting pretty weighed down, better go back and sell crap. Oh huh, there’s another fast-travel point to explore. Oh, another quest in there, you say? Well, I better grab that… OK, this back-and-forth to sell crap shit is getting old, I need some property to safely store my crap.”
Six months later you’re the lord of all you survey, laden with dragon-souls and finely crafted armour, and the Fates are twiddling their thumbs wondering when you’ll finally get around to letting them progress the apocalypse.
Help me @DC, how do I throw a bomb?! I’m trapped in the tutorial and can’t mosey!!
You assign the bomb in the lower portion of the Signs menu (L1) and then press R1 on PS4 controller to throw it. Not sure on the PC controls, though. D:
On KBM, it’s middle mouse click (holding it down will let you aim).
My guess for controllers is that it’s the button that lets you lord it over me with how much easier it is for you to do the quick dodge (I think it’s R1/RB, but I’m talking out of my arse).
I’m going to try and play with a controller this evening, I’ve got a little USB wireless mouse that has left and right buttons and a scroll wheel that can be pushed down (I’m not sure if it counts as a middle mouse click). Cheers!!
@dc “How do I mosey?”
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/05/24
Also, where’s my Wild Hunt / Let it Go mashup?
I’m patient, I can wait.
Wut?
It wasn’t a request specifically for you, but a general one.
I mean, the hunt has ice and cold things and stuff, so I feel like combining the two is only natural for the internet.
I’m requesting him specifically.
Drop son off at the bus – check
Come home and make coffee – check
Turn on PS4 and start up Witcher 3 – check
Spend the morning Tweeting/TAYing and playing Clicker Heroes instead of Witcher 3 – check
Question for anyone with the knowledges, my missus’ PS4 has been ejecting discs randomly for a month or so now. Holding the power button in until there’s 2 beeps sorts it out for a short while but a day or 2 later it’ll go back. I got it from Big W just after Christmas so it’s still under warranty but will they just say to send it off to Sony? It also came out of the box not reading DVDs, Blurays yes but not DVDs and I’ve not bothered to follow that up yet so there’s a laser misaligned somewhere but I think the ejecting thing is definitely something different.
Pretty much everyone I know has the ejecting thing. I’ve solved it for the most part by rebuilding the database and moving it to a better ventilated spot. I read that temperature messes with the plastic below the eject button that makes the PS4 think its been pressed. Not sure how accurate that is, though.
*knock on wood* Mine’s worked perfectly so far.
*house explodes, and I feel the shockwave here, 25km away* Damn it.
Mine would randomly turn off and I think that was down to temperature rising too much and that’s been sorted ever since moving a second PS4 and TV from next to mine but hers will repeatedly eject it over and over again. I’ll suggest rebuilding the database though. How long does that usually take?
Not too long, just a minute or so. You do it by pressing the power button for seven seconds until the second beep. That’ll bring up safe mode and it’s there. But I still get it from time to time, so definitely not a permanent solution. I think @strange fixed hers by doing something more drastic, but I’ll let her tell you so I don’t accidentally break your PS4. 😛
Cheers, have told her to give that a go and see what happens. Seeing as it’s basically a defrag, I guess I should do that for mine as well seeing as I haven’t done so since day 1 😀
I removed the little rubber foot on the bottom of the PS4 that sits just under the eject button and haven’t had any problems since.
Can’t hurt to do that either 😀
Mine has never randomly ejected a disc. Must be one of the lucky ones. I was under the impression though that @liondrive was the only one with that problem.
From memory @freezespreston had a hell of a time with his as well.
Don’t worry @liondrive, @freezespreston and @cufcfan616, we all have problems with premature ejecting at some point in our lives.
I feel the need for a group hug
Mine ejects the disc from being turned off, not even in rest mode, and won’t accept a disc until I unplug it from the wall for 30 mins.
Are you sure you haven’t offended a voodoo priestess?
Mine has also never randomly ejected a disc too. It does just randomly shutdown and only launch in safe mode though.
Mine was doing that but I’m fairly sure it was a heating issue. I had it standing on its side in the stand but that blocks one side of fans. A lot of fluff accumulates in that groove where the fans are so i’d see if that needs cleaning and then see if it can be moved away from any heat source like your TV
Mind’s been fine so far but the only disc it’s had loaded (and it got put in once and has stayed) is Bloodborne.
I guess I’m yet to even eject discs normally, let alone abnormally.
Mines cursed with ejecting.
It’ll eject mid game, eject from power off, continually eject when there’s no disc in (because it’s already ejected it), won’t take discs, etc.
It hasn’t done it in a while, but the last thing I did to fix it was:
– While powered on, hold the power button until it beeps twice
– Unplug every cable
– Press the power button (it’ll beep)
– Remove the plastic foot nearest the buttons
– Plug it back in
– Move it to a more ventilated spot
– Hold the power button until it beeps twice
– Rebuild the database
Hopefully that fixes it.
Went out to check the mail. Ah, a letter, addressed to evilmonkey…. okaaay. open it up and it’s the bookmarks from @scree. Whoops, sorry, I forgot to give you my real name. Bet the postie was a bit confused when he saw that.
I’ll fix you up for them either today or tomorrow. Thanks again, they are gorgeous.
Speaking of, @scree, when can I buy a Prince of the Cosmos bookmark?
Let me finish the series first. Unfortunately, I’ve come down sick. (fuck you shopping centres)
It’s cheaper for me to get a whole bunch done at once then getting a few done.
Jocon did that with me once and I almost didn’t get the package cuz there was no one named “Techy” that lived in the household 😛
As long as you’re happy. I also gave you a note.
THURSDAY TAYDRENALIN SHOT
Last week I asked who’d be on your post-apocalyptic action squad, but one thing was missing: Your post apocalyptic nickname.
In a world of “Rictus Erectus” and “Lord Humongous,” “Jeff” aint gonna cut it. What’s your Mad Max-style RULES THE WASTELAND name?
“Iron Templar”
Jeffery
Not even, like, Mad Jeffrey?
Jeffrey “Jeff” Jefferies
Jeffrey “The Jeffrey Jefferies Experience” Jefferies.
There are some who call me “Geoff”.
Rustin Weldbetter
My nickname’s nickname would of course be “‘sgusting Bedwetter”
I have no illusions about the place I would have in a post-apocalyptic society.
Chief Justice Slayer
Irritated Ian.
Disgruntled Dave.
Ticked-off Ted.
Fed-up Fred.
Annoyed Andy.
Cross Chris.
Bothered Barry.
So many to choose from
Torso-Boy, because somebody will probably cut off my arms and legs with a chainsaw.
Bob
*narrows eyes*
Octanius Combustafore.
I wish I knew what Darren was saying to me in that cigar article but I cannot figure it out.
Schwarzenegger used the term “girlie men” in politics to attempt to emasculate his opponents. There was gnashing of teeth.
Economic girly man!
I still giggle when I hear that. Was such a typical ridiculous Schwarzeneggerism. Doesn’t clear up a whole lot though. Kind of random collection of sentences he’s thrown together.
Didn’t Matthias Corman use that one too?
Urgh. I’m an idiot. It just made sense. Was reading it as the comment he was referring to was poita’s not Arnie’s.
I’m having a shocker today.
Something something senator cornman, something something said originally by an American politician distantly related to cigar smoking. That’s all my detective abilities got =p
@dc
Life is Strange episode 3 spoilers:
No Max! What are you doing? Haven’t you ever seen The Butterfly Effect? Everyone know you don’t go that far back into time and change things. Complete rookie time traveler mistake (I’m actually a bit miffed the game didn’t let us choose whether to make such a drastic alteration to the timeline or not).
Otherwise it was a decent episode. Would have liked to have had more chance to interact with the other students, but having a nighttime escapade instead of doing everything during the day like the last two episodes was fun.
Still don’t care much for Rachel. I think she’s the weakest part of the game. I hate to use the term mary sue to describe a character, but I really think she fits the definition. Hopefully the last two episodes will reveal some drastic revelations about her that make her character make sense.
Kate Marsh is still the best, and it makes me sad to think we’ll probably never see her show up again since there’s the possibility that she’s dead.
Yeah, I like seeing the town at different times of day. It was nice to see nightly routines of people and the like. I don’t think we know enough about Rachel. It’s Chloe’s ‘mission’ for unraveling this, but if you’re not feeling it then Max’s mission of ‘avenging’ Kate is drive enough. I think we’ll see Kate again. I’m wondering if we’ll get to see inside the Vortex club from alternate perspective or from the original perspective.
I actually like the mystery of Rachel. I get the feeling that even her best friends didn’t know her. I think there’s more going on than we know.
I do like that the game lets me mention Kate as a reason for doing things rather than Rachel.I guess I just don’t really like Rachel because she feels too perfect based on what everyone’s said of her. I mean even if she was a perfectly great person and then had a hidden underside for Chloe to uncover, I still feel like she needed to be written as more of a person than an ideal, which is what I think she currently comes off as. But maybe that was intentional. I don’t know. As I said, I hope future episodes shed further light on her as a person instead of just revealing what happened to her.
We’ll definitely be going back to the main timeline I think. Too many choices have been made in that timeline that we haven’t seen the consequences of for them to just throw the whole thing out and start from scratch with a rewritten history.
That’s weird, man. I’ve got a completely different impression of Rachel. I think a lot of the ‘how great is Rachel?’ stuff comes from the same place of all the Kate sympathy after her suicide attempt. People remembering the good and putting her on a pedestal. It’s an interesting way to discover a character and she’s become more of a myth than a real, fleshed out person. I can’t wait to meet her to see what’s real. (Assuming she’s not dead!) Either way, only two eps left. It’ll be interesting to see how these unravel! Storm stuff is particularly ominous. Dead birds. Beached whales. Eclipse. Snow. INTERESTING TIMES.Anyways, back to The Witcher 3 while I ponder this some more. Haha!
Our real estate agent sure is fun to deal with.
We noticed that our rent payment dishonoured a week ago and let them know that we were going to fix that up. We get an email back saying we’re going to get a notice to remedy and asking if we can come in to pay in cash (pay cash was mentioned multiple times in the same sentence). I send an email back saying that we can come in.
Their reply?
They asked me to do it. Come on.
My real estate just sends me a text to let me know I’ve stuffed up a payment. Thankfully I’ve only gone into arrears a few times but each time they’re pretty easy going about it. I think it helps that the owner lives interstate and doesn’t seem to care too much with how the property is managed. It sounds like your real estate might be dominated a bit too much by the owner for them to really be more lenient. That or they’re just incredibly bureaucratic about this stuff which sucks.
I don’t think they realised that we were in arrears until I sent them the email.
Mine was sending me texts after I got into arrears while O/S last year.
This month, I finally sorted it all out so will hopefully be in the clear going forward.
Having dealt professionally with Real Estates most of my working life, majority of them are just dicks. Occupation seems to attract a certain type of person and they’re not usually pleasant.
I’ve only recently started renting, is this notice to remedy something I should hope I don’t get?
Yes. Avoid those if you can.
Isn’t this the same real estate agent you’re having a puppy turf war with? Sounds like they’re being pedantic and hard on you for the sake of it?
I’m sticking with incompetent.
My understanding is that you can dispute breaches so that they don’t show up on your record.
Well, a notice to remedy is asking us to remedy a breach. Making payment (which we’ve done) remedies the breach, so it should be sorted.
Right, but that means that you acknowledge there was a breach by remedying it. And that record stays with the RTA. But if you dispute the breach, contesting that there was no breach because your payment was made in a different way that they requested, it keeps it off your file. Because apparently all those ‘breaches’ (no matter how benign) can go into getting you blacklisted or losing a position over other applicants when applying to rent in other places.
We were eight days overdue because we didn’t catch the dishonour.
I’m more annoyed with how they handled it.
Yeah… fair’nuff. Not much you can do there.
Played through House of Wolves story last night… need to do it again on my other characters and actually listen to what’s going on. Might have to just be antisocial while I do so – last night people kept talking through the exposition. But from what I did manage to follow, it’s a huge step up from TDB.
Even without being able to hear some of the exposition, I can tell it’s told better than TDB’s story. Where Omnigul was “raising an army” with Sardon (I think… still not sure why both were needed for that) while hive on the moon are “trying to revive Crota,” Skolas is “raising an army” through a sequence of clear and logical strategic goals.And the strike! So good!
Best strike by far – similar principle as Omnigul, in that you’re chasing down a boss across a number of arenas, but (a) the arenas are new and interesting, with many nooks and crannies to hide and be flanked in, with enemies coming from all directions, and (b) he doesn’t regenerate his health when he gets to the final room, so the whole strike feels like one long encounter. Went through the nightfall without too many problems, although having two sunsingers proved invaluable – my Claws of Dire Ahamkara found their niche in its new Brawler modifier (aka. “reverse lightswitch” – guardian melees deal more damage).Prison of Elders seems pretty cool, too – played through the level 28 version before succumbing to sleep, and had a great time. Looking forward to trying the 32 version (and actually remembering to bring a key this time :P).
And for those wondering, no, there was not a single “Dinklebot, master locksmith” scene. A few times when I was seemingly ambushed by every fallen on the planet, but no artificial “defeat X waves to unlock a door” arena.
My biggest gripe (maybe only gripe thus far) with the expansion is that the new vendor gear looks terrible – really don’t dig the whole “military dress uniform” theme they went with – my warlock looked better at level 10. PoE gear looks awesome, tho, so might have to concentrate on getting that.
Does Dinklebot have any lines at all? I found it a bit weird playing through the last DLC story and not having him speak at all after 20 levels of having him chatting in my ear.
I noticed that too, seems he’s uncharacteristically silent.
… I don’t recall hearing him at all, actually. Main dialogue seems to be Petra Venj and Variks. I’m quite glad, tbh – he was never “Ghost” to me as his voice is too recognisable. I always imagined the real Peter Dinklage was stowed away somewhere on my ship, speaking to me through the ghost via radio or something.
The story was good although, probably because I had yesterday off so it was all Destiny with me and the missus, a bit short. I’m a little bit miffed again that like the starter quests that Eris gave you that disappeared off the map, the ones shorter than normal story missions, that seems to’ve happened again with the HoW starter quests too. Shame as they were quite fun.
It was brilliant to go through the Vault of Glass though. Great how everything’s tied together and not made to feel like each DLC is a seperate thing that just happens to take place in the same universe as the nextWe smashed through the level 28 Prison of Elders and then the 32 just the 2 of us, we did try the 34 level with us both at level 33 but that proved a bit too much. A Titan will be absolutely invaluable though as we were both a Hunter & a Warlock so missed that defensive shield loads. Got No Land Beyond (sarcastic woo) and a couple of new fusion rifles. I’ve got a few more treasure keys to get through though but I did get a key from the end of the Prison of Elders in one of the runs 😀
Crucible, I had a quick match on one of the new maps this morning before work, small Earth map based around a church. It really reminded me of a WW2 FPS map but that’s not a bad thing. Lots of cover to run around in. Also, the sidearm you get from Petra is pretty damned good in crucible. We’re yet to try out the Trials of Osiris though. I’m looking forward to that in a big way.
Endgame has hit pretty quickly though and I’m only 2 etheric lights away from being level 34. Not sure if I’ll be tempted to get everything leveled up but will have to be selective for sure. At least now the Crota raid will be significantly easier on hard mode 😀 hopefully they bring out a new raid half way between now and Comet, so around July/August time. E3 news would be good about the way forward.
Final thing, the inventory and vault space still need to be increased.
Basically, the level of content now available really should’ve been what was available at launch and then people might not have complained so much.
I need to get all of those exotic resources.
I also need to upgrade my Durga-Gnt skull bucket (Please bucket your skull before entering combat) as I like the flavour text way, way too much to abandon it.
I can’t hold it in any longer!
I hear there’s some guy going around and stealing Red Bull and coffee from the poor. I don’t know how he can sleep at night.
Oh god yes, this is the one.
I renamed the printer at home Bob Marley. .. because it’s always jamming…
I answered the phone today and all I heard was sneezing & coughing.
Another cold caller.
These so-called ‘foodbanks’ are a total rip-off. I deposited some cake at my local one last week, and when I went to take it out today they said they’d given it away to someone else. Unbelievable.
To the woman who helped me find my way when I was lost in the labyrinth, I think you’re amazing.
I can’t see an end.
I have no control and I don’t think there’s any escape – I don’t even have a home anymore.
Definitely time for a new keyboard.
It seems you’ve lost control.
I can’t go up and I can’t go down, I don’t have a direction anymore.
Oh wow somehow despite reading the post three times I didn’t even see the control part. I need to learn to sleep better 😛
Who wants to learn Roman numerals?
I for one.
Auto-correct simply means you end up saying stuff that you didn’t Nintendo.
ƒ(x) walks into a bar. The barman says, “Sorry, we don’t cater for functions.”
Take them. Take all the upvotes.
Page 6 brings out the dad jokes in me at work…
On phone to staff member early this morning who was trying to resolve a jam in an ATM. Got a call back just now.
Staff: Tech came today and got the rest of our jam out.
Me: Could you still eat it?
Staff: …
Me: Don’t worry.
Staff: ohhh…*forced laugh* haha
The best bit about transcribing? Finding a minute of silence where the Skype call dropped.
Holy shit @haggis you got in just in time
I do my best work at the back end…. of page 6.
PAX Peeps, if you’re still after flights, check out Jetstar – they have birthday sale fares now, esp if you’re taking a couple of extra days around the weekend, and are willing to go to/from Avalon airport.
…. Never again.
Ah yes, you had a bad time on your Japan flight
All the el-cheapo airlines don’t fly out of Canberra. Jerks.
You would also have the option to train from Canberra to Melbourne overnight?
I was also considering the eight hour bus ride.
Edit: Looks like I’d have to catch the bus to Albury and then hop on the train.
Word of warning: don’t do the red-eye 8 hour bus. That trip SUUUUUUCCCCCCCKKKKKKS
Cheapest/best option for Canberra is probably still bus to Sydney, fly from there (if you can get a decent flight). Bus to Sydney is like $25 one way for the nice bus with Murrays, 3 hour trip.
It definitely beats the shit out of bussing to Albury.
I like the tilt train in Qld.
In business class (which isn’t that much more expensive than economy) there’s heaps of leg room, power points for your devices, and the staff come to bring you liquor and ask you if you’d like snacks instead of you having to shuffle your ass back to the food car. It’s also usually much quieter.
I’ve been meaning to organise a QLD train holiday since we moved here… 6 years ago…
It’s actually reasonably priced and can get you to some nice places provided you’re only after a getaway sort of holiday.
Although would probably need a hire care wherever we end up which could probably undo the bang for buck balance.
One of the best holidays I’ve ever had was business class on the Indian pacific across the Nullabor. Now that was nice, dining car + lounge car. First time I had ever eaten Kangaroo as the food was incredible.
Get up, go have breakfast, your room/cabin is cleaned and switched to seats, then when you have dinner you return to a fresh made bed. And seeing the centre of the country, just open space and nothingness, amazing
http://theregister.co.uk/2015/05/20/verizon_fibre_is_so_much_cheaper_than_copper_were_going_allfttp/
*sigh* even the notoriously greedy and shoddy US telcos are moving forward.
But maybe Afghanistan and Iraq still use copper? They’re the kind of World class networks that we’re aiming for right Malcolm Turnbull? Let’s just ignore what everyone else in the World is doing in preparing for the future, Turnbull ‘invented the internet in Australia’ (sic) so we should be protecting his business interests ahead of future generations
Oh come on, the US can afford to make changes like this considering how much they’ve avoided becoming in-debt.
I think I might grab the 360 from the bedroom and plug it in out here in the loungeroom to see if it really was the 360’s power cable that needs replacing, or if it was the power board or power point that were the problem. Then after I’ve figured out what needs to be done to make it usable again I might finally be able to go back to Skyrim, and The Witcher 2. Hopefully I can still get a replacement 360 Elite power cable, if that is indeed the problem!
I’ve got a power cable and brick from my old 60 GB. The disc drive died, but I’m pretty sure the cables are all good. If you need it I can send it up to you.
On Tuesday I finished the most recent Dresden Files book.
Goddammit. At least Jim Butcher writes faster than GRRM or Patrick Rothfuss.
Ooh, I’m one or two (or maybe even three?) books behind in The Dresden Files. I really need to start keeping up with series I enjoy. Or maybe not though because by the sounds of it there may be cliffhangers. 😛
Last couple were Skin Game, Cold Days, Ghost Story, and Changes
Have you read Changes? It’s true to title.
Last one I read was…looks it up on Amazon…Changes. And that was 2010 so no wonder I don’t really remember what happened. #oldladybrain I’ll have to reread it and then get the others.
I should rewatch the show, too. It was fun.
SPOILERS FOR CHANGES
Let’s just say that Harry getting killed was not the end of his problemsI’m up to Ghost Story. Really need to get it read! Might take it with me when I go away this weekend.
So you’ll see a book inside the next 24 months?
Gave up on GRRM until he’s finished writing the series, then I’ll read it in one hit. Rothfuss… that man has alot to answer for – I’ve read 1 & 2 of Kingkiller Chronicles three times and need the last book! Although the novella for Auri was amazingly different and an excellent read.
$10 says GRRM doesn’t make the final book.
You’re probably right. Even at his current pace. And to further compound matters, I predict his motivation for writing will die off quite a bit once the show overtakes him.
I’ll take one of those bets too…
Is it under the ‘Exotic’ wager section anywhere?
After writing the above I realised that this is the last time I’ll ever be able to wait for a Terry Pratchett book 🙁
It’s a bit weird not to when it’s something you’ve done your entire life.
It sucks to have your favourite authors die, that’s for sure.
Ook*
🙁
You want an author that gets shit done, look no further than Kevin J Anderson.
I went and saw him give a talk and he personally promised me (while signing some of my books) that he would release his whole series on the yearly schedule that he set out when he started with the major-event skeleton of the 7 book series.
Yeah, but then I’d be reading Kevin J Anderson.
His Star Wars stuff was awful enough that it had to have like an entire novel retconning it.
There’s quality, and there’s quantity. Kevin J Anderson is definitely good at the latter.
He’s definitely a prolific writer.
Bloodborne expansion confirmed.
Excited already!!
Bloodborne DLC?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/05/so-i-have-been-asked-by-many-people-if-we-are-making-dlc-for-bloodborne/
Ten minutes late. Oh well.
MY DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK!!!
Everyone loves it because it’s hard and obtuse yet rewarding when you master it?
Short-lived excitement followed by massive grinding.
Fully analogue with motion controls?
Initially small, but with a large expansion pack?
Can be difficult to find someone else on a similar level to play with you at the right time so you just play with yourself or settle for the first nearby stranger?
Singleplayer for the most part but with multiplayer components?
Replayability is endless until it gets too old for it to work on your systems?
@haggis Doesn’t really come with a tutorial, you just have to figure it out for yourself?
Wonderful.
Penis?
Officechat:
“So we’ve got a Telstra tech wants to complain about the site he just attended.”
“Odd… why? Unsafe?”
“Apparently he’s upset by the sign-in procedures they made him go through.”
“Oh, one of those hardened sites in the city that needs pre-certification and site-induction? Morons in workflow shouldn’t have sent him there if he didn’t have his site blue-card. They have a list of techs who can attend those sites.”
“No, not one of those. Said he had to sign a bunch of forms and shit and wait ages and be escorted.”
“That’s a new one on me. Where was the site?”
“Let me look it up… Oh.”
“Oh?”
“It’s a prison. The prisoner phones went down.”
“What, he thought he could just walk in, do the work and walk out like a CBD MDF?”
“Apparently?”
“Walk in and out… of a prison? Un-escorted?”
“I’ll go back to his TL and mention that.”
“Try to work in a joke about a ‘cell-phone’.”
“You’re the only one who does that, I’m not letting you drag me down with you.”
Drag them down. Drag them down like they’ve never been dragged before. Drag them down like you’re mounting a revival of ‘Priscilla’.
I hope it was a runaway success and he doesn’t get a sentence from his TL!
I customized the red bull gag and the dolphin noises gags for this space, and they totally killed.
Earlier this morning we had a morning tea for one of the staff’s 60th… we bought her a pass to go whale watching. I made sure I signed the card extra-early so I could be the first to do a ‘whale of a time’ joke. I drew a little cartoon whale, too, because if you’re going to be the one who takes up prime real estate, you better make sure it’s well-used.
Edit: Oh, and the cold-caller! We have a guy who is sneezing and sniffling like crazy, I was able to ask him if anyone had hung up on him yet, mistaking him for a… cold caller.
bwahahaahah I hear these kind of stories a lot. The IMT team I trained with manage the NSWDCS. It’s amazing how often phones get broken in the prison system!
I’m surprised he wanted to go at all. I used to send carpenters, sparkies and plumbers out to fix up public buildings around Bris. It’s amazing how many people refuse to go to a correctional facility after 1 or 2 visits.
TAYlist for the 21st of May 2015
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by my fucked up handGnarls Barkley – Crazy
Savage Garden – I Knew I Loved You
Split Enz – One Step Ahead
Mr Probz – Waves
Police – Wrapped Around Your Finger
David Guetta ft. Emeli Sande – What I Did For Love
Kisschasy – Opinions Won’t Keep You Warm At Night
REM – Everybody Hurts
One hour show, because of the aforementioned fucked up hand, it’s hurting like a bitch.Peeps I would like to share a story; a story of an adventure; an adventure I had last night in the Witcher 3. Obviously don’t click if you want to go into the game fresh –
Here I was, a lowly level one Witcher running around the first town you come across in the game, since I didn’t pay too much attention to the name I shall call it Tutorial town 1 or TT1 for short. TT1 seems like a friendly enough place with lots of kids running around, flowers to pick, and even your friendly Hearthstone Inn game. As I make my way through TT1 I come across a notice board; “Quests!” I think to myself as was traditional from previous Witcher games, I click on all the notices and see which ones translated into my quest/logbook.Two seem to have made it into my quest log and one of them seems fairly close and has an interesting enough back story about a farmer being afraid of a nearby well. Silly farmer I think to myself, it’s probably just some drowners or ghouls scaring you off or possibly even a crazy peasant who’s galavanting around dressed like a monster! Much too early for the game to have me slaying monsters; after all I’m just a lowly level 1 Witcher who can’t even craft bombs yet! So off I go to see this farmer about his scary well, picking up all the flowers I see on the way. Afterall what would a Witcher be without all his flowers?? Eventually I make it to the farmers house and as is also traditional with Witcher game hospitality I make sure to steal everything that isn’t bolted down! I mean it wouldn’t be much of a game if all you could pick were flowers! Once I’ve finished cleaning up the mess of a farmer’s house I go and speak to him; you’d think he’d give me some additional compensation for helping pick up all his rubbish but nooooo straight to his lie and his drama! Very well I think to myself let’s see what all this fuss is about. Apparently his daughter’s fallen ill from drinking from the nearby river filled with dead bodies and the only cure as advised by his doctor is to get fresh water from a well! Unfortunately said well appears to be haunted by the spirit of a woman in a wedding dress! All very corpse bride and while I questioned the underlying medical issues of a little girl drinking from a river of corpses and the common sense of the doctor who prescribes fresh water as medicine I decide to help this poor farmer out! After all I wouldn’t be much of a Witcher if I couldn’t use my flowers to slay evil monsters!
However before I can take the farmer’s request the game prompts me to haggle the price for said quest; seems only fair so off I went to slay said wedding spirit after haggling a fair price for fresh water. As it would so happen by the time all this yapping for the quest was done it was midnight outside and as I dislike riding horses in adventure games I decided to walk to the well. Needless to say the howling wind and lack of any sunlight put my poor Witcher’s nerves on edge… however I found a way to ease said nerves as I made my way across this forest! Can you guess? Why yes! Picking flowers and singing a tune! With a sufficiently stocked bouquet I find the abandoned village (if 3 houses makes a village) and a well in the centre. It appears there are scorch marks all around the well and on a nearby dead ghoul; “Looks like I’m dealing with a noonwraith” my good ol Witcher says to himself. I translate in my head to ahh a corpse bride it is! Good thing I brought flowers! It seems I need to find out what troubles this spirit so in order to lay her to rest and release the well from her spell! So off we go searching the nearby houses for clues to see if thse meddling kids can make a difference after all! Eventually I come across a journal, depicting the story of a couple, perhaps a family who have broken away from their cruel lord and started a new life and home in this abandoned village. It seems the lady was gifted a bracelet by her betrothed which she treasured with the last entry stating the lord wished to make amends and looked to welcome them back to his lands. Further detectivizing leads my Witcher to conclude that her husband was killed probably by the lord’s soldiers and she was beaten and dragged to the well and hung there! And as everyone who watches Supernatural knows the only way to bring rest to a spirit is to burn the bones along with any item that holds the spirit to this world! Further exploring and clicking reveals the corpse eventually leading to a stand off against the spirit before I can put her corpse to the flame! It seems since she’s a ghost I need to use one of my spells to trap her and force to her manifest completely in the physical realm; a valiant struggle later I walk away with a tropy of my fight to inform the farmer of my success! Needless to say I’m thorougly impressed with the depth of detail given to a measly sidequest and I’m glad to see CD Projekt have held to their tried and true formula from previous Witcher games =] I just wanted to share this experience with others playing this game as it’s a welcome contrast from some of the other AAA RPG’s seen of late where side quests have turned into shallow fetch/collect quests with little backstory.
tl;dr – Witcher 3 is awesome and I’m looking forward to spending the next month playing it! =]
Mate. MATE.
Wait until you get to the Cinderella side quest.
Someone give me the run down on anti-depressants.
This is going to be weird, but for what?
Anti-depressants can be used to treat depression, anxiety or OCD, or sometimes a combination of the three. Different anti-depressants work differently for everyone.
I am on Fluoxetine (otherwise known as Prozac) and that is to treat my OCD and Anxiety. I do get depressed occasionally which apparently is a side effect of the other two.
Prozac has a lot of side effects, but none of them have affected me, except the increased anxiety in the first two weeks of taking them. I’ve been on them for 8 years. I can’t come off them as I tried it once and ended up having a 7 hour long panic attack. I ended up in the hospital as I was vomiting, my blood pressure went up, my breathing was erratic, i was shaking and also had a temperature.
I don’t know if this helped at all.
Because I think mine are starting to drain my passion and motivation.
Keep up with them, but if after a week you don’t find them helping, go back to your GP. There are many kinds and each one affects people differently, so it may take a while to find the right ones.
I started these in February. I did go back and they were doubled.
Hm, some can make you feel lethargic, I know I did not long after taking them. But if they’re really bothering you, speak to your GP. The brain is terribly complicated and I can’t believe how incredibly fucking lucky I was to have it right the first time. It’s possible they may have to adjust the dosage again.
As Scree said, there are a whole bunch of different types which work in slightly different ways, generally by affecting neuro-transmitter chemicals in your brain. Also have a bunch of side-affects that vary.
You can’t just buy em over the counter anyways so it is a case of talk to your GP to work out what you personally would need.
I’m not a fan of that route, so there a couple of other options.
St Johns Wort is a herb you can get in pill form from wherever and kinda works like a mild generic anti-depressant. Slightly sedative so helps with mild insomnia too, aka makes you kinda tired. I use it occasionally; takes a day or two start to work, effect is fairly subtle. Best used for a few weeks to take the edge off and stabilize your mood when shit looks like it’s getting bad rather than as a “cure” or immediate fixer-uppper.I hate it but exercise also genuinely helps with depression. Again, not a cure. But there is no such thing if we are talking Major Depression.
I was also reading about stuff called psycobiotics recently. Sounds interesting, might be worth researching.
Hope this is useful.
Caveat: If you’re taking antidepressants or about to start on antidepressants, DON’T use st johns wort. There are interactions there, as it’s psychoactive. Talk to your GP
Oh yeah, definitely. Don’t mix and match.
Like potentially dangerous, life threatening interactions so you need to tell your prescriber and pharmacist if you are taking multiple medications.
Take some time off work when you start taking them. They can really mess you around at first. The ones I got put on caused me to be unable to stay awake but work wouldn’t give me time off so I ended up not taking them. Others can mess with your mood and temperament until your serotonin levels even out.
I kinda did take time off work. Considering I lost my job.
Since everyone else is being serious:
The majority of anti Ds are SSRIs, which prevent Serotonin from being reabsorbed by your body (Serotonin making you happy, in theory), thing is, SSRIs are waaaaay less effective in men than women (men’s bodies are less good at re-uptaking it, thus we have more naturally, and so preventing its re-uptake is less effective).
They’re also only really useful if whatever you’re dealing with is chronic, though there’s a lot of studies with varying thoughts on their efficacy in that regard.
Basically what I’m saying is that I’m boring, and that SSRIs are totally over prescribed, so if given one you should ask for the reasons why.
This is something that’s always intrigued me. My housemate takes them and seem to work for him but then I hear about the side effects for a lot of anti-depressents sometimes being worse than the depression itself. My missus also has almost a reverse reaction to some drugs like valium for anxiety won’t calm her down but pump her full of energy instead.
I’m not really in the know though, I just find myself really lucky not to have the need for them. Also lucky as I have a bad gag reflex and in almost 31 years have never been able to swallow a pill 😀 I have a lot of time for anyone in the situation to need anti-depressents though for whatever reason
I am not sure it’s constructive in a forum where multiple people have said they take antidepressants to talk about side effects if you don’t have personal experience with them, as it might discourage people who need them from actually taking them. Not that medication is the only way to treat depression, but to many people it’s an important way to stabilise their illness.
I wasn’t meaning to create doubt or anything like that, but point taken. As said, my housemate takes anti-depressents and by all means it keeps his depression under control which I think is fantastic as it’s enabled him to find a job and get more settled in his life. But I’ve also seen him after he’s neglected to take them for a day or two and I could see the effects it had on him (not to say the same effects would happen to everyone), as he was irritable and less focused than before.
On the other hand, my girlfriend has taken them in the past for depression and anxiety and had adverse reactions to them and so prefers counselling sessions. While not personal experiences with anti-depressents, I do have close hand experiences with them
Do they help people with their illness though? The majority of times yes, otherwise doctors wouldn’t be prescribing them. As @blaghman said though, it’s important to know why they’re being prescribed
So, as I make more bookmarks, should I consider making a website? I mean, there is deviantart and redbubble but…I’m not sure.
What sort of website? Something that’s just sort of simple you can reskin and use as a showcase, or a full on online store with an automated checkout system? What sort of technical knowledge/interest in the tech side do you have? It’s the sort of project that can go from something fun to play with to a full time job really quickly depending on what you want from it.
Just a simple one where people can see and buy bookmarks. I know a little bit of coding but I’m also pretty finw with learning
If that’s the case I say go for it. Provided you’ve got the time to spare and enjoy monkeying around learning that stuff you can’t really go wrong. Worst case scenario you figure out it’s not worth the hassle to you and walk away with a better understanding of a handy skill set to have.
I would probably wait until I’ve got a decent amount of bookmarks before I do it, I was just wondering because no one else on TAY wants Zelda bookmarks =P
Actually… I hadn’t got around to it before, but do have you got the link (HAHA) to them handy? I think I could probably do with a few of ’em.
http://imgur.com/a/zhwNg I also have foil now, I’m just being a lazy shit about it (sorry)
Hmmm. How many you got? I was thinking I’d like two of each in the set, and don’t particularly mind about the foil if you don’t wanna. I’d want at least one set without, maybe one set with if you get around to it. You got a paypal to wire teh monies to?
I only have gold foil atm and the only part being foiled is the triforce emblem. I plan to get black but I *think* I have to order it online from the US or UK.
As for paypal, I believe the address is scree(at)y7mail(dot)com but I can also email you my bank deets if you want
Yeah, mail me the bank and total cost when you’ve decided on it, I’ll come back with delivery address. That might be better than taking a guess. Mine’s my username at gmail.
Etsy could be a good option? Provides the platform for promotion and payment gateway I think.
No idea what the fees are…
I have an etsy store with nothing in it
Sounds like the ideal solution.
I had issues with postage last time, so, I’ve kind of learnt from that
Squarespace has bulit-in e-commerce stuff, right? Might not be worth it since Squarespace will be more expensive than building one.
I’ve never heard of squarespace
5 hours until Carmageddon Reincarnation v1.0 is live!
Get hype!
MAD MAX.
MAD. MAX.
HOLY SHIT.
MAD MAX.
Also, Undad shot up to 95% funded while I was in the movies… but MAD MAX.I… I thought it was good.
Like, 8/10.
I don’t know what you guys were watching.
HYPE AND ADRENALINE ON WHEELS.
BOTH MY ARMS WERE TOTALLY TINGLY AFTER THE MOVIE FINISHED AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHY. I THINK THAT MUST MEAN I REALLY LIKED IT
Did you fall asleep on your arms? I get that when I fall asleep on my arms.
No, I did not. I sat riveted for two hours. Was not leaning on arms, sitting on hands, or anything.
Maybe an adrenaline reaction.
Adrenaline tends to make me feel the need to puke, which is why I usually prefer to avoid it. And, oddly enough, might be the reason I got severe reflux halfway through… I didn’t think the film was affecting me that way and instead put ithe reaction down to the frozen coke.
As an adrenaline junkie, that reaction would suck.
The thrill of hurtling down a slope, only your skill and luck between you and a broken neck is second to none. The jitters post-high are also fantastic.
I tend to do everything within my power to not only avoid a broken neck, but situations which might result in a broken neck.
There is certainly also something intoxicating about the rush, not just the chemical effects but the psychological empowerment from what it has just helped you achieve/survive, but going into that risk situation willingly isn’t my bag anymore.
I know right, when it comes out on DVD I’m so gonna buy it and play it through my surround sound so fucking loud.
MAD MAX: So good you had a stroke.
Now you’ve seen it if you were wondering about my anagram earlier (Main Jet Room), it was of course
Immortan JoeTHOUGHTS:
SURVIVOR FINALE:
YES MIKE! I still don’t know how you don’t like Mike even a lil bit, Pow :P. I was cheering him on throughout the whole finale :D. That fire challenge was baaaaaaad, but not as bad as the one in S13. I really hated seeing Dan’s face and him shaking his head… I JUST URGH ARGHHH GRRR! He was such a grumpy old man on the show, but I do have to admit, the things he said after Mike’s apology kind of redeemed himself a bit. A tiny tiny bit. Rodney is delusional too. Since I’m typing this just after the finale (haven’t seen the reunion yet), I really hope they realise how fucking stupid they’ve been (Dan, Rodney and Will) after they’ve re-watched the showSURVIVOR REUNION:
Jeff said since Mike won he’s ineligible. I didn’t think Mike would win just because he was such a threat and everyone wanted him out. Winning that many Immunity Challenges in a row is crazyyyy. I also assumed they wouldn’t do a whole “CONGRATS! You won a million dollars, but you’re not on the next season” at the reunion, but I guess they did. I wonder what that’ll be like though, getting pumped up to play another season only to be told you can’t (with a hefty sum of cash though :P). Can’t wait for an ALL WINNERS SEASON! (make it happen Jeff!). Joe *swoon*. Called the Will apology… but I still fucking hate him. SCUM! Rodney’s birthday cake and signed photo lol… Holy moly Joaquin’s hair is crazy longSURVIVOR SECOND CHANCE CAST THOUGHTS:
Haha I got so happy seeing them backstage during the finale. Wait, are they going straight to filming of the season!? That’s nuts! This reveal is awesomeeeeee. WOO KELLY WIGGLEWORTH! KIMMY mmm, JEFF mmm okay!, KEITH FUCK YEAH! PEE GEE (can’t spell) – can’t remember her but Sugs says she’s good! CIARA AND VYTAS WOO! (extra WOO for Ciara), Terry cool! Savage YES! (this dude looks the same as he did 12 years ago), ABI ehh but she’ll cause chaos BUT NOT AS MUCH AS #CHAOSKASS OMFG. Monica ehhh, KELLY WENTWORTH WOO! Surprised Shirin got in she was kinda “love or hate”, but I’m cool with that. STEPHEN WOO. WOO WOOOO WOOOOOOO WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! WOOO WOO (I like saying his name). FUCK YEAH TASH! OMFG SHANE! only one I’m disappointed about. Jeremy is okay but Shane is better! SPENCE AND JOE WOOP WOOP. I pretty much called the cast except for Shane who I thought would be in for the guys and I was only sure about half of the girls (but the ones I were sure about got in). Gonna be a great season! SEE YOU ALL THEN!SEASON 30 THOUGHTS:
Yeah it was alright! I liked it overall but not loved. Spent most of the game not really supporting anyone 100% but just picking people I liked and rooting for them when all that was left were people I didn’t like :P. I’d say it’s in the middle but towards the topish or so when it comes to seasons (top 40% I guess?)@powalen @sughly @phoenix @masha2932 @mrtaco
Finale:
YAY MIKE! So happy for him. Glad that Jenn and Shirin said what they did. He killed the immunity challenge, and his mum thought she failed him. Clearly it helped him.Yeah, what a rad finale! 😀 Everything about it was good – the best person by far managed to win, against all the odds. People booed Dan AND, Jeff totally is like nah mate you a sexist soz, look at how sexist you are in this video. It was the best. EVEN THEN Dan is like “….NAH!”. the worst. And Shirin shutting down Will’s apology – amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed that finale/reunion, would watch again. 5 stars. But heck yeah that lineup for next season is awesome!! Pretty sure every person I put my one measly vote in for ended up in there, maybe one or two at most didnt. So many rad people! Yessssssss!OH! OH! And Jenn, as amazing as ever! I really liked her, I hope she gets to come back again T__T As another side note too, I wish someone said something about Mike actually being right about all his so called paranoia!! UGH, that annoyed me that they didnt. I think the biggest problem seems to have come with how he approached people about it, which left the lasting impression. It didnt seem as in your face in the show to me… I think irl he mustve been a lot more forceful and in their faces? I dunnooo.Wow, I don’t think I’ve seen a jury tribal where the jury spent so much time talking to the jury. Even more than the contestants, it seemed.
Also the reunion show is crazy short now? It seemed to fly right by.
Okay, off to bed.
Nighty-night.
Night night, Crazy prince :*
I finally started watching Arrested Development.
Oh god, so much awkwardness.
You’ve made a huge mistake.
Isn’t it great 🙂
On the plus side, you’ll understand all the quotes!
Like, “I’ve made a huge mistake,” or, “I don’t know what I expected.”
For a show cancelled because of ratings, it had a huge impact on the popular culture landscape…
Yeah, but since when have ratings been any indication of a shows quality or enduring popularity?
Oh, Firefly… D:
You’re absolutely right. I definitely wasn’t trying to indict its quality, though!
It’s the Box Network all over again.
You’ll soon realise who the worst person in the Bluth family actually is
SPOILERS
It’s Michael. 100% the worst.Man, all 3 seasons of that show are great.
I hear there was a Ron Howard spinoff show that occasionally featured dialogue from these same characters, and that it split audiences right down the middle. That sounds painful.
Can’t sleep, the Babadook will get me :O
So high-intensity conflict zones seem to be great ways to kill a few hours these days >_>
Though it seems strange that now with all the bigger ships in there my Sidey can stick around for that long, whereas back when they were only Vipers and Cobras I’d be killed or near-death pretty quickly.
Eurovision!
…I’m the only idiot up again, aren’t I?
Sorry.
I hated it when I was in England, I hate it because I’m English, I’ll always hate it as it’s just Eastern European countries giving each other a reach around.
The only decent thing about Eurovision is the Father Ted epsiode. My Lovely Horse is one of the best songs ever written. FACT.
https://youtu.be/RG0QKaaLTCE
Short version because the server ate my first reply:
I like the chance to listen to new music that I otherwise wouldn’t, without being overly sceptical as to consumer marketing driven, bloated middle men feeding parasitic shadow council ‘recording industry’ origins.
The occasional reach around doesn’t seem so bad in comparison.
Weekend Eve is here 😀 hopefully tonight me and the missus can get The Witcher 3 and lose the weekend
In the meantime on Destiny, tried to go through the Crota raid at level 33, even on nornal mode I’m sure the thrall have been made faster as they’re catching me up with my agility maxed out. I only want radiant shards :'(
TAY, shit week has been shit!
I’ll try not to clamour on too much, but
Missus came down with a headache last Friday, seemed normal, headaches happen. Saturday the pain got so bad she started throwing up everywhere. Pain killers didn’t seem to do the trick.Went to the gp Monday, he gave her some anti nausea pills, which didn’t work, decided to go to the ER, 8 hours later we were told that it’d be at least another 4 before we could be seen by someone.
Missus couldn’t stand it anymore and we ended up going home again so she could sleep…
Went back to the doctor Tuesday, got some migraine meds which didn’t do shit, still can’t keep down food and headache hadn’t changed… Went back again Wednesday and she got an injection which seemed to take some of the nausea but came back with a vengeance in the afternoon… She couldn’t sleep that night, ended up calling a after hours docto. He gave her another injection and told us to go to the ER again if nothing changed… Went back to the ER and stayed for a couple of hours because we were told there’s was currently a 2 hour wait… After 2 hours I checked again and we were told the wait was now 6 hours, missus had a panic attack and we ended up going home… Again… Yesterday the gp ordered a ct scan, and we’re currently awaiting results…
I have no idea what to do to help at this stage,
I suspect we’ll have to try a different hospital… I’m averaging about 2 hours of sleep, I’m stressed and doing my best to be there for her…
Hopefully we’ll get some answers today
Sorry for the rant…
TL;DR This week can fuck right off
Woooow does that even make sense? I need more coffee
I don’t think coffee will help, but this might:
http://translate.google.com
🙁 I hope she’s okay
I responded to this but Tay ate my post. D=
Support is the best you can offer right now.
Damn dude that sounds horrible… =\ I honestly hope it’s nothing serious for your missus, any idea when you get the CT results?
Also if you’re in a city (I recall you saying you were in Syd/Melb?) you should have no shortage of hospital options. Maybe find a larger private hospital, while it might cost more out of pocket you’re likely to be treated like a human being for the money paid.
Sorry to hear that, Big hugs man
That stinks, man. I hope you get to the bottom of it soon. Sounds like your GP is doing all the right things, though, even if the ER is screwing you around.
I don’t know much about the area you live in, but is it worth taking a longer drive to a smaller (or larger) hospital the next time an ER trip is mandated?
Yeah I’ve been looking around and found one that’ll definitely be our next stop, but we’ll see how today goes I suppose… GP has been pretty good to us, but yeah I think it’s getting to the stage where hospital is our only option, but due to her pain level and anxiety I can’t convince her to stay too long :-/
Maybe take some items/gadgets from home to make the wait less stressful? Pillows, blankets, snacks and something to watch movies/tv shows on? Anything that’ll help her pass the time quickly if you guys are forced to wait.
Yeah I’ve been thinking about this too, guess we’ll have to see if that becomes necessary… She claims to be feeling a bit better today but she’s said that before… GP doesn’t reckon it’s anything too serious, but what makes me nervous is that she’s living in less than a piece of toast a day, and been like that for nearly 7 days
Food poisoning can take anywhere from 1-5 days to completely clear a person’s system based on the strain so its possible that’s whats at play here. That said don’t work either of yourselves up on what if scenarios; focus on her recovery and seeing if you can get into an ER/hospital any time soon for a proper check up/tests.
I’ve got my everythings crossed for a speedy diagnosis and recovery!
If she’s vomiting, they should be admitting her rather quickly to keep her hydrated. The worst part is that distractions don’t work for anxiety when you’re in pain. Tell her it’s a little bit of discomfort for relief sooner. Remind her that the panic attack will pass and that while she feels like she’ in danger, the hospital is the safest place to be. Tell her that she needs to be brave and hang in there. It is frightening, but she can do it.
Really sorry to hear that man. Medical stuff can be so so stressful and exhausting. I hope you guys have a better weekend. Catch up on some sleep etc.
Hope she feels better soon.
Not really a solution, but see how she goes having a long warm bath. I find even when the headache isn’t tension based it helps to relax which gets the body back on track. At one point I’d just throw a snorkle on and lay under water for two hours. Weird but effective. Headaches that bad can get you stuck in a bit of a freakout loop (especially if you’ve never really had them before). Everything snowballs and even though all you need is 30 minutes with a clear head you can’t break the cycle long enough to get it.
Also for some reason when I would get a headache that was bad enough to result in vomiting canned spaghetti and toast was always easier to keep down. I’d make some, preferably in Jaffle format, be unable to eat it, leave it on a plate for a few hours, then when it was cold and I was desperate I’d throw down some Nurofen and eat it the whole lot of it.
Oh, and give Gatorade a shot. I always assumed their claims were dubious at best, but it’s pretty effective when you’ve got a headache (also for hangovers).
Aw man, that’s awful. Good luck dude.
Sounds like you and her should come visit her parents for a bit of stress free time. This is not a ploy to get you in town so we can all catch up. At all.
Shit! That’s horrible man. Hope they figure out what’s wrong soon so Mrs. Pixel can get some relief.
*hugs*
We have had a VERY similar week.
That sucks! Partner, yourself or other? Don’t feel obligated to share of you don’t want to.
Lame-o girlfriend.
It’s like, “The Witcher’s out. Could you not?” you know?
Because me and @trjn and @gingerchris86 are plotting, what do you guys think of as quintessentially cyberpunk? Not so much the look/tech, but the themes and the tropes.
Untouchable corporations.
Big mechanical cities surrounded by desolate wastelands – essentially a world that’s been pretty much burned out.
Hard-boiled characters with gritty dialogue and strange new slang. Also at least one murder mystery that goes right to the top.
Oppressive and corrupt government with shadowy organisations working for/against them. Environment that has somehow deteriorated in to a permanent La Nina since it’s always raining, and also the sun has become a black dwarf because it’s always night. Neon production is a profitable industry.
Edit: redacted.
Need coffee. Will answer the actual question soon.
Take 2:
Special characters with close to magical powers due to programming / hacking abilities
Absence of current accepted standard forms of government. Law enforcement automated by machine, and people left to their own devices outside that.
Much greater class divides, more clearly pronounced brackets of wealth/power
“Need coffee” seems suitably cyberpunk.
My first response was for brass as a primary construction material for steam punk. Because me read good.
I was going to come up with a list and then I realized everything I was going to type is basically in Shadowrun =P So just copy that! 😉
That Neo Tokyo level in Timesplitters 2.
The important thing that makes things Cyberpunk is the characters living on the fringe of a high-tech society. I.e. They need to be ‘punks’.
It’s why you can reasonably argue that Mirror’s Edge is cyberpunk despite everything being clean and there not being cyborgs running around or anything.
Most Japanese cyberpunk has the setting be post-disaster or post-apocalypse as well. Ghost in the Shell is set after a nuclear war for example, and IIRC bubblegum crisis’ Megatokyo was built after the original sank due to global warming.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/05/how-much-of-this-gen-y-internet-slang-do-you-understand/
Never even heard of probably 90% of them. Some are just outright lame, I mean “Totes appropes”??? Who the fuck says that.
Gosh darn whippersnappers.
#oldmanmonkey
Throwing shade? Idk man, I think you’re titf.
You’re throwing who on the whatnow!
Y’know the term ‘throw shadows’ (with much the same meaning) was in a 1977 Billy Joel song…
I’m Gen Y, and I don’t understand most of these. I’m okay with it, though it makes me realise that no matter how hard I try, my kids’ world is probably going to be incomprehensible to me.
Doesn’t smh mean so much hate?
Shake my head is how I’ve always seen it.
It’s definitely Sydney Morning Herald.
Excellent.
Ohhhh, I know people who say ‘totes’ in front of ANYTHING.
People my age… who seem to be trying to convince themselves that they aren’t well into their 30s and are still hip and cool and relevant and ‘totes’ single by choice and NO MUM I DON’T KNOW WHEN I’M GOING TO HAVE A BABY I HAVE TO HAVE A PARTNER FOR THAT NO I AM NOT GAY FOR THE LAST TIME STOP ASKING. Or something like that. (I try to avoid work discussions about biological clocks.)
This is totes other people at your work you’re talking about, right?
Hahahah yes totally, not AT ALL about me! I get jokes!
It is an interesting and disturbingly large demographic, though. Intelligent, attractive, making decent money… and unlucky in love.
Although, for a given value of ‘unlucky‘. I swear if I have to hear, ‘there are no good men out there’ one more time… That attitude seriously tests my sympathy. Their minimum standard for ‘good’ is unbelievably fucked up.
I find I meet a lot of people that are Damn great at the social thing in a work environment but have no clue how to be open & relaxed in a social environment.
They spent so long trying to earn a lot of cash, they forgot how to relax.
Most of those are re/misappropriations of older sayings. And some aren’t. They’re just abbreviations i.e. totes.
Some are just shit.
Never heard of most of them, but wouldn’t be caught dead saying any of them. Pretty sure this is more a Gen Z thing, not a Gen Y thing. At the very least, a Gen Y-and-a-half thing. I could decipher some of them, tho, from slang that I was similarly disdainful of a decade ago, and it’s comforting to learn that people aren’t globally promoting the Sydney Morning Herald.
I think I got 4 of them. Mostly because of people complaining about them. I know how to youth.
Watched The Road on Netflix last night. Really good film, highly recommended. All the feels.
Apparently it’s based on a Pulitzer prize winning book.
The book is very good, and the film is a very close adaptation. You can see how much of it Naughty Dog ripped for The Last of Us.
Same writer (Cormac McCarthy) as No Country for Old Men, which is also a very close adaptation.
Yeah, I really got that “Last Of Us” feel from it and wondered if they’d used it for the basis of the game.
Edit: Also, it’s a real shame it did so poorly at the box office.
It’s not exactly the most pleasant of viewing, so I’m not surprised.
The Road, Children of Men, and The Walking Dead are obvious inspirations for TLoU, and I think the writers have commented as such.
As Mark’s away we’re probably not going to get a “What are you playing this weekend”, so.
What are you playing this weekend?
Myself, I’ll probably spending some time in The Witcher 3, also some AdVenture Capitalist, Clicker Heroes and maybe Puzzle & Dragons Z. Also have to try and catch up on Game Of Thrones.
What about you guys?
Edit: That’d be right, 1 minute after I post this it appears. Carry on, nothing to see here.
Destiny. Also hopefully knock off Broken Age,
We got one 😛 http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/05/what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-293/
@evilmonkey MAY 22, 2015 11:14 AM
Alex Kidman MAY 22, 2015 11:15 AM
The beauty is so thick you can carve it.
Witcher 2. I looked up a wiki to see how close I am to finishing so I can get stuck into Witcher 3. I might just get to play that before the weekend finishes!
Edit: OH, and I will probably be leaving Clicker Heroes open on my machine the whole time, making Steam give the impression that it’s all I’m doing because it only shows one open game at a time.
I’ll be playing The Witcher 3 so hard.
Might break for multi fun because weekend, but other than that…
For gaming lasting longer than 4 hours, consult your doctor.
Carmageddon Reincarnation and The Witcher 2.
I’m not sure. It’s been too long since I actualy played a game, rather than my typical Pokemon Puzzle Challenge on the bus and random podcast games. I suppose I might dip into Skullgirls, I’m trying to get back into it.
I get back from Thailand on Saturday morning. Have been playing Atelier Ayesha on vita while I’m away and loving it so might finish that. Will have The Witcher 3 there when I get back too however I’m tempted to hold off on it for a few weeks to wait for bug fixes etc.
Every report of a bug or a crash or other technical issue is just fuelling my Smug Engine, but I’m keeping any output in check pretty well for now. Looking forward to playing the game one day.
I preordered but had no intention to play immediately. I think CD Projekt are a wonderful developer and have lots of respect for them but the last two games were quite buggy at launch. Fixed a two ir three weeks down the line.
I’m not sure I have enough willpower to wait though.
I CE’d for the sake of preorder / supporting the devs, but then when they got a big pile of Microsoft money to mess with the CE I figured they didn’t need my preorder any more.
Will pick it up on PC once patched / enhanced / I have a PC that can handle it.
I hate the fact that I can’t drink coffee without transforming into half-man, half-stomach pain. I’m quite tired today , so I’m trying to power through sleep with good old fashioned sugar-filled snacks. They taste like poison. I don’t think the fact I had slightly-expired chicken this morning has helped.
Don’t drink coffee on an empty stomach then.
How full my stomach is is irrelevant. I simply can’t handle the caffeine. It does weird things to me. Aside from the typical symptoms of sore stomach and a toilet vacations, it caused legitimate paranoia last time I drank it. It was a terrifying experience. It’s been two months since I last drank it. I’m like a recovering alcoholic, counting the days since my last drink. Don’t let me go back, Red. Don’t let me go back.
My guess is you’re drinking it too strong. Try tea, it’s mildly caffeinated.
Using sugar to power through something will make you crash. Go for low-GI stuff
NO COFFEE CLUB HIGH FIVE! *lethargically raises arm*
Ha! Losers!
…
…
…I need a coffee
Hah! Suckers! I’m currently playing Edward Fortyhands but with coffee!
I didn’t drink coffee either until recently. I mainly do it at work to waste time since it seems to be acceptable to take 30 minute long coffee breaks :D. Bonus is when I’m with the CFO and he’s shouting everyone.
I have been like that for the past 7 years. it sucks big time. I drink tea instead 🙂
Installed GOG Galaxy to take a look and it seems liOH MY GOD HOW MANY GAMES HAVE I PURCHASED THROUGH GOG!?
When the hell did I buy the Phantasmagoria games?
Yeah, I had some junk in there I don’t remember, too… I’m pretty sure some of them were freebies that I added because y’know… FREE.
I’ve never given gog money, yet I own 10-15 games
I installed TW3 last night, and at the end it asked if I wanted to install Galaxy. I said no and it apparently installed anyway. When I ran the game it started pushing through Galaxy updates, so I crashed it out. Took ages, got me annoyed so by the time I was in the game I had to give myself 5 minutes so I didn’t start off in a shitty mood.
Basically, for my first impression that program can go die in a fire.
Its UI is a bit confusing. They’ve gone a bit too far in the minimalist style and made everything an educated guess at what you’re looking for.
My first impression was a bit of a dog, too… I couldn’t log in to check my library. The Witcher 3 pre-load had recently started or was just about to, so I guess their authentication servers were getting hammered.
There’s a lot of hostility in that rage quitting article 😮
You should rage-quit it.
I think my psp still has bite marks in it after a particularly bull shit race in Ridge Racer 2 😛
Point is, everyone had their breaking point, and I’m just glad to read I’m not the only one that has outbursts on the odd occasion… Luckily I now know what games trigger that response in me and tend to avoid them (God damn fighting games :-P)
The bite thing surprises me.
Not because I don’t understand wanting to bite things in frustration, but because I take it out on my wrist, not whatever control is in my hands.
I… Don’t quite know if that’s better or worse 😛
Since I can’t actually break through my skin, the worst I’ll do is bruise myself, so it’s fine.
NO THERE ISN’T YOU TAKE THAT BACK OR I’LL SMASH SOMETHING
Oooh! The nearby maccas has one of those build-your-own-burger touchscreen terminals! FINALLY! LET’S DO THIS. TIME FOR THE PERFECT BURGER.
“…Build-your-own burger is unavailable, please order from the menu.”
Somehow this is actually worse than if I’d gone into maccas just expecting to order from the menu. 🙁
It’s gonna be just another ice cream machine debacle. When I was a first year uni student we would drive around to maccas for a mcflurry, 3/5 times the machine would be broken.
It’s a conspiracy I tells ya.
Finally gonna see Avengers tonight. Sent a message to… um. Dammit, I never had a codename for her. Polish Girl? That’ll do. And she hasn’t seen it yet. Woo!
Also messaged Stalker Girl earlier in the week, hadn’t spoken to her in a couple of years. Then ended up hanging out at Kripsy Kreme that night. Apparently that’s a thing. Lots of people lining up at the drive-thru too. Weird.
Socialising!
Another to add to Gooky’s harem it seems, fricken jealous 😛
Edit: Also time to open the popcorn stand!
Well to get technical they’re both rather old entries on the ledger, going back up to six or seven years 😛 Somewhat lapsed friendships because I am bad at maintaining them, especially with the demise of MSN which used to be what kept us in touch with each other.
Tried reviving another the other week that I hadn’t spoken to in a couple of years, but on testing the number with a call I got a machine telling me “this number is not currently accepting calls” or something. Not sure if that means it was disconnected or maybe she’s just suspended it while going overseas again or something.
polish girl is quite a… Unfortunate and suggestive name to my ol’ dirty mind… WHICH MAKES THE STORY SO MUCH BETTER! *grabs popcorn*
Yeah, I’m…I’m not reading it as someone from Poland.
She … works in a trophy restoration business?
She has to polish other people’s trophies, because she never comes fir-…I should stop.
I’ve inspired many a blush by ‘gentlemanly’ insisting that nice guys always come last.
I remember a polish girl when I was at tafe years back, she was hella cute but also really shy and not very sociable at all so I could never get to talk to her unfortunately 🙁
With a name like that, no doubt that dirty mind of yours is thinking of invading her 😉
I approve of Polish girl, because I was with a very nice Polish girl for a while and naturally everyone knows that shared heritage means that they are all the same. *thumbs-up*
Unless you don’t mean she is from Poland but rather polishes things. Naturally I assume this is a lewd euphemism and I approve of that, too. *thumbs-up*
I think it means she has a crippling addiction to eating shoe polish.
Blackface aficionado, actually.
Oh no! Now I disapprove. 🙁
That just makes it all the more enticing, right? 😛
Insert wholly inappropriate computer nerd joke about reverse polish here.
Had never heard of that one before. Thanks, wikipedia!
Are you saying she is the perfect girl for Gooky as she has no equal?
Of course, thinking about Polish girl and why I broke it off with her when she was pretty much perfect, I realized I may have been briefly channeling Groucho Marx: “Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.”
And of course, that got me looking up Groucho Marx quotes, and the misattributed quotes which actually belonged to other people (like the very excellent line: “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedy,”) and from there it’s a short link or two to just general quotes pages on certain subjects, like politics.
People have been disillusioned with politics for a really long time. For the same reasons that we are now. Oh well. At least we can chuckle at the timeless insight of long-dead cynics.
Tbh things probably could have happened here, except right around the time of that she went on a two month holiday to Europe and I wasn’t overly keen on starting anything right before a huge gap like that (particularly having just recently sworn off the whole long-distance thing). Also coincided with the Cosplay Girl crush taking right off, especially during that absence. Messy times >_>
After watching The Road last night and starting to replay The Last Of Us I got to thinking, what if there was a real apocalyptic event. I did a bit of looking around and I found this site.
http://www.aussurvivalist.com/
They list the chance of a zombie apocalypse happening at 40%. Oh my.
Has that site been updated since 1996?
It has a big focus on Avian flu so I think it is scarily recent
It looks like my high school Geocities page.
Not enough stuff flashing
‘In construction’ animated .gifs are the most important part of a good 90s website.
(Edit: And the dancing baby, too. Because fuck whether it’s appropriate, have you SEEN that little cutie?)
Flame divider lines.
Oh yes.
Tigs is right, though. <blink> is the defining HTML code of that era.
Edit: I did look up the blink tag, wondering where it had got to and mildly outraged that you can’t use it here… I kinda love the wikipedia entry for it.
@transientmind
That is great. I can just imagine the look of smug satisfaction the dev would have had on his face.
But the reminiscing and my god how similar so many of the sites were. Basically tick off the big things.
Under construction gifs, flame dividers, starry background image, blink tag, h1 in atrociously bright colours.
Well, that page was last updated in ’08, and is citing something from ’05, so it’s not that recent.
I mean, still more recent than I’m sure we’d all like, but still.
Maybe they’re still hiding from y2k?
It says 2012 right there. I don’t think it’s been updated since then though
I don’t think that’s how percentages work.
Actually working on a Friday sucks. It’s almost 3 and I’m still in the office, doing stuff, sober as a rock. I think I’m coming down with spreadsheet madness. =(
Best cure for spreadsheet madness is to stop playing EVE online!
I’m still in the office now, working on upgrading the Microsoft Office installation on a handful of Terminal Servers for a client 🙁
I managed to find the last form I needed in the pile and skipped out just in time to dodge peak hour on the train, but rest assured I will dedicate my Destiny bounties and drinks to you guys who didn’t make it.
I’ll invite you to a destiny game today and forget all about this madness!
Watched Suburban Knights the other day. So much better than Kickassia. It’s actually way better than I remember. The comedy was better, the use of the actors was better, the camera work was dramatically better, and the action scenes were used as a source of comedy rather than stupid filler. The fight scene on the playground was great. The twist was really funny. I’d recommend watching it, it actually holds up as an indie film rather than a weird internet thing. I’m kind of dreading watching To Boldly Flee, though. It’s 3 hours long and really complicated and disjointed. Urgh, maybe it’ll surprise me.
I also watched Captain America: The First Avenger last night, courtesy of me discovering that my library does free video rental. It was pretty good, but not what I was expecting. The CGI at the beginning of the film used to make Chris Evans look like less of a chiseled god was terrible, though. It just was really unconvincing, and all the proportions were wrong. The romance was not handled all that well, felt like it wasn’t given any time to develop. I feel the ending was handled weirdly, perhaps should have been a longer scene so it didn’t come off as too rushed. The fact that the opening minutes kind of spoiled what was going to happen was not a plus.
(Is that a spoiler, I hope not)
But how cool were the joe johnston dieselpunk planes? The planes, man! and the lasers!
@evilmonkey – Monkey just wanted to post here to say hope you don’t take our little debate on the other article personally and I’m glad you’re engaging with your own opinion =] As I’ve always believed rational debate is the surest way to expand one’s horizons!
Nah, I don’t take offense. TAY people are good people.
Full hour of work to go AND NOTHING TO DO
Draw me a picture of @blaghman in a muumuu, Marilyn-Monroe-billowy-dress style.
10/10, would buy.
DM me & I’ll hook you up 😉
I hope you’re @shadowrize
Check out @PstiDrdn’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/PstiDrdn/status/601626763446202368?s=09
Oh shit, that’s really good!
Also, HA!
Ugh, 5hrs till I can get home and jump back into The Witcher 3. Loving on that game so hard right now.
Anyway how have you all been? I have been absent from TAY for a couple of years now!
I gave up and bought TW3 on Xbox one lol, you?
I pre-ordered it for PC in July last year 😛
26 hours in so far but not very far in the story. Keep doing all the side quests and contracts! Such an immersive game, enjoying it immensely. I’m gonna call it as GOTY now.
Because I’m super bored and sick of staring at the screen doing nothing:
Show Us Your Gaming Childhood
Commodore 64
Atari 2600
Apple IIe (Green monochrome natch)
Sega Master System (Chunky red and black Mk 1)
PC (Pentium 75 suckers! *flips off consoles*)
Sega Mega Drive (I’m sorry, you have some great games and thanks Grandma)
Nintendo 64 (Weren’t we all The Nintendo 64 Kid a bit when we got them?)
PSOne (First purchase from my own money working a job along with 34cm TV for my room)
After that I finished school, headed out on my own (read: kicked out) and more or less got everything new except a Dreamcast.
Good times.
Edit: If handhelds included there was a Gameboy brick, A Gameboy Color, DS, 3DS, PSP and Vita.
I had a gameboy pocket, and we had a Pentium 166.
Then I got a PS1 and then 2.
I had a PSP at uni, and a laptop I did some games on.
Then it was 2010 and I got a PS3
Cake gave me his old 3ds
And that’s about it.
-Couldn’t tell you what kind of PCs we had, all I know for certain is that there was a shiny new PIII (the ~400MHz one) at some point around year 6 which lasted a few years til it blew up. And the main PC games that got used on it were The Sims, StarCraft, Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2, and a couple of NFS entries.
-NES (the start of it all. Almost missed out in favour of a SNES, but my aunt was only getting my cousins a NES so we were given one as well so us kids could swap games and stuff)
-GB (fought through so much car sickness to play this)
-SNES (there is a video of me and my sister doing an N64 Kid on the Christmas we got this)
-N64 (late in its life would be when I “switched on” as a gamer and got all collectory and actually read up on games, discovered they could actually be an appreciable medium)
-GBC (Christmas present during a three week holiday of America, played the shit out of those on the bus tour)
-GBA (I always forget that this was the first Nintendo I bought for myself, sister got herself one too for some reason)
-GCN (And somehow I convinced her to go halves with me on this. First one where my collection started to go “crazy” by my then-standards, had about 30 games by the end of high school. And exploded to 50 not too long after)
I’m trying to remember if it was during the end of the 64’s life or into the Cube’s that I got told “if you want any more games, you’re going to have to buy them for yourself”. The last games I can specifically think that I got given as presents were Paper Mario and Metroid Fusion, so maybe it was just into the Cube era.
The two PCs at school, for Sim City 2000 and Lemmings
SNES (’98 or ’99, iirc – $40 at a pawn shop after saving up. I really wanted a N64, but no way in hell I could afford one on $5 a week :P)
Gameboy Colour (Turquoisy green one – got it and Pokemon Red for b’day in ’99, I think)
Gameboy (grey brick – because when someone offers you a free Gameboy, there’s only one correct answer :P)
GBA (clear cased one)
Xbox
Then I finished high school, moved out of my parents’ place and down to Sydney, 800kms away. And got a little frivolous with my youth allowance when the X360 came out. Ah well, living off microwave noodles for a few weeks wasn’t so bad… :3
I played lots of other people’s Commodore 64s, Ataris, NESs & Master Systems before finally getting my own
Green Screen GameBoy at my 10th birthday.
Megadrive at 12
Got uncle’s second hand gamegear that xmas
Sold MD fora SNES at 13
swapped gamegear for another GameBoy because someone pinched the first & I wanted to play Link’s Awakening.
Sold them both at 14 to buy a N64
Sold that at 15 to get a PlayStation (still in the shed)
OFFICIALLY AN ADULT
Got another n64 for $50 (sold for credit at eb)
Got a dreamcast(still in the shed)
ps2(plugged into a crt in the spare room)
GameCube as soon as Metroid Prime was announced(in the shed)
DS day one with @gutsoup , we tested wireless multi in Toombul food court(still here)
First & only computer, the infamous Craptop ©®
psp(dropped it, bout another, put em together, now Frankenstein plays roms)
360(died & replaced, both here)
3ds
ps3
Vita
Ps4
& a gba at some point
Would have been just before Metroid Fusion came out.
Let me regale you with my long list of gaming devices (because I’m still basically a kid I’m counting everything):
– PlayStation 1
– Gameboy Colour
– Computer
– PlayStation 2
– PlayStation 3
– Wii
– PlayStation Portable
– Xbox 360 (later given away for free)
– PlayStation 3 Slim
– Laptop
– Nintedo DS XL
– PlayStation 4
– Nintendo 3DS
– Wii U
Plan on getting an Xbox One sometime in the future though 😀
While I’m at it, my first game was Spyro the Dragon.
Get a Vita, lame-o
Get a life, Jim-o! >:P
I plan to also though! 😀
I see what you did thar
Hmm. Atari, NES, Master System, 486 which sort of just upgraded and grew until every part was replaced, SNES, N64, PlayStation, Mega Drive, GameCube, PS2, new PC from scratch, Wii, 360, PS3, Wii U, XBOX One, PS4. I paid for all that except the Atari and the first PC myself but it’s wasn’t until the GameCube I really had a steady income I could blow on this stuff so the libraries were small until then.
[Edit; Oh yeah, I forgot about the Saturn and Dreamcast. The Saturn didn’t really have much going on for me since I was already well into N64, and no matter what the history books say owning a Dreamcast in it’s prime wasn’t actually amazing.]
Man, me & my pals played so much DreamCast.
I continued on playing single player games years after.
somehow never played Skies of Arcadia though, a Damn shame.
2002 Christmas – Playstation 1. (My cousins gave me their 4-year old PS1 so they could upgrade to a PS2)
2003-ish – Game Boy Colour
2005 Christmas – Playstation 2
2007 Christmas – DS
2008 – Wii
2010 – Xbox
Late 2013 – Gaming PC
It’s been a while since I’ve got that “fresh console” feeling. I have toyed with the idea of buying a TurboGrafx 16, but sanity always prevails. (Unfortunately)
– Mac Plus (1986) (first computer)
– Atari 2600 (1989) (borrowed from a friend and also my uncle had one)
– Sega Master System II (1990) (in a bundle with a light gun and rescue mission, plus G-LOC and Prince of Persia)
– Macintosh LC575 (1994) (traded the old Mac Plus in toward it)
– Compaq PC w/Pentium 133 (1996) (14.4k modem later upgraded to 36k. Played lots of TIE Fighter and heaps of MUDs)
– PowerMac 5500c (1997) (replaced LC575)
– PowerBook 3500c (1997) (first laptop, Dad’s old machine)
– Sony PlayStation (1998) (Dad bought to occupy us in the 3-4 months I was off school when we migrated to Australia)
– Updated PCs (Gateway Pentium II in 98, Pentium 3 in 99 IIRC)
– Sega Dreamcast (1999) (hired one for my birthday. Loved it. Got one for Christmas. Still have it.)
– Upgraded PC again (1999, gog cheap because Gateway were pulling out of Australia)
– Microsoft Xbox (2001, but it was a deferred birthday present)
After that I was at university and not really a kid so was buying my own systems, built my own PC with parts I bought on holiday in Hong Kong for example. Subsequent console purchases were, in order, PS2, DS, Gamecube, PSP, 360, PS3, 360 JP, Wii, 360S, Vita, US 3DS, AU 3DS, PS4, Wii U, Xbone.
1990 – Sega Master System 2 with Alex Kidd built-in.
1997 – Our First PC (Pentium 100)
1999 – PS1, Gameboy Color.
2004 – PS2
2008 – PSP
2009 – PS3
Mid-2012 – My very own PC.
2014 – PSVita/Wii U
NES
PC
SNES
Gameboy (brick)
N64
PSX
PC (#2)
PS2
PS2 (#2)
PS2 (#3)
360
Wii
PS3
360 (#2)
3DS
Vita
Wii-U
PS4
Wow, my original PS2 is still going, did all yours break, were broken or sold?
I bought em, sold em, had second thoughts, and bought em again 😛
Well done 😀
(As you can see, I sorta did the same with n64, got a third recentlyish after finding Goldeneye cheap(ish))
Atari 2600 (family) – combat, pitfall, assorted dodgy ‘5 games in 1’ collections
286 (family – highlights include Commander Keen, Duke Nukem, Battle Chess and Test Drive)
486 (family – highlights being Hero’s Quest, Monkey Island, C&C)
Gameboy brick (birthday present from awesome aunty – and my Pokémon obsession began not long after. First game I bought and played to death was wario land)
SNES (put it on layby at target/Kmart for months and paid it off with pocket money. Highlights include lost Vikings, super metroid and breath of fire ii)
Pentium II Thinkpad (family ‘work’ laptop, but hey, it ran TA)
N64 (OoT, Mario Kart battles, smash, mandatory GoldenEye multi) bought the 2 controller bundle from hardly normal post Christmas sales
Gameboy Colour (pokemon silver)
Pentium 1 spare parts machine (my first PC instead of a family computer – half life, messiah) – built it myself from spares that were donated to me, cobbled in a few upgrades like 3 video cards as I collected them. Yes, I ran a pentium 1 with 3 screens and 3 video cards at one stage…
Athlon 800 w/ geforce 2 (lan gaming – tac ops (CS for UT), diablo 2, op flashpoint)
GBA (pokemon sapphire, golden sun)
GameCube (tales of symphonia, RE4)
(*swapped cube with friend’s PS2 for a few months at one point so I could play FFX)
DS phat (no more day 1 / preorder hardware)
Wii (family Christmas present after I’d buggered off overseas for 3 months, the reduced food bill would have covered it easily…)
Core2Duo beast (for 2007, running an 8800 GTX) – my main PC, still running now
360 – guitar hero, tales of vesperia
PS3 – demon’s souls
3DS
Wii U
Vita
PS4
Atari 2600, 268, Gameboy, SNES, master system 2, 486, n64, dual pentium 500, gba, pentium 4, xbox, gamecube, gamecube, core 2 quad, xbox360, wii, ps3, xbox360, ps3, i7, dsixl, wiiu.
Pretty sure that’s it. Might be a little out of order..
Oh boy…
Family PC – Can’t remember what it was, and it constantly changed. It was always better than the PC I had for years
Sega Mega Drive II – Birthday present when I was 6
Game Boy Pocket – Parents gave it to me when I was stuck in hospital after having appendicitis
Second PC – Can’t remember what it was, but it was built out of spare parts my dad had and was mine! But it could only run a few things.
Super Nintendo – Found at a school fair for $10! Later sold to my cousin for $50. PROFIT!
Nintendo 64 – Birthday present from my parents when I was 10
Game Boy Advance – I can’t remember if I bought this or my parents did
Playstation 2 – Christmas present from parents, 2003
Gamecube – First console I bought myself, 2004
Nintendo DS – Birthday present, I think. Later traded it in for…something.
Gaming PC – First PC I put together myself, 2004. I’m not going to list PCs any more, as they’e been constant since this, just with various upgrades over time
Xbox 360 “Pro” – Traded my PS2 and games. Cost me $28 after that. 2007. Sold to my now brother-in-law.
Playstation 3 – Bought myself, 2008
Nintendo DSi – Bought myself, 2009. Later traded.
Nintendo Wii – I can’t remember when I bought this, but I later traded it in.
Nintendo DSiXL – Yep. Another DS. Traded the standard DSi for it.
Super Nintendo – At some stage in here I was given another Super Nintendo by my old EB manager who had about 12 of them.
PSP – It was the 3000 model. Can’t remember exactly when I bought it, but it was later traded in.
Xbox 360 “Elite” – Modern Warfare 2 version, 2009.
Nintendo 3DS – Picked up launch day. Traded DSiXL for it.
Nintendo Wii (2nd) – Bought pre-owned from EB when they had them super cheap.
Playstation Vita – Bought during an Amazon sale, 2012.
Nintendo 3DSXL – Pokemon X/Y variant. Red. When did this come out? 2013?
Playstation 4 – Bought because Destiny. Hardly played Destiny. 2014.
Xbox One – Bought because reasons. 2014.
Nintendo New3DSXL – Majora’s Mask variant. 2015.
And that’s about it!
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND GUYS. SEE YOU IN NEXT TAY.
Edit: xox
Where are you going?!
Don’t leave me!!! :O
WHO IS THIS?
WHO IS THAT?!
YOU KNOW WHO IT IS!
I feel this sums up the taybies taste in music well
http://9gag.com/gag/ao07Nrx
Oh to be so broad 😛
There are people here who like punk rock and disney. I also like a wide variety of stuff.
I forgot 9gag was a thing.
Where are my “working late on a friday night” bros & bro-ettes at?
No?
Anyone?
*crickets*
…
*cranks music in the office*
*slides in on socks*
JUST TAKE THOSE OLD RECORDS OFF THE SHELF!
I just walked out at like 4. The bossman decided to have a meeting with my team in the meeting room right infront of my desk as well, so I’m pretty sure they saw me skedaddle ;D
😛
Grrrr…
I was at the office untl 830, got to the train station, board says 25 minutes to my train…
nek minnit “attention passengers, the next train has been cancelled due to mechanical issues.”
In the end, I didn’t get home until 1030 or so… However, now I’m going to go pick up my Witcher order!
AVENGERS WAS TOTALLY RAD
Also I think I might be in a band now? Maybe? Or soon at least. After I go around and tune the piano. Huh.
😉
Hello.
Hi!
Only now I realise this is a winky face, not a smiley face.
🙂
Late night internet browsing and came across this…
http://i.imgur.com/9pSIY1k.jpg
:O
duuuuude
Correct answer:
Neither.Ok, so… let’s talk Clicker Heroes…
WWWWHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYY!?!?!??!?!
Discuss.
I.
DON’T.
KNOW.
All I know I don’t click any more as I get double gold and a damage boost for idling.
I’VE MADE THE GAME EVEN LESS OF ONE!
This sounds like a thing I shouldn’t ever try.
Although I’m curious where the threshold exists where idling for progress costs more in power consumption than the value of the microtransactions.
Here’s the thing. Game doesn’t even have to be running to play itself. You just boot it up every now and then and collect the money from off line time, buy some more upgrades then move on.
Hang on… really? I noticed that the monsters were losing HP without me clicking, but that’s insane… I’m going to check.
Yeah, each hero has a DPS (Damage Per Second) level, they will basically fight (click) for you. Actually physically clicking just does extra damage and you’ll need to do that when you encounter a boss (every 5 levels). Level up and buy upgrades as soon as you’re able too.
HOLY SHIT YOU’RE RIGHT!!!!
Since I’ve spent way too long with this damn game:
+34290% gold while idle, +48420% DPS while idle.
Add to that that I start at level 501 (need one of the clicky ruby egg whatevers so that I have enough gold after the restart to jump straight back in), and I will instakill things until level 1900 or so, where I can reset, earning a bonus 1100% Hero Souls all the way there (I have a whole bunch of other stuff, but they’re boring).
Hey guys, what’s Project S.T.E.A.M. like? Worth picking up?
@powalen, @greenius
Pow likes it. I haven’t played the demo but I bought it last week for $41 and I’m feeling a bit too lazy to go to the shops today to pick it up 😛
I like it. It’s no Fire Emblem though and it plays very differently to a normal strategy RPG so I can see it being very hit or miss.
Best bet is to try the demo for yourself.
So I’ve been enjoying the streetpass fishing game on my New 3DS, and thought what the hell, I’ll grab it on my old one.
Went into the plaza, paid for the new games, downloaded, and … nothing. No new games.
Then I noticed that the other 4 games that I’d put in the vault were gone too. Plaza just prompts me to buy them.
Not this shit again. I’ve already sent my 3DS in to Nintendo before so they’d fix this problem. Looks like the latest plaza update rebroke it.
My 3DS / NNID is busted from the changeover since purchases were made on the 3DS before NNID was a thing, a NNID was applied, that one was removed and the current correct one added. Now it just gets confused because thae NNID update must have permanently linked the first NNID to something in the base code of my plaza. Ugh. Went through weeks of this circus to get the first lot of games back, it shouldn’t be happening to the second lot.
That’s going to be a fun phone call on Monday.
Max’s purr sounds like the most gosh darn adorable thing I’ve ever heard…
:3
I’m back from sunning myself in a resort pool on Karon beach. With an ear infection \o/
But anyway… this whole moving to Seattle thing is happening. Holy shit. Visa people are asking me for copies of my degree and academic transcript and I have NFI where I put either of those.
Expect some Lists Of Things to be appearing on TAY soon. Things what I would like to sell or otherwise part with. Also if anyone is interested in my Wii U, I’m honestly not sure whether I’m offering it for a good price or not. It’s a premium (black) system, the Mario Kart 8 bundle. Barely used. And I’d be throwing in Hyrule Warriors. Was thinking of asking $300 but now I see that the Splatoon bundle is going to be $308 new, so maybe I need to lower expectations?
@zetrox2k wanted to get a Wii U a while ago, and I think @beeawwb said he might be interested in it too.
Already talked with @zetrox2k, he decided to leave it.
Also Splatoon bundle is going to be $359 at EB.
https://www.ebgames.com.au/wiiu-208807-Nintendo-Wii-Splatoon-Console-Wii-U
Was $309 when they listed it at first. Hm.
End up doing anything special for your girlfriend, @highperformance? :*
I ended up doing a mixture of a few people’s suggestions:
– I bought two of her favourite Haighs chocolates, a scented candle and some green tea from T2 and wrapped them in a gift box
– At the bottom of the gift box was a receipt for a roast lunch I booked in June, at the top of Mount Dandenong which I promised we would hike too (she loves her hiking)
I think she was pretty stoked lol, thank you for your advice!!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/05/track-cone-of-shame-artist-faith-no-more-album-sol-invictus/
I swear this thing had its publish time pushed back 12 hours from what it actually was.
refresh material pls pls
No!
I SEE A DANIEL!
@Dc there was a guy named Dan in the season of Survivor that just finished. He was one of the worst people on Survivor ever!
Dan’s are notoriously terrible!
I can kinda tolerate some of them!
😀
I would have thought the worst person on survivor was that one guy that lost when he failed at the basic fundamental aim (hint: the title) of the show.
Dan was more of a terrible person than a terrible contestant
Seconded.
Sobord.
Both of youse got S.T.E.A.M. yet!?
I don’t have time to play it though since I started Etrian Odyssey Untold a while ago and I also really want to play Ace Attorney 5 :/
I might give it a go when I’m done with the Witcher 3
Oh yeah, that is also a thing I technically have access to D:
I still want to finish/play The Witcher 2 first because I’m guessing it’ll be hard to go back. I did manage to finally play The Witcher (1) last year and got through that. It would’ve been so good all those years ago :O
Picked it up yesterday. Came in an absurdly huge box too. Still wrapped in the bubblewrap though. Still got Kirby sitting there too, don’t really feel like cracking either atm for some reason.
I did think that maybe they had just shipped me a box filled with those air bags and nothing else. Why not use the bubbly wrapped envelope type? :\
I’m pretty sure 80% of my posts in each week’s TAY are just on weekends when I get extra bored refreshing and seeing nothing new, so I just end up posting random crap.
I went out yesterday and recognised some mohawk chef guy because he was on the last season of MasterChef AU. Pretty kewllll
I also totally went to this place in the mountains they showed in the most recent ep. Neither aren’t really that amazing but when you’re a hermit and your occasional outings tie in to magical TV internet things then wowee!
This one is for @greenius with the boomin’ system
Top down, AC with the coolin’ system
When Green come up in the club, he be blazin’ up
Got stacks on deck like he savin’ up
And Green ill, he real, he might got a deal
He pop bottles and he got the right kind of bill
Green cold, he dope, he might sell coke
He always in the air, but he never fly coach
He a motherf*cking trip, trip, sailor of the ship, ship
When Green make it drip, drip kiss him on the lip, lip
That’s the kind of dude I was lookin’ for
And yes you’ll get slapped if you’re lookin’ hoe
I said, excuse me, you’re a hell of a guy
I mean my, my, my, my you’re like pelican fly
I mean, you’re so shy and I’m loving your tie
You’re like greener than the guy with the green in his eye, oh
Yes I did, yes I did, somebody please tell him who the F I is
I am the Liondrive, I mack them dudes up, back coupes up, and chuck the deuce up
Green, you got my heartbeat runnin’ away
Beating like a drum and it’s coming your way
Can’t you hear that boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass?
You got that super bass
Boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass
Yeah, that’s the super bass
(You got that super bass)
Boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass
Green got that super bass
Boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass
Green got that super bass
This one is for @greenius in the polo
Entrepreneur n*ggas & the moguls
He could ball with the crew, he could solo
But I think I like green better when he down lo
And I think I like him better with the fitted cap on
He ain’t even gotta try to put the mack on
Green just gotta give me that look, when he give me that look
Then the panties comin’ off, off, uh
Excuse me, you’re a hell of a guy you know I really got a thing for Australian guys
I mean, sigh, sickenin’ eyes I can tell that you’re in touch with your feminine side, oh
Yes I did, yes I did, somebody please tell him who the F I is
I am the Liondrive, I mack them dudes up, back coupes up, and chuck the deuce up
Green, you got my heartbeat runnin’ away
Beating like a drum and it’s coming your way
Can’t you hear that boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass?
You got that super bass
Boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass
Yeah, that’s the super bass
(You got that super bass)
Boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass
Green got that super bass
Boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass
Green got that super bass
See I need Green in my life for me to stay
No, no, no, no, no, I know you’ll stay
No, no, no, no, no, don’t go away (ay-ay)
Green, you got my heartbeat runnin’ away
Don’t you hear that heartbeat comin’ your way?
Oh, it be like, boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass
Can’t you hear that boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom bass
Green, you got my heartbeat runnin’ away
Beating like a drum and it’s coming your way
Can’t you hear that boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass?
You got that super bass
Boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass
Yeah, that’s the super bass
(You got that super bass)
Boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass
Green got that super bass
Boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass
Green got that super bass
Well that’s certainly something 😛
no more refresh material pls pls
*hides*
Super Green, by Lion Minaj
That was uh… romantic?
I have no idea why, but my sound seems to be kinda crackly and lagging whatever is outputted.
Can’t even get newer sound card drivers at all…
🙁
So, any fellow idiots this morning, or did some of you have the foresight to skip the chaff at the start?
If by idiots, you’re referring to people up that early, I was.. just not on here.. I haven’t even been to bed yet!
More referring to people who got up to watch Eurovision.
What’s Eurovision?
😛
Since there is a chance I might destroy my retinas and eardrums by being exposed to Guy Sebastion, there’s no way in hell I’ll watch it! :p
Haven’t seen it yet but apparently he wasn’t terrible.
That’s unpossible!
@transientmind I’m having some difficulty with the foil glue. I’m going to try a different technique using double sided tape as I’m finding the glue is a little wishy-washy (I paid friggin’ $5.50 for it too)
@evilmonkey thanks for the gift man!
Can’t say i’ve heard of Space Farmers before, but looks like good fun.
Europa Universalis IV is 75% off on the Humble Bundle store…
Is it worth it for $14.99USD?
EDIT: Found it for $12.31 on G2A.
YES TOTALLY WORTH IT
Also, you get DLC if you buy it through the paradox humble bundle
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2015/05/prevent-natural-fibre-sweaters-fromshedding-by-freezing-them/
I generally store my bread in the freezer to make it last longer, but I guess I could store it in the microwave to make room…
I GET IT!
Anyone end up playing Tales of Xillia 2? 😛 (@negativezero @beavwa @strange) I keep forgetting I have it. I really didn’t like what I played of it but it feels like a waste just giving up on it. I’m kinda sad cause it bummed me out of playing other Tales of games. Still need to get through Symphonia, Graces f and buy Hearts R D:
Any one have recommendations on Xbox One things to buy? My Microsoft Space bucks expire in June and I can’t really think of anything worthwhile :/. A bit bummed out a missed out on buying the Sunset Overdrive Season Pass while it was on sale a few months ago. I figured something exclusive is probably better to spend money on.
Skip Xillia 2. Especially if you haven’t done Symphonia, Hearts or Graces as all of them are better games.
Have you played Xillia 2 though? Because I have and it’s soooooo bad.
I’ve played about 50 hours of Symphonia on Gamecube but haven’t got around to play the PS3 version yet. Graces f has been sitting in my pile for years and I guess I’ll wait for a Hearts R sale. That’s the first Tales of game I didn’t buy at launch since maybe Vesperia.
I haven’t subjected myself to it but I’ve read and seen enough that I regret even paying for it.
I know for a fact that Hearts R and Symphonia are solid games as I have played both. Hearts still unfinished, but Symphonia I’ve played through twice.
I had a bit of a thing for Presea back in the day…I tried to convince you to suffer through it with me a few months ago but even I don’t really want to return to it…
I pretty much stopped playing PS3 games altogether once I started Xillia 2 🙁
I find it really hard to go back to PS3 stuff now that I have a PS4. I’ve got a few I’d like to get around to some day but I can’t see it happening any time soon.
I still haven’t played Xillia 1.
I still haven’t finished Ni No Kuni. Or Symphonia HD.
I am a terrible JRPG fan. Unless Pokémon counts as a JRPG.
Does it count?
I’d count it!
I just watched the Women’s AFL game. It was decent. Really low scoring though. I guess it technically ended on a thriller, with a Melbourne player laying a game saving tackle in front of the Western Bulldogs’ goal, allowing Melbourne to go coast to lead to a Melbourne player snapping it on an angle to goal in the last 30 seconds. It could have been a decimation if the Melbourne players had kicked straight. 4.14 is not usually a winning score.
It played a bit differently from the typical men’s AFL match. A lot more contested ball, less contested marks, a real defensive game. I felt like I’d been transported to 2005.
@pupp3tmast3r Couldn’t find you on twitter
https://twitter.com/scree06/status/602371666476277760?cn=ZmF2b3JpdGU%3D&refsrc=email
They look hand done but unfortunately, that’s what it is
Oooo royal purple pretty 0,0. Soz scree I don’t twitter or social media on principle =p
That’s fine. I just wanted to get a photo to you.
Anyway, the purple one is using an expensive gold leaf adhesive pen and the brown one has a 3D effect.
What I meant to ask is that, which one would you prefer?
Ahh personally I like the royal purple much better but depends on the price discrepancy as well like if its a 100 bucks expensive =p
Nope, I fronted the cost of the stupidly expensive pen. Now I know I can work on it
Aww now I feel bad D= I hope you aren’t upping your expenses on my count 🙁
Nope, I’m upping them because I bought a shitty glue, so due to my ignorance, I bought something better
Will be re-posting this in New TAY assuming we get New TAY while @markserrels is away, but I got all my old Anime DVDs out of storage and I want to get rid of as many as possible. Here’s a huge stonking great list of them! Mostly stuff that’s now about 5-15 years old.
I’m wanting to get rid of most of these. I’ll part with anything but there’s a few I’ve marked with *, these are ones that are pretty special to me for various reasons so I’d only part for them for a really good offer. The others I’m not really expecting to get a lot for. A lot of them I got in cheap fire sales from the US when they were clearing stock to make way for box sets, or when companies like Geneon and ADV went bankrupt and had to clear out old inventory, so they don’t have a lot of sentimental value to me.
If I’ve marked something as ‘incomplete’ then it means I don’t have all of the series or season it belongs to. Anything else is a complete series or season of a series. ‘Loose’ means they’re just loose DVDs. ‘Box’ means one volume came with a box to fill in with the rest of the volumes (which was the way stuff was done back in the day). ‘Box Set’ means it was sold in one or two packages rather than spread over like 4+ releases.
Region 4 / Australian
– .hack//SIGN Vol. 1-6, Box
– Ah! My Goddess the Movie
– Azumanga Daioh Vol. 1-6, Box*
– Berserk Vol. 1-6, Loose
– Boogiepop Phantom Vol. 1-4, Loose*
– Bubblegum Crisis 2040 Vol. 1-2, Loose, Incomplete
– Cowboy Bebop The Movie
– Cowboy Bebop Vol. 1-6, Loose
– Escaflowne Vol. 1-8, Box
– Excel Saga Vol. 1-6 Loose
– FLCL Vol. 1-3, Box*
– Fruits Basket Box Set
– Full Metal Panic Vol. 1-7, Box
– Galaxy Angel Season 1 Vol. 1-4, Box*
– Gasaraki Vol. 1-2 Loose, Incomplete
– Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
– Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Vol. 1-7, Box
– Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2nd Gig Vol. 1, Loose, Incomplete
– Gundam Wing Vol. 1-10, Loose
– Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz, Loose
– Haibane Renmei, Vol. 1-4, Box*
– Last Exile Vol. 1-7, Box
– Love Hina Spring Special, Loose
– Love Hina Vol. 1-6 Loose
– Love Hina Xmas Special, Loose
– Rahxephon Vol. 1-7, Box
– Read or Die OVA
– Rurouni Kenshin 1-14, Loose, Incomplete (but all of season 1 & 2 and S3 is a steaming pile of Naruto Filler-tier shit and sank the series and I’m still angry about that)*
– Rurouni Kenshin The Movie
– Serial Experiments Lain Vol. 1-4, Loose*
– Steel Angel Kurumi Vol. 1-4, Loose
– Spirited Away, LE Digipack
– The End of Evangelion*
– The Slayers Box Set*
– The Place Promised In Our Early Days*
– Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
– Vampire Princess Miyu TV Vol. 1-6, Loose
– Voices of a Distant Star*
Region 1 / US
– 2×2=Shinobuden Vol. 1-4, Loose*
– Area 88 Vol. 1-4, Box
– Aria: The Animation, Box Set*
– Aria: The Natural Part 1, Box Set*
– Aria: The Natural Part 2, Box Set*
– Aria: The Origination, Box Set*
– Ayashi no Ceres, 2 Box Sets*
– Black Lagoon Season 1, Steelbook
– Black Lagoon Season 2, Steelbook
– Bottle Fairy Vol. 1-2, Loose*
– Cardcaptor Sakura Vol. 1-18, Loose
– Code Geass Vol. 1-6, Box
– Cromartie High School Vol. 1-4, Box
– Eureka Seven Vol. 1-12, Boxes (two boxes with 6 volumes each)
– Full Metal Panic: Fumoffu! Vol. 1-3, Box*
– Ghost in the Shell: SAC Solid State Society, Steelbook
– Gunbuster Box Set*
– Gurren Lagann Vol. 1-3, Loose*
– Hellsing Ultimate Vol. 1-4, Steelbooks, Incomplete
– Irresponsible Captain Tylor OVA, LE Box Set*
– Kamichu Vol. 1-4, Box
– Kannagi Vol. 1-2, Loose
– Kino’s Journey, Vol. 1-4, Box
– Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Vol. 1-3, Box*
– Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s, Box Set*
– Mahoromatic: Automatic Maiden Vol. 1-3, Box*
– Mahoromatic: Something More Beautiful Vol. 1-3, Loose*
– Mahoromatic Summer Special, Loose*
– Maria-sama ga Miteru Season 1, Box Set*
– Maria-sama ga Miteru Season 2, Box Set*
– Maria-sama ga Miteru Season 3, Box Set*
– Maria-sama ga Miteru Season 4, Box Set*
– Mezzo DSA Vol. 1-3, Box
– Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS team, Box Set*
– Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Vol. 1-10, Box (Box got stuck to the bottom of the cardboard box it was in and is pretty much ruined 🙁 )
– Mushishi Vol. 1-6, Box
– My-HiME Vol. 1-7, Loose
– Neia_7 Vol 1-4, Loose
– Nurse Witch Komugi-chan Magikarte Vol. 1-2, Loose*
– Ouran High School Host Club Part 1 Box Set, Incomplete
– Paranoia Agent Vol. 1-4, Loose
– Petite Princess Yucie Vol. 1-6, Loose
– Popotan Vol. 1-3, Loose*
– Rozen Maiden Vol. 1-3 & Rozen Maiden Traumend Vol. 1-3, Box (this one’s box is really nice, covered in red velvet-like fabric)
– Scrapped Princess, Box Set (‘Anime Legends’ imprint)
– Simoun Vol. 1-5, Loose*
– Snow Fairy Sugar OVA, Loose
– Snow Fairy Sugar Vol. 1-6, Box
– Strawberry Marshmallow Vol. 1-3, Box*
– Story of Saiunkoku, Vol 1-3, Box, Box Sets 2-3* (they started releasing individual discs then swapped to 3-disc sets halfway in)
– The Big O Season 2, Box Set
– The Big O, Box Set
– The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Vol. 1-4, LE Box (includes several Audio CDs)
– The Melody of Oblivion Vol. 1-6, Box
– This Ugly and Beautiful World Vol. 1-3, Box*
– Trigun Vol. 1-8 Box (Box has damaged corners)
– X, Box Set (Improved ‘Remix’ re-release set)
– Yawara Part 1, Box Set, Incomplete (Limited release, Animeigo never did the second half)*
– Zipang Vol. 1-7, Box
I also have a random copy of volume 2 of the Japanese release of Angelic Layer which I was given as a gift years ago but I’m thinking that’s probably not something anyone will be interested in.
Baccano!? 😮
Own the US Bluray release and no, you can’t have it. 🙂
I have my naughty copy :P. I just like saying Baccano!
Baccano!!
I’ve been wanting a proper copy of Trigun for quite a few years. How much do you want for yours, man?
Make me an offer. The corners of the box are quite scuffed up – it’s one of the oldest things in my collection, bought it in Canada years ago and it’s been loaned out a few times. Not sure what it’ll cost to post to you, probably $10-15. Not heavy, but bulky :\