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PREVIOUSLY, ON THE YOUNG AND THE TAY-STLESS
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Blaghman, the real Blaghman, awakens in a coffin. He begins to panic immediately.
Voiceover, Nova: We only have three hours left! We’ll never make it!
Blaghman scratching at the coffin lid.
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Faction is concentrating fiercely as he works to dismantle a bomb. Pants speaks to him via headset in a surveillance van.
Pants: We’re running out of time! Cut the blue wire!
Faction: There aren’t any wires!
Pants: 10 seconds left!
A bead of sweat rolls down Faction’s forehead as that ticking sound from 24 plays yes we steal sound effects.
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Shane laughs dramatically from the parapet of a castle made entirely of his books.
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Nobs walking through the departure gate at an airport.
Nobs: I just need some time to discover me. I’ll be back some day.
A plane crashes in the middle of the ocean.
Police guy: We’ve checked the wreckage. We couldn’t find your friend.
Shots of Nobs surviving alone on a deserted island.
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Scree in a pinstripe suit and sunglasses, smoking a cigar, firing a semi-automatic wildly into the air.
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Liondrive stands before a group of TAYbies on a trendy beach.
So you see, the shark scaring people away from the waters wasn’t a shark at all, it was-
He pulls a sheet off a figure beside him.
All: Old man Jimu?!
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Cakesmith stands over a desk, reading an open file with a shocked expression. He is startled by the sound of a gun being pointed to the back of his head.
Mashaa: Now that you know the truth, I can’t let you leave.
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Rize playing the trombone in a jazz ensemble.
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Freeze and Gingerchris are having a dramatic standoff at an otherwise non-dramatic public fête.
Freeze: I won’t let you ruin this. I’ve put everything I am into this bake sale.
Gingerchris: Then I will burn everything you are to the ground.
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Freyjr is performing a complicated surgery, with nurse Transient at her side.
Freyjr: Oh god. Oh god no.
Nurse Transient: What is it?
Freyjr: This can’t be. It’s –
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AND NOW, THE THRILLING CONTINUATION
Alex frantically searches his local Target for new pants. In a panic, he races around the store, searching, yearning….. but no pants were to be found. Anywhere. What fresh hell is this? Is he dead? Is this purgatory – an eternal punishment for a lifetime of disregard for societal conventions requiring pantaloons?
No.
It is only a dream.
Alex wakes in a cold sweat. A single tear rolls down his cheek as he reflects on a wasted life.
So that’s why GingerChris is coming up here.
Also, what happened to myself and Nob? Last we saw we had just discovered our love and now he’s gone already? WWWWHHHHYYYYYYYY! *rips shirt*
These stories have to move fast, but they cycle through the same events ad nauseum so we’ll probably get to that another week.
I may have just searched for sound effects from Trauma Center for the “Doctor!” exclamation that’s burned into my skull.
Alice was confused but now I can randomly play it to annoy @freya.
Fantastic. 10/10, would pants post again
Please pitch this to HBO so they can make a television series about it.
“So, did you guess the theme for this week?
Blaghman was scratching
Faction was cutting
Nob was crashing
Jimu was scaring
and Freeze and Gingerchris were fighting
Do you see it? Yes, that’s right! The theme for this week was…
Boredom. The author was bored enough to write this!”
How does he know?!
You’re a goddam treasure.
I’m sorry @cakesmith . I might kill you. Maybe the gun shoots blanks though.
I was waiting for the new TAY to come up so I could ask something. I’ve now forgotten what that something is.
So… um… there’s a puppy sleeping on me. How good are puppy cuddles? Pretty great, right?
Apart from when they lick your face after they have been licking their bum.
She’s almost always licking her bum, so we discourage face licking. It doesn’t stop her but we try.
…did I miss the conclusion of Puppy War? Has there been an outcome yet? Can you keep her without moving?
We got to put a submission to the body corporate. If they approve her, we get to stay and have to meet with the owner to set conditions. If they say no, then we have to fight the body corporate or move.
*fingers crossed*
Woke up on Saturday, downloaded splatoon, and now I’m at work.
It’s good y’all, it’s very good.
I’m trying to organise all of the random notes and ramblings that I’ve made over the years. For the longest time, I’ve just been dumping them into separate SimpleNote entries. I never realised how dumb that was because I was always too lazy to go back to them. Now that I’m trying to organise them, I wish that I’d done basically anything else.
Now I’m putting everything into Scrivener. The basic plan is to group things into their relevant subject and then break those subjects down into more coherent things. Things are good, right?
How the hell does everyone else keep writing organised? Notebooks scattered about with reckless abandon? Evernote or other similar apps? Separate documents kept in well organised folders? Whiteboard marker on the nearest blank surface?
I think of things and then forget about them shortly after.
My personal favourite method. Prime thinking time, like walking the dog or taking a shower, normally doesn’t line up with situations I can carry a notebook or laptop to jot things down.
Inspiration, she is a fickle mistress.
I’ve developed what is probably a pretty terrible system over the years.
I keep text files and word documents on my desktop until I’m done with them, and then I file them into relevant folders, depending upon the project they refer to. That sounds good, though there is no rhyme or reason to the actual folder structure beyond disaggregation by project.
Each document contains at least one keyword that makes searching for it easier should I need it again in the future. Windows search isn’t the best content organiser, but it could be a lot worse.
I loathe using my desktop to store files. Unless it’s a physical desktop, then it’s absolutely perfect for that sort of thing.
Sorry, I mean my computer desktop. I hate storing things there too – it’s so messy. But that forces me to DEAL with the files and get them processed ASAP 😛
I rarely see my desktop. Whenever a file is accidentally saved there, it’s essentially lost to the ages.
This.
My actual desk’s top is covered with all sorts of little piece of paper with all kinds of notes scrawled on them. Buggered if I know what any of them mean any more.
I have (hang on quick count here)…8 notepads, sorted by story ideas, here beside the computer.
Heck, one notepad I typed up and had 25,000 words in it. The others are between a page and 10 odd pages.
I sometimes flick through them to remind myself what I was writing because holy heck, I forget and sometimes can’t even read my own handwriting.
Would not recommend doing this – I swear I’ve written some pages three or four times in my notepads not realising I’ve already written them before.
While I like writing things down, I also suffer from the case of forgetting what the hell I had written. And then the games begin when I try and sort out my own contradictions in what I’ve scribbled.
Morning people 🙂
I swam at Manly on the weekend and the air temperature was 10 degrees. Water was somewhere between about 14 and 18.
Ha, my girlfriend and I were at Manly on the weekend too looking at the crazy swimmers!
Lol, yeah, we wear pink caps 🙂 I don’t go often but it’s a great swim over to Shelly Beach and back. I’ll probably borrow a half wetsuit next time as I could almost feel my face freezing off…
Did you go to the food and wine festival?
There was a food and wine festival!? Oh well, maybe next time. I had to get back home straight after so my wife could take our daughter to ice skating class.
Yes, I had a friend who lives in Manly note that it was the first one in a few years that wasn’t rained on.
Have you swum the Cole Classic?
Not yet, but my mate is an ocean-swimming aficionado and I have no doubt I’ll be roped into it at some point 🙂
BRISBANE TAYBIES!
Anton and I are coming to your fair city this long weekend.
We arrive on Saturday and Depart Monday Night
We would love to see you guys!
Through some planning yesterday we are thinking of doing a Meat on Saturday Night 7/7:30 at New Shanghai followed by drinks somewhere nearby
Anton and I are thinking of doing Movie World on (edit: oops not Saturday![hi @saturday!]) Sunday! also if anyone is interested.
The Go Lounge in Stones Corner is worth checking out and just so happens to be around the corner from my favourite brunch spot in Brisbane: Lady Marmalade.
Just something you might want to consider.
Ooh I likes!
I’m all for Stones Corner! Easy to get to, and relatively easy to park most of the time. Hopefully I wont have to walk a mile from where I park, though I do have crutches still, so I could use them if I need to! (Trying to ween myself off them on to a walking stick atm)
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
Thankyou!
Have to see what my plans are (my best friend just flew in from London), but I’m a tentative maybe.
Yeah, I should be a safe bet for this one.
I should be able to make it
Tentative strong maybe, depending on what gets locked down. I might even be persuaded to go theme porking.
hey.
Hey Hey it’s Saturday!
Will try my bestest
Yeah… like last time… :p
Huh? Last time I said no?
i meant last time you said you were going to come, then didn’t 😉 not bein mean.. just pokin fun! Would be great to see you again! 🙂
Yeah nah. Shit happens :p
Trying to tent the Mrs to come for dinner but she works early on Sundays, so it’s doubtful.
If we stick with New Shanghai, I am keen!
Cannae do the Saturday night sorry Chris. It’s Mum’s birthday, so we’ll be out celebrating with her. Hope you guys have an awesome time though 🙂
Booourns! I mean… sorry to hear that man! Also, so fucking jealous of your Asian Fusion leftovers tweet from yesterday!!!!! *shakes fist*
ANOTHER CONVERT! 😀 They also do lunch 😀
hehe i wouldn’t say convert exactly. It’s just different to some places I go 🙂 The good kind though!
Where is this New Shanghai place?
LG23 Queens Plaza, 226 Queen St
Attempted to try Vegemite chocolate.
Appears I got a faulty one that just has insulting caramel instead of Vegemite.
Now confused.
I noted how the packaging is very similar, and they are placed closely together. That cannot be by mistake.
Also, wtf, ‘insulting caramel’.
It’s my own little joke, regular caramel never seems to be good enough any more these days, and everything has to be salted caramel.
It’s all in the aftertaste. *barf*
And here I just expected it to actually contain Vegemite. Which probably would have been as horrible as it sounds, but I wanted to try horrible, dammit.
Yeah, basically the chocolate is mostly caramel with a Vegemite aftertaste. It’s weird but not quite as terrible as what I was expecting.
I tried it and remembered that I don’t eat Dairy Milk because you can barely call it chocolate.
Watched total biscuit’s first impressions video on hatred, the game ended up beinga substanderd game with good destruction physics, but everything else was bland, this website hyped the game to be the “antichrist”, i was amongst the readers who criticised it, but after watching tb’s vid, i am going to say that the makers of the game wanted bad publicity (watch game theory’s vid on this topic to get some understanding) the only sane person who was there during this fiasco was gabe newell, who let the game back on steam, possibly after playing the alpha of it, i think that kotaku should do a revist article on hatred & see what has come out of this debacle
Ernie.
Why bother revisiting? Kotaku certainly don’t owe them an apology, why give them more free publicity?
Splatoon 3DS cover plates look kind of cool.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00XBZ4QJW/ref=cm_sw_r_udp_awd_ey5Avb1PJJKV1
Edit: Have the feeling it would look even better on a black model.
So, for this weeks D&D adventure we walked through a swamp and got captured by frogs. They took all our gold, gave back our stuff, then tried to lure us into a trap of blights that we easily killed. The dwarf wanted to go back to the dwarven capital to mount a crusade to stomp the entire swamp out of existence. On our way back we kept getting sick and throwing up, eventually leaving and watching the dwarf slaughter 10 frogs on his celestial boar mount.
We enter a cabin we visited before and find the mutilated corpse of a dwarf slayer friend and our dwarf received a visit from Moradin to blow the horn of war against the red mages who killed and tortured him, preventing him from dying in battle.
Meanwhile, our asshole bard finds some poison berries that gets him high off his ass and proceeds to spend the rest of the night interrupting everybody else with his eating (“I’m just playing in character lololololz”).
Getting back to the capital the arbiter takes the dwarf down to an area he has never accessed before as it was built by Moradin and only allowed when the time was right to find a large horn, also made by Moradin, for the dwarf to blow. Upon doing so, Bahamut appears in front of him to give his blessing of war.
…so I’m not sure if I would be interested in the rest of the story because it seems pretty much automatic from here on out. Didn’t really want to escalate to war.
We’re also wondering what to do with our asshole bard, played by an asshole who keeps interrupting the other players, and apparently has plans to murder every other character in the group.
I’m sorry but the horn thing became such an innuendo in my mind. I’m a mature person I swear. >.>
An asshole player is probably one of the worst things you can get in a group. Maybe the gods can intervene to knock some sense into the character or you might have to go the whole hog and boot he/she out of the group. No sense having a leech that just sucks the fun out of playing.
Maybe it’s just a bard thing? All bards are assholes? I mean… wait.
😛 You’re pretty good. If I was a more serious GM I might get annoyed but I think it all comes down to how the game/campaign is set out. If you expect an evil/players working with each other involuntarily (Suicide Squad style) sort of game, then yeah, asshole characters are to be expected. A more heroic or high fantasy style of game encourages more noble and generally good characters but it all depends on how the players and the GM want to interpret things. I’m generally cool with the Monday Knights doing whatever as long as everyone is having fun.
I play to the energy of the group. It’s just a coincidence that I tend to gravitate to groups that are less than serious. 😛
While the bard is an asshole the problem is with the player. He thinks everything has to be about him and will insert himself into characters story plot points, even if they don’t involve him at all.
Yeah, sorry I was more interjecting that people who play bards are assholes, since I’m currently playing a bard in Popdart’s game. Wait. I shouldn’t apologise, I’m an asshole!
I regret nothing!
We did boot them out. Once the majority of characters had died or been replaced he inserted himself back in.
At the moment everybody agrees that he shouldn’t be in the group anymore. The only reason why we haven’t is because he recently broke up with his girlfriend and moved into another players house. He says the second he moves out they might just kick him out.
Hype contained within:
HOLY SHIT FROM SOFTWARE ARE DEVELOPING A MONSTER HUNTER SPIN OFF GAME ABOUT CATS.Hahahah amazing!
Wake me up when next gen Armored Core is a thing. STOP DISTRACTING FROM WITH SOULS/BLOODBORNE SUCCESS YOU HEATHENS. YOU’RE DENYING ME MY MECHA PORN.
I want a new Front Mission! SRPG with Mechs = Amaze-balls!
Oh man. I have a copy of Front Mission 3 on PSX. I put an unhealthy amount of time into that game. Incredible.
Cat Souls
Morning TAYBES! Went for a lovely group moto ride out to Samford on Saturday, and got lots of waves and nods and peace signs from other riders. I AM ONE OF THEM NOW 😀
Also, we went and saw Tomorrowland. Didn’t give me the warm fuzzies (I was hoping for a fun National Treasure style adventure), but it was okay. Hoping Jurassic World will fill that void and have already been warned that Inside Out is going to make me cry faster than Up did.
I must be having an off day. Can’t think of a bikie joke. =(
Hola Tay
Busy weekend, or busy Saturday at least. Went and gave blood in the morning, and saw Lady Friend for an afternoon coffee before going out to a friend’s birthday at a pub that culminated in 2am maccas. Success!
Sunday, went on a journey to retrieve my car, for which you can see the epic journey here: https://twitter.com/hashtag/redsbustrip?src=hash as @freezespreston can attest, thrilling stuff.
I did something I’ve never really done before- took a whole bunch of games into eb to trade. Figured now that I’ve jumped generations, I could pare the PS3 collection down a bit. Was actually quite pleased at how much $$ I got back in trade value- took 9 games, some as old as the original resistance, and got like $40 back, which went back into a copy of infamous second son.
Game wise, played a chunk of Witcher 3, which is great. The world is so pretty. Last night I decided to change it up a bit and started Bloodborne, which I like more than Dark Souls already- something about the speed of combat and the mechanics has just clicked a lot better with me. Looking forward to playing a bit more of that.
A Monday Morning Question: From Software has taken on fantasy and gothic horror with their games. What genre should they look at next?
Cats, obvs.
Nein. More Armored Core plx. kthx.
Goddamn sci-fi. Go all Event Horizon style but give you laser swords or super crude machining tools like in Dead Space.
CARTOON CATS THAT HUNT MONSTERS.
Lost Kingdoms 3.
I reckon they could provide enough innovation to make a really good Lost Planet game. I would also be interested to seeing how they would approach making a 3D platformer.
So the GT980Ti with 6GB of RAM and TitanX performance has been announced. Who is buying a pair of them 🙂
AMD surely must make an announcement soon?
Yes, I do have a computer *nods knowingly*
The extra 2GB of RAM from the 980, plus all the other improvements make this a very compelling upgrade for me, coming from 2x 580s. Could see myself upgrading to a single card and keeping room for an SLI in the future, yep.
With 6GB I feel this card is a lot more future proof than the original 980. Still waiting to see if the 390 or 390x from AMD does anything special though
Yeah, totally agree. I think RAM is going to be the biggest bottleneck in the future so it’s good to see higher inclusions as “standard” now instead of just special edition versions.
Plus the massive uplift of CUDA cores over the standard 980.
At likely $1000 per card probably not.
USD$650, so yeah, close to a grand I guess. Cheap for compute, which is my main interest.
AUD$1049 at pccasegear
The Titan X’s range from $1549 to $1649.
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=193_1746
If they’re in the sub $1000 range when I finally get around to building a gaming rig I’ll probably consider grabbing one.
$999 for the EVGA Superclocked. Mighty tempted to plonk for a preorder.
Considering I was looking at an $800 card before this news came out, I’m now in a dangerous position.
Been burnt by Nvidia before. Dropped around $2600 on a pair of original Titans (with XSPC blocks and plates), only to have Nvidia release the 980s for about $400 less that beat them less than 6 months after release. Their releases have followed a similar pattern since. Don’t ever buy bleeding edge, especially from Nvidia. You’ll pay an exorbitant premium, only to watch your top end card get destroyed by a cheaper product within 6 months. Way to shit on your top end users Nvidia.
Don’t get me wrong, they were amazing cards, but not $2600 worth of amazing, not even remotely so.
Luckily I sold my Titans for about 50% of what I paid for them before I lost too much money. Went to a 290X that I spent around $550 on, and I’ve benched it and watched it get very close figures to a single Titan with some mild overclocking – and it cost me $700 less than a Titan.
Will never buy Nvidia again.
EDIT: Wait and see what AMD’s 300 series offerings are. If they’re anything near the bang for buck value of the 200s, I’ll be all over it.
As long as the 300 series has some huge power efficiencies as well. That’s a massive drawcard for the NVIDIA offerings, a far lower TPD.
I intend on getting one probably next year. Price will have dropped and be picking up a rift at some point then too.
Texas: Solving gun problems with MORE GUNS!
They just made concealed carry legal on college campuses. Because of course they did.
If they didn’t have a gun, the king of England could walk right in and start pushing them around. D’you want that? Huh? Do ya?
Texans have also been the pioneers of the back end of the American legal system. Just think of them as the missing link between humans and monkeys!
Morning, TAY.
Splatoon is a pretty cool guy. I’m really enjoying it. Some minor annoyances with not being able to skip the news-flash cutscenes and a few interface things but overall it’s great. I’m really liking the motion controlled aiming too. Feels totally natural after playing for a bit.
I played for a little bit on Saturday before I had to leave to travel back home for my birthday dinner with the family. When I came back on Sunday afternoon, my WiiU’s external HDD had stopped working. Tried to recover data via my PC, nope, completely wiped. Lost all of my game saves… Damn, it sucks. I really wanted to return to Hyrule Warriors at some point as well. Plus all my Mario Kart progress. Ugh. At least I hadn’t got very far in Splatoon yet, but it’s still not great having to start over.
I lost my MK8 progress and have never touched it since. the pain and misery of getting 3 stars on all things again makes me feel physically ill.
I picked up Splatoon on Saturday and returned it shortly after finding that it wasn’t possible to play true split screen even for just local multiplayer. I’d rather play on a big screen TV splitscreen than play on that tiny gamepad screen. One players game audio and sound effects were coming from my sound system and the other players comes from the gamepads tiny little speakers. 🙁
It also wasn’t possible at all to play 2 players on single console & online at the same time, which is ultimately the reason i decided to return it.
I specifically bought it to play with my wife, and the online component which is the majority of the games substance wasn’t available for us to play together. If this game was designed for N64 of GCN it would have had guaranteed 4-player local split screen. :/
Yeah, the local multiplayer/2 player online options are pretty lacking. I guess I can see why they limited it because some weapons require the touchscreen to be used, plus the launching-to-teammates wouldn’t work. But it would’ve been good to have some sort of workaround.
Also that really sucks about your game saves. 🙁
I only have the 8GB Wii U, but i try to store all of my critical game saves on the Wii U’s internal storage. The HDD i’m using with it is 5 years old, so i simply don’t trust it at all.
The hard thing is that their OS doesn’t let you separate game data or DLC or save files over two different storage devices. So it means all of the MK8 DLC and update data also has to be on the internal storage along with the save data.
Katamari bookmarks done
http://imgur.com/a/OskA4
Question, should I make backs for these ones like the LOZ ones?
I think backs would be good, yeah. They add some interest to the other side and also give you something to leave peeking out of the top of the book when in use.
Man, I so want another Katamari game.
Will work on that later today then
The good thing is a “blank” katamari is already pretty minimalist. Could just do a dark curve implying the round shape and then some rainbow bumps at appropriate places and angles to flesh out the shape of it.
Also. Royallllllll raaaaainbowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
I was going to make it similar to the front and then add the name of the character at the bottom. I’m thinking that the back should be white though
So after playing Witcher 3 over the last couple of days and completing the Baron and the Crones quest chains in Velen, I’ve come to the conclusion that this game is eventually going to make me actually cry.
But god DAMN it’s good.
It’s pretty great. I need to catch up to where you’re at with it again so we can discuss as we play.
Oooh, i just finished those quest chains too. So many feels.
Did you save the children from Crookback bog?I couldn’t bring myself to trust the druidess so I stabbed the heart, and they got eaten. So, feeling a bit shit after it all played out I looked up how the other solution plays out. You…you can’t win. At all.Yeah i intentionally freed the druidess. Because i knew it would meant shit would hit the fan later and would probably make for an interesting story.The decision has a lot of repercussions too.
Not gonna lie, I decided to trust the druidess purely because the devs said she was “obviously evil.” 😛 Still need to go back and speak with the Baron, tho.Yeah, I finished that one and was like, “What the SHIT, Lana?”
So I looked up some wikis to see what my alternatives were, and was just jaw-dropped. There are NO good options there. Everything you do results in fuckery.
I am so loving this game, though. It’s easily my GOTY. The landscapes are phenomenal. The story-telling so different from what you expect in an open-world game… so much better. It’s an interconnected world with so much attention invested in minor details.
This is making Cyberpunk look like a must-have preorder for me.
I’m pretty sure Cyberpunk was a must have for me the day they announced it
I was keen to see how it went, but now it’ll probably be a preorder.
I have never had less regret about an expensive CE as I have with Witcher 3. So very worth it. Starting to think I’ll end up the same way with Cyberpunk.
Yeah CDPR have really won me over with this game and their communication to fans throughout all the whinging they’ve come up with since release. Once Cyberpunk pre-orders go out I’ll be grabbing myself a CE as well.
Was this the game that we convinced you to get because FFXV wasn’t going to come out?
Anyway, the whole deciding between two shit outcomes thing is a hallmark of The Witcher games. Decisions can have massive unforeseen consequences too.
Despite the fact that nearly everyone in this company knows that I should be next in line for a promotion in my team, with several people (including other seniors on the team) telling my manager it’s a bad idea, the law degree holder who’s technically incompetent and constantly looks for ways to make others look bad to prop herself up is still being groomed to be moved up. She’s manipulative and uses people, as well as a hypocrite (for instance she’ll casually remark to the manager that someone was late a couple of times to give the manager a negative impression of that person, but regularly gets in at 9:15 – and no one says anything because we’re not fucking assholes).
Her toxic influence is also spreading to a junior team member who’s good mates with the manager outside of work and walks around like he’s in charge whenever the manager is away. Last week he tried to make a senior team member who is his direct supervisor look bad by “casually” remarking to the manager that she was absent from the office when she was needed even though it was the day of the week she regularly works from home and she had told him that she was available via phone/sametime if he needed her. When word got back to her he was mouthing off about her not being in the office she called him to see what he needed her for – and it was nothing. Literally nothing. He was making a fuss about her not being around just to make her look bad. She told him not to do that again and the next day he asked her into a meeting room for a private chat. she went along assuming he might apologise for his rudeness but instead he demanded an explanation for her behaviour.
I don’t want to say it’s bad management because I think my new boss is still getting to grips with the role and he’s generally a good guy, but these people in the team are just kind of turning everything to shit and I don’t see the point in being here and nor does the senior, who’s been sticking up for me and we’re both looking for new roles. Before last week I would have said “if I find a new role I’ll only stay if they promote me”. Now I’m of the view that that this is not a company I want to remain a part of, especially not at a senior level.
Man, I hope you get this all sorted to your satisfaction soon.
I don’t know whether a promotion would allow you to start actively performance managing these less-than-desirable employees. In some cases (not all, obviously, in the case of true corporate psychopaths) it’s better to deal with a problem than to allow it to fester and destroy company morale.
Re: jumping ship, I hope that goes well, if you go that way. I guess it’s theoretically possible that you might land in a new place without assholes around, but I think those places are very few and far between.
Yeah, I’m in a fairly comfortable groove here. I really don’t want to leave. It’s a good company. I just think our team has a lot of shit to sort out.
In very rare instances in the past, where warranted, I’ve made time for a brutally candid private sit-down chat with someone sufficiently high-up, to lay out the facts, distinguish them from my interpretation, and point out that ‘at face value, you realize this is fucked, right?’
On one occasion I was asked not to point these things out on the record because it means that management doesn’t have plausible deniability.
On another occasion, directions changed, key people were spoken to, and kept their heads down (and their ambitions were torpedoed, inspiring eternal resentment).
Interestingly my manager’s manager pulled me into a meeting this morning to have a discussion about friction in the team and I laid it all out for him, seperating my observations from what I’ve been told second or third hand. I got quite a lot of information in return which I’m now trying to process.
Because I’m extremely apolitical in the workplace I’ve apparently been oblivious to a rather complex matrix of undermining, sniping and gossiping.
Surprisingly, I actually found the discussion rather comforting.
“Well, that’s all very interesting and certainly sheds light on the interactions I’ve been witnessing… so, with that mind… what’s being done about the part where I’m getting fucked over in favour of this shit-heel?”
A direct conversation with my manager (that just ended five minutes ago) suggests that the indications that she’s being groomed to be promoted ahead of me are hearsay combined with unfortunate timing/coincidences that make it seem like that. While she’d be able to apply for a position, if one existed, I would as well and based on current performance likely be the front runner.
We’ll see. There’s a lot of discussions/investigations/damage control going on at the moment.
Wow, those are some office politics alright. It’s awful when people are more worried about protecting their position or getting ahead at the expense of others than they are about doing the job that they were hired to do. My only real experience with something like that was when I was hired on to replace the star international recruiter in a recruitment firm, and I was immediately sidelined by a crusty senior guy who proceeded to take all the good clients (and thus commissions) leaving me with little to do but drudge work until he got me fired by constantly badmouthing me to management. Fun times. But I’m in a small firm now with a lot more independence and freedom from crap like that 🙂
You’d think if people went around badmouthing one particular individual you’d try and see if those remarks held up to scrutiny.
Yeah definitely sounds like a deteriorating situation and it doesn’t seem like your management have any idea how to mitigate office politics from brewing. Unless they nip this toxic behaviour in the bud it’s likely to spread and bring the whole office down, driving out employees who genuinely want to be productive and do something for the company.
On a separate note I don’t believe anyone should take a promotion into a managerial position just because it has better pay and benefits; leadership positions like that have a way of flowing out into the rest of the company especially in SME’s. Larger companies have the benefit of HR driven infrastructure that makes sure all managers adhere to a certain degree of performance mitigating risk of the fallout bad leadership can cause. In SME’s there’s no buffer for that kind of damage and having worked in a workplace with poor leadership myself previously I can safely say employee behaviour like that starts to spread like wildfire exponentially growing if it isn’t taken care of from the get-go.
Hey everybody
Witcher 3, amazing
Destiny, still awesome
Rick and Morty, still awesome
Day off work, awesome!
Hey, it’s Spaghett!
Nah, I’m full.
Happy Monday everyone! Weekend was pretty relaxed with a 40K painting session on Saturday and 40K RPG on the Sunday. I’m expecting to spend a lot of money on new models as I grow my Eldar army but the new jetbikes look really good. Also had a cousin’s birthday on the Saturday which was fun. She showed off her young chickens which were adorable. One of them is sick and I discovered that chickens can actually sneeze (which is also adorable).
40K RPG funtimes on the Sunday playing Deathwatch:
The squad has been enlarged by the addition of a new player, a Salamander Techmarine, who has pretty much all of the flame weapons. The squad now comprises him, myself as a Crimson Fists assault marine, a Knights Tempest (custom Ultramarines successor) apothecary, and a Shadowed Sons (custom Thousand Sons successor) librarian. After a good old bonding session with the other Deathwatch marines in the Watch Fortress, we formed a squad with a Black Shield tactical marine who had not yet been on a mission yet. Our mission: assault a space hulk and defeat the Ork Warboss within.As a character whose chapter has a long history of fighting Orks, I was chosen to lead this mission. That may have proved to be a mistake as I am an extremely straightforward individual when it comes to tactics and I opted to strike straight at the bridge of the space hulk. In a boarding torpedo. The boarding torpedo came under heavy fire as we were shot out of a Deathwatch destroyer and it got to the point that the back half of the boarding torpedo was destroyed when we were fired on by a macrocannon. Fortunately I was able to stop the torpedo careening out of control and we penetrated the hulk only a short distance away from where the scans indicated the bridge was.
Thanks to our brazen insertion, the Orks clearly knew we were there and stealth was out the window (much to the dismay of the apothecary and the librarian but the techmarine was more than happy). Thankfully, the Orks were preparing defences against us rather than massing a horde and charging us which was handy. The first mob we came against was after the techmarine opened a bulkhead and about 15 Ork boyz were on the other side. I charged in with bulkhead breaching shears (basically massive jaws of life that I was preparing to use to go through the bulkhead if the techmarine couldn’t get through) and cut through one of them cleanly. Next up was the Salamander who fired his heavy flamer. Good thing I rolled a natural 1 on Agility to wrench the Ork up as a fire shield. Needless to say, the Ork boyz were toasted good.
We continued the assault towards the bridge and we could hear the Orks setting up a defensive line in the next room. We figured we’d get the jump on them and prepared frag grenades. The techmarine hacked open the door and we went in tossing explosives. There were about 35 Orks in this room, including a few Nobs, that were setting up big shootas and deffguns. After one round of combat of 5 seconds, there was only one Nob still capable of fighting. In the space of that one surprise round of combat (and thanks to a Marine Squad special ability), the techmarine fired the heavy flamer twice and the rest of the squad threw a total of 8 frag grenades. Needless to say, the GM was a little surprised that we tore through that many Orks so effectively. We ended the session there with us advancing on the bridge where we plan to fight the Warboss and his lieutenants. From time of insertion via boarding torpedo to the end of that last fight, it had only been a few minutes. 😛
It was the most SPESH MAUREEN-iest plan ever and it was glorious.
I’ve got an Eldar army to assemble and paint but have yet to pull the trigger. Probably waiting for my daughters to get a bit older so that I can leave painting and minis around without the risk of 5-year-old fingers destroying stuff 🙂 My Eldar are mainly aspect warriors with some wraith guard, a wraith lord, some harlequins and some falcons. I got Shining Spears instead of jet bikes because they are awesome (at least they were a few years ago according to my probably out of date codex).
Shining Spears are still awesome. I mostly got jet bikes because they’ve buffed them up and you can now give them scatter lasers (basically converts them into a heavy weapons platform that can still turbo-boost around the battlefield if required).
I don’t know where I’m going with my army. Mostly bikes, bikes, and more bikes with Farseers and Warlocks on more bikes. That said, I kinda want to get some wraith stuff as well but I might wait until I get some more money.
Yeah, Eldar are so flexible it is easy to put together very different armies from the same codex. I just love the specialisation of the aspect warriors (even Dire Avengers). My mate and I were playing way back in 2nd edition when Eldar were broken. His Avatar, Warp Spiders and Howling Banshees would skip across the table and tear my marines apart while Maugan Ra and his Dark Reapers would just blow up anything that poked its head up. Good times…
Nice =] I really need to set up a work-desk where I can paint in peace without having to worry about tripping over nearby electronics =@ Show us your finished armies! Love learning new painting techniques from fellow W40k painters =]
Good morning TAY. I went and bought Splatoon on Saturday morning and played it a whole bunch, am currently level 14. I am absolutely in love with the game. I do have a few minor issues that several people have already mentioned (can’t guarantee teams with friends, small number of maps), but I can overlook those because the experience I have in a match is just so fantastic. I’m a fan of how the motion controls work, since I was never big on console shooters so I never got used to twin-stick controls.
Anyway, my NNID is also eRonin if anybody wants to play together!
I really like the single player content too. So many gameplay mechanics that don’t show up outside of the story mode (the level with the invisible platforms/walls was great).
I’m pretty sure the big update that is coming in August includes friends-only matches too, so you’ll be able to do that eventually! There’s also a bunch of free maps being trickled out too (I think they’re trying to keep people playing by drip-feeding new maps, weapons, etc)
Yep, I’m looking forward to teaming up with my friends and maybe some people from TAY as well! Also, it was just announced around midnight last night that one new map, one new weapon and ranked mode will be released later today, so looks like another night of Splatoon for me!
Holy balls, it’s too cold… 🙁
Melbourne! \o/ I did not want to get out of bed this morning.
Urgh. Exam prep for tomorrow, coupled with trying to find a new house for the family to live in.
We’re renters, and it’s terrible down here in Tas. So much crap – houses not updated since the 1970s, full of poorly disguised mold, crappy curtains and bathrooms that look like they pre-date the cretaceous period.
Is it so hard to buy and investment property, and…well, call me crazy here, but look after it so it can return a decent investment for a number of years, as opposed to letting it run into ruin?
Do you want crappy tenets? Because leaving your property alone for a number of years is how you get crappy tenets.
Still not as bad as the unit the wife and I lived in first go – expensive, cold, literally the size of a restaurant kitchen. If I sat in the lounge room on the couch, I could stick one foot into the kitchen and another into the entrance hallway.
Whats the worse place you’ve lived in? Gimmie horror stories so I fell better about looking at all this outdated crap on the Internet.
First house I lived in out of uni we’re pretty sure was subsiding. Was advertised as a 5 bedroom place, which was generous (one of the rooms barely fit a single bed, and it had no proper loungeroom- we used one of the bedrooms as a lounge).
My room was on the eastern side of the house, with a big tree out the front. This tree used to clog up the drains and cause water to come spilling over parts of the external ceiling- we’re pretty sure that this had been ongoing for years. The root structure of the thing must have been massive, all through the foundation Over time, we noticed a deeper effect- it used to cause water to come through the back of my built-in cupboard space (that was a fun weekday morning when I realised that). This realisation lead us to notice that the whole eastern side of the house was…slightly…tilted. My bed was on castors- we noticed it migrated. Other things with rollers, glasses placed on the ground- we noticed the place had a tilt.
In the end, we lived there for a year, leaving for unrelated reasons, but I always wonder how long until the owner of that place realises what’s going on and has that tree removed.
I drive past that house occasionally. The tree is still there.
I called the real estate and asked about breaking the lease. they were all too happy to inform me that i will be fiscally responsible for the rent until the find someone to take over the lease and that it wasn’t likely to find anyone soon. Then we have to pay a bunch of fees and get the house cleaned proffesionally despite it not being cleaned when we arrived in the property. I tells ya, it makes me just want to cry, my entire savings from 7 years of hard work is going to disappear and i have no prospects in the near future to make any of this back. Being young and naive is so enjoyable. Now to call telstra for a similar conversation.
This might be worth a look, if you can massage the facts of the case to fit.
https://www.rta.qld.gov.au/Renting/Ending-a-tenancy/Ending-a-tenancy-agreement/Excessive-hardship
Its not excessive hardship, im just really stingy and its a little overwhelming, thanks for the heads up though.
I’d be happy to take all your money*. Then you could make a strong case for excessive hardship.
*probably to be returned at a later dateHave you asked for a copy of your lease agreement? I would definitely review it as opposed to taking the rental agents word for it. As a rule of thumb anyone working in real estate starts at the bottom of the humanity scale, so it wouldn’t surprise me that their looking to cover their ass with the owner (i.e. having income streaming in to them even though there’s no tenant) even if it risks breaching a lease agreement.
I would request a signed copy (which they should have on file) and go over it to make sure there’s no bullshit going on there.
Nah dawg, you’re being lied to.
As long as you give them enough notice (which is two weeks) you don’t have to pay shit.
Chickity check your rights.
Wait up, apparently I’ve been lied to.
You could always just find tenants yourself before you leave.
That’s what most of my friends have done when they’ve broken a lease.
Things must have changed a lot. I haven’t rented for about 11 years, but every rental agreement I signed stated that if you terminate the lease early you have to pay rent up until they find a new tenant as well as advertising costs.
Although, iirc it also said that you could find someone to take over the lease for you.
Check your lease agreement. Often professional cleaning isn’t something that’s in the agreement, it’s something that the agents extort out of you.
and
Ask the agent to give you the number of *their* cleaner, and use them. It will prevent the agents from turning around and trying to extort more money by claiming the cleaning job wasn’t good enough.
Morning all!
My youngest took her first unaided steps on Saturday! She was so excited, and laughed so hard she fell over. We caught the third, fourth, fifth and sixth steps on video.
We also adopted an 8 year old Maine Coon cat called Snickers from the RSPCA. He’s big, fluffy, affectionate, and slowly getting used to the kids. Currently debating the ethics of changing his name.
Rather than dump a bunch of Undad on you here, here’s a recent update that outlines the most recent state of the nation, and the game plan and timeframe for the project. Early indications show that around half of the money pledged to Undad came from TAY… again.
I played Game of Thrones Chapter Four over the weekend. I love this game. It doesn’t have the feels that their other games have had, but there are some legitimately tough choices. The only disappointment I had was:
I chose to attack Fat Bastard when I was in his castle, and everyone died. Then I got a Game Over and had to make a different choice to progress. I would really have liked a different outcome to this choice, something permanent and devastating that I could obsess about and regret. This outcome of everyone-died-but-never-mind-try-again seems to undo the whole “owning your choices” ethos that Telltale have won me over with.Does Snickers act like a mean SOB until you give him some food? I.e. He’s not … he? … when he’s hungry.
You mean, does he act like Joe Pesci when he hasn’t been fed.
Or
Does @shane act like Joe Pesci until he gets a cuddle from Snickers (the cat).
Read “unaided” as undad. Either I need more coffee, or we’ve just been so overloaded with Undad it’s instinctive. Probably a bit of both 😛
Why? I kinda like the name Snickers for a cat.
Also, in regards to GoT, I did exactly the same thing.
Was kind of disappointed they didn’t just let you live with your decision, but obviously some or all of those characters are required for the rest of the story.Oh yeah, for sure, but…
I would have liked to have seen the attack fail, a non-necessary character (maybe Ryon himself) cut down as a result of the choice (instead of showing everybody dying), or my good ol’ buddy Roddy getting further mutilated/injured, and just have to live with it for the rest of the story.Also, it’s my middle kid who does Undad cosplay.
The name “Snickers” for a cat isn’t THAT crazy.
It’s only a little bit nuts.
Got my copy of undad the other day.
I was telling Mrs Tigs that there was different artists for the different volumes. Asked if she had had a flick through to see that. She replied that she had already read the first 3 volumes.
I think ya dun good.
Awesome! Thanks for letting me know 🙂
Maine Coons can get enormous. How big is he?
I’m looking at getting a cat once I’m settled in the US. Was looking at the possibility of getting a Siberian Forest Cat but Maine Coons are pretty cool too. Fluffy is best.
He fills up my lap pretty much entirely. He’s only a touch smaller than the larger-than-average Cavalier King Charles Spaniel we lost last year.
Maine Coons. *shudders*. So big. So fluffy.
Just read the update and a misreading of it has left me sad.
I demand you return my happiness to me therefore I now need another bonus issue done, this time with with co-writer Annie Walsh-Smith.
I like this idea too much. It won’t be Undad, but I’m going to have to collaborate with her on something.
I just went to the bathroom (this is how all the best stories start), and the cubicle next to me was occupied. I sat down and did my business, but there was this weird noise coming from the next door cubicle.
At first I thought it was like straining, deep fast breaths (like birthing breaths)…
…but then I realised that the dude was SNORING.
#ThePublicServiceLife
I felt guilty flushing. I hope I didn’t wake the poor guy up.
Could have been worse – I thought you were going to say he was rubbing one out after deep fast breaths.
Coppin a feel from Jan in HR
He may have been sleep pumping, I suppose…
Hi all,
I went paintballing yesterday and got my face repeatedly smashed by balls to the point where I could no longer see. Also have a collection of bruises and welts which i’m quite proud of but my crowning achievement is my black toe which is filled with blood blistery goodness.
I then followed it up by doing some Salsa dancing with some friends for the first time at the Night Cat in melbourne and it was pretty fun but painful with the old toe rubbing. I think I may have to add Salsa dancing to my ever increasing list of activities of Ballroom Dancing, competition tennis, gym, and marathon running training 😀
#secondmostinterestingmanontay
lol, I forgot to mention another thing on my list: Perfecting the art of dad jokes. No time for games these days, I haven’t played one since late Jan. I do miss it at times 🙁
Ha, getting your face smashed by balls…
Sounds like @jimu’s Friday nights XP
My chin has two permanent bruises
I think I’m falling in love! :’D
Stand back everyone, nothing here to see
Just imminent danger, in the middle of it, me
Yes, Captain Hammer’s here, hair blowing in the breeze
And the day needs my saving expertise
A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do
Seems destiny ends with me saving you
The only doom that’s looming is you loving me to death
So I’ll give you a sec to catch your breath
Seems like a worthy 10,000th comment *walks out*Who was that masked man?
Balls.
Balls.
@trjn Jinx, you owe me a Wonderflonium™
It’s not jinx if you posted second :p
Curses! Now how am I supposed to get Wonderflonium™? Wait for some fool to bounce some?
For anybody interested, the new Fire Emblem has been confirmed to have base building; you can build accessory shops to unlock some neat costumes for your characters, weapon shops that you can upgrade, a restaurant to provide buffs, an arena, christ, there’s even a pet mechanic where you feed food to a monster and it levels up? Man, it’s pretty decent stuff. Ninty’s going all out for this sequel.
Also, there’s a pokemon amie system but instead of pokemon it’s all the characters in the game, which means you can pet your teammates heads in a totally non-creepy way. I shit you not.
For those who don’t believe him:
http://i.imgur.com/oNdljCc.gif
I wonder if this is how the baby-making gets started in this game 😛The look on the 3rd guy’s face seems to suggest it is.
Logic dictates that such a mechanic would be reserved for people whom you’ve romanced, but Logic also dictates that a Strategy Rpg should not have a head-patting mechanic.
There there, Saturday. *pats head* You know this mechanic makes sense. *pats head* Don’t you agree with me now? *pats head*
*shrugs* It’s Japan, I’ve come to expect stuff like this.
It’s Japanese, that’s all the logic you need dammit!
Nowadays, it’s probably easier to count the Japanese SRPGs that don’t have some kind of creepy mechanic like that.
The inclusion of Amiibo support has me worried 🙁
But that means we could get a bunch of Fire Emblem Amiibos. That’d be cool.
Nah, not even a little bit keen.
on disc dlc that requires I buy toys is not to my tastes.
But can I play matchmaker and pair up my minions to make the most interesting children?
Because that’s what Fire Emblem Awakening was actually about. None of that evil dragon nonsense.
So, anybody know the best place to buy an external HDD? (wall-powered desktop one, not USB portable)
I was kinda hoping I’d be able to get a cheap 250 or 500 GB one from somewhere, but everything is 1-3 TB now. It’s just for my WiiU so it seems like a waste to get something that large when I don’t think you can partition it (not that I have a use for the spare partition anyway).
Let me check what I got for mine. I think it was a bigger one, I got it from JB. It definitely works
Oh sorry I know they work, I was just wondering if it is even possible to get smaller-sized Desktop HDD’s these days. Everywhere I’ve looked doesn’t have anything less than 1TB.
I had trouble finding anything lower, I was looking for that too
I’ve got a desktop 1TB and USB 500 GB, both from Dick Smith, and when I got them last year all of the smaller than 1TB versions were USB only.
Officeworks might have something that suits what you’re looking for though.
Seagate Barracuda 500GB from MSY for $61, though 1TB is only $6 more, so there’s that http://www.msy.com.au/Parts/PARTS.pdf
You can get powered enclosures for very cheap, and just stick whatever drive you have lying around in it. Something like this:
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=28348&cPath=288&utm_source=googlebase&utm_medium=cse&utm_campaign=export_feed&gclid=CM6xypPq7cUCFYEIvAodtloAsA#googlebase
So my least favourite bit of Dark Souls is two heavy archers on narrow ledges in Anal Londo.
Now amount of skill would get me past.
I made it through by doing a mad dash & having one happen to fall to his demise so I could slip by.
I died there so often, I checked a guide. Nope, idiot tactics was the way.
Yep that bit is frustrating, was so happy when I finally got past 😛
Yep, that one’s definitely an idiot tactics point.
The cheese is poison arrows but I’ve never tried.
Ohhhh that is good to know
That was the roadblock that stopped me playing
That part is intentionally bullshit.
I fluked it through there on my first playthrough after several attempts, but later switched to poisoning them with poison arrows and waiting for them to die.
What Soul Level are you, Jim-Jim?
Early 50s I think
Git gud so I can 1v1 you you scrub.
Dood, you’re just going to floor me.
I’ve been playing Tekken since 2 & I’m still fairly lame.
What level are you?
120. It’s the unspoken PvP level. Large amount of stat’s, but not too much, kinda thing.
About the level required for specific builds (END / DEX for myself)
And I won’t PvP you, haha! I’m just playing 😉
Hey, we can try, just don’t expect a challenge!
Everyone seems to hate that bit. I have never, not once, not even on my first playthrough, died in that part of the game. I love Anor Londo from start to finish.
Wow, I liked the level other that that one bit. Plenty of hard places, that bit just felt cheap.
I’d take the first duds, run over to the second, have my back to the wall, raise shield & be pushed sideways somehow.
Or just the usual shit that happens on ledges.
That was also where I encountered the Vagrant, blocked my path, I was hammered by arrows.
The soul-crushing sequence of Painted World, then that fucking ledge, then dying repeatedly to Ornstein and Smough once I finally got past the fucking archers on the 50th or so attempt was what killed the game for me. Stymied my progress and made me hate it. And it was almost entirely those goddamn archers fault.
What was so soul crushing about painted world?
I don’t ever remember them hitting me.
It wasn’t so much the arrows as much as it was dealing with them close range, though I do remember trying to block instead of roll one time. That was a mistake
I had to go into Uni earlier today to hand in an assignment since assignments have to be handed in physically for that subject rather than submitted online like every other subject. But semester 1 for Uni is now officially over. Whoo.
Also, on the way home it was raining and hailing but the sky above was clear blue. That’s not how weather is supposed to work, nature.
It’s June, that means it’s time for:
TOTALLY HAPPENING E3 E3 PREDICTIONS
Konami executives come out on stage.
“We know it’s been a tough time the past few months for many people involved, so we just wanted to come out personally and explain.
We understand that many people are concerned with this new direction we’re taking, but rest assured that this workplace restructuring will prove to be more dynamic in the upcoming trends. We will roll out these changes sustainably and organically, moving not only out, but upwards, and onwards, forever twirling. We will have thought leaders in dialogue guiding us towards increased synergy as we are being constantly re-imagined. Paradigm. Robust. Corporate social alignment. Uh… did I mention synergy?
I know many people are upset what they think has happened to our goof friend Hideo Kojima, and to relieve any fears and clear up any misconceptions, here is the man right now!”
Kojima gets thrown on stage by someone behind the curtains. He stumbles out in front of the microphone, looking alarmed and confused.
“My friends…” Kojima starts-
-but is then interrupted by several Konami executives who rush onto stage and start beating him up. One of them grabs the microphone while the others continue to kick Kojima, curled up in a ball on the stage.
“I hope you look forward to what we, Konami, are bring to you over the next year!”
The execs, finally winding down on the beating of Kojima, start walking off, but one returns to the microphone.
“Synergise. Konami out.”
The Bethesda Conference starts.
Ten minutes of an empty stage, then you hear the “tap” of a mic being tested, and Todd Howard runs on stage, remnants of cocaine still visible around his nose.
“Sorry I’m late,” he laughs, “I slept in a little too much. Guess I could have gone for some Mr. Caffeine.”
He pauses, leaning towards the audience slightly, hoping for a laugh.
“Tough crowd, but I guess no matter how I do I can’t be worse than Jamie Kennedy, amiright?”
He leans in again, desperation beginning to show on his face.
“Alright, alright, I’ll give you what you’ve all been waiting for, be prepared to lose your mind.”
Some men in costume shuffle onto the stage, some in Doom guard, one wearing a costume of Parthunax that looks like they’d made it in the previous ten minutes from duct tape and prayers, and another dressed in a shockingly good set of power armour, so much so that you start to wonder if it’s actually real.
The lights dim.
Some unintelligible scenes flash quickly on screen, though you swear you saw a Super Mutant.
It stays on black for a little bit, and a 4 begins fading in, though its shape seems odd to you. THe crowd goes wild, cheering, flipping tables out of joy, and someone starts firing a gun in the air from elation.
Suddenly, words begin to appear.
“FOUR EPIC FACTIONS.”
“FOUR BRAND NEW MAPS.”
“FOUR WAYS TO PLAY!”
“Introducing, FallElderScroll Doom Wars, a new MOBA from Bethesda Game Studios!”
You forgot the part where 1/2 the audience gets stuck inside the ground due to bugs.
The SEGA conference starts.
Lights dim.
A voice in the dark “No, it’s OK, we can’t afford to switch them back on. Sonic though, am I right?”
Driving past a Cash Converters yesterday and Mrs B-ob points out the sign out front. “WE WANT SEGA CONSOLES AND GAME$”
My deadpan response, “So does everybody, man.”
Fact: Kung Fury is the most amazing God damn thing I’ve ever watched!
Apparently they might be making a longer version or a follow-up at some point in the future. If so, that would be glorious.
Fury Road?
Don’t know if joking so if so, Kung Fury Fury Road would be the most amazing God damn cross over ever!
If not, look up Kung Fury on YouTube, you can thank me later
Always joking, and thank you. For later.
Splatoon has its hooks completely embedded in me. Send help.
My playtime is showing two sessions, of around 12 hours each. Last night I didn’t drag myself off to bed til 5. The game’s pretty awesome! Snipers are the best.
Was surprised how many amiibo were around for this wave, I ended up digging through a whole trolley full to find a Greninja that was decent (almost all of them weren’t great, terrible terrible edge work on the paint), also the Splatoon ones because they did look pretty good. The girls all had such bad seams on their head though. Had to crash that afternoon since I got to bed so late and had to get up so early.
Sunday, we went up the coast for my cousin’s birthday. Can’t remember the last time I was at Terrigal. It was another early morning though, but at least I managed to sleep on the drive down. Also, saw the best thing at the cafe we went to – a pair of lorikeets fly down onto one of the unoccupied tables. They hopped their way over to the pile of stuff in the middle of it, then each one reached in and pulled out a paper tube of sugar, put it down on the table and bit into them, then went to town on the delicious contents. Clever little bastards 😛
In conclusion, I could have played so much more Splatoon if I didn’t have to keep going places and doing stuff.
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Good luck!
Squids don’t have hooks.
They do if someone’s been fishing.
And the day is here. Tonight I run my first Proper RPG group. Excited and nervous all at once. wish me luck!
Just remember: It’s your (collective) world. You decide how it runs. Don’t be constrained by what it says in a book.
Already playing with that 🙂 got some good plans for my first few sessions 🙂
This was your Savage World game right? Best of luck with it and I hope everyone has a blast, including you!
Yeah, I’m running Inteface zero 2.0 in Savage Worlds
And just like that I realise I’ve put it on the wrong week – oh well, 3 week break before the next session! 😛
Lol. Hope that wasn’t my fault at all.
I doubt it, probably my misunderstanding 🙂 Trying to do it opposite weeks to Pathfinder for Techy 🙂
TAY RPG Pathfinder tonight at 8pm AEST and 7:30pm ACST. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @negativezero @beeawwb
OoOoOOooOOo *other spooky ghost noises*. The ruined keep of Aulde Phorte seems to be anything but empty and has just trapped the mariachi Orc mercenaries otherwise known as the Matadors of Moloch.
What will the Monday Knights do?
P.S. Let me know if you’re able to make it tonight.
I will be there with knives on.
Not bells, how could you sneak with bells?
Minotaur rogues. They’re a thing. 😛
Still better than Oinkbane the Wereboar Assassin.
Holy crap that thread is hilarious.
I’m there.
Probably one of my last sessions too. 🙁
Have any meat plans been made?
No but we should do something!
Well Mrs Tigs and I are keen but will need to work around Tiglet
Can do something at my place again but I think that the Tiglet is now self-propelled? And my place isn’t exactly kid-friendly.
Yep, she is very much so
Your place isn’t too bad, a bit of open space we can put her down on. Will very much be a case of taking turns of watching and playing with her. Might be a case of dropping in with the family for a bit then sending them on the way and staying solo. But we can work around whatever works for you. If you want to go out she is quite well behaved if she is out for dinner so that’s an option as well.
Well I’m here for a bit at least, can probably get together more than once. Waiting to hear back from my sister and my mum about plans, but maybe something can happen this weekend?
@negativezero
Well I know Mrs Tigs is really sad that you are leaving so a couple of catchups to make sure she sees you before you leave would be good.
🙁
Oh yeah, spoilers/foreshadowing for you:
I’ll continue to have your character be a part of the world similar to everyone else so your personal quest will be continuing even if your character won’t be there. If you want, I can send you an email every once and a while to give you an update on Izumi’s situation and you can give some directions or instructions on what you would like her to do. Sort of like a play-by-post sort of RPG if you want.And yeah, I’m sorry I never really engaged your backstory a huge amount to date as you developed an excellent story hook for me to use. Too much of a slow start on my part so I apologise for that.
Well, once I’m settled over there I might actually be able to join in again. It’d be early morning Sundays for me every second week. We’ll see.
I should get at least another 2, maybe 3 sessions depending on how long my visa and moving and everything takes. Maybe 4. We’ll see.
Oh also, while I have no idea what’s actually inside Aulde Phorte, no reason why something relevant to Izumi’s Epic Personal Quest might not be there too.
I feel lucky, because my epic personal backstory has already fired once (Jean de Clamerie at the party)
Yours was relatively straightforward because we started in your home town. Nothing stopping me from playing it again though. >:P
Lundgredolph’s will be coming soon because you’re heading to his homeland, Dem’nion’s has loomed in the past, and Drewan’s has already kinda showed up because that’s his main goal. Izumi’s will play out in a way that works (coincidentally, @negativezero just gave me a brilliant idea).
Oh there’s stuff there to mine. A lot of it intentionally kinda vague. I still haven’t 100% decided why Abelas was tortured, nor what exactly happened to his partner in crime Pierras.
There’s not a lot to Izumi’s Epic Personal Quest. It’s a fairly open, generic thing that @popdart5 can hook into quite easily in a lot of interesting and unexpected ways.
The party doesn’t even know she’s a shapeshifter yet. Just think she’s very good at illusions and disguises.
@negativezero Pretty sure Abelas and Drewan know about the shapeshifting, but no-one else.
@redartifice: Drewan just knows that she can look ‘not like you’ and presumably will assume it’s magic. Abelas engaged her services with de Clamerie knowing she can cast glamors and illusions, but I was pretty sure he hadn’t seen the true nature (or you have but haven’t actually let on about it?)
@negativezero Yeah, “YOU DON’T LOOK LIKE YOU” is just “magic stuffs” as far as Drewan is concerned. He literally banishes dirt to Hell; somebody looking different from a spell seems totally fine and not at all suspicious.
I’m helping!
(Translation: I’ll be there. Looking forward to it.)
Mustard.
You sure know how to be a turn-off.
Well it looks like you have gotten the hang of TAY @cufcfan616
Who wants free stuff
Oh, I like free stuff
OK, here have some free stuff
Thanks, money is in your bank account
Well I didn’t want to be ‘that’ guy who actually takes stuff for nothing 🙂
But those cupcakes were just sitting out there in the open dammit!! =@
You were more than welcome to, I was just going to donate it if nobody wanted it.
But like I said, you are working out TAY and are certainly not the first person to make payment when none was requested.
Actually I wonder what the GDP of TAY is?
50% Shane, 20% Scree, 30% evilmonkey =P
Goddamit my entire weekend’s just disappeared. A game hasn’t had its hooks in me like this since… since.. hmm….. since…. shit since DA:O or Mass Effect 2. The Witcher 3 for me is easily the best game of the last 5 years, I literally want to explore every single nook/cranny/question mark/side quest tiny tidbit of adventure hidden away in this game! EVERYTHING I TELL YOU!
So as you can imagine I didn’t play the story at all this weekend instead adventured by exploring everything and getting stuck into the Gwent card game within the game =p Managed to start the Skellige questline but that’s about as far as I went before getting lost in exploring the countryside =P
Exploration hint for those in Skellige –
Not all of the question marks get revealed on the smaller islands so make sure to just run around and randomly explore! You’re sure to find stuff not marked on your map =]It’s pretty damn good. I took a break last night (BLOODBORNE) but I’m enjoying the world so much.
Even if I die in combat. a lot.
I’ve been finding the experience vastly more fun on lowest difficulty. People who complain it’s too easy and put the difficulty up have something wrong with them.
On low difficulty you can slaughter most mooks like nekkers in 1-2 hits and actually feel like a badass swordsman. Harder fights can still be hard, a Noonwraith will fuck your shit up if you don’t know the right sign to use and so on. I’d have kept the difficulty as-is if the combat wasn’t such an unsatisfying slog.
Going from Witcher 2 experience I found the default combat waaaayyyy too easy but I was already of the mentality to use potions, oils, bombs so I knew how to maximize my combat and to never over-commit to attacks. That said yes the combat is very sloggish, I’ve reached a point now where I just flamethrower groups of enemies every chance I get and then sip on some beer while they run around flailing. Then flamethrower again. Then sip. You get the gist right?
(Wait till you reach Skellige xD You’re going to love the common enemies there =P They all bloody fly)
That’s fine until a bunch of drowners appear from right below you and stunlock you to death because there’s no animation cancels. Also the way that stuff can just charge you repeatedly and there’s no way to avoid it. And how most monsters if you block them will just stun you anyway.
I played TW2 on easy as well. It started out ridiculously difficult and I had to drop it.
Drowners stunlock is nothing compared to 3 or more nekkers, those little fucks don’t stop =@ Best counter I’ve found is quen with the knockback effect or just keep smashing the dodge (not roll) and eventually Geralt breaks free. Once free keep kiting them and wearing them down one at a time.
With regards to TW2 the fights at the start of the game are ridiculously hard however you aren’t meant to leave the first village (Flotsam or Jetsam or something) for first 3-4 hours. You have to do all the quests that are contained within the village before you’re strong enough to even venture out =S
Fuck Flotsam. The tutorial area was too hard. I couldn’t get past that one long room with about five guys in it on normal difficulty the first time I played. They made it easier a bit in the enhanced edition I think. But you had next to no potions or anything at that point either.
Hahaha oh shit that is very very early on xD God you would’ve chucked a fit when you’re forced to fight the assassin then, dude hits like a truck on normal.
This is why I’m playing on easy. The combat doesn’t get any harder or better, just dragged out with a bunch of running around waiting for timers. I tried Death March, wasn’t getting hit, just frustrated at how long it took to take anything down. Had the same frustrations with FFXIII with enemies having millions of hot points but only dealing hundreds of damage. It’s just a grind.
That said, it’s verging on GOTY and being tough to not be that for me. Everything else I’m finding sublime with the sole other exception of loot crates and quest stuff being surrounded by friggen candles and Geralt just lighting and extinguishing them over and over instead of using the damn target.
True true, however for me playing on easy was just a snore fest it actually proved detrimental to the game for me cos no fight required my attention at all. On hard I’m kind of paying attention but not enough to feel worn out by them, also every now and then I’ll have a really exciting awesome fight with a gargoyle or basilisk of equal level but just decimates my health if I don’t dance around its moves =] To each their own! I think the underlying pattern I’m seeing is those who finished Witcher 2 have chosen the harder difficulty while those who didnt get a hang of the combat the first time around are opting for easier to enjoy the best part of the game. The story and atmosphere.
And now there’s only 4 more days untik the next weekend…*sobs*
There’s too much to do. I’m outleveling it all 🙁 Already 18, going to do some scavenger hunting for upgrade patterns for gear then head to Skellige.
36 hours sunk into it so far, played until 5am on Saturday night and then 4am last night. So easy to lose track of time with a ‘will just do this quest and then I’ll stop’ thing. I started onto
Dandelion’s personal quest after I rescued him and then that lead to another one which I couldn’t put downI wish the controls sucked shit a bit less though. Especially movement.
I’ve actually managed to stay on par for my level so far, I always make sure to do the side quests and contracts at my level (2-3 levels higher or lower) before progressing the story quest because it seems the story quest has the largest xp rewards and is the one most likely to make you out level earlier content. FYI I started skellige and level 20 and I’ve already run away from quite a number of fights…. These islands are like the untamed wilds while Velen relatively seems like a petting zoo =@
With regards to the Dandelion quest –
How good is that quest chain!! Did you manage to catch the culprit in the end?Yes, caught the culprit. Does he only target Priscilla if you had her get involved in the play?I thought for sure that it was the creepy reverend with the thing for torturing people. Was surprised it wasn’t. Almost ended the motherfucker on the spot given what he was doing anyway, on principle.
The biggest most important thing I did very early on was investing 3 points into the first Axii sign upgrade. You get a ton of XP for settling fights or talking your way through stuff with some gentle usage of
force persuasionAxii.It’s funny though. Mechanically I think the game’s an utter dog. The movement is finnicky and frustrating. Targeting sometimes refuses to latch onto what you want. Combat is shithouse, either needed to go all the way to Batman territory or go all the way to Dark Souls input style but it’s stuck in some kind of mediocre halfway house between the two camps. Limited inventory slots is a pain in the ass. Decoctions are next to useless. Talent system is utter shite, with you having to invest points and then not be able to use what you unlocked because you also have to set it in a limited number of slots. Inventory management is a pain in the shitter – who cares about weight? I’m carrying an entire fucking library with me, along with four changes of armor and about twelve swords. Why can’t I pick up another bit of crap? Also the goddamn money limits on vendors. God, that shits me. Also gwent. Gwent fucking sucks and I can’t stop playing it. I feel like I’m constantly getting cards for every faction bar my own though. Still running with some completely shit cards because I can’t find any upgrades.
Despite all those gripes, it’s an amazing game and I can’t stop playing it.
Haha yeah the very first thing I did was grab 3 points in Axii as well, going off my experience in Witcher 2 I knew how useful it becomes. With regards to the quest
I almost killed the reverend as well but Axii’d him away because something just didn’t feel right to me about the whole situation, his poker wasn’t the killer’s MO and this brothel was too public and easily disrupted when compared to all the other murders. I have to say though the reveal of the murderer was pretty fucking awesome, it’s like you chase this doctor thinking hes just a wuss and then BAM, bad guy transformation!\And yeah I have all those gripes, how the camera doesn’t lock on to loot bags easily if they’re crumped together, the weight requirements really piss me off, like really really peeve me off. At least in the last game you had a stash, they could’ve provided something similar here so you could store all the rare materials and suits of armor. I’m carrying around the cat and griffin armor waiting for the upgrades to be found so I can use them again :@
With regards to Gwent what faction are you using? They all seem to have unique playstyles but from what I’ve seen a fully stocked Nilfgaardian deck is just a massive fuck you. Quick tips Decoys, commander horns and spy cards are the most powerful cards you’ll ever get. I can’t lose a single game after I figured that out and I got a few just from beating a few merchants from the starter areas. After that you’ll slowly build your collection with heroes. Synergize your co-op cards i.e. the ones that double strength if they’re played together and when you use your spy cards make sure to lose the round but play them all together. If your enemy plays a lot of spy cards go heavy on the decoys swap them into your deck and play them again to even out the card advantage. Play the Gwent sidequests because they all award heroes and Geralt/Ciri are 15 strength cards that can’t be affected by spells.
Card advantage is really one of the best things I’ve found for Gwent. There’s one Northern card that lets you dredge a card back from your graveyard, it’s so good just to pull your best siege engine back for a second run.
Yep, card advantage = win. Nilfgaardians appear to have the best cards in terms of heroes, units (black archers and heavy scorpions), best spies, best synergy cards and a few ressurecters thrown in. Northern kingdoms are similar but appear to be a lot more siege oriented. Elves are very ressurection oriented and monsters seem to be the games version of a zerg rush. That said easily countered by frostbite.
(MY GOD WHY DO I KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT A MINI-GAME WITHIN A GAME!!) I have a problem.
The best thing I’ve found is to hope you get spies in your starting hand. Play them all, pull extra cards, bait the opponent into committing some extra cards of their own, so you have a simple numbers advantage. If they play a spy on your side, hopefully decoy and then re-play them for more cards. Lose the first round. Often they’ll be down to 5-6 cards and will just pass the second round or will not fight it too hard. Then you go balls-out for the end with everything you have. Works maybe 60-70% of the time. I’m using Northern Realms with the Foltest leader that has the ability to double-power your siege stuff. Final rounds, if I didn’t use it up, I like to play the healer dude to return a graveyarded guy, then decoy to pull him back, then play again for a second graveyard return.
Hah, decoying the healer is a nice trick. I’m playing that Foltest too.
I’m actually playing the clear weather foltest because I haven’t found the fucking siege master one D=
I actually theorized that the target was a vampire right from the start – initially thought maybe the throat incision and the acid and everything was to cover it up. The whole eternal fire stuff distracted me from the initial hypothesis. Was suspicious of both of the doctors honestly once I had some details. But the way its written makes it really easy to assume it’s the reverend, especially when you burst in on him and he’s doing that. Funny side note: went back there several in-game days later. Guy’s still standing there. Chick’s still tied to the chair. Kind of odd.I’m still rolling with my Northern Realms deck. Stacked the deck with decoys, scorches, spies (what few are available to NR), horns, and heroes. I’ve pulled out as many units as possible so that there are only ever 22. That way, no matter what kind of hand I get dealt, I know it’ll have my better units in it.
There’s something magical about a handful of decoys, a medic, and a horn, with clear-weather Foltest. Particularly when you play against Nilfs who fill your discard pile with spies.
Hahah yeah there’s a blacksmith in Skellige who runs a deck with 5 spies… I kid you not he had 5 bloody spies! and one of them is a hero card with 0 attack so you can’t even play it against him because its immune to spells, etc.
I got real lucky with that fucker, the match I won against him he only had a couple spies. But he DID play that 0 hero spy fucker. What a card, man.
@transientmind I KNOW! I WANTS IT! D= and it’s also a neutral card so it can be played from any deck…. that’s just a fuck you if there ever was one =p
Play on easy, on PC with mods to fix broken things, later.
Check.
I’m running the 9999 weight limit mod. DRAMATICALLY improves the game. No constant running to merchants to sell shit, just fucking carry everything. EVERYTHING.
Hate to double post but wondering if anyone has any advice on a separate issue to do with HotS. So I got into the game quite early on during closed alpha and then closed beta. During this time the only server available to play on was America and quite surprisingly it was lag-free and as Blizz had announced they had no intention for any further resets I sunk a few hundred dollars into the game not to mention quite a bit of time and a stockpile of gold (about 30k). Now that the game has gone open-beta and nears release its become relatively unplayable due to lag on the American servers, and while I’ve tried contacting support on the matter they’ve basically left me with nothing can be done and the keys given out at beta were region specific to EU and the states. This all kinds of bullshit cos now I’ve got money and in-game gold locked away in a region that makes the game unplayable for me. Do I have any recourse for a monetary refund because I’d really like to be able to escalate this =\
It sounds like they will have terms and conditions stating it was a US based beta key that you accepted. If anything that would probably mean you are in breach of the terms of agreement so they could cut you off with nothing.
Might be worth giving it a week or so for the first rush to die down a little, they might be underscaled as they know there will be a drop off in demand.
Yeah that’s kind of what I’m worried about, it’s really frustrating because it’s a solid game but there’s no way I’m willing to throw away money/time spent getting that much gold =[
I’m really bad at Bloodborne
Why can’t I level up?
Well, she appeared now.
Of course I dropped everything in the boss room…
I always roll when I wanna jump in Souls & always jump when I wanna roll in Bloodborne
#skill
took me a bit to find the “chug a gatorade” button in Bloodborne.
I kept trying Square because of Souls. Then I presumed I needed to equip.
@rize I have regret over the Witcher 3 CE.
So much regret over cancelling the preorder 6 months ago.
I ruined @blaghman’s chances on getting the CE…
I had a lot of the regret in launch week.
Not so much now that the steady stream of patches continue to roll out and many people are raving about Gwent and how awesome physical decks would be.
Edit: not to mention that on further reflection I have nowhere to put all these amiibo, let alone a massive witcher statue.
………
Well shit, looks like I may have a craft project to plan.
I love the fact that almost all of the mini-games in the Witcher series have been really cool. Dice poker is such a simple idea but I had a lot of fun becoming the master.
Gwent would be sweet as a Witcher LCG
http://www.ikea.com/au/en/catalog/products/90182171/
If it makes you feel any better, the face on the statue is kinda shit. Everything else makes up for it though.
I wanna rant about it but it might make you feel worse 😛
This is a big reason why I stopped bothering with CEs that come with statues: they make the statue on the cheap and the mould is often not fantastic. Would generally rather save the cash and buy a commercial one if I really want it.
Wish I could go back in time and whack idiot teenager Neg on the back of the head and tell him that he does not need the Cat Helmet edition of Halo.
Cat Helmet still sounds like a better investment than MCC.
I didn’t get around to activating MCC during the initially super broken period. Because I heard it was broken. So no free ODST for me 🙁
I have a few gaming-related statues but only two that came with a game. One was the Bioshock Big Daddy which looks kinda rough because I think it was a last-minute decision to release a Big Daddy edition and they didn’t put a great deal of thought into it. The other is my Halo Reach Noble Team which I still think is really awesome, though a huge pain in the ass to dust.
Someone cancelled theirs at my store, it’s just sitting there in the back for sale.
But you know… no job…
I got bored and deleted more than 60 people from my Facebook friend list that I hadn’t spoken to for a long, long time. At least 5 years, in some cases much longer. All of those people I went to high school with, random mutual friends, all gone.
I just don’t see the point.
Then I accepted the friend requests I’ve had sitting around for months from random TAYbies. Now pretty much all of my suggested friends on Facebook are from TAY. Funny how you can manipulate that to get results like that.
Notification on my phone: “**** ***** has accepted your friend request”
Me: ??? Who the f*** is that ???
*sees display picture* Oh, right.
Bunny puppy continues to be rad.
My old facebook rule, delete someone from your facebook if you wouldn’t say hi to them on the street!
Thank god I quit facebook =p
I have people that are people I’m more likely to talk to online. Not sure why
STILL NOT MY FRIEND I HELPED YOU MOVE HOUSE AND WE STILL ARENT FACEBOOK FRIENDS. MY SISTERS PAST TWO EX BOYFRIENDS ARE MORE FRIENDS TO ME THAN YOU.
nah just kidding we cool.
I just deleted 60+ people, why would I send friend requests?
Rumour has it that I’m suddenly accepting friend requests again though.
Facebook you say?
You helped me move house, not Bun.
http://www.denofgeek.com/games/nintendo/35578/nintendos-nx-console-to-be-android-based
Interesting. Could be good news. Nintendo doesn’t internet very well and being able to leverage Google could mean a much more user friendly experience.
Nintendo? User-friendly? Hah, good one.
I decided to try and run a virtual machine with Windows 95 on it…
Oh God, Why?!
D:
That’s what we’re all asking.
Is your computer now Win95 only?
No… I just don’t know how to get it to work… 🙁
TAY RPG Pathfinder completed for another night. The Monday Knights ventured down into the secret chambers of Aulde Phorte and uncovered the ancient writings of Nezeroth. Also they are “allies of convenience” with a bunch of Orc mercenaries, whom are effectively functioning as trap detectors and meat shields.
Thanks for playing @redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @negativezero @beeawwb!
Updated!
http://imgur.com/a/OskA4
That’s it, I’m done for a while.
Was sitting on a bus this morning, listening to two old men talk about Game of Thrones. Made me smile.
One of them had got the first season on disc from his son. “I decided to give it a look around 8:30… Bloody hell, it was nearly midnight before I knew what happened! Apparently I’m not even halfway through the set, and they do a new one every year!”
And:
“It’s from that HBO mob. They’re the ones who did Band of Brothers.”
“Oh, I liked that show.”
“Yeah, it’s also good TV, this. Even if everyone except the main character is a pack of mongrels.”
“So what’s it about? Thought it was all dragons and lord of the rings stuff.”
“Nah, it’s more like medieval with wars and kings and armies. But with a bunch of made-up countries. I’ll lend you the discs when I’m done, reckon I’ll watch a bit more this week.”
I do hope they enjoy it.
That does sound strangely endearing
I forgot HBO did Band of Brothers. Fantastic show
So good. I didn’t enjoy The Pacific quite as much though.
Did my RPG last night. That was a heck of a lot of fun.
Although someone lost an arm, and his bar, due to Anti-Freak gang punks. They ran away after their Leader had two pistols being pointed at his head.
But I do believe everyone had fun! 🙂
GM’s How do you guys deal with death in your games.
I had a problem where the guy who had his arm blown off was bleeding out, but I Just ignored it (because no death in the first session, seriously thats just shitty)
Fudge rolls early to prevent it, but after a bit of time if it’s going to happen it’ll happen. Without risk there’s no reward.
what was upsetting was that in savage worlds if you hit a top number in a roll it explodes out
so someone ended up getting 32 damage from 2d6+2
Holy crap, who the hell thought that was a good mechanic! O_o
Luckily that just causes damage and knocks them out, doesnt kill them unless they fail a vigor roll on the next turn (which technically he did, but I chose to not see that)
Right, well that’s a perfect example of GM discretion. Fudge, ignore, or otherwise manipulate the rolls to keep things interesting. There’s a reason the GM should roll in secret, after all. 😛
That exploding dice mechanic: is it you just reroll the one die (in this case the d6) that rolled a six and keep going or do you explode when rolling a 12 on 2d6 and then keep going?
Exploding dice is treated differently in different systems and I have no idea how Savage Worlds runs it.
my understanding is that for each die if you hit the top number then you explode out so each 6 rolls another die (when rolling d6’s)
I’ve actually never killed a PC. Come damn close, but all the parties I’ve played with have been pretty sharp.
As Bob said, fudge rolls, have mooks not kill stuff more (they should deal with the biggest threat), do a GM intrusion (luckily the wound cauterised on impact!)
kool, I’ll roll on my table from now on, not in roll20 chat
Oh yeah, never roll in public.
Use /gmroll if you want to keep it secret
THIS IS WHY I NEVER GOT MY TAU DRONE D=
Some games I have no issue with rolling in public. For the most part though, yeah keep it secret.
Cyber-punk setting right? Give everyone a free clone of themselves =P
That’s more of a Paranoia thing. If death is cheap and common it starts to lose its meaning.
Ooh I like this idea
Mhm probably just a single clone so it acts like a buffer for what seems to be a pretty cruel mechanic =P
On a side note, if you wait until later to kill a character, the player has had the chance to become more attached to them. Then when you rip the rug out from under them, their tears will be all the more delicious. 😛
But yeah, first session character deaths aren’t fun unless that’s the type of game that everyone wants to run. Cyberpunk is kinda hard in that respect because you can have massive neon rims on your hover cars and giant pink mohawks but get blown away by a hobo with a pistol. It all depends on how you want to run Interface Zero.
Gotta admit, the tears over him losing the bar were very delicious 🙂
Interesting morning.
Decided to ring Police Recruiting to look into reapplying. Lady asks me if I’ve applied before, yes I have. Asks if I was found suitable or not. Well they told me no. Oh, so you didn’t do any tests. Yes, I did all of them and aced them all. She sighs and tells me I was found suitable then because tests are simply a grading curve for the merit pool. Suitability is something different before. No, definitely got a letter saying not suitable after all the tests were done. She gets very confused, that’s not how it’s done and asks what the reason was. Her confusion deepens when I explain they refused to tell me why and the exit interview I was given was purely “we didn’t pick you” then hung up on. She tells me they can’t do that, very much can’t do that. Hold on she’ll check my records.
There are none.
I’ve been completely erased from it and I never applied apparently.
Wondering if I should bother applying again. Obviously someone doesn’t want me there and is trying to hide it. At least I know it wasn’t me that failed for some reason.
Or should I apply again now I’ve made some noise about it?
Edit: *sigh* #PersecutionComplexGet
That is utter bullshit. The way they’ve treated you is utter bullshit. Keep making noise about it.
Apply. Fuck’em. They’re the police, they should be doing things by the book.
Don’t think of this as a ‘somebody doesn’t want me’, think of this as a ‘they have no records, so I get a clean second chance at this’.
Apply. But keep an eye out to make sure they keep records this time,
Seriously, you were so damn excited as you went through the process. That meant it means something to you. Get on it Freezey. We’re cheering for you.
Partly because Freezey Cop sounds like an awesome nickname/superhero/burger name.Reapply! This time try to get proof that you have taken the tests. Ask examiners to give you letters stating you sat the exam on a certain day at a certai time.
Maybe recall the person you got and ask if she has any advice if you are to reapply?
Seriously man, Reapply. It’s bullshit that you have to do it again but I think you really should do it 🙂
do you have a copy of any of the letters that you were sent through the process?
I would get her to confirm this, maybe a reference number for the enquiry, then compare it with your rejection letter (did you keep it?) and keep a file of this to take to Industrial Relations.
This.
The only reason I can think of that the previous application was wiped is that someone realised they’d made a major procedural fuck-up that exposed them badly, and were attempting to cover their tracks.
This so much.
It sounds like Detective Freeze has his first case!
Reapply man! FUCK DA POLICE! Wait am I using that right?
Seriously though that sounds way to sketchy, but if it’s something you’re burning to do, keep at it!
I’d assume you got someone completely inept as opposed to someone who doesn’t want you there. Reapply. Do all the shit you did before, but this time keep on them. Make phonecalls, track progress, etc.
Don’t get despondent, use it as fuel to drive you onwards. I get pissed off when people try and make it hard for me, just makes me want to succeed to spite them.
No records means no record of rejection. Work the system to your favour.
Go for it!
Peeps have already tossed up solid advice on the matter; whatever you do don’t let it get shoved under the rug. At the very least they owe you a proper reason for a rejection. Anything you have in writing should be used to find the initial paper trail of your application before you decide to resit.
WAIT JUST A SECOND. So you’ve been lying to us this whole time about applying to the police force?
Not cool, Freeze. >:(
(^ PUN)
More seriously, though, if you need another system-breaking reference letter, I’m happy to provide one.
If you aced the tests once man, you can ace them again.
You hate your current job. Or at least, I hate the shirt you wear at your current job, and that’s nearly as good.
Give it a shot. Document everything.
Reapply. You’re not going to be any worse off for it, surely. I mean, worst case they’ll say no again.
“Mr Freeze, you’re under arrest.”
NEW THEORY.
You aced the tests. All except the final test… which you are now living. Piece together what happened to your application, and you’ll be instantly bumped right up to plainclothes detective.
I don’t think that’s a new theory, I seem to recall that I suggested as much when it happened the first time. Doesn’t mean it’s not true though!
In fact, two independent trains of thought arriving at similar conclusions amounts to corroboration! #DETECTIVE101*
*may not hold up in court of lawI think that we can agree that it’s almost incontrovertible…
Hell yes reapply. You wanted it bad the first time and if you aced the tests then you can do it again. I’d guess someone screwed up badly and either accidently deleted records or tried to cover up their screw up and you suffered for it.
Actually, lets turn it around, what’s the worst that can happen if you do reapply? Barring the thought that you stumbled into a conspiracy and the records were deleted to stop you being murdered by some kind of lunatic, the worst that can happen is being disappointed by them saying no again and as long as you don’t quit your current job then you can still do that.
E3 PREDICTIONS:
At the PC Gaming conference, Gabe Newell walks out.
There’s a stunned silence.
The room goes dark and a slow, 17 and a half minute reveal of the character ‘4’ plays on the giant screen overhead. People in the audience pass away peacefully in their sleep, literally dying of boredom.
Gabe Newell speaks from the dark.
“We would like to announce the co-development of our newest game with Bethesda; Half Life 4”.
There’s a stunned silence.
Gabe continues, “Taking place after Half Life 1, this is an MMO action RPG open world survival game spanning the entire 18 years until Half Life 2. This will occur in real time, and both our studios will dedicate our entire development teams to Half Life 4 for the next 18 years to develop content for our users. Unfortunately, this does mean any development on any other franchises both our teams may be working on have to halt for the next 18 years, but we are confident that it will be worth it.
A modding kit will be available for $50 upon release. Don’t worry modders, you’ll be able to recoup your development costs as and all mods will be compulsorily sold via Steam, with the mod developer getting 25% of sales.
Dog armour DLC will be free for those who pre-order today.”
There’s a stunned silence.
The city of Los Angeles riots non-stop for the next 33 days.
You know, in the next game I see that takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, or a zombie apocalypse, or a gore-strewn, abandoned haunting-site, or a derelict space ship, or dystopian future slums… I want to see some graffiti that reads, “HALF-LIFE 3 CONFIRMED!”
DECISION: Gwent is better than Magic: The Gathering.
Depending on which deck you choose and how you choose to build it, Magic can be like convoluted international politics and world war wrapped up in one with some impossibility engines thrown in for good measure. Gwent is more like a back-alley knife-fight, with its lack of, “I’ve waited ten turns for the stars to align and am now able to summon the Elder Gods to unmake reality,” type cards. Short, sharp, and dirty.
Yup, loving Gwent. I only have a good Northen Factions deck but my favourite card type would have to be Spy. I’ve lulled so many opponents into a false sense of security.
I hate spies.
Not using them, I love using them, but while attempting the Gwent tournament my opponent pulled spies until they had 15 cards in hand, and then on the next round used healers to bring back 4 more spies that I’d sent at them.
So brutal.
Oh yeah that would’ve been an automatic forfeit =P The only effective counter I’ve found for spies in order to maintain the card drawing status quo is lots of decoys.
But I like summoning Elder Gods.
One of my commanders is a God.
Lookit him, he’s great
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=378528
Thematically, I love the Eldrazi. All their art and flavour text is very holy shit.
Oh Eldrazi, yeah, they’re insane. Also, they’re a) currently reprinted and b) coming back in some form I’m sure in the next two sets.
The one I linked is a Theros (greek) god
Not only are they insane, they’re viable. GR Tron looks like a lot of fun to play.
Oh this aint a voltron deck. It’s “summon Hydra, give it double strike, double its power and then have another combat phase.”
When it goes off, it goes off. I also have built a Narset/Shu Yun aikido deck.
I was talking about Eldrazi. They’re seeing tournament play in Modern because of the Urzatron lands. Not Voltron where you play a creature and slap everything you can on it :p
Voltron is fun. Narset can be a Voltron build, which I’ve seen decklists for that are sweet.
I don’t get your description of Magic at all. There is a lot of variety in how it can be played and there are plenty of decks that can get that same effect.
Try a weenie-roast mirror match sometime.
I have a commander deck built atm around Alesha, who Smiles at Death: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=alesha%2C+who+smiles+at+death
It’s basically a weenie-with-enter-the-battlefield-triggers toolbox.
If we’re going to play Commander at PAX, that’s the deck I want. Well, unless you’ve got some amazingly janky UGx monstrosity that sits back and makes the rest of the table cry.
EDIT: For people that don’t know, Alesha is M:tG’s first transgender character. She’s pretty rad, both mechanically and in the lore.
I don’t have a UG deck atm, I do have the Nope deck. Talrand, Sky Summoner plus a shit tonne of counters.
I have it sitting there as a threat if anyone plays anything too annoying.
Also, @freezespreston, you bought a commander deck last PAX, yes?
My middle brother and his boyfriend play Magic somewhat obsessively. My brother has several large boxes full of custom ‘themed’ decks. The themes aren’t so much around flavour as much as they are the type of ‘engine’ that the deck uses. Some are ‘burn’ decks, focused on cards which allow repeated burns to do damage to creatures, some are exponential creature/token decks, some are synergy decks which focus on stacking shrines or artifacts, or enhancements… counter-spell decks, library-drain decks, landwalk decks, unblockable decks, poison decks, they make them all.
They have friends who go to similar extremes. Their shared passion is building the craziest, most universally ‘unbeatable’ decks possible. They theory-craft this shit, calculating the benefits of card-search vs natural occurrence chance in the value of securing a 5-turn guaranteed win. I actually had a dream, once, about an ‘infinite damage’ deck, which I described to my brother. He spent a little thought about the cards I described in my dream, and found a combination that can guarantee a win in as little as 5 turns.
These levels of complexity are what I’m talking about. When you see these titans of absurdity playing against each other with god-killer decks and the extent of the mechanics at play, trying to thwart each others’ game-winning ‘engines’ from being fully-realized… you can’t unsee it. That is what Magic has that Gwent doesn’t, and I’m glad for that, in Gwent.
Gwent is much more like highly, highly, highly, highly-restricted Magic. And it’s better for it. More elegant in its simplicity. This is what I mean by Gwent being a back-alley knife-fight compared to Magic’s global war.
You CAN play something simple like a Gwent deck against someone who plays Magic, but unless you’ve artificially limited the rules, you’re liable to get eaten by a devour deck or something. Gwent brings the ‘equal terms’ that Magic’s boundless freedom can’t offer without players coming up with artificial limitations themselves, like a sealed-booster-only tournament type deal. Gwent is like playing Magic with a handful of the pre-made decks for newbies. And that’s a better way to play – by your wits, improvising with what you get, rather than carefully crafting something horrible in advance and the ‘game’ consisting of your attempts and counter-attempts to get that ‘engine’ into play.
(Edit: In short, Gwent brings a couple knives to a knife-fight, you pick your favourite and go. Magic lets you bring guns, magic wands, or alien brain parasites to a knife-fight…. making it not really a knife-fight anymore.)
tl;dr – Magic is great when you have lots of time and money, Gwent is great when you’re looking for something else to do in the Witcher 3 =p
You realise that you’re talking to a guy that played an infinite combo deck based around Future Sight? The entire point of the deck was to run out of cards and then use abilities to put cards back on too of my deck with Future Sight in play, allowing me to generate infinite mana and do silly, silly things.
This was back when exile was called “remove from game” and cards like Cunning Wish were absurdly effective at letting you play situational cards from your sideboard.
There are some terribly janky things people can do if they want to. Most people don’t because the metagame acts as a way to balance things out. Even in the Vintage (the only format without a real banlist, but simply restricted cards), turn 1/2 kills are uncommon because the tools to stop them (read: Force of Will) exist.
It really depends on what you want out of the game and I’m sure that as an outsider looking in, you aren’t really getting a good perspective on what’s going on. What your brother is doing is not that unusual but it’s also not that powerful.
Turn 5 wins are possible in well-constructed draft decks that hit their mana curve just right.
EDIT: Another way to look at it. Super Smash Bros is a fun, social party game. It’s not a fair criticism to say it’s not the sort of game you’d want to play because you don’t like the competitive scene if you still enjoy the casual side.
Heh. That’s exactly what I’m talking about. Those guys get together and do online research and have extensive libraries of every card ever created so they do things that would make your head spin.
And that’s the kind of person you can be up against if you put together and deck and play with friends, or go to the local gaming shop.
That’s why I say that Gwent is ‘better’. It takes all the limitations and rules that are usually very, very specific for tournament plays or previously-agreed-upon house rules, and it’s standard.
On a scale on with Texas Hold’em on one side, and Magic: The Gathering on the other, Gwent sites in a very nice place in between, which is why I say it’s ‘better’. I guess you object to the term ‘better’ when you would prefer ‘different – and thus better for a different audience?’ I guess just saying Gwent is ‘better’ is very similar to saying that Cards Against Humanity is a bad game. 😉
The bit you’re probably missing is that “very, very specific for tournament play” is actually completely standard. As a matter of fact, one of those formats is called Standard. Practically everyone builds their deck to fit within a well-defined format and then they play like with like.
I was once like your brother. I know exactly what he’s doing and while it’s incredibly fun to come up with those decks, they’ll often get destroyed by the kid who found a decklist online.
I’m not saying that Gwent is bad, I’m saying that you’ve got the wrong impression of Magic.
Oh and Cards Against Humanity is a bad game. At the very least, from a mechanics point of view.
CAH is an excellent party game. 🙂 Similar to charades or pictionary.
Eh, I think it’s actually pretty poor. Not much of a “game” there and the subject matter is kind of ick
Shut up and Sit Down wrote an excellent thing on it that pretty much summarises my views
http://www.shutupandsitdown.com/blog/post/review-cards-against-humanity/
Look, Gwent is a good game, from what I’ve played- I’d buy it in physical form, and I could see it being a LCG. Magic, however, is multiple games working form the same base. I can have fun in magic playing with PAX starter decks straight out of the packet, or big, tuned, battlecruiser commander decks where you’ve taken someone’s beat stick and beat them with it before they combo out. I play drafts and sealed, which are a static power level affair where decks are based on luck and deckbuilding skill, and I also play with people who have crazy modern decks filled with broken shit. It all depends on the playgroup
That’s why I’m into it. It’s not one game, it’s lots of games, and you can find a mode to your taste.
To help explain things a little more, here’s a handful of the commonly played formats of Magic. They’re broken into two categories: constructed and limited. Constructed decks are made beforehand out of the player’s collection. Limited are from cards given to the player then and there.
Block constructed: Uses cards from the latest “block”. A block is a group of three sets of cards released with some sort of common theme between them.
Standard: Uses the two most recent blocks and the most recent core set. This is pretty much the default MtG format.
Modern: Uses all cards printed with the current card frame (they started printing these in 2003 and it’s when I stopped playing competitively).
Legacy: Uses all cards printed ever with pretty extensive a ban list.
Vintage: Same as Legacy except you’re allowed single copies of cards banned in Legacy.
Commander/EDH: A casual format where players have a creature as their “commander” and everything in the deck must share a colour with the commander. On top of that, players can only have a single copy of each card in their deck (as opposed to 4) and decks must be 100 cards (as opposed to a 60 card minimum).
Sealed: Players are given 6 booster packs (90 cards) to make a deck with a minimum of 40 cards in it.
Draft: Players are given 3 booster packs. They’ll take a card from a pack then pass the pack on to the next player. Repeat until all cards from all packs are drafted. Players then make 40 card decks.
Cube draft: Instead of using sealed booster packs, players make their own booster packs from their collection and then draft as normal.
There are banlists in most formats to keep on top of the more insane card interactions and, like I said before, these formats are well known so players will play like with like.
I have only Cubed once. Cube is really fucking cool- the cube I played was a guy’s own brew and I drafted one of the best Green/White/Black decks I’ve ever played, so much so that I’ve been looking at commanders in those colours.
Love me EDH and draft/sealed- the first, because it has the variance and the MP aspect, and the second because there’s space for experimentation. EDH lets me indulge my deckbrewing instinct while leaving room to play cards because I think they’re fun, or funny
Modern/Legacy/Vintage are megabucks (prob what @transientmind’s brother is into), Standard can be expensive and is highly meta dependent which I’ve got no desire to jump on.
Block constructed you don’t see very often, though it is around. 2 headed giant is also a fun format that I play at prereleases.
Other than that, there’s Highlander, which is apparently played in 3 places- Victoria, Australia, Victoria, Canada, and Germany.
@redartifice If I could play regularly, I’d definitely put together a cube. It’s the ideal way to scratch that limited itch without the ongoing costs.
Based on what @transientmind has said, his brother is almost definitely a casual player. Poison/infect decks are a viable thing in Modern but most people aren’t going to sink the money into having multiple sets of the necessary land cards for competitive decks in those formats (especially when there are mill/control decks that would share a manabase). Plus landwalk/unblockable decks are pure jank.
Block constructed was more of a thing when I played. Then again, so was Extended. That’s right, I played four Force of Wills in a rotating format. I’m old.
@trjn I don’t have the card pool for cube, but I’ve got a mate who I’m trying to convince to build one. Our issue is finding enough people who play magic to make drafts viable- one friend, who plays every other game we own has said she’d rather “chew her own arm off” than even learn, and her attitude is not unique.
With EDH, we can play with 4-5 of us and have another table set up for others to play whatever
Big call out to @sunsoar77.
Exam today for the two of us.
Best of luck to you, but going by your results so far you probably don’t need it. 🙂
Good luck to both of you!
All I want right now is western release details for Palico Monster Animal Hunter Crossing Souls.
Coming to your dreams this Winter.
Oh my god, I thought this was just a joke in TAY, but it’s a real thing:
http://www.digitalspy.com.au/gaming/news/a650178/monster-hunter-x-and-from-software-spin-off-announced-for-nintendo-3ds.html#~pepah8qw6OpSzm
When do we ever joke.
I have been dead serious thus whole time and I am dead serious when I say this is now my most anticipated title. It better get released.
My first reaction was to mock the idea but, actually…
Animal crossing but with those palico side things from MH4U and maybe more other stuff.
Expanded animal crossing into this universe works for me, big time.
can you have humans as pets
Hmmm. I shoot off a couple of emails requesting copies of invoices from statements. I get almost instant replies for both from the same person saying “wrong company”. This is despite the fact that I’ve triple and quadruple checked I sent thrm to the right email address and the details on her signature match what’s on the statements too.
How do I tactfully respond saying I think she’s working for the wrong company?
Send them the statement as an attachment and a reference for the invoices you’re looking to chase up?
Did that in the first case and listed the invoices in the email as well. Ah well, I’ll think of something snarky, but not too snarky so it’s still professional 😀
Good ol’ passive aggressiveness, the bread and butter of the office workplace =p
Cakesmith attempts to watch 100 movies in 2015 that he has never seen before!
What a month, what a lovely month!
Mad fuckin’ Max. Holy shit. How good is Mad Max? So good I’ve seen it twice now and want to watch it again. Ex Machina was great and I finally got around to watching Fury, which was also super rad.
Month:
Best Movie: Mad Max: Fury Road
Worst Movie: Jupiter Ascending
Year:
Best Movie: Mad Max: Fury Road
Worst Movie: Taken 3 (Yep, still)
Total Movies Watched:
Jan – 15
Feb – 8
Mar – 3
Apr – 9
May – 7
Total – 43
Full list: http://letterboxd.com/asharples/films/diary/year/2015/
Still a handful of stuff I didn’t get around to seeing in May. ‘When Marnie Was Here’, ‘Tomorrowland’.
I think Jurassic World will be next, plus with it being a long weekend and me having no plans, I might have to cross a few off the back catalogue list. Or I could check out Mad Max again…
Feel free to give me suggestions on movies you think I should watch.
I don’t see Kung Fury on there, either you don’t count that as a movie or you just majorly disappointed me! 😛
Can’t he do both?!
Now he knows how my parents feel.
I’m not included short films, which I would classify it as.
It was pretty fucking great though.
Man on Wire is on Netflix and is my favourite documentary in years.
I haven’t got to it yet, but “No” is on there too, about the advertising campaign that unseated Pinochet in Chile.
I’m going to assume that’s slightly different from Man On Fire
Yeah
I watched Maleficent for the first time the other day and that was rather good
I got around to Snowpiercer last week and was pleasantly surprised. More reasons to love Tilda Swinton too.
Shame you missed out on Marnie. I reckon it’s the best written Ghibli film.
It’s actually still playing at the cinema near me (Dendy Newtown in both English and Japanese), so there’s still time!
Why did none of you tell me China Mieville has a new short story collection coming out next month?
I was meant to be a surprise
*runs of crying*
Trying to get myself back into the habit of reading regularly again. Read books constantly as a child and a teenager, but somewhere in my early twenties I lost the habit. Life, video games, etc. just didn’t seem to allow the time. Probably a shit excuse because I should be making time.
Got about 20-30 books I’ve been meaning to read for many years, and have decided to launch my renewed reading career with William Gibson’s Neuromancer. Been meaning to read it since, oh forever. Only about 100 pages in and I love it already. Next will probably be Brent Week’s Lightbringer series, or Peter Brett’s Demon Cycle series.
Great book Necromancer. Not big on the rest of his stuff tho.
I still need to read The Peripheral.
Gibson is a singular author, and that’s what I love about him. that hyper-aware brand and gear fetishisation would seem weird coming from anywhere else but just works so well. After Pattern Recognition I seriously started googling Buzz Ricksons
The Peripheral is a great read
Interesting. Personally I couldn’t get into Neuromancer at all. Found it boring and generally unengaging. But I started with the Bridge books from him (started with Idoru, specifically) and then tried to go back. The only one of the Sprawl books I enjoyed was Mona Lisa Overdrive.
Couldn’t stand pattern recognition because of the tense it used, dropped it a few chapters in and never went back.
I do think that Gibson’s generally an overrated author though.
I love that in the afterword to Idoru he mentions that a character is a TONED DOWN version of chopper read.
I’m still not sure whether he cribbed the idea of the virtual idol from Sharon Apple or if he came up with it independently.
I don’t know the chronology there, but knowing Gibson he heard it as a concept and then extrapolated it from there. You see him do it really well in the Pattern Recognition trilogy- Spook Country is pretty much a novel about AR, 3-4 years before it was a thing, and Zero History nails a bunch of stuff about civilian UAVs and surveillance.
Idoru was published in Late 1996. Macross Plus was 1994. Timeline makes it line up fairly well.
Lots of people nowadays look at Idoru and compare Rei Toei to Miku Hatsune, but the book describes something much more like Sharon Apple.
I can highly recommend the Lightbringer series and Demon Cycle series, only problem is they are both not yet finished, so you will be waiting a while to complete the series!
I just finished the first book of The Powder Mage trilogy by Brian McClellan, actually a really good book, something I picked up off of the Kindle store when I was running out of things to read and I didn’t think I would find a gem!
I’ve been trying to do that recently. Just picked up The Wheel Of Time again, and will then get stuck into A Song Of Fire & Ice. By the time I’m done with that the 6th book should be out so that should be well timed. Then I think I’ll read some more Brandon Sanderson. I haven’t read The Way of Kings yet so I think that’ll be first on the list when I get around to it.
I love reading though but found it really hard to get into the right mood for it. Am getting back there now though that I have my own little rumpus room 😀
@pupp3tmast3r and @transientmind sorry about the bookmarks. I’ve had a bit of a rough week. I’ll be buying a good paintbrush today and hopefully start in the next few days
Take your time, no rush. 🙂
thanks
Your KPI’s for this quarter are way below par scree, is there anything you feel we should consider in your self-assessment performance review?
An apology.
Offer you a free bookmark?
@alexpants @liondrive @os42
Ok so with this ascending thing for gear, does it apply max stats to any gear? Even stock vanilla purples? Or will I need to get the new HoW gear or raid stuff ?
Anything can be ascended to the current light cap/damage. Exotics can be ascended with Exotic shards and other glimmer, etc, legendaries require Etheric Light which can be obtained from level 34 and 35 Prison of Elders, and I believe they can drop randomly from Nightfalls too.
EDIT: I think ascending my Fatebringer was the personal highlight. 365 Fatebringer? Yesss.
Ah sweet, don’t need to buy new gear then, just scrounge up Light.
Man I wish I had that. Love my Devil I Know but it’s not perfect, and while my 365 Hawkmoon is the bomb, I prefer exotics in the special slot.
@pupp3tmast3r
Yeah, jumped in last night. Carried the daily strike. Glad to see I’ve still got it 😀
Yeah, basically just scrounge etherics for your old purples, and exotics shards for your yellows. That’s it. Etherics are harder to get, but worth it. Also Variks sells one piece of 42 light armor per week as well, which you buy with armor cores earned from Prison of Elders.
I want 365 Vision Of Confluence. I now have one on each character, but haven’t managed to ascend yet.
Managed to 365 my VoC last night. Now got my holy trinity of primaries – 365 Fatebringer, 365 VoC and 365 Atheon’s Epilogue.
Excellent! I don’t have Fatebringer but I do have Oversoul Edict and Atheon’s Epilogue so I have a legendary damage set (I have Abyss Defiant too, so anything with wizards and solar burn is a lot of fun). Looking forward to ascending. I need to consolidate all my weapons and sort a basic loadout for each character.
=O Have you already jumped into Destiny, dammit I’m gonna be playing catch up =p
As @ynefel said, any legendary can be ascended, all the way back to vanilla stuff… although raid gear is usually preferable due to having better perks in general. Exotics can be ascended with exotic shards, same as unlocking the last node in their upgrade tree (since the week before TDB launched); legendaries require etheric light, which can be obtained via 34 and 35 PoE, Trials of Osiris, Iron Banner (this week) Ranks 3 and 5, and a rare drop from nightfalls. I’ve done nine or so nightfalls since HoW dropped (helped a few friends through), and haven’t seen one drop for anyone.
Yeah, the Etheric light is gonna be a problem to get as I’m stuck at 29 without it.
Do you have vanguard marks and a rep>2? You can buy gear to get you to 32 from any of the faction, crucible or vanguard vendors. That, and any legendary gear/engrams that drop now are automatically 36 light – two of those and an (ascended) exotic will get you to 32.
Yeah got plenty of marks and rep, maybe I’ll just buy a new set to get the ball rolling.
Amnesty International have set up next to me looking for donations. Never seen such aggressive tactics before. They’re following people outside and shouting at others, almost like they’re trying to embarrass them into signing on.
It’s not a good look for the organisation.
They asker me to sign a petition once, I asked if they would use my number to contact me at any time because I didn’t want that. They assured me they wouldn’t, then they spent the next 6 months calling me weekly for donations and trying to guilt me into giving money. I eventually blew up at them and told them to never call me again.
They’re all subcontractors, those charity donation peeps
The business model around being one of those guys is really, really shit. Basically, it’s all commission, and if someone signs up then quits within the first two months you don’t get the $$ through no fault of your own. That’s why they’re so aggressive.
My brother almost was one, until my dad (rightly) talked him out of it.
I couldn’t do that job. I’m not sure those working conditions are entirely legal, either…
Anyway, the companies they work for take something like the equivalent of five months’ donation for each successful sign-up. I fell for this once, read the fine print too late, and stayed with the charity for six years to make it up to them. Won’t be fooled again.
Oh, I’m sure it’s “legal,” it’s just exploitative. I mean I get the delay- stops me from going out and signing up like five mates for one month just to get a payout – but the money is going to the contracting company, not the worker.
I suspect our company is about to get into bed with one of these organisations for our charity giving arrangements. I don’t know how to dissuade it without destroying everything and ending up with no charity at all.
That’s the thing. I try and consider the economic sense in hiring all of these contractors to try and sign up new donations and it doesn’t make sense. The only way it can even work financially is if the contractors have a ridiculously terrible remuneration system, otherwise the charity is more likely to lose more money from paying the contractors than they gain in donations.
It’s a terrible system and I actually wonder why the charities think employing “chuggers” or charity muggers as someone called them is actually worthwhile. Heck, having someone doorknock and go from house to house is actually a nicer approach in most cases than having someone chase you down the street. Signing up for a “donation payment arrangement” is a bullshit way to con people into giving money.
I’ve always wondered about how effective personal donations are anyway. Are Mr and Mrs Bloggs contributing $5 a month going to be in any way close to the corporate partnerships where 123Corp is donating $500K as a tax writeoff?
It’s the set-and-forget aspect of it. If you sign up to one of these things, if it’s not much money a month you won’t cancel it, and that provides a consistent level of base funding.
Having worked in non-profits for the last five years, there’s organisations that would kill for a level of base funding they could budget to.
Bit of a catch 22 though if that budget has to be used to get the staff to get the monthly donations to get the budget in the first place?
They’re cheap though, because the payments to the staff is handled through the subcontractor, who only pay them on commission.
If you get a grant fund or a corporate grant, you’d allocate a wedge of it to a subcontractor and then wait for the long tail to come in.
Deductible charity donations is actually a very effective form of encouragement. A lot of business people hate the idea of having to pay tax so they’ll spend millions getting out of paying tax. Whether that’s sending money overseas or paying massive donations, they’ll do it out of self-interest rather than goodwill.
Yeah, we’ve got a “Corporate Giving” program at work where they’ll match any monthly donations made by employees through our “partnership” pages.
What company does yours go through? I need to have some alternatives in mind before I throw a spanner in the works of the current one being lined up.
Just checked and the page doesn’t say who it’s administered through (we set it up via our payroll system) just lists the 13 “community partners” available for matching.
Personally that sort of thing sours me toward giving at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Ti68MbkCU
This is how charity donations should be obtained
Had yesterday off for the public holiday in WA. Had a mate come over and we spent 8hrs playing Chivalry: Mediaeval Warfare. I forgot how fun it is!
You really have to give the Hatred devs credit, they’re masterfully manipulating the media. Media can’t help themselves and are falling into every hook they’re throwing out there.
Not even sure who the real problem here is. Devs, media or gamers themselves. Everyone?
Gamers -> Media -> Devs -> Gamers -> Media -> Devs well you get the gist right =p
Blame Canada!
F*cking @bish and @saturday, ruining everything.
Hey now, ruining things for everyone is the only skill Caturday has so don’t take that away from him.
Hahaha, I was only playing @saturday! :O
You’re not too bad!
You’re definitely in my top 2 Canadian TAYbies!
THERE’S ONLY THE TWO
Forget morality, that article was the first time I learned the game is just a twin-stick shooter. Ewwww.
And by the sounds of it a very stock standard one with nothing new being brought to the table.
Having seen gameplay footage, the game is completely not as much of a moral panic as people are making it out to be. Sure the subject is contentious but the game is basically just a ‘run around and kill people for points/complete objective’ sort of game. Basically the same premise as Hotline Miami, Bulletstorm, Metal Slug, etc. The only thing that makes it notable is the subject matter which, even then, is not that disturbing (to me at least). It almost comes off as satirical at times.
Saw some gameplay of it – looks incredibly boring, tbh. The violence is nothing outrageous, either – seen far worse things in Mortal
CKombat, or even GTA. Only interesting thing about it seems to be the physics engine – the destructible environments look like they could be really interesting, but the gameplay just looks dull as dishwater.There was a quote in one of the articles that I can’t find just now
Basically saying it is as rebellious as slipknot or smoking behind the shelter sheds.
If you’re not part of the Final Solution, you’re part of the problem. *loads gun menacingly*
I knew what half of the comments in that article were going to be before I opened the link. They’re amazingly transparent about this but it’s working a treat.
As for who’s to blame… EVERYONE.
Bravely Second localization confirmed \o/ for 2016 /o\
I hope it’s early 2016 😀
I hope it’s not too close to Fire Emblem.
A B C D E F G
Gummi Bears are chasing me
One is red, one is blue
One is pink, it’s on my shoe
Now I’m running for my life
Because the red one’s got a knife
Good to see that school is teaching my five year old the important things.
Fuck me, this song is creepy. Can’t get it out of my head.
Funny how adults can get disturbed by stuff that kids think is just hilarious fun.
Are they sugar free gummi bears?
Massive Chalice is out. Long live the bloodline of Tigranna
I tried that out early access an got kind of annoyed by how random the fertility factor was? I’d win all my fights and then lose because none of my bloody bloodlines would reproduce =@
So you’ve created pandas?
Effectively =p
I’ve only played a very small amount but from what I could see you need to hook up the grizzled old warrior with the buxom/buff young trophy spouse.
My house was rushed and only got accepted into the silly mode as it wasn’t thematically appropriate. But the best ones of the ones they released were equally silly, so I’m happy with that (unless those other ones still made it in the main game mode, at which point I shall begin to harbour a small seed of resentment)
We had to revise ours a few times before it was accepted. We were not allowed to use Tiglet within our house motto.
Although we did manage (in a manner of speaking) to get our “Frog and Toad are friends” warcry of “Poop Poop” in there 😉
But looking through the bloodlines when I tried it out in EA there was some really cool ones created. Was playing Themantic only to begin with and didn’t see any silly ones.
Something went funny for me and I never got any emails, and I hadn’t manually kept on top of it so I didn’t get time to revise.
Is it? Would be nice if they gave me my copy of the game then. 🙁
You didn’t get any notification? I got another email with the backer key to some relic, whatever that is. I already had my game key.
Hmmm, yeah, wonder when they’ll even ask for an address to send the special edition boxed copy.
Digital keys were sent out in November, that’s how far you need to go back to find that email.
Turns out I did get that message. But I ignored it because fuck early access.
(I think) same here, but the early access licence has just become the 1.0 licence. I should dig it up and claim it.
Big petition started against Neil Gaiman’s Lucifer being made into a TV show.
Gaiman finds it hilarious and starts openly wondering what ever happened to the mothers group that tried to get Sandman banned from being published.
Sandman is still the bee’s pyjamas.
Too bad the show looks like absolute shit.
Such a great concept ruined.
You should start a petition.
Please, as a straight white male, I will just complain about it on the Internet.
Isn’t… isn’t that what online petitions are?
Not when you have Twitter.
Ohhhhh, so that’s what that’s for.
XCOM 2
XCOM 2!
EEXXCOOMM TWOOOOOOOO!!!!!
This is officially the best news ever! At least for today and it more than makes up for the job application rejection I got this morning. I won’t have time for working not with all the alien fighting I’m going to be doing come November!
It’s even got Snakemen again!! I always wanted one as a pet in UFO Enemy Unknown, they were adorable and now they just look awesome and badass.
Best news ever right?! =D I was much excite when I saw that article today morning as well ^^
I’m definitely taking some time off the week after release.
(But not booking the leave until a couple weeks before, and not for a period any less than a few days after, because I am a wary, skeptical bastard when it comes to release dates.)
I was expecting them to remake Terror From The Deep 🙁
One of the things that’s mentioned in the information that’s come out so far is mod support. Obviously Long War 2 will be a major one but give people that kind of access and a TFTD remake can’t be that far off
Hi fellow Taybies,
Found this interesting and cute 8bit game for those who are into 8Bit / starships / MMORPGs (damn that’s a mouthful).
They are running a kickstarter campaign (yeh another gaming kickstarter campaign) and while it looks they are doing ok, i hope it gets over the line. I really want to play this game and take advantage of my $19 pledge haha.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/savysoda/pixel-starships-8bit-starship-management-strategy
Have a look and see if it interests you, the concept around the management of the starship seems cool.
Hi Gosurz!
You appear to have created your account just to make this comment, so it does seem like something you are passionate about.
I’m interested to hear more of what you like about the starship management concept – what other games like this have you enjoyed? What floats your boat these days?
Welcome to TAY 🙂
*produces the oar*
Also, how much have you pledged?
You appear to be quite active in the campaign comments and have mentioned wanting your shirt, which only comes at an $83+ tier.
And forgive my cynicism, but I have to ask – are you the business development team member of the company running the campaign?
So, the guys who made SpaceChem have released a game in which you rewrite corrupted segments of assembly code to repair a computer system. I… may have to try this…
My Spacechem gameplay was the most wonderful series of bodge jobs.
Yeah, that looks pretty awesome
Linky?NVM found it
Is this a separate thing again from infinifactory? I did enjoy my time with spacechem, even if it felt suspiciously like work.
http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/
New thing again, similar premise.
Super appealing but seems kinda like work… I like it though.
Seems very like work
Mad Max: Fury Road is pretty cool. I was hesitant at first to watch it as I hadn’t seen any of the other movies, and I was worried of being overhyped as people were calling this the best action movie ever, (seriously, you do no favours to anyone by doing that) but I don’t regret it. Anxiety and my stomach were going crazy in the theatre but I managed to stay in my seat through the whole movie.
I’ve got to give kudos to the director, their were some amazing shots in it. The sandstorm scene was visually amazing. I want to watch it again just for that one scene. I also admired how the film managed to tell its story with almost no dialogue. It used the strengths of the film medium to its advantage, which I respect.
It really is freaking incredible.
One of the very few movies that is nigh impossible to overhype. Nothing really prepares you for just how great the film is.
Oh, so MPs are finally able to look at what the TPP entails.
As long as they sign a 4 year NDA.
Yep. Everything sounds legit and not worrying about it at all.
It would be pretty terrible if a nation’s peoples ever found out what was in the trade agreements their representatives were signing before they had a chance to influence whether the representatives signed or not. Can’t imagine a world where that kind of thing would possibly work at all.
Don’t worry, Rupert Murdoch will let us know what it all involves just as soon as he’s done milking the agreement for all its worth.
Fun fact: Abbott got upset at his cabinet today about leaking information to the media part of which included the fact that he leaked information to the Telegraph and lied about doing so in the Cabinet meeting.
He then compared himself to Jesus.
You mean he isn’t Jesus? I need to re-evaluate my life
Gahhhh! Politicians making me angry
Is it E3 yet?
Not for another two weeks, I’m afraid…
That reminds me, maybe I should take some time off work to watch the conferences this year.
I always got lucky and had school holidays, public holidays, or sick days around E3 the last three years. And yet I’ve never seen a press conference. I always just watched the front page of Kotaku or Cheat Code Central or something for news articles. The closest thing is that I watched the Xbone reveal months after on Youtube. (I managed an impressive twenty minutes before the joke of how bad the conference was got old)
Apparently you can’t use the clothing or weapons shops in Splatoon unless you have an internet connection. Which was pretty shitty last night when my net just decided to stop working, so I earnt a few more blueprints in single player and wanted to check them out. But nooope :/
@redartifice Does Marvel Unlimited give you access to current arcs or just the archived series?
It’s on like a 6 month delay, so all the new issues this week are from December.
Gives you current series, so it has the first two issues of Superior Iron man for example, and beyond that it’s got the back catalogue in its entirety as far as I can tell, and has it searchable by creators, series, arc (for major arcs) or character.
Also has some of the other stuff they have dumped in from when Marvel’s got the rights to something, so they added all of the Dark Horse Star Wars stuff. Only one I haven’t found yet was the 3 issue mid 90s run of The Phantom they published, presumably as it’s owned by King Features.
=O I’ve always wanted to get stuck into the Dark Horse Star Wars stuff actually… Hmmm this might be something for me to look into. Payable via iTunes on the app store?
You need to sign up through Marvel’s site, then enter your login in the app.
Also, obligatory Apple Weirdness may be a thing, so you’ll have to do your research (I’m on Android)
Also Also: I’ve been reading the old Rogue Squadron stuff. So good!
OOH Also also also: It’s all you can read on wifi, you can only have a dozen issues downloaded at a time. Bear that in mind if you’re looking at it for public transport reading or similar.
Yeah saw that when I was looking stuff up on it, I’ll have to see how the apple app works, don’t much like the idea of signing up for a sub outside of the conventional means I’m used to =p
Mine charges to my Visa debit. Sub/unsub is pretty straightforward
I totally forgot to hype up the idea of TF2uesday over the last couple of days to give people time to install/update/whatever, and now it’s Tuesday. Oops.
That’s not The Witcher though.
I plan to main demo knight and pirouette like mad, but.
It’s not Splatoon either.
(Maybe do a one-off TFThursday this week?)
I like the way you hat.
Splatoosday?
Me and @sughly probs playin!
Yes, let’s!
aw man! Too late now 😛
Oh wait its tuesday today haha, I was thinking it was being suggested for tomorrow
Magicka 2uesday
Last politically themed post from me then I’ll stop upsetting every one.
Seeming as Shorten is kind of free falling in polls of late, people aren’t happy with the LNP but don’t particularly care for Shorten, should he stay on as Opposition Leader and go to next election or should someone else like Plibersek or Albanese take over risking the field day LNP would have with disunity within Labor and look they’re at it again?
Ablo be leadar after eat Ball Sherton
#imagen
I just googled #imagen
What the blazes am I looking at o_O
https://twitter.com/rudd2000
I’m crying.
I just love that Ablo actually launched the book
Also, FWIW, that account is the inspiration for “What are Gooky join twittar” joke, and is itself based on Seinfeld2000
I’m too young fo’dis shit.
I applaud Shorten for bringing the marriage equality bill to parliament, but it did seem kinda like a popularity grab. But hey, I’m certainly not complaining!
Though it worked. I’d rather Shorten than Abbott. He’s far less creepy looking, and that’s what I look for in my leadership.
A solid criterion, to be sure.
Well, if I’m going to be lied to by someone, I’d rather they look good (comparatively speaking) while doing it.
He’s been pretty toothless as the opposition leader and hasn’t given any reason why people should vote for him over Abbott. I can see a fair few independents gaining support in the next election
Every election, I desperately hope for one of those hung parliaments that pollies keep telling us will bring about the end of the world.
Hung Parliament… I think I’ve seen that. John Holmes was in it, right?
I believe it was full of upstanding members.
Who kept voting to gag debate.
Things got a bit interesting when the Party whip was involved.
Didn’t manage to keep them from mass debate in the end.
BRILLIANT innuendo.
In fairness six months ago everyone was saying how Abbott was so busy digging his own holes that Shorten could just put his feet up. Now Abbott seems to have run out of bonehead ideas and stopped hogging the limelight Shorten can start actually making some progress again.
I think they have all been so invisible recently one is as good as the other.
Put some policy out there, debate the merit of proposals and call out the government on their BS.
Switching leaders while in opposition isn’t the same situation as what happened with Rudd/Gillard.
I strongly suspect that Albanese/Plibersek will be the team going into an election. Timing will be important. Don’t want to take away too much attention from Abbot’s awfulness yet.
Honestly, none of them are hugely compelling. Albo is probably the best of them, but people don’t really know him that well, and his manner of speech is quite rough and tradesman-like which can push some people away. Plibersek is a woman and that’s proven to be a double-edged sword in our fucked up political system. Shorten is super boring and his head is ever so slightly too large for his body.
Barring no one else appearing in the limelight suddenly, I’d pick Albo personally. But I’d rather vote for my neighbour’s dog than Abbot.
Howdy there TAY.
So uh, bit of a serious topic, all a bit of a downer so just going to whack it behind a big ol’ spoiler tag. If you’re feeling happy, just keep on scrolling and don’t drag yourself down with this.
So… Death in the family. Sudden, unexpected death.I have no idea how to handle this. Going to be going back to see the rest of the family soon, it’s going to be hitting everyone pretty hard.
So far, on day 0, I drank. Singles didn’t have the desired effect, but once I upped to doubles it helped with enough suppression to be able to talk a bit.
Day 1, mostly just avoided thinking about it, also ate too much chocolate.
Day 2, I seem to have herded the concept back into a hypothetical/what if/shitty parallel universe part of my brain, and can manage about 30 seconds of conversation before it starts to creep back into the reality awareness.
I also have even more chocolate but suspect I’m going to make myself sick on it soon.
So what are those stages again? Going to say that my brain is still struggling with the concept so that’d put it somewhere around ‘Denial’.
Spoiler, I just looked it up. Anger is meant to come next. That’s probably not going to be pretty.
Not really sure why I’m posting this, but if I’m not my usual jolly self for the next little while, I apologise.
I’m sorry to hear that, it is never an easy thing to deal with and you don’t need to apologise! If you need to talk about anything or get anything off of your chest, TAY is a perfect place to do so.
I’m decidedly terrible with supportive words but if you need anything you know where I am.
*hugs* All the best, my friend. Sorry you have to go through this.
If you ever need to talk, you know where to find me!
Dude,
You’re allowed to go to pieces. It’s more than OK, and frankly expecting a rational thought or for it not to be dominant in your thinking at this point is unreasonable. When my Grandma died, I was a wreck for weeks. Over time, the pain remains, but it becomes a far ache.You’ll be OK. Just give it time, and we’ll be here to talk.
I’m sorry to hear that 🙁 Don’t try and hold back the feelings you have mate, they need to be released and its healthy when going through something this major.
If you feel the need to cry/be angry/be by yourself then be kind to yourself and just be. It hurts mate, it really does but over time things get better.
Until then, you have your family and friends and those here to support you if you need it *hugs*.
Thanks for the heads up
Things would be much easier if we could just jump right to the last stage but sadly this isn’t something that you are able to logic your way through.
It’s a tough emotional time and if you need to you us for anything don’t hesitate, if that is to reminisce, ignore, yell at or to just try provide a distraction.
*Hugs*
Edit: Day 3: Cry. You are allowed to. Bugger those people who tell you you have to keep your chin up or stay strong. There is far too much emotion to suppress and keep within.
Bull by the horns. Take some time off work and grieve. Grieve hard. A week or more if you can get away with it. Most places should give you a few days for bereavement, but that’s not enough in my opinion. Not for close family. Not for people you more than just ‘knew’. There’s no fucking way I’m functional and worth paying to do a job, three days after a family death.
Drinking’s only one part of the escapist cocktail. Movies are no good, they’re about feelings. Games are good. Real good. Particularly if repetitive.
Shower. Cry in the shower. Big, fucking gulped-breath moans.
Walk. Exercise. Make the blood flow and get fresh air.
Break routine and use your time-off to just walk around the city during the day. Go to the library and just browse, see what programs they have running. Poke your nose into any hole-in-the-wall cafes you’ve never been to. Sit at the park. Watch the rowers on the river.
Don’t let this shit be associated with your routine.
Later, when it’s less raw but still hurts, you should talk it out with family. Share memories. Process. That’ll hurt, too… a lot. But it gets you collected in a way. Sorts out your head. The hurt doesn’t stop for a while.
But right now? Get the fuck out of your head to somewhere else that doesn’t hurt. Get good and numb. Games are a healthier way than booze. Doesn’t mean you can’t do a little of both, though.
“Most places”! Thankfully my new work was kind enough to do that for me, cos my old one didn’t even give me half a day off when my mum went in to a coma! Not everyone is as unlucky as me when it comes to shitty cuntfaced employers though!
I’m sorry – I hope you find some solace with the rest of your family.
That sucks man, losing someone is a horrible experience. (Doubly so if it’s unexpected). If you need anything just let me know.
To put on my “wanky uni student” hat
The Kübler-Ross theory of 5 stages of grief isn’t that great. I wrote a paper on Grief this year in uni and have come to the conclusion that I don’t agree with it. Well, at least some of the ideas behind it. It throws out some interesting ideas, but some things I call BS on.EDIT: Also, fuck gender/social expectations, they do too much harm to people. Don’t suppress any feelings you are currently experience.
Damn dood. Having been through my mothers passing recently, I can say that it’s not an easy time for anyone no matter what. I’m not really all that familiar with the so called 5 stages of grieving (or however many they say there are) but it’s different for everyone really.
For me, it was also a little different, as we sort of knew it was coming. Like was still unexpected, but we knew it was a distinct possibility, so possibly knowing that made it a little easier, but I didn’t shed a single tear until we were at the funeral a week or more after her passing, and they played the music that I suggested they play. Up until that point, it was all a little.. dream state like.. for lack of a better term. Even at the funeral parlour, I was just fine outside, seeing all the people I would have been happy to never see again (usually I avoid these gatherings like the plague). Wasn’t til I heard the first notes of the music, that I totally lost it.
I doubt telling you my situation will really assist you in dealing with yours, but don’t be worried if you feel like you’re not grieving in a normal way or anything. I don’t think there is any kind of normal in situations like that. All depends how well you know them, and how close you were on a day to day basis I guess.
Sorry to hear about your loss though 🙁 Tough times for sure. Try to stay positive though. Try not to dwell on what you could have done or could have said. It’ll just send you in to a vicious downward spiral. Think of the good times, and such. Look at some old photo’s where you’re all happy together!
Not sure if it’s any use to you, but that’s my 2c!
it’s ok if you can’t handle it. That’s what a loss can do but it’s totally not a bad thing if you find yourself unable to cope. In my experience it’s the coming to an acceptance with a sudden death that makes it, I won’t say harder, but different to a death from an illness or something you can prepare for in some way. My grandad died in a housefire 6 months after my dad died of cancer and it was the suddenness that made me cry my eyes out at his funeral. Complete and utter shock followed by a lot of grieving. I’d say it gets better, but for me, neither really has but I get on as best I can as will you, but however you choose to deal with it, that’s ok. No one can tell you how you’re supposed to react, grieve and come to terms with it, if they do you might feel angry to them, you might not, but they’re trying to help you how they can, but listen to what they have to say and then do what works for you.By all means though, vent away in here if you need to or talk about stuff to take your mind off things. People here will support you if you need it
Always here for a chat, mate 🙂
I’m sorry for your loss. Do what you need to do, and don’t apologise for grieving. We love you and we’re here for you.
Don’t know what to say, other than to offer my condolences and sympathies.
Heartfelt sympathies. I’ve dealt with a few serious deaths in the family myself, and the most important thing I learnt is that there is no right or wrong way to grieve. Every person does it their own way. Do what you need to do for a while. Don’t let anyone tell you how you should and shouldn’t be behaving. And secondly, if you need help or someone to talk to, reach out. You’ll know who to talk to. And if you don’t feel like reaching out? That’s cool too. You will eventually.
Take your time, and I daresay any of the fine TAY folks would be willing to lend an ear if you ever need it. Just remember – it does get better. No matter how painful it feels right now, it will improve. Just takes time.
Here’s thinking of you mate.
Sorry for your loss. Grieving is tough, no doubt about it.
Slacking off at work (Code is compiling) so went through Kickstarter projects that I backed that were successful and checked the status of each. Oldest to newest:
– Thunderbeam (2011): $8. Not delivered. Given up on it.– Double Fine Adventure (2012): $30. Delivered completely. Exceeded expectations.
– The Banner Saga (2012): $25. Delivered completely. Haven’t played it but I hear it’s great.
– Wasteland 2 (2012): $55. Delivered. Haven’t played. Haven’t gotten around to getting my other digital goods. Actually claiming it was a pain in the ass.
– Shadowrun Returns (2012): $30. Delivered. Haven’t played. Looks like it met expectations.
– Echoes of Eternia (2012): $15. Not delivered, estimate was mid 2013. Team seems to have gone silent.
– Leisure Suit Larry remake (2012): $15. Delivered. Haven’t played. Why did I back this?
– Republique (2012): $70. Partially delivered. They changed design mid-development, shifted to an iPad version I didn’t have, then couldn’t actually give me the iOS key. PC version still not out. Physical goods not shipped yet. Disappointment.
– Grim Dawn (2012): $18. Partially delivered (In early access). Taking a long time, was meant to be done in 2013.
– Broken Sword: The Serpent’s Curse (2012): $50. Delivered completely. Haven’t played.
– Project Eternity (2012): $80. Partially delivered. Have digital, physical finally mailed out last week. Game was incredibly disappointing.
– Torment: Tides of Numera (2013): $20. Not delivered. Not sure what’s up with this, was meant to be out in 2014.
– Jeff Cannata’s New Show (2013): $1. Got my photo & pilot episode was done & Jeff came to PAX Australia so was a good investment.
– The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers (2013): £55. Delivered completely. Dude had some ongoing legal trouble with an awful translator so took longer than expected to deliver, book’s a bit textbooky but good though.
– Massive Chalice (2013): $20. Completely delivered apparently.
– Satellite Reign (2013): £18. Not delivered. Still in development.
– Little Witch Academia 2 (2013): $110. Expected delivery was April 2015 & they were meant to start on it after Kill la Kill but it got pushed out a bit because Trigger was busy churning out utterly shit anime like Ninja Slayer. Seems on track now though.
– Mysterious Cities of Gold The Game (2013): $15. Delivered completely. Haven’t played.
– Mighty No. 9 (2013): $20. Not delivered. Still in development. Seems on track.
– Cosmic Star Heroine (2013): $10. Not delivered. Still in development. Seems on track.
– Bubblegum Crisis Ultimate Bluray Set (2013): $60. Delivered completely. Upgraded my pledge post-campaign to get the deluxe set and it’s great.
– 2013 Moe Headphones Design Doujin (2013): $30. Delivered completely. Ahead of schedule. Beautiful book too.
– Outerlands: Season One (2014): $50.84. Not delivered. Wasn’t estimated until July 2015 so not worried.
– Shipwrights of the North Sea (2014): $44 NZD. Delivered completely. Game’s pretty good too.
– Koe (2014): £20. Not delivered. I’ve written this off I think.
– Super Dungeon Explore: Forgotten King (2014): $908. Partially delivered. Ordered two copies, one for me and one for a friend. Initial part delivered, secondary shipment is on a boat somewhere between China and Australia, awaiting distribution.
– Barbarossa (2014): $125. Not delivered. Got hit with production delays, but it’s imminent within the next few weeks.
– Dragon Fin Soup (2014): $15. Not delivered. Running a bit behind schedule but I think it’s on track for later this year.
– Celestian Tales: Old North (2014): $25 NZD. Not delivered. Update today says they’re done though, should be officially released in the next month or so.
– Heart Forth, Alicia (2014): $15. Not delivered. Still in development. Guy got way more than he expected for the campaign so is doing extra stuff.
– RAAF Beaufort Bomber Restoration (2014): $10 AUD. This was more of a donation than anything, no idea how the restoration of the plane is going (was just backing one section’s restoration)
– Wa, Anime & Manga RPG (2014). $20. Delivered completely. Grabbed it just because I wanted to crib some ideas.
– Exogenesis (2014): $15. Not delivered. Still in development as of a week or so ago.
– Armello (2014): $55 AUD. Not delivered. It’s in early access or something. They bombard me with updates constantly but I don’t care until the game’s done.
– The Way (2014): $10 CAD. Not delivered. Still in development. Extra money resulted in a bigger game.
– Shiness (2014): $30. Not delivered. Still in development. On track I think.
– Gataela (2014): $10 CAD. Not delivered. Still in development. Expected in August.
– Pale Blue (2014): $10. Not delivered. Still in development. Expected in September.
– Amplitude (2014): $20. Not delivered. Still in development but I think it’s pretty close.
– World End Economica (2014): $65. Partially delivered. Episode 1 done, 2 in beta, 3 in development. Added an artbook but that’ll probably not happen until it’s all done.
– Fault: Milestone One (2014): $10. Delivered completely. Haven’t played yet.
– Semi Comic Book – Vol 1 (2014): $15. Not delivered. Not sure how this is progressing.
– Under the Dog (2014): $75. Not delivered. Troubled project – the production team that was on it when it was kickstarted all disappeared after it was done and were replaced with another company and stuff. Might turn out okay. Not expected for a while.
– Tanto Cuore: Oktoberfest (2014): $475. Not delivered. Similar production issues to Barbarossa. Basically done now, shipping imminent.
– ButterUp (2014): $32 AUD. Delivered completely. My mum loves hers.
– Paradigm (2014): $10 AUD. Not delivered. Still in development. Seems on track.
– WAS The Hourglass of Lepidoptera (2014): $15. Not delivered. Still in development. Seems on track.
– Undad (2014): $35 AUD. Delivered completely. http://www.shanewsmith.com
– Clannad (2014): $115. Not delivered. Still in development. Sekai Project were saying the translation’s nearly done.
– Thimbleweed Park (2014): $20. Not delivered. Still early in development, due 2016
– Hollow Knight (2014): $10 AUD. Not delivered. Still in development, in beta and on track.
– Grisaia Trilogy (2015): $435. Partially delivered. The Fruit of Grisaia released last week, Labyrinth, Eden and Magical Idol Chiruchiru in translation. Physical (and naughty digital 18+ versions we won’t talk about) will happen later.
– Project Scissors: Night Cry (2015): $18. Not delivered. Still early in development, due end of the year (this is the Clock Tower spiritual successor)
– Goetia (2015): $15. Not delivered. Still in development. On track.
– Orion Trail (2015): $10. Not delivered. Still in development. On track.
– Edge of Eternity (2015): $15. Not delivered. Still early in development (expected end of 2016). On track.
– Tohoku Zunko Illustration Book (2015): $80. Not delivered. On track I think.
– Raiders of the North Sea (2015): $68 NZD. Not delivered. Due in December.
– Ninja All Stars (2015): $100. Not delivered. Not due for a fair amount of time.
– Starlight Vega (2015): $19. Not delivered. Still in development. Campaign only ended a month ago.
– Undad Season 2 (2015): $55 AUD. Not delivered. Campaign only just ended. http://www.shanewsmith.com
– Tokyo Dark (2015): $15 CAD. Not delivered. Campaign still going, but will be funded in a week or so (they’re close to 4 times what their initial goal was). This one looks pretty rad, actually – 2D point & click adventure game so @dc might want a look at least. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/114971883/tokyo-dark.
Overall, about 25% delivered, 10% behind or not happening, the bulk that aren’t delivered look to be on track and only a couple I regret backing. 61 backed projects. 13 more pledges that didn’t get collected – 2 because I cancelled my pledge when some details emerged that scared me off, 1 because I cancelled because I couldn’t afford it. Seven where the project was unsuccessful. The final one was because Kickstarter killed my pledge because they decided that one of the rewards violated their guidelines and cancelled all pledges at or above that level.
Oooh, Tokyo Dark seems cool! You know how I feel about adventure games!
They’re a dying genre you want nothing to do with?
Woahhh that’s a lot of pledging. I have backed two things on Kickstarter: Worldspinner and Umbra. I have always wanted to do more, but never seem to find the cool projects until it is too late.
I keep an eye on it every few weeks.
I rarely pledge more than $15 for video games. Lots of times I’ve backed off stuff because they want more than that. I also will bail out if there’s things that look a bit iffy. The stuff that I’ve backed at high amounts have been things where I felt the risk was fairly low – board games from established companies, games from developers that I’m fairly sure can deliver, etc. Board games generally aren’t that risky in that most of the time the game’s done (designed at least) and they’re looking for production funding.
I was going to do this yesterday when Freeze was talking about stuff. I looked at my page and sighed. I may still do.
My backed list is much smaller but I seem to spend a fair whack on each one.
Slash: Romance without Boundaries- $50 – Delivered – can’t find anyone willing to play with me.
All The Kings Men – $45 – missed target
Meraki – $30 – missed target
Metro 7 – $25 – Delivered – A+ would read again
Kung Fury – $30 – semi delivered – movie is up and is grand but yet to receive Bluray
Undad – $120 – Delivered – awesome but cameo was a bit less than I expected
Shadowrun Hong Kong – $55 – rewards delivered – got my source books and stuff but game is still on track
Exploding Kittens – $55 – not delivered – they asked for shipping details last week so shouldn’t be far off
Metalbeard Saga – $35 – Not delivered – apparently have been shipped although creator vastly underestimated shipping costs and ran into some trouble
Undad 2: The Daddening – $30 – Not delivered – starting to suspect this is a ponzi scheme. What credentials do you have so called Shane W Smith?
Yooka-Laylee – £20 – Not delivered – over funded and ambitious usually means disaster but I’ll have faith.
I will play Slash with you.
Bring it to PAX.
Also, @quiz_b, we should talk accommodation
I tried to play it once with Freezey but the whole table decided not to. :'(
We should have dragged it out at Buffalo Bar.
Although at that point every character would have been having a love affair with SOMETHING COLD AND NUMBING THAT WILL EASE THEIR PAIN OH GOD.
If you think you have issues with splash, spare a thought for me dropping $400 to get the latest Tanto Cuore and its previous expansions and some awesome playmats and stuff, despite knowing that no one will ever give it a go with me despite it being a pretty fun Dominion clone.
Let alone trying to convince someone to play Barbarossa.
If you organise that meat I’ll play boobie cards with you. I almost backed it when it was launched.
Unfortunately it hasn’t shipped yet. But I guess I could print out some pasteups for El Alamein which is the sequel (I have it in Japanese) or Kunitori Kessen (which is a team-based deck-builder which re-creates the climatic battle of Sekigahara between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans… except all the generals are cute animu girls)
What I really wanted to introduce you guys to though is Heart of Crown, which is like Dominion but way better and more tactical and also not pervy aside from maybe a couple of card illustrations.
Your meat, your rules. Do it
I’d never force people to play something that made them uncomfortable though. That’s just unfair.
Man, I forgot to back Yooka-Laylee then Bloodstained happened then I bought Dark Souls for a tenner which led to buying Bloodborne for $50 & soon Demon’s Souls for $25. (If I remember, will try to trade some old games toward DS2).
So yeah, “Shiny thing!”
I’m really sorry about the cameo, man. For what little it’s worth, you’ve got a major role in Volume Two, and will be in at least three of the issues.
Speaking of Kickstarter did you see Bill Nye’s one?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theplanetarysociety/lightsail-a-revolutionary-solar-sailing-spacecraft
SPPPPAAAAACCCCEEEEEE!
Well I ‘backed’ that before it was on kickstarter. Probably my most unsuccessful project ever. 🙁
Ok, I just totalled it up and I’m both a bit shocked and also surprised at how few projects I’d consider “written off” – only 3 out of 66, total of $115 written off.
66 projects, $3501 pledged
$35 NEW RICHARD CHEESE “A LOUNGE SUPREME” ALBUM Received
$5 Detroit Needs A Statue of Robocop! Received
$50 Alma Desnuda – a band that inspires and creates abundance Received
$25 STAR COMMAND: Sci-Fi meets GameDev Story for iOS and Android Received base game but no expansions, all work now on PC version
$20 Blink: A surreal first-person gaming experience Received, not played
$50 Ortus: The RPG of your dreams! Disappeared off the face of the Earth. Written off.
$139 Timelapse+ : powerful features, brilliant timelapse Received
$110 Double Fine Adventure Received digital, and all physical except SE box.
$42 Medieval Settlement & City Game Pieces Received
$25 FTL: Faster Than Light Received
$17 Farmageddon – The frenetic farming game Received base pack but not expansions. Company now bankrupt as of a fortnight ago. Don’t care about expansions.
$115 Wasteland 2 Received
$15 TAKEDOWN Received, not played
$15 Make Leisure Suit Larry come again! Received
$50 The Banner Saga Received
$135 The Smut Peddler Pre-Order Project! Received
$50 The Dead Linger Received, not played
$50 Carmageddon: Reincarnation Received
$115 Two Guys SpaceVenture – by the creators of Space Quest Still in development receiving updates but WAY over schedule
$60 Republique by Camouflaj + Logan Received
$30 Xenonauts Received
$45 MaKey MaKey: An Invention Kit for Everyone Received
$30 Dead State: The Zombie Survival RPG Received, not played
$75 Trial of the Clone: A Choosable Path Gamebook by Zach Weiner Received
$15 Castle Story Received
$115 Planetary Annihilation – A Next Generation RTS Received digital, no physical
$20 Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa Still in development receiving updates but WAY over schedule
$25 Earth 360 Received
$35 Socrates – The Most Clever Socks Ever Company totally mismanging, nobody getting updates or products. Written off.
$50 Project Eternity Received
$17 Cthulhu Haiku & Other Mythos Madness – Poems & Stories Received
$50 An EPIC 5-disc FF6 Fan Album from OC ReMix… Take Two! Received
$25 Distance – A Next Generation Arcade Racer Received
$46 TGT (Tight) – A New Kind Of Wallet Received
$20 Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption by the Quest for Glory designers Still in development receiving updates but WAY over schedule
$140 The Official Settlers of Catan Gaming Board Received base board but not Seafarers expansion. Expansions just about ready to ship. Not concerned.
$35 To Be Or Not To Be: That Is The Adventure Received
$25 Star Trek: Renegades Haven’t been following
$25 HAND TO MOUTH: When you can only afford the internet. Received
$30 Unwritten: That Which Happened Last update in 2014. Written off.
$24 From the Composer of Skyrim – Soule Symphony No. 1 Still in development receiving updates but WAY over schedule
$25 Gaming In Color Received
$40 Anything That Loves: Comics Beyond “Gay” and “Straight” Received
$45 The Search For Weng Weng Technically received but wasn’t able to attend. Don’t care.
$50 WISH I WAS HERE Received
$30 Stonehearth Haven’t been following
$61 Marry Me: Big Celebrity Wedding Still in development receiving updates but WAY over schedule
$25 Winning Dad Still in development receiving updates but WAY over schedule
$50 Double Fine’s MASSIVE CHALICE Received
$45 Trial of the Clone 2: Wrath of the Pacifist Received
$10 You Are Not The Hero Still in development receiving updates but WAY over schedule
$50 Hand of Fate, a card game that comes to life Received
$50 LISA the painful RPG Received
$30 StarCrawlers Received beta
$20 Galactic Princess Still in development receiving updates but WAY over schedule
$7 Province – A Competitive Building Microgame for 2 Players Received
$80 Smut Peddler 2014 : LADYPORN CONQUERS EARTH Received
$85 Armello – Bringing Tabletop Adventures to Life Received digital, awaiting phsyical. Not concerned.
$176 Ménage à 3 Volume 6! Received
$250 Undad comic miniseries – all four issues Received. Totally awesome.
$75 Shadowrun: Hong Kong Recent pledge
$55 Exploding Kittens Recent pledge
$20 Orion Trail Recent pledge
$80 Descent: Underground Recent pledge
$42 The Gentleman’s Single-Use Monocle Recent pledge
$100 Undad comic – Season 2 Recent pledge
Seems I’ve collected all the spells, clothes & weapons I need to be a baddass sorcerer in Dark Souls.
Now all I need to do is collected some more shiny rocks to upgrade the gear then go around killing everyone.
Like a true hero!
What are you currently rockin?
Crest shield (extra magic defence because of ring & hat)
Logan catalyst
moon great sword
sage robes
red skirt (was hidden on the way down to spiderlady, good curse resistance)
I think my gloves are actually what a pyromancer start with, bandagy looking
The ring that raises magic health & endurance 20%
The ring that raises magic by 20%(?)
The feathery crown that raises magic attack significantly (apparently)
The moon sword cuts up the average arsehole like butter, real handy for me. Looks ridiculous too, which is fantastic.
My sage robes with red skirt poking underneath have the Technicolor coat effect, which is amusing
I just followed a guide that seemed to work, open to suggestions.
Nah, you’re pretty much on the money there. Have you got the Tin Crystallisation Catalyst yet? Super powered spells but half cast amount. When paired with Crystal Soul Spear and Crystal Homing Soul Mass it wrecks bosses.
Nah, I have to kill old mate now that he’s lost the plot, but I can’t remember exactly where the room is he’s running about naked.
Guides say just to return where you first saw Seath but I can’t remember anymore.
Had enough of the archives for the moment, so I might come back to that later.
Fun fact slightly unrelated: There’s a way to 1-3 shot every boss but you need to have the game unpatched. Originally the Crystal Ring Shield was completely broken and the ring it fired out did 5 times the damage of your right hand weapon in unblockable magic damage. Paired with a Lightning Greataxe +10 it did ~4000 damage at range.
They patched it out and now only does ~200 damage regardless.
Ha! Take that suckers!!
I’m sort of suprised by stuff like curse curing items having to be patched in.
And I can’t imagine trying the Crystal Cave without messages on the floor. I realise there’s ways to ‘see’ the invisible floor, but maaaan.
I can see how the games been designed with the online community in mind, which is clever at times.
I’d be lost without wikis & YouTube
I’m not having a go btw, it’s been fun.
I certainly didn’t figure out how to get the final summon in FF8 without misusing the internet in high school.
Oh, Souls games were always broken to start. Demons got patched enough to be brilliant, Dark Souls got patched to damn near perfect and Dark Souls 2 got patched to be even more bullshit than it started as.
I watched a good critique on DS2 from a guy who loved Demons.
The biggest thing I took away was that without Miyazaki, things got silly.
Stuff like finding a bonfire with a shortcut next to it, back to a bonfire, instead of just a short cut.
And the way it’s hard to backstab because enemies just spin on their feet.
I’ll still grab it. But I’m prepared for a different kind of frustration.
Oh, & what @liondrive was saying about the world making no sense. A dock below sea level & castles not appearing in the background where they should.
a real shame, because the way DS fits together is great & gives me that same sense of accomplishment I get from Metroidvanias & classic Resident Evil.
You don’t know what video that was? Be interested in watching it.
Dark Souls 2 is just bad.
I can’t forgive such truly awful level design.
It’s just… so incredibly bad!
Also, everything felt super uninspired coming off of Dark Souls.
Enemies are bland, character are bland, weapons are bland, armor is bland.
Nothing has a good design…
I bought DS2 at launch but didn’t play it, and I probably never will based on what I’ve seen and read about it. Seems very much like the B team made it in a very cargo cult way, but not actually grasping what makes the games good. Also they seem to believe that making things more frustrating equates to making them more difficult.
Oh yeah, ended up watching nearly all his videos, followed him. He’s working on a similar thing with Dark 1 & already did Demons.
Good to watch, gets some interesting factoids in there, check out his channel
Dark Souls 2 Critique: https://youtu.be/UScsme8didI
This one’s a bit more anti.
Demons is mostly positive.
Haha that thing was awesome.
I held off on Splatoon despite being hype for it.
I just bought 3 Vita games instead >_>
jimu approves (which ones?)
Touch my katamari, Shinobido 2 and Miku Hatsune
Cool, I own none of those but katamari I’ve almost grabbed a few times & Shinobido looks good.
Too many games, so little time! 😀
I have trouble finding decent games for it
There’s not a lot compared to 3ds but there’s more than I can keep up with.
I just got Freedom Wars a few months back & that’ll last me a while.
I’m *still* playing through Duke Nukem 3D.
I really want Shovel Knight, Oreshika Tainted Bloodlines & when it come out, Axiom Verge.
I wanted to buy Munch’s Oddyssey because I still haven’t, but forgot!
Fingers crossed Tokyo Xanadu gets localised.
It must be just me, but I seem to have bought & played all the 3ds stuff I’m interested in, whereas Vita games I never seem to be on top of.
Opposite for me. heaps of 3DS games I need to catch up on, not much vita stuff
Really? I feel that way about 3DS personally. Hardly even touch mine, don’t think it’s charged.
NegativeZero’s Top 15 Vita Games List:
– Ys: Memories of Celceta
– Muramasa Rebirth
– Atelier Ayesha (also the other Atelier games, but Ayesha is excellent)
– Persona 4 Golden
– Lumines: Electronic Symphony
– Danganronpa & Danganronpa 2
– Gravity Rush
– Tales of Hearts R
– Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus
– Demon Gaze
– Hatsune Miku: Project Diva f/f 2nd (I like 2nd more)
– Toukiden
– Dragon’s Crown
– TxK
– Luftrausers
Stuff that’s upcoming that I am totally hyped for:
– Ar Nosurge Plus
– Atelier Escha & Logy Plus (and presumably Atelier Shallie Plus after that)
– Corpse Party: Blood Drive
– Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax
– Earth Defense Force 2
– Hyper Light Drifter
– Mighty No. 9
– Steins;Gate
– Lost Dimension
– Danganronpa Another Episode
– Dungeon Travelers 2
Stuff that’s not announced for localization (yet) but I’d buy in a heartbeat if it was:
– God Eater 2
– Ys Eight or whatever it ends up being called
– Tokyo Xanadu
– Phantasy Star Nova
– Gundam Breaker 2
– Sen no Kiseki / Trails of Cold Steel
– Sora/Ao/Zero no Kiseki Evolution (Trails in the Sky / Blue / Zero)
– Ciel noSurge
– Demon Gaze 2
– Eiyuu Senki
– Gal*Gun Double Peace (probably will import it)
– KanColle Kai (I’m going to buy this anyway)
– Luminous Arc Infinity
– Moero Chronicle / Moero Crystal
– Makai Shin Trillion
– Operation Babel
– Ray Gigant
– Senran Kagura: Estival Versus
– Stranger of Sword City
– Super Heroine Chronicle
– Tales of Innocence R
– Time Travelers
– To Heart 2: Dungeon Travelers
– Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen
Seriously, for me, Vita is the best platform next to PC for the amount of stuff that’s coming or available that I want to play. Nothing else comes close, though certain games on other platforms trump most of this list (eg I am enormously excited for new Fire Emblem)
Oh man, how did I forget Hyper Light Drifter & Lost Dimension.
Also keen for PS Nova & God Eater 2 ( I should buy 1 for Vita).
Is Time Travellers that Level-5 game that came out years ago? If so, I thought that was never getting localised. Looks so good too.
Yeah, Time Travelers is never getting localized at this rate, but we can dream right? I think it turned out a bit average.
On that list by the way, Ys Eight and Tokyo Xanadu I think are extremely likely to come out. God Eater 2 is fairly certain. Luminous Arc is quite likely. Demon Gaze apparently sold way way higher than NISA expected in the US so the sequel’s probably close to definite, especially if that other dungeon crawler they were doing did okay (I didn’t buy because it was dub-only). Utawarerumono should end up happening since Atlus seems to be fairly bullish with Aquaplus stuff recently, releasing obscure shit like Aquapazza and Tears to Tiara. Sen no Kiseki looks very much like it’ll happen too. Eiyuu Senki is getting a PS3 release in English so PSV might happen as well if it’s not a lot of extra work.
Senran Kagura Estival Versus is definitely happening, XSeed just haven’t announced it yet since they’re busy with SK2 on 3DS because it comes before Estival. Also they’re still patching the game and everything in Japan, it’s getting some extra playable characters crossing over from other franchises (Ayane from Dead or Alive, three characters from Ikkitousen and a couple of others)
I never even got around to buying Celceta
Lowered on my list after stalling in Seven.
I really should dive back in & finish it off. I was really enjoying it until it made me revisit places.
The new bits of dungeon were cool but losing fast travel was lame. Didn’t need that padding imo, just let me teleport over & finish the job.
You don’t lose fast travel forever. You regain it by revisiting the towns again. And you needed to do that anyway because the areas between changed, with new monsters, new areas opened, new stuff available and some world bosses to fight as well, and beating them down while you re-opened the paths would get you up to the appropriate level.
Oh, I didn’t like the sound of Ray Gigant at first, but a recent vid piqued my curiosity.
Which Miku? f or f 2nd?
The latter
2nd is great. Improves on the first one in every way and has a superior song lineup with both new stuff and recycled stuff from the PSP and Arcade games. First thing I did personally was to swap the star notes so they’re activated with the stick – way easier than using your fingers on the screen.
Personal favourites in the song lineup:
– Two Breaths Walking (best new song)– This is the Happiness and Peace of Mind Committee (Miku reveals she’s actually a fascist)
– Spica (it’s a bit of an earworm)
– Close and Open, Demons and the Dead (love the creepy vibe it has)
– Seikiranun Graffiti (DLC song, but it’s my favourite of ryo’s Miku songs)
Most disappointing thing is that there’s no Mitchie M in the song lineup and that the DLC for the first game doesn’t carry over (I’d love to have Senbonzakura in it). I’d really like them to put together a game on one platform that collected all the songs that have been in any Project Diva game in one place, actually. There’s still quite a few good ones that were only on PSP or in Project Mirai. Between Diva F 2nd and Mirai 2 most of the best are available though.
You did the right thing, Scree. Save yourself from the squiddly menace! (help I am terribly addicted >_>)
I GAVE IN /o\
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‘sup?
Yah!
Recommendations on things to buy from Amazon (US)/what do you buy from Amazon?
Usually I’ll have a ton of things I want but… I usually just go ahead and purchase them.
Through some kind of error they kind of double charged me on something recently so to make up for it they’ve apparently given me a 20% off + free expedited shipping on my next order, but I totally can’t think of anything to get :/
Presents for Powalen
I think we need a sodastream to go with the popcorn machine.
Just throwing it out there.
Do I present them to you when we watch a movie and go to the Immigration museum?
Free shipping?
Books. Artbooks or similar. They cost a ton to ship normally.
But I can get those from you when you leave!
>:)
😛
No! They’re mine!
Taking those with me.
Preview of the next series. That may take longer then the previous ones
http://imgur.com/ssCtFOW
Any feedback is appreciated. Please.
Looks good. Keen to see the rest of the set. Will probably buy a set off you for my son.
What if I make all 600 and something pokemon? =P
Lol, how long would it take you to make them all?
I’d love to see a Spongebob set, or Simpsons, or Family Guy, or South Park.
It could be arranged in the future
I think a Cyndaquil one would look mighty awesome. Scyther and Growlith too. Mew and Mewtwo. Honedge already looks like a bookmark. Come to think of it, with the right pose pretty much any Pokemon would look cool… That’s not particularly helpful.
Not too minimalist though? I’m worried there’s not enough on there
Nah. Minimal works well. Most Pokemon (especially the GBC/GBA era ones) have a central colour, a nice silhouette and a few highlight features. Seems like the perfect match for this style. That’s only four shapes in two colours and yet it’s clearly an Eevee. They probably won’t all work that well but there’s 721 to choose from and a lot of them have multiple forms.
Also if you want to be rich just tell @beavwa that there’s a 1/512 of getting a shiny variant.
Well, @beavwa, what do you say, wanna try? =P
*eye twitch*
Looks good.
I look forward to a Hawlucha one 😛
Oh man, The Witcher 3. Just hit the…
I wanna say halfway point of the story, but I’m not sure (90 hours in!).
The
Battle at Kaer MorhenWhatsisname’s fight scene against magey dude was pretty damn great, wish they’d used a longer take style though, since it’s rendered it’s not like they need to worry about all the issues that plague normal fight scenes. Also, for anyone who’s done it (@dc, and probably few else), how did the whole thing play out? I had the whole group there (based on the achievement that popped), and Vesemir died, which I assume has to happen, but based on the space left on the pyre, I’m guessing some other characters can as well, so if anything was different for you, how’d that all play out?In completely unrelated news, after being asked to call my (temporarily, at the time of the call, ex-)boss, and after she explained that I was desperately needed to scan files I went in to a different practice today.
And after four and a half hours I’d scanned everything there that needed to be done, so now I’m being sent to a different place tomorrow to try and find work. *rolls eyes*
My version played out the same as you, friend.Story Time. I did the Keira Metz storyline, boned her, and then sent her off to Kaer Morhen, where I wouldn’t have to think about what I’d done. Then I did the Triss stuff, said “I love you” to her, we had some light-hearted fun, and then I sent her off to Kaer Morhen. I then regretted that choice immediately because WHAT IF SHE TALKED TO KEIRA AND HATED ME?Not to worry, she instead gave me a dirty look because Yen kissed me, even though when we cleared the… Djinn? thingy, I was like “The magic’s gone, Yen. Let’s bee friends (and then I threw a wasp’s nest at her. I don’t think she got it.)”.Even though Yen was consistently mean, she was the only one I boned in the game. Shared history. Father/mother dynamic with Ciri. And she wasn’t terrible ALL of the time. 😛Yeah, she has her good moments, but I have the history with Triss from the previous games (even if I never finished them), so it has to be her.Anyone else playing Splatoon?
If so, want to do a Turf War?
Only just picked up my copy today. Thought I’d fire it up tomorrow.
I think @sughly and I will play tomorrow night? (ARE WE, SUGS?!)
Yes! As in… tonight?
Heck yeah! Add eRonin on NNID if you want to play with me =)
If this really is Fallout 4 for reals this time, i think the internet may just collectively shit itself. There are only two more games i can think of with more hype around potential announcements, being Half-Life 3 and The Last Guardian. Fallout was probably the most likely to happen though.
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Making a return to the franchise is your beloved Dogmeat!
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You heartless bastard!
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oo.You heartless *********!!!
It is and it will
Never really got into the Fallout games. I’ve got 1, 2, and Tactics here, but I can’t get them to run. Had a few hours with 3 and New Vegas, but only got a couple of hours in of each. With so many games and more being released all the time I find it hard to stick with one game for a long time, except AdVenture Capitalist, somehow that one has got its hooks in me.
Love the trailers though, especially this one.
So the new stage in Splatoon is pretty cool. Ranked battles too, they’re *intense*.
Managed to hit lv20 earlier tonight, without even realising it 😛 Also worked my way up to C+, though there’s a lot of steps backwards in that one. Most importantly though, I defeated stage 25 of Squid Jump!
I hit 18 last night, rated was pretty fun lots of sub weapon grenades being flung around a tiny box it was madness, seems important to have one teammate play as rally (stand back and be the quick jump location) otherwise you can easily lose 30 seconds if your team gets overconfident and gets wiped out.
The charger class is a great rally point. I’m happy that different weapons are effective in Ranked compared to regular Turf War, since I couldn’t make good use of the charger in turf war. I thought I was just bad, but really, the charger was just not very effective when the enemy could be coming in through any direction.
I seem to make it work 😛
Love the charger. The only thing that annoys me with it is even though I can usually play well enough to have my team win, I’ll still always end up at the bottom of the team’s ladder points-wise since I don’t do that much coverage compared to the rest, mostly just take the other team out where I can and hold down the fort. So I’ll be somewhere in the 700s while everyone else is over 900, no idea how I could ever crack the thousand unless the other team just refused to shoot at me while I go about my business.
http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/2/8707135/report-dark-souls-3-will-be-announced-at-e3
I was wondering how they find out anything when they just stand in the corner and talk international politics.
“according to a VG247 report”
Ah. Gotcha.
Did you see their Rock Band 4 preview?
It’s certainly something.
http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/1/8687867/rock-band-4-preview
Wow. That should come with a NSFW tag. So much wank.
The article could’ve saved a lot of time and words if he simply re-wrote it as, “I’m having a fight with my editor, and forcing me to review this ‘game’ is their latest passive-aggressive assault on my dignity.”
Unless… is this like, a self-aware gag thing they do? Like, go looking for a 60yr-old, racist coal-miner and get him to review a Japanese visual novel?
The bit that is missed on people is that the guy was at a Rock Band 4 event in Santa Monica, i.e. he was there for pre-E3 ‘judges week’. So yeah, he obviously doesn’t give a shit about Rock Band, but he wasn’t sent there to cover Rock Band. He was there to cover a ton of stuff and RB4 happened to be one of the ones that wasn’t under embargo until E3.
The real issue is that Polygon still saw fit to publish his whinge about it as a ‘preview’.
I enjoyed this: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/sci-tech/research-troll-reveals-weight-loss-chocolate-study-was-a-prank-20150602-ghfe5a.html
They did a study with 15 participants, divided into 3 groups.
What they found was that enough members of the chocolate-eating group lost weight to be ‘statistically significant.’
Then they published the positive chocolate-eating results they found:
Fascinating!
It’s a great story. Here’s a much longer write-up from the horse’s mouth that I tweeted about a few days ago. http://io9.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800
Happy vaginal expulsion day @Powalen!
Happy baby cannon day Mr. @powalen
POW, RIGHT IN THE KISSER!
Oh, and happy birthday man.
Happy Birthday Pow!
Aw, you edited out the Splatoon joke. I thought that was funny 😛
Thanks everyone!
You know what would be alternatively hilarious and cause me to cry salty, salty tears?
If at the end if this countdown Bethesda were alike “PSYCH! We made our own fake countdown!”
JOKES ON YOU GUYS IT’S ACTUALLY DOOM 4
Guys. GUYS! Fallout!! Hnnnnggggg XCOM and now Fallout?! What the hell world?! And here I thought the Witcher 3 was going to be the peak for this year’s hype train =p
Batman, Witcher 3, X-COM2 all confirmed 2015.
Fallout 4? If that’s in there too, I’m so screwed.
Good morning my friends…
…
*coughs*
FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG *faints*
Yeah this is pretty exciting!:)
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
Just a reminder – Anton and I will be in brisbane on saturday and Sunday night
We’re aiming to meet outside New Shanghai at 7-7:30 on Saturday night, hope to see you all there 🙂
I shall be there with bells on. And nothing else*.
*probably something else.
Rings on your fingers?
AND A SMILE.
Should be good.
Will be an early one though, been roped into taking the boy to a fair of some description
So Stones Corner not happening now?
stones corner was a suggestion from Bunny, I am interested in checking it out but don’t know when I’ll have time.
ahh ok. Not certain if I can make it to New Shanghai. Will need to sus out if I can find some cheap parking in the city. Also depends if my work colleague wants to come round to my place to escape his mother in law 😉
All good Mr 🙂
First post for me this week:
Falloutttttttttt Hyyyyyppppeeee
So, Dark Souls 3 aye? Not even sure if I will bother this time. I think what I’ve liked about each “Souls” game (including Bloodborne) is that each game has been different but similar at the same time. Not a sequel that tries to be the same as the original but fails.
Miyazaki is on board again for 3 so yes, I are hype.
I’d still prefer them to work on a new game instead of a another iteration.
Or they could just give me a next gen Armored Core already.
Will it be iterative though? I mean, it will probably be Dark Souls in name and vibe only. Don’t see him making a direct sequel. It would be more Namco leveraging the brand name.
War.
War Never Changes.
People have waged war for centuries. The Romans fought to civilise. Genghis Khan fought to conquer. Americans fought one another over slavery.
But War Never Changes
With the wonder of the atomic age, the world could prosper anew, bathed in the warm glow of our radiation-powered miracles. But like those in the past, we found an excuse to wage war.
When the bombs finally fell in 2077, most of the planet was reduced to cinders. Out of the ashes, a new civilisation has risen, broken, bearing the scars of the past.
As the decades passed, the American Northeast has become the latest hotbed of conflict, with warring tribes all seeking control of The Institute, a former research hub which contains the technology that will either save the world… or destroy it once and for all.
And in the East, a Vault is about to open…
*Fallout fanfare*
Hahaha god you would hope people realize this is fallout fanfare =p If not we beat them with the TAY initiation paddle!
You need to have the “da-daaaaaaaa, da- da- daaaaaaaa, da daaaa-da daaaaa”
Y’know, this one… https://youtu.be/GcgJnbCul-0?t=20s
http://tinyurl.com/paq3esk
Hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng!
Fallout 4 – excitement overload. This is my most wanted game ever I do believe. Now to continue watching let’s plays of New Vegas
Sepp Blatter resigns – I can finally take international football seriously again…until they elect the next corrupt guy for the next 20 years
Fallout 4 prediction: player character will be fully voice. Bethesda are proud to announce that they have secured the amazing talents of Fran Drescher and YouTube’s Fred to give the game a truly unique feel.
Nah.
Gon’be set in Boston.
Gatta hahve that Bahstan Sound
Be wicked fierce. Sound like Mahk Wahlberg.
Set it in Michigan and give them all Yooper accents.
Set in Minnesota.
Sound like Fargo.
irradiated Moose.
I’m in.
Set in Detroit.
All robots are Robocop that speak like Rocky Balboa.
Set in the deeeeeeeeeeep South.
All the non ghoul characters look like ghouls, because, y’know, Appalachian stereotypes.
Theres gonna be a quest called The Heat and its gonna be the cast of The Heat saying “We gotta wait for Gina”
Fallout 4 prediction: It will be the worst game ever according to gamers. It will be derivative of fallout 3 and not be set in atlantis as I imagined, it really needs a much more bioshock vibe. But not really bioshock but still fallout but take the bits of bioshock that i like and kinda infuse them into fallout.
Also there wasn’t enough options for romancing my companions. I mean sure there the ability to buy them gifts and all that flirting but why don’t I have the option to purchase fresh bones for dogmeat, it’s specism and don’t cater for my whims.
In terms of scale the world was too big, it takes far to long to travel from one end of the map to the other. A much more condensed and locked down map would be preferred. Also every fight was like Mad Max Fury road so it was truly a let down.
There also needs to be more room to explore. I found that when I was traveling I just left one town and in next to no time I was in the next one. Towns should be spaced further apart to give a feeling of desolation and it needing to take a long time, traveling through the dangerous desert to get to the next town. They should be bastions of semi safely in a wild land.
I was also surprised and disappointed in the lack of cooking and fishing mini games.
IDGAF.
I’m In.
Fallout 4 prediction (Tigs version):
Will get Hype
Will Buy
Will get told by Mrs Tigs that she wants to play with me
Mrs Tigs will never want to play
Tigs will play around 2025
This is where I’m lucky. I recently convinced myself the only true Fallout 4 would be State of Decay set in ye olde Fallout times, so I know I’m not getting the game I want. By the time it’s released I’ll be totally over my disappointment.
Freemium mobile game.
Episode eight of the fifth season of Game of Thrones is one of the highest rated ever, @Powalen, are you ready for this?
After being exiled for the third time Jorah swears he will get over his unrequited love for Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons, Breaker of Chains, Teenage Widow. In a drunken fury he goes into the woods and just straight up fucks a bear.
Jon Snow updates his dragon tattoo so it’s sitting on a massive pile of bones. Even Samwell agrees that this is way cooler than his gryphon, but he’s going to update his gryphon tattoo so it’s breathing fire. The argument over whether it’s plausible that gryphons can breathe fire creates a rift between two opposing factions of the Night’s Watch.
The second season of Arya’s ballet is a complete flop. Arya discovers her swordfighting-dancing-swordfighting instructor was really just some drunk her father hired to keep her distracted. Arya resolves to become a drunk as well, because all things considered, that drunk taught her quite a bit. When her dancing and swordfighting skills both markedly improve after half a bottle of whiskey, Arya has a revelation that the drink was inside her all along.
Brienne and Podrick’s working relationship becomes strained when Podrick bitterly raises the issue of his missing ear and pretends he can’t hear whenever Brienne asks him to do something. Brienne keeps reminding him he cut his ear off himself but Podrick pretends he can’t hear that, either. This argument turns out to be the most productive thing they’ve done in months.
Cersei has a bad night’s sleep. Like really bad. you wouldn’t believe how lousy she feels today. You think you slept like shit? Oh my god you have no idea.
Varys and Tyrion decide to part amicably after last week’s unfortunate slip of the tongue. Varys is patient and understanding and believes Tyrion needs time to find himself. Tyrion believes the best way to do this is to enlist in the navy. Varys politely disagrees. Tyrion doesn’t care what Varys thinks. Varys explains he’s just trying looking out for Tyrion’s best interests. Tyrion says Varys can shove his best interests. Varys and Tyrion part, but not amicably.
Well, that’s another fine mess they’ve gotten each other into.
Oh no, I hope Varys and Tyrion can reconcile their differences 🙁
If you think this has a happy ending, then you haven’t been paying attention.
-Ramsay Snow
-Michael Scott
Can I have my name added to these?
So amazeballgreatetc
I don’t know if I can cope with the pressure of having two fans.
See, I know you’re all excited about the big announcement today, but calm down.
Yes, I’m very excited too that Crusader Kings II is adding Mongol DLC. Yes, it’s gonna be awesome.
But guys, just calm down.
That’s how I feel when my stuff gets announced
From the Guardian’s live coverage this happened 10 minutes ago
I give up.
I… I can’t even be surprised anymore. I feel like I should be, but I’m just not.
If one side proclaimed the sky to be blue, the other side of the House would instantly erupt with accusations of fraud and counterclaims that the sky is really tangerine.
Are you sure that wasn’t an Onion article?
Yeah I’ve lost all hope in this government, arguing 5 year olds could do a better job at running this country
Isn’t that the definition of a politician.
No, a current five year old has a better grasp of modern technology than our politicians do.
Lol just read the most recent post, funny. That said seems pretty typical that the MP’s would want to be seen or on record supporting the bill even if it holds up the passing of said bill. Democracy at its finest =]
I work for the government, all we do is come up with bullshit reasons why we need to not only remain employed but get a raise.
All the while chatting online under a thinly veiled pseudonym.
And get paid while we do so. *raises hand for high-five*
o/
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All hail the champion!
oXo
@jimu So it shall be a duel with blades then? En garde!
It was supposed to be a failed hi 5
But, sure! 😀
Dear Game Industry
Stop releasing allthegames in the same month.
Some of us follow a strict budget & even though we’d love to buy your limited collector editions we can’t because we have responsibility irl.
October is packed you idiots.
Yours without much cashdollars
jimu
Dear jimu.
No.
Git Gud
Game industry.
Git cashed up?
And even if we could buy them all, we wouldn’t have enough time to play them all.
So please, stop making all teh gamez.
Booourns
Dear Jimu,
Christmas specials = muchcash allthegames discountspecials
October is packed so we can sell stuff at a discount in December!
Yours with all your cashdollars
Games Industry
But isn’t the idea of limited collector editions to not just please the fans but make extra cash?
If so many arrive in the saw month, that would explain all the discounted LE CEs I see discounted on store shelves.
Discounted discounted! Yeah!
October is packed because they want them to be in the retail channel ahead of the start of November for the Black Friday sales that happen after Thanksgiving in the US.
Played some SPAYCE MAUREEN last night online… I forgot how utterly glorious it is! Just so much damn fun… Makes me sad we will never see a sequel, that game is so damn good
I’m surprised that the SPAYCE MAUREEN community is still going. Did you have any trouble finding a match?
Not at all which surprised me as well… But I assume with the release of the humble bundle that there’s been an influx of new players… At least I hope so because I’m quite terrible but was consistently in the top 3 XD
SPAYCE MAUREEN
Is that going to be a regular thing? I would love to jump in for some more online pew pew
We can try and make it a thing? @rize and me have been trying to get people together for sine exterminatus
On PC, yes?
Yarp!
I would be up for that.
*hits buy on humble relic bundle*
OK. Then I’ll use up some of my valuable HDD space and reinstall
On a slightly related note, I’ve been playing SPAYCE MAUREEN CHESS aka Regicide lately and I’ve been having fun. Very basic but it suits the over-the-top feeling of 40K really well.
Niiiiice i did see that and I may just have to get it… Never got into the tabletop stuff because time and money but I love the 40k universe!
Still in early access but it’s a solid chess game. I think it’s also being made by an Australian developer as well so there’s that.
Just checked it… So is it basically Battle Chess in the Warhammer universe? If so I need this in my life!
There’s a standard chess mode and then there’s Regicide which is basically battle chess as all of the units have little abilities.
With all the Fallout hubub going on today I was thinking of buying Fallout 3 on Steam, but then I thought it’s probably best to wait as they’ll most likely have a Fallout sale this weekend.
Also, Question: I have a disc copy of The Fallout Collection (1, 2, and Tactics) which I’ve had trouble running in the past. If I install it, can I just add it to my steam library?
Also also, I’m running Windows 8, and I have a legit copy of XP. How can I run 1, 2, 3, and Tactics in 8? I’ve heard people talk about “compatibility mode”, but I don’t really know anything about it. Or would it be easier to install XP and run dual OS’s (don’t even know if that’s possible to do).
It’s only 19 bucks each for 3 and NV on PS3 at EB, so I might even go that route. Would probably be a lot easier.
I would never recommend a Bethesda game on console because, well, modding… But that’s just purely personal opinion and bias… No idea about the older fallout games, I got them for free on gog 😛 sorry
What about running them though.
I believe gog fixed them up to be able to run, but I doubt that the vanilla games will run without a fair amount of tinkering… Being how popular they are though, I’d be surprised if you can’t find an unofficial patch via the Googles… I would look for you right now but alas I’m at work 😐
Fallout 1, 2 and tactics: Grab them through Steam. I believe the Steam release is based on the compatibility work they did for Gog, so they should Just Work.
I’m a die hard console gamer. I love my PS3. But Fallout, especially New Vegas, works much, much better on PC. the Ultimate ver of New Vegas is $20 at Green Man http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/action/fallout-new-vegas-ultimate-edition-au/
Cool, thanks man. I’ve got NV: Ultimate Edition, on Steam, but not 1, 2, 3, or Tactics.
It’s a shame Gog can’t sell them any longer, otherwise I’d have unequivocally recommended buying them through that.
Be warned: I tried to play 1. It’s reeeeeeeeaaaaaalllyyy old.
+1 for Tactics. I pumped an unholy amount of time into that game. So gud. Having a squad at your disposal just added a whole new layer to the combat. Amazing.
It actually had a passable metagame to it, too. I was surprised, expecting it to just be mission-to-mission tactics-only.
Fun fact: The people I work for made Fallout Tactics.
Unfun fact: They have no inside goss on Fallout 4.
The base Fallout 3/NV games are great standalone but see if you can find some GoTY edition that includes the DLC (especially for New Vegas because the DLC continues a very important story).
PC is fine for modding but I personally never saw the need. Still, you can’t beat Steam sales for pricing. If Bethesda don’t have a sale this weekend then they probably will during E3 or the summer sales. Fallout 3/NV can go for as little as $5 each with all the DLC bundled in at the right time of year.
On PS3, I wouldn’t get them. Humble Bundle were having a major sale that included Bethesda stuff, not sure if they’re still on there though. Otherwise I’d just wait until the Steam Summer Sale later this month (I think). Be mindful you’ll need to do a slight ini tweak to get Fallout 3 working on multicore processors but they work so much smoother than on consoles. Plus mods 😛
One problem I’m running into though on Fallout 3 is now the music on the radio is stuttering. The DJ stuff is fine but the music isn’t. I’ve tried the fixes online and on NMM but no luck 🙁 used to work fine
The older games, i doubt old cd codes would work for registering a game on Steam. Grab them in the Summer Sale as well I say. They’ll definitely work on Windows 8
Use Dosbox to play your Fallout collection.
As an almost purely console gamer, forget Fallout 3/NV on PS3. Barely works. PC version is much much more stable.
Did you play them before the patches? Because I’ve finished both main campaigns & put many extra hours into both NV & F3 on PS3 without issues
So if history is anything to go by, Fallout 4 will be the one game this decade worth playing on release day as its most stable and bug free version.
When I picked up Fallout 3 GOTY edition for the DLC, it was more unstable than the base game I played way back (years of patches earlier) on day 1.
I’m in.
Edit: Plus that fallout 3 bobblehead is still one of the better CE items I’ve acquired over the years. More of that please, no need to get too silly.
I’ve been meaning to buy bobbleheads from the Bethesda store for ages now but haven’t gotten round to it. I’m gonna assume they’ll be quick selling out of what there is now with the hype train going into overload 🙁
I’ll be F5ing the EB website though during the Bethesda conference to pre-order the Collectors Edition
I’m a big fan of the lunch box. Been using it for various storage and is still in perfect condition years later.
Kids destroyed the bobble head a long time ago 🙁
Fallout NV. Words cannot encompass my rage at how ridiculously broken that game was on release.
I bought that on Pc day one, too broken to play so I bought it on xbox cause I heard it was better.
Still too broken to play, took it back, never played again.
I’ve always bought complete editions on PS3 & somehow seen very few bugs.
The ones I did see were mostly amusing, sometimes annoying but fixable & one companion in New Vegas (obsidian, I know) that just refused to move after a while.
I put a bullet between his eyes.
The problem is that it won’t actually be a good game until Obsidian get to do a quasi sequel.
Skullgirls and the DLC for it is 80% off until Friday!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/245170/
Get on it!
Bought it almost a year ago.
In honour of the Fallout teaser(and riffing off @beeavwa ‘s post) what’s the buggiest game you’ve ever played? I couldn’t even get Hidden & Dangerous to load, let alone witness the bugs hidden within
Vampires: The Masquerade. Hands down, couldn’t even continue the bloody story missions after a certain point if you didn’t patch out.
Edit: Which sucks cos it was an awesome game!
Fun story about my experience with Vampire: the Masquerade. I didn’t realise you had to sleep to apply your experience points and played nearly the entire prologue chapter as a level 1 neonate. I was really starting to despair at the difficulty and discovered how to actually level up my stats while looking online to see if there were any cheat codes.
I never got to try it out but I believe that game had a fairly robust campaign creator/multiplayer mode as well. I did wind up experimenting with character modding on a second playthrough and you can give Christof all kinds of skills and disciplines that were designed and included in the game but never appeared in the story.
Edit: wait, did you mean Redemption or Bloodlines? I didn’t play Bloodlines until several years after it came out and have only ever played it with the community title update which fixed a lot of issues and modded back in a bunch of unfinished/cut content.
Also an awesome game!
Bloodlines, I forgot there was a Masquerade game before that! xD
Who says game manuals are no longer needed 😛
My copy of Redemption had an Anne Rice novel bundled in. I guess I got distracted reading that overly-flowery smut instead of learning how to git gud.
I played Bloodlines to death when it came out. Due to some related interests, I was somewhat frequently acquainted with the girl who was the model for Jeanette, Erin Layne. Cool person. Aloof, but cool.
I really wanted to live in the Bloodlines world, it was (to my mind at the time) so richly portrayed. I remember dragging out both the licenced and unlicenced music MP3s out of the game directory to play on various portable devices, like my minidisc-player. (It was the 00s!)
Fantastic game. Just so, so great. I can’t believe lawyers shut down the fan re-make.
As mentioned above, Fallout NV on PS3 or Tom Clancy’s Ghosts : Future Soldier on PC. Both cases a known history of bad ports and releases – Bethesda engined games on PS3’s Cell Broadband were often fuxed (See also, Skyrim on PS3) and Ubi’s PC ports are just historically fucking terrible.
Both games I was really excited for, and was subsequently massively disappointed by. Although in fairness, Fallout NV was fixed apparently, I just never went back. Should just do it on PC.
I been playing NV & Skyrim on PS3 for many hours each now.
Worst I’ve seen is a buggy companion in NV.
So they must’ve been fixed, because I heard some horrible things before I got around to them.
I stopped playing New Vegas on PS3, because of the save file bug that made it choppy as all hell.
And I got into that much later (I bought New Vegas when GAME collapsed)
I bought complete edition as soon as it came out on PS3.
It’s probably the buggiest game I’ve got but nothing painful or game breaking.
How does the save file thing work?
http://www.shacknews.com/article/71385/fallout-new-vegas-dev-talks-ps3-memory
Interesting, maybe I don’t sandbox as much. So I just do the quests with less Piss-farting about. Like there’s less little odds & ends to keep track of.
Maybe eventually I’ll see the problems.
I never ran into too many bugs on PS3 from Fallout or Skyrim. I got the freezing and crashing of Fallout 3 but New Vegas I didn’t see too much. Shame as I wanted to see Doc Mitchell’s head spinning around at the beginning of the game. Skyrim I never had too many problems either, but my missus tried siding with the Imperials in the civil war and one of the quest givers just wouldn’t give her the next step and so she was stuck with that 🙁
Definitely so much better on PC though. Hopefully with the architecture of the new consoles we won’t see any major bugs in Bethesda games again (tell me I’m dreamin’). I am of course assuming that Fallout 4 will be current gen only and no last gen ports
Oh, I had that quest glitch in oblivion. Had to just give up on a quest because the guy disappeared
Fallout NV was a hot mess of freezes, corrupted saves and mixed bugs for the first week I had it, was pushing unplayable. Not just in game issues with busted quests and NPCs, etc. The whole game just didn’t work. Lost many saves and much playtime. I finished it on Hardcore and traded it in immediately after. But I know it got patched and is apparently OK now.
Skyrim on the other hand was a little different. I got it at launch, and after plugging 50 hours into it on my first week, my save file got to the point where after 30-45 mins of play, I had to reboot my PS3 because the game dipped into single frames. Completely unplayable. Every time. Was a widespread issue many people encountered when (the going theory was) their save files got to 10mb plus. Took many months to fix on PS3.
Excluding early access and beta games, buggiest I’ve ever played would probably be Gothic 3. Original version was filled with horrendous bugs and any fights against humanoid characters turned into a Hong Kong film where every NPC waits their turn to attack. But the beasts were buggy as all hell and I died more to stock-standard wolves than massive terrifying demons. Literally chain clawed to death more times than I can count.
Took a community patch to fix it which makes it mostly functional.
Magicka was a flawless masterpiece in which I spent many hours having no issues at all with.
Found a great quote from one of the developers 😀
I’ve been ridiculously lucky at avoiding bugs & I played on console.
I’ve seen a few in my time but nothing game breaking.
Alpha Protocol.
Didn’t last long before the overall jank put me off. Damn shame, as it was a really cool concept
Worst I got was dead bodies doing odd stretching things
I lost my save due to good ol reliable 360, started fresh on PS3 & got sidetracked.
I really liked that game.
Outcast many many years ago…
Game was great, you installed it and it promptly disappeared off of your computer again, files, folders and shortcuts would vanish round about 2 seconds after the install finished… I assumed for a while that this is the game… Found out that if you pull the power plug right after the bar hit 100%, and started the computer again, it would stay and you could play… Amazing game once I got it installed 😛
Wasn’t really the game that was buggy, but I needed new drivers for my video card and had capped my interwebs and Freedom Fighters was all visually glitchy the entire game. Loved it so much that I pushed through and finished it.
Otherwise I’m pretty lucky on the buggy game front. Had no troubles except for occasional crashing with Fallout New Vegas, when my sister encountered every bug imaginable on her computer. Also finished Witcher 3 with no bugs.
I know! KotOR II!
Heaps of frame rate drops, quests not completing properly.
This was on pc, I ended up buying it on Xbox & playing on 360 where I still saw frame rate drops but less severe & one of the main quests didn’t occur but I managed to bribe a bat & then it did.
Worst part was load times, ugh!
That Warhammer MMO. Not exactly a bug but the retail CD’s didn’t have the .exe file on them.
Actual buggiest game i have ever played is probably DA:O on PC.
*enters new area*
*crash to desktop*
*restarts game*
*opens inventory*
*crash to desktop*
*restart game*
*enter combat*
*crash to desktop*
Best crash to desktop simulator ever.
Probably a toss up between morrowind and stalker. Honourable mention to magicka.
Towns. The only Steam game I’ve ever tried to get refunded.
They didn’t refund it.
So I wrote a nasty review and spit (in my mind) any time I hear it or its developers mentioned.
I can’t think of any. All that comes to mind is how people complained that Red Steel was a bug-riddled mess of a game, meanwhile I played through without a single problem and thought it was awesome.
And it’s still awesome.
Welp, after quickly knocking over the nightfalls in about an hour and a half (awesome fun, this week if you have a solar or arc primary :P), we decided we’d give the 32 Prison a shot, as two 33s and a 34 (was bummed out to hear Variks was selling a helm this week, but happy to receive some etheric light on my first nightfall, getting my warlock to 34).
Thought it was a little odd to start the run with a boss, but after getting our asses handed to us once, we got to work. Another boss at round 3… okay, no big deal. Half an hour after entering the Prison, we were at Round 5. Where we remained, for three and a half hours. We lost one team-mate to sleep, so we pleaded across our respective friends lists, where we found almost everyone either raiding or about to head off for the night. And then our saviour arrived.And reminded us of the 3-gjallarhorn ‘strategy.’ Whereupon we waited for synth cooldowns to finish and supers to replenish. And nuked the sh*t out of that freaking Gate Lord in about 40 seconds.Don’t get me wrong, I love the mechanics of the fight, and I look forward to doing it legit, now that they’ve made the mechanics a little more forgiving. But it was after 1am on a worknight, with no checkpoints (although in hindsight, it wouldn’t have taken us long to get back to Qodron, really), and a looming reset that threatened to kick everyone out of their activities. We just wanted it done.Now, my Titan may look like he strapped the wings of a model 747 to his head, but at least he’s 34. Two more 32 Prisons to go. And then, maybe, Kaliks. Maybe…
Qodron in 32 is so much easier than on 34. Last week was an absolute nightmare. I’m glad they’re patching it a little bit so your health goes down at a slower rate in the bubbles and jailbreaker is 100% more effective. It’ll definitely make doing it ‘legit’ much more easier. But yeah, we just straight up did the Gjallahorn strategy.
34 is challenging as well, but a lot more doable than last week. I won’t spoil anything though 😛
IRON BANNER 😀 I’m a bit miffed the armour is light 36 and you need to ascend it to 42 like everything else. At least the guy’s selling etheric light so I’ll be smashing Iron Banner all week to get as many characters up to rank 5 as possible. Then I need to choose whether to ascend weapons or armour
Tempted to run IB this weekend just to get one or two chars to rank 3 (snowball’s chance in hell I’ll hit rank 5 on any character, but I’ve hit 3 once), just to get some EL to upgrade my fatebringer. But I hate PvP… but I want etheric light… but I hate PvP… etc. etc.
Iron banner is surprisingly easy to level up. The bonus XP escalates every day it runs, so by the weekend you’re getting mad IB XP. You don’t even have to win or do that well – just take the bounties and knock them over. The bonus XP makes them worth a ton. Last time I hit rank 5 by Sunday, and only hit it moderately hard.
Oh, I know that – I was doing Iron Banner for last time’s efrideet’s spear and the neat-looking warlock robes. As a side-effect I finished the Bad Juju, Invective and Thorn bounties that had been occupying space since roughly October before I hit rank 2. It still took me eight hours over two days of not throwing my controller through my television, that I’m not sure I want to repeat.
The only hope I’ve got is given that he’s selling etherics, everyone is going to want in. More chance of a diverse playerbase – less people that live in crucible and shit all over you. More chance of Joe Average that you’re able to kill.
Amen to that.
Speaking of bounties, all I want is the Fate of All Fools bounty to drop and I’ll be happy. I love my Mida Multi Tool and it’s taking out anyone with Thorn with ease, but I need a higher impact scout rifle that still has a decent rate of fire.
I want that damn Cipher. The fusion/sniper rifle looks like fun, as does the shotgun/pulse-rifle. Not sold on the sidearm, tho…
I love the sidearm. In 34 PoE it wasn’t as effective, even against the Fallen (but they seem to’ve upped the health and damage of enemies in PoE), but in crucible it’s fantastic. Scout rifle as my primary, if I see someone charging towards me with a shotgun, I can switch out and unload a clip before they get into range. Brilliant 😀
People assume cos it’s low impact it’s rubbish, but as with every other weapon, the stats are only comparable with weapons of the same class. The range on it quickly drops off though, just before the range of handcannons should really instead of handcannons having the same range as a scout rifle
Fatebringer at 365 is apparently overkill. I wouldn’t know seeing as the Templar hates me :'(
Oh, don’t worry, I only got mine a couple of weeks before HoW dropped. Had been doing VoG HM religiously for almost three months until my raid group dissolved after New Years. Went on LFG that week after not getting a chance to do Templar since January, determined to get it before HoW dropped, and got really freaking lucky. It’s my baby, I love it and hug it and squeeze it and call it ‘Mittens.’
…
*stifled cough*
Your time will come, just need to be persistent.
Mine was the first weapon I ascended. Since done Atheon’s Epilogue and Vision of Confluence. They’re my holy trinity of primaries, never need anything else. Hand cannon, scout rifle and auto rifle. Arc, solar and void. perfect.
Next will be Black Hammer because it’s just the most amazing sniper in game bar none.
I think my first three will be Fatebringer, Word, and Vision. Can’t really justify Epilogue… before the AR nerf, it felt like I was unleashing the purple fires of hell in the enemy’s vague direction. Now it just feels like I’m unleashing a the fury of a thousand purple gummi bears for all the damage it does.
Then Black Hammer (poor thing had a yellow border for all of seven hours…), and maybe Found Verdict or Corrective Measure after that.
I had time to knock over one nightfall (abyss defiant really made a mess of the enemies with the solar+small arms buff this week) and weekly heroic and the queen’s wanted bounties last night before watching Game of Thrones and going to bed. Planning on focusing on Iron Banner this week, might try and finish up the weeklies on my other characters over the long weekend rather then attend to them nightly like I usually do.
If I can get a decent fireteam together I’ll run the 32 PoE. I love how stupid the Titan helmet is.
The HoW helmets really are atrocious. The Ram? Dunno where that’s supposed to fit in. The Kell Titan helmet, with the downforce that gives you shouldn’t be able to jump more than 2 feet off the ground. The Titan exotic, I have no idea what that’s supposed to be
I like the ACD/0 Feedback Fence gauntlets though the piss-weak AOE pulse it sends out when you get melee’d is kind of useless for anything but low level dregs and thralls. It should have a stunning suppression/flashbang effect instead.
Goddamn those gauntlets look good though. Friend got them yesterday.
Because they’re orange/black they apparently go well with the Sunsetting shader. I should investigate that.
Yea, they look cool. Until you notice that they’re actually undulating, and you can’t unsee the movement on your wrists in first person.
Then they’re amazing.I will investigate this tonight.
So trippy man…
No one was available to play with me the other week, so I had to solo the level 32 PoE by myself, hahaha!
Granted I was a 34, that took me far longer than I would care to admit :3
It’s much better soloing stuff with other people… :-p
No one wanted to play with me, Trike 🙁
I wanted that armour core though, haha!
I’ll be on tonight for Nightfall, weekly etc etc. 🙂 I have a few treasure keys too. 🙂
On the weekend, there were some Magic: the Gathering tournaments. In the top 8 of one of those tournaments, someone drafted a card because it was worth a good chunk of money instead of taking the card that was best for his deck.
That card is now up on eBay for $13.5k.
A good chunk of that is because of the controversy that came from a pro player choosing to money draft at a high level event. So by taking the valuable card, he made it more valuable.
#goyfgate
I really need to play Magic . Maybe I should finally go see what in-store commander is like.
I wrote something about it and it should get posted later today. I deliberately didn’t refer to #goyfgate because seriously, fuck that suffix.
For where? your site?
Also, how long until you crack and start cracking packs?
Kotaku and I’d prefer not to answer that second question.
Seriously, just do the prereleases, that’s what I mainly do.
Self contained, only every few months, get a bunch of cards for a fixed price from the latest set and play sealed.
Plus, gives me plenty of fun edge cards I can chuck into commander. Last prerelease, my mate pulled a foil Sarkhan (in my colours, not his) so we both had access to it in two headed giant.
Also also, do you get paid for Kotaku posts or is it just a for fun thing?
I haven’t been paid for anything yet. I’d like that to change.
Yeah, if you do a bit for them, a freelance rate seems fair.
@redartifice I do like moneys.
@trjn you dirty, dirty capitalist
*leans back in chair in job for mining organisation*
I see reasoning on one hand, but still I think its pretty silly.
99.9% of players would have taken the Goyf. First place in the tournament was $4000 and he was guaranteed $1000 just for getting that far. In the end, he won $1500 by losing in the semi-finals. Even though he’s giving half of the sale to charity, he’s going to make more from that one card than the entire top 8 is going to make from the tournament prize pool.
There’re other factors (the whole pro point system where players who do well enough get appearance fees and travel expenses paid for) but the easiest way to look at it was simple: would you pay $500 to have Burst Lightning in your draft deck?
I’d do it too. In a heartbeat.
It’s now at $15.1k. Meanwhile, Burst Lightning is 15c.
A heartbeat is too long.
Oh, also, tried out the TIS-100 game I mentioned yesterday. It’s kinda cool. Multiprocessing in assembly language, without the annoyingly long compile/write-to-chip part. Each chip can only store about ten instructions, too… got stuck on the signal multiplexing one. Need to figure out how to write some sort of cascading conditional split across multiple nodes…
Sounding more and more like work @beavwa
Yet it also sounds … fun?
As odd as it seems, you are right.
Fun? Maybe but certainly interesting
Programming used to be such a puzzle before all these modern natural languages and layers up the wazoo, I guess these guys are really setting out to recapture that.
Honestly it sounds solid enough that you could just say ‘finish this game’ as one of the uni assignments for assembly language coding.
Hey, I said without the annoyingly long compile part. :3
It even comes with a PDF manual that gives you a quick rundown of the (admittedly rather basic) instruction set. So, yea, extremely nerdy, and (or “but”, depending on your views) kinda fun.
So you did, so you did
Hnnngghh… Think I have to get this now.
Wouldn’t it be kind of funny if this Fallout announcement was just for a remastered collection on PS4/Xbone.
I doubt it though. Surely they’d know the amount of rage it would generate.
I would still throw money at a remastered collection 😛 I’m really hoping that the Elder Scrolls collection thing done on PC last year comes to consoles at E3
Free.
Mium.
Mobile.
Game.
Ugh. Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?
You’re a very naughty boy, go to your room, I’ll be up in a moment to give a good, hard spank.
Oh, so I’m being rewarded then? ;P
I wondered where you went.
I was waiting for my spank’in 😉
I just posted a dick pic on Twitter
REMASTERS FTW!!!
There is something seriously wrong with my internet. It’s been really slow for weeks now and games I’m currently downloading on Steam have slowed to around 50 kb/s when I usually get at least 500-700 kb/s, sometimes even 1 mb/s.
Netflix?
Nope, not using Netflix at the moment and besides, I’m with Optus, so it’s unmetred. I’m on an unlimited plan as well.
I meant that Netflix traffic has been known to mess with peak time internet speeds, but probably not to that extent.
Ah, my bad. Gonna restart the modem and see if that does anything.
I assume what he meant was if a lot of users in your area could be hitting up Netflix, because there’s been many reports of exchanges being smashed by Netflix causing major slowdowns, though 1mbit to 50k/s sounds quite dramatic so it wouldn’t be my first conclusion
This guy! He gets me! <3
Want some rye? Course ya do!
You and me and me and you
No matter how they toss the dice, it has to be!
‘course I do!That one line got Zork banned in my school library because the librarian was sick of hearing it over and over.
Yes please 😀
Worth checking if your modem is chucking a hissy… Have you tried restarting it or have access to another modem for testing purposes? I remember mine used to overheat and then decide that 56k is plenty for any decent person
Was thinking about restarting the modem. In summer when it hits about 30-35 degrees or more it decides it doesn’t want to work anymore and I have to turn it off and give it a few minutes before restarting it, usually happens about 5 or 6 times a day too in those temps.
Sounds like it could be the issue then… If you have anyone nearby that can spare their modem for half an hour it would be worth borrowing just to check it, it’s the best sure fire way of ruling out that issue
I think you might be right. Restarted the modem and Steam slowly crept up to 115 kb/s before slowing to about 75 kb/s.
Was going to buy a gaming keyboard, mouse and case in the next few weeks to get ready for my gaming rig build, but it looks like I’ll have to buy a new modem first.
*sigh*
Sounds like good old modem with toddler syndrome 😛
Essentially imagine a toddler with 100 matchbox cars and how he would be ramming them all together, That’s what your modem is doing with network traffic XD
I would still recommend trying with someone else’s modem before spending the money though, just in the off chance that it’s something else… Would hate for you to waste your money for no reason
Are you on a wired/wireless connection monkey?
I’m not all that tech savvy, but if you mean if the modem is connected to a phone line, then yes it is. My PS4 is connected to it via Ethernet and my laptop wirelessly.
Just realized that the PS4 is downloading updates, so that probably has something to do with it. Although it shouldn’t slow steam that much, should it?
I guess it depends how much of your band width is taken up and how good your router is at balancing loads between end point devices
(so yes, it could, theoretically)
The width of my band and how good my routing and my ability to balance the load of my “end point device” is none of your business thank you very much.
in-your-endoJust paused the Steam and PS4 downloads and did a speed test. It said I was getting 2.79 Mbps. Resumed Steam downloads and it’s currently downloading at around 330 kb/s
Oh man, Bloodstained cracked the stretch goal for a Wii U release.
Might have to break my “no Kickstarter games” thing now.
…or just buy it when it releases.
But that one won’t be as fancy 😛
Get a box if you kicksrart, digital only otherwise
Orly, they’re not doing a physical release post-kickstarter? I didn’t see that mentioned.
It’s the main reason I bothered backing.
I’m baffled as to why they’d want to out it on the Wii U ahead of the Vita, when the Vita would be by far the best platform out there for the style of game.
Is the install base bigger?
I agree, of course
Worldwide, the Vita install base is actually bigger than Wii U I think.
Because Castlevania belongs on a Nintendo, duh 😛
That must be why the one they say was the best and most revolutionary was on Playstation.
I really wanna play that. Had a friend offer to send me his PS1 and copy of the game down from Brisbane just so I could run through it, but it seemed too ridiculously generous of an offer to accept.
Still need to track down a copy of Circle of the Moon, too.
Circle of the Moon is pretty average. That a non Iga game.
Iga did Symphony of the Night, Harmony of Dissonance, Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow, Portrait of Ruin & Order of Eclessia.
He also did two 3d games on PS2, the first is below average, the second above.
Must plays are Symphony & Aria.
Ah, I’ve got (and played!) all of the DS ones and the other two GBA ones.
Symphony is on 360, PS3, psp & vita. You have no excuse! :p
Yes I do – of those I only have a 360, and it only seems to have been released in the US so won’t work!
It used to be on the Aussie store.
Maybe they took it down?
Worth a check
Definitely was released in Australia on XBLA – I own it. Must have been removed at some point if you can’t buy it now.
Haven’t played any Witcher 3 since completing the prologue, now I’ve got the fancy edition guide book I think it’s time to get back into it. But I can’t remember any of the controls, so I might as well delete the save and start again.
Edit: And wouldn’t you know it, right after I delete my save I realize that the controls are right there in the guide book. *facepalm*
Oh well, I wasn’t that far in anyway.
Remember to use Quen! =P and to dodge!
Played some Star Wars RPG last night. Felt a little vindicated by what happened.
My now-dead character, the Gran Gadgeteer, made some minor improvements to our YT-2400 with the intention of making further improvements however he died before he could get to them. Fast forward two sessions after the Gran’s death and our ship got swarmed by TIE fighters and got shot down on Dantooine because no-one else felt it necessary to improve the ship’s capabilities. Fortunately we weren’t blown to pieces as we were able to get the ship up and running before the TIE bombers showed up but it was a close run thing.We were on Dantooine as we had essentially been recruited by the Rebel Alliance in doing some special tasks, one of which is finding ancient Force knowledge and Jedi holocrons. My character has Force sensitivity but as he has had not training he’s pretty crap in what he can do. At the moment he only has a vague sixth sense ability that gives him an indication of what might occur.
Anyway, the hidden Rebel base on Dantooine was found by the Imperials and we were called upon to help evacuate some people after we managed to get the ship airborne again. Cue a fight against stormtroopers where our diplomat-turned-gunner droid copped a blaster cannon shot to the chest but didn’t die. We managed to fend them off and rescue some of the higher brass of the Rebel leadership before escaping the Star Destroyers that were in orbit.
On a side note, my character has managed to locate a lightsaber but makes a point of not using it every chance he can get. I call it the Nope Stick because in the event that we’re in a bad situation I’ll just “Nope, screw this” and get everyone out by cutting an escape route. Not for combat whatsoever.
So you’ve got a glorified welder? =P If you use a lightsaber and aren’t trained in it can you chop your own hand off?
Han Solo didn’t lose a hand.
I remember the original Star Wars RPG had some rules around non-Force Sensitives using Lightsabers. Apparently without training you’re all but guaranteed to cut your arm off. This filtered into the greater scope of the Star Wars universe and has been used as evidence for the fan theory that Han Solo must secretly be force-sensitive, which is why he’s a great pilot, has crazy amounts of luck, can understand multiple languages (such as Rodian and Huttese) without apparent effort, etc.
I think it’s kinda up in the air if that’s still true or not. General Grievous kinda stands out as a potential rebuttal to that idea but then again he did get injected with Jedi DNA.
Also the fact that almost all sentient creatures have the Force, it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to assume that most people could use a lightsaber without cutting themselves in half. Heck, the Clone Wars TV show had a Mandalorian wield a lightsaber so maybe everyone has the capacity to wield a lightsaber without directly relying on the Force.
There’s no way it’s true. Using any weapon without training runs the risk of injuring yourself or others, but ‘training’ with a lightsaber to the point you’re not going to lose an arm is probably not that much more than training with a sword. However in that universe, much like our current one, why would you go through that level of training and discipline when you can just get yourself a blaster pistol?
I’m only very barely trained in it. I’m more adept in blaster pistols than lightsabers but I’m not gumby enough to accidentally slice off my hand. 😛
So more random exploration shenanigans in the Witcher 3 because… exploration! and Witcher 3!
So here I was sailing into the sunset/sunrise couldnt really tell with the shitty console graphics looking for my bear armor in Skellige when it seems one of my pieces of armor is in abandoned fortress on a little island in the middle of nowhere! Joy I think to myself, surely vampires and dragons have made their home here to greet me! Thankfully it was just a small army of pirates, obviously I dispatch the 30 or so of them in 5 minutes and set about exploring. It seems said fortress has a dungeon, and inside said dungeon there are cells with no bars! Cells that are missing a wall! An open wall that overlooks a deadly precipice and interestingly has a dead dwarf inside! And I think hey that’s a cool easter egg, so I go about looting things in the sky cells and find a mysterious note. A mysterious note that says the pirates have been feeding blood to the ancient one… followed by the C’thulu chant of the ages =p Another cool easter egg! All on a single island out of like the 30 odd there are in Skellige! Very cool CDPR, very cool indeed =]There are a LOT of pretty amusing pop culture references in Witcher 3. Some of which I’m not even sure are references. One peasant I walked past intoned in a rumble, “War. War changes everything.” And I could swear I’d heard one earlier say the more traditional line.
To be fair transient… what is it good for?
So, I mentioned a while back that I’d been tapped to organise a board games room for the 2017 Discworld convention?
Yeah, I’m not doing that. Instead, they’re getting me to organise guild activities, which as far as I can tell is basically a house cup between teams at the convention- you get assigned a “guild” and do stuff to earn points, the winning team getting bragging rights.
Part of it includes a scavenger hunt, and I have Ideas there. But I want to know: If you were attending a convention and wanted to get involved in something like this, what would you want to see?
There are a lot of real world products that tie into Discworld “inventions” like the Clacks or moving pictures.
Most importantly, a wizard’s staff (with a knob on the end) must be involved.
And a hat that says ‘Wizzard’?
Theme them after the Ankh-Morpork guilds. And have each of the scavenger hunts tailored to do a particular set of tasks. The assassins are charged with “killing” particularly people while the thieves need to “acquire” specific stuff. The brewers and farmers guild are charged with collecting food. Stuff like that. Very standard, tongue-in-cheek Discworld stuff.
Is it page 6 yet?
How about now?
#EveryPageIsPageSix
#IFYOUBELIEVE
Monkey plz
Plz wut?
It’s kind of irritating when people start spamming pages.
Sorry, I won’t do it again.
It’s ok monkey; whatever brings page 6 to us sooner =p
It’s gotta be page 6 now.
HA! Look at this IDIOT!
ILY BAE :*Speak english you crazy hipster! ILY BAE is latin!
Latin for What an IDIOT! >:P
ILY BAEGah!
Page 6, I command you to appear, nnnnnnnnnnow!
Edit: BALLS!
Don’t make us break out the learnin’ stick.
Silly monkey.
Page Six always appears in a time of need, it’s not subject to the petty commands of mortals.
To stop @evilmonkey going crazy, it is now page 6, whatever page we are on.
He obviously hasn’t counted the top level posts properly.
Sorry, my fingers and toes don’t go up that high.
What do you mean “going crazy”? You can’t become something you already are.
I bought a pair of shoes from a drug dealer.
I don’t know what he laced them with, but I was certainly tripping
SEE MONKEY THATS HOW YOU PAGE 6 GET
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strange #hi@evilmonkey
YOU SUCK!
not rly25 posts a page, not 20 🙂
Tis the god number…. ALL HAIL THE GOD NUMBER!
Page 6 get just to annoy @evilmonkey?
EDIT: Damn you RED! DAMNMNNMNNNNN YOOOOOUUUUU!
I post counted VERY carefully and quickly to get there on time.
It’s the same time stamp.
Ergo, you are a wizard.
And not a nice wizard either.
My post would have worked just as well as post two, so I didn’t have to hit it exactly.
Still, I’m counting it as a hell of a called shot
BWAHAHAHAHA!
I came home from work yesterday to find my wife had put a note on the fridge. It said
“I can’t take it anymore, it’s just not working, I’m going to stay with my mother.”
I opened the fridge, the light came on, the beer was cold. What the hell is she on about.
Did you hear about the cop that stops crime with the mere mention of his name?
He’s called Constable Freeze.
I’ll lay off the bad police jokes if you want @freezesprestonOw. Right in the depression.
…sorry. No more jokes on this subject, pinky promise.
I’m joking man. Make all the cracks you want.
Oh man, I can’t say much at all, but I just got off a conference call at work with people who get paid way more than I do about a future potential partnership with the company I work at.
This is potentially going to be the biggest projects I have ever undertaken. Ever.
Bleh. ‘Important Shit I Can’t Talk About’ is consuming my world at the moment. Still, yay if it’s exciting. 😀
It will be one to put on the resume for sure if it happens.
Jeeze brag about it.
(congratulations!?)
Is it bad I read this post a few times trying to figure out where the dad joke is?
OMG!
I was really disappointed with my camping insurance.
Someone stole my tent in the night and I wasn’t covered.
I found a rock today that measured 1,760 yards. Must be some kind of mile stone.
A man went up to my friend in the library and said “Do you have a bookmark?”
He replied “We’ve got thousands – and my name is Sean!”
Ha, Sean (@35) actually is a librarian
A lawyer is standing in a long line at the box office. Suddenly, he feels a pair of hands kneading his shoulders, back, and neck. The lawyer turns around and asks, “What the hell do you think you’re doing?” “I’m a chiropractor and I’m just keeping in practice while I’m waiting in line.” “Well, I’m a lawyer, but you don’t see me screwing the guy in front of me, do you?”
A friend of mine wanted to improve his golf. I said he should go on a course.
A rich snail goes into a car shop, picks out a super fast car and says “I want a big S painted on the left side, the right side, the front, the back, I want big S’s everywhere!” And the car painter asks “Why?” And the snail says “Because when I pass people on the road, I want them to point at me and say ‘Wow! Look at that escargo!’”
This is your best one this week
An oldie, but a goodie.
Where did Noah keep his bees?
In the Ark HivesAn old lady at an ATM asked me to help check her balance.
So I pushed her over.
<3
Man walks into a bar with a giraffe. Man and giraffe sit down for a drink. Many drinks later, man and giraffe get up to leave, and the giraffe passes out on the floor. The man continues on his way out without noticing until the bartender says, ‘Hey, you can’t leave that lyin’ there!’ The man turns back and says, ‘That’s not a lion, it’s a giraffe.’
The best thing about
elevatorlift jokes is that they work on so many levels. #Page6 #It’sBeenAWhileWhat’s the difference between beer nuts and deer nuts?
Beer nuts are about 49cents and deer nuts are just under a buck.I gave in and bought Splatoon. I blame everyone but me.
That damn everyone, don’t trust em
*Slams the door open*
DID ANYONE SAY FALLOUT?
*crickets*
No?
Aw /o\
*closes door quietly*
Fallout 3 was better than New Vegas.
Discuss.
I actually agree with the above statement. I enjoyed the Capital Wasteland more than Nevada for some reason. I think also because Fallout 3 came first as well.
NV felt like the map was structured to be a lot more of a linear journey, you couldn’t just wander anywhere.
I liked how every quest took you closer to those lights on the horizon, though. But you’re right, they kind of pushed you to make a circle trip through the world.
I found the problem with the third game for me was less random encounters out there in the world. As long as you were on a quest and had an objective it was fine, but you weren’t rewarded for wandering as much.
Absolutely loooove the main theme of Fallout 3, though. So damn atmospheric.
Three dog!
/End discussion
Seriously though I do like the world in 3 better. Felt more apocalyptic then NV, and I like the Washington setting more than Nevada…
NV Did have more polished mechanics however so from that stand point is better in my opinion…
I loved Rivet City and exploring the National Mall.
Iiiii got horribly lost in rivet city XD
Though my favourite quest is located there
obtaining the declaration of independence from the museum… So damn good XDEdit – UUUUURGH AUTOCORRECT *SHAKES FIST*
Fallout 3 was better than NV because that is the only one that Mrs Tigs has let me play
Edit: Both are inferior to Fallout
I liked the personality of the world better in New Vegas. The weirdness and exploring the wasteland. Loved the companions too. Three was decent, but New Vegas has my heart. <3
Really thought it was a cool idea to see the skyline of the strip in the distance. Made it all the more exciting moseying closer and closer.
I think it mostly comes down to liking Obsidian’s writing better than Bethesda for me. Pretty much the definition of a personal taste thing. Both were excellent. Can’t wait for announcement. 😀
The giant roulette shape of the lucky 38 is visible from so much of the area. It’s great.
This is Mr New Vegas, Mr New Vegas here. The women of New Vegas ask me a lot if there’s a Mrs. New Vegas. Well, of course there is. You’re her. And you’re still as perfect as the day we met
Whoops, better put on my newsman fedora here…
Ergo, FNV > 3
I got a radio mod for NV because I got really, really sick of hearing the same shit again and again and again. Repetition of songs was ok, but the talking, the news etc. got old fast. This was kind of inevitable one you go past a few hundred hours of Fallout though.
Meanwhile, I could listen to this all day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l6vqPUM_FE
NV has an advantage in being remembered more fondly because it’s the newer game, isn’t GFWL, has better mod support…but 3 is the favourite for me.
Plus, green pip boy > orange pip boy
Unless I’m remembering incorrectly, both games let you change the colour of your HUD and Pip-Boy.
But yeah, green looked better 😀
I’ve spent much more time in New Vegas, and more recent time, than I did in 3 (I don’t own 3).
I just love the Mojave wasteland. For a game as brown as it is, I find it beautiful just wandering. The sparseness of it.
I also think the writing is a lot better in FNV.
This discussion is far too civilised.
Get it together, Internet people.
*zips on tea*
I say, dear sir, indeed! Shallow and pedantic
Go fuck yourself.
I would but your mother beat me to it.
Go home dad, you’re drunk.
You’re fucking wrong, Fallout 3 is literally hitler, and I had passionate sex with your mother after she agreed with my point of view.
Better.
Day? DAY?!
WHAT DAY? I DUNNO WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT HAHAHAHAhahaha *jumps out the window*
*grumblegrumble* damn autocorrect *grumble*OH SURE EDIT IT OUT WHY DONTCHA?! =P
I’ve been playing Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies of late and I am enjoying it quite a bit. I haven’t played a Phoenix Wright since the second game and never played Apollo Justice but I’m enjoying all of the characters so far. Blackquill is a fantastic adversary and all of the characters so far (only on the first case after the tutorial) have been pretty great. God I’ve missed these games.
I’m replaying the series from the start right now, the 3D digital remaster on the 3DS. I’m about halfway through the third game, and they are just fantastic. I’m having the best time.
This series definitely deserves to have at least one title in my Top 5 games ever… but I can’t decide which title! 😛
I’m happy to loan you the cartridges if you want (I have 2, 3, Apollo Justice, and Miles Edgeworth Investigates #1), but only once I’m done with them.
I might take you up on that but, knowing me, it’ll probably take me the next six months just to finish Dual Destinies as I only play on public transport to work. So I might ask again closer to when I’m finished. 🙂
Love how Prima Games have put in a code for the digital guide with the Collector’s Edition Witcher 3 guidebook. Means I can use the guide, as well as make sure the book remains in pristine condition.
Goddammit! spent too much time faffing about today, still in the prologue of The Witcher 3 and my son will be home from school in less than half an hour.
Looks like I’ll have to continue my restart tonight when I get home from work.
Monkey are you procrastinating playing the Witcher 3?! THIS IS BLASPHEMY! This could result in the slowing down of your internet connection until properly resolved.
Uuuuurgh, Elite Dangerous, Witcher 2, Witcher 3, Spayce Maureen, GTAV, and now I’m tempted to start playing Fallout 3 and NV again… WHY ISN’T THERE MORE HOURS IN THE DAY?
Isn’t this why people are given annual leave?
I thought annual leave was for finally doing all the house work you’ve been neglecting to have more efficient gaming time outside of work? Is the one time a year those boxer shorts I’ve been wearing for the past 4 months, which are currently standing over there in the corner, finally gets beaten into submission and thrown in the wash…
…
What?
Really tempted to pre-order the Batman: Arkham Knight Premium Edition off PSN, but I’m struggling for storage space as it is and it’s likely to be a 40+ GB download and with my internet being the way it is it would probably take a day or two to download. Not to mention the fact that it’s like $45 cheaper on Steam for essentially the same thing, but my laptop wouldn’t be able to run it.
AAAARRRGGGH!!!
Edit: Correction, would probably take more like around 5 days to a week to download something that size at the moment.
Yeah, I’m breaking my no pre-order rule for Batman.
(and X-Com2, and Fallout 4).
It’s telling me that PC version clocks in at 45gb.
On disc?
I’m just getting the normal edition off jb hifi
$79 seems good, and I’ll buy more DLC later.
No JB here. Only way I’ve got a hope of paying around that price and getting it on launch day is if Target are stocking it. Otherwise it’s 100 bucks at EB.
Screw it, might just pre-order a physical copy from EB along with the Collector’s Edition guide. Will work out to be the same price as the Premium Edition on PSN, but I’ll get the guide book instead of the season pass.
And it launches 1 day before Yoshi’s Woolly World. Gonna be an expensive week.
JB mails it out, not physical pick up.
I’ve learnt my lesson not to ever pre-order a major game and have it mailed out because 9 times out of 10 it won’t arrive on release day or even by that weekend.
OK.
I’ve always received mine pretty much on time. In fact, I had Borderlands 2 24 hours before release- cheesed my housemate off to no end that I could play it on PS3 while his copy, preordered at the same time, couldn’t be played (hadn’t unlocked on PC)
To be fair though I’ve never pre-ordered anything to be mailed out from JB or EB, only Ozgameshop and Mightyape. Although I did have a problem with EB when I ordered something for a friend which was guaranteed to be delivered by Christmas. After a lot of chasing up he got it sometime in February.
Both have worked for me in the past, though I did have to go to a freight depot to pick up my jb orders (come by courier).
For me, a freight depot is walking distance. so it’s less of an issue.
Isn’t that a good reason for a PSN pre-order? Buy it early, download and install it and play it as soon as it goes live.
Fun (?) fact page six!
That I discovered while researching the first world war, which is not such a fun topic.
Billy Hughes, Australia’s 7th Prime Minister, stepped down from the role after the failed 1917 plebiscite (Is there any legal difference between that and a referendum?) regarding conscription, and the resulting no confidence vote from his party.
However, since nobody else was brought forward as a viable replacement, the Governor General used his magical reserve powers to reinstate him.
Hughes was also a right dick during post-war talks, but that’s a discussion for another day.
I wholeheartedly support fun fact page sixes from other people.
Less research time for me, and more type to ride this Fallout 4 hype train.
I’m a bit disappointed in myself that I can’t think of anything language related today, so I had to resort to history lessons.
As a side note, am I the only one who feels like their knowledge of WWI is completely lacking when it comes to anything that isn’t Gallipoli? I swear it was the only thing about the war (aside from the circumstances that led to it) that school bothered to teach me.
I found the War Memorial in Canberra to be fascinating and really helpful in that regard but that was only really because I took an interest in it outside of school. School history was pretty useless aside from ‘rah rah Anzacs rah rah defining moment as a nation’ etc.
Mr Hughes was also the longest serving member of Parliament in Australia’s history, serving for something like 50 years after first coming in as part of Federation in 1901. He also died while serving as a member of Parliament at the ripe old age of 90.
That he was. He also ran in four different electorates, and was a member of… Six? Different parties, three of which he was expelled from. Dude got around, politically speaking.
Also two-timed the entire country as he served as both a Federal member and a member of the NSW state colonial parliament for a brief period after Federation. Such a politician.
In Australia, the difference between a referendum and a plebiscite is that a referendum involves changes to the constitution, but a plebiscite does not. Thus we had a referendum to decide whether to ditch the British monarchy back in the day, but as conscription is a legislative rather than constitutional change, it would have been a plebiscite.
WW1 is a pretty fascinating period really. Horrifying in many ways, but there’s so many things that people overlook when talking about it as well. Everyone forgets that, for example, the Empire of Japan fought with the allies, and that New Zealand invaded and occupied parts of Samoa. It was the first ‘modern’ war as well. There’d been some visions of what was coming back during the US Civil War but none of the major powers really grasped how much industrialization had changed the way war would be conducted.
Heck, even going back a little beforehand to the Russo-Japanese War of 1905 or even further back to Franco-Prussian War of 1870, war was already shaping up to be a terrifying prospect. It’s just that Europe as a whole had a serious war hangover from Napoleon and everyone thought that war would be something like that, completely ignoring all of the technological advances since then.
As an interesting fact, the first shots fired in WWI came from an Australian coastal battery around Port Phillip Bay in Melbourne as a German merchant trader tried to escape. The first shots fired in WWII came from the same coastal battery as an unidentified merchant vessel tried to sail out of the harbour.
Each state had its own navy pre-federation. SA’s was explicitly founded to counter the “russian threat”
I wrote a thing about it that has a pretty sweet photo of SA’s one and only naval ship, p22 of this magazine: http://www.boylen.com.au/assets/publications/defence/aug13-oct13/
That’s interesting that the Protector saw service in the Boxer Rebellion. Didn’t think any of the colonial navies were involved in overseas conflicts like that.
Yeah
http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~qdeck/boxers_war.htm
Typed up a big thing about how the Russo-Japanese war was the big ‘holy shit’ moment for naval warfare but fucking site ate it and redirected me to some captcha bullshit 🙁
The Battle of Tsushima was and I think still is the most decisive naval battle ever. Russia lost two thirds of its fleet including all eleven of its battleships. Over 10,000 men killed, wounded or captured. Japan lost 117 men and 3 torpedo boats.
European History!!!! <3
@mrtaco
No excuses!
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-au/Product/Castlevania-SOTN/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258410847
One – my 360 isn’t connected to the net or Live or anything 😛
Was referring to this before:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Classics
Um….plug it in? :p
Seriously, the best Metroidvania ever, with hidden magic you cast by inputting fighting moves (hadouken). All the other stuff you lived on DS/GBA & voice acting almost on par with Resident Evil 1!
Nah, too much effort. Plus the whole digital thing, I don’t do that 😛 Would be more likely to try get a PSP with Rondo of Blood or whatever it was on it, and the port they had in that.
Do it! That’s actually an enhanced port.
Only two downsides: New “better” voice acting & it’s hidden as an unlockable in the main game. Easy to use a guide & unlock though
Yeah but then I’d have to buy a PSP though. And who wants to do that 😛
I bought two! Because one broke.
Too many excuses, bah humbug I say!
*adjust Ninty fanboy hat*
@mrtaco
*adjusts Sony fanboi braces*
Fun fact page six:
I’m really hoping Bethesda allows us to shoot a vault dweller wearing clothes with the ID number 2299.
Other fun fact page six: Giraffe’s have the highest blood pressure in the world. If a giraffe lowers it’s head for too long (about 4-5 minutes) to graze on grass, or do whatever on the ground while standing, it will faint.
In extreme cases, it will have a heart attack.
Talk about pressure to keep correct posture…
I may be getting this wrong but here goes with my fun fact:
In southern Africa, the honey badger is a rightly feared creature by both humans and other animals. So much so in fact, that certain leopards have been observed as curling up on the ground in a way that makes them resemble honey badgers. This isn’t a defense mechanism against honey badgers but rather against lions and other predatory large cats who avoid the honey badgers at all costs.
Far Cry 4 taught me one thing: Fuck honey badgers! And eagles. But mostly fuck honey badgers, those guys are dicks.
@redartifice @quiz_b @TheCracks
Should we find some accommodation soon? Later we leave it the harder and more expensive it’s going to become.
Basic as fuck, but: http://urbancentral.com.au/groups/ensuite-communal-dormitory.html ?
Did you just call Freeze basic as fuck? HOW DARE YOU!
He knows it too.
I kid, I kid.Well late latest and most definite sign of the forth coming steam sale is the new cards and badges that have been released. Looks like the sale is going to follow a mysterious theme so who knows what they will entail. But if you have had your eye on getting anything from steam, might be worth waiting a day or two.
Apparently the sale is starting on the 11th.
http://www.technobuffalo.com/2015/06/01/get-ready-the-steam-summer-sale-starts-june-11/
*twitchtwitch* I can be strong.
@beavwa @budgieishere @chuloopa @coldcamv @crazyguy1990 @f4ction @greenius @jordi @mad_danny @pixel_the_ferret_viking @scree @smurfydog @tech_knight @tigerion @tofu @trikeabout @zetrox2k @mythamphetamine
Melbourne friends (also anyone I didn’t @ that is in Melbourne and not on taytags). This is stupidly late notice but is anyone interested in some board games at my place on the weekend? Either Saturday or Sunday afternoon is good for me.
If you’re interested then reply or send me a DM on twitter (@atomstrawberry) or an emale (atomicstrawberry at gmail dot com).
I don’t think I’ll be moving to the US until the end of July or so so this won’t be last chance, but might be getting close to it.
(Also if anyone wants to paw through the anime DVDs & figures and games I’m trying to sell then this would be a good opportunity as well)
Would love to but I suspect if I’m not already out of town then I’ll be flying out on the weekend. Sorry.
No worries, completely understandable and I’d have been surprised if you weren’t busy given what’s going on.
Interested.
I will be working Sat morning but could come after that, otherwise Sunday works. Will talk to Mrs Tigs tonight
good thing I haven’t over-double-booked my Sunday yet beyond any requisite recovery from Saturday! – be nice to meat a few local TAYbies so I know who to stalk around PAX :3
That does sound epic but already booked with day at the rugby on Saturday and a maintenance shutdown at work on Sunday.
Thanks though. Wouldn’t mind pawing through games and shiny discs. 🙂
Won’t be your last chance I’m sure.
Rebels vs Bulls?
Correct! Haven’t missed a Rebels home Super Rugby game yet… will be my 39th consecutive home attendance and my 52nd Rebels game – I’ve traveled a fair bit to watch them. Perth once, Sydney twice, Canberra twice, Christchurch once and 5 times to Brisbane!
Send help. 😮
Nice. I’ve kind of fallen out of the competition of late since I don’t have Foxtel. Highlanders supporter since way back so not easy to get to their games (and for a while they’ve made it hard to follow them without being bitterly disappointed…)
…try being a Rebel. I think our club motto should be “Close But No Cigar” or “So Near But So Far”, or maybe “At Least We Got The Bonus Point”. 🙂
… that was the other reason I never got into following the Rebels. Especially early on, they had some major issues working together as a cohesive team. On paper, their player lineup should have resulted in them doing much better than they did.
Yeah. Bit harder for me, Melbourne’s my town so don’t have any choice.
Still I love going. Even when it’s a bit frustrating.
I’m free on Sunday so I’d be interested depending on whether the interest is there and you’ve got enough peoples
It’s looking like Sunday may suit better than Saturday at this point. Also gives me time to clean up my filthy unit as well.
Dang I play soccer on Sundays, given it’s not the last chance though that’s OK 😀
If you ever decide to have another Saturday meat I’ll be up for it, but Sundays are out for me.
I can do Sunday!
I’m stuck in the middle of moving in to my new apartment, wish I could come along but it won’t be until after two weeks at least.
HOUSEWARMING MEAT AT TECHIE’S PLACE IN TWO WEEKS?!
Thanks for the invite, mate, but I can’t make it 🙁
Also – You’re moving to the US?!?!?!
I ended up getting Splatoon, even though I had no intention of doing so leading up to release. Only played the single player so far. That end boss is insane. It’s disappointing the rest of the single player missions are so bland compared to it.
We’re doing multiplayer tonight, that’s where the meat of the game is.
Hopefully there’ll be some more multi shenanigans on the weekend. Can’t do tonight.
There are no friend lobbies or anything yet (coming in August apparently), so there’s not much point setting up nights where everybody plays. Just join their game if you see a friend already online.
Final boss is sooooooooooooo good.
Went and saw Mad Max: Fury Road.
Go and see it!
That’s all I have to say about it.
Why is it that every time I write something that ends up on the main page, I’m off at Costco or somewhere else where I can’t spam the comments with inanity?
True story: I was thinking “Hey, this is that thing that Trjn was talking about yesterday (or the day before?) I should tag him in it!” then realised why that would be incredibly stupid.
It would be slightly daft :p
I told myself I wouldn’t buy any of the Pokemon Amiibo because they’re probably never going to be used for anything in future games but I saw Jigglypuff and Charizard got restocked everywhere and shut up its my birthday I can do what I want please don’t judge me
I was in a JB the other day and saw the Greninja one, picked it up just to have a look. A staff member walked by and muttered ‘last one we haaaaave…’ and I was all BEGONE FOUL TEMPTRESS.
That Jigglypuff one is pretty rad though.
She says that to everyone. Meanwhile the warehouse is full.
“Do you have any of those microphones left?”
“Yeah, a couple.”
Is it actually yo birthday though?
Happy B’day pow!
If this isn’t your real B’day I hope I have served to add to your Amiibo guilt! =P
I’d been steadfastly anti-amiibo but I suspect that if I was to encounter the Robin or Lucina ones somewhere I’d probably buy them 🙁 Also tempted by the splatoon squidgirl thing, really like that design.
Go to target.
Now.
I’ll wait.
I think I need to not go to Target. My wallet would hate me and I’d have even more figures to move. 🙁
Amiibo are worth more than gold in America right now. Good thing to take with you.
@pupp3tmast3r
When you intending on getting back into Destiny?
This weekend mr jocon, gotta set my updates, installation and dlc crap tomorrow night and then going to jump into the story on one of my toons fri eve/sat morning. Keen to join?
I’ve kind of tossing up getting back into Destiny for a bit too. Finished the grind to 20 on one character but never progressed to the light grind. Basically ragequit when I tried to do one of the daily mission things. Tried to get back in when the previous DLC came out but I couldn’t even do the new story content, too hard.
Hmm, may be slow to get into without any light at all and (I assume) no vanguard marks/rep.
We could run you though daily missions and stuff but still will take a while.
Once you have the marks/rep or the means to obtain it you can buy enough gear for 32 light level off the bat.
Aye as jo’s said, if you haven’t gone past 20 light it’ll take you time/grinding to get up there. That said I’m guessing the DLC should’ve made light grind curve easier than it was before.
@jocon I think I had some light gear that they handed out at some point, but I think I’m at about 23.
Cool cool.
Can get 24 with just blues, if you got a couple of queens purples too then you should be able to hit 26 once you level up the gear.
With that we can bring you into higher level strikes and missions for the decent rewards.
Also show you the Vault of Glass if we find a few more peeps 😀
NOOOO not the VoG! D=
*ragequits Destiny*
Hey once we get up in levels I’d like to.give hard mode a crack, maybe with os42 since he knows what he is doing. If only for a chance at the helm and fatebringer.
Sounds good to me.
Also, what’s this?
Gjallarhorn in my first PoE chest?
Don’t mind if I do!
So what pokemon do people want to see on book marks?
The. Worst.
So… you’re assuming Ditto, then?
I responded to me getting a page get, that’s what
Dedenne
Trubbish.
Ew, do I have to?
Thinking about it honestly, Diglett would work well for a bookmark.
It would be a nose and a ring of dirt
But…what if you put it at the TOP of the bookmark, the bit that sticks out from the book?
🙂 I’d buy that. Literally, I would buy it off you.
That’s something I’d have to craft myself, rather then just get it printed up
I was thinking about this last night. What if you designed Diglett to be upside down on the bottom of the bookmark?
Get printed, then flip the bookmark. Diglett right way up, at the top.
Oh I get what you mean. I thought you meant in the shape of diglett. It’s easy enough to move diglett to the top. I could move them all to the top really
I’d like to see a Squirtle!
I plan on doing some starter sets
😀
FLYING PRESS
I don’t understand
Hawlucha
Wrong.
It’s HAWLUCHA!!!
Squirtle, Bisharp & Croagunk
The greatest pokemon of them all!
Psyduck
Please nob, everyone knows gold makes things better so it has to be Golduck.
I don’t really know but snorelax and Mewtwo are fairly iconic
Personally I would go for Blastoise
I am pretty tired now
http://imgur.com/a/MxBWL
I have a friend who would buy all of the Eeveelutions if you made them.
I’m making my way through them.
=O the evee stuff would be cool for sure!
The only true starters (Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Squirtle).
Regardless of what you choose, I’m looking forward to how you tackle them in your style. It’s a very creative, I like looking at them. Even if I don’t know anyone who would want any Katamari bookmarks, I liked the look of them a lot.
What about Charmander?
Pikachu is the Charmander starter. You take Charmander until you can get to him. 😀
(Edit: Srsly though, he could have a bookmark too.)
PSA: The article just posted recently entitled ‘A Beautiful Anime Makes For Beautiful GIFs’ is from Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works’ second season and it has some pretty significant unmarked spoilers in there.
I leave my job today, and Sepp Blatter resigns from his position as FIFA President.
Coincidence? I think not.
*Waits for phonecall from Switzerland to hide bung funds*
I’m sure they all miss you already. There were tears, most likely. :'(
Only one person cried, I tried my best to start some crying but it didn’t quite happen :@
Was it you?
…yes.
@greenius @sughly
BOOM!
This camper guy, man.
Pete, Dave, Kiryu and Wanderlei were other friends of mine btw.
Whoa look at Mr. Popular with all his friends 🙁
I figured maybe Pete and Dave since they kept popping up!
Ohhh I remember thinking Kiryu in particular was quite good, whenever he ended up on my team I was quietly like yessss
It’s alllllll over, but the cryyyyyyying
The 24 Hours of Le Mans starts next weekend!
\o/
How long til E3 now? Waiting. Waiting never changes
SKYBOAT
It’s no SkyWhale.
And it’s no SpaceWhale™ – @rize knows what I mean.
Title theme sung by Adele.
This is the end
Hold your breath and count to ten
Feel the earth move and then
SKYBOAT
@sernobulus Said it on Twitter, but just in case you missed it. Found out that Mighty No.9 is going to have a Signature Edition with a pretty cool statue and a foil signature from Inafune on the packaging. It’s $60 at Amazon, not sure about Aus price, or if it will even be coming here.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-16360-Mighty-No–9-Signature-Edition-Announced–Trailer-Released.html
Backed it on Kickstarter … not sure how I should feel about them releasing a special edition of a game that was backed via kickstarter which means backers need to buy the game twice to buy the signature edition.
Yeah, it’s kind of a kick to the nuts, but I felt you should know.
So who’s pre-ordered Fallout 4 yet (or is planning to today)?
Personally I’m going to wait until they announce Collector’s Editions, and more importantly, a date.
I’m definitely getting whatever collector’s edition rubbish they throw at us, which I assume will be announced along with a date. Then I will sell organs until I have enough money.
Hopefully it’ll be right after their conference when they announce details and EB will chuck it up straight away. Handy for me as that’s right after payday 😀 Collector’s Edition and then whatever Special Edition there is with different crap in it. Fortunately me and my missus both need a copy so there’s actually a reason to buy ALL the special editions 😀
It’ll be an expensive payday for me though seeing as I need to pay off the rest of my Arkham Knight Batmobile edition 🙁
Hopefully me… if i can sell a kidney, my left nut and little fingers
Edit sorry misread, not today but when a collectors edition have been announced I will
What possible reason would there be to preorder now?
Yeah, I think I need a release date and also… it to be released. NO PRE-ORDERS. *folds arms*
Stay strong, brother!
*quietly pre-orders collector’s edition of XCOM2 with all the in-game goodies*
NO GAMES 2015
IT DOESN’T COUNT! IT DOESN’T COOOOOUUUUUNNT
*breaks down sobbing*
It’s OK. FF15 probably won’t be out this year anyways. Yeah. That wouldn’t happen. The universe wouldn’t do that to me… make me miss out on preorder bonuses and choose between them. NEVER HAPPEN.
You sound like a recovering alcoholic who failed out.
So you can rub yourself with the confirmation number.
The only reason I can think of would be limited editions that are actually limited.
At that point I’d preorder but at this time there’s only the existence of the game confirmed.
Yep. I agree with you: at this stage, pre-ordering is kind of premature. Especially because most of the folks who want to drop money at this stage would probably prefer a non-standard edition.
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…
Okay i’m goo- FALLOUT4, i’m good!
Are Fallout Boy releasing a new album?
F-A-L-L-O-U-T-4!!!
Fallout boy?
Fallout pip?
Fallout pip boy?
Pip fallout boy?
PIP BOY?
FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4FALLOUT4!
Pip is going to make a comeback in South Park?
Post apocalyptic urban decay. *flails arms*
Post apocalyptic urban SKYBOAT *sails armed*
SKYBOAT!
Oh that reminds me. You should check out some of the background art and stuff from current-season anime ‘Seraph of the End’. It’s pretty much 100% post apocalyptic urban decay. Shots based off real locations too so authentic layout, decayed signage etc.
Oooooh! Sounds good! Anime’s not usually my thing, but I do like the sound of that!
Fallout 4 looked pretty cool actually. Looks more colourful than what I’ve seen of the previous games, I like it. Might have to try this one.
Oh man, so cool to have colours. Doesn’t change the game’s tone at all and makes for an interesting world.
I never had an issue with the lack of colours in the previous games because I thought it worked well with each setting. Having said that, the amount of colour in that trailer is refreshing and I’m really liking it.
Also seems a lot more dense and urban than previous Fallouts. Boston looks relatively intact in the post-apocalypse which will be very interesting.
In before parkour perhaps?
Yeah. It had a weirdly non-post-apocalyptic vibe to it. Almost reminded me of Blade Runner in some parts. I’m sure the game itself will have plenty of wasteland to explore, it’s just strange to see a trailer that focuses so heavily on pre-apocalypse life and post-apocalypse urban life.
I got a very distinct Rage vibe out of the whole thing, especially in what looked to be a market bazaar. Of course Rage drew on the same ideas as Fallout but it’s interesting to see the ideas cross-pollinate.
When I mod Fallout 3 in particular, I always bump up the contrast a bit and give then colour a bit more ‘pop’. I feel it fits in well with the 50s style technology and everything
I haven’t played any fallout games. I’m sorry D=
It’s okay, Scree. I haven’t either. They can’t shun both of us!
Chalk another up as a non-Fallout player.
You?! YOU?! A non-fallout player?! This explains why I never got my Tau Scout drone you soulless void of humanity!!
I KID! =PYou can bet there’ll be a Steam sale on 3 and NV in the near future, if you’re actually interested in trying them.
Are the games stand-alone? I’d rather just play the latest entry if I don’t miss much.
Yeah, they’re mostly standalone. NV is by the folks who did the original Fallout games, so there’s a bit of story stuff carrying on but mostly the new ones are standalone.
Fallout 3 is set on the East Coast while the other games are West Coast, so I imagine if the new Boston setting will carry over any story it will be from Fallout 3.
That’s what I wanted to know. What should I start with?
New Vegas
I’d start with 3. The first 2 don’t hold up too well these days unless you’re playing a lot of top down RPGs. Bethesda started with 3 and made it so people could easily jump into the Fallout universe and not lose anything from not playing the first 2 games. Plus the DLC is some of the best of the last generation
You say it has some of the best DLC but NV has Old World Blues …
@sernobulus I was thinking about New Vegas as well when thinking about the DLC. I haven’t played through it all though, just Dead Money & Lonesome Road (I wasn’t sure at the time what order to play them through). Lonesome Road was fantastic, absolutely brilliant, Dead Money…not so I felt. I’ll be playing through them again before 4 comes out and I like how they interlace compared to 3’s which are much more standalone.
So far though from the last gen, both Fallout games had some of the best, if not the best DLC of any series
Yeah, Dead Money is super brutal. Not the best DLC. The rest of them are really good though.
Any entry really, NV is a great standalone and I don’t think it requires a lot background knowledge to get into
I vote for either. A simple summary:
3 is the refresh of the series, is a serious game with lots of tongue in cheek humour in the background. It was designed to introduce/reintroduce people to “new” Fallout.
New Vegas is somewhat of an indirect successor to Fallout 1 & 2 and is far more open about how crazy it is. It also references things from the old games a lot. This won’t kill it for you but you’ll have moments of “I feel like that was a nod to something but I don’t know what”.
Just wait for 4 *shrugs*
Fallout 2 remains one of my favourite games of all time. Game plays like a SRPG with turn based battles working off skill percentages.
Plus, it totally allows you to completely fuck up your game even right from the very start. Upset the quest givers or shot someone you’re not supposed to do and main quest line will shut down forever. Not many games allow that.
I remember trying to steal something from someone at the start, got caught and they turned hostile. Had to kill them to survive and whole town turned on me. Elder was dead and couldn’t give me the quest leaving me to forever wander the wasteland aimlessly completing side quests.
They’re pretty good.
I tried the third one, but didn’t like it. I think that makes me worse than you.
I doubt it. People have their preferences.
No, he’s right… he’s a monster. Move him to the top of the shun list.
Someone put up a Witcher contract.
Ask the locals about the monster, find where the monster committed his unspeakable deeds, track the monster, apply oils and drink heavily… k–kill the monster? Or is it something else?
Hey you forgot the most important part! Barter a higher price for $$$$!!
Tsk. I only do that for wealthy assholes who sneer. Not poor peasants who’ve all chipped in what few crowns I might’ve missed when I broke into their homes and robbed them blind while staring them straight in the eyes.
What’s a Fallout?
You’re the one whose been shouting it!
Oh thaaaat Fallout, had nearly forgotten about that *hair flick*
Again with the hair flicks *balding man sobs*
BUY A WIG
FLICK HAIR
??????
PROFIT!
Have you played any Elder Scrolls games? Modern Fallout is like that. Both mechanically and in the way they have self-contained stories that share a greater lore.
Not really. Sorry D=
About an hour of Fallout 3. It was great. Then I got distracted and oh look something shiny.
Seemed to be a lot more pre/post war society and setting in that trailer and not really any vault dwelling. I like the theory that they could be doing something a bit different with the main character.
It does remind me of my favourite part of the recent (3/NV) fallout series – exploring to find other vaults.
Every vault has a different story that you get to uncover and piece together from each one. Always loved that process (and taking every numbered jumpsuit while I raided as a stack of souvenirs) – vault 11 was my favourite back story.
I’ll need to watch the trailer over and over again (and I will), but I was getting the impression that the vault was also a missile silo. I say that as people were running towards one when the bombs went off, presumably to try to find shelter and ended up on the top of the launch doors when the bomb goes off at the end.
Hopefully the vault is a lot more expansive though, but also you can return to your home vault this time as well (assuming you do start in a vault, the shielding your eyes from the sun as you step outside seems to go that way)
Yeah, vault 11 has a great backstory.
I confused myself…
To be honest, even though I haven’t played the games, I have read about some of the vaults because they sounded interesting.
Have you read about vault 11?
From my point of view, first thing I find is a few bodies with a pistol just outside the door, and an audio log basically saying “what have we done”.Then as I got further in, there were propaganda posters for voting for an overseer. Except reverse – vote for x because they’re terrible. Don’t vote for me.
Further in there’s evidence of fights between factions, and you slowly piece together the story of the vault through seeing the aftermath. And finally, you get to the central computer and find out the experiment, and all the pieces of how it played out click together.
Yeah, I think I actually read about that one
They wanted to see how Humans would react when divided, right?Not quite.
It was the vault that required a yearly sacrifice or the population will be exterminated. The first overseer was the only one that knew initially, and became the first sacrifice (willingly?) before the rest of the population found out.I must’ve read about another one that was similar
I don’t want to set the world on fire
I just want to start
A flame in your heart
In my heart I have but one desire
And that one is you
No other will do
I’ve lost a-BANG-mission
The wor-BANG BANG BOOM BANG
BANG BANG *slowmo* BAAAAAANG-SPLAT
-dreaming of, believe-BOOM.
Sigh, now I know what I’m doing tonight 😛
S-…Space Marine?
AAARGH GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
*runs off*
So first of all much fallout 4 hype, you get a puppy!! I’m going to headshot mutants with him!! =D
I think Witcher’s graphics have spoilt me though because the trailer seemed like they’ve been working on this game with the same engine as Skyrim 🙁
DOGMEAT!
Also I’m perfectly happy if it’s a spruced up version of the skyrim engine… A few mods thrown in and it’ll look unbelievably pretty (ENB for Skyrim anyone?)
I’m okay with that. Means my crappy PC can run it with few problems.
From what I can see it’s vastly improved on the whole, lighting, textures and much more dense with everything from grass to buildings. Characters look like they’re meant to be cartoon looking. Look closely and there’s a fair amount of detail on them.
It’s hard to get past that dog though. It’s so prominently featured but looks like they pasted a texture over a low poly model and looks like something from the mid 2000’s. Stands out so much and overshadows everything.
Things Blaghs noticed: That DoF implementation sucks. Foreground objects bleed out when blurred, get your act together Gaussian-blur-that-90%-of-games-have-used-since-2007 (probably has the alpha misread, too).
Honestly though, I’m fine with the visible end as is, assuming they’ve actually fixed the world loading. Loading screens for every building suck.
I don’t think there’s any chance of enjoying another Bethesda game. The graphics and simulation detail might have improved, but the core of their games hasn’t changed since I played Daggerfall. Witcher 3 really throws their bland open world into stark relief, probably ruined any chance I could derive any enjoyment from Fallout 4 unless it’s a big step up from their usual fare.
True but while their core hasn’t changed for a while, Bethesda always make worlds that are genuinely fun to explore and mess around in =] While I am disappointed for the visuals seen so far, I’m excited there’s a new Fallout!
I’ve never found their worlds fun to explore. They always seem bland and dry and superficial.
Me too
Today, Tony Abbott visited my local shops. This was the result.
The Canberra life.
The heck is that expression on his face?
About normal.
Stay in politics long enough and your face relaxes into this creepy psycho smile from all the smiling and waving you have to do.
So, who wants to talk about Fallout?
As a byproduct of Nuclear testing, it’s bad. Horrible stuff.
Arguments are just words. People should always try to make up if possible.
People need to understand their actions and decisions have consequOHMYGOD THAT’S PART OF WHY THEY CALL THE GAME FALLOUT!
I hate it when I fall out of my bed in the morning
Yeah, that Strontium tends to stick to your teeth.
Really cool news about the console version of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-05-29-the-vanishing-of-ethan-carter-the-ps4-remake-the-vr-remake-and-a-brand-new-game
Existing PC payers will get the free upgrade too.
Also, this game would be AMAZING with the Oculus or Morpheus, so that’s exciting too!
Nice, can’t recommend The Vanishing of Ethan Carter enough
Wow. $160 for the Arkham Knight digital duluxe edition. A bit weird that the season pass covers six months instead of a dedicated amount of content.
This way you don’t get any DLC if there’s any delays! yay for $$$$!
It’s going to take them that long to release and sell the second half of the game WB have cut out from the base package.
=/ Guess I am going to wait for a GOTY edition then.
If the prices are still the same it’s like $65-70 at OGS for the game and season pass via code for PC.
Sucks for console people, but I’m happy to pay that much.
Still means you need to pay for DLC after the 6 months though.
It also helps that I am in no hurry to play it
Should prolly watch that trailer…
Nah.
Media blackout! Good strategy! 😉
Legit just want to wait until I’m feeling less pessimistic.
No such thing as a media blackout (particularly with Twitter).
It’s a pretty well done trailer actually. Divorcing it from the hype, it’s well composed.
And that reveal that it was a freemium/f2p mobile game at the end was unexpected!
In amongst all the Fallout hype, Ron Perlman tweeted this:
https://twitter.com/perlmutations/status/606230273139736576
HNNNNNNNNNNNNG
Fun fact page I don’t care it’s Fallout 4 day:
The mascot of Fallout, Vault Boy, is giving you the thumbs up!
Right?
No.
Look at the shading. Look at the colours. He’s looking at a nuclear explosion.
The thumb thing? Well, that’s the old “are you safe” measurement – if you can cover the mushroom cloud with your thumb, you are safe and don’t need to run too fast.
If it’s bigger than your thumb, you need to run very fast.
Vault Boy is actually looking to see if he’s safe or not…from the explosion, and the immediate fallout.
Talk of surviving nuclear explosions just makes me want to go hunt down that TV show I saw the first dozen or so episodes of before it got weirdly contrived in a bid to sustain its story past its natural life… whose title I have JUST now remembered. Jericho!
And while I’ve got you on this, even EB are saying 2015 for Fallout 4.
Sorry @transientmind, no games 2015 is dead and buried.
FALLOUT 4 PAGE GET!
I can’t bring myself to believe that release date. I mean, I’d love for it to be true. But… so close. My heart’s been broken too many times before. 😛
Though a Mad Max/Fallout 4 one-two punch would be pretty great! 😀
POSRPOCALPTICURBINDECAY
Eh, I imagine that’s a placeholder date.
We’ll find out for sure, I’m sure, after E3
Until it comes out of Bethesda’s mouth I ain’t going to believe it! And even once they confirm the date I’m gonna give it 3-6 months for delays =p
; _ ;
I’ve tried so hard and it’s only half-way.
I think it was a pretty ambitious (albeit foolish) goal in the first place 😛
If you had told me at the start of the year that 2015 would see XCOM2 and Fallout 4, I wouldn’t have believed you. 🙁
Can @transientmind go on a Game Strike every year so we always get good gaemz?
:C
Welp, went back to face Qodron last night. It’s pretty fun, now. We tried the three gjally strat (with two gjallarhorns and a hunger) and failed miserably, so while we waited for our synths to recharge, we tried doing it legit and… beat him first try. Jailbreaker now means one swordbreaker shot per detainment field; combined with less damage from the detainment fields, it’s kind of a cakewalk. Which would be disappointing, except we were all 33 or 34, thus above the level requirements, and I’d much prefer this be actually doable by 31s than it be practically impossible at max level.
Result: 3 level 34s, two of which have 0 intelligence, 0 discipline, and 540+ strength when 34. Damn you, Variks!
That was pretty funny running about soloing bounties while you guys were in there.
#IHaveGeekCredBecause has started trending on Twitter.
#IHaveGeekCredBecause shut the hell up stop trying to wave your digital penis around, you don’t need to justify your normal person hobbies.
#IHaveGeekCredBecause I have no friends and women frighten me.
Isn’t that what Twitter is for?
Its funny i would say gaming is the most mainstream hobby one can do. I used to think it was reading but everyone hates reading now. Trying to find someone who is well read outside of my little sister is impossible
Enh. Virtually no-one at my workplace is into games. It’s a 1-in-50 kinda percentage. I don’t think it’s anywhere near as mainstream as some folks like to think it is, because we tend to hang out with people who share similar interests.
I dont even play that many games, I just find people who are into them usually share my love of humor and bad pop culture references
WOO! BOOOOOKS!
Sorry, but if someone forced me to choose between books and games, books would win no questions asked.
I’d choose books because when the aliens/zombies/commies invade and take out the power, books will still work fine.
What if they’re commies of the book-burning variety?
Well, shit. *draws in the sand with a stick, wistfully gazing into the distance*
#IHaveGeekCredBecause I’m deeply insecure and am looking for confirmation on that one time mummy told me I was special.
#Ihavegeekcred because it’s now an accepted label.
#IHaveGeekCredBecause I’m contributing to a truly bizarre social media trend on the internet and pretending that makes me part of a unified community.
#ihavegeekcred because if I accumulate enough nerdy stuff, people will like me
#IHaveGeekCredBecause I own an anime hug pillow.
…
Wait… 🙁
Ooh, I didn’t realise how close June 11 was.
ONE WEEK!
*dinosaur roar*
Wife is going rabid.
I’ve never met you or your wife, so I can only assume your wife is a rabid dinosaur, and that’s where the roaring is coming from?
Pretty sweet that you married a dinosaur, mang.
I kinda feel bad but I just can’t get excited about the new Fallout game. Pretty much everyone here is excited about it, people at work are excited about it, my facebook feed is full of excitement about it but I am just not keen.
I tried, I really tried with Fallout 3 and New Vegas but I just couldn’t get into them. I put about 30hrs into Fallout 3 before giving up and maybe 15 into New Vegas. Recently tried to get back into them because a friend kept nagging me but I just got bored really quickly.
I think there is something wrong with me :/
Something wrong club represent! *high five*
Yay! I’m not alone. This is great news.
Something wrong with everyone else. We’re the sane ones.
I haven’t been hype about much lately but all of a sudden I have a rush of excitement about Fallout, Jurassic World is just about here, PAX is organised for me and what is this even what is feeling is this what being @dc feels like things are going to be awesome.
AWWW man i was just reconsidering PAX. I CAN NEVER MAKE UP MY MIND
HOW DARE YOU ENJOY DIFFERENT THINGS THAN I ENJOY. ILL SMASH YOU M8
It’s ok to be wrong 😛
@transient the monsters are spreading. Witcher contract kickstarter?
@transientmind
Just need more crowns, more time.
Same. I got through to the end of Fallout 3 and didn’t particularly get the hype over it. Tried New Vegas, and … ugh. I think I made it out of the first town before I gave up. Didn’t see anything in the new trailer that would make me want to give the franchise another shot, tbh, aside from “colour” at last.
Eh, I couldn’t care less about it. I’ve tried playing Fallout 3 and New Vegas and the world seemed so bland and the colours were so off putting (brown everything! That looks apocalyptic!) it completely put me off.
That and the lack of direction. Just like Elder Scrolls games I guess. Oblivion was okay, could never get into Skyrim. White everywhere! Go… somewhere!
Edit: Although if 4 is actually colourful I may well give it a shot.
Brisbanians! Brisbane Megagame has announced that tickets will soon be on sale for “Watch The Skies” 2015. Preliminary details here, looks like they’re aiming for June 27th.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=854052637977387&set=gm.926530560736723&type=1&theater
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
Not my thing, but thanks for thinking of me!
It probably isn’t your thing, but they do have a position for camera crew I notice.
DO IT
EVERYONE DO IT
It’s so much fun.
That be my birthday precious. I’ll be heading to see Machine Head instead I’m afraid
Do you enter as a team or get randomly assigned?
For ours, you bought tickets for the specific team (I dunno if these guys will do the same). So my ticket was the “Azmont Diplomat” ticket.
FWIW, @gingerchris86 was on a different team to the rest of us, but I think he still had a lot of fun.
I absoloutely still had fun 🙂
It depends on the organiser. I know that other games you could request what you want but there were no certainties. While the one we played a few weeks ago let you take your pick from what was available.
DO EET
I have no idea what this is & following the link didn’t help me.
Trivia night?
Paintball tournament?
Paper plane race?
Complete insanity.
It’s an all-day role playing game where you’re not some random dungeon crawler but the leader of a nation. It’s a game of information and miscommunication, of making plans and seeing them all fall apart. It’s marvelous.
It’s a giant team game where you’ll control a nation on Earth just after first contact with aliens. You’ll work with other nations on earth to deal with the alien presence one way or another
OR
It’s an exercise in machiavellian manipulation disguised as a giant team game where you’ll control a nation on Earth just after first contact with aliens. You’ll work with other nations on earth to deal with the alien presence one way or another while being a ruthless bastard and manipulating as many players as possible to reach your goal.
Fair characterisation @trjn?
Work with or against other nations.
For those that don’t know what this is or are on the fence, watch this video. It potentially has spoilers but Watch the Skies has been run all over the world, so I can only assume that there are a range of possible twists.
I recall seeing a vampire-themed whodunnit megagame a while ago but I was never really interested.
This however. This is basically the political side of XCOM. I’m interested.
Do it, you’ll love it.
man.. i feel so out of the loop.. what the hell is this thing even about? Is it some kind of LAN party or something?
I think Red and Trjn said it best
@shane dammit now I want to change the watermarks but I would delete peoples comments on facebook by doing so
SORRY! 🙁
/scree#ThisOldJokeAgainIt’s a classic. =P
Well, put in for some time off work over E3. Gonna watch every conference this year! ALL OF THEM, DARNIT.
(also get ready to move house and such, but mainly the E3 thing)
I’ll be skipping the… Bethesda? one. Whichever’s on Monday.
Need to confirm with my boss, but I assume it will be fine.
What if we move and have no internet?
This won’t happen! I forbid it!
(even if I gave my three weeks notice to my real estate today I’d still have the keys to my internet-connected place during E3 anyway so I’m all good :P)
I’ll just be sad and internetless over here then…
YOU GUYS ARE MOVING IN TOGETHER?
I dont know how to feel about this.
Excited.
Excited about the new sitcom that will inevitably spawn from this.
Look, it’ll be good, but it won’t hold a candle to “Oh, Rocketman.”
Until we do our crossover ep.
And ruin both shows? The show runners (me) will never allow it!
It’s the @Powalen and @alexPants show!
*jingle*
One’s a guy who pokemons
And the other’s a guy
who never wears pantalons
The Pow and Pants show is brought to you by Blue Ridge clothing, manufacturers of the finest mustard pants in Australia. Blue Ridge! The rich shade of Mustard, now in pants!
*INT- House*
ALEX opens the door
*crowd applauds*
ALEX
Pow, I’m home!
POW appears from another room holding a pokeball
POW
Hi Alex!
ALEX
Pow, what are you doing?
POW
Well, there was a big spider in the spare room, so I decided to catch him!
ALEX
Oh Pow, you crazy
*Crowd whoops*
POW
Also our friend Rockets is coming to visit! On the same day as our new landlord, who conveniently looks exactly like Rockets!
ALEX
Guess we’d better not the confuse the two! That could lead to shenanigans!
*cries*
It’ll give me something to write 100% accurate weekly recaps about once Game of Thrones is finished.
FALLOUT 4.
X-COM 2.
MASS EFFECT 4.
ARKHAM KNIGHT.
DEUS EX.
TORMENT TIDES OF NUMERIA.
DOOM.
NO MAN’S SKY.
SHADOWRUN HONG KONG.
THE DIVISION.
JUST CAUSE 3.
MIRRORS EDGE 2.
HOLY SHIT. E3 IS GONNA BE FUCKING AWESOME THIS YEAR. GET READY FOR A SOLID FUCKING MONTH OF ALL-CAPS-HYPED-35 MOTHERFUCKERS.
Edit: also, hello. How’s things?
YOU LEFT OUT THE GREAT ACE ATTORNEY YOU MONSTER.
ALSO, HELLO. o/
THERE’S TOO MUCH STUFF TO GET HYPED ABOUT. FORGIVE ME FOR NOT HAVING TIME TO COMMUNICATE MY COMPLETE LEVELS OF HYPE.
You are excited for games and you should feel bad because of it.
That’s also the title of my upcoming Polygon article.
Followed by the upbeat optimistic comments on said article reading ‘I’m hyped, but am certain I will be bitterly disappointed. I will likely say “I told you so.” a lot when it happens.’
FUCK THAT. I’M SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING DROPPING OUT OF LAW SCHOOL & LEAVING MY GIRLFRIEND SO I CAN GO ON A WORLD TOUR OF HYPE.
Edit: not really. I like law school. & my girlfriend. there’s enough room in my life for three kinds of hype.
Who’s this guy? I don’t see any books.
I’VE MISSED YOU TOO CODY. ALSO, FORGET BOOKS. UNLESS THEY’RE ABOUT AWESOME STUFF & HYPE. IN WHICH CASE, GO NUTS.
THE HYPE IS REAL, SEAN. FFFFUUUUUUUUUUU
*REMOVES SHIRT IN UPPERCASE AND CIRCLES THE ROOM PUNCHING POT PLANTS*
THIS IS EXACTLY THE REACTION I WANTED. MY WORK HERE IS FINISHED.
*GETS CARRIED OFF BY A HYPE TORNADO*
ALL ABOARD
#ChooChoo
I have fallout new vegas. I don’t even know how. Should I start with that? I appear to have all the DLC too, I think.
compared to 3, gameplay is slightly better in NV. more skills etc.
NV story has more variation / branching paths.
I felt that 3 has the better overall narrative & better atmosphere & feels ‘tighter’
but yeah, NV is a fine place to start.
Do eet.
What I’ve loved doing in New Vegas is my Forrest Gump playthrough.
My name’s Forrest, Forrest Gump
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=278763984
I am not a smart man, but I do know what love is
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=278766179
My mama always said stupid is as stupid does
http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/53231698286147208/0AAE4B46D4FC6B2690B9A703EF7D5D247E66F1EA/
No reason not to. It’s not the better game, 3 is, but people here are liars and want to convince you otherwise… I don’t know why, maybe so that you save the best for last or something? Either way, you can play all the Fallout games independent of each other.
The difference in characters and settings is so great that continuity doesn’t matter much, and the most you’re going to miss out on is maybe a couple cameos and a few nudge-wink references to previous events. These are self-contained stories.
New Vegas works pretty well as a place to be dumped unceremoniously in the middle of nowhere, knowing nothing. It’s been a while, but as far as I recall the first like… thirty seconds of the game see you start the game by getting shot in the head and tossed in a grave. Hello, amnesia.
I felt much more on rails in 3. In NV, while I’ve got an overarching goal, I feel I can wander and get involved in factional business a lot more.
Fallout 3 gives you pretty explicit instructions and doesn’t indicate that you’ll be rewarded for exploring, espcially if you’re not used to this particular kind of open-world gameplay (I certainly wasn’t, back in 2008).
New Vegas pushes you to explore a bit more but it probably helps that by the time New Vegas came out, I’d sunk around 400 hours into FO3.
NV is written by people that actually know how to write interesting characters and a compelling narrative, so that’s a big plus over the snooze-fest of Fallout 3.
Oh thanks. Also, I won’t be able to come to board games night, sorry.
It’ll be during the day and maybe into the night but no worries.
Sorry, I still have cosplay stuff to work on.
Sigh.
Decided to make a concerted effort to try and play through Dark Souls. I’ve got through the first couple of hours, a couple of times previously, but I really want to give it a solid effort. But my computer seems to be fighting with me.
I downloaded the DSfix mod thing that supposed to make everything better but all its done is cause massive framerate issues, to the point where the game kicks me back to the title menu and says restart in offline mode. I thought it may have been because mum was netflixing downstairs at the same time, but I just tried it again while she’s out and having the same issue. Deleted all the DSfix files and tried again, and its still no good. It was working fine a month ago when I was playing it and now I can do anything. Anyone have any thoughts on how to fix it?
Crank all the settings to minimum in dsfix.ini.
It starts at ‘optimal’ rather than minimum, but my wheezing, geriatric old machine can barely handle minimum.
Thanks I’ll try that.
But that shouldn’t be affecting it once I’ve deleted all the files and tried again without it though, right?
It runs like crap without it… So yeah, I’d recommend putting in the newest dsfix version and adjusting in that. Upscale to native resolution but crank everything else back.
Still didn’t seem to work so I’ve just deleted everything and I’m redownloading everything. See if it goes back to how it used to be
I had all sorts of problems with the game when I first tried DSFix. Took me several attempts to get it right. Runs okay for me now but it still chugs a bit in some areas like Blighttown.
2 people just quit and one got fired.
I’ve had 3 days off in the last month because we are so severely under staffed and they say they have no plans to replace any of these people. We now have one less staff member than we have shops.
My next day off has gone from Sunday to probably not in the next few weeks.
Fuck everyone and everything.
Hold on.
Rostered time off is a right, not a privilege. Check your contract/award, but they can’t roster you on for more than x days without a break under most awards.
This.
I hope you’re earning a fucktonne of overtime for this. After a certain number of days without a break, most industrial instruments will provide mandatory overtime rates for all work done beyond that point.
Yuuuup. How’s that job application going?
Hugs buddy. I know it sucks but hang in there.
LIGHTBULB TIME (aka welcome to how my head makes patterns)
New Vegas is KOTOR 2.
Fwhoooooosh (head erupting noise)
Sequel to a hit game made by a third party that despite being bug ridden due to a rushed release and not selling as well is acclaimed for its superior writing and interesting moral landscape?
Also made by Obsidian?
Yeah.
Heh, I didn’t even make the Obsidian connection, but the companion sidequest stuff felt like a big copy paste when I put them side by side.
Oh, it’s their jam, that sort of thing.
It’s why I backed Pillars without question, because it’s awesome.
Neverwinter Nights 2 is like that too.
*backs away slowly*
There is no spoon?
I now have an office.
Since I’m no longer being constantly watched, my productivity has plummeted to hitherto unheard of levels.
I can only assume that this is what it’s like to be Shane.
I don’t have an office. In fact, my desk is in direct line of sight to anyone coming out of the elevators on my floor. Fortunately I haven’t been caught yet.
I’ve spent the past nearly-two-years sitting in the reception area. I could get away with brief phone time, but was mostly fairly good.
I’ve just switched to a different practice, and there’s a spare Doctor’s room, so I’ve been dumped in it. I have a door now!
That’s how you know you’ve made it big, you have a door.
They have to remove the door when you get really big though, or else you can’t fit through the gap.
Yep, except I have to hide my laziness in plain sight. I don’t have an office and am surrounded by other people.
Me too. I just don’t bother hiding it because every report people run on me shows I’m outperforming them…I’m not saying I’m amazing, I’m saying they don’t make it difficult.
Pretty much my experience, too. My performance reviews are much higher than they need to be in order for me to keep my job. I’m actually not sure how much lazier I could possibly get, though…
Sadly, there’s nobody else doing my job, so my productivity can’t be compared to other people.
On the bright side, everyone just assumes that I’m working because they have no idea how productive I’m supposed to be.
Possibly-indispensable-but-no-one-is-really-sure club represent! *high five*
Oh, I’m not indispensable, my job’s just really boring, so the less anyone else knows about it, the better.
Blaghs at the office.
http://tinyurl.com/o4b33c5
Everyone sure seems to be going nuts over this Radioactive Man spinoff.
Total Splatoon time – 51:10
No. times played: 5
Shut up I don’t have a problem I can’t quit any time I want to.
Your Freudian Slip is showing.
It’s totally not a plea for help.
I didn’t never wouldn’t have refrained from not saying it wasn’t.
You’ve actually now put more hours into Splatoon than I’ve put into Fallout 3.
Congrats!
*conveniently omits mention of FNV playtime*Between 3 and NV I would (conservatively) guess I’ve gone past 500 hours of Fallout time.
It’s not our fault, it’s the games. THE GAMES!
I look at my Steam time for FNV, and think that’s not too bad. Then I remember I put a bunch of time into a housemate’s XBOX ver of Fallout 3 on release and a bunch into my own PS3 version of New Vegas. My combined total is probably around the 200+ hour mark.
All in VATS. all worth it.
124 hours for New Vegas for me and atleast 50 or so for Fallout 3. D:
If you want further proof of my insanity, I’ve now spent more time resetting my 3DS than your total time on both those games.
You need professional help.
See @mrtaco – this is a plea for help
The most amount of time I’ve put into a single game is over 1000 hours for TF2. You’ve got plenty of time left before I’d call 51 a problem 😛
Over what time period though? Atm I’m at ten hours a day 😛
The most I’ve put into a single game before was GHIII, which clocked up somewhere a little over 200. GH as a series was around the 500 mark at the time when I checked up on all that.
I had 90 hours into Dark Souls 2 in 6 days…
I’m glad Witcher doesn’t tell you how long you’ve played on consoles, because I lost a week and a half to that game. 😛
Could give even remotely accurate guesses for that, but I can tell you I’ve done more than 10 hours a day on it a shitload of times. Haven’t played more than 20 hours of it in the past few years though.
Dude…
DUDE!
Yes?
Duuuuude
The Witcher 3
The Bloody Baron is dead, and it’s all my fault 🙁He’s alive in my version, but… AT WHAT COST?So you didn’t think of the children did you? WON’T ANYONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!
I thought of the children, but then thought of releasing an evil spirit that would kill even more children. IT WAS A TOUGH CHOICE. D:It was the right choice.
There’s isn’t a right choice. There’s no even a less bad one. You just lose a little of your soul in a different way.TRANSIENT WAY IS ALWAYS RIGHT WAY. Srsly though, daaaaaaamn that quest. I must’ve sat in front of that spirit for like ten minutes. I actually betrayed it, fetching the materials it needed to be released, then letting it bleed out without completing the process. As a result, I apparently bypassed a boss fight and it taking its psychic revenge on the nearby populace. But when I learned how it turned out for the kids, I looked up a wiki to see what the alternative was… daaaaaaaaaamn.I betrayed the tree too! Hooray!!Something the wiki doesn’t mention about it:
You go back to Crow’s perch after the Baron leaves with his wife and the Baron’s Sergeant basically says “He’s gone, we’re gunna rape and steal all the time now cause he isn’t around to slow us down”. I’m contemplating murdering them all if it lets me.@rize @transientmind Yeah what rize has said pretty much happens from both options you have (i.e. dead or alive). Also if you go back into the village after speaking to the sergeant you’ll see a group of soldiers trying to extort money from the peasants and you have the option to intervene.
Oh man, see, I thought that happens anyway even through the way you went.
Aye the baron is dead and you’ve let loose a dangerous and ancient spirit into the world! One that went mad with power before and nearly destroyed Velen! How much worse dyu feel now?! =P Welcome to the Witcher 3 =]Velen’s a shit hole so pretty good about it.You chose incorrectly.
All shall know what sorrow your lack of foresight has wrought.
(I love this game.)
Thursday afternoon question:
In the middle of a zombie apocalypse, where would you try and hide/have as a base?
I always thought the University college I was at would be great. Easily fortifiable exits, large number of fire doors, narrow corridors for killing channels.
Hmmm…. There can be only one right answer!
I say…. the nearest tiny island!
A remote observatory or somewhere in the mountains or both.
The last few places I have lived in have been terrible layouts which are incredibly vulnerable to zombie apocalypse.
I would be lying if I said it hadn’t caused me concern.
Back where I grew up there was this fairly tall island off the beach that you could get to during low tide. To get to the top there was a ledge path that wound up the cliff-face. There was a tiny abandoned shack on the top that we used to dare people to go in.
I always thought that would be a pretty great hideout in a zombie breakout. Super easy to defend!
Easy – Bunnings.
Update: Rang the boss, told him no fucking way am I working through another weekend and not having staff is their problem, not mine and if they want to fire me over it go right ahead.
I now have Sunday and Monday off. Still stuck running a 2-3 person store by myself however.
Probably going to make my life difficult down the line but really finding it hard to care at the moment.
Nice work Freeze.
Seems more like angry Work Freeze.
Serious question: Do you independently document your work hours? Might be worth just entering them into a spreadsheet and comparing with what it reads on your payslips. If shit goes sour, you may be eligible for a payout on overtime.
Also also, I have no idea on your union, what it entails, but you may want to investigate that. I think your conditions are being violated
Edit: LOOK AWAY YOU FOOLS!
Sure, but what’s canberra got to do with it?
*facepalm* I mistook shane’s post re Abbot’s face in the previous page as freeze’s!
*runs away in shame* My comment now makes 0 sense!
Hey, don’t blame Canberra. They don’t live here; they just work here 😛
YES!
Fuck yeah man.
You are an employee, not a slave.
Super Metroid completed! Achievement unlocked 😀
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/uncharted-the-nathan-drake-collection-leaks-early-/1100-6427802/
Red pointed this out on Twitter. Yesssss.
And already the sarcastic twats come out in masses to ruin the fun.
IDGAF. UNCHARTED ON MY PS4 MOFOS
I KNEW IT. (Or hoped for it… same thing)
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS GET IN MY CONSOLE.
Three more.
http://imgur.com/a/MxBWL
These were a lot harder.
No Psyduck love. =(
I’ll get to it! /o\
Psy-i-i
…duck
After the eeveelutions, okay?
No rush.
Jim Sterling asking the important and difficult questions no one else dares to
assask.http://www.thejimquisition.com/2015/06/lets-look-at-the-smooth-fallout-4-ass/
I’m set for the sales!
Gonna limit myself to $20 for the first week, then maybe $10 for the second week.
Good luck with that.
Technically inclined people, please help!
So I’ve built a new PC for my housemate. Specs are this: http://i.imgur.com/MsyVf6L.png
It works, but not properly. I’ve nailed the problem down to the RAM. If I have all four sticks in, I don’t get a display. If I have the 2 2gb sticks in the A2 and B2 RAM slots (those are priority 1), I’ll sometimes get the boot screen and it’ll proceed to tell me that no OS was detected (as what should happen), and sometimes it’ll display the boot screen and then go blank but the display doesn’t actually turn off.
If I do any of that with the 4gb sticks, I just get no signal on the monitor.
If I try any of the sticks in the A1 slot, I’ll get a normal boot and can load the UEFI and everything, or it’ll tell me no OS detected. After that first slot it’s a bit pick n’ mix on whether it’ll boot normally or not.
I don’t think any of the RAM is faulty. Is the Motherboard faulty or is it some weird problem I don’t know about?
Did you make sure the RAM sticks are properly in. Sometimes it can be difficult to fully put them in. You should get a really loud click sound when they go in
Yup. This motherboard is really dumb and only has the release on one side which is kinda annoying because it is really hard to get them in right.
Yeah, that’s a pretty standard thing (at least in the ones I’ve bought). I’m no expert but it sounds like the motherboard.
We need a computer wizard, @welbot where art thou?
I’m going to use my tiny PC building knowledge and say: Power supply issue?
550 should be enough, but they can be faulty…
I’m almost tempted to pull my own PC apart and replace things one by one to see what works and what doesn’t tbh. Might give it a crack over the weekend. I’d love it to just be the power supply, then I don’t have to disassemble the entire thing again!
Edit: I should add I got both 4gb sticks working in A1 and B1, but yeah it stopped doing anything after adding the 2gb sticks 🙁
Check the manual for the motherboard but I’m wondering if it’s a mixed size/module issue with the RAM? e.g. It wants all of the chips to be the same size / speed in all slots, even if they’re on different pairings (A1/B1 vs A2/B2)? It shouldn’t be an issue but stranger things have happened.
In my post below, I asked about the timings. This could likely be one of the issues. The pairs have to run in pairs. You wont have much joy trying to run a 4gb in a1, and a 2gb in b1. It’s possible, but troublesome. You’ll likely find that it’s either the speed of the ram, or the timings that’s causing the issue. In your BIOS somewhere, there should be settings for memory control. See if you can find a setting to automatically adjust the settings. That might be causing the system to go spastic if the ram speeds and timings are vastly different. Basically, when the BIOS auto adjusts the ram settings, it looks at the ram in the machine, and takes the specs of the slowest ram, and applies that to all the ram in your system. So if your 2gb is rated for 1600mhz, and your 4gb is rated at 2000, your 4gb would run at 1600. Things get weird when it comes to timings however. The same applies (it’ll take the timings from the lowest pair, and apply to all,) but the problem with that is, your 4gb might not be compatible with the timings from the 2gb. So you may find you will need to manully adjust the timings to find a balance between the 2 pairs. Either that, or just go get a second pair with the same specs.
/edit. Just looked at the pic of the hardware. Speed of the ram is the same (12800) but timings still may be different between the 2 and 4gb pairs. You’ll need to look up the specs and see if they match or not. If they do match, it’s possible your mobo doesn’t like running that much ram at the auto rated speed, in which case, you may need to turn off the auto settings for your ram, and try to slow it down a little. I occasionally have an issue with my machine where it wont post and just gives me 3 or 4 beeps. I have 2 sets of triple channel ram, both same size, but different speeds, different brands and different timings. For some reason, my system occasionally gets itself stuck in a rut like that and wont boot, and I have to reseat each ram stick one by one til it boots again. Also, even though my original ram is rated at 1600Mhz (i think from memory) my mobo refuses to boot with it set manually at that speed. If you have tinkered with the settings in BIOS, try making it auto, or vice versa.
Only other thing I can suggest is to check for any BIOS updates. They often address issues with ram, cpu’s etc. and add support for new hardware. You may find that one of the updates for your BIOS fixes the issue for you.
/edit scrap that. I misread your post
The ram you’re using.. are the 2gb sticks and 4gb sticks matched pairs? Are you able to find out what the timings are on both sets?
The timings on both sets are 9-9-9-24-2N. I’ve been told on WP that it might help to bring them down a bit, but I should also definitely do a BIOS update
Edit: actually somebody said to bring them up to 10-10-10-28
I can’t really advise on what settings would be best to use, as it tends to depend on the brand/model of the ram, and even then, the sweet spot can change from batch to batch. I’d definitely try a BIOS update, but if that doesn’t resolve it, you might have to just try minor adjustments to the timings until you hit the right one. When you say they are set at that, do you mean automatically, or manually. If it’s manual, set it to auto. If you haven’t overclocked your CPU, or if the motherboard dynamically adjusts the CPU, you’d be best to set the ram to auto so it can match it all at the same time.
I haven’t touched a thing in the UEFI yet. Everything’s still on auto I guess 😛 (I kinda miss the BIOS tbh, so much easier to navigate)
You will need to be a bit careful with the whole UEFI thing. If you install Windows with UEFI enabled, you will not be able to boot your PC if you then disable UEFI. If you are trying to kick an old OS in to action, that was installed on a system without UEFI, you will need to disable UEFI, and likely enable legacy mode to be able to boot that OS.
UEFI is a bit of a nightmare for tech’s like me in one sense, cos it makes “hacking” your way in to a system extremely hard (like when something goes wrong, and you want to get in to safe mode, or other root level trickery). The good thing about UEFI however, is it stops the BIOS/CMOS getting infected with rootkits/bootkits, which is a blessing. So yeah.. great for security, but not so great when shit goes wonky.
If you don’t care about that extra level of protection, you can disable it as stated before, and set it to legacy mode, which will give you the equivalent of the old BIOS back, but if you’re not super technically proficient, I’d advise leaving it on, especially if you’re going to do a fresh win8 install.
As an addition, relating to your reply, if everything is set to auto, try take the ram off auto, and set it as the timings you first mentioned as a static setting. Make sure the CPU is also in a static state (as in turn off anything like turbo boost or whatever it may be referred to within your system – the one that automatically boosts your cpu power when under high loads) That will let you test the hardware in a stable unchanging state, which should give you a good indication as to whether it’s faulty hardware, or just a setting thing that needs to be solved. If it’s stable with static settings, it might not like one of the jumps it makes automatically (like when it boosts the CPU, it might be boosting the ram to a setting it doesn’t like, causing it to crap itself).
Feel free to ask more if you want any more help figuring it out. Even hit me up on steam or fbook and we can chat realtime if you want.
I’m rising through the ranks on WWE2k15.
I’m now on Smackdown. A WWE poll listed me as one of the top technical wrestlers in the field!
So now they want me to defeat the other 4.
Take down Daniel Bryan in no time at all (YES, YES, YE…ONE TWO THREE)
Take down some dude called Kofi Kingston that I really need to look up as he seems cool.
Take down Rob Van Dam in no time at all. Easy as pie. Can’t believe he’s still wrestling.
Take down Chris Jeric…what. Who…why did Roman Reigns just jump the barrier…why…stop hitting me with the chair. Ok, stop hitting me with the STOP HITTING ME WITH THE CHAIR.
Next week he gets me with the chair within 10 steps of my entrance.
…I like this game.
It actually sounds kinda awesome, I’m inclined to pick it up after I’ve burnt myself out with TW3
It’s good, but the MyCareer is very grindy to begin with. I’ve only just started getting storylines now I’m on Smackdown (and a little in Main Event).
Isn’t that the life of a Hornswaggle or CM Punk?
Kingston is a high-flying midcarder that’s part of the New Day. A 3 man stable that holds the tag team title (yes, all three hold the two tag belts). They’re awesome and worth checking out.
Found a live stream to watch the Test between West Indies and Australia, and Max is sitting on my lap… 😀
Of course, Nathan Drake collection is coming OCTOBER
I’ll probably check it out next year at this rate
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/06/04/uncharted-the-nathan-drake-collection-announced-for-playstation-4/
I’ve got my 30th birthday in October. IT’S A GOOD TIME TO BE RELEASING AMAZING THINGS.
Agreed. It’s my 40th that month.
Start saving. You’ve got four months.
Four months of saving for all the OTHER games in October.
What else is in October?
Metal Gear..?
Dragon Quest
Persona 5 (q4)
Some stuff that doesn’t interest me & then a few things between now & Then.
I’ll have to prioritise, which is fine but I like to whinge
Metal Gear?!
Persona 5 won’t be out in English this year. Guarantee it.
That doesn’t help me whinge, neg. Have a heart, man!
:p
Me: “Oh boy, a new Star Wars RPG! I can’t wait”
Disney: “being released on Mobile devices”
Me: “Fuck you Disney”
Atleast we have the Amy Hennig Star Wars game coming soon. That’ll ease the pain. 😛
I still have the X-wing Miniatures Game to obsess over, so I’m still good 😀
Roger, rogue leader.
Hey @tech_knight – my calendar tells me today’s the day to send you money.
…How do I do that again?
Paypal.
What was the email address?
Jimu@…
:p
Ah, found it.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/05/talk-amongst-yourselves-327/comment-page-8/#comment-3327322
I usually just tuck it into his g-string
Oh wait, was that today?
How much was it again?
Today wasn’t a specific requirement, I just set my reminder for today as it’s my non mortgage payday.
Is this for PAX? I completely forgot!
Can you remind me of the details @scree @tech_knight ?
Saturday oct 31st, 7pm. Cost is $35.
And the email?
I don’t know /o\ I need to ask
Friendly reminder that Michael McCann’s work on the Deus Ex games is fucking incredible. I’m almost as hyped for Mankind Divided’s soundtrack as I am for the game itself.
http://tinyurl.com/nrfshww
When it cuts to Icarus? *dies*
At this stage, I hope that it’s actually a next year release.
Because the slate this year is filling up
I just need this and Fallout 4. Not terribly interested in much else at this point.
*plays Hungry Hungry Hippos, cos the waiting game sucks*
Oh god I forgot how amazing the DX:HR music was.
That was such a great game overall. So excited for the sequel.
My 6-month old X-55 died last night :'(
Stick doesn’t power on at all…
Going back to the retailer, opting for a refund… These units appears sketchy at the best of times, hoping to get something more solid for that price point
This should make you feel better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP5jFm7YGqs
Noooooo. 🙁
I should have listened to people saying to stay away… Oh well, lesson learned… CH Products for me from now on… Doesn’t look as flashy but by God they last!
Yeah.
Seen the SimPit Elite cockpit? https://www.facebook.com/118179234934114/photos/pcb.831466080272089/831465623605468/?type=1&theater Amazzzzzing.
:O will I don’t neeeeeeed a wife, car, house, dogs or food right? RIGHT?
I’ll be… Right back
I don’t know what those things are.
I know what this is… http://www.simpit.co.nz/index.php/products/icarus-avenger
“pricing – contact us”
*shakes fist*
The pricing is in the drop-down, top right. 180 degree screen with all the bits and 2 projectors… NZ$4150.
Probably better to source projectors here though.
Time to go all out and just build a flight sim.
I like the way you think!
Think?
Sir, you give me too much credit.
Well I’m sure you have the occasional… Instinct?
I like the way you… Instinct?
Finally got Stick of Truth – Scored it for $12, so how could I not?
Played 20 minutes last night.
Man i missed South Park’s humour….. I can’t even remember the last time I actually watched an episode.
Last season was one of the show’s high points except for the last two episodes.
$12 bucks hey… that’s probably about where I would feel compelled to purchase it.
Cashies webshop. Best ever for games.
The only problem with console for me is hooking up a console. Haven’t had my 360 or PS3 hooked up in ~6 months.
I’ve the worst luck on that site, in store I often fi d purest gold gaming for the price of not purest gold gaming
Jumped in to TF2 payload last night. God I’m rusty. It was a lot of fun getting into a sniper war and dominating for a bit (before it all fell apart).
We really need to set up a multi session of that soon.
I’m free for TF2uesday next week!
Sure, why not? Let’s see if I can remember the people that might be interested…
@anonymous_pessimist @cakesmith @pixel_the_ferret_viking @tech_knight @freezespreston ……uhhh… @alexpants @greenius ? @mythamphetamine ??
Do I need to get the private server back up? Or are we just going to take one over?
From the looks of the server list last night it’ll be easy enough to take over a decent public server.
TF2 😀 I’ll be game if there’s space. I have no mic though 🙁
Why can’t I ever be satisfied with what I’ve done? D=
Sorry, just worrying about Elsa/Bookmark/cosplays
That’s the normal creative mindset. Sorry.
The good news is that it’s what drives you to make awesome stuff and constantly improve.
I don’t feel like I’m improving D=
Maybe you should just … let it go.
*runs away*
You are the worst.
You spelt “best” wrong =P
I spelt worst right. -_-
You wrote wrong right as right. Write right right.
My head, it hurts!
I might be cosplaying for the first time ever at this year’s PAX as 40k stuff!! 😀
If you have any questions/problems, feel free to ask me. Or @f4ction =P Dammit Rize!
Thanks Scree! 😀
*waves*
Your previous comment broke my brain!
I’ll guess as a Gretchin
Man.. you are goin gto cop the worst ankle biting when i see you next..
No, as one of the Ghosts of Tanith
@jocon @saturday @distantdrop (if you’re still alive red) Destiny’s installed and updated and ready to go! God I’m going to be rusty =P I’ll probably jump on around 7-8pm tonight, got a few things to do at home before I can lock myself away for a bit!
Mad! I’ll be there.
Gonna focus on smashing out Iron Banner, I’d suggest you do.the same fyi: at rank 3 you can buy Etheric light to upgrade purples, which is otherwise nigh impossible to find.
Oh god… the grind! ITS STARTED HASN’T IT?! =P I’m going to do the story quests first, keen for some co-op on them? I’ll get stuck into the PvP/PvE stuff tomorrow, gonna chill out with some rum and story quests tonight =p
Sounds good.
I got etheric light from the nightfall. I now have 3 of them and no bloomin idea what to ascend 🙁
All the things.
*checks pulse*
No, not yet
Playing Destiny again idk.. probably have to give it more thought still on the wall with the entire idea, been playing lots of Splatoon but I guess I’ll get sick of it eventually.
Cmonnn just jump in for some PvP and PoE, that’s all I’m looking to do. Not really looking to raid or grind religiously again. Just looking to enjoy some solid shooting mechanics with a few friends!
Ok Witcher 3 conversation time! Only keep reading if you’ve progressed the storyline in Skellige!
Did Yennefer piss anyone else off?? She treats Geralt like he’s a dog or a 2 year old and can be informed of her decisions only when she’s good and ready! Like wtf??? Total BS and then she decides on her own she wants to break the spell and doesn’t even tell him until you push her to answer? At the very least keep the other person who’s going to be affected in the loop?I took far too much pleasure in rejecting her once the spell was broken. It was so very satisfying.I actually felt pretty awful rejecting her initiall cos you can see she finally lets her guard down after the wish gets sorted and confesses her love for you but then I remembered my experiences with her up to this point and my god even if we were friends I’d want to strangle her! Torturing a spirit? Destroying a holy garden? Pushing traumatized victims of the Wild Hunt into an interrogation? Risking a storm/weather based disaster all to see the past of where Ciri was? She’s shown a singular disregard for everything and everyone around her, almost felt like it flew in the face of everything I had done as Geralt up to this point by at least attempting to help people in need even if it cost me something. Git fucked Yen.Yeah, I found Yen a bit of a struggle at times, but I figured the way she treated Geralt and others came from a single minded mother’s desperation to find Ciri. Not objective enough to think of any one else while in this mindset. Still not entirely pleasant to be around a lot of the time. I like how others call her out on this, though. It’s not a matter of poor writing or any thing, they know exactly what they’re doing. But yeah… she has her moments.Oh she’s definitely written and voice-acted brilliantly and the character has depth for sure. But for someone who supposedly still has feelings for you she sure treats you like shit? I mean what really frustrated me was being kept out of the loop until the very last minute in everything she does, that’s effectively a slave/master kind of relationship even if it was non-platonic! Lol at her throwing the bed out of the guest room in Kaer Morhen xD I still think between the two Triss shows and treats Geralt like someone she loves, even in the 2nd game there’s a scene where she asks him to leave it all and run away with her. Also I love how Geralt tries to explain his relationship with Yen to Cerys an Craite when she calls him out saying you follow her around like a puppy!I’m undecided still. Avoiding the quest stages that are going to resolve that issue for me one way or the other. I had no attachment to Yen from the books because I hadn’t read ’em, so she had that disadvantage with me, going in.
But much the same as in real life, I am a sucker for a woman who has the guts to risk showing some emotional vulnerability. To the point that it can sway me into some bad decisions. I have serious trouble saying ‘no’.
When it comes to keeping Geralt in the dark… honestly, I think that’s a sorceress thing, more than a Yen thing. Triss was doing that all through Witcher 2 as well, and was sufficiently coy in 3 about what she had going on, on the side. What Ermion says about Yen only ever answering questions with what she wants you to hear instead of the whole truth, that seems to apply to every single sorceress you meet in the games. Phillipa, Shile, Triss, Yennefer, Keira… deceit seems to come with the territory just as much as sterility does. They don’t necessarily LIE, but give just enough correct information for you to draw incorrect conclusions and for them to not correct you. Deceit.
I don’t think it was all that bad, though. When you have a history with a woman and the honeymoon ‘putting on your best face’ phase is over, then yeah… some of your interactions can definitely seem a tad bitchy, I guess. Because you each know how the other thinks and what they’ll put up with. You know the boundaries. Doesn’t mean either party won’t misbehave and push them, but it’s a completely different level to when you’re still courting. And I’ve said and done some pretty boorish things to some of the women in my life at various stages for no reason other than when a girl purrs in your ear, in bed, that she LOVES it when you behave a certain way, you damn well pay attention.
Other factor: Yen was hurting early on. She makes it pretty clear when you start out that she’s pissed about the time Geralt and Triss spent getting cosy. Exchange went something like, “I had amnesia…” “THAT’S your excuse? Whatever. Don’t give me some, ‘It made me realize how much I love you’ line, I don’t want to hear it.” Even the ‘polyamorous’ community is aware of the concept of setting rules for what still counts as cheating, depending on what they all agree upon in advance. Like saying you don’t want your partner to sleep with this one specific person who’s your enemy, or not sleep with randoms more than once, or sleep with whoever you want as long as it’s just physical and not emotional, or whatever. Your mores toward sex can be incredibly liberal but still include room for ‘cheating’. In Yen’s mind, Geralt crossed that line and it hurt.
That said? I’m still not sure. I need more time interacting with both women to make a choice for what’s best for Geralt.
I guess for me the clincher was the mutual respect Triss seems to have for Geralt i.e. she doesn’t cater to him but at the same time keeps him informed (like the quest to save the two lovebird alchemists or just get out of Novigrad outright; Yen would’ve made the decision for you and then manipulated Geralt into helping her) and then asks for his help. With Yen it’s always been asks for Geralt’s help and then keeps him informed which really peeved me off. Also she has no moral grounding, she works on a more my way or the highway set of rules which really ticked me off cos I subscribe to the whole great power great responsibility way of thinking. That said I also have a more personal resonance to both Triss and Yen as it wasn’t too long ago I faced a similar choice that seems to be staring Geralt in the face here so I could very well be biased in my choice now =p As I see it Yen represents chemistry and banter that Geralt doesn’t seem to have with Triss however Yen’s turbulent and controlling and overly defensive which has led to them constantly being on and off. Triss on the other while she doesn’t have the same degree of banter/chemistry with Geralt their conversations are more open and honest and there’s a sense of solitude when the two of them interact, like nothing else in the world is going to impact what they decide between each other. But on the flipside Geralt seems like he genuinely has fun in his interactions with Yen, at one stage when you’re chasing the werewolf in the garden you can go back up to Yen and start a non-quest related conversation and the two of them start trading dad jokes based on a canine theme and Yen eventually says “ok ok stop it; you win! I can’t believe we kept this up for so long!” All in all just a great story CDPR have set up and the fact this game has caused me to feel and think so many different things definitely classifies it as art in my opinion.I’ll get to Skellige one day damnit!!
*bookmarks discussion for perusal sometime in late July, judging by my current progress*
Just joined another RPG for this weekend which I think takes things up to 8 games. It’s another 40K one but this time I get to be a World Eater. Blood for the Blood God!
Oh man, I’d be Chaos all day, every day. Khorne, Nurgle, Slaanesh, Tzeentch, Undivided – I don’t care! DEATH TO THE FALSE EMPEROR.
Nice; keep us appraised! I love the 40k stories =p
The way it sounds like things will play out I get to start as a Loyalist but what happens from there depends on what I do.
Blood for the … EMPEROR! Yes, that’s it.
40K!!!
\o/
Oh God Emperor, just found out one of the other players is going to be a Loyalist Thousand Sons.
I see no way this can possibly go wrong.
There are loyalist Thousand Sons? I’m so confused. And disillusioned. They’re my favorite Chaos Spoosh Maroon chapter!
Technically no but GW never gave enough detail to say there weren’t any at all. So we’re just going to run with it and see how it goes.
I’ve been playing infamous Second Son.
I miss Cole.
True, Cole was the more relatable character between the two!
Delsin’s fine, if a bit of an arse, it’s just Cole and Zeke were so much fun to hang with
I think Delsin would’ve resonated with me more about 10 years ago, while Cole started to get more rounded out by the time the second game came around as a character. And yeah the Zeke-Cole chemistry was pretty awesome as well!
Delsin actually really grew on me over time. Fetch was probably my favorite though.
Seeing as Witcher 3 discussions seems to be a thing …
(Warning: Don’t read unless you have completed the Novigrad story quests)
So, I finally tracked down Junioir and holy shit. didn’t think I would ever see it but Geralt just lost it. Seriously I had my hand over my mouth saying “Holy shit, stop Geralt” out loud. I mean, Junior was a sack of shit and deserved to die but man … that cutscenes was just brutal.Meh I was like Geralt you’re killing him too quickly. The dude was effectively a serial rapist/killer who had his status and connections to protect him from any repercussions. Thankfully Radovid is a complete lunatic and is just as likely to screw his allies over as he is to work with them so Junior gets fucked over.Oh yeah, I have no problem with him getting the shit beaten out of him. It was just a little … extreme for Geralt. He can usually keep a pretty cool head in most situations but it seemed like he lost it for a few seconds there. Great cutscene to show how much Geralt truely cares about Ciri, even if he’s not willing to admit it.I usually play the good guy in these games, but I totally killed Junior. No regrets.Does this mean you’re in favor of capital punishment DC? =O
#itsatrapDC
I’ve only just bothered going up to Novigrad, and then got sidetracked by tonnes of gwent.
Aye once you get into it god it clicks that “gotta catch em all” mentality. Sucks you don’t get access to a deck of your choice from the start, I’m really enjoying the monsters but don’t have all the cards to make it as powerful as my Temerian deck.
I finally got enough for a Nilfgard deck and can’t figure out how they didn’t see how over the top it is. Tonnes of medics and spies, and everything is either high powered (6+) or has the reinforce thingy (double strength for pairs).
Keep in mind with monsters that it’s really easy to empty your hand at the wrong time. At least, that’s what happens to AI going against me 😛
I actually found a really cool way of playing them and they counter spies ridiculously well. Basically on draw make sure you only have one of each “summons other monsters with same name”. For example if you have 2 nekkers in your starting hand swap one out. You’ll want to run two decoys and at least two commander horns and 2 clear days. Play the leader which doubles the attack strength of melee. First round only play the monster cards that don’t have summons attached and decoy them out of battle. If your opponent plays spies then use all your non-summon monsters together with a commanders horn and end turn (usually results in about 2-3 monsters + spies for about 70+ attack). They wont try and beat it so they’ll forfeit. Let them win the next round and for the final round summon all your swarms and whack it with the leader’s ability. In sheer force and summoning power the monster deck beats all. However in sheer card advantage and single strong units the Nilfgaardian’s are the best. Temerian’s are rounded out and Scoiatel seem to have a mix of resurrection based plays and weather based plays (as most of their cards can be placed in two choices of rows).
Oh man! That part was great! When I walked down that hallway and saw that girl pinned to the wall with the daggers and then the chick hung from the ceiling, I got full of rage. So glad that Geralt lost it, showed that even Witcher’s can get lost in a rage.and when Geralt says something along the lines of “If he did anything to Ciri”. Such a great partHavn’t seen this many discussion topics over a single game since… Ni No Kuni? and TAY was a lot more lively back than. people must really love it.
I know, right? I’ve been trying so hard to resist this game, but it’s getting harder and harder to do so…
DO NOT RESIST.
Lol this means you need to get off Splatoon, take 2 weeks off and play the Witcher 3 =P However red knowing how you get sucked into a game you’re very likely to fall of the planet while you play this game!
That only happens with MMOs I swear!
*cough* DA:I *cough* thought you got kidnapped for like 2 weeks =p didn’t even hear a peep out of you!
Edit: Grammar
That’s because it was when piat was leading the rather unsuccessful pugs through HM with like 2-3 of us, you didn’t hear a peep from because I didn’t think their was much to return to, I was burned out and felt unfulfilled.
or if you regarding my Kotaku activity.. that always has been ebb and flow.
Just play it already dammit! =p
What is this madness of which you speak?
*sigh* *bookmarks discussion for perusal at an indeterminate time in the future*
Well that’s interesting.
For me, Geralt beat the guy a bit, threw him in a chair, intimidated the info he needed out of the fucker, then left him there for the other Novigrad leader guys to find and deal with. Is that not how it played out for you?Some MGSV information just dropped onto Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/metalgearsolid/comments/38k4i3/july_xbox_magazine_metal_gear_solid_v_article/
I have no idea what I just read, or how spoilery it is. I love this series, but honestly did not understand more than about one word in five of this :\
Metal Gear Solid was one of my first gaming loves. I’m so excited for The Phantom Pain
It’s up there with Age of Empires and Final Fantasy VIII.
Metal Gear Solid was the game that transitioned me from ‘kid games’ to ‘adult games.’
The only titles I haven’t played are the handheld ones (and GZ)… I’m rather upset to be so confused by this reddit post.
Ah, right.
GZ is a PS+ game, so get on that. Peace Walker HD is also worth a play. A quick potted summary though (spoilahs)
In Peace Walker, Big Boss is running his merc org, militaires sans frontieres (MSF), with his buddy Kazuhira Miller. He gets a contract from a professor at the University of Peace to come in and investigate foreign military activity in Costa Rica, which has no standing army. Along the way, he makes allies with some Nicaraguan Sandinistas and ultimately finds that the CIA is developing… Metal Gear?! in secret, with the assistance of on Dr. Strangelove and Dr Huey Emmerich, Otacon’s Dad. Ultimately, the professor is actually a KGB agent and leads a soviet force to capture metal gear, and Big Boss must fight both the professor and his student that’s been one of your voices on the radio for the whole game, Paz. Paz disappears.You also take over a disused oil platform, and develop it into an operating base for militaires sans frontieres, christening it Outer Haven. The final boss fight is on Outer Haven.
By ground Zeroes, set like 12 months later, the MSF is prepping for a UN inspection when they find out that Paz has turned up at a CIA blacksite in Cuba (basically Gitmo). You infiltrate the base and retrieve Paz, who has been tortured, and fly back to Outer Haven over her objections, disarming a bomb hidden in her stomach. When you return to Outer Haven, you find it under attack, the UN inspection team actually being a Special forces unit. After a fighting retreat, you fly out… only to find out that Paz had another bomb implanted. She jumps out of the chopper, but the explosion crashes your chopper into another one and Snake is injured in the explosion.
Flash forward to the Phantom Pain…
Yup, gonna be playing GZ through PS+. Looking forward to that!
Also, I appreciate the time it took to write that, but I’m not going to read it. Peace Walker is on my PSN to-buy-when-it’s-on-special list.
I was lucky- when GZ came out they did a GZ/Peace Walker HD bundle.
Peace Walker is a vastly underrated gem. Was infinitely more impressive playing it on PSP though – was mind blowing how much they managed to cram into a PSP title. It had clear handheld limitations, but they somehow managed to make it feel like a much larger console game, just by the way they designed the maps and missions.
Never played the HD version of Peace Walker, but I was always wondered if it would just seem less impressive on a console as opposed to a handheld, if that makes any sense.
Peace Walker is the direct prequel to GZ and Phantom Pain though, I’d definitely give it a crack. A lot of it’s game elements have been incorporated into PP from what I’ve seen. Portable Ops and Portable Ops + are less required reading though, you could happily skip them – Peace Walker took their ideas and made it much better anyway.
I really enjoyed Portable Ops too, it wasn’t a Kojima but it’s fun & he seems to include in Canon unlike any other game that wasn’t him.
Also, a lot of the way PW works was invented in PO.
Top game
It’s the game that convinced me adult games actually do exist. Before that I thought it was just a genre built around manipulating kids who think sex and violence make something mature.
Enjoy Ground Zeroes. It’s expensive and plotwise it could be summed up in a two minute trailer but I found unlocking all the achievements really helped get me primed for Phantom Pain. I was rusty when I started but now I’m super agile. Sprinting around the base all stealthy, throwing PoWs through windows before diving into bushes to avoid guards.
I’m hoping Phantom Pain is this open. It’s a bit of a waste having an entire facility for a relatively short sequence, but once you get used to moving around in-game the level of freedom that the open world brings is brilliant.
At the very least the non-canon missions do a great job of showcasing how versatile the engine is. Even if Phantom Pain goes back to more scripted, linear MGS sequences those sequences should be pretty varied.
So, there’s a Fallout sale on Steam this weekend. Had the feeling there would be, but stupidly I took all my money out of my account last night. Oh well, I’ll just have to go and buy some Steam credit at EB.
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_5_9__12&term=Fallout
Like the fella once said, aint that a kick in the head?
And the sailor said, quote, “Ain’t that a hole in the boat!”
…why is Fallout 3 $1 more than NV?
As much as I love Fallout 3, on PC it doesn’t play nice with Win 7/8/8.1 and from what I understand still has GFWL integration.
So, purchase at own risk.
EDIT: Ok, so it still forces you to install GFWL but you don’t need to activate it anymore. If you uninstall GFWL, the game won’t run.
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/08/fallout-3-removing-games-for-windows-live-support-drm-on-steam/
Still with GFWL? I thought pretty much everything had pulled the plug on that by now.
Edit: I’m good at writing today.
The service is dead, but only some games have been updated to run without it.
These games still require it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Games_for_Windows_%E2%80%93_Live_titles#Released_games
Damn! Arkham Asylum and Arkham City still require it.
The GOTY editions don’t! They use Steam now.
Not sure that’s right. GFWL won’t even open on my PC, says there’s no internet connection (after I download the installer no less :/) but Arkham Asylum runs without a problem,bever even asks about it.
Steam? They patched out GFWL in the GOTY versions of both games. And if you had the standard ones, the GOTY versions were just added to your account when that happened.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW!!!
Well that sucks. I’ve already got New Vegas, but I was looking at getting the rest of the Fallout series. @red_artifice told me the other day that 1, 2, and Tactics should just work, but have you (or anyone else) got any tips on running 3. I’m running Windows 8, so should I install XP as well and just boot up using that whenever I want to play Fallout 3?
There are guides to get it working. You may not have problems, some people say it works on their machines without issue.
A quick Googley search says that it’s multi-core CPU related and fixes are on PCGamingWiki
http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Fallout_3
I never had any major issues with 3 (other than the usual Bethesda stuff early on) on Windows 7, but yeah, GFWL was as shit as it always was. Although, I do know first hand you could play without activating on GFWL due to…perfectly legal reasons.
Yeah, I honestly never had issues with Win 7, but apparently people have. It apparently straight out doesn’t run on 8.1 without editing an .ini or config file or something.
I think the GFWL integration was literally only for cloud saves and achievements, besides the usual DRM bullshit. From what that article says, it technically doesn’t need to be activated…like you said.
And yeah, there’s a mod that just straight up disables GFWL.
I now realize why I don’t ever remember having to deal with GFWL on my copy of FO3.
Because I didn’t. For… perfectly legal reasons. That were entirely about GFWL.
I don’t remember having to deal with GFWL problems, because I didn’t have to deal with GFWL problems.
This is an objective measurement that Fallout 3 is better than NV.
Sitting at work then a wild wife appears!
She uses Beef and Chutney sandwich.
It’s super effective!
She uses Ham, cheese and pickle sandwich.
It’s super effective!
Freeze is satisfied.
Freeze falls asleep?
Gotcha! FREEZE was successfully captured! Would you like to rename FREEZE?
I don’t normally care about these things but this is interesting.
https://scontent-nrt1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/11350527_674372372695434_5590414723345692930_n.jpg?oh=edfef62a3cf2ff7c2b581bd93f886207&oe=55EDDBE2
From Brodyquest Thundermunch
Blenderdick Uptoscratch
Legit.
Ladies….
This made me laugh more then I would like to admit.
Backitup Thundermunch checking in!
Aye, fellow thundermunch!
FAMILY! \o/
I’ll be the token fat member of the family then, as Blubberbutt Thundermunch.
Perfect! Just perfect
Wait, didn’t realise it was last letter of last name. Sigh, I do this every time.
Looks like I’m joining the horde as Beachbody Thundermunch.
Does it really matter as long as it’s amusing?
YES.
IT IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS BE 100% ACCURATE AND TRANSPARENT IN YOUR ACCURACIES.
I also thought the previous one was better =P
Thunderdick Upyoursnatch
I think you might be winning.
Beachbody Combyourthatch
Valuable advice for us all
EDIT: Ooohhhhh last letter. Looks like I’m a Chunkybap
Another Brodyquest Thundermunch checking in. Given the prevalence of -son surnames, I foresee many Thundermunches.
N seems to be fairly popular
Beachbody Humperdinck.
Heeeyyy I’m a Brodyquest Thundermunch too!
Burgerking Calldispatch.
I guess they do deliveries now.
I’m sorting out Undad Vol 2 rewards at the moment, and have noticed that some of you have doubled up on rewards, and your pledges across both campaigns entitle them to not one, but two copies of Undad Volume 1…
Do you guys want both copies of the book, or is there something else you want that I can swap it out for? For the record: I’m more than happy to send the second copy of the book, but if you’d prefer something different, I want you to be as happy as possible.
@popdart5 @evilmonkey, you’re the two example of this overgenerous approach that I’ve identified so far, but there might be more TAY folk out there in the same boat…I still want to give you money. Is $35 alright again?
If you’re after just the book, $30 is enough this time around!
Do you still have my bank details from last time? They haven’t changed. Or my Paypal addy is shane[at]shanewsmith[dotcom]
Thanks 🙂
It’ll have to wait until next pay, but I wanted to make sure
I was under the impression that my backing for Undad Vol 1 only entitled me to a PDF version whereas Undad Vol 2 gave me a fancy book.
Herp derp, just went and checked and yes indeed I would get another copy. I can’t think of anything that I’d want in particular. You don’t need to send the book to me if it’s easier for you. Otherwise, I’m fine with having another copy.
Well, I’m not going to just take the money and run (as much as I appreciate the offer). I’ll just send you another copy if there’s nothing else you’re after.
Have you gotten your first copy yet? (sorry if you’ve already posted about this)
Edit: Oh! I can also send you some money back. That’s not a problem. No point buying a second copy of a book if you don’t need it.
Yeah I have, thank you for that. Never got around to posting anything about it so I’m sorry about not giving you publicity.
No need for apologising! I’m glad it got there okay! 🙂
If you want, I can refund you $20 (effectively downgrading you to the $30 tier) if you prefer.
It’s a zero-sum game for me, as printing and shipping the book would cost about that much regardless, so it’s entirely up to you.
Might as well ship it and see if I can entice a friend or relative into reading it. Before you know it you could get another faithful reader.
Gilded Deathcar visit.
Either another copy of volume 1 (which I’ll give away to someone), or that 4GB USB. Your choice.
Awesome. I’ll give it some thought (and will probably end up doing both because you pledged so much).
Nah, I don’t want to take advantage of you. I think I’m already getting that diary thing, as well as advance scripts. So just one of those will be plenty.
When’s the deadline for handing in that Kickstarter survey by the way? I can’t tell you what address to ship the book to when it’s done (presumably like September/October or later right?) because I won’t have a shipping address until I’ve settled in the US.
There will be no deadline, man. I’ll hold the book for as long as it takes. I’m not expecting it to come out until November-ish anyway, though.
I don’t know if anyone else has been following the game, but the We Happy Few kickstarter is live! It’s the new game by the studio that made Contrast.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/112359230/we-happy-few-welcome-to-wellington-wells-you-saucy
This description alone is enough to make me want the game:
The Kickstarter video they did was very clever.
I like everything about this page. It’s very, very well presented. Even though I don’t PC game, I’m very tempted to just send them some sanity beers.
Shit yeah, I’m following it. And backing it when I can, too.
I like the low tier description
Doesn’t look like there’s gonna be a “What Are You Playing This Weekend”, so.
What are you playing this weekend?
Myself, I’ll probably continue with AdVenture Capitalist (it’s taking forever to get that last achievement), probably a bit of Splatoon and maybe some Puzzle & Dragons Z and either The Witcher 3 or Fallout: New Vegas.
Witcher 3.
I broke the unhealthy compulsion I had with Clicker Heroes and no longer have the urge to play. I’m free! Was getting upset with how obsessive I was getting with it so I messed with the save file to give myself 10 000 Hero Souls and it ruined it and now there’s no point playing. Best decision.
Now you can entertain an unhealthy compulsion with the Witcher!!
I spent 3 days so far one one freaking quest that never seems to end.
Also spent a few hours hunting down some Witcher gear diagrams only to find they’re 15 levels higher than me. Urgh.
Did get the cat school gear so I have super short sleeve Buffalt going.
I prefer the Cat stats, but the Bear look. Especially once they’re fully upgraded.
oh god I must do this save file messing.
1) I want to see if there’s an end.
2) Laurence has been doing it legit and has nearly a 1000 hero souls LEGIT, so it will drive him insane.
Actually… that’s cruel. I won’t do it.
Assuming it’s exactly the same as the browser version, you’re going to need a lot more than 10,000 hero souls for that.
I’d guesstimate it as well into the billions.
I currently have 8.2 million in the Morghulis bank, as well as a few heroes around 2800 – 3200 in level, and I stall out at around level 2100. On a run to this point I’m earning somewhere around 330,000 hero souls, which makes bugger all difference to the level I reach.
Assuming nothing’s changed since the earlier versions, you can reach level 4100 or so, but I think it stops there. In terms of getting all achievements, reaching level 3000 is the only challenging one.
Billions falls dramatically short. I got sick of the game and cheated repeatedly to see what lies at the end (and because it’s a good way to burn a game out so you can dump it).
Spoilers (but not really…it’s Clicker Heroes):
Can’t remember exact numbers (or names), but I had the final hero gilded either 10 million or 100 million times, at some stupid level, with 5000+ levels in a bunch of ancients(?) that upped AFK damage a crazy amount (percent based, had like…25 digits?), and something in the order of hundreds of trillions of souls. Can’t remember the exact level beneath 5000 it ended, but beyond 5000 is literally impossible to pass as enemies just have “infinity” health.
Libertas is gold gained while idle, Siyalatas is DPS up while idle. After the first 200 levels or so (cannot remember the maths, but it’s only an extra 1500% or so that hte early levels give) they up DPS / gold by 15% per level.
There’s also Morgulis, which is essentially a bank, where every hero soul you put in it is worth 10% more (so, my 8.2 million hero souls in there give the DPS of 9.1 million).
I had all three of those, at a minimum level of 5000 each IIRC. Can’t remember how many souls that took.
1+2+3+4+5…+5000= How many souls
@freezespreston I think Morgulis was well beyond 5000 but at that level it’s be like 12 million.
I don’t know! I’ve got Murdered Soul Suspect in the PS4, but I haven’t touched that in almost a fortnight. I might give Dark Souls 2 SotFS a whirl at some point. I’ve got heaps and heaps of Undad-work-stuff to do though, so I dunno if I’ll be touching games this weekend.
Witcher 3, Infamous Second Son, and Bloodborne. In some mixture of those.
Destiny. Elite.
My life appears to be on hold…
Currently only 6k LY out from Sag A*!
Might even make it this weekend if I can procure a new stick 😀
I need to keep heading out towards Mu Cephei again. I am determined to make it this time.
I need to check out how the Diamondback Explorer goes before the beta finishes… but would need to tear myself away from Splatoon to do so >_>
Destiny, Helldivers, Witcher 3. That said I’ll be travelling for half of this weekend so probably not going to have too much game time =p
I’m probably not going to sit down and play for excessive amounts of time so I might throw in a bit of HotS and maybe some other stuff. Been feeling a desire to play a Total War game so I might try and pick up either Empire or Napoleon rather than going back to Medieval 2.
I heard that a round of HotS is about 20 minutes long
Is that right?
And as far as the standard ‘form’ is it ok to just jump in for a single game and then leave?
Yeah totally. Matches can go beyond 20 minutes but generally not much longer than that. I once played a game that was only 10 minutes due to one side completely dominating the other.
It’s an easy game to drop in and out of and there’s no requirement to play more than one game in a stint. You get quests that encourage you to try different types of heroes but aside from that, it’s pretty open in terms of playing when you want.
More Iron banner, hit level 3 last night. Just need level 5 so I can buy all the things. Will also finish my last two 34 PoEs I’ve yet to do. Skipping 35 PoE after doing it for the past two weeks, it’s just not worth the time at this stage for me.
Any time not Destiny-ing will be spent on GW2 and a sudden urge to replay Peace Walker (*shakes fist at @shane*), if only to be able to go and take down a Rathian again courtesy of it’s magnificent Monster Hunter crossover missions.
We just started Never alone so probably keep playing through that one. Maybe a bit of Ass creed.
Bored games at my place on Sunday!
Also possibly some more bored games on Monday!
Also The Witcher 3. I tore myself away from it about Monday or so this week and haven’t played since then because I was staying up to 3am playing it repeatedly since it’s so easy to lose track of time in it.
I’ll probably clock some time in Kantai Collection too. Got my Choukai to her second remodel at 65 last week and started toward getting Maya to 75 for hers, currently at 40. Needs a lot of grinding. Then it’ll probably be Jintsuu after that and by then hopefully we’ll have seen the outcome of the current rumors around a light cruiser remodel in June some time (hoping for Yura, expecting Nagara)
Or I should ask if you want us to bring anything instead
Feel free to bring anything.
So much witcher. SO MUCH.
I’m all gamed out after mainlining The Witcher 3 for a week and half. Might take a gaming break.
Hoping to finish off Dark Souls. Even though I am OP thanks to the advice of Freeze, I am still a lame-o. So chugging through the end game at a lame-o’s pace.
If I finish that off, I’ve got Bloodborne, DS2, Game of Thrones latest ep & The Evil Within dlc.
Probably try & knock over the dlc and GoT first because they’re significantly shorter.
If I have a new stick it’ll be Elite, with the odd smattering of Spayce Maureen
Witcher 3 and Destiny. Still undecided on whether to do Iron Banner this weekend for that etheric light – tossing up between that, and finding a group to take the 34 Prison three times, so I can go play Witcher.
Witcher 3, Dragon Ball Xenoverse, and potentially dust off Fallout Somethingorother.
How far into Xenoverse are you? Some of the altered timelines are so hilariously awesome.
Finished campaign, can’t remember which PQ I’m up to. Well into Buu territory?
I’ve also summoned Shenron twice and unlocked the first two secret characters, who are both hilarious and overpowered. Nothing quite like Big Bang Kamehameha x100 to decimate an enemy…
I basically got stuck at the Buu PQ’s. Been thinking about getting the DLC packs since the last one’s gonna include content related to the latest movie. And GT’s still kinda fun.
Also if you haven’t gone to the move shop and bought the Parapara special technique you have to. Just equip it and give it a try!
Oh god, that dance…
I have officially bought all the Souls now. Just managed to trade toward DS2.
Demons should also be in the mail, providing the woman on Gumtree hasn’t scarpered with my cashdollars.
That was a quick turnaround.
From sceptic to addict in what…a week?
ONE OF US….
(-(-_(-_-)_-)-)
One of us, one of us
Oooh, I’ve never seen multi face, me like!
Those games tend to have that effect. Also you’ve been making me really tempted to go back to Dark Souls, start over and see if I can clear it this time.
Sorcerer with the Drake Sword was (comparatively) easy.
Just got to do a lot of running backwards casting.
Now after getting the moon sword, I am ridiculous biggeth dickethed, mostly just fast thing like skele-wheels or mobs kill me.
Mobs are the wurst
Yeah, I played a Dex-based build so was very heavy on sniping with bows, using light armor to ensure best mobility, and using light weapons (replaced the Drake Sword quite early on with a Balder Side Sword, plan had been to get a Scythe later on).
Some bosses were easy with the quick thrusty style, but many are really, really hard. The Demon back at the Asylum, I ended up having to hunt down a thief dagger and upgrade it a bit in order to beat him (the bleed effect was very useful) and I completely hit a wall when I got to Ornstein and Smough. Got Ornstein down a few times, but couldn’t deal with Smough at all. Tried a lot of stuff (except summoning because it ended in tears every time I tried) including forging Queelag’s Furysword and upgrading it a fair chunk to have a +fire weapon. Nothing worked. Gave up.
Apparently they’re pretty easy with a magic build?
‘Easy’ is still a relative thing. Though it’s possible to rig the fight a little with certain builds, In almost all cases, it’s the ultimate “show us what you’ve learned so far” fight, and generally considered to be the biggest difficulty spike in the game.
You’re meant to try and fail this fight many, many times. I can’t think of a boss who beat me more regularly than these guys.
Those two had me seriously questioning my hitherto-unstoppable ‘light-armour/ultra-agile ultra-upgraded-snakeman-sword strength-build’.
But persistence won the day!
Easier, sure.
I still died. Hard to hide & cast with a second dood on your arse.
managed to circle around behind a pillar a few times which blocks them temporarily so I could charge up a shot
So a question, can you pinpoint where the game just ‘clicked’?
Fire Link shrine?
Not really. It’s full of all sorts of things I enjoy.
So, immediately fantasy is my bag, dark fantasy was icing on the cake there.
The combat is nice and slow, one of my biggest issues with action games is reaction time.
The feeling of doom you get knowing death is inevitable tickled my love of classic Survival Horror.
The interconnected world gave me fun Metroidvania vibes.
It’s a lot more colourful than official artwork & every description I’d ever heard.
The minimilist story is great, I’ve had a gutful of every game I play trying to be a movie (I actually prefer how you had to read in old RPGs).
Pretty much it plays like a good mix of resident evil, shin Megami Tensei, Castlevania & Onimusha.
I see why people love the challenge, it can feel good finally defeating a particularly troublesome boss.
to be honest though, I’d have enjoyed it just as much if you could cut through enemies like butter because everything else is so good.
That immaculately constructed world is something that Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls 2 lack and I think it makes a bigger difference than people realize.
It’s fair enough in Demons, big shame in 2.
I played a tad of 2 last night, it’s odd.
@greenius @jordi @mad_danny @tigerion
So, Sunday at my place in Camberwell at let’s say 1pm for board games and other frivolities. Let me know if you need my address – DM me on Twitter (@atomstrawberry) or send me a male (atomicstrawberry at gmail dot com).
(Offer still open to other Melbourne TAY and anyone else who might be in the area. @budgieishere @coldcamv @crazyguy1990 @f4ction @pixel_the_ferret_viking @tofu @zetrox2k @mythamphetamine ?)
Tiglet has had a bit of a cold so has been sleeping longer than usual. So we are likely to get there a bit after later. But we will be there unless something comes up but will let you know.
All good.
Oh, assuming Mrs Tigs is coming, anything I should look around for re: snacks?
Yes she will be but you don’t need to worry about anything specific.
But if you want to some Peanut m&ms or some chips without onion powder would be good
Coolio. I’m in.
I would of but my nan is down from Sydney and we are all meant to be having a family day
sounds good – will email later for address
what’s your board game collection like? (I usually bring a couple of filler card games like Guillotine, Mag Blast or Tentacle Bento if anyone wants shorter diversions between proper games, or if there are excess players for some things)
I actually have Tentacle Bento! Haven’t played it though.
Off the top of my head, in my shelf at the moment I have Super Dungeon Explore, Dominion & Dominion Intrigue, Puerto Rico, Race For The Galaxy + 1st 2 expansions, Carcassonne with a bunch of expansions, Machi Koro + Expansions (needs pasteups for those though, I got them in Japan), Bohnanza, Hanabi, Arkham Horror + Innsmouth + King in Yellow, Space Hulk, Cards Against Humanity + expansions, Tanto Cuore, Heart of Crown: Fairy Garden + Expansions (can’t recall if I added pasteups to all the expansions though). I think I loaned out my copy of Ticket To Ride, not sure if I got it back yet. Have Kunitori Kessen and El Alamein sleeved up, but haven’t added any pasteups to make them playable yet (they’re printed out somewhere). I’m probably forgetting a few.
Can’t make it.
Sorry.
Yay! I’ll message for address. Should we have going away cake?
If you want to bring cake you can bring cake. Will probably do something else closer to the time I leave though
Fallout 4 release date allegedly October 23rd. I was thinking it would be that date as that’s the date the nukes went off in the great war. Now to plan leave off work around that
OMG. OMG. OMG.
…
I mean, I won’t get too excited until like two weeks out.
OMGHere’s hoping that’s true, though. UNCHARTED AND FALLOUT.
http://imgur.com/5vEYZrt for the FYI-ing.
Once I’ve got money on a CE pre-order, then I’ll let the excitement train go to OMGville. Until then, it’s Stresstown all the way 😀
@jimu
Hahahahahahahahahahaha! I read the post and thought the exact same thing 😛
I called it.
Somebody award me stuff!!
Hm. I’ve had a look at the budget, and I can afford to scrape together +10 internets for you.
Yisssssssss
Silver lining!!
Pretty sure I’ve got two weeks of leave scheduled to start the day before that, so it’s pretty sweet if that’s correct.
Will probably end up buying the Collector’s Edition on PS4 and then buy it on Steam as well (presuming I’ve built my gaming rig by then.)
You rich, I jelly
So Starfighter Inc looks like it might fail it’s Kickstarter, which is pretty amazing considering the people involved. I would have thought it’d be a shoe-in.
I’d say with Star Citizen already raking in the cash, the market for space sim shooters is already saturated. Had a look at their goals as well and $10 million and they can put in a single player mode 😐 game development sure has moved on from the bedroom developer days
Not amazing when you realize that the main guy that was drawing people’s attention was the story designer of TIE Fighter etc and that the game they were pitching was a free-to-play PVP space shooter in the World of Tanks model.
If they’d been pitching a single-player space combat game I’d have backed in a heartbeat. But the truth of the mater is that when it comes to the X-Wing series and Secret Weapons games, the only person with the geek cachet to really draw the numbers on Kickstarter is going to be Larry Holland.
I think the problem they have is there is no story or really lore there
It’s just an arena shooter in space with some fairly generic looking ‘sci-fi’ ships
I imagine most people are feeling a little burnt out on Kickstarter. The good news is that the game will still be made but just without all the extra bells and whistles that would come from the Kickstarter.
Oh god. Thought I was singing in my head until a young lady walking past started pissing herself laughing and I suddenly realised I was singing out loud, very loudly.
*hides forever*
Edit: of course..
Were you at least singing something amazing?
*cough* Uh, sure.
Samantha Mumba’s Gotta Tell You…
I had to Google what that song was.
You have chosen…. poorly.
Amazing!
It’s not so bad! At least a bunch of your internet friends don’t know what you… did…
Hm.
Adorable!
Last night I watched the first of the live-action Rurouni Kenshin films. As a big fan of that franchise (Evangelion was my initial gateway into anime, but Kenshin was what really hooked me) I thought it was amazingly well done. Great cast, solid action sequences, reverence for the source material and actually adapting it in a considered way, not the haphazard bullshit that they started doing with the Reflections and recent Kyoto OVAs.
They made some changes to some stuff, but I think the changes made a lot of sense.
Bringing Saito in right from the start works really well, and making Jin’ei a much more sinister adversary really works too – he was originally only there to give Kenshin a reason to shack up at Kaoru’s house. Cutting down the Oniwabanshu to just a pair is a bit of a shame, but the two they kept are easily the more memorable ones so that’s fine. I’m a bit worried that might mean that they cut Misao out of the Kyoto films though. Teenager Negs had a crush on her. 😛Looking forward to getting to the next two. I got a naughty copy but Madman just published a 3-bluray set and I might buy it. It’s good enough to want to own. It kind of shows its manga / anime origins, but that mainly comes out in the costuming and the action bits and even then it’s no more silly-looking around that than, say, Captain America is.
I actually bought the trilogy from Madman direct last week. Haven’t seen any yet, need to set aside some time.
My finger was just hovering above a purchase button to pick up a copy… then I remembered that it’d be fucking Region B and all my other Blurays are Region A. I don’t think I have a B player, since my PS3 was Japanese and my PS4 is US.
Oh, god, the pop has invaded the office. Wait… I know those lyrics… well, mostly… just last time I heard them they weren’t set to an obnoxious drumkit and had more instrumental backing… Oh, thank god, new song… wait, this is another ’90s song with less music and the same synth and obnoxious drumbeat. (Idle thought: whoever made that drumkit soundbyte must be a millionaire…)
Am I witnessing a zombie apocalypse here? Long dead songs returning from the grave to devour the brains of the unwary? *hides*
N-Trance made a career out of that in the late 90’s.
Ice Ice Baby!
Word to your mother!
Didn’t he end up apologising for that song?
He did? It was mega popular at the time.
Ah, nevermind. He did in 2009, but according to a quick google search, it may have been part of a marketing campaign for Virgin Mobile.
Besides which, anything less than the best is a felony. Therefore, unless IIB is ‘the best’ he should be arrested. As Robert Van Winkle hasn’t been found guilty of felony charges, Ice Ice Baby is ‘the best’.
QED.
Idle response: I wonder if it’s the Amen break, by Gregory Cylvester “G. C.” Coleman of ‘The Winstons’ – Interestingly, even though he played one of the most used drum solos in history, neither the performer, nor the copyright owner Richard L. Spencer, have ever received any royalties or clearance fees for the use of the sample, nor has either sought royalties. (Cite: Wikipedia)
Huh, never knew about that, but always suspected there must be a connection of some sort. Amen break, combined with the advent of sampling, explains a lot of music since about ’90.
Oh my god.
So XSeed posted a really random image on twitter:
https://twitter.com/XSEEDGames/status/606637083285966848
People didn’t really make much noise about it so they were like GUYS THAT WAS A TEASER. People start looking.
The wierd eyes in the image? PoPoLoCrois Farm Story. Box of Raid on the table? Presumably EDF-related. They announced they’re releasing an updated port of Global Defense Force (aka EDF2 – the one we know of from the 360 is EDF 2017 aka EDF3) for the Vita last week, but the PS4 version of EDF 4.1 for PS4 is still not announced for English release and it looks like D3 Publisher’s given up on the franchise here…
And then someone noticed the piece of paper on the table on top of the Raid thing. It’s faint, but if you look closely, it looks like a Japanese character. 閃. This is the ‘Sen’ in Legend of Heroes: Sen no Kiseki. There’s been rumors they were doing something with it (the ‘Trails of Cold Steel’ domain registration and stuff) but this is the first time they’ve directly teased it. It’s happening!
But, but….Xanadu??
Tokyo Xanadu isn’t out yet. Sen released in like 2012 and Sen II was 2014, and they recently announced Sen III.
XSeed also still haven’t announced the new PS4 & Vita Ys that Falcom’s been working on for a bit, but I have every confidence they will. I’m also very confident that, assuming it’s got Ys-level amounts of text, Tokyo Xanadu will come over.
*Xanadu dance*
Suddenly Olivia Newton-John?
Have you played any other Xanadus? Original, Faxanadu, Xanadu Next? They’re quite different. Not as action-based. Tokyo Xanadu looks like it’s closer to Ys or Nayuta no Kiseki (which I’m still a bit salty that we missed out on)
Nah, I just like the look & sound of this new one.
I enjoyed Xanadu as a kid, I think, unless I’m confusing it with Pulsebeat(?) Or Grease, or some other Olivia Neutron-Bomb movie
Someone just rightly pointed out that the Sen character there is also the ‘Sen’ in ‘Senran Kagura’ so having ‘sen’ on a box of bug repellant might be saying that they’re in the process of bug testing Senran Kagura 2 (which is due in August) or it might be teasing Estival Versus for Vita. But I’d argue that if that was all they wanted to do, they’d probably just come out and say it.
BLOODBORNE
..is 30% off on PSN atm https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-au/games/bloodborne/cid=EP9000-CUSA00207_00-BLOODBORNE0000EU??EMCID=GM392000_Twitter
Also I beat the Cleric Beast on Wednesday then got slaughtered by Father Gascoigne. He stabbed me right in my stupid face.
Have you spoken to the little girl about him and got some of the back story and the item?
I have. I didn’t play last night, might have another crack tonight
Oh god this might be a bad decision
Started downloading Heroes of the Storm
MY LIFE FOR AIUR
I’m almost anti-interested in that game.I like MOBAs, but uninstalled it after five games. >.>Aaaaaaand now I wanna play starcraft again 😛
Younger me always thought they said “My life fryer”
But then again I barely spoke English back then
Compared to now…
*runs*
… Que?
Just don’t mention the war.
I am contemplating downloading it, let’s see if it can hold my interest.
So far, the only MOBA I have stuck with for more than a couple of weeks is SMITE, which is 6 months and counting so far..
Everytime I see HotS somewhere I wana punch Blizz for making me wash all that time spent down the drain =@
Ive been playing fair regularly the last few days, I main Tychus
Is US or Asia a better server?
I play US havent tried asia because you cant switch accounts over servers
Was mentioned on Twitter (thanks Freeze) there was a dinner in Brisbane this weekend… Would love to come and meet more people but had a pretty rough week and some family events spoilered below will need most of my time this weekend.
Coming off the back of my great weekend got a call early Sunday arvo from my wife who was in Sydney with her family that her 95 year old grandfather had a kidney infection and wasn’t responding to antibiotics. There was strong signs that he might not make it through to Monday morning. That kicked off a flurry of rebooked flights, multiple pick up/drop offs from airport and general chaos.He made it through Monday and we had all the family together with him at the nursing home for all of Monday. He passed late Monday night. Everyone knew it was time and we’d all had heaps of time to say our goodbyes and his son (my father-in-law was there with him to the end) which makes it a bit easier but still pretty damn gut wrenching.
On top of that I had an exam yesterday to prepare for after having Monday/Tuesday with family. So spent Wenesday at work finishing 2 days of work into 1, studying all Thursday morning then exam and finally back at work today to squeeze another 2 days of work into 1.
This weekend wife and I have to go through three 40L storage tubs of photos to pull shots for the service/wake next week and then scan them all in and put them together into a presentation. So just had a generally crappy week and this weekend isn’t going to be a whole lot easier.
Dumping a wall of text behind spoiler tags is polite, but I needed to write it somewhere as don’t really have anywhere else to clear my mind who isn’t already involved in it… so… carthasis of mind is mostly complete. If you made it this far… thanks for reading.
Definately ready to sink a few beers tonight.
Sorry to hear about your week man. Hopefully it gets easier from here!
Sounds like a tough week, buddy. All the best!
Dude, that sucks. Hope you and your gf are OK.
I want beer o_o
I have beer.
You’re welcome to come over.
You would 0-0
It’s a cheap-arse Aldi brand called Rivet. It’s pretty crap actually.
That’s the Aussie way!
My condolences my friend! Wish you all the best… You’ve deserved that beer! And I’d be there sharing some with you if I could!
Sorry to hear that man. Condolences to you and Mrs. Sunsoar.
*hugs*
For a second I thought that ended with “…sink a few bears tonight” and quite a few questions came to mind.
You’ve got my sympathies, my friend.
Sorry to hear that, it is a small thing but at least you all had time to say good bye
Sorry to hear that man, I hope it gets better for both of you
http://www.oktoberfestbrisbane.com.au/
*strokes beard, ponderingly*
Don’t forget to break out the Lederhosen.
Woo!
Was just thinking about this the other day. Going to have to don the lederhosen in honour of Absent Dan methinks.
I don’t know why but I read that as Absinthe Dan, who sounds like a pretty cool guy.
That implies a level of class which I don’t think is applicable in this case…
Surely Dan will come back for Oktoberfest. SURELY.
Sorry, I’ll be playing:
Persona 5
Metal Gear Solid V
The Drake Collection
Fallout 4
Dragon Quest
:p
You forgot XCOM 2 and Arkham =@
I thought arkham was soon?
I only liked the first anyway. Also no PC for these PC games
Arkham Knight I think is on the 24th of this month. So, about 18 days away.
Yeah, so even if I was buying, it would be completed by Oktoberfists
Hmm…depending on funds I might be able to use this as an excuse to finally go up to Brisbane and find out if DC is actually real.
Wait you mean to say it isn’t Freeze just mucking around an alternate account?!
No, that was Batman.
He’s the @dc that TAY deserves, but not the one it needs right now.
Batman is mucking around on Freeze’s account?
I’ve met him! We had beers!
He’s as you imagine! Also handsome!
Oh you! 😛
Just buttering you up so I can say COME TO PAX more times.
PAX North! It’s a thing!™
COME TO PAX @DC.
WE HAVE A NERDPARTMENT!
For serious, @dc, if you’re willing to get like a gopro or something and tape it to your shoulder so I can experience the show vicariously through you, you can have my PAX tickets. I don’t think I’ll be able to be back in Melbourne for it.
Haha! Thanks for the offer, bud, but PAX isn’t really my kind of thing. If I went to Melbourne it’d just be to hang out with TAY folk and explore the city. 🙂 Appreciate the thought, though.
Hey @dc, you should come to Melbourne and hang out with TAY folk and explore the city
@dc
THE NERDPARTMENT SUPPORTS THIS GOAL!
@freezespreston @dc
NERDPARTMENT APPROVED ®
Also, we may have a couch available…
@dc @redartifice @freezespreston NERDPARTMENT APPROVED
Wait, that’s the majority, right? 3 out of 4 of us?
You’re coming to Melbourne, if only to hang in nerdpartment @dc.
DEMOCRACY BITCHES!
Anyone on Playstation yet to jump on the Telltale bandwagon? This is the best deal I’ve seen for Aussies: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/197142 ($52 for PS+ members for five awesome games)
How are they playing on PS4? I remember lots of their earlier games were known to run terribly on consoles!
Good, had 0 issues.
I play nearly everything on PS except for Telltale games weirdly. Played them all on PC.
Want!
*opens wallet, dust erupts as moths fly away*
Oh well :/
p.s I got Undad in the mail, thank you. Sorry I didn’t back again, I’m stupid broke.Is @strange on holidays or something?
She’s been pretty prolific on Instagram. Doing her quilting/sewing thing.
I MISS STRANGE.
Oh. I see how it is
You can have more than one hobby 🙂*shakes fist*
Nah, but taking a TAY break from time-to-time is something we all do, I think. It’s healthy! 😀
WHAT?! We finally make it to page 10 on a Friday and you’re already trying to jinx us!?
The problem is when one of your hobbies becomes an obsession, or even a job. 😛
Oooohhhhh have things picked up on the itching front?
Getting there. 😉
I MISS YOUR FACE! 😀
Given her age, I assume she actually forgot about TAY for a little bit, and has spent her time with the niggling feeling that something isn’t quite right.
<3
Just busy!
Although @blaghman is pretty close to the truth in that some days I forget to even open my laptop. #oldladystrange
Here’s a list of Dinosaurs in Jurassic World. So hype for the movie. Really hoping to get an early screening of it.
http://www.jurassicworld.com/dinosaurs/
Man, way to spoil their own stuff. “HEY PATRONS!” they said, “HERE IS A DETAILED LIST OF THINGS IN OUR MOVIE.”
Not clicking! Spoilers!
Though I’ve already had the “new” dinosaur spoiled for me by a kids toy commercial…
Yeah, I had the “new” one spoiled for me too, so I figure just looking at what other Dinos are in it won’t spoil it anywhere near as much.
Beware of the Jurassic World Lego Game trailers, they have individual ones for different dinos so even the headings/names give them away.
Stupid that LEGO Jurassic World is scheduled for release on the 12th in the US (same day as the film over there), but here we get the film on the 11th and don’t get the game until the 17th, almost a week later.
Edit: Also, it doesn’t seem to be on Steam, although it looks like every other LEGO game is.
On the plus side people won’t be spoiled by the game before seeing the movie ….. maybe.
Yeah, I remember getting The LEGO Movie game before the movie came out here.
Persists in calling the Deinonychus they depict in their films ‘velociraptor’ because Michael Crichton read a book by a shit paleontologist that classified them that way. Not seeing it out of protest. >:(
That really bugged me as a kid, I was at the height of dinomania so I corrected them as often as I could, I even used my Dino Rider Deinonychus to prove my point on a few occasions.
The origin of the issue is that when Crichton was writing Jurassic Park, a discussion paper had just come out that had placed all the Dromaeosaurids under the Veliciraptorinae clade, and he took that to mean that all of them were Velociraptors. Which isn’t the case. Velociraptor as a species is geologically newer than Deinonychus, and part of a different branch.
Latest cladograms based on the most recent research places them along with Alcitoraptor in their own sub-clade alongside Dromaeosaurinae (including Utahraptor, Dromaosaurus) and Velociraptorinae (Acheroraptor, Velociraptor, Tsaagan).
Current belief is that Dromaeosaurinae and Velociraptorinae split from a common ancestor, and that common ancestor had a common ancestor with Deinonychus. So they’re at least two species removed from each other.
Also they were covered in feathers. >:(
EDIT: Also when you look at the reconstructions of these dinos with feathers on, IMO they look vastly more natural and believable. You can see the common ancestry with birds in the way their bodies are shaped and everything.
Probably had a bit to do with the name too, Velociraptor is far more marketable than Deinonychus. “It has raptor in the name, people will love it and think it’s cool”
That was part of Spielberg’s bullshit excuse for not fixing it, yes. That and the discovery of unrelated species Utahraptor somehow giving him the right to be utterly wrong and stupid.
The lack of feathers is a disappointment. Even if the dinosaurs in the book don’t have them, even the littlest of tots know that some (possibly most) dinosaurs had them, thanks to shows like Dinosaur Train.
DINO RIDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Haha!
<3
Michael Crichton: Still the worst.
He’s not entirely to blame in this case. Only partially, for not understanding how taxonomy works. Also for the whole splicing with frog DNA thing because fuck, seriously?
Yeah, the science looks bad in hindsight, given how much has been learned in the last 20 years. There are groups of scientists who are experimenting with chicken embryos – who are carrying around ancient dino dna, and working out how to turn off some of the modern bird genes and express the ancient dino genes instead: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150512-bird-grows-face-of-dinosaur
I saw a similar doco about 10 years ago where the genecist was able to get chicken embryos with extended vertebrae and wing claws.
THEY ARE COOKING UP MODERN DINOSAURS PEOPLE!
Funnily enough one of the Paleontologists working on that chicken stuff is Jack Horner, who was one of the dino experts that Spielberg had on the set for the original Jurassic Park as a technical advisor, and was one of the main inspirations for Jurassic Park’s Dr. Grant.
He published a book on the reverse-a-chicken-to-a-dinosaur idea back in 2009:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0525951040/scientificameric
Apparently partially inspired by an early script he was shown for Jurassic World, and we’ve come full circle…
It always confused me as a kid when I went to play Designasaurus and made what I thought looked like a velociraptor but it said all the parts were from some “deinonychus” thing I’d never heard of.
EXACTLY.
And it’s all the fault of Jurassic Park (and by extension, Michael Crichton).
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/06/post-apocalyptic-lego-landscape-is-full-of-cool-details/
Could we maybe one day soon see Fallout LEGO sets, or a LEGO Fallout game.
I doubt it.
too Adult, and Fallout isn’t a huge franchise by “Avengers and TMNT” standards.
Have you seen the stuff they’re adding to Lego Dimensions though? Random out-there stuff like The Wizard of Oz.
That’s the Warner Brothers licence I imagine.
Don’t forget Doctor Who and Portal
In Splatoon I have 36 shirts, 30 shoes and 29 hats. Leveled all of them as far as they’ll go (without Spyke), and have 260k in the bank.
I need more gear to buy 😛
…Have you stopped playing since it came out?
Yes!
I have to sleep and eat sometimes.
Somehow I doubt it.
@jocon sorry mr jo; dinner/cooking have taken much longer than expected, I’ll be on in 30min if you’re still up for some destiny co-op? but i’ll have to jet by midnight!
Decisions, decisions…
Smash Bros or Splatoon?
Splatoon, obvs.
Just not when you’re playing with your 3K hacker gun
GIT FRESH, SCRUB
Took my mum to Fury Road. She loved it. Said it was the best film she’s seen in an extremely long time.
Second time around, it still holds up. Just an all-around fucking fantastic film.
Geez, it’s 2am…
That’s what I get for staying up & watching the cricket…
Goodnight.
Ok, that’s Splatoon Week done at 70:58. Dang, should’ve stayed on for one more match 😛
Whoever invented a 6am waking time deserves to die a horrible death.
I bought a robot vacuum. It better be the best!
It’s the best.
What one did you get? I’ve been thinking about getting one but I have no idea about what’s a good one.
@greenius I am interested in this too. The idea of an electric minion that does my housework for me is quite appealing.
Aldi! $179 got decent reviews and Aldi has their 60 day return policy anyway so can’t really lose
@negativezero
Hey everybody, you might want to check your details on TAYNames. Was going through the list to see if there was anyone else to add as friends on Steam, and I noticed that some of them appeared to be wrong.
For instance @trikeabout’s Steam ID is listed as “chuckles_world”, did a search for it and nothing came up. and @tech_knight is listed as “jamiedeecee”
Looks like some idiot’s been fucking around with it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgFxIpTLAp-LdDNZbWVTNjhYNGE2bXpFTkxqV3BzM2c&hl=en_US#gid=0
So whats the go with this?
Just a way to catch up with ppl?
Or is this some special tay club thing?
i don’t know any of you yet really…
It’s just a database of our gaming handles. I use it to just add whoever is playing the same games as I am so that I have more buddies.
Anyone can edit it so feel free to add in your own details.
Hello person!
I’m liondrive 🙂
Nice to meet you!
Now you know me, so you can add any of my details that you want :p
Ever wished you could have a whole list of friends that you can look at while you play games on your consoles alone because you’re socially maladjusted?
…
Maybe that’s just me.
Hi soon to be friend.
It’s a listing of all our stuff, like Steam, 3DS, Uplay etc. etc.
Add your stuff. I’ve got it bookmarked and go through once a month to make sure I add people.
Word of warning: DO NOT LOOK AT WHAT @transientmind is playing on Steam.
Dude finds the most addictive cookie clicker clones and we all end up trapped in them.
Thanks and nice to meet all of you aswell.
sounds like a great idea, and you all seem real nice.
Ill add my info, dont be afraid to say hi, im a pretty friendly guy 🙂
Welcome!! Are you a member of the master race or a console man?
Both, though my available time isnt what it once was, im old now lol
I play everything from my megadrive through to wow. Bloodborne has been my addiction at th4 cost of everything else though lately.
Im just smitten by it 🙂
You?
BLOODBORNE! You and I are going to get along just fine 🙂
Oh no…another Bloodborner. (Kidding, kidding!)
You’re going to get along with 90% of those here.
I’ll just nod appreciatively (no PS4 for me, so no Bloodborne).
I’m the same, lately I’ve been a console peasant playing Xbox one though. If you have live feel free to add me ‘highperforma89’
We should make it password protected.
Nah, that takes away from the community aspect of it.
Someone would have just put their information in the wrong spot and messed it up a little is all.
No biggie, it would have been an accident 🙂
Corrected – I’d forgotten I’d changed my steam account to reflect my NEW IDENTITY *looks furtive*
I’ve been trikeabout for over 10 years but had my steam account even longer.
Oh my god.
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/06/05/the-legend-of-heroes-trails-of-cold-steel-i-ii-coming-west/
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XSeed also confirmed:
– Earth Defense Force 4.1 (PS4)
– Senran Kagura Estival Versus (PSV/PS4)
– PoPoLoCrois Story of Seasons (3DS) (PoPoLoCrois / Harvest Moon mashup)
So their lineup for the rest of 2015 at the moment is:
– Earth Defense Force 2 (PSV)
– Earth Defense Force 4.1 (PS4)
– Corpse Party (PC)
– Corpse Party: Blood Drive (PSV)
– PoPoLoCrois A Story of Seasons (3DS)
– Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC (PC/PSP)
– Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel (PS3/PSV)
– Onechanbara Z2 Chaos (PS4)
– Senran Kagura 2: Crimson (3DS)
– Senran Kagura Estival Versus (PS4/PSV)
All-out assault on my wallet has commenced
Apparently Senran Kagura Burst has found itself a local release. Weirdly enough, with an AU cover slip, not just an EU one with ACB stickers plastered on it.
Yeah, it was distributed by someone else. Predates XSeed’s deal with NISA’s european division (which secretly is really just Koei)
EDIT: Also the PAL release was physical where the US was digital-only despite coming out first, which was always odd.
I should probably warn you if you’re considering it, original Senran Kagura’s very, very average. Shinovi Versus on Vita is miles better. What I’ve heard is that SK2 on 3DS is a big improvement.
That’s ok, I’d more just be getting it for the sake of getting it anyway. It’s always been a “this is hilarious and I’m just happy it exists” thing for me 😛
It is a very silly game, to be sure.
I need to play more TiTS.
Don’t we all.
Every time.
And every time, I upvote.
Oh wow
“As of this writing, not only is Trails of Cold Steel fully, 100% translated, we’re reaching the final stages of editing as well and will very soon be recording a whopping 10,000~ voiced lines for the game.”
So Sen is really close to releasing :O
EDIT: I’m a bit worried the game might be dub-only though. That’d be disappointing. Trails in the Sky’s dubbing was minimal but the casting was shit, and Sen’s Japanese cast is extremely good.
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World – Thirtieth Session Recap (13th May 2015) starring:
– Blaghs aka @blaghman the tough Glaive who masters weaponry,
– Elandar Kintan aka @popdart5 the foolish Nano who controls gravity.
– Scrappa aka @tech_knight the mechanical Jack who talks to machines, and
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales.
The party walked away from the Domed Garden with a new friend of Scrappa’s in tow. The addition of Zippa the robotic companion had swollen the party to a grand total of four adventurers and they felt like they could take on the world. Firstly though, the group had to make their way to Harmuth where the Devona said that they could find the Gharolan, a vital ingredient in curing Phetys of the parasite. Harmuth lay far to the west on the shores of the great ocean and the group would have to trek for many days to reach it. Every journey begins with one simple step and so it was that Blaghs, Elandar, Scrappa, and Zippa began heading west along the caravan trails that would take them to Harmuth.
Read more at http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/.
Elite: Dangerous is being updated right now!
Totally didn’t get to test out the DIamondback Explorer >.<
Too busy with Splatoon 😛
@welbot Got it going alright! Just took the timings off auto and set them manually and brought the clock rate down to 1333mhz. Seems to run fine now. Thanks for your advice! I’d be pretty stuck without it 😛 I’ve never had issues with RAM before to even think about that kind of stuff
No problem at all! Happy to help! Glad it didn’t turn out to be faulty hardware! 🙂
*TWITCH*
http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/5/8738459/dark-souls-3-screenshots-details-apparently-leak
Time for another one of Shane’s patented countdowns?
Kinda difficult for a stream when the game’s not even out, don’t you think? 😛
Hot on the heels of Sen no Kiseki localization news… new Tales announced.
Tales of Berseria. Which is a daft looking name. PS3 and PS4. Character designs are a collab between Inomata and Fujishima again, as with Vesperia. Single protagonist, moving away from the dual protagonist approach of Xillia and Vesperia. And in what I think is a first for the franchise, she’s a girl. Voiced by Rina Satou. If they give her any lightning abilities the Railgun jokes will basically write themselves.
Vesperia was dual protagonist? 😮
Er, I meant Zestiria. That one was announced with two, but then Alicia got shat upon. 🙁
For those of you playing/interested in Arc,
I was screwing around near the house when a random wandered by and started talking to me. Somehow whilst I was trying to work out how to change global chat to local I hit a button that made all the dinosaurs follow me. So freaky, I’d caught a few more by this point and all of a sudden just have this stamped heading towards me and hearing all the booms of the footsteps.
I then end I actually got stuck under Susan and had to climb off Parrapa the Raptor to get out. Then as I was leave I rand in to Chlamydia still coming round the corner.
That last paragraph doesn’t even need context, it’s perfect by itself!
Guys, what pokemon do you hate or dislike the most?
For me it would probably be trubbish. Worst pokemon ever.
I like Trubbish, he’s cute.
That doesn’t tell me what you don’t like
I tried but honestly couldn’t of anything off the top of my head.
Would have to pore over a list of all of them to see what jumps out. Although I hate Pachirisu because he was an annoying bastard that refused to show up when I was hunting for him (did get him eventually). And same goes for Garbador and Rotom, both of which refused to show up at all.
I think those are valid reasons to be annoyed at them
Zubats! GODDAMN.ZUBATS!
Every goddamn baby Pokemon (Magby, Smoochum, Mime jr)
Delphox, cause of wasted potential
Electabuzz and Magmar, cause they ugly.
Stunfisk, cause it’s Stunfisk.
Uxie, Azelf, and Mesprit, cause they ugly.
Meganium, cause it’s ugly.
Delphox is the odd one out there
I just don’t like Delphox because a Psychic / Fire fox could have been so cool.
Instead they made it this gross thing with gigantic ear hair! :O
True. It’s first form was adorable too.
I thought the whole fire witch design was cool, along with the whole rogue/knight/mage thing going on with the three starters.
Minun and Plusle, the stupid baby Pikachus that aren’t.
Oh, whatsername’s bastard Miltank with the rollout forever.
OH MY GOD. THAT BLOODY THING!
ugh… played four missions in XCOM: Enemy Unknown…
Entire squad KIA in first mission, lost all but one in another, other two missions fared slightly better.
This is great.
Hey @os42 , a question on ascending gear: does it increase the int/str/disc stats at all?
Eg: I have a pair of vanilla 27 light boots with 65/62 intelligence/discipline.
The new 36 light equivalent at the vendor has 73/70.
If I ascend the vanilla boots, will the stats increase to equal/above the 36 light ones?
Also @pupp3tmast3r
PoE later?
Sorry mr jo, was out all day yesterday; we can run some PoE later today if you’re on?
Yeah man, I’ll be on.
Haven’t paid much attention to the stat change on my one ascended legendary piece, myself, but this sounds about right – helm jumped 16 INT when ascended from 30 to 42, gauntlets jumped 15 INT, chestpiece jumped 10 DIS/11 STR, boots jumped 7 INT/4 DIS. A quick look on reddit tells me that, yes, the stats increase – as the amount required for 100% INT/DIS/STR increase with level, tho, it could just be that the buff brings them to the same relative level… if that makes sense.
Not sure how much it would increase in your case, but they’d definitely be above 73/70 (although the vanilla boots be at 42 light after ascension, so it wouldn’t be a fair comparison to the vendor 36s). If both were ascended which would have the better stats? Don’t know, sorry – can’t find enough info on how the stats change. One page suggests about 7% increase per 6 light, but from looking at only three items, and it’s got a not inconsiderable variance.
Reply fail. @jocon
Cool cool, that helps.
Cheers man.
Okay, just had the weirdest thing happen to me in XCOM…
It was sort of a pathfinding bug, I couldn’t move my units, even though it was my turn, and this was on an escort mission.
I had no choice but to forfeit the mission, resulting in all countries abandoning the XCOM project, and a subsequent Game Over.
I’d eliminated all enemy units as well, so this pissed me off even further.
I just finished The WItcher 3, 101 hours total according to steam (though some were while I left it timelapsing), and it was one of the most consistently solid open world games I’ve ever played.
Ending stuff (@dc, and anyone else who’s finished it)
Ended up with Ciri becoming essentially a Witcher, and then I went off to the place that I’ve forgotten the name of with Triss, where I settled down and chillaxed. Would love to know how your game ended, person who is reading this. I gotta add, that I was so worried when Geralt told Emhyr that Ciri was dead, because I knew it had multiple endings, and I wanted to know what I’d done wrong.Geralt encouraged Ciri to follow her own path and she decided to be Empress. Was sad, but a happy ending all the same. Geralt and Yen went to live the quiet life.Yours was probably better for The Continent, overall, but pshhhhhh.I like like how it can veer off in different directions, though. Here’s hoping Priscilla stays away from her! D:So ARK: Survival Evolved is actually a pretty cool guy…
So far I’ve:
Punched a tree
Punched a triceratops
Punched a brontosaurus
And punched a T-rex
But were you able to punch a handsome Shane face? DC has lead me to believe that’s worthwhile
Hahaha, sweet. Haven’t got enough funds to buy it till the end of the week. But, I think I might wait and see if it gets a huge discount during the Steam Summer Sale. If not, I’ll just buy it as soon as the sale finishes.
So keen to punch some Dinos 😛
Dear TAY,
On Saturday I met Ginger Chris and fiance and had dinner with Popdart, Transient, B-ob, Freeze and Nob. It was a great night. I had mango gelato. GOOD TIMES.
I saw Spy last night. Was pretty great. I laughed a lot. I like Melissa McCarthy and Paul Feig.
Yours truly,
DC.
You’re meeting all the tayfolk lately!
Almost all of them, strangely. When I haven’t left Brisbane. 😛
Had to hang up my art project for marking today.
Mines not the best, but boy was there some real pointless ones.
Some have so much going on that they look impressive, but you can’t tell what’s going on.
Others are literally just pictures stuck to the page with no meaning at all.
Made me feel slightly more confident in my hyper sexual, seedy as, dog headed MASTERPIECE.
Also, I thought I was gonna only be at uni for 10 minutes, so I have a huge cowlick.
I was there for 40 minutes :'(
>>70%<<
I art alright, even though no one was willing to give me feedback on it :p
I like the four VLCs
I DON’T NEED YOUR SYMPATHY!
Anyone keen bean for some Splatoon today?
Yes.
What time?
Hmm, I played a bit in the arvo already so I think I’ve had my fill for today :(. Might play some single player missions later though, but probably not multi.
Maybe. Am I allowed? 😛
:'(
Possibly
@os42 @liondrive myself and jo are looking for a 3rd for some pre-made Destiny co-op later today arvo if anyone’s keen? Looking to run PoE or the weekly nightfall if either of youse haven’t done it =]
I’m keen, just let me know when! 😀
tis sounds like a plan! Up for some in an hour’s time lion? @jocon 4.30PM some Destiny co-op?
So I caved and gave Heroes of the Storm a try over the weekend.
I actually didn’t mind it. Definitely a change from the traditional MOBA, hard to get used to the fact that you don’t need to buy items so if you don’t lose a lot of health you pretty much never need to return to base.
I like the idea of objectives to break away from the traditional lane pushing, and it means that if your team are falling behind on lane pushing, you can still come back if you focus on objectives. The games are also refreshingly short, I have always found it hard to make time for MOBA’s as having 45-60mins of uninterrupted play time can be difficult. 20mins is a lot easier to manage!
I think I still prefer SMITE, for the third person perspective and being able to play as a god! But I am not going to uninstall HotS just yet and will keep playing it for a while 🙂
@mrtaco since you’re an expert at calling Nintendo can you find out whether they’ve got those bigger Wii U Gamepad batteries in stock? Coooool? Thanks 😛
Nah.
I fear Nintendo.
Also I didn’t know those things were official, I thought they were third party.
They totes were and Nintendo were selling them direct! (Directry to you *Iwata hand motion*)
Vooks said they sold out a few months ago so I don’t know whether they’re in stock again. My gamepad is dying too quickly between Splatoon sessions 🙁
How long is that? Mine seems to go for about four hours I think, which is pretty decent. But the cable’s long enough for me to not care about playing plugged in so I’d rather stick with the lesser weight.
Probably about the same as yours, but I’d play a couple of hours before it dies in standby when it’s not being used for a couple of days :(. I still connect it to charge while playing but it’ll be nice to get a few more hours out of it before needing to charge it 😛
I don’t know if it’ll add any extra weight but it looks like it fits fine
http://www.vooks.net/larger-wii-u-gamepad-battery-wii-remote-charging-set-coming-australia/
the gamepad is pretty hefty anyway
Another 5km continuous run! 😀 I AM IMPROVING
Used a Buff this time around and it works perfectly. YEAH, BUFFS!
Ugh, buffs.
*flex*
Steroids?
OK!
Newbies!
@alexpants @MJHellscream @blaghman
Intermediates!
@jocon @pupp3tmast3r
Pros!
@Cracks @trikeabout @os42
if you fear you have been mis-classified, please address all complaints to the Monsanto corporation.Newbie PS4 Destiny Raid!
We talked about it a bit, but I say we actually do it! Now, this will be a raid for Newbies to raiding, so they have preference over Pros if there are more than 6 people interested (I figured I’d tag you all though if some of you are willing to fill in if we need more numbers).
Not meant to be segregating, it’s just a chance for us less experienced raiding peeps to give it a go too 🙂
I figured Vault of Glass on Normal difficulty, since I’m ~90% sure none of the Newbies have done it, and am unsure of the intermediates.
Best time for me is Thursday, about 5pm WA time (7pm EST) (am flexible on times though).
If anyone is keen, just holla!
Urgh, @thecracks, @beardymcmuttonchops
Also, sorry if I forgot anyone!
Just, categorise yourself accordingly if interested 😛
I’ve done VoG a coupla times, happy to do it again though if people are needed, would like to do Crota’s End though (eventually).
I figured we’d go through them.
VoG, then Crota, then maybe do them again, or su’in su’in.
I’m keen to help out, but won’t take up someone else’s spot – it’s a lot of fun, but I’m really only chasing a few minor items from VoG for completeness’ sake. Looking forward to hearing the stories, at least, tho 😛
If we need peeps to round out the team, you’ll get first dibs, since you replied first 🙂
Seems the fairest!
If we don’t, this could be a good opportunity to set up your own raid with peeps anyway 🙂
What’s the level required for VoG?
26-28 from memory. If you’re not there yet, you can get there real quick with the new dlc
Sure.
Puppet and I have done vog normal many times, have not completed hard tho.
I’ll jump in for normal but mostly interested in hard.
I have PTSD from all our VoG runs…. I’m currently in the process of filing a class action lawsuit against Bungie.
Hahaha, I only put you guys in intermediate because I want sure of what you had done or not 😛
All good; technically we are intermediate given we’re still 32-33 and haven’t done Crota or Hardmode VoG or even cleared 32 PoE!
I actually have done VoG, but only once! So very keen to do it again.
Yeah me and Jo are VoG vets, as Jo’s said we never completed Hard Mode but used to do normal twice a week on our different toons. I might be interested in this but I’m not willing to put aside more than 2-3 hours on a weekend for it at this point? If you get a group together keep me in the loop for the timings you have in mind and I’ll see if I can commit =]
hehehe – advanced player but nowhere near pro-Raider.
Think I’m starting to get my head round Crota and have a role I’m comfy with. That is, die, wait for pro Raider to complete section, get revived… 😉 More seriously, I’ve done the lanterns and the Deathsinger and Crota legit on normal. Last night was fun because noone really knew what they were doing… 😀
Love to run Vault with n00bs though. It’ll be fun. Wednesday is great for me this week as the other half is Going To The Pub, but might be able to manage Thursday.
TheUrbanPanther ain’t here, but he’ll probably be up for it too.
I’ve done nothing! I’m light level 32 tho. Happy to come along for whatever. I’m shit at organising things/leading raids but I’m real good at following orders.
No guarantees I’ll be home by then on Thursday (it’s reporting season, yo’), but if I’m free and needed I’m happy to help. Obviously fill out the spots with others first, though, as I have pretty much all I really want from VoG.
Is there no new TAY today? I can’t find it and I’ve been looking all day.
Public Holiday. Allure offices are closed most likely