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1,237 responses to “Talk Amongst Yourselves”
It could be worse, you could be the person they are rushing too!
What the, did … did I just break TAY?
What have you done Nobs?!
Broke tay?
What did you do Nob, WHAT DID YOU DO!?!
I NEED AN ADULT!
oh but I AM the one they are rushing to, kind of. not my/our fault, but still not ideal.
also yeah, I’m blaming you for Tay 😀
Oh. I hope everything’s okay!
Yeah, false alarm thankfully. One with no water damage either.
Pretty good as far as these things go!
And the MFS are nice chaps.
Another win for Inspector Nobs!
YOU MANIAC! YOU BLEW IT UP!
DAMN YOU!
You just made me think it was Monday for a second.
TAY BREAK.
EVERYONE PANIC.
I feel like it’s no coincidence Lambo has been posting more! *strokes beard*
>:3
I had a terribad sleep last night, I think I finally managed to fall asleep at 5am and woke up at 6:30am for work…kill me now
It’s Karma for what you did to that poor car salesman
He was just trying to make a profit. you monster. 😛
He was slicker than Omni’s top shelf Oil and needed to be intimidated. No one stands between me ans a badass pickup truck
Nothing is slicker than Omni’s top shelf Oil.. it’s statistically impossible
This sounds like a sex aid advertisement.
Ha, that would be the least weird thing to happen in this group 😛
https://www.indiegala.com/monday?utm_source=MailingList&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Another+trip+to+Japan+with+Every+Monday+%22Anime%2FDoujin%22+Bundle+%2371%21 I want to buy this, but I don’t want the fighting games or the human tank one. Conflicted D=
I assume the games come in seperate cd-keys for each game so you could probably gift them to
some poor chumpsomeoneWould anyone be interested in them? I guess I don’t really want the games. I think I just want them because they’re cheap
That’s pretty much steam in a nutshell.
I think I’ll let it pass. I need to catch furfrou on pokemon shuffle anyway
Greetings TAY,
Well I am thoroughly enjoying Rocket League, even the losses are fun! Went semi-pro on the weekend but I have a feeling that I will be Pro by the end of the week.
Also, still trudging my way towards the end of Arkham Knight. I have this weird thing going that when I am really enjoying a game that I put off playing it as I don’t want it to end (and I also rarely doing 2nd play through due to other games). Anyone else like that?
Hope you are all well! 🙂
Props on that Semi-Pro! Levelling can be goddamn slow in Rocket League sometimes…
Thank you Milnye, I think I was just lucky that I managed to get there relatively quickly. To be honest, now that I think about it, the delusions of becoming Pro by the end of the week may have been caffeine induced! 😛
Arkham Knight.. so good.
Excuse my rudeness, are you new to tay?
Obligatory “omg, you can’t just ask people if they’re new to tay scree.”I haven’t seen you around before, but I might just be blind.
Same goes to you @milnye
Nothing rude at all Scree, never hurts to ask!
Yes, I am new to TAY, well longtime reader but only decided last week to sign up and comment. Hope your day is going well so far! 🙂
Well, welcome to Tay!
I’ve been commenting on Kotaku posts for a while, but yes, this is my first TAY post!
A welcome to TAY for you to!
Uh, has TAY changed back to a daily article again?
Seems like it.
We’re never going to make page 18 for @liondrive now.
We’ll have to make it page 1.8 from now on.
If we can get to page 3 he will be happy
Looks like something has gone terribly wrong (the chic thing is to blame Nob), since I have a notification from Greenius that leads to here.
Sort of but not quite… I can’t access any of yesterday’s posts at all. Looks like they’ve been overwritten.
Seems like the safest option.
It’s weird, all the notifications responses to the posts are there in the profile but when you click through view all your posts, they’re all gone.
:'(
No, more like yesterday’s TAY has been deleted. My comments from yesterday are gone from my profile.
NOOOOOOOoooooooo…. What about page 6? What about page 6? *sobs uncontrollably*
It’s always page six in our hearts. #EveryPageIsPageSix
#IfYouBelieve
It’s hiding because seven eight nine
#EveryPageIsPageSix
I heard about a guy who decided to eat a clock.
It was time consuming.
#EveryPageIsPageSix
Proposed solution: Wednesday is Dad Jokes day.
I bet it’s related to what @negativezero posted last night. We’ve drawn attention to TAY and now we’ve diverged down an alternate parallel reality.
Oh crap! You’re right.
But then again… what proof is there that he said anything about parallel realities at all…?
I seem to remember him posting something about the BerensTAYn Bears?
What? No. It was the BerensTalkAmongstYourselvesin Bears.
It used to be Talk Between Yourselves in the original world line.
But what did Neg post last night?! I CAN’T TELL!
At the risk of causing the 3rd coming of TAY
*nervously types*
Here is what was… discussed…
I rang my sister after reading about that and she was like “no way” and remembered it the other way too and there’s this weird sucking feeling of utter distress when you see it.
I dunno if you saw it before Nob deleted it, but this morning I commented saying I’m pretty certain I remember having trouble figuring out how to pronounce it as a kid. Which wouldn’t have been a thing if it was -ain, because stain is a normal word. But -ein, that’s weird and foreign.
I think it’s all overblown.
Now everyone take your
compliancenurturing pills like a gooddronecitizen.I LEAVE YOU KIDS ALONE FOR ONE NIGHT AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS?!?
@sernobulus, YOU’RE GROUNDED.
Ooooooooh Nobs is in trooooooubbbbbblllleeeeee…
*hushed whispering*
YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!
YOU AREN’T MY REAL DAD!
*slams door and turns music up*
Last night I was stranded at the Fortitude Valley train station for over an hour because of signal failure. These things happen, but things turned nightmarish when I noticed the animated billboards in the station were playing the Coles Fresh jingle on loop. For almost an hour. I feel like Coles have made a power enemy today. >:(
She just coles freshed it
And here I was defending Curtis Stone. I feel so betrayed! 😛
yep that was pretty bloody awful
Down down, signals are down!
You poor bloody soul. I feel sorry for you, as I hate that bloody thing with a passion.
Where did TAY go?
It’s right here.
No it isn’t. I know what TAY looked like, this isn’t it 😛
It was inside you all along!
If this isn’t TAY, then what is it?
Faux TAY
Now with 70% beef
My bones feel so brittle
Over there!
I think last night’s Q&A was one of the best I’ve seen. No politicians, just a bunch of extremely smart people having a rational discussion about the challenges of science our society faces. Bloody brilliant.
Is it on iview? If it is you should go watch it if only for Neill Degrasse Tyson’s flailing arms and gesturing.
It was fantastic. That’s how you do Q&A. First one I’ve watched all the way through in ages.
Yes, it is.
Holy shit, what a panel. I’ll watch this once I’m done with today’s batch of The International games.
So much fun – I can’t remember the last time I had a good laugh watching Q&A.
Loved towards the end when Neil’s arms really got going and almost sent his water flying.
Good primer for next weekend!
I’m watching it now. Thanks!
Looks like yesterday’s TAY never happened? Can’t even find older posts linked to it? @robhussey is this an intentional change or the unfortunate side-effect of something else? =P
You guys. I think we’re stuck in a time loop…
Time to kidnap a groundhog and drive a car off a cliff!
Now we can tell TAYbies what we REALLY think about them and they won’t remember when it resets again!
…
You go first!
List of TAY people that I hate:
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=O
I can’t believe it!
See you guys in the 14,598th repetition tomorrow.
Hm, it IS August…
I like that you got this reference just from the number 😛
Happened right after I posted evidence in our woldline of tampering by a traveler from the future…
@highperformance @ed me & the link keeps bringing me here! D:
Sorry @ed
I was just talking about Alien Isolation:
I can’t see any of my old posts from after the 1st of August as well, I’VE BEEN AUDITED
So what happens if this gets pushed to a new page. Will it actually create a new one or will the day be wiped and we start over? I mean, I LIKE the idea of Groundhog Day, but I don’t know if I want it to be exclusively happening on TAY.
Was anyone else awake when the clock struck midnight last night? Did you notice that the date didn’t flick over?
It was really strange.
You guys, I think we’re stuck in a time loop.
Now we can tell TAYbies what we REALLY think about them and they won’t remember when it resets again!
…
You go first!
Fuckin’ DC, man.
I’ll go.
Goddamn, you’re all such
awesome people.I’m so glad no one will remember that tomorrow.
I know, right?
They’ve cause me to be
a better person and happier all round.How dare you!
So for like the 4th night ina row, I haven’t got a good nights sleep. Our stupid, stupid neighbour, decided to get a female cat (again), not spay it (again), and let it be an outdoor cat (again).
There’s been an explosion of strays in the last 8 months. Suddenly, they’ve started caterwauling in the lot where they are building houses. It’s right next door to our house. Anyway, Sid wakes me up to let him out. It’s good that he stops them coming on our property, but they’re so frigging loud that they keep me up from our neighbours house. Sid can’t get to them, so they go quiet for a while when he barks, then start up again.
I nearly gave up on sleep and considered sewing.
Also, my anxiety was giving me hell yesterday. I can’t help but wonder if it’s related.
Caterwauling?
It’s a real word!
A quick Google search proves you’re correct, wow! 😛
Pretty sure you can contact the council/cops with regards to noise pollution after hours. I believe the cut off time is traditionally 10pm? I would like into legal options here and use that to get your neighbor to kill his/her cats.
She will just deny that they are her cats and say they are strays. Those neighbours get away with heaps, including illegal buildings in their back yard
If they are strays and they are causing noise pollution after hours scree you can get animal control to take them away.
Edit: It’s not ideal but if your neighbor can’t behave like a decent human being then she opens herself up to problems. If she claims they aren’t hers get animal control to get them; if she tells them they belong to her then use that as proof to get the cops/council involved.
I think I will. I have to speak to another neighbour who has adopted one for the cats to make sure they’re not roaming also.
Yeah no reason for you to be losing sleep because your neighbor can’t keep their pets under control. Either they take responsibility or disavow responsibility; can’t have it both ways! If you do get animal control take down the details of the person who comes by and let them know if she claims the cats are hers you’ll need them to attest to that as you would like to file a noise complaint with the council. This way she can’t sing two different tunes depending on which agency attends.
Yeah, i nearly fell over a few times over the shops today, so instead of forcing myself to stay awake, I decided the sleep was more important. I feel better.
Deadpool movie teaser is up, actually made me laugh. Yay!
Trailer for the trailer.
check out where the official site redirects to:
http://fox.co/DeadpoolMovieSite
I only sort of get the jokes because I haven’t read a Deadpool comic in 10 years! 😀
Should get the full trailer today, I have a strong feeling that it’s going to make my wed 🙂
Man, it took me way too long to figure out what “wed” means
Perhaps I should have gone with hump day, then again,… 🙂
Ha! The first time I heard that, I couldn’t stop giggling!!
You guys, I think we’re stuck in a time loop.
Now we can tell TAYbies what we REALLY think about them and they won’t remember when it resets again!
…
You go first!
List of TAY people that I hate:
Neeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrds
That lambo guy is a real jerk.
Aaand now the main pipe to the fire pump has burst and is flooding the basement.
This is gonna be a long morning.
Your basement?
No no, a shopping center.
Testing…?
$500 for Rock Band?
Noooooooopppppppeeee.
Even $250 for the guitar is a big ol slab of nope.
Even $300 for the band bundle is asking way too much.
Really disappointing.
Time to start looting the local Cash Converters for old instruments that are supposedly backwards compatible.
I have an original rock band drum set. Not sure if that’s positive or negative due to the original Rock Band instruments being garbage.
For 360, you’ll have to buy some kind of adapter dongle. Which I bet they won’t sell here. :\
May be cheaper to import from the US but the instruments are generally more expensive this time around.
Importing a dongle would cost a fraction of importing a new set of instruments.
True. And it’s not necessary for PS3 -> PS4 since that just used bluetooth. Only for Microsoft with their weirdo proprietary wireless tech.
I’m watching TI5 in Korean.
There have been excessively long pauses during the first game I’ve had a chance to watch. The English, Chinese and Russian casters keep dropping. Now the English cast is only available through Twitch. Fuck that noise, I’m watching in client whenever I get the opportunity.
On the plus side, Koreans know how to bring the hype.
I’m a huge fan of GH and RB and this has just leached all my enthusiasm for the new games. Just…fucking hell. So disappointing, and even worse is that I’m actually surprised…
EDIT: I blame this reply fail on Mad Catz.
Time for me to start researching which old instruments are compatible.
Quick question to the TAY hivemind… Does anyone know anyone who either currently is, or has been on the ADF?
In what capacity?
After moving to Canberra, I’ve learned that every second person either works for or is related to someone that works for the ADF.
Actually, come to think of it, @redartifice would be your man here.
At this stage I am very VERY seriously considering signing up, as they can provide me with the training and qualification in something that I’d otherwise have to spend 4 years at uni for… Plus I kinda feel like they can provide me with a serious kick up my arse I need to focus my life… I just want to make sure I don’t fuck over my missus in the process… From what I’ve read they provide pretty good for a family but I’d like to chat to someone in the know
How would she cope with you being away for weeks/months at a time? This will happen even if you don’t get deployed internationally.
How would you both cope with moving cities every few years? It’s a minority of ADF personnel who aren’t forced to shift regularly.
This is all true, and stuff we’ve discussed in depth… From what I can gather, the role I would be applying for does not get deployed regularly, but it is of course a danger… The first 4 years is in Wagga so that’s a none issue cause that’s where she’s from… After that it’s difficult to tell what could happen
They look after you very well as I understand. The main thing to keep in mind is you may not get a lot of say on where you are based and will probably have to move every 4 years or so.
Thanks, that’s what I figured… The term with them would be 3 years after finishing training so that’s one posting which is survivable
Also, dunno what position you Want but go for the RAAF if you can – tis a much better environment than navy or army I am told.
Oh yeah it’s with the raaf! 😛
Gotta get a chance to play with all the fun machines!
Also also, dunno if it applies to you but if you suffer from depression or such, lie and say you don’t, if possible. Immediate denial otherwise I gather.
But yeah definitely for for it if you can, have heard only good things.
Everyone I know who quit the ADF did so because of its impact on their personal lives – they wanted to spend more time with their family.
The ADF will provide very well for your family… in lieu of stability or your presence.
Additionally, if they train you in a 4yr uni course, you can expect to be up for 12yrs service to repay that investment, or pay for the course when you quit.
Back when I was looking at ADFA, it was course time plus 2(?) in equivalent service – so a 5 year course would be 7 years service (but hey, job) afterwards.
Didn’t really feel ready to go down that path though and just went to uni instead.
Would have finished that service period 2 years ago… Meanwhile I’m still lugging around a HECS debt for a few years yet.
Man, when I was applying, every course I looked at had 12yrs return of service. Maybe it was a commissioned officer thing instead of a course-length thing.
When I applied, I only had length of sponsorship + 1 year return of service (would have been 5 years) – but I had to finish internship first and the only speciality ADFA would train in was GP. I think they figured medicine is long enough and many people will have to do speciality training as well. IE Med school – 5 years, intership – 2 years, RoS – 5 years and then 5-6 years speciality training would put most people in their 40s by the time they’re done.
Hm. Possibly the officer part factors in… General Service Officer with no certification came at 6yrs when I applied. But surely Army GPs get a commission, right? Helo pilot and radiographer were both 12. And in the real world, radiographer is only 3yrs + professional development year to qualify for the Association.
@transientmind It’s Medical Officer even in non army hospitals 😉 Yes, MO is a commissioned officer (I think).
Sort of? I know a couple of people in the Signals Directorate.
I was supposed to be, ADFA and all. Teenage me chickened out like a coward on the day I was meant to head down, September 11, 2001.
Also I believe @beavwa used to be.
War were declared.
Yo.
Lol as my reply to bunny up above 😛
I might hit you up on Steam tonight actually if you’re ok with that? I feel like it might spill into “too personal for a public forum” area if I keep going 😛
I’m happy to have a chat however / wherever we can. Might struggle to get some time on the PC tonight but I’ll see what I can do.
Sorry I didn’t make it on last night. Hectic day yesterday.
Haha all good, no pressure… I’m sure I’ll see you online at some point before November 😛
I was seriously considering it earlier this year, back in February, March if I recall correctly.
My neighbour has been in the Air Force the past ten years and has said nothing but great things about it. Pretty much convinced me to join. Ultimately, I postponed my application due to the timing of deployment getting too close to the upcoming birth of my second child and the uncertainty that you will get placed in your state of choice.
Have a mate in the RAAF, currently based in Darwin.
I know a guy currently studying in Duntroon, also a guy who is actively in the reserves and goes on a tonne of training exercises. Also a few other people who were formerly in the ADF in some capacity as well as my cousin’s fiance who was a combat medic in Afghanistan.
I tried to get into ADFA, and even though I scored off-the-charts in the academic tests (literally set a record in the maths results), they refused me because personality.
Relevant to nothing, really.
You were smiling way too much and they were worried you’d be doing it with a gun in your hands.
Actually, I think I had so little leadership potential that it wasn’t even something they could teach me.
When had you applied to join?
When I was in Year 12.
So, 17 turning 18.
And this would have been in 2003.
Ahhh so you’re thirt-..
That’s really interesting around smashing the academic testing and then refusing you on the personality test, I would think it’d be waste of a precocious mind in not trying to find you a position that maximized your skill set. Maybe that sort of mindset wasn’t prevalent in the early 2000’s though :S
I think I really, really tanked the interview badly. TBH, I’ve blocked most of it out, but I remember the feeling afterwards.
Age could’ve been a factor. When I went down there, one of the really marked differences I noticed was the average age of the applicants. I was actually a little insecure for a moment about applying at age 26 compared to all these 17 and 18yr olds.
My 2nd-last interviewer actually got really, really candid with me, though. She said that the youth is actually a disadvantage and in their officers they’re looking for a lot more maturity than most of the school-leavers have. They were looking for people who’d already made all their easy early dumb mistakes and learned from them. Near as I can figure, they wanted folks who’d loved and lost and all that, pre-worn and jaded so that brand new shiny dramatic learning wouldn’t be taking place with soldiers’ lives on the line.
I’d been worried there were a few things that might mark me with red flags in the psych eval – but they told me it was actually a good thing that I’d had some rough personal experiences that I seemed to have made peace with and be pretty stable and level-headed about.
You might’ve been stacked a fair bit more up against it than you thought. I know they DO take Yr 12 kids, but I suspect it’s far, far, far fewer than as apply. One officer in recruitment actually noted it was an advantage to apply mid-year to avoid the ‘batch of ADFA kiddies’.
Internal politics, man…
I was with a group of about thirty other 17 year olds who they’d flown in from all over the country. It was the final stage of admission. It seems odd we would all have made it that far in the process… Not doubting you, but just a bit confused.
Sixth and final coat on the boots done. Don’t even care if I have time to do another one, I don’t wanna.
Now gotta get ready for funeral stuff. Bleh. Hope I can manage to nap in the car…
If you’ve had to do six coats something has gone very wrong and they won’t last a single wear without cracking and peeling.
Not doing an undercoat of white first was probably the main problem. The stuff looked so much more opaque in the bottle than it turned out to be once painted on.
Sounds more like you didn’t deglaze the leather with a stripper first.
Pretty sure it’s just vinyl, not leather. But no I didn’t 😛
@gingerchris86 Apologies if you posted about this last night but, seeing as old TAY has been swallowed by the internet, how did the low/no prep session of Interface Zero go?
More importantly, whose beloved mentor turned up dead?
We’re going on an adventure to find my unknown “brethren”
Went really well.
I had done a little prep in terms of the info certain characters had found about themselves. also had a pre printed mission good to go. but we ended up starting a mission that I winged a little.
lots of fun 😀
HI TAY.
Weekend was pretty damn wonderful. Semi-impuslively took a long weekend & went up to the Hunter Valley with my lady friend (yeah, resolved our problems & we’re all good. hopefully we’ll stay that way.)
Got up to our hotel early saturday night. went & got tasty foods at some local pub. deliciousness.
Sunday, went on a wine tasting tour. bought so much wine. drinking 4-6 samples at each vineyard times 6 vineyards adds up. by the time we finished up, we were feeling pretty tipsy. had a quick nap & then went out to a random italian restaurant. goddamn tasty place. & there was two giant doggies chilling out the front to greet all the visitors. so that was pretty rad.
monday, checked out of the hotel & went exploring. went to a random touristy-ish place full of boutique shops. found out about an alpaca farm 20 mins down the road, so we went there & patted & fed all the alpacas. they’re so damn adorable & friendly. & THERE WAS BABY ALPACAS. THEY’RE SO CUTE 😀
decided to start heading back to sydney after lunch. stopped off at an irish pub & got so much tasty foods & a beer. dropped in on my parents on the way back home so I could drop off a few bottles of wine for my mum. got convinced to stay for dinner coz just by chance, two of my brothers & their partners were gonna be over as well. chilled most of the late afternoon eating cheese & wine brought down from the Hunter & patting my puppy & kitty. was pretty great.
got home late last night & crashed out. got to work & two people are away & its stupidly busy & cold. oh well.
anyway. back to work & uni & real-world adult stuff. not gonna let that get me down though.
so yeah. weekend. 10.5/10.
hows things with you lot?
Reconciliation \o/
Sounds like an awesome weekend, man.
I would go to any restaurant that had dogs at the front, IT’S GENIUS!!
Sounds like an awesome weekend!
I just want to say thank you to everyone who weighed in their opinion on my question on the last page… I know I’m in kind of a weird place right now, not knowing WTF I want to do with my life… I’ve got until November to think about it but yeah, thanks again, you guys have been a great help
PIXEL
http://teamfourstar.com/video/dragonball-z-abridged-episode-49-group-therapy/
Never push the “Goku” button.. ever
Moustache
Just saw this, my Dad was in the RAAF and was in there for 20 years, was well looked after, even after he hurt his back. I almost went in the same way, but a couple of medical things kept me out.
I grew up moving every 2 – 5 years but I believe that despite my awkwardness around people I am better for it.
Thanks man, that’s definitely one of my main concerns is that if we do decide to have a kid that we’ll be moving all the time, taking it away from it’s friends etc etc
My mate in the RAAF has a wife and 2 kids.
They are still young but seem to cope fine with the lifestyle.
Just to add some grains of perspective salt… The military now is not the military of 20-30 years ago.
Politics and subsequent budgets do change some aspects over time.
I would say, relevant to your circumstances, that you’ll need to seriously weigh up the idea of being forced to move every couple of years. Not saying don’t do it, but for some people this can be a huge negative.
Alternatively, get the initial experience and bail as soon as possible for a better job 😛
This is precisely why I wanted people to weigh in on it because it does seem like a bit of a hassle… At the same time the actual job is something I’ve wanted to do for a few years now so I’m tossing up the pros and cons… As mentioned earlier I’ve got a few months to really think about it so hopefully I can make a rational and informed decision by then… Or, knowing me, not 😛
Don’t know much about the ADF but I can provide some general advice towards major life/career decisions having to rethink my whole career goals a few years back. You’ve probably heard most of this before but it does work if you can discipline yourself into adhering to it; I can personally attest to its effectiveness.
Figure out where it is you ideally want to be in ten years pixel; ask yourself what you expect you need to do this year in order to start the journey. If you aren’t sure (much like I was) start speaking to people in the industry, look at jobs in the industry on seek and speak to HR representatives to find out what they look for in the ideal candidate. If you do know what you need it’s still worth speaking to people in the industry itself for some real world information which you can use as to reference back to when looking at your plan. Once you’ve figured out where you need to start; then you can have a look at the best possible options out there that suit other goals within your life (i.e. such as family; passions; etc.). If the ADF still presents the best cost-benefit ratio out there and fits into your lifestyle (which is the biggest question) then I say go ahead. Let your goals control the opportunities in front of you; not vice versa.
It might be worthwhile having coffee with someone you know who’s currently in, or has finished up with the ADF around your questions. Whatever you decide if on the whole it makes you happy, then you’ve made a good decision 🙂
Everyone I’ve spoken to stop far including colleagues are saying do it! 😛
The 3 people I know personally, are all saying that despite leaving, they are happy they did it… Certainly something to think about
Just about ready to yell at the entirety of my family to fuck off. And/or just jump in the car and disappear. And we haven’t even left yet.
Bloodborne Question!
Has anybody else had that weird guy all in black carrying a large sack show up to try and kill them?I went to go kill some crows on my way to Amelia, but he was randomly there and tried to punch me to death :\
Ahh sackboys. Watch out for them.
Killed him.
Didn’t get anything good.
Just a surprise was all. Thought my game was possessed :O
Those guys are nasty. They’re crazy, crazy strong, and their second stage is utterly deadly. They’re pretty ridonkulously OP in the lower depth Chalice Dungeons, too.
Here’s an answer with some spoilers.
If he kills you, you’ll be sent to a new area that you otherwise wouldn’t get access to until much later. It’s tough, but a great place to level up and explore, and take down a pretty awesome boss. And it’s a fair bit easier to explore it now than it will be later, when you reach it the ‘normal’ way.Man, talk about different strokes… I missed that area because I never got killed by one. I actually FARMED them for their weapon-upgrade materials to the point that I had more than I could ever use, which was good because I was upset that they stopped spawning after a certain point.
They can be brutal because their damage doesn’t leave much margin for error, but for the most part I found them incredibly farmable.
I deliberately let him kill me, because I knew about the early Yarnham access. Once there, I was able to take them down with minimal damage about three times out of five. I farmed them for a while, for the echoes (they gave quite a few echoes for that point in the game).Eventually I got good, and made that 3/5 percentage even better. But there was a guy around the side of the building with two dogs that I never managed to take down. Not after a dozen attempts. I have no idea why to this day.All this said, they never stopped intimidating me, even after I levelled past the point where they were a threat.
Same here.
Paaaaaaaaaaaaaarl.I have no idea what that is.
Red is clearly trying to serenade you with whale noises.
Oh mate, Bag Fuhllahs are a nightmare.
Ludwig’s Holy Blade sorts ’em out, though.
Galak-Z.
http://imgur.com/QFP9wUQ
It’s out tomorrow. \o/
I got Lost Dimension in the mail last night.
It was fun, but I won’t bore you with the details because I know nobody’s interested in niche JSRPGs.
😀
The music sounds Aphex Twinny at times though, that’s nice.
I’m interested. Tell me more. I was on the cusp of buying it but held off because of timing and I have a big backlog.
It’s super average. Full of cliches & borrowed ideas, both the gameplay & story.
It’s valkyrie chronicles in the battles but far smaller scale & simpler.
The reality tv style set up of voting out a traitor is compared to Danganronpa, which I’ve yet to play. Again, a simplified version.
There’s a trust system which is kinda like social links but the writing is far less interesting.
This all sounds negative, but it’s really solid, just simple & average.
It’s perfect for my daily commute, tactics but not too taxing on the brain.
I’m enjoying it.
Cool. Sounds like one to check out at some point but not to rush out and buy it ASAP?
I’m working my way through The Witcher 3 and once I’m done with that the thought was to finish off Atelier Ayesha (was close to the end) and then get stuck into Ar noSurge Plus.
Yeah, no rush. Probably appreciate it more if it was $20 like Oreshika.
@redartifice So I’ve figured I pretty much love Brian Bendis’s writing; soon after Marvel Now! moved him onto X-men and GotG I stopped being interested in the Avengers stories and grew more fond of the X-men and GotG stories. Avengers and New Avengers just feels like reading DC comics; I get they’re amping up to Secret wars and stuff but that doesn’t excuse the infinity arc or original sin (which I’m still struggling to comprehend).
This was the reason I stopped reading DC: if you keep going larger than life there’s nothing to bloody relate to =@
I tend to read smaller stuff. Bendis is good, though he can be a bit prolix.
I’m reading through X-factor atm, where it’s small scale (though X-men aligned on occasion). Basically it’s “Multiple man, P.I.”
You know I would love to see a dedicated Dr Strange comic series…. or a return to the Black Panther series post Secret Wars.
What did you think of Wolverine and the X-Men?
Who does X-Factor follow? I think it’s one of the series I skipped initially when Marvel Now launched.
I presume it’s about a bunch of wannabe pop stars who gain superpowers.
I’m reading the series that started after Civil War, not the new one. This one has Multiple man, Siryn, Monet, Strong Guy, and Layla Miller.
I haven’t read Wolverine and the X-men, it’s too recent. I’d prefer to pick a single series at a time and read through it.
Actually the original run of Wolverine and the X-Men ended about a year ago; they started the series again for about 6-8 issues and tied the whole thing off if I’m recalling correctly. Really good series and it sets up the future team of X-Men!
I’m not actually super invested in the ongoing X-men story tbh. I’ll read specific books like this or Exiles, but in terms of the ongoing Matter of Mutants I’m kinda ehhhhh.
Advantage of Marvel unlimited is I can be choosy.
That’s part of why I like Wolvy and the X-Men because it doesn’t really link into the current arc across the All New X-Men and Uncanny X-Men. Rather it’s a stand alone series which sometimes has side references to whats going on in the larger world but all the stories focus on the kids at the institute coming to grips with their powers and being forged into a new team through their own trials. Very reminiscent of the original X-Men story; except here Prof X is Weapon X =P
Yeah, but I’ve read other stuff like Avengers Academy or Runaways that were teenage-heroes-learning. I may get to it eventually, but there’s more than enough to amuse me in Unlimited. thinking of binging Iron Man from Extremis on next.
Read the Sophie & Clenched Aaron wrote, read everything he writes. He’s great!
Sophie & Clenched is what autocorrect calls Wolverine & xmen
Jason Aaron is about to start a Dr Strange solo series. Jason. Aaron is amazing!!
You need to read Bendis run on Daredevil, Alias & Ultimate Spider-Man.
I didn’t think he was still writing during original sin? Maybe I’d just given up at that point.
I absolutely loved his New Avengers at the start but the longer it went the less interesting it got.
I enjoyed most of it right up until Seige.
Yeah Bendis left once Marvel Now! started and I think he moved on to the X-Men series and GotG; and yeah I read Bendis’s run on DD and loved it, red pointed me in the direction of Bendis with that comic series first =D
I actually loved Siege; mostly for Ares; my god that hero was so brilliantly written I hated seeing the god of war get written out. Did you read his mini-series during Dark Reign? Also the Dark Avengers vs X-Men cross over has some amazing moments with the God of War.
I vaguely remember reading an Area mini, but it was so long ago.
I definitely read all of Dark Avengers, I think I even bought a few issues. Really don’t like Deodato’s style at all though.
I remember reading about his son joining a team in Mighty Avengers too.
Man, that was a few years back, it’s pretty hazy now.
I know Phobos was in Fury’s Secret Warriors team but he dies towards the end of that series (some god nonsense about how in order to be classified as a god he needs to die and be reborn crap). Yeah Ares was just a mini-series, I didn’t enjoy most of Dark Avengers; as with what Marvel are doing now post Secret Wars I detest too much movement from the status quo so during Dark Reign I only followed Luke’s team which was quite a good read. As mentioned above I thought Ares was brilliant and Siege I enjoyed thoroughly as well just given the scope of the battle and seeing everyone rally to knock osborne down; but that’s where my + points for Dark Reign end =P
I like the rotating rosters.
Yeah, I dunno why everyone loves Hickman so much, so never read Secret Warriors.
I get that he does these cool world & universe building/changing things, but the way he goes about it bores me.
I read his Manhattan Projects though, that was fun.
Put it on twitter, but this new puzzle seems really cool: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/03/alex-belllos-monday-puzzle-question-area-maze-smarter-than-japanese-schoolchild?CMP=share_btn_tw
the third one takes a bit of working.
The annoying thing is sticking to whole numbers. Coming up with “elegant” numbers makes it a bit harder. Once you get your head around how they want you to do the maths, it’s not too bad.
With the third one, you can see at a glance that the missing area is 5cm^3 [(5-4)*(20/4)]. It’s not hard to get from there to working out X as 10cm.Edit: I can count. That’s the second one. Silly Bun, counting the example.
Edit edit:
27cm^3 seems like the wrong answerFull working for the third Check out @redartifice’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/redartifice/status/628408460888018944?s=09
Yeah, it’s “clever” but at the end of the day seems like a roundabout way to solve for X.
Nah, it’s elegant. The process is the reward,
This is one of the big contributors to why I hated maths in school. I was firmly in the camp of “I get why you’re trying to teach me this, I just don’t care. I can get the answer the normal way and I’m fine with that”
But the way you get the answer is true in all cases. Getting a specific numerical answer is right in one case.
Teach a man how to fish crap eh red =P
@pupp3tmast3r teach a man to area maze, and he can subdivide his backyard like a pro.
Let me put it another way: if a teacher says “Divide X by Y” I will happily do it, showing working. When they say “No, use long division” my response is total apathy.
@rize Long Division is a school only process. I was never great at it.
@rize everyone knows X/Y is 1 1/3
Ergh, I don’t like this. I can’t see discussions from last night?! :'( Pls help.
They’ve been unceremoniously wiped by a bug of some sort. No one can see them. :\
IT WAS ME!
It’s stuffed us all up.
Also, HI DINGUS
Red you’re a genius; FIX TAY! D=
Pfft, this is computer stuff. I can turn mine on and run Steam and that’s about it.
I assume that it’s the fault of Bobby Tables, somehow.
https://xkcd.com/327/
bit late, but HI! Hopefully you see this before it’s all wiped for tomorrow :/ 😛
Stupid cold weather…
Why am I not where it’s warmer? 🙁
My hands are freezing. I need a cup of tea!
Any Sydney people interested in going to see Dr Karl and Adam Spencer tonight for https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/sleek-geeks-unplugged-and-unplanned-pure-raw-data-tickets-17406977739 ? I was actually quite looking forward to going, but I’m getting sick and don’t think I should stay out. If you are keen, let me know and I’ll email the (free) tickets to you.
Also, there’s two tickets.
Also: @35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @cakesmith @cj @cookingmama @dkzeitgeist @doc_what @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @mawt @morkai @mrtaco @novacascade @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggyninty
@35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @cakesmith @cj @cookingmama @dkzeitgeist @doc_what @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @mawt @morkai @mrtaco @novacascade @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggyninty
Sorry batguy; I’m pretty sure that edits don’t tag people; i.e. they dont get notifications.
How disappointing. I know (and will probably forget) for next time!
All good =P I’m sure someone in TAY will be nice enough to relink xD
Week 2 of no soft drink \o/
holy crap i want some sugary goodness!!!If you have to, try iced tea. Usually not as sugary, but will give you a little hit
Weird, I just started my second week doing the same. Must have been something about late July. I’m not really feeling any different though.
I guess it just depends on if you’ve replaced the caffiene/sugar with any substitutes, or quit cold turkey, and how much you were drinking to start off with. Someone who’s drinking 5+ regular cokes a day will notice it if they quit, whereas 1-2 a day isn’t a big adjustment.
Yeah. I used to drink tons of coke but earlier in the year I cut back to a can at most per day so it seems like that jump from lots of caffeine to not much made the jump to no caffeine at all a lot easier. Although I was still expecting to feel a difference considering I’m replacing a huge pile of sugar and caffeine with water and the occasional orange juice.
Well done on making new habits!
Today was the first coffee I’ve had since Thursday, and I just had the one. Just been drinking tea. Sometimes just breaking the habit for a while is good.
This auto-refresh thing is an absolute pain in the ass. Not only does it clear notifications and make it difficult to follow what’s new, it also nukes the content of the comment box. I often start typing big things out and then alt-tab to do work and several times today I’ve come back to find that TAY has refreshed and what I was typing is gone. Would have been better left alone.
Not saying that it excuses the new setup, but this is very useful for your last issue: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lazarus-form-recovery/loljledaigphbcpfhfmgopdkppkifgno?hl=en
And in general when you’re typing lots of text into web forms.
I’d rather just not have the site be stupid.
EDIT: It’s got to be happening via a script, right? Maybe can disable it with greasemonkey.
So here’s a thing by a very talented person…
http://imgur.com/gallery/WRkoI
My art and craft skills extend about as far as glueing paper to wood.
I saw that. I hate ’em
So beautiful!
Wow.
@35: this is my third go at this. Site auto-refresh keeps eating it. Anyway, you asked for anime recommendations, completed series / seasons. I’ve looked at basically 2014-now, but I shy away a bit from recommending much from the season that just ended as I feel you need to let the smoke clear a bit on stuff.
Oh and terminology-wise, anime is produced in ‘cour’ which is a season block of 13 weeks, so a single-cour series is 12-13 episodes, and a 2-cour can be 24-26. it’s been increasingly common over the last few years for shows to be produced as a multi-cour show but not shown back-to-back, instead there’s a break between.
Also I have no idea how easy or hard these are to obtain via streaming sites etc. I imagine most of them will be on Crunchyroll or Animelab.
This is far from an extensive list but it can be tricky to give recommendations without a reference point.
Anyway, suggestions to look at:
Aldnoah.Zero
Science fiction, mecha. 2 cours. Written by Gen Urobuchi (Fate/Zero and others). It’s basically a deconstruction of Gundam. Extremely well animated, with some excellent combat sequences where the main character basically out-thinks stronger enemies which can be pretty exciting. I enjoyed it a fair bit, though it wrapped a bit abruptly and the first half ended on a horrible cliffhanger. Fantastic music.Amagi Brilliant Park
Comedy, 1 cour. Adapted from a manga by the creator of Full Metal Panic. Main character is roped into becoming the manager of an old amusement park that will be forced to close down within a year. Also all of the workers at the park are actually fairies from a fantasy kingdom that rely on the happiness of their visitors to live.. Kyoto Animation production so the animation is very high standard.Yurikuma Arashi
Drama, 1 cour. Lesbians. And bears. Original production written by Kunihiko Ikuhara (Revolutionary Girl Utena, Mawaru Penguindrum). Like his other works it’s fucking weird and dripping with symbolism and probably an allegory for something completely different. Full of lesbian homoeroticism. Very arty. Probably not as good as Penguindrum and nowhere near Utena but it’s unique and interesting.Durarara
Action Drama, 3 cours. Making an exception and recommending this. There’s actually a season of it currently running and another planned for the end of the year. The original series ran for 26 episodes several years ago, and a continuation split over 3 single-cour seasons started at the beginning of 2015. Written by the same guy as Baccano, and uses the same style. The story has dozens of characters and the perspective each episode will follow what’s happening from the perspective of one or two of them, with the overall plot being revealed over time as you see the different intertwining perspectives. Set around Ikebukuro (very accurately rendered too) and has a cast that includes the world’s strongest man, Russian hitmen that run a sushi place, gang leaders, a sentient katana that can control anyone it cuts, and a dullahan that’s searching for her stolen head. Suggesting it because while it’s not yet finished, you can go back to the older stuff easily and it’s also pretty good in general.Mushishi
Supernatural. 4 cours. Actually, the first Mushishi series happened way back in 2004 or so. It’s a personal favourite of mine so I was so excited when they announced more of it. Two new cours were produced, one last year and one early this year. Mushishi is rad. Every episode is self-contained so you can jump in at the newer series. I actually think the OVA (hihamukage, ‘shadow that eats the sun’) is a great starting point. Basically Ginko is a Mushishi, an expert on Mushi, which are supernatural life forms that take many shapes. He travels around Japan in an indeterminate time period (everyone lives very traditionally but Ginko dresses like a westerner) and encounters people who have problems that are caused by Mushi. Usually though, the actual problem is some kind of issue that the person or the village has caused themselves. Each episode feels a lot like a traditional ghost story, actually, and if it wasn’t for the tone this would be a horror show. Instead it has this absolutely wonderful, ethereal soundtrack that instead makes it relaxing and engrossing.Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works
Action, 2 cours. Adaption of the second arc of the Fate/Stay Night visual novel, this time by Ufotable who are probably the best animation studio in Japan in terms of their ability to meld modern and traditional animation techniques. This show is absolutely lush with brilliant CG effects, amazing lighting and fantastic atmosphere. It’s a fairly dark action show and at times it gets a bit wordy and pacing falls a bit, but generally very good. You should also consider going back to Fate/Zero (prequel) and also check out Ufotable’s other type-moon adaption, Kara no Kyoukai / Garden of Sinners if this one ends up appealing, though Unlimited Budget Works as it was jokingly referred to is the animation peak.Silver Spoon
Drama, 2 cours. Adapted from a manga by Hiromi Arakawa (she also wrote Fullmetal Alchemist). A guy from the ‘big city’ of Sapporo enrols in an agricultural boarding school in rural Hokkaido in an attempt to escape the pressure placed on him by his asshole father. The plot basically revolves around him discovering what rural life is like, while his peers are forced to re-evaluate the things they never really think about, like caring for and raising animals that are bound for the slaughterhouse. It’s very well done.Love Live: School Idol Project
Drama, Music, 2 cours. This is probably the biggest otaku-oriented anime franchise of the last few years. Honoka is a second-year high school student and discovers that because enrolments are down, the school that she attends is going to quit taking new new students and close down. In an attempt to drum up more interest in the school, she and her two friends decide to form a ‘School Idol’ group and compete in the upcoming Love Live tournament, where the most popular high school idol groups compete. It’s a trite setup maybe, but it has great music, a really solid and likeable cast, really nice and appealing character art and is generally way more entertaining than you’d expect. Has a theatrical film that opened in June and has pulled in astounding money for what it is, and there’s a sequel with a new cast in the works too.Also, some that I haven’t seen or haven’t seen all of but which might tickle your fancy:
Psycho-pass
Cyberpunk. 3 cours. Written by Gen Urobuchi (see a trend in these recommendations?). Was very popular. I found it very ploddy and couldn’t get into it but I’ve been told it picks up after a few episodes. Has a very Phillip K Dick setup – a computer program monitors everyone and based on a bunch of factors determines if someone is at risk of committing a crime, at which point they are pre-emptively dealt with.Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso (aka ‘Your Lie in April’)
Drama, 2 cours. Main character is a childhood prodigy, winning dozens of awards for his piano work, but trauma caused by his overly strict mother and her subsequent death left him unable to hear the sound of his own piano playing. Everything changes when he meets Kaori, a free-spirited girl who is an incredibly talented violinist. I really liked the show but I got sidetracked and fell behind, need to catch back up.Knights of Sidonia
Science Fiction, 2 cours. Very dark science fiction show. A thousand years before, a race of giant insects destroyed Earth, and the population fled in colony ships, Sidonia being one of them. Tsutomu Nihei (Blame!, Biomega) wrote the manga and it’s very striking like his other works. Dystopian. Unfortunately the show is all 3DCG which makes it a bit stiff, and I also find that the characters are hard to tell apart. Didn’t watch much. Been meaning to give it another go, but the 3DCG really put me off. I think if you can get past that it’d be pretty good. It’s all on Netflix already as they have a streaming deal – I think you can watch it dubbed there already too, if that’s your thing.Man mushishi… much love. One of the amazing anime’s I’ve ever watched.
A lot of it is the music. It’s just an amazing soundtrack. Swirling and ethereal and very atmospheric. Works absolutely perfectly with the way the show looks, with all those empty valleys and forests and foreboding misty mountains and stuff. I love how every episode has a unique piece as the ending theme as well.
I absolutely love the ending for the OVA, Hihamukage:
Actually, here’s all the endings from the first season back to back:
EDIT: FWIW Mushishi is a top 10 show of all time for me. Possibly top five.
So tired. Funeral went well, there were far fewer familiar faces than we usually have on the other side of the family but there were still a whole bunch we hadn’t seen in ages. Like, maybe a good 20 years. Particularly my aunt’s nieces, who we used to see every now and then when we were little, it was good to catch up with them. Damn everyone got so old 😛
Rare Replay is kewl.
YOU’RE KEWL! >:*
Well yeah, obviously!
PSYCH!
LOSER!
Dear god Aeropress makes some of the best god damn coffee i’ve tasted!
Got mine yesterday and have been experimenting with brewing methods, but even doing it the stock standard way poops all over any plunger coffee i’ve ever had…
Best.$40.Ever!
Cold filtered for life.
Loving mine.
Poor sad, weird TAY with only 2 pages on a Tuesday.
It reset this morning! We’re better than this!
I know, hence the weird. It just looks so wrong 🙁
So anyone else cosplaying for PAX? I have a lot of sewing to do. Three costumes for the boy, and (hopefully) 3 for me to match.
I can borrow one very cool hat from a friend though, so that will be one less thing to do.
Good thing I booked luggage this year 🙂
I’ve been slack. Need to get a jumpsuit and go to Jaycar.
Dunno. I mean it seems so far away…
Damn. I’m struggling just to get one half-costume ready in time. Six is nuts.
They won’t be super detailed! I’m just of the belief that if you’re going to a convention, you may as well dress up. It makes wandering around and waiting in lines more entertaining.
3am? Sounds like the perfect time to be masking up and spraypainting stuff!
wasn’t too keen on actually sticking stuff to the new paint (tried to de-sticky the tape as much as I could before putting it on), but it turns out the paint I was going to use is actually not that plentiful. On the flipside, it’s probably much easier to just use the spray.
While I’m at it/waiting for it to dry enough for a second coat, have some progress pictures/hints 😛
Elsa’s bodice is getting close to finished. Techie will have pouches soon! My actually costume is on the back burner. =P
I’m always tempted to buy framed prints when you guys post cosplay construction photos on photobucket. One morning you’ll wake up and see an e-mail all like ‘DogMan purchased six 80cm by 60cm wood framed canvas prints of your half finished jacket hanging up to dry in your garage’. =P
I don’t know how the system works but if it earnt me some money that’d be pretty alright 😛
So, this TAY going to disappear soon too?
Testing
IT’S ALIVE!
ALIVE!
Netflix peoples!
Is there some sort of site that lists what’s available on each region’s Netflix?
At the very least I think I remember seeing someone post one that showed what was on the AU one.
Couldn’t tell you what it was though, sorry 😛
http://aus.whatsnewonnetflix.com/
Should have a comprehensive list somewhere in there.
So yesterday was fun (@beeawwb).
Was at work, chugging along fine when suddenly it felt like something snapped in my brain and vision went all dizzy. Called doctors surgery and they came and got me in a wheelchair. Vaguely remember a few tests there, then it’s all blank except for a few flashes of people shouting my name at me and asking me to squeeze their hands. I finally regain conciousness in the stroke unit of the hospital. Wife is next to me inconsolably crying.
On the plus side they don’t think it was a stroke as the CT scan was clear and I’m okay now except for a terrible headache, not having eaten for 36 hours and having 15 vials of blood taken from me this morning. Current prevailing theory is I suffered from a severe Hemiplegic Migraine.
All I know is I want out of this hospital but I may have to stay until I can get an MRI. Also that I never want to go through that again.
Fuck! Oh man, that’s terrifying! All the best, buddy. Sending good thoughts your way. If there’s any thing I can do to help, let me know!
Apparently I lost all control over the left side of my body. Bri said she lost it when she arrived at the hospital just as I was being wheeled out of the CT scan surrounded by a team of doctors and nurses and one side of my face was slack and I was unresponsive. They assigned a counsellor to see her and she was convinced I had died for a bit.
Poor Bri. Must have been a scary call to get! 🙁
Holy shit we really need to work on what “fun” is. Hope you’re feeling better soon.
Woah dude.
Here’s to it being a once off glitch.
Get the MRI. I know being in hospital is a pain, but better to be safe then sorry. I hope everything is alright.
@freezespreston If they give you the option of walking away without it, still get the MRI. I cannot stress this enough. It’s not the most fun experience but it catches things CT doesn’t. Trust me on this one.
Bloody hell dude. Hope you get better soon
sending massive hugs to you. I hope you get better soon and that it’s a one off thing. very scary *big hugs*
Shit dude! Thats terrible are you alright now atleast? SOMEONE GET THIS MAN SOME FOOD!
Sending all the good vibes to you and your family *hugs*
Bloody hell.. that’s not anything I’d wish on anyone! Hope you’ll be okay, Freeze.
Damn, that’s scary. Hope everything comes out clear… And you get something to eat soon.
Holy crapsticles, Freeze! *hugasaurus* Hope you get to eat soon, and that it was just a once only kinda thing!
Holy shit! Take it easy man and even though you may want to leave the hospital asap I would suggest getting the MRI at least.
That’s terrible, man. Let me know if there’s anything I can help with.
Holy hell. Let me know if there’s anything you need, man. Anything!
Aaarrgh, doctors confirmed I’m stuck here for a few days. No Netflix or playstation 🙁 Didn’t even bring my 3DS. Plus the loneliness. Stupid hospitals. I hate them so much.
Ugh. Really sorry to hear that, Freezey. Sounds like it’s for the best though. Inconvenience now is better than any problems later.
Bri could bring you your 3ds and a book maybe? Hospitals are indeed damn boring.
And the beds and pillows are shithouse.
Queensland hospital meat! Go, go, go!
Brissy taybies ASSEMBLE!
Trust me, you want to stay in hospital. Inpatients are given precedent over outpatients.
Get a better head, amiright?
I’d suck it
Settle down.
I can’t, I’m all excited now.
Well that sounds like a jolly old time! It’s a good sign you can type as coherently as usual (I’m being all mature and not implying that you usually make no sense), as I understand it reading/writing comprehension is one of the earliest things to suffer with that kind of brain damage. I’d agree that you should definitely have the MRI
All the best, I send my regards. On the plus side, you’re not at work for once. Rest up.
Good point! Time to cash in some sick leave at last.
Damn Freeze! Hope you get better soon man and hopefully it isn’t anything serious =\
Man, that’s awful :/
I hope you at least get some neat superpowers out of it.
You and I have very different ideas about what fun is.
Happy thoughts coming your way man.
Holy fuck! All the best, bloke!
Hope you’re doing okay, that sounds pretty scary. Let us know if you need help with anything.
Wishing you a speedy recovery!
As an aside, migraine’s can do that…?
Migraines can be absolute motherfuckers. Guy I worked with got hit with one once, was out for a week in hospital getting checked for various stuff and they never figured out what it was that put him there. Still gets issues with visual ‘snow’ and stuff periodically.
The first migraine I ever had was at age 22. Up until that day, I had always thought that people taking a day off work for a migraine were being giant pussies who simply had ‘slightly more severe headache than normal’.
That day? I went to the hospital to get my brain checked because I thought I was dying, that an aneurysm or tumor or similar was only moments away from killing me. I have thrown up from migraine nausea.
For a while there, I got them every 2-4 months. No idea why or how. But yeah… never underestimating migraine ever again.
I remember once being on the floor screaming in pain as a kid because it felt like my brain was exploding. Can’t at all remember what came of it, it just seemed to be a one-off thing. No idea if it was a migraine or what, Mum used to get them a lot and would sometimes be stuck in bed for days, but at worst I was just extremely headache-prone as a kid. Glad that’s not a thing any more. Same goes for being nosebleed-prone too 😛
I was like this too until I worked/managed a team member who’d be bed ridden every 8 – 10 weeks for 2 or 3 days. I’ve learnt not to underestimate them… But migraines causing a loss of control to half your body!!
That scares the shit out of me.
I’ve only recently heard of this sort of migraine, and they sound absolutely terrible. Here’s hoping it was a one off event for you 🙁
Fuck. I’m really happy to hear though you’re feeling better, I hope you get out and find out what’s ailing you so you’ll never have to go through that again, hopefully it means you can have a bit of a rest from work.
New PS+ games downloading today! Psyched for Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris in particular. (If you haven’t played Limbo, now’s your chance too. It’s goooood!)
Lara Croft co-op some time?
For sure!
eeeeeexcellent.
I reserve the right to chicken out if multiplayer gets too scary, though. 😛
If your playing with red its sure to be a Fiasco
“Hey, red, I’m not sure we need to roll dice to play thi-”
“ROLL AGAINST THE TILT TABLE MOTHERFUCKER”
“Black dice! Oooo shits about to go down now!”
Count me in, too!
Makings of a posse!
Well, I’m Numeneraing tonight, but after that I’m keen as mustard.
Gives us time to all download and the like. Let me know when you’re keeeeeen.
It’s 4 player coop isn’t it? I was planning to download it one of these days, might do it faster with the prospect of coop
Pretty sure it is! 🙂
Well I could certainly do with a coop game to play, I’ll download it later today and have it ready
Co-op is great. @powalen @greenius and I played through it. Most of our games involved blowing up each other with mines.
Also @powalen letting @greenius fall to his death.
10/10 would observe murder again.
Good times.
No!
Also: more fun with voice chat!
(and almost necessary for some puzzles)
I have it on pc. Got the special edition
Time to repeat my experience with the Temple of Light. Open if for five minutes, go “huh, this is neat” and then never play it again.
That’s what I did with it too! 😛
John Kimble, M.D.
Scene: The brilliant Dr Kimble has just fired his three smart, hardworking young Doctors. The head of Pathology needs new recruits; in an unconventional interview process, Kimble has gathered two dozen doctors in an Auditorium in an effort to diagnose a fictional patient.
Kimble: Symptons include, nausea, headaches, loss of apetite, chronic pain.
Doctor 16: Sounds like cancer.
Doctor 4: We should perform a biopsy.
Kimble: And due to the marvels of modern medicine, the results are in, and… Ding! It’s not cancer! Your patient complains loudly that you took a chunk of flesh out of them for no reason but not before they start vomiting all over the place all the time.
Doctor 16: Sounds like cancer.
Doctor 7: You literally just said that 2 minutes ago.
Doctor 16: Maybe it’s a tumour.
Kimble: Sure, it could be cancer, if you ignore our very talented head of Oncology saying it’s not cancer.
Doctor 13: So most of the symptoms revolve their stomach? We should focus on the gastrointes-
Doctor 16: Stomach cancer?
Doctor 13: What is your obsession with cancer!?
Doctor 16: It’s a very strong case!
Doctor 22: It’s not cancer!
Doctor 16: Some sort of lesion or growth would-
Doctor 18: Oh my god, let it go!
Doctor 16: A malignant tumour!
Kimble: OH MY GOD, IT’S NOT A TUMOUR
This sounds a lot like House =P
Clearly Doctor Kimble has a mouth tumour
Also as someone who’s had a biopsy and had a testicle removed due to possibility of cancer, the last thing going through your mind is “Imma be so pissed if it’s not cancer”
I’m 99% sure this is the first episode from a season in House shortly after he loses his 3 staff.
Edit: Which is why Doctor Kimble sounds like a dickhead; cos house is a dickhead! =P
It wasn’t Kimble, it was the one-armed man.
Red what am I missing from this thread >.< I could swear this is the script from an episode of House =S
DId anyone like the Xbox Gamescom Conference? i thought it was pretty good to see stuff like Forza 6, Quantum Break, Scalebound etc.
Much better than usual for gamescom. I thought Quantum Break looked like the pick of them, though I’m a big fan of Remedy’s work in general.
The only downers really were when they had the EA guy come out to try and sell EA Access again (which played out exactly like it did at E3 – like someone ripped out a massive wet fart in a crowded room) and that insanely awkward “Halo is for pro gamers so let’s have live commentary over canned footage” stuff that felt like it had no place being in a press conference.
Hmm… new Destiny TTK news.
Shader library! Emblem library! Finally!!! \o/ No more Crucible/Vanguard marks – one currency to rule them all! No more Hadronic essence/Sapphire wire/Plasteel – one upgrade material to rule them all! Bosses with mechanics beyond shoot it for ten minutes! Retooled story to make more use of the new quest system… and endgame that expands upon the previous endgame story-wise.One half of me is squeeing like a little girl, while the other (more cynical) half is hitting said squeeing idiot over the head with a sledgehammer. So, overall reaction… “cautious optimism.”
I hope they simply call the new unified upgrade material “Stuff”
Nothing so self-aware, unfortunately. It’s just “armor materials.”
Bah, they’re no fun. They could have called the new currency “Things” to go along with it
Or Bits and Pieces.
Does sound like they are making some solid changes. Might even end up the game it should have been.
Gonna hold on to my money though. Shall see what post release reviews say and if there will actually be anyone I can play with.
Oh, definitely. I’d suggest anyone who’s not really been enthused by Destiny’s expansions just wait for reviews, or a Goty edition – the content will still be there in 12 months (unless TTK fails spectacularly – which isn’t too far beyond the realms of possibility :3 – Bungie haven’t had the best track record when it comes to Destiny “announcement hype” vs “final product.”)
Other peeps to play with regularly will be a big thing for me tho. 90% of the original Destiny fun was it being co-op with friends.
Might have enjoyed HoW if I could find 2 people willing to dedicate a measly couple hours on a regular basis.
I just got sick of being at constant war with the devs; overtuned fights that needed cheeses to clear; glitches that would halt progression and needed cheeses to clear; patches for issues that extend the longevity of a piss-poor selection of content as opposed to actually fixing the hundreds of existing glitches within the game; limited/disconnected communication from the devs regarding how patches are taken care of; constantly grinding the same limited repetitive/punishing content for little to no reward; the constant mentality of rewarding the haves and punishing the have-nots; crazy latency issues and poor match-making for pvp; weapon balances taking way too long; and most of all stop charging for new fucking content when the last time I bought something from you I got shit services and paid a premium price. Money grubbing little shits.
/end rant
To say I’m skeptical would be the understatement of the year. They’re talking a good game, but the dev team has always been inappropriately excited about and proud of ‘features’ which are little more than band-aids, and of ‘new content’ which is 90% recycled crap.
I haven’t seen them do anything that’s ended up fulfilling the game’s potential; everything delivered has been less than its hype.
I like the sound of some of this stuff but TTK is by no means whatsoever a guaranteed purchase for me. I’ll definitely be waiting and seeing.
Still not going to buy it until the PS4 disc version of TTK drops considerably in price.
The only feature I want from future Destiny expansions; and the only thing that’ll convince to ever purchase a game from theirs again is a complete re-working of their technical support team and how they release patches. Weekly patches or GTFO. I’m not paying a PS plus sub + rolling out cash every 6 months for DLC and Xpac’s with 0 support or bug fixes.
Headlining
‘Sir we can’t arrest your cat’: Man calls police after cat eats his bacon
https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/29179835/sir-we-cant-arrest-your-cat-man-calls-police-after-cat-eats-his-bacon/?cmp=yfb
Oooooohkaaaaay…
Always a concern/relief to hear that there are people more mentally unstable than I am…
There is no other word for it.
Fuck.
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
Water, water everywhere.
TONIGHT 7:30 SA TIME
ALSO STREAMING
cc @popdart5 @blaghman @tech_knight
hopefully I don’t get held up and end up being late tonight.
I will be there!
Have any of you folks on Win10 worked out how to change the new tab page in Edge to a custom page? A blank page isn’t much use, even if I do have the default search set to google, I still want a simple google page
My experience so far with Edge…
I opened Edge.
Loaded Google.
Confirmed it works.
Closed Edge.
So… helping?
Not currently possible for new tabs. You can change the start page when you open edge, but not the tabs.
I’m not a big fan of Edge. It’s vastly faster and more responsive than IE, but that came at the expense of a lot of features.
Notably the inability to block animated GIFs which makes this site particularly annoying to use
Can someone please make these damn social media buttons at the bottom of the screen, right above the home/back/ect phone buttons, die in a bloody fire.
I’ve been trying with every blocker add on I can find for mobiles but they’re stubborn things.
Rough summary of my interview:
“Tell us a little about yourself”
I’m…a good…work…guy?
“…please leave”
Nailed it!
No more questions required
So when do you start?
So, I tweeted this, but this guy sounds like the most insufferable person: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/08/04/techbros-are-hilarious/
not mentioned: Apparently the guy nuked his own intestinal flora so he wouldn’t shit.
Oh, that was the same guy. What a champ!
BrisTAYbes, we now have a 10-person booking for 7:30pm (7pm conflicts with their other large bookings – anyone early can sit at the bar until the table opens up) on Saturday the 8th of August. (This coming weekend.)
Venue is The Burrow: 37 Mollison St, West End (http://theburrowwestend.com.au/ for menu).
Booking is under the name ‘Tay’. (They didn’t question it. It’s probably someone’s name somewhere.)
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__ @rocketman
Yessss. Thanks, bud. You’re the greatest.
I’ll see how I’m feeling on the day / how long the footy goes for, etc if I make it for dinner or even just hanging out afterwards. Will send some kind of message to somebody somewhere on the day at the very least with what my intentions are.
Quick (maybe) questions:
Your buses still allow people to pay for tickets on the bus, so I don’t need to get a cardy whatever thing, right?
And if I just point myself towards South Brisbane will that get me to within walking distance to where I need to be (I had a quick squiz on Google Maps, but I trust my mapreading skills about as much as I trust my falsetto)?
Yeah, depending on your walking speed, West End is about a 10-15 min walk from the Cultural Centre
Yeah, you can buy the paper tickets still. Though they’re like… 30% more expensive or something. (Incentive to use the cards.)
There’s actually a translink service on number 131230; you call them, ask for timetable information, and tell the operator where you are, where you want to go, and when, and they’ll tell you which services to catch. Very useful for improvising anytime, anywhere.
I’ll just hope that your PT is linked to Google maps, then I don’t even need to think.
It still blows my mind that there are cities in Australia where this isn’t a thing.
The SA system has been linked to Google Maps for, not kidding, ten years.
You guys were the first in Australia to have that, right?
I was similarly surprised when Brisbane got the (functioning) Go Card system before Melbourne got their (screwy) Myki! 😀
I think so. I’ve definitely been using it since 1st year uni.
Took as a while to get paperless ticketing, but we have that now too.
The Adelaide system is vastly simpler than the system interstate though. It’s not always the best but is user friendly
Myki’s cards may be more finicky than the Brisbane GoCard, but at least they only have like… two zones (metro and not metro) and the prices are stupidly cheap by comparison to Brisbane.
Yeah, zones kinda are and aren’t a thing here.
You can get a zone ticket, for like kids taking the bus to school, but for most other stuff it’s a flat rate for two hours of transfers, no tap off.
I couldn’t quite believe how much it cost to catch the bus up there. Holy hell is Brisbane PT expensive
I assumed that it was a thing in every major city, right up until I saw an article about its integration happening in Melbourne earlier this year.
Just close your eyes and let your love of musicals direct you. When it’s feeling particularly strong in your heart, that’ll take you to Cultural Centre and QPAC. 😛
The Burrow’s walking distance from South Brisbane. I’m assuming the bus will take you to the cultural centre near QPAC? It’s basically just a straight walk up Melbourne St, veering right at Mollison! If you’re not sure where to go someone (like me) almost certainly can walk you there too! 🙂
As for tickets? Not sure, haven’t used the bus in yeeeeears.
Bus, trains & ferries were all linked for Go Cards, they all provide the exact same services/prices.
Oh I meant actually buying the physical tickets. Go Cards are SUPER handy. 😀
Yeah, they have to keep providing that service/stealing from senior citizens that don’t know any better.
I only just noticed this. I didn’t get any notifications. My browser did have this page open in a tab, but my laptop was closed. I haven’t actually opened it since yesterday morning. Odd.
But yay, Saturday. 7:30. Burrow. TAY. Got it. Unless there’s an update with another notification I’ve missed. 😛
Nope, that’s it!
Reading up on previous TAY, I noticed @freezespreston had a great day yesterday. Fair warning champ: a headache is a poor excuse for not wanting sex, let alone a stroke.
I REGRET NOTHIIIIIIING *dives out window*All the best man, hope it all ends up clear and you’re free from the hospital soon.
So, @negativezero , the more I play Lost Dimension (even the generic name is forgettable) the more I enjoy it. It’s like the perfect desert after weeks of Souls main courses, followed with Alien Isolation.
It’s getting bagged in reviews for being too easy, not deep enough. But that’s exactly why I’m enjoying it. Comfort gaming at its finest.
The writing, while remaining bland, has picked up a bit the further I’ve got in. As I spend more time in the knockoff Social Links, they’ve started to open up & have something a little interesting to share.
It’s not mind-blowing in any way, but just all-around solid. Maybe its because I set my hopes so low, but there isn’t a part I’ve overly disliked so far.
I sat down for a quick play last night & suddenly 3 hours had passed.
I don’t understand the gaming media’s obssession with games having to be hard and the e-peen competitions people have where they’re all OH I PUT IT ON THE HIGHEST DIFFICULTY etc.
I have limited time and prefer stuff to be easy. I don’t want to repeat the same shit over and over.
The comments in the play Witcher 3 on easy article are what put me in hospital I believe.
I thought it would’ve been reading about how much Bishop is getting for her retirement pension.
Retirement Pension?
*Googles*
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That’s exactly what someone with a small penis would say.
I said I prefer it to be easy, not that i play on easy. I actually play on hardest difficulty all the time but that’s too easy for me.
Also my penis is so massive that if I have an erection while standing I’ll pass out from lack of blood getting to my brain.
I, on the other hand, have a ridiculously small penis, the very reason I prefer easy.
Shit. Just tried out some of the red paint on the faux leather stuff I have for the other parts, and it actually comes up really well with just a single coat. But I don’t know if I have enough of it left nor enough time to do all the stuff I need and let it dry. Nor any idea yet how it’ll react to stretching once it’s dry.
Ok changed my mind. Far too shiny, and a whole bunch of cracks/wrinkles show up when it’s stretched. Decision made 😛
You need to paint it while it’s stretched
*throws straight into the Too Hard basket*
Maybe if I had the spray version, which apparently exists. But they didn’t have that at Spotlight. Sure would’ve made life a lot easier. Or at least, quicker.
There’s another Splatfest this weekend! Normally the teams are split between two opposing personal preferences. Fun-natured! Charming! The sort of thing people would naturally choose one or the other and have a good time all around.
Well, no more! The choices for this Splatfest are: …North Pole or South Pole.
Really? 😛 It’s only the third week, surely they haven’t run out of ideas already.
I… guess I have to vote for south pole?
South pole has penguins. Decision made!
EDIT: Wait, doesn’t the colossal squid live in the Antarctic? So there’s that too.
South Pole has Marie.
Damn it…this will be the first time I’ll be going against Callie. I don’t know if I can do it cause SHE’S SO MUCH COOLER THAN MARIE.
Except that she’s not!
She always has a smile on her face and she’s a roller fan.
You can keep your “I’m too cool for you” Marie with her charger and her terribleness!
Marie is deadpan hilarious and has excellent taste in weaponry 😛
I actually don’t know why we’re fighting. I get Callie and a roller, you get Marie and a charger.
TOGETHER WE COULD RULE THE WORLDEasy split!@rize This is like agreeing with Jimu that he can keep Chie as his Persona Waifu, so the rest of us can avoid her.
@blaghman Sheesh, Falco. You too?
@mrtaco
I don’t actually have a favourite of the two, Crusty Sean is clearly the best character in the game.
I just think that Waifu discussions are always fun, and hilariously unproductive.
It’s like you don’t even care about Father Squidmas.
NO I’M…*googles ‘Father Squidmas’*…doesn’t.
Apparently during the opening spiel for this Splatfest the sisters mention Squidmas.
You should write for Splatoon.
Finally I can side with Marie!
I always knew you had good taste, Gooks. I don’t care what all those other people say.
What?! North Pole should win hands down! Why does everyone want to kill Christmas?!
Smart-arsed comments aside, This is going to devolve into “which one do I live closer” for most people, isn’t it?
Yeah, I was kinda thinking I should vote for North Pole if everybody in Europe is going to vote for that 😛
Eh, I’ll stick with South.
I’ll probably go with South if only because my Splatfest post writes itself:
MY SOUTH POLE WILL RIZE AGAIN.
Well they did/are patching the splatfest scoring so that wins are more valuable now (4x instead of 2x now, iirc) so it mightn’t be all about which team has the bigger side any more.
I haven’t heard anything in the update about being able to pair up with friends during Splatfest though which is sad.
I’m South Pole all the way! Drew a little thing on miiverse to show my allegiance too. Most of the posts I’m seeing have Father Squidmas or polar bears on them though, so I’m guessing North Pole will be the more popular choice. I guess most Europeans will choose North Pole, and they outnumber us Southern hemisphere folk by quite a large margin.
Wardie suddenly appeared in my room with a chair and wheeled me off to get the MRI done. Nice and quick. Still have to wait until tomorrow by the looks of it.
Plus side is I’m feeling 100% better despite still not having any memory of last night. Less so better was removing the telemetry tags off my chest before the MRI. Free chest wax with every MRI!
That’s good news. Fingers crossed nothing will be obvious and they’ll declare it was a weird migraine and send you home.
In the mean time, mandatory rest day(s) are probably not a terrible thing for you.
Just read what happened and that doesn’t sound entirely good! All the best mah man!
Hopefully you’ll recover quick smart!
I agree with Neg. Appreciate the chance to actually use some sick leave! Assuming you can get a hold of your 3DS, that is… 😛
All the best man!
I’m quite surprised how little of it you seem to remember but it sounds like you’ve made a pretty quick recovery even now. You must have been bad to be admitted to the stroke unit too.
(Sidenote: acute ischaemic stroke won’t show up on a CT brain usually within the first 24-48 hours of symptoms, but maybe that’s why you got the MRI too, and for all finer things that CTB can’t always capture.)
Hope your wife and kids are okay through this as well.
Personally I’m surprised (and impressed) that they had someone attend to Bri.
That’s really sensible, useful, human stuff that I hadn’t thought of.
You should capitalize on the situation and get a full-body wax while you’re there =P
Hope the results give you the all clear freezy! Bright side your work can shove it until you recover!
thank fuck it didnt happen while you were driving.
I can’t remember if I told this story already or not, but one of the former coworkers here died while driving a little while ago. Heart attack on the freeway. He managed to hold on long enough to pull over into the break-down area.
Personally, I think that’s probably one of the more heroic ways anyone can go – thinking about the safety of others and struggling to preserve it. I also wouldn’t be surprised if it’s one of the things that could help you go without fear, to make the pain manageable… fighting to the end for the sake of others’ safety would somehow, I figure, make it seem ‘worth it’. Or at the very least distracting. Sacrifice, instead of something shitty and unfair and frightening.
Oh god…why am I so bored…?
Hey, me too!
I was bored, so I read some ‘real world’ news instead of gaming news.
Predictably, I am now very angry.
About everything.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/bronwyn-bishop-would-retire-on-a-salary-of-225000-a-year-plus-free-flights-20150805-gis178.html
See peeps if you’re in public service; even when you fuck up the public can continue to service you =D
*spasms and thrashes about*
Politics, not public service. Public servants do similar work to private sector for lower pay but increased job security.
In theory politics should be considered the pinnacle of public service; sadly we’re bundled with a bunch of self serving a**holes who would happily tell the country we need to tighten our spending; end the age of entitlement and hike GST while cleaning out our coffers through an ancient/decadent pension scheme which is obligated to pay you a wage for the rest of your life until you die.
Screw. this. shit. We can’t afford a fucking mortgage in a property market running wild and this bitch gets $225k p.a. and 10 return flights a year for what?!
That said Joe Hockey is right; we should all just get better paying jobs which would be great if wage growth wasn’t fucking stagnating.
Edit: Sorry transient I know most people in the public sector get paid a lot less and the work isn’t exactly great; it just pisses me off when our so called elected representatives represent nothing but their own fucking interests.
Well, yeah. I’m mad about the pension, too. Just wanted to make the distinction between politicians who are on a fucking rort, and the public servants like my Dad who give a literal lifetime of service involving absurd unbilled hours, doing two peoples’ jobs and only getting paid for one, re-applying for their own jobs, and end up getting nothing more for retirement than a nice certificate and told to live off their superannuation alone.
$225k a year for life? It’s fucking ridiculous.
It sounds like a defined benefit scheme meaning it also probably adjusts for CPI; us normal non-royalty people have to depend on interest rates and ROI’s to outpace CPI.
And yeah I know the majority of the public sector is underpaid and under appreciated when compared to their political counterparts; it’s just a sad state of affairs when the people who actually want to do something for the country get a fraction of the benefits of the people who pillage it’s resources.
If you want to read something in the context of all this that would really piss you off; check out the ECAP scheme being put forward by the ATO. It’s laughable.
Well they’re very desirable assets. If we don’t throw perks like this in some other country may come along and poach them. Then where would we be?!
That last edit pretty much summed up every politician ever.. with maybe Xenafon as an exception. He’s the only one I’ve ever seen address the public, and actually sound like he cares about something other than himself.
What about Scott Ludlam? Actually there’s a few greens reps that actually appear to do what a politician is meant to.
Can’t say I’ve ever seen much of him. I know the name, but not familiar with him as such. That, and the Greens pretty much live in the back pocket of Labor (since they can’t get the numbers on their own), so I find it hard to trust anything they say. Also, would be nice if they actually pretended to give a shit about something other than the environment. I KNOW they’re Green for that very reason, but saving the environment is not enough to keep a country running. No doubt if they did end up in power, one of the Major 2 parties would still be pulling the strings from behind the scenes. Sad sad world we live in :\
Further to that, just cos I’m not trying to start a flame/politics war, all I’m saying is, Xenafon is the only polly I’ve seen who addresses things like he’s speaking on behalf of the people, not speaking FOR the people 😉
A few of the senators actually voted against the internet monitoring legislation Brandis pushed through. From the least destructive/self-serving category they pass, but probably because the standards have been set quite low. The state of our democracy as it exists I honestly feel we would be better off having corporations run the damn country; at least they wouldn’t lie about being in it for their own interests.
They soon will with the TPP.
@highperformance True I forgot about the TPP effectively subverting our rights under Australian law. *shrug* oh well! =P
Xenophon has been a patron of many causes since he started in the SA legislative council. Not all of them have been super strong.
They may not always be successful, but I just feel the way he represents the people is a quality more politicians could pay more attention to and try to replicate!
You know what the worst part of it is?
Still better off than most countries. Can’t even jump ship cause there’s nowhere to go.
Canada? @saturday Netherlands? I can learn to sprechen their deutsche.
New Zealand seems to be going okay.
@pupp3tmast3r
Yeah, NZ and Canada would be the two English speaking countries to beat. If a little cold.
And the whole Scandinavian area is pretty much top O the world for quality of life I hear.
I’d actually do it if I could secure a comparable quality job. Which is unlikely being an unskilled blue collar worker.
Don’t even get me started on Greg Hunt and this fucking fiasco with the Adani mine and the possible environmental repercussions; the whole thing stinks of corruption/incompetence/apathy.
I still believe a federal comission against corruption should happen
Yeah but then I’m sure all those donations Adani made through a bucket company owned by 3 different subsidiaries would need to be refunded and we can’t have that.
Besides it’s more important we create jobs for an industry/resource sector which is currently flooding the market and is unlikely to survive another price cycle with a majority of developed nations re-working their commitments to renewable carbon neutral sources of power. But wait a minute…. this only makes sense if we think about running the country in 2-4 year terms. Which is bloody problem with this damned government =@ It’s someone else’s problem until the next election.
Would that still be the case if she was found to have misused public funds? Surely if you’re a politician and were shown to have broken the law while in office, you lose your retirement benefits?
There might be a clause in there if she was convicted of criminal charges but at this point in time the AFP haven’t started an investigation and the police aren’t doing anything until the AFP complete their investigation. I mean to be fair you don’t exactly expect thugs on the mafia’s payroll to ask their bosses if they’re skimming off the top do you?
That’s the thing though, she never technically “broke the law” as told by the PM himself that this was actually within the rules and that it will be reviewed after this. So yeah… technically she’s entitled to this too, and it makes me sick that this is the case
Welp, there goes any public faith that parliament had left… oh wait
Ugh. Sometimes I imagine a worldwide dystopian future as a result of warfare, deterioration of society, economic collapse, mass rioting/looting, etc. and wonder where I would fit in all that.
Being white collar not blue it’s pretty obvious I’d likely be dead in the early stages but man, the pollies getting their just desserts would be worth that trip alone. Also the Mad Max cars.
Dude, with our luck Tony would end up as the Immortan Joe figure.
I hate that the new mobile TAY layout automatically loads more ads / recommended articles when you reach the bottom of the page.
Makes trying to press “switch to desktop” super frustrating 😐
Heh. Even on the desktop version this morning I saw something on the recent/related articles grey box at the bottom that I wanted to look at, but ended up having to chase it past the constantly-refreshing bottom of the page, like a carrot strapped to a treadmill.
That constant chasing irked me. Thankfully, Tampermonkey and a bit of javascript sorted it out – I have the home page (self-updating, now, too) in another tab; I don’t need it here, as well.
Lol I’ve just stopped reading articles in Kotaku and hermit in TAY; if I see something interesting scroll through in the ads I go google it instead xD
The updates have really highlighted how many people TAY on their phones…
I’m hardly ever on pc, but need to switch to the desktop site to see who upvoted / downvoted my posts, so I know whose posts to upvote / downvote later, because that’s how it works.
So…. Remember when I said it wasn’t a stroke?
The MRI confirmed it was a stroke.
I am fucking lucky to walk away without permanent damage or even to be alive.
Man it makes you feel sick to your stomach to hear something like that, I’m glad you’ve had a big win on both the mortality and quality of life counts.
*hugs*
Damn; did the docs provide any cause for the stroke and if there’s anything you can do to prevent future occurrences?
Glad you got out relatively unscathed dude.
Prevent future occurrences? For Freeze: quit job, I’d say.
Easier said than done, I know.
I’m stuck in hospital for a while longer while they do a bunch of investigatory tests.
On the plus side, 2 weeks off work.
You know work sucks when having a stroke is the better alternative / plus side. :S
If it’s even remotely work related like blood pressure/stress induced I would say get the fuck out of that place man. Don’t really know much about strokes but I hope there’s things you can do to manage and reduce the risk of future strokes.
I asked the neurologist and he said he couldn’t see a direct line between stress and what happened. It probably didn’t help what did happen but didn’t cause it.
DVT can cause stuff like that, right? That was probably too far ago to be related.
Not usually – DVTs travel to your lungs which are like a giant sieve and cause pulmonary emboli and generally don’t make it back to your systemic circulation to go to your brain. Unless you have a patent foramen ovale (hole in heart) which is pretty uncommon.
It’s kind of interesting that he’s had two clots and he should probably tell them about the DVT in case they want to consider a clotting disorder (unless it was ruled out before? I can’t remember).
Wait – I just assumed it was a clot related stroke soooo just ignore me.
Yeah, I think that’s where I got confused. The whole clot thing. I’ve been watching too many medical shows. 🙂
Only the one clot, the injury related DVT a couple of years back and they knew all about it. No clots now, they are theorising that the bleed could have been caused by the migraine constricting the blood vessels to much and too quickly.
@freezespreston: so they think you got hit with a migraine and that triggered a stroke? That’s frightening, didn’t know that could happen. D:
@negativezero reading a few research papers apparently it can, mostly observed in people in their early to mid 30’s and predominantly women. Guess I got lucky and hit the long odds :/
And if it’s work related, and since it also happened at work, might be worth looking at workers compensation provisions.
You gonna be spending those two weeks in the hospital, or they letting you out earlier but insisting you stay largely immobile?
From what they’re saying I have another 48 hours in the hospital then not to stress myself for a while.
Damn dude. Glad you are relatively ok.
Which hospital are they keeping you in?
This is also relevant to my interests.
We all thinking about bringing down care packages full of salted, processed meats and … what else is it you aren’t supposed to eat after a stroke?
Bring all the beer and gin!
Gold Coast University hospital. C5 East Room 47.
Yeah, like @beeawwb intimated, anything we should know about stuff you shouldn’t have?
Didn’t you hear him?! They’ve got him on a diet of only beer and gin dammit!
So take in some Whiskey then?
Want some rye? Course ya do!
Holy shit snacks. You are incredibly lucky, but it couldn’t have happened to a nicer person. No argument.
I hope they find out what happened, as you are pretty fit, so it’s very worrying.
I think you need a care package. I think your family needs a care package. Can someone set up a fund for care packages? Can you buy care packages online…I should check.
Holy shit o_O
*hugs*
I had a stroke the other day but they told me to put my pants back on and leave the hospital…
So Destiny’s going to now be even more likely to drop weapon and armor types you can’t or don’t want to use? 🙁
My reading is the opposite. Unless you’re really hungry for drops of stuff that you already have?
I hate using pulse rifles and auto rifiles and never even touch hand cannons, but those seemed to be all that ever drop for me.
Argh, Rocket League doesn’t want to update for me for some reason… 🙁
Falling so far behind ;_;
Me too.
We’re talking about life, right?
This is my typical “I laughed, but I also winced a little, and I’m not sure if I should favourite it.”
Yes.
Also costumes I guess 😛
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
Blaghs: Caused a dessicating explosion underwater… twice
Elandar: Escaped a collapsing fortress by falling upwards
Scrappa: Was saved by a big dude in a diving suit, proving that mercy has its rewards.
Thanks for playing guys!
cc@popdart5 @tech_knight @blaghman
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKsW6CuESwo&feature=youtu.be&a
Interesting to see on Twitter that goofygoobers are getting upset because a prominent member is copping flak because of horrible things he said on Facebook because Facebook is personal and people should respect his privacy.
Meanwhile at the same time they’re sharing around screenshots of something Serrels said on Facebook and acting all outraged because out of context (which is directly above it and in every post) it could be a threat if you couldn’t read and had brain damage.
These people are incredible.
Goddamnit. Going well with these page gets.
Who’s the prominent guy? I’ve had a friend talking about the Serrels stuff today, but not the other one.
Sargon? Saigon? Sago?
I’m not 100% sure. I’d never heard of him and don’t really feel like diving back into that sewer to find out.
Ah yeah, Sargon. Think I saw a vid or two of his once.
I think I saw 2 minutes of one of his videos, decided he was an awful person, then had his shit show up in my youtube recommendations for months.
I usually watch Sargon of Akkad’s “week in stupid” videos but once he starts preaching about how gamergaters are harmless and SJWs are causing cancer I start to tune out.
Rabble rabble rabble.
I think he said he wanted to punch someone in gamergate. And David wanted to join in with a duel. important thing to remember is that gamergate is a hashtag and, a symbol that started because of poor journalistic integrity. The facebook post with @serrels reeks of journalistic collusion considering who was commenting on it and where they work. Should they give air to a part of the gaming community? depends on how loose your definition of jounalistic integrity is.
the threats of violence from people who use the GG hashtag and from Journalists shouldnt happen, in private or public. Jounalists should report facts not push an agenda. Last i saw, i think they were starting to email advertisers here.
I think Max is going crazy…
Perhaps Mad?
Bourbon.
That is all.
That cant be all we need a name dammit!
Rex Banner.
Listen, rummy, I’m gonna say it plain and simple. Where’d you pinch the hooch? Is some blind tiger jerking suds on the side?
I’d say “urgh, kill me”. But I seem to be doing a pretty good job of that myself as it is.
Ultra slow progress, so much wrestling with the sewing machine. Stupid zipper foot being so unsable when sitting on the right side. The top seam on the belt came out so neat and tidy, then the bottom one went and uglied everything up.
Just one more piece left then everything should be ready to assemble. Wonder if I’ll get time for a nap >_>
SPLATOON UPDATE DAY!
I’ll be playing a bit tonight!
HHHNNNGH
EDIT: Also, one of the noted changes is about Tenacity:
“Special Gauge will now start filling at the start of a match even before the player starts to ink ground if there is a disparity between the number of players on teams”
So yep, looks like it is for total team size not whether people are alive/dead.
I thought that’s what it was always meant to be. Was it bugged before?
Might be a good ability to grab for Splatfest actually. Especially if South Pole isn’t popular 😛
Nah, was having a discussion with a few people a while back about whether it meant “active team mates” (i.e. alive) or total.
I was actually bagging it out at the time because I thought a skill based on having less total team mates seems very restrictive and will rarely come into play, hence why I was/am avoiding it.
So who’s up for splatoon about 8:30 EST?
Hello fellows,
Is someone versed in the parts of taking a group of mp4s and putting them together to make one long running video?
I am trying to put three videos together so that the videos run back to back to back for a colleague at work, but I’m a stereotypical marketer with no quality behind my facade D’:
Edit: Forgot to say thanks!!
Premiere Pro will do the job for you super easy. The CS2 version is free.
http://www.techspot.com/downloads/5727-adobe-premiere-free.html
It’s just a matter of drag and drop onto a timeline, and export media from the File menu.
I’m on a work computer (Damn the ‘admin access required’ box) so I’ll smash it out this evening!
Other options, too: https://www.google.com.au/#safe=active&q=online+mp4+joiner
Thanks! I had a brainwave before that meant I actually can download adobe premiere onto my work computer through a system center we have, hopefully it works.
You can actually do it in cmd, and it won’t re-encode the video.
Open a command prompt and type something similar to this:
copy /b “C:\File.mp4” + “C:\File1.mp4” CombinedFile.mp4
Wow, I should totally try that! It’s encoding on Premiere now so I’ll try it out after that 😛
Ooooh, there’ll be a Uniqlo just across the road from the Sydney office of the company I work for.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Fashionius
Is Macquarie Shopping Centre a kewl place?
I’m still unsure of my Sydney dates but it’ll definitely be late August or early September. I’m supposed to be there for 3 days but if it’s near a weekend I’ll see if I can stay over it, or at least take some leave around then.
Who knows, If I like it there I might stay…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Whoops, forgot to write more! Last time I was at Macquare Shopping Centre I had a kewl time, I remember eating frozen yoghurt there one time which was the best.
Oh actually I forgot to tell you I won’t be available any time during late August or early September.
Or any time if you move here.
Don’t worry my cool pal @alexpants will hang out with me
Macquarie’s been my haunt for like 20 years now. It’s pretty kewl. Lots of fancy food places. Plus it’s right next to a university so you get to laugh at students.
It’s also the hip place to ignore people when you’re walking into Woolworths and hear someone shout “Pants!” behind you but then carry on like nothing happened apart from tweeting that you just ignored someone calling out for you.
You need to let these things go. They’re tearing you apart.
I was walking through the Pitt St mall yesterday and saw the Uniqlo signage – noticeable because it’s logo incorporates the katakana that actually spells “uni kuro” and kuro means black, so I wondered if there was a double meaning there. Then I continued walking, mostly thinking about hamburgers.
So I assume from your post that they sell clothing of some kind.
Also Macquarie is neat but a bit hard to navigate for casual visitors. It’s kind of like a spiral, but with arms stapled on at random. And there are weird shortcuts.
They have a TGI Fridays there, the first American franchise I’ve visited. Their Jack Daniels BBQ sauce hurt my teeth.
Macquarie is pretty cool. Literally. It has an ice rink.
Woke up to news of new Dragon Age: Inquisition DLC. Just started a new play through too!
Was hoping for something a little more exciting than the deep roads but still pumped!
Oh really? Deep Roads & The Fade are the two locations I missed the most in INQUISITION, I’m pumped!
I heard people don’t like the fade? It’s my favourite parts in Origins closely followed by the Deep Roads then the spooooooooky forest temple
I didn’t really enjoy it in Origins, but loved it in Inquisition and would love to go back there!
It’s more Inquisition, so I’m not complaining 😀
Don’t you go into the fade in Inquisition?
Twice depending on choices, both are some of the better parts of the game.
That bit in Origins where the kid is possessed & you have to shapeshift & solve puzzles remains unmatched.
I also really enjoyed the dlc in the Deep Roads where the fade is leaking out or whatever
Oh oh! And the part where you recruit the friendly demon guy in Awakening is soooo good!
I HATE THE FADE
Gonna drive my mako around the fade, like a hobbitses
Apparently the new expansion for Pillars of Eternity is only 20 days away. I am still nowhere near finishing it!
Ah, so good. SO GOOD. Take your time, expansion pack will keep!
But I must play it day one so we can have discussions. DISCUSSIONS!
Today I am answering the CALLADOODY.
Which probably just involves staring at this wall for the next 7 hours.
Wireless off, screen brightness to 1. How long will my 3DS last?
Stay tuned for the thrilling continuation.
SHINY!!!
Well, at least I achieved something today.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/08/2k-games-shows-off-mafia-iii/
OooOooOooOOooOoooOoooOOooooOooh! Liked the second game, despite some irritating check point placements. Can’t wait to mosey around this new world!
Favourite moment in Mafia 2?
Driving drunk Mafia guys around as they sang Return to Me in Italian. Amaaaazing!>I think my fond memories of Mafia II are mainly linked to the classic cars and the story rather than any definitive gameplay moments but I am reeeeally looking forward to Mafia III.
Last night @redartifice and I put on our hiking boots and gave Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris a shot, needless to say it ebded before we could even finish the first level due to netcode issues and general buggyness, but I did get a good video of lara twirling towards freedom! its on my facebook page right now.
After that we didntwo games of rocket league and got our shit kicked outta us by a giraffe who read the ball like a mad man.
All in all fun was had 10/10 would twirl towards freedom again
Reckon it’s worth just playing offline coop/single player then for Osiris?
I assume it was a netcode problem.
If you’ve played Temple of light, this was more temple of light. Sucks arse that it’s so buggy though,
Fucking Giraffe, man. dude was everywhere at once.
Yeah but we had that sweet set up shot that you nailed in the corner
Cristiano Rednaldo
I’m David Beckcam, my name is three names as I have the might of a soccer player, the artistry of Beck and the highlight reel of a Cam-era
After 2.5 years of research, planning, building a house where the Nbn are laying fibre and ridiculous amounts of money (all our savings, literally nothing left now) we finally get 100/40 fibre tomorrow. Quota free xbox and netflix. Which is good because I’ve got about 500gb worth of games and patches to download on our xboxes alone. Not to mention all the PS and PC games we haven’t downloaded and installed yet.
I finally feel like the stress was all worth it.
Update: Dang it. Apparently our subdivision doesn’t exist according to the NBN tech that came to our non-existent door, saying the pit in our front yard cant be connected to the house it’s in front of because the address on the order is 106 not 106D. I’ve been trying to get the NBN to acknowledge our existence for over a year with missing property reports. They finally do (our lot number anyway, which the council has since overridden) and then we go ahead and order, but because our lot number (the lot the property was built on) is not our address any more because the council changed it… we don’t exist. Our lot exists on the NBN website and our isps website.
Now around a 2 month wait for the NBN to agree that we exist, but probably are not serviceable, even though there is a pit in out front yard that we have a well running to, with the cables inside. Then at least another 2 week wait for them to check again and agree we are serviceable.
Fuckfuckfuck…
I’m upvoting you because that’s pretty awesome, but know that I hate you a little.
NO IT’S NOT ENVY YOU’RE JUST A JERK YOU JERK *runs away crying*
Tbh I’m not sure we would (or could) go through it again. This build has been an expensive pain in the arse!
Jelly.
My dad got the nbn hooked up the other week, and he doesn’t even use the internet much 🙁
It’s a ploy to make you visit him more often. 😛
I’m upvoting too that in the hope by doing so I will live vicariously through you and your internet adventures.
@redartifice MCG just launched a new Kickstarter for their Into the Ninth World series of setting and expansion books for Numenera. It looks pretty good but I don’t think I’m going to shell out for the physical copies what with the exchange rate in the dumps and shipping costs getting pretty ridiculous.
That said, SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/montecookgames/numenera-into-the-ninth-world/description
oooo, pretty spaceships!
If I can duct tape my badass pickup truck to the spaceship I’m in.
I would love to shell out for the physical books, but I’ve got enough content. Might pick up the .pdfs.
Yeah my PDF collection is steadily growing. Space exploration for Numenera was always something I wanted to see but I can’t justify shelling out for the books. My bookcase cannot take much more. 🙁
I’m supposed to be playing Alien Isolation at night & saving Lost Dimension for my train rides, BUT I CAN’T STOP!
So the International is a pretty cool guy, and I don’t even play Dota 2.
Lots of close games, clutch plays and upsets.
Anyone else watching?
I most certainly am. Missed the end of Secret vs iG and now I have to watch the replay after the fact.
This is one hell of a tournament. The best I can remember watching and I honestly can’t tell you who is the favourite anymore. Beforehand, I’d have said we were going to see Secret and Vici in the finals with Empire somewhere high up in the placings. That’s almost definitely not going to happen now with Vici and Secret in the lower bracket and Empire already out of the tournament.
Yeah its pretty intense.
I’m not hugely familiar with the teams, just did research, but all the games seem like it could be anyone’s. Rooting for MVP at this point.
Have to watch replays myself tho.
MVP is the biggest underdog left in the tournament. They also have an Aussie as their carry.
I’m a Secret fanboy. Love the way they play Dota and s4 has been my favourite player since his days on Alliance.
If I had to pick a favourite right now, it’s EG. Hard not to see them make it to the finals from here.
I’d pick an EG vs LGD final, tho have not seen the day 3 games yet (plz no spoils).
Don’t think anyone could put money on a winner at this point.
No spoilers but the teams in the lower bracket are so strong that I find it very difficult to imagine two upper bracket teams making the finals. Whoever gets to losers’ finals is going to be a very strong team.
So Mum and I have caught a cold and are feeling a little bit shit. So, I’m gonna have ramen for lunch to spoil myself. Woo!
I have left over chicken udon for lunch!
I’m not normally a soup person but also have a cold, plus the weather is cold again so soup for dinner was perfect. My latest ‘generic-asian-continent’ soup trick is to cut a lime in half and leave it in the pot as I make the soup.
Oh, I didn’t make it. I went to ajisen ramen for lunch. It’s where I caught the cold, so I went back to share the love. =P
That was as hilarious as I thought it would be.
I needed some tax info the other night and because of gumby websites with two separate login systems depending on what you want to see (learnt that today) I thought I’d locked myself out.
Called to get my password(s) reset and I’m met with a voice recognition system, now they’re usually pretty good these days (or maybe I’ve been spoilt by Google Now) so I was pretty confident it’d go alright…
Didn’t quite happen how I expected…
System: Please say the name of the company you have a holding with or the nature of your enquiry.
Me: Password Reset
System: I heard Veda Holdings Pty Ltd. Is that correct?
Me: No
System: Please say the name of the company you have a holding with or the nature of your enquiry.
Me: Password
System: I heard Breville Investment Holdings Pty Ltd. Is that correct?
Me: No
System: Please say the name of the company you have a holding with or the nature of your enquiry.
Me: Password
System: I heard Breville Investment Holdings Pty Ltd. Is that correct?
Me: No
System: I think it’s best you speak with a customer service representative.
Me: FINALLY!!
“Hi, thanks for calling Telstra Cust-”
OPERATOROPERATOROPERATOROPERATOROPERATOROPERATOROPERATOROPERATOROPERATOROPERATOROPERATOROPERATOROPERATOROPERATOROPERATOROPERATOROPERATOROPERATOR
“……OK, I’ll just put your through to an operator”
Elite guys, guys… Guys? (@mrtaco @trikeabout @jocon @…someoneelseplayingED)
Elite Dangerous Horizons, getting it? Planetary landings (rocky worlds), surface exploration, crafting… It’s ridiculous the amount of time I’ve put into the vanilla game so I already have my pre order in 😛
Maaaybe.
Those things sound good but not sure if I’m willing to throw down more money to solve the game’s lack of things to do.
Yeah seems to be the main concern, but as someone who has more money then I’d like to admit thrown down on Star Citizen, the $63 after loyalty discount was an easy choice for something that’s given me 200+ worth of enjoyment
Wait, $60+ for the expansion? Fuck off, I payed that much for the base a couple months ago and that was too much.
Can’t say I agree with that statement but different strokes I guess 🙂
I was pretty early access and bought expansion pass way back when. So yes.
Better question is, will I still be a long way from human space when it drops…
Haha that’s what I’m wondering as well XD
You’re well on the way home! I’m still 19kly from the core on the outbound leg. Still, I guess parking up on a moon is better than drifting endlessly… 🙂
This is true! Be interesting adding a whole nother aspect to exploration and salvage(yay!) by loading up your
MakoSRV and go for a drive!Yeah, that’s the only thing. I’m guessing SRV needs to be purchased (and also presume not all ships will carry be able to carry one…). No shops where I am.
From the few snippets I’ve been able to find the SRV comes in various classes where the most rudimentary takes up 1 small module slot, so basically any ship should be able to equip one of your willing to sacrifice the slot
OK, that makes sense. Still no SRV dealership out here. *looks around* Not much of anything out here…
Will try to do another kly tonight.
Oh, has the first expansion been announced?
I got me the lifetime pass so yes I will be getting it 😛 Who knows, maybe I’ll even end up playing it! If I can loosen Splatoon’s tentacle grip.
Yeah yesterday at Gamescom… I was NOT refreshing my browser at 6pm like a loser to find out what their big announcement was, no siree
I really need to play more of this game. Sorta been holding off until I have a decent joystick. Playing it with an xbox controller is cool, but just isn’t the same :/
Yeah I’m old school stick and throttle guy for anything sim related which is why when my X55 broke I didn’t play it for nearly 2 months while it was getting repaired…
I can understand why some people would think there’s not enough content, but as someone who has a shed ton of hours in FSX and general sim enthusiast I like the slow burn of flying between places with no real goal or action in mind 😛
Just saw this and felt like sharing:
I fucking love the Mako
If only the thrusters were that strong in the game 😛
If you do a boost jump while bouncing off angled terrain you could clear a lot of impassable stuff 😛
They were if you used them right.
Does anybody know how to disable the autoload of new pages and ‘trending stories’ on Kotaku? It is killing me ;_;
Welcome to the new world order; much like the real world you can voice your grievances while your betters ride around in helicopters! Ok maybe that isn’t the best metaphor but you get what I mean =P
I whipped up a tampermonkey script you might find useful for the latter (can convert it to a bookmarklet if needed)… haven’t really been too worried by the former, but might look into whipping up something similar for the autoloading front page if I see a lot of complaints about it. Most seem to be regarding the mobile site’s overbearing social media icons.
Now just give me a step by step instruction on how to utilize that script and we’re cooking with fire =D
Works with Tampermonkey (Chrome extension) and Greasemonkey (Firefox extension) – not sure if there’s something equivalent for IE, and I’m pretty sure there’s nothing for Edge. Just install the appropriate extension, add a new user script and paste the pastebin into the text editor. Greasemonkey lets you create from the clipboard, so copy the pastebin, hit “new script” and “create from clipboard” (or something like that :3)
If you were Bungie I’d still be playing Destiny =P
You are a scholar and a gentleman, sir.
EDIT: The auto-refresh is really problematic as it clears notifications when it refreshes, and also will nuke any half-typed comment in the comment box. I was thinking about trying to greasemonkey it away too.
Hmm… true – I’ve been bitten by that a couple of times already. I’ll look into it – looks to be a bit more convoluted than just fetching and adding to the DOM.
I think it starts a timer and resets the timer whenever there’s user activity on the page, but I couldn’t figure out exactly where it does it.
Found it in the footer js – triggers reload after five minutes of no focus on the window, but the setInterval’s buried in a closure… Hmm…
Which file is it in? Can’t see it. I might be able to suggest something if I can figure out where it’s doing it.
assets/technetwork/build/js/technetwork-footer-desktop, about halfway along the second line. Search for setInterval – it’s the only one in that file.
@os42: okay this is tricky because they’re setting interval but not storing the ID anywhere to clear it.
Basically what they’re doing is whenever onFocus or onBlur happens, they set variable c to the current date. Whenever the interval (1 sec) triggers, it checks if the time between now and c is > d, where d is 5 mins. If it is, it reloads.
I don’t have time right now to do it and don’t know tampermonkey well enough to know if this is possible but I’d try a couple of things:
– hook setInterval to find intervals set with their timeout interval (1e3, 1000 ms) and clear that one.
– find a way to hook the code they’re setting and change variable ‘d’ from 3e5 (5 mins) to something really long, like say 1e10 (~115 days).
– they don’t use Math.abs() when calculating the diff between the current and focus/blur time so you could try and find a way to alter variable c to be Date + 1 year and that should make the comparison never true.
Overriding setInterval works… doesn’t appear to be any other interval timers with a 1 second interval, too. A backup would be to override document.hasFocus to always return true (using the same method) which seems potentially less destructive should there be any other timers affected by the setInterval override in the future.
Altering the variables inside the closure – c or d… can’t see a way to do that. focus_now can be accessed globally, but it only points to c until the window loses focus, which means it’s never pointing to a useful value of c.
@os42: champion!
Now to port it to Greasemonkey to get it working on firefox at home 🙂
@os42
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Yep – I pastebinned the initial version. Easy to add – just duped the @include lines to extend coverage appropriately.
Yep, did that myself already. Just as a suggestion for your ‘official’ version 🙂
“Official”? I’m just sharing what works. :3
Thanks so much! I will give this a shot.
As for the former, I just want to get to the little bit with Gizmodo and Lifehacker articles down the bottom and it keeps running away from me!!!
Tried both in greasemonkey. Doesn’t look like the trending articles remover works, will need to update. Not sure about refresh yet.
EDIT: User error, does work. Anti-refresh looks like it works too. Yay.
I get contacted, most likely asking for help
“Hi Techie”
“Hey, what’s up?”
“Good”
… this is going to go well 😛
Are you talking to me?
Wait, no, if it was me there’d be the nervous laughing. Disregard.
God I hate phones.
No with you it’s usually:
“Hey Blaghs, how’s it going?”
“…Yes”
Just had an echocardiogram done. They couldn’t find a hole in my heart.
I thought that was a fantastic thing but doctor said it would be better if they did since its easily treated and would be the cause of the stroke. As it is its still unclear what the problem is. More tests ahoy!
Well that’s fantastic! And shit… Shitastic!
Seriously all my thoughts are with you guys and hope it all gets sorted soon!
You didn’t happen to, I don’t know, pop 120 viagra before the incident did you? 😛
#helping
So is it definitely a stroke? You were saying yesterday something about hemiplegic migraines?
Yeah, MRI confirmed it yesterday.
Jesus. Sounds like you’ve pulled through relatively alright considering the possibility, though that’s a big emphasis on the relatively. My stepdad had a mini stroke and went blind for about six months. Cute side note: that my mother stuck by him and supported him during that time was what convinced him he should man up and marry her once his sight came back.
That’s actually a very happy ending 🙂
There’s a hole in mah heart , as deep as a well, for that little Freeze stuck halfway to he’ll!
Well at least I’ll be ok if it happens to me. I still have that part of my heart missing from when you rejected me and chose Nob instead.
Have you worked out how many ceiling tiles are in your room yet?
Just the one, I think.
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
You didn’t happen to, I don’t know, pop 120 viagra before the incident did you?
*buries head*
Hmm, I’ve been using ZoneAlarm for anti-virus/firewall reasons. Doesn’t seem to be compatible with Windows 10. What’s some good alternatives or should I just be happy with Windows Defender and Windows Firewall? (When it comes to this kind of stuff, I’m a bit of a newb. Haha!)
OH GOD! NEWB PAGE GET! *runs off crying*
If I hadn’t gone to grab a drink before hitting submit this could have been my newb tech question page get. *shudder*
The shame! THE SHAME!
Avast is good for most things I find, as long as you have a half decent router I personally don’t think it’s worth the bother with a software firewall. Windows Defender does a decent enough job on its own if you do want one
Windows defender is absolutely fine for most people… If you want to feel extra secure, download Malware Bytes anti-malware and run that once a month
Yep, cannot upvote this enough.
Yeah. Windows Firewall, Windows Defender and using a non-admin enabled user account seems to be enough to keep the average PC safe from anything less than opening a strange attachment on a random e-mail.
“but the email said it could enhance the size of my manhood, HOW COULD I HAVE KNOWN THAT WAS A SCAM?”
I would have said free AVG was pretty good but that was before a trojan managed to slip through that security net. I’m currently with Kaspersky which is pretty good but I think I paid about $80 for a two year subscription. Don’t know if it’s worth it or not but I haven’t suffered another problem since.
Inbuilt Windows stuff is fine. Most of the stuff that the average antivirus misses is due to user ignorance, but I’m talking a special kind of ignorance here. Like “Oh, I didn’t know I had a parcel coming to me but this email from…’Ausnalia Posst’…says I have one. BETTER OPEN THIS EMAIL AND ALL LINKS INSIDE!”
Ah, I see you’re familiar with how my parents use their computer! 😀
And now you know why they’re suddenly broke and @rize has a fancy new wardrobe…
ZoneAlarm is inadequate for anti-virus and if that was all you were using then that’s bad.
Windows Firewall is perfectly fine nowadays. It got beefed up considerably in Windows 7. Defender is also quite adequate, though obviously I’m biased since I help make it.
Um, I might have been using ZoneAlarm almost exclusively for a while now. Eeeeeep! XD
Though I’ve had no troubles. Unless what I consider normal isn’t really normal at all and my entire life’s a lie! D: D: D: *flails arms*
Well it depends what you were using. If it was the ZoneAlarm Firewall on its own then yeah, bad. If it was ZA + Antimalware, well I believe they’re just repackaging Kaspersky which is an extremely good AV solution. If I wanted to pay for AV I’d use Kaspersky.
Thanks guys! 🙂
I’m late to this… But I have a 12 month subscription to McAfee All Access if you want a standalone antivirus option on top of Windows offerings.
Does anyone happen to know a Firefox extension that will let me set it up so that my print settings default to specific favourite profiles on specific websites? Almost every day I waste four sheets of paper accidentally printing a portrait invoice on landscape because I ended the previous day by printing DHL consignment notes. I’d love to be able to have Firefox remember that Xero.com uses portrait from tray two by unless I say otherwise, while DHL.com uses landscape from tray one by default.
I tried searching for one but the terminology is all vague and searching for anything to do with favourites and Firefox gets flooded with bookmark extensions.
I have some vague memory of there being a way to set up virtual printers or printer profiles that show up in the printer selection screen (similar to how you get ‘print to PDF’ options) so you might be able to set those to discrete settings but have them send to the same physical printer. So that way you could make a landscape printer and a portrait printer and just use one or the other as the need demands.
Problem is that I have no idea how to do it and I can’t for the life of me remember the right terminology to google.
@rize Good ideas. I think at the very least it’d be easier to find an extension that lets me assign printers to specific websites.
You could install the same printer multiple times and set a different default config for each, then name each instance something helpful. It’s not perfect but it’d work.
Hey all.
Question.
Thinking I might be in the market for a laptop for uni.
Currently using a Surface 2, and while I quite like it, I spend way too much time struggling with the small keyboard for it to be useful as a work / uni computer.
So yeah. Any advice / recommendations for a novice laptop buyer?
Only real criteria is that it’s big enough to use productively.
Windows 8.1 is the preferred OS.
SSD for the OS & a HDD for other things would be ideal.
1080 resolution & a lil bit of grunt would be rad if I ever decide to throw Shadowrun / Pillars of Eternity / other not-high-demand games on it for travel / downtime.
& I really like the touch screen on the surface for internet stuff, so that’d be a nice thing to have too.
budget would be up to ~$1500
so yeah. is there a particular brand / whatever that is better than others when it comes to laptops? or am i better off getting a custom?
Custom would let you say “Whatever you do, don’t put an Elantec touchpad in my machine or the suffering of everyone you’ve ever loved will enter into legend and become a story future parents use to scare their children”. Does it show that I’m not a fan of this touchpad I’m using?
Does the surface have a Bluetooth keyboard option? It might be inconvenient to carry a discrete keyboard but it’d be cheaper than a new laptop.
Metabox was the place that assembled my first laptop and it was pretty good, the only problem with that was a crap bit of thermal padding between the GPU & heatsink but that was later revealed to be a known design flaw with the HP heatsinks so hardly the fault of the metabox folk. They have a good set of customising options so they might be worth a look
Do you have a preference for trackpads? I also is looking to buy a laptop.and have been spoiled thus far by Apple ones.
Well I never thought I’d say this but I really miss synaptics pads. I hated them when I was using them but at least their drivers more or less behave themselves once you’ve beaten them into submission and broken their will. Elantec on the other hand… oooh I HATE this fucking thing so hard that yesterday I literally googled the procedure to physically replace the touchpad on a laptop. I’ll likely never do it and I still have to determine if there’s some kind of control chip on the motherboard that interprets data from a specific device or if they work as a self contained device that just gets plugged into a generic port like a mouse so a swap would be viable.
At this stage using Win10, there’s no proper drivers for it and that’s only amplifying the problems I have with it. The Win8 ones work for the most part but I can’t use the MSI ones (I’ve got an MSI laptop, just to be clear) since they restrict too many functions. For example they don’t have the option exposed for single finger scrolling, you can set it to be visible and then select it in the registry but s soon as you close the control panel applet, it reverts the settings in the registry and ignores everything you did. They’re the most locked down set of drivers I’ve ever seen in more than 2 decades of PC computing, it feels more like you’re using a console rather than a computer. As long as you like the currently fashionable bollocks of multitouch scrolling, tap to click and all that, you’d probably have no problem with it but I want a simplistic input with no gimmicks and single finger scroll and thanks to what is probably a combination of the obstreperous drivers and Win10 being new & trying to be helpful with updates, I have to fight constantly to keep it that way. Every time I think I’ve fixed it properly (as I do now), it eventually realises I’m content with something and screws itself up to take the piss, at least stress can’t cause health problems, right?
OOOOOH there’s one other thing I hate with a burning passion, the mouse buttons. It’s a single bar that effectively works as a rocker switch so it’s nigh on impossible to press both left & right buttons simultaneously. It can be done but it feels like there’s a small physical separator under the centre of the bar and it’s like you’re flexing the plastic so much that I’m concerned it’d break if I did it too many times
As I said before, does it show that I’m not a fan of this touchpad I’m using?
Well, I was given the Surface by a friend who had upgraded to something else in return for catering (supplying lots & lots of beer) his new year’s party last year. So I’m not out of pocket on that, so the cost of the upgrade isn’t a big deal.
I wish I’d known that MSI use Elantech. 🙁 It’s the one thing in the laptop I got last week that absolutely shits me. It’s just minor things about it, like the fact you can’t have it register a two-finger click anywhere on the pad as being a right click and stuff.
The Win10 drivers for it actually were better than Win 8.1 but the Win10 WiFi drivers for the system are fucked so I can’t upgrade 🙁
Yeah I have to say that it’s easily the biggest disappointment with this machine (I’ve got a CX61-2PC), that and the wireless card. I figured that a touchpad is a touchpad is a touchpad (and a horse is a horse, of course) but yeah… there’s plenty worse than synaptics.
I’m uploading some more generic drivers to my FTP for you to try out, they SEEM to be working well for me at the moment but you can never tell when it’ll change it’s mind. Give it 20 minutes or so and then download this: http://aliasalpha.customer.netspace.net.au/Touchpad.zip
You’d probably do best to uninstall the current drivers and manually install these ones. Open device manager, select update drivers, browse my computer, let me pick from a list, have disk and then find the ETD driver file in the x64 or x32 directory from the zip, it should show as Elan Input Device. If it works the same as it did for my one, it should lose all the restrictions that people inexplicably put into the drivers. I suspect that this driver loses the laptop manufacturer identification so the control panel applet can’t say “Oh, MSI don’t want you using single finger scrolling or have control over what multi-finger taps do” and prevent the option from even being shown. All this said, I’ve not rebooted since I “fixed” the touchpad this time so there’s always a chance that it’ll revert and screw up again. Right now, however, it’s working as I want.
Is the wireless chip in your laptop a Realtek RTL8188EU? It’s not exactly got a rep as a good chip, to the point where I dropped $20 on a TPLink nano USB adapter, I’ve gone from losing connection 2-3 times a day to once or twice a week. All in all I do like this laptop but the wireless & touchpad are distinct negative points.
Rad, I’ll try those drivers tonight.
I have a GS60-2QE, with the broadwell CPU. It has a Qualcom Aetheros ‘Killer’ e2200 LAN and e1325 WiFi & Bluetooth combo.
It was working pretty well, the issue was that in Win10, after a while the wireless would drop out and when it did it would kill the driver in such a way that it’d lock everything. You’d never BSOD or anything, but the network would suddenly be unreachable, and if you tried to disconnect & reconnect via explorer it’d lock up the whole UI. Task manager couldn’t kill it. Reboot wouldn’t work either as it’d hang indefinitely waiting for the dead WiFi driver to close! Looked like a deadlock or race condition to me.
EDIT: It looks like they’ve updated the Killer drivers a couple days ago, maybe that issue’s fixed now.
Woah that’s a new & weird one, even I’ve not encountered that lockup issue before and I specialise in finding the weird stuff that no one else has ever heard of. If the driver update doesn’t fix it, it might be worth running a test on the ram, it’s usually the first culprit for lockups after all
Works perfectly in 8.1 so not RAM. 🙂
At the risk of sounding like a Microsoft sales rep the new large screen on the Surface Pro 3 means a larger keyboard to match. Personally I still find it a little cramped, but I feel that way about all laptop style keyboards. It sort of defeats the purpose but if I know I have a lot of typing to do I throw a real keyboard into my backpack. I would have thought by now Uni classes would just have a keyboard and mouse on every desk students can just plug their gear into when they sit down.
Surface Pro 3 is 12″ but it’s still probably a bit small. IMO 14″ is minimum for working comfortably, 15″ is ideal.
It’s very hard to find something that has SSD + HDD, 1080p, Touchscreen and decent hardware without paying $2000+ in Australia, unfortunately. I just bought a new laptop myself. Hardware in mine is higher-end though.
yeah, 15″ would be ideal.
that wishlist is just that. a wishlist. I know I’m probably gonna have to sacrifice a few of the things i want to get it for a good price.
Think I’ll head over to the PC place across the road at lunch & talk to the guys there & see what they can offer…
Well, one option would be an Acer Aspire V Nitro. Nice looking machine, 15″, 1080p IPS screen (not touch though 🙁 ) and fairly decent mid-range hardware (Broadwell i7 5500U, which is only dual core but is a 2.6ghz / 3ghz turbo and fairly low power consumption, and a GeForce 950M which is a pretty capable lower mid-range GPU). No SSD but I think they have a user-accessible M12 slot for adding one. Also doesn’t look terrible which is nice. PCCG had the lower-end one for $1250, they go up from there.
It’s just a pain in the arse right now coz my desktop pc is dying & I’ll need to do something about that soon. before Fallout 4 at least.
but money. & I’ve gotta give preference to… eurrrgh…. “responsible adult” stuff.
eeeeewwwwww
Could you justify spending more if you were to buy a hardcore gaming laptop that met all your wishlist requirements and then set up a desktop dock? Merge the two into one. I’ve never been a fan of gaming laptops but Windows 8 and 10 do a really nice job of scaling when you plug a screen, keyboard and mouse into them. It’s hard to find a good docking system but building your own custom one isn’t too hard or expensive.
Did you know you can get banned from the RSPCA? Neither did I but turns out my friend and his girlfriend are now banned from it after two cats they got from there died within 6 months of each other.
That seems sensible in context but unless there’s evidence of it being neglect or something other than natural causes or accidents like being run over (though that seems to be natural causes for a lot of the cats I’ve had), it seems a bit excessive to ban people.
First one I believe got out and hit by a car accidently and the second cat got attacked by their uncles dog who then blamed them for not having the cat locked up even though they didn’t know he was coming over let alone with the dog
Classy uncle.
Who locks up a cat?
Classy
Just like san diago
Buh?
Always stayin classy
Buh?
Anchorman
I was being a tool 😉
Considering cat shelters can get jam packed ridiculously quickly, it seems a little counter-intuitive to ban someone that wants to adopt animals. Hopefully there’s a way around that but it sounds like your friend is super unlucky to have two pets die in close succession.
I think (not sure though) that you can request the RSPCA to do a house inspection to see if the living conditions are suitable for pets. That might be a way around the ban and convince them that the other cats were just extreme events.
Yeah the RSPCA apparently was there today doing an investigation because of it including digging up the most recent cat because the uncle whos dog killed the cat told his brother (the girlfriends dad) that they had been negligent in there care of the cat and so he called the RSPCA to report animal abuse charges against the boyfriend saying it was all his fault the cat died and needs to be held accountable.
Well yeah that would explain the ban; douchebag uncle filed charges and your friends had a previously adopted pet that passed away not too long ago. Someone should punch that dude and ban him from the house.
*makes notes for Undad 3: A Nine Course Meal*
UnDad 3: Ash vs the UnDad
New Mirror’s Edge looks friggin sweet
There’s a bunch of new music included in the Splatoon update!
I love how they frame the music updates as if in-game bands are releasing new albums and the squids/kids are listening to them. They even have character designs for the bands and each has a distinct sound (of the two new bands, one is more electronic and the other is kinda piano-y – I’m liking this track the most so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUGHG4MwRIU). Would be great if the bands appeared in-game (like during Splatfest). Maybe in the sequel.
I just really like this game, okay.
It’s only ok for you to like the game as I’m allowed to like it too.
Like, like like.
And like can lead to like like,
And like like can lead to looooooove
“Aleeeeex, stop making out with your boyfriend! It sounds like *slurping sounds*”
You just jelly.
….nnnnn-maybe
Sewing on elastic is the worst thing ever. Well, I imagine it wouldn’t be so bad if I had four hands or something.
It won’t help you right now, but there is a thing you can get called a Wonder Clip. They are little pegs that you can use instead of pins. They’re immensely popular among quilters (hi @strange!) but they’re fab for stretchy/slippery fabrics, or thick fabrics where pins won’t do the job (and for teaching kids to sew). You can get them on ebay
Anyone know why Leo hasn’t taken any more looks? That was my favourite segment.
https://www.kotaku.com.au/contact/
Yell at the staff (politely, of course) to bring it back!
Organizing a University Open Day is logistically tedious and frighteningly scary in equal measure.
Make it impenetrably complex to get to the right information and then anyone who doesn’t get there is too dumb to go to uni.
I’m really glad I don’t have Netflix, I think I’d have to cancel my subscription out of my sheer hatred for the ad for that brojack horseman cartoon. It has to be one of the most annoying things I’ve seen in years, I’m not quite sure exactly why but there’s something about it that makes me rage to a quite irrational degree…
I’ve heard it’s actually a pretty decent show, haven’t watched it personally though.
It is pretty damned fantastic but my God it goes to some dark places sometimes 😛
They are my favourite parts!
The episode where they are all on a drug binge… so many lolz!Sounds like actually watching it would make you scream till you’re horse.
Neigh, I don’t believe so
Page 6 is that you?
Let out of the stable too soon.
I’ve no idea what ad you’re talking about but Bojack Horseman is kind of awesome.
I know which advertisement you’re talking about, it’s kinda in your face and it’s not the best parts of the show.
If this makes sense, the jokes sometimes take a little set up. I actually think the trailer isn’t reflective of what the show is actually like. It’s kinda like watching a quick advertisement for Frasier, you need to get the context to see why something actually should be funny.
If you do Netflix, be a Guy and do it for me!
There’s ads on Netflix?
There’s ads for when you don’t have Netflix, like on Foxtel, Online, etc. 😛
Mrs Tigs has been catching up on Masterchef recently so I can assure you that I’m sick of the Primo bacon chops ad
Back in the 90’s I was in a very famous TTTTTTTV showwww ♫
For the third time in the last month I’ve had to do a warranty claim with HP to get a replacement 90W charger for a faulty one. Each time, I have made it exceptionally clear that I need a *90W* replacement (including the specific part number) and each time they’ve sent me a 65W, which literally does not work with our docks/laptops.
I can’t think of a polite way to tell these people to do their jobs without devolving to “IT FUCKING SAYS 90W, HERE IS THE PART NUMBER, WHAT ARE YOU NOT GETTING???”
Well there’s your problem!
Headlining
A semen-il pint: Wellington pub and brewer create beer laced with stag semen
http://i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/drinks/70801726/a-semenil-pint-wellington-pub-and-brewer-create-beer-laced-with-stag-semen
Best line
And I thought we couldn’t do worse than beard beer.
I’d…
Uhh…
I’d try it…
Windows keeps bugging me to update to 10, but even though I hate 8, I’m not ready for 10 because it’s too new. I wonder if I’m just being an old lady, resisting change.
I started watching Gate as it was on both my list, and @negativezero’s list and I’m enjoying it, but not blown away yet. I’m yet to find something else that’s grabbed my attention in the way Food Wars! Shokugeki No Soma, and Fate:Zero/UBW did, but I’m having fun searching. 😀
I’m on the home stretch for making @bdkiaf’s @shane kickstarter prize. It took me a while to get going because I was struggling to go beyond the obvious with the “black, red, Harley Quinn” brief, but I’m super happy with how it’s turning out. I’m just hoping I can make my finishing touches go according to plan.
I’m looking forward to seeing people on Saturday night! I’ve been way too hermitty this year, not always by choice, but yeah, out-hermit-ing @dc is certainly not how I planned my year to go! 😛
Hi Strange!
how’s PILLARS?
Hi Red!
PILLARS!
Um, yeah…about that. I really should play Pillars, shouldn’t I?
YES
(I’ve not picked it up in months, I’m playing Dragon Age and Witcher 3 and Bloodborne)It’s called Pillars of Eternity because it feels like it takes an Eternity to do anything.
Have so much regret that I backed that game at the tier i did. I played a couple hours and then went and did something that was actually enjoyable.
I am watching Ep. 4 of Gate as I type this!
Well, okay, it’s paused, if we want to be technical, or “accurate” but whatever, my point stands. And I have nothing to add beyond that.
Good comment Blaghs, good comment.
Do you want something exactly like Shokugeki and mind going back about 5-10 years to something that might be tricky to find?
If so, Yakitate! Japan.
Oh yeah, I keep hearing that come up in association with Food Wars. I might try and track it down. Thanks!
But yeah, I’m not entirely sure what I’m looking for. It’s one of those “I’ll know it when I see it” kind of things. For instance, I would never have expected Shokugeki to be the one thing I look forward to every week. So I’m hoping something else will surprise me like that.
Food Wars is the same show. basically. They’re both basically shows adapting the Sports Anime formula in a food battles context, and both heavily channel Iron Chef.
The difference is that Yakitate is about a dude who is trying to be the very best (like no one ever was) at baking bread. It’s actually probably a lot crazier than Soma is, but it has those same insane reaction sequences when people try the food, the same general structure and everything.
It’s also pretty long. Ran 69 episodes. So if you can find it you’ll have something that’ll last you a fair bit of time.
As for what makes Soma work, I think it’s a combination of things. It’s an easy structure for one thing, given that it’s basically the standard shounen anime setup, except they’re fighting with food instead of punching each other. It naturally results in tournaments. The core characters are all really appealing and they set up a good set of rivals and a goal for Soma right from the outset, which helps keep it focused. Beyond that, the structure of each episode is such that it always ends on just the right sort of cliffhanger to keep your appetite whet for the next one. There’s always that feeling of “oh, that’s it? Where’s the last two minutes?” at each ending. That’s something that can feel annoying in some cases but when it’s done well can elevate a show significantly. Basically they resolve a bunch of things and then in the final 3-4 minutes introduce something new which they will resolve the following episode. It gives it an edge-of-your-seat feeling. They also are very good at making Soma feel like an underdog even when he isn’t, which I think adds to that tension.
There’s nothing else quite like it currently running. Fairy Tail does the end-on-a-cliffhanger thing a lot but it breaks that tension each time by fucking around in the following episode doing a bunch of recaps and not getting on with it, which might be another reason why Soma works well – each episode wastes no time in getting on with it.
EDIT: Also, you want to know why it works so well? Had a look and the director of the show’s basically got no other major directorial credits worth noting except one: King of Braves GaoGaiGar, one of the most epic, over the top crazy mecha shows ever produced.
Pants forced me to watch the first episode of Cowboy Bebop the other night. It was pretty good actually! Reminded me of Firefly.
I also found a new J-Drama to watch after my last one left me. This one is called Hero and is incredibly good. Like a real life version of Ace Attorney. It’s great. If the episodes weren’t an hour long each I would’ve binged it all already.
Bebop is the best.
Not really. Was a gateway show for a lot of people, appealed strongly to a western audience (though luck, I think, not management) and was in the right place at the right time.
Soundtrack’s some of Yoko Kanno’s best work though.
Bebop is the best.
Seriously man, it’s an opinion.Bebop is so good!
I’ve been watching a new one called Blood Blockade Battlefront that kind of has a similar wacky vibe.
And what was your last J-Drama? This Hero thing sounds awesome!
I mentioned it a couple of TAYs ago. “No Dropping Out” about a 35 year old woman who goes back to high school 😛 It sounded completely ridiculous but actually turned out to be pretty entertaining.
But yes, Hero is honestly great. Impeccable comedic timing!
EDIT: I’m watching all of these for free on Crunchyroll, by the way. If anybody was curious.
Ace Attorney, you say? Hero… will have to check it out!
It’s actually more like Ace Attorney Investigations if anything.
Follows an office of zany-character Prosecutors as they open cases. Doesn’t have any courtroom scenes (at least so far, 3 episodes in) it’s more about the indictment process. It’s hard to explain but it’s just very well-paced so far and the character dialogue flows really well. Lots of scenes with 8+ characters all talking/making witty comebacks at the same time but it never gets overwhelming.
It also has the most satisfying door-shutting sound effect I’ve ever heard in a tv show 😛 I like it.
Cowboy Bebop is fantastic – if it’s not an inspiration for FIrefly, I don’t know what is.
Also good were Bubblegum Crisis and Martian Successor Nadesico, from about the same time.
Original Bubblegum Crisis was a lot earlier – late 80s. I liked the remake (2040) a lot at the time, but having gone back to both, the original has held up a lot better. Especially the rad 80s music.
Incidentally 2040 is one of the shows that first turned me off dubbed anime. I watched the first half subtitled via fansubs before the official release started. Grabbed the Madman VHS releases, which were dubbed, and multiple times I noticed stuff where the dialogue had been significantly changed in the localization. One of the big ones I remember was them changing someone suggesting they should go on a holiday to Australia to Hawaii. Goddamn Americans. 😛
I can be StrangeDC and you can be Hermit_Stitches now if you like?
Don’t you mean Hermst_Itches?
I started Fate:zero and havent had a chance to see any other episodes.
I did finish Blue Exorcist but, and it was good however I wish it went longer
Have you watched Unlimited Bladeworks?
I completely WTF’d out watching Zero because it initially felt confusing, but so glad I stuck through it before watching UBW because it let me enjoy it so much more.
Think I might watch Mushishi next after reading Neg’s write up the other day.
Fate/Zero actually meshes better with the third arc of the game (Heaven’s Feel) than it does with Unlimited Blade Works. UBW is the most popular by far because it’s centered on Rin and has some great action bits, but tonally, Heaven’s Feel is like Zero. Much darker. And actually Zero probably ruins one of the twists that’s only hinted at in the first two arcs
That Rin and Sakura were twin sisters. Rin’s guilt about that actually is her motivating factor for resurrecting Shirou at the start of the story, actually. The way the Matou family pass their magic on to the next generation is pretty horrific, as I’m sure you’ve noticed from Zero, and Rin knows about that.Zero’s still worth watching first though I think because it gives some of the less-developed characters a lot of grounding that would otherwise not be there.
From what I have heard if you already have 8 you should go to 10 as it is a ‘better’ version of 8
If you are on 7 then the change is greater and need more thought
So you should make the change
@redartifice where’s my TAYdrenalin shot?!
Dance monkey! Dance!
http://www.netanimations.net/Riverdancing-monkeys.gif
Honestly, we’ve gotten to what’s effectively page seven given this week’s false start. Didn’t think it needed one.
But it’s Thursday!! Hnnnnnggg! I don’t like change dammit =P
And I want a page 6! A real one.
Gawd, fine.
Home stretch! Nearly got it all together, just need at attach the belt and that’s it. I’m so psyched with how good it’s turned out, even with all the niggling flaws and bits that could’ve been better.
THURSDAY TAYDRENALIN SHOT
How did you get that scar? In honour of Freeze’s hospital visit, what’s your surgery story?
I had a Pilonidal Sinus DON’T GOOGLE a couple years back that made me miss a whole semester’s exams. Not fun.
One of my front ripper teeth on the left side didn’t come through the gum properly, so the baby tooth never deteriorated so I had to get the tooth pulled out with full roots and after xrays, it was discovered where the tooth went – to the roof of my mouth. As a result coupled with the pulling of the baby tooth, the operation involved also cutting a hole in my mouth to expose the tooth to start pulling down with braces.
When I was a kid a tennis ball rolled under a glass coffee table we had at home. In my ever-awesome eagerness I went after it and smashed head-first into the edge of the glass which as luck would have it landed on the edge of right eye! Blood! Gore! Nausea!…..
Ok fine maybe nothing that theatrical but it looked like I was crying blood for a few hours and fortunately the glass didn’t crack and completely missed my eye (by completely I mean by about 3mm). To this day I have a scar on my right eye about a cm in length to remind to never chase tennis balls!
Mine’s under the eyebrow of my left eye from running through a doorway which I didn’t realise was a closed glass slider.
Also have a slice on my hip from getting caught on a star picket edge falling out of a tree.
Also also have a big gnarly looking scar left torso from a nephrectomy when I was born.
Also also also have two scars from surgically repaired hernias.
Also also also also a smaller surgical scar to remove a cancerous growth from my bladder when I was 5.
Also also also also also my hands are nearly 15% scar tissue at this point from a lifetime of working with power tools and cutting blades.
Show off =P
Orchiopexy, 2012.
bet you had a ball with that.
It was pretty nuts.
I have an old scar on my thigh from my early high school years from a stereotypical bully who decided it would be funny to slash at me with a crushed coke can, which cut really deeply into my leg. First time I really defended myself (physically) from bullying: I punched him in the face as hard as I could.
I have a scar on my knee from a similarly traumatic experience as a kid.
I tripped up an escalator.
I have a scar on my knee from climbing the side of the house & catching it on a nail on the way down.
I came up closer to a pool ladder than I realised once & split my head open between the eyes.
The hospital super glued it back together & I was given a photocopy of symptoms to watch out for.
Symptoms included erratic behavior, sleeping too much & other activities that very much were my usual behaviours.
I also sliced the skin between my thumb & pointer finger open trying to open a broken coke bottle.
I was collecting the red lids to win prizes that I never even sent in!
That sucked because they weren’t 100% sure if glass was in the wound so cleaned it out with a toothbrush looking thing.
Apparently I have scars on my eye. D:
Most of mine are caused by stupidity. A lot of them stupidity involving penknives.
Have a scar in the center of my palm where I fell on a seashell and cut it and it struggled to heal and formed a really large hard callus which had to be burned off like a wart. Swelled up like having a grape there and then fell off while I was out sailing at school (you have no idea how hard it is to hold ropes with a painful grape-sized protrusion in the center of your palm).
Have a small scar on one knuckle where a friend of mine burned me. Pretty funny actually. He took a binder and a ballpoint pen and then rapidly moved the ball of the pen back and forward over the cardboard of the binder until it was ridiculously hot, then stuck the hot end of the pen on my knuckle. In the middle of class. Asshole. 😛
I’ve only got two scars. One on my knee from a nail on the slide I decided to make out of junk I found in the garage when I was four and one on my chin from when I got bumped and fell in primary school. I always forget the chin one is there until I trim my beard too short and see there’s a weird little gap right at the bottom.
For all my screwing around I’ve never really done any long term damage or anything that required medical attention. Although I remember being hooked up to an IV and barely being conscious when I was about 14 or 15, but I have no recollection of why. I think I was there for a day or two. There’s also something about watching the same episode of DragonballZ like four times when I got home because I kept waking up in sync with Cartoon Networks repeat schedule. It was one of those really filler heavy Frieza Saga ones too. For some reason that part stands out way more clearly in my mind than whatever put me in the hospital.
I was cutting a sandwich (how dramatic :P)… and accidentally curled my left pinky under the blade when pushing it down to the chopping board. Luckily stopped halfway through, else my pinky would be about a centimetre shorter. Three stitches, and I never did get my lunch that day…
Right eyebrow = kicked in the face while sparring at tae kwon do. I was wearing a helmet but the impact broke my glasses and the metal frame parted my skin like butter.
Burn on left hand index knuckle = misguided attempt to make tiki torches out of a scrapped polyester quilt.
Right hand index finger = was trying to drill a hole in something using a penknife when I turned it the wrong way and the blade closed on my finger, thankfully not taking any of it off.
Caesarian Section. Baby boy insisted on taking the sunroof option.
My scars are pathetic. I have Mystery scars 1 & 2 on my left index finger, which are both around the length of one bone, and this utterly pathetic one on my right middle finger that was caused by a Guinea Pig and bled for weeks.
I guess there’s also a couple from chicken pox, though I wasn’t too bad on that count.
Large weet-bix sized scar on right hip where I came off my skateboard with deathwobbles at bottom of a 300m steep downhill road.
2 head scars – 1 from another persons tooth smashing into my forehead, 2 when I fell off a 3ft garden wall when I was 4 (some old granny screamed “OMG get that kid down before he hurts himself!!” so I promptly got distracted and fell off for her)
Scar in my lip (just a lump now as skin has healed over) from when I got punched in the face at school.
Back of my left hand (pretty much gone now) where a jaggy on my home made arrow (shot from my home made bow) got me as a test fired it.
Fun!
Head:
I have a scar on my head from where I got double bounced off the bed as a kid.
Felix the Cat came on, and my sisters all came running in to watch it and I ended up getting bounced off and smacking my head on the bedside table.
Heel:
As a kid I was sitting on the back seat of my mum’s bike while she rode, and I was playing with the wheel (touching it so it made noises), and my foot swung into the spokes and almost cut the bottom of my foot cleanly off…
They had to tie the bottom of my foot to the top of my foot with a sock.
Fist:
I fell off my scooter when I thought I saw a snake on the path.
It wasn’t, luckily, but I scraped my knuckles bad enough to leave scars.
I usually tell people I git them from fighting people (cause they look like I got in a fist fight).
Arm:
I ran into a fence while riding my bike to avoid hitting another cyclist.
I came off my bike and broke both bones (ulna and radius) while trying to break my fall.
My arm looked like it had an extra joint in it when I tried to lift it up :3
The bones wouldn’t sit together, so had to have surgery to get pins and plates put in.
@pupp3tmast3r Here’s some TAYdrenaline for you:
If you had to choose any one game as the only one you’ll ever be allowed to play for the rest of your life what do you choose and why is it Splatoon?
Fuck Splatoon.
Crusader Kings 2.
You spelt TAYDRENALIN wrong. We can’t be friends anymore.
Also it would have to be a Disgaea game or a Persona game. Cos everyone knows you can play those for like 3000 hours and still not finish.
Edit: After seeing red’s reply I wish to amend my response to Medieval : Total War 2.
I’m not editing the typo just for you 😀
D=
:3
That’s a funny way to spell Rocket League.
This man is also correct.
So you’d pick Rocket League over CK2?
I’d certainly pick it over Splatoon.
That’s one way to dodge the question.
I’d pick Crusader Kings 2. No question.
Any space 4x strategy game will be enough for me.
Super Metroid. Link to the Past. Anything from the SNES era, really.
The games are just so much fun to play, even today, and not dependent on realistic graphics which tend to date certain games and generations.
Bust-A-Move 2 Arcade Edition
Civ, maybe if I spent the rest of my life playing it I would actually finish a game.
There is only one, and it is called Tetris.
You can always play Tetris.
Hi, TAY!
😀
*weeps*
Poor Crazy 🙁
Man, I’m pretty sure these doctors are screwing with me at this point.
“Your ECG came back fine no problems”
“Uh, actually, sorry about that, turns out you actually have a hole between the atriums in your heart. We’ll have to perform a transoesophegeal ECG to confirm. ”
More procedures, more bad news, more treatments piling up for the rest of my life.
If I was a horse I’d have been in a glue pot long ago.
I suppose the good thing is that you’re getting this all checked out now rather than five or ten years down the track when it might be harder to fix anything.
Chin up, dude. This might give you the opportunity to change life up a bit.
I’m sorry to hear that mate, it’s a positive though they aren’t just doing a single diagnostic and then pissing you off out the door:
‘His CT came up clean, let’s get this prick out of a bed and get someone else in’. My best mate had a brain tumour removed and he was sent home within 24 hours, you’ve earned a rest man and the extra diagnostic tests are just being thorough (You don’t want to be the guy who has to go back to hospital to get a set of tweezers removed 2 months after an operation lol).
On the upside, they know how to treat it and they know what the cause of your stroke was. Long term that’s something far better than having had a stroke with no obvious cause. You’d constantly be wondering what might have caused it and if you’ll have another one like that.
Be glad they are double checking. What already happened is bad enough, you don’t need it to get worse. This stuff they can fix.
ECG (electrocardiograph) measures the electrical activity. The hole in theory would have been picked up on an echocardiogram (an ultrasound of your heart). So they want to do a transoesophageal echocardiogram.
I am curious because in theory your PFO has been present since birth – why was it not picked up prior to your nephrectomy?
Never had a reason to check my heart? Since I stopped being a sick kid by about 6 years old I’ve rarely been sick and relatively decent physical condition. Wouldn’t have picked it up yet either if a clot hadn’t got through it.
Final Fantasy Type-0 HD on PC? News to me! Wow, that’s really fantastic – yet another reason to forego a PS4 console. Master race seems to be getting quite some love lately, take Phantom Pain, Ground Zeroes for example. A year ago I would have laughed at you if you had told me Metal Gear was coming back to PC, there I was slowly putting away my pennies for a PlayStation 4.
And the whole Rocket League cross platform thing, I mean, hell why has that taken so long? I only used to imagine cross platform play like years ago but figured it’d be impossible because of differing hardware/software/firmware iterations? Are there limitations in Rocket League?
Well, we’ve lost the Ashes. :\
That was just brutal.
Probably the urn is heading back to the northern hemishere, but if there’s one thing about being an England supporter, it’s that we’re world champions at snatching a defeat from the jaws of victory…
I do not remember seeing a field set like that for the openers… ever. Often see it for the tail, but right from the start? Mental.
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World – Thirty-fourth Session Recap (22nd July 2015) starring:
– Blaghs aka @blaghman the tough Glaive who masters weaponry,
– Elandar Kintan aka @popdart5 the foolish Nano who controls gravity.
– Scrappa aka @tech_knight the mechanical Jack who talks to machines, and
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales.
The darkness of the ocean depths was all around them, illuminated only partially by the fish and molluscs that had developed luminescent scales or shells. The lenses that Shonai had provided, as well as Shonai’s presence alongside Scrappa, helped the party to survey the surrounding area. Great battlements and walls made of water itself stood resolutely on the rocky floor of the sea, proudly defying the tumultuous maelstrom that was twisting and churning the water above. The Deschn kept a safe distance away from the torturous currents while the party tried to locate the mysterious Gharolan. All of the information that they had received from Cagyn Rild, Frund, and Shonai did not tell them anything about what may lie inside this underwater fortress.
Read more at http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/.
So got a FitBit today… Now to have a passive piece of technology tell me how lazy I am and how little I move.
Welcome to the cult of being reminded you only did 4,000 steps of a recommended 10,000 and apparently only got 4 hours sleep from the 7 you spent lying in bed.
Yay! Another fitbit friend!
Make sure you get the app. Then you can be a Weekend Warrior too!
Thanks for splatoon tonight!
@powalen Sorry I killed you so much.
@lucifer9783 Thanks for killing me so much -_-
@cubits I saw you were online, but I wasn’t sure how to tell you to join on my game, or tell others to join my game after I’d joined yours.
haha! I was about to say sorry for killing you so often 😛
Good games though.
We won when we were on the same team though.
Opinions on the new weapons?
I kinda like the Slosher. Will be trying it out a bit more.
The Splatling gun also seemed pretty cool but I don’t think it really suits my playstyle. Too hard to spread ink with!
As someone who only played against them, as a roller, it’s impossible to get near them, so don’t even bother. As a gun, attack from the side.
I didn’t notice anyone else was online until it was too late. :p
Sorry. D= I’ll tag you to if we organise a match!
Next time you Brisbane TAYBIES go Karaoke-ing, one of you needs to duet “don’t go breaking my heart” with @freezespreston.
You couldn’t if you tried.
@redartifice @coldcamv That 7-0 win was the stuff of legends. Thanks, guys! That was great fun.
I saved the replay, might have to work out how to upload it to Youtube for posterity
I saved it too. Some awesome teamwork in that match. Worth saving for sure.
That was an amazing game! You were picking shots and saving goals like a damn machine! Great teamwork from everyone, next step is ranked gameplay.
Also you now knownthe buggy misery that is lara croft and the temple of osiris
It seemed to be okay for a while. I’m not sure what ended up happening, though! 😛
And I more than made up for that good game in the next game – terrible effort, in which I was worse than useless!
That dude on the other team was insanely good, though – jetting around, shooting in midair, etc
That midair goal was insane as soon as he scored tgat im like “hmmmm we might be boned on this one”
What tea do Soccer players drink?
PenalTea #dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeGiggity
http://images.performgroup.com/di/library/Perth_Glory/93/41/zlatan-approves_1s98s64ojvrmj1gszcqprg17lp.jpg?t=-1094005941
Aww, and here I was thinking we wouldn’t get to page 6 until Friday…
What’s the difference between Ricky Muir and a park bench?
A park bench can support a family.
I don’t get it. Why are we getting stuck into Ricky Muir?
Just ’cause.
Muir is one of the few decent senators we have. I don’t necessarily agree with all his views but he seems genuinely concerned with what he believes is right and best for the people of the country which is a rare thing.
Yep. I disagree with quite a few of his views and he came to office with a health policy of less than 50 words, but he’s actually shone as a senator. He makes well considered decisions (which I don’t have to agree with) but he does what he thinks is right and best for Australians, and to be honest, that is his job. I am surprised but I feel really impressed that someone like him is actually doing his job.
From what I’ve seen he’s a good example of what a politician should be (like him or hate him).
Just remember, Bush got elected by looking like Muir.
Muir is interesting. I think he’s genuine but I think mostly he has a good team around him that turn his half thought ideas into appealing politics.
You didn’t see anything…
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/06/gal-gun-double-peace-trailer-shows-how-youll-win-the-hearts-of-dozens-of-girls/
There is absolutely no way this will ever be localized.
Which is weird because Inticreates is on Twitter asking if the west is interested.
Can’t imagine any of the US localization companies being interested. It’s too risque.
Yeah, for sure. Dunno what they’re Twitter wrangler is thinking
I guess there’s nothing actually explicit in it. Just massively suggestive. Don’t think they could censor it to lower the rating without breaking the game. I mean, arguably I think that that Senran Kagura rhythm game spinoff is probably more explicit, with the whole massively distracting naked girls slathered in whipped cream and chocolate thing.
Also I guess IntiCreates might do it internally & digital release? They must have some localization people on staff, otherwise they couldn’t be doing stuff like Gunvolt, Mighty No. 9 and Bloodstained and having a fairly simultaneous release.
I have no idea how I’m still functional. I haven’t slept since the night before last (and it was for only 4 hours), save for a brief attempt this morning where I didn’t actually sleep but got recharged anyway. And I didn’t even have my usual 4:00 crash. Definitely feeling it now though, waiting for the bus. Feel like I could just keel over even though I’m standing.
Yay insomnia! Glad I don’t have that anymore.
At least you don’t drive to work right?
I don’t even work, so… no 😛
Also wasn’t quite insomnia. I just stayed up all night working on my outfit >_>
Do you even sleep ‘brah?
I came about *this* close to sleeping while standing. Just couldn’t seem to find a way to pin my legs in place to prevent them from buckling once it was about to take hold.
Yikes; yeah that’s a really bad case of insomnia alright…. Couple of things that helped me get over mine a few years ago (used to suffer from night terrors that then evolved into insomnia due to fear of falling asleep) –
Get into bed between the hours of 10pm-12pm; your internal body clock begins to prep for sleep during this time frame.
Exercise (this helps immensely); exercise yourself to the point of physical exhaustion.
A hot bath/shower half an hour before bed (especially true in cold weather).
Make sure your sleeping area is devoid of light and noise. Sleep in a dark/silent room even for an hour is considerably better than rest you can get in a room with light and interruptions.
Have a glass of red wine 10-15min before bed
For an absolute worst case scenario attempt to meditate and still your mind while you’re in bed; cleanse your thoughts and focus on maintaining mental peace (I used prayer to help me through my worst nights).
It wasn’t insomnia, I just stayed up all night working on my outfit and didn’t have a chance to nap before going out 😛
Cheers for the tips though. My body clock/sleep patterns are pretty badly destroyed anyway.
Lol keep them in mind; screwing with your body clock is the one of the easiest ways to start up insomnia =P
I choose to take this as positive advice on avoiding sleep 😛
This ones for you, Freezey!
What part of the United States produces the largest number of cardiologists? The heartland.
Honestly I’m super surprised that amongst all the songs and jokes that everyone has been making not once has this one been mentioned. https://youtu.be/I-h4A7bF8wQ
Surprised and disappointed.
CRICKET 😀 the best day of cricket I’ve ever witnessed as an English fan. Absolutely incredible.
Also, ticket guy topped up my go card $5 and didn’t charge. Today could only get better by Fallout 4 being released 3 months early
Go home.
I couldn’t stop laughing as the general consensus is that Australia is just playing like shit, completely negating the possibility that England just prepared and played extremely well.
Playing like shit is being generous. 111 balls and 60 runs and we were all out. We could assemble a team of Taybies and put in a better performance than that.
The aim is to thwump the ball by throwing your stick right
I’m sure we could field an under 12s team with better figures than that.
Let’s demote the men’s team and all start watching the Southern Stars instead.
Womens series has been brilliant. 🙂
I wish the women’s cricket was properly televised. I’d love to watch it regularly but it’s not given remotely near the interest it deserves and that sucks.
Won’t happen while Channel 9 remains “The Home Of Cricket”.
🙁 You’d think the ABC or Foxtel or someone would be interested in broadcasting at least England v Australia.
If fallout 4 releases early, I am screwed
Hey bros and brosephines!
I’ve decided to enter Messar Dreams (as it currently exists) in this contest: http://contest.gamedevfort.com/
I’ll probably have to pull an all-nighter tonight to get it ready, but I’m okay with this!
Once it’s up, I’ll shoot around a link, and you’ll be able to try it out. (And maybe even vote for it in the player choice category)
WHEEE!
I was going to ask how you were going with your visual novel. I like visual novels but a lot of them are…fluff…
Also, question, when you bought the game making bundle, what was the name of the character creation program for rpgMaker?
I’m working very hard on it, and having an awesome time doing so. I’m in the process of wrapping up the scene that contains the first major branching choice of the game, which has six different outcomes. I think it’ll be a good point to put a bow on it for a demo.
(It’s unclear whether a demo will be a valid entry in the competition, but I’ve got nothing to lose by trying)
Damn straight. You have nothing to lose by trying! I would like to see it go far, honestly. Part of the reason i put you in contact with Seon.
This is all the stuff that was in the bundle: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8f5q1pjx46napb1/Listofprograms.JPG?dl=0
I think it’s in the GameDev starter pack, but stuffed if I can read what it says.
Found it. It’s game character hub.
Thank you. I have a game idea and I’ve spoken to a friend of mine who I went to uni with. She’s a designer, but I hate my art style so much, I need to use someone elses.
Oooo game ideas give us the goss yah
What was in those ‘DLC Packs’? Were they add-ons for RPG Maker or what? I was kind of tempted to grab that pack just for all those assets but couldn’t get a read on what was there.
All of it is geared towards RPG Maker, but are licenced for use in any program (unlike the packs sold through their site containing the same assets).
The DLC packs were all asset packs. There are background tiles, character sprites and stuff. No good to me.
But there was also a whole huge bunch of music, and some sound effects. That’s what I bought it for, and some of that stuff is very high quality. I got something like 200 tracks of music for <$20, which is a steal, even if there was absolutely nothing of any use in the rest of the bundle.
For a website with an unofficial focus on equality and women being treated better as a whole there certainly is a lot of links to articles like “9 Things You Shouldn’t Say to Your Man”, “Why Dating X Type of Man Is The Best Thing Ever” or “How To Keep Your Man From Leaving You And Being Happy”.
Flipping through the content of them, they all seem to be written in the tone of MRA’s or incredibly insecure women with zero self worth. They all boil down to shut the hell up and do as you’re told.
That’s not a relationship, that’s an employee contract. A good way to get bored and wander off. I want to be challenged and pushed in a relationship. I’m a better person because of my wife and her refusal to be my subordinate.
Urgh, they’re just gross and they are upsetting me more than they should by just being there.
Wait, is this what’s in that new “around the web” or whatever section that I imagine adblocker is thankfully blocking for me? Ugh.
I’m not really a fan of anything about the new Kotaku/Allure, but I don’t have anything constructive to say about it so I’ve shut up because I feel like me complaining without making any suggestions is kind of useless. But that kind of thing being shoved in people’s faces? Just ugh.
Don’t feel like you have to make suggestions on things you don’t like, just explain why you don’t like it and you’ll be giving useful feedback.
I don’t like cheap tacky ads under the text of every article; put them in the banners to the left or right.
Like that?
Disclaimer – Kotaku’s new layout really gets under my skin >.
Write an article: 9 reasons that those “9 reasons why…” articles are complete shit
Last dairy joke I swear:
Why don’t Sweden export their cattle?
Because it wants to keep it’s Stockholm ヽ(´ー`)┌I’m stuck with this one notification forever, aren’t I?
What is it I had replied to you about?
Alien, I think
“mark all as read” button doesn’t work?
Thanks, I never noticed that.
This is the ultimate nightmare for those of us who clear inboxes 0,0
Played a bunch of GTA V last night. Rant ahead:
I have played a bunch of GTA Online and had a lot of fun with it, and I’m only recently getting into the offline stuff. I hit a point in the story last night where I realised I couldn’t come up with a single reason as to why I was still playing it. I just completed the Trevor torture section and it was just…shit. There was no sense or urgency, the torture felt like it was shoe-horned in to make the player feel uncomfortable, and Trevor as a character is fucking annoying. He’s not a violently insane man, he’s Hollywood crazy…and worse, he carries a giant placard around that says “I’M CRAZY, WATCH ME DO CRAZY THINGS”. You can literally summarise all of his early interactions with people as “Hi, I’m Trevor. I might rape you. Let’s go kill people for very minor reasons”. I was actually hoping he’d be worth playing because up to this pointCJFranklin has been a boring stereotype and one I’ve had to deal with before, and Michael carries on and on about how great life was stealing shit and all I could think was “Yes, that sounds fun. Do you mind if I stop giving a shit about your family so we can go steal things? No? Oh…OK.”. The dynamic between Michael andCJFranklin is kinda fun but tends to be a bit jarring.Speaking of, there’s an important point with GTA V: fun. Where is it? Is it an unlockable? Does the game “only get good after a certain point”? No, wait……paid DLC? Honestly, Saints Row 3 & 4 were not perfect games but GTA V is making me miss them AND remember them more fondly than I otherwise would.TL;DR – The story isn’t fun, Trevor as a character tries too hard to be shocking,
CJFranklin is a one dimensional repetition of a stereotype, and Michael spends the game quietly suggesting that GTA Online is better.You’re right Michael.
I quit the story.
Agreed! They forgot to bring the fun. GTA San Andreas was the last truly fun game in the franchise, I think. GTA IV was a step down in the fun department, and it’s well and truly been leeched out by V.
I thought the story in SA was a bit of a let down overall (it definitely had its good moments), but despite this it was still an incredibly fun game and my favourite of the series.
Running on three hours sleep let’s do thiiiiiizzzzzz
More accurate to say crawling on the ground quietly praying for death and/or a soft pillow, but.
Can’t die because DBZ movie tomorrow though. All the Super Saiyan God Super Saiyans!
Looks like I might be going home today!
\o/
Will have to come back a couple of times for procedures to be done but they said that I wouldn’t be doing much lying in the room in the time between them.
Video games and Netflix, I have missed you so, I’m coming home.
Oh, and my family too I guess 😛
I’m still confined to the house however. Can’t drive or anything. So boredom and loneliness will still play into it. Still concerns but at least I’m out of this damn hospital.
Take it easy. We don’t want you back in there.
I was going to go visit you at the hospital on Sunday. Way to be so selfish.
In more serious news does that mean we may see Freeze at the Blaghs meat tomorrow!? Oh, just saw your comment above. Party at Freeze’s place on Sunday?
Simple, move the meat to Freezes. =P
I wouldn’t be adverse to people visiting me on Sunday.
Not sure about Blaghs meat. Not being able to drive makes it difficult along with a stressed and overprotective wife.
The good news is that it puts you in the lead for trying to kill yourself to avoid seeing me.
I think Pixel was the previous leader, after crushing his hand in a car door.
Yeah, I’m just all talk.
Nah, @freya ‘s sister will probably finish you off soon.
Murder runs in the family.
Wait, why my sister?
Nob has classes with her.
Where does “Fled halfway across the world” sit amongst these rankings?
Heeeey… No, wait that actually did happen… Carry on 😛
I may have something I was going to send to your hospital, is there a better place to send it?
He’ll never tell you now. better off sending it to a Bris taybie who’ll pass it along.
Just eat it high =P We all know what happened to the last package you were going to send to a TAYbie! xD
I spent like half an hour drawing a spectacularly fantastic Splatfest artwork last night and only got two measly favourites out of it.
Screw you Splatooooon
Give it time. If it goes on the wall during Splatfest it might skyrocket.
…potentially literally as the fireworks have Miiverse posts in them.
But I need validation now
EDIT: I’m glad I voted for South Pole now though because penguins are way easier to draw than polar bears.
Better then me, I don’t even have an idea
Colossal squid fighting a polar bear.
I could do that. Any other ideas?
I could also draw the south pole with the text “If I go, I’m taking you all with me” In relation to global warming
NORTH POLE IS GOING DOWN BECAUSE SOUTH POLE CAN’T.
[picture of a penguin flexing]
Can I just draw gunther?
I’ve only seen one Gunter and it was terrible, so go for it!
Yay!
Squid in a Santa costume astride a polar bear shooting a bunch of penguins?
The following comment contains talks of offensive material and language that can make people easily upset. Viewer discretion is advised.
“Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm me”.This was something I was regularly taught growing up. My school life was filled with heavy bullying to the point that even the teachers wouldn’t help me. As an adult looking back I realise that I overreacted a lot to simple names, which caused people to do it more to get more reactions. Which really killed my motivation and self-esteem.
Now as an adult, insults and slurs really don’t faze me. I took that lesson to heart and realised that words were just that. However, I started seeing people demanding others restrict certain words and insults. Where you can’t make stuff like racist jokes, sexist jokes, rape jokes, can’t say chink, whore, slut, paki, nigger, jap, etc etc. Regardless of context.
Some don’t even make sense. Paki is an insult for someone from Pakistan. But when I first look at it it seems more like a shorter way to say Pakistan. Kinda like how Aussie is short for Australian. Jap became a slur during WW2 cause they were an enemy and now it’s still being used like they’re the enemy? But certain shortend words are terrible to use.
I research up a lot on languages to try and find an understanding. Try to ask people about it (and usually get attacked for not knowing prior) and yet, every time I do it always comes back to them being just words. With the way languages evolve (and can evolve quickly) I also don’t see how some words are still considered bad when in a simple decade the word can change meaning.
Just look up faggot, its had its meaning change like, 5 times. Rather than try and change the meaning, people just want to bury it forever (even if that runs the risk of coming back in the future with a different definition with no knowledge on its history).
People are still reacting to these words in place of other problems. Remember when Obama used nigger when talking about how the system in the country is racist because of how unfair it treats minorities? Rather than talk about the system everybody just zeroes in on that one word. It really comes off as easy and lazy. Don’t talk about the system, just get rid of the word. We’re proving we’re not racist! We have black friends!
Everytime this topic comes up I think I missed something. I research more, try and empathise with the other people, try and form an understanding. Yet I always come back to them being angry at just words. Is it really just a simple different background? But I was treated poorly in my life, is it because other people have a harder life than I did? But, isn’t that just fallacy of relative privation?
I kinda always want to have this discussion but nobody else does. Either you’re a good person, or you’re racist/sexist/bigot/etc. They don’t even give me the time of day. If I have questions or something they just shout at me than escape before I can respond.
That doesn’t mean I go out of my way to use those words to insult people mind you, I’m not an asshole.
I once shouted out “Gooky!” in public space.
Outside Kinokuniya, definitely not asians there, no sir.
Thanks, @mrtaco
@dc did it at a Japanese restaurant we were at.
What’s a gooky?
South East Asian person.
“Gook” is a derogatory term for asians, used fairly frequently in the Vietnam War.
Funnily enough, when I was first called a gook during high school, I didn’t know what it meant. The offender then had to explain it to me, thus stripping the word of any intended hurtful meaning.
What about South Asians?
The bit you’re missing is context and history. Imagine spending your life being put down and hearing people use a term over and over about you. It’s not going to sit well with you when you hear it again.
They are “just words” until they’ve been used differently. You only need to look at the terms used for mentally/developmentally challenged people to see it. “Retard” literally means to slow. A retard is someone with slowed mental growth. Once that got used an insult, we moved on and found a new term to describe people with that disability. This has happened multiple times with multiple terms. Nowadays, it’s common to hear someone described as “special” to make the same insult.
Without context, being “special” doesn’t seem bad. When you realise that it’s a euphemism for mental disability that is used because previous terms were appropriated as insults, you’ve got context and history that make it worse.
It’s not hard to have empathy for people and realise that “just words” are more than “just words” to them.
Plus it’s not hard to just not use those words, making them have a deliberate choice and intent behind it which is worse than just the word.
I never got the excuse “It’s just a word”. If it’s just a work surely that means it’s pretty simple to just not use it.
When someone says that, you can reply with “Well, this is just going to be a punch in the face…”
To play Devil’s advocate, it is actually very hard to avoid those terms when you’ve grown up around them for the majority of your life. When not thinking clearly, I’ll (rarely) throw out old, stupid offensive words when describing something in the negative because it’s an old habit stuck on me from growing up in a small country town (and a habit that I fucking hate myself for).
But you make an effort not to and acknowledge the problem.
Oh, there’s no good excuse for not trying to stop. There’s just situations where, for better or (usually) worse, you just fall back on what you know.
Empathy can be a tricky thing. It not only requires a similar frame of reference but also a similar reaction to truly understand.
Take this same example – he has been verbally bullied in the past but reacted differently. So is trying to understand via discussion what empathy is not telling him.
There’s nothing simple about things like racism. You could write a book, trying to be as nuanced as possible and there will still be gaps.
A lot of people just get hung up on things and can’t let go.
A lot of people also just think what they are told without questioning it or themselves. Often the same people.
But sometimes they have reasons.
I was going to post an elongated reply but @trjn has captured most of it. Context and experience with offensive words is what makes them offensive; having been on the receiving end of racist slurs and stereotypes myself I can safely say it’s better to avoid offensive words altogether because you can’t account for how the personal experiences of those around you might view it.
E.g. that I learned in uni; we had German exchange students and the first time someone in our group made a nazi joke we learned that they find it really offensive. It doesn’t mean we found it offensive and yes words are words but for them it dredged up a part of their national history they wished never happened.
People are subjective creatures; which at the end of the day also translates to the rituals/languages we use to communicate. What could be considered polite and the norm in one culture/language can be completely offensive in another; so yes words hold no meaning and your reasoning stands if we lived in a world driven by purely logical creatures. Humans on the other hand are farm from such and basic empathy would dictate we do what we can not to offend/hurt one another even if we don’t always understand where the offense stems from.
Because you can’t divorce a word from its connotation.
Going to pick up one aspect of your discussion, but it applies across the board.I’s very easy to say “Oh it’s just a word,” but an ethnic slur isn’t just an insult in a vacuum- it’s a reminder of systematic oppression and racism, of years of being subjected to indignities based on positions of relative privilege.
It’s a slur based upon factors outside of your control, and whenever these words are used it’s a reminder that “people think of you as lesser based upon your skin colour” or culture or accent or whatever- it’s people judging you as an other, not as a person. It’s saying to people “You are ultimately just a person of your race and all people of your race have the following qualities”
That’s why these words have power- they’re tools of majorities to oppress others.
Picking one as an example- let’s say “Paki” – it brings a bunch of other stuff with it (gonna dive into stereotypes here)
The pakis are turban wearing freaks
The pakis are lazy
The pakis eat weird food
the pakis are, ultimately, not like us and are therefore lesser.
So when you call someone that, you’re not just using a word. You’re bringing with it all of the above.
You can’t divorce a word from its connotation. When you use those words, you’re not just using a word. You’re bringing a bunch of shit with you, and you’re weaponising it.
I always figured the sticks and stones thing was a lie to tell children in the hope they’d grow up believing it. We convince ourselves that these words don’t hurt because the only pain they can really inflict is that which our own minds create in reaction to them; remove or limit the reaction, and they become just so much hot air.
When it comes to racial epithets, how do you teach kids simultaneously that a) that word is derogatory and should not be applied to anyone, and b) being called that word is nothing to be ashamed of? They’re at complete odds, and so the retains its derogatory meaning, and the psychological reaction continues for another generation.
Education is the answer, as it always is. Racism is almost always the result of ignorance and fear.
“Sticks and Stones” is a pretty rubbish lesson, and I’m pretty sure you don’t hear it from teachers, or even most parents these days. Simply ignoring bullying does nothing to stop it. You have to call it out, and educate the offender. Otherwise nothing gets better.
“Just words” is never a defence. Words do have power and they can do lasting damage. Just like there are words that confer respect and reverence, words that are used for insults and put-downs come with emotions attached to them. They’re used to isolate and label others for the purpose of exclusion. @trjn has it completely right – context is everything. I could brush it off if a random stranger in the street called me a fat bitch. It would be a completely different reaction if I was called that by a family member.
Yes, you may not realise that a word is hurtful to others when you first come across it, and yes, words have different meanings both through time and in different settings. But instead of thinking that someone is “over reacting”, or that you wouldn’t be offended if that label was applied to you, try and listen to the other person to work out why that word is so hurtful for them. You can always learn new ways to express yourself in a more considerate, empathetic way.
I’ve lived a pretty blessed life with little exposure to real discrimination, but still I was bullied at school and some of the words used still hurt, even though the events happened nearly 30 years ago.
It still hurts that my end of primary school tshirt has “KICK ME” and “TRY HARD” scrawled all over it.The other problem with “Sticks and Stones” is that if you look at the reverse, it says that unless you physically hurt someone, you’re not really doing anything wrong.
It’s a rubbish saying from another era and it deserves to be put in the bin.
Racist/sexist terms directed at me say “you are an outsider, you are different because of X about you, I am a dick to you because of this. You represent all of your race/gender group.” I find them hurtful because they are things I cannot change about myself.
Whereas just things like calling me an idiot tend to be more descriptive of myself and I mind them less somehow? Maybe because I feel like these are things they can change or that the person is wrong.
Saw Matilda the Musical last night.
It’s a pretty cool
guygirl.EDIT: Also the truth came out that I haven’t seen a majority of the Disney animated movies pre-Pixar at dinner. When I said I hadn’t seen…I think it was Mulan…the whole dinner table gasped in unison. I’m actually holding off watching them until later in the year as emergency movies for my attempt to watch 100 movies I’ve never seen before in 2015! Speaking of that…
Those children are so much more talented than me and I hate them.
So you’re saying that they’re actually a miracle,
one look at their face(s) and it’s plain to see,
since the day doc chopped the umbilical cord,
it’s been clear there’s no peer for a miracle like -damn you rhyming structure- them?
Thee?
Thee means “you” which would only work if I wanted to compliment Pants.
Which I guess I usually do…
You could imply that the last bit is directed to the child, but I suppose the structure does not really work.
God I am bored.
I’ve seen about 20 minutes of Mulan. It was basically enough to appreciate the DBZ Abridged parody of one of the songs.
I don’t know if I can ever look you in the eyes again
Strangely enough, I know most of the songs from all the movies…
MY DREAM DISNEY PRINCESS IS MULAN, HOW COULD YOU
Anyone up for Splatoon tonight? We can try and get 8!
@rize @cubits @shiggyninty @powalen @lucifer9783 @sernobulus @blaghman @gorzilla
@shiggyninty
@mrtaco
Unfortunately splatoon has to give way to wife time tonight (i know, it sucks).
:p
How dare you? That’s fine. You can’t splatoon every night.
But the bucket calls to me, and there are so many hats left unpurchased!
Just a sec, let me just break this off….
Tell me about it. I’d just bought all the mid range stuff, now I need to start on the top range stuff
Not sure if I have a dinner thing on or not. Will let you know this arvo!
Oh that Rize and his fancy dinner parties!
Maybe…
Unless I’m playing Rocket League, but I’ll try and get on.
I’m adding you to me mental list of splatoon players
Cakesmith attempts to watch 100 movies in 2015 that he has never seen before!
I’m a bit late with this update, but here we go…
I have to watch 8 movies a month in order to do the last 50 movies. Last month I did 7.
The Good…
It was an interesting mix of movies in July. The big surprise was ‘Ant-Man’. I was feeling a bit fatigued on Marvel movies after Age of Ultron, but I actually really enjoyed this. I enjoyed that it was a smaller movie and the humour was just great.I watched a couple of documentaries too. ‘Hot Girls Wanted’ kept popping up on Netflix so I gave in and watched it. It was, alright. If you’ve been living under a rock and know nothing about the porn industry it would be more interesting. But as a normal person, it was more a reminder of how horrible that industry can be. The other documentary I watched was ‘The Death of “Superman Lives”: What Happened?’. I enjoyed this a lot. It actually made me kind of sad we never got the whole Tim Burton/Nic Cage Superman. Some of the stuff they were going to try and do sounded super interesting (this is from the perspective of someone not attached to Superman at all). I recommend tracking it down and checking it out.
I watched a bizarre Korean horror movie on Netflix called ‘Thirst’ as well. It was enjoyable, but definitely not for everyone. ‘Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods’ was also watched in preparation for the new movie. I’d never seen it or any of the other DBZ movies before and it was a typical Dragon Ball Z affair. Thoroughly entertaining. I’ve heard from @alexpants that the other movies are pretty rubbish.
The Bad…
On the disappointing end was ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past (Rogue Cut)’. It adds about 20 minutes of scenes back into the movie, most of which were rightly cut from the theatrical version. One of the rare extended cuts of a movie that is worse than the original.The Ugly…
BlaghmanThe worst movie I watched was ‘Ted 2’. It was just, ugh. I enjoyed ‘Ted’ quite a lot and don’t mind Seth MacFarlane’s style of humour. Admittedly I haven’t watched ‘Family Guy’ and ‘American Dad’ in a number of years. ‘Ted’ had an actual storyline and had me laughing throughout. ‘Ted 2’ though was a series of scenes that contained a “joke”. Once the “joke” was done then a new scene would begin. There was no flow to the story, or much of a story at all. The movie can’t decide what it wants to be. I haven’t seen ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’, but I’ve heard it’s horrible too. Looks more and more like MacFarlane got lucky with the first movie.The Summary
Month:Best Movie: Ant-Man
Worst Movie: Ted 2
Year:
Best Movie: Mad Max: Fury Road/Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Worst Movie: Taken 3
Total Movies Watched:
Jan – 14
Feb – 8
Mar – 3
Apr – 9
May – 7
Jun – 9
Jul – 7
Total – 57
Full list: http://letterboxd.com/asharples/films/diary/year/2015/
I’ve already watched ‘Trainwreck’ and ‘Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation’ this week (more of that in my September update), and will be watching the disaster that is ‘Fanfourstic’ tomorrow, as well as the new Dragon Ball Z movie. I also have tickets to see a documentary called ‘Unity’ on Wednesday next week which I’m curious about. I think the rest of the month is fairly quiet, so it should be a chance to catch up on some movies that are already out. Cinema-wise I think there’s only ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ on my radar. As well as ‘Mr. Holmes’ if I get the chance.
Feel free to give me suggestions on movies you think I should watch, I am keeping a list. Strangely enough, there’s a lot of “older” movies I should’ve seen but probably haven’t.
So, what’s the list of Disney-Movies-That-Matter that you haven’t seen?
I’ll tell you whether they’re worth it.
Actually, I just want a chance to criticise the music in The Little Mermaid because it only has three songs that aren’t garbage.
It’s actually quicker for me to list the ones I have seen (using this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_theatrical_animated_features)
Snow White and the Seven DwarfsPinnochio (I think, but I would’ve been like 5)
Dumbo
Cinderella
Alice in Wonderland
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
The Aristocats
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Beauty and the Beast (plus the musical with Hugh Jackman as Gaston)
Aladdin
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Lion King
Toy Story
James and the Giant Peach
A Bug’s Life
Toy Story 2
Dinosaur
Monsters, Inc.
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
Chicken Little
Cars
Meet the Robinsons
Ratatouille
WALL-E
Bolt
Up
The Princess and the Frog
Toy Story 3
Tangled
Brave
Wreck-It Ralph
Monsters University
Frozen
Big Hero 6
Inside Out
I’m not angry, I’m just very disappointed in you.
Now you know how my parents feel.
HE HASN’T SEEN LILO AND STITCH
Hmm, let’s see, there’s a decent amount there that I don’t really know, so time to criticise (but let’s be honest, I’m going to gush) what I do:
Fantasia – How have you not seen Fantasia. Seriously (great visual imagery, animation that was amazing for the time though barely stands out today, and it scared me as a child. Cannot remember a lick about it really, but from memory it’s just disparate scenes. Same can be said for Fantasia 2000, while I’m here and remember).Bambi – Great forest scenes, and watching Bambi struggle around as a child barely able to move is a treat. It is sad, but honestly The Lion King hits me way harder. While it’s arguably a musical, from memory the songs are all just thematic elements, singing as the seasons change, the rain falls, and so forth. Was 2009 when I last saw it though, so I might not be 100% on that. Good, but I’d watch other movies it over it. Take it from me, and don’t watch it just after your beloved pet has died.
Peter Pan – Err, it’s Peter Pan. Has some decent songs, is a lot of fun, loved it as a child, have felt no real need to rewatch it as an adult though. It’s hella messed up though.
Sleeping Beauty – HOW HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THIS? Home to some of the most distinct images in Disney history, I feel like its use of colour and lighting were unparalleled at the time, and it mostly stands out really well today (I think some of the scenes could do with colour correction on the animated cels, but for the most part its animation is very impressive. Fairly rote story wise, but has the occasional great line, “Now, father, you’re living in the past. This is the 14th century!”
The Jungle Book – Look for the bare necessities,
The simple bare necessities,
Forget about your worries and your strife,
I mean the bare necessities,
That’s why a bear can rest at ease,
With just the bare necessities of life.
The Little Mermaid – Good movie, but it only has three good songs (Part of Your World, Under the Sea and Kiss the Girl). This is a problem I have with a decent number of the modernish era Disney stuff, there’s a lot of cruft. It’s impressive for its use of 3D models in a way that doesn’t look terrible, unlike a lot of far more modern stuff (though from memory I think they created the model, and essentially rotoscoped it, using it as a basis for a hand drawn system. It’s also Disney’s first movie to use CAPS (digital colouring, along with some other stuff), albeit only at the end).
Pocahontas – You know how there’s the old thing about how Disney’s A team of animators were all working on Pocahontas, so the B team did The Lion King, and how it’s funny since The Lion King is better? Well, you can see the effect of the A team in Colors of the Wind. That shit is spectacular. Savages is also great. Oh, but they went with a different style to usual for the eyes, and IMO it did not pay off. You know that awkward scene in The Lion King where Nala’s sort of giving sex eyes, but they don’t look like they’re quite right? It’s like that about a third of the time.
Hunchback – Arguably only has two good songs, but Hellfire is a humdinger. Also is a showreel for what they could do with computers. Particle heavy, large crowds, but you’re only going to watch it for one song. Also worth it to play the game where you try to work out if Quasimodo is mad or not.
Hercules – Best “love” song in Disney history, I don’t care what others say. Also, Susan Egan voiced Megara, and she’s the best (was Belle in the original Broadway run of Beauty and the Beast). Also has a Greek Chorus, which makes the theatre geek in me so very happy.
Mulan – “Does this dress make me look fat?” And I don’t really care for most of the songs (although Lea Salonga is as fabulous as always), but I’ll Make a Man out of You is fantastic. Watch it just for that. Oh, oh, and a really impressive crowd scene at the end, and the opening shot (?) of the wall, which is great.
Tarzan – Phil Collins. No, no, I don’t think you’re listening to me. Phil Collins. Also has some even more impressive 3d/2d integration than anything before it. Looks great in motion, but it’s not really that great a movie. But Phil Collins.
The Emperor’s New Groove – Not a great movie, but it is an extremely fun movie. Remains self aware the entire way through, while just skirting the edge of obnoxiousness, and thus gets well recommended.
Atlantis – Hahahahaha. Oh, Atlantis. It’s an entirely competent movie. Has some great visual moments, but I watched it less than a year ago and can remember virtually nothing about it. It’s very forgettable. Nothing wrong with it, really, it just doesn’t have much to stand out (Mignola worked on art design stuff, so everything tends to look interesting, at least).
Lilo & Stitch – I am very glad my school made me watch this in year 7 as part of our RE unit. Way better than I expected, and I say that as a watcher of the TV show. Lilo’s older sister is a fantastic character, and a great sister.
Treasure Planet – ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY MILLION DOLLARS! OH YES, FEEL THAT PRICE TAG. (Looks nice, but if Atlantis is utterly forgettable, Treasure Planet is memorably bad. Looks really different though, so points for that)
I remember having a similar discussion with my friends not too long ago, they couldn’t believe how little Disney I’d seen. Went and looked up the list, and there was basically a gigantic gap from Hercules to Wreck-It Ralph where I hadn’t seen anything unless it was a Pixar movie.
Have you seen Kingsmen?
Twice in cinemas and a few times at home.
I watched Scarface two weekends ago, I recommend that one if you’re putting older movies on your radar.
Yep, it’s one that is already on my list of movies to watch. I remember trying to a few years back and not being in the mood for “that” kind of movie.
After reading these it makes me motivated to do this next year so 2016 will be the year of 100 movies for me.
Also
sick burnI was hoping to get the sequins finished today, but this cold is severely hindering me
“The cold never bothered me anyway”
…
See it’s funny because you’re making an Elsa cosplay…
…
*shoots self*
Big W is selling Elsa shirts and I kind of wanting one, but then I knew I would hate myself for it.
She really should just let it go for the time being so she can recover
I’m thinking of maybe doing just that. Mum also has it so I’m going to help with the washing up. It’s gone to her head, but mine has settled on my chest =(
Yeah she shouldn’t hold it back anymore, just let it go
I wanna slap you, and Techie, and then myself because I thought Techie was giving me advice and not telling a joke
*Does the Woody Woodpecker dance and dances out the room*
So just to make sure, is it okay if I take it easy today?
… WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP!
Someone call @haggis!
@haggis?
Oh HAAAAAAAAAAGGIS
Maybe he’s given up on page 6. At a guess, I’d say it’s because he doesn’t have the heart for these jokes.
Or the liver…or the stomach…
Urgh… Urrrrrgh… *up votes*
Did you see that oncoming car?
That’s okay, neither did Helen Keller.
That’s a bit vicious.
Yesterday, I was singing this song last night. Freya had apparently never heard of it and we wrote it off as a Queensland thing. Happy to be wrong about that because that ad is amazing.
Speaking of amazing ads, can someong (hi @dc) try and track down the Superbee Honey World ad? “I ran into an old friend I hadn’t seen in years. We had a lovely time together! Kids, they twisted my arm and my ear and I’m glad they did. Something something it’s a honey of a place.”
I’ve had the Carlton Draught Big Ad song stuck in my head for weeks now, keep humming it to myself…
It’s a big ad? So very big?
Can’t believe how big it is
…
NOT HELPING SCREE 😛
Just making sure it was the right ad
I definitely know it, and while I did live in Brissy until I was 7, I’m fairly sure I remember it from my time in Canberra.
…
Wait, I think this might be it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjhohEqv4so So I may have just been exposed to it on the internet, because it’s not like I actually watch TV.
I’ve discovered today marks two years exactly since I started this job. Wow!
Egads. Time. Where did it go?!
Out the window its flying away
I think there’s a tenth trick they may have missed.
Does it involve bread?
Spending $50 for a pairs of jeans feels so wrong, and yet so very right.
…
*furiously rubs arse*
ಠ▂ಠ
$50 for jeans is cheap, granted you want nice jeans.
They’re down from $80 😛
No such thing
Jealous.
Most I’ve spent on jeans in the last five years is $9.
I used to buy cheapo ones, then got spoiled by DFO in Fyshwick. Splurged on things like Mossimo jeans ($120 each down to like $45) and loved it. They feel so much nicer (cannot stress this enough) and have lasted a lot longer which helps balance the cost.
Cheap things are hardly ever worth the cost. If you pay 50% more for clothes you’ll typically get something that’s 10% better looking/feeling, and that lasts twice as long. I buy hundred-ish dollar headphones because they last until I lose them, whereas I break cheaper ones in a few months. I’ve been using the same pair of shoes since 2011, and I’ll admit they probably need a re-sole, but they’re generally fine.
Economy through expense.
Yeah. I grew up on K-Mart clothes and they just didn’t have the lifespan to justify how much cheaper they were. It doesn’t really matter how cheap they are when a pair of shoes is falling apart after only a month.
Of course it’s easier said than done. You can’t go barefoot while you save up the $100 for shoes. Like terrible seventh hand cars that barely run you end up sinking all your money into keeping them going rather than saving for a car that doesn’t break down every 200m.
Just Jeans? I tend to buy the two pairs for $100 promo they have sometimes.
Nah, but I’ll probably swing past there on the weekend. I desperately need to replace a lot of my clothes and I hate spending money on clothes, so the end result is I wear things into the ground 😛
Not that I’m judging or anything but save that for your alone time!
I feel the same way about shoes. I’d rather hunt through sales to get Planet or Earthies which are leather and amazingly comfortable, than wear another crappy cheap pair that hurt my feet.
〓D
It’s taken maybe four or five years, but I think I’ve finally outdone my Sir Arthur outfit. Move over strawberry boxer shorts, now is the time of the GIEF BRIEFS!
(and some additional shots since that one doesn’t show off the belt or boots. Possible NSFW/L warning :P)
You are braver than I 😛
Amazing.
My internal monologue: “Why is he taking pictures of a half naked bearded guy….um…OH. Eek! That is way more of Taco Man than I ever planned on seeing…” 😛
Also: “Good Gief” as the title of that picture was perfect.Also, also. You did good, son. Yours was the most professional looking outfit.It’s ok strange most of it was covered up anyways…. in hair =P XD
Thanks, mum 😛
Did you win first prize?
I think we all got equal first place. Although the guy who was going around picking people seemed to pretty much have me pegged for number one, so call it a moral victory or something 😛
So they should! It looks great!
That beard tho
Nearly at 15 weeks now!
I’m sorry about all the bad things I said about you being a poopy sniper in Splatoon
(pls don’t hurt me)
North Ryde, you say?
Not yet!
Briefly in September and maybe long term…
Good, there is time to prepare 😛
D:
Does that mean shaving away the scariness?
Racist.
Says Gooky!
I’m a Hirsutist
Also my head is friggen cold now.
Ok, so it looks like with javascript disabled you can’t reply to comments. Also can’t view or give votes, and don’t have the notifications up the top. But otherwise the site becomes a whole lot nicer to use 😛
I was wondering why you stopped upvoting me :S
You could always go a couple pages back and grab @os42’s greasemonkey/tampermonkey scripts for turning off trending stories and auto-refresh. Brings the site 90% back to how it used to be.
Oh cool, I missed those. Was mainly just playing around with it to see what happened. I used to have to run without javascript back on my 98 machine just because of sluggishness, so was curious how it goes now 😛
Hm. The Trending Stories one doesn’t seem to work? It still pops up. Unless I’m doing it wrong, which is quite likely. (Edit: I was. Somehow I’d managed to turn greasmonkey off. GG, me). Also do you know if it’d be possible to kill the rolling load thing on the front page, and reinstate the Next Page button? You can get that if you view it with JS disabled, and I prefer that version of the page. Especially since the rolling-loaded articles don’t seem to pop up with the number of comments, you need to access each page directly anyway to view those.
Not sure… I’ll have a look over the weekend and see how it operates. There might be a way to interrupt whatever’s causing the transformation; depends how tightly wired it is to other functionality (notifications, etc).
Got a little insight into corporate apologising today (It’s been a fun day… :P)
Long story short: One of our websites went berserk last night and sent out a couple of old marketing emails to one of our clients’ subscribers.
They want to send out an apology email to everybody today. They’ve been “workshopping” this apology email for… six hours now. I am on standby to send this email out for them as soon as they give me the content. All for a couple of re-sent “here’s a new product we have!” emails.
Can’t imagine what would happen if I had to wait for them to respond to something actually critical 😛
Ugh corporate bureaucracy =P
Oh, private waste time/money in meetings too?
Yay the future 🙁
Sometimes in life, you have to page 6 even when it’s page 7.
I took my son to school for the first time today and I was amazed at the number of mums turning up in 4×4’s. I thought to myself, “They will never use those for off-roading.”
Then I saw them trying to park.
Ice cream van accidents are extremely rare, but always result in the loss of hundreds and thousands.
You don’t see many exit signs these days do you? They’re on the way out.
Being a muppet takes alot of kermitment.
I slept like a rock last night. I woke up in the garden with the house key under my belly.
What breed of dog did the magician have?
A Labracadabradoor.Dad: What’s the difference between a piano, a tuna, and a pot of glue?
Son: I don’t know
Dad: You can tuna piano, but you can’t piano a tuna
Son: ha ha ha very funny. But what about the glue?
Dad: Well, I knew you would get stuck there
There are a lot of special women in my life but Sara Lee takes the cake.
I surveyed 28 women about what shampoo they preferred to use in the shower. 99.9% responded with “How did you get in here?”
Man, that 0.01 is a nice lady
I got arrested selling flags in the street: trading standards.
I don’t get this one
A standard is a term for a flag.
Wow, not once in my 33 years.
I wouldn’t be too concerned about not knowing. A fair few people aren’t aware of the term, so it’s pretty standard.
Phew! I’m sick of having to ask Red all the time.
Is anyone driving down to see @freezespreston during the day this weekend?
I would like to bum a ride/throw in petrol money.
If it’s Sunday I’m bringing a child.
It’s the thought that counts and all that but I’m pretty sure Freeze already has two children…
He’s got a hole in his heart that a third could fill?
MY KID IS BEDDA DAN DA OVA KIDZ
@dc can confirm but he mentioned that he was getting out today?
Yeah, he’s in @transientmind ‘s back seat as we type.
But he’s still stuck at home for a few weeks & was keen on guests
Or maybe not me 🙁
But hey, I bet you drive. I own two cars & have never had a licence (c’mon, I’m only 33 there’s time to get over my fears)
I can’t keep up at work!
Is there an interesting story behind not driving?
Nah, never interested & trying to learn in my 30s scares the shit outta me.
It’s a great time to learn,you won’t be subjected to as many conditions, and you aren’t a reckless teenager anymore. I taught @batguy to drive when he was 28. Even if you don’t need to own a car, driving is a handy life skill, and you can hire a car when you need one. Do get some lessons, and then the rest is simply practise & building up experience on the road.
I took lessons last year, I can do just about anything except reverse park.
I haven’t given up on the idea.
Parking is just about reading spatial cues and practise. Parking into caprpark spaces is way more common, but so many people can’t do it. Lock to Lock people!
I didn’t get my license till I was 26 and was taught by my father-in-law.
At least you could have your wife teach you… Nothing brings a relationship closer together than teaching someone to drive…………..
Tried that, we get into massive arguments over nothing.
I’d rather pay someone.
How come two cars then?
My wife drives, the idea was to upgrade & sell the old one.
Can you use the old to learn?
You need to drive to Sunshine Coast to see me 😛 (not that I’d be there anytime soon)
My learners expired, I need to resit the test 🙁
Resit it for me <3
Eh?!
I’m probably going to go down on Sunday. Although I’m very far south of you so it might be a little bit out of the way to pick you up. =P
I don’t mind getting down your way via train, what station?
Also I think @beawwb was interested in visiting Freeze in hospital on Sunday so he may be interested in going down on Sunday too? Can’t really speak for him.
@beawb ?
@beeawb ?
@IGiveUp
@beeawwb.
@jimu Yes, beawwb beaawb beeawb beeawwwwwwwwwwb was already planning on going to visit at the hospital on Sunday so if it’s just a change of venue from hospital to casa-de-Freezes then I’m all for that as well.
What subeawwb would I need to get to?
Powalen’s Adventures with Spam Emails at Work *jingle*
Well, that worry is put to rest.
Since Haggis has done his thing:
We’ve all met that insufferable person. The one who thinks they know more than everyone else around them, that takes every opportunity to try and appear as smart as possible, and to speak down to the lowly cretins that surround them. Well, when you tell them to get off their damn high horse, take solace in the fact that they don’t have a steed, and are really a pathetic baby who needs to use a high chair as practice. Yes, the mounting horse -an invention that is thought to be over 2000 years old, and a precursor to the modern gymnastics device- was picked up quickly in the theatre, not as a tool to assist those who needed practice hopping on a horse, but as a simple way to distinguish someone’s position. And given the typical role of nobles in theatre as arrogant tosspots, and the extra height they were given, it became a quick crowd insult to yell at them to “get off their high horse”.
Alright, truth be told, I may have fibbed. Because I was looking up the actual origin the other day and it was as boring as you’d expect.Pretty disappointed that link wasn’t to an article 🙁
I never source myself, I just trust that everyone knows how intelligent and good looking I am, and so knows that all I say is objective truth.
Speaking of objective truth, that thing you like? That thing is utter tripe, with no value whatsoever. I know it hurts, I’m sorry.
*shifts around awkwardly*
I was hoping that people would decide that it was a self aware comment about me. :p
Nup, you’re too awkwardly polite.
I thought you were referring to @haggis.
That’s great, I was thinking of you, pal 😉
It’s alright though, 70% of the time I have no idea.
Is that a pelican..?
I’m actually kind of liking this new haircut. Would be more inclined to hang onto it for a while if it didn’t have that big gaping hole at the back though. Stupid genetics 😛
You should convince CJ to get the same cut, and since it’s two of you it counts as a trend.
@cj Let’s do it.
Actually I was thinking of going and getting my shave down to a 4 at least next week
SLOSHER IS OP!
Is this a splatoon thing?
Out of interest, did the Ika Musume / Squid Girl costume thing come out in PAL-land? Apparently the US got it this week.
It did, I have the hat.
I got the shoes!
Oh fuck. Now I have to buy Splatoon. 🙁
I squidding loved Ika Musume. 🙁
Yes, it is a splatoon thing, sorry for not clarifying
I thought it looked like it was going to be OP, but it doesn’t seem too bad at least from giving it a try in the testing range. And haven’t had much trouble against them in battles yet 😛
Actually, not sure I’ve seen that many of them in ranked just now come to think of it.
They are everywhere in normal battles.
The range is more then my .52 gal which is frustrating.
Nothing out-ranges my E-scope 😎
I can’t remember, does the bucket take two or three hits to kill? The gal only does it in two doesn’t it? And I think in the test range had the bucket only do up to 100.2 damage with the kill shot, so even just one Defence Up badge should make them need another shot. Maybe.
Yet the bucket seems to take me out in one hit. You can charge it up can’t you?
Ah, I must’ve been thinking of something else. Just tested it out and got 72 damage with the bucket, so I guess it wouldn’t take much pre-existing damage to get you killed by a single splash. Doesn’t charge though, no.
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/07/rpg-maker-mv-is-a-multiplatform-engine-that-makes-pc-mac-ios-android-and-html5-games/
Holy crap, new RPG Maker version can export the game to HTML5. That’s going to be massive.
So i have to upgrade? Eh, I’ll wait and see what happens with my designer friend first
Probably be a while until it’s in English anyway.
Doesn’t look like it’s a massive upgrade from the last one. Big things are that it supports transparency properly, 48×48 tiles up from 32×32, and can have a FF-style side on battle system if you want it.
Personally if I wanted to make a classic-style JRPG I’d probably code my own from scratch but that’s me.
Not a coder. Not an option for me
Yeah, I’ve flitted between trying to design my own (I think I could do better things with lighting and scripting and stuff, but I’d probably fail at setting up a tileset system for easy dev), and just being lazy. I assume there’s a way to do side-on battles within the old versions (from memory To the Moon is RPG Maker, and it does have a FF style battle, though it’s an entirely scripted thing that happens once), but it’d be a pain and I’m laaaaaaaazy.
So it’s my birthday soonish.
One of my good friends wanted to drive up from my home town for it and stay a few days. I said I’m busy with uni / work on my actual birthday, but that he can come up just after it. I’d like that, considering my birthday is always really, incredibly shit.
Gave my sister a heads up, “He can’t stay, I don’t want him staying, that interferes with my plans”. She isn’t even going to be here for my actual birthday, and her plans for when he’s here are literally to just stay at home.
My friend is a mutual friend too, it’s not even like she doesn’t like him, she’s just a major c*nt.
I’m going to tell her that she can f*ck off, and that it’s my birthday and that he can stay and that if she doesn’t like it then she can go f*ck herself, the miserable bitch.
I’m already spending my actual birthday alone, again, so she will just have to deal with it.
I’m sorry to hear that. I understand how you feel though. Sometimes, you have to be selfish and just say “screw it”.
Yeah, your sister is not playing nice.
In other news, you should celebrate your birthday here: http://www.theobroma.com.au/products.html
It’s my birthday soonish \o/
That is all.
@trjn International etc.
So just watched MVP vs VG and wow, I am so disappointed in MVP.Was it just me or did they utterly throw those games? The first they seemed to just not respect VG at all with bad positioning all the time. Players constantly going balls deep with no vision and no backup for no reason.
And game 2 apparently had tunnel vision and lost at draft.
Lowlight of the watching so far.
I haven’t watched those games. I’ve been watching live and that was on super early morning. After I heard pretty much exactly what you said, I didn’t chase the replay.
Whoa, that’s actually a $150 headset I won.
I guess that’d offset the cost of the materials pretty well. Dunno about the hours though, but then it’s not like I was doing anything else with them 😛
That was a pretty impressive cosplay. I had no idea you had so much.. h.. dedication.
He is a rather hirsute fella, isn’t he?
It’s got to be some kind of cruel joke that I am actually quite proficient at growing hair.
Do you get back hair?’
Because I feel like back hair is some punishment for the ability to grow hair (except that I can’t grow a beard, but shh).
Or maybe the shoulders are. I used to laugh at the Homer Simpson “shaving my shoulders” thing, and now I just weep.
Hahaha, yeah. Thankfully not quite to the extent of my chest, but it’s been slowly increasing over the years. It’s true what they say – there’s no such thing as hair loss. Only migration 😛
I wish my back hair was to the extent of my chest, because then it would be consistent. I just have two hideous patches of ugly.
Also, I love that word.
Right? I only made that comment as an excuse to use it.
It’s much easier to do something like that after the first time 😛
It wasn’t really even the least-dressed I’ve been at that place, either. Maybe next time I should go as Cammy, see if that’s finally what it takes to actually be asked to leave.
Oh god, please do. It will be fantastic!
Rare Replay hngrhhhh so good!
Really raises the bar for any sort of collection – gimme all of dem behind the scenes videos!
YOU’RE HNGRHHHH SO GOOD! >:*
You also raise a bar.
*wink*
MESSAR DREAMS
You can play it now! \o/
There are six different endings. Can you find them all?
I got it in two hours before the deadline. Now I know what development crunch time is like…
(and what it’s like to see a bug at the last minute and make a triage decision that it can be patched up later :P)The game is perfect, so please vote for it! 🙂Just finished season one of The Shield. I’m not really into police procedurals, but this one is definitely one I didn’t know I wanted. Thanks for the recommendation, @shane.
Anytime, man. It only gets better from here, too, if you can believe it.
@freezespreston I hope you are feeling better soon mate, and that the doctors can fix you up and have you home with your family as you recover.
Haha, more random crap dad brought home. A Monty Python 6 CD collection, seems to be in pretty good nick save for a couple of broken hinges. Apparently just picked it up off the floor. And a box full of 15 pianola rolls.
Also, this headset is pretty cool. Comes packed with a tonne of stuff, the USB amp/mixer is probably more interesting than the headset itself. Now I can just use the one set of headphones to listen to both the PC and the TV, no need to physical swap headphones all the time any more. Dunno that I’ll use the actual headphones it came with though, they seem to make my ears get quite warm. Kinda wish they were open rather than closed. But hey, might be good for Elite or something when I’m really getting into it.
You could roll20 over headset!
Which headphones are they out of curiosity?
These ones.
How’s NES Remix?
I’m liking these “Snapshot” challenges in Rare Replay and I hear it’s the same sorta thing in NES Remix (small challenges like “Kill X Enemies in Y Seconds”)
I’m way more familiar with Nintendo stuff anyway so it may be better! Decent value? Funsies?
@mrtaco !
Dunno, don’t have it 😛
Ugh but you have like every other Nintendo thing ever omg like dude I don’t even know you
I’d probably have it if it were a retail release but they didn’t do that here. Then the 3DS one came out and it was the same but different or something and I didn’t know what it was exactly so I held off and yeah, I dunno.
I want Rare Replay! But I don’t have an XB1.
HEY BENNY HOW’S THAT XENOBLADE 3DS COPY YOU SAID YOU’D BUY
😛
I bought it – it’s awesome but I’ve only played about two hours. The music is simply incredible, you really have to plug in a headset to appreciate it though.
I knew you were cool!
They just put Xenoblade on the Wii U eShop too. I reckon it’s probably better on a console rather than a handheld.
I don’t know why squads of three are pitted against squads of four. It’s friggen impossible to not just get steamrolled.
In Splatoon? There is a boost to those that have three though
Oh, yeah. Thought I said squid in there somewhere 😛
You sure about the boost though? It didn’t seem to help us much. Though we were all playing pretty badly, and kept getting put against S-rank teams.
@rize knows more about it.
I haven’t played any ranked games. Maybe I should as I keep doing quite well against the 20-somethings
Looked it up, seems like the three-player team gets to respawn faster, but that’s about it.
Ranked is a great way to earn money and level new gear, though it does take a more aggressive playstyle than regular. I like the change of pace though.
I think I encountered a ranked player, but I really hope I didn’t. Used every single cheap trick they could to dominate every match
Sorry if it was me 😛
It wasn’t you, you weren’t online.
You better be sorry.
@greenius Not sorry for sniping you.
IIRC the respawn boost is from having less people. The thing Scree is referencing is the Tenacity ability, which constantly charges your special when less team mates.
Joe Hockey just solved our housing affordability crisis for all time. He’s so proud of himself.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/aug/08/joe-hockey-orders-sale-of-six-residential-properties-owned-by-foreign-nationals
A whole six houses?
/sarcasm
But really, fuck this government.