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PREVIOUSLY, ON CRIME SCENE INVES-TAY-GATIONS
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Batguy and Cookingmama arrive at the scene of another crime.
Batguy: Serrels has been murdered! Who could have done such a thing?
Cookingmama puts on a pair of sunglasses.
Cookingmama: …I don’t know.
YYYYYYYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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A villainous RedArtifice claps his hands in delight. He wraps one arm around the shoulder of a very unsettled DC.
Red: We’re going to play a little game. You get to decide who lives…
He inches closer to DC’s face.
Red: And who dies!
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CJ is walking to his mailbox. Up the street, a car is speeding towards him. Pants sticks his head out the window, desperately trying to get CJ’s attention.
Pants: CJ, stop! It’s rigged to e-
Blissfully unaware, CJ opens his mailbox, which explodes in a spectacular fashion.
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Batguy and Cookingmama are driving. A mobile rings, Cookingmama answers.
Cookingmama: What’ve you got for me?
On the other end of the line is Kermitron, inspecting some test tubes with a magnifying glass.
Kermitron: We’ve figured it out. All of the evidence points to –
He is beaten over the head by a mysterious figure. The call drops.
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At a gallery display for quilts, TAYbies admire the TAY Quilt, which at long last has been completed. Strange mingles with the guests, champagne flute in hand.
Beavwa: You simply must tell us, Lady Strange, what is this marvellous creation made from?
Strange: Human skin.
There is a long silence. Then everybody begins laughing.
Beavwa: Oh, most splendid! You have such wonderful humour!
Strange walks away from the gathering, into the shadows. Of course. She crushes the champagne flute in her hand.
Strange: Yes. Humour.
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A grief-stricken Nobs is beating the life out of Shane.
Shane: I told you, I don’t know where Freeze is!
Nobs: WHERE IS HE
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Rize plays the flute in a jazz ense-
Cookingmama and Batguy burst through the doors, guns raised.
Batguy: It all ends here, Rize! We know you were the one who killed Serrels.
Rize hurls his flute through the air like a javelin. It sails past Batguy, cuts across Cookingmama’s cheek, and embeds itself in the wall behind them. Both begin shooting. Rize runs across the room, dives headfirst through a window, and the chase is on.
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Cakesmith cradles the body of a severely wounded ShiggyNinty.
Cakesmith: Shiggy! Shiggy no! Speak to me!
Shiggy coughs up a lot of, like seriously a lot of blood you guys.
Shiggy: Remember…the bacon…
Dead.
Cakesmith: NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Powalen and Greenius are in the middle of a standoff in the kitchen, pointing unreasonably large guns at each other. The tension is high, when…
A door slams nearby. Startled, both fire their guns rapidly. There is shouting and people crying out in pain. But you don’t see any of that, because the camera has decided to follow Pants, who has just walked back into his apartment and, wearing headphones, can’t hear a single thing that’s going on. Eventually he walks into the kitchen, where his friends have been reduced to bloody messes.
Pants: …I mopped the floors this morning.
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Batguy and Cookingmama have arrested Rize!
Batguy: Finally, the spirit of Serrels can climb the great rocks in the sky.
They look out to sea. A faded image of the Serrels Stare is cast over the waters as a Taylor Swift song (I don’t know any sorry) plays over the credits.
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AND NOW, THE THRILLING CONTINUATION
#GRITTYREBOOT
Play a game?
We’re playing Carcassonne for high stakes, right?
Rize IS the jazz ensemble!
What
I like stuff.
Morning. The only significant thing I did gaming wise this weekend was scout my house for any unclaimed Club Nintendo game codes. I knew there’d be a few that I hadn’t bothered to input, because of the whole annoying survey anyway, and an hour later, my stars count went from 1700 to 5000! No, it’s not quite over 9000 but now begins the waiting game until closure. Come on, exclusives!
We can still input them? Sweet, I’ve got a ton of them.
Hi.
looks at calendar, oh its Monday pfffft !
Morning errbody hows every little thing? My weekend was blissfully unaware that it was a thing. Saturday I played Rocket League and questioned the new update as I was struggling to play and everyone else felt like they were on the soccer car equivalent of aimbots because god damn they were scoring from anywhere! That night I watched the gallows (would not watch again)
Sunday I went to the shops to browse with cathryn, looked at some board games, brought a cooking book. That day we celebrated my dads birthday with slow cooked red thai beef curry, butter chicken, crumbed chicken and roasted potatoes. We also had mars bar and malteaser slice for dessert. I also played the demo for Citizens of earth (A fun little game on the 3ds) and DBZ extreme botuden (its alright but will wait for the full game)
A morning question, whats your go to birthday dish when someone askes you what you want for your birthday dinner?
My ideal birthday meal:
Roast lamb
Diced potatoes baked in oil
Cheesecake dessert
Who doesn’t love a good roast do you herb the potatos? I use abit of oregano and garlic oil
Nah, not usually. Just crispy oily potatoes!
Should chuck aome herbs in there soo good
I really have no idea for the dinner part, but it would have to be really thick rich mudcake for dessert
Cheesecake factory, that white chocolate cake whos name I forget
Curry also. Probably Beef Madras with naan.
Fuck I love curry.
My man! Nothing like a madras or a korma in winter to warm you up. You had pad kaprow? Its thai, spicy basil and something so good, have it with hokkein noodles forget about it, its like putting your mouth to sleep in a feather blanket
Curry is the blurst.
GET OUT
NO DON’T ARGUE
GET OUT
Oops, I thought that blurst was a synonym for ‘best.’ Upon researching it, I have made the horrifying discovery that it is an antonym for best.
FORGIVE ME
I LOVE CURRY
IT’S SO CURRY-TASTIC
…I’ll let you off easy this time.
BUT I’M WATCHING YOU BOY
A good cut of steak char-grilled to medium-rare with a side of green beans and mash.
I can never get it right at home so will happily pay the $60+ asking price a good steakhouse wants to get it right.
Never spent that much on a steak I just try my darndest to make it myself, i bet those fancy steaks are amazing
My Nanna does a mean rabbit stew. Forget birthdays, this is one meal I’d be more than happy to have as my last.
Never had rabbit stew is it any good?
Brilliant. I don’t know the specifics but it looks exactly like the one in the video below. The best part is that you don’t have to eat the rabbit (many people can’t bring themselves to feast on Miffy – my wife included) the dish that consists of the pasta, peas and tomato/wine sauce that the hare has been soaked in is simply incredible.
http://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/rabbit-stew-stuffat-tal-fenek
Roast pork with roast potatoes, carrots and pumpkin. Dessert is either the trifle or ginger fluff sponge cake that my Nana makes. And being her, both will probably be on offer as well as some kind of fruit salad and/or chocolate pudding. Mmmm, pudding.
So, basically dinner at my grandparents place.
Mmmm pudding, grandparents dinners are almost always the best
Pave de boef medium cuisson with a red wine glaze and roquefort sauce, accompanied by gratin dauphinois and fresh baby green beans, with a cheeky Chateau La Tour Figeac to wash it down.
Dessert is a Saint Honore cake from Pattisons: https://pattisonspatisserie.com.au/index.php/products/cakes/st-honore.html
This is the fanciest guy on TAY right now, everyone else needs to lift their game around this
It doesn’t count, because he just made that stuff up. *nods*
I’m also a shameless francophile, so that probably counts against me 😛
You like to touch James Franco? Thats sick
Nah, it’s worse than that…
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/deadliestfiction/images/7/7d/Franco_cabr%C3%B3nazo.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130622155155
Curry.
Five Spices in Hunters Hill has a beautiful beef massaman curry that has a pastry lid on it in a tagine shape. It’s to die for and not terribly expensive.
Something like this:
http://www.ador.com.au/PixHandler.ashx?p=5652&Size=L&photo_name=Rendang_Beef_Sydney
A good steak I guess. Honestly there’s a ton of different things I like and it would be hard to pick just one thing, depends on the mood I’m in.
Morning all, how is everyone.
My holiday away was nice. except for the part that wasn’t.
Tuesday we went to Bowral, looked at a couple of wineries (omnomnomnom) and had dinner at a very nice restaurant. Seriously if you find yourself out that way try Biota, they did some very nice food.
Wednesday was More wineries, and some cider and Mead tasting. followed by a drive to Batemans bay via Braidwood. at 2pm just outside of Braidwood it was 2 degree celsius.
Wednesday afternoon we went for a walk along the beach after we got to Batemans Bay. I clocked up my 10,000 steps from that walk alone. was very nice despite being cold.
Thursday was the highlight: we went to Mogo Zoo. It was a lovely day. I fed a Girraffe and walked some dingoes and even got some dingo kisses! Also saw a Tiger walk face first into a tree. best day ever.
Friday we meandered our way up the coast to Nowra, stopping acouple of times, once for a small bush walk the second for a look at Jervis Bay. Then more wineries!
( we definitely bought too much wine)
Saturday was the downer. got a call to go over to Wangaratta. it was not a good day, but at least I got to say goodbye to my Grandpa before he died. we then came home yesterday.
So all in all it was a pretty weird week. I don’t know how I feel right now. just trying to keep busy and working away as much as I can.
That’s a pretty full on week. Sorry that you had such a sad end to it.
it was the most relaxed I’ve been in a while. I had a really good time 🙂
Looking forward to boardgames + wine at your place 😉
yes that will have to become a thing now 😀
WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED OF THIS?
because it’s only just become a thing. now that I have Multitudes of wine. :p
If you would like to join us, you should move back to sydney 😛
Fairly sure I’m locked into living in Canberra for a while now.
I’ll just have to bring the wine with me down there 😛
Yay for the first part.
All of the hugs for the last part.
thanks mate. Just have to help the family through it all now.
I made crepes with mandarin zest in place of lemon, played a whole lot of splatoon, built a display case out of Ikea shelves and some lovely oak, and downloaded a remarkable ticking watch face for my pebble time.
I meant to go see the man from UNCLE, we’ll be seeing that this week. Anyone caught it yet?
Here’s something that goes REALLY well with mandarin crepes: https://www.danmurphys.com.au/product/DM_909835/mandarine-napoleon-grande-liqueur-imperiale-500ml
…or just on ice, or mixed with a nice dry sparkling white.
I’m trying to get into the current generation of consoles, and I’ve decided to jump for an Xbone – prompted mostly by the fact that my Rock Band DLC is all on my 360 account. Still, I’m not really blown away by any of the JB or EB bundles for the 1 TB.
Does anyone know someone else who offers bundles or who might be cheaper on the 1 TB machine? Target and Big W don’t seem to have had anything lately.
The bundles out there at the moment aren’t amazing. You could also try the Microsoft Store (have nothing much at the moment but sometimes have good bundle deals) and Dick Smith online.
Ta, dude – I’ll keep an eye out. If there’s nothing good by next month I’ll probably pick up the Forza version because… well… because blue. But thanks for the tips.
Hey TAY. I spent a large portion of my Saturday playing Splatoon, getting a lot of time in the new Rainmaker game mode (for the record this mode is greeaaaaaaaat). On Sunday my sister, who recently came home from 2 years in America, and I visited my cousins, where we proceed to eat a lot, and also a lot of ice cream. Fast forward a few hours, and we’re at her boyfriend’s place, eating more ice cream. I ate 5 different flavours of ice cream yesterday. No regrets.
What flavours. WHAT FLAVOURS!?
The ice creams were:
Peters Drumstick mini vanilla
Connoisseur Cookies and Cream
Connoisseur Belgian Chocolate
Connoisseur Derwent Valley Raspberry & White Chocolate
And a Coles-brand vanilla which I am counting as a different flavour to the other vanilla, because frankly the Drumsticks aren’t really just vanilla.
They all sound equally awesome.
Except y u no Boysenberry?!
Hola Tayberinos
My weekend was OK, I guess
Friday, did some more work on my pip-boy, I’ve completed the main body but before I do anything else I’m going to break and work out the wrist cuff in cardboard because I think it’ll be fiddly. @scree this might be the bit I get foam glue for.
Saturday, went to a family thing. My mother’s 90 year old uncle and aunt were over to see my pop, so we had a get-together there. Parents are on their way to Victoria so had the car packed up with the dog, who really, really needs to stop jumping on people, bowled over one of my cousin’s two year olds. Lucky no real hurt, and the dog was just trying to be friendly, but yeah more training needed.
FAMILY DRAMA, SPOILED BECAUSE LIMITED INTEREST WHINING
I’ve mentioned here my pop is undergoing chemo atm, and the relationship between my mother and aunt and my pop’s wife (Whom I’ll call Margaret, because that’s her name) is fraught. Apparently during the week it blew up, which is fuuuuuun. Apparently Margaret accused my mother of trying to exclude her and pop from family things, which is frankly untrue, and dredged up a whole bunch of paranoid shit. So that’s fun, especially when I kinda want to see my grandfather, y’know? Hopefully they resolve it, but it’s really saddening. Ergh.Sunday, I stayed in and played Dragon Age, which I’m really enjoying. Must get back into the Witcher at some point, and pass Bloodborne, but fuck everything about Martyr Logarius.
A Monday Morning Question: Dragon Age lets you play essentially fighter, rogue or wizard. Which are you in real life?
There’s no ‘boring, lethargic, unmotivated white collar’ option?
I think that’s ‘wizard’ 🙂
I’m a wizard, Harr- er, Red. I even have scrolls and tomes of knowledge and lore so I’m pretty sure I’m qualified.
Best of luck on the pipboy!
I’m a fighter who likes to cast spells!……… So yeah I’ll just point my sword at people and make laser noises.
Fighter all the way im in the thick of it as nothing feels better than punching someone in the face..or so video games tell me
Wizard onward to Arcane warrior as while punching someone in the face sounds cool… punching someone in the face with a flaming fist is just better in every way.
Also mainly cuz I use my mind to solve a lot of the problems I face rather than my fists 🙂
Probably a rogue. I’m small, quiet, observant, independent, avoid head on confrontation and enjoy neither academia nor working out.
Hmm, a little bit of everything… I’m big, strong and enjoy hitting things, I’m generally a persuasive and occasionally manipulative talker with an interest in lockpicking (at least I will be when I can afford to buy a set) and I find myself drawn to esoteric knowledge and I’d never ever say no to ‘crossing the line man was not meant to cross’.
When I read that back, it sounds like I’m going to be the one to start the zombie apocalypse, then break into your house and beat you up so I can hide there…
I’m a wizard pretending to be a bard whilst being a particularly ineffectual wizard 🙂
I’m a fighter, in the thick of it center of attention stuff.
Sorry to hear about your pa’s situation tearing up like that again too man.I don’t like starting Monday with a rant but after seeing Neil deGrasse Tyson last night with Transient and Freeze I was asked how my weekend was and excitedly said I went. A colleague genuinely asked if I went as part of some Uni requirement or just to go – before I could reply someone else jumps in with a “because he’s a *cough*nerd*cough*” followed by a round of laughter.
I just stood there dumbfounded and the first thing that bounces through my head is the words Neil said last night – without people being scientifically literate we’re starting the sequence of events that leads to the bankrupting of our nation. I can’t help but think it’s attitudes like that the drive people away from science and other STEM disciplines.
What shits me is that I was really looking forward to sharing some of the more interesting moments from last night with my work colleagues because I want to share some of the enthusiasm with them… This morning has made me realise there’s very little point.
PS. The young 8 year old girl who got up on stage with Neil and brought along a basic Lego solar system she’d cobbled together was awesome. I can’t wait for my kids to be that interested in science!
Aw man, that sucks. Sorry to hear 🙁
Ugh, people sometimes.
yeah people are idiots. I’m glad I work in an IT department, because most IT departments are full of nerds who get it. but yeah sorry to hear you have to put up with that.
Surely people can’t still be down on “nerds”, right? Not in a world of high speed WiFi, YouTube, electric cars, the higgs boson, and seeing the echo of the big bang.
We can see mountains on Pluto, and Brian May helped! He’s a nerd!
Anti-science is holding back the entirety of civilisation, it’s abhorrent that any individual should want to get in the way of that.
Great point. I’d say the ones calling nerd are the ones getting left behind real quick.
I imagine they’re the type of people who try to keep up with the kardashians. I would much rather be a nerd.
They pointed out last night that only about 10% of high school children in Australia are pursuing STEM careers at the moment. Exact words Tyson used were “Your country has no future”.
Ouch. Tbh, my dad and I probably would have loved seeing that show.
The STEM issue is broader than that- we’re really, really bad at commercialising research and science based employment.
FWIW, this is a recognised issue- I’ve been involved with several initiatives that are trying to get STEM enrolment up, but it’s really bloody hard when there’s few jobs and therefore little visibility of working scientists. Hell, the above is one of the reasons I’m not working in a science career: When I got out of uni, there were very, very few roles open.
That seems at odds to a statement last night that job growth in the associated industries is growing faster than any other in Australia?
Granted I think a large chunk of that may be in the technology (IT, development, systems etc) rather than science, maths or engineering.
ICT and Engineering is growing. Research in the private sector is sluggish, and science outside of medicine is really slow
One of the big effects of the GFC was a LOT of companies cut R&D budgets first. Australia also has incredibly low levels of venture capital, which funds a lot of private research and commercialisation in the US.
Last night got me scared at several stages… Mostly the whole insignificance piece.
That line though – was viscerally scary – it’s our lives and our kids futures that are being jeopardised. Where the hell will Australia be in 40 years when there is nothing left to dig out of the ground and no-one educated enough to keep up with the India’s, China’s and South Korea’s of the world?
You’re WRONG! We have coal! \o/ Suck on that Neil deGrasse Tyson; coal is the future!
CLEAN COAL! \o/
#JoeHockeySaysThings
Don’t forget, coal is beautiful, unlike those horrible ugly wind farms.
Don’t forget dangerous! Extremely dangerous wind farms!
Share your highlights here! I was listening to him on the radio the other day, and he’s just fascinating to listen to!
(although if I had to choose between Neil de Grasse Tyson and Brian Cox, I’d pick Professor Brian every time *swoon*)
Your experience is exactly why I keep my nerdyness at work under wraps; there’s still a stigma attached to the word and I imagine it isn’t going to go away anytime soon until the generations that used the word derogatively die off.
I just wear it as a badge tbh, it’s cuz I’m a nerd that I’m a known legend in my role with how well I can fix issues and how quickly I do so.
I’ve stopped giving a shit about comments like that many years ago, they’re just jealous of your mind’s power
It really depends on your career environment tbh; if I spoke to HR reps when looking for work or even my supervisor showing off my nerd knowledge it would actually act as a detriment to my career prospects long term making me less relatable than the generic alpha male douchebag I get to share my day with.
That’s still a problem though.
Every newly born person has a small probability to be the brain which solves a societal problem, and society should, in its own best interest, afford that brain every opportunity to achieve that potential.
That means education without misdirection (intelligent design, bullying, etc), and the availability of professional pursuit.
People in society who oppress the scientific are also bound to be parents, and possibly of potential scientists. But with parents like that, the chances of achievement are massively reduced.
This is why we can’t just wait; we need everyone on board as soon as possible to maximise our global potential. We need to lift ccountries with poor education because it WILL benefit us all.
Grrrrrrr. That makes me so angry.
Urg. So much adult. When do I get to sleep?
Weekend disappeared somewhere in a miasma of dog kennels, puppy training and yard work. Then spent a few hours Sunday night staring at a word document to try to figure out how to make it something more ‘creative’ for my work’s annual review.
Now have a flat pack kennel to put together at night during the week whenever I manage to get away from work.
So, uhhh, fun. I’ve been a bit quiet lately because so much stuffs and things and misc and other has all just caught up.
How’s everyone else going?
I WANNA MEET THE PUPPY! BRING IT TO ME! please.
I apologise for my absence and silence since returning from holidays. I think I need to report my spare time as missing, presumed dead.
Haven’t done any socialisation for puppy with other dogs yet. Training is all about ignoring other dogs and paying attention to owners, it seems. We should plan something for the dogs to all meet once I’ve got a better idea what Siegmeyer is like with other dogs.
Sid is a good first start because he is tolerant of puppies. The only puppy he put down (sounds bad but I’ll explain) was one that had been jumping on him for half an hour and not reading his “leave me alone” signs. He grabbed the puppy by the loose skins of the neck, pushed it to the floor and then let go. That’s at the park when there is ball though. =P
Okay, so I just really wanna meet the puppy! =P
A dog meat is in the works of being organised. I just need to decide when. Thinking perhaps in November after Pax.
As for absence, I just assumed you were fed up with me =P But Mum and I are saving up for me to have some lessons and go for my license
Is it a shiny? The puppy that is =P
He’s our special little one of a kind puppy.
Just like every other puppyShiny in our eyes anyway.
I want pictures and details D=
*takes note of no mention of SMTIV*
*disgusted look*
I downloaded it… That’s a start. It’s also the first (and probably only) downloadable full game bought on 3DS for me.
Same, although I’m thinking about Boobs of Princess, I mean, Code of Boobs, I mean, Metallic Bikini Princess Boobs, I mean…
Don’t do it.
Seriously, don’t. Code of Princess is crap. If you want a boobie game then save your pennies and get Senran Kagura 2 in a few months.
Nah, I wanted walk along beat em up. I just finished* Dragons Crown this morning.
*I got an ending & credits rolled, then they said we raised the level cap , do it all again on hard with 2 extra levels & it’s obvious they’ll ask I do it a third time on extra hard :-/
Are you much into walk along beat em ups? Were you a Streets of Rage or Final Fight fan?
Senran Kagura 2 is basically a side-scrolling a beat em up. And yes, I was a Sega kid so I played Streets of Rage. But the peak of that genre is still Turtles in Time on SNES I think. Or maybe the two D&D games that Kamitani worked on that inspired Dragon’s Crown.
I love TiT but think SoR2 is my personal fave.
Both have amazing soundtracks.
I only played those two DnD ones recently & wasn’t impressed. Pity I missed out back in the day :-/
My weekend was filled with looking after people with active imaginations. Saturday was looking after tiny toddlers and assembling a bed with my Dad so that the youngest can move out of his cot. They’re still tiny and kind of annoying in that small child way but they weren’t too bad this weekend.
Sunday was RPG day and filled with 40K Chaos and heresy. The group had captured an astropath and sent a message to a group of traders that they might be willing to share some stuff. The traders turned out to be Dark Mechanicus and the group had the bright idea of trying to steal their ship. Needless to say, they haven’t completely succeeded so far as they’ve boarded the vessel after fighting through Skitarii and Murder Servitors and getting pretty beaten up. Next time will tell if they manage to actually capture a ship filled with Dark Mechanicus goodies.
I’m pretty sure Bungie hates my wife. I tried running Vault of Glass twice on her account. First run: Praedyth’s Revenge and Corrective Measure. Both decent weapons, but not the Atheon’s Epilogue she was after. Second run: nothing but ascendant materials. Literally nothing. Not an exotic drop, not a ship or a piece of armor. Just diddly squat.
Bungie hates everyone who plays Destiny; their ideal player base is a population middle class masochists. I mean I’d have to assume that given how they’ve designed the game.
Two Crota runs in the last 2 weeks. I got shards in almost every drop. The one drop that wasn’t was energy. No weapons, no armour.
*shakes fist at RNG*
So, has anybody ever felt like they were left behind? Like, everybody else always grew up faster and you were playing catchup. Not just in terms of careers but also in independance. There are times where I’ve felt like I’ve always been lagging behind the rest of the world.
But then I remember one of my friends. A guy in his early 30s who has no friggen idea how to be an adult. He spent the last 11 years living with his girlfriend (who is a friend of mine from highschool) where they pretty much did all the work of being an adult.
So those two officially broke up several months ago and he moved in to another friends house. Since then it’s became apparent that he has no idea how to adult. To the point that he was kicked out of the house. It wasn’t even a landlord problem, he has no idea how to clean, cook, or even pay bills.
Cleaning is very simple, especially if all you do is pick up after yourself. You don’t have to wipe down all the time, just wash your dishes if they pile up.
Cooking is different, because of someones upbringing. But he started posting pictures of very simple meals that he was ‘proud’ of making. Even though we learned to make those meals in our teenage years.
Paying bills is the most baffling. He’s a bouncer, so he works on weekends and gets paid pretty well. But apparently he always have trouble paying his bills, even rent. He was making more than I was when I was working a week, now on Centrelink I can still pay rent and my bills. But this guy always has an empty account? How? He never buys anything, he doesn’t own a car, he doesn’t even play games or own a console/PC. We have no idea where his money goes if he can’t pay his rent.
I lived with a guy from a rich family that had no idea how to clean & would blow his paycheck before paying bills.
I was always a year younger than my peers as a result of skipping an early primary school grade, but it just meant I was left out of most social outings at 14 and 17 years of age. So I only ever felt left behind at those times. I moved out of my parent’s home at 21, learned to be independent, renting for around three or four years before buying my first house.
Ah, taking the Joe Hockey advice I take it?
Ha, I wish.
I think my point is, there’s those of us who take the jump and learn along the way, and then there’s those that put off everything and then struggle to adapt? I don’t know, I’ve never been on that second side so I’m just guessing.
Sometimes you have no choice. I’ve always had trouble finding a place to live and my current place is the only one I have any credit as I can’t and refuse to use some of my previous locations (the landlord for one place was terrible and would only say negative things out of spite).
For as long as I can remember I’ve always wanted my own place and to live on my own, needless to say when I finally got my own place after uni I spent the next year figuring out how to cook/clean and manage my bills. While I didn’t have any savings left that year the lessons I learned with regards to being independent were invaluable because at the end of the day independence comes at the cost of responsibility.
I can safely assume though that since most of my friends still live with their parents there aren’t too many of them who would’ve had my set of experiences so I think it would be safe to say it’s quite systemic to my generation, they’re just going to have to learn the hard way in 5-10 years. From the sounds of things your friend just needs time by himself (i.e. get his own place instead of flat sharing cos he’ll just palm off the responsibility then) before he figures out how to manage his finances and realizes shit doesn’t get cleaned if you don’t scrub it yourself.
The problem is that since he’s lived with his girlfriend for 11 years he has no rental history or references. Who’s going to let him rent when he has no proof that he wouldn’t destroy the place? (even though that’s kinda true)
Wait he lived with his girlfriend and they weren’t on the lease together? He’s going to need a referral letter from his ex; or contact the real estate agent and confirm they lived together and that the place was in good condition when they left. RE Agents can do an informal letter like that even if the other person wasn’t on the lease.
Edit: Also rental history is usually the cherry on the pie really; it’s more important that he can show consistent income and can get a referral from his employer. He can explain away the lack of real estate referrals but provide a contact for the agent his ex used to rent from.
Well, she still lives with her parents.
and the place isn’t exactly in ‘good’ condition.
Wait what? Let me get this straight; this is a grown ass man who was living with his girlfriend who was living with her parents?! Yeah ok; I wouldn’t want either of those two as tenants.
Well she’s fine. She’s just always had trouble saving money since he was always ‘borrowing’.
From a rental perspective (depending on the market really and I’m talking from Sydney) if you’ve hit your 30s with 0 rental history and are looking for a place by yourself that’s a high risk tenant. If you’re female the risk is mitigated and if you’re a couple or a family the risk is pretty much non-existent. I also dont understand how either of them had any significant expenses and couldn’t save if they were both living at her parents place…. If anything they should have had a deposit for their own place 4-5 years in (not that I would recommend purchasing in the current market; this shits crazy yo!).
Edit: He’ll need to settle for a studio apartment for at least 6 months and use that to build rental history; it’s called growing up and owning your damned responsibilities. If you don’t have rental history because of the choices you made in the past; time to make some new ones for the future so that you do get some rental history which you can use to catapult into a much better place.
Thing is, they were saving up to buy their own place. They were talking about it for years. But like I said, he really has no idea on budgeting.
Also they took some time off to do studying.
To be fair neo I know couples who’ve put together deposits in a much shorter time-frame while renting. Personally I don’t believe in buying your own home until you’re damn well and truly ready (i.e. 20-30% deposit with cashflow to pay it down in 5-10 years). Your friend needs a shot of reality and while I realize you guys are going to want to help him it sounds like he’s been bubbled for a good portion of his adult life. He needs to take a leap into reality and learn to manage his finances/personal hygiene/lifestyle expenses and he can’t expect to be bailed out or have someone cover for him.
drugs.
*cough* subtle *cough* =P
Then it must be somewhere else since he hasn’t been caught with anything in the house.
Also he rarely goes out.
I feel that way sometimes about myself. I didn’t move out of home until right before I turned 31 last year. I’d wanted to for a while but had basically been in a financial position where I’d been supporting my Mum for a long time (parents effectively separated as Dad lives & works overseas). Moving to the US in a month or so and it’s freaking me out because I won’t have anyone to fall back on if I actually do need help with anything, so a bit of a sink or swim thing.
I can actually cook though if I decide to, I’m just lazy and cooking for just one is tricky and can get expensive if you’re not really careful.
Ha. Only constantly 😛
Morning tay and peeps and stuff!
Hope you’re all well!
My weekend was a blur of working out, fiery pain(turns out I should actually get, you know, proper clothing, prior to going for a run lest my inner thighs turn into fiery pits of hell due to chafing :-P)
And playing vidya gaems!
So, good weekend all up
Kmart has some cheap but decent workout clothes. Try there.
Yeah was going to go to those places when I have my next day off to check some stuff
Aldi have a bunch of great workout clothes right now! They have men’s compression shorts at the moment for about $20 which will definitely save you from chafing (but you can wear them under running shorts)
Ooooohhhh didn’t even think of Aldi, thanks!
They were in Saturday’s sale, so some of the sizes might be running out depending on the store, but my local one had heaps of stuff. I picked up some extra socks.
Bah, you eastern staters and your “aldi”
Jealous.
Coming soon!
yeah, I just googled that, looks like they’re gonna all be in the north or down south. Couple up your way by the looks of things
I’ve tried Aldi. Food was horrid. Never returned. 8/10.
Guys, guise, guhz, I get me first real Platinum Trophy on the weekend, for Lost Dimension 😀
Guys?
Wooooo!
I think I have three
Mass Effect 2
Borderlands 1
Saints Row 3
Only two for me
Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition (PS4)
Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (PC)
I’ve got a few (if you count Xbox equivalents as well)
Dark Souls (360)
Dark Souls 2 (360)
Bloodborne
Shadow of Mordor
Rocket League
Beyond Two Souls
(The Walking Dead Season One, but this one is automatic upon completing the game once, and probably shouldn’t count)
Yeah, I have 1 for Walking Dead too.
Dark Souls
Diablo 3
Dante’s Inferno
Borderlands
Infamous: Second Son
Also got 100% in Wonderboy in Monster World but there’s no platinum for that one.
I have… NONE!
*cries*
I have one.
Heavy Rain.
I’m so sorry.
There’s a lot of trophies that all route through the ‘reveal’ childhood sequence. Missus got sick of it by about halfway through.
I’ve had to hold off any further David Cage games for a few years because of that grind.
I’m holding off any David Cage games because they’re David Cage games.
He’s a dick, but his games are fuuuuun
I wanted my first platinum trophy to be metal gear rising, but then I saw there’s DLC locked ones and if they end up counting, I’ll cry.
Isn’t that DLC free?
Oh so it is! *After looking it up*
Thanks for the heads up Neo Kaiser 🙂
Yeah I gpt the platinum trophy in Rocket League then they added the DLC so now im platinumed at 86%
Does collecting all achievements for a game count? If so I have about 70.
Same diff.
You should liaise with @gutsoup
I only have one Platinum and it’s for Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus.
I find most games tend to put the Platinum out of reach for me, usually involve a hard-mode playthrough or something stupidly time consuming or a bunch of multiplayer. SK was one of the few where it required you to basically just clear the game with everyone, max out one character and then beat the optional last boss. It was actually doable.
Yep, same with this. I’d already done all but 2 or 3 just trying for the true ending. It was only a matter of clearing up a few missions & finding 3 hidden files I’d missed.
Was a pleasure to do, rather than the chore most trophy lists look to me.
On the weekend I finished “Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture”. It was a pretty cool guy, but I don’t think I’d play it again.
I also (finally) finished the main story for Destiny. Only took me 11 months. No to try and reach level cap before The Taken King drops (hah!). The way their content works is weird. Most MMOs have content that flows straight into the next. Not Destiny though. You finish the main story around level 18-19 and then you can’t do the DLC until level 26? The fuck? So now I get to grind out strikes. Yay!
Also did a GTA: Online heist last night. I’m amazed at how fun that game still manages to be. Even with the weird bugs (like @rize committing suicide by falling through water while swimming). Also the challenge of trying to punch the person next to you when you finish a mission and avoid getting punched is always fun.
Sad i missed the heist last night but it did allow me to finally dig into story mode a little bit and @rize wasn’t kidding, Trevor is reeeeeeaaaaaally grating!
It’s like they tried to embody a standard GTA player in a real person and it’s just not working 😛
I need to play more of the single player. I think I’ve done like the first maybe 10 missions.
I am definitely enjoying most parts of it, if you ignore the stereo types the 3 characters are trying to embody, there’s certainly some fun to be had…
My favourite mission so far would have to be the
Life InvaderOne (spoilered just in case despite not really being a spoiler)
I thoroughly enjoyed that.
I learned that shooting @Cakesmith while he is in a helicopter is a bad idea … A VERY bad idea.
Armor determines your level though. You pretty much go to level 26 with blue armor once you hit 20 naturally.
Oh god, it’s WoW and ilvl all over again…
LFG for *raid*, PST for invite ilvl 280+ only
Must be Tank with *Insert build that you would never use anywhere else in the entire game*
I totally read on some forum somewhere that if someone playing a class/role I’ve never even thought about playing respecs into all these obscure PvP skills instead of their mandatory tanking skills they can practically solo the third phase of the rather easy to beat second last boss.
But not for much longer!
Taken King is gonna make levels work the traditional way.
And make light levels work like more traditional iLevels, from what I can tell (never played WoW beyond about level 30).
AWWW SHIT DAWG!!!
They’re being deliberately obtuse on the subject – they’ve just that more light will allow you to hit harder and take more damage… but not by how much. They’ve shown characters with light levels in the 200-300 range, too, so guessing players with current 34s will likely be starting as level 34s with a minimum 238 light (34 light on each armour piece and weapon). Should become clear by Thursday – they’re doing a twitch stream Thursday morning of the new tower, questing, and how items etc. will transition when 2.0’s deployed.
THERE’S A NEW TOWER!?
@dkzeitgeist … poor phrasing, sorry. “Revamped” would be a better word – existing NPCs that now have questlines and better character development, kiosks for equipping shaders and emblems, and a few other minor changes. I think most of the stream will be about how gear will transition and how the new questing system will work.
I’m planning on wiping my warlock and doing a virgin run through all content…. 🙂
@trikeabout See, I’d love to do that, but I don’t have the vault space to store all my gear while I do it. I’ll have to settle for replaying everything as a 34… 🙁 Might recreate my ‘lock later in the year if I can sort out my gear… he’s the one that has all my crucible wins, so can’t get rid of him before TTK lands anyway (cos triumphs).
Well, one of the HDMI ports on my TV has gone kaput, so I’ll have to get it repaired.
Also, I’ve decided that the AFL is a waste of time for the rest of the year…
…maybe I’ll stick with Rocket League.
To be fair, if Rocket League was on TV I’d watch the SHIT out of it.
and I would want to try commentating the SHIT out of it.
Why have you sworn off the AFL? The Cats aren’t doing too bad, and there’s only three more weeks in the home and away season.
I played Rocket League and Pokemon Y over the weekend. Mr 4 and I have acquired a 2DS so that we can challenge some trainers at PAX (and get beaten, but who cares!)
And I ran my first sub-40min parkrun for the first time in ages, which felt good.
Are there any Pokémon you want? I can churn out some decent ones to give you a bit of a bonus edge…
I just trained up my main PAX team on the weekend. It’s very shiny but I’m likely to be one of the earlier speed bumps for those on their way to Pokémon League glory.
Thanks for the offer. I can’t think of anything off the top of my head (it’s been *years* since my last pokemon playthrough) but I’m sure we’ll have a list by the time we get to PAX!
Well, in the lead up, if you ever think “I’d really like to be using [mon]”, drop me a message on twitter, I have a living dex and a good breeding setup so it doesn’t take me long to churn something reasonable out.
Ah, going to cons and challenging other trainers is really fun! When I went to comic-con last year, the guy running the Nintendo booth was challenging the people hanging out. I didn’t get to battle him, though apparently he was quite formidable and is the organiser of the VGC tournaments in Australia. So he will probably be there at PAX too. I’m guessing they’ll mostly be playing Pokemon ORAS now though.
If you’re going to PAX this year, hit up the PAX Pokemon League!
You’ll spot me (and a couple of other TAYbies) as gym leaders!
I was going to LAN at a friend’s place, but my laptop was acting up… I hate to think how much time was subsequently spent watching nerdcubed playing OMSI and Train Sim and Euro Truck :p
also started tinkering with AirMech again and now have a couple of derpy pet birds flying around my mech… and when they say the Devastator is pretty much six Goliaths stapled together they aren’t kidding! Worth the investment for a killer late-game base-busting tank 😀
and now I need to find my dining room table again since after cleaning it of other detritus I kinda went and opened all my Wave 2 Super Dungeon Explore Kickstarter add-ons >.
I always wanted to try out AirMech but could never find a partner, what’s your thoughts on it?
it’s a fun sci-fi alternative to the MOBAs for relatively short skirmishes. I’m always happy enough just to play with the AI and tinker with the loadouts, so I haven’t looked at any of the high level PvP. Since the base game is F2P you might as well check it out and see what you think after a few rounds (I usually just pick a new unit to mess around with and do a casual 2v2 with AI players)
I’m also more interested in the eventual single player campaign they have planned, but that’s only after they’ve done more with the level editor and base building features.
Yesterday I made cheese, it turned out rather well.
It’s really quite easy as well; just make some plain junket, tip it into a square of thin cloth (muslin in my case but the book even suggests a large handkerchief) then tie it up into a bag shape and let it hang over a bowl to let the moisture drip out for 6-8 hours then turn it over and do it again. It ended up having a consistency part way between cottage & ricotta cheese, there was a hell of a lot of shrinkage though, 600ml of milk made about 100g of cheese.
Next weekend I plan to try the recipe for yoghurt cheese which is even easier; tip yoghurt into cloth, hang up, wait…
I suppose in theory if you wanted a sweet cheese, you could use flavoured junket tablets or fruit yoghurt, I may have to try strawberry cheese as my third attempt.
Yes, you start to appreciate the cost of cheese like parmesan when you realise how much milk it takes to make a small amount of cheese.
I will direct you to Cheeselinks. They sell EVERYTHING you need to make cheese at home.
I recommend getting some goats milk and making some goats curd cheese. It’s much smoother in texture and has an incredible flavour!
Ooooh I shall be bookmarking the hell out of that site! If I get this job, I might just make a present to myself of the camembert, fetta & cheddar kit.
Have you used any of their stuff before or is it just a site you know about?
A friend of mine went to one of their cheesemaking classes, and bought the book. She’s successfully made camembert and feta at home, as well as lots of yoghurt and soft cheese.
I’ve bought their yoghurt starters, and they work really well with my easiyo yoghurt maker. I’ve also bought goat milk and made a very nice strained goat milk cheese (like yoghurt cheese, but even better)
Gang,
Holy shit that Disneyland news!
CAN YOU EVEN FUNCTION!?
Me and a mate were talking yesterday and he theorized a giant glass screen that projects a holographic Death Star in the sky over Star Wars land. MAAAAAAAGIC!!!
Also, there’s a rumor that there’ll be an expanded ARG exclusive to the land in which you join the Rebels or the Empire (or whatever they’re called now) and you’re tracked throughout the attractions and activities.
So for example on Star Tours, someone gets called out as a Rebel Spy. Imagine bombing around Star Wars land after you’ve been on Star Tours and seeing your face on a wanted poster or being accosted by bounty hunters? SHIT WOULD BE CASH MONEY, PLAYA!!!
Look, I’m too excited.
I’m gonna go lay down and try and put myself in a coma for 8 years so I don’t have to wait.
Love,
Dan
PAX FLIGHT BOOKED
I’m getting in on the Thursday arvo, and I thought I might check out the David Bowie Is exhibition that arvo/evening if anyone wants to join me
So…. Bloodborne \o/ Took out the blood starved beast on my first attempt over the weekend! Used up all my fire paper though…… thank god for the whip mode of threaded cane cos damn without that range I would’ve died to it for sure! Also cheesed Djura after dying to him like 6 or 7 times =P He just made it so annoying to farm old yharnam I had to find a way to kill him :@ The friendly little online notes helped me realize “fall is effective”. Got killed by body bag freaks while exploring the cathedral ward and got trapped in the Unseen village…. until I eventually made my way to Darkbeast Paarl, only to give up a few hours later and read up on the fight to realize this stupid boss is like 6 bosses later :@!!!! Unlocked the ludvig weapons though! So now I’m farming blood to buy them ^^
Bloodborne question, strength or skill when levelling up a damage dealing stat? So far almost all the weapons I’ve unlocked have Strength has the preferred stat (only threaded cane has skill and rifle spear which I hate using).
Paarl is less difficult than you think, you can take him more or less now (and I did, the bastard)
He killed me in two hits………. D=
Edit: Also I hit him like 3 times and did barely any damage >.
Double Edit: Also he’s shit scary =O LOOKIT THE SIZE OF HIM!
Get under him and slash at him with something with reach.
Doesn’t hurt to grind a bit though.
If you hit him a bunch of times on his torso in quick enough succession, you’ll suddenly do a huge amount of damage and he’ll lose his lightning! I beat him first time (though I’m sure it was partly luck), because I never gave him the chance to recover his lightning.
I’ll give this a try later today! Is Str preferred to the skill stat when it comes to weaponry?
I think a balanced approach is your best bet, IIRC (I haven’t played BB in a few months now). I’m pretty sure most weapons scale with both, so either way, you’ll be better off after each new level. All the stats have soft caps in place, so if you focus on just one, you’ll see diminishing returns pretty quickly. Levelling them together is a pretty safe bet.
I got so damned close to killing the blood starved beast but then he was all rude and clawed my back in two while I was trying to heal. Terribly impolite of him, once my hands are feeling up to it again (from arthritis, he didn’t kill me that hard), I’m going to go back and give him a jolly good talking to. With my axe…
The worst part about that fight is the damned poison; I finished him off with literally 15% hp remaining and 0 potions left. If not for boosting my damage with fire paper (thank you werewolf mechanics) I would’ve died that try for sure.
Edit: It’s funny though after father gasciogne and cleric beast I spent the first few minutes of this fight just gauging his attacks; didn’t even bother counter-attacking just waited and watched and dodged until I found a solid opening (He has a right armed swipe that you can side-step and get 2 swipes in behind him before he recovers). After that even after he went berserk I knew what to watch for =D
Yeah the poison was a bit of a bastard, I took more than a few hits while swapping between antidotes & fire buffs. In fact I’d probably ultimately blame that for the death, having to remember to switch the items around was just enough of a distraction to leave me vulnerable. Vicar Amelia taught me the valuable lesson of clearing non-essentials from my quick item list though, one time I wanted to use the fire paper but accidently hit the dpad twice and when I hit use, I turned my lantern on. It’s almost like I was saying “How bad was that hit? Oh I need more light to see by…” as I was getting hit more and more…
At least I’m secure in the knowledge that upgrading my hand flamer was an excellent use of resources, that thing is amazing at taking down boss health.
I went into that fight… without my antidotes equipped…. I tried to run away and equip them but the stupid beast swiped me =@
RocketTAY League
In case you missed it on Friday, the Rocket League league teams are as follows.
Team 1
@redartifice
@tigerion
Team 2
@benny
@fatshadylive
Team 3
@crazyguy1990
@shane
Team 4
@phoenix
@cakesmith
Team 5
@bdkiaf
@coldcamv
Team 6
@markserrels
@freezespreston
Team 7
@jacksonwryan
@rize
Team 8
Finishedlast (@finishedlast on Twitter)
@blaghman
As of right now, 2/8 teams have joined the league. If your team hasn’t, head over to the website to set up your team and join the league when you can. We’ll start the first round as soon as all 8 teams have joined.
https://rocket-league.com/league/550
Edit: You’ll need the passcode to join the league, DM me on twitter when you’re ready to join and I’ll send it through.
Well I just went 10-17 against bots in Rocket league. Guess who is carrying the team @redartifice
We also need to decide on our awesome team name
“The Rocket League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen?”
Did consider that one as well.
Are team names limited in length? Ok just checked and it is limited to 30 Characters so that isn’t going to work unless we limited it to Extraordinary Gentlemen which might be a bit /brag
Cunning Artificers?
Rocket Roll?
Cunning Artificers works for me, I’ll set it up
How do I make my team, the ‘Car-razyGuys!’ join the league? There doesn’t seem to be a button or anything…..
The site is a bit weird, you’ll need to have both team members in the team before you can join. Of course, there’s no indication of this until you do have two team members in the team.
Ahh, okay then. Thanks.
I shall bide my time, then…
GOALDUST is a brilliant team name, first of all.
I await a name from @rize and then we can create a team.
My Star Wars related suggestions:
“R2D-Fence”
“Hoth Shots”
“The Goalactic Empire”
“We Made The Kessel Run In Less Than Twelve Passes”
“We Will Ewok You”
“The Death Stars”
“Rockets In Alderaan Places”
“Tarkin The Pass”
“Snoke Attack”
Brilliant. The worst thing is you can only choose one!
Reckon.
That was all @bdkiaf i wish I could’ve come up with something as good as that
Off that list, I think I’d have to go with the Hoth Shots 😀
I like “Rockets In Alderaan Places” the best
oh crap whats this?
Rocket league TAY tournament if you want in I think @cookingmama was looking for a partner
ooh I would be up for this, what nights? I’d be really keen @cookingmama
Whatever nights suit you. Basically, you’ll be matched up against a team each round, like any other sport, and you’ll arrange between your team and your opponents to play a best of three round during that week.
Ok. We need a team name!
CookingGinger?
The Ginger Cookies?
My brain no worky right now :p
Gingersnaps.
I like ginger cookies!
https://rocket-league.com/team/2040 You just need to join the team and then we can join the League
it says I need to provide a passcode?
Pretty sure that this is the first I’ve heard of this…
You can ask @zetrox2k if hes keen to be partners or just find a partner and we will add you in the mix
Maybe – it was more that “I think @cookingmama was looking for a partner”, and, well, she didn’t have to look very far really…
Rocket League league!
I genuinely have no idea how the site deals with an uneven number of teams, but @cookingmama was hoping to join if you wanted to give it a shot.
Zetrox2k is always on Rocket League. I jumped online with him and his bro the other night. He might be keen!
@Zetrox2k are you interested?
colour me interested! im on ps4, not sure how the friends/party thing works cross platform!
haha! and i totally stole your goal! 😀
Uninvite this man immediately.
Well that was a bit of an effort but the Cunning Artificers are all setup and good to go
I threw together that logo and banner super quick so we’d have something, feel free to have a crack yourself, I imagine your design skills are better than mine.
You would likely imagine incorrectly
I got suspended from art class in year 8 and that’s the last time I’ve done anything in that space.
My team will win the trophy for the least creative name in the league. There was a trophy for that right??
University of Rocket League?
So…. about the site redesign… I’m not sure when it happened (been overseas for a few weeks) but is that bottom bar completely pointless now?
The page keeps loading more articles (which is kind of nice) but it keeps pushing the bottom bar down (at least on the main page).
Yeah it certainly seems that way. I can’t say I’m a fan of the auto-loading thing myself
Just recent and yeah it can be annoying.
For me at least you can generally access after the first lot or articles is loaded but I have done some dodgy hacks
It stops at page five so if you’ve got a mouse with free scroll you can just give it a solid spin then wait for it to reach the bottom. It’s very annoying because I get to the bottom of the page, see something I’d like to check out, then have to fight my way down.
Oh, it’s only five now? When I was testing it out it was ten.
Also, where have you been, why were you there and what amusing storied did you partake in
I went to Poland for a holiday and to visit family. Included 3 days showing my wife’s brother around (who happened to be in Europe at the time), 5 days of lovely summer sailing on the lakes and 3 days in Rome on the way home.
No amusing stories. Just general travel experiences, crowds, bad food in Rome, bloody hot weather, long flights etc.
I did Rome in the middle of summer, was great besides the heat.
Although those old blokes selling fresh watermelon on the road side are wonderous
It was stupid busy in Rome this time. I liked it much more last time I was there a decade ago. This time was hot and so crowded that the Vatican museums were basically a waste of time and money. Oh and this awful food kind of ruined the experience too. We had maybe 1-2 “ok” meals in 3.5 days. Even maccas was a disgrace.
I really love Rome, but this time round the experience was lacking.
Damn.
Glad we had better luck when we were there. Still stupidly busy and huge lines to get into Vatican but was something Mrs Tigs really wanted to do so we stuck it out. rest of the stuff wasn’t too bad.
Trying to remember the food we had while there. Don’t think it was overly memorable either.
On the weekend I watched some “horror” movies that weren’t really scary at all (1408 and Shutter Island). I’m sure Pants is probably sick of me making jokes and trying to guess the ending of everything we watch out loud, but he hasn’t screamed at me to shut up yet so…
I also played a bit of the new Rainmaker mode in Splatoon. So much fun! It’s essentially Capture the Flag except you take the flag to the opposite teams base. And the flag isn’t a flag, it’s a massive gun you can use to create huge tornadoes of ink. It’s great.
I also also went shopping for the last few things for my PAX Pokemon costume. Just need the shirt now and I’m done. Participated in a video podcast for PAX Pokemon as well which will probably be out in a few days.
I enjoyed Shutter Island, although a horror film it is not.
Same
Agreed.
Thriller, yes. Horror, no.
Yeah. Netflix will only give me a “Thriller” section for some reason and I can’t sort by genre on the PS4 app. We’ve just been guessing which films will be actual horror 😛
1408 wasn’t bad, wasn’t good, but still wasnt bad
The extended cut is much better than the theatrical, which I think is the only version Netflix has.
Yeah I saw it in cinemas and was pretty eh
Horror movies you say!
I can give you a list of ones to watch if you want 😛
As long as they’re on Netflix, go for it.
Annabelle thats it
Annabelle is terrible.
Majority of horror movies on netflix are horrible
The collector wasn’t bad but still
I don’t know what you’ve already seen or know about so…
[REC] – Spanish movie. One of the few “found footage” movies I’ve actually liked. Genuinely scary. Was remade as ‘Quarantine’ in the US.28 Weeks Later – British zombie movie. Watch ’28 Days Later…’ first, although it’s not on Netflix.
Black Sheep – Horror/comedy movie from New Zealand about killer sheep.
Final Destination 2/3 – Guilty pleasure movies. Don’t expect much in the logic department, but the deaths are pretty inventive. Don’t worry about the fourth or fifth one.
Housebound – Another New Zealand horror/comedy. This time about evil spirits.
Insidious – Pretty good ghost movie by James Wan (Saw, The Conjuring). Some genuine scary moments.
John Dies at the End – Horror/comedy. A bit weird. One of those love it or hate it movies.
Let Me In/Let the Right One In – Watch either. Basically the same movie. Both great. Each one has things it does better. I prefer Let Me In purely for the score and child actors.
Monsters – Incredibly low budget monster movie. Made by Gareth Edwards, who got the job directing the 2014 adaption of Godzilla based on the strength of this movie.
Pandorum – Spiritual successor to Event Horizon (which is also great, but not on Netflix). Basically Dead Space: The Movie. But good.
Red Dragon – Not really a horror movie, but it’s in the Netflix horror section so yeah. The second best movie about Hannibal Lector.
Saw 1-3 – I actually don’t the first 3 from this serious. It goes off the rails after 3 and should’ve ended as a trilogy. At least watch the first one if you haven’t seen it.
Scream 4 – Surprisingly good. The second best movie in the Scream series. Fantastically self-aware. No need to watch the others to enjoy as it’s a pretty basic premise.
Shaun of the Dead – You’ve seen this right?
Splice – You’ve seen this, but just in case anyone else is reading this. Good, but not great creature horror movie.
The Host – Again, I know you’ve seen this but the same reasoning as above. One of the best horror movies on Netflix.
The Loved Ones – Incredibly messed up Australian horror movie. Loved it. Some rather disturbing stuff in it though. Also teen angst! Woo!
Thirst – Korean vampire movie. Watched it recently and loved it. Directed by Park Chan-wook (Oldboy). Beautifully depressing movie about the curse of being a vampire. Themes of religion and sexuality spread throughout as well. No Doona Bae for you though.
Troll Hunter – Swedish mockumentary about a bunch of students who discover the existence of trolls. Sounds awful, is awesome. If it’s the dubbed version, don’t watch it. The English dub ruins it.
Thanks. I’ve seen most of those but I’ll add the couple I haven’t seen to my Netflix list tonight.
Especially REC. Found-footage movies always scare the poo out of me 😛 Even when they’re terrible.
What fun is watching movies with someone if you don’t get to make jokes?
Especially if we were watching actual scary movies. It’s a coping mechanism there. :p
Remind me never to watch movies with you 😛
Mama is definitely one of the scariest ones I’ve seen that first comes to mind.
Goes off the rails a bit towards the end, but the start and middle are great.
If you’ve never seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRqS6pBC42w
And the movement test. Now that’s creepy.
I like that the Rainmaker tornado doesn’t have the completely bullshit hit radius that the inkzooka has.
That thing needs to be fixed.
I like still being C rank due to not playing Ranked all that much before now and being stuck with people who have no idea that these modes are any different to Turf War 😛 (no, you don’t have to fight over painting the top area of Saltspray Rig during Rainmaker, guys!)
Still fun though. My favourite weapon for Rainmaker is the brush. You can get to the thing way before anybody else!
Sniper used to be able to cross the map the fastest before the brushes came around. It’s still pretty close though 😛 Maybe with a couple of Swim Speed Up…
My favourite round of Rainmaker so far was in Arowana Mall. Used brush to rush to the Rainmaker, grabbed it while nobody was around, then just walked forwards shooting straight ahead and the other team would just walk directly into the shots 😛 Plopped it in the goal, done. Fastest game I’ve played yet.
(keep in mind this was in C rank though haha)
Last night we were squadding on Rainmaker, had a few goes with four but were mostly stuck with three (ugh). I don’t know if it’s because I’m at A rank (the others are all B/C) or just because that’s all that’s occupying squad mode, but we seem to keep getting put up against S-rank teams.
Did well once it changed over to Splat Zones though (managed to have four again by then), in Nupass and Warehouse. The best part was one round in Nupass, where I made it to the to pof the hill on our side and sniped a guy behind the ramp on their side. Instantly charged up for another shot, and another guy slowly wandered into exactly the same spot the last guy died. And I popped him. Charged again, and a third guy went and did the exact same thing. And got popped again.
One of my most favourite moments yet 😛
I know I’m late to the party, but if any of you haven’t seen it, you should go out and watch United States of Tara.
It’s one of the best shows I have ever seen.
So good.
it is a very awesome show
Yep yep, so good but I haven’t seen the last of it
I tried it a few years ago, and struggled to get into it (despite loving Juno!). I might give it another look – we’ve got the DVDs around somewhere, I think.
Had an interesting weekend. Sent my friend a screenshot of Xur’s inventory on Friday – kinda sad I was on the train and not in party chat at the time, purely cos I missed out on the resulting “squee.” He bought four. :3
Saturday was spent mostly with Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, which seems to take the Clockwork Orange approach to art appreciation – strap them to a chair, put their head in a vise and force their eyes open. (Yes, yes, I know that scene isn’t about art appreciation.) Seriously, it’s a great setting, an intriguing story with interesting characters and plenty of drama… experienced as if walking through treacle. And knowing about the “sprint” button (which should really be called the “increase stride length” button) just made it more infuriating when it was disabled (eg. when you’re inside a building).
Saturday evening, I hopped back into Destiny, ran some Queen’s bounties, weeklies and a 32 prison. Mostly wishing September would hurry the hell up.
Was extremely tired Sunday (really need to force a better sleep schedule), and wasn’t feeling up to reading story (sorry Hacknet) and after binging Destiny the previous night, didn’t want to play a console FPS, so avoided Far Cry. Ended up recalling a friend reminiscing about the time they’d spent with Diablo 3, so hopped back into that for a little while. Destiny had somewhat desensitised me to replaying levels, so I hopped back into my level 63 wizard started at the beginning of act 5. I figured things were a bit easy, so bumped it up to Hard for the second half. Finished around level 66, bumped up to Expert and restarted the campaign, hit 70 pretty quickly, and hit paragon 10 extremely quickly. Swapped to adventure mode and blasted through some bounties, then upped to Master to see if I was sufficiently geared. Got absolutely wrecked by a group of blue mobs in my first area… but it seems doable – not as “hold right-click to win” as Expert was. 😛 Also, holy shit the gold! I started on Sunday with around 500k accumulated through two full campaigns split across three years; finished on Sunday night with about seven times that after 10 hours play. I have no idea what I’ll do with it all, but I may have to play more of this… 😛
I apologise for keeping you up. I’m sorry. Really sorry.
So, Prison tonight? Midnight? 😉
Not your fault, and I’m always tired these days, regardless of your input. 😛
Been thinking about cutting back on Destiny a little bit until TTK comes out… maybe taking a couple nights off each week to play something else. Not really looking for “that last exotic to complete my collection” any more, Sky’s got his Gjally and Zephyr’s only missing Thorn/Juju/Invective, so not much reason to run Crota for the exotic drops, either. Just don’t want to burn out before 2.0 lands.
But I said I was sorry… 😉 Was a fun night. You’re right though, it’s a good time to ease back a bit.
I only need to run hard Crota until I can get a Crux, and I do need to complete a L35 once. I’m resigned to ciphers just not dropping for me for now.
Would quite like to run VoG a few more times to get the full armour sets, but whenever.
The normal Crota is pretty good fun if we’re doing a casual run.
Alex (mypetfish) is determined to get the year 1 emblems too so I’m going to be helping him target missions…
The VIP stuff (sparrow/emblem/shader)? Or the Triumphs emblem? Cos he’s already got the VIP prereqs. The triumphs emblem is certainly possible, but he needs to go raiding. Happy to help out with raids or Skolas, if it’s at a reasonable hour (on a non-Angry week – Skolas with Angry is just brutal, even more so than Lightswitch).
I think he’s after triumphs. I’ll speak to him tonight.
Yeah, hoping for a decent Skolas roll this week. Just want to finish it!
I want to get back into Destiny for some ungodly reason. Not until TTK though. Need to find a new fireteam as well
Fun weekend. Went out and saw Ant Man with Dare Girl on Friday, then made a start on going through all the Marvel movies afterwards, since she’s only seen Iron Man and Guardians and wants to see them all. So started out with Hulk 😛 Wasn’t keen, but afterwards thought it wasn’t that bad after all.
Saturday night was my friend’s bucks party. They’d gone to an escape room earlier which I was bummed about missing (thanks to an organisational hitch – for some reason my invite was sent to an old e-mail address I check maybe once every few months, so when I was “reminded” about it via SMS the other day it was the first I was hearing of it). Met up at King St Brewhouse, the others were watching the rugby there so I was hanging around chatting waiting for it to finish 😛 Found there was a whole lot of linkages with that group there, people marrying other people my sister went to school with, a whole bunch of names tied to old memories I’d just about forgotten, all sorts of stuff. Then it was up to Steersons Steakhouse for dinner. That was a good steak.
From there we went to Spawn Point for a while, played some Smash (both Melee and Wii U), also jumped on Guitar Hero for a bit. Had to have a go at TTFAF, it’s been a while. Worked up quite a sweat 😛 Next it was on to Baxter’s for a while, then after they closed and some figuring out of how the lockout laws work, we made our way to Frankie’s. Where we found a huge crowd waiting outside, and the police trying to get this guy into the paddy wagon, while guys with a video and still camera were rolling/snapping away. “Welp, guess we’re not going here”. And into a cab to Newtown. We were waiting in line for one place, but one of the guys was fumbling around with things in his pockets and managed to drop his (now empty) hip flask on the ground right in front of the security guard, so we weren’t getting in there. Moved up and waited in line for Zanzibar I think, while a couple of others went to scout across the road which apparently looked better so we went over there instead.
Someone decided one side of the table should try and arm-wrestle the other. I was faced up against my friend, though didn’t have much leverage on the stool like he did on the bench. It was kind of a stalemate, he was pushing hard but while I couldn’t gain any ground, I was pretty much locked in place and not letting him gain any either. Longest arm-wrestling match I’ve ever seen, we kept pretty much stopping for breathers. Eventually he tired out and I managed to take it, but I’d still call it a tie. So sore afterwards. Then came Never Have I Ever, which basically turned into my friend and his best man taking pot shots at each other. Some interesting stories there 😛 Also, got more haircut attention at that bar. One guy came up saying he just had to ask what the deal was, told him about the Zangief thing and he thought it was awesome. Then a little while later another guy came up, wasn’t even curious, just wanted to tell me he thought it was great. Also, as a bearded fellow himself, complimented mine. This is weird 😛
May have to get rid of it (the ‘giefhawk, at least) tonight though. A friend who works at Luna Park forwarded on a thing about them having school holiday positions opening up, so Mum signed me up for them. Interview’s tomorrow. Ehhhhhhh.
I bought a 3ds.
Also hello.
Hello.
Hallo.
Hullo.
Oh god what have i started.
A joke which started the whole world crying?
A song that doesn’t end, it goes on and on my friend
Please stop this.
Here’s something to make you pull your hair out; especially the $31 billion in taxable revenue shifted to a nearby tax haven over the course of a single year. As you would expect the person who brought about the leak of information due to the unfortunate side-effect of developing a global conscience is going to end up in prison. Thank you world for reminding me that governments and corporations are the only entities that matter in this day and age.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/29275474/mouse-that-roared-for-the-tax-men/
I have no words…
I worked 112 hours last pay week. Im hoping they dont call me into do a shift tonight.
Im off to see Chris Hadfield tomorrow, that Canadian astronaut. I miss video games.
I saw him last Tuesday, quite enjoyed it
Cool, how long is the talk? 90mins?
Was about 2 hours with a 25 minute intermission? I got out about 10:30
oh cool
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Wooo 18!
Oh how the mighty have fallen
Note to self; make a new post every time you hit a 100 words, I’ll beat you yet shane! =P
I’ll have to surge up these rankings then
I think this ranking system only serves to show us the person who’s got the worst work/procrastination ratio at their workplace =P
I reckon im 4th! Go me and my crazy posts up a metric shit tonne of ranks
lol I’m surprised I even show up. Been so long since I could actively troll you poor people all day! :p
WHOOPS.
Oh shiiiiiiiit, I don’t think I’ve ever been #1 before! \o/
Don’t let my work find out 😛
Or my wife.
Quick question
Has anybody had any experience with webcam style cameras for security?
Had a situation at the office of somebody messing about with parked cars, so considered the idea of having a webcam from the 2nd floor window just recording on a loop. Issue being I don’t know what sort of quality we would get from that, how much it would cost and if it is even feasible/relevant
Any info appreciated
Think you might be able to use an old smart phone as well. I think people use old ones
for dash cams in cars. Going to use alot of space though.
I don’t imagine it would be all that hard to setup or monitor from a technical perspective and I’ll let someone else field that side of the question. I will however raise the possible legal implications of recording a public space without appropriate signage or warning that the region is under surveillance.
Edit: That is to say if you find someone doing something wrong and use the recording to bring them in they could technically turn the law against you as well. So might want to look into the legal privacy implications of what you have in mind.
This. You will need to ensure the proper signage is up in the area.
My personal favourite
It’s kind of easy to forget it’s illegal to record or put a person or region under surveillance when there’s such widespread breaches of privacy across the board being carried out by large organizations and governments.
I take it that unmanned surveillance is a different thing to using a hand-held recording device?
I think it depends entirely on the context of the situation? In general any form of surveillance would fall under the Privacy Act, manned/unmanned. That said legislation is probably still catching up to drones and their impact in the legal space.
It’s really kinda silly isn’t it when you think about it… they’re meant to catch out that guy that’s been stealing something from private/business property in the past and yet they can use this “privacy violation” to bounce it right back at you, despite that they’re in the wrong. It’s right alongside people suing house owners for tripping and falling while they were in the middle of a burglary at the location.
Haha god I remember that bathroom burglary case! The first case study the lecturer presented to the class in my contract law unit. She basically presented the course of events and asked who do you think is at fault and then showed us the verdict =P I think that’s when I realized that the law is all about protecting the party with the better lawyer, justice be damned!
Actually public space isn’t covered. Only somewhere someone can have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Aye the problem is the use of the term reasonable, which is why it’s always safer to not leave it up to the interpretation/argument of a high powered legal team and just put the damn sign up =P I mean hey if the law worked like it was intended to we wouldn’t pay lawyers all that much would we!
Ok reading up on it a little bit and it’s definitely a grey area tigs; it comes down to the definition of a “public space” a “criminal act” and “reasonable expectation to privacy”. I think you could use the recording to find out who’s messing with the cars but doubt it would be admissible if you used it to catch the person.
Thanks guys, something to think about
There is a personal safety issue at play here as well, so just need to be careful not to get too emotional. It is street parking around a council building so think we should be right with the personal space.
But hadn’t been thinking about the legalities of it, so just putting that on the radar has been good.
My work has those. I think I had to connect one of them up once. But I don’t know much else about it.
Is the Most viewed banner on the right hand side shifting to the left when you scroll down for anyone else?
Yeah, unless I refresh the page at a level where it would already be floating.
Seems to happen from time to time.
I’ve had mine cover a little bit of comment text on the right side quite often on Chrome.
Yeah I’ve had that issue for a few weeks now; even before the redesign, a refresh seems to fix it temporarily.
Spent most of my weekend cooped up, happily gaming in peace and quiet. It’s been nice not having to work on the weekends for a change.
Finished Child of Light, played through the first several levels of the second Jedi Knight, played a bit more Rising Thunder, Shadow of Mordor on the couch, got a few Street Fighter 5 beta matches in (it worked, for some reason), played several hours of Satellite Reign and watched lots of MGS videos … I enjoyed myself.
It’s been a while since I’ve had weekends where I’m at home by myself, not going out and just being social. It’s nice.
Child of Light was amazing, it was a real shame it wasn’t ever fully completed as the devs had a lot more they were planning on adding but it never ended up happening.
Yeah. I really need to finish it…. 🙂 I got sort of stuck – I suspect I need to level up a bit more by grinding some of the early battles, maybe.
I think there were only two boss battles I actually struggled with to beat with my standard party structure, but it didn’t require a restart on either.
I just absolutely loved the music and art in that game, so incedible
Yeah it’s a fantastic game. The rhyming seems a little forced 1/2 way through the game but besides that I don’t really have any big complaints about it.
Is Satellite Reign out of Early Access yet? Was going to back in on Kickstarter but figured I’d wait for the proper release and see how it was playing. What’s your impressions?
Second Jedi knight is Jedi Acadamy right?
I love that game so much!
Second one I would expect to be Jedi Outcast… But I agree. Jedi Academy was awesome!
Ah well, both of them are fantastic regardless.
I own Jedi Academy on Steam… We should multi that at some point! Get some duelling happen
Haha I’m so bad at it. I just spam attack so you would smash me. =P
Wait, there’s another way to play?
Sith lightning. Everyone. All the time.
Academy was awesome, but Outcast was fucking amazing.
This man knows what’s up.
As if the squirtle avatar didn’t make that obvious enough. 😛
…did anyone else just get re-notified of reply posts they’d already gone and viewed?
Yes.
Yeah, I have a second fled at a later time
Collect them all
Gotta
Hi TAY, i’ve had an interesting Monday so far.
I was in the office explaining to one of my co-workers what sort of exercises I planned to do in the gym at lunchtime. My colleague looked a little freaked out, what could I have said that offended his senses so badly?
My co-worker pulls me aside in the tea room to tell me what I had actually said:
I tried to explain I was doing so because I have a glute activation problem, but she wasn’t having it.
cc:@liondrive #fitpeopleproblems
Oh come on. That had better be served with a confident wink and nudge right? 😛
Kegels?
Hah not quite, my pelvic floor is OK!
Gotta do them squats!
Get that butt nice and perky! 😀
I sympathise.
When at basketball tonight, I referred to a contest between two opposing players as one of ‘mutual touching.’
And I can never show my face in public again.
KanColle Event Update
Didn’t get as much time to play over the weekend as I’d have liked. Distracted with other things & had my Mum around for a good part of Saturday as well. Still, managed to progress a bit.I posted on Thursday or so last week that I had cleared the first event map. It was pretty much trivial. Kept it on Hard and started into E2 with a fairly weak fleet. All looked good, was getting easy clears. Then the last round boss happened. I was finding I just wasn’t clearing the boss very effectively, even with support expeditions. Ise and Hyuuga aren’t great battleships and my two are very low level, and were struggling to clear enough of the trash to give the support fleet a good go at night.
So I looked through the upcoming requirements and realized I was never going to need any slow battleships until E7. Thought about Yamato, but after having already wasted 3 runs at the last boss, couldn’t afford it. So I swapped Ise & Hyuuga out for Nagato & Mutsu. Left everything else as-is – main fleet with Atago, Suzuya, Zuikaku and Shoukaku (side note: Zuikaku is way lower level but was absolutely murdering everything for some reason) and with a support fleet of Prinz Eugen, Hatsuharu, Harusame, Muasame, Yura & Kiso. First go at it and got a ridiculously easy clear, barely even took damage. Nagato and Mutsu wiped the floor and then proceeded to blow apart the boss during day battle, leaving it in the red for Eugen to mop up at night with one shot.
Moved on to E3. I dropped the difficulty to medium after hearing horror stories about this map. Even on Medium I wasn’t confident, but also wanted it on Medium if possible because of the special radar you get as a reward plus there’s a chance to get Isokaze as a drop and I wants her. Started out with a fleet of Hiei, Kirishima, Zuikaku, Shoukaku, Chitose, Chiyoda and supports of Jintsuu, Akizuki, Fubuki, Haguro, Myoukou and Kitakami. Everything looked good for the first six kills. Getting through the routing to the boss easily, boss dying fairly predictably.
Then again, I hit the final boss form. Motherfucker developers decided to give the already ridiculously seaplane tender boss an armor buff and put two carrier demons with her, which are each high-armor 250-HP monsters that can absorb a lot of punishment. Failed repeatedly to make any headway. Best result was getting the boss down to 50 HP. Started trying some other things in the end. Turns out the new experience system for aircraft means the way you gear a carrier has changed. Finding that out helped a lot. So did swapped Zuikaku and Shoukaku for Kaga and Akagi, who I had already earmarked for E6 (shares lock with E3) so wasn’t a problem swapping. Even with them, though, I wasn’t feeling like I was making much progress. So this morning I swapped out Hiei and Kirishima for Fusou and Yamashiro. They’re always whinging about how unlucky they are, but they’re wrong. Armed them with AP rounds in the hope they’d get some hits on the Oni early on, and then painstakingly sparkled the whole fleet.
Battle opens, initial aerial exchange goes through. Akizuki does an Anti-Air Cut-in, so that’s good. So did the enemy cruiser, unfortunately. I got air superiority but not supremacy, meaning the carrier demons were still dangerous. Previously they’d proceeded to tear my fleet apart at this point. A bit of scratch damage on the enemies, one demon knocked below 75% in that first exchange. Not good. Then the external support fleet activates and they hit three targets, taking out one destroyer completely, damaging that one carrier demon below 50% (no more aircraft!) and hitting the cruiser to red. Kitakami then torpedoes the cruiser and I’m going into the initial shelling with one demon silenced and two ships sunk. Haguro then quickly crit the second destroyer and things are looking good. Then Fusou and Yamashiro start doing artillery cut-in attacks like fucking monsters. Looks like the enemy cruiser cut in and took most of the carrier bombers out as they’re not really able to do a lot, but they don’t need to. One demon sunk, one critical, and the boss is below 50%.
Go into night battle and Fubuki fucking fails to throw up any star shells, but the night scout planes from Haguro survived and she puts them up, and Jintsuu activates searchlights. She then proceeds to blow a hole in the side of the oni, and it’s gone. 5 ships left to fire, and all can concentrate on the boss. “I’ve done it!” I thought. Then Akuzuki misses. Fubuki does scratch. Haguro cuts in… and does scratch. Myoukou whiffs completely and the boss is still on 50 HP. Then it happens. Game pauses for a second. Cut-in torpedo attack from Kitakami. Pinch hitter. She crits the boss for enough damage to have one-shotted her from full. Why was I even worried?
Full clear. S-rank. 5 ships took a bit of damage but nothing major. Best run I’d had in ages. RNG smiled finally. Didn’t drop my Isokaze though. Or a Mizuho :(.
So tonight I’ll be starting my campaign through E4. Easy Mode though because I want to get through to the end. Will be going Easy on 5 and 7, medium on 6 (for the steam catapult). Hopefully E4 and E5 are easy so I can push through them fast. E5 certainly is supposed to be a cakewalk. I suspect that E6 and E7 are going to ruin me though.
Dear TAY,
Today I broke up with my girlfriend of 8 years. I could really do with a drink…which I’ll get on the weekend at her birthday because it wasn’t a bad breakup. Life is great…
On the other side, let’s submit my uni application and get my career kickstarted. Plus I’m also strangely motivated to exercise lots. Can’t be a bad thing I guess
Sorry to hear about the break up, pal. Hang in there. Things will get better soon enough.
Cheers. Usual breakup feelings atm. Is hibernation a viable option for the near future?
Hope your feeling alright dude, atleast it was a break up on friendly terms rather then the screaming plate smashing threat to kill break up, those are the blurst
Well, it’s made better by the fact that she has a broken ankle and is still a bit reliant on me to do stuff as neither of us can move out yet. At a loss atm what to do with myself. Oh yes, I got some doughnuts. They will help
Play more video games and just be there for support I guess and then when the times comes you will find someone new, or maybe you’ll love the single life and be like those guys in the lynx commercials in which case I secretly hate you
Sorry to hear that man =\ Best thing you can do for yourself is fill up your free time as much as possible; gym, more hobbies, meet up with friends, just don’t let yourself stay inactive. At least for the first few days; your mind takes time to acclimatize to a loss of attachment and while the replacements will seem shallow in comparison they serve the purpose of getting into a new routine; one you can associate with moving on.
Edit: I guess kind of a double edged sword but at least it was an amicable break-up =\
So back when I was at University, I had a pipe dream to build a VR game where you would have people in a big warehouse monitored by a set of positional tracking cameras to tell where everyone was, and basically project a world for them in VR. Wanted to do it as my honors project, maybe convert it into a Ph.D later. Technology wasn’t there yet though.
No some people here in Melbourne have made the thing I wanted to make back a decade ago:
https://zerolatencyvr.com/
Yeah I saw that, looks pretty sweet.
Note to young NegativeZero, copyright/trademark that shit
Nah, if it had been patented or something back then it probably wouldn’t have ever happened now.
I went to high school with one of the guys behind it
I like to imagine conspiracy nuts having a field day over this one: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/08/apollo-astronaut-says-ufos-came-to-prevent-nuclear-war/
A mental weigh in between dismissing everything he says because the moon landings were obviously faked, and as such he’s nobody important (and actively participated in a lie), but at the same time he’s endorsing the idea of aliens coming to earth, so clearly what he says matters!
James Irwin was also a bit of a fruitcake – he’s the one who went off to Turkey to find Noah’s Ark.
But Edgar Mitchel’s really quite out there I think. Not something that happened after he went to space either, since he apparently did nutty ESP experiments with friends while he was in space. Also reckons that a dude named ‘Adam Dreamhealer’ from Vancouver healed him of Kidney Cancer by thinking real hard about it. Which is… something, I guess.
I forget, what’s the cost of a beer in Australia?
Is too fucking much an acceptable answer?
Also at the pub or at somewhere like Dan Murphy’s? If it’s the pub starting at $6 is common for I think a schooner, at the bottle-o a stubby is normally starts around $3.50. I’ve paid $11 for a pint before x.x Then again i’ve also seen mates pay $8 for a stubby of VB, so yeah.
And people wonder why I don’t go back to Australia.
Yeah. I don’t blame ya. The fact that a carton of shitty mid strength XXXX starts at like $38 is such a laugh. When I can buy imported full strength beer from the Netherlands for $30 in a 24 pack.
Too damn high?
Hi everyone!
I’m still around I swear 😛 I’ve just been so busy for some reason, which is something I find amusing since I am still unemployed. I spose some of my time in recent has been taken up by this training course thingy Tursa have me doing which is really turn up look for jobs and socialise, ha. Since my resume, cover letter technique, interview skills and general appearance is on point I am told and should have a job, but it’s pretty competitive so yeah.
Did have a few job interviews the other week though, didn’t get past stage one of them, but eh. It wasn’t meant to be I guess, i’ll just keep at it. It’ll pay off one day i’m sure.
What else? Uh, my dog was extremely sick earlier this year. I’m talking inflamed liver with a count off the charts that would’ve killed her if she didn’t get treatment. Something we still don’t know why happened. My only guess was she ingested something, most likely advocate (since she had her monthly treatment only 2 days before she started to show symptoms of being sick), but can’t prove that and vets are so fucking expensive x.x She’s pretty good now though. Probably more healthy & better than she was previously which is a good thing.
Apart from all that, i’ve basically stopped playing games. I bought GTA V for PC, finished that made a few billion for each character, and basically went “meh” quit WoW back in January. Went back to it last month and realised it was still boring as all hell and let the subscription run out today. Can’t wait for Fallout 4, I had a Pip Boy edition for PC & the PS4 Lunchbox edition on pre-order also the Anthology edition. Did cancel all my other pre-orders at EB though, which I feel was a good thing. No correlation to the article though. Which just made me feel so disappointed in them even more.
So how’s everyone been? I should probably go start dinner but that requires effort and leaving the comfort of my computer chair =(
Also Dog tax!
She looks so happy!
She is 😀 Spoiled rotten too 😛
Aren’t they all, though?
Well the ones who their owners care about, but then again that should be all dogs!
Exactly =D
I’ve foregone dinner for tonight. Struggling to find any motivation to play any game atm too.
DOGGIIIIIIIIIIIIIE 😀
I almost wondered what games were for a while. I just turn my PS3 on to watch blu-rays or Netflix. Seems like a waste of money some days I swear, and the PS4 I haven’t turned that on since before my TV died which was like 2 months ago.
Don’t blame you on the dinner front, after reading above about your day. Been there, you literally lose your appetite after such shitty things. Hope you’re okay man.
Woo doggie! Who is now begging me to let her outside so she can bark at all the things haha..
I think I’ve been playing ESO kind of mindlessly without thinking about what I’m doing.
I think my cat is channelling your dog, but rather making loads of noise to come back in
Is ESO any good? I have not heard a thing about it haha.
Haha. Damn cats. Mine climbs up the door if I don’t let her in quick enough. Which is a fair effort for an 18 year old cat I reckon haha.
Erm, Rocket league doesn’t seem to want to play nice with Windows 10.
Just gonna check my graphics drivers and make sure nothing’s screwy…
I had to update my graphics driver when I went to Windows 10. Not for Rocket League, just generally.
I don’t really have a point.
Well, that’s Monday done. My weekend was alright TAY, thanks for asking 🙂
On Friday night a mate and I entered a Rocket League tournament. Ended up bowing out in the first round 3-4. So that wasn’t great, especially when some other teams got through because their opponents didn’t rock up. Otherwise it was a fun night. On Sunday I hung out with my dad for a bit, went to watch the local sportsball match. It’s been a while since I’ve actually gone to a game and it was a great atmosphere, but the sportsball team I support didn’t win. So that wasn’t great either. I also worked Saturday and Sunday… but then Sunday night a friend invited me over to play Agricola, which I sucked at, but it was fun, and then we played more Rocket League. And then today, I went to uni, tried to pay attention, made some notes, came home, and played some more Rocket League.
In short, Rocket League.
Rocket League! Also sports ball! Rocket league is sports ball!
So what are the odds of anything decent going up on the Club Nintendo catalog for under 3750 stars before it shuts? I don’t have much interest in physical collectors stuff but do the download titles change?
[Edit: Forgot that I put a pile of the cards next to my bed when I was going through them. Make that 5250 stars.]
Luigi’s diorama and goodbye coin, supposedly.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/08/talk-amongst-yourselves-340/comment-page-8/#comment-3412672
They just added some new Mario themed drink coasters yesterday if you’re into that. Unknown whether more is coming before they shut it down.
They look cool but they’re not really my sort of thing. I might just hold off until right before it closes down and buy some digital titles with it. Seems like a waste though, so if anyone desperately wants a physical reward that’s under 5250 stars yell out.
Nothing interesting is out for the next fortnight…
But come September…
Armikrog, Mad Max, and Metal Gear Solid V….
😀
Trying to update resume.
Bleh.
Classic.
Wait. Wait. Wait.
Tuesday the 25th is next week. Not tomorrow. Why am I getting prepared for stuff now?
Stupid.
Assemble the job seeking club for support!
Now there’s something to put on your resume. =P
So that was an RPG Session.
I had decided I was happy to stop fudging rolls and let things proceed as the dice wanted now, as people were starting to become familiar with the game.
So of course I started rolling 1’s against people rolling 21 🙁
So of course a guys arm got separated and killed the other guy sleeping in the other side of the room. (who hadn’t heard any of the noise around him because he’s deaf as a doorknob)
Great for them, awful for what I wanted to do. but hey that’s just how it happens sometimes.
That was just brutal those high rolls we got xD
“I could attempt to track, it’s only a d4 though” 😛
Gotta love that exploding die mechanic
Pretty sure mine exploded twice/thrice with that roll?
yeah the open ended explosion mechanic is a bit crazy at times.
Atleast he didn’t suffer a concussion at the hands of the door he walked through not 5 minutes earlier
well when your choice is between a 1 and a 1. Not even the wild die wanted to save you 😛
I had terrible rolls all game
That’ll happen to everyone.
See: Rogue Trader, fighting orks in a crashed spaceship, every single roll that could’ve avoided me being blinded, then lit on fire, then burnt almost to death, I failed every one of them. I basically almost died and never fired a single shot in a fight that lasted a whole session. 😛
I just got lucky I had a high toughness..and that it wasn’t a group shooting at me
Im worried for when @gingerchris86 finally snaps and just sends a small army after us
Hahahaha I’d never do that, I’m a nice guy
*Rewrites the next session*I thought the township of Harmony’s name sounded ironic
@coldcamv there’s nothing Harmonious about the wastes. theres a reason why there’s a massive Fence
Yeah Rogue Trader gave me nightmares =P I think the whole team had consistently punishing rolls for the few sessions I was there for!
It seems to be a common element of games I run. It’s not a case of me rolling well, more that the players just can’t roll well to save themselves in important situations. When it doesn’t matter though, watch out because here come all the player critical successes.
Example: Chaotic heretics running around being crazy. Caused so many perils of the warp but they weren’t even that badly affected. Get into combat though, the pyromancer causes perils and summons a Bloodletter of Khorne right beside him that almost took his head off.
So I’m going to participate in the Game jam. I am terrified. I’m not great with backgrounds and it can take me ages to draw a character. I can use other people’s assets, but only if they’re free from copyright.
That’s awesome! I’m still kicking around ideas. I’m thinking I might just launch into another part of Messar Dreams and just shoehorn the theme in.
For everyone else’s info, this is the Game Jam in question.
Thats awesome! Your gonna do grape and berry the competition
Oh god! Now there are expectations /o\
No pressure, you’ll do amazing regardless
You’re just making it worse /o\
#helping
I’m terrible at using computers to finish my art but am happy to help if you want some starter sketches.
Send me some character descriptions & I’d love to do stuff, even if it’s just conceptual 😀
There’s two main characters, teenage school girl and a young mother. I need to keep working on the story past the idea stage though.
It’s a story of a teenage girl encountering her estranged mother. The mother wants to make it up to the daughter, but it’s up to the player as to whether they make up or notIs the mother stressed looking?
How young is the girl? Is she a linker, a goth or a schoolgirl?
There should be a few expressions, for both anyway. The girl is a schoolgirl, a good girl sort of thing.
Are you any good at backgrounds? =P
It’s been a very long time since I’ve drawn a background.
Best bet is to either take some photos or find some examples for reference & go from there.
Reference is king! 🙂
If you can take your own photos, you could essentially draw over the top of them & add to it, removing a lot of the hard work.
Since your concept is grounded in reality, it’ll be way easier to get reference.
If you set it in your city, that could help.
It takes place on a train, so it should be easy. I say that, but it probably won’t be.
Let me write up some of the story and I’ll send it to you so you can get an idea?
Jimu(dot)hsien(at)gmail(dot)com
🙂
The key to these events is impact rather than technical perfection. If you’re not comfortable with your art find a style that’s simple but complements the story. For instance what you’ve said about the story and your lack of confidence in your backgrounds would lead me to something where the girl’s world starts out as stable and detailed, but quickly becomes distorted and more abstract following the emotional ups and downs of the journey*.
That dramatically reduces the amount of high polish, high detail background work while increasing the impact of the story as it unfolds.
*Ultimately coming to rest at a place where the girl is comfortable with herself, which could be a return to clarity or it could remain distorted but in a way personal way that reflects her growth into a more mature person. Leading the player to the understanding that the crystal clear view of the world is the childish view of the world.I’m not that good. I do know I want the beginning to take place in a train, and that’s about it
Good luck
Not sure if you are aware but in the ciommunity hub for tyranobuilder there is a sticky discussion that has links to a whole lot of copyright free assets
I use a metric to measure how much I like a video game. The more times I hear my partner say “You don’t love me anymore” when I’m playing Game ‘X, the better I like the game.
I feel like this is a cry for help!
Who, for her or me? XD
I hear that every time I play Rocket League
Give it a few years and you can move on to my metric system “Are you even listening?!”
I was home sick last week. Sat watching tv & got yelled at for playing games all day.
Good times 😀
Disney Infinity 2.0 Marvel Super Heroes packs are $20 clearance for all consoles at Big W and Kmart if anyone’s interested. 😉
It’s both @f4ction and @liondrive birthday today.
Happy birthday guys!
Does this mean they are the same person? Correlation says yes!
There’s no other logical explanation
Happy birthday Cam and Stewie!
Happy birthday to those two people!
Damnit! I thought you were a Cam lol. Happy Birthday!
Im a Cam and im pretty sure @transientmind is one too
No I’m Cam and so is my wife.
Have you ever seen them in the same room together?!
Happy birthday, @f4ction and @liondrive !
Hellscream’s new kickstarters up:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/matthewjhellscream/carnifex-an-australian-horror-novel
Has anyone seen Mission Impossible 5 yet and do I really need to see 4 before I see it? I know they’re not exactly riddled with arching plots between films. I figure a flim or two is something to take the mind off things so that and Antman are the picks. Offer open to anyone in Brisbane too
Tagging people just in case @beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
I really wanna see al of these but can’t spare the time 🙁
I usually don’t know what spare time is
Already saw it with Freezey, alas! 🙂
All good, spur of the moment thing to get me out of the house. I think I have the cinema to myself too 😀
Also, no knowledge of four required. 🙂
You should see 4 anyway. It’s pretty great.
@saturday
what
Hey man, you’re complaining about prices in Australia?
Flour in Australia: 75c/kg
Flour in Canada: Best I’ve managed is $1.20/kg
Milk in Australia: $1/L
Milk in Canada: who the hell cares, i ain’t buying no liquid in a bag, get your shit together, canada
Yeah but those are all luxury items! Saturday was inquiring about a life staple!…….. Beer!?
They save all the bottles for maple syrup
Bish have you never bought goon???
They at least have the decency to come in equally cheap cardboard boxes for ease of portability.
Time to play my favourite game:
What did I buy online and forget about!
Got a notification yesterday about a parcel, pretty sure it’s something I grabbed on eBay last week. Got a second message this morning for something else.
Today is looking up folks! Can’t wait till after 5 to solve the mystery!
I’m waiting for a patch and a boiler suit for my Fallout costume
A horse mask, badly damaged copies of Radiation Dude with his lame catchphrase ‘up and let’s go’, 480 scouring pads or a toy Yoda thinking you were buying a Japanese car.
Those’re the only possibilities I can think of
I miss those carefree days. I used to have so much stuff ordered that I’d lose track & receive a new suprise each week.
Now it’s all pay the mortgage & I can only afford one thing a month 🙁
I’m in a similar boat so doubt it’s anything expensive.
The last time this happened I’d bought $15 worth of vegetable seeds – heirloom tomato’s and corn, pak choi and some basil varieties (thai, purple, lemon).
The excitement of adult life!
Oh yes! Buying a $7 optical adapter and then figuring out 2 days later, before it’s arrived, that it’s not what you needed. Then having the realisation that returning it is just going to be more hassle than it’s worth.
Riveting stuff!
*moves to edge of seat*
I do that but then I wonder what it is because multiple parcels tend to have a habit of all being delivered within a close period of time. So many guessing games are had.
I’m waiting on a hooped petticoat and I’m about to order some LED lights.
Happy baby cannon day fronds @f4ction @liondrive
Hope you both have a good’n!
I’m going to the dentist. Woooo!
WOOO CELEBRA- wait what? That doesn’t sound that fun, UNLESS, the dentist is preparing your teeth for all the cake?
Its a new developmental drug which gives you all the cake eating power without ever getting sore teeth, happy birthday @f4ction
I went to the dentist on my birthday. They had Kung Fu Panda on the ceiling so it was pretty great!
I’m in bed with food poisoning.
So happy.
Get well soon
I was going to say, if you get a bit stuck there’s a great article that went up today that you might find useful ^.^
Food poisoning suuuuucks.
Hey gang,
JB has an in-store deal where if you pre-order Mad Max the game, and pay an extra $10, you can get the Fury Road Blu Ray as well. Comes to a total of $89, IIRC, which is pretty decent if you were planning to get them both anyway, and by far the best bundle deal available that I’m aware of.
I’m on the fence. Definitely getting the BR, but haven’t decided whether this is a grab-on-launch game or not.
When’s the blu Ray due? I missed it at the cinema
First week in Sept, I believe. Same day as the game, or one day different maybe.
Well, I’ll see it when I get back I suppose. Unless I’m too busy Metal Gearing
I was probably going to pickup the movie anyway so this is pretty tempting. Is it console exclusive?
The game I mean. Not the movie obviously. =P
Sorry man, I don’t know. I’ll pop in at lunchtime and take a look.
No mention of PC anywhere that I could see, but I guess the deal applies? Also, the bundle price is $99 not $89. My bad. Sorry!
Yeah that’s enough value to get me over the line.
*Shines credit card up once again*
Sorry, man. I went in at lunch to check it out, and the bundle price is $99 not $89. My bad. Sorry! For that price, you should just get the EB version instead, which comes with more crap: https://ebgames.com.au/ps4-202665-Mad-Max-Post-Apocalypse-Edition-PlayStation-4
Looking at the bundles images I thought the main character was Shia Lebeouf. Playing as Shia Lebeouf in the Citadel excites me more than it probably should.
That’s a pretty nice bundle. Retail should probably look at offloading a lot of their older games — packaging them together with previous titles if still in stock or maybe things that aren’t selling well — like that.
Agreed!
Starting to get into Ranked Rocket League.
Played 2v2, Scored a goal, and our team won 7-2.
I can’t find Ranked games anymore. There’s just an online option that seems to randomly assign me to ranked or non-ranked games at its own whim… (?)
If you go online, down the bottom of the game type list should be ranked singles, doubles and standard just select which one you want and it’ll search for any game type selected i usually do ranked doubles and standard
That’s the part that’s disappeared for me! All that’s there is a choice of how many people per team and a region selection. Have I been booted from ranked games? 🙁
Oh hmm, maybe tweet psyonix about it and see if they know whats up
You do get blocked from them if you quit a ranked match in progress, but I believe it’s only for a very short time.
Oh… I did do this once. It was a while ago, though. The rest of my team had already quit, and it was just me against three pro opponents. Guess I should have just copped the humiliation.
When you get left by yourself take it as an opportunity to practice keeping. Accept that you’re going to lose and just try and keep the number down.
Also, I’m pretty sure you only get blocked for like 15 or 30 minutes so it’s probably not that.
I tried, but I kept getting rammed and demolished. It was kind of bad sport, and a little annoying.
I’ll try clearing the PS4 cache tonight. That might do it.
I need to start playing 2v2. I still spend most of my time in 3v3 but holy hell I’m getting sick of randoms teamrushing the ball. At least in 2v2 it’s really, really easy to avoid that happening 😛
Yeah, I think I’m ready to make that jump too. Playing online is really starting to aggravate me.
You can mitigate some of the stupid team mate issues by playing ranked 3v3, but it’s still a bit hit and miss. In a shock to no one, it’s generally more fun to get a team of friends then jump in.
You need to set up a mic, dude, makes it so much easier to co-ordinate plays.
I’ve got one! FatShady had a go at me for not having one last week, and I went out and bought one. I AM READY.
Ranked 2v2 is by far my favourite way to play Rocket League. Other than with friends, obviously.
QTAC application submitted, looks like I’m going back to uni next year
unless the universe hates me and rejects my applicationTime to focus on me againWhat are you looking at studying?
Urban development and quantity surveying. A part of it is economics which I’ve already got a degree in so I should be alright there at least. Plus I can put that as my minor apparently too 😀
Good luck!
Check out open.edu.au as an alternative…
No entry scores, all online, universities provide courses and degree at the end and can bill it all through FEE-HELP plus switch over to a Commonwealth Supported Position later of you want to reserve FEE-HELP for post graduate stuff.
I’m fairly certain I’ll be accepted. I got a decent economics degree back home which translates to a pretty high ranking which is well above the course requirements. The only thing I really need to worry about I think is getting my citizenship between now and start of semester so I can be eligible for financial support. Course fees are hell
Things I’ve learned while preparing for my PFA:
Fuck the beep test!
Man, I love the beep test…probably because I’m not doing one right now though…
Completely spaced on mentioning this last week but I got the Numenera Collector’s Box (cc @redartifice). Pretty swanky and I have to say that there is a lot of stuff that would make real life Numenera quite easy to run.
On a related tangent, seriously considering upping my pledge for the Into the Ninth World Kickstarter. Those stretch goals look darn good. Unfortunately the cost of posting all of that stuff would definitely be prohibitive and I’m not sure I want to make that leap.
Yeah, I’m super tempted to get all the physical books but it’s not a cheap exercise.
Actually, speaking of Numenera (cc @tech_knight @blaghman) unfortunately I’m tied up in a work thing tomorrow night and won’t be able to run a session
I’m happy that we’re getting a second character options book. More choices is always welcome and, given the success of the Kickstarter so far, who knows what other stretch goals could be added.
All good for tomorrow. I’m looking forward to seeing the resolution of this epic adventure and seeing what’s next for us.
Alright thanks, more time for games with friends before I get hit with recall this Thursday
Started playing hacknet last night, its a cool guy, made me think my computer was crashing a few times when really it was in game so thats cool. Currently around $7 on humble shop well worth it
I feel so ready to fall asleep right now… 🙁
RockeTAY League
Currently waiting on the teams listed to join the league so we can get started!
@phoenix
@cakesmith
@markserrels
@freezespreston
@jacksonwryan
@rize
Finishedlast (@finishedlast on Twitter)
@blaghman
https://rocket-league.com/league/550
Also, if there’s anyone else keen to play, there’s still room. Two more players would actually be perfect!
Whats the tag to contact dippa is it @alexwalker? He should be interested if he doesn’t want to get on @markserrels bad side
This worked! Although I’m a pretty defensive Rocket League player so I doubt I’ll end up destroying @markserrels although I’m sure I can find a way
I play an aggressive defense by which I mean I cannonball at the ball and usually leave the goals wide open, but IF I get the ball..its aggressive
I’ve created a team, just waiting on @jacksonwryan to join and then I’ll chuck us in!
Got a rough idea on when the first round will happen?
It can start as soon as we have all the teams registered. I don’t believe it has a set length for each round, so we progress to the next when the last game of a round has been completed. That said, I think I’ll allow a week from the beginning of a round for all games to be played, so we aren’t waiting around for any longer than that.
I think one round a week is good.
@CookingMama keeps asking.
Her and @gingerchris86 are team gingercookies
it’s going to be so much fun 🙂
@phoenix – I created a lame team (Wreck-A-Mended) and followed you on Twitter to give you the code. I’ll need you to follow me back. I’m a_sharples
We should steal this logo and make it our own.
I haven’t heard from @blaghman yet. Hoping nothing wrong.
I should have sent a request to join the team the other night.
http://xseedgames.tumblr.com/post/126706403020/the-legend-of-heroes-trails-in-the-sky-second sounds like TitS SC is getting close. Yay.
Yeah, read this the other day. Reinforced my interest. Will buy once Adol has sorted these parts down the well.
Actually, I remember you saying Valkyria Chronicles 2 wasn’t as good. But it was still a good game, yeah?
Thinking of transferring it over to my VITA before I head overseas. It’s only $10.
Issues:
– The plot is largely shitty anime plot device #17: the ‘worst class’ full of misfits at a school where the classes are ranked and higher status afforded the ‘best’ class. They work their way up. It lacks any of the awesome scope of the first game.
– The game is dub-only and the dub is horrendous. One of the best reasons to have a PSP with Custom Firmware – you can run it with an undub applied.
– The PSP was too underpowered to reproduce the awesome art style, so all that watercolor look is out the door.
– The PSP was too underpowered to reproduce the sweeping huge maps of the first game, so the maps tend to be broken into multiple small sub-stages which can feel very constricted.
Pros:
– The core gameplay is still good
– They made some smart additions to the combat by adding a subclass for each of the main classes. Basically it’s an evolution of the way in the first game, when a class hit level 11 they gained a new ability eg rifle grenades, flamethrowers. VC2 changes it so that each character picks a subclass, and then also a sub-subclass later on.
– Sniper is removed as a base class (becomes a scout subclass).
– New class added, Armored Tech, who can repair sandbags and stuff. They can subclass into using shield and sword or later shield and huge fuckoff hammer. Kind of rad.
If you were talking about a CFW PSP, I’d say fuck it off and play VC3 with the fan patch. But I guess if you really want a game, it’d be an okay pick. I’d get TitS on there first though.
TitS is locked in.
I’m just weighing in some other options before I go & VC2 requires a PS3 transfer, which won’t be with me.
the indies I’ve been waiting on have been delayed & I’ll get Resi Revelations 2 on cart now (Asia cart with English, May be able to grab it there). So I have extra PSN bux to spend & I’ll have time to game.
Oh, by the way, the big thing with TitS is that they take a while to develop. Starts quite small in focus before broadening significantly as the game goes on. It’s a slow burn and it’s very much built around Estelle and Joshua’s relationship and their increasing competency as they train. But if you’re going into it expecting the typical JRPG massiveness, where by the end you’re summoning dragons to throw fireballs at some megalomaniac who wants to destroy / rule the world, it never really gets to that sort of thing. The conflict is more realistic and political and really centered around the country they’re in, though what happens isn’t insignificant by any means. It’s just not really the focus, it’s something that they sort of fall into. As I understand it this is typical for the Trails games, actually. More localized conflicts.
Now you are just messing about with that acronym
It’s true though.
*frowns*
I have a hacked psp, won’t be taking it though. Probably check out 3 when I get back.
Any other gems that work on vita you can think of? not necessarily psp
Atelier, maybe? I feel like you might like it. Ayesha is a good starting point, or you could go to Totori or Rorona. Or Meruru if you really wanted to do it weird. Ayesha’s the start of a new trilogy and IMO has nicer art and stuff. Not an enormous game, probably 20-25 hours to knock out a first run through and then you can play with a guide to get all the endings if you want. I need to get around to finishing it myself. Played right through to the endgame while I was away in Thailand but haven’t touched it since I got back.
I get a lot of enjoyment out of Lumines and Project Diva F 2nd, but your mileage may vary on both of those.
Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus is a lot of fun. Probably can skip Bon Appetit though. Need @greenius-level rhythm game skills to play that.
I quite liked what I played of Ar Nosurge so was excited to grab plus, but I’m currently working on reading through the Ciel Nosurge writeups and feel like you need to read all that first, there’s a ton of detail missed because we never got that game.
I really liked Tales of Hearts but you’re not a Tales guy.
I think you’ve already done Memories of Celceta? That’s a good game, though IMO Seven is better. I imagine you’ve done Muramasa already as well, but did you play the DLC stories?
On PSP, aside from TitS there’s also some older Ys stuff that’s okay. Felghana and Origins are much more actiony than Seven which is more RPG.
Disgaea 3 and 4 are on Vita. 4 is very good, probably the best Disgaea since the first one.
There’s also the Corpse Party games. I’m not really one for horror games but it Corpse Party’s pretty brilliant. Vita sequel’s in the works too which is nice. Also if you missed them there’s the remakes of FF Tactics (War of the Lions) and Tactics Ogre which are both pretty excellent.
Cheers
I’m just like @greenius with rhythm games….only on the opposite end of the scale.
I was really into music in high school & wanted to learn an instrument but counting time in my head sucked all the joy out of it.
Consequently, not a fan of rhythm games.
Got all the FF I want. Tactics Ogre is on special atm, haven’t decided yet.
Memories of Celceta & maybe an Atelier I’ll pick up on cart…One day. I’m interested, but something always catches my eye first. Any cart game I prefer cart. I’ve grabbed the odd cart game digitally & they’re always so big.
Muramasa I completed, bought the first dlc day one, got stuck. I’ve gotta get back into it. Will bring it along, if I beat the dlc, I can always grab more over there. (I downloaded Orochi 2 using the public library WiFi last time).
Corpse Party & Danganronpa are on my list of things to check out. I’ve yet to be really wowed by a full Visual Novel yet. I always enjoy it as part of a bigger game. One day I’ll find ‘the one’ & it’ll click.
Atelier Plus games are digital only. No carts. Want it physical, got to get for PS3.
EDIT: Corpse Party’s sort of a combo of a visual novel and an action game. If you want to try an actual visual novel, see if Steins;Gate is available yet.
I am good at things!
What about catching trains?
You mean you’re an inhuman rhythm game monster
Depends who I’m catching the train for ;D
Choo choo!!
Holy crap how amazing is this??
http://www.pcgamer.com/build-of-the-week-animunculus-from-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/
What the… that’s a PC? 😮
Ooh, shiny new fridge.
So much quieter than the old one. Might actually be able to hear the TV at night now.
Why the hell do I feel so tired?
Did you just eat lunch? Depending on what you eat you can have a real insulin spike which makes you get that ‘food coma’ feeling.
This kickstarter is pretty interesting:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smithsonian/reboot-the-suit-bring-back-neil-armstrongs-spacesu
Smithsonian are collecting donations basically to do a full restoration on the original spacesuit that Neil Armstrong wore on the moon. Also going to produce a documentary on the process and do a 3D digitization of the whole thing so that if you wanted to 3D print a copy you can. Already funded and they’re working on a stretch goal to do the same with the suit that Alan Shepard wore on Mercury 7 (first US manned sub-orbital spaceflight).
I want to back it to try the space ice cream, sounds out of this world.
(─‿‿─)
It’s been two weeks since that job interview and I’ve heard nothing back, despite being told I’d get a yes or no within a week. Gave them a call and politely asked if I could have an update. Ten minutes later I got a call back saying my references are terrible……to get a hold of which delayed the process, congratulations you’ve got the job.
Wasn’t expecting that.
Rad.
Also, universal rule of HR: They never get back to you by the time they say they will. Never.
Confirmed HR run on Valve time?
No, they run on HR time, where it’s delayed just long enough to make you worried. Valve time is far crazier.
@techknight
I had the opposite experience. I was told by HR that I had interviewed well on the same day as my interview, and told me I’d been accepted into a second round of interviews. Later that evening I got a call to say I had got the job :S
I imagine the other candidate they were hoping to interview wasn’t available… *kicks corpse leg back underneath the bedframe*
More like Adelaide public transport time.
They were obviously waiting to see which of the candidates was going to show initiative first and call in.
Congratulations, man! You’ve got initiative!
I actually seriously contemplated whether this was a thing a couple of days ago, because I suck.
Oh man, I knew you would get it man. You are not only a great husband and father but an amazing friend too. Yup, one of the best people I know.
By the way, could I get some money from you?
Best I can offer is 5000 Professor Land fun bucks.
Yay! \o/
I haven’t really been drinking much/often lately, usually passing up opportunities to drink in favour of being designated driver when my wife has a drink since we’re both on our green Ps and therefore have to have zero BAC to drive.
I had two beers at a team lunch this afternoon and I am surprisingly tipsy. It makes me feel completely irresponsible. Like I could make decisions worth tens of thousands of dollars and this is apparently ok.
What if I were someone who mattered like a lawyer or doctor? It would be mayhem!
Learning about liability firsthand is useful for your line of work.
Conclusion: You should claim those beers as paid training time and do it again tomorrow.
I actually pitched this very thing during lunch and my boss laughed at me.
Which I assume means he approves of my plan.
If i go out and im driving i usually have a redbull and vodka because being deso is balls when your in a club
I had beers during work lunch only once.
Was only 2 beers & I ate but somehow having an alcohol in my system while at work made them 10 times more effective.
I just came off my Ps, which means I can now legally drink* and drive!
(*Responsibly.)
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
Check out the lifehacker article on muscle soreness when you get the chance; worth keeping in mind once you move on to weights and gym =]
Thanks for the heads up, will definitely check it out!
If you ain’t sore, you ain’t gettin’ gainz
Oh there’s pain alright 😛
But it’s starting to be a good pain (if there ever was such a thing)
Endurance training today, 17 minutes of running and walking shuttles… It hurts us!
Well that is backed
And totally not a reply fail, just another announcement that Beardy’s new kickstarter has launched https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/matthewjhellscream/carnifex-an-australian-horror-novel?ref=hero_thanks
Carnifex?
Yup, see edit
Also thanks for the heads up on that
Enchantment!
Enchantment!
Ooh, he’s almost halfway there!
Woah.
Livin’ on a Pr-holy shit this song just started playing on Pandora.
*guitar solo*
Hey Tigerion! Thanks so much for backing Carnifex! You are a deadset legend <3
Congratulations on getting fully funded
@freezespreston Hey, are we gonna do that Wrasslin RPG thing?
Giovanni puts his title on the line! then takes a shirt off the line and goes to work
Giovanni!
GIOVANNI IS HERE TO KICK ASS AND CHEW BUBBLEGUM, AND ALSO DO YOU HAVE BUBBLEGUM? GIOVANNI NEEDS BUBBLEGUM RIGHT NOW
Ah shit. I literally forgot all about it 🙁
To be fair you had a bit on your mind…
I got about halfway through reading the manual dealie then forgot about it >.>
I think it was just the three of us whom were interested in it though. I want to change my name so I have an awesome intro song, ‘El Padrino’.
Ah well, no more mobile Kotaku for me. It’s annihilating my data.
Have fun folks.
Yeah, it’s not gentle about it. I’ve been using WiFi as much as I can and avoiding the site when I can’t. Kind of destroys the whole “mobile” aspect of it.
Picking character names is hard.
So much this. Worst part of MMO character creation. Even worse when they make you pick first and last name. Do you go silly, do you go world-appropriate, or what? What makes sense? WHAT TO DO?!
And then you find out there’s a timeout on character creation. Or worse, the awesome name you came up with is already taken.
Well, I’m writing a story, so i hope my character’s name isn’t taken
I use descriptive fill-ins so I don’t get stuck.
Wrote a story recently starring Protag.
I tried that and then I forget to replace it
That’s why we do several drafts 😀
& I’d be more than happy to have a read.
I’m just trying to figure out where I’m going, how to give information and where to have choices.
I can send you what I have, if you want. I need feedback.
Sure. I’m off to bed now. If I can find a moment at work I’ll have a look tomorrow.
🙂
I actually keep a coply of my sisters uni graduation program and when I get stuck I choose a name at random from that. It’s my greatest hope that one day my book gets megga famous and kids are forced to write essays on the deep meaning behind my choice of names.
That’s what I thought but it turns out I’m not allowed to call the lead character in my story Frodo Baggins.
I. C. Wiener
No.
Will E. Stroker
Mike Hunt
I. Yankit
Hugh Jass
Jack Kass
Wayne King
Duncan A. Ball
Turns out that Kickstarter I backed at the end of last year for a Plan V finally arrived.
Shipping was meant to happen in February but they had some tooling and material issues in the first runs, then had distribution issues that meant they did further runs and recalled shipments.
Nifty idea though, plug a 9V battery in the unit and it’ll give your phone enough juice to dial out for a few hours. Just leave it on the keyring until you need it.
I can’t remember why I ordered three… but I did…
Neat. Although a 9V battery doesn’t seem like the most readily available power source in an emergency type situation?
Any 24hr convenience store or servo would have them available.
If their story is anything to go by, the idea was born when they got stuck overseas and couldn’t find accommodation after a long day travelling and their phones were dead. So not so much a disaster emergency and more of a the problem at hand could be solved easily if you could call a number stored on your phone.
You know what’s hard to find? A rechargeable 9V battery. Only ever seen a single one at all, ever. And bought it. Only used it a couple of times, but hey.
I’m more a fan of my own solution though – just have a better phone 😛
Just finished a pro season, 3v3, of Rocket League. Went through the season 23-4, and 2 of those losses were against the Monarchs. Guess what? Championship game is against the Monarchs, the one team I hadn’t beaten (1-3 in the first game, 2-4 in the second). It was a close one, I scored the first goal, but then they came back. Regular time ended in a 4-4 draw… I was feeling the pressure. Overtime came, they got it into our half, heading towards goal. I knocked it off the fence down the line, then into the fence centring it, then made an epic flipping shot that scored the winning goal! F*** you Monarchs! I beat you!
tl;dr – still playing Rocket League. Winning.
Just played a 4v4 game alongside @rize and @cakesmith,we came back from 3-1 down to tie it and go into overtime, and won.
Awesome. If you see me online feel free to send a message, I’d be keen to play some more with people 🙂
Edit: Aww… reply fail! How did that happen? @crazyguy1990 (and anyone else that plays Rocket League for that matter)
Will you be available tomorrow night from 8pm onwards?
I’ll more than likely be on from then.
Working until 8pm (AWST), so won’t be home until 10:30pm your time
I might be online playing at that time if your on PS
I’m not happy with what I’ve written so a re-write is in order
^-Every stage of every writing process ever.
At least I didn’t decide to just scrap the whole thing
I’m busy teaching someone my job before I go on holiday.
I had a quick peruse & will send some thought provoking, constructive criticism when I get a moment.
No problem. Do it when you can, no rush
@shane Just got sent a kickstarter survey about Undad S2- apparently some uni is doing a study on KS and Undad is one of the projects or level of projects or something?
Yikes. Okay then. I filled out a survey a few days ago to help out a uni study, but I didn’t realise they’d spam all the backers. Fuck.
Thanks for letting me know, man.
They haven’t spammed me. Oh. Right. I see how it is. This is Catholic school all over again. :'(
We shouldn’t tell you about our alternate forum Talk Amongst Yourselves Except Bob then.
I *knew* it!
I’m not concerned with receiving a survey from them, that’s more than fine. I just thought it was interesting Undad S2 was one of the projects!
I think this was a very broad email-to-every-project-you-can-find invitation to participate. I had a few minutes spare so decided to help out.
I think I’ve mentioned before on TAY previously I’m house sitting for someone, who has some frogs and fish for pets.
There’s around 40 fish in the tank, heaps of gold/smaller fish, one fish that’s tail ripples like a ribbon when it swims, 3 little sucker fish who suck on the sides of the tank and one single big fish. It’s the biggest fish with maybe only the rippling tail fish for competition in terms of size. I watch it swim through the tank bullying all of the fish, scaring them all away and not letting the little ones eat anything.
Two nights ago I decided to put just a little bit extra (the size of a 5 cent piece) of fish feed into the tank so that that the other little fish get a chance to eat everything. I watch the little ones finally and gleefully have a better chance of eating food, and for a moment I felt like a good person who had righted a wrong in the animal kingdom just for a couple of seconds. This was a grave error of judgement.
I arrived home from work last night to find that not one, not two, but three of the smaller fish dead caught in the reeds. I had tried to manipulate nature and I failed, I now know what scientists feel like when they create monstrosities like mice with half a human ear on it.
Tl;dr, Don’t play god, not even once.
http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
Lol this is me. I only told the owner I killed one… I haven’t checked since last night if any others made it through the night :S
Now you get to have a fun sitcom situation where you frantically try and find similar looking replacement fish before the owners get home only to realise that the fish were just sleeping the whole time and now you have to quickly get rid of your replacements.
Did the small fish quite literally overeat and get stuck in the reeds? Or did the big bullying fish murder them and dump their bodies in the reeds to make it look like an accident?
CSI: Aquarium.
Maybe something in the feed killed them :O
It was an inside job?
Rocket League has reached the point where I can’t play with randoms anymore without getting angry. Trying to play 3s or 4s is basically impossible as most people just seem to have a “hit the ball at all costs” mentality and don’t play as a team.
People will constantly team ram trying to rush the ball, messing up someone who clearly has a better shot. The amount of goals/hits that were messed up in the games I was playing last night because of this was just stupidly high. There’s nothing wrong with hanging back.
Secondly, people who spawn in the defensive position, and then proceed to try and get a first hit are the fucking worst. If you spawn in the defensive position, fucking stay there for the kick off!
Getting screwed over repeatedly by your own team just isn’t fun.
I enjoyed some contrast with this stuff last night. Played early in the night with @morkai and randoms and for the most part it went well. Later in the night playing with randoms and various others as they dropped in and out turned into insanity. Going up for the ball only to be knocked off it by 2 other team mates is fun!
Fun!
FUUUUN!
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
UUUUUUSSS-RO-DAH!
Ugh *upvotes*
I haven’t played Rocket League yet, but I’m starting to feel like I may have missed the boat on the ‘have fun and do silly things’ stage, and if I start playing now I will just enrage people with my n00bness.
Absolutely not. The issue isn’t whether or not you can play well, it’s entirely whether or not you’re being a nice player. Essentially, don’t fight with team mates and you’re golden…and TAY matches tend to devolve into stupidity a lot anyway 😀
Nah it’s all good, I only recently jumped in and still just drive around in circles missing the ball
Besides have fun and do silly things is all there is to Rocket League
Told my current boss I was finishing up when my contract expired on the 31st. He responded by congratulating me for getting a full time job and demanded we go out for drinks to celebrate.
Best break-up ever?
The best bosses know they can’t keep you forever
Or he’s an alcoholic who’ll find any reason to drink!
Por que no los dos‽
Good idea! Beer AND tacos!
\o/
He’s a great boss, and has been trying to get me a permanent position for months so I don’t leave but there’s so many layers of business hierarchy to get hiring approval from that it was always going to be a crapshoot.
I know a lot of people aren’t aware of this, but it’s actually a bureaucratic nightmare working for the government…
The government creating internal systems that hinder progression and efficiency??! That’s crazy! How will they ever meet their KPI’s if they actively sabotage themselves?
P.S. Congrats on the job =]
Full time? My commiserations.
RockeTAY League
We’re so damn close it’s ridiculous. Waiting on these last two teams to join!
@markserrels
@freezespreston
Finishedlast (@finishedlast on Twitter)
@blaghman
https://rocket-league.com/league/550
Also, if there’s anyone else keen to play, there’s still room. Two more players would actually be perfect! @alexwalker were you interested?
@batguy was keen, I think?
If you’re absolutely stuck for a player, I’m remotely interested. Acknowledging the obstacles of never having played the game, not owning the game (happy to purchase though), and having a less than solid upload speed.
Yeah I can join in. Though it may be difficult/impossible if @cookingmama and I are expected to play against each other on the same console?
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2743590992/ed3e6e8b79d3eb930aaadaffd997607b.jpeg
I assume you can split screen and then just join opposing teams. Of course, I haven’t tested that, but I don’t see why that wouldn’t be true.
I’ll assume that it’s gonna work; if not, we can just rock-paper-scissors on our end to see who wins, and the other team can forfeit. So find me a partner and I’ll join in.
Possibly @alexwalker!
Yeah, I’m up for it.
There you go @batguy!
You guys will just need to create a team on https://rocket-league.com/ and join the league. @cookingmama has the code for the league, or you can hit me on twitter.
What are we going to call ourselves? Some kind of variation on Batguy and Walker? BatWalkers? Do you have a screen name that you prefer to use that might work with the name?
Dippa. I’m sure you can work out something with that ;D (Dippa Bats? Oh god. OH GOD)
@alexwalker Not sure if I’ve missed some kind of innuendo there, but BatDippas or DippaBats or BDFC works (or BadTippers??)
I’ll pick the first one unless you have a preference.
I don’t know how often @markserrels ventures into TAY. Maybe it might be better to hit @markserrels up on Twitter. Or we could do that thing we we just all spam @markserrels in the comments until @markserrels gives in and comes to find out why everyone is tagging @markserrels in the comments of TAY.
@markserrelsYou could spam me instead ;D
Yeah Dip’s pretty reliable when it comes to responding to tags, he just wants to get in and amongst it all..IT ALL
Too true
Just applied to join. Apologies if you get it twice.
Approved!
I don’t understand what’s happening.
We signed up for a new iiNet plan last week for our new house. It said that it’d take 10-15 business days to connect.
A tech is coming tomorrow to hook us up.
I guess I’ll get a chance to finish my 10 hero challenge after all. Just need a win with Ember Spirit.
I see you’ve experienced the TransACT business model.
“We flipped a coin and it came up heads, so rather than making you wait while we do literally nothing we’ll come do it tomorrow”
The funny part is that I’m not 100% sure that my router is VDSL2 compatible. So I might not get online tomorrow, even if they show up.
Not sure about going through iiNet, but when TransACT was it’s own thing they usually provided a VDSL modem.
iiNet offered one for $60 but a quick Google said mine was compatible. The wifi on my router is pretty good, so I didn’t want to change that if I could avoid it.
And you believe that. So sweet and innocent
A tech is scheduled to hook us up tomorrow. I’m going to be optimistic for once. See how it pans out.
Howzit?
S’alrite.
Awyeh?
HOWZAAAT! *shakes head*
God, I don’t even watch cricket, what the hell.
Wicket!
Maybe you’re a big fan of Sherbet.
s’good, s’doin?
Ahh y’no
Wow, @beardymcmuttonchops new book is already funded. New record?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/matthewjhellscream/carnifex-an-australian-horror-novel
Holy crap…
I’m waiting for my next pay to back it but wow, impressive!
I didn’t wait. The money is November Me’s problem…
Oh yeah, they take it out after the pledge, right?
…
Still I’d rather have the money in there
Horror in the Australian outback? That is a solid concept. Won’t even have to make up demonic creatures, they already exist!
Existed* Let me tell you about the Thylacoleo Carnifex, one of Australia’s most unique and deadly apex predators!
Metro 7 took 3 hours to hit goal, but its goal was almost half of what I needed for Carnifex…
My god, is it really only 11am? I feel like I’ve been here for far more than 2 hours.
I am so damn bored and over it today.
I must be some sort of masochist or something, I think I’m starting to enjoy(?) the post workout muscle soreness and tingling… I’m weird
Giggity
Well the skins I bought for running do have spandex in them soooooooo… Giggity?
There’s something satisfying about the physical reminder that you are alive, that your body is stitching itself back together stronger than it was before while you sit there drinking your morning coffee.
Personally though, I’m all about the adrenaline rush. Love confusing my body by making it think that I might die.
THE BUUURRNNN!! THE BURN! Welcome gym junkie =P
Make sure you keeping stretching those sore muscles and backing that up with appropriate intakes of protein/carbs and 8 hours of rest.
Yep definitely, keep standing up doing stretches and moving the stiff muscles (giggity) at work, and regular walks to get the blood flow going. And eating at regular intervals
Totally normal. Endorphins are an awesome thing, and exercise is an amazing way to reduce stress and fight depression. Honestly, it’s kind of ridiculous that exercise can make you feel that great but so few of us do it enough (definitely including myself in this group).
Exercise was one of the most effective ways I got out of my first stint with depression which lasted almost 2 years. The second was developing a productive routine. interestingly the key to making progress with exercise is developing a solid routine and sticking to it so for me at least it was the kryptonite to my bouts with depression!
I bet you don’t enjoy it as much as Arnold.
https://youtu.be/BdVCfDioTcY
Goddamit when is XCOM 2 going to get here =@ Stupid gaming drought…..
Ooo, looks like Bungie may be doing something about vault space after all…
Also, looks like light “score” will be an average of the light of all your equipped gear (not a total, as it is currently), and will contribute to your damage output and armour. So, theoretically, you could still use a year one primary with a bunch of high light gear everywhere else, and it would be equivalent to roughly a 10% power decrease. Might make item obsolescence a bit easier for some people to swallow, I guess. Also means we’ll be starting at light score 34, not 238 as I’d assumed.
Holy shit!
That Exotic Vault stuff is EXACTLY what me and a mate were describing the other night.
Awesome.
Had an insane Ranked 3v3 game of Rocket League.
My team is winning 3-0 (I’ve scored all three goals because I am awesome). Then our opponents score a goal, and one of my teammates leaves. Then the game continues, and when it reaches 3-2, my other teammate leaves, leaving me with a 3v1 situation.
These guys play fair, given the circumstances. They seem to have decided not to just bump me out of the way, and the contest is pretty awesome fun.
I actually manage to score a goal in these circumstances! The score by then is 4-5 to them. Then one of their team decides to (unofficially) switch over, to make it a 2v2 (awesome sportsmanship), and we go on to lose at the death 5-6.
It was insane playing 3v1, but kind of fun. Still, sportsmanship for the win! It was nice to have a reminder that not everyone who plays this game online is a dickhead.
TL;DR: ROCKET LEAGUE!
Trying to remember the name of the deliciously expensive whiskey I had last Friday. I was going to ask @freezespreston @beeawwb and @transientmind what they thought of it. It was Japanese 15 y/o, but I don’t recall if it was Miyagikyo or something else…it started with an M and Google is not helping me.
Anyhoo, the point of this ramble is that it was stupidly nice and I probably can’t afford a bottle.
If not Hibiki, Yamazaki or Hakushu, could be Miyagikyo?
That’s a Nikka one though, I’ve only tried some of the Suntory ones.
Stupidly nice Japanese whisky that we can’t afford…. *dreams about Yamazaki 25y/o*
Dammit, @rize, I’d stopped thinking about that whisky and now you’ve brought it back in to my mind and I’m drooling and Googling whistfully again!
That… was a really good glass of whisky. I can’t believe there isn’t any more of it.
I still remember it sometimes.
@os42 So you know how after the epic smashing of Nightfalls and Weeklies I was going to go to bed after maybe running a bounty or two…?
I didn’t.In fact…
Just as Alex and I were deciding what patrol to do, I got invited by imapiamp into party……and they were doing hard Crota…
…so Alex got his Triumph, and I got THREE hard Crota completes.
However…
I got Fang of Ir-Yut. THREE TIMES. And a No Land Beyond. And no Crux. Fuck you RNG. 🙂\o/
🙁 Sorry to hear about no crux, but hey, three HM clears in one night is awesome! Especially after the nightfalls and weeklies.PS. Get some sleep, you madman! 😛Yeah, Best Tuesday (*cough* Wednesday) ever. 3 nightfalls, 3 weeklies, 3 hard mode raids. Manic. And I was actually useful on 2 of the raid runs all the way through (warlock and hunter runs), titan was good after bridge but died uselessly in the lamps. We actually did the bridge “properly” on one of the runs and there was the faintest hope of flawless raid until someone got caught out. Good run and lots of fun. Oh, and I reckon I can hunter solo the lamps now with a bit of luck… \o/
Got off Destiny about 2:30, got to bed about 3…
I only recently did VoG and CE on hard for the first time and am eager to go again. Of course that means I just need Skolas for my year one triumph. I’ve heard it’s a miserable experience across the board but I feel like if I don’t try at some point in the next 3 weeks I’ll regret it.
That’s all I need too. This week is the week, I can feel it. I’m on tonight as the fiancee is out for dinner with a friend.
It’s a good week for it. Lightswitch isn’t really that bad, as you really want to keep the 35s at a distance anyway, and this sorta helps to enforce that. Small arms means Vision will be amazing, again, reinforcing the advantage of maintaining distance… and Skolas has a pretty big head, so pretty easy to land crits. 😛
http://new2.fjcdn.com/comments/5399087+_5ad8599d361c87dfa04954531cef5ce5.jpg
Hey, I’m cutting back…
…because I don’t have anything to do; but helping with Skolas is something interesting to do. I’d love to help! \o/ We’ll need a third, tho…Should be able to persuade Dan if he’s on or Simon if it’s early in the evening. You, me and Simon got very close last time we tried it together, just ran out of awakeness…
I’ll be on by 7pm latest tonight. Maybe earlier. 🙂
RIghto, I’ll try to get on by 7-7:30. Don’t want to stay up too late, so I can watch the tower reveal stream in the morning before work. Might be an idea to send them a message beforehand, see who’s interested/available.
Sent a facebook message to the gaming group… now we wait…
If you need a hand, just hit me up on twitter or on here 🙂
Whoop. May get you to be my crucible mentor. 😉 Haven’t talked to you for a few weeks. Busy?
A fair bit busier these days now that I’m back at uni and work, but I kind if dropped Destiny a bit. Just sunk too much time into it. I still jump in occasionally to help friends out though 🙂
Sadly I’m an XBro. 🙁
Nobody’s perfect. 🙂
Hey @beavwa have you found time to SMTIV?
Nope.
Not a good week this week.
*shakes fist*
#RocketLeague
So I have been playing through season mode. Left the default settings (27 weeks, 3v3, 4 teams in the playoffs). Played through against Rookie AI (ended up 27-2). Played through against Pro AI (ended up 25-4 – championship game against my nemesis). Now playing against All-Star AI (currently 7-10)… Getting my behind handed to me. Had a string of 6 losses in a row, but then came back with 4 wins. Most of my mistakes are pretty silly ones though. I do love chasing after that ball… The game just got a lot harder, and yet I keep on playing it.
Looking forward to the RockeTAY League! \o/
I keep getting frustrated at the Pro level championship. I’ll do all I can to play well, and then my allies will knock me off course, fail to defend the goal (which I’m guilty of as well), and score own goals more frequently than I do. I CAN’T HANDLE IT, I’M LOSING MORE GAMES THAN I’M WINNING. I’M JUST RUBBISH AT THIS.
Fucking AI own goals.
Just
Ugh.
I did have one last night where the ball was near my goal, one of the opposing AIs knocked it back towards their own goal, and the other one neatly tapped it in.
It was all skill on my part. >.>
I hated that in the Rookie season. My AI team mates would drive the ball straight into our own goal like “What’s happening? I can’t get around it? Why isn’t it stopping?!?”
I get frustrated a lot too. There’s been many times where the AI are down the other end and it’s just not going in. So I boost up there in the hopes of smacking everyone out the way and scoring, only to see the opposing AI knock it over my head and I have to sit there and watch it roll into an open goal…
Then there’s the times when I accidentally flip in the wrong direction and completely miss the ball…
I can’t handle the speed difference on the long boosts, so if I’m boosting for that long there’s an 80% chance that I will sail past the ball while trying to hit it.
@spaghett’s last song played game!
(since no one ever seems to do these these days)
Take Me To Church – Hozier
Rudimental – Never Let You Go
Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels)- Arcade Fire
Everything but the Girl – Five Fathoms
Metal Gear Rising Revengeance OST – Hot Wind Blowing
According to my phone, I Wish I Could Go Back To College from Avenue Q.
Life was so simple back then.
What would I give, to go back and live, in a dorm with a meal plan again.
In college, you know who you are. You sit in the quad, and think ‘Oh my God, I am totally gonna go far!’
My favourite line will always be “We could be, sitting in the computer lab, 4AM before the final paper is due, cursing the world that we didn’t start sooner, and seeing the rest of the class there too.”
It’s funny because it’s true.
Also true: Avenue Q is the only musical soundtrack I’ve got on my “music while at work” USB drive. And I’m listening to it now.
Airglow – Stellardrone
Closing Time – Semisonic.
Umm umm… That flo-rida one with the girls playing basketball in the parking lot like space!
“Track 04,” (not the real name) I think by Finch, but not sure. I wish I knew what it’s called. Stupid compilation CDs from the early ’00s…
I was actually trying to fix the metadata in my music library (mostly automating it via musicbrainz), but am stuck trying to identify one song I can’t place. Googling the lyrics tells me no-one knows what it is… X(TAY-hive-mind, activate
What are the lyrics?
Angsty and depressing.
Crawling – Linkin Park
@sernobulus
Krawling is better, imo. 😛 And it’s definitely not LP. Could be Silverstein, but can’t find anything in their discography that looks right…
Oh, it’s a bit of a running joke between a few TAYbies whenever teen and angst is brought up.
Craaaawling iiiiin my skiiiiiiin
Any chance it’s this?
Nope, sorry – more chill/emo. I’m not actually sure it’s Finch… vocals aren’t quite right (and Finch has never changed vocalist)… vocalist sounds more like Silverstein, or The Used – same straining high notes, hoarse screaming, and overlaid growls – but can’t find anything in their pre-2005 discographies. Melody’s pretty chill, and rather basic, outside the chorus, which is a bit heavier. Tbh it sounds like an EP extra/throwaway song…
“Why did you say you’d wait forever / Why did you leave me here to die / why did you say you’d wait forever”“And I believed all these things / I believed every word you said / You’re a liar! / and nothing hurts more / and nothing hurts more / and nothing hurts more”
“You can cut my heart out / and you can slit my throat / and you can leave me bleeding / and you can do these things”
(Chorus) “You took my heart, and smashed it up / I wish I’d never met you / I wish I’d never seen your face” x2
Ends with a bit about a broken friendship, although it’s a little unclear:
“Don’t do this again x2 / Best friends, I thought they were forever, and ever” x2“When the stars shine like gold / And now we’re living in graves” x2
You should try Shazam-ing it.
Free app that listens to the song from your phone and gives you the name / artist.
It’s usually pretty accurate.
Yep, was gonna do that when I got home (don’t really want to do it at the office, for obvious reasons :P). Not optimistic, tho – Musicbrainz is usually pretty good, too.
Nope, no dice. Although the Android version of Shazam suffers from selective deafness – could see it listening, pulsing with the right beat, then it told me it couldn’t hear the song, even at full volume. Tried Track ID too, which admitted it didn’t know; and Google Now’s music identification admitted defeat as well. The mystery will remain, I guess…
Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing Alchemy live version
NiN – Just like you imagined
Awadama Fever
It’s too damn catchy.
Shia Labeouf – Rob Cantor
SHIA SURPRISE!Working Man – Shenmue OST
Dangit. The USB amp/mixer thing for that headset doesn’t seem to work straight off a USB power supply, seems it needs to be plugged into something that’ll run it as a USB headset.
Wanted to run through Star Fox Assault again, so had the Cube set up on the TV in my room and was going to use the headset to keep things quiet, but the sound didn’t seem to come through quite right just plugged straight into the audio output. Not sure if it just didn’t have enough power to drive them or something. Made do in the end by having the amp plugged into my phone, but it drained the battery pretty fast, even at minimum volume.
Wonder if there’s a way to trick it into working with a USB power supply. Maybe if I can set up some kind of man-in-the-middle thing to complete whatever handshake it requires to initialise. That’d be cool.
Interesting, it works plugged into the Wii U even though it doesn’t seem to be drawing any audio from the USB port. Wonder if I could just plug it into my Wii for power instead, since that’s next to the Cube.
It’s gonna be a gooooooooood 30th for me come October.
Watching Star Wars with my kids, and now this: http://www.zavvi.com/blu-ray/farscape-universe-collection-megabook/11155215.html
Apparently I’m transitioning out of my twenties back into my teens.
So, are we Rocket Leaguing tonight?
I can be on late tonight (late for you guys anyway) \o/
Probably not, man. I’m out until probably after 10 tonight.
@alexwalker Go join https://rocket-league.com/team/2121 and then I’ll add it to the league.
*clicks link* OH GOD IT’S GOAT P–
Done.
So now that there is a PC port I’m wondering is ZombiU a good game or a good for WiiU game?
If I remember right, combat was awkward on the WiiU
It was awkward, but it was designed to be awkward. Was designed so that any encounter could be dangerous if you weren’t careful.
That said, new version seems to have a wider FOV, better texture mipping or streaming or something (not that it’s going to win any awards for graphics, but it’s adequate. Does seem to have lost the light based “lens grit” though, which is both a shame and sort of a relief), and controls look to be remapped to where you’d expect them to be on new controllers.
Biggest issue is probably how it handles the UI, since it’s now a menu, I assume, and I’m not sure how that changes visibility and the like when viewing things.
Yay! My hooped petticoat has arrived in the mail today.
Time to not win another Kotaku” competition.
YEEEEESSSS! 😀
cc @jimu
I guess I can’t complain though, since I did win that Destiny competition on Twitter (and won a prize I already had…)
Ugh, I need to use my brain for this one, and it’s just not happening.
And I would like a copy of that game, not sure I’m willing to pay full price, but free would be good!
My sentiments exac…mostly
That said, it’s tempting to grab a copy to see if I can get a coupla people to play through some of it in Canberra with me, could be fun.
I just entered also. I’m thinking I should’ve done something fancier, but, well… >_>
There’s a lot of Rocket League talk here. Makes me think I should jump on the bandwagon.
Go man, go!
RockeTAY League is live!
The full fixture is contained in the spoiler:
Week 1 – Starting Now!CARSENAL v WRECK-A-MENDED
FINISHEDBLAGHMAN v HOTH SHOTS
BENNY+FATSHADYLIVE v CUNNING ARTIFICERS
BATDIPPAS v STEEL CUT STROKES
GINGERCOOKIES v GOALDUST
Week 2 – Starting 26/8
HOTH SHOTS v CARSENAL
CUNNING ARTIFICERS v WRECK-A-MENDED
STEEL CUT STROKES v FINISHEDBLAGHMAN
GOALDUST v BENNY+FATSHADYLIVE
GINGERCOOKIES v BATDIPPAS
Week 3 – Starting 2/9
CARSENAL v CUNNING ARTIFICERS
HOTH SHOTS v STEEL CUT STROKES
WRECK-A-MENDED v GOALDUST
FINISHEDBLAGHMAN v GINGERCOOKIES
BENNY+FATSHADYLIVE v BATDIPPAS
Week 4 – Starting 9/9
STEEL CUT STROKES v CARSENAL
GOALDUST v CUNNING ARTIFICERS
GINGERCOOKIES v HOTH SHOTS
BATDIPPAS v WRECK-A-MENDED
BENNY+FATSHADYLIVE v FINISHEDBLAGHMAN
Week 5 – Starting 16/9
CARSENAL v GOALDUST
STEEL CUT STROKES v GINGERCOOKIES
CUNNING ARTIFICERS v BATDIPPAS
HOTH SHOTS v BENNY+FATSHADYLIVE
WRECK-A-MENDED v FINISHEDBLAGHMAN
Week 6 – Starting 23/9
GINGERCOOKIES v CARSENAL
BATDIPPAS v GOALDUST
BENNY+FATSHADYLIVE v STEEL CUT STROKES
FINISHEDBLAGHMAN v CUNNING ARTIFICERS
WRECK-A-MENDED v HOTH SHOTS
Week 7 – Starting 30/9
CARSENAL v BATDIPPAS
GINGERCOOKIES v BENNY+FATSHADYLIVE
GOALDUST v FINISHEDBLAGHMAN
STEEL CUT STROKES v WRECK-A-MENDED
CUNNING ARTIFICERS v HOTH SHOTS
Week 8 – Starting 7/10
BENNY+FATSHADYLIVE v CARSENAL
FINISHEDBLAGHMAN v BATDIPPAS
WRECK-A-MENDED v GINGERCOOKIES
HOTH SHOTS v GOALDUST
CUNNING ARTIFICERS v STEEL CUT STROKES
Week 9 – Starting 14/10
CARSENAL v FINISHEDBLAGHMAN
BENNY+FATSHADYLIVE v WRECK-A-MENDED
BATDIPPAS v HOTH SHOTS
GINGERCOOKIES v CUNNING ARTIFICERS
GOALDUST v STEEL CUT STROKES
Each round you will need to arrange between yourselves and your opponents a time for the match. Each match will consist of a best of three between the two teams. Following the completion of the match, the winning team will submit the scores, along with screenshots of the scoreboard, to the league page. The results will then need to be confirmed by a player from the losing team.
Rounds will begin and end at 12am Wednesday, the dates for each round are listed in the full fixture above. Matches can be played whenever you like, but please try to complete your scheduled match within the week it is scheduled for.
I think that covers everything, but let me know if there are any questions.
@redartifice @tigerion @benny @fatshadylive @crazyguy1990 @shane @phoenix @cakesmith@coldcamv @markserrels @freezespreston @jacksonwryan @rize @finishedlast @blaghman @cookingmama @gingerchris86 @batguy @alexwalker
LOL I’M PLAYING DIPPA. IT’S OVA SON IT’S OVA.
#REKT
OH SHIT INTRAOFFICE RIVALRY
FOLLOWED UP THE NEXT WEEK BY INTRAHOUSEHOLD RIVALRY
Remember, folks… you have to score to win…
…Which won’t be happening when I’m around!
That’s what I like to hear 😀
You’re not going to score?
That’s a risky strategy.
That’s my job!
Insert lewd joke about risky scoring here.
No… you aren’t…
How did this discussion divert from the fact that Mark’s about to get bodied? I don’t understand. Priorities people, c’mon.
You know this means Grand Final Week is pretty much PAX week.
I’MMA BE BRAGGING ABOUT MY VICTORY SO HARD AT PAX
Guess we’ll have to knock you out of the finals early so you can focus on PAX. 😛
Huh… who can make a trophy so I can present this at the PAX meat for the RockeTAY World Champions?
I can actually do that. Like an actual proper trophy and medals and stuff.
Maybe medals would be a better idea cuz then we could make two for the winning team. I don’t know rocket league but I’m thinking like a car launching a ball on it and the ball has “TAY” written on it. Also cuz I always get worried trophies get damaged in transit.
Might as well just engrave Goaldust on them now.
FINALLY THE ROCKETAY LEAGUE COMMENCES!
@gingerchris86 and @cookingmama you better beware because your dealing with the final cut! The curtain call of shattered dreams! Your going toe to toe with GOOOOAAAALLLLLL-DUST
Preferably tonight if at all possible
tonight would be preferable for me. I have to go away for a little while heading away saturday coming back on wednesday.
@cookingmama ?
Tonight should be OK. I’ll ping you on Twitter
Tonight works for me too!
@shane @crazyguy1990 @phoenix
Let me know what time suits you guys. Most days work for me in the next week, except Saturday.
Can’t do Mondays at all.
And it’s hard to get on before 9:30 any night, but I can probably do it if there’s no alternative.
I think @phoenix is WA based so they’ll probably have to be later in the evening anyway.
I should be free most nights as well, except tonight. I’m in WA so yeah, it might need to be a little later for you guys.
I’m free most nights, but if anything changes, I’ll try and let you all know.
@cakesmith @crazyguy1990 @phoenix
How are we situated for tonight? Say 10pm EST?
This works for me. Or Sunday night.
Yes, just shoot me a message on Steam and I’ll be there!
I don’t use Steam!
Well then… message me on TAY.
@crazyguy1990
Will do. Just waiting to hear from @phoenix!
Shouldn’t be a problem at all. I’ll be on Steam 8pm my time 🙂
I’m only partway through the new episode of Tales From The Borderlands, but goddamn, is it funny. I keep forgetting how damn amazing this game is.
I started downloading it, forgot, turned on my PS3, downloaded Valkyria Chronicles 2, started playing Demon Souls, was too tired to boss. Tried some demos, deleted the demos, deleted some installs.
Played some Trails in the Sky.
Installed Valkyria Chronicles 2.
Realised my PS4 was on, forgot why it was on, turned it off. Went to bed.
I hope Tales of Borderlands actually finished downloading.
I’ve also been forgetting about the latest Game of Thrones.
#firgetfuljimu
Cool story, BRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Sorry, just wanted to bro. It’s so damn excellent, this game.Yeah, my fave Telltale, closely followed by Wolf.
I’m kinda shocked I forgot, but I was/am Damn tired.
Did you ever go back & play TT’s Jurassic Park?
I really like it.
None of the cool choice stuff, but every thing else.
I haven’t yet. But I plan to, one day. If I ever get my PS3 plugged back in 😛
It gets a lot of unwarranted hate.
I enjoyed my time.
Just finished playing through Star Fox Assault. Still seems far better than the reception it received at the time would have you believe. A bit clunky, yeah, and doesn’t measure up to Lylat Wars. But it had some nice ideas, and seems like it could’ve been pretty great with some further refinement.
Also the Cube controller feels weirdly small now.
Just be glad it wasn’t Adventures… *shudder*.
Hey, Adventures was great. I mean I still hate it because it gave us Krystal and ugh, but otherwise it was a perfectly serviceable Zelda game.
But it was Starfox not Zelda!
Starfox games are meant to have ships, flying, shooting and shit.
This was just Dinosaur Planet with the Starfox name tacked on.
Yeah, I do kinda wish they’d just stuck with the Dinosaur Planet thing as it was, without shoving Star Fox into it. Especially with how annoying the Sauria level in Assault ended up being 😛
How’d you feel about Command? I haven’t played it since it was a “current” game, but I loved it at the time and spent a good number of words defending it against its detractors. Should give that one another look-in too.
I’m afraid I haven’t played Command.
Hey! I adore adventures except for te abrupt end & unbalanced use of powerups.
It’s a great game!
I’m in the mood for more GameCube, gonna try and crack out PN03, see if I can finally finish it off. Last played in September 2007 apparently 😛
It’s gonna massively suck trying to learn to drive the game again from halfway through. Last I recall I was on the trial levels between missions though, so no problem dying over and over again there.
I wouldn’t mind going on a little Gamecube-game-hunting trip this weekend, honestly…
True story, I walked in to eb fully intending to buy that & was suprised to see Mario Kart Double Dash was out.
Didn’t have cash for both, bought MKDD & have never seen a copy of PN03 again!
I don’t think I ever saw it new, pretty sure I only picked up mine pre-owned during the later days of EB still carrying pre-owned GCN titles. May poooossibly have seen a second copy later on (I feel like I was considering grabbing it for someone) but otherwise yeah. Hardly ever seen it anywhere ever.
So this is an interesting morning
I had to sort out an issue with a debt collector company that’s been asking for me by calling my human father. I called them up and quoted the number my father gave me, asking what this is actually about as I’m in no financial troubles and I’ve gotten no notice about any overdue payments or anything like that. Turns out it was for someone with exactly the same name as me, 5 years older than me. So… I might not be the first and only Tech Knight after all and there’s an older model of me somewhere out there in Australia 😛
That’s it; someone shut down Skynet now! =O
Update your name, please.
Tech_Knight_2.0
A quick google search shows about 3 of you in Melbourne alone.
Wow @pupp3tmast3r might be right 😛
Dammit I was sent back in time to do one thing! ONE THING!
*goes back to playing Bloodborne*
So, my PS+ expired all the games blocked me except that Dungeons & Dragons walk along beat em up.
Is this a thing that happens?
Yeah I believe so; the free games you download from PS+ are only accessible while you’re subbed. I recall trying to play Resogun once my sub expired and it wouldn’t let me.
Yeah, I’m not meant to be able to play any.
But I can play one!
Maybe it’s free to play outside of PS+? =P
I just thought, maybe it reverted to a demo…
New Hearthstone expansion next Tuesday! Yayyyy
I’m becoming increasingly skeptical with that game; it’s starting to turn increasingly P2W =\ They need to increase the options of winning in game gold.
I was going to reply to you yesterday morning about how I beat a deck loaded with Naxxraamas and G&G cards, with my very first ‘basic’ Paladin deck and how I thought that this might not be the case.
… Then I played Tavern Brawl last night with cards from the upcoming Grand Tournament expansion. Some of the combos were crazy, like unlimited uses of your hero power and making your hero power only cost one mana combined… as a mage I was doleing out 8 damage (which felt awesome, but at the same time I felt way OP).
I don’t know how my current assembled Paladin Zoo Deck would go against these types of cards, I imagine I’d get smashed lol.
Yep that’s the long term con for Hearthstone; 2 xpacs every year, with each subsequent release of cards being more powerful than the previous iteration but not so powerful you’ll want to phase out all the cards from previous xpacs all together. Example Savannah Highmane from the original set is still a pretty amazing hunter card but probably one of the few remaining original set cards worth buying original packs for.
It’s a good way to make money but eventually power creep will make some packs all but obsolete (e.g. naxx wings and cards are rarely seen now aside from the sludge belcher). Grand Tourney’s cards are crazy op and sync with a few very rare cards from existing packs. It’s kind of bs imo especially given how much these packs/wings cost and you don’t even get to enjoy holding and touching your deck.
There’s an article/blog about power creep on liquidstorm’s hearthstone website; you should check it out and breaks down Blizz’s possible long term cash-cow for this game pretty well. Basically turns P2W after the first 2 releases of content.
A THURSDAY TAYDRENALIN SHOT
What’s your next life goal? Big or small.
To win the RockeTAY League.
Also to move to Melbourne, but that’s much less important right now.
I fully endorse this ordering of priorities.
Even if I can’t help you achieve them.
One more day of work after this.
Git gud at being fit!
Seriously that’s all I have at the moment 😛
I am attempting this one too! Back into the Couch to 5K program (or at least trying, I can’t seem to shake this wretched cold)
Most of my energy is focused on diversifying humanity’s gene pool by trying to impregnate as many different woman as I can with only the most virile males in the hopes that I won’t have to lock the resulting offspring up for ages to force them to get stronger, so I can repeat the cycle in a steadily increasing succession.
I’ll then use the result of this endeavour to scour the land in desperate search of amazing clothes and piles of caps.
And in your downtime you play some Fallout Shelter? 😛
…the hell is Fallout Shelter?
It is the prison of your mind man…
It’s the embodiment of- oh God I’m too tired/lethargic to finish that
And yet you’ve only managed to impregnate one woman from yourself.
I’m still in the testing phase of the plan. I’m using a small sample to ensure the process is solid before moving towards mass dissemination.
If my wife read this I’m not sure if I’d end up single or dead first.Companionship with a lovely girl. Sadly all the ones I know at work are already taken 😛
Edit: I changed my mind.
My long term big goals are:
– Have a building named after me
– Make enough money so that I can set up a trust to donate money for an educational scholarship to my old University
– Start up my own soccer club in the Metropolitan VIctorian league for junior teams
– Have two kids
– Be the CEO of a company, any company
– Be told I’m good looking by a celebrity
You’re good looking!
What are you a celebrity in? 😛 (I’ll reply to your Hearthstone message in a minute, I just can’t get looking at my deck at work hehe)
Oh WHAT?! So Cookie Monster isn’t a celebrity now?!?! That’s just balls! *grumchgrumchgrumchgrumch*
How low is the bar for celebrity here?
You’re good looking.
It would seem we have quite a few celebrities in TAY! I was kinda hoping for a Female actress or musician lol.
Just get a sign made up and stick it on a building that has no name.
To not die in the near future. My mind and body seem to be in disagreement with that goal however.
Make it to my Thailand holiday (7th Sept) without incident. So far so good.
* To get all the sewing done for PAX (Friday cosplays are done!)
* To get into the parkrun 50 club (so close, 46 done)
* To do my first Bridge Run on Sun 20th Sep
Uhh. Beat PN03 I guess. Then… beard more? Or something.
I don’t really goal.
New job. I’d say something more relevant to my degree but…hahaha. HAHAHAHAHA.
Shorter term, get a new hobby, because I’m pretty bored most afternoons at home.
Aw reply fail.
You know what would be a good new hobby? Cleaning.
Geez @alexpants Honeymoon’s over!
Haha. I’m sorry, Pants.
Don’t get the wrong idea of him, everyone. He’s as clean as a baby’s bottom.
…that’s the saying, right?
You don’t know many babies…
Edit: Or that could be your point…
😉
*Grabs popcorn*
Haha, I did say I’d vacuum and then forgot to…
I hear gaming is a good hobby.
I’m in a gaming lull. Only thing I’m playing now is Splatoon (which is amazing)
I’ve been switching between new stuff like Rocket League, and awesome old stuff like Fallout 3 (mostly because Fallout Shelter). It’s always tough to convince myself to play whatever I want guilt-free when I have new games sitting here barely touched…but I’m really enjoying Fallout 3 all over again. It’s been so long since I last played it that I’ve had a couple of things happen that I flat out don’t remember, and it’s great.
I guess what I’m trying to say here is that you should
buyplay Rocket League.He has it.
Yeah baby he has it.
I got it for free (praise be PS Plus) but I’m terrible. I fear I am that ‘charge the ball’ player you dislike so. 😛
There seems to be a large number of people who think I don’t like it when other people hit the ball…
Think of it like actual football. If we’re on the same team and I have the ball and you literally push me over so you can have the ball, it’s a problem. If you have the ball and I kick it out from under you, it’s also a problem.
If someone gets the ball and slaps the shit out of it and it goes the wrong way, or if they charge in and miss it completely, shit happens. Being bad is necessary, otherwise you can’t git gud.
Rocket league seems to be played by most people the same way six year olds play football. Run at the ball, and if you’re lucky it will go in the goal. Hopefully the right one! I include myself in this category! It doesn’t help that when you’re learning you’re playing with and against derpy AI, and feel like you have to do everything yourself if you want to score.
It definitely is early on, but once you get into higher ranks (or play on smaller teams) it becomes very necessary to play to a position. However, unlike normal football the positions are absolutely not set in stone and you need to be very fluid in moving between them in relation to the way your team mates move.
…it’s hard to explain this stuff without feeling like I’m being a know-it-all. I’m just speaking from a point of my experiences 😛
SKOLAS – defeated. Year One complete, apart from a couple of exotics and the crucible.
Thanks @os42 – couldn’t have done it without you! Literally. Wow we cut it fine a few times in that final successful run! LOL.
\o/ Glad to help, it was a blast! And congrats again on the cipher – it’s about damn time!
Really was great fun and getting a hard Vault in was awesome.
I’m looking forward to the new gear-drop algorithm though – that was my 6th Vision last night. Great gun but I need new stuff now rather than lots of stuff I’ve already got. Maybe it looks at my playstyle and goes “trike likes scout rifles. have a scout rifle! have another!” *trike is crushed to death under pile of scout rifles*
I also wonder when Imapiamp finds time to breathe… 🙂
Ugh… for me it seems to be Sniper rifles. “Oh, omega really loves sniping across the map with hand cannons. Let’s give him the right tool for the job.” Praedyths x3, BHamer x3 (well, 2 now – sharded one to have the room to move my Found Verdict across for Skolas last night), Ice breaker x3, P&T x3, Shadow of Veils x3… all the while deliberately not giving me the Praetorian Foil. The vault! She cannae take any more!
I’m convinced it’s giving me ciphers just to force me to get two more Queenbreakers Bows…
Well, in true Bungle fashion, the reveal stream answered questions with just enough information to generate 3 new questions for every answer.
Exotics can be reacquired if discarded from the blueprints – what about stat rolls on gear? Which exotics are coming into TTK? Why didn’t they use a completionist’s profile to demo these things?
Light will be an average of your attack and defence values, and people with 34s and 365 gear will be converted into level 34 characters with 160 light. So, weapons still have attack values… if I’m using a 160 primary with an average light of 200, will my primary do more damage as a result? Will it do the same or less than another character with that primary at 200 attack with the same average light?
All I know for certain now is that I’ll have the vault space to re-roll my warlock, an item to skip 25-odd levels of grinding, and commendations to regain some of my 38 Dead Orbit ranks, to continue my quest for Revenant. My 50 Cryptarch ranks, tho… :'(
Purely speculating here, but it sounds like they’ve giving up the “look at me, I’m unique” light system in favour of the traditional MMO system; that is, character levels and straight iLevels. Or can something other than items affect your light?
Pretty much. Though the infusion system is their answer to customisation – you can improve the defense or attack of any (year 2) legendary by sacrificing something more powerful (which could even be a blue, apparently); that way, you can discard something powerful that you don’t enjoy using – the example was a legendary 280 attack weapon, and a 290 attack legendary was sacrificed to bring the 280 up to 288. So, if you prefer the perks or look of non-raid armour, or prefer the feel of a faction primary weapon, you can hit max light by sacrificing enough raid armour/weapons, I guess. (Also assuming raid armour and weapons will be the top tier; which, I’d imagine, is a pretty safe assumption.)
Looks like light is directly an average of your equipped gear (no other influences) – helm, gloves, boots, chest, class item, primary weapon, secondary, heavy and ghost. Just unclear if the individual items dictate their damage, or if it’s purely your average light when they’re equipped.
Man, this just makes me love the SWTOR gear system so much more. You get items in it that have fully customisable stats (including damage/defence) by popping components in/out. It means you can look however the hell you want and not care about missing out on stats, and there’s no messing around with costume slots (which they recently added and are mostly pointless).
To be fair WoW introduced the skin system currently in Swtor as well in MoP. You can wear whatever the hell you want and transmog the appearance of another item over it.
Yeah, but the SWTOR skin system is mostly useless because they already had orange gear. It mostly saves you swapping out mods if you want to change your appearance which costs very little money and time, or if you want to use uggo green/blue stuff for appearances.
Yeah I’ve been augmenting my current cosmetic set but I imagine I’ll be wearing something new come the xpac; it’s in a month isnt it? or little over? That said the skin option makes sense at high level gear where it costs like 40k to swap out all the mods!
Yeah, but doing one run of dailies/weeklies on Yavin 4 nets you a couple hundred thousand in like an hour 😛
All good questions, and I fully expect you to find out and let me know. 😉
Wait 15 minutes for a Bloodborne summon to appear, get trapped in the corner and die 15 seconds later.
Well done Freeze. Well done.
That sounds about right.
@scree I sent back my notes on your script 😀
I read your notes and responded. I was a lot better then I thought. (I thought you’d just tell me it sucked)
I should do some drawinz like I originally offered already :p
Maybe wait until the rewrite?
Cool 🙂
I sketched a young girl with pigtails last night. Looked too native American. :-/
Hi, how are ya?
Ok
Sorry, I was making a terrible simpsons reference.
Ha!,I thought I missed something @scree
@jimu it’s how the indians at the casino greet people in one of the episodes
A dead chickpea was discovered in its home last night
Police suspect Hommus-cide #dadjokepagesix #hi@strangehttp://www.polygon.com/features/2015/8/19/9165933/knight-classes-inside-chicagos-only-school-for-medieval-longsword
Why is this not a thing in more places?
Hey, you’re in a city. I bet you could find 30 sword fighting places and at least a couple using the same form 😛
EDIT: Same as in Italian longsword 😛
I went to classes for Chinese swordfighting while I was uni. It was fun!
I did kendo for about a term but the blisters on my feet were not fun.
I did Kendo for a bit but for me the lack of fitness, blisters and most importantly the lack of time during the week to train and lack of money due to being a student made it impossible. I enjoyed it but the upkeep on uniforms and equipment is pretty steep.
R.I.P. boiling water. You will be mist. #Page6
Steam. Mist is caused by sudden cooling of warm, moist air.
Water you talking about?
Brilliant.
Yes. Yes I am.
H2O really? You’re a font of knowledge.
H2O? Na.
Did I just blow your mind?
I guess we will have to wait and sea
What’s sodium got to do with it?
Have you ever thrown a chunk of pure sodium into a pool of water?
@freezespreston
Chunk into a pool, no. Small piece into a large beaker, yes. 🙂 And on a reread, you were possibly being far deeper and more brilliantly funny than I realised…. 🙂
It took a little while for the techs to get everything to work but I have a home internet connection again. Only getting 35/1 instead of the 80/20 that I’m paying for (Fibre to the Node, it works… ish). Might swap to the 25/5 plan because of that. It’s still kind of rad. Better than the best ADSL2 connection I’ve ever had by a lot.
Hooray for interwebs!
Definitely talk to them first. At a minimum you should still be getting much higher up than that.
On the bright side, you’re now ahead of 80% of Australians in terms of Internet connection. Thank god they’re rolling it out to you poor schmucks in the middle of nowhere first!
Yeah, there was a lot of drama getting the line to connect in the first place. Probably a fault keeping the speeds down. Going to wait until after the weekend to see how the connection acts during high use periods before calling them back.
I’m back!
I saw a slide with an 85 degree incline for sale the other day for $1000.
I thought that’s a bit steep.
I put my Grandma on speed dial.
It’s called Instagran.
What do we want?
Race car noises!
When do we want them?
Neeeeeeoooooowwwwwwwwwwwww
Oh my gods
A farmer is in his big machinery barn one day doing a striptease when the farmhand walks in catching him in the act.
“What the !?” exclaims the farmhand.
“Oh!” replies the farmer, looking quite embarrassed.
“Thing is, Mrs farmer and I haven’t been getting on recently so my therapist advised I should do something sexy to a tractor.”
Had to face court last week charged with throwing chunks of ice at the front of a bus.
Asked if I had anything to say in my defense, I said “Yes, your honour. The sign on the front of the bus says ‘Please hail driver’”.
Don’t employ an Australian undertaker for a cremation.
He will probably lose the ashes.
Shots fired!
Quit my job at the muffler shop. Too exhausting.
I was attacked by several shrubs…I think it was an am – bush
Im working on a new postie joke, but i cant seem to get the delivery right.
l called the RSPCA today and said “l’ve just found a suitcase in the woods containing a fox and four cubs”
That’s terrible” she replied “Are they moving?”
“l’m not sure to be honest” l replied, “but that would explain the suitcase”.
I heard there was a fight at the local fish shop. Four fish got battered.
I dated an opera singer once. But it was always mi mi mi mi mi.
THE FORCE AWAKENS IN OUR GALAXY – FOUR, FOUR MONTHS AWAY..
The Hype will be with you, always.
So 8 months? or 16?
FOUR. I have a stutter.
Ah, sorry. I fourgot about that.
I fourgive you.
Hype! is an understatement. I was going to write The Force Ewokens, but nah.
Reply fail. @redartifice
After 40 years Star Wars VII is actually Episode VII.
Huh?
The episode number now matches release number ie. IV=1st or Force, III=6th or Sith, etc.
Oh riiiiiiiiight
HL3 confirmed!
Anyone doing any RPG’s online sometime soon? Would like to play rather than GM 🙂
😛 Fixed it for my own use
The problem with running the 40K RPGs is that the combat in those systems can take quite a while when you have a lot of combatants, which is kind of the point with 40K. I had a five hour combat section last time I ran it which is a little unfeasible when playing online.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the game we played (flying/thrown Gretchins or just Gretchins being treated badly was great fun) but it’s really designed for the longer form games. I could attempt a different game with faster combat mechanics to make it work better but it would require a little tinkering.
On a side note, holy crap I just had an idea that could work hilariously or terribly. I’ll need to test this.
Yeah that I can certainly understand. Personally I wouldn’t mind if we had full sessions just focussing on combat while still keeping the 2 hour sessions to go through 5-6 hour total time combats… seriously DBZ got away with that structure and that was usually just a 1v1, why can’t we? 😛
A 40K RPG where all players are gretchins? Because yes, that will work hilariously well.
“Congratulations gits, youz all get to be pilots.”
Grot rokkit pilots. 😛
That’s why Karnath was there. Combat never lasted long with him around.
You were absolutely terrifying. Then again, you were a Dark Reaper. If you weren’t terrifying, you weren’t doing your job correctly.
Might be able to join The Monday Knights once we reach Venks. Also we need a healer. Desperately. Just sayin.
What system do you guys play?
Pathfinder, the other Monday one we do with Popdart GMing. It’s a variation of D&D
I might be up for that 🙂
chat to @popdart5
If you’re cool with joining an in progress game and everyone else is cool with it, feel free to kit yourself out with a character. As B-ob said, the best stage to jump in would be when the group reaches the next major town which should be the session after next in about three weeks.
Feel free to email or message me to get the details on what would be required.
I’m cool with it.
My only stipulation is you have to know languages me and Bob don’t and we could use a meatshield.
At this point, what don’t you two know? Is it Dwarf?
@popdart5 I’d have to check, but I may have picked that last level up.
Actually scratch that , I picked Draconic. So yeah, Dwarf I think. Who wants to talk to dwarves anyway? Horrid people who keep their wallets in armoured pouches.
@redartifice
Funny you mention that, I was thinking of rolling a Dwarf if Dem’nion ever kicks the bucket.
@teck_knight I’d reroll as a monk. Zen koans and no possessions is like the opposite of Abelas.
Oh god I remember my last attempt at a monk went horribly wrong in Neverwinter Nights, I died so quickly all the time :(.
A dwarven monk would be pretty cool though, not sure how well they will run on Pathfinder.
@tech_knight if I did it I’d take Performance: Sweeping.
@popdart5 – Yeah, I don’t know Dwarf either.
Venks is suddenly populated entirely by Dwarfs who shun Common, isn’t it.
@beeawwb And they all require you to use sense motive all the time. 😛
Nah, Dwarves are around the place but Venks is not a Dwarven dominated place. It is, after all, right next to the Cold Coast where Lundgredolph comes from and, just to make things different, the main Dwarven city isn’t even anywhere that’s particularly cold or up in the mountains. Just messing with those fantasy stereotypes a bit.
One extra target so I have a lesser chance of being targeted and one-shot again? I approve of this! 😛
Kool I’ll drop you an email.
I’ve got some Pathfinder stuff (core, Advanced Player, Advanced Race and Advanced Class)
I’ll have a read through some of that as well.
Here are some links that might help you out. Just be careful about what books you source from as we’re only playing using the Paizo published material and not any third party books.
http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/
As @tech_knight said, we do Pathfinder. If you’ve ever played D&D (but most specifically 3.5ed) you’ll pick it up in no time.
I haven’t but always happy to learn 🙂
Ah well, it’s easy enough to pick up and you’ve played other RPGs. You’ll do great!
There’s probably going to be a gap in the party soon too 🙁
We should Microscope.
Also, we reminded @freezespreston aobut Wrasslin this week, but the dude’s kinda occupied atm.
I may consider a one-shot of the Firefly RPG at some point too. I’d like to get back into The Strange, but I found juggling two campaigns a bit tricky with the rest of the shit I had going on.
Yes We should Microscope.
Nah, stethoscope
Oh c’mon, if you’re gonna troll it like that at least go for Colonoscope.
I wouldn’t go for it.
The story is alright but the setting is just shit.
And the less we talk about the mechanics the better.
Don’t know why but that just made me think of this
And the rule set is just a pain in the rear!
Tell me about it.
Every time I roll the dice, I get shafted.
I’m not as learned in the field of ‘oscopes as you I’m afraid
Endoscope.
Unfortunately next week is a mess for me (In Port Augusta for 3 days) but any time after that. Would also be up for Fiascoing
I’m a bit hard to pin down next week so yes agreed.
I miss RPG’s. Stupid getting home late from work. *shakes fist in random direction*
*gets hit by unexpected shaking fist, dramatically falls out the window*
*Vaethril gets hit by air of fist shaking*
*arm falls off*
*Jarallius gets hit by air of fist shaking*
*Gets lit on fire*
Kharaga gets hit by fist shaking, Fist loses a finger from pecking
Ah ah ah ah
jimu is bored, jimu is bored
Ah ah ah ah
Jimu is booooooooored-oooooooored-ooooored
JIMU IS BORED!
*sends cockpics* Still bored?
http://tinyurl.com/24ldbl8
Dammit rize, I’m at work here
Phwoar!
Is… Is it normal for it to be that big?
Mostly just the black ones.
The girth is certainly impressive
Yeah and that red part too! It really stands out!
Look at the size of the pecker!
Looks pretty tasty.
Wait wait wait hold up, they’re building a Lego theme park? Here? In Melbourne?
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!
Piece by piece
The instruction booklet is very detailed and also very thick.
And they’ve lost one of the 4 x 2 planks but only realised halfway through that it was meant to go on the bottom.
Their medical cover is pretty awesome, especially for foot operations because of known workplace accidents regarding barefoot workers stepping on loose pieces.
Pfft, Lego.
D&D dice on the floor, there’s a real pain
You failed your perception check with that die roll?
A friend of mine damaged the tendons in his feet by stepping on a d4.
There’s a reason why they’re called caltrops.
Playing GameCube again has really made me miss memory cards. It’s so great that I can just pull the game disc and memory card out of the Cube in my room, then bring it over to the other one I have out on this TV and keep playing. Having games/saves tied to the console itself is so dumb.
Yep.
Remember 360 supprted both? That’s how it should be.
I didn’t know 360 had memory cards. Where do they go? Do they plug into that port on the front of the controller, like the N64 ones?
The non slims had a memory card slot in the front. I only just realised they removed it from slims.
Ah, makes sense. Slim’s the one I’ve got 😛
The reason they’re not on the later models is because they replaced them with USB stick compatibility, so technically your 360 has memory card support it’s just open to any USB device rather than the over priced Microsoft cards.
The memory cards were great on the 360. I kept my profile on a large one with a lot of my main save files, so I could just throw my memory card in my pocket and head to my friends place to play Guitar Hero on my profile. Worked well with XBLA games too since the real arcadey ones were tiny.
Oh wow, so you could just stuck it in there and it worked straight off, minimal fuss? Tbh I still don’t really get how the Xbox profiles dealie works (of course the manual packed with the consoles doesn’t actually explain anything about it at all), other than it seems to be designed to cause maximum amount of headaches when trying to play a multiplayer game with friends and waste as much of your time as it can.
You need to reformat the USB stick to whatever format the XBOX 360 uses, but yeah it’s pretty much plug and play. Takes about a minute to setup. It was a pretty under rated feature. They never really advertised how useful it was because the memory units were designed to be an alternative to the unofficially mandatory HDD. Once they stopped selling 360’s without HDDs they forgot about the memory units.
Nah. What happens if the card shits itself? The best saves are cloud saves or ones you can copy over to PC for backup purposes.
Cloud saves are fantastic but getting them mobile is generally either way more of a hassle than it should be, or broken and shitty. Cards have a much bigger risk of failure, among other negatives, but they’re so, so much easier.
Nah. It doesn’t get easier than halfway playing through a Steam game and then reinstalling it on another PC five years later and automatically picking up where you left off, just like that.
It does actually – I’m continuing to play PN03 from where I left off eight years ago. No installation required, just had to turn on the machine 😛
Dunno, never had a card shit itself on me 😛 Never had any save troubles actually, apart from a few carts that have had their batteries go dead on me. Goes for all media, really, every one of them has problems if they’re destroyed. I can still make backups of my memory cards though.
And cloud saves are only good so long as you have access to the cloud, most of the time when I’m meeting up with friends to play games we’re in a community hall or some such without internets. I don’t know what you need to do to transfer cloud saves from one console to the next, but I’m pretty sure just popping in a card is easier than having to jump through hoops logging out of one thing and logging into another any time you want to change things over.
I’ve never had a memory card break. I’ve still got PSX saves on a couple of cards. I’ve also got PS2, DreamCast & game cube cards still going strong.
You mean tied to accounts you can use on any machine. Only Nintendo is backwards and dumb enough to tie to the console.
I mean “tied to” as in stored on fixed internal storage, as opposed to being encrypted to only work on that console alone. Which is even stupider. Friggen Nintendo.
I love the nostalgia behind memory cards, but it’s because of them that we have shit like the Vita card which renders the handheld virtually useless without it – coupled with the fact that proprietary ones retail at ludicrous prices in comparison to their standard flash media counterparts.
To be fair, It’s not just Vita. Many products requiring memory cards can be useless without them – it’s a damn legacy item that’s been replaced with better ideas and I think needs to go.
The only issue I’ve had with vita memory is the price. Apart from using sd cards, what other solutions are there for portables?
Decent sized inbuilt flash storage would be a start, like the PSP Go has.
What happens if that breaks?
I’m not defending it, I haven’t a clue really.
All I know is that Sony did whatever made more money…at the time, abandoning it seems a waste.
Yeah, the Vita thing felt like a bonehead move. I mean as far as I know, the Cube memory cards were basically just SD cards, though I don’t know that they were all that exorbitant in price for the capacity at the time. Nowadays though with how high capacity is (and Nintendo putting SD cards on all their machines, too) I wish you could just use that as the sole storage space for games. Pop it out and take it wherever you need it, keep it independent of the console. Pick up a new one wherever and whenever you want if you run out of space. Make easy backups, transfer saves between friends, etc. Would’ve been nice.
Scored an analog to digital converter from my Pa, might record some Gamecube footage for fun.
I started a new game in Dragon Age: Inqusition last week. I think I’ve been enjoying this second play through much more. Probably because I am actually furthering the story instead of doing literally every side quest in the early game which screwed me over into the late game.
Also flirting with Dorian is fun.
I got like 85% through the story before kind of just…stopping. I think I need to go back and finish it, but I made the mistake of going Arcane Warrior and suddenly I could sneeze and wipe out an army.
Tempted to join you and start a new game focusing on main stuff.
I’m not solely doing main mission stuff but last time I literally did every side quest I could before certain story things happened so when I unlocked a bunch of new war table quests I had nothing to do while waiting for them to complete.
I did the same but I stopped as playing as a pure warrior made each combat encounter a boring grind. Was thinking of restarting as an Arcane Warrior just because of the OPness.
Everyone loves OPness
Also @rize if you’re looking for an interesting class to play I am enjoying dual daggers rogue on Nightmare difficulty. Makes positioning essential.
We need a TAY hashtag for it or something. @redartifice and I are doing playthroughs as well!
Mine is still #redinthedas
In terms of story I just
Got to SkyholdI actually think the game really starts after that point.
Yeah, it really opens up there. Heaps of War Table quests become available too.
Also, how is there not a war table mobile app for DA:I yet?
Use your vita? Or you mean away from home?
I still am doing all the side quests but that’s because I have a problem :p
I’m the other way, I just want to get through the story & I keep having to earn up the points to unlock the next gate.
I had a far better time in my first game when the side quests were new & interesting.
I think this illustrates the issues people had though, there’s a balance between side questing & main game that needs to be maintaine. So anyone rushing too much or side questing too much, will have a bad time.
Bioware need to look at this for da4
“accidentally” started playing Fallout Shelter while on the loo at work… My legs have now gone dead… I don’t think I can move… Send help
HMMMMMMMMMMMMM
I’m still visiting Sydney but it looks like I may not move there… but to Brisbane instead 😮
Will I finally get to meet D.C.? 😀
Oh, I see how it is…
Sughly says trains are good in Brisbane.
Maybe once I learn how to catch them I can see you too! 😛
Or I can teach you how to drive!
I would very seriously take up that teaching offer.
None of my driving friends have the time.
Ugh what did I ever do to you.
I guess PGP Adventures will just have to keep living in my dreams…
So tonight was meant to be the opening game of the ROCKETAY LEAGUE however for some god twisted bad luck my internet decided to reminisce of the days it was dial up and shit so now I’ve gone from 22mbps down to 789kbps because shit luck. 50 minutes on the phone to Telstra later and doing all the shit they told me to do which didn’t help at all, they’ve decided to send out a technician, tomorrow, when no ones home, between 1 and 5. He also said it could just be a freeze of the system but on telstras side I should be getting 30mbps.
Tl;dr First game of rocket league tournament got cancelled by my shit internet and I feel terrible about it
I’ve had Telstra internet issues the last few days too. Hooray! \o/
Telstra internet problem buddies \o/
*hugs* its alright we can reschedule
PN03 is going to give me RSI. And carpal tunnel. And arthritis. And so on.
*dies*
“Weve performed the post mortem, seems he died of a broken heart”
Woke up feeling shitty… Had coffee…still feel kinda shitty.
Also, for the last month, I’ve been eyeing off a Toothless Build-A-Bear.
EDIT: Found a link: http://www.buildabear.com.au/toothless.html
Oh wow, that’s adorable.
I know… first saw it at the Gold Coast, been wanting one ever since.
What do you call an Alligator wearing a vest?
An InVestiGator 😛The wireless reception at a band’s concert was horrible last night, suspicions arise of signal degradation due to jamming.
@gingerchris86 Feel free to solicit advice from the good TAY hivemind if you’re wondering about a character idea for Pathfinder. I know you’ve emailed me about prospective characters and that you want to consider all options but having a group to bounce ideas off might help you solidify a character concept and backstory.
In other news, my mish-mash of RPG stuff might actually work. I’ve got the system of Night Witches, a game about Soviet airwomen in WWII, which I can combine with the world of 40K to create basically Deff Skwadron the game. I need to read a bit more of Night Witches to really understand the system but it is certainly feasible.
Thats not a bad idea, thanks for the suggestion 🙂
The most significant gap in the Pathfinder group is a priest / healer. We briefly had one twice but generally have made do by some GM handwaving and adopting a kill-them-as-fast-as-possible method to reduce damage taken.
I’m going to have to wind down my participation in the group as well. I play a controller / support type sorcerer built around the idea of being able to quickly remove or shut down some threats from combat so that the group can focus on other threats. Lots of sleep spells.
Since it’s a new character and the book’s been published, maybe @popdart5 will let you use stuff from the new Occult Adventures sourcebook?
At this point I’m going to rule out Occult Adventures as a sourcebook primarily because I haven’t had a chance to look at it in depth yet. In addition, the nature of those classes does introduce a few things and themes that would require a bit more wrangling to make it fit into the world that currently exists. I’m not ruling it out for all time but maybe I’ll get incorporate elements of it in the future.
My current thoughts around Characters had led me to looking at either a Duergar Shaman (probably Rock, maybe Fire) or a Vishkanya Samurai (because holy crap that looks awesome)
So delving in to those options, how did your Duergar come to the surface? Given that they “detest all races living under the sun” how did yours come to be an adventurer?
Alternatively, how does your Vishkanya see themselves in the context of the world? Of course this question is coming from a Catfolk so it’s not like I’m the most typical representation of the population. 😛
For my Duergar, After it was found that He was conversing with Spirits he was exiled, as it goes against the idea that the Duergar are the true owners of the underground. Something that he himself denies. After being exiled he was left to adventuring in order to stay alive and keep living
As for the Vishkanya, I’m going to rethink that one.
I like the development threads you’ve got for the Duergar, sounds like you could take that to a few interesting places! Look forward to meeting whomever the final result is. 🙂
I like the idea of the Deadly Courtesan Archetype for the Vishkanya so that might be where I’m heading towards instead of samurai.
My Vishkanya see’s the world as something to be exploited. Always available as a performer or as company(in all senses of the word), he is also available as a spy or an assasin, for the right price of course. Nothing is below him, or above him. He is exactly who he wants to be and can blend into every social situation.
So you know, it wouldn’t do you a lot of good to set up as a ‘face’ for the group – Drewan and Abelas together are very good at talking and negotiating. To the point that we have so far managed to talk our way out of several combat encounters and successfully bluff a black dragon.
Cannot see ‘Night Witches’ without thinking of this.
Heh yeah I can see that. Now that I think about it, the Night Witches rules could probably work quite well with the Strike Witches setting and probably a whole bunch of other anime settings.
The term is used in the Strike Witches setting for the group that do night patrols. I don’t think that the pilot that Sanya’s based off was one of the actual Night Witches group, but I’d wager that Fumikane has a character derived from one of the actual group’s pilots in the SW setting somewhere.
Where did Friday pop up from all of a sudden?
That’s not what I call my…
Oh wait, never mind.
I spent 6 hours in emergency with Mum last night. I finished up all my activities within the first two hours.
Everything ok?
Yes, the antibiotic for the infection caused her potassium to go up and the renal clinic were concerned as it can cause heart issues. Once the cause was isolated, it was solution time, a combination of glucose and insulin which pushes the potassium into the cells and out of the blood stream.
2 hours later, her potassium was down and she could go home! Until she bled all over the floor. Tourniquet on, a couple more minutes of stopping the bleeding and then we were able to go home. It was 10 pm when we got home.
*pokes TAY with a stick*
…yep, it’s dead.
Holy mother of god, it’s flatlining!
Ouch.
no, no, it’s just pinin’ for the fjords…
Pining for the Fjords? What kinda talk is that? look, why did it fall flat on it’s back the moment I got home?
TAY prefers kipping on it’s back.
almost completely unrelated nostalgia incoming:
For our year 7 play back home, A mate and i sat through this entire skit, painstakingly translating everything to Danish, then rehearsing it 5 million times to try not to burst out laughing while acting it out.I was Mr. Praline and it was VERY hard keeping a straight face in front of 450 other students when you bang a stuffed parrot into a table repeatedly
Why was 6 scared?
Because his stepfather was an abusive alcoholic.https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dad_joke
Dad Joke Page 6 needs its Uncle Jokes too 😛
I hate packing. I’ve got a pile of gaming crap here that I don’t particularly want but I’m not willing to sort through, so I know I’m going to end up just throwing all my NES/SNES/Master System II junk into a box that ends up sitting in a closet taking up room in my new place. I can’t think of why anyone would want my stack of NMS magazines but it’s an almost complete collection so I won’t throw it away.
I still have my Master System packed away, even though it won’t work on any of the newer TVs.
Check ebay for the magazines.
Or else, I actually donated my magazines. I figured that it may give someone some enjoyment.
That’s probably where I’m headed, but who takes magazine donations aside from dentists and schools?
Op shops do. Savers, salvos.
Ask them if they want it first though, don’t just dump them in a donation bin.
A lot of those orgs spend a lot of time and money chucking things that aren’t saleable.
I’ve bought magazines from them though. It’s different if they’re soiled or something, but if they’re still in good condition. It won’t hurt to ring first I guess.
I don’t normally use the bins. It’s easier to just stop in there on the way to work. If they say no then I just take it to work and throw it in my big bin there. At least in theory. I’ve normally got a pretty good idea of what they want, what they don’t want and what they’re not allowed to keep/sell so I’ve never had them turn anything down. I just hadn’t considered that they might want magazines.
NMS! Man, that takes me back. Fatboy and The Skull. So much violence against Sonic. Oh, and they did some stuff with games too, I think.
It’s like if YouTube comments had pictures.
How many issues did NMS get to?
/How much space do they take up? 😛
Ah I misspoke. I’ve got an almost complete collection… up to the point where I stopped buying them. There’s at least 80 there and the magazine lasted 89 issues so that’s not too bad. I know I’m missing like the first three issues and the Ocarina of Time issue. Last I checked they were in good condition. I’m not sure when I’ll get the chance to drag them to work to send them but they’re free to a good home if you’re interested.
I am interested, although I’m not sure I have the space for them, especially at the moment. Also I think you’re from Melbourne? Shipping for all that would be a total bitch 😛
I have one shelf full of magazines, there’s every issue of Nintendo Gamer, and a few years’ worth of Hyper from after NGM shut down til I canceled my subscription.
Yeah I’m in Melbourne but the postage doesn’t matter. I get decent rates and I ship enough that slipping one more box into the pile doesn’t hurt anything. I’ll get back to you with exactly what’s there and how much space it takes up. Off the top of my head the pile is like two shoe boxes stacked on top of each other.
Metal Gear!
Soon!
!
Kept you waiting, huh?
Mark my words: David Hayter is in this. HE IS IN IT. #TheLastKojimaHeadfuck
Not as Big Boss though.
Sorry, not buying this.
I think he’ll be doing ALL the voices in the game. All of them.
But it’s a hidden menu option. I’ll dedicate my life to finding that option if I have to.
It’s half way through Friday and Nintendo Europe still hasn’t announced the Splatfest choice for this week!
Don’t tell me we aren’t having one this weekend while America/Japan is! I won’t be able to take it.
Obviously the choices are
– AMERICAN/JAPANESE
and
-REST OF THE WORLD WHO WE DON’T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT
Choose your side!
That’s actually a pretty deep question.
I mean, it really makes you ink, you know?
We aren’t having one this weekend while America/Japan is.
*can’t take it*
Welp, it’s been announced now, singing/dancing. That’s…not exciting. But could potentially result in a close contest.
This thing on my neck is driving me up the wall…also, there’s an annoying pimple/cyst there. 😛
Yum! 😀
That must have one tiny steering wheel!
In my post about my future goals/aspirations a couple of TAYbies commented endorsing themselves as celebrities. It got me thinking about just how far away from stardom I really am, I don’t know if I’ll necessarily ever get there (I have a self destructive streak that would mean I would fail miserably under the microscope of modern media if I ever made it), but that’s neither here nor there.
So, what’s your claim to fame?
http://aurealisawards.org/2015/02/27/announcement-2014-aurealis-awards-shortlist/
The Game!!
The Game! \o/
Though I suppose calling it a claim to fame is a bit disingenuous, as only about thirty people own a copy, and an even smaller number would have read it. 😛
I know Shane.
I once met @alexpants
What’s your price for a lock of his hair? I know a guy.
I’ll give him a lock of my hair if he joins in on Rocket League.
He told me to ask: lock of which hair?
He also said: “It’s like golf. The lower the better.”
I don’t know what he means by that.
Tell him he’s hit the jackpot, then.
I’ve been meaning to take the razor down south and shave my feet for a while now.
I’ve signed a few autographs, been recognised in public, been asked for photos and done a couple of interviews for newspapers/magazines/websites.
What is it that you’ve been interviewed.recognized for? I’m still kinda learning who everyone is here, I’ve only done a handful of very small meats lol.
https://www.facebook.com/HarleyQuinnHC?fref=ts
Also: http://www.dankarlszeitgeist.com/dan-karl-versus-ryan-chalker/
I’m a vocalist in a local band. Nothing major, we’ve played some shows with some cool bands in our genre like Buried In Verona and Dream On Dreamer.
Holy F*** I’ve heard you guys on Triple J, I thought the riff on ‘All I’ve ever Wanted’ was familiar but I’ve definitely heard this. You ARE famous!!
Which means I do appreciate the compliment, I can cross it off my list *swooning*Most of mine are music related.
Played in bands that have supported what I’d guess you’d call “mid-tier” Australian bands — Dallas Crane, Airbourne, Something With Numbers, Behind Crimson Eyes to name a couple. I turned down a position playing with someone who went on to be in this years Triple J’s Hottest 100.
Did some session work for a guy who recorded a theme song to the original version of a game everyone seems to love at the moment…
Or, if I can piggyback off my Dad…who filled in playing guitar for Bob Starkie from Skyhooks for a bunch of shows back in the 70s.
I’ve heard of Something With Numbers and BCE, nice!!
YOU DID SESSION WORK FOR ROCKET LEAGUE?! :O
He wrote a song that’s in Rocket League, yes. Spoilers: it’s a hidden bonus track.
I didn’t do session work for him on that one though.
Also living off your parents coat-tails to success is fine.
In my beyond-Z-tier list: I’ve appeared in the half time show at State of Origin, my best post on Imgur has nearly a million views, and, hmm, need something else pathetic here to fulfill the rule of three. Ehh, whatever, I beat the ex-Prime Minister’s son at Halo.
What’s your imgur post link?
http://imgur.com/gallery/wfaqaoe
Lol did you animate that?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/346010/
That game actually looks really fun.
We’re all going to sit here and wait for a link to the imgur post…
I image searched “imgur blaghman” and the first result was a picture I posted from PAX last year with you and @markserrels feeling each others love…
I did a really good Mario impersonation that got selected by Charles Martinet as the best of five winners sent over for him to judge. That was pretty neat. Prolly about it though 😛
Oh, I was the first guy to put up vids on youtube of Wii Sports Resort Archery, doing a perfect run on every difficulty shooting only the hidden targets. They seem to still get an absurd number of views for how old they are.
Oh, wait. I’ve got it. I somehow ended up on Cracked (#7). A friend’s girlfriend used to go there all the time and was scrolling through this when he looked over and said “wait a minute I know that guy!”. Weirdest thing 😛
You’re the guy punching out Tyson? 😛
No I’m the guy Punch-Out!!ing Tyson 😛
The freezer we had last year previously belonged to Hannah Gadspy’s aunt… If that counts 😛
Umm….
I was on the front page of the paper in grade 6 giving the governor’s wife flowers
I was on the radio for an hour once in grade 6
I was on the news in primary school a few times for a few different things (Under 12 me was always on fire)
Had my name in the paper once for academic achievement reasons
I was in the background of a photo in the paper once for robotics reasons
Really important stuff here 😛
Edit: There’s a good chance the paper will see even more of me in the next few months though. Woo! I probably won’t even read it
EDIT: OH SHIT I FORGOT MY MOST IMPORTANT MOMENT!
Anyone watch Nickelodeon in the early 2000’s? They had a show called Sarvo with Josh and Jamie and they had a segment called Sarvo suggestion sack where people sent in dares.
They were leaving the show and did a show called Sarvo Suggestion Sack Attack where they showed all the best ones. They left mine till the very last on the last episode and were all like “This one is a ripper. We’re not gonna say anything about it, just watch”
I have it on VHS and everything and that was a proud day for me 😛
A child prodigy I see! What are you doing that will get you in the paper again lol?
Project launch. They have big plans for it for some reason. They want lots of media coverage and a gala and all sorts of shit.
(secretly I don’t want to do any of it, but I’ll go along with it)
Second (or third, can’t really remember) place, Red Cross Katherine Canoe Marathon… Junior Girls division. (True story.)
How did you end up in the girls division lol?
I was participating with my Scout group from Alice Springs. I was one of the only people with canoe experience as most people were pretty new to it. So I was placed in the 2-person “Rescue” canoe that hung back and assisted anybody in our group who needed it. One girl was given a kayak that was far too advanced for her and she kept capsizing. After fishing her out of the water 1 too many times we swapped places and I was given her kayak while she was in the rescue boat.
So off I go in her kayak. The thing is, all entries were recorded by number plaques on the side of the boat. So nobody was able to see that a blonde girl had been replaced by a scraggly ginger guy. Enter our surprise at the awards ceremony when her name is called out in whatever place it was, having not actually participated.
Tadaaaaa.
Did she get up and accept the award on behalf of you?
Yep, we all had a laugh about it on the drive back to Alice Springs.
Oh, there was that bit where I ended up on TV, which I posted here not too long ago.
…and now I’ve gone to look for it, have found that blip.tv which used to host the episode has shut down.
Yesterday.
I ended up on an episode of 7:30 last year when they did a story on #gamergate and used stock footage from PAX.
Once, in primary school, I beat the Principal at Handball during lunch.
True story. It’s all been downhill since then!
I did a 12-foot mural in the entryway of my art class around 15 years ago (even got a bit on the front page of one of the local papers for it – apparently it was a slow news week :P)… tho I think it was destroyed when the area got redeveloped around 2010. Kinda felt bad for subjecting people to it for 10 years :P. I did somehow manage to sell a painting in 2000-ish, too, back before I discovered my mum’s differential equations textbooks and the power-trip of making a computer do my bidding.
I was in the newspaper with a few others when I was in year 12 as one of the Gold Coast’s most promising science students.
Sucked in losers. I sure showed you as a poor news source!
I grabbed a video in the Brisbane storm last year that ended up on every news channel (free-to-air at least) for the next few nights.
Also made 180,000+ views on YouTube and Google is nearly ready to pay me my ad money.
I’m mates with the current/former drummer of Dope (he’s not in the current touring line up but is still listed as an active member). He’s a rad dude.
Also I guess that both DJ Ashba (former Guns N’ Roses guitarist) & Orianthi (former Alice Cooper guitarist) follow me on Twitter/have tweeted or messaged me back before. Both are so nice to their fans.
Also I was on the big screen during Metallica at Soundwave 2013. A lot of my friends who were there saw me and decided they all needed to text me at the same time to inform me of this 😛
Because I’m bored I’m replying to this now. I have many many many claims to fame.
1. When I was little, I appeared on a kids tv show called KTV. Went to the Great Australian Ice Creamery and they were filming and my mum, sister, aunty and I were on the show.
2. Went to school with Xavier Doherty (Australian cricketer). Also played cricket with him, and got coached by his dad.
3. Played cricket against Ben Hilfenhaus (Australian cricketer).
4. Did a jazz workshop with James Morrison. Got to play a trombone solo in front of about 1000 people.
5. Related to a former Premier of Tasmania (Ray Groom, if anyone cares).
If I get famous it’ll be as either a viral youtube video of me doing something dumb, or I’ll be famously slaughtered and it’ll lead to “Red’s law” posthumously.
This was a reply fail, but I’m happy for it to stand as a non-sequitir
It’s less than two weeks until Mad Max Fury Road comes out on Blu Ray and DVD.
WITNESS!
Here’s a review of the film to get your bloodbags pumping for it again. I’m beyond hype. http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mad-max-fury-road-2015
I’m super super keen to rewatch this
Me too! I’ve been catching up on the originals (I’ve never seen them before) in the lead-up, and I couldn’t be more excited for its release.
I watched it twice at the cinemas (once with @mythamphetamine, then once with my Mum a week or two later) and I’m hyped to see it again.
I am so excited. Gonna buy the shit out of the 3D edition!
WARNING: I’m bored at work.
If I was given money and told to make a game, I would make one that is like my personal version of Attack of the Friday Monsters (great game, by the way)
Would be a stylised re-imagining of my childhood complete with characters based on the kids who lived on my street when I was 8-ish (but generic enough for everybody to relate to). Not much in the way of plot, you just play as a kid on a two-week school holiday and run around your neighbourhood exploring and playing with the other kids.
Tonnes of collectibles based on stuff we used to collect (tazos, golf balls, etc) or catch (bugs, little fish) as kids, scripted special events that happen on certain in-game days (the big waterbomb/gun fight we had once, the day a cow broke free from it’s paddock, walked up our street and scared us all). Lots of mini-games like playing Handball on the street and racing bikes. You get a little allowance from your parents to spend at the corner shop too (“but only if you get something for your brother as well!”).
Lots of side-quests like that time we helped our neighbours find their lost dog (it was hiding in their backyard the whole time) or when we all attempted to build a boat that would float us down a little nearby river (it didn’t work :P).
Sprinkle in some light mystery/fantasy/sci-fi elements to exaggerate the events like that time they drained the lake near my house and there was an enormous eel wriggling around trying to get us or that time the girl at the end of the street suddenly stopped coming outside for some reason (turned out her dad thought we were a bad influence :P).
Oh, and great music on top to evoke adventure! Especially important are the sound effects like the sound of the postie bike in the morning, the cicada/magpie/neighbourhood dog noises and the radio on the local station in the corner shop. All adds to it!
Just a super relaxing game that aims to create nostalgia in everyone even if the events don’t match up with what they experienced.
In closing, go play Attack of the Friday Monsters. It’s so damn good.
Went out to Bingay (gay-bingo) which is basically the crux of my existence.
Super boring, and usually boring people there.
I sat down in the group I go with and this really cute guy yells across the table, “Hi Stewart!”.
I felt really bad cause I had no idea who he was, so just said, “Hey you!”, and left it at that.
After the bingo part had finished the group usually hangs around.
I got to talking with the really cute guy one-on-one for a fair while, and next minute we were buying each other drinks!
Then we went and danced on the dancefloor together!
Then we were exchanging numbers!
Then we, uh, kissed on the dancefloor…
Most of the group had left by then, but there were still a few around, so we kind of broke off from them and did our own thing :3
4 of us decided to go get Maccas, so the two of them walked together ahead while mW and cute guy walked behind and, uh, stopped to kiss under a tree while it was raining…
It was really nice :S
Long story short, we spent the night cuddling (just cuddling, pervs), and I only just got home then :3
Umm, really great night! 😀
But did you find out his real name?
This I was just about to ask this!
I did, but I refrained from using his name for the first part of the night in case it was wrong, haha!
Did you ever work where he knew you from?
This was my question too!
This story has too many plot holes. Ugh. 10/10, would read again!
He’s part of the group, but I’d never talked to him before, nor him to me :S
He must have Facebook stalked me :O
How sweet! 😀
Dawww, aren’t stalkers cute!
That’s as romantic as you get these days! <3
😀
For the record, last night I was going to tweet “Good luck! Don’t blow this one” to you, but decided it was a little distasteful. And you didn’t need my advice anyway, apparently! Kudos! 😛
Look what arrived… 😀
You got a Rocket League bed?
I wish!
I have done nothing but feel shit and sleep all day. I think the business of the week has completely caught up with me. Blergh
Big deal, some of the vets at my work feel shit all week.
Scatology is weird.
For the Pathfinder people,
I thought I’d provide the stuff I wrote on the last page for @beawwb so you can all see it and see what you think 🙂
My current thoughts around Characters had led me to looking at either a Duergar Shaman (probably Rock, maybe Fire) or a Vishkanya Deadly Courtesan (Rogue)
For my Duergar, After it was found that He was conversing with Spirits he was exiled, as it goes against the idea that the Duergar are the true owners of the underground. Something that he himself denies. After being exiled he was left to adventuring in order to stay alive and keep living
My Vishkanya see’s the world as something to be exploited. Always available as a performer or as company(in all senses of the word), he is also available as a bodyguard, spy or assassin, for the right price of course. Nothing is below him, or above him. He is exactly who he wants to be and can blend into every social situation.
Thoughts? Ideas?
Pfft, rogues, who’d want to play a rogue.
More seriously, and I’m not trying to specifically veto anything, the party as it stands has a pretty good coverage of social skills/knowledge skills (except fucking Sense Motive). Something a bit more arcane or physical would fit well (like the Shaman)
Though if you play a Rock shaman, you need to play it as a 4 foot tall version of The Rock.
It doesn’t matteh what ye be thinkin’, laddie!
Can ye smell what yon Rock is cooking?
I can see all the millions… and millions of beautiful jewels to take back to the dwarves!
Why, tis the elbow of my subterranean people.
Duergar can cast Enlarge Person on themselves once per day just so you know. So a Dwarf-sized Rock shaman can turn into a Troll-sized Rock shaman.
Also, goddamn now I’m thinking of a character that just runs around as the Boulder from Last Airbender.
That dude is one of my favourite Avatar jokes ever because of how shameless a rip off he is.
Watching people try to type my name provides me no end of amusement. >:D
I’m really liking the idea of the Shaman, to be honest. Nothing against the rogue it just seems a bit trope-y, not that there’s anything wrong with that but it’s been done before. An exiled Shaman, possibly wrongly accused, I think that would be a good fit for the group.
And I’m not just saying that because Drewan would have a field day with it.
Yeah like you’re doing with another certain guy in the party 😛
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 😛
Rule 1: Stay out of Lundgredolph’s way.
Rule 2: You will have a welcoming drink with Lundgredolph.
Rule 3: Lundgredolph doesn’t care about any other rules
Rule 2 a: when Lundgredolph offers you dwarven fire ale (and he will) don’t drink it.
So I know nothing about suits or buying suits, but I have to buy a suit.
Sooo….
Where do you buy suits? 😛
What do I look for?
Does it mean talking to a sales guy?
Talk to a dude to get your measurements at least. Go to a specialist suit store initially (or somewhere like Myers) as opposed to a Ed Harry or Roger David or whatever, as the staff will know suits better.
Look at style, weight, and how easy you’ll be able to match it with your business shirts. For a basic suit, black or grey, perhaps with a subtle pinstripe- don’t lead straight to bold pinstripes or weird colours, makes it harder to match and also means it’ll go out of style quicker.
Buy more than one pair of pants with the suit. Spare pants is good.
Honestly, if you’re going to a store that deals primarily in suits, use the salesman. They’re not just there to sell the suit, they also tend to help pick the right thing (A happy customer is a repeat customer).
FYI this is coming from someone who is fairly confident that retail workers who won’t leave me alone are only a small step below Satan himself.
I originally read that as Stan, and thought: What’s wrong with Stan’s salesman approach? I Bought a boat from him!
His suit was precisely the type I suggested not to buy
For a good, fitted suit, you will need to talk to a sales guy. Depending on the type and size of the shop you’re going to, they are also likely to offer to scale it to your size and dimensions. It is a bit pricey but so very worth it.
Hello friend, you are talking to the boyfriend of a Hugo Boss salesperson! 😀
The best guide I have found on styling is located here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/unspoken-suit-rules-every-man-should-know#.cklNnJrJ3 As much I have a disdain for Buzzfeed read this before you go into the store.
1. Look at your budget, the type of event and whether you will wear the suit regularly. I personally have seen some niceish suits from the $350-$500 range, but if you’re looking at at Barney Stinson-esque suiting up situation you need to spend around $1-2k.
2. Pick a colour, safe bets are dark blue, dark grey and black. There are some really nice royal blue suits that cost a little more but make you look as sharp as a Swiss army knife.
3. The salesperson will know a lot about what they are tying to peddle, I’ll rattle off the names of some suit stores I would recommend (All different budget levels): Hugo Boss (DEFINITELY RECOMMEND), Roger David, MJ Bale, Oscar Hunt, Peter Jackson.
4. Make sure your suit colour goes with your shirt colours, or you buy some shirts to go with it.
Also make sure you buy the right suit, don’t buy a Tuxedo unless your suit is for a Tuxedo party! Most good stores will alter your suit as well as part of the charge so it suits your physique, Hugo Boss measure you in store and will have it back to you within the day most times.
*Accepts $10 bribe from Hugo Boss*
Oh wow, I’m going to have to change this to “I have to buy a suit in Tasmania” aren’t I? 😛
Thanks for all the suggestions guys! I’ll do some shopping around. I have plenty of white shirts at least so there’s that! And I’ll definitely be sticking to plain black or a realllly dark grey.
$10? That dude designed suits for the SS, I’m sure he can afford more than $10.
If you’re not looking for something bespoke, my two go-to brands for suits are Saba and Jack London. Saba for more traditional styles, Jack London for slim / modern cuts and designs (I got my purple suit from them). I tend to be hard to fit for (no shoulders) and they both work really well, personally.
All of the above tips are great though.
The last time I was fitted for anything was Oliver’s wedding back in 2013 and I remember being impossible to fit because I’m so small, so we’ll see if I’ve grown at all too 😛
Haha, yeah if you’ve got a slim shape those 2 are great (but I just checked and they don’t have any stockists in Tasmana).
The key with suits is to get the shoulders right. Everything else can be worked with (e.g. hems taken up / down) but you can’t change the shoulders if they aren’t cut right.
Unfortunately yes, it means talking to someone in store. First things first, what do you want it for? Is it a one off event? Is that event super important? Or do need to wear a suit to work every day?
The next big thing is price. Sorry for being blunt, how much are you willing to spend? You can get a good suit, some shoes and a tie for probably $350-$400. You’ll get the pants and jacket together, and probably a shirt. They tend to try and sell all in complete packages which is handy if you’re not really confident mixing and matching. It might not fit you perfectly if you have an unusual body shape but it doesn’t really need to (especially if you know someone who can do minor adjustments).
From there you can throw on a few hundred more and get basically the same thing. There’s sort of a dead zone where you can spend more to get something a bit nicer but not noticeably nicer. They’re sort of ‘I want something I can wear to work everyday that will age well’ range.
You can do all that by simply walking into a basic suit store and talking with someone who works there for 10 minutes. They’re usually happy to help but they can be a bit pushy. You can find those places in a lot of shopping centers or anywhere there are a lot of office workers around (you can barely take ten steps in Melbourne without walking into one of those places). It’s the cheap end of the market but they have wide ranges and you should walk out of there in something that’s at the very least appropriate for what your doing.
If you’re not too confident with your ability to choose a good looking suit I recommend leaning towards simple. A basic charcoal suit handles most situations.
If you want to go more expensive it’s a bit harder. There are multiple price tiers, tailoring, etc. You can get some really nice gear in the $1,400-$2,000 range but it’s hard to justify.
Also on a side note if you’re doing this for a one off event wear your shoes in before hand. Apparently some padding is too much to expect from $400 shoes.
Even the nicest business shoes turn traitor on you in trade shows, or events where you’re stewing in them all day.
Red’s secret trade show tip: Party feet/foam inserts from a chemist. Usually meant for heels, they work in any shoe and are heavenly on day 3 of a trade show.
You can either be self concious about putting something meant for high heels into your shoes or you can have sore feet, your choice.
Rockport make shoes that look like standard business shoes with the inside of runners. They’re pretty comfortable but the soles tend to fall apart after 18 months or so and they’re not really repairable.
Right now I only need it for a few events towards the end of the year but in saying that it’s probably going to be necessary for me to own one next year too.
Budget wise? $500ish? I’ve got plenty of ties and white shirts though, so I’m sure I can knock something out somewhere 😛
Finding pants that fit me is the hard part though. I’ve got a pair of suit pants that are size 77R that are just a tiny bit too tight and I’ve got some other formal pants that are 82R which are slightly too loose, so basically 30″ and 32″ when I need 31″ 😛 So if I go slim fit I usually get a good enough match.
Edit: If I could get away with just wearing my skate shoes I would be so happy. Not sure how that would go down though.
A decent pair of formal shoes is not really a bad investment.
Skate shoes spoil us. My ultra comfy running shoes feel like garbage if I put them on right after wearing my Globes.
Pants are a pretty easy adjustment. If you don’t have someone who can do it for you just ask in store and you’ll be able to work something out. There’s also big and tall shops to consider. They’re not exclusively for basketball players and big fat guys. They’re more about selling suits that are actually designed for people who don’t fit model proportions, rather than just taking suits designed for models and adjusting the arms and legs until they fit. Definitely worth investigating if you’re worried about sizes.
If it’s only for events you should be able to get something pretty sharp looking in that price range without worrying too much about long term quality (as long as you keep them stored properly they just need to visit the dry cleaners every now and then).
If you want a shopping list to give you a ballpark of items you have/want give this a shot:
-Jacket
-Pants
-Shirt
-Tie
-Cufflinks (if required)
-Belt
-Shoes
-Vest (not required, but they’re popular right now and they can come out looking really nice, especially if you’re going to be taking your jacket off)
-Money clip or wallet alternative (it’s a bit dumb, but if there are going to be pictures involved or you want to make a really good impression at a glance ditching as much of the weight in your pockets as possible helps your pants sit right. When I wear jeans I have my phone, wallet, keys, 3DS and some gum. I’m basically a living Katamari without even thinking about it. When I wear a suit I have some $20 notes, my credit card, my front door key stashed inside my phone case and nothing else)
-Gloves, overcoat and umbrella (since it’s Tasmania you might want to consider some weather defense. Overcoats look pretty badass too)
The solution to all your problems
http://www.brightcoloredtuxedos.com/
Perfect 😛
I had friends who got bright orange and bright green suits for an event a few years ago. They looked… interesting
I may use this for my wedding, poor Anton
Please buy some nice new shoes to go with your new suit. Nothing worse than lovely suit and skanky old work shoes!
And if it’s for a special occasion, get a shirt with french cuffs and cufflinks. It’ll lift your outfit a level above Standard Business.
http://www.benjamincufflinks.com.au have some fantastic cufflinks.
I have many nice pairs of cufflinks that I never get to wear. Life is cruel.
I wish I could buy cufflinks for @batguy, but he never wears them either.
I have a bunch of cufflinks too, but never get to wear them because most of my shirts don’t have the holes for them. And even then, 90% of the time I’m wearing a shirt like that I have the sleeves rolled up anyway :p
I went and did this last year and let me tell you, there is nothing like the feeling you get wearing a well-fit suit. You feel sharp. Good shirt, cufflinks, tie, shoes. Complete package. Be prepared to spend upwards of $500 all up, but it’s a good investment even if you only wear it occasionally, because when you do wear it you look like a million dollars. Which is not going to be the case with some crap off the shelf $50 one from a menswear store. Basically, follow @dogman’s advice.
The ‘giefhawk is now gone, much to the delight of Mum.
I immediately regret its removal 🙁
Welcome back friendly non-scary Mr. Taco !
@greenius Don’t worry, the beard is still intact. Tidied up a little though :p
Yup. Looks like I’m moving to Brisbane in a few months 😮
What’s Bowen Hills like? Gimme the gosssss
EDIT: was pretty much offered a role there for 8ish months (as the last bit of my graduation program’s rotation). Still waiting on a final contract/offer (so nothing is set in stone yet) but I don’t see many things stopping me from proceeding. Should be happening around the end of the year so we’ll seeeee!
Gonna be asking y’all lots of questions though in the coming months so I hope you don’t mind! (anyone want a reasonably okay housemate? :P)
That’s where I used to live and I absolutely loved it. Close to the city but not in the city, walking distance to Fortitude Valley.
Bowen Hills is amazing. Perfect distance from city!
Two train stops away from Central, one stop from the Valley!
How many train stops from Daniel? 😀
It’s Brisbane protocol that we meet in the city, not away from city!
IDIOT! 😛
Oh goodie! I’m planning to live near the CBD/work so win win for everyone except those chumps who live far from the city!
Don’t worry about those chumps. 😛
:'(
That’s me too, Freezey. 😛
It’s not Melbourne…
It’s also not Norlane…
So, kinda bad, kinda good…
Bowen Hills is about 10 minutes from our place. GREEN HANGS!
We gun be awesome buds! 😀
Aaaargh. Why can’t you get a printer that you plug in and it prints? Why do I have to follow a thousand steps, fill my PC with bloatware then pray to some arcane forbidden god to hope it will actually print when you ask it?
Microsoft started making inroads on that in Win 8 and Win 10. Some stuff works out of the box.
Sadly, a lot of stuff doesn’t 🙁
Cause Illuminati.
Bollocks! @shane @crazyguy1990 @cakesmith
My parents have surprised me! They’re taking me out for dinner for my birthday (which was yesterday). So… I’m going out /o\ I won’t be home tonight /o\ Free dinner though \o/.
Tomorrow/Sunday/Monday/Tuesday are all free though, I swear. Really sorry guys.
Happy birthday!
Thought you seemed a bit older, but didn’t want to say any thing. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. 😛
ROCKET LEAGUE!
I still haven’t played this yet. I feel like I should before the craze dies out!
Anyone else feel like playing sometime during the weekend?
Easy enough to get into? 🙂
Hell Yeah, I’ll be in that.
What will you be playing on, PC or PS4?
PS4
Easy to get, difficult to master!
I’ll probably be on Sunday afternoon/evening warming up to lose my first TAY League battle, so if you want to play then, give me a shout!
Weird. Got home and found the front porch covered with dead or dying slaters.
Waking up to a fresh pear, some strawberries, yoghurt and a couple of slices of bread with Nutella.
And now Formula Fusion wants to update. I wonder if that actually has more than 10 minutes of content now.
For any of you who are still playing Clicker Heroes, they updated it last night, and added a whole bunch of stuff. Including Clans!
I have taken the liberty of creating KoTAYku (case sensitive) so feel free to join if you want! So far it only consists of me and Tigerion, but likely soon TransientMind as well!
I have the flu. It hurts. I am sad. 🙁
…but, there is some brightness heading my way to dampen the pain. Today (US time) there will be a free 13 track sampler of the new 20 year anniversary tribute album dedicated to Chrono Trigger called “Chronicles of Time” (chroniclesoftime.net). The finished product will be 5 discs in total, and if it’s anything like the previous work done on “Spectrum of Mana” it should be amazing. Check out the promo here: https://youtu.be/TRnbjtP1nEI
For the record I’m not affiliated with these guys other then being a fan. The people involved in these projects are all amazing artists and musicians, and I seriously can’t recommend them enough.
Ugh, stupid allergies… 🙁
There’s been massive backburning around today. I’m struggling to get over a nasty cold and the smoke is not helping at all.
Can’t stop coughing 🙁
Does it bother anyone else that Mitch Marsh and Siddle have just wrecked the English top and middle order?
I mean, christ, they both should have been playing in the second test #_# ARGHHHH WE HAD THIS ASHES
You smell some Korruptness, Alex?
@phoenix @shane @cakesmith
I’m good with playing at 10:30pm AEST tonight if you’re all interested.
@phoenix @cakesmith
I’m in. 10:30 is good for me -how about you gents?
@trikeabout BEHOLD, MY BASKING!
Been pondering organising a Sydney Meat in October on the same weekend as the Brisvegas lot do their Oktoberfest thing.
Does this sound like a good idea? I would suggest a long lunch at the Concordia Club in Tempe.
@35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @cakesmith @cj @cookingmama @dkzeitgeist @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @harli @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @mawt @morkai @markserrels @mrtaco @novacascade @powalen @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggynintySounds good to me!
I’ll make another post on Monday. We’ll have to bring some boardgames to play while we have coffee&cake!
Your Oktoberfest sounds very different to ours…
*flashback montage of drunken antics, excessive hugging, dancing with strangers and general shenanigans*
The Concordia Club hold their oktoberfest in september (which is the proper time) but it’s a german restaurant in a bowling club. The german menu is open all year round, on sundays the bar opens at 11am, and they have $5 slices of the most amazing german cakes. So it’ll be less the madness of oktoberfest, and more a very long lunch with too much food, space for any mini taybies to run around and boardgames.
Oh I just remembered the Sydney manager said I could probably go back up to Sydney in October.
So I’ll maybe be there too!
You’d be most welcome!
Ooh I’d love to.
Definitely possible, do we have a date? I only ask because I’ve got a few bucks parties and weddings to go to in September/October.
Ideally I’d love it to be the same weekend as brisbane oktoberfest, which happens on the weekends of the 10th and 16th of October. So it’ll be one of those weekends, probably on the Sunday.
Keen.
Aight.
Sounds good to me too
45 minutes until Rocket League?
@phoenix @shane @cakesmith
So…I’ll take it as we’re going to wait for another day?
Okay, see you guys then. 🙂
@phoenix @CAKESMITH How are we situated for tonight? 10:30? Let us know!
I’m good! \o/
(Sorry about last night. Things and stuff happened… fail on my part /o\)
Does 10 work for everyone?
@pheonix @crazyguy1990 @shane
@phoenix
Would be good if I could actually type
Should be fine 🙂
YES. See you then!
Yes, very much so.
@phoenix @cakesmith @crazyguy1990
How we doing this? Who can host?
Game up:
Server: TAY League
Pass: pants
Awesome. I’m in. You want blue or orange?
I guess we’ll take Orange?
oh, don’t join the teams until everyone is in or it misses up.
Wilco!
All right, is that everyone? Woohooooooo!
So the Carnifex Kickstarter is going absolutely bonkers. We hit our first stretch goal today, 5 days into the campaign with 28 left to go.
I’m legit worried I’m going to run out of stretch goals. But I’ve been too busy working on the editing to really pimp the campaign much today.
Thanks to my awesome beta readers – @shane and @strange (and my Mum, who doesn’t TAY obvs). I really appreciate you guys hunting down typos and providing incredibly helpful feedback to make this the best book it can be.
I feel justified tonight. Was talking to another guy at the wedding, and he mentioned the “beer fairies” treating him well. YES! THEY ARE A THING! I was laughed at for talking about the wine fairies, but now I feel justified. They are a thing.
They treated me well too 😛
After playing splatoon last night, Mum said to me “I wanna have a go at that game one day, with the roller”. I suggested single player, but then I realised you need to use the gun, not the roller. In the end I figured out that that a private match by herself would probably be best
I think you might be able to use the roller in single player if you have one of the amiibo, possibly? Not sure though. But I think that’s how you end up with the Hero Roller, which I’ve seen some people using.
I have the amiibos, but she just wanted to paint. I put her in a private match with @gorzilla and @lucifer9783
Guys, how good is Monument Valley?! SO GOOD!
Loving this new tablet too (Samsung Galaxy Tab S) 😀
One of the few mobile games that I spent money on. I thoroughly enjoyed my time in it, and especially liked the visuals in it.
I’ve been wanting to play it for ages but initially didn’t want to buy it on Android (as I didn’t think playing it on my phone would do it justice) and I was holding out for a sale on iOS so I could play it on my iPad.
I noticed it was on sale on iOS the other day so I bought it… only to just end up buying a brand new Android tablet and re-buying the game on Android anyway 😛
😀
Gameplay is super simple but I love the visuals and design of it (especially nice on a fancy new tablet screen)
My sister wants me to join a comic book club.
My sister has become a bigger geek than me. I’m not sure if I’m proud or just sad that she’s managed to eclipse another part of my identity.
She probably has longer hair too 🙁
Given my hair is currently extremely short, yes, yes she does.
@phoenix@shane@cakesmith
I quit.
No, really. I quit.
If I keep doing this, it’s going to be detrimental to my mental health.
I just can’t do this on and on.
If anyone could possibly fill in as Shane’s teammate, it’d be very much appreciated.
Once again, sincerest apologies, but it’s just not a good thing for be to be doing, I thought I’d be okay doing this, but it’s affecting me in a way that isn’t good (it’s way too personal for me).
Aw man, I’m really sorry to hear that. But I understand – mental health’s gotta come first. Don’t worry about the league.
So I just played Journey.
:`)
Don’t Stop Believin’ or Wheel in the Sky? 😛
😛
See you lovely lovelies in new TAY! ‘,:D
…or will you?
Yeah, you probably will.
And what about the rest of us?
Oh Blaghman, you’re the loveliest of a-
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I couldn’t say it!
I’ll see you too, loser :*