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Off to Ballarat for a meeting, crook as a dog. 2hrs on a plane the 90mon drive for a 3 hr meeting…
I’m gonna need some blood vials to get through today.
Let’s meet up for lunch.
I don’t think I’ll be out of the meeting till about 4 or 5 mate then I gotta be back at the airport.
I’ll definitely give a heads up next time I’m there, would be great to meet up for lunch.
Assuming you are serious of course:)
Sucks you have to travel to Ballarat considering how much of a hell hole it is.
I am so, so sorry
Lol
I grew up in country western Victoria, so you have my deepest condolences.
Supposed to be a nice down there at least!!
Shadowrun Hong Kong is a pretty cool guy because whenever you bring Gobbett to a place with food all she does is talk about food.
GOTY
Gobbett is the best character
In my second playthrough I’m running as a decker so I can afford to leave Is0bel behind and make my team more variable, I’ve found the Gobbet & Gaichu have a few good interactions on missions
Second play through already? Wasn’t it just released!?
I put 24 hours in over the first 2 days… I have no life, makes it easier
I would mock but let’s be honest. I’m going to be doing the same thing when Fallout 4 hits.
=P
So, I thought I was done with Fire Emblem: Awakening. Had all conversations done and moved on to the final story missions. Then I unlock two more characters, so I spent some time doing those conversations. Then I unlocked about 6 final side missions. So now I have to do all of them and the conversations of the characters I unlock from them.
You say this like spending more time with that game is a bad thing…
My entire body aches and there’s still so much unpacking to do. Looks like today is going to be a day of cleaning and watching Summerslam.
Good morning!
I had a good playing weekend. Some more Rocket League, and I played through Journey for the first time – oh wow!
Anyway, I’m reposting this from weekend TAY.
Sydney TAYBIES! On the same weekend that the Brisbane TAYBIES go to Oktoberfest (probably a sunday afternoon either 11th or 18th Oct),let’s all head to the Concordia Club in Tempe for a long lunch with too much German food, beer, coffee, cake and boardgames. There’s lots of grass for tiny TAYBIES to run around too.
So far I have interest from @alexpants, @powalen, @novacascade, @ruffleberg, @morkai, @blaghman and maybe @greenius.
@35 @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @cakesmith @cj @dkzeitgeist @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @harli @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @mawt @markserrels @mrtaco @pupp3tmast3r @shiggynintyAnd also tagging the Canberra TAYBIES in case they want to come too: @bdkiaf @rize @shanen
Tag anyone else I might have missed! Adding @alexwalker to the list!
11th I can do, but the following week I’ll be in Queensland.
No worries!
I’m still trying to decide if I should attempt to make it to Brisbane for Oktoberfest, so no idea if I’d be free or not.
I won’t be there, so nah
Whatever you’d like to do! We can’t get up to Brisbane, so I thought I’d organise something fun that’s a bit closer to home 🙂
Definitely a good idea!
I’m keen on Oktoberfest and was going to try and use it as motivation to finally go up there and meet people
and get first hand evidence that @dc is real.He’s not. He’s a highly sophisticated, experimental holographic technology.
He’s easily frightened too. His AI needs some work.
I’ll be there in lederhosen on the 10th.
Maybe we should just lock in Oktoberfest meat for Saturday, 10th October 2015?
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__ @bdkiaf @shiggyninty @rocketman
It’s a resounding yes for me. I can drown myself in schnapps 😀
Yeah, nah.
Not your thing? 🙂
Nah, yeah.
I’ve got both weekends locked in as free. \o/
Not sure about me. Will advise.
Count me in! 😀
Yessss. And I’ll be appropriately buzzed, so I’ll appear normal and actually talk to you this time. 😛
YEAH! We can talk about Life is Strange!
@janexo AND FIREWATCH!
@dc Yassssssss! God, maybe we’ll have PLAYED IT by then! 😀 😀 😀
Again, it’s my wedding anniversary. Got away with it last year but I won’t be able to, this time. 🙁
Oh, I forgot. D: Want us to move it to the next weekend or is there no Oktoberfest-ing for you this year? 🙂
Everyone else seems to be in for the 10th, so don’t change it. Next year it’ll be a day or two before the anniversary so I’m in for next year. 😀
In.
Yesssss.
Sorry gang, I’m in Brisbane both of those weekends.
Not sure my times but put me down as a most likely!
Pretty sure I should be free then (either one), so I’ll register my interest.
I may be in Melbourne that weekend, but if I’m not, count me in!!
So, confession time. I’ve never watched Archer before. Good news, over the last 2 weeks I’ve crammed as much Archer as I can in to me. (Phrasing.) And now I’m up to date. Love it.
Also started and finished Tales From The Borderlands ep 4 yesterday. Love it. Maybe not as much as I loved episode 3, but it was still really good. Plenty of literal-laugh-out-loud moments. Can’t wait for the final chapter!
Archer is great. I’ve been re-watching it slowly on Netflix, but have seen plenty of it on ABC2 late at night. So many funnies.
Same, I just finished it last night. Now I have a sads because I have no more Archer to watch. Maybe i’ll just start it again..
Actually I am deeply saddened that George Coe who voiced Woodhouse passed away last month 🙁 He was one of my favourites along with Krieger & Cheryl/Carol/Cherlene.
“You think this is a game?”
“No, I think Jenga’s a game.”
No matter how many times we’ve quoted it, every time we play board games this one comes out.
I don’t like Archer, but I love this line.
Also, I love Jon H. Benjamin.
Archer is so freaking ninja.
Well in that tactleneck, can you blame him?
“Do you not see me rocking this chiseled slab of hard man body?”
-Sterling Archer.
“Terms of Enrampagement”
ARCHER!!!! I’ve been watching/rewatching it non-stop over the past few days when I’ve been sick at home with fever =O 10/10 would shoot brett again.
TftB was amazing. One of the funniest games I’ve ever played, and the laughs were really strong this time around. \o/
Fiona’s face in the title sequence. Could not stop laughing.The bit I remember laughing most at was right at the start, when Rhys wants to run, but advocates zigzagging. In my game, Fiona went along with his plan, and just ran straight. In the background, you can see Rhys charging from left to right across the screen, fallen waaaaay behind, and flailing his arms like a loon. A triumph of animation.Yes, that bit got a laugh as well for sure (I picked the same choice you did) I just laughed that little bit harder because I’m cheering for a RhysXSasha storyline (which of course means it won’t happen and I’ll cry)Hahaha, oh, me too!
But I’m sure I made some really really terribad decisions in this latest chapter that’ll make that impossible. (I told them about Handsome Jack, and they got REALLY pissed at Rhys. Then I decided to scare Sasha with the face pizza, and she got mad again. Whooooooops.Senpai will never notice you that way!
1. Pull pigtails, check.
2. Push into the mud, check.
3. Accuse of cooties, check.
4. ???
5. Lurrrrrving
you’ve just made my choice on what to watch tonight 🙂 Also I noticed on the weekend most of the seasons are now on local Netflix!
Good morning everyone. Hope your weekends were fantastic. Mine had its highs and lows, although that was mostly due to being hungover on Saturday. At least Friday was good though.
Sunday was 40K RPG funtimes where I shot a player character in the face with a melta pistol. He died. I also broke the legs of two other player characters. But then they killed the rest of the Dark Mechanicus and stole their ship filled with goodies, including a Predator tank. They also found out that one of the cargo holds has a Penitent Engine that will murder them so they have agreed to never bother opening that hold.
Melta pistols can do certainly do that with meatbag faces 😛
The Chaos space marine was the one who got shot in the face. Maybe that will teach them that the Dark Mechanicus have all the toys to ruin their day. Although it is more likely that they’ll now try and ambush them and steal from them again.
Cuz now they know the Mechanicus always have great equipment. They’re not called the Mechanical Bastion of the Imperium for nothing, especially if they’re the Dark Mechanicus as they’re not held back by the Archaic teachings of the Cult Mechanicus (Only preserving the technology that came before, innovation is heresy, etc).
If the players get too big for their britches, I can always drop some Skitarii on them. Or some murder servitors. Or maybe even a Titan. 😛
It’s either a Titan, Khorne himself or The Emperor of Mankind when it comes to a final boss 😛
Nah, there just happens to be a group of Tyranids that are likely to start ruining their day very soon. Carnifexes are going to om nom them all.
On the subject of Tyranids, now that Rogue Trader is on the “cancelled list”, will you ever reveal whether or not that arriving ship was in fact unfriendly and what was on it? I still think it was a Tyranid infested ship since Jarallius confirmed no comms were coming from that ship while it was heading straight for the moon of Taruta 😛
Edit: Look, the suspense is killing me alright? 😛
@tech_knight It actually wasn’t infested with Tyranids. It had been attacked by a race of creatures known as the Rak’Gol which are a race of creepy semi-reptilian xenos who function primarily as raiders and pirates. The plot was to play out in this general direction:
– You guys either buddy up with the Dark Eldar or kill them all, whereupon the Harlequin provided the directions to a Webway gate to get back home for Karnath, Amarach, and Vaethril.– Depending on what happened, the Webway was likely to be destroyed by either Orks or the Dark Eldar in vicious fighting.
– The Mechanicus ship would arrive in orbit and the Rak’Gol that had stowed aboard would phone home to their buddies.
– Rak’Gol would show up and destroy a lot of stuff, including dropping atomic bombs on the moon’s surface.
– This would trigger something bad. The moon of Taruta was actually a Necron tomb world so that would be fun and exciting as all the Necrons get roused from their slumber.
– The campaign would end in the general direction of either “screw it, we’re out” or “descend down and destroy the tomb structures and possibly the entire world”.
But yeah, this was all dependent on a few things with a huge caveat for PC Happens (TM). I was likely to change a few things too, especially if you all saved the Webway gate from being destroyed as that would short-circuit the general plot that I had in the background. It’s a shame that we couldn’t get through a lot of it but I’ve come to realise big and epic stories are a bit tricky to pull off through online play with only a few hours a fortnight.
Edit: Spoilers for a wall of text.
@popdart5
Whoa… just whoa… damn that would’ve been awesome to play out, and that’s way more than I was expecting, well played with the plot-making DMing there 🙂
@tech_knight One of the things that I like about being a GM is being able to craft a world or a story for players to run around in. I try and avoid railroading as much as possible as it’s something that I don’t enjoy as either a GM or a player and player-driven stories are much more fun to experience. I was entirely willing to throw out parts or even the entire draft plot if people did stuff that I wasn’t expecting and went in different directions.
@popdart5
Like some certain Tau getting chased down and arrested by the authorities? 😛
@tech_knight Heh yeah. 😛
On the subject of Carnifexes don’t forget to back https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/matthewjhellscream/carnifex-an-australian-horror-novel , now with professionally design cover 😉
Got my wife’s car back from a service, had a bunch of work done, felt at ease that everything was good.
Wife calls on friday, car’s dropped its bundle.
Turns out the one specific thing I repeatedly told them to investigate went completely unchecked, and now an inner cv has done a tripod bearing.
The car is off the road while I get the part in myself, Audi Indooroopilly were spectacularly unhelpful, despite asking me to give them customer feedback several ways, within the range of “satisfied” to “extremely satisfied”.
Nope. Never again.
Audi. Ha. Have not heard good things about Solitaire here in Adelaide, either. $500 for a custom battery in an A4 that an RAA mobile roadside service cannot replace says it all, really.
I have no problem with the vehicles or the parts, but this service centre is trying to have a hotelier-like front end, and it’s that step which has clealy fallen short of their portrayal. You don’t piss off your young, potential life long clients over something so small.
Also, having customer satisfaction ratings start at satisfied is like how the smallest drink at the cinemas is called “large” in a poor attempt to cover their insane markup.
So this car will be seeing an independent mechanic from now on, and our next car will probably be a jag.
Started Shadowrun: Hong Kong on the weekend. Only a couple of hours in and it’s fast becoming apparent that, at a minimum, it’s as excellent as the previous Harebrained games.
What character type you going for? I’m going for a Mage that mostly uses electric/lightning spells. They may be weaker then fire spells but being able to drain AP from enemies is fantastic.
I was going to be a troll decker and just punch everything that isn’t real, but ended up with an elf sniper. With a bit of luck this means I’ll be forced to bring the most interesting characters along for party balance anyway 😛
Yeah, unfortunately because I’m a Mage I don’t get to take the best character along with me. =(
My first character was a charisma heavy mage with almost no physical combat skills and Gobbet was almost never out of my party. 2 mages is the best way to shadowrun I think, double the healing spells, double the lightning spells (as long as you don’t mind buying one for her) and as a bonus you get spirit summons. You do suffer a bit in a straight punchup but the extra magic makes up for it almost everywhere else. Oooh especially the final boss, Gobbet’s poison cloud is hilariously broken against it and just shreds the boss so damned fast…
I’m playing a mage this time too!
I have no idea what I’m doing.
What the heck are the Dragon lines for?
They basically supercharge your magic, spells do more damage and in the case of the big points on the dragon lines, give them extra attributes. For example a mana bolt from the biggest dragon line can ricochet and hit multiple targets, the downside of it being that it doesn’t seem to have IFF so if you have an ally close to the enemy you hit first, they might be the next target it bounces to
The last time I used a dragon line it caused one of my spells to bounce to an ally and hurt them. Gooooood times.
One thing I’d suggest for between mission activities, be sure to regularly chat to Crafty Xu the Talismonger and the 2 old guys playing Go with the young bloke. The former has a late game story impact if you want to play clever and the latter are just good to listen to
Even if you told me not to talk to them, I still would 😀
I love the previous games and wrung every drop I could out of the stories.
Jolly good, that’s the way to play them. I realised I missed a fair bit with ten armed ambrose in my first run so he’s always the first guy I go & talk to now
Played far too much Destiny this weekend. Multiple Hard Mode Crota’s End raids, still couldn’t get Word of Crota to drop for my wife (though she does have Fang of Ir Yut, so that’s something I guess). Tried Hard Mode Vault of Glass in a bid to score her an epilogue and unfortunately half our group had to go to bed right as we got to the Gatekeeper. We tried to LFG for a few more people to fill in our fireteam but we got a couple of squeakers who professed to be great but didn’t even seem to understand the basic mechanics of the time gates/sync plates and seemed surprised there were no fireteam revives meaning they’d probably never done hard mode before so we couldn’t even retrieve the second relic. Eventually everyone just gave up.
I seriously did nothing else this weekend. Well except put on some makeup and make a bad joke on Twitter that might have inadvertently caused some alarm.
Hola Tay
Quiet weekend. On friday went to a friend’s birthday, everyone got to revel in my awkwardness as I held their new baby (I have very limited experience with infants). Saturday morning went and gave platelets, didn’t almost pass out this time so yaaaaay. Sunday I did nothing, though me and @tigerion played our first Rocketay league match- We’re on the leaderboard after some very fun games with Fat Shady and @benny! I did put up a replay of the first game here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yv-hxhj6hw&feature=youtu.be so if anyone (@beeawwb) wants to do colour commentary, go for it.
Also watched some of the livestream for the Hugo awards. An aussie podcast picked up an award, which is pretty cool. I’d actually read the best novel winner this year (The Three Body Problem) but wasn’t huge on it, but it had some cool bits. Pretty awesome to see a novel in translation win- was a Chinese author. Ms Marvel volume one and Guardians of the Galaxy both won awards which is cool too, as did Lightspeed magazine which is quite a good short story mag- I’d forgotten I had a subscription on kindle until last week, when I fired the app up and found 5 months backlog there including their “Queers destroy science fiction” issue which is like 400 pages, so I’ve got a lot of material to read through
Also, I did have to chuckle at the fact that the vote-brigading from a group called the “rabid puppies” trying to stack the awards with right-wing authors failed utterly.
A monday morning question: If you were to create an award or an award ceremony, what would it be for?
I’ll watch it when I get home, but I hate the sound of my own voice so no guarantees that I end up recording any voiceover. Will think about it though. Maybe cobble together a highlight reel of the entire first round (or those who post replays of same) or something…
want a tag team partner on these highlight reels? 🙂 Then you won’t hear your own voice 100% of the time, win-win!
I cringe any time there’s an echo on Pathfinder or Fiasco or The Strange and I hear myself for less than a second.
I think your voice is fine, very clear when you do your loud announcy-style voice, but even then we could just do sound checks beforehand to ensure you don’t get hit with the echo. I know my headset is known to play over what’s going on in my speakers through the mic, still haven’t figured out why.
Nah, it’s cool. Just lots of insecurities from childhood buried deep in my subconscious. I know [most] people have no issue with my voice (I’ve read entire books to people with good feedback) it’s solely a case of me dealing with me. 🙂
The Gassies.
International Fart Awards, representing a broad spectrum of accomplished windbreakers young and old.
Best Male Fartist
Best Female Fartist
Best Supporting Fartist
Best New Fartist
Best Duet
Best Visual Effects
…and so on.
We will also incorporate a nod to the less successful in the community for their attempts as a truly magnificent blast that ended with more of a whimper than a bang: The Sharties.
Once we have been established for a decade, we will induct two previous award winners into the Hall of Farts of year.
It just occurred to me that the Hall of Farts should be referred to instead as the Dutch Oven. In the absence of other members of the Gassies managing committee, motion carried.
I also move that Motion Carried will replace the phrase “awarded”.
An awards ceremony at my work celebrating the achievements of the biggest potato in the whole vegetable garden. My coworkers being potatoes, my workplace being the veggie garden.
Double post? Weird.
SMASHED EM
I would love to see a big science based awards show, with awards based around making it accessible to the public. Simplistic explanation of complex issue, most accurate use of science in movie production, best implementation of new research.
Best phallic impersonation.
Awarded to whomever has been the most phallus-like over the year, whether by insensitivity, intentional inflammation, or just generally being a total prick.
Mark Latham appears to have won for 2015
Latham should get into mining as he certainly knows how to jump into a hole and dig deeper. He was always pretty out there but he appears to have gotten much worse over time.
He’s been bitter and held a grudge against everyone in this country since he wasn’t elected PM. Did you ever read his book? Never seen such a gargantuan blaze of sour grapes in printed form.
I’ve read one of those political quote collection books where Latham took up a fair chunk of it. He was such a nasty person even when he was in politics so it doesn’t surprise me that he’s still a ratbag.
Actually, the vote stacking worked. The left wing organizers who only award their own friends chose to give NO AWARD in many categories, rather than give the award to the winner with the most votes.
Well, the counts are open, so you can go ahead and read them. The “left wing organisers” is a crazy statement, given the hugos have open nominations and voting, and its entirely a vote system, so you are either deeper into the conspiracy theory here or the majority of the fandom rejected agenda based slate nomination.
Unfortunately my reply has twice not been published by moderators. I believe the numbers illustrate a narrative contradicting your statements.
Good Monday everyone!
Over the weekend I became smitten!
That is all!
<3
So adorable
Fear my wrath! >:(
Super cute! :3
Was it with a kitten? Did it also have mittens?
Don’t get bitten!
No. Liondrive has a boyfriend. oooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Not yet 😛
We’re still just at the early stages of dating… 😀
Morning TAY. I played some squad battles in Splatoon on the weekend and hit A rank! And my friends who I was squadding up with hit A+ rank. So good times had by all.
I also tried out StarCraft 2 LotV beta’s automated tournaments feature, which is kinda interesting but still pretty barebones and not without faults. I ended up winning the tournament I entered, but two of my opponents forfeited for some reason, meaning I just had to wait for other people to play matches for about 40 minutes. But hey a win’s a win! (This was in gold league btw). Also something else interesting about the tournaments: It is essentially a 16-player matchmaking system, and the matches you play in the tournaments count towards your ladder win-loss and will reward you points as such.
Played a lot of Rocket League over the weekend. Got called a dick and got told to kill myself by a couple of players I played a bunch of times in ranked. Ranked Rocket League is serious business.
Did they also have relations with your mother?
As far as I can tell, everyone online has.
http://i.imgur.com/o5S7TG9.jpg
I haven’t quite had that kind of reaction to Ranked Rocket League yet, but it’s definitely full of dickheads.
Because I only play ranked 2v2 with search limited to Oceania, I play against the same players a lot. I got matched against this team, they forfeited at 7-1, then matched against them in the next game and was told to kill myself at 1-0. They forfeited that game at 5-0. I usually just respond with “Thanks!”
Morning, folks.
Dropped out of RocketTAY League due to anxiety issues, so my spot on the team is up for grabs.
Don’t want to put more pressure on you, but it isn’t too serious and you can just have fun.
If it makes you feel better you can check the link above and see the number of times I totally miss the ball or jump over it.
At the end of the day it is about having a bit of fun and nothing else so don’t let it stress you. Of course the other side of the coin is if it is stressing you and your not going to have fun then maybe that is best. I would encourage you to stay, but I’m not your real Dad, I can’t tell you what to do.
Out of curiosity, what about it causes you so much distress? Is it having to line up a game with other people or just the competition? (You don’t have to answer if you don’t want to)
I hope you reconsider and join in again, it’s really just about having fun (I’m sure plenty of the teams will be battling it out for the wooden spoon!)
Hi.
What’s happening?
Rocket League. And then something called ‘life’ around that, or so I’ve heard.
Sounds fun. What’s Rocket League? Heh
Just a bunch of RC cars, a soccer pitch and a giant beach ball.
Sounds like Channel Super Fun also sounds pretty good to me 😛
Sorry Brisbane folks. While I will be in your fine(?) state this October, I won’t be in the Brisbane area, but rather further north on a family holiday. Original plan was for the Gold Coast so was going to try and organise a catchup, but yeah, will be a bit further north now on the Sunshine Coast.
Sunshine Coast is closer to Brisbane than Gold Coast…
*double checks map*
EDIT: Doesn’t look it? I’ll take the word of a local though…hmmm…
Takes me 1hr 20mins to get to Brisbane, just on 2hrs to get to Sunshine Coast.
Edit: Map is a bit misleading, Gold Coast is technically up to Jacob’s Well/Pimpama which is a half hour drive from anywhere that’s really on the Gold Coast. It’s like saying Wollongong is Sydney.
Train service?
EDIT: Staying in Yaroomba if that gives any indication.
EDIT 2: I should probably just be less lazy… *Googles*
About a 3 hour 20 train ride to Roma Street in Brisbane..
Oof, Right up north. I think it’s about 90mins from Eumundi station to Brisbane.
Google Maps public transport thing is saying 2hrs 8mins which isn’t too bad I guess.
It all depends on what my family is doing though. If I can get a day where I can do my own thing I’ll try my best to make it down to Brisbane.
Sunshine Coast is north of Brisbane, Gold Coast is south of Brisbane 😛
So, finally got around to playing The Last of Us. Late to the party, I know – but holy shit. Played the PS4 version and was blown away. Such an amazing game. And that soundtrack, hngh. Bought both volumes immediately on finishing. Left Behind was pretty special too.
*incoherent ramblings*
Sorry, still processing it – only finished the main game on Saturday, and Left Behind last night.
PS4 version was my first exposure to the game too! Loved it. Left Behind was freaking amazing from start to finish.
In some ways Left Behind is even better than the core game. (Which is saying a lot, I know, but great focus on character moments and mechanics that facilitate them.) Both are freakin’ excellent, though. So good.
Grr, now I want to fire up the PS3 again. Never got Left Behind and I always meant to get around to it. Pity we don’t need backwards compatibility on the PS4 or it might help solve this dilemma…
For what it’s worth if you feel like getting the Remastered version, Left Behind is on the disc! (You can trade in your old version. :P)
Plus Remastered looks freakin’ amazing on PS4. Worth it.
Yeah I’ve toyed with the idea more than a few times, largely thanks to being a lazy bastard and not wanting to faff about swapping HDMI cables around just to have both the PS3 and PS4 plugged in. It might be something I grab on special one day or when I have money and am life threateningly bored (you know the mindset, the one where you think “I wonder if I could actually stop a drillbit in motion by grabbing it really fast”)
I have tLoU remastered, must fire it up just to play Left Behind
You must.
I think one of the most powerful moments in the game for me was (spoilers)
After you bring Ellie to Marlene and you find out they’re going to cut her up to make a cure. I don’t even have children and the urge that surfaced to just plow through every single human being in my way to save her was incredible. I remember saying out loud ‘You are all fucking dead. Every single one of you.’ when I realised what they were planning. I killed the world to save Ellie. Amazing. I regret nothing.The final epilogue of that game is one of my favourite, favourite endings ever. That look on Ellie’s face when she realises she can’t rely on Joel is just heartbreakingI spent the entire game certain Joel was going to die saving Ellie. That not happening was one of my favorite things – not because I liked Joel and despite him being an arse, I still sympathised with him on many levels. Just that they chose not to end the game on such a predictable or shitty note.That ambiguity was just the best thing. I too thought Joel was gonna sacrifice himself somehow.That whole last act was incredibly tense. I was pretty convinced for a while that Ellie was going to drown and the hopes of the world would just be lost in an accident.It kind of confused me why they had to cut her up. Immunity comes from blood and wouldn’t it be more feasible to keep her alive to keep a constant supply available? Kill her and you won’t have enough time or amount to get a viable sample to work with and never have access to any more.Wasn’t it something in her brain that was making the immunity so they couldn’t take it out without killing her?Yep. That’s what it was. I think Freeze is taking issue with the science of the situation.Well yes it’s a bit silly but… there’s fungus zombies, I’d have thought that that one would warrant the lions share of the criticism from the scientifically minded…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralisThey’ve just adapted and extended a real thing.
I think there were specific brain tissues they needed to extract and experiment on. It wasn’t even about creating an immunity, it was about examining her specific mutation and finding out if they could adapt it somehow, which meant her death could wind up being pointless anyway.Seems to me the only way a mutation thrives is through breeding. Ellie’s kids would be immune, and presumably she’s not the only mutant in the world. The motives of the Fireflies were ultimately selfish – kill the girl to save us, now. At least that’s how I rationalised it. The decision to save Ellie was one I am glad the game didn’t even give me a choice on.
Every time people talk about TLoU I think maybe I should give it a go. Then I remember that it’s a stealth action game by the people who made Uncharted 3 and nearly made me snap my controller in half.
I know you have an aversion to stealth games, so it may impact your experience – but oh my god. Amazing game. Haven’t been so impressed by a game as a whole like that since Spec Ops : The Line. And that’s saying something.
I think The Last of Us is a whole level above the Uncharteds too. 🙂
Yeah I think I need to bite the bullet and just play it. I just really, really hate the trial-and-error gameplay that enforced stealth games end up with. I always like to be making forward progress when I put time into something.
This isn’t really like that. It has a hearing mechanic where you can stop and tune your hearing to ping enemies like sonar. There’s not so much trial and error involved. I loved it.
Knowing where enemies are usually isn’t my problem. It’s figuring out where the designers actually intended me to go. I don’t really find stealth gameplay fun in any circumstances. Don’t mind in cases like, say, Uncharted 2, where it’s just a way to pick some dudes off before the firefight starts. But as I understand it, TLoU has a bunch of sequences where being spotted means instant death and restart.
I guess I should get it and give it a go though. Must be cheap by now.
You’re honestly doing yourself a disservice by not playing it. The only time insta-death occurs in TLoU is with a particular type of enemy who kills you instantly if they grab you. But they can be taken out stealthily, or with guns blazing if need be.
There is maybe one bit early on that I got frustrated with, but from there it was smooth sailing on Casual difficulty. It’s well worth the price of entry.
Morning TAY! Got the day off today after accruing 60 hours of overtime (working for the higher education sector has its perks). Was concussed playing soccer yesterday and locked myself out of house, my two highlights for the weekend.
Marathoned through season 5 of The Clone Wars on the weekend. It’s amazing how great the show ended up getting in later seasons. Hopefully Rebels will reach a similar quality eventually.
Also finished reading Mockingjay. Really enjoyed that too. I started reading Divergent right after. I’m not too far in yet, but my review of Divergent so far is: not as good as The Hunger Games, but still okay.
The Clone Wars was easily one of my favourite shows of the last decade, it went to some impressively dark places for what was at least hypothetically a kids show. Sort of like the 90s animated Batman in that regard, more a young adult show than a kids show.
I never got around to watching too much of The Clone Wars but I liked what I saw. The first season of Rebels was also pretty good and I like that they’re doing something pretty different with the Star Wars license.
Back to work tomorrow. Do not in the slightest feel ready for it, being thrown straight back into the busiest store on my own for most of the week. Fun times. Not going to stress too much about things however. It won’t kill someone to wait half an hour but it did nearly kill me to get it all done too quickly so they can deal with it or go somewhere else.
If they complain, fuck em. As you said, they can always go elsewhere
I think fucking em would send entirely the wrong message, also make the job take even longer…
Known for his quickness…. 😛
“Why can’t this be done quicker kiosk monkey! I demand it now”
“Because I had a stroke two weeks ago”
“Ah….um…. take your time”
Be nice if that was a reaction but I had people demanding I hurry up whilst I was in the middle of stroking out, unable to stand or even see properly. No “Hey, do you need help?” from anyone.
One woman cracked the shits at the doctors nurse as she was taking me away in the wheelchair.
Fuck, really?
Some people are complete assholes. And based on your accounts, it seems like your shopping center has more than its fair share of them.
One of the reasons I always swore black and blue if I couldn’t get any work at all, I’d rather clean toilets than work in retail. Because people can be shitful enough, without the added bonus of people treating retail staff like they’re subhuman.
Anyone spitting chips about missing out on the RockeTAYLeague competition? Because a spot seems to have opened up in my team.
I’m totally prepared to engage in a humiliating and hilarious series of 2v1 encounters for the rest of the season if I have to, but thought I would throw open the doors first.
Don’t let the fact that it only took me one round to drive away my first teammate dissuade you!
I would, but I guess I should stick to just playing on one team.
Alternatively I can systematically take over a spot in every team and secure myself a guaranteed spot on the podium. Hmm…
I did mention in the last call that I’ve never played, don’t own the game, and have a dodgy internet connection but am happy to overcome those hurdles if needed.
What sort of commitment does it take to jump in?
I think I have the PS+ version, but I’ve never played.
One round of 3 matches each week. So realistically 30-60 minutes a week once you take into account getting everybody online together and sorted a ready to play.
Also @zetrox2k has expressed interest
thanks tigs!
Im Up!
Awesome. You’re in. \o/
Sign up here: https://rocket-league.com/team/car-razyguys
Passcode: 7230-7097ive applied! i think you need to accept me?
Done! We need a new team name, too!
@BDKIAF I think you need to approve a team member switch in RockeTAYLeague. Is that right? (https://rocket-league.com/tournaments/rules Rule 5.3)
Can’t see anything on the page for me to change it. Have sent off an email to confirm.
Thanks!
Apparently you should be able to change your squad on the league page. The feature was just added yesterday.
I’ve put Carsenal as the new team name for the moment. I particularly like it because of the subtle swearing that you’re renowned for on the field 😛
Happy to change it anytime, though.
hahahahaha!!! well, at least u didnt bring up my goal stealing!
Turns out Diablo 3 on PS4 is kinda great… Something as simple as having separate buttons for movement and attack makes it a lot less frustrating. Bought it last week, and now I have a pyromanical wizard at paragon 62 farming Torment II and progressing through greater rifts (currently have 10 of the legendary gems, but sadly no jewellery with sockets). Fire Tornadoes + Mammoth Hydra + Supermassive Black Hole + Slow Time was amazing. Add in the two pieces of Tal Rasha’s set I found yesterday (which add elemental meteors to the mix) and the Tasker and Theo gauntlets I found on Saturday (which push the fast forward button on my Hydra’s attack speed)… Sanctuary will burn.
Should probably swap something out for some arcane or frost damage, to add more meteors to the mix… hmm…
Wizards are the best! (The VA for the female wizard is the same VA for Azula from Avatar: Last Airbender). I think I was up to Torment 6 last time I played my wizard. I think my build was something like:
Offensive Spells:
Arcane Barrage
Black Hole
Blizzard
Buff Spells:
Familiar
Utility Spells:
Teleport
Defensive Spells
Lightning Shield
Also one of the gears set bonus causes an automatic cast of meteor when an enemy is hit buy Lightning, Cold, Fire and/or Arcane. It has a short cooldown but they all have independent cooldowns right now I can summon down an Arcane, Lightning and Cold meteor for free.
Can’d Meat reminder.
Tags, from last time.
Sydney Peeps: @35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @cakesmith @cj @cookingmama @dkzeitgeist @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @harli @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @morkai @markserrels @mrtaco @novacascade @powalen @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggyninty
Canberra Meeps: @bdkiaf @blaghman @shane @trjn (and Freyrjrjrjr, but I’m too lazy to remember how to tag her correctly)
Freezing Beeps: @freezespreston (Gonna keep tagging you in the hope that you can come)
Other people: @sernobulus, @rocketman, @rize
People I want to annoy: @dc
September 12th. You may want to bring something to sleep on/in.
Be prepared for games and food and alcohol. Feel free to shoot an email to blaghman(at)gmail.com if you have any questions. If you want to turn up early or stay late you’re welcome to.
Whhheeeeeeeeeee. *rolls away*
Next I see my boss I’m just going to tell him I need those days off with no explanation as to why. Hopefully it will just be assumed for medical reasons.
“I have to run through a bunch of tests with a new doctor down in Canberra. No getting out of it or rescheduling.”
Don’t point out that the doctor is @freya and the tests are “How much fun can you have in one weekend?”
I am NOT A NEW DOCTOR
You’ve seen Freeze before?
Let me know how you go. Still keen to organise the TAYrago if people need.
YOU MONSTERRRRR
Also, @blaghman, where’s the TAY tags list thing again? I might drive and if so… TRANSPORTTTTT. Also also did you want me to bring anything outside of the expected?
http://www.taytags.com/
And I assume I’ll be right. Last minute planning is my specialty.
I have car space if anyone needs a ride by they have to play by my rules. (Leavening early and stopping for coffee when and where I decide)
Stop for coffee at Bowral. Specifically at the Gumnut Patisserie on the main road.
Hrmm I usually stop in golburn but I’ll look into it.
I should probably make a note of this somewhere so I don’t forget.
Oh, that’s soon!
*promptly forgets*
Really getting into Dragonball Xenoverse lately. No I’m not calling it Dragon Ball Xenoverse because it’s spelt as one word on the title screen.
But HOLY CHRIST that Frieza fight took like 4 years. Didn’t help that I didn’t need any items for any of the fights beforehand so I ended up doing it about 7 or 8 times because I kept running out of health by the time I got to the Spirit Bomb phase -_-
There’s a few of us here on PC and on console that are terrible at organising some co op in it, so if you ever want to talk about co opping and then never actually do it (or even maybe actually play it co op!) feel free to shout out on TAY.
Just wait for the Cell Saga. I’m currently stuck on the first fight!
Happy to help train you up in PQs whenever. Just give me a shout!
I seem to be going OK so far. I made a female Majin (sp?) and I’m just focusing on basic attacks, health and a little bit into stamina and more or less ignoring the others and using my Ki as a buffer to extend one of my strike specials.
Also I throw a lot. Not the game, the opponent. Like maybe 12 or 15 times if it’s a boss fight. Big on the grappling.
Grappling can really throw the AI opponent (HA!) because they never seem to see it coming. Very helpful! Though I wish you could customise your character’s throw, because the Namekian one is kinda boring.
I’m not sure if they’ve changed it but there’s a jump in difficulty around that point. I played as a melee character up until I think it was the Cell Saga, but eventually I used a wish to reset my attributes and switch to beams which made a huge difference. Melee worked great one on one but in the later missions where I’d have to face two or three enemies by myself they’d just peck away at me interrupting everything I’d do until I died. After I put it all into beam attacks and ki the tables turned. My Destructo-Disc + Kamehameha combo was a touch too strong but it still felt closer to balanced than melee.
Hi everyone 🙂
I had a good weekend, making some slow-cooked lamb shanks with garlic and herbs, and also chicken chasseur. It’s my birthday today so going out to a rowdy Italian pizzeria tonight with wife and kids 🙂
I played a lot of The Witcher 3 on the weekend, as well as Persona Q, Driveclub and Singstar(!)
Happy Birthday!
Thanks! 🙂
Happy birthday, friend! Hope the year treats you amazing!
Thanks mate 🙂
Happy Birthday!
Thank you! 🙂
Happy birthday!
Thanks!
Holy crap, I’m finally getting my new PSU!
…pending any events with the courier/AusPost, which surely, SURELY is unlikely.
Oh wow, it took a LOT of jumping through hoops to install the AdBlock Plus extension at work (I’ve got Chrome 30.0.1599.66 m installed but updates are disable by the administrator, so I can’t use the Web Store) but TAY is so much better with Taboola completely blocked. It’s almost like OldTAY™!
I have started a youtube channel where i review PC Games. I am certainly not the best but i try my best anyway here is the link lemme know what you think or subscribe. youtube.com/Gammah88Gaming and the phantom pain looks sick :).
How spoilerific are your reviews? Is it a let’s play first 5 kinda deal or an edited review focusing on different points. So i guess what I’m asking is what is your style
TAY RPG Pathfinder tonight at 7:30pm ACST and 8pm AEST. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @negativezero @beeawwb
Back on the road and your final destination is but a short journey away. The northern port city of Vinks beckons.
Will we encounter a @gingerchris86 there?
Maybe next time. Don’t want to rush Chris into getting a character ready by tonight.
Maybe my last session, but I may also be around for a few more as I am most likely going to need to get a repeat of the eye surgery I had on my left eye this time. They told me it was a good idea to get it while the vision in it is still pretty good, but I was going to hold off because it’s painful and I wanted to get to the US. However I did some thinking and some poking around and the procedure’s not FDA approved in the US yet (they deferred a decision pending more long-term studies) and because I’m basically unable to see properly for 3-4 days afterward and banned from driving for a week I need to be looked after by someone, and that’d be pretty hard to do when I’m completely on my own in a foreign country. Also I was like, maybe it’s not urgent to get it done yet, but at what point do I say that I ‘need’ it? Do I wait for my vision to get worse?
So yeah. Re-assessed next week to make sure I need it, and if I do I’m booked for the week after which means I’ll be around until mid October and get 2-3 sessions more, most likely. Still missing PAX by a couple weeks though 🙁
Take care. I know what eye problems can be like. One thing I can say is, don’t wait for things to get worse if the thing they are talking about doing doesn’t have significant risks attached and if it could possibly halt or reverse the vision deterioration. I’ve spent a fair amount on visiting the eye doctor without major ‘results’, but knowing that you are in good hands and on top of the situation (whatever you decide to do about it) is worth a lot.
Yeah, that’s the thing. I had terribad vision that was rapidly deteriorating in my right eye so did that ASAP. Progression will be halted now, and I feel that I’ve gotten an improvement in it. My left sees okay, but has the same problem and it’s been also getting worse over time, but at a much slower rate. Still, Keratoconus is supposed to continue to progress until you’re in your 40s or so, and I think I’d kick myself if I waited until my vision was bad before getting it fixed. Also if I don’t get the procedure done then I’d be looking at a cornea transplant later on and fuck that.
EDIT: The only risk involved are that it can leave a permanent haze behind, and infection if it happens could make it bad (involves stripping the epithelium so stuff can actually enter the eye) but it’s relatively low-risk.
All the best mate. Many sympathies.
Keep me in mind for your next adventure module if you are looking for another player 🙂
I’ll keep you in mind for future stuff but we’re pretty much at capacity for the current game sorry. If I run something else in the future, I’ll throw an invite your way.
Will that still be the case once I’m out? It’ll just be down to 4 at that point, back to 5 when @gingerchris86 joins.
Keep in mind we did start with what, 8 in the beginning of the campaign? So it shouldn’t be a problem to add Chris and heck even Zambayoshi at some point, but only if Popdart thinks he can fit them both in.
8 was pretty unwieldy though, and as you level up in PF it gets more and more complex. Hell even with five we spend half an hour arguing literally how to walk out of a dragon lair.
Yeah fair point on that
Understood! I’m involved in another Pathfinder campaign that we do once every month or two, and we find that 4-5 is the best number. Just putting my hand up if you need another player for the next module 🙂
Actually, the thing to keep an eye out for is the occasional stuff we do like Fiasco
Eight was way too many. We’re doing okay with five but a lot of our recent success has involved luck, a lot of quick thinking and @popdart5 pulling his punches a bit because of our lack of a healer and not having a traditional tank.
Also a good combination of roleplaying, social skills, and general smarts means that you guys avoided a lot of the pain and suffering coming your way. I am pulling my punches but not quite to the extent that I’m crippling the game to accommodate you. You guys are good at not getting into dangerous situations, which is the best way to adventure.
I’ll be there tonight but the session scheduled for 7th September I’ll miss due to timezones and international travel. Will be back in time for the 21st session though.
I’ll be on, just my standard work recall warning that I may have to bug out suddenly if I get called to work on customer faults this week.
Hi TAYbes <3 I’m back, I missed this place!
I watched a bunch of Netflix and actually played some (new) vidja games! I played Life Is Strange (oh man, so good!) and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture (oh man, so pretty, but Moses, was that ever slow and disappointing :/).
Life is Strange pals! <3
Welcome back, Jaaaaane!
What have you been watching?
We are currently watching daredevil and the latest Dragons season. We generally get about 2 episodes a week
Mm, I’m on Netflix, so mass binging! Haha, watching lots of BoJack Horseman (super surprised by how touching and deep it is!), Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, finished Black Mirror. Lots of stand up (Eugene Mirman, Todd Barry).
Just started watching The Honorable Woman last night, and oops now I want to cut all my hair off again!
The end of the second episode of Daredevil has to be the best fight scene I’ve ever seen.
That was a cool fight, so much impact in it.
I’m not that far into it, maybe half way through season 1
Also you have a wedding coming up, don’t cut your hair that short. Also <3 Miss Fisher’s
Oooh that MAKES me want to cut my hair off too! (That’s not a dig at you, specifically 😉 btw) I used to have a shaved head and I miss that, haha.
If you decide to cut your hair for your wedding go for it, certainly not saying you can’t do that. But if you cut it now you don’t have the option of long hair and whatever styling options that gives you. Then again I don’t actually know what the plans are, not sure if you guys have even set a date
Haha, nahhh, we’re not that organised ;D
I love Miss Fisher. Those outfits! *swoon*
I know! And she’s so damn sassy, I just love it 😀
@pixel_the_ferret_viking let’s talk Elite!
Nice photo. Imperial scum. 😉 How are you enjoying it? Little bigger than the Adder… What’s in the background? Is that Achenar?
I’m now 15kly from Sag A*, hopping from neutron star to neutron star at the moment. There’s a pair of rings of them from around 13-ish to 17-ish kly from the core about 1000ly above and below the galactic plane. Scanned about 20 of the things now, and no other commanders seem to have been through this bit of space! Cha-ching. I think I’ll easily do another 20 before I leave this neutron field.
Gonna keep working my way inwards, to Sag A*, then loop round to Great Annihilator and then dunno. Come home I guess, it’s been a long long time since I’ve been in the bubble and things have changed a bit! New ships, new factions, turmoil in both the Empire and the Federation…
Really really loving the Clipper! Insanely fast and nimble for the size. And have completely cargo fitted her so managing 240T is a bit of an upgrade from the T6 😛
Back to trading but I’m already itching for my next exploration trip… Fully kitted and tested A Diamondback, at 32LY it’s a bit of an upgrade 😛
Enjoy your time near the core! Those neutron fields are real money makers… Also if you haven’t already, find yourself a carbon star! Those things are MASSIVE!
I need to check through my astronomy books now to find my next destination! Should be good fun…
How are you enjoying the literal sea of stars in there?
I’ve set my view to star class, and deselected everything apart from protostars, wolf-rayet, carbon, white dwarfs and non-sequence. Not found a carbon yet… Been at a couple of absurd hypergiants though.
Been out to the Crab Nebula? That was my first ever expedition although I didn’t make it all the way.
What’s your ranks now?
98% ranger! So damned close to pioneer :-P… That’s what I get for rushing the final 2000LY. 😛
I was considering nebula hopping, particularly Barnard’s Loop and such.
Nice. 🙂
Wondering what I’ll get to when I get back… 🙂
Y’all explorers be crazy 😛
I thought I was going mad for a while there, but the voices told me I’m fine… 😉
It’s really spectacular out here.
http://gematsu.com/2015/08/tokyo-xanadu-five-minute-trailer
You guys can take your Metal Gear Solids and whatnot, to me this is seriously looking like the best game releasing this year. Now if only it would get a localization announcement.
It’s not released as far as I’m concerned until it gets a localisation announcement.
God Eater 2….
PSO2….
*gazes wistfully into the distance*
The difference is that XSeed have been really good about localizing Falcom’s games recently. We’re getting two Trails games this year and got Ys VI as well. It’s not like PSO or GE2 where the company just doesn’t give a shit. I haven’t given up on God Eater yet either. PSO2 is a lost cause though.
The worst thing about Falcom is that they do their Japanese dubs in such a way that apparently XSeed can’t re-license the audio. Not sure if there’s clauses in the actors contracts that prevent it, or if it’s a cost thing, but what I’ve heard is that they wanted to do dual audio but it was licensed in such a way that it’d be almost cheaper to re-record the dialogue. Which really sucks because the JP cast in this (and also Trails of Cold Steel) is excellent.
Metal Gear?!
!
It’s more of a polymer. Metal is so last century.
Hah
No.
You can 3D print titanium these days
icwutudidthar
Colonel, I think they see what I did there.
A Surveillance Camera?!
Don’t even, man.
I’m too freaking excited.
I noticed you’ve been getting trophies – started GZ again last night after dabbling when it came out. How hard was it S-ranking all missions? Wondering how much I can smash out before TPP.
It was pretty easy to my surprise.
The secret is turning off reflex mode in options which nets you an extra 7500 points per mission.
I used a guide for some too and it probably took me about 2-3 hours to S rank all the normal missions.
Well shit, count me in. Surely this will keep me happy until TPP, right? RIGHT!!??!?!
I haven’t been this excited for a video game since MGS4.
When Hayter pops up as the “real” Big Boss I’m gonna die.
Because no way will I believe he’s not in it.
It’s impossible.
Yeah it’s still surreal, and Kojima being such a renowned troll – I’m hoping against hope. If it did happen, imagine the collective meltdown. The effects would be seen from space.
Oh, you and @shane, Hayter truthers.
JET FUEL ISN’T HOT ENOUGH TO MELT OUTER HAVEN
KONAMI HAS LINKS WITH THE BIN LADEN FAMILY
You’ll all be sorry when its another Raiden-esque double bluff.
Huh. Might give that a go then
Do it, sucker!
Based on the mercenary approach they take with DLC for their games, I thought that Bandai Namco were the worst in the business. Turns out Koei Tecmo want that title for themselves.
So there’s a new Dead or Alive Xtreme coming. That’s the brilliant volleyball game trapped inside the pervy swimsuit trading bullshit that makes you ashamed to enjoy playing the franchise, for those playing at home.
It’s only confirmed for Japan and Asia at the moment apparently. Probably worried that it’d be dragged through the muck for being a sexist piece of filth if they put it out in the west. Which wouldn’t be entirely innacurate.
DoAX2 had nine characters included, basically the entire female cast of the Dead or Alive games up until that point, which was around DoA4. For some reason, for the new game, Team Ninja have decided that nine characters is some kind of sweet spot. DoAX3 will also have nine characters.
The issue is that in the period since DoA4, the franchise has swelled from nine to fifteen eligible characters, with the addition of three permanent new characters (Mila, Marie Rose, Honoka), two guest characters from Ninja Gaiden (Momiji, Rachel) and one novelty character (Nyotengu).
So they need to eliminate six characters from this roster. Naturally, they’re doing it via a fan poll. Apparently they’re not even stacking the votes so if any of the ‘regulars’ get voted out, they’re out. And there won’t be character DLC, apparently.
There’s a very good chance that several of the newer girls get voted in. Honoka and Marie Rose are both extremely popular (the latter mainly because she’s the only one that doesn’t have tits bigger than her head, I think) and I kind of hope that Nyotengu makes the cut just because she’s got giant fucking wings on her back that will make the game an absolute shitshow for the developers with clipping problems and stuff. Shadenfreude, basically.
But none of that explains why the whole thing is scummy. The voting process is the scummy bit.
To cast your vote for your favourite character, you go to the PS Store and download the appropriate character’s theme. Basically a couple of still shots of the character in a swimsuit, so something they’d have thrown together with about two minutes effort.
And each theme costs $3 US. Presumably $3+ AUD (haven’t looked). Want to vote for multiple characters? That’ll be effectively $3 per vote. Holy shit.
The worst part all of this is, that people will partake. It could be the worst crime in digital history, and people will still pay for the privilege. Doesn’t matter how wrong, or how much of a rip off it is. It’ll make them money.
Yep.
I came within a circle button of buying one of them. If they’d been less than $3 US each and were more like $1.50-$2.00 I’d probably ‘cast my vote’ for 5-6 of them
Hitomi, Marie Rose, Honoka, Lei Fang, Nyotengu, Kokoro, in that orderbut at >$3 each I can’t justify it and haven’t bought any of them yet.My expectation is that the lineup will be
Kasumi, Hitomi, Ayane, Lei Fang, Marie Rose, Honoka, Mila, Kokoro and Momiji, with possibly Lisa or Tina sneaking in ahead of one of them.Hello TAY.
I used the trackwork on my train line as an excuse to not do anything over the weekend. Which was a complete success. I’m never really in the mood to play games after work during the week so most of my Splatooning is saved for the weekend. Played some team ranked with Sughly which was interesting (ie. I died a lot)
Got some good breeding done too. (Also I played Pokemon hur hur hur). One team member down, five to go. Still gotta decide on nicknames for them all (no I will not name one Spaghetti, DC). Two months to go until PAX!
Poncho? Scruffy? Monkey Shines?
Need a Raichu named Nef. Kgo.
I went and caught another (female, premier ball) HA vivillon for you since noooooo, you don’t want the shiny. :p
I’ve been taking my dinky little doubles team of four online over the last week, slowly getting better at this whole battling thing. Getting good at stomping the all-legendary teams (can’t handle primals at all though). Something else funny though, on no less than three separate occasions I got paired with a Japanese player, and the moment they saw me lead with two shinies they immediately forfeited the match. Huh.
Oh really? Thanks a bunch! I was going to try and see if I had one in my Friend Safaris before I asked you to grab me one 😛 Let me know whenever you’re free and I’ll jump online to trade. Anything you want? Got some good 4IV rejects if you need breeding stock (Eevee, Magikarp, a few others)
The Japanese player probably thinks you’re hacking. Which isn’t such a silly assumption, considering 😛 All shinies is usually a pretty telltale sign.
Heh, I stomped the dirty hackers running unbound hoopa and shiny darkrai.
Don’t really need anything in return, just started back into the breeding for my last two team members. They’re bad, but so am I so hey, should be fun anyway.
Now that you’ve said Premier Ball though I’m thinking I should consider getting my team in matching Luxury Balls or something 😛
I can help with that too!
Just remember, if you’re breeding anything genderless you lose that – only plain poké balls there.
Nah, you don’t need to! Gotta do something myself 😛 Thanks though!
Hey, my name is Mark. I’m a TAY newbie. Out of curiosity, any Perthites around?
Something something oar of thorns.
Just so you know, it’s a two-drink minimum and you order at the bar, no table service.
as long as I can get two Mud Slides, I’m all in!
@kartanym summons TAYtags. It’s somewhat effective!
@fled @grandmasterb-funk @hindenlagen @liondrive @phlanispo @phoenix @platinum-urchin @thecracks
Pixel is confused, Pixel hurt himself in his confusion!
Pixel fell asleep.
I think you need to play more pokemon, thats not what happens.
Is when you play with me!
Woo, NUMBER ONE in the
arbitrarilyalphabetically-ordered-list-of-TAY-Perth-people.Finally all my
training comes to fruitionelimation of Aarons, aardvarks, etc . can come to an end.Also, hi @kartanym.
You mean alphabetically?
Haha, I didn’t even notice (… or really look too closely). But hey – there’s a small chance that a completely random ordering would come out as alphabetical, right? 😀
Pertvengers Assemble! Nice to meet you all.
Pertvengers sounds waaaay to close to pervengers which I guess is what @liondrive does when hes out
*waves* o/
Hi!
*waves back* hello!
OH GOD THEY’RE REPLICATING UNCONTROLLABLY QUICK SOMEONE START DOUBLING THE HEIGHT OF THE RABBIT-PROOF FENCE.
Actually, scratch that, we’ve got a couple of hours head start on them. Take your time.
That reminds me, better turn off that cloning machine I found in the back yard … :p
Hi my name is CJ, in terms of Perth I like Five Bar, Freemantle and Mundy Gustos in Mundering.
Nice to meet you CJ. I’m a Amplifier Bar guy myself, though I don’t go out there that much.
I only been to perth once basically all I saw
Definitely worth visiting again some time, there’s some hidden gems out here 🙂
LET’S GO TO THE COURT!
BINGAY! /o\
No way in hell, I’m not that much of a monster 😛
Besides, I’d have to ditch him and go ogle at cute guy anyway ‘,:)
Oh yeah, remember when we said we were going to go and I totally forgot? How silly of me. Aheh… heh… Sorry.
Hello!
Perth is fun! (Can’t wait until PAX in Melbourne…)
Is it weird that I haven’t seen any other Perth TAYbies since PAX last year?
Given that I have not either, I’m gonna say nope. Not weird.
I have my fingers crossed I can make PAX … but I will be going to RTXAU next year 🙂
Greetings, Mark. Welcome to Talk Amongst Yourselves, AKA TAY. Please be aware that Perthites are the most anti-social pack of broken young fools on this website. We fear human contact, and wilt in the light.
Here is your complimentary astrolabe. Please be aware that no shoes, no service. Please be aware that you could be subjected to shameless plugging at any time.
Huh. I guess I must be one of the rare social ones … kinda like a rare Pokemon, but then every once in a while they have a promotion and suddenly there’s a butt ton of them.
Shameless plugging I’m okay with. Also, shoes are nice. Expensive, but nice.
HELLO AND GOOD MONDAY TO ALL!!!!!!!!!!11!1!6!
I pre ordered myself a copy of Metal Gear 5 Collect all the goats, and they gave me a free copy of MGS5 Ground Zeros for PC.
Would Anyone like said free game./
FREE METAL GEAR SOLID GROUND ZEROES ON STEAM
minimum specs.
OS: Windows Vista SP2 x64, Windows 7 x64, Windows 8 x64 (64-bit OS Required)
Processor: Core i5-4460 (3.20GHz) or better *Quad-Core or better
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (2GB) or better (DirectX 11 graphics card required)
DirectX: Version 11
Hard Drive: 4 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Sure, I’ll take it off your hands.
Sold!
Cheers!
Thanks a bunch! 😀
On the weekend I found out I need glasses. #oldladystrange
It’s just for when I’m doing close-up hand-sewing, though. Not for reading or anything like that. My regular vision is still 20/20. I chose purple and aqua frames because even though I’m usually home alone when I’ll need them, I still want to look pretty. 😛
Sometimes I wish I had glasses. Then I realise that means wearing glasses.
That made no sense.
Glasses are the cool thing to get these days apparently.
No, we just told you that to make you feel better.
#Oldbutveryclassyladystrange
Magnifying glasses for delicate work then?
I wish my eyes were better. I can’t read fine print now without lots of effort. Got to the point that for reading manga where I need the furigana characters to be able to follow it, I need a magnifying glass AND my glasses. 🙁
Problem? Solution.
Busy/tiring weekend. Went around to Dare Girl’s again on Friday, worked through more Marvel movies. Only got through Iron Man 2 and Thor before we had to call it a night. Still probably like Thor the least of all of them I think.
Saturday was my friend’s wedding. The night before, I’d gotten myself “tidied up” and removed the mohawk. Immediately regretted it. First thing Mum said was “oh, that’s better!”, while the first thing my sister said was more along the lines of “oh. Now that it’s gone, it actually really worked with it there.” Which is pretty much how I feel, and I imagine the rest of everyone I know would feel too 😛 Honestly if I still had a full head of hair and didn’t have that big gaping hole at the back, I would have kept it. Sigh.
Wedding was good though. Spectacular day for it too, couldn’t believe how warm it was. Hell, when I got up after crashing that morning, I had to take off both my beanie and my dressing gown because it was too hot. And no matter how warm it gets in the winter, the house is *never* not cold on the inside.
Got to catch up with a bunch of people I haven’t seen in a while, including the groom’s sister who always seems to be busy whenever a thing is on, even when she wasn’t over in England at the time. Probably wouldn’t have recognised her if she wasn’t going around saying hi to everyone, pretty sure it’s been years. Also hilarity when finding out the youngest of our group has gone and gotten herself a tattoo. And didn’t even start out small, it’s a huge owl and skull thing that covers most of her thigh. Would love to be there when her parents discover it, considering they weren’t even particularly happy about the shaved side of her head she’s got going on. Though she doesn’t plan on letting that happen 😛 Still, it looks pretty great. Good on her. Also it turns out that one of the groom’s friends is brother to a girl from my high school group, and she works at Flying Fish where the reception was held, so got a chance to catch up with her for the first time in what I’m sure must be a couple of years now too.
The food there was pretty great. A little hard to get a hold of though, the wait staff always seemed to be going somewhere else instead, we kind of just moved to the foyer so they would have to go through us and we could pretty much tackle them down to grab it. The ones serving the alcohol did pretty well though, wine glass was constantly being filled 😛
Spent Sunday playing Splatoon, pretty much. Wanted to check out the new level, Flounder Heights. Took a bit of getting used to, but I think I like it. Huuuuge area, seems like it has over 2k points worth of paintable surface. It was on Turf War from midday til 4, so just used that to get used to it. Then after that it came up with Warehouse in Splat Zones, so went and did that for the next few hours. It is crazy hard in that mode, with how small the area on the rooftops is (making it really easy for Splattershots, Rollers and Blasters to completely dominate with their close-range game) and the walls making it easy for people to sneak up on you from all directions.
Also, discovered https://splatoon.nintendo.net/, which despite being in Japanese, is really cool. Especially since you can check out what maps and modes are coming up in the next three rotations, as well as seeing how much you’ve used all your weapons and what your friends are using as well. They really need an English version, but it’s still totally usable as it is (there’s a pretty good guide explaining it all).
Also also, last night I finally cracked S-rank! \o/
And somehow managed to not drop back to A+ through all the matches I played! \o/
You can use that Splatoon website to announce when you’re going to be playing, so your friends can see and join you if they want! You set the time, game mode (not that I can read that) and what weapon you’re going to be using. But I agree, needs an English (and other languages) version. Also I discovered yesterday the commercial Splatoon website shows Splatfest winner information, including top 5 MVPs from both teams. That would be nice in English, too.
Congrats on S-rank! I’m close to A+, had to cut off my play session with a friend early last night due to structural damage to my apartment (just on the balcony but I had to make some calls) caused by the heavy rain =(
Damn. We had some water appear at the bottom of one of the corners of the wall in our house, no idea where it’s come from but it’s worrying. Also the new roof over the veranda out the back decided to sprout waterfalls at the points where it joins onto the house roof, so that’s some more fun to get sorted, Stupid rain.
I was wondering about that scheduling thing, and how it works exactly. Sounds cool. Also the idea of making it as a Splatfest MVP, though I doubt that’ll ever happen. Ever 😛
Enjoyed the Fear the Walking Dead pilot. Like the new characters. Like the setting. Like how they’re doing something a bit different with it. Kim Dickens is a great lead. Some of the dialogue is a bit on the nose at times, but that criticism goes hand-in-hand with the core series as well. Also a bit slower, but I don’t have a problem with that. Looking forward to seeing it unfold!
Keep us apprised. If the season is solid, I’ll probably check it out on DVD!
Will do! I suspect a lot of Walking Dead fans will be put off by the lack of gore and zombie stuff, but I’m digging seeing the last days of normalcy. 🙂
Zombie story without much gore… that’s totally my jam 😀
Strawberry is usually my jam.
Either way, you get red on you.
That’s all it takes? See you at PAX, @redartifice!
Only if you buy me dinner first.
@redartifice Jam on toast!
@bdkiaf acceptable.
Well that’s a new one.
It seems like the notifications are staying active until you actually read the post they refer to. At least in my head it is. I haven’t actually tested this empirically. (I’ve got the 0 thing too)
Dammit, now I want to test it out.
Quick, say something back to me 😛
Ok I just saw your notification, so I started from the top of Page 2 and slowly scrolled down. The notification stayed at “1” until I hit this thread and then changed to “0”. Neat!
Haha I just did that too. Awesome!
Actually I wonder if I can make my own…
Just a re-post in case any Clicker Heroes players missed my post on Saturday.
I’ve created a clan called KoTAYku (case sensitive). Currently we have 10 members! Feel free to join if you like!
I joined yesterday; just FYI there does seem to be a limit on the number of people in a clan (only noticed when trying to join random clans before I saw KoTAYku) so we may hit capacity at some point.
ahh ok. I might look in to it and see if I can find out! I know Marvel Puzzle Quest has a cap of like 20 or 25 people per alliance, so maybe it’s similar here. Will update when I find some hard stats!
Seeking inspiration. What do people normally cook with chicken. I have some chicken breast for me to cook for Tiglet and myself but no idea what to do.
What is your go to chicken dish?
I’ve recently had to do a lot of lower fat cooking options for Mrs B-ob, which meant I ended up doing a lot of baked chicken breast options. Wrapped in bacon and glazed with maple syrup and chopped apples dusted with a mix of chilli powder and cumin is low fat, right?
…I should try this tonight.
Depends if you’re looking for something easy or something with effort.
If effort (relatively speaking), crispy chicken tacos are pretty good.
If easy, pesto chicken pasta. It’s easy in that it’s three ingredients and I just listed them 😛
Oh hell yes. Carnitas is great in terms of low effort!
My dinner thought process usually goes: “Hm, what is about to expire… I’ll have that.”
Last night it was every vegetable I own.
Carbonara, because lazy 😛
If not, crumb those bad boys and make an awesome Parma?
Chicken Stirfry?
Chicken Mignons?
Kievs?
…
*shrugs*
Babby!
I did chicken miso soup the other week. Green chicken curry is the bomb (though thighs are better for curries), chilli chicken, chinese chicken, chicken with prosciutto, baked chicken with mustard and cream…
it’s really anything you want.
I made some amazingly good gumbo the other night. Definitely recommend.
Oh wait, Tiglet is involved. Definitely not the gumbo then. Spicy. So spicy.
I was drooling at the pictures of that spicy gumbo.
I have so much of it left.
I am terrible at making well formed dishes, so I tend to just do a quick rub on the chicken (phrasing) and serve with microwaved veggies.
I use a modified version of this at meats: http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/08/peruvian-style-grilled-chicken-with-green-sauce-recipe.html and crumb the chicken in little bites, which seems to work fairly well when I don’t burn it, but I imagine the green sauce would be way too spicy for Tiglet.
Otherwise, again, probably some sort of light rub or spicing on the chicken, then either an orange salad (salad leaves, carrot, mandarin, tomato, capsicum, onion, normal seasoning stuff to taste) or an avocado-ey one (bit of salad leaves, Avocado, lots of tomato, chuck some parsley on it, call it a day).
Super lazy honey mustard chicken & brown rice ~ 30mins go-to-whoa, the majority of which is unattended oven-cooking.
Satay chicken wraps – easy and yummy. Chuck some mushroom and onion in with the chicken, cook, simmer in satay sauce, serve with cheese/tomato/lettuce/carrot/capsicum/whatever to go in the wraps.
Apricot or Mango chicken – tiglet will love that.
Any sort of chicken stir fry with rice. Teriyaki chicken or Honey soy is always a winner with kids. Sprinkled with herbs and pan-grilled with some salad, or turned into a sandwich/burger/wrap
Crumb it and make schitzel or home made chicken nuggets.
Maybe not a go-to dish but Oyakodon (parent-child bowl) would be amusingly appropriate. It’s pretty easy to make but you need the right ingredients for it (onions, dashi, mirin, sake, sugar, soy).
You basically mix up sake and mirin (3:1) and then add dashi, soy and sugar, bring it to the boil then dump diced chicken and onions in, let that boil for 8-10 mins to cook and then quickly mix through beaten eggs, let the eggs cook briefly and then dump the whole lot over rice.
In fact, you know what? I might just do this for myself.
This is my favourite donburi. Although it’s less healthy cousin katsudon is also good.
I much prefer katsudon and I’d kill for a tamanegidon like you can get in Japan (gyuudon with spring onions & a raw egg cracked over it all) but I don’t trust our eggs here.
However Oyakodon is pretty great. I ended up making it for dinner last night.
Pad kaprow with hokkien noodles
Aw, everyone seems to mention in passing how they’re not going to PAXAUS. Everyone makes me sad.
I’M GOING…. Apparently…
thanks @screeYou don’t make me sad!
I’m sorry D=
I’m hoping to be able to go depending if I get the time off or not. Boss is angry at me about having the last few weeks off.
You don’t make me sad! Also, boss sounds like a piece of poop given you had a medical emergency
Your boss sounds like a dick. Tell him I said he’s a dick. (Probably don’t do that…)
Your boss is angry because you nearly died and forgot to inform him in advance?
Your boss is a grade-A high-tonnage ocean-faring pillock
We took the plunge the other day and bought our passes so we are locked in now
You don’t make me sad, Tigs!
Yay! I can’t wait to see how big Tiglet has grown 🙂
She is huge
Oh well, since you forced my hand it might be self indulgent photo time
http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd405/WNxTigerion/IMAG0716_zpsxp9fyzrc.jpg
She is a big cousin now http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd405/WNxTigerion/IMG_4219_zpsex2i6rhd.jpg
But still just as cheeky http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd405/WNxTigerion/IMG_4273_zpskp30dkyh.jpg
With embarrassing parents who dress her like this http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd405/WNxTigerion/IMAG0707_zpsix6mrnun.jpg
She is ADORABLE!!
I’ll be there! In my vault suit!
You don’t make me sad, vault dweller!
I need to work on the wrist cuff. Once I’ve done that, the home stretch is in sight, but I think I need to mock it up properly in cardboard
I have a 3-day pass in the hopes of making it, but there’s a small chance I won’t be able to :/
This seems like a good place to note that if anyone was thinking about going but hasn’t bought a pass yet, I’m still selling a 3-day pass.
I,m gonna be there! That’ small that counts, right? Right?
Holy crap, those iPad spelling errors. I’m gonna leave it, because hilarious.
RIGHT! You don’t make me sad, cracked one!
Aren’t they just the worst?
I’ll be there just for an excuse to show off my shiny Pokémon.
That’s the perfect excuse to come to PAX, mr. “you don’t make me sad”!
Well I’m definitely going, otherwise I’d have wasted a lot of money for nothing.
That’s the spirit! Money = commitment! You also don’t make me sad!
I will be there with bells on.
Well, perhaps not actual bells, but I will be in cosplay!
Exciting! I hope the bells form your next cosplay idea! Woo, not making me sad!
I want to go so much. 🙁 It might still happen with me delaying things but I think I’ll be leaving Australia mid-october or earlier. 🙁
If you’re still in melbourne when it’s on, I’m sure someone will be able to get you a pass, even if it’s just for one day. There always seem to be spare passes going once it’s started.
I’ve got a 3-day pass booked. That’s the shitty thing.
🙁
I’ll be there to take creepy photos of women.
Like hundreds of others! GLORIOUS! Good work on not making me sad!
You have permission to be my official cosplay photographer.
How creepy?
I’ve got a couple of passes, but I’ve got a ton of stuff going on around the same time so I’m not sure if I’ll have enough time to do more than stick my head in, get some street passes then go home.
I won’t be going, past me couldn’t afford it so now unless I win passes ill try and see everyone by standing outside and looking in through the windows
@shane how do i know when the next match is?
The full fixture is available in this comment, the next round begins on Wednesday. Your match will be against the Hoth Shots, Rize and JacksonWRyan aka ScienceJayZ aka HermesandThoth.
Edit: In future updates I’ll have changed the team name, but for now look for Car-RazyGuys.
I know people were keen: The Luigi’s Mansion 2 diorama is available again in the Club Nintendo store for 5000 stars. http://stars.nintendo-europe.com/?price=desc
Get in quick!
Wait, what? It’s gone already? ARE YOU KIDDING ME??
Terrible decision time: Senran Kagura 2 3DS digital or physical? Wait for US on the 15th of September or grab this week?
Um, pathfinder and other tabletop people. I dunno if you know about this site
http://tabletopaudio.com/
It’s a whole bunch of ambiance music for tabletop RPGs.
Very nice find Scree. I’ll favourite this for future reference.
No problem. Found it on imgur and thought of you all.
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World – Thirty-fifth Session Recap (5th August 2015) starring:
– Blaghs aka @blaghman the tough Glaive who masters weaponry,
– Elandar Kintan aka @popdart5 the foolish Nano who controls gravity.
– Scrappa aka @tech_knight the mechanical Jack who talks to machines, and
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales.
On the bottom of the ocean floor, Scrappa, Zippa, Shonai, Elandar, and Blaghs stood inside an underwater fortress. A great maelstrom of coursed through the water above, creating a vicious tempest that had encircled the whaleboat and threatened the safety of the Deschn. Inside the fortress though, the party had uncovered an individual entombed in their heaving diving suit. The air hose had been severed and floated freely while heavy chains bound the body to the floor. Marine life surrounded the body and seemed to guard it as the person looked up at the group.
Read more at http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/.
@os42 Just noticed that the magic Remove the trending stories script stopped working.
I’ve been using Adblock Plus and its ‘block element’ option. Works for the Also on Kotaku and Trending Stories sections.
Yep, it’s no longer delivered asynchronously, but as part of the page proper. Makes hiding it much simpler – no messing around with DOM observers. It’s less obtrusive than it was, but I’m yet to see what it offers that the other two sections (the box on the right, and the bottom three lists) on the page don’t.
\o/
Thanks 😀
This “comics” thing is alright!
Bit expensive though and hard to get into (SO MANY THINGS)
Libraries, digital, subscription services, humble bundles.
eyepatch.
plenty of ways to get around the cost of physical comics
Perfect place to drop this. http://shanewsmith.com/shop/
Holy crap I just drove through the most ridiculous storm. Could barely see anything, even with wipers on max. And then there was the hail. Stuck doing 40 or less for the entirety of Victoria Road, and had to pretty much swim most of the way because the thing was just flooded. The road down the hill after it was more like a waterslide, would’ve been great with an inflated mattress or something.
The weather today has been pretty extreme. We haven’t had the worst of it, but there was still enough rain that the front door started flooding (again).
That’s so scary; I’m glad you made it home okay!
Most importantly, the car seems to be unscathed 😛
(also upvote for semicolon)
You think you had it bad! I accidentally left my kitchen window slightly open!
and now you have an indoor swimming pool?
No but the bench was a little bit damp. Had to wipe it up and everything.
TAY RPG Pathfinder completed for another night. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @negativezero @beeawwb
GM Summary: You completed the job, got paid, and are about to go and party. Life is good.
In addition, my apologies for a racist caricature of a town for Vinks. My mind kinda blanked tonight for my descriptions so I’m sorry about that.
I was only joking. Relax, guy.
Just kinda caught me off guard and I wanted to make sure it wasn’t an actual issue. Sorry about not getting the joke. My bad.
Classic Freeze <3
Thanks @kermitron for carrying me for the last 20 seconds of this weeks Nightfall. I’m having some live issues so I couldn’t say thanks myself lol.
No problem. I didn’t mean to abandon you either, maybe you didn’t hear me over the headset but you were welcome to rejoin us for another one. 🙂
Can’t sleep… wanted to watch Archer on Netflix, but too tired…
You should have let Archer keep you up all night.
Dad brought home a bunch of stuff, I think it belonged to a neighbour of my Uncle’s who had moved out. In there was a Nokia E71. Thought I’d give it a try, since I love me a button phone and I was curious about what was going on in this one especially with a full QWERTY pad. Good god I do not understand how people use (and swear by) it. I mean generally I use my thumbnail to push phone buttons, since my thumbs are so squishy. Couldn’t do that on here though, because the keys are so curved there’s only a tiny little area to properly press them. When feeling around with the pads of my thumbs it seems to make sense I guess, I can definitely feel how I’m not really touching the bumps on the surrounding keys when just feeling for the one. But it’s really hard to feel individual keys, and to figure out which one I’m trying to press when punching out a message. Feels more like I’m just randomly mashing the keyboard and hoping for the best.
Would rather stick with T9 😛
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone
That is amazing and I wish I had one.
I previously used an E71 for years, it was my last phone before getting an iPhone. You don’t actually end up typing with the pad of your thumbs, more with the tip near the nails. In fact I seem to remember more typing with my nail more than my actual finger but that may have just been me. It does have a slight learning curve to figure out what works best for you, but once you have it’s a great phone to type on.
Moni wont let me sleep she keeps trying to wrap herself around my head and her snores sound like dump trucks
#context … >_>
Moni is my 1yo puggle
Cute!
Woo, got a US$50 refund for my ebay thingo!
Holy crap that’s nearly AU70 now. I can live with that.
Oh hey, the $25 refund for the class action over deceptive advertising for the Vita came through.
Everything’s coming up Thrillho!
I’ve been toying with the idea of doing a super simple cosplay for PAX.
After all, Cyan is a truly fantastic and iconic character from a well known game that everyone will recognise. Right? Right?
I could even carry around a toy pug.
The only downside (aside from having to wear bright green pants) is the whole making the costume bit.
You have to make sure the pug lets out that sad little “Whaaaa” wail 😀
That may be slightly tricky.
Alright then… how are you at throwing your voice? Get cracking on the practice.
do eet
I just got out of the shower and now I’m reading TAY. I think I’ll go make a coffee.
On another note, I really should sort out my rail pass for Japan some time this afternoon. Since I’m going on, like, Sunday.
I swear I must have some kind of dyslexia the amount of words I misread/transpose.
I read that you needed to sort our your jail pass, and I was thinking “He does know the real world isn’t like Monopoly, right?”
Don’t tell me that I was gonna go for a walk around the block and collect $200
The last time I went round the block for $200 I got arrested for solicitation.
Hiyooo
That’s soon man, what’s Japan’s trip in aid of?
My health and happiness; I haven’t had a holiday in five years, basically since I started working my last job. There’s no work involved at all.
It’s a bit scary because I Don’t Know How To Holiday Properly but Japan’s pretty cool so I’m sure I’ll be OK
You’ve definitely earned it, how long are you in the Land of the Rising Sun for?
About a fortnight, all in Tokyo/Osaka.
JR Pass is very much worth getting arranged.
Have you been there before? If not, do you want a quick explanation on how to use the subways in Tokyo and Osaka (they work the same way)?
I have not been! I’ll take any wisdom you’re happy to share.
Subway is ridiculously easy.
When you go in, there will be a big board up showing the map of the subway. You need to know what station you’re going to. The further you travel, the more it costs. The subway map will have a cost to get to each station, starting at around 120 Yen for the neighbouring stations.
You basically go to the old-fashioned ticket machine and select the appropriate fare and then put your money in. Then you feed it through the ticket gate and you’re done. When you get to the other end, the machine will eat your ticket. This is normal.
The ticket machines generally have a button you can press to get it to swap the UI to English.
Also, if you’re not sure how far you’re going on the train, you can buy the lowest fare ticket, take the train to your destination, and then when you get to where you needed to go, there will be a ‘fare adjustment’ machine where you can put your ticket in and pay the difference.
If you’re going to make more than three trips involving more four or five stops, there’s usually an option to buy a day pass. This was around 10000-1200 Yen I think. You’ll use the subway for most of your transport in Osaka and Tokyo so it’s often worth it.
Note that this only covers the subway and metro rail stuff. There are other rail lines in both cities that are operated by different companies. JR runs some of them but not all of them – some have separate ticketing systems. Your JR pass (show them the pass and they’ll flag you through) will work for anything run by JR, but the subways are a different company.
In Osaka, the train network is easier to use I think because Osaka is largely laid out on a grid, and the subways run down the main roads north-south and east-west. Tokyo is much more convoluted and twisty. But it’s all very easy.
Places you should know:
– Osaka Aquarium (Kaiyuukan – make a note of that, more signs have that word than Aquarium) is at Osakako station on the Chuo line.
– Umeda is the big central station for Osaka. Many of the lines go through there. This is also where the giant Yodobayashi Camera is – want to buy electronics? That’s your go-to.
– Denden Town (Osaka’s Akihabara) is in Nipponbashi, in the south of Osaka. Ebisucho station, Sakaisuji line.
– Akihabara’s has two stations and you should pick the best one for where you’re coming from. Akihabara station on the Hibiya line, or Suehirocho on the Ginza line. Suehirocho is toward the top end of the main drag. Akiba station is central to a lot of stuff.
Other than that, it depends what you want to do as to what’s worth seeing. In Osaka I recommend going to the Umeda Sky Building as it’s quite impressive. Definitely do the aquarium. Osaka castle is very much worth doing as well, even if it’s only a replica of the original castle.
In Tokyo, you might want to go to some of the parks. Shinjuku park is pretty huge and worth a visit. Since you’re not doing Kyoto you might want to visit some of the historic areas like the Meiji shrine or out to Asakusa (which is also where Tokyo Skytree is). Tokyo Tower’s not as amazing as it was but still worth a go (our guide took us there from Daimon station, walking through a shrine that was on the way). Akiba’s obviously amazing. Ikebukuro also has some good shopping. We were a bit disappointed with Harajuku – back when Japan was ‘in’ it was ground zero for all the kitchy fashion stuff but it felt like it had fallen behind a bit. Might still appeal depending on company though. Make sure you do it right and get a crepe.
Protips:
– You don’t need to tip. Gratuity is added automatically along with tax to the bill. They will give you exact change. You must take it all, even the bloody useless 1 yen coins.
– Your hotel will happily take your rolls of 1y and 5y coins and change them to something less annoying
– ‘Nama beer’. This means ‘fresh’ or ‘raw’. Want a beer with your meal? This is what you want to order. Usually it’s Kirin or Asahi. Sometimes you’ll luck out and it’s Yebisu. If you’re in a place that has it, try Asahi Black.
– If you’re stuck looking for something to eat, there are three beef bowl (gyuudon) chains. Sukiya, Yoshinoya, Matsuya. Matsuya use a ticket system. Some people say this makes it harder but IMO it made it way easier – put your money in a machine, press what you want. It prints a ticket, which you give to the dude and he puts it together and brings it over. Easy. Low interaction. Hard to fuck up. Strongly, strongly recommend tamanegidon. It’s a beef bowl with a ton of spring onions and a raw egg. Crack the egg over and mix it through. The heat of the rice cooks the egg and adds an amazing flavor. Another option if you can’t see any gyuudon places is CoCo Ichibanya, which does Curry.
– If all else fails, McDonalds is around. But if you’re going for a burger I’d suggest trying Mos Burger first.
– You can buy booze from vending machines. Sometimes it’s not obvious that it’s alcohol. Be careful.
– Japan is amazing at hiding rubbish bins, especially since the place looks so clean. You will struggle to find a bin at first. Huge tip: wherever there is a vending machine, there is usually a bin right near it, you’ll just have to look hard.
Hope this is helpful.
That’s amazingly helpful! Although I don’t drink beer. It tastes like piss to me. Is it equally easy to get spirits or something civilised to go with my meal?
As for the food, I have no qualms trying everything and I already like a lot of Asian food; I think that’s probably going to be the most fun part of the trip.
I think I’m going to be rewatching a lot of anime/studying phrases in the coming days.
Some places may have sake, but it’s expensive. Most places have soft drinks (tip: ‘koora’, Cola, not coke!).
Whisky is pretty cheap over there and very good. I’m still kicking myself for not picking up a bottle of Hibiki at the airport. Duty free it was only around $50 AUD compared to the $100+ you pay locally.
Excellent.
Note: just tried to find office on Kent St to get JTB pass during lunch break. Failed spectacularly. Am now furious.
Every place and thing you just mentioned sounds straight out of an anime, i swear they could pass for characters names
What, like Yoshinoya? That’s definitely a real last name.
In fact there was a hillarious visual joke in one episode of Hidamari Sketch in which the characters are in class and the crazy art teacher (Yoshinoya) arrives and throws the door open and you’re expecting to see her but there’s a beef bowl there instead. I chortled.
It’s not uncommon for people’s surnames to be derived from place names either. Especially if you knock out the parts of names that are super-generic. You’d never see someone named Suehirochou, 末広町, because the ‘町’ (which means village) is used for villages not people. Suehiro is definitely a last name though – SWERY aka Hidetaka Suehiro (same kanji) is a pretty well-known game designer that mades wacky weird shit like Deadly Premonition and D4.
A lot of place names have very generic meanings if you look at the kanji. Osaka for example is literally ‘big harbor’. Hiroshima is ‘wide island’. Same goes for a lot of station names. This is basically the benefit of an ideographic written language I think. Having a bit of Japanese knowledge actually reveals details that aren’t immediately obvious. Toranomon station for example. My Dad had an apartment around there when I visited him years ago. He made it sound like Pteranodon. It’s actually Tora-no-mon. Tiger’s Gate. It was the site of one of the gates into Edo castle.
On the other hand, there are some places where the Kanji probably doesn’t have the meaning you expect. My dictionary tells me that the first character in Shibuya, 渋谷, means ‘to have diarrhea’. I’m sure that the place doesn’t mean Diarrhea Valley though. Or maybe it does (?)
Also I imagine a lot of those places sound like they’re straight out of an anime because they literally are.
My fiance was super excited to tell me last night that he bought a PSP for $50 on clearance. Like, he was adorably excited. So excited he dropped his PS Vita, hahaha.
Does he have a memory card for it?
The PSP? I’d say so. We used to have one years ago, that we sold or traded or gave away or some junk. I have a ton of UMDs that Sony would send as promos too.
Nice! Now he has a portable emulator. =P
Also known as a Final Fantasy VII: Crysis Core machine because GOD DAMN SQUARE WONT RELEASE CRYSIS CORE AS A DOWNLOADABLE TITLE FOR VITA BECAUSE THEH HATE MONEY AND BRINGING JOY TO PEOPLE!
Not that I’m bitter about it or anything
…
*cough*
FF7: Crysis Core?
MAXIMUM ANGST
Morning all! I’m writing a game dev blog.
http://thetiesthatbindvn.tumblr.com/
Currently working on an in-depth look at making choices in games.
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*Hands highperformance a H*
I think you dropped this
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Hello TAYbes. My good friend @blackdahlianz and myself are deciding on whether to go to PAX on Saturday or Sunday, Which do you think would be better?
*Prepares for onslaught of “por que no los dos?”*
Probably Saturday since there’s events going on for longer throughout the day (i.e. past when the closing ceremony time is on Sunday?). Sunday you’d perhaps get more “finals” of things though if you enjoy watching those.
Saturday!
Sunday is a much shorter day, you will have taybie flying out and leaving early
Plus if you do Sat you can just follow the group and head to the after party
POR QUE NO LOS-…damn it.
Saturday, you can come to the meat afterwards too if you come on Saturday
This was what I was thinking, I wasn’t sure if I was travelling for work when yourself and Scree were advertising it in the first instance but I’d like to come hang out for a while!
You know you’re always welcome, you’re a great human to have around 🙂
Saturday. Then Pax meat!
Saturday. Sunday stops at 5pm where Saturday goes 10pm to Midnight basically. Usually more events on on Saturday as well.
Yes
Tickets bought man, gonna be gooey!!
For the TAY parents:
The latest Humble Mobile Bundle seems to be a whole bunch of kids games. No idea if they’re good or not, but worth looking in to.
Neverending Nightmares sounds like a great kids game.
Happy birthday @NovaCascade!
It’s a weird combination of curiosity and disappointment that is making me read up on all this Ashley Madison stuff. At this point the majority of disappointment is stemming from the comments people are putting that amount to “Serves you right”.
Let’s pretend for a moment that there is only men and women on the site that are in relationships and looking to cheat. We’ll ignore the cries of “I was curious but never did anything” or “I’m actually/used to be single”.
Does that mean we should vilify said people?
Undoubtedly a number of people on the site (purely an assumption: majority?) would be looking for a supposedly secretive way to cheat on their partners, and that is not something most people (myself included) agree with in the slightest…but what about the people who have made a big mistake and have just been made aware how brainless/insensitive/irrational their decision was (whether their attempts succeeded or not)? Should they be stamped with a “Scum of the Earth” label and thrown to the public?
Feel free to tell me how you’ve never screwed up badly in a relationship.
I’m not personally affect by the hack, directly or indirectly, and I’ve been lucky enough to never have been cheated on/done the cheating, but I’m sure as hell not in a position to judge anyone involved.
I do have a degree of sympathy for a lot of the people who’ve been implicated in the hack.
There are any number of reasons to cheat on someone, and whilst many outwardly describe it as a deplorable act I’m not sure whether having it plastered on the Internet is particularly fair.
Speaking from the experience of someone whom has been cheated on a number of times; whilst I was absolutely devastated to find out it was happening, I know in hindsight that in those particular relationships I wasn’t making my partners happy and at the end of the day your own happiness is paramount. Ruining someones family because of the sexual fantasy of someone who signed up to the website you’re trying to bring down I don’t think is particularly fair.
It really looks like it’s set to really exacerbate the issue to an insane degree, making a crappy situation so much worse…or creating an issue were there was none.
I take a huge issue with the fact that details such as full email addresses and credit card details were published, essentially doxxing a large number of people, potentially causing more harm to those people than the aspect of “cheating” on their partners.
Most “proper” (I don’t know how better to define the term…) hackers will censor this kind of stuff. Take a look at the Sony hacks. Everything single bit of personal information (email addresses etc) was censored in some way. The Snapchat hack had the full phone numbers masked.
I totally agree. The way the data has been handled (including by Avid before and after the hack) has been careless at best and outright malicious from some sources.
I was actually just reading an article that confirmed at least 2 people have committed suicide over it in Canada.
People are quick to defend their own privacy, but when it comes to a question of “morality” it becomes a witch hunt. The hypocrisy is ridiculous.
Someone on my Facebook made this point about the internet’s general reaction, just to stir shit:
“Are the Ashley Madison hack victims entitled to their privacy like the victims of the fappening, or should they have expected that something like this might happen, like the victims of the fappening?”
The person who posted it didn’t actually take a stance, but people who read it were very quick to defend their positions: “oh but the celebs whose photos got leaked were innocent, did nothing wrong” etc. whereas “cheaters are scum and deserve to be exposed”.
People who sign up for a dating website specifically encouraging infidelity might be morally questionable, but it doesn’t make it any more morally right to steal their information.
Best article I’ve read in regards to this issue.
People are entitled to privacy and the running/ruining of their own lives. I think that cheaters deserve to be caught, but that’s a matter for them and their affected spouse, not the entire planet to look on and cast judgement.
Aaaaaand tickets to see Nick Offerman & Megan Mullally when they tour next year…. purchased.
They’re… Comedians right?
Also Ron Swanson & Tammy2 from Parks & Rec.
Yeah, I’m jelly now.
Woo, I got mine too. For Melbourne though. Not for wherever yours are for, I bet.
Yaaaaaay, tickets.
Sorry if this is old news, but this is for all the Grandia fans here.
Grandia II Anniversary Edition popped up yesterday (or maybe today given the time difference) on GoG.com.
Might say more later but judging from the GoG trailer, it’s basically the DC version with a hard mode, Japanese and English voice cast.
In terms of the enhanced visuals, having played the PC version I think they cheaped out and left the textures as before and just added more resolution options.
From memory, I think the PC version ran at 800 by 600 or higher but it has been a long time.
The old PC port was godawful though so this one being based off the Dreamcast version is already superior.
Grandia II is one of my favourite JRPGs. Worried that some of that is rose-tinted vision though.
I keep hearing that but my experience was fine.
The only problem I had was with the FMVs, both during battle and the store cut scenes.
For some reason, the version of my then nVidia drivers played havoc on the cut scenes.
One time, the colours were reversed like a negative, the next version I got a double image like the SBS mode on 3D displays, and the version after played the sound and no image.
The FMVs overlaid on the battles always worked but I found later when I got the DC version they were cut down in size which was odd as the game came on two CDs which is around the capacity of the data track on a DC GD-ROM.
Eventually I put the game down and when I came back two years later it worked fine. And according to some sites, even this new port has some bugs.
But what about you though? Did you ever experience the PC version?
Only briefly but never spent a lot of time with it. I had it on Dreamcast and that was the best version at the time by far. The old PC version was a port of the PS2 release which was slightly inferior.
This release fixes my biggest gripe though: no more crap English dub. I cannot stand Cam Clarke.
EDIT: FWIW I actually still own it on Dreamcast. I used to replay it every few years. But my Dreamcast has a problem where it spontaneously reboots every few minutes now so I haven’t been able to play for a while.
Cannot stand Cam Clarke?
HAVE AT THEE, NEG
cc@jimuI just can’t get past the fact he always sounds exactly the same in every role I remember him in, right back to Denver the Last Dinosaur.
EDIT: By the way, this means that whenever I hear Cam Clarke, what I hear is one of the kids from Denver The Last Dinosaur because that was my earliest encounter with his voice. And that ruins everything.
That’s typical for most voice actors.
Only the minority have wide ranging voices. The best of them all in my opinion, Mel Blanc and close behind him, Robin Williams.
It’s not really typical for those as high profile as him to have as little range as he does. I can pick him out every single time I hear him. Most that are cast as often as he is have enough range they can put on a ton of different voices.
I guess he’s better than the Really-excited-to-read-you-the-ingredients-list-on-this-can-of-soup dub actors common in anime though. But given a choice, give me the JP dialogue any day of the week. There’s only very rare cases where that’s not the best option.
You and @negativezero should watch the doco “I know that voice-” has a lot of interviews with voice actors talking about the profession, the history, how they started.
@redartifice: saw it a while back and it’s pretty good.
Cam Clarke isn’t in it. 😛 Or if he was I blocked him out.
Sounds like Leonardo in Grandia II, so I liked it.
HAVE AT THEEEEE, @REDARTIFICE
You sure? One of the key give aways is the PS2 had a different opening cinematic. The opening on the PC was identical to the Dreamcast.
Oooooooh! Them’s fighting words, bucko! “Ninja’ fighting words to be precise, 😛
Jokes aside, can’t you get your DC fixed? Sounds like power issue so maybe replacing the PSU will resurrect the little champ.
The only issue with mine is the drive is so laud everyone within 100 kilometres knows I have it turned on.
I think it’s actually caused by a faulty switch in the lid. It needs a new laser though as well – encounters disc read errors a lot so eg you’ll be playing Soul Calibur and textures will fail to load, or the music will cut out (it was streamed off the GD-ROM). Skies of Arcadia is unplayable – I’ve never finished it because of the read error issue. They didn’t think to add some error checking so you or a boss will do a special attack, it’ll disable the menus and zoom in on the character then go to load the animation off the disc and the read will fail, and then the whole game just sits there with the character in a combat stance and the only thing you can do is reset the game. 🙁
Hi,
My name is Cakesmith and I’ve never played a Metal Gear Solid game.
Bad human.
*Chorus*
Hi Cakesmith.
It’s okay, this is a forgivi- *gets kicked by an angry horde*
YOU SUCK CAKESMITH, YOU SUCK!
Hi Cakesmith
You’re among friends here, and just know that we all love you as a person, we just disagree with some of your life choices at the moment, like your life choice to not play Metal Gear Solid because what the fuck is wrong with you you idiot it’s-
I’m sorry, I said I wouldn’t get angry. We just want you to know that your choices are hurting others around you.
Hey me neither.
Actually wait that’s a lie.
I grabbed the demo of MGS3 on 3DS and had a go of that. And didn’t think much of it before shutting it off and doing something else 😛
*chokes on breakfast*
WHAT!?
Hi,
My name is Rize and I’ve never played a Metal Gear Solid game.
*spits coffee*
WHAT!?
I’m a fan of MGS but I’ve only played Rising and Ground Zeroes.
Hi,
My name is Highperformance and I’ve never played a Metal Gear Solid Game, I thought I had but it turns out it was Metal Slug.
This is my favourite response.
Er, that’s the norm. You don’t plays those games. You watch them and wait for the interactive content.
Jokes aside, I too have never played an MGS “game”, mostly because the stealth genre is not my cup of tea.
Hey, this makes for a pretty cool game. I’m obviously exaggerating my responses but I’m sure everyone here could say that haven’t played such and such and everyone would act all surprised. I mean, I call myself a Star Wars fan but I’ve never played.. a Star Wars game.
Just kidding, what I meant was I’ve never played KOTOR.
Hi,
My name is Sunsoar and last night I just ordered the HD Collection off eBay.
I only ever played Metal Gear Solid sometime in 1999 and I’ve had MGSIV on my shelf for the last 4 years.
I only just realised I actually own a whole bunch of MGS games. I’ve had a copy of Twin Snakes that’s been sitting on my shelf for about a decade now, still unplayed. And Shane had a PC copy of MGS2 in his box of stuff he left at Blagh’s the first time I tagged along, which I thought hey I should grab that. And then at some point (which I keep forgetting ever happened) a guy I knew was selling an AU-stickered copy of Twin Snakes so I grabbed that off him, only to find that it didn’t have a manual with it. Also it came with PS2 copies of MGS2 and 3, and a strategy guide for 3. Even though I don’t have a PS2. So that’s hidden somewhere in my room now too.
Also there’s Revengeance which I picked up recently, not sure if MGR counts as MGS though. But hey why not.
I’ve always wanted to play twin snakes, because MGS was much more limited by its technology than the rest of the series
Well hey, if you like I’d be more than happy to send it over for you to play 😛
Don’t have a gamecube, and I replayed the PSone game relatively recently, but thanks for the offer
Personally prefer the simplicity of the controls in 1. I barely touch the extra moves outside of points I have to, i the sequels.
Care to sell the AU copy of Twin Snakes?
If anything I’d be more inclined to sell the EU one. Though first I need to get a UKV manual for the “AU” one. But then it’s in slightly worse shape than the EU one. But then…
Suffice to say it’s something I’ve been pondering for a while but am yet to be able to make a decision on 😛
Both copies should work on my AU first gen Wii I’m guessing?
Yep, no trouble.s You could even get a US (or JP I guess) version running through Wii homebrew, which is very easy to set up if you don’t have it already.
I’ve played all of MGS, MGS:2 and about half of MGS: 3 When I tell people that I didn’t really like MGS 3 and enjoyed MGS 2 they start yelling angrily and saying I don’t deserve to have an opinion so I just avoid all MGS talk.
Well, except for this obviously. =P
MGS2 is my favourite.
Good taste
Hi
my name is Pixel and I have played a Metal Gear Solid game.
Nor do I even know what they’re about except for a guy with a beard.
Hi Cakesmith. Let us embrace in our ‘never played a Metal Gear Solid game’ similarities
Okay, let me divert the lynch mob!
My name is NegativeZero and I’ve played most Metal Gear Solid games and think they’re shit.
Hi,
My name is os42, and I’ve never played a Metal Gear Solid game. I did, however, play the shit out of Revengeance, even though I had no idea what was going on.
Do what I plan to do, sit down a week before phantom pain drops and play the MGS legacy collection. Yup.
What? It comes out next week? Your kidding right?
Welp MGS was fun I played it in my mind because no god damn way is it getting precedent over ROOOOOCCCCKKKKEEEEEETTTTT LLLLEEEEEAAAAGGGGUUUUEEEE
Start with 4, that’ll be confusing! 😀
Game Design Brief #1: Making Choices Matter
http://thetiesthatbindvn.tumblr.com/post/127519666061/design-brief-1-making-choices-matter
Let me know what you think! Happy to enter into as robust a discussion as you like.
Well, the obvious one is The Witcher 2, where you can choose a faction early on and it closes off a bunch of the game, and the payoff from some choices is delayed.
We need to get you into a tabletop RPG at some point too, where narrative depends highly on players. You may want to poke around gnome stew: http://www.gnomestew.com/ which is system neutral, and I recommend the narrative work by Robin Laws: http://robin-d-laws.blogspot.com.au/. The latter especially is a dude who has done a lot of thought on narratives in games and how to engage players in roles, which is essentially what you’re asking players to do.
There are some games as well that really, really enforce a certain role on you. Sagas of the Icelanders actually has key mechanical differences between playing as a man and a woman in Viking-era Iceland. Of course, how this works in gameplay can be a little restrictive at times as the game essentially tells you that ‘you can’t do X because you’re a man/woman’, which is completely at odds with the far more open choices and roles in most RPGs. The roleplaying part of RPGs encourages players to act out a certain role but unfortunately some games don’t help or aid players in this at all.
Edit: Completely missed that Robin Laws worked on Feng Shui. That is a great game for encouraging crazy Hong Kong action cinema mixed in with east Asian supernatural themes and general wushu genre stuff.
I never really think about the story in games much, so that was an interesting read. Also well written, I haven’t played any of those games but could still follow along just fine 😛
I like the idea of putting more focus on the little decisions you make having an actual impact, but it’s a fine line between making that an awesome addition to the narrative and making players feel like they’re being punished for something they did 3 hours of gameplay ago.
[Shane will remember that]
OH GOD, RELOAD, RELOAD.
That whole ‘X will remember that’ thing kinda takes me out of the moment in Telltale games. I prefer to not have the big flashing sign that says that I just made a decision that will impact the narrative. I much prefer the Witcher games in that regard as it’s never quite as clear what will change the story and what is merely a minor narrative point. Makes it much more interesting when you finally connect the dots and have the face the consequences of a decision that you didn’t even know was a decision.
You can turn off that prompt which makes it much better.
I agree with this, but I also like seeing it, because it reassures me that the things I’m doing will have an impact later on. Also, immediate guilt! 😀
I really appreciate that notification in games like Life Is Strange, because I know that’s my last warning to go back and undo what I’ve just done 😛
That said, my game won’t have those. *nods*
All y’all who haven’t played Metal Gear Solid should just grab Metal Gear Solid 3 and play it as a Tay game club. Most friendly entry point these days and leads into Ground Zeroes with probably the least set-up (Though Peace Walker is the direct game before it, it’s atypical because it was PSP first)
How necessary is Peace Walker to the story? I’ve played MGS1-4, but got no further.
not suuuuper necessary. Played Ground Zeroes?
Minor spoilers;
Establishes Outer Haven, explains who the two POWs are in GZ, Big Boss meets and recruits Otacon’s father who’s in a wheelchair, Snake finds that the baddies (a CIA faction) have created an AI based in part on The Boss which you fight a number of times. There’s probably 3 characters that will come back- Amanda, who’s Chico’s (the kid in GZ) older sister and a Sandinista leader, Emmerich (obviously), and Miller. Beyond that it’s fairly self contained, but a lot of the base and tech management sounds like it’s coming from hereNope. Not yet. I didn’t want to play it until I’d played Peace Walker 😛
If you only want to play one before V comes out, play GZ over peace walker, it establishes up front everything you need to know to enjoy it as a self contained thing.
Thanks!
Just remembered that I had a plan already. I’ve got all the games – I’m just gonna play them through, right from the start. Am about 90 minutes into MGS right now. 🙂
When I replayed it, Shadow Moses was a lot smaller than I remembered.
No wonder it was like 3 areas in MGS 4Working with a concussion blows.
Me no email read gud.
why the fuck are you working with a concussion?
I should have prefaced it to say I originally was knocked out on Sunday, I’m back at work today lol.
@redartifice I finished The Martian. Thanks for the rec! It was a pretty great read.
Glad you enjoyed it- I was late to the party on it myself, but I had to finish it before the film which looks really exciting
I saw the trailer today. Man, it looks like they’ve done a decent job of it. And it seems like they’re not shying away from the maths and science as much as I’d assumed they would \o/
Hey @beeawwb, I made bacon-wrapped chicken last night which was delicious but @alexpants died of a heart attack so…
Thanks.
My work here is done. \o/
It was worth it.
Atleast you get all his stuff now.
Hi guys wonder if anyone here can quickly explain an issue I’m having;
Moved into another house on weekend (I hate boxes!) ADSL2+ connected but speeds slow down during peak periods.
This happened at my last place until I repeatedly rang Bigpond (only decent ISP in town unfortunately) and after two weeks was eventually returned to normal so that I had uninterrupted service with no change of download speed.
Since moving we’re again getting the same thing at this place. Speeds are OK at 5am but dial up speed during day or evening.
Probably an easy explanation but any advice would be welcome so next time I ring up Bigpond I can skip past eight Indians and explain the issue to a techie direct.
Is it possible to see your line speeds via the Telstra website/portal? I’m able to with Adam Internet and it’s really handy in allowing me to determine if my issues are internally (my problem – faulty hardware, for example) or externally (exchange, outside line issues) related.
I’m not a techie, sorry, but I’ve seen this before in places. It might just be that the crappy old copper wiring isn’t able to handle the data that you and your neighbours are all trying to access simultaneously.
At 5am, it’s just you. At 5pm, it’s everybody else as well, crowding the line.
Just a theory, and could be well wrong, especially if Bigpond can sort you out after just one phone call! :\
The way it’s supposed to work is that each connection on ADSL uses a different frequency band on the line, but yeah, the more that’s coming down the line, the more cross-talk there is and the less throughput due to low signal-to-noise ratios. However poor wiring, poorly insulated pits and so on can make the signal loss much worse.
It’s almost like we should replace this 1950s copper wire technology with something modern that can cope with our current needs. Perhaps we could run fiber down the same ducts and wire up every home on fast fiber.
🙁
Sounds like line noise. Probably someone else in a different house combining with a poorly insulated line.
However it could be something in your place as well, so…
http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/isolation_test
Make sure it’s not you. If you have someone out to look at the line and the problem is your house or equipment, they’ll charge you.
Do you have a plain old telephone? If you plug it into the socket (with a filter, naturally) do you hear any audible noise? If so, then Telstra’s required to come out and look at the line ASAP.
Thanks guys. Done a few tests and it sounds like a crowded exchange. 🙁
Don’t have a crappy old home phone sorry (what are they!? haha) but my end looks all good. Telstra issue that they have “escalated”.
Like you said @shane, 5am it’s all good but after work/school when everyone is downloading Ep 1 of Fear the Walking Dead it slows to dial up. Telstra agree it’s unacceptable for ADSL2+ when you are paying for your own line so I’ll wait and see. It seemed to get sorted at my old place. I picture a Telstra guy driving to the exchange and flicking a switch. 😛
I’m going to suggest we replace copper wire with some form of more modern element such as string.
Hurry up FTTP!
You’re probably not aware of how close to the mark you are. It’s usually a software switch 😛
There’s often multiple physical lines running through your pit. Tech will often just swap you from one to the other, see if it fixes it and hopefully shuts you up.
Hope it’s not like the last place I had that was on ADSL. We had some faulty wiring somewhere between the street and the house – I isolated the house and it was fine. It caused periodic noise which would cause the speed to slowly drop to a trickle over time and never improve.
There was either no pit, or the pit had been buried somewhere and lost. Most likely the cable had been run from the house straight to the street without a pit. 🙁 Telstra couldn’t fix the fault.
No way, that would be it for me. I’d move haha!! The wife would not allow our house to not receive Netflix or Hulu for her binge trash TV viewing.
But then moving again,………………..the boxes………………….OH THE BOXES!!!!! No, NO make them STOP!!
*wakes up this morning in a pool of sweat*
I moved. 🙂 Current place has Telstra cable. Aside from a blip for a few weeks when they ‘upgraded’ the infrastructure and caused massive packet loss during peak times, it’s very fast. Generally sync > 100mbit.
Wow. Living the dream!
Amazingly I’m looking at a move to the US soon and the broadband I can get in my unit in Melbourne is faster than they offer in Seattle. 🙁
So, I’ve been trying to take apart my Logitech Attack 3, as one of the buttons is sticking and it’s made me realize that I love tinkering with electronics/computers.
I already have a Cert II in Computer Assembly & Repair, as well as a Cert III in Technical Production, so I think this area might be a good step forward for me.
Awesome – any opportunities around near you at the moment?
Well, I’m already doing some volunteering at the moment, and I’m not sure where to go from there, honestly…
I was wanting to get a degree in Graphic Design, so there’s that as well…
I have seen you post a few times about taking apart and fixing stuff!
When one of the buttons stick, does that mean that there’s something sticky doing that or the button is in the wrong place?
When I press the button, it stays depressed and doesn’t release.
I’ve ended up just throwing the joystick out.
🙁
How much does a Cert II in Computer Assembly & Repair cover?
Basic computer building and repairs , how to set up a network, how to build a computer from scratch.
All things I could potentially say that I self taught a long time ago – I was curious if there’s anything specifically covered by a certification like the ‘right’ way to diagnose issues, fixing physical faults beyond swapping parts, anything Linux related?
How much is theory and how much is a range of operating systems when it comes to things like networks?
From what I remember, it was about 50/50.
@zambayoshi your post on the jb article about itinerant sign writers reminded me of this: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-74-hand-painted-signs/
You were pretty close to the mark 🙂
I remember reading Let The Great World Spin, in which there is a character called Gloria, whose father was a sign painter. Before printing took off there was a living to be made in painting signs and stuff. One of those things that has disappeared with progress…
Should’ve added another thing to the fears thread – job applications.
Bleh bleh bleh. Bleh.
You mean the interview part and not the written application itself?
First one, then the other.
A certain song just started playing on Pandora that reminded me that @mrtaco is everyone’s Turbo Lover.
It’s far from their best work but I actually really enjoy that era of Priest.
Upvoting posts in new mobile Tay causes my phone to almost die.
It’s doing the same to my work PC.
Upvoting in Chrome takes several seconds.
Numbers don’t change immediately either, and I can’t click the numbers to see who upvoted/downvoted.
I never could on mobile, so everyone is just being brought down to my level.
Muhuhahahahaha…
Nearly finished first day back at work. I am completely wiped. Bed seems like the greatest idea ever at the moment.
Speaking to my O.T buddy around recovery times when coming back to work, she’s of the volition that it’ll be around 6-8 shifts before you’re feeling something approaching your normal level of energy after work. Definitely have an early night, none of this 11pm TAY stuff!!
I was shattered for my first few days back at work after having my eye done, I can’t imagine how tired you must be after recovering from a stroke and everything else.
It is a good idea. Either have a short nap when you get home, or just go to bed early. Sleep is good for you.
After all the shit you have to deal with at work, I would have thought it would be a positive at the end of the day for you to be completely wiped.
#EveryPageIsPageSix
Sure is!
I used to own my own balloon company but I couldn’t keep up with inflation.
Welp, here goes nothing. Wish me luck I guess.
Break a leg!
Well, this is in my head now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1idJ-dkhXg
@blaghman
Is this when I admit I’ve never seen The Producers?
I know most of the songs, but never seen the whole thing…
I’m not mad…or disappointed. More, surprised.
You should watch it.
I really need to re-watch it…
You should definitely watch it!
Its great live. Film lacked a bit of the pep
Yeah, from memory my parents were disappointed by the film version (though my memory’s fickle, it may have been a live one) and so I just never bothered with it.
So, how’d your thing go!?
(is this that interview you thought was last week? :P)
Alright I guess. And yes 😛
Thought I’d chuck out a PSA for RockeTAY.
Has everyone played their first round yet? If not, you’re almost out of time, and if so, make sure you upload your results to the comp page!
I was going to post a reminder, but I’m actually in one of the teams who haven’t played their first match yet..
Our game is the deadline game because my net fudged the original timeslot, that being said if we lucky we can get two games knocked out in one night \o/ who we playing for week 2?
Benny+FatShadyLive! I think FatShady is only really free later at night, so we might get lucky.
Fingers crossed, granted im always on rocket league
Actually had this happen in our match. My ping jumped as we started and sat at 600ms for halfa and had a couple of drop outs. Thankfully it sorted itself out quickly and we eventually got to play properly.
Yeah mine didn’t do that had to get a telstra technician out and turns out the aux cable in the pit was over 10 years old and rusted to the shit
We’ll get there eventually.
Tomorrow night, hopefully.
http://trendom.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/r9TptTb.gif
Little disappointed in the media currently. Not one mention of the term Analgate or #qanal.
…
…
…*googles*
WHY
Because while the pollies are getting their knickers knotted over it, the rest of us find it mildly amusing.
Got an email from my sister in law “[my brother] is out of surgery and doing well. Hopefully we’ll be out of the hospital soon”.
Well, that’s good to hear.
…
……what happened?
Well the last message I got was that was to do with my nephew being born.
So I think the most likely scenario is that your brother has just given birth
@alexpants @powalen @greenius @sernobulus @freezespreston
^ These are the people I’ve got marked down who were looking at a way to get to Canberra for Can’d Meat 3.0: The Blaghsening. Is this still correct?
Should be, I still need to organise some kind of accomodation for Friday night.
Wait, we’re not heading down Friday like last time?
That was going to be my next question
I was under the impression we were heading down early Saturday morning and heading back to Sydney early Sunday afternoon. That’s what I’ve already told Greenius to plan around.
If that isn’t going to work for you then we can make our own way down?
Do you have something against going down the Friday night? Freeze and I did it a couple of years back. Leave Sydney 7-7:30. Get to Canberra about midnight after pitstops for caffeinated beverages and donuts.
Just wouldn’t really want to, to be honest. I prefer a morning trip.
But yeah, like I said if you guys want to go Friday night then I don’t have a problem with that. We have enough people that splitting between two cars/times isn’t too big of a deal.
Just uh… don’t leave me 😛
Greenius! I’m driving up from Melbourne by the way 😛
Thought you couldn’t get leave? Anyhoo, I’ll be flying up to Sydney for work anyway so the timing just worked out well 😀
Yes for me, Pants and Greenius.
@scree I read you’re second script & it’s on track to perfection!
Obviously it isn’t there yet but I like what you’re doing.
Sorry for this late reply but I keep getting sidetracked by travel preparation :-/
How dare you? That’s fine. I’m still writing it anyway.
When would you like the next iteration then?
That went well I think? I made it through the first round somehow, couldn’t believe it. Not sure how the one-on-one went, but I guess we’ll see.
Too much train trip to go. I’m hungry.
Hooray! Good luck, when do you find out? \o/
I think training stuff is supposed to happen on the 3rd. So by then I guess 😛
For any Arkham PC players…
http://imgur.com/gallery/xSP1tnU
This reminded me of a dream I had last night. I had a kindly mole/rat/hamster following me around the house whilst I was eating a cookie.
Then my parents scoop it up and throw it in the oven, and I’m horrified.
Fantastic
Oh god, there’s a 30 hour delivery (in game time) in Euro Truck Simulator 2… and there’s no ferry…
😀
I played that game once. Drove for a bit, crashed into a few cars waiting at lights and parked on the side of the road then rolled my truck on a roundabout.
Good times.
Heh, Kirby’s Dream Blanket is up on the Club Nintendo store if anyone needs an adorable blanket.
That is a very cute blankie!
I don’t know where the hell the points are meant to come from at this stage.
I bought all the bargain bin games I wanted like a year ago. I can’t claim multiple copies on my account, and there’s nothing else I can buy to get more points.
Yeah, it’s completely shit at this point =/
Ooh, I like the blanket and the Zelda carry case. I have 100 stars. Blergh.
I’ve got 5250 stars and no real desire for any of this stuff. I’m holding out until the end just in case, but it’s looking like I’ll blow them on digital content so if you see anything you want me to get for you just yell out.
Offer is greatly appreciated, thank you.
Think I’ll just remain in my no-star balance coccoon that keeps me safe from ‘where the hell do I put this stuff that I didn’t need’
RockeTAY League
Round 2 here we go!
This week’s matches are:
HOTH SHOTS v CARSENAL!
CUNNING ARTIFICERS v WRECK-A-MENDED
STEEL CUT STROKES v FINISHEDBLAGHMAN
GOALDUST v BENNY+FATSHADYLIVE
GINGERCOOKIES v BATDIPPAS
If you haven’t finished up your match from round 1, which is definitely not me, try to get to that one first. Also, it looks like the website requires you to input scores for all three games, even if you only played two, so just play all three regardless of whether one team already won the round.
The full fixture is available in this comment.
@redartifice @tigerion @benny @fatshadylive @zetrox2k @shane @phoenix @cakesmith@coldcamv @markserrels @freezespreston @jacksonwryan @rize @finishedlast @blaghman @cookingmama @gingerchris86 @batguy @alexwalker
So many quality team names *sheds a tear*
People have only being playing two games? We one the first two but why not play the third? It’s a fun game and gives the other team a chance to get one up…
Also a chance to fix your for and against since that could make a difference in the long run.
We ended up playing additional games but didn’t keep track of them. Hadn’t realised that there was for / against tracking. Oh well hopefully it doesn’t come back to bite us
Maybe it’s because I’m hopelessly juvenile, but I’m still disappointed my teamname is BATDIPPAS and not DIPPABATS.
No, that’s all I’ve got.
Well personally I like the one you went with as it sounds like it could be an action or description of your hobbies. Dippabats sounds like an odd species of unco flying mammals.
Probably not an inaccurate statement about at least one of the team members
OMG @batguy, did you hear what Dippa said about you 😉
@batguy is going to carry the hell out of me, don’t worry.
And it also gives Rize a chance to put me on his shoulders for a third time and carry the team, which I love.
IT WAS LESS GOOD FROM THE OTHER SIDE, LET ME TELL YOU.
My ping was hovering around 200. Sometimes I was like “oh man I am going to slam this ball into the goal” and I’d find myself upside down on the roof.
It’s okay, Rize is pretty short so he can’t carry people that high anyway.
They’re so low to the ground I could market myself as a hoverboard.
AMEN TO THAT. After the first match I thought “ok, that wasn’t so baaa…….oh dear god what happened?”
Sweet!
@Rize @shane & sciencejayz – Hows Thursday 7:30pm ? feel free to make any suggestions. this week is a little full on as im unavailable today and sat & sun and monday im away! so any other day is fine i guess? not fussed time wise, as long as its after 6:30pm, which gives me time to get home from work and change!
@jacksonwryan @rize @zetrox2k I’d probably prefer later at night, around 9:30 or 10pm if possible (though can potentially shuffle things around if necessary). Thurs (tomorrow) suits just fine, as do most nights.
time is no issue for me! lets see with the others!
Should be right for 9:30pm tomorrow night.
That’s about 9pm in my language, I believe, and that *should* be okay for me too. It’s probably the best time I will have until late this weekend. I will keep you posted but for now, lock that in.
@zetrox2k @shane @rize@rize @jacksonwryan
PREPARE FOR THE DE-THRONE’ING!
…and some mild, loud and colourful language which i will hold back on in case @shane , or anyone elses kids are spectating….That’s fine, you can have the chair.
But I’ll be keeping the goal.
Nice shot!
cARSEnal. Gotta live up to the name, after all.
My kids will be asleep.
cARSEnal – Shoving the ball where it fits…
The Goals..@redartifice @tigerion
PREPARE TO GET WRECK…amended a nice place to go out to dinner Saturday night!
BRING IT!!!!!!!
I hope it has candlelightThat moment when you’re casually catching up on some TAY on your phone and realise your joining that teleconference 10 minutes late…
Now I don’t know what they’re talking about.
I blame the meeting organiser for changing the meeting time 90 mins before it started.
Has anyone watched this MGS trailer, yet?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/08/the-new-metal-gear-trailer-sounds-like-kojima-saying-goodbye/
If so, how spoilery is the “second half”?
Not sure if I missed something, but it relates to Metal Gear, as in… it being… different? Not sure how else to put it. I didn’t see anything that would ruin my day, and it’s a launch trailer, so doubt they’d ruin the ending for you.
EDIT: Disclaimer if you watch it and I completely missed something and it ruins it for you though.
I didn’t find it spoilery. The second half is one simple scene with no dialogue that features Snake and a Metal Gear machine that’s a bit different from the MGs in other games.
If you’re hyper cautious and want the Metal Gear reveal to be a surprise, avoid. If you’re just wary about character/story spoilers, there are none to be found here.
All I’m gonna say is, Snake is suspiciously quiet all through that trailer.
*praises Kojima*
This so much. #TRUEBELIEVERS
SHADOW MOSES WAS AN INSIDE JOB
KONAMI SOUNDS LIKE ILLUMINATI COINCIDENCE?
For real, but…
What are we gonna do if he’s not in it?
Drink the poison cordial?
You have DOUBT…!
I CAST THEE OUT
Seriously, though, if it happens that way, I’ll be very disappointed.
Hey @greenius, @alexpants and I are going to hire a sports car to drive down to Canberra. You okay to catch the bus?
Well the last lot of cooking inspiration you lot provided was absolutely useless
Mrs Tigs ended up staying home so it was boring old bland stuffHowever you have a chance a redemption, she is out tonight so it’s just Tiglet and me for dinner tonight. I need some new inspiration and this time I have something a little more interesting. WTH do I do with salmon tails. Got a good price at the market so grabbed them but no idea what i should do with them.
Hit me with your tasty salmon recipes
1. Roast, pick the flesh and make a warm salmon and potato salad with a green goddess dressing.
2. Cook up the tails whole to make a salmon stock, and then use that to make soup
3. Cook the tails, pick the flesh and make salmon + rice balls with sushi rice & Japanese rice seasoning (called furikake)
Number 3 is pretty good, but…oh man. That number 1 choice.
*drools*
So with 3 just form the balls and serve or do you then need to cook them?
No, you just have them cold like sushi. It’s a home made version of onigiri sushi.
This is a similar recipe. http://pinchandswirl.com/2012/04/brown-rice-sushi-balls/
Well I don’t have any furikake and can’t get out to buy some so will have to try that another day.
However you did lead me down an interesting rabbit hole so now the plan is oven baked teriyaki salmon
A good 2/3rds of the recipes I know are salads, so:
Spuds (the little ones), beans, mint, basil, lemon.
Cook the spuds and salmon together for what feels like an appropriate time (I find that 200ish fan forced for 20-30 minutes works a lot of the time) with a little butter put mostly around the potato. And cook the beans as appropriate.
Let it all cool a bit (You can boil the spuds as well as the beans if you think it’s easier, too). Shove it in a bowl with the other stuff cut up, pour some lemon, salt, and pepper over the lot. Pretend this took more effort than it really did.
Put salmon in pan, cover with alcohol, cook rice, take salmon out of pan, put on plate with rice, drizzle cooked alcohol over salmon and rice, serve with sprig of parsley.
Salmon
shauderechowda?Gah, Xur’s posting the new exotics on instagram (cos apparently Xur’s only 12yo), and they’re previewing one of the new strikes tomorrow. Time to go into lockdown mode… *plans trip to Mars, finds a cave to shut my eyes and put my fingers in ears.*
Incidentally, it took me years of watching that episode to realise Cecil was being facetious when he said that. I always assumed he was just really rich and successful – supervillain style – and took it literally.I hope they’re milking the whole “posting things on Instagram”. Selfies of himself with the guns with labels like “Jus chilling with my exotics #lol #toomany #exotics #typicalnight”
*eye-twitch*
Hey @dc I obtained fear the walking dead Ep1 for Mum and she really enjoyed it. I’m glad that you mentioned it! They’re still making stupid decisions, but some of the people are smart at least.
I do like that the guy was struggling to come to terms with the fact that he wasn’t sure if the fact that he was insane was worse or not.I really like this series so far. 🙂
I like how no one knows the rules yet. We see all these clues happening all over the place that everyone else is oblivious too. Really enjoy the misinformation and all that too, people watching stuff on YouTube or the news and not believing the stories. Rumours and urban legends. Really interesting perspective to see the world through. I especially like the lead actress.I’m really enjoying the drug addict. Actually, I like most of the family except the girl.It’ll be interesting to see how this family transfers into a group when things go to hell. Who will step up to be leader, who will be the dead weight, who won’t make it. I think it’s a stronger start than the core Walking Dead show. (Which has gotten pretty great as it’s gone on!)The problem with the core show is
a lot of them make stupid decisions. Generally it is their own stupidity that gets them into these situations. A lot of the smarter/nicer or black characters are killed in a really unnecessary fashion. I still haven’t forgiven them for the way Noah went.I enjoyed the prison arc. People having issues with the flu and such. I think it’s fascinating how they would cope with diseases that normally don’t affect us anymore.
*thumps TAY on the chest*
LIVE! YOU CAN DO IT!
LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!
*Dies* BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep…
Dammit @rize, you had one job
Super Mario Maker comes out soon!
Watch this video to learn how to make a good Mario level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0c5Le1vGp4
(This dudes other videos analysing game design are actually pretty great, too! Worth a watch if you’re interested in that sort of stuff)
I’m about a minute and a half in and don’t know that I can listen to this guy saying “marry-o” any more.
Hey, it worked!
…
*thumps Pow on the chest*
Mario Maker looks great and all, but I can’t get past the price tag. A level editor/mod kit is a free extra in most other games 😛
DISCUSS.
There, @rize. Controversy. Enjoy.
For what it’s worth, it has something like 70 pre-made levels included on the disc. Plus unlimited community created ones.
I didn’t know it came with that many pre-made’s. I would have assumed something like 20…but yeah, 70 goes a long way to justifying the price.
One made by Michel Ancel, the Rayman guy, apparently 😛
That would be a cool DLC pack idea, actually. A bunch of levels created by famous game designers.
@Rize is right!
My WednesTAY-Wake Up (Patent pending) Question for you all;
What is your favourite firmness/type of pillow, and why is it memory foam?
Try as I might, I have never been able to find a pillow flat enough to replace the grubby, many-years-old one that I love 😛
EVERYTHING PUFFS UP
(Seriously I have like… 5 spare pillows from buying different kinds)
Because I found that normal pillows just ended up as this small, hard, uncomfortable spot on the back of my head whereas the memory foam ones felt like they actually distributed the weight across a larger area. Much nicer.
I hate all pillows. I’m with Pow, really. I hate my pillow the least, even though it’s about as thick as a starving child’s wrist, and has the support of a bra made from blu-tac. But for sleeping on my back, it’s a world better than anything else I’ve used, would need to puff it up for side sleeping though.
Pillows are totally irrelevant when you have a great mattress. I can sleep with or without one as long as the mattress is decent.
I don’t use my pillows. They are a decoration. Instead I lie face-first into the mattress.
You should always be truthful with your bed.
It’s always there for me at the end of a long day.
I don’t have memory foam (but probably should with my old-lady joints). I like to sleep on a pile of pillows. One is not enough!
I miss my feather down pillow from when I was younger. Wasn’t always the best to sleep on but shake that bad boy down and you had an awesome pillow fight weapon
I don’t think I’d want memory foam in my dakimakura… 😛
Just in case this is interpreted as anything other than a joke: I don’t have a dakimakura.
I only have the cover of one. Haven’t bought the inner yetI’ve not heard of this word, also I’m scared it might be NSFW? 😛
Imagine a pillow that is 150-160cm tall and 50cm wide.
Now imagine you could get a pillowcase for it printed with an (often female and partially undressed) anime character on each side.
Memory foam would be just weird. Or would it?!
Oh, a body pillow. Those things are awesome for side-sleepers.
So I’ve heard. I actually am a side / belly sleeper so was tempted to get one just to try it for that.
The pillowcase is something I picked up in Akihabara on a lark because why not?
There are some excellent, er, boyfriend pillows around.
But seriously, I had a body pillow when I was pregnant and it was great. Really supports your knees and hips, great if you’re prone to aches.
I’ll stick to my girl-who-is-actually-a-battleship pillowcase thanks. 😛
Just pointing out that there’s something for everyone 😉
Side sleeper from Target on special for ten bucks.
@popdart5 @redartifice:
http://www.polygon.com/2015/8/25/9207861/learn-to-draw-world-maps-from-one-of-d-ds-best-cartographers
May be of interest.
Question/statement. I’m grateful that the trending stories section has been cut back; might I question the purpose of having them there? The stories they’re putting in the spotlight are the same you can see on the much more succinct black banner at the bottom of a page?
IMO they’re pointless and break the flow of the page. So I used @os42’s tampermonkey script to get rid of them.
You’re right: they are absolutely pointless now!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/08/target-is-selling-the-playstation-4-for-under-400/
If I wasn’t about to have a week of unpaid leave, I’d probably cave.
Eh, until dawn is all I wanna play. I mean, if I win one, I won’t say no but I won’t be buying one for a while
There’s a couple of games I wouldn’t mind playing, and I’m starting to suspect that my PS3 is either out to kill me or just doesn’t have much life left in it (it, like my mother in law, is prone to creating too much noise, and often experiences hot flushes).
Near the end of my second day back at work. Feeling even worse than I did yesterday. Virus turned up to say hi and push the day along a bit faster which is nice. Very much want to go home immediately and collapse into bed. Can’t. Rocket League.
Coming back to work this soon was a terrible idea.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2015/08/this-infographic-explains-which-alcoholic-drink-to-order-in-different-countries/
XXXX and Foster’s? Good gods what is wrong with you people!?
Singani is pretty neat though. Amazed it didnt list pisco
Made a list of upcoming releases I’m interested in from today until the end of the year.
26 Aug – Steins;Gate (Vita)
27 Aug – Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson (3DS EU)
01 Sep – Danganronpa Another Episode (Vita)
08 Sep – Hatsune Miku Project Mirai DX (3DS US)
15 Sep – Earth Defence Force 2 (Vita)
15 Sep – Destiny Taken King (PS4)
29 Sep – Persona 4 Dancing All Night (Vita)
06 Oct – Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax (Vita)
06 Oct – Disgaea 5 (PS4)
06 Oct – Rock Band 4 (XB1)
13 Oct – Corpse Party Blood Drive (Vita)
13 Oct – The Legend of Legacy (3DS US)
20 Oct – Tales of Zestiria (PC)
20 Oct – Halo 5 (XB1)
23 Oct – Assassin’s Creed Syndicate (PC)
31 Oct – Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water (Wii U EU)
03 Nov – Earth Defense Force 4.1 (PS4)
10 Nov – Rise of the Tomb Raider (XB1)
17 Nov – Sword Art Online: Lost Song (Vita, PS4)
17 Nov – Stella Glow (3DS US)
17 Nov – Trails of Cold Steel (Vita, PS3)
01 Dec – Just Cause 3 (PC)
04 Dec – Xenoblade X (Wii U EU)
That’s just stuff that has dates. Probably lots more indie stuff on PC that isn’t dated yet.
Decided I will probably keep my Wii U. There’s only a handful of games I care about anyway, and Europe’s getting handled way better than the US for those.
I’m actually amazed that we got a collectors edition for Project Zero 5, especially since North America is only getting a digital release.
Yeah that basically convinced me to hang onto mine. Don’t know how I’m going to get it though – comes out after I should be gone from Australia. Might have to order online from EB (blergh), get it shipped to my Mum and ask her to post it to me.
I think you can only get it at EB. I tried Gametraders and they can’t get it, but I don’t know about JB
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/games-consoles/platforms/wii-u/project-zero-maiden-of-black-water-limited-edition/773409/
The same price as EB and the same content.
Yeah, so buy from EB because JB sucks to order with in my experience. None of the online retailers stock it.
EDIT: Is gametraders still a thing? I thought they moved out of Victoria?
Nah, my local is still around. As you can tell by my dilemma below
Holy crap, my sister is walking distance from their Highpoint one. Do they still give decent amounts on tradein on older stuff?
I guess so? It’s a massive combination of Pop culture, Video Games and board games. In fact, Hanabai was cheaper from them then Games world
Uh, does anyone want a copy of Mario maker? I’ve pre-ordered it at GT for the alarm clock, but I just found out JB and EB have a limited edition with the art book. I need that art book.
Yes, please.
Now I feel terrible D= Numbers also wants it.
I propose a battle to the death!
I also suggested that. =P
How can anyone kill that which won’t die?
That’s a bit unfair for Numbers/Lucifer, don’t you think? 😛
NOW I WANT IT!
Scree! I’m pretty sure every copy of Mario Maker comes with that artbook (it’s not a limited edition bonus). Check before you cancel!
Nah, it’s only the limited edition. But GT upgraded me to the limited one for $10. @crazyguy1990 got a free game from me as way of an apology. And @lucifer9783 got completely shafted =P
I will probably buy him an amiibo insteadAre you sure? I can’t find any versions of the game without the artbook 😛
Anyway, doesn’t matter! Everything worked out so it’s all good.
Oh, yeah, you’re right. Oh well, Amiibo =D
So the three button foot switch that I have (this one) has broken, granted, it’s a $20 lightweight plastic thing, made in China, and performed poorly for what I needed, so I’m coming to you guys to help me.
I’d like to find something similar, that doesn’t end up being a piece of trash, preferably something in the realm of 40 to 80 AUD
<3
Two? One? Zero? Or are you going into negative numbers?
Oh Blaghman, someday you’ll be smitten 🙂
Until then, suck it, loser! ‘,;P
Nah.
Damn it, I bought a $20 Steam card… and I don’t know what to get with it…
EDIT: Bit the bullet and got the Euro Truck Simulator 2 – Scandinavia DLC.
ROCKET LEAGUE!
\o/
/o\
(I hope you at least had fun… not looking forward to versing Goaldust)
It was super fun! I’m not just saying that. Hopefully by the next round the Gingercookies will have had a bit more practice. Although we are against the Batdippas, and I saw their match against SCS and we might be in trouble again 😐
Just had a look at the results. The word “excessive” comes to mind…
Good that you still had fun!
/o\
Don’t feel bad! You played great!
Haxor!!1!!eleven!! 😛
Is there a way to watch matches from the league or is it a case of stalking twitter?
If anybody @bdkiaf? putting together a weekly highlights and update summary?
I completely forgot to save the replays of our matches yesterday. Apparently @alexwalker recorded their matches last night, not sure if he plans on uploading them. He did post this cracker from Freeze to seal the round in the final second.
A post is going up later today; everyone will be able to see the full, hilarious glory. So many crazy moments.
You can jump in and spectate as long as the players don’t mind, but in terms of watching matches after they’ve been played sharing replays isn’t possible without recording it outside of Rocket League. Unless PS4 has that option and PC doesn’t?
I really want to buy that $399 White PS4 from Target but my partner will shoot me if I was to buy another console.
I have three options;
1. Stop being so goddamn materialistic and accept that I spend too much time gaming already playing Hearthstone & Destiny
2. Pretend I won the white PS4 in a competition on ‘Twitter’
3. Trade in my Wii U and all of my games for store credit at Eb or Gametraders and buy it that way
I can tweet at you to say “CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR PRIZE!” if that helps?
Also, you should totally buy it. We can play Battlefront together someday!
😀
I might actually have to take you up on that… I’ll be in touch 😛
With a PS4 you can Bloodborne.
BLOODBORNE.
If your partner doesn’t understand that, maybe she wasn’t worth having in the first place.
Obviously I’m kidding here.Sounds like a piece of relationship advice straight out of Uncle @freezespreston’s ‘handbook.
With Bloodborne? Sure is
No it doesn’t. At no point does it advocate unzipping and flopping it out, nor is there any mention of defecation followed by moonwalking.
I got the Plat a month ago, still play it all the time. Read /r/bloodborne, follow on twitter.
The obsession is real.
I’m 35 dammit, it should not be this way.
BLOODBORNE.
Option 2.
Do it. Then get Destiny on PS4 and join us.
Joooooooiiiiiinnnnnnnn uuuuuuuussssssssss.
But I have 3 level 32 characters on Xbone :'(
Bah. Details. I’m about to reset my 34 warlock for a complete solo story playthrough with Northbot. (And I reset my hunter recently to help a friend at the low level missions without him feeling all useless… 🙂 )
In other news, I’m back on the road bike. \o/
Welcome back mang! I’m about to start as well, I just need to find a path in Melbourne’s North to get to Bundoora lol.
I’m the king of the northern bike routes (sort of. My recumbent is kind of like a throne). Where from and where to? Roughly… (or hit me at trikeabout (AT) g m a i l (DOT) com and I’ll have a chat. Or pop into the Mitre Tavern on a friday and shout “OY TRIKEABOUT OY”).
I’m riding from Essendon to Bundoora, kinda scared to ride down Plenty Road given the amount of traffic there in the morning lol.
Not knowing your exact start/end points, I came up with this by doing a cycle route on Google Maps and editing a couple of ridiculous choices (like 3 blocks on Sydney Road to turn right… what?)
http://tinyurl.com/nzcnzyz
Fourth option: Buy it and be honest with your partner, explaining how much you wanted it and that it’s a good deal and how games make you happy.
Fifth option: Tell somebody like family who likes to buy you expensive presents about the deal and how you will love them forever if they buy it for you for Christmas.
Damnit I lost my reply to you 🙁
I feel like the 4th Option is certainly the best one, it’s a conundrum however:
I could get the PS4 for 2 dollars & I still think she’d be upset, I think it’s not necessarily the money factor so much as the symbolism of it. I game for around 2 hours a night, and it’s a bone of contention that I don’t spend enough time with her. I think my compromise would be to play less and then she would be getting her way too.Also I like the 5th option, I have an Aunt who loves me deeply and buys me a lot of gadgety stuff (She bought me my first Xbox and a Dreamcast) so maybe I could bail her up for that 😛
Just tell your partner you understand she feels left out when you play, but it’s a part of who you are and you’ll make time up to her by setting aside a night a week where you don’t touch a game console and you guys will do something special together. Lying to partners never ends well. They always find out!
That. Sounds awesome. Thank you 🙂
I ended up buying one! I talked Hannah through it and got a fair bit of mileage on the trade ins of Xbone and Wii UConsole+Games 😀
Yay! 😀
Thursday? Already? What in the sam hell? Question marks?
Dishonored is out today! I’m going to get it and play it and try to be sneaky and ultimately fail and just run into rooms, guns (or not) ablazing, because I have no grace whatsoever. Also, when Corvo does the blink, it sounds like he’s hissing, “Das niiiiiice”.
Or you could play like me – try to be sneaky and take an extra 45 minutes doing it all perfectly and then not get that perfect rating and say stuff this and go play something else.
Mate, it’s like, just wait until Tuesday for some real stealth, nahmsayin?
I know, I know, I knowwwww. But the weekend, right?
OH GAD IT’S SO CLOSE!!!
Jumped into a bunch of Rocket League 2v2 and 3v3 ranked last night. At one point I played against the same 2 guys (in 2v2) three times in a row. Each time my team got to 3-0 our way and they would just forfeit.
Fun little fact about me: if you do this, I think you’re a piece of shit. Not only are you ruining the game for everyone (yourselves included) but it’s a 3 goal difference. I honestly can’t say how many times I’ve crawled back from 0-4 to finish 3-4 or actually take it to a win.
Losing 0-10 means you had a rough match. Forfeiting at 0-3 makes you a shit player.
I had a 2v2 partner last night who tried to forfeit at 0-2 with 20 seconds to go in the game. What even is that logic? I scored a goal to shut him up 😀
I totally agree about forfeiting. I will never, ever agree to a forfeit. It shouldn’t even be an option (though I’m aware it probably just exists to prevent mid-game ragequits… which are obviously also shit)
It’s frustrating to lose sometimes, but if you’re only able to enjoy Rocket League while you’re winning, then you should definitely be playing a less competitive game.
That makes you one of the good ones 😀
Forfeiting is shit. What’s more important – the game or the result?
If it’s the game, don’t forfeit. If it’s the result, don’t play with me.
Both are important to me specifically when playing ranked, but I’d much rather play a losing game to completion (assuming it’s fun, obviously 😛 ) than win 10 games straight due to early forfeit.
The above revealed mindset also shows why I generally avoid ranked match play or very heavily competitive team based games like DOTA.
I don’t see a problem with it honestly. If the opposing team wishes and agrees to surrender why not let them? I feel like forcing people to keep playing when they really don’t want to would just make the game not fun.
If just one person the other team just rage quits and leaves the remainder of his team to play down one person that is a completely different story.
Also I feel like I need to point out that we are getting dangerously close to telling people how to have fun, which in my books is a really shit thing to do …
It’s not even remotely close to telling people how to have fun.
I score a goal, and you throw your hands up and say “I didn’t want to play anyway” and walk off. I shrug, queue up again, get you as an opponent, and it happens again. I shrug, queue up again, and it happens a third time.
Maybe I should have stressed: there wasn’t much in the way of skill disparity, my teams were just luckier in securing goals and defending against their shots. We weren’t wiping them, they just kept quitting whenever we got ahead.
Yeah, I’m with Rizzles on this one.
It appears to be a big issue in Rocket League as well. The moment a team starts losing they bail on the game because the “punishment” for leaving a game is being banned temporarily from matchmaking…but that ban is about the same amount of time it would take to finish the game and requeue…
As far as I know you don’t suffer the ban if you vote to forfeit. It counts as a loss and you can re-queue immediately, which is why it’s being abused.
Also, apparently this stuff is a fairly common issue:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeague/comments/3gpmd8/forfeiting_is_the_worst_thing_that_has_been_put/
Or, to put it more succinctly:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/252950/discussions/0/537402115088969652/
Oh shiiit, all the butthurt in the Reddit thread about folks complaining about wasting their time. I’ve scrolled down to a thread where people are claiming that their days are ruined because games are actually a few minutes longer than 5 minutes in real time.
My favourite response:
Yeah, that thread devolves from “Forfeiting is being abused. Please change it.” into nonsense and garbage, but that’s pretty on par for reddit 😛
Uh, that’s not me forfeiting – it’s my wireless dropping. 😉 I practiced with FatShady last night and it did drop out a fair bit so I’ve promised to run a thirty metre long ethernet cable through the house from my router to PC for all future Rocket League matches. Problem Solvered.
Forfeiting is different from dropping out. There’s an actual ‘vote to forfeit’ mechanic in the game.
Big difference between drops and forfeits. Forfeiting is a vote cast by a team, and notifies the other team of the decision. In a drop, you just vanish and the other team carries on with one less person 😛
EDIT: I feel like I should add: I pass no judgement on connection dropouts. They can be frustrating for all involved, sure, but there’s no blame aimed at the player.
Fun fact – some Japanese players keep forfeiting against me the moment a Pokémon battle starts. Probably because they think I’m a dirty hacker.
Well yeah, from their perspective you’ve got a weird player name with garbage letters in it… 😛
One of the characters in Until Dawn is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo …. *takes breath* oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo annoying!
Can you get them killed?
Definitely, but I want them all to live. LIVE.
Maybe that one character is designed specifically to piss you off and want them dead, it’s like in stealth games where you’re constantly tempted to kill guards who keep having the same fucking conversation over and over AND OVER AGAIN FOR ETERNITY!!!
Only one, huh? I thought it was meant to be teen-horror tropey! 😛
Hahaha! True enough, but this one stands out in the pack of teen angst! 😛
Is it the dude from The Pacific? I noticed he was in it from the back cover.
Rami Malek. And now he’s popping up all over my Twitter feed, what the hell?
Oh, that’s where I know him from! Nah, not him!
The kickstarter for Divinity Original Sin 2 (which presumably makes the sin somewhat less original) has launched, at time of writing, there’s still 1400 $25 slots to get the game
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/larianstudios/divinity-original-sin-2/
Was off sick from work yesterday. It might be a coincidence, but Tuesday night I trimmed my beard.
Slept most of the day. Managed to drag myself to the doctors to get some drugs and picked up Until Dawn while I was out. Proceeded to fall asleep again while I waited for it to install…
Ended up playing maybe 3 hours of it? It’s….okay.
Not really spoilers, but just to be sure (talking about how the game uses “scares”, at least in the first couple of chapters):
My main problem with it is that a lot of the “scares” feel cheap. The amount of “cat scares” in the first couple of chapters is ridiculous. Now, I have nothing wrong with them, as long as they don’t happen every couple of minutes because you’re then desensitised to it. It actually got to a point where they were happening and it would just be like “oh look, something jumped into frame while a loud noise played after a moment of complete silence.”I’ll continue with it because I really like the idea, but yeah, setting the atmosphere is a much more effective way to make something “scary”. Case in point: Gone Home. At least it hasn’t resorted to the whole “gore is scary, right?” aspect of some horror movies.A THURSDAY TAYDRENALIN SHOT
for those of you with siblings: me and my brother shared a lot of games, even today. We have a shared love and experience with Metal Gear. Whats your shared game with your siblings?
For those without: what game anchors you to a point in your childhood?
WWF No Mercy. Easily the game my brother and I played the most. Followed by Diddy Kong Racing.
Probably a mix of Super Smash Bros., WCW vs nWo World Tour, and Fifa 98. Played a bunch of all three with my brother and used to love them.
Except when he’d pick Joe Bruiser in WCW…cheap bastard! *shakes fist*
Mario Kart 64 / Age of Empires 2
My sister is not a gamer at all. She used to play The Sims a bit when she was younger, but that was about it.
But we used to play Mario Kart 64 a fair bit. Mostly battle mode, and never trying to go after each other, but more trying to set up crazy “death traps” where you’d have to drive from point A to B and try to avoid a bunch of bananas, shells etc.
We also dabbled into Age of Empires 2. Again, never competitively, but more as a city builder, trying to see who could build the best little city. Also the novelty of both playing on separate computers in different rooms was great when we were that age.
Oh man, filling Block Fort with green shells and bananas and then trying not to die was the best!
Block Fort! I was trying to remember the name of that map.
Heroes of Might and Magic II. So much hotseat gaming. Strong memories of us trying to download the 30mb demo on a dial up connection that disconnected whenever someone tried to call our house. Fun times.
Also I played through all the 90’s adventure games with my brother, collaboratively trying to figure our way through them.
This and HOMM 3 dominated my childhood. So many hot-seat matches over 6 hours.
Fun fact: HOMM 3 was the first game I ever played online. Six hour battle over dial-up over the MSN Gaming Zone and I got absolutely spanked.
Spyro: Year of the Dragon.
My sister and I completed the whole game, and it’s the one game we remember most.
My shared experience is nil, so childhood anchor?
Interesting question – guess it’s divided up into stages – early childhood would probably be Pitfall or SeaQuest on 2600, through to space quest / hero’s quest / curse of monkey island on PC (alas, young enough that the only meaningful progress was with a walkthrough).
Later stage – Mario Kart 64 battle mode is an instant portal back to split screen fun with friends in high school. Smash melee also got played to death and earns a spot there (I don’t quite feel that full anchor to GoldenEye / perfect dark because I was too shit at the game to have quite as much fun)
It’s a blurred mixture of titles from my Amiga 500 that I played from the ages of about 6 till I was 10 or so. FA/18 Interceptor, Gods, Magic Pockets, Hudson Hawk, etc. These are my earliest and possibly fondest gaming memories. Several SNES titles almost pipped my Amiga days, but not quite.
Zelda: Link’s Awakening.
It’s the first game my brother and I fought over to such an extent that we needed to get a second Game Boy, AND a second copy of the game.
Lawdy that was a brilliant game. I was a Game Boy kid, and I spent many years walking around with my grey brick and a case that had every game I owned in it. I was glued to it for many years. Replayed Link’s Awakening so many times. Used to try and do speed runs, which as a kind only meant like 5-10 hour playthroughs, but as a personal challenge it was a lot of fun.
SMB3 All-Stars and Donkey Kong Country 2 with my sister. Golden days of my gaming.
Early Crash Bandicoot games for sure. We were obsessed. especially with the levels where you ride polar bears and tigers. We still play them sometimes (thankyou Vita I have found a use for you)
This. My sister used to get me to play the levels where you ride the hog/tiger/bear, while I used to get her to do the ones where the boulder chases you. Good times.
Zork: Grand Inquisitor! My older sister and I still quote it to each other.
“Who make the other cry first” was a favourite.
Nice grammar there, Russian Dan.
My sister and I used to sit beside each other and play through a few games together. The best ones were adventure games however, as we were both Playstation starters and too young to dive into the LucasArts stuff, our go to games were the first two Broken Swords. We even had the plug-in Playstation mouse and everything. I was happy that only I could figure out the goat puzzle.
Other games were more of the watch each other and chime in, which was great for RPGs. I sat through and watched my sister play through most of FFX and she watched parts of me playing FFXII. Neither of us played the other game so it balanced out well.
I’m from the Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego generation. Played it with friends, siblings, at school. It was one of the few games adults at the time just couldn’t find an objection to!
My sister and I never ever really gamed, we played Mortal Kombat once and we fought so bad I vowed never to play the series again.
We killed some Sims by taking the ladder from the pool but that’s about all I can conjure from my memory.
My sister and I tended to prefer different games so didn’t share a lot of them. We did collaborate to completely finish Crash Bandicoot 3 though I guess? Recently we played through Lara Croft & the Temple of Osiris together and it was pretty fun.
Generally speaking we never played a lot of games because she’s stupidly competitive and I had five years and more regular gaming on her so she’d always go for competitive stuff and then either get angry that she lost or get angry that I went easy. :\
In terms of games that anchor me to points in my childhood:
– Airbourne on the Mac. You’re manning a gun in one corner, shooting paratroopers that try to drop in. Was also on the early iPods. I killed my Dad’s brand new Mac Plus by whacking it in frustration when I was doing really well and moved the mouse into the corner and brought up the fucking Flying Toasters screensaver. Crashed the hard drive. Cost him thousands. In my defense, don’t leave a three year old unsupervised with an expensive computer.
– Dungeon of Doom, Mac. First exposure to RPGs. It was a simple graphical roguelike but it sucked up amazing amounts of my time.
– Realmz, Mac. Shareware RPG that allowed you to make and play your own modules as well as play through a bunch of official ones. Discovered it on a CD that was bundled with a magazine in the mid 90s and it was a huge chunk of my teenage years, along with Marathon 2 and Infinity. Realmz is big for me because the scenario development part of it was my first exposure to essentially coding. Scripts were built up in what amounted to an internal machine language instruction set. Set me up for my career.
– Command & Conquer. There were a ton of PC games that would take me back to my early and mid teens like TIE Fighter for example, or Baldur’s Gate. But I think that C&C is the one that gets the nostalgia going the most. Would often have friends over and play it. The music is a big part of it. Just play that opening quote from ‘Act on Instinct’ and instant nostalgia. And I don’t even really like RTS!
– MUDs. I played several MUDs when I was growing up. Probably spent the longest in one that was set in the Wheel of Time universe called The Creator’s Shadow. Developers had coded in a bunch of interesting systems on top of a DikuMUD base, like health bars, an overworld map system, a completely different magic system and so on.
– Final Fantasy VII. We moved to Australia and were cooped up as a family in a small unit. I didn’t enrol for school for various reasons until mid-year so there was a whole three months where I was completely idle. Luckily, Dad had gone out before we all arrived and purchased a brand new Playstation. Went out and rented various things. Tried this Final Fantasy thing because someone I knew had a quote from it in an email signature. Wasn’t prepared for it. Massive perception change – I had no idea that a video game could be like that. Hearing the music or playing the game instantly transports me back to living in that flat in 1998. Actually, not quite. The TV there was broken and only one speaker worked, and so I only would hear one channel of the music. FF7 outputs some instruments to just the left or right channel, so what I would hear back then was actually only about 80% of the music. A few tunes sounded quite different when I played the game again on our own TV.
Crash Team Racing, we both enjoyed playing it so much
Worms is probably the big one
We fired it up again recently and had a good session
First thought was Soul Calibur II. It’s one of the only games where my sister could continually kick my arse, she can take Nightmare and button-mash to her heart’s content and just completely steamroll me. Note that if I were to button mash, my character would just kind of spasm around and achieve nothing at all.
Next thought was Monkey Island, something she lauds over me as she’s completed all the games in the series and I took ages to even finish the second (still haven’t finished the third). Actually she’s got Grim Fandango over me too. Also Psychonauts, which I haven’t even started.
Another one is Resident Evil 4. Again, one of the few games she’s played though – not sure if to completion, but at the very least one she’s familiar with and refers to/recognises as a great game. In fact she brought it up as one that her boyfriend *had to* play recently, when she was looking for Cube stuff he could play on his Wii.
Lastly but probably most importantly, it would have slipped my mind had @tigerion not just mentioned it up there. Worms Armageddon. We played the absolute SHIT out of that with each other. Mostly on 64, but at one point I found the PC version on sale and got it for her as a present. She’d also gone through setting that up to play online multiplayer with her boyfriend at one point, apparently there were a few hoops to jump through there. Her weapon of choice was the French Sheep Strike. Me, I’m a Super Sheep kinda guy 😛
ARGH – dick smith have the fitbit charge HR on super sale at the moment ($129 with the code MASSIVE30).
I *really* want to upgrade!
EDIT: I caved and my new fitbit is on its way!
*twitch*
The Splatoon soundtrack that is coming out soon in Japan is named “Splatune”. I love it.
I think our house will be splatooning this weekend.
I hope this is something we can buy, and isn’t just going on Club Nintendo or something.
What’s the bet it’ll be one of the first things up in the “new and improved Club Nintendo” that is apparently launching soon? Alongside the Mario notebook and NDS game case 😛
*testing, ignore*
*further test*
no
@highperformance with the new expansion in Hearthstone have you noticed how bad the drops are? 40-50% of the cards I get are vanilla equivalents in terms of stats and mana.
When you say ‘Drops’ you mean the new expansion cards that you open? Or do you mean the cards you get after levelling up?
Drops = opening the new expansion cards. They’ve got a lot of filler/useless cards in there that are equal to the dud cards from the vanilla set of cards.
Let’s put it this way: I opened 15 packs and got 3 Paladin cards lol. Give me some examples of what you would say are filler cards?
Cards like Ice Rager/Tournament Attendee/Captured Jormungar/Evil Heckler; they have no ability and weak stats. Their sole creation is to act as filler for opening packs so that rare cards can be classified as such. I’ve opened 5 packs so far and already received 5 of those aforementioned cards out of 25. They have questionable disenchanting value and will never be played in a competitive deck.
I’ve got maybe one or two of each of those cards with 16 openings, have you forsaken RNGesus?
Ok so by association with you, I’m being punished by RNGesus now. I got THREE Refreshment Vendor Cards in the same pack. I may have to denounce you, heathen.
:pYESSSS take your punishment heathen! RNGesus denounces you!
That said was getting smashed in ranked yesterday =@ lot’s of constructed decks came out of the blue at rank 20 =[
So I had probably the laziest day off yesterday that I’ve ever had. It consisted of super sleeping in, watching a lot of anime, and playing Heroes. It was pretty good day overall.
My anime choice was to binge watch all of the released episodes of Gate. My friend recommended it and I have to say that it sucked me in. For a rather silly premise, I enjoyed it a lot and look forward to keeping with it for the future.
Heroes-wise, finally got ranked again and have climbed up to Rank 6 thanks to Dunkmodan. I’m still aiming for that number 1 spot so we’ll see if I can get there.
Took me a second to realise you were talking about Heroes of the Storm. “Heroes” will always be “…of Might and Magic” for me 😛
“Heroes of the Storm” will always be this for me.
HAHAHAHA!
I never quite got into Heroes of Might and Magic. I played through 5, which was okay but it didn’t really grab me. Is 6 worth it or should I go back to the first few and play those?
Grab 3 HD. Game is the highlight of the series, for myself at least.
I want to rank 2 above 3 because that’s where I started (and I still love it so much) but it’s so damned crusty now, particularly in controls. 3 has held up quite well by comparison, and it really is a solid game.
3 is generally considered a high point in the series, and the HD version makes it easy to run on newer systems. The newer games have been hit and miss (and I currently can’t remember which was what).
I would recommend downloading a “demo” copy of 3 HD and see what you think. It’s a little simpler in terms of mechanics which makes it easier to pick up and should help you decide if you like or dislike the games.
@redartifice @beeawwb @haggis
If you please…
@shane is my bestest friend ever
ILY man! o/
\o
I’m at work today, so in honour of that fact…
My job at the concrete plant seems to get harder and harder.
The man with the double chin wasn’t happy with what he had. So he worked hard and made a four chin.
How about those egg farms, huh? They’re multi-layer organisations, backed by shell corporations.
Nope, still not over it. This is still getting me every time I listen to it:
https://youtu.be/SWZwsl6dJyE
I’m at a mining conference, and a geologist just told a really sad story. Apparently his wife left him
because he took her for granite #dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeThis morning’s paper had a story about a midget who had his pocket picked. How could anyone stoop so low?! #Page6
I changed my iPod’s name to Titanic. It’s syncing now.
A backwards poet writes inverse.
When chemists die, they barium.
Jokes about German sausage are the wurst.
How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it.
I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.
This girl said she recognized me from the vegetarian club, but I’d never met herbivore.
I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. I just can’t put it down.
I did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words.
They told me I had type-A blood, but it was a Type-O.
PMS jokes aren’t funny. Period.
Why were the Indians here first? They had reservations.
We are going on a class trip to the Coca-Cola factory. I hope there’s no pop quiz.
Did you hear about the cross-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn’t control her pupils?
When you get a bladder infection urine trouble.
Broken pencils are pointless.
I tried to catch some fog, but I mist.
What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary? A thesaurus.
England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool.
I used to be a banker, but then I lost interest.
I dropped out of communism class because of lousy Marx.
I got a job at a bakery because I kneaded dough.
Haunted French pancakes give me the crepes.
Velcro, what a rip off!
A cartoonist was found dead in his home. Details are sketchy.
Venison for dinner again? Oh deer!
The earthquake in Washington obviously was the government’s fault.
Be kind to your dentist. He has fillings, too.
When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
I used to work in a blanket factory, but it folded.
Marriage is the mourning after the knot before.
Corduroy pillows are making headlines.
Is a book on voyeurism a peeping tome?
Sea captains don’t like crew cuts.
A successful diet is the triumph of mind over platter.
A gossip is someone with a great sense of rumour.
Without geometry, life is pointless.
When you dream in colour, it’s a pigment of your imagination.
Reading while sunbathing makes you well-red.
A man’s home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
Dijon vu – the same mustard as before.
What’s the definition of a will? (Come on, it’s a dead giveaway!)
A backwards poet writes inverse.
In democracy your vote counts. In feudalism, your count votes.
With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
He often broke into song because he couldn’t find the key.
Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis.
Doctors tell us there are over seven million people who are overweight. These, of course, are only round figures.
What is the purpose of reindeer? It makes the grass grow, sweetie.
There were two ships. One had red paint, one had blue paint. They collided. At last report, the survivors were marooned.
The other day I sent my girlfriend a huge pile of snow. I rang her up and asked, “Did you get my drift?”
Where do you find giant snails? On the ends of giant’s fingers.
Why is Saudi Arabia free of mental illness? There are nomad people there.
When I was in the supermarket I saw a man and a woman wrapped in a barcode. I asked “Are you two an item?”
When she told me I was average, she was just being mean.
This duck walks into a bar and orders a beer. “Four bucks,” says the bartender. “Put it on my bill.”
A dog with his leg wrapped in bandages hobbles into a saloon. He sidles up to the bar and announces “I’m lookin’ fer the man who shot my paw.”
A termite walks into a bar and says “Is the bar tender here?”
Four fonts walk into a bar. The barman says “Hey get out! We don’t want your type in here!”
#page6
RIP Uncle Crazyguy
Sometimes I stick around on Page 6 avoiding puns and looking for something to talk about but it’s always like:
Kelsey Grammer is a god damned legend The man has an amazing voice.
I would love to hear a conversation between him, James Earl Jones, and Keith David.
Pretty accurate representation xD
Heard about the latest shooting in America late last night. Made the mistake of reading up on it this morning.
Well now I’m just depressed as fuck.
Nothing wrong with gun laws over there, no sir!
“laws”
This Onion piece is ever-relevant:
http://www.theonion.com/article/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-36131
Actually, you’ve got to think there’s got to be some point where they just say ‘that’s enough’ and make some legislative changes.
Probably not until they lose a president. Oh wait…
Well, they’ve had 44 of them and so far only 6 have been shot. That’s only 13.6% of them so that’s fine right?
Of course that’s not counting the ones where someone tried to shoot a president and cocked up severely. Best attempt was on Andrew Jackson. Some guy tried to shoot him with two separate pistols, missed both shots, and then was arrested after Jackson beat him senseless with his cane.
That’s the stupid thing. For any developed country, the US, as a percentage, has probably publicly killed or attempted to kill more of their leaders than any other developed nation. Heck, I’m willing to bet that the percentage of British leaders publicly killed since 1500 is probably lower than the US.
I dunno, there’s quite a few British monarchs that died in battle or from wounds sustained in battle. That’d count as ‘publicly killed’ as in killed in public.
Certainly the US has assassinations cornered though. Did you know that there’s been an attempted assassination, thwarted or otherwise, of every president since JFK except Lyndon B Johnson?
That’s nuts. When there is someone that wants to kill your leader and is actually planning to do it, surely people must realise there is a problem. And they can’t blame it on communists and terrorists because I doubt that the FBI or CIA would miss pinging those types of assassins.
Actually, there has only been one British monarch who has died in battle since 1500 and that was in 1513. James IV was King of Scotland too so that might disqualify him from counting. Heck, the last British king to go into battle was George II in 1743 so there haven’t been too many chances to kill their rulers in public. The most notable one was the execution of Charles II in the English Civil War but not many kings or queens of Britain have actually been murdered. Lots of attempts but not many deaths.
On the upside, apparently if you do get shot as president, the statistics say you’ve got a 1 in 3 chance of not dying.
Surely that would have been Sandy Hook for any sane nation.
Or Columbine. Or the Washington DC sniper. Or any number of bloody massacres they’ve had in the last 50+ years.
Yes but Sandy Hook would be the most emotive one which should have driven the most action considering the victims were small children.
The Washington sniper was pretty bad though. It was random people all over the place for like two weeks. Terror level was apparently intense.
-Thomas Jefferson
Yeah, that point was Columbine… no wait, Sandy Hook… no wait, Tucson… no wait, Aurora… no wait, one of the other mass shootings….
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/mass-shootings-map?page=1
Sigh.
I am determined not to watch the footage. I just don’t need to see that.
I saw it by accident on an autoplay article that I was reading last night.
I don’t recommend watching it at all. It’s not graphic, but probably one of the most disturbing videos I’ve seen.
I barely avoided an autoplay on a news article, then when I was driving back to work from lunch, Triple J played the audio of it.
Presumably because their news team are pieces of shit.
Yeah, I did the same thing. Read about it before going to sleep and it was “Reporter and cameraman shot dead on live TV. Developing.”
This morning when I woke up and saw it again it was “Reporter and cameraman shot dead on live TV oh dear God I don’t want to live on this planet anymore”.
There’s always the Breitbart article lambasting the media for blaming guns and ignoring the true problem of a black gay man shooting straight white people.
Now you can leave the planet.
I’m expecting much more of a media feeding frenzy because this incident was a black man shooting white people. It’s going to be a terrible game of how low people can sink in blaming people and the US as a whole can go pretty damn low.
Woo! Fixed my skill composition to complement the 2-pc set bonus from what I’ve gathered of Tal Rasha’s – Blizzard to slow a group (and call down an icy meteor), followed by black hole to pull groups closer together (and call down an arcane meteor), followed by Hydra to set the now consolidated group on fire (and call down a fiery meteor), finishing up with shock pulse (to call down an electric meteor)… and then cast Meteor, cos four meteors isn’t sufficiently OTT. :3 Plus, being efficient with the casting means I never run out of mana.
Currently working bounties on T3… can now survive on T4, but it still takes ages to kill stuff.
I can survive T6 quite easily, and post patch decided to give T10 a go last night. It didn’t end well.
Found T7-T8 seems to be my happy place. Now I just need to start farming legendaries to run through the cube and start building that catalog up.
Yea, I’m hearing a bit of that – most T6 grokkers have moved to farming T7 or T8. Looking at T10, tho… enemies with a hundred times the health, and deal about ten times the damage, of what I’m dealing with down in T3… D:
Yeah, just find yourself a build that’s popular, usual centered around a very specific set of gear for a specific ability or two, and you can start plowing through higher end stuff, and even if you don’t like the build – you can at least level and collect gear to create a build that suits you better.
I’m still using my 2.3 dashing monk build, which still works remarkably well. He’s just built to soak damage when it gets heavy, and the rest of the time, I’m dashing in and out of groups of enemies and obliterate courtesy of Dashing Strike being built to the nines.
That’s pretty much how I started my gear hunt – basic pure pyro wizard with mammoth hydra fed by force gale twisters (plus any +% Fire Damage gear I could find) got me into T1. Got a couple of pieces of Tal Rasha’s really quickly, so started building around that, which got me through T1-T3, but still looking for 3 more pieces to get the damage & resistance boosts. Main issue is finding the right pieces – only been playing a couple of weeks, so options are still pretty limited. I’ll probably just farm nephalim rifts on T3 for a while until I find something, seeing as they don’t need keys any more.
Weird. Anyone else unable to upvote on LH/Giz articles? I swear it worked just the other day, but now I don’t seem to be able to. The little button just pretends it hasn’t been clicked.
I’m getting that even on here. I just click again, or click and hold until the button turns green. Sometimes it’ll even turn green and show “ticked” but not up the vote counter, which will stay at 0 until I refresh the page.
Yes, but it seems to have worked after I refresh!
Even tried a ctrl+refresh, but that didn’t do it. The arrows seem to be greyed out for some reason, like they are on your own posts.
My tap was stuck yesterday.
I had to faucet.
My wife told me I always speak like a computer geek.
I LOL’D.
“Give me any subject and I can make a pun out of it,” I bragged to my mate.
“Alright,” said Dave, “how about the Queen?”
Cheeky bugger, the Queen isn’t a subject.
My friend recently broke up with his long time girlfriend and has been quite depressed. I asked him how he has been sleeping. “Like a baby”, he said. “Really?”, I said, quite surprised. “Yes”, he said, “I wake up every 3 or 4 hours crying”.
Did you guys hear about the Italian chef who died?
He pasta away. He cannelloni do so much. His legacy will become a pizza history. Here today, gone tomorrow. Sadly he ran out of thyme. Sending olive my prayers to his family. His wife is still upset, cheese still not over it. You never sausage a tragic thing.
How do you know if a joke is really a dad joke?
When it’s fully groan.Archaeologists digging in a pyramid in Egypt have discovered a mummy covered in chocolates and hazelnuts, and is believed to be Pharaoh Rocher.
What’s the difference between a hippo and a zippo?
Ones really heavy and ones a little lighter.This is my pick for this week. Kudos!
My wife is on a tropical food diet. The house is full of the stuff.
It’s enough to make a mango crazy.
I have just been diagnosed as being colour blind.
I know, it really just came out of the purple.
To neigh or not to neigh. That is equestrian.
Confucius say…
Man walking sidewards through turnstile at airport…
Surely going to Bangkok!
Stealing this one!
@freezespreston @sernobulus
We should formulate some sort of vague plan for Blagh’s meat…
First buy him a drink, then see how the night goes.
I’ll fly into Sydney on the Friday at some point, we’ll drive to Canberra and come back Sunday.
Plan approved.
http://tinyurl.com/oxw3sdd
http://replygif.net/i/272.gif
Unfortunately stuff has come up so I probably can’t make it.
Hey guys, when does the Australian eShop on 3DS usually update?
Hahahahahahaha
Oh wait, you were serious.
Sorry, dunno.
(I’d probably expect it to line up with UK dates and times)
I wish I wasn’t but yeah, I actually want to buy a game. Because I can’t buy a physical copy without spending about $80 to get it and while I like Senran Kagura, I don’t like it that much.
I want to say some time late Thursday nights, but I can’t remember 😛
Early Friday morning 2am-3am.
Fuckers shouldn’t say the game comes out on the 27th then. 🙁
They’re going to need to sort this shit out (among many other things) if they want to sell the NX with digital-only games and not be laughed off the planet.
Made it about half way through the RockeTAY article before my phone (and data plan) melted.
Anyone able to summarise?
Round 1: Batdippas got totally smashed. Round 2: They won by a point. Round 3: They were making a comeback and tied but Freeze made an insane goal with 1 second to go to win the match. Alex is sad. The only gif you need from the article.Ugh, @markserrels is one of those guys who spams chat.
Much goals. Such Serrels.
Have your damn upvote and be happy about it.
I will. Thank you. 😀
OMG!
OMG!
Wow!
What a save!
Wow!
Nice shot!
Wow!
OMG!
OMG!
OMG!
I’ll take it over the randoms who feel being a sarcastic prick is necessary.
Someone scored an own goal accidentally? Better say “Nice shot!” and “What a save!” 27 times! They’ll laugh and we’ll become fast friends!
See, now you’re getting it.
What a comment!
What a comment!
What a comment!
What a comment!
See, I laughed and we’re friends.
If we’d put up a better show in our game, you’d best believe I would have been spamchatting more.
For instance, I never say “nice shot” only once… unless it’s to an opponent. Never. I hit those buttons so much that I get locked out of chat! Wheeeeee!
I’ll generally offer praise for praiseworthy things regardless of team, but if a team mate does a solid play (even if it’s nothing spectacular) I’ll shout out to them. Morale goes a long way in sport/competitive games, and letting team mates know you appreciate their effort is something that is so frequently missed in games.
One thing that I try to do – and very few teammates have done for me – is say “sorry” if I accidentally bump a teammate out of the way or flub a hit/save bad enough to cost us a goal. The response inevitably changes from “#$$%!#!” to “No problem.”
Consideration makes a world of difference.
I’ve made a few friend playing Rocket League, and they’re all people who use the commands properly such as “Defending” and “Sorry” Some people are great to play with, others are just arseholes.
I’ve had smartasses saying ‘Sorry’ every time they scored a goal.
It’s also nice when you ‘nice shot’ people on the other team. When you get a couple of good and friendly teams playing, you can get a few good games in a row without people leaving.
Those goals from the kick-off were pretty funny though :p
@alexwalker lost because @FreezeSPreston is a god damn legend. Basically.
Oh yeah, did anyone else catch @markserrels trying to disguise himself Clark Kent-style on the news last night?
At about 33 seconds in: https://au.news.yahoo.com/video/watch/29356595/big-ben-gets-the-time-wrong/
i thought it was a Stephen Merchant look-alike.
@redartifice @tigerion @phoenix
When are you chaps free for our Rocket League games? I think I’m basically free every night for the next week.
I’m ok for most nights after about 9:30
Probably not Monday but otherwise I should be good
Out of curiosity, what time does Tiglet normally get to bed/sleep? It sounds like she’s a night owl compared to my daughter 😐
Yep, her day is probably pushed a couple of hours to standard due to my working arrangements.
She generally goes down around 8:30-9:00 but can stretch that a little at times. Also more troublesome at the moment as she is almost at the stage of dropping one of her daytime sleeps so will sometime not go down until really late in afternoon (after 5pm)
On the plus side she also sleeps a bit later than normal, generally 7:30am or so
If I try and give my daughter less than 11-12 hours sleep at night she hates everyone and everything in the morning. Generally means she’s in bed 7:30pm, gets up between 7-8am. Whenever I get told I’m lucky for this, I remind people that this means less time with her during weekdays which balances the good with the bad.
Dropping a daytime nap for us kind of happened naturally. She’d just get angry with us if we let her do anything other than a post-lunch nap 😛
My Mr 4 wakes up at the crack of dawn no matter what time he went to bed. So if he has a late night, he’s a demon all day the next day. And naps just muck up bedtime now, so I’d rather have him pass out and be in bed at 6:30 than staying up till 9:30.
Should be free most nights, except maybe Friday. Not sure about that yet though.
We could try for tonight if that works for people?
@tigerion @redartifice
Should be ok, but Tiglet has been a little trouble monkey recently so it depends if I can get her down
I’m out sorry. Tomorrow night works
Will need to wait until @phoenix confirms if they are out or not
I can do sunday night on pretty much
On pretty much what???!?!?1
Sunday works for me as well, I’m home all day so can use that time to get organised and keep the missus happy
I’ve been hitting up a video game bar the last few Friday nights, so I might end up there again. I am in WA though, so from 8-9, maybe even 10pm EST I’ll still be available.
Edit: or Sunday.
I’m out tomorrow now so don’t stress there. How are you for Sunday night @cakesmith?
Around 9:30 will work for me if not too early for @phoenix
I’ve got no plans Sunday night. 9:30/7:30 should be fine.
@rize @jacksonwryan @zetrox2k
Still all good for 9:30 tonight, gents? #ROCKETAY
Sure am!
hey whats your psn id? not on taynames…
xX420NoScopeSomethingAboutBeingGayIActuallyPlayOnPCXx
hmmmm…. hows this going to work? i didnt think you could join people on other platforms, i know the games x platform but didnt think parties, etc worked.
Private matches now let you join the same game cross platform. Just need to set one up with a name and password. This addition is really what started RockeTAY League.
It works so well. Tonight we had 2 players on split screen on one PS4, and one player on PC, the other on another PS4 and apart from a few bits of lag it was perfect.
Private match, share match title and password. Easy
You don’t need parties, just going through private matches works fine.
@jacksonwryan you’re not on there either!
He’s something like…Jaggerjektl?
I am Jaggerjackt. Add me and I will add you when I am home. I am good to go tonight, I believe.
its a man-date! will add people to friends list when i get home!
Finished my first play through of Until Dawn. (And have started my second play through!) I liked it. Not quite up to the standards of Quantic Dream games or Life is Strange, but genuinely weird and interesting. Definitely has the makings of a cult classic, I think. It’s a fun and interesting way to approach a horror game. It was campy and melodramatic, but usually in the best ways possible. Very appropriate for a teen horror movie. Writing alternated from really good to really dodgy sometimes in the same scene, but I was hooked. Loved the opening in particular, where you meet and greet a varied group of people and have to work out how they all relate.
So this is where you buggers organize all your Rocket League stuff…well, I’m just going to hang around like a bad smell so I can get on board.
…soooooo, how about that weather?
I think it’s @cakesmith that is organising it. However, I’m not sure how it’ll work out as they’ve just started, unless you can get a partner or something?
I wouldn’t know though, I just play splatoon
@BDKIAF, actually. And I think it might be too late to join this season. Can’t imagine you’ve missed your last chance, though!
Ah, hasn’t it just been the first round though?
It’s a league – like a round -robin. Once the rounds have started you can’t add in more teams. I’m sure, though that there will be another league, and @hoi_polloi is most welcome to start a new league with any other interested punters.
Sorry. Just trying to help. D=
That’s ok, I’ll keep an eye on the competition and practicing so I’m ready for the next round…according to Rocket League I’m a level 24 Pro, according to me I’m a level 5 rookie haha.
That sounds familiar. I’m only semi-pro atm but most of those points came from season play
Hi there @hoi_polloi! How are you? Where are you from, and why is Rocket League so awesome?
Hey @CookingMama I’m from Victoria have blue eyes and like long walks on the beach…actually, I live too far from a beach so I just play Rocket League instead. :p That game has me hooked, it’s addictive. The frustration is starting to come in to play now, mainly at myself for embarrassingly flying past the ball, missing easy shots, missing easy saves. Thankfully, a good amount of players are the same and can play for fun and not get too competitive.
I think RL will fit in nicely with MGSV when it arrives next week. I hope I don’t cook my PS4 from overuse hehe
I kind of feel bad seeing that RockeTAY League article :\
I dunno, seeing people in the comments who would have joined in but didn’t made me feel like we excluded some people by accident.
I dunno, maybe I’m in my head a bit.
Hell, I’m not even in RockeTAY, but at least I was invited :S
I can kinda see what you mean but there isn’t really much we could do. It was posted multiple times and they are only caring because Dippa posted an article otherwise they wouldn’t know.
It’s not like we are hostile to strangers here, odd and we could scar them off but not hostile
Now that they have expressed interest they can be tagged in posts for events and random play dates
I did that with @cubits. I saw him expressing interest in splatoon articles and I would tag him in discussions
Yup yup!
You’ve made me have a bit of hate for blasters =P Probably because I can’t use them, and seem to always get sprung by them
I don’t feel like I’ve missed out or been excluded…imagine if everyone on Kotaku had an invite, the league would have 100 teams! I’ll be interested to see how this pans out and I’d be more than happy to join in next time. To be honest, I had no idea you could even do something like this. Awesome idea, can’t wait to see who comes out on top…just don’t go easy on Serrels because he’s Scottish. 😉
There is stuff that goes on in TAY all the time, not everyone gets involved all the time. But the thing that makes TAY special is that so many people are active members of the community. Anyone who visits Kotaku can join in.
I’ve popped in here a couple of times, but I don’t usually spend a lot of time online. Well, I should change that…and possibly my underwear.
@redartifice I got a Magic Starter pack! \o/
It’s for Dragons of Takir, I just picked the box I liked the look of most so I’ll find out if it’s any good lol.
Nice! One of the intro decks, or a box of boosters?
It’s an intro deck and comes with a couple of booster packs inside. I’m going to hang with my buddy who’s into Magic this weekend and hopefully have a couple of games who can help me build a deck/learn the rules.
Very nice! My advice is play with all of the colours, get a feel for them. Also, the next prerelease is in October, see if you can get along to one of them, they’re newbie friendly
When are we meeting up for a game!? =O
When you’re in Melbz
Gingercookies v Batdippas starting in a few mins
Want to spectate? tayleague, password: t
Batdippas win!
7-1, 8-2, 6-0
GingerCookies improve!
Goaldust v Benny+FatShadyLive is about to get started.
If there are any interested spectators, game: taygames, password: t
Ow, my legs…
How did I miss this news?
http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/26/9210471/turok-dinosaur-hunter-remaster
I clicked on that expecting it to be about the more recent entries (yawn).
Pleasantly surprised. Looking forward to a nostalgia romp through blocky terrain 😀
Wasn’t Turok one of the first games released on the N64 after the first batch? I kind of remember Mario 64, Waverace 64 and Pilotwings 64 being the only games available for ages, then Turok came along. “I AM TUROK!”
It was and it was gloriously violent. Not a lot of shooters have quite matched the fun of Turok’s ridiculous arsenal yet.
But there is always a elegant joy in the tek bow
With explosive arrows.
Cerebral Bore, because I don’t want blood. I want brains!
BRRAAAAAINS!
@braaains?
Yes?
…hi <.<
Hi.
*awkward silence*
Had an interesting time in Rocket League last night with @shane @zetrox2k and @jacksonwryan last night. Fairly good and tight first round, but the second round they came back to win to bring us to 1-1 with one match left.
I think having a third player on their team really helped them in that second match…
In all seriousness, if people are going to spectate matches, that’s absolutely fine by me…but probably tell them to stay as a spectator for the first three games 😛
It’s the new handicap system that we have implemented.
Rookie = 1 point
Semi-pro = 2 points
Pro = 3 points
Both teams need to have the same points
There is one possible solution. Have you tried getting good?
Tried that, and it worked. We won the third game 7-4 😛
Yeah, I don’t even know who that was. Sorry.
To be fair, while the interloper was playing, neither myself nor Zetrox were doing anything, and no scores were made. It’s obviously very far from ideal, but at least there was no major impact other than running down the clock a bit.
Still, if you want to scrub that game’s results, that’s fair.
Sorry!
Nah, the results can stand where they are.
It actually had a pretty substantial impact for me. We didn’t actually start till 1 minute was already gone, and it completely threw me off my game. I made so many basic mistakes in that match because I had 0 focus.
In that case, I’m happy to let @freezespreston’s response speak for me.
😛I have no idea who that spectator was either but it isn’t a big deal. I do think @Rize was off that game though, he was missing a few certain saves/blocks which resulted in me actually having to do work that I am not cut out to do.
The result shouldn’t be scrubbed. You guys legitimately scored your goals and that game was damn fun. I was still trying until the last second, but I would have liked a 4th game anyway just because it was infinitely enjoyable.
Just took a bag full of old games to EB and walked away with a fully paid pre-order for Mad Max Apocalypse Edition (with FURY ROAD BLU-RAY) and Metal Gear Solid V Day One Edition.
EB are running a trade deal that boosts the value of trades by 30% if you trade at least 3 games towards a pre-order. Makes it very nearly reasonable trade-in value!
Win!
METAL GEAR
MY COPY HAS SHIPPED
HYYYYYYYYYYPE
IF YOU GET IT EARLY I’M GONNA BE HEAPS UPSET!!!
OH MAN MONDAY COULD HAPPEN
AAAAAAAAAAAAH
AWWW SHIT DAAAAAAAAAAWG!!!
So rumour has it they’re making a Shovel Knight amiibo, huh.
On one hand I don’t want to get it because it’s never going to be used by anything major. On the other hand… it’s an amiibo.
I don’t know, shovel knight has been turning up in a few things already so with an Amiibo I wouldn’t be suprised to see him in more things
Wouldn’t surprise me if Nintendo are angling to nab the rights to an exclusive sequel.
Body defenses activate. I don’t want to get sick again and this one feels like it might be a cold that could wipe out this weekend for me.
In other news, got news that part of my Kickstarter rewards for the Shadows of the Demon Lord RPG came through today. I’ve been looking forward to this for a while so it should be good.
Upvote for the Kickstarter rewards, not the sickness. Hope you get better soon
@tech_knight @f4ction @steve-o_the_dev-o
http://9gag.com/gag/aojyd0e =D I can imagine this for you
inb4 I lose my promotional series to Gold level because that thing ran out of batteries. 😛
Also that looks REALLY awkward for mouse movement, would make it really hard to precision click
For just one hand then?
With key rebinding I could definitely use that for the left hand, but nothing will replace a good corded mouse for me. But then I’d hit the problem of “I can’t type with only half of the keys.” 😛
Who needs typing when you can lol?
Fair point, I mainly work with pings and voice chat anyway 😛
I had to type this response as laughing at my phone wasn’t doing anything but making strangers look at me funny.
You were obviously doing it wrong =P
Vita controls for Metal Gear Solid are SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT
It uses the rear touch pad for opening menus, and there’s no way to change it. I’m getting slaughtered over here, and I can’t even open the menus to switch weapons or heal!
Are we talking the PS1 version?
If so, then yeah, fuck the vita controls.
Yep, that’s the one. God damn, it’s terrible. I wish there was some way I could map the menus to the shoulder buttons!
Oh, it looks like there might be. Hooray!
http://community.singstar.com/t5/PS-Vita-Games/MGS-PS-One-Classic-on-PS-Vita/td-p/16976046
Yeah I mentioned this before, that bloody rear touchpad gets in your way 99% of the time, the 1% of the time you’re actually trying to use it, you’re fiddling with it trying to get it to do what you want.
Hello everyone how are we all?
I’ve missed you all. Thanks to all the people who’ve played rocket league the last couple of nights, it’s been fun, at least we are improving each night. but it’s been lots of fun 🙂
My thighs still hurt… 🙁
Then you might be playing Rocket League wrong.
What did you do to them?
Been doing a weekly gym group every Wednesday morning, and afterwards, tgere’s always a part of me that’s sore.
Worth it, though. 🙂
Ah that makes sense! I had that when I was exercising. I just walk/run now
The trick is to exercise a couple of times a week. Then you just hurt all the time, but don’t notice 😉
Had someone call me up about an error message. Asked them to grab a screenshot of it and send it to me to determine the issue and next course of action. I suggested if he’s not sure how to screenshot, or can’t, a photo is fine.
5 minutes later I get an email with a pdf attachment. The pdf is a scanned image of a photocopy of his laptop’s screen, with the error on it…
Out of sheer curiosity, I had to ask “Were you not able to get a photo?”.
The email reply?
How the hell did he get a photocopy of his laptops screen 0,0
Exactly as you’d expect him to.
It’s barely legible and very washed out.
So he photocopied it and then scanned the printed version…. My god.
To r/talesfromtechsupport you go!
I set up a single-page website for a client the other day. It had one link on the page: a big blue button that says “Read More”.
I asked via email: “Could you send me the URL of where you want the button to lead to?”
I got back an email with an attached powerpoint presentation containing three slides: a screenshot of the page, the screenshot with a red arrow pointing to the blue button and finally the URL they want it to link to.
Thanks 😛
I think that speaks more to their opinion of you 😛
To be fair my old iPhone 5 wasn’t able to take photos after the focusing went to shit.
Someone referencing The Daily WTF or actually an idiot?
I had to share that with my service desk team. They pass on their sympathies. 🙂
One phone moved, one to go.
Then once the mobile numbers are no longer hostage to the internet connection, I can try to find an ISP that doesn’t make me miss my crappy 6Mb ADSL connection when our FTTP grinds to a crawl in the evening.
I think I need a new mouse. Old one (G400) is staring to continually disconnect and reconnect itself in rapid succession.
Any suggestions? Only thing I don’t want is wireless.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sr9_GfeoCjk
I’ve been using a G9x at home for years but they don’t seem to make that any more and *Googles* wow, I don’t like the look of the new equivalent (G502, I guess).
I use an Evoluent VerticalMouse 4 at work, and I will probably buy one for home when my G9x gives up the ghost.
The Corsair Raptor M45 looks like it would be my choice of G9 replacement. Similar shape and features.
One with lights that strobe in time with your keyboard.
….Do you know of one? Because I totally would buy that.
Alienware’s lightning FX stuff might do it, but it’s a ripoff.
Sold!
Logitech have some pretty nice options these days.
You can always get a G400s if you liked the G400.
EDIT: Out of curiosity, why no wireless?
I have a G400s!
Just had some frustrations in the past with it. Don’t particularly need it and just another layer of something to go wrong.
I don’t like wireless either. I find it’s a hassle when the battery is going and the mouse goes all over the place
I use the G700s, which is wired/wireless. Think the play and charge kit, but for a mouse.
That sounds fine. Batteries are a pain in the butt though
I just got the G502 ‘proteus’ which I’m finding very good
It doesn’t strobe in time with the keyboard but it does actually have a logo that you can set to flash (brighten and dim)
The only lights on my keyboard and mouse are Num Lock, Caps Lock and Scroll Lock. I replaced the key over Num Lock so that there’s no light coming through and I removed the key entirely from Caps Lock.
Why must every computer thingy be shiny?
Quite fond of my Mionix Naos 7000, though it’s a few years old now so might be hard to track down, got mine for $79 so it’s not too pricey either
Question, didn’t kotaku used to have an australian showcase, showing off australian made indie games?
Abbott said no more games being made in Australia! And hockey said game developers should get better jobs! Maybe I’m paraphrasing but I can imagine why there hasn’t been much traction on the Australian games showcase.
Oh right, I forgot about that dickwad.
Yeah, he pretty effectively hobbled an entire industry there.
One of many though. Wasn’t like it was singled out.
*cough*manufacturing*cough*shipbuilding*cough*
Did he actually affect shipbuilding yet? I thought they hadn’t decided on the submarines thing?
They’ve affected shipbuilding by not committing to the timeline in the white paper, delaying their own white paper, actively doing deals in secret, smearing them in the media, not creating a shipbuilding plan…
Goes on and on.
I just love how the large mining companies are implementing solar energy on a relatively massive scale; while our government is adamant to keep force feeding our dependency on fossil fuels.
But Puppet, clean coal!
Say what you want about EB Games’ corporate structure, but they have some great staff who deliver great service.
This morning I dropped off a bunch of old games to trade in. With a combination of my levelled up EB World card and a 30% bonus for games traded towards pre-orders, I was able to get a total of $208 to put towards pre-orders (exactly what I was hoping for, but way less than I expected).
That amount covered Mad Max (incl Fury Road BR) and Metal Gear Solid V, with only $2.81 difference. I put that order in and walked away, happy.
Then during the course of my
workingday, I found out that Target was pre-selling MGSV for $69 (by the way, that’s an astonishingly good price). It didn’t specify Day One edition, and the store couldn’t confirm it when I went in there at lunchtime and asked.Didn’t end up being an issue, though. I took the Target catalogue into EB, and the guy who served me this morning said, “Oh wow, that’s a great price. We can 100% match that, no problem.”
So now I’ve got $41 down on Dark Souls 3 as well, along with a request to be notified when special editions are announced. YES.
TL;DR: Getting good service and good value at EB.
When we bought little dude the Skylanders Trap Team Dark Edition at an EB in Tasmania just before jumping on a plane to go home, we discovere back in Brisbane that they’d forgotten to put the actual game in the box. Mr. Strange called the Tassie store and had them tell him to just go into his nearest EB (instead of just offering to post us our game, they palmed the problem off on somebody else, effectively).
The guy in the nearest EB who helped me out actually said “That’s exactly what our job is: helping solve problems” when I apologised to him for having had the whole mess dropped in his lap. He even rang up a bazillion places trying to find a copy of the game nearby for us before having to give up and escalate it to head office.
Oh, and in the end the Tasmanian guys had to send us our disc (like I’d suggested in the first place), and head office sent me a $10 EB voucher. I made sure in our email exchanges to mention how helpful my local guy was, and even went in to thank him when it was all sorted out which seemed to surprise him. So not only are we surprised when we get great service at EB (because usually you just hear the horror stories), but they’re surprised when we thank them for it. 😛
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/aug/28/border-force-police-join-stop-and-search-crackdown-in-melbourne-cbd
Holy crap. Police and the “Border Force” (ugh, how many power fantasies climaxed when that was formed?) are going to be accosting people in Melbourne and demanding to see their citizenship or visa papers or be detained.
Generally I just shake my head and get a bit cranky when reading things in the news but this genuinely makes me feel uneasy. There’s a line we just crossed and I don’t feel comfortable with it all all.
It sounds pretty Orwellian, for sure. Bet Tony’s masturbating furiously to the very concept of it right now.
Well that was a mental image I didn’t need.
Why am I not surprised; the more shit this government gets away with the more convinced I get that most people just honestly don’t give a crap anymore. It’s like voting into power the political party least likely to screw up every day life.
We crossed it a while ago, but it’s getting bloody obvious now.
This has now been cancelled, due to massive community backlash.
Early Friday afternoon. Bored at work. Give me something to do, TAY! AMA.
If I said you had a beautiful body would you take your pants off and dance around a little?
No. I’m at work.
What do you find the most erotic part of a woman to be?
Depends a lot on the person.
Adam’s apple.
Why are your strawberries atomic? Did you choose the wrong fertiliser? be honest.
If a nendoroid is released in a forest and no-one is around to hear it, do you still buy it?
Is Izumi ever going to take combat damage?
How’s the eyes?
1. I actually can’t remember where exactly it came from. Someone I knew said it in a facetious way in response to a question about a name for a new business or something. It stuck in my head. I am not sure if it’s a very very small strawberry or an extremely large radioactive mutant one.
2. Apparently. 🙁
3. Fairly sure she took combat damage in one fight we had and it almost killer her. When you’ve only got 28 HP you actively try not to take damage.
4. Right one periodically gives me a weird rough feeling and have had a bit of an ache and some itching but all that is apparently really good as it means the nerves are repairing, and ahead of schedule too. Vision quality in the eye comes and goes. I’ve been told it’s going to shift a lot for several months. Will find out for sure if I need the left done (all signs point to yes) on Tuesday. If it does need it I expect it to be much more debilitating for me, as my left sees quite well and my right is shit so the left does most of the work. Good reason to want to make sure it stops degenerating though!
Has anyone in the party taken serious damage except for myself and @tech_knight? I can only really recall myself soaking up most of the aggro and damage except that time Techie got completely owned by the ogres.
I got beat up a bit by the ogres
Rize got brought down to KO hp against them too, only reason he was still standing was his Orky ability.
Everyone took damage against the ogres.
Except me. :V
Yeah well Dem’nion’s instincts pretty much took over in that fight and it didn’t go well for him.
Also don’t forget he got also one shotted by a hobgoblin in our first dungeon crawl.
Hence how he gained the name “The Yamcha of Pathfinder” 😛
What toppings are acceptable for Nachos?
Salsa, olives, jalapenos, beans, mince meat, cheese, guacamole and more corn chips.
Get the fuck out.
You get the fuck out! :p
If he’s taking the olives I’m going with him.
Olive you
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Olive+Juice
I was going to type Olive Juice, but I’m not Stewie Griffin. (Urban Dictionary blocked at work, can only assume that’s what they’re discussing)
@beeawwb
Its actual genesis (as near as I know): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123209/
Haven’t seen it. Don’t plan on seeing it. 😛
When I make them I usually cheat and grab a can of extremely not mexican chilli con carne. Hormel’s ‘Stagg’ brand is the only stuff you can get around here.
Chips (ideally Mission white corn) on a plate, into the oven with cheese. Then the chilli on top, with guacamole, sour cream and some salsa (ideally a salsa with chipotle). Sometimes I’ll add jalapenos. Black olives sometimes too, though not often.
I actually love that Stagg chilli in a can. Used to practically live off it when I first moved out of home.
My sister demonstrated how you can use it to make a heart attack in a bowl. Cook up some potato wedges or tater tots or similar, whack a can of chilli in a pot and then melt through a half a block of cream cheese and add some chopped jalapenos.
KOOOOJIIIIMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
A konami game?
Not any more. He should start a company called ‘Kojami’
It was a joke based on the JB hi-fi guys =P
If I go to Jb next week to pick up MGSV, I’ll be very disappointed if they don’t have any Kojima signage up.
Take your own!
Weird. Notifications seem to be clearing themselves now, I think. Had one when I reached the front page, but then when going to my profile it was cleared, even though I hadn’t been to the page it was on yet. Used the Clear All Notifications button the other night, wonder if that’s screwed something up.
Also some upvote numbers seem to have been updating themselves when I push the button on this page, but most still didn’t.
Ok yeah the notifications thing is definitely happening.
@robhussey, help something’s broken 😛
Report it through the contact form.
I thought there was a different form for that, but couldn’t find the link. Turns out it was still in my history though (/report-issue instead of /contact).
We pushed a few changes live early on in the week that should now mean that notifications are acknowledged only when the comment related to the notification is viewed on the page.
This means that if you have 10 notifications within one TAY page, then the notification count in the top right should decrease one-by-one as you view each comment.
Does that behaviour match what you are saying?
Nah, that part was working fine before. I just reported the issue through the form, this is something that’s only started happening since last night.
The site has always had an off-by-one error where if you reply to the first comment on any page past the first, it redirects to the previous page. Notifications also go to the previous page. Perhaps @mrtaco is seeing a side-effect of that?
I think that only happens when a post on the previous page ends up in moderation, so page X has 25 root posts but one of them hidden, so the 25th visible post ends up on page X+1 but the permalink for it is still page X. Which doesn’t seem to have happened here, Freeze’s post up the top is still page 7.
Ha. I just saw now that the URL on my profile tab is https://www.kotaku.com.au/user/profile?clear-notifications=1. Don’t know if that’s only just come up now or I just didn’t notice it before, but there you go.
Which is actually kinda hilarious since just last night I was reading this blog post I ended up on after a couple of other random tangents, which mentions the intended idempotency of GET methods. Also taught me the word “idempotent” 😛
Oh yay! Friday afternoon, nationwide system outage.
Dealing with the fallout next week will be awesome fun…
Where’s my beer?
Your beer is in your Pivot Chart, if only you can find the right combination of fields!
I gave up and made this instead…
http://imgur.com/U3LCvxh
I’ll Vlookup to that!
FALLOUT NEXT WEEK?!?
*dives out the window*
next week? Isn’t Fallout in October?
November 10
Lol looks like 250 odd protestors shut down Operation Fortitude that was meant to be carried out in Melb CBD this weekend. I stand pleasantly corrected; people do care enough to do something.
It was fucking ludicrous to be fair.
Melbourne city as an area is fairly progressive and leftist (the division of Melbourne is held by the Greens) so not surprised there was a protest.
Yeah, seems like the kind of backwards crap they would try in Queensland.
Probably should have tried it there. Less likely to get a flash protest.
Crap, I didn’t know this was going to be a thing: http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?scode=FIGURE-013278&rank=
Now I’m going to have to get that too, aren’t I? ;_;
I forgot to preorder figma Lucina. 🙁
Personally I’m skipping that Link. Wind Waker Link was awesome but that one doesn’t do it for me to the same degree.
I probably normally would too (see: previous talk of general dislike of Nendoroids). But the masks are pushing me over the edge.
You don’t like Nendoroids?
But… but that big head and that tiny body. How can you dislike the big head?
Basically exactly that 😛 I’d rather have the characters in their original form. I caved on the WW Link because he actually looked basically the same as a Nendoroid. But then while the Figuarts Mario came out with no sign of Luigi, a Nendoroid Luigi came out with no sign of Mario… and he did look pretty great… and there was that Bullet Bill… and god dammit goodbye money.
Then of course when Nendoroid Mario appeared and had the extra crossed arms piece for Luigi I couldn’t very well go and leave him behind. Plus he had a Boo with him.
CURSE YOU SLIPPERY SLOPES!
That’s right.
At first it’s just one, because it’s kind of cute and why not?
Then you get the one that matches. And one more comes out and you might as well have the set right?
Then you turn around and this has happened:
https://twitter.com/Atomstrawberry/status/625663218115973120
Hahaha exactly it. That’s how I ended up with the Lucina preorder that I now have to pay off. Also when did the dollar decide to get so shit against the yen?
Also, holy shit 😛
FWIW that was the first time I’ve put the boxes all in one place. Hadn’t really sunk in before how much of them I have.
@negativezero Had a similar thing when I was reorganising my room a while ago, and stacked up all my DS boxes to find I had a pile taller than I was. Then a Wii and GCN pile that almost reached as high too. Scary stuff 😛
Currently there is a pile of amiibo boxes sitting rather menacingly beside my bed. 44 of them plus the Splatoon lot. They… make me uneasy >.>
@mrtaco: that’s a good part of why I haven’t bought any Amiibo. Could see myself trying to get them all.
Well, I could if they were a bit less expensive or a bit higher quality.
…That totally sounds like a racial slur
I’ve ordered the majora’s Mask one and already own the Winwaker one. What can I say, in a sucker for tiny Link.
I forgot to as well. Super cut about it.
I’m sure I’ll be able to find one for twice the price soonish, but still. It hurts.
I need it for… reasons.
Got a new mouse. Went with @Tigerion suggestion and got a g502 which seemed to be reviewed extremely well.
Also EB got some more copies of Until Dawn in so I got that too.
Bwahahahahahaha I have power, power I tells you
If thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lqMTRz0v5g – Fallout New Vegas, activating the player kill and resurrect commands at the same time.
[b]Destiny Moments of Triumph Completion Club[/b]
(oh god, everyone has different handles on Kotaku compared to twitter, don’t they? well, just going to guess, no ragrets!)
cc @alexpants @masha2932
Pants, looks like you need some raids and some Patrol stuff. Patrol stuff – gold chests and public events – should be pretty easy. Raids will be a little trickier, especially since you’ll want to get your level up to 34. I’ll help when I can, but I can’t really guarantee being online at any specific time, so I’m hoping someone else can schedule stuff. Anyway, here’s what I would recommend:
1. You’re level 32 currently, which is sufficient for VoG and Crota hardmodes. For both of these, it’s mostly just going to be a case of getting a group together.
2. Run PoE32 for the armour token – these pieces of armour come with 42 light without needing to spend an Etheric.
3. Max out an exotic armour piece. Since Variks is selling helmets this week, pick anything that’s not a helmet. Two pieces of armour with 42 light will get you to level 33.
4. Run PoE34 and Iron Banner for Etheric Light. You get one from PoE34 and can buy one at Rank 3 with Iron Banner. Use each of these to level up your last two pieces of armour and hit level 34. This does mean that you’ll need to do PoE34 with a level disadvantage, but it’s not too bad this week.
PoE32, VoG, and Crota all seem very reasonable for you. PoE in general this week is not too bad – Brawler/Juggler on Skolas is downright decent.
Anyone else want to chime in?
I should mention I have three Etheric Light on me presently but have been holding off on using them for fear of wasting them. But if you’d recommend using one (or more) now then perhaps I should. Running Iron Banner for one would take me an awfully long time (and there’s Splatfest this weekend!)
Thanks for the advice in any case! Trying to get into a 32 PoE right now.
What’s your main character? Use the etheric light on armour for him/her. Once you get to lv 34 you can run the lv 34 version of the Prison of elders to get another etheric light you can use on your preferred primary weapon. You’re then ready for SKolas.
Pretty much going to repeat what masha said.
You’ll need all your armour at 42 light to hit level cap. The armour from Variks comes that way, all other legendaries need etheric light. Exotics use exotic shards to ascend, you can buy one from Xur if you need. You also want to try and level up your Ghorn as much as possible – it really is a huge advantage.
Your current primary seems to be a hand cannon, and it’s fine to ascend. However, if you’ve got any elemental primaries – from VoG or Crota – I’d recommend picking one of those. Something like Vision of Confluence, Fatebringer, Word of Crota, or even Abyss Defiant.
Fine.
Oh yeah, does anyone need a Play-Asia coupon? $5 off $60, it’s only good til the 31st. Keep forgetting to mention it.
TAY Tech Collective: I am in the market for a pair of cheap-but-not-terrible webcams, one for myself and one for my mum, so that she can skype and chat face-to-face once I run off to the other side of the planet. Any suggestions?
Just last night I found out about Mobiola, which lets you use your phone as a webcam. Not sure about how well it runs, haven’t tried to use it yet, but could be something to look into?
Even supports Symbian 😛
But not Windows Phone. Only Windows Mobile (which is ancient).
EDIT: Also this is for my Mum who’s 60 and scared of technology. I want a dedicated webcam because I really need a turnkey solution for her.
Can’t just buy her a cheap smartphone and use Skype directly off that?
She has an iphone. Using any of its features frightens her.
Surprisingly the Microsoft LifeCam Cinema is a very very good bit of kit for the asking price (~$50) I use one at work (via Lync) and the picture is nice and clear, built in mic does the job provided there isn’t a bunch of background noise.
Never used it in a low light situation so can’t comment on its performance in that space.
Why don’t blind people go bungee jumping?
Because it scares the f*ck out of the dogsI’m not a bad person, I swear…
You’re just drawn that way?
A blind man walks into a bar with his seeing-eye dog. He stands in the center of the bar, takes the dog by the chain, and starts swinging him above his head.
Everyone stops and stares. Upset about the way the animal is being treated, a patron runs up to the blind man and demands, “What the hell are you doing?”
The blind man turns toward the patron and says, “Oh, nothing, just looking around.”
A blind man walks into a bar…he didn’t see it.
Two baby seals walk into a club…
😮
Repost because newpage, got a $5 off $60 coupon for Play-Asia that expires on the 31st if anyone needs it.
http://mikatan.goodsmile.info/en/2015/08/28/nendoroid-kirby/
You are a bad man.
Don’t shoot the messenger!
But I don’t deny it.
Must. Resist.
*Throws money away*
@beavwa =P
http://imgur.com/gallery/N2WZLjO
That’s awesome.
Still in bed… 🙁
Now out of bed! \o/
^ Is now the proud owner of a Ps4! 😀 \o/
Woohoo! Now you can play all the things, like Rocket League, and Bloodborne, and Dark Souls, and…
your girlfriend had better like playing Rocket League 😉
She’s not particularly fond of me gaming, I tried to get her into Minecraft but I stupidly left it on Survival mode and she couldn’t handle the pressure of dying. I’ll win her around someday.
Well, I’ve played more games on the PS4 than anything else of late, and I’ve really enjoyed Diablo3, Journey, RocketLeague (so good), Hohokum (won it in a comp), and it’s my device of choice for netflix watching.
Did you steal my copy of Hohokum? That’s OK, I ended up winning Borderlands The Presequel 🙂
You could try her with the Lara Croft game. Temple of Osiris or whatever it’s called. It’s great co-op with some fantastic co-op puzzles. It’s free on PS+ right now, until next week’s update.
Oh, and my PSN id is CookingMamaAUS
Mine is highperforma89 🙂
My PSN is Matt_3d, boring I know. 🙂
So… WeekendTAY is dead?
…yup.
And now my journey to watch all 700+ episodes of One Piece begins…
http://www.crunchyroll.com/one-piece
That’s almost too good to be true, stream them all for free?! D:
@phoenix @cakesmith @tigerion all good to rocket league at 9:30?
Thanks for the add, sir!!
I should be
No problem
Sorry, only just saw this, works for me.
Which 9:30 though? Mine, yours or crazy WA time? 😛
Yours
When the game is up…which will be in like 5mins…
Game: TAY
Password: pants
@redartifice @tigerion @phoenix
Which one of you just added me on FB? initials CF