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Morning everyone, how was your weekend?
Mind was quiet, didn’t work this time, so just stayed at home played some Fallout 4 (finished the main story) I also did around the yard things like mow the law, wash the car, vacuum the car & bath the dog. I am very exciting 😛
Did some meditation then?
Hahaha. Well the neighbourhood was quiet so I guess my mind was for once 😛
Yup, finished the main story on Xbox (already finished on PS4). I went the Brotherhood storyline this time around – was much more satisfying IMHO.
So how about that Playstation Experience eh? Ni No Kuni 2 anybody?? FF7 remake looks pretty sexy too. The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades B-)
I know that the games are mostly glorified tech demos, but you can hook the Playstation VR to my eyeholes right now.
No. No, I have banished PSX from my mind. I got up at 5am for that rubbish and I am still so very very bitter and angry about it today. No #BetterPSN announcements, rubbish VR presentation and it was all talk about games – stuff that is better suited for E3, Gamescom, or one of a thousand other industry-driven shows. This should have been about service to the converted, instead it just made me wonder what I could have done with an extra bit of sleep.
Damn, I’m still so angry about it – I’ve had to run spell-check over this comment about three times.
I don’t get it 😛
FF7 remake looks like a great FF7 skin for FFXV.
Maybe Ni No Kuni will actually feel like a Ghibli film this time. Maybe they’ll also make the combat not shit.
I hate being so jaded. 🙁
Kudos to @trikeabout for helping me level my Destiny alt on the weekend /highfive brother
What’s your PSN name?
Are we fronds?
Add me! 😀
PSN: liondrive
Ashley_x_Rise 🙂
Welcome. 🙂 I’m usually in party chat and you’re welcome to join. Does make coordination a tad easier. No worries if you don’t use a headset. 🙂
Holy shit the Aus Post courier bloke is gonna be like Santa for me this morning. He’s got at least 3 things that are on their way to me. I was just expecting Chilli’s worming/flea/tick stuff, abut also the shit I bought on eBay last week has been processed through my local sorting centre already according to their tracking numbers, damn that was quick.
You bought shit on ebay?! Eww. 😛
Haha.
EB Games’ Mad Monday sale is on now. Some decent prices, but I don’t think it’s worth the difficulty in connecting to the website. Anyone having any luck?
Highlights for me:
Arkham Knight: $38
Until Dawn: $35
Oh yeah Fallout 4 is gonna be $49 today, according to the email I got Friday night or whatever.
Absolutely loved Until Dawn. Played it twice back-to-back. Will play it again. <3
The site is crashing hard. I gave up trying to get AssCree Chavs.
I’m half-expecting them to announce that they’ll honour online prices in-store. They’ve hinted vaguely at a possible update regarding the sale in the near future.
I note they’ve just kept the 30 min deals live on what looks to be a rolling update of their flash sales. I think that 8.30am sale (all the Razer gear) was about when the site started falling over for me.
PAX is about to win the war for my wallet though, 3 mins until tickets go on sale!
EDIT: I have my dates wrong! The tickets aren’t on sale until tomorrow! Goddamit!
10 Amiibos for $99, save $60.
Help.
Not to worry, you’ve got approximately 0.1 per cent change of making it successfully through checkout.
It keeps crashing on me 🙁
Managed to get to the payment details screen and then it kicked me back to the login screen “groan”
Only thing of note I saw on there was Transformers Devastation for $27. Pretty good, I think I got mine for like $36 in the Big W 25% off ebay thingo the other week. Dangit 😛
Ended up getting Transformers ahaha as well as AC Syndicate.
Until Dawn $35?! Thank you for your PSA!
No worries. My commission is one copy for me. *waits by letterbox*
Played dirt rally on the new wheel. So good. Yet so challenging.
Played uncharted 2. Such an awesome game. Still have yet to finish it. Looking forward to what remains and to number 3.
Got bloodborn, unfamous 1 and 2 for free from a friend.
Played guilty gear on the ps4, and blazblue. Amazing games. This weekend was awesome.
Also went out with friends on Friday night. Awesome awesome weekend.
I hope everyone else had an awesome weekend as well.
I picked up BB:CPX from the black Friday sale in the PS store; love that series, although friends tease me for buying each iteration, saying I’ve bought the ‘same game’ half a dozen times now 😛
Hahaha I was telling my friend as we were playing it how it all looks recycled. Everything looks so recycled. Still an amazing and fun game to play.
I still love it; great characters! Not sure about the first part of story mode though; no battles :S
Dirt: Rally is pretty good ey? Knew it was the right kind if rally game when I spun off the track 10 meters into my first race.
Shame I.don’t have a wheel though.
Spent 2 hours. Finished 2 tracks, came second both times. Thought eh whatever it was fun. Want to finish more tracks and try out more cars. Will have to learn how to drive properly though lol. Fun, but extremely challenging.
What wheel do you have?
G29. It’s good, but was difficult to set up the drivers. No idea why, they’re set now and all is good. I wouldn’t recommend getting it at full price. I managed to get a decent discount, thanks to a friend.
@tigerion @tech_knight @beavwa @princesspip @pixel_the_ferret_viking
I am so sorry about what happened on Saturday. I’m thinking maybe the middle of January to try again and perhaps just karaoke as the escapism room made things difficult. That way if you’re late it’s not an issue. Is 10 am an okay time for everyone?
Also, do not feel bad for laughing at my funny speech. I sounded fucking hilarious. If only it wasn’t so terrifying.
To everyone else
On Friday I was feeling lousy due to my lingering cold, so I had a nap. However, when I woke up, I felt extremely dizzy. I’d been suffering dizzy spells a couple of days before hand and didn’t think much of it, but it wouldn’t subside.
It got to the point where I was feeling extremely nauseous. It felt like when you’re a kid and you go on play ground equipment too fast and you feel sick afterwards. Except it wasn’t subsiding.
I went to the doctor, who fit me in and he told me I had a middle ear infection. My cold had spread and was affecting my ear. He gave me an injection, gave me a prescription for some tablets and sent me home.
Come Saturday, I was still feeling quite dizzy. I worked on the cupcakes and tried to add the squids, but for some reason, they’d stuck to the baking paper. I tried just adding eyes, but when I tasted the stuff by accident, it tasted like flour. It was disgusting so I scrapped that.
Techie and Talia(Sid’s friend Atlas’ owner and my friend) both offered Mum and Me a lift but I wanted to get my tablets.
I got my tablets and met up with Techie later at Highpoint. I’d already taken one of the tablets and it was helping a bit but not much. We wasted some time trying to find a large Eevee plushie for Techie, but didn’t find anything. As it got closer to 12pm, we headed down to strike and had some pizza. It was the best pizza I’ve ever had. I’ve had really shitty pizzas.
Word trickled through that Beavwa had gone to the wrong strike. My cousin had gone to AMF across the road. My friend Rachel got stuck in traffic and couldn’t find a park. Tigs was coming late. Pixel had a mix up at the airport and may not be able to make it. My other friend Chibi was dealing with a bank and said they’d also be late.
I took another tablet as it was closer to 1pm. People started showing up and after 40 minutes, my tongue started to feel weird. It felt like it was a bit swollen. Pip and Beavwa showed up and it was then I realised that I couldn’t speak. After a short while, it felt like I couldn’t breathe and I panicked a bit. Talia was versed in first aid while strike called the paramedics.
What happened is that I had a Dystonic reaction to the dizziness tablets. I had pretty much lost control of my tongue and jaw and they were spasming. I ended up going to the hospital and this was before the party had even started!
to be continued…
Wow, disaster party!
That sounds horrible! How are you feeling now?
Still dizzy. Can only do stuff in short bursts. I can play games now though
GAEMS! \o/
Yup. Short bursts though
I haven’t been on TAY in a while it would seem, hope you’re feeling OK. The Escape Rooms can be pretty claustrophobic, I went with a work group last Friday and felt a little like that.
No worries scree. Depends on the day and what is going on work wise. But if i get the day off that should be fine but considering we will always just be tentative don’t arrange things around us.
And doing it some time when the Christmas shopping crowds are not filling the carparks to 110% capacity that would be good.
Bloody hell! Rest up mate, hope you’re feeling a lot better soon.
Yeah that works for me just fine, just rest up Scree
Never! *continues typing out recipes*
Anyone feel like Naughty Dog are showing way too much of Uncharted 4? I stopped watching after the e3 stuff, but there seems to be a new trailer every other week! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I decided after spoiling Uncharted 3 to preserve the surprises here.
I steer clear of trailers for anything I know I am going to buy/watch.
Only saw one TFA trailer so far, and that was in the cinema.
Yeah, I’ve decided to do that for everything lately. Quantic Dream’s Detroit is probably the game I’m anticipating most at the moment and I haven’t watched any thing. 🙂
Not even the first trailer?
Nothing. Only the Kara tech demo. They had me at Quantic Dream. 😛
Fanboy’s gonna fan!
Well the explains why you didn’t discuss the trailer with me. I thought it was just hat.
Trying something new with this game, going in completely blind. 🙂
Fair enough. It looks good but won’t say any more if you are going in blind.
Probably a wise move.
I watched the Playstation Experience trailer, and that 20 minute E3 gameplay video, but I think I’m at maximum hype now – no need for more.
I haven’t played any of the Uncharted series so I know nothing 😛
Why you hate yourself? 😛
I did think that Uncharted 2 looked pretty cool when I watched @blackdahlianz play at PAX, there were some young kids behind us so I let them play instead of me. I remember seeing an Anthology a while ago but I didn’t bite (which is unlike me :S) I imagine I’ll pick up Uncharted after I’m done with Fallout 4 and Zombies on COD 😛
I tried and failed to finish both Uncharted 1 and 2 because I got bored.
#monstersallaroundus
The Nathan Drake collection is $39.95 on PSN right now. That’s a legit bargain.
Also his name is Nathan, so he HAS to like it! *decisive nod*
REAL NAME ALERT
I CAN DELETE IT IF YOU WANT! <3
haha nah, I’m sure if somebody reverse google imaged my profile picture here on Kotaku they’d find my details anyway…
*Changes credit card details*
This is my issue with PSN, I think it’s a magnificent idea. In reality I have a 50gb download limit to share with the family so I’m not sure how I feel downloading the game lol.
I’ve only watched the stuff that didn’t work first time at E3 and the trailer this morning.
E3 stuff was pretty but not that exciting, but the new PS Experience trailer? Holy mackerel. Sign me up.
Morning all.
Only have a few gifts left to buy, agonising over the last couple though.
My (awesome) wife is into steampunk and GoT, Mr Robot, Neal Stephnson books, all things Mario, Katamari and cosplay, so you think buying would be easy, but there is too much choice.
Arrrgggghhhh!
I was hoping to pick up some Neko Atsume sets, but no-one has them.
Had a low-key weekend. My wife went to her dad’s on Saturday to get her head shaved while I did some cleaning. Had some friends over, went out to a Chinese place for dinner. Mostly played Trivial Pursuit Live until my friends went home again. Finally started my second playthrough of Fallout 4 after accidentally napping away most of Sunday evening.
I called my new (female) character “Zed” because that’s apparently one of the names in Codsworth’s vocabulary, but I haven’t heard him say it yet, he just calls me “mum”, according to the subtitles.
I started a Female playthough as Jessica last weekend. I need to have a look through Codsworths vocab, my male playthrough of LaPelle (Pronounced La-Pedge-Eh) didn’t work 🙁
My wife called her first character “Gari” because she likes the Gary vault and figured Gari is a fun female variant. Only afterwards did we discover Codsworth has a name vocabulary, and of course “Gary” is in there.
There’s a page online which will show you the list of names and you should be able to use a savegame editor and/or console commands to change it. I was stunned that for some reason there is no ‘Jane’ in Codsworth’s list. There will be no repeat of Jane
DoeShepard. 🙁http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Codsworth/recognized_names
If I ever do a female playthrough of Fallout 4 my female character will be called Furiosa because it’s a) supported and b) awesome.
Picking up my RAM today. Hour long walk in 30+ weather, boo. Hopefully I’ve plugged everything in correctly. Also, I won’t be able to buy a new video card for a while so I’m still going to be stuck with my Gigabyte GTX 660 OC 🙁
boo indeed, stay hydrateded buddy.
My 1 metre long mouse pad arrived \o/
Now I have to go get ready for work, don’t misbehave whilst i’m gone, okay you lot?
You do know that you can increase mouse sensitivity these days don’t you?
Some of us still like ridiculously low sensitivity for some games. CS is best at sens 1 or below 😛
I wanted something for under my keyboard as well 😛
Hey everyone, how was your weekend? My birthday was on Saturday so I had a few friends over and we had a picnic and played some Wii U games after, which is always fun. Then my entire Sunday was consumed by Xenoblade Chronicles X. I’m glad I could see my friends one last time this weekend, I’ll never see them again unless it’s through their Xenoblade X avatar.
Seriously though, I don’t normally binge on games and I moderate myself very well, but it was so hard for me to put it down. It’s such a beautiful game and I’ve always been a fan of the core Xenoblade gameplay, and they’ve tweaked it here to make it deeper and more involved; no more mindless arts spamming. Although the story doesn’t seem as interesting as the first game (so far), the dialogue is way better and is keeping me entertained. Despite the overworld seriously being one of the most beautiful I’ve ever seen in the game, unfortunately the home city you’re from is quite rough around the edges, which is a shame.
Oh well, hopefully some of us can squad sometime! My NNID is eRonin, so if you’re looking for squad members, shoot me a friend request =)
I’m not happy with Xenoblade Chronicles X because I’m convinced it’s banner ads keep crashing my browser 🙁
I kinda missed the boat with the first game (only put in a few hours via emulator, too many other games to play at the time), but I’ve been tempted by what I’ve seen/heard about this one. What do you think the game would be like for someone who basically hasn’t played the first one?
cc @powalen @greenius whoever else has it.
Yeah, I hadn’t played Xenoblade all that much and am enjoying Xenoblade Chronicles X. It’s a tonne of fun really.
There’s no real plot connections between the two. Only thing that carries over is the gameplay. One downside is that nothing is really explained in-depth so if you don’t already know how battles work then you might be a bit lost.
(Having said that, I think the original is better than this. At least so far. I would always recommend playing it anyway!)
Original is better story wise, I think this game has a more interesting combat and is better gameplay wise.
Yup, my thoughts too. The battle system is a lot more involved now which is great. More paying attention to what your teammates are doing makes long battles pretty hectic.
Still not a huge fan of the customisable avatar (big thing I liked about the original was that it encouraged swapping the character you play as to try different styles rather than just changing your abilities to suit), but it’s not so bad.
X is a hell of a lot more complicated overall. The menus go on for days (not in a good way :P)
Surprisingly loving the soundtrack though which I never thought I would say before release 😛
Yeah, it really doesn’t explain much. I have no idea what the hell an “aura” is but I get bonus’ when I get one or something.
I think I need like, a pdf of the manual next to me when I’m playing or something. Accessing it isn’t a big deal, but it would be nice if I could set myself to auto-run somewhere while reading the manual
(and then I get killed by a tyrant)
I think if you hold R and press B it toggles auto run.
Yep I know! I just want to be able to read the manual or something while I do that (like it would be neat if the manual could open up on the gamepad while I’m still running in-game). I think I found someone uploaded a pdf of the manual somewhere. I should find that somewhere.
All I can really remember of the original was that the intro to the story was hilariously dense, throwing so much unexplained jargon at me that it made it a big struggle to understand even vaguely what was happening.
It was like it was a JRPG, or something… *stares into the distance*
If you thought the original was dense, well…
X is dense.
I have no idea about the original story as a whole, only the intro being fairly uninviting. Dense probably wasn’t the right word choice 😛
I misinterpreted your comment anyway 😛
Meant to say that X is just harder to get the hang of overall. (Tonnes of menu options that don’t seem to affect anything, lots of unexplained icons and systems, etc) The story is actually probably simpler in the beginning.
Does it have a decent plot so far? That was the big thing that stopped my interest – everything was emphasizing the gameplay and the world and the SEE THAT PLACE IN THE DISTANCE YOU CAN GO THERE open worldyness but that’s the opposite of what I like in RPGs.
Yeah the city really is uggo, the rest of the world though is great! I finally went to a new continent and loved the change of scenery. Can’t wait to explore the rest. Oh and NNID? I think mine might be SerNobulus?
Okay, added you to friends list!
Cool, I’ll probably be playing this evening after I get home =)
Seeing all of the gameplay makes me sad I traded in my Wii U, enjoy!!
MISTAAAAAKE!
@scree @gingerchris86
How are you guys finding RWBY: Grimm Eclipse? Is it good/bad, only for the fans, very Early Access, etc?
I haven’t had a chance to play it yet. Hoping to get a try tonight before RPG Night.
Very early access.
Completed both areas, went and got a refund.
I’ll definitely be buying later down the track, though, as I enjoyed what was there.
Fair enough, thanks for the heads up. I’ll keep an eye on it.
Out of curiosity, any reason you got a refund rather than waited for it to get finished?
I can’t see myself constantly re-playing the same two areas for onlyone hour of gameplay every time I boot it up.
As good as it was, it needs fleshing out to make it completely worthwhile.
Sure, but if you’re planning on definitely re-buying it then why not hold on to it and just wait?
Because I want to find something else new to play in the meantime.
My blasted phone didn’t send the message I typed up. There are a lot of problems, but if they keep working on it, it’ll be good. At the moment, Ruby (the scythe character) has aiming, walk cycle and combo issues. Blake seemed to be okay, but I’d have to try them all.
So far it sounds like a game I could very much enjoy when (if?) it’s out of Early Access.
It’s fun now, I played with Numbers. The frame rate for my pc was crappy though
It works, plays at a solid 60fps, the animations are janky as all get out (but hey, early access), the combos are fairly fluid, the kbm controls are okay (scree had issues with her controller, I haven’t used mine), and the ‘story’ (if you could call it that) is just 4 linear levels stung together with a shoestring plot and fenced off with illogical invisible walls
PAX dates announced for 2016… Hotel booked, flights booked.
Who is typing this, and what have they done with B-ob?
I think that would be your Melbourne heart doing so
Quite probably!
*thing is on in Melbourne…*
*BOOK ALL THE THINGS!*
Wait, PAX is a week away? I mean, why else would you book flights and a hotel?
Hotel gives me free cancellation until 1st Nov 2016, so why *wouldn’t* I book now?
because it isn’t a week before PAX. =P
Touchè 😛
ahhh i remember 2013 when i booked flights the night before at 7;30 and my flight was at 7 the next morning. good times. good good expensive times.
….. Isn’t that like a year away? almost?
Planning ahead is what normal people do. I don’t quite understand it too.
Yeah, it is, but the last 2 years I’ve booked everything at varying degrees of a few weeks out, so I thought I’d have a look at what was available now that the dates are there and I’ve got a hotel with free cancellation and my flights are at least $150 cheaper than they have been so just makes sense to get in now.
I mean, I know I’m going to want to go so I may as well save myself some cash while I’m at it. Booking my flights now means my 3-day pass is effectively free. (Shhhhhh, I know that’s a false fallacy.)
Probably helps that it’s not on the same weekend as the Melbourne cup too price wise.
Shhhhhhh, your logic and facts have no place on the Internet.
Sorry, forgot where I was for a minute. Wait, why am I apologising? I’m on the Internet! U SHUT UR MOUTH U SCRUB! I HAD SEX WITH UR MUM!
I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE! >:(
So the weekend was ok if I can remember what I did.
Saturday was ok, went to the park in the morning before it got too hot and then headed off to scree’s thing. Tiglet has a small sleep in the car on the way there which was the only sleep she got all day. Got sms from Techie letting us know what was going on with scree but since we were only 10 minutes away figured we might as well keep going and meet up briefly with everybody who was left. Didn’t count on Christmas holiday crowds at highpoint. Don’t these people have internet connections. Anyway after driving in circles for ages eventually rage quit and headed off without finding a park. Sorry guys but sounds like you guys were heading off any way.
Since we were home earlier than planned we had a quick dinner and then headed down to the local park for some carols. Was nice but didn’t stay too long as it was getting late.
Sunday morning Mrs Tigs went to the market so Tiglet and I snuck out for a quick trip to the cafe. Our local makes all their cakes on site and they are pretty good. So I had a coffee and we shared an apple berry crumble. The rest of the day was spent trying to keep Tiglet out of the bathroom as the door latch has broken. So far only one thing has ended up in the toilet.
Then we got a surprise visit from Grandma and Pa who were passing through so stopped off for a rest and recharge break on the way through.
Game wise I finally finished the final level of back to bed and really wasn’t happy with the final solution once I discovered it. Don’t think I can be bothered trying to complete nightmare mode.
Other than that we have been playing quite a bit of submerged. Wanted to give it a try before voting on GOTY started to see if it was the best aussie game I have played. I don’t think it beats hand of fate but it is good. Works extremely well as a game to play with Mrs Tigs as lots of hunting out secrets and spotting hidden paths. Very much a collectathon style game, but as you collect things it reveals the story of the game which is a nice touch. Seems like it is a rather short game, we are approaching the ending so guessing all up it’s probably only 5 or 6 hours. Which is probably about the right length, an more than that and it would be a boring repetitive grind. Will probably see if we can 100% it before we start our next game
Games. Too many games.
Spent pretty much all of Friday just bumming around in the Horizons beta for Elite. Flying from planet to planet, trying to find different types to land on and check out. It’s so much fun to just drive around the place, I picked a random direction from a base and just kept driving off in that direction for a good few hours, picking up and exploring stuff I came across along the way, but mostly just trying to drive as fast as I can without destroying my SRV. It’s like they’ve chucked Excitebike in here, and it’s great.
Saturday was Wingman’s birthday party, we went to ParaPark for an escape room. It was fun! And totally laughable just how badly we seemed to be doing at it. The whole “you’re not as clever as you think you are”/overthinking everything deal was totally at play. But despite a few setbacks, including me breaking our radio and one of our group claiming he’d already checked above a thing when in actual fact he hadn’t and that’s where our last item was hiding, we totally beat the other group. And got to watch them struggle to make their way out despite being handed a whole lot of hints through the walkie talkie 😛
Played a few games that afternoon, including Are You A Werewolf which I was really bad at. Actually I’m not sure I even did anything for it, just kinda sat there while others did all the talking. Don’t think I like those kinds of games. Then there was Gloom too, though I was just watching that and then I fell asleep. Mostly just hung around and talked, with Xenoblade being played in the background.
Didn’t get to play that myself til last night. Spent about an hour trying to get through the character creator, and again I echo Mark’s thoughts on that first podcast the other week. The whole time I’m just thinking ugh why does this matter where is the game already. But at the same time couldn’t just pick any old thing because most of them looked dumb. And couldn’t even just try and replicate myself because there are no “no hair” options, and their beard options are severely lacking. Character creation is the worst.
Also then took forever to actually get to the city, because I kept fighting crabs and getting killed. Think I’m getting the hang of the combat system though. This is gonna suck up a whoooooole lot of time.
Still need to get back to Shovel Knight.
Had, on balance, a slightly better than average weekend. Some awesome bits and some garbage bits.
Good bits – Daughter moved into a full size bed in a new room with no complaints, bacon and eggs for breakfast on both days, dinner with friends last night (when we found out our local pub has been turned into an Italian eatery that still has a pokie room).
Garbage bits – digging a trench nearly 4 meters long, 40cm deep and 70cm across to stop the dog getting out, the dog escaping the next morning through another part of the fence, scratching my eye ball somehow and having to do the groceries with one eye closed.
Game bits – spent some time with Majora’s Mask (never had N64). And had a few hours on Sunday arvo with Pillars of Eternity. Starting to realise that the game is going to get hard… So. Many. Numbers. Still trying to wrap my head around encounters with more than one enemy. I don’t think I’m utilising my party nearly as well as I should be.
Annnnddd now it’s Monday!
What a game you are now playing with MM. Are you playing on 3DS or N64?
Playing on 3DS – not far in and kinda struggling with the affects the time mechanic… Pretty sure I’ve cleared the swamp now to figure out what’s next.
If you don’t know already, there is a way of making the time move slower!
Play the song of time backwardsHahahaha, there is a lady here complaining how she is going to take us to “the Tribunal” because her credit card has been debited and we now consider her a subscriber, but she only wanted to try out the free trial.
If you didn’t want to do that then you shouldn’t have put your credit card details in and signed up for a monthly subscription, dummy.
Or at least set a reminder to cancel it before the billing date, like I figured was common sense.
So FF-7 is a hack and slash now……? Worst news ever. Yet I knew square would do this.
I think this massive overhaul is (overall) a good thing.
They released the PC port just the other day for people who don’t want things to change.
I’m kinda interested to see how it works. Crisis Core had a similar looking combat system and it was a tonne of fun. I still get sad that you can’t buy Crisis Core on Vita.
I doubt it. It still has a battle menu so it can’t really be a flat hack and slash.
Regardless, I just finished watching the trailer and I’m excited as hell for it. Change is good, and if you want old FFVII gameplay with new graphics the Steam edition and a couple of graphics mods will get you there.
Type 0 and FF-12 both had menus. A menu and ATB don’t indicate a inclusion of depth. Going off the pace of the fight shown in the vid they’ll either have no impact or have some impact and be similar to 12.
I also didn’t realize Steam’s graphics mods could make the game look as good as the remake. I’ll have a look into that.
Yeah, but 12 wasn’t even vaguely a hack and slash? (no idea about Type-0, haven’t played it). Or do you mean hack and slash as in it looks like you’ll be spamming attack and that’s all?
With the mods, I think the only negative about them is they break Steam achievements so you can’t get them, but I think that was it. They make the game look incredible and I highly recommend it.
I’ve spent the last 10 minutes staring at this:
https://www.ebgames.com.au/3ds-157934-New-Nintendo-3DS-XL-Console-The-Legend-of-Zelda-Majoras-Mask-Edition-Nintendo-3DS
I don’t need it and I don’t have the money spare for it (hooray Christmas) but god damn it’s pretty.
But what about that money you DO have. You should totally buy it.
It’s earmarked for the last few presents I need to buy 😛
The best presents that your friends could want, is *your* happiness….
Look, I don’t want to dissuade you, but do you know how many games I’ve played on my extremely pretty Majora’s Mask Edition Nintendo 3DS? Like 3. Which is a disservice to just how prettier in flesh it is than it appears in pictures.
So pretty.
You should buy one.
If you really haven’t played it that much you might as well get rid of it. Like, sell it or something. I’ll let you know if I find someone who wants it.
…
HELLO.
I still own 2 3DS systems. THAT’S AFTER I GAVE ONE TO MY COUSIN!
Still gotta hold onto the MM one though, for new Fire Emblem. Love me some Fire Emblem. *refuses to meet the eye of Awakening that I never finished*
You could be halfway to a self balancing scooter with that sorta coin rize.
Yeah, but the last thing I need in my life is another excuse to avoid walking 😛
EDIT: This joke would work way better if I wasn’t comparing the scooter to a game console…
Hello TAY, I hope everyone has been well!
I’ve been really immersed in my work recently so I’ve not quite checked Kotaku as much as I’d like. Long story short I’m starting a new position at work, so it’s required me to manage that workload which has meant very little time for me to sneak onto TAY.
Cool new stuff for me: I’m playing Fallout 4 and Collar Dooty III (I really enjoyed the campaign but mostly playing Zombies), I’m starting a new position as a manager next week and hopefully will be starting some casual teaching of Exercise Science next year which I’m really excited about. I’ve also been learning Spanish which has been muchos divertido 😛
Something that annoys me quite a lot about the online world of board gaming is how lazy the content is. There are two posts on /r/boardgames right now that are basically “I wrote a thing, what do you think?” and my immediate reaction to both is “you didn’t proof read it, let alone make an attempt to edit it”.
Reviews in general fall into the format of: Introduction, rules explanation, my thoughts, recommendation. The format itself has flaws but it can work. It doesn’t work when the meat of the review is given the least weight. This goes for video reviews as well as written ones. Either way, people are clearly taking a bit of time to plan out what they’re going to do. However they don’t make an effort to focus on what’s interesting or informative.
If you try to look up a rules explanation on Youtube, most of the videos will be ridiculously long. They’re just someone that’s set up a game on a table, shoved a camera in front of it and started talking. Great. That’ll do the job. You know what will do the job even better? Planning. Structure. Editing. If it takes you 33 minutes to explain Tzolk’in off the cuff, I bet you could get that down to under 10 minutes that’s better overall.
This probably comes out as a little “oh look at me, I do boardgame writing and I’m so much better”. It’s not. My writing has a whole host of flaws. They just happen to be very different ones because these particular ones annoy the shit out of me. Make some effort people! Make something that everything else isn’t just churning out.
I feel this way when i watch tutorials about electronics stuff, especially when it comes to coding microcontrollers, nearly all the people that do it just use a capture card on there screen and just show their screen, they dont show why they implement a piece of code, or why they hook something up in a certain way. I was playing around with a really popular WiFi card called the ESP8266 and so many hobbists use this card its nuts. But when i looked up how to flash firmware onto it, do you think i could get a straight answer on which pins i should short to ground or what baud rate was needed for connection? I eventually figured it out and wrote some notes for what i did that worked but fuck, there are thousands of hobby electronics people who are much more clever than me who figured this shit out and just decided not to include that information for whatever reason in there tutorial.
Ugh, so much this. In general, things seem to just end up as youtube tutorials. Except they’re not tutorials. They’re either morons not actually explaining anything they’re doing and taking WAY TOO LONG to do any of it, or it’s a video of someone typing out the instructions into Notepad with shitty music over it outlining a couple of steps of what to do but again not actually explaining any of it and often using an example that’s slightly different to what you want and ugh.
Youtube is the worst.
If I just show people what to do, they’ll understand exactly how it all works!
Those scenes in movies where there’s the new kid on the cash register being all slow and incompetent the manager’s just standing there telling them a bunch of keystrokes to enter always annoyed me too.
So, Bloodborne DLC has a bow that apparently wrecks. That would have been nice to discover when I played the DLC instead of reading in an article title. I think I’m most annoyed because they easily could have called the article “New Bloodborne DLC weapon absolutely wrecks”. Eh, maybe I am just being picky.
I’ve purposefully stayed away from Kotaku so that I don’t spoil myself with stuff for Fallout 4.
I’ve failed that though; I now know the ending to the Main Story Arc and 2 special events during the game that I didn’t get to find out for myself :*(
I think this is the most Kerbal thing I’ve ever seen from a real space program.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/12/tonight-is-the-last-chance-for-japans-venus-orbiter-to-reach-the-planet/
Holy shit.
That picture of the path taken, with the little smiling faces, and the twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom is the best.
I know! That’s what made me think of Kerbal, I could totally see launching an orbiter and messing up the burn and then just hitting time-warp and circling the sun until you get a second chance.
EXCEPT THEY DID IT IN REAL TIME.
Except when I fuck up a burn I seem to end up shooting off into deep space, on an intercept with something between jack all and nothing.
There’s probably a reason I’m not working at NASA right now.
*revert launch*
NASA wishes they could have this button.
True story, my Dad was launch commander for some satellites launching from Vandenberg back when we lived in California. He oversaw some launches that exploded with their payload. I remember actually watching one of them from the base and wanted to know why the rocket didn’t make it to space.I really, really need to learn to stop monologuing with my villains when I run RPGs. Yes, the evil lord of the town was dismissive of your threat but he wasn’t expecting to be telekinetically yanked off the walls of his fortress and then shot by his own cannons because the telepath wanted to “convert” his soldiers.
But monologuing it what all good villains do!
Monologuing it what all good villains do.
Monologuing gets villains killed.
Therefore, good villains get killed.
Makes sense to me.
Raller Cay monologued quite a bit…
Fallout 4 is on my $40 list but $49 is tempting.
What do people think are the odds of MGS:V going for under au $50 on Christmas steam sales?
Based on current conversion if it went 50% off it’d be $40AUD. I’d say there’s a decent chance of it.
I don’t know what it takes for something to only qualify for your $40 list but $49 is definitely worthwhile, unless you don’t plan to play it right away. Granted, I was going to love it regardless because I loved FO3/NV and I’m prepared to forgive a lot of flaws/bugs, but I put about 70 hours into a first “beta test” playthrough and have started a second in which I plan to be a lot more thorough.
If you plan to put it off for a long time, I guess there’ll be the inevitable GOTY edition with all the DLC bundled in a year from now, unless you know for a fact you’re not going to play it until all that DLC is out, you might as well get it now.
$40 list is for big ticket games that I’m interested in but not hype for and/or will probably be much improved with age (patches, mods ect).
Been burned too many times buying games full price and getting a half baked product.
Done me well so far.
By that criteria, the game will definitely be that cheap again and will be closer to what you’re after at that point.
You getting it on PS4 or PC? If PC then yes if PS4 then no =P
Just got Rainbow Six Siege (PC) for 69 bucks at eb games. I am enjoying the game and i think it has pretty good graphics also doing terrorist hunt mode as lone wolf is pretty hard haha.
I find it rather annoying that I continue to find no wolfs in wolf game, only have bad guys after me. No wolf make it ok great but not ok good just great ok bad.
Considering how old that reference is getting, I feel like I should offer context to people who haven’t heard it before…
It’s from the most amazing Amazon user review about 2009’s Wolfenstein. Verbatim:
i have seen you say that like 50 times and never knew the context 😛
Me too Gammah, got it off steam as I had US$45 sitting in the wallet after clearing out the CS GO Skins. So far it’s been a hoot, and I’ve got a bunch of mates that play so we normally have a 5 man team to roll with 😀
Takes a bit of getting used to, and the P2P arrangement means you’ll get some properly screwy situations of what you saw vs what the match thought was the case.
If you wana do a terrorist hunt add me on steam its ThyHeadbanger 😛 Also i got it cheaper at EB Games because i priced match with jbhifi.
Mine is Almindale. Just hit me up 🙂
Hola Tayberinos
Busy weekend. Went and gave blood Sat morning, then went to a family lunch. Saw my Pop, who’s going through chemo- he’s never been a big man, but he looks especially tiny now.
Saturday went to the pub with friends, that was fun. It was quite warm (high 30s) here all weekend so beer good.
Sunday, went to the AGM for the Terry Pratchett club, which was at a house with a pool and pool good. Played some board games, then I had a birthday to go to across the other side of the city so did that.
Then finally went home and watched Doctor Who.
A Monday ARVO question: What’s your summer game? I tend to gravitate to long strategy games (Civ, CK2, EUIV) when I’m on leave over the summer and don’t have to worry about sleeping pattern. This year I’m going to play Endless Legend.
Whatever’s the going thing really, nothing specific.
But I too picked up endless legend and actually have time off this year, so probably the same.
You haven’t played endless legend??? If you like 4x games it’s amazing. Like after playing it I couldn’t go back to Civ After Earth or w/e the new one was.
I gotta be in the mood for 4x and I’ve had other things to play.
pokemon, always pokemon.
I have replayed a pokemon game every summer since i started working. It just feels like holidays when im pokemoning.
I used to put tonnes of time into Pokemon as a teenager when going up the coast for family Christmas holidays, first with Pokemon Blue and later with Silver. Start a new game and just smash into it so hard.
I think I need to revive it as a holiday thing.
Its good because with it being on a portable system you sill can talk and not be shut away. Otherwise my mum always used to yell at me for being antisocial during the holiday period.
Yep. I always take it on my ski trips. Something about shitty weather down days and just staying in bed playing Pokemon 🙂
I bought my first Pokemon game yesterday (Pokemon Y for the 3DS). Pretty excited to get into it!
Enjoy it mate! Just started replaying it again. it’s the most fun I’ve had diving into a new Pokemon game since the Fire Red/Leaf Green remakes of the original pair of games on the Game Boy 🙂
I’m going to try and work through most of the turn-based games some more; Endless Legend, Invisible, Inc., Chaos Reborn, The Banner Saga.
You never finished The Banner Saga??? =O And here I thought you were one of the good ones Mr Walker.
I didn’t play it first time around, but can’t remember why. I’m pretty sure it’s because something else landed around the same time that year that I had to cover, but I couldn’t tell you what off the top of my head.
*looks at giant gaming pile of shame* yeah fair enough =P
Probably Candy Crush Saga. I hear they’re pretty similar.
@jocon some CoD tonight? 7PM?
Edit: WHAT?! this was meant to be a new comment! =@
Yup
Sorry I was a bit complainy the last couple nights, just been a bit frustrating.
I’ll heed the great sage freeze and “Get gud”
Hahah all good man; CoD can get frustrating pretty quickly depending on the games.
I can’t play tonight but up for some more games tomorrow evening?
Yup yup
Banner Saga should probably have a really solid block of time devoted to it. A couple days of nothing else, so you can grind down your morale into despair, the same way your caravan’s will be ground down.
This summer? Gotta be all about Xenoblade. Don’t really have any usual trends for the summer, it’s a time like any other.
My summer game is kisschasy but now I don’t like it cause girl germs *crosses arms sternly*.
The sun is hot.
I think I’ve been hanging out with my 3 year old son too much 😐
A combination of things! I love a good Civ V session, but as @rocketman has said above, portable gaming is the shit! I’ll be spending most of my time this year in QLD with my girlfriend and her family though (am based in VIC) so not sure if there’ll be much gaming at all!
My other favourite thing in summer is doing hobby stuff with the cricket on in the background. Not gaming per se but still get to indulge in nerdy passions 😀
Back in the day it would have been Spyro 3 and Ratchet and Clank 3.
Now it’ll probably be Rocket League.
75 hours and climbing.
My last Summer games were the two VLR games. I just got so invested in the story for 999 that I literally forgot to sleep.
I tend to sink into something that takes a lot of time and minimal fast reactions – EUIV, Anno and Minecraft, generally. That said, if I’m on leave I normally don’t have access to my PC/consoles, so for the most part it’s been Zelda and Pokemon these past few years.
Happy Monday All!
Had an interesting weekend, had my work christmas party Friday night, got smashed as expected then went to a friends 30th directly after at 12:30am, confessed my love drunkenly to a girl because I couldn’t do it when I was sober but found out she started seeing another guy 1 week earlier. She had interest in me before that but I lost out, ah well.
This was new to me as this is the first time I’ve felt something for a girl in 2 years since I split with my ex of 13 years. I guess it means, I’ve moved on at least despite the end result 🙂I then spent the Saturday recovering before spending time with my son Saturday night and all of yesterday afternoon. Had my Waltz dancing exam first thing Sunday morning which I think I passed but won’t find out until next week, then took my boy to the work kids Christmas party where Santa arrived on a motorbike. Kids were going nuts running after him, it was chaos! Then took my boy to another Christmas party organised by friends where the aforementioned girl was also present. A bit awkward but turned out OK.
After dropping off my boy, I then went and celebrated another mates birthday at a pub until 10:30 last night. Overall, good times 😀
Bring on this weekend!
Also is it #Page6 yet?
#EVERYPageIsPageSixIfYouBelieve
OK, if you insist!
This farmer has 500 hens but no rooster so he goes to his neighbor and asks him if he could buy a rooster for $100.
The neighbor says, “You can have this rooster. His name’s Roy. He’ll get all your hens pregnant. He’s a real stud.”
So the farmer takes him home and says, “It’s your first day Roy so take it slow, okay?”
The farmer puts Roy in the hen house and then hears all the hens crying and yelling. Roy nailed every one of those hens and then for good measure nailed a duck and a goose down at the pond.
The next morning the farmer finds Roy lying dead with his legs sticking in the air and vultures circling overhead.
The farmer says, “Roy, did you have to die? I told you to take it slowly”
Roy opens one eye and looks at the farmer and says, “Shhhh! They’re about to land!”
A salute, my brave fellow.
I wish I was braver earlier, might have turned out better. Oh well, you live and learn 🙂
Hey she’s only just started seeing him. Who knows what might happen mate 🙂 But also good news that you feel you’ve moved on. It’s a nice feeling ^_^
Yeah, I’m not counting on that failing so time to keep looking 🙂
It’s definitely a good feeling, I choose to look at it as a massive step forward as I never thought I would be able to move on and all of a sudden this happened. All part of the game of life and the experiences found within 😀
Yeah I’d almost given up on meeting anyone decent for a long time and met the loveliest lady I’ve ever known in my life this year 🙂 Chin up and big steps forward mate 😀
Always tough to move on after a long term relationship but as you say, at least now you know you have and can look for others
Also at least now she knows so if things do fall through with the current one she might reach out. Or depending on how well you know each other, now that she knows you are ‘back on the market’ might be pushing other ladies towards you.
Kudos for taking the jump; now you know to take the jump much earlier =P
But good work moving on; the first girl you like post break-up is always the hardest.
Battlestar Galactica BluRay complete series is less than $40 for today only. And no website hanging! http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0027UY8B8
Why do you hate my wallet, Shane.
Why.
Actually, I’ve seen it a bunch. You should look up The Expanse, people have it tipped as the next BSG and the first ep is already online.
It’s not just you. I hate EVERYONE’s wallets.
*shakes fist* I bought it for like $150 a few Christmases ago and… haven’t taken it out of the shrink wrap yet. D:
And one day, I’ll get around to finishing that blasted series. 😛
I bought the box set a couple of years ago and my wife and I binged it hard.
I think we watched the entire series over the course of a week.
So good.
Busy weekend keeping visitors happy, but the gf came down from QLD as well which was lovely. Did a weekend up in Daylesford with my family and had my best mate and his wife down from QLD for his birthday. Was good catching up with everyone and just trying to relax.
Finally got to sink some time into Rainbow Six Siege after buying it last week. It’s a brutal game with a relatively steep learning curve. Regardless, it’s a lot of fun when you have a bunch of mates playing together. Especially fun when you work out some simple combos for breaching, like the explosive breach rounds from Ash then having a shield or two storm in. The other great one is having multiple breaching charges go off in different directions to confuse them. Great fun!
Book of Mormon tickets are on sale!
*flails @dc’s arms*
EDIT: For people not aware, Book of Mormon is finally coming to Australia and is showing exclusively in Melbourne from January 18th 2017. The current sale is for “priority” guests (people who signed up to be on their mailing list). The show was written by the creators of South Park and has been playing on Broadway since 2011. You still need to purchase tickets for it there about 6 months in advance.
Otherwise, tickets for the general public go on sale Feb 8 2016, according to their Twitter account.
So yes, @blaghman, @rocketman, @alexpants, @freezespreston, @ other musical inclined people. ASSEMBLE!
EDIT 2: I feel I should stress this is 2017. As in, 13 months away.
WHAAATTTT!?!?!?!
I trust in your ability to organise this. *nods sagely*
*doesn’t realise that you’re supposed to stop nodding, so keeps nodding for seven minutes*
I’ve just assumed yourself, @rocketman and @alexpants (not through his own choices mind you) are in. @freezespreston has also expressed interest.
2017?
Yeeeeeeep. And 2 of the shows have already sold out.
Well, sold out/pre-sale allocation exhausted. I’m unsure.
That’s insane.
Iiiinteresting…*scratches @dc’s chin thoughtfully*
For the record, I have a friend that saw it on Broadway and said it was the greatest thing he had ever seen in his entire life. I also read somewhere that BoM was single-handedly responsible for reversing the long-term decline of ticket sales for musicals, since it sold out every single show it ever did (at the time).
So yeah, it’s meant to be pretty good.
book my ticket for whatever time and ill throw money at you when you do.
I will let you throw money at me when you let me throw money at you for CHRVCHES
I paid *literally* One Thousand American Fun Bucks to see it on Broadway.
I still feel like I underpaid.
Jesus, did you get tickets on the fucking stage?
I was actually Josh Gad’s microphone.
I would want to get tickets for actually fucking on the stage for that money.
I’m definitely in provided I don’t die of another stroke between now and then. Let me know when to throw money at you.
And if you do, we can just scalp your ticket.
and his body.
We may be going to hell, but at least we will be there with each other.
So like… does that mean we’ll get it up here in 2022?
Really wanna see that.
Currently the show is exclusive to Melbourne and no details have been revealed on if it will travel. So, at the moment if you want to see it, you’ll need to go to Melbourne.
But you guys have Matilda, so I hate you all! *cries*
It’s pretty good!
Doesn’t that start travelling soon? Oh, it’s to Melbourne. Well then…
All roads lead to Brisbane. Eventually. Unless they don’t. :'(
How much are the tickets?
Howdy Taybies!
Just got back from a week away in Port Stephens. Gotta say, sitting on the beach in beautiful weather, drinking to excess, partying with friends and stuffing my face with amazing food is totally overrated and I had an awful time and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.
Did I miss anything amazing?
me?
Always.
Schoolies, by chance? If I had known you were coming I would’ve recommended places to sit on the beach, drink to excess and stuff your face. Those are definitively the best activities in the area. Did you get to Murrays Brewing Co?
Seeing as how I’m about 10 years past schoolies… not so much. Some of our best friends are moving to London in a week or so, so we decided to take a week off and go on holiday with them before they left. Funnily enough, a couple of friends from our group happened to share a birthday during the week, so we spent that day at the brewery. It was awesome.
We ended up spending a day on Zenith Beach, and another on One Mile Beach. They were both great.
Nice.
Work Xmas party is at Murray’s – 3 hours of open bar seems… risky. There’ll definitely be some that take advantage of that.
We were there for around 5 hours – it was deadly. The beer is fantastic, and the food is amazing. High recommend the bocce balls or cricket if it’s a nice day, we had a blast with it.
SO. FF-7 remake is likely episodic and hack and slash (shut up relative to older ff games it counts as hack and slash).
*goes back to Witcher 3 & Fallout 4*
I got a lot of Warmachine model painting done over the weekend. Feels good to clean up some backlogged models.
So, in the collectors edition for MW2 they gave people a free copy of Call of Duty Classic. Back in 2009 I started playing the game and noticed that the only difficulty achievement was for Veteran. Playing through Veteran in CoD1 was a nightmare. Mile High Club? Pfft, nothing compared to this campaign. I even remember having so much trouble playing the truck get away mission 14 years ago, was a nightmare on Veteran. But when I got to Pavlovs House I gave up. Found out the other day that level was the last most difficult level for the game, so I got back into it and managed to finish the game on Veteran. Never thought I’d be begging for regenerative health.
Also got back into the Witcher 3.
Xenoblade Chronicles X!
The overworld is pretty cool. Seems really full of life when you’re just running through. Tonnes of monsters wandering around doing their own things for the most part. Sometimes resting, grazing, guarding a territory, etc. The carnivores seem to fight other things as well as you too. It’s cool seeing carnivores ignore me because they were in the middle of chasing after a big herbivore. Makes it feel like an actual ecosystem instead of a just field full of monsters.
I just watched a giant dinosaur thing drink water for a few minutes. It sounds so stupid but it was so peaceful. Loving the overworld so far.
it’s so cold in the office today that I’ve been cutting code with my nipples.
http://gematsu.com/2015/12/steam-helpdesk-lists-danganronpa-1-2-final-fantasy-x-x-2-hd-remaster-more
This was all interesting. So many JP games coming to Steam.
But there’s one entry that seems to stand out more than everything else…
Bad Rats Show, right? Hard to believe they’d make another one unless they intend on just capitalising on its negative reaction.
😛
I was actually talking about Half Life 3.
Also, holy shit, Journey?!
Biggest PS Experience announcement for me was Ace Combat 7. Only just noticed it since it’s flown under the radar (lol) on a lot of sites.
It looks like they’re ditching the Real World shit and going back to Strangereal. Space Elevator? Giant planes that launch smaller planes? So fucking sold. AC6 was one of my favourite 360 games, I still like to go back to it periodically.
Namco better put a ton of Idolmaster paint schemes into the game again though. There was nothing quite like all that serious pilot talk and crazy dogfighting and everything while flying a bright pink F-22 with an anime girl on the wing and fluoro pink smoke on all your missiles.
AC6 was so good. I actually fell in love with it from the trailer, which wasn’t entirely representative of what I got, but I loved both so I enjoy both.
Only thing that worries me is that AC7 is being advertised as a Playstation VR exclusive.
Although that could also be fucking rad since VR works so well for air combat games.
Oh that reminds me, terrible admission time. I used to love the fact that AC6 let you set your own custom soundtracks up. Well, sort of at least. It was possible to play your own music on the 360 and mute the AC6 music.
You haven’t truly lived until you’ve played AC6 with pieces from the Top Gun and Iron Eagle soundtracks. Or even better, Macross 7 stuff.
YES!
Has anyone heard of Amigacammy? She would be about thirty these days, lived at Alice Springs, couples as cammy, and is an Amiga coder.
No but I knew a Lynx Monkey about that age who lived at Blacktown.
Well that’s another game done.
Finished off submerged which is a lovely little Aussie game. Think I might boat about for a bit, see if I can find the last of the collectibles and use the postcard feature to get some screenshots of that sweet post apocalyptic urban decay.
Well this week is a bit poo and full on at work already. Ah well.
Still I’ve managed to spoof a streetpass home relay using tricks from the web so there’s that. 🙂
And holidays soon…
Hello insomnia my old friend. It’s been a while.
Blaaarrrggghhh it’s boring trying to stay away from screens and getting sleep. Sleep is overrated anyway.
I gave up at 1AM, started reading. Stayed up until 5, which was a mistake. I’m surprisingly cromulent right now, all things considered. *stares at wall blankly*
4am and it’s too hot… 🙁
I had that a few days ago. It’s the worst.
Heeeeeyyyyy I was awake and should have checked TAY.
Sorry.
Story of seasons has been announced! Wooo!
At last! Secret SanTAY inspiration has arrived!
I bought mine on the weekend, now to mail it….
Mine requires some making, but I can have it done to post this week.
sorry to spam, but here’s another bookmark
http://imgur.com/m3hYzU1
Now, I’ve always thought of Chie as green, but Neg0 has always thought of her as yellow. Should I change it?
Keep it the way you think it should be. But maybe lighten the green a little?
It’s the green I sampled from official artwork. It’s the colour of her jacket.
Interesting.
I agree with Neg: it does look darker than the green I remember from the game, possibly because of the yellow trim in the actual character model’s jacket.
I’ll try a different image then. A screenshot
BTW @scree , I’ve sent you an email re those 3D prints. The files you sent aren’t printable, they are a zero thickness mesh, it looks like they were extracted from a game model?
You really would need to model up the required parts, to scale in something like this:
http://www.123dapp.com/design
It is multi-platform, free and really easy to use and will create files I can print for you.
Yeah, it’s a game model. I’ll check out that app and fix it up
Downloading it now. I have zero experience in 3D printed stuff, so please bear with me.
Yeah it must be the surrounding colors make it look lighter than it is.
Seems to be a mixed bag -https://www.google.com.au/search?q=chie+persona+4&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjFnP2g5srJAhXDK6YKHfeFAVsQ_AUIBygB&biw=1920&bih=979
I for one remember it being lighter as well; kind of yellow-green mix.
Would have looked different on my old CRT telly at the time.
It will always be a bit different when printed too.
Good morning TAYBES <3
Hey guys, it’s Jane!
Hi Jane!
How’s the motorcycle?
Hey friend! Moto is real good – went for a lovely ride to the water on Sunday. How are you?
I’m well, cool change has finally come through here so I’m feeling more like a person and less like a piece of dried roast under a heat lamp.
Morning!
It’s alright I guess.
Howdy stranger. 🙂
Hey pal!
14000 posts. Get a life, me!
Change the email address tied to your account and it’ll reset your post count. That’s how I (accidentally) looked like less of a Kotaku obsessed shut-in.
It’s been a long, long time since I’ve been tempted to play the hot new thing in video games. The closest I’ve come to succumbing to the hype train is Legacy of the Void. Except that game didn’t have a hype train. It was a cruise liner of inevitability. We all knew it was coming and then it just kind of arrived. People who used to care cared enough to play and it was rad enough to get strong word of mouth.
Still haven’t bought it but that’ll change soon enough.
Board gaming… well, I succumb to hype in board gaming all the damned time. Right now there are two games that are considered the hot new thing. Codenames and The Gallerist.
I bought Codenames specifically to play at PAX. It was a fantastic decision and well worth it. It’s one of those simple games that you have to wonder how nobody thought of it until now. It just works. Great game and well deserving of the current hype (even if the hype is bolstered by hobbyists worshiping at the altar of Vlaada).
The Gallerist is a little different. It’s a very heavy worker placement game about art galleries. The mechanics are so deep into my wheelhouse that they should pay me rent. It’s exactly the sort of game I’d love to sit down for an afternoon and puzzle out with a bunch of friends. The problem? I don’t have access to The Gallerist or a bunch of like-minded friends to play it with.
There’s a popular board game meet up on Saturday. It’s probably my one chance to play The Gallerist while everyone is still raving about it. That’s fine. I’ll probably miss that chance. I often miss those sorts of chances.
Video games have taught me something very important about the hype train: you can miss it. A good game is still good even if other people have moved on to other, shinier things.
I bought Dead of Winter off the back of the hypetrain. Good choice, it’s neat. I also grabbed Spyfall based off of SU&SD and other hypers, and it didn’t set my table on fire but I’ll try it again with different peeps.
I’ve mostly enjoyed Spyfall. I also have exactly zero intentions of buying it. It’s a good game that works if people want to make it work. If I’m in a crowd with the people that are going to make it work, they’re going to have a copy. It’s that sort of game.
With my friends, I’m largely (at the moment) the conduit for new games. Well, paerhaps that’s not right. I have the most diverse collection, so I focus a bit more on filling niches.
Around here, I just butt into already established groups. I can focus entirely on picking up what I want to pick up. It’s pretty nice no longer being host. I do miss hosting though because I still picked up what I wanted to pick up and had the justification of “oh, I can totally trick everyone into playing this with me”.
Yes and no. Fallout 4 is going to be amazing (so I’ve heard) regardless of when you pick it up. Battlefront is going to be alot less fun once the servers are dead.
My logic is that a multiplayer focused game will have a community that sticks around. It’s a different definition of good.
I think there’s something to be said for that early boom. The massive player base means it’ll be alot easier to find less popular game modes, or those massive 30v30-type battles.
Whelp, just got my ticket for PAX next year. Bit annoying that they’re selling them so close to Christmas. I guess the idea is that people will buy them as gifts, but still.
Haven’t bought my tickets yet but that could change by the end of the day. We’ll see.
I don’t feel like there’s a mad rush to snatch up all of the 3 day tickets anymore. Waiting a few days, possibly even weeks, seems totally reasonable.
*months
Doubt I’ll go next year. Not my bag anymore to be honest.
Probably true, but I think I’d rather get it out of the way early.
I bought mine as a gift…
…FOR ME. \o/
I’m kind of tossing up whether to buy some and see if I can come back to AU then or to hold off and just do Prime.
Got mine also.
PAX five! o/
Well, caved and bought Fo4. Figure I’d want to play it in the next few months.
Here’s hoping Bethesda get a bit more of a move on with patches, sounds like their one and only so far was not much.
I’ve honestly not really come across an issue with glitches. The game may bug out occasionally, but not in any kind of critical game-destroying way. By default your game will quicksave every ten minutes or so when you perform an action such as triggering a loading screen or opening your pip boy, so I think there’s only been one time very early on where I actually lost any meaningful amount of progress, because I was walking across a big open area, not entering any buildings, and didn’t have any particular reason to check my inventory.
Cool cool. I’m extra wary since NV where I couldn’t even progress past the special part in char creation without a ctd.
On PC? I haven’t had a single issue honestly. It’s crashed twice, but I think that might’ve been due to my old graphics card. It’s the first Fallout game i’ve had from actual launch & it’s been smooth as butter for me \o/
Nice. I just assumed since it was an open world Bethesda game it was a mild mess on launch.
Good to hear otherwise.
Yeah no real issues honestly. I’ve had more issues in New Vegas & to an extent Fallout 3 (though it shouldn’t really run on Win 10, but it does for me lol) than 4 has given me.
So… as someone who is mildly interested in RPGs, would it be worth it to get Xenoblade on the Wii U?
Absolutely. I’m not a big RPG fan, but I am loving this.
I don’t even like RPGs, but Xenoblade is great.
test post pls ignor
I get the feeling it appeals more to people who don’t like JRPGs than those who do.
Anyone keen for a Fiasco this week or next? @cj?
http://www.fiascoplaysets.com/#andtoallagoodnight ?
What! Already?
Yeah I’m good every night the next fortnight except for Friday’s and this Saturday and Sunday cause work.
Next Wednesday? cc@beeawwb @freezespreston @cracks @anyone else interested
I can probably get @beawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwb to show up.
Oh man @beawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwb is the best.
I’ve worked out that to summon the anti B-ob one must type bea, followed by 26 w’s and then another b. So you can just go abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz and then replace each of those with w’s. Summoning the Anti B-ob has never been easier!
Fiiiiiiiaaaaaassssccccoooooo!
Would love to, but unavailable on Wednesdays 🙁
A little while ago, I tried to convince people to play Agricola with me via play-agricola.com. It went poorly.
Let’s try again!
Just a few changes to try and make things smoother:
1) We play on Boite a Jeux. The UI is actually functional.
2) Anyone opting to play has to have tried to learn the rules beforehand. I don’t care if it’s a Youtube tutorial or you’ve read the manual (available on many places, including Boite a Jeux). This goes for me as well because I clearly did not understand the rules as well as I thought I did. I’ll try my best to guide people through but this game has a lot going on.
Any volunteers/victims? Once we get an idea of who’s in, we’ll worry about when.
@cj @redartifice @beawwb @freezespreston @alexwalker
Or @beawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwb whatever the hell his name is around here :p
@beavwa
Also, you had too many w’s – it’s @beawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwb
What?? Leave me out of this.
You’re never going to remember this entire username.
bea, then the character limit for usernames in w’s, minus 1 w to fit in a final b. Easy!
Too many or not enough?
Actually it’s the lack of a second e that does it now I look at it.
So it should probably be @beeawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwb
Sure.
What’s a gricola?
Yes I know I used that line last time. I’ll read up rules, I can do any night but Wed.When a mummy farm and a daddy farm love each other very much, they strive to make every last motherfucker nearby starve.
I will make a better attempt at learning the rules. I think I had a basic understanding (though we never got to my turn to find out!) but I’ll try and find the time to watch some videos too.
Part of the problem is that it is much, much easier to iron out little wrinkles of misunderstanding when you’re all gathered around a table. Moving to a digital version adds a layer of idiosyncrasies that muck everything up.
Just in case anyone was holding out hope because that FF7 remake footage seemed to show an ATB user interface, Kitase says:
“Rather than a command-based battle ensuing when you encounter an enemy, we’re aiming for a seamless active battle, as you can see in the trailer.”
And Nomura says:
“Regarding the battle speed and tempo, for the sake of a stress-free battle, we want to do something on the level of Dissidia Final Fantasy. As far as the degree of action goes, it’s Dissidia Final Fantasy, then Kingdom Hearts, then Final Fantasy VII Remake. There won’t be any actions that require a technique. By using the new system, we want to do action battles while also being able to fight while thinking strategically”
So it’s an action game with shitty menu commands that requires no real user input to play. Initial suggestions that it’s a reskin of FFXV sound accurate. 🙁
Also “Dissidia” and “stress-free battle” sound diametrically opposed to me.
I’mma play it. Never played FF7.
Also I want a console Dissidia.
I feel like you’re the actual target audience. They’re just assuming all the FF7 tragics will buy it anyway no matter how much they fuck it.
They’re probably right.
I just hope they offer dual audio or at least that the dub they showed so far was placeholder because it was pretty dire.
Glad I wasn’t the only one who thought the dub was poor. I’m usually very forgiving with dubs but that tested even my patience.
It was atrocious. Barrett sounds like they pulled in a homeless bum from out the back of the studio and were like “this guy sounds black enough, he’ll do” and Wedge and Jessie sound like they’re straight out of a bad mid-90s anime. Cloud sounded passable at least I guess, but he has like one line.
I love those descriptions so much.
Oh good. So they don’t get why people wanted a remake.
And this is exactly how the video they showed yesterday played like; I was actually thinking it looked a lot like that FF fighting game with the weird name. Makes sense; I knew I was never going to like another FF again after 12-13. First Dragon Age now FF; all my favourite RPG’s are being laid to rest :'(.
*Creates a shrine to Witcher 3*
We are having secret santa at work and i got one of the engineers, these are the things i know about this particular engineer
1) he is a engineer
2) he eats smelly food
Thats about it.
This is gonna be a fun shopping experience.
Kimchi and Fish Sauce gift pack
What’s the price limit?
EDIT: My go-to for engineers:
http://www.amazon.com/What-International-Scientific-Hypothetical-Questions/dp/0544456866
This is equally good:
http://www.amazon.com/Thing-Explainer-Complicated-Stuff-Simple/dp/0544668251/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
(I love that Amazon consider this a textbook!)
Both of those are great ideas.
As an engineer I can guarantee that both will be appreciated by an engineer unless the engineer is a complete asshole.
I bought the What If book for a friend. He’s an accountant, so I figured he’d appreciate the analytical side of it…
… it is gathering dust on his bookshelf, unread. Some people are just the worst.
He’s an accountant so that’s why.
An accountant? Probably needs Cones of Dunshire.
I would love either of those books if they were given to me.
They would also be gathering dust on my bookshelf, unread.
We had a secret santa at work this morning. Food was a pretty popular option, as were novelty gag gifts.
I think the gag gift is the way to go. Office Golf, some kind of interesting mug, something like that.
I got my boss’ gift in Myer – the one in Sydney CBD has half a floor devoted to presents. There was also the option to get them a personalized jar of Nutella, which could work.
get him a girlfriend
lololololooolo
laugh out loud out loud out loud out loud out loud out out out loud out
Get him Adam Spencer’s new book, World of Numbers. And a jar of Crispy Prawn Chilli.
http://www.asiangrocerystore.com.au/teans-gourmet-crispy-prawn-chilli.html
Get him a Star Wars musical bottle opener.
I kinda cheated with mine! One of my colleagues asked if he could borrow something of mine the other day, and it just so happens to fit in the price bracket, so I conned by way in to being allocated him as my recipient! Easy!
One of my regular board gaming group brought along Mysterium and Sheriff on the weekend, thoroughly enjoyed both. Mysterium is really good at showing you how different your brain works to other peoples’.
Sheriff of Nottingham?
Yep, that’s the one. We house ruled that you weren’t required to declare the same number of cards that you actually played. I smuggled so much contraband in our first game (which I lost anyway, despite getting a wagon full of mead through in one round) that, in our second game, everyone wanted to inspect me, but I ended up winning trading only in legit goods.
I need to play it again. played it with @trjn at PAX and it took us a bit to warm up to the bluffing in it
It’s definitely a game that’d be better once a metagame develops. Blindly trying to work out the logic of if someone would or wouldn’t bluff is pretty rough. Establishing and subverting a pattern of behaviour though? That seems like fun.
I think you’d also get better at playing the Sheriff.
There’s a great story I read somewhere (might have been Reddit) where someone talks about playing it with his parents and his normally meek and submissive mother becomes an incredible Sheriff, like flicking a switch, and the commenter has this sudden vision of what his life may have been like if his mother had been that assertive all the time. Which is just a fascinating board game thing.
Post-it notes are surprisingly awkward to write on.
One character per note. That’s the rule.
DESTINY.
Sleeper Simulant quest is active. I don’t know if it’ll vanish again at reset. @os42 was his usual kind and helpful self and assisted me with knocking off The First Firewall mission for all my chars last night.
As it’s reset night I’ll be on very early by my standards (hopefully by 6:30 AEST), so if @ash or @liondrive or any other people I play with who may not have got this silly gun yet are up for it, I’ll be helping a few folks out grabbing the first item in case the mission disappears at reset time. Sorry about the tyranny of timezones, liondrive…
And then… NIGHTFALL. Or maybe RAID. 🙂
PSA: wait until the update is active before doing nightfalls – rumour has it the “new” exotics are getting added to the loot tables at the same time. Should be easy enough to see when they’re added by looking at the exotic kiosks. Having said that, it’s kinda moot – my experience over the past few weeks is that everyone’s going to get a <300 ghost or 10+ 3oC regardless of which exotics are supposedly in the loot tables. 😛
From Bungie’s Twitter: “The December Update does not arrive as part of the Weekly Reset. We’ll deploy it tomorrow morning (Pacific Time) when the time is right.” So, guessing it’ll be around 3am Wednesday as per usual.
OK cool – well maybe will do some noodling about with some dailies and I need 4 Heroic Strikes on my Titan. And noodling about in normal King’s Fall for learnings.
And Nightfall on Thursday (out tomorrow).
I’m pretty much over Destiny at this point. Haven’t played in a couple of months, and no real desire to go back at the moment.
Perhaps that will change as they announce new content. *shrugs*
So I read something rather interesting last night. I got an adventure module for Shadow of the Demon Lord which is a rather grim, low fantasy RPG (kinda Brothers Grimm level of scary monsters). The adventure module was all focused around a particular magical item, the Dick-Ribbon of Manhood. The rest is spoilered for those who don’t want to read more.
Were one to acquire the Dick-Ribbon as a male, you would be compelled to place the Dick-Ribbon upon your genitalia and shun all other clothing. The magical item also granted a bunch of special abilities with such delightful names as Virile Strike and the Manhood Slam. One of the abilities though was named Revenge of the Manhood which stated that, upon the wielder’s death, the Dick-Ribbon of Manhood would become sentient, detach with junk in tow, and run off to the Nether Realms of Magic to celebrate its new-found sentience.It was an interesting adventure to say the least, especially when the last few were very, very dark and gloomy.
I find myself compelled to play this. 😛
I had Taco’s for dinner last night (hard shells) and it got me thinking…
Is there a right or wrong way to fill a hard taco shell?
Me personally, I put meat/sauce/cheese at the bottom and then salady things on top.
That way you get more meat, since the bottom is the wider portion.
So you’re correct.
Uh, isn’t the top of a V wider?
What kind of tacos are you filling? They’re shaped like the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Edit: Wait, I get what you mean. If I’m viewing a taco face on you’re talking about the Z (Depth) dimension?
That is what I was thinking.
My wife takes the view that lettuce goes on the bottom to protect the shell against sogginess when it contacts the meat. My view is meat, then meat, then cheese, then sour cream. Cram it into your facehole. If it gets messy, stop whining. Because meat. Raargh.
But if anything you want the bottom of the shell to get soggy, so then it won’t crack when you bite down on the sides you won’t have to try and stop all the contents from falling out the bottom.
Meat.
Meat, sauces, cheese, tomato, lettuce because who gives a toss if lettuce falls out.
truly a food genius
If you have a soft shell taco, put it on your plate. That way, everything that falls out just goes into that taco.
this is the knowledge people keep telling me my elders hold.
This is called tossing the salad isn’t it?
What else would tossing the salad mean?
Tossing the lettuce in the fucking bin where it belongs?
Shell, meat, tomato etc, lettuce, cheese, sauce.
My parents seem to like having rice with theirs. I think rice with the Mexican stuff tastes weird.
Just make a burrito then nothing falls out.
Meat… Cheese… sauce. Just make lassagne. So much better =p
Naw man, that fresh Burrito salad taste is great.
Oh god. Lasagne burrito.
GENIUS
Just make nachos and chuck everything in a pile.
I think a funnel web has moved into one of my old climbing shoes.
Never actually seen one before. But it seems to have a kind of tunnel-like web in it, with a little guy hiding at the end.
Grats on the pet spider!
I call him Mr Bitey.
You’ll only be calling him that once if he was successful 😛
Assuming I only have the one enemy… >:)
I’m your enemy, but I’m not a spider. Does that count?
Aw i fort we wer frenz 🙁
Best frenemies
No. You need to suffer for your taste-crimes. And I’m not talking about the low-grade everyday suffering that is your/the human condition. I’m talking about the kind of suffering that gives way to an epiphany where you cry out, “Transient was right all along, how could I have been so blind?!”
It’s not a crime to have taste as excellent as mine 😎
Fine an incinerator and chuck your shoes in. Afterwards burn your house down cos that’s the only way you’ll know for sure…… I might have a spider related phobia.
If the Death Star was in orbit around our planet and broadcast a message saying “because funnel webs” I reckon we’d all go “yeah, fair enough”.
I think I’d be ok with it even if they went “because Trump”.
We had 5 golden orb spiders in the back yard a few weeks ago, I made the exact same suggestion to my wife and she said no 🙁
Think I saw the first orb weaver of the season the other day when taking out the bins. They like to string themselves up across from the garage to the fence, exactly where I need to go through. Usually they keep things up high enough to not be a problem, but sometimes they need relocation.
Last year there were a couple that performed the mammoth task of stringing up their web across from one side of the driveway to the other, between the trees either side of it. That was damn impressive.
Despite my fear of spiders i must say the fact the females can essentially crap out golden string is pretty damn cool.
They all need relocation imo, the 5 we had were moved to a nearby bush land but we know there is still at least 1 still in our yard and as many as 3.
Try and catch the spider in a jar. Then chuck the jar into an incinerator…. wait I think I made a similar suggestion =P
But then where do I put the incinerator?
In the house! Duh! You forgot about burning your house down!
Take the boot outside very carefully. go back inside and grab some matches, grab a can of petrol (the more the better) and then pour the petrol into the boot and set it on fire.
Reasons I am happy not to live in Australia, #1…
Righto folks I’m getting in super early on my planning for PAX next year.
Currently I’m looking at grabbing a 3-5 person place on AirBnB there are several going right near the convention centre and filling it up with whoever wants in.
Any interest in this please reply.
I’m curious about how it feels to be organised, so count me in.
Awesome.
Put me and Freya on the stand-by list. Haven’t bought tickets yet and am going to talk to her about this stuff in the next couple of days.
\o/ my custom printed Christmas cards arrived along with my calendar for next year, they look awesome. Vista Print so such awesome work.
Also a cute girl whom I was serving at work today commented on my piercing saying how cool it was, that’s like the first time in the 7 or 8 years i’ve had it, someone has complimented me for it. I thought that was cool 😛
I may regret asking this, but where is your piercing?
It’s through the top of my ear, it’s an industrial piercing lol. About the only piercing I ever wanted. I’ve been thinking about getting one in my other ear because I can lol.
So Rainbow Six was giving me the shits last night. I think in my sleep deprived state I just wasn’t respecting the game enough and trying to go in standard FPS style and kept dying. Gotta learn to be more of a sneaky bastard it seems.
Was also meant to play with @gammah last night but between uplay being a giant pain in the bum, and mates jumping into the lobby I was in left and right we ran out of room. Sorry mate! Might have to try it sometime tonight or even next week!
I completely forgot that Siege would end up using Uplay… Note to self don’t get that game on PC.
Uplay now just integrates into steam so you no longer have to launch the game from steam, THEN have it launch uplay, THEN click into the game like with Fallout 4. Instead it just goes straight into the game and uplay sits in the background. They’re just having a few niggles with server issues atm I think. Seems to be getting better though 🙂
So the tumor has turned benign… it’s still a tumor!
*Starts up-to-date game from steam* *Waits five minutes for Uplay to finish updating itself* Can confirm, still tumour.
Yeah you can’t run and gun in this game, granted I did do a full team wipe with thermites shotgun because I was sick of getting/seeing people tea bag, that shotgun is beastly!
Yes or No: would you be interested in a game that allows you to pilot a real drone on the moon in competition/cooperation with other players piloting their own drones on the moon?
Yes with many many many caveats
How are you going to propel a drone on the moon
Fly it of course 😛
If you just believe hard enough.
Wheels and an electric motor?
Would you be interested in a GPS app called Pied Piper tracking the location of your child? I can follow your child anywhere and there is nothing you can do to stop me. Most missing children are never found. Interested, very interested, or very interested?
Pivot!
I’ve got a very specific idea in mind for a personal logo. I don’t need one but it’d be rad to have and I could use it for that blog I keep meaning to start.
Here’s the problem: I have no artistic talent and the friends that I have that do are people that I would like to pay for it. I also don’t want to spend money.
Fun times!
*Insert one fancy logo* here ya go champ, that’ll be $4000 cash or broken kneecaps
Ask for commissions, and offer to pay in exposure.
Logo will be used as the picture for a Twitter account with 221 followers and may be used on the header of a website that doesn’t exist! Can’t get better exposure than that!
http://fiverr.com #helping
All the text in TAY mobile just got super small. WHAT IS THIS? XENOBLADE CHRONICLES X!?
A website for ants?
Mines too big and I have to keep sliding side to side to read everything.
Phrasing.
Oops, knocked over a gigantic pile of mail that’s been slowly growing and growing.
But then I found a $50 note amongst it all. Hooray!
What is your life?
A series of loosely-related accidents.
Making oats in my rice cooker.
This can only end one of three ways. Deliciousness, Disaster, or House Fire.
What about a deliciously disastrous house fire?
Make sure to invite all the spiders over for breakfast.
The fuck is wrong with me I’m googling serious build stuff for a PAX costume and it’s 11 months away
Oooooh what’s the costume?
Not sure if I’m gonna do one for next year. Could be fun. But on the other hand, effort…
I’ll give you a clue. It starts with N and ends with 7
Nexus 7, you’re going as a tablet?
😛
Yes.
a WORKING one.
Femshep?
Pfft, with my figure? I’ll not denigrate her awesomeness.
Femshep is best Shep.
actually I was vaguely thinking about Femshepping it
Do eet. From what I’ve been looking at it’s a build that’s more big than complex
If @rocketman wants in, I could do a Jet Black to his Spike Spiegel.
YOU SHOULD BE JET JET’S THE BEST
And get a plush Corgi!
PAX is awesome, and cosplay makes it better (and your pip boy was awesome!)
Hey, join the club =P I’ve been looking at the electrical stuff for Techie’s cosplay and researching.
Righto folks listen up.
I’m looking for at least 6 but up to 8 people to join me in splitting accommodation for PAX 2016.
I have a place lined up now, its not the penthouse cause some fucking nerds beat me to that,
HOWEVER!
With 6 people its $240 for 4 nights rounding up
If we get 8 this price gets closer to $208 but there is an additional fee of $30 per night for each extra person, Which the owner has said I can pay in cash if I book for 6 now.
Its located on the other side of crown casino and its 14min walk from PAX.
I’ve already been pre approved to book this I just need some feedback. I need at least 4 more people
So far I have myself and @blaghman
@35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @cakesmith @cffndncr @cj @cookingmama @dkzeitgeist @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @harli @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @mawt @morkai @markserrels @mrtaco @novacascade @powalen @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggyninty @beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__ @bdkiaf @blaghman @rize @shane @fled @grandmasterb-funk @hindenlagen @liondrive @phlanispo @phoenix @platinum-urchin @thecracks @ash @banderdash @benny @jacksonwryan @jocon @lucifer9783 @redartifice @wilbur @f4ctionI’ve just tagged from Taytags IDK how out of date it is. IF you’re not tagged but are interested you’re more then welcome.
This is for 4 nights from the 3rd November leaving on the 7th
I don’t know the dates for PAX aus next year, but if it’s around the same time as this years; I’m probably not going to be in the country when it’s happening next year.
Thanks for the invite though.
One week later than this year.
Yeah November 4-6 and I snag a day either side.
Did someone say Crown Casino… $_$
Yes
Sorry mate, I’ve already booked my accom. As much as I’d enjoy staying in Nerdpartment 2: Electric Boogaloo I also enjoy my solitude to recharge at the end of the night.
Solitude for energy recharge is grossly underrated.
It’s cause I didn’t get the penthouse isn’t it.
I prefer Hustler
Won’t be going to PAX next year. 🙁 Sorry hombre!
I only ever seem to say no to you, CJ. One day, though…
I hate you
I’ll be at PAX North!
@dc – make it a thing
I have neither the time nor money, but thanks for the invite 🙂
Sorry bud, count me out.
I’m not the biggest PAX fan so I think it’s pretty safe that I won’t be going next year.
Sorry mate, not going to PAX.
Doubtful I will be attending at this point. Too far out to know really, plus I’m likely going to be stuck paying off a whole new round of debt thanks to my recent issues :\ Just when I was getting so close to being debt free again at long last!
Put me down as a definite maybe
http://www.polygon.com/2015/12/8/9871646/destiny-bungie-dlc-microtransactions-taken-king-year-two
No.
That was the understanding. A,bunch of minor free content and cosmetic microtransactions.
If it starts being paid minor content, then I’ll grab a pitchfork.
Nothing in that article from Bungie states they are charging for the events; if anything they’ve hinted at the opposite? But that title – “Destiny’s future isn’t in paid expansions but in microtransaction-based events, Bungie says” so misleading.
They’ve said previously that the microtransactions are being used to fund the live team (ie, the team doing live events like the Halloween thing and Sparrow Racing). Personally, it sounds interesting, but it also implies there’s going to be no progression once you hit 320 light, until September 2016. Plus, bugger all story content until then, too. Which means it’s going to go back to being a one-or-two nights a week game to collect all the yellow things while dreaming of what might have been. *sigh*
Yeah I just skipped that withdrawal stage in my Destiny problem a year ago and jumped into other games =P
*goes back to Fallout 4 and Witcher 3*
Yea, before TTK came out, I was happy just hopping on for Nightfalls and the odd bit of patrolling with friends. Last couple of weeks has been mostly the same – on for one or two nights for raids/nightfalls, and the rest of the week in Fallout.
The Kotaku article on the same had an even more worrying implication. ‘Destiny 2’ is a code-name for a mere expansion, coming out ‘next fall’.
No new engine, overcoming that glaring dev-tool flaws that have hamstrung their ability to generate content on any reasonable time-frame. No UI/design improvements for glaring flaws which were laid squarely at the feet of catering to ancient last-gen tech.
And I still haven’t seen anything to convince me that anyone left at Bungie knows what a good story is, let alone how to craft one.
They would not have had time to build a whole new engine and game on it.
At best I’d hope they leave the writing to actual writers this time and ditch last gen support.
With anything Destiny it’s best to take your salt and wait and see.
I still want to read a couple other sources on that – it could be misinformation due to poor phrasing. Honestly, if D2 turns out to be an expansion, I’ll … um… ah… probably still play the hell out of it. But I’d much rather they fix the problems with their tools/engine, ,redevelop it if necessary, take the time (and, hell, hold D2 back until 2018 if necessary) so they can actually make content on a regular basis.
It’s fucking Bungie. They did some of my favourite games of all time. Abuse, Oni, Myth, and the utterly legendary Halo series. They’ve done little else but spin straw into fucking gold. I shouldn’t have any reservations whatsoever about what they produce.
But here we are. The way things are, I’m not buying Destiny 2. What the fuck happened?
I keep thinking it’s because a lot of the Destiny team aren’t the same people who worked on Halo and earlier titles. Thing is, I thought this was because they got scooped up by 343i to work on Halo 4-6… but Halo’s turned to crap, too. I wholeheartedly echo your sentiment: what the f%&@ happened?
AWW YEAH JUST BEAT ELITE DEVS ON LIVESTREAMED CQC DEATHMATCH!
Spent ages in the loading screen while they’d already started the match, luckily they didn’t get too far ahead.
Think I won a paint job or something for winning the match. Woo!
Damn youths these days, woke up and went to leave for work and the drivers side of the car is covered with egg and shell, they even got some of the shell stuck behind the side view mirror
So muck-up day is still a thing then…
The collateral damage is a concern, though.
In my day (ie: when things were better), we saved our muck-up day ire for the deserving.
…Y’know, the long-suffering teachers who’d already had to put up with all our juvenile bullshit for the last five years, nearly every day.
I never understood the idea of pranks. My school had a big crackdown on anything after there’d been a bunch of unpleasant incidents in previous years involving pig parts and vandalism. We had a couple of dress up days and that was it. My favourite was the uniform cross dress day. For a lot of the girls it just meant switching what colour pants, but it was *very* entertaining when the boys realised that it’s actually really hard to sit on a chemistry lab stool when you’re wearing a skirt.
Sorry to bother, but lately when I’ve been thinking about my bookmarks, I kept hearing a little voice in my head saying “No one cares”.
Now I’m worried that I’m annoying people. Please let me know if you’re sick of seeing bookmark stuff, but I also rely heavily on the feedback I get from everyone here
Not me personally. It’s so far mostly for a bunch of games I’ve never played, but I like the style.
What have you played?
Nothing Nintendo. 🙂
Persona isn’t Nintendo.
…Or that! 😀 Or Katamari Damacy (that was on other platforms, right?)
Yup. But I meant if you want to see stuff, tell me and I can see what I can do
I personally have no interest in the bookmarks themselves, but I enjoy reading about the making of them and seeing the images. I’ve never played any of the games on them, or at least I don’t recognise them.
I’d love some classic 2000AD bookmarks, Halo Jones, ABC Warriors, Rogue Trooper etc. but that would be a potential market of, um, probably me.
@poita
I was just thinking, I don’t know these games…
Hahaha, yeah, they are old comics.
I wish they had made games of them though.
I’m not really interested myself but I don’t mind the posting about it.
That’s what this place is for: talking about stuff!
I don’t want to be spamming the place, I think. Or my self esteem has gone down. Possibly both
So much spam! It’s unacceptable! Where’s your apology! =P
Jokes aside are you planning on doing any bookmarks for the persona summons themselves? A thanos one would look awesome 0.0
Edit: Also weren’t you looking into wall scrolls and other canvases for your artwork a while back?
Yeah. I’ll do the bookmarks first and slowly branch out.
I was also considering double sided bookmarks. Persona’s on the other side
If not posting stuff that no one cares about in here was a thing, you’d never hear from me. 😛
EDIT: Which isn’t to say no one cares about your bookmarks mind you.
I don’t have your confidence though. (I often read some of the stuff if it kind of applies to me)
Confidence is a huge scam. It’s more about tricking people into thinking you have it than actually having it.
Gives new meaning to the phrase “confidence trickster”
And people try to tell me that Trix are for kids.
Silly rabbit.
Trick enough people and you’ll eventually trick yourself. Then it’s indistinguishable from the ‘real thing’. Or possibly IS the only version of the real thing that exists.
I legit trick myself into thinking i am super handsome. I said it enough that now i look in the mirror and legit think im hot.
#doingitright
Amy Cuddy did a pretty good TED talk on this. Her view is rather than “fake it til you make it”, “fake it til you become it”. There’s some science behind it too. Sitting or standing in a power pose for a few minutes (like, in private before a meeting or presentation) makes you feel more powerful just from being in that pose, and that reinforces confidence.
I think there must’ve been some sort of popular magazine article or E! News piece or something pop-media about it because I was just standing in the elevator a while back and one of the coworkers was just looking me up and down and said, “Did you realize that you always stand in power poses?” and some of the others were noting, “Hey yeah… that’s true.”
I was like, “Uh. This is just how I stand…” but they were amused and ironically questioning my authority and it was all very awkward and I wasn’t quite sure how to respond to that. They seemed to think they’d seen behind the curtain.
Oh, these things make the rounds. I only looked into it recently because I was on a committee for an internal training/development day we had a couple of months back and we were looking for presentations and activities.
You sound so confident…. Waitaminute!
I have like zero confidence in reality.
Not entirely true. I’ve seen it firsthand. When you start speaking with authority on a subject you know exhaustively, you project plenty of confidence. 🙂
That’s probably true.
And also code for Negs is a know-it-all. 🙁
I prefer the more positive take.
I care.
**Hugs neg really tight so he cant leave
🙁
I might not provide feedback but I do look at them when they’re posted. Would never stop the creative endeavours of TAYbies, we’re all here to support each-other!
Except @blaghman because fuck that guy
I’m in the same boat as @transientmind. Love the style, but don’t recognize anything.
If you make a Gordon Freeman one, I will be all over that.
The possibility of a resonance cascade scenario is extremely unlikely.
cffndncr doesn’t need to hear all this, he’s a highly trained professional! We’ve informed Administration that nothing will go wrong.
As long as no one boosts the anti-mass spectrometer 105 percent, I think we’ll be fine.
I will consider it. I did play half life 2 episode 1 to the end, so I think I can do it
Mm. Some stylized headcrab/crowbar, or maybe a striking silhouette of Dog or Vortigaunts…
I was thinking a silhouette of the HEV suit holding a crowbar, orange background, with an orange lamba on the chest. I would buy the shit out of that.
Not my thing personally, but post about what you want Scree. There’s an audience for everything here on TAY. 🙂
And if I do an until dawn series? =P
I don’t read enough books to justify bookmarks. Haha. That reflects poorly on me. 😛
Until dawn, artwork?
What is until dawn?
Survival horror game on ps4
Scree, i talk primarily about electronics stuff that nobody cares about but i do it anyway because its my jam and “I” like talking about it. Don’t feel bad for being passionate about a topic.
I’m not worried about being passionate, it’s more about telling the voice in my head that it’s wrong. Does that make sense?
Also, gonna use Adafruit for Techie’s electrical stuff in his cosplay.
adafruit are awesome. as a side note
i saw some people use EL wire at super nova and its not super bright, so maybe consider some LED strips instead.
Thanks Rocketman for the heads up! Will LED strips be thin enough for the lights to be (I think it was) 3-4mm thin?
maybe not but you could try and just trim the sides down.
Yeah I know. The EL panels were for the suit. The LED strips are going to be for the backpack and gun. It’ll be too difficult to diffuse the led strips on the clothing
i was thinking about this could you use like a overhead transparency like teachers used to use. Sand them a little and use that as a diffuser
The problem with that is that you need distance to create the glow. Otherwise you can still see the strips.
if you sand it enough and have a fairly high density of LED’s you might be alright.
The diffusion grating in the backlight of old LCD monitors works a treat for this.
Talk about electronics more 🙂
I need to work some shit out.
I haven’t been on here much so I haven’t seen too much about them, but I really like the ones you gave me at pax 🙂 I use them all the time.
I’m glad you like them. I’ve been doing a series of series. So, LOZ, Persona, JSRF, katamari damarcy and pokemon.
I gave some of the Link ones (kept most for myself) to people who appreciated them. They were popular.
I like seeing your bookmarks
Tiglet is still liking the ones you gave her so for that alone you can post as many bookmark links as you like.
Although maybe with the announcement of psychonauts 2 you could do a range of psychonaut ones
I haven’t been following but I love your designs. Have you actually started selling any of them yet? I know you gave some to Shane for one of his con appearances, but there’s some I’d happily buy if you were actually taking orders.
I’m getting a website and having a whole bunch printed up for Supanova next year
Awesome! Please keep us updated. 🙂
Hm. I know it’s legally fine for us to reimburse you for the materials because we’re friends, but I wonder about the legalities of selling fan-art of trademarked characters and images… Given how long DA/etsy’ve been around and tempting people to do exactly that, surely there would be some reliable sources somewhere.
Please don’t frighten me D=
No need to be scared, just prepared and informed. 🙂 Knowledge = confidence.
I might do a little digging later for you if you like.
yes please
OK, sure. So you want suggestions… I sat down for lunch and thought about
BOOKMARK IDEAS
Like, non-Nintendo stuff I would totally dig and buy as gifts in the emerging screestyle. Could also consider like… I dunno, stickers/decals, badges, patches, t-shirt designs, I dunno. ART YEAH!
PORTAL! Iconic silhouettes/two-tones for companion cube, turret, Aperture logo, training-video stick-figure+Portals, Portal-gun, GLaDOS.
World of Warcraft : Not much springs to mind, though… Iconography. Horde/Alliance symbols. The Dark Portal silhouette. Murlocs.
Witcher: Witcher medallions. Stylized Geralt silhouettes. (Cat’s eyes and white hair – great for stark contrast. Or, two swords on a man’s back.)
Hitman: Agency logo/Silverballers/Hitman suit+tie silhouette (eg: bookmark = slice of Tie + lapels + Agency pin).
Plants vs Zombies: SEEMS like it could lend itself, but not in a straight silhouette, I think. Maybe patterned backgrounds? It’s goofy enough for polka-dot.
Fallout: Pipboy character in various poses. Power Armor? Not much iconography to work with here.
Dark Souls: Stylized sword bonfire. Knight sitting by bonfire. Solaire’s tabard/stylized silhouette. Shared ‘message’ text on the ground.
Final Fantasy 7: Blocky polygon characters could actually work really well in silhouette. Buster sword. FF7 Comet/Meteor logo.
Star Wars: Oh god, pick a character/icon any character/icon… Lightsaber, R2-D2 patterning, Death Star, Vader mask, X-Wing/TIE-Fighter, Empire/Rebel logos, Stormtrooper/clonetrooper helmets, the list goes on…
Halo: Master Chief’s visor. Cortana’s future-SD card. Energy Sword. Assault Rifle. Warthog. Elites, grunts, jackals.
Assassin’s Creed: Assassin logo. Wrist-blades. Assassin hood. Hooded figure perched on a building.
Sam ‘n’ Max: Sam. Max. Different poses. Nuff said – their silhouettes are so recognizable, their character designs already stylized.
Tetris: Blocks! So many blocks. Also, the Kremlin.
Not that I would buy them ALL, because a handful of each of those titles would probably end up being a few hundred bucks, but y’know, if you’re after inspiration for somewhere to start with something different…
So. I backed For the King a while ago.
now it’s asking me to name a wraith that’ll appear in game as a random encounter enemy.
& I have no idea what to call it.
Question(s):
What should I call my ghostly bastard?
Have you ever had to name an NPC in a game before coz of kickstarter etc?
Vanguard of Vengeance was the first that popped up in my head
Ghostly Bastard the Dastardly.
“Steve”
@cakesmith https://youtu.be/CEVdca9U9LM?t=52
Oh god, I haven’t seen this in years.
https://youtu.be/kIIxtRQv5sk?t=28
Robert Galbwraith.
Casper
Ghostly Dastard the Bastardly.
Wraith No More
Alternative is to go a page 6 style name
Khan’s pet
Grapes Of
Belongs to god/dog
I was gonna ask a question of “whats your favourite christmas movie?”
however i have been on this forum long enough to know that @trjn will say “die hard” then we will all say how amazing die hard is.
So what is your fave christmas movie that isnt die hard???
“Die Hard 2”
This guy knows what’s up 😀
Back to the Future.
Batman Returns is a Christmas movie. So technically are Lethal Weapon, Gremlins and Iron Man 3. But that’s sort of more of a backdrop.
I guess Home Alone?
Home Alone 2 since it has Tim Curry!
Yes, I’d say 2 is better than the first one and not just because of Tim.
YES
home alone.
I watched home alone 2 last christmas, tim curry is my hero.
“What kind of idiots do you have working here?!”
“The finest in New York!”
Home Alone seems surprisingly brutal and violent now, watching as an adult. Or “adult”, I guess. I remember thoughts like “wow they let kids watch this?” creep into my head. That’s kinda scary 😛
Gremlins is TOTALLY a Christmas movie.
The Polar Express. <3
The Snowman was another excellent animated technically-involves-Christmas film. If only because it’s completely without dialogue. And because Howard Blake’s ‘Walking in the Air’ is such a striking piece.
I’m going to go out on a limb, since it hasn’t come out yet, but I can easily seeing this being my new favourite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6cVyoMH4QE
Otherwise, probably A Nightmare Before Christmas or Trading Places
Yes, Trading Places!
Because… reasons.
Gremlins.
It’s a Wonderful Life
Robot Chicken’s Anime Christmas.
The Nightmare Before Christmas, Prancer, and the very old Rankin Bass stop-motion animations like Frosty The Snowman and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
I loved watching the old claymation style Christmas stuff. Probably my favourite part of Christmas TV when I was growing up.
They’re still around!
Home Alone
Love Actually. So many great actors, some clever storylines and I always feel good at the end.
Read this t’other day and had a good chuckle.
http://jezebel.com/i-rewatched-love-actually-and-am-here-to-ruin-it-for-al-1485136388
NO. That movie was heartwarming and cute and neither Cinemasins nor Jezebel nor a non-nostalgia-fogged-rewatch are going to ruin it for me!
(Oh god I read it despite myself and they’re right on too much. Too much.)
My sister has this great relationship with it, where she loves the movie so much, and always cries at least once during it, but she’s a really strong feminist. So she has to just completely shut off the feminist part of her brain to watch it (and many other movies).
I feel like the person who wrote that article needs a good hug.
Also Cock-Blocktapus. Brilliant hahaha
Not going to read it.
I’m just going to jump in with the unpopular opinion that Love Actually is my least favourite Christmas movie. I’ve never enjoyed it.
Oh man, when I lived in London two of my (female) room mates made me watch it. Was NOT a fan. Haha! I can see the appeal, though. Especially the anthology nature of it and all the intersecting stories. My heart is too dead inside to feel, though. 😛
Personally I felt the anthology nature was what I didn’t like about it. It felt like they were trying to do too much with too many stories and rather than concentrating and developing more time in the most interesting ones they tried to create this giant unsustainable web. Less stories with more development would be far preferable to more stories with less development.
It’s a British sitcom masquerading as a movie. It definitely would have been better as like a six hour telemovie or something like that.
The Ref, with Denis Leary. Great breakdown of a dysfunctional family held hostage by a jewel thief on Christmas Eve. I highly recommend it.
I thought it was only my family that watched it every year.
Brilliant film.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
Jingle All The Way.
IT’S TURBOOOOO TIME!
The Ref.
Not very long until the next anime season starts. So what looks interesting?
Here’s a chart:
http://dontsaylazy.com/images/winter_2015-2016_v2.jpg
Stuff I’m definitely interested in:
– Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation
because it’s the closest we’ll ever get to the game, fuck you Sega
– Durarara x2 Ketsu
Final of the three DRRR x2 cours. Still a great show though it feels like it lost some steam toward the end of the second cour
– Fairy Tail Zero
I’m still confused whether this is a new arc in the main Fairy Tail series, or a spinoff show. Either way, Fairy Tail’s one of my regular watches every week so absolutely watching this
– Myriad Colors Phantom World
Blindly watching anything Kyoto Animation produces has never disappointed. Adapted from a light novel published under KyoAni’s own imprint.
– Gate S2
Second season of Gate, which was a show that was clearly not originally intended to have a gap between its cours. First half just stopped abruptly right when it started to get moving again.
– Nurse Witch Komugi-chan R
I hate this and everything it represents. Reboot of the Komugi-chan OVA series, which was in turn a spinoff from The Soultaker. Tatsunoko obviously has a deal with some random idol chick and Halko Momoi has largely dropped off the map so they’re just ditching the old cast and rebooting. But at the same time, it’s vintage Akio Watanabe character art and stuff and if the core of the series is still there, then I will be to. Impossible to replace Momoi though. Her voice was saccharine enough to give you diabetes
– Schwarzesmarken
Prequel to Muv-Luv Alternative and looking far better than Total Eclipse, the last MLA spinoff we got animated. Carnelian character designs and her stuff is always pretty special, plus it was pretty well-received. Should be a lot darker than Total Eclipse too, more in line with the opening few episodes of that rather than the rest of it
– Akagami no Shirayukihime S2
First season was entertaining if conventional fantasy shoujo with a strong, likeable cast. Would prefer more of one of the others like it – especially more of Akatsuki no Yona – but will happily watch this
– HaruChika
What I said about Kyoto Animation also applies to PA Works. Their style really clicks for me. Despite what it looks like, this is adapted from a novel from a highly-regarded Mystery writer, and the last time PA Works did a mystery we got Another, which was brilliant. Expecting something a bit less dark in tone than that one though
Stuff I’m tentatively interested in (will give a try):
– Boku Dake ga Inai MachiThe setup for this sounds intriguing but the manga was only a middling success
– Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o
Standard-looking dime-a-dozen Light Novel adaption but the art is appealing and the setup could work
– Ajin
Sounds interesting but it’s a 3DCG series by the Knights of Sidonia studio that’s basically a TV series re-edit of a series of three films so… eh
– Ao no Kanata no Four Rhythm
Adapted from a galge by the developer of Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate, which was okay. I like the character art but I doubt it’ll transfer well to anime. Also their previous anime adaption was heavily censored for no reason. The show was utterly tame, but Mr Light Bar had to make sure that any hint of underwear or similar was restricted to the glorious Bluray Master Race. Ruined the TV broadcast.
– Hai to Gensou no Grimgar
initially sounds very skippable – another Sword Art Online cash-in – but the director’s previous credits include the criminally under-appreciated Box of Goblins so I’m curious
– Reikenzan
Apparently adapted from a novel by a Chinese author? Seems unremarkable but might be worth a look
– Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut
Actually the second time Rage of Bahamut has gotten an anime adaption. The one from… last year, I think? … was very odd. This looks much more conventional and grounded in the game. Might be okay)
– Bungou Stray Dogs
The concept amuses me greatly. Basically a bunch of real-life authors are in it as characters with superpowers that go around solving mysteries. A bunch of the authors that have appeared in it are famous Japanese writers, but apparently both Agatha Christie and Dan Brown are in it. The concept is so completely anime.
Fairly sure there’s some stuff from the current season that will continue straight into a second cour next season. Utawarerumono, Gundam, Heavy Object will all continue, and I think that Kindaichi Case Files R S2 should be a two cour as well (season 1 was).
Gate S2 is my frontrunner for the next season. Still kinda annoyed that they split it up but money is money.
I’ve always wanted to try and get into Fairy Tail but I’m treating it like One Piece or Naruto at the moment. There’s simply far too many episodes for me to even begin watching it, let alone catching up however many episodes there are.
Unlike Naruto, Fairy Tail doesn’t have a lot of skippable filler. Maybe 30 episodes out of the 265 or so so far are filler and the filler is pretty awful so good to skip, but you don’t really hit it until 100+ eps in and there’s only one protracted run of it.
I do recommend it though. It’s great fun. Just give it some time. The first 5-10 episodes are ropey, it takes some time to hit its stride.
It’s still very much possible to pick it up and catch up. It’s not like One Piece or Naruto which have episode counts above 600.
At least with Naruto there’s a point you can just stop and skip straight to shippuden and not miss out on any story.
when i watched all of naruto i was always paranoid that there was gonna be a episode that was important to character development when i skipped it. i needn’t be worried though, no character development was to be had.
Yeah that’s a good half-day or so of your life that you’re never getting back.
Shippuuden has way too much filler too. Every 3-4 episodes there’s a run of filler. Ain’t noone got time fo dat. So when I bother to watch that I grab a guide that tells me which episodes are relevant to the story and skip the rest.
Filler were the only episodes I watch whoops (coz I read the manga)
Why do you hate yourself?
Or do you really enjoy fart jokes?
Years of crippling self esteem lead me to believe I was only entitles to the filler eps
Ah, speaking of.
How many episodes are there in Fairy Tales’s actual first season?
I downloaded a batch ages ago that I’m working through but it lists the episode numbers differently from horrible subs and I can’t figure out where I’m up to on HS’s numbering.
I have up to the end if the Edolas arc.
175 episodes in the first series. It ends mid-arc.
The continuation is about 85 or so episodes in.
Edit: ok, if I assume I’m at 94/175 and not in s2 at all then I can work from there.
Cheers!
If you’re at ep 94 in season 1 you should be getting toward the end of the Edolas arc I think? I really enjoyed that arc.
I’m assuming Fairy Tail Zero is an anime adaptation of the Zero manga spinoff series. Didn’t know that was still a thing so…interesting. I think it has some relevance to the main story in any case. Never really read far into it. Too many Fairy Tail spinoffs.
Yeah, that’s what it is. But the question remains: is it going to run concurrently with Fairy Tail or is it just that Fairy Tail’s next story arc after they wrap up (or as they wrap up) the Tartarus arc will be Zero? The main anime has nearly caught up to the manga (it’s only about 30 chapters behind) so cutting over to Zero might be a way to avoid having to do another filler arc.
That would actually be pretty nice, considering FT’s filler arcs have been pretty not so great. The Jiggle Butt Gang…
If we never encounter the Jiggle Butt Gang again, it’ll be too soon.
So I grabbed Steamworld Dig on my 3DS last week, I’ve put about 5-6 hours into it so far… but what am I supposed to be doing? I’ve got a teleporter about 400m down, I’m zipping down there, digging new tunnels, avoiding dying, zipping back to the surface, selling junk, buying upgrades, zipping back down, repeat ad nauseum… Is there more to it?
Yeah there is a story there (at least I’m assuming it is the same as the PC version)
You should find doors to caves there somewhere. They will help unlock your grandpa’s story.
Once you start getting upgrades you will know you are on the right track
Yeah I’ve got a bunch of upgrades now, according to this Walkthrough (http://www.gamefaqs.com/3ds/725566-steamworld-dig/faqs/68152) I’m up to “Part 7”
Right. Then no you just rinse and repeat until you reach the last couple of parts
@jocon CoD tonight? Also how’s your time in Fallout 4 going???
Yes and have not got it yet – they are sending me a physical disk like the outdated folks they are.
….. Ok you might be pissed off at this news then. The PC physical disc of Fallout 4 only contains a part of the game. The remainder will need to be downloaded from Steam during installation.
Oh I expected that. Been the case for pc games for ages.
I’d rather they just emailed me a download code but I spose I should be lucky they even still sell pc games.
No biggie, I’ll not be playing it for a bit anyway. Still finishing off Witcher 3 and then I’ll give Endless Legend a crack.
Yeah but this is like download 21 out of 26GB. May as well not have a disc.
Wasn’t there a AAA game recently that had nothing but a Steam installer on the disc?
Yeah it was the new metal gear game
Of course it was Konami :/
This Wired article potentially naming the BitCoin creator as an Australian is a great read and is absolutely fascinating.
What a humble guy to not come out and say “hey I developed something unfathomable a few years ago and is now worth billions”.
What a dick guy for tax evasion.
Ho Ly Craaaaaap
http://groupbuy.ebay.com.au/deal?itemId=221961734066&_trkparms=clkid%3D1749069870196545272
Self Control Fading!
Oh shit, $300 is a price I am willing to pay for that …
DAMMIT CHRIS YOU MONSTER!
i wanna encourage you so we can play at inappropriate times during the night and piss our neighbours off. man our house is echo’y
I’m torn between a “can hear sex” or “can hear crying” comment…so I guess I’ll go with a combination…
You guys can hear each other crymaxing, huh?
Huh, if I hadn’t just whacked a lump of money on Dark Souls 3 shiny edition I’d be all over that.
Damn. I thought $190 for the game + guitar was a good deal…
OH SHIIIIIIIIT!!!
If I was still in AU I’d buy that.
Oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit.
Maybe I can sell something….
Is also available at The Gamesman for $299
https://www.gamesmen.com.au/xb1-rock-band-4-band-in-a-box
Welp, current strategy for all KF Challenge modes have been finalised:
Wait for an hour or two after reset, by which time reddit will have brute-forced the requirements, found the easiest way to do it (if not the fastest), and posted video guides on Youtube. I *really* wish I was joking…Bungie last week: “Sorry to those who use the single-orb strat for Golgoroth.”
Reddit this week, two hours after reset: “Here’s how to do Golgoroth Challenge mode using the single-orb strat” *sigh*That’s modern gaming for you.
Mystery and the internet cannot co-exist.
By current standards, modern gaming requires an internet connection, so mystery has no place in modern gaming? Stop the boat, I want to get off. D’:
Part of why I’m finding it hard to care about Destiny anymore, especially with no new story coming out in year 2. MMO/multiplayer just isn’t my jam anymore.
Well, I went out to get a game to play with the social group I’m in, and ended up getting Xenoblade on the Wii U along with Mario Power Tennis.
Elite Horizons beta just had subsurface scattering added, everyone is throwing up screenshots of the planets. They look so much more awesome now.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/3vz08r/beta4planeraty_rendering_improved/
Before and after comparison: http://imgur.com/a/awXZX
I have found my new Xmas song. This will be playing on repeat until NYE
THERES A “FREE” ANIME MOVIE CALLED
“HIGH SPEED”
I really loved that series way too much, it was just hot guys swimming but it was soo god damn compelling and ridiculously pretty.
I like how your opening statement reads like a bad endorsement of piracy.
Maybe some sort of joke about our internet speed in Australia? Dunno.
Great Psychonauts documentary as part of the Psychonauts 2 fig campaign. <3
https://www.fig.co/campaigns/psychonauts-2?update=25#updates
I’ll be watching it when I get home fer sure
Two more parts after this. Unlocks as the campaign goes. Really great, though. Even if you have no interest in Psychonauts it’s a snapshot into Double Fine: Year One.
Um, you’ve met me right
Once, yes. *stares off into distance*
Yay! I left an impression! You haven’t forgotten me for good or ill!
TAY!
Babymetal – Road of Resistance is an amazing piece of music!
…
Peace!
I’ll check that out tonight
Granted you have to enjoy Dragonforce and similar but ZOMG so good! 😛
I do!
I’m not saying you should check your Twitter DMs, but you should check your Twitter DMs.
I checked my Twitter DMs… Was not disappointed!
puts on fanboy hat
It’s their only song that hasn’t had any official release, although ‘Awadama Fever’ has only been released via their ‘Legend 2015’ live DVD/BR.
Their live shows are worth checking out, but can be hard to find in Australia, as only the ‘Live at Budokan’ shows have been officially released here (it’s on iTunes). Even their studio album hasn’t had an official release. If you can track them down, ‘Legend 2015’ and ‘Live in London’ are well worth checking out. The YouTube video for ‘Road of Resistance’ is from the ‘Legend 2015’ show.
Of course, you could just watch it here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x33a0zy_nyfoxfest-1-new-year-fox-festival_people
Is it just me, or does it sound exactly the same as ‘Through the Fire and the Flames’?
Has similar tones… Miiiiiiight have something to do with that it was co-written with Dragonforce 😛
Listen from around here: https://youtu.be/zTEYUFgLveY?t=127, compare to here: https://youtu.be/15JCb6P60Vw?t=67.
You can tell it was written by the same guys 🙂 I’ve always been more of a Dream Theater fan over Dragonforce, but they’re still pretty rad
Dream Theater eh? I’ll have to check them out!
Wait, really? I am totally living this right now: https://xkcd.com/1053/
This is quite possibly my favourite song of all time, from almost certainly my favourite album of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruxeHJEdh20
I am so jealous that you get to listen to DT for the first time.
Wait, you haven’t heard of Dream Theatre? Like them or not, I figured everyone has heard of them by now…
I only really started paying proper attention to music in the last few years so I’m not good at names 😛
I’ve probably heard some of their stuff without knowing who they were
Dream Theater are one of my favourite bands.
I discovered them in my teenage years through this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwDgX7Un3AQ
In that case, would you like some more recommendations? I have a slightly above average knowledge of metal bands!
@cakesmith
At first as i was like
🙂
Then i was like
:O
Then i was
😀
Then i was
!..! -_- !..!
Perfection!
@cffndncr
I’m always in the market to expand my playlist so any recommendation is welcome!
Dream Theater are all kinds of rad if you like prog. Haven’t personally listened to them much since the early 2000s or so when they had some disappointing releases and I largely moved toward listening to more Symphonic Metal stuff.
I’ve only really heard of them the once from one particular friend, don’t think I’ve really come across them since apart from that one song in… GHWT I think?
Which I probably wouldn’t have noticed if said friend had never mentioned them 😛
That particular friends sounds awesome!
To be fair through, they have only ever had one #1 song, and that was Pull Me Under all the way back in ’92! They have always been more of a slightly-off-the-public-radar type of metal band, although anyone who gets in to metal or prog is sure to come across them sooner rather than later.
The way I describe them to my friends goes something like this: You know how sometimes you say ‘imagine a band with the amazing guitarist from XXX and the fantastic drummer from YYY and the singer from ZZZ, how amazing would that be!!’ – That’s Dream Theater. Arguably the best guitarist in the world, the best drummer, possibly the best bassist, the best keyboardist, and a passable singer.
That being said, I am a huge Mike Portnoy fan, and haven’t listened to DT since they gave him the boot.
That was Pull Me Under as the credit song. So good!
@cffndncr I don’t know if Petrucci is the best in the world, but he’s definitely top ten especially when limiting just to artist that are currently active.
@negativezero He’s up there. From memory he’s had the most spots on G3 other than Vai and Satriani, which definitely says something
@cffndncr: Yeah, but that’s a tour that Satriani organizes himself, not necessarily a best-of-the-best. Petrucci is amazingly good on a technical level but there’s more to guitar than just technical ability.
@negativezero Yngwie Malmsteen would beg to differ, because he’s a bit of a dickhead.
Totally agreed though. Faster ≠ better.
@cffndncr Malmsteen is kind of overrated. He’s good but there’s better out there. Like Petrucci, who doesn’t seem to have an ego the size of a small country.
@Cakesmith have you listened to the whole 12-step Suite? So freaking good. I love hearing those riffs pop up all over the place when binge-listening to DT
Found the live version… The vocals – 5/10, The music – 9/10, The sounds of audience members’ voices breaking to hit high notes in an altogether far too drawn out bit of audience involvement – priceless. 😛
But, yes, the music is awesome.
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
Sorry guys, tied up in a work thing tonight so no session this week.
cc @tech_knight @blaghman @popdart5
Alright no worries Red.
All good. Thanks for the heads up.
Cheers for the heads up, and of course it’s all good.
Monster.
That wasn’t supposed to be a reply to Popdart.
Stupid fat fingers.
Well you know what they say about people with fat fingers
Poor typingDammit xkcd, don’t make me hunt all the coins
I spent so freaking long exploring that Star Destroyer.
I bailed before it ate too much of my time. I have so much work to get done
Sooo annoyed. Collected all the coins in that, then when back to the start and decided to see what was on the left side before cashing in.
The left side ended in a black screen I couldn’t escape from and had to close the tab. 🙁
I had something similar. My internet connection went screwy, which made me fall through the floor, and I got stuck and had to refresh and start again 🙁
First time I opened it, got stuck in a wall 3 seconds in. Second time I got stuck in a ceiling about 20 seconds in. Third time I was in the sort of mine area, a cell failed to load, and like you I ended up in the floor or something.
What’s this?
http://xkcd.com/1608/
Have you read XKCD though? It’s my favourite webcomic – Randal Munroe is a bona fide genius.
He’s one of my favourites. I need to get the new book. Found it soon after
http://kinokashi.tumblr.com/post/134831018080/soviet-red-tiffanarchy-soviet-red
This is the best kind of patent troll. Or variation thereof.
So even though I’ve had a monstrous headache for most of the day, I got good news in the form of a promotion I applied for. Woo! Climbing that government bureaucracy ladder!
Sooner or later you’ll be a full Mandarin
Okay Fronds, time for a bit of a Steam/Origin Key give away.
I’ve collected a bunch of Steam/Origin keys overtime from various bundles that i either already own, or don’t care about…
Soooooo….
Have at it:
AquaNox
AquaNox 2: Revelation
Battle vs Chess
BioShock
BioShock 2
Black Mirror
Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box Origin Key
Cast of the Seven Godsends
Claustrophobia: The Downward Struggle
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 – Uprising Origin Key
Company of Heroes™ Complete Edition
CrossCode
Crysis 2 Maximum Edition Origin Key
Crystals of Time
CubeZ
Dead Space Origin Key
Dead Space™ 2
Dragon Age™: Origins
FarSky
Flower Shop: Summer In Fairbrook
GemCraft – Chasing Shadows
Horizon Shift
Hospital Tycoon
Krater + Krater – Dr. Cerebro Pack + Soundtrack
Medal of Honor Origin KeyClaimed by @cffndncrMirror’s Edge Origin KeyClaimed by @cffndncrObludia
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
Operation Flashpoint: Red River
Populous Origin Key
Race the Sun
Saints Row: The Third Steam Key
Space Salvager
Summoner
Super 3-D Noah’s Ark
Toxic Bunny HD
Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® – Game of the Year Edition
Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War II
Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War II: Retribution
Why So Evil
Interested? Shoot me a message on Steam or here with what game you interested in and i will organise to have the key sent to you!
I want to keep this to be amongst TAYbies because you guys have been very VERY generous to me over time!
Disclaimer: These are all games i haven’t hit “Redeem” on yet, so i’m making the assumption that it’ll work, if not i apologise!EDIT – OH GOD i forgot about Indie Gala… *sigh* more games added to the pile 😛
Ooooh can I grab Mirror’s Edge & Medal of Honour?
Both of them are Origin keys, that OK?
EDIT – Also add me on Origin, or send me an email at jacob.didriksen at the gmails dot com and i’ll give you the keys 🙂
Oh, and Origin ID is Pixel_Ferret88
Ugh, my day has been annoying. Aside from work. Work was great (seriously for retail this is probably the most comfortable & enjoyable job i’ve been in).
But god damn, i’ve been attempting to find a bottle of preferable 99% isopropyl alcohol so I can clean my graphics card & CPU’s heat sinks & reapply new thermal paste, yeah no where around here actually sells it, strongest I can get is 70% whilst still okay, i’d just prefer pure if I can.
I also managed to slam my finger in the car door causing quite a lot of bruising & numbness to it, it’s okay now, thankfully and it doesn’t really hurt.
I also found out that international post has gone up again 🙁 so kinda can’t really justify $75 in one go to send something to my friend in the UK for her Birthday/Christmas so i’m gonna send them separately and hope that at least her birthday present gets to her before Christmas & the Christmas present gets to her before the New Year.
I’m also tired as fuck, since I haven’t eaten all day, I just don’t get time, with the shifts I do, I get a 15 minute break and that’s it. Then when I knock off I normally do a bit of grocery shopping, come home, do stuff around the house, then walk Chilli, then come home & start dinner. I love being busy, but it’s kind of a bit much at times o.o
Kinda glad I have tomorrow off, but tomorrow being Thursday which is plant delivery day for Dad so I help him there with the plants he sells at a local store, haha.
I also need to figure out what to get for my Secret SanTAY, I have one idea, which i’m pretty sure they’d be happy to get, but I shall see!
Anyway, how is everyone?
Edit: I’m also probably tired as all fuck, cause i’ve stopped drinking energy drinks & eating most junk foods & sugary things, I do feel better for it though I must say. Hopefully I can keep this up, I guess that will happen if I continue with work, since working makes me feel better as person.
I should’ve spoilerised that or something, sorry to anyone who reads my complaining 😛
Will this do?
http://www.jaycar.com.au/Service-Aids/Chemical-Aids/Other-Chemical-Aids/Isopropyl-Alcohol-99-8%25-Spray/p/NA1066
Wait… What? Replied to the wrong comment. 🙁
Oh cool, I forget Jaycar exist, even though my mate works there >_> & they’re probably the cheapest in the small amounts too, since Bunnings want that much for 125ml, I guess i’ll be stopping by Jaycar on my travels today 😛 Cheers!
Yay! I’m helping! \o/
/Drewan
Woo helping! 😛
Glad to hear that you’re cutting back on the energy drinks. I need to cut back on my coffee. It’s not out of control, but I’m feeling dependent on it.
I’m working on my Secret SanTAY present this week too. I’ve had an awesome idea, and I think my recipient is going to love it, but it’s frustrating that I can’t share my idea yet 🙂
Yeah I was having one a day of either mother or V 500ml, not really something that’s good for you, esp all the other shit like the sugar etc 😛
Ooo, i’m interested to see what it is in the end!
Fail..
Hey guys and girls, does anyone perhaps know of a good Wii U deal? My wife just got excited when she saw the MK8 + Splatoon deal…but not $400 excited.
Don’t know of any at the moment but keep an eye out for one here: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/product/nintendo-wii-u
If it was two years ago I would have said you can get the 8gb model for $170 from target
Great, thanks for that. I’ll book mark it. Surely with the NX heating up and the lack of interest in the Wii U, we may just see a price drop soon.
Went out to hunt down some of those $10 amiibo. A friend in New Zealand was kind enough to just send me one of the Club Nintendo coins since he had a spare and it was just sitting in his drawer, so figured I’d sneak off and try grab a couple he was looking for despite protesting taking any form of payment. Managed to find a Kmart that had a Little Mac and Diddy, both of which he’d mentioned being after. They also had a Ganondorf that actually had a good paint job, as well as a decent Metaknight. Wingman made mention of those, so grabbed them for her. Also couldn’t leave behind the second Mac so grabbed that, looks like another friend would be interested in grabbing him. Turned out a pretty good trip 😛
They also had lots of Robin, Wario, Mega Man, Capt. Falcon, Pit, as well as a whole bunch of others.
It’s suprising to see just how much stock of these ‘rare’ amiibos most Australian shops have, especially JB Hi Fi
For me it’s been all about the Kmarts. I keep finding ones that just have a huge wall of them, with nearly every single one there. Most JBs seem to have a much smaller selection.
But yeah, would suck to be somewhere like the US. Woo lucky country!
@rocketman @beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
Anyone have any NYE plans that I can parasite off? Feel like I should do something but organisation sounds like something I don’t want to do.
I dunno if I have to do family shit (hang about til they go to bed far too early).
I should find out really.
I would like to get far too drunk.
Oh wait, it’s a Thursday. Mrs work don’t stop for public holidays. I can’t wander too far or get too pisses, I’ll need to be a semi-competent father the next day.
Yay money, boo no real celebration :-/
Haha, semi-competent that’s the spirit Jimu 😛
It’s the holidays, give me a break!
Nope. None in the slightest. Unless my mates bar in Coolanghetto is open by then, if so I *might* go down there to say hey & check it out. It looks like it’s gonna be awesome from the pics they’re putting up on Facebook.
Crying myself to sleep, pretty much tradition at this point. =P
Cobbler are doing a Mad Men themed NYE thing…
Hmm….
https://www.facebook.com/events/907053292714018/?fref=ts
Ill be in Hervey Bay sorry
Hey, I spent most of high school there!
…we’re probably going to be in Hervey Bay too.
Absolutely nothing at all at this point.
I’ll be in port mac, probably doing something similar to nobs
Say hi to my Dad for me! 😉 He’s been spending a lot of time down there recently as that’s where his new lady friend lives!
I… think we’re now brothers…
No I jest, thats pretty funny though. I will walk the streets yelling for him in the hopes I can say hi ^^
Gotta give Rusty a ring, too.
It’s tradition.
No plans for me yet, but given my issues at present, also not likely that i will be doing anything any way. :\
Plus if I’m well enough, I’ll likely be working on NYE, so probability is high that I wont actually feel like doing much by the time I’m done. Happy to have people round, but I don’t think I’ll be up to going anywhere.
Just finished season 1 of Fargo. That was… wow that sure wrapped up quick in the end 😛
Yay! Now you can start watching Season 2. It has one episode to go and it’s been just as good as season 1.
Watched the latest one?
It’s just a flying saucer, Ed. We gotta go.😀 Yes! It was such an awesome episode.If Hank dies there will be yelling. Also, kinda sad that Floyd went out the way she didOhh I just noticed this and couldnt help chiming in. I quite liked season 1, but after 2 eps of season 2 I couldnt bring myself to watch any more. I felt like it was really soulless, wasnt liking it at all 🙁
Wait until you watch season 2 it’s even better. Nick Offerman is in it & he is awesome!
Hype mode engage.
Glad SBS decided to show the entire first season in two huge chunks, probably wouldn’t have caught up otherwise.
So my internet download/upload speed is fine, but I’m getting huge pings if more than one person is using the internet at my home. I’ve been told by a friend that I need more bandwidth. I don’t know where to start in regard to getting better bandwidth. I’m currently got iPrimus as an ISP, I think going through Telstra’s hardware. Do I need to change ISP’s? Are there specific plans that Telstra do that offer higher bandwidth?
Any information or tips would be of great help.
Throttle everyone else on your connection. Give them 56kbs each. 🙂
Repost from last page because why not?
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Okay Fronds, time for a bit of a Steam/Origin Key give away.
I’ve collected a bunch of Steam/Origin keys overtime from various bundles that i either already own, or don’t care about…
Soooooo….
Have at it:
AquaNox
AquaNox 2: Revelation
Battle vs ChessTentatively claimed by @transientmindBioShockClaimed by @pupp3tmast3rBioShock 2Claimed by @pupp3tmast3rBlack Mirror
Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box Origin KeyClaimed by @welbotCast of the Seven Godsends
Claustrophobia: The Downward StruggleTentatively claimed by @transientmindCommand & Conquer: Red Alert 3 – Uprising Origin Key
Company of Heroes™ Complete Edition
CrossCodeTentatively claimed by @transientmindCrysis 2 Maximum Edition Origin Key
Crystals of Time
CubeZ
Dead Space Origin Key
Dead Space™ 2
Dragon Age™: OriginsClaimed by @screeFarSkyTentatively claimed by @transientmindFlower Shop: Summer In FairbrookTentatively claimed by @transientmindGemCraft – Chasing Shadows
Horizon Shift
Hospital Tycoon
Krater + Krater – Dr. Cerebro Pack + Soundtrack
Medal of Honor Origin KeyClaimed by @cffndncrMirror’s Edge Origin KeyClaimed by @cffndncrObludiaTentatively claimed by @transientmindOperation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
Operation Flashpoint: Red River
Populous Origin Key
Race the SunTentatively claimed by @transientmindSaints Row: The Third Steam KeyClaimed by @screeSpace SalvagerClaimed by @kermitronSummoner
Super 3-D Noah’s ArkTentatively claimed by @transientmindToxic Bunny HD
Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® – Game of the Year Edition
Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War II
Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War II: Retribution
Why So Evil
Interested? Shoot me a message on Steam or here with what game you interested in and i will organise to have the key sent to you!
I want to keep this to be amongst TAYbies because you guys have been very VERY generous to me over time!
Disclaimer: These are all games i haven’t hit “Redeem” on yet, so i’m making the assumption that it’ll work, if not i apologise!I’m guessing most people, if not all, has the above games by now… But i’m trying anyway 😛
@cffndncr Please send an email to jacob.didriksen at the gmails dot com, or provide me with some contact details so i can send the keys to you.
I’ve never played saints row =P
Could I also get dragon age too, please?
Done!
Sent to your email, please let me know if you have any issues with the keys
I’m interested in Space Salvager.
Donerino!
Where do you want me to send the key?
Are we steam fronds? Are you able to just gift it to me or does having it in key format preclude you from that?
Probably easiest to just email it to me via kermitron at the google mails.
Just FYI that the code was successfully redeemed. 🙂
Thanks again!
Yay! thanks for letting me know
Can I please have Just Cause 3 on PC?
You know if all my money for the month wasn’t spent i would totally do that just to spite you! 😛
Oohh are the Bioshock games for Steam? If so I wouldn’t mind those! =]
Yes and done! I’ll get the keys to you asap
Wait I thought I had you on Twitter, but I don’t… Where do you want it sent to?
Pretty sure I have you on steam; I’ll toss you a PM from there tonight?
Sure i’ll message you them tonight!
Thanks Pixel =] You’re the best! ^^
Aaawww shucks *blushes*
Actually, I am missing some on that list that I’m interested in, but it is no games 2015 so if you have any left I might ping you in the new year. 🙂
You’re a generous man, PF.
I’m sure I’ll have something left over, so what particularly caught your interest?
Things I need to check and make sure I don’t already have. 😉
To the Steam list… away!
(Without even looking at my list, I’m’a tell you… I’m pretty interested in Flower Shop. DON’T JUDGE ME.)
No judging, I’ll try and keep it aside for you!
Let me know if there’s anything else
So many others. SO MANY. 😀
Such aaaaaaaaaasssss? 😛
Battle vs Chess: Damn that looks smexy, I can’t believe this isn’t on my wish list. It will be soon. Even though I’ll only ever use it as a gimmick/share with my Mum.
Claustrophobia: The Downward Struggle – I get a kinda Dungeons of Dredmore vibe from this. Abandoned in Early Access, tho. :/
CrossCode: Also avoided because EA, but bit more interested in this one. A modern Ys, by the looks, almost.
FarSky: Had bad reviews because it was another abandoned Early Access just pushed to release, but apparently what’s there is servicable (if scant), and at the current 75% off price of $2.50 I’d have been tempted by the diversion.
Flower Shop: Yes, I do happen to want this. QUIET. JUDGE NOT.
Super 3-D Noah’s Ark: Uhm, because who wouldn’t?!
Obludia: Maybe? A shorter, more casual Isaac with some persistence? Sure… but I wouldn’t have paid for it.
Race the Sun: Everyone should probably have this.
@transientmind
Good thing there’s only 21 days until the new year eh?
Or does the “No games 2015” cover christmas presents?
Because i’ll totally give them to you under the category of “Christmas presents”
I was ruling out presents, but I’ve already received a few now, so I think that particular option is fine. 🙂
Messaged on steam, but figured I’d put my hand up here for Burnout Ultimate too. Used to have it on Xbox 360, but that was one of the games that got stolen from me years ago!
Done! i’ll send it to you when i get home.
EDIT – Origin Key is OK yeah?
yeah i gots teh origin. all good! 😀 Cheers mang!
I know I’ve got some IT-working compatriots in here, so does anyone have thoughts on a laptop/slate/tablet device for on-site work? I’m considering talking to my boss about salary sacrificing something, but I’m not sure if I go for a Surface Pro 4 to have something really compact (downside is all the attachements I have to bring with it to make it fully featured) or an XPS13 laptop (not quite as flexible, no touchscreen)
I could go for an Inspiron laptop (same size as XPS, 2in1, touchscreen, possible lower build quality/worse specs)
A tablet/hybrid is really only a viable option if you’re going to be holding the device while working. If you do do that a lot though, the Surface is pretty great.
If you’re going on site and then staying in one place for the majority of it I’d go with a laptop/ultrabook.
Yeah a lot of it is holding a device in one hand and trying to pull something out of a server rack with the other hand 😀
Only thing that shits me about the Surface is the lack of connectivity (like having one USB port… DA FUQ!?!?!)
Tape a usb hub to it, Problem solved
I had to buy a USB hub last time I had to format a Surface. The client had smashed the screen, so had connected it to a monitor and taken a full system image (smart monkey!)
Only problem then, was connecting the bootable USB with Windows on it, along with the external drive with his system image on it to one USB port… 🙁
If you want to be really fancy, use those sticky velcro tabs. I knew a guy that had a whole bunch of accessories, and he could just stick whichever one he needed at the time to the back of his tablet.
Actually, now that I think of it, that might be a bit difficult with a Surface because they’ve got the kickstand on the back.
The surface book seems like it is a pretty good in between from the single review i’ve seen 😛
It has some alright connectivity, downside the wifi card sucks apparently, since they didn’t go for an Intel card, which was about the only downside I could really see. But they’re not cheap like $2200 here I think is the starting price?
It has 2x USB 3.0, SD card reader & mini display port out along with 3.5mm audio, not the best in connectivity but up from what the regular surface has at least?
Yeah they’re really purdy, but I was looking at an i5/256Gb model SP4, and for the equivalent Book model, it goes from about $1900 to $2800 🙁
Yeah, fair enough! Plus first gen stuff like that, there is always gonna be some kind of issue really 😛
I’d be opting for the Surface 4 if I had the choice myself. Pretty awesome little units!
I don’t do it as much as I used to, but in the olden days when I did site work having my main work PC as a Surface Pro with a dock was brilliant. I’d essentially just unplug my PC and take it with me. It was a massive productivity boost. Granted the bulk of what I did with it was referencing documents while diagnosing problems on machinery. Having the full keyboard was great when I needed it but it’s not like I was doing any word processing (I hate laptop style keyboards, so there’s no perfect solution for me on that front).
For me it really nailed the ability to perform tablet tasks, laptop tasks and desktop tasks seamlessly. It wasn’t a case of switching it to tablet mode, it was just a tablet when I used it as a tablet and a PC when I used it as a PC. The size is a blessing and a curse. It’s harder to use a giant tablet as a tablet, but the ability to display stuff on a proper screen is great.
If you’re going with something for on-site work I’d definitely recommend getting a touch screen on whatever you pick. It doesn’t sound that impressive but a lot of the time the stuff that feels super clumsy on a desktop OS end up being the best way to get around on a portable device.
Which attachments are you worried about having to take with you?
Full disclosure – I love Windows 8/10 and the Surface Pro range. I wouldn’t call myself a fanboy but I do get a bit over enthusiastic about the aspects of them I like.
Guys, thanks for the words yesterday. I feel a bit better. Thank you.
No idea what this is in regards to as I haven’t been following TAY much this week, but yay for TAY community goodness! 🙂 Hope all is well!
I was just feeling down and worrying about my bookmarks =P So…the usual, I guess.
Wow, just uploaded a 1.5GB vid in all of two minutes.
Why can’t my home internet be this fast?
Because the internet is a fad and a plaything and why does it matter if you need to pirate movies and look at titty pictures faster, you fucking loser nerd.
Sincerely,
The Australian government
P.S.: make yourself useful and dig up some coal
Tony, is that you?
Fuckin TONES!!!
More like TONED ABS!!!!
ABC is on a separate government network
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-23/government-selling-off-comms-networks/6966186
This has probably been screamed into the void a million times, but hey, let’s make it a million and one.
Elite: Dangerous has a terrible tutorial.
“To travel places quickly, set your destination on the map and engage your FSD. Make sure you’re not Mass locked, though.”
..Ok, uuhh…how do I open the map? What’s FSD? How do I turn off Mass Lock? What even is Mass Lock? Oh fer farks ache, I’ll just read the wiki.
Combat is nice and required no explanation, at least. Though the default keybindings when using a joystick are atrocious.
Hehehehehe “Jettison All” is very VERY strategically placed for maximum grief i think
Things I know how to do in Elite Dangerous:
Sit in a waypoint thing, and shoot bounties.
Return to one place that I know the location of, and get paid for bounties.
I don’t understand any of its other systems. >.>
We should organise a big night of failing together some time soon. I know @cakesmith has it and has basically not played too.
I had to read prior comments to work out what game we were talking about because this scenario applies to so, so many.
It would be fun to wing up with people for a change.
Though that’ll probably be a whole other bag of challenges in figuring out controls 😛 Also remembering what bindings I set for them.
I’ve been tempted to pick up an X52 for various reasons/games lately. If I love Elite as much as I think I might then I’m probably going to cave and get one.
The reason I’m bringing this up is cause it should have more than enough buttons to bypass having to use the nasty joystick/keyboard hybrid 😛
I use the T.16000M on its own and manage to get by without keyboard controls at all, save for actually typing out messages into comms. Takes a while to build a nice set of binds that make sense, but it’s worth it in the end. Oh, you know you can do chorded binds, right? Hold one button as a “shift” key before pressing the button you want. Great for expanding the number of buttons you have available.
Can’t remember if it was the x52 or x55 I saw, but damn that thing was chunky. Way bigger than I thought it’d be.
I have a T1.6000 and I gotta say, the buttons on the base are a little on the crappy side.
Only use em for a few necessary in flight things and avoid them where possible.
Yeah, they seem to vary a bit from stick to stick. The first one I got, the upper right button on the keypad stuck pretty badly. I returned that and got a new one, it works fine. Though the one I just picked up the other week is way better, all the buttons on the base work perfectly.
I have the unnecessary/less used stuff on the right keypad, like landing gear/cargo scoop, ship lights, pause menu, etc. Left side is for UI navigation, power management, boost, FA off, throttle reverse and shift keys for modifying what the stick buttons do.
Got curious as to what that was so looked it up.
Suddenly I feel like ill have one in a month or two…
Unless you play DCS or other flight/space sims there’s rarely a need for a full HOTAS setup… But they are pretty amazing!
Vector36 and I’d play more flight/space sims but I grew up playing them with a stick and everything else feels wrong. Didn’t realise they were so reasonably priced, was thinking $300 plus for some reason.
@freezespreston Saitek are reasonably priced but since they were bought by Madcatz their quality has been very hit or miss… My X-55 died after 6 months, had it repaired and haven’t missed a beat since…. Some experience no issues at all and others will get 3 DOA units in a row….
Not trying to deter you, just a heads up.
I looooooooooove my X-55, so damned good….
Also Elite is fantastic if you don’t try to make it more than it is, and accept that the dev has made certain design choices that are… Interesting 😛
Yep, Youtube videos is the way to go for this 😛
Screw that, I’m winging it. I just needed to know all the basic functions and controls 😛
My biggest gripe is still Mass Lock. The location on the HUD makes it look very much like a function of the ship, to be turned on and off like the scoop and landing gear…and not “oi, you’re physically near something large”.
Bounties and the black market caught me out. The black market is not an intuitive menu setup.
That reminds me I haven’t checked up on the black market stuff. Apparently there was a thing added for them in the galaxy map, though I never caught word on whether it only showed up for ones you’d discovered or if they were all on display for everyone to see. personally I hope it’s the former, the latter would feel kinda silly 😛
Oh rly? As a notorious smuggler this could be useful.
Notorious? I ain’t heard ‘a ya 😛
Haha, I don’t play enough to be actually notorious.
Rule 1 NEVER fly without enough money to cover insurance.
Rule 2 unbind jettison all
Rule 3 remember where your boost button is and don’t accidentally bump when docking!
I kept forgetting which one was boost and which one was target lock cause they’re side-by-side. I had a few moments where I went “Enemy ahead!” and promptly rammed them.
Rule 4: speed limits are for suckers, all docking should be done at boost speed.
*If you drive a Type 9 😛
Rule 4b: Braking is for suckers, let the landing pad slow you down.
Rule 4c: station entry right of way goes to the ship with the strongest shields.
Oh. I found working through the training missions was enough. Maybe I just pick up sims quickly.
CMDR Trikeabout so feel free to add me everyone. I’ll be playing a fair bit over the hols, and possibly tonight. I need to work my way back to human space before Horizons drops properly…
What’s everyone’s commander name?
Still hang out mainly in Mobius? I know I do, because something something cheaters something run in with CODE was not fun something 😛
Also how far our are you from the bubble? haven’t seen you on in a while!
Yeah mainly in Mobius. The Elite Dangerous Club have a private PvE group too now.
You haven’t seen me because I haven’t turned the PC on in about 3 months. Wedding and travel and work mean I’ve only been playing casual Destiny.
But… I’ll be back. Starting to get the itch. About 4kly from SGR A* last time I logged flight time.
Aahhh i guess that makes all kinds of sense! 😛
Looking forward to seeing you in there!
Also NEW GAMING CHAIR. Bought one at PAX, should be delivered soon.
I’d texted my wife of 6 days to say I was browsing chairs. She said “Buy one. That chair you use is rubbish” 🙂 She’s a keeper!
NICE! One of those Buffalo ones? because i totally wanted to buy one of them 😛
“Battlebull”. 🙂 http://battlebull.com/
@trikeabout YEAH THAT’S THE ONES! so damn cool, very jelly!
Jocon89 as usual.
I might jump back on a bit, got me a hankering for some Sci-fi. But I’m not keen enough to pick up horizons.
That just means you can’t land on planets, but we will all still be able to meet up, even if you don’t have Horizons so at least there’s that!
So, will it mean that planets function the same for me as now or will I be able to enter atmosphere but no landing/rover?
I assume the former but unsure how they’d implement one for some but not others as it sounds like a pretty significant change to existing assets in a shared universe.
As far as I understand the mechanics:
We currently have Super Cruise to travel in system.
Horizons adds the ability for ships to go into “Orbital” cruise which will engage automatically when you get close enough to the planet (where we now hit the “Body exclusion zone”).
If you do not have Horizons, your ship will not be able to enter “Orbital” cruise and as such will hit the “Body Exclusion Zone” even still, where people with Horizon can keep going.
This is the best of my understanding and i hope it make sense. So in some ways, your game doesn’t change at all, and we still see each other. We can just keep going when you hit the exclusion zone.
*tips hat in a friendly manner*
*winks from behind monocle*
Mhhhmmmm, yes, quite. Hm.
Bloody right old chap *wobbles jowls*
Good morrow fellow citizen
Salutations
There aren’t enough hours from when I get home to when I go to sleep to play Xenoblade X. It’s a real issue, you know.
Stop sleeping.
and working.
and leaving your house.
and wanking
(that felt weird but not weird enough to not make the joke)
If wanking feels weird you’re probably doing it wrong?
Only if it’s a bad weird
(I’ll cook dinner tonight :P)
Awwwwww <3
D:
Oh..
I did a time budget and between eating, chores, ablutions and misc, the best I can probably manage per day for TV/games is about 4hrs.
I want to renegotiate life.
You’re all welcome to swap with me. I’ve had plenty of time to play games recently due to being sick (although I haven’t even done much of that cos I often feel too crappy to even play games 🙁 )
Quick thing that’s been bugging me… why are we seeing more and more games being released in the US that aren’t released here? Is our classifications board sitting on its hands? Are the indies not bothering to try and get their games published here? What’s the deal?
examples?
Or are we just generalizing?
Just got accused of being a coffeee snob but really. Staff member comes and says they are doing a coffee run and would I like one,
Sounds good.
Get cash and they say, they are just going to 7/11 is that ok
Ummmm how about no.
Seriously why would I pay for coffee that is actually worse than the instant coffee I have at my desk
The only possible coffee that’s worse than 7/11 coffee is Blend43
Edit: Both are ranked lower than shoveled dirt into hot water 😛
Or *shudder* international roast
I refuse to drink nescafe anything. It might be free in the office but I would prefer to buy my own instant. The exotic stuff from Shropshire
UPDATE: They just brought me back a real coffee 🙂
I love the shit out of International Roast and Blend 43.
I strongly associate it with being out of the fucking sun in ‘fancy air conditioning’. It conjures memories of the feeling of relief.
As far as Nestle goes, Nespresso tends to be okay. Maybe not as strong as some like it and not anywhere near as good as a proper espresso from a real machine, but it’s serviceable.
I haven’t had a good coffee in weeks 🙁
International Roast is a shitload worse than Blend 43. I’d drink Blend 43 if there was nothing esle around, but I’d think twice about international roast. As far as nescafe is concerned, I actually don’t mind their espresso instant. Generally have that at home as my coffee machine doesn’t make it hot enough for my liking, and especially recently, I’m too lazy for anything but instant 😉
Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt… can’t compete with that stuff.
Ask for a slushie instead.
I got labelled a coffee snob because I said I much prefer store-bought over instant, even if it’s just from Maccas.
As a frequent coffee drinker, coffee drinkers are weeeird.
How is that even debatable
Well as long as you are talking McCafe stuff, the old style jugs of 6 day old coffee were not great
THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE COFFEE?!?
I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of McCafe coffee the few times I’ve had it. Even better than starbucks in some cases!
I’ve quick liked it but generally only had it driving back from a long trip so after 500 km in the day it was quite good
It easily beats instant 😛
I’m glad you’ve had good experiences. I usually only resort to mccafe coffee on road trips and it’s always sllllooooowwww, and usually way to hot (which means scalded milk).
But I live near some *excellent* cafes, so I am a little bit spoilt when it comes to coffee.
Not the best coffee I’ve tried by any means, but it’s better than some I’ve had 🙂 I’m not too fussy when it comes to coffee, (as you can tell by my drinking mostly instant at home) but I do have my limits 😉
No one calls me a coffee snob & I think it’s all shit.
I am a coffee snob and you don’t go to 7-11 for a coffee run. You go to 7-11 for a 7-11 run and if anyone wants their mud in a cup, they’ll ask for it.
I have an Aeropress. Makes real coffee in the same amount of time it takes to make an instant.
Aeropress just used standard ground coffee right? Maybe I should look into it, currently I’m just using plunger
Yep. If you have a plunger, you’re pretty close, Aeropress is just quicker (and the extraction is less bitter).
If you’re patient, you can make cold press coffee in a plunger. http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2015/06/23/french-press-cold-brew-coffee_n_7639176.html?ir=Australia
Aeropress is SO GOD DAMN WORTH IT!
Seriously, mind blowingly awesome, and i haven’t even experimented beyond the “Upside down” method for steeping the coffee… And i just have black coffee usually so i haven’t experimented with milk etc either.
The fact that they asked “is that ok” is proof enough that they know they’re going way downmarket.
Yay, cricket’s on and we’re batting.
What’s the Windies team like. I haven’t seen them in a match for a long while
Rubbish, apparently.
That’s a shame. I’m old enough to remember the true powerhouse windies team, but not old enough to have been able to appreciate it properly
Marginally better than Zimbabwe.
There are associate-level teams that could probably roll the Windies right now.
As above
Although they seem to be doing ok for themselves at the moment
I think it’s more that the AU batsmen have gotten themselves out though.
Biggest score off the first 10 overs in a test match in the last 15 years mind you. They were trying to race to like 700 or something and declare.
That makes sense
Last night it occurred it me that the last time I watched the original Star Wars trilogy was when VHS was still the big thing. My plot summary for Jedi was ‘Jabba, then Ewoks, then the end happens’.
Think I might need an urgent refresher course…
No, you’ve pretty much got it.
@sernobulus are watching all the movies this weekend, maybe our sister house in sydney should do the same.
No, we’re the originals. You copy what we do.
Despecialized edition.
Haha. Looking up care & growing instructions for a poinciana since dad is putting one in to sell, and Gardening Australia says on their fact sheet “However, their spreading growth habit, which can be up to 10 metres, means the poinciana is not a tree for a small yard.” Makes me laugh cause we have one that’s going on about 35 years old, & we’re on a quarter acre block. It takes up the whole front yard, covers the nature strip, part of the front of the house & even about a metre onto the road, heh. It’s a spectacular tree. Our front yard is a miniature rain forest, it’s kinda awesome.
Looks like a pretty cool tree. Not likely to fit on my urban block though.
Never thought I’d ever give a damn about plants, but then I bought a house.
Trees are underrated. I’m a city boy at heart – I need the hum of the city around me, the lifeblood that is an endless surge of people you can ignore. But there’s something great about trees.
I prefer the evergreens – nothing like a good old-growth pine. But of the natives, I like the blue gum. They make good rustlin’ noises and shape well. And jacarandas are boring for most of the year, then gorgeous in November… and hellish to clean up after, then.
I’m a fan of trees with a good spreading or at least defined canopy. The kind of thing you can sit under.
But not a lot of room for that kinda thing.
I wanted to chuck a Japanese maple in my front yard but being in sa it would practically catch fire in the summer. Which is why palm trees are so popular down here.
Yeah, I hate that our climate kills some of the prettiest trees.
we had one on our farm, it was a beautiful tree the leaves are stunning when sunlight flows through the foilage. But fuck it was MASSIVE. like gigantic
Agreed! Yeah they can be massive. Ours is easily the biggest one in the neighbourhood & probably suburb, haha. It provides such excellent shade in summer too.
A THURSDAY TAYDRENALIN SHOT
So, we now have a “hoverboard” (yes I know it’s not like BttF). Which other fictional means of transport should they make a real world version of next?
Stargate. I can feel my chevrons locking in anticipation.
Stargates.
Stargates.
Stargates.
Tube transport system.
…Or stargates
So much for that Taydrenalin shot eh red =P
You misspelled Stargates
Eh, it got comments moving.
stargates
Suicide Booths.
Sure, it’s a one-way trip, but it’d still be cool to see.
I concur with everyone else. Give us all the Star War.
I would prefer some kind of trip in space, a “Star Trek” if you will.
Haha, that’s what it was before I edited it /o\
Great minds think alike, no wait that can’t be right. My mind is nowhere near great.
Like minds think alike. *nod*
Like minds think they’re great
Instant Transmission – Stargates take too long.
Calling those things hoverboards really irritates me.
Not only do they not at all hover, they aren’t really a “board” either.
Also I’m gonna go with rocket boots.
Ooh, I always wanted a pair of stompers!
Stargates.
I was going to say personal teleportation devices because personal convenience trumps voyaging to the stars, apparently, but peer pressure…Stargrates
Underwater tunnels all Rapture style.
Or Stargates. Whatever works.
Not a single TARDIS mention. I’m a little ashamed of you all right now.
That’s because Doctor Who is crap. 😀
It has been since the 80s with the guy with the big curly hair and giant scarf.
The TARDIS is a pretty rubbish way to travel, even the Doctor agrees. The chameleon circuit is broken, and it never takes you precisely where you wanted.
His TARDIS is dodgy and he’s a terrible pilot. He’s a drunk complaining the footpath is wobbly. Even when you factor in all the flimsy on again off again rules it’s still absurdly over powered. Not only can it travel through time and space but it contains what’s essentially it’s own completely customisable micro-universe. If I had a TARDIS that couldn’t travel through time and space sitting on bricks in the backyard I’d still have the most ridiculous toy I could ever want. There are plenty of cheat code vehicles but the TARDIS is more like a mod kit for the universe. =P
Stargates.
But also, get the scientists working on the tube technology, because we beat the bastards at city hall!
Space Elevator. Would make getting to Mars a lot easier.
Those tube things on Futurama.
Beam Me Up Scotty.
I’m getting the complete box set of Stargate SG-1 for Christmas! I’ve never seen seasons 9 or 10 or the telemovies, so I’m extraordinarily hype. I’m also about halfway through Stargate Atlantis on Netflix (I’ve never seen past season 1 in the past), and couldn’t be enjoying it more.
Stargates.
Stargate Continuum I really enjoyed out of those above you mentioned. Ark of Truth had its great moments but overall, wasn’t as good.
And by great moments I mean…
REPLICATORS MAKING THEIR TEMPORARY RETURN! WHOOP! 😀Indeed.*raises eyebrow*Hey TAYbies
Hope everyone is doing well
Well, I have completed the construction of my Dark Vengeance 40k armies, next up paint, been watching a lot of clips on painting techniques, pretty keen to get started
@chuloopa, @f4ction, @dogman
I’m getting pretty close to picking my main army, have narrowed down to a shortlist options
– Orcs
– Dark Angels
– Blood Angels
– Grey Knights
– Dark Eldar
– Necrons
That’s the shortlist? Isn’t that like half the 40K races.
Yes, shortlist
6 of 20+ possibilities is hardly half :oP
Yuck get rid of the space marines and then we can talk =P
He seems to be considering each of the marine chapters, that blows out the number considerably.
I’m sorta interested in 40K but am very lazy in painting and building an army. But here are a few questions that might help you narrow down your options:
Do you want more models or fewer?
Do you want vehicles and/or monstrous units?
Do you want special characters or are you happy with standard units?
Do you want models that are easy to paint or more complex stuff?
Necrons!
If you haven’t already you should look up Warhammer TV on YouTube. It’s Games Workshop’s channel and they have a complete Dark Vengeance assembly and painting playlist that should be handy (there’s also an interesting Astra Militarum Cadian troop painting guide that shows how to do a batch of troops together that you might find handy). They do some really good beginner guides for other units so I recommend having a look through and picking out videos for the armies you’re considering. It’ll give you a good idea of what the painting process for each army is like (there’s a lot of Space Marine videos that could be applied to any Chapter). They typically focus painting specific units from one end to the other but most of the stuff they teach has a ton of other applications.
They also tell you a lot of stuff that other channels assume you already know. You’ll get sick of hearing ‘now if you can still see a little of the base colour through the paint that’s ok, it’s always better to do multiple thin layers than one thick layer, that way you preserve more detail’ but most top notch painters don’t even think to tell you to thin your paint on the palette.
Also they don’t feel the need show off. There’s a point in the Dark Vengeance tutorials where they get to the eyes on a special character and say ‘you can do the eyes at this point, however when they’re on the table nobody can actually see the eyes and they’re very hard to get 100% right, so it’s perfectly acceptable to just skip them’. A lot of tutorials won’t even consider skipping the eyes and instead try and teach you some method that boils down to ‘have perfect brush control or end up with something that looks really noticeably wrong’.
If you’re going with Orks I’d recommend looking into painting flesh to see if that’s something you’re comfortable with. Maybe buy one of those cheap 4 packs of Ork Boyz and experiment. It’s green flesh so it’s not as hard to get right, but I know personally I hate painting flesh. The great thing about Orks is that there’s a lot of room to play around and get creative with once your skills set starts to expand into modding. If you see something cool looking laying around you can almost always glue it to an Ork somehow and have it make sense.
Personally I shy away from Space Marines, but Blood Angels and Dark Angels are two of the better Chapters (visually). I really like Necron. Don’t have enough experience with Grey Knights and as an Eldar player I think Dark Eldar are just feral. =P
In additon to the above – it also really depends on how you would enjoy playing.
Orks are great fun. Pretty much just throw them at your enemy and hope they drown in green. Horribly inaccurate shots but do have some great weaponry, dakkajets and are killer in close combat. They are also very forgiving for painting. Painting their flesh is nowhere near as bad as the flesh of humans. Lots of room for creativity. Downside is the investment in models.
Dark Angels – my choice since i started and still to this day. Very easy to paint and some excellent lore. Play these guys if the idea of riding things down on bikes and bad-ass-monks sounds appealing to you. Their recent codex is the best tey have ever had. Very flexible and great fun. You also don’t need a tonne of models for a good list. Note that they don’t have access to the whole space marine range, but do have some really cool exclusive models.
Blood angels – I haven’t played them, but these are your go-to for close combat marines. Red can be a pain in the ass to paint, but Warhammer TV had a pretty good tute, i’m fairly sure.
Grey knights – Very low body count and some damn cool and tough units. These guys bring the pew and aren’t affraid of CC either. You will almost always be outnumbered at least 2-1, though.
Dark Eldar – one of my favorite races – these guys look amazing. Tactics are more affordable to keeping them mobile and in transports before unloading them on top of your foe. Very fragile game wise, but pack a great punch. Best when allied with Eldar. You will spend quite a bit on the transports needed for your troops. Also, mandrakes are one of the best looking units in the game, but are utterly useless game wise.
Necrons – The bringers of cheese. These guys rip and tear just about everything. Their guns are nothing to be taken lightly and also usually have the chance to resurrect after being killed. They looks bad ass, they play bad ass, and they are super easy to paint.
Thanks for the tips everyone!
I have been watching Warhammer TV, I really like the tutorials, the guy is really easy to understand, and you really get the impression that he is “teaching” not showing off his own abilities.
Out of the shortlist, I am leaning more towards
– Orcs – Straight up funny bastards, and fun to play (I played them a bit during my intro to the game at PAX)
– Necrons – Really like their artistic style, and the lore sounds really good
– Dark Eldar – Awesome models, would love to own a fully painted kit of these guys
I always thought getting the glowy effect on necron guns would be kind of challenging?
Well the necron warriors come with green plastic tubes.
As for the rest, basic OSL is actually astoundingly easy to do and just requires a bit of dry brushing.
http://striking3agle.blogspot.com.au/2011/01/object-source-lighting-tutorial.html
OSL only gets hard when you’re trying to add the effect all over the model, rather than just the gun
Oh, I almost forgot to ask what are the people you’ll be playing with using? It’s not really worth tailoring your army choice to beating your opponents and it’s about what you like not what works best with your friends, but if it’s a Space Marine heavy group you might want to mix it up with Necrons, Dark Eldar or Orks. It’s nice to be the guy with the different army. If everyone is playing Space Marines and you bring out a new, full painted Rhino nobody is going to pay much attention, but if you bring out something they haven’t seen before like an Ork Trukk or Necron Ghost Ark* they’ll be itching to take a look and play against it.
Even just in terms of themes it can be fun to have your army stand out a little from your friends.
Alternatively if you’re not confident in some aspects of what you’re doing it can be good to have an army the rest of the group is really familiar with.
*Awesome looking model by the way.
Unfortunately, none of my friends are likely to play, unless I supply both armies.
I will most likely pop into my local GW, or other tabletop store, and see if I can just join in, hence most of my army choice are aesthetic in nature, as game time will most likely, and unfortunately, be the least of what will come from this
Its just lucky that I genuinely enjoy the building/painting aspect of miniatures
Yeah, it can be rough like that. It’s not exactly easy to get people to play when it costs so much just to get started. At least like you say it’s fun to just build and paint this stuff. I’m working on building up a Wave Serpent grav-tank with magnets for all the weapons, a few Forge World alternative components and (provided I can figure it out) a custom component built from scratch. I’ll almost never use a different configuration that requires me to switch the weapons out, but playing with magnets and figuring out the best way to put it all together is a really fun challenge.
Modding sounds like a lot of fun
I think I’ll hold off until get a good grasp on the basic builds and get my painting to some place I am happy with first
So I have narrowed it done some….
– Eldar – love the models
– Dark Eldar – Again, love the models, and the lore sounds really fascinating
– Necron – love the models, and the lore sounds really fascinating, sound like 40k’s version of The Borg
I will run Dark Angels as a secondary army as I already have a bunch from the Dark Vengeance box
Hey guys. Kmart is clearing out their smash bros amiibos for $10 each
Not all of them though. I found a Lucina last night that still came up as 15, and for some reason the Mii Swordfighter was still 15 too while the other two Miis were 10.
That’s so weird. Mine had all SSB amiibos for $10
Help I can’t pick which paintjob I want to claim as my prize.
There’s one-offs like the Onionhead pack, or the gold Sidewinder. But I don’t fly a Cobra, and I’m pretty happy with my Orange Ignition paint for the Sidewinder. I plan on switching to Diamondback Scout once I move on from the Sidey (if that ever happens :P), so I figure I’ll get something from that. But can’t pick between the three packs they have for that:
https://www.frontierstore.net/game-extras/elite-dangerous-game-extras.html?ship_model=172
Leaning towards vibrant, but I dunno. I do quite like its default black-with-orange-highlights paintjob already. The dark red in the tactical pack is quite nice though.
Vibrant. It will stand out more.
At a glance/distance the others are not really noticeable.
That’s part of the thought. On the one hand, it’ll be nice and visible so everyone will be able to see it. On the other, it’ll be nice and visible so anyone I fight will be able to see me 😛
Yeah, but by the time you’re close enough to see, you’re long close enough to be targeted.
Not much more noticable then any maneuvering thrusters or engine glow though, and the glow from heat vents are the real killer, ever seen a Viper light up like a christmas tree? 😛
That’s why you blast off with silent running and flight assist off!
Or just kill the thrusters and watch as everything ices over. So cool.
Love the icing effect!
Also need to master FA off more, aside from the FA off boost turn
Is that the one where you hit FA off, hit the boost for a bit, but then initiate the turn shortly after the forward acceleration has stopped?
Hot top secret protip: there’s another you can do without boosting. Hit FA Off, pull up, toggle throttle to Reverse/go maximum reverse throttle, and vertical thrust… down I think. Pretty sure you vertical thrust the opposite direction to your pitch.
Makes for a great quick u-turn without sending you rocketing off as far.
If you see a Courier flying around the asteroid belt in Azrael hitting things constantly tonight, that’d be me practicing that maneuver 😛
@pixel_the_ferret_viking lol is this u? 😛
@mrtaco BAHAHAHA That’s the best thing i’ve seen in a while! Classic!
Got the tactical pack for my Clipper a while ago.
The crimson is awesome! the rest is very, VERY meh…
I would probably go for the vibrant myself if i could change.
Crimson+black best colour combo. Also the white looks decent as well I think. But then the red in the vibrant pack is good too. And it has orange. And purple. And there’ll be the midnight black skin once Horizons hits, so I guess I won’t necessarily need graphite from the tactical pack. But… ugh decisions 😛
Oh, OH TAY! i forgot to tell that my mum was awesome and gave me an early christmast present while she was here:
A Fitbit surge!
So god damn good! Has made running so much easier to keep track of, and it’s very comfortable to wear!
Also i completed my first 5km run on the weekend with extreme hills! FEEL THE BURN!
Do you need fitbit friends? You can find me at: https://www.fitbit.com/user/2ZN7QX
Also – yay for 5km.
parkrun! parkrun! parkrun! No really, you should parkrun!Planning to at some point! 😛
Also added you as Fitbit friend!
You can usually add friends of friends, so from my profile you should be able to see a bunch of Taybies.
Oh god what have I done I bought Magic: The Gathering cards. Shit. Kill me now.
Jooooooooin usssssss
Commmmmmaaaaaaandeeeeerr
So, what’d you buy?
Battle for Zendikar fat pack so I can have a good set of starter land and some boosters to build a deck or two of my own rather than borrowing people’s unused commons.\
EDIT: Also I prefer the look of the full-art land.
There was a price bubble on fat packs for a bit, all those people looking for full art basics.
Price Bubble is in full effect right now. MSRP is $40 but you won’t see them for a hair under $60. I paid $65 so I could get it with free two-day shipping via Amazon Prime and not have to dick around with ebay. Apparently WotC only produced a fixed number of Fat Packs finishing in November and won’t print any more because the next expansion in the block is out end of January.
I’m actually kind of confused with the new set structure they’ve moved to. Used to be that there was a yearly core set and then a block of 3 expansions and you could play with only the last couple years’ cards right? But they’ve done away with the core set and are doing expansions in blocks of 2 now? So drafts and sealed will be packs from the one block?
It’s 2 sets per block, big-small big-small, so the draft will be two of the big set and one of the small. there’ll be 3 blocks in standard at a time, and they’ll rotate out after about 18 months.
Draft and sealed will all be from the same block, but AFAIK that’s how it’s been for a while.
Yeah but I think draft used to be complicated when there were 3 sets in play for the block. One pack of each set? 2 from big, 1 from small makes more sense. Also doing away with the core set entirely is a good move I think. But it’s poorly explained online.
Draft formats varied each block, though I think for the next couple it’ll be more uniform. For example, despite being in the same block, you never drafted Dragons of Tarkir with Khans.
Its nearly the end of the year! You know what that means? GOTY!
Or rather AOTY! Considering there’s ‘otaku’ in the website’s name I’m hoping more than a few of you watch anime so I gotta ask, what was your favourite anime of 2015?
For me it might be One Punch Man just because it lived up to the hype.
Otherwise I’m fairly new to anime (only been watching since 2013) so I’ve got a lifetime to catch up on. The only other series I really managed to watch this year was gintama, and that might actually rank highest among my all time favourites.
Cowboy Bebop. This year and every year.
I watched the Bebop movie this year, so yeah I guess that’s on my list too
Just yes. Every goddamn year ever.
It ain’t easy being 11/10
Dragonball Super, for its bizarre but wonderful focus on the many culinary adventures of domestic househusband Vegeta.
“YOU LOOK LIKE A FRUIT!
And not like a homosexual, I mean like a literal, walking FRUIT!
“…”
“EGGPLANT”
“URGH… Can I… have a minute?”
“..Sureyoucan.”
“Thank you… I appreciate-” *WHACK* *BAM* *GRAB*
“C-C-C-COMBO!”
i watched a bunch of stuff i had seen before if that counts,
Best this year in terms of quality content was Fate:stay/night
that animation was beautiful, plot was good not great but thats okay and the fight scenes
GORGEOUS. JUST GORGEOUS
other than that i watch a few episodes of random stuff but havent really been all the way through on series or if i have i cant really remember, this is why i should write down what anime i watch.
oh and one punch man is awesome but its at episode 9? and i feel judging it seems premature when its not finished its run.
edit: I also thought the movie ressuerection F was amazing and loved it soooo much.
I’m up to date with the manga and 12 months ago its something I wouldn’t have dreamed to get an adaptation, so from what I’ve seen of the 9/12 episodes it’s really nailed a lot of details/animation/adrenaline
Food Wars.
Then maybe Gate.
Please tell me Food Wars is more than fan service because I watch nearly all food-related anime
Food Wars is basically Yakitate! Japan meets Iron Chef in high school.
EDIT: It’s pretty great.
It’s fan-service if you’re aroused by food. The loving attention to detail and rich portrayal of juices, steam, colours of meat… *droooool*
(Edit: Some of the ‘metaphor/similie’ scenes portray the characters as being caressed by the flavours as if they were swimming in the sauce or that kind of thing and they lose their clothes as they experience foodgasm climax, but it’s without being anal-retentive about keeping notes, I believe it’s not just boobies. Plenty of the dudes get nekkid, too.
Thank heavens, the character’s reactions in the manga were a little unnecessary so I dropped it after 5 chapters
(EDIT: didn’t see your edit…… damn… still hoping its toned back from the manga because it was there at least once every 10 pages and a bit ridiculous)
Yeah, the format is usually: Character interaction, build-up, drama, cooking, tension, then the tasting, where clothes MAY explode off… and it’s like 1.5 tastings for every 2 episodes. The ratio’s pretty good in that respect.
Since nearly everyone here has put it on their list I definitely gotta give it a watch now!
If you ever watch a Japanese food show they go into ridiculous depth explaining the textures and flavors and stuff. I think it’s born out of the need to show that in an interesting way in manga.
I’m not positive but I think Yakitate Japan was the first one to really go overboard with the reactions. That’s a great manga if you can find it. Anime wasn’t so good.
Uh. Pokemons?
Put it on one morning for the gf as a joke cartoon whilst having brekky. She stole my external hdd and has been watching it religiously since hahaha.
Not sure I can pick just one.
It depends also what your definition is. Stuff that started in 2015 or stuff that finished in 2015?
Winter 2014-2015 season’s high points were the back half of Sailor Moon Crystal, Aldnoah Zero and Jojo plus Yuri Kuma Arashi. Spring 2015 was the start of Shokugeki no Soma, Hibike! Euphonium, Danmachi and the second half of Unlimited Blade Works. Summer had Gate, Overlord, Charlotte and Non Non Biyori Repeat, and the current season’s high points are One Punch Man, Gundam, Owarimonogatari and Noragami. Plus we’ve had two of the three cours of Durarara x2 this year.
If you knock out anything that was a sequel to or a second cour of a show that didn’t have its first outing in 2015 (i.e. if you knock out the obvious best, Unlimited Budget Works) then the list is:
– Yuri Kuma Arashi
– Hibiki Euphonium
– Gate
– Overlord
– Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans
– Shokugeki no Soma
– One Punch Man
– DanMachi
– Charlotte
However I think it’s probably not fair to mention anything that didn’t finish in 2015, i.e. the current season stuff which is still going, you can’t really say is the best of the year because you don’t know how it’s going to end.
So assuming ‘ended in 2015’ you need to consider the stuff from Autumn 2014 as well. And it happens that that season was super strong. It means that both halves of Unlimited Blade Works are in contention (and it’s probably the winner here). Amagi Brilliant Park. Seven Deadly Sins. Shirobako. Akatsuki no Yona. Mushishi!
So the list then is:
– Shirobako
– Amagi Brilliant Park
– Seven Deadly Sins
– Akatsuki no Yona
– Unlimited Blade Works
– Yuri Kuma Arashi
– Euphonium
– Gate
– Overlord
– Shokugeki no Soma
– DanMachi
– Charlotte
Gate and Overlord are incomplete and their biggest issues are feeling like they just stopped without much of a resolution or impact, clearly meant to be continued.
Yuri Kuma Arashi is art (the whole thing is full of subtext and symbolism, much like Ikuhara’s other works – I still am not sure what it was really about) but it didn’t really rise to the level of Utena or Penguindrum so hard to say it was the best.
Euphonium was the only KyoAni TV stuff in 2015, amazingly. They normally have a show 3 seasons out of 4. It was good but not great, so probably not that. Amagi Brilliant Park was by far the better of the two.
Charlotte was good until toward the end when it just completely lost the plot which was disappointing.
If I were to make a top 10, I think:
1. Unlimited Blade Works
2. Shokugeki no Soma
3. Amagi Brilliant Park
4. Akatsuki no Yona
5. Is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon? (DanMachi)
6. Shirobako
7. Seven Deadly Sins
8. Yuri Kuma Arashi
9. Gate
10. Hibike! Euphonium
WOOO
our top is the same, i am hip and cool with the animes 😛
Hot damn that is in depth!
That is actually so helpful that you’ve pointed out what I should binge watch over the Christmas break. Thanks a bunch
Keep in mind the ones that I eliminated because they were second seasons to older shows though. That knocked out Mushishi’s second season and Mushishi is one of my top 10 anime of all time.
Mushishi is great in the sense that I feel satisfied with watching one episode every now and then. I’d probably find it boring if I binge watched. The way it fleshes out the world is absolutely amazing and I admire the creativity.
The music is also stunning.
Actually I was surprised by Amagi Brilliant Park, DanMachi and Shirobako; I’d totally forgotten those were around in 2015.
So had I. Also Seven Deadly Sins. I had to double-check that was right but yep, October 2014 through March 2015.
I just need somewhere to let my shame known: I still haven’t finished Unlimited Budget Works.
Was watching it week to week, and something distracted me with the episodes remaining, and I never got back into it.
It’s on the list for once I’m done with Bebop…
I watched 4 eps before deciding I didn’t care about any of the characters or their story.
Pretty does not an anime make.
Shiro is a bit of a moron, it’s true. But how can you not like Rin? Are you made of stone or something?
Yeah, she was kinda OK – had some moxie, but the tsundere doesn’t normally do it for me to start with. She became so razor-focused that it was difficult to relate to her.
That said… four eps. Obviously wasn’t going to see everything, or the hardening/softening whatever.
(FWIW, I do consider Rin to be OTP compared to the other routes.)
That’s because Saber’s got the personality of a brick and if you see Sakura’s route and know her background then you’re too busy alternating between being repulsed and sympathetic. :\
Also because Rin is awesome.
No one’s mentioned it yet but Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers. I loved the universe that it unveiled and the story was very enthralling.
Second pick would probably be Food Wars. That was far more enjoyable than I expected it to be.
Third would be One Punch Man. Singular Kinetic Impact Man is pretty darn great and a pretty humorous show.
Rokka was good until that fucking locked room puzzle that dragged on for weeks and weeks and then when they finally pulled a finger out to resolve it
they got the resolution wrong.I enjoyed that as I think that was the point of the show. It was very character driven and, although pretty much no plot happened aside from whodunit, I enjoyed the overall story.
Oh by the way, if you want a list of say 30-40 ‘essential’ anime classics that are worth at least trying out, let me know.
Hoping I’ve watched (or more likely read) them, but sure! 😛
I came to the right place to discuss this stuff lol
There’s stuff on the list that you won’t have read. The manga either didn’t exist, wasn’t the original source, or is completely different.
All the more reason to give ’em a watch I guess!
Although if something like One Piece or Naruto turns up on the list I’ll have to give it a pass, because while they might be essential, it took me a better part of a year to watch all of Gintama
Holy mama mia I don’t know if anyone here listens to triple J but watch the promo for the Hottest 100:
It’s got every artist cameo I can think of
Taylor Swift? I need to do some Swiftvoting. She was robbed last year. ROBBED.
I doubt she’s got a valid release given 1989 came out last year.
🙁
The injustice will never be corrected… Such is life. Something they should probably teach in schools, I think.
1989 was last year?
OH MY GOD I’VE GONE BACK IN TIME.
Time to invest in parachute pants!
They made a rule to specifically block troll votes #Swiftgate
No trolling! Her music is great!
as a avid triple j listener, i think shake it off deserved number one
it was my favourite song of the year.
From what I heard it would’ve only been 17th or something based on the votes, which is a travesty. Would’ve upped the number of songs I knew in the Hottest 100 to like… 6 if it had been allowed though.
12th apparently.
Would have been a bit awkward to hand the crown to someone who didn’t get any airtime the entire year though.
I might actually end up with a short list this year, instead of the usual “Um…….” (I listen to triplej but I’m terrible at remembering songs.
ALTHOUGH, some of the new releases this year might have only been played on DoubleJ, so I wonder if they’re eligible (eg, Custard – We Are The Parents (Our Parents Warned Us About))
Hoping so because double j got me through my studying this year
Hmm
Yes?? Well don’t just keep us hanging! TELL US!
The Lion King is such a deep movie,
it’s filled with Simbalism #dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeReply fail
The only time the word ‘incorrectly’ isn’t spelled incorrectly is when it’s spelled incorrectly.
#Page6 #ButNotReally #MadeYouThinkOoh are we doing Star Wars Handles for the next week we totally should
I’m such a trendsetter.
uggghh fine I’ll join in =P
This is an excellent idea. As per usual, I’ll probably let my uninspired and not particularly clever placeholder last for the entire time while trying to come up with something good.
Could be Grand Moff Transient, at least Tarkin starts with a “T”
Oh excellent, I can modify my avatar to have one of those cute little hats.
Your avatar now looks like an aged smiley face wearing a pair of brown shoes.
I’m torn between laughing and giggling.
Excellent. As long as the hair conveys that it’s Tarkin, I’m happy. 🙂
Absolutely. I mean who else would it be. George Washington?
In all actuality the hair is really well done. That’s some fine MS Paintin’
Are you sure this thing is safe?
It took me six years and eight billion dollars of research funding, but I finally thought of one.
Not Wolfman?
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Shistavanen/Legends
It may be from the prequels, but it’s the best fit. Plus it’s Christopher fucking… shit I forgot his last name. I blame alcohol.
Lee?
I think I thought that but it still didn’t sound right.
Read that as Count Goku and automatically assumed a DBZ/Star Wars cross over… Which now needs to happen.
Still looking for a studio to option my fanfic.
I wish to participate but cannot think of anything
See Threepi Negative Oh
Star wars episode negative zero
Zeroda?
Or Wikipedia tells me about:
Ziro the Hutt — voiced by Corey Burton
Jabba the Hutt’s flamboyant uncle who appears in the Clone Wars series
Are you saying I’m fat?
…
Well, back to the old standby I guess 🙁
No, I’m saying you’re flamboyant! Flaming Uncle Neg, how we all love him and avoid him at family picnics.
Ziro was a bit of an ass though.
I’ve never seen the Clone Wars series, TBH – I just looked at the list of character names and figured Ziro was close to Zero.
@beeawwb: the only good thing with Ziro is that the episodes he was in usually also involved Cad Bane who is easily one of the best additions that Clone Wars made to the Star Wars canon.
Sure, why not?
I’m in.
I think so.
In like Flynn 😀
A man is driving down the road and his car breaks down near a monastery.
He goes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and says, “My car broke down. Do you think I could stay the night?”
The monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner, and even fix his car. As the man tries to fall asleep, he hears a strange sound. A sound unlike anything he’s ever heard before. The Sirens that nearly seduced Odysseus into crashing his ship comes to his mind. He doesn’t sleep that night.
He tosses and turns trying to figure out what could possibly be making such a seductive sound. The next morning, he asks the monks what the sound was, but they say, “We can’t tell you. You’re not a monk.” Distraught, the man is forced to leave.
Years later, after never being able to forget that sound, the man goes back to the monastery and pleads for the answer again.
The monks reply, “We can’t tell you. You’re not a monk.”
The man says, “If the only way I can find out what is making that beautiful sound is to become a monk, then please, make me a monk.”
The monks reply, “You must travel the earth and tell us how many blades of grass there are and the exact number of grains of sand. When you find these answers, you will have become a monk.”
The man sets about his task.
After years of searching he returns as a gray-haired old man and knocks on the door of the monastery. A monk answers. He is taken before a gathering of all the monks.
“In my quest to find what makes that beautiful sound, I travelled the earth and have found what you asked for: By design, the world is in a state of perpetual change. Only God knows what you ask. All a man can know is himself, and only then if he is honest and reflective and willing to strip away self deception.”
The monks reply, “Congratulations. You have become a monk. We shall now show you the way to the mystery of the sacred sound.”
The monks lead the man to a wooden door, where the head monk says, “The sound is beyond that door.”
The monks give him the key, and he opens the door. Behind the wooden door is another door made of stone. The man is given the key to the stone door and he opens it, only to find a door made of ruby. And so it went that he needed keys to doors of emerald, pearl and diamond.
Finally, they come to a door made of solid gold. The sound has become very clear and definite. The monks say, “This is the last key to the last door.”
The man is apprehensive to no end. His life’s wish is behind that door!
With trembling hands, he unlocks the door, turns the knob, and slowly pushes the door open. Falling to his knees, he is utterly amazed to discover the source of that haunting and seductive sound…
But, of course, I can’t tell you what it is because you’re not a monk.
#WelcomeToPage6
All the computers went down at work and we had to do everything manually. Took me ages to shuffle the cards for Solitaire.
Just got a call from my publisher. They are not going to publish my autobiography. Typical, story of my life.
I just took a picture of a field of wheat, it was grainy.
I didn’t like my beard at first, but then it grew on me.
That is exactly how it happened.
Walked up to a girl the other day and gave her a tonic water and asked her out. She said yes. I guess you could say I Schwepped her off her feet!
At this time of the year, when the roadblocks come up with great regularity, I would like to share a personal experience with my closest friends about drinking and driving. As you well know, some of us have been known to have had brushes with the authorities on our way home from an occasional social session over the years. A couple of nights ago, I was out for an evening with friends and had a couple of cocktails and some rather nice red wine. Knowing full well I may have been slightly over the limit, I did something I`ve never done before ~ I took a cab home. Sure enough, I passed a police road block but, since it was a cab, they waved it past. I arrived home safely without incident, which was a real surprise as I have never driven a cab before and am not sure where I got it or what to do with it now that it’s in my garage.
If Trump becomes president there will be hell Toupee’.
Learnt tap dancing for a while, had to give it up because I kept falling into the sink.
Just sent my feed back on a second hand telescope I bought on eBay the other day,
Rubbish; 2 stars
I’ve been blown away by my new Dyson bladeless fan. Much more impressive than their vacuums, which suck.
It takes an age for Adele to think of an album title.
I dated a cross eyed girl once but unfortunately it didn’t work out.
I thought she was seeing someone else.
A Pommel horse walks into a parallel bar. The barman says, “Is this a joke about gymnastics?” The horse beams.
OMFG That’s so good 🙂
Thank god I was on leave when the Death Star exploded right!?
Aren’t you a little short for a stormtrooper?
Uhhh, my face is up here.
-_-
@beeawwb cheers for telling me about Jaycar having the isopropyl alcohol. I wasn’t even given a dodgy look by the cashier this time when asking about it, unlike the pharmacist did when I asked, like come on, it’s for cleaning electronics, I don’t wanna drink the shit, I’m not stupid lol.
You are in Tweed…
It could be worse though.. I mean I could live in Nerang or Palmy for example 😛
I’ve joined the Star Wars themed gravatar/display name hype train!
You’re too low! Pull up!
No! Stay @ontargett
*@ontargett explodes with Wilhelm scream*
Speaking of fitbits, given it’s the festive season where you eat and drink All The Things, I’ll be running weekend warrior and goal challenges regularly from now until the new year. So charge yours up and get amongst it.
Also, if you feel like exercising off some of the festive cheer, quite a few parkruns have bonus runs on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
I’ll have to decline this weeks weekend warrior, sorry 🙁
Got to work all weekend so i won’t be able to focus on it.
Jump in anyway, you might be surprised how you go
I think I might be giving up on my fitbit. it’s been leaving marks on my wrist, and skin peeling off and stuff
eep. I try to keep mine clean with rubbing alcohol and don’t wear it in the shower, but I don’t tend to have very sensitive skin.
So the Mercury hard cider at 6.9% ABV with 2 standard drinks in a single can is pretty awesome. It’s sort of in the middle ground between their draught & sweet cider. Starts out sweet but finishes more like a draught. Not bad at all. Would recommend!
Never been a fan of Mercury, too beer like.
But might give that a crack.
Really? I don’t like beer & it’d probably my favourite regular cider, not that I can readily find it these days x.x
Did you hear about the Italian wandering from town to town?
He’s just roman.
OBI WAN MORE WEEK! Ehem, I mean, only one more week. ( ̄ー ̄)
OMFG
So. Christmas work party. The others from my team ended up unable to make it for trivia. I went ahead, joined Not Actually Italian Girl’s team, we came equal second. Ended up talking to another girl with her, English. Hung around with them all night, avoided my team entirely other than my friend said goodbye. Party broke up around 6:30, English Girl asked if I wanted to go to another pub with her. Sure, why not. Went to the Ivy, met up with her friends, hung out for a while. Then she was feeling tipsy, decided to call it. Went to walk her to the station, she decided she needed pizza. Took a few restaurants, but eventually we got fresh made pizza. 11:30 by the time we were done, she asked about the bar I’d mentioned before, which was nearby and still open. Took her that way, found it (Lobos), she loved it. I was glad to find it was still as cool as the last/first time I went, ages ago. Then continued conversation, caught the bus, went too far, caught a taxi back to her place. It started raining just before we got out, so I grabbed my umbrella and walked her home. Feeling pretty good and still a little tipsy at her door, said I’d had a really good time and asked if she’d like to hang out again sometime. She said yes, and we went to say goodnight. Then she goes “there’s one thing I wanted to do first” and then we kissed. And I told her I was hoping she’d do that. Then we made out a bit.
Then I left and haven’t been able to wipe the smile off my face since.
Best feeling in the world. 🙂
JGO GO BED
Good job, me. You are winner English.
YOU GO SON!
Wait, you were wearing your Zangief threads right?
She ain’t lived until she’s beheld the Zangief!
Pretty sure she would’ve taken him home as well for a bit of “wrestling” with the ‘Gief. 😉
Still congrats to you @mrtaco! 😀
Well actually there did come a point in the conversation at which I had reason to show her the costume…
Great work! I hope it all goes well for you 🙂
*flails arms* That makes me feel all happy, bud. <3
I wish to subscribe to your newsletter!
TAY post of the year,
I read this this morning and have been smiling since
You are a good dude, im glad you got a win
Go son!
\o/
I dunno about this, man. I’ve been shipping you and Wingman for so long that this just feels all kinds of weird.
I guess I’ll get used to it.
Congrats!Dawn and Tim hooked up at the office Christmas party too, so you’re in good company!What a playa.
A series of accidents 😛
I would just like to take a moment to point out that I was 100% right a few weeks back. I’m not trying to brag, when you’re this right you don’t need to, but I just want to make sure you remember that thing I said about you being good enough with people that all that stuff you’re always freaking out over doesn’t matter. You hung out, you had fun and as a result you nailed it.
Later today when your hang over is clearing up and you’re stressing about calling her, look back at this and remember you didn’t do anything special. You didn’t perform some secret handshake. You didn’t do everything flawlessly. Ultimately you just treated her the way you like to treat women you like.
BOOOM Spot on! Did the same thing with my girlfriend at the start. Just be you @mrtaco 🙂
Hey no one likes a bragg-
Dammit 😛
All the freakout stuff the other week(s) was down to a little too much “you can either wait for things to happen, or you can make things happen” swirling around. And the frustration of just waiting for things to maybe possibly eventually perhaps get around to happening, while also being very bad at making them happen myself.
But when it does happen on its own I can do just fine, like last night apparently 😛 Which actually seems weirdly inverse to how I usually consider myself, being better at planning ahead than thinking in the moment. Strange.
Also, totally don’t even need to worry about calling her or anything. Don’t have a number to call!
Winning.
Well Done Mr 🙂
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Grats mate 😀 😀 😀 😀 So happy for you ^_^
Am I the only one that kept read this thinking it would end in a punchline because this is page 6?
Also, good stuff Gooky!
That’s awesome 🙂
Do, or do not. There is no “try”.
Oh also, we stole the pizza. By which I mean we just kinda walked out because the system was weird and our card didn’t get scanned and there was no one there to stop us. I feel bad, especially since the guy was so nice and gave us extra toppings.
Also I had to pee on a wall. Which I feel bad about too. But not so bad since it was after I left, and nobody saw. And there were no oth.options.
Now I’m walking back to Central from Newtown because the bus guy told me the bus I want goes from there. But I swear the timetable said it.stops at Newtown. Oh well.
I FEEL COMPETENT
THIS PLEASES ME
Shut up you drunken idiot.
Still laughing. Not sure if out of absurdity, pride or disbelief.
Still not home yet either. So glad I don’t have to work tomorrow.
Did you make it?
Seemed to be waiting around forever for nightriders, with those stupid ones that would be the right one if they didn’t terminate at Strathfield. Eventually got sick of waiting and jumped the next one that went to Lidcombe, and hung around there wondering if the one that was supposed to show up in 15 minutes actually would or if I’d have to try walk home from there. It was about 10mins late I think, so thankfully only had to do the small walk from the station.
Got to bed at 5 😛
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-12-10/food-wars-shokugeki-no-soma-anime-gets-2nd-season/.96320
Yes
I was talking to a mate of mine about Japan and all of their unusual fetishes.
He turns to me and says “If you think that’s weird, Scotch finger biscuits!”
“Always two, there are: a writer and a reader.”
Star Wars username hype train!
You’d kinda hope for more than one reader wouldn’t you? =p
By writing this and reading your post, I believe I’ve fulfilled both criteria.
Went with a droid based name.
@dkzeitgeist should roll with Figrin DAN! and the Modal Nodes.
*wakes up in the morning*
*staggers out of bed reading TAY*
“OH SHI-”
*sprints to cupboard*
*grabs bag of unpopped popcorn*
*throws popcorn in microwave*
*hurriedly mashes dial*
*waits a few seconds*
Talking to microwave: “Come-on, come-on, We’ve got multiple Gooky posts here!”.
i wanna film you doing this and make it the most popular reaction gif of all time.
I’d use it!
Work Christmas Partyyyyyyyy
At 9am? Not you too!
Christmas parties ’round these parts go all day!
Isn’t there like three people at your work? D:
There’s a record five people regularly in the office this year!
I WONDER WHO YOU WILL MAKE OUT WITH, MR TACO-STYLE!
I think it’s pretty safe to say that won’t be happening considering everybody else is 40+
but you never knowTHE HEART WANTS WHAT THE HEART WANTS!
You’re starting at 9am… of course it’s going to happen!
I think this name would work for me.
Query: How goes it for this Friday, meatbags? 🙂
You are non-canon.
=P
Rebuttal: So are you, becoming a jedi master.
😛
What?! last I checked puppets could totally become jedi masters!
Nah, they’re all CG these days
You know that TK- is the standard designation for Stormtroopers right? And they’re all clones of Temuera Morrison.
Clones aren’t robots Neg, geez! 😛
That was my point.
Yes indeed, you are right, how about this?
Well, this morning I choked my pregnant wife, had most of my limbs cut off by my brother and then I partially melted. To top it off, I’m now stuck in a suit that doesn’t breathe well and so is really hot.
Vader has to have a sweat valve somewhere right?
When you don’t have any eccrine or sebaceous glands left you don’t need to worry so much about stinking up a sweat-storm.
maybe the weekend will be better?
I’ve got big, BIG weekend plans. Someone told me I should shoot for the moon cause even if I miss I should still hit Alderaan.
And then later I’m going to shoot a moon over at Yavin.
On the bright side at least now everyone’s stopped hating you.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I think I might actually be dying.
Client xmas party last night. Boss told us not to get too drunk, because it was a night for the clients to have fun and not us… this was immediately followed by everyone getting blind drunk and pounding beers in The Rocks until 2 in the morning.
http://cdn.makeagif.com/media/3-13-2015/pH7Im-.gif
Morning. Sid has a playdate with Atlas today. I hope it wears him out as I have stuff to do. Sewing, cleaning, 3ding and Christmas things
I should have internet today at my house.
Pizza and beer are in my future as well as Jessica Jones, Star Wars marathon and maybe some christmas shopping.
Life is good.
Remember to watch the Despec editions of Star Wars so you can see the god-awful comping on super awkward models in some scenes, and yet still know that it’s better than 1997 CGI.
The thing with the despecialized editions is that they keep some of the fixes that didn’t materially change the film, like fixing up stuff bleeding through the edges of the snowspeeder canopies.
I feel my Star Wars name appropriately represents my personality and my general place in society.
Oooh! Oooh! I just thought of a good Star Wars name for @dc… Figrin D’C (Figrin D’an)!
How bout DC-15?
I’m gonna level with you, I’m not big on Star Wars. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s ok, we still love you.
But only just.
If you change your name to DC-15 you could start making jokes about inviting people to the gun show…and then just scream “PEW PEW” until they go away.
As your life coach, don’t not be into Star Wars. But like, don’t be too into Star Wars. You know?
HOW GOOD IS KOTOR? RETURN OF THE JEDI IS THE BEST!
“Dead-to-me” downvote ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Me neither but hey, why not ?
Sidevote.
Mace WinDC
Oh that’s good.
Yodc?
Oh, oh R2-DC! 😀
HOW DID I NOT THINK OF THAT!?
Screw the Cantina Band. This one wins forever.
It’s official then! Hence forth, he shall be known as R2-DC
@dcWinner
Expert on Jizz.
I WANT THAT TITLE! :O
I MISSED PAGE SIX NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
A family of agoraphobic anorexics moved in next door. I bet they have a few skeletons in the closet.
I accidentally filled my escort with diesel. She died.
In the spirit of Star Wars:
I once met a girl who confused a tube of KY jelly with Superglue. I asked her what happened but sadly her lips were sealed.
I bought some lamb chops from the supermarket the other day. The packet said “Proudly reared in New Zealand.” I thought it was just a racist stereotype?
So I may have gone for complete left field…
I haven’t seen any star wars… >_>
:O
*faints*
Sorry.
Scree I swear like half your posts in TAY must be “sorry.” !!!
No don’t apologize in a reply comment! =P
I don’t get any duplicate post warns though…
Ha, and you call yourself a Starwars fan. Sheesh!
…oh wait, no you don’t.
….Starwars
Now that you can be free it’s time to celebrate.
Especially in 44 days.
Good memory for the numbers.
FYI this isn’t a joke 😛
So last night I flew to Brisbane to surprise my girlfriend. She kind of had an inkling something special was up because I asked her to be home between 8 and 8.30 as a surprise was being delivered. She immediately thought it was flowers but thought it was weird that I’d asked her to definitely be home. I got my friend who drove me from the airport to knock on the door and give the flowers to her. Apparently she looked happy but a little disappointed.
After she closed the door I ran down and knocked on it. She had a double take and had to pinch me to make sure she wasn’t hallucinating. She wouldn’t stop hugging me for about an hour after that 😀
Smooth!
Thankssss. Now I’m logged in from her place and still able to work. Yay for being in IT 😀
Man, look at all these TAY folks being romantic. <3
Last night my wife cooked me dinner and I ate it. Then we watched TV for a little while and didn’t fight about money. #Romance
Funny, my initial reply prior to going with the more neutral and optimistic “smooth” was going to be eerily similar to this!
#marriage
I know it won’t be this romantic ALLL the time 😛
That sounds VERY familiar.
Last night I broke up with my partner and went to stay at a friends house. :S #C-C-C-ComboBreakEdit: To all, I don’t want to derail this thread. I’ll post a debrief later today.
Aw man, I’m really sorry to hear that. *hugs* Hope you’re doing okay!I’m fine, yeah, thanks for the concern though.If you need to hang out or talk or any thing, offers ALWAYS there.I know, I’ll take you up on it soon.
Wait what?
Seriously?
Must be rough…. Hugs?
Yeah, seriously. I’m seriously ok though. I think mentally I’ve been prepared for a while so I’ve already processed a lot of it.
Well if you want to talk about it to someone, feel free to hit me up!
Hugs are still on the table as well!
🙁
Aw man, really sorry to hear that 🙁
*hugs* Sorry to hear mate 🙁
*big hugs* you can chat anytime if you need 🙂
Awwwwh crap.
🙁 hugs dude.
How you coping with this Brisbane humidity, bud? 😀
I grew up here so it’s back to Uni days for me. Slacking off, surfing the net and watching thee cricket. Difference is I have someone fun to have shenanigans with 😛
Is it your parents?
Hahahahaha no. They live back in VIC now 😛
You smooth fucking bastard.
Awww tanks broo!
All you cool Star Wars characters can come hang out in me. We even have a jazz band.
“No Droids!”
Ooooooooooooohhhh /o\
*trudges off slowly*
We don’t like your kind round here.
If only Figrin D’C could be there.
At the Star Wars
Star Wars cantina…
I mean, I assume that there was somebody named either Blaghman or Sean in the entirety of the Star Wars universe, so I’ll just crash your party, eat your food, drink way more punch than I should. You know, the usuals.
You’re ChewBlagha.
Can we call him “Furry Oaf” for short?
because that’d be glorious!
“Walking carpet”
If only he still had long hair.
Just be Blaaaaaaaaawr and you can be a wookiee noise
Blaaaaaaaaawrb
The jazz band’s #1 single is “Jazz in my Pants”.
I get it.
But what bizarre instrument are you playing in it?
The flesh flute.
Exclusively theremins?
So I went down the rabbit hole trying to find the perfect instrument for the cantina…
… and I think I found the most badass instrument of all time. I present to you: The Zeusaphone.
The slitherhorn.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jizz
Just going to leave this here.
I’m filling out a grant application, and they’ve sent me this unbelievably detailed budget spreadsheet that I have to fill out.
This is one of those things I really wish I could hand over to someone else. I’m terrible at it.
I find the same thing when I’m planning out a work project. I don’t know how much time something will take to plot out nine months of work. I can barely plan for one month.
“23 notifications”
Uuuuuuunh.
How’s that hangover?
Not so bad. It’s more the incredibly broken sleep that’s doing my head in.
First one was ok, second and third were garbage.
Bow chika wow wow or something along those lines =P
I’ve gotta keep the faith and not be too overhyped for Star Wars otherwise it might never reach my lofty expectations. Just need to be moderately hyped for it and not super massively ultra mega hyped.
WHO ARE YOU KIDDING, THE HYPE TRAIN HAS NO BRAKES!
I heard a rumor that Jar Jar Binks makes an appearance in it.
Did that instantly reduce your hype to zero? #helpingActually no. I didn’t get the hate for Jar Jar although I was 8 when the movie came out so my perspective is a little skewed.
I’m fine with that if that theory about him turns out to be true.
Had a blast racing with @trikeabout last night – still learning little tricks to improve my cornering. Then went searching for a T3 Court of Oryx for that new quest… Three visits to the Court, three times we arrived to an empty instance. I know I said I was going to log off for the night, but I decided to give the T3 court a try solo. Took a couple of tries to get the hang of it, but got it done. Quickly knocked over the last two missions for the quest, and now I have a new sparrow. \o/
😮 Wow. Solo Antiquated. you’re a beast. Soloed Oryx yet? :-p
I found I’m much quicker on boost sparrow than brake sparrow, probably because I’ve used Timebreaker so much. By the 4th or 5 race on each track so around 15 laps, I’m remembering the corner sequences and the main obstacles/gotchas, and starting to pick lines and braking points. Definitely improving – from being more than 30 secs behind 5th in one race, to being 30 secs behind 1st, to being only 11 secs behind 1st in the final race. And getting race gear will help a bit too…
Will have to play some Court tonight. I’ll be on as having a QNI tonight. 🙂
Being 15 light above the rune helped a lot, and I think being alone in an instance must lower the health of enemies by a bit. Still, it took me around 8 tries to get the two wins the quest required.
Huh, parents are away for the weekend apparently. Good to know 😛
*never gets told anything*
*bow chika wow wow*
So….house to yourself, huh? Bit of… Privacy, huh?
‘Fraid not. Apparently sister and her boyfriend are coming over 😛
Sometimes you to be not subtle and be very clear about what you want.
“Hey, I have a girl coming over. It would be great if you could be somewhere else.”
You’d be surprised how often people understand if you demonstrate the appropriate force of will.
A fine idea in theory 😛
Though I wouldn’t want to have anyone over, place isn’t fit for outsider viewing. Also I have no way to contact her at all until we see each other at work next week 😛
Also, cars are great for semi-private make-out sessions. Drive someplace, then park in the driveway/garage/nearby with cool music on… It’s worked on me before!
Cars are dangerous. You just go to drop someone home, then suddenly the sun’s starting to peek over the horizon and you haven’t moved anywhere.
You got her girl germs, but not her phone number? YOU SO CRAZY!
I was too busy playing it cool to try and mess things up like that 😛
I’m going on a popcorn Costco run!
Grab some for me will ya
Say no more, say no more. Know whatahmean? Nudge nudge know whatahmean? Say no more….
😀
sex
Is anyone else seeing these posts as a sort of Christmas Present from gooky to us popcorn eaters?
Conference I’m at is talking about the Empress Scree Ore Deposit. I chuckled. Cc @scree
is it better then mythril?
Naw, iron ore and not the best kind 🙁 sorry
Boo. D=
Just have to finish getting Xmas gifts for the rest of the family, and try to find where I placed the gift for my sister’s boyfriend.
D:
Wait, your username is use the momentum?
Wait, I’ve got a better one…
How does it look now?
Man, TAY so frequently bottoms out at lunch time these days. I blame the schools. Like, literally.
Their IT problems are taking up precious TAY time.
Yeah, I would really love to walk into this place and ask, “So what caught on fire or otherwise broke last night?” and have someone reply, “Nothing.“
That happened here a couple of weeks ago.
20 minutes later the HR manager walked in to the office to find the entire IT team huddled together in the corner, shaking.
I also have infrequent work to do that seems to happen in the afternoon more than the mornings. then it gets to 3 and i want a break and nada.
I remember logging on one day and i had 14 notifications, nowadays i get more than one and i am like WOOOOAH
Ah, the Blaghspam and Many Faces of Pez eras.
Good times.
The schools are literally to blame in my case. Because I am a teacher.
Kinda restricts my TAY/twitter abilities during the work day.
Desperately need a hair cut (over due by 4 weeks I reckon). I’m on the road all tomorrow when my normal hairdresser is open and they’re closed Sundays.
Trying a place across the road from work called ‘Al a mode hair and beauty’.
What could possibly go wrong…
PERM! PERM! PERM!
Have a photo of my dad somewhere with a permed mullet…
I go to HQ Male Grooming in West End. A bit pricey, but good atmosphere and nice people. 🙂
Just make sure that you remember that there’s a certain code you need to employ when dealing with hairdressers. “A little off the top” means “shave 1/3 of my hair and beat me over the head with a chair”, “just after a trim” means “number 1 all over”, and whatever you do, don’t ask for a bowl cut.
They look ridiculous.
i havent had a haircut in literally 9 months. I look like such a wanker, i have to go on saturday because otherwise the lady im dating said she will cut me in my sleep.
Cut you… or your hair?
Save the $’s and just let her cut your hair in your sleep… That’s assuming you want to look like you lost a fight with the clippers.
maybe both.
wait you have a new ladyfriend??
Well that took all of 13 minutes…
Reserving judgement until I can get home, give it a wash and get some product in it. It looks alright… for now.
Although, I successfully avoided being beaten with a chair and losing all my hair @rize!
This is what I like about my neighbour who is a hairdresser, her salon is in her house & it’s 2 doors up from my place 😀
I have the itch to get my hair cut short again.
I’m I ‘one of the gang’ enough to change my name? Can’t think of anything though.
Maybe Obi Wonton Kenobi since its still food related
You could call yourself Sarlacc Cuisine, and change your avatar to Boba Fett.
Damn that’s good. Welp I know my handle for the next Star Wars film!
You’re totally in the gang. Obi Yung Cuinobe? Uhm… I’M NOT GOOD AT THIS.
Obi Wonton is great, I love it!
*prods TAY with foot*
Hello?
Is it me you’re looking for?
Hello from the other side
I must have called a thousand times
To tell you I’m sorry for everything that I’ve done
But when I call you never seem to be home
Hello from the outside
At least I can say that I’ve tried
To tell you I’m sorry for breaking your heart
But it don’t matter it clearly doesn’t tear you apart anymore
adele is so hot right now
She’s pretty amazing. I think her segment on 60 Minutes last weekend is the only time I’ve actually listened to that show.
I can see it in your eyes…. I CAN SEE IT IN YOUR SMMIIILLLEE *breaks out into song*
@rocketman this how you’re supposed to do it =P
TAY! TAY!
New INTERNET GET.
SO.HAPPY.CAN’T.BREATH
*thud*
JUST CAUSE 2 MULTIPLAYER INTERNET TO CELEBRATE??????
HELLZ YEAH! I’m keen!
Time to see if you still have stuttering issues in online games?
That’s the plan 😛
Hopefully, no! 😛
Well fuck you guys, I’m without Internet until at least Monday after tonight.
Well i work over the weekend which means monday/tuesday IS my weekend…. soooo…. GAEMS? 😛
That’s “Monday assuming the Internet people don’t fuck up connecting my new place to the grid”
OH… oh… i’m… sorry for your loss -_-
What I’m hearing is that you both have Internet tonight…
here have some of my internet buddy.
Upstream makes me super jelly.
@pupp3tmast3r what’s your steam name?
I tried finding you last night but couldn’t find anything under your TAY handle so i got confused and cried a little… Just want to get those keys to you that’s all 😛
Droids don’t cry! They would rust you silly man!
Jokes aside I think my handle is –
If you’ve got freeze or transient or red as friends I should show up in their list as well. Let me know once you’ve got the handle and I’ll delete it.Strange, can’t find you at all, even when doing an all round search on Steam :\
I tried just pupp3tmast3r as well, but that definitely didn’t look like you either of the 2 hits 😛
why doesn’t he add you?
Hmm…. I was on all weekend as well; what’s your add pixel and I’ll have a go at finding you tonight when I get back home?
Pixel Ferret is the steam name… Probably easiest to find if you look through the Kotaku AU steam group
star wars reference
HAHA! I get references!
Damn it, Lucas! Leave the old movies alone! 😛
I didn’t do nothin’!
Ha, came across this on Imgur this morning. When I got to the Rainbow Lorikeet, whilst I don’t disagree with its name there of ‘Party Pigeon’ they’re also pretty capable of the title Noisy Asshole, after having one as a pet for 10 months 😛
I’m pretty sure a group of parrots is called a party 🙂
They sure act like it is one when they’re together 😛
Something something something darkside.
I’m totally not biased (except for the part where I’m totally biased) but everyone should vote for Teen Dog because radical.
http://comicsalliance.com/ca-best-of-2015-best-comedy-comic/
Because I’m cold and can’t sleep…
Oh god, I’m trying super hard not to wake up this beautiful German girl but I’m pretty sure I just did and was probably the first person to poopies in her new apartment’s toilet… :/
There’s pretty much nothing here either so I’m just lying in some paper thin sleeping bag liner on some mattress on the floor being all cold and I can’t really sleep well :P. Should’ve offered to snuggle for warmth… #MrTacoLife?
Also no Xenoblade at this place. Worst place.
And now I’m hungry but there’s no food 😛
Ayyyyyyyy!
Nayyyy!
😉 😉 ;D xox
Teach us your ways.
*shaves head*
There’s a start.
Next, the beard.
Then… I don’t know, fumble around until stuff starts to accidentally all around you.
Ew gross TMI
Oh wait I forgot the nearly most important bit!
Find a set of keys so you can bust out that Maple Leaf.
@mrtaco haha I was thinking about that as we passed some random piano in a department store! She used to play too.
I don’t think there’s anything between us though, but at least I think I’ve got access to her apartment when I want to stay in the city (selfishius)
So lessons learned from last night:
DB Xenoverse is great in multi!
My internet stutters issues are resolved because everything worked like a charm.
Just Cause 2 Multiplayer continues to be fucking amazing.
@blaghman hats us.
@rocketman hats us.
Just Cause 2 Multiplayer is fantastic!
I should not go to bed at 1am when i have a 7am start the next day -_-
@rize @cakesmith @sernobulus @anyone_else_that_has_JC2
LETS DO THAT AGAIN SOON!
To be fair, rockets doesn’t have Internet. =P
I choose to believe because he hats us 😛
Count me in! \o/
Just picked up the full kit for Rockand with drums, mic and guitar and game for $269 delivered.
http://groupbuy.ebay.com.au/deal?itemId=221961734066
and use CHRISTMAS10 to get 10% off at checkout.
PS4 an XBONE.
We’re getting the band back together, Woot!
How about dat Survivor?
@powalen @alexpants @sughly @phoenix
I keep waiting for youse to start the discussions but you don’t so it never happens :(. This has been a weird season and I’m not sure if I like it as much with all the voting block stuff. I don’t feel like any real people have completely dominated the game more than just making one move here or there. Don’t really have a favourite to win because of this, but there’s people I don’t want to win :P…
I want Tasha to win! Same as last season she was on 😛Kinda feel like Jeremy is going to win though. He’s still got an idol and has somehow managed to stay completely off everyones radar so far.
@alexpants @sughly @phoenix
I think Jeremy, Kelly, and Spencer have played pretty good games. I’d love for Spencer to win it, same as last season he was on… :-pI’ve kind of enjoyed this season, because there hasn’t been any fixed alliances. At no point has it been too obvious who is going home. Jeremy probably has it in the bag if he plays his idol and wins an immunity. At the end of the day, if you want to win for sure, take a goat.I agree. I like the unpredictability of it! Although at times with Abi it does get unbearable.I have no idea who I want to win at this point. Don’t forgot Kelly still has another idol, y’all. She could pull off another cool move!
Kelly ftw!!!1! I would be happy with any of the remainders winning though, to be honest. Love em all! Even Keith. Even though he will never win.EVEN KIMMI?
NO THANKS
Survivor: K Names.
Kimmi is my FAV!
Who’s Kimmi?OH MAN I totally forgot she was even in the game hahaha, oops
Well I feel like a bit of an idiot.. Bought a replacement stock heatsink & fan for the PC, cause I was too lazy to clean the old one plus $3 for a genuine Intel one was a fair price. Installed it as soon as it got here, wondered why my temps at idle were 50°C when they were normally in the high 30’s, realised I hadn’t locked in at least 2 of the plastic retention clips, which meant the heatsink was only in partial contact with the CPU, go me.
Now with that problem taken care of, temps are back where they should be in the 30’s..
Why go stock? If you’re replacing it anyway, wouldn’t you be better getting a good one?
I’d have to remove the motherboard to install any aftermarket cooler since my case isn’t fancy & doesn’t feature a cut out in the motherboard tray to aid with installation 😛
Plus I am planning a new system in the coming months, & $3 for a genuine stock cooler beat the $90 I was looking at for a Noctua cooler I have my eyes on at the moment 😛
Oh man, Noctua’s are beasts. I was planning on getting one for my current PC, until I realized it literally was too big to fit in my case.
Haha yeah, I was looking at sort of a lower profile one, so it did fit 😛
Hey there Secret SanTAY – your pressie is nearly ready to post. The finishing touches are happening today, then hopefully into the post tomorrow.
Fingers crossed that you like it.
Yay! Mechwarrior Online is on Steam! \o/
*stomps around in Mad Cat*
“Heat level critical. Shutting down… “
Dammit. Now I’m reading up on heaps of Battletech lore again.
You finalised your heraldry pick yet?
Yup. House Davion.
Welp, I did it.
I finally bought my Build-a-Bear Toothless in Melbourne, and his foot plays The Imperial March.
I’m so glad I got him. 😀
Is it time to start panicking about going to work tomorrow?
I think it’s time to start panicking about going to work tomorrow 😛
Ayyyyyy
Nah, I don’t have that problem, day off tomorrow \o/
Context: First day back at work since this happened.
Ah, I see.
Today was a productive day. Did an oil change on the car also changed the spark plugs. I also like how dead simple both are on the car, since it’s something i’ve never done on a car only our truck, heh. It’s also cheap, that’s the best part 😛
Did you remember to *flex*?
Sure 😛
Rewatched The Phantom Menace and the Darth Jar Jar thing is totally true.
Now the question is, will he return?
@markserrels Found a clip of Aldo vs McGregor.
Wasn’t expecting that!
Spoilered below:
http://gfycat.com/GentleHandsomeAcornweevilJust in case anyone is interested, I was in a Target store today and they have Drive Club for $15. If you’ve been wanting to try out out, go for it.