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PREVIOUSLY, ON TAY-BOURS (Post E3 Cooldown Edition)
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TAYbies have gathered around a ouija board to commune with the spirits of the dead.
All but one candle are extinguished by a sudden gust of wind. Suddenly, the marker begins to move across the board. It rests upon three letters. O. A. R.
Tigerion: Oar? It…it can’t mean…
Silently, Harli emerges from the shadows, brandishing the legendary Oar and a wicked smile.
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Bish runs screaming down a Sydney street. Pants follows behind him, arms outstretched.
Pants: Hug me! Huuuuug meeeee!
Bish: Never!
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At Sony’s E3 conference, Treyarch appear on stage to announce their newest game.
Treyarch guy: Now I know you’re all excited for Black Ops III, but we’ve decided to bring something else into the mix and we think you’re all going to love it.
Screens light up. Text: Call of Duty: Blagh Ops III. Gameplay footage of Blaghman clones acting as soldiers in an epic war.
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On a dark and stormy night, Shane is troubled by a knocking at his front door. Cautiously, he opens it, revealing a rain-spattered –
Shane: DC?! But you should be dead!
DC: So should you.
DC raises a gun and fires.
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Federal agents have corned Ynefel at the top of the world’s largest dam.
Policeman Transient: Put your hands up and surrender! There’s nowhere left to go!
Ynefel looks around him, and smiles.
Ynefel: Yes there is.
He jumps into the watery depths far below.
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TAYbies are amongst others gathered at a very formal and highly prestigious event.
Announcer: Please welcome, the new President of the free world, Lady Strange!
Strange walks to a podium as thunderous applause greets her. She gestures to the wall behind her, where a quilt-flag unfurls behind her. The applause continues, but nobody notices as her smile curls into something more menacing.
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Pants and Powalen stand before a group of TAYbies.
Powalen: Behold! Our new apartment!
Both point to a fort made entirely of beanbags, couch cushions and boxes of Shapes. Everyone applauds.
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Rize plays the theremin in a jazz ensemble.
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In a grand cathedral, TAYbies have gathered to celebrate the wedding of Freeze and an unnamed but beautiful woman. The ceremony, performed for some reason by TransientMind, is drawing to a close.
As Transient speaks, a soft banging is heard in the distance, growing louder over time.
???: Freeze! Freeeeze!
Freeze turns away. Nobs is banging on the glass from a room upstairs overlooking the ceremony.
Nobs: Freeze!
Freeze is bewildered and panicked. He looks back and forth between his beautiful bride-to-be and Nobs. Finally, he tosses his ring to the side and runs. Nobs meets him at the cathedral doors. They take each others’ hand and run out, catch a conveniently timed bus (when is transport ever that good?) and ride off into the sunset.
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AND NOW, THE THRILLING CONTINUATION
I laugh, but seriously, please don’t ever touch me again.
You count your blessings. Do you know what some people would do to be included in one of these? You don’t know how lucky you are! There are kids starving for attention and you would throw yours away so flippantly?
GO TO YOUR ROOM! :'(
Best one yet, i particularly enjoyed Blagh ops III, mostly because i am in fact payrolling someone to make that.
I need to know where you’re getting your intel from….
I like to think that @rize is the only member of the jazz ensemble and he’s playing every instrument.
I’m curious about Jazz Theremin too.
Isn’t that how you jazz?
*prepares jazz spoons*
Taaaaaaaaaaaaay.
But don’t you see? TAY was in your heart the whole time! :’)
It was TAY! It was TAY all along!
Oh my god, I was wrong!
It was Tay, all along!
You finally made a TAYbie!
Yes we finally made a TAYbie!
Taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
What’s happening?
I’m back at work after 4 days off sick.
It’s cold at 5am. It’s cold riding in the rain.
The Office is comfortably warm.
Good morning everybody, and happy Batman week.
Alas, I will not be playing it though. I’ve been planning to build a gaming PC for the last few years and never got around to it, I found out Ozgameshop had Steam keys for $29.99AUD, so I bought one, even though my laptop is unable to run the game, I thought I’d use it as motivation to get off my arse and finally start building a gaming rig.
Oh, and if anyone’s interested in picking Arkham Knight up for 30 bucks, Ozgameshop still have Steam keys.
http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-games/batman-arkham-knight-cd-key-download-for-steam-with-harley-quinn-pre-order-dlc
Also Yoshi’s Woolly World week! So much Woolly! So much world!
Also Tales from the Borderlands ep3, for those interested!
Tales of the borderlands? YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!
BROOOOOOOOOOO!
I thought this said boo at first, almost cyber slapped you!
Wish I knew about them keys before I spent all my pay. No Batman for me as I’m feeling bitter about the whole batmobile edition farce
I did post about it on here and Twitter on Saturday.
I had a lazy weekend of as little social media as possible 😀 blame the technological hermit in me
Who has 14 new albums to listen to but decides to listen to Sam Smith’s “I know your not the only one” 14 times on repeat.
MORNING TAY, So now im back in townsville i feel so much happier. Like a huge weight has been lifted. I also have lost like 3 kilos because im not stress eating which is good. Im also growing a beard and damn i look legit. After 50 hours of Ark evolved i decided for a break last week, so now im on a Kerbal Space binge.
HOW ARE YOU GUYS???
Wooo! Glad you’re feeling better, Rockets! And also I think we all need Rocket beard pics eventually!
Its not really a beard i just have pube face.
Logged into Ark on the weekend:
“oh good, most of the floor is destroyed and our dinos are gone”
*logs out*
😛
Probably died due to lack of food, Ill probably pick it up again in a few months when its closer to finish and there is some more content.
Picturespicturespicturespicturespicturespicturespicturespicturespicturespicturespicturespicturespicturespicturespicturespicturespicturespicturespicturespictures.
Well @rocketman…we’re waiting…
I too am getting beardy. I think at this point it could be a new PB. Would have to check up on that.
Oktoberfest Brisbane. It’s gonna be a thing. There’s talk that both @shiggyninty AND @bdkiaf are interested.
http://www.oktoberfestbrisbane.com.au/
Should really start thinking about lederhosen, hey.
Gonna see what the best date is for Shiggy before nailing down a specific weekend, but we’ll do that either way soonish so it’s easier for impulsive interstate visitors. 😀
I’ve got it marked down for both weekends until we lock in a specific date, that way I don’t accidentally book something in and miss out.
Got mine picked out.
http://img.escapade.co.uk/SALEHIRE/Large/38413.jpg?2
Holy shit, keen.
Just going to post these here so we don’t forget…
Und ich flieg, flieg, flieg wie ein Flieger
Bin so stark, stark, stark wie ein Tiger
Und so groß, groß, groß wie ‘ne Giraffe
So hoch oh, oh, oh
Und ich spring, spring, spring immer wieder
Und ich schwimm, schwimm, schwimm zu dir über
Und ich nehm, nehm, nehm dich bei der Hand,
Weil ich dich mag
Und ich sag
Heut ist so ein schöner Tag
La-la-la-la-la
Heut ist so ein schöner Tag
La-la-la-la-la
Heut ist so ein schöner Tag
I think I might need to study the dance this year too. For science.
I am also looking at things. For science.
Sounds awesome!!
Aaargh. I’d love to go but still trying to sure up money for PAX…
Oktoberfest is the New PAX, a Netflix Original Series.
The animals. The animals. They drink, drink, drink, ’cause the glass is full.
Bloody hell, I just made the mistake of adding up my steam sale splurging… $150!
The worst part being that I’m still tempted by Ryse, Wolfenstein & Tales From The Borderlands. I suppose this is what I get for resisting so well in the last few sales…
The only thing on sale I was keen on was Ori and the Blind Forest and I held off since there’s an onslaught of new games this week and I’ll probs get it eventually on the Xbone. So spent $0. *flails arms*
BATMAN
GODDAMN BATMAN!
Oh you don’t wanna know how much I spent.
I’m guessing you have a job to fund it though…
I spent around $100 which was about what I had allocated. Figured a budget of around $50 and as long as i didn’t double that I would be fine.
Pretty happy with that considering what I got was
Rollers of the RealmLili: Child of Geos
Assassin’s Creed 3 Standard Edition
Hand Of Fate
Life Is Strange Episode 1
Banished
The Fall
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars
Alien: Isolation
How to Survive
Invisible, Inc.
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
Valkyria Chronicles
Nidhogg
Child of Light
Tales from the Borderlands
Sir, You Are Being Hunted Steam
Should keep me busy until next sale.
I only spent ~ $45 AUD. Bought Ori, Shovel Kanigut and Offworld Trading Company, and I had some cash in my steam wallet which dropped it a little.
Wish I’d bought Sunset, now that I’ve seen stuff from the devs (I completely forgot it existed), but I’ll probably grab it once I’m paid, sale price or not.
What are the chances you can be tempted by this Rize?
*lifts dress to show ankle*
Well the graphics are quite realistic…
I spent… $0 \o/
Dammit, got sick on Friday arvo, had a sad-sack weekend, and now it’s back to work…
But then my pebble time arrived, and the happy little sun icon helped me turn my frown upside down.
Now to waste the next hour looking at all of the watch faces…
Some of those little Pebble faces are very clever and cute.
I’ve still got a month to wait for my Steel. 🙁
C’mon Arkham knight break street date you know you wanna…. you know you wanna… I’ve only got an exam thursday…. nothing important. C’mon damn it.
*game gets cancelled morning of release date*
My not overreaction at all to such news?
I’LL KILL YOU! I’LL KILL YOU ALL! EVERY BLEEDIN’ ONE OF YOU!!!!!!
Sounds like the kind of villainous overreaction that we’d need some kind of superhero to counter, perhaps one dressed remotely like some kind of flying rodent
Squirrelman???
Does whatever a squirrel can
buries his nuts
in a park
raids your bins
after dark
look out!
Here comes squirrelman!
Oh dude… ROUND OF APPLAUSE! lol.
http://33.media.tumblr.com/d464e419413d975e23c86122839d4a49/tumblr_njgaant4b71sxexx4o3_500.gif
Mine’s in the mail!
Killed it at Karaoke this weekend. I sang Wrecking Ball. What a mess.
ALSO they have Escape the Room dealies at Strike Bowling in Wintergarden! Super stoked to do one of these soon.
You’ll need to come to the next Karaoke themed Brisbane meat! So much unseemly drunkenness! 😛
A karaoke meat without @dkzeitgeist’s rendition of Under The Sea just seems hollow and meaningless.
It’s only true karaoke if I let the crab out.
Dude, we get it. You have crabs.
See a doctor.
Pencil it in for Oktoberfest.
Fact: I’ve never been to karaoke without making a complete dick of myself.
Escape the room things are rad.
Keep track of everything you find. look in even the most obscure places. not everything is relevant.
I wouldn’t mind doing one again…
have fun!
Thanks for the tip! 😀
I have a new song i want to sing at karaoke its Low by flo Rida, i believe i have just enough street cred to pull it off.
I hope the Karaoke place we go to has added some killer tracks from Taylor Swift’s 1989! *manly fringe flick*
THIS ONE DID NOT! I was mega-disappointed by this, and so I had to sing We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together instead, which is GOOD, but is no Blank Space/Shake It Off.
I hope you torched that Karaoke bar to the ground and salted the Earth! 😛
A winning proposition for all karaoke bars in general.
*folds-arms* *firm nod*
Hola Tay
I had a busy weekend. Went to Christmas in June at a friend’s house on Saturday, made mulled wine and some lime curd tartlets. Good fun, stuffed myself full of turkey and ham. Yesterday I went to my grandfather’s 86th birthday. Also played some more Witcher and more Infamous Second Son.
A Monday Morning Question: This week, BATMAN! Which other comic character needs a game as good as the Arkham series?
Howard the Duck 😛
Edit: But seriously, a detective game with attitude like that in the new Howard the Duck where you snoop around for clues and team up with/fight other Marvel Superheros? Yes pls.
Sixpack.
Official description from DC
Not many other comic characters would work in the Arkham style. Daredevil would probably be pretty good though.
Superman needs a game that can outdo Superman 64.
Whether that means “actually be a good game” or “set a new record for terribleness”, I’ll leave open to interpretation.
Watched a lot of Vikings on the weekend, now part way into season 2.
Thanks to auto play next episode I didn’t initially realise that I was already into season 2, but there’s definitely a big transition in the man candy department from season 1 to 2 – if season 1 was a 7/10, then season 2 has cranked it to about a 12/10. Now I see what people were talking about. Not just man candy though, the second season has added more interesting characters and decent character/story progression, so I’m looking forward to finishing this season more than the last.
But did I mention Man Candy? If it’s at all your thing, it’s worth pushing through to season 2. I feel like I’m not able to feel the level of appreciation that it should deserve so I must spread the word to make up for that.
Vikings’ Man Candy is not just Man Candy, it’s MAN! Candy. 😀
It took about 4 episodes of season 2 for it to gradually filter through my brain that the MAN CANDY things were happening and I hadn’t noticed.
I think
annoying kid replacement joining the battlewas really the final exclamation point on MAN CANDY that hammered it through my thick skull.http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2015/06/become-more-charismatic-in-conversation-with-the-two-second-rule/
This seems like the worst advice ever unless you wanted to make yourself seem a tad short bus.
It’d look like you were scanning reply options in a dialogue tree
I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong, all I doing is interrupting him and saying “I’ve had enough of your disingenuous assertions”
*right hook*
*Renagade prompt*
See if someone paused after I spoke I’d panic that they hated me. Haha!
(Though I do think I have a habit of interrupting people when I get too excitable. :S)
Also I feel like sometimes good conversation relies on interruptions, impromtu jokes and chemistry between the people. LifeHacker always makes me feel like they just view the world like they’re in some giant business meeting always. 😛
A good 2/3rds of my conversations with school friends is basically just “Ohmygoddidyouseethisthing-yesIdiditlookssocool-there’sabitwherexyzhappensermagerd-heyFriendlet’stalkabouthowmychwebothloveJourneyandTransistor-JourneyandTransistor!-MusicalTheatre-MusicalTheatre-MusicalTheatre-Yaaaay.”
We basically just gush for a good few minutes. It’s great.
*@freezespreston standing in front of a projector screen*
Freeze: “So as you can see by this pie chart, my joke is indeed good”
Funny actually, one of my ‘worst’ conversational habits is finishing sentences if someone leaves a partial one hanging for too long – that’s because I generally have to preempt a lot of what is being said just to keep up with a standard conversation pace, so my brain is already in that unfilled space with the rest of the sentence.
Definitive proof you’re paying attention. I wouldn’t mind that. 🙂
If I do it too much, it starts to feel a bit disingenuous. Also a bit like I’m putting too much effort into that and not enough into the actual conversation.
Keep it up, though. 🙂
Excitable DC is good DC.
You want to make friends, talk about microwave antics, cuz lifehacker has you covered!
Uh, microwave? What’s that? don’t you mean breadbox?
Ohhhh… So people think that I have a less terrible personality because it generally takes me about 2 seconds just to figure out what was said from the jumble of partial noises that I get to hear.
SO MUCH CHARISMA!
The speech part of my brain is slow to warm up, so if someone speaks to me when I’m not ready I’ll typically fit in “What? Sorry.” before I’ve realised what they’ve said and hurriedly respond to it to cover up my previous statement.
…
Or I default to politely laughing.
Hahahaha!
Yes.
I work with a person who does that.
Not trying to be mean, but: I’m fairly confident he’s slowing down mentally.
There are a lot of people with undiagnosed hearing loss, it may not be mental.
True. Either way, he’s retiring soon which will means he has an excuse for both answers 😛
I think it depends on what is said afterwards. I you are describing you boss and work situation and then at the end of that they wait 2 seconds and say
you might think thatHowever if they wait 2 seconds and then say the 2 second pause would work
I think the bones in my legs have dissolved. I had to drag myself out of bed by my teeth.
Ole jelly legs
I’m a squid now
I’m a kid now!
Is this how Splatoon came to be?
Pants makes me weak at the knees too.
Had a pretty good weekend. Did Laser Tag on Friday night. Saturday and Sunday were basically just watching movies and sport, apart from church on Sunday.
The movies I watched were: Sneakers, Van Wilder: Party Liaison, Van Wilder 2: Rise of Taj, The Simpsons Movie, Zoom: Academy for Super Heroes, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Contagion, I Am Legend, Hercules, The Legend of Hercules and The Shining.
Some good movies in that bunch, also some terrible ones. Despite the bad stuff I’d heard about Age of Extinction, I enjoyed it more than Revenge of the Fallen or Dark of the Moon.
Contagion, Sneakers and The Shining were my 3 picks of the bunch. The Shining still creeps me out even though I’ve seen it a few times now. Contagion made me want to disinfect every surface in my house.
All in all, pretty good stuff.
Contagion is fucking great
Yep. Scariest movie I watched all weekend because it’s entirely plausible.
I didn’t touch a public surface for like 3 days after watching that.
ALSO
Gwyneth Paltrow eats it. HA.goop.
That’s what she turned into! 😀
Whoa it’s early.
Played a whole bunch of Splatoon on the weekend, checking out the new depot level. Didn’t play a whooooole lot in Regular, but it seemed pretty good in that. It’s really interesting for Ranked though, with the whole laterally-asymmetrical design. Leaves the splat zone open to being accessed from both the back and the side, and if your team’s not paying too much attention the enemy can sneak around and get you from the rear too. Managed to work my way up to rank A-, and broke a million coins in the bank. The stupid stores don’t give me anything new to buy each day, the last few it’s been just a single crappy shirt. Worst 😛
Upcoming Star Fox has me wanting to run through the series again, especially since I can hardly remember Assault. Got the SNES out last night and started playing through Starwing again. God damn this game is hard as balls. It was a struggle to get through route 2, and I’m still yet to ever beat route 3. Just had one go of that before bed, and managed to get to Macbeth for what I think is only the second time ever (usually get stuck at Sector Z), but couldn’t get past the huge battlecruiser boss thing at the end, unable to hit the one last little port on top of it each time. Also I forgot how bad the SNES controller is, so damn uncomfortable.
Being away for work the week of E3 means I had to survive on tiny scraps of news and Twitter to find out what was announced/happened. The fact that this was happening while the Steam sale was on and I had no Internet and shitty mobile reception where I was staying made it more difficult.
Still managed to spend like $80 on games, though.
Also, Splatoon seems pretty great but haven’t had a chance to play online yet. We should organise a thing some time, if it hasn’t been done already.
I think we’re waiting until after the first update in August before any Splatoon nights are planned. There are no friend lobbies at the moment so it’s a bit hard to get lots of people in the same game!
Fair enough. I guess I’ll go a different path to Mario Kart and actually play it before jumping in with friends so I can keep up 😛
Alright, fine, I’ll get Splatoon. FUCK.
E3 in a nutshell:
-every game has a playable beta
-every game has a powered armour suit
-every game that could not exist has vampirically sapped the life of BGE2 to fuel their own resurrection
Man, fuck FTL! That game is so addictive that I can’t just play for 5 minutes before bed. It turns into 2 hours.
Anyways, for this weeks episode of D&D the DM was sick, so the annoying bard player (who likes to think he’s the DM) decided to play in his place just for simple, gold gathering missions. He brought a new player who hasn’t played D&D before and gave the paladin a vision as an excuse to bring him in (he needs an advisor). So we travel to a village that was surrounded in death (which for no reason nobody in the world was curious about) and find out that the entire town was covered in zombies. The only santuary was a Palour temple that was untouched.
Apparently this was a very important temple for Palour and for no reason had no guards or priests. We go inside and find a priest at the end of his rope as he’s been holed up here for a month. Suddenly, there’s a burst of bright light as the new player is summoned to this world and wipes out the entire town.
We head back and the DM gives us a simple combat encounter for the new player to get acclimated to the game. Problem is how he set it up. A creature with a speed of 10 and no intelligence, somehow managed to not only sneak up on me but also jump from the shrubbery and rush me down before I could act. Pinning me down and taking out half my health (Another player and I think this player likes to pick on me). That encounter lasts a round but we’re still annoyed how it happened. We would have been happy with zombies or gnolls.
Then we find an abandoned house. Sleeping the night I discover on my watch that it’s haunted and wake up the party. This encounter goes for like 3 hours because the DM forced us to take turns (even outside combat) and wasn’t very clear on what was happening. He also read the rules wrong and was making ghosts walk through our bodies to automatically hit for d10 damage.
During this fight the paladin should have died, but the DM likes his character (because he attacks everything with bloodlust) and thought up excuses to keep him alive. The paladin player told me that if my character was the one to go down then he wouldn’t have held back and just flat out kill me.
Also, twice in the same night the chaos mage summoned a Unicorn that he’s accidently summoned multiple times in the past. The Unicorn is not happy with him.
PILLARS!!!!
Finally managed to play it. I just lost an hour of my life and want to go straight back and lose a month.
Got through what I guess was the intro? Explored that cave after my caravan was attacked, got through and got my companion killed by a flash of light, and now I’m all alone. *sniffle* I was just starting to like the guy, too!ALL BY MYSEEEEELFDON’T WANNA BE
ALL BY MYSEEEEELF
What class/race are you playing?
I’m a catlady druid thingy. Don’t know the exact terms because it’s my character I created on launch day which was forever ago in old lady memory terms.
After I get a feel for the game, I’ll most likely go back and create a “proper” character to start again with.
So its worth it then?
Yes, and I’ve not finished it. Really, really good.
if you’re into the old Baldur’s Gate sorta thing, then hell yes.
Not really a spoiler, but a bit of slightly obvious advice…
unless you’re trying a solo run, grab as man companions as possible as soon as you can.
after the tutorial / first village, it gets quite a bit harder.
Vague not really spoiler-y companion talk.
you’ll be able to get 4 companions relatively easily & quickly. round out your team by hiring people from the tavern.I wanted to like it but I really, really dislike some of the mechanics they’ve added. Fatigue for example doesn’t seem to serve any purpose except deliberately adding downtime.
I’m experiencing this with a well-modded install of New Vegas.
I honest-to-god spent ALL OF SATURDAY installing, configuring, troubleshooting, and watching videos about New Vegas mods.
The entire day.
Good morning all
I played the Battlestar Gallactica Boardgame on friday night, Humans won, which is good, but also bad because they didn’t lose enough food for me to win as the Cylon Leader.
What else happened? oh yeah lots of calls on call. Played You don’t know Jack on the PS4 with some friends. was fun.
Got more tea, TEAAAAAAAAAA! also discovered theres a Chai night at T2 Newtown this wednesday. (people should go, seriously looks good)
and many shenanigans in my fallout Shelter.
How was everyone elses weekend?
Heater dies on Saturday so had an impromptu research and shopping trip after work
Sunday was nice, had a surprise visit form mum and Dad to see Tiglet so went down to the park for a bit.
Otherwise fairly quiet
Edit: Oh and we haev been playing a bit of hand of fate, really liking that game
BSG boardgame is fun. First expansion was the best, IMO.
I’m not a big fan of chai, Earl Grey is my bag.
Only bought 2 things on the steam sale, still added up to $90.
Elite is pretty fun tho. Apparently I started off working for the space Mafia; trafficking slaves, weapons, illegal artifacts and now they want me to “find” some stuff from nearby trade convoys. I am a horrible person but damn the pay is good.
Which brings me to my next question @mrtaco @os42 others: is there an easy way to find a target you need to attack when you are just given a system to look in? Other than fly around aimlessly poking all the ships.that you see?
@pixel_the_ferret_viking has it too.
I was tempted by the sale but I don’t need a game that may literally consume my life just yet.
From memory, your best bet is to just jump to all of the… Unidentified signals? Maybe.
Some signal type.
Unless they’ve changed it since I last played…
Damn, I really need to start playing again. Alas, this poor trader can’t really help with bounty hunting, tho. Realised very early on I was too new to the joystick to be able to actually fight anyone. But damn, you need someone to run away? I’m your man. :3
I am ok at the combat now. Sometimes.
Not keen to take on multiple dudes at once tho.
Probably gonna focus on.the smuggling for now, easier and faster.
Hmm, it depends. If you’re hunting for a named individual, then you’ll either see them flying around in supercruise (as of 1.3) and need to interdict them (not sure if they drop out at all and you can just drop in on their low wake signal), or you need to dive into Unidentified Signal Sources and see if they pop up there.
If you’re doing something like kill two traders/pirates/smugglers/bounty hunters then it’d a different kettle of fish. Each NPC you see has a particular archetype, though it’s not displayed anywhere. You just have to kind of figure it out. Well, Authority vessels are pretty obvious. Warzone too (though I’m not sure how it works if you can’t find a Conflict Zone in a system, and whether you can just kill the NPCs at Checkpoints for that. Always been allied with them so never tried). Traders and Smugglers are generally cargo carrying ships like a Hauler or T6 (not sure if sometimes an Adder or Cobra maybe). Pirates and Bounty Hunters might be a Sidey, Eagle, Cobra, possibly Adder, not sure about others. Pirates and Smugglers should come up as Wanted (if you’re in an anarchy system you’ll need a Kill Warrant Scanner to check for bounties), while Traders and Bounty Hunters won’t. Hunters will also out themselves by shooting at other Wanted ships. Generally with any of these, after you kill a guy you can check the mission in your Transactions tab and see if you’ve added one to the tally or not to see if you’re shooting down the right type of guy.
Flying named targets do definitely drop out of frame shift every so often, not uncommon to have to tail them for ages before it happens though.
It’s weird how they’ve done those, you get a mostly harmless target who’s in a python with beam laser turrets & has a pair of expert or better escort fighters. Completely misleading about the difficulty, I’m certainly looking forward to getting the coin together for a Fer De Lance and mounting a huge weapon for massive damage. It might finally make those targets practical…
Ahhh how i loathe filling out applications for big chain stores, because its basically rewriting my resume but in a worse format.
Morning friends, got a quick question for you all. Is anyone else really wanting to go full digital for their games, but put off by the fact that a digital game is more expensive than a physical copy and the prices never actually go down once the game comes out?
I’m used to Steam where it’s usually cheaper, and prices tend to go down.
Looking at PSN prices, HAHAHAHAHAHA.
They really want you to buy games in a store.
I no longer have a DVD/Blu-ray drive on my computer
I still watch movies on my PC from Blu-Ray. I think I’ve bought two games on disc in the last year (and one of them was because it was a special edition).
I should’ve said it was mostly a console focused question. I guess that’s the price to pay of only having a single sale point for digital console games, they can just keep the prices where they are.
Yeah pretty much. Hdd space is also an issue but on the whole I’d prefer to go digital but for the locked prices.
I was running out of hdd space on my xbox, then decided to just grab a 3tb external drive and hook that up to it. Now I just need to justify the extra cash for the digital copies. I guess the drawcard would be I don’t have to worry about the media getting damaged as it would always just be there to redownload
Going all digital is something I never thought I’d do, but here I am doing it. On PC you can get new release games pretty cheap if you shop around. Places like Green Man Gaming are pretty good. Also, as mentioned further up the page I got a Steam key for Arkham Knight for 30 bucks as well as one for Mortal Kombat X for $19, both from Ozgameshop, the cheapest you’d be able to get both those games on console is probably about $140-$150 brand new, that’s like triple the price.
So yeah, it makes total sense to go all digital if you’re a PC gamer, but if you’re a console gamer with no desire to switch to PC then it’s really not worth it.
Digital on PC for quite some time now, must be approaching 10 years. Even when I buy a collectors edition you can still register it to your steam account and play digitally. Brilliant.
On PS4 I’m now buying more and more digitally. That way I only have to buy 1 copy but both me and the missus can play at the same time on separate PS4s. I wasn’t so sure if it’d work for ESO but it did. Effectively cuts the price of buying 2 copies in half, albeit it at slightly pricier prices. The PS Store sales have gotten better though in the last year or two. They’re finally taking notice of what Steam do, even if prices are still higher. Again though, the only thing I’ll buy on disc now are collectors editions. Making it pricey for Fallout 4 when we both want a Pip Boy Edition, but hey, what’re you gonna do 😀 the big difference thoguh as mentioned is that on PS4 you can’t just register your disc and play digitally after that. Console gaming really needs that
huh, I didn’t know ps4 would allow you to both play the same game at the same time. Would it allow you both to play together on the same server?
Sure does. I have my account on both PS4s but I’ve put HER PS4 as my primary PS4 (it’s also her primary PS4 as well) so any games I buy on my account off the PS Store can be played on any account on that PS4 but I can also download and play them on my account on my PS4 which is my secondary PS4. You don’t need to be signed in on your primary for other people to play the games. If she bought something on her account I don’t think I’d be able to play though as her account on my PS4 is linked as a secondary system as well
The price of digital games and the lack of ability to shop around is one factor. But there’s plenty of others. Having to wait for downloads, relying on an outside service, having to have some other client installed to deal with the things (in PC terms anyway), having to have yet another account and password to keep track of, an inherent distrust of anything that relies on outside services to function. They all turn me off from the idea.
Main one though is that I’m a collector. I like searching out for the things that I find interesting and adding it to the collection. Things that don’t have a physical form, they just… don’t seem to have any sense of value to me. I got a few VC/Wiiware things a while back and just forgot they even existed, don’t think I ever got around to playing them. If it’s on the shelf then I can look over and have a reminder I guess.
Is any one keeping tabs?
What ar the next few big releases after batmon?
There’s so much this year.
That is a lame pageget
This year?
Not much for me besides Fallout and Metal Gear. Next year looks much better.
Yeah, I was just having a look & I’m the same except for a vita game next month.
Also, my fingers are crossed in the hopes we actually see Persona 5 this year & ATLUS don’t region lock it.
Mario Maker, Xenoblade and Fatal Frame for me!
Plus I’ll get a go of Tomb Raider as well most likely. And some other stuff I haven’t got around to yet; Witcher 3, Dragonball Xenoverse, etc
EDIT: I’m also glad that there’s no new Pokemon game this year. Hopefully that means they’re taking the time to polish everything a bit more.
Been a dry spell on 3DS.
I was having trouble keeping up for a while.
When is fatal frame set to be released? (I hate that it has 3 names and that makes it confusing)
All they’ve said is “2015” I think.
Metal Gear Solid V and Mad Max in September, Fallout 4 in November and Just Cause 3 in December for starters.
Ahhh, mad max. Still on the fence & completely forgot after Fallout was announced.
Will look into it.
So goddamn hype for fallout as they appear to have added everything that I wished was in fallout 3 when I was playing that.
Yep, not even gonna wait for the GotY edition this time
August – Rare Replay if you have Xbox One. Will be a must for me.
That’s an awesome game, but I chose PS4
If I had mod tools that I could use on The Witcher 3, I would:
– Remove the goddamn weight limits
– Add some kind of storage system to the game so I don’t have to carry five swords around
– Make all the vendors have unlimited cash so I can sell my shit to them when I need to
There’s a merchant near the King of Beggars in Novigrad that sells Zerrikanian Saddlebags which solved all my carry problems.
That’s the one.
Buy the saddle that gives +100 storage.
I would still be over-encumbered with a +100. I can’t for the life of me ever not loot a chest/corpse and I think I was sitting on something like 300/150 or something ridiculous.
I found everytime I became overburdened was due to having a whole pile of bear and horse hides buried in the inventory. The hides weigh a ton.
A good rule to go by is never keep more than 10 of any crafting material (except for the rarer stuff like dragon scales and dimetrium ingots). With that philosophy you’ll never really go short either because a lot of the more advanced materials can be broken down into the more common ones if you have a shortage of say leather or silver ore.
Money has become completely pointless. I think I’m sitting on something crazy like 10k crowns and just don’t spend any of it. Probably because the only thing I spend money on is gwent cards from barkeepers and pretty much nothing else.
Yeah, I read an article where they were congratulating someone on how you’re always poor in game, and if I drank coffee I would have spat it out. I had one point early on where I bet my last few whatevers one a game of Gwent, but it was smooth cash sailing for 90% of the game.
Playing on higher/hardest difficulties tends to burn money buying things to replace potions/oils/bombs. You still find plenty of free alcohol but if you have one really shitty run it can burn away fast 😛
Having said that, I still have a decent amount of money, but I AM stingy.
I was playing on the second highest, and had like 35 alcohest alone by the end of the game. My solution was to never use any items, or if I did, use them all at the same time.
You should throw potions around all the time, because why not?
The best part is, even though they’re made from alcohol no one will accuse you of a drinking problem!
Wait, just checked. I’m sitting at 30k crowns.
Why five swords? According to every Witcher 3 NPC ever, two swords is apparently crazy so you must be batshit.
Two for your hands, two for your feet and one for your teeth. Puts Roronoa Zoro to shame, he only uses three 😛
Bear, Griffin and Cat swords in silver & steel.
I did eventually install a mod that added a 9999 weight limit. It improved the quality of my experience immeasurably. Saved me from running back and forth everywhere, keeping track of which merchants bought what and had cash to do so.
Travelling back to a town every time you run into a bandit camp to haul all their clubs and swords to your ‘stash’ really fucked with immersion for me.
THERE IS AN ACTUAL MOD!?
@negativezero
http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/3/? – Weight limit mod.
http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/6/? – Merchants have more gold.
Literally two of the first mods that ever came out. 😉 We are not alone in being shitted by these things.
I didn’t use the merchant-gold one because it seemed like more effort than it was worth. But weight… fuckyes.
Yeah, I grabbed the weight limit one. Don’t really care about money though, just sick of being over-encumbered.
Gah.
Stupid winter. 🙁
Ah! I found Jersey Boys on Netflix. Today’s movie is sorted then.
It seems to have been on there for a while but jeez Netflix’s system is horrid to browse and find anything unless you know exactly what you want.
I think Netflix actually emailed me about that one.
CHERY CHERRY BABY. I do a pretty amazing Frankie Valley.
http://au.allflicks.net/ is good to look up the latest additions to the library.
As you said, it’s really not optimised for any format to easily find what you’re looking for. Why’s My List right at the bottom of the page below all these lists based on when I viewed half an episode of a random show and didn’t like it?
Most annoying thing… finish a show in it’s entirety Netflix keeps it in the ‘Continue Watching’
I’ve “finished” Daredevil, Orphan Black, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and half a dozen movies but apparently I need to continue watching from the start again.
I know what I need to buy, Axiom Verge & Shovel Knight!
Shovel Knight is great! Haven’t played Axiom Verge
Yeah, lots of varied trusted sources kept telling me & I kept forgetting #smrt
Axiom is so good, I played it on both PS4 and PC – amazing!
Havent played shovel knight though…
I was holding out for the vita port, but havnt heard anything & it’s crossbuy anyway.
I’ve started to replay Shenmue after all the excitement of the announcement. It’s been soooo long since I’ve last played it, the graphics were actually pretty good for it’s time.
I thought they were impressive from a technical perspective but a bit action figurey from an art perspective.
Such a great game 😀
Yeah I agree, the models and textures were way better than the other games that released in it’s timeframe.
I wished I didn’t get rid of my Dreamcast, stuck playing on an emulator 🙁
Ha! My DC is still kicking along, probably rather an emulator.
It’s all coming back to me now.
I haven’t grabbed Witcher 3 or the Dragon Age dlc.
All up I need to get:
Witcher 3
Fallout 4
Metal Gear Solid V
Axiom Verge
Shovel Knight
INQUISITION dlc
Lost Dimension
& maybe Resident Evil Revelations if the vita version comes. Sounds post for a home console game.
Some pretty light content there. You might want to grab something a bit more substantial, say Angry Birds: Star Wars to keep you going once you get through the initial stuff.
Or Fallout Shelter? /o\
Trails in the Sky / of Cold Steel? 🙁
Oh what? That’s soon?
I thought they just announced localisation. Was thinking next year.
When, when when??? 😀
They said that with Cold Steel they’ve learned their lesson about announcing Trails games early. Also made reference to what they referred to as the ‘Curse of Kiseki’ (amusing when you write it as an acronym, because TitS has the CoK). Basically they announced both Trails in the Sky localizations way too early and there were a ton of issues that came up and they’re taking forever.
So with Sen no Kiseki, they actually apparently had Falcom come to them a while ago and ask them to localize it, and they translated it on the side. It’s about half the amount of text as TitS SC and that probably helped things along. But they kept it under wraps until it was completely translated, then announced it.
When they announced it, it was just after they finished the editing pass. It’s already 100% translated. They’re going into the studio to record about 10,000 lines of dialogue for the dub some time in the next few weeks. Sadly, it’s dub-only – Falcom were idiots and the licensing on the Japanese dialogue apparently precludes them licensing it for the English release. Which really sucks because the JP cast is fantastic. 🙁
But yeah, anyway, XSEED tend not to announce concrete dates until fairly close. Estimated date is November. They’ve also said that Trails in the Sky SC will be out before it.
Gonna start with the shiny 3D one, if I like it, work my way backwards.
Are we getting a cart or digital only?
Cold Steel? Physical & Digital, PS3 and Vita both.
Yes! Play Asia is getting some cash!
I’ve ordered both platforms through Amazon. Hoping for a LE. Ideally something with the soundtrack.
Got to see the last Kenshin movie yesterday – holy crap. Such… mixed feelings.
We see maybe half of the jupppongatana fight, and backstory for those few only – hell, Usui gets one 30-second scene in which he is one-shot by Saito. The second half of Kenshin’s scar is never explained, no mention of Tomoe (she is seen grieving, but only from a distance and never named). How Shishio’s sword produces its flame is never questioned, let alone explained.That said, they absolutely nailed the aesthetic without anything looking too unrealistic (Sano’s sword notwithstanding :P), and the action sequences were freaking amazing. I kinda go on about the stuff they missed, but it’s still an amazing trilogy.
Only got a few hours of Witcher in on Saturday. Still wandering around Velen, doing random contracts.
Fought a Royal Wyvern on a mountaintop while looking for some cat boots, which was pretty cool.Played way too much Destiny, too. Tried a 35 Prison on Friday night… ugh. Got to Skolas pretty quickly – turns out Fatebringer/Found Verdict/Gjallarhorn is a good combo 😛 Then was up until nearly 3am trying to beat Skolas, but no dice. Think we’ve got a good strategy down, but executing it can be hit and miss. Saturday I ran a 28 and a 32 prison and finally got my Queenbreaker’s Bow. Man, that thing is sweet – such impact. Still need practice with it to account for the charge time, but it’s so much fun! Hopefully my Titan will hear back from Varicks tonight, to start working towards the Lord of Wolves…
Re: Kenshin, the big thing is they had only 2 movies to cover all that material.
I thought they did an amazing job, personally. The thing is, the bulk of the Juppongatana are in the manga to draw it out, so that the whole crew get a chance to fight things. They kept the relevant ones that you have to have to keep the plot together.The flaming sword wasn’t ever explained, you’re right. Given the more realistic swordplay they’d gone for with most of the silly special attacks removed, I was surprised they kept that element.
Kenshin’s backstory with Tomoe wasn’t expanded upon because it’s not part of the Kyoto arc. The arc is about him coming to grips with his role in the revolution, not in what happened to her. That’s what the Jinchuu arc was about. His backstory is filled in as part of that (Manga vol 19-21 covers it). It would have been massively disappointing if they’d tried to shoehorn that into the Kyoto arc as it’s not relevant. I’m really hoping they’ll do another pair of Kenshin movies and do Jinchuu. It’s the best arc of the manga and aside from Tsuioku-hen it never got its proper due in anime.
Oh, I know – as I said, it’s a great trilogy. But the better something is, the more obvious the flaws, I guess. Or, “missed opportunities” would be a better term, perhaps.
I agree on the Juppongatana, I guess – the ones they kept were the more fleshed out/interesting members. And the characterisation of those they did include was brilliant overall, really. Cho was suitably insane, and Sojiro… omg, Sojiro was absolutely perfect.The thing about the flaming sword is that it was actually made less realistic in the movie. In the manga, iirc, didn’t Shishio quickly sheathe his sword every so often, which lead to Kenshin’s explanation of how it worked? He has to re-sheathe it every so often to re-coat it, and the saw-tooth blade serves to generate a spark against the scabbard to ignite it. Given how ruthless they were with getting rid of any overly extravagant and unrealistic skills, it seems odd that they’d leave this one in, not to mention remove the scabbard from the equation entirely – in the movie, Shishio never re-sheathes his sword, and seems to ignite it at will without need for the scabbard.I felt that if they’re gonna finish the movies with the Kyoto arc, and not do a follow-up, they kinda needed to complete Kenshin’s backstory. It’s kinda less relevant to Kenshin’s gradual path to self-acceptance, which seems to be the focus of this trilogy, but I’d not say it’s completely irrelevant – it’s the very foundation of Kenshin’s oath against killing – something this trilogy seemed to place on Kiyosato Akira’s assassination alone. I really hope they do a follow up (or two!) to finish it… without that backstory, it just seems incomplete in my mind.@evilmonkey Thanks for the Steam Gift you lovely man!
Dinosaurs! It’s going to be wonderful.
Sadly I’m going to be focusing on a man dressed in a costume this week. But I’ll play it soon. 🙂
Monkey bought me something, too. He is a true prince.
He is THE MONKEY KING!
So it is written, so shall it be.
In the last 2 days I have blitzed through all 3 episodes of Life is Strange. And holy hell this game is brilliant. Sure it doesn’t look the best, but I’m super intrigued by the story and what the hell is going on. Also that Ep 3 ending
What the actual fuck?!?!? How can they do that to me?One of us. One of us. So glad you loved it. New episode next month! 😀
Not soon enough
This is why I’ll probably get the whole thing when it’s finished. In 2016.
It’ll be September, you exaggerating monster! 😛
Heh. I worded that badly. I’ll be buying it in 2016. But y’know, snark about episodic content works for me!
Well, the episode was called “The Butterfly Effect”, so I spent the whole episode waiting for a big change. Just wasn’t expecting that much of a change, even if it’ll all be written out soon enough.And I’ve grown to like how the game looks, even if it did revert my graphics settings to low when it updated with ep. 3. Certainly, it looks a whole lot better than Telltale’s games.
That said, its DoF pass seems to miss pointy things, so I think it’s under-sampling or something.
Yeah, I really dig the art direction too. All washed out and stylized and stuff.
But what of Blaghman’s Belligerent Bokeh scale?
Umm, 7/10. It features the effect at times, I think (I’m actually not sure from memory, which means its score could be 2/10). Certain elements (By which I mean dust particles, and nothing else) constantly render as though hit by the effect, so they look out of place when in the focused area.
what
i thought the options were yes/10 or no/10
That is also correct.
I spent a good chunk of the weekend playing KSP, ended up dedicating a good five or six hours to rescuing a ship stranded in near-Kerbin Orbit (About 110 klicks out at its nearest point).
Now that I know how to intercept satellites I’m contemplating trying something really over the top, like constructing a ship in orbit, sending it to the Mars equivalent, then having different parts split off, collect data, return to the main ship, which will then fly back to Kerbin.
The main problem here is that there isn’t a single stage of this that I think will work. Should be fun.
Sooooo, standard Kerbin fare then.
Well, I’m often quietly confident that what I’ve done will work (which of course leads to it failing spectacularly), so this is more an endeavour in hopeless enthusiasm.
If I can get anything to work (I’ve barely landed on Mun, and my attempts at Kerbin polar exploration have had me laughing uproariously when they succeed) I’m surprised. I expect everything to blow up (sorry, rapid unplanned disassembly) so when that does happen I meet expectations all the time!
I strap rockets to things and then make it stable by using metal bars. I have found its a effective strategy .
Each time they’d do a new version I restart and try to teach myself basic principles and learn a little bit more. I’m yet to properly jump in to 1.0 now that heat is a thing. I suspect it will be very slow going for me.
Oh god, heat just brutalises me. Last night one of my ships decided to ignore me, and ended up backwards during re-entry, so its heat shield did nothing. Luckily, the parts of it that blew up were unimportant!
Parts that are important: Kerbals.
Parts that are not important: Everything else.
@beeawwb
Yeah, but when your parachute burns up, leading to the death of your Kerbal, I’d consider it an important part.
Right, but then it’s only important insomuch as it protects the Kerbals. If you could figure out some parachuteless landing system, or even some way of the Kerbal bailing out at 2M off the ground as everything is blowing up around them, then it’s not the parachute that’s important. 😛
@beeawwb
You can sort of do that on Minmus. Its gravity is super low, so you can use the RCS on the Kerbal’s suits to descend. I kind of want to see if you can get into its orbit just using them.
Ages back I managed a landing on… Venus, I think. Took so long, and I didn’t have the fuel to get back to Kerbin. I was heartbroken.
Mostly though I strap rockets to things and cry as everything explodes. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0nFW2dAuLRI
I like how around 30 sec you manage to kinda launch the cockpit
Holy shit.
Holy shit.
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 1 took place on June 22nd, 2015. Which is today.
We’re in the future!
It’s an angel!
D:
Oh hey, I didn’t realise The Prodigy had released a new album. It’s pretty good too, which is nice after Invaders Must Die was pretty disappointing.
Also, next year will be 20 years since Fat of the Land was released making me feel depressingly old. I remember buying that album in high school.
I didn’t mind invaders, but yeah.
What’s the new one called?
The Day is My Enemy
Page 2 is “oh my god I’m so old” page?
Come on, Freeze. Breathe with me. You can get through this. You’re not getting depressingly old. Inhale, inhale. You’re the victim.
You’ve got the poison, I’ve got the remedy
My mum Did Not Approve of that album.
I still love it to bits.
Anyone e know what ozgameshop shipping is like now?
Target & big w usually do day one sales for around $80 for PS4 games, yeah?
After Batman? jb had it for $79
Nope, planning for Fallout 4 & MGS V.
Didn’t enjoy City only asylum.
Last time I got something physical from them it set me back about $3 for shipping. They have a warehouse in Melbourne they ship from.
Cool, thanks. I remember it being cheap but it’s harder to compare prices now.
Play Asia was free over $25 for ages then 50c & now something like $10.
What’s Amazon like for shipping?
I should really start a legit account instead of the faux billing address for US PSN bux
Amazon shipping is reasonable for games, if they’re willing to ship them to you. Generally similar overall to buying from Play-Asia I think. OGS is cheaper. Only time I buy from Play-Asia is if I need Japanese stuff.
Once I’m over in the US I’ll likely get everything from Amazon because Amazon Prime.
I used to buy everything from ozgameshop because it was amazingly cheaper than everywhere else. Then the gap got smaller & then they started to charge for shipping.
It was kinda on for a while because the points system would help out. but now I buy so little that the points disappear before I’ve had a chance to accumulate even the smallest voucher.
It’s usually better to wait & see what target does now.
With fallout though, I’m thinking of getting a US copy because there’ll probably be lots of dlc & I’ll save more in the long run.
(Unless our dollar is too shit, ugh!)
That’s a lot of the reason why things have swung back the other way – our dollar’s gone to shit again.
Hello friends, I hope this newest addition of TAY finds you well.
I failed in my quest to get super fast interwebz at my place /o\ my parents are of the volition that I’ll be moving out soon and don’t want to commit to an expensive plan if I’m not around to pay my share.
On the positive side I had a hankerin’ to play Fallout NV after playing Fallout Shelter all of last week, and installed it pretty quickly. The first time I used it on my laptop the recommended game settings were ‘Ultra High’. I finally understand what it’s like to be a part of the Master Race.
With my extremely powerful computer I opened it up for the first time, and it defaulted to…
Low. I know why it did this, but that didn’t make me feel any better.
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Oh god the heading of that page is NSFW 😛
It is? :/
Aww I’m in a different office now and wanted to see it! 😛 I think it just said ‘fuck your pictures…. (I didn’t see the rest)’ lol.
It was basically the meme where this guy is stroking his face after shaving with a “So smooth” feeling 😛
Yessssss. Fallout Shelter got me into deciding to finally get around to finishing New Vegas too! I spent the weekend injecting ENBs to find one I like.
…I didn’t find any, they all had weird effects. In the end, Nevada Skies+weather and retex/shader packs are my preference.
ENBs are great if you want to oversaturate everything and completely ruin the look of the game that the designers went for.
That said, if something can inject smaa then I consider it a win.
Well. Some of the GTA4 ones are amazeballs, and the work they’ve done in ME3 is very interesting, but in New Vegas… there are some vistas and travelling moments where I really appreciate the aesthetic of what’s been created, but then you try to actually have conversations with NPCs or do combat, and it’s all crap.
Plus the odd one or two cause certain things to go invisible/see through walls. Which is not ideal.
ENB’S?
This is how people know I am the MudBlood of PC Gaming, I don’t know what a rendering pack is lol.
I would use mods galore in Star Wars Batlleground, Wookies were re-skinned to all look different, Starship trooper mods to make the game look like the movie and RPG’s with players with a leveling system… unbelievable stuff. That was a long time ago, maybe 9 years ago now so I wouldn’t know where to being again for a game like FNV :@
Nexus! It is the home of modding. In general, the top 25 mods of all time are probably the best you can get and worth having. Crash-fixes, an enabler for multi-core processors and 4GB video (which means that your powerful hardware will actually be USED), a mod-manager so that you can reduce the manual loading, some texture packs for prettying things up, some weather effects for prettying things up, and a rebalancing pack (project nevada) which adds ‘quality of life’ features from modern FPSes etc in a relatively circumspect way.
I’m also personally a fan of a few of the gun mods, and the ‘readius’ pipboy (which makes it look more like a handheld PDA than a vacuum-tube computer hanging off your arm), and a custom follower – Willow – who has things to say about nearly everywhere you visit, making the journey a lot less lonely.
But yeah, tinkering with ENBs is probably getting a little TOO into it, especially since I decided none of it was worth it. They make for amazing screenshots, but they’re not that hot to ‘play the game’ with.
Nexus is great but for a raw beginner, doesn’t NV have workshop support.
Click subscribe, mod is installed
True, true… though I found that in the long run the workshop doesn’t actually work as well. Plus there’s still beginner-unfriendly stuff such as having to go into the ‘data files’ section of the launcher first and wait for it to do its processing before you actually load the game – which a newbie can miss and skip, meaning the mods don’t get loaded or load in the wrong order without manual intervention. It’s easier, but still not without a requirement of paying attention and getting involved.
I think that at least using Nexus Mod Manager prompts you to get more involved in the process enough to be confident that the mods are going to work… even if it involves a bit more reading and familiarization to know that installing and activation are different steps.
FWIW I have no idea what an ENB is either. Sounds like something a doctor sticks into you in an emergency room.
Ooh New WH40K Boardgame coming, looks really good.
Probably going to buy it, because I’ve probably got a problem
http://www.shutupandsitdown.com/blog/post/review-forbidden-stars/
Gah! Reply fail
Rant / vent. Feel free to ignore.
fucking fuck. seriously. FUCK.Why is nothing going right for me now? trying hard as fuck to sort things out with my partner, who I havent spoken to in 4 days coz she asked for space [which I’m 100% fine with giving her. whatever she needs, I’ll support her with]. so Im missing her, & at the same time, I’m trying to work out my own anxiety & stress bullshit. Im trying so fucking hard to hold my head together & keep out negative thoughts / assumptions & stay optimistic, but thats damn hard sometimes with this new housemate I’ve got (who happens to be my girlfriends best-friend’s recent ex-boyfriend) harping on with all this paranoid nonsense drawing parallels with what happened with his ex. JUST FUCKING CAN IT. his paranois & hurt is almost getting to me & it’s doing my fucking head in.
work is driving me mental. I havent had a ‘holiday’ for almost a year now & I’m burning out.
money problems are always shit, but I’ve got them, too.
Now this flatmate guy has had some sleeping problems. oversleeping. missing alarms, missing work. I offered to knock on his door & make sure hes awak before I leave. so far so good, but this morning, I wake him up & the bastard still missed work. holy shit. 3rd time in two weeks dudes gonna lose his fucking job. He’s not my problem, but shit. I try to help him out. but I’m having a hard enough time keeping my own shit together right now. I cant deal with him too.
fucking hell. got an appointment with a psyche friday week & that motherfucker is gonna be earning his money.
can something just sort itself out please?
Here’s the number one rule I learned as someone in a pastoral care role: It’s not your monkey. If your flatmate can’t get to work, you can’t tear yourself up over it.
Also, “Can it” is a legitimate response if he’s getting you down.
I wanna help the guy, but right now, that’s not a possibility.
so yeah. tonight, he’s getting a talking to which is gonna pretty much be “shut up & sort your shit out”
But then, after that: It’s not your monkey. His life choices, not yours.
You came to the right place for love problems my friend. hahahahahahahahahaha
But seriously, ive had a shit time of late and I’ve just tried to get out of my own head, Often times during times of great stress I feel like shit is super hard and my venting makes me worry about all the potential shit i have forgotten. I hope everything works out man. Hugs
It’s hard when nothing is working well, if your is shit but you can fall back on happiness from relationshi pthat is good or if the relationship is having hard times but you have rewarding work that can help balance that. With that and the added stress of money issues (which suck on their own) and the housemate shit isn’t helping.
Cut his shit out, you can’t be dealing with that sort of negativity right now. You need to focus on you.
Big hugs man, if you need to chat, or just an escape, let me know – Come over and play games or something if you need.
Also Re flatmate – Everyone is right here, telling him to Can it is a very legitimate response. you need to look out for your mental health and make sure you are ok. If he’s hampering that then telling him to can it is good for you.
Challenge him to an arm wrestle to assert your dominance, and then mid wrestle shoot him in the leg. Tell him you have your own issues to deal with and can’t help him right now and he’s actively making it harder for you to sort through, all the while waving the gun around nonchalantly. Then kick him in the stomach and explain that this experience is a metaphor for life and he would understand. This should ensure that your dominance will be physical AND mental.
Then find something of his. Something he loves.
Piss on it, never breaking eye contact with him.
Then never mention it happened ever again.
Pure dominance achieved.
As someone who’s had their life spiral out of a control a few times in the distant past I hope this advice helps; don not let your circumstances carry you with them. The quickest (and probably quite difficult at the time) way to regain control of your life is to pick a single problem big or small and focus it down until it is back in your control. You can feel like you’re trapped in a cyclone and have no idea which way is up or down in your own life but all you need to re-orient is to pick a single point and block everything else out until you’re ready to deal with all the other challenges. And never be afraid to ask for help from your friends or family while you’re going through stages like this in your life; they’ll help mitigate all your other problems while you tackle them one at a time.
I can safely say you will come out stronger for it at the end no matter what happens.
*hug*
@crazyguy1990 – You’re a bloody gentleman and scholar and me love you long time.
*intense loops hugs*
HI EVERYONE!
Have fun cutting heads off, mate!
😀
And after that I might even play the game you gifted me!!
I owe you one, man.
Who’s this guy etc
I am… YOUR FATHER
Idle thought: when I am incredibly old and no longer able to be an International Man of Mystery or maintain my cover of government office drone, I want to be a version of Mr. New Vegas.
That’s a cool dude.
I prefer the mojave music channel myself.
Not Radio Free Utobitha?
I’m all about the RACE mod these days.
I don’t get it?
Radio Active Channel Extender: http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/34999/?
Essentially adds a tonne of era appropriate music to a separate radio station on your Pipboy.
But I like the crappy ones I have?
The original stuff IS good. Just…less so after hearing the same song for the 60th time…
The women of New Vegas ask me a lot if there’s a Mrs. New Vegas. Of course there is: You’re her. And you’re still as perfect as the day we met.
Better put on my newsman fedora here…
Basically, just be Wayne Newton, he’s playing himself.Oh my gawd, the other game was Dragon Quest Heroes, how could I forget!
And TAY’s back it’s old speed of 2 pages a day again 🙁 It was nice while it lasted….
But I have nothing important to add to TAY 🙁
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻Someone followed through on their copy and pasting comment. 😛
Sorry. I also have nothing of interest to contribute
Nova’s journey to get gooder at Dark Souls has been going well. I’ve made a ton more progress already than I had on previous attempts. I’d started the game a couple of times and never even got past the Bell Gargoyles. Well in a single session, not only did I beat the Gargoyles and ring the first bell, but the Capra Demon AND the Moonlight Butterfly also went down as well.
Admittedly Capra and the Gargoyles had the assistance of a summoned phantom, but I’m starting to get over my fear of being human and invasion. I’ve accepted that should I get invaded, I’m 99% likely to die, so I simply get into a location near enough to the bonfire that retrieving my souls isnt a huge deal.
Backstabs and Parries are also coming easier too. I watched quite a few videos about the location of some early game equipment that is going to help, and I’ve managed to track down the Uchigatana, Wolf and Havel’s Ring, Dragon Shield etc, so I’m a lot more confident in my gear as well as feeling like my skill is improving.
All in all things are going well. Now I just have to get my souls back that the crystal things in the Darkroot Basin killed me for, about 5k or so. Not really sure where to go net, probably explore the Garden some more, or head down into the Depths.
The trick to the crystal golems is to run around like an idiot avoiding them and let the hydra take them out.
My last session on the weekend, I managed to beat Quelaag first go without taking a hit. Felt like a pro. Then I got murderized by the first snakehead dude in Sen’s Fortress and remembered how much I hate that place 🙁
I haven’t come across the Hydra yet…. I haven’t explored that far yet. Hydra sounds scary
If you’re in Darkroot basin and fighting the crystal golems, then you’re at the hydra. It’s the thing spitting huge globs of glowy fire at you from miles away.
so much for budgeting… I unlocked all three bonus tiers in the GOG sale and haven’t even tallied my Steam spending this time (though I think that I managed to keep below $30 or so cause of what was left in my Steam Wallet)
also Inside Out is a totally awesome movie but I’ve had that damned Lava song from the preceding short stuck in my head all day! >.<
I’m also glad that this week’s non-subscriber episode of Is It Wrong To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon didn’t end on a cliffhanger that would be bugging me for the whole week until the next one becomes available 🙂
*plays ukulele* I have a dreeeeeeam I hope will come truuuuue…
*sings* ~Triple-dent Gum~
Guess what the Australian government just paaaassed…
The thing that they pilloried Conroy for suggesting a few years ago, and which Labor had backed away from when they saw how unpopular it was?
And the reason it was unpopular was that we all assumed that the then-proposed Kiddy Porn Filter was the thin end of a wedge with piracy blocking at the other end. Hm.
My two guesses:
Netflix Tax
Cancelling the citizenship of terrorist dual nationals?
Nope. Far worse.
Site blocking of anything decreed to be ‘piracy’ sites. Effectively mandatory internet content filtering for all of Australia. And with no provisions for things like appealing your site being blocked, or any protection against them deciding that maybe they want to block things beyond just piracy.
It’s the most blatant example I can think of recently that is bought and paid for by big business.
Annnnd fuck this government.
Based on the passing of the recent metadata and retention laws, I would like to disassociate myself from @crazyguy1990 for his anti-authoritive views. All hail the proletariat!
For the record this is going to continue escalating as long as we have an Attorney General who is clearly prejudiced towards the interests of corporations invested in copyright laws.
Also VPNs are now more or less illegal as a criminal tool and they’ve left it vaguely open to allow proceedings against geoblocking circumvention.
Also also, it’s not just this current government. No one should forget the ALP backed this fully as well. Greens were only ones trying to do anything about it.
Its a very strange day when the Greens seem to be the most rational party
They seem to be very rational lately.
I don’t care what they used to be like, currently they seem like the most competent party to lead.
As someone who’s always been a Greens voter, the majority of their issues are economic. While it’s a great idea to say “tax the rich better, support the disadvantaged more”, it’s pretty obvious that the rich will always find ways around tax, and without them paying what they should, everything based on that falls down.
From a social standpoint they’re of course great, since they tend to focus on equal rights and opportunities, improving the working class, supporting the disadvantaged, oh yeah, and the whole “environmentally friendly” thing, combined with being technologically progressive (not to mention that they’re the only major party who aren’t utter cunts when it comes to Asylum seekers, one of the few things I feel strongly about). So I’ve always voted Greens (doesn’t make a lick of a difference since I’m in Canberra (typically a safe Labor seat, locally we’re a Labor minority, balance on the Greens)), and unless something changes drastically, I will probably always vote Greens.
I voted for the Greens last election because they were the only ones I could vote for without shuddering in disgust.
I literally do not want any other party as the leading party.
They’re basically the only party that actually tend to represent my interests, and it helps that they seem to understand the times we are living in.
It’s a shame they always get held back.
I blame the old-folks of Australia who are too set in their ways.
@liondrive Not just old people. Just read the comments in here: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/06/greens-senator-scott-ludlam-want-to-help-grow-the-australian-games-industry/
@liondrive
My voting system has always been very simple. Greens > any independents who I know not to be cray cray > Labor, because they’re generally slightly less bad than the Libs > independents who I know are only sort of cray cray > Libs > anyone I have a specific vendetta against (last federal election it was Zed Seselja in the Senate, because the dude had been the local leader of the Libs, and he chucked a hissy fit when the Libs won more seats than Labor, but Labor were still leaders because the Greens had balance of power and sided with them. Dude’s a petty right wing arse, who mostly got into the Senate position through the power of the younger liberals, who scare me).
I want to be a part of a progressive Australia, one that accepts refugees, that has marriage equality, that invests in technology to embrace the future, that supports those who are disadvantaged. So yeah, voting is pretty fucking simple, the problem is that while I wish we could have a Greens led country, I don’t think it would be viable (I will always vote for them though).
Helps that a lot of them actually know what the fuck a computer is and how it works.
All of the Greens-proposed amendments were to my mind baseline, minimum-requirement sanity checks to keep the legislation from getting out of hand and being used out of scope.
The fact that not a single fucking amendment was included is highly indicative of either the level of corruption involved, or a complete ignorance of how the law works, paired with a stunning lack of foresight.
It’s disgusting.
I am going to say the former.
Following on the previous politically charged post I should note the one silver lining in all of this. We know that at least one party (even if its a minority party) within our democracy appears to understand the underlying implications introducing legislation without fulling establishing the cost to society. I for one take some comfort that come next elections I know exactly who I’m voting for as opposed to the traditional dilemma of choosing the lesser of two evils.
Edit: Couldn’t have timed that better =p
A rep from Telstra called me today, trying to cross-sell me on their products. After hearing we only even have a home phone line because we need it for our ADSL2+ connection she moved on to trying to sell me an internet plan. When I explained I recently moved to an unlimited plan from the 500 gigs TPG used to offer, commenting that Telstra couldn’t offer me unlimited data like TPG can, she asked “do you even need more than 500 gigs?”. When I explained about online gaming and Netflix she scoffed “do you ever sleep?”.
How about how much data I need is none of your fucking business, and even if I did only “need” 500 gigs, I wouldn’t pay Telstra $113/month for it anyway, dickhead?
Telstra’s tiers are annoying actually. I’m on cable, I use about 250-300gb a month, but I have to pay for 500 because they don’t have anything in the middle ground between like 100 and 500.
I work for these guys, but their options with my new apartment were just horrible so I went with TPG. Here was the best Telstra could offer: ADSL1 with 500GB, $110+/mth. TPG counters this with ADSL2, unlimited data and also combined this with an unlimited phone package, $79.99/mth. So disappointed… ADSL1 was the best they could do in 2015, and limited as well. Not worth it
Is it a hassle to switch your phone to TPG? I’d happily pay them an extra $20 a month to stop paying the $45 line rental to Telstra.
Well I never had to switch the phone (It was installing a new one), it was just installed then and there, but they were able to set it all up without access to my apartment.
Ah. Well I might ask anyway. I assume it’s just a matter of flipping a switch somewhere. Hopefully with no interruption to services.
I tried to swap from Telstra Line w/ TPG ADSL to a TPG Naked and apparently there was no mechanism to facilitate that transfer without down time.
Was told anywhere from 5 – 10 days. I though they were joking. But TPG treats it as a new installation.
I just jumped to Telstra cable and couldn’t be happier. Handful of phone calls and one tech visit later. Now been running for nearly 6 weeks without a single disconnect. In a similar boat to Neg though, I typically use anywhere form 70gb to 150gb which doesn’t leave a lot of fat if I want to grab a few big files. Would be nice if there was a plan somewhere between 200 and 500.
The fact it’s 50 -> 200 -> 500 and 500 is $113/month is a total joke, especially since the last time I had Telstra cable (back in 2008) it was complete dogshit.
Admittedly Telstra is expensive and their customer service has historically been pretty poor.
My only counters to those points are that since I moved my mobile service over in 2006 I’ve never had a call drop out and coverage has been available everywhere I go including some more remote out of the way stops on holidays.
I’ve not hit any snags with the customer service in the last 5 years. Had a massive bill from holiday in Singapore where an international data pack I’d requested hadn’t been loaded right. Took a single phone call to get $700 bill adjusted with no further questions.
And the cable recently – I’ve run speed tests at heaps of different times and hasn’t dropped from a solid 30Mbps once. Will test again next week when school holidays start up as TPG’s networks used to crumble in school holidays.
The weird experience I’ve had with Telstra and this made up part of my conversation with them yesterday is this:
When we were sold cable in 2008 we were told “with cable you get your own connection instead of a shared one, so you never suffer from network congestion”. within a month our service when from great to awful. When I called to complain (we were avid Halo palyers at the time and were suffering badly from constant network dropouts, high latency, etc.) the person on the phone explained “oh well we’ve had a lot of new customers buying cable in your area recently so there must be some network congestion”. When I explained that’s not supposed to happen on cable the person basically called me an idiot for thinking that. When I said that they should have a record of that conversation taking place and that if it wasn’t true I’d been lied to, making me a victim of false advertising, they said there was nothing they could do.
After another few weeks of shit service, and several phone calls I sent Telstra a strongly-worded email explaining they were going to let me out of my contract without penalty as they had not fulfilled their end of it, and reverted to TPG’s ADSL2+ which was consistently faster and has been ever since. We have an interruption of about a week when we moved (which was awful) but otherwise no complaints.
They rang me last week on Thursday too, it was supposedly a call about my mobile phone service and then it from 0-100 in the next question about selling me an internet plan.
I had a meeting and couldn’t continue talking, we made a time for him to call me back the next day but he never rang me back 🙁 My parents pulled out of the deal anyway so it was all for the best I think.
“Lady, modern video games come in at anywhere up to 50GB, not including automatic patches and updates while you’re not active, which can unbelievably come at about the same again. You don’t need to be awake while they download and install. Throw in some video streaming and games which require online connections for multiplayer, and there’s a lot more than 500GB data going around. There’s a reason that all the other ISPs have made Netflix unmetered – it uses a lot of data. Given that this is a very reasonable amount of data to use for electronic entertainment purposes of a couple hours a day, plus weekends, it’s very strange that you charge nearly double what competitors do.”
Alternately:
“What is wrong with you? What do you do for fun? SPORTS? Camping? Jesus. Join the 21st century, n00b.”
I wonder how much of an internet shit storm John Oliver has raised with his latest episode. I’d look into it but even I’m not that stupid.
The comments on youtube seem to suggest that because he referred to Anita Sarkeesian and Brianna Wu as victims of harassment (which they unquestionably are, which is completely unacceptable regardless of whether you agree with their views) then he has no credibility whatsoever.
John Oliver? Oh, that SJW still being paid by Leigh Alexander’s giant pile of feminist money. Because people can’t honestly oppose gormergoop, right, gormergoop has diagrams with red arrows! Red arrows!
TAY is probably the only corner of the internet that appreciates satire =p
I killed some deathclaws in New vegas! Rex and Boone would Kamikaze them on the ground while I stood on rocks that they couldn’t reach me on. I sniped them until I ran out of ammo, swapped to explosives but couldn’t throw fair enough, so I switched to the rifle. Ran out of ammo for that, so as a last resort I used the incinerator. That ended up killing them. The other area with the deathclaws has no safety rocks so I’m avoiding it like the plague.
Good tactic I found with Deathclaws:
Nope. Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope.
Nope.
Find another path, even if you have to crouch jump up the side of a mountain for three hours.
EDIT: Also, +1 for picking up the best follower in game, Boone.
And rex, don’t forget Rex. He tends to run ahead and do his best to murder everything he can!
My favourite follower / companion was (putting it in a spoiler since I think it’s a lot later in the game)
Veronicashe’s great, and her questline and relationship with the brotherhood is super interestingYou didn’t go into the quarry, did you?
I HAD TO FOR A QUEST! D= TWO QUESTS ACTUALLY!
I think I did more or less what you did in the quarry- parked on the big mining rig in the middle and sniped EVERYTHING. It’s not a fun place!
They would run up the mining rig to kill me, so I had to use the surrounding rocks that they couldn’t climb up.
Oh, I set mines behind me.
I have yet to encounter any legit ones.
I ran into a ‘blind’ one, and blammed it in the face until my VATS ran out. It died.
But it was blind… so I’m not sure how much of an achievement this is.
They are still hard.
I only had 5 minutes free last night but it was enough time to start my new character, Jack Turner based on my dog (Turner cus he turns food into, well you know). Max Strength. Max Endurance. High Charisma. Min Intelligence.
He specializes in unarmed combat, explosives (he leaves lots of landmines around my yard) and survival. Should be a fun run.
Keep us updated?
Will do I guess. Felt like I haven’t really had much to contribute here lately.
Finally finished the Witcher 2 \o/
Immediately jumped into Witcher 3… ZOMG SOOOOOOO PRETTY
Skellige is even more pretty once you get there.
Hey TAY. Not much of a talker. I like to watch in the shadows. But I just wanted to say how awesome this website is, and the people of TAY.
I live in Australia but I’m currently in Limpopo, South Africa tending to my terminally ill mother. It fucking sucks.
To escape the suckiness, late at night I’ve been playing Fallout Vault and buying things from the Steam sale. Games that will be waiting for me when I return home, ready to take me into their arms and help me escape the shitty situation I’m in at the moment.
But I just wanted to say that you guys are awesome. I find great joy in reading everybody’s comments. Thanks.
Sorry you’re going through such a rough time, friend. All the best! It’s no small or easy thing you’re doing!
Welcome aboard, TAY.
Heyo! Post some when you have thoughts, I say. 🙂
Completely agree. Mind you, you could also do what I do and post mindlessly!
Even better.
I’m sorry to hear as well about the shitty situation. Here’s hoping your situation works out in a way that is comforting for you. Look forward to seeing you join in on TAY sometime.
Thanks guys. I’ll be sure to contribute to Tay soon.
Hello there!
Sucks about your current situation, but please post more – we’re a welcoming bunch and for a forum centered around video games an oddly well adjusted bunch*.
However, I’m not sure whether we should remove the paddlin’ initiation ceremony on you and just jump to the rye.
Ya want some rye?
*not a core promise.
Welcome, friend.
Hi, dood
Hey man, welcome to TAY (the best place on the internet).
Well clearly you haven’t met that Pixel guy!
He’s a bit of a dick!
Also welcome my friend, sorry to hear about your sucky situation… My thoughts are with you and I wish you all the best, if you’re ever near Melbourne I can give you a drink and the manliest of bro-hugs…
Also please post more, you seem like a cool enough dude!
Yeah, such a dick!
ily <3Just put an hour into Elite: Dangerous, trying to find a place I wanted to go to, only for it to be not what I was looking for, my ship running out of fuel, and requiring me to self-destruct.
I can’t get enough of this game, and it’s nearly 1am…
Tsk tsk, gotta pay attention to the dotted lines along the route 😛
Although wouldn’t necessarily have required self-destruct, with the fuel transfer drones now. There’s a bunch of guys who run around as EliteAAA to rescue such stranded folk.
So tired after lack of sleep that I fell asleep around 6 or 7 last night.
Woke at 3.30 to pee & now I can’t sleep!
Gonna be a looooong day.
Need a new job, this one is wet, cold and dirty, also the other day a customer bit me.
They… bit you? What on earth?
They must have been really hungry for a certain kind of soup…
I’m sorry I’ll leave now
Cleanin dem dogues
Ohhhhhhh.
See… if one of my clients bit me, I’d probably bite them right back. GET INTO IT YEAH!
But maybe not if my client was a dog. Hair, yo. Not a fan of having it in my mouth (with certain exceptions).
Are you the gingerbread man? 0,0
Wet, cold and dirty… And you were also bitten by a hungry customer..
Do you work at a fish market?
OH MY GOD! THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE IS UPON US!
Quick, somebody kill @gutsoup before he turns.
Hey you! You look an awful lot like someone I know! you wouldn’t by any chance be related to Evilmonkey would ya?
You’re talking about the squillionaire Evilmonkey of Monkey enterprises, who lives in Monkey Manor.
I’m the Batmonkey. Flinging poo from the shadows. Totally not the same person.
Sometimes I’m like “… I guess Canada isn’t all bad” but then I see milk being sold in plastic bags and I get so, so angry.
That really just sounds yuk, my plastic bags always get a hole in them just because I carried something that weighs more than 150g in it. 😛
Yeah, when I read that online I was weirded out. They think it’s normal, like bagged water! What on earth?
If it’s like those ‘platypus’ water bags I could deal, but like the plastic bags that you get from the supermarket here? No dice.
They look like this
http://sitevolt.com/canadianmemes/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/11/bagged-milk.jpg
It’s weird
I love milk, unabashedly. I don’t know how to feel about this though, I feel kinda ill looking at that photo.
The hell is that thing? How do you pour yourself a glass without spilling it everywhere? I have enough trouble with rigid bottles 😛
You have to buy a separate milk bag holder which bears a remarkable resemblance to a jug, but without the lip. You then put the bag in the jug-like contraption, cut the corner of the bag off, and then use that as your pouring tip.
If only there were some sort of rigid containment device that was suitable for the pouring of liquids, but alas, there is not.
In a bag? That sounds udderly horrible.
In Taiwan they sell drinks in a bag tied at the top with a straw poking out.
Usually at markets & it’s freshly squeezed/etc juice.
Yum!
Heeeeey, relax guy. What’s wrong with picking up a bag of milk and some Kraft Dinner in your Zamboni, eh.
Here’s a joke to make you feel better.
Could be worse, at least it’s not malk.
In bags?!
I bet they don’t store their bread in the microwave either.
I’d imagine it’s a good mix of corruption and incompetence. What irks me is that both the major parties are in on it. They can’t seem to agree on anything until it’s to do with stripping away the rights of Australians and selling it for corporate gain.
Edit: Reply fail to transientmind on the last page; DAMMIT KOTAKU! =@
Happy Batman day everybody.
In other news, I bought Batman since the early reviews show it going back to form after the last game (which didn’t suck, but didn’t blow my socks off).
On yet another note, we got approval to move into a new house in two weeks (we’re renters). That’s great! It’s a three bedroom house with 5 raised veggie gardens in the backyard and a killer view of the foothills and mountain of kunyani/Wellington.
In not so great news a ute slowly reversed into my car yesterday at the lights, leaving a tiny bit of damage, and then ran off. I wouldn’t normally bother (my car has a few dings in it) but I’m going to chase them for the principal of it as they ran off. Plus the licence plate was obscured. Does anybody know how I would go about doing this? I have all but two letters/numbers of their plate, and half the business name that was plasted on the side of the cab. Police Report?
NAME AND SHAME AND US INTERNET WARRIORS WILL DO THE REST
You can’t have a google search and work out the other half? You would be limiting it to trades business I would imagine with the person driving a ute. If you feel that’s the right thing to do then file the Police Report, as much information as possible would help in your report.
Here’s the problem: The business name isn’t listed on any normal location on the web – YellowPages or even Google.
It’s called “Crop Protection and…” and I haven’t got the rest.
The plate was G or B, I, 886 or 866 (I had a suddenly bawling toddler in the backseat when this ute reversed into me, I didn’t have much time to take in the necessary information!)
Weird thing. I’ve found a rego lookup place for Tasmania and the one I think fits the description of the vehicle (Blue and a Holden) is unregistered. Which would explain the lack of staying and seeing if I was ok.
Do a police report, and tell them you think it’s unregistered. They will NOT look kindly on this fact.
Yup, police report. They can look up partials with pretty good odds if you have colour and model, and driving away if there’s more than… uhm ‘a certain dollar value’ of damage is a crime. (I think it’s $5k but it might be low as $1k?)
Leaving the scene of an accident is a crime.
Yeah, but it’s just one of those victimless crimes. Like punching someone in the dark.
I dunno, I just seem to recall that there’s a dollar value related somewhere. Maybe it’s you can’t leave until Police arrive to evaluate if it’s over a certain dollar value, but you can leave if you exchange details under that value? There’s some provision like that somewhere…
Yeah, you need to exchange details. Driving off is a crime
doesnt matter. always gotta stop.
if there’s more than $X value in damage, or if a person has been injured, or if a tow truck needs to be called, then police need to attend the scene before anyone can leave.
otherwise, you’ve still gotta stop & exchange insurance details & then notify the police as soon as possible.
This.
Aha, that’s what I was thinking of.
Dear @redartifice @rocketman @tigerion @gingerchris86 @rize @pupp3tmast3r @thecracks @quiz_b
thanks all. spoke to the housemate last night & told him I need him to stop talking about a) his ex, b) my partner & my situation, c) his paranoid parallels that he’s drawing between the two.
& I told him why – it was making my head implode.
anyway. now I’ve just gotta sort out things with my partner. not that i think thats gonna be easy, but fuck it. one step at a time. we’ll get there.
You made a very good first step, all the best with your situation with your partner.
More *hugs*.
Good to hear that you’ve mentioned something to the housemate.
Fingers crossed that everything works out eventually.
Got a question for all you PC gamers.
A new, bigger hard drive for my laptop should be arriving in the mail today or tomorrow. My question is in regards to Steam games. I’m pretty sure I know how to transfer games across (copy the steam/steamapps/common folder on to my external hard drive and then copy them back to the same folder once I re-install Steam). But, I’m not sure about game saves. Will doing that copy my save games over too, or do I have to copy a separate folder? There are some games that I really don’t want to start from the beginning because it’s taken me so long to get to where I am.
@welbot?
saves are either stored in
or
copy both across to be sure.
The top one has the game files, the second one listed usually houses your save files, either there or in %appdata%
Ah, think I found it. Looks like they’re in the steam>userdata folder.
Thanks guys.
If this will affect your C drive as well, make you you back up C:\Users\username\Documents too. There’ll be saved games there, and more under it in My Games.
EDIT: Let’s pretend I didn’t botch the path with a poor choice of formatting, shall we?
It depends on the game entirely. Some games backup saves to appdata, some do it to mydocs, some do it to a location of your choosing, others save to steam cloud. You’d need to double check for each game essentially. There’s no one set method which works as a catch all. Providing you leave everything as it is in terms of c:\, you shouldn’t run in to too much trouble. If you are actually going to swap your C:\ out though, you’ll be best to make a backup of your entire profile folder (or at least the contents of it below the root of the folder, cos if you try to back up the whole thing, you’ll have errors trying to copy ntuser.dat.
@kermitron
Will you still be doing GoT updates or did they end with the season?
I seriously considered continuing them but I felt like with the show over for the year the joke might wear a bit thin.
Oh maaaaaan.
(Fair enough though)
I played an hour or two of Vanishing of Ethan Carter last night. Pretty cool! I like that it doesn’t tell you what to do. Just let’s you walk around and stumble across story tidbits on your own. I just hope I’m not missing anything! Can’t wait to play a bit more tonight.
I just wish it ran on my PC more smoothly. It doesn’t seem too intensive but my framerate is really poor for some reason. Don’t really have any idea what settings I should be turning on/off so I’ve just been randomly flicking switches.
Oh, hi there.
*moseys away*
Who was that? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Some jerk. Let’s point and laugh at him, and then pointedly ignore him.
By the way, I wore my Bloodborne shirt on Saturday and had my best book-selling day of the weekend. Coincidence? Can’t be.
How did it go?
It was a good weekend. But I lost my voice on Saturday afternoon, so couldn’t socialise that evening or hustle my books on the Sunday, and lost a tonne of sales because of it. Overall, though, it was good.
In some ways, though, it’s kind of a relief to be done with conventions for a while. They’re exhausting, expensive, and take me away from both writing and family. I’ll be rethinking my business model for 2016, and seeing if I can get the word out any other way instead.
I may be trying to get into the convention thing myself. Any advice is helpful.
This is your new Bible. http://www.artistalleysurvivalguide.com/
Learn it, live it, prosper 🙂
Hey! Give it back!
Is Batman released today or tomorrow? My calendar had it penned as tomorrow but some here are saying today..
Batman arrives when he needs to.
Something cat women knows all too well
buh-dum-tish
4 hours on Steam. So that pegs it at 2pm this afternoon.
Which makes sense in a way – that would be about Midnight in (a time zone in) the U.S.
Simultaneous release with the US? On Steam? From a major publisher? MADNESS.
Yeah, I’m positive it’s tomorrow.
https://www.ebgames.com.au/featured/batman-arkham-knight
@quiz_b reckons it’s today though. Maybe some store broke street date.
EVERYTHING IS BATMAN!
Everything is batmaaaaan
Everything is cool when your a loner with a team*
Everything is batmaaaan
he’s living in Gotham
*it’s true, Batman is as much a lone wolf type as Wolverine & Cloud Stryfe
Does Ozgameshop give the code immediately so I can predownload the game tonight?
Yeah, I bought a code from Ozgameshop on Saturday at about 2 in the afternoon for $30. As it was still Friday over in the UK I got my code by that night (around 8:30pm iirc).
HOLY PRICE GOUGING BATMAN! The standard version has gone up from $30 to $50. still a pretty good price I s’pose, but better to get the premium version with the season pass for $48.
http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-games/batman-arkham-knight-premium-cd-key-download-for-steam
GMG has a 40% off code for it going at the moment… bringing it down to… *grabs calculator, fiddles* $36.
BATMAN! *flails arms*
Picture this we were both butt naked
Banging on the bathroom floor
I wonder if the shopping centres even know what they’re playing in their song rotations. I like the song but is it really appropriate for the easily offended oldies or overprotective parents?
I thought the lyrics were, picture this we were both caught making love on the bathroom floor.
Ah. Google tells me there’s two versions. Of course.
Once when working for Harvey Norman (Joyce Mayne) they would send out discs with music videos we were meant to play on the TVs and Monitors to showcase stuff… Once they sent us one with a Justin Timberlake something something, but I don’t think they realised that half way through the clip it had full frontal on multiple occasions… That did look glorious on the 60′ TVs though
When I was working there they played The Fifth Element on every TV on display. Now I’m not saying that looking up in the middle of a work day to see Milla Jovovich topless is a bad thing, but I doubt the rest of the customers agreed with me.
Someone who doesn’t want to see Milla Jovovich’s nipples from time to time is someone whose custom you do not need. Send them on their way!
Yo.
Well I guess there are some exceptions.
Ya’ darn toot’in there are! XP
Soooo – for my birthday last month one of the things I got was a $30 gift card for EB (as you do)… They have a sale..
Currently tossing up bewteen the GOTY ed of Dishonored or Skyrim.
Only thing stopping automatic skyrim is I really don’t have the time for games that I once did.
Tell me why i should get one over the other.
Tell me if there is ANOTHER game more deserving.
TELL ME I’M PRETTY!!!!
I’ve always thought you were pretty, Loops.
I gave Dishonored an hour before giving up on it.
I gave Skyrim 30 hours before giving up on it.
Make of that what you will, pretty one.
Dishonored is one of the best sneaky bastard games since Chaos Theory.
I don’t know what it was about Dishonoured but I don’t think I broke an hour of playtime on it.
Skyrim I’m well past 200.
Either choice is good, because they’re both easily pauseable 😛
I couldn’t get into Dishonoured either!
Same, once it opened up I lost all interest
If you’ve not played either Skyrim or Doshonored, I’d say go with Skyrim. Sure, you might not have time for something like Skyrim, but it can be easily digested in small pieces if need be – but has the capacity for you to get lost in the world for hours if you happen to have an afternoon to yourself.
Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion
So… with a cowboy hat?
and spurs!
YAY!!! 😀
I’d call you pretty but that would be like calling the renaissance masters such as Da Vinci or Michelangelo somewhat alright doodlers.
I like your doodle too
edit: I feel like an 8 year old saying “doodle”.
People don’t say doodle enough these days.
I was talking about different currencies with my eldest last night and when I said ruble she thought I said doodle and spent the next half hour giggling about it.
Probably don’t discuss Vietnamese currency with her, then.
Hehe.
Dong.
(What? Someone had to…)
Dark Souls
I’d say put it towards Elite: Dangerous and a flightstick…
But since that’s not an option, I’d go with Dishonored…
Had a pretty cool weekend of quality relaxing and family time – the ones with long sleep ins (well 7:30am with a 2 year old is as good as it’s going to get), scrambled eggs for brekky, lunch at the pub, lazy drives to nowwhere in particular.
I want that back.
In other news my total steam sale spend was around $30 and picked up
– Fallout: New Vegas
– Sir, You Are Being Hunted
– Ori and the Blind Forest
– Child of Light
Continuing to make slow progress in Far Cry 4 after studying – last night had every intention of finishing a few more story missions and then all of a sudden I’ve done two outposts, a bell tower, assassination mission, saved some hostages and done a round-a-bout tour to restock syringe ingredients.
Ori is a magnificent game, you have done well for $30 😛
All these new games and I’m sinking deeper and deeper back into Fallout: NV…
An Old World Blues question (not spoilers, mostly loot/weapon related):
I’m absolutely loving the story and the setting for it, but my character is a sneaky light/medium armour rifle user…and I think I got 2 hours through the DLC before being tapped out on all the ammo I had for my 3 main guns (and obviously can’t go back to Vegas for more till I’m done). So now I’m stuck trying to use energy weapons (skill 30) and friggin’ melee (skill 19) to get through the last few quests while hoarding the tiny amounts of 308/357/12ga ammo that I can back at The Sink for any major fights. This means that the numerous times I come up against packs of Nightstalkers I get reamed.Anyone have suggestions on how to mitigate the issue?
Cheat.
Either that or do a few circuits of ammo-collecting from all the traders roundabouts.
Unless I’m missing something, there’s one trader and he’s tapped out on all useful ammo from a while ago and apparently doesn’t restock.
Also, I’m tempted to just cheat but so far on this save I haven’t cheated once and kinda wanna keep that going.
Oh. I didn’t realize you can’t go back to New Vegas. (I haven’t completed it yet, let alone DLC.)
Wow. I guess it’s down to improvising with picked-up guns. Kinda like Halo on Legendary except the guns don’t suck hard if you haven’t levelled up in them… Are ‘reloading’ benches something that I modded in without realizing it, or do they exist in vanilla+DLC?
Once you finish the story of Old World Blues you can freely travel between the Sink and New Vegas but until you’re finished you can’t leave – same goes for all the DLC IIRC. About 6 months ago I went back to New Vegas and started the Lonesome Road then got sidetracked again, but I think it’s time for me to go back and tackle it properly.
Edit: just to clarify, you’re stuck in the various DLC zones until you finish the story but I think the Sink/Big MT is the only one you can return to. The other areas are closed to you once you complete them.
You can leave the Lonesome Road DLC area. Every other DLC place you are locked into.
I didn’t know you could leave the Lonesome Road. If I can fast travel out of there I might need to make a pit stop to dump some of my encumberance. It’s been awhile but I know I came across a large stash of weapons/materials and had to make some difficult decisions about what to leave behind.
From memory you can’t fast travel. You need to backtrack through the entire DLC to exit.
Ah, that would be why I assumed leaving wasn’t possible.
Nah, they exist and there’s one in the “base” part of the DLC but getting materials to make useful ammo has been rather difficult.
To give a comparison of the difficulty switch now that I’m using energy weapons: with a Hunting rifle on regular 308 I can take out a pack of 5 Nightstalkers with 2 shots each (1 for first kill assuming stealth) at long distance. With a plasma rifle and no stealth I can kill one with one clip of 24, and then they eat me in about 6 hits. With some of the robot enemies present, it takes 3-4 plasma rifle clips to kill one.
Woof. That’s a shame. Well, if unconventional improvisation is out (like using mines for the first time frickin’ ever), and it gets to the point that you’re frustrated enough to quit again, I’d push ahead with the cheats.
Write it off as bad design not having a way to replenish ammo anywhere and your ‘improvisation’ options being crap thanks to their skill-reliance. That’s just bad design if it renders an area near-impossible.
We play games to have fun, not get bored and quit.
I’m far too stubborn to give up 😛
I’ve been scrounging explosives to help me get through certain areas (skill of 65) which works, but a lot of it is trial and error but I’ll get there, damn it!
Having said all this, if I were specced into energy or melee weapons this would be a friggin’ amazing bit of DLC. Can’t stress how entertaining the story is.
Is that the one in the casino?
It literally took me months to beat it because I’d die so often, get the shits & play something else.
My build was a all wrong too, but I managed it in the end.
Old World Blues is the one in the science facility. I think the Sierra Madre DLC is called Old Money or Dead Money or something like that. I had a horrible time with that first time through, but it became a lot easier with the light step perk since my main issue was the bloodly landmines scattered everywhere.
Oh, that’s where I’ve stopped *this* time
Dead Money and yeah, that entire DLC is just a massive troll.
My advice only really applies to before you enter DLC area which is go to every gun vendor in the game and buy as much ammo as you can before entering DLC areas.
I actually left a good chunk behind, partially because I assumed I’d find more but mostly because I’m on hardcore and ammo has weight 😛
whats your survivalist skill looking like? IIRC, you can craft ammo / reuse casings etc with the right recipe?
I think crafting ammo is linked to repair whereas survival is consumables (food, drinks, drugs, etc…)
@35
Repair is 100 but I’ve already burnt up most resources for crafting any ammo useful to me.
damn.
Grabbed Ryse on the steam sale yesterday and had a game last night.
This is what Xbone fans were holding up as a fantastic exclusive? The game is terrible. On rails QuickTime simulator. Seriously, playing on second hardest difficulty (hardest was locked) and so far the game has been nothing but A X X Y X X RT Y X X and repeat 1000 times except the odd occasion where you start with B instead of A. Only one attack button with no variation so combat allows no improvisation or flourishes.
I now have a new worst game of this generation. Sorry NFS Rivals. You’ve lost that dubious honour.
There was a reason it was being panned. It was a total system demo to show how pretty the xbone could be.
When mashing to mastery is the core tenant of your game design it isn’t going to be for everybody. Some people have enjoyed it, but probably a very specific type of person.
Yeah I watched about 5 minutes of gameplay when the consoles were announced and saw nothing but QTE’s in the combat and knew it was going to be a flop. Ryse vs Infamous; Infamous won hands down =p
Ohhhh. Huh.
*takes Ryse off wishlist*
The fact that you were able to put a bunch of time into Click Heroes and not Ryse makes me think that Ryse must really, really suck. Granted CH is free…but still.
I’ve been so so tempted by Ryse because I thought it might be interesting but even seeing it for $29 in JB or $13 on Steam I can’t bring myself to buy it. Unless it has an amazing story (and that would probably be a first for Crytek, regardless of how much I enjoyed Far Cry 3) it seems like playing it would be a waste of time.
The devs actually released the story as the game cut into a movie. If that’s not an admission of some kind I’m not sure what is.
I find that I quite enjoy getting game-story in this manner. Particularly when the game mechanisms are tedious.
http://www.gamemoviesdb.com/
Replay Dark Souls
#helping
I loved it, except for the completely unrealistic boob physics.
Will totally buy it again on Steam when it goes on sale next.
Also kinda telling about the state of game reviews. Worst game of the generation 6/10
Xboners: “LET US HAVE THIS.”
1/10 – this is a joke score, people only give this score to be ironic
2/10 – this game barely functions and/or gives you cancer. If the purpose of the game was to give you cancer, we would score it 10/10. But it isn’t.
3-5/10 – these scores are largely interchangeable since no one will play these games except unsuccessful youtubers trying to emulate rage quit or pewdiepie.
6/10 – this game much be really shit because we’re risking our advertising revenue putting this score up.
7/10 – awful, really dreadful. Made racist jokes and had sex with my mum.
8/10 – game looks kind of pretty and didn’t challenge me, can also be finished in a single sitting which is great for deadlines.
9/10 – absolutely brilliant game but didn’t quite get me to the point of orgasm.
10/10 – this game is utter perfection in every way and no other game can compete with it. I mean, I’ll give 10/10 to broken games I have a soft spot for but isn’t reviewing really inherently subjective anyway? You can’t really quantify enjoyment. Unless you gave a game I like less than 9/10, in which case you’re wrong and probably pleasure men with your mouth for a small amount of money.
Or: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/02/13
“I need you to bring me… the forbidden numbers.”
I remember reading that when it first came out and I still lose my shit over the “he just… Vibrates” part
#PA4LYF
Hey man, $20 is $20.
10/10
*patting a bag with a $ sign on it* Oh good… my laundry is done!
Like Transient said, there’s a PA strip for everything.
Anyone know if the PC version has the ridiculous voice commands? Literally the most entertaining mechanic in the game, from what I remember – shouting “Fire the volleeeeeeeeeeeeys!” at your television. Well, it was entertaining to see a youtuber awkwardly drag out the phrase long enough for it to register, at least. 😛
It didn’t offer the option unless it’s hidden in the menus somewhere.
Aww.
I kind of want to do this once or twice. Then turn off the feature when it gets too frustrating and never do it again.
(Eg: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/01/23/efficacy)
THERE IS A PA STRIP FOR EVERYTHING.
I used it for the first day or two when it was out, my sister recorded me in secret and put in on Facebook to embarrass me.
My secret shame!
I CAN DO THIS ALL DAY
You sir, have a talent that needs to be nurtured.
You know you’re playing too many video games when you stuff up a conversation in real life, and try to reload a previous save.
Oh god. There are seriously some things I’ve done where I have actually mentally reached for F5 to quicksave because this may not work out well at all.
Frequently in MMOs, but sometimes in real life. Internally embarrassing, but at least no-one knows about it. Until I tell everyone on a public forum on the internet.
My example of wishing I had a real life F5:
Yesterday I left my wallet in the bathroom while I was changing to go to the gym, and some nice soul picked it up and handed it into the bank on campus. The lady at the bank rings me to tell me she has my wallet, and to come and collect it. I go to pick it up at 3:59pm, just as the ladies were locking everything up ready to go home. I wave sheepishly hoping they will just quickly open the doors to let me in and grab the wallet, and whilst they were visibly annoyed with my transgression they handed my wallet back pretty quickly.
Long story short, the lady who opened the door for me happened to be a larger lady. I thought as a thank you I’d bring in a box of chocolates to thank them for re-opening the bank to let me have my wallet. I hand her the box and thank her and team for reopening. She won’t take the chocolates initially saying it wasn’t a big deal, and then I utter the words:
“Thank you so much, please take it… Make sure you share this with everyone‘.
Fucking Freudian slips.
Haha classic, if I was there I would’ve totally tried to high-five you and make it all that more awkward =D
One time I went to Hungry Jack’s on a food run for friends and ordered what was clearly enough food for 4 people. Like multiple burgers, fries, drinks, some sides like nuggets etc. Like even for 4 people it was a pretty good amount of food. Cashier asks me “is that take away or eat in?”
Seriously?
Yeah mate just pop the lot on a tray, I’ll be back for seconds in 15 minutes.
Instinctively trying to ctrl+f things on paper. It’s been a while, but used to happen quite a bit.
http://gematsu.com/2015/06/tales-berseria-trademarked-europe YES
Nice.
Something better to do with a page-get than ramble about thank god I’m not in Finance and it’s EOFY:
Now that the E3 announcements seem to have calmed down… 2016 GAMES!
Mm, I think I will be buying many games next year. Going to try to keep them limited and not just explode my back-catalogue of indies like StarCrawlers, Darkest Dungeon, Convoy, etc. Because that rabbit hole keeps going down. Like $1000 down, last I checked.
CATEGORIES!
***
Pretty excited about or just guaranteed to get because I’m a sap:
Mass Effect: Andromeda (3 was amazeballs, I don’t care what the Internet says)Final Fantasy 7 remake (NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO TO IT. I WILL BUY IT.)
Hitman (oooh, blood money 2? Really doesn’t matter, was going to get it anyway, but YAY.)
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (No-brainer, HR was fantastic, this can only be better)
Warhammer: Virmin Tide (Left4Dead in Warhammer vs Skaven? Duh!)
XCOM 2 (INJECT IT INTO MY VEINS – Will probably take time off for this)
South Park (I… haven’t finished the first one, but I loved it. I will love this.)
Doom (Hey. I’m an old-school gamer. This looks like a rewarding pilgrimage.)
Dark Souls 3 (Admission of Heresy: I actually had more fun in DS2 than Bloodborne. Looking forward to a return.)
***
Very likely to get these, but not a lock. Might be swayed otherwise by reviews:
Dishonored 2 (Had fun with the original at the time, but Dishonored hasn’t aged well for me.)
Halo 5 (I’d need to buy an Xbone. This might be the catalyst. Speaking of…)
Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst (I’m not certain the original’s magic can be re-captured. Willing to give it a shot?)
Ghost Recon: Wildlands (This took me by surprise. I am SO on board for Tom Clancy’s Far Cry… so far.)
Firewatch (Turtle! No really, I’m into the dialogue.)
Life is Strange (It’ll be finished by then, probably, so hooray.)
Total War: Warhammer (I want to love Total War again, haven’t really since Medieval. Please don’t be bad!)
***
These are on my radar. Could be good, could crash and burn spectacularly:
The Division (I am deeply suspicious of this, but still have hopes. Getting worse vibes than Destiny. Single-player/PVE is dead? Maybe as far as asshole publisher execs are concerned. They might be running the show for this one. That, or the devs bit off more than they can chew.)Rainbow Six: Siege (I haven’t cared about Rainbow Six in a long time, but this has me interested.)
Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate (Loved 4, couldn’t care less about 5. If this falls somewhere in between, it might be a goer.)
Star Wars: Battlefront (I didn’t care about the original. But this seems like it might be more Battlefield 1942 than Battlefield itself is these days.)
Space Hulk: Deathwing (Yeeeees? Space Marine 2, anyone? Haven’t seen enough yet.)
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (Haven’t heard anything, but the name alone has my attention.)
No Man’s Sky (Yeah, I’m not as hyped for this as some. Pointless exploring gets old when you realize how insignificant ALL OF IT is.)
Planet Coaster (Could be awful, but let’s hope it’s not dumbed-down.)
Sea of Thieves (A prettier Guns of Icarus? Multiplayer teamwork reliance for effectiveness has SERIOUS disadvantages, and fuck scheduling.)
Gears 4 (I have a soft spot for this franchise, even if I never got around to 3.)
This is the time of year when every company on the planet suddenly goes “Oh, wait, we have some spare money… Quick, let’s redesign our website!”
All at the same time.
EDIT: Now you’ve changed your post and I look like a crazy 😛
No, I still mentioned the EOFY! Just… not as in-depth.
I approve of your list; my wallet approves of half =p
Deus ex, XCOM2, Dishonored 2, Firewatch, Total War – Warhammer, No Man’s Sky are probably my only must haves for the next FY. Everything else there is on my cautious list; especially all the Ubisoft games. Been burned too many times by over-hyped games since current-gen came out.
I assume Fallout 4 is the only confirmed 2015 release I’m interested in and it tops my list. For possible 2016 titles:
Confirmed buy
* Mass Effect: Andromeda – they’d really have to screw up for me to not continue with Mass Effect at this point. And no, I don’t consider ME3 a screw-up.
* Hitman – I should play Absolution at some point, but I loved Blood Money. Looking forward to this.
* Deus Ex: Mankind Divided – agreed, DXHR was awesome, more of this please.
* XCOM 2 – YES. PLEASE.
* South Park: The Fractured But Whole – it took me over a year to get to it but it was one of the best RPG experiences and hilarious throughout. A sequel is a guaranteed buy,
Maybe
* Doom – I’m interested but it’s a wait and see.
* Dishonored 2 – Never really got into 1, though my wife says it was good. I need to give it another go.
* Gears 4 – I liked the original trilogy but never got around to Judgement, which is sitting unplayed on my shelf. Wait and see.
* Rainbow Six: Seige and The Division are the most interesting-looking Tom Clancy franchises in awhile. Definite interest, but at the same time I’m cautious. I was never really “good” at Rainbow Six and the Division doesn’t look all that promising, despite my interest.
The rest… eh, possibly. No real hype for them. Some franchises I’m simply not interested in at all, some I am strongly opposed to. I hated Halo 4, doubtful Halo 5 will pull me back in. I’ll probably get AC: Syndicate well after launch, if it continues the main story. I’m already skipping Unity, and am waiting on a port to current gen before I consider Rogue. If Syndicate isn’t going to deliver a meaningful advancement to the “real world” story and instead converts to full period-piece game then I think it might be time to pull out of this franchise.
I think insignificance is the point of No Man’s Sky.
Is Rainbow Six Siege that one that’s been in development hell for the better part of a decade?
Siege is that team vs team PvP shooter, I think they first showed it off last E3 where one team held hostages and another had to secure the hostage and escape. Nothing overly impressive from last year or this year’s E3; only person who appeared to be hyped for it was Aisha Tyler.
Wait… it’s a PVP-centric game? Awh darn. Right then, that’s out.
It seems to have a campaign co-op component as well which is what they showed off this year; however that looks more like an addition of the PvP component kind of like CoD’s horde mode. I believe it’s already had an open beta for the PvP component earlier in the last year?
Bloody hell, really? You only have to accidentally think to get the same awareness of futile insignificance from real life, I go into games to reinforce the illusion that I matter as an individual! Why would anyone ever want to SEEK OUT triggers for spiraling into nihilism?
I think the charm of No Man’s Sky is knowing you’ll never see it all and you never know what’s waiting around the corner. If they’ve captured the true sense of exploration and joy of discovery I have a feeling that it could turn into one of those “one more minute” kind of games. It all comes down to the depth of exploration available within the game and how much each star system and planet has available for discovery and the rewards associated with it.
In the end it has the potential to be great and the possibility of being a bland game populated by 100’s of thousands of bland generic planets. The last game that promised anything on this scale was Spore and we all know how that turned out =p
tl;dr – The main character in No Man’s Sky appears to be the galaxy, not your avatar =]
Are you talking about the stuff that was announced at E3 that you’re excited about, or the stuff that’s coming out next year, or what?
I’m only going off the stuff I saw on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Entertainment_Expo_2015#List_of_confirmed_games
Looking at the list probably all upcoming titles?
*cough*NightInTheWoods*cough*Unravel*cough*
Night in the Woods has earned you a blackjack upside the skull at some point, and Unravel looks like a platformer – all of which suck. 🙂
What’s a blackjack upside the skull? 😮
Both look great though, you jaded old fool ;P
TURTLE HOLDING SIMULATOR GOTY FOREVER
Turtle and throw empty bottles at kids simulator!
I may as well get on this HYPE TRAIN!
Bullet-Train Style Hype:
Uncharted 4 – Keen to jump back into some Uncharted action. Despite what people say, Uncharted 3 wasn’t the worst game ever made and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
StarWars: Battlefront – PEW PEW PEW *wookie cry* vwoom vwoom
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided – Last game was brilliant more of it cannot be a bad thing
XCOM 2: I still haven’t finished the first one but that doesn’t mean I don’t love it
Final Fantasy VII: HD Cid is best Cid
Mass Effect: Andromeda: … It’s Mass Effect, I really don’t need to explain do I?
Dishonored 2: Yet another game I have yet to finish but still love to bits (proof that stealth mechanics can be enjoyable instead of a hindrance)
No Man’s Sky: I just know this is going to be a game that I am going to keep coming back to just to unwind.
Fire Emblem Fates: BABBY MAKING SIMULATOR OF THE YEAR 2016
Modern Non-Bullet-Train Style Hype
Doom – I didn’t play much of the Doom series however it could be the new HD WolfensteinMirror’s Edge – I didn’t think I was hyped for this but they just keep saying the right things when they talk about it.
Firewatch – Ohhhhh, pretty
South Park: The Fractured But Whole – Not a huge South Park fan but the previous game was a funny and solid title.
Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam: Could be good, if it’s nothing like Sticker Star
World of Final Fantasy: People seem to be angry about this game but it actually looks pretty interesting
Queensland Transport Train (aka as low as you can possibly get) Style Hype
Gears 4: Played through the first 3 with my cousin and as enjoyable as it was I don’t think I will play this unless I can find a coop partner.Planet Coaster: Remember Sim City? I want to be hyped for a new simlike game but mannnn, this could fail in a big way.
Rainbow Six: Division: Still recovering from the sweet burn I got from getting hyped for Destiny
Dark Souls 3: A part of me died a little when I played Dark Souls 2, kinda like a kid finding out that Santa isn’t real. I can still get hyped for games but it just won’t be the same.
Super Mario Maker: People seem to be going banana’s over this. I will keep watch of it.
Regarding Catalyst, I felt the same way about Portal/Portal 2 but I’m so happy with both of them. I’m hoping for the same result with MEdge/Medge 2.
Totally with you on Andromeda, FFVII, and XCOM 2.
2016 games I’m looking forward to:
ABZU (if I can’t get Endless Ocean, this will have to do)
Bravely Second (maybe. Going to wait for reviews for this one first)
Fire Emblem Fates (duh)
Zelda WiiU
Planet Coaster
SMTxFE
Uncharted 4
Yooka-Laylee
Mirrors Edge 2
Firewatch
CUPHEAD!
You are looking forward to a bunch of games I don’t recognize and thus can only assume are bad/Nintendo (same thing really).
Ooohyeah, put’em up!
*shots fired*
Yeah, feelin’ fiesty. Should probably stop. 😛
Better here than at work right?
Here at least we know there is a sliver of sarcasm in there… God forbid someone at work took a clearly sarcastic remark aimed at no one individual or group of people seriously and decided to call HR.
You are being at least a tiny bit sarcastic right…………?Yeah, I love that people love terrible games (OH GOD WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME).
Nah, I was proudly Nintendo in the original console wars, son! It’s just passed me by. Now all these ‘cherished memories’ people have are for shit I never even heard of, let alone played.
I could probably get back into Nintendo, but there’s a lot of missing in-jokes there, and I’m less tolerant of much of their… ‘idiosyncrasies’ thanks to not having the same nostalgia-goggles .
Now that I have a list to work with…
Hype:
– Unravel: The game looks just okay, but I’m buying it ASAP because the developer’s presentation in EA’s press conference was like a blast of fresh air in a room full of wet farts.
– Rise of the Tomb Raider: I bought an Xbox One for this. Previous one was GOTY for me. Hype.
– Bravely Second: End Layer: The music is a massive step backward but the rest of it looks good. Really liked Bravely Default.
– Fire Emblem Fates: Relationship Simulator 2.0!
– Genei Ibun Roku X FE: Went from who cares to TAKE MY MONEY once I saw the nutty trailers.
– The Last Guardian: I bought a PS3 to play this 🙁
– Deus Ex: Mankind Divided: Probably most hyped game for me. DX:HR was amazing and this looks like it’ll be just as good.
– Final Fantasy VII Remake: My brain says no but my heart says yes 🙁
– Nier Sequel: Actually the biggest and best surprise of E3 for me.
– Star Ocean 5: They’re saying all the right things and it’s looking like a return to good Star Ocean (i.e. 3) and a departure from the steamy turd that was SO4. Yes please. Also, for the love of god, please make it dual audio. Tri-Ace game dubs are ear-meltingly bad, m’kay.
– Corpse Party: Blood Drive: The Corpse Party games are great and this one looks excellent. Designed for Vita this time instead of PSP, so bonus.
– Senran Kagura 2: I’ll be buying it.
– Senran Kagura: Estival Versus: Super excited for this. Shinovi Versus is the only game I platinumed, ever. Really hope they get the extra DLC characters too, especially the Ikkitousen ones as that franchise is a guilty pleasure of mine.
– Trails of Cold Steel: SO EXCITED. I basically caused this localization to happen too, since I gave up on them ever doing it and bought Sen and Sen II for Vita while I was in Japan.
Interest:
– Persona 5: It looks great and I want to be hyped but then I remember how I keep buying Persona games and then can’t get into them because they’re deliberately designed to stress out my personality type.
– Doom: It looks fun, but I’m not sure how it’ll go and I’m not sure I like the aesthetics. Also not sure I’d get full retail price worth of value out of it.
– Broforce: I own the early access PC version but don’t want to taint my experience with a beta. It looks cool.
– Eitr: I’m a sucker for Norse myth and I like the art style
– Mass Effect: Andromeda: I’m always up for Mass Effect, but Dragon Age Inquisition was a mediocre game and the trailer for this did nothing for me, mainly because of extremely incongruous music that made me think maybe what they’re making isn’t what I want to play.
– Rock Band 4: I was big into Rock Band for a long time. The fact I have a use for some of these fucking plastic instruments again will be a bonus. Not sure if I’ll take everything to the US with me though, or just the guitar.
– Below: Still looks cool. Got to be close to done by now right?
– Gears of War 4: I liked Gears a lot, but I expect my arc with this will be the same as the other games: Play once, enjoy it a lot, never touch again except to pull out for couch co-op once or twice.
– Halo 5: It looks good… until they show that that unfun third faction is still there, meaning you have to fight unfun enemies using their set of terrible knockoffs of the good guns. Story seems interesting but I’m just really not sure about it. No interest in MP, it’s well and truly no longer the Halo I fell for back in the day.
– Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water: I love these games in theory, but I also find them way too scary to play a lot of the time. But this will help justify my Wii U purchase.
– Journey PS4: Release it already. I never got around to playing on PS3 and I want to play it but don’t want to play on the old system.
– Shenmue III: I backed it. On paper, I’m excited. I’m just also not sure that the game style will hold up in 2017 or so.
– South Park: Really loved Stick of Truth, but not convinced by the sequel since it’s not Obsidian.
Tentative:
– Transformers Devastation: I think this looks rad, but is it $60+ rad? Will wait and see.
– Persona 4 Dancing All Night: If I can get it for $20 or less. Have enough better Rhythm games. I’d rather have IA/VT Colorful but that game seems like it’ll never come out anyway.
– Project X Zone 2: The Sakura Taisen cameo characters are the closest I’ll ever get to being able to have a localization of a Sakura Taisen game 🙁
– Mighty Number 9: I backed it on Kickstarter and the way they’ve run things since then has been everything I dislike about Kickstarter projects, so expecting this to be really average.
– Amplitude: Backed on Kickstarter because John Drake guilted me into it by calling me out when I expressed doubts on twitter. Also because the first game was okay. Not expecting much from it though.
– No Man’s Sky: I think this looks amazing and on a technical level I love it. But I’m not sure it’s the sort of game that will hold my interest for more than an hour.
– Sea of Thieves: Looks rad but not sure about the Multiplayer aspect.
– Xenoblade Chronicles X: I’m not sure they iterated on what I actually want from a Xenoblade sequel. I want to like it but I suspect it’s not for me. 🙁
– Horizon: Zero Dawn: Need more info on what this game actually is.
– Uncharted 4: The gameplay video did the opposite of hyping me. It looks like it still has all the bits I hated about Uncharted 3. Issue is that no one will actually call them out on the bullshit bits so can’t just wait for reviews.
– Until Dawn: This looks really interesting but not sure it’s my sort of game.
– Assassin’s Creed Syndicate: I guess I’ll end up biting again. 🙁
Oh wow, that made me realize I had forgotten to include Eitr as a must-have, Nier and Horizon as probably-get, and keep an eye on Below to see if that looks like garbage or not. I didn’t realize Journey PS4 was even coming, that’ll be my first time playing it, I reckon. A must-have, but not a hype.
It’s funny how entirely forgettable Horizon is huh? I’m really interested in that game but they way the introduced it seems to just slip completely out of people’s minds!
It’s in the back of my mind! I swear I just didn’t see it on the list! I REALLY liked what I saw!
The issue for me is they add the Zero Dawn to the end so I don’t relate Horizon: Zero dawn with just Horizon
Guess it’s a good thing for you that E3 was all about games that won’t come out til after this year 😛
I can’t think of a whole lot. Interested in South Park even though I haven’t played the first (although I do own it now, thanks Big W). Hitman too, even though I’ve only played Silent Assassin. Oh yeah, Mirror’s Edge. I don’t know that I entirely “got” the first one, but I liked it. No Man’s Sky I’m interested in almost entirely from a technical viewpoint, even if it’s something I just dick around in from time to time. Exploring in Minecraft was a lot of fun.
Other than NMS I’m not sure I’ll actually get to play any of those, due to platforms 😛
I m preferring DS2 to BB as well. Both quality games but prefer to take things slowly.
I really don’t buy that many games compared to you lot , do I?
& I still have trouble finding enough cash to cover all my purchases. :-/
Oh, I dunno… slight ‘advantage’ here (if you wanna call it that). I’m pretty confident my games budgets (both time budget and money budget) would take a nose-dive/death-spiral if I had to raise a child.
I’ve never had a well payed job. I’m an admin now & it’s the best pay I ever had.
But yeah, kids, houses & everything in between eats cash.
I think the other side is, when I was single I spent my cash on a larger range of things. Went to concerts, drank alcohol often, splurged on CDs & dvds I only watched once.
Now that I have to be careful, I only really buy games because I get more bang for my buck.
Between the library & piracy I’ve covered everything else.
So my point, if I ever actually had one, is that I’ve never bought quite so many games as you lot.
I find it odd, because I love games.
I miss when I was a kid & I bought a game & repeatedly played it for months before getting another game even crossed my mind.
Also, I have a Problem with Steam-sale addiction, which is clear from my library count.
So glad I’m PC-phobic around Steam sale time.
Hypeperformance’s list of hype inducing future games in the relatively near future:
Definite purchases:
Mass Effect: Andromeda: I need more Shepherd.
South Park: The Fractured But Whole: I concur with @kermitron’s thoughts on South Park’s first game, they will get my money again.
Star Wars: Battle:front: I really like Star Wars and the thought of being involved in the Battle of Hoth in current gen makes me want to throw my money at them.
Fallout 4: Never before has a game made me want to go back and play an older iteration because I can’t wait for the new one.
FIFA 16: Because I am all that is wrong with this world.
Caller Doodi Blick Osp IiI: I love Zombies mode and will throw my money at it until I don’t love it anymore.
oooooh, I don’t think there’ll be any more Shepard in Andromeda, though. Maybe some references, but not the PC. Everything they’ve said leading up to ME3 was that ME3 was definitively the end of Shepard’s story and that any future ME wouldn’t be about her. (YEAH, HER. YOU HEARD.)
LAST GUARDIAN!!!!!!
Holy shit, Suikoden III is going to be on PSN in Europe in the next update. IT FINALLY HAPPENED. Only been waiting since 2002. 🙁
Anybody here had any dealings with http://www.pccasegear.com I think @powalen has, but not sure about anyone else.
So far I’m not impressed. I ordered a hard drive from them on Saturday, paid for express post and it wasn’t even shipped until about 10am this morning, so the absolute earliest it’ll get here is tomorrow, when I should’ve had it by today.
Actually, I’ve ordered a whole raft of stuff from them and it arrived promptly without incident. :/
Yeah, this.
Only problem I had is that I ordered something on a Sunday, and changed my mind early Monday afternoon. By that point they’d already prepped it for shipping so I had to deal with sending it back to them.
Yeah I’ve never had an issue, ordered my entire computer internals through them when I lived in Canberra, and everything rocked up at my door 3 days later… It’s possible it was on backorder but then they should have notified you
I’ve bought most of my stuff with them and they’ve always been great. Might be either bad luck or just a very busy Monday for them. I don’t think they’re open much on Saturday/not at all Sunday.
Yeah, I didn’t expect them to be open to fill orders on the weekend, but considering I paid for express, I at least expected it to have been shipped by yesterday afternoon.
But as you said, maybe they just had a ton of orders to fill.
Strange. Used them a couple of times (including that one massive order for all my PC parts) and never really had any troubles.
To be fair nothing ships on weekends and they may have had a backlog of orders on Monday from the weekend. Couriers to pick ups first thing in the morning so if they got to it say midday yesterday it wouldn’t have been sent until this morning.
Like I said to @rize a few comments up, I didn’t expect them to ship it on the weekend, but if I knew it was going to be shipped on Tuesday instead of Monday I wouldn’t have payed for express and saved myself a couple of bucks.
If you didn’t you would have been at Josephine’s mercy. I ordered some tonic syrups, was picked up from Melbourne, sat there for two weeks then came up here. Express you’re still getting it a hell of a lot quicker.
That’s pretty friggin’ terrible man. Have Auspost gone back to using the horse and cart?
Nah they just take snail mail to literal!
I’ve had this happen a few times with them and it’s really frustrating when it happens and you live in Melbourne because standard auspost would get there in the same amount of time. But that’s only been 1-2 times in dozens of examples. They’re still my go-to for PC parts.
Funny you should mention PCCaseGear, I actually ordered a new computer from them. (New motherboard, CPU, Graphic Card and RAM) they sent it pretty fast. However my graphic card I am supposed to get a free copy of Batman if I send my card serial number to the manufacturer. I checked the box and it seems like someone has gone out of their way to tear off the serial number on the Graphics Card box …
That’s pretty sucky. My guess is the code’s already been redeemed.
Should be able to find the serial number on the card itself. If it doesn’t work, chase them up because screw that.
Interesting update in the shiny hunt:
Caught a Thundurus over the weekend (purple instead of light blue, not the most exciting difference). This was on the old 3DS with the AS cart. I think I’d just got Virizion on the New OR side a day earlier, so the target there was the same point but Tornadus appears instead of Thundurus.
Once you have both Tornadus and Thundurus in your party, you can then encounter Landorus. I grabbed both of these out of the bank and started resetting that cart on Landorus.
So, on the train this morning (one stop from the end) the shiny Tornadus popped. Was still attempting to catch it when I stepped off the train, and got that done halfway between station and work, saved and turned it off.
At lunch, decided I’d also throw the OR cart over to try for Landorus to speed up the process, but the only other Tornadus / Thundurus pair I possess is the shiny set I just got. Thought why not, put them in the party, saved the game ready to go and ran the encounter once to make sure I’d set up properly.
Shiny Landorus appears.
First encounter.
So now I’m wondering if it’s just sheer luck that two shiny legendaries in a row have popped out on the one cart, or if shiny party prerequisites played a part for the second one… Good thing I can swap the shiny duo over to the AS cart tonight to find out.
It will be … interesting, unexpected and from what I can tell, undocumented if it happens again.
Hunting update, have now caught:
Lugia, Ho-oh, Regirock, Regice, Registeel, Latias, Latios, Mesprit, Uxie, Azelf, Cresselia, Virizion, Tornadus, Thundurus, Landorus
Remaining:
Raikou, Entei, Suicune, Palkia, Dialga, Giratina, Regigigas, Heatran, Cobalion, Terrakion, Reshiram, Zekrom, Kyurem
Edit: Register is not one of the regi golems, silly autocorrect.
I think you might’ve just been extremely lucky with it! Never heard of anything that affects shiny rates like that.
But if it’s reproducible then you might’ve discovered something new!
No dice.
Was just sheer stupidly good luck.
Batman has just unlocked (Steam PC).
Yay!
I have to do lots of things this afternoon and evening for moving, so probably won’t get to it until tomorrow.
Boo!
Hoping it’ll be at my post office when I get home (and I get there in time to collect)
BASTARD!
I have to wait 3-6 months before I’ll have a PC that’ll run it.
Will just have to make do with Asylum, City and Origins.
I’ll be moseying to the store tomorrow morning. Exciting.
DC: I AM THE NIGHT
Sales assistant: one batman for you sir?
DC: MY PARENTS ARE DEEEEEEEEAD
Sales assistant: very good sir, here you go
DC: *furls Cape, throws smoke bomb *
I laughed out loud. Please do this, @DC. I am absolutely certain they will play along. …You may need to wear a dodgy mask to make sure they don’t miss the point, but if you gravel-voice your, ‘I am the night’ enough, I’m sure they’ll guess.
Friend, you’ve met me. I don’t do ‘bits’ like this. I struggle to even appear like a regular person. 😛
That’s why it works. Regular person wouldn’t do this. It’s perfect!
“Would you like a game-guarantee with that?”
“GAME GUARANTEE IS THE PROTECTION THIS CD DESERVES… BUT NOT THE PROTECTION IT NEEDS.”
“Sooooo is that a yes?”
“Er, no actually, it’s a no, sorry. imeanI’MBATMAN.”
. o O (Dammit,I said CD like City and everything…)
DC gets back to the DC cave
DC: WHURRS MY CONTROLLER
DC: DAMMIT, JOKER TOOK IT
(checks under couch)
DC: oh wait there it is
I’m imagining Abed and/or Troy from Community doing this.
Why does the sales assistant sound like Alfred in my head =P
Nah.
Sales assistant: you only adopted the preorder. I was born in it, moulded by it. I didn’t buy a game after release until I was already a man!
God I loved that scene.
Maaan. My graphics card repair needs to hurry up…
https://soundcloud.com/mcmangos/what-if-seinfeld-theme-song
Well that was certainly something.
O_O
…and not in a good way.
I kind of liked it 😛
I mean, probably just in a sense that they really seemed to capture what they set out to achieve. I could totally see it as the theme song if the series was resurrected as a kids’ cartoon.
@jocon Sorry I wasn’t on Sunday mr jo; I jumped on to Destiny around 8am hungover played for about 30min on my Hunter before the game servers kicked me of quoting some kind of animal as an error (anteater this time I think) at which point I said “@$*! you Bungie” and turned off the game =p
And this folks is my 1000th Kotaku post. 🙂
Still a fledgling TAYbie compared to just about everyone here and amazed to find a bunch of people who are incredibly welcoming and supportive. I’ve seen countless posts supporting people through stuff that I wouldn’t know where to start with.
I could keep writing (poorly) but I don’t think I need to when I can say it in a few more words…
Hands down the best bunch of people I’ve met online or otherwise.
Thanks for making me welcome.
We should have Chinese in the valley again in celebration.
I should turn up
Why, are you Chinese?
Yeah
Well then.
Nah, I said I would but didn’t turn up last time.
@welbot was right!
He’s not really Chinese! Just like a lot of stuff from China, he’s a fake! :p
He, like me, married a Chinese girl. Fortunately for him, his worked out better than mine though 😉
I don’t think you’re supposed to call Taiwanese people Chinese…
Depends your opinion on the two China problem.
I’m always down for this plan.
Boom, let’s do this. When’re you free? Let’s not make a huge deal out of it, say short notice either this week or next. I’ll also ping Beardy and Amber, they’ll get us discounts and free stuff like last time. Shout-out to other Bris-TAY-bies, too, once we narrow down a date.
Probably not this weekend as wife is away and I have the children. And the next weekend I won’t be able to eat due to being violated by a masked man with a camera on the Monday 🙁
Being violated with a camera means you can still eat white rice…
Had dinner at a friend’s place on the Saturday before I had one of these procedures on the Monday. They had bread rolls that I could still eat, and I’d brought my own packets of microwave white rice, so I ended up having rice rolls.
Not as bad as I thought it would be.
Was that for both ends?
Just the exit, but that clears after the entry so generally the prep is more restrictive for that, and I wouldn’t expect it to be too different for the full spitroast.
Edit: from memory it was a restricted diet Friday/Saturday, nothing but the prep materials and lots of time on the toilet Sunday, procedure Monday.
I associated this masked man comment with the EB batman thread above
All I could think was you crazy Bris-TAY-bies
@dc is filming a promo bit for his Batman LP on YouTube. He has a very specific niche appeal.
Hey leave me out of this. 😛
@dc you’re the one planning on going all Dark Knight on the poor sales clerk, you monster.
My social calendar is empty over the coming weeks (will confirm with Mrs Sunsoar to be sure) and only non-option is going to be 4th July lunch as have a doc’s appointment that doesn’t involve cameras or bodily violations.
As far as you know. You never know what a doctor will decide to stick where 😛
Haahaaha- WHAT?!
You know how to strike fear into a man quickly.
Just to add in my 2c (not that it really matters, but you know.. just in case) I’m working 7-3 this week and next, so if it’s a dinner thing on one of those weeks, I may not make it. Depends on what happens with work though. If I get enough notice I might be able to swap a shift with someone.
I don’t mind going there again. Dat corn and crab soup! mmmmmm yummp!
I don’t really care where though. As long as I don’t have to walk 100 miles! I will be a little quicker this time though, as I’m on to my walking stick now. Didn’t even have crutches last time around!
You do okay.
You would have been great, but you get points taken away for stealing my baby name.
You did earn points back for Hot Sweeeet Lover though.
Alright, you’re pretty cool.
Just had a quick chat with my wife on my mobile and got freaked out. Sudden MASSIVE increase in voice quality and I don’t know why. Like, I would rate the quality above what I get in Sydney/Canberra on full 4G (Telstra and Optus) ten times over.
I think they might be doing upgrades here…
I imagining a panic’d moment where you’re not 100% sure you actually called your wife and it’s some random chick who sounds eerily similar to her.
Also – do they do voice over 4G yet? Last I heard (while back now) was that voice was still on 3G network and 4G was carrying data.
I literally just got an SMS from Optus telling me they’re doing “upgrades” to the tower here, so they may be adding VoLTE to the area.
Sounds like a villain straight out of Darkwing Duck!…. I don’t know enough about mobile networks do I? 😛
You are correct in that they didn’t do anything but data over 4g at first, as not enough devices supported it, but it’s under way!
PLOT TWIST: She was standing behind you all along!
I can confirm, that yes indeed, Optus have been pushing out upgrades to push people to the LTE band for voice. I can’t confirm when/where they are being deployed, but I heard chatter about it today at work!
What’s been happening over here then, eh?
VIDEO GAMES
We’re talking about what a jerk that Jimu jerk is. Have you met that jerk? He’s the jerkiest jerk who ever jerked.
🙁
Makes sense… He is easily distracted by twitter porn bots.
https://youtu.be/4lN0_FD84E4
Only ever so slightly related…
https://youtu.be/rlBskd3IaNw
And damn these guys are stoned out of their heads…
I will watch this tonight, not recognising anything atm
I’m sorry, my mind started to wander after reading “jerk that Jimu”.
#WhyIsItNeverPage18?
Just watched Inside Out. Dem feels. An amazing experience. Pixar’s best movie in ages. Lava (the short before it) was also really good and very pretty.
My SNES has been sitting here powered on since the middle of yesterday, since I had to go out before I could finish the run. Nostalgia 😛
It’s funny though, having just had an E3 filled with all sorts VR stuff where immersion is the big deal… here I am playing a 21 year old game at a framerate that feels like it gets down to about 5fps sometimes, a resolution that seems to be about 448×380 as far as I can tell, but flying through the crazy parts of Sector Z and I’m still so immersed that I’m physically ducking and weaving in my chair as I try and avoid all the obstacles.
One of the joys of emulating SNES on PC is the ability to save states so if they have a shitty/no save system you can still save.
And you can use a controller that isn’t a horribly uncomfortable piece of poo!
But it’s just not the same 😛
I love PS controls because they are the evolution of SNES.
It’s been a long time since I actually SNESed on a SNES though
I played soooo much emulated SNES coming out of high school on just the keyboard. Anything that relied on shoulder buttons was a bloody nightmare, so a SNES controller would have been nice 😛
Yay Starwing
Just had a customer insist I hold my finger out. Was worried she was going to slap it but she held her hands above and below it and sat there with her eyes closed well beyond the point it got awkward. Said she was a natural healer and it will heal faster now. Faster than what and by what measure I have no idea.
Felt like it would have been rude to tell her no and no harm done I guess. Still. Weirded me out.
..now pull my finger.
Should’ve farted loudly, looked her dead in the eye and ask “Is that part of the healing?”
laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawl.
While she was doing that, her partner swiped your wallet.
Finger’s got no feeling?
You need customer healing…
Customer Healing, baby!
I used to run some personal training sessions for a partner at a lawfirm in Melbourne, who has been something of a mentor to me. We would catch up for breakfast every few months and talk about my career, and things like this. I have found it very helpful for me particularly as a young guy trying to make do. I got an invitation to his 60th birthday yesterday so I was pretty happy to receive it.
I just got a call from his executive assistant then to say that unfortunately the invitation was from a previous draft list, and that ‘I‘d been given the chop‘ and won’t be attending his birthday anymore. I was supposed to catch up again with him for breakfast in the next fortnight but I’m not sure if I should go now on the back of this. He messaged me on Monday to catch up for Breakfast so I’m not sure where I stand with him. I feel like I’m in Year 9 all over again trying to work out whether Sam Bennet liked me lol.
I’d say go… There’d be a fair chance he (or maybe the EA) grabbed a list from his contact list. Then someone else may have been trimming/tailoring list based on venue requirements and he doesn’t know you’re not going/were uninvited.
Then you could broach it at breakfast if it’s bugging you. The assistant may have thought you’d have zero interest in going, or perhaps he himself thought that. No harm in asking that I can see… and wouldn’t want it to wreck what sounds like an awesome relationship to have.
Knowing him I would be pretty surprised if he wasn’t across the list, he told me I was invited a long while ago but it would seem I’ve not kept up appearances to make the final list. At some stage in the process I’d been removed by him is in my thinking. It’s a great feeling to have someone look out for you like that, I’m not sure if I’ve done something unwittingly in the last couple of days which has stuffed things up.
Or the assistant saw him and thought “who’s this guy? He’s a nobody with no high standing. Gone” without the guy actually knowing. Been my experience dealing with people, especially ones with standing, that the assistants tend to be snottier and more full of themselves by far than the people they’re working for.
That’s likely too, she was pretty short with me lol. I’ll find out next time we catch up I suppose.
Oh hells, yeah. Some of the most histrionic bitch-fits we’ve had demanding escalations for requests have come from executive assistants of ‘terribly important people’ for absolutely no reason other than that their fucking boss is GOD to them.
You say what they want can’t be done to the assistant,and the assistant freaks out. You say it to the director, and they’re cool beans. Night and fucking day.
One of our sales staff just had a reception complain that we keep calling her. A receptionist.
“Cool, give us the manager’s direct number then.”
“Oh, all his calls direct to me first, they can only go through to him if I transfer them to him.”
“Sooooo?”
Was basically how the call went
“Why do you keep calling me”
“We aren’t’ calling you we are calling for your boss”
“Well it is inconvenient, I keep getting the calls”
Definitely go to the breakfast, if only to find out for sure where you still stand with him.
Maybe broach the topic of his birthday, without mentioning your invite/not invite, and see what he says.
I think I will, I’ll give him a call tomorrow and tee up breakfast. I don’t mind being not invited given the expense of the venue, I suppose I was more anxious that somebody I look up to uninvited me lol.
So did Sam Bennet like you? Don’t leave us hanging. 😛
Sam and I went on a single date, I took her to see Dodgeball and gave her a custom made black leather with cheap sparkly lettering that said ‘Sam’ on it. I also paid for her lunch at the shopping center food court. I thought it went great!
In reality it was a total disaster, she didn’t like my company one bit and then immediately started dating women.
Hahahahahaha, you turned another one
I agree with Jo, definitely do breakfast. If nothing else you are getting good value out of those and it would be a shame to lose that, even if you didn’t make the VIP list for the birthday.
You’re right, I’m not upset so much about being uninvited as I am about the thought of losing the friendship we have. I won’t mention it unless it happens transiently at breakfast next week.
I personally would probably chuck in a joking quip, “Pity I didn’t make the guest list,” but I’m far less socially savvy I bet. 😉
Coming from the International Man of Mystery not being social savvy? Ahah! A quip within a quip, you jest 😛
And that is how it happens transiently at breakfast
Comes down to how much it affects you; that said never get emotionally invested in your mentors. Especially if they’re high powered executives. If your end-goal from your breakfasts was to get career advice and possibly forge a network connection for future endeavours there’s no need for an emotional dimension to the relationship.
I’d say go to breakfast and forget about the party invite entirely; if he brings it up then acknowledge it and move on to other topics. It only becomes important if you make it important.
That said if you guys are good friends and there is an emotional dimension to the relationship then just be honest and get it out of the way. Be understanding but at the same time mention it as it did affect you.
tl;dr either it matters or it doesnt, pick one!
Unrelated questions – anyone have experience with Wemo © products? They seem hideously overpriced in Australia to the point that I don’t think I’d be able to justify the cost.
$50 for a light globe, $140 for a light starter pack (2 globes and a terminal), $70 for a single powerpoint adapter?
Which was a tangent to this question – anyone use or have experience with the IFTTT application? Just grabbed it the other night and seems pretty cool for automation on your phone. Basically an ‘IF/THEN’ arrangement where you can pull different apps/data/responses together and the app does all the tricky stuff in the background.
So far have it set up to grab a weather report each night and dump it into my calendar for the next morning so when I wake up I have a lock screen notification with the day’s weather. Also set up to automatically text my wife back if I miss a call from her… handy.
I had it, but it was chewing my battery. I know @Freya uses it
Hi Honey, Still at the pub, don’t wait up
In response to a missed call at 10:45am on a Thursday…. I think I’d be sleeping with the dogs.
It’d be pretty cool if it was kinda location aware or aware of your telemetry – call comes in and is missed, app checks GPS status to see if your travelling say more than 10-15km/h and responds with “I’m currently captaining a 2 tonne death machine powered by the controlled detonation of highly flammable liquids. Call you back in a bit.”
Gigabyte via PC Case Gear have just informed me that my graphics card will take 2-4 weeks to process for warranty from today, after already being with them for a week and a half.
How bout I just shoot myself instead?
Do you need one for the time being?
Someone here at work gave me an AMD HD7970 but I’m yet to install it. If you need one to get you through the next month I can send it over to you express?
Nah, but thanks for the offer. Running on a 6950 I borrowed from a friend for now but non-nvidia means I miss out on nice things with games like Witcher 3 and Batmangs. It also won’t run them in high quality which I miss greatly at the moment 😛
Man I know that pain, I was using a 6950 1Gb for the last 18 months, and was running BF4 on 1080p on Medium, and was lucky to hit 40fps with constant stuttering and hitching. I dropped $170 on a 2nd hand GTX670 2Gb and I’m now running BF4 on high @ 1440p regularly hitting 80fps…
I hope for your sake Gigabyte come through quickly.
Crap, my wallet. The Batman console is out this week and upon browsing the latest Big W catalogue, so too is the Transformers Devastator set at $198.
15cm shorter than Metroplex, yet twice the price. Lame 😛
http://www.destructoid.com/warner-bros-strikes-again-batman-arkham-knight-having-issues-on-pc-294644.phtml
NOOOOOO! Any of you guys having these troubles? Should I buy on PS4 instead? (One of the criticisms is 30fps, which I don’t give a damn about. More the other stuff. :P)
Noooooooo! I don’t want issues! I don’t need issues! It’s Batman! I hope it’s not like Origins, where the FPS would get to a point that it was all:
I’m BATM……….A………………….N
EDIT: So as not to be killed by mobile users.
Reading around the PS4 version is pretty rock solid.
You may not care about 30fps (I definitely don’t, can’t even tell the difference personally) but you probably will care about the continual 3-10 fps sections. The fact even Titan X’s are getting those drops is horrific.
Arkham City PC was a mess for weeks back when that was released too. :\
I’m buying on PS4, if that influences your thinking at all.
Ah, much better
You are the worst.
*upvotes*
What about poor Bebop?
I didn’t get this the first time I read this comment
*shame*
For shame.
Here’s a bit more comprehensive run down on the issues.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2015/06/22/pc-version-of-batman-arkham-knight-is-hot-garbage-amd-and-nvidia-users-both-unhappy/
Yeeeeeeah, think I might go PS4. Probably. *shakes fist*
It’s been problematic, but not too bad for me. Sitting at 30 (though I think it has frame pacing issues) most of the time with the occasional stutter which is giving me 15-20 fps (so, a stutter of up to half a second, which is a bit lame). Haven’t tried unlocking it to see how my performance is, but the benchmark sat at an average of 59.
@dc And despite the whining the internet likes to do (edit: About Digital Foundry, not in general, well I mean, there’s also a lot of general whining), my most trusted source for technical breakdowns (Eurogamer) was positive on the PS4 version. Drops in batmobile sections, but otherwise a solid 30. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-hands-on-with-batman-arkham-knight
THANKS PAL! <3
Gah, I’d finally made it through to Venom Surface 3 and just got completely screwed over by my idiot team mates. After getting rescued, they’d fly on ahead of me and shoot these barrier things so that they’d switch direction after I’d already switched them, and kill me.
Then for some reason nobody asked for help on the final run, and I carried the super shield all the way through to the boss. Managed to get past him but took a tonne of damage on the way to Andross and got wiped out. No second chance 🙁
Have you tried getting good?
Scrub?
Get home.
PACKAGE IN MY MAILBOX
I AM THE NIGHT?
Book I ordered off book depository 3 weeks ago. Eh, good enough.Giggity.
Beer was not a good choice. 🙁
Wrong.
Beer is always a good choice.
Heresy! Someone moderate this comment immediately!
https://xkcd.com/1534/
WOO, I DID IT!
Beat Starwing on route 3, somehow still had three Continues up my sleeve and an extra life to go too. Feels like one to add to the Battletoads List.
@freezespreston – good gotten 😛
I have nothing important to add here..
Potato
Leek
Plumbing
Hat
Cat
Sounds like me!
You’re a potato?
Sure, why not? Potato’s are delicious.
\o/
Scree you saucy minx, you
What?
You just described yourself as delicious 😉
I can confirm potatos are delicious, especially in everything
The poor potato. Has kept entire cultures alive to build thriving cities but still not considered important
Its kinda mashed aint it
Surprised they aren’t boiling mad
They’re pretty baked
I feel like a slightly fancier businessman now that my Frequent Flyer card has upgraded to Silver 😛
Now I just have to scab more interstate trips…
Are you George Clooney now?
No lawyer wife yet 🙁
Magikarp! Use splash attack!
http://i.imgur.com/u1nyFF4.png
What do you think of the pose?Needs more sex appeal.
How? I have no idea, honestly.
Would you prefer this?
http://i.imgur.com/CRedIr5b.jpg
Love those 00:01AM digital releases. Already playing Arkham. =)
Aw man, lots of people ragging on the True Detective season 2 premiere on Facebook and Twitter. I haven’t seen it yet, but it’s a shame it doesn’t seem to be measuring up…
I liked it. It’s just different. Different aesthetic. More an ensemble show this time around. Opening credits are still great.
Got around to watching it last night, reckon the opening credits were my favourite bit. I’m not writing it off just yet, it’s got way too much credit banked for that, but I’m waiting for all the threads to start weaving together.
At the same time, I recognise that S01E01 was the lowest (average) rated episode of the first season, I just wasn’t as instantly hooked. Looking forward to next week’s episode to re-evaluate.
I just saw that the opening credits for season 2 are by a Queensland artist, Patrick Clair.
He did Season 1’s credits as well. Won an Emmy for them.
Don’t right it off based on the internet, you’re better than that Shane.
Sense8 rules!!!
I’m not writing anything off. I’ll still watch it. I’ll watch the hell out of it! 🙂
I saw you reaching for the red pen (or something, how does one write something off, call someone? Fil in paperwork? I dunno, this is a failed joke)
I only watched episode 1 of the first season and it didn’t really pique my interest
Sweet mighty fucking jesus. I met my old senior from high school at work today, and she gave me the courtesy of telling me this one particular tidbit.
“Well, you graduated before the school went to shit. Teacher strikes and all that.”
“Yeah. You know, though, I think one of the girls from your year became a porn star.”
INCEPTION HORN
Well, it’s not like trying to find out which one is going to change your browsing habits at all.
Not a link to the porn mentioned 0/10 moaning porn actresses
Holding out for himself, selfish i say
Half past three in the morning and I’m in the kitchen making the kid’s lunch boxes up for tomorrow.
I’ve got this #SingleDadLife thing nailed down.
You got this, Freezey!
I bought Village: Inn and Village: Port on Sunday from Unhalfbricking. It’s an online store run out of a guy’s garage. I’ve seen his garage, I want it. He specialises in games that don’t tend to make it over here (we bought Kolejka from him at CanCon) and it turns out he mostly does it by going to Essen every year.
You see, there are two major board games conventions that happen every year: Gencon in America and Spiel in Essen, Germany. American publishers prioritise releasing at Gencon, Europeans at Spiel. So the Unhalfbricking guy spends four days furiously playtesting games at Essen, trying to pick out which titles are worth stocking, and he’s not looking at Asmodee or Rio Grande titles.
To fund this, he has a voucher system on his site. It’s a fun little approach to crowdfunding. You buy vouchers worth $X before he goes and that basically works as store credit for things that he buys at Essen. There’s a priority system where people with more credit get priority and all that. Either way, it’s kind of rad.
More importantly, I finally have my Village expansions!
Please tell me that the people who make Village are doing an expansion called Village: Idiot
What’s shipping like from there? I came across that site a little while back, and was pondering something but was unsure about it.
It’s pretty much just whatever Australia post charges. I didn’t pay shipping though because I drove to his house.
If I insult or make anyone angry today
Ha ha! Sucked in loser!!
As long as it’s not me I won’t take it personally.
The sun is overated & flying is for suckers!
Icarus was a dick!
Also, 77 was a bad year & the wurst number in the alphabet!
Hahaha! I’m cracking it here!
77 was the year Star Wars came out.
You’re wrong.
Your face is wrong.
Your entire system is wrong.
Not in Uzbekistan!
Just about to try and get a refund on my GMG copy of Arkham Knight. I got the key emailed to me yesterday, but I haven’t added it to steam yet, so here’s hoping…
Good luck, friend.
Switching to a cheaper store or just not interested in the early days drama?
I was happy with the price (still am actually) but I was just scraping past minimum specs to begin with, then they changed the requirements, plus all the shitty performance that’s becoming apparent, I’d rather either get the xbox version, or leave it for the GOTY version next year.
If they say no, you could always redeem it & then see if the steam refund thing works with codes you bought from elsewhere or just stuff bought directly through steam
Alas;
http://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds
Yeah, I thought that’d probably be the case
BULBYAWN
Given my Batman copy is in *refreshes tracking* Altona as of 3pm yesterday, I played more Bloodborne last night. I’ve been working my way through Old Yharnam, that fucker with the gatling gun having pissed me off. I got to the top of the tower and fought him once or twice, but I figured I’d try something different so I ran up top and blasted him while running at him, hoping to disorient him. Worked super well, as he fell off the tower and died.
Made my way down to the base of Old Yharnam, and found a Blood-Starved Beast. after farming some Gatorades and ammo, I went to face him, but found a message saying “ring your bell* so me and my buddy Alfred stomped face.
Now, I’ve unlocked the healing church workshop, but I’m also up to Vicar Amelia. Which should I do first? Instinct is telling me work through the workshop?
Man, when I got up the tower he was ready.
I ended up just walking past.
He’d pissed me off sufficiently, especially when I fought his mate in the courtyard nearby. Plus, once he was gone, I could shortcut an entire area.
I snuck past the mate too.
You can still create the two shortcuts without killing him.
It’s funny how we all deal with the situations in different ways.
I couldn’t beat blood starved because of the poison, after pumping up end by 4 points it was (relatively) easy
I just popped pills until it went away
I think my end (thus poi resistance) was too low, I couldn’t pop em fast enough.
Died a number of times during the popping animation.
I hid behind the pillars, and Alfred ran interference for me.
Oh yeah, I hid, the metre was dropping amazingly fast.
4 points & it was manageable
The black church garb was also full of poison resistance.
There is a Poison cure item….
Is this a question?
The antidotes? Or something that makes you immune?
Amelia is the next story-based boss. If you’re up for exploring, there’s plenty more to do before you tackle her, including the workshop and the areas either side of her cathedral. Defeating her unlocks theForbidden Forest, which is where you need to go to progress the story.Yeah, I think I’m gonna go through the workshop first, level a bit. Also, I got a Pthumeru chalice, I presume that’s something to do with the “Chalice Dungeons?”Yep, now you can start going through them. Access them through the gravestones off to the side in the Hunter’s Dream.So I just added up the cost of getting 50 of the pokemon and King of all cosmos, queen of all cosmos and prince bookmarks printed. It would cost $1375. Considering I’m not going to any conventions this year at least and that I hope to make more bookmarks, I’m not sure if 50 of each is too much or not enough.
What bookmarks are people here interested in, just so i can kind of gauge what may be popular
Squirtle!
Yes, i have squirtle and it’s one of the ones I would probably get 50 printed
I’m interested in most of the Katamari ones, and maybe a couple of the Pokemon ones like Psyduck and Magikarp and stuff like that.
Including most of the cousins? I was worried that maybe they wouldn’t be as popular. It’s kind of a niche market I was thinking.
King, Queen, Prince, Dipp (Dipp = Best cousin), Ichigo, Marcy, Odeko, and Beyond all strike my fancy.
Well, hoping to get them printed up at some point in time =P
I’d buy the king and queen and the prince.
How well have the zelda ones sold?
I’ve sold 24 to taybies.
See, I’d expect the Pokemon ones to sell OK, though I’d keep the selection limited. The Katamari ones are a bit more niche.
Hm, maybe 25 for the katamari ones and 50 for the pokemon ones, or maybe 25 for them all as there is 21 different pokemon ones at this point in time.
21 is probably too many to offer at once. I’d do 5 at most.
If you do too many, you overwhelm people with choice, especially if you’re putting them in front of people at a con. Better to do the 5 most popular and have the others as a later run, or as a Print-on-demand thing they can order.
But…eveelutions, the starters, the birds and the derps (psyduck, magikarp and slowpoke)
I’m not knocking the work, I just don’t want you to print a whole bunch trying to meet everyone’s needs and not sell them all when you could print and sell out of a smaller batch.
Not saying you are. Should I have like a print out of what’s available on the website? Some people have books of prints that you can buy. Maybe I should make eeveelutions into a print as well.
A print of eeveelutions sounds like a great idea.
Where are you looking to sell these? online or at cons?
Possible both as most art alley stalls have an online store. I know I’ve picked up loads of cards at cons and I look up the stuff later.
For the Pokemon ones I’d just focus on the three Gen 1 starters, the three Gen 1 Eeveelutions and Pikachu. I don’t think there’s any point printing 50 Magikarp bookmarks or something because those will probably be nowhere near as popular (and if they are, you’ll know to print more for next time).
What about the 3 birds though?
I think it’s best to focus on what’s popular for now. If you look at the official merchandise you can get, it’s all Pikachu, starters, eeveelutions and the boxart legendaries (plus a small handful of popular things like Lucario). Those are what sell to the masses.
You can have the rest of your designs if you want to though. Just in very limited quantities. You need to gauge interest in them first before going all-in because they will probably only sell to enthusiasts.
And at least six to strangers!
I’m going to back what powalen said with the eveelutions, the gen 1 starters and pikachu (I imagine pikachu would sell well especially). While the artwork for the others is great you’ve got to pick the bookmarks that are likely to help you break even or make a profit until you have enough capital to branch out.
(WALL SCROLLS DAMMIT!) Your style of art on a larger scale with a bit more going on would make for amazing abstract wall scrolls! They’re so minimalist (normally gaming artwork has too much going on) that they would look amazing in a black frame and the choice of colors available would suit any form of interior home decoration.
…. You know stopping and thinking about it your artwork style is suitable for anything from phone cases to t-shirts. You could have quite the franchise brewing scree without realizing it.
Edit: Also please make sure you price them so you can make some kind of a profit to grow your art! Custom artwork on anything is usually a niche industry and hence comes with appropriate pricing!
My cousin keeps asking for me to put glaceon on a shirt for him. I worry the stuff is too bland though.
According to the tracking for my new Hard Drive it arrived in town at 5:22 this morning, but yet it doesn’t say “on board for delivery today” and the postman went straight past our house. Hopefully it’ll be coming with a courier a bit later today.
I believe the official process is for the courier to do nothing all day, drop all his packages at the post-office, leaving notes on the system saying no-one was available for delivery, and the next day the postie will come leave an ‘awaiting pickup’ card in your mailbox.
Parcel Locker. Parcel Locker. Parcel Locker. Parcel Locker.
Just skip the damn postie and courier.
I get an SMS around 8:30am saying it’s ready to collect. Swing by on way home from work at 5:30pm, type in phone number, scan barcode from email they sent me, locker pops open, grab package, close door and tap finish.
Takes me on average 19 seconds to collect my parcels… I’m not making that up. Once you tap finish it tells you how long it took. 🙂
Le sickness is real. Blegh. Day 3 today but I couldn’t secure any more sick days so here I am, at work, not doing anything of import. Yep, really feel like coming in today was worth it.
Been crook all week myself. Came down with something saturday, took Monday off, went home early yesterday. Was up all night with fevers and chills. Feeling vaguely human but mostly pretty ragged today. Can’t wait til 5pm.
Was off 4 days last week, asthma after a recurring cold. Still feel shit but what can I do other than pump in the drugs & soldier on.
You gonna be OK for Numenera?
Should be right. Mostly just going to feel a little off tonight but nothing serious.
Hope you feel better, bud.
I bet you do *shifty eyes*
If anyone’s interested in grabbing Arkham Knight on PC (doubtful considering it’s virtually unplayable at the moment), I just received an e-mail with a 40% off voucher code from Green Man Gaming. It’s only valid till Friday too.
BETHEB-ATMANG-MG40PCThat looks fake! (I don’t think it is, but it does)
One way to find out.
Edit: it’s got the code on the http://www.greenmangaming.com too, so it must be legit.
But I already said I didn’t think it was
They also have it in their VIP section for 40% off with no need to mess about with a code. Probably won’t work but people could try to use the code on the VIP discount…
My wife called because she was having trouble running Fallout 3 – she wants to play it on PC just to show off what max settings looks like on her 32gb RAM quad-core alienware fuck-machine so with the power of steam family sharing she installed “my” copy of the game on her laptop and… it wouldn’t bloody run.
So after some googling it turns out the way to get Fallout 3 to run on Steam under Windows 8 is to download the (now defunct) Games for Windows Live client and run it – not sign in, just run it – which then makes the game work.
#PCMASTERRACE \o/
*fistpump*
Ohhhh, I completely forgot about GFWL with Fallout 3.
Yep, Windows 7 has a bunch of easy ways to get the game working flawlessly, Windows 8 is a crap-shoot with a bunch of things that might work properly.
Fixed up my avatar so people don’t get the wrong impression
Wait, has my pic changed?
Ah, there it goes
Yes.
Takes a bit. I’m waiting for mine to tick over, in this week of Batman.
Batman tv show was released on blu Ray weeks ago, what are you talking about?
No!
Why I outta *shakes fist* *steam shoots from ears*
*kisses Jimu*
*runs off leaving a cloud of dust*
You probably don’t see this anymore in modern Bugs Bunny cartoons … If there are even modern Bugs Bunny cartoonsNah, they’re really tame when they do em now & the computer animation doesn’t have the same effect.
@transientmind @pupp3tmast3r
Did either of you receive bookmarks yet?
Nope! You only posted it on Saturday though, right? 2-3 days from down south, I wouldn’t expect to be seeing it til today, not yesterday.
I just wanna make sure D=
Don’t worry. I’ll let you know when they turn up. 🙂
Thanks!
Good timing! I just received mine! =]
Thanks scree! Way above what I was expecting (aka kind of stuff I’d expect to see in a gaming store). Hope you make more cos damn they’re pretty and feel great!
If you’re happy. I’m happy!
I am =], the mrs loves green and reads quite a bit so I know she’s going to love the Link bookmarks!
Of course the purple ones are for myself xD
Why not one each? =P
Yeah that’s what it’s ended up being, she overruled my idea and said she wants one each =@
At least she left me the gold foil purple one =p
That seems fair to me!
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/06/23/final-fantasy-vii-remake-will-be-more-realistic-but-wont-have-new-characters/
“Finally, Famitsu asks more about the game system.
“While I can’t say much about the details, it will be changed to a system that has a sense of reality,” answers Nomura.”
DONOTWANT.JPG
Reality != Fantasy
He’s gonna poop it.
I love him as a visual artist & Kingdom hearts is pretty ok, but he is a poo poo director.
Maybe if we’re lucky oldmate will have to fix things again
He’s a director that can’t actually fucking release anything on time too.
I’m refusing to trust translated interviews. Was burned too many times with Dark Souls 2.
Gonna wait to see what happens. I’m pretty keen either way, though.
I’m still buying it no matter what they do to it.
…I really hope they don’t do FF13 to it. I hated the paragon system.
Nah, they’re going to FF15 it.
Which is to say, ruin it.
But 15 combat looks AWESOME! 😀
It is.
From what I played the combat was awesome, just needed a couple tweaks with the camera & AI
You try it since the patch? That’s what they did (though honestly, I can’t remember specifics enough to tell)
It looks awesome. But it’s floaty, unpredictable and disconnected from what you’re actually doing. What it most closely reminded me of was the combat in Too Human. :\
Psssst FFXV demo is ace 😉
I don’t like it much at all. I’d rather get a proper action game.
But regardless, that style of game isn’t what I want in a FF7 remake.
1st point no
2nd point yes
ATB or gtfo
You and me neg! Let’s start an anti-squareenix movement until they bring ATB back!
Sounds like it’s time for a web petition because those always work.
Will be interesting to see which way WB decide to go with being the first major release catastrophe since Steam’s refund policy changes. Will they realise they should start making games work on PC, or will they decide that PC’s not worth the bother anymore?
Running wildly varying 20-60 fps on my 7970 (15.6b drivers), with frequent noticeable stuttering, despite hearing reports that it’s “locked” to 30. Had a bad feeling when it started chugging in the opening cutscene…
Benchmark says averaging 47 FPS, but that’s because two-thirds of the duration of the benchmark was at a solid 58-60, and the remainder was 25-30 with stuttering, for no obvious reason. Graphics options are pretty lacklustre – AA, Shadow, Texture quality, and Level of Detail (plus Nvidia crap that defaulted to off, thankfully), none of which seem to have any impact on framerate at all. And no option to turn off motion blur… time to examine the config file, I guess.Also, it’s one of those games that really doesn’t like you having a joystick plugged in – although the ceiling of that diner in the intro does look fabulous.
They already decided PC wasn’t worth bothering with when they farmed out porting to a 3rd-party developer. Pretty much anyone who’s ever done it RIGHT has done it in-house.
I’m skeptical that there will be as many refunds requested as there should be. Maybe some will can it and go over to get the PS4 version, but preorder bonuses are still a factor (filthy damn publisher scum) and if the only platform they’re going to play on is PC, then they’ll probably just keep it and wait for patches instead of going through the hassle of refunding then re-buying.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with farming out the PC port to a dedicated PC house. I’d vastly prefer that to the alternative. There’s some great PC porting companies out there too – Nixxies for example, who do the PC ports for a lot of Square Enix stuff eg Tomb Raider, Deus Ex. Those are excellent ports.
Someone just fucked up.
Seriously? I could just about swear the developer diaries I saw for Deus Ex:HR were talking about doing it in-house. That game is specifically the one I was thinking of when blaming outsourcing.
They outsourced the boss fights that everyone hated to another company. The PC port for DX:HR was fucking fantastic.
I’m on the 15.6b drivers too (But R7… 270 I think?).
General tweaks help: http://steamcommunity.com/app/208650/discussions/0/594821545178755667/
That helped a little; gliding around and combat is smooth enough, but the issues for me have been cutscenes and Batmobile. Slideshow central, woooo!
Cheers. Oh, god, I’d forgotten about the intro movies… thanks. Not sure what unlocking the framerate will do in the config, as the game already seems to be alternately solid 60 or sub-30, with little-to-no middle ground. Might keep an eye on the PCGamingWiki page over the next few days as people figure stuff out.
Combat seems pretty solid – had no problems there (at least in the first 30 minutes). Saw that batmobile scenes were hovering around 30… but I don’t really mind, as I don’t plan on using it if I can help it – the batmobile-mounted-cannon feels very un-Batman-like.
Spam email:
My god. This is a breakthrough! To think there was one simple method of restoring sight that nobody has discovered until now. No longer will our vision be held ransom by greedy optometrists!
And once you’ve done that, there’s some penis size exercises they can tell you about…
Hello/greetings, friend! I hope this day finds you well..
Please do the needful!
Not sure what I want to have for much
I have box noodles here but don’t really feel like it
So I could get schnitz, pizza, burger, chinese stuffs, a pie. Not really sure what I feel like
Lobster
Food?
#helping
Have nothing! Maybe a muesli bar and tell yourself you’ll get something later if you’re really hungry, only to find out everything is closed when you go to do just that.
Hah, I had to do that after we saw Mad Max.
Worked out, turns out I was 5 minutes walk from Chinatown at my hotel.
Went with a BBQ pork and vegetables with rice
First sick day in two years and I waste it all sleeping. Bah. Could have fir in so much Witcher 3. Instead I stayed up until 6am watching a bunch of movies which unintentionally ended up all being F. Gary Gray films for some reason.
When I’m sick I sleep a lot. I’d like to spend the tie catching up on the pile but it often doesn’t happen.
I usually slob around watching movies when I am awake.
It makes it worse that my wife has this idea that if I’m well enough to play a game, I’m well enough to clean the entire house, do all the washiing, now the lawn & negotiate world peace.
So if she’s home I avoid games in an attempt to avoid housework.
Ha! My wife does the same thing. Damnit woman, I’m lying on the couch motionless except for my fingers. It doesn’t exactly use a lot of energy.
Exactly!
Ok, hard drive has arrived and been installed. Downloaded Avast antivirus and it said it detected a trojan.
Seriously WTF! It’s a brand new fucking hard drive.
Fresh install? Sounds like the new HDD and the virus are unrelated if you didn’t install the AV before the drive was installed
And now I’m getting the BSOD!
GODDAMN SHIT CUNT MOTHERFUCKING PIECE OF SHIT! FUCK FUCK FUCK!wellthatescalatedquickly.jpg
Hey, TAY.
…I got nothing. 🙁
Hey…..yeah…
Advice from camera people requested
Considering a basic DSLR, as my current point and shoot is slow and hard to get decent photos with. The main thing I am looking for is decent photos that are taken when you press the button, not 2 seconds after you click it.
Thoughts, advice, warnings?
Lobster.
Big W had an entry level Canon DSLR with lens for $398 a few weeks back. That’s probably about the best you’ll pay for a DSLR.
http://www.thegoodguys.com.au/canon-1200dkb-single-lens-kit-18-55mm-1200dkb#
Get a mirrorless rather than a DSLR. DSLR are big and heavy and honestly you’re not going to see an immense improvement in your photographs with one over a good point and shoot. The real benefit is being able to use different lenses to do stuff in the optics rather than digitally later on.
I picked up a DSLR a few months back myself despite wanting mirrorless, and in regards to taking great photos they are fantastic. You can’t go wrong with an entry level one if you’re just starting out and finding whether photography will be a hobby or not.
They feel very responsive especially compared to using damn smartphones to take pics, they are weighty, and the shutter snaps promptly on button press which is suddenly very handy when trying to take photos of the kids. The tots just won’t sit still for even a tenth of a second!
This is what I need. Tiglet loses a smile when she sees the camera so I need to be able to take a shot before she notices. Or capture it the moment when a smile slips out.
@negativezero are mirrorless an instant photo, or is is a push and wait deal like my current point and shoot. The issue I have isn’t so much quality of shot, it is the speed I can take the photo.
If I had to guess I’d say both DSLR and mirrorless would be the same for speed, in that they’re both highly customisable – you can set your shutter speeds. It’s just that DSLR is becoming the dinosaur in the room and mirrorless is the fancy new tech.
SLR cameras work by having you peer down a viewfinder that looks through some mirrors and out the lens of the camera, right? And then when you press the shutter button, a mirror flips up and redirects the light coming through the lens onto the film. DSLR just changes the film to a sensor.
Well, a mirrorless just does away with the mirrors, because it’s really not needed. As a result you get a vastly slimmer, lighter body. Still uses the same SLR lenses. Also other benefits like no shake from the mirror moving inside which is really important for high-zoom, long exposure or macro photography.
Ahh cool, thanks for that
I haven’t looked into cameras for about 10 years so I have no idea about new tech and I was always looking at the basic point and shoot.
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
The continuing adventure of @blaghman, @tech_knight, and ol’ Squidlegs @popdart5
TONIGHT 7:30 SA TIME ASSUMING THAT POPDART IS STILL CONSCIOUS
ALSO STREAMING
Gosh darned you’d better believe that I’ll be conscious for Squidlegs!
Harpoon gun armed and ready! Lets get ’em Zippa!
*Woop woop… BEEP*
Underwater? more like woop wopp bloop
Hey @pupp3tmast3r…
You editted! DOESN’T COUNT! =P
Only because I had your username wrong
But how will we ever know if you’re telling the truth D=
Because that’s 3 from 3 successful called shots on page six gets?
I was at a restaurant and I couldn’t finish my meal. The waitress came and asked “Do you wanna box for your leftovers?”
I told her I wasn’t much of a boxer but I’d wrestle her for them #dadjokepagesix #hi@strangehttp://www.businessinsider.com.au/jeremy-clarkson-confirms-new-car-show-with-former-top-gear-mates-2015-6
Apparently Netflix is the most likely to be their home. Wonder how many extra subscriptions they’d pick up from that? I mean, Clarkson deserved to be fired but I’m kind of happy they’ll be back. I did genuinely enjoy the stupidity of the show.
A new show completely different to Top Gear!
Jeremy Clarkson’s new show, Peak Clutch!
(But really, that would be a pretty huge get for Netflix)
Based on what I’ve heard in the media, he’s an arrogant prick. But I’ll watch the new show, same as I watch Top Gear, because he/they are great on-screen.
Awww yisss!
Awesome news! I’ve sorely missed my Top Gear. I think it’ll do wonders for Netflix tbh. Would definitely keep me subscribed.
Don’t really think Netflix need any help getting or keeping subscribers. Only problem I have with it is the interface.
Jeremy Clarkson is a twat and deserved to get fired.
Singing in the shower is all fun and games until you get shampoo in your mouth…. Then it’s a soap opera. #Page6 #Finally
Laptop appears to be working again. Was able to get into the bios and change the first boot device to the DVD drive and reinstall Windows (again).
This time I downloaded AVG Free and Malware Bytes. Crossing my fingers all will be well this time.
What exactly went wrong with your old hard drive?
Well, the original 1TB drive started making noises and shat itself a few months ago, so I put in a 160GB one I had lying around and now have finally got around to buying and installing a new 1TB drive, so I’ve got more room for steam games/music etc.
Edit: Oh, and in case you missed it on the previous page, after installing Windows on this new drive I pretty much instantly got a trojan and then a blue screen.
How could you have gotten a trojan? Unless you have more than one drive (and it’s infected), in which case I would strongly recommend cleaning that off before trying a fresh Windows install.
No idea. I got a brand new hard drive from pccasegear in a sealed bag, I took out the old drive, put in the new one, powered it up, installed Windows, and straight away downloaded Avast Antivirus. Pretty much immediately after downloading it said I had a trojan, I clicked the recommended option to get rid of it (which automatically reboots the system), it started rebooting and then came up with a blue screen and would not repair itself.
Well, if the only two things on the drive were a fresh copy of Windows and Avast, it sounds like Avast removed part of Windows…
Well that’s interesting, don’t think I’ll go anywhere near Avast again.
Not running Windows 8? You know you get AV built-in for free right? Not that I’m biased or anything mind you… 😛
Yeah, I’m running Windows 8. I’m not the most computer/tech savvy person.
Windows Defender is built into Win 8+. It’s basically the same thing as Security Essentials for older Windows. It’s not bad, very quiet and unobtrusive, highly optimized not to get in your way.
I’m also super biased in suggesting it because I work on it.
You work on it? Nice. So if I say to myself, ‘I know websites suggest that Defender is the baseline minimum however it’s one less thing for me to install and of course, it’s free’, how safe is that mentality exactly?
We prioritized going after stuff that we see often in our telemetry (from millions of machines) rather than what made us look good in tests. Ended up backfiring a bit I think though.
Here’s a tip to help you on your way. Don’t download AVG again. Detection rate is terrible, and sucks donkeys balls when it comes to actually removing anything. Yes it’s free, but honestly, WIndows Defender in win8 will do just as good a job, if not better.
Take it from a computer tech, who’s looked at hundreds of machines with it installed. When AVG says 0 items found, and malwarebytes finds over 2000 pieces of malware/scareware, it’s pretty evident what a waste of time AVG is. Go down to your local pc store, and get em to sell you an OEM copy of Kaspersky or BitDefender. It’ll only set you back around $15-$20 for a yr or two, but you will have MUCH better protection.
Thanks for the tip man, I’ve got copies of both Norton and Kaspersky Antivirus, but they’ve both gone past the 12 months and I don’t have any money to buy a new one till tomorrow, so I basically just wanted something to get me through tonight.
Also, thanks for your help @negativezero
cool cool. stick with defender. it’ll see you through the night for sure 🙂
I have two copies of McAfee unopened with a 12 month subscription lying around if you want… maybe I can just send over the code if there is such a thing inside?
That’s mighty generous of you, but only if you’re not gonna use them. If it’s a code just DM it to me over Twitter or something, if it’s a disc, then don’t worry about it, it’d be easier and quicker to pick something up at the shops tomorrow.
Best advice.
My list of paid security packages is wearing thin
McAffee – 85% CPU consumed while idle, so kicked that off pretty quick
Trend Micro – Disables the PC’s internet connection while trying to update itself at least twice a week. Seriously… Why do you cut your own link to your own company’s site, for an update you yourself initiated automatically!?
Kaspersky – Freezes up my entire computer when running certain websites like Twitch.tv (Apparently it’s the chat as running the popout it works fine)
I’ve since given Windows Security Essentials and Windows Firewall a go (With Avast on the side) and so far I’ve had zero problems.
If that ends up failing, a colleague mentioned something called Nod32, which i never even heard of but he highly recommends it, and this is a guy that looks after patches and version updates with vendors on our platforms
Hmmm I run Kaspersky Pure 3 on my home machine, and I have zero issues with twitch. Or any other sites for that matter. Are there any errors or anything that could help to determine the cause?
No idea to be honest, I tried to run exclusions to ensure it doesn’t try to scan it or whatever it was doing that caused even my cursor to freeze. I couldn’t see anything in the windows or kaspersky logs but I was most likely looking in the wrong place for that too. I might give it another go at some point, once I’m able to manage my time better since I moved in to my new home
The way Kaspersky used to hook browser APIs was pretty invasive and used to cause all sorts of stability problems.
Yeah it was pretty shocking in some of the older versions. There’s so many options to tweak in Pure 3 though. I’m sure if I told it to do a deep heuristics scan on every bit of data that came in to or out of my system, it might run a bit slower, but with a standard installation, their resource usage has improved a lot over the older versions!
Hmmm, never heard of Nod32. I’ve heard great things about BitDefender though, so I might go with that.
BitDefender and Kaspersky have been jostling for top position in the quarterly AV reviews for a couple of years now. Often one has 100% detection, while the other is 99%, and then next review, they swap! Either will offer great levels of protection. Kind of comes down to other features. I like Kaspersky cos they have a special secure browser, so when I load secure sites (like my bank or paypal) it loads in this virtualized private browser window (with a green highlight around the border of the window so you know it’s loaded properly). From my understanding of the way it works, it’s similar to the Consent screen in windows when UAC kicks in and asks if you’re sure you want to run something. Apparently it’s impossible to see or interact with remotely, which is re-assuring when you’re dealing with sites like banks etc. 🙂
Nod32 is some old school shit. Made by Eset. Never had a lot of good results out of Nod32 itself, but the Eset online scanner is probably the best online scanner out there at the moment. Just a shame it takes forever and a day to complete the scan though. :\
There’s recently been a new player arrive on the scene. Emsisoft. They make a tool called Emergency Kit, which is much like Malwarebytes, but they also offer real time scanners in their “Internet Security” package. I haven’t had a whole lot of exposure to it yet, but chatter in the malware community is positive, and if the detection/removal in the realtime scanner is anything like it is in the Emergency kit, I’d say it’ll be a winner!
That sounds like a bit of overhead though if it’s in real time both in memory and hard drives. Regardless, that’s interesting
Well.. kind of.. it does sound like a lot of overhead, but once it’s loaded and settled down in to its protection mode, it doesn’t hog much. Plus you can tweak it to say, only scan new files, or files that have changed since the last scan. One thing I also love about Kaspersky, is it has an installation package analyser. So when you go to install something, Kaspersky unpacks it in to a special area, and checks to see what the installation will actually do, and if it looks like it’s going to do something suspicious, it will let you know.
It might be a little overkill for some users, but given the amount of stuff I have to install etc for testing on my machine, it’s a blessing to me 🙂
Also, on your twitch issue, do you know if it’s locking up on a secure page? There is a function in Kaspersky to scan encrypted traffic, and it’s not compatible with some sites. I have to disable it to be able to access my online banking portal. (as stated elsewhere though, my bank portal loads in a special secure page already, so not really an issue for me)
Kaspersky make an extremely good product but you pay for it in CPU & Memory usage.
I think it depends on how you have it setup. Unless i’m actively running a scan on one of my hdd’s, it only uses about 105mb of ram for me, and maybe 1-2% of cpu intermittently.
It’s using more memory than that, it just hides it. 🙂 Try looking at the peak working set.
nah that’s total current memory usage split over 3 processes! Even when it opens a conhost window to do something, it only uses about 20mb at the most for that too. I should probably include the plugin server it uses for chrome too, but that’s only another 2.5mb.
It’s all about how you set it up 😉 Default anything is rarely my bag 😉
I’m sure that during a scan it might jump up a bit, but having a general usage resource grab that low is pretty good for me! I currently have irc, skype, tweetdeck, steam, 3 chome windows and a bunch of other minor systems running, and to have it monitor those without using gigs of ram is just wonderful! I don’t care how much it uses when I get it to scan something, cos when I manually tell it to scan, I expect it to use lots and be slow, so I will leave my computer be til it’s done. 🙂
I oretty much use my Mac for all online stuff, and keep the PC off the internet as much as possible, I don’t play online games so it is almost never connected to the net, and I run it without virus etc. protection. I use an antimalwarebytes boot CD once a month and let it run overnight, so far, so good, and I don’t have to worry about AV crap bogging down my machine.
So close to home time
*vibrates anxiously*
Isn’t that something you’d usually do once it’s home time? And you’re home. Alone.
Maybe not alone. Hence the *anxiously* part.
That’s *girates pleasurabley*
Geriatric pirates?
*panties hit the floor*
hahaha when ever I hear someone say something like that, I can’t help but think of Death in Vegas.
AISHA!! I’M VIBRATING!!!
Never seen that before but I have like 100 boners right now.
Picked up Arkham Knight for $60 with all available EB exclusive preorder DLC thrown in for free.
And people say EB is a rip off.
Greenmangaming has a code for 40% off atm, so they’re probably trying to just stay relevant. 99 times out of 100, EB is just a way to make your wallet cry salty tears of regret!
True, but apparently the PC port is extremely broken at the moment, got somewhere in the vicinity of 1700 or so negative reviews on Steam.
Yeah they’ll patch it out though eventually. Not like this is the first game ever to be released and have shit frame rates!
Only if you’re silly enough to go in and pay the full RRP without saying anything.
9/10 parents wouldn’t know any better!
I’m going to EB after work to purchase a PS4 console. In white. I hope.
How’d you manage that?
It helps when you work all day everyday staring into one and become friends with a few of the staff.
Yeah, I used to be a regular at the one on Albert St in the Mall. Even if it was just to hang out and shoot the breeze a bit. And it didn’t matter when I was buying shit after release, they’d just be all like, “Oh, have these pre-order/cross-promotion DLC codes,” and just slip them into the game case because… fuckit?
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/06/amds-new-radeon-r9-fury-x-graphics-card-is-out-today-in-australia/
Dang, was hoping they were going to be cheaper than that.
How the hell is this the future of gaming when I have to wait 4 hours for an update to play Batman?
Because in the old days it would have just been a broken mess?
How often were broken games released before the internet though?
Flat broken? probably not super often (superman 64 aside). With bugs and weird stuff? all the damn time. We just notice it more now, and modern games are much, much more complex.
I still think they rush em out the door too quickly
Also because studios/publishers insist on showing us the guts of what they’re working on near-constantly two years before release and use public betas as marketing tests.
When a game came out on the SNES you had NO IDEA what features got cut unless some insider blabbed to a magazine.
Old school gaming – put the cartridge/disc in and start playing instantly.
Current/future gaming – put the disc in and we might let you play it tomorrow.
What’s not to like?
It’s ALL in the future! \o/
You’re gaming in the future. Literally.
Where do fish keep their money?
In a river bank #pagesix #preschoolerjokeThat used to be my son’s favourite joke, but instead of fish, it was a crocodile.
“It’s funny because fish don’t have any money”
@haggis Don’t you miss another page 6 mister! =O
Missing page 6, that’s a paddlin’.
I missed it! 🙁
Currently transferring my game folder back into Steam. Started about an hour ago and it’s only up to 28%.
This may take a while. At least it’s a butt-load quicker than downloading them though. If I had to do that it’d probably take at least a week, maybe two.
Fun fact page six!
It’s a doozy, I promised it last week. A fact so creepy, so horrifying, so full of fridge horror (warning: TVTropes link). Now, normally I’m not one to post things that are too terrifying, or make you think hard about what type of world we live in, but this week is an exception.
I’ve spoilered it too, just to make sure nobody who doesn’t want their thin illusions of a nice world shattered accidentally sees it.
In February 2016, all going according to plan, Quiz_B Jr the 2nd will be arriving.🙂Also please no congrats on Twitter, there’s people there we haven’t told yet as we’re catching up with them in the next couple of weeks.Congrats quiz!! =]
😀 : D 😀
Congratulations man!
Woo!
You’d think two would mean twice the work but somehow is four times the work.
Totes worth it however.
Congratulations mang \o/
Woohoo! That’s super awesome 🙂
YAY \o/
Congrats buddy that’s awesome newsCongratulations to you and your partner!!
I had to set up two sets of stumps for a cricket match the other day.
Coincidentally, three people I know woke up as double-amputees.
I gotta hand it to ya..that’s by far the dadliest joke I ever read on this page. Good armless fun for the whole family.
Hey now, don’t go out on a limb.
The Officeworks in my town is moving. What gives? I thought it was a stationery business.
Huzzah! New episode of Tales From The Borderlands is downloading.
Woo! Me too. \o/
Me three
Yaaaaah, Batman…
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xat1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11201921_10153404150968535_7420698615796750988_n.jpg?oh=30abc5bd37070b64026792181801018f&oe=561FC592&__gda__=1441970067_0f1916d36a269d49c7ba18c003d43593
http://www.target.com.au/catalogues#page=catalogue¶ms=school-holiday-fun%2F53006shja&additional=pid&pageNo=12
Gold Mario amiibo on the front page of the catalogue with a one-per-customer limit. But then here they’re putting a limit on the regular ones too.
Good on ’em.
Two things:
1. Mrs Shane’s phone, obtained three years ago from @rize, has finally died. It was a Samsung Galaxy II. Is there anyone who has upgraded their phone in recent months/years, and is unsure what to do with their previous phone? I am looking to buy.
2. Fun Fact Page Six. You know that great news @quiz_b announced further up the page? I have a similar announcement, with a similar projected delivery date. PS: Similar request not to spread around social medias, too, pls.
Dude, give the poor girl a rest…
Congrats man. Or are we talking about Undad 2? Either way, woo!Undad 2 is this November, I’m hoping!
Oh man, sorry I stole your thunder.
BUT CONGRATS!!
What! I totally stole your thunder.
No, I stole your thunder.
Wait.
Did I st…ohwhothefuckcares, impending addition to family fistbump!
o/*\o
Quiz B and @shane making page 6 not just Dad jokes.
COMMITMENT.
Congratulations dude \o/
😀 😀 😀
Mazel tov! Soon you’ll have a volleyball team
You have worked it what’s causing this, right?
If he got rid of the bird feeder in the front yard that damn stork would stop ducking in for a quick bite and leaving his stuff all over the place.
How to babby be made?
Well, when a mummy and a daddy love each other very much and their TV breaks down…
I’m not sure if baby of undad announcement, but congrats as well!!!
I look away from TAY for one evening and there’s two babies due! WHAT THE HELL!
P.S. Congrats shane =]
(Check top and middle of next page, too)
I just saw; what the hell!! Is everyone making babies?! =P
@mrtaco
How’s the Leaf Rag goin’?
Still pretty much where it was 😛 Yours?
Yep, same 😛
One day I’ll learn the rest…
For anyone still looking for PAX flights, the Jetstar EOFY sale just started, flights from $35.
Virgin are also on sale!
PAX Melbourne or PAX North? :p
PAX North takes the form of Oktoberfest this year! 😛
I went to the Bavarian Bier Cafe last weekend! It was good, but we were sitting outside and I was sick and colllld. Inside looked so cheery and hearty though, haha.
We had a TAY thing for my birthday there in January. Outside is definitely preferred in Summer. 😀
I have definitely reached the time of year when I want to go to a restaurant that serves pork knuckle.
That’s what my partner had; it was insane.
Whatever you like. I’m sure there are just as cheap flights to Brisvegas.
Por que no los dos?
Here’s a question: If according to legislation it only takes one copyright complaint by a rights holder for a website to be blocked by our government, how long is it before YouTube gets deemed illegal and blocked?
I give it a week to a month,depending in how automated the process is.
Will unblocked soon after of course.
I’d be more worried about more niche sites like twitch. No way in hell the gov would understand or care enough to make a timely exception.
While in an ideal world, the system would grind away thoughtlessly and expose its stupidity, but apparently these orders have to be approved by a judge, and no judge is going to be responsible for blocking youtube. They’ll toss it out. You could probably lodge similar claims against any meme-laden site, too.
Especially unlikely if claims have to be submitted by rights-holders. No company is going to be held responsible for shutting down a nation’s access to youtube. It’d be PR suicide.
Edit: I suspect our best bet at meaningful protest that will actually gain attention is probably playing whack-a-mole with VPN providers. I can’t wait until government tries to take on VPNs. That’ll pit two of their puppetmasters directly against each other.
Six months ago, I’d have disagreed and said “what we need is a demonstration of the colossal stupidity of what’s being done by the government to get voters to wake the hell up and replace these idiots.” But over the last six months, we’ve had that and more, and nothing’s happened to counter it, and my faith that kicking these idiots out wouldn’t just replace them with other idiots is waning. So, no, we’re just doomed, plain and simple.
You’re thinking something like a China situation will happen here?
Here’s how its gonna work:
Under the new Amendment, a copyright holder spots an infringement & submits a complaint.
Federal Court then considers the submission & may (note: not must. they’re very different things when it comes to law things) order ISPs to block access to the site, either temporarily or permanently.
before that happens, the Court must be satisfied that the website in question:
a) is not based in Australia, AND
b) the website infringes copyright or facilitates infringement of copyright, AND
c) the primary purpose of the website is to infringe copyright.
“primary purpose” is important too. coz you could argue that services like YouTube or DropBox etc, while they can be used for infringing copyright, that is not their Primary Purpose.
In the end, the amendments give a lot of space for judicial discretion & common sense. & the Courts have far more common sense & far less pecuniary interest in this issue than Parliament, so we’re not likely to be seeing sites like YouTube go down under this law.
\o/
Start reading a headline:
“Actor Shia Lebouff…”
Oh, this might be good.
“…suffers head injury on-set.”
Awh. Poop. That’s not amusing, that’s just sad.
I really, really like Shia LeBeouf. He’s so crazy and I think I just kind of want to mother the anger our of him, hahah.
I started to dislike him during his “I am not famous (but look how hard I’m trying to keep your attention on me)” phase, but recently I’ve warmed up to him again. He’s got the freedom to just kind of be weird and fuck around and I respect that.
And have you seen him in the Sia and Sigur Ros music videos? Dude’s got a bod and can dance.
I love Sia and I thought the Elastic Heart video was great. I know Sia has copped flak because the dancer in her Chandelier/Elastic Heart videos looks underage (and is apparently being sexualised??) but I just love that video and thought Shia did a great job in it.
Also did you see the recent video where he agreed to meet with a journalist for an interview on the basis that they both wore go pro cameras and neither person was allowed to say anything?
Oh people were just talking out of their ass in regards to the Elastic Heart video. It’s beautiful and moving and not at all sexual unless you’ve got problems.
I didn’t see that, but it sounds like Shia wants to play “The Artist Is Present”!
I was hoping you were going to say ‘Has posted another motivational video’.
Dangit 🙁
I used to dislike Shia LeBeouf, but I’ve come around on him recently.
I think Rob Cantor had a lot to do with it.
Right? I thought that video was fantastic.
I cant take it any more!!!
For. The. Love. Of. Awesome. Someone. Here. Go. Start. A. Kickstarter. To. Design. And. Build. A. Real. Tie fighter.
Anyone here ever had experience with cat allergies?
Some cats make me sneeze. I have a mate who’s got two, one sets me off, the other doesn’t
Our baby kitty is giving me a full blown reaction, but I’ve had cats in the past (not for about seven years, though) and never had a problem, so I’m really hoping this is temporary and will go away soon.
Try taking an antihistamine for a few days
Yep, on a course for a month, as well as corticosteroids and eye drops galore. I am a hot mess right now.
Cannot live with cats at all cause of allergies.
But I just avoid them which doesn’t help you.
When I was younger, I used to have terrible cat allergies. It was bad enough to be hospitalised in one instance. I seem to have overcome it at this stage but I still don’t like cats.
I haven’t got allergies, but I know the mechanics of it. There’s a protein in their saliva and sebaceous oils which some people have reactions to. The amount of that protein varies from animal to animal, and from breed to breed. The Siberian Forest Cat is often held up as being the best of them for allergy sufferers as they generally have extremely low levels of it.
Female cats produce less of the protein than males, and neutered males produce less than intact males. It can soak into soft surfaces like fabric couches and carpet so removing or regularly cleaning that can make a difference. So can frequently cleaning out bedding if they go near your bed. Grooming the cat can make a difference too I think, especially if it’s a long-hair since it’ll mean less hair floating around to set you off (also if it’s a long hair, then getting it used to being brushed as a kitten is a good thing anyway). HEPA filters can help reduce the amount of allergen around too, and you want to make sure your vacuum has one.
Thanks buddy. We bought little wipes to clean the kitty with, that help to reduce the excess dander. I’ve changed all our linens and our vac is a good animal-oriented Dyson with a HEPA filter so that should help. Sigh.
My cat was allergic to I certain plant we had in the garden so we had to remove that plant
#page6
Well this Page 6 was just too inviting with all the annoucements I figured I’d add to it.
I’d like to bandwagon on @quiz_b and @shane ‘s news (Congratulations!) – I am also expecting an exciting new addition to the family with approximate arrival being January 2016.
I was going to hold off for 2 weeks but checked with wifey and been given the all clear for a special TAY-only media release.
Are we moving from #dadjokepage6 to #announcementpage6?
Page get…
Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck…
Whoaaaa! Congratulations! <3 <3 <3
Are all 3 of you guys married to the same woman?
Hey, don’t judge, it works for us. 🙂
Which of you is Tom, Steve and Ted?
😀
OMG Congrats dude! Yay!
I’ll just assume @shane is in on the fistbump here.
o/*\o/*\o
Oooh, a three-way.
Have YOU worked out what’s causing this?
I blame the first cold snap of the year sometime in April. 🙂
@transientmind was busy in Japan at the end of March until the start of April, so maybe that gave everyone else a chance?
*chokes* I am, uh… like 94% sure I’m not ruining any marriages, or haven’t been in the last… uh. What month is it?
*flips through little black index*
Wow, so many TAYbie Babies! Congrats man!
😀 😀 😀 😀
Wow dude, was gonna say last night that I wonder who the third one will be (my money was on @freezespreston).
Congratulations man.
All teh babbies.Myself and @strange have a deal that if either of us start talking about more kids we have to slap the other.
You did take wifey on an international trip……………….
I have no other version of celabratory words so huzzah comrade! Molto bene and other fractured versions of other languages to teach the new
Everyone’s touching pissies.
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
@popdart5: Harpooned EVERYTHING
@tech_knight: Rolled…poorly
@blaghman: Fell in the water…again…and again
Thanks for playing guys!
PS: I woke up this morning to see that the Youtube vid of the stream had been retweeted by Monte Cook Games!
Wait what?! We’re getting retweeted now? Wow O_o
Think of any game where there is a really annoying enemy that just teleports all over the place. That was basically me. 😛
Edit: Also saw that you were retweeted by Monte and Shanna themselves. Nice!
Shanna’s retweeted and responded to a couple of things, but it’s never made it to Monte before
Is this a chance for MORE BLAGHS FANS?
I hope so. Nay, I know so.
Good morning all, played a little Tales of the Borderlands last night. It remains my favourite telltale game.
Whoda thunk a franchise I have no interest in , in I genre I’m super picky about (the cowboy setting, I watch all sorts of lame sci fi) would impression me so much?
Not me, wouldn’t have bought it if it didn’t come as part of that ace deal.
Game of Thrones on the other hand is borderline boring.
They kill my fave character in the first ep& then keep repeating the same tired shit what was already covered.Borderlands on the other hand keeps moving forward, I was suprised it was only ep 3, seems like so much has happened compared to other telltales.
Wolf is a close second.
Not going to fix those autocorrect shenanigans, sorry.
That’s fair enough, but should at least spoiler tag your GoT bit.
Really? It’s a spoiler that
someone dies in GoT?I knew, KNEW that GoT ep one wasn’t going to end well, but fuck that death was still shocking.I was just disappointed. It’s really not working on e as much as the other telltale stuff or the books or show 🙁
I dunno. I just spoiler
everythingto be safe, and let the internet sort it out.I agree with @jimu
not really a spoiler when peoples favourite characters die all the time in GoT. So far I’ve been safe with this (with the exception of Ned Stark) *shakes fist*, only watched the first two eps of season 5 though.Massive PSN sale on right now. Some games only discounted for a few days, so check it out.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/200087
I’m getting (at least) MGS1 and FFVII for the Vita, and maybe XCOM Enemy Within for the PS3. I might also get ICO/SotC so I can send @trjn’s copy back to him.
Wait, Shane, did you make an announcement, and I missed it? And @quiz_b too? I’m the worst. Tell me your good things!
Page Six is DadPageSix. #nojoke
Yay! Congrats Shane! Awww a new undad babbbbby.
The best line in the clip. (Which is from the woman.)Page Six is DadPageSix #nojoke, #duesamemonth, #notsamewife
Whoaaaaaaa! Congrats to you too! It’s babypalooza up in here. Awwww.
Massive is the right word there… That list just keeps going and going…
Yeah, and there are some great prices hidden away in there, too.
Reviews of the new ATi Fury are out, seems about on a par with the 980Ti, somewhat faster at 4K resolutions.
I was hoping it might wipe the floor with the 980Ti, and get some pricing pressure back into the gfx card market, but no dice so far. Be interesting to see if they make a dual GPU version down the track.
In other news, I caught a few Kotaku’ns at Supanova on the weekend, had a great time, and picked up a copy of Undad and it is a great comic. Well worth picking up if you haven’t already.
I think when it comes to upper-mid range cards, amd are owning it price wise. I think they’ve got the better Bang-to-Buck ratio.
nVidia might have more power & better support, but for the price… yeah, I’m happy with the r9 290 for now.
I believe a dual gpu version’s planned.
I hope dx12 has quick adoption, since it should give AMD a big leg up in performance (their drivers are so bad), which will hopefully lead to more aggressive pricing from nvidia.
But I know that in practice everything’s likely to follow the largely inconsequential seesaw that’s been going on for the past lord knows how many years.
AMd’s issue at the moment isn’t the card, it’s their software. Having said that, I’m keen to see more pressure on nVidia especially regarding prices. The Fury won’t make me swap vendors (self-confessed nVidia fan) but cheaper prices would be nice.
I got my (physical) copy of undad yesterday. Bloody postie had bent it back on itself shoving it into my mailbox.
Man, I thought those tough bags and a bendy book would make damage next to impossible. I’m really upset about this (and by their disappointing response to you). Let me know how the flattening process goes.
Don’t you get worked up, it’s their fault. It’ll be fine, I’ll just keep it weighted a bit longer.
Their response was bollocks though.
It was really cool to meet another TAYbie in the flesh. By the way, and sorry I didn’t say this at the time, your costume looked great! I’m also glad you liked Undad!
@shane
Funny you should mention you need a new phone, I just upgraded mine and have a spare Note 2…
I don’t know how well behaved it would be nor or long it would last but I can wipe it and run some tests to see if it’s worth passing on if you like.
If you don’t mind, that would be awesome. Thanks. How much do you want for it?
The rights to UndadI’ll check it over first and let you know if it’s worth it.
Perhaps one thing to mention, a Note 2 is a hell of a lot bigger than an S2, I occasionally have problems with my iphone 6+ that’s the same size, and I have huge hands.
It’ll make it easier to find in her handbag. If not, I’ll gladly swap with her for my crappy Huawei 😛
Thanks for the warning though!
Ok, seriously – @shane, @sunsoar77…
What the hell was in the water a month to two months ago?
Does anybody else have some news they’d like to share with us??
Well, I wasn’t going to mention it, but I ate a lot, so I’m having a food baby.
Congrats Man! When’s the due date? 11am?
Promises to be a difficult birth.
My wife is expecting, due this September however. So it’s not really fresh news but may be to TAYbies here. I blame the cold Winter.
New to me! Congrats!!!
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
Yeah, news to me too, congratulations man.
So many TAY(ba)bies.
just realised that theres so many new people I dont know on TAY now.
well… thats what happens if you disappear for 6 months i guess.
anyway, I’m bored & it’s been a while.
hello new people (& old friends) I’m @35. AMA.
If a lawyer sues in the forest, and no-one’s around to hear it, does it still incur billable hours?
well…. firstly, a lawyer might represent a client who is suing. the lawyer themselves aren’t necessarily the one suing. sure, they might, but whatever… it’s usually the lawyer’s client.
anyway, if it happened in a forest, yeah sure. billable hours would be incurred. though the lawyer would have to keep records of what they were doing & why & why the hell they were in a forest. Everything has to be documented & justifiable. otherwise the client could take the lawyer to the fair trading commission & sue them.
Hey, I’m not falling for that trick, I’d have to hire ANOTHER lawyer!
It’s lawyers all the way down…
exactly. so if I go to a forest for a week & give you an un-itemised bill, you’d best just damn well pay up.
Do you like me?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
https://media2.giphy.com/media/HgOYozLhuONUY/200_s.gif
Yes. I like your beard.
Why?
Why the hell not?
https://c3.staticflickr.com/3/2812/9477234930_88614d3573.jpg
What is your favourite Pokémon?
the Squirtle family tree. Blastoise is the boss.
I’ve only really dabbled in Gen1, & the most recent X/Y games, so I dont know many of the more recent ones.
Though I will say that I stopped playing X/Y coz one pokemon made me feel really bad about myself. That poor lil bastard who is just a sentient key ring. it’s faint animation made me feel so guilty. especially after I read its pokedex description. “key ring guy collects keys it likes & will hold onto them for ever” & then I KO’d one & he dropped all his keys. i felt so bad. I wanted to give him a hug & help him pick up his keys & then look after him forever.
I havent played it since.
what the fuck is wrong with me?
What has been the greatest thing that has happened in your life to date?
lotsa things come to mind.
sharing a smoke with Chris from Muse behind the Sydney Entertainment Centre.
getting into this law degree
the first time my girlfriend said she loved me. & then the first time she said it in greek.
seeing my little brother get married
making the decision to take control of my mental health & sort my shit out
hearing that my dad was gonna be ok after a heart attack & bypass surgery.
the day my parents brought our new puppy home
I don’t know much about you either (Or as much as I feel I know other members of the Internet here), give me an example of a situation that you’ve been involved with that best describes you as a person?
that’s… a really hard question to answer.
Hell, I dont even know how to describe myself seriously. I’m always changing & growing. Though I feel like there’ll always be some constants.
I’ll always be a political junkie, law-nerd, punk, geek, bad musician & slight bastard.
I’ll always be slightly shy & I’ll always act like I’m not.
I’ll always try to be a good person, even if I’m not particular nice when going about it.
I like to get angry. Angry gets shit done. But you’ve gotta be careful when handling it.
I’ll always be spontaneous & impulsive.
one situation to say all that? I honestly don’t know.
What is the capital of Assyria?
Blue… no yelloaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarggggggh
Nineveh or Assur.
Though Assyria didnt have a ‘capital’ per se, but for the sake of an answer, I’ll go with Ninevh coz it was, at one time, the largest city in the world.
Nice. 🙂
A.
😛
I just want a random stranger to give me $10 million with no strings attached for no reason.
Is that too much to ask?
Its not too much to ask. But I’ll be surprised if any multi-millionaires share my opinion.
(if there are any multi-millionaires who do share my opinion & are reading this, hit me up @number30five on twitter & we’ll talk.)
For those of you who don’t know him, 35 calls his manhood February 29th.
That’s all you really need to know.
I find it utterly facisnating and equally horrifying that you have these details on hand from previous AMA’s on TAY.
Hit the nail on the head there.
#everypageispage18
Holy shit. Even I had forgotten that.
I never forget a penis.
Cc @sunsoar77
Hello @35 – how many books have you read this year, and what have been your favourites?
Hey Jane!
I’ve only read a few books this year. Gotta say my favourite was Public Law in Australia.
seriously though, I’ve not had much time to read any fun stuff. The only two things I’ve read that weren’t law text books was Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy & Neil Gaiman’s Death collection. both were pretty good, but I’ve always loved the Sandman series, so I’m gonna give it to Death.
Gold Mario amiibo acquired!
Anyone miss out that wanted one?
There were a bunch at my local Target.
Sorta. I “wanted” one because I don’t have any Amiibo’s so I figured that’d be a good one to have if I’m only to have 1. Do I care? Not that much.
How much are you wanting to sell it for pray tell?
I’m no dirty scalper… I wanted one for me, and a second for a planned donation. My plan A of personal action successfully delivered 2 into my possession.
I may have also had a plan B, and given the time sensitive nature of these operations, it was also initiated at the same time as plan A. So I may have … spares.
My plan for any spares, should I be too successful, was to wait for the dust to settle, then offer them at cost to acquaintances that missed out, with preference to most likely be determined by the descending order of magnitude of the giving of shits at missing out.
So, in short, I need a few weeks to work out exactly what I’ve got (once I’ve gotten it), but at that point I may have spares on offer at cost.
Sure thing! I have a couple of Amiibo currently, (Megaman, Sonic, Pikachu and D.K after saying I wouldn’t buy any lel) but would be happy to hear back from you when you have an idea if you’re wanting to sell them off again.
Today is not a good day. took me 2 hours to get to work. by public transport.
trying to get stuff done for a work project and I dont know if I’m going to get to where I want today. my brain is not working and I cant concentrate 🙁
send hugs, and pics of turtles please
Uhm. I am not good at the hugs. Hm. Caffeine maybe? I’ve been abstaining from it for about a week until yesterday, and then I had a coffee yesterday afternoon and turned into productivity Superman.
Oh! Here we go: Jump on twitter.
Follow: @EmrgencyKittens – be aware of the missing 2nd ‘e’.
http://imgur.com/gallery/UAUT7H5
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHuHA1wWoAEY3nb.jpg
THE BEST TURTLE http://www.firewatchgame.com/screenshots/firewatch-e3-2.jpg 😀 😀 😀
Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and then knock everything off your desk in one swipe. Feels really really good.
Why does this man in a game have a turtle?
Because it’s Firewatch! And he finds him and he can be your little buddy 😀
I need this. When does Turtle Simulator come out?
THAT is the question! They haven’t announced it yet, but godddd it looks great. And it’s gonna be on PS4 😀 http://www.firewatchgame.com
(yo @DC we got another one!)
So, as many of you may have heard I’m planning on building a gaming rig over the next 3 to 6 months, and as I’m beyond terrible at saving I figured it’d be easier to just buy a few things at a time.
First up is a gaming mouse (this week) and gaming keyboard (next week)
Anyone had any experience with the Saitek mice? Got my eye on one of these two.
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=258_697_1154&products_id=15624
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=258_697_1154&products_id=16090
Keyboardwise, I’m currently looking at this one.
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=113_999&products_id=29401
Other recommendations?
The RAT series of mice are pretty popular, but mice are very subjective. What I would suggest is that any mouse you get, make sure you have a minimum of one thumb button (all RATs do). They’re too useful not to have.
I’ve got a Logitech G710+ keyboard and I think it’s fantastic. It’s really similar to the Spark (Spark is newer) and cheaper, so that’s another you could weigh up. You’ll lose coloured keyboard lights but whether or not that’s an issue is up to you.
@evilmonkey agree about the thumb button. I’ve got a Razer Hex specifically goz its got 6 thumb buttons & they’re a goddamn godsend. It’s also the most comfortable mouse I’ve ever held.
i’m actually considering upgrading to a Naga coz its got 12 thumb buttons…
Crazy friggin’ Naga… 😛
I’m using the Logitech G700s which has 4 thumb buttons which gives me enough to be helpful in MMOs without having too much under the thumb. It’s also the best mouse I’ve ever used…I’m totally in love with it.
I used a Naga for a while and it was great until it fucking died on me.
But the buttons are very hard to use. They’re just a big mass there. There’s nowhere to rest your thumb and the ones closest to your wrist are very hard to reach. I had trouble accurately hitting beyond the first six and ended up hotkeying the bulk of my important abilities (I got it for MMOs) to 1-6, shift + 1-6, and ctrl + 1-6. So I actually regretted buying it (especially after it fucking died on me) instead of getting a Hex.
I have a Saitek keyboard and based off that I’m never buying Saitek again.
I have a Logitech G400 mouse and I can’t recommend it enough. Simple, quality build and hasn’t skipped a beat in several years.
Had a rat mouse, did not like it. Just uncomfortable to use for extended periods.
In keyboard land – recently got a Corsair K70 with Cherry Red mechanical switches. Super comfortable to use and noticed my fingers/wrists don’t get nearly as sore as they do at work. Other keyboard now feel like someone put glue on all the keys. If you plan on spending any significant amount of time at the desk would strongly recommend a good mechanical keyboard.
In mouse land – been using a Logitech G9x for the last few years and it’s amazing. Enough buttons, can change scroll wheel from being ‘clicky’ to free spinning which is great for long TAY pages.
For both of these, I would care less about shiny gaming stuff and just finding out what feels comfortable for you. You’re going to spend countless hours using these peripherals, spend some time in the dodgy local PC hardware store seeing which ones you like.
I use a Logitech mouse and a Ducky keyboard with Cherry MX Blue switches. I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone else but I would encourage others to try them.
See that’s the thing, the only computer store in town that I know of is Leading Edge Computers and they only have a very small range of products. Doubt they’d have any gaming peripherals at all.
Are you sure there aren’t any dodgy Asian hardware stores at the nearby shopping centre? There’s always at least one.
Not that I’ve seen, there’s only two small shopping centres in town, and they consist of Kmart, Target, EB Games, Sanity, a phone case shop, a shoe repair place, Homeart, Brumbys, The Reject Shop, Spotlight and a bunch of clothes shops and cafes.
Closest I’d get to a place that stocked “PC gaming peripherals” would be EB or Harvey Norman.
The RAT series are great – just don’t go wireless. The batteries are proprietary, and require regular recharging. My RAT9 required daily battery swaps, and lasted about 18 months before the batteries wouldn’t recharge anymore. That said, it was comfortable and functional, so you could do a lot worse than the RAT 7.
I moved to a Logitech G602 after that: 11 buttons, and the two cheap non-rechargable AAs I put in when I started using it have lasted me longer than the RAT9’s – how they made a wireless mouse work for 18 months on two AAs is beyond me. If you want wireless, I can’t recommend the G602 enough.
I don’t see the need for wireless peripherals on a desktop. For the low, low price of some trivial cable management, you get the same product. Except it’s not the same product, it’s cheaper, weighs less and has less ways to fail on you (not the same as better or more reliable, mind you).
Practicality, mostly. Can’t speak for everyone, but my box is on the floor to the left of my desk, cos that’s the only place it’ll fit – no room under my desk due to a cross-beam, no room on my desk thanks to three monitors, and it can’t go to the right because there’s a bed there (so firstly, no room, and secondly dust magnet). I tried wired when I first got this setup – it was frustrating. My keyboard cable wouldn’t reach cleanly, so it came off the side of my desk under my left monitor, and had a leeway of maybe 3-5cm further right before it pulled taut, potentially putting strain on the cable and/or USB port, and I had no way to move the keyboard to a convenient place should I actually want to use my desk space. My mouse wouldn’t reach at all, so I had to run it through the USB port on my third monitor’s displayport adapter just so I could use it. Got fed up with taut and untidy cables, so went wireless.
Everyone’s setup is different, but in my case, going wireless is just plain more convenient. As for “weight,” I quickly got used to the RAT9 with the additional weights in, because it felt more substantial, and wouldn’t send my cursor flying if I bumped it by accident (as I seem to do far too often at work :P). Price… meh – if you’re planning to use something for a few years, a $30-40 difference in initial setup cost is pretty negligible. Ongoing cost? Still waiting for it – I’ve had my current wireless KB/M setup for over 18 months, and they’re still using the AAs they came with, with no issues. Fewer points of failure? Can’t argue there, but as I said, practicality kinda restricts my options.
You didn’t think to grab a cheap USB hub? I had similar issues at one point, spent a couple of dollars at Big W and never had to worry every again.
Glad a hub worked for you – it didn’t for me. I tried an unpowered hub, but it was hit and miss as to what worked with it (KB did, mouse didn’t). Experimented with a powered hub I had lying around – it worked, but I had to sacrifice a monitor to use it – box + 3 monitors = full UPS, and I don’t have a spare wall socket, so… yeah. Had to make do. And when things died, the inconvenience of the wired setup made me more open to wireless options.
I went with the RAT9 because I found a good price on it, and I figured it would allow me to move the keyboard to the Dp-adaptor USB port. That setup worked perfectly for about 18 months, then I spilled coffee all over my wired keyboard, and couldn’t clean it – membrane keyboard, coffee got under the membrane, and keys kept sticking, no matter how thoroughly I tried to clean it. Went to JB looking for a replacement, found that they sold one wired keyboard – a cheap Microsoft thing – all the rest were wireless. I kinda needed a keyboard, and preferred membrane models, so I took note of what was available and looked up some reviews that afternoon; went back that evening and grabbed a logitech membrane keyboard with good battery life and positive reviews. A little later, the RAT started to die, too, so, somewhat irate at the RAT’s poor battery life, I went looking for a wired mouse. Heard good things about the G602’s battery life along the way, spent a week looking into it, and decided to take a gamble, which paid off.Hmm, interesting, you say RAT mice (snigger) are great, but others like @jocon say they’re crap. Be interested to see if hand size has anything to do with it.
I had a look at the Logitech G602 and so far it’s a toss up between that and the RAT 7.
The RAT series is pretty love-or-hate. I found the added weights a great feature, as I have a bad habit of accidentally sending my cursor flying on occasion when I take my hand off the mouse – the weights dampened the effect of that somewhat; but some people prefer lighter mice (which the RAT ain’t, even with the weights out). The swappable components mean that you can choose whichever you find most comfortable, but some of the differences are pretty minor, so you’re SOL if you don’t like any. The adjustable angle on the thumbrest is a nice addition, but I found that the joint wore down and just wouldn’t stay out any more – however this is likely because of my grip (holding the mouse between thumb and 3rd/4th fingers).
All of this generally adds up to either be a non-issue or a dealbreaker, I think.
Sounds like I’d like it. I like things that have a bit of weight to them. Usually it means they are much higher quality.
RAT’s are one of those mice you either love or hate. I really wanted to love mine but after about 3 months I gave up on getting used to it. You’ll rarely use all the buttons on there and by making it so customisable it doesn’t really fit anyone unless you spend a good amount of time trialling out the adjustments.
As os has mentioned they’re either yay/nay’s. While I can’t deny their aesthetic value the price point to get one is pretty steep for a mouse you can’t be certain you’re going to love or hate until you’ve spent a fair bit of time with it.
P.S. The adjusted weights are over-rated; you’re better off just adjusting your sensitivity setting.
Still thinking about getting one. The bonus is that the mouse is the least expensive bit of PC equipment, so if It turns out I don’t like it I might even be able to sell it for enough to get a Logitech G602 or something.
As someone who’s had like 5 gaming mice in the past 2 years, simple is always better. Logitech and the basic Razer gaming mouse have been the most comfortable I’ve ever used (I think it was called Naga?)
Edit: For a keyboard I’ve probably got an unpopular opinion as I prefer membrane keys… I use a logitech for that one as well and I’d have look up which model it is exactly! I’ll keep you posted once I get home. Just remember for gaming peripherals simple is always better than gimmicky.
Razer’s basic mouse is the Deathadder. Naga is the crazy 12-buttons-on-the-side MMO mouse.
Ah right deathadder then =P All I know is it’s name after some kind of snake creature!
Based on pure unadulterated comfortness I highly recommend checking out the Mionix Naos collection of mice… I tried them on a whim after seeing a review here on Kotaku and it’s easily the most comfortable thing I’ve ever tried, with an attractive price point to boot (paid $65 for mine)
For keyboards i have never had a bad experience with logitech… Currently rolling the 710+ and it’s just magical
Never heard of that brand before, can’t find that model on pccasegear either.
Just found this site, interesting to see ratings of the all the different models.
http://www.techspot.com/products/mice/
Huh weird but yeah Mionix is not well known… I picked up the Naos 8200 from cpl in Melbourne about a year ago and it seriously amazing… I had a g5 mouse prior to that (which sadly died after many years of good service)…
I absolutely swear by the Microsoft Ergonomic keyboards. The ones with a raised, padded handrest, slightly concave around the home keys on each hand and broken into two down the middle. I got one at work on a recommendation from a co-worker and it’s just an amazing keyboard. Doesn’t have clicky switches or anything, but the comfort level is such that I really struggle to use the standard keyboard layout now. I’m on my third one at work and my second at home in about ten years.
But I’m a programmer by trade so I type a lot so that’s more important to me than gaming usability.
For mice, I’ve tended to use simple, reliable Logitech devices. Still use an original MX Revolution at work. My one at home died and was replaced with a simple wired Logitech. Had a Razer Naga for a bit and that was nice until it died about 5 months into its life. Wouldn’t buy a Razer again after that.
haha nice to see that I’m not the only one who’s heard of issues with razers! I’ve only heard reports from one person, so wasn’t sure if it was a random bad luck thing or not, but sounds like it might be worth keeping an eye on for me! 🙂
Also, that MX Revo you have, is that the one with the removable battery pack that slides in on an angle under the mouse?
Nope, it’s the original MX Revolution. Got it around 2008. Battery is internal. Got to unscrew it and pull it apart to replace the battery (which I haven’t done but probably should since it only gives me about 5 days charge now, used to last months). Model M-RBQ124.
Ahh like the one you stand up on a dock to charge? I had one like that. MX Revo sounds like something I used to have!
Yeah I use the ergonomic keyboard and mice at work (lots of stuff on excel) and I absolutely love this keyboard/mouse setup. Not ideal for gaming but absolutely brilliant for typing and work. It does take a bit of getting used to when you first use it though; the break in the middle of the keyboard threw me off when I started on it.
My recommendation, talk to @welbot who has helped me with all of my PC related Q’s.XD
Hahaha normally I’d agree with you, but on this particular subject (mice and keyboards) it usually boils down to personal preference. There’s no real performance enhancing equipment that I can relay to people as a standout above all others. Basically, if it costs more than $40, and you like the look/feel of it, buy it! 😉
@evilmonkey I can only really give an opinion on the stuff I have personally, as although I’ve used a lot of mice and keyboards in various situations, the only stuff I consistently use enough to know without a doubt is good, is the stuff I use on my home pc.
I currently have a shitty acer keyboard that most likely came as part of an all in one PC, or desktop package (I took it from the spare parts pile at my old job when a couple of keys fell off my other one!) As for my mouse, I have a Logitech Performance MX (similar to this http://www.logitech.com/en-au/product/performance-mouse-mx but a previous version with darkfield laser)
Great choice if you want wireless freedom and decent battery life. Recharges by plugging a usb in to the front, and while charging, sends data over cable, so if you worry about wireless not being responsive enough for games, you can use it either way.
Really though, it comes down to whether you like the look/feel of it, and whether or not you want programmable buttons etc.
Only thing I will say as a tip, is that I have a friend who’s recently been trough 3 different razer mice cos they started to have this weird jittery lag thing after a while. He lives in Melb, so I haven’t witnessed it myself, but that’s the only negative thing I’ve heard about any mouse recently. Could just be supershit bad luck on his part too, cos I know others who use razer stuff, and they love it!
That’s what happened to my Razer mouse prior to it giving up the ghost entirely. The sensor started jittering and not responding to movement periodically and eventually gave up entirely. Wasn’t signal related since it was the Wireless Naga that had the option to plug it in to use as a wired one, and it didn’t respond either way to movement but could see mouse clicks.
Probably should have tried to get it replaced since it wasn’t even 6 months old but I lost the receipt.
well, that guy i mentioned, has been through 3 of that description, and they all have the same issue after a while, so possibly for the best!
I use Microsoft Wireless Mobile Mouse 6000, awesome battery life and I think for about $40. Love it!
SO im going to be a dad :0
No false alarm it was just a number 2
But holy crap at the number of TAY babies
HOLY SHIT!!!
MINI ROCKETS.
You just saying that made me realise i cant have kids for another 15 years at least, maybe by then ill look old enough to be a dad.
Nah, have ’em good and young so that people won’t realize you’re their Dad and you can both enjoy video games together before the light in your hand starts blinking and you have to stop being cool.
Last day. Capricorn 15’s. Year of the city – 2274. Carousel begins.
Off to the shops to pick up all the Yoshi’s \o/
Game seems to be getting mixed reviews, but you can get it for $58, which is pretty good for a new Ninty release.
All the mixed reviews seem to say “It’s a Yoshi game!”
Inconsistent numbers but consistent message.
I’ll let you guys know what I think. But then, I’m biased, I think Yoshi’s Story is one of THE best games on the N64.
Yeah, thing is, the most common thing I could see was – it doesn’t blow Yoshi’s Story out of the water since they haven’t messed with the formula too much.
Some then say ‘pretty great, 9/10’, others say ‘eh, it’s about the same but I expected more, 6/10’
So much is about expectation rather than execution.
I remember not being much of a fan of that one at the time, both with how easy it was and the sickeningly high levels of happiness was not at all to my tastes 😛 Also I hated how it didn’t actually seem to save at all, you had to start fresh every time and couldn’t keep the white or black yoshis you found.
Haven’t actually played it again since then, so who knows what I’d think of it now.
Not to jump on the bandwagon, but I too am expecting a new addition to the family soon.
Gonna head out to Big W and grab Yoshi’s Wooly World.I am about to have 3 woolly Yoshi babbies myself. Triplets \o/I don’t think @freya is pregnant but she has been complaining about a potentially broken rib.
Did she come into contact with a facehugger recently?
Buy the test anyway. There seems to be something in the water…
On the upside your baby got some strong legs. Future sportsball champ.
Arkham Knight (no spoilers) appears to play fine for me on PC. Mind you, I play everything on Medium to Low settings, 1280×720, and I personally think the visuals still look amazeballs.
I didn’t notice any slowdowns until I did a quick test and changed my settings to High or Ultra, but I own a now pretty dated GTX570 so like I said, Medium to Low is really my only option.
I plan to unlock/enable frame rate show later tonight so I can then monitor drops precisely but to be honest, for A$29 (thanks to @evilmonkey’s recommendation no less) I cannot complain.
Also, I wimped out of buying a PS4 last night. I really only want one for exclusives, the FFVII remake whenever it is due and the fact that it’s on special with two games for $398 at Big W so a price match at EB would mean I could use my Batman console $60 deposit transferred.
I’m still umming and arring even now.
I wonder if there’ll be a FF7-themed PS4 come out…
Nah, that game’s not a big deal at all.
Well, Square do Hate You and Like Money, so I’m sure they will do.
You do know that the PS4 faceplate are changeable right? Sony even sells official ones not to mention all the unofficial ones you can get.
http://store.sony.com/ps4-custom-faceplate-bloodborne-zid27-PS43000826/cat-27-catid-EOL-PlayStation-Accessories
Shhhhhhhh! I’m trying to give Benny a good excuse to delay his PS4 purchase til he’s truly ready for it!
Ultimately I think you are right – I am trying to delay my purchase.
So for like, September? Metal Gear Solid? The Uncharted Remastered set?
Pffft, who plays those games? They’re not popular!
*jams fingers in ears*
That’s not how we do things on here. =P
A pack of shoulder-devils, all’of youse!
Haha, yeah I knew that part. You’re still stuck with whatever console colour you choose though for the main part. (black, white, silver..)
Black goes with everything.
I had a black PS4 haha – I sold it. Silver looks amazing, and the white is probably my second favourite. Not much of a fan of black in general.
BLAAACK!
::black on black on black with the ski mask, that is my crook look::
I have the white one. I figured I’ve bought Black consoles since the PS2, time for a change.
Eventually.
As someone that has one and has for a while, if you own a decent gaming PC there is next to zero reason to own a PS4 in the next 6-9 months.
https://youtu.be/o8ilb-H7tok
Persona 5, see it before ATLUS sees it
Was pretty disappointed; American politics fascinates me.
It took quite a while for the true nature of the video to sink in for me. Kept waiting for some political/economic insight.
Add it to your list, or else! *shakes fist*
…2016!
It might be but…
*fingers in ears* lalalala caaaaant hear yoooooooo
Hahaha oh god that labelling is brilliant!!
Edit: ALSO OMG ITS SO PRETTY! I WANT IT NOW!
RITE NOAW
Woo, successfully returned the extra Dededes and Metaknight I had kicking around. Last time I try to be helpful 😛
And Yoshi get, the wool amiibos look pretty great. Would probably be tempted to get the other two colours if they weren’t so pricey/actually did something worthwhile. Also went to look if they had the Devastator there to check it out but they said they hadn’t got any of their Transformers stuff in yet. Probably for the best.
I don’t really know much about Amiibos but I do know I’ll have to get the little reader dealy for the 3DS when the new Animal Crossing comes out. They just read cards or something? I guess the Isobelle and Tom Nook toys can come live on my work desk.
Tom Nook can live there as a constant reminder that if you don’t work your butt off and get his money… things will start happening to residents of the town. Like your best animal pal suddenly packing up and leaving for reasons undisclosed. Or, well, it would certainly be a shame if anything were to happen to your house.
So yeah, you better be at work, working.
The Happy Home Designer game will have a bundle that comes with the amiibo reader, yeah. It’s just an NFC interactor like the new 3DS and Wii U gamepad already has built into it, and the game will have amiibo cards made for it that have the induction loop built into them, like the normal amiibos have embedded in their base.
I’m curious how the amiibo reader will work with the 3DS though. I guess it’ll probably communicate via the IR port or something? I’ll probably have to get it just to add to my peripherals collection 😛
#DadJokePage7 it is!
My dyslexia has just hit a new owl.
Last night I bought an alcoholic ginger beer!….Gee…he wasn’t happy!
A young lady was a theater major applying for fall semester classes. At the end of the busy day she goes back to her dorm and enters in a huff of anger.
“What’s wrong, Shelly?” Asks her roommate.
“Well, all the acting classes are filled. I couldn’t even get into Mime class.”
“Why not?”
“How should I know? You can’t get a word out of those people!”
Why shouldn’t you date a tennis player?
Because love means nothing to them.“Do you want to hear a really good Batman impression?” asked my mate.
“Go on then,” I replied.
“NOT THE KRYPTONITE!” he screamed.
I said, “That’s Superman.”
He said, “Thanks, I’ve been practising.”
Hahaha!
I need to do this.
Soooo, that could’ve gone better.
“Do you want to hear a really good Batman impression?”
“Alright…”
“NO, NOT KRYPTONITE! MY ONE WEAKNESS ARRRGH.”
“Uh… Batman’s not weak to Kryptonite. Superman is. I don’t get it, was there supposed to be a joke, here?”
“YES AND YOU RUINED IT. I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY.”
My mate had a terrible accident a while ago, he fell into an Upholstering Machine.
He’s fully recovered now though.
I went to the doctor’s yesterday complaining of sore feet. He told me “Gout.” I said “But I’ve just walked in!”
I asked my wife for “something Cuban” for my birthday, and she got me a Che Guevara shirt.
Clothes, but no cigar.
Teacher: Johnny, give me a sentence starting with ‘ I. ‘
Johnny: I is..
Teacher: No, that’s not correct Johnny. You should always say, ‘I am.’
Johnny: Okay, ‘I am the ninth letter of the alphabet.’
I’m glad that dad joke page 6 is over-
… oh, god damnit.
Ok I just actually opened the Yoshi bundle box. This thing is retarded.
At first I thought there wasn’t any game in there, all I could see was empty space filled with cardboard spacers. Then I found it over on the side, packed perpendicular to the amiibo box :/ The whole thing could be an inch less wide and about two and a half inches less deep if they just put the game in flat behind the amiibo box. Wtf Nintendo, you stop printing manuals and give us flimsy-arse DVD cases riddled with holes all under the guise of reducing costs, materials and environmental impact, then go and do this. Gimme manuals back instead pls.
Pics for reference: http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/StupidYoshi.jpg
You should’ve seen the Arkham Knight Limited Edition box.
Bigger than my stinkin’ ego, it was.
That’s a big box.
How did you get it through the front door?
Question, are people interested in badges? I know it’s what I usually buy when I go to conventions
Disneyland badges: yes.
Anything else: nah.
Oh hey, dem bookmarks arrived! Pretty slick, there. Actually prettier than I expected – the photos don’t do ’em justice.
…And no, I don’t care about badges. I collect them wherever I find them, then do nothing with them. They sit in a box. I tell myself I will ebay them someday when they are worth something. They never are, and I never do.
Seems like everyone else is more impressed with them then I am. I’m just like, “they’re alright I ‘spose.”
I’ve given away all the pins I got at PAX AU the last couple of years. Not interested.
I probably have some anime pins / badges sitting around that I was going to throw away, can find and pass them your way if it’s something you collect?
I was wondering if it’s worth investing in a badge machine. I’ve always had badges on my bags and I like them, and they were always popular at manifest.
Manifest 🙁
Yeah, it’s a pity. Oh well.
Badgers? Yes.
MIsread as badgers originally too. Fun times.
MUSHROOM MUSHROOM
HOMEWORLD REMASTERED IS FUCKING AMAZING…
That’s all
I really should get into that, as I always love making my own space empires, especially if I can play as a machine race.
Please check next page.
nathanATnathanmcleanDOTcom XD
Put me down as option number 6. Give other people who’ve RPGed less/not at all a shot.
Also, if you’re short, my mate Dan whom we fiascoed with may be keen.
Where’s Ol’@trikeabout these days?
Haven’t heard from you in a while :S
If I remember correctly, I think you mentioned having some eye surgery done, which may explain it.
Hope you’re doing ok, buddy!
(if you can read this)
Edit:
Well, it’s better than some of my other page gets, I suppose.
This one was my best.
I think @f4ction had one where he said his brother sent him a video of an old lady taking a shit in a supermarket.
Urgh, figures I’d last post something I need people to see. Freaking @liondrive ruining everything.
I’m going to get this Wrestling RPG under way. Before I can go too far I need to know what characters I’m working with since in essence wrestling is a character drama.
So whoever is interested let me know your email and I’ll send you the rule book pdf and you guys can create your characters and send them to me.
@quiz_b @highperformance @redartifice @trjn @tigerion and anyone else who is interested.
This system is designed for people to drop in and out or only show up once or twice so no full on time commitment is required.
Also repost: Put me down as tentative. Give other people who’ve RPGed less/not at all a shot.
Also, if you’re short, my mate Dan whom we fiascoed with may be keen.
I’ll still send it to you. Game is made for a transitory roster of characters so you can drop in and out as needed.
I am comtemplato. I did manage to dig up a microphone recently.
Do eet.
There’s nothing stopping you from being a luchador by the way.
I could bring back El Artificio Rojo
There is one thing.
I need to remember where I put my mask.
Yo, count me in mister. But I don’t like counting in or outs. Out in the country where this bull is from, we prefer to leave our opponents a bloody mess on the ground through any means necessary.
I’m David Bull. You can call me D.Bull. I’m a hardcore heel and I’m gonna smash a chair on your purdy mouth.
I’ll help fill in the numbers. That’s the sort of generous, giving guy that I am.
WRASSLIN RPG? WUT.
http://ndpdesign.com/wwwrpg/
I’ll chuck my email again so I can get down to some wrasslin nathanATnathanmcleanDOTCOM
username@gmail.com for me
Oh and just so you know Mrs Tigs might be a bit upset at you
Me and Tigelt might have been playing Wrestling games recently due to you talking/planning this. Her Signature move is the face smush, which is basically a body slam but face to face with the first contact. She finds it hilarious and we have lots of fun playing like that.The only issue is she likes it so much that she is hopeless for nice cuddles at the moment, is we get her up that high she opens her mouth and face smushes us
Today’s been one of those days where I’ve smashed through my required workload and then some, so I’m sitting here all afternoon bored as hell, but trying to look busy.
These days SUCK.
I’d rather be smashed under a heavy workload all day every day than this.
Same 🙁
I think the longest stretch I’ve had like that was 12 months.
That was pretty much my previous job. During big projects it was great because there was always something to do but when there wasn’t anything big. I would finish my work by lunch then just have to spend the rest of the day looking busy.
Noooooo. I’ve done a terrible, terrible thing.
My Mum lost her Steam account details, and we couldn’t figure out which email she had linked, so I asked Steam support to set it to mine. I provided some product codes, contact details, location, etc, etc, to make sure they knew I was authorized to deal with that account or linked to it somehow.
But we gave her display name… which is someone else’s USERname.
So I got access to some random’s account.
They only had free to play games on their account, but one or two paid ones and a number of hours up. So I basically STOLE SOMEONE’S ACCOUNT.
None of those details I provided counted for squat, it seems.
So I tell Steam support there’s been a terrible mistake, please revert that email back to the original user and apologize if anyone gets in trouble for it, and we’ll try getting Mum’s details right again, independently.
I finally track down which obscure, out of date email Mum used, re-gain access to it, get a password reset and get her account back. Is all roses?
Newp. Last night I get multiple password reset emails. FOR THE HIJACKED ACCOUNT.
It’s the telltale friggin’ heart, I tell you. *dingding!* *dingding!* *dingding!*
“I WISH I COULD HELP YOU MYSTERY ACCOUNT, I DIDN’T MEAN TO ROB YOU OF ACCESS TO YOUR ACCOUNT!
Urrrrrrgh! Dammit, Steam! See, this is why Steam needs to have a fucking phone number.
Holy cow Batman, it was really that easy?
Perhaps you could contact the original owner via his/her friends list? I am assuming you would still have access to the account if you are still receiving their emails?
How the heck did that happen if you had product codes, surely they could’ve matched up the account without you having to provide a username? They must be not keeping track of code use.
Change the display name to HELP I ACCIDENTALLY STOLE THIS ACCOUNT.
and then I’M SORRY I’M TRYING TO FIX IT!
IDENTITY THIEF
…
MONSTER! D:
was the password reset email a confirmation of changing pass, or a link to a page to change it? if it was the former, accept it and they’ll get their access back
It was a code, which you then need to put into the screen you’re on when you attempt to access. So yeah, without a way to contact them, they get squat.
poo 🙁
YOU SEE
YOU SEE
I TOLD YOU
*adds extra tinfoil to hat*
This isn’t entirely your fault. Someone fucked up over there and should never have given you that account.
NegativeZero’s self-serving pile of words about playing Kantai Collection that no one reads, part the eleventy billionth:
Yay for progress. In the last couple of weeks i hit a bunch of milestones. Already mentioned on TAY previously that I finally picked up Taigei, Noshiro and Musashi, leaving me with only a small handful of ships left to obtain. Musashi is progressing nicely, running her in PVP where appropriate and already to level 12. I remember the same thing with Yamato when I got her – they’re so amazingly powerful that they’ll almost always get the MVP bonus in PVP so level quite fast. This is a good thing because she consumes roughtly three times what it costs to sortie Nagato or Mutsu.
Last week I finally put the cap onto the Sendai sisters, raising Jintsuu to level 65 and having her obtain her Kai-2 remodel. This puts all three into Kai-2 and high enough level range (though Naka is still only in the 50s) that they’re viable options for the next events. Which is good.
Earlier this week I managed to achieve another milestone I had been working on for quite a while. My U-511, which I obtained ages ago and have been running repeatedly through the Orel Sea as flagship of my submarine fleet, had finally accumulated enough XP to be reborn as Ro-chan. Apparently you can’t trust Japan with anything. Leave your pale Fraulein with them too long and they’ll make her 200% cuter.
Last night I finally saw the end of a grind that has been going on for me for literally years. When I first started playing the game, the first two Battleships I obtained were Fusou and Yamashiro. The pair are the worst battleships in the game but are also the least rare, so most people have them first. I used them extensively, especially Yamashiro (who was my first BB) and got them to the mid 40s before they were completely displaced by the more useful and versatile Kongou-class. However at some point – possibly during one of my long breaks from the game – they got Kai-2 remodels which are extremely high level requirements (level 80) but make them quite viable battleships again with a fairly specific but useful niche. A few events ago I really needed Aviation Battleships like them and didn’t have them, so started on a campaign to fix that, beginning with Yamashiro who was the higher leveled of the two. Last night I finally managed the same grind with Fusou. In the same period I’ve managed to get Nagato to 70, Kaga and Akagi to 80, and started raising Mutsu, Shoukaku and Zuikaku. With a battleship slot now free in my PVP fleet I’m thinking of either raising up Bismarck to her level 75 third remodel for the better artwork, or starting to work Littorio. I’m also focusing on Maya as my next major achievement. Sitting at level 72 of 75 for her remodel now. Her remodel version makes her into an amazing cruiser for anti-air so very useful in events.
Once Maya is out of the way, I’m not sure where my attention is going to fall next. Have some options. The obvious think would be to switch to another heavy cruiser. Prinz Eugen is sitting at 23 or so, and needs to hit 40 to be a useful cruiser (once she does, though, becomes one of the best in the game). I could also get another aviation cruiser up to work alongside Tone & Suzuya, which would probably mean Chikuma but maybe Kumano or Mikuma. Another option would be to finish out the Myoukou class and work with Nachi or Ashigara. But on the other hand, at usable levels I already have Choukai, Maya, Haguro, Myoukou, Tone, Suzuya and Atago so I’m not exactly hurting for good CAs. With Jintsuu complete, I have five reasonably well-leveled cruisers – Yura, Naka, Sendai, Jintsuu and Isuzu, so there’s no real need there either.
The biggest gap in the fleet for me is light carriers. I don’t have Junyou or Ryuujou Kai-2, and both would be quite useful. They’re hard to level and require high levels though so I’m always a bit hesitant committing to them.
So I may actually end up working on another Destroyer as my flagship for a bit. Fubuki is sitting at 45 of 70, so she’d probably be the next one, however I remember the arduous grind for Hibiki/Verniy and not sure I want to repeat it. Failing Fubuki, I have a bunch of options – Mutsuki, Hatsuharu, Hatsushimo, Ayanami are all at mid levels and need about the same amount of work.
I also at some point need to get the Unryuu carriers to a high level. They’ll probably be my focus after I finish with Shoukaku and Zuikaku. Plan with them is to level both to 80. Both are bad carriers right now, but there’s strong evidence to suggest there’s upgrades for both in the pipeline.
I’m also slowly working my way through clearing the various worlds. Haven’t had any luck clearing World 3-5 or the newly added 4-5. Have yet to even try 1-6, but probably should since Asashimo drops there and I don’t have her. I’ve managed to kill the boss in 5-3 a few times using a sub fleet, and will probably keep at that as it’s the lowest risk. Hoping to get to 6-2 some time in the next month or so and commence my Sakawa drop grind.
Tomorrow’s update will be adding world 6-3 which I’m a long way away from getting to but very interested in. Might require me leveling Akitsushima up a bit to clear which would be nice. I really like her, but she’s hard to find a use for. No teases of a Kai-2 update, so assuming that doesn’t change it’ll be the first time in a while we haven’t had one. Rumors have been flying of an impending Cruiser upgrade but hasn’t surfaced yet.
Honest question, how many people saw the posting for the Kotaku job and thought it’d be worth a shot applying?
I know I did. The biggest hurdle for me (aside from the ridiculous field of kick ass applicants) is that it’s a Sydney based job. Freya is pestering me to apply anyway. We can move back to Sydney. It’ll solve our issues with the whole Alice/landlord situation.
It’s a fun “what if” to think about. What if I got that job? There’s a lot of stuff I’d like to write. A lot of stuff I should have already written. I’ve got something I’ve been working on, on and off, for a little while now that would be a great example of what I can bring to the table, if I finish it. That’s definitely a problem I’d have though, finishing things. I’m not good at that
I thought about it as a fantasy then moved on as a) like hell my family is moving and b) I couldn’t write a coherent article to save my life.
I’m sure your wife, you know the one who just got a promotion, would definitely be okay with giving that up to live in Sydney. I mean, it’s Sydney. There’s an Opera House and a bridge and some nice sushi places.
Well, the conversation literally just went like this in my house.
“Hey, Kotaku has a job posting! For article writing!”
“Honey that’s awesome, you’re a trained Journalist, you could do that.”
“We would have to live in Syd…”
“F*ck off.”
Yep, I did marry the right woman.
I didn’t see it.
…
Neither did I but then I used zee good ol’ Googols and found this:
http://www.alluremedia.com.au/jobs/job/kotaku-australia-journalist
And I also found some article from 2011 that posted about a job for a weekend editor for Kotaku and Trjn also expressed his interest. APPLY PEOPLES!
Nope not for me 😛
Steam isn’t that bad 😛
For swindling black hats like @transientmind, sure!
I was working at the time and decided I didn’t need a second job.
I looked at it, and was like “There’s a big article I want someone to write about 2k aus, maybe that someone could be me! Nah, fuck it.”
Just think, you can post an article about Board Games then people in comments will be “WHY IS THIS IN A VIDEO GAME WEBSITE”.
BECAUSE BOARD GAMES!
When I saw they wanted people knowing about PC and eSports I honestly felt like it would be perfect for you.
Even if I thought I’d make a good game journalist/writer I doubt I’d be the right fit, but I did think about it. Of course I have no idea what it pays, either.
Should give it a crack man. You know stuff and are good with the words.
I think you should apply, but thats purely for my own selfish wants of stealing you for board games 😛
But also because you can writes good
Wasn’t a role I am interested in
Saw it a figured that some taybies should give it a shot, but wasn’t something I would have a shot a getting the job, or probably really enjoying it if I did
I was interested but, like others, moving to Sydney isn’t really on my radar.
The fact that you’ve already had articles published means they like you’re stuff. Go for it Trjn.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the moment.
I’m about to boot up Arkham Knight, on a just meets the minimum specs machine.
I will post again when it crashes/stutters/deletes itself.
Uhhhh…it’s working fine.
I feel like this is a sign that something terrible is about to happen.
It should run fine initially, but be prepared for a slideshow in the batmobile (especially if you have an AMD card).
After much thought I’ve just ordered a Saitek R.A.T. 7 Gaming Mouse and a SteelSeries Mouse Mat.
And now we play the waiting game.
Edit: decided to save a couple of dollars and go with normal post this time. Let’s see how long this one takes.
I get something for free, I give it to @evilmonkey for free, @evilmonkey all of a sudden gives paid for gifts in return!!!
Thanks buddy you really didn’t have to!
Yeah, I did. Enjoy man.
Errr, I mean, that @evilmonkey sounds like a swell guy
*throws smoke bomb at ground and runs away*
Goddamn! The Radeon R9 Fury X only came out today and it’s already sold out on pccasegear.
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=193_877&products_id=32351
You were planning on buying one…?? I’ve never understood purchase of bleeding edge GPU’s.
Unsure of the AMD naming conventions, but you look at nVidia’s ‘Ti’ variants and the bang-for-buck is amazing and performance is often only a few frames behind the super expensive cards but you get a hefty discount because the technology is 6 – 8 months old.
Don’t have the money right now, but I was considering it in a few months if they were cheaper.
When I eventually get around to buying a graphics card I might get the Radeon R9 390X and possibly add a second one down the line when they’re like half the price.
I’ve never understood why people buy AMD cards, complain no games are optimised for it, upgrade to another AMD card, complain no games are optimised for it, upgrade to another AMD card, complain no games are optimised for it, upgrade to another AMD card, complain no games are optimised for it etc etc.
Ran nVidia cards for years until just last year when swapped to an AMD one. Haven’t noticed a great deal of difference because I don’t typically play AAA titles on release.
Although price is my primary deciding factor and AMD had much better performance at the price point than nVidia at the time so swapped over.
Wow… I’m doing well tonight that’s some poor sentence structure/flow right there.
Yeah, I’m seriously considering an AMD CPU for my build. Specifically this one.
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=187_1512&products_id=28428
It may not be the most powerful processor around, but from what I’ve seen it definitely offers the most bang for your buck. It exceeds the recommended requirements for Arkham Knight too, so it should easily play all the latest AAA games.
I’m thinking about upgrading this generation, was waiting for benchmarks on the 390x (cos no way in hell I’m paying a grand for a graphics card). Looks like it’s on par with the 980, while the Fury is on-or-around-par with the 980ti. I think I’ll wait until later this year, when we see benchmarks on DX12, tho. Thinking my 7970 should last me a little while yet, but really want to get back to playing games at 5760×1080. Elite is pretty much the only game I play in surround these days, and it is glorious. :3
I’m fairly certain Batman is driving the Batmobile with his butthole in Arkham Knight. That or the Batmobile exists in an alternate dimension that is somehow localised in a space exactly Batmobile shaped where physics are very different to ours.
It’s nice the combat works again though. Jesus the combat in Origins was awful. Now it’s back to accurate and flowing.
I like how a bit into the game it’s like HEY I JUST UNLOCKED THE AFTERBURNER because that’s sure what the thing needs – be able to go twice as fucking fast rather than actually turn around a corner.
I was bemoaning the lack of an afterburner at the start. It didn’t matter that I couldn’t control it, I wanted to not control it at greater speed.
By the point I’m at now I’ve gotten a handle on its physics, so I actually like driving it, but let’s be honest, you can discount anything I say since Batman is in competition with Mass Effect for my favourite new IP of the last gen.
Gave Batman a whirl. Contrary to what’s been going around online, it seems like it runs absolutely fine on my PC. Swapping to borderless windowed seemed to make a big difference.
I really don’t like it though. I never finished Origins because it just got boring and filled me with a profound sense of ennui. But at least it took 13 episodes to do it. From the instant it threw the batmobile at me (about 10 minutes in) it started to lose me, and I gave up completely after an hour. It’s still the exact same game, only now you have a tank that handles like they took a brick shithouse and then attached a rocket engine to the side. After wasting ten minutes on some godawful race obstacle course thing with the Riddler taunting me I’ve basically decided the game it can fuck right off. Uninstalling now. Whatever fun these games used to have has apparently boiled away now that they’ve made the same game again a third time, and now that everyone else has stolen what it did well.
I’m loving it. I’m playing the goddamned Batman and I have a fucking tank. If you can’t enjoy that scenario, then I can’t help you.
Arkham Knight benchmark: 28FPS min, 50 max, 47 avg. Definitely not terrible, methinks.
While I don’t wish to jump on the hate bandwagon (I have played waaaaaay worse PC ports than this, and dealt with them without whining online), its benchmark doesn’t stress any of the points where the game’s performance sucks (aside from the one scene transition where it probably gave you the 28 fps).
As Blaghs said, the benchmark is not indicative, unfortunately. Mine said 26 min, 61 max, 47 average. Watching the framerate as it ran showed it was hovering around 60 for about two-thirds of the benchmark, and sub thirty for the other third. Playing showed mostly 50-60 with occasional random locks to 30 and frequent noticeable stuttering.
Well, my Xbox decided to turn itself off randomly whilst I was playing Fight Night Round 3.
I think it may be on its way out…
🙁
So I’m pretty sure that I’m going to have a hard time explaining to a four year old why he can’t take the Woolly Yoshi ‘Miibo everywhere with him. So very cute.
Of course you will have a hard time explaining that, there is absolutely no reason for him not to
The solution: “Yoshi has a SENSOR, you don’t want to break yoshi’s sensor, ok?”
The boy understands sensors.
Her Story gets the Greenius and @sughly thumbs up of approval!
(@dc)
It’s so good!
Wow, these Yoshi amiibos are actually pretty good quality. Probably the reason for the higher price tag.
They are so adorable. I wish I’d also bought the blue one.
I bought all 3 because I am a sucker
Hey, me too.
I considered it, but I decided I didn’t want the pink one, but then I never got around to preordering the blue one
There was plenty of all colours at my local Target yesterday. I could grab a blue one for you and post it to you if you want.
That would be awesome!
That one Japanese woman who created them all by hand must be exhausted!
QLD people, what electricity provider are you guys using? I’m fed up with Origin and am now not too lazy to actually look into other options.
Also, completely fed up with not being able to get a quote without being forced to accept being called by a salesperson. It shouldn’t be this hard in 2015 to simply compare electricity charges
Honestly, it makes bugger all difference 99% of the time.
If you want a more simple approach, prioritise the supply charge. This is fixed and will be charged regardless of what you use, so minimising this in the choosing a retailer stage is best – usage charges you can change through your own actions in the house, but supply is fixed.
Of course, retailers generally operate in cycles – set the margins low to get people in, jack the prices up a few months later, and most of the profit comes from people too lazy to switch. Around that time, another retailer will look to capitalise on the exodus and set their margins low. And round and round we go. Weeeeeee!
Yeah, the supply charge was what I noticed on my latest bill, it’s almost doubled since a year/year and a half ago
It doesn’t matter? Electricity prices are regulated by the Queensland Government and can’t be changed by the middleman retailers. There’s some tiny variance in fees and early payment discounts but they’re all essentially the same. Servicing and supply is all done by Energex so retailers literally do nothing but charge you for the government.
This.
I actually don’t mind Origin – I’ve renewed their 12 month e-saver thingo – that gets a straight out discount of 9% (i think) plus additional discounts for paying via directdebit and paying on time.
Lose a little because they charge 1% for credit card direct debits – which is an absolute crock of shit that makes me rather angry and a discussion for another time.
*cough*
The prices are set by the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), formerly NEMMCO (National Electricity Market Management Company Ltd. est ’96 for the big switchover to a national market in ’98)
There’s electricity prices on the national market, and then there’s distribution charges for each local network operator to string the wires up and keep them up. Those are different for each distributor, but also go through full regulation and approval five (?) years in advance.
Retailers do the bit where they handle hundreds of thousands of customers and all the administration hassles that go with that, and in return add their own margins on top of these charges.
Isn’t that the wholesale prices? The retail tariffs are set by the Queensland Competition Authority, at least until next year when they’re planning to deregulate retail pricing.
Ohhhh, you’re not completely deregulated up there yet.
Yeah, I just covered every layer below QCA then… That would mean there’s even less difference on the usage charges. So yeah, supply charge is king for picking a provider.
And yeah, retailer fees / discounts are essentially just complicated bullshit to deliberately make it harder to compare to anyone else’s prices. Same tactics as phone companies.
Origin
When I went away to get married, I was with QLD electricity. I came back to the country with a massive bill, so I called them, told them I hadn’t been in the country, how is this possible?
“During the winter months, people use extra energy on heaters etc”
0_o
The monsters under your bed need to be warm too you know.
I’m with AGL. I was originally with Origin but then a friendly doorknocking salesperson (I was shocked that they existed) from AGL came around and offered a pretty good deal. They were a blast when I moved and had to connect a new house with electricity and the price is pretty okay. I think I get a 7% discount overall due to the deal I signed on with plus the discounts for paying on time and paying by automated direct debit. Haven’t had a problem so far.
Friday Morning Question Time: Is there a movie that you really didn’t get as a kid that you really love as an adult? For me, it’s Hook. I didn’t enjoy it as a kid, and I can’t understand why. It’s possible that it’s just because I preferred to watch animated movies, and that’s the only real reason I can think of. But I watched it this morning, and it gave me so many feels. So many brilliant performances.
Gattaca. All the feels.
I hated Labyrinth as a kid. My wife reintroduced me to it after we’d been together a couple of years and yeah, it’s pretty good.
To Kill a Mockingbird. It was my schools VCE selected film and whilst I did my best to appreciate the story, it wasn’t until I bought a $6 copy off of the counter at JB and showed it to my girlfriend who had never seen it before to try and instill her with a little bit of film culture.
The only time she seemed engaged during the film was when they introduced a character called Boo Radley, to tell me that there is a clothes store named that as well and what a terrible coincidence it was 😛
She wasn’t a fan of The Boo Radleys then?
I just washed a dog named Boo Radley. He was cool
CLIFFHANGER, it was huge when I was a kid, everyone was talking about it.
When I finally saw it I was massively disappointed.
Then I saw it again a few years later & found it really unintentionally funny.
Maybe this doesn’t fit your question, it was the best I could come up with.
I found it pretty hilarious when I saw it as a kid. I think it’s on Stan, been meaning to revisit.
The two stoners amused me quite a bit at the time.
Also Third Rock Dad is the villain.
Christ this Adventure Time banner is anything but subtle; makes it quite tricky to be on TAY at work when half my screen’s basically red =@
Adblock + Turn off Images makes TAY look somewhat work-friendly 😛
I’ve always wondered does Adblock mean Kotaku can’t get revenue from views of ads?
AFAIK, ad revenue is often click-based anyway.
I think it’s both views and clicks.
I only use Adblock at work for stealth reasons though. At home it’s all ads all the time!
Both I think – a small amount per view, a larger amount (relatively) per click.
Fair enough; I found a workaround for TAY anyways; just stop the page loading part way. This way Kotaku can get the ad revenue from me browsing other articles and I can keep procrastinating with TAY at work =P
I’ve started playing Tales of the Borderlands #3. This is such a great game. I can’t even explain why – it’s just amazing and hilarious.
I apologised to Loader Bot, and we RoBro fistbumped. And that wasn’t even my favourite moment so far! GOTY every year.Me too!
I bought that recently so need to find the time to play it
So yep, Tales of the Borderlands remains my favourite Telltale game.
Finished off ep 3 last night. Sah, sah gurd. Sah gurd.
As a non-player of the entire series, where should I begin?
I came to Mass Effect 2 only after it was in the bargain bin for $20 by accident, I want Borderlands to be like this for me S2
The lore’s not super complex. You could probably jump straight into tales, but if you want backstory you only really need to play borderlands 2 and maybe wiki a couple people
Nah, I’m playing blind & loving every minute.
It stands strongly on its own.
Oh, absolutely. Most of the characters are new, the previous ones are introduced in context
I’ve never played a proper Borderlands, jump straight into Tales, it’s fantastic.
I don’t know anything about Borderlands at all, and I love Tales.
Everything you need to know is explained in-game (entertainingly!) though there are probably some sweet Easter Eggs for aficionados that I’m not getting.
Also for @jimu, as someone that has spent ungodly amount of time with all games I can tell you there’s not some. It’s damn near every 30 seconds or more. Half the humour in the game comes from subtle references to 1, 2 and the PreSequel. You’re missing a lot.
That moment when creating a new character in Shadowrun and I needed a spreadsheet to track my starting character purchases. Yep, this is going to be swell.
My Gnome Decker has an Uzi because he appreciates the classics. Also spent about 80% of my starting nuyen on my cyberdeck. And he has a moped! 🙂
Is this a Shadowrun tabletop RPG pop?
Yep. First time Shadowrunner too so this will be undoubtedly chaotic.
Hahah good luck =P Just don’t go plugging yourself in everywhere
Pfft. Plugs are so old-school. I’m all about the AR (augmented reality). I don’t need to jack into anything to hack it.
That said, if someone ever switches off the AR I’m kinda screwed. 😛
Someone here at work has fucked up and our IT email address is suddenly getting spammed with overdue account notices; 250 from 10:13am through to 10:33 and still counting.
I really feel like going home.
So, apparently episodes of WAKFU are streamable on Steam, and they’re available in English, and French with English subtitles…
Still pissed that they didn’t have the French audio on the DVD release. 🙁
Oh wow, I really enjoyed what I saw of Wakfu when it was a shiny new but entirely French thing. I gotta check that out.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jun/26/nsw-gives-asylum-seekers-travel-concessions-to-help-the-vulnerable
Huh, didn’t realise there were LNP leaders with a heart. Respect.
Uh, of course some of them have hearts, how else do you think Philip Ruddock has spent the last 200 years alive and well without consuming the raw hearts of young children?
Yeah this was my dilemma a few months back, I like Baird but hate the party he’s in. Lose-lose?
Edit: Also respect for the ex-transport minister gladys berejiklian.
NSW LNP is ok.
O’Farrell & Baird are fine.
They’re unoffensive. They could be doing more, of course, but whatever.
NSW’s finaces are in a good position (big population & lotsa businesses are based there) & NSW i think tends to be more centreist than conservative (with exceptions).
So I think they’ve realised that coz the budget bottom line is ok, they dont have that excuse to whip out the stereotypical LNP hate-boner over welfare etc. that other jurisdictions rely on to win conservative votes.
sure, they’ve made a few bad calls (eg: losing a foot in a work accident is no longer considered a big deal when it comes to work cover compensation & the knee-jerk reaction to he one-punch deaths), but they don’t have to do anything, so they’re not doing anything.
They can afford (literally and politically) to occasionally pander to the centre-left without upsetting the centre-right too much.
Mike Baird hasn’t been acting like a total dick.
I’m at work and all I want to do is play Fallout NV
:*,’**,,.*'(
I’m at work and all I want to do is not to be!
Yay! @transientmind is also playing fallout New vegas. I am too.
I finished Vanishing of Ethan Carter last night. Pretty cool! I enjoyed it.
Spoilers
Though I didn’t like the mine sequence 😛 It was all wonderfully creepy up until they chuck a jump-scaring enemy at you. I didn’t think there would be any actual enemies in this game! Almost wet my pants.All around a really interesting game. I liked the detective gameplay mechanics, they would be great for a more fleshed out game.
Roughly how long does it take to complete?
I saw one of the reviews say you can’t leave an area until you finish the puzzle or it all resets. Does that make leaving after a small session difficult?
Puzzles are fairly short to solve. The game took me like eight hours or something but I did A LOT of moseying.
I finished it in three sittings. Maybe an hour or two each? (Can’t say for sure because Steam doesn’t seem to track time-played while in Offline mode) So probably around 5ish hours.
You can leave an area any time you want, it’s just that the game doesn’t save until you’ve beat a section (you can’t save anywhere) – which sucks. One night I had to keep playing way past the point that I wanted to turn it off because I couldn’t save part way through an area.
So yeah, I’d say small (less than half an hour) sessions are difficult.
It took me three hours, according to Steam, though I’d expect it to be the upper end of that, closer to four. I don’t think any section took me more than half an hour, but Pow’s right in that it might be hard if you’re playing for less that that.
So following the Steam summer sale I started a new game of Mass Effect 2 (aged suprisingly well) and I wanted to share some of my thoughts and experiences I had through this DLC.
DLC Spoilers for those who haven’t played Project Overlord
So I completed Omega and jumped into this DLC mission Project Overlord that has you checking up on a Cerberus base the Illusive Man has lost contact with. So I make my way through this base that’s been taken over by what appears to be a rogue AI intent on killing everyone with machines in the base and through most of the missions I go through in this area I keep thinking to myself “oohhh when I get my hands on you rogue AI IMA KILL YOU! Screw being a paragon”. Hell Shephard even jokes towards the end of the mission when he presses a button that half expects a Reaper to pop out and kill his team after everything this bloody AI has thrown at me. However in the final leg of the mission a story starts playing out in your environment; one created by the AI trying to communicate with you, trying to tell you what happened and why things have gone horribly wrong. Eventually you find out that the AI is actually the autistic brother of the lead scientist in the facility, he was rigged to a machine to help communicate with the Geth. And by rigged I mean suspended in some kind of torture device with this autistic kid just crying and begging for the noise to stop. I finished the mission and just had to stop for a while to reflect on how this story manipulated my reactions to the so called enemy it had thrown at me. To how it actually created an adventure rivetting enough that I felt remorse and anger at the end of it. This was exactly the kind of adventures I was having when I played the Wild Hunt and I had to ask myself why didn’t I have these adventures in DA:I? I’m not entirely certain why to be honest, BioWare clearly had the ability to capture my emotions at some point even while they were still with EA, however DA:I still feels like a shell of a game even when I compare it to a single DLC from ME2 that took me 2 hours to complete =\ Here’s hoping they figure out how to get that magic back.Yeah, that was a good one
Had you not played Overlord before? Because one of the ME3 callbacks depends on your Overlord outcome.
I think I did however I lost my save before ME3 and replayed a rushed core version of ME2 before ME3 came out where 2 of my team
diedso when I played ME3 it wasn’t my original complete play through of either ME1where I saved that stupid Kroganor ME2.Edit: Also a lot of the story from both the games has pretty much been forgotten so when I played Overlord now some stuff kind of rung a bell but I couldn’t remember how any of it played out so almost like playing it brand new =]
Pretty much the ENTIRE game of ME3 is a series of callbacks to the previous two games, which makes me baffled about the complaints of there only being three similar endings. Aside from the fact that the endings change the fate of the galaxy dramatically, it’s like people didn’t understand that the entire game of 3 IS the ending. All those hundreds of decisions you made in the previous two games get wrapped up with their own unique resolution based on what you did and how you react to it in the finale. The whole game is the final chapter.
Yeah ME3 was a good bye to the story pretty much from start to finish, I think disjointed people was the release gap between the 2nd and 3rd games. If they release the trilogy as a pack for PS4 I think it’ll be a much more holistic and amazing experience.
That said the whole marketing around we have 5000 different endings peeved me off.
Edit: It’s never been about the ending BioWare; it’s always been about the journey in your games.
I suspect that the reason you didn’t get writing like that in DA:I is that a lot of Bioware’s good writers from back then have left.
Could be the case to be honest… Let’s see how Andromeda does, not holding my breath maybe I’ll pick it up half price over a Christmas sale or something.
I always found the Dragon Age games to be kind of staid. The one time they did something interesting everybody flipped out and threatened to kill the writers. I mean, yeah the game wasn’t great but that was due to recycled environments and press X ro win combat. The story was great.
I know plenty of people liked DA:I but there weren’t any moments in the game that impacted me at all =\
There’s something about the old BioWare games where they just had a way of making you care, like with Project Overlord and how the kid keeps repeating the square roots of various numbers. Or HK-47’s meatbag conversations. DA:I just felt… like a basic RPG story wise =\ Like it was made by a fledgling company making their first ever RPG.
Ohh, I reckon I had a moment when
the first town got burned down and everyone rallies around with song.But otherwise… yeah, it was sort of going by the numbers.I feel like I might’ve been more gripped if it’d been a tighter experience with less padding. Respawning enemies, ludicrously-rewarding mmo-style herb/ore-gathering, kinda thing.
I loved the DA2 story. So much more a personal story about Hawke.
I half suspect that’s what had so many die-hard RPers storming the walls – the more it was about Hawke, the less it was about self-insertion.
Plus, y’know, the recycled dungeons and press x to win against waves of monster-cupboard enemies.
Yeah I loved DA2 as well; replayed it at least twice or thrice more than DA:O
Oh, what I’d give for a Powerslide reboot…
Too bad Ratbag don’t exist anymore.
🙁
Don’t suppose anyone’s got a Play-Asia coupon kicking around at all?
Mine always run out before I get a chance to use them. They last about a month or so & I don’t order games often enough
Yeah, people used to post them all the time all over the place. Really quiet on that front these days, I kinda miss it. Got some cool stuff from them way back when.
I rely on them for vita games with dlc because I set mine to US.
They were doing free shipping on anything over $25 for a while but stopped 🙁
I’ve managed to get a few bargains in their daily/weekly sales though.
Bored at work, so I wrote something to pass the time. I started a new run of Fallout: New Vegas the other day as a character based on my dog, Jack: Max Strength, Endurance. High Charisma. Min Intelligence. Skills were focused on Survival, Unarmed and Explosives (you should see some of the landmines he leaves around my yard). These are his adventures:
I woke up feeling like I had been hit by a bus. I like chasing buses, so this was very plausible but a man appeared and said I had been shot. He was a doctor and after he fixed me up I left to see check out where I was. I ambled around the town, and met a a very impressive gal’. Enthralled as I was, I couldn’t help but mutter aloud, “What a bitch!. Her name was Cheyenne, and her master (Sunny Smiles or something) took me out the back to shoot some bottles. I wasn’t a fan of the gun so I proceeded to punch the bottles instead – this seemed to please her so she treated Cheyenne and I to a treat – Gecko Hunting! Gecko meat is delicious! It did make me feel a bit sick – but it tasted even better the second time!
We parted ways and I explored some more, coming across a fella named Ringo. He was holed up on account of upsetting some of the local powder gangers. Being the kind, charismatic(and stupid person I am, I decided to help and set off to recruit other town members to assist in his defense. Nobody listened to me except Cheyenne and the ol’ prospector on account of my familiarity with landmines. He gave me some dynamite just before the gang attacked. I let loose the explosives as the others joined in the fray – You should have seen Cheyenne. She was so majestic – pouncing on the lead gang member and was ripping him to shreds. I thought I could see fireworks between us, but soon realised it was one of my dynamite sticks that had landed underneath her. Cheyenne went to doggy heaven and all of the townspeople got upset. When the last gang member fell they started to shoot at me! So I high-tailed it out of there. I ran out of town and decided to head south, to find some new friends.
Happy birthday!
Guys….
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/06/25/pluto_north_pole_bright_spot_getting_clearer.html
It’s fucking photos of pluto. Still blurry because the probe’s still a few weeks away from its flyby, but holy shit…
That’s great and all, but back here on earth we’ve got two people leaving so we had a morning tea on, and we’re all eating point that past of hunger to the point that I’m pretty sure we’ll be able to get another Hasselhoff-low-point style clip pretty soon. I gotchyer blurry pale orb right there.
Speaking of unrelated topics:
I think I’m going to be put of the country most of September & it’s Metal Gear Solid V month! D:
Awh, I thought the crass earthbound reality juxtaposed nicely with the heavenly bodies of science-fact. 🙂
My cat’s breath smells like cat food.
Holding back the tears
but they said pluto
isn’t a planet so how
can it be in space
It’s a dwarf planet.
Related : https://what-if.xkcd.com/imgs/a/109/planet.png
I knew dwarves were real!
Is there an elf planet too?
Or better yet, a mermaid planet ????
Eris was originally going to be named Xena, so maybe there’s amazonian demigods there?
My pants!
Currently floating around uranus hopefully.
They said it’s back to being a planet, now!
http://mashable.com/2014/10/02/pluto-planet-again/
Please note that the NASA link also shows up on ‘pluto a planet again’ google search, but I deliberately chose Mashable to link to because it has a snappier title and lede.
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/plutotime/
The yarn Yoshi amiibos aren’t cheap! But I bought two (green and blue) anyway because they are just so damn cute. 😀
I also picked up a Toon Link and then next on my radar is Zero Suit Samus.
Goddammit! I’m bored at work D=
@redartifice give us a Thursday TAYdrenaline shot!
For a second I thought it was Thursday…
So mean.
XD
A Friday Frizzante For @pupp3tmast3r:
I’ve been at an infrastructure conference all day. Given unlimited budget, what infrastructure do you build for the country? For me, coast to coast high speed passenger and freight rail
Unlimited budget?
The worlds fastest interwebz.
What a waste, we’ll just legislate blocking its use!
I’ll make it so fast it can’t be caught.
#engineering
Quantum network? When they look at what sites you’re browsing it immediately changes to something else?
It loads before you finishing typing kinda fast.
North-South or East-West or a giant ring with crossover in the middle?
If it was only one project I’d look at moving to 100% renewable energy, guaranteeing fresh water supplies for the future or preserving food supply for the future.
Nail one or more of those and I reckon you have a pretty good platform to work on everything else.
A giant escalator to nowhere
Arcologies everywhere.
I like that idea. I drove Adelaide to Melbourne and back again last weekend and thought to myself, we really need dual lanes both ways between all major cities.
A giant solid gold house in place of my own with a vault full of money.
It would be a good landmark for Australia to have and boost the peoples moral.
And a rocket car
NBN 🙁
🙁
One that works.
Holy crap there’s a lot of interesting looking JRPGs on the horizon. When did this start happening?
Massive post warning!
Here’s a list of them off the top of my head:
Trails in the Sky: SC (PC, PSP) (Localization confirmed)
So this one’s really hold, nearly a decade now, but it’s sounding like we should expect it some time in or before August. Finally resolve the insane cliffhanger that the first game left off on. Sounds like XSeed might not get to the third game of the trilogy for a while if at all but that’s okay, the third part is more like a sequel than the third act of a trilogy.
Hype level: Extreme
Trails of Cold Steel (PS3,PSV) (Localization confirmed)
Aka Sen no Kiseki. Currently two games (Sen & Sen II) with a third in development and due for some time next year. Part of the same universe as Trails in the Sky (and another duology as well) this is the most modern of the Kiseki games and I still can’t believe we’re actually getting a localization this year, let alone that they’ve also confirmed they’ll do the sequel. The setting’s really interesting too – Erebonia is a country with a massive class divide, where the oppressed lower class are on the verge of open revolt, and the core characters are members of a class in the Erebonian military academy, all from diverse class and background.
Hype level: Preordered
Tokyo Xanadu (PSV) (Localization not confirmed)
Falcom decided to dust off their old Xanadu brand for this one, though it seems to bear little connection to the older games in the franchise. The idea was to let some of the newer members of the company take direction on something new, since they don’t have the same opportunity to do so with Falcom’s big pillars in Trails or Ys. Anyway, this looks absolutely rad, taking a page from the Persona / SMT series by having a fantasy game set in modern-day Tokyo. Art looks great and it seems like a fairly action-oriented game along the lines of Ys. Localization hasn’t been announced but it seems incredibly unlikely that no one will pick it up.
Hype level: High
Untitled new Ys (Ys Eight?) (PSV, PS4) (Localization not confirmed)
Falcom’s flat out on Tokyo Xanadu right now so there hasn’t been much announced around the new Ys since it was unveiled at TGS 2014. However it’s fairly easy to assume that this will play like the other Ys games and most likely build on the sort of Action game / JRPG hybrid that Ys Seven and Memories of Celceta did so well. Ys has really taken off in the west so this will almost definitely get localized.
Hype level: Strong
Atelier Sophie (PS3,PS4,PSV) (Localization not confirmed)
Atelier has to be one of the longest-running JRPG series now. This will actually be the 17th main game in the franchise. Generally they make 2-3 games in a given style and setting and then reboot, and last year’s Atelier Shallie marked the end of the Dusk setting, which I think is a shame because it also sees the departure from the franchise of Hidari, easily the best artist to have worked on the games (the stand-out part of her work is the incredible clothes designs). This one’s only just been announced this week so not a lot of details yet, but these games are all about the same combination of things: Time management, alchemy, and cute girls being cute (and not really needing boys around to do everything for them which is a nice change from the usual Japanese tropes!). They’re talking up a big new Alchemy system for this involving creating shapes with ingredients and learning recipes as a result of exploration and battles, which sounds good. Also can play dress-ups with Sophie’s companion character by synthesizing new clothes because why not. Localization seems basically guaranteed, since the series all sell well and Tecmo Koei have been really good about localizing all of Gust’s games.
Hype level: Appreciable
Atelier Escha & Logy Plus (PSV) (Localization not confirmed)
Updated Vita port of the PS3 game of the same name (which is a pun, by the way – the particle for ‘and’ in Japanese is ‘to’ so this is Atelier Eschatology, which is why her name is said as ‘eska’ and not ‘esha’ like you’d expect). This actually hasn’t been confirmed yet for localization but all the other Plus ports have come over, it only came out in Japan in January and T-K is busy gearing up for Ar nosurge plus.
Hype level: Middling
Ar noSurge Plus (PSV) (Localization confirmed)
Updated Vita port of the PS3 game of the same name. Gust’s other big franchise for a long time aside from Atelier was the Ar Tonelico games. Trouble is, Ar Tonelico was a joint project with Banpresto, who have been absorbed into Bandai Namco the same way that Gust were caught in Koei’s gravitational pull. The Surge Concerto games (Ciel nosurge and Ar nosurge) were sort of set up as a reboot-slash-sequel, with some characters appearing in both series. The biggest issue is that we never got Ciel, which was a weird ‘virtual life’ game where you interact with Iona, a sort of robot-girl moeblob. Without a Ciel save, the PS3 version of Ar nosurge had some features disabled and you also had no grounding for who Iona and corresponding Earthes were, making playing her side of the game kind of odd. Also I hate turning on my PS3 nowadays. So looking forward to the Plus port!
Hype level: Acceptable
Yoru no Nai Kuni (PS3, PS4, PSV) (Localization not confirmed)
While they did produce that Ar Tonelico spiritual sequel and everything, and it’ll probably get a continuation at some point, Gust seems like they want to branch out a bit. This is their next big game, ‘The Land Without Night’. The story apparently follows two girls as they travel around an uncharted island where the residents never sleep as a result of them killing the ‘Ruler of the Night’. Battle system involves fighting using summoned contracted demons, so someone’s been playing Shin Megami Tensei. Graphics look like they’re using the same stylistic approach as the recent Atelier games so it looks quite nice. More than a strong hint of yuri in the artwork. Localization seems likely.
Hype level: Bullish
Stella Glow (3DS) (Localization confirmed)
Looking like it’ll be Imageepoch’s swan song as the company filed for bankruptcy recently. Atlus will be localizing it, releasing some time fairly soon I think, so quite close to the Japanese release. Have been hearing this has a great soundtrack and I know it’s got awesome looking artwork – one of my absolute favourite artists, Ideolo, was the character designer. Generally looks like a nice, tight strategy RPG.
Hype level: Stellar
Luminous Arc Infinity (PSV) (Localization not confirmed)
Fourth game in the Luminous Arc series, with development responsibilities moved away from Imageepoch – Marvelous has picked this one up. Apparently it’s basically more of the same as the previous Luminous Arc games. Fantasy setting, SRPG, I liked Luminous Arc a fair bit aside from the horrid dub. Hopefully being on Vita means they can dual language it. Localization’s unpredictable. Atlus did the first two games, but that was before XSeed were a big thing, and given that it’s internal Marvelous developed and published, XSeed are the most likely to localize it. However, Luminous Arc 3 was never released in English. So unclear whether we’ll get this.
Hype level: Hopeful
Fire Emblem Fates (3DS) (Localization confirmed)
New Fire Emblem. One of the best SRPG series out there, though not as hardcore as Tactics Ogre or Disgaea they’re also a lot more accessible now. Awakening is still IMO the best reason to own a 3DS. This is split into three campaigns, seeing your avatar character siding with one side or another in a large conflict. Each campaign is the size of Awakening and the first two are to be released as separate games, with the other game’s campaign (and the third DLC campaign) available as DLC. This is an absolute must-have purchase for me
Hype level: Extreme
Genei Ibun Roku ♯FE (Wii U) (Localization confirmed)
AKA Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem. Weird mashup that looks absolutely bonkers and also quite awesome. Go look at some videos from E3. Not actually sure about what the game is but it looks like it’s more of a mashup between Persona and Fire Emblem. I’m cool with that personally. I’m presuming that the fact it’s Nintendo publishing and that it was at E3 means it’s being localized for sure.
Hype level: Intermediate
Xenoblade Chronicles X (Wii U) (Localization confirmed)
Sequel to the best JRPG of last generation, but it hasn’t set the world on fire much so far. Focusing even harder on the open world element, this time your character is a faceless player-created mook (may be a plus for some people). Your space colony, New Los Angeles, has crash landed on a hostile alien world. Also you eventually get a badass mecha to fly around in. Soundtrack is pretty good if you like hearing the same sort of music as recent anime like Aldnoah Zero.
Hype level: Hesitant
Etrian Odyssey V (3DS) (Localization not confirmed)
Not much detail is known about this yet other than that it’s directed by the guy that did EO2 and EO3. These are very old-school, difficult dungeon crawlers in the Wizardry style. One of the series big draws is making your own maps as you progress. Also FOEs – giant enemies that appear on the map and have specific behaviors. I really liked EO4 though I never finished it (it’s huge) so interested in this. Localization isn’t confirmed but it’s Atlus internal and every other game made it AFAIK so no reason to expect this wouldn’t.
Hype level: Curious
Lost Dimension (PS3, Vita) (Localization confirmed)
Initially it looked like this was going to get passed over for localization, but Atlus swept in and rescued it. Good thing too, it looks pretty good. Science Fiction game with a near-future setting in which the characters have ESP-like abilities and are exploring a giant pillar that appeared out of nowhere while trying to track down The End, a terrorist. Battle system has been compared to Valkyria Chronicles which always gets me interested.
Hype level: Strong
Persona 5 (PS3, PS4) (Localization confirmed)
Obviously this is one of the headline JRPGs for the foreseeable future. Persona’s basically come out of obscurity and eclipsed the popularity of the Shin Megami Tensei series that spawned it, especially in the west. When this hits Japan (and apparently the US!) later this year it’s going to be huge. Looking forward to buying it and then remembering I can’t play these games without stressing out and dropping it a few hours in.
Hype level: Redoubtable.
Utawarerumono: The False Mask (PS3,PS4,PSV) (Localization not confirmed)
This was somewhat of a surprise announcement a few months ago. Leaf has been around for a while now and are a big name in the Visual Novel business as a result of producing To Heart, one of the most influential VNs of the late 90s in the ‘crying game’ trend.
Underwater Ray RomanoUtawarerumono was their first departure from pure visual novels, a strategy RPG with visual novel bits (and porn, in the original PC release, which sometimes veers right into creepytown). Anyway, it was a popular game and produced all-ages ports for consoles, a fan translation and a pretty good anime adaption. At some point, Atlus got in bed with Leaf’s publisher (Aquaplus) and has localized several of their recent games, including Leaf’s Tears to Tiara II, so I think this seems fairly likely to get a localization, especially when you consider that it’s getting an anime tie-in later in the year.Hype level: Interested
Final Fantasy XV (PS4, XB1) (Localization confirmed)
Everyone knows about this. Final Fantasy’s been a long time since it got a good single player adaption. Starting out life as Versus XIII and in development hell for years, they threw it to Hajime Tabata (Type-0, Crisis Core FF7) and now it looks like it’s actually going to happen. Personally I wasn’t a fan of the demo at all, didn’t like how the game plays, don’t like open worlds and am utterly disinterested in the idea of taking a road trip across some random place with a 4-piece boy band, but I appear to be in the minority on this.
Hype level: Disaffected
Final Fantasy VII Remake (PS4) (Localization confirmed)
Probably the biggest news out of E3. Also probably years away / never actually happening since Nomura’s directing it. And it remains to be seen if they’re going to fuck it up by shoehorning in FFXIII/XV-style combat or something. I don’t really want this to happen unless they can do it right, but I’ll still buy it.
Hype level: Conflicted
Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness (PS3,PS4) (Localization not confirmed)
Star Ocean: The Last Hope was a massive disappointment. It was a turd of a game. From creepy poser-porn style characters to the godawful dub to the utterly asinine story (seriously, the lead character is named EDGE MAVERICK. Someone had to be taking the piss..) the battle system was really the only part that was worthwhile. Squenix seemed to be intending to let the brand rot away, but somehow things have aligned to let Tri-Ace have another crack at it. This time, the old crew from the first 3 games are on it. They seem to know where they went wrong and are determined to fix and improve on that, by basically going back and making a sequel to SO3 as if SO4 never existed. Which is fine. Character art by Akiman (Final Fight, Street Fighter II and a bunch of Capcom fighters) and it’s generally looking pretty great. Hopefully will be localized too – I don’t think it’s confirmed yet but it was talked about at E3 so fairly likely.
Hype level: Optimistic
Untitled Nier Sequel (PS4) (Localization not confirmed)
One of the other big surprises from E3 was the announcement that Platinum (urgh) are doing a sequel to Nier (yay), directed by Yoko Taro (yay). Pretty scant on details at this point but who cares. It’s Nier. Nier was great. I wasn’t as blown-away by it as some (I think it was overhyped for me) but I love the way he puts stuff together and will definitely be on this. Hope they get 8-4 to localize it again, the translation of the first game was awesome. Localization I don’t think was confirmed but given that it was announced at E3 and Nier was more popular outside Japan than inside, I’m hopeful.
Hype level: Escalating
Bravely Second (3DS) (Localization confirmed)
Sequel to Bravely Default, Squenix’s back-to-basics JRPG that felt like a throwback to the SNES days in a really good way. This time some of the characters are different, and I’ve been deliberately avoiding spoilers beyond that. Some new jobs, many returning ones. Unfortunately Revo, the amazing composer from the first game, is not composing for it, with music duties instead going to Ryo/Supercell. Initial response in Japan seemed to be a bit muted.
Hype level; Intense
Tales of Zestiria (PS3, PS4, PC) (Localization confirmed)
Zesty Tales got dragged through the mud in Japan over some shenanigans where one of the first announced characters who was pitched as a co-protagonist gets shafted and replaced. Also some complaints about having an open world approach that didn’t quite work and didn’t really improve things. But I don’t care. This coming out on the PC! And it’s dual language.
Hype level: Excited
Tales of Berseria (PS3, PS4) (Localization not confirmed)
Just announced and all we know for sure are the platforms – it’s cross-gen, PS4 lead, where Zestiria was PS3 and later ported – and that it apparently involves pirates. Also the protagonist is a girl, for the first time ever in the Tales franchise. The scant details we have so far suggest she suffered some kind of traumatic experience a few years before and her personality as a result is kind of twisted, which sounds like a really nice departure from the usual White Knight hero archetype Tales usually has. Comparisons are already being made to Vesperia’s Yuri and Destiny II’s Leon. Excited to see more of this. Hopefully we don’t have to wait forever for it. Localization isn’t confirmed but it seems very likely.
Hype level: Increasing
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 3 (PSV,PC) (Localization confirmed)
Port of Neptunia V (V for ‘victory’, not 5, they’re just fucking with you). These games are weird. The idea is that the primary characters are personifications of the big console hardware companies (Microsoft, Sony, Sega, Nintendo). V was the game where Compile Heart finally got the systems right, and the other Re;Birth games have involved remaking the older two games in Victory’s systems. Not sure what this version will bring to the table that’s actually new, though I imagine that like the first two it’s been re-localized since NISA’s localization of the games was shit and IFI have been redoing them. I keep buying these but don’t know why since never play them.
Hype level: Low
Hyperdimension Neptunia VII (PS4) (Localization confirmed)
Actually Neptunia V-II. I think they’re taking the piss at Squenix’s expense. I don’t know much about it beyond that it was designed for PS4 initially, builds on V’s system and has three separate stories with some kind of alternate universe stuff going on. Could be okay.
Hype level: Miniscule
Makai Shin Trillion (PSV) (Localization not confirmed)
Compile Heart started a series of games, Makai Ichiban Kan (“Hell’s Number 1 House”) which is some kind of series of inter-related games that are all different. Tenpei Sato (Disgaea) doing the music which is good. This one’s the first of the games. It’s an interesting looking Strategy RPG slash Roguelike where you team up with six demon girls (each based off one of the seven deadly sins, eg Fegor is based off Belphegor/Sloth, so is very lazy) and try to take down Trillion, the Lord of Hell who has a trillion HP. I get a Disgaea vibe from this. If it turns out good I suspect it’ll be localized pretty quick.
Hype level: Piqued
MeiQ no Chika ni Shitsu (PSV) (Localization not confirmed)
“Death Under the Labyrinth”. This is the second of the Makai Ichiban Kan games and I don’t know much about it beyond that it’s a dungeon crawler, thus the ‘MeiQ’ bit (‘MeiQ’ is a way of romanizing ‘Meikyuu’, “Labyrinth”, which Etrian Odyssey always uses). Curious to see more about it.
Hype level: Unsure
Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force (PS4) (Localization not confirmed)
Can’t get a fix on whether this is an updated port of Fairy Fencer F (which by the way is getting a PC release some time on Steam) or if it’s a sequel, or both. I didn’t mind FFF when I played it on PS3, but I didn’t get far in. It’s okay but kind of low budget and has some pretty big battle system issues. Nice art though. Also Nobuo Uematsu soundtrack which is always a plus.
Hype level: Disinterested
Disgaea 5 (PS4) (Localization confirmed)
It didn’t set the world on fire when it launched in Japan, but that was probably because it’s PS4 exclusive and the system just hasn’t sold much over there yet. As I understand it, it’s more of the same, and I’m fine with that because the same is excellent. Fire Emblem is great but Disgaea is still my favourite SRPG series to actually play. I love the way it’s deliberately designed with the intention that you exploit its systems. Unfortunately it comes out in the US right after it looks like I’ll be moving there so I don’t think I can preorder the LE.
Hype level: High
Dungeon Travelers 2 (PSV) (Localization confirmed)
I mentioned that Atlus are in bed with Aquaplus. Dungeon Travelers was actually originally a spinoff of the visual novel To Heart 2, in which the girls of that franchise all got into stereotypical fantasy gear and went on a dungeon crawling adventure. They released a Sasara Nendoroid that has her as a Paladin and it’s one of my favourites in my collection. Sadly, that’s not what we’re getting. Atlus are jumping straight to the sequel, which loses the To Heart connection but is apparently the better game. Expect mildly pervy artwork and a generally reasonable dungeon crawler experience.
Hype level: Chilled
Demon Gaze II (PSV) (Localization confirmed)
The first Demon Gaze was a runaway success for NISA. Shame that they followed it up with Operation Abyss and took out one of the bits that made Demon Gaze appealing: dual audio. NISA’s dubs are always pretty awful. 🙁 Also they didn’t tell people they did that until last minute which was a bit of a dick move. Anyway, I liked Demon Gaze a lot. Never finished it and I had some issues with it (difficulty spikes mainly) but it’s a fun game and I’m ready for a sequel.
Hype level: Demonic
Moero Crystal (PSV) (Localization not confirmed)
I’m not sure if IFI will ever get around to releasing Moero Chronicle, which was a sort of quasi-sequel to faux-Mastubatory Vita game Monster Monpiece. There was so much brouhaha over the fact they censored that game quite a bit that they may not want to revisit that. On the upside, the Asia releases have a full english localization. Expecting Crystal will be the same eventually. Not sure if I’ll bother buying it though. These are basically card battler RPGs, and that element of random chance and everything doesn’t do a lot for me. I’d rather waste time in Kantai Collection.
Hype level: Perverted
Ray Gigant (PSV) (Localization not confirmed)
This is probably just another dungeon crawler, but the visuals in it are striking. You may have seen them on Kotaku before – over the shoulder perspective with the characters all animated and stuff. Reminds me of Time & Eternity except hopefully less shit. Going to see how this goes in Japan before getting too interested.
Hype level: Furtive
Jeebus. I could live to two hundred and still never play all the games that pique my curiosity.
Yeah 🙁 So it helps to be informed!
Still personally my favourite style of game. AAA bullshit can come and go and it’s nice and everything but I never really remember it the way I do a good JRPG.
So close to a different adjective for each NegsPatentedHypeMeter rating… So close.
I have no idea how you stay on top of all that stuff… As much time as I spend playing games you probably spend researching!
I keep forgetting about Disgaea 5 but whenever someone mentions it I get super hyped. Also, do we get a LE in AU/EU?
Probably but it’s a NISA store exclusive so the EU store will charge you your left testicle and the blood of a newborn to ship it to you.
That’s funny you say Nier was overhyped. All I ever hear at first was how crap it was & it wasn’t until I came across a second opinion style article, that I decided maybe it was ok & gave it a go.
It’s certainly a very flawed game but I love it all the same.
Overhyped on TAY not in general. 🙂
Oh yeah
Hey guys! So I know I hardly ever TAY anymore, but I figured some of you might be interested in seeing this…
The teaser trailer for my next book, Carnifex, has been unleashed. Check it out 🙂
Entertaining…Carnifex is a name for an intelligent dinosaur race used in the dungeons and dragons mystara/known world setting.
@mrtaco I need your email.
Sent.
Well that friggin’ sucks. After changing hard drives and transferring games and game saves my son wanted to play Lego Jurassic World Load up his save and it said it was corrupted, wasn’t too bad because he wasn’t that far in. Then, he goes to bed and I load up my save just to check it and what do you know, it’s corrupted too.
Well, that’s 38 hours down the drain. Pretty bloody pissed off about it.
Surely a recent release like that has SteamCloud support and backs your saves up to Steam? Or do you need to opt-in?
Don’t know, but I’ve finally worked out what the problem was. When I first started playing the game I had a problem with it crashing, I found out that it could be fixed by going into the options menu and changing it from Direct X 11 to Direct X 9. That fixed the crashing issue, but it gave me a corrupt save. As I wasn’t that far in I wasn’t fussed, so I restarted. Now, since I did the hard drive swap and transferred my games and saves onto the new drive it somehow changed that option back to DX 11 all by itself, so I went into the options, changed it back to DX 9, restarted the game, and all is well.
Hey, so they’ve found out why batman is having all these issue
http://9gag.com/gag/aDm319d
Thoughts on Yoshi’s Woolly World?
I’m kinda on the fence about it and leaning towards a no. I do like the wool/yarn look but the gameplay seems like it could be just a bit simple and I don’t know how long it’ll last me. But… gosh darn that woolly amiibo is just like the cutest lil thing I did ever lay my eyes on.
Big W has the bundle for $69 (only $10 more than the game by itself) so I’ll see if my EB can do a price match and I’ll pretty much get it for the amiibo 😛 :3
There is meant to be a more complex mode for seasoned gamers. Try that one out.
Been enjoying it so far, it’s actually a fair bit more complex if you want to go for full completion.
Re-watching Danger 5 on Netflix.
Holy shit, it’s fantastic!
Holy shit, the US has gay marriage now. Everywhere, supreme court ruled it unconstitutional to ban them in any state. Wow.
Beaten by America 😛
HA! Canada had legal gay marriage farrrrrrrr before the US
HOW’S THAT FOR FREEDOM, AMERICA?!
Freedom isn’t free.
You guys are throwing a magnificent World Cup currently!!
So now Australia is more progressively backwards than freaking Alabama?
And this place too!
Australia, the world’s Alabama.
Hey, if they want the right to be just as miserable as the rest of us, that’s up to them.
You’re doing it wrong if you’re miserable.
There’s the right way, the wrong way and the evilmonkey way (which is usually the wrong way).
But faster!
It was nice and warm and sunny outside while being cold and yuck inside. But I wanted to play Lylat Wars.
Dragging the TV and 64 outside was the best decision. Just wish the screen was better able to combat the sun.
I’ll play Star Fox one day :P. At least I can easily go outside with the 3DS version (but it’s not like I’d ever want to go outside…)
Had to be the 64 version because rumble pak 😛
If anyone is attending Comicon, say hello to my buddy Matthew at Nerd Labyrinth. Tell him Macca says hello, you may get s discount!
“Macca said he’ll foot any discount you give me.”
Mac Dawg! *fistbumps*
Today was an interesting day. I started it by getting ready for my first day of work. Technically I’ve worked there before, but I decided to volunteer to work without pay just to keep myself busy until I go back to TAFE again. I woke up late, of course. After rushing around for a bit, I started sneezing while getting ready in the bathroom.
See, I have very powerful sneezes. It runs in the family. Apart from being extremely loud and irritating to those around me, it causes me to whip my head and neck forward with some force. If I remember correctly, I got whiplash from this once.
So I sneezed once. It pushed me close to the bathoom sink. Before I could recover, I sneezed again and my head whacked against the basin. I could feel the very shape of the basin when my head collided with it. It caused a sizeable lump (50% bigger than a 50-cent piece) to appear on my head.
I didn’t even know that head lumps were a real thing. I thought they were just something from cartoons. So apart from missing work, I get migraines and have to put ice on my head for 30 minutes every 3 hours.
@beavwa
http://imgur.com/gallery/iUyk4Iy This is kinda how I imagine you
Wow TAY you haven’t moved since Friday… =O
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhMcrRCIAAA4z2o.jpg
Telltale’s Game of Thrones:
I thought things were going to be different, I told myself I’d keep everyone I cared about alive.
It was a lie. :*( (TM@liondrive)
Edit: This is not a page-get I was hoping for 🙁
I broke my fifth sewing needle, this time on Techie’s costume. It was a leather working needle too.
http://www.sciencealert.com/a-flood-plain-in-australia-is-crawling-with-25-000-tarantulas
NOPE NOPE NOPE