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Oooo fresh TAY and I’m actually home to post! w00t!
How was everyone’s weekend? I’m on holidays this week, so my plans consist of as much nothing as possible!
I expect to see your immortal damages skyrocket accordingly. 😛
lol i dunno… i actually have a special project planned, so I’m actually going to try to not play it as much!
I doubt I’ll be able to resist much though 😉
I’m busy trying to come up with a Back to the Future event for October 21st. Our town has a Clock Tower, so we have to do *something* now that we are almost living in the 1985 version of the future!
Morning all. I’m hopefully signing the bond and such today and getting the keys to my new place.
Despite lacking many things like a fridge cutlery and a washing machine I feel the most pressing and immediate issue is who to use for my internet. Suggestions please and thank you.
Everyone will have a different opinion on this. Depends a lot on where you live, what exchanges you are near, and how much you want to spend every month.
Congratulations!
I’ll leave the internet solutions to others, but here are some ideas for how to kit out your house without spending all your money
Fridge: Try gumtree first – you might be able to get one for free, and all you will need to do is pick it up. 2nds World and Appliances Online both have good deals and will deliver.
Washing Machine – see if there’s a laundromat near you. It might work out to be a lot less hassle just to take a bag of washing to them once a week, rather than moving a washing machine into your place. Otherwise, ditto the advice for fridge.
Everything else, I’d recommend either ikea or kmart.
This was my thought when we moved into our current place – however, if you wash AND dry at the laundromat the costs start to add up pretty quickly, especially if you do quite a lot of washing (plus, using a dryer is pretty bad for your clothes). If you wash only and bring it home to hang out, it is heavy!. We lasted maybe a month before buying a washer, best decision ever.
Most laundromat have a Bagwash option though, where they do one bag or basket for a fixed price.
Wash and dry? My laundromat didn’t… but then again, they had the worst dry-cleaning service I’ve ever had, so it’s possible it was just a terrible laundromat.
Congratulations.
My first suggestion is to check iinet to see if you can get the NBN.
then look at what you want to spend (cable is good if you can afford it)
I would reccomend against TPG as I have had problems in the past.
Telstra have been good to me, but I know others have had problems.
Cutlery – Look at op shops – Cheap and sometimes suprisingly awesome. works for plates and stuff too.
Washing machine- we went to JB Hifi Home, was pretty good
Furniture – ikea is good but if you need lots of stuff check out fantastic.
When I was with TPG I didn’t have a problem but that said I wasn’t with them along enough time to actually cause a problem.
Meanwhile I’ve had issue with telstras because we had line damage that was over a decade old which they fixed but now our internet is doing it again which makes me think did they fix it or did they “fix it”
Ive been with TPG on and off for a while. When they work, they’re no different from any other ISP. When they don’t work, well, they don’t half-ass fucking up.
I’ve been with TPG for around 10 yrs now. In that whole time, I’ve lost my internet 3 times that I noticed. (May have dropped when I wasn’t home and didn’t notice.)
As much as people bitch about their help desk, they are actually quite efficient. Talking to them can be a little difficult sometimes given they’re in Philippines or Malaysia, but when I have “issues” or want to change something like my speed profile, I submit my request through their website, and they make the change/fix the issue within an hour or two!
Exactly. TPG is fine when everything works but if you have a problem you better hope you can either you fix it yourself or it magically resolves itself, because they’re sure not going to do anything about it.
iinet is TPG now.
Has that been finalised? I thought the regulatory bodies still had to sign off on that.
Nope. All done and signed off.
yeah but they seem to be the best in telling me where the nbn is
Ikea have good cutlery sets for like $25. Cheap plates too, though I’d buy a set from Woolies or Target or something. Our current set of dishes was a $30 box that contained 4 dinner plates, 4 small plates, and 4 small bowls. We also supplemented this with leftover Jamie Oliver plates and bowls because once the promo ended where you had to collect stickers and shit, they were selling the individual pieces for $2 each.
Fridge/freezer is essential. Washing machine can wait. I still don’t own a clothes dryer. A half decent saucepan set is a good investment and at least 1 high quality knife.
Interweb wise I’m with iinet (netspace rollover) and it has been pretty dodgy for a while now. But that said I am right in the middle of 2 exchanges and there is a bunch of construction going on around me. I never had an issue when I was with TPG but a nightmare if you have any customer service requirement. Heaven help you if they screw up your billing. Telstra can be good and not as expensive as they once were
Dryers are just things created by the power companies so you always have an expensive power bill I swear.
I thought that when I loved in Brisbane, where you could dry clothes even during summer storms. Now I live in Canberra and wish I had one.
Yeah, you pretty much need one in Canberra.
Haha, fair point. I noticed this at my friends place in Launceston, took her like 5 or 6 days to dry bed sheets in the middle of winter, heh.
I thank you all for the suggestions on where to get stuff. But I do have stuff coming from Storage it’s just gonna be a month.
Seriously though, if you can hold out until the end of the year just wait for the boxing day sales. You will save an absolute fortune decking out your house if you do.
For internet, NBN (proper NBN) > Cable (Optus better than Telstra) >>>>>>>>>> ADSL, so check what your options are. Whirlpool used to have a thing where you could punch in address / phone number and see what was available.
For initial cutlery etc, consider going to K-Mart of all places. They have a like 100-piece kitchen set for around $30 IIRC that has knives, pots, pans etc. and have cheap plate sets too. It’s not great quality but it’s good to get set up with and you can replace the shit stuff with higher quality later. Also a good spot to get a cheapo tea kettle (they have one that’s like $6 that does the job) and a few other basic things like that.
If you’re in Melbourne I’m going to have a washing machine that needs to be sold off in a few weeks (can’t take it with me to the US because voltage difference)
EDIT: Reply Fail
Booked a hotel room for AUS PAX. I wanted to go to the hotel I stayed in last year, but they renovated and the price for each night increased to 400 a night.
Second day for Iron Kingdoms. Gonna do some more recording then chop it up, still wondering if anybody would be interested in listening to that.
I recorded some matches for the Battlefront beta, you can view them here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdQ1jojLerI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEkdmtzivnM
Also make sure you watch Matthewmatosis’s commentary on Dark Souls. It’s 6 hours long, do you know it’s good.
Happy date of manufacture @tech_knight
Wouldn’t his date of manufacture be around 9 months prior, with today being his ship date? 😛
No that was the commencement date. Techie is a complex machine and it took a while to complete manufacturing.
Well really what rolled out of the production line was a small-scale proof of concept prototype. He’s really been building himself since then, which given the limited set of tools and programming he started with, is quite the accomplishment.
I just wanted to let everyone know that I am almost back to normal. Still getting the occasional bout of panic, but I’m eating and sleeping normally. So hopefully, I’ll be fine for Pax.
Hooray! Thats good to hear 🙂
Good to hear, any minute now you’ll be back to saying sorry for no real reason
I think it gets worse when I’m like that.
good to hear, *big hugs*
Morning all!
I got some good news late last week: $7500 worth of project funding from artsACT, for this project! ALL THE KING’S MEN.
Some of you might remember this project from its failed Kickstarter waaaaaaay back in early 2014. Well, it’s back. In pog form. And it’s happening. WHEEEEEEEEEE
Good thing you have nothing else on so you can dedicate plenty of time to it
Don’t worry, I’ve got it all planned. I even have four months wiggle room!
October: open submissions, finish Undad
November: ship Undad
December: start going through submissions, contacting authors
January: panic
February, March: new child
April: go insane
May: invent time dilation machine
June: spend a hundred years finishing all the books
July: un-dilate time
August: relax until December
If Final Fantasy VIII taught me anything its that time dilation is confusing for everyone
@Shane was Ultimecia all along?!
So I’m starting the filming of my new YouTube show. Probably won’t be finished until the end of the month. Also I’ve had to delay, due to the dishwasher not finishing for another half-hour.
Assuming you’re filming a dishwasher tutorial or show is presented from within a dishwasher.
Obviously it’s not going to be filmed in the dishwasher given the lasting inconvenience, but since it’s running he should film a zoom-in shot going into the dishwasher while it’s running. Then he can cut to the interior of a car wash, dressed to look like a dishwasher, and film the show there.
Wasting time posting about his dishwasher issues is just wasting opportunities to get stock footage. Who knows when the dishwasher will be running again??
Is the series about overreacting to obvious jump scares from videogames?
I had actually considered that. Not really, because I’m not a complete idiot. Just an average idiot.
There are a lot of average idiots on Youtube. Going to be very hard to break into that market. There are fewer (but still many) complete idiots. Seems like a no brainer to be a no brainer.
Don’t tempt me.
Mornin’ all.
Been playing Fallout 3 all weekend since I got it to work on Windows 10. Such a great game.
And there’s only 4 weeks until Fallout 4 \o/
Morning TAY. I feel like I’ve been absent a few weeks because I seem to keep missing the Monday morning thread each week then not having a quick shortcut back in from my profile page.
My friends who moved to NZ this year have finally announced their wedding date (which thankfully is back here in Australia… in Wollongong for some reason) but the hen’s/buck’s night are in Auckland. I’m totally travelling to NZ in February for a buck’s night, which I think is going to make for a pretty neat story at some point in the future. If anyone knows tricks for cheap flights/accommodation going from Sydney to Auckland (other than the rather attractive $639 per person deal currently going on Flight Centre) I am open to input.
Been playing a lot of Destiny lately. I think I’m going to be ready for a break from it in time for Fallout 4, not that not being ready would ever stop me from playing it. This is me quivering with hypecitement.
I haven’t played the Battlefront beta – couldn’t be bothered downloading it, plus I had friends over this weekend and wouldn’t have had time to play it. A friend of mine is creaming his daks over it saying it’s “like photorealistic Star Wars” which based on the trailer footage I’ve seen is a bit of a stretch.
$428 flying with Air New Zealand via http://www.lastminute.com.au
Is that one night accommodation? We’d want to stay for more than just the buck’s/hen’s so I tried looking at 3 nights (incidentally the Flight Centre deal was for 4) and even so, the range of $550 – $700 pp is pretty darn good.
I’ll look at options and paly around with the site with my wife tonight. Obviously we want to book sooner rather than later to avoid missing out or overpaying.
Oh, that was just flights. The site does do flight and accommodation packages though. Be worth having a look and seeing what they can do, usually fairly decent prices.
Yeah, flights and decent looking hotels for 3 nights is still very well priced.
Maybe look at airbnb or expedia, or see if you can get together with another couple of friends and share an apartment? I usually use webjet to compare flights, but then book direct with the airline.
I’d consider AirBNB or sharing if I were alone but I think my wife is firmly against it. I think it’s going to be hard enough dealing with a strange bed in a strange place and my snoring on top of that, without throwing in other random elements.
I that case, definitely check out Expedia or lastminute.com.au. I’ve had good experiences with both (including mystery hotels)
Well, it comes pretty close to ‘photorealistic’ as long as you’re comparing the Battlefront footage and real photo footage on tiny youtube videos.
Morning!
Weekend was great. Dominated Mario Party, saw some friends, made special brownies (the special ingredient was love), didn’t cook dinner once. Yup, great.
Almost finished my PAX costume too, so I’ll post a picture of that once it’s all done. Made up a bunch of iron-on patches on the weekend so all that’s left to do is iron them onto my shirt.
9/10 loses a point for not eating brownies for dinner
I’ll make you proud one day!
Thanks for coming to lunch! We had fun.
Good morning all! I hope you all had great weekends!
I actually played a game for the first time since January, the Star Wars Battlefront Beta which is much more fun then I thought it would be. I believe this will be a purchase for me when it comes out!
I also got smashed at a bar crawl and didn’t get to bed until 5am yesterday morning. Good times!
Apart from all that, I’m also doing the half-marathon this coming Sunday and doing it to raise money for Beyond Blue as I spent 16 years battling depression which I’ve luckily overcome finally but will forever fight to bring more attention to and battle the stigma of. If you can spare a few dollars, here is the link to my page:
http://melbournemarathon2015.gofundraise.com.au/page/IanGBB
Cheers all, happy monday!
Done. A worthy cause to be sure. Depression and anxiety seem to be pretty common in my little family unit, and I want my kids to grow up in a world where seeking treatment is a much easier thing to do.
Good luck with the thon! (or is it a mara?)
Thanks so much mate! Being a dad myself, I feel exactly the same 🙂
It was a struggle to get through it that’s for sure as it was always seen as a weakness when I first attempted to get help. Now days, it’s a lot better and help is there for those who look for it but it’s always a tough step to recognise you need help. The more people who know the signs of depression/mental illness, the more friends will be there to support them.
I’m doing the half-marathon this year, I was planning on doing the full marathon but I fractured my toe back in May and it’s never been the same since. I would have made it too as I was up to 22km back then 🙁
Ah well, there’s always next year 🙂
I think we can send some dollars your way – all the best for your half!
Thanks! I will do my best 🙂
More than happy to help with that.
Thanks so much mate! I really appreciate it.
I’ve been seriously thinking about whether or not I’ll cave and buy RB4 (even at that crazy price) and I think I’ve come to an easy answer: if I’m going to spend that much money on gaming, I’ll just get a new graphics card for my PC.
The fact that they’re comparable price points is just…stupid.
You can’t play all the latest hit songs with your friends at a happenin’ party on a new graphics card.
Not with that attitude.
http://www.fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/
I’d need an XBone or PS4 for RB4. I could upgrade most of the key components of my PC for the price. It’s definitely daft.
Console plus band bundle? Yeah, even with discounts you’re still looking at a grand. You could upgrade your PC to the point of being cutting edge with that budget 😐
For that price i could buy a half decent PC so RB4 is a no go for me
I could buy RB4 or get myself an Xbone.
or use that money for something worth it? 😛
You could find someone’s old RB3 kit and use that?
I’ve been trying to get rid of my old RB3 instruments for a while and no one seems to want them 🙁
Would they work on a PS4?
Mine? No, mine are 360 instruments so are for Xbone. PS3 instruments will work with PS4.
The problem is I am still tempted to buy it. Just don’t tell Anton…
Hit Light 270 in Destiny last night. I’m slowly becoming relevant!
I just hit 294 yesterday and I think I may have just about hit the limit of what I can do without raid gear. Arranging a group of six people to do the raid sounds practically impossible though.
I’m setting myself up to start raiding with @cakesmith @blaghman and some others (not sure of the full list?) but keen as hell to try some out. Hopefully I can get a few more nice drops (that are actually the right class) before we start to boost myself a little higher.
There are a few quest lines with guaranteed high light rewards. The court of oryx one is a 300 artifact. The vanguard quest line for 5 strikes, 5 heroic strikes and the nightfall gives you a 300 shotgun(maybe different for other classes?), with a fireteam you’d knock that out no problem.
Yeah, I know if I actually pay more attention to rewards I could get there quick, but for now I’m happy with letting my Light progression amble along while I do whatever I feel like (or even just bum around in patrols).
I’ve actually been meaning to check out the Court. I have a couple of runes and haven’t looked into how they/the court works. Probably going to do that some time this week.
I just hung around there for a few hours and helped out with other fireteams. You still have a chance at some engrams even if you didn’t initiate it. Got more than a few 290+ blues.
Just hang around the court in peak hours people come and smash through runes, if theres a good amount of people you can walk out with a full inventory of blues and purples
Tell me when you wanna do the raid as im always keen, like you finding a group nowadays for a first time run is practically impossible. I even put up a thing on LFG, got added to a party instantly, asked if I had run the raid before, when I told them no they just laughed said this is awkward and kicked me from the party so I know what you mean.
I never got around to doing any of the raids because by the time I was ready everyone was just doing them to get their reps in so they didn’t want to waste time with people who didn’t know the raid backwards. Basically all of my time in Destiny has been strikes and Crucible.
I’m at 240 now with my Hunter and I’ll be looking to do some raids pretty soon as well. Finally got an exotic (Don’t Touch Me gauntlets) on the weekend so that pushed the light up a whole bunch! I’m RapscallionAu on PSN, playing on PS4. Feel free to invite me if you need someone and I’ll see what I can do.
I think I have you already, feel free to jump on if you see me on we can run some strikes and stuff
Thanks Cam, much appreciated! I’m usually on after 8:30pm most nights so if I see you or vice versa we can team up
the100.io
The easy way to find Destiny players. It’s pretty rad.
I got to 280-something on my hunter last night. I can now fail at Nightfall strikes! \o/
Yay you can now do the funnest way to make you feel like a shit player \o/
It does still exist!
Couldn’t find this last week & I was sad.
Does it?
…do we?
Existential, man
I played Pathfinder for the first time in over a year on the weekend as we decided to jump back into some of our old characters. Always a good feeling when the first combat resulted in me critting on my first attack and dealing a crap tonne of damage to a monstrous sea serpent. But then it ate me and that hurt. Good fun.
Also finally got around to watching Jurassic World which was cliched and predictable but good fun. It got me hankering for more dinosaurs and I’ve kinda got an itch to go back and play Dino Crisis again. I just need to find where I buried my old Playstation.
Oktoberfest was a pretty cool guy. The drink voucher system was a good idea and the outfits were pretty grand. Might even consider doing it myself, next time. Ambience was fantastic in the hall/tent with all the music, although it did mean I couldn’t hear shit.
Reckon next time I might go earlier to catch folks before they’re already half-gone, and maybe… Friday? When it’s not quite as busy, apparently.
So I haven’t posted here for a while, but thought I should try and get back into the swing of things.
Had a great Sunday with Taybies in Sydney. Got some drinks in me and a GELATO DONUT. Fun times continued on til later that night with dinner and all in all a great day. Also I got a new hat so HOW CAN YOU TOP THIS DAY?!
SHIGGY!
HI
Are you coming to Pax?
Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on if you like me or not, I won’t be at PAX. Little bit expensive to do it every year for me. Next year I plan to!
He’s got a new hat!
I want itI want itI want itI want itI want itI want itI want itI want itI want it
You are Valve’s target market.
Hola Tay
Spent all weekend at a mining Hackathon, being a team’s designated muggle.
Teamed up on the friday with five other people, four students and one older woman (who was a bit of a pain). Given I can’t write a line of code, i acted as general coffee boy, presentation expert, and specrroscopy dude, as well as basically a project manager.
54 hours later, we created a solution to the problem we picked that I’m pretty happy with, but alas didnt win. Was a cool experience.
Given i was there for work, I have today off as my weekend.
A monday morning question : which Psone game needs a remake/remaster/sequel? The psone era had so many curios
Tenchu
This was my first thought 😀
I’ve played a bunch of the newer things, but they just don’t compare to how much fun 1 and 2 were.
I was gonna say Crash Bandicoot for a remaster or such, but I think they actually still hold up quite well, especially on a Vita (what’s a Vita). And the original Tomb Raider but that got a pretty good remake last generation so…
Muppets Kart Racing or whatever.
Gex. Enough said
Or Front Mission
Power Diggerz/Power Shovel
Such a hilariously infuriating game.
Vagrant Story.
Mega Man Legends. Duh.
PS1 game specifically, or PS1-era?
I guess the correct answer for PS1 specifically is Suikoden. For the era though, Sakura Wars.
Tenchu.
Fear Effect.
Syphon Filter.
Vagrant Story.
Howdy Tayberinos.
Weekend was grand. Had my sister and her partner round for dinner and Mario Partying on Saturday, then Sydney meat on Sunday! Thanks @cookingmama for organising such a nice afternoon! Also I became part of some weird giant chalk art installation in the city for a bit, listened to some sweet new music, and was all around zen. Top times.
Next hype train is PAX! Trying to come up with a simple cosplay idea that isn’t my original ‘dress as CJ’ idea.
If Hayley’s articles have taught us nothing else, it’s that unique cosplays get more attention.
Going as CJ won’t work because CJ will be going as CJ. Going as CJ Cregg from the West Wing on the other hand…
10 / 10, would appoint White House Press Secretary
If you got 5 or 10 people to go as various CJs (including CJ), you could classify yourselves as a single cosplay effort, and therefore unique.
Just be an inkling like the rest of us. Group cosplays are fun too.
Also, thanks for coming to lunch! We had fun too.
Been looking at Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes on Steam, decided to buy it, and I’ll get a refund if I don’t like it.
Looked at videos on Youtube and the asynchronous multiplayer looks really good.
Has anyone else played it?
I thought that game was designed for the rift?
Apparently you can still use a regular monitor as well.
Oh? Now this I didn’t realize. If the objective is to keep the rest of the party from looking at the screen, it seems like it would also make a pretty brilliant iPad game.
I don’t think it would work as well if you’re able to have all players in the same room. The physical separation looks like it adds a lot to the experience.
EDIT: I should specify that I assumed the reason you were suggesting an iPad version is to be able to play in one room.
Oh, well… maybe. But mostly I was thinking of portability. 🙂
Not everyone’s going to be able to take their Oculus rig on holiday.
It turns out that when you actually buy decent tools, woodworking results improve substantially. I bought a router and a sander and now the wood is so smooth & rounded that you could lick it and not get a splinter!
I just have to varnish and assemble and then I’ll have a fancy new table for my playstation keyboard & mouse adapter (and the keyboard & mouse, I’m not just making a table for a small box)
Hi all! Hope everyone had a great weekend.
Spent a lot of mine in Destiny and Minecraft… tho somehow* lost nearly 3.5 hours work when Minecraft locked up my computer when closing the game. First time it’s happened since the 1.2 days…
Friday night, I gathered a group of rag-tag heroes and ventured into King’s Fall on my alt.
We got to the totems encounter, but by the time we got sufficiently coordinated to just need a lucky run, we had to call it for the night.Total loot for everyone was wormspore and moldering shards from the two preceding chests, which was a little disheartening, but we had fun. Plus, one of the legendary engrams that dropped for me decoded into a 290 Jade Rabbit, which is awesome fun.
Played some Ground Zeroes (and finished the main mission) Sunday – it was pretty fun – and was about to start Phantom Pain that night, but by the time I was ready to play everyone was online in Destiny, so I joined them. Got a tier 3 Court and a nightfall done on my titan (at last), and by swapping weapons from my warlock I got my hunter to 300. Starting to run out of things to do, tho, so hoping that Bungie start pushing out new quests every so often. Used to be I’d spend my nights doing the daily and bounties on each character… but the daily is now a once-per-account thing, and bounties kinda complete themselves… and the same six strikes in the heroic playlist get old after a while.
Started Phantom Pain this morning, with just enough time to get through the prologue. 0_o
Did I just create a character, only for him to be covered in bandages rendering my customisation moot, unplayable and killed off in the prologue? Or was that just a “do you remember what you look like? What? Classically handsome guy? No, you’re actually a grizzled old dude with a bum eye – get used to it.” I’m already lost, storywise, but quite enjoying it thus far. 😛*”Somewhow” because there’s a process that runs every two hours to backup my save, that apparently didn’t run in the 3.5hrs between the last backup and the crash.
If you were wondering who that random was when you and your friend were doing the daily story quest on Saturday, it was me. =P
Also, thanks for pointing out the shards, everyone just usually sprints through it.
No probs. 🙂 My friend needed them too, so I figured I’d point them out to you as well, just in case.
And now I feel like a dick for not pointing out the one under the bridge in the Asylum, because the invisible-platform-jumping can take 20 seconds or 20 minutes depending on platforming skill. Next time you’re in the Asylum during Regicide (or in the Alak-Hul strike, or fighting Ecthar), pull out your ghost at the bottom of the left stairs – there’s a series of platforms leading under the bridge to a third fragment (it’s on an overhang under the entrance end of the bridge).Hello friends, it’s me, Cakesmith. You may remember me from such posts as “You’re right, @rize is the worst” and “Ugh *upvotes*”.
I have to apologise for not making it to the Sydney thing yesterday. I have my reasons* that I won’t bore you with.
Anyway, spent the weekend holed up inside mostly, avoiding the outdoors. Played some Destiny and some Battlefront. Battlefront is pretty fun except when it’s not, which is 95% of the time you’re playing as Rebels. Getting randoms to co-ordinate an objective is hard.
Now I’m off to the airport to spend a week with my family so probably won’t be around much this week.
*
it’s that I hate you all****No I don’tI MISSED YOU
Rebel scum deserve what they get.
No worries! There’s always next time.
I’ve recently started watching Blue Mountain State on Netflix, having first heard of it when Rooster Teeth cast Alan Ritchson for the Lazer Team movie. It is possibly the dumbest show I’ve ever binge-watched. It has so many offensive elements that they somehow balance out. I almost feel like criticising the show for objectifying women and glorifying substance abuse would be like kicking a puppy.
It’s a dumb teen titty movie from the early 2000s turned into a TV series. Yet there’s something about the way it unashamedly embraces everything about the genre that makes the whole thing work.
I liked it. Sometimes you just need something dumb.
Oh absolutely. It’s been a nice break. I mean it’s a show about a football team where you never see a game, instead getting stories about the entire team contracting syphilis from sharing a fleshlight.
Just finished season 2 last night and watched a couple of episodes of season 3. I guess I’m nearly done then, at least until the movie comes out apparently next year?
Started watching Rick and Morty the other night. That show, just what the fuck. It’s like a train wreck that I just can’t look away from. Also god damn it, I swear Morty’s dad is just Cyril from Archer, given how he acts toward everything, that and being the same voice actor.
I need some other show to binge watch, saying that i should restart my Netflix sub and watch what I have saved on there.
I tried Rick and Marty after seeing the “where are my testicles, Summer?” clip on youtube. I pretty much got three episodes in and decided that was enough. The internet (mainly reddit) won’t shut up about it though so I’m kind of tempted to give it another try, but I think too many things grated on my nerves (like Rick’s constant hiccupping/belching) for me to stick with it.
It’s not as amazing as it’s been made out to be imo, like I don’t mind it, but it’s not one I could just rewatch time & time again. It also relies way too much on dirty humour, which is fine, but they go overboard most of the time.
Edit: yeah Rick’s hiccuping/burping gets real annoying I find.
Yeah, that bugged the hell out of me too, but it looks like they toned it down a bit about halfway through the season.
I watched 1st season recently, though, and their willingness to take deeply fucked-up continuity and run with it, despite the easy out of ‘infinite dimension-hopping’ actually hints at something deep and dark and… interesting.
I think it’s a show for nihilists.
See I’ve seen references/quotes to how incredibly “dark” and “serious” the show gets at times and I think I want to take the time to appreciate what people mean by that, which is the main reason I want to watch it.
There’s the obvious, cheap and fucked-up deaths, body-horror and such that maybe some refer to, but I think what most might be talking about is probably just the show standing on the edge of nihilism and peering in. What purpose is there to anything if everything is not only possible but actually happening right now and you can part the veil to see it all anytime you want? Staring into the abyss and realizing that nothing is staring back or cares, just consumes human insignificance without registering.
Some of that level of darkness may be in the eye of the beholder, but it feels to me like it more tries to quietly nod to that without dropping an anvil on your head about it, with perhaps one or two momentary exceptions.
I love the show but the dark and serious bits are a bit of an over statement. It’s a lot like how Futurama received a ton of praise for the episodes that got super real, when really those only made up a small part of the show and it’s was appealing. When it gets heavy it can get really heavy*, and at times the humour is really dark, but it’s not like say Bojack Horseman where you forget the show is a comedy.
Generally speaking it’s your standard sci-fi world hopping affair, exploring the usual alternate reality/time and space stuff, but they throw on weird twists and take the cliches in absurd directions. That’s where the fun stuff happens.
*Most of the heavy stuff is post adventure. So it’ll be a minute long closing gag rather than the subject of an entire episode.
Was any of Bojack Horseman season 1 supposed to be super dark? Because it had a few moments where it got comfortably “real” that I guess previous episodes had been building up to, but for the most part nothing I would have considered particularly “dark” I haven’t watched season 2 yet though.
Futurama had like seven seasons but what people remember are the three or four episodes that made them cry like babies. Which I guess is a good indicator that despite being an animated comedy adventure set 1,000 years in the future, it still had relatable characters that we connected with.
I wouldn’t call Bojack particularly dark but season two in particular takes long breaks from being funny. Rick and Morty strays into other areas but it rarely stops being funny (or at least trying to be funny).
Like Futurama Rick and Morty will spend the entire episode playing around with an idea like Rick being in love, then slam you at the end by revealing that yeah, this was actually important to him. Like how the worm episode of Futurama is just one giant joke about Fry having worms right up until he tries to play the holophonor at the end. The Seymour episode subtly builds a relationship with this dog we’ve never heard of before while distracting us from the realisation he’s doomed with jokes about Bender being jealous, and then unleashes it all with the revelation that he waited for Fry.
They’re not particularly deep or serious episodes they just sucker punch you. The same goes for Rick and Morty. They screw around and then they get you with something deep and serious when your guard is down.
So yeah, that’s a really long way of saying that people aren’t wrong to call it deep or serious but it’s more of an illusion created by ending particular episodes on a deep/serious note. If you want to get that sort of enjoyment out of it you pretty much have to be enjoying the rest enough that you leave yourself open for the sucker punch.
I’d agree with this for the most part if not for the implications and how they’re either utterly ignored but… present. Or referred to a lot but not fully addressed. Possibly ever (although Morty trying to reassure Summer mid-through an ep with the revelation about the graves in the backyard was a little sucker punchy). Like the one with the Council of Ricks.
Nah, Cyril is good at what he does and has a little confidence. Jerry is dumber, sadder and totally useless.
Saying that he could be Cyril’s twin just with the opposite personality lol.
That’s non-sense, everyone knows Archer is Cyril’s brother not Jerry. =P
My weekend sucked crap. 5am to 7am meeting saturday morning, didn’t sleep beforehand for reasons, and I’m still shattered as a result. Barely did anything. Watched anime and played about an hour of World of Warships (played a fucking awesome Myogi game and unlocked the first IJN carrier, then played four or so games in Furutaka and finally felt like I was getting the hang of her, and a couple of Kongo games and she still feels like a sack of shit compared to Myogi) and that was it. 🙁
I know the feeling. Had a tonne of stuff taking up the weekend which meant less video-game time than normal… stayed up too late trying to make that time up.
I hate Mondays because I’m usually more tired from having a weekend crammed full of stuff than I am by Thursday or Friday after a week of work. Staying up late like you do certainly doesn’t help either and I never learn to stop crippling my sleeping pattern.
I have to push myself to get up during the week – my natural biorhythms are completely out of whack and my notural wake-up time is about 9:30am – so if I don’t get to sleep in on the weekend and catch up, it ruins me for ages. Plus right now I’m not sleeping that well due to having a heck of a lot to worry about with my impending move. 🙁
My 5 year old Xbox 360 red ringed yesterday. Which sucks because I have one more week of uni left and I’ve actually started to get some free time and I’ve been playing through Assassins Creed 3 and Forza Horizon on it and now I can’t even get the friggen AC3 disc out of the console 🙁
I don’t care what quality standards are these days. I have ps2’s that still work, a launch day Wii that still works, and a 10+ year old launch day DS that still work. What’s Microsoft’s excuse, why did they even keep selling these pieces of garbage when they knew they were prone to dying?
I’ll probably buy a ps4 in the lead up to Christmas. Maybe that will last. For every good product/service that Microsoft offer, I keep forgetting that the other 95% of them are utter, pure shit.
They didn’t keep selling them. They redesigned the system and sold the redesigned version that doesn’t RRoD as easily. A lot of the reason the original systems were so unreliable is the design itself was flawed, rushed to market to get the jump on Sony (and it worked for them that gen). Also a lot of people use the system standing up and that way is far more prone to overheating issues and the chips coming away from the board.
If you were in Melbourne I’d offer you one of my old X360s. I want to be rid of them.
If his is 5 yrs old, it’s probably one of the redesigned ones. The redesign was a 2010 initiative IIRC.
https://twitter.com/Syrup321/status/653137956371173376
The 360S doesn’t RRoD. It Red Dots. They took out the 3 red lights error completely..
Excellent point. I stand corrected.
Morning all! Had a great weekend on Destiny. A rag-tag group of four of us jumped into the Raid for the first time and we got through the first few parts until we came across the first mass battle area that probably requires a little more staff for co-ordination purposes.
Also I had a black box in my room that I haven’t looked at for a while. Turns out it is an Xbox One so I fired it up and whilst browsing saw a game called Elite – Dangerous. I did the basic tutorial (avoiding combat for now) and am thinking about whether it is worth investing the massive amount of time into it with Destiny still on and Fallout around the corner. Thoughts?
@mrtaco and @pixel_the_ferret_viking are the ones to ask
As someone with zero interest in Destiny or Fallout, I say yes absolutely 😛
I find it hard to recommend though, because it seems to be such a polarising game. Some people absolutely love it, while others absolutely loathe it. Some will sink hundreds of hours into it, others will maybe get to the tens before deciding they’ve had enough. And all of them for completely different reasons. Eg I’m perfectly happy running around in my Sidewinder doing missions (or now, sinking way too much time into CQC), while Pixel is content with going off exploring the stars. I tried going off on an exploration trip but only made it out about a couple hundred lightyears before wanting to turn back, and he had a go at CQC and didn’t seem to care for it at all. So yeah, hard to say 😛
I don’t think I quite made it to the tens. I didn’t absolutely loathe it, I just… nothing it. Directionless. Pointless. Hard to pick out any real stories or narrative without paying super close attention at a level I’m not prepared to dedicate. There’s still times when I think it might be cool to go do some things, but then I remember where I was and how boring what I was doing to get money was and I shrug and forget about it.
It’s the best ‘dicking around in space’ sandbox I can think of, just there’s no point to being there except enjoying the mechanics. Which I could take or leave.
Story? What’s that for? 😛
Motivation. Inspiration. Reward.
ie: The only thing that matters.
I get that more from the mechanics, I guess. Being good at flying and shooting is the motivation, beating others at it is the reward!
I am a big fan of Euro Truck Simulator though yet can’t put a reason as to why. I guess this game could be similar, carting cargo around from spaceport to spaceport. It does appear a massive time sink though.
I could just wait years for No Man’s Sky which could become my stress free wind down style game after the mayhem of Raiding with mates on Destiny. (Name of my new sex tape. Ah Thanks Peralta!)
You would, you Summer-lover. 😛
What Transient said.
Mechanically, visually: it’s great. Simply flying ships around and fighting and landing at stations is enjoyable to do.
And having the entire galaxy simulated sounds great if you like to explore.
But that breadth comes at a decided lack of depth. Once you have done the things there is no reason to do them again other than a “get bigger ship” grind.
Missions are repetitive milk runs, NPC fights tend to play out the same way and have no point to them, systems and stations are all basically the same.
And while setting off into the great frontier is pretty cool, in practice all you will be doing is: Warp to system, hit scan button, scoop fuel, cruise over to anything lucrative and hit other scan button, warp to next system. Repeat for X million stars as desired.
I see how it could be fun for some but not for I, not in it’s current iteration.
And with the price of DLC, probably not future iterations either.
I was absolutely crushed by some guys trying to do a full galaxy exploration and someone else crunching the numbers that even if everyone alive was doing it, we still wouldn’t have the galaxy mapped before our sun experienced heat-death or something similar. The scale kind of renders everything futile.
Hooray for me! I’ve found a branch of star systems that takes you THIRTY YEARS to get to! I can’t wait for everyone else to follow my trail… for…. whatever reason! Or do exactly the same thing themselves, because anyone can do that and not even cross paths with one another.
Depressing a. f.
It could be cool if you could actually find stuff out there. If around some of those stars there was something unique that you could show off and no-one else potentially would ever find. And maybe if you could build a jump gate back to civilization or some such so you are actually making tracks for humanity or something.
But with that many, all just realistically generated dead rocks and gas? Eh.
That’s why No Man’s Sky still interests me. Sure it’s another trillion stars that are impossible to fully explore.
But at least there is stuff there to find and see, things happening and a kinda point to it all in spiraling into the center.
Depressing maybe, but this is the reality of space exploration. The amount of time it takes just to get to the edge of our solar system means that even if you got there, you’d never be going home to tell anyone about it. That it would take generations of travellers to reach even the next nearest solar system within our galaxy, let alone anything beyond that. No Man’s Sky is exhilarating for this very reason.
Mm, see for me it’s not so much about the novelty of new planets/species as much as the stories that come out of that… which are almost always human stories, people interacting with each other. I don’t think it matters how tiny a part of space we manage to spread to or even just visit, what’s always going to be more interesting is who we meet there and how we interact.
But with with our Mixed Technology NBN infrastructure “on the way soon” surely the time it takes to communicate between solar systems will be reduced to almost nothing?
Oh and quick note ex the Ministers Office : *Please note: Based on 2025 predictions of 300kB download per household per month.
Hi all. Played a bunch of the Battlefront beta on the weekend. It was alright, but I don’t think I’ll be picking it up. There were a bunch of little gameplay decisions that I didn’t really like, and no campaign is a big turn off.
Also played a lot of Fire Emblem Awakening and was really disappointed to find out I couldn’t turn my female units into dread warriors, and that the female equivalent of one is a support bride class. Gendering classes like that sucks, especially since most of my best damage units are female and could have used the aggressor skill that comes with dread warrior.
I was the opposite, was turned off by the no campaign but loved the beta weekend. Well, loved it when it worked that is.
We had absolutely no operational issues on Friday night, but Sunday had so many various problems. Kinda sucks you had to get that end of it 😛
I played a couple of games on Saturday and it was fine.
NegativeZero’s New Anime Season Update Part 3
Watching the new season so you don’t have to.
Continuing from part the first and part the second.
Subete ga F ni Naru: The Perfect Insider
This is this season’s noitaminA show. For those unaware, noitaminA is a programming block on Fuji TV that airs one or two shows every season that are generally very high quality and targeting a different audience than the usual otaku-oriented late-night anime. It’s run a bunch of very good shows over the years. Anyway, Perfect Insider seems very interesting. It’s a mystery show, adapting an actual novel (not a light novel). The ‘detective’ of the story appears to be a brilliant but eccentric professor at a university, and one of his students is an extremely rich girl. There’s also some weird chick floating around that apparently is a child prodigy that murdered her family when she was younger or something, but maintains that a ‘doll’ did it. I’m not sure how this is all going to come together – the mystery itself doesn’t seem to have started. It shows some promise though.Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru
Aka ‘A Corpse is Buried Under Sakurako’s Feet’ or ‘Beautiful Bones’. Another mystery-ish show, again following that more western-style mystery formula with an eccentric genius and an everyman assistant. In this case, the main character is a high school kid who has somehow become entangled with Sakurako, a beautiful woman in her late twenties who is an incredibly talented expert on bones and skeletons, as well as general forensics work picked up by helping her uncle, a forensic detective, on multiple cases. They often go digging together to look for bones to add to her collection and have a tendency to discover corpses. I really like the look of this show. It’s actually TROYCA’s first production on their own – previously they co-produced Aldnoah Zero with A-1 pictures, but prior to that had only done in-betweening work. Seems like a good debut. I’ll be keeping an eye on it for sure, though it feels like it might be a show that works best in bursts rather than weekly.Osomatsu-san
I don’t think I’m the target demographic here. Apparently Osomatsu-san was a 1960s-era cartoon about sextuplets. They decided to reboot it and target it at the demographic that enjoys BL comics. Not my sort of thing, unfortunately. Don’t know if it’s good or not. At least now the show’s not in black in white so the boys can be color-coded for your convenience. Definitely dropping.Shomin Sample
The actual title for this is ridiculously long and I cbf looking it up to copy/paste it. Basically the main character is an utterly average high school boy in every way. He is suddenly abducted and finds himself attending a secret private school for incredibly rich, and sheltered ladies that have never interacted with men and have no idea about how the real world works. His job is to be a ‘sample’ of the common man. Also he apparently got the job because his classmate claimed that he was super gay and only liked macho muscley men. I’m not sold on this at all. It’s pretty dumb. I thought the concept had some comedic potential but in practice it’s basically a series of awkward girl-comes-onto-guy-but-is-too-sheltered-or-stupid-to-realize-it vignettes which was already getting old by the end of the episode. I’m not quite ready to write it off entirely but I don’t feel confident about it. The season’s got too many better shows.Anti-magic Academy: The 35th Test Platoon
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. So there’s a school, right? But rather than schoolwork, they learn fighting techniques. And one group in particular are infamous for being the worst of them and it happens to be the main character’s team. He’s a potato-kun and the rest of the cast are cute but weird girls. In this case the setup is that they’re in training to become Inquisitors and hunt witches and track down dangerous magical artifacts. A new girl is assigned to the group after being stripped of her Inquisitor rank and sent back to school after she murdered a couple of people she was supposed to capture. Actually this seemed halfway decent, even though there’s life five of these shows this season. May watch some more. Seemed like it was going to skew a lot darker than the others. Giving it another few episodes to develop.Hidan no Aria AA
Going in I assumed that this was a sequel to the original anime from a few years ago, but it turns out it’s some kind of spinoff. The setting is completely ridiculous. Another one of those battle school things, but in this case the schoolkids are always getting into gunfights with criminals. It was a completely dumb show from the era where if there was an tsundere heroine with anger management issues, a complex about her boob size and a tendency to get really shrill and violent at the drop of a hat, you could guarantee that Rie Kugimiya would be voicing her. :\ Still, I kind of liked it. This spinoff though appears to have most of the original cast as side characters, where the actual protagonist is a completely useless girl with a big heart who somehow manages to convince Aria to take her as her partner. Could go either way. I’m not watching more of it unless it’s subtitled better though. The only option was a fansub and I’ve seen chinese bootlegs that were more accurate and had better command of English grammar. I could sub it better myself. As it was, I ended up turning the subs off and watching the show in raw Japanese, as it was easier to watch that way. :\Gochuumon wa Usagi Desuka??
Second season of this. It’s basically a cute-girls-being-cute show. It’s enjoyable and relaxing and has some funny moments. Complete fluff, really. Cocoa’s staying with her uncle and his super cute daughter, Chino. They help out at his cafe/bar during the day, assisted by Rize, an extremely elegant and rich girl who has a secret thing for firearms, Chiya, who helps run a traditional sweets shop and is so laid-back I suspect she’s constantly high, and Sharo, who helps run one of the other cafes. Oh also, because of some sequence of events not elaborated on, Chino’s grandfather’s soul is possessing an Angora Rabbit that spends most of its time sitting on Chino’s head. This is a bad description but there’s not much to describe. It’s a cute show about cute girls being cute.Concrete Revolutio
It’s very anime. I could barely follow the first episode. Main character is a magical girl and there’s a dude that says he’s not special but has a giant robot and has fire that comes out of his arm and they fight space aliens that turn into giant people in order to protect other aliens that are living peacefully and what the shit was going on? I think there was bits in multiple time periods. Couldn’t make sense of anything. Just constantly crazy. Didn’t really see anything here that made me want to watch more either, so probably will drop it.Owari no Seraph: Battle in Nagoya
Season 2 of this. I quite like it, though the anime disappointed me compared to the manga which I really got into earlier in the year. It’s not great but it’s solid. Post-Apocalyptic setting in which the world has been largely taken over by vampires. The main character, an orphan, was captured by them as a child and taken to the capital where they basically use humans like livestock, drawing blood from them regularly. He escapes (or is allowed to escape) but the rest of his ‘family’ of orphans is murdered and his closest friend turned into one of them. It’s farily dark and kind of dumb at times but it’s anime so that’s expected. I think that this season will go past where I was up to in the manga so that’ll be nice. Regular watch for me probably.Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid
Very, very dumb boobie show, part of a mixed media franchise by Marvelous. I believe that we have Kenichirō Takaki (the Senran Kagura guy, ‘Tits are Life, Ass is Hometown’) to blame for this whole mess. The main character is somehow ‘special’ so she’s abducted from school one day and loaded onto a rocket that shoots her onto an isolated tropical island full of lesbians. Not long after, a lesbian combo roll up and one of them becomes aroused and turns into a machine gun. Then another girl arrives that looks eerily like a clone of Milla from Tales of Xillia and it turns out they’re super compatible with each other and they have a passionate encounter and then the main character suddenly turns into a sword and they beat the other lesbians so hard their clothes come off. My description actually makes this sound more entertaining than it was, unfortunately. At least the TV broadcasts are uncensored I guess. Probably not going to watch more though. Wasn’t hugely appealing.At this point about 90% of the new stuff has debuted as well. The only one that I was looking forward to that doesn’t seem to have any official or fan-made subtitles available is the new Lupin, which is shame. My regular watch list is looking like:
– Kindaichi Returns S2
– Lance N Masques
– Itoshi no Muco
– Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen
– Noragami Aragoto
– Yuruyuri San Hai
– Gochuumon wa Usagi Desuka??
– Owari no Seraph S2
– Owarimonogatari (note: have not watched any yet, but I know I will)
– Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-blooded Orphans
And on the fence still over (in rough order that I think I’ll prioritize watching more):
– One-Punch Man
– Sakurako-san
– The Perfect Insider
– Heavy Object
– Comet Lucifer
– Asterisk War
– Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry
– Hidan no Aria AA
– Shomin Sample
One-Punch Man looks to be my kind of ridiculous so that will probably be my main anime for this season. I’m still waiting on a plot though so it could easily turn into crazy bad.
I don’t think it’ll ever have a plot beyond the dude being bored with life and punching things to death in epic fights.
Are you using nyaa.eu to find fansubs/Horrible rips?
I can neither confirm nor deny.
Tokyo ToshokanI picked up One Punch Man and Concrete Revolutio so far.
Loving OPM, ridiculousness plus great animation.
I couldn’t follow Concrete Revolutio, I’ll give it a few more eps.
The first episode of OPM had some absolutely epic sakuga. You’d normally expect to see animation like that only in really climactic fight sequences in action shows toward the end of a season, and even there it’d be a treat. Getting like three action sequences of that quality in the first episode was amazing.
Not sure they’ll be able to afford to maintain that though. Animating that way isn’t cheap.
It had a nice balance between the gag scenes and the fight scenes. It would be nice if they had that kind of animation with every ep.
That level of action animation for a whole TV series is super rare. Only ones that immediately come to mind are Birdy the Mighty and Noein. Normally to maintain high animation fluidity the quality has to go down (see for example Rolling Girls – they greatly simplify the character models to achieve fluidity). I reckon this is part of the secret behind Yoh Yoshinari’s success. His stuff is widely regarded as being really well animated and extremely stylish and cool, but if you actually break down the action in his stuff like Gurren Lagann or Kill la Kill, it’s just a sequence of cool poses that the character snaps between. The keyframes are really obvious and it’s probably not that time-consuming to draw, but it’s very striking and effective. Heck, a lot of his stuff is still frames and camera shake.
The issue though is probably not so much the cost as it is the time. Anime episodes generally don’t have a lot of lead time between production and broadcast, and the thing with those Sakuga sequences is that they’re generally keyframed by one animator. Getting it all done on time is a heck of a lot of work, especially if you’ve only got a day or two of leeway.
Shirobako was one hell of an eye-opener in this respect.
Shirobako is seriously necessary viewing for anyone into anime. Learning exactly what goes into making the stuff is really interesting and gives you a different appreciation for it all I think. Same with understanding the general animation process.
Right? And the politics of adaptations, character design, directorial decisions and motivations, delays, 3D vs 2D/CG vs hand, season/cour length… Madness. Can’t see pretty much anything without thinking about that.
@transientmind: 3DCG can fucking die in a fire right now. I hate it when they use cel-shaded 3D models. It never looks good. Never. Only one to come close was Arpeggio of Blue Steel and that still had a lot of creepy movements and awkward angles.
One of the shitty harem fighting shows this season is using Live2D characters for the next-episode previews and that seems better than the 3D approach, but there’s too much movement and stuff jumping around everywhere in the way they’ve done it. That tech still seems better suited for games.
It’s always pretty painful, even in shows where they’ve contrived to create an ‘alternate world’ which excuses the fact that they had to dramatically shift styles to accommodate the difference in 3DCG, like Etotama or that uh… music one where everyone was animal people.
Well, that was also probably done to shift 3D merchandise.
Edit: Oh, that said, I did find myself getting heavily into Kingdom.
Actually there’s one example of it being used effectively: Berserker in Fate/Zero. CG character but so covered in 3D effects and everything that it just looked awesome. But ufotable are about the only studio out there that can pull off seamless 3D and 2D like that. Also amazing at using digital effects.
I also suspect that 3DCG is still more expensive to do well than 2D is.
What’s a potato-kun?
(Edit: I’m not sure if Neg’s borrowed the phrase, but the first time I remember him using it was to describe I think Tokyo Ghoul’s protagonist.)
A young guy with the distinctive personality of… a potato.
Intentionally-bland self-insertion wish-fulfilment-fodder.
Boy with the personality of a potato. Bland and unoffensive, not particularly flavorsome on its own but goes well with more interesting things. Usually despite being so completely uninteresting, he’s irresistible to women.
I believe it was first coined that I can remember to describe this guy:
http://i.imgur.com/ETmt9JJ.jpg
Dan-kun from Bamboo Blade. Short and squat and featureless with a head shaped like Mr Potato and pretty much completely useless for the entire show, yet somehow the most attractive member of the female cast was his girlfriend.
For those that haven’t seen the latest Star Citizen video, I strongly recommend you watch this:
Dear god, those names at the end…
You can’t really say they are not putting those millions to work.
Whether it’s the best use is debatable but should be pretty damn cool.
Well, they’re clearly not putting it into writing, because, sheeesh.
Hope they’re going for ham on purpose.
There’s a great doco on Netflix called The Poisoners Handbook. It’s about Charles Norris and Alexander Gettler’s efforts to establish toxicology as a legitimate forensic science, having to deal with big business and simpletons. Very much enjoyed it.
I read Charles Norris as Chuck Norris and I was instantly happy but then not after I realised my mistake 🙁
Still sounds interesting though!
Add to the list
That sounds cool, but is it on US Netflix or AU Netflix?
Looks like it’s on everything as far as I can tell. I’ve been watching Canadian Netflix lately. They really love their B tier revenge films.
Have you seen The Act of Killing? It’s unreal.
Who do I talk to about getting added to the Kotaku AU clan in Destiny? I’ve sent a request through.
You have to be the son of a Kotaku AU clan member or save the life of a Kotaku AU clan member.
I think he’s “defended” me in Destiny a few times, which is where he murders something attacking me when I’m low on health, or something.
So he’s technically fulfilled the latter.
You remember those self-hypnosis courses we took to help us ignore Blaghman? Maybe we should be listening to him now.
This actually explains so much.
I thought I’d just stopped being funny, but now I see that I’m just not getting pity upvotes anymore.
That’s just because the site updates broke upvoting completely so that you click it and nothing happens.
You bet, I still think I’m a chicken. I’m a chicken, Rize
I think @thecracks is the leader/mod/guy
Currently on my way back from Japan. If the other admin guy (eccentric) hasn’t cleared applications by tomorrow evening, I’ll do it when I’m home.
Cheers,
Big Ears!Cracks!Busy weekend. Went out for dinner on Friday night for a highschool friend’s birthday, so got to catch up with a bunch of familiar faces there. Played some ridiculously awesome CQC matches when I got home, and nearly ended up filling up my hard drive with the shadowplays. Terrible habit now, I don’t really want to go through them all to clear out the folder 😛
Saturday, both Wingman and I were itching to do something so organised an impromptu thing for that night with the rest of the gang. Took around my sister’s fire pit (which I found was filled with water and rust. Great), got some marshmallows and firewood, finally got to have fire. Though I spent most of the night chopping up the wood and making a whole lot of noise. Sorry, neighbours. Dunno who decided to make the wood so hard though. Jerks. Also had to endure many lumberjack comparisons, mostly thanks to the beard 😛 And then I got blisters. Baw.
Sunday, had just enough time to get home and dump everything out of the car then turn around and head off to the city for TAYmeat. I was pretty zombie though, thanks to a broken night’s sleep on a tiny tiny lounge next to a terrible snorer. Also sunlight. But finally got to meet CookingMama! Fate did not conspire to prevent it this time 😛 Also, Batboy’s enthusiasm for… well, everything actually, is pretty great.
And now I am exhausted. Hermit mode engage.
It was nice to meet you too (even if we didn’t get to talk much!) Glad you had fun 🙂
Playing through Uncharted games is making me realise an Uncharted movie wouldn’t really work. Uncharted is pure video game with 50% shooting people in the face, 45% climbing things and about 5% actually progressing a story. Movie would be terrible.
Disagree. Movie would be able to skip out the tedious shooting bits and focus on the characters, story and the platformy puzzle bits and basically be Indiana Jones.
The shooting dudes in the face is the worst part of Uncharted.
Partially disagree.
You are probably correct that an awesome movie would be the story and character focus with a hint of the platformy puzzle bits and minor running from gunfire a la Indy…
…But shooting dudes in the face is a crucial part of Uncharted. Very important. Playing video games should pretty much always be about shooting dudes in the face, thanks to how fulfilling and satisfying it is. A game lives or dies on how good it feels to shoot its dudes in the face. This is why racing games are bad. Only a few rare gems feature shooting dudes in the face.
Uncharted’s face shooting is neither fulfilling nor satisfying. Especially when it’s the assholes with shotguns that wear helmets and are impervious to gunfire and like to bum rush you and/or spam grenades at you the instant you try and find cover.
Ah, see… that’s where the crucial point is! You were not shooting them in the face thanks to helmets, and all of a sudden it became unsatisfying! There must be more face-shooty.
There’s also the fact they respawn in unending waves, that they don’t react properly to being shot, and that everything takes entirely too many bullets to kill. The combat in Uncharted is the worst part of the game by far.
Incidentally it’s why I’ve always avoided The Last of Us as well. I hate the gunplay in Uncharted but I absolutely loathe the shitty stealth in it so the idea of having to do that repeatedly in situations where you can insta-fail if you don’t do it exactly the way they intend – especially when they’re so fucking atrocious at showing you what they actually intended by hinting it in the level design! – sounds like one of the worst experiences I could ever have playing a game.
Naughty Dog are amazing at visuals and their technical prowess is second to none. I love the characters and worlds they make and I highly enjoy their platforming style, but the rest of their gameplay sucks ass.
EDIT: I also hate how easy it is to fuck up and die in a lot of their stuff by not executing perfectly and exactly as intended, and how starting over and re-doing the same fucked up chase / run away from something sequence – or any other ‘cinematic’ gameplay sequence, really – more than once or twice makes it feel like the wheels have completely come off and utterly destroys the sense of immersion.
The Last of Us is a very different game. The Stealth is a lot, lot better than Uncharted, and you have extra tools at your disposal.
Its also a fucking amazing game.
I’m unwilling to take a risk on it until I can get it a lot cheaper than it currently sells for.
@negativezero if you still have a ps3 and can cope with ps3 graphics I’ll gladly send you my copy
@redartifice: if I’m playing it, I’m playing it on PS4. I have my PS3 but it feels like going back to the dawn of time when I turn it on.
EDIT: Also for what it’s worth, depressing post-apocalyptic zombie bullshit is one of my least favourite genres in all of pop culture, and I loathe stealth games.
Yep. I really like Uncharted but the shooting sucks. There’s like three or four shootouts played over and over. The enemies don’t really change they just swap between one of four or five basic weapon types (which are all introduced pretty much right away). The encounters aren’t particularly well made or interesting. Each encounter drags on just a little too long. The enemies just sort of flood in from all directions in a way that makes me think the developers had no idea how to design a cover based fire fight. The strategy for cover is more or less ‘I got shot, which direction did the bullet come from?’.
I’m seriously considering knocking it down from Normal to Explorer. It’s by no means a terrible game or anything but I wouldn’t play it if it was just shooting.
Personally if I were to make an Uncharted movie I’d model it after the Mission Impossible movies. Plenty of action and stunts. Replace the gadgets and breaking into spy places with puzzles and temples and you’ve pretty much got it. I’ll agree with @freezespreston that a direct lift of Uncharted wouldn’t work for plot reasons, but I think the source material has enough to write a really good script from without having to butcher it like Resident Evil.
On a side note Last of Us is better. It’s not as repetitive and things actually do change a little as you progress. It has similar flaws but they improved on them and aside from the ending the story is a lot better.
Um, no, that ending was a-fucking-mazing.
The core concept was brilliant, but the actual execution where he goes all kill frenzy sucked. It makes sense in simple broad terms, backed into a corner and all that, but it was oddly disconnected from the narrative (to the point where it conflicted). It just flips a switch at the end of a cut scene and you go from characters with depth to pure video game good guy killing bad guys stuff. He murders a bunch of hospital staff then plows through a bunch of Storm Troopers to the finish line.He had reasons for doing that and part of the character is that he can be as cut throat as he has to be, but it didn’t feel like they acknowledged that. He doesn’t show any restraint at all which would be fine, but they didn’t show that he’d been pushed past his limits either. He was killing them the same way he would some bandits. He grows as a person but he acts in a way that’s exactly like every other shootout in the game.
I understand video game plots require video game endings but I think they could have made everything they had there work a lot better with one or two passes over the script.
It’s all right. It’s being reimagined as a kid-friendly flick about a crime-fighting family and their lovable canine companion who can sniff out ancient treasure.
They’ve got this sorted.
Will the dog (Chloe) be voiced by Claudia Black? Because I would watch that movie.
Maybe less so if the dog is Sully.
Well, Eyefinity is finally working.
Had a two hour bash with Euro Truck Simulator 2, and it’s gorgeous.
Short notice but I’ll be in Brisbane on Monday and Tuesday next week (19th-20th) and in Sydney on Wednesday to Sunday (21st to 25th)
WILL UNIQLO OPEN BY THEN @DC ?!
Hey, I only noticed your Malcolm tweet to me over the weekend. I thought it was a bit late to reply, though, 😛 There can only ever be one Malcolm, but I might give this season a try.
I wasn’t purposely ignoring you and I still love you, Greenman!
:’)
I think you can stream them here! http://www.9jumpin.com.au/show/survivor/episodes/secondchance/episode-1/second-chance/#autoplay
#Joega
I didn’t realise there was a UNIQLO in the city. Thought it was just at Macquarie until the weekend. And ohmigod it’s like five times bigger.
This is not relevant to anything.
Uniqlo is always relevant.
Wait… I’m starting to get confused. Is Uniqlo considered to be good or bad?
Because in some of the anime I’ve seen, chicks rip on characters for mostly wearing Uniqlo. c.c
It’s exotic to us, though. EXOTIC. (Also they have QUITE the selection of lumberjack shirts!)
Uniqlo is awesome for the cheap essentials! I find it really good for what it its worth (cheap enough and decent enough quality).
They’re probably sick of it in Japan though :P. Wikipedia tells me there are 793 stores there D:
If I’d known that I would have dropped into one when I was in Japan.
And they would have laughed at me, since I’m a Japanese XXXXXXXXXXXXXL.
Or a M here!
You could have gotten the rad shirt that we got that is just a big black box with “this image is not available in your country” on it.
You guys got matching shirts?
@greenius: not all of us, but I’m fairly sure that @transientmind, @jocon and myself did.
Sadly I’ve put on weight from the stress of everything since then so I don’t think I can fit into it 🙁
I didn’t get one. My brother did, though.
Can confirm. They’re fucking everywhere here.
Nah, I read that it’s opening in the Summer. Peaked through the scaffolding the other day and still a construction site. 😛
Don’t worry greenius, there’s a Uniqlo in Sydney. Several, probably.
Oh, he knows.
He knows…
Booourns! Should be this week damn it! I’m back to work next week, so doubtful I’ll be able to do a meet on Mon/Tue
I’d only really have time on Monday evening but that’ll be as soon as I arrive so I might be too tired 😛
I’m relocating to there so I’m sure there’ll be plenty of opportunities to meet the gang 😀
Oh cool! Wasn’t aware of that! Sounds great!
Max is snuggling on the bed, and I may have ben asleep for nearly five hours…
Apparently Digital Homicide are still doing shitty things. A year on and the company is still mad at Jim Sterling. I love it.
Didn’t they see what happened to Day One: Gary’s Incident?
What a bunch of fucknuts.
So how bout those Goosebumps audio books?
No, really: https://www.humblebundle.com/books
Why would you do thiiis *hovers over buy button*
Do what?
https://www.humblebundle.com/books
Aargh! What! Only 2 weeks until PAX? When did that happen?
Well, certainly not a week ago.
Pip Boy is nearly done, just detailing now
All aboard the Jarryd Hayne Hype Plane Train?
Choo Choo! He almost scored a goal!
TWO AND A HALF WEEKS FREEZE.
Jesus, don’t do that to me. The time I have left is ticking away so fast. 🙁
P.S. my passes still haven’t arrived. 🙁
Yay!!
argh! Still a lot of cosplay to do.
Thanks to @sernobulus @blaghman and a bunch of randoms we managed to knock over a bunch of Court of Oryx stuff in Destiny last night. Ended up with a tonne of blue drops and a couple of purples…one of which was actually useful.
Now Light 285! \o/
Oh yeah, not that it really matters until you do the raid, but if you want to keep track of your calcified fragments (cc. @jocon) (and also worth noting that it can only handle it from an account wide perspective, not character based (not that that’s really relevant to you as of right now though)): https://destinycalcifiedfragments.com/
Yeah that will be handy.
Don’t spose you also need to do the Undying Mind strike part of the quest?
I managed to knock it over myself, by crying in the corner and rocking back and forth a lot.
If you see me on though, feel free to just yell at me and if I can help I will.
Thanks! I should try and knock off all the easy ones as a priority. I’m really enjoying the fragments of story that come with them.
I’m starting to wonder if there’s a certain line in the code that specifically says that I can not ever get any drops from the court.
Questions:
1) Does anyone here have Mortal Kombat X on the PC?
2) Does it work?
My copy wont launch since the Tremor patch. Shows the MKX splash screen then… “MKX.exe is not responding.”
Re-installed twice. No help. Every time I try to verify the game cache, it gets to about 95% done & then the time remaining just skyrockets. like… 1y12w6h48s remain.
any thoughts?
Maybe it’s just telling you to wait until Jan 4, 2017?
Anyone here handy with electrical repairs? I’ve got a few power points in the house that have developed cracks in the rocker switches and I’m thinking of getting replacement switches from Bunnings or somewhere and swapping them out. Is this the kind of thing that often leads to ‘last words before electrocution’ or are they actually user replaceable?
I’m currently basing my confidence for this job off repairing a few of those inline lamp switches and opening up a powerboard or two, the switches in those looked more or less the same as basic switch stuff I’ve seen in the past, a rocker switch with a bar that clips into a housing in the actual power point but I’ve never opened a real power point to see if they’re the same. Am I better off calling an electrician to replace the lot at once or am I not that likely to kill myself trying this? If it was PC maintenance or controller repair I could almost do it in my sleep but the whole “You’re millimetres away from the mains power of the entire city” thing is a slightly new experience.
Replacing home power sockets is fairly straight forward – just be sure to turn the power off.
Ask @rocketman. He loves people wondering if they should do mains work DIY.
It’s pretty straightforward. Though its illegal.
It’s not replacing the power POINT though, its the little plastic switch inside it. Is that still dodgy?
in NSW, yeah.
From the Electricity (Consumer Safety) Act:
Well FINE, I won’t electrocute myself! You win this round NSW!
If I’m understanding you correctly you’re still going to need to do wiring work for that. The wiring actually gets a little more complicated with those modular systems. Unless you’re trying to replace the actual plastic components of a switch, in which case I’d say you’re coming at this weirdly enough that you definitely shouldn’t do this yourself. Normally outside the box thinking is great, but when it comes electronics you don’t want to be the guy with the crazy DIYer solution.
It definitely is just the plastic switch I want to swap, not the power blocking/opening component. I’m evidently shit at explaining things, I just want to take the plate off, take out the busted plastic bit & put a new one in
Yeah that’s not a great way of doing it. You don’t want to tamper with the insides of these things when you can just replace the entire socket. They’re not really built to be fiddled with like that. Aside from the risk of the creating a death button by doing something wrong, if your sockets are old enough that the switches are buggered they’re either super cheap, super old or both, it’s probably not a bad idea to get a sparky in to do the job and have a peak at the general house wiring. If the switch itself is cracked or misaligned then there’s a good chance there’s so much damage/wear on the internal components that you’d be replacing 90% of it anyway. I would imagine you’d have to buy an entire new socket (or a switch module) anyway, so even if you do it yourself you’re going to spend the same amount replacing the socket as the switch.
Sorry to be such a buzzkill but I’d rather that than have you show up a week from now with your mind blown. Not everyone shrugs off electrical damage like I do. =P
Sounds like you’re trying to talk me out of a buzz kill…
From a practical point of view it’s pretty easy, but I wouldn’t do it unless you’re qualified.
It’s really easy to be over confident with this stuff. If you can put together LEGO you can wire a house. It’s not rocket science. However the big thing is that it’s not really your life on the line. You’re probably not going to kill yourself by jamming a screw driver in the wrong place while the power is on. It’s everyone else in the house. Screwing up one of the more subtle aspects of wiring a house can put anyone using the socket in danger (or even just anyone sleeping in a house with faulty wiring).
It sucks to get someone in, it’s like calling a plumber to change your washers, but unlike some dodgy washers this has the potential to go really badly.
Its actually suprisingly straightforward. but the thing is, i wouldn’t do it, Man i play with electronics all day, i have even wired sockets before, I actually have a lot of the same qualifications as a electrician,HOWEVER
Please just call a electrician, there are so many things that can go wrong and its quite easy to become complacent with easy jobs like this. Unless you have the proper respect for it and know what mistakes cause what problems its jut safer for everyone. By all means learn how it works but im just saying i work with the stuff all the time and i don’t even do my own electrical work.
Get an electrician. Aside from the risk of electrocution, it’s also a tops way to burn your house down and not be covered by insurance.
HI TAY!
BAI TAY!
HI PUPP-…oh, he’s gone.
I’ve been reduced to lurker status at the new job =O
That said its about 600 times better than the last workplace I had xD
Got myself up to 250 light with the best stuff equipped last night, doing the daily’s to get the legendary marks and a couple of the gunsmith jobs. Need some more marks tonight so will be on again tonight if anyone wants to join in
What’s your PSN dealy?
RapscallionAu is the handle kind sir
Added!
Accepted, thanks!
So I’ve booked my accommodation for my Melbourne trip. I’m staying at Urban Central Accommodation which is near Crown and not too far from anywhere. $165 for 5 nights, including free continental breakfast. Sounds like a nice place to stay, and convenient too.
Now I’ve booked my accommodation, I can start thinking a bit more about the meat I am planning. I’m thinking that as Spectre comes out the week I’m in Melbourne, we can go and see that, perhaps at Crown, and have tea there as well. It will be either Friday the 13th or Saturday the 14th, depending on what suits everyone the best. Thoughts?
You should tag the Melbourne TAY brigade.
And in other news, I missed the notification from @cookingmama about the Sydney Meat and totally forgot about the whole thing 🙁
Sorry guyzzzzzzz
No worries – there was a lot of talk that we should have a day of hanging out at Coney Island at Luna Park.
Speaking of; anyone interested in hitting up some Iron Banner this week?
While I’m keen on the rewards, I think based on skill and stats I’d be a total liability 😛
You’ll eventually win games, and that’s all that matters!
She’ll be right!
It can be pretty unforgiving but at least the weapon balance should be better than the Thornpocalypse of last IB.
I think it goes live at reset tonight, yeah? I love the look of the armor, so I’ll be on for sure.
Sure does.
@rize I’ll probably be on by reset playing it this week if you guys want to join me.
No worries, will do!
Getting my 3DS tomorrow… pretty excited! Anyone have any tips on getting started in Monster Hunter?
1: Hunt monsters.
2: …?
3: Profit
Dangit, I had all these grand plans revolving around nicking underwear.
Learn to dodge as a priority. Not just for avoidance, but also positioning.
Also, try out all the weapons via the tutorial quests and find one you like. They’re all very different.
Need something to keep me from being bored…
Any suggestions?
1: Hunt monsters.
2: ….?
3: Profit
1. No monsters in vicinity.
2. Does not compute.
3. Unable to find monetary gain.
🙁
Colouring in book?
What’s with the sudden surge of ‘cards that you colour in and give to people’? I’d never seen them a few months back and now I’m seeing them everywhere.
I mean, I’m all for a bit of colouring in, but why now?
Adult colouring books are currently the in thing.
Not the fun kind of adult, but.
Yeah, I prefer the fun kind of adult butt
Gonna guess a celebrity put a cute ‘colouring-in for grown-ups’ thing on their Pinterest board which caused the creator’s Etsy page to explode and dozens of copy-cats to spring up overnight almost before the original creator can even make their first million on sales of their self-help book about how to earn their first million from arts and crafts.
I vaguely know what Pintrest and Etsy are… sort of… yeah, I’m hip and/or happening.
Your idea intrigues me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Is that some kind of slang? Are you cracking on to me?
Most of the ones i’ve seen are kinda like a tattoo’s inspiration kinda thing. One of my friends who is pretty heavily inked got hooked on one, she’s gotten some pretty awesome ideas from them lol.
…go crazy?
Kinda redundant, honestly.
Buy another monitor!
Got enough for the foreseeable future.
Get a job? 😛
If you think a job is a good way to avoid boredom, well.
You… you clearly don’t have my job.
Oh believe me, I know. Observe that there was colon pee in my post.
I had to re-read that so many times before it made sense.
It still disturbs me for unknown reasons.
I was really just looking for a chance to take a dig at my job.
Because man.
Have you ever spent fifteen minutes staring at a wall because it’s less boring than dealing with the 7000th Pathology page of the day?
Having an office has ruined me as an employee.
I’m getting an office when I move! I get to go full hermit!
Seriously, as a programmer, the noise level in open plan offices really gets to me. Especially the guy on the other side of the partition who has loud phone conversations constantly every morning.
Many, many things remind me daily of the brilliant ‘Man in the Box’ series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCqkXbOndYs Speakerphone Ryan is one of them.
My Speakerphone Ryan only does it until about midday. Because all the people in the US go to sleep.
It really depends on the workplace culture.
Moved into a new open plan office a month or so ago (as part of pulling IT staff out of faculties and into core IT). Now my manager sits at a desk maybe ten metres away – constant stream of people needing to talk to him who don’t want to get up from their desks and speak quietly, and would rather speak loudly from across the room. Ugh. Before the move, it was another open plan office, much larger, 20-30 people, and everyone was generally quiet and respectful. It was bliss.
Already volunteering, so halfway there.
Finally finished the first campaign with my RPG Group.
I took them through a lot of twists and turns in a very bloody futuristic cyberpunk scenario.
I took great delight in letting them kill their main mission giver.
only took us 8 sessions 😀
Are you going to continue with a new campaign or move onto something else?
New campaign, so much story has been gathered that it would be unfair to not take them deeper
Italian Food Day at the office. So many plates of food. Meatballs. Gnocchi. Lasagne. Pizza. Garlic bread. Garlic pizza. Garlic everything. Tiramisu. Profiteroles.
Guts. Stretched. To capacity. If I eat any more I’ll die.
…I’m going back in.
Tell your mother I love her.
Okay, so I walked up to my mother, yelled “I love her!” and she told me not to lie, and to put some damn pants on.
What next?
Realize that the hardest part is now over and you are free to succeed – then, go out and succeed.
Alright, I yelled “I’m going to succeed” as I walked out the door, and she reaffirmed that I should stop lying.
Now I’m outside in the sun, not wearing pants, and I think I hear giggling from across the street.
Congratulations, you’ve made it.
With a woman? Inform the men.
Stand tall, be strong, act with confidence and tell that giggler what for.
Was there wine too?
So tempted to buy a glowforge. If I get some back pay that is a possibility then might push me across the line. The half price pre-order special is most tempting but it is a hell of a punt to take that they will get things working properly.
Maybe I should look at 3d printer instead as that is mostly proven, but conceptually I might use the glow forge more
OMG it’s a consumer-level laser cutter / engraver? :O That could potentially be more useful than a 3D printer for sure.
Absolutely but they are still prototype stage and keeping a lot of things close to the chest. I have back a kickstarter from this guy before and that was well managed and delivered.
However there is a big difference between a board game and this sort of hardware
Tell you what, you buy me one and I’ll let you know how it goes.
Yeah but you could make board games with this thing.
http://glowforge.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/5.jpg
Oh god.
Oh god.
If only it wasn’t so expensive 🙁
Woo hoo! At-home tattoos for all!
I saw that and i wanted it, i dont have any use at all for a laser cutter but my god it looked schmick. There software solutions seemed quite good too like they actually thought about noobs using it.
PAX people!
On the Friday night there will be some of us going out for delicious steak dinner followed by beverages at The Gin Palace. @CookingMama has
floated the idea of making it a fancy pants night and everyone dress nice for itturned it into Dapper Meat 2.0.Whoever is interested let me know so we can organise booking for restaurant.
I feel like I should be tagging people but I don’t actually know who’s going to be down there.
Mmmmyessssss!
I’m interested, but I’m pretty sure I’m too fat for all my not terrible clothes. >.>
I have this amazing skill of making even the finest tailored clothes look like I’m wearing pyjamas.
No shame in buying tailored pyjamas.
*cough* http://www.suitjamas.com/ *cough*
I used to look good in fitted clothes.
So now I dangle a reminder to myself of how much of a blob I’ve become by not buying nice clothes anymore.
Fancy pants night, you say…
I approve of all of these things.
Put me and @freya down as tentative “yes”s and I’ll see if she shoots the idea down when she’s not on night shifts.
I don’t know the place and their website is terrible.
@cookingmama are you planning on bringing batboy along? Mrs Tigs is keen, always loves a chance to get dressed up but just trying to work out what is possible.
It’s looking like I get Friday night to myself, and then I’ll be staying in on Saturday night and then Batguy can go to the concerts/pax meat etc
The Gin Palace twitter is a bit better than the website, but basically, it’s an old fashioned speakeasy with 200 gins behind the bar.
I read Freeze’s message as steak dinner at gin palace and couldn’t work out what food they had or where they would seat us. If we are eating a squire’s loft we might bring Tiglet is we can’t get a baby sitter and skip the gin palace.
That’s probably a good idea, although Mrs Tig is most welcome to come and drink cocktails 😉
She might be up for that, she is excited about the chance to wear a pretty dress
Dapper Meat 2 does sound pretty fun.
Not cultured enough to appreciate gin though 😛
Is the steak dinner also at The Gin Palace or are you talking about two separate events?
We were looking at The Squire’s Loft for the steaky side of things.
We were looking correctly.
Failing that, Rare is fairly good.
Looks good to me as a backup. Menu seems remarkably similar in fact, maybe with just a bit more choice in cuts (which is good).
The other benefit to Rare is they’ve got three locations and the Downtown one on King St is really close to the PAX venue, 5 mins walk at best.
I saw that, actually! It’s literally 250M from my hotel.
The set meal looks like a good deal too.
Just looking at maps, and Meat and Wine Co are also at Southbank.
In terms of ‘travel’ times we may actually be better off going with Rare or M&Wc, given their locations. Ironically or otherwise the “city” Squires Loft is now Rare Midtown, so we’d have to go to the Docklands location if we wanted Squire’s Loft, which I know from personal experience can be a bit of a hike and doubly so if we want to hit Gin Palace afterwards.
Edit: We probably want to start getting numbers squared away and booking in too, I’m sure they’d like as much notice as they can get for a group.
I’m in.
I’m afraid I can’t make it. There’s far too much sexual tension between us, Freeze, and this kind of event might make it spill into the public domain.
Also I won’t be in Melbourne.
I do have some pretty fancy pants…
(Trying to organise Friday as catch-up time with other Melbourne friends though so likely won’t be able to make it)
Chalk me up for a ‘maybe’ (+1) because I’m pretty badly organised lately.
I’ve got nothing planned so probably will be up for it. Not sure though. There were some interesting panels on at PAX in the evening I think, though it’d be cooler to hang with you guys.
Unfortunately as a result of being a depressed slob and eating like crap since Japan, I’ve put on weight and can’t fit into my good suit any more. 🙁 Not sure if I can do Dapper.
Dapper is all about attitude!
I’m hardly svelte! I don’t get a lot of nights out, so I want to wear a pretty dress and not jeans. Wear what you’re comfortable in, doesn’t have to be a suit.It’s more that I don’t have any ‘nice clothes’ that fit. Only the jeans & polos I wear to work.
I love this post
I think I’ve officially given up on replaying Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorer of Darkness. There’s just too many memories tied to the game. I teared up at a scene of Krabbys blowing bubbles, for chrissakes. How could I possibly get to the actually sad stuff? I was only an hour in, so I guess nothing’s lost.
I noticed that there’s a lot of cutscenes at the beginning of the game. In the hour I played, less than five minutes of it was actual gameplay. I’m not complaining since the cutscenes and story are by far the game’s strongest points, but it’s interesting to look back on it.
You can’t go home again.
I just asked my friends dog if he would like the cone of shane on his head.
I don’t even, what?
When did @Shane start making cones?
I wouldn’t be surprised, considering the man is talented.
That he is!
I once knew a dog that seemed to enjoy the ol’ shame cone. I think it might have been like Stockholm Syndrome… but more cone-y.
Atlas’ one is massive and he hates it. Sid has never had one so he wouldn’t know.
Cone of @shane?
Sounds erotic.
That’s what you say about everything
Sounds erotic.
With sexy results!
That’s no way to treat @shane’s books!
Updated SWTOR the other day because I saw a tweet from the SWTOR Twitter dealie saying there was only a week of the 12x story experiece bonus left. Probably not going to hit my goal of all classes to level 55 but I should be able to get my Imperial Agent up there so that will make it 7/8 classes.
Did a couple of quests and remember why I loved the imp agent story line, so good. So, so good.
Sounds erotic.
How could it possibly be erotic?
All I was saying is this nob is deeply in the imperial agent.
They should just make that XP bonus thing permanent.
There was talk about making it an unlockable through your legacy, but I reckon if they’re going to do it it’ll only be purchasable via Cartel Coins.
My splatfest post!
https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYQHAAABAACXVHhnqwNl1g
We can link to Miiverse posts on the Nintendo site? When did that happen? Seems alarmingly sensible for a Nintendo online feature…
ugh what a week… I think I’ve had three Mondays since Thursday so far… also MSI confirmed my laptop’s GPU is shot and would cost $850 to repair (not recommended)
I’m becoming sorely tempted by this possible replacement option unless someone can recommend otherwise
http://budgetpc.com.au/2qe-494au-gt72-dominator-pro-17-3-fhd-1920×1080-i7-4710hq-16gb-256gb-ssd-1tb-hdd-gtx980m-8gb-killer-double-shot-11aci-bt4-0-win8-1-2yr.html
(and to head off the usual half-price-desktop statements; it’s for home and work, generally moving back and forth on an almost daily basis)
I think I was also needing to contribute moneys towards a Saturday post-PAX meet of some sort if someone could repost the details.
It’s @tech_knight s email.
sdcdragonman@hotmail.com
$35
cheers – I’ll put that through later tonight then
what was the time and venue again? (I just remember it was somewhere I wasn’t familiar with)
Backlot studios @ 7pm
I got it Scree, thanks @mad_danny!
It has pretty lights so it’s a yes from me.
Sounds erotic
That’s a nice laptop and from memory Linus from LinusTechTips did a pretty sweet review on it.
Which is here —> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCPFezq03zE
For what it’s worth, I’ve got a recent GS60 Ghost Pro, and I wouldn’t buy it again. About to package it up to send it in for warranty because the headphone jack doesn’t work and the wifi device just disappears from the system entirely half the time when I boot it up. Also the trackpad is the worst I’ve used this century. Didn’t realize there were worse manufacturers out there than Synaptics.
The GS line have smaller cases for operating on the go don’t they? – the GTs are more chunky desktop replacement types with some higher end parts I think. My last laptop was a GT783 and lasted something like three and a half years running fourteen hours a day with no problems until the GPU started causing random resets under load earlier this year. That being said, every laptop manufacturer seems to go through an off period from time to time and I know there was a run of MSIs with some issues (though from what I could find out I think the issues on the GTs was mainly delays on certain parts supply last year rather than hardware faults)
Anyone know of other good laptops around the AU$2.5-$3k range fitted with GTX980s? Some of the ASUS models seem popular but I’ve only got personal experience with Dell and MSI.
GS line are slimmer, yeah. Designed not to be ugly three-inch-thick bricks. I have a desktop so the laptop is for more on-the-go use.
Right now I’m probably just a bit annoyed because I have to find a box that’ll fit the damned thing so I can ship it back to them.
I have no issues with the core hardware in it – it’s a broadwell i7 quad & GeForce 970M so very capable, and the screen is nice – but I really wish I’d known about the ass trackpad. I migrated off a Macbook Pro so that made it even more jarring than normal.
recommendation box-wise from my own recent support shipping; AusPost shops have some decent boxes for $4 that are a close size match to the original laptop boxes, and can be packed with similarly fitted padding (I did it with mine so I could use the packing from the original MSI box but in a slightly smaller parcel that didn’t have “steal me cause I look like high value equipment” printed all over it.
Yeah I went to my local AusPost to buy one (I think it’s Bx4, the one that’s around 43cm by 30cm by 15cm) and naturally it was the one box type they didn’t stock at all. 🙁 Going to head out in a bit to see if I can find a better AusPost near work.
Video upload taking foooooooooooreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeveeeeeeeeeeeeeer. I’m probably gonna need to leave my PC on for weeks.
Holy crap, the games that just dropped on the PSN are expensive. The Telltale Minecraft game will run you $54 for the season (5 chapters), the Telltale BttF remaster is $31, and the Wasteland 2 release is $55. All waaaay more expensive than I was hoping they’d be.
Ah well. Guess I’ll wait for a sale!
Maybe Sony or publishers have adjusted their numbers to account for fall of AUD against several other currencies.
Actually… thinking about that a bit more… It wouldn’t surprise me if publishers had 3/6/12 month forward exchange contracts to better manage their books. Given currency movements in the last few months new contracts may have been locked in which is now showing in prices.
Seems to be an Australia tax all right. The US price is still $5 per ep, $25 for the season.
Tt Minecraft is $25USD on Steam. Even after conversion it’s waaaay cheaper…
The PSN store is weird.
$54 for a Telltale season? Jebus. What’s the Steam price, still $25 USD like always?
Apparently so.
Hooray for a productive sewing day. Still lots to do, but I think the trickiest bits are done now.
Hey!
I’ve been pretty quiet around here lately, but check out my uni assignment!
Haven’t spell-checked it yet, but feel free to leave any feedback 🙂
Work it bitch? Twerk it bitch? I wouldn’t put that down on anything other than a comment on the internet.
Or the office suggestion box. Janice is just so damn uptight and she could use some time to let her hair down and have some Janice time.
Right?! The lecturer hell likes it though, hahaha!
And it fits with my book, so I figured, “why not?” 😛
Is it meant to cut off the headline text on the left/right? Seems a bit odd.
Getting ready – point 3 – I’d alter the grammar slightly, to ‘change to your inappropriate clothes: they look so much better on you anyway,…’. Also, I’d change it to ‘show that Becky cow from work that…’
Arriving at the club – should it be ‘friends’ instead of “friends”? Also, final bullet point on the left should be ‘intend’ instead of ‘intended’. Instructions point 1 – change it to ‘Preferably somewhere you look better than other club-goers.’ You should also have it as ’cause instead of cause. Also after botox I’d just have one full stop.
How to dance – just a personal preference but I’d change it to ‘… that the Devil himself would blush’.
The morning after – Misspelling on ‘Neurofen’. Also the bullet for ‘Lots of regret’, might sound better as ‘Regret… so much regret’. All “cause” should be ” ’cause”.
On the whole – pretty great!
Hey! Thanks man! I didn’t actually think anyone was actually going to read it, haha!
I thought maybe if I was lucky than one person would just glance at the pictures :3
I can’t tell you how long I stared at that” Somewhere where…” sentence trying to figure out if it was grammatically correct, haha!
The cut off text on the lefts and rights of the page is intentional though.
So long as it is still legible. I forgot that I already know what they say, so forget that others mightn’t be able to read it so clearly.
Thanks for the very thorough feedback again 🙂
I’ll amend it all now! 😀
No worries… part of my job is editing articles and presentations, so I have had a fair bit of practice 🙂
What’s your degree btw? I wish I’d done one where ‘Twerk it bitch work it bitch’ didn’t get me kicked out
Also, I missed a page! Classic cffndncr. On the ‘Before you go’ page, maybe italicize the ‘really, really successful’.
Also I noticed across the bullet points that some are capitalized (‘Delusions of Grandeur’ being one), and some aren’t. Doesn’t matter if they are or aren’t, just keep it consistent.
My degree is graphic design 🙂
Luckily the content isn’t the most important part, just the layout, structure and style, mostly.
The content is still important obviously though.
The assignment was to make a cook or guide book, but everyone else did actual cook books, which was super boring, so I decided to go off rails a bit, which the lecturer seems to really like 😀
Aw you damn creative types get to have all the fun.
Page 7, should cause be ’cause (since it’s be’cause)?
Page 11, else’s (possessive of else?)
Overall, though, really enjoy the tone. Especially “How to dance”
This is glorious and I’d like a hard copy please.
Hmm, someone bought a a Gameboy off me on eBay which was WORKING when I sold it, I know this because I had pictures up of it running and I had been playing it to make sure it was fine, otherwise I would’ve sold it as is. So either they have broken it, since i’m only receiving this feed back like 3 weeks after they received it or it got damaged in transit which would’ve been pretty difficult since the amount of care I put into packing it.
Or they’re just trying to con you out of your money. If you’re even going to consider a refund, I’d want them to send it back first to verify it’s the one I sent them, and it’s actually not working (with no apparent indication that they’ve tampered with it).
I don’t even want to consider a refund, since they already had a go at me as soon as the auction ended for a minor error in the listing about postage, which was free anyway.
They also haven’t made an effort to contact me over it first and preferred just leaving negative feedback calling me a liar and dodgy seller, no one else who has bought from me seems to agree there. I would’ve been happy to sort things out if they had just contacted me over it, rather than being a jerk.
Fair enough. Bugger ’em.
My wife swears she’ll never use ebay again after she bought a mega drive, directly deposited the $50 into the guy’s account herself (she worked in a bank at the time) and he made some shit up about the money not arriving. He even tried to say that he got a “rejection message” that the transfer failed which… is not a thing that happens.
Yeah. I mean if I am unsure if something works then I will state that and it’s then the buyers chance on it, which I think is fair. I mean i’ve taken plenty of chances on second hand goods at auctions, sometimes I win big or sometimes I misjudge and i’m out of pocket a few dollars. I know the risks i’ve been doing it for far too long heh.
Wow. What a cunt of a seller. I do not blame her at all, also why I only like to use PayPal or cash on pick up. Can’t trust sellers at all, cause of the dodgy shit they do.
I don’t want to get up and go to face the world at work today. I just want to stay in bed where it’s warm and comfortable and quiet. My doonah cocoon is my world now. Nothing exists outside it. You are all AI constructs produced by this Internet app I have on my phone.
Until your wife tears your doona cocoon open like a starving bird looking for a tasty treat.
Sounds erotic.
Oh, it is.
That got sexc real quick.
So I got the bird a new toy yesterday, it’s got a bell on it so all I have heard since it has gotten it, he is all “ding ding ding ding ding” it’s like i’m sitting next to Hector Salamanca from Breaking Bad here..
It has also now managed to remove the bell from the toy, now I see why these bird toys were so cheap from the dollar tree, damn it.
http://i.imgur.com/RMtUhT3.jpg
My ratbag of a bird for anyone who hasn’t seen him heh.
That’s very clearly a bird and not a ratbag.
That’s clearly a bag of rats & not a ratbag.
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
What awaits you on your voyage upriver?
TONIGHT 7:30 SA TIME (assuming you’re all available and that the daylight savings switch hasn’t made it too inconvenient)
cc @blaghman @popdart5 @tech_knight
I’m in!
I’m there.
@welbot! Ooooooooooooooold!
Wait no, I misread, it’s next Wednesday. Carry on.
My wayward so-o-n-n-n. There’ll be peace when you are do-o-n-ne. Lay your weary head to rest… Don’t you cry no more.
*WICKED GUITAR SOLO SING ALONG*
Nunununununu-nu-nu-MOW-MOW.
What’s next Wednesday? Red is right.. today is my old day!
Happy no work day to me too!
Happy birthday! 🙂
Thanks man!
Happy even older man day!
I thought @shane had his birthday today but I missed the part where he said week.
May you live up to your name today. Have a great one @welbot
So far so good!! 🙂 Not that I have much planned for today.. well.. anything really. Having lunch with my Dad and Sis tomorrow though!
Holy shit that escalated quickly!
http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/journalists-trespass-assault-tesla-employees-gigafactory
That escalated faster than a Tesla Model S.
*picks up sack with a dollar sign on it, dives out the window*
What the actual fuck? I’m all for transparency and investigative journalism, but assaulting employees is a whole other level.
Assaulting someone by driving a car into them no less… I just don’t get it – had someone been playing too much GTA the night before?
I’m trying to imagine the thought process of the journos.
“Shit shit we’ve been caught, what do we do!? I know! Let’s run the guys over! That’ll make everything better!”
Humble Capcom bundle is up. Some decent games in it:
– Lost Planet 3
– Bionic Commando: Rearmed
– RE Revelations
– DmC: DmC: DmC: DmC: DmC: DmC
– RE 5
The current average is $7.70
PSA: Preorders of Tales of Zestiria on Steam (releases on the 20th) include a free copy of Tales of Symphonia HD when that hits Steam early next year.
That price probably converts to over $100 though. Feels too steep for a digital game (even with bonus symphonia)
~$95, but yeah. Fair enough. Fucking Namco and their AU Tax.
I bought it ages ago so it was worth it at the time.
Current CBA exchange rate that’d go through the CC is 0.689 – if I had cash and put it on the travel card to avoid 3% conversion fee, it’d be $101.52.
PayPal rate is 0.7094 plus 3.5% conversion fee = $102.05.
Rather silly price.
What was the pre straya tax price?
https://www.steamprices.com/au/app/351970/tales-of-zestiria
$49.99 USD.
Huh… so anyone else get 2700 silver from Bungie? I keep hearing people getting only 400… might be recompense for effectively repurchasing the first two expansions via the TTK digital CE.
Also, raid helm get! Now my warlock can achieve his dream of cosplaying a lightbulb in a trenchcoat.
It’s an odd looking hat to be sure. The raid refuses to give me anything other than chest armour, which I don’t need.
Haven’t checked silver. If you have that much, I’d say glitch and spend it asap.
It actually gave me a PSN code when I booted the game, which unlocked a 2000(+300) pack, which (combined with the 400 everyone’s talking about) accounts for it, so I’m guessing it was intentional. Picked up the “sorrow” emote in the hopes I’ll never have to use it… and in full knowledge I’ll get a lot of mileage out of it. Four times a raid + three nightfalls a week, to be precise. 😛 Picked up a couple others, but gonna save the other 2100 for when they come up with something I really want.
And I actually really like the warlock helm – a lot of the high end gear looks ridiculous in a terrible way, but after getting used to glowhoo and my old Iron Banner robes turning me into a walking fluoro beacon, having revenant turn my head into a lightbulb is kinda neat. 😀
Man, I hate so many of the Warlock helms. So many.
Really need a new hat.
Yep, if you were a year 1 player who also purchased the collector’s edition (e.g.: effectively rebuying content you didn’t need prior to other configurations like the digital upgrade being announced), you get extra silver for emotes.
I’m going to log in and see if the silver was a bug.
And if it’s huge like that, I’m going to spend it. SPEND IT ALL!
Guys.
Not going to lie.
But i am SO HYPE for PAX.
Seriously.
Plus the tabletop area alone looks like it could actually sustain me for a whole day, let alone two!
Plus sooo many games i want to see…
Seriously – the end of this month can’t come fast enough!
Sounds erotic.
It is. My hand it twitching.
So is my pants.
I may just get thrown out as soon as i enter (that’s what he said!)
While we’re doing this, Steam has a (shhhhhhh) *whispers* Stealth sale on at the moment. Sneaky Bastards has been identifying the good bits https://twitter.com/sneaky_bastards. You should definitely buy OH SHIT IT’S A GUARD RUN
*klaxons*
Considering getting black flag but that is probably it
They certainly have an interesting definition of “stealth”. Sure you could stealth in Far Cry 4 but you could also ride through an enemy base riding an elephant and shooting people with a rocket launcher.
Personally I wouldn’t really consider it a “stealth” game.
Also, no AssRogue on sale? Did they remove the stealth from AssCreed games?
AssRogue is the only one I would want to buy anyway.
Although there’s every chance I might re-buy AC4 again at some point. Like, the VR edition or something.
I think I’m decided on a 980Ti over a Fury-X. As much as the included PLP support on the Fury-X would be a blessing for me, I’d need to get some active DisplayPort->DVI converters (and then convert one of them to VGA since I’ve got a dodgy side monitor) as well as the fact that I do most of my gaming single screen any way… It’s just not enough.
And I suspect that 4GB of video memory, even if it’s high bandwidth, might become an issue. Was reading a review where a game with high enough texture packs (it may have been GTAV?) caused the card to drop to single digit framerates because it ran out of memory.
Now that that’s decided… to get a liquid cooled “hybrid” model or standard air cooling…. hmmmm.
There’s already games coming out that want 6GB for the full/ultra graphics option, so going above 4GB is already fast changing from unnecessary to a valid choice.
Yeah. I know it’s not really AMD’s fault since HMB1 can only do a max of 4GB (bring on HBM2!) but I remember thinking when the cards were announced “I wonder if that’s going to hurt them in the future?” and it’s looking like that’s the case.
Man I should start thinking about that too, with SC and VR on the horizon.
But I’d also need a great monitor to go with it. And some new ram. And maybe a new CPU. But then I’d need a new mb.
But I could also do with a new laptop and my phone is shitting me off.
/o\
Anyone want to buy a motorbike? 😀
That was another thought I was having (around PLP, specifically) that with Oculus (or otherwise) coming in the next 6-12 months I won’t be doing traditional monitor gaming in some cases so there’s no point trying to plan for it, and I’ll want a card that’s ready to handle the VR resolutions.
PC upgrades I’ve drooled over a few potential thoughts but my 2600K is still running fine and I’ve got 16GB of RAM (though my work PC now has 24… does that mean it’s time to upgrade my home one?) so it’s really just my GPU limiting me these days.
I only have 8g ram, half if which has died.
I have a 2400? Which is fine for the moment but will become the bottleneck eventually.
I’m not writing off moniter gaming just yet. I’m.exited for VR but it is yet to be proven and probably not suitable for all kinds of games.
I have a 960GTX with 4gb of ram. Never had any issues with games so far, including things like UT and other Unreal 4 dev stuff, which often use textures that are 4k+ (and I run it at 3840×2160)
Was likely a driver glitch that caused those issues. Usually the drivers get updated shortly after a game release if there’s specific issues like that
I’m still rocking a 670 OC and it does the job adequately enough that I haven’t been in a rush to upgrade.
I’m starting to feel the pinch. Got 2x 580s (SLI) but they’re running a 2560×1600 screen. So there’s always a trade off. I’m not desperate to upgrade, but it’s enough that I’m starting to think about it more seriously.
As an aside, I realised my PC turned 4 this month when I was looking at my receipt to confirm what RAM modules I had bought. Happy birthday to PC!
Isn’t a robot just a fancy computer
And you are saying your fancy computer is having a birthday
Suspicious
I’m at 2560×1440 but the 670OC is basically 95% of the performance of a stock 680 and the 770/780 was just a rebranding, so it’s only 2 generations behind.
But I also have a Haswell i5 CPU and 16gb RAM and install games to SSD and also have shit eyesight and am happy to settle for 30fps.
I’m also using a 670 on 2560×1440, BF4 still runs flawlessly on high, regularly purring along at 90fps+, the only thing letting me down at the moment in the storage, I really want to migrate over to an SSD, but there’s better things I could be spending 2-300 on.
Yeah, most stuff it’ll take and run absolutely smooth, solid framerates and everything. Hell, I was able to get playable framerates out of Arkham Knight. Great card.
How is AK now? I’ve held off till now because of the shit-show of a launch.
Dunno, I played it at launch 🙂
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
Sounds erotic
Oh my.
I can take you.
I can take ALL of you
…Sounds erotic.
Seriously, what the hell is wrong with people in the US?
http://www.smh.com.au/world/aunty-fails-in-bid-to-sue-nephew-for-leaping-into-her-arms-causing-fall-20151013-gk8eco.html
Relevant
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/14/woman-arrested-for-drunk-driving-after-streaming-trip-on-periscope
Treasure the youth, for they are the future.
Sounds erotic.
But seriously though, I had never heard of Periscope. Having looked at their wiki page, I have but one thought: Alyssa Milano released a graphic novel?! Which… she didn’t write or draw, so… I don’t know what part she played in it, and I’m confused now.
I can – to a certain extent – understand suing someone who caused injury like that in the US (or, more accurately, chasing recompense, not suing per se), given (if the wrist needed surgery) you’d be looking at somewhere in the realms of $7000 for Surgery & Treatment (assuming you don’t have insurance), and extra on top if you needed physio work or other recovery help.
But pulling that shit on an 8 year old kid?
No Way, Get Fucked, Fuck Off.
Her 8 year old nephew, no less.
My kneejerk reaction is that the kid is sitting on a pile of cash after losing his mother, maybe from a life insurance settlement? She probably just wanted to cash in on it. The fact she complained about having trouble holding and hors d’oeuvre plate at a party is just, frankly, astonishing. I thought I was reading an Onion article when I saw that.
It’s been thrown out, and I reckon it was a grab at insurance money too.
Egads! *monocle falls*
They expect her to put her hors d’oeuvre plate on the table while she’s eating… like some kind of savage!? OH THE HUMANITY!!
And that is how you get cut off from your extended family
It does say there that the boys mother and Connels sister had died in the intervening years so I wonder if the father and her had arguments about wills and such and this suit is more about getting back at the father.
Highly likely, or he was never good enough for the family to begin with. Probably somebody who eats snacks at a party rather than hors d’oeuvres
So Metallica are petitioning for the creators of Metalocalypse to finish the series off. They seem pretty serious in wanting more. This is something I can support!
Finish as in ‘complete it’ rather than finish as in ‘stop making this’? Damn, hope they do succeed but then both the simpsons and family guy are perfect examples of cartoons that should have stopped when they’d peaked. If they’re not into it anymore then it’d be better to leave it rather than continuing and doing a half arsed job.
From what I gather, wrap it up for good, rather than just walking away like they seem to have done.
Got myself up to light 261 last night so may start to be some kind of assistance! Should be on again late tonight, might be able to start Prison of Elders or something similar.
Nice!
PoE would be a cakewalk since its old, lower level content. But heroic strikes and such will be right up your alley.
Yeah that’s true. I was 239 the night before so thought at least 240 would be needed. Got some great loots and drops last night 🙂
I put a heroic strike right up my alley last night and it went pretty well.
Sounds erotic.
Gotta love a good strike, I’ve been doing the still shit IB and need to do some strikes potentially NF
I really want this adapter for my Driving Force shifter to arrive soon… 🙁
November 7th episode of Saturday Night Live is going to be hosted by Donald Trump.
Not sure if I desperately need to watch it or burn my computer in case I accidentally see a glimpse.
To stop that monster, one-two-three,
Here’s a fresh new way that’s trouble-free,
It’s got Paul Anka’s guarantee *wink*
Guarantee void in Tennessee.
Just don’t look! Just don’t look!
I don’t know. Last time he opened with a rant about how he wasn’t excited to be on the show, the show should be excited to have him since he’s bigger and more important than the show and it didn’t sound like he was joking. With his clownfuck insane presidential campaign in full swing the resultant fustercluck should be pretty glorious in a train wreck with no survivors kind of way.
Wait… hasn’t his presidential campaign been a scripted skit up to this point?
Maybe it was his application to host the show
I decided to spruce myself up for October. I’m only two weeks late. Spooooookyyyy,
Is that your first one? I likey.
Hehe, “poo”.
😛
So I need a pair of tights, a skull and maybe some teeth.
Time for some grave robbin’ ?
Sounds erotic
I know, I know, but it’s too good to pass upYou never know, it may just rattle his bones..
You’ve got some weird fetishes, mate…
😛
I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle.
OK, I’ll bite.
Tigerion, why do you need a pair of tights, a skull and maybe some teeth?
Well, I think you’ve answered the third part.
You’ll find out 😉
Speaking of which has anybody checked out what panels they are interested in at PAX
Best horrifying name.
It gives me nightmares. Or at least it stops me sleeping and wakes me in the middle of the night so same thing really
UNCHARTED 4
UNCHARTED 4
UNCHARTED 4
UNCHARTED 4
And some others I’m sure.
I’d like my response to also be in rhyme… but I find I really don’t have the time.
Sure you could spare, at worse
A couple secs to compose some verse
And make your panel choices rhyme
Such poetry- ‘twould be sublime!
But let us wager, for a mo,
The panels that you’d pick, and so
Plan your program out today
Such plans are tricky- don’t delay!
A panel for uncharted four
May make your chin fall to the floor
A Magic panel, don’t you see
Shall excite those such as me
A panel with a cooking theme
Will see @markserrels cook up a dream
and while some call it much too hip
You could watch some hosts create a strip!
And just when your program seems to fill
Some Rooster Teeth will fit the bill
And if your time remains, o lord
You might go play so games of board
A PAX schedule is such a thrill
a full 3 days of time to kill
But if you take my sweet advice
I’m sure your con will feel, real nice.
Alas! Egad! I cannot attend
The PAX adventure on yonder weekend.
I’m afraid I simply can’t afford
to join the masses and the hordes
Of cosplayers and game junkies
attending the PAX festivities.
So I’ll wait (And wait. And wait.)
to hear the stories you shall relate.
That time @MarkSerrels burnt down the stage,
or the latest gaming sexism outrage.
But to think about the panels I’ll miss,
(and the rest of the fun – too long a list)
would be such a burden, so count me out
(unless you want to see me pout)
So dream up your schedule, but I won’t join –
Hopefully next year I’ll save enough coin
to join the PAX TAY crew in twenty sixteen,
but this year I’ll not think about what might have been.
I was kind of interested in the Warren Spector Plays Deus Ex And Gives Live Commentary one but I think it overlaps with TAY Meat and that’s way more important.
Also interested in:
Friday:
– RPG+ at 12pm (Chris Avellone & Dicestormers doing a live RPG with audience participation, sounds rad)
– Deus Ex thing at 12:30pm (sadly overlaps with the one above – they’re talking about the new DX game)
– Unravel thing at 2pm (Yarny!)
– Video Games & Board Games thing at 3pm (Talking about the overlap between them and stuff)
– PAX Food Fight at 5pm (Shokugeki no Serrels – watch Mark defeat everyone in a cooking battle with his secret Oats recipe)
– Maybe the thing on game cinematics at 7:30
– Maybe the thing on tabletop art at 8:30
Saturday:
– Maybe Iron Chef Cosplay at 11am (battling to create a cosplay outfit in an hour using random materials)
– Maybe either the one on the Future of Games or the one on Australian Games History at 12pm
Sunday:
– Uncharted 4 at 10:30am
– Maybe the one on Japanese Gaming at 12:30pm (though no one on the panel is Japanese…)
– Maybe the Witcher 3 one at 1:30pm (talking about the expansions and the future of the franchise)
– Maybe the Dragon Friends one at 3:30pm
– Maybe the one about positive games communities at 4:30 so can talk about how awesome TAY is
– Maybe final round of Omegathon (it was a good way to end the show last year)
This is all contingent on actually getting passes though. 🙁
The cook off with @markserrels, the geek parenting one and not sure what else…
It’s better without teeth.
I may need to revise my position on video games not negatively impacting gamer behaviour.
“ADVENTURE GAMES MADE ME DO IT.”
The defendant was forcibly removed from the court, all the while screaming, “I NEEDED THE CAT HAIR FOR A FAKE MOUSTACHE! IT ALL MAKES SENSE, YOU’LL SEE!”
hey @freezespreston, have you ever typed name into the search on your companies website
Not sure I’ve ever even seen my companys website.
It’s certainly something
Bahahahaha! Oh jeez. Just did that. Our IT department is the literal worst.
Fuck I.T.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/12/media/playboy-ending-fully-nude-photos/index.html
Huh.
Well they did a survey of their readers and they were all only reading it for the articles
In all seriousness, I’ve read a decent number of quality articles from Playboy over the past year. It’s utterly bizarre.
Playboy was apparently well known back in the day for its articles along with the nekkid womens i’ve been told. I remember having Penthouse mags back in the day, there was some alright articles in those too, heh.
PAX might be off for me again. Passes look to have been mis-delivered or stolen.
Annoyingly I bought a spare pass so that I’d have one if this happened to someone else. :\
*downvote*
If you got the registered post you should be able to confirm you didn’t receive them
Not sure how the process goes for lost passes
Yeah I’ve raised a dispute with AusPost saying I definitely didn’t get them. Don’t know if that’ll get me any closer to PAX though.
Asked PAX people to confirm the address they mailed to in case someone fucked up and changed the delivery address (side note: would it have killed them to send out a ‘hey we’re going to send tickets to [insert address here] soon, if this isn’t right contact us now’ or a ‘hey we mailed your tickets!’? If I’d know that stuff got sent out two weeks ago I’d have been onto this already. Heck, if I’d been given the tracking number when it was shipped like I should have, I’d have noticed it wasn’t carded correctly and gone down that day and picked it up!)
Assuming that’s not the case, I dunno. I paid their $5 fee for ‘insurance’ which I assumed would cover ‘lost’ passes (still remember @trjn having his drop off at PAX ’13) but god knows if it actually does cover that, I didn’t read the fine print.
Send an email and see what happens. There’s no harm in following things up. When I lost my pass, I got a new one by asking nicely and explaining my situation.
Most customer service and admin people are pretty willing to help people if you approach them the right way. A quick “hey, something’s gone wrong. Not sure what’s happened but my tickets never showed up, how can we sort this out? I know you guys are swamped but I’d really appreciate some help.” will do wonders.
Yep, already on it.
EDIT: I had to open a dialogue with them to even get the tracking number which IMO is a problem though.
@gorzilla is also having the same problem
I think in his case though it was nicked from the mailbox? My case it looks like it was carded and someone went and picked it up from the post office, inferring an actual ID check took place and AusPost are fuckwits.
I blame @SerNobulus.
They have to check your ID? maybe that increases the odds for me that my tickets could be at the post office. Pretty sure they were happy to dump them in the mail box the last 2 years.
Well if you had them sent registered that’s what’s meant to happen.
I had a bit of an adventure in World of Warcraft. On the last day of the Darkmoon Faire, I talked to the lady in Orgrimmar that teleports you to the faire. But I had to log out to go make dinner right in front of the portal. When I logged in later, the portal, and the faire itself, was gone.
I was trapped in Mulgore, a long, long, way away from Orgrimmar. I set a point on my map and made the long trek. Whilst initially I was going to walk in a straight line through much higher-level zones, i ran into Thunder Bluff. I managed to catch a flight to Orgrimmar, saving me literally hours of time.
When in Orgrimmar, I checked out the Zeppelin. Whilst I was talking to one of the NPCs to figure out how it worked, it took off. Not sure what to do, I jumped off a minute later over the Northern Barrens. I was jumping into what appeared to be a lake. I quickly discovered that I was way higher in the air than I first thought, and that the lake was knee-height.
In hindsight I could have hearthstoned back to the Valley of Trials.
Yeah, but the adventure was more fun. 🙂
Ah man the bright eyed days of when you first log into WoW and have these adventures you’ll never have again. Blizz have never recaptured that sense of discovery you feel when you first jump into the game!
Enjoy it while you can! =]
Euro Truck Simulator 2, why are you so addictive?
So the plot thickens. AusPost say that the tracking number I got from PAX Aus might not be the right one and believe it was sent to a completely different address – or at least that’s what they’re saying, though I couldn’t get him to confirm it was definitely not sent to me on the phone and I suspect they’re predicating ‘different address’ on ‘well we check ID and the name and address on the ID has to match’ (which is true, except when you can socially engineer your way in, but that seems like a lot of careful work to go through to steal mail).
So they’ve sent me back to PAX Aus to get proof it was sent to the correct address and the tracking number corresponded.
I’m wondering if maybe there was some kind of database fuckup or something and maybe my details have gotten crossed over with someone else’s in the mail-out and I never got mine sent at all? @gorzilla maybe your issue is similar?
Jumped onto the Showclix site (the people who handled selling the tickets) and checked my account and both of them are still ‘processing’.
Could one of you guys that have received yours jump onto your account with them and look and see if your 2015 tickets are also ‘processing’ or if they’re marked as ‘shipped’? If the latter, might lend credence to the idea that maybe mine haven’t even been mailed out.
Mine is still saying processing but I have the pass.
There goes that as a possible marker then. 🙁 Thanks for checking.
Worst case, if they can’t figure out what they did get a refund and we can talk about a spare 3 day pass already in my possession.
Yeah, worst case I’m sure I’ll get there somehow.
Glad to see Bungie have improved the matchmaking for Iron Banner. My games thus far:
1 – spawn into game halfway through on losing team just in time for Shaxx to call mercy :I
2 – spawn into game halfway through on losing team, loose.
3 – a new game! MVP team but lose due to huge skill-gap between my team and opposing.
4 – a new game! MVP team but lose due to huge skill-gap between my team and opposing.
5 – spawn into game halfway through on losing team, MVP game despite joining halfway through but loose cause I’m the only one playing the objectives.
Damnit Bungie, have you not run FPS servers for the last decade?
Bonus points: getting shot through walls, people taking no damage, people teleporting all over the map.
If it makes you feel any better (it won’t) my one game had nearly flawless internet stuff, and my team only lost by a little bit, despite my ineptitude (fuck shotguns).
Thankfully the 6th game made up for it by being everything you want in a PvP match.
A close game with no lag issues and solid players on both teams where I somehow do really well.
I think it is learning though. My games since I have generally lost, but they have mostly been really close.
Based on my experiences, that stuff is not limited to Iron Banner 😛
My first game I was on fire, I was stomping the opposition. My scout rifle was tight and my hammers cast devastation. We lost because for some reason our team stopped holding points once we had a 5k lead and let the opposition overtake us. It was like a rubber banding effect in a shitty racing game.
Second game I was out for blood. I’ve never seen me play like that. My wife commented “I don’t think I’ve heard you yell once!”. I finished with a 2.76 k/d and a clear victory about 7,000 points ahead.
Bungie: we’re breaking up those teams to find a better match!
Me: BRING IT, SCRUBS. MY HUNG JURY AND INVECTIVE WILL SING YOUR FUNERAL DIRGE WHILE RUIN WAKE BANGS YOUR WIDOWS.
So of course I get put in a game where the lag is so bad none of the enemies take damage, we get spawnlocked at A and constantly sniped off spawn. The opposition seems to constantly have heavy ammo. I tear my controller in two and burst out of my shirt like the Hulk. By the time we are 6,000 points down I am hooting and slapping my arms on the ground. Someone by the name xXx_BLaZEIT-SKOPIN_XxX has seduced my mother and is making love to her in front of me. My wife divorces me and moves to France.
Somehow, I pick up the pieces of my life and make a small comeback in the next game before calling it a night.
It took me a moment to realize ‘hung jury and invective’ are weapons, not pet names for your junk.
Uh, yeah… yes, that’s right.
Weaponised junk.
Haha yeah. When it’s good it’s some of the best motherloving pvp around.
When it’s bad you Want to put your fist through the TV.
My game 6 was actually one of the best I have ever played. Mvp, 2.something K/d spread, 15 kill streak and at least one tripple kill, in a hard fought victory.
Glorious fun.
Just finished the main questline to Fallout 3, that was a lot better than I recall. I normally didn’t like the main quest, but all the side quests were fun and interesting.
I think the biggest (pre patch) problem back at launch was the
mandatory death for the main protagonist.Even if you had the radiation proof super mutant buddy next to you, he refused to take your ‘honour’ by going and pressing the button for you.
You know what, now you mention that yeah, it’s totally that. I didn’t recall that being an option. Since it’s the first time i’ve played the game since the GOTY edition came out, ha., It made for a better ending since he survives whatshername from the Brotherhood survives and s do you.So this happened.
http://www.vg247.com/2015/10/14/letter-from-the-editor-an-apology-to-naughty-dog-and-uncharted-fans/
Hahaha!
What a great news day!
Trump, greedy shitty aunties, Tesla assaults, and now this.
Gah. Why did I start reading the comments, abort, abort, abort
From ‘apology accepted’ to ‘beheading’ in three posts. Nice work, Internet.
Ah crap. Got a week to figure out and obtain a birthday present for my sister.
For the fella out there with a lady to impress, it’s easy to do just follow these steps: 1. Cut a hole in the box….
no Freeze, bad Freeze *bop*
I didn’t realise that Gooky was from Tasmania
Now I have to go listen to that trilogy of songs on loop. Gonna be saying inappropriate things all day.
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD:
Handstands! Kickin’ Murden in the beak! 5 testicles!
THanks for playing @popdart5 @blaghman @tech_knight
Just looking at the Remake/Sequel to Fairy Fencer F and I really wish that Tsunako, the artist (also character designer for Neptunia) could get a job doing character work for a game series that is a bit higher quality. Her designs are wasted on Compile Heart. 🙁
Fucking livid. Cancelled an upload at 97% to use the net for other stuff and couldn’t wait that last half hour, since allegedly if you try and upload the same file again within 24 hours it’ll continue where it left off. Nooooope. Now I gotta start all over. I hate youtube so much.
I’m going well with Elsa yet I am still anxious. I hate my brain so much and it hates me
Well that was a fun night.
Had my first person say they can’t make the wedding.
their reason was that a) they find weddings awkward and b)they dont want to have to deal with the boyfriend of my best friend.
am I wrong to be upset?
it blew me away last night and I felt quite bad. slept pretty badly because of it. mostly due to the fact that I like this person being around and would have loved to have them there
Seems like a lame excuse, really
Sounds like a bit of an odd excuse to be honest. Unless it is a very small wedding then it is very easy to avoid one person and know that you can have them on different tables (or whatever you are doing)
My advice for all weddings is don’t stress about things, be disappointed they can’t make it but don’t get upset and don’t let it affect your mood. Not everything is going to be perfect or just how you imagined it, so just take what comes and roll with it.
I had a couple of people leave my reception for like 25 minutes to watch footy on someone’s phone, missing parts of the formal stuff. When I had another person point this out to me my response was something along the lines of “I don’t care if they want to act like fucking losers, I just got married”.
I’m not sure of the full back story here so I need to make a couple of assumptions to give a proper answer.
With that in mind, I’d have to assume that this difficult person is roughly 5 years old, and so the best thing to do is put them in a time out for a while, then sit them down and calmly explain why what they said was wrong (possibly by employing the term “silly”).
That sounds pretty lame man. I’d be upset at that too. They’re not going to visit the boyfriend of your friend, if they don’t like him then just fucking don’t talk to them. Or just learn to be civil with people you don’t like like a fucking adult.
If this person is already trying to make a drama and have it about them probably for the best they aren’t going to be there.
It’s ok to be upset, but don’t let it spoil the wedding. Use the opportunity to invite someone else who will be happy to be there.
A THURSDAY TAYDRENALIN SHOT
If given the keys to a museum, what exhibit would you commission?
KEYS TO THE MUSEUM!
An epic journey
People would go in to one wing of the building and it would be in totally disarray. They would come out with the knowledge that I was not ready for this responsibility.
Pants: An Interactive Experience
Sounds erotic
ALL THE DINOSAURS!!!!
HELLO, DALI!
A surrealist look at matchmaking traditions in New York communities.
“It’s uh… a History Of Nintendo exhibit.”
But really I’m just using the place as a storage space for all my stuff.
My shifter adapter arrived! \o/
Well fuck. I some how managed to chip the glass on my watch 🙁 It was only replaced less than a year ago too :/ Blah. I’d probably be more okay with this is if it wasn’t my late grandfathers watch, which i’ve now had the last 10 years.
Maybe I need to look at getting a new watch anyway and retire this one.
Well, I know what I’m doing tonight. I’ve been granted alpha access to 40K Eternal Crusade (the shooter MMO) and set it to download before work. Really looking forward to it.
FOR THE EMPEROR
That’s the planetside style one right? Keen to here what it is like
I’ll be sure to write something about it after I’ve played it for a bit.
Let me know if it’s any good!
I’ve been hankering for a good 40K shooter-style game since Space Hulk (the 90’s one, not the so-so remake). Everyone I speak to loved Space Marine, but I thought it was completely lacklustre (the controls were absolutely rubbish, particularly for close combat). Fire Warrior was overwhelmingly average, and… I think that’s it?
For a dedicated wargame, there have been very few 40K shooters which is surprising. Eternal Crusade seems to veer towards the Space Marine style of shooter which I’m okay with. I’m just keen for a new 40K game as I haven’t played one since Dawn of War. Still need to get around to playing the most recent Space Hulk.
I would be very careful about what you say about Space Marine. Space Marine is @chuloopa’s Space Marine.
Well technically SPAYCE MAUREEN is @chuloopa’s Space Marine.
It’s the breakfast of champions
I tried to love it, I really did. I have had a 40k collection since I was about 8, and totally dig the 40k universe…. I just couldn’t get into it. The jetpack segments were awesome, but the close combat was so damn frustrating. I got up to some fight where you have to solo against a bunch of nobs (hehe… nobs) and gave up because I kept running into the terrible close combat mechanics.
I dunno, I might give it another whirl at some point, but with my Steam backlog being what it is I’m not sure if/when it’ll happen.
I paid $12 for it, I got more than my money’s worth out of it
It is not my Space Marine though. Pretty sure Crusader Kings 2 is my Space Marine
There was also the incredibly average team deathmatch mode in Space Marine, I guess? Does the overwhelmingly uninspiring twin-stick shooter Kill Team count as a ‘shooter’? Space Marine’s PVP was crap, but the campaign at least was… pretty average – not bad, but not great. I recoiled in revulsion at the esports-friendly tactics-focused MOBA-wannabe Dawn of War 2, and lamented the fact that both their MMOs (WAR and 40k) have been/will be strongly PVP-focused affairs. And yet there’s hope on the horizon in the form of seriously-how-hard-is-it-to-have-a-clean-UI-guys Mordheim, the Left4Dead clone Virmintide, and Total War: Warhammer, which… well, does what it says on the box. That said… I just want a new Dark Crusade… is that too much to ask?
Apparently it is too much to ask for a new Dark Crusade. Which sucks because that was a great game.
Vermitide looks to be great and Deathwing also looks awesome. Battlefleet Gothic should also be nice on a tactical space combat level and I hope Mordheim shapes up before it gets out of early access.
Mind you, I have played Regicide aka 40K chess so I’m a bit of a sucker for anything Warhammer.
How freaking good was Dark Crusade! That Rise of Nations style campaign was great.
I bought it in a sale a month or two back, still saving it for a special occasion.
See – i have to disagree – i actually found Space Marines death match modes to be HEAPS of fun. I absolutely loved them. Probably more than the main game itself. It was well balanced for the most part, and a good romp. The problem was finding games half the time.
I mean, it was an awesome feeling to see an enemy jump pack to you with a thunder hammer, only for you top whip out your melta gun and watch them go “fwoosh”
And horde mode.. oh boy… F.U.N.
The biggest issue that the single player had was that fucking cliffhanger that will never be resolved.
QTE to beat the end boss was a bit shit too.
JUDAS!
SPACE MARINE WAS A MASTERPIECE!
GAME OF THE YEAR!
EVERY YEAR!
100/10 – IGN
THIS GAME MELTED MY GENITALS IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE – GAMESPY
I LIKE THE SOUND OF MY OWN VOICE AND ORKS – PC POWERPLAY
RULE 34 – GAME INFORMER
Niiiiice!
The more I interact with the public, the more I hate it
I think that could be pretty much broadened to just, ‘other people’.
I’ve spent a significant chunk of the morning re-writing emails for neutrality, specifically to make sure I haven’t used the language in my head, such as: “Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.”
Also, unrelated: Yes. You can turn the zombie-defense mode off in Pixel Puzzles.
Thank you! I’ll grab it for mum then
Try working in a retail environment then see how you feel.
I thought I’d left abuse behind when I got a corporate role. Yesterday I had a fifty year old man call me “human garbage” and a “disabled-hating dog turd” via email because I haven’t unilaterally agreed to pay all of his health care costs and hand him a cheque for a bajillion dollars. Apparently I offended him by asking him to like, provide evidence..? Because apparently when he fell over (which isn’t our insured’s fault) he bruised his buttocks and this has made him suicidal. He’s literally butthurt.
So I used to work graveyard shifts in the Rocklea Fruit and Veg markets in Brisbane. It was an awful job – start some time between 11pm – 3am, work through till about lunchtime – packing pallets, loading trucks, that sort of stuff. Duties included climbing to the top of pallet racks (maybe 6-8 meters off the ground… what the heck is OH&S?) to retrieve items, cleaning out bins full of pumpkins because the ones in the bottom had started rotting (in the QLD summer heat, no less), and finding rats nests. No shit, digging through old stock and boxes to find the nest of rats. I worked that job for 3 years while I was at uni…
And it was still better than the 3 years I worked in hospitality. People are the fucking worst.
By contrast, I was a bartender in bars and restaurants up and down the coast and had a ball.
I think dedicated bartenders are a separate breed from anyone else in the industry, though, in how they’re treated.
As a waiter I semi-frequently got shat on, but it was rarely by the customers (there was sometimes some annoyance about delayed food, but they never made it personal), it was far more often the chefs. Y’know, for having the temerity to advise them that they hadn’t made what the customer had ordered, and when the chefs would complain, “That’s what was on the ticket, you took it down wrong,” I would make the faux pas of providing said ticket as evidence to refute their assertion.
Apparently ‘proving chefs wrong’ is a huge no-no in the archaically hierarchical hospitality world because every single time it caused an unbearable stink. I swear, I’ve never worked for a chef who wasn’t an insufferable diva in the kitchen at best, or self-important, abusive tyrants at worst. And I’ve never seen anyone treated (or paid) as poorly in hospitality as dishies.
I don’t care how nice someone is out of their workplace, if you rip on dishwashers as ‘dish bitches’, throw scraps or dishes/utensils at them to dispose of/clean, and generally insult them or anyone else around for your fuckups, or insult others for their fuckups but refuse to acknowledge your own, then there is something fucking wrong with you, no matter how many homeless shelters you volunteer at or how nice you are to your friends or family.
‘Nice people’ aren’t actually nice people if they’re complete fucking assholes at work.
Seems to be more prevalent among ‘chefs’, though, rather than your more humble fry/short-order cook. Cooks can still be assholes, but by and large, there’s something about being a ‘chef’ that causes people to put on airs, as if they’d achieved something of similar social status to ‘doctor’. Go ahead and call a chef a cook and you’ll hear about how important that semantic difference is when describing ‘someone who cooks’. STATUS.
Man, fuck hospitality.
Very much like the old saying, “If somebody is nice to you but not nice to the waiter, then they are not a nice person”
Just thinking about the behaviour I’ve seen in kitchens makes me really, really mad even now.
I mean, I get it… I do. Cooking’s a stressful job, especially if you’re an owner-operator. Restaurants fold all the damn time, the pressure’s on to get food out on time AND be good, and when you’re already under the pump and a waiter hands you an order from a table of fifteen, you can’t help but want to shoot the messenger/waiter instead of whoever had the dumb idea to put in more tables than they could reasonably service (probably you) because if they don’t, they don’t make enough money, and the restaurant folds… and if you’re the boss then well, you’re directly responsible for your misery and your failure. HAVE FUN!
But all the same, institutionalized class discrimination spits on the dishwashers openly and unashamedly (dish-pig, pit-bitch, dishie, all equivalent words for ‘scum who I resent paying but who does all the shit I’m too important to or don’t want to smell’), and dictates waiters be seen as nothing more than the bringers of bad news or too god damn slow to clear the counter.
You can choose how to react to that. Whether you pass on your misery. I’ve spent twice as long on half my communications today than I need to making sure that even if someone’s fucked up, there’s no blame brought up and only solutions searched for, to make sure it doesn’t put anyone on the defensive and gets shit one. (They know they fucked up and made me do extra work. It’s enough that that’ll go into incident reports, I don’t need to give them shit about it.) But the URGE…
Hell. I took an Uber the other day and the driver couldn’t read a bloody map. I called him to direct him, give him street names and he still fucked it up, going around the block. I was in a shitty mood for the first ten minutes of the trip until I calmed down a bit and tried to reassure the poor, nervous-looking sod by asking about his situation, learning that he was only on his third trip and new to the city and driving after losing his job with the mining slow-down up north, putting his residency visa application in jeopardy. Basically, his life is ultra-shitty enough already without me bitching about the extra five minutes it took to get him to the pickup point and tanking his rating, like I wanted to for the first few minutes.
We all get bitchy, but you have to stamp down hard on it and cut people some slack. ESPECIALLY if you intend to bloody work with them. I not once saw anything even approaching that kind of attitude from chefs.
Can confirm. Spent six weeks as an apprentice chef and my brother is a qualified chef and chefs everywhere are the second worst people in existence behind body corporate.
…And couriers who don’t bother trying to deliver but just stuff a ‘tried to deliver’ card in your mailbox/door-frame. If they could even be bothered doing that much.
I don’t understand why there isn’t some kind of literacy test to be a courier, so that they can read and understand basic instructions like, “Signature required.”
I did McDonalds for 4 years, 2 of those were overnight shifts. I know
Oh I know that feeling all too well my friend. It’s the leading cause of my social isolation and the only cure for that is interacting with people. Kind of like how you cure arachnophobia by wearing a tarantula as a hat…
Hell is Other People.
So, somehow, with a sleeve of cardboard and a rubber-band, I’ve turned my joystick into a clutch pedal for Euro Truck Simulator 2.
😀
hey guys, sort of need to know quickly, as theres only a couple of left,,,,, but is anyone in need of a 3 day pax ticket? i may possibly be able to buy 2 more (will confirm later) 3 day passes. Please be sure if you say yes as ill be committing to buying these…
edit: price is $150
@negativezero if his shit doesn’t get sorted out
Nope, my shit’s sorted out. They’d sent me the wrong tracking number yesterday. Gave me the right one and it turned out they’d been at my local post office since the 30th, AusPost just couldn’t be fucked carding it. :\
Nice one
our trusty mail service at its best…
Awesome news. At least there’s no theft involved, anyway.
Hooray!
@cj or @gorzilla may be interested, I think their passes got lost in the post.
I actually have ended up with a spare too.
shouldnt pax staff be replacing them at the door?
In an ideal world.
@zetrox2k yeah could I put one hold. I’m likely not going to be able to follow up where my ticket is till Monday cause working 9-9 today and tomorrow
hey mate, the dealio fell through… im now looking for another 3 myself… 🙁 ill let you know if i come accross anything..
It’s all good man. Contacted them today. My ticket get sent back and is awaiting me in Melbourne
hey mate, did you have a spare pax tick you were offloading?
Me? I do have a spare but my sister had expressed interest. Not sure she wants to go for all three days though.
ah sweet no prob
Do you have someone that needs to buy one? Just thinking it might be better to flip it, then if my sister wants to go buy her a ticket for just that day.
On an unrelated note; sorry for not joining you last night, was busy with os42 and trike.
Next time!
ha no probs man, we were just about to do the Daily Heroic and had a free slot!
I know someone that’s hunting for two of them. Let me see if they’re still keen.
Terrible news, Stephen Fry is leaving QI! The new season (starting in a few days in the UK) is his last. What’s worse is that his replacement will be Sandy Toksvig who alternates between ‘Eh, kind of okay’ and ‘For fucks sake shut up!’
I like Sandi Toksvig.
Me too. I think she’ll make a great host.
She’s… okay sometimes. She might be better as a host than a guest, at least that’s my current hope
So for people still playing Rocket League, the latest patch included a new song that plays over the credits after beating season mode. The song is written by the guy who wrote the ‘Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars’ theme and also happens to be a good friend of mine.
You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Oog4Y_zmgg
And the ‘Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars’ theme for good measure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySFWsvOA0KI
Is it wrong that I was disappointed ‘Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars’ wasn’t an acronym?
It does though. It spells out Sarrperbuhkuh.
At best I’ll call it an initialism.
Yeah, most people do…initially.
HI TAY! WHATS DOIN?!
Sitting in a small, un-airconditioned concrete cube with alert tones screeching at me every minute or so.
Developing a headache, can’t think why.
How bout you?
The sitting might be the possible cause?
Sitting is terrible for your health.
Lifehacker said so, and they are never wrong.
Proof enough for me! No more sitting for you!
Perfect timing:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/10/standing-desks-are-mostly-bullshit/
Until it’s in lifehacker I can’t accept it as fact.
Well. That’s kind of a relief. Sort of.
Haha
But if you stand then you have space under the desk for a microwave where you can store your bread.
Isn’t Campbell Simpson a massive standing desk fan?
Nah, pretty sure he’s human.
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. WHATS YOU DOIN.
SITTING AT WORK ASKING TAY WHAT’S DOIN!
FASCINATING.
CAN YOU KEEP YOUR VOICES DOWN I CAN HEAR YOU OVER IN GIZMODO.
Ughhhhhhhhhhhhh
/dead
Something I’ve found interesting / odd. Depending on context, / can either be short for “start of something” or “end of something”
e.g. IRC /me = start typing as “me”, HTML < /b > = end the section of bold text
< dead >
I’m a zombie.
< / dead >
Now I’m not
/me slaps @beeawwb around a bit with a large trout…
oh shit! …. @…. he’s an op!
/disconnect
Those were the days
apparently i should still have a girlfriend over in perth… sure its been 18 years since i chatted to her, but we never officially broke up! should tell my wife about her actually… 😀
So how long until you move to Utah?
So you won’t be home tonight or…
Just make sure your corpse doesn’t stink up the place too much for next week, yeah?
2spooky
So pretty shattered. My boss has been diagnosed with lung cancer. such a genuinely nice guy. he hired me into the industry 14 years ago whilst i was still at uni and looking for a part time income, he left the company about 4 years later and i stayed on for another 5, until we crossed paths again and he rehired me where i am now.
really dont know how i feel about this. can only hope for the best.
:C
It is not fair that bad things happen to good people.
Well that’s shit.
Here’s hoping everything goes well and he makes a full recovery.
Home sick watching Sword Coast Legends vids. Won’t come to console for about a year. Why am I torturing myself?
On the plus side Wasteland 2 & Divinity Original Sin this month.
Can only afford one, it’ll be Divinity.
Unless there’s good reason to Wasteland 2 first???
Very similar in play style and review scores
I would say go with whichever is thematically more interesting to you
Yeah, my thoughts too, will wait for Divinity. Cheers 🙂
Why isn’t it Friday. It feels like it should be Friday
Just did a Spotlight run. Got some materials for Zangief’s cape, found the sports mesh stuff that I used for the yellow parts came in a really nice red colour, so that’ll work well. And 40% off all fabric! Awesome. Then spotted this black fur stuff that looked like it could be really useful too, and it was 30% off… I swear these guys just have permanent sales. Or I just have really good timing.
My favourite is the clearance pile at spotlight. Had to be very good and leave it alone on my last visit. Can’t sew anything else until I get this PAX stuff finished. But at least I’m getting the sewing done now (despite my overlocker deciding to go on strike)
40 and 30% off? I may have to pay them a visit >_>
The 40% off thing said it’s until Tuesday the 20th, not sure about the other.
I will probably go tomorrow
Oh my god I made a joke about aliens on gizmodo and I think now I’m being called out by an actual conspiracy theorist. Either that or a very convincing troll. I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE.
People like that kinda scare me. It demonstrates a willingness to distort reality in such a way that is so totally divorced from what normal people believe that you wonder if that distortion applies to the other ‘normal’ things we take for granted such as, Edit: say… pants.
Yeah, it’s especially worrying because they see themselves as somehow ‘enlightened’ and the rest of the people that aren’t fucking lunatics as being sheep that are just blindly following what they’re told without engaging any critical thinking. Despite the inverse being the case.
Aliens are totes srs business neg, and you are blind becaues the illluminazis want you to think that way.
Apparently.
Why is it always the US government that has all the alien dealings? US is only 8-10% of earth’s landmass, not the biggest country, not the most populated, not the most technologically advanced, not the smartest and I’m fairly certain an alien race would not be super concerned with GDP. They are the most likely to shoot an alien on sight however. Not sure that would help things.
Because Roswell!
Actually because all the ‘alien craft’ are fucking US black ops projects like the SR-71 / OXCARTI was going to type a well thought out, reasoned response to his post… but I mean, if he can ignore common sense and the weight of evidence to that degree, what would it accomplish?
It’s like the study they did with the anti-vaxxers – the more you argue with them, the more it reinforces their misconceptions.
Numbnuts McNoodle-head discovered this one weird trick to achieve everything modern science can’t, doctors hate him! Because obviously doctors are out to fuck you up, not heal you, and the entire industry is one long con to squeeze all your money out of you.
Well. …Actually, in the US, that line of thinking makes more sense because it’s true.
Hahahahaha, that “highschool boyfriend” line.
You might as well go ahead and change your name to naiveZero considering how much of a sheep you are
I don’t know if I made it worse or not.
I think he probably has a yotube channel instead. They’re the new newsletter.
(People talk about having been to the ‘weird’ part of YouTube, but they haven’t seen anything until they’ve been to legit-no-shit-conspiracy-theory town.)
Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today! http://apple.co/1DWdc9d
It’s actually a podcast not a youtube channel
Either way, your reply: loved it.
Believe in the truth. It’s out there.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/09/wonderful-animation-explains-why-the-iss-is-so-amazing/
Comments.
OH FUCK WHATAMIDOING *closetabsclosetabsclosetabs* Phew! That was close, who the hell makes TV tropes references to people they know are trying to work?
Welp. Looks like I might be going back to work at the ABC again, right after PAX.
Both my friend and (former) boss are pretty keen to have me back around again, though the spot is the boss’ wife’s position in support, apparently she’s leaving. Guess I’ve had a long enough holiday 😛
Sounds erotic.
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JOB SEEKING CLUB DISASSEMBLE
The jobs continue to do the seeking 😛
Nob’s SWTOR update! (Hidden because I don’t think many people care).
Finished the Imperial Agent story. Fantastic, such a good story from start to end. Right now that leaves me at 7/8 classes at level 55 (or more). With the free level 60 character that comes with the expansion that’s pretty much it. For a bonus I might see how many of these characters I can get to the cap (level 60 but no 12x exp cap).I’m not reading it because I’m jelly
You should see a doctor about that … Or a dessert chef.
JELLY FLOOD
I forget that not everyone watches Ben and HollyI dooooo, because I am am elf *tooooooooot*
Okay, so I saw The Martian, and I really liked it.
That said, some things stood out to me as not quite right, because I am a huge nerd (still a world better than Gravity in terms of realism, but Gravity was a thriller that happened to be set in space, so I’ve been less mean to it).
One (and two): The bad thing that sets off all of the events. There is no way their Mars ship wouldn’t be able to handle everything terrible thrown at it, or else all the other one would also be at huge risk of falling over, and that seems like awful awful design. Also, they had immense luck in that their interplanetary ship / Mars satellite just so happened to be in a launch window position when they took off, leaving poor Matt Damon behind.Three: It would have to be an extreme edge case where the de-pressurisation chamber would break like that. I guarantee in the case of potential failure it would be designed to stress the outer wall, not the inner one, and it wouldn’t be ripped off.Four: I refuse to believe that they’d have removed the RCS system from the second Mars ship, since it’s a potential source of correction/thrust when taking off, and it would’ve been designed for corrective movements while docking with the interplanetary ship / Mars satellite. Technically I guess it depends on where the fuel source for the RCS was stored, but I think it unlikely that it wouldn’t have some its own source, given the final module was able to be fully detached.Yes, I am no fun at parties.
In other news, I floated a quick cosplay idea I was considering the other night to some friends, and their response was that I’d be perfect (if my hair was curlier), so now I’m sort of tempted to do something…
DO THE SOMETHING
You’re going to cosplay as @cakesmith?
curlier hair is easily done.
Launch Window: The Mars mission wasn’t a permanent colony, I believe it’s a 30-40 day mission? Either way, the launch window for them lifting off from the surface is within probably ten to twenty days of their planned liftoff, so it’s well within a launch period. Worse comes to worse, they could have lifted from the surface, chilled in orbit for a few days, then made their way back to earth. The dust storm is described as incredibly freakish in the book, and they’re kilometres apart, so the calculation is probably that two launchers are at low risk of going down at the same time.Depressurisation chamber: in the book, the explanation is that because he only used one of the airlocks out of the hab, it developed the tear in the canvas from repeated stress- he used it so much more than it was designed for that it hit an unplanned for failure mode
Friday the 16th.
The forgotten sequel where Jason gets his dates wrong and only finds an empty campsite.
Poor Jason and he probably really wanted to beat a motherfucker with another motherfucker.
Destiny people:
Ignoring the gear rewards, is it actually worth getting involved in Iron Banner stuff. Like, is it fun/interesting? Most of what I see (ignoring bad connection issues which I’m generalising as normal shitty luck) is people having a really crap time, partially offset by some nice looking gear.
I avoid it like the plague. Can’t stand Destiny’s PvP and the event itself doesn’t offer anything different from regular Destiny PvP besides enabling gear/level advantages. So if you’re not in it for the gear anyway, or haven’t invested a trillion hours for one specific gun (like the Thorn dominating the last IB event), you’re gonna be outclassed, which equals even less fun.
But that’s just me and my terribleness talking.
If you disregard the ranks and rewards it’s an extra competitive control game.
It has the same Destiny pvp pros and cons but everyone plays it much more seriously.
The rewards are kind of the point though – it’s the reason people take it seriously. Cause unlike regular crucible there is a reason to win, there are stakes.
Fyi, I don’t play regular crucible because it has no point. Winning or loosing, killing or dying: it doesn’t matter. But in IB, it does.
Personally I find it as fun as it is frustrating. I love me some competitive Fps, but Destiny pvp has a lot of issues.
I enjoy iron banner week but once I hit rank 5 I’ll stop playing it since there will be nothing to work towards anymore.
I was listening to my friend in IB last night while noodling about on my own in PvE (disclaimer: I despise PvP, so may be ever so slightly biased :P). We then went and did the Black Spindle mission so two of our group could get the gun. It took us 3 hours, and had more fun than it sounded like he was having in IB. I was thinking of jumping on IB tomorrow morning, but now… Nightstalkers with infinite supers, lag everywhere, no rewards dropping… I think I’ll just go back to creeping around the Afghani desert in a cardboard box tomorrow morning, instead.
See, I don’t mind PvP but I’m just hearing so much negativity coming from the masses about IB (from people I know and don’t know). I like the look of the rewards but it just sounds like I’d be punishing myself to even try to get some of them.
I checked out the Canberra Games Society last night. It’s a board game group that meets at a bridge club every Thursday.
As soon as I walked in, I got beckoned to a table where a couple of guys were setting up a game of Firefly, with all expansions. It took nearly four hours to finish and everyone else had gone home. They were joking that I’d never come back after that. If I wasn’t me, they’d be right. That was a hell of a thing.
As for Firefly, it’s a good game but goddamn is there a lot of game. We took up two large tables. It’s also definitely a game that you just have to accept things will go horribly wrong. I tried making a short trip to finish a job and suddenly REAPERS.
On the other hand, my captain had a BFG strapped to the back of his head while one of my crew rode him with a saddle. I consider that a victory in itself.
Man, TAY is just dying off in a big way.
I’m putting all this blame squarely on you.
Fair enough too. I don’t post here as much as I used to. Sorry!
Not you, you!
Sorry. I’ve been busy D=
Mobile Tay is unreadable at the moment. Text size is so big on a 6″ screen I can only see half a post at a time.
Yup, same issue here.
Yesterday, with eight days to go until a new glitchy Assassin’s Creed comes out (I played it at EB Expo and managed to Bat-grapple half my body into a solid wall, good times) I had an idea. I’ll play snippets of each of the eight main games each day as some sort of countdown/reminder of those halcyon days when times were better.
So loaded up the original game, immediately got forced to watch the unskippable 15 minute end credits sequence, finally started playing the game, got pushed by a drunk into the water and drowned.
Hm. I feel like everything I’ve ever known is falling apart.
The All The King’s Men website had over a thousand hits yesterday, and it’s gearing up for an even bigger day today.
(For context, that’s more than three times as many hits as the second most busy day my website has had, and around a hundred times more hits than an average day.)
Who knew writers wanted paid work?
Okay, so next week is October 21st, 2015, who has Back to the Future events or pranks planned?
It freaks me out that 1985 to us now, is the same as 1955 was to the audience when BTTF was released… I feel old.
weird that you should mention that. Was only 5 mins ago, I realized I’ve known some of my 3d modeling friends and hanging out in our irc channel for just shy of 20 yrs…. way to make myself feel old! #oldmanwelbot
There’s a BTTF Battle Car coming out for Rocket League… otherwise, not much for me.
Oh shit, I completely forgot about that. Thanks for the reminder, may help with sister’s birthday stuff now.
I’ve decided to start watching what I eat.
Apparently eating blindfolded all the time is “weird.” #dadjokepagesix #hi@strangehttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/forget-water-on-mars-astronomers-may-have-just-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-a-star-near-a6693886.html
[img-ancient aliens guy]
See, your new gizmodo friend was right
LOL. That dude was interesting.
Nah, he doesn’t believe anything reported in Mainstream Media.
So this:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/giant-alien-megastructure-found-in-space-what-is-dyson-sphere-and-what-else-could-we-have-found-a6695556.html
Is clearly false. The aliens are instead coming to Texas to molest cattle and abduct hillbillies.
Survivor Episode… 5? 6? The latest one.
They sure focused on one team the entire time, huh.Abi is absolutely crazy. I would be jumping out of her alliance ASAP. I think Tasha/Old Dude will be doing that the second the merge happens 😛 You can tell they are only using her for her vote and would much rather have just about anybody else. It’s hilarious. Also good on Old Dude for winning that challenge. Not that it really helped 😛
Kass making that jewellery for whats-her-face was great too. I really wish it had gone further with everybody thinking she was making an immunity idol.
I’m happy that No Sleeves left. They would’ve been stupid to vote Woo out (he’s great, by the way). Good that everybody voted for him as well. Hopefully that will stop Abi from going nuts.
I guess we’ll be seeing a merge sooner rather than later at this rate though. If the new team loses again they’ll have half the members of everybody else…
@greenius @alexpants @sughly
Yeah, super happy to have no sleeves out, I wasnt a fan. Its funny, I didnt like Savage a whole lot in Pearl Islands… I think its caus he was in an alliance against Rupert maybe? I dunno, but I got sucked into his ‘hero’ performance and now I think hes a pretty cool guy 😛 I’d like to see him and Tash stick together post merge, thatd be cool. I think they might, theyre forming a pretty good alliance. I’m not saying I care for Woo though, hes funny but… kinda of boring for the game. I hate when his type get tagged along to the end because they can be beaten, want more strategy ppl dangit. Not including no sleeves guy though. Spencer is playing terribly this time too, ugh.Yeah! Him and Tash seem like a good team. They’re both pretty smart too so hopefully they can go far.I like Woo just because he’s dumb. Don’t want him to get dragged to the end again but I do want him around a bit longer. At least to the merge.
And yeah, Spencer is playing woefully 😛 I feel like he is going to be the one to be booted if his team ever loses. But that might just be because we haven’t seen much of him since the shuffle.
I feel like Abi crossed the line from ‘hilariously off balance’ to ‘dangerously psychotic’ last night so I don’t really want her around anymore. If they don’t merge before they go to tribal council again it feels assured that she’ll be the next one off, at least…@powalen @sughly @phoenix
You and Pow gotta watch her first season, it was insane how psychotic and angry she got over the smallest little things… (but also watch her first season for Malcolm *so dreamy*)I feel bad for the loser tribe of this season but at least the Tash/Savage duo is doing well. I was so happy last week when they picked up Abi and turned it around so that they were in power. CRAZY! Varner gave me lots of laughs this season so I was kind of sad to see him go but also glad since it kept good ol Woo around :D. That lovable goof! They do have that whole underdog thing going for them so I want them to do well now but Abi can still go away… shoo…Police were called to a day care center today where there was a 3 year old resisting a rest.
My job as a concreter is getting harder and harder.
I went to look at a Light House yesterday with the intention of buying it.
But I found it too flashy.
A man walking down the street meets an old friend with only one arm.
“Where are you off to?”, says the man.
“I’m going to change a light bulb”.
“Isn’t that difficult with one arm?”
“I don’t think so, I’ve still got the receipt.”
I played poker with an origami expert last night that was a waste of time he kept folding!
My mate david had his id stolen the other day. We just call him dav now.
I asked the librarian if they had any books on paranoia and she whispered “They’re behind you.”
Murphy’s Law: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Cole’s Law: Thinly sliced cabbage.
If you can’t choose between an angry psychic and a sad psychic, you’ll have to find a happy medium.
My wife says she’s sick of my wordplay jokes.
I said “What can I do to remedy this?”
She said “Whatever means necessary.”
I said “No it doesn’t.”
After several karate lessons I can now break a 10cm wooden board with my cast.
Do you ever want to just wake up and kiss the person next to you and feel good for the rest of the day?
I did and I’m never catching this train again.
Tape worms are now called MP3 worms.
PSA: Tales of Zestiria PC (Steam key) is on GMG for $50 US Instead of the $70 we’re asked for on Steam:
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/rpgs/tales-zestiria/
Also can get a further 25% off code from here:
http://www.dealzon.com/deals/tales-of-zestiria#tales-of-zestiria-pc
I think this does mean missing out on the Steam preorder incentives (specifically free Symphonia HD next year) but that makes it quite cheap, just over $50 AUD.
http://gematsu.com/2015/10/xanadu-next-senran-kagura-shinovi-versus-little-kings-story-coming-pc-west
Holy shit. Not surprised about Xanadu Next (they’ve kind of hinted at it before) but Little King’s Story and especially Senran Kagura Steam ports are super surprising.
(I guess we kept asking for more TitS on PC and so Xseed are giving us more tits on PC :V)
hehe tits
Wait, that’s the actual proper Little King’s Story? 😮
Neat.
OK I’m done with the dad jokes and now onto something serious 🙂
I’m doing the Melbourne half-marathon this Sunday to raise money for Beyond Blue who do great work with supporting people and raising awareness for mental health issues. As most of you probably know, I suffered from them for years and although now free of them, will always fight to battle the stigma/shame that is still somewhat attached to them. Please donate if you can 🙂
http://melbournemarathon2015.gofundraise.com.au/page/IanGBB
Thanks to @shane and @negativezero for your donations, you guys are the bestest!
Will you stop and tell a dadjoke after every 5km? 🙂
Sponsored another mate (who has flown over from the UK for it!) but all the best. 🙂
Don’t worry, I’ll be stopping at each water station and entertaining the troops with something epic 😀
Thanks!
Ugh I’m not paid until Tuesday. Beyond blue helped me with my meltdown on Tuesday last week. I’m so grateful
I’m glad they could help mate, that’s what they’re there for, never be afraid to use them 🙂
I hope things go well for you from here 🙂
What do you call a guy with a truck on his head?
Deceased.Harold.
Mack?
I was going to say that but it was too obvious.
Mack
For some reason I just got a random urge to listen to The Offspring, I think I blame the GTA V recreation of Blink-182’s video “What’s My Age Again?” to be fair it’s a pretty good recreation.
Oh, cool. King’s all Hard Mode is out next Friday. \o/ Drops 310-320 light gear. \o/ Recommended light is 300-320. Hmm… that would explain the 330 light exotics in the Armory listings…
@lightspeed @dkzeitgeist @mawt
Oh snap. And here I was about to ease up.on Destiny after IB :p
Gonna have to get cracking on the Touch of Malice. @Blaghman and others: I’ll be hunting the fragments in missions and Dreadnought events if you want to team up.
Do it! We had three ToMs for our run this week, and smashed Daughters and Oryx in a couple tries each. It’s just constant DPS in those last two encounters.
Yeah, it smashes even the Black Spindle’s dps from what I’ve seen.
A dozen Fragments to go! But it’s all the tricky ones of course 🙁
Hint: you can get XXVIII on patrol if you’re with a friend – look for a guide to getting the Silent Scream emblem. Four can be got in Regicide or Sunless cell, a fifth is in Sunless Cell only… And agonarch runes have been re-enabled. 😀 Hardest ones are really the Tier 2 and 3 court ones… and the scent chest. That damn scent chest.
Best way to do scent chest is to have a couple of peeps in your fireteam standing on key points for the jumping part to make them very visible straight away.
I’m worried about Golgoroth, although that fight already has a built in death limit, so in a way it’s not like it can actually get much more difficult. No doubt there will be some additional new twist to have to deal with. Still, we burned through the other bosses fairly quickly this week, so I think our damage output is going to be ok.
I think we’re all over 300 now? We should be able to at least get to Golg (ie. chance at 310+ ghost, secondary and heavy drops), but I agree he’ll be the first major hurdle. I bet the taken spawn will be accelerated, not sure if the death tablet will change much – seems a bit redundant in HM. Cursed Thralls will probably be 310, so a 1HKO to DPS team as we currently stand, so we’ll need to stay on top of them more than we have been (assuming same difficulty pattern of 300 opening, 310 totems to daughters, 320 for Oryx).
That said, maybe the challenge modes will be rotating modifiers for certain encounters – the community’s been asking for nightfall-style raids-with-modifiers, right? Weekly rotation for HM… Warpriest’s challenge might be getting him down before the end of the third rotation; Golg will probably be no deaths, no idea what they’ll do for Oryx… And that’s just accounting for “NM mechanics are toned-down versions of HM mechanics”… who knows what else they stripped out completely for NM… D:
I’m also trying to compare to VoG. In NM, Templar only detained 1 person, and Atheon did 0. In HM, Templar detained all but 1 (iirc), and Atheon detained all of Home Team.
I think Golgoroth might count deaths for double, so only 3 and then done. His gaze could also leave a debuff which prevents you from swapping between two people.
Also, raid specific bonus from NM raid gear should probably be taken into consideration.
The gaze debuff thing is an interesting idea… and actually sounds really plausible – would explain why there’s precisely six orbs for that encounter (one for each guardian), and why Golg’s gaze can’t be got a seventh time… Evil…
Well we know one thing – there will be a relic somewhere. Since the chest armour has an armour buff “when carrying the king’s fall relic.”
Isn’t that the relics at the start?
Or do they have some other whacky name?
Well, extra armour for that section makes no sense, because it’s a 280 light encounter in NM, and will probably be 300 in HM. There has to be more to that perk than “extra armour during the easiest encounter in the raid.”
I was thinking it might refer to the light during Daughters/Oryx, but again, that’s extremely shortlived before you get total invincibility from the brands…
That shit gone be tough. Excite.
Hola TAY – Have just been informed that my company is flying me down to Brisbane on the 5th Dec (friday) for a work party. Figured I may as well put out the call to the Brisbane TAYbies – is anyone interested in a meat that Saturday? If someone could help me out with tags that would be appreciated.
http://www.taytags.com – For all your meat tagging needs.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
It needs to be updated though
Way too far ahead to know what I’ll be doing, but drop a reminder in here a couple of weeks out and I’ll see what’s happening 🙂
Could be possible, Dec is a bit far off for me to be definite though
Sounds good! P’raps we could try that wings place in Clayfield?
@os42
Been thinking about the failed Black Spindle attempts last night. I don’t know if your team found the same, but I just wasn’t getting my super off enough, and I didn’t see my team-mates generate many orbs. I think the way to go is a nightstalker hunter, and then 2 stormcallers, 2 sunbreakers or one of each. Void bow to tether the boss and share damage around, and smash him – orb generation and minion clearing from the warlocks/titans. Armor with as many “charge your super” and “drop an orb” perks as possible. It’s just about max damage at max rate and blowing through the early rooms.
If we’d nailed the first couple of rooms, we could have had an extra 40-60 seconds in the last room.
Need to have a crack at it with you I think.
It’s a tough one. Helped some peeps do it last night and we finished with literally 1 second to spare.
Only thing I can recommend is have someone with a void gun to burn the wizards in the 2nd room and don’t tunnel vision on the adds – always have dps on the boss.
Yea, the main reason we succeeded our last time was mostly down to smashing those first two rooms as quickly as possible, and ideally getting about 6-7 minutes in the last room.
First room is Arc/Solar shields, second is Void (with solar shields in the hallway afterward), final room is Arc/Solar. I think a sunbreaker+stormcaller pair would be ideal for those rooms. Second room, focus down blights > wizards > snipers > leftovers. Personally, in that last room I’d use the blood-bound bow for add control on the left – maybe land it on one of the barriers on the left so it overlaps with the boss’ front-side pathing? Haven’t tested its range, so not sure if hitting the boss would capture enough adds for it to be worthwhile, unless he’s in the middle pit.
Our strat last night for the final room, with about 6-6:30 on the clock:
Zephyr (sunbreaker) held the left door and drew most of the adds to his side, I’d move to support him with a stormtrance to give him some breathing room when he started to get overwhelmed, then checked for blights on the left (and take them down asap) before moving back to the right doorway. Sky (sunsinger) tended to hold a position outside the right, near the second set of stairs, taking out the back blights as they spawned, solar grenades for the shielded knights, and otherwise focusing on sniping the boss. I held the right doorway, sniping and MG’ing the boss, helping with adds in the middle when the boss was out of sight, calling out blights and knight spawns on the far right for Sky and helping get them down asap. Because we were pretty spread out, the boss’ orb spam was less focused, but also meant he spent more time hidden on the left, so not sure if it’s the best way to do it. Once the timer hit about 2:00, Zephyr and I stopped using our supers (hard learned lesson after killing the boss twice but having no way to clear the remaining adds in around 30-60s), the three of us brought the boss down with about 45 seconds left, and Zephyr and I cleared the room with hammers and lightning with 15 seconds to spare.Would be happy to give you a hand next time it’s up, if you’d like.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Good work. No wonder you were happy just farming and pottering about after all that! Pretty good session, just hoping I can find a bunch doing Court to grab that Antiquated Rune in 2 mins challenge.
My group got it first attempt with little-to-no strategy with about 3 minutes to spare 😐
Probably due to Eccentric being an absolute beast.
If you get super stuck next time it comes around, ping me, and I may be able to rope someone else to help you.
Good call. 😀 And yeah – haven’t run with eccentric for a while, but that’s another level of play.
Bundlestars is having a sale. Mostly looked pretty average except for a few gems – Mad Max is $21, Endless Space Gold is $8.74, a few others look decent.
Edit: link might help.
https://www.bundlestars.com/en/
Also Humble Bundle is having a Valentine sale. I don’t care about the games, but look at those freaking pants. LOOK AT THEM. https://humblebundle-a.akamaihd.net/misc/files/hashed/d71dd594dc41e86be08a6e74de3d20640b3bc2ad.png
For those who are curious about 40K Eternal Crusade, here are some of my thoughts on the alpha so far. It is a bit long.
They’ve only got a single outpost to fight over in a capture the objective style map so it’s hard to get a perspective on how the Planetside-esque aspects will work. That said, the actually shooting is fun and nice and chunky but the bolter sounds seem a little off for me. They’ve got Predators and Rhinos in the game but the majority of the outpost is indoors so they’re mostly useless.They’re only showing off Space Marines and Chaos Space Marines so far and each of these groups has two sub-factions: Dark Angels and Ultramarines for the Imperium and Word Bearers and Black Legion for Chaos. One thing I liked is that they form squads based on your sub-faction so I kept being matched with other Marines of my chapter.
They have four classes that they’re showing off in the alpha. Assault marines or Raptors for Chaos have the weakest armour but are the kings of melee with jump packs and a ground slam attack straight from the other Space Marine game. I tried to get it to work however there was a bit of lag so I couldn’t get it working right. You also can’t charge into the middle of an enemy squad as you will die horribly from their fire and friendly fire. They can get power swords as one of their loadouts or chainswords as the default.
The tactical marines are bog standard with either bolter, stalker bolter (effectively a sniper rifle), or a plasma gun and average armour. They also come equipped with the most grenades too however it was interesting that throwing grenades was not very fluid and that you really had to lob before you entered a firefight. Another interesting thing is that objectives were scattered around the map but, unlike almost any other objective shooter that I’ve played, tactical marines are the only class that can capture objectives. It made having a tactical quite important for pushing objectives. They only have a combat knife in melee so they will get chewed to pieces against assaults but outclass devastators.
Devastator marines or Havocs for Chaos are the heavy weapons guys. They can take heavy bolters, lascannons, or plasma cannons. They are not made to fire and move or fire for extended periods of time so there is a lot of finding a good spot and unleashing hell. The plasma cannon is a bit wonky and switching between its primary and secondary fire often didn’t work as intended but that is hopefully an alpha problem. One thing that was interesting was that the heavy bolter could be braced against cover and go into turret mode basically which improved accuracy. Devastators had the heaviest armour but are woefully slow when moving.
The last class are the support with apothecaries for the Imperium and sorcerers for Chaos. They’ve been mostly relegated to healing classes so no psychic powers yet but they do a few things differently. Both of them are more melee focused than tacticals as the apothecary can have a chainsword and the sorcerer can have a force sword. The apothecary has a number of consumable medpacks that he can apply to players to heal them back up instantly while the sorcerer has psychic healing which can be done across a small distance and heals a little bit at a time. I didn’t play much of these two classes.
One thing I noticed about the gameplay was that there was a lot of weight to your actions. Sprinting increased your speed but you couldn’t stop sprinting and start firing immediately as momentum carried you forward a bit. Likewise, firing weapons on automatic fire meant that you could track a little bit away from where you started but not too far. There was no 360 noscoping that’s for certain.
You had your health and a small shield around it which helped to keep you alive. The shield regenerated over time but the health didn’t and you would need to seek out an apothecary and go find an ammo crate that would also heal you. It was very easy to get chunked down and die and no one is really able to survive long under a hail of gunfire.
There was also a small “Brother I am dying!” mechanic where basically your health reaches zero and you start crawling around slowly dying. If a squad mate is close by, they can pick you back up but you do not recover any health. Alternatively, the enemy can run up and perform an execution on you which gives them extra points for killing you. Both saving and executing a fallen player are risky as you are completely exposed to enemy attacks. The player who is downed can also choose to bleed out faster to deny an enemy an execution bonus and to respawn sooner. That said, the spawn points were not all the same so spawn camping was not very effective.
TL;DR: I like it so far for an alpha but I’m hanging out to see the Planetside scale combat and more vehicles.
Sounds fun!
@freezespreston @cookingmama @otherginfolk What are some really nice/unusual/fancy gins? Still trying to brainstorm something to get for my sister.
There is a giftpack of Hendricks you can get that comes with a cute teacup, I got the 1L version from @batguy when he went throught he duty free 🙂
Otherwise, the australian gins like Four Pillars, The West Winds and The Melbourne Gin Company are all getting a lot of attention lately.
Gin Mare has mediterranean flavours like rosemary and oregano – a little bit different from the british style gins.
Dan Murphys has a reasonable range, http://www.ginheaven.com.au/, and http://www.onlybitters.com/ has a range of tonic syrups (add soda to get tonic water) and bitters and other things that generally go well with gin.
The Gin Mare is awesome, we got a bottle of it for Mum a year or two ago. Just checked her room, she’s still got about half a bottle of the Botanist one. That was quite nice.
The tonic syrup might be a really good idea actually. Any suggestions on good picks there?
http://www.onlybitters.com/johns-premium-tonic-syrup-118ml/
http://www.onlybitters.com/el-guapo-tonic-syrup-250ml/
Decided to give these two a go, they both sound like they’d go down well. Thanks so much for that, I’d totally forgotten all about these. Perfect idea.
The Johns is really good. Went through a bottle very quickly. El Guapo was meh. Commonwealth was gross, avoid that one.
Four Pillars is my favourite gin. They make some really nice stuff. Currently working through a Navy Strength bottle. 60% ABV but the stronger botanical taste means it’s a bit more versatile with what you can mix it with without overwhelming the flavour.
Also, if she likes gin, how about looking around the op-shops for vintage glassware?
Jewish men are the most confident of all, they cut the end off of their penis before knowing how long it will be.
Anyone know anyone interested in a 3 day PAX pass?
It appears that I have a spare. Can also come to an arrangement if not all 3 days are wanted.
hey beavs, might be interested… how much?
I was going with face value, but happy to negotiate if someone didn’t want Friday.
@beavwa @budgieishere @chuloopa @coldcamv @crazyguy1990 @f4ction @greenius @jordi @mad_danny @negativezero @pixel_the_ferret_viking @scree @smurfydog @tech_knight @tigerion @tofu @trikeabout @zetrox2k Any other Melbourne folk that aren’t on TayTags:
So, in 4 weeks I’ll be over in Melbourne, and I was hoping to arrange a meat. My thoughts are that we could go out to dinner and then go and see Spectre on either Friday the 13th or Saturday the 14th. I’m happy with whatever we choose, as I’ve kept both nights free for meat purposes. I’m staying not that far from Crown, so thinking that wouldn’t be a bad place for a meat. If you’re interested in meating me, then reply to this post with your preferred night.
Either or. I don’t watch James bond films but I can probably do the food portion
Not me, sorry. I’ll be living in Seattle by then.
Wasn’t quite sure when your move was, so I tagged you anyway. Bit too far of a trip to come for a meat then.
All night long bae
I work Saturday mornings so Saturday is probably better for me. However work is south melb so easy enough for me to get to crown area after work on Friday. Saturday Arvo works for me as well as I can bring the family along, probably not for the movie though)
I’ll be at Pokémon concert thingy Friday night.
A friend of mine is going to that concert as well. If we do the meat on Saturday night, then I’ll invite him too.
I’d be up for that. the 14th is my birthday anyway
Thanks, but no thanks.
Not about 13th, might be about 14th. Keep us informed, might be there! 🙂
Tentative yes to any date, preference for Friday after 5:30 sometime since I work in Melbourne but live an hour away and get lazy.
Friday night or Saturday would work for me, so long as I’m not stuck with recall for work, I’ll have to check when I’m back in the office next week
Maybe! (if I’m even in the state :P). I’d prefer a Saturday though as I don’t work or live near the city, but don’t let that sway your decision!
I can’t do Saturday night because I get up at 4am on Sundays but it looks like I’m the only one.
Will be overseas then sorry!
Paddy and Mick are unemployed and looking for work. While walking past a sawmill, they see a big sign – ‘HELP WANTED’. Paddy goes in, while Mick waits for him outside.
Paddy comes out a few minutes later looking a bit glum. Mick asks ‘How’d you go, Paddy?’ to which he responds ‘No good… they wanted tree fellers, but there’s only two of us’.
So following the sawmill incident, Paddy gets a job at an art gallery, hanging up new paintings. Mick comes to visit him, and notices that before hammering in a new nail, Paddy would have a good hard look at it, and he threw half the nails into a big pile in the middle of the room. Mick asks him ‘Paddy, why are you throwing out half ‘yer nails?’, and Paddy replies ‘Well… I pull the nail out of the box and check it, and sometimes they’re sharp but sometimes there’s a big flat bit on the end… I tried hammering them in, but they just won’t go in!’
Mick looks at him, stunned… then points to the wall on the opposite side of the room and shouts ‘Paddy, you fool! Those nails are for the other wall!’
Tri force Heroes download codes!
One is for me, but I have 2 to give away!
What’s a tri force hero?
New Zelda game which needs 3 players…or 1
Sure, why not. I was just saying on twitter that I need a new 3DS game for sitting in PAX queues
I will spoiler it for you
B0HLWYXJ0P50CM7FCool, I’ll try it out when I get home
I got a bunch too! \o/
Mexican food and Margaritas for lunch…
😀
This video completely justifies the addition of emotes to Destiny:
Aaand that’s half my data cap gone in a little over a week. Thanks Kotaku.
Annnnd now I’m feeling the effects of the Margarita…
I need a pillow.
It’s still early! The only thing this crazy guy needs is another margarita!
Noooo… need caffeine…
In that case, get an espresso martini 😀
Vodka redbull…
or better yet..
JAEGER BOMBS!
Looks like there’s a new Splatoon update incoming. Could be good reason to start playing again, there’s some interesting changes to the weapons balance. Namely a whole lot of nerfs, especially to the blasters, rollers and kraken. Awesome 😛
Also great that they’re actually putting out detailed info like this.
Because if there’s one thing chargers need, it’s less competition 😐
Hey, my beloved E-Litre got nerfed too!
WOOO! 😛
Patch notes don’t seem to want to load for me. Have they done anything about the Ink-zooka yet?
Oh shit, it did too! Didn’t even notice.
Incomplete list of changes I found interesting/noteworthy:
Blaster (regular, Luna and Range):
-Decreased direct hit damage from 125.0 to 80.0
-Set the limit for direct hit damage to 100.0 even with gear that increases damage
Rollers (Splat, Carbon and Dyno):
-Adjusted the splash damage. Players can only splat their opponents in one hit with the center of the roller
-Opponents cannot be splatted in one hit when the player is out of ink
-Balanced the amount of damage given when the roller is repeatedly swung
Dyno only:
-Increased the amount of time needed before the ink begins filling after swinging the roller
-Changed the calculation method for damage when the roller is repeatedly swung
E-litre (regular and Scope):
-The range of damage that can be done to opponents without fully charging the weapon has been adjusted to 40.0 – 100.0. It was previously 40.0 ‐ 120.0
Splash Wall:
-Lowered the resistance against opponent attacks by about 40%
-Increased the amount of time required to begin recharging the ink after throwing this weapon from 1.33 seconds to 2.67 seconds
Inkzooka:
-Decreased the fire rate from a maximum cooldown of 0.55 seconds to 0.92 seconds
-Adjustments were made so the target displays consistently
Kraken:
-Increased the amount of turf needed to be inked for filling the Special Gauge from 180p to 200p
-Added a period of 0.75 seconds before players can attack again after using Kraken
-Increased the area that Kraken takes damage according to the size of its body
Tower Control:
-Increased the amount of knockback when players using Bubbler or Kraken are hit from above or below
-Changed the way in which the Splash Wall bounces when thrown against the top of the pillar of the Tower in order to increase the difficulty to place a Splash Walls on the Tower while riding the Tower
Good.
*downvote*
Fucking chargers can pin you down and ruin an entire match.
I know right!
None of my main weapons got nerfed outside of the Kraken! Woo! And a lot of them even got a buff!
The roller “nerf” is great too though. Should hopefully stop people just spamming the splash whenever they see an enemy.
Still no separation of the y and X axis.
So how many people here still actually play Rocket League? RockeTAY seems to have quietly faded into oblivion, so I figure I’d ask around and see who I should bug to jump in some time (other than @phoenix and @cakesmith).
Played in a 2v2 tournament last Friday night with a mate. Made it to the semi finals, one match before the final, but lost. Admittedly we were beaten by the team that went on to win it. They got $100 each for the win. Was good fun though. Last time we tried we lost in the first round.
I backed away from all ranked stuff temporarily and have been playing a lot of 3v3. It’s far more forgiving when you make mistakes, so I get more chances to make risky (mostly stupid) plays 😛
Having said that, I think it might be time for me to get back into ranked 2v2 and 3v3 and see if I can still keep up.
My lesson from RockeTAY was never to play Rocket League with Rize.
*goes for an aerial defensive, falls over myself and accidentally scores*
…damn right!
Aw, poor RockeTAY.
Bug me every now and again, man. I’ll be up for it on occasion! 🙂
We can always try and organise a night of friendlies, if enough PS/PC players are interested.
Friendlies seemed to work better than the league format.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from RockeTAY, it’s that you should destroy everyone at the PAX ESL comp.
If I was going, I’d absolutely try 😛
I cant decide if this is even real. Even talking about themselves they make zero sense.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/16/united-patriots-front-shermon-burgess-resigns-blair-cottrell-upf
Hahahaha!
I like this analysis: http://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article/2015/10/16/anti-islam-movement-leader-upset-people-said-mean-things-about-him
Such delicious sarcasm.
Wow, Lincraft actually came through for once. Had a gold (as in dark orangey yellow) cord, exactly like I needed. Couldn’t find anything much even in regular yellow at Spotlight yesterday. Awesome.
And got the rest of my sister’s birthday present sorted. Now it’s time to go and see Matilda. Everything’s coming up Milhouse!
Matilda is rad. Absolutely loved it.
Spent the week watching people play WRPGs on YouTube & now I’m playing INQUISITION again because MGS V ain’t my bag.
I really want Wasteland 2, Fallout 4 & Divinity Original Sin. Probably grab Divinity first.
If I traded MGS I could maybe afford Fallout too.
Hnnnngh, hnnnnngh
Fuck it’s weird to think I preferred Wolfenstein over MGS. Weird!
Not really, given how fucking awesome Wolfenstein was.
Faaaaark why won’t it go on sale on Steam already.
Sigh. Just went on Steam to see if maybe it was on sale… it wasn’t, but Grey Goo is. Goodbye, weekend.
What, Wolfenstein? I picked it up at launch for really low via Green Man Gaming IIRC. Check their price.
Cold Steel nect month, COLD STEEEEEEEEEEEEEL *flashes sword* 😉
Does that have a set date yet though? I thought it was just Q4 at this point, so some time November/December?
Thought it was mid to late November.
Actually wouldn’t mind December for money reasons but would prefer a new handheld game came for daily commute.
@jimu: well Amazon has it 17th November for the US, but that’s a placeholder. Usually they’re pretty accurate though.
Going to be just after I move so might be too busy organizing shit like places to live and so on to be able to get to it ASAP. Got to remember to update my preorder or else it’ll ship to my Mum!
Yeah, 17the sounds like what Videogamesplus has, too lazy to check :p
Still, looks so good.
Kinda thought we’d hear a vague release date for TitS SC by now. They seem to have gone quiet again after that last big blog post. Hope everything is ok.
@jimu: did you see? We kept asking for more TitS so they announced Senran Kagura for PC 😛
$60. I hate everything.
On the plus side, Grey Goo is really good. Like, really really good. So, there’s that.
Yeah, but you dont like MGS whereas previously I have loved it/
I wish there was a way to filter political stuff from my friends out of my news feed on Facebook, I really don’t care for their opinion on stuff, or constantly reminded how pathetic & spineless our governments are.
On the bright side I finally got around to getting a VPN set up on my HTPC & PC so I can browse the internets a little more anonymously. Went back with Getflix since I liked what they offered and how simple it was to get set up, also I can get it working on my PS3/PS4 with relative ease.
There is actually.
Get FB Purity (http://www.fbpurity.com/) and it will allow you to set a text filter where you can (quote) “Enter the words or phrases, on separate lines, that you wish to filter from your news feed.”
Also has a whole bunch of other features, such as removing ads, application requests, and much more. Facebook actually becomes much more usable once you add it.
You’re the best, cheers 😀
And… Max is in cuddle mode.
:3
Oh man. Matilda was amazing.
Those freakin kids.
Right?
I feel bad for some of them. No matter what they do in life, they’ll have trouble surpassing what they’ve already done.
Or on the flipside, they’ll go and totally eclipse it.
Talented little shits.
Whatever happens, some of them will have great entrances when they go to NIDA. Other people will be like “I played X in community theatre Y” and they can be like “I was Bruce Bogtrotter in Matilda.” Drop the mic, then strut out.
Ugh. I want to see it so damn bad. Hopefully it tours after the Sydney run. Doubt it, though. Kids grow up. 😛
Come to Sydney =D
Went in august and thought it was pretty good. But I’m am old person who hates people in the audience interrupting things because they are kids.
During the song about quiet with all the silent pauses, we had a guy using the silence to try and cough up a lung.
Strepsils should be the official sponsor of musicals like Lynx should be the official sponsor of conventions.
Oh god, I totally forgot… there was a distinct smell of BO as soon as I sat down in my seat. Never did figure out if it was the large lady next to me or the old guy in front of me, but thankfully it seemed to disappear enough to not be a bother throughout the whole thing.
The one playing at the Star? I’m tossing up whether to go, worth it?
Yes. And yes!
Ever since AFL ended, my mother and I have been looking for another sport together. We’ve looked into all options; soccer, baseball, you name it. I’ve been trying to get ger into watching ice hockey lately. Mum pitched the idea of basketball. I think she went to a game in January or something and wanted to go again.
I rejected the proposal, saying I didn’t like basketball. I remember going to an Perth Wildcats NBL game when I was a kid, and being very bored. A week later, I felt like I was being too harsh, and said I’d go to one game with her. If I liked it, cool, I might go to another. If I didn’t, I’d look for another sport.
I got very suspicious when a ‘Go Wildcats’ foam finger arrived in the mail. Did my mother buy a membership or something?
Well, whatever. I went to the game, meeting her in Perth after she finished work. She insisted I come to the CBD early so she could ‘pick up a package.’ Either my mum had
When we went to get tickets, it turns out my mother had jumped the gun and bought not one, but two memberships. Before I’d even watched a game. Despite the fact that money is tight.
Well it turned I hate basketball. Hate it with a passion. The stadium was so loud, constantly filled with music, and the announcer guy shouting ‘MAKE SOME NOOOIIIISSSSEEE’ every eighteen seconds absolutely infuriated me. I hate that announcer so much. The seats were very, very uncomfortable, and my knees were in utter agony by half time.I also had beans for dinner the previous night and I was constantly farting.
I spent the first quarter with my fingers plugged in my ears, and the second quarter on my phone. When half time came, my mother said I could sit in the lobby by the entrance for the rest of the game. So I did that.
I’m annoyed the night tirned out so badly. At least I got to eat some cheap ramen from Taka before the game.
Ugh. I really need a new GPU for Fallout 4 since my GTX 560 (non Ti model) won’t cut it due to it’s pathetic 1GB vram 🙁 Problem is I just I can’t seem to find any 2nd hand GPU’s from the 600 series or higher for a realistic price, apart from a 680 for $100 opening auction price on eBay.
and on top of that I need to look into getting a new phone since my iPhone 4 is having reception issues, then again I seem to only have the issue when i’m at the local shopping centre specifically in coles or woolies, they’re both just reception dead spots for me, which is frustrating but oh well.
Any TAY’s buying Rock Band 4? I’m tempted to by the band box, but at that price it’s way too steep right now. From what I know you can use previous drums/mics from other games but I’m not exactly sure which ones.
Harmonix have a compatibility chart here: http://forums.harmonixmusic.com/discussion/258920/the-rock-band-4-instrument-compatibility-chart
But the short version (so far as I understand it, and I’m probably wrong) is PS3 stuff will probably work on the PS4, wireless 360 stuff will work with an adapter on the Xbone.
Saw a PS3 guitar/drum set on ebay the other day for $50 and I am already regretting not buying it.
Thanks Sean. I’m tempted to track down a drum kit, that’s what I’m interested in playing the most. But I can’t justify buying the entire band kit just for that, so finding an old compatible one might do the trick. It’ll be cheaper finding one of those & downloading the game off the PS Store/ Xbox Live, I reckon.
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/10/16/xenoblade-developer-posts-for-urgent-and-mass-openings/
Gearing up for something new? Nintendo NX Xeno? :O
XeNXblade?
NX actually meant New Xenoblade all along!
Wait a second wait a second wait a second. Destiny is selling emotes? What kind of self-respecting non-F2P MMO sells emotes?
Eh, it’s a smart monetisation strategy.
I don’t see it as being any different from WoW selling pets and mounts.
ISI were selling rFactor 2 at a discount, and I had to pick it up.
For $49.99, it’s a steal. 😀
@beeawwb saw you were tossing up between the regular air cooler 980Ti & the liquid & air cooled variant, just saw that Hardware Canucks did a review on the MSI one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DLEf-NllWg seemed pretty impressive!
Boy that was not the accent I was expecting from a channel called Hardware Canucks.
I’d actually looked at the Sea Hawk (because it’s in stock… :P). What I’m actually tossing up is less the air cooler vs all-in-one-liquid, it’s more “where would I mount the radiator in my case?” given the size of some of my existing fans. My CPU fan is so large it actually excludes me mounting a fan on my side window so I’d have to replace my rear fan, I think.
Otherwise the liquid coolers seem pretty fantastic, some of those temps are just crazy low.
I know right? It’s not as thick in other videos of his kinda makes me think it’s an act lol.
Ah right, yeah that’s the issue finding space. I like the idea and think it’s fantastic but some of the rads can be pretty thick and trying to find a big enough space is also the issue lol.
Yeah those temps are pretty impressive, even some of the air cooled ones can be pretty impressive too.
@negativezero Looks like Cold Steel just changed dates , says 15/12 now on VG+.
Kinda good for me, now I can grab Fallout straight away next month instead.
Mixed feelings.
Yeah Amazon’s saying the same thing. I think it’s a placeholder still though. But I’m not surprised it’s delayed either. Original mid-November date put it only a few weeks away and by now I’d have expected a date confirmation or something but they feel like they only just started gearing up the hype machine.
Senran Kagura Estival Versus (PS4/Vita) is still due this year as well. They’re also still saying that TitS SC will be before Cold Steel. They also have Earth Defense Force 2 (Vita) and EDF 4.1 (PS4) and that PoPoLoCrois x Harvest Moon game plus the Nitroplus 2D fighter on the books for this year which is quite a lot.
Really hoping that Estival Versus gets all the Japanese DLC. Japan just got three new characters added to the game, guest characters from Ikkitousen which I really hope they can bring here as well. Especially Ryofu.
But also interestingly, aside from Cold Steel II, XSEED have nothing on the books for next year except PC ports / localizations for steam – original Corpse Party (PSP one is way better), Little King’s Story, Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus and Xanadu Next. Cold Steel II is already translated apparently, so that’s probably Q1-Q2. It’s fair to assume they’ll bring over Valkyrie Drive if that does well in Japan (it’s developed by their parent company and directed by the Senran Kagura guy). But they generally work on a lot more stuff, so it’ll be interesting to see what else they’re working on. Wouldn’t be surprised if they end up being the localization partner for Gal Gun, and I reckon a Tokyo Xanadu localization will be next on the list after Cold Steel II, possibly even before it depending on how early they got in on it and how far in they are (it looked to be closer in size to a modern Ys game so probably not as long to localize as Trails).