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So where is Luke on the new Star Wars Poster?
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s–GM9AUggg–/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/1479671530088227624.jpg
@shane says it’s that shady looking guy on the left.
Which guy??
The one in the mask.
Nah, that’s Revan.
😛
YOU’RE Revan.
That’s so Revan.
Had best call in the expert. @klutar is that Revan
I theorize that he was left off the poster because he was always a bit of a bland character with no personality and his appearance will be purely token; after all, Star Wars is the story of what happens if you give superhuman powers to the world’s least interesting manchild and have a bunch of far more interesting people act around him.
No way. Luke’s going full dark side in this movie. You just wait and see.
It’s a nice idea, but Luke actually knows how to make a lightsaber. 😛
He’s already been tempted by that and overcome it. That was like half of the plot of Return of the Jedi.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he pulls an Obi-wan and dies tragically though. But more likely it’s just that he doesn’t have a major part in the plot.
I’m still putting money on dark side Luke. I think Han will be the major casualty of this film.
SPOILER
Mark Hamill was confirmed spotted for the second film’s shooting a few weeks ago.SPOILER
Sir Alec appeared in three films despite his character being killed halfway into the first of themSPOILER
I don’t have anything to add here, I just wanted to be included.Good point.
Not to labour the point, but I watched ESB with my kids yesterday, and there’s a quote from Yoda which I think is particularly apposite to this discussion.
“Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.”
Yoda was wrong though. That was the whole point. Vader was able to be redeemed in the end.
So, how ’bout that Rugby score, eh?
A one point victory is nothing to start humping each other about. Harmon missed every kick, even the extra points. Harmon, what’s up with that?
I didn’t watch but read some of the highlight this morning – didn’t Foley have a pretty poor kicking game as well? Seems like we’re about even then.
I also like Cheika’s attitude to that final penalty – sometimes they go your way, sometimes they don’t, it’s part of the game and we have to just deal with it.
I have no idea what you’re talking about, I was making a reference to an episode of Blue Mountain State I just watched this weekend.
Did anyone hear the low flying plane? I swear it just went straight over my head…
In fairness, I’m become retarded for the show just recently and it was a pretty obscure reference. I was just making a joke because I am not about the sporting things, and only just happened to catch via Facebook that there was a one point victory, hence the BMS quote.
lol I just assumed Harmon was the Scottish kicker, apparently the Aussie kicker (Foley) missed a bunch of goals.
Yay for sportsball!
Doesn’t look good for Australia. Scotland weren’t exactly the sharpest team in the competition so far and Australia struggled against them. Meanwhile New Zealand absolutely flattened France and Argentina demolished Ireland, and all four of those teams looked a lot stronger than Scotland did. Australia’s got to take on Argentina next and I think that’s going to be a really, really tough game. And then barring a stunning upset they’re going to end up against New Zealand in the final. Really not sure I rate their chances.
Mornin’ all.
Morning buddy. How was the weekend?
Wasn’t too bad, minus the neighbours causing a disturbance yesterday morning heh.
Our new neighbour has been noisily removing his bike from the outdoor shed (right across from our bedroom) at 4.30ish every morning. Not quite on the same level, but I know dem feels.
That’s a bit rude of him, is it something extremely loud like a Harley? If so that’s an even more jerk move, push that shit out to the street then be on your way damn it!
lol no it’s just a pushbike. We are in townhouses, and our bedroom window is about 10-15 meters from his shed. He seems to bury it behind shit in his shed every night, and pull it all out to get the bike out every morning… at least that’s what it sounds like.
Morning errbody hows every little thing?
My weekend was a food coma and I regret nothing.
Friday was Cathryn’s birthday so we went out for lunch with a few of her friends and knowing the weekend looming opted for a salad from Schnitz. That night we went to my parents house and had dinner there which was about 2 kilos of crumbed chicken and potato bake…mmmm…potato bake. Afterwards before I fell into a food coma we played Cards Against Humanity and laughes were had by all before we called it a night early as we had to get up early the next day.
Saturday we were up at 7am on a Saturday?! Fuck you mornings! We drove to Cathryn’s mum’s and then she drove us into the city from hers because she wanted to take us to DFO. Unfortunately Cathryn’s mum followed the wrong directions and we ended up at the Melbourne Star and Harbour town shops thinking that was DFO, it was only while we were eating brekkie at the coffee club that I googled DFO and realised we were about a 10 minute drive from it so off we went back to the car to leave and head to DFO. It was packed as we got their at 10:30, everyone was rushing the stores and I picked up a new pair of vans for $29. Cathryn got a whole bunch of clothing and some new shoes and I was designated bag boy, good times. After all the shopping it was back to Cathryns mum for dinner which was BBQ and it was lovely except I had a headache. Then after that it was off to her dads for the night and to prep for Sunday.
Sunday was her dads sides party and they went all out on food im talking all out, the all out that the bbq got filled 3 times over with meat and I had so much potato salad and sausages and reg salad and satay skewers ohh god the satay skewers.
Now its monday and i feel ded food coma is real!
Cathryn’s mum sounds hot.
Hi gang
Thanks to release schedule change on LoH Trails in Cold Steel I’m back on the Fallout 4 train
*peeeeep peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep*
@negativezero CONTINUING OUR DISCUSSION
Man, I hope we do see Tokyo Xanadu soonish, I’m super keen.
Ice left $20 on PSN to grab TitS SC if it suddenly pops up. Dunno if that’ll even cover it :-/
I originally left $30 but then Megaman Legends popped up. Nice suprise after I was convinced they just weren’t doing it.
What was TitS on Steam? I’d expect that SC will be the same price.
EDIT: $20. But it might be more since SC hasn’t been out before. Still, this is probably why XSEED have taken forever – not expecting to turn a profit off it.
Yeah, fingers crossed it’s $20. Otherwise I’ll pick it up at Xmas (which may end up being when we see it anyway)
What do you do when someone is kinda a flake when it comes to arriving to tabletop sessions like Iron Kingdoms?
Anyways, I finished through the Dishonoured DLC. While not the best DLC, it’s way better than most DLC that’s just map packs or something. It gives you new weapons and powers that are just different enough to mix up the gameplay.
I also started Shadow Warrior. Aside from the stupid stereotypes, and that I only played the first level, it’s already impressed me. It’s a classic shooter made today. No BS regenerative health, no hiding behind chest high walls. You dodge attacks because you actually dodge them.
I was pleasantly surprised by the Shadow Warrior remake. Too many callbacks to the original that I totally missed, but otherwise it does a pretty good job of mixing past and present in mechanics and design philosophy.
What does everyone think of the overall quality of games journalism?
I only read articles by Serrels. They’re quality.
I wouldn’t call them articles. They are stories. Every one mentions how he doesn’t have time to play video games. Is that useful on this site?
I tried to make sense of your username… and failed.
Game reviews are inherently subjective to a certain extent. I can’t stand racing games, but some people play nothing else. Likewise, I have spent many hundreds / thousands of hours playing the same games over and over again (MoO2, Civ2 and Dota 1/2 in particular), whereas others wouldn’t spend more than an hour or two on them.
Even when appraising game mechanics, it can be a bit subjective. Some people might like the retro aesthetic of Titan Souls, while other reviewers might hate it. Basically the only thing you can review entirely subjectively are the technical specifications of the game, and let’s be honest – that’d be a pretty boring read.
So yeah, there’s definitely room for subjectivity.
Have you read any of his stories? He specifically doesn’t like reviews and doesn’t do them:
https://twitter.com/Serrels/status/649354156684152837
https://twitter.com/Serrels/status/649355404355366913
No subjectivity was involved in this process.
:'(
And this guy. His articles are quality.
It’s pretty shit, with game journalists mostly copy+pasting press releases. I have a lot of respect for people like George Weidman, (Super BunnyHop) who does proper investigative journalism. I very much liked his investigation on Shenmue 3’s kickstarter, really cleared up where all the money came from.
-First day back at work after a week off
-Looks at unread emails
*mark all as read*
If there’s anything important, they’ll follow it up.
Me to a tee
A new XCOM run has begun for me, this time with Enemy Within. Despite playing this on Easy for the moment, I already lost a soldier trying to rush for Meld, so this has gotten each mission to feel more dynamic now, where I even have to think about my positioning right when the mission starts, like choosing between searching for the Meld or sticking together and not risking hard ambushes based on the terrain I’m on.
Really liking it so far. When I get to play this on harder difficulties I might run a TAYbie army, we’ll see, but this game has gotten hundreds of times more fun and exciting to play. 🙂
I roll with a lot of support when it comes to meld-rushing. Smoke grenades for impromptu hard cover and extra inventory in your medic/overwatch specialists is invaluable. (I typically bring one more of each others.)
The one thing I really wish they’d improve (remove) is the enemy getting a free move whenever they move into your visual range or you discover them through scouting. It’s kind of bullshit.
Agreed, I believe that’s how my guy got killed, I dashed towards a meld node, spotted two and they instantly had flanking bonus twice, two hits, one dead. It’s a bit unfair but I guess that’s comes with the risks of going for the Meld in the first place. I’ve been running one support with two snipers minimum like I did last playthrough on Enemy Unknown, worked a treat.
Crap. I’m halfway through a run (just Enemy Unknown) but I got suckered into buying Grey Goo last week (mostly because I am the total target market for flash sales) so spent all my gaming time on the weekend playing that.
Speaking of – Grey Goo is an absolute treat. I’m only 4-5 missions into it but it’s the strategy game experience that I’ve been craving since forever.
That’s one game I missed out on and I have no idea why I haven’t tried it yet, seems to the be RTS I’ve been waiting for since the old days of C&C, and the Grey Goo faction seem really interesting in gameplay.
Yeah when I fired it up it gave me really strong C&C vibes. It’s still on sale on Steam for $20 USD, but probably won’t be for long!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/290790/
Apparently it has some performance issues, but I played 3-4 hours of the campaign over the weekend and didn’t see any sign of them.
From what I’ve heard, it chugs more based on the scale of what’s going on in the game (i.e giant masses of units, which I call Supreme Commander syndrome) I’ll have to take another look when I get home tonight.
You won’t regret it!
Until you get to the end; the Goo campaign is nigh-on awful, but it’s an enjoyable RTS single-player experience (for what we get these days — it’s no Dawn of War, Company of Heroes 1, Shogun 2 etc etc) up until that point.
I think mission 11 is where it diverges, but don’t quote me on that.
Eugh, that’s unfortunate.
I’m up to the assault on the terminal – it has been a great campaign up til now.Especially in the non-long war games, you get more than enough meld. If you ever think “This could potentially activate a pod” or if it feels risky in some way then just ignore the can, there’s always more out there.
Also MECs & gene mods are a bit crap anyway, the sproingy legs gene mod is worth it for mobility but all the rest are underwhelming. For my money, MECs are just lacking in versatility unless you MEC an entire squad
Aw if it really isn’t that strong that’s a shame… I was hoping to MEC up one or two or even more, make a cyborg army to smite both humans and aliens alike. 🙁
Nah, gene-mods are really the best because they upgrade your existing dudes, whereas the MEC units are really something else entirely. I think I replaced my Heavy to serve as walking cover/tank/reliable long-range punisher, and that seemed to do the job well enough. Really needed the mobility of the other guys for tactics.
The ‘builds and tactics’ section here is interesting: http://xcom.wikia.com/wiki/Gene_Mods
By all means give them a go, don’t just take my word for it. It might well be that they don’t fit my play style but they will fit yours. One mission where I found a MEC invaluable was in the council mission in newfoundland with the fishing village investigation. Flamers and relatively high speed are particularly handy there.
I tend to favour rapid & stealthy manoeuvres punctuated by brief and deadly firefights where I have the positional advantage. That’s why I found the sproingy legs gene mod quite useful, it lets you hop walls or get onto roofs in places that you normally couldn’t so I could generally evade the pods that are placed to activate when you use normal entry points and attack them from the flanks or roof. The Shopf Paper Inc warehouse map is a great example, there’s a wall you can hop to go around the back which can shield you from activating any pods inside the building and allow you to get the drop on any pods that are near the trucks waiting to ambush you if you come around the side route.
Realistically, MECs can also make holes in walls to allow entry but aside from being a bit obvious, it leaves you with a hole in the wall so if you activate a pair of muton elite pods, you can’t just jump back over the wall forcing them to come to you through normal channels which gives you time to set up a solid defence. MECs can get the Jet Boot Module at lieutenant which is pretty handy but you lose out on the One For All skill which turns the MEC into a full cover position which can be a lifesaver.
Once you finish the regular game, you should definitely try Long War, I had just under 400 hours on XCOM in October last year which is when I got back into it and decided to try out this Long War mod I’d heard about, now I have just under 1100 hours. Hell, its just lovely starting with a squad size of 6 and expanding to 8 (even as many as 10-12 on base assaults). Of course you NEED the extra troops since its a lot harder but its nice anyway.
6 expanding to 8?! O_o whoa… So much replayability in this game now!
Yeah, long war is good like that. Of course it’s bad (as in evil rather than crap) in almost every other way. It’s not unknown to get missions like alien supply barges landing in april of the first year and being packed with chryssalids or mutons before you’re first supposed to encounter them and you’re still stuck on ballistic weapons. There are some missions that you’re really not supposed to win but it’s still possible if you’re really good at managing risk and if you get a bit of luck.
There’s also more character classes than the base game pretty much everything has been split into 2, the heavy has been broken up into the rocketeer and the machine gunner, the support has been broken up into the medic and the engineer, the assault has been broken up into the assault and infantry and the sniper has been broken up into the sniper and scout. They’ve got a really wide range of skills spread over the 8 classes and they have heaps of ones that troops in the base game don’t have. Its easily the most impressive mod I’ve ever seen for any game even if it’s occasionally a bit wonky in places
Well that actually makes it make more sense, story-wise. The aliens are trying to conquer the planet right? So why hold back in the first month, or even the first bloody week? A good first strike could win you the war right then and there, so why not the aliens take a leaflet from that and actually show why they’ve been the conquerors that they’ve become long before they even reached Earth, and just slam the shit out of you?
But this all sounds AWESOME! I’m taking that on for next time and just sticking with it!
Definitely play the base game all the way through first since it shows you all the things you need to be good at to even have a chance at long war. Also it’s good to be able to see the differences when you encounter something like a sectopod and see just how wussy they are in the base game in comparison to the long war ones where their health bar is as tall as they are…
Morning all!
Well I managed to run the half-marathon despite not being able to run for the last 2 1/2 weeks and with a buggered ankle but I pushed through it and got a time of 2:05:22. Not too bad considering. I won’t be able to run for a while after this though, my ankle is pretty shot right now 🙁
Ah well, it was worth it to raise money for Beyond Blue with a total of $570 🙂
Now, where are those painkillers…
Well done!
Thank you! It was definitely the toughest one I’ve done yet. I’ve done 4 of them but I was in constant pain the whole way through this one. In hindsight, I probably shouldn’t have done it lol.
Friends over for dinner Friday followed by drunk bowling. Went fairly well, unfortunately had to cut it short as they had water polo in the morning. Missed opportunity to finally ask how they teach the horses to swim, but we’ll probably catch up with them in a couple of weeks.
Washed the car on Saturday. I keep forgetting the alloy wheels are silver under all that brake dust. Had my wife’s aunt over for dinner since her (jerk) husband had some plans and she didn’t feel like being more alone that usual.
Slept in til nearly midday on Sunday which sounds good until you realise it means you have 5 fewer hours in which to do nothing. As a result, it’s Monday bloody morning and I am really not mentally prepared to be back at work yet. On the upside my boss is working from home again, meaning I’m basically unsupervised. The fact I’m 32 and consider this a small victory is probably evidence that I’m not manager material.
Hola Tay
Lazy weekend. Finally had the Sci Fi and Fantasy Quiz Night I’ve been helping write questions for for months, went really well but the video round (explosion themed) was a bit too easy. Ran a sound board for the first time in ages, which was fun.
Yesterday afternoon helped a friend out with her PAX costume- she’s going as Eris Morn, so now her eyes will actually glow. Coupled with the rest of her costume, it’s going to be really cool, so if you see Eris Morn on PAX Saturday say hello. Speaking of costumes, I think I finally finished mine on Friday:
https://twitter.com/redartifice/status/654957396503097344
Now all I need to do is wait for a patch to arrive from the internet (Brotherhood of Steel) to sew on to my bag, but that’s non-essential.
A Monday Morning Question: How are you all going?
A Monday Morning Answer: urg
Me sleepy. Pretend work. Boss not know difference. Maybe coffee fix.
Ooh, he card reads good.
Recovering from surgery, turns out post surgery wounds hurt. Very annoying, going crazy being off my feet for the next four weeks. Makes you feel like a bum watching everyone else in the family doing housework, mowing etc. while I sit on my arse.
Other than that though, the weather is good, I survived, and TWD is back on, so things are looking up.
I think a lot of people vastly underestimate the trauma done to the body when someone mucks about inside you, or the pain of internal injuries. Sympathies.
I had a minor surgery years ago, took me fully six months before I’d consider to have fully healed.
Guess that explains all my exs.
Hey-oooooooh!
I was looking for a ‘sounds erotic’, but it’ll do. 🙂
Cool work on the Cosplay stuff, I should send you one of these when I finish it:
http://ytec3d.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/AER9-WIP2.jpg
Ooh, nice. I considered cobbling a weapon together, but I didn’t want to lug it around at PAX all day. With the Pip Boy I can ignore it mostly (or stash it at weapons check) and then be fairly unencumbered.
Learned this lesson the hard way steampunking, because brass stuff is heavy
I’m going to test a theory that the day works out much like the first hash brown of the day.
In this case, soggy and starchy. More like a potato gem than hash brown.
Not so great. 🙁
Morning, TAY.
Woke up all phlegmy.
Urk. 🙁
Me too. Kids were that way for a week, and I thought I had dodged it…. Nope.
This week is SPEND ALL THE MONEY ON THE CAR week. Urgh.
Just shoot it and put it out of its misery.
It’s actually fine, just that week of the year when the rego and insurance and green slip all has to be renewed. The car is a 2004 model and has not even done 135000km. It will last a few more years yet!
Oh I know that one, that was us 2 weeks back, just replace car with light commercial truck 🙁 so glad we’re gonna be selling it shortly, rego is about 2x as much for it as it costs for the car >.<
Cars are such a money pit, but in a lot of cases a necessary evil >=[
Sup all?
Had an okay weekend, did jack all on Saturday, mowed the lawn, walked the dog, played a fuck ton of Fallout 3.
Sunday however, neighbours decided they’d have a full on argument which the they thought the entire neighbourhood needed to hear, that resulted in emergency services turning up, and leaving without anyone again, despite several neighbours making complaints to the police that this is normal behaviour for them and they want them gone, hell even the department of housing won’t do anything about them when presented with evidence of what they have done to others in the street. They’ve only been a problem for street the last 30 years, but no amount of complaining and other action taking has resulted in anything other than someone telling them that they’ve been naughty and to not be naughty.
Oh well at least it’s dead quiet today, which is nice.
Film it and submit it anonymously.
We’ve been down that road before with all sorts of evidence, it was not taken seriously. We’ve had 2 AVO’s against them, we got security cameras. We also got a new property fence with a locking gate.
That was something which sadly took a lot more effort than it should’ve too, since the department of housing tried to tell us we were not allowed to have a replacement fence, even though their rules & regulations state that all department of housing NSW properties that border private properties must have a fence, only took us something like 5 years to get the entire fence replaced, that was a nightmare. But since have a nice 6 foot colorbond fence between us & them, it cut a lot of the crap. The best they could do in the end to cause trouble was ring up the council & complain about our dog, which got them nowhere anyway. It only took them something like 28 years to leave us alone because nothing good will come from it for them, heh.
It’s a shame since the rest of the street is made up of lovely people who’re quite friendly yet they ruin it for everyone with their dramas..
Morning all!
Having had 2 consecutive long weekends, I can definitively say that this Monday business is awful and shouldn’t be a thing.
LESS THAN 2 WEEK ‘TILL PAX!!
So, aside from vidya gaemz, are many of you hitting up the tabletop area?
I’m DEFINITELY going to be entering a speed painting comp, along with at least one of the x-wing dogfights. Oh – and the Warhammer 30K big bash, if i have a spare 4 hours! haha
ALL ABOARD THE HYPE-TRAIN!
WOOO WOOO!!!
P.S. TOTAL WAR WARHAMMER!!!!
Wait there’s a Warhammer 30K?! Hmm.. I should call up the Mechanicum for this one!
Yeah – All the Forgeworld stuff.
They will have a big table where people can just come along, join in and take control of either a heresy era squad or tank.
*quivers with joy*
Pretty awesome, I’d love to check this out too!
I’m going to spend lots of time there. Gonna try enter a Carcassonne competition, play some Commander, and get @trjn to teach me Village.
Control the Church and Council! Become GodKing!
Note: This strategy didn’t work out so well for me.
You’ll be up for Commander, yes? I will bring spare decks
Yes.
Although it’s actually not a shit strategy, it can just be very luck dependent and you don’t want to put too many people in the church early.
How to play Village:
1) Pick up cubes.
2) DEATHMURDER YOUR FAMILY
3) ???
4) Points!
Carcassonne still sound like a type of dessert to me.
I’m actually surprised there won’t be a smash-up tournament. That game has been going crazy-balls since I first saw it at PAX Aus: First Blood.
Smash Up is a bit too take-that to be really tournamenty.
It’s also not amazingly balanced.
That also
PAX HYPE.
I’ll be bringing 2 Rooms and a Boom so we can replicate the Cracks Triple Victory Epic.
And I think I remember something about @trjn wanting to run a game of Battlestar Galactica?
I tried to get a game going last year. I’m sure I can be convinced to try again this year.
Damn Valve, after seeing people in North America getting their Steam Link devices already, really makes me want one even more. I wish Valve would let us pre-order them damn it! I like that they’re compatible with the PS3, PS4, 360 & Xbone controllers out of the box, also the Wii U game pad can be synced with it apparently which is cool.
Would be a great replacement for the HTPC in my room, since it does Netflix, Plex & other services like that & plays games over the network.
It also seems EB Games will most likely be the seller of them here, since Gamestop in the states & EB Games in Canada are dealing with the pre-orders.
What is Steam Link? It feels like one of those celebrity names that didn’t exist just a couple of weeks ago and now suddenly everyone is talking about them and I have no idea why.
Cheap (and official) device for streaming Steam (Steaming?) games on a LAN.
Haha. It’s a little black magic box that sits next to, under, behind or on top of your TV that hooks up to your home network and allows you to stream Steam games from your PC to it. It also can do shit like Netflix, networked media etc I think it also does web browsing from memory? It’s relatively cheap at $50 USD, has bluetooth, wifi, gigabit ethernet, USB & HDMI. Impressive device for its size imo.
I guess it’s the same as the PlayStation TV but for PC instead!
Dapper Meat 2.0! It’s time to start locking in details so we can book accordingly!
WHEN: FRIDAY 30th OCTOBER, 7:30pm (Dinner start) – gives time to watch @markserrels cook oats and then change in to Fancywear™.
WHERE: RARE DOWNTOWN
A STEAK PLACE (Squires Loft, Rare, or Meat & Wine Co)followed by Gin PalaceWHAT: A chance to wear a “pretty dress and not jeans” / suit up. Wear what you’re comfortable in, doesn’t have to be a suit. We’ll eat steak, then go drink gin.
WHO: @freezespreston @cookingmama @beeawwb @blaghman @alexpants @trjn @freya @tigerion (+1) @powalen @redartifice @mrtaco @beavwa (+1) @negativezero have all expressed interest. Given that we’ll need to book the restaurant for a party of that size we’ll probably need to lock away confirmations within the next couple days.
Also need to lock in the venue for dinner. Squire’s Loft only have the docklands location in the city now, with the “city” location being “Rare Midtown” – so given the need to get from dinner to Gin Palace or back to accommodation and most people being nearer to the convention centre, that’s where Rare Downtown and Meat & Wine Co came up as suggestions since they’re quite close and will involve less walking.Venue is now Rare Downtown unless something changes drastically.I might ask Dan (whom some of you know) along, will get back to you if they’re in.
I went to The Meat & Wine Co in Sydney and was insanely overpriced for a very mediocre meal reminiscent of a Coffee Club steak. Not sure it’s a place I’d recommend.
Rare looked slightly better to me personally, just recombining all the suggestions from last week’s postings. 🙂
I say Rare Downtown!
I’m good with that. I do eat at Squire’s Loft every now and then (there’s one at Robina) and they are very good. Never tried Rare before so nice to try something new.
Yeah, for me Squire’s Loft is the “safe fallback” option. I know exactly what to expect, having eaten at the Melb and Perth locations many times (and fully intending to get down to Robina too).
Unless there’s any objections shall we lock in Rare Downtown as the venue?
The Meat & Wine Co is close enough to my office I could probably lob a shoe out the window and hit it. I haven’t done the one in Sydney but the one here in Southbank is okay. Really specializes in doing corporate lunches though. Rare is better.
Will you be joining us? 🙂
Yes but I may not be particularly dapper.
You’ll be there, that’s dapper enough.
I’ll skip the Gin Palace but definitely in for dapper steak.
(I also don’t mind where we go so you connoisseurs can decide)
Psst…the gin place has not-gin things too…
They didn’t have a menu on their website 😛
I’ll get back to you guys on that one.
Right, add @finishedlast +1 to the list
Is that Dan + 1 = 2, or +1 Dan? (Edit: See below attendees post for my number counting logic)
I’ll be @finishedlast and Mrs finishedlast, so 2 total.
Yep, that’s how I interpreted it. Cool.
CONFIRMED ATTENDEES (Have posted): 13.5
Freeze
B-ob
Red
Finishedlast + 1– Other commitmentsPowalen
f4ction
NegativeZero
AlexPants
CookingMama
Blaghman
Trjn
Freya
Tigerion + 1 (and Tiglet)
+2
I guess I didn’t express interest with my tweeting about it :'(
SO UNLOVED.
Haha, sorry I was literally just copying from the original thread. Added you to the list!
THANKS!
Still keen. Contemplating what kind of dapperness to bring to the table.
I figure you’ll be spoilt for choice of pants. Maybe make a suit made entirely of pants?
But what about accessories? A monocle? A cane?! A butler?!
Oh, Bob, I simply can’t decide.
https://twitter.com/beeawwb/status/653789499172896768
You were saying…?
Please train me in your ways, sensei.
I am in! And Rare looks great!
I’m in, get ready for the saddest approximation of Dapper you’ve ever seen.
Count me in for with a +1.5
Likely to skip th gin place although @cookingmama might sweep Mrs Tigs away
I think rare is actually owned/run by squires loft so if you know squires you know what you are in for.
Yeah, I was actually checking if they were an affiliate restaurant last week, but you just made me curious so I did a quick Google and looks like Rare Midtown is a trading name for The Trustee For The Squires Loft City Steakhouse Unit Trust. 😛
So that’s +2 for the dinner booking, yeah? I don’t think we’ll need to / be able to book Gin Palace (maybe should call and check…).
Yeah so 3 of us all up but if you are making the booking generally 2 and a highchair is good to give them the heads up
Is this the PAX weekend Friday?
DID YOU SAY STEAK?!?!
Count me in. (Assuming there’s still room?)
See next page, there’s room with a couple of our options (Squire’s Loft is leading the vote right now)
Morn’in.
Interesting weekend. Almost finished up all my uni assignments for the semester, and my sister called me up to tell me that she’s engaged, and that she wants me to give her away at the wedding.
It’s not for a while, but I’m already kind of nervous 😮
Pax meat Peeps.
Do we want catering or not? I’m worried that if people don’t eat before hand, they’ll end up with no food.
I’m likely to eat first, because that was my mistake last year.
I’m sorry about that. =(
Not your fault, I should have grabbed something before we went on to the Karaoke place. Did a Hungry Jacks run on the way back to my hotel at midnight.
There was supposed to be food -_-
Oh, there was food, I’m just a ravenous monster.
I am still sorry
Don’t be.
I’d be cool with pitching in a bit for some catering. Having a few bites around won’t go astray I think. But at the same time probably should encourage people not to rely on the nibbles.
IIRC there were some questions last time about the size of each of the catering platters?
I asked but received no response =/
It’s $150 for 20 mini meals. There is 37 people confirmed. For $300 someone gets something each.
Oh so it was 20 of just one of the things on the list, not 20 of each thing?
Might not be worth it then.
I don’t it’s 20 of each thing. I’ve sent off an email again to find out how big they are. There is a canape option. It’s the same. -_-
I think people will be happy with whatever you decide as long as they know what to expect beforehand.
Maybe a good idea would be to tell everybody to have dinner beforehand and then just have a small amount of catering for snacks/drinks.
EDIT; Yeah, I agree with Neg.
What are the details of this event, Scree? I don’t read TAY much anymore but I got my roster for PAX so I can say yay/nae
Saturday 7pm
Hmm, I finish my shifts at 6:30pm (in theory). If someone was around to lead me in the right direction I’d be ok with that 😛
http://www.whereis.com/directions?na=Clarendon%20St%2C%20South%20Wharf%2C%20VIC%203006&str=Clarendon%20St&su=South%20Wharf&lat=-37.824098&lon=144.956278&ena=65%20Haig%20St%2C%20Southbank%2C%20VIC%203006&estr=65%20Haig%20St&esu=Southbank&elat=-37.827639&elon=144.956447&rt=walking
Here is a map.
Looks too complicated. Ended up in China. gg.
😛
Thanks, that’s pretty simple!
One of the reasons we chose the venue.
Ugh, what a jerk. Typed up a post about TV shows, hit submit and I was logged out and what I typed up had vanished, aw =(
Anyway.
Watched season 1 of Fargo on the weekend, I quite liked it. Didn’t think it was a black comedy as per described, dark? yeah, but didn’t really find the comedy aspect of it, still a good show. Might watch the first episode of season 2 tonight!
I’m also debating if I should bother with The Walking Dead season 6 or not, I haven’t really seen a point to the show since after the end of season 3, it’s just been yeah, pretty lame in my opinion, I guess I just expected more from the story than we’re getting example (season 5 spoiler)
Like they hyped up Terminus so much and then it was like 1 episode there and that was it, and they didn’t bother to even cover much of it.. Then killed off Beth in a lame way, I was liking the focus on the relationship with her & Daryl..It’s like they’re trying too much now to cram as much into the seasons as possible and not spend time explaining things, so you end up with little bits here and there and they expect the viewer to fill in the blanks, seems like poor story telling me in this case.Where as Fear The Walking Dead I think has potential, but I should finish that first before I make a decision I guess.
Fargo was the Cats knees. More than did justice to it’s namesake.
Damn right it was. I thought Martin Freeman played his character rather well, I also must admit I did not recognise Billy Bob Thorton at first. I’m sitting there watching it all “Fuck this voice is familiar who is he?” Then it dawned on me ha. But for some reason Colin Hanks still creeps me out though after seeing in him Dexter as a serial killer, couldn’t shake that, even though he was pretty likeable in Fargo.
I thought the real star was Alison Tolman. Billy Bob had a lot of red meat to chew on, and Freeman’s was showy accent, but Molly was the real centre of the season and was just brilliant.
I really didn’t like her at first, but it got to a point where she became really likeable and started hoping that she’d get the recognition she deserved with what she was trying to achieve, especially with her chief being a dick like he was.
Personally I liked that they got out of Terminus so quickly. It gave a focus point after the loss of the prison but then let the group move on. I’m not 100% sure but I think the quickness of everything might link to the comics? I’m not up to that issue yet though so I can’t comment. Beth though… OMG I hated that so much. It was totally pointless and out of character. I get wanting to create drama for the mid-season finale but that was just lame. Beth’s way smarter than that. Overall I enjoyed season 5 a lot though, I thought it was really strong. I’ve got Season 6 on the Foxtel IQ to watch tonight, I’m hoping it continues the coolness.FTWD… I dunno. I see the potential but it was definitely something that built as the season went along. First couple episodes I was unimpressed. I’ll watch a second season, but I’m firmly on the East Coast side of things.
I guess we all have different expectations for it 😛 But most people I know who watch it think the whole killing off of Beth was fucking stupid. Yeah I agree, she is smarter than that.I found the first episode to be really slow, but I kinda got more into it in episode 2 and I think I watched 3 as well. I can’t remember :SYeah, I remember after I watched that episode (only a few weeks ago. I forgot to watch S5!) I immediately jumped on Google and searched for “Why did Beth get herself killed” and most pundits are in total agreement. Easily the stupidest decision on the show.I think what’s putting me off about FTWD isn’t that it’s slow. I can deal with slow, and honestly I’d expect that given it’s the start of the outbreak. It’s the inconsistencies. Maybe it’s just that I’m too invested in the lore of the source TV show, the comics, and the games but there’s just things in the show (I’m deliberately not saying anything until you’ve watched the whole season) that make me say “Nope. Doesn’t work. Nope. Nope. Nope.” and so on. I think if I was watching it blind I’d probably enjoy it a little more. But it absolutely gets better as it goes on.
Yeah, would like to know more as to why they came to the decision that Beth had to go. Why not someone else in the group, but eh. They seem to like killing off Maggie’s family so you know. Heh.Fair enough 😛 Yeah there was a few inconsistencies, like from what i’ve seen so far there’s still no explanation as to where the virus has come from still. So bleh to that.Hey all, kinda sick today so having the day off work. Unfortunately that means Pathfinder will not be on tonight. Sorry everyone. @redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @negativezero @beeawwb
No prob man, get well.
Boo-urns!
Feel betterer soon. 🙂
So no Pathfinder for six weeks?
Considering the next spot would be the Monday immediately after PAX, it probably will be six weeks between games.
Maaan… Lundgredolph will be busy for a while…
Do a session AT PAX!
Popdart sadly can’t make it to PAX
🙁
Hope you’re feeling better soon.
All good buddy, hope you get better soon.
Way to waste the weekend. Saw Matilda on Friday night, it was awesome. I can’t even remember what happened to Saturday though, I meant to work on my costume more but hardly got anything done. Then Sunday was spent on Splatfest. KITTY SUPERIORITY! Had a huge run, played through 137 matches with only 37 of them being losses, finished up with a heat rating of +45.0. Apparently we won, so I will take full credit for that 😛
Oh yeah, and last night my sister and her boyfriend were over. For Christmas, he gave me this extra hot jerky they picked up while on holiday. My packet doesn’t say anything about it, but according to the site and the guy who sold it to them (well, at first he was refusing to do so) it’s made with ghost chillis. So they were super keen on having me try it and watching my head melt off. And last night we finally got around to doing it.
It was… underwhelming. I’m suspicious as to whether it actually was made with ghost chilli or not. Not even trying to act tough, I remember there being far worse a burn from Dragon’s Blood, which iirc was made from habaneros. That lasted way longer than this stuff and I feel like it went way hotter too. Unless maybe my tongue’s just died more since then.
Either way, I plan to head over to Mad Mex on Wednesay and come back home with some of their Carolina Reaper sauce, to hopefully atone for the disappointment. As a birthday present for her, or something 😛
I got given a jar of reaper paste last week, delicious stuff!
Edit: Just realised it’s from the same place that makes your Dragon’s Blood. \o/
Oh, neat. I love that they’ve run out of space on their heat scale 😛 Also their names for stuff are cool.
How’s the reaper paste? Will I die?
The reaper paste is just killer!
Don’t fear the reaper!
I found it really tasty. It’s got a beautiful fruity flavour when it first hits your tongue that builds as the heat comes on. I found it hot but not unbearably so but I tend to have a very high tolerance for chillies. Being a paste it’s more for cooking and I can see it flavouring a dish perfectly. Absolutely would recommend if you’re in to your chillies.
There’s also a video on FB of my 10 y/o stepkid trying it. His reaction is pretty indicative (“This is good. Oh wait, it’s hot. OH WAIT IT’S HOT. WATER!!!”). What’s not shown is him crying after the video stopped recording. However I think a lot of that was him being melodramatic since once he stopped thinking about the heat / got distracted it magically went away.
Team Dog was absolutely woeful. Not surprised we lost at all. 90% of the teams I played on were just awful. I guess we got a lot of the bandwagoners who saw that Dogs won the American splatfest and thought it was a sure thing 😛
You’d think people in the 30+ level range would know how to play Saltspray Rig by now, but apparently not 😛 Me spamming “To me!” in the top choke point didn’t help much either haha
Looks like it all… went to the dogs 😎
Honestly I’d completely forgotten how to play Rig when I first started up. Had no idea what I was doing, it’d been waaaaaaaaaay too long since I last did turf war there. I don’t really use/see much use of To Me, mostly just Nice. I think the worst one I had last night was in Warehouse, we were struggling with most of the arena in blue and the enemy had us fairly pinned down. But I managed to break through and was strafing to the left side, covering the area pretty well in the closing quarter minute. And I was being followed by this idiot roller on my team the whole entire time. WHY ARE YOU PAINTING OVER THE AREA THAT IS ALREADY PAINTED, GO AND BE USEFUL. Sure enough, time’s up and the entire right side of the arena remains uncovered.
Why are rollers almost invariably so useless 😛
I was always useful as a roller. I would paint anything that wasn’t painted. =D
Me teams were terrible as well. I was also on team dog. I had a lot of people in the low teens who had no idea how to play. I also played dreadfully yesterday. I have no idea what was going on, but I just couldn’t aim straight.
rFactor 2 is great, but trying to load tracks and cars is a bit of a pain. Apart from that, it’s utterly fantastic.
Yeah, I ended up mostly playing iRacing after futzing around with rFactor2 for ages. I really should go back to it again.
Had a pretty awesome, if unproductive, weekend. Lots of MGSV – completed mission 11, which was pretty cool, but stumbled into it by accident so haven’t done 9 or 10 yet. Found a puppy – so cute! :3 And repeatedly wondered why I can’t fulton myself to get out of hostile territory. Also discovered the fast travel system – which is ingenious.
Also played a bit of Destiny – lots of strikes, and got six people together for some Rumble to get our sword quests done. Spent five hours on Saturday farming Helium and Relic iron for those damn swords, but soon I’ll have one of each type, so… worth it? Still not sure.
Psst. You can actually do what you were wondering… sort of. Once you unlock the heavy-cargo fulton.
Hop on top of a resources crate and fulton that, sometime. Don’t forget to keep holding the button!If anyone has any spare accommodation for PAX I would be totally glad to jump in on it, even if it means sleeping on the floor. Can compensate with money and generally being awesome. I have Enforcing to do and stuff.
It’s getting quite urgent to the point I might be sleeping on the floor of my mum’s office 🙁
As I said on Twitter, if you don’t mind a couch and don’t mind that my place is a massive mess due to about to move overseas, my place can at least be a last resort.
@gorzilla
If you run out of other options I am willing to share the queen bed provided you promise you’ll keep the spooning to a minimum.
Thanks, I’m just waiting on the hotel to confirm my booking. Expensive but my options appeared rather limited
I’ve been asking for someone to split rooms, instead I looked somewhere else for a room by myself.
Yep, that’s what I’ve ended up doing for Thursday – Saturday nights. Well, once I get a final booking confirmation :s
Powalen’s Adventures with Clients at Work! *jingle*
Client: How do I log into my website?
Me: You go to this page: example.com/login
Client: No I want to log in to my website.
Me: That is your website… Type your username and password in the fields on that page and that logs you in.
Client: This all seems like a lot of work just to log in. I think a lot of people here will be confused by this complicated process. Make it easier.
Welcome to customer service, where client expectations are unreasonably high and logic doesn’t matter!
I get people asking me for telepathy related skills a lot too.
Also my weekend was pretty Poké-filled. Look who got revealed in the PAX Pokémon League site: http://paxpokemonleague.net/2015/10/windsor-the-aerobatic-aviator/
Finished my costume over the weekend too. Will have to post a full picture of it eventually (or may as well just wait until PAX now :P) Looking pretty schmick!
Also volunteered to make the Trainer Card we are handing out this year. Spent the entire day just doing that one thing 😛 Hasn’t been finalised yet, but you can see a sneak-peek of the Pokémon-style map of Australia I made for the background here: https://twitter.com/PowalenAU/status/655232731257765888
Get excited!
Also @cookingmama, the other leaders over on the PPL forums have been warned about Batboy haha.
I think a few of them are also making some alternate beginner-friendly teams as well now.
I thinks that’s an awesome idea!
Yup, there should be at least 4 or so leaders (so far, hopefully more) with alternate easy teams he and the other littlies will be able to tackle.
It’s a good chance for us to play around with some Pokemon that are just completely useless in proper competitive scenes, so it’s fun for us as well.
So, I should make a team of lightning pokemon just to fight you?
I wouldn’t be much of a Gym Leader if I wasn’t prepared for such a scenario 😉
I dunno, it could be an an elaborate double bluff.
(I haven’t played pokeymans since…last PAX I think)
I believe last time I played pokemon, they only had one type each and was completely unaware of this “Upgrade” in White before I quit that game.
I swore I would not pay for DLC, but The Back to the Future Delorean in Rocket League!?!?!
How can I resist?
With an adequate amount of Ohms, that’s how.
Let’s just shut off the TAY thread for this week, nothing is going to top this comment.
#page6errypage
Also, @haggis! WITNESS!
WITNESS HIM
Ohmmygod!
If you don’t get it I reckon you’ll end up being the only non-Delorean in every match 😛
Can your computer handle the extra jigawatts though?
So memory clinic visit was a bit of a bust. Problems I’m having are a high level function and basically they don’t understand how that part works so their conclusion was a shrug and an apology as they hand me the brochures they don’t think will help. Huzzah?
Now off to see the cardiologist. Hopefully he understands how a heart works 😛
Maybe they figure as long as you remember the appointment you’re doing OK 🙂
What issues are you having?Struggling to remember to do things. No problems with information retention and I do a lot better with visual memory than auditory so if I have a list of things to get from a shop after work I can remember everything on the list but actually remembering to go to the shop in the first place is the problem.
That sounds like it sucks. Sounds like something you can at least partially mitigate with technology though? I mean, I have NFI what I’m doing most days and would be useless without my calendar being on my phone.
I have pretty terrible memory in general… I find a checklist app helps immensely.
Todoist is the one I’m using at the moment, it does everything you want and it’s free. Nice touch that you can share it across the app and desktop site – I have it open constantly at work so I can immediately pop in anything I need to do so it doesn’t drop off the radar.
Maybe the memory clinic just forgot how to treat it?
Hopefully the cardiologist can remember how a heart works, or you’ll both be taking an awkward trip back to the memory clinic.
Oh jeez, I’m younger than everyone here by at least 40 years.
You’re also far cooler than them so it’s a wash.
Oh yeah, since @powalen posted his thing – mine also got revealed on Friday night:
http://paxpokemonleague.net/2015/10/mr-shine-the-rare-gem-collector/
So @redartifice, going to bring an all not-shiny team to counteract this gym? :p
Which version of Pokemon do you have to have to challenge?
Either X/Y or OR/AS.
Anything from the 4 3DS games – gym leaders should be able to still provide something compatible with XY if that’s what you’re using.
All Blastoise is a viable archetype, right?
As long as you’ve got some sort of awesome novelty / theme / back story reason, then I don’t see why not.
To paraphrase the official rule set, no duplicates of a particular Pokémon on your team, unless it’s awesome (i.e. all ditto team)
So all Squirtle is fine then.
Squirtle is the fucking coolest.
Hey, I’d love to see someone roll up and battle me with the Squirtle Squad.
Hell of a lot more entertaining than people just trying to copy VGC / smogon meta.
Squirtle Squad!
So are you going to be there wearing an outfit that’s covered in rhinestones and sequins?
I guess you’ll find out at PAX…
*singing quietly* Like a rhinestone Beavwa….
PSA: Madman’s Animelab anime streaming service now finally has PS3 and PS4 apps.
What I’ve used of it it seems like a reasonably good service that’s improving a lot and a nice backup for the stuff that is region-blocked on Crunchyroll or that is only streamed on Funimation’s US-only thing.
Downloaded the PS4 app this afternoon. It seems pretty good! Better than the Crunchyroll app for certain. Plus there are some shows on there I like dubbed so I’m quite tempted to get a sub.
Yesssssssssss
So the cardiologist appointment was… A thing.
Walked in and before I even say down he asked if I’m still taking aspirin then said keep taking it and shoved a piece of paper at me and told me to return in a few months to see the neurologist. That’s it. Whole thing lasted 3 seconds and he didn’t even look me in the eye, just stared at his computer.
What the fuck was even the point of me coming up? I have no idea what just happened.
Maybe you’re just not remembering it properly.
Seems plausible
That’ll also be $150 and we don’t bulk bill sorry.
Seriously, that is bullshit. What a joke.
I think he forgot how the heart works so was just trying to bluff his way through until he can get an appointment at the memory clinic
Out of curiosity, is there like… a medical ombudsman who you can see about a dodgy customer experience from a doctor?
Yes there is, actually. There is an ombudsman in every state.
http://www.abc.net.au/health/consumerguides/stories/2003/02/20/1837237.htm
He’s reviewed your file/test results, decided that no further action is needed.
Specialists don’t always have great bedside manner, and unfortunately their appointments are conducted in between sessions at the hospital doing surgery. Doesn’t excuse a bad appointment, and it’s hard to come in prepared if you’ve had that appointment made for you by another doctor (as opposed to when you have sought out that specialist directly).
Start by going back to the doctor who referred you and tell them that it wasn’t a great experience.
I’m pretty bossy with the medical profession, I ask them a ton of questions and query why certain things are not being checked. If you aren’t happy with your specialists, change them out, and definitely do some homework and arrive with some checklists of your own. It can make a big difference.
Heh, not sure if I should laugh or cry at the attitudes some people take toward others.
Was just in my local Coles, and this young mother (somewhere in there 30’s i’d say) had 3 children with her all under the age of 10, one was being well behaved, the other 2 were causing the biggest problem, running around hitting each other and screaming at each other, to the point I could hear it clearly over my earphones 😐She was asked to control her kids and started flipping out swearing & all stating kids do that and they’re allowed to do that and fuck anyone who says otherwise, too bad if they knocked someone over and hurt them Coles are liable (I know this after dad asking the manager one time) and I believe so is she.Sadly I see too much of this behaviour around here. Not too long back I saw a child poking holes in all the prepackaged meat at their height, her mum was off in her own world not watching what her child was up to. Needless to say the butcher & managed were happy that it was happening, heh.*sigh* people man.So that’s gotta be one of the weirdest emails regarding a job i’ve gotten. Coles email me to tell me i’m on the short list to maybe recieve an interview, that’s 2 now in 2 days. I wish they’d let me know what position it was, I can’t remember what i’ve applied for so many of the bastards D=
Managed to reach rank 5 in Iron Banner over the weekend, and the matches were much more fun to boot.
One game we won 20185 to 20175 (20,000 to win). Closest. Game. Ever.
Also, does anyone else need Court Of Oryx? My last 3 Calcified Fragments are there.
I’ve been enjoying Iron Banana much more this time around.
Except for the fact that everyone’s ships seem to have broken NLS drives and can’t leave Earth.
Seriously, about 80% (anecdotally) of my matches have been Earth maps. Ugh.
Now you mention it, I recall at least 5 Earth maps in the rotation. + one Dreadnaught, one Mars, a Mercury and that Black garden one.
So yeah, quite an Earth bias.
Widow court or bust!
Also I need someone with stolen runes as I have three antiquated runes
@powalen: pursuant to what I said on twitter re: Battle Royale game:
The issue I was running into while thinking about is multifaceted, but it comes down to a couple of issues. First is what I’d actually be capable of making, and second is actually making the game enjoyable.First issue, basically I feel like a game inspired by Battle Royale would probably be at its best as a real-time first-person game, but I’m not actually sure that’s possible if you want to simulate a lot of the more interesting elements – non-murder character interactions and so on. The other option would be a sort of turn-based thing, maybe the game advances in few-second intervals or something, but would that work? Hard to tell.
The other big issue is actually making it fun. The fact is that for most players, unless the controls are godawful, they could be able to just hunt down and murder everything in minutes. But that would involve throwing away all the interesting mechanics you could do with the AI. So the only way to encourage that is to make the game extremely difficult, like you mess up once and that’s it stuff, and not sure if that’s fun. The other thing is that I’d want to build a whole bunch of stuff into the NPC AI around stuff like a bunch of schoolkids not necessarily being able to pinpoint headshot three people from the other side of a field with a pistol fired from the hip with perfect accuracy, but how do you implement stuff like that? The basic part is easy, with an accuracy cone or something, but the more advanced elements are complicated. Can you pull the trigger at all? A lot of people couldn’t. But would it be fun to aim a gun at someone and pull the trigger as the player and have your character fail to actually do it? And that’s where I start to end up back at an RPG-like thing instead, but I’m just not sure that’d be enjoyable or even work. Maybe it’d actually work better? I just am not sure.
So basically it’s an interesting idea but I’m not sure what sort of game it’d actually be, and if it’d be fun to play.
If it’s just for a side-hobby project I wouldn’t worry about that sort of stuff too much! If the goal is to just give yourself something to do then surely the best way to solve those problems is to just start making it, right?
Indeed, but I need to know what I’m going to make before I start making it!
I think your RPG idea about ‘can you pull the trigger’ is a fine idea.
I’ve seen more than a few games that track your personality stats and affect your attempted decisions based on those. Probably one of the first was ‘Alter Ego’, a male/female life simulator that was depressingly real. But I think there’s a well-established line of choose-your-own-adventure western-style visual novels on Steam that take all the effort that Japanese VNs put into art, and dump it exclusively into branching paths.
Well in my case it’d be more about dumb simulation with some procedural stuff added in. Have some ideas about how it could work and it’d be generally fairly simple, just a lot of maths. And the end result would probably end up a lot like FTL or something.
I should just start coding it and see how I go. Or at least writing out the design.
ping @scree @tech_knight
What’s the best way to get $$ to the appropriate place for TAY PAX AUS meetup thingy? Is paypal best?
Paypal to techie
Sdcdragonman at the males that send our hearts aflutter
I copy, Red Leader.
Techie prefers paypal if possible.
All done (I hope!)
I’ve paid.
This is it. I’ve paid for everything but the hotel room (pay on day).
Everything is fine, you have no costume, no viable Pokemon team, no idea what you are doing at this thing, bunking down with people you’ve hardly met, everything is fine
Not everyone is dressing up, so don’t stress.
I can confirm I got both yours and @fled got yours too, thank you both! 🙂
@jimu: was just reading some stuff re: Xanadu Next and things seem positive for TitS SC!
“Our programmer is finally finishing up with Trails in the Sky SC and we’re close to releasing that game on PSN and PC. So a lot of our staff’s time has opened up and we are able to get to other PC titles that we’ve had on the back burner, like Xanadu Next and Corpse Party PC.”
Sounds close. Maybe not imminent but maybe November?
OH YISS!!!
Something to play on the train ( I really wish I didnt buy Valkyrie Chronicles 2, I just dont care)
Also, Xanadu Next sounds rad based on Tom from XSeed’s description:
“In a nutshell, it plays like a slower-paced yet more strategic Ys game, but with a single enormous, 3D Metroidvania-esque interconnected world full of secrets.”
Also has one of Falcom’s best soundtracks apparently.
DAPPER MEAT 2.0 – Decision needed!
Freeze: @freezespreston
B-ob: @beeawwb
Red: @redartifice
Powalen: @powalen
f4ction: @f4ction
NegativeZero: @negativezero
AlexPants: @alexpants
CookingMama: @cookingmama
Blaghman: @blaghman
Trjn: @trjn
Freya: @freya
Tigerion + 1 (and Tiglet): @tigerion
We’ve hit a bit of a snag. Emailed the restaurant to see if we could get a booking on Friday the 30th and they’ve said we can get a large group (I emailed for 16+2 if @beavwa confirmed, before FinishedLast had to withdraw) of 18 in at either 6:30 or 8:30, they could only do us as a Function group split in to a table of 10 and a table of 8. We’d be restricted to choosing the function menu (http://www.raresteakhouse.com.au/functions/downtown) which frankly, is silly. We’d be locked in to some very restricted choices and lose out.
@tigerion – Rare also advised that they have no high chairs available, but welcome to bring own booster seat. Not sure if that’s an option for you?
So there’s a couple options right now.
First: Have spoken to Squire’s Loft @ Docklands and they’re happy to take our booking with their T&C. For them, it’s a minimum of $55 per person but that’s across the group so it should even out. There’s also no issue with the time, they were happy with 7:30 or we could even say 8:00 to account for the extra walk time. They need a credit card to confirm numbers/minimum at the time we book though so if we do go with this option I’m happy to do the booking myself but would need people really be solid in their confirmation.
Second: The cheapest “set menu” price @ Rare / minimum p/p @ SL is $55. For that price we could get all you can eat at B’Churrasco! http://bchurrasco.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bchurrasco_menu.pdf – Similar to SL though, “bookings of 12 and over will be required to leave a deposit at the time of booking, as the food is prepared and cooked just before your arrival, parties will be charged for the amount of guests they have booked for.” so we’d need people to be solid in their confirmation.
Finally: If we’re set on Rare, at the moment, we’ve got 14 people confirmed, with possibly 2 more. Perhaps if we got down to a single table (8? 10?) we could make a “normal” booking and not be restricted. Or we can split in to 2 groups (6 and 8?) and book tables seperately. I know for a fact we could book a table of 6 online at any time we wanted, it’s just for tables of 7+ that the online booking system drops off.
–So, is there anybody who was only half interested who would be willing to skip the dinner portion and meet us for drinks @ Gin Palace afterwards we could do Rare. Least preferable option, don’t want anybody to miss out.
What’s everybody think? Apologies for the extra tags and whatnot just want to make sure everybody gets notified. (Will also link this post on Twitter for those there)
Honestly I’m happy with whatever you guys decide. I ain’t picky. Just tell me where and what time and I’ll be there!
My vote is for Squire’s Loft. 2 drinks and a steak would make the 55 and still satisfies the DapperMeat vibe, more so than the Brazilian place looks, although the food looks good.
I’d be fine going to the Docklands one – only suggested Rare because it’s good and it’s close to the venue, but it’s not like Docklands is much further.
EDIT: Also Rare’s set menu doesn’t have the option of their Danish Blue Cheese sauce. No point without that.
I just seem to remember it being a bit of a hike when I walked there from cnr of Spencer / La Trobe. But maybe that’s because I didn’t know where it was and it just seemed far away.
15 minutes walk. 20 or so at a more dapper saunter.
I’m not bothered, really. I walk everywhere.
Also, good eyes. The lack of blue cheese dressing is what I meant when I said “We’d be locked in to some very restricted choices and lose out.” 😛
Squire’s Loft, meanwhile, also has Blue Cheese Sauce on their menu. And we will have access to it. That makes it the winner.
Play for full effect.
What are you, old? 😛
Everyone who was a teenager in the 90s knows that Daft Punk – Da Funk is the best sauntering through the city music.
Not as old as you, grandpa.
Anything with a funky undertone can be sauntered to, just need a golden gaytime while you do it to complete the look
I will follow the group consensus like a mindless, dapper zombie.
(Anything is fine really! Wherever we go I’m happy to hang out)
This.
I’ll definitely be available if you can have me, and I don’t care where.
If my presence would be inconvenient, say so.
I vote for either Squire’s loft (I’ll wear my sensible dapper heels) or B’Churrasco, although Squire’s loft is the most flexible option and should work out well.
If you need 100% confirmation best to leave me out of it, I’ll probably end up sticking around the Enforcer guys and gal’s for longer and order room service or something.
If I can decide on the day then I’ll probably flip back to wanting to do something
Yeah, it’s only from the perspective of them needing my details for the minimum numbers. I’ll ask them when we book (since it’s looking like everybody is good to go that way) if we can add a flexible number on the end.
I’m sure as long as they know they’re getting like 15+ people each with a minimum spend they won’t care if there’s more!
Going to go with whatever the locals vote for (which is probably Squire’s Loft?). Docklands is pretty close to everything and we’ll be catching the tram from St Kilda either way.
Count us out for the dinner, we’ll look to drop in on drinks afterwards.
Ok, no worries. 🙂
Set menu doesn’t really work in generally for Mrs tigs due to dietary stuffs. Steak place could be ok. I like the idea of the brazillian place but again prob issues with dietary.
I’ll confirm attendance with mes tigs but leaning towRds squires loft right now
Yep, I think everybody is good with Squire’s Loft (either preference or flexible) so I’ll put out a call for confirmations soonish. I’ll also check with SL when booking what they’ve got available for Tiglet for you. 🙂
I actually like the B’Churrasco option there, but I’m flexible with any option.
Erm, reply fail. @beeawwb.
Weirdly hyped for Guitar Hero Live tomorrow. Been missing Guitar Hero games, haven’t played since my PS3 died. Will have to learn the different configuration of the controller, but that’s not a problem. Also going to see The Martian again, so looking forward to that as well.
Yeah, I’m getting more and more tempted by that Target price. A friend managed to buy a copy of it yesterday, apparently the new guitar’s pretty good fun to use.
Huh. I guess whatever list I was looking at had the songs all mixed together, only just saw the on-disc ones. Pretty much zero interest in any of them. Hype dissipated.
So much hype for Force Awakens.
Tickets go on sale tomorrow.
5am local. Fuck yeah early start.
I’m not sure what to do.
I’ll probably get invited to go see with workmates in the US. I’ll also be back here for Christmas (hopefully) and I know my Mum and if he’s in Australia, my Dad will both want to go see it.
So the question is:
– See in the US, then book to see again on the 27th or so? (What if it sucks?)
– Hold off for like two weeks before seeing (ARGH!)
Wait… what? I thought the movie’s only coming out in December…
Yep. And it’s probably going to sell out in a lot of places this week.
…
People are insane.
*hops onto Event Cinemas website*
Bleh, can’t sleep. 🙁
@shane
Happy birthday! May all your books sell extraordinarily well!
Bappy Hirthday @shane from all the kings men and I
Please don’t make fun, I’m having a hard time.
I’m already embarrassed.
I need Bloodborne tips, I’ve tried getting good, but it isn’t working. I need really basic help. I can’t even pull off visceral attacks on purpose.
I feel like I’ve lost the psychological battle here, every time I think I’ve got it, it knocks me back on my arse again.
@Shane @freezespreston
I’m at the lightning boss. Having issues anticipating attacks because it just looks like a blur of lights.I found standing under it helps, but if I have less than 90% health it can one shot me.
Sometimes I knock it on it’s arse, I don’t understand how or why.
The load screen keeps bragging about some lightning resistance clothes, can I get to them?
Having lived through Bloodborne, may I ask what weapon you are using? It can make a big difference to your attack pattern and some weapons seem to click with people better than others.
Chain whip
I know @batguy was a big fan of both the Massive Hammer Thingy and Spin-Around Axe at various stages of the game. Can’t help much with the visceral attack problem, other than observing that it’s mostly timing.
Mostly timing what? I don’t get it at all.
DISCLAIMER – I DO NOT PLAY
But from a cursory amount of research and watching many hours of batguy killing things, you have to make them stagger first with a gunshot or a charge-up attack, and then hit your R1 for the visceral. Too soon, and you’re just mashing. Too late and they’ll be recovered and coming back at you.
Riiiight, that explains that. I’m useless with the gun.
You should practice using it on the early guys so that you’re familiar with staggering them, but then you don’t really *need* it after that. I usually found it and the associated bullet management more hassle than it was worth, and preferred to take them out with the reach of the 2-handed axe. There were a couple of bosses in the end-game where I found guns essential, but otherwise you can manage without it.
Have you…
Oh.
Only other tips I can offer – stay mobile, keep dodging. Get in and out but maintain spacing. Your speed is one of your best weapons. Get used to queueing a single dodge, don’t mash the buttons.
Don’t panic.
You need Henryk’s Armour. Henryk is the chucklehead who Eileen the Crow fights where you fight Gascoigne, once you kill him you can buy his shit with insight in the Hunter’s dream.The way you knock it over is basically by attacking a single leg over and over
What initiates that encounter?
Just wandered through there for health & looked like I left it.
Have you chatted to Eileen a couple times?
Nope, maybe once. She have two knives?
Yep. She’s chilling out near the chapel when you head out the front door from the lantern. Look up “Eileen the Crow questline” if you need more deets.
Paarl? Just skip that boss, it’s optional 😛 You can always come back later (I didn’t even find that boss until much later in the game)
Paaaaaaaaaarl
I really must get back into bloodborne. And recruit one of you buggers to help me kick Logarius in the teeth.
Where else can I go?
Left of the Cathedral is a whole other area
Sorry, can you be more specific?
I’m having real issues remembering names of locations in bb. I was all over Dark Souls, everything looks the same in bb :-/
There’s a big fuckoff cathedral where you fight Vicar Amelia, uphill from the Oedon chapel. Out front there’s two dudes with giant crucifixy things.
If you go left in front of the Cathedral, you go to an area that eventually leads to a place called Hemwick Charnel Lane. Grind there for a bit, there’s a boss and also a new altar you can get.
Also also, with Paarl, you just need to get in his grille and keep smashing. If he loses his electricity don’t let up, he has to run away to recharge.
I’m pretty sure with Paarl you can target his head to stagger him for a visceral.
It’s whatever the opposite of the default lock on area is. Flick the right stick a bit until you’re looking somewhere else.
Also, grab Ludwig’s Holy Blade from the fountain fuhllahs. It staggers most enemies, including bagman, and has a nice reach to it when you use Big Dick Mode tm.
So I started Elders Scrolls Online last night on the PS4 it seems like a cool guy doesn’t ask for much other than ALL OF YOUR TIME!
Anyway hows everybody doing today? You doing fine, you doing well?
What race and faction did you go?
Ebonheart dark elf dragon knight
Agh bloody XCOM mechanics got another guy killed last night, again my highest ranked support with the medkit! Okay so he was in cover outside the edge of a building, one of the two thin men he’s trying to keep pinned go to the side and try to flank my guy, he managed to avoid getting hit, however the wall behind him got destroyed, revealing two Floaters, and since they were revealed by the aliens they got given a free bloody turn, didn’t they? They just bum rushed my guy and killed him without any chance of really responding. Urgh… ah well, there’s always more
meatbagssoldiers I can get to fight for us, still enjoying it though 🙂They need to take that ‘feature’ out for XCOM2. I’m surprised there hasn’t been a community mod to remove that crap.
To be fair the original XCOM was much more brutal than that, like getting shot at and you have no idea where it’s coming from so you could get killed by an alien snipe originating from the fog of war. This has been the first time ever I got screwed by that so it’s not often at least.
I hope they take it back to original XCOM where they actually move themselves as well, so when you spot them, you spotted them at the end of their actual turn so no free running to cover when spotted instead of catching them with their x-pants down.
That’s exactly what I’m talking about. At least in X-COM, they were actually moving around. And if they moved around and came into your line of sight, that didn’t just magically confer them an extra turn of movement, they just finished their turn in your line of sight. It meant that you could actually lay ambushes and wait them out. XCOM tries to force you to move forward and stop ‘playing it safe’ through cheap-ass mechanics, and it’s probably the only complaint I have with the game. It’s the gaming equivalent of grabbing your arm and taunting, “Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself!”
The ones that appear during “escort-guy-back-to-aircraft” sections at least they stay where they are (Though going into overwatch immediately is kinda shitty in itself if you’re not in position to do something about him quickly) then incur 3-4 reaction shots from my squad and just get absolutely overkilled… usually, sometimes I get 4 full misses lol
That’s when you go into angry mode and blow everything up as rapidly as possible. If he’s still dying when the mission ends, he’ll survive.
Just fire rockets and throw grenades everywhere! I like that idea, but I like getting their weapon fragments
Yeah, but that’s the fun choice: save your soldier or let him bleed out to potentially get the components.
Components every time, soldiers are replacable, seriously XCOM has a phone number hotline where you can just buy new recruits at 10 bucks a pop!
1-800-HENCHMEN!
Reminds me of the point I gave up on X-COM completely. Take cover behind some cars. Spot aliens. Free turn. They shoot at my dude and miss, hitting the car. My turn starts. Car explodes, instantly killing two guys and starting a chain reaction that annihilates the entire squad except for the sniper and one other dude. Other dude loses his shit and shoots his remaining teammate before the aliens murder him. I had no control over the game at all once I spotted the enemies.
Decided I don’t like X-COM. It ratchets the difficulty up far faster than feels manageable and the RNG can make the game feel completely unfair at times (like randomly getting those missions where you have to pick between 3 locations in rapid succession so you’re forked and there’s no way to pick a good option)
Shame because I generally really liked the tactical bits of it. Just not the metagame.
So Star Wars, huh?
I got tickets to the midnight premiere at the Myer Centre cinemas \o/ Anyone else going there?
Hello TAYBES. Sorry I’m never around anymore, but just a quick reminder that you’re all still wonderful <3
Yes. Yes I am.
NO U
So we’re wonderful but you’re still only giving us less than a 3 eh? I wonder how fantastic a 5 would be to you…
No I’m not!
And you’ll never make it stick!
*throws smokebomb*
*coughs and chokes*
*smoke clears to show me collapsed on ground*
Interesting dissection of the leaked parts of the TPP that relate to video games. There’s a lot of potential for abuse from publishers there but we all know they wouldn’t do that, right?
*head-desk*
They do not GET to write shit like this and then wonder why there is piracy.
Why is it just… so hard for the Powers That Be to not fuck us?
Gee… couldn’t be money involved could there?
Seriously, if I found a genie in a lamp there’d only be one thing I’d wish for and that’s for everyone alive to be able to look at what they have and say “Yeah, I’ve got enough” (when they do have enough that is). I mean the traditional cliché of gamers is that we kill people to get points but when you’re so rich that money has become just a score and you screw people over to get MORE of it… that’s the real malevolence there…
A capitalist society with a splice of the human condition, you never have enough to be content as humans always want more, and society tells you that getting more money is always much better than getting less money, so make as much as you can for a happier life down the road.
That’s why I’d need magic to force people to honestly examine their resources. That or a robot army, I might go for the latter since they’ll have lasers which are always cool
A robot army would certainly work way more… robots are just better in every way, they only ask “why?” if there’s objectively something wrong, rather than emotional/ignorant droll you get from them humans.
Totally not biased cuz I’m a robot too or anything… *shifty eyes* 😛
The human condition is such that it doesn’t actually matter how much you have, what impact it has on your comfort or needs… so much as how much more you have than someone else. It’s not universal, but for those who it applies to… well, they run shit, and geared the world to work to their interests.
Yeah, TPP is bad fucking news for everyone.
But this shouldn’t be a surprise. Trade deal negotiated in secret by corporate interests. Good way for them to force laws onto countries that they couldn’t pay off enough politicians to pass.
Gross.
Yeah, I have no faith in anyone with any sort of power at the moment, particularly aussie pollys, or any hope that things in general will not slowly get worse for the average joe.
I sometimes think this is probably a good time to be alive: a high standard of tech and life but before shit truly hits the fan.
DAPPER MEAT 2.0: Now with new venue!
AlexPants: @alexpants
Blaghman: @blaghman
B-ob: @beeawwb
CookingMama: @cookingmama
Cracks: @thecracks
f4ction: @f4ction
Freeze: @freezespreston
Freya: @freya
NegativeZero: @negativezero
Powalen: @powalen
Red: @redartifice
Tigerion + 1 (and Tiglet): @tigerion
Trjn: @trjn
Ok so everybody appears ok with Squire’s Loft, so I’ll repost their information here.
WHEN: FRIDAY OCTOBER 30th, 7:30PM
WHERE: Squire’s Loft, Docklands (818 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000)
AFTER DINNER: Gin Palace!
Squire’s Loft @ Docklands are happy to take our booking with their T&Cs. For them, it’s a minimum of $55 per person but that’s across the group so it should even out without any difficulty. As they need a credit card to confirm numbers/minimum at the time we book I’m happy to do the booking myself but would need people really be solid in their confirmation.
If you can please post your confirmation of attendance I’ll add you as “locked in” in my reply below. At the time I make the booking I’ll also ask if we can add more people on the night (e.g. book 12 locked in, but call on the night to add 2 more) for those with enforcer duties, etc.
CONFIRMED: 13 (+Tiglet)
AlexPants
Blaghman
B-ob
CookingMama
Cracks
f4ction
NOTFreezebecause he’s a jerkface and I hate him.Oh who am I kidding, I can’t stay mad at you.NegativeZero
Powalen
Quiz_BStanRed
Tigerion/MrsTig/Tiglet (2 +.5)
Lock it in, Eddie.
I VOLUNTEER FOR THE TRIBUTE
Ugh, Bob’s in? I’m suddenly busy.Yeah okay, I guess I can clear my schedule.
Depends how much he offends us at Fiasco
ThFursdayRoll for “Tolerate cat”?
Hello, I’m Drew, the loveable international jewel thief! I’m helping!
Also since @quiz_b has abandoned us on Tay he confirmed his attendance on Twitter last night.
Did you ask Cracks?
He was on the thread yesterday, tagged him above, but I sent him and QuizB a tweet linking here.
Cracks asked himself last night.
I haven’t abandon…oh who am I kidding, I need to spend more time here again.
Confirmed.
In.
Thanks for organising everything.
I’m double confirming (here and on Twitter). I also have something else to go to that night, but I think that’ll run fairly late (and it’s open invitation, with a bunch of journo’s and dev’s and stuff, so we can ALL head along afterwards…maybe, I’ll double check with the organiser)
I am locked in. Now just have to decide between dapper 20s sequin dress or dapper 50s floral dress.
I’d have to see both to weigh an opinion but sequin dress sounds fabulous.
Mrs Tigs was most interested in this post
I’m in.
Confirming now.
Count us in for 2.5
Tiglet is normally pretty good but we may need to bail depending on how she handles PAX this year. Most likely if she is getting upset we will head home early and then just come back in for the dinner.
Batboy will definitely enjoy showing off all of his pokemon toys to Tiglet.
Bugger it, confirm me as coming.
Okeydokey
Does anyone know a good screen capture software, preferably a free one? Something where I can narrate over the top while recording my screen.
Backstory – I want to record the training we give new employees for using our stats software, so I don’t have to waste time every time we hire someone new.
Press PrtSc really fast?
OBS should do the trick.
As Bun said. Or FFSplit.
pupp3t’s work adventures!
So when I started this new job there was an event in October and being the eager beaver I am I signed up expecting to have networked enough to actually enjoy the event! Reality – all the people I know who were going have pulled out so I’ve had to come with an elaborate story to cancel =P
AAAHHHHH >.
Or you could go, introduce yourself to a group and network more
True…. but problem – all the remaining takers are the board of directors for the company and who all work together on a regular basis.
I’m in charge of getting the mail from the postbox at work. Went to get it just now and as I’m taking everything out a hand reaches out from the other side and throws a bunch of rolled up newspapers at me.
So that’s the story of how I screamed and fell over and hurt my butt today.
Alex Pants: Corporate Ladder Climber.
So last nights Iron Kingdoms went amazing. Despite that we currently only have two players, they’re really enjoying it and getting heavily invested. Everything is coming naturally. Even the recording seems to be avoiding hiccups.
Powalen’s Adventures with Clients at Work! *jingle*
Panicked Client: Help! We just sent out a “Come visit our brand new website” email to all of our members but we forgot to include an actual link to the website in the email! What can we do!?
Me: HAHAHAHAHAH
@redartifice how were you adventures into Hearthstone??
Hearthwhat?
Needs a big update and I’m a bit data starved atm, so haven’t played it for like a week. Also still no counterspells.Blizzard seemed pretty keen on taking out some of the more frustrating elements of playing against humans. So there’s no chat and no interaction. It works for some. It does not work for me.
It’s the “sit here and watch me do this” part that kinda annoys me.
Why don’t you click on the tavern windows some more?
Its true Hearthstone is best played when you have something else to do alongside it. Whenever I focus purely on my match I get pissed off with the RNG. I’m a very quick player and I over think if I’m left to watch an opponents play for too long.
Wut.
http://au.complex.com/pop-culture/2015/10/racists-start-controversial-boycott-star-wars-hashtag-on-twitter
Fuck em, if they’re not in the cinema I’ll have space to put my feet up.
…yeah…
that’s about all you can say for that…
Hey on a slightly related note, I was watching a panel at one of the ComicCons a while back (SDCC?) and JJ Abrams was fielding questions from the crowd. One of the questions was “Do you plan on having any asians in the future Star Wars films?” and he managed an awkward “Yeah, asians are great!” which was for some reason met with cheering.
This is coming from one of the whitest Asians you may ever meet, but why? Surely it’s not because you feel our culture is underrepresented in Star Wars. Donnie Yen is in Rogue One. If he stars in Rogue One as a kung fu master, who has a fine appreciation for serving tea to guests and spewing words of inner peace and wisdom, is that really any better? You’re wasting Donnie Yen’s talent and reducing him to an ethnic equality character.
It’s Star Wars, for flips sake. A galaxy of aliens of all kinds doing their business, humans being humans. Billy Dee wasn’t great because he was black (although I’m sure that would have been pretty awesome in the 80s), he was great because Lando was suave and smooth and talented. Casting an asian just to represent would be dumb.
Oh my god imagine Donnie Yen as a Jedi Master though.
Imagine that fight choreography.
Donnie Yen, Jet Li and Jackie Chan walk into a cantina where Chow Yun Fat is arguing about paying money to a crime boss to an alien.
Holy shit I want to see this movie.
Jackie Chan just yells “I don’t want no trouble” while the other three beat the snot out of everything
I agree.
But that said, Ip Man-style Donnie Yen would make a fucking awesome Jedi Master.
Gah, I can’t tell who are the trolls and who are serious
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes exists.
At first it was an Oculus Rift game where one player had to defuse a bomb only they could see based on instructions the other players had to decipher. Now they’ve realised you can do the same thing with a normal monitor as long as the other players don’t look.
It seems like decent fun where everything can go wrong. I like games where everything goes wrong. It’s a shame it’s $15 per copy, otherwise it’d be easy to convince a bunch of people to hop on TeamSpeak and take turns defusing.
Anyone interested in trying out Subterfuge? It’s a mobile strategery game that a bunch of the Shut Up and Sit Down affiliated peeps have been playing and it sounds ace. http://subterfuge-game.com/
Looks like it’s on Android and iOS
As Freeze points out, it’s FREE so you have nothing to lose
Alright, I’ve installed it. Now what?
Once we have enough peeps I will set up a game and we can muddle through together
You forgot to mention the part where it’s free.
Playing through the tutorial missions it seems rad.
Seems like something I’d be terrible at too.
Something is available on Android? I’m in.
Is it cross-play, or are we going to have to divide into groups based on whether we’re in the walled garden, or the rock garden?
It is crossplay apparently.
http://forums.subterfuge-game.com/viewtopic.php?t=443&p=1948
Woo.
Well, I’ve already installed it anyway, so I guess I’m in.
Prepare for terribleness.
Kewl.
We’ll see how many we get to by this evening, then we’ll kick off.
Just playing through the tutorials, it seems very cool.
So you’re in?
For sure.
Looks interesting. Might have to give it a whirl.
Count me inCount me out, compatibility issue
Ack, we’re full. Next go-around, you’re in the box seat.
Just looked and I can’t get it anyway
So looks like my pax tickets were definitely stolen. PAX have basically said nothing can be done about it.
Anyone have a spair they’d be willing to sell?
I’ve got a spare, yes.
Hooray! If you haven’t promised it to someone else i’ll pay you the full price for it. It’s a 3 day pass right?
Yep. And that sounds acceptable to me.
How do you want to get it?
If you’re goung to be there for the opening on Friday probably easiest if w meet up then?
Yeah I’d be aiming to be there before everything opens.
So how about that Star Trek trailer, amirite?
Meh, just some silly fad the kids are into.
#BoycottStairWars
#boycottstairmasters
#BoycottStarTrek
What? The last movie wasn’t really that great okay!
Use the force, Harry
You forgot to attribute that quote to the correct person. Dr Who.
“You’ll pay for this, Gandalf. Expecto Patronum!” *swings lightsaber*
– Captain John Picard of the U.S.S Daedalus
GUYS
STAR WARS
GUYS
The Strategic Defense Initiative? That was cancelled in 1993!
BOARD GAMES!
There are so many shiny new games coming out. It’s unfair.
Pandemic: Legacy has been out for a week or so now. It takes the persistent game formula from Risk: Legacy and combines it with the “every has gone horribly awry” gameplay of Pandemic. Also, you get the choice of red or blue (I don’t know why, they’re just selling two different coloured versions of it). I want. I want quite a lot. Pandemic is one of the staples of our collection.
Then there’s Codenames, a game by Vlaada Chvatil. Vlaada makes good games, he made Galaxy Truckers (which @alexpants is amazing at). The idea is that cards with labels are laid out in a pattern. Some are safe to turn over, others are not. The team leader gives a keyword and a number that the rest of the team has to try and work out the safe cards. The magic of Vlaada is that his games often strike that right balance of good gameplay while allowing people to do really dumb shit. I like that.
7 Wonders: Duel is also out soon. It’s 7 Wonders but for two players. Instead of drafting cards, you take from a pile that’s setup a little like one of those solitaire games. There are also win conditions. I will own this soon, this I promise you.
504 is the last game that really catches my eye. It’s by Friedmann Friese, the guy that made Power Grid, Friday and a whole host of other games that start with the letter “F” (if you’re German, but I’m not so they don’t). This guy’s schtick is to make really clever systems. 504 is made of nine modules and any game you play includes three of them, that combine in 504 probably interesting ways. I just want to see how it all comes together because it seems clever. I like clever.
There’s also a dice version of Village and some other things. I do like me some Village but the dice version might cut down on the deathmurder. Without the deathmurder, what’s the point?
Upvote for fond memories floating helplessly in space
Streamlined!
I have put aside $1500 in case I go board game crazy.
Was hoping that 7 Wonders: Duel might be out and available for trial at PAX.
Pretty sure that will be added to the collection though
If I have a copy, which is likely, I’ll bring it.
@trjn @freezespreston @beeawwb @rize @gingerchris86 @blaghman @bdkiaf Sent you all a link to the game, once you all join I can hit go tonight
Yeah, I see how it is. Claim Shaneville for yourself and then send out the links. @shane is outraged! And on his birthday, no less.
Had Shaneville been allocated to me this post would instead be a declaration of ownership of all Shanes.Um, I think you’ll find I named it in his honour, on his birthday no less.
How dare you besmirch his good name.
Hey, wait, It’s not even mine!
The colours are completely out of whack with the intelligence tab. I have no clue who is who on the map. I figured that shade of blue was closest to your icon.
No, I’m the lavender player, on your Southeast.
Who’s omalphaega?
Chris or Blaghs I think. Unless Bun is playing funny buggers with usernames.
So I guess based on that, nobody is Shaneville? QUICK! @shane, claim your birthright! (replyfail to Red)
I’m sorry, Shaneville is mine now.
I guess he’ll have to fail to take it by force. Hahahahaha.
Is it worth doing tutorials first, or are we all planning on fumbling through it?
Just do the eleven tactical puzzles, that’ll give you enough basic knowledge apparently
Link isn’t working to let me join, through tapping or pasting…Never mind. Had to close the game and click the link to make it work.
Fumble! Sub rush the closest base!
Where should I be looking for this link?
twitter DMs
Ah, just took a while to show up. Hurray for reliability.
Is anybody else in the half arsed cosplay club for PAX or is it just me?
Given the way my loungeroom looks in terms of craft supplies, I hope mine doesn’t qualify as half arsed.
I’m in more of like the three-quarter arse club.
In a manner of speaking.
I’d hope the Zangief briefs are covering your whole arse.
It’s Halloween, so that means it’s gotta be Sexy Zangief, right?
He’s going as Sexy Zangeif.
Less half-arsed and more last minute panic.
I have a shirt, a pair of shorts, one 1/4 painted shoe and no hat.
But Elsa is almost finished, so I have that going for me, which is nice.
I’ve resolved to start using TAY a bit more again, since I’ve been a little absent lately (hey, don’t blame me! Blame uni!).
So…
What’s crack-a-lack’in, crackers?
Liondrive! What do lions drive? Jaguars?
Holdens (actually a Toyota).
Tell me, what’s red and in your right hand? 😛
A pen. It’s less spooooooky than it sounds but I can write some pretty scary shit.
PAX prep is in full swing. DapperMeat™ is a go. Star wars is a thing you young folk can ignore. Video games are still a thing
He says as no one here was alive for the first films release except for @Strange.
I was 1 when Empire Strikes Back came out.
So was I
And @freezespreston forgot @bish, although Noferatu was old hat for him considering he saw “Arrival of a Train”
Empire wasn’t the first one…
Git off my lawn
Oh, you know.
Mmm… crackers.
They’re crack-a-lackin’ good.
If I bought one of my wierdo Japanese deck builders to PAX would anyone play it?
Is one the sexy Hitler one? I would totes play that.
I do indeed have Barbarossa. In English, too. Haven’t sleeved it but that could be fixed.
Hitler and her generals have to rush to Moscow and defeat the evil wizard Stalin.
I could bring it I guess.
Most likely would take Heart of Crown. Barbarossa is probably a bit too explicit for PAX I think (?). Would need to re-print the pasteups I made (or print, if I decided to take the base set instead of the newer standalone one) as they were done on a shit inkjet and I now have a wonderful Laser.
Other option would be Kunitori Kessen but I’ve never found willing victims to play it so I don’t know if it’s any good.
Define “willing victims”?
Also Barbarossa has always intrigued me. For reasons.
With my usual board games group, eyes start to glaze over about halfway into “it’s a team deck builder in which you replay the battle of Sekigahara except all the generals are cute anime girls” and we’ve never actually played it.
There’s less panties involved than Barbarossa (though there might be some? It’s been a while since I looked tbh) but it does come with the added advantage that whenever you play it there’s an earthquake in Japan caused by the entire line of Tokugawa shoguns spinning in their graves.
For what it’s worth, Heart of Crown is by far the best of these and it’s getting an English release at some point. So you could consider it a SPECIAL PREVIEW. Hardly anyone owns the game outside Japan as well.
I can really only bring one of them since like 300+ cards is pretty heavy on its own.
Sorry, not my jam.
My plan for PAX gaming is simple. Either I’m playing games that I love but rarely get a chance to play or games that I’ve been meaning to check out. And also probably Village.
Here’s a link to see which Facebook friends of yours like Reclaim Australia so you know who to delete.
https://www.facebook.com/browse/friended_fans_of/?page_id=762398587169729
Dunno what’s gotten into me this week. But i’ve been on a 90’s/early 00’s Punk/Alt-Rock binge with Green Day, Bowling For Soup, Blink-182, Bad Religion, Alien Ant Farm, The Living End & The Offspring.
Also listening to Bad Religion really makes me want to play Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 again, ah those were the days.
But avoid 5 like the plague?
I’m still quite bitter about that. Fucking activision.
I think if it were at least playable, it’d be fine
Oh yeah.. I was so glad I canned my pre-order and didn’t progress with that, and also pisses me off Tony Hawk is proud of that mess.
I was super excited about it. Then I forgot amidst cosplay stuff. Kinda glad I did
Ohmygod Staind. When you get discovered by Fred Durst, you know you’ve made it son!
Haha. That reminds me, Limp Bizkit, young me thought they were so edgy & cool cause swear words heh.
In all seriousness though, Three Dollar Bill Y’all is actually a good album. Significant Other is meh, and everything after that was pretty much trash.
Looks like Subterfuge has started well. BDKIAF and I almost engaged in some MAD until, at the absolute last minute, deciding that having resources at the start was better than not having resources at the start.
Due to my strategy of throwing small forces at places in the hope they stick, I’m going to lose a blisteringly huge force of two troops. Such a shame.
Whoa. Early.
Thanks for all the BlubberBurn tips yesterday. Seems I was in an optional area. I just had to do a runner past some twats & it opened several paths.
I hope you’re using the Cane. It’s the most stylin’ weapon.
Cane for screenshots, Kirkhammer for BIZNESSSSS.
Yeah, kinda regretting it now. Still works but I get the feeling I’ll need something harder hitting. :-/
It only gets better as you upgrade it! I used it for the entire game.
Yeah, it’s holding its own. I’d just like to be having an easier time
Saw Cleaver is easily the best weapon. Hits nearly as hard as the heavy weapons but attacks half again as fast. Transformation ads a bit of reach to allow you to dance around the big guys and has a 20% boost to damage against most standard enemies.
Is it strength or skill?
Scales off both so either or.
I was thinking of trying the double blades when they pop up because I’m useless with the gun.
If you are skill focused, try the Rifle Spear when yiu get it. Narrow attack but it’s range is ridiculous and it’s charged heavy attack very powerful.
Could always run the Hunter Axe 2 handed and abuse Spin-To-Win.
Please, tell me moar
Cleaver Bro!
DAPPER MEAT 2.0: Booking is made!
AlexPants: @alexpants
Blaghman: @blaghman
B-ob: @beeawwb
CookingMama: @cookingmama
Cracks: @thecracks
f4ction: @f4ction
Freeze: @freezespreston
NegativeZero: @negativezero
Powalen: @powalen
Red: @redartifice
Stan: @quiz_b
Tigerion + 1 (and Tiglet): @tigerion
Hey everybody. The booking has been made at Squire’s Loft, under the name “TAY”
WHEN: FRIDAY OCTOBER 30th, 7:30PM
WHERE: Squire’s Loft, Docklands (818 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000)
AFTER DINNER: Gin Palace!
Will re-post details next week as a reminder. 🙂
Did they say if they had any high chairs?
Yes! They did! They do. They also said they’ve got 2 sizes, an “infant” size and a “toddler” size. They have one of each, and put down the “infant” size one (unless my memory is playing tricks on me) but can change the note if needed.
Sounds good. She is probably in between sizes so the smaller is probably better. Getting quite hyped for the dinner.
Man, I’m going to have to re-learn how to tie my tie again, aren’t I?
Over, under, in and out, that’s what shoe tying’s…wait.
Make sure to do a double-knot so the other kids can’t undo your tie when you’re not looking.
Here you go. 😛
https://youtu.be/Q5-Np9zDADE
(I look up Youtube every single time I have to tie a tie :P)
You probably don’t want to look up the knot I posted in that case.
I hear that Bow Ties are Cool
Looks like a neat gimmick if wholly unnecessary.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/556341540/bots-battleground-the-first-boogie-dice-based-game
Well it might be unnecessary for somebody like you who is willing to roll the dice manually like some kinda of cave man
I wonder how random the results really are.
It would save the time it takes to pass dice around between players(and the habits of people juggling around the dice within their hands) if there’s a lot of players involved, but that’s all I see as a potential benefit in my eyes
I would see it as more annoying than anything. Especially on a crowded table – the dice would bump into playing pieces, whereas if you roll manually you can keep the dice out of the way.
But seriously, if you want to automate it, just get an app that gives you random numbers from 1-6.
I hate using apps for dice rolls, if sucks a lot of fun out of the suspense mid-roll. This is why I use 3D dice in roll20 as much as I can, people see the numbers coming up, the hype builds up as you see it about to land on that six, but then it falls back down to the two you hoped to avoid.
For me the manual rolling is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, especially those that take over 20 seconds to do their roll, I’m one of those that has to resist shouting “JUST ROLL THE DAMN DICE ALREADY!”, cuz the randomness doesn’t change if you juggle the dice inside your clasped hands for 20 seconds or 2 seconds. This seems more like a happy medium for me, you just click your fingers and it goes.
If you have a lot of pieces on the board and not a lot of room for dice, we always use the board game lid as a dedicated diceroll area anyway, and it’d work with these too.
Alright, only $300 to cover the majority of my rolls in Shadowrun. Bargain.
Coming pretty close to giving up on getting the Kung Fury Bluray. They’ve commissioned and completed comic books, animated shorts, clothing lines and a game but in that time they haven’t yet made the Blurays the majority of backers wanted. Bit shit they’ve launched an entire thing off the back of not delivering. Oh well. First kickstarter I’ve backed to fall through and even then not completely.
Damn 🙁
What jerks.
Annoys me that Soundwave still can’t get their shit together and tell us who their headline acts are and what other bands are playing the festival when it’s only 3 months away, especially when Download has already announced 2/3 of their 2016 headline acts and that’s not until June >.
At this point it really shouldn’t be a surprise that AJ Maddah is the very worst festival promoter.
Fucking oath. The last Soundwave I thought was a success & I actually enjoyed was Metallica in 2013. Even though I enjoyed Green Day in 2014, I just felt too old in that crowd, and this years 2 day version was awful with BDO being canned a lot of the “I just got for the atmosphere, drugs & to show off my muscles” crew were there making it un-enjoyable imo.
I was put off just by the people at the train station going to Soundwave in Melbourne back in February. Looked like a convention for goths was happening.
Saying that if Alter Bridge came back I’d probably go this time. If they just do their own tour down here even better.
Haha.
Yeah sadly that won’t happen, seems bands rather just do the festivals here and not a solo tour anymore. Stone Sour said they’d be back with another tour to support House of Gold & Bones, never happened. Slipknot has promised, but it seems pretty slim since their tour will be wrapping up around the end of the northern hemisphere summer it seems with shows booked up until then 🙁
ALL ABOARD THE SOUNDWAVE HYPE TRAIN.
Predictions: Amity and In Flames seem overdue to play again, although Amity are touring at the end of the year (also, that’s an Amity reference, right? Severed Ties is such a good album). Offspring also haven’t played for a while, so might see them again. Trivium just released a new album, so I reckon they’re in with a shot as well.
Who won’t we see – Well, Rise Against, Soilwork, Alestorm, Devin Townsend and Tesseract all toured recently or are touring before the end of the year, so we won’t be seeing them. I don’t think they’ll get out LoG or any of the headliners from last year either. Opeth toured in the middle of the year, so we probably won’t see them either. I also think NeO are touring around that time so won’t be playing again (which is bad, they are probably the best Aussie act at the moment). Might not see Dream Theater, since Portnoy is playing with MA, although maybe Winery Dogs might come as well? Probably won’t see Mastodon, which is a shame, but still get to see Troy with MA.
Maiden and Sabbath are touring early/mid next year, so won’t see them either.
Wish list – Dark Tranquility, Meshuggah, Parkway, QotSA, Tool (like every year). Also Thrice are touring again, that’d be a fucking blast (also a great throwback – maybe they get Deftones and re-run the headliners from… ’06?).
Hype train? I’d be more hyped if they could pull their finger out and tell us who the headline acts. Preferably before they let tickets go on sale, like they always did.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET IT BE BABYMETAL
😐 I honestly hope not.
I really don’t understand what is so amazing about them, but all I know is their fan base is made up of a lot of middle age men, who seem to think they’re great, and it creeps me the fuck out since they’re still under 18 or whatever.
If you like pop music and metal music its phenomenal. Its why i like amity affliction, its pop metal.
Fair call. Each to their own. But apparently AJ wants them on Soundwave, so you can probably expect them.
I could be wrong, but there’s a substantial chance that those middle aged men are fans because of the music, and not because they’re planning to try and do the band.
I’m going off their comments on article on sites like Blabbermouth.net, total creepy content. Then again, any article about a female who happens to be in a rock or metal band attracts the same type of degenerates, heh.
Ooo, a chance to talk about Babymetal…
From what I’ve seen (and I’m a fan of them, so spend a little time around the Babymetal subreddit), most of their fans are fairly ‘protective’ of them (I’m not sure if that’s the best word for it, but it’s the best my brain can come up with right now). Respectful might be a better word.
Personally, I like them for a number of reasons. Are they the byproduct of a marketing experiment and what a lot of people would call “fake”? Absolutely. But it works.
1 – The most important point, I like their songs. I’m a bigger fan of their live stuff but most of their songs have a hook to them that makes them catchy and unique.
2 – Their backing band is made up of some of the most recognised musicians from Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Quc6jxzoZo (Whoever uploaded this seems to have left that auto center thing on, so the image is real crappy, but it’s the only version I can find online)
3 – Their live shows are just incredible. They’re not ‘concerts’ as such, but a ‘show’. Think ‘KISS’. There’s a lot of theatricality to them, especially their bigger Japanese shows. And you can’t really deny that they don’t put 100% into what they do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTEYUFgLveY
Getting to see Refused is worth the price of admission for me… The Shape of Punk to Come is one of the greats.
Until you find out they get a 30 or 45 minute set, at like 2pm. Then you get pissed off, or they’re put on at the same as whatever other band that has a massive crossover in fans.
I remember they did that in 2012 to Wednesday 13, put him on at the same time as Slipknot on the other side of the showgrounds, yet most of his fans know of him because of his time spent in the Murderdolls with Joey Jordison now ex-drummer of Slipknot.
Gonna go see amity in december, HYPE
I was going to, but already got Rise Against tickets, and $$$$$$$.
Also, NeO+Plini are playing on the same night as RA in Sydney, which makes me so fucking sad 🙁
I wish Melbourne weather would get it’s shit together.
Yesterday was incredibly hot. Today it is pissing it down and cold. =/
I’ll take today’s weather over how gross yesterday felt. Wonder what it’s going to be like during the PAX weekend.
Probably 40 on the Friday, 12 on the Saturday and 25 and raining on the Sunday and I wouldn’t even be surprised
Yeah, it’s easier to work in this weather, although it’s still a bit sticky
10 day forecast is looking good. mid 20s for the first do days and high 20s for the Sunday
I’m back at work today after overcoming most of my cold. Lousy Smarch weather.
Anyway, being sick allowed me to get stuck into the beta for Warhammer: Vermintide. If anyone is a fan of Left 4 Dead, get this game. It is seriously good and it fully releases this Friday! It is so very satisfying to hack into hordes of Skaven rather than hordes of zombies and the special enemies (Ratling gunner, Packmaster, Globadier, Stormvermin, Gutter Runner, and Rat Ogre) are very tricky to fight against.
Sold.
Argh, so damn hyped for my Melbourne trip in 3 weeks. Can’t wait to see The Darkness play live, as Justin Hawkins is one of my favourite singers. Also really excited to watch UFC 193 and see Ronda Rousey, Joanna Jedrzejczyk, Mark Hunt, Bigfoot Silva and Uriah Hall fight. And meeting some of you Melbourne TAYbies will be pretty damn cool too.
Do you believe in a thing called love?
I do. Can’t wait to hear that song live, it’s one of the reasons I got into The Darkness because of singing it in Singstar.
I just love how ‘Growing on me’ is a song about crabs. Such a rock star.
Ha, didn’t actually know that, because I’d never really looked at the lyrics. Permission to Land is such a great album though, not a bad song on it.
Being able to watch cricket on a tv which is built into an exercise bike will never not be awesome. 😀
So Subterfuge is fucking cool. I keep checking the game every 5 minutes even though it takes 10 hours for things to happen. Had a notification of drillers showing up on my radar this morning and was certain I was waking up to betrayal.
Every time I capture a post more things seem to pop up, and so every time I just assume that somebody’s retaliating.
But… I got a notification that you showed up on my radar! What kind of crazy topsy turvy submarine world is this? 😛
Oh, don’t worry about those. Nothing to see there. Certainly not.
I wasn’t worried. I figured @trjn will care more about Adria than I will.
At the moment, it’d spread me too thin. That may change.
I’d guess that most people are.
Looks like most people started off with a great land grab.
The first moves haven’t even been resolved yet and myself and @rize have already seemed to have escalated to a declaration of total war.
@trjn and I almost started by wiping out around 40 subs each.
We both started with about 20 each. Then we saw what each other was doing and upped it to 40. Then we saw that we’d both lose about 40 subs and decided to go for the bloodless option.
To be honest, that’s far more strategy than I expected to see all week and we did that in the two hours before the game started.
We’ve lost about 80 each looking at it.
Yeah, I tried to be a smartarse at the start and bluff you in to overcommitting. That all fell apart when the app shit itself and I couldn’t get back on it to cancel the subs…or even commit more drillers. So it’s ended up being an actual fight 😛
Awww, man…. I wanna see! Rize isn’t on my radar so I have to just imagine your subs smashing in to each-other. *zooom* *whoooosh!* *bkowwww!*
I’ll show myself out.
Future Day TAYdrenaline shot
What is one thing that we have now in the future that you *really* wish had existed when you were a kid/teenager (I realise for some of you this question really doesn’t apply!)
For me it’s youtube tutorials. Would have saved me years of bad hair days and awful makeup.
I think I agree, but would include ease of access to tips & learning that any part of the internet brings.
On a similar note, I wish there was net back when I actually had some creative output.
You didn’t have a Geocities or Angelfire page?
I didn’t own a computer til my mid-20s.
We made some mock websites in high school though.
All my comics are in those lined excercise books.
I’ll probably scan some one day & throw em up for shits & giggles.
Ah GeoCities. I had a page and it was an abomination
Of course it was. It was on Geocities 😛
Memes
😛Hindsight.
😛
I dunno. There’s lots of things that exist now but they also kind of existed back then too, just in shittier versions or not at their true potential. Also I don’t really regret having grown up in simpler times. Honestly I’m more of the mind that there’s things here in the future that I’d rather kids didn’t grow up with.
I should probably add to this that I had a computer from the age of three and we got internet access at home when I was around twelve. Those are two of the biggest things that are rad about the present, but I did have them in the past, albeit shittier versions.
Similar to you: Easy access to so much knowledge.
I know teachers would’ve hated it, but for me, I’d say the smartphone with google/GPS/wikipedia.
I don’t think we’re any more or less resourceful now than we were then, but the time wasted seeking knowledge is so much less.
In those days you needed to go to the post office or newsagency or council building to pick up a timetable (or go find a phone booth or other nearby landline to make a call to the timetable information line) for the trains or buses that would take you to whichever suburb (or city, if you were in the regions) housed the book you were looking for, for a specific piece of information that you couldn’t wait to be delivered to your local library in the next 2-3 weeks.
Now? Well lookitthat, instant timetable information online which – oh that’s right – I don’t need, because I can get that same information that was in that book online, anyway.
The smartphone is an amazing and criminally-underutilized invention.
The internet
New Venture Brothers season incoming. Yisssssss.
About freaking time. Been waiting too long to resolve the events from the Gargantua 2 special.
SERIOUSLY?? About bloody time! Any idea when?
Ah, here we go… http://www.polygon.com/2015/10/20/9575375/adult-swim-releases-new-venture-bros-trailer-sixth-season-announced
‘Early 2016’ is about as specific as it gets, but there’s a trailer!
Divinity Original Sin on Tuesday! \o/
Not that original, I’ve played it before
Not even Devine: Unoriginal Product
I’ve yet to do a complete playthrough of that. I’d actually started a new character/s recently intending to do just that, and luckily I learned the Enhanced Edition was coming out before I’d gotten too far into the game.
TOR expansion has just come out though, and Fallout 4 is out soon, and I’ve still got to finish TW3, There’s just too many 100 hour RPGs to play.
Fallout 4 & Divinity play different enough that I’m comfortable grabbing both. Will just play whichever feels right.
But I know what you mean, this Q4 has been dense. I actually can’t afford every game I want. Which is a rare occurrence for me.
Dang. I thought Suits was resuming this year, turns out the rest of season 5 won’t be airing until 2016, bugger.
Yeah I googled it the other day because I assumed it’d be returning over (our) summer or something. Nup 🙁
Yeah disappointing, I forgot the break for it was like 4 or 5 months >_>
Huh, I’ve just gotten a letter saying I’m in a jury selection pool. That’s definitely something new & different.
In tv shows characters always complain about being selected for jury duty, but I think it’d be a really interesting experience.
It’s not that great. Although I have never actually been to trial. Mostly being selected for jury duty involves sitting in a room all day, then getting told to go home and picking up $50 for doing so.
Although they did have a pool table last time I had to go.
So metal kids – @BDKIAF @virus__@rocketman
Have you guys heard of / been to Unify? http://unifygathering.com/
Thinking of going next year – not a huge fan of the bands other than Parkway, but stuff like this is usually worth it for the atmosphere.
Haven’t been, though this year’s lineup was pretty great. There’s not a lot on next year’s one that I’m that interested in. Parkway obviously, Confession and Make Them Suffer, I’ve played shows with Dream On Dreamer and Ocean Grove and they were both great. The rest of the bands don’t do much for me though.
What band are you in? Can I have an autograph?
I think my autograph would actually decrease the value of whatever I signed.
https://www.facebook.com/HarleyQuinnHC
Tonite alive are pretty great live, i like to think of them as australian paramore. I met the band at a gig and they were all super nice and friendly. 🙂
i know a few of the bands but, im already spending way to much on live gigs in the next few months
Tame Impala
Florence and the machine
The Vaccines
Laneway Festival
CHRVCHES sideshow
and Amity. Don’t forget Amity.
and amity
Assuming it’s the tour I’m thinking of, it’ll be Amity, A Day To Remember and The Ghost Inside. That’s a fucking great lineup.
thats the one. Im looking forward to a day to remember too.
You’re seeing Florence? I hate you.
(I love you bby don’t listen to me)
That’s not my scene lol, though I didn’t mind In Hearts Wake’s cover of that Parkway Drive song they did for like a version, even then I think I only liked it cause a mate of mine is the bass player/other singer lol.
My scene is more into bands, like AC/DC, Alice Cooper, Metallica, Sabbath, Maiden, Aerosmith, Van Halen.. Then again Slipknot is my all time favourite band along with The Living End, heh.
Holy heck – how did i not know this was a thing.
really shows how metal bands are looking more and more like hipsters these days. haha
Funny story – One of the guitarists from Ocean Grove works with me. In fact, he works on the desk NEXT to me.
Help I bought Guitar Hero.
Also got some more costume stuff, and found that the party shop I used to get things from has disappeared. And the other one is also not where it should be, but at least that one’s just moved to a weird part of the shopping centre you need to get to through the carpark.
Also picked up a little container of the Carolina Reaper sauce.
Nice! Interested to hear your thoughts on the reapers. 😀
I’m tempted to have a try now, but I don’t want to spoil it for later 😛
Also the guy was kinda funny, he seemed confused when I came in just asking if I could have some of the sauce. And then still seemed unsure whether he should let me have it or not.
My friend who bought me the jar had the same reaction. Whomever it was seemed reluctant to sell it to her and she had to convince him that I’m able to handle it.
From a practical point I’m not that interested in GHL. A lot of the features sound like things I really wouldn’t like. And yet…there’s still a skerrick of want left in the pit of my stomach.
I’m still kinda sceptical, but between a couple of friends who are loving it and it being about as cheap as it’s going to be for a while yet, it kinda pushed me over the edge.
If it sucks then one friend in particular is going to get all the blame 😛
Ooh, apparently the tonic syrups have made their way up from Victoria to Chullora this morning.
COME ON, IT’S NOT THAT MUCH FURTHER!
What are tonic syrups, and where can I get them?
Syrup for making tonic water, and you can get them at http://www.onlybitters.com/tonics/
Oooh, I thought it was like, tonic syrup rather than tonic water.
Any good?
Dunno, they haven’t got here yet 😛
Freeze and CookingMama seem to like them though.
I played some games of World of Warships with the latest update. They’ve added in the entire German cruiser line from Tier I to Tier X, and also a Russian destroyer line from Tier II to X (with a cruiser at Tier I because every navy starts with a cruiser).
So far have only played a handful of games with the Germans but their ships suck so far. Hermelin felt like you were using armor made of cheese and whoever the ship designer was that thought that putting 10cm guns onto the Dresden was a good idea was probably a Nazi. You’ve got a fair number of guns on the thing and they reload fairly quick and are accurate but they have such low caliber you can’t penetrate armor with AP so you’re forced to use HE shells and they do sweet fuck all damage. Had a game where I landed over 100 hits and only managed to sink one enemy, a destroyer that didn’t know what he was doing (I dodged his entire torpedo spread from 2km!) and that took 23 hits and supporting fire from a friendly St Louis. Over 50 of those shots I landed were on an enemy St Louis which eventually sank me, and I only managed to get him to about 2/3 health. 🙁 I don’t think the T3 and T4 cruisers are much better either. T3 cruiser Kolberg is just a marginally bigger Dresden with 2 extra guns, and T4 Karlsrue is nearly the same ship. T5 finally gets better guns, upgrading to 15cm. :\ Bear in mind that in the IJN line the T2 cruiser has 15cm guns and the T3 and T4 have 14cm at higher calibers, then the T5 has 20.3cm. The US Cleveland at T2 has 12.7cm, St Louis at T3 and Phoenix at T4 have 15cm guns. German stuff seems ridiculously underpowered.
On the upside I had an awesome game with my Furutaka. Ended with 4 kills. Sadly our team didn’t win as we ran out of time on the clock, and I got sunk right at the end because I ended up in a slugging match with a really good player in the Tier IV US battleship (the Wyoming) but not before I set him on fire, knocked him to half health and dropped torpedoes in the water before he got the last shot in (in retrospect I think I fucked up and exposed my side armor to him a bit). So many battleship players forget that the Furutaka has torpedoes. They’re not great torpedoes (very short range) but a full spread of three will take out a similar-tier battleship no worries.
Guys, i need your expert advice real quick on NBN.
So been and I bought our first home – we move in the weekend of PAX (sunday) and i need to get the net sorted.
Can you please advise if it’s worth doing an NBN plan? If so – what speed?
From what i can see, some speeds aren’t as good as ADSL.
Budget is around $60 per month.
We currently have ADSL2+ with iiNet, which has been pretty crap (but that’s more our area) but were looking at the unlimited NBN plan with TPG for $59,.90 – but i noticed the speed is only 12/1, which seems kinda rubbish considering ADSL is up to 24mbps (i know this is “up to” and generally far less).
HELP!
NBN speed (assuming proper FTTP NBN not the shitty Turnbull NBN) is guaranteed, rather than a theoretical maximum like ADSL. If you get a 25mbit NBN connection it will go at 25mbit. Should also not be affected much by congestion during peak hours like Cable and ADSL can be. Plus no issues with cross-talk and line noise and getting filters and all that bullshit. How far are you from the phone exchange? Because on average, ADSL tends to be more in the range of 6-8mbit, not 12, let alone the theoretical max of 24 or so.
I get > 100mbit off peak on my Cable and I couldn’t go back to ADSL now.
It’s always been worth it for me because NBN means no line rental to pay, which basically just cancels out the higher prices of the high speed options. Depends how much you value a phone though I guess.
Other than that like @negativezero said you’ll get the advertised speed as long as it’s a FTTN connection. I can get 99mbps connected directly to the NTD on my 100mbps connection, so close enough. Obviously wifi etc will knock it down a fair bit.
how do i know if it’s an FTTN connection?
Whoops sorry, I meant to say FTTP (fibre to the premises) not FTTN (node).
There’s probablyyyy some kind of map somewhere. Just depends on who was in government when the place got connected I guess 😛
I’m sorry my friend… where you now tread, I can not follow.
For my money, it’s hard to justify an NBN upgrade given that I average download speeds of around 16mbps and rarely less than 13 on an affordable naked DSL plan that I never go over the limit on no matter how many steam games I reinstall on a whim.
I don’t think I have an app on my phone that kills the battery quite like Subterfuge does.
Battery? Where we’re going, we don’t need battery.
It chews through it a fair bit.
Worth it though.
I’ve moved it to my work phone.
But now I’m getting notifications on both. 😛
Well maybe you should stop launching attacks on everybody every two minutes. >:|
I’d launch more but they want me to pay money to do so.
Wait, you found a microtransaction?
I paid for the level 2 access, but that’s because it’s the only way we can set up a private game
You can only queue up 4 future actions, which is hardly the end of the world, but a smidge annoying.
Lucky we’re playing on a device with an in built alarm clock.
Level 2 access is the microtransaction. You can only queue up four orders without it (by scrubbing the clock forward and then setting the order for those playing at home).
I can only get 1 order queued up! Ripped off!
I definitely don’t have four orders queued up right now with an alarm set for a fifth. Definitely not.
I’ve also run in to a bug where the single order I do have queued can’t be cancelled. I can edit the order but can’t cancel it entirely.
It’s not an issue as it’s just a troop transfer and I can edit it down to only send 1 driller, but it’d be nice to remove it entirely so I can set up a different order.
Wait what have you done the tutorials
Everything except Advanced 3 and Kobayashi.
@beeawwb that’s weeeeeeeird. Tried a fresh install?
I can cancel any movement before launch direct out of the queue on the time rocker.
Haven’t tried a fresh install but I have tried multiple devices. I checked the forums and it’s a reported / acknowledged bug (Devs have said they’re working on it).
If it was a mission critical order I’d be more concerned.
Ah, I did not know that. I have been queueing up a bunch of dumb stuff just to move drillers around my own bases.
The Witcher 3 DLC has some great, diverse quests. <3
SPOILER ALERT! D=
I thought I’d give that a shot on the weekend.
…I spent ten hours researching, installing, and comparing mods.
Witcher 3: Proud new member of the group of games like Fallout and Skyrim which I no longer play the main game of, only the mod-installation meta-game.
Blissful mod ignorance on the PS4!
Huh, the new GH controller seems to come with a little USB dongle. Does this mean the instruments are finally universal? Neat feature if they are, and surprised I haven’t heard anything about it.
Didn’t they always come with a dongle? I have about 4 of them at home somewhere.
I thought Playstation ones did and Xbox ones did not.
Yeah, no sign of any dongles when playing on friends’ 360s. And the Wii ones didn’t have any. Maybe it was just a PS thing? First I came across it was with some of the Rock Band instruments, though the instruments themselves still seemed to be Wii-specific.
Uh.. @cakesmith apparently you mentioned me in a comment, but no such comment exists? What sorta magics is this?!
and I have proof which won’t vanish!
http://i.imgur.com/hRPQtlK.png
Yeah, it’s a comment that went into moderation because of an edit. BOO-URNS I say!
Ooh right, fair enough 😛
It’s nothing exciting. Just me fanboying about Babymetal above 😛
Oh fair enough lol.
Let the world know that I am very prepared to call @rize a jerk at a moment’s notice.
But @rize is a jerk.
He is but I get the feeling he is about to solidify his position as one.
I feel like you’re massively overestimating my ability in this game.
Have I mentioned all I’ve done is skim the manual before jumping straight in?
I did enough of the puzzle thingies to get a handle on the controls. That was enough for me to understand that wild accusations are definitely a viable strategy, if only because I can’t think of anything else.
J’accuse!
Don’t worry, the whole world is too.
My years of Civilization have taught me a few things about diplomacy, and so with that in mind:
Trust the Boundless Blaghs Blempire. Their words are backed with NUCLEAR WEAPONS!
Unfortunately, not everyone in the Blempire is as committed to non-violence as I am.
And don’t forget that he looks funny.
*user has been kicked from the server*
So @Rize is like Ghandi?
No, unlike Ghandi I am totally committed to peace.
*eyes off the big red button*
I will grind Friendly Fuhrer Freeze to dust against that outpost >:|
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I believe the official term is “shenanigans”.
The Elsa cosplay smelt my urgency and suddenly errors, errors everywhere.
(I’m very frustrated and if it weren’t for Mum insisting I go out, I probably would’ve murdered it, myself or who knows?)
I have figured out that I love sewing when it’s going well and hate it when everything goes wrong
Of course it’s a bloody page get. DAMN YOU ELSA!
That’s a lot of anger. You should let it go.
…I’ll show myself out.
I’m imagining you saying that while putting on your sunglasses, Roger Daltrey screaming in the background…
… and Scree throwing a snowball at the back of your head.
Based on the fact it is about the 500th time Scree has heard that joke I would be more worried about her throwing kitchen knives than snowballs
I am so close to finishing
Scratch that, it refuses to turn inside out properly. Instead the lining ends up outside and pulling the dress into a loop. For fucks sake.
Okay, lots of unpicking later, I am almost there. I am pretty tired
Some google research indicates that the average new military submarine costs the US $8.2 billion. If we assume this Subterfuge game is using slightly older tech so we’ll call it $5 billion. On my sonar at the moment I can see about 30 subs making it $150 billion purely in submarines, not including cost of outposts, mining machinery or human support. Who are we to be able to spend that much?
I assumed, given we’re mining Neptunium, that we’re on neptune. I’ll admit to not having read the fluff on this and proceeding straight to the crunch.
I had no idea all the Plutonium we use came from Pluto! And to think we stopped calling it a planet…
You’ll never guess where Francium comes from.
Eugh these chemical jokes are dead… we should just barium.
#page6forlyfe
I’m sorry, are we boron you?
I want to keep making jokes, but all the good ones argon.
But the ones we made were gold, so there’s that.
A polyethylene cup containing Nitrogen, Iodine and Sulphur.
@freezespreston: I don’t get that joke. If you could explain it would be a cup of Nitrogen, Iodine and Cerium.
New Zealand? 😛
The best part is that there are subs floating around with single units on them. Not only do we have billions upon billions of dollars to spend, we can spend them very frivolously.
Yeah, the game just trivialises the subs with “ehh, we can make them on demand”.
If only it were so easy for Australia.
As a South Australian, yeah.
yeah *single tear*
For reference, the last time the there was a naval war, submarines were throw-away units. The US and Japan had several hundred of them each, and Germany built over a thousand U-boats.
The US spent over $600 billion on defense in 2014 alone. If you assume that it takes several years to build, fit out and test something as complex as a submarine then the cost is amortized over that period at least (in fact they probably borrow to afford it and then pay it off over time).
$8.2 billion seems really expensive for a submarine. Fairly sure that number’s wrong. The Virginia class nuclear attack subs that the US currently has in commission cost about $2 billion each. And that’s because they’re nuclear and quite large. They get more expensive – the US Seawolf class are closer to $4 billion each, but that’s right at the top end for subs and they can be made much cheaper too. The new Japanese Soryuu-class subs (which are diesel-electric) are only like $500m each to build.
Hell, $8.2 billion is getting into capital ship cost territory. The Gerald Ford-class Carriers they’re building three of to replace the old Nimitz-class are costing about $10.4 billion each. $8.2 billion is enough for 4 of the current US Arleigh Burke-class Destroyers, two of the new stealth Zumwalt-class Destroyers (which by the way look fucking weird), or eight of their old Ticonderoga-class Cruisers.
Your fancy “logic” and “facts” have no place on the Internet!
Just going off Professor Google.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-05-25/nuclear-submarine-may-cost-1-billion-more-than-navy-s-estimate-cbo-says
I’d like to think that if we’re building so many submarines we’d realise some economies of scale.
The $8.2 billion figure seems like a lifetime (around 25 years) asset ownership price, with a mid-service overhaul. Subs wear faster than ships because pressure.
Yeah, possibly factoring in R&D costs for the whole project too.
Designing a new digital Nuclear sub is certainly a non trivial exercise.
“We tried to make it stealthy like everything else so we added all these weird hard angles everywhere but it didn’t go very fast so we had to strap eleventy billion propellers on the back”?
Apparently not. Looking into it the current ones are about $7 billion to build. New ones will be the 8.2.
I find around $2.7b for a Virginia class sub, but they’re a) Nuclear and b) never built in a short run, so the economies are different. $7b for a future nuclear submarine just for construction and commissioning seems high
For the Australian future sub, the cost bandied about fro the program total was around $36b, which was an arse-pulled figure for 12 theoretical subs before a single drawing was made.
The SeaWolf was $3 billion per unit in 89. The Virginia was designed specifically to be cheap.
I really don’t know anything about this, just looking around what’s publicly available.
Seawolf is the second most expensive submarine class in the world though. Only the French managed to spend more.
Funny side note: the French nuclear strike force used to be called the ‘Force de Frappe’. Which makes it sound amusingly like a submersible Starbucks delivery system.
A two person capsule sub with no Tech besides lights and movement will set you back $3 million.
Subs be expensive yo.
PAX PEEPS!!!
has everyone got their tickets covered? Im getting my last ticket posted to me, and have the option for another ticket at $140 (3 day pass). Let me know! I can post it to you if i get it early enough or we can meet up at the gate… ill be there at 8am on Friday 30th
@gorzilla He needs one. Not sure if he wants to pay for it though
lol would love to spot him but alas, pax month is broke month…. paying for pax stuff, tickets and food, transport parking, plus cake bake and sweets show, same deal there, my wedding anniversary on pax saturday, my wallet cries…
I know. His was possibly stolen from his mail box. Pax has pretty much said “too bad.”
You would think they’d at least put some sort of barcode on them so you could report them stolen or lost. They’ve got what I assume is a unique number on them already and throwing a quick barcode scan into the R18 band process shouldn’t cause any major bottlenecks.
Nope, just “too bad”. It’s against their policy to replace them. I can understand why they wouldn’t want to replace all of them, but considering there wasn’t really anything Gorzy could do to prevent them from being stolen, it’s a bit shit.
@negativezero is kindly letting me buy his spare.
Hey so regarding that, throw me a twitter DM or an email to atomicstrawberry (at) gmail (dot) com and we can exchange mobile nos. beforehand so we can meet up and you can get the pass.
..and its gone! damn that was quick! lol…
Guessing you don’t need my spare any more?
nah all good man… i was possibly needing it as i bought it about a week ago and didnt hear back from the seller, and thought it wasnt coming. finally got it sorted. thanks man!
I got mine and i’m spending each and every day in the lead up to the even bouncing up and down enthusiastically in my seat
Dude. Dude.
See you there.
Hells yeah dude!
*high five*
I know the Dragon Age: Inquisition – Game of the Year (physical) edition exists, yet, I can’t seem to find it anywhere 😮
Shame too. I’ve been watching Cutie play it, and it looks really fun!
AND i finish uni next week, so have a bunch of free time also :S
Just took on the Reaper.
I think I won? I’m kind of confused right now.
Wait until round 2 tomorrow.
Thinking of retracting that win. I mean with the ghost chilli jerky, I could feel it afterwards, like there were some glowing embers sitting in my stomach. But this is more like a couple of hot coals. And it’s still going even now, despite sending a glass of milk down to try and cool things.
Nor do the wind and the sun and the rain
We could be like they are
Come on baby
Dont fear the reaper
Stomach still feels like it’s harbouring magma. Maybe time for some mylanta or something.
Oh crap I’ve gotta be up early tomorrow.
This is how I’m imagining your night:
Reaper schmeaper! Don’t see what all the fuss is about
…
Not sure I won, starting to have my doubts. It is a bit warm.
…
OHMYGODOHMYGODSOMEONEHELPMEQUENCHTHISFIREINSIDEME
Milk? Peppermint tea? Big tub of chobani?
Had already had a few glasses of milk, only offered temporary relief 😛
It seemed to have subsided by the time I woke up this morning, so yay.
SUBTERFUGE UPDATE
What’s Mine is Mine, What’s @trjn’s is a mine, and what’s @blaghman’s is about to be @beeawwb’s.
I have a mine and fuck all else. My starting position had no factories and most of the factories nearby were closer to other people.
As for Blaghs, well, I think Freeze may claim most of it before B-ob gets there.
@freezespreston is a non issue. I regret immensely focusing any attention to the gnat that was his attack against me.
B-ob’s army has the capacity to crush everyone, if we don’t do something about it. Of course, I would say that, he’s going to take two of my factories, and have easy access to another five outposts of mine that he’ll have pretty decent odds of taking. Which would basically just leave my bones to be picked apart by whoever’s the most opportunistic.
I can’t touch him from my side.
Mostly this comment existed so I could whinge.
And degrade Freeze.
I’m having so much fun playing this character that is me.
My entire gameplan is simple: curl up in a ball.
Dying may or may not happen. I’m leaning towards the former.
I have a few rules to follow: Always be honest, but overstate the truth a little. Melodrama is fun, as is failing to throw a kink into someone else’s carefully laid plan. If all else fails, retreat all units to a single point and build a mine.
I’m just hoping that everyone else presents a juicier target than I do.
@trjn so what you’re saying is your area is full of easy resources just waiting to be claimed?
@freezespreston What I’m saying is that my area is full of not very much and you should focus your efforts on people you can actually get something from.
@trjn like Blaghs?
@redartifice Like Blaghs!
Hey @blaghman, how’s the underside of that bus?
@trjn
Ehh, not too bad. I mean, yeah, I’m vulnerable at the moment, but do you really want my land? It’s spread out, there’s a whopping great gap in the middle, so it’s a pain to control.
Would be much easier if three people all took their own share of it for themsel- CRAP.
@blaghman I did send you a couple dudes back, did they help?
@redartifice
They’re too far away from anything to help! This is why the Blempire sucks!
The Blempire will pay for its insults.
@freezespreston
What are you going to do, suicide more units into me?
I for one welcome our new mutton chopped overlords.
It’s been AGES since I visited the Land of TAY – I hope all of its regular denizens are well. 🙂
Quick question to throw out to you folk – can Australian’s boot-up and Live Stream on YouTube from our PS4’s yet? Following a general video instructional guide seems to highlight options I don’t have in my ‘broadcast settings’ on my dashboard to be able to do this.
Oh hey, mine production in Subterfuge is based on the amount of outposts you control. I’m boned.
Everyones playing all these new fangled games, and i’m still sitting here thinking how fecking amazing Skyrim is…
That’s basically me and XCOM/LoL right now, but mainly XCOM, as I just started playing Enemy Within, and it’s made the game just hundreds of times better.
Edit: And now that I’ve been introduced to something diabolical called the Long War mod, I might be playing it for a lot longer
I seriously got Skyrim sooo much later than everyone else.
I seriously didn’t expect to be so pulled in by it.. i can’t even remeber what the main quest is meant to be, i’ve been doing that many side quests.
I just defeated the bad-ass mage in Labrinthe (or however you spell it) as part of the mage guid quest. Man, that was a hard-ass dungeon!
But now i have a ghost sword!!
A MOTHER LOVIN GHOST SWORD!
I installed Skyrim this year and gave it a bash, sad to say I actually got bored of it. I think it’s got to do with the combat, it didn’t feel as satisfying as I was expecting, I don’t know really. I was going a sort of Magic swordsman style of high elf (Altmer), so I was skilling myself up in shield and sword but before that I zap the heck out of them.
I found the combo of magic and swords to be really unfulfilling, so I switched to a ranger style character (which I was trying to avoid as I played that a tonne in Oblivion) and ended up putting something like 200+ hours into the game with just that character.
I’ve also done another 150+ as a sword and shield warrior which…honestly, if you get your shield to 100 you become a god. You can literally block anything, and running into enemies knocks them over.
I think I’ve put about 60 into it as a pure magic user, too. Good fun, but can be much harder than the other options early on.
Just you talking about it made me reinstall XCOM the other night.
I’m already on the cusp of losing Europe with no periodic saves.
Excellent. My imminent failure sets up XCOM 2 nicely.
I almost lost France last night, luckily for me I had a spare satellite lying around :D. One thing I’m going to be doing is have a soldier that wears one of the full helmets under Customisation, and make it like it’s an AI controlled body and that it’s me directly leading the charge as Tech Knight itself, but since the models can be injured I have multiple copies, I’ll make them all the same class so it at least makes sense, haha. 🙂
Though next time the panic goes to 5 I might not be so lucky cuz I don’t have enough engineers to make another satellite uplink/nexus yet and I don’t have enough Engineers to make another Workshop either… hopefully I can hold out until I get more engineers :/
And Transient… if you haven’t seen the Long War mod yet… unless you value your life, check it out, so much is added 😛
I gave up on the entirety of Asia in mine. India dropped out really early, and I decided to just write off the whole continent and focus on the others.
I try to defend them all with everything I’ve got… who else would give me money?! 😛
I think I’ve kind of stuffed myself by intentionally not progressing the storyline.
In my previous playthrough I wiped my whole squad by rushing straight to the base assault and getting eaten alive by a rush of chryssalids. I didn’t have a single save for that playthrough, and when my rookie squad got torn apart during the next abduction I basically ragequit for a while. This time I am already constructing satellite nexuses and have nearly run out of research options, and haven’t captured my first alien yet. I was hoping by not progressing the story arc I would slow down the escalation of the abductions, but having gotten jumped by 3 Muton squads in the latest one, I found that I was mistaken.Not rushing is good, just don’t take too long, research what you need to upgrade your troops’ base damage and defence, max out your squad size if you can, then just go.
When I finished it last time, I waited until I had carapace armour and laser weapons as well as 6 man squads unlocked, you’ll have enough firepower so long as you don’t rush it, the moment one group triggers, do not move further forward, at least then you have a better chance of not being bumrushed. I almost did when three chryssallids show up right next to my assault. Lucky for me I had two snipers (Due to squad sight) and a heavy in range to help take them down before they ate my assault, and with the bonus damage from the laser weapons, two go down, but one remained. My Assault was high enough level to use rapid fire, which fires the gun twice, and since he was in near point blank range, hit chance was near 100%. If I didn’t have that beforehand I would’ve gotten slaughteredThat’s OK, when fallout 4 comes out I’ve got an agreement that I can play it on my wife’s PC while she plays skyrim on mine.
The human mind is a strange and contrary thing, I think, as I analyze my own mind’s response to drowning in work.
Current favoured coping strategy? Paralysis, apparently. Let’s pretend we’re not drowning and do something else and let things get worse? First class thinking, brain. Good work. Give yourself a raise.
Really looking forward to those other coping strategies you’re working on, too, brain… I hear crotchety, alienating aggression and complaining are really exciting new initiatives; can’t wait to see them in the field.
Have you tried getting good?
Mainstream bandwagon-jumping? We like to innovate here, Mr Preston.
We are, after all, defined by our challenges – and without challenges we’d be lacking in definition, all flabby.
Yes! They may be artificial, self-inflicted challenges, but challenges nonetheless.
So, no.
Yeah, nah.
Dude, call a help service.
But that’s admitting defeat, something @transientmind would never do.
No, it really isn’t admitting defeat. It’s admitting that right now, it’s best to talk about it with someone.
I know this was partially in jest, but the idea that seeking mental health help is “admitting defeat” is… not great.
I thought you meant help desk as in at work to help with the too much work problem 😉
And I should have been clearer in my original post, so I’ll clarify:
@transientmind, if you are having weird stress related brain stuff, call a mental health help service.
Maybe ‘not great’, but I expect @liondrive was insightful on that point even if talking about mental health and not a workload helpdesk.
NEVER ADMIT DEFEAT!
GO DOWN SCREAMING IGNORANCE! >:D
When did you steal my brain?
Well that’s a bit lame. The Low Rider DLC for GTA V is strictly online only content and isn’t in story mode 🙁 all story mode got was a new gun, machete & some gun skins it seems.
Yeah, they’re really doubling-down on the GTA:O thing, it’s the direction they wanna go. I strongly doubt we’ll ever see some Ballad of Gay Tony/Lost and the Damned style expansions, which is a shame.
Yeah, I never really got into GTA Online, since I don’t really have the time available to invest in doing heists etc.. Which sucks, but you get that.
It really does look like we won’t get another expansion to expand on story mode 🙁
@beeawwb Rude.
Edit: Retracted. For now.
Wohlwend?
There were significant numbers directed at Raven. They have since disappeared.
Raven?
Ballsy,
It’s fun seeing this all unfold just close enough to see without it being close enough to wreck my shit.
I was using my lunch break to keep you on your toes. Then the app crashed and committed the order. I got back with 3 ,minutes left to cancel it.
Given how much fun we’re having with it, I highly recommend the rest of you here give Subterfuge a try
http://subterfuge-game.com/
I’m sure it will culminate with @blaghman socking @beeawwb in the jaw on sight at PAX, but dear god is the journey fun.
I would like to ensure that everyone knows that I’m choosing to go with a certain type of diplomacy here, known as “being loud and obnoxious about anything that doesn’t go perfectly in my favour” and that I do in fact understand that it’s a game, and I am having fun. I am having fun being loud and obnoxious, the first of which is new for me.
Blaghman’s strategic advisor: http://tinyurl.com/q24h9xf
Hm. Gave it a lookie-lou. I’ve got quite a few games in my Steam library in whatever that genre’s called. I’m terrible at all of them. How do we join in to fall on our swords?
This is more of a straight up territory control than a 4X. The kicker seems to be that because actions take such a long time, you get a lot of time to shit your pants and hope someone doesn’t screw you.
You can join public games with strangers or try forming another private game with TAYbies. I’m sure it’s possible to play more than one game at once.
If you’re L2 you can play multiple games and start private games.
This is what I’m loving the most. The “real time” aspect of committing orders and waiting to see how they play out.
That’s because the orders you’re issuing happen to make other people shit their pants.
Shhh. Logic. Facts. Etc.
Other question for Subterfugers is how often you find yourselves needing to check your phone?
I’m not sure about needing to, but I’m checking it every 5 minutes, despite actions taking about 10 hours to complete.
Ten… REAL hours? I thought that was working off accelerated time.
Nope. There’s shit I’ve queued up now that will be done on Saturday.
*checks glut of all outgoing weak sub expeditions committed to rapid early expansion*
Mm. Excellent. I have another… 18hrs to marinate in the sinking realization of my bad decisions.
WHO WOULD DO THIS TO THEMSELVES?!
(Edit: I mean, apart from me. Right now. And the next 18hrs.)
FWIW, every other bugger is probably similarly panicking.
Well maybe you’re panicking, but I’m not.
*screams internally*
Could be worse.
You could be playing Kantai Collection.
Neg, this thing is so in your wheelhouse. You and Transient and @jocon should start a game
@redartifice: I have a Windows Phone.
@redartifice: also from a look at the site, it doesn’t even look remotely like it’d be in my ‘wheelhouse’. I don’t even think it would be in my bilges.
I think the need is twice a day, but The want is every 10 mins for me.
@redartifice re: subterfuge.
Ok. Looks like fun.
Doo eet.
I’m not sure I have the mental capacity to participate in two games at once, but between you and @transientmind and anyone who comes out of the woodwork you could get a second game running. Failing that, I’m sure after this game is over there’ll be takers for another TAY game.
I flinched and bought L2 so I can start a new private game as well if needed.
Yeah L2 is awesome like that. but 2 games at once is crazy. I keep getting mixed up
SO MANY QUEUED ACTIONS
For me it’s less about the queued actions but the ability to theoretically queue those actions. So “if I do this, and then this, I could do this and this and then this and follow with this…. OR…….” It was annoying hitting the limit.
interestingly, it looks like I was only able to queue 1 action because the “can’t cancel future orders” bug was queuing up orders that weren’t showing and couldn’t be cancelled. I found that out when I upgraded to L2 and suddenly found a whole heap of orders that I’d thought about and decided against.
I’m game whenever. Who else is, and not already involved in the TAY forerunner?
Do we need to know what we’re doing? If not… I’m game.
Yeah, there’s a series of short mechanics-based tutorials that you can’t actually join a game until you do them. Anything more involved than that, who knows?
Perfect, I’m in.
If this goes anything like my normal games of Risk, you guys BETTER WATCH OUT!!!!
… because I will be curled up in a ball in the corner, hoping no one decides to take me out.
Those of us currently playing don’t.
Finished watching Blue Mountain State yesterday since I was off sick. Neat show. Felt like the ending was a bit meh at first but it grew on me.
The upcoming kickstarted movie should be interesting.
FInished the final Life is Strange episode last night. It was pretty decent, though I think I would have liked it to end differently.
Spoilers for Life is Strange episode 5:
So I sacrificed Chloe to save Arcadia Bay. It wasn’t really much of a choice for me. I like Chloe well enough, but against the combination of Warren, Kate, Victoria and some of the others she doesn’t really compare. It actually would have been a tougher choice for me if it had been Warren or Kate I had to choose to sacrifice.When I did pick that ending I actually thought there was going to be a twist of Max being the one to die. That she’d realise she could safe both Chloe and Arcadia Bay if she stepped out from behind the wall and got shot by Nathan.
I did feel the ending was a little cliche, both in the choice you had to make and the outcome. I would have liked to see them do something other than the obvious best friend has to die and everything gets looped back to the start thing. I mean I didn’t hate it, since Max is alive and so is everyone else, I just expected a bit more. I also don’t really like how obvious they made the ending at the start of the episode, with one of Max’s diary entires talking about a Star Trek episode where the same basic thing happened. The series was generally good at foreshadowing but not shoving things in your face so there were still surprises. The whole thing with Jefferson for example. The Star Trek thing was a bit too obvious though.
I acutally really wanted it to end around the diner scene during the storm, with Max making the choice not to go back to the night before using Warren’s photo. The characters would have just hunkered down and tried to survive the storm, and the following day whoever survived was alive, and whoever was dead was dead.
I also suspected it to be revealed that Rachel Amber had time powers too, and that’s why she was so popular with people. There’s a line in the last episode about Max needing to learn the lesson Rachel didn’t, which could kind of imply it. I would have liked a real confirmation or denial though, or at the least heavier hints one way or the other.
No wonder games retailers are suffering. Shovel Knight PC version – 20 USD on Steam, $40 through JB Hi Fi.
= $28 AUD, add the 10% GST and it’s $31. Not that much of a markup for a physical copy vs digital.
Also a lot of the time right now it’s the other way around.
Eh I don’t get buying physical copies. It seems a bit silly paying a 25% markup just so I can hold it in my hands, given you’re probably going to have to download a massive update as soon as you install it anyway. My gaming rig doesn’t even have an optical drive.
I’m going to posit that the target market for shovel knight physical copies like 9-12 months after the game released probably will pay the extra $9 for it.
I don’t know how it works… all the JB stuff says the xbox/ps/ds/pc copies are on pre-order, so maybe the physical copies are just being shipped at the same time as the console ones?
*waves*
That reminds me… I saw a $50 gift card for Steam wallet in Coles the other day. Out of curiosity, I grabbed one and added it to my account. Was wondering how it would handle the exchange.
You get a message box pop up telling you that the currency you bought the card in needs to be converted to US dollars, and that Steam has calculated this for you based on market prices.
I think I ended up with something around $37USD for the $50AU card.
That’s not too bad?
Yeah. Not quite up to the exchange rate at the time, but pretty damn close to what it would’ve been at some point in the week, so not too bad.
About AU$1 extra, then. Not bad.
Yeah, try getting that kind of cut in an airport.
I should probably add some cash via PayPal and see how it compares.
That’s really odd, given that the Steam cards in EB are apparently for USD but you pay the AUD markup at the register.
E.g.: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPGGhUfUwAAWZJs.jpg
It was pointed out to me when I posted this on twitter that based on the exchange rate that day, these cards actually represented quite good value.
Yeah EB sell Steam credit in USD which is then converted to AUD. Also remember EB is owned by a US company, so that might have something to do with it, but I highly doubt it.
This is bloody ridiculous. I have my personal phone, iPad, and work phone all sitting next to me on the bed, and they’re all giving me notifications at the same time for Subterfuge.
Well, maybe you should just stop playing. Turn your army into a gift for me. You’ll be fine. It’ll be fun.
I don’t have an army. No idea what you’re talking about.
Because I can’t queue up hires, the most efficient way for me to defend myself from you involves me getting up at 3AM. I hope you’re fucking happy.
Yes you can.
Well it sure as shit didn’t work last time I tried to. I queued it up, accepted that I couldn’t finalise it, and when I woke up nothing had been hired.
Was there someone that wanted the Bravely Default CE goodies? Statue and Artbook? I feel like there was. I really need to be rid of it ASAP as it takes a ton of space I don’t have.
Ditto Borderlands 2’s stupid plastic chest thing. That’s going to hit the bin if no one wants it, ditto the bobblehead that came with it.
Jimu?
@jimu owns the BD CE already as far as I know.
Check out @PstiDrdn’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/PstiDrdn/status/656749914580369408?s=09
@negativezero
Special thanks to @blaghman for hooking me up, perhaps he’s keen?
Nah, I have enough crap taking up space, thanks for the thought though, Jimujimmles.
Ily
Lesser-Than-Three
Useless plastic statues to fill my lounge room beyond the point where theres too many?
I’m in.
Uh, for the Bravely Default stuff that is. Already have the Loot Chest and never touched anything in it.
Want me to throw in some anime girls in bikinis? Because I can’t get rid of those. 😛
Uh, sure?
What do you want for things?
For the Bravely Default stuff? Honestly I want to be rid of it. The art book is really nice but I have the full-size design works so it’s redundant. Statue sucks. So if you pay postage it’s yours.
For the anime figures it depends on which but not a whole lot. Issue is they’re loose – long since discarded the boxes – so if you want any you have to be willing to run the risk they get damaged by AusPost being cretins.
Or I could get them off you next weekend?
All of it? Sure.
EDIT: Logistics of the transfer may be tricky though?
EDIT EDIT: Want Bravely Default the game as well? AU copy. I’ve finished it 100% and doubt I’d replay it, good as it is.
I’ve had the game since release, just haven’t got around to playing it yet. Everytime I turn on the 3DS Theatrythym is in it and I get distracted.
How big is the loot chest? How holdy of things is it?
Not that big. I think it got scaled down from the size it was originally designed for actually.
Spent the day in at… work? Though I don’t know if I can call it work since I’m not actually employed there yet? Whatever. Just sitting there going through everything with my predecessor so that I’m up to speed with what needs to be done, though most of it was just going over stuff I already know how to do.
Not Actually Italian Girl seemed to keep looking over every time she walked past. Probably trying to figure how who this weird scruffy person is and why they seem so familiar 😛 Plenty of surprised reactions from others too. Both that I’m there, and the altered appearance.
I bet they think you look more ruggedly handsome and authoritative now that you have a beard.
Will have to further gauge reactions upon returning from Melbourne with a shaven head to compliment it 😛
Well, this is just disappointing. I have a bunch of lovely little pictures all ready to be ironed onto a t-shirt, but I just can’t get the backing paper off. I think this sheet must be a bit old 🙁
I feel like we’ve hit a point in Subterfuge where everyone wants to make mines. I also feel like those mines make it super tempting for everything to devolve into all out war.
Everyone, go fight each other. I’ll sit back and wait to pick up the scraps.
Hey, non-Subterfuge people, how’s it hanging?
Did you do something with your hair? It looks nice.
Feels like the LoL days all over again, though there was a lot more general conversation back then for it to interrupt.
Well thank you for noticing, I didn’t think anyone was going to. 🙂
The hair? It’s pretty obvious, though I’ll admit I usually get lost in everyone’s eyes before I notice the protein strands growing out the top of their head.
I’m getting places with Elsa. I’m not too happy with how it’s turned out although everyone says it’s fine D=
Here’s the question though, are they saying that it’s fine, or are they saying that it’s fiiiiiine.
Namsayin?
You tell me.
https://scontent.fmel1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/12140837_1016794668340547_3054428585666489256_n.jpg?oh=586864743a4cb6c14e6eb6653e73d917&oe=56C4728C
Let’s roll with the latter. *sunglasses descend from the heavens onto my face*
*I start rolling back on my chair*
*Sunglasses bounce into my glasses and both fall off my face as I deteriorate into an incoherent pile of swearing*
*writes down incoherent swearing as an answer to the question*
I should just interpret this how I want to, right?
Well, my actual answer more or less equates to “fiiiiine” (like a fiiiiiiiine wine, or a fiiiiiine pair of… tracts of land), so it’s a positive. Chillaxerino.
Looks great. What don’t you like about it? 😛
it’s too short. The bunching on the yoke. The fact that the dye at the bottom seems to have faded. The sequins are losing colour again at stress points.
I just hate what I make.
Unrelatedly, but replying to myself for easy wheelchair access, I’ve played a bit of Zesty Tales. The combat feels muddy and I’m not sure if I have any idea what I’m doing, the character models are nice, but the environments seem to have the geometric complexity of an original xbox game. But I’ll hopefully keep playing, since I have a few weeks until- WHAT’S THAT, A NEW ASSCREED THAT IS GONNA BE WET HOT SHIT? I’M IN LIKE SIN!
Oooh zesty. Curious but I haven’t Tales’d in quite a while.
I’ve never played a Tales game before, so I’m afraid I can’t give you any useful comparisons.
I can say that I’d recommend avoiding the dub like the plague, because I accidentally started it in English mode earlier and I sort of felt like stabbing my ears (it’s not that bad, just suuuuuuuper generic, which I don’t notice as much when I don’t understand the language).
Just as well this is the first new Tales to be dual audio!
I still have no idea what subterfuge is and at this point i’m too afraid to ask.
Is this thing on?
Heellllooooo TAAAAYYYYYY!!!
Anyone want a copy of Remember Me on steam? I have a spare code from the Capcom bundle.
I’m not on TAY so much so let me know on steam or twitter.
I did enjoy that game. Never finished it
An inmate promised a female guard, “If you help me escape, I’ll marry you.” This is an example of using a proposition to end a sentence with.
#Page6Get
best get
Ironic that you ended that sentence with a preposition! Love your work! 😉
So, looks like the EB listing for the Halo 5 super mega ultra collector’s edition now has a physical copy of the game listed, rather than the digital copy that’s been seen until now. Weird, but an improvement.
Like, what the hell was the point of including a Steelbook case with no disc?
Initial GH impressions: seems pretty good. The new guitar is fun, I’m only playing on Regular (the middle of the five difficulties) at the moment but I had a go at Advanced, and it was pretty tough. Might take a while before I work my way up to that.
My brain seems to be convinced that white should be the top row, and black should be the bottom. So I need to try and pay more attention to the shape rather than colour. Also, I hate the new highway. The vertical notes are so hard to read, in terms of the timing, everything that falls on the bar lines is pretty much fine, but anything off the beat is really hard to place. The old highway was much better, every note was pretty clear from its position whether it was (to dip into the American terminology since it makes more sense here) on the half, quarter, sixteenth etc at a glance, so even playing a song you were completely unfamiliar with you could read the chart as it’s rolling down and ace it just fine. Having a lot of trouble doing that here, which I really need to do since I don’t know any of these songs. Think my calibration’s a little off though, so that’s likely factoring into things too.
So yeah, a little bit love-hate at the moment. But mostly I’m liking it so far.
I had no idea Sword Coast Legends was coming to console this Christmas!
It will be a merry one!
Board games? Board games! BOARD GAMES!
Essenspiele, a big board gaming convention in Germany, has been and gone. Now all the shiny new games are starting to trickle out into the non-Teutonic world.
The store I go to had a few people at Essen and are going to have some of the hot new titles show up very soon. I kind of just want to go buy all of them. Mostly I’m hoping a few of those games will end up in their board game library so that I can check them out.
Welp, today can go fuck itself sideways and I’ve only been out of bed for 90 minutes. 🙁
I rang my phone provider to complain that I had a bad phone line as I could hear the sound of running water. They told me it was likely that my line had been tapped.
#DadJokePage6
Me: I’ve got a job in a bowling alley.
Friend: Tenpin?
Me: No, it’s permanent.
Saw a strange story on TV last night about a raisin that had cheated in his wife.
It was on A Current Affair
I used to be in a band called Vodafone but we kept breaking up.
This was worth trawling back for
Tripped over my wife’s bra this morning…Bloody booby traps!
My mate hates it when I put his chocolate bars in different wrappers…..
He gets his Snickers in a Twix.
And the Lord said unto John, “Come forth and you will receive eternal life.”
But John came fifth, and won a toaster.
Whoever stole my shoes whilst I was on the bouncy castle needs to grow up.
What do you call a snobbish prisoner walking down the stairs?
A condescending con descendingIn the 300s the Roman Empire was cut in half… with a pair of Caesars.
What do you call a camel with no humps?
Humphrey.My GF woke up this morning with a massive smile on her face.
I love felt tips.
I came back from the dentist this morning and my GF asked “Does your tooth still hurt?”
I said “I don’t know. The dentist kept it.”
Some people call me immature but I just recently finished a 700 page book in only 4 days. I really love coloring in.
I had someone say to me “Who is the chinese president”
No, Hu was the last one, Xi is the current one #dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeSo while I still like Subterfuge overall, I’m starting to feel like I’m investing too much time in the game and not getting much out of it. You could make the argument that I can check it less often, but then you have a substantial chance of being left behind if your enemy is micromanaging and you aren’t.
There’s also the wonderful thought of “the better you do, the more you’re limiting the enjoyment of your friends”. For example, a couple of days ago I could have torn 2 people apart and most likely killed their queen…but (after looking it up and finding out that would take them out) I didn’t (and don’t) want to force someone out of a game. My personal view has always been that games that don’t give players the opportunity to fight to the bitter end are never going to be as good as ones that do. As an example, I could be losing a Rocket League match 4-0 but if I can get a single goal before the end I’ll consider it a successful loss.
As an aside, how many people did any prep work/learning before playing? I’ve done none, and so far it’s made things far more interesting. I think we were 3 days in before I was told you could schedule actions…
Despite the fact that I’m checking Subterfuge a lot, I’m actually not doing much in game nor do I expect to. I’m doing it because it’s interesting, not because I’m worried that I’ll fall behind if I don’t. Admittedly, that’s because I’m in a super defensive position with specialists that are only useful from a defensive point of view.
As for knocking people out of the game, that’s how the game is won. I’m treating this like any other board game: what happens in the game stays in the game. Someone does a dick move? Well, it only matters in the context of the game. Got kicked out of the game? Time to move on.
No prep done here. I picked up quite a lot of what to do very early on. It’s a pretty simple game and I think the gameplay itself matters far less than the diplomacy. Especially with the ridiculous times it takes for actions to do anything.
I’m not saying that I’m worried if I knock out someone that they’ll hold it against me. Frankly, I don’t care; their grudge is not my problem. What I am saying is that games that count on you removing people before the finish aren’t as good as ones that keep the fight going.
Fun fact: one of the people was you. I could have raced in and taken an outpost while you were gifting to it, landed before the gift, picked it up, and slammed like 85 drillers into your queen (heh) when all you had was your shields (before before they were buffed) and your other drillers were all outgoing and wouldn’t have had time to respond. And then you could go sit in the corner and watch everyone else play…which…yeah, screw that.
Player elimination isn’t inherently bad. When you’re playing a board game that takes a few hours, it sucks because that person has nothing to do. When you’re playing an online game, it just means they can go do something else.
Oh and you couldn’t’ve taken me out of the game. I knew you had forces near me and was ready to pull my queen back to a stronger position (which would’ve bought me the time to do the shield buff thing). It’d have set me back but I’d still be in the game. Because you didn’t, I got to centralise my forces around my queen instead of moving her to a different position.
I didn’t say it’s inherently bad, I said I don’t like it. If other people are ok with it that’s no concern of mine.
Also, I’m talking about well before you hired the security guy, let alone promoted him…and your queen running was already predicted and planned for. But it’s pointless to try and theorycraft this sort of thing, so let’s say that right before I take you out you set up a counter-attack that could save you and then all our subs break because we made the entire fronts of them out of fucking glass.
My plan was to take only my queen and ship her to the other edge of my territory. My remaining forces should have blunted your attack enough for you to stop chasing without overcommitting and letting someone like Chris or BDKIAF crush you.
I’d have been royally boned but you wouldn’t’ve been able to take me out of the game. I’m pretty sure of that.
Yeah, but I’m pretty sure you’d have been steamrolled from several directions. Like I said, it’s pointless to try and theorycraft this sort of thing.
Only if everyone else was as keen to destroy me as you were :p
I know it’s pointless but now that there’s no way in hell that this could happen, it’s fun to say what else could’ve happened.
I did the 11 tutorials and skimmed the rulebook.
I have set my own victory conditions, one of which I have achieved thus far which is nice
One of my own victory conditions is “don’t be the first to lose”. So far, it’s looking possible. I’ll take possible.
I’ve skimmed the rulebook and still haven’t done the tutorials 😛
I did the first two tutorials and didn’t realise there was a rulebook. Didn’t realise the factories produced drillers until the second day.
If you knock someone out you knock someone out. I don’t think anyone playing would be upset about it beyond you did it before they could. Not like it’s a game we’re all sitting around a table doing nothing but.
Also I don’t think it’s as easy to knock someone out as you think. Home base needs at least 30 drillers just to get through shields not including garrison and specialists. You’d need 60-70 attacking and hope they don’t reinforce it further which is easy to do as it’s surrounded by reinforcements and you’ve got a long way to go.
Well, bob’s doing his best to wipe out Blaghman so
Has wiped me out, actually. The timeline just hasn’t caught up yet. Amazing what 122 troops can do when the game chooses not to push me a notification that more troops were sent.
I’ve got sooo much work to do that’s it’s so overwhelming.
So to celebrate – let’s play a game we haven’t played in a loooong time!
THE IN MY ASS GAME!!! WOO!!
You know the rules – the title of the last song you listened to with “in my ass” added to the end!
I’ll kick it off!
Drink Beer Destroy in my ass
Rosetta stoned in my ass.
Oh my.
aka Tool in your ass! 😉
It could’ve been stinkfist.
It could have been:
10,000 days in my ass
Hooker with a Penis in my ass
Jimmy in my ass
Pushit in my ass
Third Eye in my ass
Ticks and Leeches in my ass
Jerk-Off in my ass
Maynard’s Dick in my ass
Run to Paradise in my ass
To Her Door in my ass.
Warriors in my ass
If Guitar Hero Live counts, then Tragedy+Time in my ass. If not, then can’t remember what the last song I listened to is.
Untouchable in my ass.
Damn right.
best
Maybe in my ass :S
That’s not a no!
\o/
‘Maybe’ is the coward’s ‘no’!
I learnt growing up everytime my parents said maybe it meant no.
Maybe = No
We’ll see = yes
Rolling Off The Stone in my ass
God Wrapped In Plastic in my ass.
I.. Uh… Hmm.
At least you gave him some protection.
Good guy Freeze
oh dear, oh dear oh dear oh dear. It’s you lucky day Loops
You’ve got another thing comin’ in my assWake Up in my ass.
That doesn’t sound comfortable for anyone involved.
Making Plans For Nigel in my ass.
Oh bloody hell.
Pets in my ass.
I expect that one day I will be quoted on this, out of context.
How can I sing like a girl in my ass
eeeyup
According to my phone, Man on the Rocks in my ass.
But according to my PC, Bury It in my ass.
Raise it up in my ass.
Bonetrousle in my ass.
Tonight: Pizza. NRC semifinal (go Melbourne Rising!!!) on the telly. Destiny, hopefully doing an Atheon run for the No Time To Explain quest step. Early-ish night.
Tomorrow: get married.
Sunday: Hangover.
Three weeks off work including PAX and South East Asia.
So quiet weekend then.
(Congrats man)
Quieter than usual – nothing planned for Sunday… 😉
Thanks!
What the hell is the NRC. How many bloody comps do they need.
Congrats on pending nuptials, my advice is to take the day as it comes and don’t stress the minor details. Don’t stress if somebody doesn’t turn up (unless it is the bride) and enjoy the day. Too many people end up stressing the whole time and end up wishing the could have enjoyed the day more. Remember the bridal party is there to sort out problems so you don’t have to.
May the hangover be mild and gone quickly
NRC is the National Rugby Championship. First grade national championship, sits between the Super Rugby and the state competitions. Second year of the comp. It was needed as too big a gap between Super Rugby and state, and all NRC teams are made of a max number of Super Rugby players who aren’t needed for international duty, and the rest state players (who if good/lucky may get a Super Rugby gig). Good laugh too, high scoring games. Melbourne won every regular season game last year then got thumped in the semi-final, so hoping we go a bit better this year… 🙂
Thanks for kind words. We’re not stressed, it’s second time round for both of us. It’s in our local pub, our celebrant is an Elvis impersonator, the cake has LEGO zombies and the cake topper has an armed wedding couple. The toasts are vodka jelly shots. There’s no bridal party as such, just a couple of mates who have agreed to “sort shit out if anything fucks up”. The booze and food are sorted (it’s a pub!). Big party. Sorted.
Congrats mate!
A couple of the guys from my club play for the Sydney NRC side. It’s a pretty cool comp – apparently they were thinking of using it as a trial platform for rule changes to see how they worked before rolling them out to Super Rugby. I think they were considering dropping penalties and field goals to 2 points at one stage.
Cheers!
Cool – Melbourne played Sydney Stars last Sunday afternoon. Lovely day for a rugby match even if it was in Frankston… Yes, that’s exactly what they’re using it for. Some minor tweaks that I really like, for example if a line-out isn’t straight, they don’t call it if the defending side doesn’t jump. Also if a penalty is called, the ball is not dead until after the line-out is played if a kick to touch is played (so if time is up between the penalty being awarded and the ball landing in touch, the game is not over…). I reckon either of these could easily be adopted in the wider game.
Biggie is 5 points try, 3 points conversion, 2 points drop goal or penalty goal. I think they should leave all goals at 3 points (including conversions). Dropping the field goals has slightly tipped the balance too far. I’ve seen 4 penalties and one drop goal kicked in 2 seasons…
On the whole it’s been a fun competition to watch!
First reviews of Assassins Creed: Syndicate are pretty positive…
What does a rabbit do after its legs have been cut off?
It goes “stump, stump”.
ಠ_ಠ
Crazyguy just became CrazyNumberonesuspect
So I’ve managed to finish the final case for Ace Attorney: Phoenix Wright on the DS, including the DS exclusive case. Wow what a game, I was so proven wrong about the idea of playing a defense attorney in a video game sounding boring… though now I think I’ve developed unrealistic expectations about the court system in the real world, not even close to being as epic I’m guessing 😛
But yeah, absolutely loved it, though I really felt bad for Edgeworth in that game, he’s a pretty cool character 🙁
The best news is you’ve got like 4 more main-series games, a spin-off and a new game (hopefully) coming out next year still left to play!
cc @shane!
Whee!
Sadly I think just this is enough for me, as the last case really drained my brain and I need to recharge it. It’s a great game, but I don’t think I’d want to do another, the experience was a great eye opener though
So damn good.
Best line in the first case:
“So what have you got to say to that Mr. Seenit… or should I say Mr Diddit!”Well, Its all happening now.
Just booked leave to register with the consulate and booked my leave for january.
Exciting times.
Are you heading off somewhere to build another friggin’ mine?
Phrasing?
nope – getting married 🙂
I know, I just saw an opportunity to complain about your progress in Subterfuge 😛
I wouldnt call it progress. I’m thinking its actually painted a target on my back….
In Australia?
British consulate- Chris’ partner is English.
Ah cool. The UK actually has their shit together regarding marriage laws then. Unlike our backwater. 🙁
Contemplated picking up a RB4 guitar bundle to play this weekend. Just got a reminder that it’s $250.
…
Contemplating picking up a GH Live guitar bundle to play this weekend. $129 from JB HiFi. I just wish it was actually RB4…
I had the exact same thought (minus the JB HiFi bit because we don’t have one here). Would love to get the full band kit, but I can’t justify spending $500 on it (even if I had that much money to begin with). Pretty sure it cost me under $350 to import the full kit for the first Rock Band.
Where abouts are you that doesn’t have JB HiFi? I swear like every where else has about a million JB’s apart from Launceston, they don’t have one, nor do they have Dan Murphy’s, talk about worst city ever. lol.
Yeah, we don’t have a Dan Murphy’s either, we’ve got Woolworths Liquor and Liquorland though. I’m in Western Victoria.
Ah right, damn 🙁 Woolies Liquor still exists, I thought they all became BWS lol. Next you’ll tell me Safeway still exists down there 😛
Oh yeah, they did change it to BWS, but it’s right next to Woolworths in the same building. I think they’ve got the Woolworths logo out the front now too, which is great because being from South Australia originally I hated calling it Safeway.
Ah, fair enough.
Yeah never saw Safeway here, I remember as a kid being confused as fuck when I saw Safeway mentioned in the same advert where it tells you this product is available at Woolies & Safeway and i’m all “The shit is Safeway?” then I found out it was a Victorian thing lol.
Gah… increasingly tempted to get a GH bundle. I lost a lot of time to GH in uni, and the new controller looks really cool… also very conscious of how hard it can be to find the controllers later on down the road… This is probably the first game I’m so tempted by based on nostalgia alone, against all reason – I feel I’d be better off just playing Rocksmith’s score attack mode on medium…
Daaamn, that RB4 guitar bundle is a joke. GH Live bundle with twice the guitars for less? Much easier choice.
Exactly. I still don’t get how Harmonix can think it’s an ok price, especially when their direct competition is more than $100 cheaper.
My guess: Mad Catz is going for profit per unit as part of their distribution deal, whereas Activision have subsidised the cost in the hope of making money back through GHTV. Also, Mad Catz hates Australia.
Yeah, I’m assuming Mad Catz is a part of the problem, but are they really expecting to make much profit considering how many people are turned off by the price? This is obviously all speculation on my part, but it just doesn’t seem like it’d work out.
GH is only 109 at Target and Kmart. Helping 😛
Hey guys, how is everyone?
Since I last posted I’ve had some issues with depression, which at one point caused me to delete everyone off my friends list (sorry), and almost accidentally set my car on fire.
What about you guys?
Things for me have been good but busy
Work flat out and getting super hype for PAX (and associated meats)
Sorry to hear things haven’t been good, bud. 🙁
Most of the time I’m ok, but sometimes all the little things just build up and I get majorly depressed for a while.
Just started 2 weeks leave though, so it’s kind of lifted my spirits a bit knowing that I don’t have to do anything for 2 whole weeks.
It’s my 40th birthday next week too, so on one hand I’m happy, because presents, but on the other it’s a bit depressing, because, you know, 40.
It’s just a number, man. No need to freak out. (Easier said than done, I know.) Enjoy your leave! 🙂
*hugs* I just had my 37th old day, so I know the feels man!
Hope things improve a bit with the break. I had a week’s leave last week, and it did do me a lot of good mentally. Unfortunate that I went back to work, and day 2 got sick, but my boss is being totally awesome about the whole thing, so spirits have stayed in tact thankfully. Nice to not be stressing about work the way I used to when I got sick in previous jobs!
Work
I’m sorry to hear that man. Having had a long and grueling battle with depression myself I understand a little of what you’re going through, although of course everyone’s experience is different. I hope you have lots of people around you to be there for you and help you through it. The hardest part I found was asking for help and trying to find the right therapist to help you get through it. You always have us as well 🙂
Best wishes mate!
Thanks man, that means a lot.
Might run a low magic D&D5e campaign for my friends. All magic rolls on the wild magic surge chart 100% of the time! Half the number of available spells/cantrips (rounded down, to a minimum of 1)! Magic use is treated as evil by the public!
But I’ve got to work on it a bit more to make playing a wizard/sorcerer/warlock worth the risks. Maybe some sort of big damage buff since they’ll be hated/shunned/revered. Maybe not 100% rolls on the magic surge chart for them or something. WHO KNOWS. RED etc… suggestions?
Basically I’m going to ‘Warhammer’ magic casting.
Dropping resistances could balance it out? Essentially, if a caster gets past all the risks of using magic in the first place, the benefit is that it’s near-guaranteed to work.
Thumbs up
Well, as a player I’d just play a martial class because 5e is super balanced, so I’d be wary of nerfing it too much then expecting a big uptake.
I’d do it through RP more than systems. @rize’s idea is good though
None of my friends like magic anyway, so I’m not fussed if none of them take magic. At least it will make any magic casters they find more intimidating? At least, that’s the theory I have.
I’m the only dedicated magic caster in our current group after my last character was shit (pre-made from the starter kit) so I made a wizard :\ They’re all battle cleric (“I’m not going to heal”), rangers, assassin rogues, fighters :\
The thing with 5e is that even the martial characters end up getting a bit of magic in them if a player chooses. Arcane tricksters for rogues, spellblades for fighters. It is very balanced though so an all-martial group would be very likely in a low-magic setting.
Further to Rize’s suggestion, you could make it so that all magic attacks roll with advantage and all saving throws against magic roll with disadvantage to make magic quite powerful despite the limitations that you’ve already suggested.
I’d be careful with Wild Magic though. The table is, in my opinion, much more suited to a high fantasy world what with randomly changing colours or summoning unicorns or stuff like that. Are you thinking about a low magic, dangerous setting like Warhammer or a low magic, heroic setting like Lord of the Rings?
Edit: As an aside, how would you run healing? Potions for days or are clerics and divine magic seen as less evil by the peasants?
Potions for dayyyyzzzz, most likely. With maybe a few ‘divine healers’ tolerated by the king/queen/whatever
You probably will want to make your own version of the wild magic chart. The standard one wouldn’t be very low fantasy, it would just be a fucked up world where magic is completely unpredictable and nutty.
For low magic I think you want the effects to be stronger (always rolling advantage, maybe boost all damage die one size?) but rather than it always going crazy, have using it involve significant risk to the character. Concentration checks which if failed cause the spell to rebound on them, for example, possibly with a ratcheting up of chance to fail if they do many casts back to back. Require daily consumption of an addictive substance to enable their ability (ratchet down the number of spells they can use per day as if they were lower and lower levels the longer they go without it, plus other effects). Build a sanity system in, maybe. You want magic to be rare, risky and dangerous to everyone. You’ll also want to potentially allow them more ‘normal’ combat options since you’re going to encourage them not to use magic as much. A caster that’s in a situation where they have no spells safe to use isn’t fun to play.
EDIT: Another idea would be a completely role-playing thing. Draw up a table of ‘compensations’ and have them roll for one at character creation. Whenever they use magic they have an irresistable compulsion to perform that action, whatever it is, before they can use magic again (give it maybe an hour’s cooldown or something, not just once per cast). Make sure there’s a range of actions, from simple like, I dunno, they have to go eat a ton of some specific dish through to something utterly horrible, like if they roll a 1 on a d100 for the compensation chart they have to murder someone every time they use it.
http://warshipstats.com/na/player/AtomicStrawberry my World of Warships stats are starting to look a bit better as I get more games under the belt. Really started to get effective with Furutaka finally. Almost like the ship, though it’s got some big issues. I think recently the thing that’s clicked for me is realizing that while most cruisers are designed for hunting Destroyers, Furutaka isn’t. She’s a cruiser hunter. She’s got enormously powerful guns but the traversal and fire rate is crap against destroyers and if you get close enough to hit a destroyer with torpedoes, they’ve already torpedoed you back.
Still think the Kongo fucking sucks as an aside. Can’t reliably land hits with her like I could with Myogi, the hits never seem to do much damage, and generally it feels shit and I can’t understand why everyone raves about how good a battleship it is.
Had one game in Furutaka last night that I was really happy with. Got into a Tier 7 match on the Strait map, and ended up on the side of the map that had all the tier 7s. Basically charged in and acted as a spotter for my team, lit up an enemy Cleveland a bit but realized I was in too deep when a Kongo and a Nagato both started firing. Dodged a ton of fire, kept angle, pulled back out but not before dropping torps as I retreated which the Kongo didn’t expect since he drove straight into two of them which took off about 2/3 health and made him easy pickings for the BBs on my team. Held back for a bit and put some fire down on a Warspite that was lurking at the back and assisted in sinking an Atlanta and one Destroyer (don’t know if I hit the destroyer but it gave him something to think about!) but the battleships on my team were getting smashed by the enemy Nagato that was spearheading a push. Only Tier 5 in a Tier 7 match so I was pretty much expendable and decided to do a suicide run. Closed in on the Nagato who got freaked out by me charging straight at him and dodging around because he couldn’t land a citadel hit, he got caught on the edge of the map and I dropped torps at him, swung around, dropped torps again. Then he crushed me. But all four of the torpedoes hit home and knocked him down to about 15% health from close to 100%, allowing the team to finish him off. Got 2800 XP from that game despite not sinking a single ship, just because of the damage done.
Long live the Blempire.
The Blempire is dead! Long live the Beeawwpire!
#muttonchoppedoverlords
If I was a betting man, my money is on Chris. He has a better position nestled between a dying empire, a weakened empire, and a small defensive empire, currently has the most outposts, and has 2 active mines.
Beawwb is the most active player right now but Chris is definitely in a winning position.
Cool Ghosts and Eurogamer both Subterfuge recently and there’s definitely a “gang up on the leader” element, like many territory control board games. So just because Chris is winning now doesn’t mean others are going to let that stand.
Ultimately it doesn’t matter what we do. It’s becoming abundantly clear that the only way to get anywhere (or win) in this game is to be a ginger.
Freya’s half-ginger, maybe I should let her take over my game.
Read that as “Blep-pire”, was expecting cat overlords with their tongues poking out slightly.
Anyone going to Supanova in Adelaide?
I’m seriously considering going, would love to meet Peter Mayhew.
Probably not unless someone compels me between now and then
Well that’s interesting..
Just got an email from Woolworths asking if I would like to come to an interview for the local Big W, just I have to go to their Big W store at Pacific Fair for interview which is whatever 20-30 minutes away.. That’s a bit odd, but whatever, i’ll take it!
Good luck man, hope it works out for you.
Cheers dude. I just wanna get back to working, i’m going out of my mind applying for job after job and not getting anywhere lol.
I know what that’s like all too well, was unemployed for about 2 years before I got this job. Keep your chin up man, you’ll get something eventually.
Thanks man, i’m in a very similar boat to your situation, it’s now been 2 years since I got my jobs with both EB Games & Dan Murphy’s. That time flew by fast 😐 haha. I’ve been doing volunteer work since, which ain’t bad, but i’d prefer it paid 😛
This might sound weird but I actually miss the retail work I did at Dan Murphy’s, it was oddly relaxing, I also knew a lot of the customers, so no one was ever actually rude to me apart from bag lady, god she was a bitch lol.
Job-hunted club assemble!
It’s like The Avengers, just with a lot less money right? 😛
And far less effort too.
Oh good, for a moment there I thought I was going to have to do something 😛
Fallout peeps, I want to complete at least one Fallout game before 4 drops, which one would you suggest for a Fallout newbie 3 or New Vegas (I have both). Pretty sure I remember some people saying that you have to have GFWL installed for 3 to even work at all.
New Vegas is my favourite, but I’d just wait until Fallout 4 now to be honest. Otherwise you’ll get too burnt out on that kind of gameplay. Can always go back afterwards and play the others. 🙂
Both work fine, and the difference between the two is mostly a matter of preference. However, I would say that if you like a more serious tone with some weird and fun stuff Fallout 3 is the way to go, whereas Fallout NV is over the top and very zany.
But I’d be careful about burning yourself out before Fallout 4 drops.
Yeah, getting burnt out on playing the same type of game could be a concern, but then again I played Assassin’s Creed I, II, Brotherhood, and about half of Revelations, back to back to back to back before I got burnt out on it.
So did every other Assassin’s Creed fan 😀
No, seriously. I literally played them all one after the other. As soon as I finished one I started on the next one.
I’m apparently really failing at jokes today.
The punchline is that Assassin’s Creed games come out way too quickly.
Well, I love new vegas to pieces, so that.
But unless you feel super compelled, I’d wait for 4 as it’s gonna be super pretty
I think 3 had the better story as an introduction. NV really is an expansion.
Caved and picked up Guitar Hero Live. Got the guitar bundle for $108 so not too bad. The song list looks like I may regret this because, ugh, I’m not 15 years old but see how it goes.
Caved and picked up Guitar Hero Live. Got the guitar bundle for $109 so not too bad. The song list looks like I may regret this because, ugh, I’m not 15 years old but see how it goes.
Uh… Wut? I’m missing something here aren’t I?
I was about to say almost exactly what you did and then your post popped up. So I…re-purposed it.
Ah, right. I think the Subterfuge paranoia is leaking out into real life 😛
I think he’s saying he did the exact same thing as you and feels the exact same way. Only difference is he payed a whole 1 dollar more.
Edit: Beaten to the punch.
Shit, I’m going to the video game store on the way home, aren’t I?
I’m already home, and I get the feeling I’ll be heading out just so I can go to EB on the way home (unless target has it cheaper, if they’re even selling it).
$109 at Target, $150 at EB. My EB price matched Target for me despite no Target here or Target having any PS4 stock left.
Cheers, thanks man.
I could try and think of something witty here, but…
Yeah, ya are.
I just wish it had Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight on the disc.
Honestly, I know little about the track list other than what’s been used to advertise the game. I’m hoping I’ll get some nice surprises along the way (and that’d be a really nice one).
You’re only as young as you feel!
I mean… in terms of maturity, I’m like… 5. Maybe a young 6 year old.
Crap, $109? Screw it. I’ll probably regret it, but if JB tells me AC:Syndicate is ready for pickup on the way home, I’m gonna stop by Target or see if JB will price match. Soundtrack has some decent songs, by the looks of it (at least in the GHTV thing).
I was supposed to go and help my dad sell off stuff from my Grandma’s estate this weekend up in Cardwell, but a matter of minutes before I was about to leave for the airport, I got a call from my sister informing me that dad has had an accident. He’s in Sydney (was visiting his new lady friend in Port Macquarie) and they drove to Sydney so he could fly up to meet me at the airport for the transfer to cairns.
Somebody t-boned them at an intersection, and wrote off dad’s car completely. Dad’s ok bar a bit of chest pain from the seatbelt, but his lady friend has broken bones and lord knows what else at this stage :\
Wasted day of annual leave.. glad dad’s ok though. Don’t need any more family members dying this year. Up to 4 already :\
Shit dude, that sucks, hope there’s nothing more major than a few broken bones. Was the other guy insured?
No idea. She better be though, cos otherwise she’s gonna be in heap big trouble. Dad was driving a $90,000 Mercedes!
/edit duplicate comment. No idea how. Usually it wont let me post my first comment saying it’s a duplicate!
Jeez man, so while @rocketman was banging the Universe Karma’s girlfriend behind its back you were masturbating into the cutlery drawer, right?
What happened to rocketman?
Fuck’s sake, your life man…
lol i know right? Bad shit seems to love my family this year. Thankfully it’s been spread out for once, but damn…
Talk about an epic way to ruin page 6 too. Worst dad joke EVER!
*big hugs*
Hello everyone.
Just thought I’d stop by to say that MGS5 isn’t that great so far after like 15 or so hours.
It’s weird. The stealth mechanics are as good as they’ve ever been. And the game is a technical masterpiece. But why am I so bored playing this?
Because… uhm. I don’t know, you haven’t got D-Dog yet? Or, uhm… haven’t enjoyed the joy of Fultoning?
What’s important is that you’ve admitted you have a problem. It’s the first step to properly rewiring yourself to embrace the cult of MGS5 worship.
I hate it. Bores the shit out of me.
We must now duel to the death. Oh, I know, better… I shall exact revenge by borrowing someone’s copy of Persona then insulting it!
THEN YOU’LL KNOW HOW IT FEELS. *runs away crying*
I’ll stick with my JRPGs, you stick with your sandboxes. Then we can point and laugh at each other’s preferences & how grindy & repetitive the tasks are.
It’s a fantastic stealth game but a completely shit Metal Gear game.
While I haven’t played MGS5, I did play some of Ground Zeroes and found it a bit dull. It could be because I had never played a MGS game before and the controls all seemed confusing, and I left it in my shame pile after a few hours.
I did however read an article on kotaku (I think) which said that you truly begin to enjoy and appreciate MGS5 when you experiment with the different approaches the game presents to you instead of using the same technique for every mission. The point the writer made was that instead of providing a good story, MGS5 gives you so much freedom that you can make your amazing story (about the game). Maybe there lies your problem.
As part of a lead-in to MGS5, I’m playing MGS4 for the first time, and feel the same way. I LOVE the first two and enjoyed MGS3 as well, but all I can find in MGS4 are problems. I’m finding it so dull that I can’t play it for more than about 45 minutes at a time.
It’s because people have different tastes in games. I actually find MGSV to be one of the best games I’ve played. Not just this year, but ever. I love pretty much everything about it. It tickles all my gaming needs and after 110 hours, I’m still loving it.
If you’re bored with it, then I’m guessing it’s just not the game for you. You don’t HAVE to like every game. 🙂
Hahahaha! If you only knew who I was…
Ok, you have me stumped there…
I don’t post on TAY that much anymore.
But everyone who knows me will tell you that I hate basically every game ever made.
Even Superman 64?
If there is a positive out of all this, you didn’t say you hated the game, you just said it ‘…isn’t that great so far…’ Glass half-full I always say 😉
I think I might go have me a little MGSV time.
Sic Semper @blaghman.
May his empire be ever remembered
Remember it as Magnesium. Burning briefly, but oh so *chokes up* so bright.
I feel like we should leave a single factory under his control and let it sit there and grow into a mass of uncontrolled blaghmen.
Sadly I think I need supply for that as well, which ruins all my fun.
send help. I think I’m about to drop $500 on rock band…
For that you could buy a PAX ticket and probably a bus ticket to melbourne for next weekend instead.
So don’t.
Not to mention what Anton would do to me if I did
Sounds erotic.
Don’t do it. If anything, grab Guitar Hero. As things stand right now it’s far better value for money.
EDIT: If Anton likes the games too, $189 RRP gets you a GH bundle with 2 guitars.
But, Disturbed, the cure and Dream theater!
Yeah, but for that price you could get tickets to a live show for each of those bands…and still buy GH Live.
Holy crap you actually could.
yeah, I’ll ask Anton what he thinks. you are definitely right
For what it’s worth, I’d really, really like to buy RB4. Literally half the reason I bought a PS4 not long ago was for Rock Band…but I just can’t justify paying that much. Even the guitar-only bundle is massively overpriced at $250. I could literally go get a real guitar and lessons for it for that price.
Does Rock Band have new instruments? As far as I can tell they’re the same old ones so I can’t see the justification for the price. Guitar Hero would have had to spend a chunk developing the new guitars and manufacturing start up and all the new ones whereas Rock Band probably is even just stuffing left overs in a box and flogging them off.
Had a quick look at the guitar. Seems the same but has 2 lots of fret buttons at each end on the neck. Or is that not new? I don’t remember…
Noooo – save it for your honeymoon!
BUY GUITAR HERO FOR YOUR HONEYMOON!
OK, I’ll stop now 😛
we are now thinking New Zealand honeymoon
I highly recommend the south island. So amazing to drive around (although Christchurch is still broken after the earthquakes, which is sad)
I did a run-around the North island for my honeymoon. Such a fantastic place, and my wife and I plan to go back and travel around the south island in the next year or two.
Awesome idea! My wife and I got engaged on our NZ holiday, we loved it over there. Both islands are amazing, but south is probably more ‘fun’, especially Queenstown. Do the Nevis highwire bungy, totally awesome!
So what’s going on?
Work is dragging & I’m bored shitless. How’s yooz?
It’s weekend o’clock. The boy is home from preschool and we’re about to watch some Pokemon on Netflix. I’m declaring it beer o’clock at 5pm.
I want beer
I have beer.
Snuck off from work early. Still bored and tired so it didn’t really accomplish anything.
I want home early
How am I? Still resentful over your slander. I expect this to last for at least two to three more minutes.
So much work to do. So boring.
Mate, at least I try your shitty sandbox games. When’s the last time you even played a JRPG, huh, huh? Never, I bet!
*storms out of room, holding back tears*
*slumps into couch and stares at wall for hours, reflecting on the accusation*
I… I played Trails in the Sky. That wasn’t that long ago, was it?
…Was it? Have I really been neglectful?
No… no, of course not. Alcohol will reassure me that I’m right.
Trails was fun, second chapter soon
I’m absolutely swamped at the moment, as my posting spree may suggest.
*continues staring at the clock*
I’ve done a fantastic job of draining my phone battery by constantly checking on Subterfuge despite being within 1m of a phone charger all day.
yep just plugged my phone into charge.
I spent basically the whole day plugged in, and I’m on 57%. :/
All things considered, I’m doing ok! Sorry to hear you’re bored man. My day has been both eventful, and nothing at the same time! Glad it’s the weekend! w00!
Weekend woooooooop
hellz yeah! hopefully the only drama I’ll have this weekend is deciding what to eat!
Raman or papadums ~DUN DUN DUUUUUUN~
lol ramen yes. papadums no. not cos I dun like them…just dun have any! I do have some butter chicken though!
Is anyone excited about Rise of The Tomb Raider?
Very excited, but don’t have an Xbone atm so keeping my eye on the Fallout 4 prize. (Though will pick up the game for sure when the PC version drops.)
I started gaming only this year, unless you count those couple of years I spent playing old tomb raiders and harry potters as a kid. So when I decided I wanted to get into gaming again, I checked if they were making tomb raiders anymore. And that’s how I ended up with an Xbox One. That’s why I had never heard of Fallout till the Fallout 4 hype had started. It does look like an excellent game but I haven’t played the previous ones so it doesn’t have the pull for me.
If Fallout 4 looks interesting to you don’t worry about not knowing anything about the previous Fallout games. They all take place in the same universe but the stories completely standalone. Essentially it’s a big open world game set in a retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic world. Before the nuclear war people went into big fallout shelters called Vaults. Typically you start a Fallout game by creating your own character inside one of these Vaults, then going outside and exploring the wasteland. You meet tons of characters, fight mutants and generally just see what the world outside your Vault has to offer.
The modern games are very similar to the Elder Scrolls (Skyrim) if you’ve ever played those. They don’t quite have the cinematic appeal of the new Tomb Raider games but most people find Elder Scrolls/Fallout to be a lot of fun.
Thank you. Fallout games and Skyrim for that matter do have a story though right? Otherwise I find it difficult to get into a game. I remember putting aside AC Black Flag for a long while because of the weak story. I did later enjoy it a lot though.
Oh yeah, they’ve got a story. They’re RPGs so you go from town to town doing meeting people and doing stuff. Both the games have a mountain of optional content but there’s one main story line that goes through the entire thing. Although the amount of optional stuff and the way it’s laid out can make it feel a little unfocused (especially if like me you get distracted easily).
Where stuff like Tomb Raider has you play through a movie style scenario games like Fallout are sort of TV series. A bunch of shorter stories adding up in long arcs following the hero’s journey through the wasteland. In the Fallout games you have more control over how things play out and the decisions the main character makes. You might chose to save a town from mutants but in my playthrough I let the mutants win and rob the Mayor’s house while everyone is distracted fighting.
They’re story driven games but they’re not as cinematic. It’s sort of hard to explain. It’s not a story being told to you as much as it’s a story you’re participating in, if that makes any sense.
Oooh so you’re saying that it’s like a telltale game except with equal focus on the action as well? I’m sold! I’ll definitely get it. It sounds like a great first game for when I build my PC next year.
I think you would be getting your hope up far too much going into it like that. There is a story there but much of the story is told through the world. Each area has it’s own story. As you travel through the wasteland you come across locations and they have side quests or interactions as part of them.
Spoilers for fallout 3 as examples of the game
For example you come across a place called tenpenny towers. This is basically a rich mans world and everything is set to be luxurious like a 5 * hotel. The owner hates ghouls (Basically radioactive fallout survivors who look, but don’t act, kinda like zombies) . There is a bunch of them nearby who have the money to pay for access to tenpenny tower but he doesn’t let them. He asks you to “take care of them”. How you approach that forms your story. You can kill the ghouls and get rewarded by the owner, you can convince enough of the residents to accept ghouls and the pay to get in or you can sabotage the defenses and let the ghouls attack the tower. None of that has an impact on the main story line but is a single self contained story.Even the main story plays out mostly like that, you have an overriding story and you progress you way through that in individual story segment like that which give you the point of reference for the next step in the story
Unlike something like telltale just playing through the main story would take you 25-30 hours but you can and most likely y will double that when you have side quests and exploration.
Like Tig says it’s not quite Telltale. There’s way more going on mechanically rather than the super scripted one thing leads directly to another storytelling of a Telltale game, which makes the story looser and less focused, but not in a way that ruins it or anything. However it does sum up how interacting with people in the world goes. You get the choice of what to say and what paths to take, you just go off the rails a lot more.
Right now Steam is having a sale on the PC versions of Fallout 3 and New Vegas for about $5 each if you’ve got cash to burn and a PC that will run it. Unfortunately that seems to be about as close to a demo as you can get.
I would be were it on PlayStation :'(
But it is. Just not now.
Yeah, moreso when the PS4 one drops
Yeah, I wasn’t, but then last month I traded in a whole bunch of stuff and got another Xbone (the Forza 6 one). So yeah, kinda hype now.
Haven’t been paying attention to it, but will most likely get it.
Just got home with Guitar Hero Live. Got the last PS4 copy Target had. Hopefully it doesn’t suck.
Does it suck? Looks pretty fun, I loved the old GH games.
I know there was talk of a second Subterfuge game, a friend of mine wants to play with more people so if there isnt a second game already, would you guys be interested?
@jocon @cffndncr @transientmind also @blaghman
Yeah, though I haven’t splashed out for an upgrade to the version that lets you host private matches (does that count as game-buying?), so haven’t taken the initiative.
Could always start a public game with only exactly the required number of slots and tell people so they jump into it before randoms can, or could just host a big enough game to make sure TAYbies get in, then wreck shop against the randoms before turning on each other.
The possibilities are endless and unsavory!
Chris could host. Don’t need the paid ver to participate in private matches
I can host thats all good 🙂
Groovy, my username is the same as it is here.
In a sublime instance of convenience, I’m subscribed as my same subtly self-deprecating username here. Saved me the trouble of add subordinate characters for a sub-optimal substitution.
…Subs.
Yeah, sure let me know what/when/who/how to join.
do you have a twitter? or maybe an email I can get the join url to?
Good question! “Googles”
Yes! I have a twitters: @Jocon89
Can you follow me back please so I can message the link? 🙂
Has the game started yet? Keen to join… should I be signing up for Twitter?
Hey man, the game started 1:30 on saturday, Let me know your email though and I’ll keep you in the loop for the next one 🙂
Err is there a way for me to send it to you that isn’t plastering it on an online forum? No shit, last time I did that, I got subscribed to a hardcore gay porn newsletter.
email djdimsim on le googlies
1 week to PAX! and DapperMeat 2.0!
*hype*hype*hype*
*sew*sew*sew*
Make sure to come up and say hi when you’re there!
Traditionally, we set up camp in the Tabletop area and there will always be a handful of TAYbies holding down our spot.
I kinda didn’t know everyone well enough last year. This year I will definitely be in Camp TAY.
I will tweet which shirt i am wearing each day
Vault 111, Vault 112, vault 113
… I may need to go to the Bethesda booth on day 1
You won’t miss me, I’ll be easy to spot 😉
Are you going as Unikitty again?
The Lego movie was so last year
Edit. I will be in a wig again. Wigs are awesome.
EVERYTHING is awesome.We are going All Nintendo this yearPrincess Peach?Come hang out in the tabletop area. We’ll be sure to let you know when we start Two Rooms and a Boom.
We should probably just have a set time for the first game so that people can plan around it. It’ll be a blast!
Are you making it to PAX meat on the Saturday night?
Saturday might be a bit rough, there’s stuff organised and I want to meet up with a friend then if I can. Let me know what times everything’s happening though, and I’ll do the best I can.
Saturday night is at backlot studio from 7pm. It’s not far from PAX, around a 10 minute walk
I don’t want to add too much pressure but this https://instagram.com/p/u35-fvRbuG/ is the baseline set by @markserrels last year
There is also a dapper meat on the Friday night were we are dressing up and going for steak dinner at Squires loft before heading to the gin palace for some drinks. If that works better for you then you are most welcome at that as well. That invite extends to you as well Mark.
Excited!
Spent about an hour with Guitar Hero Live and so far I’m not too sure what I think of it. For one it’s going to be hard to get used to the new button layout, I’m hitting more bad notes on regular than I usually do on most songs on hard or expert on old Guitar Hero or Rock Band. But that’s cool because I remember struggling on Medium when I first got Guitar Hero II.
Also, the setlist isn’t doing much for me so far, a few of the songs I played were ok, and I knew it had a Skrillex song in there somewhere, but I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw a Katy Perry song and a Rihanna song. This is meant to be fucking Guitar Hero not teeny-bopper-wanna-be-popstar simulator. Hopefully there’ll be much better tracks in that GHTV thingy.
Damn, there’s a lot of stuff on there I just can’t see why it should be on GH, saying that there is 25 songs that I know/don’t mind on it, heh. A lot seem to be rehashed from previous GH games though.
Saw they had Tribute by Tenacious D in the songlist.
Now I kinda really want it.
Didn’t know about that one, haven’t come across it yet.
Just had a look at this, looks like most of the good stuff is on that GHTV thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Hero_Live
I like maybe 10-11 songs on that. Not worth $100 though. Looks like I’m ignoring it…for now
GH TV is where the game is really at, liking it, except for the bullshit spring system, see the post I’m about to make below
This fur is amazing and is doing everything I hoped it would.
Just a shame it was only available in black, and not a dark brown. Oh well.
Fur party at Gooky’s?
Hey everyone. I’ve had another Visual novel idea. I would like to do it very much, but I will need help.
The idea is that you are this one guy who encounters people suffering several mental disorders. Through the options, things can either go badly, or good. I’m hoping it may help other people that need to help someone that they care about through their mental issues. I’ve already thought of Depression and Anxiety and possibly cutting as well.Cutting is a really complex thing. I remember when I was 14 there was a girl in my class who proudly showed up to school to show off how much she’d cut herself to everyone. I think she said she’d used a box cutter, and she’d made so many cuts so close together that she’d basically given herself red sleeves. All the kids were impressed by it.
I cut myself a bit too when I was an anxious, depressed teen, but it wasn’t for the typical “cry for attention” excuse they have on tv. Rather, it was because depressed teens were shown cutting themselves in media, and because so many people in my age group were talking about it (this was when emo was still a thing), that I felt as a depressed teen I had to do it to fit in. I suppose you could still see that as a cry for attention, but it never felt like that to me. I was just trying to be normal by doing it.
So yeah, it’s a complex thing, and my advice in handling it would be to keep in mind there’s more than one reason for self harming, and that the feeling to do so can come both from within a person and from external sources.
I know that. It would be less of a look at why people cut and more on how to deal with someone that may be cutting.
https://twitter.com/theREALwelbot/status/657685312534024192/photo/1
Ouch. How is his lady friend?
She’s got a fractured ankle and rib/s apparently. Dad’s just sore still (chest/neck) likely from whiplash. Both of them are very bruised.
Holy shit. That’s some serious fucking damage. How is everyone that was involved?
Last I heard lady friend had I think broken ribs and not sure what other damage
yeah. see above! I got more info this morning cos dad called me!
Jeez 🙁 still better than the the other possibilities. Modern car technology with crumple zones etc are amazing.
Yeah for sure. Dad said if they were driving something small like a Barina, they’d probably be dead. 2 tonne 4×4 vs small car is never good.
Yeah not wrong man. Glad to hear they’re alive and in an alright state though! Shame about the car D=
indeed. At least the car can be replaced though! 🙂
Oh geez, that’s a nasty smash. I hope everyone was ok.
All alive at least. Just doing to spend the rest of today resting in hotel room!
Call me crazy, but I’m going to bring my run gear and head to the Albert Park parkrun on PAX Saturday.
If you want to join me, be there at 7:50am (for 8am start). It’s a timed 5km run around the lake in the park. http://www.parkrun.com.au/albert-melbourne/course/
You’ll need to bring your barcode, so register beforehand at http://www.parkrun.com.au, and print it out (no, the barcode scanners won’t scan your phone).
And walking some or all of the course is completely fine. I will personally be shuffling along at the back of the pack. And then afterwards I will be drinking coffee, as is the tradition.
You’re crazy 🙂
Yes, but I’ll get to add an interstate parkrun to my profile 😀
But that’s totally lining up time.
Or getting-into-costume time, most likely 😛
I’m happy to rock up at 10. I’m going for all 3 days
Run in Cosplay?
May be physically impossible.
Also there is no way I am going to run immediately before an entire day of being on my feet. Especially following another day spent entirely on my feet. @cookingmama really is insane 😛
No way, because it’ll be too hot, and Albert parkrun aren’t doing a dress up run for Halloween because their birthday is in November and they want that to be the big party (I asked).
@mrtaco That was a joke suggestion btw. The colon pee was only implied though so I can see how that may have been misleading.
Actually it’s not unusual for people to dress up at parkrun. Or eat cake for breakfast, for that matter.
I’m so envious of one of my friends right now, she’s in California for the next 10 or so days for a holiday & Knotfest (Slipknots 2 day music festival), and the pictures i’m seeing from her adventures so far look awesome.
I didn’t realize how good the lineup for Knotfest was this year – it was a bit lacklustre last year, but this one looks awesome.
I know right? Suicidal Tendencies and Body Count on the same bill? All that’s missing is Infectious Grooves!
Edit: My friend also was given a press pass to shoot bands if she wants, doesn’t get to shoot Slipknot or Judas Priest though, but any other band is cool apparently.
So I’ve been invited to some anime club thing. I haven’t properly watched anime since Kill la Kill ended. (Chi’s Sweet Home does not count)
This will be interesting.
Hey TAY, long time no talk, I’m good.
Anyone getting into GHTV and can explain this bullshit right here?
http://imgur.com/gallery/gOEqX
Depends on the difficulty maybe?
Matches difficulty when playing
Reading up on it, no it doesn’t. Difficulty is set by whatever you have the quick play difficulty set to. So you’re playing against people on higher difficulty than you are so they’re getting more notes.
Edit: Just tested it out and can confirm it.
I hope for their sake you’re wrong, this was doing one of the “premium” shows you can pay money to access (I didn’t I unlocked it by playing) and if that’s true I’d be extremely passed if I paid real money to try and get the “exclusive” bullshit only to find out it was completely impossible for me to win it due to difficulty
I have no idea about premium shows. Haven’t even looked at them, this was in a standard channel.
Found a One Direction song in GHTV today, FUCKING ONE DIRECTION!
It’s an ok game, but the tracklist can be absolutely freakin’ abysmal at times. Really wish I’d paid the extra money and got Rock Band 4 instead.
Ok, got all the mounting points affixed to all the various furpieces.
…*clock glance*
Sewing, ironing things onto tshirts, and some hot-glueing. That’s my Sunday. And then I’m going to see The Martian tonight.
What did you think of it?
Fantastic!
This is the correct answer 🙂
Now it’s time to read the book, something I’ve been planning to do for a while.
I think that’s the right way to go about it – movie then book. I am doing the same thing with Game of Thrones at the moment – I’m just at where the last season of the show ended off.
The friend who I watched The Martian with had already read the book, and was saying ‘in the book this’ and ‘they left out that’. Sure, it’s nice to know that the book offered better explanations of certain things, but I feel that kind of detracts from the movie. Better to watch the movie, experience how great it is, and then read the book and have more added on
I imagine that they had to leave out details in favour of action and to keep up the suspense, which is fine.
As for GoT,
I think the TV show is actually the superior version (*gasp*). I read the first three and really struggled with the lazy use of characters (he just adds new ones whenever something needs to happen) and the pacing is pretty ordinary (boring…boring…boring…OMG EVERYONE DIES IN TWO CHAPTERS THE END..or something like that).So I don’t think I’ll finish reading the series, and just enjoy watching the rest of the show.
Crap. Can’t tell if it’s just because paranoia or not, but Dad’s been coughing and hacking his way around the house for a while now and I’m worried my throat is maybe starting to feel weird. Please no.
Gooky please say you agree with me!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/10/the-photographer-who-allegedly-preyed-on-cosplayers-for-nudes/comment-page-1/#comment-3477430
I disagree!
Because I haven’t gone and read it yet 😛Right, might as write up my experiences with the anime club thing I was invited to.
Initially, I was worried it was going to be a round-table discussion or something, where my lack of knowledge of anime would be exposed. It turned out to be a five hour-long viewing party of random anime episodes. The first problem was that I had to catch up on what the hell was going on. Some of the episodes were season finales, making it extra difficult to work out what was going on.
Hello!! Kiniro Mosaic Episode 10
This was a rough starting point. It was shit. I don’t know if this is a really good series and I just watched a filler episode, but nothing happened in it. It’s the story of five girls taking a day trip to the beach… and that’s it. No conflict, no drama, no jokes. Just five girls taking a day trip to the beach. Boring boring boring boring. The closest thing to any sort of conflict was two of the girls getting a stomach ache. Next!
Kamisama Hajimemashita Season 2 Episode 8
This one absolutely sucked. There was debate between my friends and I on whether this was worse than Hello!! Kiniro Mosaic, but I am firmly of the camp of wanting to plunge Kamisama Hajimemashita into the deepest depths of hell.
Initially, there was confusion. What the hell is going on? As the confusion faded and understanding dawned on me I realised… it’s fucking Twilight. It’s a stupid reverse-harem situation where everybody loves the main character because reasons. The main character is clearly a self-insertion from one of the writers. There’s a fox character and a bunch of evil angel characters and all sorts of bullshit.
Shirobako Episode 6
Redemption. I was contemplating leaving the place after the two horrible episodes in a row. but this… this was special. It’s the stories of the people in and around an animation company. It has no loli characters. It has no anime bullshit, just simple human drama and conflict. It was a breath of fresh air.
The main conflict is an overworked animator refusing to go to work, and his co-workers trying to get him to re-kindle his passion, as he is central to the project. Side-stories are two characters having a very frank discussion about whether hand-drawn animation has a future, or whether it will be replaced by CG. The other side-story follows a down-on-her-luck unemployed voice actress struggling to find work. She runs into her old voice acting lecturer, and finds inspiration again.
I freaking loved this one. I had thoughts of leaving early after the first two anime showings, but this kept me in my seat.
Dinner Break
Red Rooster Salad and Chicken Roll wasn’t crunchy enough.The Golden Gaytime was as awesome as ever. Characters lacked motivation.
Log Horizon 2 Season Finale
I clearly jumped on this a bit late. I thought it was cool, though. It’s about an MMO. The cool thing about it is that it is actually like an MMO. The enemies have health bars and the characters have classes. I didn’t have a clue what the story was, but I shut off my brain and enjoyed the action. A pretty good show, but it got upstaged by pretty much every show that followed it.
Amagi Brilliant Park Season Finale
The highlight of the night. It’s a comedy about a bunch of people that run a theme park. The basic gist of the episode is that the theme park needs a new promotional video to bring more people to the park. An incompetent character gets tasked with making it. He gets help and suggestions from all the wacky theme park employees and mascots. They give him conflicting opinions, so he jams them all into the video. Some employees say it needs more action, others say it needs more porn, others say it needs more dolphin seppuku. Absolutely hilarious. The entire hall echoed with laughter throughout. Definitely an anime that I want to follow up on.
Assassination Classroom Episodes 15 and 16
The only double-feature of the night, and I’m glad, because episode 15 ended on a cliffhanger. It’s basically an anime version of those classic teacher movies. You know what I’m talking about. Movies like the Ron Clark Story, Stand and Deliver, Dangerous Minds. Except this time the teacher is a giant space octopus!
Anime.
Late Break
Since the anime club was at some sort of community hall thing, the outside area had a mini-playground. So I rode the seesaw by myself while my friends looked on awkwardly. Good animation and character motivation.
Akame ga Kill Episode 18
Even though I had no idea what the plot was, I thought it was pretty cool. It’s an action anime with gigantic weapons. I liked the pink-haired girl’s character and backstory. She also had a gigantic gun that shot laser beams. It was cool. Since the pink-haired character doesn’t feature prominently in the opening credits, I assume this was an episode developing a side-character.
Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works Season 2 Episode 3
Jesus this one was sad. Put a downer on the whole affair. Should have been the last anime shown rather than the second-last one. I don’t want to say too much in case it’s a spoiler, but it’s just depressing. I don’t know if the whole show is like that or not.
Basically the episode is all about getting to know the backstory of this one character, and then having them brutally murdered after a slow, drawn-out fight. It’s like Beauty and the Beast except Gaston kills Belle and Beast. BERSERKER!JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Episode 11
It was a bit hard to get into the rhythm of this after the sadness of Unlimited Blade Works. But it’s JoJo’s, what do you need to say? A bloke called Joseph Joestar is attacked by Nazi Guile. And there is vampires.
That ends my wrap-up of the night. I’m thinking of going again next week. If they show Kamisama Hajimemashita again, I’ll bring my Game Boy.
Phwoar, that took two and a half hours to write up.
Kiniro mosaic is exactly as you described, every episode. It’s complete fluff and I’m not an enormous fan (though the one thing it has going for it is that it has a foreigner character voiced by someone actually fluent in English as a result of growing up in the US. Though even that’s a problem, since she’s supposed to be from England…) There are so many better examples of this type of show though.
I think you’d like Kamisama Hajimemashita if you saw it from the start. That was a weak arc. Not sure I can disagree with your conclusions though. Personally I like that show, but it is aimed squarely at a teenage girl demographic.
Shirobako is top-end stuff. If you liked it you should watch it all. It’s very rare that you get to see how the sausage is made, and it’s really clearly based off PA Works own experiences. Many of the characters are based off real people in the industry too. And if you like that sort of human drama, PA Works is special because they’re really good at it. Characters are (usually) written in a way that feels very natural and more like a live-action drama than an anime.
Log Horizon is a good one to go back to if you like MMOs, but the second season dropped the ball hard by focusing too much on uninteresting side characters.
Amagi Brilliant Park is excellent. It’s really well animated (Kyoto Animation are one of the highest-tier studios out there) and working from strong source material – the same author did the Full Metal Panic series back in the day. Which KyoAni also animated parts of. Would be worth watching from the start. Actually starting where you did was a good point, because the ‘finale’ was actually more like a bonus episode. The real ending was in Episode 12 where they resolved the ongoing plot begun at the start of the show.
I couldn’t get into Assassination Classroom. Gave it several episodes but it was never particularly exciting or amusing and the characters weren’t interesting enough to hold me there. Plus the plot is nonsense.
Jumping into Akame ga Kill that late in would probably make it hard to make sense, yeah. The plot revolves around an elite squad that are working as a resistance group, taking down various corrupt officials and so on and trying to topple the corrupt government in the capital. Thing is by that late into the show a good chunk of the cast were dead.
Speaking of being thrown in at a bad point, holy shit. Starting Unlimited Blade Works right there would be awful. No, it’s not that sad normally.
Gilgamesh is a tremendous asshole, but Ilya’s pretty much the only one that gets taken out that brutally. That episode was a huge downer and I’ve read the visual novel so I knew it was coming.In general, the Fate series isn’t afraid to get pretty dark. You’d be far better off going back and watching from Fate/Zero and then into Unlimited Blade Works from the start though, by that deep into it it’s going to be near impossible to make sense of. P.S. Berser-Car!Jojo’s Bizzare Adventure had better fansubs than it did official actual subs which was a bit of a shame. The fan translation was brilliant, sacrificed accuracy at some points but deliberately had heaps of lines where they used amusing alliteration, especially in the second half with the Pillar Men. The Wise Words of Wham and so on. I also always got a kick out of the way half the characters are named after bands (Robert E. O. Speedwagon for example). The sheer over the top ridiculousness of it all is great.
Ugh. Pinning. Worst.
Pining for the fjords? What kind of talk is that?
I miss the fjords. All those little fiddly bits.
My least favourite part of sewing. =/
I would even go so far as to say my most unfavourite part 😛
I really hate doing it and it seems to be where a lot of mistakes occur. At least with the softer materials
Played a computer game instead of RPGing last night, but it was incredibly fun
Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes
Its a communication game, and you have to guide someone in disarming a bomb you cant see, while you read from instructions the defuser cant see.
Soooooo awesome.
@tech_knight and my brothers did quite well 🙂
Although, part of me wishes it happened like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K_WmV50e7c
http://www.keeptalkinggame.com/
this is the wrong tay guys
2 more work days after today – den pax! 😀
Seriously guys.. so hype…
Being a father and now a home owner means i have actually had to start selling things i don’t really use any more to have some spending money – raised $160 so far which is pretty awesome.
I honestly though my evangelion stuff would have sold, though, and my Gamecube Chainsaw controller from RE4…
Still have until wednesday to get it out though!
THEN ALL THE SPENDING!!!
Also, there is a new horus heresy game coming out from GW… really scared to think of how much it will cost
The gamecube chainsaw, eh? Don’t sell it cheap. It was less common then the orange one for the ps2
Yeah i know – i had been trying to get at least $200 for it.
Seen some listed for $400 – crazy expoensive
New tay guys!
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