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PREVIOUSLY, ON TAYS OF OUR LIVES
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Thunder and lightning rattle a group of TAYbies gathered in the haunted mansion at the top of the hill. Liondrive addresses the gathering.
Lion: So you see, the ghost wasn’t a ghost at all, it was –
He pulls a sheet off a figure beside him.
All: Old man Jimu?!
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A group of TAYbies are dining in Baron Blaghman’s holiday villa. There is a moment of prolonged silence. Blaghman opens his mouth to speak, when –
The door bursts open. Enter Powalen, covered in dirt, scratches, and fashionable diamond accessories.
CJ: Powalen! We thought you were –
Powalen: Dead? No! And I have returned from the diamond mines to reveal a most terrible truth! The Blaghman you see here…is an imposter!
There are many gasps. Bish drops his monocle. Blaghman’s brow slowly furrows.
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Pants has an unfortunate extreme jetski accident. TAYbies are gathered around his hospital bed. A distraught Rocketman grabs Transient, who is apparently a doctor in this universe, by the lapel.
Rockets: When will he wake up?!
Transient: I’m sorry, but we don’t know. He…he might never wake up.
Rockets: NOOOOOOOOO
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Rize playing saxophone in a jazz ensemble.
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Strange stands with her back to the edge of a tall cliff facing the ocean. A figure steps out from the shadows.
Strange: Greenius! So you’re the one who shot Powalen!
Greenius: Yes, it was I!
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SPONSOR ROLL. Shiggy riding a dolphin in the ocean, drinking Coke Life for no adequately explored reason.
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Freeze and Nobs in front of high school lockers.
Freeze: DC’s been kidnapped…again!
Nobs: And the prom’s tomorrooooow!
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Cakesmith drunkenly stumbling down a rainy city street. He falls to his knees and screams up at the sky.
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DC walks away from a gas station explosion.
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Red and Pixel sitting at a desk in a dimly lit room. Red slams his fist down on the table.
Red: It’s over!
Pixel: Over? No.
Cut to black.
Pixel: It’s only just beginning.
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AND NOW, THE THRILLING CONTINUATION
I don’t know what I read but it was amusing.
Brilliant.
You should have no pants more often. 😛
I like to believe that myself and Nob decide to go to prom together and discover that true love was right in front of us all along.
Oh @pixel_the_ferret_viking, I can’t quit you.
That was quite entertaining. 🙂
I like to picture it with tacky, dramatic suspense chords.
Dark Void – Network Music Ensemble
*Cuts back to Imposter Blaghman, brow still furrowed*
Blaghs: “So, you worked out what was wrong. I’ll admit, the mistake with the petunias was foolish, but I assumed that nobody else would know.”
*slowly pours a glass of wine, then begins walking to the window*
Blaghs: “Thankfully, my plan is already in motion. There is little you… there is little anybody could do to stop me. Now that the normal Blaghman has been… Hahaha. Hahahahaha. Taken care of.”
*Imposter Blaghman stares out the window at the ocean, takes a sip of wine. Pow walks into shot behind him, death in his eyes*
Pow: “After everything I’ve been through, after what you’ve done to the real Blaghs, did you really think that we’d give up? Did you think that we’d lay down and take it? No. We might not stop your plan, but we can stop you!”
*He begins to charge, as it cuts to a commercial break*
OH SNAP WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT
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Excellent.
Morning, TAY.
I was sick this weekend so I spent the whole time under a blanket playing games. So… a pretty normal weekend
Got up at 5am to watch the Eurovision final on Sunday. Was pretty good! It’s always much better watching it live. My favourites this year were Estonia and Slovenia. Neither did very well in the votes. Happens every year with my picks 😛 The winner was pretty good too though. Also Guy Sebastion nailed his song. Deserved that 5th place I think.
Started playing The Last of Us finally as well. Pretty good so far. I was kinda disliking it at first because it felt like I wasn’t playing most of it, just watching 😛 It’s still a bit of an issue now but not as much. The environments are stunning and I like that they reward you for exploring. Areas are always that little bit bigger than they need to be to make them feel open but still linear which is good. Main thing I dislike is the amount of slow walking sections and cutscenes. There’s gotta be a better way of telling a game story. Anyway, getting close to the end of the game now!
Fantastic game. I’ve already played through it once on PS3 when it first came out, been in the mood for Post Apocalyptic Urban Decay recently so I’m re-playing it on PS4. Also didn’t get to play through the Left Behind DLC the first time so there’s that too.
Also, I’m not one to cry over a scene in a game, but
Goddamn if Joel’s daughter dying at the start of the game doesn’t get me every time.Naughty Dog is most definitely one of the best game developers around today, and somehow they don’t feel the need to pump out a sequel every year.
What point in the game is your spoiler from? Before I click it.
It is a fun game when it gets going! Not sure I agree with the amount of hype it gets though to be honest, but I’m enjoying it. It’s fantastic when it gives you a loose goal like ‘get to the landmark’ and you can take a number of routes to get there. Then it’s pretty bad when it forces you into combat or purposely hides enemies from you in Listen Mode so they can get the jump.
Not the best game ever but I like it.
My spoiler relates to the start of the game, so you’re safe.
There was a crazy amount of hype around it. I played through it the middle of last year, so it was amongst the rejuvenated HD remaster hype, although i was playing the PS3 version. It was sometimes painful to be forced into combat i agree, but it allowed for a lot more stealth than any of their previous games, specifically the Uncharted games.
I hated how the framerate tanked quite often in the game, they just pushed the system that little bit too hard.
Also, I highly recommend watching The Road on Netflix. Fantastic film.
Oh, and have I mentioned The Road. Everybody watch The Road.
Nah.
Read it.
Then watch it.
Oh man. The Road is devastating. And funny story – years back when the movie came out, went to go see it at the cinema. These two girls came into the screening, about five minutes late, carrying popcorn, soda, candy, everything. I was like, “Alright, not really a popcorn flick but maybe they missed dinner.”
Not even 15 minutes later, they both gave up and walked out. I have no idea if they accidentally walked into the wrong theater, or if they just didn’t pay attention to the trailers, or poster, or description
See, this is interesting… what properties of a film confer ‘popcorn flick’ status? Is it just not expected to eat anything at all with that type of film, or are some foods better with some films, like types of wine with types of meat?
(I typically don’t do popcorn – not gentle on the gut and there’s always SO DAMN MUCH of it even in a small box that I can’t finish, the kernel-skins always get caught in my teeth, and the Scotsman in me gives me a really hard time about unfinished food.)
I totally dig eating maltesers or peanut m&ms in ANY film, though. And the cinemas are like the only times I ever get myself a pink&brown frozen coke mix.
…But I’m a bit of a barbarian, I’ll drink any type of wine with any type of meat, too.
Do you guys know any big studios that push out titles yearly without having multiple large teams working on the same franchise? I don’t think it’s really possible, given the workload in a normal development cycle.
Naughty Dog are definitely the best around, they would be among the very few reasons i would buy a PS4.
See, the most beautiful moment for me is late, late in the game
I love the giraffes, and Ellie’s reaction on seeing themI didn’t say it was the most beautiful moment, but it’s definitely the saddest (for me).
Loved the scene with the Giraffes too.I have an original signed sketch of this 😀
OH. But
I kind of hated how she’s like, “They’re so fucking awesome.” I really really wished she hadn’t sworn in that scene? Like, it felt too put on and just dumb :/Having sat on a bus with schoolkids recently, I’m not so sure.
Oh man. That game is fantastic. I played through a significant amount on a 80 inch projection screen, with surround sound. Totally agree in regards to feeling rewarded for exploring, the areas are all a pretty nice size. Graphics and atmosphere are incredible, i really enjoyed the story telling elements, even if you forgo full control of the character for it.
Guys, don’t forget to pay @tech_knight if you are confirmed to go to Pax meat 2015!
On another note, had a productive weekend
http://imgur.com/a/OskA4
*throws money at screen*
Uh, why isn’t he taking it? Some robot AI overlord he is.
How do you know I haven’t just wired it out of your bank account and you just don’t even know it, human? Throwing money at screen can trigger it*
*Throwing money at the screen does really nothing except for trashing your desk with $10 bills, this is why you always seem to find it.Making it rain for the screensaver
Ah, that’s right.
@tech_knight I’ll send 90 smackeroos next Friday when I get my next non-mortgage pay.
Thanks buddy!
I get paid this week, so I’ll fix @tech_knight up by Friday
sdcdragonman[at]hotmail[dot]com is the address to go to, please put your TAYname in so I know who it’s from.
Saw a Telstra van on my street last week, the day my adsl line quality turned to crap. It has been a hard, hard few days with 40kb down and 4 up….
I spoke to iinet, and they spared me jumping through all of the stupid hoops of blaming my end of things. Hopefully this is all sorted by the weekend so I can lay brightly coloured waste to the denizens of splatoon.
Having no Netflix hurts. It hurts bad. Your sympathies, give the to me!
40!?
Oh man, you’re living the dream. https://twitter.com/FreezeSPreston/status/601701147649409024?s=09
how r u on 4mbps up on ADSL? does iinet support ANEXM?
So, who’s picking up Splatoon or Magicka 2 this week. I’ve already paid for Magicka and got Splatoon and the Amiibo’s pre-ordered.
Also, Game Of Thrones (the video game) Episode 4 tomorrow. WOOO!!!
I didn’t think I’d like the amiibo designs, but they are quite intricately detailed. The squid is my favourite by far, wish I could just get that one on its own.
Hyped for the game, though! It’s like a very light version of tribes. Many approves!
Splatoon looks awesome. Also happy Nintendo is giving out a 10% discount to those who played the Testfire. That said, I have the Witcher 3 coming this week and I feel I mighn’t surface for a while after that…
I would love to play Splatoon, but i’ve got plenty to keep me busy for quite a while.
The Witcher 3, GTAV, AC Black Flag & Unity.
Me! o/
I found Dark Souls for $12 & started playing. It’s quite good. It has a whole lot going for it outside of being hard.
I wish the Witcher was as customisable, then I’d have probably made the combat work for me.
Yes, I’m a cowardly sorcerer, kiting from the tree tops.
Morning TAY! I spent most of the weekend recovering from a cold, so that meant I got into the Witcher 2 while waiting for 3 to come in the post. It has that rare ability to make me lose track of time, probably because everything takes so long. 10 hours in and I’m only level 11 and have defeated the first real boss!
Had a pretty awesome weekend except for one shitty thing that happened, but I’ll get to that later. First the good: Saturday I went to the farmers market again with my parents and had a pulled pork taco for breakfast. Then they took me shopping. Then we had lunch at the House of Spuds (Tassie’s best potatoes by far) and I had curried scallops in mine. Then we went to visit my uncle and aunty and they invited me to stay and play games with my cousin. He showed me The Witcher 3 (which I’ll be buying at some stage as it is amazing) and we played Mortal Kombat X until about 3.30(pm, not am). We then went to watch Mad Max: Fury Road, my second time although in 3D this time around, and I enjoyed it even more the second time.
Sunday I went to church, then after church the youth/young adults group decided to have lunch together and then go for a walk. We walked from Duck Reach (the first power station in Australia) to the First Basin. It’s quite a hard slog over some very rough terrain. I was exhausted by the time I finished, alone because I couldn’t keep up, but fortunately one of my friends stayed and waited for me and gave me a lift home. When I got home I chilled for a bit and then went and made tea when I saw something moving on my kitchen floor. It was a leech, fully engorged. I killed it, not with fire (which I wish I could have done), but with salt. I then checked to find out where it had fallen from and the top of my foot was covered in blood. I was thoroughly creeped out for the rest of the night.
TL:DR Mad Max:Fury Road is even better the second time. Leeches suck.
Hue hue hue.
Sounds like a great weekend. I’m soooo keen to see Mad Max! I keep hearing so many good things about it.
The Witcher 3 is incredible, i’m getting so engrossed in the world and the lore. Actually kind of interested in reading one of the novels at some point.
Yeah, The Witcher 3 wasn’t really on my radar, but after experiencing the game for myself, it looks like a cross between Red Dead Redemption and Skyrim, and I think I have to buy it now. Probably when it’s a bit cheaper (although $69 at Target is pretty great).
It is a little bit. The horse can be a little bit clunky sometimes, Red Dead did a better job with their horse controls. What platform will you be playing on? I’ve seen a few cheap PC copies online.
Playing on PS4. I have to finish Lego Marvel Superheroes, Alien Isolation and Final Fantasy Type-0 first before I get it.
It’s $59.99 on Greenmangaming, and they have a 27% off code for it up atm, but not sure for how much longer
SAVE27-OFWITC-HERIII is the code btw.
ok.. even a link! http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/action/witcher-3-wild-hunt/
The novels are fantastic, I’m almost through all the ones translated into English. They’re pretty easy reads to so well worth picking up. Some stores have trouble keeping the books in stock so Amazon or Book Depository is your friend
Mad Max is one of those films that totally lives up to the hype. I haven’t heard anybody say anything bad about it, except one of my work colleagues and his family. They all hated it, but on the other hand they all loved Taken 3 (sorry, Tak3n), so they have zero credibility when it comes to films.
Yeah i literally haven’t heard a bad word about it. That doesn’t happen often, usually my friends are so divisive about films they like.
At least leeches are polite enough to inject you with anaesthetic before they eat you. Unlike mosquitos or other bitey things.
True, but the anticoagulant sucks.
Interesting day for D&D. Had a Warmachine tournament on at the same time, but decided to go to D&D instead as I’m getting sick of the meta and players. First fought some savage gnomes that made us blind, then had to reattach a fallen down bridge over a canyon over a snowy mountain range with violent winds. The damn dwarf stepped on an started to fall off, only for the chaos mage, full of chaos casting teleport with the aid of chaos (he actually can’t cast teleport yet) teleported everybody and rolled bad on the mishap. But everybody turned out fine. My characters weren’t around for this, so the other players were giddy watching me cross the bridge, apparently hoping I would fall and die.
Then we had to look for the dwarf as he was the only one who teleported away and found him (now a her) being taken advantage of by dwerger. Then the chaos mage downed some chaos to cast wish to erase out minds of that horrible event.
The next day we were attacked by 150 dwerger and savage gnomes. The damn dwarf wanted to keep swinging, and we were all saved by a flying Solar Angel. The chaos mage called him out and he turned the dwarf back into a male.
We then arrived in the dwarven capital city where we hanged out for a few days before being summoned to a hearing with hundreds of clans watching us. I was happy to see my first character there in the crowd since I still blame his death on the other characters.
Then the hi-priest had the dwarf (and my dwarf) recount what has happened to him during his travels (although he left out the parts where he murdered children).
Then the DM threw a plot twist at us… that made me check out. He revealed that his name and clan was wrong as they put him in hiding. He was actually the rightful king to the dwarfs.
Ok, first problem I had with this is that now I don’t care about the story. Because now the story is forcing me to care. What am I going to do, say no to the king? He is now controlling the story.
Second problem I had is that this was given to a problem player. The guy who keeps running into trouble and expecting us to follow. The guy who attacked innocent minors and miners.
Third problem is that now the campaign is over if this guy dies. Considering he’s almost died multiple times (and has gotten a character killed) I don’t see him lasting long.
Fourth problem is, I don’t really like his character. He’s so generic and bloodthirsty. Choosing death and violence as his solution to everything. Ignores all thoughts of strategy as it’s “not dwarven”.
Then the DM tossed something my way. He asked my first character (who’s a dwarf cleric of Moradin) if he will accept the kings new clan name and become his hi-priest. Everybody thought that would be awesome.
…then I said no.
All the players started freaking out. The DM had characters question and prod him why he would turn down the role. Combined with the above reasons, he died at level 4. Story wise I don’t see what makes him so special. He wanted me to be guidance for the king. The same guy who ignored him all the time and threatened to attack him to let him do what he wants.
The DM just shrugged and said if his name will be written down in dwarven history, it will be a line as the idiot who turned down the role of a lifetime. The same role that I would expect my character to not have access to until level 20.
DnD seems like something that would be great fun if everyone operates on the same kinda wavelength but horrible if they don’t.
Oh yeah.
Our unspoken agreement with D&D back at uni was that you’re the A-team- you’re fundamentally a team and working together for a shared goal.
So it was to our abject horror that the GM’s boyfriend entered playing a rogue, trying to kill other PCs in their sleep for their loot. Let’s just say that my Druid almost ended up with a new topiary feature for his garden.
I only found something out last night when a particular (other problem) player was out getting his pizza. Apparently he’s been talking to one of the other players with his plan to demand a dual with my character in order to steal her noble title.
…because it really is that simple…
When D&D devolves into PvP, someone is always going to lose out and that’s simply not fun. Unless everyone is on board with the idea or the game actively encourages it (Paranoia for instance), PvP often results in players playing out their frustrations against each other.Plus it’s a real kick in the group trust as a whole.
PvP is lame. Roleplaying hitting another character is fine, I even attempted to smash the elf into the cave wall twice, first because he was deliberately trying to get the dwergers attention when we were trying to save the dwarf (most likely resulting in his neck getting cut) and then for saying inappropriate stuff to her after she got violated.
DM calling a player stupid for not doing what they wanted them to do.
Sounds like a bad DM
Yeah, seems like railroading.
Choo choo.
Yeah, that DM seems like blatantly trying to force a set story on the players which sucks because the story sounds bad. I don’t mind railroading if the story and the game is actually fun and enjoyable.
Nah, he’s been making everything up as we go. He never pre-plans any session. It’s actually made another player annoyed at his actions because he actually pre-wrote the campaign.
Improvising as a GM is really, really hard to do well.
I’ve done it a few times, but never for something high stakes, and I’ve always known where I want the session to end up. Throwing “You are the king” into something seems really, really ill conceived.
He kinda set it up prior when the dwarf learned his name wasn’t real.
FWIW, with what your group sounds like, a “baser instincts” campaign is what I’d run. Loot tombs, stomp necromancers, make the villains personally insult players so the party is united in their “we want to kill this guy”-ness. None of this prophecy or hidden kings shit. Kick arse, take names, get rich, or die trying.
Oh, I made it sound bad. Based on what he thought my character was, and considering the position, he (and everybody else) thought my character would jump at the idea. He stated that denying that position has never been done before and that’s most likely would be his legacy.
Lol sounds like you’ve got a pretty shocking group of players there dude =p My condolences.
Is the group playing 4E? That might be the rationale behind offering a 4th level character a high priest position since 4E characters are generally heroes/more powerful than average even early on. Otherwise, that just seems weird.
Your group seems kinda weird. Are there any other sane players aside from you? All I’m seeing is you, Lulz Chaos mage, and Generic Murderhobo Dwarf #123 which doesn’t sound like a a fun experience whatsoever.
Also,
that GM has some issues. I personally would not treat player characters in any way shape or form like that unless the group as a whole agreed that such topics were comfortable to have in game. I already felt that my game with the Ogrekin was about as far as I was willing to go considering it still kinda felt like stepping on that line of social acceptability. It’s a very difficult area in a game and everyone has different boundaries on what they want to include in a RPG while still having fun.
I didn’t even catch that line, but yeah, that’s tonally way off where I GM.
The closest I’d get to that would be Blaghs in Barrowtown.
It’s 5th, which is a version we all enjoy playing.
The Chaos Mage’s reason for everything is, ‘For science!’. Before this character he had a thief whose flaw was, ‘I forget the plan I’m told and if I do remember I don’t follow it correctly’. It reached a point where we couldn’t have him watching the group as we slept as we were attacked when he wandered off. He would roll dice to determine if he would follow the party. That’s how he died with my character. I was slaughtering zombies and he rolled his dice and kinda just, wandered off. The halfling followed him to make sure he didn’t die, then the elf, and I didn’t want to be left alone since that’s the easiest way for characters to die.
The dwarf is being played by a newbie, he’s taking everything literal, including his characters flaws, goals, etc. His elf hates dwarfs and civilisation and his dwarf hates elfs and anything evil. He usually pulls out the book to justify his characters actions. The DM informed him that the gnomes we fought were enemies of the dwarfs and he demanded the DM explain himself so that he could ‘play his character’.
The other problem player is playing a half-elf, but a total asshole. Only concerned about himself and will throw everybody else under the bus. He regularly encourages other players to do stupid stuff just so that he can laugh at them. He keeps trying to steal the spotlight and believes the campaign should be focused on him.
The last player is also new to D&D but she didn’t pre-wrote her character. The DM has given her stuff to deal with and aside from cutting off a few penis’s she’s usually pretty good. Only problem she’s having at the moment is a reason to follow the campaign in it’s current direction.
As for the DM, all the players are ok with it. He regularly encourages us to speak up if we have any problems with what’s going on. At the moment we all agree that we should be punished for our stupid acts and he doesn’t go into detail about what’s happening.
That’s a whole mess of problems. Some ideas:
Chaos mage and half-elf arsehole: If they’re acting out like that, sounds like they’re bored, though the kick-the-hornets-nest player is a common D&D thing (And I’ve occasionally done that, even as recently as last pathfinder session where I decided not to hide with the rest of the party and hail the mariachi orc band). The GM should give them a side project to be obsessed with, whether it’s collecting pieces of a giant machine (for science) or similar.
Take the book off the problem player. That may be how it is in the book’s world, but not in our (read: the world we’re creating with the DM) world. Or, the splatbook is obviously propaganda written by villain x to sow dissent between the races.
Funny thing is, that’s exactly what’s happening. The mage and asshole talk with the DM of what they’re characters are doing outside of sessions or via texts onto his phone. They’re not talking with the party on what they want or their goals. Even if the DM is trying to encourage roleplaying.
The other player has mersmerized the books. That’s plural because he’s been reading other edition books to get an understanding of dwarfs and the world. He’s even been pointing out stuff like, ‘Avoid this nation, they kill everybody non-human on sight!’. Even drew up a map of the world.
I keep telling him that it will always be up to the DM, but the other problem is that the DM plays a lot of things straight from the book. If an enemy isn’t equipped with a weapon in the book then they’re not fighting with one.
If you’re having this many problems, have you talked with the DM about it?
It’s a dirty little secret in the RPG community but: Bad Roleplaying is worse than No Roleplaying. You’re investing a lot of time into these campaigns, and if you’re not enjoying it it’s really not serving yourself.
The DM and I regularly talk about the problems with the group and how we’re trying to get everybody to work together. Regularly thanking me for making the smart decisions and trying to keep everybody alive.
Other option too is to take a session off as a group and play something like Fiasco that lets people act out their silliest RPG impulses.
Also, play Fiasco, because it’s awesome.
The book part is a problem. 5E is focused all around Forgotten Realms which can be tricky because they haven’t yet provided the new scenarios and ground rules for places like Eberron, Dark Sun, Greyhawk, etc. D&D as a whole can have so many different settings that to have a player try and use the rules to justify his/her actions in a setting where the rules might not even apply is a bit weird and can get really tiresome really quickly.
Regarding acting out, while it’s enjoyable for the player it’s important to keep in mind that it’s a shared experience. I kinda regret my actions in one series of games where I knew the DM and one other player but I didn’t know the other three. I was having fun by purposefully making a series of bad decisions and a bad character in general but I spoke to one of the players I didn’t know that well later down the track and he was surprised that no, I wasn’t actually a prick in real life. That put things in perspective for me and I don’t be so LOL random when I play with people I don’t know.
(For reference, I was playing a Trandoshan in Star Wars that was all about honour and personal glory but was an idiot because he lost his family’s ceremonial sword. So he went into combat with a customised metal pole and tried to go toe-to-toe with a Rancor. A mighty 1d6 + Str bonus was his damaged while standard blaster rifles were 3d6. Yeah, to say I was frustrating for everyone else was an understatement.)
Decided to do a new Dark Souls co-op run on Saturday.
Since I’ve been a bit overdue on my Master Race experience, this meant that I spent half the day rearranging and rewiring the setup, modding, adjusting settings, readjusting settings to minimum for my wheezing old machine, adjusting other settings that crashed summoning, but then once it worked we had a lot of fun.
(And @greenius, now that I’ve wired my speakers back in, rocksmith will actually work since the guitar conflicted with other USB sound devices – my headphones. Keen to start slotting this into my routine since I really want to learn some classic silverchair songs)
Also Eurovision’d a lot, our favourite was Belgium. Turns out my votes never went through since I didn’t get confirmation messages back.
A friend of mine sent a text vote in, and sat there happy in the knowledge that he’d participated in the Eurovision democracy.
After voting closed he got a reply saying he’d sent it too early and that it didn’t count.
I never got any replies. Didn’t realise that was an issue until Pip voted Sunday morning and got confirmation back.
Let’s jam!
On the weekend I went on a hunt for a copy of Puss in Boots for PS3, since my copy, which arrived on Friday from EB Games online store, was not recognised by my PS3. Luckily I found an EB store at North Sydney with a copy in stock and so was able to save the weekend. My daughters were very happy 🙂
Also, made scones, went ice skating, ate some nice Malaysian food at Papa Rich’s (he’s Rich for a Reason), checked out EB Games’s new Zing store (not that awesome), finished Velocity 2X, started Danganronpa, almost finished GTAV mopping up, watched Star Wars Episode I with the kids (they don’t hate Jar Jar… wtf?), played some more MGS4 and got drafted into the choir at church…
Zing was great when it first opened here but they ended up removing a lot of the cooler more fringe stuff and is now 95% stocked by Adventure Time, Minecraft and Mario.
Yeah, I saw a few cool boardgames but most of it was Minecraft, Nintendo and Funko Pop vinyl figurines. They had an entire wall of Funko Pop figurines but no Project Diva figurines ffs. What’s worse is that they apparently can’t order in stuff for you. They are dependent on what head office decides they can stock. I told the manager what I thought of his crappy store and bid him good day.
Hola Tayberinos
Dead weekend. Went to a friend’s birthday on Friday, good to catch up with old school friends. Other than that, did N O T H I N G- slow cooked a curry on Saturday then played computer games for two days straight. Put some time into Destiny with @masha2932 and mt friend Adi, and then Fallout New Vegas brought me back into it’s loving embrace. Spoiler if anyone cares
I’m still playing my run as Forrest Gump, though he’s turned into some sort of speech savant- basically I’m maxing my speech check so I can talk my way out of everything despite having 1 intelligence. I’m pretty much following the NCR right down the line, so I’ve just reached Hoover Dam and started the quests up there, but I want to do as much as I can before doing anything to the Legion. Not that they make it easy to avoid killing the legion at that point.A Monday Morning Question: Fallout 4 is rumoured to centre on Boston. Where would you like to see a Fallout game set?
Woodridge/Logan/Beenleigh
Wouldn’t even have to change anything and set it present day.
Can confirm
You could put dashcam footage of your drive to the train station next to Fury Road and you’d be hard pressed to tell the difference.
lololololol
I am totally okay with Boston. I hope there’s accent. ARE YOU A CAWP? ARE YOU A CAWWWWP? WICKAD DAHK.
THASS A FAHKING SUPAH MUTANT!
This makes me want a Fallout New Jersey
TAY… I did it… I took the leap and called in sick so I could keep playing the Witcher!! GAAHHH What has this game done to me?!
If anyone asks, it’s given you the flu, that’s what it’s done to you.
Here’s where the TAY plot twist unfolds as we’re all your workmates with @markserrels as your boss
Dammit dont tag him you fools! =P
I’m so in love with Witcher 3. Now level 11, I’ve finally figured out the combat enough to be a complete and utter sword-fighting beast. I’m now just running around looking for bandit camps to refine my ‘slaughter fifteen dudes in five seconds’ technique. There’s something beautiful about parrying back arrows at their shooters and killing them with it. Figuring out how potions and oils work now has allowed for some pretty hairy but manageable fights with beasts over twice my level. I should probably increase the difficulty again, but I’m kind of digging the power rush for now.
Game is turning out to be played best with no loading to take back decisions which turned out poorly. Makes for a much more interesting world! And picking up contracts then doing them straight away, just making sure to explore off the sides of the roads that you travel along to get to your contract points, as opposed to rushing around exploring all the question marks and anything that looks like it might be a map feature. Doing that is an excellent way to miss out on initial investigation dialogue by stumbling across the clues and dealing with them on the spot. 😛
Just loving taking it slow, enjoying the horse-rides, drinking in the high-res visuals. STUNNING weather effects.
Yeah, it’s so damn captivating. I’m completely immersed in the world, exploration, the story… SO GOOD.
I’m gonna call it: for me, this game is better than Dragon Age: Inquisition, which I loved!
I agree about not looking at the world map. Far more fun to stumble upon things and tidy up the loose ends you missed later.
Knowing East from West and knowing the geography from walking it instead of from a map is actually helping keep my from getting turned around. Some surround-sound via headphones helps, too, when you can hear where the sea is.
Yeah i’m loving it too. This will probably be my GOTY. With that in mind i’ve been savoring it, no need to rush through quests or dialogue, unlike some RPG’s, it’s all well written and makes sense within the world itself. I love reading the notes and things you find, it doesn’t ever feel like busy work to me. I’m currently level 4, so haven’t really experienced that much content yet. I’m really just so impressed by the quality of it all.
Agree with Trans, the PC visuals are very impressive. I’m playing with Nvidia Hairworks on and the first big fight with the Griffin was really impressive, and a good challenge. Wish i had a 1440P monitor to play this on, 1080P will suffice though.
And goddamn some of these side quest!! These things would count as main stories in some other RPG’s!! I’m absolutely loving the moral grey that this whole world is painted in =] I’ve just hit 11 myself and I’m cleaning up all the quests in Velen before thinking about moving on. It’s a rare game that makes you want to stick around in an area and explore everything; unlike the Hinterlands in DA:I
Edit: Also if you’re a Witcher 2 vet definitely crank the difficulty up to the 3rd or 4th tier. Additionally like a Kotaku article said don’t take the regen of health outside combat perk, it really makes the fights fun when the damage carries on with you =]
MORNING ALL.
Undad hit its funding target on Friday afternoon! To the TAY folk who have pledged, thank you!
It’s not too late to get involved, though, and strike out for our first stretch goal: if Undad raises $1,000,000, I will personally drive a gilded death mobile around Australia to meet every backer personally.
For everyone who pledged to the previous campaign, I bought all the postal supplies today, and will be posting the books out first thing tomorrow morning. \o/
In other news, there is no other news. Undad has completely and utterly taken over my life.
I’ll pledge $1 million only if you promise to pick up some Maccas on your way to mine 😛
We’ll need to raise $1,000,010 to make it happen. SECOND stretch goal!
*raises hand* Oh, some Maccas for me, too. Sorry everyone.
That’s it. Just pushed the goal out into ‘unreasonable’ territory. *cancels all plans, cancels Undad*
*munches McDonalds*
*stares mournfully at Steam pile of shame to fill the UnDadless time*
It’s just not the same… what have I done?
(THE REAL MONSTER IS MAN.)
A…
*puts on sunglasses*
@blaghman?
So I ended up getting The Witcher 3 on PS4. I had ever intention on getting it on PC along with a new graphics card, and the main reason I didn’t is because the only shop that sold computer parts in the entire big shopping complex I went to closed 2 hours before all the other shops. Got my copy from Target. Still find it amazing they’re selling a brand new release game that comes with some extra stuff for only $69. Anyway I spend most of the weekend playing that. It’s pretty fun.
I tried playing some of Destiny’s House of Wolves expansion but couldn’t really get into it. I’m mainly interested in the story now rather than raiding or any of that other gear treadmill stuff, and while the story has improved it still didn’t really grip me. The first mission had me shooting my way through a place that I’m 90% I’ve shot my way through before, and then ended with me huddled in a corner and slowly picking off waves and waves of enemies. It just didn’t feel like there was any substance to any of it.
Saw Fury Road last night. Amazing movie. I’m surprised that something that’s basically two hours of driving and shooting managed to actually have a decent story and characters you cared about.
Hey, has anyone else seen this game?
http://imgur.com/gallery/9VPC40e First I’ve heard of it.
Sorry, wrong link. Ugh. RIGHT LINK IS UP!
O_O’
Dude…
…WTF, Japan?!
I feel strangely compelled to play it, curious of what other ways you could make it look like suicide.
I feel the same. Apprently the aim of the game is to get senpai to notice you.
I think there was actually a Kotaku article about it… seemed like some kind of yandere madness. Quest tasks involved hiding the body, cleaning up the blood, and burning the clothes/evidence.
Like a suuuuuuuper creepy version of Hitman meets Viscera Cleanup Detail meets anime.
How did I miss it?
Well, unlike Witcher 3 which has probably got about forty Kotaku articles, this one seems pretty low-budget and the animation/textures are a bit low-rent, so it only got one that I know of. I’ll look it up… see if I can find it.
Here we go: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/03/the-schoolgirl-sim-in-which-you-kill-people/
That actually sounds like it could be interesting.
Yandere Simulator! Kill all the girls that might stop Sempai from noticing me.
Well I survived my deviated septum operation, all in all it was pretty easy but some bits were fairly unpleasant.
The operation was actually perfectly fine and there’s not been much pain from it but the recovery stuff was a bit nasty. I ended up having what was effectively medical tampons that were about 10cm long that went from nostrils to sinuses up each nostril and it was the most full my nose has ever felt and until I figured out how to swallow with my mouth open (you can add your own joke there) it caused a big pressure shift that usually triggered a light bleeding. The relief in having the bloody things removed was almost indescribable. I’ve had both nostrils blocked with blood before and had it come out as a long ribbon which cleared my sinuses amazingly and it felt brilliant having 100% clear airways but it pales in comparison to this. That said, I’m never having those fucking things up my nose again no matter how good it felt having them removed. Funny thing with the hospital stay was how long it took to get me into a bed, they had to look for an especially long one since I’m gigantic, even then I had to ask them to take the foot off the bed so I could lay down properly, I was sitting there for an hour or so while they found one.
I can nearly taste things again so I’m recovering reasonably quickly but fuck me the huge dry blood clots perching halfway up each nostrils is getting annoying, I really want to get some tweezers and pull them out but I have to leave them and just keep washing them with the saline spray, they end up softening and coming out with tissues but it’s not nice to feel. Here’s a photo of me with the blood soaking pad things on, I can’t decide if I look more like a cat or a mouse. Probably more like a bloke with sponges taped to his face.
O_O
…Good to hear that it went well, though.
Seriously.
Here’s hoping there’s a noticeable quality of life improvement in the coming months!
I hear that getting oxygen into the brain is considered a good thing.
I’m REALLY wishing that I could blow my nose though, so much mucous…
Blood ribbons. I feel that those are worth putting up with a deviated septum so you could sit next to kids on the bus and just start pulling one out of your nose and tell them about the horrors of picking your nose.
My expectations of blood ribbons are probably way off the markNot that far off really.
Long, thick and semi-dried blood & snot that’s just strong enough to pull out as a continual string if you get a good grip on itGood to hear the op went well alias; hope the recovery does the same!
Work is really boring at the moment. Completely dead. So I got bored and start flicking through old comments I made to shudder at what I was like years ago.
I completely forgot about TAYTV being a thing. How does it hold up after several years? Still relevant? Horribly outdated? Accessible to the youth of today?
Lets find out.
TAYTV prime time showings:
Blagh’d! Hidden camera show with people just talking. When they get a fact wrong Blaghman busts in and corrects them. Then a person jumps up, points and screams “YOU JUST GOT BLAGH’D!” I propose this be an hour and a half to two hour long show showing three times a week with a weekly best of recap on Sundays.
XBN with Sir Greenius. All the latest on Xenoblade followed by a half hour sales pitch. Ratings will be poor as everyone keeps promising to watch but few do.
The Ruffleberg Report. A Fox style hard hitting current affairs rant show with an angry host telling you why today’s games are going to be the ruin of society. Each episode will end with a piece in an older game and how much better it was designed then now.
Scree’s Suited-up Sorry Show. Each episode Scree shows off a new cosplay suit with sewing tips. She then starts apologizing profusely for the last 10 minutes.
Why I Hate The Humans. Tech Knight hosts a home video show featuring clips of the lowest, most vile and scummiest behavior humans are capable of. Still funnier then Australia’s Funniest Home Videos.
Good Morning with Chuloopa. Morning show that has segments demonstrating the latest and greatest in wang and wang related technologies. Rest of the show is reports on the best of 9gag.
That’s My Pez! A Eddie Murphy style “comedy” where every character is played by Pez. Each episode ha a special guest appearance by Cakesmith, who shouts a clever insult catch phrase to riotous applause from the live audience.
Bedtime Funtime Storytime. Jordi reads her stories featuring all the children’s favourite characters. Suggest late night time slot to avoid mid pilot axing.
Trojan. A Maury Povich style talk show where Trjn has guests come on who have problems. He then calmly explains that they are wrong and why. Has a weekly segment of This Weeks Top 10 Hilarious Starcraft Strategies alternated with The Best Of Reddit.
The Shane W Smith Power Hour. Shane lounging on a pile of velvet cushions, staring smokily into the camera while saying “shanewsmith.com/blog” in a throaty whisper at different camera angles for the entire hour. Occasional pause to give away a game.
Bat Cakes. A romantic comedy starring Batgirl and Cakesmith as they raid ancient undiscovered libraries and bakeries. Watch as Batgirl shiver as she rubs herself all over with the books and Cakesmith puts them in his bag and never looks at them again. Laugh at the constant bickering and witty banter between the two.
McGarnical Shore. The worst show on TV. Reality show following McGarnical and his dog as he expresses unpopular opinions and feeds trolls. For some reason is ridiculously popular. Has an unusual and questionable relationship with a small boy named Billy.
The Strange Ways. A Better Homes and Gardens style show hosted by Strange. She instructs on all the tips and tricks of sewing, cooking and child rearing all to the driving rhythms of the heaviest metal existing. Tonight Strange has some tips for getting unruly kids away from your game collection. Special guests Cannibal Corpse show you how to crochet some beautiful doll cardigans and Five Finger Death Punch have a scrumptious recipe for Blueberry and Oatmeal Muffins.
Harls and the P.I.G. A buddy cop show starring Harli as the jaded veteran of the force who has been teamed up with the wise cracking, rule breaking, anthropomorphic penicl pig, P.I.G. Each week they somehow manage to put aside their differences and solve the hardest cases that no one can, from who stole the TAY cookies to just who is the real Shane/Fabio.
Shiggy’s Ultimate Celebrity Cook-off Challenge. Iron Chef style show hosted by Shiggy where failed reality TV stars compete in a cook off. Each week there is a “surprise” ingredient which is always bacon. Contestants get bonus points for shouting the loudest. Winners receive a 30 second guest spot on That’s My Pez!
This needs an update for contemporary TAY.
Update, or dark gritty reboot?
I definitely want an update. In fact, I think I wanted one back when my Power Hour was announced 😛
Upcoming TV Show
Negative Jimu
@negativezero and @jimu host an At The Movies style JRPG review show but with slightly less bile and deep seated hatred of each other than David and Margaret. Most episodes end with Neg walking off set and Jim shouting profanity laden and poorly pronounced rants rants about the superiority of retro handhelds into the camera.
Sounds like every discussion we have on Twitter.
I have to disagree, Davi…Neg.
I guess there are times we agree.
hey, we both love the same genre.
I think it’s pretty telling really, there’s a lot more to JRPGs than the media is bothered to admit.
they lump a fairly varied mix of similar genres in together because they’re made in the same country.
There’s definitely similarities but the differences between Shin Megami Tensei & Tales are night & day.
True. SMT and Tales share a common ancestor (Wizardry) but comparison-wise they’re a long way apart – SMT much closer to the dungeon crawler source, Tales having evolved much later.
*stares blankly*
Thumbs up! 😀
@transientmind
Wait is that a ‘don’t understand’ or ‘you crazy’ thumbs up?
Can’t it be both? 🙂
@transientmind Logic says yes, but my heart says NO!
I love that you’re Margaret in this version.
It came naturally.
Neither of us are quite as positive as David though. More like two Margarets
I got Blagh’d the other day. Was discussing Red Dead and the Wild (Wild) West with a friend, and I made a comment about “Ye Olde Towne”, which he hastened to point out was wrong. I of course agreed with him, since the pronunciation of every letter was an old/middle English thing, not the modern English they would have used in the Ol’ West.
He then pointed out that the “Y” in that form of “Ye” was actually a thorn, so of course the pronunciation is “th”. Then I cried internally while attempting to save face by crying externally.
Your friend must watch QI
He does, but he’s also a huge geek and his mother’s an English teacher, so I’d give it even odds as to whether he learned it from the show or not.
Occasional pause to give away games is what caused me to upvote
Wow, there are some long posts today 😀
We’re all hoping that either Fled or Batguy drop in to do a TABTOL, and we want to make sure that our average word counts are as ludicrously high as possible.
Whether or not that’s a preferable option to everyone just spamming inane shit in the interest of getting our post count up is a matter for discussion. A discussion that I’m sure this is the perfect forum for, an event that is hardly a cowinkydink (I was tempted to keep waffling on for as long as I could, but I’m way too lazy for that, so instead I’ll just pad my word count with this parenthetical comment).
I see
Do you? Do you really?
I like to think I do.
You think I missed something? D:
I’m going to be honest, I was hoping for “no” to be your answer as an attempt to retain your previous brevity.
Nuh
It’s setting a new standard for this week’s Game of Thrones recap, I tell you what.
Welp, Dark Heresy happened on the weekend.
I’m going to snare my players soon, I just know it. They’ve realised that blowing up all of their problems works in a fashion but they can’t counteract the overall big evil Chaos problem unless they find some more information. So they’ll be venturing into a seemingly abandoned promethium drilling platform that the psyker has already sensed it is swarming in Nurgle-afflicted corpses and flies. And the platform is on unstable ground and leaning like the Tower of Pisa. And the players are already looking to split the party while the techies figure out the security systems. Excellent.Also that time when you provide a random symbol to the party and they point out that it already looks very heavily like the symbol of Khorne. Goddamn geometry. Screw it, it’s totally what I planned okay. *shifty eyes*
Katamari fans, I need a hand (not literally).
I’m trying to figure out if I should add Odeo to my collection of katamari bookmarks.
I have already made Prince, Ichigo, Nik, Dipp and Foomin. On the list of to be made is L’amour, Marcy, Marny, Miso, Odeko and Nickel. I don’t want any of the new faces, as I don’t really know them
http://s9.zetaboards.com/Katamari_Damacy/topic/331443/1/ <-Images of the cousins with names.
I considered myself a Katamari fan until I read this post :p
I am a fan and I’m only learning the names now. =P
I think you’ve got enough of the cousins.
I’d like to see the King of all Cosmos.
Yes, he’s also on the list and the queen, but I wanted to do some more cousins (I’m enjoying it)
What’s the deal with the eb website?
Every time I look up a game now, it says please find in store, I follow the link through & every time it claims there are none in my area & to call & ask.
So as a test, I searched in different postcodes , same answer.
Also, if it’s available on the website, it cockblocks my ability to search for a store copy (credit cards leave a trail my wife can see).
I’m looking for Demons Souls by the way, seems also good & is $23.
Isn’t it $12 on the PSN for plus members?
Maybe, but I’m a disk whore
Guys guys guys! Have you all read The Martian? The book by Andy Weir? I know I’ve totally raved about the book on here, and then ranted a bit about Matt Damon being cast as the lead character (still have my hesitations) BUT they posted some on-set photos today and I am sooo excited: http://imgur.com/a/bketp?gallery
YAY SPACE 😀
Also, I painted by bike at the weekend. Woo!
I should read that, it was pretty well received from memory
Man, I want to read this book. Next up is The Road… then maybe this!
The Road you can almost read in a sitting.
I’m a notoriously slow reader! I have carved three months into my reading schedule! 😛
Edit: Actually I can read pretty fast, but when it comes to fiction I spend a lot of time trying to picture every detail and take it all in. Takes time. D:
Yeah, but it’s still less than 300 pages.
McCarthy is a unique prose stylist. Very little punctuation, and The Road none of the characters are even named, they’re all “the Man” or “the Boy”
Same, I’ve still got roughly 100 pages to go of The Great Zoo Of China, which I started back in November last year (iirc) and is only 500 odd pages.
My current long reading list occupier is War and Peace.
Started it in the start of 2013. Still halfway through.
I think I need to abandon it and restart, but that hurts, that’s more that 700 pages invested in a great, great book, but it’s just been too long.
The other ten books I’m partway through aren’t nearly that long in the tooth.
Before reading The Great Zoo Of China I had two attempts at starting A Game Of Thrones, got to roughly page 180 before stopping on the second attempt because I wanted to watch the TV show and couldn’t wait till I’d finished all the books that are currently out.
Before that I was reading The Gunslinger (the first book in The Dark Tower series) which is only around 220 pages, got halfway through before I stopped and just never got back to it. Got the whole set on my shelf, so I really should finish off The Great Zoo Of China and start back on that series again.
Also got a whole bunch of others I haven’t started including the first two books of The Wheel Of Time series.
Wheel of Time 😀 I just started reading it again as I have all of the books over here except the first one as that’s with my sister back home but I just bought a copy a couple of weeks ago. After reading Steven Erikson and getting half way through A Game Of Thrones, The Wheel Of Time is ridiculously easy to read. That’s not me saying that it’s light on content, absolutely the opposite, but the way that Jordan wrote was just so free flowing that you’re 100 pages in before you know it
Did you paint your bike with the blood of your bikie enemies? D=
Pretty sure that goes without saying!
Probably as some kind of gang initiation.
Of course I did. They must have been royals though.
Wait… does that mean your bike is now blue? Or purple?
(If purple, please tell me there’s some Saints Row references in there.)
Blue 😀
Awh. I liked it as it was, from the pics I saw… but I’m sure you done good. Pics?
Blue would certainly stand out from the typical black/silver look.
Once it’s all cleaned up and detailed, I’ll take some 😀
I’ll wait for the film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(film)
Just looked at the cast and Sean Bean is in it. Wonder how long into it he lasts before he dies.
No, seriously the book is SO GOOD. Like, holy crap good. It reads like an action movie, you know? And the main character, Mark, is just – oh man, you want to be his best friend.
Do you have room for another member in your gang
Suited up and ready to go
Adding to my story, one of the problem players (the one playing the half-elf who keeps stealing identities) is regularly on his phone during sessions. While nobody minds someone using it a few times, he’s usually on it all day. We regularly keep telling him to put it down.
When he went out for pizza he left his phone in the house and missed a phonecall. Annoyed, one player locked it and turned it silent while another player threw it into his room. When he did eventually find it he demanded he be told who silenced it. When she confessed he just screamed at her for making him miss work. Causing the DM to yell at him to shutup.
Ok, first problem. He was bragging that he had not slept all night and has been up for 24 hours, being a bouncer on no sleep does like a terrible idea.
Second problem, he left his phone at home, so he missed the phonecall anyway!
Reposting from Old TAY:
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, BoxNote also: I can give summaries / recommendations about anything in this list since I’m sure that there’s a fair bit in there that are old and obscure enough that no one remembers / cares any more.
I have never seen all of azumanga daioh.
Would you like to?
I would, but I don’t want to take it if someone else hasn’t seen any of it
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. By the end of the first disc I was really caught up in it.
The point that I knew I was hooked was the scene early in the first episode or two where Osaka starts staring at a fly as it moves around the room. But the real point you realize you’re experiencing greatness is probably the weird dream sequence with Chiyo’s ‘Father’.
Still keen to buy those PS2 ATLUS games 😀
Yeah sorry, I’ll aim to get them posted to you ASAP.
Will be putting up a big list of vidya games soon too.
Oh, well maybe wait?
In case I see something else.
Sure. My collection’s fairly big and I’ll be squeezing it down a fair bit.
I’m interested in wii ones =P
My Wii collection is half US, half AU – I use Homebrew Channel to break regioning.
All good
No Now & Then, Here & There?
I own all the ones what I like :-s
I never got more than a couple of episodes into that. It was absolutely harrowing. The most bleak and depressing thing I think I’ve ever watched.
Unsurprisingly, it all works out in the end.
That protagonist is an absolute champ.
‘Unsurprisingly’.
I couldn’t see any hope at all in it from what I watched. I think I ditched it when
the chick he ends up in a cell with gets dragged out and raped.Way too dark and dreary for me. I watch anime for entertainment. I mean, I don’t mind dark stuff, but NTHT is just bleak.Might also be a reflection of where I was personally back when I tried to watch it as well, I guess?
Yeah, my wife sat through & enjoyed the whole thing. Something she won’t do unless she thinks it’s well made.
She watched that film Once Upon a Time in America a few times & that goes some dark an d horrible places.
I know what you mean though, there’s times when I can’t stomach that shit at all.
& I meant to mention she hates horror etc, but someone asked me a question & work happened *gasp*
I’ve gone through periods where I simply don’t want things that are ultra depressing or have all the feels etc. It’s stopped me watching multiple shows before, actually. Several really good ones too.
There are SO MANY good films and TV series – Western and anime – which I haven’t seen yet because I really don’t feel like spending my time bummed out or wrenched with pesky human ‘feelings’.
If no one’s called dibs wouldnt mind the Gundam Seed and Trigun boxes
@shane expressed interest in Trigun already but Gundam Seed is yours provided you don’t mind that the box is ruined.
Ruined box is no drama how much you want
3hugs
Too much! 2hugs and a handshake with shoulder pat
1 hug but you look deep into each other’s eyes after
THIS IS A TRICK. Eye contact after a hug is easily worth more than 3 hugs. Don’t be fooled, Cam. This one’s a shrewd’un.
Dunno, make me an offer? $30? Got to have enough to post it (or you can come pick up but IIRC you’re a fair way away from Camberwell?)
30’s good for me and I can pick it up when im at my rents next week as their in doncaster
Done.
If @coldcamv wants it, that’s fine. I suspect Mrs Shane would commit a murderous crime if I spent any money while our credit card is in the state it’s in right now.
Just say its a gift and say the money you spent is for the undad campaign
Nah, man. I can’t do that. Seriously, if you want it, please claim it. But thanks.
Hahahyeah, I’ve got it bad. Dat fresh gaming infatuation. It would probably be easier if it was busy here, but there’s an unexpected weird lull in the workload at the moment, meaning I am basically watching a clock for the next four hours while doing all that ‘nice to have, but no-one’s got the time’ housekeeping.
I have learned the secret behind this house-keeping. It is not low priority and never actioned because it’s not as important or urgent. It’s because it’s BOOOOORRRRRINNNNG. No-one WANTS to do it!
Hah, that’s been a chunk of my last two weeks (still waiting on my government program).
Also reading about Nukular Powah.
Thanks to your expert pronunciation, the internet link trail has lead me to reading a series of Bushisms. Things have turned out well.
Considering this was posted by Junglist, I’m disappointed that the banner image wasn’t a lobster.
Can’t mess with the styles when you’re a fill-in guy, man! That’d be like changing the wallpaper when you’re in an Airbnb place.
Yeah, why change the wallpaper when you can do this instead!
Welp, had a pretty awesome weekend, filled with Destiny and Witcher 3. Started on Friday night with some Destiny, in which Xur sold the last piece of exotic armour I needed to complete my “All pre-HoW exotics” collection, plus a helm engram… of which I bought about fifteen over the course of the weekend, giving me one of each of the new HoW helms, and a few duplicates with better stat rolls. Friday night also also saw myself and a couple of friends doing the Broken Legion (32 PoE), which was an amazing couple of hours, and got one of each of our characters to 33 – in my case, my warlock.
Saturday morning I spent relaxing with a few hours of Witcher 3, seeing me through to what seems to be the start of Act 1. I have to admit, the initial area around White Orchard in equal parts impressed and disappointed me. Every sidequest not only had a fully fleshed out backstory, not only had little things around the world to find on other quests that would flesh out said backstory, but popped up in conversations in the main quest, and vice versa (example spoilered below) – what an amazing way to do sidequests. That said, the area felt very limited – the area didn’t feel like it was large enough to fit the hype, and given the talk of it being open-world, I was worried that this would be all there was (a concern that was eliminated upon reaching Velen, which is huge).
So, during the Griffin contract, you meet a hunter, who’s been ostracised for having an affair with the local lord’s son, Florian, who committed suicide as a result. One of the sidequests in the area has a place of power in a graveyard, guarded by a spectre of some sort, that you chase into the nearby mausoleum – in that graveyard is a large gravestone lit by candles, Florian’s grave.Then I hopped back onto Destiny for the evening, spending most of my time running bounties to level up my new helms, and ran through the 28 PoE a few times, but never managed a third for another 32 PoE. Did end up helping another friend through the story, finally getting to sleep at around 3am. 😛
Sunday I aborted my initial plan of spending the morning on the Witcher, and hopped straight back into Destiny to finish off some bounties and sink some more XP into my new gear. One thing led to another, and ended up doing the weekly (Archon Priest at 32 is super annoying – so many major captains to deal with), then went into the nightfall to get Eris’ bounty done and ended up completing it again for another friend who joined partway through, ran through another weekly and the 28 PoE with them, then we took on the 32 version, getting my second character to 33. The Valus Tra’aug fight is so much fun – so many near-wipes, so much chaos. Very much looking forward to taking my titan through it tonight. 😀
You want some bonus lore about the Florian stuff?
If you talk to the herbalist near the crossroads, you learn she was friendly with the murdered woman. She says the idea was when the Lord rode in to meet them it was to bring them back into the fold, but apparently the dead woman said something about the Lord’s son which sent him into a fury, and brought about the murders. The herbalist had no idea what could’ve been said… but knowing the huntsman’s story, we can certainly guess.I love that interconnectedness, though. It’s all over the place. And Velen is huge.
:O
When I spoke to the herbalist, she mentioned she was close friends with Caera (?), the woman who became the noonwraith… never thought she might also have more info on Florian… let alone that that the two stories would be connected…That’s amazing. Although now I need to speak to everyone every time I finish a side quest, just to be sure. This may take some time… 😀
Yeah, I had resolved the noonwraith thing ages ago and was getting around to the main stuff with the griffin.
I’d done talking to the Hunter, learning about Florian and him, and the quest text pretty much locked out the herbalist, didn’t mention her at all. Which frustrated me, so I went to go see her anyway to see if she could still give info on Buckwort. Turned out she didn’t, because I already had enough, but she did have that injured woman to deal with, and I had the option to ask her about Caera(?). That’s when she mentioned she’d heard Caera had said something to the Lord about his son which made him fly into a rage and murder everyone.So yeah. Stuff to do everywhere. I’ve noticed a few contracts that after you wind up the contract, you can still go and talk to some of the involved parties and give them more information about the resolution, or get interesting tidbits on the rest of the world.That level of story-crafting is truly impressive. It’s difficult to believe they’re able to link it all together so well.
Bonus points: Go check out the notice boards even after you’ve cleaned out all their contracts. They post random bits of news and lore all the time.
Wait till you reach Velen…. It’s massive 0,0 and so many of the side quests are amazing! One of my most memorable experiences is a little story event that triggered while I was exploring question marks. No side quest or official directions to it just a random little question mark with a really cool 5 minute event.
Yep, got to Velen.
Immediately screwed myself out of a pass to cross the Pontar River, by apparently letting an unnamed NPC die, who happened to be the shady merchant’s brother, and thinking “this poor dude probably deserves to know his brother won’t be coming back.” Now, said merchant tells me to piss off, so can’t get a pass from him. Oops. 😛Ahhhh that shady merchants dodgy anyways; there’s better/cheaper ways to get a pass!
We managed to smash through level 34 PoE most of the way with 2 of us and then needed a third for the last couple of rounds. As 33s we attempted the level 35 one just the two of us and got through the first round but anything more than that, mines just make everything so much harder. Shotguns are so useful though
Shotguns are certainly useful; lost count of how many times it saved me from a major who got too close during the Tra’aug fight. Did lead to an awkward situation in one of my 28 runs, tho:
One enemy left on the final wave – a level 28 major Fallen captain with a shrapnel launcher. As a 32 bladedancer, equipped with my trusty swordbreaker, having easily melted his like in the past few minutes, I confidently chased him down. Cue those fateful last words: “I’ve got him, guys.” I triggered my invisibility, charged him, jumped, blinked forward to get into range just as my invis ran out, and… *Guardian down.* One-shot by the shrapnel launcher, mid-blink. You don’t get to be a major captain without good reflexes, I guess. 😛I’d be happy to help with either PoE or ToO, if you need.
Got to Lv 34 on the weekend :*
It’s surprisingly easy 😮
Tried the Trials of Osiris?
It is so incredibly super intense, and I love it.
@liondrive and I pushed to 34 with my other friend, and then ended up claiming nine wins on the ticket (with three losses including the forgiven loss from the buff). I purchased the Trials chest piece, and got the gloves from one of the package purchases, for my warlock.
Also, fuck the boss of the level 34 Prison of Elders. Annoying as hell.
That boss…
My god, that boss.
Let’s not spoil it for him, but my god, that, f*cking, boss…
Urrox summons his rage!
Well, shit.
PvP’s not my thing, so not really that enthused by the Trials. It is a little disheartening to see so many people so quickly hitting 34 between PoE and Trials, but… eh. I’m content to wait if need be. Not too worried about finishing 34 PoE this week. EL would be nice to have, but… maybe next week, when it’ll be enough to get me straight to 34 on any of my characters that complete it.
So, Pillars of Eternity seems like a pretty cool guy.
Anyone else playing it? Have any shiny class/party builds?
I have not played it, but I can only suggest playing as an entire team of bears: http://www.pcgamer.com/pillars-of-eternity-diary-playing-as-a-party-of-bears/
Mmm, I could go with a party of peeps with their head on fire. All beserkers and fire mages of course.
That party’s banter should be all “I’M SORRY, I CAN’T HEAR YOU. NO, IT’S BECAUSE- IT’S BECAUSE OF THE FIRE! WHAT?”
My toon is a fire godlike anyway and I am always amused when I talk to someone and they are all “holy shit; your head is on fire!”
I’m 12 hours into it, was going to play more last night but the allure of New Vegas was too great. Playing a Monk, seems to be working out.
Guy to ask is @dc, I know he’s finished it and has some systems understanding.
I’ve only just made it to the first town
Playing a Monk for the Punchy McPunch
I’ve played a ranger to completion and have started a cypher which I think I prefer. The cypher seems to be a good blend of medium melee ability and moderate magic and work as a good support character. A combination of my cypher main & Grieving Mother manage to do a hell of a lot of disruption & damage to the enemy and having 2 people with mind control makes it even more hilariously broken. I ended up mind controlling the final boss for a few turns and he was very handy dealing with his minions.
As for party members, when I was playing my ranger my main companions were Eder, Aloth, Durance, Kana/Pallegina & Grieving Mother for most of the game since they provided a good balance of combat abilities. Weapon wise I went heavily into rifles since when modified, having 2 people with rifles just shredded anything that they hit, to the extent that much of the time I forgot to use magic since I was just shooting everything in the face.
Urgh, creativity is failing me utterly today.
Oh well, I can do better but heres
TAYTV Fall Midseason Lineup 2015 Part 1
Negative Jimu
@negativezero and @jimu host an At The Movies style JRPG review show but with slightly less bile and deep seated hatred of each other than David and Margaret. Most episodes end with Neg walking off set and Jim shouting profanity laden and poorly pronounced rants rants about the superiority of retro handhelds into the camera.
The Inspector Nob Files
@sernobulus plays his iconic role of Inspector Nob. Episodes follow a formula of a crime shown to be committed, Inspector Nob immediately declaring an obviously wrong solution followed by 25 mins of awkward silence and shuffling of feet.
The Week That Was
@dc spends half an hour summarising the past weeks events only for weeks at a time he talks about nothing but games that no one else is interested in or even heard of. The entire half hour is film of an empty couch as he refuses to stop hiding behind it. 10 minute regular segment called Cage Match where he reads out tweets critiquing David Cage and angrily tells them where to shove it and why.
Transitory Knowledge
@transientmind answers questions no one ever asked with long winded and tangential anecdotes from his past experiences in life. Show is most popular on the station, especially with flustered middle aged ladies and inexperienced young men.
The Lion Eye
A take on Queer Eye by @liondrive only ten times bitchier and judgemental. Show’s graphic designs are a highlight. Initially had a cooking segment until the mustard incident caused the network to pull it.
And introducing
TAYTV2
The @shane W Smith Power Hour has expanded into a 24/7 broadcast abandoning all subtlety and is nothing but flashing backgrounds, klaxons, screaming and web links to Kickstarter flying at the screen.
I’m not allowed on The Lion Eye anymore.
You’re damn right you’re not! >:(
Oh? Why’s that?
“He knows why.”
Maybe I could have a segment called “Mustard Shaming”, where I go and throw a bucket of mustard on anyone wearing mustard clothing 😀
Also on Alex once a week, mustard pants or not :p
Thank god we did away with the sultry voice, purple cushions, and casual nudity…. this is a good lateral move.
The sultry voice is the only thing that’s gone.
Ah, nuts.
In before obvious response “Exactly”Well, I think the nudity is less casual now.
Meaning it’s more formal nudity, black tie & nothing else?
I wish for a pilot episode that doesn’t get picked up as it’s me sitting down in front of a screen trying my hardest to make witty sarcastic comments about everyone else and then failing miserably. You can replace me with re-runs of Huey’s Kitchen and Takeshi’s Castle
now that I’ve been converted, is that bloodborne artbook worth the extra $$$$?
It’s okay… but if you want art, get the guide instead. It’s only about $30ish IIRC. It’s got a tonne of art, and an interview with the director, and some lore stuff. It’s a one-stop shop, and it’s freaking huge besides!
Ah cool, there’s a fairly new looking second hand copy of the base game just down the road.
debating a purchase…
Am I able to wrack TAY’s collective brains? I’m trying my hand at making some custom RPGs feats/talents/special abilities sort of thing and I’m beginning to run out of ideas.
So yeah, if you were playing a RPG regardless of genre, what special ability would you like to have?
Quantum entanglement
The ability to change the print of every text within a 2d20m radius between American English and British English spelling.
Disarming counter – Use a parry roll/weapon skill roll and it beats the attacker by a certain amount, your opponent has to make an agility/dex based save to how far the weapon gets smacked out of their hand. Succeeding this check will result in them being able to use the weapon next turn no problems, slight failure it’s knocked to the ground, trying to pick it up again is an attack of opportunity if you’re in melee, and bad fails it gets knocked away from the physical location of the attacker that drops it, rolling for direction and distance. I would LOVE that as a melee fighter, not just a riposte like other RPGs do.
Battle system real time or turn based?
Probably the ability to hit twice in one turn, or have two turns in one turn.
Either is good. No restrictions as I just want to hear what special abilities people enjoy in RPGs.
Chaos – randomly give someone else’s choice of previous or next action to all present entities (including mobs / NPCs)
Something about using agility to run up walls to evade attacks if agility is high enougg
You know what, there’s not enough wrestling moves in RPGs. Needs more powerbombs, suplexes, Corporate Elbows, Tombstones and Socko.
Relevant. 🙂
World Wide Wrestling RPG
WHY ARE WE NOT PLAYING THIS?
I think it only came out about two months ago and I don’t really watch wrestling so i don’t think I could really get into it as much as other people can.
Nothing stopping you from playing it though. 😛
Enjoying watching wrestling on TV and enjoying being part of the ridiculous, showboating, soap opera, non-sense are two different things. =P Instead of being a boring Elf you can be a hyper violent, criminally insane billionaire who solves all his problems with wildly impractical wrestling moves and impromptu fights back stage that just happened to be littered with makeshift weapons. Say goodbye to team work and hello to smashing your most trusted ally with a bottle and joining the other side just for shock value.
And spinning sitout double underhook facebusters.
Also relevant.
Using telekinesis to pick up an item and hurl it at enemies, from single target to AoE based on item size.
Casting a lightning bolt on yourself causing an AoE shock blast that knocks back all enemies near you as well as damage them
Grappling pull (Scorpion’s attack pretty much)
Pathfinder actually has rules for grappling with a weapon. Ultimate Combat adds the ‘grapple’ property for weapons:
“On a successful critical hit with a weapon of this type, you can grapple the target of the attack. The wielder can then attempt a combat maneuver check to grapple his opponent as a free action. This grapple attempt does not provoke an attack of opportunity from the creature you are attempting to grapple if that creature is not threatening you. While you grapple the target with a grappling weapon, you can only move or damage the creature on your turn. You are still considered grappled, though you do not have to be adjacent to the creature to continue the grapple. If you move far enough away to be out of the weapon’s reach, you end the grapple with that action.”
If I were working in what you’re talking about, I’d probably do it for one of the newer classes that have a secondary resource pool like grit or similar, and make it a 1-point ability to attempt a ranged attack and apply the grapple ability even if it wasn’t a crit.
Anything that lets me talk people into things.
Also, as always, Sneak Attack.
You could always just crib some ideas from other stuff. I like stealing ideas from anime for example, especially if it’s an ability that has some kind of somewhat scientifically logical underpinning. For example, always thought that the ability that Accelerator in the Index/Railgun stuff had was a clever idea. He can impart an instantaneous acceleration on anything, changing its vector. Doesn’t sound that interesting – just telekenesis really – until you start taking it to extremes, for example using it to compress air from every direction until it becomes hot plasma, or changing the flow of electrical currents in a circuit, or stopping the flow of blood through someone’s veins.
Actually that franchise has some fairly cool abilities in terms of how they’re used. Manipulating electric currents to induce magnetic fields and shoot coins like a railgun. Rapidly transferring energy from one place into another.
In fact, there’s something I always felt was lacking in a lot of fantasy-style RPGs. Why can’t magic interact with other magic? If I’m throwing a fireball, why can’t I enhance that by chucking a wind spell into it that feeds more air into the conflagration, increasing the heat and the power? Why does there have to be a million variations of a simple spell, rather than just one ‘fire’ spell and a lot of ways to change it or vary it? Why are there 9 levels of Summon Creature, rather than one spell that you can scale up or down to a maximum based on your experience level?
Regarding your last point, 5E D&D cleaned things up a bit but almost to the point of simplification with some spells. A lot of spells just scale as you mention with character level but the majority of them still can’t interact.
Pathfinder has a variant system of magic called Words of Power from Ultimate Magic which I’ve found very interesting. I want to use it eventually some day but I need to read through the rules a bit more and build a campaign idea based around that sort of setting. Essentially a more primeval setting that could tend into the more mythical and legendary aspects of a fantasy world.
Makes me think a bit of the Wheel of Time setting, where magic is just combining five elements in different combinations and patterns. Though that would be hellish to implement in an RPG I guess.
@negativezero made me think, Anime ninja/crouching tiger roof running needs to be a thing.
@negativezero I went around looking for interesting anime/anime-esque RPGs and surprisingly there aren’t that many great eastern-focused RPGs. The most successful one that I saw was Feng Shui which is basically Hong Kong action movies mixed in with east-Asian mysticism. Another one that I saw was Anima: Beyond Fantasy which apparently does a passable version of Final Fantasy as a tabletop RPG. Still a shame that RPGs as a whole seem stuck in western fantasy and science fiction.
Exalted took a lot of cues from Anime, and was huge for a time (and had mystical bamboo mecha from memory)
Legend of the Five Rings has been around forever
Big Eyes Small Mouth I know is explicitly anime inspired, but I’ve never read much about it
BESM kind of sucks.
There’s one big one you will have overlooked because it’s not in English officially: Sword World, aka 2d6. It’s a custom system derived from D&D, which was used to create the Record of Lodoss War stuff (which are actually novelizations of Ryo Mizuno and friends’ Sword World campaign). Later renamed to 2d6 System and used as the basis for RPGs set in the Scrapped Princess and Dragon Half worlds as well.
IMO it’d be very hard to come up with a generic all-encompassing ‘anime’ RPG system. One setting to the next, things can change so drastically. You’d need to either have something super generic that you then customize toward a specific setting, or you need to create something with more limitations in mind. I’ve never tried Anima but I hear it’s kind of average. BESM tried the generic route ages ago but it never really worked that well. I’ve seen anime-customized GURPS and I think Fate as well. I could see you taking the system from Numenera and The Strange and anime-izing it fairly easily too.
The generic Cypher system rulebook would have you covered there
http://www.montecookgames.com/announcing-the-cypher-system-rulebook/
Yeah I think so, but I think that you’d need to do a lot of work with it and customize it toward something more specific.
It’s my biggest gripe about Numenera and The Strange (but also what people like so much about it probably): it’s way too open and flexible. Nothing to latch onto.
latch onto in terms of what?
that openness, as a GM, is really a godsend. As a player, I don’t know because I’ve never been one.
I mean that I’ve looked at it before and I always have no idea where to start when thinking of a character. Everything is so open that I feel like there’s not enough of a framework to hang things off. When I’m going through that sort of process I like to think about how the character fits into the world, what their role in life is and so on and find that extremely hard to do when the setting is so flexible. The Strange especially. Feel paralyzed by choice.
Note that I also generally dislike open world RPGs and like structured, linear narratives in my video games, so I think this is probably just me.
Is the Cypher System going to be openly available or will it require buying a rulebook? That’s been my biggest gripe about a lot of RPG systems: players shouldn’t need to buy a whole pile of rulebooks. The basic stuff should be online and freely available. Shouldn’t need to pirate several books to be able to roll a character without being in the same room as a DM with a complete library.
Cypher system will be a self contained book for system hacking into a bunch of settings. One book, nothing else, but it’s not an open license thing. I know in the book it’ll have hacks for sf, superheroes, and fantasy as examples
the MCG .pdfs have been reasonably cheap.
So if you’re a player, not a GM, you’re going to have to fork over cash to get a PDF with some vague descriptions and then get a big wad of crap from your GM which they may or may not even have the copyright to distribute as it’s a derived work?
See, this is why d20 and its derived games proliferated so well even if they’re not that great. It’s free and the license is open.
@negativezero the MCG stuff comes under the fan use policy, so a GM can share a bunch of stuff for free: http://www.numenera.com/fan-use-policy/
I’m coming at this, btw, just from someone who has GMed it for a bit, but not played as a player, for which you’d have to ask @popdart5 or @tech_knight about.
the D20 OGL stuff proliferated well, but I bet if Wizards had their time again they’d change it- there were a lot of crap OGL products, and we all know what happened with Pathfinder.
@negativezero Unfortunately the Open Game License of Wizards only extended to 3rd and 3.5 edition of D&D which is part of the reason why 4E didn’t do nearly as well. When nearly every small third-party publisher/writing house could create adventures and content without paying through the roof for licensing fees, that really kicked the RPG industry into overdrive with content, even if it wasn’t always good content.
I don’t think we’ll see something like the OGL from a big RPG publisher for a while. I know a lot of the indie developers use Creative Commons licenses and have free versions of their rules available but you’re never going to get the tidal wave of content that 3/3.5 got.
@redartifice: Have a look at what that license allows and doesn’t allow you to reproduce. As a GM you’d be in a situation where you would need everyone to have a copy of the core rulebook, and then write your supplementary stuff separately. You can use terminology but it won’t even let you republish a modified table.
You could just ignore it and that’s fine for a local thing between friends, but if you’ve gone to the work of creating a whole setting and rules and everything at considerable amounts of effort, the fact you can’t distribute that as a stand-alone thing, the fact that you’re prevented from reproducing *any* of their text, makes it a pain in the ass. Means you can’t do things like take an ability from their book, customize it slightly and then add it to your stuff. Original only. You can get a commercial license to make supplemenents for Numenera and The Strange, but their current licensing and policies are super unfriendly to making your own stuff derived from their Cypher system if you want anyone to actually bother using it.
If I were putting that effort in, personally I’d just use d20 or come up with my own system and be free of their baggage.
A battlemage class that specializes in gravity manipulation =O That would be so awesome!
An ability that removes any targets Clothing (Armour included)
Howdy errbody hows every little thing? My weekend was exhaustive.
I did nothing on friday and saturday I drove Cathryn to the station as she was staying at a friends which meant one thing. Gaming.
From 5pm to 5am I played destiny and webt from level 25 to 27 getting 3 exotic items all for warlock which shat my friends off to no end, they also ran me through crota and I got radiance shards. Did PoE about 4 times and got an exotic handcannon, need to find more keys. Sunday cathryn didnt get home till 5pm so the morning was more Destiny, did one vangard dragon strike and got 3 legendary engrams and a bunch of rare engrams which gave me a better chest armour,level 28, legendary helm, level 29 and a strange coin so I could buy the exotic dancing boots so im finally level 30!
Given there’s talk here about The Witcher, I thought I’d contribute without having Witcher 3 yet
YOUR QUICK AND DIRTY GUIDE TO THE WITCHER BOOKS RELEASED IN ENGLISH SO FAR
Premise: You know this. Geralt, cynical mutant, kills monsters for money. Despite his title, he’s not actually from Rivia- for Witchers to work best, they choose to pretend they’re from nowhere close to hand. Basically, he’s Geralt from Foreign.
BOOKS: 5 of the books have been translated into English thus far
First up, The Last Wish, which is a collection of short stories that are a little bit linked. The opening cinematic to the first Witcher game is almost a direct adaptation of the end of the first story, with Geralt fighting the Striga. Most of the rest of the stories are variants on classic fairy tales, including beauty and the beast
LINKED STORY BITS TO THE GAMES
In this collection, as well as meeting characters like Dandelion and places like the city of Vizima, it’s established how Geralt came to be Ciri’s guardian (he takes her as payment for one of his jobs) and how he first encountered Yennefer (an incident with a genie). Also revelas that Yennefer, like all sorceresses, uses magic to appear attractive, and before all that had been ugly and hunchbackedBLOOD OF ELVES
Blood of Elves is the first of the five-book “saga,” and basically tells of the invasion of Cintra (south of The Witcher 2) by Nilfgaard (in the games, Cintra is already part of Nilfgaard).
PERTINENT BITS
Ciri, who’s actually a princess of Cintra, is taken under Geralt’s wing and trained at the Witcher keep of Kaer Morhen. Triss is also introduced, carrying a huge unrequited torch for Geralt and realising that Ciri is actually a mega-powerful source of magic. Dandelion gets captured and tortured by an evil wizard, but gets saved by Yennefer. By the end of the book, Geralt gets wounded after a stoush with Philippa Eilhart and Yennefer becomes Ciri’s mentorTIME OF CONTEMPT
the Wizards and Sorceresses try to plot against Nilfgaard, things don’t work out
PERTINENT BITS
Geralt is still recovering from Blood of Elves. All the mages (including Yennefer, who’s very much Geralt’s partner, Triss, and a couple of sorceresses from the game including Sile de Tansarville and Philippa Eilhart) , Dandelion and Geralt go to Thanedd (mentioned in the games) to try and sort shit out, but spies for Nilfgaard screw up the process. The Scoia’tael get involved (though Iorveth isn’t actually in the books (there’s a minor elf with the same name, but eh) and Geralt gets an offer: Join Nilfgaard or die. He chooses the latter, and gets the shit beaten out of him before Triss gets him the fuck out. Ciri also escapes, taking an unstable portal that leaves her half the world away, where she joins a bandit group. At the end of the book, Nilfgaard conquers pretty much all of the territories in The Witcher 2 bar Temeria (which is ruled by Foltest, who is still alive).BAPTISM OF FIRE
Geralt’s still not well, we meet Zoltan
PERTINENT BITS
walking wounded after Thanedd, Geralt decides to head south into Nilfgaard to find Ciri. Accompanied by Dandelion, they find a bunch of refugees and meet Milva, who hasn’t appeared in teh games but is basically a human archer lady. They team up with a band of dwarves, lead by Zoltan Chivay, and head into Nilfgaard. After heading east, they get tied up in a battle, part of the Nilfgaard war, and end up opposing Nilfgaard in favour of the kingdom of Lyria and Rivia, and for Geralt’s assistance he gets dubbed Geralt of Rivia. Ciri slips deeper into her bandit life and develops a mean bloodlustFinally, THE SWORD OF DESTINY has just been released in English, but I’ve not read it yet. it’s another short story collection.
I’m yet to fully sit down and start reading the Witcher series because I know I’ll get frustrated waiting for the translations to come through. That said,
I really, really want to see how the Battle of Brenna is portrayed in the books. By all accounts in the games it was the battle to end all battles (kinda like the Somme of the Witcher universe). Also I want to see more of Yarpen Zigrin and his merry band of mercenary dwarves. I read a small section of Last Wish and they showed up there getting screwed over by humans but by all counts they are a badass group of mercenaries and adventurers.I’ve not got to Brenna yet, I think it’s in the last book, and my guess is it’ll be glossed over- most of the big battles have been, and Geralt if involved will be on the fringes of it.The Beavwa review based on having finished game 1, read last wish / blood of elves, finished game 2, read time of contempt, haven’t touched game 3 yet.
THE LAST WISH
Excellent set of short stories that sets up a cast of recurring characters. READ IT.
Not necessary for game 1 but some characters referenced by game 2 story stuff, may not make sense otherwise.
BLOOD OF ELVES
Tries to set up a larger epic story. Introduces epic story characters that appear to be in game 3. All I remember is that it got boring fast.
TIME OF CONTEMPT
Hype made me start reading again with this book, but it fizzled out fast. Made me stop reading for many months after. Unsatisfying and frustratingly boring. Would not recommend over a Kevin J Anderson book.
They are very focused on the minutiae of the characters, and not on the broader war and invasion. If you didn’t like the first two, you will not like Baptism of fire, it’s possibly slower.
I loved The Last Wish too.
Put it on the shelf alongside The Dying Earth under ‘Best Sets of Short Stories Fleshing Out a Single Universe’
Yes, yes, I should read these. Much about Witcher I like, gameplay ruining my experience.
Yes.
“i might miss out on seeing the new TAY because of work, but i hopefully won’t miss out on much.”
seven hours later
“the fuck?“
It’s ok, come Friday there’ll only be 2 more pages of comments to catch up on 😛
I miss tay every damn day :\ Sucks. I never have enough time these days. Especially when I’m on late shift. Get stuck doing everything all by myself for the last 2 hours of the day! I miss being able to sit and chatter all day long
Tell me about it right; it’s like all the posts for the past 6 weeks are pouring out all at once!
I have no idea what happened to the weekend. Despite having just gotten over some kind of sickness, it felt like I was coming down with something else. Can’t tell if that’s a thing or it’s going away or it’s just the other thing lingering, but either way I hope it stops soon.
Tried playing more Elite, but the conflict zones I was hanging out in all disappeared. Last night I decided to move over a few systems and work on getting an Alioth permit, and during that wound up coming across a station full of other players. Then ended up winging up with one of them (another was going to but had to leave) and went Anaconda hunting for a while. God damn, Vultures destroy those things like crazy 😛 Then after we were done, he requested a duel in stock Sidewinders. I was a bit worried about adding another death to my count, but I managed to kick his arse 😛
That was fun. I think I’ll have to try hanging out in populated systems more often. Although there was that one Vulture who tried to ram me to death. And totally missed, because he sucks.
Soo…I ramped up about 20 hours in The Witcher 3 over the weekend, this is as well as making a 4hr trip to my partner’s mum’s house, demolishing my jungle of a back and front lawn and making everything presentable for a rent inspection this week. I also fixed our retic system which has been broken for months (involved digging up some broken pipe, putting some new stuff in and adding all these t-attachments to put all this other pipe, etc on) and managed to cook a pretty nice dinner.
I am playing on the second-hardest difficulty for TW3 and am finding it pretty rewarding so far. Sometimes I am getting stuck on a particular part for ages and dying a lot, but it is very rewarding when you get past it.
How was everyone’s weekend?
Yeah second hardest has been the best difficulty for me so far as well; it forces you to consider oils/potions and other combat items but doesn’t make you rely on them for the average encounter =]
Just turned my phone back on, because Nintendo were supposed to call this morning and I was up way too late last night to be doing anything in the morning.
Almost the instant I do, they call me. THEY ARE WATCHING. SPIES ARE EVERYWHERE.
Oh, thanks for the reminder – I need to call Nintendo too.
Dammit @greenius, you’re slacking off again.
Call Ni… Zzzzz do.. ZzzzZz
And to think people were paranoid about Kinect while all this time it’s been Nintendo who’s Big Brother…
The Supergirl Pilot leaked, umm, earlier today? A few days ago? At some recent point in time.
So as the manly man that I am, I decided to watch it, keeping in mind that the only super hero shows I like are either DC Animated things, or Daredevil.
And… I liked it. I mean, it’s not mind blowingly amazing by any means, but the spoiler free version is that despite its crappy choreography, thoroughly mediocre special effects (which I will freely admit may well be made slightly less bad in the next six months), and its sometimes clunky dialogue, I had fun watching it, which is more than I can say for most. Woo, fun.
Though that fun may have just been a byproduct of playing Skiing Yeti Mountain as I watched it, because I suck at task focus.
Have you watched The Flash though?
Nope.
Since I have weird personal rules regarding continuity and stuff (For example, I’m happily playing the Witcher 3 despite not getting very far in 1, and never finishing 2, but I refuse to watch the Fargo TV show until I’ve seen the movie), and it connects rather directly with Arrow, I couldn’t bring myself to watch it.
Fargo is on Netflix, though there’s precisely one connection between the TV series and the film.
I didn’t mind it. Felt very dated though not just in effects but storytelling and cinematography.
The ad looks good.
Has anyone else seen the Balibo movie?
After the recent controversy, I am pretty freaking pissed at the Indonesian government. I am pissed at Britain, US and Australia’s part of it and I actually support what Howard did to stop the war.
stop the war? As in send in peacekeepers?
In terms of Indonesia and self-determination, if you want to be annoyed look up the stuff still ongoing involving West Papua.
The invasion of eat Timor, Howard stopped it.
Howard: Hey Indonesia, we’re no longer supporting you and we’re going to support an independent vote to see if East Timor wants to be independent.
Indonesia: .. FINE! We WILL do a vote. *remains angry at Australia for 30 years*
I will look up the west papua now.
East Timor was already “invaded,” what the Interfet force did was allow a free plebiscite on independence without violence, which was a great move.
I say invasion, but what I really mean was the err, conflict? It seemed to be fairly one sided though
Maybe not stopped a war… stopped a massacre, more like. Some of them, anyway. Not all.
Got some mates went over there tell some harrowing tales. Or… ‘not tell’, as the case may be. Even the regular infantry couldn’t talk about operational stuff some time after, but they made allusions to get things off their chest over a drink. Real things. Nasty things.
It makes me sad and frustrated that there wasn’t anything I can do, but I seriously wish our government had done more
@popdart5: RPG talk reminded me of something I’ve been meaning to ask for a while, re Pathfinder: How do you envision Verbal components of spells actually working?
For a wizard or prepared caster like that, I always thought of the verbal component as being some kind of incantation or similar. Think Harry Potter style, yell the spell name in latin or whatever. So it’s kind of obvious they’re casting a spell. They studied for ages to learn how to cast stuff and it’s all dry and academic. They have a very strict way of building a spell, very exacting, and the verbal component has to be just right to complete the whole spell and make it work, like a piece of a jigsaw.
For a sorcerer though, the idea is that they have an innate command over nature that allows them to effectively project their will on the world in the form of spells, right? So for a spell with a verbal component, do they somehow innately know the same magical words that a wizard would speak? Or is it more that the verbal component (and somatic, thinking about it) can be anything as long as it’s consistent, as it’s basically acting as a focus for the mind rather than being a specifically crafted piece of a carefully constructed spell? Is it more like a Jedi Mind Trick kind of thing?
Like, for example, if I’m standing in a crowded room and I cast a spell with no hugely obvious effect to show a spell was cast, like say using a mass charm spell… what does that actually look like? Is it that the Wizard waves his arms around and yells expecto charmionis or something, and the sorcerer does that little wave and goes “would you kindly…”?
I think that largely, this is up to you and how you and the other players want this to be portrayed in your campaign. I think it is describing it as verbal, somatic, etc for a rules perspective. For example, if your wizard is gagged, they can’t use a spell that has a verbal component, or if their hands are tied, they can’t use a somatic component for a spell.
I am not playing Pathfinder but am running a 5e Campaign for D&D and I let the players decide how they want to cast their spells. If they have booming incantations, I don’t let them whisper an incantation later on as all their spell-casting previously has needed booming incantations.
I like the Dresden Files thing of creating your own words of power, and as long as you put the will behind it they became powerful.
In Dresden’s case, that means his power words are gibberish that is close to his intent, but not stuff he’s going to say in normal conversation.
So Butcher ripped off Edding’s Will and the Word?
Dunno. This is an explanation of the magic system: http://dresdenfiles.wikia.com/wiki/Magic
Butcher took about four books to codify a lot of stuff. Not that he’s been obviously inconsistent, more that the first one was written more or less on a lark and the second one was written not too long after. The 4th is the first one where it starts digging a bit further.
I’m slightly surprised you haven’t read Eddings. Always figured he was a staple that every one read like Tolkien or Feist.
Haven’t read Feist either.
I read sf all the way up to uni, it’s only in the last ten years I’ve read much fantasy at all. Especially fantasy of a certain vintage, too many names and concepts and ye olde speak for me.
Fair nuff. Eddings is good as he does a lot with a little. Doesn’t bother with overly complicated lineages or descriptions, he calls a pig a pig. Lets the characters carry the narrative. Relatively light reading though.
Feist can be a bit rambling at times but he wrote the Empire trilogy with Janny Wurts and I consider it a must read. More of a political thriller than a fantasy adventure set on an alien world that parallels Japanese Shogunates.
I’m trying to clear my backlog and read more science fiction and literary stuff atm, but I’ll keep them in mind.
I can see how you would come to this conclusion but I wouldn’t say ripped off. It is a slightly different concept. In Dresden Files, they can use magic without saying any words, it just is very dangerous as there are no words that your mind has associated with the intent, and as random thoughts can interject when you are focussing on something, not having the words can have dire consequences. They use words they wouldn’t normally speak so they cannot confuse intent while casting the magic.
From what I remember of Eddings, the will needs a word to manifest, it can be any word, provided they have gathered the will beforehand. Belgarion had a lack of finesse in the words he used 😛
The part where Garion has first got the Orb and Belgarath loses it when all he can say is “Go” remains one of my favourite scenes in a book.Oh man, that was great! And that part where they find Senje, and they blow up his door, Garion just says ‘Door’ to replace it! Hahahahaha!Those books were my entry into the fantasy genre. I loved them then, and I’ve still got a soft spot for them now.
It’s been a while since I read eddings. Now I want to read them again 🙂
I like how in the later books his wife gets acknowledged as joint author. I recall reading something where he said he’d be sitting there writing and his wife would ask how long it had been since his characters had had a bath ^_^
If a wizard is steadily gesturing with flowing accurate hand movements and calm words he learned through decades of study, a sorcerer is throwing his left hand straight up and right hand twisting forwards while swearing at someone because he did that once and people lit on fire.
More accurately: I imagine a sorcerer to be a smartarse at all times (including the verbal part of his spells) that aren’t necessary logically linked to the spell being cast.
Thinking Spiderman doing the “Go web go” bit in the original raimi film.
That exact scene passed through my mind as I was typing…
EDIT: “Flyyyyy!”
Going to spoiler a bit as this ended up being quite long:
Pathfinder kind of suffers from a bit of the heritage of D&D in that spells are structured in a very specific way. Most spells require some sort of component whether it be verbal, somantic (hand gestures), material (pinch of powder), etc. The great majority of spells require at least either a verbal or somantic component from I am aware of.The prime difference between prepared and more innate casters like sorcerers is primarily that: time and preparation. If a sorcerer and a wizard are locked up in a chamber with nothing but the clothes on their back, the sorcerer can still cast spells while the wizard is restricted to what they had previously prepared. In addition, once the wizard runs out of spells, they can’t cast any more spells unless they prepare themselves by consulting their spellbook. Sorcerers don’t care about that whatsoever. A balancing side of things is that sorcerers generally have access to a smaller array of spells whereas a wizard is potentially endless.
More directly addressing your question, they don’t specifically say what casting a spell actually looks like and leaves it in the hands of the players. All casters, even bards and druids, can go full bombastic like Brian Blessed waving his arms around like he just doesn’t care. Or you can totally go the opposite end and be very subtle about it and use quiet but properly pronounced ways of speaking and small hand gestures. Generally more “subtle” spell casting would be grounds for me asking for Stealth, Bluff, or Sleight of Hand rolls to not be obvious about it. Heck, I believe the rules as written actually allow for the application of sneak attack damage when casting ray spells (which makes things like Disintegrate absolutely devastating in an arcane trickster or stealthy caster).
Considering that almost anyone can gain magic spells of some sort through magic items or multi-classing, each individual has their own way of using magic and generally that can be as subtle or as overblown Emperor Palpatine Force Lightning as you want. Nothing in the rules that I’m aware of stipulates how magic should be cast by the individual classes. Metamagic feats are available to completely remove components from certain spells which can be handy in very specific situations but ordinarily, the components will always be present in the casting of spells however they are likely to be present in different ways depending on the caster.
I shudder to think how Lundgredolph would handle magic…
Shouting and punching the air?
Drops his pants.
Enchanted staff?
Does piercing rather than bludgeoning damage?
I kind of want to upvote this but I really shouldn’t…
Pelvic thrusting in the general direction. Ray spells projected directly out of his nethers.
Metamagic is really a non-starter with the way it’s implemented though. It’s the fact you have to take them as feats rather than always being able to apply them. Fair enough in some cases (threnodic spell for example, letting you cast mind-affecting spells on undead) but for some of the really obvious ones like quicken, empower, still or silent, it feels like these should be basic capabilities of a mid-level caster and not something you waste a feat on. Pathfinder’s got way too many feats as it is.
Yeah this is one major irk I’ve got with the metamagic system, you have to spend a feat point to be able to use a spell in any of the above ways. You would think that lower level spells you’d be able to cast them at least silently (Or even quietly rather than loudly and clearly as the rules suggest) as you’ve used them so many times, especially if you’re a sorcerer.
I think again metamagic was a way to paying tribute to D&D and all that came before it. It should have been set aside as its own subsystem of magic but considering that magic by itself is a fairly substantial chunk of the corebook, giving more toys for magic users can kinda screw with what little balance remains in Pathfinder. Tying it to feats was probably the best that they could do considering the system but I expect that they’ll be cleaning up the dusty relics and artefacts of the past if they ever make Pathfinder 2.0.
Feat bloat is a massive problem in a lot of RPGs but I think it appeals to some people to have such a wide variety of things available to players. Hence why there’s now something like ten different archetypes per class or something ridiculous. More choice and more options can be good (I personally prefer that) however you do risk being swamped in just some core good feats and a bunch of general meh abilities.
The main issue is that the amount of choice makes it so daunting to those not so familiar with the feat ‘library’ like myself, making it next to impossible for me to choose which feats I actually want. I tried grabbing a short list of feats that a) I match the prereqs for and b) Ones I could move towards as I want those feats. It takes a very long time though and is overwhelming
There’s a few classes that can use a secondary resource to apply any combat maneuver feat as if they had taken the feat. Surprised they haven’t done any casters that can do that with metamagic.
The fact that metamagic increases the spell level means you’re never going to use it until a fair way into the game anyway. I wanted to pick up Persistent Spell at some point (if a target successfully saves against your spell, it has to pass a second check at same DC or the spell still takes effect) but that increases level by +2, so would need to be able to cast level 3 spells before I can apply it to level 1 stuff.
Arcanists kinda have that with their Arcane Reservoir, I can apply a point from this pool that regens either per day or I could consume spell charges to increase (Even above my normal amount I have per day). These points I can spend to either:
Increase a spell level by 1 or
Increase the DC by 1
It’s not as in depth as I might like (As in you can only spend 1 for example, you can’t use more than 1) but it is pretty neat especially for something like Magic Missile where applying a point gives me another missile (As I showed in previous sessions). My most recent addition is an actual spell that I can cast with an arcane pool point which is a ranged touch zapping attack called Lightning Lance, does damage and could potentially impair vision of the enemy.
I like the idea of the non-scholar’s magic’s verbal component being less a ‘word’ and more a ‘sound’… if that’s what you can call a wrinkle in reality that exerts a kind of existential pressure.
Described as a ‘word of power’ at best, but only because language really struggles to pin down speaking without words. Something the magically-inclined wouldn’t necessarily know the ‘word’ for (they might have a word to label the sound, but that word is not the sound), but would know the shape and texture and feel of… aurally.
Still aural.
Like it follows the rules of sound (can be muffled, fades with distance, has high or low volumes, won’t work if you can’t speak, may not necessarily affect those who can’t hear it, depending on the intent), but very obviously doesn’t follow ALL the rules. Like the rules where sound doesn’t normally leave a splash in reality like a stone cast in water.
FUS RO DAH
Always Sometimes Monsters (AKA Hobo RPG) is in the Humble Bundle right now. I recommend it if you want to steal baseball cards from old ladies, let a kid get shot so you can steal his $50, and sleep in an alleyway and hope you don’t get stabbed in the middle of the night.
I forgot the link.
https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly?gallery&utm_source=Humble+Bundle+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e89a395594-Humble_Weekly_Bundle_Adventures_2&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_990b1b6399-e89a395594-122323221
Anyone else watching the OPL? First time paying attention to League of Legends esports live.
Got some good feedback on my art project today.
It’s weird, we have to use the pieces we drew throughout the semester, and work them into this collage type deal.
We can photocopy them and what not, so can use the same piece multiple times (which is required), but if I had known sooner, I would have thought about it more before hand so I could tailor my drawings towards it.
Still, I’m happy with the direction, but because I had to draw the same naked man and girl repeatedly, I don’t have a huge amount of differing pieces to work with.
My idea is a little seedy (which is what I’m going for), but I was going to place lots of pictures of the naked man around the outside of the picture (symmetrical each side), give each one the head of a dog, and put a drawing of the naked girl laying on a bed in the middle of the picture, with all the guys looking at her.
I was also going to border it with curtains, and have some flags scattered about for decoration, like it was a peep show, kind of thing.
I want the focus to be on the girl though.
I was going to call it “Perversions”.
I’ll post a picture to Twitter next week hopefully some time when it’s finished 🙂
Been casually hammering away at Octodad: Dadliest Catch…
Pretty good game, honestly. 🙂
Joining in on the “I watched the Supergirl pilot” train.
My thoughts are basically the same as Blaghs. There is so much wrong with it but I still enjoyed watching it. It’s weird.
Some notes (nothing super(heh) spoilery, but anyway):
It felt like what would usually be an entire seasons story arc in 1 45min episode.Them PS2 graphics. I swear they used the same flying template about 5 different times, just changed the background plate.Feminism. What’s subtlety?That they clearly don’t have the rights to say “Superman” is hilarious and could be a deadly drinking game.That last point
It’s so painfully obvious isn’t it? It’s like they’re speaking about Voldemort or something. They couldn’t even find a graceful way around it.Spoiler #1:
I like that they burned through the origin. As much as I love Power Girl, and by extension Supergirl, the backstory is a mess you really don’t want to dwell on. It’s enough to say ‘she’s Supergirls cousin, and she basically has the same backstory with a slight twist on it’. Personally I was happy they used all that to setup a storyline for season one that lets them get a handle on the basics of the show without having to try too hard to introduce challenges.They don’t have to worry about setting up villains. They don’t have to dive into exposition for why everyone she runs into has powers that rival her own. They can still do interesting big picture stuff but there’s no pressure. It’s a little simple but it’s nice and neat. A lot of shows, particularly sci-fi shows, get caught up in an over elaborate season one arc and they spend the entire season neglecting the stuff that matters long term.
Spoiler #2:
Given that everything seems to be more or less complete I wouldn’t be surprised to find they ‘leaked’ a completed version on purpose to gauge a public response and build some hype, but if that’s not the case the CG could be unfinished. At the risk of going all conspiracy theory having a completed pilot leak worked out really well for Flash and Gotham so it wouldn’t be completely ridiculous to do the same for Supergirl.I guess if it’s anything like Flash the CG techniques in the pilot will be improved by the time they actually start making episodes and that’s what really matters.
Spoiler #3:
I think it’s always going to stand out in that regard. There’s no way to have Supergirl on the fence when it comes to feminism. After all her two major defining traits are that she’s Super and she’s a girl. She’s so powerful that being subtle means actively working to avoid it, which comes across as offensively because it intentionally ignores and avoids the issues. Likewise she’s so powerful that tackling the issues in a natural way comes out as beating the viewer over the head with it.Spoiler #4:
I know it’s pretty unlikely but I’m really hoping they filmed alternate takes where they say Superman instead of ‘him,’ and that by the time it makes it to TV they’ll have got permission to use the name, even if only for the pilot or with strict approval. He’s really important to it all so I’m glad they went out of their way to get him in there but it’s so jarring. It’s almost embarrassing for everyone involved.Is it not WB making it? They own all DC.
Nope. CBS is making it.
Right
Mad Max: Fury Road lives up to the hype.
I don’t even know how this could be possible, but it’s absolutely true.
Hello everyone. How are we all. I was very ill yesterday so stayed at home in bed. now back at work and trying to ease myself back in
Why did I think that taxiing in with the missus to work would be a good idea. At my desk an hour before my start time? Twiddling thumbs galore. Ah well, tomorrow I’ll be running along the river if I’m in at the same time again
Just read about Joe Hockey on Q&A last night on news.com.au…it’s amazing how quickly Murdoch’s publications will turn on a political party when they get into power and don’t do what Rupert expects of them. Completely deserved in Hockey’s case imo, but the power of the media is ridiculous
They’ve been putting the boot into Hockey for a while now. Looking to replace him with Turnbull or Morrison. God help us all if it’s Morrison…
Dammit!
I was making steady progress through Dark Souls Fri, Sat & Sund nights.
Slowed to a hideous, backtracking crawl last night as I hit a difficulty wall.
so backtracked, snuck in back doors etc to work on a stronger Weapon & get some better equipment.
Still fun, but hard to go to bed knowing I’m still where I was last night.
One of the best bits of the game is getting in a new area, being totally unaware of where death could come & getting that survival horror anxiety.
Reading guides seems to be essential because stuff is hidden away so ridiculously sometimes, you’d be lucky to stumble across it.
and I normally don’t turn to guides unless it’s a second play or I’m totally stuck.
Where at?
Also with Resident Evil and Silent Hill having shat the bed a long time ago the Souls games are the best Survival Horror out at the moment.
Yeah, I love Evil Within but it’s got too much shooting for shootings sake.
TLoU was a better story than horror (although the stealth is spot on)
Sewer under town, frog dudes hammered me
Where’s the difficulty wall that you hit? What stuff did you use a guide to find?
I missed an npc that sold spells & a ring I needed.
Places to farm green titanite to create int based weapons because casting is slow
I got into the sewers under the city & was getting hammered. Just needed to beef up a bit.
There’s a way to skip about 90% of the sewers and not see a Basilisk at all.
That’s no fun! 😀
Before they fixed curse curing it was the only way to do it.
Lucky me.
What can you do now, just buy those items?
Is there nothing down there of importance?
You can buy Purging Stones from the merchant outside the sewers now. Used to be you’d have to run halfway through an endgame area to get cured. Was ridiculous.
There’s not much in the sewers. A ring that is not great, some soul items and an NPC invasion which is easy to get from the shortcut. It’s a legit shortcut too, no glitching or anything, just a passage hidden behind a box.
@freezespreston yeah, I bought a PS after they cursed me to death.
6,000 is pricey though. Im down in Blightown atm farming green titanite & am going through purple flowers like nobody’s business
Blighttown enemies inflict Poison IIRC, not Curse? There’s some armor sets you can pick up that have good poison resistance. But better than that, get yourself a Spider Shield. There’s one on a corpse in the Sewer Depths, above the giant rat mini-boss. Blocks 100% of poison build-up. You might even have it already if you started as a Bandit.
@negativezero You’ve misundstood me. Because of the curse,I went to blightown instead to farm stones. I have that spider shield equipped, as well as poison resistant clothes, all they do is slow the poison.
The Basilisks are fucking assholes. First time I was down there, I fell in and got mobbed by them. Next time I was super careful, hit them from long range with arrows and didn’t get cursed at all. You really don’t need to spend much time down there thankfully.
If you’re up to the Sewer depths then you must be coming up on the Gaping Dragon. It’s not a hard fight once you know how to do it but the design of that thing was lifted straight out of a nightmare.
Yes!
Yeah, I kinda love that feeling of exploring. It’s not as much fun when you have an area that you know you have to get to but there’s just a couple fights that really fuck you up and you have to learn how to overcome them… I don’t enjoy that part of Souls games anywhere near as much as the exploring.
I like it when there’s a tactical way to improve your chances, but one area I’m at requires I waste all my spells before the boss.
hopefully getting a beefier int sword means I can stab & save the spells.
There’s no weapons that scale with int available to you until you get to Anor Londo though, unless you really lucked out on one of the non-respawning Channelers and got a trident.
Do you have the Drake Sword? It’s a great starter weapon if you need one, even though it doesn’t scale with your stats.
Personally I never finished the game (got stuck) but I went with a Dex build. Light armor for maximum movement speed, bows and spent most of the game using a Balder Side Sword which drops from the rapier-type Balder Knights in the cathedral area.
Yeah, I grabbed the drake sword.
I can use green titanite to create my own int weapons. I’m working toward that now.
There’s a blacksmith outside the entrance of New Londo that forges INT scaling weapons.
Goddammit! Game Of Thrones episode 4 won’t be finished downloading for another hour and a half and that’s when I have to be at work. Knew I should have set it going before I went to bed last night.
What if, like, this life is a dream simulation like the matrix, but, like, run by a future society that watches what we do and who we are to determine our place in society? Like, we’re still in the womb and yet to be born.
Ooh, entry level solipsism.
No. Shut up. It’s all my own idea. You don’t know me. Stop oppressing me. Fascist.
The other day I said to my mum, hey, what ever happened to the green grapes? We only get red now. And she said that there are still green grapes around, but she thinks it might be a seasonal thing. And then I told her, oh, because I thought I’d been abducted by aliens or something and they tried to replicate my life perfectly but they didn’t get the colour of the grapes right, and that one insignificant detail would be the beginning of their downfall as it plants the seed of doubt in my mind that eventually leads to me breaking my way free of the simulation.
True story.
This. This is perfect.
“What ever happened to all the white dog poop…”
Freeze is the only true conscious being, the rest of us are just philosophical zombies
Edit: Which is strange, because when I shut my index finger in the front door at work last night (don’t ask me how, I’m just clumsy alright) it really fucking hurt. So if philosophical zombies don’t feel pain, then I must be the one true conscious being.
Nope, you’re just a construct of my conciousness, some manifestation of an unknown desire and you feel pain because my belief in pain makes it so.
Interesting yet depressive fact: Scientists are currently trying to create a computer simulation of a universe, from birth to death, accurately as possible.
If they succeed, then the odds of us being a simulated universe inside a computer rise to some enormous amount (20odd%, if I remember correctly – which in statistics is a huge amount).
Pizza Hut Four ‘n’ Twenty stuff crust pizza tonight. Funeral tomorrow!
Yours?
Exactly 😉
Wait, what?
Pizza Hut Four ‘n’ Twenty stuff crust pizza tonight. Funeral tomorrow!
Once more with feeling
https://www.pizzahut.com.au/
“Oh hey, we have someone actually from Europe at work now! She’ll have watched Eurovision!”
Nope. I’m still the only one.
Don’t worry, my uncle watched it and posted 10 links to videos about it a day on Facebook!
If Channel 7 were smart, instead of the latest season of Australia’s got Poptarts or whatever, they should just invite a bunch of C-list European popstars and run a whole series of Eurovision knockoff.
I’d probably watch Australia’s Got Poptarts, honestly.
I have never liked poptarts.
Pffft you should know that any self respecting European doesn’t watch eurovision *hair flick*
I fully support this statement minus the hair flick. I’ve never had a full head of luxurious hair *sobs*
It’s the thought that counts! Just randomly thrash around your head like you have weird twitches and that’s good enough
Thrashing my bald head around to the tunes of Eurovision…I think there’ll be a strong possibility of me being committed to an asylum somewhere if I started doing that 😀
They can’t do that! That’s discrimination against the hairly impaired!
I mentioned yesterday that I run a 5e D&D campaign..I have a session this Saturday but have done little to no prep because The Witcher 3. The party is 5 adventurers, 2 level 5’s and 3 level 6’s and we have a Paladin, Rogue, warlock, bard and ranger.
They are currently in the service of the lord of the country they are in and have just finished one of the first major jobs they have done for him, our last session was pretty relaxed. For one of the players birthdays we did a special edition where they went to a tavern, met an NPC and their characters played D&D and got each others character sheets and one of the players DM’d. Kind of like D&Deception, just with lots of dicks because the player in questions character is obsessed with them.
Anyway, this session is kicking back into things. One of the barons that pays homage to the lord of these lands has recently declared his lands an independent kingdom and has been recruiting from the ranks of the lords army. Basically, the players will have to infiltrate this barons castle by getting recruited, work their way into a position of trust and then sabotage the barons defenses so the lord can make an example of him.
Previously my sessions have all been very combat oriented because my players like that, I want there to be combat in this weekends session but not sure how to implement it as they will need to spend the time infiltrating the castle. Maybe they could be sent on a mission to clear a cave or something in order to gain the trust of the baron?
Sorry for the wall of text;
Well there’s a name I haven’t seen in a while! I have been a bit absent the past few weeks though… Has everyone done the mandatory “who’s this guy?” etc etc? Okay good…
Well welcome back my friend!
Sounds cool with your dnd stuff! I really need to get stuck into it at work as we’re planning a few dnd nights ourselves.
Haha hey how you doing? Yeah it has been a very long time, got some spare time at work on Friday so thought I would jump on and now I have TAY fever again :p
Hey you can TAY-out any time you’d like but you can never leave!
Good to see you though!
I’m quite alright myself just puttering along 😛
Please don’t leave* again
*meHahaha I will give it my best shot. Yeah I am about the same. Still working for iiNet, still with the same girl, moved house though, thats really about all that’s changed. Oh I now have a pet pink and grey galah, his name is Sydney.
Nice! Well if you like working for iinet I suppose XD
Because my memory is terrible, which part of the country are you from again? We should try and get you to some meats!
I’m from Perth, haha 4 years is asking a lot to remember something like that so I won’t hold it against you.
That would be good! Haha its alright, great people to work with, difficult time at the moment though.
As a side note: My house recently switched to iinet, and my Dad had some dealings with a tech from Perth (we had to switch some email stuff, and I think our VOIP had some issues initially), and I was tempted to ask about you over the phone, but I figured I didn’t want to confuse the poor guy.
I’m sure the baron has heads that need kicking. if he’s actually an arsehole, it may be a good moral quandary- send the PCs to suppress peasant riots, or to go after the local robin hood-type.
Yeah that could be cool..the baron is not that bad a guy, he has been influenced by a priest of a dead god and they are trying to resurrect him (part of an ongoing story line introduced earlier), he has been fed lies and has been led down this path. But I could always have him order it because the priest told him to and then later on after his influence has been broken, can have the baron a broken man from the guilt of all the horrible things he ordered.
Hey mags! It’s been a while since I’ve seen you on TAY, how you been? 🙂
Hey techie! It has been a while! I’ve been good man, just busy with work, etc. Still working for iiNet, have been managing a team there for 2.5 years. Apart from that, just the usual you know. How about you? Did you move into that apartment yet? (Guessing you have because its been like 4 years :p)
I actually gave up on that one as it never even got started, got my deposit back plus interest. I’ve bought a new one and I’m moving into it this Friday. 🙂
I’ve been okay but not great, work life is fine, personal life isn’t.
Congratulations on the new place then! Sorry to hear your personal life isn’t going well dude 🙁
Collect tribute for the baron from some troublesome customers not paying up or clearing out some bandits? Thinking of standard RPG tropes here 😛 Escorting supplies to or from the baron’s castle(?) and being ambushed by thieves looking to run in and out and steal the supplies rather than trying to kill the party.
Our group likes combat but we seem to take at least an hour on the smallest battle as everyone tries to think of elaborate tactics to take out a blind man and his blind and deaf dog. I like it when there’s stuff to make use of everyone’s skills like traps, sneaking, speech or lore. We’ve just finished the prologue to our main story (in GURPS) and I’m hoping our GM has more elaborate stuff planned on top of the usual dungeon crawling.
That sounds awesome! Thanks for the idea! My players have only just started getting into the intricacies of combat and using the environment, etc instead of just hitting things with their weapons :p
Our rogue only just joined, replaced a fighter who left the group due to other commitments and he is the most useless rogue ever. His name is Gumbo, he is a really, really tall half-orc that is so dumb, he is only just intelligent enough to speak. The other players tried to get him to steal some expensive silver wear and he came out with just the table cloth. He has also put pretty much everything into dexterity and has expertise in acrobatics so is constantly doing flips and shit.
We have a lot of people that think outside the box so sometimes our fighting isn’t just smashy smashy. I just have fun as a necromancer though raising whatever we kill. I like it even more as our party leader hates the undead with a passion and has to do everything he can to not kill my zombies 😀 but yeah, something to break up the cycle of ‘enter room’-‘clear enemies’-‘find secret door’-‘enter room’.
I think we had a dwarf rogue at some point. Probably a step up from a half-orc rogue, but still just as useless 🙂 I think that got changed to a Khajit rogue instead which is a vast improvement it goes without saying 😀 we’re all still new to role playing though but our GM is trying to get in everyone’s heads that we can do literally what we want instead of asking him all the time ‘can I do this?’ or ‘can I do that?’
That sounds great. Yeah I have 3 people that roleplay really well and 2 that don’t even try so trying to get them into roleplaying
That sounds like the greatest character ever.
He is pretty amazing. Useless in terms of helping the party, but great for laughs. Also the player who controls him is the best roleplayer in the group and does not leave character from when he enters the house to when he leaves. He also has daddy issues..
Storm the castle, kill everything that moves inside.
Problem solved.
This has been their approach previously :p
Hoping for a bit note finesse as I am hoping to get a little bit note progress in the dead god story arc. I am weaving an intricate tapestry of events which include everyone’s back story and everything is kind of connected. Its working out pretty well so far.
The thing I find works well with players who kill first and ask questions later is that, sometimes, the only people who knew anything were the ones who were killed. Or some vital evidence was destroyed by the enemy when the players began rampaging through their lair. Villains can be villainous and devious with their schemes so through up some problems that may result from player actions.
That’s a good idea. We are all new to D&D, all of us started with 5e and I started DM’ing without having played so it has been a learning curve. Will start throwing in stuff like that now I have the rest of it down, the first 6 months or so I was learning how to juggle everything and keep the flow going!
Very brave of you to jump into DMing without having played it before. Thankfully 5E is a really easy system to get into and start playing and the rules like to get out of your way when you want to have fun. Congratulations for 6 months of success!
Haha yeah it was a bit of a challenge! I’ve actually been DMing since September so 8 months and running now but have been adding stuff in that isn’t just combat and moral decisions, etc for the past 2 months or so.
But yeah, someone had to do it and I have always been creative with stories, etc so I ended up in the role. Enjoying it a lot. I play with a group on Roll20 as well where I am a player, think I prefer being DM, playing is a lot of fun though!
“STORM THE CASTLE, KILL EVERYTHING THAT MOVES INSIDE.”
Valid response to all of life’s problems.
Trying to find parking.
Choosing a gift for a friend.
Job searching.
Date night.
Edit:
Lost your keys.
Your idiot friend is getting back together with their ex.
Stupid computer won’t work.
Your stocks have tanked.
An anticipated game is offering retailer-specific in-game pre-order bonuses.
Your sportsball club lost their sportsgame match.
Parking fines.
Boredom.
Complex international trade disputes.
Can’t find anything to eat in the fridge.
You’ve been exposed to a politician, talking.
Hangnail.
Can’t remember what that song was called.
Fear of mortality.
Coworker keeps sneezing, keeps expecting you to say, ‘Bless you.’
Last bit of milk in the bottle isn’t quite enough.
Catalogue-dropper keeps ignoring your ‘no junk mail’ sign.
Neighbour’s kids are in the ‘loud screeching’ phase.
Health freaks are linking you to studies which indicate your favourite food causes cancer.
The last tissue you pulled out didn’t prime the one behind it.
Papercut.
Can’t tell if that borderline food smells ‘off’ or not.
Fucking tea-towels need washing again.
Tired on getting home, don’t feel like cooking.
Elevator is taking WAY too long.
Locked yourself out of your house.
Walked through a spiderweb.
Counting a large number of things and lost your place.
Still haven’t figured out which of the three light switches on the wall activates the one you actually want.
Got something sticky on your fingers when you opened the mailbox.
That discount coupon you were planning on using is expired.
You have popcorn kernel skins caught under your teeth and you can’t get it out with your tongue or fingers.
Tea-towel lint on your dishes which can’t be wiped off without producing more.\
Patted a cat/were within eyeshot of a cat while wearing black.
Burnt your tongue on your first sip of a hot drink, now you can’t taste and enjoy the rest of it.
You were much stronger the day you tightened the nuts on your tyre than you are today when you need to change your tyre again.
You can’t understand this person thanks to their thick accent but you’re trying not to constantly ask them to repeat themselves so they don’t feel bad.
Your softdrink can’s ring-pull came off without opening the can.
You keep missing calls from an anonymous number but the bastards refuse to leave a message.
The Kratos approach to life.
The. Worst.
Holy crap this looks awesome.
Looks long, but awesome!
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/forbidden-stars/
Thats What I Said!I finished The Last of Us last night! Honestly, I kinda disliked the ending… But all in all a pretty great game with some faults. I think I was let down by the ‘greatest game ever’ hype that surrounds it. Was expecting more. I still had fun though so it’s a winner.
It also put me in the mood for shooters again (which is great considering Splatoon is coming this week). Booted up TF2 for the first time in ages. It’s fun! I’d forgotten most of the controls so I ran around for ages as an Engineer trying to remember how to lay a Sentry 😛 Also everybody has new weapons and hats and I have no idea what’s going on. People are flying around in parachutes and things now! What.
TLoU
The last bit with the fireflies I didn’t like- how it all devolved to a shootout. The epilogue though? That’s one of my favourite endings to a game ever- the look on Ellie’s face when she realises she can’t rely on Joel is so goodThis
I stealthed my way through that section because it made more sense to me that that’s what Joel would do since he’s a post apocalyptic Batman.In better news Mrs Pixel managed to keep food down yesterday and rise from the bed to move to the couch!
She’s still groggy as all hell but I guess almost literally sleeping for an entire week can do that to a person…
And I got more then 4 hours of sleep last night! \o/
Glad to hear that she is doing better. She’ll get there.
Finally got back on the treadmill last night after being sick at the start of the month.
Went better than expected, which is nice.
Woot, three level 33s achieved. Goal for this week: Three level 34s. More lenient goal for this week: Three level 33-and-a-halfs. *prays Variks doesn’t decide to sell a helm this week*
I will say, the 32 prison is much easier third time around – it took us less than half the time our other runs took – just under 50 minutes. Looking forward to wrecking it again tonight or tomorrow night (gotta get nightfalls done first, I think). Then, maybe, on to the 34… 😛
I’ll probably be running lvl 34 PoE at some point with a friend, if we have spare room feel free to join. PSN id is TheCracksAU if you don’t already have me.
Thanks for the invite; I may take you up on it. My group is aiming for the 34 this week too, tho, and as we’ve got no story to do, we may actually get to it this time. :3
So. Centrelink just determined that I’m no longer legible for Austudy.
Due to additional income or what?
Nope. They said I’m not studying full time.
No longer legible? You need to write more clearly
What excuse did they give, insufficiently obsequious when talking to them? Did you at any point say “Please sir, I want some more”?
They said I don’t study full time.
How many courses do you do a semester?
If you are down as full time, get written evidence from your uni.
Rocksmith this week… The Cure, Bill Withers… oh, for the love of god… *politely waits for guitars to finish having sex, then throws money at screen*
Been doing a bit of research and it looks like Comcast are the only high-speed broadband provider in Washington state. 🙁
I’d say ‘can’t be as bad as Telstra’ but… I think they actually are.
EDIT: Unrelatedly, Melbourne TAY, we should have a meat.
Woo monopoly providers
Have you found a place yet?
Pall Mall
Nope, I haven’t even started looking. I can’t really do anything until I know when I’m getting there and that will depend on me actually submitting my Visa application which I can’t do until tomorrow as my Mum has to bring over my degree tonight so I can make a copy of it since the visa application requires it.
Will the company put you up for a time while you find a place?
Yep, was either 45 or 60 days max I think. Also providing someone to give me a tour of the areas and help me start looking.
That’s good of them, although I hear they’re a pretty good employer full stop.
They really are, though honestly their relocation package wasn’t great and I had to negotiate some extras.
I would be up for a meat
Score!
Went back to Cash Converters to see if I could haggle down from $60 to $50.
Lucky me, they dropped it themselves overnight!
Don’t hat me for second handing, @liondrive
What’s this for?
Wow, wtf happened to Bloodborne’s name?
A wild autocorrect appears!
The second hand shopping’s gotta stop when we’re married, Jimu.
As long as you’re bringing home a fat paycheck this (tarnished) trophy wife has no problem racking up a large credit card bill 😉
You and me, babe.
You and me :*
What’s wrong with secondhand stuff?
I’m not supporting the developer
“Hi, I’d like a sandwich. Two large serves of avocado with salt and pepper on it, and some salami, onion, cheese, tomato. OK, that’s fantastic, now could you apply just as much avocado as you did before, on the other side? Yes, I’m sure, please charge me for four serves of avocado. It’s OK, I know what I’m doing… I’m ordering a delicious sandwich.”
That sounds vile…
Avocado is the devils food!
The devils mushy, disgusting food!
That’s objectively wrong. Avocado is the food of the gods.
I only really like avocado when it’s used in guacamole. Every other time I haven’t liked it.
It’s pronounced Guack-a-moh-lee. And stop eating our young!
It goes great with cham-paggen!
One of the best episodes.
They really did look delicious.
That’s probably one of my all time number one most quoted Futurama lines.
The Problem with Popplers was a classic, though just looking it up I thought it was earlier in the series than that
Unlike the Simpsons, Futurama remained pretty consistently good the whole way through.
It was more consistent, though I think peak simpsons was a higher peak than peak futurama
No need to compare @redartifice just enjoy both as much as possible and if you have to compare them to anything, compare them to the putrid mess that is Family Guy 😛
It’s nice when you put other things with it but on its own it is like waxy mushy flavourless goop. Like what you’d expect people living in 2100 on vat-grown algae in the dystopian cyberpunk future would eat.
I can’t wait till food is pills & liquid & we only eat desserts etc solid.
I can’t stand cooking & eating wastes my precious free time.
I enjoy cooking sometimes and eating most of the time. My current place has a shit kitchen though so don’t cook much.
Sounds horrible.
I love eating.
Cooking and eating are my two favourite things. A world of pills sounds bleak and joyless.
I dint not like eating, but the choice of popping a pill when I have more important /fun shit to do would brighten my day.
Would also help with the list of health issues I have.
I knew I liked you for a reason
The shepherd avocados are so superior in deliciousness, but have such a short season 🙁
Tuesday… first time posting this TAY. That’s what you get for taking time off work to spend with your daughter.
Quip’s aside I took her to check out the Dinosaur exhibition at museum today and it was particularly awesome. Exhibition wasn’t huge but they packed plenty in.The
animatronicsdinotronics was very cool – they were blinking… and swishing their tails… and craning their necks…Daughter took it pretty well, freaked out at first but after a few minutes wanted me to lift her up to touch their teeth… She seems to quickly lose her fear of a lot of things… not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
Gonna try and pump through the rest of Far Cry 4 this week. Actually finish a game this year…
Man, I keep forgetting the Dino thing, how much longer have I got?
Ages… Runs till October 5th. It’s not a massive space but it packs in the detail. And the older kids I saw there loved it.
Sweet, will have to take the boy(being a parent is THE best excuse)
Hey, going to look at dinosaurs is a more than acceptable excuse not to be posting here 😀
Gonna try a 20km run tonight as my training for the melbourne marathon continues. A bit less then 5 months left, hoping to raise money for Beyond Blue as that depression stuff really hit me hard for many years. Time to give back 🙂
Body doesn’t like it though, i’m getting too old for this shizzle 🙁
Never too old! Well. Unless you have joint problems or your bones will shatter like my teeth when eating peanut brittle. Then you might want to take up swimming.
Some of the old dudes at Aussie Masters when I swam used to give the young’uns a run for their money.
Yeah, I tend to have some part of my body hurting after a run these days but it seems to be a different part week to week :/. It didn’t used to a few years ago. I guess that’s why a lot of athletes retire around my age (34) although I’m not an athlete by any stretch 🙂
or unless you’re welbot
Never too old! 😀
Nice one. I really need to get back into running. Starting with 1km along the river and back before work. At some point I’d like to do Tough Mudder before my body completely gives out. I’d struggle as it is to just get around the course no obstacles so 20km is great going 🙂
It sure takes a while to build up 🙁 I started off struggling to run 200m without stopping, although I was 30kg heavier lol
I need to drop about 10-15kg so I can get to around 85kg. It’ll help a lot hopefully when it comes to indoor football 😀 I’m also needing to get back into walking to and from work rather than the lazy option of the train. That’s a 7-8km trek and if I load up my backpack a bit that will hopefully have fairly quick effects.
Everyone starts somewhere though and you can back that up with proof of now running 20km 🙂
Make sure you post your fundraising link so we can help you out 🙂
I’d be happy at the moment just to do a sub 40min parkrun. Been struggling just with walking thanks to a banged up heel (but it’s getting better – hooray!)
How far is your parkrun? I know there’s one they do here
parkrun (one word, small p) is always 5km.
Hmm, last time I did outdoor running I did 5 ks in about 36 minutes, but that wasn’t the Adelaide parkrun course (which is along the torrens and WAY too early on a weekend morning for me)
My PB is just over 36 min, but that was aages ago. I do Curl Curl parkrun, which is mostly flat, except for a small incline at about the 3.5km mark. It’s a 7am start, but I always feel happy when I get home at 9am and I’ve done 5kms, and had coffee with some lovely people and the whole weekend is still ahead of me.
This weekend I’m doing some parkrun tourism and heading to the very first parkrun at The Ponds. That’s the brilliant thing about it. Once you have your barcode you can run at any of them.
That’s cool. I think if I was doing outdoor running, I’d have to find someone else who was into it to do it with, like a friend or housemate or something. A lot of my friends are pretty sedentary types.
My dream E3 scenario:
Iwata strolls on stage
“Hey, Powalen. Yes, you, Powalen. Watching at home. I’ve heard that you really want Endless Ocean 3 for WiiU. Well, we made that for you. Enjoy.”
Iwata moonwalks offstage
It could happen, you never know.
Now the Reggie version:
Stage lights hone in on Reggie just standing there with everything else cast in darkness
“Endless Ocean 3. Coming this summer.”
Reggie takes off Superman-style through the ceiling
You know what would be rad?
Endless Ocean on the Oculus Rift.
Wonder if you could do that on DolphinVR yet.
Iwata smashes through screen behind stage
“Hey, Powalen. Yes, you, Powalen. Watching at home. I’ve heard that you really want Endless Ocean 3 for WiiU. Well, we sold the rights to Konami and they’re releasing it on Blackberry as F2P match 3 game. Enjoy.”
Iwata explodes into a shower of sour milk
Iwata leaps onto stage
“Hey, Powalen. Yes, you, Powalen. Watching at home. I’ve heard that you really want Endless Ocean 3 for WiiU. Well, we made that for you. Now you need to craft items to survive, with an accurate day night cycle. Oh, and there are whales, and thirty diving spots, and a futuristic aquarium that you can build for your island (with the right crafting equipment, of course)! All that is DLC though, you can buy our Season Pass for $44.95. The base game only ships with clown fish and one diving spot. Enjoy.”
Iwata drops mic.
…I would buy that.
Iwata strolls on stage, squinting at a cue card.
“Who the fuck is ‘Powalen?’ Is this a twitter thing? Is this a joke? Who handed me this? He wants what? You know? No. No, there will be no more Endless Ocean. Think about my needs, Internet people. And you, Powalen. Do you think I want to spend the best years of my life iterating on the same thing over and over? I want to make the next great eroge, and all this ‘gameplay’ is getting in the way! I have a story and it needs to be told. It’s about a great scuba-diving game designer, and his harem of production assistants who are also different types of fish-girls and… eh? What are you giving me the ‘get off the stage’ signal for? This is my moment to share my dream! I know if they can see it they will want to share it with me!”
A thin, worried man with audio equipment scurries up and fiddles with Iwata’s mic. They get in an argument, Iwata slapping him as he chases him off stage.
….I would buy that.
Couldn’t add to reply chain so will do here:
@blaghman you should have! If they work in the Perth office they would definitely know me, I don’t think there is a staff member here that hasn’t interacted with me at some point.
But think about how awkward it would have been if he hadn’t known. He relays some story back to his mates about some guy who just shouted “Mags? MAGGLEWAGGLE? MAGSIE THE GATHERING DUEL OF THE MAGSWALKERS?” in the phone for twenty minutes.
Hahahahaha! That would have been amazing! We have like vests at work with our nicknames on them and mine even says Mags so they have no excuse for not knowing 😛
Hey! PERTH BUDDY!
LET’S BE FRIENDS!
Sure! Hahaha, whereabouts in Perth are you?
You responded too fast and ruined my joke.
This friendship is off to a rocky start… 😐
Dianella, haha!
Oh no..I just happened to refresh at that time :/ I will try to help instead of hinder with your jokes in the future. Lol, opposite side from me. I’m down in Wellard, near Kwinana.
North of the River is BEST of the River, right @thecracks?
Yeah yeah yeah 😛 I said the same when I lived North of the River, until I moved South of the River, and if I moved back I would say it again haha.
As if.
As soon as I tagged you, I realized you were SoR.
North of River for life >:P
@liondrive South side is da best. *makes elaborate gang signal*
*You’re coming on to strong, Lion*
I mean… Sup…
…
BEST FRIEND!
I’ve been to that Perth place before.
Yeah, but you didn’t go to my favourite place with me, and I just know @jamesmag will go with me there, so you’re easily replaced as my BFF, little Green >:P
I sure will!
*whispers* where are we going?
Just, don’t worry, you’ll be fine…
Cc @greenius, I told you he’d come! >:D
…Just don’t worry, James…
You poor man! I hope you’re getting the support you need to recover from that ordeal.
You’re not alone. We’re not judging you for your exposure to that place. What matters is that you got out.
Hello everyone, late post today.
I played The Witcher 3, and learning how to use the Witcher Sense has meant that I’ve taken it upon myself to put out every flame that is extinguishable in the game. I’ve started off with three so far at the start of the game in Geralts room, and have put out another three so far.
I can’t explain why, it just seems right.
Fire safety is important. Way to go!
Hey DC! I haven’t seen you on TAY much lately, where you at mayn?
BUT DON’T YOU SEE? I WAS IN YOUR HEART ALL ALONG! :’)
Also, hey bud! Hope you’re well! *decisive nod* Mostly I’ve been Witcher-ing and going outside. D:
Out…side?
It’s as terrifying as it is wondrous!
I’m the opposite. I tend to ignite any torch, candle, brazier or lantern I see.
I BRING THE LIGHT! It comes with the added bonus of sometimes working if you just cast igni, so you can be bombastic about it.
And it means things burn. Burrrrrrrrn.
Hahah same!
If only Splatoon was out thjs Friday instead if this Saturday…
At least I can get the amiibos, right?
…right?
A friend who works at JB said she saw the order form or whatever for them, and that there were *tonnes* of them coming in to her store. Even the triple pack. So hopefully there shouldn’t be any supply issues for them.
I’m still kinda salty about them though. Not sure if want.
Salty. Squid. Eh?
Needs more pepper.
Egad, we get assessed on release one of our project tomorrow morning. It’s been a rather long semester! I feel like we’ve done a pretty good job though. I’m not the strongest developer (probably why I’m the info systems kid and everyone else is computing students) so all my effort went into design and mobile stuff. I think I did a pretty good job! I went to a lot of effort to pay attention to small details which nobody else wanted to which I was constantly told not to bother with, but if I’m gonna make something, I’m not gonna half arse it. The intention is for this to actually be a thing and not a throwaway uni project fully funded by a kind business.
But yeah, after that (and once I get the 10 page reflective report out of the way) I finally get a break from it for a month and a half! Speaking of reflective reports I got the results back for the one I did for my business communication class (individual reflection on the group assignment that I ended up doing all of, if we remember) and was pretty surprised that I got 100% on it. I’ve never gotten 100% on an individual assignment before. The feedback the teacher left didn’t say much about the assignment, she just left the nicest message for me wishing me all the best for the future and thanking me for being in her class and that. Made my day. It’s the nicest thing a teacher has ever said to me 🙂
So yeah, after this week I get a bit of a break before my one exam on the easiest topic in the world (social and cultural issues in digital and interactive media), then a week off before doing my winter unit (effective speaking. It’s apparently pretty easy and hopefully useful, not that I’m a bad speaker anyway) for 2 weekends, then off to Brisbane for a week, then back to Uni.
I might even get a chance to play Project CARS some time in between all that. Hopefully. Maybe. Probably not *sheds tear*
@trikeabout
As promised here’s my imgur album with screenshots from my journey to the center.
I’ll keep adding to it so feel free to keep coming and checking it out 😀
http://imgur.com/a/xsWPK
Awfully far from any Diamondback or Courier dealers 😛
STUPID BETA DOWNLOAD FASTER
Everyone seems a bit up-in-arms about the new ships, “disappointing” that they’re not leagues ahead of their Anacondas and Pythons and whatever. But screw that noise, the more small ships to choose from the better! I can’t way to give them a go.
Seriously dying for something more fun than a Sidewinder. Not that I’ve even tried the Eagle yet, but y’know.
I agree, I welcome smaller ships… There’s a reason why I chose the Adder, I just love flying it… Keen to get my hands on a Diamondback and see what’s what… I could never get rid of my Adder though, she’s the first ship I bought for my hard earned money
They’re so cheap too! Something like 500k for the Diamondback, and 2mill for the Courier!
I spent all last night flying around the place trying to max out my Clipper. Couldn’t find any top-grade thrusters friggen anywhere. And now my powerplant is too small, and the once place I found that DID have the thrusters doesn’t have any better than what I’ve got. Urgh.
I do hope steam has a sale soon and Elite is on sale.
Don’t think I can resist any longer.
Well apparently the Summer sale starts today or tomorrow
Doubt you will get a big discount, I think you will be lucky to get a 25% off daily deal but you will surely get at least 10% off
Yeah, just something to justify it.
I just refuse to pay $80 for it.
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…”
Good shots. I’m just starting to really enjoy exploring again now I’m further out. It’s always nervous the first few hundred light years… But I haven’t seen another commander’s name for about 20 systems now. I will again soon as I’m about to cross a direct line between human space and a major nebula.
…Is that the time?
Well shit.
As of 7am yesterday, Undad has been shipped out! I’m guessing that some copies will arrive today (probably Canberra/Sydney region), and that most of the books should be delivered by week’s end.
In other news, the Undad Vol 2 Kickstarter campaign finishes in just two days. Remember when you were a kid, and you watched Toy Story for the first time? Good. Now, remember thinking something like: “Yes, that’s a happy ending, but Andy’s still growing up. There’s still pain ahead – a lot of pain – and no one’s acknowledging it.” Hold onto that kind of thinking. It will prepare you for Undad Volume Two.
In other other news, I’m making an attempt to revive the once-doomed All The King’s Men anthology. Don’t worry it’s – hey, stop throwing things! As I was trying to say, it won’t be going up on Kickstarter – I’m putting together an application for government arts funding. Fingers crossed for that one.
Just as a comment, man, are you going to get buy-in on putting All the Kings Men in your own sf universe? It’s just at this stage you’re what, 6 books deep in the lore, which may be a little hard to take for outside authors?
I was a bit worried about this, too, the first time around.
But a year ago, I got over two dozen EOIs from creative folks, and around half of them have already contacted me, saying they’re keen to be involved if the project gets revived. If I run another open submissions process, I’m assuming I’ll get even more folks on board.
Have you put together a world guide?
Kind of. Sort of. Not really. No, actually barely at all.
My plan, and it might well be a bad one, was to let people pitch their ideas, and I would act as a sort of continuity editor, and suggest tweaks and changes to make it fit the universe. My thinking here is that by leaving it pretty open at the start, I’ll be getting the broadest range of ideas possible.
And I could suggest further reading for them (providing them, of course, with free digital copies of my work at that stage in the process), based on the particular idea they were floating, negating the need for them to plough through reams of irrelevant material (in either a guide, or the books themselves).
Timing.
Government just stripped over $100 million out of arts funding less than an hour ago.
Yesssss. That will make my victory even more of an achievement.
Still basing it on fair compensation? Because you know how asking the government about that goes….
I’ve made a rather unorthodox decision to set myself apart from the other applicants and not criticise the people I’m hoping to hit up for money.
I have welcomed myself back to the niche corner. I can’t stop laughing at this piece on how to make the most average Eurovision song.
Okay, it’s alright, you can relax. I’ve stopped laughing.
Help, it’s transferred.
Hola Tay
So, I entered the current console generation last night. the EB bundle atm was pretty sweet : https://twitter.com/redartifice/status/603111506155216897 plus I got The Witcher, of course.
My PSN name, if you don’t have me, is red_artifice, surprising no-one. Add me and we’ll do a thing, y’know? A thing.
You’ll log in and all you’ll see is everyone watching Netflix 😉
I’ve been seeing that on PS3 for months.
I’d say my 360 friendlist was all Netflix for about a year before the One dropped (mostly US friends). Nowadays it’s about half Netflix and half Destiny. you know, That game that (according to the internet) no one plays because it sucks so bad.
Small pockets of stubborn Destiny-playing resistance remain, but Bungie will eventually root them out and obliterate their enthusiasm. Apparently their efforts backfired with their latest offensive, but don’t worry… give them time. Their victory is all but assured.
Ha, ask @masha2932 about that some time
I love that he is so enthusiastic about it. 🙂
Aww, thanks.
This game has huge glaring issues (some which still linger with the new DLC) but it’s very satisfying to play.
I just wish I was on PS4 to play with more Tayfolk.
Obliterate our enthusiasm? Never!
My children will be called Gjallarhorn and they will continue the fight.
My local RSL is full of people playing the pokies, but the ability to keep suckers playing doesn’t make Treasure Mermaid Jackpot a good game. =P
You know what’s going to be great?
MGS V is going to be great. Love that series.
The last one too
Konami’s last proper game… 🙁
Yep, that’ll be it for me after this.
MGS, Silent Hill & Castlevania are amongst my fave franchises.
SH & Castlevania have turned to shit, I’m Damn sure MGS will too without Kojima.
Oh sure now that I’m back at work TAY is quiet again =@
Hey, I’ve posted twice today, what more do you expect from me?
A cake?
Do you want a cake?
I will bake you a cake.
…
I will bake me a cake, in your honour.
It’s Wednesday! Hooray for the downward slope to the weekend.
In other news, I may have purchased another RPG digital book. My digital library is starting to balloon out like my physical library and I think that’s potentially a bad thing but oh well. And yes, I did pick up the World Wide Wrestling RPG to see what it’s like.
We should have TAY wrestling moves.
Mine is the TAGLINE, where I randomly perform another wrestler’s signature move while yelling TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
Well we know @mrtaco’s move
Mine would be the Tiglet lock, where I knock them down and force them to see unending pictures of Tiglet as I explain how adorable she is
I would have thought @mrtaco’s would be The Popcorn, where he tags in Wingman and pillow girl and the other wrestler just looks on fascinated.
I would have said the The Popcorn was a @sernobulus move where he pushes Gooky into the ring with multiple women wrestlers and sits back and watches
The Sandy, where the wrestler just starts spewing vile, unwarranted bile and all the other wrestlers downvote and move on
It’s The Luigi. Where I do nothing but somehow manage to end up winning anyway.
@dc looks the other wrestler square in the eye, then headbutts them.
He calls it the Decisive Nod.
Yes! The pressure paid off!
I was actually pretty close to buying it myself and attempt to DM a short run.Do eet.
The world needs more GMs.
The system is pretty straightforward in that the GM never has to roll anything. Everyone has these specific moves and stuff and the game seems to really play up the whole wrestling rivalries and showdowns and stuff like that. It seems interesting but I’ve only read partway through the book.
I can send you a pdf of the book if you want to peruse it before buying it.
Id be keen to be part of a wrestling RPG if someone runs it
OMG, you guys, the Humble Nindie Bundle for Wii U and 3DS!
8+ mostly awesome games for $US10!
Then, after you’ve had a moment to get all excited like I did when I got the email, I’ll remind you that “The Humble Nindie Bundle is region-locked and can only be redeemed on North, Central, and South American Wii U and 3DS consoles (with the exception of Brazil).”. Fuck you, Nintendo region locking.Yeah, I saw that this morning and would have jumped at it if not for that.
I saw the email on my phone when I first woke up this morning and out of habit just deleted it because it’s been over a year since the was a Humble Bundle I was excited by. Then I noticed from my brief skim of the preview text that it was 3DS-related and thought, sluggishly as I dragged myself towards the shower, “Hey, I have a 3DS. Not a new one though. I should investigate further.”
Now I don’t have to. \o/
Hopefully we get something similar here.
Cool to see the big guys promoting indies on consoles though.
Well it looks like the TAYvasion Japan visit to Akihabara finally has a video up
NSFW warning, sorry @transientmind
ARGH NO WHY I VIEW THAT AT WORK.
I was never there. I was sick that day.
Just for dramatic effect. Youtube doesn’t allow the really explicit stuff anyways. 🙂
Was more for the people with really strong limitations on what they can and can’t view. It isn’t something that would bother me, but for people who are very restricted they could have problems.
Or at least embarrassment when the IT team starts asking you about your viewing habits 😛
I’m half tempted to buy that.
Which will be the third time I’ve done so as I own it for Vita and PS4 as well.
I’ll probably pick it up on sale at some stage
How’s things?
In Dark Souls last night I
killed a sexy spider lady then made moves on her terrified sister.smooth
DIRGE SALES
Last night, I bought BLOGBRAWN
just because I fluently speak jimunese, doesn’t mean I understand it.
You what?
Bloodborne.Oh yeah, saw that on Twitter, told you to buy more HD remasters
Colon peed, reminisced about Tomb Raiders graphics
I liked Tomb raider, I’m not sure I buy-it-again liked Tomb Raider
Fair call, I borrowed from @gutsoup
bought it to remote play while I waited for INQUISITION
I bought Tomb Raider again when the digital Xbone version was on sale. I enjoyed playing it a second time. I guess the graphics were better, but the 360 version looks pretty darn good already.
It’s not often I find the time to replay games these days but TR is one of em.
So many Malibu Stacy versions of games!
Some of the hats have some nice feathers
Yeah, that meme never really took off as much as DIRK SEARLES.
We kinda got stuck on Bloodporn and @liondrive’s revulsion to the concept.
Yeah, whoops. Sorry.
Hey, I’m as kinky as the next guy, if not kinkier, but not that kinky! :O
Oh, I’m not saying your revulsion was wrong, more that hitting on that concept stopped us taking Bloodborne nicknames to the ludicrous extent we took the DOEG SOLES ones to.
I missed all of these
@Novacascade, @Beavwa and I will all be at PAX as Pokemon League gym leaders this year! Hooray!
Elite 3!
Is there a new Pokemon game coming, or can I use my half-formed team from Y?
Most of the leaders will be on ORAS I believe. But they are mostly compatible with XY so you should be ok. It’s really only the new megas that don’t work on both
Leaders *should* be using ORAS, it’s 99% battle compatible with XY (just can’t use the new mega evolutions in a battle between an ORAS cart and a XY cart).
That said, quite a few may likely have alternate plans or team set ups for XY challengers so you should be fine with that.
Nerds.
Though I predict that you will all be God-worshipped by my 4 year-old boy who has spent the last 2 months intently studying gym battles on TV.
He’s welcome to come watch me battle!
He’s also welcome to challenge me if he wants 😛
He wouldn’t be the youngest person who’s ever challenged you, even!
Bribes to throw matches may or may not be accepted
Oh my god, he should go around PAX dressed up, saying to people “Hi! I like shorts! They’re comfy and easy to wear!”
Or dress up as a creepy girl and say “No. You’re not the one.”
That’s not called dressing up, that’s just the normal state when you are 4.
There will be dressing up though.
Yes! I’m gonna take youse down!
*cue training montage that fails out after 3 scenes with me watching Netflix and eating cheese*
*Eye of the walrus*
This made me laugh out loud, drawing unwanted attention.
Played with a tuba instead of guitar.
Dammit, and now again.
Gold
Ok now I keep getting random uncontrollable giggle bursts the more I think about it
@freezespreston
It’s a jaunty, yet almost mournful tune, played at half-speed.
Huh.
So, you guys organised what type you going to be or is that going to be super secret?
It’s not top secret or anything, but… Stay tuned for the leader reveals in the lead up to PAX 😛
Not that it will be hard to guess when I eventually show you guys the costume I’m going to wear…
I’m waiting for someone to dress up as a surfer bro gym leader who has Jaws-themed or similar Pokemon.
On that note of water-themed monster movies:
– Carvanha (Piranhas movie)
– Sharpedo (Jaws)
– Octillery (Mega Octopus)
– Wailord (White Whale stand in)
– Tentacruel (Kraken thing)
– Feraligator (Lake Placid giant crocodile)
That gym leader’s name needs to be Quint.
Pretty sure @beavwa is going to be type: Shiny
Shhhhhhhhh!
:p really doesn’t give anything away about my team though, does it?@beavwa better go wearing a suit that’s covered in sequins or rhinestones.
Hmmmm… Or a cheaper option could be to just shine a light in the challenger’s eyes the whole time. Roughly the same effect.
Nowhere near as fabulous though.
Hmmmm… How about a bowtie that contains flashing lights?
That’s flashy, not sparkly.
For shiny, the only true option is foil lycra.
Yessss, my gymssss theme issss ssssuper sssssecret
It’s totally going to be a sssssssinging theme. Jigglypuff, Explode and Meloetta.
Thats… an interesting interpretation. Won’t confirm or deny it.
Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes.
Creeper themed, all explosion team, right?
So… Work is running a ‘Multicultural Food Day’! “Bring a lunch to share which reflects your culture!”
Hm. We have a lot of 3rd-generation+ Aussies here. Unless we want to be drowning in meat pies and meat+3-veg pub meals, I guess you can go with your heritage’s cultures.
Luckly, I have the Scottish, Scandinavian and German cultures to draw on in my lineage… Peoples well known for their culinary flair!
Hm.
This does sound like an excellent excuse to bring beer and bratwurst.
Just lie & bring in some Bread Top
I’m pretty sure the intention of the organizer is for everyone to bring different types of curry.
Curried haggis, stuffed full of Bratwurst and meatballs.
You could try and make Serrelicious proud. Make Cranachan, substituting in steel cut oats for the meal it usually uses.
Haggis and hakarl.
Bonus is they’ll never ask you to bring food again.
Not even the grossest food you could bring.
I think the most disgusting delicacy I’ve heard of is Kiviak. Dead seabirds stuffed into a hollowed-out seal carcass that is then buried and allowed to ferment for seven months.
I had a drunken argument a couple months ago that a pie floater was a cultural signifier of my specific ethnic heritage.
We used to have “international children’s day” at school where people would bring in all kinds of interesting foods from their cultures. Thankfully I went to school in an extremely culturally diverse area so we had a pretty astonishing variety.
I think the only “Australian” contribution year after year was lamingtons.
I was reading hat for a second you had to bring a different international child to school, haha
If KMart can exploit Bangladeshi children then why can’t I?
Wait…
You don’t work at a bank do you? lol. My girlfriend had the exact same Multicultural day at her work place, I tried really hard to con her into bringing along Bratwurst so I’d get some leftovers.
In the end she went with some Bavarian Cheesecake, I’m hoping she left some in the fridge for when I get home… hhhnnnnggghhhh
OH YES THIS IS BRILLIANT. Everyone loves a chocolate bavarian.
@trjn So, it was about four turns in, and the round before we’d given the imps a seat on the council as an observer with a vote every two sessions as to whether they could stay there. We’d got in there and the imp diplomat (they had two: This was the woman) had read out a statement, then almost immediately got hit with a barrage of accusations. Bear in mind, this was less than 100 minutes into the day, but every single other nation had a specific grievance that they felt really strongly about that they were getting very heated about, to the point where they were lobbing quite pointed barbs at the imp diplomat.
It’s at this point I realised two things.
One, this was something special. To take an undifferentiated group of people and make them crazy, crazy tribal to this extent is much further outside the bounds of a normal game. they were into it, and it was awesome.
Two, I caught the eye of the Jeycahn diplomat, nodded towards the imp, and then said to the council “guys, can we take it down a notch? This is just a game, calm down.” And everyone looked a little sheepish and went back to being normal humans.
A great roleplaying moment, even if it was getting into yelling territory, and it’s why the whole day was so damn cool
And then you lopped her head off.
“STORM THE CASTLE, KILL EVERYTHING THAT MOVES!”
Or as some of my other players are going: “Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
That bit did happen.
That would be my go to move if someone says theirs a giant spider monster
That would have worked, if they didn’t have dragon. The bastards got to summon dragons.
We did that later when they wandered into the council and tried to cow us.
So if I grab this Wrestling RPG book would anyone be interested participating in a short run of it?
Never DM’d a game before and my tenancy for ridiculousness could mean it will go well or be a disaster so there’s that.
I know very little about pro wrestling, but if you need a player, THE RED CLIFF will serve a dose of PAIN to his ENEMIES *Poses, raises eyebrow*
This should help flesh out your wrestling knowledge.
It is wrestling so it can be as crazy as you want. There are plenty of handouts and reference sheets when you buy it so it’s not a case of having to refer back to the book all the time to understand what you need to do. The dice mechanic is also pretty straightforward as you roll 2d6 and, based on your roll, things can generally happen:
– 10+ means the player gets to do the thing they want without complication
– 7-9 means the player does the thing they want but there might be a cost or it doesn’t work quite as well as they’d hoped
– 2-6 means the player failed in their attempt and something bad tends to happen
That’s the general gist of how I read it. It’s based on a game system that’s used for a few things and I think the idea is that you can generally get 20-30 hours of enjoyment out of a single character before you’re encouraged to start again.
Also also, if you need GMing advice, from the trivial to the structural, I’m more than happy to provide advice, as is, I’m sure, @popdart5.
Is this going to be a one shot, single night kinda deal?
I would be interested in that but no chance to be part of a regular thing
Was thinking 3 sessions two weeks apart?
I can probably manage that, depending on timeframe and if I can get bathtime/bedtime organised beforehand
As long as there’s someone who’s a ripoff of Enzo Amore, complete with his finisher “Tag in Big Cass”, there’s no way this could fail.
I’m in. If I can find time.
I’ll find time. It’s wrestling.
Wrestling time.
I don’t know where I was going with that. I’ve had 5 coffees so far and 3 hours sleep.I don’t know if you’re doing it in person or online but I would very much like to try and live out my dream of being a pro wrestler.
Online. All you need is a microphone.
Im keen GIOVANNI will lay down the REDEYE on people who get in the way of his finger prison-less future
Oh gods.
you need to play this as a roided out giovanni.
*Wrestler after a win standing backstage*
Wrestler: Im so pumped right now! Woo baby!
*Giovanni appears acting strange*
Giovanni: Can you hear it? That sound can you hear it?
Wrestler: I cant hear anything
Giovanni: you will, the eye is calling
*giovanni walks off*
Wrestler: what a weirdo
*giovanni appears outta nowhere attacking the wrestler and hits him with the RedEye*
Giovanni: the Eye has spoken
There’s only one Giovanni, Aria Giovanni.
(Dont Google that at work if you don’t know already)
I think Giovanni snapping out of a redeye haze after a fight would be amazing
“Congratulations Giovanni, you’re WORLD WRESTLING CHAMPION!”
“Huh? Wha? I was wrestling?”
“Oh god!” *looks at hands* “Phew! For a second there I thought I was wearing gloves! Damn finger prisons”
So I managed to complete my 20km run last night but it was slower then I wanted to do it in. I was averaging 6.07 a minute for a km but I was taking it easy for fear of not being able to make it. In the end, I found I still had some energy left in me and I could have run a bit faster but no biggie. Now to take it up to 22km next week *gulp*
Nicely done.
Through months of effort, I have managed to reach the point where I can shuffling-wheeze for 20 minutes (well, I’ve managed that once), but my speed is actually about half what my walking pace is. I look towards a 5k as a virtually insurmountable challenge. 20 would be like climbing Mt. Olympus while flipping off all the gods, and finishing it up by pissing in Dionysus’s wine.
Never give up mate, you will get there with persistance and patience. It takes a long time for your body to get used to running/jogging/shuffling-wheezing if you haven’t done it before or for an extended period of time but once it does, a lot of progress can be made 🙂
Yeah, I’m actually not too bad on the Cardio-Vascular front, problem is I’m an obese blob, so I tend to smash my feet/ankles/calves.
Still, a world better than the last time I tried to start jogging, where two weeks in I got a stress-fracture in my foot.
Maybe try an exercise bike? Certainly less intense on the knees
Nah, can’t ride bikes, they do something to my back. Keep meaning to see a physio about it, but I’m so lazy. My knees handle the jogging pretty well now, though. Were a bit crap at the start, but my years of skiing have made them pretty resilient.
I was in the “Obese” zone when I started myself and also have a recurring slipped disc issue in my back as well but with persistence it can be done, keep at it :).
Dearest TAY, hello.
It’s State of Origin day (part the first) and while I don’t follow the sport my particular line of work means I’ve read a tonne of crap about it and man, do the Daily Tele and the Courier like promoting a pointlessly petty state rivalry, including things like photoshopping players’ heads onto cane toads and writing a ‘blah blah blah we didn’t listen to the Blues coach’ article. Journalism at it’s finest.
Yeah that’s all I got today. Love youse.
Blaghs story time. *Everyone either groans and leaves the room, or falls asleep immediately*
I once appeared in the half time show for State of Origin. It was a game in Brisbane, probably ’96 or so, and I got to ride around in a giant (at least, humongous to young me’s brain) Cane Toad that… did something?
I dunno. The Dance School my sister went to (and that I hung around at because I had nothing better to do(?)) participated in it, and I just remember abject fear at both the behemoth of a toad, and the number of people involved.
And that fear is why I support Queensland, because I know that if they lose too much, they’ll transform Clive Palmer into a horrific automaton that will rampage across the country.
Who’s to say Mecha-Clive doesn’t already live among us?
Qviet! Is not yet time for southern dogs to know the true form of our fury.
This is fantastic
Being afraid of both Clive Palmer and toads is actually pretty much the same thing.
As much as it would be the worst thing to ever happen to this country I kind of want the PUP to win government for a term as the resulting clown show would be fascinating.
Victorian ABC coverage:
So QLD are encouraging the drinking of XXXX as their state beer, while NSW are promoting Tooheys New. Given that both brands are owned by Japanese brewing giant Kirin, they’d be very happy to push this rivalry as much as they can.
I’ll just sit on the side and watch the shenanigans unfold drinking a Little Creatures… which is owned by Lion Nathan… which is owned by… Kirin… ( ゚д゚)
Which means White rabbit will be owned by them as well
Just drink Kirin and send them the message that you’re not going to play their mind games and fund their middle managers.
But Kirin in Australia is a bit “meh”
Whilst no longer 100% Australian owned, the larger craft brewers (Squire/Little Creatures/Gage/Matilda Bay) make beer in Australia for Australia and they generally do a pretty good job at it.
Once you try make beer international beer in Australia it all goes to shit… Heineken, Becks, Kirin, Tsing Tao… all taste nothing like it is meant to be. China Asahi is okay… but still nothing on Asahi in Japan.
I want to go back…
Also, Foster’s Group (which owns CUB) is owned by the South African company SABMiller. Are there any beers that are produced by wholly owned Australian companies anymore besides Coopers?
Burleigh Brewing Company
Just looked them up, love the names of some of their beers.
My Wife’s Bitter and Figjam IPA.
Never seen any of them in any bottle shop I’ve been in though. Are they only sold in Queensland?
There’s a lot of smaller breweries, but Coopers is the largest still family-controlled.
Also, they’re awesome.
So got assessed on our project, got an HD (obviously). At the end she said out of all the projects she was expecting the highest quality one from us and we delivered even more than she was expecting. So yeah, did well 😀 was a long 13 weeks but it looks to have paid off.
Now to see what the client thinks… They’ll hate it, no doubt.
Good work!
I’ve seen you talk a lot about it, but what is it actually for, if I can ask?
From the gist of t I gathered you were making them a website, or something?
Moving their entire business from paper and face to face interaction to the Internet. The website is a major part of it (for release one it was like 80% of it and 100% of what I did) but also building them an internal system for their operations. A CRM system would probably be the best comparison. We have sooooo much data to sift through next semester 🙁
Sounds pretty full on!
Still, if this assignment carries over into next semesters assignments, scoring well and having a good first assignment is bound to be a big asset carrying over into the next, so you’re in a good position!
We had to participate in a trade show at the end of my 26-week Uni project because the web dev teams got lumped together with the engineering teams. Had to set up a booth display and everything. Nobody was interested in coming to look at a website when the engineering booth next to us had robots and fancy stuff on display 😛
Still, it was fun. And we won a cash prize so it wasn’t too embarrassing 😛 (Even if I only ended up receiving a cheque for $21 because the prize was split seven ways…)
We have a big presentation day at the end of the year (just for the IT projects thankfully). Some of the projects are like games using Oculus Rift and there’s a robot one, so yeah ours is a tad bit boring in comparison, but I’m sure we’ll be alright 😛
@tech_knight @popdart5 @blaghman
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
This thing is underwater? For Fuck’s Sake…
TONIGHT 7:30 SA TIME
I’ll be there.
I should be good to come on, standard recall warning though, plus I’ll be packing some in the background so I’ll try to maintain my mute functionality 🙂
You all saw @jamesmag say he’d go to my favourite place (the Court) with me!
YOU ALL SAW!!! >:D
I really hope I’m not scaring him off with all my joking around 😛Well, we scared him off once before, so you can take solace in the fact that you wouldn’t even be setting a precedent.
You could lie to yourself, and say that it wasn’t your fault.
That this had happened before, to other people, that it wasn’t you.
You weren’t the one driving people off. So many people… all gone.
*Spends ten minutes in a thousand yard stare*
*backs away slowly*
(See? That’s how you do it!)
You didn’t scare me off! I got employed in a job where I was too busy to log on to Kotaku (where my previous job gave me 6hrs a day to do so :P)
I missed you guys!
Hahaha it wouldn’t be the first time I have been to The Court, used to go there when I was poor and get people to buy drinks for me as they hit on me. Then just left to go out, I am a bad person.
Games need to grow up and be more mature, thoughtful and tackle genuinely adult them… Oh my god you guys, Witcher 3 did a sex! Teeheeheeehee. Let’s watch the sex!
Guh, the US writers cam be inconsistent.
No, no, it’s all part of their master plan to turn
clickbait readers into an intelligent and thoughtful audiencetheir intelligent readers into a clickbait audience.Don’t you like watching sex?
No, not particularly?
That’s what porn is for
That IS sex. Unless you’re into some weird peeing fetish or something.
Well, where else are we supposed to find videos of people having sex on the Internet, smart guy?
I am sure I simply cannot imagine what kind of person would do that or why a person would do that.
This warrants further investigation.
brb
It’s been 2 hours… So… Did you find anything?
DON’T COME IN HERE I’M STILL RESEARCHING
Dear @markserrels please come back; we miss your articles. That is all.
Alright I’ve ordered this Wrestling book. Shipping was nearly as much as the book.
So this is happening.
DO YOU SMELL.. What UNCLE FREEZE is COOKING?!
You only know the rock from wrestling don’t you red =p
I don’t watch wrestling, I’m working purely on cultural osmosis here.
I know who The Rock is, I know hulk hogan does that listening thing, I know one wrestler had a gold medal, and I know one is in UFC these days. And there’s sometimes women.
Also the guy who runs it walks funny.
And that’s about it
Last I followed wrestling The Rock was still corporate so you’ll be in good company 😛
I’ll only jump in if you’re short of players, I’d rather people who are less RPG focused get a shot.
or maybe I’ll TAG IN FOR A SUDDEN REVERSAL AND HIT ANOTHER PLAYER WITH A FOLDING CHAIR
Also, if you’re a player short, ask Dan whom we fiascoed with, I know he was into it at some point. he’s at finishedlast on the twitterz
We’ve been following each other for a while behind your back.
The Rock is now a part timer who comes out to convince fans that someone is worth cheering for. Most recently, it was his cousin.
Anyway, the Rock is far less interesting than THE BOULDER WHO WILL CRUSH YOU WITH HIS MIGHTY ROCKOLANCHE!
Now I need to watch that episode of The Last Airbender.
I can only assume you mean watch all of The Last Airbender, which just so happens to have that episode somewhere in the middle.
If so, THE BOULDER APPROVES.
Close enough.
Basically, all that you need to know is that wrestling is a soap opera where all conflicts are decided by pinfall or submission. If someone’s music hits, you have to wait for them to come out, do their entrance and then start talking.
Oh and CENAWINSLOL
*puts on leotard and oils up*
Let’s do this!
*flex*
Seems pretty neat. Adversarial not just against other players but against the GM or “Creative” as well trying to change the Creative’s pre determined outcomes and such. Lots of potential for things to delve into utter chaos.
Does that mean you’re going to replicate RAW by having every session start with a 20 minute promo by The Authority?
I don’t know what that is. See previous statement of wrestling knowledge coming from late 90’s.
WWE is wonderfully meta in the dumbest ways. There’s a power stable called The Authority made up of Triple H, Stephanie McMahon, Kane, Seth Rollins and J&J Security. Triple H and Stephanie both have high level corporate roles within WWE and so do their characters. Kane is Director of Operations. Seth Rollins is champion and J&J Security exist for whoever is feuding with the Authority to hit their finishers on. Repeatedly.
Pretty much every episode of Raw starts with a 20+ minute promo by the Authority about what’s “best for business”. It’s great because Raw is 3 hours long and you can happily skip to the end to the bit where they get interrupted by whoever is trying to take Seth Rollin’s championship.
Wait, Kane and Triple H are still going? They’d have to be pushing 50-60 by now right?
Mid to late 40s, I think. Kane wrestles almost every week, Trips only bothers with pay per views.
Undertaker still wrestles.
He’s 50.
You can do it Ambrose! Also wish they were defending it in the Elimination Chamber seems abit poor only defending the IC and tag team titles
RKO OUTTA NOWHERE
AS GOD AS MY WITNESS HE’S BROKEN IN HALF
BAW GAWD HE HAD A FAMILY
HE HAD A FAMILY
He calls them his fireflies.
I call him a loony, Maggle.
Dammit I sortawannatry but don’t think I have a mic any more.
Or if I do, a place I could use it.
You need to be able to run a google+ hangout, so a phone will suffice.
Uh… I’m not sure if *my* phone will suffice.
HIT… RECOOME’S MUSIC!
Playing The Witcher 3 last night, met Bart. For those who have gotten to this part, Bart is great, Bart made me laugh. The way Bart talks reminds me of the rogue in my D&D campaign I described yesterday.
Does he say ‘Cowabunga’ or ‘eat my shorts’? If not, he’s not Bart.
I finally got around to playing some DA: Inquisition. I’m not sure who my party will be but the banter between Iron Bull and Sera is hilarious. Favorite quote so far:
Iron Bull: Sera, I had a thought. The next time we run into a line of enemies, I’ll pick you up and throw you.Sera: Get off.
Iron Bull: No! This could work! I loft you over the front rank, and you land behind them to flank … mayhem ensues.
Sera: I can’t fly, you daft tit!
Iron Bull: Think of the mayhem, Sera! Mayhem.
Sera: I’d get a wedge-up something fierce!
Iron Bull: Look, you and Varric are the only ones small enough and he’s… pretty dense.
Varric: Ouch!
Sera: Well, do some bloody presses!
Best dialogue for me was Sera & Dorian, coincidentally my fave characters
It’s been a while but:
Dorian: Sera, where do you find all your arrows?Sera: Your arse
Dorian: Apparently my arse is prolific, it should open a shop.
Ha, he’s the moustached mage yeah? I don’t have him yet, trying to decide between the mages or templars atm. If Dorian has half a personality I’ll probably go with him, Solas is Soul less and Vivienne is a bitch who seems like she’s just after power but I need a mage in my party. I’ve kept Vivienne for now, she has funny arguments with Sera but I still don’t like her.
Edit: I think I’ll go with Iron Bull or Cassandra, Sera and most likely Dorian. My dude is a Rogue.
I was a mage on lead guitar with Cassandra on drums, Dorian on rhythm & Sera on bass.
Presumably Leliana was on keys, Josephine did backing vocals & Cullen played triangle
Solas on a pure combat level is the best mage, but Dorian is the best NPC in the game.
EDIT: I wanted to use The Iron Bull more but I was playing a mage and really needed to have someone that didn’t die halfway into any decent fight, and who could hold aggro, so I mainly used Blackwall.
I’m gonna throw practicality out the window for amusing banter 😛
I just found out that this is a thing.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/363620/
I’m so buying that come payday.
Steam?
Yes, I am going to buy Steam.
Gift me some games then
On PSN, I don’t play computers
that’s the first of many DLC packs. “tea party not steamy enough? For just $5 you can enhance your tea parties with a veil of saucy steam. Coming soon butternut tea cakes pack”
BNTC was the name of my Tifa one time.
Oh I know, every time I see “butternut” on anything I think of Tifa.
Butternut would be a good parody JRPG character name. Like Senegal.
Looks like a less good surgeon simulator.
Though it did remind me of this how to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0OrZobhSQE
Only interested if Tiny Tina is running the show
Anyone else played through Game Of Thrones Episode 4 yet? Unlocked all the trophies except “The Old, The True, The Brave”, which is for completing chapter 1. Just wondering if anyone else had the same issue.
Looks like I’ll have to play the episode again.
Hard to pull myself away from Dork Soles, maybe I’ll remote play it on the weekend
I saw Tales of the Borderlands update last night, when’s the next ep of that due?
Don’t know, but I hope it’s soon.
Yeah, it’s so much better than their other games.
Oh, is that out already? *cancels plans for tonight*
Yeah, came out yesterday.
Witcher 3 talk! I’m curious as to how everyone’s adventures have unfolded for the following sections – Spoilers ahead, only click if you’ve completed the level 6 main quest line.
I.e. only continue reading if you’ve finished the questline with the Bloody Baron and the Witches of Crookback bog or whatever. Also don’t continue if you wish to keep the experience spoiler free for a second playthrough with different choices in the main quest line; something tells me there’s at least 2 different endings to the Bloody Baron chain of quests.I’ve got to say this whole questline left me quite a lot to reflect on in terms of the decisions I’d made up to this point in the game. Effectively my choices went as follows; I turned the botchling into a lubberkin, freed the spirit in the tree and ended watching both the Baron and his wife die. I was kind of disappointed the lubberkin didn’t have any part to play after that quest; felt like it could’ve been an over-arching consequence. And even more frustrating was the fact that the spirit didn’t do anything to stop the witches aside from free the kids which it probably ended up killing itself for all I know. I did enjoy how my options were whittled down to picking the lesser of two evils as both the Witches and the spirit gave me a bad feeling as to whom to deal with and it was definitely an experience I enjoyed I wish the game had provided a bit more information or backstory on both the entities in question before I had to make a choice. I mean even the Witcher wiki has next to nothing on what the spirit in the tree was or what the Crookback witches are. I’m curious to see if any other TAYbies had a different set of circumstances through different chocies or it was just A – free spirit or B – kill spirit timelines.All things considered though I have to give it to Projekt RED for giving me this impression of freedom and consequence; enough to make me think that I could create a situation for two evils to fight each other while I sort my underlying mess of objectives out. They’ve definitely set the bar very high with this game.I haven’t even bought it but I heard the combat was easier to get your head around in 3 so maybe I will….eventuallyThe combat is actually very similar to 2; the only major difference I find between the two games is that the camera zooms out for combat in the Wild Hunt. Whereas in 2 you’d be dodging constantly even if you couldn’t see any incoming attacks.
Maybe the tutorial was better?
Blog I read was saying he had similar problems to me in 2, but found 3 overall a more playable experience.
I liked everything about 2 but I just hit a wall of death.
The combat system in 2 was pretty horrid. Better than 1 though. 3 improves it greatly but is still clunky and graceless and falls apart a bit against more than 3 opponents or large size enemies. But then this is an RPG and not an action game so it’s not as much as an issue.
Yep yep, cool. Well, I’ll add it to my future purchases list. Got enough on my plate atm anyway.
Can’t wait to make fuck on a unicorn
BESERKER
I’ve only got to the first town (whatever it was called), then I started The Last Of Us: Remastered, played through episode 4 of Game Of Thrones and had a quick go of Magicka 2. Now I’m back on AdVenture Capitalist and with Splatoon out this weekend I might not get back to it for another week or two and if I don’t get to it before Arkham Knight comes out it’ll have no chance till I’ve finished that.
Did you get into the LoU dlc?
That’s some good dlc
Nah, not yet. I want to replay through the story first. Shouldn’t take too long.
You’re playing the Witcher 3 wrong!! D=
I also turned the Botchling into a Lubberkin, I killed the tree during the ritual to save it and returned to the bog. The crones had eaten the orphans which left me feeling sick to my stomach that I had caused their deaths. The baron ends up saving his wife and goes on a journey to take her to a healer to try and heal her crazies. His daughter also accompanies him and there is the sense that they might eventually reconcile.Damn so either way he ends up leaving and destabilizing the region’s political/military base. What an a-hole! I knew there was something wrong with the 3 Witches the moment Geralt picked up one of the treats and it turned to maggots. Also something about their voices and the villagers fear (not respect) of them made me very apprehensive in listening to them outright. That said the spirit in the tree made me feel at unease as well; like she wasn’t telling me everything that led to her being captured or how she managed to get stronger. Additionally the fact she was killing all visitors and wanderers. What I found to an absolutely brilliant level of attention to detail was when you free the spirit it goes to the town of villagers and causes them to kill each other; however if you return to the abandoned town in a few days it becomes populated with wraiths who attack you!There’s a level 6 main quest line? How do I know what level quest line am I on?
I Just found the Griffins Lair, I’m trying to gather up Drowner Brains for the Swallow Potion Quest. I just know I’m going to kill this woman with the Witcher medicine, BUT I GOTTA TRYHaha definitely don’t click on the spoilers then highperformance, you’re still in the starting town! Also FYI once you make a potion once it stays with you forever (refills automatically during meditation). So works very differently to previous Witcher games.
Yeah, I finished the opening bit last night and discovered that about the potions way too late. After spending like 30 mins trying to farm some extra Drowner brains to make more Swallow.
I kind of like that you only need to make it once but I wish you got more charges. I assume there’s a way to increase the charges or the potency or the amount of time they last or something?
Hah, I started last night and have currently been CARBO LOADING
Do bombs regenerate like potions?
From what I’ve seen everything made from alchemy regenerates over meditation except for the alchemical ingredients or the alcohols.
Eeeeexcellent. Need me some grapeshot.
I buy strong liquor wherever I go just for this reason.
The liquor is consumed to replenish your potions and oils.
I think you need a hard alcohol to replenish everything when you meditate though.
Yeah like Alcohest or Dwarvan Whiskey or something of the sorts.
So far every potion has a recipe that makes it enhanced then superior. So a maximum of 5 charges per potion (I’m not sure if there’s a master crafted version which could make it 6). These tiers also apply to Witcher Gear (i.e. armor with a green background) so if you have armor like that don’t sell it or scrap it you’ll find recipes in the future that can upgrade it to enhanced/superior/master crafted.
I managed to forge a green-quality Viper School steel sword and I’m a dash of emerald dust away from the silver sword too, so good to know those are upgradable!
I’m not a 100% on whether the Viper School stuff is upgrade-able but so far I’ve received hunts for Griffin & Cat Schools (with 3 tiers of recipes) and there appears to be an Ursine/Bear School that I’ve yet to find quests but have found the odd recipe for the level 28 version of the armor that requires lower level ursine armor to craft. Also your starting Witcher armor is visually unique so don’t accidentally sell it like I did 🙁
Oops. 🙁
I’m really sad about losing the starting armour, that stuff was rad.
Got Enhanced Griffin Armo(u)r though, which is nice.
Oh I’ve never noticed that, I’m still learning what potions do like Thundershot and how it’s different from oils lol.
You’ll want to use oils for Witcher hunts and tougher battles and they upgrade to be quite powerful as well (I.e. the base increase is 10% but at the “superior” tier its 50%). Effectively they work like targetted poisons; the potions work more like in combat buffs.
P.S. Swallow beats all.
I’ve just finished meeting Keira and exploring Oxenford and following up on the lead there. Headed back to try figure out where Anna got to.
Get ready for the adventure and moral quandary of a lifetime =P Ok maybe I’m exaggerating but it’s pretty awesome!
I want to make a game or something. I don’t know what I want to make but I want to make it.
Ideally I’d like to make something with Oculus / Vive support but I obviously don’t have a dev kit yet for those so one step at a time.
Big issue: I’m not an artist. I can draw stick figures okay and if I practiced for a while I could do some half decent drawings but not a chance in 3D.
http://www.aie.edu.au/
Become a games developer; make lots of games; git rich; buy everyone in TAY a new console! Nothing can go wrong!
Moving to the Land of the Free in 6-8 weeks as of around tomorrow when they start processing my visa application.
Well fine then! Let’s just throw my carefully crafted life goals for you out the window!
CAN’T YOU SEE I’M TRYING TO LIVE MY YOUTH THROUGH YOU?!
*runs away crying hysterically*
Oh, “puppetmaster”, I get it now
Just go for a super simple artsyle like Box Boy. Not as much designing! Then you can focus on gameplay.
Or voxels, that’s why Minecraft looks like it does.
Voxels are rad. Minecraft isn’t really voxels though.
I am not a computer guy. repeated simple graphical textures.
(Voxels are just 3D pixels like in 3D dot game heroes, right?)
Basically, yeah. Minecraft’s cube world is voxel-like, but something like C&C2 is actual voxels.
Everquest Next is the highest-profile upcoming true voxel thing I can think of. Wouldn’t be surprised if some of the terrain stuff in No Man’s Sky is voxels too.
They’re very cool for doing complex geometry but also a pain in the shithole for animating and can be very complex to light.
Mate of mine was telling me about Everquest, it’s awesome they’re actually innovating that way in the MMO space.
Do a 2D game with generic placeholder assets and work on the story/gameplay and get things designed and plugged in later
Or find an artist friend to handle that side of things
EDIT: That said I’ve been tempted to do something myself, when you look at what is availble dev wise from steam it makes it very tempting. Hell getting cryengine for 10 bucks.
I’ve also been tempted to get one of the little full game creator kinda deals and making a TAY based game.
An artist is a vitally important part of the enterprise. They should probably command higher premiums than they do.
Nonsense. Designer should do it for the artistry of things. Giving there creativity an outlet to be revealed to the world should be payment enough for a true artist. *
*So says the person who needs to pay the wages of multiple artists/designersYeah, they should totally do it for exposure, right?
Exactly. Why can everybody see that but them.
All I hear is complaints. I need to pay rent, I’m hungry, please stop, the manacle hurts my ankle.
They spin gold from straw. Gold from straw.
Employ me to be your artist
Employ this guy to be your artist, I’ve seen his apple juice labels
Grade-A promotional material, right there :J
Employ me to be your PR guy
This guy dun do good PR yehup
A game where you are an apple juice and you have to fight the other fruit juices for the prime eye-level placement on the supermarket shelf.
“Get Juiced” “Squeeze out the competition” “Be the apple of everyone’s eye”
I can slogan good.
Employ me to be your artist =P
I am already doing the paper work for the game idea I had. It would probably be possible on Occulus rift.
I have the opposite problem. Artist, no programming.
The Oculus is pretty fun to work with. I’ve got it working for my game already, just needs a few tweaks to it. Something you should look into when you move!
One of my colleagues is moving to HoloLens. I want to get some oculus etc. experience so I can go there too because that shit’s rad.
Actually, how’s your game going so far anyway? What were you doing it in?
It’s going good so far, I’ve been making it in Unity. I released a demo earlier this month (shameless plug: http://poribo.itch.io/meteo-facade)
Under the controls section I misreda “‘W’ ‘A’ ‘S’ ‘D’ – Move/Walk” as moonwalk
Soon worked out what it was, and then was sad
Sounds like a feature to add!
Not entirely related but I’ve been experimenting more and more with tabletop RPG stuff so I understand your itch to want to make things. Turns out coming up with mechanics is harder than it looks.
I used to do tabletop RPG and board gamey things when I was a kid, but haven’t done that sort of thing in ages. There’s a lot of overlap with video games obviously.
Ugh, the problem I run into every time I think “I should try making a game again!”
Can’t art for shit.
Yeah. It’s like some kind of perpetual catch-22. The artists are shit programmers and the programmers are shit artists. Only rarely do you get people that appear that can do both. Feel like a lot of successful indies are the rare type that have a foot in both camps.
Memo to self learn to program properly.
Edit: Anyone have free time to help me program my stuff in the near future?
I might be able to help a bit. What are you working on?
An story driven exploration game with horror elements
I haven’t done any 3D work (game wise) in a long time but here’s some stuff from about 9 years ago!
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vy2lttw3a4mgh4s/AAAbCAGgyWaF7HAOlkwmvTKwa?dl=0Most suspicious Master Rize
Are we talking about my choice in lack of clothes, or something else?
I said suspicious not smexy
This was a clicker heroes post
Ooooh, yeah.
…yeah.
…I cheated my arse off so I could get bored of it and quit permanently 😛
Has anyone noticed how fucking awful at sword combat Geralt is? Waving his sword above his head, spinning around in circles before delivering a slash, charging in with sword behind his head leaving his front utterly exposed and defenceless to the enemy in front of him…
It’s a wonder he survived his first encounter with a child pickpocket let alone trained soldiers.
He’s a showman at heart.
Which is weird, because they mocap from sword masters
Rule of Cool I guess.
Geralt’s just that good he can get away with flourishes.
Although I imagine Geralt would be more like Cohen the Barbarian in his fighting style.
The Witcher’s primary study text is Inne Juste 7 Dayes I wille make you a Barbearian Hero?
More that wherever an enemy’s sword is, he’s not.
This is explained in the books, the pirouette is the main sword tactic they use against monsters and while Ciri is being trained at Kaer Morhen, they explain why it is important, but this isn’t explained at all in the games, plus it doesn’t work well in every situation.
Maybe part of it is to intimidate, witchers are known to have ridiculous reflexes and be a lot faster than normal people, so maybe the fact that he is so confident and then fights with little care for defense is a scare tactic.
That being said, I haven’t noticed the sword behind his head unless I am using a strong attack, the fast attacks still have the pirouettes all the time. Maybe I don’t notice because I parry and dodge a lot :/
Neeeeeeeeeeeeerd
Spoilers for, like, 3m into the game.
He actually yells “Pirouette, ” at Ciri in the opening sequenceI have to admit, I was wondering about that;
His line preceding it was admonishing her for unnecessary acrobatics, something along the lines of “this is not a circus.” Made the “pirouette” instruction an odd follow-up, without the background lore.But, yea, I just assumed that, as witchers aren’t well-liked by some people, they use scare tactics and intimidation to ward off would-be aggressors and stop fights before they start; their job is to slay monsters, not people, and beating up or killing the clientele tends to be bad for business.
The movement was explained somewhere in Witcher 1, because I know why it happens and I haven’t read the books. Maybe an in-game book?
Hmm maybe it was explained in the first game and I just don’t remember it, it is going back like 8 years so I probably shouldn’t trust my memories!
I always thought this was deliberate in the first 2 games – he’s a monster hunter with NFI how to fight ‘the real monsters’ (spoiler: not the monsters) but the situation makes it a necessity.
Nah, they’re well trained on fighting all forms of monsters. Some just don’t require a silver sword.
It does seem a bit funny. When I did sword training a lot of our stances gave the illusion of vulnerability though. A couple were with the sword overhead and at first it felt totally impractical but once you practiced them you could see the benefits, you’d pretty much be making your opponents moves for them because they’d think they had an opening and go for it straight into a counter. Most of the stuff we did was focused on counters and luring opponents in. But like you say flair will always win in vidya games and I haven’t played it yet so I don’t know how he fights.
Edit: I think jamesmag might be on the right track there.
You are using Bonetti’s defence against me, huh?
Oh maaaan, GoT isn’t even up on au PSN yet
Should’ve known
We only get stuff on Thursday I think. That’s usually when the store adds stuff anyway.
Should’ve known!
Somehow Life is Strange eps come out on Tuesdays here, but that’s an anomaly, I think.
ANOMALOUS
It’s up! You need to download it from the PSN store, though. The game won’t recognise that it’s available… stoopid game.
Cheers!
Yeah it is. I downloaded it yesterday.
Edit: Should’ve read a bit further down the page before commenting.
*facepalm*
😀 :D:D:D
Hurry up and be Saturday already, I want to play Splatoon…
🙁
Does anyone know if/ when we’ll have get those final rewards on club Nintendo. I’m holding off but don’t want to accidentally miss out. I just went through some boxes and added a few more points from games I forgot to register so I should be able to get something decent I hope.
End of June if I remember right
Oh, cool thanks. I hope things aren’t too expensive so I can grab a few things.
Why Fury Road shouldn’t exist.
http://io9.com/do-you-realize-mad-max-fury-road-is-a-miracle-1707000166
*puts on film nerd fanboy hat to ruin the fun*
He actually owns the rights to the franchise. Warner Bros. gave them to him in return for him stepping down from directing 1997’s “Contact”. So, he technically, hired himself.
The movie was funded primarily by ‘Kennedy Miller Mitchell’, Miller’s own production company*, and co-financed by ‘Village Roadshow Pictures’, who have a distribution deal with Warner Bros.**
*Dat ‘Happy Feet’ money
** Warner Bros. may have the distribution rights to the series, but Village Roadshow movies are usually released through WB anyway, because of their distribution deal.
EDIT: Should note that WB have the merchandising rights for the series (hence why the game will be released by them) and MGM have the distribution rights to the first Mad Max film.
EDIT 2: Obligatory: http://imgur.com/r/thesimpsons/xf70wVW
Thumbs up for one of the best Simpsons references
So… two states I couldn’t give a toss about are playing a game where foot and ball only make up 15% of the game?
What a joke.
I highly advise against running into your hookups roomate, fyi…
Especially when you’re (both) half dressed…
Three way?
She’s a woman, Freezy! >:O
That’s not a no…
I would rather wear mustard pants.
What if she watches while wearing mustard pants stranger in the room
Rather but still not a no
It’s a no, Jimmy ;P
Not now, not ever 😛
*Grabs Pop…*
Oh damnit it’s not Gooky.
*Puts Popcorn down, grabs Maltesers*
Better.
I love mixing maltesers and popcorn.
It’s like, salty chocolate and chocolatey popcorn!
(not a euphemism for sleeping with @mrtaco)
Better than running into either’s parent(s).
Awks, hahaha! 😛
That’s how I met my wife’s dad. All I was really doing was doing up my belt which I had taken off to sleep (there were no shenanigans, it was my first time at her house which was easier to get to when we left the pub at 1am) but I’m pretty sure anyone in that situation would assume I was in the process of putting my pants back on.
There was many a time where I’ve shared a breakfast with my previous roommates hookups (our states of undress varied but is not the focus of this anecdote.) Can get awkward, yes, but luckily the women he brought home were of a decent sort; so in lieu of, say, stimulating conversation or casual small talk, my go-to response would be to simply insult my roommate’s sexual habits.
“So, did he do that thing where he bellows like a goat? I’m guessing it only ever happens when assplay is involved.” Things of that nature.
Luckily such morning-time introductions were viewed as ‘humorous’ and I got along famously with the women who flittered from and to my apartment. Roommate didn’t think much of this, though, for some reason.
Is there anyone on TAY who doesn’t have a copy of Just Cause 2 on Steam who’d like to have one?
If so, activate this key:
MDS2M-4VSW7-ETGW7-46BMN-EGJSDEnjoy! And please say if you’ve redeemed it. Ta.
Oh my: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/05/how-to-make-tasty-gummy-lego-bricks-that-you-can-eat/
What a time to be alive
Annihilated a boss in Duck Seouls.
Both fulfilling & disappointing at the same time.
I didn’t have to dodge really, I just stood off to the side casting at him with my strongest magic. It’s the slowest to cast too
It was
the ribby Dragon in the sewercool design
That design is probably my pinnacle of great character designs, ever, out of any game.
So, so good.
I’m tempted to start a new game just so I can coop / invade you.
I’ve not once used humanity
But yeah, great design. Very Yuck
Yeah, I find that one really boring, only has one move that’s a threat (the jump/drop) but it feels really inconsistent.
Dunno if it’s cos I’m a mage, but that move did nothing.
The main thing I remember was a spinning tail swipe that actually connected.
The area was big enough to actually get me from where I was kiting.
I imagine melee builds would have more trouble?
Which is odd, because every other boss would just close the gap & hammer me.
As a naked guy with a club, that boss just requires lots of patience.
Bosses just get easier as a magic build. Especially once you get Crystal Soul Spear and the Tin Crystallisation Catalyst. Spells are OP yo.
Yeah, cool. I have crystal spear, just need to up my magic stat enough to use it.
If all goes well, time permitting & after Bloodborne, I’d be interested to give a melee build a good shot. Maybe use a little bow now & Then though, see how I go.
My fear of the difficulty has been removed now, so willing to give a less cowardly approach a shot
This is how I approached Demon’s Souls. Used magic for the first few bosses as a royal, and switched to a melee build halfway through the game.
As a royal?
I dint plan to switch mid, I think that’ll just ruin my chances later sinces my int far outweighs my strength. I think I’ll probably play through again at some point. Unless I get caught up in NG+ which I read locks you in with the same stats (but 2 has an option to rebuild?).
This is all hit air for the moment anyway, I have Bloodborne sitting there waiting. I also fully intend to but both DS2 & Demons Souls (Demons when I can find a disc, I will eventually).
But yeah, solid game, seems like a replay as another class would change things up enough to interest this jaded old fart.
Yeah, Dark Souls 2 has a bunch of items that let you respect your character entirely. I switched from a melee build to start with, to a faith build for NG+ and NG++
Heh heh, ‘respect’
Tee hee
AUTOCORRECT *shakes fist*
I think that’s a great addition, would make NG+s much more interesting
Was ‘as a royal’ a typo?
No. That’s the name of the class in Demon’s Souls that starts with a ranged spell.
Actually, don’t think I have *Crystal* spear, maybe it’s *soul* spear (?).
Only just found Big hat Logan
Soul Spear is the first variant, still wrecks face. Buy everything he has and later he’ll have crystal soul spear and crystal homing soul mass which destroy EVERYTHING.
Just finished trying out every ship in Elite. Came close to running out of funds on the Anaconda >.>
For the most part, I hate all the big ships. Sidewinder and Eagle are awesome. The two new ships are pretty great, though I’m surprised just how nimble the Diamondback is. Possible new favourite there. The Courier’s like a Super Eagle. The Orca’s kind of cool if only because it’s silly, though it is rather fast. Most surprising though was the Fer-De-Lance, holy CRAP is that thing stupidly agile for something so huge. It’s the only large ship I like at all so far. Sorry Clipper, you’re all show no go 😛
The Conda is only in my sights due to the 40LY jump range, aside from that I just want to noodle around in my Cobra and clipper… In 20 years when i’m back in civilised space 😛
Mr Pixel and @mrtaco Sell me on getting Elite.
Compare it to previous space games, and to what Star Citizen is shaping up to be.
In my mind Star Citizen will be better for many reasons…
But elite is a good game if you like the idea of an infinite sandbox where you set your own goals and challenges…
Imagine Evochron, but, well, better in every aspect… Better flight mechanic (even with gimped yaw) better combat, better universe and waaaaay prettier…
I honestly don’t know what else to say because I love the crap out of it, but I can understand why some people won’t… There’s at times long slow travel times that people cry about… It can be a tough universe to learn to move around in due to not much help on how trade, bounty and any other mechanic works…
But once you get into it is great!
Flew into a sun because I got distracted by YouTube videos.
10/10. Would die again.
Sounds accurate enough…
Exploring 101:
– Throttle back as soon as the count down to friendship jump starts
How are you finding your Elite experience anyway? Haven’t really spoken to you about it 😛
All of these other games got in the way…
…and I’ve been waiting for my Steam key for it because I am a Steam fanboy and consumer whore.
Steam key, you say? Hmmm…
HMMMMM…
That should be today!
@rize Steam key.
@pixel_the_ferret_viking Me waiting for my key…
@pixel_the_ferret_viking @cakesmith
Well that’s amazing timing, then.
It’s been on Steam for a while but us old hats are only just getting our steam keys now
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
Cheapest is direct to Steam, which is roughly $78. Might have to hold off for now 😛
@rize Have you even picked up Magicka 2 yet? Haha
@cakesmith Installed and ready to go! Keen as hell on some stress free and stupid as hell multi.
@rize
The game has a “sitcom” option which adds a laugh track…
@cakesmith
I wonder how long this reply chain can go…
@rize
Good question. It’s a mystery.
@rize @cakesmith laugh track really? That’s amazing!
@pixel_the_ferret_viking @rize
So says this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9qJ2EgMNSM
Around the 2:30 mark.
@cakesmith @rize why doesn’t every game have this? Seems like a necessary feature! Imagine GTA V with a laugh track!
Also for some reason autocorrect wants to call you caressing and ride… I found this amusing and accurate!
@pixel_the_ferret_viking @rize
GTA V doesn’t need a laugh track when playing with Rize. He is the laugh track.
@cakesmith @rize
That’s true actually, also we totally need a session of that on the weekend!
@cakesmith @pixel_the_ferret_viking
I’ve had to try and not laugh as loud at night time to avoid waking up my daughter. Now I laugh weird…
@cakesmith @rize
I should really stop replying and get back to work but I don’t want to!
@cakesmith @pixel_the_ferret_viking
Plus, making this chain expand far further than it should is fun!
@rize @pixel_the_ferret_viking
I’m enjoying it far too much. Although, writing Pixels name out constantly is annoying.
@cakesmith @rize
I’m sorry /o\
In hindsight i do regret my lengthy handle (giggity)
@rize @pixel_the_ferret_viking
Have a notification.
@cakesmith @rize
Thanks, makes me feel important!
Also scrolling through this comment chain on my phone is getting quite difficult 😛
@pixel_the_ferret_viking @rize
That must suck.
@cakesmith @rize
It does… It does…
…
SO ABOUT THEM VIDYA GAEM!
Being that is Friday and I’m on call, I vote for alcohol and Magicka 2 tonight!
@pixel_the_ferret_viking @rize
Hah, I can’t tonight.
@Cakesmith @rize
That’s… That’s fine, I didn’t wanna play anyway
:'(
*runs out crying*
@pixel_the_ferret_viking @rize
Now you know how Rize and I felt last night! 😛
@Cakesmith @rize
Touché!
I’M SORRY!
The pain… It’s real :'(
@cakesmith @pixel_the_ferret_viking
I feel like we should get @ser_nobulus involved in this.
@Cakesmith @rize
Would help if you could spell @sernobulus 😛
@pixel_the_ferret_viking @cakesmith @sernobulus
You people with your slightly different handles disgust me.
@rize @pixel_the_ferret_viking @cakesmith
*laugh track*
@cakesmith @rize @sernobulus
In the spirit of keeping this chain going… MAGICKA 2! NAOW!
You should get it if it turns up on steam sale.
That way I have another newbie to not actually get around to playing with in true Tay fashion.
My best advise, watch some let’s plays on YouTube and see if it’s something you could be doing, that’s what convinced me
Cynical view: Elite exists now, Star Citizen might exist someday 😛
I can’t really compare it to any other space games, because I haven’t had any except for like… Rogue Squadron. Which totally doesn’t count in this equation I don’t think.
Space is vast and pretty. The flight model, although unrealistic (more akin to WWI with no designated “up” or “down”, as most seem to put it) is pretty good fun, I’m pretty happy spending hours at a time in a conflict zone just trying to out-fly and take on whatever I can. There’s a pretty good assortment of ships to accommodate a number of different playstyles, although in terms of PvP it’s a little messed up at the moment with how Shield Cell Banks and Shield Boosters work with the larger ships. I had a chance to wing up with some random guy I met at a station the other night, we flew around and took out some NPCs for a bit. That was fun.
Frontier’s been doing a pretty good job of updating the game and adding more to it, with most updates getting four patches in as many days of release to fix up issues that arise. I guess I’d say the game’s by no means perfect, it can be a bit “slow” in some ways which mightn’t be great if you’re pressed for time, but there’s plenty of fun to be had. Like Pixel said, probably best to look up some videos and see if it seems like your kind of thing.
I think trying to claim that Star Citizen might not be a thing is a bit outdated, but I get your point 😛
At the moment it sounds like something I’d enjoy, but I can’t justify $70AUD for a game with so much to play at the moment. Good chance I’ll be in it in the next month or so, so we’ll see if you guys are still active then.
Oh actually I forgot, there’s the single player combat missions, it kind of works as an unofficial demo (in that Frontier doesn’t acknowledge them being accessible without an account, but doesn’t block access either), someone created a tool so you can download the files and give it a try before buying the game.
Sounds perfect, I’ll look into it. Thanks!
I played with a conda last night. I don’t know that I’d get one for combat, but as a tooled-up trader or a stripped-back mega explorer I might enjoy one.
It was kinda fun attaching all beams and a plasma accelerator to one, and then pretty much just melting another Anaconda I came across. And similar with the Python actually. But yeah, my style of combat doesn’t really gel with how those ships are built, I’m all about head-to-head battles with fixed weapons, the idea of gimbals and turrets just feels kinda cheaty to me 😛
But yeah, it’d make for a pretty awesome explorer. Especially with the multiple fuel tank thing they’ve got going now, you could make it through some pretty huge patches of unscoopable stars.
Every time I go back into Euro Truck Simulator 2, it reminds me of why I love it so much…
It’s so… relaxing… 😀
I like it so I can drive around areas I used to live in 😀 also Train Simulator for the same reason although hopefully the new Unreal Engine 4 version will iron out a lot of issues
I feel that way with Elite at the moment because I’m out in the middle of nowhere just exploring… Very tranquil… I always look at euro truck and think it’s a neat idea but with all the other games in playing I can’t afford another time sink XD
You need extra PCs so you can multitask. Truck with one hand while you Space Truck with another 😛
This might just be crazy enough to work!
Prison of Elders level 34 boss, man that’s one annoying mofo. Took about 3.5-4 hours just on that one guy but we got him in the end thanks to me self ressing myself after the last guardian standing got killed by a hobgoblin as he dealt the final blow on the boss. Not sure what we would’ve done if we’d have failed after killing him.
Two characters up to 34 now, time to work on my hunter
Just did Urrox for the first time last night. As a hunter. That guy can go to hell.
It’s really helpful to have a blessing of light titan shield but yeah, stay on the left and jump between those two sets of stairs as much as possible. Triple jump definitely advised 😀
he’s nothing compared to Qodron though 🙁Had two blessing titans and I had triple jump. In retrospect, I think it was a combination of factors – we weren’t communicating enough, and our bubbles kept getting put in the far left cover with a low ceiling. Consequently, my hunter (a) kept bouncing her head off the ceiling, screwing with my jump timing, (b) rarely got far enough out of the bubble to refresh the overshield because of the low ceiling, and (c) occasionally just got shredded by ogres and wizards when she did manage to get far enough out of the bubble.
From the sound of Qodron, I don’t think I’ll be too disappointed if I wait until next week to take on the 34 PoE…
though I hear the age-old 42-Gjallarhorn salute makes short work of him.Oh good. TAY is back.
In pig form 😀
Or pog
I didn’t even know it was gone.
Morning maintenance?
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pains 😀 – http://www.metalgearinformer.com/?p=19546
Look at that goddamned gorgeous motorcycle.
*puts fingers in ears in a @DC style media black out pre game*
I always liked Eva’s in 3, but the physics of it so didn’t work
Fuck me, that’s pretty. As I recall there’s been a fair few Triumph bikes in MGS, (including one we’ve seen already in a MGSV trailer?) and they were all real nice to look at.
Yeah, there was a T-100 in the MGSV trailer – this is their superfine one-of-a-kind real life one. God it’s gorgeous. Not quite street legal/practical with its lack of mirrors, and speedo, but still, hot damn.
There was also a Triumph in 4
One of the top bits of fan service in a fan service heavy game
4 really was a strange beast.
Yep, it’s both great & shit.
Didn’t make as many improvements as I’d expect from Kojima, but I enjoyed it regardless.
I guess it all comes from the fact he didn’t & wasn’t going to direct it before all the death threats.
From fans or Konami?
@freezespreston Pretty sure we’re currently experiencing Konami’s attempts at threatening Kojima
Niiice
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
My children will be called Gjallarhorn and they will continue the fight.
Oh, it looks to be certain defeat for Red here, having gone down to a suplex from the challenger and- WHAT’S THAT? HE’S CLIMBING THE TURNBUCKLE? COULD IT BE? IT’S THE TAGLINE! HIS SIGNATURE MOVE! WHAT A DAY HERE AT TAY STADIUM, A STUNNING REVERSALIt’s only taken me 256 hours of grinding, but I’ve finally bought 3,000 of everything in AdVenture Capitalist. Just one more achievement to go.
This is why I don’t platinum games :-s
(Also, there’s often one I need to git gud for, & won’t even try)
As someone who cares not for achievements…
I enjoy some, when one pops & you realise you just accomplished something that required some skill, it’s nice.
The grinding ones bum me out though 🙁
I think I’ve “played” it for 4 hours and recently reset for the third time to claim some 12,000 angels. I’ll get 30,000 on my next reset but don’t see the point unless I have double what I need for the next level of angel upgrades, so 200k or bust.
That said, I’m also approaching the point where I don’t really see the point in opening the application, clicking a few buttons, then closing it to check on it again in 12 hours.
First layer of sequins done!
I just need to sew the bottoms and then I’ll try to take a photo if anyone is interested?
This is for Elsa, I thought I should clarify
I once did a thing with my bottoms and took a photo.
It wasn’t for Elsa though. It was for everyone.
I meant the Elsa cosplay, but now I think I may be bothering people
http://www.msn.com/en-au/entertainment/movies/stephen-kings-it-remake-put-on-indefinite-hold-as-director-cary-fukunaga-walks-out/ar-BBkhgyD?ocid=mailsignout
Didn’t realize it had even been greenlit. Thought it was still on Guillermo Del Toro’s to do list.
Apparently director Cary Fukunaga *snigger* has walked out on the project.
Hopefully they’ll get Guillermo on the case (when he’s got some free time that is).
Del Toro needs to do At The Mountains of Madness first.
Or Slaughterhouse 5.
And Hellboy 3.
*cries**cries some more**cries a lot*The good thing about the first two Hellboys is they both had satisfying endings.
Eh, Hellboy 1 was a little “oh, that’s it?”
Hellboy 2 though, after that scene with the Angel of Death…oh man, I need another Hellboy movie that explores the consequences of that.
Fukunaga did good work on True Detective.
Del Toro needs to do the Haunted Mansion movie with Ryan Gosling first 😀 http://flavorwire.com/newswire/ryan-gosling-may-star-in-guillermo-del-toros-disney-ride-based-haunted-mansion-movie
Wait, they’re doing that again? Even after the Eddie Murphy thing?
Or was that not actually based on the ride?
I hope they do. The Eddie Murphy one wasn’t all that close to the true spirit of the ride.
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Page six is that-a-way 😛
It’s Biggest Morning Tea Day here and I’m chowing down on the cookies I made and not sharing them with anyone like the fatty I truly am.
The down after this sugar high will be SPECTACULAR.
fatty fatty fat fat
“Apparently he’s doing the “fatty dance.” Inappropriate? Well, maybe. But I’m raising my son to be a straight-shooter. That’s his mom, right over there.”— Dr. Cox
You’re not truly fat until someone follows you around with a tuba:
https://youtu.be/ydVp-2B8qlw?t=50
Idea for a website: that video on loop, at the address http://www.youtuba.com
You could follow people around using your phone.
So the top selling game in Japan last week was…. The Witcher 3. Which seems weird.
Perhaps they’ve decided it’s friggin awesome too?
Well yeah, but normally western AAA RPGs like it take months to come out over there and don’t sell fantastically.
Perhaps they heard the premise- “It’s a game where you are a monster hunter” – and conflated it.
Sad news in the life of Blaghs. The corporate I work for bought a practice late last year, and the other week opened a new practice as part of its plan to take over Canberra (to which my only response is, ehh, better than Primary). Sadly, I’ve just been shifted to the new practice (which is closer to home, but Mum doesn’t work there so it will be a pain).
But no, the bad news is that this means I won’t be able to awkwardly flirt with the not-even-that-new-anymore Nurse. Sad times indeed.
Maybe there will be a new nurse for you to flirt with!
There’s presumably a Nurse there, but I know that the other Nurse from my old practice is helping out there for the moment, so at least I know my ego will be kept in check.
GET YOUR LICENSE MAN.
In fact i think when you are over a certain age you dont even need to do a log book. Think about how sweet driving to pick up that sweet honey nurse on a date.
Yeah i know all of these things wont happen but its fun to dream.
also also, i know you wont but you should ask her out, you dont have anything to lose since you arent shitty where you eat any more.
In Canberra you don’t even need L’s after 21 (or was it 25?). You go do a several hours thing and get handed red Ps. No, I’m not kidding.
Everytime i go to Canberra and you tell me stuff about it i’m always mind blown, QLD sucks in comparison to the shangri-la of Canberra
Not so much a Shangri-la as it is a small area filled with circular roads and untrained drivers, but yes, it does beat QLD…especially in number of Blaghmen per capita.
To be fair, it’s really not that hard to beat QLD.
I don’t know, tell that to the blues after yesterday’s origin! *runs and hides*
Alternatively, get HER to pick YOU up, and explain that this is because you’re progressive, not lazy.
Get @shane to pick you both up and say that you are so rich you can hire famous published authors to drive you around.
I’m available for this. But you will definitely have to demonstrate to me how rich you are.
Alternatively, just get @rize to pick you both up and say you’re such a kind person that you’re giving hobbits work in todays economy.
Interstate hobbits, no less!
That explains a lot.
Listen to Rocketman! He is a sage.
You vomit on enough people and you learn a few things about love.
Truer words have never been spoken.
If you pay the top tier of the current comics humble bundle, you’ll get all of Locke and Key, which is a steal: https://www.humblebundle.com/books#t
This is one of those ones you want to get onto sooner rather than later- the average is rising due to their “beat the average by $5” thing, it’s gone up 25c in the last two hours.
Yep, a couple of hours ago, it cost me $25.18 to get the full lot. I imagine it’s a tad higher now (edit: just checked, and yep, it’s nearly $2.50 US higher).
I keep hearing good things about this series, so I had to give it a go.
You’ll love it, and then be depressed because it’s finished.
That doesn’t sound like what I’m after at all.
the Locke & Key TV series they shot a pilot for a few years back with Miranda Otto is one of the great “what could have beens” of genre TV.
I wish the new Gizmodo banner didn’t have a picture of a woman playing with a condom =@ It’s making it very awkward to browse at work!
Edit: Of course… a page 6 get. Thanks TAY.
@haggis take the spotlight off me please =P
i’ve heard the government is going to launch a commission into monopolies.
What, only one? #dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeOh page 6, how I’ve longed for thee…
I can’t believe pretzels are knot bread.
About to microwave some fruit.
Getting ready for a hot date.
My wife said she’s leaving me because of my Facebook addiction. I didn’t like that comment.
My wife asked me to go down to the shop to pick up 6 cans of sprite. When I got to the checkout I realised I accidentally picked 7-up.
The other day, an attendant stopped me in a hospital car park to tell me, “You can’t park here. It’s badge holders only.”
I replied, “But I have got a bad shoulder.”
During my pilots licence test I flew through a rainbow. I passed with flying colours.
My wife will buy anything marked down. Last week she tried to buy escalators.
A friend of mine opened a yacht showroom. Sails went through the roof.
Just ate a frozen apple. Hardcore.
Whiteboards are just so remarkable, aren’t they?
Did you hear about the cheese factory that exploded in France? There was nothing left but de Brie.
I’ll be honest, this is turning into a man-crush
<3I love you.
*popcorn*
Is anyone interested in seeing the progress on the Elsa cosplay? I can’t post @tech_knights without his permission and it would probably look better if he were wearing it
Yes.
But you should just do what everyone else does (or at least what I do) and just post everything, and let interest levels sort themselves out later.
I don’t want to piss people off. I’m terrible
Post first, apologise later.
You’re good at apologising! \o/
That is true. That is very true
Publish away
I am most interested in seeing @tech_knight in Elsa cosplay
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OH GOD WHERE’S YOUR MOUTH
*runs*
EDIT: Apparently the issue was my computer failing to process the icons correctly, and then resolving the issue with no intervention from me. But that’s not as funny.
C’mon Techie, I can understand your apprehension, but you just have to Let it Go.
The only issue is that Techie would not fit the Elsa cosplay =P You’ll just have to see him in the Pulsefire one instead.
I’d be fine if we posted shots with me wearing mine
Oh, are you going dressed as Anna?
Do you want to build a snowhuman, human? 😛
Do you want to build an army?
We’ll have robot everywhere!
Beings made of nuts and bolts,
they have no faults,
let’s stop this despair!
Fun fact page six:
Two ‘adult’ movie parodies of the Mario Bros. movie were made, Super Hornio Brothers, and Super Hornio Brothers 2.
The rights to both films, after some negotiation, are now owned by…Nintendo.
So nobody can create new copies and distribute it anymore.
However, it is the Internet, and if you do wish to check up on it, you can find the second movie online.
Not verging on adult fun fact page six:
All jokes about Macca’s and Starbucks aside, the fast food company with the most stores in the world is…Subway.
I read an interesting fact about McDonalds in the US. Apparently when you combine the next four largest burger chains in the US (Burger King, Five Guys, Carl Jnr’s, and one other chain I can’t remember), McDonalds still owns and operates more stores. Even if McDonalds were to close half of its venues, it would still have more venues than Burger King, the second most widespread burger chain.
Edit: Have it wrong however McDonalds has 36,000 stores worldwide with approximately 14,000 in the US. Burger King (and Hungry Jacks by extension) have a total of approximately 13,000 stores worldwide. Still interesting but not quite as extreme as what I said.
I’m sure I can’t be alone in thinking it was probably a better movie than the actual Mario Brothers movie…
Aaaand I’m not surprised that Ron Jeremy was in it…
I like that movie
Well anything with Ron Jeremy in is usually good for a laugh…
That was Slob Hoskins
Every week there’s a viral clip from Charlie Pickering’s show that I can get behind. I think I need to get over the preconceptions I had from the preview ads and give this show a proper chance.
This week: equality in marriage http://www.samesame.com.au/news/12345/WATCH-Charlie-Pickering-explains-Australias-marriage-mission
I haven’t seen his new show yet, but I always liked Charlie Pickering. He was always the best part of The Project.
I always liked him on The Project, but I think I like Waleed better 😛
Waleed Aly has the intellectual background too, gives it a bit more oomph.
Ooh I have a (dumb) Waleed story! A few years ago I went to the ABC building to wander about, and I strolled down to where they do the live news feed (for radio) behind these glass walls so you can watch. Waleed was in there, and I was watching him, swooning just a little bit, and he turned and smiled and winked at me, and I got so giggly that I had to turn and run away.
That show always has one focus story that’s worded/presented ‘virally’, if that makes sense. They really want people to share it around.
The rest of the show is more comedic (it’s no replacement for Shaun Micallef’s show though :P)
They should seriously get rid of Tom and Kitty. So many younger comic/journalists with tons of talent. Like the entire cast of The Roast, for example.
Yeah, they were the two dead spots in the episode I watched. Bring in new talent, or blatantly rip the Daily Show “wacky correspondent” model.
Australian comedy is like the Australian cricket team, there’s only ever room for new talent once they’re too old to really make use of it.
Ah, all right then. I might just keep watching the viral vids 😛
Shaun Micallef’s shows are the height of Australian comedy to me. I cannot think of a better show than the Micallef Program/Programme/Pogram.
I hated the Project as a whole, no real thoughts on him alone. Might have to at least give it a go.
I think a lot of the issues people have with the Project has been caused by studio exec fiddling. Pickering himself is an interesting guy. I remember listening to an interview with him on AM radio years ago when they were just getting that show started and he came across far better than he did a lot of the time in the show itself.
When they started out you could see what they were trying to do with it and it had the potential to be pretty good, but Channel 10 got bought out not long after and ever since then it’s been tabloid-level mockery and bullshit, not much better than listening to afternoon commercial radio trash.
I was never going to hold The Project against him, and I quite liked him for being in TAYG. I just wasn’t blown away by the advertising for The Weekly whenever ABC tried to promote it.
I posted this on Twitter, but I made a little Timelapse thing in The Witcher 3: https://youtu.be/7ne01DVEzUQ
Err, enjoy?
Nice man, love the storm in there clearing to the good weather. The weather system in this game is fucking incredible.
Yeah, it does have a few issues with clouds appearing out of nowhere (most of them aren’t obvious at the speed I’m running, and I cut the most egregious examples), but I’ve only ever noticed that while recording stuff, so it’s not really a problem in regular play.
Also, the Lightning is a little flat (http://i.imgur.com/dgwDadg.jpg took the peak light from various points of a minute long recording, you can see at the middle-right the lit up trees in the background, which was at one point it seemed to cast some grounded illumination, but otherwise it’s all just up in the sky, which isn’t the end of the world, but I will always miss the storms of GTA IV).
Dad just found a 360 somewhere up the road. Seems like it has a jtag thing? Also there was a boxed wireless racing wheel with it, hardly seems used (still has foam wrapped around the wheel and pedals). Wonder if I can use that on PC.
Also it seems like my 3DSes are back. Also I think Shane’s books got here.
Also there is still leftover gnocchi for lunch. Today is a pretty alright day.
YESSSSSSSS. They’re all arriving! \o/
Oh man that’s a lot of reading to do. Whose idea was this.
Tweet those pics or it didn’t happen.
What pics!
And tweeting is for nerds.
But… reading is for nerds. And books are for reading.
/o\
I like how you guys just “find” all this working technology lying around.
Doesn’t sound suspicious at all….
Funny, I think I’m missing my 360 and racing wheel.
One time when I was 7 we got a new TV and my mother explained “it fell off the back of a truck”. I think I spent about a year just marvelling that the screen didn’t break.
Well, we don’t yet know that they work 😛
Finding (and/or hoarding >.>) stuff seems to be a bit of a family trait. My uncle’s place is pretty badly filled with just… stuff. Everywhere.
Realized late last night while knee deep in Witchering that I haven’t logged into Kantai Collection in about 3 weeks, pretty much since the last event.
I managed to clear the event. Ended up doing the first map on Hard (for the reward – second 51cm naval gun. It’s overweight for even Yamato but if I pick up Musashi at some point I can run both of them with a 51cm and a 46cm), second map on Medium, third to fifth on Easy, and then final map on Medium. Dropped down to easy for 3-5 because they each required you to field fleets that were locked out from the other maps, and I simply didn’t have enough high-level ships to split three ways and the reward list wasn’t exciting. Last map, I went back up to Medium because I could field anyone at all. Massive resource drain (had to take Yamato out on sortie to have enough firepower AND run support expeditions) but the final battle was a fluke. Last dance, the boss formation changed so that you had the boss and an armored carrier princess (normally a boss in her own right) alongside each other. Naturally the carrier would soak the hits, and you need to sink the boss completely to clear the map. This can take dozens of attempts because target selection is randomized. I fluked it on the second go. Had a horror run at it, everyone taking damage, four escorts still up by the time I went to night battle. Took out first two escorts, but by that point most of my own night battle fleet were done. Except the very last slot. Kitakami bringing up the rear. I’d set her up with a ton of quint oxygen torpedoes so she could do a night cut-in, and it activated, hitting the boss for 600 and instantly killing it.So I managed to clear the event and get all the event reward ships – Unryuu-class Carrier Katsuragi (possibly the nicest design of all the carriers, incidentally), Vittorio-Veneto-class Battleship Littorio/Italia, and Flying Boat Tender Akitsushima. Also clearing on Medium got me a second Type-2 flying boat for Akitsushima. Drop-wise I also managed to pick up Hatsukaze on the way through, who had been avoiding me for years now. But beyond that, I didn’t get any of the drops I was missing and the two new drop-only ships, Yuugumo-class Destroyer Takanami and Vittorio-Veneto-class Battleship Roma were both no-shows. Didn’t have time or resources to do any grinding. Disappointed mainly that I missed Takanami. Her design is super plain, but that voice…
Going to jump back in tonight for a bit I think. Unlike the event before this, I didn’t come out feeling like I was missing a ton of things, but I still have some gaps in my lineup. I have a significant lack of quality Aviation Cruisers, only having Tone at high level and Suzuya at mid. Had I also had Kumano at high level, or the combo of Mikuma and Mogami, I’d have been able to split my fleet three ways and still get to the boss. However I feel like Chikuma might be a better investment than Kumano. Also on the heavy cruiser angle, I have Choukai very, very close to her Kai-2 level, so she’ll probably be my next goal. And before I bother with aviation cruisers I think I need to get Maya to 75 for her Kai-2. Significant undertaking, but she’s got insane AA capability and some AA cut-in gear which makes her basically a requirement for events, since taking her in AACI capacity in a combined fleet means you can leave Akizuki (who is a really weak destroyer aside from her AA ability) and take a more combat-capable destroyer like Yuudachi or Fubuki or Hatsushimo.
I’m really glad I spent the time to get Yamashiro to Kai-2, but I also still need to have a second backup Aviation Battleship, so Fusou will be getting a look in too. Have a stash of 3 blueprints already and can get at least halfway to a 4th over the next couple of days by clearing the extra maps for E1 and E2, so that’ll be good. Especially since a ton of ships recently have needed blueprints. Often ones I want to work on too.
I also need to devote some time to light cruisers. Really needed to have Jintsuu Kai-2 for the event, and having either Yuubari or ideally Ooyodo at usable level would have been helpful. Plus at some point, I need Prinz Eugen at 45, as her first remodel comes with a second 20cm German naval gun and a unique radar, which are both top-tier equipment.
Light carriers are also a constant issue for me. I really needed them during the last few events, and I ended up doing okay with what I have, but I only really have 3 at good levels (Chiyoda & Chitose, plus Hiyou) and 1-2 more at levels they can be used but often take hits (Junyou and Shouhou). I’d be well served by getting the two CVLs that have Kai-2 remodels up to their remodel level, but both Junyou and Ryuujou have insanely high requirements so that’ll take a long time.
I’m also slowly working on leveling up some extra destroyers. Was thinking of focusing first on Fubuki, but Akatsuki is getting a remodel in tomorrow’s update so that plan may shift depending on how she turns out. The new art they added for Kisaragi and Mutsuki made them high-priority level ups for me recently too. Had started running the Katori training expedition with Katori, 4 destroyers and Jintsuu. Reset once a day and hope for the best.
My final leveling priority has been Yuu-chan. I picked up U-511 last event and like her a lot, but leveling submarines takes forever as I’m just running them through World 2 for quests. She very rarely hits hard enough to get MVP (it normally gets stolen by Iku or Shioi) and I really want to get her to 50 so I can turn her into Ro-500 and increase cuteness by an order of magnitude.
The other thing I’ll be doing the instant I log in is some large ship construction. My resources should be capped again by now, and I still don’t have Musashi or Taihou. Musashi would be nice just to have the second Yamato-class, but Taihou increasingly feels like a gap in my fleet. In events, Kaga is by far the best carrier because of her largest aircraft slot having insane capability. Akagi is close, but the other carriers aren’t even same ballpark. Taihou’s biggest slot has similar size to Kaga’s so having her would give me some options.
Other priority is to do some of the battle quests I need to do. Specifically need to send Souryuu and Hiryuu together to 5-2 and clear it to unlock a quest that lets me update their Egusa and Tomonaga squadron fighters from Type-97/99 bombers to Suiseis and Tenzans. Also really should try and get Unryuu up so that I can do her quest to convert two Reppu into 601st Squadron Reppus as having a second 601st squadron Reppu would be very valuable. Trouble there will be blueprints.
So, plan of attack:
– Large Ship Construction, attempting Musashi and/or Taihou
– Choukai to 65 (Blueprint)
– Maya to 75
– Jintsuu to 60
– Junyou to 80
– Chikuma to 70 (Blueprint)
– Unryuu to 50 (Blueprint)
– Fusou to 80 (Blueprint)
– Work on a destroyer or two
– Maybe Littorio or Bismark to high levels (Blueprints)
By that point I’ll probably have moved, there will be a new event to gear up for, and a few more Kai-2s will have come along to shake things up a bit. Akatsuki tomorrow, and another heavy cruiser the update after that (signs pointing toward it being Aoba, but possibly Atago, maybe Kako or Takao at a stretch, and very low chance Kumano or Suzuya).
Based off previous event experience it’d probably be worth my while to get Akitsushima to a high enough level that she won’t die too often. Guarantee the devs will have a map that has special routing if you have type-2 flying boats or something.
Just thought i’d drop by to say that i finished the new Wolfenstein and it’s not that bad.
Could be better, but it’s not bad.
See you in 8 months…
When you say the new Wolfenstein do you mean New Order or the recent stand-alone expansion thing?
You’ll find out in 8 months.
The 2007 one with the magic artifacts and the time travel… wait maybe I’m thinking of Singularity.
I liked that game.
First FPS I’ve finished in over a decade
MAD MAX FURY ROAD:
Someone pointed out to me today that
the salt plains they were going to ride across for 160 days was actually an ocean that no longer exists, and my mind was blown all over again by just how desolate the world is in that film.I’m unsure why I didn’t make that connection – seems so obvious now. Either way, amazing.
Mind = blown.
Alternately:
They have no idea what’s out there. It’s just a patch of desert, and there’s a town all of 2 klicks beyond the horizon. Anyway, to bring logic to my initially facetious comment, the ocean is far from a flat surface, and I doubt even the nuclear death that their world’s faced would cause it to become a plain of that size (particularly remembering that Mad Max is only a few years from “now”).Logic. PAH!
Also, I don’t know much about post-apocalyptic science, but it seems at least a little plausible to me that given a totally dried out ocean floor and extreme enough wind weather over a period of decades, that the piles of salt could end up settling in a reasonably uniform flat way… or at least flat enough to drive across. Maybe…?Weeellll….
Water is a more dominant erosionary force than wind so you’d probably need centuries in order for the canyons/peaks that exist underwater to be evened out into a single uniform desert?Just because the area they were looking at looked flat doesn’t mean that everything is flat from that point.
While it’s true that the ocean floor is uneven, there are vast areas that aren’tYeah, I realized that at the time.
It’s meant to be the pacific ocean, I think. The oceans have all been dried up, which is obvious in Beyond Thunderdome during the bit at the end where they fly through Sydney and the harbour’s an empty desertNot sure how humans could actually survive the sort of event, which would cause that to happen but whatever.
If that is the case, I’m guessing they’d be driving to South America or Africa assuming the movie is still set in Australia. Either way, still pretty crazy at just how post-apocalyptic Mad Max is.Actually I think this is another case of the movie being really subtle and restrained around not just dumping a bunch of obvious exposition etc. at you. Anything else they’d have
done something crass like put a sunken battleship or the tail of MH70 or something in there to make it super obvious.It absolutely is. I couldn’t agree with this more.
There’s a Garth Ennis comic with a similar premise
There’s still a pocket of the earth that’s lush and green- the bottom of the Marianas TrenchI picked up on this the second time I watched it. So good.
Me & @pupp3tmast3r are tight now after some light philosophical debate
Also, my auto correct really wants him to be puppy mast3r
A dead body was found impaled on a dolphin.
Police say the death wasn’t accidental, it was on porpoise.
I made that joke last week’s TAY 🙂
Doh.
I know this group of porcupines, they’re all pricks.
Armadillos are cool though. They just roll with it.
They may be pricks, bu they get to the point.
They may get to the point but they’re certainly not sharp.
Dear work,
I would like to go home now cos I’m sleepy. Thankyouverymuchbai.
Kind Regards,
Puppet.
My laziness has led to beardiness.
There now seems to be three times as many silver hairs in there than I knew about before. Frown.
Silver fox.
Scruffy fox.
The freezing cold has led me down the same path 😛 Although I trim it down when the silver and ginger hairs start to show through
Yesterday I was all GAMES MAKING and everything but didn’t have any ideas. Just now I remembered that whole elaborate plan I had for making a procedural JRPG. Time to dig that idea up and get started!
Hire @liondrive to be your artist and me to be your PR guy
Legit though, my uni holiday is coming up.
I don’t mind giving a crack at some concept art pro-bono.
(double entendre)
giving a crack or having a crack? Or having a crack at giving a crack?
That joke’s not as much of a cracker as your normal output…
Actually this got me thinking back to an even earlier idea I had ages and ages ago, which was a SRPG along the lines of Fire Emblem, with permadeath and stuff, but procedurally generate all the characters and their relationships with each other and make them flexible so they can change over time and also have them react appropriately to things happening. So like for example, you have two characters spend lots of time together so they grow close and then one of them is critically wounded on the battlefield, the other might suddenly make a suicidal rush to try and save them. Relationship shifts that can only happen in certain circumstances. You wouldn’t have to create a lot of things that can happen, as long as there’s a logical outcome, things shift around interesting ways and there’s some unpredictability in what your decisions will cause to occur you could have some incredibly interesting emergent behaviors result from it.
Hell, you don’t even necessarily need a procedural set of characters and relationships between them, you could have it all start a certain way and as long as you’ve built the system to make it fairly quickly mutable, everyone’s going to do things differently enough that things will shift considerably for a given player.
Guys Witcher 3 question, relates to the level 6 main questline again.
Once again only move ahead if you’ve cleared the Bloody Baron questlineSo I’m kind of sorta really confused? I’ve been reading reviews of the Witcher 3 here and there and a number of sites are pulling CDPR up on allowing Geralt to sympathize with the Baron who beat his wife and caused a miscarriage but as I played the game while initially it seems to be the case Anna confesses to orchestrating the miscarriage with the Swamp Witches help only in order to spite the Baron as she didn’t want another child with his seed? Am I missing something here or are the reviewers mixing up the plot?The reviewers are mixing up the plot. I guess you can link the miscarriage was because he beat her, she didn’t want another child of his seed and therefore approached the Crones to get rid of the child.Only read if you have completed that story arc
the reason you sympathise is because the Baron was out at war and his wife cheated on him for 2 years, he came back to find her and his child gone and living with another man. He killed the man and took her back and she spent the next 20 years belittling him in every way possible, that coupled with his alcoholism and anger issues meant that he beat her. So they were both at fault.So, Destiny players.
I found myself looking for something to play and was most troubled to consider that Destiny would fit the bill perfectly.
Considering I stopped playing before Dark Below and have no-one specific to play with now; is house of Wolves worth the asking price? Does it have enough content to keep you entertained? Will I have trouble leveling without Dark Below content?
I feel like an addict on the verge of a relapse.
What level are you?
What system are you on?
Do you have the Dark Below?
I’d highly recommend it. Now is probably the time to jump in.
There’s far more content, and much more to do.
Additional PvP and PvE is always good, and there are far more people back playing again now.
29
PS4
No
What about you?
34
PS4
Yeah!
I’d recommend it.
You can easily do the activities at level 29.
The first Prison of Elders starts at 28, after all.
Trials of Osiris is also great for PvP.
Then there is the raids to catch up on also.
You should be fine without Dark Below, you can buy gear from your specific class vendor that’ll boost you to level 32 (might need to grind for them Vanguard marks though)
Can’t actually say about enough content but. Having a new hub area is refreshing but it functions in mostly the same way. The new story missions are a little side helping which is nice but ultimately nothing to write home about. No new raid but Prison of Elders is a nice co-op hoarde mode sort of thing which has varying bosses based on difficulty level and seem to actually offer up some decent loot (but you have to grind for special keys that unlock bonus stuff and FUUUUuuUN) Plus Temple of Osiris (haven’t tried, hate pvp) if you’re into that!
So yeah, I dunno. I’m having fun with it. But I did the same thing with Dark Below then fell off the bandwagon pretty quickly.
I have not helped at all. Hope you’re well!
Hmm.
A lot of the fun I had in vanilla was the playing with others, the big day one ride of awesome with all the peeps.
I imagine I would have an absolute blast in PoE and ToO if I had a regular team to play with. But my old crew disbanded (hi @pupp3tmast3r) and no irl friends play. Solo queue is not my thing.
I guess that’s the hurdle to me jumping back in.
Dammit jo don’t do this to me =@ I’d be lying if I said I haven’t been tempted by Destiny lately as well… @distantdrop Yo stranger you interested? 3 man team sound solid for ToO?
Also I just noticed what your gravatar pic is.
Nice.
Aight so gave it some thought last night and I reckon I can pick up the two dlc’s + a PS plus sub next week once I get paid, probably look at jumping on next weekend with that time frame? Keen jo? Obligatory @blaghman @dire_wolf @distantdrop @saturday aka sunday
Oh and @piat and @os42 as well.
o/ Always happy to help out if you need a sixth (or a third :P).
I actually went to get back into it the other night, tried to start a new character and forgot how God damn boring the story missions are haha
I can probably roll with that. I’d like to get a solid third tho.
Well I’ve just spammed 6 people; here’s hoping we get a hit from them =p
[PTSD FLASHBACKS]
… Maybe. I run on a different time schedule than you lot, remember? But ultimately.. I guuuueeeeeeessss.
@piat
Yeeeah. Not much of a singleplayer game at all really.
You have the DLC already don’t you?
Also, how are you man? Has been a while.
Yeah, pretty shocking. Yeah I got the digital deluxe version so had both the dlcs from the get go haha.
Yeah it’s been ages, so much personal shit has been going in and just haven’t had the time to TAY. You?
Not too much interesting going on, other than Japan trip the other month.
Haven’t been gaming much and trying unsuccessfully to find other stuff to do.
@jocon oh yeah, have a good time? Really want to visit myself at some point.
I know what you mean though, hard to get interested at the moment.
Yeah was pretty great, definitely worth the trip. Even managed to see the cherry blossoms bloom, which they only do for a week or two a year apparently.
Also enjoyed hanging out with my sister who also went, don’t do that enough.
I think the only new game I have bought in 2015 is Bloodborne, which I have not finished :/
Maybe I’m just getting old and seeing the derivativeness of things.
Or my mind is rusting shut.
@jocon awesome, sounds pretty amazeballs.
Haha yeah Bloodborne has been the only major game I’ve gotten all year and haven’t finished it either. I’ll play Arkham Knight but not much excited for anything else, will probably get back in to DOTA.
disbanded? that makes it sound as if it was a graceful departure, as I recall most of us just up and said ‘fuck it.’
Hahaha we were pretty exhausted of the game by then to be fair =p And everything I heard about the next dlc didn’t make me want to come back at all. You still destiny’ing Saturday?
Haha, yeah. Did not think I’d ever play it again tbh.
But the core is really solid and has potential there if they could… something.
I’ve always had this fear that if/when I lose my job that it would cause a snowball effect. Where everything that can go wrong will go wrong, like Centrelink deciding I should work as a full time student.
So I just changed my tire after getting a flat.
Well, that deflated quickly.
IT’S STILL PAGE SIX YEHAAAA!Booooo.
PLEASE HELP ME ON FINANCY CREDIT CARDY STUFF:
– Any recommendations on cards to use when travelling overseas?
I thought 28 Degrees was the King since I had always saw its name pop up online over the years, however, it looks like they’ve added some fees for ATM withdrawals within the last year or so. People are still saying it’s one of the top ones but have also mentioned a Citibank Plus card for ATM withdrawals and a BankWest Platinum Zero credit card. I’ve just received my 28 Degrees card with the intention of using it for online purchases as the exchange rate is a lot better than Amazon’s or PayPal’s, so I’m still happy about using it for that
but… I do plan on going travelling quite a bit in the future, which begins question time!
– Are credit cards without annual fees (like the ones listed above), “free” to have even if I don’t use them?
Looks like some people have both the 28 Degrees and BankWest card and most people will carry multiple cards with them overseas as backups. I think the BankWest card offers a slight edge over the 28 Degrees so I’m thinking of applying for that one too. And assuming I’m approved, I wouldn’t be paying anything extra for having the cards since there are no annual fees?
– Does cash advances mean withdrawals at an ATM?
– If I’m overseas and want to avoid withdrawing money from an ATM (to avoid fees). Does a normal purchase just mean using my card to pay for something? (i.e. buying a bottle of water at 7/11 and using my card’s PayPass or something to pay (instead of cash)). The 28 Degrees and BankWest cards have no foreign exchange conversion fees so this “purchase” should be me just paying for it in its local currency (at the card’s exchange), right?
– What methods does everyone use when travelling overseas?
(What did you guys do in Japan? @negativezero @freezespreston @jocon @novacascade @transientmind)
Thanks! <3 youuuu
Places I’d probably go are Japan, New Zealand, Europe
*raises hand* I work at a bank… Also, all advice is considered general. Please read T&Cs and PDS for any product before buying.
The question with any of the cards/options/suggestions is how long are you going for and what do you expect to have to use the card for?
Japan is highly geared towards cash – so I just loaded up a prepaid travel card in Yen and made 2 or 3 withdrawals in bulk.
Somewhere like New Zealand and Europe are more likely to accept cards over cash, so then exchange rates, fees etc come into play.
If you’re not going for long I’d debate the usefulness of applying for additional credit cards if any fees incurred can be managed by planning expenditure and using cash where possible. Also in the scheme of things the fees are quite small… unless you’re frequently withdrawing foreign cash from your aussie account using your banks debit card… then expect to hand over a kidney to cover the fees when you get back home.
Check the individual terms – some require a minimum annual spend, say $1000, otherwise annual fee is charged. Or a ‘free’ card will come with a higher interest rate so if you fail to pay closing balance in full by the due date you’ll pay interest on the entire purchase from the date of the transaction.
Be wary of applying for too many cards/credit products too quickly. Each application leaves a ‘check’ against your credit file and most banks will see multiple ‘checks’ within close proximity as someone who is desperate for cash and will likely decline. So definitely do not apply for multiple products on one day… try and space them out by a few months… I don’t know the ‘rules’ around time frames, only that you should space them out.
Typically means using your credit card at an ATM, selecting withdrawal and then selecting the credit account where you will then owe money. Cash advances will normally attract interest from the date of transaction (they ignore any interest free days) and sometimes cash advance rate is higher than purchase rate. Plus cash advances can sometimes attract their own fee which is a flat fee or % of transaction which ever is greater.
Yes.
Cash, Debit Card, Credit Card, Travel Card. Always leaving some cash and plastic in hotel/room etc in case disaster strikes. Travel cards come in pairs. So one in the wallet, one in the bag. Stash some cash in there too plus you’re debit card.
Then when you’re out an about you have your credit card, some cash and a travel card. Flexible enough for any situation from small purchases (cash), tourist purchases/entry fees/transport etc (cash/travel card), cash out (travel card), emergencies (credit card).
We used a Commonwealth Travel Money card. You can load it up with whatever currency you want and can switch it around online whenever you like and BPay in more if you look like running short. Worked everywhere in NZ. Japan was a bit more restrictive as they don’t like foreign cards much but there’s 7-11s literally everywhere that have ATM’s that take them and we never found ourselves desperate for money.
Card was $15 to buy and you get two. There’s the usual conversion fee you get everywhere when exchanging currency when you load extra funds and there’s no additional fees to use it.
Only trick is to ensure the currency you want to use is set to primary. If not it will slug you with fee everytime. You can change that online in about a minute whenever you like.
So you didn’t get charged in USD all around the place?
Dammit Japan.
No? A couple of places like Universal Studios and Disneyland charged us in US$ and we got hit with a conversion fee from that but everywhere else we used it was just Yen from Yen.
What Freeze said.
Worked well in Japan. Almost entirely cash based over there but easy to get money out at 7/11s.
Japan is a pain in the fucking ass compared to some places. Your debit card will not work. A prepaid visa probably won’t work either, unless you’re withdrawing at a 7-eleven (except for the ones where it doesn’t work) and one post office in Tokyo where we lucked out. They’re a cash economy and you need cash for everything. Paying for stuff with a credit card will only work at big stores on big purchases, and I never did it personally. A lot of them have the capability but they’re not used to doing it and will get flustered. Meant that I was carrying around like 20,000 yen cash at one point.
Luckily there’s lots of 7-elevens around. I just put a bunch of stuff into a Westpac pre-paid card which you can apply for online or just go down to a bank and they can issue on the spot. You will pay fees on the withdrawal though.
If you’re going to Japan, take $50-100 and get it changed to Yen at a Travelex or similar. They’ll probably give you a 2000 yen note. Savor this. You will never see one in the wild. They’re incredibly rare, as everyone has 1000s, 5000s and 10,000s and never 2000s. Because everything is cash there, rocking up in the country with no Yen to buy things is going to be a problem, you won’t even be able to get to your hotel unless you’re on a trip with pre-arranged transport or something.
For local ATM cards for Australia, I believe that ING Direct has a no-fee ATM card right now. Might be worth a look. I actually had been intending to swap over to them for my banking but I’m leaving Australia so no point now.
Ugh… had a power failure for two hours…
All good now. 🙂
BOARDGHMESE
…Ok yeah that’ll do.
Tonight we were introduced to Dune. A five-player game this time, with another jumping in for a change. A bit of another “me”, in that he played somewhat recklessly and poked things just to see what they did even if it didn’t seem like such a great idea 😛
I ended up choosing Guild which meant I could delay or skip my turn if I felt like. And on skipping the first go or two, I joked that I was employing the Luigi strategy.
…in the end that turned out to be pretty much true. I kept skipping go after go and then did a couple of things at the end and wound up winning 😛 I got lucky there, having just moved in on one stronghold and (thanks to the reckless guy taking another battle first and losing his one card) managed to take him out, then on moving the storm following the turn it landed on that space and locked me in. Then one other stronghold battle was against him again, and the last one was against a guy who knew my cards but didn’t have anything to counter, just the lasegun. Left me with one guy and I took the match. Woo!
It was very confusing and I only have a vague idea of what was going on.
Stephen Bradbury would be proud.
Thanks @shane for my awesome comic! =D
No worries, man! Thank you. I hope you enjoy it!
Oh rad. So the Sword Art Online game for PS3 & Vita that came out around March or so is getting localized and also a PS4 port. PS3 version’s not coming sadly.
They’re also going to port the previous SAO game, Hollow Fragment, to PS4 and re-translate it from scratch (the Vita version was atrocious, apparently had been machine translated from the Chinese localization to English – only reason I never got around to playing it)
Also there’s some strong rumors – in the form of listing leaks on a random retailer site – that Legend of Heroes: Sen no Kiseki aka Trails of Cold Steel is getting localized. It always looked fucking rad so all over that if it’s true. This is the second leak suggesting it, after XSeed registered the Trails of Cold Steel domain…
Now they just need to announce Tokyo Xanadu (which looks better and better as more details come out) and finally get Trails in the Sky SC out and I’ll be very happy.
I’m pretty keen for some Xanadu action in Tokyo
Pretty keen
Good morning Taybes! Did any of you also back Jenny LeClue on Kickstarter? http://jennyleclue.com/
There’s a playable teaser up now, and it’s so fun! I played it yesterday on my iPhone and I’m going to play it later on my Mac (it’s also on Android, Windows, Linux) and it’s just so super lovely. Really nice art, clever point-and-click adventure puzzles, and funny so far! Go check it out 😀
It actually sounds really cool, I haven’t backed it but I do remember feeling like I should have 🙁
That’s okay! You can still get the demo for freeeeee and then buy it when it comes out for like, $10.
=D
Dammit, why is it that whenever there’s a really awesome Humble Bundle, I already own practically everything in it?
The Relic Weekly bundle is kind of nuts. Company of Heroes Complete Edition, Dawn of War, Dawn of War 2 + Retribution, Company of Heroes 2 + DLC and SPACE MAUREEN.
I already own Company of Heroes and Dawn of War and have two copies of Company of Heroes 2 (got one as a prize after buying the game) and Space Marine (PS3 and PC). Yet I still feel like buying this bundle to get Dawn of War 2 and the remaining 2 factions in Company of Heroes 2.
It’s not like I only played 2 hours of COH2, haven’t touched multiplayer and probably won’t play it again. It’s just that these are mighty fine RTS games and I feel, in my soul, that I should own and support these titles.
Oh and Space Marine is the shit.
I got really really excited about the idea of a game called SPACE MAUREEN and then bummed when I realised it wasn’t really that.
SOMEONE MAKE THAT GAME.
I don’t know if the would could handle the hype.
You should play this one.
FUH THE EMPOIRE!
Space Maureen: In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only your nan and her awesome cooking skills that are slightly spoiled by her casual racism
OORAH
SPAYCE MAUREEN!!!
SPAYCE MAUREEN
Dear TAY,
TODAY IS THE LAST DAY OF THE UNDAD SEASON TWO KICKSTARTER.
Sincerely,
Shane
Downvote because I want more promotions, dammit! Keep telling us about it, even after the Kickstarter ends!
You must be new around here if you expect otherwise.
I’ve just wandered in off the street, actually. None of this looks familiar. Who’s this guy? This guy being me. Who am I? Oh no! I’ve got… AMNESIA!
Believe it or not, I’m actually getting a bit tired of talking about it. It’s going to be such a relief when it’s done.
until Season 3…
No way. That’s never going to happen*. This second volume ends the story.
*That’s gonna come back to bite me.Igeddit.
Should jump on that hey.
Because you don’t have enough reading to do 😛
Dear @pixel_the_ferret_viking
It has been many long years since I banished you from our home planet. How are you doing? I’m doing great. I even have a servant. Do you have a servant? Mine’s name is Nail. He’s kind of a tool. For my amuuuusement.
Anyway, if you’re looking for a good time, hit up Earth. I hear they’ve even got Dragonball’s there. And you could take it over pretty easily. Their defences probably suuuuuck.
Well, take care.
Sincerely,
Your evil half
#bringbackletterwritingpageseven
Dear Super Kami Pants
Every party needs a pooper,
That’s why we invited you.
Party pooper,
Party pooooooper.
…
WHY ARE YOU STILL HEEEEEEEEERE?
Yours truly
Lord Pixel Ferret Slug
Dear Everyone
This is a PSA for your health and well being.
Laser Unicorns have now officially released Kung Fury on YouTube as of two hours ago. You now have no choice but to watch it to get your face melted off from the pure awesomeness radiating from your screen so it can be replaced with awesomeness.
Link is forthwith
https://youtu.be/bS5P_LAqiVg
Regards
Freeze
#letterwritingpage7for@alexpants
Greetings & salutations Freeze
I have added it to my watch later list, so I can’t forget when I get home.
Funny story, when I pressed the link it started to play & my phone volume was turned up to full. I almost shat myself & must have looked like a complete git.
best regards
jimu
PS: Dark Souls is fun
PPS: I shouldn’t have been such a scaredy cat & given it a go earlier
PPPS: I like post scripts
PPPPS: I presume you knew that already
PPPPPS: Silly of me to mention really
Dear friends,
Through the wonders of Reddit, last night I found my new favourite YouTube video and must share it.
Enjoy at your own discretion.
Love and kisses
Cake
#letterwritingpage7
Aw yeah, thumbs up for Frank Klepacki and pure horror
That is excellent.
Dear @alexpants
I was quite pleased to hear of your campaign to bring back letter writing page seven. As one of the chief proponents of the lost art of the missive, the decision to bring back such an excellent foray into the world of correspondence was most thrilling.
I trust you are well, and that your time as the Wizard of Azmont is passing smoothly despite your vows of never using magic.
Yours sincerely
Red
#letterwritingpageseven #hashtagsinletterslolwhut #hashtagsforharli
Dearest Red,
Thankyou for the kind words. I am doing well after the miracle of magic was banished from our world. I have discovered this thing called the internet, which in many ways is much better, but it also much worse. People I commune with tend to mock when whenever I refer to my full title, but it has been a learning experience for certain.
Sincerely,
Pants, The King Mustard Wizard
Dearest Chum
I am sorry to hear of the mockery, your pants were truly a thing of glory. This disrespect for your title shall not stand, and I will raise the matter with the glorious king @trjn.
Yours in Azmont
Lord Red, Diplomat.
Dear underlings,
The title stands. Disrespect will be repaid in blood.
Your glorious leader, ruler of the land where horses roam and wisdom flows,
Trjn
Dearly Beloved
Couldn’t help myself, had to pick up Spayce Maureen in the bundle, despite already owning all the other games and owning this in the 360…
Soooooooo… Anyone keen on trying some exterminatus soon? 😛
Yours sincerely
Pixel
Dear Pixel,
Letter writing page 7 is serious business.
Regards,
The Internet
Dear Cakesmith,
Your point in the previous communique has been noted and subsequently the original postcard had been altered to proper letter form…
Mind retards,
Pixel
Dearly liked,
Get it downloaded at give me a shout.
Insincerely,
Your mother
So I just found every single male in my office is a biggotted racist moron; three of them just got into this massive tirade about how gay marriage in australia is encroaching on the sacred pact between a man and woman and all the other bullshit older intolerant fucks come up with for people not to be treated equally. If we went back a few hundred years I’d probably be a slave in chains to these assholes and they’d be arguing that slavery is a sacred tradition that has been held for hundreds of years.
Note to self; expedite quitting this job.
Just point out that they’re appearing to be terrified that the only thing stopping them leaving their wives and children for a life embracing being gay and marrying men is a law saying they can’t.
I mean, there is literally no other reason that gay marriage would affect theirs so logically that can be the only thing.
You know that feeling when you want to just scream something out but you can’t; I was digging my fingers into my desk until these morons stopped talking. Unfortunately one of said morons is the director of the company. That said I’ve been meaning to leave for a few weeks now and put together a plan to be out within 2 months, this just gives me motivation to get out as soon as possible.
Edit: Scratch that; I’ve pinpointed the feeling down to wanting to punch one of them repeatedly.
Find solace in the fact that their demise is inevitable.
I’ve spent the vast majority of my working life in a trade so I’ve always had to hear about “poofters, darkies and towel heads”. Inevitably I get pulled up by the bosses about not integrating with the team very well since I’ll be refusing to get involved and spend more time on my phone ignoring everything and not attending outside hours work events.
Current job isn’t too bad but the increased customer facing I have now shows that there’s still way too many people like that than I’m comfortable with in my area.
White collar world is no different, just talented with the masks.
Trust me people like that are everywhere; they just dress in suits for office jobs.
I was actually surprised at the views of the people in my office (Surprisingly positive for one of the media organisations)
But yeah, I don’t know what to suggest, other than replacing them all with progressive types
Dear Puppets
in the spirit of page seven, write them a
letterpamphletbarely literate screedletter.Yours truly
Red.
Good news!
One of the best things I hear from school teachers is how hard it is to even explain historical concepts like segregation, homophobia and the stolen generation.
Kids of today don’t understand illogical bullshit like this and why it can still be around any more. It will eventually die out with the last bigoted old dinosaurs over this generation.
Yeah I’d bloody well hope new generations weren’t this ignorant; what’s scary is the older biggots are the ones in power and in parliament so until they kick the bucket true meaningful reform is unlikely. I guess its nice to know New Zealand aren’t just ahead of us economically but culturally as well.
I feel your pain. I work in a small office where most of the staff are older, conservative Christians and opposed to gay marriage. Just the sh*t they spout off as “facts” makes me furious.
If they were concerned about the sanctity of marriage, they should be working to repeal no fault divorces. After all, if you’re going to be a regressive prick, you might as well commit to it.
Dear sir/madam
FIRE!
FIRE!
HELP ME!
123 Clarendon road.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
All the best,
Pixel Ferret
Dear Pixel Ferret.
No.
Burn.
Kind Regards
Red
Dear Red
That hurts!
No really, the flames really really hurt!
Yours truly
Pixel
FIRE IN THE DISCO?
FIRE IN THE… TACO BELL?
Danger, danger!
0118 999 881 999 119 725
3
Now with sexier ambulance drivers!
Hey @powalen sorry for being so late with this week’s Game of Thrones recap, I didn’t get around to watching it until last night.
Sansa and her tree-husband play hide and seek, despite the tree being incapable of hiding or seeking. Sansa wins, but feels unfulfilled. The tree feels the same about their sex life.
Jamie is arrested after stealing a loaf of bread. The Sultan’s evil vizier Jafar offers to release him but first he has to enter the cave of wonders and retrieve a purportedly magic lamp. Jamie successfully retrieves the lamp but is trapped when his pet monkey Bronn steals some treasure.
Stannis leaves Castle Black, citing “irreconcilable differences” with Lord Commander Sam Tarly. Melisandre tries to keep the peace by exposing her breasts again, but both men are long past being impressed by their gravity-defying perkiness. Sam is just glad that with Stannis gone he is able to go back to sleeping on his usual side of the bed.
Jon Snow starts writing an encyclopaedia. It doesn’t get off to a strong start.
Jorah returns to Mereen and tells Daenerys he doesn’t like being exiled and wishes to return to her service. Daenerys patiently explains the concept of exile to Jorah. Jorah misinterprets this as flirting.
Dick Solomon, an alien visitor posing as a physics professor, struggles with balancing his cover story with his boundless love for his colleague Dr. Mary Albright.
Tommen gets angry with Cersei and Margaery for discussing religion at dinner. Both women send Tommen to his room without dessert. They then each get angry at each other for talking in unison and sit in sullen silence until the candles burn out. They then have sex, probably. Why not.
Tyrion murders his new partner in his sleep, unable to tolerate his repugnant catchphrase. He and Varys find each other in a bar but find it difficult to reconcile their differences. After a few drinks however, they remember the good times and agree to put the recent past behind them. At the appropriate moment Varys says “well this is another fine mess you’ve gotten us into” but Tyrion accidentally says “uh oh, here we go again!”. Both men are equally horrified.
When I finally get around to watching Game of Thrones I feel like I’m going to be disappointed that it isn’t as entertaining as these.
I feel like I’m correctly capturing the essence of the story and characters even my memory has left some of the finer details a little hazy.
This is golden
It is because he started the book with, “B: Bastard… ”
(p.s., I love this, so much.)
Well to write authoritatively on any subject you have to know things, so…
Bam!
Wow there’s some vitriol in that Witcher difficulty article comments. So much epeen being waved around.
Dear Freeze
I am playing on hard. I almost put my shiny new PS4 controller through my TV screen on the first monster hunt before I figured it out.
Also, how are you? How’re the kids?
Red.
My Dearest Red
I started on Normal and got frustrated at how imprecise and inconsistent it was. Dropped it to easy and now having a blast with it. I’m of the belief that diificulty settings should not be a thing however since the games tend not to be designed with it in mind and it becomes a bullshit level slider. Design the game how you want it to be played and stick with it ala Souls and the games tend to play so much better. But then I’ve repeatedly proven I’m in the minority with my views on games so I’m safely ignored.
I’m okay.
Kids are well.
Sincerest apologies
Freeze
My Beardfrond Freeze
I considered playing it on normal, but I had started Witcher 2 on Hard before switching it back, and found some of the final encounters lacking in challenge. I didn’t want that to happen again.
I’m glad the family is well. But you’re just OK?
Yours
Red
[salutation][insertrecipientnamehere]
I’ve played most of it on the second hardest difficulty because I like the challenge and the combat (despite being told by
peopledickheads that I’m objectively wrong for liking it) but I appreciate being able to change the difficulty up and down if/when I need to. Games that lock it in are jerks.[insertownnamehere]
GREETINGS 1,000,000th CUSTOMER!
You’re allowed to enjoy it. Fairly sure myself not has never precluded others from doing so. I don’t judge people for liking things. Unless it’s MOBA’s. You people are weird.
Please fill in form with your bank account and return
Nothing Suss Inc.
PS: You’re objectively wrong
PPS: Lock it in, jerk.
Dearest Freeze,
Git gud, scrub. Your epeen is only as long and hard as your playtime and difficulty setting.
Warmest regards,
Beavwa
Yeah seems like part of the reason is because the author’s engaging with the comments, bit of a double edged sword in the world of internet communication =p
I’m playing on Normal and have died a few times because of the godawful controls. If stuff surrounds you you can easily get beaten by stuff that shouldn’t be able to touch you. Sometimes your attacks just don’t hit also, which is frustrating. But mainly, there’s been a few really hard boss fights on the quest line I’ve been on. Either I was missing the things that made it easy (no bestiary entry to check…) or it’s just that Geralt is very flimsy and the controls are kind of bad.
Most likely going to drop the difficulty if it happens again.
This is why I’ve had to talk myself out of buying Witcher 3. Every time I’ve tried to get into the other Witcher games the combat has felt weird. Sort of like it bit off more than it can chew. It’s a complicated system that feels more like too many good ideas layered on top of each other than a fluid system.
The combat’s fine. It’s just not amazing.
If there was one thing to complain about it’s the fact that all the goddamn merchants have limited amounts of gold. I’m carrying around shittons of junk but no one can afford to buy it because they only have like 200g or something and I’ve got thousands worth. :\
I didn’t like it at first and found it abhorrent, however it is meant to be played with a controller I can just feel it.
There is a LOT of buy in, but I feel better for playing it. I’m really enjoying it now I understand how to fight properly/use items in combat.
Dear all,
Kung Fury is up on YouTube.
Watch with captions for more entertainment.
Enjoy.
King retards,
Cake
Dear Cakesmith
You’re an hour too late. Everyone has already watched it.
Seriously man, get with the times.
Seriously man, stop living in the past.
Seriously man.
Seriously.
Seriously
Freeze
This is my ‘I got a payrise’ happy dance.
You can’t see it over the internet, but it’s very endearingly awkward.
\o/
Dear Powalen.
Oh, but I can see it.
Yours through the window watching from an undisclosed location
Red
Dear Red,
Down in front. You’re blocking my view from the bushes.
Creepily,
Bob.
Dear Red and Bob,
Have you heard of the phrase “Who watches the watchers”?
Yes?
Well, that would be me.
Damn you guys are looking fine.
Totally not touching anything
Freeze
Dear B-ob
That’s no bush
Girating enthusiastically
jimu
\o/ Io/ IoI \oI \o\ Io\ /o\ /oI IoI \oI \o/
Happy wave
You get paid in Xbox One’s now?
In my head, I am clapping along and encouraging this dance. Well done you.
The dance involves a lot of finger-pointing and left-footed shuffling.
Nice work man, I always said you were one of the good ones that always works hard and deserves a payrise
…
by the way, can I have some money?
http://i.imgur.com/FO1odZS.gif
Dear tay,
It’s not home time yet… This displeases me greatly…
Sincerest
Pixel
Dear Tay,
I’m sorry I have not been so active this week, I’ve been ill, busy and stressed out.
as well as that I have been planning an RPG game for some people.
I started playing magicka yesterday, I’m liking it. a lot.
how is everyones weekends looking?
Much Love,
Chris
Dear Hasbro,
Please stop giving people the impression that you’re the arbiters of the English language. I’m not sure how you’re doing it but please stop.
Regards,
Trjn
In the guise of a former competitive Scrabble™ player, I could not be more pissed off by their wordlist.
Don’t worry, one day they’ll run out of nonsense to add and finally put kwyjibo in.
House rule. Kwyjibo is already allowed.
Yes, I recognise the irony of hating on all these new slang words and yet including the possibility of a Simpsons quote. I can sink whatever Scrabbleships I want, dammit!
Bring the old words back to common parlance to counter the new gibberish! Fain, afore, gardyloo! Bring back the þorn! (Important sidenote – that is not a “p” :P)
If it was a “p”, people would be confused where the porn went in the first place. It’s not like you ever have to look hard for it.
Dear Pixar,
I changed my iPhone lock and home screens last night to stills from Finding Nemo, and well, it brings me a wonderful peace every time I look at them. Thanks for making my favourite movie of all time.
I love you. Please let me come work for you, in some weird capacity. I would make a bang up personal assistant, or social media manager 😀
xo Jane
I thought “bang up personal assistants” were banned in the 80s.
Dear Die Hard,
You rock. Especially when that guy was on the roof.
PS: Do you know Mad Max?
ilu
Dear Gods of RNG,
A 3 egg shiny hatch does not help my obsession.
Foaming at the mouth,
Beavwa
I got the Wrestling RPG pdf. The classes (Gimmicks as they’re called):
cc @trjn
Sounds like the starting classes for a Souls game.
If anyone cares, here are some wrestlers that fit into each of those classes. Might help you get your head around how to play out the character.
Anti-Hero: Stone Cold Steve Austin/Randy Orton
The Hardcore: Mick Foley
The Jobber: Heath Slater is a current one but there aren’t really famous jobbers. The whole point is that they come out and lose.
The Monster: The Undertaker/Brock Lesnar
The Veteran: Shawn Michaels
The Golden Boy: Seth Rollins/Edge (as villain versions), John Cena/The Rock (as good guys)
The High Flyer: This guy
The Manager: Paul Heyman
The Technician: Daniel Bryan
The Wasted: Jeff Hardy
FTFY
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
That’s one of the least rigged pro-wrestling matches you’ll ever see. How many times will someone let their opponent kick out at 2? Sting repositioned himself to keep Hardy’s shoulders down. Real wrestling tactics there.
Ok, well, maybe ‘rigged’ was the wrong term.
The better term would be ‘Sting, go after this guy and finish it quickly, throw any plans you two had out the window and get this guy out of here as quick as you can, ok?’
Edit: https://youtu.be/2V6ulxTRSDc?t=6m16s I will be happy to eat my hat here, but I’m willing to bet a quick summary of what I just said is being said to Sting right here (when the mic is down)
And yet it’s still not even close to being the shortest championship match.
But yeah, Hardy was a complete mess.
Edit: I can’t read lips but I’m fairly sure that Bischoff is saying something close to “squash this motherfucker, he’s off his tits”. He definitely came out to change the original plans for the match. Sting was pissed about the whole situation.
So f’n hype to RKO someone
Dear universe,
My brain wonders how mumbles is doing?
cc @popdart5 @tech_knight
Dear Kharaga the Kroot,
Mumbles is doing as fine as one can expect a Gretchin with no tongue can. At least he’s passed the average Gretchin life expectancy of three months.
Who knows? Maybe he’ll make an appearance sometime in the future…
Yours hopefully,
Popdart5
Dear Penthouse,
This kind of thing never happens to me! There I was last night when a [vivid description of an improbably beautiful and too young for your reader’s demographic/redheaded] female came into my [place of work/college dormitory/basement lair] and said [you’re astonishingly attractive/everything I ever wanted/passably human]. Well I was taken aback! We then proceeded to do things illegal in 37 states including [oral stimulation of the genitalia/butt stuff/cocaine]. I gave her between 6-10 orgasms and she said that I was [the best she ever had/better than her ex/passably human].
The end.
Sincerely,
A real person who reads your overpriced relic of a forgotten era despite also apparently being a sex god and pussy magnet.
Keep on truckin’.
I know I say this every so often, but you are on fire today!
The odd thing now that I re-read it I feel like I’ve already done something very similar last time I participated in letters page 7. I’m clearly running out of steam. Next week’s Game of Thrones recap will just be an episode of MASH with the names changed.
Dear Letter Writing Page 7,
Please be over quickly.
Sincerely,
Sick of writing letters on a mobile phone.
Getting some weird stuff happening in Witcher 3. Everytime I turn it in and load my game I get all the settings changed like difficulty, subtitles, language, Y axis inversion and even had it change my gear into random stuff in my inventory.
Anyone else have this or have I got a brain damaged cobbler elf coming in the wee hours and forgetting what he was supposed to be doing?
Console or PC?
PS4. Not a major issue. Just a weird minor irritation. Trying to download the patch but it seems to be stuck in some weird limbo, not downloading while everything else is.
Man, you are tolerant. I would be so mad if I had to change that stuff every single time I went to play :/
Can’t help much other than to tell you to try yelling at the patch a bit.
EDIT: No wait, I meant “Ha ha, console peasant, etc. etc…and……so on.”
I haven’t had any issues, talked to a couple of people around the office that have been playing and they haven’t come across this issue yet. That’s only Xbox One and PC versions though.
Nah haven’t had any issues like that on my playthrough; the most annoying thing is how often the bloody load screens seem to pop up since the patch, I have to wait through a load screen every time I start a conversation if I’ve just loaded into the area via fast travel.
While on the Witcher 3 topic just a quick reminder to everyone that 4 DLC’s have already been released for the game –
The barber shop options (8 styles of hair/beards)
Armor for Roach aka horse armor
A new Witcher quest that has you helping Miners
Alternative skin for Yennefer
If you’re on the PS4 you can download these by going to the PS store clicking on the Witcher 3 game and scrolling down to the Add-ons section. All 16 DLC are free so no reason to miss out on them!
What, are they only for a limited time?
He’s meaning that you can get them right now for free so you should remember to get them before you finish the game.
Thanks neg =p was just about to say that xD
Edit: I just love how CDPR are trolling companies like Ubisoft and Activision by releasing these small pieces of content to everyone as opposed to having them available based on where you pre-order the bloody game. What’s the bet there’s going to be pants that increase Geralt’s movement speed!! xD
I’m really struggling to level up in TW3, I’ve gone to every ‘?’ in White Orchard and after completing two quests in Velen I can’t get past Level 4. I fight Drowners, Wolves and Dogs everytime I see them but I can’t seem to git gud :*(
Sucking at video games is my TAYget? fuarr.
Takes a lot to level in the earlier parts of the game, but much quicker later on. Just keep doing quests, my friend. I wouldn’t worry about grinding for XP.
I’m currently level 33. *flails arms*
That’s good to know, I just realized I had to actually add my upgrades to the 3 level slots after spending my character points so I’m hoping it’ll help me fight a bit better.
I happened upon a bandit camp with six level 10 deserters, so tough. Used up so much uncooked meat lolUse quests; treasure hunts and witcher contracts. If you come across “?” that have red enemies just run away and come back later. CDPR designed the game to not play like a game; i.e. to say sometimes exploration rewards you and sometimes you get a giant fucking basilisk swooping down on you and killing you in one hit wiping away 40min of progress cos you forgot to FUCKING SAVE !@$@$@$!% *foams at the mouth*
Yeah that happened to me yesterday. Fuck you basilisk, I’m coming back at level 30.
Early on stick to the quests and story line, once you discover Midcopse (a town) and Crow’s Perch you can risk exploring the nearby ‘?’ between levels 6-9, probably be able to clear them at level 4 as well. When you first come to Velen (Hanged Man’s tree) it actually drops you off in a fairly high level area with all surrounding ‘?’ being for a witcher who’s level 8-12. If you’re new to Witcher I also have to recommend sticking to a single tree of abilities, and only branching out marginally e.g. I’m mostly mage oriented with a few points in fighting for arrow deflection and fast attacks. Because levelling becomes a lot slower in Velen than compared to White Orchard each ability point is like a gift from the gods. Also you find a lot fewer shrines in Velen so those bonus points are a lot harder to come by so you want each point to be unlocking something increasingly powerful as opposed to sinking them into all the first tier abilities across all trees.
P.S. Killing things in a Witcher game rarely gives enough xp to level up as a rule of thumb, and even when you level up its no guarantee you get considerably stronger. Focus on finding recipes for armor/weapons/potions, stockpile mats (especially silver, the rest keep to a stack of 10-15) and keep all your monster mutagens for decoctions. Those are much more likely to help you fight bigger baddies than your character’s level.
I appreciate the amount of effort you put into this post for me, thank you!
As a level 4 the thought of making it to level 30 sounds like a lot of effort, but I’ll do my best!
It’s only effort if you don’t enjoy the journey! =P Get stuck into the story quest for a while and enjoy the characters, trust me its massive so you’re not likely to be finishing the main quest anytime soon!
I just unlocked my first level 35 recipe so you still haven’t hit the level cap dc! CMON MAN! =P
P.S. I’ve just hit level 16 D= This game’s trolling me with these high level recipes!!
The amazing thing is all these hours into the game it still feels new and fresh and is surprising me. I’ve thought I had reached the end game like three times now and it just keeps going, but not in a bad way. It’s just all kinds of sprawling and epic.
You get next to nothing XP-wise for fighting. Quests are what gives you XP.
Did you visit all five of the places of power in White Orchard? Each gives you an ability point the first time you use them, so that’s potentially a maxed-out talent.
I was IIRC level 4 when I got to Velen, just followed the story quests (went through the quest line with Keira to its completion) and am at 7 currently I think.
EDIT: Oh, and at 4-5 you can pretty much tangle with level 7-9 monsters and come off okay if you’re careful. You don’t have to be at their level to have a chance to beat them. It’s not WoW 🙂
Oh also, another tip: Blade oils. They have unlimited uses. Going to be fighting drowners? Put some necrophage oil on the silver sword. It’s only a slight improvement but it’s helpful.
They regen when you meditate like potions?
Nah, they’re available any time. No matter how many times you use ’em. They stop working after a while though, so you gots to re-apply.
By default, applying a blade-oil gives 20 ‘charges’. Each swing that connects uses up a charge. When you’re out of your 20, the effect stops working. So you have to reapply. But you can’t do that in combat. Only out of combat. Doesn’t need to be replenished through meditation like your potions do.
I’m glad I’m not the only one, I put a little sticker where my xp bar ended and killed a bunch of ghouls, drowners and a bear and very little change to the bar after about 20 mins of game play lol.
I think I visited at least 4, I’ll have to check and see if I found the 5th one!
scrub.
I’m awful at it too, but I’ll persist. Took me about 5 levels to get enough skills to be better in TW2, and even then had to bump it down a couple times in the late gameYou’ve gotta do missions and contracts and stuff to level up, essentially. I don’t know if it has level scaling or anything, but as a level 8 I beat a level 16 major enemy, and earned thirty-something experience for it (for a battle that took fifteen minutes without me dying).
Make sure you don’t do quests that are too far above you in level though, since apparently they’re bugged!
Which explains a bit about some of the quests I did the other night. :/
Yeah, the quest log will give you an indication on what level you should be to attempt quests.
Yeah, you get about 2xp for killing something and need 1000-1500 or so just to level up. Quests give way more so just keep pushing through.
My big piece of advice is to do the contracts as you get them. It’s tempting, if you’ve ever played WoW, to scoop up all available quests then go knock them all out at once then turn-in for a giant questgasm exp climax, but if you do that in Witcher 3 you’ll run around the country-side solving problems people have before you even know they have them. So you’ll miss out on all the cool investigation side, or asking people how their problems came about, which is a fantastic lore-delivery-mechanism.
Hi guys. Cosplay picture.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xta1/v/t1.0-9/11377278_946743855345629_2680310994751338876_n.jpg?oh=4943893d4b67e7c04d9f100c0f3e1cfe&oe=560761D1&__gda__=1438753880_2437b3f23b6daf9f15a6001fd8d989c7
Sorry about the curtness, I went to the funeral of one of my oldest and best friends. He was old and he was ready to go, but it doesn’t mean I won’t miss him like freaking crazy. I’m just feeling tired
Wow. Coming from someone who isn’t normally interested in Cosplay, I really really like this.
Still lots of work. Will keep everyone updated
A) Awesome work, instantaneously recognisable.
B) Sorry to hear. Hope happy times come at you soon.
Thank you.
*hugs* and *patpat* I’m sorry to hear about your friend scree =\
It’s fine. I wasn’t posting for sympathy, I just wanted people to know I’m not so talkative for a reason.
Less sympathy, more empathy scree! its never easing losing someone you care about!
Sorry. I’m just not in the best mood. Thanks for your concern(?) I’m not sure if that’s the right word
Those look amazing! Really well done \o/
And im sorry about your lose *hugs* sending all the good mojo your way
Thank you
Splatoon is looking more and more tempting everytime I look at it. Have a feeling I’m going to get home from work tomorrow with it in my possession.
I’m a Nintendo fanboy, but Splatoon does nothing for me. (Except make me want a new deBlob game. :D)
It did nothing for me for ages. Starting to see a bunch of reviews and footage popping up anywhere and it just looks like a lot of fun.
Competitive shooters stress me out. WHY CAN’T WE ALL JUST BE FRIENDS? 😛
Because I need to prove I’m better than you!
I already know this!
Then why ask!
Honestly, I’m hoping for co-op DLC.
Think about how cool it would be if Ninty put all their design power into a Portal 2 style co-op.
But you know, with paint and squid people, not… portals, robots… and paint.
Oh man, I loved Portal 2 so much. Probably the best implemented co-op in any game, because it was complex and actually needed two people to puzzle solve. Too often co-op is just waves of enemies and no real cooperation.
Inky, moist friends.
The question you’ve really got to ask yourself.
Are you a squid now? Or a kid now?
Yeah. I was fairly indifferent to it. Thought of it as a “grab when cheap” game but the more I see of it the more I really want to get it.
Remember when page 8 was something that TAY hit on a Tuesday, not a Friday if we’re lucky? 🙁
I blame you :p
Yeah! You!
Who me?
Meanimu 🙁
Da meanist
Sorry
©
Thought: Terry Crews might actually be a (okay, almost) perfect human being.
Discuss.
um, yes? What’s there to discuss?
He once held a job as a courtroom sketch artist. This intrigues me.
That isn’t thought, it’s a fact.
Are you trying to say you don’t like brooklyn nine nine?!?!
Me? No, I frigging LOVE it. I actually think it might be the best sitcom I’ve watched in years!
Same, not as good as Scrubs but still fantastic …
And this is why Terry Crews is alright =p That and the car lifting scene.
Might … MIGHT!?
*flails arms around uncontrollably*
He was amazing in Everybody Hates Chris. Can’t say I’ve watched anything else he’s been in though! (apart from the old spice ads)
PUH-PUH-PUH-PUH-PUH-PUH-POWER
I remember he held interest in obtaining of the role of Luke Cage for the marvel TV show- this would have been perfectly acceptable for me.
Who?
wait no, I was wrong… But Terry Crews is pretty rad
😀 😐 ?
Dearest TAY,
I’m so proud of you, words can barely express just how happy I am at the return of Letter Writing Page Seven, even if it’s tinged with melancholy at the fact that I missed it. Since I also missed the opportunity to relay you all with a fun (?) fact *everyone immediately falls asleep* since I blew my fact wad early in the week while discussing how nerdy one friend and I are, I feel as though now is the perfect opportunity to pass on some information.
On top of the usual sounds they make -whistling (a squeal, also wheeking, the noise they make when it’s dinner time you little shits [itself a relatively modern behaviour, that only exists in domesticated cavies]), purring (a more musical purr compared to that of a cat) and hissing (chattering of teeth)- Guinea Pigs are known to ocassionally start “chirping”, wherein they make a sound remarkably similar to that of a bird. The reasoning behind chirping isn’t known, and while some will chirp to indicate happiness, it’s been noted to appear in Guinea Pigs after a death in the herd (particularly, I believe, if it was originally a pair).
Which brings me, dear friends, to an adorable point that I’ve undoubtedly mentioned before. In Sweden, it’s illegal to sell a single Guinea Pig to someone, unless they already have one (excluding special circumstances, like if they’re aggressive little gobshites). The reasoning being that they’re social animals that get lonely very easily, and they’re typically far happier with friends.
Hoping you’re having a wonderful day,
Blaghs.
Dearest Blaghs
A guinea pig fact: They taste a little like duck.
Yours
Red
Are you saying his guinea pig is red? Because… Because you ate it? You’re a monster! You’re even worse than Brett Buckley!*
*Brett Buckley, appearing in UnDad, Season 2. Get your pledge in within the next 2 hours and receive a FREE pleasant thought from author Shane W. Smith.
We had Guinea pigs that had a bunch of adorable little babies. They were the cutest things ever until their mother ate most of them.
I shouldn’t have, but I burst out laughing when I read this, causing people in the office to stare at me awkwardly.
Well at least they had a reason this time?
Hahahaha! Nice burn 😛
I wonder if she thought they tasted like duck too?
:/
At one point, we had 11 baby Guinea Pigs all born within a week (might have been two, I dunno) of one another. Pip (Pippin) had one, then a bit later on one day Frodo and Merry had ten bubs between them, but we think it was a 6/4 split because Frodo had tripled in size before giving birth. We had to formula feed the babies, which was totally worth it because we ended up keeping Eric/Erica/Grub (we named her before we knew her gender [and she was a half a bee], then Hannah renamed her again later because she was a grub).
Man, the original 3DS feels so awesomely compact compared to the dumhuge XL. I mean, I still think the XL handles better… but the original kind of looks better 😛
Lame though, they don’t seem to have been able to transfer save data. GOTTA START STREETPASSES ALL OVER AGAIN YET AGAIN. Worst.
I’m not sure of her tag here, but @sarcasmfairy (@tamz?) got me thinking of what games people made up as kids.
Me and my sisters made one called “Pedestrian Crossing” where two people swung on the swings, and the other two kids had to try and cross in front and behind the people swinging and avoid getting kicked.
If you got kicked, you switched with who kicked you.
I don’t think my mum paid much attention to what we did when we were little… :\
Oh God, both the tags worked, and neither look like her! :O :O :O
Oh man, I know a childhood game- it’s called “sit in the corner and reflect about everything wrong you did.”
I still play it to this very day!
But uh, all seriousness there was a childhood game literally just like yours, except me and the kids made sure to do it on a long set of swings, about 10 seats or so. There was no goal, except to survive if you ran it and and kick the other kid in the face real hard if you were part of it.
I’m not sure why it was never banned in school.
It’s quite comforting knowing we weren’t the only children to do this, hahaha!
My sister and I had this great game that my mother was never allowed to learn about because she would have murdered us.
We’d push the trampoline up next to the house, and jump off the balcony on to it. How we never managed to break anything doing that is a mystery to me.
We did something similar we would climb onto the roof of the neighbours garage and jump of onto the trampoline, i think I rolled my ankle twice
We didn’t have a trampoline so I just had to jump off stuff onto the lawn. It retrospect I think maybe my childhood was sort of sad and pathetic. I mean how is climbing up high and jumping off a game?
My twin brother and I used to play “who can batter and bruise each other the most?” Quite frequently.
As a result to this day I can throw quite the punch and generally don’t feel it when somebody (usually if this conversation comes up and I give them the opportunity) punches me.
…Okay it probably wasn’t a game, we just fought all the time 😛
Guys! I just realized TAY’s been a man down, @transientmind are you alive =O
#MostInterestingManGoneMissing
I did hear there was an embassy party in Cairo!
In the back room of a lavish Australian embassy, a devastatingly rich Arab Emir puts his phone down. For some reason that none of us can nor will ever quite comprehend, he browses Kotaku Australia and TAY but never posts. His eyes narrow once he sets his sight on the comment chain involving transientmind.
“… embassy..” he mutters under his breath.
“Baron Bani Yas?” his opponent inquires, a cloaked man with a familiar accent holding unto lavishly decorated cards. He sets his poker hand face up unto the table, revealing his six aces. Dead centre in the middle of the table of which they were holding their illicit poker game lay two identical suitcases, heavy, foreboding.
“Unless you’ve a better hand, I believe I’ll be taking these state secrets.”
The Baron stands to his feet, face contorted with rage. The cloaked man merely tilts his head in confusion.
“Now, now, I understand we’re angry, but a fair game’s a fair game. I suggest we simply go our separate ways- I do believe I hear the prime minister of Egypt is looking for you right now.”
At last, The Baron manages to coalescence his rage into coherent form, a guttural bellow of rage.
“TRANNNSIIIENNNTMMIIINND!” He throws the phone at the now-discovered spy, his other hand reaching for his concealed weapon.
Transientmind catches the telltale colour scheme of pink and white on the phone’s screen that signified the virtual halls of Kotaku- and he knew the jig was up. His cover had been blown. He ducked behind a counter before the Baron let loose a volley of metal-tipped vengeance.
Transient reached for his own weapon, and found comfort in it’s cold touch. Enough so as to chuckle lightheartedly despite the chaos unfurling around him.
“Damn,” he said, cocking his weapon, “and I thought I had a good poker face.”
I heard he was finally recruited into The Most Interesting Human Club.
We may see him again soon, by I imagine he’s having a rip-roaring time atm.
Probably doing something interesting.
Who did you think was bringing in those corrupt FIFA execs?
*waves* I am alive! But busy. 🙂
Yeah yeah saturday’s already blown your cover mr =p
Okay, what the fuck, Japan?
“The story begins when the “Bra of Everlasting Darkness” and “Panties of Hope” are stolen, and a “Dimensional Chasm” appears in the skies.”
Really?
That’s our Japan!
*theme music plays*
One of the bunnies just turned up dead on our driveway. It wasn’t there when Dad left around 5, and it was still warm so it must’ve happened pretty recently. But there’s no sign or injury or anything, it doesn’t seem like it got hit by a car at all. Weird.
Hey Guys. I’ve been watching Hibike! Euphonium and it’s made me want to play trumpet again, so I would like a new trumpet song book. However, I have no idea what one to get. Hal-leonard has quite a few ones that are interesting.
100 Solos
Music Sales America – Various
Lennon and McCartney
Instrumental Play-Along – Various – Trumpet
Contemporary Hits
Instrumental Play-Along – Various – Trumpet
Songs of the ’70s
Instrumental Folio – Various
Songs of the ’80s
Instrumental Folio – Various
Songs of the ’50s
Instrumental Folio – Various
A New Tune a Day – Pop Performance Pieces for Trumpet
Music Sales America – Various
Songs of the ’90s
Instrumental Folio – Various
I have no idea which one to get as I like some of the songs and hate others
Here’s a link to the selection
http://www.halleonard.com/search/search.do?menuid=2663&seriesfeature=&subsiteid=65
Why does something about Euphonium make you want to play trumpet?
Why not euphonium?
(I used to be a euphonium player)
I used to be in a brass band playing trumpet. It reminds me of those days when I was actually decent at it. I had to stop because of Sid’s barking, but I’ve decided to not care
Euphonium is fun to say.
Euphonium.
Any other brass instrument players here? How far off a rusty out of practice band are we?
One of my best friends was a Euphonium player, beautiful instrument…
Trombone player here 😛
I didn’t even know a Euphonium was a thing! 😮
Pretty sure at one point we nearly had enough for a Dixie band. Clarinet reporting in 😛
We have a quartet though! Two bass and two treble instruments. Wait, Gooky lives interstate. Boo. =P
I don’t live interstate, YOU guys live interstate 😛
nah u!
There’s 3 of us in Victoria, one of you in Sydney. You move. =P
@scree I was here first! Possibly! Probably! I seem to keep ending up older than people whenever age comes up…
How old are you, old man?
Well, I’m 28, but technically, I was on TAY first. @pixel_the_ferret_viking was here before either of us though.
It is a fun word. Do you also call it Eupho?
It’s an anime about a school concert band. The main character plays Euphonium, thus the name.
Haha almost went and missed the close of Undad. GG, me.
You still made it, man. And you have the dubious honour of being the last person to make a pledge! PS: thanks!
I’m still allowed to throw money at you though, right?
Anytime. Happy to give you any and all perks that were offered in the Kickstarter, including your name in the book, up to the publication date.
I want to do this too, I’ll just go to the kickstarted page and do it there?
Actually, you’ll have to contact me via email now and send $$ via bank deposit or Paypal: shane@shanewsmith.com – it’s unfortunately too late to pledge via Kickstarter.
Oh hey, amiibo day tomorrow. Jigglypuff and Greninja.
…also the Splatoon ones look really nice. Even though I hate them I may have to grab that triple pack anyway >_>
Greninja would be the only one I got, because I love Greninja, but I still wouldn’t get him because I have no idea what Amiibos actually do.
They demand your money!
Greninja FTW!! Who cares what the “amiibo” does?!
Yeah, just buy it for the figureness of it!
@beeawwb
I’ve sent you a 50% off coupon for I Am Bread.
Enjoy!
@crazyguy1990
I used it! Thanks!
Holy crap…. mind just got blown, as always Witcher spoilers, level 6 main quest line completion etc etc.
So for those of you who’ve been reading you might recall I chose to release the spirit trapped within the tree as opposed to killing it like the swamp witches wanted. I was carrying around a book in my inventory called “She Who Knows” and I’ve been collecting books I want to read in the game and occasionally go through a few and dump them somewhere. So I just came to this book and it describes a legend of an ancient Lady of the Wood that ruled over all Velen and people would come every spring to sacrifice animals, crops and people to her and her daughters. Over time the Lady lapsed into madness and the land ran red with blood. Come the next spring of sacrifice her 3 daughters killed her and trapped her soul within the land. Over time a tree would grow over where her soul was captured. It grows on the Whispering Hillock…. HOLY CRAP I RELEASED AN ANCIENT EVIL SPIRIT =@Yeah I did the same thing and I was like “this is probably a bad idea” but whatever. Both sides of that decision are fucking evil freaks.Atleast you saved the children, I guess. D:Yeah, though I wonder about that thing’s definition of ‘save’. It didn’t seem completely malevolent at least (kept its promise, actually tried to warn me away from the tree…) but if I’d left the kids with the crones they would have ended up as soup.I played through that quest twice and wasn’t happy with the outcome either way. Man, where’s this BioWare black-and-white decision making? 😛Ha, I just did that myself. Seemed the lesser of the evils. The Crones are awful. But damn do I love their designs. Creepy, gross and awesome.Big huge Witcher 3 spoilers:
I’d read that same book too, so I had my suspicions about what would happen if I let the spirit free. The children… er. I was not expecting that part, but it seemed a worthy price. I tricked the spirit into letting itself be killed. It was expecting the horse to drink its dying blood, allowing it to turn flesh… but instead I held the horse back as it died.I did some reading up… apparently if you tell the tree you’re there to kill it, it thrashes about spiritually and the nearby village of Downwarren gets utterly wiped out as the villagers go mad and kill each other in the spirit’s death throes. Luckily I was able to avoid that by tricking it – too late for it to do any damage and summon endregas for a boss fight.
On the plus side, Anna wasn’t cursed by the crones. You can rescue her. The Baron goes off to seek healing for her completely shattered mental state. But at least she’ll live.
Yeah doesn’t seem like there’s such a thing as a happy ending in the Witcher 3 =p
Splatoon is live on the Wii U shop!
Some wild amiibo appeared!
https://www.beatthebomb.com.au/accessories/wii_u/amiibo_character_villager
https://www.beatthebomb.com.au/accessories/wii_u/amiibo_character_captain_falcon
https://www.beatthebomb.com.au/accessories/wii_u/amiibo_character_little_mac
https://www.beatthebomb.com.au/accessories/wii_u/amiibo_character_wii_fit_trainer
A little pricey, but it’s some of the more hotly contested ones if you’re still looking.
Time for me to post on weekends because not many others will :'( 😛
My newest craze at the moment seems to be Buffs :/. They’re used all the time in Survivor and I did consider buying some Survivor ones a while back (with the designs they use on the show), but the shipping to Australia was pretty expensive.
I ended up buying a bunch of different types from a bike shop but since their selection was rather limited (basically black or slightly less black) it did leave me kinda wanting more of the nicer designs… Even though I haven’t received any yet (since they shipped from the UK) I dunno man… I just totally wanted MORE. So many different colours and types!
And now I’ll probably just end up buying the Survivor ones anyway. Gotta support one of my favourite TV shows :P.
BUFFS
I’M GONNA BE SO BUFF *flex*
I know a couple motorbike couriers who swear by them. Seems to make sense.
I just like pretty green things
Refresh material plz plz
Hi guy, what’s new with you?
You changed your degree to artsy stuff didn’tya? Got any cool new (penis monster) drawings you can linky me? 😀
Yes, but nope!
I haven’t had much drawing time, shockingly :O
All the drawing I do are for uni, and super uninteresting :S
I was gonna start drawing we ing again more next week, when I start the uni break 🙂
If there’s anything you want me to draw, just let me know! 😀
Splatoon tonight? 😀
I bought it!
Online.
So I’ll see you all in a week once everyone’s stopped playing!
Can’t talk, busy Splatooning.
I joined your game for a bit! We dominated in one of the matches when we were on the same team ;D
But then I had my first connection error and second when I tried to join Nob’s game straight after I got kicked out of yours.
UGH!
Hell yes!
8pmish?
I can do that! I’m part of something!
I bought the 3 pack and no game. I’ll wait until I get cosplay stuff done and I’ve earned it.
You’ve earned it in my eyes <3
I also don’t have the money right now. Mum’s government voucher for her dental work had expired, so we have to pay the dentist $200
So this was an interesting read: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/05/how-running-out-of-money-helped-us-make-our-dream-game/
Although at the end…
Makes me think that it’s full of far less desirable bits that no one else wants to buy… Why would I buy it!?http://gematsu.com/2015/05/corpse-party-blood-drive-coming-north-america-this-fall Fuck. Yes.
Yus! Ran 4.something (possibly 5) km without stopping to walk 😀
NEW RECORD!
I seem to always do better when I don’t run for like 2 weeks. Strange!
I find that having three days off does wonders for me. Leave it more than a week and I lose all progress.
Warning, I’m working on bookmarks. Probably crap incoming.
http://imgur.com/gallery/VLfBKt4
Crap seems like it would be a poor medium for bookmarks. Would make the pages all soggy.
I was considering putting glitter on them, but the soggy part made me reconsider
[insert some joke about that poo scale you taught @liondrive and me and oh god cannot unsee everything omg you ruined everything]
Honestly, kids these days, not knowing their Bristol Stool Scale.
“It wouldn’t be too bad if you made it out of Type 1s, but a Type 7 would go better in your coffee.”
http://imgur.com/a/OskA4
I’m glad that wasn’t also “Created by Scree”
Reply fail?
Ok, hit level 12. That’s probably enough Splatoon for one night.
Does more gear with higher slots unlock now that you’re a higher level?
Half of what I did there was a grind to unlock the second ability on all the gear I had available in the shop once I figured out that was a thing 😛 But so far no, I’ve only got one piece each that has a big slot and two small slots. Shops haven’t restocked yet.
6am on Sunday…
Not a fun time to wake up.
Friendly reminder: any unused Mewtwo codes expire at midnight tonight!
(of course I’m yet to use mine)
So what does everyone think of Splatoon?
Pretty good so far.
Expensive and a tease =P
Was only $53 at Big W this weekend with their 10% off thing, I think.
I’d probably get it if I wasn’t on the verge of leaving the country and could get it for about $30-40. Feel like anything upward of $60 would be too much for it.
Rad.
Been playing lots of splatoon this weekend, spent like the first ten hours with the ink roller, eventually got sick of constantly being under suppressive fire, so I switched it up and started using the inkblaster and aerospray been enjoying it a lot, I still miss the kraken however =( especially when I get killed to it.
I watched Kung Fury, it was amazing. Laughed so hard I cried. If you like terrible 80s movies go watch it.
Just watched it and I completely agree that it’s one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen… I mean come on:
laser raptors!Went to a 30th birthday party last night with my bestie.
It was surprisingly fun, given I only new the host!
I played Roulette (not with real money), drank espresso martinis, and almost adopted their puppy :3
It would have been great id I actually new people, haha! I tried to mingle a little, but it was a little intimidating, given the average age would have been about 28-ish, if not higher… :\
Saw a really cute guy too! But then he went and started smoking, immediately dashing the imaginary life I had planned for the two of us :\
Katamari bookmarks are done…At least the fronts.
http://imgur.com/a/OskA4