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PREVIOUSLY, ON REALI-TAY TV (I Wanna Take You To A TAYbar, TAYbar Edition)
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Rocketman has called on TAY’s finest spirit mediums, Transient and Pants, to help him with a most grievous matter.
Rocketman: What do you mean?
Transient: I mean that nothing can be done for him.
Rocketman: But…the exorcism…
Transient: Yes we have news about that. It didn’t work on your friend, but..
Rocketman: But?
Pants: But this bottle has successfully been exorcised of spirits.
He holds up an empty liquor bottle.
Transient: To the liquor cabinet!
They push past Rocketman, leaving him alone with the clearly still possessed Blaghman, thrashing violently against the ropes tying him to the bedpost.
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Tonight, on The Block
Shots of TAYbies frantically renovating the interior of a fancy apartment building.
Meanwhile, outside, DC sits at the controls of a wrecking ball with an empty bottle of liquor.
DC: …buildings.
The wrecking ball swings violently.
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Handsome and virile Bachelor Freeze is faced with the difficult decision of who to give his final red rose of the night to. Before him stand three beautiful women, and a very anxious Nobs.
Freeze: I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this. And in the end, it could only ever have been one person.
Reaction shots of all the contestants. Nobs bites his lip. The host drinks heavily from a hip flask in the background.
Freeze: It’s you, Nobs.
The music swells. Tears stream down Nobs’ face as he accepts the rose.
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Revisiting Baron Blaghman’s holiday villa, a group of TAYbies have gathered in the dining hall. They are all standing around CJ, who looks up at them from the comfort of his new beanbag.
Pants: We need to talk about the beanbag, CJ.
CJ: It’s mine and you can’t have it.
?: But you haven’t gotten up from it in over a week. The smell is making diners nauseous.
CJ: I can get up any time I want to.
Silence.
CJ: I just don’t want to.
Smash cut to CJ attempting to run from the room, carrying his beanbag as the group rushes him. The beanbag gets caught in the door, and as CJ tries desperately to get it through, he is attacked.
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Rize blowing on empty moonshine bottles in a jazz ensemble.
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On the epic finale of The Voice, Delta Goodrem stands alone on stage, champagne flute in hand.
Delta: Ladies and gentlemen, it is my absolute pleasure to introduce the winner of The Voice 2015: Fishgief!
Gooky, in his Zangief outfit but with a giant fish mask on his head, descends from the ceiling dramatically. His rendition of Turbo Lover brings the whole audience to their feet. The applause is so thunderous, the very foundations of the building begin to crumble. One of the judges you don’t like is crushed beneath a falling skylight.
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Nova and Ash rush out from an airport. They stop dead in their tracks, bewildered by what they see.
Nova: Mexico?! We were supposed to go to London!
Cut to Beavwa and Pip in a fine restaurant in London. They clink wine glasses and smirk evilly.
All this and more, tonight, on The Amazing Race.
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Greenius has found a hidden immunity idol! He hugs it with glee, dancing for the cameras then collapsing because he hasn’t eaten for four days and doesn’t have the energy to dance like that.
Cut to Powalen speaking candidly to a camera.
Powalen: I know Greenius has an immunity idol.
He pulls an idol out from his shirt.
Powalen: Just not a real one.
In the background, the freshly eliminated Pants sails away from the island.
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Matt Preston hurls a dish across the room. It smashes against the ground, splattering food across contestants and cameramen alike. A seemingly shattered Strange stands before him.
Preston: That dish…
Ad break. And we’re back.
Preston: That dish…was so divine, no one should ever be allowed to eat it again. Tell us, Strange, what was your secret ingredient?
Strange: Human flesh.
Silence. Then Preston laughs heartily.
Preston: Oh, what a joker! You’ll go far in this competition, I’m sure!
Strange: Indeed…
She turns away from the cameras, her face filled with malice.
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AND NOW, THE THRILLING CONTINUATION
Nob didn’t need to get my rose. He’s always been the most beautiful rose I own.
It’s.. It’s not a healthy relationship.
You could even say he’s a bit of a prick?
*buh-dum-tish*
I’d never say anything so crass about my Nob.
In public at least.
Every man needs to treat his nob right in public.
It’s in private that he can give it a thrashing.
Just like in my dream journal.
Morning TAY! Was hanging out to get first post of the week, @Alexpants beat me to it.
This week is pretty much ruined.
Just the person I wanted to hassle!
You have a 3D printer right? Does it take transparent filament?
I… do not.
@poita and @rocketman do. I just commented jealously when they were bragging about them previously.
Sorry, about that. You have the badge making machine though, right? I think that’s why I got confused.
I… also do not have one of those.
What I do have, is a very particular set of skills…
I am so fucking confused right now =/
If it was my poor attempt at a joke that threw you, https://youtu.be/jZOywn1qArI?t=14
If it was the whole me not owning anything cool… yeah, I don’t 🙁
No, it’s just a couple of people offered to help me with the bookmarks and stuff and I can’t remember who because I thought it was you and it isn’t and I feel bad because I don’t remember.
@scree If this was you trying to make me feel bad for not offering to help… it’s working 🙁
No, don’t feel bad. I don’t expect people to offer help
@scree I tend to be more of a hindrance than a help when I try to assist people, so I can help by not helping!
Pretty much you can help me by saying “This bookmark looks good.” “I think you should try badges” “Something looks off but not sure what” pretty much feedback really
translucent not transparent. You cant ever see through it though
They know what I mean.
@poita is the person you are looking for I think. Damn people and there K avatars
I know, right? No one ever confuses me for anyone else with my special avatar =P
I have a few 3D printers, all will take transparent filament, but it is more like translucent in reality. Also have the badge machines. Which means I also don’t really have a functional car or other stuff most normal people have. I’ll change my avatar, any suggestions?
You don’t need to change your avatar, I just have a terrible memory. With the translucently, would someone be able to look through it as we need an eye piece printed for @tech_knight for his Pulsefire ezreal cosplay
You wouldn’t be able to see through it, no.
e.g. https://3dhubs.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/talk/attachments/20150208_161502.jpg
I would just have to get the rest of the eye piece printed then and leave the lense free. Is metallic silver possible?
It is, but I get better results printing in white then using silver rub ‘n’ buff.
Might do that then, if that’s okay.
Certainly
EVERYONE’S AN ASSHOLE!!!!
\o/
https://youtu.be/tVJC0LJTYZc
You’ll never stop me.
WE’LL SEE ABOUT THAT.
I mean… I won’t… but we’ll get to see me not stopping you.
Didn’t want to buy into the Jessica Jones hype but ended up watching every episode in two days.
Kilgrave is the best Marvel villain so far. Admittedly, he’s basically an evil version of The Doctor (which I guess makes him The Master) but that’s just fine. Amazing what having a villain who is straight up evil but still strongly motivated and interesting does for a show.Went onto Netflix this morning and saw that there were new episodes of Black Mirror. They added the Christmas special. I wanted season 3. Boo.
Is it stand alone or should you have watched other series first?
Stand alone.
It’s probably better if you watch Daredevil first. Simply because both series exist in the same post-Avengers “saving” New York version of New York.
Completely unnecessary to watch anything else beforehand though.
I’ve got two episodes left to watch. I told myself I’d watch them tonight after uni but I dunno if I can hold out until this evening.
I didn’t plan on watching the last three episodes last night. Then I did.
Marathonned it all this weekend while procrastinating on doing all the super important things I should have been doing like trying to find a place to live. It was good. I feel like the Marvel TV stuff is a lot more satisfying than the movies simply because there’s much more room in 13 hours or so to develop all the characters, especially the villains. Also the more localized conflict rather than saving the world / galaxy / universe.
I think I enjoyed Daredevil slightly more though.
Mornin’ all.
mornin
*tips hat*
Morning mate! How was the weekend?
I worked, washed the car & mowed the lawn, productive I dare say 😛
Yours?
My girlfriend and I went to the pub on Saturday so we could have a quiet beer while we got some work done. I ended up doing no work and playing Hearthstone, she just browsed Facebook, and we drank 3 jugs.
So it didn’t end up being quite as productive as yours.
On the plus side, if there are any Sydney vegans in the house, the vegan fish and chips shop in Newtown is pretty great. They do a deep fried Mars Bar which is friggin’ amazing.
Interesting. Whereabouts is this deep fried mars bar shop?
It’s called Bliss and Chips, it’s like… 1-2 blocks up from the Dendys on King St. Even if you aren’t a vegan the chips are good, and apparently they have a deep fried snickers thingo too so I will need to go back and sample that.
In other news, I am probably also getting diabetes soon. No ragrets.
Edit: I should add that, seeing as it’s a vegan shop, it’s not an actual deep fried mars bar, but it is a bunch of chocolatey vegan caramel inside deep fried batter, and it is still amazing.
Damn sneaky vegans.
Still probably curious enough to try it, but kinda wary. My stomach has strongly protested every time it’s been tricked by a vegan restaurant in the past.
Really? I thought Vego/Vegan food was meant to be good for that sort of thing, since there’s no meat to undercook. I grew up in a third-world country and therefore have an iron-clad stomach, so can’t really comment.
@cffndncr My totally unfounded theory is that’s the problem. The brain goes “ooh, meat!” and then the stomach ends up with not-actually-meat and throws a tanty 😛
My ironclads can deal with most things, but apparently have a weakness there. Also tends to not like carrot, especially raw. Although that seems to mostly just be the gross metallic-tasting ones you get these days. And raw apple’s been known to do it on occasion too.
It lives on undercooked meat though. Blue is the best way to have a steak 😛
Man that sounds pretty good. I also caught up with an old mate, so there was that too lol.
Greetings!
‘Allo!
I haven’t even finished Fallout 4 yet, and I am already looking forward to the DLC!
I feel like it’s been so long since I played a game just for the fun of it, instead of trying to get a certain amount of achievements or finish it so I can tick a box.
It’s very refreshing to just enjoy playing a game instead of feeling like it’s a bit of a chore.
I’m also having day dreams of the next Elder Scrolls game.
I bought Kittens in a Blender.
I have had a look at the cards and i have absolutely no regrets – even if it does turn out to be a sub-par game.
I also bought another magic booster and got some really neat cards.
Yes, i am still aware that this is a TERRIBLE way to get card – but I was there and they just started saying things to me. Things that were enticing. Totally worth it.
Still love that fresh-pack-thrill.
I also attended an engagement party with a full Tamil ceremony! There was lots of chanting in a language i don’t know, and i had no idea what was going on at almost any point.
But everyone looked really nice.
What did you pull?
The highlight was probably Graveblade Marauder – I really like the potential of the card (i’m currently building a black/red deck). And at 3 Mana? yes please.
Could be great if played in the later stages after sacrificing some of my lower tier creatures. Plus i have some good buffs that could keep him alive longer, if i get lucky.
If you’re interested in that sort of deck, you should look up an archetype called Aristocrats. It centers around Zulaport Cutthroat and uses sacrifice effects to do silly things.
Fairly sure the decks are GB or UB and not RB but in a casual environment, you can make anything work.
You should have a look at the Sultai stuff from the Khans of Tarkir set, lots of cards there about putting cards into your own graveyard.
Also, make him unblockable for funsies.
Who the hell decided to put a Monday where my Saturday should have been?
So, I finished Child of Light. Such a good game. The dialogue can get a little tiring at times, but the combat and boss battles are so awesome.
Then I decided to play Contrast. Such a technical mess of a game. It’s simple and short but man does the game break regularly.
and due to the release of Fallout 4, I decided to go back to New Vegas and play through the DLC I never got around to for 4 years. Went through Honest Hearts (meh) and now I’m doing Old World Blues.
Old World Blues was my favourite by a long way. Probably followed by Lonesome Road, Honest Hearts and Dead Money.
(Not really much of a spoiler for Dead Money, but tagged anyway:)
DoT environments and forced stealth sections are not my idea of fun. Kill everything and then explore the place is much more my style, and Dead Money just won’t let you do that in a bunch of places.Honest Hearts was a bit underwhelming, it seemed like it had a lot of build up then fizzled out. Old world Blues was pretty good but I feel like I didn’t enjoy it as much as my wife did. Maybe because she played it first she hyped it up.
I tried to finish Lonesome Road a few months back and got stalled about halfway. I should really just sit down and do it, or it’s going to bug me.
I really like contrast, love the style of it
Old World Blues is one of the funniest and interesting DLC I have played in any game.
Lonesome Road is really great, pretty linear but the story is just fantastic.
Dead Money is interesting but can be really really shitty to the player some times.
Honest Hearts is good for something different with it’s new area but can get pretty boring fast.
Basically in my opinion the DLC ranked is OWB > LR > HH > DM although it is worth noting there’s a tonne of lore that can be picked up in OWB, HH & DM which are related to LR.
Dang. All last week was nice and quiet, now I come in and have 40 or so new tickets waiting for me.
Well, that’s what you get for parking in the red zone.
The most exciting part of my weekend was at 11:30 last night when my wife made a snap decision that she needed to buy specific errata for the sole purpose of cleaning her make up brushes, which necessitated a run to the local K-Mart which is open until midnight. We arrived at the shopping centre Hume Highway just before 11:40pm to discover the front doors locked and the gates to the road that would take us to the rear parking lot locked. A quick check on my phone insisted that K-Mart was open until Midnight, even if I could not can access to it. My wife was resigned to the misery of reverting to her makeshift arrangement of plastic snack bowls and irrevocably staining tea towels, but I was not. I knew there was a back road and presumed we could gain access to the K-Mart that way. We piled back into the car and navigated the back streets of Bass Hill effortlessly using an innate sense of navigation and spatial awareness that is about the only thing I bring to our relationship other than a comprehensive vocabulary of swearwords. We arrived at the K-Mart at 11:45pm just in time to hear the announcement that they were closing in 15 minutes. We felt giddy with excitement, like we’d somehow cheated the system. I bought some cargo shorts in my exultant jubilation, which my wife assures me “look dreadful”.
Other than that, I finished Fallout 4. I think I pushed too many sidequests up against the main quest because when I made my decision, I got locked out of a surprising amount of other quests.
I was in the process of obtaining high-powered magnets for the Brotherhood to rebuild liberty prime (I had already obtained the beryllium agitator for the BoS and become an enemy of The Institute) when I chose to give the Network Scan card to Sturges so he could find an alternate way into the Institute and free the synths, an option that I no longer had available as I could no longer teleport in and out at will. As soon as I gave the card to Sturges, I immediately become locked out the missions relating to rebuilding Liberty Prime, which I assume is because Liberty Prime is directly tied to another ending. I also apparently missed a rather good quest chain where you find out Paladin Danse is a synth.Anyway, my first playthrough was a bit haphazard and I didn’t really know what I was doing. I have a save from just before I chose to make enemies with the Institute so I think what I’ll do is go back and play that for what I see as the “bad” ending (i.e.: get the beryllium agitator for the Institute’s reactor and see if I can still sneak out the synths after becoming Director), hey, could be interesting! Then I’m going to start a second playthough and try to go completely loyal to the Brotherhood, see how that plays out even though I think they’re kind of assholes.
Best story
10/10 would watch movie of events.
Coming this summer, from the people who brought you Road Trip, Eurotrip and Bella de la Croix’s Fisting Sessions…
Starring Jennifer Lawrence as “mstickle”, Zach Galifinakis as “kermitron”, and Leonardo DiCaprio in his Oscar-winning performance as “K-Mart assistant shift leader”, in the greatest story of our generation…
WORLD WAR K – THE SHOPPENING: FIRST BLOOD – PART 2.
I didn’t know they locked up the front gates. But I guess that makes sense, not having people walk up the entire length of the otherwise closed centre. I usually use the back entrance anyway 😛
Secret SanTAY 2015
Final day! If you don’t get your email withwith your address to me to Binoter with the hot males then you are locked out from the festive celebrations, doomed to look in forlornly from the outside, cold and shivering while we studiously avoid looking in your direction. Avoid tears. Get in now.
Just checking: did you get my email, man?
I did.
I really need to read through more. Is it too late to get details on this?
It is not. You get randomly assigned someone and you spend up to $20 buying them something then post it to them. Someone will do the same for you. I’ll be finalising it later tonight.
Sounds good to me! Can I please get your contact info?
Binoter at hot mail.
Thank you. Email sent. I would like to blame lack of coffee for not noticing you putting the contact details in your previous comment, but just like the portal cake, it would be a lie! 🙂
Such FOMO. I am inspired.
Not ready for monday 🙁
Not even ready for day at this point..
On Friday I set out to finish up painting a box of Dire Avengers that’s been sitting around half done for like four years. Now it’s Monday morning and I have 2 of 10 done (one of them was done already, and the other just needed to be glued together). On the plus side I did manage to finish all the helmets except the Exarch’s as well as all but one of the non-Exarch legs/torsos/bases. All that’s left to do is highlight the weapons/arms, completely repaint a leg/torso/base set I botched, paint an entire Exarch from scratch, glue them all together and the unit will be done.
In retrospect I should have went with a basic Space Marine faction. I didn’t realise Eldar gear being covered in bumps would be such a challenge for my not so steady hands.
Foolish Eldar… BOW BEFORE THE NECRONS!
Actually I lost that army when I moved house. BOW BEFORE CHAOS!!!
Also does anyone know if there’s a way to check the progress on the NBN in my area beyond the simple started, completed, not started status? Construction has begun but I remember from the ADSL2+ rollout the status changes to under construction way before they actually start working on it.
http://www.nbnco.com.au/connect-home-or-business/check-your-address.html
Can that do more than just the started/finished/not started build status? I’m trying to get a picture of what the internet situation in my new place will be like so I can budget for the move and figure out what hardware needs to be replaced. With any luck the NBN connection will be up and running by the time I move in, but I doubt it.
Not 100% sure. They do show areas where construction has begun, but not sure if they provide ETA’s for those areas or not. TPG had a page on their site where you could check a while ago, and it had estimates for areas that were not yet being rolled out, but that’s as far as I looked.
This seems to have a bit of detail: http://www.nbnco.com.au/develop-or-plan-with-the-nbn/check-rollout-map.html
As a first time painter, I realised my mistake in buying Eldar. There’s no being lazy and just lathering the whole thing in one colour and highlighting certain section of the armour. That said, whenever I finally finish my units (currently doing some jetbikes), they should look pretty sweet.
That was the reason I bought a Necron army back in the day. Black base coat, drybrush with boltgun metal, then start flaying some space marines!
I imagine Flayed Ones are the only problem unit for painting in a Necron army. At least you could buy black in bulk for the rest. 😛
Don’t the regular Necron soldier weapons flay people?
The Necron weapons do certainly flay people but I’m referring to these ones specifically. Painting Necrons that are coated in rotting flesh and skin would be tricky to pull off.
Oh yeah I remember Flayed Ones. They would be a nightmare to paint.
Then again, my painting skills basically consisted of a black undercoat and drybrushing EVERYTHING, and then hoping for the best. I was super-talented.
Yeah. I thought they’d be pretty simple since they’re all more or less a base colour with a secondary in a few spots, a lot of smooth surfaces and barely any skin/faces, but between the armour plates and the little gem-like bumps on everything there’s quite a lot going on. It’s a lot of work but I guess I like the way they look as an army and as long as I don’t rush it my paint work looks ok after I’ve taken a step back.
On my half-painted table at the moment:
Magnetised Imperial Knight
Magnetised Dark Talon/Nephilim Fighter
Corpse Cart
Deathwing Squad
Defiler
Forgefiend
…. I keep getting distracted… The corpse cart alone has been on and off for something like 8 years…
I think everything I’ve ever planned to add magnets to is untouched. I’ve got the magnets sitting there but I get distracted trying to figure out the optimal build. It doesn’t help that even with my lack of painting talent I want to get an airbrush for the grav tanks (and obviously as an indecisive idiot I’m not going to even think about assembling them until I’ve figured out the optimal way to paint them). Sometimes I think I enjoy the idea of buying tools and planning builds more than actually following through with them… =S
I was going to get an airbrush a while ago but ultimately decided against it – the current painting community is what turned me off them – people just go overboard and it all looks so silly and unrealistic… They over shade/highlight and it just… no thanks. Plus it can look powdery…
Plus it’s a lot of cost and maintainance for something i’d really only be using for tanks/basecoats
Yeah. There’s some pretty crazy stuff out there that really only exists to show how good the artist is with an airbrush. That’s great and I’ve got a lot of respect for the talent and the art, but it’s not what I look for in an army.
Even if I did everything I want to with it I wouldn’t get my moneys worth out of it. Plus the designs I like aren’t that complicated. An airbrush opens up a few cool paths for simple designs but realistically I’m not going to come out of the gate with the skills to do much more than I can do now with a brush. There are probably cheaper ways for me to get even coats. I think mostly I just want to play around with one for an afternoon and I’ve already got half the gear I need floating around my workshop at work.
I really need to get someone to paint up the Star Wars models I build. I am crap at painting, and just don’t understand how people can actually paint the tiny pilots etc. and not just have it be an awful mess.
Not sure how many different ways I could’ve asked my MIL yesterday if she was trying to use the remote control for her set top box to try and change the input on the TV. Headed over there, pressed the input button on the TV twice and presto, desktop is shown on the TV. This morning, there’s no sound, send her a list of things to check – problem? Sound was way down on the TV. It’s probably worth noting that she has, quite recently, been employed to teach TAFE students computer skills.
It’s also worth nothing that in a Certificate II in Information Technology one of the modules is literally about how to power on a computer…
Morning, TAY.
Went and saw the Pokemon Symphony on the weekend. Was pretty great! I made friends with the old lady sitting next to me 😛 She was going on about how she and her husband go to the symphony every other week but have never heard of Pokemon before today, so in the back of my mind I’m thinking “Ugh, she’s going to be really stuffy about the music, isn’t she? ‘The real orchestra would never do this’, etc” but talking to her afterwards she thought it was fantastic. She was also telling me that if I ever went again that I should get a box seat “so you can see the man playing Cello up close. He’s enthralling.” Alright, cool off, granny.
Performance itself was really good, though I could’ve done without them encouraging the audience to sing along when they played the TV show’s theme song at the end. I’m not here to listen to a hundred people mumble-sing 😛
Conductormon uses Baton waggle. It’s super effective!
The Toronto crowd were really into it, actually.
It was really awesome to hear… until the second verse that barely anybody knew and then it faded off and those who were left just didn’t seem sure when it was going to end.
My nose won’t stop dripping. 🙁
Sounds like it needs a new washer.
Otrivin Plus. Get it in you!
Will do! 🙂
I tried it for the first time last time I had a runny nose. Worked really well, and in 5-10 mins! I was impressed!
Otrivin is the best thing when you’re all stuffy and just want to go to sleep.
Morning Tay
Didn’t have as productive gaming weekend as I would have liked. None the less a good weekend. Helped friends move a massive ass fish tank and then set it up on Saturday and played a little fallout 4. Used a sharp pool que to make the boss in the satalight installation my bitch.
Also played a whole bunch of battlefront and used the heavy blaster to rape people, that aside Australian internet connections suck. And used got swarmed by crowds in cost co in Queensland so used aggressive negotiations to get out of the car park in a hurry.
Bring on Monday blues….
Where’d all the weekend go?
Spent Friday night playing the Elite 1.5 beta, floating around in my Federal Corvette trying out the drone-assisted mining mechanics to gather more moneys to kit it out further. Then hopefully jump over to the Cutter to test that out. It handles surprisingly well even on C-grade thrusters for something so gargantuanly huge.
All the while, had the secondary monitor going on iView, catching up on the last five eps of The Ex PM. That was so friggen great. Shaun Micallef’s the best.
Saturday turned into a huge shopping trip. All I wanted to do was duck out to grab a Falco amiibo and Child Of Light, since EB had the deluxe edition for just $8. Perfect timing, Wingman lost the keyring from hers just the other week, so now I’m sorted for a birthday present. Then I ended up asking EB about Injustice on Wii U, just to see how much it was in their sale. Four bucks. And there was one copy down in Menai. Welp, not too far. Off I go then. Once there, I found out why it was the last copy. The box had gone missing, so no wonder it had survived this long. People couldn’t take it to the shelf to buy it 😛 Annoying though, since collector OCD and everything. Still, can hardly complain for that price. Ended up grabbing Beyond Good & Evil since I saw that there for like $5 on PC, and Blood Dragon was 10 at JB so that’s my sister’s boyfriend sorted for Christmas. Then ended up at Wingman’s that night, checking out the piano in the back shed to see about giving it a tune-up. And saw the most gigantic redback I’ve ever seen. Think I’ll leave that for the daytime. And come back with a flamethrower or something.
Her boyfriend gave me a go of Black Ops 3 or whatever it is that he was playing. Game was weird, couldn’t really tell what was going on most of the time but I was really good at dying. Then we moved on to Battlefront and played some multiplayer there. I was happy to find there was a sniper rifle available. I totally won 😛
Sunday: THE WEDDING. The one for the friend who got me to help move and tune a piano for his proposal back at the start of the year. Time sure flies.
Made my way to Observatory Hill, wandered around for a while trying to find the wedding-looking gathering. And found one. Then another. And possibly another. And couldn’t tell if I was finding the right ones or not because I just hardly knew anyone there 😛 Eventually caught the groom making his way up and followed him round. Got plenty of beard comments of course, once again seeing people for the first time since it became a thing. Another friend’s girlfriend isn’t overly keen on it, but the dislikes still seem to be heavily outnumbered 😛
Despite all the clouds, the weather held off pretty well. And the sun even decided to come out in time for their photos afterwards. I didn’t have my usual big breakfast, so was kinda hungry during the interim wait between ceremony and reception. We ended up at The Australian, they didn’t seem to have much in the way of “small” on their menu. Shouldn’t have bought the wedges, there were way too many of them and I was way too full afterwards. With all the wedding food I ended up way too full, should’ve avoided having the cake at the end too. Still feeling it now, bleh 😛 The food was pretty great though. The friend I was sitting next to didn’t like seafood at all, so I got both those dishes, and ended up with the dessert I wanted in the end too. Good placement. Oh, and there was a live band, one of the groom’s friends and his group. Drums, double bass, keyboard and sax. They sounded so good, although the venue was probably a little bit tiny so they ended up a bit on the louder side. But not too bad. Live music is great.
So, obligatory popcorn stuff 😛 There was a girl on the opposite side of our table who seemed to be eyeing me off throughout the night. Like, I would catch her looking at me. But then she would continue to look for what felt like a really long time, rather than turn away. And of course not knowing what to do I just dumbly looked right on back 😛 Didn’t help with the combination of being tired, overstuffed and a little wine-addled, in hindsight it seems fairly clear that action should have been taken. Classic me. But I conferred with my friend’s girlfriend, to see if she had noticed anything at all, and she seemed to think that there were some signs of interest there. So at the very least I feel vindicated that my suspicions aren’t just some kind of hypersensitive paranoia, and maybe I have a decent sense of perception after all. Now I just need to figure out how to boost my abysmally low stats for reaction time.
You should really just ask someone out, you have so many conflicted feelings of will she/wont she with girls and i think you physch yourself out, If me with my terrible stories and bad facial hair can get a girl without too much hassle, a stud like you who is a talented musician and very easy to talk to should be slaying them in the isles.
Easy to talk to, but doesn’t find it so easy to talk back 😛
But yes. Basically need to get out of my own head, it keeps getting in the way.
I’m the last person who should be giving advice here given my experience level, but I imagine the solution to that issue would be practice.
Do what I used to do with my horrible noticing women are noticing me radar. Massively overcompensate after you realize they like you and ruin the whole thing for the next 3 months =P
Edit: Also your beard reminds me of a streamer called Lifecoach =P look him up!
But his is so tiny 😛
So great having a proper coffee machine. I’ve had a capsule machine for over 2 and a half years, but it’s not really good enough. The coffee’s ok, but it’s nice to feel like I’m making the coffee, rather than just waiting for it. I’m going to make a point of buying different coffees whenever I run out. I even bought a jar with a good seal to store my coffee grounds properly.
So, a Monday morning question: What is your favourite way to drink coffee? Mine is as espresso, without sugar, which in my mind is the only way to drink coffee as you get the proper flavour of the coffee without any other flavours intervening.
I drink iced coffee out of a bottle, its like 4000 grams of sugar and no coffee. But thats my favourite way to drink coffee.
Typical tradie … 😛
With some raw sugar and a few biscuits, the best way to spend a longer morning
Depends on the biscuit. I find shortbread and biscotti go best with an espresso.
Teddy bear biscuits! 😛
Also a good choice. As long as the biscuit flavour doesn’t overpower the coffee flavour.
Big mug, black, sugar. Then a teaspoon of ground cinnamon, and/or a generous helping of liqueur. Sambuca, Tia Maria, Kahlua, Amaretto, Strega, Fior D’Alpe, probably others I’ve forgotten. Best.
This doesn’t sound like something you should drink on a Monday morning….. Or should. Depends on how much you hate your job xD
I only ever drank it when visiting my Nanna. And funnily enough, for years and years that would be the only time I’d drink alcohol either, until I discovered cider 😛
Still basically never drink coffee any other time though. Probably been a couple of years since the last one by now, actually.
Flat white, no sugar. The milk compliments the coffee well and gives the drink a bit of body.
Long blacks are reserved for nice, warm afternoons from coffee places that really know their shit. For me, they’re the best coffee experience and I’m not going to sully it by having it first thing in the morning on a shitty day from a barista who doesn’t know what they’re doing.
I really need to get me an aeropress.
Large skinny flat white, with an extra shot if it’s been a long night.
Although I am growing quite partial to the ol’ soy milk.
I generally have mine as a flat white.
That said I do enjoy an expresso without sugar if I had a really big mean. Nice just to relax and digest while sipping.
Generally don’t have expresso out as at least with a flat white a half decent barista can make it acceptable, expresso is much less forgiving.
I’ve got both coffee machine and capsule. I love making the coffee and my favourite way to drink is cappuccino and no sugar. To me the hall mark of a good coffee is rich smooth enough that you don’t need to add sugar. If it’s incredibly bitter they are not doing it right or there stuff is dirty.
Funnily enough my coffee machine isn’t getting a lot of work atm I’m out of water filters
My morning coffee is a large latte (extra shot if tired, like today) from the local French patisserie. The best part is they have an app that allows you to order your coffee from your phone and just walk in and pick it up. So I get off the train, order my coffee while exiting the station which takes like 20secs (Open app > select ‘Favourites’ > Select ‘saved order’ > confirm ‘Order’), walk straight past the queue and go to the coffee pickup area, grab my coffee, thank the guys who made it and continue on to work. THE FUTURE IS NOW.
We have one of those business Nespresso machine at work which I usually use once I’m at work throughout the day. Makes a nicer coffee than the consumer ones. I’m currently using these, which are quite tasty.
I was using the Ristretto Origin India and enjoyed it too, but it was a little too intense for the 3pm home stretch coffee.
Short or Long black, depending on my mood and the time / circumstance.
A skinny flat white. The skim milk doesn’t completely overwhelm the coffee flavour.
But some days, ‘in a mug’ will do nicely.
Low fat latte or flat white. No sugar.
Have not had a good coffee in weeks. 🙁 I’m sure it exists somewhere in the city (I had a really good one at employee orientation, actually) since Seattle is supposed to be one of the big areas for good coffee in the US… but it’s also where Starbucks comes from 🙁
I don’t drink coffee at all, probably due to a combination of funneling my money into gadgets instead, and not liking anything that gives you headaches if you stop having it.
Got Guitar Hero Live. quite enjoying that.
Also knocked off the main quest in Fallout 4. I have mixed feelings about that. Will be starting up my second play through shortly, even though i’ve got loads of side quests in my first one. Just want to try all that stuff from a different angle.
Also, does anyone recall what that site was that can give you random custom objectives in Skyrim? Like, you can randomly spin it so it gives you a character that can’t use bladed weapons, must explore everything, but cannot own a house.
http://www.scenariogenerator.net/game/skyrim < ?
Thanks. That’s exactly it.
I AM MOVING OUT WITHIN 2 WEEKS.
My passive aggressive ridiculous room mate is literally the only bad part of my life, so what do you do with bad things, you remove them. So i am arranging a bunch of inspections today and tomorrow. I might get a cat. Ive always wanted a cat. How good is life.
@sernobulus You in for a house and a cat and to be my BAE
Stop, you’ll make @freezespreston jealous.
Reply failll….. =@
Only reason he’s doing it.
Wait… house-mate or room-mate?
Moving is a bitch though, commiserations my friend.
Sure, one question though. WHAT IS A BAE!?
Fucks me but the kids use it and we are hip and happening go getters. We must embrace change.
before anything else. duh.
Bacon and eggs.
I assume he wants you to be his personal butler and make him breakfast.
It means poop, in Danish.
No idea.
But I’m an old lady and had to look up what “netflix and chill” means.
I need to find myself a new place to live and a cat too.
Moving buddies o/
You can have both of my damn cats.
My sister is off to Greece and Italy for two weeks while I get to relish in the heat. Yay. Also, buses that have broken air-conditioning should count as cruel and unusual punishment.
The weekend was filled with lows and more lows thanks to my poor dice rolls. Dwarves killed one of my Chaos Beastmen in Blood Bowl. One of my mercenaries died and two other mercs lost their arms in Mordheim. And the most damage I was able to do to my players in RPG was breaking one guy’s ribs and sending one guy puking in fear after encountering Chaos Furies. I want to kill someone dang it.
So to my eternal shame my list/pile of unfinished games goes back quite a few years…. One of the oldest on the pile without a doubt would have to be Wings of Liberty. I finished the campaign for the first time this weekend =D
Also not touching Fallout 4 until the holidays; that game is too damn addictive and I got no gym/study done last week and slept way later than I normally do. Go sit in the corner fallout 4! D=
Thoroughly enjoyed a bit of Quiplash/Fibbage on Saturday night and thanks to the few TAYbies who joined in. Made the night a hell of a lot better.
It’s actually about ethdicks in games journalism.
Roasting me was a surefire way to get points too!
Even you got in on it.
For those that missed it, I wrote about cheating in board games for Lifehacker.
It was evil week and I’m sticking to that as my excuse.
So you seem like kind of a big deal around here..
I’m heading to Port Stevens with a few friends for a week on Saturday. I would like to purchase some card and/or board games to take with us. There will be 4 people there for the whole week, and other friends dropping in and out throughout.
The people I’m going with are all non-gamers, so a super-heavy RPG probably will not go down well. Something fairly easy to pick up, fun with a smaller number of players, and preferably pretty replayable.
So, what games would y’all recommend? I have Cards Against Humanity, Exploding Kittens, Boss Monster, Uno, Absolute Balderdash, and a deck of playing cards, so I think the short-term people are covered. I heard that Pandemic was good for 4 players, how tough is it to get into for non-gamers? Of course, all suggestions welcome.
I’m not a big deal but don’t tell my ego that.
Pandemic is a fantastic game for non-gamers. It has a slight quarterbacking problem (where someone who knows what they’re doing will try to take over the game) but it’s easily avoided if your group gets along well. Pandemic also has a couple of expansions, so once you start to feel like things are wearing thing you can add an expansion to mix things up.
Spyfall is a clever little game where players have to suss out the spy. Everyone except the spy is dealt a location spy (the spy gets a card that reads “Spy”) and have to ask questions to suss out who knows what the location is without giving it away. Look up the Shut Up and Sit Down review to get a good idea of this one.
Codenames got a mention in today’s article. If you can find a copy (it’s the hot new thing), it’s definitely worth the effort. Hell, everything I mention in that article is good for your situation.
Edit: If you don’t go with Pandemic, Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert are simpler takes on the same concept by the same designer. I prefer Forbidden Desert because you can fiddle with the airship you build. Forbidden Island is a more versatile game because you can use different tile layouts to mix things up.
Totally not plugging your article, I see 😛
Cheers for the advice!
Totally not. Never.
On an unrelated not, you should read it.
I’d throw in Ticket to Ride as well as a great “gateway” board game.
Agricole might be an option too, although @trjn will be able to better advise on that. And something like Elder Sign might be a useful alternative (co-op like Pandemic but more pared down).
Agricola is a fantastic game that I wish I could play more. It’s also not something I’d recommend to non-gamers. Aside from being rather heavy with a complicated setup, it’s a stressful game. The best thing about Agricola is the constant struggle to plan out your turns to get just enough to avoid starving and get enough points to win.
Caverna is a much better alternative for that crowd. It has the same play time (about 45-60 min per player) and set up but is much more open, less stressful and you get to be adventuring dwarves with puppies.
I haven’t played Elder Sign because I’m not a huge fan of push your luck games. I group it with King of Tokyo, which I prefer because it’s much lighter and we have a quickplay house rule where I just sit out. It saves me being eliminated after two rounds.
Ticket to Ride should be on every list of entry level board games. Come to think of it, I wrote one of those lists back in April.
Saw Les Miserable on Saturday afternoon.
Totally cried like a baby at least twice.
Amazing show – easily gets 10/10 crying adult men. Would go again.
Greetings All,
I hope you all had a fun and great weekend! 🙂
Hosted my first Edge of Empire RPG campaign with friends on Sat. It was my first time in many many years but it appeared to go fairly smoothly. Looking forward to picking it all up again next month when we all catch up again.
Rest of the weekend was Rocket League, Battlefront, Fallout 4 and Jessica Jones in no particular order.
Have a good week all and thanks for always making every monday enjoyable by reading your TAY comments! 🙂
How did the Edge of the Empire go? I got halfway into figuring out how to GM that but found the sourcebook to be a bit obtuse.
I just used the Rulebook from the Beginners Kit and the premade characters to make it easy. We had limited time so I thought for the first run that this would be the best option and I am glad I did. I would suggest going that way too if that suits you.The first adventure is based around every learning the rules and getting used to how it plays (I am still figuring out how some of the more complicated dice rolls work). But this method worked for us as while we are all previous tabletop RPG players, this is the first one we had played in a very long time. Once we play a few more games and I am a bit more familiar I am then going to delve into the core rules and rolling up new characters etc.
Hope this helps! 🙂
I tried running some friends through the beginner game for the Rebel one – forget what they called it – but almost immediately found it to be a bit too barebones. The instant you get past the first encounter and are like “where do you want to go now” my guys started asking to do stuff that was perfectly logical but I had no idea how to do as GM, had to grab the Edge of the Empire sourcebook and flip through pages of it.
Ah I see. I was fortunate not to have that issue as before we started my friends knew we were just doing the one adventure to see how it went and given the time constraints. Did you grab the Long Arm of The Hutt free expansion? From reading that earlier it seems that has a bit more meat to it than the first adventure. That’s what we are going to play next time. We have our boardgame catch up monthly so I will be spending the next few weeks reading up on the rules Plus to be perfectly honest, to keep it fun and interesting for everyone, any time we got really stuck, I just winged it so we could continue. That probably doesn’t work for a lot of people, I can already feel the heat from the hate of RPG purists 😛 But the main thing me and my friends all agreed on was that we didn’t want to spend too much time looking up the rules.
But once I have had more time and read through a bit more I will be happy to help where I can.
Fallout 4!
If you recognise this word, you’re safe to read under the tag. If not, don’t look it up cause it’ll spoil cool things:
Prydwyn!
Holy shit, the entrance that ship made was amazing. Did not expect to see that at all. Also, sudden massive increase in Brotherhood presence across the map was unexpected.I went up to the ship and continued my training with the Brotherhood…although it was a tad awkward that everyone kept saying “YOU CAN’T HAVE POWER ARMOUR YET” and I’m standing there in my full T-50f armour…
I had the Prydwyn appear and that’s the point when I went “Oh we truly are next gen Fallout aren’t we”
I have a terrible habit of constantly refreshing the articles I write in the hopes of new comments appearing. Going to try and avoid that today. It won’t work.
@blaghman @popdart5 @tech_knight
Hey, are you guys able to shift Numenera to Tuesday night this week? I’d still like to do our session but I’ve been invited to a thing on Wed
Let me just check my calendar.
*Pulls out a colander, stares at it briefly, puts it on his head*
Yes, I think I’m clear.
I can do Tuesday no problem.
Two RPGs in two days? Okay! *cracks knuckles* Just like old times
Was anyone here at Adelaide Supanova over the weekend?
Had friends there, I wasn’t. Did you see an Edward Elric, Ariel, or Mad Hatter around?
Yep I saw Edward and one of a couple of Mad Hatters! On Sunday that is.
Was it Nerd By Night’s Edward?
I don’t recall seeing any on the Saturday.
Yeah, that’s the one. She’s an old friend.
It’s a very impressive Edward cosplay!
I was The Crow on Sunday just skulking about and waiting around for photo shoots and couldn’t help but looking at her auto-mail hand thinking how damn good it turned out.
So i’ve finally just about had enough of GW’s shit.
For those not in the know, they are now charging a little under $60 for a single plastic mini.
http://www.games-workshop.com/en-AU/Blood-Angels-Chaplain-with-Jump-Pack
And this fig isn’t the only one…
For reference – A Dark Angels Chaplain was released 3-4 months ago for $30 made of the same material
http://www.games-workshop.com/en-AU/Dark-Angels-Interrogator-Chaplain
Seriously.. just get fucked, GW.
There was a point on the weekend i even considered selling my whole collection to invest into other games that don’t seem as intent on whittling down their player base..
Wizards of the Coast at least gives you a reach around.
As does fantasy flight games.
I don’t mind being screwed hard, but at least have the decency to give a little joy back
I see what they’re doing; they’ve looked to price models not just on material cost but lore + game value as well. I remember buying a Tau Fire team for $60 bucks a few years back (maybe 2-3?) but now they’re up close to 90 which is ridiculous but you can’t run an effective Tau army without the them. The Kroot squad however which you could take/leave depending on your strat are priced the same. Christ even a Tau Commander is $85??
*shrug* I was always into them for the countless hours of painting they gave me. I guess I just pick and choose a bit more what I’d like to paint =p
Time to invest in a 3D printer?
nope – the quality is still no where near where it needs to be for them to be a viable option
THE FUTURE IS N̶O̶W̶ still a ways off 🙁
Kiiilll…… meeeeeeee
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PHZB_2evE1Q/hqdefault.jpg
#bestuseofanaliensreferencetodate
#BestUseOfAnal
I’ve gotten far better quality out of my 3D printer (printing Epic 40k rhinos with plenty of detail). That looks like the base Dawn of War I marine model.
Still not to the same quality of ‘real’ GW minis but not nearly as bad as that linked one.
Yeah i know – that’s a reallly early 3d print model – plus i purposfully chose it because it looked horrible for laffs.
I really want to find someone at cgtalk or something to send me through a high quality sculpt of a model so I can print it at 40k scale and see how it comes out. Different 3D printing software makes a huuuuge difference too, I’ve discovered. I paid for the most expensive consumer stuff and my prints are so much better than before.
The Form1 prints stuff at more than good enough quality. It is fiddly, but will do the job.
Also the powder based printers are certainly there quality wise. The filament based printers, not so much.
Yes, the slicer you use makes a huge difference. Simplify3D is probably the best in the ‘affordable’ consumer space.
Yeah, pricing is getting out of control. My friends swear by some retailers in China that sell minis for sometimes up to 50% less than GW store price. The quality can be a bit naff but they’re happy, especially when they can afford to buy two Imperial Knights for the cost of one from GW. The shipping is the only thing that stinks but it still comes out to less than GW.
On a separate note, GW have been getting very, very bad at balancing rules. The most recent Eldar and Tau codices are filled with cheese units and are considered rather overpowered. Heck, the formation rules are nice thematically but absolutely broken mechanically. I’ve heard that the Buffmander for the Tau in a Hunter Cadre formation can choose to group multiple units in firing at a single target and apply bonuses to each unit as if they were part of the Buffmander’s squad. Why yes, I too would like to have three squads of Fire Warriors that all have Marker Lights, twin-linked, and ignores cover for no extra point cost.
This, combined with Age of Sigmar for Fantasy, is making it very hard to continue supporting GW. Only the revival of specialist games has me holding out hope for the future.
So I never played WFB, but I didn’t even know about AoS until today. I’m totally in the loop.
BRING BACK NECROMUNDA!
Necromunda and Gorkamorka!
I went to a house inspection maybe a year ago – the guy was obviously pretty cool, had NRL jerseys sitting on the table next to his WOW paraphernalia on the desk (and I mean, we all know that union > league, but still)… and then I saw a copy of Necromunda sitting on a table… and I really wanted to just hang around until he got back and make friends.
But there was a real estate agent there, and it would have been weird.
I don’t know what the difference is in rugby but I’ve had a similar experience! Went to an open house and saw so much Warhammer & D&D stuff but was too afraid to nerd it up (and I don’t think the dude WANTED to move but was being forced out).
GOODBYE potential frond!
So you seem like a cool guy who will totally answer all my questions…
If I was considering getting back into 40k, but have not bought any figures or glimpsed a single codex or white dwarf since, say, 2005… just how out of the loop would I be?
@chuloopa would probably be your best bet, since I quit in around 2004 then dabbled briefly before dropping it again last year. But I wasn’t a huge fan of the direction they’ve gone with everything. I would honestly recommend going to another game. The prices have gotten so insane it’s not even funny and some of the canon changes and stuff are silly. Necrons now are no longer all “rar, we are silent killing machines allied to no flesh” and have, at one point, allied with the Space Marines (Blood Angels!) etc etc.
In a nutshell – you’ll be out of the loop on the details but GW straight-up refuse to move the storyline ahead in any meaningful manner so that’s not such an issue. The rules have been simplified and are, in my mind, boring.
@f4ction What games would you recommend though? I’ve been looking at alternatives and it doesn’t seem like there’s much that has the same gravity to it. They all feel like start-ups with only a handful of factions that don’t have the model count to go toe to toe with Warhammer 40,000. As much as I love Necromunda/Mordhiem I really feel like something big.
@dogman People have had nothing but positive things to say about Warmachine/Hordes. But yeah, I’ve got no idea. Warhammer has such a great history of… history. If they dropped the prices back to the old 2000 days I’d jump back into it in a heartbeat
What is 40K?
@poita the first rule of 40k is you don’t talk about 40k.
The second rule of 40k is you will give all the monies to GW.
Yeah. They’ve always been bad price-wise but it seems like every year they manage to find a new way to double down on fleecing new users. Get new players in with a $180 box set or $140 manual (only available in the VIP collectors hardcore edition), a pile of paint, some tools, a set of dice, some markers, some objective cards and a few hundred dollars worth of models. After that it doesn’t matter if they get frustrated and quit because there will always be another 12 year old who likes it enough to rope his friends into giving it a shot. If you’ve already got a 1250 point army then you’ve probably moved past the super profitable phase which means they don’t care if you quit.
It’s like if a free-to-play game swapped micro-transactions for macro-transactions. It’s designed to get as much money out of players as it can before they figure out it’s basically a scam.
The part I truly hate about it is that I don’t feel like I can get this anywhere else. Nothing seems to have the size, scope, lore, community or history of Warhammer and 40k. Even if there was an alternative I really don’t want to see 40k die. I want to see Games Workshop have to compete with someone long enough to rope all their BS in, but I’m guessing they’d just dig in, raise the prices and try to destroy independent retailers who dare stock the competition.
I really want to get back into 40k but it’s hard not to be insulted by their business model.
Huh, Big W have GH Live for 98 in this week’s catalogue.
Also mega yarn Yoshi for 48. Isn’t it like 60 at EB?
I played about 10 hours of GH Live over 2 days, figured I was really enjoying it but never went back and have zero inclination to pick it up again.
Saw Spectre last night. Jeez that movie was a wreck. Desperate not be a Bond movie while being stuck in the confines of a Bond movie.
Some super pretty shots though.
2 things
1.The long shot at the opening was brilliant until they fumbled ending it. Just a sudden cut that didn’t seem necessary and kind of spoiled it all.2. Why the hell did Blofeld’s base blow up? Left me literally scratching my head and @beeawwb with a horrified look on his face.
Also it had the Point Break trailer at the start and holy hell that movie looks like the worst thing ever. One big Red Bull ad for people with ADHD.
I saw Hunger Games with @alexpants and @blaghman on Friday night. The best moment of the entire movie experience came from a trailer for some new YA adaption called “The 5th Wave”.
http://i.imgur.com/nVw77VM.gif
What the hell!?
Blaghs and I let out audible laughs at how bad that shot looked.
I swear they’re letting any muppet with a camera make movies these days. This is both a good and a bad thing.
I’m still angry about that explosion. Fun (not fun) fact: It was recently awarded the Guinness record for largest f/x explosion on film. I think that’s the only reason it exists; so they could get the record.1. I don’t remember it exactly, but it ends with the camera behind him and then cuts to his face doesn’t it? I remember it being slightly abrupt. I wouldn’t say it spoiled it though, it was a very well put together shot, with the transitions hidden pretty well, but I think if the camera panned to in front of him and then it cut it would’ve been better.2. Yeeeeeah. It feels like it was missing an insert shot of them shooting a gas pipe or something.
2. No, he did shoot a gas something or other. There was that small explosion that took out a couple bad guys. But then the whole base explodes, simultaneously and in perfect synchronisity? FUCK. THAT. This was a small explosion, not an exhaust port on the Death Star. ASDFJHLAKSDHLKWHTLSDKFHSLKH!!!Huh, I don’t even remember seeing him do that. The whole base exploding perfectly is part of the problem I had with the movie. It couldn’t decide if it wanted to be a Craig era Bond movie, or a pre-Craig era Bond movie which had silly moments like that.Exactly. They had the small explosion and it was so disconnected from the larger one that it lost all relevance. Pick one: Chain reaction explosion as the base goes up, or simultaneous demolition. You can’t have both, movie! I’ve been less than impressed with Craig-era Bond. I get what they’re trying to do, and why, I just think they’re losing what makes Bond, ‘Bond’. The tropes exist for a reason.I don’t mind them, but then I’m not a massive Bond fan so losing the tropes doesn’t bother me too much. I’ve only seen the from Goldeneye onwards, and a handful of the classic ones, because I’m terrible. It is interesting going back and watching them and seeing just how good a representation of filmmaking at their time that each entry into the series is.
The Craig ones though I’d rank:
Casino Royale 4/5
Skyfall 4/5
Spectre 3.5/5
Quantam of Solace 3/5
That’s a pretty fair ranking, but I’d personally rate all of them 3* or less (out of 5) on my personal rating scale. I’d probably rate Spectre slightly in front of Skyfall but that’s only because the ending of Skyfall really annoyed and bored me.
Edit, ok fine rate them.
Casino Royale: 3/5 – Watchable, but plodding.
Spectre: 2.5/5 – Barely watchable. More concerned with effects.
Skyfall: 2.5/5 – Let down by a poor ending.
QOS: 2/5 – Straight sequel that forgets what it’s sequelling.
I put /5 what I’d rate them all. I really enjoyed Casino Royale and Skyfall. Casino Royale is my favourite Bond. The story beats for it are near perfect. Plus “You Know My Name” is a great song.
Skyfall is an extremely well made film on a technical level, so it elevates it a little. It does drag on the tail end when it turns into Home Alone. That Roger Deakins cinematography is just amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFacxpBhXFg
I’m going to add you to the list of people who I discuss movies with.
@cakesmith – Yesssssssssssss…. All the discussions.
@cakesmith
Oh…I get it…
@freezespreston
You’re already on the list. We spent like 2 hours on our drive to Canberra discussing movies. You forget so quickly… *insert stroke reference here*
@cakesmith I thought we had a special relationship but seems you’ll have a discussion with anyone these days.
I’m with @cakesmith (though I’ve seen nearly every Bond movie). I didn’t really love any of them till I saw Casino Royale. And I’d probably rate Skyfall even higher, cos I was blown away when I saw that at the cinema.
@batguy I honestly would have rated Skyfall higher (3 or 3.5) but the ending just bored me to tears.
I should also clarify. In my rating scale, a 3 is a “met” – it was watchable, it did what it promised, but it didn’t really stretch to a 4 (good/enjoyable) or 5 (excellent/masterpiece/amazing/adjectives).
What they should have done is run the shot up behind him, down the rifle sights and zoomed into the meeting completing the journey to the target.It felt like they had an awesome idea for a beginning, and thoughts on all the important pieces and players that needed to be there at the end, then just padded out the middle till it was long enough. There were moments in the middle where I was genuinely confused about what Bond was actually trying to achieve.
Also:
They blew up Blofeld’s based because he needed to have a scar. Simple as that. What bothers me is, if Blofeld knew he was coming, and wanted him to do so, then why all the stuff with the big guy chasing him through Roman streets, or kidnapping the woman, or attacking them on the train? Couldn’t that guy have just delivered him an enigmatic invitation card and been done with it?It was full of reveal moments where someone would pop up and Bond would act shocked but they neglected to tell us who these people were exactly.
Also they spend half an hour making a big deal out of the Pale King and then promptly forgot about him. Was it Blofeld? The guy who had his eyes popped? Someone else entirely? They never said.As much as I liked Craig as Bond the writers and producers never really nailed it and hopefully with a new Bond for the next one we’ll see some changes.
They did say.
The Pale King was Mr White. White. Pale.Yeah, I got that part personally, but
I didn’t understand what he was then harassing white about. Tell me where he is, or something, yeah, sure, I’ll look after your daughter cos I need to know where he/it is. Also, I assume we were meant to know about white from a previous movie. I did not.He was in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace.Oh, forgot to mention the most important thing about the movie, though. It was 9:20pm, there were 10 people in the cinema, but I still got a streetpass hit. 5/5, would watch again.
@powalen Project Zero V talk
I had to take a break after Miu saved Miku. Miku was the protagonist from the first game. She followed her brother who was her only family, and friend, into the Himuro mansion where he’d gone missing. (following three people who’d gone into the mansion and had gone missing). Anyway, he does end up dying, as you probably realised, but the reason and why is a spoiler so I’m not telling how or why.Anyway, that chapter pretty much said that Miku was in love romantically with her brother and had always been. It kind of ruined the close sibling bond they had in the first game. =/ Miku and Mafuyu were both able to see ghosts but Miku was the only one who was unable to make friends because of it. It would make sense that they were close, but the whole sibling romantic love just makes me feel ick.
Makes sense. I completely missed that part obviously 😛 Just assumed she was a random mother who wandered up there.The Thirteenth Drop was pretty good! Won’t spoil it though.
I will try to persevere but I’m digging splatoon again@AlexWalker mentioned Agricola on the previous page. I love Agricola. I also never, ever get a chance to play it. It’s just not the sort of game that’s easy to bust out at the gaming groups I go to (and if you can find the people able to commit that much time, they’re going to pull out Power Grid).
Anyhow, I don’t have any iOS devices so I don’t have Agricola on my phone. That means that Play-Agricola.com is the best option available.
Anyone want to try and get a game going there some time?
I’m always up for any board game I’ve not played before, but I’ve not played Agricola so… Please explain this Farmpepsi so that I may understand?
How to play Agricola:
1) Don’t starve.
2) Collect resources.
3) Don’t starve.
4 ) Get more workers.
5) Don’t starve.
6) Get a bit of everything so that you don’t lose points.
7) Don’t starve.
8) Get a bit more of everything so that you have some points.
9) Don’t starve.
10) Seriously, don’t starve.
11) Enjoy delicious agricola over ice.
How do I not starve? Do I supply myself with snacks while playing?
That would help, it’s a pretty long game.
Part of the game is about building a food engine. You need to have a reliable source of food to feed your workers.
What if I feed my workers to the food engine to feed my workers? SoylentStrategy™
Agricola is about the crushing sense of despair when you realize on turn 8 that the decision you made on turn 3 has resulted in you being utterly fucked and your family is going to starve to death and there’s nothing you can do.
Sure. What’s a Gricola?
Oh, a milestone.
Yesterday marked 30 weeks of beard. Woo 😛
Nice. I couldn’t pinpoint mine exactly, but sometime in the next year or two I will hit 30 years of beard.
Is that constant growth without any trimming? Because that would be both terrifying and awesome 😛
Bob’s weekend update!
Hey everybody. Had a pretty good weekend, especially given last week and whatnot. I’m feeling good and actually got things done. Friday I played some more Fallout which was on my list of things to do. I’m still not touching anything story related and barely even sidequest related, just wandering the Wasteland around Sanctuary because I can. It’s keeping me occupied.
Saturday was too hot to turn on the PC so I watched a couple movies and then went out to take a photo of the ISS crossing in front of the moon. A friend had told me about the transit a couple days before and as it happened my house was directly in the centre “transit” path, which also meant that a nearby park was directly in line. So at 7pm I drove to the park for a 7:35:59 transit and…. the whole place was lit up like daylight because of some sporting match. I ended up parking my car and walking through the nature reserve in the dark to get to the summit of the hill, lugging my camera and tripod. Then when I get to the top I realise the moon is too high to effectively use my tripod without setting it to horizontal and laying on the ground so I lugged it all the way for nothing. Get myself set up with maybe 2 minutes to spare and then realise that the bench I’m laying on has a bug flying circles in front of the moon so I need to move. ARGH! Move over to a railing so I can brace my arms and as I do I can see the ISS approaching. Check all my settings one last time, frame the moon and wait………. THERE IT IS IN FRAME. SPRAY AND PRAY. SPRAY AND PRAY! I got the shot. 😀
That’s significant for me because a lot of times I’d wimp out of going to do planned shots. I’d find some excuse or some reason it’s too hard. So for me to plan in advance, get everything ready and then go out and capture the rare shot, that represents progress to me. I’m proud of myself.
Sunday saw Spectre with Freeze (see above posts), then dinner with Freeze, then dessert with Freeze and Transient and BrotherTransient. Was really good. Getting out of the house and socialising also represents progress to me, so I’m proud of myself again. Yay progress!
Now work. Recovering from file corruption in some of my reports. Joy. Backups and testing and checking galore. Woo. Bring on the evening for more Fallout?
Nice. Getting ISS transits is pretty tricky, I tend to try and get the Sun transits, I couldn’t make the drive this time to get the moon transit in. You should post your shot over on iceinspace.com, you might get image-of-the-week.
Would love to post it in other places (it’s currently on my Twitter and FB but that’s it) but the page you mentioned gets an Unknown Host error?
Description: Unable to locate the server named “iceinspace.com” — the server does not have a DNS entry. Perhaps there is a misspelling in the server name, or the server no longer exists. Double-check the name and try again.
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/
Give that a go, the redirect must not be working for some reason.
That worked fine, cheers! Will give it an explore later. Have also been looking at telescopes recently.
I see the image of the week is a much better shot of the transit. As I said on my Facebook though, I know there’ll be much better shots of the transit but [this one] is mine and that makes me very happy. 🙂
The second best part about Battlefront is when I try load up Origin multiple times and it doesn’t load so I play Fallout 4.
It’s like when Ben Force Persuades those Stormtroopers. “This isn’t the game you’re looking for.”
That’s what I dig about Battlefront. The authenticity.
It’s only 1:39 pm, I’ve already slept in and I want to have another nap D=
@tech_knight I’m working on the backpack now.
It may take a while as it requires I actually go in and edit the mesh of the 3D object. It’s lots of bits like the knee cap where it doesn’t actually attach. I need to change it. Are you okay with this?
Same. Must be the weather or something. I wasn’t sleeping weird or anything this weekend. It was really laid back and relaxing. Didn’t over sleep, didn’t under sleep, didn’t do too much work, didn’t do too little, yet ever since I got in the office I’ve been tempted to just lay down on the couch and sleep.
Mum already had a nap
Go for it, I mainly just want to ensure that we keep the backpack parts capable of opening in those certain spots, the fans should be a simple task as we already know there’s space for them.
Edit: Also, how will we attach it to the back, velcro, studs?
whatever works
Anyone surprised by the people commenting against the existence of GX Australia?
Not reading the comments, but no.
I posted something and then thought dear god am I going to change a mind here and left.
I made the mistake of sticking around. I’m just waiting for someone to say “the gays”. You can see it’s on the tip of their tongues.
My confusion is when did the wider-community become so intolerant here at Kotaku? Have I been spending too much time in TAY? A lot of those names are fairly new to me.
The very fact they can make an argument that gay people wanting to hang out with gay people is segregation means in their mind it’s something that they segregate. They wouldn’t call a hockey club segregation or a dance class segregation but if it’s to do with gay people shout no! I’m being tolerant and you’re trying to get away from us!
Like a moth to a flame, so is discussions about diversity in anything to that lot.
As far as I can recall, it’s always been like this. The usernames might be slightly different, but the levels of intolerance are about the same.
Fine grandpa shane! Just kill my idealism and hope for a better tomorrow! =P
I desperately wish that the answer could be yes.
90% of the comments: “I’m not gay but I’m entitled to tell gay people how to feel about being gay”.
“THIS THING THAT HAS LITERALLY NO BEARING ON MY LIFE OFFENDS ME! I AM INCAPABLE OF COMPARTMENTALISING MY DISCOMFORT AND SEEING WHY THIS MATTERS TO PEOPLE! I KNOW THAT THERE’S AN IMPLICIT INVITE TO ME, MR. STRAIGHTMAN TO EVERYTHING, SO I CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE WOULD WANT A DIRECT ONE, AND I CAN’T UNDERSTAND THAT THIS DOESN’T INVOLVE ME! WHAAAAA WHAA WHAAAAAAAA WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”
My comment: “I don’t get it, but I’m not gay, so I don’t get it. Carry on.”
Not surprised, just depressed.
I’m honestly baffled by the comments. So much of it seem to boil down to one of the following:
“In my experience, homophobia has been eradicated because all my friends are nice.”
“Everyone has problems in life. I got bullied once, which is totally comparable.”
“I’m bi/gay and as such represent the global LGBT population. Now here’s why this article wrong:…”
I want to get involved in the conversation but it’s turning into a big pissing contest and it all feels a bit pointless.
I guess one positive to take away is that (so far) we haven’t seen the age old argument of “I’m straight, where’s my parade?”Never mind…I like how you manage to articulate exactly how i feel about this but in a better way.
I feel the same way about half the comments in the article 😛
I think @tigerion makes the best statement about why it should exist. because tigs is the best.
Everybody should listen to this guy, he knows what’s up
HA! Love that Mark’s getting in there and knocking back some of these comments =P
Been avoiding that article because I assumed the comments will get messy. With the previous articles I found there were a lot more ‘why do we need this’ comments than ‘gay is bad’ comments so I assume the comments on this one have those people becoming a little more defensive of their stance. It’s disappointing but I’ll give those people the benefit of the doubt and just assume they’re a little uncomfortable with their dismissive attitude being directly confronted.
The ones that seemed really weird to me in the previous articles were the comments about how this is just a scam so that the guy who runs all the conventions can make more money. It’s not that I don’t believe someone could think that way, I just can’t really process how a person can draw the conclusion and stick with it.
Also I say assume too much.
I always assume that *all* conventions are kind of a scam to make the organisers money.
Not surprised in the slightest.
I saw the first comment (second now after the guest one came out of moderation) before it’s edit when it was the only comment and bolted.
In another world I’d likely get involved and shout some of them down. Today though, I don’t have the energy to be bothered arguing on the internet.
I retract my comment, I did change a mind!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/11/why-australia-needs-a-queer-gaming-convention/comment-page-1/#comment-3538629
I contributed!
Yeah you did! *tips cap*
@ashigaru has always been reasonable in his comments I’ve seen over the years, so not surprised.
It’s because I’m too reactive at the start, think about what I’ve said and then realise I sound like a bloody idiot.
Thanks though @alexwalker 😀
EDIT: Also I would like to think I’ve grown up a bit since the GON days when everyone used to shout until their throats were hoarse and no ground had been made :B
Time’ll do that to people!
Speaking of which, feeling increasingly sad just at the sight of that GON mention. :'(
In what way? Miss the old days? The forums just devolved after a time which was a bit sad. Ahh well, win some lose some 🙂
Did nobody tell you? You might want to sit down.
GON’s gone. TPG didn’t want to keep it going after they bought iiNet.
http://www.starwarz.com/tbone/wp-content/uploads/00290065-0000-0000-0000-000000000000_00000065-06d3-0000-0000-000000000000_20110902174926_Vader1.jpeg
:'( I is a sad panda.
Humanity’s rating is now up by one, well done 😀
Some of us like to learn occasionally 😉
YOU CAN ALL GET STUFFED *runs around hollering* 😉
I hadn’t read it until just now. Sounds like it would be a fun convention and I’d go just for the cosplays.
But the comments are grim and I don’t have the energy for that today.
Hope everyone had a good weekend. Spent a lot of mine in Iron Banner, and some Fallout 4 (sought out a cheap PS4 copy after my PC died last week – I think it’s the GPU, going by the the beep pattern, so I have an excuse to upgrade :P).
Worked out the most efficient way to get to rank 5 in IB on all characters – worked out around 5 matches a night (as long as I finish on a win) and all dailies every day, and turning in 3 weeklies on Saturday night to hit 5; kinda went off the rails by missing the first day’s bounties, so had to play a few extra games each night. I think I’m getting better at PvP overall – I can now see the signs of when the spawns are about to flip and reposition accordingly (which is a step up from a few months ago), and I know most of the sniper perches/sight lines on most maps. Anyway, got some decent loot – a 319 ghost, a 318 warlock bond, a 317 hunter helm and a 314 titan helm, plus a bunch of 280-310 chests/gloves/hand cannons/LMGs that I’ve still got to go through and sort out the chaff.
Fallout’s been surprisingly good, too – having had to restart (something I was considering anyway, as I’d completely misunderstood the way perks get unlocked), I tore through the first few quests, made myself a sniper rifle asap, and am now one quest behind my PC save, with a much better loadout and perks, and having a blast. Even managed to kill a swan…
…although it did burn through all of my sniper ammo, half my stimpacks and most of my food. Got a hell of a shock when I asked Dogmeat to investigate a bit of floating garbage in the Park near Diamond City… 😛 Then another one when I fled the scene and ran right into a nearby group of super mutants, one of whom was a legendary.Wait, 310+ gear.from IB? Haven’t seen.any of that myself.
Though I haven’t played as much since I hate the current meta.
The rank 5 package seems fixed to a 310 shell and a 310-320 random IB item – my items (bond and two helms across the three characters) turned out to be pretty cool; a friend got the new sniper rifle at 314, but also got a 310 helm on another character. I was considering jumping back on for a chance at more high-light gear until I heard it’s just ghost shells that drop over 310, and trying to beat my 319 isn’t really worth the bother. Best non-ghost drop I’ve had/seen is a 310 chestpiece; weapon drops (only the hand cannon and LMG) seem to peak around 290.
Yeah nah I can’t play this.
One of the reasons I liked Destiny PvP was that unlike a lot of shooters it was not a sniper fest.
Now it’s a sniper fest. Both teams just pot-shotting across the map, until a lolbreaker comes in and cleans up.
Thornpocalypse was more fun than this.
Ahh well, shelving Destiny till the next content drop.
http://pedestrian.tv/news/entertainment/jj-abrams-promises-to-keep-lens-flare-minimal-in-t/f68c0364-e447-406a-b46a-d01859037b2c.htm
Oh thank god.
That comment section is pure vitriol and scum.
I wish I didn’t have to go to work so I could keep going.
Didn’t know you were into masochism.
*grabs popcorn*
I didn’t bother responding because idiots will always be idiots. If people feel they need a con for themselves then they should have it. People are allowed to have things they like. I don’t get people.
So, uh… I like your credit card!
Within reason.
Don’t know how to tell my friend he’s reading his D&D character wrong and is way over-doing himself without coming off as stand-off-ish (claiming his level 3 monk has 5 attacks per turn and can move 50 feet a turn).
THESE ARE THE PROBLEMS I FACE IN LIFE. When not dealing with being essentially homeless and the such.
If he’s the kind of person that can’t take criticism, make an “accidental” mistake about your attacks/movement and look up the rules on yourself, then transfer the conversation to his mistake by way of “hang on, I think you might have it wrong too”.
Is it obvious that I’ve done exactly this in the past? Friend of a friend was playing and got aggressive whenever someone pulled him up…
Suffice to say it’s the only time I’ve been in the same game as him.
I had a similar situation with someone misreading a character.
“Can I do magic?”
“You’re a monk. Monks don’t have magic.”
“But it says I have magic on my character sheet.”
“Really?” *reads through it* “No, your fists count as magical weapons.”
“But I can cast spells through my fists right?”
Sigh
And then that whole thing with Drewan having +23 on his Climb checks because the character sheet was adding in his racial bonuses twice.
At least I’m happy to admit the mistake when found. 😛
ಠ_ಠ
It’s only +15 now! I’m helping!
(+2 Ability score, +2 ranks, +3 class skill w/ ranks, +8 racial climb speed)*rolls tolerate cat*
I’m still waiting on that natural 1 for Knowledge: Bogan.
“Why, I do believe this gentleman is quite uncouth and should cease his blathering.”
I think I’ve got Knowledge: Wikipedia instead of Knowledge: Bogan. Remind me to check next week.
@beeawwb Red has Bogan, you have I’m Helping and maybe Wikipedia, and Freeze has Tolerate Cat. I don’t think Techie has his own fun personal skill but that can be easily arranged.
Well Dem’nion is an Elven Neutral version of Vegeta to me (Definitely not as much ego however being noble he has a fair bit), so how can we use that? 😛
@tech_knight I like that in addition to Lawful Neutral, True Neutral, and Chaotic Neutral we now have Elven Neutral. 😛
I don’t know what we can do, maybe something like this skill to test against your noble dignity and tastes or something silly like “For Honour!” like the Zuko-parody from Last Airbender. It’s up to you for whatever you want as a characterful skill.
I have no idea what that “For Honour!” thing is 😛
I think testing against noble dignity and taste is a good one (Especially the dignity bit), given that he was once the Yamcha of the group getting instagibbed, this happening after leaving a comfortable life of luxury and education.
@tech_knight I’ll dig it up when I get home but the Ember Island Players episode in Last Airbender had parody versions of all the main characters and Zuko was all “I must defeat you… FOR MY HONOUR!”
A characterful skill can be helpful in figuring out what Dem’nion is interested in or what he values in life. There’s no pressure if you don’t want one but the option is available to you.
That was technology’s fault so it was a bit easier to figure out. And yes, it’s always good playing with people who are happy to correct an error rather than stubbornly clinging to it and saying “my character is ruined”. I’ve played with people like that and it gets rather tiresome that they bend and twist the rules, sometimes even outright breaking them, to get a power ego.
Let me know whenever I’m unintentionally doing that as all my perks can be a bit confusing. I haven’t actually done a Wizard properly in a D&D RPG yet, I did do Sorceror though, so diving right into Arcanist was probably biting off more than I can chew but yeah, it’s fun picking it up though.
It’s all good and I think I’ve said that I trust you guys enough to not accidentally give yourselves extra bonuses and stuff. As long as you guys are keeping a record of your characters and are happy, I’m happy.
Besides, the game isn’t so serious that we’re getting caught up on the minutiae. If it was serious, I don’t think I would have allowed half of the things @freezespreston has attempted. 😛
I will say that you are legit a fantastic GM. Our games are always a tonne of fun.
Of course you’d say that, your character got laid 😛
Thanks Freeze. Always good to hear when people enjoy themselves and it encourages me to make bigger and better stuff for you guys to have even more fun with.
Very this. For @popdart5 to wrangle us through many laughs and good times, for over 18 months speaks volumes.
Agreed completely, a loud thud could’ve been heard with my jaw dropping when Popdart showed me what was actually going on behind the scenes in Rogue Trader after that was put on the shelf, usually I’d expect to see only see one of something huge like that happening in the story, he had 3-4 at once coming at us in the future. Insane! So far I’ve been really enjoying it (Both Pathfinder and Rogue Trader while that was a thing), I’m just looking forward to my new powers having a chance to be used the next time
Lundgredolph picks a fight with someone that’s actually strong cuz it’s only a matter of timewe find trouble or trouble finds us 😀Still waiting on my Tau Scout Drone…………………………. =@
Well the technology just wasn’t there yet to allow you to take that Drone without accepting insanity points, sheesh I took 9! 😛
I don’t think you’ll ever let that one slide hey? 😛
Maybe next time I run something I’ll go a bit crazy and go Monty Haul for everyone. Of course, this would be for Orks and everyone can get something fancy or crazy because ORKS!
I have a shrine of broken Tau pieces with a Tau drone sitting in the centre to forever remind me of your betrayal! D=
That and I need to finish painting them. But I like the first explanation better.
Edit: Also I need a ranked buddy for HotS; interested? @tech_knight keeps standing me up. He’s too hot to be seen in games with me.
I’ve kinda given up on ranked HotS sorry Puppet. I rarely play anymore since hitting Rank 1 and the recent Cho’Gall stuff has all the usual hallmarks of OPness for a new hero.
You never said when you were done last time! Also, me? In Ranked? Pffft HAHAHA oh man I can’t even beat a single PvP in normal matches let alone go for ranked just yet… oh yeah and also me being only level 7 😛
@popdart5 He’s actually meh even when played well; any latency basically kills him. I doubt you’ll be seeing too much of him if you ever come back tbh. Leoric, johanna, valla, jaina and kael continue to be the staples.
@tech_knight I thought you were going to message me once you were done with brekky! or dinner! take your pick on the number of times you stood me up *runs away crying*
I suddenly recall hearing a heated argument about whether Ryu from Street Fighter is a wizard or a monk.
Certain Ki and Elemental Monks can do small amounts of magic that are basically Hadoukens. My vote is he’s a monk.
Yeah, he is a monk.
Wrapped up my third weekend of making trips between Hervey Bay and Tweed South to move the family house. Roughly 6hr drive, each way. Sunburned. (Again.) Still tired.
We still didn’t get it all finished, poor old Dad’s making another trip today with a trailer, while his boys go back to work.
It’s been stressful. Really looking forward to some sleep and video games.
*looks over at comments section* Is it over yet? =P
I’m trying to remember a board game that I played recently but for the life of me I can’t remember the name. It was about playing as the descendent of a recently deceased rich elder who, in their will, said that they’d give the entirety of their fortune to the descendent who had the least money. The game was all about spending as much money as you can on property, racing, posh soirees, and other rich people stuff to become destitute and win the inheritance. It was a worker placement game if that helps.
Anyone know what it’s called? (cc board game afficionados)
Monopoly.
Last Will!
Edit: I’ve been meaning to give that game a shot. I’m a huge fan of worker placement games and the premise is so amazingly dumb. I love it. Copies are hard to find in Australia but I haven’t looked too hard.
Thank you! I really enjoyed it and wanted to see how much it was. As you said, the premise is silly and completely counter-intuitive to almost every other worker placement game I’ve played. I got stuck in a property spiral and had too much wealth in assets while everyone else trashed their mansions, went on wild cruises, and had joyrides in their carriages around the countryside. Delightfully ridiculous.
It’s Brewster’s Millions, the Board Game!
Punky Brewster?
New graphics card is installed, appears to be running fine with my GTX 560 drivers, heh. Went to download replacement drivers, got the Windows 7 ones by default, cause I some how forgot I was running Windows 10…
Was playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 last night.
Finished a delivery, but got a bit of damage to the cargo… okay, it was at 87% damage.
Manage to make it to the destination on time, and end up not getting any money because the cargo was fucked.
:`(
Whoa, @lucifer9783 and I were killing it in Splatoon tonight. I nearly carried my entire team to victory!
*flex*
I swear, sometimes I feel like the worst player ever and then I have nights like last night.
Sounds like me playing pool. Totally crap, have a blinder, then back to crap.
Today I played a night time level of Plants vs Zombies and totally impressed a 6 year old.
“You’re even better than me!”
Okay, new dilemma.
With or without houndstooth? Houndstooth is the pattern on the collar
http://imgur.com/a/CsEeG
Silhouettes need clean lines. Without.
Without. If it needs patterning, I’d go with something more like a fine, clearly defined check, to keep the silhouette aesthetic.
Without
Decided to re-send the invitation for the Perth Meat.
@fled @grandmasterb-funk @liondrive @phlanispo @phoenix @thecracks
Perthians, assemble! I am planning a new and improved Adventure World meat! My initial plans a month ago fell through because everyone was busy with uni, and apparently two weeks isn’t enough notice.
My new plans are to have a meat on the weekend of 5th/6th December. This will either be on a Saturday or Sunday, and will change based on what is best for everyone. I specifically chose this date because I know everyone will be on their uni break by then. I hope I gave enough notice, but you never know.
I think I have a housewarming on one of those days – will have to check and get back to you.
It’s almost definitely going to be on the Sunday at this point.
Stayed up for the Bloodborne expansion unlock, could only play for 20 mins due to work tomorrow.
But geez its glorious already 🙂
See ya tomorrow night fellow hoonters…
I know it’s in the wrong spot, but that Gaymer X article is dead, so I feel like venting here instead.
Many, basically the majority of people in the article, are jumping up and down declaring that, “Australia doesn’t need a gay gaming convention”. I don’t let others speak for me, particularly those of who are unaware to the issues facing my demographic. You can speak for yourself, but not for an entire portion of the population that you are not representative of, or within yourself.
There was a time when I wasn’t comfortable in my own skin. Not uncomfortable, by any definition of the word, but stuck in this sort of limbo, where the disingenuous me was content, and the genuine me wasn’t.
It’s a peculiar feeling.
Not happy, not sad. Just kind of, existing.
I’d hang out with friends. Do friend things, like go to the movies, hang out, go clubbing, etc, but I never felt like I had any one on my side.
I digress.
One fateful night, new years eve, if I recall, my friends decided to go clubbing. I was set to go with them, when last minute they tell me the location. A gay club. The Court, in fact.
Now, my friends were all straight, are all straight still, so I was a little surprised, but very keen. I’d always wanted to go, but when you’re trying to hide being gay, saying, “Hey, let’s go to a gay club” is the equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot.
I was eager to go. Moreceager than I’d ever been for anything before.
More eager than I have been fir anything since.
I’ll tell you what, that eagerness and anticipation lead to one of the best nights of my life.
I’d never felt more in place in my life. It felt comforting being around others like me.
I know it may be hard to understand from an outside perspective, but being around people you can relate to for the first time in your life. It was the first time I actually felt comfortable. Welcome.
I know clubbing isn’t universally appealing, but if this Gaymer X convention can recreate this for even one person, or help even one person feel comfortable in their own skin, then it is needed.
People need a place where they belong. When you can walk into anywhere in the country and automatically belong, it’s hard to understand that others aren’t as privileged.
There were so many people going “I don’t get it, therefore it doesn’t need to exist”. Empathy is rad. Those morons should try it some time. Right after they get “it’s not about you” tattooed on the back of their hands.
Don’t let it get to you, the internet just attracts loud mouthed jerks who’d probably cower in the corner if confronted irl.
U FOKIN W0T M8, WHY I OUGHTTTAAA….
… cower in the corner when confronted irl.
This is basically why my take on the conversation was that I really can’t appreciate that feeling of not belonging. Sure, I might feel like a social reject who can’t really relate to other people, but I’m still basically the social default setting.
We’d all like to believe that the world is an all-inclusive space where everyone is welcome, but it’s not. A lifetime of having to feel sorry for who you are in case it offends someone can affect you deeply.
There is no reason not to have gay-oriented events, so why not? You lose nothing. You’d think all the dirty straights commenting on that article were having something taken away from them, they way they were carrying on. And all that “hurr hurr what if I had a straights-only event, how would dem queers respond herpaderp infallible logic I win the internet” garbage. I mean, way to demonstrate that you don’t see any divide whatsoever, guys!
Your last paragraph – removing the particulars of this scenario and don’t you get what the GG’s have been saying the last 2 years?
That aside…
Events that start out small like this can grow and add huge amounts of cultural capital. Look at the Mardi Gras. That party is now for so many more people than when it started out. To the point that the Sydney event is one of the biggest in the world.
I have no idea how what I said can be interpreted to anything about gamergate. You’ve completely lost me.
I’m confused by that too. GG tends to be very against politics in games and see anything that’s not part of the status quo as politics in games. Take away the particulars and it’s still the opposite of what GG has been saying. Unsurprisingly, most of the dicks in the GX article are vocally pro-GG.
My understanding of Gamergate, at least based on the theory put forward by it’s proponents, is that gaming journalism entities such as Kotaku should disclose when there are relationships/connections or when content is effectively sponsored via promotions, contractual arrangements, business contacts or other financial interests. This is fair enough. It’s sad when a gaming site effectively “sells” a game, but it turns out they were basically shills for it and duped their audience for an advertising cheque (a la the Kane & Lynch 2 debacle at Gamespot).
What I see, however, is basically abuse of women in gaming journalism for the audacity of even having a relationship, and abuse of any journalists (but especially females) who want to discuss social issues in and around gaming.
I’ve said previously that while I don’t agree with everything said by people such as Patricia Hernandez or Anita Sarkeesian (who are repeat targets for GG vitriol), they have their right to have opinions but the GGers are the ones who are acting like they’re trying to take our video games away when in fact we stand to lose nothing, but instead may gain something.
So, like you said, my comment when put in a GG-related framework, still seems to go against the actions of pro-GGers. Or how gay gamers wanting to seek out a place where they feel they can belong is at all related to the plight of GGers to begin with. Like how is that even pertinent to this discussion? Really scratching my head on this one.
That a gay focused expo adds to the community, just like games with different leads or play styles and focus adds to video games. Neither of them takes away for what we currently have
Right. I guess I was confused because it seemed like my point was being interpreted as aligned with some of GGs arguments, whereas it would, if anything, be opposed like trjn pointed out.
I’m pro-diversity and pro-inclusiveness across the board.
Poorly worded on my part and I’ve probably missed the main point. Link was probably tenuous at best… What jumped to mind for me is that there is no reason why there can’t be diversity or changes in the landscape of gaming. Reflected in the way some (not all) GG’s get pretty uppity about those supporting/pushing for changes.
Wasn’t that you said anything about gamergate specifically.
More that the arguments against this expo are the same ones about diversity in games or other aspects. CoD isn’t exclusive, there is no reasons girls can’t enjoy it. If we make games with female leads then the next battlefield game will be Battlefield: Barbies bargain slaying shopping trip.
The people arguing who can’t understand that it adds to the community rather than taking away.
Explaining my own ideas better than me… =/
I totally get it, and I agree with you 100%.
Going to use spoiler tags for wall of text
We live in a society that is intolerant of pretty much everything. I’m a mum, and let me tell you, even something as simple as “feeding a baby” or “using a stroller” can raise the ire of the “general public”. Raised eyebrows, tut-tutting, lectures on how you’re doing life the wrong way (why don’t you cover up, why do you need that huge pram, why are you still breastfeeding your toddler, why aren’t you still breastfeeding your baby, why isn’t your formula organic, why are you wasting money on organic formula, can’t you make your baby stop crying, why do people insist on bringing their kids to , I don’t know why parents need a whole bathroom just for them, we didn’t have special parking spots when I had kids…). It’s no wonder a lot of parents retreat to their homes and feel that they just aren’t welcome anywhere, even if most people are kind. All it takes sometimes is one vocal idiot to smash your perceptions and make you feel like you are alone and do not belong. This is why mother’s groups are considered an essential part of being a new parent. It’s not about exclusion, it’s about support. Finding others who are walking the same path, and being able to talk about your life without having to explain, apologise or hold back.
As for hobbies, I used to do dragonboat (I miss it so much! *sob*), and there were plenty of clubs with very specific memberships. Different Strokes are the first Australian LGBTI club, and they’ve been competing for about 7 years now. They race, they have a float in the Mardi Gras, they’re regularly featured in the local gay press, their local is The Oxford. It’s a sport that’s generally very inclusive, but there are also clubs specifically for cultural groups (Chinese Youth League), juniors (Blackwattle Blue Subs), masters (Bei Loon) and breast cancer survivors (Dragons Abreast). They don’t exclude people from their teams, but generally, only people who identify with that club would be interested in joining anyway. More teams, more people enjoying the sport.
Everyone wins.
GaymerX sounds good to me.
Different Strokes is the most fantastic name for a gay rowing club.
10/10, perfect
Ahem, it’s pronounced paddling
But yeah, best club name ever
No “that’s a paddlin’” joke?
I find this far more amusing than it should be.
*high five*
Totally, man!
I think people in that article were coming to the weird conclusion that if it’s not going to solve all of society’s issues all at once, then it shouldn’t exist. I keep trying to parse the logic (though assuming there’s logic to parse might be my mistake), and it’s the only conclusion I can draw.
But sometimes a safe place is valuable just because it’s a safe place, and its victories are smaller, and more personal.
I personally was seeing a lot of folks taking a disturbingly compassion-devoid way of pressing a belief that I personally hold (but don’t particularly press), which is that in a ‘perfect world’ you don’t treat anyone differently and you just fucking get on with your shit no matter how different someone is, so ‘let’s just start acting like that’s the world that is’.
But that’s in a perfect world. Not this world right now.
Maybe one day, when differences really ARE normalized to the point that kids don’t learn to remark or behave differently about someone’s sexual orientation or race or whatever… but that’s not now.
I understand the theory that we should behave as if that’s the world right now; expecting that the ideal world will come into being through us acting as if it already is, just because enough of us agreed to act like it… and hope like hell that our kids won’t learn any bigotry because we aren’t showing it to them.
But for those who are so affected by the ways in which it is currently not that ideal, no-one should begrudge them some coping mechanisms. Especially not ones that do not affect you.
That’s an interesting thing to read. The strength of it.
It is hard for me to understand or relate, intuitively, at least – if not academically.
A combination of privilege and only-partly-justified confidence has meant that I have rarely felt particularly out of place. Until I travel a LOT more to feel more alien, I may never understand that feeling of relief at the otherwise uncommon comfort of belonging – not emotionally or instinctively. I hear ex-pats get it a lot.
…But you don’t have to understand a feeling or relate to it to respect it.
Some experiences are so far removed from your own that you have to take the expression of it on peoples’ word. Which is why that article did need to be written. And why it’s disappointing that so many people missed the main point: that their experience is not universal.
Hey man, we should totally re-schedule that Court shindig we were planning a few months ago. I can’t remember exactly why we dropped the plans, something to do with me being an unsociable prick or something. Sounds like it could be a freaking great time. I’ll even wear a tie!
That could be good little Phlanisbro!
I don’t think I can do the adventureworld meat though, unfortunately 🙁
I had a great time last time we went, but I usually work weekends :'(
We’ll definitely set up a time to go clubbing though 😉
Board games amirite?
I’ve been making a concerted effort to play many lots of board games lately. If I’m meant to be the board games guy, it makes sense. Right? Probably.
The funny thing is that now I want to tackle the issue of breadth vs depth. Do I try to play as many different titles to get as broad an understanding of the hobby as possible or do I dig in on a few titles to really see what’s going on there?
Power Grid’s a great example of a depth game. There is a group of retired/semi-retired peoples that hang out at all of the local board gaming groups. They play a lot of Power Grid. A lot. They have literally every map and the deluxe edition. I could easily latch onto them to get a lot of games of Power Grid under my belt in a short time.
Or I could try and play a lot of Agricola with you guys via Play-Agricola.com
The other option is to try and play everything that I’ve been meaning to play. Terra Mystica, Mage Knight, everything by Uwe Rosenberg that isn’t Agricola.
Breadth vs Depth. Both give me a better understanding of board gaming. Both are options I can take. Sod it. I’m just going to play whatever the hell I can play. If that’s more Power Grid, hurray! If that’s the titles I haven’t had a chance to check out, hurray! If that’s the games I’ve played once or twice, hurray!
More games. That’s my solution.
Por que no los dos
I’d go depth-first, personally. I think that’s more interesting. But if you’re going to go in-depth, I feel like focusing on interesting mechanics is the way, rather than going deep on specific games. At least that’s what I’d do.
Power Grid and Agricola are both games with interesting mechanics and enough variation to go very, very deep on them. They’re also games that I can expect to play reliably.
Android: Netrunner is another game along those lines. I’m trying to suss out the local ANR community. Although I expect if I really wanted to go deep with ANR, I’d have to live in Melbourne.
I’m with neg, do both.
When I go to board gaming events I have a rule that I try a game new to me and that I try to play more games I don’t own (unless I’m teaching).
I’m much more of a slut. I’ll play anything interesting and that includes games I’ve played before. Even amongst complete strangers, I default to teaching. It’s what I know.
Depth is probably cheaper so I’d opt for that. Unless your board gaming group has a large library that gets new products coming in regularly, keeping up to date with new games would be a challenge.
This is my personal collection. Compared to some of the people in the Canberran board gaming community, it’s positively tiny.
Access to games is definitely not a problem :p
Personally I go breadth. I’m more interesting in trying out new and interesting games than getting right down to the minute strategy of the one game.
Did I already miss all the Jessica Jones discussion?
Nope. I think most people are still working through the show.
Are they enjoying it?
Do they have any opinions?
Would they like to discuss?
I finished it in two days and it’s my favourite MCU product so far.
Tenant was very well cast and Kilgrave was effectively an evil version of his Doctor. They did a great job of fleshing him out and making his evil personal. They didn’t hold back. Kilgrave couldn’t comprehend that he was evil, that’s important. His victims truly suffered and continued to suffer if they were lucky enough to survive. That’s important. MCU lacks in this area and while Daredevil did a good job with Kingpin, it’s nowhere near Kilgrave.I liked the supporting cast. All of them added to the story in various ways. Finding out that Malcolm was both Aussie and a Power Ranger was an odd revelation though.Agree pretty much on all points.
Would have liked maybe an extra, non-Killgrave related case for the first two eps with more of the flashbacks & scary cuts.I feel like they introduced him straight away then dragged it out for a number of episodes before throwing Nuke in the mix as a little diversion.
I find it pushes believability a tad by having absolutely everyone linked to Killgrave, even Luke.
They didn’t all have to be.
Also, as a fanboy, I miss the way the original comic weaved it’s way into the existing Marvel U. That was fun. Not needed, they did a great job setting up Jessica’s own little corner.
Having everything related to Kilgrave worked for me because of how personal his evil is. It’s a defining point of this version of his character, his obsession with Jessica. She had one thing that wasn’t related to him and at that point, she was well and truly paranoid.The main stand out for me was his wife’s death being related. Yeah it added tension but are we going to find out that the company that made Nuke also made Jessica & Killgrave & then they all happened to move to Hells Kitchen & all happened to cross paths?It was a little to tight, too clean for me.
We’ll see what the story is next season though
If they have any sense, Kilgrave should be nothing more than a bad memory in future seasons. Nuke and co should be a separate thing otherwise it’s a little too Heroes-ey. I’m hoping Luke’s wife is just a sequel hook for Luke Cage’s show.@trjn Yep, would be nice.
I’m hoping
Nuke was a setup for DD since Miller birthed him there.I thought Nuke was primarily a Cappy villain these days. Anyhow, with the Defenders around the corner I think we’re going to see a lot of cross-pollination. Want to bet that Luke Cage runs into Kingpin or one of this minions?@trjn He always was used as a grotesque mirror to him. But he’s popped up in Wolverine as well as that Red Hulk team, I can’t remember the name.
Holy shit, there was an Aussie Power Ranger?Most of the cast and crew of Power Rangers were Aussie or Kiwi. They filmed in New Zealand with whoever was available in order to avoid those pesky screen actors guild requirements. Malcolm was the Red RPM Ranger, if you care.Seems everyone likes it, but I saw one person bitching about one particular plot he didn’t like, which apparently ruined the entire show for him, for some reason. I haven’t started it yet, so I have no idea what he was talking about.
There’s chunks cut from the original filled in with less Marvel stuff. Perhaps that’s it?
I think most people are still making their way through it, so there hasn’t been much.
Feel free to tag me on any, if you’d like to hear my fanboi perspective
2 episodes in, don’t think we’re rushing to finish it off just yet.
Hasn’t been enough Tennant!
There’s more than enough of him by the end.
Can there ever be more than enough though?
Ending spoilers:
his arc ends like a wet fart. 🙁 Very anticlimactic.As with the others comments me and the mrs are taking our time through the show; watching an episode a day!
It’s okay. A bit long. Dragged a bit toward the end.
– Killgrave is an awesome villain.
– Didn’t like elements of the writing. Why is everyone in the Marvel TV stuff a fucking booze hound and no one really thinks there’s anything wrong with that?
– Carrie-Ann Moss steals every scene she’s in. Possibly the best casting of the whole show. I so hope at some point when these characters come together there’s an episode involving a legal battle between Murdoch and Hogarth.
– I’m not really looking forward to the Luke Cage series. He worked well as a companion, but I didn’t see anything there that was interesting enough that I’d want to see a whole series about him.
– Action sequences were largely boring brute force stuff.
– Enjoyed Daredevil more.
Oh wow, Luke was my favourite casting.
I thought he was a great Luke Cage, but I kinda hope his series is a bit lighter in tone- the guy who is getting his shit back together, not the guy going through oppressively dark shit, which is what Daredevil and this were aboutYeah
I’m not sure, dark seems to be the tone Marvel Netflix is leaning on. But the DD & JJ source material they’ve used mostly was dark originally.Like has been many things over the years, I guess they’ll mix in some of his 70s origin with the feel if Bendis & Azzerello’s takes.
A lighter tone would be nice though. Surely once Iron Fist appears it will be almost buddy cop
I didn’t mind the casting. He’s well cast. Though the guy needs to work on his enunciation a bit as there were lines that felt mumbled a bit.
The issue I have is that the character didn’t seem like he had remotely enough interesting about him to hold up a 13 episode show.
You probably feel different because you’re familiar with the comics. I’m not. This part of the Marvel canon is completely new to me – I only ever got into 90s X-Men stuff with a bit of Iron Man on the side.
Yeah, they’re holding all that back for his solo series
I hope so. More than happy for them to surprise me. Just doesn’t seem like something I’ll be as interested in.
I hope it’ll be more like DD, many more decades of source material to use for a more interesting, less loose & tighter packed tale.
I really liked how many names pop up in DD that either fill out the universe or set up next season.
JJ had to create more on the fly & it didn’t always work as well.
Jessica self-medicates her PTSD with booze. I don’t think everyone likes it but accept that she’s got serious shit to deal with. Trish should make a bigger deal of it, as a recovering drug user. Malcolm should care but is only just coming clean himself, with her help, so is justified in not making a point of it. Luke… he’s a bartender, which is shorthand for “we needed an excuse for him not to mention it.”I think there was a nice reversal near the end (end of season spoiler)
she drops her keys & he picks them up & opens the door for her. This plus him taking the phone at the end sets him up as her obvious secretary, so I imagine a lot of whiny whinging will go on next seasonMalcolm’s development was rad. He went from something that showed Jessica’s human side despite the brashness to someone to take care of her. Putting him in the same room as Night Nurse was a little on the nose but I like that it means Trish won’t be anywhere near that position.Yep
Malcom was a more interesting character to me than most of the rest of the cast.@jimu
I think my issue is that
I felt like she stays completely static the entire show. No development. Doesn’t have a proper arc where her beliefs are challenged or anything. Gets revenge on Killgrave and then she seemed like she was exactly where she was to begin with. That was disappointing. I didn’t feel like she went through any tough decisions or moral choices or anything.I think that was why I preferred Daredevil. There was more of a character there. So many dichotomies to the guy, like the conflict between his Catholicism and the fact he murders people, or even just the issue he has where he’s not sure whether he’s going out and doing what he is because he’s actually a rage-fueled nutjob. I felt like thee was a lot more character there and that he goes through a real arc.
Maybe a good amount of it is because Murdoch tries to keep his identity secret from his friends, and the way things eventually fall apart because of that. Jessica doesn’t try to hide her abilities.
Yeah, you’re right. In the comic
Killgrave is only ever hinted at, she takes on many different cases before he finally returns & defeating him is the series end.The follow-up series Pulse, is her in a much happier place having beaten the prick.
Seems they wanted the best bit of the comic without the loss of Moody Jessica :-/
I can’t see how they could have written it differently with just one 13-episode season to play with but it definitely needed a few extra subplots woven in.I’m probably going to hit it up this weekend when I need a break from fallouting.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/11/off-topic-who-is-watching-jessica-jones/
I’m still fighting my way through Daredevil. Might catch up one of these days.
Ran into one of my highschool friends at climbing last night, so ended up doing some top rope.
Near as I can figure it, last time I did that would’ve been with Climbey. Which would put it at two years ago, almost exactly. And once again, the whole time I’m stuck thinking “god damn when did climbing get to be such hard work?” Climbs just go on forever, don’t get to stop every couple of minutes and sit under the fan for a while. I need an air conditioned shirt 😛
Felt good nailing a bunch of reds though, and seeing that finger strength get put to use.
O_O
;D
Oh myy…
I’m very scared right now. Gonna have Fishgief looming over me in my sleep
because HE’S A TUUUUUUURBO LOVEEEEEEEEER!
Sounds erotic.
Oh, it was.
*grabs popcorn*
I have no idea what any of that meant, apart from “highschool friend” and “two years ago”
I think it’s some kind of space ship.
I think ‘nailing a bunch of reds’ is a euphemism for killing Russians.
God that game was awesome
Best link.
Am slightly disappointed it wasn’t a link to Freedom Fighters, though.
St Leonards? Reds? You monster.
You competing this weekend?
Was thinking about going actually, yeah. Been climbing all this time and never been to one before, so why not 😛
Groovy.
Good luck dude.
Are you going too?
Nah, going climbing at St Peters that day.
You Should Try Fallout 4 Without Fast Travel
Because it’s awesome discovering things that you didn’t know about… LIKE ALL OF THIS CONTENT. LOOK AT IT. LOOK AT HOW AWESOME DISCOVERING IT WAS. WOULDN’T IT BE GREAT TO JUST STUMBLE ACROSS THIS CONTENT WITH NO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE.
It’s like Skyrim… with guns! 😀
I skipped the article for exactly that reason. Glad to see I made the right choice.
Thanks for the warning lol going to be avoiding that article =.=
Anyone who shuns Fast Travel obviously doesn’t have the same kleptomania problem that I do.
Yes. Let’s all crawl everywhere.
I fast travel paths that I’ve already walked, primarily for the inventory dump return. That said, I try to wander and explore an area instead of beelining straight to the next quest marker.
Always follow the sound of gunfire or the silhouettes of buildings. 🙂
Last time I followed gunfire it was just the wandering trader bumbling into the next set of enemies that I should have blundered into.
I thought those traders were immortal, but then Doc Weathers picked a fight with a Mr Gutsy who killed the badass older female caravan guard with the short white hair. The one who had that line that always cracked me up. (“It’s a shit job, but at least the pay’s terrible.”) I really mourned her loss. Later, I came across the corpse of one of the wandering booze salesmen. He’d been next to a car that had gone nuclear when a Gunner dropped a grenade off the overpass.
Now I run to gunfire to try and protect the traders and their employees.
Or loot the corpses if you’re too late.
I’m still surprised how full of stuff the wasteland is. There are little stories everywhere, of people trying or failing to survive…
So important questions…
Fallout 4 or Battlefront?
Mad Max for $21 or Lords of the Fallen for $15?
Rage for $5 or Brink for $5?
Fallout 4 for me, I’m a bit over multiplayer at the moment and I feel like Fallout has more longevity/bang for buck.
More interested in Mad Max than Lords of the Fallen, but I have no idea about their objective merits.
Between Rage, Brink, and not spending $5, I’d keep the $5.
Bleh, Kermitron is probably right about FO4 vs SW:BF, @cffndncr.
But but… I can get the full FO4 experience this time next year, whereas all the multiplayer crowds will have moved on to other games by then
Ugh. Oh crap, I meant what @Tigerion said. Yes, that. Longevity/timing.
Even though FO4 is undoubtedly the better game, it’ll only keep/improve over the next few months. 😛
Battlefront is likely to die off as a MP only game so if you want that get in early, fallout 4 will always be awesome but BF may have a timeframe
Do you like AC / Just cause / Far cry collectathons / clear the map games? If so Max otherwise LotF
Rage of those, brink MP is dead
Hard to answer the first right now without knowing about your tastes.
I really disliked LotF, felt like all the worst aspects of Dark Souls exemplified with none of the fantastic counteracting elements. Mad Max was hardly stellar, but it didn’t really do much wrong, it just sort of… was.
Despite owning Brink I never played it. RAGE on the other hand was wonderful, and I loved it far more than popular opinion says I should have. Not that I ever finished it, but shhhhh.
Fallout 4, Lords of the Fallen (I haven’t played Mad Max, but I really enjoyed my time with LotF), Rage.
And that last one is a very reluctant and disappointed endorsement. Brink did so much right, but its time has passed – it’s a multiplayer-only in disguise, thanks to bots, and they’re crap. Rage you can at least play.
EDIT: Reasons
– neither (fallout 4 boring, battlefield MP-only and looks like it’ll peter out in months)
– neither (mad max was panned badly, lords of the fallen’s a low-budget dark souls ripoff)
– neither (rage isn’t very good, brink’s good but multiplayer-only and the game’s dead)
#helping
Fallout 4
Lords of the Fallen
And save your $5, Brink was mostly a multiplayer game and there’s probably next to noone playing it anymore and Rage … well, it’s just shit.
(Actually, maybe Rage isn’t that bad but I got it close to release and it would constantly crash my computer or if I was lucky, just refuse to run.)
Mad Max was way better than Lords of the Fallen, and I say that as a diehard Dark Souls-type game fan. MM wasn’t by any means perfect, though.
This weekend I slacked off and didn’t look at houses and made myself feel very stressed. \o/
I’m currently in a conundrum. Too many games but nothing I feel like playing. In addition to Jessica Jones I polished off a couple of visual novels because I don’t know why:
– Fault: Milestone 2: Side Above
This was really good. Better than the first one. Entertaining read. Shame it’s so short (4 hours to read it all, zero branches). Not the best thing out there but I don’t regret my time spent with it.– Sakura Fantasy
Terrible. Average-quality writing that’s basically a string of excuses for showing images of big-boobed anime girls in compromising positions and situations. Developer seems to churn out one of these games every 6 weeks or so and they’ve got some kind of patreon racket going too.They’re pretty decent boobies though.
I have Trails in the Sky SC sitting there taunting me, but I really want to play that with a 100% guide as there was a ton of stuff I missed in the first game and it made my OCD flare up something terrible. The Steam achievements all look really obtainable for once too. So waiting.
I had Tales of Zestiria lined up but that game was over really fast. I also had AC Syndicate as the backup game but the first few hours left me with such a profound sense of ennui that I haven’t gone back.
Played a bit of Kantai Collection and I probably should get back to that. On the last map for the event but the reward for clearing it is shit compared to how hard it looks – I have too many lowbie destroyers as it is, and Hagikaze is all kinds of bland. Same issue as the last event, where the ultimate reward for clearing it was also a Destroyer (Teruzuki) though at least in that case she’s got a niche she’s useful in (though I have sister-ship Akizuki already so the niche is filled). I cleared E4 really fast – 3 sorties only – and didn’t get Graf Zeppelin as a drop yet so I may actually ignore E5 and grind E4, though it’d be nice to actually finish the event too. Generally finding the game doesn’t hold my attention the way it used to though.
Can’t play World of Warships due to shit intermittent lag on my connection which I can’t fix (and which might be caused by my laptop – which by the way is a miserable way to play that game as I keep bumping the touchpad with my left thumb and that causes my guns to fire). The WiFi spectrum is so overloaded that I can only get a good signal sitting right beside the router. Can’t stream anime from anywhere else which has put a big dent in that, so I’m a long way behind in shows I was watching before I moved. Netflix seems to stream fairly fine to my laptop anywhere in the apartment but I guess it’s designed to automatically adjust quality and stuff, where Crunchyroll et al don’t do any work to compensate for intermittent signal issues.
Horrible feeling, being bored but not wanting to actually play any of my backlog.
trails in the sky… man that game is amazing… except sony doesnt want to take my money, and still wants to charge me $50-odd for psp digital download…. >_
I’m so glad I decided to use a US PSN account for my Vita when I got it.
True story, I’m stuck in TitS 2. Really simple question objective & I haven’t the foggiest if where to go.
Let’s just all pretend my autocorrect isn’t a complete arse, shall we?
You’re better off taking a break on the house hunting every now and then. They’ll still be there next time you check and that whole situation just layers stress upon stress which leads to mistakes if you don’t vent from time to time. It wasn’t causing me too much stress but I’m sooo happy to be done with the apples and oranges side of finding a place. Now it’s just shuffling paperwork. It’s annoying but it has definitive answers. I know it’s the eye of the storm before I actually start moving but it’s so nice not having to make choices right now.
Posted this on twitter, figured i dont have most of you on there, so repost….
basically we were playing rocketleague (ps4) the other day when this happened…
try sit through the 2.5 minutes… itll be worth your while…
https://youtu.be/ZoixdVY9S2w
Hahahaha! Brilliant! 😀
Crap. I messaged my friend asking for Stare Girl’s number, intending to figure out what to message her before I get a chance to convince myself that this is a terrible idea.
But now he’s apparently scoping out whether there’s any interest there and will pass it on once he finds out, and I get to enjoy waiting in limbo til that happens.
Inb4 everyone else I know decides to message me throughout the day about unrelated nothings making me jump every time the phone buzzes.
Definitely a terrible idea.
When do you finish high school again?
I didn’t really do much highschool while actually in highschool, so I guess I’m busy playing catch-up now 😛
When he does, he’ll just go from West Beverley Hills High to an apartment building full of models, like Melrose Place. Don’t worry. Plenty of episodes left.
*deep breath*
POP CORN! GETCHER POPCORN RIGHT ERE
*Adelaide City Council breaks in to TAY*
“oi, do you have a food truck licence?”
“Yes I do officer it’s right-”
“NO YOU DON’T WE HATE FUN FUCK YOU GET OUT”
ACC knocks popcorn to the ground, overturns cart. Jay Weatherill comes and consoles me.
Welp, turned out to be the graphics card. Swapped the 7970 out for my old 7770 and gavve it a bit of a clean out while I was at it, and all’s good. Except Anno 2205 now runs at 20 fps, with huge stuttering when loading new areas. Now I need to figure out if I can cope with the old card until christmas so my parents have an idea of something I’d actually want (for once – seriously, I’m horrible to buy gifts for :P) or do I go a couple of blocks down the road and pick up that 390x that MSY have in stock…
Get the 390x!
QUAD SLI TITAN X!!!
For when you absolutely, positively, have to run an entire cinema screen at 4k.
…you don’t?
Wouldn’t the physical size of the screen be irrelevant? 4K on a 30″ monitor would be the same as 4K on a cinema projector. Just the relative physical size of each pixel that changes.
I always assumed it was easier to run 4k on a phone screen than a PC monitor, but there is a super high chance that I am an idiot and that’s not at all how it works.
I think (others, please correct me if I’m wrong!) it depends on the complexity of what’s being rendered. So something being rendered on a phone screen is likely to be less complex (computationally) so it’s “easier” on the phone processor, whereas something on a PC might include many fancy anti-aliasing techniques and reflections and whatnot which is what makes it more complex. Welbot posted a screenshot for a not-at-all complex game (Cook, Serve, Delicious) which now includes 4K rendering but seeing as the game is rather simple this shouldn’t be difficult to render on any screen.
If all things are equal hardware wise, you should be able to plug the same hardware in to different screens and achieve the exact same result FPS wise. E.g. a 19″ 1080P monitor should behave the same as a 24″ 1080P monitor should behave the same as a 1080P projector (projector performance notwithstanding). At those points the capabilities of the monitor (e.g. refresh rate, Grey-2-Grey response, etc) come in to play but they’re not on the computer hardware side.
For when you actually have so much money that it’s becoming a burden to not spend it.
Sadly, MoBo only has one PCIe slot big enough for a GPU… 🙁 Also, bank account only has budget for one GPU, so it kinda works out. 😛
… how about 1 Titan X?
Tired. Send coffee or sleep capsules.
Days like this I really wish you could stockpile sleep and draw on pre saved sleep to keep you going. Need to take a long boring trip, just spend those hours stockpiling sleep.
That is a brilliant idea. I would just bank up sleep during Summer heat or when game releases are slow, then spend all my sleep-surplus on entertainment marathons or really great Winter weather periods.
I keep trying to do this by sleeping on train trips and such. It… kinda works. Sometimes.
During uni, I developed a mild superpower – I was able to fall asleep on public transport, and miraculously wake up when I reached my stop.
Alcohol was my kryptonite though, so many drunken trips out to the middle of nowhere because I slept too long.
That was where I developed my superpower too!
Though it became overpowered. I couldn’t sit in a lecture without falling asleep within minutes. And I also developed a resistance to my alarm in the mornings, sometimes sleeping through the entire thing. Other times, even turning it off in my sleep. Crowning achievement was when I did the whole “set it up across the room so you have to get up” thing, and managed to slither across the floor and back into bed again, hardly stirring from my sleep at all.
Thankfully never managed to sleep through my stop though. Even if occasionally I’d wake up as the train was stopped there, and had to rush out before the doors closed.
Sleeping in lectures is normal though. It’s warm, it’s dark, no one cares what you do and it’s just an hour of someone standing behind the battlements of their lectern and droning about god knows what.
Only a couple of lecturers I had were able to keep everyone awake. Either they had really interesting content and were good speakers (the guy that took Computer Graphics stuff for example was always really good) or because they knew why people would nod off and would deliberately turn down the thermostat to make it cold, keep the lights on full and wander around the room and randomly ask people questions.
Lectures? Warm? What madness is this 😛
Damn things were always freezing, and that was part of the problem. I’m probably a lizard, put me in a cold air-conditioned room and watch me doze off. If it were warm, I’d be fine. Actually, they were usually light too, didn’t often end up in darkness.
I had a few really good lecturers, and loved listening to them teach us things. But even with the added interest, still couldn’t fight the sleeps. Which really sucked for the Discrete Maths lectures, since Steve was pretty much the best lecturer we had but also there were no notes for that one, had to write everything down ourselves. And there was a lot to copy down.
My notes are covered in lines where I’ve started to doze off and the pen’s just slid across the page from wherever it was last 😛
Maybe, and I’m just guessing here based on the first two occasions I met you, but you’d be warmer if you wore more clothes…
🙂
Hush. He has a civic duty, here.
Something about training/learning in a classroom situation just puts me straight to sleep. Doesn’t need to be a lecture hall, doesn’t seem to matter what environment. Sitting in a group of people with one person talking at me for an hour is fucking chloroform.
That’s impressive. I’ve seen Japanese people do that on trains over there, but in that case their system runs to military precision so their bodies are trained that if they sleep for exactly 22 minutes then wake up they’ll be at their stop. Australian public transport can barely keep within 10 minutes of schedule.
I’d say most mornings I can doze on the train and, because I get off at Town Hall (which is an underground station, in case you don’t know Sydney), I tend to wake up when we enter the tunnel after passing through Central.
I need to be truly exhausted to oversleep. I have on one or two occasions woken up at Circular Quay, when the train again emerges into the morning light. I think on one truly horrifying occasion I followed the city circle all the way around and woke up back at central, strongly debating whether I should just continue on back home and call in sick out of embarrassment.
Habit’s a funny thing.
When I was sleeping polyphasically (6x sessions daily of 25-30min each, at 2, 6, and 10am/pm), my body learned those times automatically. I would set an alarm anyway, but wouldn’t need to. I’d be up within 1-2 min of the timer.
…Unless I missed more than one nap. Missing one nap was tolerable, but if I ever missed two for some reason, I knew with certainty that the next time I laid down, I was going to be out for precisely 4hrs (to the minute – no more, no less), come hell or high water. That included the apartment building evacuation alarm noise – no waking.
Oh, that was post number 16,000. Very good.
I get on a plane, and if I don’t slap the ‘Please wake me for meals’ sticker on my shoulder, then I wake up 17 hours later dehydrated and mildly confused as the plane descends into LAX.
I’d settle for just being able to sleep on command. I swear my body thinks that if I went to sleep at 11PM and woke up at 8AM, then the next day I must need to go to sleep at 1AM and wake up at 10AM. And if I dare try to sleep earlier than that by body cracks it and refuses to let me sleep at all.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-rapid-transit-network-to-cut-direct-city-service-for-commuters-west-of-bankstown-20151123-gl5mdd.html
Friggen… first they get rid of the Liverpool-City via Regents Park line, so it’s over to the Bankstown line to avoid having to jump between a billion trains. Now they’re cutting up that one too. Bleh.
FOR FUCK’S SAKE.
I need to move out of this fucking shithole before they decide to tear up the lines and turn them into a decorative fountain in Artarmon or something.
Having lived in 2 suburbs attached to the bankstown line (bankstown being one of them) the most life changing decision I ever made was moving to a suburb that doesn’t use that train line. For reals.
Carramar wasn’t so bad when there was a direct line to the city via regent’s park. Then they shut it down on weekends, so when I wanted to visit my mother (when she lived at Carramar and I was at Summer Hill) I had to catch two trains instead of one. Now they’ve gotten rid of it entirely.
The small comfort I have about my one hour commute to the city each way every day is that it was at least easy. One train, I get a seat and chill, read, snooze, whatever. Now I had to change at Bankstown and hope there isn’t a huge delay in the connecting train? And hope it’s at least as fast otherwise my commute gets longer. The least they could do is reopen the via regent’s park line, but they fucking won’t. Assholes.
I’ll probably just wind up going to Cabramatta and changing there, but even that’s a huge hassle.
Hey! We in Artarmon deserve that fountain!
FOR ME TO IMPALE YOU ON
ASUDHISEAUHOAIDFKNSDF phone messages
*throws it into bottom of bag*
Dammit it’s never so straightforward as “ok I will do the thing” and then I do the thing and it’s done.
That ‘thing’ that you could have done and then it was done was ask for her number at the wedding. Then it would have been done and straightforward.
In front of everyone I know and everyone she knows? Way too ambitious 😛
Also would require presence of mind to think of and act on that at the time >_>
You could always ask her to dance and then ask her as you walk her back to the table
but that is for next time so you don’t have to worry about this limbo
Have you sent the message yet?
Haha, dancing is even further out of the question. Doesn’t even have the possibility of avoiding failure, so on come the brakes 😛
As for the message, well… no. Not yet.
I’ve been playing Base Defence in the Battlefront companion app (fun little game, especially for free) and have been stuck on one level where all enemies have two abilities: they hit harder and they always shoot first (kind of like Greedo..right? Right? RIGHT? RIGHT?!!? RIIIIGHT???????)
Anyway, I finally beat it. This isn’t an interesting story, I just wanted to brag.
Han shot first because he’s awesome.
I went to the doctor this morning, my self diagnosed low blood pressure resulting from diabetes is a wee bit off, My doctor said my blood pressure was a bit low, not dangerously low but low enough to cause dizzy spells when under hot water for long periods of time which i thought was a anxiety attack but nope. He also said my anxiety i had been feeling is probably from the stress of personal stuff and moving away from home and that i should keep myself busy with electronics stuff and excercise a little more.
Oh he also said that if i ever open WebMD again he will know and flog me.That made me smile.
It funny, i knew all that stuff already but it kind of takes someone with a coat and glasses saying it to make me feel more at ease.
Tl;Dr i have to sit in the shower.
He’ll know because if you look at WebMD you’ll know that you have cancer. Everything is cancer. Or lupus.
Or cancer of the lupus.
Fun fact: My dad has lupus.
EDIT: I feel I should point out that while yes, my dad does have lupus, this is a bit of a running joke between @rize and I.
That’s not fun! That’s not fun at all! You lied to me through commenting! I hate when people do that!
*singing* Whooo needs the lupus joooke?
I DOOOOOOOOOO…*bursts into tears*
Haha, it’s so funny when lecturers at uni who also work as nurses mention WebMD. I recall one saying something along the lines of, “you always need to respect a patients opinion even if you really want to strangle a patient because they think they know more then you because they looked on WebMD”
All Secret SanTAY emails have been sent.
If you didn’t get one let me know.
It’s in your hands now. Use your Santa powers responsibly.
Dammit, didn’t work, I’ve become Jolly Old Saint Evil Overlord
Received. Now to
stalkresearch mytargetrecipientmercilesslyin a reasonable manner.HAHAHAHAHAHA. MUAHAHAHA.
My poor victim.
*welds mailbox shut*
Mate, I’ve sent out a puppy to be licked, A picture to keep you all Safe, and an actual reasonable thing that I have no idea how it turned out.
You should dream of the chance to be a part of my ego-stroking exercises.
I am pleased with this.
*starts stalking
victimrecipient*Boy I hope my target likes old pickle jars filled with toenails.
I was so hoping for fingernails this year.
Disappointed again.
Changed my workstation’s desktop background to a particularly awesome screenshot of Fallout 4. That…was a mistake.
*staring at clock intensifies*
I have a rad set of Star Wars wallpapers that it constantly moves between…
That are always covered by fullscreen windows.
Pretty much me except with my LoL wallpapers, on both screens.
I’m currently minimizing windows when I change focus so at least one desktop is visible. It’s slowing me down a heap, but oh well 😛
I have a plain Windows 7 wallpaper to represent how devoid of joy and empty my life is.
I don’t have a wallpaper at home, it’s just a solid blue background.
Alongside the Classic theme, it reminds me how great win98 was.
My Dad used to yell at us when we changed the wallpaper on the computer. I used to change it to the Win98 Clouds background when I used it and then change it make to the plain Teal one before I turned it off 😛
When we were kids we got yelled at for changing the mouse cursors.
…That was a little more understandable, anything other than a basic point is pretty annoying.
Oh yes, we did this too. We were fond of the cursor that waggled it’s “tail” constantly 😛
(I think that one was in WinXP though?)EDIT: Haha, I found it! http://www.rw-designer.com/cursor-detail/3741 Almost tempted…
So when i try to open kotaku on my laptop, it redirects me to an iis7 site. Any ideas?
Might as well make it a proper question: What’s your desktop background at work, TAY? Also, how many monitors do you use?
My desktop background is our corporate assigned one. However it doesn’t take in to account that I use one monitor in landscape and the other in portrait so on my vertical monitor I only get half a background.
2 monitors. 1680×1050 (L) + 1050×1680 (P)
I have *minimises everything*
Uhhh, a plain blue background. Yup, that sure is something.
Ditto. After two years here I finally started using a background. Then they gave me a laptop to replace my desktop PC. It’s been a year and I still haven’t set a new desktop. I guess I see it so seldomly I don’t really care.
Some green stripey biz.
Two.
Two monitors. Background is a picture I took in Kompong Cham in Cambodia
I have a laptop with a screen that is approximately 20% dead pixels. Not even an exaggeration, big chunks of the screen don’t work.
Background is some stock HP blue swirly thing.
Company logo. I’m not allowed to change it. 🙁
Two monitors, although they’re both completely different shapes and sizes and I’m constantly plotting to steal other peoples’ monitors.
Two monitors, and I have… four wallpapers that I set it to cycle between? There’s a piece of Metroid Fusion fan art I found which was pretty cool, then some Pikmin 3 art, and a crop of a huge piece of hi-res Wind Waker art, then the last one is one of the super hi-res screenshots I took in Elite some time last year, looking at a station which used to float really close to its sun back in beta. Baker Platform, I think it was.
One of these is not like the others.
Is it…. that one?!
2 Screens and for pictures? I just use whatever wallpaper appropriate/sized concept images/screenshots of games.
2 monitors (13″ MacBook Air, 24″ monitor). Rotating Force Awakens art at the moment.
24″ monitor basically runs terminal windows all day.
This. Two 22″ monitors, both landscape, on my primary PC, one 22″ for the other PC on my desk.
Forgot to mention my own. Totally lucked out with 3xDell U2414H monitors in landscape, and change my wallpaper once a week minimum because I’m fickle 😛
Honestly, 3 monitors still feels like overkill but I do actually make frequent use of all three at the same time.
A screenshot from Vanishing of Ethan Carter, overlooking a river next to the bridge near the starting area – such a pretty game. On my laptop, some random space/fantasy planet thing I found on deviantart/google that worked well with my rainmeter clock.
How many monitors? Hmm… effectively four. Workstation has two (2x 1680×1050), then my laptop (1920×1080) has a second plugged in (1920×1200) because the main screen is only 12″. Synergy to share the workstation KB/M between the two, so feels like four continuous screens, for the most part.
I have no idea, it’s never visible.
2 monitors. One of which is a really nice, giant, shiny touchscreen, which I intentionally use to show black-background pages and menus on so that I can stare at myself in the reflection.
…God damn I’m gorgeous.
Mine varies a lot, I have 4 monitors hooked up at the moment.
The background was of my work-in-progress full size BB-8 plans, that way I could keep working on them in a way whenever I was slacking off. But then we had a catchup movie night, and it ended up a montage of bad 70s science fiction movie posters.
I only managed to keep the Zardoz backdrop for a few hours before I got complaints though.
Home: Single monitor, Waterfall photo I took in NZ
Work: Dual monitor. Photo of Tiglet sitting on work chair with her hands on the keyboard and smiling
So. Response from friend was less than encouraging. But number was still passed along anyway?
Currently tossing up between “abort mission” and “full steam ahead (into what appears likely to be certain doom)”. Heavily leaning towards the former, even though I feel I should probably do the latter 😛
GO SON YOU’RE IN GET SOME WE’RE ALL BARRACKING FOR YOU
Time to invest in popcorn stocks.
Jump into the fog. Do it!
BUT WHAT IF IT EATS ME
Eh not my problem. Have fuuuuuuun
Oh no, not rejection! Whatever will you do, afterwards?
Hint: Exactly whatever you were going to do anyway, that’s what you’ll do. Get in there, already, you handsome, talented muppet.
The idea of potential rejection was far easier to ignore when it didn’t seem so certain 😛
The question I ask every guy that hesitates asking a girl out. What exactly have you got to lose?
Face 😛
That’s ok you’ve got your beard for protection!
Just go for it son! You can always say you’re happy to be friends and it doesn’t have to be awkward if it doesn’t work out 🙂
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
I was lucky enough to be approached by one of my lady friends this past weekend and since then have agreed to give it a go and see what happens, no worries if it doesn’t work out, great if it does 🙂
Exactly what I’ve been chanting to myself the whole time I was trying to make myself go ahead with it.
…and will be this morning until I’m ready to actually send off that message >_>
I’ve been lucky enough to have been approached a few times in the past now. On the flipside, I’ve been unlucky enough to never really have gone and done the approaching myself in the past 😛
Good for you Haggis, feel free to share any popcorn stories
Hope if works out well for you
Mate it’s not page 6 yet, what are you doing here!?
My head is becoming overly acquainted with my desk today.
11th November – email from me to people – this thing you did is wrong. Please review customer profile and do a, b and c to fix. Please email me to confirm done by 20th November.
24th November – Me reviewing non-responders – On checking the customer profile where that thing was wrong. No one from your team has even looked at the profile since I emailed you 2 weeks ago. Please fix it. Now.
The complete lack of accountability some of our people have is stunning.
If you wanted results, you should’ve been breathing down their necks every day, so they could complain about how unreasonable you are… y’know. For wanting results.
Afternoon/evening all how are we?
Quick question for everyone i know nothing about PC gaming so i am unsure what is good/bad as far as desktops for gaming, anyway i have come into possession of a Lenovo E31 tower with a NVIDIA quadro 600 graphics card, would this be alright to completely rebuild and use for someone for gaming?
Being a cheapskate i just want to build it up and give it to someone else who would be able to get use from it but not 100% sure on whether it is suitable or not.
@welbot @rize @pixel_the_ferret_viking ‘One of them should be able to help you. I know nothing
Thanks.
Jon Snow, is that you?
No. I don’t even watch Game of thrones
You’d need to replace a few parts for a start. That graphics card is a Workstation (i.e. CAD) card not gaming. So I suspect if that’s the graphics card it’s got (and that’s a few years old as is) it’s probably got a pretty old processor in it sooooo… maybe? Depending on the level of gaming involved some of the parts may still be more than ok but that GPU is going to be your priority to upgrade.
Of course, if you’re going to replace the CPU with a good one, you’ll probably need to get a better board that supports it, which may mean that you need to get new RAM and an extra couple fans and the new GPU and OH GOD THIS IS WHY I DON’T HARDWARE ANYMORE.
Yeah I wasn’t going to (fully) open that can of worms. 😛
The quadro? That’s four times better than the uno!
#sorry
#notsorry
Uh oh! Spaghetti O’s! Freeze is trying to turn page 4 into page 6!!
Ok, well to start, with, quadro cards are more for 3d modelers/animators/gpu enabled software. They have poor game performance due to lower memory bandwidth than the regular gtx series, and also the standard line of cards have their drivers optimized specifically for gaming, where as the quadro’s are not. In general, you will find that games will run slower on a quadro (depends on what models you are comparing, but compare say, a K2200 quadro to a 750ti, and games will perform (on average) about 7% faster on the 750ti. Sounds nuts given the awesome looking specs of the quadro’s but they’re really made for entirely different purposes. Quadro’s generally have more memory due to the developers using extremely high poly models to generate normal maps etc, and also humungous textures, which would not be used by all cards out there, but the devs need to make sure they can cater to anyone, while keeping their costs to a minimum.
quardo’s are also required to run some CAD software, as they have to have qualified drivers.
The same applies for the workstation/tower itself to some degree. it should be running a Xeon processor, which is geared more towards server work and development stuff, but there are some poeple who use them for gaming at home too. They are somewhat comparable to the i7 series, in that they have more cores, and also hyperthreading, but how many and low much L2/L3 cache it has will depend on the model of the CPU.
Could you use it to build a gaming machine? Technically yes. Would you be better to try and sell it and buy a more mainstream setup geared specifically toward gaming? If gaming is what you want out of it most, yes. If you want to dabble in a bit of dev, and don’t care if your games run a tad slower than they would on the equivalent mainstream setup, go ahead. Nothing to stop you in terms of compatibility. You will still be able to do everything with either system, it just depends on what your priorities are.
Cheers guys,
@beeawwb Considering what i have available at home i think this might be the newest stuff i have on hand unfortunately, My goal was to build up something at least serviceable for a bit of gaming.
The PC will most likely be getting used by a teenager so i am guessing his choice in games may not be 100% compatible for this PC but i am not sure what they intend to play if much at all i think it may be a bit of an all round family pc with a bit of gaming on the side for the teens.
@welbot
As i describe above it could be used as an all rounder with some gaming, The family doesn’t have much money so i am doing this as more of quick favor for them to get something in the house that could do a bit of everything and play games which the teens will want. Previous machines of theirs i have looked at had LOL and i think Minecraft and that was all that was installed. However they may want newer games now.
So in summary it could do what i want it to but to get the best out of it i should upgrade a few things to make it the best possible system.
yeah essentially that’s what it boils down to. You could get away with just putting a better GPU in it, as the CPU is more than capable, just optimized in a slightly different way. The GPU would make much more of a difference than changing the CPU though.
The good news is that LoL and Minecraft will both run on a potato.
In all seriousness, if you already have the thing, I would just run the games you want to play on it as it is until you encounter some noticeable bottlenecks. All kinds of machines should be able to run some LOL/Minecraft/WoW/etc without too much hassle. You really only want to look at upgrades if you’re noticing that you wish you could play more recent-release AAA or whatever.
Identify what those bottlenecks are (eg: CPU/RAM/GPU) and if it’s easy and modular to upgrade (GPU/RAM) do so relatively cheaply for that one component, and if it’s CPU… well. That’s a different can of worms.
Chuck a 970 in it and you are good to go.
In terms of graphics cards, i would think that a used Nvidia GTX 660 TI or 750 Ti would be more than sufficient for their needs, if they’re not extremely into PC gaming.
Here’s a used 2GB GTX 660 Ti for $140 on GT:
http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/townsville-4810/other-electronics-computers/gigabyte-gtx-660-3d-graphics-card/1096139777
Cheers for all the suggestions guys/girls, i will see what the machine is capable of running first and then go from there, No doubt i will encounter something at some point but i will tackle that when the time comes. Knowing my recent luck with PC’s though i could end up blowing the damn thing up :S
On the train, headphones in, head down.
Look up 15 minutes later, I’m well on my way down the wrong line.
Ahhhh. One of those days today.
that blows.
I can’t quite tell who’s side this comic is on… or if they’re just sitting in the middle… but surely it’s in reference to the recent Kotaku article? Although published on same day… but with time zones… ehhh… or am I over thinking it?
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2015/11/20/parabolic1
If you read the post attached to the comic, it’s most definitely about the Kotaku stuff, and uhhh, well… let’s politely say that I think he sounds like a git.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2015/11/20/parabolic1
Wow…. those sure are some… words.
Is it just me or is he kinda missing the point? I’d prefer to get heads up that a game is broken/glitchy over a day 1 review saying the title gets 8.5 advertising slots out of 10 and a wishy-washy blurb about a ‘refreshed narrative for the series but could use refinement in the mechanics’.
Kotaku US has had some harsh words about Holkins in the past, especially when they had their accuse everyone phase a while back and Holkins is completely unable to let grudges go. They’re never going to be friendly.
I think it was when they reported on some discontent with Hothead studios who effectively said they didn’t want to make the Penny Arcade games anymore because Jerry can’t write to a deadline and it was costing them a lot waiting on him. Which is a shame because the Hothead games were much better than the Zeboyd ones.
Yeah. I agree with him that Kotaku US stir things up and that their behaviour should cause publishers and developers to question why they support them, but at the same time it feels like he doesn’t agree with Bethesda’s actions in this specific case as much as he’s using the Bethesda/Kotaku conflict as an excuse to make a statement he’s had on his mind for a while.
He’s basically got his head up his ass again like usual.
I normally love the PA guys but in this case a personal grudge means that he completely fucking missed the point.
In their comic they imply that the games media/scorpion actually reported on something that was told to them in confidence, with the understanding that it wouldn’t be shared, which – my understanding is – didn’t happen with the Ubi/Bethesda leaks.
There’s a big fucking difference between betraying someone’s confidence and fucking up their marketing plan. Anyone who thinks that these are one and the same has their head up their ass.
Many years ago, Warren Ellis wrote up a gonzo journalist Spider Jerusalem in a garish, dystopian future, and one particular comment stuck with me.
He goes to do some actual investigative journalism, and his assistants are amazed at the things he finds and how they’re not better hidden. He remarks that no-one’s used to journalists actually doing REAL journalism anymore.
“When I tell her I’m going digging, she thinks I’m looking through the press releases.”
What I find bizarre about this whole thing is that people complain that Kotaku wrote those articles solely for profit while – in the same breath – defend Bethesda/Ubisofts right as a corporation to do whatever they want for profit.
My fitbit charge hr has been bugging me this week about a firmware update for the tracker.
After MANY attempts trying to update it using the mobile app, I had to use the pc dongle and software to do the update. No idea why, possibly a flaw in the bluetooth (no error messages).
Just figured I’d share in case anyone else was having problems.
I had to do that a couple updates ago. Last one went through just fine via phone, though I had to make two attempts at it. (Spotty reception on the bus, I assume.)
Welp, just put a bid on a set of CSR Elite Pedals on eBay.
Currently $120 with $30 postage, ending on November 29.
*runs over to outbid*
*crash-tackles him*
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/260236/No_Dead_or_Alive_Xtreme_3_for_the_West_says_publisher.php
I’m not entirely surprised, but disappointed.
And now the screams of “dem SJWs taking our gamezzzz” are beginning…
Yep. Rather than avoiding the fire they’re fanning the flames.
Just waded through a Reddit thread full of them.
I’m not surprised at all. It’s a not so successful spin off of a somewhat successful franchise. I’m not interested because when T&A are the main selling point, it means there’s little else to sell. There’s plenty of porn on the internet if I want to fap.
I don’t disagree, but beyond that aspect they were actually quite fun games. Especially the Volleyball part.
It’s one of those things that works but for the wrong reasons. Do I want a beach volleyball/friendship sim? Sure, it’s probably genuinely fun – but like, am I hugely invested in that? Not really. Add some pretty girls and you have my interest, sort of.
Like Playboy: the Mansion. Actually a really fun magazine management sim. But no one wants to paly a game where you operate Better Homes & Gardens. Gotta get some celebrity centrefolds and let the player control the topless photo shoot to make sales.
I’ve never played an XBV game and likely never will, especially since they’re no longer being sold here.
I really should pick up DoA5 though. It’s the one fighting game franchise I don’t get bored with, even though I suck at it.
I’ve found it quite enjoyable. Get Last Round for PS4, it seems to be the best version (has the new characters as standard). Don’t install the DLC-enabler packs though because holy shit some of those costumes are embarrassing. 🙁
I wish that series would tone it down just a bit.
Yeah, I was looking into it last month and I guess the cheaper base game only had a core selection of fighters plus some game modes, but last round includes all the characters and all of the game modes that were tacked on as DLC? It looks like there’s a LOT of extra costume packs too, are there any unlockables? I assume each character starts with at least 2.
Most of the costume packs are for-pay. You can install the packs which makes opponents eg CPU show up using them but seriously, don’t do that. Trust me.
There’s actually been two re-releases. Ultimate was the first, which made Leon and Ein playable, added Rachel and Momiji from Ninja Gaiden, and added Jacky from Virtua Fighter. That then had three DLC characters – Marie Rose (aka the first female character in the series to not have boobs bigger than her head – I really like her, quickly displaced Hitomi as my go-to character), Nyotengu (basically a rebalanced girly version of the Tengu boss from DoA3) and Phase 4 (weirdo Kasumi clone that’s OP).
Last Round bundled in the three DLC characters from Ultimate and then added two more – Raidou, the boss from the original DoA, and Honoka, who is a pretty interesting fighter that has attacks that are taken from other DoA characters. She’s not a randomized character like, say, Mokujin from Tekken or Edge Master from the Soul Calibur games.
Marie Rose and Honoka have been ridiculously popular additions – topped the popularity poll they did for DoAX3.
So, guess which idiot has managed to catch a cold…
Half the people in my office.
Edit: The same people who think that ‘soldier on’ is a virtue, rather than the reason that everyone they’ve had cooped up with them for eight hours a day in a recycled-air box is now fucking sick. The kind of folks who think that the only hard workers are the ones who turn up early (and leave early).
…I am grumpy today.
And me. I had difficulty sleeping last night as my Mario alarm clock decided to go off 3 or 4 times through the night.
Itsa me! Mario! Itsa me! Mari *crunch*
*Death jingle played after the crunch*
Ha hahaha!
It’s this music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV-8Zh-uED0 It does it when the batteries start to run low.
That’s okay. I was cursing whoever gave this to me. I am also grumpy.
They are dick heads
I hate going home sick because I tend to get “the sniffles” fairly frequently (I’m sure I take more sick leave than anyone in the office yet still somehow have a massive surplus) so when I get proper sick I want to demonstrate how much I’m not a pussy. Then someone yells at me to stop infecting everyone. Then everyone gets sick anyway because I probably put it off for a couple too many hours.
I’m patient zero. I’m the guy in the Walking Dead who thinks if I hide somewhere and wait it out, I’ll be the single person since the apocalypse who recovers from a zombie bite. I’m sorry.
God damn you and your kind.
If it makes you feel any better, you’re usually most infectious before you’re symptomatic, so once you’re at the point where you’re coughing and failing to vacate your nose and shivering because you’re febrile, it doesn’t matter. You’ll probably only infect the people you actually cough on, and they’re probably infected already from the deathly miasma that had engulfed you.
Hooray!
As a teacher, to take a day off and get better honestly takes more effort and work than just ‘soldiering on’ does.
Me?
Me, fortnightly.
Each of my kids. Weekly. In turn. Then it goes back to the first kid and they start over.
Me & the boy are asthmatic, we share lungs things that everyone else is too strong to catch
Not me, or I’d be at home playing Fallout.
Sorry =P
@shanewsmith, @thecracks, (any other rabid Star Wars fans). Super Star Wars is out now on the Playstation store. No sign of Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter, Star Wars: Bounty Hunter or Star Wars: Racer Revenge though.
Hoping their plan is to release one a week until the movie releases, although if it was me I would’ve released Super Star Wars last. I was under the impression they’ve all been released in the US already too, which sucks for us, but as long as we get them all I’ll be happy.
D’oh! @shane
I need more coffee.
I’d like to see Shadows of the Empire get an HD remake & both KotORs released digitally for consoles.
I’ve got the KotORs on both PC & 360 (backwards compatibility) but the load times are absolutely excruciating.
Never played Kotor, really should get around to it though, heard great things about them. Got both in my Steam library, so there really is no excuse. Although, according to the Steam page Kotor II requires 4GB of RAM, which is weird, I was under the impression it was a 10 year old game. Only got 4GB, so I’ll have to try running it and see what happens.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/208580/
Also, haven’t played Shadows Of The Empire since the late 90’s, I don’t really remember a hell of a lot about it, but I do remember that I enjoyed it.
It ran on my pc when Vista didn’t support the 4gb I had .
It runs ok now that Vista uses that 4gb.
There’s a really great patch to up the resolution that runs on my craptop too.
I was replaying it but the load times finally got to me.
Both are great, like Mass Effect but better because Shepherd is an AJ.
Kotor is the best Star Wars game ever. Kotor 2 I haven’t played but it’s supposed to be even better
If you can make it past the game breaking bugs, it’s apparently the best of the lot by far due to the characters and story.
Edit: I couldn’t progress any further myself due to crashing to desktop while transitioning between cutscene/gameplay, specifically leaving/approaching planets. However during the course of the game it really makes you think about the real ways being a Jedi actually works with your actions, especially delving into how the Grey Jedi’s methods work, it’s very well done.
I started it, but so many Steam games, so little time…
Thanks, man! $15 is a leeeeetle more than I was hoping for, so I’ll wait for a sale.
Yeeeesssssssssss!
Thanks for the heads up!
That’s cool man. Sorry, should’ve tagged you.
Just got approached by my friend saying he and the boss were wondering about having me on for an extra day a week for game dev stuff.
Nooo, my three day weekends 🙁
You’ve got the best problems.
How am I supposed to avoid responsibility when people keep trying to pile it onto me? 😛
I am reminded of Eric Cartman’s themepark.
All the Star Wars limited edition DVDs have finally arrived in the mail. Watched the first one with my son last night, can’t wait to watch Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi with him in all their original theatrical glory.
In other news, gonna order one of these as soon as I get paid this week.
https://www.mightyape.com.au/product/Star-Wars-Black-Series-Kylo-Ren-Voice-Changer-Helmet/24153119
So Excite!
Send me an email and I’ll hook you up with proper HD versions of th original theatrical versions.
The thought of you watching those crappy DVDs makes me too sad to sleep.
Awesome of you to offer man, I know the quality isn’t the best, but at least it’s better than watching the “special editions”.
Was hanging out to see if Disney were going to officially release them on Blu-Ray before the release of The Force Awakens, but it’s looking less and less likey that it’ll happen.
What’s your email?
originaltrilogy at those gee mails.
Cool, I’ll shoot you an email later today.
How much?
postage
Yeah, obviously you can’t do it for profit, but I’d at least like to cover your costs of doing me a copy (electricity, your time, postage).
Let me know how much, and I’ll organize it. What’s the best way for you, Paypal?
The music in this scene always sends chills up my spine.
Finally got the chance to play some Battlefront, and I’m sitting here playing Clicker Heroes instead, Gah!
Goddamn TAY is quiet.
*watches tumbleweed roll by*
HELLLOOOOO!!!
Hi!
Sorry too busy working and being hyped about something League of Legends just revealed today, character kit update
What’s that?
A full rework for Poppy just got fully revealed, showing her new look and kit. So a few things to mention, she has a barrier that can stop dashes, that’s potentially huge, but the best bit is her new ultimate, she charges up her hammer like thor does, spinning it above her head and when she slams, the first one hit in a line creates an AoE knockback… the knockback effect can go as far as about a full screen away towards the enemy base depending on how long you charged it for! She looks amazing now too, I’m really considering picking her up for Top lane and Support too.
http://oce.leagueoflegends.com/en/page/champion-update-poppy-keeper-hammer
That’s pretty cool, I always liked playing Poppy.
That Capt America buckler is neat
*rolls by and watches you*
https://youtu.be/VEOuDiYfQEE
Talking to tumbleweeds, that’s a paddlin’.
Paddlin’ a tumbleweed, that’s a talkin’
Go play some games!
Day late!
Hi there!
Does anyone know if the new Bloodborne dlc adds a weapon option that tones down the difficulty like using a sorcerer in Dark Souls?
I think a lot of my problem with that game is an inability to use melee at that speed.
I can do it, but I die in far more frustrating ways than I did in Dark Souls.
I’d always see what I did wrong & come back & out think a situation in DS but in BB I die on the same shit over & over because I’m just shit.
Something about Bloodborne’s combat always felt off to me. Not a fan.
It’s just too fast for my aging reflexes. I see the hit coming, I press either dodge or attack & it’s too late.
There’s a reason I play so many turn based games.
Souls was a happy medium. I needed to react & think on the fly but I had time enough for my brain to send the snail mail down to my hands.
Nah, BB has legitimate input lag.
It’s not gamebreaking but is kinda frustrating combined with slightly not right hitboxes.
The input lag is intentional though, like souls. You can sorta queue up a combo.
Souls had no animation canceling like BB but not the kind if delay between button press and start of animation in BB.
The pace of BB is what makes it so noticeable.
White Ribbon Day actually sees the Premier come up with something a bit more meaningful than opt-in (ie: preach to the converted) education programs.
Qld government’s implementing a couple weeks special leave (per year) for any government employees affected by domestic violence to allow them to attend counselling/legal/medical appointments, make accommodation/childcare arrangements, etc, etc, plus expanded access to existing leave pools and flexible work arrangements/role adjustments for the same.
It’s not a magic bullet, but it’s action. It isn’t often that I’m impressed by the actions of politicians. That’s a better start to the day.
Way better action than hashtags on facebook, that’s for darn sure!
#helping
My view on those kinds of hashtags
That is actually pretty fucking great.
Who’d have thought a government could be a change leader.
I’m getting a bit… *gasp*… tired of Fallout 4.
It’s an excellent game and I’ve enjoyed it a whole damn lot, but I’m at the point where I just want it to end so I can rebuild the shattered ruins of my life. 😛 This is just a problem with how I consume games, though. There’s no reason I can’t pace myself and play in small doses over weeks or months, but I always feel compelled to marathon the mofo. *shakes fist*
Yeah, after 60-something hours I feel like I need to work towards the ending now, I gather I still have quite a way to go though…
I’m at the point where different factions keep sending me on busy work to the same locations I’ve cleared out atleast three times now. Starting to feel like the game’s not respecting my time. Haha! I absolutely love the game, though. Enjoyed the substantial story arcs and all that, I just need to stop myself from feeling the need to complete side quests I’m not enjoying any more. 🙂
Those faction quest are repeatable and never ending. You can’t complete them.
*clenches fist*
…
Good to know.
Thanks buddy. 😀
Knight Rhys will never love you.
*single tear rolls down cheek*
Oh good!
I still have a few proper quests left, but yeah, good to know I can just abandon these other ones. 🙂
It is. Who did you side with?
I did all the quests for all faction up until they turn on each other. Kept a save , tried them all. Ended up supporting
The Railroad
Not quite up to that point yet, so won’t read spoilers for now. 🙂
My wife is at the point where:
she has to basically choose the next step – she wants to do the Beryllium Agitator mission for the Brotherhood however unfortunately Proctor Ingram is in the same place as Knight-Captain Kells, who interrupts her and starts talking to her about destroying the Railroad – no matter how she carries out that convo, she becomes enemies with the Railroad which is not ideal. 🙁So now she’s considering siding with the Institute, thinking maybe she can change it from the inside once she takes over as director (I have a save from before the Beryllium agitator mission which I am planning to go back to to get the pro-Institute ending before I start a second playthrough) but basically her natural tendency is to do an “independent” playthrough where she doesn’t side with a faction. She can’t proceed without siding with someone and pissing someone else off, so she’s kind of stuck and keeps stalling.
…
I did not know this. So now I can stop placing MILA transmitters… unless I want to travel with a companion and improve their rep, I guess?
Yeah, that’s why I’ve been doing these quests. Something to do on the way to a more substantial quest goals. (As well as bonding time with companion pals. XD)
I still kept doing these because there’s still some spots I haven’t seen.
Skyrim did the same thing.
Oh, cool. I was wondering about that, after getting sent on the same mission to a different area three times in a row.
You can almost just pick the guys who are “Radiant quest givers.”
I beat the mai story at about 40 hours I think. Now I’m doing a bit of exploration + any interesting quests while levelling towards the perks I need to try for that settlement trophy.
I have no idea what getting a ‘home run’ requires, was just hoping it randomly happens like the touchdown trophy.
I’ve also got to *sigh* pickpocket someone & I have no interest whatsoever. I’m obsessed with lock pickin.
I’ve been moseying like a mofo. Taking eight hours to get to one quest marker, because I’ve been doing seventeen other quests along the way. It’s so cool to take in the sights and sounds and stumble upon stories. Went to Salem yesterday. Good times. Good times. But I’ve been using fast travel more and more over the last day or so, a good sign that I should probably wrap things up. 🙂
The only Bethesda game I ever finished was Oblivion…. and when I finished it there was a big gaping hole in my life. From that day on I vowed never to complete the main story in a Bethesda game because I just love them too damn much to let them end!
Edit: This is also probably why I’ve just stopped playing the Witcher 3; I’m not finishing these games until the next game comes out! =@
For a similar reason to this, there are a significant number of games, books, movies and TV/anime series which I have got about 90% of the way through but not completed.
@mrtaco Pimms is a thing. Hendricks Gin is good but there a so many great gins you should try.
And have tried!
Mmmmmm, Pimms.
Mm mm. .. pimms, lime, ginger ale, cucumber, ice… heaven in a jug.
I want a pimms and lemonade now…
“Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Part of the ship, part of the crew”The Send button still seems so impossible to press.
Just ask yourself: what would fishgief do?
You’re right.
I need me a helmet to hide inside!
he’d already be in there.
Because He’s A TUUUUUUUURBO LOVEEEEERRR
The send button is only impossible to press until it’s pressed, then it becomes possible to press it because you have pressed it and it’s no longer impossible.
*frantically checks page number*
The adventures of Rocket and Nob moving in Part 1
It was a hot tuesday afternoon, two shadowy figures stand out the front of a gated complex, one says to the other
“ohh man i can lean on this thing”
they both giggle nervously, much like two school girls who both like the same boy. they both wonder if this will be their new residence? Will they hate each other in a week and a half? Who will buy the toilet paper?
Before thoughts of pillowfights and marshmallow eating contests fill their child like minds a lone figure approached the gates.
“You jesse, look at unit” the man whispered rather secretly
“Yep” Nob responded confidently, knowing that he could beat up this tiny man if it came to that, The gate opened and rocket and nob walked in the gate, towards their destiny.
Tl;Dr: @sernobulus and i looked at a unit yesterday. It was hot and the unit was nice. We applied to live there.
https://youtu.be/Q1j-CBxlUFw
Yesssss. Brisbane will have their own @alexpants/@powalen best pal house!
Cheap imitation
Look, Pow. We discussed this at the meeting. You need to use the correct terminology. TAY has gone regional now & we can’t have the workerbots using their brains for anything that doesn’t profit the TAY Corporation.
The original is always better.
Maybe this will be the edgy spin-off!
Rocket & Nob, never has there been a more appropriate TAY pairing
Heh.
Nobrocket.
Sounds dirty.
What a couple of dix :p
Team Euphemism?
Team Penis.
Just can’t get motivated today.
Wish I drank coffee or something, I need a kick up the bum.
Maybe if you drink it sparingly. I drink coffee. I’m mainlining the stuff at the moment and still nothing.
It gives me the shakes.
Maybe I should order that anti-procrastination book.
It can wait til tomorrow.
Are you regularly stressed? I think I have been recently, so my morning coffee is also giving me a swell eye-twitch that lasts about 20 minutes… it’s so great.
It’s not great.
Ugh. My night was a trilogy of trilogies… 3x nightfalls, 3x HM raids, 3x hours of sleep. Nightfalls gave me infusion material, raids got me a couple new weapons, a couple of upgrades and a bunch of infusion material, sleep gave no loot and was a total waste of time. *head-desk*
*zzzzZZZZZzzzz…..*
How do you manage to function on so little sleep???
Have kids. Three hours of unbroken sleep sounds like a dream.
Just… no. If I get anything under 6 hours I’m an absolute wreck, even less than 7 hours is a bit touch-and-go.
Who said anything about “functioning”? 😛
My definition of sleeping in is basically waking up at 6, saying “screw this”, and closing my eyes for a few hours of being half awake, before becoming alert enough to realise I’m bored as hell, and need to get up and do stuff. Combined with a brain that doesn’t know when it should shut down for the night, I kinda got used to running on anywhere from 3-6 hours of crap sleep.@kermitron I had that exact same problem & I managed to run behind that twat & start convo with the woman behind.
It took a few tries, remember you can cancel a conversation by simply walking away.
So I would run in, he’d start his talk, I’d run up the stairs, he tells you off for being rude. Then I’m guessing because he’s saying something else, you then slip behind him & quickly start convo with the correct person.
It took a few tries but it’s easy enough because you can simply walking away, no reloads or anything.
I was wondering if that was possible, I’ll let her know!
Holy shit
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/face-of-reclaim-australia-rally-nathan-paterson-insists-im-not-racist-20151124-gl77iw.html
My personal favourite bit:
“People shouldn’t judge by appearances”
Except you’re the guy who tattooed your own face dipshit what did you think people would think?
Everything he says is comedic gold.
Because you have no teeth and you tattooed your own freaking face.
Only if you chant it at a racist rally…. racist.
I don’t even have the words. Fuck this guy. Fuck him with a pogo stick. Sideways.
Re his tatts….
Good thing we nevr discriminate against people for how they look.
Really? My favourite bit was the last line “People judge you for the way you look without getting to know anything about you. Which I think that just isn’t fair”.
It’s fascinating how agitated these people get when someone calls them racist. See it on Facebook all the time when someone says stop being racist and they have a collective freak out.
I mean, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it probably has a problem with geese and chickens.
*screams, hits Send, sets phone to Offline*
…Well, types that up with the intention of doing it. Then stares at phone for a good long while in the hope that stating those actions were being performed would somehow make them more likely to happen.
Now it’s just back to the internal yelling match between rational and irrational sides of the brain, and irrational having far too much control over the brakes.
Currently approaching 30mins of staring 😛
This game sucks 😛
I’d say this sums up what I’m going to say here…
Just hit send with your non-dominant hand, then let the other hand blame it for your actions.
Actually considered handing my phone to my friend here and telling him to hit Send for me.
Do it.
Or post the damn thing to me and I will do it.
……… You know they say you’re more likely to succeed by speaking to a girl you like within the first 5 minutes of putting a text/chat/opening line together than if you spend anymore time thinking on it.
Says who? 😛
Also when does the timer start? Because if it’s at the start of typing then I’d have no hope, it takes longer than that just to punch out the first trash version that absolutely should not be sent and needs to be scrapped entirely. Let alone the subsequent ones.
Ive found its a good rule; just stick to what you were going to say to start with. Thought and introspection can actually do more damage to a message or conversation starter than help. Assuming you aren’t being crazy and opening with “I LOVE YOU LETS DANCE!”
YOU HAVE AMAZING HAIR I JUST WANT TO LIKE… GROOM YOU.
Agreed, trying to trim things down does tend to make for worse wording, often making things sound too blunt or whatever. And I have a habit of still trying to squeeze into the 160char limit even though it’s not as necessary these days 😛
Really wish I could’ve just done it yesterday instead of wasting so much time waiting for approval. Another problem that needs fixing.
JUST DO IT ALREADY
Review of stuff I watched last night.
IT Crowd TV Special aka “season 5” via Stan.
This feels like peak IT Crowd after what I felt was a low-energy lacklustre season 4. Quirky self-referential humour, characters really felt on point. I had some legit laugh out loud moments. If you’ve not seen this and you’re an IT Crowd fan, jump on it. It’s only 45 minutes and I consider it time well spent.
Shrek Forever After via Netflix
I didn’t even know there was a 4th Shrek movie until I saw it on my Netflix suggestions after giving Shrek 2 a 5-star rating. I did see Shrek the Third awhile back and felt it was a cheap and boring cash-in, but I recently rewatched it anyway. I procrastinated before moving onto the 4th assuming it would be a waste of my time, but I guess I felt compelled to watch it regardless. For some reason I just could NOT pass it over.
So I watch it. And it was better than the third, in my opinion.
Specific plot explanation under this spoiler tag, in case you have a passing interest in the movie but can’t be bothered watching it.
Rumplestiltskin narrates the prologue where he nearly scored the kingdom of Far Far Away for himself because the king and queen were going to give everything up to cure Fiona’s curse – but were stopped at the last second when they received news Fiona had been rescued by Shrek. Now in the present, he’s destitute because everyone is wise to his scams and won’t sign anything over for his magic wish-fulfilment contracts. Shrek, who doesn’t know Rumplestilskin’s history and is feeling frustrated at the monotony of his life since having kids, agrees to give up a day from his past in exchange for one day in his old life pre-Fiona, pre-family, etc.Rumple reveals the day he took from Shrek’s past was the day he was born, so once his special day is over he will never have existed, never have saved Fiona, and the kingdom of Far Far Away is under his rule. Shrek of course finds this scenario less than ideal. Of course Rumple’s contracts have an exit clause, and his is, once again, True Love’s Kiss. Unfortunately in this reality Fiona is a disillusioned resistance leader (as Rumple has his witch-squads hunt all Ogres down) who doesn’t believe in True Love anymore because she was never rescued from the tower and had to break out herself. Hijinks ensue!
My thoughts and general content and plot spoilers under this spoiler tag, if you plan to watch this 5 year old movie and want to go in blind, I’d skip this part too.
Maybe mid-life crisis Shrek resonated with me. Maybe I loved seeing the other ogres and alternate reality resistance-leader Fiona in her kickass element, hiding her human face from the world instead of her ogre-self. Actually most of the alternate characters were pretty cool. Maybe I’m just such a sucker for rom-coms that I just enjoyed watching Shrek have to win Fiona over a second time.Anyway. It wasn’t bad. Three stars.
I think I only saw IT C up til 3. I really need to check, catch up & catch the fuck up.
Like I said, I felt season 4 was really meh. Like, some good moments but at that point they seemed to just be treading water and it had no soul to it. Definitely watch it though, I might be alone in that, plus you have the special to look forward to whereas when I finished season 4 I felt a bit flat.
I don’t think it ever topped Gay: The Musical.
Fuck that episode cracks me up every time.
I’m disabled.
Where’s your wheelchair?
“…someone stole it”
When Moss turns around at the bar.
I die every time.
So good
Well ok, the special isn’t on par with that but it’s pretty good.
That is legit the funniest episode of tv.
My favourite is probably “Are We Not Men?” but GTM was also a great ep.
The Internet Is Coming!
I really enjoyed that episode, actually. Not the peak of the show, but definitely a big step up from S4 and a good way to end the show.
I linked an AU article on Reddit yesterday; it got downvoted into oblivion, I got told off for linking to Kotaku, people called me mother fucker… It got me mad, I wanted to defend Kotaku AU, but it was impossible.
Kotaku AU writes some great articles, but jesus the negative perception of “Kotaku” as a news site is REAL. It’s not fair to Mark, Alex and the gang; they write some good stuff… the pure vitriol I got from Reddit (assholes) makes me wonder if their articles are getting seen by more than us Aussie regulars.
Why keep the “Kotaku” brand if it’s this detrimental?
Because a) a new brand is a bitch to establish and b) Redditors gonna reddit? No matter how they rebrand it’s going to just have people bitch about it.
I have the same thing happen whenever I link articles to friends in a group skype chat, a few of them just go on the same kinds of things. Actually, one insists on only posting archive.is versions of the links for whatever reason. Too much effort for me to bother with. Also I hate non-descriptive links like that.
At least it’s easier to tell them to go screw themselves and continue on with things 😛
Hmm, someone on Reddit said “dammit I clicked a kotaku link!!” like it was a virus or something… What’s the deal; do the site cookies do something bad?
I dunno, I think it’s something about providing clicks/views and therefore ad revenue, thus funding them. Or something.
Jesus. That really is a classic example of the precious, narcissistic sentiment that can only cultivate through online interaction (or a cloistered group of weirdos).
People really overestimate how much a single page view is generally worth in internet advertising. “Oh no, I’m responsible for generating them a tenth of a cent in ad revenue; how will I live with myself?!”
People consider visiting the site the same as supporting a site. The basic logic? You can’t tell the difference between 10,000 page views from people who like what you’ve done and 10,000 page views from people frothing at the mouth because what you’ve written is the most heinous, evil piece of nonsense in the history of the interwebs.
The incredibly anti-Kotaku stance on Reddit is hilarious. Kotaku’s parent company, Gawker, constantly does shady shit. Kotaku itself used to have a reputation for being shit on its own. Under Totilo, Kotaku is genuinely decent (although the low effort articles still come but you can at least ignore those to focus on the good stuff) and Kotaku AU has always been rad.
Reddit also hates Tumblr which is hilarious on many, many levels. The hive mind is hilariously manipulated. Just go with it.
Nah I’m thinking of dropping it entirely. I can contribute in discussions that are already highly upvoted, but anything I post myself gets lunged upon by colossal dickbags who all seem to upvote each other’s comments (it’s not me, I promise haha)
Dropping it is always wise. I was just explaining their logic. I never said it was good logic.
Reddit is full of assholes.
Well there’s your problem.
Reddit has labelled itself ‘the front page of the internet’ which tells you pretty much everything you need to know about it.
That said, I think there’s a lot of resentment about the copy-pasting of things which originate on Reddit, as if that should be the only place that people ever see that information. As opposed to folks like myself relying on an aggregator/blog to only post the things actually worth looking at because outside of those pearls, the rest of Reddit is the internet news equivalent of the fucking itunes app store in terms of how much utter crap you have to wade through.
I’ve always seen Reddit as 4chan but with the self-aware wallowing in how terrible they are replaced by superior self-importance.
And a better way to sort content.
What is 4chan anyway? I know this makes me a dumbness, but I see it referenced constantly, but don’t actually know what it is.
A place for assholes to spew nonsense. Then they pretend that it’s all above board because they’re not really assholes and they know it’s nonsense when really, there’s just as big a lack of self-awareness as most other sites that do the same things.
Reddit is like a persistent-world MMO while 4chan is a roguelike. One grows stale because people are afraid to change it. The other gets tiresome because if you’re out of the loop you have no way to catch up. Both are timesinks. Both are shit.
I think it says a lot that the main hub of gamergoob discussion on reddit is called “Kotaku in Action”. Their hate runs deep, nearly hilariously so. It’s worth noting though that Kotaku was a huge piece of the blog-style gaming culture, back in the day, and even with reddit being reddit, it’s still one of the biggest gaming sites today (a quick squiz puts it behind IGN, GameFAQs (apparently), and GameSpot). There’s a lot of brand recognition that’d be thrown away, in an attempt that probably wouldn’t work to appease reddit.
Anyone wanna chat about Anime?
I bought some DBZ figures from Critical Hit the other day. Haven’t bought anything like this in YEAAARS, but these are so good and were only $35 each; had to do it. They’re so good I’m now watching DBZ Kai to and from work each day haha. Can link to photos of figures if you’re curious.
I’m adding some shows into my daily commute; kinda a “morning cartoon fix” redux haha. These are what I’m gonna start watching:
Hajime no Ippo (“The First Step”): About a boxer, think Little Mac. Based on old Shōnen anime
Seirei no Moribito: Historic Samurai show I think, made by IG! Looks interesting, got great reviews so…
Baki The Grappler: Judo show I think. Got told the fights in this are brutal and based in reality more than say, DBZ.
Berserk: Never watched it. Thought it’s time to give it a shot…
Anyone watched these? Thoughts?
I don’t watch a whole heap of anime, struggle to click with it but I have seen the Berserk Golden Age “reboot” and it’s fantastic.
Also Seven Deadly Sins on Netflix quickly grabbed me and now I’m super sad there’s no more yet.
That’s a movie right? I was going to watch the original anime first…
The Berserk Golden Age OVAs are a re-do of the series and a better watch though I think things end up similarly to the TV series.
I’ve wanted to check out some anime that’s on Netflix, regardless of what my wife thinks of it (she refuses to watch Cowboy Bebop. I mean, that’s when you know you’ve lost the fight – if they won’t watch Bebop, they won’t watch anything).
Hard to know what’s good. I haven’t watched a new anime since, I dunno, 2003?
AU or US netflix? It’s been a while since I looked at what was in there.
IIRC I remember seeing Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood on there. That’s an excellent watch. Don’t watch the original series, it’s vastly inferior (Brotherhood was a do-over).
AU, I can’t be bothered VPNing to get US, especially if there’s a risk of Netflix cancelling my account.
I wasn’t sure if I needed to watch FMA to fully understand Brotherhood, so if I don’t, great.
You’ll probably enjoy the early part of Brotherhood more if you haven’t seen the original, as it re-treads the same material for about 8-10 episodes.
Also stick with it for the early bit. It starts slow and takes a while to establish the conflict.
According to here:
http://anz.newonnetflix.info/catalogue/a2z/anime
The stuff on AU Netflix that I’d recommend:
– Fairy Tail is a good watch if you like Shounen Action stuff (think DBZ, Naruto). Fantasy series. Still a regular watch for me hundreds of episodes later. First ten or so episodes are awful. Much better pacing and writing than Naruto, DBZ etc. 3/5
– Fate/Zero is absolutely top shelf stuff. Gets quite dark though. If you like it, watch Fate/Unlimited Blade Works after. These are some of the most stunningly well-animated shows out there – ufotable are masters at combining traditional animation with computer lighting and digital effects, probably the best animation house in the business now. 5/5
– FMA Brotherhood is an excellent watch with an incredibly satisfying conclusion. 5/5
– Gargantia is a fun watch. Largely felt like a throwback to late 90s sci-fi stuff. Enjoyable and well-made but kind of peters out. Exemplary character design – Naruko Hanaharu. Don’t look up the name though – he normally does high-end pornographic art. 3/5
– Gurren Lagann is all about shouting and escalating things. It keeps getting bigger and bigger. Full of catchphrases. Absolutely huge show from that era. Stylish animation too – Gainax (esp Yoh Yoshinari) at their best. Strongly recommended. 5/5
– Kill la Kill is Trigger’s first series. They’ve disappointed since then. Same creator as Gurren Lagann and very similar in having crazy stylized animation and lots of shouting. If you liked G-L you’ll like this. I’d probably watch Gurren Lagann first though. 5/5
– Sidonia is very hard SF. Doesn’t look great due to them using 3DCG for the characters, which is a shame because the manga is beautiful. The netflix version is sadly censored. 4/5.
– Ouran High School Host Club is a guilty pleasure for me. It’s extremely entertaining. If I describe it you won’t want to watch it though. Reverse-harem show (one girl, many hot guys) but it subverts the genre in a lot of ways and is just generally excellent. 5/5
– Seven Deadly Sins is a solid fantasy action show. Doesn’t really do anything wrong but it’s not breathtaking or anything. 3/5
– Sword Art Online you might enjoy or might not. It’s very over-exposed and kind of exemplary of everything anime in the 00s. Second half of first season irritates the shit out of me for reasons. Second season had some good and bad moments. Solid, but not as good as people hype it. 3/5
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Cheers, I have them all on my watch list but was putting off actually watching anything since I wasn’t sure what I was getting myself into.
You reminded me that i left my kill la kill shirt at somebodys house and now im sad.
BOO NEG BOO 😛
Just a heads-up, tvunblock.com will take a look at your IP address then tell you a DNS server address that you can pop into your device/network settings to go in via the US back door. And no, Netflix won’t cancel that one.
I still owe you a drink for that heads up
And if you could tell me how I could get it to work on my chromecast you might get more than just a drink
Rowr. 🙂
That might actually be a possibility, given that I’m thinking about a chromecast for my Mum for xmas.
I respectfully disagree, the orginal series provides alot of good content UP TO A POINT, then it is stupid as shit, for instance the
sewing life alchemist ark on the original is much better, its gives more time with the characters so you feel bonded to them and then it tears your heart out and stomps on that.But i just wanted to spend as much time with roy mustang as possible so i could be fan boying
There’s always kissanime.to. That’s been gold mine for me (well, that and Professional Video Downloader extension for Chrome)
@kermitron
There’s also the option to go legit and check animelab, Madman’s streaming service. They have a proper PS app and stuff now and have a really good lineup especially for current and recent stuff.
Crunchyroll is a good backup too though a lot of stuff is region-blocked.
Eh, I’ll see if the stuff on Netflix holds my interest before I go digging any deeper. But I’ll keep animelab/crunchyroll in mind.
Yeah. HD versions of Dragon Ball Z Kai isn’t on any legit digital service. I asked Madmen if they have plans and said there are no plans at all to have digital versions of this series by the producers of the show. Plus I like watching the subbed JP versions, so kissanime works.
Plus you’ve also got ALL the fan-subbed JP shows that never got an English dub too =]
Nowadays that’s barely 1-2 shows a season though. Fansubbing is largely dead.
I spent a weekend watching The Devil is a Part-Timer and really enjoyed it. One self-contained season, so it was manageable.
I have loved anime for years, saw the Cowboy Bebop movie, thought it was ok at best, never had any feeling to watch the series.
I fell off the wagon after just watching way too much & feeling like nobody would ever top my favourites like Satoshi Kon, Otomo or FLCL/Evangelion.
I try out the occasional new one, like Attack on Titian, but apart from the director that did Summer Wars etc, most new stuff doesn’t keep me interested for long. Wolf Children was facking amazing.
I’ve even lost all interest in Ghibli.
I get more joy from watching the horribly dubbed, often low quality & sometimes amateurly edited 90s horror anime on YouTube. That’s probably just nostalgia.
I think part of the reason is that what’s popular these days isn’t what I’m into anymore.
Also, I was enjoying the odd spot of cg in my anime, but production costs have pretty much ruined the chance of much hand drawn, hand animated or painted backgrounds appearing anymore.
CB movie doesn’t hold a candle to the series TBH, frankly the movie is only enjoyable if you already know the series.
I think Perfect Blue, FLCL and Evangelion are some of my all time favourites and I just got overwhelmed with the market being saturated with mostly shit in the early 2000s. I was buying whatever I could afford but one day I sat down and tried to watch a few things I’d bought volume 1 of and just thought “man, I just… I don’t need any of this”. Quit it overnight. I think my breaking point was Cromartie High School. I realised there were very few things I still liked and when all my anime friends were giving that show high praise and I hated it, it was time for me to step away.
I like some Ghibli (pretty much just Mononoke and Spirited Away if I’m honest) but people rave about your “slice of life” movies like Kiki’s Delivery Service and The Cat Returns and I just don’t get it.
I’d still suggest Cowboy Bebop if you have an opportunity to watch it.
Oh man, if you like the political/thriller stuff, did you ever watch Jin Roh, or the Patlabor movies? Them was some oldschool cool stuff.
I feel like those were slightly before the peak of my interest and I didn’t get to them, but I heard very good things.
Jin Roh is a little slow and very bleak, but I really enjoyed its themes and atmosphere.
I’ve owned Patlabor 3 on DVD for over a decade & never watched it because I never saw 1&2 properly.
Thank you for reminding me!
1 and 2 I really enjoyed, 3 I don’t remember very well… which means I may have seen it and be mildly disappointed and erased it from my memory. 🙁
I’m probably due a re-watch.
Was Jin Roh short & set in feudal Japan?
Nah, it was about a Japanese Special Forces unit who used power armour and hand-held MG42s. ‘Wolves in Iron Armour’ I think. Only slightly futuristic.
@transientmind Oh, I think I did watch that actually
Anime? I can talk anime.
Ippo is hands down one of the best action anime ever produced. Its Achilles heel is that it still only has animated a fraction of the manga, despite having had over a hundred episodes over multiple series. And that sucks because it’s so damned good.
A lot of people seemed to like Moribito but I couldn’t ever get into it for some reason. I’ve generally found that Production IG’s stuff is a bit lifeless. Beautiful animation but it seemed to come at the expense of poor writing. I think the only TV anime they produced which kept me there the whole time was Ghost in the Shell: SAC. But that said, if you can get into it it’s meant to be very good. I should probably give it another go some time.
Berserk is… I hesitate to recommend it honestly. It’s good, very dark and gruesome. The issue is that it only animated a fraction of the manga and did it in such a way that it actually wrote out some important characters. Plus it has a pretty notoriously bad ending. Also I watched it over a decade ago and back then it had kind of dated looking animation. Don’t know if it’s held up. Amazing soundtrack though. Susumu Hirasawa’s work is weird but very unique and highly distinctive.
Netflix has the newer Berserk version which I believe is a significantly-abridged version of the original anime which was itself a significantly-abridged version of the manga. Seriously, it’s like an hour and a half or something.
Maybe it only has the first one? Golden Age is 3 movie-length OVAs, each about 70-100 mins. Covers all the TV series stuff.
I didn’t get past the first one because of the recasting they did (Yuko Miyamura retired ages ago after she got married and apparently only Gainax had the cash to pay her to reprise her older work for the Evangelion stuff. Side note: she lives in Melbourne now!) and because of the lack of a Hirasawa soundtrack which was what absolutely made the TV series for me.
That must be it then.
I tellya, re-watching Beserk and really missing the intro music made me get all nostalgic for the other early Madman imports of the 00s and the trailers they had on all those DVD boxed sets. Gasaraki, L/R, Heat Guy J, RahXephon, Argentosoma, Noir, etc. I should really re-visit that period of anime history.
For me the nostalgia is the VHS trailers. Macross Plus trailer with After, in the Dark / Torch Song. That weird atonal warbling and the dickhead american voiceover and it looks so cool and then I watched it and thought it was all kinds of ass.
I was an idiot, by the way. Macross Plus is fucking awesome.
Madman released a lot of shit. I still have a lot of those DVDs in boxes. Couldn’t sell them before I moved so they’re off to the US with me 🙁 Last Exile, RahXephon, Noir, .hack//SIGN, all sorts. I don’t think I’d feel like revisiting anything from the early 00s era except the ones that have really lasted, like Haibane Renmei or Lain or Mushishi.
++++++ for Macross Plus, it’s amazing, that’s my fave anime era for Damn sure
My favourite Macross so far has probably been Frontier.
+++++++
Yeah, Frontier is the bomb.
My fave is 7. Plus is probably the best. Frontier was great though and I’m super excited for Delta.
Any Hearthstone players indahouse?
I was saving up for the second wing of Blackrock, had about 650 gold. Then I revisited the rewards for the wing, and realized they were godawful, so I just blew it on 6 TGT packs. 2nd pack in, unwrapped a Golden Varian Wrynn. Disenchanted all my crappy goldens and Onyxia to (finally) build Dr. Balanced, and now am having a crack at Control Warrior.
Although last game I dropped Varian on turn 10, drew 2 weapons and a faceless manipulator… instant ragequit.
I love reading a post I know nothing about, and then becoming totally lost in the jargon.
It is cool in an oddly disconnected way, like the first time I landed in Tokyo, you look around and suddenly realise you have no idea what is going on, but the information flow is insane.
I know Hearthstone is a game, I’m guessing that 6 TGT packs means you bought some cards(?) and that something went bad at the end so you quit the game. Or threw the cards in your opponent’s face (I’m not sure if it is a computer game or a card game?)
I need to get out more and work out the world.
Wall of text crash course in what the hell I’m talking about here incoming!:
So yes, Hearthstone is a TCG like Magic: The Gathering (but dumbed down, from what I hear). It’s played entirely online.Blackrock Mountain and The Grand Tournament (TGT) are expansions to the game (along with Naxxramas, Goblins vs Gnomes (GvG) and the newest one, League of Explorers. GvG and TGT didn’t have a separate adventure and just added cards to the game). You can buy them either with real money, or using gold which you earn in-game for completing daily challenges or just winning games in general. This gold can be used to buy either the expansions, or for buying packs of cards.
So the adventures (Naxx, BRM LoE) are divided into wings, each one costing 700 gold (which for a casual player might take between 1-2 weeks to earn). You play a single-player game against bosses, which use different rules than normal PVP games. Completing a wing will earn you the reward cards for that wing. Naxxramas cards are almost mandatory to own in any competitive deck, while Blackrock cards are generally regarded as pretty weak (except for the first wing). League of Explorers is still being released, but the cards are so good that even the 2 wings that have been released have already shifted the entire meta of the game.
Also relevant – there are different tiers of cards. Commons are, well, common, rare are rarer, epic are pretty rare, and legendary are the rarest and generally the most powerful. You also have Golden cards, which are the same as the normal versions of the card but (you guessed it) are golden and have an animated portrait on the card. Irrelevant to the game, but you know, gotta catch ’em all.
Anyway, I was going to get the remaining wings of BRM, but remembered the rewards were pretty ordinary. So instead I got 6 TGT packs. In the second pack I got a Golden Legendary (the rarest of the rare) called Varian Wrynn. His power is that you draw 3 cards, and any minions you draw are put directly into play – it can be absurdly powerful if you draw 3 high-value minions, since generally you can’t play them all together because they cost too much. Sometimes it backfires though – some minions have Battlecry effects, which happen when you play them from your hand, and these don’t activate when they come into play via Varian. Faceless Manipultor is one of these – a piece of crap minion, but it’s battlecry is it copies a minion already in play (so instead of having 3 attack and 3 health, you copy a minion with 10-10 or something like that). So instead of being able to copy a minion, I’m left with a 3-3 useless card on the board, and the other 2 cards are weapons (which don’t get played by Varian since they aren’t minions). So it basically lost me the game, and I ragequit straight away.
Fun times!
Edit: Missed part of it:
So you collect cards, but can only have a maximum of 2 of each card in your deck (only 1 for each legendary card). You can disenchant cards for dust, another currency in the game, which can be used to craft other cards. Useful for getting rid of that 3rd/4th/etc. copy of a card, but also for disenchanting any cards you are just never going to play if you want the dust. The rarer the card, the more dust you get for destroying it. Anyway, I disenchanted a bunch of golden cards and one of my non-used legendaries, and used it to craft Dr. Boom. This legendary is known as Dr. Balanced, because he’s grossly overpowered and is the most popular card in the game. Like, your win rate will go up 5-10% just by having this one card in your deck.Also worth noting is the different playstyles. There are 4 deck archetypes that you can make – aggressive (aggro) decks try to get as much shit on the board as possible and just hit your face as fast as possible (your character has 30 life, once that’s gone you lose). Midrange decks are a bit slower, and play some slightly larger minions – they try to survive the aggressive first few turns, then seize control of the board with their bigger dudes and kill you from there. Control decks are the slowest – these just try to survive until the end of the game, then drop down the super-powerful big minions and smash everything. Combo decks are the final type – a bit different, they have certain combinations of cards that, when played together, can kill your character really quickly (one popular one generates minions with charge, so they can attack straight away, then buffs them with extra attack, and they just jump at your face and kill you straight away). I am trying out a control warrior, which used to be not that good, but got some new cards in the newer expansions that made it much more viable (including Varian Wrynn)
Holy crap that sounds complicated, even with the detailed explanation I got lost and had to go back and re-read it a few times 🙂
Thanks for taking the time to explain it all.
Whatever you do don’t waste your money on BRM; out of all the adventures it has the most least used cards (aside from the Emperor). Naxx seems to have the best value and so far LoE has had more useful cards than BRM imo.
Edit: Worth noting Varian Wrynn is absolutely god awful in most warrior decks since you have to run weapons; spells and control mechanics. Also given that half the decent legendaries have battlecries he basically silences them destroying their value. part of the reason you never see him in meta =\
He’s been crushing in the game I’ve played so far. I’m only running 4 weapons (2 fiery war axes, 2 Frostbites), and generally have at least 2-3 of these drawn by the time I drop Varian. I also don’t have that many spells, because I don’t have the cards.
Who am I kidding, i don’t even care if I win as long as I get to drop my golden legendary 😀 I’m tempted to turf him and craft a Sylvannas, Ysera or Ragnaros for my control priest, but… golden legendary!
Holy shit, Varian just drew me Emperor and Kel’Thuzad.
Game winner, I say!
Lol and for every match where he does something there’s 3 more where he does nothing =p
Yeah that makes up for the one where he drew me two weapons and wasted a Faceless Manipulator.
I’m thinking of dusting him for Sylvannas or Justicar Trueheart. Both will work in my control decks (I hate playing aggro decks), so I’m not really sure which way to go.
Sylvanas is a must get for most control decks. Trueheart really only adds value to Pally’s and Warriors in the current meta. I’ve seen some priests run it but the heals are too slow; probably significantly more useful in a shadowpriest deck but those are a rare breed.
@trjn: curious, have you heard of / played Tragedy Looper? I’ve been trying to get a copy for a while to give it a go since it sounds really interesting, but hardly any of the AU retailers even admit it exists and none seem to stock it.
The Z-Man games release from 2014 is a translation of a Japanese self-published release I think. Basically one player is the ‘mastermind’ that has a particular scenario that they need to make happen, and the other players have no idea what that is. The mastermind will move things around and make things happen such that a tragedy or series of tragedies occur (usually murders / suicides). When that happens, they announce the end of a loop. The players are sort of stuck in a Groundhog Day situation. Everything resets and things start over from scratch, so the players basically have to watch what’s going on and figure out what the story is, what’s actually going on, and how to prevent it happening. Basically the players start out knowing nothing and have to learn and avoid all the fail states to figure out what the win state for the game is. Seems quite unique and interesting.
I’m quite tempted to grab a copy off Amazon now that I live somewhere where buying board games off Amazon doesn’t involve forking over the same price again for shipping.
My FLGS stocks it.
Looks like a good game. Haven’t really had a chance to play. There’s one guy at the FLGS that’s obsessed with the game but he doesn’t know to tone it back for new players. He’s the kind of guy that deliberately won’t explain a rule if it’s disadvantageous to him.
Edit: TIME Stories seems to be trying to do the same thing. It’s much more modular but the reviews are far harsher. Tragedy Looper definitely seems like the one I’d go for if I were you.
I have been told that playing as the Mastermind is very hard, though rewarding. Comparison I saw was ‘Playing as Merlin in Resistance Avalon only you’re trying to kill everyone’.
I was disappointed that none of the retailers at PAX had a copy. They all carried the exact same range of stock. A few games like that would have been nice to see.
*Actually* made my friend hit Send for me. Seems to be the only way to make it happen.
Aaaaaand offline mode activate.
Edit: Nevermind. Being overly critical.
It’s probably something you already know, but when it comes to actually having a crisis about it, the dragging out and stressing is actually the main problem in itself.
The idea that it is a big deal to ask someone if they’d like to go on a date? That idea needs to go.
It gets in the way of what should be a harmless, innocent, and low-stress question.
It’s not a marriage proposal, it’s just asking for an initial expression of interest. If you make it out to be a big deal, somehow significant or important, that then attaches all kinds of other pressures to it. You don’t even need to know if you have anything in common at all, that’s what the dating process is actually for: getting to know each other.
But if you perpetuate the idea that it’s such a huge deal, then you perpetuate the idea that asking is imposing somehow. If you make it a big deal, then the disappointment is more. The investment is more. Fear? Fear comes from the idea that you might be losing something… you’re not. You’re learning. Fact-finding. ‘Big deals’ make people uncomfortable to be asked about, when they should in fact be treating it as if you were simply asking if they know what time it is.
It’s a few degrees more personal, but not much. Because even if someone does say that no, you’re not their cup of tea, that’s not actually a reflection on you or your worthiness.
Some people like blondes. Some people like red-heads. Some people are turned on by feet. Some simply aren’t looking at all because they’re pretty satisfied with their life in general right now. If someone isn’t interested in dating you, it’s not (necessarily) because there’s anything wrong with you as much as there’s a difference in tastes.
If you want to make something less of a big deal… treat it as one. Much like developing confidence and other changes to psychology, first comes action, then reality and belief catches up.
And you may find that being casually honest about something that used to terrify you is actually pretty liberating.
You make it sound so simple
It should be. It actually is if you ignore all the crap your brain is screaming at you thanks to decades of unreasonable baggage. And once you do it, you REALIZE it’s that simple and then it becomes more so.
(Edit: Now, the whole ‘ignoring all the crap your brain screams at you’ part is… well. Maybe that’s the part that’s less simple. Hm. No, it’s not complex… just difficult.)
Because it really is?
This. Well like the first line of this. =P The rest is topping!
If you like someone just take the damn shot; you aren’t going to be any worse off and you have the chance to be better off. Everything to gain and nothing to lose. That’s a no brainer kind of investment plan!
In my experience it can cost a friend for trying. The rejections did hurt a lot back then cuz I was more closed minded when I was younger, but I still was being the same old friend I was prior, trying to make it out like nothing happened, but then the girl at the time usually got more awkward around me since then, up to the eventual point where she never spoke to me again. I have no idea if I did something wrong or what, but yeah when it happened multiple times my confidence levels plummeted and stayed that way since.
See this is what I never understood. All my friends who had crushes on girls they were friends with would use this argument saying “oh i’d lose a friend” but in reality you aren’t really friends are you? She thinks you’re friends and you think you’re friends but the way you feel about her undermines that already. The only thing you’re doing by not telling her is keeping your view of the relationship to yourself. The moment you started crushing on a friend you’ve already lost the friendship as it used to be. All you can hope for from then on is to tell them and date or get rejected and see if the old friendship can recover from the fallout.
I dunno if I agree with that. I’ve had plenty of crushes on friends in the past, most of which I’ve kept to myself (or if I have brought it up, it’s been ages down the track where it’s no longer relevant) and am pretty sure I managed to maintain a normal friendship with them. Plenty of which are still active today.
You could argue that if you are still friends to this day then the friendship could’ve and should’ve survived any emotional dalliances beyond friendship? I’ve had friends I’ve asked out, gone out with, doesn’t work out and we still stayed friends, on the flipside I’ve had friends where things never recovered post dating. I still value the experiences and memories shared with them beyond friendship as much as I would the friendship itself. Scratch that… I think I value the romantic experiences more. It’s hard to explain but I found I would reach a new level of companionship and connection post friendship, I would see sides to these friends I would never see otherwise. Over the years I think I’ve learned and preferred connections that are memorable over connections that last.
That said for me the most important thing was always living life like I’d have no regrets. If I liked someone I wasn’t going to look back in a few years and wonder what if =] And to date I’ve never had to =]
I said that it “can”, not saying it “does”
I guess as I always saw it what you believe you can lose in that situation I’ve always seen as something that was already lost. You can either hide how you feel and supress it until it goes away (which in my experience does have a different effect on the friendship) or take a leap of faith for something that could be amazing?
If it is somebody you know well it can get more complex. Can come across as a bait and switch.
But what transient was saying was more in line with the current situation, saw at wedding, thought they might be interested, maybe I should ask.
There is nothing to lose, as he said it is just asking if they would be interested in finding out more about each other. If they say no then it is two strangers going different ways
That’s the annoying part. I know all of this, and I can rationally go through every bit of it and be totally fine with everything. But then the moment it’s time to step up to the plate and take what I’ve reasoned is a logical course of action, in comes the other guy and slams on the brakes. In fact, this whole thing is exactly like the Violin Girl deal back at the start of the year. “Just say hi, it’s no big deal”, all right up until the moment it was time for action when suddenly that final step becomes a gigantic wall.
And the stupid part is I’m probably actually *hoping* for rejection here. Acceptance is even more terrifying a prospect – if that happens, then I’ll have to figure out what the hell I’m doing. I’ve been deliberately trying not to think about that possibility here, but it’s always been lurking in the background I guess.
I dunno. Maybe I need to figure out some other approach to getting over whatever this whole problem is, since “just do it” doesn’t seem to be gaining any traction. And I’m sure everyone here is sick of me spamming up the place with the same old shit time and time again, too 😛
Fear, I guess.
Simple, but not easy. Like skydiving – taking that step off the plane.
Maybe you need someone to push you out of the plane.
I’ve done skydiving before.
Mum went first, and while the freakiest part was seeing her just kind of peel off and get ripped away by the wind as they leant out of the plane, followed by the thought while falling “I’m actually outside of a plane, up hundreds of metres in the air, just falling. Me and nothing else. I would be screwed if I didn’t have a parachute”… the whole thing wasn’t particularly scary. Far less than any of this.
You’re not the only one Gooky.
i used to be super nervous all the time with dating stuff, the whole will she,wont she and its honestly just practice, you do something enough and it becomes less scary. The worst that can happen is that a person says no, and if they dont wanna spend time with you then why would you wanna spend time with them? Thats how i see it anyway. Although in saying that i have a unshakable self confidence/dellusion that i am amazing so maybe develop a massive ego? 😛
I walked around PAX in red faux leather undies. I’m not sure how much further I can go 😛
whip it out.
One word.
Zardoz.
Man, you’ve got an answer for everything.
Also, wow 😛
Yes!
@rocketman you are amazing!
Here’s a fun statistic Mr Gooky I’m afraid of rejection =P Every single serious relationship I’ve ever had; started with me getting rejected. Every single one. To the point that with my last girl friend when she said she wasn’t interested in me that way I told her we’d be dating in 3 months. And we did (pretty sure I’ve mentioned this on TAY before! xD).
My current mrs who I’ve been living with for over 3 years was actually trying to set me up with her friend when I was trying to get her to go out with me!
Maybe it’s less fear of rejection, more fear of failure? I guess in general I don’t really like to do something unless I know I can do it, or feel I have a reasonable chance of being able to do it. And if you’re going to do something that you know is going to fail, then why not avoid it at the earliest possible opportunity? Actually even with applying for jobs and stuff, when people tell you to fudge your resume or whatever, I’m afraid of having people then expect me to be able to do something which I’ll then be unable to deliver. So I just don’t do it in the first place.
Seems to fit pretty well.
There’s a huge difference between this and fudging stuff on your resume though. You haven’t misrepresented yourself to the person in question (right?).
You’re an awesome guy, so to misrepresent yourself, you’d have to go pretty far.
Maybe I have. I mean I’ve misled all of you into thinking I’m awesome apparently 😛
But yeah, not an exactly parallel I guess, but the same kind of vibe. Increased expectations that I could fail to live up to, or something like that.
Awesome… apart from liking all the wrong things and hating all of the best things just to be contrary. *shakes fist*
@transientmind Of course not. That would make me a hipster, and I would never stoop to such lows 😛
..Says the guy still using MSN.
@transientmind If only, may it rest in peace 🙁
I would be using it because of its superiority over Skype’s increasingly crappy interface and reliability, not for any kind of anti-trend!
Hi Guys!!!
I was hoping you guys might be able to jump on board and help out with a goal – I’m participating on Movember for the first time ever and my fundraising thus far has been abysmal!
I NEED YOUR HELP!!
Any small amount helps – $2… $5… whatever! Please help me get close to my target and help a great cause.
http://mobro.co/troycleary
PS. My mo is better than that – i’ll be uploading an updated pic tonight.
It’s still pretty horrendous, though haha
If you can, please also share this link around – the more the merrier!
Oh come on you had “the mo’ the merrier” just sitting there and you didn’t use it?
OH SHIT!
MY POWERS ARE FADING!!!
It’s this damn mustache!
It’s absorbing it… like it does with your drinks!
It seriously has to be the most irritating this ever…
BUT IT’S FOR A GOOD CAUSE!
AT WHAT COST?! 😛
Me from 12 months ago would totally agree, but every since I decided to grow a full beard and push through the irritating itchy phase I’m now on the opposite side of the fence. It absolutely drives you up the wall at the start, but after about a month that goes away and you barely even remember it’s there a lot of the time.
Also, just because. (you can all blame Chuloopa for bringing the subject of moustaches up in the first place).
Looks like I’m going to be giving up on yet another D&D group (or, rather, they’ve given up). Next session is always cancelled 😐 It was fun while it lasted. I guess I am destined to never play an RPG again.
Dude, play online.
Invites to games plz. I don’t like strangers 😛
I used to hate strangers, now i really hate strangers
true story.
Ready for another spin on the crazy online train?
Why not? Not fussed if it’s D&D or something else, tbh. I want to create a character and flesh them out more than anything.
Yeah this would be cool for me as well; a character that I can build and connect with over a few games.
If you do end up doing something online I’m keen, only problem is I can’t really do weeknights (atleast before 8:30 AEST / 9:30 ADST)
Fantasy isn’t really my thing and I’m not sure how much I’d enjoy table top over the internet, but if you need one more I’ll give it a shot. Wednesday is the only night that doesn’t work for me. Would prefer not to play on Friday either.
How do people play online? Is there just a whiteboard style program we can move pieces around on roll dice with, or does D&D have their own specific thing that takes care of everything for you?
Google Hangouts and Roll20 app.
I hear that The Monday Knights might have an open position…
http://larpvictoria.org/
MOTHER OF GOD
*throws tennis ball*
LIGHTNING BOLT!
Me last week tbh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ekugPKqFw
There’s a part of me that would fucking love to do something like that one day.
is it the whole part because its awesome??
No, there’s a part that has social anxiety.
When i move out im more than keen to start doing a d and d campaign.
But i wanna make one where we are all regular people and just role to like eat a sandwhich.
There is a series of legit RPG games based on whoever shows up and whatever they have on them at the time
Rockets rolls to eat a sandwich.
1. Critical fail. @tech_knight’s character bursts into flames.
It’s funny, because Techie’s character is probably the most powerful in the Numenera game atm (I don’t think he’s missed a session)
Yes the moral of the story has been “Don’t be a character in a campaign that @popdart5 GMs, otherwise face the wrath of the entire universe”.
Also I was late to the campaign too, no idea how I came out in front of Blaghs
I think you joined at about session 3, and blaghs missed a couple off travelling.
Also, you have spent less XP on rerolls to flexing
Touché
Not my fault the Ogrekin crit you in the face on the first turn of the fight. You now have a crap tonne of sparky fire boom magic now.
Also not my fault that the flamer tank exploded and set you on fire in 40K. I blame @pupp3tmast3r for that one. 😛
Don’t forget the instant KO from the hobgoblins on the first turn as well
Squishy magic caster is squishy! Focus the AP caster and remove their DPS. Standard MOBA play. 😛
@popdart5 Well you’re right about the crap tonne of magic, I’ve even repurposed my level 1 spells for defenses so I can potentially get the AC of a standard warrior within 2 rounds.
Hey! I was giving him covering fire! How was I to know that in W40K that literally meant covering him in fire *shrug*
I hate you
its the heart of the dice techy, He cant control them
something something trap card activation.
You’d say that… but have you seen the kind of shit Freeze’s characters have also pulled off in those same campaigns? He’s basically the Jar Jar Binks of our campaigns, huge amounts of damage dice and high results, everything going his way when chance is involved, getting all the women, do I sound jealous? IT’S CUZ I BLOODY AM! 😛
Seriously, Techie comes up with some great plans that would work a treat if the dice didn’t kick sand in his face before banging his mum. Poor guy can’t catch a break.
I’m with Techie on this one.
Freeze’s character is basically a neanderthal with insanely good luck.
Neanderthal!? I think I handled that last party with grace and dignity thank you very much.
Not as much as the dice hate you 😛
freeze rolls to fix a power socket
OH WAIT NO HE DOESNT BECAUSE HE IS GONNA GET PUNCHED IN THE FACE BY HIS FRIEND WHO DOESNT WANT HIM TO DIE
Next time I’ll remember to turn the mains off.
It’s either Techie or @sernobulus. One of them always seems to suffer the wrath of the universe.
Hey he went melee vs what – a whole band of Orks and several Dark Eldar with very dangerous ranged weaponry? Odds weren’t in his favour at either time. I’m surprised he survived both encounters, doesn’t matter that he was xenos 😛
Then there’s me, failing my roll to not be blinded, then failing my roll to not be caught on fire, THEN failing all other rolls to act normally, spending all of my fate points in the process to even make this possible, then when I finally had the chance to put the fires out, I then fail my dex check to put the fires out.
I was destined to burn in the name of the Omnissiar
If not my fault that bullets love me
All Outta Bubblegum would be perfect for that. Having to walk a tightrope of being awesome and being normal, only to wind up running out of gum and having to do everything awesomely. And I mean everything.
“I need to open this door. But I’m all outta gum so I guess I just have to fly-jump kick it down.”
Fatal flaw in my plan. Now I need to figure out how the hell I’m going to make myself reactivate my phone 😛
I would normally say that MSWS (Millenial Smartphone Withdrawal Syndrome) would have you getting the shakes within minutes of lost access to Facebook/Instagram/Twitter, but you stubbornly persist in defying all that convention, don’t you.
*flex*
I divert that same syndrome in my need to sign in to Skype (formerly MSN) as soon as I get home. And jump on TAY to see what’s new, of course 😛
So many years and still no Twitter on me, hah! 😀
The only time I was actually tempted to create one was when Tracey Lien was asking if I had one after the Kotaku Christmas gift I got for her.
Famous person! That would be tempting. Ahh, celebrity…
Oh it was, funnily enough though I tried adding her on facebook and so far no succcess, I don’t blame her though, she doesn’t know it’s me 😛
Huh, I just realised I can use my WiFi in Offline mode, so could have had access to those things anyway, if I used them 😛
Really, just do it.
It’ll be fine.
Nike found their new spokeswoman
If you can’t do it, then hand it to a friend. Making a larger drama about it and discussing it endlessly will genuinely make it harder.
Hand it to someone if you can’t do it, or take yoda’s advice.
Guh, feel like I’m in a rut…
I really need something to keep myself occupied…
learn a new skill, i suggest watching woodworking tutorials on youtube. It is honestly my favourite way to relax and im learning stuff all the time.
tv and games and music only can occupy you for so long before you get bored. Learning new stuff however and diving deeper and deeper into that subject is so endlessly rewarding. Occasionally i get bored of doing electronics stuff at home and then i watch anime or read or listen to music more but im usually more occupied than not.
Become a city planner for a capital city so I can use you as a contact to push through my development applications.
Sir, I keep telling you that it really isn’t necessary to submit a development application for your “guns”. Please stop calling me.
I hope im as funny as you when i am your age.
That will be in another 30 years.
Mmm. Some nice spin on that backhand.
it was more of a rocketman is 4 joke.
Rockets Is Young jokes always make me think of this: http://thumbpress.com/you-look-like-you-have-no-ice-cream/
You should commentate the Australian Open. Probably be just as good as the regular commentators.
Except Henri Leconte. No one is a better commentator than him.
Sorry @transientmind but that’s just facts.
So I submitted Chilli into this christmas comp thing.
I would appreciate it if anyone voted for her 😀
Voted. Good thing they don’t force you to like the page to do so
Cheers man 😀 I know right? Thank god. But I had already done that cause it gave me some discount on their store back when I first found them heh.
Did you hear about the autistic kleptomaniac?
He took things, literally.
EDIT: Damn!
Well early, mate.
Well early.
Ohhhh, volleyed into the net. So close…
(Blame @popdart5, now I have tennis on the brain.)
Not even halfway so was more missed the serve throw entirely.
God damn. Assassination Classroom is so freaking good. I love it so much.
I was watching it at the anime club I go to every week, but when I first started going, the club was already two thirds of the way through it and I didn’t really know what was going on. I still enjoyed it. The last episode I watched at the anime club was the second-to-last episode, and it was damn amazing. Such a good and amazingly intense experience. I can’t wait to watch the finale this Saturday. I decided to watch the earlier episodes to catch up, and I’ve come to really, really like this anime. The concept of making a Stand and Deliver/Dangerous Minds/The Ron Clark story with a tentacle monster teacher is an odd one, but add in the concept of the students trying to kill him and the teacher teaching the students how to kill him makes it a show that is really hard to get into. But I’m loving it at the moment. I’m particularly enjoying the class warfare undertones.
I don’t care how childish it makes me seem, but I laugh at the fact that one of the characters in called ‘Bitch-sensai” every time the character is named.
If I have a complaint, it’s the repetitive soundtrack. There are only a few musical cues, and they are used over and over. They have this one musical backing for tense/supernatural/dark scenes, and it is used something like three times an episode. I wish they had created a more varied soundtrack for the anime to cycle through.
Ha. How much things can change in a year.
Afternoon errbody hows every little thing?
My week so far has been filled with feeling bleah and generally headachy
Its too late for me to go back and read the last few pages of TAY so I need someone to hit me with the highlights, looking at you, yes you, in the bushes there!
Been playing fallout 4. Preston doesn’t like the idea of me ditching the minutemen to join the Brotherhood of Steel.
That’s why Preston’s a little bitch!
Anywho hump day question! You are a companion in any game you want, what type of companion are you, what are your likes and dislikes and what is your weapon of choice?
*cries*
Not you, never you.
A protagonist’s lacky huh?
I’d be the lockpicking rogue type with a ranged weapon. That way I’m pretty handy and less likely to be consigned to camp for eternity and also not likely to be the gangs bait/packmule “tank” or totallywillturnevilorbepossesed mage.
I like loot and dislike being stabbed/shot in the face.
To be a companion character, eh?
I wanna be Auron.
Nuff said.
What?
Dead?Such is the price of unrivalled badassery.
For half the game I thought he had a broken arm, turns out it’s his drinking arm
Well let’s just go with Fallout 4. My preferred weapon is power armor because bugger tracking across the wasteland under my own steam. No, you’ll give me an augmented suit of armor plating that does all the running and punching for me. In exchange, you can pretend I don’t have feelings. I will like you more if you tell me jokes occasionally. I don’t mind carrying things, especially with my big hydraulic muscles. If you try to tickle me you will get one warning, by which I mean a punch in the face. The next infraction will be me leaving after throwing all your loot in the nearest lake. When you next fast travel back to your house, it will be on fire.
I fixed a problem I was having with Rocket League.
Apparently in Windows 10, there’s a setting to stop USB overloading, so I just disabled it and my Xbox 360 controller no longer keeps disconnecting! \o/
Also, I have some keys from the Codemasters Humble Bundle that I’m giving away!
My only rule is, comment when you claim the key, don’t just copy it in anonymously.
Okay, the keys:
Overlord – https://humblebundle.com/gift?key=hMveUp7z7xcFY4FC
Hospital Tycoon – https://humblebundle.com/gift?key=Cuz8BuubBME3Ap7m
Colin McRae Rally – https://humblebundle.com/gift?key=RTVXkXePqbSmuA4k
Again, leave a comment when you claim!
Enjoy! 😀
So I’m looking through the Netflix categories and internally scoff a little at the, “Watch it again,” section. Watch it again? Life’s too short to keep revisiting old stuff when there’s so much that’s yet unwa–OH MY GOD NETFLIX HAS BLACK BOOKS
Splishy splashy
Well to be honest, after years of smoking and drinking, you do sometimes look at yourself and think…
You know, just sometimes, in between the first cigarette with coffee in the morning to that 400th glass of corner shop piss at 3am. You do sometimes look at yourself and think…
This is fantastic. I’m in heaven.
Can’t lie, I spent a lot of last weekend watching Faulty Towers, purely because I discovered it was on Netflix. Don’t mention the war!
ASDIUGSSHRPOGIHWEOTIOSUIHVLOIUHWJKRESD
Totally forgot that my phone is set to switch profiles automatically at midnight. So it went out of Offline mode, and received messages.
First, I got a picture message from my friend, showing how I managed to accidentally photobomb behind his wife (whoa, weird saying that) and her Dad. Hilarious, I’m not even doing it on purpose any more.
Then, I got the response from Stare Girl. Which annoyingly seems to be timestamped at midnight, so GG me.
But even more annoyingly… IT WAS A MESSAGE OF ACCEPTANCE. NOT REJECTION
I DIDN’T PLAN FOR THIS AT ALL. I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO.
It’s always good to have a backup plan, speaking of which.
*puts away bucket of popcorn*
*gets jumbo sized bucket of popcorn*
The thinking was that if I tried to plan for this then it would’ve taken me a week to actually get around to sorting that part out and finally acting on it. So avoid that bit until it becomes a necessity.
Now I guess I have to figure it out by some time tomorrow morning. Good going, past me.
Go see a movie, easy date, not much talking required and if it is required you can talk about the movie.
Isn’t that last hungry games movie on now?
Avoid the common mistake though. Sequence must be Movie -> Dinner, and never Dinner -> Movie.
If you watch the movie first, as @poita so rightly pointed out, you can talk about the movie over dinner! Easy conversation starter. If you do dinner first, it can be awkward as fuck, and then you have to sit through a whole movie together afterwards.
Though then that can make for awkward timing? I mean if you can’t get a particularly early session then you end up having to have dinner late, getting hungry halfway through the show and then coming out and finding places closed and hmm where do we eat now ok looks like maccas is still open.
Book in advance. If you aren’t going to a premiere, you shouldn’t have trouble getting seats.
Oh I just mean in terms of whether there’s actually any sessions showing at a usable time, or if the two of you are able to get there in time for it, rather than availability of seats.
Agreed with the logic though, movie first makes more sense.
The correct thing to do is to panic, send a response that says “You know I was kidding, right?”, have plastic surgery and live out your life in exile on a remote peninsula in Siberia.
BOOM! You’re welcome.
Was just about to get out the clippers. Glad to know I’m on the right track.
Need suggestions?
Go look at all the christmas trees in the CBD at night
Find a place that does towering hamburgers and insane milkshakes, and talk about how the trend for towering hamburgers and insane milkshakes is so 2015 and wonder what the next trend will be.
Go see a movie in the city, have Gelato Messina for dessert
Catch a ferry over to Manly and spend the afternoon at the beach. Walk to Shelley Beach for a coffee, eat fish&chips, drinks at the wharf bar/bavarian bier cafe
Look up the Sydney Festival programme and pick out a fun show
Go see the Lego exhibit at the Powerhouse Museum
Try out an afternoon of stand up paddleboarding
Go see some comedy at The Enmore, dessert at Cow and Moon
Dinner in Newtown or glebe. Spend at least half an hour wandering about deciding where to eat, decide on thai, because it’s always thai.
Eat all the dumplings at Din Tai Fung
Grab some big sandwiches and have a picnic at Centennial Park
Do a coastwalk – Dee Why to Manly or Bondi to Bronte
You are planning all my dates.
I usually end up planning date night and pretty much anything that isn’t sitting awkwardly in an overpriced restaurant is a good idea. Fun beats “romantic” every time. Lots of our date nights are comedy or seeing our favourite bands.
Like you wouldn’t believe 😛
Showing your age there. I believe a date for the kids these days is what I gather to be a night of watching Netflix and not doing anything else.
Crap, I gotta get Netflix now too?
Oh wow. You’re really good.
*takes notes*
Now all I need is a date.
Apparently the way to get a date is to post about how shy you are so TAY browbeats you into submission.
I also need a date. @sernobulus…. ?
I like the Din Tai Fung option because it is SO TASTY
Just looked up Sydney Festival and came across “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance), Screening and Live Film Score”. Not til January, but may have to keep that in mind even if not for some kind of date.
Also I keep reading over this list and still feel like I have no idea. It’s like I totally forgot before I went ahead with this that I don’t actually do things, or know how to pick things to do. Except bad decisions. Those come pretty easily 😛
I love the Sydney Festival – I usually only get to go to one or two things, but year before last I got to see Amanda Palmer in The Speigeltent and it was amazing.
This is a skillset. How much to have you plan all of my dates for the rest of time?
Also Lego Exhibit @mrtaco \o/ if she doesn’t like lego she’s not a keeper. Has my advice/opinion steered you wrong so far?!?! =p
What’s the line for Cow and Moon like these days? Last time I tried was at like 11pm and it was still around the block… but that was just after they won that award. Standing awkwardly in a line for 45 minutes probably isn’t a good first date idea.
Also, stand up paddleboarding is just the worst… (because I have no balance and it’s obviously just a terrible activity for broken people and shut up and stop judging me).
In terms of coastal walks, I think the best is Spit Bridge -> Manly. Tough to get to, but you end up at the best inner city beach! The views over the harbour are also stunning.
@Mrtaco Actually, now that I think of it, there is a perfect free date tonight!
There is a free comedy night at the Star last Thursday of every month (tonight!), it’s in the RockLily bar and it’s always great. Highly recommended.
I think Cow and Moon has calmed down a bit, but you’re right, it might be better to get the dessert before the show instead of after.
Haha, now you have to go on a date, idiot.
Past me is a stupid inconsiderate jerk and I hate him.
I keep giggling like mad every time I read this.
Most favourite reaction.
Totally not gonna get to sleep at all, am I? Brain won’t stop.
That’s really up to you.
Thursday morning, got the older kids off to school, house is a mess, 2.5yr old wants to ‘go sailing’ whatever that might mean to her, and I have the rellies arriving on Friday.
Anyone want to come around and help clean?
Nope. I’m procrastinating when I should be cleaning in between the big school orientation morning and the preschool pickup.
Anyone here have any experience with Getflix? There’s a deal running now where you can get a lifetime subscription for about $50. https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/221751
I’ve been using it, it’s good. I might utilise that, cheers man 😀
In between our internet playing up, and the Steam Sale… I don’t think I’m gonna be able to download too many games this weekend. 🙁
At least I got the Codemasters bundle when I did. 😀
Steam sale? *whoosh*
And now I am
$40 poorerfour games richer.Last night I discovered that the soundtracks for Whisper of the Heart and The Wind Rises are on the iTunes store.
yes yes
Mentioned it on twitter, but that bushfire in SA was a little bit close to to the family home in Kapunda for comfort. Town was evacuated (though my parents and the puppy were not home) and roads closed, but the CFS and the wind stopped the firefront quite short of the town, which is good. My Aunt, who lives in Greenock (nearby town) also had to evac, but again, fire didn’t make it that far.
Friend of a Friend wasn’t so lucky. Family lost a big chunk of their property near Mallala, not the house luckily.
People, make sure you have a bushfire plan. They’re fucking terrifying.
Yeah when I heard it was down as far a Mallala it was a reminder that I live on the edge of the burbs.
Probably not at risk but if it had gotten to two wells I might have had to start worrying.
Glad your family home is fine.
Woman I used to work with lived at two wells, I imagine her family were watching the wind direction very, very closely.
The fire front was 40 kilometres. From two Wells, that’s the equivalent of being in Prospect.
Yeah, scary as hell. They can move so terrifyingly fast.
I get that there is something instinctive that makes folks believe that there’s somehow ‘something’ they can do through their physical presence (garden hose, and a few buckets of water?) that might protect their stuff in the face of something so powerful and all-consuming. Same deal with floods.
But the greatest thing about any measure of advance warning is it means you don’t have to be there. Pack a bag and go for an impromptu ‘holiday’ that involves a whole of not exposing yourself to the risk of death.
The area we’re talking about here isn’t a traditional bushfire zone either- it’s farmland, it’s not heavily forested, and it’s pretty flat.
It’s just been so bloody dry this year.
Unless you are properly planned for it stay is a stupid idea
It can make a difference if you do stay and defend if you are setup to do so, but garden hose and buckets you have a death wish
but the only thing stupider than that is I’ll stay and defend with a garden hose and then going
OH SHIT THOSE FLAMES LOOK SCARY! JUMP IN THE CAR AND WE WILL OUTRUN THE FIRE
Having a bushfire plan seems to get people labelled as paranoid, or otherwise makes you a target for a laugh. It hasn’t stopped me having one but the fact that this sort of reaction exists confuses the shit out of me. The “She’ll be right” attitude is really not applicable here, people.
Good to hear that everyone is (relatively) OK!
Hey guys, just noticed that GTA V is 40% off ($44.99) on Steam till the 2nd of December. Think that’s the cheapest it’s been since launch, so get it while you can.
@welbot, @masha2932, @quiz_b, @benny, @beeawwb, @sernobulus, @transientmind
I would, but Fallout 4 is going to occupy my time for a while. And if I’m really desperate to play it I can always fire up my PS3.
Fair enough. Just thought I’d tag you guys, because I noticed it’s on your wishlists.
Yep, figured that was the case. Appreciate the watchful eye. 🙂
I’m watching you B-ob, always watching.
Don’t worry….
Wait, it’s on my wishlist? I’m fairly certain I already own it. =P
If you buy it through a key reseller and activate I don’t think it removes from your wishlist
Well that sucks! The release date for that Kylo Ren helmet I was going to order has changed from tomorrow to December the 11th (estimated).
https://www.mightyape.com.au/product/Star-Wars-Black-Series-Kylo-Ren-Voice-Changer-Helmet/24153119
Won’t get here before the release of the movie, so it looks like I’ll be heading to Ebay. Going to cost me about an extra $45, but I don’t think I have any other option.
So how about that Captain America: Civil War trailer, huh. Looks pretty freakin’ amazing, can’t wait.
One minor annoyance though.
In the part of the trailer where it looks like he’s trying to go incognito, it looks like he’s wearing the exact same clothes as when he did it in Winter Soldier. Does he only have one set of clothes or something.Haven’t watched it, don’t think I’m gonna watch it.
It’s gonna be hard avoiding watching the Star Wars trailer soon, once they start ramping up on TV.
Saw my first TFA trailer last night, took my daughter to see the last hunger games movie and there was a SW trailer at the start. It made me tear-up. Damnit!
I was trying to not get on the hype train, but that damn trailer punched me right in the feels, and once the music kicked in, I was 10 years old again, in a galaxy far, far away…
I’m on board the hype train, just calmly sitting in my seat reading the paper instead of hanging out the window screaming 😛 Decided I didn’t need or want to see anything more after the initial teaser trailer.
Disaster just strikes when he’s in the gym, OK?
Also, I can imagine cap not having a bunch of clothes, dude probably would prefer uniform.
This man out of time is generally well known for boring fashion choice, perhaps an Einstein style wardrobe?
Also, I am pumped!
My wardrobe is literally a handful of suits and related corporate-drag paraphernalia, a couple gym t-shirts, and two dozen identical black, button-up shirts, black singlets, and half a dozen pairs of blue jeans.
Plus a few garbage bags worth of shit I don’t wear but haven’t got around to donating to St Vinnies.
Because life is too short to bother with fashion.
I’m expecting a downvote fron liondrive any minute…
Would have done it sooner, but I was too busy reporting the comment.
ur just salty cos its truth
…AND I make it look good. 😉
Writing an article for work, and I asked a colleague if she could spell check it for me.
She said c-h-e-c-k i-t f-o-r- m-e #dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeDammit brain, why do you still get stupidly excited by steam sales
I got temporarily excited and then reminded myself that I literally don’t even have a PC to play the games on.
Want one of my old ones? I have a bunch sitting on the shelf.
That’s a very generous offer. I need to just set aside the money to do the upgrade I’ve been meaning to do for a while now.
My PC has devolved into pretty much only a gaming machine these days (I don’t even enter the room unless games) so the shiny new parts are an inevitability anyway.
Thank you though 🙂
I always get excited by PSN sales, see the line-up, realise I already own or am not interested & get bored
I was all like ‘oooh, Steam sale!’
But then I found I own pretty much all the games on sale that I want anyway.
I’m a bit of a steam tragic with eclectic tastes so I have a wishlist of around 150 items so there is always something I want
It’s hard to explain puns to a kleptomaniac. They always take things literally.
Hi @crazyguy1990! #Page6@mrtaco
@lucifer9783 and I are having difficulties with splat zones in ranked. Any pointers? Also, sloshers and Luna blasters are the bane of my existance
Man, outside of Splatfest it’s been ages since I’ve played. Can I even remember how it goes? 😛
I dunno if I could offer any tips, since I only play as a sniper so don’t really have much perspective on how the other weapons play. Generally I’m trying to find the spot where I can most effectively defend our space from and take out the other team as they try and make their way in, and eventually try and advance so I can hold them even further back. But then it also depends on which map you’re playing, and how many zones there are to defend, where the best positions to do so are, etc.
I guess one pretty generic tip is to make good use of the timer penalties. If you have the choice of getting killed or turning the zone, absolutely go for the zone, because if you flip it even for a moment you can buy yourself more time. Far too often the enemy timer would be approaching zero and someone would manage to get their counter stopped, but then nobody came in to try and throw a tiny bit more paint on there to flip it and we’d lose the match because they’d take it back.
Oh, another thing – just because it isn’t turf war doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be painting the ground! Eg in warehouse, as everyone makes their way towards the middle I make sure to turn and paint all the ground I’m walking past, then stop before I reach the container and paint all the ground behind it before jumping over. Both so I can charge my special meter, but also for fortification. If you charge ahead and don’t have any painted ground behind you, then you’re not going to have anywhere to retreat to if you start to get overwhelmed and need an escape. So always make sure to tidy up whenever you can, fill in those empty spots and clear out that enemy ink.
Actually, that leads into another thing. If the rest of your team is taking good care of the zone, then it can be a good idea to head into the enemy base and just start throwing paint around to disrupt their path to the zone, slowing their travel.
In today’s instalment of “Kermitron gives his belated opinions on shit” I recently started watching That 70s Show on Netflix after completely missing it when it was a “thing” when I was in high school. Man, maybe it’s because it was designed for my age group in the first place but despite being 17 years late to the party, I reckon it holds up pretty well. I finished watching season 1 this week and I’m hooked.
I don’t know why I didn’t watch this show when I was younger. I mean, it was an incredibly popular show. I guess I missed a lot of shows, mainly because instead of watching TV I was faffing about on the internet and we didn’t have convenient means to watch shows at our convenience.
The show gets increasingly terrible as it continues. Devolves into a barrage of racial slurs, pot jokes and “Lol, women be crazy”.
I figured that it had to get a lot worse for people to have stopped talking about it by the time I could have started watching it at my convenience.
Season 1 had a lot of good stories and character development. I guess I’ll bail when it goes to crap, but for now it’s a fun diversion.
Yeah, nah :p
Dad: “Go to your room now”
Son: (Storms off) “Jim Morrison was overrated”
Dad: “What did I tell you about slamming The Doors”
I burnt my Hawaiian pizza today. I should have chosen Aloha setting.
I’ve been diagnosed with a type of amnesia where I deny the existence of certain 80s bands. There is no cure.
My son thinks he is smart. He told me an onion is the only food that makes you cry, so I threw a coconut at his face.
My Navman told me “In 150 metres, Bear left”. So I looked out the window, but didn’t see any Bears?
Muppet Movie
“Bear left!”
“Right, frog!”
Still makes me giggle 35 years on…
Two hats are sitting on a bench having a chat. One says to the other you stay here…. I’ll go on ahead.
What’s white and can’t climb trees?
A fridge.Last year I opened a stationary shop, but it’s going nowhere.
They don’t watch the flintstones in Dubai.
But Abu Dhabi do.
My son asked me if i knew any good hard rock music that had some pace.
Gave him Rolling Stones.
There’s nothing worse than getting run over by a rental car. It Hertz.
I tried negotiating the price of my rental car, but I couldn’t get them to budget.
You have to be a bit more thrifty in negotiating.
I’m terrible at negotiation.
Avis.
Whenever I want to start eating healthy, a chocolate bar looks at me and Snickers.
Why are there pirates? Because they just arrrr.
So, random question time.
I normally have work enforced holidays for the 2 weeks of Christmas and new year’s.
I have stuff all annual leave left after this year’s one. I have been given the option to work Monday – Wednesday the first week.
Do I work and effectively only have one week holiday or take the uninterrupted 16 days off?
Work it, save leave.
That’s what I’m doing.
In my field at least, the office around this time is proper dead. May as well enjoy the air-con and save my days off until I need them.
My office has forced shutdown/skeleton crew only for the period between Christmas and New Years. I used to always volunteer because it was so quiet it was basically a holiday and I didn’t have to waste my leave. But the last few years I’ve become more indifferent about this so I let others volunteer instead. If I’m needed, I’ll work. If I’m not, I’ll take the leave.
Granted I only have to use three days leave to effectively get 10 days straight off so it’s not a big deal. I swear when I was younger and companies had forced shutdown they just paid you your usual salary instead of taking it out of your leave. Maybe I just never noticed.
I used to do that too, nobody ever sends in repairs at christmas time so i used to just work alone in the office and sit in peace with nobody to bother me. Twas bliss.
I suffer from the opposite problem. I hate being in the office when there’s no work on. Hunting for shit to do is the worst. I’m actually taking a week off before Christmas purely because we’re so light on.
Yeah, I am at work, but have no work at the moment. It is driving me quietly insane.
I’ve always tried to take the approach instilled in me by my trainer when I was a bartender: “The first rule of bartending is that you NEVER have nothing to do.” It doesn’t matter how menial and shitty the task, there is always a list of things to be cleaned or thrown out. There is never an excuse for a bartender to not look busy.
…Taking that approach to office crap means looking at all the house-keeping that bugs people when they encounter it but which no-one ever does.
The downside to this is… that stuff is SO BORING and that’s the reason it didn’t get done in the first place. SOOOOO BOOOORING.
Yeah, my desk is clean, the toilets are clean, I’ve cleaned out the filing cabinets, even nailed some of the backs of the book-cases to improve them.
I literally can find almost nothing else to do, and have another week of this. I’m going crazy.
You may need to get creative.
I’m spending four days to get two weeks off. It’s a good feeling
If you are planning on traveling and being out of town then take the full 16 days
If you plan to stay home head into work, likely to be very chilled anyway if you have forced leave
Looks like there’s gonna be a few days of travel thanks to silly season family stuff.
If the work days don’t clash with those do the work. If you are low on leave save it for when you actually want/need to use it
My situation is both.
My place of employment has 6 weeks of enforced leave over Christmas and New Years.
Sometimes I love being a teacher 😛
Primary or High school?
High school mathematics.
I agree with the leave thing!
Though I hate December teaching with yr 6s – they go mental!
Trust me, so do the older ones.
CHULOOPA’S PATENTED IN MY ASS GAME!!! WOOO!!!
Let as know what you’ve been listening too/doing for kicks!
You know the rules – name of the last song you listed too followed by “in my ass!”
While you’re at it – donate to our super-cool Movember team to raise money for a worthy cause!
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Better yet, make a donation with your answer to the game! FUN FOR ALL AGES AND AWKWARD EXPLANATIONS AT WORK!
Helden in my ass!
“Helden” is German for heroes!
HEROES IN MY ASS!
How You Remind Me in my ass.
You In My Ass
Well if you insist…
Queensland University in my ass.
When I was your man in my ass.
That sounds physically impossible
That’s what he kept saying!
Don’t Stop Believin’ in my ass.
Words to live by.
How could we stop when yo ass don’t quit
Oh dear, I was listening to the Countdown 40th Anniversary compilation this morning. Let’s see, where did I get up to before I dozed off on the train… ah yes.
Pump it Up… in my ass.
Well, I’d just started another song when I paused and stopped listening. But the last complete song I listened to was great.
Blood on the Keys in my Ass.
Last time I played music was mowing the lawn on Sunday arvo and Arcade Fire makes great mowing music.
Porno in my ass.
Oh dear…
The last 3 I listened to –
Torn Within in my ass
Forced To Die in my ass
…
…
Blood Turns To Tears in my ass.
(I actually skipped a song where the title doesn’t work in the middle. Spoooooky).
Shake it off in my ass.
Come And Get Your Love In My Ass
I Can Feel You in my ass.
That worked surprisingly well…
and goes with your name, perfectly.
I wish they all could be California Girls in my ass.
Beach Boys CDs are a problem.
Brian’s Back in my ass.
Now it’s Disney Girls In my ass.
Next track is Games two can play…
The beach boys were made for this game
Max is asleep on my lap, whether I like it or not.
#CatThings
#HashtagsforHarli
At times like this, best to just read a few catalogues…
or recategorize your music library.
Then listen to your new library on your new Roccat headphones
you could listen to your new favourite song “im on a boat” and dream about owning a catamaran and sailing the world.
I wanted to get that song but my connection to the internet just doesn’t seem to be working at all. I’m going to be getting myself a replacement Cat 6 cable just to be sure it’s not the cable being the cause of this problem.
make sure you communicate to the salesperson that you require cat 6 cable. Some will sell you cat 5e instead.
Whatever you do, it’ll lead to some catharsis.
Am i the only one that finds the sound of this game hilarious and fun?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/333980/?snr=1_5_9__300
It’s just so… dumb…. How could it be anything other than awesome?!
And those steam reviews? Gold.
No way I’d pay that much for it, though….
If it was $5 I’d buy a bunch of gift copies and throw them out at random. I’ll either be embarrassing people and making me laugh or giving people something they want. Win-win 😛
Pretty much my htoughts exactly – I think $5 would be my sweet spot on that game – as cheap as that sounds.
5/10 average reviews from critics and users across the Internet.
9/10 average reviews on Steam.
#MasterRace
Never trust a critic, i say.
Also why I’d say $5 would be the sweet spot.
Seriously considering picking up hyperdimension, though.
God dammit my phone keeps going off with messages from just about everyone else and giving me a heart attack every time.
Totally right in my prediction. Just wrong about the day 😛
I’m not going to bother looking at the Steam sale and wait until the Christmas one. It always has better deals…although, Life is Strange looks pretty worthwhile for that price.
Damn it.
I want Life is Strange and that’s a great price point – I don’t think the entire series has been on sale before, it’s always just the first episode – but I’m skint for the month, which is baffling since I just got paid like two weeks ago. It’ll probably be up again around Christmas and besides, I’m still nuts for Fallout 4 so spending money on new games at this point is silly.
Yeah and Talos.
Freya and I are coming to Brisbane from 23/12-29/12. We should try to do something involving meats and possibly even meat.
Someone do the magic TAY names thing?
EDIT: Maybe we head to the GO Lounge in Stones Corner and then have dinner somewhere nearby after? I’ve emailed them to see when they’re open over the Christmas period.
http://www.taynames.com
Not working anymore 🙁
Damnit @Powalen, what have you done?
http://www.taytags.com
This is all Pow’s fault.
It is indeed.
Magic TAY names thing:
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__dick
Pow’s fault!
I said something on Facebook and somebody with a name similar to the 1960s TV Batman said that we should do something at GO Lounge. I agree with Batman.
I’m not Batman. I’m Adam We.
I.
Agree.
With.
BATMAN.
He’s the Adam we deserve right now but not the one we need?
I’m pretty much up for stuff on Friday night’s & lunch during weekdays if I’m working in the cbd.
Mrs works Sundays so I don’t really like to go out Saturday.
Isn’t Friday Christmas? Friday/Saturday are probably out by default unfortunately.
Ha! I forgot Xmas exists. Yeah, I’m off work for a fortnight, just see what happens
I can do Saturday and Sunday, that’s about it unless you want to do it on a weekday morning/lunch time
Saturday night or Sunday day or night works best for me.
I should be right for stuff. I don’t think GO Lounge will have a huge amount of capacity if there’s a large group of us but I’m sure we’ll manage.
i fly out on christmas eve and come back to brisbane when you guys are leaving.
That makes me laugh
So if you wanna meet on the 23rd im free otherwise im out mr bun bun
We come in fairly late on the 23rd but I’m sure we can do something. Not sure what that something could be but something.
Honestly not a fan of board games in the slightest, which makes us mortal enemies. (And also means I’ll probably skip the Go Lounge thing.) Keep me posted about the dinner, though! <3
Pssst is the Go lounge a bored game thing?
You know it.
Oh…
So, let’s not get together again for PAX North?
Aww, we’re leaving for a week’s holiday on the 25th, and pretty sure the 23rd and 24th will be family obligations. 🙁
In this new age of graphics card manufacturers redoing their software and graphics management systems, I thought I’d give my thoughts on AMD’s Crimson, because I’m pretty sure I’m only one of maybe 3 people who were silly enough to buy an AMD card.
I uninstalled Catalyst and installed Crimson.
It lets me actually load Origin and Battlefront, unlike the last version of Catalyst.
10/10.
Oh god, the new interface is so much better. Except it refuses to acknowledge my 2TB hard drive full of Steam games, and I really can’t be arsed adding them all one by one. Meh, I’ll add them when I need to tweak something, I guess.
There was this tramp. One cold winter’s morning he was walking along a country road, when he heard a cry for help from a nearby lake.
Without a moment’s hesitation he ran out onto the ice and slipped and slided over to a little girl. He managed to pull her out without breaking the ice further and carried her back to the road. He took off his coat and wrapped her in it then began looking for a car to flag down.
Coincidentally the father drives up. “How can I ever thank you sir?” he says after putting his daughter into the warmth of the limo. “Just name your price – I’m a wealthy man.”
“Ah, well…” stammers the tramp, “… uh, I’m a little short of cash, perhaps you could help me out.”
“Oh dear,” says the father, “I don’t carry much cash with me, I only have ten pounds – but come home with me and I’ll get more from the safe.”
“No! No!” says the tramp, “Why ten pounds is more money than I’ve seen in my whole life – that’ll be plenty.”
“Ten pounds,” thinks the tramp, “I’m rich! I’m rich!” and off he goes to the town to buy himself a holiday.
He finds a travel agent, walks in – much to the disgust of the staff – and goes up to the desk. “I’ll have one holiday please!”
“Ahem, which holiday would sir like?” asked the girl at the desk, forcing a smile.
“Oh, any holiday I don’t mind, anything up to ten pounds,” replies the tramp.
“TEN POUNDS! You’ll NEVER get a holiday for ten pounds,” says the girl incredulously.
She goes into the back of the shop, and searches in the deepest, dustiest filing drawers she can find. There – to her amazement – she finds an old file.
“Well you’ll never believe it,” she says to the tramp, back in the shop. “I’ve got you a holiday – its a super-duper, ultra-hyper, mega-economy class round the world cruise – and it costs ten pounds.”
“Yippee!” exclaims the tramp, “I’ll take it!”
A few days later he arrives at the port, and there in the dock is the most beautiful, most elaborately decorated, most expensive looking ocean-going liner he has ever seen.
“Get off my ship ye dirty bum!” shouts a voice, and an irate captain storms down the gangplank and kicks the tramp down onto the dockside.
“But I’ve got my ticket!”, responds the tramp, “super-duper, ultra-hyper, mega-economy class, and I want on!”
“Well okay,” says the captain, “but you can’t come on just now, I don’t want my first-class passengers seeing you. Come back at midnight when it’s dark and I’ll let you on then.”
So the tramp finds himself a quiet spot among some cargo cases on the dockside, and he falls asleep.
“Psst,” says a voice, waking him with a start. It was the captain.
“Hurry up, it’s midnight, let’s get you to your cabin.”
The tramp toddles after the captain, along the dockside, up the gangway, and onto the ship – and what a ship!
First they went down through the first class level: Oriental carpets – 6″ pile. A genuine Rembrandt on every wall. Leave your shoes outside for cleaning, and the steward brings a new pair. 24 ct gold trim everywhere.
Then the second class: As above, but perhaps the carpets were only 3″ deep, and so on…
3rd, 4th, 5th class, down past the casinos, and the ballrooms, down through the crew’s quarters, down through the galleys, and the engine rooms, until finally, at the lowest point in the ship, against the very hull, the captain opens a watertight door into a tiny 7′ x 4′ cabin, with a hammock, a bedside table, and an alarm clock.
“Sheer luxury!” exclaimed the tramp, “A room of my very own.”
“I’m glad you like it,” replies the captain, “but there is one more thing… Your class of ticket only allows you to use the facilities of the ship, at night – when all the other passengers are asleep. So that’s what the alarm clock is for. Enjoy your cruise.”
Well the cruise began, and the tramp had a whale of a time. Sleeping by day, and up on deck at night – he loved it. One-man-tennis, clay pigeon shooting, more food than he’d ever seen…
Then one morning, a week or so into the cruise, the tramp decided he’d have a go on the diving board of the pool. He had just enough time for one dive before he had to go below.
He climbed up the ladder, stepped onto the board tip, bounced, and dived…
… and what a dive…!
Perfectly poised in the air, he hit the water without so much as a ripple.
Now unknown to him, the captain – who’d grown rather fond of the poor old tramp – was standing watching this.
“That was amazing!” exclaimed the captain, “Where did you learn to dive like that?”
“Um, well I’ve never actually dived before,” replied the tramp.
“Well that’s incredible!” says the captain, “I’ve never seen…” He broke off. “Hey, I’ve got an idea”, he started again. “How would you like to train a bit, and we’ll put on a show for the other passengers. I’ll pay you, and you can then afford to go first class!”
“It’s a deal!” says our man. For the next 3 weeks the tramp practices like he’s never practiced before. Back-flips, front-flips, triple-back sideways axled dives, you name it he tried it.
Then one morning the captain comes to talk. “Okay, I’d like you to stay in your cabin for the next 2 days. We’re going to erect a high diving board for you.”
“Okay,” agreed the tramp.
Two days passed, and the big day arrived. The ship was humming with excitement. Everyone wanted to see the mystery diver. The captain had provided the tramp with a new pair of swimming trunks and he wore these as he stepped out onto the sun-beaten deck. Gasps of astonishment from the crowd, and a hushed awe. Higher than the eye could see, towering up and up, rose a slender column of metal.
“Well, tramp,” said the captain, shaking his hand, “Let’s see what you can do.” And with that the Captain handed him a walkie talkie. And the tramp began to climb…
up and up…
below him the ship grew smaller…
on and on…
past a solitary albatross…
and still higher…
till the ship was but a speck on the ocean below…
and on still further…
/ till the ocean grew dim…
and the earth itself…
began to shrink…
past our moon…
and on…
and Mars…
and on…
higher, and higher…
through the asteroid belt…
and on and on towards the diving board…
past the outer planets, until…
on the outermost reaches of the Solar System…
he reached the board.
He climbed on top and radioed the captain…
and then…
.’ ‘.
. .
. .
he jumped.
.
.
.
.
:
Slowly at first,
:
but speeding up,
:
:
:
faster, and faster,
:
speeding past Pluto,
:
and the other outer planets,
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
through the asteroid belt,
past Mars,
and the moon,
faster,
and faster,
faster – ever faster,
and by now the earth was growing large in the distance, the oceans and land masses grew clear,
faster, and faster,
past the albatross,
double-back somersault,
and he could see the ship, tiny in the distance,
hurtling down now, he posed, ready for the final 500 feet,
Down on the ship the crew strained their necks,
“I CAN SEE HIM!” yelled a passenger, “LOOK!!!”
The tramp streaked down towards the pool, did a last triple flip, and dove…
NOT A RIPPLE ON THE SURFACE!
DOWN THROUGH THE WATER!
SMASHED THROUGH THE POOL BOTTOM!
DOWN THROUGH THE FIRST DECK!
SMASHING THROUGH THE SECOND!
DOWN!
DOWN!
THROUGH THE CREW’S QUARTERS!
THROUGH THE ENGINE ROOMS!
SMASHING THROUGH HIS OWN LITTLE CABIN!
AND DOWN THROUGH THE DOUBLE-STRENGTH STEEL HULL OF THE SHIP!
STILL DOWN…!
DEEPER,
DEEPER INTO THE MURKY DEPTHS,
TILL………
SMASH!
Into the sea bed, sinking a 37’ shaft in the process.
Desperate for air he struggle out of the shaft, his lungs bursting he swam frantically for the surface.
Up and up, desperate, gasping…
Out of the water, up the ladder onto the deck of the ship, into a throng wild with acclaim.
“HERO!” “WONDERFUL!” “AMAZING!” “GOOD SHOW THAT!”
And handing him a heated towel the captain spoke, as a hush fell over the crowd.
“Well tramp, I have NEVER seen anything like that, EVER. That was the most *STUPENDOUS* piece of diving I have ever seen.”
The tramp blushed.
The captain went on, “but tell me, most amazing of all is how you survived smashing through this boat after you dived – how did you do it.”
And the tramp looked at the captain, and the crowd and replied modestly: “Well you see…
I’m a just poor tramp…
so you must understand…
I’ve been through many a hard ship in my life.”
tl;dr
That was great
It’s no
longestjokeintheworld . comhttp://natethesnake.com/This is just a tribute
Don’t click on anything on that site… it comes up with one of those ‘PLEASE CALL THIS NUMBER TO REMOVE THE SPYWARE THAT JUST GOT INSTALLED ON YOUR COMPUTER’ messages.
I mean, you can just close it with task manager, but it’s loud as fuck and I’m wearing headphones and oh god my ears.
What? No it doesn’t?
Seriously?
Yeah. Totally blasted the shit out of my ears. I scrolled all the way down to the bottom to see what the punchline was and must have clicked something because 2 seconds later some woman is telling me how virus-infested my computer is.
Jokes on her – it’s a work laptop, I don’t give a shit.
Aw, shit dude, sorry about that. I just Googled the punchline of the joke and that was the first site that popped up. I didn’t get anything like that, possibly because I’ve got AdBlocker going.
I’ve updated the link to another site.
That’s 14 messages I’ve received so far today.
Heart attack every time, and not one of them ended up being from her 😛
Just dont do the double message after a few hours, you will hate yourself forever.
Never ever ever.
(again)
…don’t suppose there’s an upper limit on the amount of time before this becomes ok? >_>
Carve your initials + her initials inside of a loveheart into a tree and send her a picture of it.
Nothing is more romantic 😉
Its better if you do it on your flesh.
Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out of hand fast!
We get it! You’re popular! Jeez!
I’ve just been spamming his phone with “has she texted yet” every half an hour. So that’s probably like 12 of the messages.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/25/online-dating-too-shy-to-approach-people
I asked on Twitter but I’m going to post here as well.
Anyone keen to try out Play-Agricola.com? It’s an unofficial way to play Agricola over the interwebs. Agricola is one of the best worker placement games out there and I really wish I could play it more. This site may just be the way to do it.
You don’t need to know how to play Agricola although looking up some tutorials online will be a good idea. We’ll hop on TS sometime around 8pm (AEDT) and give it a whirl. Game should take about 45min per player with probably half an hour of faffing around beforehand to work out what we’re doing.
Sound good? Great. Hurray. Sound less good? Well, you’re a jerk and I don’t want to play with you anyway. Harrumph.
I can’t do tonight. Tomorrow night yes.
I’m out tomorrow night.
Welp, caved and went for the 390x from MSY – then had to ask at eight shops at Capitol Square before I found one stocking active DP-DVI adapters.
Is anyone else getting the ‘please whitelist us on your AdBlock extension’ message on the Kotaku main page even though they don’t use AdBlock? Only just started then.
Only just noticed I’m not getting it here at home. Even though I was getting it at work from around lunchtime today.
I’m assuming they’re testing/implementing it now, so there might be a few hitches.
Yeah that’s what I figured. I was just a bit concerned something was going wrong with my browser that prevented them from receiving payment for the ads that were being displayed. I’m sure when the YouTube player screws up it doesn’t count my views properly which is really annoying.
I got it as well but I did hostfile tabola syndication away so figured it was that
Dear Sydney peeps:
F you!
http://www.pedestrian.tv/news/arts-and-culture/harrison-ford-is-coming-to-australia-for-a-special/997dadd1-7a61-4bf6-8e32-3ab19be14c89.htm
-cries-
Booked out, huh?
I don’t think I want to go take a look at eBay right now 😛
This whole housing saga sucks,
i feel sick,
The lady who owns the house called me at work and asked if i can start looking for other housing options because she got a lengthy text message from my roommate saying i did a bunch of shit that i didn’t. I explained i was moving anyway but i felt the need to defend myself and rebute the shit that was told to her
That i smoked pot in her house
that i constantly stumble home drunk
THat i never clean or mow
that my room is a sty.
and my favourite: He has brought several prostitiutes home and they have loud noisy sex on weekdays and i feel unsafe in that environment.
You know how stupid i felt telling a middle aged lady i havent had sex in like 6 months. The answer: Very stupid.
Anyway hopefully i hear back about this unit today so i can move my shit tomorow, in the meantime i guess ill go to a brothel tonight and stay with my bitches. :/
Oh what? I thought you did do all those things. Lame.
If it’s really that big of a problem, maybe you should stop being such a bad housemate you filthy whoremongering dopefiend.
The kids who sell dope wont even deal to me because i look younger than they do
PLATINUM
I keep telling you hookers are a weekend thing.
Alternatively, and this could be a really crazy and out there theory: your housemate is fucking nuts.
I recommend taking a video of how amazingly clean your room is as soon as you’re able, and adding, “The person I’m living with is a sociopath trying to get rid of me for reasons they won’t articulate because they don’t even respond when I try to engage them in friendly conversation – so don’t be surprised if they get someone else who they also don’t like and you suddenly start hearing similar lies about the new person, too.”
(Edit: Well. That’s not what I would do. I would confront the roommate and ask them, “What the fuck is wrong with you?” and see if the resulting argument might actually yield some kind of clue as to… y’know. What the FUCK is wrong with them. But confrontation isn’t everyone’s bag.)
yeah i already took photos and i also added ive been doing free maintence to the house. I fixed several door handles, i did some electrical work and replaced a few socket switches, I fixed the mower and the dryer which hadnt worked in months. I didnt ask for compensation, i just did it to make everyones life easier. To then get told that im disrespecting the house really hurt. Not only stuff for the house, i fixed my roomates camera and laptop and even printed a gopro mount for her motorcycle.
Any chance you can install spyware on his/her computer before you go for that sweet, sweet revenge?
i would but im not super into revenge. im more of a get really upset and yell into a void for a hour or two then use it as one of my “oh rocketman” stories.
see “the story of rockets crazy ex who broke into his house and had sex with a random dude and then ross walked in on them” story
You really need to visit mr
You need to find better friends man.
she wasnt a friend, i just applied for a room online, I maybe should do a background check next time :/
Ahh right. Yeah stuff living with randoms, your home is too important a space.
Man I would be absolutely fuming if that happened; your housemate is psycho and thank god you’re moving out.
Make sure you document how you LEAVE your room and get your housemate to sign the pictures.
Is she moving out at the same time?
nope, shes staying. Im effectively getting kicked out, its okay, i didnt sign a lease so i dont give a fuck. the lady who i pay rent to said i can have my bond back so im just gonna get the fuck outta there 🙂
Still do it, cover your arse. Get her to sign off on the condition of the rooms so if she complains later on you’re covered.
I think I flatted with her before, or another nutcase with identical problems.
Rocketbuddy is a playa.
In a more serious tone, that sucks dude.
Hope this unit thing comes through for you.
Thanks to people who randomly popped up late last night and played some Fibbage/Quiplash with me and my darling mother.
I have no words for some of the jokes that she slowly tapped out on that iPad.
I kinda want to write Your Friend, The Wall Socket.
Just hit 1,000 lifetime wins in Hearthstone.
What am I doing with my life ….
Winning!
You hear from that girl yet? Take her to the Star tonight!
Have not. And probably a bit short notice for that 😛
Tale her to Star and propose to her in one of their hotel room toilets. It’s what I did and 10 years later we’re still together so plan is foolproof.
Freeze is so classy.
Heh. I was looking through my “On this day” stuff on Facebook and noticed Facebook was telling me more than 1 person commented on some stuff and I had replied to whoever it was, they had vanished. I then worked it out, it was a ex-mate who I unfriended about 9 months back, he’s apparently blocked me. Heh. I guess he got sick & tired seeing me comment on mutual friends stuff, too funny.
Help how long do you wait before sending a follow-up message I think I am still cocking this up why did this have to happen while my usual realtime support crew are all too busy to offer guidance.
Well it’s about time one of these finally hit the mark 😛
I’ve always been a big fan of ‘sleep on it’ as a solution.
It comes with bundled-in procrastination, which is the best.
What is a more eloquent way of saying “so when’s good for you?”
Actually I don’t even know if that’s the best thing to lead with next. Or if more is required. Or.
Ugh. Headdesk.
What’s wrong with ‘so when’s good for you?’
Don’t overthink things/2nd/3rd/4th-guess yourself. 🙂
Brain is telling me that it comes off as blunt/pushy especially after awkward day-long silence. Or something.
Think it’s at least at 8th by now.
Just be brush off the delay. “Sorry for the late reply. So when’s good for you?” PROBLEM SOLVED.
Invite her to beer’o’clock. Because Friday.
It’s Steam Sale time, so it’s time for my regular “Crusader Kings 2 is hella cheap right now” posts.
I’d like to add the requisite “TO THE MOON!” (I don’t even know if it’s on sale), but I’d also like to mention Ori and the Blind Forest, which is in my top 3 games this year.
to the moon is so god damn good, well the hour and a half i have played felt like a film despite the pixel art. story is so dense.
Aside from one section, the last 45 minutes border on perfect (in my opinion, obviously). I cannot recommend the game enough, which comes with the downside of ruining it for some people with heightened expectations. Love that game nearly as much as I love Journey, and on par with P4G.
To the moon is such a heartbreaker.
Is that the one that has the Game of Thrones mod?
Yup
So after playing some more Mordheim, I find it highly suspicious that my best climber in my warband is Marek Sarles. Random name generator seems to have clued onto reality.
Maybe I’m missing it, but it doesn’t seem to actually describe what kind of game Mordheim is on Steam. Is it a flat adaptation of Warhammer i.e. turn-based tactical or something else?
It’s basically a straight video game version of Mordheim the tabletop game. Turn-based tactical with limited “strategy points” (movement) and “action points” (attacks and abilities). I’d recommend watching a Youtube video as my best comparison so far is that it’s kinda like Valkyria Chronicles in how it plays but with rogue-like elements ie. when characters get injured, it gets bad really quickly and they usually carry an ongoing effect.
If you ever get the chance to play an old-school Mordheim campaign DO IT. Just make sure people haven’t looked up how to play online so they don’t use the many cheese strats. If you stumble into them through game-play it’s fine, just don’t use other people for strategy 😛
Today feels like it’s started too early. :/
So, apparently episode 3 of Minecraft: Story Mode came out this week. Only a month after episode 2, which is super quick for Telltale considering how long we’ve been made to wait for previous Telltale games. Usually they make us wait at least 2 to 3 months. It’s starting to look like they’re gonna try and push out the final episode before the end of the year.
Maybe this is a sign of things to come with future Telltale games. Personally I’d really love to see a weeky/fortnightly release model. Even a month is too long to wait.
I suspect it’s because this is aimed at a younger audience who have less patience and shorter attention spans, and won’t stick with a release schedule of 2+ months between eps.
Also Christmas!
Okay, so if the cold wasn’t bad enough, I’m also suffering back pain and the same chest pain I had a while back. Seriously body, what the heck!?
Holy Crap! Apparently I bought Just Cause 2 on the 24th of June last year and I haven’t even installed it yet.
Edit: Also, it’s interesting that Just Cause (4.7GB) is bigger than Just Cause 2 (3.9GB).
It’s interesting that something something http://www.jc-mp.com
Ha! Downloading JC, JC2 and JC2MP now.
Now it’s just a case of getting everyone together for an old fashioned demolition derby on the frozen lake…after dragging them (and me) away from Fallout and Battlefront 😛
@cakesmith @sernobulus @pixel_the_ferret_viking @rocketman @blaghman @mythamphetamine @ICantRememberWhoElseUsedToPlay
I also have it and so does Gorzy
And me. Sheesh, you guys are literally all monsters that make me cry.
Not sure if I should have tagged you because I remember your PC hating the game for some reason, but you’re more than welcome to join in when it happens.
Like, literally. It’s mandatory for you.
My PC hates fun. I might have to format this weekend or something.
Alas I’m tied down with family things for the next week
So Elite: Dangerous is currently down to $15USD (roughly $20.75AUD) as part of the Steam sale. As I go to buy it I jump on Twitter and Chris Roberts is tweeting about his experiences in the latest Star Citizen alpha and it sounds like things are really coming together.
If you’re a space sim fan, it’s a pretty good time to be alive. If you’re not, it’s a pretty good time to get on board.
None of these are Descent.
You really want to throw up in VR?
What’s the point of VR then?
Porn, obviously.
So you really want to throw up in VR?
It’s just like throwing up in real life!
Kinks stay in the bedroom please.
Ugh, VR porn is so cumbersome and expensive, you might as well just have sex with an actual person.
You mean boning? The wild mambo? The hunka chunka?
But Descent:Underground is US$9.89.
Yeah, I was just going to say… There IS new Descent for those who want it.
But that doesn’t change that none of those were Descent….
You are technically correct…. the BEST kind of correct.
Descent isn’t a space sim though… it’s a flying-through-a-tunnel-and-shooting-shit sim…. which is awesome. Like a game built around the Millenium Falcon flying through the big asteroid in Empire Strikes Back…
Speaking of which,… Is there an asteroid field ship fighting level in Battlefront? I’d love to have a ‘THIS IS NO CAVE!’ moment.
@rise Have you played either ED or SC in VR yet?
You misspelled Han Solo
Rasha naba doe-ah gola wookiee nipple pinchy!
No, but I’ll absolutely be playing full release SC in VR (assuming it all works fine by then).
Maybe worth noting that if you’re going for Elite, you can get it even cheaper by buying it from Frontier’s website and buying it in Euros instead of US Dollars, since the exchange rate is currently favouring that. Horizons comes out about AU$10 cheaper that way.
Thanks, I was thinking I might jump in and give some Elite a try while I wait for my Star Citizen Alpha-2 invite to come through.
Apparently at the moment $12.39 euro = $18.34 AUD vs. $14.99 USD = $20.77 AUD.
What’s Horizons, just an expansion? Elite is a mostly solo game right, so you don’t really need to have the current DLC if you’re just jumping in now?
Horizons is the expansion that introduces planetary landings and lets you drive around in a dune buggy.
Yeah, there’s more to it than that, but really, that’s big enough as-is to warrant a purchase.
Also, it’s worth remembering for space sim fans that X: Rebirth is cheap right now too (hahahaha sorry I’ll leave now.)
Fair enough, I guess I mainly just wanted to knw – if I buy Elite now, will I suddenly have a sub-par experience when Horizons launches? There are multiplayer elements here since it’s sort of an MMO, but I’m not really interested in playing with others.
I want to jump into Elite (I note the original 1984 version is free!) but I just haven’t had the time to commit to sinking money in. I’m awfully tempted to grab it now while it’s < $20 but I’m still playing Fallout 4, not sure it will run on my PC, etc etc etc.
It should run on your PC. It seems to be able to run on just about anything.
I have 8 gigs of ram and a quad core i7 something, but my graphics card is a GT 630 which bottlenecks pretty much everything.
Couldn’t really say I guess, I don’t know much about PC stuff. I think mine is a 660 or something, and seems to be fine?
Oh actually, there was a tool someone made for you to be able to download the single player combat tutorials, as a kind of unofficial demo. You could try grabbing that and see how it runs.
Horizons is their first expansion/second “season” of updates. The big additions of that are planetary landings and multi-crew ships. You’ll still be able to play the base game without it, and the base game will still be getting updates and extra features such as the loot/crafting system that’ll be coming along at the same time as Horizons. Can’t remember if there’s been more mentioned than those examples.
How reliant is the game on multiplayer? I love the idea of flying around, exploring a huge galaxy, upgrading my ship, etc. But presumably multi-crew ships means having multiplayer buddies, and I don’t think I can be bothered with that, personally.
It sort of is and isn’t? I mean it’s always online so everyone is affecting the persistent universe, but you can play Solo if you like and never come across any other commanders. I prefer to stick to Open and let what happens happen, it’s not all that often I come across others anyway. Space is really big etc.
I haven’t gotten to do it much, but there *is* a lot of fun to be had playing with others.
So you can leave it open and *maybe* meet someone else, or set it to Solo and *definitely* not come across anyone else. Fair enough.
Hi.
That is all.
Carry on.
I can’t, the 19 year old at checkin in said my bag was too large for carry-on.
#everypageispage6
Friend bought me a Nerf Gun and gave it to me at work, one of those Star Wars stormtrooper blasters. Great fun, always have a foam gun or two around the place when people visit (“This here’s a framed souvenir from Australia, this here’s a Nerf gun.”) So giddy that I unwrapped it and had a good few rounds of target practice at work, because I’m working hard, of course. Bit- bit awkward when I was waving it about with glee and me and my workmates stumble past police roping off a drive-by shooting on the streets on our way to a pub.
I mean, the cops had a laugh as well, but ah, bit hard to take the jokes in stride in front of fellas in unform combing the ground for bullet casings.
Also, hello! Haven’t been on here for a bit.
Awkward… 😐
If you were in the US you probably wouldn’t have been able to tell us that story. Hurray for Canadia!
Many a dark joke was made that night towards our darker-skinned friends in the group about if they were holding the toy gun. Horray for Kanada indeed.
#OhSaturday
#HashtagsForHarli
We tried playing Agricola last night on Play-Agricola.com.
Hoboy. Let’s not make that mistake again.
Yeah, what happened there? Unless there was another session, you guys played for like.. 15 minutes? Is that normal?
The UI was straight up terrible.
The site really needs to hire someone with some coding or design experience.
The reason I was insistent on trying it out is that Play-Agricola is the semi-official unofficial Agricola site. Kind of. The latest expansion was designed and tested there. I figured that it’s been around for a while and has been used by Z-Man so it may not suck. I was wrong.
I think I’ll try a solo game on Boiteajeux before trying to force others into playing with me. This one is more of a play-by-mail set up that I’ve seen a few people use before. I’ll stop talking about it if it’s shit.
Considering that it just took me a dozen tries to register (apparently I’m a robot that can’t read CAPTCHAs, who knew?), I don’t have high hopes.
Edit: I played 2 rounds of Agricola solo. Boite a Jeux is good. Everything is clearly presented in a way that doesn’t create a bajillion windows. Actions are easy to do and easily sorted in tabs off to the side. All of the information you need is there. I like. This is what we should’ve tried. The downside is that it only has the three base decks (E,I & K). That’s not really a downside.
Does that (the edit) mean we’re getting the band back together?
Maybe on Sunday afternoon?
I’m available then, assuming I’ve made it back from the Bri-B-Que.
And assuming Rockets hasn’t tossed you out of the car thanks to your poor taste in music. 🙂
The UI was painful and with a bunch of new players (myself included) it was…. less than ideal.
http://i.imgur.com/bqTHokA.jpg
This was posted on reddit today and somebody in the comments made a really good point. THey said something along the lines of The Star Wars universe is filled with droids capable of data transfer, why the fuck wouldn’t they shoot down the escape pod if it didnt have any organic lifeforms on it. Its not like they were out of ammo. I guess i just enjoy the movie so much that i never noticed.
“hold your fire, there’s no life forms aboard”
“‘hold your fire’? What, are we paying by the laser now?”
“you don’t do the budget, Terry, I do!”
Just re-watched Blue Harvest last night. Sah gerd!
Counterpoint: they suspected the pod could contain something of interest and didn’t see the sense in destroying the pod for no reason when they could instead, e.g.: send down a squad of stormtroopers to investigate. Which is what happened once a search of the ship revealed the plans were nowhere aboard.
This bugged me too about the whole thing(Though I know that if they took the actual logical approach it would’ve been a very short series). Something as big as the Galactic Empire doesn’t store backups of the plans of their most powerful creation yet(If it did get actually “stolen”, as in cut and pasted to a remote drive)? If they knew they were on board, they would’ve wanted to destroy any possible places those files could’ve been stored, including on an escape pod… with zero lifeforms on board, right? With the primary objectives they had regarding that Corvette (Vader knew what he was after when he boarded), they had completely no reason to not simply obliterate it with some hard turbolaser shots to ensure it got vaporised.
All possible places the plans could’ve been hidden have been either secured or destroyed, mission complete!
I feel like the Empire would also want to verify that Leia was in fact couriering the plans – otherwise, why not blow up the Tantive IV from the outset? If they turned up exactly zero, then that leaves another vector open. Though logically, duplicating the data and having as many people carry the plans as possible makes a lot more sense from a “let’s destroy the death star” standpoint, but few people in the rebel alliance could be trusted to carry out that mission, or take the risk.
Indeed but in my view of it, the way it was presented in the movie, the Empire knew the plans were there, they didn’t say it was a possiblity, they came on board and they knew the plans were on board and it seemed like it was the only copy they had to track down(Which if the rebels did in fact duplicate the files to gods knows how many more possible places). Regardless even if they turned up nothing, the plans were either secured or destroyed in the mission to capture the Corvette.
And there would be no risk if they duplicated the data, they could give it to every computer system and every officer and soldier, at least one could make it back, and something as big as Death Star plans, even if only one got away and back to HQ, it would’ve been worth it all.
Except if some pleb is captured with the plans, he immediately reveals the Yavin IV base and the rebels are destroyed before they can counterattack. The only reason they lasted long enough was because Leia resisted the interrogation. Of course the Falcon led them directly to the rebels but they still had enough time to prepare and weren’t caught with their pants completely down.
Very fair and good point on that bit! My point on the Empire still stands though 😛
Step 1 – Steal plans
Step 2 – Upload to GalacticNet
Step 3 – Everyone with a 3D printer prototypes their own Death Star
Step 4 – A Current Affair gets REALLY ANGRY about this
Step 5 – 3D printers are banned
LOOK WHAT YOU DID, LEIA. I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY NOW. 🙁
Step4a – Use dark music.
Step4b – Show 0.5 speed footage of Leia with black & white filtering.
Step4c – Harass and chase Leia with a camera and “reporter”, asking extremely confronting questions and being confused when she snaps at them or walks away without answering.
LOL precisely. 🙂 It writes itself, doesn’t it?
It’s the main reason why they’re able to bring out so much content PER DAY!
I stopped watching all TV years ago for a reason 😛
I present to you: The Ewok Theory
They baited a trap with a piece of meat as big as they are and had a net big enough to catch multiple humans. I doubt that was a fluke. It was routine. There’s something out there on Endor big enough to warrant those nets. Something carnivorous. And the Ewoks eat it. In the Empire’s disdain for all non-humans, they ignored the potential threat of a primitive culture whose way of life revolves around taking down things the size of their walkers.
More than that: when they carry the captured Rebels to their camp, they’re going to cook them for a ceremonial feast. A feast. Now we have to look to the helmets being used by the Ewoks as drums during the celebration at the end of the movie: helmets from stormtroopers, pilots, etc. But where are the troopers that were wearing them? Did we see prisoners, or bodies, or a mass grave?
No. We didn’t.
It was payback for the Endor Holocaust.
Spot on.
Well, the empire is arrogant, and maybe accidental escape pod firings are a common thing?
Another reason to hate them, they skimp on electronics techs.
My main problem with Star Wars is that somehow the Galactic Empire only managed to last about twenty years, yet somehow galactic peace-keeper space wizard diplomat-warriors who use supernatural abilities somehow managed to be forgotten in the space of less than one generation.
The had a rubbish marketing guy.
fuck you frank
Oh, that’s easy to imagine. You look at anywhere that’s had a cultural purge- Cambodia, China, Stalinist Russia- and the old ways get forgotten very, very quickly.
Hell, in Cambodia, following the Khmer Rouge, people had to be re taught agriculture.
Dons nerd hat
It is mentioned in the Episode 1 novelisation that there are only 10,000 Jedi throughout the galaxy at the time of Ep 1.
With the size of the galaxy, it’s not hard to believe that few people actually came in contact with a Jedi. Not only did people rarely come into contact with Jedi, but Jedi also acted as diplomats until The Clone Wars. They weren’t soldiers or assassins. So not many people would see them fight or use their abilities and lightsabers. They’d only hear stories about them.
Of course, the Empire could’ve just run a smear campaign against them. How they weren’t as “all powerful” as they claimed. After all, most of them were wiped out by Order 66.
The expanded universe: able to navigate any plot hole in 12 parsecs.
Exactly. Jedi were common but still largely unknown outside the the political circles they moved in.
By the time the Empire had been in power 20 years, they were seen as a hokey religion because 99.99999% of people had never met a Jedi, let alone seen evidence of the Force.
The new movies are set what, another 20-30 years in the future? Jedi would be completely forgotten except by a fortunate few.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/brisbane-bus-commuters-set-for-a-rear-entry-trial-20151126-gl97j8.html
Just relax, you’ll enjoy it.
coconut oil is great
I wonder if Uber does bulk discounts…
I have a great idea- lets set up an uber, but it uses buses and to make it simpler we’ll make it go along popular city routes, and they’ll run regularly, and oh shit I just created a public transport system didn’t I
Hey, why not? If they can run a better taxi service than the taxis, maybe they can run a better public transport service than public transport.
I don’t believe they can, and I don’t believe I want them to.
Public transport can always be improved, of course, but I’d rather a system that’s functional and accessible to everyone and is run as a public good than one that’s high tech and shiny but expensive or limited.
If you were designing a transport system purely on a profit basis, you’d never, ever send buses where some buses go- low passenger numbers, rough parts of town. As a system that’s a public service with an obligation to serve people though, it’s a required part of the design and a great social leveller.
I really want to replicate whatever confluence of circumstances results in the Japanese transport system.
Er… no monkey’s paw or genie wish there, though. God only knows what would end up changing.
A huge population in a tiny area, running off the back of a highly militarised culture. Combine this with a huge government emphasis on trains running back to the late 19th century, and the fact that their trains are so embedded that a lot of cities grew around the lines, not the other way around (hardly rare in established nations, but Australia’s a bit young for it).
So, I hope you have 100 years, the power to influence the population for that long, and that you’re willing to destroy whatever city you want to change. No idea how to fix the population thing though, Australia’s pretty screwed in that sense.
When I am God-King…
I am MORE than willing to destroy cities during my immortal reign of terror-love. And forced reproduction for all until we’re at the same ratio of people/land as Japan.
Just got back from 6 weeks in japan and south korea picking up fallout 4.
Played pokken the pokemon fighting game at club sega 8 levels of arcade games ^^ was australia always this hot? Aircon and fallout this weekend
I just went to my local EB games to pick up fallout 4 instead
Instead of what? I meant I haven’t been home to play games for 6 weeks so I have a lot of catching up to do
Instead of spending 6 weeks in japan and south korea picking up fallout 4. Sounds like a lot of effort for just one game
I didn’t buy it overseas i meant I was on holidays so i haven’t had the chance to play games apart from the Japanese arcade games
I picked up fallout 4 today as i am back in oz
I do miss the korean Internet speeds i was using 5G on my phone
Welp, sent something. Probably horrible. Tempting to just turn the phone off entirely for the next month or so, pretend nothing ever happened.
Gonna go tune a piano and hopefully remain distracted. Or maybe get eaten by a swarm of redbacks.
Unless if was a dick pic you’ll be fine.
It, uh, it wasn’t a dick pic was it?
And if it was, are you going to share with the rest of the class?
Was it a picture of your arm with her name etched in it?
I mean this in the nicest possible way
but you are a boob.
Shes only one girl, you dont know if you have anything in common, if shes funny or sweet or kind or into having a threeway. You know nothing. But you put her on a pedestal. like she is some unobtainable beauty. Dont take it so seriously, if she is cool she will want to hang and stuff, if she isnt thats cool too, youll find someone else. Leave your phone on and just chill man. You have nothing to lose. Literally nothing. So just take a few deep breaths and let it go 🙂
ROCKET OUT
I like boobs.
Rocketman is the best wingman. He is like my personal Hitch.
This.
Most dates don’t result in a long-term commitment, let alone marriage, and most marriages fail.
It is always healthiest to assume that your new flame is not ‘The One’ to be handled preciously for fear of ruining your only chance at happiness, but rather an enjoyable vetting process.
If acting naturally ruins everything, then it was all going to fall apart anyway. Better now than after investing.
There are 2 possible outcomes for EVERY relationship.
Either you will break up, or one of you will die.
Im gonna live forever
Who wants to live forever?
I do I do I do I do I do
Downvoted because FUCK ABBA.
@beeawwb Point taken, but it was the only song title I could think of with I do in it.
There was no point except FUCK ABBA. 😛
You’ve been caught in the crossfire of a twitter argument raging right now on the subject of FUCK ABBA. 🙂
@transientmind This is what STARTED the TwiTAYer Civil War.
I.e. I posted this, Rocketman saw it and called me out on it on Twitter. *KABLAMMO* Most funny thing I’ve seen in a long time.I don’t even know where the battle-lines are any more, too many parties got involved and loyalties and principles got complicated.
The thing I love most, honestly, is that as much as we can all disagree on a topic we can still (I am, at least) laugh about it and love each other and be super cool people.
Well, we all already knew you people were going to ‘Hell’ anyway for not loving cats enough, so it doesn’t really matter how obscenely wrong you are about other stuff. 🙂
At least I’ll have plenty of friends to keep me company in Hell. Will be just like a regular day, I expect.
Spoken like someone who has either dated alot, or hasn’t dated in many years. Shit’s tough, yo, particularly when you aren’t used to it.
Then again, he has a point. Relax, she’s one girl, the worst she can do is say no, and if she does really you’ve lost nothing.
I just have no heart, im dead inside
In all seriousness, i haven’t dated a lot, i have dated, I just feel like people put too much pressure on stuff to work out.
The only words I saw were boob threeway
Total Recall?
To be honest, they’re the only words i remember from that post too.
Man, all these top, mature Rocket posts recently. Puberty hit you hard and fast, didn’t it?
I <3 you RocketsA Sonnet, by Mr Taco
Shall I compare thee to an old console
Thou art more lovely and more supported:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of Mario,
And Virtual By’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the electronics run,
And often is the old chipset too dusty;
But thy eternal nintyness shall not fade
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
“the old chipset too dusty” uh I feel like some of these metaphors are going to come across oddly
Well, like all old nintendo stuff, sometimes you just need to breathe in and bl- OK that’s really dirty.
At least you sent something. That’s a win! I totally get the anxiety thing, I was like that myself. You send off something, and then find you can’t sit down or hold a thought properly. I had insane jitters in the early pre-stages of my relationship with my wife.
It gets better… if you just throw yourself into it.
Also, *obligatory popcorn*
Think I’m a bit late to the party, but I just found out that this is a thing.
http://au.ign.com/articles/2015/08/25/square-enix-is-giving-away-an-island-in-just-cause-3-contest
Apparently, if you’re at the top of the chaos point leaderboard at the end of the first 90 days you have the chance to win either your own island or $50,000 (US) cash. I’m assuming it’s gonna be a top 10 or 20 go into a draw type deal.
So, a question: If you won, what would you choose?
Personally I’d be tempted to go for the island because people are jerks, but then there’s the whole no electricity thing, so I’d probably go for the cash (especially with the exchange rate being what it is).
Generators exsist, as do solar panels
island it up bro
Yeah, I thought about generators, but then you have to have money to buy Diesel, and how are you going to get money with no job. As you suggested though solar panels would be a good solution.
You own a island, there is a untapped tourism market.
Yeah, but then there’s the whole people thing, which defeats the whole purpose of choosing the island in the first place.
Hrmm, there’s a lot of islands out there, and not every island is hamilton island. you could end up with Rockall
So perfect for an underground lair… I can just see a hatch opening in the side of that and a jet-car flying out.
I don’t think the Thunderbirds are going to set up shop there any time soon.
WHERE’S MY ELEPHANT
WHERE’S MY ELEPHANT
I like that song, it reminds me of elephants
Some people think the title of this song is irrelevant.
But it’s not an elephant; it’s a hippopopotamus.
Cash.
An island is a great idea, but I’d just invest the cash into renovating a really nice inner city property. I need the rest of those conveniences, mang. And to just generally be in amongst it.
Well then.
Tayfronds!
For those of you who like collectables, card games and board games, Popcultcha currently has 20% off EVERYTHING for today only.
If you don’ notice a discount on the search result, click on the item and you will see it. Some increadibly good deals here.
http://www.popcultcha.com.au/
Literally the first thing I saw was a Justin Beiber mug… ewww
Crap! After paying bills, and buying a lightsaber for my son for christmas and a Lego First Order Snowspeeder for myself I have no money left this week :'(
A quick look and I see Cosmic Encounter for $80, which is about the usual price.
Most games are priced about right. It’s the bigger, more expensive games (or new things like Portal) where this discount seems rad. Not as good as the Amazon buy 2 get 1 free but after shipping it might work out alright.
Edit: Twilight Imperium 3rd edition for $112. That’s a really good price for a somewhat hard to find game. It’s also a gargantuan game that will consume whole days of your life and make you loathe all of your friends. Definitely some good stuff here but be sure to compare to other stores first.
COSMIC ENCOOOOOOOOUNTER!
The prices for the x-wing stuff is insanely good too – around $15 for the small ship expansions.
Also arcadia quest is preices really well.
Book Depository is pretty much the go to site for Fantasy Flight games. The only downside is that they’re a bit rough with shipping. Perfectly fine when you’re picking up Android: Netrunner data pakcs. Maybe not so fine with miniatures. Can’t say, I’ve dodged the X Wing miniatures hype train (although Armada does look sexy).
X-wing is amazing.
And yeah, i also usually use BD for fantasy flight stuff too – i’ve got an expansion for conquest on the way as we speak. Best site.
Armada is meant to be brilliant, but it’s a bit above my price range at the moment, and i don’t i would have many people to play with as it’s a bit more complex than x-wing
How is Conquest? I haven’t picked it up because there’s nobody to play with but the core game looks brilliant.
It’s seriously good.
Seriously.
It’s very well designed and the fact it comes with 7 armies in the core box is amazing.
Played it for the first time at pax and fell in love, bought it the same day and one expansion.
It’s worth noting that you don’t need to be a 40k fan to enjoy it – sure it helps, but the gameplay is very solid. Easy to learn and play flows very well. You’re never not doing something, which helps to keep it interesting.
If you want to play casually, you can easily just use the single core set. Replayability is excellent, as when you are done using single factions, you can ally your decks with other factions and start customising.
If you want to deckbuild for tournament level play, though, you will need 3 of the core set, plus whatever expansions you need.
Haha, I forgot about Conquest. I bought it at PAX 2014 and opened it once (to check out the artssss) then never again 🙁
@f4ction sooo good.
The arts is great too.
We need to run some Conquest meats or something cuz I got the game as well but nobody to play against
@tech_knight
Happy to try and start organising times to play, man. Just need to balance it in with home life, but it’s all good.
If we want neutral places there is an EXCELLENT games store based in Footscray i go to called KayJays with plenty of space and snacks + coffffeeeee,
If it’s near the train station (Which it kinda is), that can work for me.
Must not look at pop vinyl, must not look at pop vinyl
let me guess – you looked at pop vinyl?
No
Yes. OMG Fallout.I’ve seen too many of those, they all look the same to me now! 😛
Just Cause 2 downloaded. Time to blow some shit up.
Don’t forget the multi-player mod! 🙂
So I linked to a Flanders and Swann song, and now I can’t stop listening to them. So freaking good.
Stupid sexy Flanders!
Men love women, geese love ganders, everyone else loves NED FLANDERS!
NOT ME!
…Everyone who counts loves Neeeeeed Flanders!
WTF! I go to start Just Cause 2, it performs the first time setup, then comes up with an error
Fatal DirectX error!
Code: 3
Result: 0x887A0002: DXGI_ERROR_NOT_FOUND
Help! @welbot?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r5Kd-MUCls ?
And also this: http:// www. gamefaqs.com/boards/943498-just-cause-2/65018447
Install games for windows live. It will magically fix anything even though the service is defunct. If that doesn’t work, it’s because your PC is feeling neglected. Try rubbing the tip of your wiener on the GPU. It’s never put my wife in a better mood, but I’m interested to see if it’s a solution to any other problems.
Just the tip? I give it a whip – shaft and all.
Again – doesn’t normally work with the wife, but could be helpful elsewhere.
Argh, sorry I posted 2 links and my comment got moderated. If you google Just Cause 2 Error 3, or DXGI_ERROR_NOT_FOUND there was a bunch of people who’ve had the problem and have solutions.
Sweet! Thanks man, works a treat now.
By that I mean the game starts. Launched “the dark tower” benchmark thingy from the menu, averaged about 14FPS, even went as low as 9FPS at one point. Seriously need to build a new PC.
Yay for B-ob! I was actually at work today, so I see your notice til I got home. (Had to come home early cos shooting pains in my brain were kicking my ass like they’re all outta gum. :\
Ffs, lost reply.
Auto reply fail becuase mobile.
It’s not that there’s any pedestal action or anything going on. You’re right, I don’t really know anything about this girl and have no real investment here. In fact I’m pretty much convinced the date itself would be horrible and awkward and best never mentioned again. But anyway, it’s got little to do with that. It’s more the frustration of barely being able to get to the starting line, let alone fail at reaching the finish. It’s like spending the first time living alone and setting fire to the cereal. Doesn’t matter the food on the bench is wasted. But it paints a pretty grim picture for the future if/when it continues to happen. If that makes sense?
It sounds to me like you need to take a deep breath and take it easy. Don’t assume what will or won’t happen, just live in the moment. If you think the worst will happen, you will be so totally anxious when you do go on the date that it actually might be the worst date ever because you’ll be in a state where you won’t be able to talk to her!
Dating isn’t easy but you don’t have to make it harder for yourself. Just try and relax, if it works out, it works out. If it doesn’t, there’s plenty of fish in the sea as they say.
I’m in a similar boat with a girl at the moment (who I’m actually going camping with tomorrow night with about 20 others) which is a bit nerve wracking but I can’t be worried about what might or might not happen otherwise I’d drive myself nuts!
Ooh, camping dating.
in tents.
Yep, going to do some “intents” stargazing.
Have you ever had sex while camping? Its fucking intents!
Someone’s confident the date will go well.
Lol, due to circumstances of the past week I’m pretty sure it won’t actually 😀
Some kind of horrific dick-related injury?
How did you know?!
@haggis It’s what I automatically assume since…. the incident.
As Confucious says, ‘Man who wants pretty nurse must be patient.’ I’m not really sure how that applies here.
But I think even if you’re not doing it in the specific way Transientmind outlined you’re still doing some variation on it. Maybe it’s not aimed at the girl but at the process instead. This reads sort of like you’ve got asking a girl out on a pedestal. Like it has to be perfect just to have a chance of succeeding. For some reason you’re blowing it out of proportion and making it this huge deal (like most of us do). I might be way off base, but I get the impression you don’t want to try because you think you’ll just be confirming your suspicions that you’re awful at this and that you’ll never get any better.
I know these fears and insecurities don’t really stem from a rational place that can be argued away, but you’ve got to remind yourself that your future isn’t on the line. Take a deep breath and remember you’re asking for a chance to hang out and get to know her. It might go further but for now that’s all it is. It’s tough being the one who puts themselves out there to get the ball rolling on this stuff, especially when you know you don’t know what you’re doing and aren’t fantastic at reading people, but as long as you stick with it you’ll get better at it.
You don’t even need to get better at it. All it takes is adequate. This whole ‘want to go to dinner with me?’ part of the process lasts like five minutes and doesn’t really matter. People can tell when you screw up. Most women aren’t going to turn around and say ‘even though he was clearly nervous I’m going to chalk his quietness up to hostility and never give him another chance’.
Normally I’d say ‘be yourself’ is weak advice, but when you’re feeling overwhelmed just remind yourself that you’re a decent guy with a friendly personality, and that’s pretty much everything you need to arrange/have an enjoyable evening with someone. If romance wasn’t part of the equation you’d be fine so if you calm down you should be golden.
You are a wise chap.
Had work Kris Kringle today.
Got a Nerf Cycloneshock.
Fuck yeah.
Fuck.
Arneyl 25 naq V srry yvxr fuvg, whfg va na birenyy frafr. 🙁Nyzbfg abguvat znxrf zr unccl, V ungr jurer V yvir, naq V qba’g guvax V pna znxr vg nal orggre.
Sorry for the bring-down, but I needed to get it off my chest.
I literally can’t even. Elvish?
Says cffndncr.
says BDKIAF
Which is a great song.
http://rot13.com/
Rot13
Context: in the old old days, before such things as spoiler tags, we used rot13 for spoilers.
And rode 15 miles to school uphill both ways in a blizzard and felt grateful, dammit.
Both ways?
I didn’t say we rode by the same route each time.
Tis’ the language of the ancient TAY’s. A noble species that came long before and who’s aged words hold incredible power. Not for the likes of mortals to hear.
Edit: Dammit guys @redartifice & @rize way to ruin it!
Dude, that’s rough. If you’re feeling awful about… everything, have you tried talking to someone (a professional) about it? You know a bunch of people here have had similar issues and I’m sure that they’d all tell you talking about it helped immensely.Yeah, I’ve been through a tonne of crap with thoughts similar to this. A professional is the way to go, and I know you may not feel like going to one but trust me, it is the way forward through feeling like that. Life is too short to feel like you are. I went through 16 years of it before I was able to find someone and really deal with it, and it sucked giant nuts. Don’t wait as long as I did.You are still young and there is plenty of time to make things better. As Red says if things are bad (or even not that bad) speaking to a professional can help. Even just a call to beyond blue get get it off your chest might help.As for your other points you can always make it better. Hell you can always do something crazy, apply for jobs away from where you are, pack up and live somewhere else. If that be heading into a big city or regional town give it a try. Try to identify what you dislike about try to make a change. Try new things, don’t try to force something that you think you should enjoy but aren’t. Either you will come back to it later and enjoy it or it won’t be part of you life. If it isn’t making you happy (or adding other value to your life) you are better without it.
As for the 25 thing, well that can be easily explain but hard to overcome. That’s the age many people around you have found their place, things are working for them and everything is on track. That might be they have a job they like, or are getting married, or have the travel butg adn are constantly off on exotic trips or have purchased a house or whatever it is. None of that means anything to you, most people are still just as unsure about it and making it up as they go. Work out what matters to you and see what you can do, nothing that has happened, or your current state makes you or your life a failure.
I’m not sure how much of the above you actually feel, I think 25 year old me is projecting quite a lot so ignore any that is irrelevant. Long story short, things might not be as bad as the seem, you have the power to make a change if you want it and don’t judge your life/situation/feelings/worth based on the facade that other people project or that you project on to them.
If it makes it any better, things didn’t really pick up for me until the last few years and i’m 30 now. I’ve also had my fair share of absolutely BS times and more than a few that almost destroyed my relationship. Things do get better, though. I agree with what’s above that you can always speak to a professional about it – it’s amazing how much getting something off your chest can make a difference. Any there’s us too – we’re pretty rad.Hey, it’s not so bad. Could nearly 30 instead >_>I saw something upthread about Elite: Dangerous, and I know you’ve all talked about it for ages.
I know nothing about this game, why should I play it?
You can be either a space pirate or a space bounty hunter, and there’s PvP options, and you can use two joysticks, and triple-screen support, and it’s on sale!
Also, it’s like Euro Truck Simulator 2, in space!
Pros: it looks great and has good space flying mechanics.
Cons: you run out of stuff to do other than various grinding pretty quickly.
I regret paying full price for it but for the current discount price? Totally worth giving a crack.
er, reply to @redartifice
Hrmm.
Hrrrrrrmmmmm.
I get the feeling I’ll get motion sick.
Jesus christ.
Accidentally sent a nonsensical message about the piano to Stare Girl instead of Wingman.
I just need to be banned from phones.
At least I didn’t get eaten by spiders. Unfortunately.
……………………………….*sigh*
*grabs a bucket of popcorn*
Guys! GUYS!
I have a video of Sid, my dog, eating watermelon.
Aww, he thinks he’s people.
Look, Lana!
He thinks he’s people!
So cute! Sid eats it much more daintily than Siegmeyer does.
The first really hot day of the season I had cut some watermelon up and left the big 1/4 rind on the bench.
10 mins later I see the dog trot past happily, huge watermelon rind in mouth.
He proceeded to lie on his bed and eat until all scerrick of watermelon flavour was gone.
For a while there he was the happiest dog. He kept looking up at me, over his watermelon rind and giving the grin of the truly satisfied.
TL; DR dogs love watermelon.
Just make sure he doesn’t eat the rind!
He didn’t want to eat the rind. Just the pink bit. He’s picky.
That’s good. Don’t want him to get sick
How’s everyone’s Saturday going? I am stuck indoors working. Apparently telling work that I am not in next week means that I have to get all of next weeks work done before I can go on holiday.
Oh well… worth it for a week on the beach!
Just finished ACIII and about to go to the supermarket once Tiglet wakes up
Just got back from bouldering comp. Dunno how I went compared to others, but felt like I went pretty well.
Bouldering… is that what the kids are calling it nowadays?
Dunno what else you’d call it 😛
Always upvote for Demolition Man.
Today I had a customer tell me I had deceived him because he paid less for his wine than the shelf price special, this is because we have a current special buy any 6 wines get 30% off. Yeah man, I dunno I think $30 is cheaper than the brands special of any 3 for $18 making 6 in that brand $36. But nope I had deceived him he believed, ha.
Wait so he was complaining that he paid less than he thought he was supposed to?
Yep.
Not that it seemed to click with him that he paid less. He was certain $30 was more than $36. I mean I don’t set the prices, i simply scan your alcohol & take your money. But by all means tell me i’m ripping you off & it’s my fault you can’t do simple mathematics lol.
Was he already drunk?
I wish. Would’ve made my job easier 😛
As a maths teacher, this makes me cry.
You need to do a better job 😉
-_-
In that case, you should have said “I’m so sorry, you’re right, that’ll be $36”, and then pocketed the difference >;)
Welp, my Driving Force GT wheel finally gave up the ghost after more than 5 years of full use.
And now Logitech has a new wheel out…
If only there was an upcoming occasion in which people celebrate the anniversary of you being born…
But alas, today isn’t that day…
:\
So unbelievably sore today. I can’t even remember the last time I hurt this much the day after climbing.
Must be slacking off.
Got outbid on the pedals, not that I’m all that fussed, honestly.
Ididn’tdoit.