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Did you ever have a situation where a report you’d written was restructured by your manager, and then – as part of the same edit – criticised because the new structure was inconsistent? This is what I’m dealing with today. #SendDrugsPlease
Can’t say I have, but then the reports I’ve had to write for work, were criticizing the management for their poor practices, so I’m not surprised they didn’t restructure them 😉
“Make this change! Now!”
“I don’t like this change! Why’d you’d make it?”
*business appropriate sympathy hugs*
Always get everything in writing if you can 🙂
I don’t write reports. But I have had “a talk” several times for things I didn’t actually do.
Still, better than being a cleaner where every little move you make is scrutinised.
Oh god I know dem feels.
My personal favourite was where the client gave us a report outline, I wrote the report, the client loved it, then the boss decided he had a better idea and redid it, and the client ended up hating it.
Hidily ho TAYberino’s!
Hope everyone had a good weekend, and is doing better than I am!
Another day off work for me 🙁 Got about 1km from home and had to pull over cos I thought I was gonna pass out :\ This is really starting to do my head in :\
That doesn’t sound good – rest up, I hope things improve soon.
Thanks. Will certainly be doing that. Asked my boss to find out from HR if there’s a better way of dealing with this, as I think the stress of having to take time off/worrying about losing my job is starting to affect my mental well being. Never had to deal with such long lasting health issues before, and since my symptoms seem to come and go as they please, it’s hard for my doc to know what to do as well. Only been writing me up for a day or two at a time so far, as I’m never sure how I’m going to be from day to day. Saturday I was fine, then yesterday, I had the blood boiling feeling throughout the day. None of that today, but intermittent dizziness instead :\
Hope we can arrange something that will appease everybody.
Is it possible to work from home when you’re feeling unwell
I do have remote access, but we’re not officially allowed to use it. Hoping maybe they can work something out like that for days when I feel like this or something. Just have to wait and see what my boss can come up with.
I hope they will. They can’t fire you for being sick. They have laws against that
Got the feeling stress could be a major factor. Stress/depression/anxiety can do some crazy things. Being worried about losing your job due to taking time off, then almost passing out on the way to work, I would say that’s probably stress related.
I’ve been noticing over the last few years that Stress/depression/anxiety has been on the rise over the last few years (I’ve noticed all of them in myself too), Seems every day more and more people are affected by it.
Might be an idea to mention to your doc that you’re very stressed as well (which is fair enough, especially considering what’s been going on with your dad). Hope it gets sorted and you start feeling better man.
I wasn’t really worried about it til the end of last week. I mean, I was really hoping this would be all well and truly over by now, but having to ask for time off again today just tipped the scales I think. I’m not like super super freaked out, but enough so now that I would prefer to have some kind of arrangement with work that I know they are happy with, allowing me to keep my job, but also be able to fix this when the need arises.
Mornin’ everyone, how are we today?
Very well, thank you. And you?
Can’t complain! Even for a Monday 😛
Sunburnt!
Ouch!
But at least you got to enjoy 10 minutes of sunshine
30 actually, but it was extreme overcast here, so yeah. and it is pretty spectacular, Just ask @Tech_knight or @coldcamv after tonights rpg session!
I have burnt shoulders so don’t worry
Dammit, have to cancel tonights Iron Kingdoms session because one player has parent teacher night. Pfft.
I started Witcher 3 and man, was that a huge mistake. Now it’s all I want to play.
Kinda done with FF14. Need the expansion to get more out of it, at level 50 it’s just grinding for loot.
Finished Strider, whoever designed that final boss needs a smack in the head. Wasn’t hard, just that gravity kept spinning around in a circle and messing up the controls (and difficulty achievements don’t stack).
I also kinda want to play Black Ops 3. Being pessimistic about the franchise but BO3 looks like it can be the game to finally change it. Always been treated good by Treyarch.
Also I uploaded my PAX photos.
https://www.facebook.com/grant.luke.9/media_set?set=a.10153704301928535.1073741837.517698534&type=3
Blops 3 is pretty solid so far imo.
The campaign is a bit wacky but enjoyable enough. And zombies looks pretty solid the little I played.
It also bares mentioning just how much game you get in this one: a dozenish campaign missions, an alternate zombie campaign, the zombies mode, a horde mode (all split-screen co-op), a hidden minigame and of course the pvp multiplayer. That’s pretty good!
Black Ops 3 reminds me of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Starts off with robots and pure awesomeness, then drifts off into What-The-Hell-Is-Going-On territory.
Nice comparison! 🙂
Witcher 3 = GOTY. Fallout 4 doesn’t count.
16 hours… AAAAAAAHHHHH HURRY UP!
Quickly, to the time machine!
*Runs off to bed*
I laugh because I have actually done that.
I literally popped in just to share the same sentiment.
Something something Fallout
Woah, it’s 14 hours now. That means its 1AM rather than midnight!
DAMN YOU DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!
It’s like some sick Vault-Tec experiment in impatience
Ohai page 1. It’s been a while.
Page… one…?
Is that a PC game?
I still can’t get over that XCOM Board Game I played first time on Saturday, holy shit…
You’ve never truly experienced the XCOM board game until you’ve been playing with @f4ction as the crisis card man yelling “CRISIS ALERT!” when the card needs to be played.
CRISIS ALERT!
I do need to play that at some stage
You can borrow it if you want.
Or you could come over and play it with us 😛
Would not be opposed.
it’s so difficult but surprisingly very good. If you saw my facebook post last night you’d see the shenanigans that happened to me, I was so unlucky
Fallout Fallout Fallout Fallout Fallout…
FALLOUT.
Would hope for it to break street date, but that’s as likely as the existence of unicorns.
Good Morning!
I had an alright weekend. Friday night we saw They Might Be Giants at the Enmore, and it was fantastic. Two sets, songs from almost all of their albums, and a couple of fantastic covers too. All hail the Bass Clarinet!
Can’t wait for Custard in a couple of weeks! (Why yes, my teenage years were in the 90s, how can you tell?)
Hola Tay
Quiet weekend. Spent Saturday nursing my cold and playing Tales from the Borderlands. Not only do I think it’s Telltale’s best game yet, I think it also may be the best bit of the Borderlands IP so far.
Sunday went to lunch with my dad then went to the South Australian Aviation Museum, because my uncle was volunteering. Pretty sure one of the exhibits had a picture of my Pop from his time at Woomera, which was exciting. Then when I got home I started playing Her Story, which is really, really clever.
I got a shipping notification for my copy of Fallout 4. AAAAAAAH EXCITE
A Monday Morning Question: Australia had a rocket/space program once (technically still does). What would make a Space program super Aussie?
Agreed on ze Burderlarndz & ze falloot
Shooting a koala into orbit.
That question has made me want to jump back in to Borderlands The Pre-Sequel. Janey Springs is a champion 😀
Tales was the thing that made me end up going back to the pre-sequel and I found that I rather enjoyed it on a second go. I hated it the first time round but the second time it definitely went better. The beam weapons were something that took forever to get used to but by the end I was carrying 3 of them
Space Brewery
An extra couple of engines on the rocket launch that don’t actually make it go faster but add lots of noise
Inventing a new for of propulsion but handing the rights over to a foreign company because we don’t want to invest anything to make it happen
Corks dangling from the wings of the shuttle.
Depressingly an australian space program would probably be designed to stop space boats…
Or deliver people we don’t like to “off world processing”. 🙁
Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!
Or WAS people…
It’s true… there’s nothing more Australian at the moment than kicking people of our land!
Set up a public/private partnership company to run it then constantly have politicians interfere with it, turning it into a political football. When they’re done it’ll cost 4 times what it should have and it will be a ‘hybrid’ rocket that’s partially built on repurposed NASA components from the 1960s and bits of Skylab and can only make it into the upper atmosphere.
Finally got around to see The Martian last night. It was pretty good. Not as good as I thought it’d be though. I feel it glossed over the psychological aspects of being trapped alone on a planet a bit too much.
I think they went more for the action/thriller aspect, which definitely made for an exciting movie. I just finished reading the book, and I have to say, I’m not disappointed in either.
That’s what @sughly kept going on about.
I think for a movie about going mad by yourself in a space base, Moon is a much better movie.
One of the features of The Martian is the science, the calculations, the amount of thought that goes into a space mission. I think they did a good job of conveying a lot of that detail in the movie.
Which is why Moon is better :3
Moon is awesome. The Martian is like Apollo 13 but on Mars and not true.
Hey everyone. If you haven’t paid for pax meat, please do so as @tech_knight is around $250 short of $1000.
I think I’ve already paid for everything I needed to but if I haven’t let me know!
(Also if you know who hasn’t paid you should get in touch with them directly in case they don’t see this)
You did, don’t worry
I still need to do that.
Techie I told you to remind me!
But I was afraid you’d suplex me if I asked again, Zangeif! D:
But yeah my bad, I didn’t do a great job keeping track at all.
For future Accounts Payable –
Step 1 – Hire Burly men who can break legs
Step 2 – Keep detailed records of who needs leg breaking
Step 3 – Send Burly men to break legs
Win-win.
Techie, can you email bunny the details? My PC is starting to play up again
If an email with the details gets sent to trjnrabbit at the mail of googles, I can sort out my end.
Played half a game of Talisman with my daughter on Sunday (ran out of time).
Went swimming with the kids and played through a good chunk of Mass Effect. Man, disconnecting on the Council never gets old 😀
Hey everyone, had a pretty good weekend. Spent the weekend in Bendigo, seems like a nice town, don’t know why but both the wife and I think it feels like a little version of Adelaide.
Also, been thinking about shaving my beard off lately, a few months ago I trimmed it and mucked it up (as I tend to do), so I trimmed the whole thing right down with the clippers. Since then it just hasn’t seemed to be growing anywhere near as fast as what it had before I trimmed it. So, I’ve been thinking about going full clean shaven in the hopes that it’ll speed up the growth, should I do it, or am I insane?
Also also, something something Fallout.
My hair is super greasy so I shave the whole lot short in warmer weather. Great face insulation in the winter though.
Summer is the time to do it. Very refreshing.
I don’t think I’m going to quite finish Darksiders before Fallout is in the house.
FALLOUT FORE
Concocting my own homebrew RPG system (you know, because I’m starting to lose my ubernerd cred) for a new steampunk game, but always getting bogged down on the nitty-gritty. Things I enjoy: devising the long story-arc, thinking up a couple of short arcs and the maths behind different RNG systems (oh, there we go – maths nerd cred re-established); things I don’t enjoy/always get stuck on: repetitive world building exercises – cities, important people, mundane equipment. I opened excel, typed the header row for an equipment table, opened a dozen tabs in wikipedia, read for 10 minutes, then closed everything and went to read a book.
On that subject – Greg Fleet’s memoir, “These Things Happen”, the tale of his career to this point and a 30-odd year heroin addiction is a cracking read. Slightly disjointed at times and suffering from an odd pacing (especially in the last third of the book), it’s a dark recollection of the suffering he’s wrought on those around him interspersed with his excellent dry humour. 4/5.
Update on the hype train (tram?) – work owes me a day in lieu. Should I try and line that up for Wednesday, relying on Toll to deliver as they’re supposed to; or should I line it up for Thursday to be sure? I’ve also got 5 weeks of leave up my sleeve, definitely taking a Monday or two off leading up to Christmas.
The Strange (@strange) has a Steampunk setting in one of its upcoming releases, and @popdart5 suggested this one http://www.onesevendesign.com/ladyblackbird/ when we were talking about Lasers and Feelings the other day
Had a quick look over Lady Blackbird there, has a few similarities with what I’ve been putting together. Mechanically though, probably a little heavily story focused for my group – I’m trying to whittle down a d20 system into something that suits a fantastic and heroic adventure group (and I’ve got to, somehow, make the combat solid)
Have a look at the Cypher system (powers The Strange and Numenera).
I don’t know, Cypher tends to be ridiculously open-ended and I found it really hard to come up with anything interesting in it because there’s not enough limitations to it. Repurposing d20 would be just as viable if @spadge is looking for a more combat-heavy approach, where Cypher tends to put much more emphasis on role-playing than action.
@spadge: have you thought about checking out some of the Cyperpunk ones? Though they’re obviously very different genres, I always felt like a system like Cyperpunk 2030 would adapt to Steampunk fairly well. More so than generic fantasy systems. But it really comes down to your world. Do you want lots of races or just a few (or just one?), what is the draw of the game etc. There’s lots of different approaches for Steampunk and something focused on, say, dogfighting in airships (like Crimson Skies or Last Exile or something – Crimson Skies is more Dieselpunk though) is going to be quite different from something that’s all Victorian in the Jules Verne style or a steampunk Western along the lines of Wild Arms.
You could always look to F.A.T.A.L for a template.
Don’t do this. Never do this.I believe we warned you before you did this.
You knew exactly what would happen when telling me not to google it.
I’m pretty sure savage worlds has a steampunk setting, if not it’s pretty easy to add what you want to it.
RED’S RPG LAB
presents
LASERS AND FEELINGS
You are the crew of the interstellar scout ship Raptor. Your mission is to explore uncharted regions of space, deal with aliens both friendly and deadly, and defend the Consortium worlds against space dangers. Captain Darcy has been overcome by the strange psychic entity known as Something Else, leaving you to fend for yourselves while he recovers in a medical pod.
STAR TREK with SIMPLE MECHANICS and occasional LASER FEELINGS. A One-shot scenario that we’ll generate on the fly, no preparation or RPG experience needed
Looking to run this on Thursday (7:30 SA Time). I know there’s a couple of interested people (@freezespreston, @cj, @cracks) but I’m opening up THREE slots to anyone interested. Good for people who’ve never RPGed before, people who love Star Trek (even if they love how naff it is) or people who are generally interested. We play on Google Hangouts (I’ll send you a link) and it will be streamed.
LASERS!
FEELINGS!
Your emphasis on feelings is illogical Captain. If you insist on this course of action, I must insist on being included on the away team as an advisor.
Interested but put me on the reserve list if you don’t get enough numbers
Might be a bit early for me to reliably get on and it’s Mrs Tigs bday this week so she might have other ideas
I’m up for it if you cant get anyone else – better to let people who haven’t rpg’ed before to have a go
Sign me up! (When’s it start)?
7:30 Thursday SA Time (Aus central daylight). Believe that’s 8pm Eastern Daylight Time.
Soz I was asking which date =P Are we starting this Thursday?!?! Do I need a character sheet?! How will I know what color my scales are without one?!
A One-shot scenario that we’ll generate on the fly, no preparation or RPG experience needed. This Thursday
Maybe!! \o/
Hi guys!
Hope you’re all doing well.
I know everyone’s excited for Fallout4, but I’m hoping someone can help me out. I pre-installed Rise of The Tomb Raider on Xbone but the installation stopped at 99%. 🙁 is this normal for pre-installing games? Has anyone else pre-installed ROTTR? Please let me know. I did restart installation this morning but now I am at work and dying not knowing how it is going.
I installed it when it first went up for pre-order and it’s sitting there fully downloaded. With pre-installs you should get the entire thing downloaded and installed. They release patches pre-release since the full version isn’t always up when they open pre-orders but it’ll be listed as fully installed. It’ll look like it’s ready to go but if you try to open it tells you to wait until the release date.
I know it happens to me from time to time but honestly I can’t remember ever doing anything to fix it. Have you paused and restarted the installation? Just go to My Games & Apps, highlight Rise in your Queue, hit the Menu button (three lines) on the controller and there should be a few options.
Thanks! I did pause n resume installation but it always failed at 99%. So i uninstalled the whole thing, deleted another game creating some more space and restarted the install this morning. Hopefully it works. I had paused the installation previously for 3 days, maybe that was the problem. I hope it installs this time.
Had the problem of a failed download on Xbone back when I had my first one. No matter how many times I tried it would get to a certain percentage and fail. Searched the net for a solution and some people were saying that a hard reset should fix it, so I gave it a try and whaddya know it worked first time.
So, just turn it off, pull the power cord out of the back, wait 10 seconds, plug it back in and give it another go. Should work, let us know how it goes.
http://discover-the-legend.xbox.com/fire.html
If you haven’t already you can go there and then click on the down arrows until you get to Lara’s Research Wall. Click Explore the wall then click on all the things and it’ll give you a code for the Explorer Card Pack. Just some in-game items but cool none the less.
Thanks. I did do that a few days back,
But thanks @dogman and @evilmonkey for your helpful tips on my installation problem. I have it all ready to go. It says “pre-ordered” and I am impatiently waiting for midnight. The reviews seem great!
Felt like it’s worth mentioning again: for those couple of people here who are interested in FALLOUT 4 AAAAAAAAAAAAAH- the Pipboy app is up on all platforms.
Has been since like Friday, bit slow there Rize 😛
Oi, just cause I fail to read everything, no need to make fun of me 😛
But saying that, reminds me of this that my mate showed me last night haha.
When you use a Windows Phone it takes a while to sink in that an app actually made it to the store. I’ve got it installed and I expect to realise that I have the option available around halfway through my second playthrough.
What’s a Fallout?
M8
If my charisma and wooing skills were a Super Mario level, they would be called “Dry Dry Jocks”
#I’msorry
#Notevenadadyet
#Notevenpagesixyeteither
List of amusing names found while looking for something that apparently doesn’t exist:
Stone-Snake Tower
Iggy’s Swinging-Chains Castle
Wiggler Floodlands
Mount Fuzzy
Porcu-Puffer Cavern
Spine Coaster Stowaways
Wiggler Rodeo
Three-Headed Snake Block
Good gracious.
Morning, TAY!
My weekend was swell. Went and saw a bunch of movies as part of the Japanese Film Festival. Ghost in the Shell, Miss Hokusai and Bakuman. Miss Hokusai was pretty fantastic, I recommend it. The other two were not really for me but they were entertaining enough.
Already got five more movies lined up to see over the next week 😛
I’ve also played a bit more of the new Fatal Frame (Project Zero). I really need to find some time to just sit down and play it because it kinda kills the spooky mood when you have to go to bed mid-way through a mission 😛 I had to walk through a scary house full of creepy dolls. It was… fun?
Anywho, morning TAY!
Its gonna be a long week, I’ve got 3 more WACE exams to go and will not even touch a single Fallout 4 until I walk out of that exam room. I’m half expecting that final scene from evangelion where everyone will be applauding me and telling me “congratulations”.
If QLD went along with the rest of the World and had daylight savings, my wait for Fallout would be 1 hour less. I feel that’s a compelling enough reason to put forward to the politicians
But by the time it was enacted you’d have one hour less to play it.
Plenty of time for the farmers to repeal it and I get that hour back 😀
The only thing dumber than daylight savings is not doing it when the rest of the fucking country is.
It’s like being in a canoe and paddling the opposite direction to everyone else because you wanted to take that other fork in the river. Everyone decided to go the stupid way, but stop making it worse.
Just got the email, Fallout is on the way!
My Pip Boy edition is about 20 meters away from me. And yet so far.
Why’re you at work on a Monday? I thought that was your day off?
Not any more. Days off are all over the place now.
Oh lame dude :/
So i’ve found an MSI GTX 670 OC edition on eBay, bloke wants $180 plus postage, but it’s about it’s 3rd re-listing and he has “best offer” available. Anyone know what would be a reasonable offer?
I also had to laugh at the person asking full RRP for a 2nd hand GTX 760 that they said they have had since its launch heh.
I will have an answer for you over the next couple of days rgd. the GTX750ti. Went to cash in my savings (3 jars full of gold coins, because I am a child) over the weekend, but the one ATM with coin deposit was out of order.
Ah awesome, I kinda forgot about that actually lol. I’ll hold off with the 670 for the mean time then!
$190 will get you a 750 Ti brand new. Probably not as good as a 670 OC though, those are great cards (I still use one in my rig!). Roughly 95% of the performance of the 680.
I ended up scoring a GTX 760 Superclocked for $160 posted lol.
I have my minisegway coming this week and after my success of painting my game controller in EVA unit 1 colours i am gonna try it on the mini segway thing. I am really enjoying custom painting stuff and making my stuff personalized. Makes me more emotionally attached to the objects and therefore more happy to use them.
Is a mini segway one of those little two-wheel things that you just step on? No handle?
I saw a guy using one of those at PAX. He was in cosplay as some cloak dude, I dunno. He was zipping along trying to look menacing, his cloak got caught under the wheels and he ate dirt. It was hilarious.
Thats the one, i found a really good deal ordering direct from the manufacturer. I am not going to ride it in public because i will fall, it just looked super fun and i was interested at how it worked and what motors and electronics it used and how the balance mechanism worked. The have a high douche factor but im a high level douche so i figure its okay.
I actually see people going around Sydney on them every now and then. Like, business guys in suits kinda people.
A while back there was even a guy riding one with his son close behind on a kid-sized one. Looked like a duckling swimming close behind their parent 😛
thats weird. i mean they are meant to have a decent range for riding but no way i would ride one on the street, that seems super dangerous.
People in Sydney ride bizarre shit. Lots of people on scooters, a couple of the mini segways… hell, I saw a guy riding a ride-on suitcase going across the Pyrmont bridge.
I saw way too many of these things down in Melbourne:
http://topjoyint.en.alibaba.com/product/60295684795-801521199/Smart_balance_wheel_2_wheels_powered_hoverboard_flyboard_airboard.html
Are you applying for the next Paul Blart Mall Cop movie?
I am kevin james for the next generation.
I knew there was a reason I didn’t like you.
h8ters gunna H8
(i threw up a little typing that)
I didn’t know you liked me so much that I was vomit worthy. Okay, I forgive you.
Hey TAY. Do you have an xbone? Are you able to get to this page http://rewards.xbox.com/xboxone-refer-a-friend/ ? Do you see me (“Batguy”, funnily enough) on the list of people you can refer?
If so, please refer me to xbone and both of us will get some money!
Odds are that it won’t work, as it seems that the system is completely broken and I’m in a different region to everybody else. But it’s worth a shot hey?
Mine says “All of your eligible friends have already been referred.”
Are we not friends?
EDIT: Just checked and we are, so I guess the regions might be a affecting it…
No, the system is shit. @knacks is trying to refer me and having the same problem. The support forums are laughable.
I *think* the problem is that my rewards account is somehow in the US region. No idea how. But that seems to be enough to prevent me from interacting with any Australian friends on deals.
Is your Windows or XBOX One region set to the US? Sometimes it slips it’s way in.
Windows possibly, though unlikely. Don’t have an xbox one yet, it’s arriving today, which is why I’m trying to do this promotion. $25 each for the referral! My 360 and my MS account is definitely Australian.
It’s probably something that went wrong at the time I signed up to the rewards program yeeeears ago. Everything I see on their page indicates that they take a copy of the information they need and then have no real interaction with the core xbox databases. e.g. it takes 2 days to sign up to the program in the first place!
If you want to add me I can give it a shot. Don’t see any reason it would work for me when it didn’t work for anyone else, but knowing me I probably screwed up the region on my rewards application. GT: TenaciousDogMan
No luck. It’s not showing you on my list so I assume it takes a few days to update the list. However I did just realise that three people on my list are from the US, one is from Australia and one is from France and they’re all showing up just fine. So region might not be the problem.
Can confirm. Site is rubbish.
Well that’s my Monday ruined, people are such assholes. Just saw on Facebook from the Australian Working Dog Rescue charity, that one their foster carers in the ACT had the dogs they were fostering baited. 2 were pups the other was an adult dog, which was a lovely Red Kelpie :/
🙁
Yeah. They’re hoping the public appeal will net them some help as to who did this. I hope they find who did this.
Fuck those fucking fuckers.
That happened right around the corner from my old house and I know dogs that were adopted out from those guys.
I had a great time yesterday at the Sydney BarCraft, which was officially sponsored by Blizzard ANZ and thus had a ton of awesome giveaways and such. The matches themselves were fantastic, going to the final game of a best-of-seven series, though unfortunately my preferred player didn’t pull out ahead. I managed to get a bunch of stuff in the giveaway, though not any of the REALLY good stuff like the collector’s edition of the game and mice/keyboards. But since I stuck around until the end of the event, I was given some of the decoration they had, including a cardboard wall piece. Also got to meet Hingers from GGTV, which was cool. He’s a big SC2 fan so it was fun to just chat about the game with him for a while.
Here’s the stuff I got: https://twitter.com/eRonin/status/663249626036768768
“Oh look, someone mentioned me in a comment in TAY on November 7th”
Clicks notification. Gets directed to a post from November 7th… 2013.
Yeah, I don’t think I’m going to be able to make it to that meat 😛
Some stay they’re still there, waiting…
My “Games finished – 2015” list is slowly starting to grow into a respectable number (which I currently can’t recall. Somewhere between 10 and 600?). How many other people track how many games they finish each year? Do you record details, or just that you’ve done it?
My list consists of “games were played”
Which is good enough for me 😛
I honestly don’t care if I fully finish a game as long as I enjoy it and have fun… Tracking things kinda puts added pressure (in my mind) of “I need to finish this” and detracts from my enjoyment so I quickly stopped that 😛
It used to add pressure for me too so I stopped doing it. I started back up last year and just use it as a record mostly out of curiosity than a completionist thing so it’s far more fun to do now.
Ah, makes sense…
I’ve been mainlining mostly open ended games lately *glares at Elite and Euro Truck*
Really difficult to ever mark them as complete XD
That’s the joy of running the list yourself: you decide when you’re done. It could be “finish the main story”, “100% completed”, or could be “Get your money’s worth from the game”
Fair point actually… Moneys worth… HMMMMM… Paid $45 for E:D, 600 hours of entertainment… That’s $0.075 per hour I’ve played… WHAT A BLOODY RIP OFF 😛
But yeah good idea, might run a list like that next year
Yeah well I’m always playing the same thing I enjoy so my “Completion list” is bloody tiny, I already beat XCOM: EU and I’m playing it again on EW now. Then there’s always LoL
You don’t finish MOBAs…. MOBAs finish you.
+1 for clocking EU, that one had be bugging me for aaaaages.
Also finished Wolfenstein: The New Order last night. That game is an absolute blast.
The way it ended for me was hilarious in EU xD
Oooooo war stories!
Got my popcorn. Ok…. go!
okay!
So the final mission was a careful crawl, my two snipers in the rear with my two supports in the centre, a heavy(with the psionic abilities) and assault up the front taking the aliens out up close while providing sights for my snipers to hit from very long distance. Almost all were killed without them even having a chance of repsonding due to the crossfire of plasma sniper rifles coming from far beyond their own sights, the rest getting gunned down with heavy plasma fire and alloy cannon blasts, however once the sectopods came into the fray, I start to lose people, one support went down due to a critical hit from both after one of their first attacks destroyed his cover. My heavy used his full psionic ability and destroyed them both in response, with fury in his eyes after watching his comrade get gunned down brutally by these monstrosities.The rest of them were getting slightly hurt until we reached the final chamber, in the fierce fighting my squad was losing people, one by one, casualties on both sides, until it came down to a three on one, my heavy, a sniper and the assault vs the leader. My sniper was unable to hurt him multiple times due to his movements going out of view and the pistol shots were not doing anything as they were getting blocked or doing very little damage. My assault got slaughtered in the first turn of this fight with a harsh mind-bullet, my sniper quickly following suit as she was very hurt too, then all that was left was my heavy and the leader. Both were looking worse for wear, a slight breeze could knock the heavy down but the leader was still looking better than he was, all that can be heard next is “Fuck it!” as he drew his blaster launcher and fired into its face, killing the leader instantly.
Then the hilarity happened, during this final cutscene, as I mentioned before, the rest of his squad were taken down, but the cutscene was acting as if there were other survivors in the squad, so when my heavy was sacrificing himself, he yelled at literally nobody to “GO!” (The camera panned to an empty entrance) as the ship was falling apart and pushed a psionic wave at nobody as the door then shut. It just looked really funny cuz he was yelling to himself rather than just getting the job done.
lol that’s awesome.
I tried once.
Then I remembered that I’m Cakesmith and I don’t finish games. I just buy them.
I used Backloggery when I was doing it. I think HowLongToBeat is the go-to now though if you want to have a way to record it.Since I got into gaming just this year with an xbone, I was tracking the game I finished (at least main story campaign) vs games on my pile of shame.
So far i have finished 12 games. And have another 12 in the pile, including mgs v: Ground zeroes (just can’t get into it), halo: Mcc, bf4. Maybe next year.
This is the first year I’ve started to track games that I have finished. I don’t have the list in front of me but I think I’ve finished around 8 games.
I did one last year but got lazy this year. I think @greenius was keeping a list for games he’s done this year.
@rize
Games finished in 2013:
• BioShock• Catherine
• Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition
• Deponia
• Device 6
• Dust: An Elysian Tail
• Dynasty Warriors 8
• Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
• FTL
• Gone Home
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Gravity Rush
• Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition
• Hotline Miami
• Kingdom Hearts Final Mix
• Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories
• Little Inferno
• Luigi’s Mansion 2
• McPixel
• Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted
• Ni no Kuni
• Okami HD
• Papers Please
• Persona 4: Golden
• Pikmin
• Pikmin 2
• Pikmin 3
• Pokemon White 2
• Pokemon Y
• Proteus
• Rayman Fiesta Run
• Rayman Jungle Run
• Rayman Legends
• Remember Me
• Ridiculous Fishing
• Sine Mora
• Sleeping Dogs
• Sound Shapes
• Super Hexagon
• Super Mario 3D World
• Super Meat Boy
• Super Metroid
• Tales of Xillia
• The Cave
• The Last of Us
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
• The Walking Dead: 400 Days
• The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 1
• Thomas Was Alone
• To the Moon
• Torchlight II
• Trine
• Trine 2
• Uncharted: Golden Abyss
• Where’s My Water?
Games finished in 2014:
1. Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag and Aveline DLC2. Attack of the Friday Monsters
3. Bayonetta 2
4. Beat the Beat: Rhythm Paradise
5. BioShock Infinite
6. BIT.TRIP Presents Runner 2
7. Bravely Default
8. Broken Age Act 1
9. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
10. Child of Light
11. Costume Quest
12. Dark Souls
13. Dark Souls II
14. Destiny
15. Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze
16. Dragon’s Crown
17. Fantasy Life
18. FEZ
19. Final Fantasy X HD
20. Final Fantasy X-2 HD
21. Fire Emblem: Awakening
22. Flower
23. Gears of War: Judgment
24. Guacamelee
25. Gunman Clive
26. Halo 2 Anniversary
27. Halo Anniversary
28. Hyrule Warriors
29. inFAMOUS: Second Son
30. Kid Icarus: Uprising
31. La-Mulana
32. LEGO MARVEL Super Heroes
33. Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
34. Mario Kart 8
35. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
36. Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
37. Octodad: Dadliest Catch
38. Pokemon Alpha Sapphire
39. Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright
40. Psychonauts
41. Pullblox World
42. Resogun
43. Risk of Rain
44. Rogue Legacy
45. Shovel Knight
46. South Park: The Stick of Truth
47. SteamWorld Dig
48. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
49. The Last of Us Remastered and Left Behind DLC
50. The Night of the Rabbit
51. The Stanley Parable
52. The Walking Dead Season 2 (Episodes 2-5)
53. The Witcher
54. The Wolf Among Us (Episode 1-2)
55. Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call
56. Tomb Raider
57. Toukiden: Age of Demons
58. Transistor
59. Trials Fusion
60. Valiant Hearts
61. Year Walk
62. Ys: Memories of Celceta
Games finished in 2015:
• January1. The Wolf Among Us (Episode 3-5)
2. Halo 3
• February
3. Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
4. Captain Toad
• March
5. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
• May
6. Broken Age
• June
7. Splatoon
8. Her Story
• July
9. The Swapper
10. Bloodborne
• August
11. Journey
12. Jetpac
13. Banjo-Kazooie
14. Cobra Triangle
15. Battletoads
16. Monument Valley (and Ida’s Dream)
• September
16. Monument Valley – Forgotten Shores DLC
17. Anna’s Quest
• November
18. Uncharted
You can see the evolution of my lists and how sad 2015 is looking :'(
(also summoning @dc)
CC: @jimu
Sad? Dude, I can’t remember a time when I completed so many
But I play games that never get finished, like the Sims…
You could build the ultimate house and family and call that “completed”, or just when you’re sick of the game, or some other factor. If there’s no easy metric to mark completion, as long as you’re satisfied with your time with the game then you can mark it complete 🙂
I can definitely say that my number of games completed this year is an integer.
#helping
I’m doing it this year. Don’t know if I’ll bother doing it again though.
2015
FINISHED
[*]Diablo III
[*]The Last of Us
[*]Swapper
[*]Octodad: Dadliest Catch
[*]Infamous: Second Son
[*]Infamous: First Light
[*]Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
[*]Game of Thrones: Iron from Ice
[*]Game of Thrones: The Lost Lords
[*]Rogue Legacy
[*]Tales of the Borderlands 1
[*]Thomas Was Alone
[*]Transistor
[*]Uncharted: Golden Abyss
[*]Kick and Fennick
[*]The Walking Dead Season 1 (PLAT)
[*]Beyond Two Souls (PLAT)
[*]Batman Arkham Origins: Blackgate
[*]The Walking Dead: 400 Days
[*]The Walking Dead Season 2
[*]Tales of the Borderlands 2
[*]Proteus
[*]Game of Thrones #3
[*]Bloodborne (PLAT)
[*]Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
[*]Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice For All
[*]Game of Thrones #4
[*]Murdered Soul Suspect
[*]Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations
[*]Tales of the Borderlands 3
[*]The Force Unleashed
[*]Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice
[*]Anna’s Quest
[*]Wolfenstein: New Order
[*]Life is Strange: Chapters 1-3
[*]Journey
[*]Game of Thrones #5
[*]Life is Strange: Chapter 4
[*]Rocket League (PLAT)
[*]Ace Attorney 5: Dual Destinies
[*]Phoenix Wright: Turnabout Reclaimed
[*]Tales of the Borderlands 4
[*]Metal Gear Solid
[*]Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
[*]Mad Max
[*]Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
[*]Counterspy
[*]Persona 4 Golden
[*]Tales From the Borderlands 5
[*]Life is Strange: Chapter 5 (PLAT)
[*]Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
My list, off the top of my head, is very sparse:
– Danganronpa (Vita)
– Danganronpa 2 (Vita)
– Senran Kagura 2 (3DS)
– Assassin’s Creed Rogue (PC)
– Anna’s Quest (PC)
– Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim (PC)
– Shadow Warrior (PC)
– Fault: Milestone One (PC)
– Wolfenstein: The Old Blood (PC)
– The Witcher 3 (PC)
Working on Tales of Zestiria right now and after that Trails in the Sky SC by which point Trails of Cold Steel should be out as well. After that I may go back and finish off a couple that I was 90% of the way there on eg Tales of Hearts, Atelier Ayesha.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__ (also just realised @rocketman isn’t officially a Brisbane taybie yet)
On the 28th November my wife, of whom most of you have met and seem to like more than you do myself, jerks, wishes to have a gathering of people for a night of BBQd meat and games and such to celebrate her further degradation into her thirties. Hence this notification and invitation.
As usual, nothing need be brought, plenty of food and drink shall be available there. Only require your smiling selves.
My reply from 2 hours ago still stands. 😛
That sounds like a blast. Count me in 🙂
Also ill probably drive my ute down so i can give somebody a lift if they dont mind listening to ABBA and shouting ‘ROSS YOU FUCKING MISSED THE TURN” every few km’s
I am likely to be working Supanova that weekend so I’ll likely not be able to make it sorry.
What are you, some kind of nerd?
I know, playing RPGs at a convention instead of going to a barbeque. Nerdy AND un-Australian. 😛
Did you say we only need to wear a smile? =O
*grabs ribbon*
Put me down as a probably maybe.
Sounds good
Been annoyingly productive today. Finally got an ACT driver’s license (only two days before my NSW expired). Got an ABN. Did some groceries.
Just when I thought it was time to sit down and do nothing for a little while (by which I mean finish the next article I’m meant to write), RSPCA calls. Turns out the local paper is doing a follow up story on Alice and her litter. They want all the puppies and their owners to meet up this Sunday.
I’m pretty keen. I’ve been trying to find other members of her litter since we got her. It’d be fun to see just how much the rest of them look like her. The bad news is that she’ll probably have to have another bath and she only just had one. Poor Alice.
PUPPY MEET! \o/
Right? It’s like Christmas in November but with more poop!
You got a ABN?????
ARE YOU MAKING A BOARD GAME/COFFEE SHOP CALLED BUNS AND BOARDS?
that name would also work for a BDSM shop too so you can do either.
I just need one so that people can send me all of the moneys. Nothing drastic.
Why not both?
http://www.themasterspath.com/
Do I really need to mention that’s NSFW?
I need to read this… but I’m at work and I also need to not get fired.
Goddamnit.
Spent last weekend packing up the family home where I grew up.
Dad’s renting it out for a bit with a view to sell it. Some 18yrs or so of crap in there to move out.
Nostalgia overdose. So many photographs and newspaper clippings and awards.
Aaaaand I’m doing it again next weekend.
Nothing like looking at yourself when you were young and shiny and full of potential and success to make you re-think your direction.
I really need to work out more. I used to be able to do literally dozens of pull-ups. Now I struggle doing ONE dozen. …Maybe I’ll shave a bit, too.
Yup. No crisis here. Nothing to see, move along…
I remember being the only person in my PE class able to get to the top of the peg board and back down again. Now I’d be lucky to do ONE pull up.
Pretty sure my twig arms would snap off if I attempted even one. :S
Being lighter actually helps. Less weight to pull up. And I was pretty damn rangy, then. Was swimming competitively. It is pretty damn embarrassing how much I’ve let myself go. Definite inspiration to get back out there and do more. Younger me is ashamed.
Yeah, but can guarantee younger you was a dick head and you really shouldn’t listen to him. Think back and consider. Younger everyone was a dick head.
This is true… he didn’t know jack shit.
But he did mean well. Better then, than now.
Don’t put that guy on a pedestal, because you’re the product of all the choices that smart guy made, for better or worse. 😛
I think he turned out great. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
i can strangely do a few which is weird cause i have no upper body strength but after 3 i am done, no more excercise for the day
My childhood home & the entire neighborhood was bulldozed to the ground 😀
That’s the spirit Jimu..
It’s a wonderful life 😀
Haha
“You can never go home again… but I guess you can shop there.”
(Grosse Point Blank)
That’s one of those films I wanted to, but never did :-/
What am I gonna say? “I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How’ve you been?”
Love that movie.
Something terrible has happened.
I went to my FLGS yesterday to buy an expansion pack for Warhammer 40k Conquest. That’s ok. No problem. Once you have the expansion you don’t need the same one again.
But…. I also bought 3 boosters for Magic Origins. 2 for me. One for my little bro-in-law.
I feel a disturbance in the force…
I opened one, and you know what? I was excited?
I had forgotten the feeling of opening a pack, not knowing what was inside. I used to collect basketball cards. I still have THOUSANDS of the things. I forgot that rush of the hope of getting a rare card.
I looked inside the pack.
A mythic rare – holy shit. Nice. At least 4 black cards. Better.
But then it hit my eye… A foil…. The joy of card collectors anywhere. The thoughts of basketball cards hit me again. Lenticular printing, you bastard.
It was only a foil of a land, but it was a foil.
Something horrible may be starting.
Damn good thing i have a wife to keep it under control…
Cracking boosters is pretty much the worst possible way to collect Magic cards. It’s a disease.
What was the mythic?
Oh – i know – i’ve already read much.
It’s more of a thrill thing. Was fun.
Also, being a newb i confused a rare with a mythic rare, due to miss-reading the colour coding.
What i got was Gideon’s Phalanx
Ah, I got that as my promo for the Origins release. Good in draft, unfortunately a bit underwhelming in Commander.
I too am also interested in this Mythic (and I have an unopened Battle for Zendikar booster sitting in front of me here because I didn’t crack anything at PAX and felt I needed to remedy that).
But yeah, cracking packs is good for getting random stuff, but not good for building decks.
See above.
Yeah, still not looking to build decks at the moment – as it seems a lot of work. Just wanted to do it for the fun and to add something else to playing with my brother in law.
Also, when i bought them my FLGS owner told me they run magic nights every friday – one of the ways is with drafting – costs $20 and entitles you to prizes and fun. Sounds pretty good to me, if i feel like being more sociable before getting into deckbuilding.
That’s how I started post PAX 2013, went into my LGS and signed up to draft. Went awful, but if you don’t mind losing you’ll pick it up. My advice in general is to try different decks out and learn to read the draft- work out what colours you keep getting passed or not passed, rather than trying to force a specific combo. I will warn you the current draft format is weird, and make sure you read up on “Zendikar Expeditions” so you don’t get screwed (there’s some money cards in the current set). Other than that, let the LGS owner know you’re new, they can give you a hand.
Watch this before you go as a basic outline for how a draft works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_QGiZa3YhY
Don’t tell @beavwa about the shiny foils, he’ll spend every cent he has building a deck entirely out of them. 😛
Woah.. that’s kinda intense haha
Quick mention! If anyone feels like for what ever reason coming to my house warming it’s this Sunday from 12:30 in west Ryde. I don’t expect it to be more then people I know to various degrees in my house while I drink till they all decide to go home.
But you all welcome.
Man if you had just moved to Eastwood you would have all the easy access to cheap and tasty Asian food.
It’s just up the road. I’m right on the station.
Bah, I’m camping this weekend, otherwise I totally would have come and trashed your house.
I mean… I would have been very well behaved, and definitely would have been invited back and not had a restraining order taken out against me. Definitely.
I’m fully booked for the next four weekends!
It’s very weird.
So I can come on the 5th weekend?
Phrasing.
Um… so… hi…
*hides nervously behind wall, blushing*
*licks*
We should go somewhere… private…
*blushing intensifies*
No reason to blush! Pants were never mandatory and we’re all friends here!
Yeah! Down with pants! Screw pants, nobody likes those stupid things in any case.
He’s…. He’s standing right behind me, isn’t he.
Hi @alexpants!not since…the accident!
But that was no accident, that was first degree toaster-cide!
DON’T MENTION THE ACCIDENT!
Anyone mention fallout yet?
FALLOUT.
FALLIN
What’s a fallout?
Isn’t that the pokemon attack that hits multiple times, each more stronger than the last?
I KNEW I’d heard it somewhere before
Nah, that’s Rollout.
Fallout is food you go get when you can’t be bothered cooking.
No that’s takeout.
Fallout is that google application people can use to get together for a quick and easy video call using gmail accounts.
Nah, that’s Hangout.
Fallout is a string of text connected by a line to feature in a technical drawing to give information about said feature.
No, that’s a Callout.
Fallout is when the music at the end of a song gets quieter and quieter.
Nah, that’s a Fadeout.
Fallout is a place where a shady organisation can collaborate without fear of being spotted by the authorities.
No, that’s a hideout.
Fallout is what wrestlers do when they’re pinned and give up.
No, that’s a tap out.
Fallout is what happens when several cowboys can’t settle a disagreement politely.
Nah, that’s a shootout.
Fallout is what happens when somebody’s mind cannot begin to comprehend what is happening at the present time and loses their mind.
@tech_knight no that’s a freakout. A Fallout is what happens when there’s no Electricity.
No that’s a blackout.
Fallout is when you get arrested by the police and you call someone to come get you outta jail.
@redartifice.
Nah you’re thinking of a blackout.
Fallout is when captives escape from their captivity.
No, that’s a breakout.
Fallout is what happens when teens engage in heavy petting.
No, that’s make out.
Fallout is when you undermine the confidence of someone by psychological means.
It’s all oveeeeer, but the crrrrrrrrying
Starkrun
#redinboston
#tayinboston
Who?
Horatio T Fallout, Aviator Extraordinaire!
So after reading Mark’s article on Fallout sales I went to the nearby JBHiFi during lunch and locked in my…. ugh “pre-order” for the game! Oh well I saved $10 =P
Monster
Holy crap has anyone checked out the Imperius cosplay winner from Blizzcon?? That armor looks good enough to be in a movie!
OH MY MY SCOOTER THING ARRIVED AT MY HOUSE.
STUPID WORK I WANNA GO HOME AND SCOOT
You should ask your boss if you can scoot early. I mean, he won’t get the joke, but you will, and that’s what important.
MAYBE HE WILL THINK IM CRAZY AND LET ME GO HOME EARLY TO REST 😛
Is… is ‘scooter’ what the cool kids are calling Fallout 4?
You know, I’m pretty happy with the stuff I’ve written. There’s definite room for improvement but it’s not trash.
Then I look at @raygunbrown and @markserrels ‘s content. How the hell am I allowed to write on the same site as these guys?
Im pretty sure a few years ago i got published on Kotaku, so they accept pretty much anyone.
#helping
They’ll even pay people these days. The world is a strange place.
I wasn’t fishing for compliments. Those guys are just damned good.
As a professional fisherman, sure you weren’t buddy, Wink
Feel free to ignore, just wallowing in my own crapulence.
I know I tend to make light of it and keep saying I’m okay but I’m really not. It’s incredibly demoralising just how much the stroke messed me up physically and not being as capable at things as I was is a struggle. Even something as simple as remaining standing by the end of the work day is a massive effort. Gaming has become difficult as keeping track of fast moving objects and reacting quickly seems impossible for me. Worst thing is I’ve put up a “I’m fine” facade for so long due to being worried about making other people worry it’s hard to talk about to anyone. Tried to and mostly I get a “But you’ve been doing well?” Doctors aren’t helping either. They have zero idea of why anything happened and don’t seem to want to have anything to do with me and prefer to wait to see if it happens again. So every little twinge I get in my head makes me wonder if this is when it’s going to happen again and will I survive? Know it’s very unlikely but it’s hard to stop panic setting in. Also know the solution is to try to not let it bother me and push on as best I can but it’s tough and sometimes feels like it’s isolating me a bit.I’m here for you, mostly useless myself except maybe being able to recommend some slow moving games for old timers (like myself).
Is diet still a concern?
THIS IS THE DANGER OF SAYING IM FINE.
I personally used to go “im fine, im fine, i am fine stop asking”
But i wasnt fine and i nearly did something horrid.
As for your stroke, i dont have any advice except to just try and not let it beat you down, and talk to your wife and kids about it man, kids are super good at helping remember stuff. Most importantly just know that you are a smart guy and if for the time being it means you have to write stuff down, take regular breaks from standing and play on easy mode thats okay.
I love you dude and i know it will be okay. You have a good family and lots of friends. You dont have to face it alone.
It’s not so much depression or anything, more pure frustration at things not working as they did and being unable to fix it. I hate not fixing things. Also as Red said some paranoia.
Just give yourself time. Your body had to deal with a pretty serious injury and needs months to recover, not weeks.
Also, this will be hypocritical as hell because I’m terrible at it, but still: talk to your wife about your worries. Being able to just talk to someone you can count on to support you can really help.
I was going to write a spiel but this guy pretty much summed it up…
Most importantly talk to someone!
You’re not alone, you’re surrounded (irl and online) by people who care about you and are willing to listen!
It wasn’t an easy thing you went through and naturally it’s taking its toll…
I can’t do much this far away other then listen, but if you need to talk/vent I’m more than happy to listen!
Same.
Although I will add keep in mind you have family and friends and the best thing you can do for them is to let them know when you need help. Some people can continue to function without it but everyone needs help, and even though it may not seem like it when you try and view the entire world at once people do want to help each other. Helping you would probably help those around you cope a little better with it.
Also don’t burn yourself out. If you have to try twice as hard to keep up with a pace you set when you were healthier then you’ve really got to ask yourself if it’s possible to keep going on that path. Sometimes you’ve got to make it work but you’ve got to remain open to the idea that circumstances have changed. It’s rough to admit that stuff but your body won’t let you lie to yourself very long. By letting go of the stuff that doesn’t matter you’ll be making it easier to put extra work into the stuff that does.
I like the way Ezir thinks.
Sorry to hear this, bud. *hugs*
Have you done any occupational therapy or physio therapy? You’re not going to be the same straight away, but in time you should get better.
It’s very hard not to panic because you’re not just worried for yourself. We’re all scared and of course we’re worried, but isn’t that a natural response? We can cope with a little worry. You need to tell the truth to get some help
I’m sorry to hear that man. Thing is, it was a pretty traumatic event you went through, and unfortunately recovery for these things isn’t instant. In the meantime, you’re doing the right things by your health, you’re being careful, and over time the paranoia and side effects will lessen.
As for the games, gonna throw this out there: Some of that’s just regular aging. I know my games twitchiness has gotten worse over the last few years, and I bet it’s degenerated even more this year as I’ve been taking a hiatus from games that need that (well, other than Bloodborne).
What if, and I’m just throwing it out there, we got @blaghman to duet “A Whole New World” with himself and he uploaded it to YouTube for your entertainment?
Butt in all seriousness, I can’t even begin to imagine how you’re feeling, it must suck. I don’t think I can add much more to what other people have said, so I’ll just reiterate you have a bunch of rad people around you for fist bumping, high fiving, hugging and leaning on…also leaning on things with you.
Give me… 24 hours.
You are not fine. And that’s ok.
You’ve been through a traumatic event that has damaged you both physically and emotionally. That’s going to take time to recover from, regardless of the cause. It’s fine to say, I’m ok *today*, or “it’s a tough day to day, and I don’t really feel up to doing x”. Saying no might be confronting or inconvenient for other people, but it’s the best thing you can do for yourself right now. Rest when you need it, accept help when offered. Talk to someone when things are feeling rough.As for the doctors, if there isn’t an obvious cause, they will be cautious, because doing more invasive testing might do more harm than just letting you heal and be monitored. By all means, however, make sure they follow up on any test results, and ask lots of questions. If you’re not confident you can remember everything, take someone with you to appointments, ask them to write key things down, send a summary to your GP for discussion, or they might even let you record the conversation for later.
I also saw that you’re keeping a journal. This is a really good thing, not just for work, but to write down the things that are worrying you, so that when the doctor asks, “how have you been?”, you can give them a detailed answer.
You had a stroke? When did this happen? Must’ve been during my Kotaku hiatus.I won’t pretend I know what you’re going through because I don’t. All I’ll say is that I really hope things improve for you and don’t feel too down on yourself because you really are a great guy.
If I can ever do anything to help, even if it’s just to talk feel free to hit me up on Steam (not on Twitter anymore).
*massive hugs*
I have the hug-giving feels.
That aside, putting on the ‘man’ hat and thinking about ‘fixing’ the problem… I’ve read about people able to re-wire their brains after significant (like giant chunks torn out) brain trauma.
Have you tried isolating and identifying whenever something doesn’t ‘feel right’? I’m wondering if we can start researching techniques others have used to take those sticking points, replicate conditions or identify triggers that would allow for alternate thinking techniques or simply practice/repetition to try and override impulses to write new ones in place of the faulty connections.
My neuroscience knowledge is a little rusty, but if I recall correctly, neural connections are basically a collection of fatty build-ups that resist electrical impulses. New thoughts, habits, memories are formed by how that electrical impulse fires and which connectors it travels through. The ‘shape’ of the path IS the thought/memory/skill. And learning by rote works by firing impulses along those pathways, so that the repeated charge burns out the resistance on the fatty connections between neurons. (And paths of least resistance being what they are, sometimes they fire along the wrong path because it’s easier, which is why memory association happens, or why old folks who’ve thought the same way for decades find it harder to change outmoded concepts.)
We have evidence that new pathways can be formed… and they’d be resistant initially, but they’d be, y’know… there, with enough impulse-firing.
I have no solutions for dealing with the panic beyond what probably you’re already doing.
I revisited a particularly dark memory in a nightmare the other night and pretty much the only solution I could think of was to utterly drown my brain in other stimuli to try and engage with literally anything other than thinking about that.
psst.. you’re looking for the word “neuroplasticity”
Yes! That’s the one!
If you need to talk, I can listen.
It’s okay to not be okay.
It’s okay to be scared.
There’s a shitload of awesome people ready and waiting to help you in any way you decide you need. We love you, Freezey.
*hugs*
Been watching a chunk of Charlie Brooker’s How TV Ruined Your Life.
Pretty Damn interesting, same great stuff from a guy who obviously loves, has watched a lot of & made plenty TV. It’s very much anti the way TV manipulates & changes people, but coming from somewhere that isn’t hate fueled. Which is key, because there’s enough hate filled shit available thanks to the internet.
It’s pretty great how he starts off explaining how things used to be, how they’ve changed & what they’ve become. I really enjoy this sort of stuff.
If you’ve ever seen any of his other shows, there’s a bit of overlap here & there, sometimes from a different angle.
I highly recommend & it’s free on YouTube, so no excuses!!
So I have been painting a ceiling and slowly working on fixing up the house. Being the good kid is hard work
Am I the only one that is thinking of Scree with that Squidhat on and using a splattergun all over the ceiling?
Painting the house, Splatoon style!
That would result in Scree painting the ceilings… and the walls… and the carpet…
Only the carpet counts though, so don’t waste your time on anything else.
What are you talking about! Painting anything but the floor doesn’t give you any points!
Oh man, I wish! It would makes things a lot more interesting and less painful.
Wisdom tooth needs to come out ASAP due to possible infection that could spread to entire jaw. Insurance waiting period for major dental won’t tick over for two months. Too broke to afford bills. Goodbye life. Or jaw, at least.
Uh… if it becomes a risk to your entire jaw, won’t it then be covered by public health cover, as an emergency?
I have no idea how emergency procedures are covered but I assume it doesn’t cover preventative and is more reactive? But I’m no expert 😛
Couldn’t hurt to at least ask? Wisdom teeth can be srs bsns.
You should be able to access emergency dental for tooth removal. Emergency dental doesn’t cover cosmesis however, but preservation of your jaw is probably way more important (also severe tooth/jaw infection can cause infective endocarditis which I’ve heard can be deadly…)
So these Rekorderlig dry apple ciders Dan Murphy’s have for $10 a 6 pack this month for ‘My Dan Murphy’s’ members are pretty nice.
Never really been big on ciders, I’m pretty much a beer and spirits guy. That said, a pint glass with half Guiness and half Scrumpy Jack (not sure if they even make it anymore) is pretty nice.
A lot of ciders are god awful, when you can find a good one they’re pretty awesome. Still the best ones i’ve had were some homebrew dads mate did for me, they were up around the 7 or 8% range we think haha.
I don’t think I’d checked the specials yet, thanks for the tip. Cider is so nice in summer.
There’s some good ones this month, The MOA Pale Ale is nice, rather fruity. And it is like a 4.7% which is also nice.
I like the whole idea of the membership thing, it lets me justify buying alcohol 😛 Then again when I worked there my justification was “I have to be able to suggest things to the customers” lol. If I stayed there any longer I probably would’ve ended up sampling just about every beer & cider, and most spirits haha.
The $10 six packs are a great way to try out something new. Although at the moment we’re just hanging out waiting for this year’s Summer Ale to arrive from Monteiths. Best beer ever.
On a lighter note, time to start spamming Tay with notices that expressions of interest for Secret SanTAY are now open!
SECRET SANTAY 2015!
Secretly give small gifts to each other either perfectly encapsulating your person or get that jerk a poo in a box because they’ll never know it was you.
Send an email to binoter where the mail is hot with your address please (every year I forget to ask that and spend weeks chasing them up) and sometime next week you’ll get your match, giving you some time to organise it.
ALSO
because this happens every year cause we are a bunch of busy assholes.
FREEZE PUTS LOTS OF EFFORT INTO THIS, IF YOU ARE GOING TO FORGET DONT PARTICIPATE ITS DISRESPECTFUL TO FREEZE AND EVERYONE ELSE.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS ASSBAGS
90% of the time it’s turned out to be an Auspost screw up, to the surprise of no one.
I, for one, will NOT be using a parcel locker this year. I actually want to get my parcel!
Are we setting some arbitrary guilt-prevention price limits to prevent moments of, “I SENT A JOKE SINGING FISH TROPHY BUT THIS PERSON GOT ME SOMETHING TOUCHING AND INSIGHTFUL OH GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE” shame?
(If you get a singing fish trophy, I swear it wasn’t me. I’m being framed.)
Just a question have you thought of asking people to give a few things they’re interested in when signing up to help the person who gets you pick something out for you. i’ve seen this done with a few secret santas is all 😛
Nah, spirit is less “get this person something they want/need” and more along getting something funny, interesting or just to suit how you are. ie: @CookingMama sending @beeawwb the Hot Toddy cake was a stroke of genius.
Lol, stroke.
Fuck you Freeze. Too soon.
Sorry.
Ah fair call 😛 I just suck at thinking of what to get people and totally need hints xD
it’s easy
Just stalk your target on social media!Ooh good idea.
I feel sorry for the poor sap who gets me & tries that with my Twitter though lol.
Easier for some than others, I’m sure 😛
You’re going to get some shirts and pants from K-Mart, because PUT ON SOME DAMN CLOTHES, BOY!
YOU’RE NOT MY REAL MUM
I’m in, will email, but price limit is a good idea
Don’t we always?
Isn’t it always $20?
I would like to be a part of this and shall email you soonish!
Afternoon errbody hows every little thing?
My weekend was filled with near projectile vomits and annoyance.
Friday
Cathryn and I had to babysit her 3 cousins, this was all well and fine. Until their dad told us we had to go pick one up from a school thing at 8pm half an hour away then one has basketball at 8am 40 minutes away then you have to get her home because she has a party to go to at 2:30 near her school, which is again, 30 minutes away. So we fed two of them, picked the third up at 8pm and then took them back to theirs so they could go to sleep for tomorrow. Cathryn and I stayed up to watch Netflix.Saturday
The girls (did I mention they were all girls?) wake us up at 6am by jumping on our bed and off we go to basketball and that was definitely a thing, lotta aggro 8 year olds bashing each other for the ball. Afterwards we drove to the shops to get stuff for lunch where we had our first temper tantrum from the youngest, whos 7. Apparently one of the girls had shoved her into the door and she hurt her arm but didn’t tell anyone and Cathryn told her off because she was kneeling on the back seat so her seatbelt was doing nothing incase of an accident and Cathryn had to tell her 3 times before she finally listened and then started crying because she got told off. That was the start of what would be several tantrums and alot of thinking they were better than us and didn’t have to listen to us. I hate spoilt kids. We then found out that the aunty on their mums side who was meant to babysit them on the Saturday night, couldn’t come and get them so wanted us to bring them to her house A FREAKIN HOUR AND A HALF AWAY. We said we weren’t doing that and her response was “Well I dont have a car so you’ll just have to look after them” Turns out she went out clubbing that night anyway for her friends 20thAnyway skipping over things we played Bean Boozled a terrible game made by horrible people, I nearly threw up and now theirs a video online of it. So if you wanna watch me nearly vomit over mingin jelly beans here’s the link
Make sure to give it a like and subscribe, you can also share it if you like, Cathryn is tryna make a channel so expect to see alot of me doing stupid shit on there.
Sunday
Sunday the girls dad was meant to get back early, he didn’t. Cathryn and I were planning to go to the movies, we couldn’t. I figured we would get paid like usual for babysitting, thanks to their dad’s new girlfriend we should “Feel privileged to be able to babysit them” and “you should never charge family to look after family” even though she gave her brother $50 for looking after them for 3 hours 2 weekends ago. So yeah weekend was basically wasted and safe to say while parts were fun the majority was underwhelming and frankly feel like I didn’t even get a weekend.Monday afternoon question, What’s something crazy I can do for Cathryn’s channel in the hopes of getting it views and stuff.
I’ll always watch a video of people eating ridiculous chillies.
I like my mouth not to be melted, I feel like if I ate a chilli I would need paramedics on hand
That’s what makes it great viewing! If you’re sweating and crying and someone has to apply drugs to keep your tongue from swelling so much that you can’t breathe or swallow, that’s views right there.
Dark Souls is going well. I played it for pretty much all day yesterday. I struggle to play most games for more than two hours, so that was probably the longest gaming session I’ve had since I played Katawa Shoujo for 9 hours in January 2014.
I was having trouble with the Capra Demon, but then I found out it’s incredibly easy to cheese him. Yesterday’s playthrough led to a lot of progress, including defeating the Moonlight Butterfly, upgrading my battle axe to a magic battle axe, saving Griggs, and going through the Depths. I don’t know what @negative-zero is talking about, the Depths is probably one of the most fun places in the game. I had an absolute blast running through there. Getting cursed a couple of times wasn’t fun, but it was easily fixable. I’ve already made more progress than with my first character.
I got to the Gaping Dragon, but I homeward bone-d out of there when I remembered that killing it would make Lautrec do a bad, bad, thing. I killed Lautrec by throwing Dung Pies at him until be both died of toxic. Good times. I was hoping he would drop his armour set, but what are you going to do.
I guess I’m free to beat the Depths or Blighttown or whatever. The one annoying thing is that since I turned my battle axe into a magic weapon, I can’t use pine resin on it. What made the Depths so fun was using a bunch of Charcoal Pine Resins and beating everything up. Now I’ll have to rely on fire bombs for fire damage. I hope I don’t regret changing my battle axe magic, it means I can’t turn it into a fire axe or all this other cool shit, which would have been fun.
I guess if I regret turning my battle axe magic I can grind for Titanite and turn a new battle axe into something else. I think I might do that. Woohoo Dark Souls is so fun!
Few things –
1. Curse is easily dealt with… Now. Used to be purging stones were only available from Ingward on top of the New Londo church, an area you shouldn’t be in until near endgame and involved running through a crap tonne of ghosts and trying desperately not to die. Eventually they patched in other merchants selling it so is more a minor irritant now.
2. You wanted Lautrec to do the thing. Would have unlocked another part later and got a bunch of shiny items from it and fixed the thing.
3. Magic weapons are only useful early game if you’re running an INT build and later running into enchanted upgrades. Scaling stats gets super important later so need to plan build accordingly. Game is fairly forgiving until the S&O skill check.
Oh, I was advised by a friend that Lautrec doing the thing was bad. Then again, he told me this over a year ago, so maybe I forgot details of it.
EDIT: And yeah, I am doing an INT build, so making a magic axe makes sense. I was leaning towards a strength build recently as magic hasn’t been very useful up until this point.
Details
Lautrec kills the Firekeeper at the Shrine and the bonfire goes out. You get a few items including a Black Eye Stone that you can use later in the game to invade Lautrecs world. Kill him and his buddies and you get a bunch of items, Firekeeper is restored to life.As far as magic, I don’t think you are doing it right. Magic is Dark Souls easy mode.
Yeah, that’s what I thought would happen. I’d much rather have Firelink Shrine working at the moment than get cool shit later on.The Lautrec story is awesome. I let it happen every time, just because I love it. It’s a tough battle, though, to bring him down.
Also, if you allow the Firekeeper to be killed and then hunt down Lautrec, you have the option to use the Firekeeper soul to improve your Estus, rather than bring her back to life. It’s a very dark choice.AND you lose access to the bonfire AND there’s a cap to Estus improvement so it’s only ever a temporary bonus anyway! Who would DO that?!
Yeah, yeah, I know. But the cap is only relevant if you plan to mine NG+ as well, and if you do that the bonfire resets anyway. Short-term gain for long-term non-consequence! 🙂
Well, Fallout 4 is almost upon us. Be picking up my copy in the morning on my way to work. Won’t be able to play when I get home though as my son will be home from school, can’t play after he and the wife go to bed either as the sound apparently keeps them awake. Wish I still had the PS4 set up in the spare room where I could use headphones, but there’s too much crap in there now.
Oh well, at least I’ll be able to play all day Wednesday
And a pageget, well done monkey.
What about using headphone port in the PS4 controller? 😛
Thanks, I forgot about that, I’ll have to give it a go. Although my wireless headphones have to be plugged into a USB port as well as a headphone jack to work, so I’ll probably have to sit fairly close to the TV.
The USB isn’t just for amplification or microphone functionality? They also take regular headphones if you can dig up a comfortable pair.
This.
I use the ones that came with my Samsung
Because my headphones are wireless you need to have the USB transmitter plugged in to send the audio to the headphones.
https://www.ebgames.com.au/ps4-204360-Afterglow-PS4-Wireless-Headset-PlayStation-4
I heartily recommend some USB headphones from EB. I got some Turtle Beach P12s with the microphone in it which comes with an ultra-long cable and the sound quality has been unexpectedly good. So good that I move them to whatever device I’m using. And it was only like… $80 or something.
Well, my DDR mats are at the post office.
Got em off eBay for $40 with Free Postage, so I just have to get them tomorrow.
So this girl being bit by a dog in Bunnings yesterday or whatever, I finally got the full story (before I could only find stories that read that “aggressive dog mauled a 5 year old in Bunnings”)
Real story, little girl saw a doggy, attempted to pat it without asking the owner, dog freaked out & then reacted like the child was a threat. It was a Jack Russell of some sort apparently, and from my experiences they’re never a calm dog a lot like most Chihuahuas. Whilst I don’t think it’s the best idea Bunnings have brought in, they think it’s a good idea so power to them or whatever. I won’t be taking advantage of it, maybe if I am at Pet Barn with Chilli which is next door to Bunnings & the old man needs my help getting some stuff from the garden section or whatever.
But as a dog owner, kids freak me the fuck out when I am out & about with Chilli. A lot of kids see her & call her Red Dog, then proceed to run at her. Thankfully she is a “OMG PEOPLE THEY’RE GONNA PAT ME THIS IS LIKE THE BEST THING EVER” kind of dog. But still, I have to make her stop, sit & stay calm, whilst I tell kids to calm down & be gentle with her also inform them that she likes to lick.
Quick, we must ban all Jack Russell’s, they clearly are a violent breed of dog.
#wontsomeonethinkofthechildren
To be fair they are sort of dicks. I’ve always found ‘scary’ dogs aren’t violent unless they’re abused but little dogs like Jack Russells are always feral.
Man, most small dogs are scary as fuck. Chilli will agree having been attacked multiple times by them, she has no idea what to do when a dog comes running at her either.
Sounds like a good plan to me 😛
Young children around dogs always makes me uncomfortable. Especially when the kids parents don’t tell the child to be gentle.
I’m lucky Sid is so gentle and calm. He doesn’t care if people pat him. Kids have pulled his ears and tail and he coped. I think that the Jack Russel isn’t really in the wrong. It’s the parents responsibility to make sure that the child asks the owner of the dog before touching.
Been playing a bit of Plague Inc. and now it’s got me in the mood to watch 28 Days Later.
Edit: Went to get the DVD out and realized I’d have to pull a bunch of junk out of the spare room just to get it, so that ain’t happening. Checked on Netflix and they only have the sequel, happened a couple of other times to where they have the sequel but not the original, what the hell’s up with that?
Oh well, I guess it’ll have to do.
Terrible movie. One of the few I have ever walked out of.
Been a long time since I watched it, but I don’t recall thinking it was that bad. Then again I like The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which apparently makes me a bad person with no taste.
Umm, that movie is fantastic.
A bit dated, sure, but fantastic.
The sequel or the original? I didn’t love the original but it was good enough. The sequel was the one with the dad zombie that seemed to just follow them around and the really poorly planned containment system for a very predictable situation, right? I could understand walking out on that one.
I think it was just a mismatch of expectation. It was decsribed to me as “a bit like Day of The Triffids” and after sitting through more than half an hour of violence and no plot we just gave up and walked out.
Wow. That’s an oddly specific yet totally wrong movie to compare it to. Well for the record there is a plot once they establish what’s going on. It’s still almost non-stop brutality though. The big appeal of it is that it’s a zombie movie that twists all the cliches around by making the zombies more of a threat, so I guess if you weren’t impressed by the first 30 minutes it’s probably not for you.
Yeah, as I said, it was mostly a mismatch of expectation.
Just realised I don’t think I ever shared this link here. Photos from Can’d Meat 2015!
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0ByCDzGhNkpYqajFia3VSX2oxTmc&usp=drive_web
Side note: If people don’t want their photo being on the Internet, let me know and I’ll remove it.
I don’t.
Not enough to actually make you remove them, I just don’t like photos of me that aren’t the ones I spend 16 hours taking.
To be fair, even if you asked me to, I wouldn’t.
I’ve told you before, @Blaghman, GET OUT OF MY KITCHEN
I fucking hate marking.
Ugh.
Do you mark in red? I found for mundane marking like class tests, marking in other colours like orange, green or hot pink helped break up the monotony.
I don’t want to set the world on fire,
I just want to start a flame in your heart.
Well explains the heart burn then 😛
So I Fallout 4 Midnight Launched.
Guess I might try installing it tomorrow night.
Funny thing, I think that’s the first midnight launch I’ve actually gone to.
FALLOUT DAY WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Happy Fallout Day *throws confetti*
Hope everyone has fun playing Fallout, because I preordered mine back when I was still living in Dromana I can’t pick my copy up until Thursday which is when Cathryn will get it for me, then I won’t actually get to sit down and actually play the dang game till Monday because my PS4 is at my parents and we are spending the weekend at Cathryn’s dad’s place. CURSE YOU WORLD
Shit! And I thought I had it bad. My condolences.
I have nearly a week of spoiler dodging to do now. Do not pray for me it will already be ruined haha
So the Pip-Boy, it’s nice. But it’s not as well made as I expected :/ Oh well it’ll be a nice piece to sit on the shelf.
Decided to pick up Fallout 4 early. Went to Target, it wasn’t on the shelf, asked someone about it and of course they had no idea about the game or when it was meant to be out, I had to show them in the catalogue, then they went to find it out the back. Finally got home and popped it in, surprise surprise there’s an update, 504.8MB to be exact which thankfully downloaded super quick (there’s also a PS4 system software update out today too). Still gotta shower and get ready for work, so I’ve probably got about 45 minutes max, if I’m lucky I’ll be able to get through the character creator and that’s about it.
#firstworldproblems
Edit: By the way I only got the standard and it came with the perk poster, so it’s obviously not a EB exclusive.
EB was getting the Nuka-Cola poster & Sountrack to the game. The perk poster was a bonus with some random eBay deal lol.
Yeah, wanted the Nuka Cola poster and soundtrack, but I couldn’t justify paying an extra $36 for it.
Price match?
Used to ask about price matching, but every time I was told no, so I just stopped asking.
Yeah, same in the city. Working in the burbs & they said yes as long as it’s in Australia & isn’t understand cost
It’s not a full soundtrack, it’s five ‘featured’ tracks. 😛
The poster’s pretty cool, though. I dig that style.
Eh, close enough lol. I haven’t even opened the poster yet. Hell mine hasn’t even finished downloading, thanks to my DVD drive not wanting to work this morning :/
Urg, just found out that of the four of here that can both (a) Answer the phone and talk to people and, (b) Answer technical questions, that I’m the only one available next week. Two tied up in meetings most of the week, one on leave, then me. Couple of 50+ hour weeks in the last month, and then I was getting ready to take a day or two off and get my Fallout on, but instead I can deal with phone calls and feel like I accomplish nothing for a few days.
So, apparently Fallout 4 doesn’t actually start installing until you launch the game (sitting at 40% now).
Something something next gen.
Nothing particularly important happens today…
People at work are snickering at me me but I don’t care
GONNA MOSEY WHILE I MOSEY
Central station this morning, I notice a guy carrying an EB bag. And then notice that it’s kind of large, almost like it’s got a joystick or something inside. Then I realise he’s holding it weird, kind of clutching it to his chest rather than carrying it like a normal bag. Then he turns the corner walking away from me, and I see from behind that his blue shirt has a yellow 111 on it. And suddenly what I saw makes sense, and I can’t help but start laughing.
Here’s my Fallout 4 build
(S)trength: 6
(P)erception: 2
(E)ndurance: 5
(C)harisma: 2
(I)ntelligence: 5
(A)gility: 4
(L)uck: 4
I know it’s a bit early, but what builds are you all rocking?
Edit: Oh, and he’s called Punch N Shooty
Have to fiddle, but it’ll be something like
(S)trength: 5
(P)erception: 2
(E)ndurance: 1
(C)harisma: 7
(I)ntelligence: 8
(A)gility: 3
(L)uck: 2
BigW online has the white PS4 console for 383 with free shipping, is that a good deal, or are there better bundles out there?
that’s pretty good, but check ozbargain
Goddammit! Have to stop playing now. Stupid work.
I REFUSE TO GIVE IN TO YOUR FALLOUT HYPE!
*flex*
I don’t need fallout when I have splatoon!
Hope you were on Team Ghost!
Considering that the other game I’m playing on WiiU is project Zero 4, yes, yes I was.
GHOST SQUAD ASSEMBLE!
I was worried how that was going to turn out. I spent all day getting nothing but Ghost vs Ghost matches, and most teams I ended up with were useless in the few matches I had against zombies. Think at one point I even had fewer wins than losses against them.
Thankfully by the evening the zombies started shambling in and I got to steamrolling them, something like 3:1.
I got 10 wins in a row. First time ever. But man, some of my teammates were useless. They ran off and started death matching, leaving me to paint everything. I’m a 52 gal person too.
I got heaps of Ghost vs Ghost matches too. Was expecting a much higher popularity gap than it ended up being.
I must’ve got all the bad Zombie teams because I don’t remember losing all that often. Got some actual decent teams for once maybe!
Some truth there. I don’t think Fallout 4 will live up to Fallout 3. Seriously how can it be beaten when Liam Neeson is the voice of one’s dad in the game?
Yeah, but Neeson felt so token in that game… Almost as much as Patrick Stewart in Oblivion.
Nah, I think we only had them for a short period because if they were there for the duration each copy would cost $20,000, 😛
Butitwouldbesoworthit!!!!
Today is probably the last day that I’ll ever have to deal with those horribly incompetent real estate agents from my last rental. We’re going to the tribunal to dispute their claim against our bond. My argument is simple: it is fair wear and tear and trying to claim $170 to fix it is ludicrous.
On a more positive note, this is giving me an excuse to go into town where I can conveniently purchase a copy of Pandemic Legacy. Freya and I are going to drag @blaghman into playing with us but there is room for one more. If only there were some board gaming TAYbies that lived nearby.
I’LL SKYPE IN
MOVE ALL MY PIECES
Or ask Colin.
That sounds like a lot of effort. The whole point of getting more people around to play board games is that there are more people around to do the tedious physical labour part.
Well, ask Colin then
It feels kind of weird. By the by, if he goes to any of the regular board game groups around Canberra, I’m making an effort to get to them. There’s one at the Southern Cross Club on Friday evenings (from about 7pm) that I’ll hopefully make it to a few weeks in a row.
I dunno, don’t think he does. Haven’t spoken to him for a bit
Headsets!
Anyone know a good headset that’s not too much dosh? Want one I can use on Playstation for Fallouting while I walk. Otherwise I’ll just go into EB and drop cash
Depending on how much the walking is going to push you/you push yourself, I’d lean away from headsets and get earbuds of some sort. Less issues with sweat.
Actually, good point, the PS controller has that headphone jack.
Right! to Big W to drop less cash!
I bought a pair of panasonic headphones with a mic from Target for $50 (cityscape or something. they had denim on the headband). Works great with the ps4 controller
So I’ve managed to get Fallout installed, confirmed that it’s working fine (defaulted to high, which I can work with considering 680) and then had to go to work. Ah well, later though!
In the mean time, my Galaxy S6 doesn’t fit in the pip-boy, even though the S5 is officially supported. I checked the dimension differences and there’s like 1mm between the S5 and S6…
…and the S6 doesn’t fit by about 1mm.
Good thing I planned ahead and have this old iTouch which fits fine 😛
the other option is dremel, DREMEL EVERYTHING
I’m seriously considering it. I’d have to be fairly careful to avoid causing serious damage to it considering it’s mostly plastic, as well as hide the shitty job I’d inevitably do.
My first 12 hours with Chinese self balance scooter thing
first 5 minutes- OHHHHHHH MY GOD, wow this is easy to ride, just slow and steady and practice turning and going forward. WOw im picking this up really easy.
minute 6- LETS SEE HOW FAST I CAN GO INSIDE…… (Hit the side of the speaker and faceplant)
minute 6-10- I got cocky i still need to practice going slow and steady and turning
minute 11- IM MUCH BETTER AT CONTROLLING IT THIS TIME-LETS SEE WHAT THIS BABY CAN DO (proceed to hit speaker and fall backwards)
minute 12- Slow and steady gotta learn the ropes
This pattern continued for 3 hours, various ways i have fallen off include: THe turkey gobbled and scared me, the german shepard jumped on me, i ran over a grape and didn’t look were i was going and ran into the hand rail, The cat jumped onto my feet while riding
10/10 for fun though, I havent actually hurt myself but it does require a high degree of awareness of surrounding because it doesnt go over bumps. but its easily the funnest form of transport i have ever ridden.
How much was it kemosabi?
$250 with $50 shipping. got it from a chinese marketplace website where you haggle for the price.
Excited DC just turned into sad DC. The PC disc version of Fallout 4 still makes me download 20gb. :'(
Guess I better get it installed and updating tonight if I want to play it Wednesday then.
You know it. There will be no Fallout today. *cries*
I will stream me playing and follow your advice on stream? Or we can try out that playstation hand the controller thing?
Thanks, Red. I’ll just wait I think. Which means I’ll have to avoid the interwebs entirely today. NO SPOILERS. NOT EVEN FIRST IMPRESSIONS. *shuts down computer, sets it on fire*
BUT YOU NEED TO SEE HOW MUCH I CAN MAKE MY GUY LOOK LIKE TONY STARK
Er, how are you going to play Fallout 4 when your computer is toast?
I didn’t think this through! TO THE COMPUTER STORE!
Clerk at the desk: “Er, could you like serve yourself and do my job? I’m busy playing Fallout 4.”
“Go over that bleak and desolate grey-dirt hill, sparsely littered with the withered charcoal-sketch impressions of ravaged tree corpses!”
“Er…”
“You know, the one with the blowflies around it, and the rustling tangle of cobweb-like skeletons of what once was shrubbery.”
“Uhm…”
“In the direction of that undiscovered marker that looks like a, uh… a… icon I don’t recognize or know how to describe.”
“Hm. Sooo… this way?”
“No, the other way that meets all those criteria!”
Yup, 5GB installed from disc and that’s it. Being the pessimist that I am, this is why I picked it up at midnight. I let the install run overnight so it’s good to go.
…now I just need to get out of work.
Arrrrgh, I got crappy internet plan and it WILL cap. That’s the whole reason I still buy physical versions of PC games. :'(
Can you buy more data blocks?
If I were running on PC, I would offer to drive over a copy on an external hard drive.
Sadly, I am not.
Nice thought anyways, thanks man. But yeah, this is a first world problem and I’m just venting. Fallout 4 tomorrow will be just as great as Fallout 4 today. 🙂 And won’t need fast interwebs when I’ve got a wasteland to mosey about.
You won’t believe the start of the game!
After creating your character, you’re invited to an audience with Professor Van Braun himself! There he gives you a tour of vault 404 which is one of the hardest to locate and he shows you the most advanced technology Vault-Tech has created.
While there though you are drugged with a sedative so strong your body is perfectly preserved where upon Prof. Braun stuffs you in a disused locker.
200 years later you wake up, get outside and find that the Earth’s crush is not torched, it is perfectly fine. But everyone wishes it had because the gaming and movie industries have collapsed to the point they have nothing but movies featuring Kim Kardashian and Duke Nukem: Forever sequels.
I made the mistake of setting the difficulty to brass balls thus making the radio in the Pipboy play nothing but songs by Paris Hilton.
And if you’re still reading this, yes I’m taking the piss out of the series, 😛
Yeah, this. Any TAYbie near you could share the files?
Ah, the good old Sneakernet.
High latency, but fast transfer rate. Got me through Uni.
It speaks volumes that it’s still entirely relevant, viable, and frequently far more efficient than Australian Internet.
Not just Australia, but the US and Europe.
Seriously, developers of some high speed internet in Europe were left red faced when someone beat them with USB drives strapped to carrier pigeons.
Still relevant:
https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
That makes me unnecessarily angry. What a joke.
Strange that yours downloaded.
I got mine at a midnight launch and simply started the installer before going to bed. When I went to be bed, it was actively copying from the disk at was at 200 MB out of 20 GB (?) when I turned in.
It was all ready for me when I got up in the morning.
The installer seamlessly switches over from copying to downloading at the 5GB mark. I stayed up to see at what point it would happen 😛
I’ve raged enough in other posts so I’ll be civilised this time.
If the physically disk only has the first 5 GB, when why not just press a BluRay? Or, if they really need to save on the cost of media, give us an option to pay extra for a BluRay copy.
The game is on a BluRay for consoles so why can’t PCs have that same convenience to start gamers there off?
If consoles are using BluRay media, then I see no reason for PCs to still use DVDs. What PC doesn’t have a BluRay drive besides Macs (they are brand name PCs after all)?
I’m not justifying lack of on-disc data, just pointing out that yours downloaded too, as part of the disc install. It sounded like you were saying yours installed entirely from disc 😛
I don’t have a bluRay in any PC I have owned. I scarcely bothered with a DVD drive
I abandoned optical drives altogether once I realized you could install Windows from a USB.
Works a treat until I remember I have a massive DVD collection and can’t watch any of them on the PC. Good thing the XB360 is still cranking.
Yeah there was an article on PC Gamer that advised that even with the physical disc you still gotta download half the game; I’ll be leaving my pc on overnight to hopefully have it up and running by Wed/Thurs.
Oh man, my complete media blackout backfired. I missed this piece of advice! D:
Dear Bethesda,
JUST PRESS ANOTHER #%$&-ING DVD AND PUT IT IN THE BOX OR USE A BLU-RAY DISK!
Signed,
2015.
EDIT: Sorry, this was meant to be in response to @puttp3tmast3r
Yeeeeah, in hindsight I should’ve just bought it weeks ago on Steam and pre-loaded. *shakes fist*
Sorry if I over rage this but … YOU SHOULD %^&$-ING HAVE TO!
Seriously, if they can put the game on a BluRay for the XBone and PS4, why not the PC?
Why is it that PC games are still coming out on DVD? It just completely warps my mind.
Anyhow, I think I’m done raging. It’s working for me now so I shouldn’t be whining anyway. But it still staggers me why DVD has not been dropped for PC games yet.
Obviously you don’t have enough points in the luck stat.
Should I try running Fallout 4 on my PC just for a laugh?
Most of the hardware is from 2007 and was still a reasonably good PC … when fallout 3 came out.
You might need to turn down some options depending on your GPU, but I’d say go for it!
The bottleneck is the Core2Duo (overclocked to 2.7 gig, but it’s still a wheezing old CPU)
Edit: GPU got replaced 3 or 4 years ago with a mid range cheapie when the old 8800GTX behemoth kicked the bucket
Minimum specs:
Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required)
Intel Core i5-2300 2.8 GHz/AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0 GHz or equivalent
8 GB RAM
30 GB free HDD space
NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or equivalent
Hmmm. Not sure how your CPU will cope. What graphics card do you have?
I honestly have no idea. It was a ‘good enough’ one that does a better job than the CPU.
Hmmm… Min spec on CPU is 2.8, I could probably give the OC another bump if I need to.
Well Yes. But the recommended i5-2300 has 4 physical cores, whereas you only have 2.
Also Intel Turbo Boost will push it up to 3.1 GHz, whereas your CPU is static at 2.7/2.8Ghz.
Then there is the significant efficiency improvements between generations etc.
Currently I’m playing the game at full bore with no issue and this is what I have (so it predates even yours in the memory and CPU department).
* Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.4 GHz (Q6600)
* 8 GB DDR2 Cosair Value Select
* Gigabyte G1 GTX 960
However I will admit, I’ve only played it for a couple of hours this morning just to see if it will work.
So I won’t know for sure even for my own system until I get into an area with more characters.
Beavwa’s Core2Duo is slower than your Q6600 for sure. As long as you have 8GB of memory it should run ok, with a few stutters here and there.
Pretty sure I’ve only got 4GB DDR2, that may also be my undoing.
Fallout 4 is meant to run on the same engine as Skyrim; how was your PC in handling that game?
I can Skyrim – my backup arrangement is to use my wife’s PC while she does another Skyrim playthrough on mine.
Hello all,
I’m guessing a lot of you are buying/playing Fallout 4 today? I really would like to get it now, but alas i got Forza 5 Ultimate in Sept, and only just got Halo 5. So i must wait for now, not sure how long. Hopefully not til Christmas because i will be away with family then and won’t have my PC with me, i could bring the Xbox, but i don’t really want to play it on console. #gamerproblems
What’s everyone else up to today?
I am
working hardOK just marking time until I can explore the boston waste.Haha. Wish i could mark time until i can play.
Oh, it is actually Boston… that explains the unnerving accents.
We placed a moratorium on the word “boston” in my family after my dad went there for a conference once then wouldn’t shut up about it.
Looking back, it was the first international travel he’d done since he’d pretty much been a newlywed, so the novelty was strong. He’s since been to lots more places.
This is something I had to do with my youngest brother when it comes to Japan.
There was a time when you couldn’t discuss anything without him comparing it to something similar/done better in Japan.
Had he actually gone/lived in Japan at that stage?
God I hope so, otherwise he’s one of those people
But then I picture him finally going to Japan, eyes widening with tears welling. “It’s everything I thought it would be!”
Oh, yeah. He was riding on enthusiasm from his visits. Several months, several visits.
It was very much a case of:
“Where’s the Bay? Oh, it’s about 4hrs drive north.”
“We really need the Shinkansen, here. It’d only take 20min and they leave on the exact second that they’re scheduled to.”
***
“Who feels like sushi? It’s not Sono, but the train down in the mall is still pretty good.”
“It won’t be as good as the sushi at the train station in Shibuya.”
***
“Man, paypass really makes drive-through a lot easier.”
“In Japan they have phone-based payments which are so much better.”
“Dude. I’m not handing my phone through a drive-through window.”
“They don’t really need drive-through over there because everything is so close together and public transport is so much better that you can be anywhere. And combinis are on literally every block’s corner and they’re open 24/7 and their meals are better than most fast-food restaurant meals.”
***
And so on and so forth. Between that, and occasionally ‘accidentally’ slipping Japanese words into regular conversation in place of the English… It got old pretty quick.
Understandable enthusiasm; I LOVED the place when I was there, and would highly recommend it to anyone, and yes, their achievements and conveniences are truly impressive. I would love for our trains to run to the schedule that theirs do, and the quality of food at their 7-11s is shockingly high compared to here.
But after a while your tolerance for constantly hearing about it goes, and you start imposing restrictions.
Oh, I’m sure I raved about South America for weeks.
To be fair, it’s alot easier to have good services when people are that packed together. Trying to get that sort of service in any Australian city is impossible, since people are so spread out.
I think the day Aussies are happy to live in a capsule hotel instead of having a 2 car garage and a back yard is the day we get decent urban infrastructure.
I’m interested in trying it but I’ll wait until next year maybe. Got mega burned by Skyrim on PS3 so I’m not buying Bethesda games at launch anymore.
Heaps of other stuff to play in the meantime!
Understandable for the console versions, there’s been reports of some issues with the PS4/XBone copies regarding performance.
At least on a PC, you can just go into the settings and jack them down.
Ahhhh, it’s been a few years since I’ve properly Master Raced. The peak of it was probably around Fallout 3 so it’s like I get to re-live a time gone past.
PS3 was known to have sub-par graphics and performance on multiplatform games. Loading times were especially terrible for Skyrim. PS4 and XBONE are both pretty safe bets this time around, having very similar hardware. They both render Fallout 4 1080P @ 30fps. The PS4 has smaller framerate drops, it doesn’t surprise me that both consoles have dips to 20fps, especially if they are streaming assets in. They both have slow standard laptop hard drives in them.
Having typed all this up, I then realized, that pretty much anyone who would have my mobile number, likely has me on facebook anyway, but oh wells..
In case you don’t have me on fb, I’m getting a holter monitor test done today, and can’t be around mobile phones for 24hrs, so if you need to contact me, plz do so via the interweb.
One blood test came back today showing I had super low iron levels, which made the doc ask if I was vegetarian. That’s a bit nope! Hell, I’ve eaten lamb and beef for at least 5 meals that I can think of in the past week alone! Anyway, he gave me a script for something to boost it, and said it may help to alleviate my dizziness, but more work still to be done and more tests to come back. Next up, colonoscopy! Eeep!
Best of luck with your health, champ. I don’t know if this will help but some foods (such as coffee) can inhibit the body’s ability to absorb iron.
So for the short term, doctor allowing, maybe modify the diet abit until your iron levels get back up.
Cheers man. Doc did warn me about a few things, but he said coffee should be ok for now thankfully! Doubt I’ll be doing a whole lot of drinking coffee though if the heat keeps up. Not too hot atm, but hot enough that I don’t want coffee as much as normal!
All the best, bud. 🙂
For the Fallout people stuck at work, I’ve started playing a fun new game: try and use the word “Fallout” as frequently as possible in workplace conversations. Bonus points for thematic references!
Is Fallout4 released today?
But… I’d have to talk to other people to play this game.
That doesn’t sound fun.
I’ve been doing it through emails 😛
I was actually doing a bug report this morning.
I replaced every instance of “as a result of this” to “The fallout of this” or similar.
I’m currently auditing our backup system so it’s really easy to describe the fallout from having poor backups, and the current wasteland that is the primary NAS for each site.
I just customised the script for when a .war file fails to deploy. The new error:
War. War never changes.
Why did I not think of this sooner?
This is just like the time I got part of the Pokemon theme lyrics into the objective of my team at work.
tech people are the best
Our servers used to be named after planets in the Star Wars universe.
Bringing down Alderaan when we switch hosting environments was fun.
I texted my boss this morning: “Think I need a sick day today, having a bit of a fallout from this flu.”
Still went to work though because I don’t know why…
Picked up two Pip Boy editions. $140 each.
Amazing what happens if you treat EB staff like humans instead of trash.
One for each wrist?
I went to EB this morning instead of my usual JB just because they were open earlier. Dude was SUPER nice in general and happily price matched. 🙂
Part of me still wishes I’d gone the lunchbox edition so I could have a fallout 4 lunchbox and bobblehead to match my fallout 3 lunchbox and bobblehead.
CBD EB staff seem to be too busy to care.
Out at Stafford I’m getting great customer service, a quick chat & they happily price match anywhere in Australia within reason.
It’s Rise of the Planet of the Tomb Raider day!
Anyone? Anyone?
*kicks dust around* Sure is lonely round here…
*flails arms until early 2016 when PC version is released*
My arms are sore.
Don’t stop.
I… stopped. I’m sorry, Alex. I let you down. :'(
…I trusted you.
I tried, man. I tried. I’m sorry. *ugly cries*
Surely you mean it’s Starcraft 2: History of the Space day!
The ad banners on the sides of the page can’t decide what to do with all these games coming out at once. Every refresh is a new game! How exciting.
Welcome to November. We’ll take care of your money for you.
No! Bad Pants! The internet has decreed that you are not allowed to get hype for anything. Ever.
Everything is just the worst.
Whoops. Don’t know what came over me there…
Don’t let it happen again.
*goes back to staring at Fallout 4*
Yeah! Down with pants!
Looks like it’s up to you to protect Lara.
I am super hype for this!
Played a bit last night. Cant wait to get back home from work.
Waiting for my Xbone to arrive from the shipping company and then it will be mine.
I’m hearing rumors around the office here of a three-for-two deal at some store and I don’t have Halo 5 yet either…
Oh yeah, Splatfest on Sunday was the first chance I had to try out the newly nerfed Splatoon update. Hoooooly crap those E-litre nerfs are hurting hard. It’s practically turned into a long-range Bamboozler, anything less than a full charge won’t kill an enemy so needs a second shot. They need to nerf the nerf, change the max charge to 110 instead of 100 (down from 120 previously). Or at least 105, give it some level of leeway. It’s killed my short/mid range game pretty hard. Don’t want to imagine what it’d be like in Ranked matches.
Also in weekend talk, spent a good deal of time back in Smash again for the first time in roughly… forever. The amiibo tournament at PAX along with unlocking all Mac’s custom moves through StreetPass got me looking up stuff on him, then itching to try and retrain him (to hopefully be better at using his KO punch). So through that I got to back to being alright at the game too, which was nice 😛 Need to get around to trying to fight against actual players at some point now. Also I still have tonnes of trouble with tilt attacks in this game, on both versions. Although I cracked out the GameCube controller for a bit and found it slightly easier on there, but the lack of a Jump button close to the Special button still means I can’t really use it, at least for Mac. I rely on that too much, so gotta stick to Pro controller.
Then more games, I really wanted to get to more Guitar Hero so I can start getting good and investigate the harder levels, and discovered they happened to have a free access weekend, choose any song you want on GHTV without having to spend credits on them. Ran through the list and lined up a whole bunch of songs that caught my interest, there were a few fun ones in there but I dunno that there was anything particularly standout like in previous games. Also, my brain still can’t deal with the colour setup. WHY IS BLACK THE TOP ROW AND WHITE THE BOTTOM. And more importantly, why does my brain think it should be the other way around? I need to make a conscious effort to process their shape and think of them in terms of “up” and “down”, and ignore the colour as much as possible. But it’s really hard to do once things get more complex.
Another thing. I went to disassemble the guitar since the neck was slightly getting in the way, only to discover that you sort of can’t. Rather than having a lever on the back like all the previous models, there’s just this kind of triangular-holed bolt. Looked it up, and in the instructions it says something like “once you attach the neck it cannot be removed”. WHY IN THE SHIT WOULD YOU DO THAT. Seriously. I can’t think of any reason other than to be dicks. Thankfully it’s not too hard to just shave down three of the six sides of a pencil, and that works pretty well as a key to actuate the release mechanism. But still, fuck you Activision. I really want to like this game, but there’s so many little niggling annoyances that make me increasingly glad I paid so little for it. Would certainly be more pissed if I’d laid down the full 150.
White superiority complex.
I noticed a lot less roller splash spamming during Splatfest too. It’s great.
Yeah, I think I only came across one dyno roller throughout the whole thing. Such a nice change.
Yeah, haven’t touched Guitar Hero: Live since the first weekend. Wish I’d put the money towards Rock Band instead and that Activision hadn’t even bothered to make the damn game in the first place.
Personally, I never seemed to have been a fan of RB’s charts in comparison to GH’s at all, so I’m finding this one’s change of gameplay to be far more interesting than RB4 ever could have been. Especially with the price of that one.
But I guess it helps there’s no Nintendo version of RB4 anyway 😛
@redartifice how long should I put aside for this Thursday? 2 hours?
Yeah, 2-3. We’ll try to keep it to two but people roll crap sometimes.
Oh sure, blame the people. We all know it’s the work of the Dice God or Gods.
If you treated your virtual dice nicer, you wouldn’t have this problem.
I would treat them nicer if they’d just DO WHAT I BLOODY WELL ASK THEM TO DO!
*throws dice across the room*
*dice rebound and lodge themselves in my eye sockets, both pointing outwards with “1” face up*
I’ll just fetch the scattered ones, Ms Smithe.
Virtual dice?
You need to be praying to RNGesus then.
Sweet. Microsoft just released the backwards compatibility list (and mentioned the BioShock games are on the way). A bit heavy on the XBLA titles, but it’s got South Park Stick of Truth, Mirror’s Edge, Monkey Island 1+2, Fallout 3 (no NV), Fable II and Borderlands. Although I’m a bit disappointed that the list didn’t grow between the announcement and the launch.
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/backward-compatibility
Its also gonna be all the games with gold on xbox 360.
I missed out on a whole generation of gaming. So this makes me very happy. Would love to play bioshock and mass effect.
I’m sure the list will grow in time. Its mostly a matter of convincing the devs to license the games.
So I contacted EB games about the free versions of Fallout they are giving out with some console bundles since I hadn’t heard anything about it since buying my Xbone, and they sent me an email saying they’ll be mailing the game out tomorrow. Given that their warehouse is in Brisbane I don’t expect it to get here before next week. My house is also last on the delivery route so packages always arrive late afternoon. So I should be playing the game sometime late Monday. It doesn’t bother me too much because it gives me time to play Rise of the Tomb Raider. I just hope by the time I do get to play Fallout 4 they haven’t fixed all the glitches in it. I know it’s odd to say, but past Bethesda games I played like Skyrim or Fallout 3 were glitch free, and it always disappointed me a bit that I never experienced things like dragons flying upside down or the like that everyone else talked about.
Just disconnect?
Copy/paste from fb cos too lazy!
Well, I am now looking more like a robot. I have electrodes all over me, and wires hanging off me all over the place and have a little controller box hanging off me. Need to keep a diary of what I’m doing every 2 hours too!
Interesting experience tho. First time I ever had 2 babes (and I do mean babes!) kneeling in front of me shaving my chest! (Not that there was much to shave, but you know…. they had to do what they had to do!)
You sound like the polar opposite to me, I had to get some measurements/scans taken a few years back for an irregular heartbeat, and I’m sure the nurse was two steps away from breaking out the whipper snipper before she could attach the sensors to my chest.
*Robofistbump… clank!*
I suppose this is a bad time to mention I have never played a Fallout game and am not really interested in Fallout 4. Heck, I’m not really hyped about any major upcoming games. My hype train has come to a stop for this year and I’m just playing through old games that I’m yet to finish. I’m hanging out for the eventual Witcher 3 Enhanced Edition though.
I actually played Fallout 3 for the good part of 40 minutes, got bored of it and never played it again.
I’m mostly just a terrible person and stopped playing most Western RPGs after 2006. No Fallout, no Mass Effect, barely tried Dragon Age, barely tried Oblivion and Skyrim. The main one that drew me in was the Witcher and I guess I got a little spoiled by it. The other RPGs felt almost too “safe” and uninspired compared to the Witcher which is weird.
The important thing is that you’ve taken your first step and admitted you have a problem.
Now…you need to get up, take a deep breath, hold your chin high, and go quietly sit in the corner so I can keep playing Fallout.
See this is where I might weird people out, I didn’t like Witcher 2 so I doubt I’ll pick up Witcher 3 personally, with 2 the combat is too frustrating and feels so restrictive at times (Mainly due to Geralts incessant blade dance he keeps doing during combat). Also the world itself I just can’t seem to click with, no idea why but I always just get so confused with what the heck is going on, and I did play Witcher 1, barely able to keep up on that too.
Edit: With the Witcher 2, the frequent crashing to desktop on area transitions didn’t help either
I loved fallout 1 and 2, but I couldn’t get in to 3 either. I think due to guns/aim issues. I found the same thing with Mass Effect. Played about 30 mins, couldn’t kill anything, so fuck that shit! Gimme a sword and some magic any day! 😉
Fallout 3 and NV had some janky issues with manual shooting (and some total separate janky issues with VATS) but I found Mass Effect’s shooting pretty functional. Granted I spent 90% of my time hurling biotics at people instead, but still… 😛
Why use guns when you can be a biotic god, your unlimited power washing over your enemies like a… a great wind!
I can warp matter! I can create miniature black holes! I can hurtle things into the stratosphere!
*proceeds to spam Throw*
*As my sniper is attacking from range, suddenly a body flies past my scope at 200km/h… then another… then another*
Fallout 4 get!
Okay, so I’ve decided that i will need a website before Supernova.
What do people think of “created by scree” as a business name?
bit too generic
SUPER AWESOME RAD STUFF
Created By Scree
#helping
SCREEATIONS
Zangief seal of approval!
ExScreetions :0
I’m leaning towards this one
@scree slogan needs to be “I’m really sorry about this” 😛
Scree’d.
Because Scree’d is good.
Except if we hire professional killers, because only about 50% of Assassin Scree’d are good.
Atleast the floors would be leveled
Screedom of Screech.
What you Scree is what you get.
Barking up the wrong Scree.
The Scree’s knees.
I dunno.
It took me a while to come up with my crappy one
Kicking and Screeming
Jeepers Screepers
I.Scree.M
Screepy
Edit: Eugh I can’t stop, I have a problem.
Screedentials
Screeativity
Fuck it, LET’S GET CRAZY.
Screedence Clearwater Revival
Screemation
Screew you
Come buy my stuff from Screew You! at Screew You, you’re always a valued customer!
That’s a winning tagline – Come get screewed!
Hmm, made an expensive mistake… Bought Fallout 4 off GMG, paid with PayPal, and only after receiving the key, realised that they charge in USD, meaning I just paid $85 AUD for a digital PC copy…
Still cheaper than steam. They’re charging 79 US!
Yeah, all of GMG’s deals start to feel considerably less enticing when you realise it’s in USD. Somehow I frequently forget this fact and get excited, and then it all falls apart when someone reminds me.
$45 for Battlefront? SOL-…wait a minute.
Yarp, I did the same because I figured they had a pretty good chance of giving me a key before release (which thankfully paid off). Stupid error, that.
Started watching Seven Deadly Sins on Netflix last night. Really not sure if I love it or hate it. Everytime it gets to the point I feel I need to turn it off and do something else it does something awesomely cool and I end up continuing to watch. Think if Elizabeth did something besides squeak and get groped I’d have a lot more tolerance for the show.
Also, found the English dub is way better than the Japanese. Some decent voice actors there and they’ve resisted the temptation of filling the dialogue with grunts and gasps.
The English…DUB?!? *7 minute montage of reaction shots*
Everytime you make a joke I don’t get I just assume TFS.
*12 minute montage of reaction shots*
Nope, just making fun of anime in general, and the wonderful disconnection that English dubs usually add 😀*12 minute montage of trucker hats*
She has a use later. The characters, other then Elizabeth are great and the story is good too, stay for that. Plus, talking pig!
Her role in the group improves later on. The show doesn’t really get going until Diane and Ban join up with them.
Hawk is the true star of that show though. Also the reason I could never watch it dubbed. I love Misaki Kuno’s voice, the way it cracks all the time is quite unique and adds a certain rawness to things that’s uncommon nowadays since everyone tends to be so polished and produced.
Anyone know what’s going on with Darksiders 2 Deathinitive edition? I’m unable to find any links to the game on JBHiFi or EB Games? Not even for pre-order
Weird. Google gives a bunch of results but all the links are dead.
Yeah that’s what I got as well! And I don’t recall seeing any news about it being cancelled in Aus or w/e cos it’s still available on Steam?
I didn’t realise Freeze was being serious. I though it was a joke about the main character…
Saw it yesterday on the PS store while browsing too. Asked EB and JB on Twitter about it as I am really curious now. Can’t find any news about it.
I thigure it’ll show up at some point soon. Maybe by Thriday?
It can’t be too thar othth.
*groans* *upvotes*
EB don’t really want to talk about it.
Something weird going on.
Success! Apparently there is a classification issue. What I have no idea, game was pretty tame. But is being resolved and will be released later.
Thanks freeze! figured it was some kind of lame Aussie censorship thing! =P
Swung past home during lunch, played a bit of Fallout 4. Initial thoughts, no story spoilers:
So far things look very promising gameplay wise. Shooting/melee is infinitely better than previous games, VATS no longer has the performance of a sack full of hot garbage (not responding, difficulty highlighting the right areas etc). Conversation choices feel a bit weird but I think I’ll get used to new layout quicklyAlso, while far from perfect, the quick loot thingy is a godsend.Yes! I forgot to mention that. It’s a much more streamlined process, and for a game that involves a shitload of picking things up that’s kind of important.The town/base building this is utter shit though. Hopefully a mod will be released that completely redoes the camera and controls for the building modeAfter a few hours with them I don’t mind them, but there’s a whole bunch of weird idiosyncrasies there. Why do corner pieces exist? I assumed that there was something dumb with the engine so I’d need to corner piece to do, well, corners, but no. So that’s a bunch of resources and time wasted. I do expect mods to fix it up though. Like, I don’t think you can have an internal door? That seems dumb. Lots of issues there, but I’m still going to force my way through them so I can build a huge tower, or something stupid like that.Seriously, all they need to do is give you an overhead camera and it will actually be usable.Is there any sort of snapping function? I hate how you just have to try to loosely match them up as best as possible. I know there’s snapping for placing walls side by side, but that seems broken too because whenever I try to make corners it just snaps them to straight.Okay, from what I’ve gathered while tired: Floors will mostly snap to other floors. If it’s a corner piece though, you’ve got evensies odds of it being terrible. If you want to build a wall at an angle it’s easiest if you have a floor there, or more specifically, if you have the edge of the floor where you want the wall to go it will snap way more easily. So if you’re trying to place internal walls, be prepared to repeatedly uproot parts of the floor to make space.Also, according to the game I have a really exotic/rare name. Even more rare then someone called “Fuckface” apparently.Hey, where’s @benny at?
Benny, where you at?
Probably on his SPACESHIP!!!
Reassessing career/life options. And mobile data plans.
Whoo 8GB day one patch for Tomb Raider!
It’ll be ready just in time for Pow to come home and then I can’t play because spoilers.
*intense sobbing*
Look who’s come crawling back.
If only some massive piece of infrastructure could take down the power grid in the area, looks out window at antenna… 😛
Hey I think I can see that Gingerchris guy climbing it…
Xenoblade was huge enough, and I barely made much progress through it.
X is just terrifying.
This game is my Fallout 4 😛
Bigger AND better!
I bought Pandemic Legacy. Now the horrible dilemma. Do I open it now to learn the rules differences between it and normal Pandemic or do I wait until we play on Sunday for the great unboxing?
Have you played pandemic before? If so, Just open it at the table
There’s only minor rules that have an actual affect, the first game is basically pandemic
Actual spoiler below
Except that the cities riot when an outbreak occurs, and the post game stuffI’ve played many times. Some with you :p
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
Come Get Screewed!
To who? 😛
To whom, you thug.
WHO WITH
I dunno, ask @cffndncr. Or @scree.
Wasn’t my suggestion!
If this becomes an actual thing, I can die happy knowing I made a meaningful contribution to the world.
Wow.. Messaged an eBay seller about a pair of EVGA 660Ti’s they had for sale, asking if they would sell just one by itself, instead they took down the auction.. Like seriously i’ve been watching these cards for over a month, no one is going to pay you $500 to 2 out of date graphics cards.
Would you be interested in a pair of GTX580s instead? That’d outperform a single 660Ti, I reckon.
Sadly I don’t have an SLI board 🙁 & I just saw an ASUS GTX 760 for $160 posted & out of impulse bought it 😛
Awwwww, but now who am I going to sell my old cards to so that I can upgrade to a 980ti? 😛
Haha, sorry man 😛 a pair of 580’s if they’re the 3GB ones fetch a pretty alright price on eBay still heh.
Edit: Wow.. Someone has a single GTX 580 EVGA watercooled 3GB model up for $312 heh. Otherwise the 1.5GB models start at $150 which is kind of impressive I think.
Nah, they’re the original 1.5GB editions. which is part of why I’d like to upgrade.
Oh fair enough lol. I’m sure someone out there would buy them. Shame the 980Ti is so expensive. Such a nice card.
Heh. My mate just went off at me for pre-ordering Fallout 4. He’s just jelly cause I got the Pip-Boy & he didn’t.
Welp, I guess all that’s left to do is wait for Fallout 4 to finish downloading…
*rocks back and forth*
Come on, guys.
I know if we all pitch in, put our heads together, and share the load, then we’ll be able to reach around and get page 18 to come.
It’s been too hard, and I can’t last much longer.
PenisNow that’s out of your system, we don’t have to bother.
Honey, don’t be foolish. It’s never out of my system.
Sorry, I have tried to ignore this, but I can’t stand being called honey. I’m sorry I ruined your joke. ;_;
Is Sweetie any better? 😛
No. I just…I’ve never liked them, no idea why. I guess it’s like people who can’t stand the word panties?
How about “Honey, Sweetie…”
?
Nope. Sorry.
@scree
Well, you’re going to love me >:)
Just call me Scree, it’s easier. Please.
Heetie? Swoney?
Any Bris TAYbies speak German? Who will be my German buddy? :'(
Nicht mir leid.
Mein Hertz Brent!
Du Hast!
Ich Will!
Ich Bin Ein Berliner
“He’s a Nazi, GIT ‘IM!”
no no no no no…..im a doughnut 😀
The single hardest thing to do in Spelunky is to complete a solo Eggplant run. I’m making steady progress on pulling it off and got the furthest I’ve ever managed so far.
There are a couple of tricky parts to the run. First of all is getting the eggplant to the black market and stealing the Ankh without 1) dying or 2) having the eggplant get accidentally destroyed in the chaos. I can do that fairly consistently now.
Next up is getting the headjet. To do this, you normally just need to die on the level with the Moai Head (either 3-2 or 3-3) and resurrect inside the Moai Head thanks to the Ankh. Simple. The only problem is that anything you’re carrying before you die can’t get taken inside the Moai Head because you drop things when you die.
The solution? Destroy two of Kali’s altars so that you get the ball and chain (normally a bad thing). With the ball and chain, you can destroy the side of the Moai Head so that you can get in and out, letting you die (to get the headjet) while still being able to bring your eggplant along with you.
I failed to destroy the side of the Moai Head.
I’m a clever Bun.
Just plugged my Afterglow wireless headphones into my PS4 controller to test them out and they work a treat. Just have to have my laptop either on my lap or sitting next to me to have the wireless USB transmitter plugged in to make them work.
Looks like I will be Fallouting tonight.
Fuck. I’ve only gotten to play like 30 minutes of Fallout 4, but it is amazing.
I may have gone overboard with the character build page though.. http://i.imgur.com/CBZhdzr.jpg
No, you’re just showing us why we need to follow the instructions when building a Mr. Handy, :-P.
Hey man, he started the prick! Hahaha.
Also wish I had reliased this at the time, but @strange pointed out you can also customise your wife if you play as the bloke, or the husband if you play as the female, that’s a nice touch, heh.
That looks badass man. Only gave mine one little scar. I’m not very creative, and I don’t like to spend long doing things like that, I like to get straight to the meat of the game. I’m the same with racing games, I’ll upgrade the cars performance-wise, but I never spend any time on the looks of the car other than picking a colour when I buy it, I just wanna race.
I figured, between the ghouls, mutants & raiders in the Wasteland, my guy needed to look just as messed up 😛
Me too monkey; me too! While I’ll happily spend hours on a stat screen or inventory screen I never spend any time moulding my character’s face. The one time I tried in DA:I i created something hideous akin to Gollum and I was actually trying to make a proper face =@
OK, I’ve been playing around in Fallout 4 and while there are some great mechanics some of the bugs are really annoying.
So far, I’ve clocks around five hours; on a trial run so I could get a feel for the controls, etc, and 2 on the real run.
And I wish I was making the following up. So far, I’ve found two bugs that are out right ridiculous.
The first one (first run) I was bartering with someone, found that I over committed myself and went to put the ammo back. Problem was, even though I was trying to sell back the ammo, the amount in my inventory was only going down by 10 or so.
I know we’d all like extra money in RPGs but actions like these bugging out in this day and age doesn’t help the game.
The second bug (real play through), I was stuck in a terminal. Not as in my character was walking around and somehow the clipping got me pinned; but as in I could not navigate back to the root menu of the terminal to get exit.
I pressed back and I was presented the same screen as before. I had to try seven times before I finally got out of the screen.
I know Bethesda is notorious for having buggy games but this is seriously a new low and I think it would have been better if they simply pushed the release back to next year and just focused solely on getting the bugs out.
I was confused for a while there, because you wrote ~200 words but none of them were ‘Fallout’.
Thanks for pointing that out. The context of this thread’s tail end was Fallout 4 so I must have automatically left it out.
Seen one bug in I think a similar playtime. One guys subtitles weren’t updating.
I had forgotten about that until you mentioned it.
Heads up, spoilers. Read further and you waive the right to cry into your teddy bear.
After getting out of the vault and heading to Concord, I was talking to Preston Garvey who then referred the conversation to Sturges.
.
I saw he’s sub-titles for a moment before the last thing Garvey said popped up again and wouldn’t go away.
.
Thankfully I could hear what was being said despite my bad ears and personally I found it irritating as I have the subtitles on because even in the best conditions I still mis-hear things. Heck, I’m basically a living version of Prof. Calculus from Tintin.
.
But anyhow, while not game breaking subtitles are a tried and true solution so like others I’m starting to think that while the core testing has been done all the little incidentals have just gone ignored.
Yep, that’s the one. How can you remember anyone’s forgettable name?
I cheated and used the Fallout Wiki to refresh my memory. As well as explaining the bug I wanted the details right.
Ha! I woulda said black guy in a hat & white guy with Elvis hair
My dance mats arrived, and are fully working.
Been playing stepmania and DDR to test them out.
I read ‘mats’ as ‘materials’ at first. I’d say I’ve been playing too many RPGs lately, but there’s no such thing.
This is madness… Fallout 4 comes out and the TAY page count accelerates?!
There was a lot of Fallout-related whining this morning 😉
Whining? But it’s sew gurrrrrrrd
Awake at 5:30. Can’t get back to sleep. Why 🙁
You haven’t played enough Fallout 4. Get back to it.
😛
I was about *this* close to getting up and playing some Guitar Hero.
Or cracking out Xenoblade and getting back into that. Just ended up looking at stuff on my phone though, trying to figure out upcoming releases. Then read the Xenoblade manual again 😛
I miss manuals.
Trails in the Sky SC out today! It’s on the PSN store but for whatever reason it’s hidden. I could get FC to show up in a search on the Vita store, but neither of them showed up in a search on the AU Playstation web store. I had to manually go into PSP games and go through them. Anyway, its now sitting on my Vita 🙂
Yes!Will be continuing my hands on with TitS during my commute today!!
Pretty much the same thing so far. Which is good really.
And they don’t even complain? 😛
They’re not Fallout fans! :p
20 more hours….
O_O
When I put my phone down, I was in the Twitter app. Come back , its opened both chrome & TAY.
Spooooooooookyyyyyy
Ghost Phone
Alright, out for delivery today! Start downloading the other 80% of the game tonight, go play hockey tomorrow night – might see if I can wrangle Friday and Monday off work…
One bookmark finished. I’m a bit worried about the rest, as it gets a little more complicated from here on out. I’ll do my best though =D
On that subject, was there any series that people would like to see? It’s a lot harder for me to do ones that I’m not familiar with, but I’d still like to know.
Well, didn’t get to Fallout last night, was so tired from staying up late the night before and had a headache that kept getting worse, so I had an early night.
Don’t work till tonight and got the house to myself, so I’ll be spending the whole day with it. Excited to see what’s in store (only got to the vault yesterday).
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssssssss. Fallout shall be mine. (No thanks to EB)
My friend in SA said it seems hers shipped out of Brisbane which would be their warehouse, which I find odd yours hasn’t arrived yet since you’re in Brisbane >_>
Am I the only one waiting for them to patch FO4 to a reasonably playable level before picking it up?
I mean… I like Bethesda and all, but if we keep buying their broken buggy games on day 1 THEN THEY WILL NEVER LEARN!
Who am I kidding. I’m just mad because I’m broke and can’t afford to join you guys 🙁
I’ve barely had a problem. Nothing I can recall anyway
WELL I’M GLAD YOU’RE SO FINANCIALLY STABLE, RED!
Oh… you mean with Fallout. That’s good then, I guess.
The only bug I’ve had so far (only a couple of hours of gameplay) was my weapons and Pip-boy going invisible on one occasion, and spending 4 seconds on a quicksave and quickload fixed it.
Obviously my experience may not be indicative of the overall user experience, but so far for me it’s been the least buggy game they’ve released in a long time.
I’ve had a couple of minor issues so far in my ~2 hours.
The first was pretty simple, I had an Xbone controller plugged into my PC and it was overriding the fact I wanted to play with KBM. Unplugged it and everything was fine.
Second issue was my character getting stuck on some objects. Thought I was going to have to go back and play the last 30 or so minutes of the game again (this happened just after you get out of the vault, but I’d done some ‘sploring). The last auto save was ages ago and my quick save was where I was stuck. Stopped playing for a bit as I did the dishes from dinner, and when I went to play the game I again I force of habit clicked “Continue” instead of load so it loaded my quick save…and I was thrown off the object I was stuck on.
You can actually bypass the controller thing in the options menu by setting it to off, so you don’t have to remember to unplug it when you want to play. IT may have taken me ages to realise this when I was having the same issue in previous Fallouts…
Also, I was confused as to why your autosaves suck so much because mine have been fine. Had a look in the options menu and it actually does a save every time you check your Pip-boy dependant on the interval you set, i.e. if 10 minutes have passed, next Pip-Boy load do an autosave (default). So either your autosave is screwy or you didn’t look at your Pip-Boy for like 30 minutes 😛
I did turn that controller thing off, but it still caused my KBM to stop working in the menus. Maybe you need to restart the game or something?
And yeah, I was basically just looting everything and wasn’t really checking my Pip-Boy.
So fat the extent of my problems have been subtitles being a bit wonky and out of synch with the conversation and the camera seeming to be unsure of who to focus on during them (wonder if it’s related to the subtitles?)
Otherwise I’ve been pretty shocked how well it’s been running.
How fat?
M8, so fat.
It’s a Steam sale game for me. I’ve never been huge on Bethesda open world games. Combine that with the jankiness and bugs that we’re seeing (nothing unexpected, which is a problem in itself), I feel pretty justified in waiting.
Seen one bug in 5 or 6 hours. Not game breaking
Meh this has always been the case with every Bethesda game going as far back as I can remember; yeah it causes me to reload a few times but I quicksave religiously in RPG’s and the overall experience more than makes up for the inconvenience =]
I never much cared for the small team arena stuff in Halo before, and was actually really disappointed 5 seemed to be focusing on that over big team battles, but I’m really enjoying playing 4v4 in Halo 5. Also I’m not bad at it, if I do say so myself.
And now I’m going to go play Rise of the Tomb Raider, because that’s a thing that exists this week as well (I bet Microsoft is hating themselves right now over it releasing the same time as Fallout).
Isn’t there an entirely separate mode for the big battles?
There’s Warzone, but that’s 12 vs 12 and has NPC enemies in it. I’m talking about the traditional 8 vs 8 Big Team Battles from previous games.
Ah. I haven’t played since Halo 3 on the 360, but loved those big team battles!
Woot! I caved and bought fallout. Also my New Order Vinyl collectors edition arrived.
Sooooo happy 🙂
Boo Work
Soooo – Steam download speeds – what the hell is with that?
Is there any way of boosting it?
Still having trouble getting a stable internet connection at home since switching to NBN – but for the small time i got it working yesterday, according to speedtest, i can dl up to 8mb/s… when i put steam on to see actual speeds, i was getting 400k/s to 1mbs max.
WTFBBQ?
Check under Downloads in your settings to confirm you haven’t set a limit on your speed. Other than that, your Steam client is not usually the fault when it comes to crappy download speeds.
Yeah I’ve done this – no limits are set.
For some reason I’ve always had problems with my steam client. When it’s on it noticeably reduces the internet speed for other users and never really goes all that high.
Try switching servers on Steam. I’ve doubled my download speed in the past by trying a few different ones.
Yeah i checked the server last night – it said it was downloading from VIC servers, which i assumed would be the fastest.
Should i be trying other states, or possibly even other countries?
Try anything on the east coast. I tend to try other ISPs then other locations but really it’s just about going through the options until one works.
I’ve noticed they don’t have ISP’s listed anymore, from what i can see – just states. Cool, I’ll see how i go with a QLD or NSW server.
I had 1.7mbps on Fallout 4 last night so their servers were fine?
Weird. Hardly any new tickets lodged since yesterday afternoon.
I wonder what Dogmeat is doing right now…
Ended up using SPOILER instead, because dogmeat doesn’t talk
ROLL CALL
SHOW OFF YOUR FALLOUT CHARACTER
Tony! (and Pepper)
https://twitter.com/redartifice/status/663992075952656384
Pat!
https://twitter.com/beeawwb/status/664216243780501504
Pat is here! Status is now delivered! *waits anxiously for mailroom to finish sorting*
http://media.tumblr.com/428c19d6769f791a3ea1b79ba9dd9b58/tumblr_inline_mtnt4rM6tu1qbxntw.png
Submission disallowed. Go post it on Twitter. 😛
Couldn’t even if I wanted to. Don’t know my password 😛
It’s probably something like “Ilike2takemysh1rtoffandrun@round”
Is it CorrectHorseBatteryStaple?
Not any more!
jimu: https://twitter.com/PstiDrdn/status/664052839832903680?s=09
jimu’s deadbeat husband:
https://twitter.com/PstiDrdn/status/663972933572792320?s=09
Heh. Missed a call this morning from BWS, was about to ring them back and a mate who works there rang the home phone to tell me to call back right now cause (his words) “You’ve got a job” so now I have a job interview tomorrow mornin’ at 10 \o/
Good start to the morning.
What do you call a man with leaves on his head?
Rustle.What do you call a man with a rabbit on his head?
Warren.What do you call a man with a truck on his head?
Deceased.What do you call a man with no arms and no legs in the pool?
BobWhat do you call a man with no arms and no legs on the wall?
ArtWhat do you call an arm and leg hanging from a wall?
Another piece of ArtWhat do you call two guys with no arms and no legs on the wall?
Kurt & RodWhat do you call a man carrying two shovels?
DougCharles Dickens was working as a bartender, and a patron ordered a Martini. Dickens replied
“Olive or Twist?” #dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeWow, Page Six already?!
You can’t run through a camp site.
You can only ran, because it’s past tents. #Page6My wife and I tried to get into the camping scene but it was too in tents for our tastes.
But camping sex is the best sex!
It’s fucking in tentsCompleted my first 3.5km run today with no walking! Completed in 19 minutes \o/
…
Okay that might not be too impressive to some but I’m freaking proud 😛
Best I got in full training was 27min 5km so yes, feel proud. That’s a decent time.
Few more weeks then I can hopefully do 5k’s
Trying to push myself to maintain pace at the moment. If I didn’t do that I could probably do 5, albeit very very slowly 😛
I do 5 klicks in about 37 minutes on a good day, and could probably only maintain your 3.5k speed for about one k (again, on a good day. I am very variable), so you’re on track to destroy my 5k speed.
Do the 5k now. I mean it. Go do parkrun.
Even if you take a walking break in the middle (which is a perfectly legitimate and sensible strategy in distance running), you’ll see that it’s a pefectly achieveable distance and you’ll enjoy being able to do 5k events (and soon you’ll realise 5km is nothing and you’ll do a 10k. Trust me!)
I haven’t been training but the last few parkruns I’ve jogged to the 2km mark comfortably without needing a walk. This week I’ll take the phone with the pacing prompts and see what I can do with a bit more effort in the 3/4k section. My long-term heel injury seems to have fixed itself, it’s so nice to be able to walk and run without pain \o/
I could probably make 100m before I have to stop running and start walking.
Therefore as far as I am concerned you must be some kind of witch.
As it currently stands I don’t weigh the same as a duck so I’m not quite a witch!
yet!Same here.
Back when I was in year 8 (many many moons ago) we had to do a 1 mile run, I did it in something like 45 minutes with walking, and I was skinny back then too. Never been able to run for very long without getting puffed out.
So, to me that’s an outstanding effort, good work man.
Being fairly similar (skinny and couldn’t run for shit) this is the best I’ve ever been, hence that moment of proudness 😛
Thanks man. Still got a while to go before I’m at where I want to be but it’s certainly a milestone
This is the worst dad joke,
@beavwa @budgieishere @chuloopa @coldcamv @crazyguy1990 @f4ction @greenius @mad_danny @pixel_the_ferret_viking @scree @smurfydog @tech_knight @tigerion @tofu @trikeabout @zetrox2k
So, I’ve been thinking about the Saturday meat, and I think Crown is possibly the best place to have it. That way we can have dinner and see the movie in the same place. Wondering whether we should do dinner/movie or movie/dinner. Also, what time suits people the best?
And anyone who can’t make Saturday, I am still free on Friday, so what time suits people the best for then, and where should we go?
Oh man I wish I could go to this l, sorry man… Family arrives from Europe that weekend so got soooooooo much cleaning and preparation to do 😛
That’s ok mate, I understand. Family takes priority over internet strangers.
As I said, I’m not sure what’s happening with Mum now she has to get a biopsy done tomorrow. If she’s okay, then I can still come for dinner.
Fair enough. I know what it’s like to have Mum worries as mine has just gotten over a detached ligament in her ankle.
It shouldn’t be a problem, but you know how things are unexpected.
Sorry mate – i have anniversary stuff with the wife., otherwise it could have been cool!
How dare you have such a reasonable excuse!!!!! I don’t know, these people with their wives and families and lives. 😛
No problem man, totally understand.
Can you remove me from future posts, please?
Kind of a moot point, as this was probably my last TAY post as I’ll be relying on mobile data while I’m in Melbourne. Sorry we won’t have the chance to meat.
Saturday I actually can’t do for dinner, I’ll have to stick to Friday but Crown is a good spot for me to get to.
Yeah, Friday works fine for me. What’s the best way to contact you?
on my mobile, email me at sdcdragonman[at]hotmail[dot]com and I shall provide 🙂
I’m still free on saturday or if it’s easier I could meet peeps in the city after work on friday from about 6 onwards. Whatever’s good for you.
I think if Saturday works better for you, that’s fine. I’m only a short walk from Crown, so I think we’ll stick with that. Say 6ish?
sounds like a plan. I’ll be there
sounds good – meeting at the box office? or elsewhere for food first?
I think if we make the cinema the meeting point we can get tickets and then work out where to eat there.
That was a nice theory until my phone crashed using GPS and the navigational recommendations of folks who should know better got me stuck at an unfamiliar end of the complex about an hour late. >.<
…I don’t suppose this will get seen by the relevant parties before their movie session…
Let me know what is happening but I’m likely out
I have Tiglet duty Friday afternoon night and a BBQ lunch Saturday. Depending on what happens there I might be able to get in for a quick meat up.
Sorry man! Looks like I’m all booked out on Thursday and Friday nights and there’s a high possibility of a day trip planned for Saturday. Enjoy it though!
(gamble a lot!)
looks like my Saturday should be free, so I’m likely good once timing is worked out and I can use it as an excuse to pop in to some of the nerd stores during the day
If 6ish at Crown Saturday works for you, then let’s go with that.
Did you know the S stands for spam?
Secret SanTAY 2015
Buy a thing for someone. Have a thing brought for you. Consumerism. Commercial interests. Christmas. Warm fuzzies. Alcohol. Terrible relatives. Obligations.
No obligations here though. Just the warm fuzzies and only one thing needs to be brought. No worries that if you buy your favourite Aunty Milly something bitch Aunty Mags is going to start comparing everything loudly to everyone in earshot.
Send an email to binoter with the hot males including your address and you too can participate in a good part of Christmas. I can’t help you with the rest, that’s your problem.
Secret SpamTAY?
I emailed you, did you get it? 😛 I forgot to ask the other day haha.
I did the same, did you get it?
I didn’t sorry Scree 🙁
😛
@freezespreston
Emailed!
Why not, I say!
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
TONIGHT 7:30 SA TIME UNLESS YOU’RE ALL TOO TIED UP IN FALLOUT
@blaghman @popdart5 @tech_knight
ALSO STREAMING
Or XCOM if you’re me. Earth can’t defeat the invasion on their own, useless meatbags 😛
I’ll be there to drag you away from Fallout. 😛
Today, a guy put a gun to my head and demanded a coconut-filled chocolate bar.
I hate Bounty Hunters.
My dad cannot help himself…He steals people’s toenail clippings and is a bit crazy…I think he’s a clip-toe-maniac!
Apparently someone’s been stealing patrol dogs. Police say they have several leads.
My doctor says I have social media disease.
It can’t be cured, but it is ” tweetable “
Groooooan.
At breakfast this morning, my wife said she’s leaving me because of my obsession with Twitter.
I almost choked on my #Brown.
I saw a poster for a company offering free quotes, so I called them and asked for something profound.
The Beach Boys walk into a bar
“Round?”
“Round?”
“Get a round”
“I get a round?”
“Get a round….”
Knock knock
“Who’s there?”
“Doorbell repairman.”
I think Matt Damon is too young to play the next James Bond. After all, he’s only just been Bourne.
Foxtel has just won the rights to screen the first World Origami Championships from Tokyo.
Unfortunately, it’s only available on paper view.
I heard the company that previously had the rights has since folded.
I just saw on the news that Peter Dinklage was the victim of a pickpocket
How could anyone stoop so low?
Oh dear. It’s happening. I almost bought Starcraft twice in the last 24 hours.
@blaghman convince me that the game is trash!
You’re not asian, and are over the age of 22.
This game is not meant for your feeble inabilities and lacking APM.
You aren’t Blaghs but your argument is better than his would be…
We’re basically the same person.
My argument would be “Artanis sets off an explosion, starts walking away from it, and then teleports out before it engulfs him. All arguments against the game are invalid.”
Just encountered my first bug in Fallout 4 and I haven’t even been out of the vault long.
Just met up with Codsworth, killed those bugs, cracked a safe and followed him back home, walked onto a pile of junk and no matter what I did it wouldn’t let me get off, only thing I could do was load the last quicksave which was before I met up with Codsworth.Bit annoying.
Appears we had similar issues:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-353/comment-page-5/#comment-3515511
Been playing most of the day today and haven’t had anything like that happen again, or any other bugs for that matter.
Playing it on the cautious side now though and doing A LOT of saving.
So. My Shitty GTX 560 some how managed Fallout 4 on ultra settings. Framerate is a little choppy, but hey. It looks pretty 😛
Think my 580s will do ok then? 😛
Hahaha. We went through this last night, I already bought a new card damn it Bob 😛
BUY MY STUFF, DAMMIT!
MAKE ME!
😛
That’s it!
What res? I’ve got a 670, and will hopefully be playing at 2560×1440, so we’ll see how it goes.
Only 1080P lol. I bought an Asus Superclocked GTX 760 last night for $160 though, so I can play Fallout at max res haha.
Shit. I meant to send you a message last night but totally forgot! Looks like you went ahead without me though… that’s cool… I’ll just be quietly sobbing over here in the corner.
Sorry man. I couldn’t say no to it, given the 760’s are like $250-300 still on the 2nd hand market.
That’s cool. I have been procrastinating instead of getting my ass in gear, so serves me right!
I was recently assigned to arranging the stage layout for a rock concert next month. One of the things was wiring up the speakers and supplying them with power as efficiently as possible to minimise costs and unnecessary cabling on the stage. The main thing I couldn’t seem to decide though was whether to connect the speakers to the power via AC/DC.
why would you ever power speakers through AC?
there will always be a DC converter in the speaker circuit and oh my god i only just go the joke.
Something something trap card. 😛
you just get me techy 🙂
I learned the hard way too that you never plug the laptop capturing the audio into the same circuit as the speakers unless you want a 50 or so Hz buzz in EVERYTHING
yeah really need a audio transformer to isolate the ground plane if you do that. Its a simple mistake to make.
Or run the laptop off Battery.
Yeah, we were running in a university dining hall. Ended up just publishing the video with audio captured off the board to that, didn’t have the same issue. Was an internal fundraiser thing, so we weren’t going for 5.1 surround.
yeah it happens when your grounds are linked.
Ayup. That room later got a full separate circuit put in for some stuff, but it was well after my time.
It did have different circuits, which I paid a LOT of attention to when I was designing a lighting plan. I didn’t think it wise to run the whole lights system on the one circuit AND the lighting board AND the spotlight.
OMG So that’s why it was happening in those meeting rooms years ago!
TFW going through an old Tay trying to find something and you see peak @rocketman.
Speaking of old posts, I just saw a direct message yesterday that you sent me over tweeter back in April about something we were arguing about back then. I can’t even remember what it was, and I don’t care to, but I wanted to say thanks for the words. When I saw the message I felt bad I’d never replied, and the reason for that is I didn’t know twitter had a direct message feature until just the other day.
Ha just went looking for it and found it. I literally have no idea what that was about.
im always at my peak, always.
but i havent been very funny lately, I havent got any stories recently. All my humor comes from my stories.
Could always relive this one?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/05/talk-amongst-yourselves-155/comment-page-1/#comment-656127
Man I had completely forgot that happened.
FUCK I AM AWKWARD
Oh, Rocketman…
I wish I was around on TAY in 2012
that was when everyone thought i was cool and silly, now everyone knows im just a whiney dickhead and they love me anyway 😛
No, we just think you’re a cool, silly, whiney, dickhead, Mr Loverlover.
It was a wonderous, marvelous time where getting to page 26 by Sunday was a slow week.
I like that there’s less pages now because there’s less text for me to get lost in. Oh god I am so desperate for attention. NOTICE ME!
Oh Rocketman…
Wow, Rocketman.
So many ghosts of TAYs past…
Remember pessimist,
I miss that guy.
Most people do.
You’ll need to aim a little lower.
Oh Rocketman.
Also, 26 page tay dear gods
HAH! Brilliant! Made my lunch break =P
I got Fallout 4 yesterday and spent way too long creating my character
and her husband. I think it was a mistake giving my husband one of those hipster pretty boy manbun hairdos because he spent way too long checking himself out in the bathroom mirror after that. 😛Then I’d just made my way out of the Vault and the kids arrived home from school. Not the kind of game you can continue playing when your inquisitive 6yo is watching.
(Barely even spoilers, just spoiler-tagged in case someone who doesn’t have it yet wants to go in “fresh”)
Mr. Strange is away for work until Friday so I don’t expect to get any sleep for the next two nights. Perfect timing. 😀
I think hiding a reference to a manbun behind a spoiler is the polite thing to do.
Oh! Also, our TV busted but it was still under the Videopro extended warranty so they sent us a replacement. The current “equivalent” model of our old TV doesn’t have 3D and we love our 3D so we paid just $100 to get an upgrade to continue having 3D, so now we have one of those 4K Ultra HD TVs.
Is there even anything that takes advantage of that kind of resolution yet? What should we be checking out to see the full beauty of our new TV?
Fallout 4 looks super pretty on it, at least.
These, maybe?
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/11/these-4k-videos-of-japan-will-get-you-on-the-next-plane-to-tokyo/
if you still have the old tv i also might be able to fix it for you too. then two tv’s 🙂
Nah, they took it away. We already have TVs in all the bedrooms, and one in the family room as well as our main one so we probably don’t need another one anyway. 😛
Thanks for the offer though, you’re a handy son to have! 😀
Im okay,
I should say that if anyone in brisbane has anything that needs to be fixed I am able to help, i expect nothing in return i just like fixing stuff.
Next time I’m in Brissy, can you fix my broken work ethic? It hasn’t worked for as long as I can remember, now it just constantly boots up the procrastination mod every time I search for it.
Netflix can do some things in 4K (I think they’re marked UHD?) but you’d need a pretty solid Internet connection. I think the recommended bandwidth is 20Mbps.
Isn’t that the absolute max ADSL2 can do? Whatever it is, I’m fairly certain we don’t get even close to that. No NBN in sight around here either. Funny how we’re paying Netflix for max resolution but our internet can’t even handle it. 😛
Yeah, theoretical max of ADSL2+ is 24Mbps so even with a great connection you could barely scrape by.
I was going to give the obvious answer of “You could probably just pirate something in UHD to try it out” but no one here ever pirates anything at all so I’m sure it’s not an appropriate suggestion. Right?
…right?
As B-ob said above, youtube do have a bunch of 4k vids. Not a whole lot of content out there yet, but there are some gems out there. I have a 4k copy of one of the x-men movies, but it must be encoded with a shitty codec, cos it’s really choppy. I have a couple of other documentary type vids that play beautifully though.
Sadly, most of the 4k content I’ve found out in the wild so far, is all porn :\
… why is this ‘sadly’?
I’m not opposed to it, just that I would like more variety! 😉
It’s been too long since Uncle Freeze dispensed his useful advice.
Here here! I vote that Freeze write the fortnightly Nerd Love segment! @alexwalker @markserrels
Considerably more insightful!
Listening to Uncle Freeze is just about the worst decision that is possible to make in ones life short of deciding to eat at Montezuma’s.
I was with you right up until the bit where you said “cat” – don’t have a cat. Otherwise it’s sound advice.
Done and done. And I mean Done.
Well you now have a Cosplay idea for next year! “Uncle Freeze”…
And I demand you give everyone advice all the time!
An inmate was being executed by means of the electric chair, and the warden asks, “Any last requests?”
The inmate looks up at him with sorrowful eyes and says “Will you hold my hand?”
that probably wouldn’t do anything to the warden, the voltage is applied directly to the brain and skin is a pretty poor conductor.
Rocketman, ruining jokes since 94
But you’d be nervous and sweaty and sweat is a good conductor.
Palms are sweaty,
knees weak, vomit on his sweater already, moms spaghetti
He is nervous but on the surface he looks calm and ready
to die
*drops a beat*
Rise of the Tomb Raider is pretty good. It’s basically 2013’s Tomb Raider, but with snow. I’m completely okay with that.
“She still embodies all the same gameplay she did before!”
“But she’s got a new weather type.”
*stampede*
Also two ice axes, cause it’s a sequel.
Sounds pretty cool.
#PageSix: STAR WARS EDITION
Because it’s only a month until the new movie, and I want to Force the issue.
What do you call a pirate droid?
ARRRRRRR2-D2Why did the angry Jedi cross the road?
To get to the Dark Side.What did the rancor say after he ate a Wookiee?
“Chewie.”Which bounty hunter is terrible with money?
Boba Debt.Speaking of money, why shouldn’t you ask Yoda for money?
Because he’s always a little short.What do Star Destroyers wear to parties?
A bow TIE.How many people does it take to screw in a hyperdrive?
Two, but I don’t know how they get in it.Why do they call them TIE Fighters?
Two Nazis walk into a pole.
There’s no joke, just horrific slaughter.
ಠ_ಠ
:/
Downvote because of today’s date.
Am i the only one who isnt playing fallout 4?
Nope, I’m also not even going to get it
Im not but i just dont talk about it, let everyone else have there fun.
my comp is hunkering piece of turd. so im playing fallout 3 in sympathy.
I’m not! I’m replaying the Uncharted trilogy (because I really want to play the new Tomb Raider but have the wrong console), and trying to decide whether to bother with Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker.
PW is the first one I didn’t finish. I loved Portable Ops, it’s pretty much the same & that’s kinda why.
I was playing, but I got stuck on a boss. They’re not those puzzle type bosses that I enjoy in the series. More a test of you’re ability to aim, of which I have none.
*makes a list of people to execute in the eventual mad max style apocalypse*
I feel like there’s a more relevant apocalypse you could have referenced…
I have no idea what you could be talking about.
I’m not. I’m stuck at work until I get home to play it.
You’re not, I’m currently at work.
*single tear rolls down cheek*
Nope. I will probably get it later down the track.
*Looks at watch*
Only 150 minutes until I’m home to play Fallout Number Four.
An interesting side note, today at work I found out the voice director’s name is actually Kal-El. Kal-El Bogdanove. How cool.
*Looks at watch*
OOOH, only 149 minutes now.
Holy fucking shit I got some cool colleagues!
There’s a small group of them whom I’ve been raving about Fallout 4 with for months… Now that it’s out I had to tell them between PAX and family I have no money to buy it with, so what do they do?
They all pitched in to buy me a copy!
I NOW OWN FALLOUT 4 \o/
And are completely floored with the generosity
Dammit, how am I supposed to beat that? I guess two pax passes may work…
Hahaha nothing to beat! Still really appreciative of what you did!
Maybe 3 passes?
Hahaha…No! 😛
1 pass and 4 Freeze Hugs™.
I’ll pay for my own pass and take the hugs!
I don’t think-…actually, never mind. Take the hugs.
I know! A puppy!
OH GOD NO! 😛
Mrs Pixel is already harassing for another one. That’ll just add fuel to the fire XD
At least she’ll have Sid tomorrow
@scree
Yep and I think she’s pretty excited 😛
You are both doing us a massive favour. It stop mum from worrying about him (recovery from the biopsy is 4 hours) and then also giving us a lift in?
@scree least we can do to help!
Also we’re happy to puppy sit whenever you need, just need to ask
I used to sneak out from my job and ride ponies around in circles… until I got fired for horsing around.
Sue for unfair dismissal as ponies are not horses.
#JustUncleFreezeThings
Got into the office one morning only to have Outlook glitch and wipe all my emails.
Jumped onto the phone, told the guy on the other end what happened and asked for the latest copy of my emails.
The guy on the other end says he had no such copy of my emails. I responded with that he did and there was documentation online saying otherwise. Yet he still insisted that he had no such copy of my emails.
In frustration I slammed the phone down and my co-worker comes asking, “Who were you talking to? IT support? The data steward?”
“Neither,” I replied. “The NSA.”
😛
What the hell is going on with the metacritic user reviews for FO4? =O I feel like all the things people are listing as negatives have been around since the dawn of Bethesda games? Has anyone here played the game long enough to make any comment in comparing with previous titles? @dc ?
I think this one sums up the general view of the negative reviews:
It gootd game but no wolf make it ok great but not ok good just great ok bad. if you want wolf no get if like shoting bad guys ok great get.
Him card read good.
You deserve more upvotes for this comment
This has got to be one of my favourite ever bits of TAY ephemera
Say it’s part trendy hating, part people overly hyped and expecting a paradigm shift in the gaming landscape from it, part screaming entitlement about it dropping a frame once during a splash screen and part trolling.
There’s also people that would genuinely dislike it but they’re not usually handing out the 0 and 1s and usually at a little more reasoned about why.
I don’t know why you’d ever, ever pay attention to metacritic user reviews for anything whatsoever, at all, ever.
0/10 review for reds review of metacritic.
If I now review your review, does that make it metacriticism of metacriticism of criticism of metacriticism and Oh god I’ve gone cross eyed
Sentence is too long. Confusing mess that can’t even resolve its own plot. Didn’t end properly, cut off without closure.
3\10.
Not even attempting to classify what that was.criticism of metacriticism of metacriticism of criticism of metacritic
I’ve actually had better luck following metacritic user reviews than critic reviews in the past year. That said those user reviews are usually a few weeks after a game comes out so more than likely this is just some trolling attempt.
Metacritic User Reviews are a cesspit.
You know the best thing about user reviews? How easy they are to ignore.
Interestingly many of them have the same criticism. It is a bland open world shooter rather than an RPG.
I’m playing an RPG. I mean, I guess you could play it that way, but I don’t like shooters, so I wouldn’t fall into that mind set.
My games are about exploration, conversation & playing dress ups.
The main complaint seemed to be that the conversations were bland and had no impact on the story. They seemed to want to play it as an RPG, but felt that the RPG aspects were very light. Your build made little difference, few non-violent ways to complete quests and NPC and enemy characters didn’t have much personality.
Don’t know the accuracy of the comments as I haven’t played it but it seemed to be a recurring theme
Yeah, it’s too big of a world for me to say for sure in 2 days.
I certainly haven’t seen the kind of conversation impact I did in New Vegas. Mostly just been able to scam more money.
There is different factions though, but it feels more like 3 than Vegas so far, which is fine.
So it’s a Bethesda game then?
I can’t believe how many complaints I read & the lack of mentions of any improvement.
This us professional reviews.
It’d odd, like a defensive against the fact everyone will botch about everything so no one has the balls to list any good points.
It’s like:
Glitchy as fuck, big world, same shit.
9/10
Don’t know if the game is a 9. Solid 8 definitely but 9 feels a bit high.
Witcher 3 and Bloodborne were 9, haven’t seen anything yet from Fallout to knock those 2 off my GOTY yet despite knowing I’m going to lose a lot of time to it and love most of it.
Is this serious? I’m impersonating a professional.
Man, Bloodborne frustrates me so much. I like it, but I always have to give it a break. Dark Souls was hard but interesting & I had some moments of frustration but nothing like BB. And that’s before I get into design. I screw up fast travel so much because everything looks the same & I can’t remember which name fits which place.
What else even came out this year? I think I’ve mostly been playing catch up.
Actually, I’ve had fun playing majorly flawed games like Resident Evil Revelations 2 & Lost Dimension. Neither doing ANYTHING new, but I just had more ‘fun’.
Witcher 3 I’ll probably grab the inevitable GotY. My expectations aren’t high.
So, so far, F4 may actually be my GotY 0_o
http://qz.com/545914/betamax-still-exists-but-its-finally-being-put-out-of-its-misery/
Aw 🙁
Gooky! We’ve talked about this. There comes a point you need to move on.
But what if he wants to tape movies off channel 8 onto betamax and then watch them on the TV he bought from a place that still advertises “colour” as a key feature?
Gooky doesn’t buy things. His dad brings stuff home that he found just sitting there on a shelf with no one watching it.
I hear they also stopped making wax cylinders. The nerve.
Want to make me seem really old?
The first porn I ever watched was on BetamaxAnd that was at Gooky’s place in 2014
……..
Yes. 🙁
Came across this the other day. Don’t know if you guys have already seen it, but I thought it was funny.
That is pretty great.
I don’t care how many time I watch this, it will never be enough and this video will never not be amazing.
Got linked to this just before: http://newhive.com/allmymovies
This is tay lately
http://imgur.com/gallery/jIHCv2T
Oh god. I read it in the characters monotone voice too, hahaha.
And now back to Fallout 4 😛
Computer says no.
Someone said that at work at me yesterday D:
@greenius I don’t mean to alarm you, but I’ve unburied my Wii and now a certain game is being XENOPLAAAAAYED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpsezVsd0No
:D?
Oh crap I forgot that was there.
Keep forgetting and continue Xenoing
I don’t know what I’m doing I don’t remember anything ;_;
Sharla has big boobies.
Everyone wears revealing clothes.
How does fight and not lose
Git gud w back stab thing and side stab thing and pinky green break fall statuses
Git gud w back stab thing and side stab thing and pinky green break fall statuses
Until you get a tank that’s not shit (i.e. Dunban) you want Reyn to pull their attention while Shulk gets into optimal position for each attack. Check them carefully, some do more damage from behind and some from the flanks. Then just spam them like mad when they’re off cooldown.
And then later you tell everyone to fuck off and play with Melia and have Dunban or SPOILER CHARACTER guard and Carna heal and you never die unless you fuck up seriously.
Wow… I didn’t know you were that into Wii Sports. 😛
Dear TAY.
Remember a while ago, where I had that book design that I asked for feedback on, where it was mostly ignored, or most of you thought that having “WORK IT BITCH TWERK IT BITCH” spanning across 4 pages was a bad idea?
Yeah, that’s going in a university artshow showcasing university students creativity and talent.
Suck it, losers.
Kind Regards,
– Stewart Wheeler
P.S.
Kiss my ass
Shows us that book design…
(and dat ghetto booty)
What is “art”?
:p
Why I outta!
Baby, don’ hurd me, don’ hurd me, no more!
Must have been during my Kotaku hiatus.
Personally I’ve never understood art, probably because I’m not artistic or creative in the slightest. But, you’ve obviously impressed some people, so keep it up. You did good man.
mo’fucka don’t you take that tone with me, I proof-read the shit out of that.
Did I thank you heaps for that?
Cause thank you heaps for that! 😀
When you win an archibald, thank me with sweet, sweet money 😀
Link or it didn’t happen.
So I tried to create myself as my character in FO4, and apparently the beard I wear IRL is classified as “Doomsday Prepper”
I don’t know if I should be proud of that or not.
Anton Chastised me for even considering making my character have that
@tigerion Fallout 4
Changed a situation significantly through conversation last night.
Talked my way out of a gun fight & managed to get one individual to reassess their life choices.
Starting to encounter the different factions which will determine available quests & the ending from what I understand.
So looking like an rpg to me 🙂
Sounds good to me. Cheers for the update
Also, the flannel options have turned me into a grunge rock star :p
@freezespreston
I’m out, Mrs is working all Sundays for the next month at least.
Thank godSorry to hear, will miss you.:-/
ilyjim
Went to pay for my suit through an online shop – Payment failed for 2nd week in a row, despite me definitely having funds in the account. Then started Seeing reviews (Really bad Reviews) for the shop.
Welp looks like I need to find another way to do a 3 piece suit.
Not freaking out, Not Freaking out, Not Freaking out
hey its less stressfull then having to find a 4 piece suit. I kid.
Im sure you will be fine.
ALSO EXCITEMENT 🙂
Not hiring one?
Nope, I am in need of a suit anyway
Well, after Dapper Meat I can tell you there are some gents around here who know how to suit up!
Good luck, and remember you can always hire something at the last minute and still look gorgeous.
An easy out is to buy a decent suit off the rack and then pay a tailor to fix it up. It’ll end up cheaper than paying a tailor to do the whole thing and the result is practically the same.
Or you could just be really lucky and happen to be able to buy suits off the rack that fit perfectly. That’s what happened with my last suit.
RED’S RPG LAB
presents
LASERS AND FEELINGS
The ENTIRE rulebook is here: http://onesevendesign.com/lasers_and_feelings_rpg.pdf
Kicks off tonight 7:30 SA time. If you’re not on the tweetars or I don’t have you on Google +, I’ll need an email address that you’ll be on around that time (@pupp3tmast3r).
We’ll generate characters at the start, so have a think about what you want to play. Rule I’m imposing is you can’t all use the same descriptor and role, so it will not be an entire crew of Sexy Androids.
ALSO STREAMING
cc @freezespreston @beeawwb @cj @tigerion? @gingerchris86
If you just want to hang out on a google hangout while we play (and be drafted in as a minor character as required) also let me know.
I’ll probably be late so I’ll hop in to watch when I get home
You can play still, we’ll just make you part of the ship where no-one goes unless they need to. Like Engineering.
Can we call him Scotty for the duration of the RPG =O
Welshy.
Weeeeeelllllllsssshhhhhyyyyyy!
I might also watch, depending on if I remember or not.
I’m still game; though I might need to jet after 90 minutes, I’ll try and mitigate mrs aggro for 120 though!
Sent you a test email
Then what’s the point?
We can all be sexy something making our ship the sexiest damn cruise this side of Novea Nebulous VII
You’d better record this so I can enjoy it in my timezone.
Absolutely, will be on Youtube shortly after 🙂
What is the differential with you now anyway?
GMT -8 so 19 hours behind AEDT.
So basically, add 5 hours to the time, then subtract 1 day. Could possibly do RP stuff online with you guys on your Saturday or Sunday during the day but not in your evenings. 2PM AEDT is 7PM PST previous day.
I am not sure how the Rogue Captain wanting to ‘occupy’ the Space Pirate Queen results in time reversing, but I’m interested in the results!
The sexy, sexy results.
Someone be Lister and someone be Rimmer.
@greenius I seem to have a couple of break status moves and a daze, but no topple 🙁
Well, Reyn (geez, I went to call him Garet >_>) has one I think but you can’t really tell him what to do outside of chain attacks.
Also I don’t seem to have a particularly good set of moves for chain attacks.
Also I am way too loaded up with items. Spent a good age last night creating gems to try and clear out some of the cylinders and crystals I had, since I was full. Carrying loads of equipment too, though I think I’m still good for a while. It’d be nice if it had a better management system to sort the chaff so it’s easier to just dump it all. While it’s got a whole bunch of RPG improvements, it’s still missing that one 😛
Also also I kinda wish I had the 3DS version so I could keep chipping away at it while not at home. But then that would mean starting over and stuff. Also sorting out my n3DS.
I found Reyn’s AI is actually pretty savvy with knowing when to Topple after you’ve used Break. You just have to pay attention to the moves he is using so that you don’t Break while Reyn’s Topple is still recharging (since obviously he can’t use it then :P)
Better moves for chain attacks come later on, but I think the Break/Topple/Daze combo with Shulk/Reyn/Sharla is the best combo early on and gives you a free Daze. Later on when everyone knows more moves you can load up with lots of Red arts (since lots of characters learn Red arts) to get same-colour combos too.
Oh, and with items I usually just sold everything I didn’t need 😛 Just kept the strongest few items in each category. Also basically ignored gem crafting until much later in the game when you get a portable gem crafter.
I think the only thing I’ve got with Sharla is a break bullet. But I already have break and daze on Shulk. She’s also got something that’s supposed to get a critical against flying monsters but every time I’ve used it in chain attacks so far it seems to come up with Resist, so idk 😛
All too complex for my pea brain to grasp.
Ah, Sharla learns her Daze art at level 30 apparently.
If you want to guarantee the Break/Topple/Daze during combos before she gets to level 30, you could always try controlling Sharla (putting Shulk last in the list). I found she’s actually pretty fun to play as 😛
EDIT: Later on in the game you’ll recruit a character who can Topple without needing Break first. They’re my favourite!
The reason you’re struggling is that Reyn is shit. Seriously. He’s an absorption tank, designed to have a huge HP pool and just take hits for everyone. The downside is that he has extremely poor attack power which results in him struggling to maintain threat on the enemies (give him some +threat gems if you can).
Later on in the game you get a character that is an avoidance tank – he specializes in dodging attacks and never actually taking a hit, so you can load him up with agility which actually improves his attack power. I was really hating the combat in the game until I picked him up and got to the Aryth Ocean area where everything suddenly clicked, and it was all Reyn’s fault. Weak attack power meant only Shulk was providing decent damage and enemies just wouldn’t go down fast enough so you’d take more hits and damage meaning more healing needed and more downtime and so on.
I’ve currently got Shulk, Reyn and Sharla, with Dunban on the side. Would it be better to bring Dunban on board?
In terms of progress I’ve just come across that white girl that was fighting the Hydra type monster. Finally gave up on trying to beat Reckless Godwin and getting endlessly rekt 😛
Dunban is a better tank than Reyn, especially with Carna (refuse to call her by the localized name because the change makes no sense) since her healing power is insane. Dunban is also infinitely cooler.
EDIT: Later in the game you’ll get Melia. If you can understand how she works, she is far and away the strongest character in the game and actually more effective to play with than Shulk.
I Dunbanned!
Well, Max is starting to have a tendency to be a relentless killing machine when we play. I have the scratches on my arms to prove it.
She’s lovely, but she doesn’t hold back when playing.
So… Despite being below minimum specs, fallout 4 works. (For those playing along at home, my GPU is a GTX 570, CPU 6600 series Core2Duo O/C to 2.7GHz, 4GB DDR2. Only saving grace may be the SSD and windows 8).
CPU activity regularly at 98%, and memory above 80%, but it’s stable and playable.
I might be able to bump up a few graphical options as long as they don’t increase the CPU load – any suggestions of which settings I can tweak for that?
Sadly since it’s a Core 2 Duo, and not the Quadcore you have you might be at your up most limit sadly =( Maybe you could score a Q6600 off eBay for cheap since they’re still performing well in games.
My Core i5 2500, 8GB RAM, GTX 560 runs the game on high without a problem.. Ultra it’s a bit of a stutterfest though.
Hmmm, could be worth a shot for 20 bucks.
That said, could be possible to find something even better in LGA775 if I double check the FSB speed support of the mobo first. Might get lucky and be able to go straight to 3GHz quad…
Edit: on second thoughts and a bit more reading, squeezing a little more OC out of a Q6600 should yield similar results to buying something more expensive, so eh. Maybe I’ll give it a go.
Yeah true.
Maybe it’s almost time to invest in a new rig? 😛
Don’t have New Rig $$$.
Plus the New Rig plan was to do it same time as a consumer VR headset.
Sounds like a fair call 😛
So the old machine is a little fragile. Windows stopped booting the moment I touched the clock settings.
Now I’m reinstalling windows.
Ouch :/ Hope it’s nothing serious dude!
It’s about as serious as a clean windows installation, and all the windows updates that have to follow on from that.
Win 8 was happy to do a new install straight where the old one was without wiping the drive, which was nice.
Tasked with trying to figure out why this modified version of a game is bugging out sometimes.
Diving under the hood, it’s like looking at those pictures of the marijuana growers from the other day, a godawful mess of wires going everywhere and oh god who on earth is responsible for what even is this I don’t understand how you even managed to get it working in the first place someone please make it stop .
Have you tried getting good?
Not aimed at me!,*fist pump*
Am plenty good. The problem is the guy who made this is not.
You should see some of my old “modifications” to circuits im working on. Point to point wiring EVERYWHERE.
I once worked on helping update an old Mac shareware game to work in OSX and holy shit, how did it even work at all without setting PCs on fire? Guy was a self-taught programmer and it really showed.
Fallout 4 related
Your character seems remarkably unperturbed about partner being murdered child stolen. It happens, there’s a oh no bordering on a shrug and then no real driving force to make you go looking. Doesn’t ask any questions and only seen one person even being told about it.Or you can role play it like they care, beauty of Bethesda games. No train tracks
It’s true every conversation option I have I keep choosing the “my son” conversation path =P
At which point you may as well not be playing since its all in your head. Just weird how the game barely acknowledges it.
Doesn’t that just describe all fiction?
It’s a feature, non-ironically, you CAN if you choose, follow the main quest. Or you can crack & go on a wasteland killing spree.
The game is designed from the ground up to be played how you like. Hell, everyone brags about how they’ve logged 500 hours in Skyrim but abandoned the main quest at the first opportunity.
I go somewhere in the middle, I stick to the main quest until something more interesting grabs my attention. Then I get back to the main quest when the side quests bore me. It’s great, keeps me interested.
If you choose to ignore the main quest & feel your character isn’t reacting appropriately it’s your own fault.
You’ve completely missed the point. I am doing the main quest. I’m questioning how casual it is about something that should be an all consuming obsession for the character.
How? The main character is only as obsessed as the options YOU choose.
Or do you mean the actual dialogue, they way its written & performed?
Or the dialogue choices don’t cover the obsession you expect?
Do you expect it to play out more like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lztwjgD10Yw
A dingoes got mah baybyyyy @freezespreston
Was hoping it would be this song
Welp my phone just carked it. Everything was fine, put it on charge overnight, wake up in the morning and the damn thing is rebooting itself every 3 minutes regardless of if your doing shit or not. Won’t be buying a Samsung phone again because this is the 2nd issue I’ve had with it within a year.
I’ve got a galaxy s1, and it’s been rock solid for me. Only issue I’ve ever had with it is occasionally it would just not type or call anyone. I’d type on the screen (dialling a numeber, or texting) and it would register my keypresses, but not show anything on the screen, then after a couple of minutes, it would start working again. (Not even play catch up by printing all the things I’d typed, rather it would just start displaying as I typed again,)
Haven’t had that issue since one of my work colleagues rooted it and put kit kat on it though!
Sorry to hear you’re having so many issues with yours :\ Have you tried doing a factory reset through the boot menu? (Need to hold buttons down when you turn your phone on)
Yeah I’ve got the s5, within the first 4 months the microphone went for whatever reason so now if someone calls me I have to put it on loudspeaker so they can hear me, and now this.
Someone else I know had a similar issue with the microphone in their phone, and ended up having to use the speaker phone. Not sure what kind of phone is was now though. Still, if you can get to the factory reset option, might be worth a try to see if it works. I had to do it to mine once a long time ago when my phone was just stuck on the initial Samsung screen. Worked a treat,
I had an S3 that had similar issues – with mine, it was an internal problem with a battery connector or something like that. Thankfully it was still under warranty, so got it replaced and was rock solid after that.
I’ve since upgraded to an S6, which I haven’t had any issues with (except the screen is a bit broken from when I dropped it).
I’ve heard the S5 was a bit of a letdown overall, but I can definitely vouch for the S6
Update on my issues.. I felt a bit better yesterday, not perfect, but the dizziness was kept at a minimum, and only had a couple of short waves of intense dizziness come over me.
Felt even more normal when I got up this morning, and was dressed, excited and ready to go to work, when at 6:10, it hit me like a ton of bricks. :\
Instant intense wave of dizziness, and now I’m stuck with a mid range dizziness/tingling feeling all over 🙁
Went back to the doctor, and he said the iron should take around a month to fully settle in to my system, so I may have occasional dizzy spells/issues, but it may also not fix the problem. Either way, he said it should at least improve it a little.
While I was there though, he told me they had found blood in my urine test, which while normal for girls, they take VERY seriously in guys. So now I have another round of tests to do, and after giving him some more background from years gone by, I now have to get an MRI as well.
Sucks that it’s not a simple “Take this and you’ll be fine soon” but at least they’re not totally shrugging their shoulders yet. Finding anything is better progress than none.
Just a tip for taking iron supplements, make sure you’re eating/taking plenty of extra fibre and water because it can really bind you up.
lol i’ve had another person say the opposite! Said as soon as they started taking them, it emptied them out completely! Haven’t had any issues so far though in that sense though thankfully. I have been keeping my water intake up though so to avoid further dehydration. Given the issues I had with that, and the blood showing up, it’s possible there’s something wrong with my kidney causing some/all of this.
Fingers crossed they find the culprit. I had very low iron stores, after my little boy was born. (my red cell count went back to normal, but my stored iron was way too low). I’ve also had low vitamin d from time to time, and that can make you feel pretty awful too.
My sister has a iron deficiency too. Her dizzy spells havent been as bad as yours but i send my hugs.
HUGS
Much appreciated Rocket!
Doc isn’t sure if the iron will totally fix my issue, but at least if it reduces enough that I can go back to work, I’ll be happy, and just deal with the rest as it comes to hand. Just so over feeling like I’m getting better, only to then have an ‘attack’ leaving me feeling totally shit again :\
I finally find a job I love, and surrounded by great people to work with, and then this happens :\ Like I needed this after 4 family deaths and a dislocated hip, and my dad having a car accident etc… gimme a break!!
DUDE
I know the feeling, i often feel like i live on a rollercoaster of extremes, the highs are so high but the lows are soul crushing.
But i find that its all in my attitude, days can beat you down but everyone has shitty days, its making sure that the shitty days dont affect your tomorrow. Start each day afresh and appreciate the good stuff. Even if it just means sitting outside and feeling the breeze on your face.
XOXO rossip girl
oh i do! I’m not letting it get me depressed or anything. Nothing I can really do about it, so I just take whatever little wins I can and make that the focal point of my days for the most part. Just tired of always having issues. I just wanna be dull and boring for a change 😉
They got you taking spatone yet?
If they are apparently the best option is to pile it into orange juice
Nah, I’m taking some big red pills called Ferro-Grad C.
Another year another Secret SanTAY. Stop your groaning and suck it up Princess. Time to join the community Xmas spirit. If you don’t I’ll start spamming in September next year. Do you want that? Do you? No? Then send your address to binoter where the mail is hot and we’ll keep it reasonable.
Got my email? Also, spend limit still $20?
No and yes.
Wait, really? Ugh, I sent my address to a random email yesterday then…
Thanks for the reminder. Finally remembered to send an email!
Just sent you an email fe-male
Fallout 4 game experience so far!
So I’ve kind of completed the starting quests, setup Sanctuary etc and started doing what I normally do in a Bethesda game; pick a direction and explore! So far it’s well in line with my expectations except for the fact the control scheme on the PC really irks me =@ It’s not optimized at all. I reckon I’m going to spend some time before playing again re-mapping keys. Additionally the lack of an internal brightness option is also annoying! Once again they could’ve added some basic amenities with regards to the crafting system like tracking how much of a resource you have; or a second line under an item before you pick it up outlining what it breaks down into. And the biggest oversight is not having a communal storage for all supplies! =@ All these gripes aside shooting is fun; most of the guns I’ve used so far feel better than they did in previous games (considerably so) exploration is still awesome, I’ve already stumbled across 2 little treasure caches that weren’t marked on the map just by being curious. Dogmeat is also awesome! I’m probably not going to use my power armor at all; so far it just feels like it dumbs down the combat too much to be any fun. That said I managed to scavenge a second suit and fusion core by exploring as well so thats also kind of cool!You can tag items to look for
Yeah I saw that option but wasn’t sure how it worked? Does it have a symbol over items that contain the material if you hover over them?
The communal storage is there. Charisma 6 perk I think? The leader one.
*note to self next 2 levels go towards communal storage.
Tim Cook says that the iPad Pro is going to be a viable alternative to owning a PC.
My reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5E7feJHw0
Exactly mine too, same goes for mobiles 😛
The tech inside tablets is incredible. The surface is already a viable alternative to owning a PC. People like us may be a little cynical because of the sheer stress that gets put on our high end systems, but honestly, i dont think we are more than 10 years away from a full gaming PC being available in a tablet format. Stuff cant really get too much smaller but it can definitely get more efficient.
I don’t disagree – tablets are fantastic at what they do. However, they just can’t offer the same real estate that desktops can for gaming, both in terms of space for hardware and screen size (although a tablet built around a 24″ gaming monitor would be kind of cool)
it actually already exists well its 18 inches but close enough
http://www.cnet.com/au/products/samsung-galaxy-view/
I have a 21″ HP tablet at home.
Wife has a Surface Pro 3 for work and it’s a rad piece of kit. Was sitting on the couch with it playing Shadowrun and the Rise of the Triad remake without a hitch.
Won’t play high end games and the pen is God awful but there’s promise in the future.
The Surface is a whole different thing though. It is a PC, just with a touchscreen added. You may well be able to replace your PC with a Surface depending on what you do with it, but you couldn’t do it with an iPad. Surface is more aimed at competing with Macbook Air.
Well, does the iPad Pro play Crusader Kings yet?
Call me when it does.
It is though. Sure, not for you, but I’d wager that for the vast majority of PC owners it’ll do everything they use their PC for.
I have at least one friend these days who gets by on PS4 + Android tab and he doesn’t feel left out
Wandering around last night I came across a guy holding a shotgun to his exact doubles head.
“He’s a synth and he’s going to kill me and take my place!”
“Don’t listen to him, he’s the synth! You gotta help me!”
Took too long to answer and they blew each other away.
I stripped their bodies to their undies and made it look like they were kissing.
GOTY.
screenshot or it didnt happen
This is the perfect example of a situation you shouldn’t keep photographic evidence of.
Beautiful.
10/10 GOTY.
See you can only get stories like this in Lara Croft! pfft who even is fallout 4?!
I saw something similar except I was in town so security took are of it.
And then you played Fallout.
Ahhhh Fallout…
I come out of an old national guard facility exhausted and half dead from a fight with several legendary ghouls (including a glowing one) but having scored a nice new 10mm pistol that has unlimited ammo (Hooray for magic I guess) and I’m suddenly being shot at from my flank. I spin around and see a bloody sentry bot, not just any sentry bot but one with a skull since it’s a long way above my level. I start running like crazy, pumping stimpaks so fast I’m now sure that there’s no overdose mechanic, I whip out my missile launcher to try and kill it and as I’m shooting I back right into a black bloatfly that starts attacking both of us. Fortunately the sentry bot gets distracted briefly and I get another good shot into it but it’s still only on half health and so the chase continues. That was when I back into a bloody RADSCORPION and it starts attacking both of us. It’s weirdly lucky that the radscorpion was also a high level skull enemy since it seems to have been that which distracts the sentry bot again so I can finally slam the last few rockets into it and the blast kills both it and the scorpion. Frankly I’m still a bit surprised that I didn’t end up turning around to see a super mutant behemoth… I’ve never been so happy to be in a suit of power armour, no way I’d have survived otherwise. Dogmeat was as useless as ever even with his fancy new spiky armour, in fairness I don’t suppose dog teeth really evolved to take on military grade armour plate but even so…
Also, just in case people haven’t seen it, when you’re in an ally’s inventory and you highlight an appropriate item there’s an option that shows up at the bottom to equip items for them (defaults to T on the PC if I remember rightly), that’s how you can arm settlers or put collars & armour on dogmeat.
@redartifice ok I’ve got my character all planned out! I’m going to be an Alien Engineer named Spanner N. De Works. If you must know the N stands for Neil. You can call me Neil.
http://www.pcgamer.com/more-fallout-4-themed-nuka-cola-quantum-may-be-on-the-way/
Is it just me that thinks this sounds rather familiar? Sounds quite similar to what happened with the “real” Nuka Cola Quantum
Is that the same stuff they had at PAX? Because that just tasted like slightly fruity flavoured mineral water. Really nothing to get excited about.
I was pretty convinced the stuff at PAX was just blue lemonade.
Made it across Cambodia from Vietnam. Ticked off three bucket list items. First was visiting the Killing Fields to pay respects – all our warmongering politicians should visit S21 and then explain how what happened Abu Graib and Guantanamo are any different… Second was Ankhor Wat and the surrounding area of temples and ancient city. Amazing, and a reminder of how fleeting our own civilisation will be to the historians of the future. Third was to see a major bat colony emerge at sunset. A million bats in a stream, around 25000 a minute. Incredible. Have seen small colonies before but this was one of the most amazing natural phenomena. Spotted a few hawks circling too, looking for a flying snack.
Much bus travel and “basic” hotel accomodation, but enjoying the last couple of nights of our trip in a very nice hotel in Bangkok. Hotel gave us “happy honeymoon” cake and an upgrade! 🙂
Killing Fields is just horrible and totally essential.
I loved Angkor Wat, but my favourite is the Bayon, I have a photo of it here at work. Just stunning
The Bayon was amazing. We went to two other temples as well, one older one with really intricate carving and the other was the one used in Tomb Raider. I forget both names now, will need to reread all my notes later! Would love to come back and spend a little longer at some of the less visited parts of the complex.
The Tomb Raider one is pretty damn cool. Our tour guide joked that as much as he tried, he couldn’t get Angelina Jolie to adopt him when she was there.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2015/11/keep-your-sleeping-bag-in-good-shape-by-hand-washing-in-your-bathtub/
And once you’ve done that let me tell you about a revolutionary new storage location for your bread…
I tried to put my french stick in the microwave and it didnt work.
I did the same last night but the microwave said it had a headache.
Heyoooo!
I think I just got my most favourite support ticket:
“My dogs name is Brian*”
That is all.
Only way it could have been any better would be if they told me his breath smells like dog food.
*not actual name, just in caseIf I win the Powerball tonight I’m totally buying a pair of those Orpheus cans.
Bewbs?
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/11/i-listened-to-sennheisers-absurd-55000-orpheus-headphones/
Not bewbs 🙁
Ooh, I’ll use them to listen to Spotify streams.
What is the quality of these streams???
awfulHa!
As a electronics person i understand so very little about how little things in my ears create noise. Im aware of how the peizo electic effect works and how magnets vibrate a diaphragm but my mind cant get around it, like the manipulation of these effects just boggle me. How the fuck did someone get this to work? HOW FREEZE? HOW?????
Magnets.
HOW DO THEY WORK?
Science
Lenz’s law… but I finished my physics exam on Monday so I never have to worry about explaining this stuff ever again.
Boo physics!
Yay applied maths!
(Yes, I know there’s little difference, but maths is superior!)
Also yay chemistry! (Explosions are fun!)
Aliens
Inside every magnet is a little leprechaun holding two magnets at either end to attack other magnets. The magnets the leprechaun is holding work on the same principle which each having a other leprechaun inside them holding two magnets and so on and so on.
WHEN WILL THE MAGNETS END!?
This was the answer I was going for. I think the leprechaun was called Lenz.
Lenzrechaun.
They work like this (approximately):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations
Why not buy 2 or even the 250 Sennheisher are going to make for the year?
Hahaha, knew it – Not Actually Italian Girl totally didn’t recognise me. She only just found out then, when asking one of the others who the new guy was 😛 Said she was wondering whether I was someone from her old workplace or not, and whether that was why I seemed familiar.
Best disguise.
GET’CHER POPCORN
POPCORN, RIGHT ERE, ONLY TWO BOBS A BAG
How much can I get for one Bob? *holds up @beeawwb*
Be wary of anyone trying to pass off a counterfeit Bob as the real thing…
*poke* What the hell TAY?! WAKE UP!
Mmmffphhhh
There’s Fallout 4 behind my eyelids why would I want to wake up?
It’s report writing season.
Teachers need more sleep.
Alright, alright. The sleep deprivation is Fallout’s fault.
Shaddup.
Really enjoying Fallout 4. It’s one of those games where you decide you’re going to advance the main plot all resolved and get distracted by seven hours of side quests on the way there. I suspect we’re never going to get to the fireworks factory! (Note: there’s no fireworks factory. That I know of.)
I actually remade my chatacter now that I have a better understanding of the game. Doing a similar-ish build with a few changes. There are definitely some changes for FO3/NV
I restarted as well, so glad I did. 🙂
I think the biggest thing I need to get used to is to pick up all junk. Like, literally everything because weapon upgrades are awesome.
Ugh. Too much stuff to pick up. I’m one of those guys who ALWAYS has a full inventory every five minutes.
Man. I love Fallout 4, but i’ve like gotten to play maybe 2 hours of it in total :/ Hate being so busy 🙁
Also why is everyone calling the dog, Dogmeat? I could’ve sworn his name is just Dog, and even whatshisname from Bethesda said at E3 it wasn’t Dogmeat. Also why can’t I name him, what gives Besthesda?!
Edit: I also love that your character has a voice, it’s such a nice change.
I’ve played NO HOURS!
I’ve played even less than that!!!
Pretty sure if you put your reticle on the dog it says “Dogmeat” above him.
Just says ‘Dog’ for me :/
Minor spoilers that address your query
Someone tells you his name is Dogmeat early on, after which the tag changesOhh. Okay. Cheers dude 😛 Guess I need to invest more time into it.
Ahhh, finally! Finally beat hard mode Oryx! Now I can put Destiny away.
Damn I hate pugging.
Bit late, but if anyone is still around it’s worth asking: what questions would you like to put to me?
I’m putting together more video content, where I can, and I figure it’d be a good opportunity to answer what and any questions you might have as part of that. It’ll certainly keep me from being lonely while talking to a microphone in my house. Which nobody else lives in. Just me.
I’ll try and collect a whole bunch and answer as I go along; hit me up here or on Twitter.
Sorry, I don’t really understand what questions you’re asking about. Could I get more information so I can help you?
Literally anything: something about a game, something about the office, something about cooking, something you saw in the news, whatever you’d like to ask (or like to hear me answer, I suppose is a better way of framing it).
Alternatively if you’d just like to throw an opinion my way and have me respond to that, that works too. I’m not fussy.
Oh um, Do you like horror games? What are some of your favourite games? How did you get into journalism? Also, thanks for coming to Pax Meat.
If you could do any other profession, what would it be?
If you could make the ideal game, what would you make?
What was the last book you read?
Where is your favourite place for coffee?
Have you been converted to the Church of Oats?
Do you know the lyrics to “I’m So Ronery” from Team America: World Police?
Oh come on… everyone knows the lyrics to that song.
I’m so ronery and sadry aroooooonnnneeeeee
How much of an effect do you think the post world war 1 snubbing of Japan by “western” nations (particularly the rejection of the Japanese racial equality proposal) contributed to their siding with the axis in the second world war?
Do you consider the benefits of HBAO or similar over SSAO to outweigh the performance deficit?
If Australia were to build a space elevator, where would you expect (want, maybe? this is a hypothetical, after all) it to be built? And on that note, what would you like to see used as its space anchor?
(I’m sorry (I’m not sorry), I’m both a nerd, and a huge jerk. A terrible combination)
Space Elevators have to be tied to a geosynchronous orbit, so you can only build them at the equator.Not entirely. Since we’re already dealing with a society that can create a strong enough material to get that far out, it’s well within the realms of possibility that we could make something that exerts enough force through non-gravitational means to keep something in a non equatorial orbit (a fucking huge solar sail springs to mind).Additionally, just to defend my question, there’s still a wide variety of placement options along the equator, and some theorised space elevators include a sea-based base that could move (to avoid storms, atmospheric disturbances, etc.) which hugely increases the number of potential launch points.
Also also, it would need to be geostationary, specifically, if it was just geosynchronous you could end up with an elevator with a veeeeery short lifespan.
Ooh, this is fun. I know both some space nerds and history geeks who can provide some background to this too. I might sit on this for a bit so I can get you a real good answer, if that’s cool.
Go nuts.
But I’ll take this as a challenge and get to work on some more ludicrously stupid and/or niche questions.
For instance, you’ve joined your friend Lara in raiding an ancient tomb (actually, it’s probably a temple). While examining the markings on a wall you hear the sound of shifting stone around you, and find yourself attacked by a dozen creatures. In your panic you slip, knocking over a container that shatters on the ground, releasing what you recognise as MAGICAL WINE on to the ground. Renewed, you call for aid from:
A) Shezmu
B) Bacchus
C) Dionysus
D) As an atheist you clearly don’t believe in gods, and find this whole situation laughable
(And if you chose Bacchus, why would you make such a wrong decision, and how does it feel to be a filthy Romanophile?)
You prefer going Greek huh?
I just call for more wine.
Well, Cape York would probably make the most sense for a space elevator, but I want the damn thing in my yard, so I can put the cat in it at 3am when he yowls at my window.
I’ve been waiting for space elevators since The Fountains of Paradise, bring it on already.
So this is an impromptu AMA?! =O AT 8PM?!
Not at 8PM: when I put a video together, towards the end I’ll go through some of the questions and answer them as part of that. This is the collection phase! (I’m making a document with all the Q’s and I’ll go through them as I go along.)
Why do you love Star Trek? =O
Tabletop Role Playing Games: Y/Y?
Who is your favourite Pokemon starter and why is it Squirtle?
Ahahaha, why do you immediately say Squirtle?
He is just assuming that you aren’t a terrible person who is wrong
Because Squirtle
BECAUSE SQUIRTLE IS THE GREATEST
That’s a funny way to spell Cyndaquil…
My first pokemon was Yellow
Piiiikaa!
Same. o/
\o
I knew I liked you, Cake.
That’s not how you spell Charmander…
What is the best type of cake and why is chocolate mud cake at the bottom of the list.
Do you cook? What is your go to dish when you have people around, and when you have time to actually cook something you want just for you?
Black Forest Cake.
I cook – go to meals for people over are stir fry, spag bol, fajitas or creamy white wine + choizo fettucini.
When i have time to cook for me – A nice casserole in the slow cooker, or a good roast.
I’d totally get the place
I’ll move in with ya, we’ll form a podcast and every other week we will get @markserrels to say something Scottish
Actual questions what made you decide to be a journalist? How’d you get into it? Favourite game of this year? What television shows are you watching? Whats your steam password and can I have an Xbox One if you have one laying around at the kotaku offices.
Xenoblade? Xenoblade.
What moments in a game/games have stuck with you? Good writing, great score, a clever twist, a big reveal, a satisfying conclusion, or even just an interesting mechanic…?
DARK.
SOULS.
How do you feel your experiences as a gamer have shaped the person you present yourself as in public? Are there any specific acquired behaviours, thought patterns, habits that you’ve developed? Do they shape how you view yourself?
How many times has Mark challenged you to a rock climbing and/or porridge eating contest?
More serious question
What is your personal favourite underrated / unheard of game?
I suppose the opposite too, what really successful game that everyone seems to love do you just not get?
What is your favorite spinoff to a series, be it games, tv, or even Crystal Pepsi?
EDIT: Nevermind, asked above.
Do you keep tomato sauce in the pantry or the fridge?
Favourite portable gaming system?
Favourite console?
Laptop or PC?
Stealth or guns blazing?
What are your thought on escalating military tensions in the South China Sea, more specifically around the militarization of the Spratleys, and where Australia will fit in to any conflict in the region?
Who or what is Croatoan, and what do you think happened on board the Mary Celeste?
What do you look like naked?
follow up with “how do you think I would look naked”
o_O
You opened this can of worms =P
I’m always keen on the history of stuff. I’m always looking for stuff on YouTube that explains how old games influenced new ones.
Like how every RPG from both east & west are still working from the foundation built by Ultima & Wizardry which were essentially trying to make D&D on a computer.
You seem to be a PC guy(?), I’m lacking knowledge in that area having bought my first in my mid twenties & still using the price of crap 8 years later!!
Today is going to be one of those days where I just fucking hate on religion constantly.
I’m not actually allowed to talk about what’s going on, despite the fact that newspapers/sites are already plastered with the story…but if you know where I work you could probably take one guess as to why I’m a seething ball of contempt right now.
As someone who has no idea where you work or what you are talking about, I’m going to take an educated guess and say it’s because … they made you take off your niqab, and discovered that underneath you were wearing nothing but a mankini?
Here I was trying to think happy thoughts and now I have the image of me dancing around in a mankini stuck in my head.
… this isn’t a happy thought for you? You’re pretty much describing my perfect day.
*grabs popcorn*
Today is going slower than usual…
Okay, so…
If a nuke were to go off in Australia, and you were picked to go to a fallout shelter, what three things would you take with you?
Also, apparently Cloud has joined the battle…
Need more data. Does the shelter have a power source? Do we need to worry about food/water/etc?
Can one of the three things be a thing filled with things?
Actually… scratch that…
Wife
Baby
Dog
I’ll smuggle the cat in, a-la red dwarf.
I’d have to make my own hobbies when in
Wife
Baby
Loops
No need to make my own hobbies then 😉
Giggidy
It’s mildly disturbing to think that both you and @chuloopa see your wife and baby as ‘things’.
It’s mildly disturbing to think that you have no issue with me thinking of Loops as a ‘thing’
Sounds erotic.
Radioactive rain is a thing isn’t it? In which case no rainwater tank.
Plant seeds? Assuming the bomb goes off where the people are, it’ll be tough to grow anything anywhere else because the people aren’t in the desert.
Maybe just see what I can pick up from bunnings or BCF… No way I’m prepared for one of these things
Since its Australia we are talking about: a hotrod and 2 extra tanks of guzzoline.
Apparently “Furiosa” is a voiced option in Fallout 4.
I know what my second playthrough is going to be.
Hell. Yes.
Spider-Man?
Wife , Son & a handheld
Played BroForce for the first time ever last night.
HOLY SHIT WHY DID I NOT PLAY THIS GAME SOONER!!!???
HOLY SHITBALLS!!! IT’S BROMAZING!
IT HAS A BRO-DAMNED HIGH FIVE BUTTON!!!
IT HAS A **FLEX** BUTTON!!!
GAME OF THE YEAR!!! I DON’T CARE WHAT YEAR IT CAME OUT IN!!! GAMEEE OFF THHEEE YEAAARRR!!!!
God I want this game to come out on 3DS so badly… I will abandon all other games the second it does.
I wonder how well it would work on a smaller screen, given that it’s so busy… but mannn… if i had a handheld version i’d get no work done.
Yeah seriously, I’d have to start embezzling like a madman, as I’d be fired within the week if it was on the 3DS…
Real bros give brojobs to all their bros #justbrostuff
This bro knows where it’s at
*bro fist*
I’ve had it for a while on PC and it peters out after a bit. There’s too many Bros that are shit and you keep getting shoved over to them and run out of lives and then have to restart. Quite frustrating. No way to preference certain bros or remove the unplayable ones from the list. For every usable Bro like Rambro or Brommando there’s two or three that are situational or just absolute shit like MacBrover or Indianna Brones or Cherry Broling or the Bro in Black. If you had control over swapping them around or something it’d be a whole different story.
Yeah i agree with you on that part, but the only bro i really didn’t like using was the one that throws dynamite around… what a hunk of shit that guy is.
I actually don’t mind bro in black.
MacBrover (MacGyver) is the dynamite and chickens guy and yeah, he fucking sucks.
There’s a whole ton that are middling. Bro in Black’s issue is he tends to blow up the environment too much and can make progress impossible. Also very easy to kill yourself with him.
There’s also a bunch of characters that have ridiculously short range or weak attacks. Broketeer is awful for that for example, his gun is just weak. Indiana Brones has super powerful secondary attacks but you only get a couple shots and then you’re whipping dudes and have to hit like 8 times to kill. Cherry Broling only fucking shoots downward unless you stop and crouch and that’s almost never useful.
The range thing is also a big problem. Stuff can shoot you from the other side of the screen but I think that Snake Broskin is the only one that has similar range. Can be quite frustrating.
Broken keyframes and desync’d audio is the bane of my existence.
SC2 video (and the first answers from TAY questions) will arrive Monday/Tuesday instead. Doh!
Just a BTW, swearing in the headlines isn’t cool.
Swearing isn’t cool.
Swearing is tough, but it isn’t cool 🙂
Seriously though, we have had to now ban Kotaku and Gizmodo from access from the school networks, which is a massive shame as it has been a great research resource for the school, and is filled with information relevant to the kids’ interests.
I’m not sure why the sudden explosion in f-bombs in articles and headlines of late, I don’t give a stuff about swearing myself, but I don’t see what it adds to the articles.
Just out of interest, what is the thinking behind it? Is it to look cool to the kidz, keeping it real with the language of the streetz?
Well shit, that sucks.
You bet your cockgobbling shitballs it does.
Ask the American Kotaku as they are the ones doing the swearing
Funnily enough, they are censoring some of my posts where I ask/comment about the swearing in the articles.
Tell them to get fuckedPolitely ask why you being censored. Might be an automated thing?Sorry for the double post
@alexwalker was responsible for at least one that I know of. Was an aussieifcation of the US headline. Probably worth letting @markserrels know the impact of this just as an FYI
It was a US headline, not an Aussiefication, but that’s been changed (which was a US decision).
I’ve written some colloquialisms in the headlines, but I’ve not dropped an F-bomb in the headline yet.
Was it ‘kicked the shit out of it’ was what I was thinking of
Entirely possible that I’ve mis-remembered
Passed the info on, incidentally. (Also, what was the offending headline from me that you know of, I’ll go back and have a look)
PAYDAY 2 Got The Shit Kicked Out Of It On The Weekend
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/10/payday-2-got-paddled-over-the-weekend/
Also as a clarification, I wasn’t calling you out on this. Was more just a way of bring this to your attention
Ah yeah, no worries. Thanks for that, it’s worth remembering for the future.
How do you feel about it in general?
In general it doesn’t overly bother me but I don’t see the point of it. Personally I see swearing as something used for emphasis and therefore I limit it to conversation when needed. Very rare that I will use it in any form of written communication.
More than anything I know people can get offended by it so removing it improves their experience and doesn’t impact mine so I’m all for removing it.
That was the reason I flagged a c-bomb in an article to Mark the other day. Didn’t bother me but I know some people would get less from the article with it in there
Passed the info on, incidentally. (Also, what was the offending headline from me that you know of, I’ll go back and have a look)
“Jesus-fucking-christ-ffviis-cloud-is-coming-to-smash-bros” was the one that broke it for the school, it wasn’t from you. It was doubly bad as it was in the “Nintendo” section, which we can usually count on to be pretty content appropriate for primary school, and then had zero content in the article itself, so there wasn’t even vaguely a context for it.
The schools aren’t ultra prudish or anything, we are fairly cool with the occasional profanity or slightly dodgy phrases online, but automated filters will definitely block access to that, and there is no way we could defend titles like that to parents.
As mentioned, personally I just don’t see that it adds much to the stories, but it will end up restricting the readership somewhat.
Yeah, completely understandable. Thanks so much, and we’ll definitely keep it in mind going forward.
Melbourne Taybies! I am committing to supernova next year. Because it’s a stall, i can allow two other people to work with me. I will need some help as I will need to eat and pee.
Also, I have decided that I need to do something other than bookmarks. Maybe art prints, pins or possibly even shirts
Oooh, sounds great. It’s a bit of a travel for me, and I hate Melbourne, but if you have trouble finding someone let me know and I’ll try and make it to help out.
Commit fully and come to Sydney. Then I can get to help out, we can 3D print stuff and you know, do things, and stuff and y’know…
Travelling isn’t possible atm as i am a full time carer for my Mum and also the dog. And I don’t have a car.
I have the same problem actually, but I can get to Sydney if anyone else needs a hand. Good luck with the stand, do you have a link to the stuff you do?
Not yet, but I’m planning on making a website by then
Art prints sounds awesome =O
What month is it?
Looks like April 15th-17th.
http://www.supanova.com.au/
Thank you for your bookmark, by the way, it’s lovely and I’ve been using it! Nicest one I’ve ever had.
Instant response: I’m sorry /o\
Secondary response: You’re welcome.
Just ordered the Star Wars: Battlefront Collector’s Edition.
EXCITE!
Edit: Bit disappointed in the t-shirt sizes, biggest size you can order is large (seriously!). Really hope it fits.
Yeah, what is up with that? No love for the huskier gentleman.
OK, now I need to rewire my brain in relation to you
Que?
Less chimpanzee, more gorilla
Now you know how us smaller people feel.
Try tying to get an XS in ANYTHING!!!
Especially as a promo item!
XS? What are you, a midget? 😛
5’5″ – so close enough, i guess.
Just a small frame and i hate baggy tee shirts
Baggy clothes are the ONLY way to go. Never liked close fitting clothes, even when I was skinny.
Nah – i’m too much of a strutter for baggy.
You can tell by the way i use my walk i’m a woman’s man.
No time to talk.
Hell I thought promo shirts ONLY came in large. Don’t think I’ve ever seen anything in any other side, and definitely never seen anything where you get to choose your size.
XS though? You didn’t seem that tiny 😛
Yeah – pretty much ALL my shirts are XS. Go figure haha
That’s really weird. I mean, you’re only an inch shorter than me apparently, and I don’t think I’m a particularly huge guy bulk-wise. Are Smalls too big on you, or do you just prefer a tighter fit?
I don’t think I’ve even seen an XS when looking around at shirts, how do you even find them 😛
A bit of both – i feel like i swim around in most smalls – there are a number of XS’s i own that are even loose by my standards.
And it’s bloody hard, let me tell you that much… It’s getting so much harder to find good quality and good looking pop culture shirts in my size too…
The hell? They don’t know Star Wars fans. Not at all.
There’s a shiny new board game called The Gallerist. It’s about running art galleries for fame and fortune. It seems like a very well-executed worker placement with quality components. Exactly the sort of thing I should salivate over.
Turns out the Kickstarter version was about $70. That’s a good price. The retail price? $120. Boo.
Now I’m going to have to make an effort to play it at one of the bajillion board gaming events around Canberra that I’ve been sporadically attending. I do love me some worker placements.
Man – i would own soooo many board games if it weren’t for the price of the damn things…
I have no idea what you mean.
Holy shit, dude…. Woah
Nice List. Think mine’s up to date now: https://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/redartifice
How good is qwirkle?!
So good.
Girlfriend came downstairs and caught me arranging a Raider’s corpse so he was sitting on a toilet.
We made eye contact. Silence. She turned on her heels and went back upstairs.
GOTY.
Exactly this. Except in my instance it’s when I’m browsing porn =,=
Fallout 4!
Walked into an Airforce bunker; looted and killed everything; went back to base and salvaged everything. See that my map marker has the base marked as ….. As someone who has an OCD with completionism this could be a problem.Look s like my 3DS will be getting some use again.
Devil Survivor 2 last month, Dragon Quest 7&8 next year.
As well as BRAVELY SECOND & SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI IV FINAL!!!
OH YEAH!
No Fire Emblem?
or yokai watchNah, I just sold FE A to Scree. I liked it enough but have no feeling to return.
It’s certainly not as crap as Xenobladder.
I’m just not a huge tactics fan these days. The small amount you get in regular turn based stuff is enough for me.
Weird, because I loved all the FF Tactics.
Oh I thought you were one of the Fire Emblemers around here!
I was, sorta(?).
I bought & finished it. Loved the first half(?)maybe longer. By the time I got to the end I’d had enough. Not just the gameplay, I’d lost interest in the main story & was justfast forwarding through the dialogue to breed .
Then I heard Sughly saying how he played again on hardest difficulty & realised it just wasn’t my thing.
If I had more time & money, I’d just buy it anyway. But I’m double poor :p
Have to admit that the entire second arc of FE:A was kinda weird and didn’t really fit into the overall plot that well. I barely used any of the characters I picked up in that arc and never really got into the feel of it.
Weird? Really? I just felt it kept going, overstayed it’s welcome.
I find everything too long these days though, so it’s hard to gauge.
It definitely overstayed it’s welcome but I also felt that it was a lot of “suddenly new enemies you must fight because they’re evil and trying to take over the world”. The villains of the second arc just kinda existed as a reason for you to fight them rather than actually contributing to the story. It’s like a side-plot that decided to take up 1/3 of the game.
@popdart5: except they were kind of introduced right at the start of the game and teased throughout so they weren’t really out of nowhere.
Want a suddenly-from-left-field villain? Try Tactics Ogre. Holy shit that goes off the rails.
@jimu was forced to dislike it because I like it very much and our tastes must be in balance.
If we cross the taste streams too often, the world will implode!
Well that’s certainly a mental image.
Hey, we have very handsome taste streams
Cc @liondrive
But bummmed (not really much) that there’s no announcement for Z.
I remember my sister playing Dragon Quest 7 for yonks on PS2. Not sure if I want to relive that experience on handheld.
My pending highlights are Bravely Second and Project X Zone 2. I’m a sucker for flashy fighting games and RPGs.
Oh, I was digging 7 til I got lost, but apparently they added somemkre hints or quest markers or whatever, so I’m keen.
8 my disc got scratched so I’m stuck.
You consider Xzone a fighter?
It’s a fighter in the loosest sense of the word. I’m more in it for the spectacle of the mash-up rather than the mechanics.
Also Segata Sanshiro is in the game. I need it just to see that.
DQ7 was on PS1, never released in PAL areas. DQ8 was the PS2 one and the version we got in the west was way better than the Japanese one due to the addition of voices and an orchestrated soundtrack.
DQ7 is also fucking enormous. 100+ hour game.
EDIT: I am contractually obligated to buy Project X Zone 2 because of the Sakura Taisen characters being in it again.
Getting my games mixed up. It was indeed DQ8 that sister played and insisted on doing all the side quests. Holy crap the monster battle arena took her forever.
Guys, guys! I haven’t seen much talk about it in here so I feel the need to say this:
Did you know that Fallout 4 is a pretty cool guy?
Da kewlist
Spelunky is going to be at AGDQ this year, huzzah!
All of the main speedrunning categories for the game are very luck dependent. You need the right things to spawn for an attempt to be made at all (aside from low%) and even then the success rate isn’t high. It’s a game a lot of the best players brute force in hopes of finding good seeds for their runs.
AGDQ doesn’t like that sort of thing. They like consistency. If you say it’s going to take 2 minutes to finish the game, you should take 2 minutes to finish the game. Not 30 minutes of resetting to get that 2 minute run.
The solution? Add a new category to speedrun: All shortcuts.
Now people are practicing a speedrun where you delete your save file and try to unlock all three shortcuts as quickly as possible. It’s still luck dependent but because you’re breaking the game into a series of relatively simple goals, it’s much more consistent.
I thought I’d try it. I did the speedrun in 32:59. The current world record is about 15 minutes. For comparision, the current any% world record is 1:41 and my best time is 5:12 (which was also no gold). Hell%? WR is 3:44 while I took a casual 8:16.
Moral of the story? I could be much better at Spelunky. Much, much better.
Or you could learn carpentry skills.
The beauty of a perfect dovetail joint is the same high as getting a perfect speed run.
Nah, I’ll commit to the sunken cost fallacy.
Ugh. Just read friends’ chat about all the stuff that happened in the Direct.
Horrible, horrible news everywhere. Worst Direct ever.
Didn’t have a chance to watch it sooooo… Specify?
Please?
Twilight Princess HD. Ugh.
Wolf Link amiibo. Ugh.
Some vague mention of what sounded to be Mega Man Gimped Anniversary Collection. Ugh.
Some other mention of gold Mega Man amiibo. Ugh.
Motherfucking CLOUD in Smash. CLOUD??
Htu.
Sold all my Amiibo’s, 3DS and my Wii U. Never thought I’d say this, but I think I’m done with Nintendo. That is unless the NX is absolutely mind blowing. They never should’ve let Microsoft buy Rare, Nintendo should’ve been all over that shit.
… Wow… Just… Wow
Twilight Princess HD means I get to play Twilight Princess and hopefully do so without waving my
junkcontroller around the whole time. Also, the amiibo looks rad.Also, Cloud in Smash? That’s almost as ridiculous as a game where a bunch of unrelated characters from various unrelated games fight each for reasons that aren’t really clear… 😀
Cloud is FFVII though, right? Which has never shown its face on a Nintendo console. Sonic, Ryu, Pac Man and Mega Man have all had a big main game featured on a Nintendo in the past. Hell, even Snake did. Cloud showing up in Theatrhythm doesn’t count. If anything it should have been someone from FFVI. Or even just a black mage.
Most of all though, IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SIMON BELMONT.
(also I just hate SE in general :P)
For better or worse, FF7 is the biggest FF of them all so picking what is arguably the most iconic FF character for Smash makes sense.
I’m still stunned that there’s not one of the Tales characters since Namco’s Tales Studio is the co-developer for Smash. That series had its start on SNES and Symphonia is strongly associated with the Gamecube in the west as well. Though I guess in all the cases where the series turned up on Nintendo platforms, it got subsequently pushed to PlayStation in a better version. Still, you could pull a whole ton of them into Smash and they’d fit in quite well.
Everyone seems to hate Twilight Princess so much. I honestly think if people would give it a chance they would actually enjoy it. Also, it has the best character from any Zelda game.
sheik
But Dragon Quest7&8!
Who?
When?
Unpopular opinion time!
Despite having some stellar moments that represent the peak of the series, Uncharted 2 (remastered) is overall inferior to Uncharted 1 (remastered). It’s buggier and there are way too many instant-death fail moments where the way forward isn’t all that clear. The story is marginally stronger, though.
It’s still a goddamned amazing game, though.
Hanging out for Uncharted 4. Only 4 months to go.
ME TOO! That 20 minute gameplay trailer a few months back looked AMAZING!
Watched Spectre yesterday, a few eye-rolling moments where women just jump into bed with him, but from what I’ve seen of previous movies that’s typical Bond. Other than that I thought it was a pretty enjoyable film.
I’d jump into bed with him too…
Really wanted to go to Supanova in Adelaide next weekend, but with fuel, hotel, food, tickets etc and a couple of autographs and photo with Peter Mayhew it’d set me back about $400-$500, and I really can’t justify spending that sort of cash right now. :'(
I’m sorry I don’t have all my bookmarks ready for Adelaide.
Also, just got my Big W ebay order. I was confused, because the box was so small and it was supposed to have the Chibi Robo amiibo box in there (yes I hate myself :P).
But it turns out, Nintendo finally got sane in the boxing department, compared to what they did with Mario Maker and Wooly Yoshi. Thank god.
Oooh, I can get a framed print of this photo for 47 bucks. I’ll be able to remember this forever.
Eugh. One of my best friends is moving to London at the end of the year, and has invited me to drinks with him tonight. So far, so good. Just found out that it’s a work drinks event, and I will be the only person there that doesn’t work with him.
Kill me. Going to work functions and listening people harp on about inane crap that has absolutely no relevance to me whatsoever is up there with genocide as the worst things you can do with your evening.
ahahahaha welcome to networking.
It’s the fucking worst.
But are the drinks being paid for by his work? #important
They were not. Once I figured that out, I didn’t end up going.
@redartifice How did Lasers & Feelings go last night? Hope you guys had fun.
On a side note, I listened to the PAX Nerdpartment Fiasco game. You guys were absolutely bonkers and crazy and it was great.
We deferred it, time zones/availability stepped in.
That FIasco game was alot of fun. I know we made @alexpants’ sides hurt.
Somehow, I’ve resisted the urge to buy Legacy of the Void. My resistances will not last much longer.
I think a replay of the first two campaigns will be the only thing I can do to delay the inevitable.
My keyboard at home is old and my keyboard at work is officially wobbly. Time to burn them to the ground and start fresh. Anyone got any recommendations for replacements? Gaming hardware is normally a good way to get hardware designed for high usage and comfort but looking these all seem to be just regular Microsoft keyboards with backlights and LCD displays. I wouldn’t mind something with a USB hub built in and a volume dial.
I swear by my Logitech G710+…
So damn good!
I second the Logitech G710+
I third the Logitech G710+
Way to be original, Rize.
Way to be original, Cake.
I knew that was coming the moment I hit “submit”
Not sure about that bright orange line on the side. Is the G19S any good?
I had to go look at mine to remind myself what orange bit you were talking about…so basically, like or hate it you’ll learn to ignore it 😛
The G19 I had needed it’s own wall socket power. The 710 I own is better in every way except I can’t choose the backlight colour
I hadn’t considered the idea that a powered USB hub on a keyboard might need it’s own power supply. I should probably investigate that.
If you’re keen on low profile keyboards, the Apple keyboards are surprisingly rad.
If you’re after more game-y options, basically anything mechanical is going to be well worth the money over a non-mechanical keyboard. The problem is buying two because they’re quite pricey (and if you’re getting blue switches, the most common type of mechanical keyboard, quite load).
What exactly is a mechanical keyboard? Everyone talks like they’re some huge modern innovation but from what I can tell they’re just classic style row of button keyboards like computers have used forever. Did recent generations of new computer users get sucked into thinking some cheap/pretty Apple keyboard was the default style for keyboards? Or is there something I’m missing?
It refers to the switch under the keys.
Most keyboards you see have a rubber dome switch. That means you have to bottom out the key for it to activate and the build quality is lower. Mechanical keyboards use simple mechanical switches for each key, which don’t have to be bottomed out to activate, are higher build quality and generally more reliable.
It’s the difference between using market fresh ingredients for cooking or just the random shit at Woolies. Most people don’t care but those that do feel the difference.
Ok, I thought that might be the case but I didn’t see how that translated to significant advantages over a traditional keyboard. Still not convinced it’s for me but at least I have a better idea what’s out there. Thanks.
They’re worth trying. There is a very different tactile sensation and mechanical keyboards generally need less force to activate. Most of it is personal preference though, as evangelical as we mech keyboard users can be.
I thought this for years until I got one recently. I can never go back.
Yeah, market fresh is pretty good
I like my Apple keyboard. Only downside is it doesn’t have buttons for things like Print Screen 😛
So I had a Logitech G19s in my cart ready to go, then I saw the Das Keyboard 4 Professional and decided to ignore the advice I came here specifically to get. Simple look, two USB 3.0 ports and a volume dial. Worst case scenario I’ll pass it off to my dad and grab a G19s.
Thanks for the help guys but I’m just too much of a damn renegade to take helpful advice from people who know better.
Das is overpriced but it’s mechanical, so I count it as a win.
Have been using a Corsair K70 with red switches for most of this year and it’s amazing.
I almost splashed for one at work but am pretty sure I’d annoy the shit out of my colleagues with all the clickty-clack noise mechanical keyboards make. Use it for gaming and uni assignments at home and my hands don’t get tired. Use the work keyboard and any extensive typing makes the tops of my hands hurt now – presumably because I need to push keys that much harder,
I’m echoing a lot of whats already said – but if you want to go mechanical see if you can try the different switches before buying. I’ve only ever used reds which have a super light actuation (something like 2mm from memory) so don’t have a great deal of experience with the other colours.
Do you do a lot of typing at your job? I swapped to a MS Natural ergonomic keyboard (which has a raised rest at the front and the keyboard is split through the middle so there’s a gap and then angled to keep your wrists neutral) and I can’t go back to anything else now. It’s just too comfortable.
I have an old G15 I’ve had for about 10 years. It’s bulletproof. Only has orange back lighting and a basic LCD screen, but I use it for monitoring CPU and memory usage along with network traffic using Sir Real’s LCD app. Not sure is the USB ports on it are USB 1 or 2…then again, probably doesn’t matter since I don’t think you could buy it anymore anyway :p
Dafuq? Guy kickstarts some elastic strips to use as shoelaces and gets over half a million for it.
Is this really what the people want. Half a million worth of elastic roll?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/914635363/xpand-lacing-system
Behold!
$400,000 for spinning tops!
93 people people paid nearly $700 for bits of metal that spin pretty well.
IM gonna be honest. i want some, my shoes are always coming undone and breaking. Having a elastic solution for my cons would be cool.
Ross you could make some with your 3d printer and some elastic
HEY I COULD MAKE SOME WITH MY 3D PRINTER AND BUY SOME ELASTIC
It’s a good thing you’re pretty cause you’re dumb as a stump.
Im gonna be honest, all i took from that was that you think i am pretty.
Here: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/02/this-is-the-best-way-to-tie-your-shoelaces/
Changed my life.
Or you could just learn to tie your shoes Proper
Have you ever wondered why infomercials were a thing? Enough people are willing to spend $29.99 on a shoe lace system to cover the cost of production, cost of marketing and cost of disposing of the extra half a million you accidentally make. Honestly as dumb as the concept is I’d consider buying it if it were available in a store.
Although I do find it weird the average is $30. That means people are buying six packs. I wonder if they’re confused and think 6 packs = 3 shoes.
Comparing those sorts of projects to infomercials is hilariously accurate, and something I hadn’t really considered.
I hadn’t either, but something about that Kickstarter just screams it. It’s got that perfect mix of over presenting a very basic concept, a product that’s theoretically useful that nobody has ever asked for and a price tag that feels completely unrelated to the product being sold.
Some people own more than one pair of shoes.
Yeah but six still seems a bit much for the average. They’re probably just a bigger hit with parents than with people like me who only have three pairs of laced shoes. I’m guessing if you’ve got two kids who aren’t old enough to tie their own shoes this sounds appealing.
Also for any crap I may be giving the product I own and use a shoe horn. It’s an equally ridiculous concept it’s just old enough nobody questions it.
Most runners own at least two pairs of shoes. More if they’re doing a high weekly mileage and regular races or doing trails. And you’re right, people with kids generally like shoe solutions that don’t involve shoe laces. Getting kids to *find* their shoes is a battle enough. Six pairs actually seems conservative for an active family of four.
Hmmm. Perhaps I should be selling some sort of shoe whistle on Kickstarter… A tiny little speaker that gets laced into the front and is activated by a doorbell like button. I’m gonna be rich! =P
I love you, lady Link!
Only an hour left in the workday, so Ask me anything.
(I have been putting this off for ages) =P
if you weren’t a caregiver for your mum what do you think you would do career wise? Do you have any aspirations to study or do a tafe course? What is your favorite novel? Do you think you are more extroverted since befriending taybies? Who is the best person in your life?
I tried to get into the video game industry. Knowing how fickle it is, I probably would’ve gotten any retail job and worked on games in my spare time.
No, because study is expensive.
My favourite novel is Temple by Matthew Reilly because I loved the way the last line changed your outlook of the whole novel.
I believe I am, I’m still terrified of people, but if I get pissed off enough, I will tell people off. (I forget I look 16)
Sid. Not strictly a person. Other then that I can’t choose. Probably Mum as she allows me to do all the shit I want.
Only Matthew Reilly book I’ve ever read was The Great Zoo Of China. I thought it was pretty good until I got to about page 400, then I just stopped reading for months and had to force myself to finish it in the end.
I haven’t read The great Zoo of china. Temple was his third book. I would suggest giving it a go.
I’ll give that book a shot.
Re Study, if you want to learn game programming, I can give you access to my courses for free. It would pretty much step you through everything, all you need is some time to throw at it.
I’m less of a “programming person” and more of the “make everything pretty!” person. Oh and an ideas person. I have heaps of ideas for games that I can’t make.
Sort of stealing @crazyguy1990’s idea, but
There’s a nuclear disaster, you have a spot in a vault nearby, you only have enough time to grab 1 movie, 1 game, 1 book and 1 music album, which ones do you pick?
Hm…There’s no one movie I can watch over and over.
Game would be JSRF as I have easily played it the most time out of all my games. (and I have a lot)
Book would be Temple. See above.
Music album…That’s hard as I have massively eclectic tastes. I will steal everyone else’s music =P
What’s a Diorama?
What’s your dream unlimited budget cosplay?
How’s Sid?
diorama
ˌdʌɪəˈrɑːmə/Submit
noun
a model representing a scene with three-dimensional figures, either in miniature or as a large-scale museum exhibit.
historical
a scenic painting, viewed through a peephole, in which changes in colour and direction of illumination simulate changes in the weather, time of day, etc.
a miniature film set used for special effects or animation. (from google =P)
Hard to say. I know I would love to do Varia suit samus, but the good thing about cosplay is it can be done cheaply. Unless I buy a giant 3D printer =D
Sid is currently relaxing out the back after playing with his Kelpie friend Gus. He’s still fat though.
What’s your signature dance move you serve to whoever brings it?
I don’t have one. Sorry. Sometime I will randomly dance to music though. If I had to call it something, I would call it “losing my shit”
So what do you serve when someone brings it?
I put just dance on? (I have no idea)
Why am I always so sleepy?
How are you?
No idea, maybe get your iron checked. I feel sleepy too.
I’m okay, I am worrying about my bookmarks, mainly that bookmarks aren’t enough to have a stall at supernova. I know I love pins, but they stuff I’ve done doesn’t transfer to badges/pins well.
I’ll take a Chie!
I’m still working on JSRF sorry. But P4 is next!
No rush 🙂
If you want to model anything I can 3D print it for you, and you could sell those trinketies.
Varia suit armor? I’m small, I promise =P
I’m not 3D modelling at the moment, but I do 3D model occasionally
Have you considered stickers? Specifically console/handheld skin stickers. Like a Smash Bros/Mario Kart sticker that’s cut to fit the frame of the gamepad or the side of the console. The little New 3DS has skins but the XL could use something like that (Vita could too, but it’s a bit hard with most of it being covered in touch surfaces).
Oh that’s a good idea! I would need a template though…Maybe I can just scan my vita and 3ds.
The only problem is there are a billion DS sizes now. You could probably get away with not making them a perfect outline and just doing a decorative strips and splashes designed for the smallest which would fit all of them. Giant A4 PC case stickers could be cool if your originals scale well enough. It’d be a ton of work and you’d almost certainly end up with too many of one and not enough of another, but I think a big range of consoles/handhelds might help you pad the stall out a little.
If you need measurements I’ve got the original 3DS XL, a 2DS, a New 3DS XL, an original DS, whatever the bigger PS Vita is called, a Wii U, a PS4, an original grill style PS3, an original 360, the latest 360 (not the Elite, the one that’s meant to look like an XBOX One) and an XBOX One.
I have a range of consoles too. But I’m also the sort of person who hates putting stickers on my consoles. It will need some thought as being odd sizes and such, it’ll need to be re-worked.
Same. I put a Turok sticker on my N64 once and now I loath them. I just figure some people like them and your designs beat the usual stuff. It’s hard to find this sort of gear without it having some sort of promotional aspect to it. Like on the off chance I found a Katamari sticker sized correctly for my DS it’d have a release date, game name and Namco logos plastered all over it which sort of ruins the appeal.
All the logos! I’m not sure where people would want to put stickers. Not sure how well they’ll keep either…
Today was a great day. I got the job with BWS & an old friend got in touch with me via Facebook. I have not spoken to her in like 3 or 4 years at least. So awesome to get in touch once again with her!
Tomorrow is parkrunday! My poor feet are going to get so wet!
You can do it!! Run the distance!
Nup. Had a slowish one today. But a slow parkrun always beats no parkrun.
I’ll just preface this with the fact that I don’t watch a great deal of anime.
One Punch Man is f*cking amazing.
I’m actually getting impatient waiting for the next episodes.
It’s intro also has me madly bopping/tapping along on the couch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd61zbDBplc
Comedic timing is excellent, animation is slick, action scenes are drawn great, voice work is amazing.
Seriously – go watch it. So much fun.
Sitting at Changi Airport. Have read all the TAY now and feel like adding to it a bit. PAX seems a long time ago.
@scree your lovely bookmark has not survived the holiday. 🙁 it got soggy.
If Allison wasn’t fast asleep on the bench seat next to me I’d take the skytrain to the far side of the airport to do a Near/travel bug scan with the Vita as I saw a large group of maybe 80 students heading that way and a couple had handhelds… Looked like fertile hunting. Still can’t believe I forgot to bring the Vita to PAX 3 days in a row. 2 more hours to plane home.
Does Near still work? I thought they yanked it in an update a while back.
Still works. Maybe they removed some features? I shall look into this.
I’m sorry. Would you like a replacement? I will probably be printing up a set next year.
I always take a bookmark when offered, so if you do do another set I will gladly accept. It was very nice until a tropical downpour soaked me and all my belongings.
Bloody weather
https://41.media.tumblr.com/de779b94dde080a256aff66c5f5de649/tumblr_inline_nxq5x5ODPY1qeyssh_540.jpg
This is perfect.
Well this sucks.
Xenoblade X is dub-only. They’ve apparently also only dubbed about 1/3 of the stuff that is voiced in the Japanese edition of the game and censored some stuff.
I’m out. Fuck you, Nintendo. I was already on the fence since the game looks all kinds of average, but this is a deal-breaker for me.
One less game vying for my time. One more reason the Wii U is the biggest gaming hardware mistake I’ve ever made.
On the upside I guess I’ll be $110 AUD richer in December.
And there’s no breast size slider in the character creation… WHAT HAS CENSORING COME TO
It’s created a world I no longer want to live in.
Q_Q how frustrating, filling out the required paperwork for BWS, come to the superannuation part and they use Hostplus like Dan Murphy’s do, and I have no idea how to find out if my account is still active cause their site is down for scheduled maintenance. I mean it should be I got a letter a little over a month ago, and I think I even had money in it.
So I don’t post in TAY for a bit, and you guys suddenly burn through nine pages. Start posting again and TAY is dead.
I see how it is. 🙁
It’s all @saturday’s fault.
What the fuck. There was a terrorist attack at a concert in Paris. More than 100 dead :/ Fucking hell.
Story.
There were about 5 or 6 simultaneous attacks across the city. Last I heard total dead was about 250, although the reports of numbers are all over the place so it’s hard to tell exactly.
It’s a terrible day for world news. Twitter tells me there’s also been an earthquake in Japan.
Sad times.
Apparently it was about 100 at the concert & then at least as many throughout the others, from what dad heard on ABC 24.. So fucked up.
I heard 120 at the concert hall with hostages executed. Paris is in lockdown.
All 5 terror suspects are dead though.
Someone really hates the fuckin eagles, man.
[/toosoon] >.>
Eagles of Death Metal, not the Eagles as in the band The Dude from The Big Lebowski hates 😛
They are still fuckin’ eagles 😛
Thoughts on Tales of Zestiria? @beavwa, @greenius, @strange, not sure who has played / is interested.
I’m currently a decent way in, around the 17 hour mark. I think it’s solid but not going to challenge the series’ peak games unless things suddenly get amazing.
I’ve got a number of issues with it. The most glaring problem it has is the cast. Tales has basically established a formula over the years. There’s always the Pure Girl, the Child, the Veteran, the Hot Guy and the Comic Relief. Sometimes they get tricky and combine two of those together in one character but it’s always resulted in a really nicely balanced group. I think with Zestiria they deliberately tried to be a bit unconventional, but the end result is that they basically muddy everything up. The Pure Girl gets ditched from the cast early on. There’s not really a Veteran. There’s no comedy relief character, though Lailah has some comedic moments. It’s basically like they were aware of their tropes and tried to subvert them but didn’t execute well. It ends up coloring everything. Even the fact that the characters are all designed by different people (no less than four character designers worked on the main cast!) ends up making them feel ill defined.It feels very bare bones as well. There’s hardly any skits. Used to be in these games you’d have skits all over the place, but now they only appear when you’re at a save point and I feel like I get 1 or 2 every hour or so. This probably contributes to my feelings about the characters – the skits are where the Tales casts play off each other and really come to life, so having only a few skits dampens that a lot.
Additionally it feels like there’s barely any progression systems. You gain proficiency in items but I can’t see that doing anything major. You can fuse two identical things to make a stronger thing but not enough of those things drop to make it worth it, and I feel like I haven’t struggled at all by just ignoring that system since the gains are incremental at best plus the way that skills are added and managed on the gear feels random and completely obtuse and uncontrollable. There seems to be nearly zero sidequests. All the field zones are these big massive open world areas that feel completely empty – at least Xillia’s had stuff to find scattered about. Zestiria might have a chest or two. I suspect that the chest contents are randomized too since you can get upgrades for certain zones that cause the chests to respawn with new stuff.
Combat happens in the world now. That seems to be their big innovation. You touch an enemy and it explodes into like six enemies and you fight in a big circled-off area like in normal Tales, but instead of that fight happening in a tailored area, it happens wherever you hit the monster. That’d be fine if the camera sucked less. It has some really bad tracking issues and doesn’t deal with obstacles well. Fine when you’re outdoors, not so great when you’re in tight corridors. Still, this is a nice evolution for the series and probably overdue.
The combat itself is pedestrian. It feels like they started to go back to the amazing Graces combat system but got stuck halfway. The characters have resources on their attacks like CC, so no worrying about replenishing MP and so on. Also like Graces, everyone has tiers of ‘normal’ attacks and also a special artes attack and you’re encouraged to vary them. Sorey doesn’t feel that good to fight with though, not like Assbel. Also over the top of it they’ve added this stupid ‘armatize’ system. Basically four of the six cast members are special elemental duders that are only able to be in battle if there’s a human there. Early on this meant Sorey and Alisha, but Alisha couldn’t armatize and is basically just a story placeholder for Rose so you can actually have a full party in battle. Sorey and Rose each have a partner from the four elemental ‘Seraphs’ and they can combine with them at will, basically becoming a powered-up version. When you do that you combine HP pools so if someone gets KOed you can revive them by combining. The issue with that is it’s seemed to have come at the expense of having decent healing on anyone which has made a few boss fights stupidly fucking hard for no reason. Also it ends up adding to that whole feeling that the cast is muddy. No one seems to have a proper role in the group. Rather than having one character that’s clearly the party’s main healer and another that’s the group’s Mage and whatnot, they’re all a little bit of everything. The combat’s still fun but I feel like the new parts aren’t adding anything and would have rather just had Graces combat again with characters that have obvious party functions.
The plot so far has also been largely uninteresting and uneventful and it doesn’t really have much of a hook. Gather the macguffins to beat the bad dude. Meh. Could be worse I guess. I’m still enjoying it, but it’s failed to get under my skin.
The Japanese voice acting is nice. It’s a good cast, solid but not amazing. Does make me sad when Lailah has lines though, since Miyu Matsuki really nails it and she died a few weeks ago.
Current Tales rating:
Vesperia > Abyss > Xillia > Symphonia > Graces > Hearts > Zestiria > Phantasia > Eternia > Destiny > Legendia
I hope Berseria is better. The series in general has felt like its on a downward trajectory since they folded Tales Studio into Bamco after Vesperia.
I played a couple of hours. It was… decent?
More or less agree, though I have no history with the series so I can’t compare.
Can’t see myself picking it up again anytime soon though, when I have much better games to play.
I just finished Xillia last week, so I’m way behind on my Tales games. But you reminded me I really need to get my hands on Vesperia!
We can be Xillia 2 buddies since I hate that game but still totally want to force myself to finish it 😛
How’s the PC port feel? (didn’t read anything in the spoiler tags so apologies if it was already covered :P)
Decent enough/better on PC?
Very good port. Zero issues with it. Solid all the way aside from a couple frame rate dips during heavy action with many enemies at once and multiple attacks going. But that’s happened maybe once or twice so far.
Also my laptop (GS60) can max out every setting so its nit like it’s pushing the hardware hard. It *is* a PS3 game originally.
RIP in pieces my 2007 era PC. You had a good run, but I guess Fallout 4 was too much to handle.
It died a hero, trying to run Fallout 4.
:'(
I had a similar PC from 2006, it made it to 2011 when the motherboard & graphics card decided to die. Power supply is still going strong though 😛
My PC is 2008 and still going.
They had PC’s in 8AD?
You confused the hell out of me then.
Yeah man, I hear the tablet dates back even further. Then again Steve Jobs did think he was the messiah, so y’know..
2003 machine is still… functional!
Can’t really do much these days with most websites being too full of crap and skype forcing that upgrade a while back, but it still works.
Mine really needs an upgrade, but so does the kitchen and I need to save up for supernova. Ugh.
Alkdjflsijrlwksjdfnkjsnerd!
Elite beta 1.5 is up, and all I wanna do is try out the new Imperial Fighter. But it’s like there’s no one else playing CQC, so I can’t get into the only mode where it’s available, stuck staring at the lobby screen searching fruitlessly ad infinitum 🙁
Man I hate real estate websites. Between the websites refusing to use your search settings as anything more than a rough guideline and agents refusing to put accurate/relevant information on their entries the entire system I’d be better off just driving around looking for signs.
So if anyone is wondering who this ‘Marc’ character that added them on Steam is, he’s some jerk.. I’d ignore him.
In all seriousness it’s just me, I finally got around to re-adding people after Steam deleted my entire friends list back around like March lol…
Also if anyone wants to add me here’s my profile link thing-a-me.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/515XIX
@cookingmama
I used Scotchgard on my white canvas shoes and :D. Put it under a tap to test it out and I love that “water trickling off” effect that water resistant things have.
I haven’t worn them outside yet but hopefully it holds up!
…I also realised I spent about as much on the can of Scotchgard as I did for the shoes themselves :3
I think you’ll find you’ll get more than one application out of a can. It won’t protect them indefinitely, but it will definitely prolong the life of your shoes 🙂
@mrtaco didya ever play The Binding of Isaac Rebirth?
It’ll be up ya alley
I played the original when it was in one of the earlier humble bundles.
Well, tried to. It didn’t run very well on my laptop at the time, and it didn’t take long to dismiss it as “just another crappy Flash game” 😛
Rebirth is so gooooood, man! Don’t know if it’s non-Steam on PC though 😛
Rebirth is on Wii U!
I read some Vooks article the other day that said the 3DS version wasn’t out in Australia yet, so hopefully that’s not the case for the Wii U one!
No Afterbirth DLC though 🙁
Have any of you tried the back compat on Xbox one? I just bought Mass Effect disc from EB for $8 to test it out, but it tells me that the game is not playable and to check xbox.com/backcompat for a list of compatible games.
As far as I know, Mass Effect is backward compatible.
Anyone else with the same problem?
Actually never mind.
I’m a doofus. I bought Mass Effect 2 instead of Mass Effect. The “2” was hidden by the $8 sticker. 😛