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Hoorah it’s Monday. It’s also my day off, so today is a good day!
How was everyone’s weekend?
You lucky son of gun! Enjoy your day off! Weekend was awesome except for the McGregor and aldo fight…was expecting a war and got a 10 seconds!
Haha, I could get called in, which I wouldn’t object to, cause money 😛
I’m exhausted after getting home from Brissie at 12.30am, and you get the day off. All of the jealous right now 😛
Haha, I don’t think i’ll be spending it relaxing some how though.
10 days until Christmas. THERE IS NO RELAXING!!!!
As a retail worker, thanks for the reminder I didn’t need 😛
But as someone who recently just got a job again, woo money!!
I’m on monthly pay. It comes in today. *segue to video of me dancing in a torrent of cash*
Monthly pay, man fuck that 😐 Government job?
I’m on weekly, I think i’d prefer fortnightly though..
Nah I’m working for a fleet management company. I like my job though 🙂
Monthly pay 5 o/
\o !!!!
Relevant: http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/cash-cannon
Haha if we had paper money I would buy this shit out of this XD
There was a metaphorical ten-car pile-up in my workload this week, so I’m looking at the very real possibility of cancelling my leave for next week.
Hurrah.
Boo. Can’t you make it someone else’s responsibility so you can take said leave?
The pile-up was really bad.
Damn.
On Thursday night I got up to the skell license in xenoblade, then I had to spend the next three days at a wedding I didn’t particularly feel like going to.
It was torture, but soon I’ll have my skell.
Friday night was work Christmas Party which was average.
Saturday did a heap of work around the house and then had a mates 30th which was great.
Sunday was the kids Christmas party which was tough to front up to after the previous nights antics.
absolutely zero gaming 🙁
Hey guys, a question for people with kids. When did you get the little one into gaming and what games did you guys play together? I’ve got a two year old so I think it’s still very early but I’m curious to know other people’s experience.
Mario Kart 8 was my kid’s first game, and she’d only just turned four when she first played it. Since then, she’s dabbled with New Super Mario Bros on DS, but is far more interested in apps and educational things like Literacy Planet and Mathletics.
It’s awesome that she is interested in the educational games/apps. I hope my little one is the same but also that she shares my passion for gaming however I won’t push it if she doesn’t. Although one of my dreams is to teach her how to build a PC when she is a little older 🙂
Our little dude has been playing things since he realised that controllers are for pressing, not eating. He loves all things Nintendo (Super Mario 3D World, Captain Toad, Yoshi’s Woolly World, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Pokemon). Yoshi and Captain Toad are both great games for little ones, but still fun enough for the grown ups who are playing along. Also Mario Maker. The Lego games are also great (We love Lego Batman)
It’s just a personal choice for us, but we tend to stick to games on the consoles/TV to encourage sharing and taking a break and reserve the 2DS games for long car trips or plane rides (or PAX!).
My best advice is to set clear limits on game time, and enforce them from the start. It’s super tempting to get lots of quiet time by letting them play whenever they want, but they really need to do all the hands-on, social play with blocks and crayons and playdough and sand and with other kids. Games are good when they’re sick or when it’s horrible outside.
There’s lots of other ways you can get them into gaming without actually using a screen, like toys, collector cards (pokemon cards are still cool). My son likes making mario levels out of duplo.
Yeah this is what I was thinking as well. I’m not a massive fan of letting her play with phones/iPads so I think a console and the TV will be the way to go. So what would you say is a reasonable time to allow them to play? Do you count game time and TV time as one? I was thinking an hour would be enough and, like you mentioned, only when it’s raining outside etc.
My parents didn’t have an understanding of games so I was basically allowed to play whatever I wanted for as long as I wanted. I was more inclined to be outside playing soccer anyway so I was lucky in that sense.
You’ll definitely know when there’s been too much! It’s really like everything else, don’t let them boss you around, and be prepared to play mean parent and revoke the privilege if they take it for granted. I think learning balance is going to be far more important for kids these days than simplistic time limits. Screens are unavoidable these days, so learning to put them down when you have more important things to do is an important skill.
Oh, and he also likes bikes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfqy7Ii5m_E
Mario Kart, Pacman, Journey.
For a 2 yr old, the Duplo games on the iphone are frigging fantastic.
I’ll check Duplo out although we don’t have iphones so hopefully it’s also on Android, thanks!
I got him some kinect Disney thing cos he loves Cars. Probably started appreciating it at around 4.
Before that he enjoyed Guacamelee a bit.
Yes been playing Sonic Racing Transformed since he was 3 because he has better taste than most.
Now he’s right into LEGO Star Wars III.
Her play anything if he could, my wife won’t let him cos she’s a jerk.
Hes 5.
Oh, he plays Angry Birds & some other iPad crap too.
haha yeah my mrs is the same! It’s hard trying to smash Fallout 4 when she is constantly on my case about playing too much! I’d imagine she’d be the same with the little one…
Yep 🙁
Before he was born, we used to play Warriors Orochi together & she played so much Phantom Hourglass there was nothing left to do.
🙁
Now games are bad apparently
Two more sleeps until The Force Awakens.
I thought that was out boxing day? Well then.
Yeah I convinced my girlfriend to wait and see it with me when I fly up on Boxing Day. Then she realised she’d be waiting a week hahaha. Queue pants of the cranky variety XD
Midnight launch Wednesday night/Thursday morning \o/
That’s cool. But damn, I have no idea how I managed to miss that it was releasing this week.
Either @Shane barely sleeps or he sleeps a lot?
Avoiding spoolers until I can see it is going to be frigging near impossible.
Two days of analogue time, coming up.
So, Star Citizen alpha 2.0 is live.
So far I’ve played headbutt with another ship till I died, got stranded in space when I hit eject instead of exit seat, shot space rats, shot possibly another player, Eva a bit, crashed into an asteroid, stopped at a space servo, explored a creepy abandoned space station, had my ship stolen and got shot in the head.
Also several ctd and got stuck crossways through a ladder.
It’s shaping up pretty good.
I’m shocking, I backed the game and just completely lost interest after so much hype and no playable stuff happened. How do I get the alpha and try it out? Is it worth it? Should I just stay hidden in my little box and wait some more?
If you backed with alpha access and a ship just download the launcher, download the game (many gigs) and away you go.
It’s a great time to start paying attention imo. 2.0 is basically the first chunk of the persistent universe and with updated ship physics and Eva/Fps mechanics you get a real sense of what the game is gonna be like.
Still definitely alpha tho, so prepare for bugs.
Cool, I might give it a go if I have some spare time 🙂
How big is it? I feel like I heard ~20 odd gig being thrown around at one point or another. I’d be curious enough to check it out on one of their freeplay weekends they seem to do every now and then, but it’d take me that long just to download the damn thing at that size.
Was 30GB for me, and I already had V1.3 installed.
Pretty sure it was re-downloading the entire thing, does this every time.
Ouch.
Not to keep on the comparison/fanboy war at all, but I really like that Elite is only a few gig, and mostly just downloads the new stuff you need. Not entirely certain but I’m pretty sure when betas end and the live version starts, it might even just copy the last beta stuff over to the live directory if you have it, which is great.
Well if we’re starting wars we could compare the amount of gigs with the amount of unique content.
But we are all civilised people here :p
Part of it came down to them redoing the game as a 64 bit app IIRC
We are? But I heard there were-
*pauses to scan room*
console users around here.
PEASANTS! I’m on to you lot, with your airs of faux civility! It’s like a cargo cult of chittering chimpanzees, wearing top-hats and monocles and… hm. I had a classist rant to go with here with some astounding PC elitism, but now I think I really need to google image search chimpanzees with monocles and top-hats.
I’ve been waiting till tonight to get the download done (net cap resets tomorrow). Keen as hell to see where it’s all up to, but I wish my Freelancer was flyable. I’ll have to be content with my M50 for now (which I totally am).
Was it you that had a Connie? I believe that’s flyable now.
/raises hand
No, unfortunately. I’ve been tempted several times to trade up using my Freelancer or M50 but honestly I love both these ships and not having a Connie from the start gives me something to aspire to.
I think @beeawwb has one?
*waves*
Sounds exciting.
So operation sneaky bastard was a success as I mentioned on Friday, spent the rest of the weekend playing supportive house husband/boyf for the girlfriend in Brissie. Met a lot of her friends for the first time too and apparently I have passed the test ^_^
The only hurdle left is the brother whom I haven’t met… At least he likes Star Wars and Pokemon, right?
With any luck he hates the prequels and loves the original trilogy.
He’s the same age as me so it’s a fair guess that’s the case! Fingers crossed 😀
… do you have a contingency plan in place in case he says Jar Jar is the highlight of the series?
Realise that no matter what he thinks of me, he’s a broken human being 🙂
Howdy TAYbies!
Hope everyone’s weekend was great. I finally moved in with Rockets on the weekend. Spent most of my Saturday morning packing the last of my stuff, (computer/consoles/etc… you know, the necessities) and spent Saturday afternoon moving it all it. The remainder of the weekend Rockets and I marathoned Star Wars, it was great. I always hold the movies in high regards in my mind but always get surprised with how good they are when I rewatch them.
Anyway my movie preference order (from best to terrible *cough* episode 1 *cough* is: 5>6>4>3>2>1
Oh also, when I say we watched the Star Wars movies I mean we watched them in machete order. So 4-5-2-3-6 which thankfully means, NO EPISODE 1 \o/ \o/ \o/
It has to be 4-5-6 and then if you absolutely must watch the prequel trilogy then 1-2-3. Can’t understand how anyone can watch them in any other order.
Only ever seen the prequel trilogy once (when they were first released in the cinema) and even though I now own them on DVD I honestly don’t know if I’ll ever watch them again.
Oh @evilmonkey, you’re my kinda guy 😀
5 > 4 > 6 > 3 > 2 > 1 for me.
If you haven’t already, check out The Clone Wars series (it’s on Netflix) and the Rebels series (it’s not on Netflix). They’re both part of the new canon and seasons 4-5 of The Clone Wars are particularly good.
Also Clone Wars, the 2d animated one by Genndy Tartakovsky is rad.
Yeah Clone Wars was a 100x better than the animated crap Lucas made. At least Rebels seems somewhat decent though.
The Clone Wars gets good after the first season, and its later seasons are really well received, so dismissing it out of hand is a bit harsh. I hate the stilted animation that their 3d stuff has though. Lacks any sort of charm.
So much of the series just felt shallow; especially in comparison to what Genndy Tartakovsky did. His 10-15min episodes had so much more depth and character to them.
That said I enjoyed the clone trooper episodes but everything else was just far-fetched (yes even for star wars). I mean for crying out loud they introduced magic! and zombies! and voodoo! and let’s not forget force deities.
I’ll praise the Genndy Tartakovsky stuff for a lot of things, but character development really isn’t one of them.
With his series I felt the character development went unsaid. Like anakin freeing those mutated aliens or the glimpses into what drove Greivous as a person. A lot can be developed if left unsaid.
In contrast the clone wars from Lucas was like – This is what’s developing. Right now. In bold. Oh we also underlined it in case you missed it. Oh btw we also have fireballs and demon hunters now.
@pupp3tmast3r: Yes, Clone Wars had some stupid bits around Darth Maul and Dathomir. But at the same time it really got good. The first season was ropey as fuck but by the time they got to season 2 they’d really hit a good stride and 3 and 4 have a ton of subtlety to them. Rebels is probably better, sure, but not by much.
Also I think you can blame some of the more outlandish bullshit on the Expanded Universe. And the worst thing is that thanks to them incorporating some of that stuff, it’s canon. Stupid shit like the Dathomir Force Witches. 🙁
No internet yet, but I will check it out when we finally so get it.
I felt that The Clone Wars stumbled big time when in one episode, some Mon Cal (presumably) died by falling slowly into a large underwater chasm.
Fish people. Underwater.
What even.
How slowly? Maybe the impact killed them? People die from jumping off bridges into water…
Or was it all underwater anyway? In which case maybe a pressure-crush situation, where getting dragged by impossible currents into the depths is worse than falling to your death. Especially thanks to the unholy creatures that live in those inhospitable conditions….
Whole thing was underwater, the Mon Cal were conscious and were not injured, and it occurred at a depth that was survivable for the Mon Cal.
I just assumed they were sucked down by a current or something.
People gonna hate me… I liked Ep 1 the most out of all the prequels :B Hayden Christiansen just does my head in so much when watching Eps 2 & 3…
I put 2 below one. 1 is a bad movie, make no mistakes, but its biggest crime is that it’s not really Star Wars. 2 attempts to rectify that mistake, and makes everything even worse in the process, but it panders slightly more to the fans, which I think is why it tends to rate slightly above on average.
I agree that it’s not a great Star Wars film. Still better as a film than 2&3 though hahahaha.
he is a fucking creeper, like darth vader force chokes 4 of his admirals is empire strikes back and i still feel like teenage anakin is a bigger fuckwit.
still there is alot of enjoyment and fun to be had in the prequels. just not the attention to detail which made the originals brilliant.
Padme “Hi Anakin”
Anakin “I LOVR YOU AND EVERYMOMENT WITHOUT YOU I WILL DIE”
*stares creepily at Padme for 5 minutes*
he was undressing us with his eyes
soo creepy.
I had nightmares about his creepy staring.
its okay i heard you moving around in your sleep and i came and stared at you until you stopped having the nightmare.
Plot twist, Anakin IS THE NIGHTMARE *runs around shouting*
*takes note*
He so fucking is. And such a petulant shit. “I don’t like sand waaa waaa waaa” ORRR “Fuck sand, them Tusken pricks killed my mother. VENGEANCE!!!!!!!!!!”
Instead he just mopes around like an entitled emo prick who has been coddled.
Vader taking out those guys in ep 5 is the best. Just the increasingly nervous admirals every time it cuts back to the star destroyer and he promotes a new one is comedy gold.
Everyone that Vader chokes in those films either fucked up badly (Needa) or is a complete asswipe (Motti) or both (Ozzel). You don’t see him choking people that are actually good at their jobs like Tarkin or Veers.
Also I can only think of those three examples of him choking officers. Who was the 4th?
I’ve never bothered trying to rank the movies, but I can never truly hate Ep 1. Aside from the fact that I was young enough to not notice a lot of the flaws when it came out (excluding Anakin…ugh) it was my first midnight launch cinema experience, and it has Liam Neeson in it.
Honestly, between Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor and the brilliant lightsaber battles, I will never outright hate 1-3. Granted, they have some amazingly bad parts (god damned Anakin…ugh). I’ve actually been meaning to rewatch them with the Jar Jar theory in mind to personally see how well it all works, but doubt I’m going to get there before Wednesday night.
I blame little orphan Annie (fucks sake Anakin…ugh).
I think the people who hate the prequels completely ignore the brilliant lightsaber battles and action sequences in them, like anakin vs obi wan is completely amazingly ridiculous but its soo fun to watch, like stupid fun.
That’s pretty much why I rank episode 3 the best prequel. Also Anakin is about 90% less creepy.
Is he? *murders room full of children* trolololol NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *derp*
technically he does that in Episode 2 aswell. Or do Tuscan raider children not count as children?
They’re clearly monsters. Also it’s even worse with the Tusken children. I’ve seen potatoes with more convincing facial expressions than Hayden Christiansen when he looks supposedly sullen….Dafuq…
Hayden Christiansen gets a bad wrap because of Star Wars, but he can actually act. Sure, he needs a better agent to help him pick his movies, but “Life As A House” shows he can do it (he even got nominated for a Golden Globe for best supporting actor in it).
Yeah, but no one turned in a good performance in those movies. No one.
@cakesmith I have heard this a lot, he’s still a weak link in the movies IMO.
@shane you’re right, even Ewan looked positively bored by the third prequel.
I’ve seen footage of Lucas ‘directing’ the prequels and I’ve never seen someone communicate less when in charge of something. And I worked for a multinational for 7 years… Empire is the best because the director was the best. I wish the same had happened for the prequels. Ahh well. What’s done is done!
Hayden Christensen. And he’s actually a good actor. No actor could have delivered that shit script with those awful lines under that sort of direction and environment and made it a good performance.
Hell, the fact that actors of the caliber of Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman come across so mediocre tells you everything. Some fresh-faced kid working on his first major motion picture in the lead role had no chance. Ruined his career too, since people hated the character and thought that the shit character and mediocre performance meant a shit actor, and it’s not the case.
Racist.
They’re animals!
Lightsaber battles are the only redeeming feature of the first ep.
And honestly, they did a better job in Ep1’s battles than 2 and 3 with the exaggerated jumping and flipping. I mean, I get that given their Force abilities some exaggerated mobility is possibly more likely than just really impressive sword-fight choreography, but dude…
Because watch the light saber battle from Ep1 then compare to Obi Wan vs Vader in Ep4.
It’s ridiculous. Utterly laughable. I’ve seen children fake lightsaber fight with more aggression and agility than that.
we will have to agree to disagree, i thought the ridiculousness was fun and silly and stupid.
Well, it was silly and stupid, for sure. Two outta three ain’t bad. 🙂
I thought Liam Neeson was the 2nd worse thing in Ep1
So was Jar Jar or Anakin the worst?
Polygon posted a cut someone did of episode 1 that was basically with the bullshit removed and I really enjoyed it, much more than the first one. Cut out basically every major Jar Jar fucking around scene, turned the Nemoidians and Gungans into aliens that spoke some alien speech that was subtitled so no dumb voices, cut all the awful ‘romance’ dialogue, the Midichlorian bullshit and a bunch of other stuff. The core of that film is actually not that bad, it turns out.
Regardless, 5 > 4 > 6 > 3 > 1 > 2. Attack of the Clones is just a fucking shitshow the entire way through. Awful dialogue, awful plot, awful everything. Literally the only good thing the entire film is that effect they used for the sonic mines in the asteroid chase sequence. The Phantom Menace isn’t great, but the duel between Obi-wan, Qui-gon and Maul is still fucking excellent, from an era when George had his head between his legs but hadn’t shoved it up his ass yet so it has good choreography, good tension, ebb and flow and some actual acting to it.
And importantly the Gungan voice replacement included Jar Jar so they can cut all the baby words and slurring from it.
Yes. It’s a really good edit.
So here is some fun Star Wars related facts for you:
If you take the reviews for the original Star Wars trilogy back when they first came out (77-83), they actually reviewed, on average, worse than the prequel trilogy.
Tomatometer Ranking of Star Wars Series Based on Critical Reaction During Original Release Dates:
83% – Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
79% – Star Wars
65% – Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
62% – Star wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
52% – The Empire Strikes Back
33% – Paul Blart: Mall Cop
31% – Return of the Jedi
EDIT:
It should be worth noting the movies currently sit at:
98% – The Empire Strikes Back
93% – Star Wars
80% – Return of the Jedi
79% – Revenge of the Sith
65% – Attack of the Clones
56% – The Phantom Menace
Someone had been drinking the coolaid reviewing Ep III. Blargh. Maybe I need to stop being a whinging prick and just sit down and watch them again?
Ep III does have some amazing action sequences.
Also has probably the most dynamic shot of the prequel trilogy – https://youtu.be/vT7vD8uAGEQ?t=10s
Such an amazing opening.
I was saying to nob that the CG is 100% better used in episode 3 than 2 i mean not just better, but they didnt use it for fucking everything. Looking at you CG pear in episode 2
This (or more accurately, the opposite of this) is something that usually makes me sad about 3d stuff (I had a whinge on Friday to a friend after we saw Spectre(‘s great opening shot)). They have the capacity to do anything with the camera, to frame and shoot in any way that they want to. And so virtually everything ends up as a mimicry of what cameras have been doing for decades. And I don’t get my five minute long single shot fight scenes.
Because you don’t appreciate the arts, man!
But I agree with you. Don’t get me wrong, there are some great long shot fight scenes out there, but like, the one from that Tony Jaa movie where he fights his way up like 4 levels in a hotel; it’s technically impressive, but I found myself getting bored with it after like 2mins.
Fight scenes are way better when they go for 10 minutes and are comprised exclusively of half-second shots of shaky cam bullshit crap where you CAN’T FUCKING SEE ANYTHING AND HAVE NO IDEA WHAT’S GOING ON I LOVE IT SO MUCH.
The Fucking Bourne movies have so much to answer for.
That said, the one that started it all was a week choreographed fight between two dudes who looked sort of similar, and it was shot that way to make it look very tough and tumble, but also so that it was hard to tell what was going on. Most scenes since then have been bad fight scenes that they shot badly to disguise how bad they were.
I don’t mind it in the Bourne movies. Paul Greengrass is one of the few people who knows how to utilise shaky cam.
I tried to find the car chase scene from Taken 3 online but couldn’t. It’s probably the most over-edited scene in movie history. Basically take this, remove the fact that that is played for laughs and you have the Taken 3 car chase. Oh, and add twice as many cuts.
Another fun game to play during Taken 3 is to take a shot whenever obvious Liam Neeson stunt double is obvious. You should be drunk after the first fight/chase scene.
@cakesmith Yeah, don’t get me wrong, I really like how it’s utilised in Bourne (which had some really cool practical stuff for one of its car chases, unrelated as this is), but it popularised the messy handheld fighty thing, so I have to get angry at it for that.
Oh I get that, but me being me, I have to disagree with you on at least some level, because fuck you, Blaghs.
How good was that catwoman movie
Creed has a pretty impressive single shot boxing match. Unfortunately, though, it’s the best part of that film.
It didn’t even click for me that it was. I mean I noticed the camera swooping around a lot and being real close to all the action, but didn’t pick up on there being no cuts.
Neat.
Amazing opening that then goes on for waaaaaaaay too long.
That whole sequence wears mighty thin on repeat viewings. Especially the topsy-turvy Star Destroyer.
Instead of feeling like there was action, it was almost snoozy for me 😛
I’ve never understood how he could put together such great action sequences like that and yet make the cinematography in the dialogue scenes feel so wooden. He blocked it out like a soap opera in ep 3.
I liked Ep 3, wasn’t as good as the original trilogy but it definitely has the best action sequences in any of the movies. Although they do kinda screw up the ending which is the biggest problem with Ep 3.
The current rating seems accurate.
Tired. I had a terrible dream I worked an awful retail job that changed management overnight. I made a back first impression by showing up an hour early for work after being out all night drinking, which for some reason made sense. Seeing my colleagues already hard at work. I jokingly told them to go home, at which point I had three managers yelling at me. Knowing I would not have time to go home, change, and come back before my shift officially stated (adding tardiness to my list of bad first impression crimes), I informed them I was calling in sick and left.
I have a feeling I might be feeling slightly anxious about the upcoming merger.
Worry is often pretty useless. So do not worry. When the problem arrives you will fix it. That’s even if it is a problem and not just an anxious assumption.
It’s not something that seems to be affecting me consciously. I guess it’s just that once the companies merge I have little idea of what to expect, and apparently this has infiltrated my dreams.
https://www.edrawsoft.com/template/have-problem-flowchart.png
oh shit, i bought tickets to the midnight showing were on thursday night not wednesday night. hahah glad i realized now not on thursday night 😛
Well, I mean, technically, it’s Thursday morning, because it screens at 12:01am.
ours screens at 12:06
because im a monster.
Such a monster!
So, midnight Thursday, not Wednesday?
Wait, it would be midnight/early morning Thursday or Midnight early morning Friday?
we drive there late wednesday night. thats what im going off now.
Just go by when you’re leaving to go to the cinema, i.e. Wednesday night.
Besides, we all know that it’s never the next day until you go to sleep. This is the basis of all human time travel technology. Jeez…
Got th G29 fully configured and got a little better at dirt rally. Must say it’s pure awesomeness.
Nearly finished uncharted 2. Encountered a glitch where a dead ragdole body flew across the screen during a serious cut scene. Was pretty funny.
Also Christmas party times have officially begun.
Great weekend was great. Spend most of it with Rocketbuddy’s friend Shannan. Was funny introducing her to all of my workmates on Friday when I’d just met her in person for the first time not thirty minutes earlier. May have given her the final push to get a tattoo on Saturday, which I feel slightly worried about 😛 First time I’ve been part of someone having “the best day ever” though.
Sunday was UFC 194 day and dang, though the McGregor Aldo fight was only 13 seconds I totally have no regrets paying for PPV. It was a fun day. I am glad to see McGregor lived up to all his shit-talking (he is so much fun to listen to) but really felt for Aldo when he gave his post-fight interview and saw the tears in his eyes :'(
My brother has told me I have to join him for Tough Mudder and Spartan next year. That gives me like… 11 months to lose like 45kg. So now I’m on a near-year-long liquid diet and tripling my exercising 😐
Still haven’t attempted to turn on my PC since rebuilding it with 90% new components.
And that’s me done. I have Star Wars on Thursday at 12:01am and my granddads funeral at 2pm the same day :'(
She didnt stab you in the heart? Thank god, she sometimes does that she is a but of a loose cannon who plays by her own rules.
She tried, but thanks to my experience with stabbings in Geelong I managed to evade her
Well there, i’ve been productive already this morning. I mowed the lawn, I did a good job on the nature strip, then dodgied the rest of job, cause you can’t see the rest of our yard from the street 😛
I had a great weekend. Took a chance and got out of my comfort zone and had adventures! Sounds stupid, but I kind of feel all energized now. *flails arms*
dc have you ever thought that maybe you are just a anxious extrovert?
For years i thought i hated social interaction but i didnt i just got really anxious before it and told myself i didnt like it, Recently i have kind of realized i love to talk and love company and draw a lot of positivity from it. I think you might be the same.
ANyway im glad you had a wonderful weekend buddy, you deserve good things.
This sounds… familiar! 😀 Damn you social anxieties for ruining my socialite plans. 😛
i know the feels, but by forcing social interactions whenever i can and not letting up, i have found each time is easier and now i dont feel any stress meeting people, i still feel stress at getting to and from places but never from the interaction itself which is nice.
http://i.imgur.com/aPh5gTw.gif
spending time with you and cakesmith in the same room, its impossible not to be happy.
Nawwww… *blushes*
I always have fun with the TAY crowd, but I eventually hit that point where it’d just be awesome to be alone for a while. Alone time (not that sort of…well, I mean……nah, not that sort of alone time) is so bloody nice after a big weekend of doing stuff with people.
Making Rize laugh is always a highlight for me whenever I’m hanging out with him 🙂
Me too, kinda!
Tried to watch The Ridiculous 6 last night. Got as far as a donkey with explosive diahorrea giving an intellectually disabled man a blow job and I had to bow out. First movie this year I haven’t been able to watch through and I watched the 1990 Captain America movie. Pixels is a masterpiece in comparison.
I watched the whole thing and it made me wish that I, and every other sentient being in the cosmos, was dead.
*googles movie name, Adam Sandler’s face comes up*
OOOOOOOOOoooooohhh…
Right.
Wow, it was really that bad? Glad I haven’t watched it yet. I watched that’s my boy just because it was on Netflix and haven’t laughed that much in ages, it was just stupid but closer to a silly Sandler film like Happy Gilmore. A shame 🙁
Really? I’ve always been under the impression That’s My Boy was his worst movie ever, even worse than Jack & Jill. Love Happy Gilmore, probably his best movie ever.
Have you actually watched it? I was under the exact same impression. It’s way way way better than Jack & Jill which is almost as bad as funny people…
Nah, never watched it, that’s just based on things I’ve read about it. Might watch it one day. Incidentally, it was originally called “I Hate You, Dad”, we’ve actually got posters with that title on them at work stored away somewhere.
Here’s my experience with Ridiculous 6:
1) splash banner on Netflix for upcoming release
2) vague twitter buzz/interest
3) people bitching about a “new Adam Sandler movie” on twitter, which I assume means Pixels is on US Netflix already
4) complaining about Ridiculous 6
5) noting Adam Sandler appears in auto-playing Netflix trailer for Ridiculous 6
6) the penny begins the long drop
The shocking part is the trailer (at least the ten seconds of it I’ve seen) doesn’t seem that awful. I guess they save that as a surprise for later. I almost want to watch it just so I can justifiably give it a one-star rating.
In other low-rated Netflix news, I felt bad about giving Jane the Virgin a 2-star rating when strictly speaking I didn’t even finish watching the pilot. So, I finished watching the pilot. As much as the show was trying to sucker me in by ending on an ominous voice-over and throwing up a “to be continued” card, I stand by my 2-star rating.
I’ve sat through all of Frankenfish, S.S. Doom Trooper, Manticore, and Frankenstein 2000.
I couldn’t make it ten minutes into The Ridiculous 6.
HELLO.
fuck i hate moving. anyway. this time next week, i hope to be unpacking everything & getting it done with.
and last week of work for the year. double plus hype.
anyway. fun things. games. Ori & The Blind Forest. Play it. so damn good. finished it on friday night. one of those games thats challenging enough to make you feel like a boss when you get through a tough section. also, that art style is 100% sexy.
about to be without the internet for a few weeks. downloading all the things right now. gonna have a chance to make it through a bit of my pile of shame. so thats good.
how’s things with you lot?
I am trying to figure out the best time to explain to my mother that I’m not going to “our” family Christmas because it’s better that my wife and I spend it with her aunt, who is currently going through a divorce. My wife has promised that we will both go to my family’s thing next year, a promise I plan to firmly hold her to because as much as we both dislike my family, it would be nice if she would engage with them at least a little, once in awhile.
man, how rubbish is family xmas politics?
no chance of doing both i take it? like morning with your family, afternoon / dinner with your wife’s aunt?
God I’m lucky. Girlfriend’s family are all lovely (except haven’t met the brother so that’ll be interesting…) and my immediate family is awesome as well. So will be interesting to see if that continues in the future.
We used to have family politics with the extended family. Now I just don’t go XD
I’ve tried this argument, my wife takes issue with the fact my family is always inflexibly locked to lunchtime on Christmas day. I’d like her to make more of an effort to go to my family stuff considering I always go to her family stuff, but I’m not going to make a thing of it.
Christmas day is reserved for one family each year. Cycle between the two on a yearly basis
Although that said it gets much harder when everybody has families themselves
For those that are interested, the new HDD I ordered from OGS just arrived. I put in the order on the 3rd, so 7 business days for it to arrive which is pretty on par with their usual shipping.
I am very tired due to staying up way too late but the weekend was pretty great. People continue ruining my plans in my RPGs but at least everyone’s having fun. I even had someone describe the game as like the Mario Kart of RPGs and I’m quite happy to receive that compliment.
Friday night was my work Christmas party and I spent Saturday just lazing about. I’m finding it very difficult to get extremely drunk lately which I guess is probably a good thing. My days of stumbling into lampposts and other blind drunk antics seems to have passed.
Currently lying on my bed, phone tethered to my laptop as I work from home waiting for the Internet man. My productivity may not be the best but damn if I’m not comfy right now.
Also moved on the weekend. @alexpants is a champ and helped carry a bunch of heavy things up 2 flights of stairs yesterday. Next time I move, I’m paying someone to do it for me and getting a ground floor place. Also don’t know when I acquired so much…stuff.
Rockband 4 house warming, please.
I should really look into flights for January…
$300 return isn’t bad.
If I’m paying someone to move, I’m going to the 13th floor and make them use the stairs while I eat ice-cream and watch.
Mini-movers or man with a van are great value. last time I moved I figured it was worth it just so I didn’t have to move the fridge myself
Finsihed watching Mr Robot last night.
The last 3 episodes are a total mind-fark.
Seriously, I am still freaking out.
Weirdly I picked up on the twist after episode two and then spent most of the season proving that my theory was right. (Which makes the show even more entertaining seeing how clever it was shot and structured.) Such a great show. 😀I was pretty sure from Ep2 as well, but I was more talking about
The whole oops I’ve killed the bosses wife sequence, the WTF happened between Elliot and Tyrell and the missing 3 days, Tyrell’s wife breaking her water to get hubby out of questioning, the CEO blowing his brains out, I picked the dad-twist, but didn’t see the sister thing coming, his confession to his psych was fantastic, that they actually went through with the hack, the great idea to stage a party to flood the room with DNA and fingerprints, the post credits sequence on the final episode etc.All that stuff was and more was just so great, so often I thought a character was on one path and the show would flip it and go down another. It so easily could have been a straighforward ‘Young hacker vs Evil Corporation”, but they made it so much more, so much deeper and with a lot of reward for careful watching, and enough there to make me want to rewatch it again looking for clues for the next season.
The writing is wonderful, it was a slow start for me, but I’m really loving it now.
Can I just say, as somebody who has only seen the commercials for that show on Fox8 – I’ve seen nothing appealing or compelling, just generic “corporation is evil, angsty teen is only one who can do anything about it but who will believe him” crudmuffins.
Is it really that good?
Yeah,it really is that good.
It isn’t really about teen vs evil corporation, the commercials really misrepresent the show. The writing is great, there is a lot of density, the characters are not black-and-white, there are some great twists and reveals, and it gets very, very dark after the first few episodes.
I think that’s what’s getting me. I see the commercials and think “there is literally nothing for me in that show” but then I also think “It’s Fox8’s commercial and they never represent things in ways that appeal to me” so I’m caught in the middle.
Yeah, I know what you mean, those ads never sell the show properly. But this one? Should be on your radar! You’ll know pretty quick if it’s for you!
I’ll put it on my extended radar because you guys said it’s good. IT’S ON YOU IF I DON’T LIKE IT, cc @poita.
If you don’t like it, I’ll buy you a coke.
It’s a no-risk win-win scenario! \o/
Went to Myer in Melbourne yestetday to try and find a gift for my sister, since they didn’t have what I wanted in Geelong.
Turns out that they didn’t have it there, either.
Oh well, at least I got a Toothless from Build-a-Bear. 😀
What is Build-a-bear?
A shop where you can choose the parts and do as the title suggests, build a bear 🙂
But can you ride your bear into battle? Because if you can… mine will have the legs of raptors and breathe fire AND YOU SHALL ALL PERISH IN FLAMES…
Or he might just be super cuddly.
Really. And you can make dragon bears?
I hope so…
They have ones of Toothless and Stormfly from How To Train Your Dragon.
Apparently they’ve been really popular.
Quiet weekend. Caught up with a highschool friend on Friday, saw Creed. That was pretty rad, though I am a sucker for Rocky movies. Got to see his new place, filled him in on the eventful Thursday 😛
Otherwise, mostly just bummed around the house and helped my sister fix up the long-in-the-making daybed that’s been prepped for outside, as a kind of surprise for the parents once they get back. Didn’t quite get through as fast as we were hoping, so assembly will have to wait til later once the staining on the wood has dried.
Oh and also apparently Sunday was a Splatfest. Totally forgot about it, then once I did I absolutely could not be bothered to jump on. First one I’ve missed 🙁
Friday: Did you see it with arms wide open?
So, can I ask you guys, if you hit “attending” or “going” on a facebook event, do you generally follow through and attend?
Only reason I ask (and this might come across as a whinge/cry for attention etc, apologies, not intentional) is I had thrown up an event page for drinks for my 30th this past saturday night. Over time, I had 16 people marked as attending, some of who have partners they’d likely bring etc, so roughly 20 altogether.
I called up a venue in Circular Quay about two months ago, asked for a few booths to be sectioned off, enough for about twenty people.
Come saturday night, I had an FB message from one friend, he’s sick, can’t make it, no worries. A text message from someone at 8:15 (event started at 6 mind you) that she couldn’t make it. A bit late, but at least she made contact… Nothing from anyone else…
In total, 5 people showed up… I looked like a massive dickhead having multiple booths/tables sectioned off, and 3/4 of it being empty.
What am I supposed to do with this information?
Ugh. Sorry to hear that, bud. Hope you had a great birthday all the same.
This is a problem with friend flaky-ness and not any thing you’ve done. 🙂 Planning events can be like herding cats and frustrating as.
Yeah, if you say you’re gonna be there and just not rock up, you’re a jerk. Especially a shindig at a place like that where you need to book.
If you’re a maybe, say maybe.
Personally I almost never respond to Facebook invites, but if I say I’m going to be there I better have a good reason to not be. That’s just jerky mcjerkington behaviour on the part of those who RSVPd. Just because it’s online somehow your RSVP means less? It’s called etiquette, people!
I can’t really offer any advice, but I absolutely sympathise with the situation.
If I say I’m going to something (facebook or otherwise), I’m going unless something comes up. If this is the case at a minimum I’ll send the person running the show a text telling them that I can’t make it.
Just remember that people generally aren’t being vindictive by not telling you they aren’t coming any more, they’re trying to avoid (what they think is) being mean. I mean, they’re totally wrong and it makes things worse, but that’s usually the measure of it.
If I click attend, I attend, or at least have the courtesy to explain why my plans changed. If I’m a definite no, I click no. The dickest move I make is if I’m a maybe, I usually don’t respond at all until I’m ready to click yes. I feel like maybe is too much of a yes and can give a false expectation.
Yeah it’s a bit like that these days. I think people should attend if the event specifically specifies that a venue is going to be booked and costs will increase as people attend so provide a deadline for people to lock it in. If it was more of a casual come have fun and drinks thing then people are more likely to flake and hit attend and forget all about it.
tl;dr don’t book stuff unless everyone’s chipping in for it?
A week or two out, you send a message to the group members saying “Hey can people double confirm if you are coming”
Then go on those numbers.
This, one thing I’ve learned with invites, always best to check again within a week or 2 of the event if it’s been planned in advance, so you still have time to make adjustments if need be.
I dont orgainize things for this exact reason.
Yeah, these days I’m much more likely to ask a couple of friends to hang instead of doing the big group hang outs.
I either give a maybe then confirm a few days out or don’t respond until a few days out.
But if I confirm, I always show up.
I’m not on FB, so can’t answer your question directly, but I always do a ring around the day before any event and catch up with everyone and make sure they are definitely coming, letting them know I am making reservations based on their numbers.
You know, talking to people and checking in with them. That way the most I ever get is one or two that genuinely have an emergency on the day. I still think voice or face-to-face contact works so much better than anything else.
What are you supposed to do with this information? Realise that Gen Y is the most non-committal inconsiderate generation to date. But don’t worry, in 10 years we’ll look like angels! I’m really sorry it happened though. I just get snarky with it because it’s sadly not an uncommon thing.
In all honesty though I always take half of the people for a mass invite and wipe them off. In future though, send one or two reminders during the week before the event like a “hey guys, if you’re bringing partners just let me know” on the Monday and maybe a quick “I’ll be there from 5.30, but feel free to show up when you can. See you tomorrow night” on the night before. People need a reminder. I’ve had 70 friends and family RSVP and 20 odd maybes but never expect more than 30-40 and it works out ok. You’ll get LOTS of people say yes and just pike like the flaky bastards they are 🙂
Also never take it personally if people don’t show up. That’s not an indictment of you, it’s a reflection of how crap they are 😉
Or call people and actually converse with them, and ask if they are coming and take a few minutes out to connect with them properly. Then they are probably going to show.
Yeah, definitely something I’ll have to do in future. Having said that, I was posting on the wall of the event up until a few hours before as to what train I was catching etc, and I know it was visible, because those that did attend met me on the same train.
Yeah. It’s a real struggle for people in their early to mid twenties. My Dad calls us the ‘options’ generation because people will double, triple even quadruple book the same night and think it’s ok to pop in and out of events or just choose the one they want to go to the most. First in best dressed is the best way to play it in my opinion 🙂
If I say attend then I will, or advise if I have to cancel.
Depending on the circle of friends I have known people who use maybe as no, because they don’t want to be ‘mean’ or whatever and actually say no. So for those people yes is an expression of interest, not a confirmation.
Been doing a lot of painting as of late. Trying to get ready for the next story of Iron Kingdoms. This time with more players.
Seems like every time I try to get into the Witcher 3, something comes along to distract me. This time it’s Darkest Dungeon. This game has me so hooked. Yesterday I had my worst turn out. I fought the Swine Prince and he landed 3 attacks that hits all characters, landing a few criticals. Resulting in 3 characters getting killed simultaneously.
Man Darkest Dungeon is soooo good! I hate it but at the same time I keep going back.
It’s like that relationship with a crazy person but was amazingly good in bed that just about everyone has.
Hola Tayberinos
Not a very exciting weekend. Had brunch with the family on Saturday morning, my brother was over so got to see him. Melbournites, he’s working at a new place out in Collingwood called “Biggie Smalls” that does “American style kebabs.”
Sat arvo I visited Costco for the first time. It’s certainly a thing. Got all the foam I need for my N7 armour (foam floor tiles) so I’m super keen to start that during my christmas break.
Saturday night had a friend’s birthday, went to a Korean BBQ place, which was tasty, then went and played board games. Fuck I love the Resistance.
Sunday I did nothing at all. played MGS V (trying to clear it) and I think I’m reaching the end, though the back half of this game is certainly padded. Then, last night, @freeze helped me kick Martyr Logarius in the teeth so I’ll be progressing in Bloodborne soon too.
A Monday Afternoon question: Costco sells everything in bulk. What isn’t sold in bulk that you wish was?
i would like 128 packs of pepsi max.
Ahh, buying three day’s worth of Pepsi Max at a time. Smart move.
I would like to buy some self-esteem in bulk! Maybe some man cards too!
Man cards are overrated, which is why when I received one for helping someone change a tyre I had to then spend the weekend dancing and singing to musicals. You should strive for balance in all things.
when i got my ute i got 50000 man cards. I have lost 90000 since then, i am okay with my choices.
It’s ok, you can reclaim a few at least by wearing a blue singlet and plastering souther cross stickers on said ute.
Well I thought I had an answer but Amazon answered my prayers.
http://www.amazon.com/Passion-Natural-Water-Based-Lubricant-Gallon/dp/B005MR3IVO
The reviews are amazing.
The one about the kids party is amazing too.
PS4’s,
Edit: Spoiler for Chappie
so I can hook them all together like Chappie and upload my conciousness into a robot.Hadooou ken
Sure you can!
Shore ryu ken!
How do, ken!?
I’m sorry
Shinyu Reppa!
TAY RPG Pathfinder on tonight at 7:30pm AEST, 8pm ACDT, and 8:30pm AEDT. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @beeawwb
A new adventure awaits. What danger and excitement will you encounter on your next quest?
Also I need to find a lackey!
Should be good to come on 🙂
Name of your sex tape!
Statement: My my, meatbags can be disgusting creatures with their “Innuendos”. 😛
I find your lack of sexual innuendo disturbing…
heh heh “in-your-end-o”.
You guys need to give me a summary of developments that have happened since I moved on.
Not a huge amount honestly. Abelas is beginning to form his own crime syndicate, we’ve found out a little more about Lundgredolph’s past, Drewan has rediscovered his passion for knowledge, and Dem’nion is preparing himself for the next quest. The next adventure takes them to the northern Cold Coast where beached whales have mysteriously disappeared. The Fishermen and Whalers’ Collective have tasked them to track down and stop their competition.
In short, not much has happened. Things are still very fishy though (@redartifice :P).
Sea Leviathans?! Not like the river ones that Drewan knows about.
Had a fairly quiet weekend. Decided to knock a game off my pile, so played through Her Story. I’m still not entirely certain I have the whole picture, considering I’ve apparently not accessed over half the database, but the game says I’ve got a basic understanding of events and motive…
There are clues pointing to Eve and Hannah being twins, but there are other clues that suggest multiple personalities… physical evidence (the bruise and tattoo) seems more reliable, so trying to rationalise the multiple personality clues (her hairstyle and story changing partway through an interview, somewhat sinister closing statement from Eve on the 3rd of July)…Played some more Destiny – got somewhat annoyed at the drop rates in sparrow racing, but all was forgiven upon going to the tower and finding a 318 racing helm sitting in my postmaster. \o/ No idea when it dropped… maybe a rank-up package. Not sure if I should keep pressing and try for a 320 drop, or work on getting my other characters at least done with their license quests for new sparrows…
I asked Her what she’s doing tonight. “I’m going out with [BFF], it’s Tuesday.” Um, ok, apparently this has gone from “I don’t mind giving up the TV on a Tuesday if you’re playing with your gaming buddies” to “I’m going out on Tuesdays drinking with my bestie”.
Excellent!
So tonight, dive in and knock off a few missions, maybe a nightfall and complete the sparrow quests… then racing time to get those top-3s.
So I’m not getting to see The Force Awakens until Friday, so will be throwing my laptop, phone and radio in the bin from tomorrow until then…
Seriously, avoiding spoilers is going to be a mammoth task.
I am pondering similar thoughts. Flicking through seatings at Imax which I would like to go to, it seems like I wouldn’t be able to get anything in a decent spot til nearly the 30th or so (never watching anything from the third row again. Four times is enough). But then the alternative is to just go somewhere else and see it there first, then go for the big screen again later. But then what if it’s not good enough to bother with that. And bleh 😛
I was going to do Imax, but then it isn’t framed for it, so I reckon just a great cinema will be my best shot. There was no way to get there on day one though, so media blackout, and now postal blackout will be in place 🙂
Oh, it isn’t? I could’ve sworn that I was reading that it was made for it. Unless you mean the entire thing?
For whatever reason I was under the impression it was like The Dark Knight, with certain scenes done in the full screen dealio. That was pretty rad.
Only 1 scene was filmed in IMAX 1.43:1
From Abrams himself:
Hmmmm.
HMMMMMMMM.
I have your address, I’ll express post a bunch of spoilers down for you 😛
Sorry to rub it in, but I’ll be watching it twice in the first 24 hours.
I think you’ll be pretty safe on TAY though. We all have enough common sense to put everything in spoiler tags.
Don’t trust that Kotaku won’t have spoilers in their banners.
I’m not seeing it until the 26th. I reckon I’ll be so spoiled by then I will know the entire plot.
It’s OK, it’s the same film again.
I just finished interleaving two pads of post-it notes. It makes a cool effect on the side when they’re offset.
…
Hi.
*grabs for popcorn*
Sooooo, go on, what happened next?
It turns out they really are hard to pull apart.
Did you see Mythbusters do that with phone books? 🙂
Yes.
Unfortunately I don’t have a couple of trucks/tractors/tanks/whatever it was handy 😛
Oh. You surprise me. I was sure you’d have tanks.
🙂
They must be in my other trousers.
THE FORCE AWAKENS HAS ARRIVED PEOPLE!!!
I HAVE TOUCHED IT!
Unfortunately I can’t watch it no matter how much I wish I could.
So close, yet so far GRRRRR!!!!
I’m starting to think I will have to avoid the internet in general for about a week until I see it next Saturday won’t I?
Personal Life Update
So as I mentioned in passing last week, I’ve left my partner. I got to the stage where I realised that everything else in my life is moving forward and returning to normal but my feelings towards the relationship weren’t. So I made the tough choice to end things (though I could see it from another perspective being the easy choice) and try to get that last aspect of my life in order. The next piece of that puzzle has just fallen in to place with my application for an apartment in South Brisbane / West End (where does one begin and the other stop?) being approved.Thanks everybody for your ongoing support, it’s meant a lot to me to have my friends so quick to support me. I’ve actually felt really strong about things and I think I’m drawing a lot of strength from knowing that I’ve got such a great network around me. As one of my friends here at work said, she hasn’t seen me this “normal” in at least 18 months, and she’s proud of me for doing the right thing. I’m proud of me too. I’ve been saying that a lot lately. Feels good.
NBN Question: I’ve been with Internode on and off since 2002, but on the NBN their plans just aren’t competitive. I’ve still got my mobile with them ($20 p/m grandfathered plan meets my needs great) so I don’t need to worry about losing my email address, and given that TPG own iiNet/Internode now… I’m thinking about going with a TPG Unlimited plan.
Anybody on the NBN with TPG who can provide context?
Really great to hear you’re making progress man. Hope things only get better for you.Sounds like a rough situation, but I wish you both all the happiness. ALL OF IT.
Also, West End/South Brisbane apartment makes you in dangerous territory as the go to place for drunk TAYbies who can’t get home. 😛
Glad to see you’re doing pretty well, man. Even if it means you’ve had to make some tough choices.
I’m going with a 1br apartment this time so I won’t actually have a spare bed, but there’s always couch / floor space. 😛
But walking to work is going to be so great. I used to walk to work when I was in Adelaide and I loved it. Really looking forward to doing that again.
I would love to live in the city, man. So great. Everything so close.
In these situations I always found it good to go for a cruise with some friends and just chat about stuff.
…
I’m not saying we should pile in your Connie and fly around shooting things arbitrarily, but I’m certainly implying it loudly.
Well once I move in I’ll have a shiny new NBN connection again (silver lining!!) so we should absolutely do that.
Before I move in I’m staying all over the place, so probably not able to do any gaming.
if you need help moving stuff i have my ute too so dont be afraid to ask.
Breakups are hard but staying with someone that it doesnt feel right with is very hard. Sorry you had to make a tough choice but im glad you are on the mend. Also nob and I always have a open door and room. so if you ever feel like things are getting hard come over and have a chat.
BTW THIS GOES FOR ANYONE
MY DOOR (and @sernobulus door yeah thats right i speak for him now) is always open. You guys have done so much to support me and i would literally do anything for you guys.
Oh yeah, totally up for helping you move too if you need it. <3
I might take you up on that, thanks for the offer! At this stage I’m moving on the 29th which is a Wednesday so might not be the most convenient for you though.
I’ll have the time off, too.
Cheers! I should be right for people power, in fact it’s only really going to be large items that I need moved by truck anyway. Most everything else I can do on my own. It’s not a big place (which is good – I like small places) so it’s just stuff like bed, fridge, washing machine, couch that need logistical shifting.
NOOOO ill be in hervey bay then i think, sorry man. :/
Yep, see I knew you were away for the new year that’s why I planned to move then! 😛
I KNEW IT.
Ill all seriousness, if my plans change ill let you know and if i come back a little early ill let you know too.
I don’t really have any advice or anything to offer.
I can say that I’ll long-distance support you.
Unless you kill @rocketman’s hookers. Then you’re on your own.
Afternoon, TAY
Had my work Christmas party last Friday. Fun! We went and did another Escape Room this year. This one was themed as a military bunker where we had to find a bomb and disarm it before the time was up. We managed to get out with 3 minutes to spare so it was a bit dramatic (got told off twice by the organisers for sequence breaking though :P)
(It would’ve been better if we didn’t have one person who kinda tried to take over everything though. Butting in on people mid-way through solving a puzzle, etc. Really ruins the experience. If you ever do one of these, don’t be that guy! Still had fun though)
Went for a fancy lunch afterwards too. It’s amazing how long some restaurants take to serve such small portions! 😛
Weekend was spent Christmas shopping and Xenobladdering. I got a mech! Then drove it straight into a bottomless pit.
Was that the one in The Rocks? That was the first one I ever did, and it’s still the best. Apparently their other room involves everyone being handcuffed, blindfolded, and locked in individual cells… I really want to go back and do it.
Yup, that’s the one.
We did one last year in the CBD that had us all chained to the wall to start (not fake chains either :P). That was fun. Had multiple rooms too. That was probably my favourite of the two (if only because that one guy wasn’t there for that one…)
My friend was looking at that one, I think. The handcuff one. Dunno why we ended up not doing it but I wanna 😛
I did that one recently, between the 4 of us we were two puzzles off. So much fun, I want to do their new one though. it looks amazing
There was a captains hat in the room that I wore the entire time. I think it helped? 😛
Dammit Paul…
Can’t wait for that new Sky Fye movie, guise. Guise?
I love Space Trek
Space Warriors is waaaay better
Already got my tickets to Lazer Team. \o/
Pew pew pew!!!
Huh, okay then
You make a compelling argument, Pixel!
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Cake, at that speed will you be able to pull out in time?
Son, let me tell you about how you were born…
No… It’s not true! THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE!
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There’s a season 4 episode of Stargate Atlantis (ep 13 for those who care) where Joe Flanigan climbs the Atlantis tower, and channels more than a little Nathan Drake in the process.
Bits falling off the tower, swinging on beams, all the fun stuff!
He’d still be my top pick for the role.
Joe Flannigan is crazy short in person. I saw him at Supanova once. (While I was hiding out in a panel from you on the show floor.) He’s definitely got a Drake quality to him, though. 🙂
Whaaaaaaaaaat? He was there while I was there?
Directly upstairs from where you were sitting! 😀
hello everyone.
I have planned to do a series of RWBY bookmarks in the future, but I’m thinking of reaching out to Rooster teeth and seeing if maybe I can get compensation for giving them my designs. However, I have no idea how to go about this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/funhaus/comments/2x9h24/important_notice_about_fanart/
Feb15, that link above – Funhaus focus, but they talk very broadly about RT-owned IP. Not sure if anything changed since.
Not surprised about the ‘don’t call us, we’ll call you’. Given their popularity I’m betting they get a lot of folks trying for the same thing.
It would seem to indicate that your best bet would be popularizing it and distributing to generate buzz that would catch RT’s eye? Or, aggressively try and jump the queue – at the risk of being That Guy.
Apparently there is a person you can contact. Numbers told me. They aren’t currently selling bookmarks and wall scrolls so I could bridge the gap =P
It’s true, I did only spend like thirty seconds on google… Could well be a number.
Fingers crossed, either way.
They’re on the backburner until after Supanova
Got asked today by one of the higher ups if there is any chance he could get a laptop type device that can be connected to the internet and our company vpn 24/7 no matter where in the world he is.
Trying to explain a network to them was just a nightmare, They think Virgin or Vodafone could do it no problems so why can’t Telstra.
[* Insert Eye Roll and Groan here*]
you can do that, Some sat phones have hotspot ability, it would cost you a literal fortune though. I know i setup something like that for a guy who wanted to skype people while on a boat trip around the world. He was loaded though. also the transfer speed is suuuuper slow and for the price of data it isnt worth it. but technically it IS possible. just not practical.
Yeah price is quite a big object so that would not work, They would also groan if they had to charge the sat phone and speed is something else they definitely require.
It’d be incredibly easy to set something like that up. He can be anywhere in the world and the laptop can have full access to everything, internal and external.
From his desk, in the office.
Let’s try that again
Welcome to the Star Citizen Alpha 2.0!
Now that i’m in front of a proper computer!Shouldn’t try to do HTML tags on a phone 😛
I went to play it, and it proceeded to give me a series of errors until I uninstalled it all and now it’s reinstalling.
*sigh*
I get between 20 – 30fps inside Port Olisar, but once i’ve left the stations everything works great! (also that above GIF was not recorded by me, just thought it was great!)
I’m running a 970, had to drop it down to Medium because even after going into space I was only hitting 20fps. :/
Orly? I’ll have to check, because i have a 970 as well but seem to remember it running better then that.
Yeah, I’ve had issues in Star Citizen (in the past) and Ark that some other users haven’t, so it’s theoretically something else in my PC, but it’s a consistent low framerate, so I have no friggin’ idea.
Also, my adventures: Get Booted immediately.
Load in, spend like five minutes before I work out, and it actually lets me call a ship (which glitches out 2/3rds of the time), get out there, game crashes when I’m in the options menu.
World is full, supposedly, so it replaces whatever the normal option is with the Hangar.
Have to restart the game, wherein I fail to connect twice more.
Get in, call a ship. Go to it, someone else has apparently done the same, or can just hop in my ship and fly off (well, a ship that I assume is on a free thingy, or something), because they do, while I’m trapped on the ladder, which leaves me glitched out 100m above the ship which is still apparently on the ground, able to only twirl awkwardly.
After quitting, fail to connect once more.
Finally get in a ship with nothing going wrong, and I hyperdrive(?) into the spacestation, I think. Or something, I died immediately, anyway.
Going well.
Going well.
Erhm wow, string of bad luck there 😛
I had no such issues when i tried… Got in,
took in the sites of the station,
called my Avenger,
flew off,
spent 5 minutes working out which button will change my flight mode,
jump to asteroid field,
accidentally engage cruise mode and played pinball between asteroids for a little while and exploded 😛
The 970 drops once the texture ram fills. I’m on a Titan and I still get under 30fps occasionally though. I’m not sure if it is possible to restrict the 970 from using the last 512MB of RAM?
Mine’s doing the same. And the installer won’t let me uninstall (it just closes immediately). Gonna try deleting the folder and reinstalling.
Wait, no. Found an uninstaller. All good.
It is now crashing constantly for me.
This game looks at least 3 years away TBH.
@transientmind
Chatted you on steam, let me know if you have any issues!
Wait I’m one of transient’s friends!
Sorry i didn’t get a chance to get you on steam yday pixel; I logged on to fallout for about 5 minutes then had to lie down as I had a massive migraine all day. Couldn’t even play CoD with jocon D=
No stress at all, i’ll get to give the keys to you one day 😛
Hope you feel better!
Nothing popping some pills and rest didn’t solve =P
One day… we will find each other like we were meant to c3p0.
Oh snap, I haven’t looked at Steam and missed this! OK, hopefully that’s all still there. 🙂
i’ve saved the message in a notepad document just in case your computer turned off a something and you missed it 😛
let me know if it’s not there.
AW YISS STAR WARS JACKET ARRIVED IN THE MAIL I AM READY TO GET MY NERD ON AND I’LL BE DAMNED IF I DON’T ALREADY HAVE A NERD-ON HA HA INNUENDO.
I, uh, got into trouble at work not too long ago. For the time being, I no longer operate machinery. With wheels. I’m leaving it vague.
And I went to my company Christmas party! I saw my peers and bosses get liquored up to uncomfortably extreme levels. It was good fun.
Video games? Hah. All I do is play the badge catcher on the 3ds.
o.O
Also, what kind of Star Wars jacket?
Is it the Uniqlo one?
A jacket? Cool. The only Star Wars apparel I still have is a baseball cap. 20th anniversary 1977-1997 cap.
@thecracks @greenius
https://www.musterbrand.com/categories/coats-und-jackets/skywalker-587
replica jacket of luke’s ESB attire. Surprisingly not gaudy.
Saw that one. Looked nice. Kinda want to get something from Musterbrand, but they’re expensive. What’s the quality like?
Surprisingly not crap. I own a few articles of their clothing and they’ve held up quite well for the better half of a year. Jury’s still out on how they’ll do long-term, but you can tell on first touch it’s sturdy enough.
Haha I guess it’s a good thing I don’t have plans for NYE since I just found out i’m working a 9 hour shift that night haha.
Yeah, but you’ll be finished before midnight though, right?
Yeah, but I won’t wanna do anything apart from go home & sleep tbh.
So the ABC posted this on Facebook just before, I think it’s kind of adorable that a Kangaroo has gone & done that after i’m guessing being rescued as a joey or after being injured & nursed back to health. But nope, get into the comment section & there’s always at least one SJW claiming how cruel something like this is, in this case the little guy wearing a collar.
What happened to us? It’s a picture of a badass & rather adorable little kangaroo being all chill with some dogs in a ute which I think is pretty darn Australian, the only way it could be more Australian is if it was a pair of Kelpies instead of a Border Collie & Golden Retriever & the ute was a Holden one tonner 😛
Please dont use the term “SJW”
it makes me hate life.
Well they’re acting just like that, so deal with it 😛
What is SJW?
SJW. Social Justice Warrior.
A phrase employed by self-important arseholes intended to belittle / invalidate people with the capacity for empathy & compassion who express concern for the wellbeing / rights of others.
Is it all about ethics in marsupial transportation?
It is definitely often misused in this context, which is a shame, because it detracts from the original purpose of rightly lampooning the hysterical zealots who instead of seeing individuals to engage in discourse with, see only see only crusade targets and enemies to shame without any degree of empathy or compassion; so utterly self-unaware that they completely miss the irony and hypocrisy in that.
I’ve seen some people ask, ‘Why is SJW a pejorative? I see nothing wrong with social justice…’ demonstrating a pretty baffling level of ignorance to the fact that there is a critical word they haven’t addressed. (I mean, come on, there’s only three words there. You respond to two and think you’re done?)
They seem to miss the ‘Warrior’ part. THAT’S why it’s a pejorative. It’s not social justice activist, not social justice diplomat, it’s social justice warrior that they’re accused of being.
It’s a criticism of the type of person who has a hammer and sees only nails. It’s a characterization of the attitude that they are geared for battle, not diplomacy. The warrior comes looking for a fight, not conciliation. Peace at gunpoint. The only peace they will accept is that they grant to the supplication of their defeated foes.
The ‘SJW’ who deserves censure is the mindless fad crusader who doesn’t just react to obvious injustice, but actively seeks it out when there is none, resulting in a self-defeating ‘boy who cried wolf’ stigma.
SJW, MRA… terms which by now are used primarily to hoist a banner aligning yourself to one ‘side’ of a battle line. A shrill and shrieking or smug, self-satisfied battle where, in typical modern Internet discourse, both sides argue AT – not with – their opponents until exhausted, before turning to preach to their own echo chamber of sympathizers, to bolster their belief in their righteousness and recover their energy for the next ‘battle’. It’s symbolic of the pointless and futile Internet screaming match, the death of engagement or debate.
Well, they’re not calling for social justice anything, so it’s a poor choice of term.
We now have a logo for our pathfinder troupe https://twitter.com/redartifice/status/676344476562939905/photo/1
So @mrtaco has a doppelganger… with a cat.
http://i.imgur.com/CxrTYY4.gifv
Hahahaha
Re-watched Spaceballs last night, now for A New Hope tonight, Empire and Jedi tomorrow night an I’m all set for Wednesday night.
Keep firing, Assholes!
Prepare ship for ludicrous speed.
I really struggle with Spaceballs, one of only two movies that I walked out of the cinema before they were finished.
Yeah, Mel Brooks’ brand of humour isn’t everyone’s cup of tea.
I just want to put it on record that you’re all a bunch of nerds with silly names.
Let the record also reflect that Trjn is a sooty pot 😛
I find your lack of faith disturbing…
What even is a trjn anyway?
a brand of condom???
Even after meeting him and having the pronunciation explained, my brain still insists on reading it as “trine”. And I don’t know why.
“Joel”
;_;
Nearly as bad as “Sean”. :/
YUB NUB!!!
Toronto gosh.
I’ve realized that I can’t watch Star Wars without thinking of all the Family Guy jokes.
Weekend summary (because the weekend just ended for me, you guys are some kind of time-traveling jerks)
Went and looked at a house and it was nice but I decided not to apply because I got accepted for a place that I applied for. 2 Bedroom + loft area townhouse in Redmond, nice and modern and clean and well-appointed. Any TAYbies who find themselves in the Seattle area welcome to come stay. I’ll be moving in probably after I get back from Christmas in Australia, as I don’t think my shipment of goods will get through Customs in time.
Caught up on all the anime. Except Noragami and Owari no Seraph because Funimation’s streaming service is a bit shit and also because I decided those might be better to marathon the last few episodes in one go.
Played a bunch of Just Cause 3 and gave up on it. It’s a good game but the controls are a bit wonky, the crosshair is way too hard to see to aim with right, and the game is woefully bad at telling you which direction you’re being attacked from and highlighting targets. Plus it has some stuff that feels unfair, like guys constantly calling for more and more reinforcements, or dudes just appearing from nowhere sometimes.
I didn’t feel like continuing Shadowrun Dragonfall which I started last week – it didn’t really grab me like the first game did – and I already gave up on Disgaea 5 because it hit the point that grinding was required to level up enough to proceed and there’s no good grinding setups or areas, so I was kind of stuck for something to play last night. Ended up installing the PC version of FF XIII and deciding to make another pass at it. Played nearly 4 hours, got a fair way into chapter 4. I’m… actually kind of liking it? The PC version runs way faster than the old PS3 one did, so you drop in and out of combat in a flash and I have barely hit a loading screen. Game looks way nicer too and that’s without doing any extra tweaking with SweetFX or anything.
Went down to the Redmond Town Center and went to the big shopping arcade there because there’s a FLGS there. Surprisingly big place, actually. Since I’ve somehow ended up getting into Magic: The Gathering again due to co-workers playing, I decided to grab some card sleeves, deck boxes and a pack of dice to use as counters. Also received my Battle for Zendikar fat pack from Amazon on Saturday so I opened the packs from that. At work we’ve been doing a faux Sealed approach for people that missed out on the last draft, so set aside cards from the first six packs for that.
The pulls were surprising. Normally with 9 packs I expected 9 different Rares (since they’re normally carefully randomized for drafting), but I ended up tripling up on one and doubling up on another. Not great cards either which was a shame. The rest of the pulls were fairly average aside from two Mythic Rares – Ob Nixilis Reignited and Ulamog the Ceaseless Hunger. Ulamog looks to be nearly impossible to play in a 40-card deck pulled from only six packs, but I’m considering throwing him in there anyway because of the hilarity of a 10/10 that causes the other player to mill 20 cards when he attacks. Ended up building Black/Red which is uncommon for me. Back when I played regularly (in high school more than half my life ago!) I preferred Blue/White or Green/Red.
I pulled Ob Nix at the prerelease. He’s a goddamned beast.
Ulamog is tricky but you can play him with enough mana acceleration. If you’ve got any Hedron Archives or Kozilek’s Channelers, that’ll help a lot. Anything that makes Eldrazi Scions will go a long way too (although those are primarily in green, there are a handful of black cards that do it).
arent you ban from magic ??
I distictly remember having a intervention
Nobody ever said anything about reading subreddits and watching Twitch streams!
I’m very limited right now in that I’m trying to build a 40-card deck from only 6 packs. We’re going to do a draft again in the new year and that should net some more cards.
Yeah, it looks like Ulamog works best with a green deck. You’ve also got the green land that lets you put two forests into play by sacrificing it, and several mana dorks in the set. There’s another Eldrazi that he combos well with, Conduit of Ruin. 6 colorless cast, 5/5, when summoned you can search your deck for an Eldrazi with cost >=7, and when he’s in play he reduces the colorless cost of the first creature summoned each turn by 2, making Ulamog an 8 to cast instead of 10. Don’t know if that effect applies cumulatively if you have two or more of them.
I do have one Hedron Archive and a pair of Kozilek’s Channelers (plus a third that was in the other 3 packs). The channelers went straight into my deck anyway as I was *very* limited in bigger creatures with what I pulled, and 4/4 for 5 colorless is decent.
The Pizza Thief just came over to say hi and have a chat. Phew, that was easy 😛
(was getting yelled at by friends yesterday for not doing anything >_>)
*downvote*
I thought you were the pizza thief. Or … well, one of them. Were you talking to yourself?
I was an unwitting accomplice!
I hereby find you guilty of being an accessory to being a pizza thief and sentence you to 5 years of community popcorn services to be served without chance of parole for a minimum of 36 months.
*bangs gavel*
*doesn’t call gavel the next day*
Reluctant upvote for last two lines…
It’s the reluctant upvotes that I love the most.
Moves in on gavel while gavel is vulnerable.
I have no idea of the context, so I’m just gonna go right ahead & call the police & turn this filthy criminal in.
I feel like I’m out of the loop on this one…
Uh… guys, I think I ate too much popcorn.
*buuuuuuuuuurp*
I hope whoever has @mrtaco for secret sanTAY gets him a popcorn maker
I am glad I didn’t get in on that 😛
I thought you guys had a nice time?!? How could you not approach her on Monday =O or call! or text! 3 day rule boyo!
Worth noting the 3 day rule can be disavowed if both parties confess a genuine mutual interest in each other. Which I think snogging counts as.
Easy. Didn’t have a number to call or text. Thankfully 😛
And Mondays are kinda busy. Also didn’t really see her in here at all, she’s in a different spot over in our section today.
Haha, got a complaint about some of the word meanings we use in our antonyms game.
I want to reply with “lol u mad bro?” 😛Take photographs of 5 different dictionaries and then attach to your reply of “lol u mad bro?”
http://tinyurl.com/jao3y93
“LANGUAGE IS MUTABLE. MEANINGS CHANGE OVER TIME. ALSO HOMONYMS ARE A THING. SHUT YOUR FACE.”
Caps Lock at its finest. Well played sir.
shift key 4 lyf.
ERMAGHERD, I thought I was the ONLY one :’D
My computer doesn’t even have a Caps Lock key.
I wouldn’t consider a person incapable of spelling language to be a purist.
Colloquial usage isn’t only welcomed, it’s allowed!
Haha well spotted.
Oh wow I even went back and read it several times but still didn’t spot it til just now.
Muphry’s Law at play again.
Hah. Muff
Ah, I forgot how congested the postal system is this time of year.. Serves me right for ordering stuff I need online & expecting it to show up on time, heh.
Please don’t say these things. I put in an order yesterday for my costume for work xmas party on Thursday…
I feel like having a ‘What did you want to be when you grew up?’ theme and NOT saying that you couldn’t come dressed as Hugh Hefner may have been a mistake on the part of the admin lady.
Hahaha. You genius. Got a monogrammed dressing gown & all? 😛
One of these bad boys, + pipe + captains hat.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/CSW2-Red-Smoking-Jacket-Robe-Hugh-Hefner-Mens-Hallowen-Adult-Party-Costume-/390976501208?var=&hash=item5b0803f5d8:m:m32C0qS0WJWSenA1jo5N_pA
Oh nice, very nice.
Man, it’s still early in the day but I doubt I’m going to get this important work finished before I go home:
Oh god no I just had that stuck in my head throughout most of the weekend.
This is going on an mp3 for the 4 hour road trip to get to the cinema.
Damnit, I need 10 hours, my expectations are missed by one second, I am going to troll and rage and doxx the poster now.
Tomorrow night I’m driving to my local cinema and I’m not leaving until they’ve shown me The Force Awakens! Be still, my quivering bowcaster.
This hype train will make .5 past lightspeed and stops for nothing!
I really hope there’s a moment where Han is like “You’ve never hard of the Millennium Falcon?” and repeats that whole line.
But falters halfway through, and it turns into a rant about Shelbyville stealing all his lemons.
We used to wear an onion on our belt, which was the style at the time. Anyhoo…
*looks around empty house*
No one!
*Fishes out check list*
Day off – check!
House to myself – check!
Computer on – check!
Coffee brewed – check!
Music blaring – check!
Elite Dangerous loaded – check!
*throws pants into the corner*
NO PANTS TUESDAY IS A GO! \o/
Is 1.5/2.0 up yet? Or is that later?
Timezones are hard.
Nah not yet 🙁
Probably not until late tonight or even tomorrow due to all of Britain clearly living in the past!
But that gives me time to get some ranking missions done so i can get my Cutter!
The Cutter has a pretty absurd cargo capacity. Fantastic for trading and mining.
And handling-wise… I guess it’s good that it seems to handle like such a gigantic ship should. But after the relative (and/or absurd) agility of the Corvette, it’s hard to choose it in favour 😛
Holy hell outfitting it is going to cost so much though. Could barely afford to get most things with the beta discounts after a whole crapload of mining. And then on top of that building enough for covering rebuy cost too…
Small ships. Small ships are safe 😛
I prefer small ships also (main is still my Cobra MKIII Which is being updated to a MKIV tomorrow) but for my trading runs, more cargo is better 😛 so yeah Cutter is going to be my trading ship, MKIV for most other things….
Oh, you like the mkIV? People seem to mostly be disappointed by it. Can’t remember how I felt about it in testing, all I remember is that I think I liked the feel of the mkIV Viper better than the III.
But still nothing’s as good as the DBS 😛
Both Diamondbacks are pretty damned amazing!
I don’t know much about the MKIV Cobra aside from pictures i’ve seen and improved/more hardpoints etc, so if it’s just remotely better than the MKIII i’ll be all over it 😛
I love my Cobra!
Don’t play Elite Dangerous in VR sans pants.
and definitely don’t leave the door unlocked if you are expecting a parcel from Australia Post.
Hypothetically.
I can see I’m not wanted here.
Apparently I look young enough to date a high schooler.
Or creepy enough? 😛
11-18 year olds?
Ewww.
Anyone is young enough to date a highschooler*. just a matter of looking young enough to not come across creepy as fuck while doing so.
dont know if you fit that category. how old are you anyway? like… 27?
*of legal age, of course.
Edit: but who would want to date a highschooler? they’re horrible people.
I’m 28 so close enough. I was at the dog park, talking to the owner of one of Alice’s friends. Said owner had just graduated from high school. Someone else asked if she was my girlfriend.
Dull story, hence presenting the crux of it without context.
*reaches for popcorn*
*puts popcorn away*
You wasted it @haggis, as did I 😛
Congratulations…
So tempting to work blue here, but I don’t want to destroy the English language.
NO DAMMIT, the word “blue” refers to a colour in the cool spectrum, it does not mean “risqué” or “sexual”!
At least they didn’t say you look young enough to be a high schooler.
It was implied.
Someone is going to get disappointed, got 3 clients breathing down our necks for stuff pre-Christmas and I’ve got Friday off, Monday back at work, then Tuesday is our Christmas party and then we’re gone. To make things better, I just received an email from head office telling me that I’m doing interviews on Thursday afternoon. So, this afternoon, tomorrow, Thursday morning and Monday… clearly only enough time for two of those clients, and checking TAY.
Any tips for interviewing?
Do the entire interview process as Christopher Walken.
How will you get to the office?
I’m Walkennn….
I’ll see myself out…
What kind of position are you interviewing for? I’ve done a few of them here…
Also, how good are you at being an asshole? If, like me, you are very good at it, then interviews can be a lot of fun
It’s a graduate engineering position, and terrible.
Open with that line.
Haha, oh, I didn’t even read what I had typed like that. It’s just a lower responsibility version of my own job, and I like my job. Tempting though – spend 15 minutes telling them how terrible the job will be and see how that goes.
I was going to call in sick this morning because I’ve been feeling run down lately and today is the first time in weeks I’ve not had any critical meetings or appointments. I even deliberately tried to sleep in to sabotage myself from getting to work on time because I find calling in sick less shameful than showing up late. Didn’t work. I rolled out of bed and got into the shower like clockwork.
I guess this is a good thing. I’m just so dang tired and over it at the moment.
Scratch that, apparently I have a settlement conference this afternoon.
Sounds like you’re property/law; no wonder you don’t want to get out of bed =P
Liability claims. I enjoy the job, I’m just a bit over it right now. I guess I’m hoping going into a new year will magically recharge the batteries.
What’s that, did someone say impressive drum solo?
https://www.facebook.com/DrumTalkTV/videos/864170673661598/
Forget for a moment that he’s only 10 (!!!), still one of the better solos I’ve seen.
That is quite impressive, although, not as impressive as this guy:
https://www.facebook.com/360069154129613/videos/699000653569793/
Holy crap. That footwork alone is ridiculous. Kid could probably play Flight Of The Bumblebee on the floor keys of an organ.
The kid has discovered the secret to More Cowbell – play it with your foot.
Helldivers on PC is ludicrously good fun. A bit repetitive but I’m a big fan of dumb shoot-em ups and bug hunting. I’m also getting a very strong impression of Republican Space Rangers which I’m totally okay with.
Starting to feel the hype for SW. I’ll be busting up eps 1 & 2 tonight and will have them on whilst hobbying. Getting ready to endure Attack of the Clones though. Haven’t seen it or Revenge of te Sith since cinematic release :B
I read that as Soundwave & when I saw eps 1 & 2 I was all, what..? Then I realised, Star Wars 😛
Don’t do it!!
Shhhhh 😛 I need to feel the pain…
Yeah, I’ve re-watched the first two prequels so far. Will watch the third tonight, still immensely dislike the first prequel but the other two are bearable at least. Then it’s onto the original trilogy before I see the new one Friday!
I’m not seeing it until boxing day… And it looks like half of my mates who are coming to dinner on Saturday will be coming FROM the movie. Shit…
Here’s a video that will give you a good deal of hype for the new movies:
I’m planning to fit the “anti-cheese” edited versions of eps 1-3 sometime this week – I hear good things. No Jar Jar! \o/ Literally just pulled them from youtube this morning.
I’m intrigued… Got a link at all?
The three are on youtube, just search for “star wars anti cheese” and it should be among the… oh, fine. Here. 😛
Thanks!!!
Why didn’t someone warn me Christmas is next week?
Wait what that can’t be right
Warning! Christmas 2016 is only about a year away!
What? Next week?
Seriously?
Holy shit, I genuinely didn’t realise.
Better to find out now than next week I suppose.
http://www.polygon.com/2015/12/14/10115412/oxenfree-video-fort-milner-gameplay
I think I’m in love! <3 My sort of game!
While cleaning up my drives I came across my first test of Shadowplay, which was in Titanfall and god damn it that game was fun. I really wish it survived longer because I’d love to jump back in again. Y’know, after redownloading the 50GB install…
I hope that Titanfall 2 entices me.
It won’t, because it’s a shooter, but I live in hope.
Just wait for the spin-off Titanfall dating sim.
Titanfall Boyfriend? Hatofall BoyTitan?
Why won’t titan notice me?
NOTICE ME, SENPAITAN!
That is my big issue with online-only games that don’t have a real offline campaign, the game only lasts as long as the servers or the amount of players does. You can’t decide a year or two later to check out the game, as there is nothing to play.
Wait – has Star Wars just premiered in the US?
I thought it was premiering the same time as us?
If so, there is a good chance that my mistake has just caused a massive spoiler for me via fucking 9 gag… Something i REALLY REALLY didn’t want spoiled.
I hate the internet.. I’m seriously going to need to go on blackout until Saturday because i know people can’t stop being cunts and ruining it for everyone else.
Pardon the C word, but if what i read is true i am sooo pissed. It would have been better to see on the screen than to find out like this.
Far as I’m aware Australia is getting the release first on the 17th but they’re still doing the big Hollywood premier thing? Could be wrong.
EDIT: It’s not much consolation, but know that you’ve saved me from being potentially spoiled because I’m just going to avoid the usual places on the Internet starting right now.
Yeah probably a good idea… Still so seriously annoyed
God I hate spoilers. Perhaps my greatest hate on this planet. I hate spoilers even more than I hate spiders. Yep. That much.
All the anger.
All the hate.
all the SUFFERING
Damn spidoilers.
Yeah, it’s premiered. They had photos a few hours ago of BB-8 rolling down the red carpet and it was amazing. The hype.
Sorry you got spoiled, man. I’ll be entering blackout mode momentarily.
That’s what you get for using 9gag 😛
Jokes aside, that is super shit. I think I pretty much only have to worry about here and Skype, so I should mostly be fine. Oh actually I’m still avoiding seeing the ads on TV. Maybe I should see it sooner just to get it out of the way…
Yaaaay!
Calculon’sStan’s back!“Calculon, I thought you were-”
“Egyptian?!”
-DUUUUUUUUN!
You may be my evil half-brother, but there’s no law against murdering the other half!
I was going to put another epic quote here, but I can’t remember any.
For I have…AMNESIA!
Please spoil Star Wars for me.
Vader is Luke’s dad.
The stories are true. All of them.
The ship sinks at the end.
But I won’t tell you which end.
#pagehalfsix
He was dead the whole time.
There is no spoon.
No wait wrong movie.
That’s no spoon. That’s a space station.
Forest Spoon of Endor
All these spoon comments and no one has made a use the forks joke yet.
easy target.
SPOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNN!
The Tick was hilarious.
It can make a spoon run in less than 12 parsecs
Someone has a bad feeling about this.
Well, at one point, a whale and a bowl of petunias spontaneously appear several miles above the surface of Endor.
“Not again”
Rey is Han’s daughter
He’s only mostly dead.
Listen if you think I’m going to write out an elaborate plot spoiling the movie in exhaustive detail like I did in my 100% factual and accurate Game of Thrones recap… well actually that sounds pretty tempting. But I don’t have time.
I’ve got a massive ‘essential anime’ write up that I shouldn’t have spent so much time on and I’m not sure if I should post it in one huge wall o’ text or break it up.
Break it up by genre perhaps?
How come you don’t write for Kotaku’s anime section =O We barely get any coverage on that. However 6 MMA articles is fine….. =,=
Do you even lift bro?
Hurr durr this isn’t gaming rar rarr!
Oh I don’t care if it’s posted about; I just wouldn’t mind more anime based articles as a counter-point.
To be fair techy what part of Kotaku is meant to be sports news?
That wasn’t pointed at you, that was more about the “Why isn’t there much Anime coverage” question. There is some but not a lot.
The same goes for movies as well
The part where EA make a game of the sport concerned…?
EA also make FIFA? NFL? NHL? Some other random alphabets strung together because people don’t like actual words? Why not equal coverage?
There’s also games that come from anime? Additionally kotaku is a website about games and an element of japanese culture as I understand it? Hence all the bashcroft posts?
I’m not against those articles; I just wouldn’t mind a more even treatment of topics. I get more info about anime from neg’s posts than the kotaku articles.
The thing about the MMA articles which doesn’t really carry across from the US site is that they’re not published as part of the regular coverage. They’re placed under a subsection titled TMI, which based on this post appears to be for whatever the writers feel like writing about.
Yes. More articles on non-league football please… (not really, I read the Non-League Paper for that…).
I think the non-gaming articles just represent the Kotaku staff writers’ hobbies and obsessive interests – the “otaku” part of Kotaku, and if we tag @markserrels and ask nicely, maybe a few more guest articles about some other interests might appear… What, other than gaming, climbing, porridge with blood in it and MMA does the Serrels and his minion army get a buzz out of?
As well as video games, I’m fanatical about cycling, gadgetry and innovation (I’ve backed some weird kickstarters!), science and space, the natural world. And I have no problem with a large minority of articles on Kotaku being about stuff that’s tenuously related to gaming or entirely unrelated to gaming, if it’s interesting.
Some of that stuff is covered in Kotaku’s stablemates though- gadgetry at giz, innovation a bit at Lifehacker.
One of the problems too is that in the wider Gawker network, Space and Science comes under io9’s remit, which doesn’t have an AU licence so won’t make it to Kotaku. Pity, too, because I love io9.
Maybe it is because I’m not interested but there seems to be a huge number of anime articles, would say they greatly outnumber the MMA ones. Although a bunch of them might be bashcraft single image ones, I generally don’t click through.
Eisenberis writes the anime stuff and he seems to loathe almost the entire industry from what I can tell.
Eisenwhatsit is new to anime, or at least came back to it in the last few years after a long period away from it. And sometimes has questionable taste, but I can’t say I’m any different.
I think both Schrier and Fahey watch a bit but don’t really talk about it.
They’d have to pay me for that and I currently do it for free 😛
Email Mark with an outline of the sort of articles you’d like to write (or even a completed one) and see if he wants to pay you for it. It’s really that simple.
Bit of advice if you do it: make it a tight 800-1000 words and towards the bottom end of that if you can.
I’ll stick to throwing it in TAY. Then I can state my opinion as fact without idiots popping out of the woodwork to disagree, plus I don’t need to worry about checking which shows are on Animelab etc.
Also honestly getting paid for it would be tricky since I’m in the US now.
YEEES, IN WHATEVER FORM
THEN I CAN SPEND THE NEXT YEAR ONLY WATCHING ANIME
Wall of text, show the headings, spoiler tags the content sections?
Please anything is fine
Yay!!! Just received tracking info for my Battlebull gaming chair!!! It’s being transported from the SE suburbs of Melbourne, so it ought to arrive at my home tomorrow… Woohoo, I’ll work from home ’til it arrives!!! Easy!!!
Wait, I’m in Sydney for work tomorrow. This is going to be a clusterfuck of the highest order, isn’t it…
So Tiglet has perfect hearing which is good. She also has a good sense of predicting what they want her to do. The audiologist had to keep telling her to stop cheating as she tried to predict which side the sound was going o be and checking to see if the puppet was there.
But another welcome result.
She also got a balloon sword from the captain starlights while she was there because she had pirate socks on
So Facebook has been reminding me all week it’s been 3 years since I got the chance to see The Living End perform all 6 of their albums live over 6 nights in their home town of Melbourne at The Corner Hotel. It was my first time in Melbourne, and I had quite the time I even blogged about each night which is here
I heard the living end for the first time in probably years last week. Mrs Tigs and I were commenting that they are one band that really take you back to a specific time period and their songs have that effect
So true man. Whenever I hear Prisoner of Society, All Torn Down, Roll On, Who’s Gonna Save Us? etc it reminds me of my younger years when you heard them often on the radio or on RAGE or Video Hits every weekend, haha. The same with late 90’s early 00’s Green Day 😛
Prisoner of Society was the song we heard
I’ll never forget the moment on Spicks & Specks when Chris exclaims it’s the song that both made & broke his career. He really seems to dislike it haha.
It was always one of my most favourite songs. I don’t remember when I first heard it, but I’ve always loved it. The main thing I remember though is people making fun of me for it, saying something or other about teen angst.
I had no idea what they were talking about, apparently it was something to do with the lyrics but I couldn’t even tell them a single line of it other than the title. I just loved how it sounds 😛
Hahaha, oh Gooky 😛
You mean, when Green day were good?
They’ve had one or two okay songs since American Idiot, but yeah mostly 😛 They’re great live though, that was proven when I saw them last year lol.
American Idiot is one of the best punk albums ever
dookie is just happiness for me.
but yeah since then not great. some are okay some not. But definitely a great band live.
Agreed, American Idiot really is a great album. Likewise, Dookie, Insomniac & Warning.
When they tried to do the whole rock opera concept album again with 21st Century Breakdown it to me just felt forced & most of the songs were “meh” same with the 3 albums Uno, Dos & Tre that they released in 2012. There was probably one albums worth of good songs across all 3 😛
I didn’t mind American idiot, but I hated 21 guns. I prefer their earlier stuff before they branched more into emo from punk. As for great punk albums, there are a lot that are much better then American idiot in my opinion. The Clash instantly comes to mind.
21 Guns was 21sr Century Breakdown IIRC?
American Idiot is an incredible album. Especially when you know that the album they actually wrote originally was stolen from the recording studio and they had to start over so they basically said ‘fuck it, rock opera’. And it worked so well.
Personally that album and Warning are my faves. Like the earlier stuff, don’t care for anything much post-Idiot.
@negativezero Yeah, 21st century breakdown I meant. My favourite song from American idiot was St Jimmy, but I prefer a lot of there other stuff. Pretty much everything the international super hits album
I really dislike that Green Day is in the same category as the Sex Pistols and The Ramones. They’re pretty much the antithesis of the whole Punk movement.
Edit: Not to say Greenday is a bad band. I say the same thing about Offspring, and I freaking love Offspring.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Day\
read the first line man.
Define: Punk Music:
rock music marked by extreme and often deliberately offensive expressions of alienation and social discontent.
I dont know if you have noticed but greendays lyrics include
“fuck America.”
“All across the alienation.”
“Maybe im a faggot america”
Pretty much all of american idiot is about there discontent with the american lifestyle and they do so in a way that is both deliberately offensive and alienating. Just because they do so in more of a pop rock way doesnt stop them from being punk.
I really dislike people who need such a tight genre guideline. Music especially nowadays is often very hard to put into a specific category and excluding music from the genre doesnt make it more special it just makes you more pretentious.
Im sorry i just feel very passionate about music snobbery. Its like one of the two things i get really pissed about.
@rocketman Genres serve a purpose though. To someone that doesn’t listen to metal, there might not be a big difference between melodic tech death and symphonic doom, but to someone who listens to a lot of metal they sound completely different. Iron Maiden are still classified as a Heavy Metal band, even though the definition of ‘heavy’ has changed substantially since the early 80’s. Do they sound similar to Slipknot, Parkway Drive or Cradle of Filth? No, but these are all Heavy Metal bands.
I suppose what it comes down to is this – If someone told me they liked listening to Green Day, could I confidently recommend The Sex Pistols to them? I don’t think so, whereas I’d happily recommend Blink 182 or The Offspring. To me, that puts them in a separate genre.
Edit: Just out of curiosity, what’s the second thing? Is it people that take a seat on the bus for their bags even though there is standing room only? I hate those people.
Heytay!
Been a busy week of renovating a man cave for myself. Hardly any video games played or whatnot.
I did manage to finish Food Wars since a lot of people liked it. The only thought I was left with was “Of course it is” in regards to Soma’s Squid and Yogurt dish (which was just an easy way to throw character’s into compromising situations with a squid in their imagination)
Apart from that, it was good fun. Mostly tongue-in-cheek cooking scenes and plenty of humor. My only gripe is that they could have condensed the last four episodes into two.
Mini-rant:
Amazon makes it ridiculously fucking difficult to tell the diff between manga and novel releases of the same thing. Generally the novels came first and are better and cheaper, so I prefer to buy those. But figuring out which is which is like being the world’s greatest detective.
For example. volume 1 of Spice & Wolf:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316073393
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0759531048
One of those is the manga, one is the novel. Can you tell them apart? They have the same author, the same illustrator is credited in both. The manga has one extra illustrator, but you’d have to know that. Same publisher. The category for both is manga.
Literally the only way is to know that the manga is drawn primarily by Keito Koume. or to notice that the manga page’s description has a bit hidden and that hidden bit says THIS IS THE MANGA DOOFUS, DON’T ORDER ME.
This is me trying to justify why I ordered the wrong fucking thing and have to return it. :\
It’s the same for both products… now that’s just damn confusing
…But if you look real closely you can see the product dimensions listed and clearly this is the best way to tell them apart
Guessing 0759531048 is the novel and 0316073393 is the Manga?
Only because 3393 has “Book 1 of 7 in the Spice and Wolf (Manga) Series” on it.
See my follow-up for why you can’t even trust that shit.
Though in this case it was accurate.
Another example, “Is it wrong to try and pick up girls in a dungeon?” (that title always makes me smile):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316339156
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316302171
Which is which? Same publisher. Same author. Same illustrator in both. Neither mentions that it’s the manga or anime in the title.
“Oh”, you say, one of them says “Book 1 of 4 in the Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Manga Series”. Obvious right? Well you’d be dead fucking wrong because that one is the novel. The other one the manga (Kunieda is the manga illustrator). They’re correctly categorized at least, but fuck me. I ordered all four of these and I’m honestly still not sure what’s going to show up this week.
That is f***ed up on so many levels.
It’s got to be just as fucking confusing for the packers at their warehouse.
The packers probably just get the SKU and match based on that
I thought they used robots to pick stuff and people to pack it (ie. drop stuff robot has grabbed in a box and slap a con-note on it)?
Note: Yen Press don’t even do a good job making the differentiation on their own site so it’s not like you could search & order by ISBN. 🙁
Hey at least you can return it in reasonable time… If someone in Australia made that mistake it’d be weeks (months?) before the right item turned up.
That reminds me though, there were rumors a while back that Amazon was going to establish distribution centres in Australia at some point…?
Yeah I can get it back to them on the weekend. Amazon are pretty good with returns even outside the US though.
On a related note, I once went in to Minotaur to get an issue of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumya, only to find out that it was a light novel.
Yeah, I was pretty miffed.
You probably made on that deal. The Haruhi manga’s not great, the LNs are better.
30 HOURS TO GO PEOPLE!!!
HYPERDRIVE KICKING IN ON THE HYPE TRAIN!!!
CHOO CHOOOO!!!!!!!!!
But…I don’t care…
That’s alright, I care enough for the both of us.
Then you should probably avoid standing there *points at the tracks under Scree’s feet*
CHOO CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Sad. Looks like Soundwave is officially dead for 2017 & 2016 might be in jeopardy. Oh well, it was nice whilst it lasted. I do hope there is a silver lining to this & that big bands that seemed to be Soundwave exclusive come & do their own headline tours with a few support acts, that’d be nice.
This news has ruined my whole day.
I missed the first one, since I only was informed about it the day after the festival (which killed me – huge Thrice fan), but have been to everyone one since 2008.
I’ve been to 4 of the last 5 and love the annual trip to Sydney with mates to check it all out. We weren’t going to bother with the 2016 because of the lacklustre line-up (plus we’ve already seen most of them) and the earlier date. But if 2017 was a better line-up we would have done it again.
It’s a real shame it could be ending. But I guess i’ll always have the memories of my favourite sets. Staind, Godsmack & System of a Down.
Eugh Staind. Anything that Fred Durst touches is just the worst.
…
Who am I kidding… I used to really, really like Staind, and I think 3 Dollar Bill, Y’all is still a great album.
The Staind set was on a smaller stage inside one of the pavilions. It was small and intimate and I just had a blast.
But yes, Fred Durst is a knobhead. His self-righteous ramblings during the Limp Bizket set at Soundwave just annoyed the hell out of me. You just don’t play 5 songs during an hour long set and then fill in the rest with boasts of how awesome you are.
How good are the smaller stages! Arguably my favourite sets of the last couple of years have been on the smaller stages – Eagles of Death Metal in 2014 and He Is Legend this year.
I’m pretty bummed, since it was the only festival in years that ever piqued my interest, Big Day Out about 10 years ago was my scene though, then again I think that was the last time Slipknot played on it, so heh.
Sadly I’m not interested in the 2016 line up, I kinda hope it doesn’t go ahead because it’s a pretty lacklustre line up to send Soundwave off to. 2015 however Slipknot killed it, I wish I could’ve seen them more than once so much.
Yeah last year was the second time I’d seen them at SW. The first time I was like ‘that set was amazing, they must have been having a good night’, the second time I was like ‘OH MY GOD THEY’RE ALWAYS LIKE THIS!’
I do hope next years goes ahead. It’s not like there aren’t any good bands – Refused, Deftones, Killswitch Engage, Soulfly, Hatebreed. Also kind of brings it full circle – Deftones at the first and last Soundwaves… but what the fuck are Public Enemy and Prodigy doing on the bill.
I first saw them in ’08, first real concert I had been to as well. One of the most insane pits i’ve been in to date. It was pretty wild again this year too. But yeah they’re always like that, so much energy, one if not the most energetic band i’ve seen. I can understand why they mostly only play 90 minute time slots lol.
Gotta have the token rap group man, Cypress Hill was there last year I think? There’s always been one group like that, Hilltop Hoods played another year I think? Also The Prodigy have played festivals like Download in the past, so it’s not like it’s too obscure to see them on such a festival I think..
I would’ve loved to have seen Body Count out here at least once before SW came to an end 🙁
What? An AJ Maddah run festival going under? Say it ain’t so!
Apparently the exchange rate is killing them, something i’d believe. But then there’s also the money they owe bands & equipment hiring places etc..
So are there any big metal festivals left in Aus?
Nope. Nothing that catered to rock/alt/punk/metal like Soundwave did. I say we all band together and do a Waynestock, damn it!
Okay, so, Essential Anime according to me.
I’m going to break this into multiple posts so that they don’t get eaten by moderation. To preface, a quick explanation: these are shows I think are important for some reason. Influential, originators of genres or styles, a good grounding in certain concept or idea, or generally a top-shelf product. I won’t be listing anything I haven’t seen a good chunk of or all of, which means there will be genres that I don’t tackle (don’t ask me for yaoi for example, I have NFI. Same for sports stuff). In cases where there’s multiple options that work, I’ve tried to list the most important. I have a few notes on each about why it’s important, what it is, and which parts to watch / where to start. In cases where we’re talking about a genre definer, I’ve tried to list a few alternatives if the first is hard to get or you want something different (or want more). Also this is all my opinion. I’ve sneaked a few of my faves in, but there will also be some big gaps. If I haven’t listed something it doesn’t mean it’s bad, just that it wasn’t important, by which I mean you don’t need to be aware of it to appreciate the medium as a whole.
So for starters, let’s talk about the modern landscape. These titles are all important for contextualizing the current market in Japan. The way that anime is produced, the way that fans embrace it, and the big-ticket trends in the medium over the last ten years or so.
Shirobako
Probably the newest entry that will show up on this list. In addition to being a really solid show, Shirobako is essential because of the material it covers. This is a rare, behind-the-scenes look at how the sausage is made. Set in a struggling animation studio, it follows the trials and tribulations behind production of TV anime, explaining the generation gap between traditional and digital animators, the general structure of an animation team and all sorts of miscellaneous things down to showing the cascade that happens behind the scenes when the director decides to change a single cut of a single scene. Many of the characters depicted are based off real-life industry veterans as well. 26-episode series and there’s nothing else quite like it.Neon Genesis Evangelion
If there’s a single anime that could be pointed to as the most influential on the course of the current medium, Evangelion would be it. It has enjoyed immense, lasting popularity and is has become iconic. It spearheaded a new wave of TV anime that focused on darker themes, psychological issues, and paved the way for more artistic exploration of the medium as well. Many of the best animators in the industry cut their teeth on Evangelion. Equally important was the merchandising side. It was Gainax’s first profitable show and they merchandised it heavily. This was the first anime where we saw a shift toward selling ‘character goods’. Rei and Asuka are among the most heavily merchandised anime characters in the medium to this day. We’ll talk about giant robots later on, but Evangelion could be seen as a third wave. following the Super Robots of the 60s and 70s and the Real Robots of the 70s and 80s.There are two ways to watch Evangelion: the TV series (and End of Evangelion, the follow-up movie that replaces the ending) or watch the Rebuild of Evangelion films. However as the fourth and final Rebuild film is not out, and the plot significantly deviates, I think the 26-episode TV series & EoE is the best way to watch. Again, there’s nothing quite like it.
Kanon
One of the big trends in otaku circles in the 90s and 00s was the rise of the visual novel. There’s a big overlap with VN and anime, with many writers working in both worlds and Visual Novels adapted to anime appearing just about every season in the modern era. Coinciding with that was the rise of ‘moe’ as a cultural phenomenon – you could write a doctorate thesis about the exact definition so I won’t here, but suffice it to say that moe is a catch-all for describing things as cute or attractive (specifically it describes the emotion of viewing such a character or thing). Of the big, culturally important visual novels, the biggest players early on were Leaf (with the To Heart series) and Key, the two perfecting what is known as the ‘crying game’. Basically a visual novel with all the feels. Clannad is generally considered the high water mark for this style (and has the better anime), but Kanon the VN had more of a cultural impact. Kyoto Animation’s 2006 adaption is the definitive version and best reflects the structure of these games. Don’t bother with the earlier adaption from 2002, it is inferior in every way. The best alternative to Kanon is Clannad, though it’s much longer. There’s dozens of other visual novel adaptions too, but Kanon is an extremely important one. For an alternative that’s quite different, try the TV adaption of Sakura Wars, which also played a formative role in the development of the Visual Novel in the 90s in Japan and was part of an absolutely monolithic (at the time) multimedia franchiseThe Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Light novels are a pervasive part of the modern landscape. They’ve been around since the early 90s – the Slayers series is one of the earliest successful examples – and come in many styles, but there is a particular style of light novel that you will see repeated over and over in modern times, and Haruhi is effectively the prototypical example. It’s especially important when factoring in how popular the show was in both Japanese and Western circles. This particular style involves a high school guy who is lazy, disaffected or generally uninterested as the narrative focal point. He’ll end up somehow dragged into an after-school club, most often by an extremely pushy girl. Said club will usually involve a group of other misfits and weirdos, most of which will coincidentally be cute girls. The defining element, though, is that we are privy to the protagonist’s snarky inner thoughts. There’s a sort of meta-commentary going on where he’s internally (and usually sarcastically) but not verbally responding to the events and dialogue thrust at him.When watching Haruhi, it is best to stick to broadcast order. The series was broadcast with the episodes jumbled up, which actually made it a better watch. Watch both seasons and if you’re still interested, the movie (The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya) is excellent. When the ‘Endless Eight’ begins and the series feels like it hit groundhog day, repeating the same plot again a different way, skip forward a bit. There’s a few alternatives for this style, probably the best is “Yahari Ore no Seishun Rabu Kome wa Machigatteiru” for the style, but Haruhi is miles better.
Genshiken
Genshiken is an older series now, but one of the first to truly focus on modern otaku culture and still has some of the best commentary on it. Set around a university club, the ‘society for the appreciation of modern visual culture’, it’s basically a bunch of nerds doing nerdy things and talking like nerds. There’s hillarious but incisive commentaries on 2D pornography, building Gundam models, cosplay, comiket, video games and many other things via the lens of people who are just on this side of being complete caricatures. Highly amusing, but you may wish to avoid the second season and third seasons as the focus shifts significantly away from the anime nerdery and more onto the characters and their relationships, becoming more of a sitcom style which largely misses the point. You could possibly substitute Otaku no Video here, but it’s much older (early 90s) and less relevant.When I get around to the next part we’ll talk about a few defining shows that were important to the western market much more than the Japanese market.
Interesting.
I think I’m someone who struggles to enjoy something that is the starter of a style if I’ve already seen stuff that was influenced by and improved upon the source.
Like Star Wars actually: I respect it’s place in history and impact on film-making and sci-fi, but it was not my first exposure to sci-fi and it honestly really has not aged well at all. Not just visually either.
Metal too: I can’t listen to old school stuff like the big 4 – it just sounds drab to me.
And that’s probably because so many have taken what they did and iterated and improved.
Evangelion is like that. I only watched it a couple years ago and while I imagine it was groundbreaking when it first came out, to me it seemed just not bad up until the ending. Never understood the hype at all. Did not realise it’s level of influence though.
Haruhi too, I got bored and stopped watching halfway though. Though the all over the place episode order really did not help in maintaining my interest.
The thing is, ‘essential’ doesn’t mean ‘you have to watch and like it’. Sometimes watching a bit and deciding it’s dated as fuck and you can’t do more is important too. It’s more about being aware of it and its importance.
I mean, at some point I’m going to talk about how important Gundam is. But truth is, 0079 is complete shit. It’s incredibly hard to go back to and enjoy, the thing’s over 35 years old and the medium was in its infancy. Everything’s evolved. It’s like going back to Pitfall and then comparing it to Rise of the Tomb Raider.
Some stuff has stood the test of time (Macross: Do You Remember Love for example, or all the Ghibli films). I believe Evangelion is a tricky one though, because it was so important to so many people and nostalgia goggles are in full force. I think that nothing has hit what Evangelion hit anywhere near as well since then, but I saw it when I was 16 and I’m 32 so it’s understandable that nothing’s hit that feeling again, I’m not a teenager any more.
Incidentally this is why I’ve tried to provide modern, watchable examples or at least suggest contemporaries in some cases, but what’s the modern Evangelion? Eureka Seven, maybe? That’s probably as close as it gets (Eureka Seven is fantastic as a side note)
I only watched NGE a few years ago too, and I’m guessing the then impact it left on the anime industry was that a lot more darker themes could be present in anime. The problem for me was that I guess I came too it too late and it had already left its mark on the industry – making me desensitized to what the show was trying to show me.
I re watched the entire Evangelion series after the ending – and did a shit ton of reading of all of the allegories present – and it still didn’t click with me. I know that they fumbled the original ending with budget etc. but EoE still didn’t wash away the bad taste the last two episodes left with me. Now I just end up feeling bad for not enjoying it as much as other people
The issue wasn’t just budget – their content was so controversial that a censorship lobby group went after them, so they were forced to change the content of their ending. Still, the original series has a really upbeat ending, and people bitched about it, so they made End of Evangelion which is unmistakably rage-fueled. There’s actually rapid-shot photos of complaint letters they received at one point in there.
But yes, its impact was that it paved the way for darker stories and more introspection, as well as more widespread acceptance that the medium could be artful as well. It wasn’t the first with dark themes (Gundam goes to dark places, and Tomino’s subsequent stuff like Ideon is very dark) but it was the first to sort of hang its hat on it.
But actually, the merchandising change it ushered in is arguably more important.
Shinji’s self-realisation and actualisation is important. The whole “congratulations” scene was pretty cringey even at the time but I think the message that it sent, even if the final two episodes were a bit of a mess, is a good one to take away. I still prefer it to the movies, if I’m honest.
Yeah, I consider the TV ending to be the definitive one too. EoE I feel is just an angry man screaming about how upset he was that people didn’t accept his artistic vision.
Any time I see ultra-emotional stuff in magical girl anime, I can’t help but think of the Director from Shirobako.
So I’ve gone social media blackout until I’ve seen Star Wars. Surprisingly, I have had no difficulty reserving tickets to see it on Sunday afternoon, so said blackout will not be as long as I expected. I would have booked for Friday night or Saturday but I already have plans pretty much all weekend.
Ugh. I’m sure I’ll get spoiled anyway, somehow.
Good luck, dude. I’m seeing it tonight and I’m convinced I’ll be spoiled before I get to the cinema.
Something something lack of faith something.
I think we should be pretty safe till tonight, my boss was telling me yesterday that even critics haven’t been allowed to see it yet. Although they apparently had the Hollywood premiere on the 14th, but I’m pretty sure they would’ve all been made to sign non-disclosure agreements.
People who were at the premiere have posted the entire plot/story/character info. at reddit. Mostly in the star wars /star wars leaks sureddits, but the info is out there. I’d avoid reddit entirely to be safe.
Interesting. Good thing I don’t go to reddit.
Not going to reddit is a good habit to have.
Chrome has a plug-in that blocks all spoilers.
Sure, it gives me a warning every time I check TAY, but that’s a small price to pay.
http://vrfocus.com/archives/26655/crytek-announce-oculus-rift-exclusive-the-climb/
Looks like @markserrels is set 😛
Really curious about how well it’ll work with the whole disconnect between what you’re doing on-screen vs what you’re actually doing. It’d be weird to climb without actually trying to balance your weight and everything.
http://www.roadtovr.com/crytek-unveils-new-oculus-exclusive-vr-game-climb/
And some hands-on stuff too. Wonder if it might be less weird playing with a gamepad rather than touch controllers. Still, should be pretty great even just for the spectacle of it.
That link text is starting to confirm one of my biggest fears about VR at this point – exclusives.
One VR set – cool. Shelling out for many functionally similar headsets just to play the different games, not cool.
I guess it’s just going to turn into the next console war…
Yeah, there’s lots of people harping on about that. I don’t really get the big deal since that’s all I’m used to 😛 But the line being touted is how it’s exclusive to the Oculus store, not to the Rift. So eventually they’ll be supporting more than just the Rift and GearVR, so it’s more like how some games are exclusive to Origin or Steam, or something like that.
Disembodied ghost hands.
Not sure about the trailer. Not sure if it is just the trailer and how they have done it but when they miss the grip and suddenly look down. If that is the game taking control of your head movement that will be potentially really bad.
What you do, see, is pair it with one of these: http://www.gizmag.com/rock-climbing-climbblock-rotor-wall/23250/
And then you can climb The Cliffs Of Insanity!
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*Darth-Vader-esque deep breath*
Wars
Friday night has never seemed so far away! D:
The force is strong with this one.
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5 Minutes into Attack of the Clones, being optimistic that I was just being too harsh on Hayden Christiansen. He opens his mouth…. Creep alert 101. “You’ve grown too, more beautiful I mean.”
Just… wow… Suffered through it, now I have to push through Ep3 tonight and I can be reminded how campy a New Hope is 😛
I see no reason to watch the prequels before seeing The Force Awakens.
Squeezing in a viewing of Return Of The Jedi right now before I go to work.
I kept thinking I needed to see them again because it had been SOOO long. Now I know why :'(
My thinking too. I haven’t seen Ep III since it was in the cinemas, and am not regretting that choice 🙂
I watched Episode 1 last night. What impressed me most is how they managed to find so many actors who couldn’t deliver a single line without it sounding stilted as balls.
I thought that was intentional?
@tech_knight
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2015/12/15/legions-of-death/
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GET FECKING HYPE!!!!
Dat box art….. 😮
*droool*
The card art too is just beautiful!
WHOA…
I’M THROWING MY ENTIRE BANK ACCOUNT AT IT, NOTHING’S HAPPENING!
THROW IT HARDER, DAMN IT!
The mechanics of it are pretty neat! You can actually have common units of any faction, but you have to pick which faction you want to actually use each round using the enslavement dial, and any common units of other factions in your hand you can’t actually play that turn.
So what you’re saying is, if you want to play Necrons, you should buy decks for every faction.
Man, being a Necron fan is expensive.
Already got the core set, I need to get Tyranids too.
Being a living card game you get them all off the bat anyway. They don’t give you everything for tourney play though, darn Fantasy Flight
Hollllly CRAPSICLES!
OMG I KNOW RIGHT?!
15 hours time I’ll be watching The Force Awakens.
*stares at monitor and continues doing no work*
im just reliving empire strikes back in my head. I will continue to do this for the rest of the day.
I have altered your memories. Pray I do not alter them further.
This brain is getting worse all the time.
I’ll just leave this here.
Edit: If you don’t want to see The Force Awakens Trailer then no clicky linky.
Spoilers!
I assume you’re just taking the piss, but it’s just the trailer.
A little of both 😛
So far I’ve only seen the initial teaser trailer, I’ve managed to avoid the “actual” trailer entirely.
Comment now edited to warn people.
I apologize if I spoiled you or anybody else in any way.
Nah, I closed it as soon as I saw the title pop up. Mostly taking the piss 😛
Still, my bad for not putting up some sort of warning.
These days, no such thing as “just the trailer.”
That said, I heard from someone the other day that apparently one of the trailers for this is actually really good. Something about the difference between a trailer by the marketers vs a trailer by the director. Though not at all sure how to tell which is which, so I’ve been avoiding all of them just in case.
I know
twothree things about TFA, purely through cultural osmosis. All I want before seeing a film is a one-sentence overview of the plot, and an answer to the question “is it any good?”Hell, I’ve booked tickets for Saturday, less because I care about seeing the movie asap, and more so that I can continue to peruse the internet for the next few months without having to navigate a minefield of spoilers every day.
Yeah, I’ve really taken to going into movies pretty much blind over the last few years and am considering just ducking into the cinemas wherever I can this week just so I don’t have to worry any more.
Hey guys, The Expanse started on US TV last night, and it’s a pretty cool guy, first ep is up on Youtube legit https://t.co/eUiF0vT0Zl
I’m about 4/5ths through the book atm, keen to see how it’ll be adapted
Just realized a huge plot hole in the prequel trilogy, can’t believe I never picked up on it before.
In Return Of The Jedi when Luke asks Leia if she remembers her mother she says “Just a little bit, she died when I was very young.”
But hang on, didn’t their mother (Padme Amidala) die while giving birth to them in Episode III.
Well done George, well done.
Force memories.
I always assumed she was talking about her adoptive mother (Bail Organa’s wife) but wookipedia informs me that both of the Organas died when Tarkin death starred Alderaan.
I always go with: she’s mistaken & doesn’t actually know what she’s talking about.
I’ve got to turn adblock back on on the AU sites. I don’t know if it’s the same in Australia, but viewing from the US the site’s festooned with several flash ads that play videos and roll in a new ad every 30 seconds and end up slowing down my entire machine if I have a few tabs open. 🙁 Was fine until the last week or so when these ads started showing up.
Oh god this might be something they roll out on the AU website soon then 0,0
I did that and a big chunk of the bottom screen is a big red passive aggressive banner complaining about me using adblock.
Yeah, which is bloody annoying. I’d love to turn it off but not if it means slowing my PC to a crawl and having my laptop fans hit overdrive because of the heat generated from having the CPU & GPU running flat out rendering 10+ bits of flash video simultaneously.
You can block the red bar reminder, too!
I didn’t even check if I could do that. Hah.
Just noticed another thing in RoTJ that I never noticed before.
Chewy does the Tarzan yell while swinging on a vine.
hahaha how the heck have you never noticed that? I always LOVED that when i was a kid.
Hilarious.
Yeah, the original trilogy is so much better than the prequels.
So i’ve seen these advertised on FB a few times:
http://www.pillowfactory.co/products/gentlemen-wars-pillow-covers-goveaway
You guys reckon it’s legit?
A couple of people in the FB comments have said they have received them, but there has to be a catch. You can get one of each and only pay shipping.. that sounds… too good to be true…
Generally speaking if you have to question if it’s legit, it’s not legit.
I sometimes question if your feelings for me are legit.
< / 3
Oh hey it’s Horizons day!
Yay space times!
I went to play solo last night and found out I couldn’t because of an 8 hour outage for an expansion I don’t own.
Despite understanding why solo needs a server connection that was still a really shit experience.
Bayonetta for Smash yessssssssssssss
I mean, uh, Stair Wars.
Bayonettaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Stare Wars.
Store Wares
Fuck! @rocketman, where is your YouTube account so I can link ‘Stair Wars’?
I tried for so long to find it. 🙁
Me too Pants. Me too.
I hear they’re bringing in Pee Wee Herman next with his Secret Word smash attack.
Bayonetta amiibo…
We’re gonna buy SO. MANY.
I was super excited this gen because a lot of the genres & IP I love seemed to be making a comeback.
Then sales were lackluster (were they really?) & my favourite shit is mostly ignored. End of year awards go to games I thick are complete cack & I’m probably looking at another decade of my niche tastes remaining niche or being homogenised into other genres.
So , the usual. Felling good. How is everyone?? 😀
End of year awards really don’t mean a whole lot. You like what you like, doesn’t matter if anyone else agrees or not. LIFE IS STRANGE IS THE BESTEST.
I agree with you!
Yeah, I know. Did you not read my post til the end?
Reading is hard.
AT BEING THE WORST! IT’S LIKE IF DAVID CAGE FAILED AT MOVIES AND AT GAMES!
My therapist and I have been working on this. There will be no fist clenching today. 😛
Progress!
Wednesday morning “oh god, only a few more hours until new Star Wars movie” question:
What is your earliest or favourite Star Wars related memory?
I have a couple. Spoilered for length.
When I was about 4 or 5 my Dad sat me down on a Saturday night to watch a movie. This was exciting, getting to stay up past bed time on a Saturday night. My parents had (and still have) a big wall unit that ran the length of the lounge room. In the drawers were all the VHS tapes we owned. But at the back were a set of blank tapes that had been used to record stuff onto. There was nothing written on them, they were just numbered. There was a small notepad which listed what was on each tape, movies had been crossed out as they had been taped over. There were dozens of these tapes. I wasn’t allowed to watch them, as not all contained things that were suitable for children (it’s how I first stumbled upon Alien when I was like 7).My Dad went to the drawer and pulled out tape number ‘4’. Everything just got more exciting. I’d never been allowed to watch one of these tapes before. He put it into the VCR, sat down on the couch and hit play, and ‘A New Hope’ started. My Dad still says he had never seen me sit so still up until that point. And the obsession began.
On the following Monday when I got home from school, I remember going to the drawer of VHS tapes and pulling out number ‘4’. I was about 3 minutes into the movie before my Mum told me to turn it off, because it was too close to dinner time or something. I tried to do this every day after school for that week.
The next Saturday, we watched ‘The Empire Strikes Back’. The Saturday after, ‘Return of the Jedi’. I ended up almost wearing all 3 tapes out over the next couple of years.
In 1997, when I was 8, the movies were re-released to cinemas, ‘A New Hope’ opened on my birthday. In the morning my parents gave me a card. In the card was 4 tickets to see ‘A New Hope’ that night for myself and the family. My Dad told me that from the moment the 20th Century Fox logo started I was glued to the screen, wide-eyed. We would later also watch the other 2 sequels as a family when they were released as well.
In 1999, when I was 10, I had my first midnight screening experience with my Dad for ‘The Phantom Menace’. Everyone has their own opinions on that film, but I was the perfect age for it. Watching it again now, I can see its flaws, but the nostalgia I remember from seeing a brand new Star Wars movie, in a cinema at midnight, with my Dad gives it a free pass from me. We would also watch ‘Attack of the Clones’ and ‘Revenge of the Sith’ at their respective midnight launches.
I fly home on Sunday for a week and a half for Christmas. I will have to find time to go see ‘The Force Awakens’ with my Dad.
I can’t remember a specific first memory of star wars. It has always just sort of been there. I think the earliest memory I can recall is playing with my action figures.
I remember shaking my fist when LucasArts released a new Star Wars game.
“THEY SHOULD BE MAKING MORE ADVENTURE GAMES!”
😛
First Star Wars film I saw was The Phantom Menace.
Yeeeeeah, wasn’t the biggest part of my childhood. It was only when KotOR was released, I got invested in the series. 🙂 I saw the original series for the first time when I was in uni after my friends all gasped when I told them I hadn’t seen any. Return of the Jedi is my favourite. 🙂
A have a vague recollection of watching the first three movies at my (at the time) best friend’s house when I was like 7, but I have a shit memory and the only thing I remember is the movies themselves.
Easily the best memory is seeing Episode I on midnight release with the same friend and his mum when I was 12. Same as you, perfect age to appreciate the movie without any criticisms (which obviously changed as I became a jaded, cynical adult). It was an incredible experience. Having a massive crowd in the cinema that was totally invested in the series was just so good.
Honourable mention: There was a delay in getting everyone seated/the movie started for one of the other midnight launches I went to (I think it was Ep II), so two audience members in dodgy Vader/Jedi costumes ran to the front of the room and started having an epic lightsaber duel with those plastic extendy sabers. The entire crowd got behind them with cheers, boos, etc. and burst into laughter when Vader got his hand cut off and then melodramatically died.
Starting up Tie Fighter’s campaign for the first time, flying in the cockpit of a Tie Fighter on the first mission, feeling like an actual pilot of the Empire fresh out of the academy. Just that feeling of “I’m actually flying one of these things I have been seeing in the movies!” made me so excited while playing that game.
Similar actually. Grandmother had an entire room full of bootleg VCRs, thousands of them. Everyone had two movies on it and when I was 5 or so I used to love watching Smoky and the Bandit. After a while I decided to watch this Return of the Jedi thing after it because I was bored.
Started fast forwarding through Smoky after that.
sidenote
smokey and the bandit is a underrated classic 😛
Totes on fleek AF as the kids would say today.
when my dad died and i was 7, i was really too young to appreciate it, i mean i was sad but i just hated being in a room with sad people, i asked mum if i could go to the video shop and get some movies with my sisters, We each got a movie, my sisters got a land before time and little rascals. I got a new hope, we sat in the little room in the downstairs of my nonnas house and watched their movies first. By the time my older sister put a new hope on they said they didnt want to watch a dumb “space movie” I cried and said i watched there movies. They sat down and watched it with me.
That memory is very precious to me, i dont even remember having a opinion of the movie at the time, i remember re watching when i was 12 and loving it but i dont remember liking it when i was younger. But i do remember sitting in that tiny darkened room with the aircon blasting us and my nonna popping her head in and letting me eat a bowl of pasta on the floor which she never let me do.
Oh man…feels.
It is really more about the bonding with my sisters than anything. They both asked me to go see star wars with them this christmas. 🙂
First movie I ever remember seeing was a new hope at my Dad’s Cousin’s house down in Apollo Bay in Vic. Still remember the stormtrooper armour and a lot of the scenes quite vividly, I think I was only 4 or 5 at the time 🙂
Kind of all snowballed from there really! To be young again hey!
Star Wars taped off the TV! My dad put it on for me, and I watched all three movies in the space of two days. I was about seven and that weekend, my path through life was set.
I started collecting all the Star Wars stuff I could, mostly books. I did a massive project in primary school about The Jedi Academy trilogy by KJA, including an extensive map of all the areas discussed in the books, and the paths all the characters took. I still have quite a few of them, including the X-Wing stories.
A few years later, the Special Editions released on VHS (I missed seeing it in the cinema), and I wore those tapes down to little plastic nubs. Despite this being the version of the films I’m by far most familiar with (at least until the Despecialised Editions came into my life), I still think the only good change they made was losing that Yub-Yub music at the end of Jedi.
I loved Episode I when I saw it in the cinemas, but less than two years later, I’d done an about-face so severe that I started writing The Lesser Evil to prove that I could do sci-fi better. That’s a true story.
Easter Long Weekend, ’98 or ’99, Dad gets stuck looking after me, so I end up sitting in a room at the hospital watching movies all day.
My first conmment after seeing A New Hope was that “that guy looks like Indiana Jones.”
Watching A New Hope when I was 5 and in the Women’s and Children’s hospital with pneumonia.
Me and the kid in the next bed shared a TV and that prick kept trying to change the channel because he thought it was funny.
I had a VHS tape of the film and would watch the Battle of Yavin over and over pretty much every day when I was around 2 or 3. So that’d be my earliest.
The earliest Star Wars video gaming memory I have was playing the Atari Star Wars game on my uncle’s system which I think was an Amstrad. Would have been similar age – he was still living at home with my grandparents, his first year of university I think? So I’d have been maybe 2 or 3 years old then too. I remember it because he had the Empire Strikes Back Arcade Game as well, which was the same vector graphics thing but there were AT-ATs and stuff.
Also, two more
– I got the Crystal Star (Considered one of the worst EU books) for my… tenth? birthday. Read it a whole bunch and got hooked on the EU. Met my best mate in HS because I saw him reading a Star Wars book, and we both used to read and trade them. Haven’t seen him for years (he got a bit weird post HS) but I still have the books
– I got Jedi Power Battles on PS1 in 2000. Me and my brother played a looooooooot of co-op, and that continued with both Battlefront games. We still play co-op whenever we have access to a console.
So I have a driving lesson today and I am super nervous. I like to think I am a decent driver but I can’t help thinking”what if”
“What if nothing happens and I actually enjoy this feeling of freedom?”
You’ll be fine mate!
What if you lose control and plough through a kindergarten killing a bunch of toddlers and destroying the lives and families of nearly a hundred people?
There’s only a small chance of that. Probably not enough to worry about.
Now that’s added to my list of worries
Never tell her the odds
If a big scaredy baby like me who is a terrible driver can drive to and from a location everyday and not have any issue, i think youll be alright. best just to try and focus on the moment when driving and youll be fine.
I went pretty well in the lesson and she said I’m almost ready for the test.
What if you drive so hard and so fast that you win the race!
So she’d need to drive both furiously and fast? Is that even possible?
Not in that order, no.
Only if she’s attending the Brian O’Conner School Of Driving.
Which… well, why would you go anywhere else?
Essential Anime according to Negs part 2
(part 1: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-358/comment-page-4/#comment-3575573)
This time, let’s talk about the defining, essential stuff for the western market. I should probably note that Evangelion was enormously important in the west as well, but we already covered it in the first part.
Akira
Akira’s honestly speaking an average film, but it’s a very important milestone for anime in the west. It was one of the first really mature anime brought over to the western market and pretty much marked the start of the 90s anime boom in the US. It’s also an iconic steampunk work which will often be referenced by older English-speaking anime fans (usually people yelling TETSUOOO). Otomo’s visual style in the movie and the manga was one of the major influences on modern Cyberpunk. Also Kaneda’s bike still looks rad all this time later. It’s only a single movie so the time commitment is low, but it’s important to add to the list simply because of its impact in the west.Cowboy Bebop
Akira cracked the market, Evangelion ripped it open, and then Cowboy Bebop brought it to the mainstream. Aside from the music, the show was largely forgotten in Japan within a few years, but something about it clicked very strongly with western audiences, and it will be one of the first names to be recommended to new anime viewers by anyone old enough to have seen it at the time. It’s very good, a combination of many different styles and genres mixing western sensibilities with eastern quirkiness, and helped along by having an English dub that was much higher quality than average for the era, plus being syndicated on TV in the USA and abroad. One of the most memorable soundtracks in anime as well. The movie is essentially a side-story to the anime and is set around the middle of the show, but you can hold off watching it until after finishing the TV series. Samurai Champloo also had a similar impact in the US, though it was never as big as Bebop.Spirited Away
It’s arguable whether it’s Miyazaki’s best film or not. Some say it is, some prefer others, maybe they point at how influential Nausicaa was or how every Japanese kid has seen Totoro or how Princess Mononoke was when Ghibli really broke into the western market. But Spirited Away is absolutely one of the studio’s best films no matter how you slice it, and it’s the most important because it has an Academy Award, something that I believe no other anime film can boast. This stuff is effectively like Disney to Japan though, as mainstream as anime gets, plus Ghibli’s influence has waned over there significantly. I feel like they’re potentially more important in the west than in Japan now, which is why I list Spirited Away here instead. You can literally substitute any Miyazaki film in here instead. You could actually consider this entry to be “Ghibli’s Entire Catalogue” if you like.Sailor Moon Crystal
Anyone that was below the age of about 16 in the 90s was probably exposed to Sailor Moon in some way, especially if they were of female persuasion or had a sister. The localized version was a Kids TV staple for a long period. It’s also an essential show that would make this list regardless, as it’s one of the most important Magical Girl shows. Not the first by far, but for a western viewer that is unlikely to have even heard of Minky Momo or Sally the Witch, Sailor Moon is somewhat of a touchstone. It has most of the tropes – the protagonist is a ditz but is somehow destined for greatness, falls for a dashing dude at first sight, becomes a princess, fights against a cadre of enemies that summon a new stupid monster each week and so on. If you can get past the fact that it’s ‘for girls’ it’s actually a half-decent watch (especially the third season, Sailor Moon S). I recommend Sailor Moon Cystal rather than the original series, because Crystal covers in 26 episodes story arcs which took the original about 100 to do, and it follows much more closely to the manga so feels less formulaic and has some more interesting developments. It’s also vastly better animated. If you want a modern formulaic Magical Girl anime instead, you could try one of the Precure series, probably Smile Precure as it was the last really good one. If you truly hate yourself, it’s being released on Netflix at some point localized as Glitter Force and saddled with a horribad dub for the full experience.Dragonball Z
The exact same reasoning behind Sailor Moon’s importance applies to Dragonball Z. It was a western TV staple in the 90s and 00s, and still enjoys a lot of popularity. It’s a fun watch too. More importantly, it’s iconic in Japanese circles as well. Shounen Jump series had existed before it, but Dragonball was the big one, creating a certain visual language (powering up and glowing, big hair, that machine-gun punch effect, the drawn out fights with viewers giving commentary and so on) which you will see in just about every Jump show since. Stuff like Naruto and Fairy Tail wouldn’t exist without DBZ. I’m not sure if I’d recommend the abridged ‘Kai’ series or the original, as each has their merits. You could probably sub in any other Jump show instead, honestly. Fairy Tail’s a good pick.Urotsukidouji
Yes, really. If you do a word association with the average person about anime, there’s a better than even chance that ‘tentacle porn’ is going to come up. And this is the reason why. Yes, it’s tentacle rape porn (among other things). It’s one of the first examples of it. And it was released onto an unsuspecting English-speaking public. Many retailers and rental places unwittingly assumed that being animated meant it must be for children and stocked it in inappropriate locations. Eyes were seared, minds were scarred, and anime in the west is forever associated with perverse tentacles forever. No, you don’t have to watch it, just be aware of it and its importance. Originally a 3-part OVA, the western release was a movie edit which actually toned down some stuff. There’s obviously heaps of others like it out there nowadays if you wanted something else with the same sort of content. I’m not about to go naming names for fear of incriminating myself :P.Next up, Giant Robots.
Spirited Away is absolutely my favourite.
I think it’s Mononoke for me. Castle in the Sky and Nausicaa are up there too. I also thought that When Marnie Was There was absolutely excellent too.
Aside from one thing on that list which is essential in all the wrong ways, everything else there is fantastic. Spirited Away made me happy. Pure happy.
Huh. I’ve never heard of Urotsukidouji. I’ll check it out.
I’m tempted to throw down some weighty opinions of my own for both your anime posts thus far, but 1) it’s your show and 2) I’ll save that shit for your giant robot post. I’m probably going to judge your very soul based on your giant robot post.
I really like giant robots.
Spoiler:
Gundam (suggesting the original movies, zeta, or seed (but not seed destiny because fuck that shit) as starting point), Macross (DYRL or Plus or Frontier), Gurren Lagann as a classic-styled Super Robot with a backup of GaoGaiGar (because the old stuff like Tetsujin 28 or Mazinger are very hard to go back to). Gunbuster & Gunbuster II for the endings and because the Gunbuster March is the raddest thing ever. Evangelion already in the list earlier. Depending on how I feel, possible additions of Aquarion, Voltron, Eureka Seven or Nadesico. Nadesico is most likely because it has so many call-outs to classic stuff (Gekiganger is basically Mazinger). Voltron’s dated really badly, probably should have been in this list as well as it was way bigger in the west. Patlabor probably not, it’s extremely good but not essential.If you tell me that something boring like RahXephon or plain terrible like Aura Battler Dunbine needs to go in there then we may never be friends.
I’m not surprised at your main offerings, although if you didn’t include Gunbuster I would have just.. been real sad, man. Only thing I’d argue is 00 over Seed. Seed’s a faithful, pretty-looking kinda-remake and all, but 00 actually has some original stuff to it while keeping to Gundam’s more tolerable aspects. But really Gundam’s another thing entirely, I suppose. As for the fringe options, Aquarion’s great (I.. forget about the sequels,) Voltron? It’s design is iconic, but… I dunno, I’d put Robotech in over that, and that makes no damn sense when you think about it. Nadesico’s a great pick. Eureka Seven’s great, although depending on your reasoning for it’s inclusion and if I felt particularly dirty I’d very cautiously put Code Geass next to it, and.. mmnnnnnn Patlabor scratches a real good itch, and it’s kinda a good representative of a offshoot of ‘Real Robot’ anime, where there are giant robots, and they are sexy, but they aren’t the main thing, like.. say, Full Metal Panic, or more recently Gargantua, and it actually works better for those series because of it. Bubblegum Crisis I feel would be worth a mention as well? Ideon? Tekkaman? The Big O for the west? dasdhasdasdad now I’m ranting.All in all, thumbs up. Gooood shit.
EDIT: I echo the popular opinion of RahXephon being Eva lite, and I’ve heard of Aura Battler, but never peaked my interest. To apparent good fortune, apparently.
I fell like RahXephon is Ideon lite, more than it is Evangelion lite (of course Evangelion is also derived from Ideon which is why they’re similar).
Aquarion was great, and Aquarion Evol was fairly good. Logos is a steaming turd because Kawamori isn’t involved as he’s busy with pre-production on Macross Delta. Voltron would be there because it’s the canonical example of the gestalt robot, but you could argue that Gurren Lagann handles that already, and GaoGaiGar definitely does (it’s where we got “Symmetrical Docking” from after all :P).I disagree on 00. It’s accessible, sure, but the plot goes way off the rails in the back half and things just get silly. Also because it’s unconventional for a Gundam show it’s not a great intro to Gundam. Seed is the better entry point because it was pretty much envisioned as exactly that – a do-over of the original Gundam for a new generation.
I feel like Code Geass isn’t a mecha show. It’s a great SF piece and highly recommended but not even sure it’s essential. However it’s more of a mechs-are-the-background thing. You could take the mechs out and make them magical suits of armor, Saint Seiya style, and it’d change nothing. Gargantia is the same, possibly more so even since Chamber is an actual character that sometimes has a pilot. Full Metal Panic is also the same – it’s a fantastic show and I’m still hacked off they’re never continuing it since The Second Raid ended on a cliffhanger, but it’s not really bringing anything to the table as a Mecha show that you don’t get from one of the granddaddy Real Robot shows like Gundam or Macross. That even goes for Patlabor, though I feel like Patlabor is more important because it feels like they put more thought into it than most.
Ideon is super important but being a Tomino show it’s also a really hard watch by modern standards, and Evangelion covers the same sort of ground. I’ve never seen Tekkaman or The Big O so I wouldn’t list them for that reason.
I liked RahXephon for its music and the fact that its protagonist wasn’t a fucked-up whining pansy who reacted to piloting a giant robot in an entirely unbelievable and unrelatable way.
Yeah, I can see your reasoning for Voltron being the ‘combiner robot’ forerunner. I very much felt putting down ‘Gundam 00 (first season,)’ because, as you said, it gets… crazy. And.. hmm. I like seed. But adapting the UC’s brand of realism to modern standards wasn’t great. Newtypes? great. Coordinators? awesome, but you didn’t have to make the guy the ‘ultimate’ coordinator. Princesses? Yeah, hell yeah. Princesses and pop stars? Well, y’know, that’s slightly much, maybe? Protecting friends? Noble goal, A+. Wanting to protect friends and all life on the battlefield, well, you know, damn. It’s a lot simpler in the original Gundam and it’s a hell of a lot better for it. It’s why I feel like 00… the grounded parts.. are better- the setting and it’s politics are modern as opposed to ‘remade for the modern age,’ and it’s more relatable because of it. If I wanted the fantastical side of Gundam, sign me the fuck up for Seed, gimme dem crossbone and double ZZ and wing and G gundam. But 00’s first half gave me much more of a UC vibe, and I’ll be damned if I’m not a One Year War man. Funny I said wing, considering 00 is a bit of a wing remake.You are probably right about Code Geass. I only thought of it because of how it and Eureka Seven are top robot anime models for the 00 decade, when anime chugged along at a rapid pace for the west. Same with Gargantia, and FMP (although it’s non-comedy parts are quite good? can’t quite remember the anime compared to the manga) and Patlabor. I said before that theres a whole genre of ‘Robot but not Robot’ anime nowadays, so it can be all waved away.Shouldn’t really list Tekkaman, that’s kinda more Kamen Rider territory? The Big O was a great hit in the west, overseas popularity gave it a full 2-season run. It’s good stuff, decadent film noir with science fiction (and damn, that’s already good stuff combined alone) and of course, giant robots. Definitely recommend it.Fun fact/late night reply (it’s only 11 in Perth)
Bebop was given funding by Bandai, giving Watanabe only one real instruction: “so long as there is a spaceship in it, do what you want”
In that regard I think it’s really interesting how it’s true that Eva obviously did have an impact on the market in terms of merchandising. For that your insight is great negs.
Also
“Watanabe often also often encouraged his staff by saying this will be an anime will be memorable three decades later”. Awesome
I haven’t been able to open Dota in over a week. Don’t know what’s going on. Updating everything hasn’t helped. Boo.
Edit: Problem solved. Not entirely sure what was going on but updating of many drivers, Steam and a restart to force some Windows updates seemed to do the trick.
DOTA? That’s not Star Wars related at all!
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Roshan is wearing a Santa hatI cannot believe that Arc Warden got released before Pit Lord. WTF is going on.
In other news, pretty pumped to play with the new update tonight.
I don’t think 6.86 is going live for a few days.
Anyhow, I’m much more excited to see the changes to the map. New jungle layout, safer dire offlane (hard camp moved closer to lane and new camp near secret shop).
Oh and that new item that increases range? I’m going to spam so much Vengeful Spirit.
Her new scepter upgrade seems pretty amazing as well. I just hope it doesn’t see Sniper making a comeback.
Sure is rainy outside all of a sudden. Sideways rainy.
Hmmm…rain normally falls downwards. The fact that it’s going sideways must mean someone or something is exerting a great deal of Force on it.
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moonwalksspacestationwalks out of the room*“That’s no m-
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhigeddit!”
@cffndncr
referencing your post on the previous page.
Just because a genre has multiple sub genres doesnt mean that they still dont belong to that genre. The idea behind genres in my opinion is to let the listener know the influences within the songs, so while a song lets say “smells like teen spirit” may not be very similar to “jailhouse rock” there are elements of elvis’s work in nirvanas, just like there are elements of The ramones work in greendays.
Also fuck sub genres, music is so diverse these days with a million sub genres of sub genres and as someone who listens to a wide range of crap. I hate being told that the song im listening to isnt in a genre because it belongs in a sub genre of the genre i was refering to. Like when people say skrillex isnt dubstep, i understand that his music is different from what “purests” would call dubstep but why is it wrong to group him in with electronic artists who make actual dubstep. They are all electronic artists.
The second thing i get annoyed with is bad electrical safety.
That’s the stuff with the main thingy you should do when you fix the power sockets right?
You don’t need to mess with the mains if you just short out the socket temporarily. Like with a fork or something.
I don’t mind sub-genres as long as they don’t detract from the parent genre. That way we can agree that both Nirvana and Elvis are rock artists, and then further classify that Nirvana is grunge while Elvis is rockabilly.
Kind of like how taxonomy starts with broad groupings and then further specialises as you go down the lists.
I think the branched thing is what the genre system is supposed to be like but i think because music is a very subjective experience a song can be many different genres depending on who you are. With taxonomy everyone agrees that certain animals fall within certain groups. But music will never be like that when it gets down a few layers in genres,
True. Taxonomy deals with factual points (i.e. Archaea / Bacteria / Eukarya) but music is emotional.
Wait. Skrillex isn’t dubstep? Must have missed that memo.
I guess it’s just a result of genres evolving over time. If Green Day had released their songs in the 70’s, I doubt they would have been lumped in with Sex Pistols et al. At what point does a sub-genre become a different genre?
I mean, bands like Atreyu list Bon Jovi as a strong influence, but they are definitely from different genres. Post-Rock has clear influences from Rock, but saying that Sigur Ros and Gun n’ Roses were from the same genre seems a bit of a stretch.
Anyway, back to my original point.
I think we were actually saying the same thing all along. As much as I dislike it, Green Day are a punk band, because the definition of what constitutes punk has evolved so much since the 70’s. Metal is another example – today, basically any kind of music that has a guitar in it can probably be classified as some metal sub-genre or another.
Oh, dammit. Completely forgot JB use Toll for their delivery service… which means a trip to Erskineville to pick up a parcel, because they refuse to drop it at the PO like every other courier. Which means either a long day going there after work, or rushing on Saturday morning. Ugh. At least their open hours aren’t just “9-5 Mon-Fri, F-U Sat-Sun,” I guess…
Ahhh Toll. What a PITA. Ordered my Rail passes and Ghibli Museum tickets the other day. Toll guy drops them on the table at the entrance to work without telling anyone or checking for reception etc. If a workmate hadn’t spotted it and they’d gone missing, that would have been an expensive $700+ exercise in shitty delivery…
The problem is that Australia Post charge the couriers if they accept a parcel for pickup, and therefore only have agreements with specific couriers (pretty much startrak only). Also can’t get those deliveries into parcel lockers for the same reason.
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I was trying to explain to one of my workmates why Star Wars is such a standout series compared to other movies out there. I ended up making liberal use of this video which covers most of the important stuff:
My workmate just asked me if there was a difference between Star Wars and Star Trek.
In other news, did you hear about that chick that got tossed out of a window in the Sydney CBD?
Yeah, the accused said it was self-defenestration.
#NotQuitePage6
In case you were curious: yep, that’s still brilliant 😀
Darn tootin’
I dunno. I kind of liked the tootin’.
Dammit I fell for it again.
Also, this one is rad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z1_RmyKs9g
Urggg, just realised how bad the AUD is at the moment. Our $5500 holiday tanslates to over $8000. Thinking it might be more prudent to pay a holding deposit and hold off paying the rest and hope the exchange rate improves.
That’s the whole for-ex / currency speculation game in a nutshell, isn’t it? You could pay a holding deposit and then end up paying more down the track, or pay less depending on how the currency moves. A guy I used to work with treated currency speculation as a second job, akin to the stock market.
Starwars poster arrived in post as junk mail…
Bet the postie’s a trekkie.
There’s a FLGS that has casual Netrunner every Tuesday night. It’s rad and I’m really enjoying going there. They’ve got a tournament on Saturday that I’m going to go to.
In Netrunner, you need to have two decks: a runner and a corp. I’ve been using Rielle “Kit” Peddler as my runner and Hass-Bioroid: Engineering the Future as my corp.
The Kit deck is what’s called a Yogosaurus deck, using a combination of Yog.0 and Dinosaurus to wreck face. It’s all wrapped up with an obscene amount of card draw and tutor effects to try and keep everything working. It’s not great but it works.
The Haas-Bioroid deck is in a much worse situation. I do alright with it, so I’d be happy to take it to the tournament. I can’t. The tournament doesn’t allow proxies and I have three proxies of Jackson Howard in there.
Jackson Howard is a lynchpin for most corp decks in Netrunner. He let’s you draw a lot of cards and protect you from some nastiness. Quite simply, he is the best corp card in print. Normally I’d just but the pack that he’s from because he’s important enough to have that it’s worth dropping the $20.
I can’t. The pack he is from is out of print (being reprinted any day now) and because he is such a versatile and powerful card, the pack is also out of stock.
That means I have to take Jackson out of my deck. Okay. Fine. I can do that. Oh. Wait, now my core strategy is much weaker and this is a deck designed to do exactly one thing and do it well. Fuck. New plan. I’m going to weaken the core strategy quite a lot and add in the SEA Source/Scorched Earth combo.
It’s amazing how literally one card makes such a huge difference.
I know all of this is gibberish. The important thing for everyone who doesn’t care is that Dinosaurus is cute, Jackson Howard is a boss and I’m going to kill some jerks on Saturday.
We really need to figure out a way to make money off your ability to inanely ramble about a ridiculously complex issue and then summarize those rambling in less than half a sentence. Maybe you should write gif captions for buzzfeed??
Elevator pitch man!
I dunno, don’t Otis and ThyssenKrupp have that covered?
If the elevator is pitching, they are not doing their job properly.
Also, Schindler’s Lifts cracks me up every time I see their logo.
Look, I may not know much about Netrunner, but I do think you just need to play Counterspells and force Storm to win. #helping
I opened a Hearthstone stream on twitch. In the time it took me to minimize Twitch Chat, I saw a Star Wars spoiler.
0/10 would visit again.
Leia and Luke are twins.Darth Vader is their dad.Anakin is a giant knobend.What’s twitch?Odd-numbered old Star Trek movies are pants.Damn that’s a good warning actually; note to self only use Twitch on phone for the next few days where I won’t be at risk at looking at twitch chat.
Or what I used to do, not sure if this still works today, if you know the twitch channel name, end it with “/popout” in the URL and it should only show the video and nothing but the video.
You know those movies where sequentially things get worse and worse and more farcical? John Cleese in Clockwise f’rex. That was my day.
Head to airport for 9am flight, find I’ve been changed to 10am. Get on it. Open 3DS…
Sitting on the plane out on the apron ready to go, we go back to the gate and disembark, get bumped to 1pm flight.
At the service desk, surrounded by a bunch of wailing people trying to get to their cruise ship by 5pm (…dreaming… ….anyway, if it was the one with 182 gastro cases, just as well…).
Maintain smiling politeness and reassure staff firmly and loud enough for wailing people to hear that it’s not their fault that the control centre in Brisbane have made all these changes because of tennis ball hail in Sydney. Receive relieved looks.
Head to new gate.
New flight was then delayed to 14:35.
I’m supposed to be on the 7pm coming back if I ever get there!
I decide not to, go to counter, officially “deboard” so that I don’t further fuck up the awful day they’re having. Get in cab to go home. Find wife at home, sent home sick. 🙁
Still, I fired up the PC, ran the Elite: Horizons installer, paused it, copied the beta files into the new folder, re-ran the installer and very shortly after have a working Horizons. Woop. 🙂 Where’s my new chair?
Oh man, that’s a total pain. What a waste of a day.
Yep.
Apart from the bit where I HAVE ELITE: HORIZONS!!! 😀
And got 4 streetpasses at the gate.
I think the update automatically copies the beta files over if you have them. I didn’t bother and the thing flew through pretty fast.
BUGGYTIMES!
Not convinced it’s doing it properly – really really slow. Copy files across, restart – really really fast. hmm.
Anyway. Now I need to fly back around to the human worlds to get some kit for landing. Then I’m going to build a base half a galaxy away from everyone else and sit there. 😉
Trikeabout confirmed for Thargoid.
Or Missing, at least 😛
The weather in Sydney was horrendous around the airport – the suburb of Kurnell next to the airport had a whole bunch of houses smashed up.
Yes indeed. I’m not saying that the airport closures weren’t justified, just that the Bureau of Meteorology could’ve asked me if I was flying before they arranged storms… 😉
Oh jeez. I almost feel sorry for this Brendan guy but he quickly remedies that by posting something else.
http://imgur.com/a/Gjcb5
For the first few images I thought that Brendan was the troll and baiting the other guy 😛
That is just relentless, oh dear 😛
Excellent post, 5 / 7, would read again.
Would rather read more from Nistopher Colon but each to his own!
I lost it at that chainmail comment xD
The best exchange i reckon is the “Strait” vs “Straight” argument… Pure internet troll gold!
I can’t decide which it makes me want to do more – laugh or cry.
Hah! I have a new super-hero.
When I got to the ‘dark night’ bit in the last one, I sorted coffee over my board and the whole office saw.
5/7 would read again.
Kojima is making a PS4 Exclusive title. Yesssssssssss
Wonder if it will be SIlent Hills-esque.
It will be about a soldier, named… Cobra, who must infiltrate a base and stop… Inorganic Cog.
!
Gas Cobra? I love that guy!
Fuck I hope it’s good. I’m not usually big on company hate, but the whole Konami MGS thing has this weird veneer of WTF over it
Konami seem intent on burning everything around them and seeing how fast they can do it. Nothing they do makes any sense.
#FucKonami
#HashtagsForHarli
Also featuring the complex character of “Large Leader” at time antagonist and protagonist alike.
And his buddy, Handgun Bobcat
Oh neat. SCE look like they’re giving him some autonomy with his own team too.
Spoilers, geez!
Spaghett visiting, how are you all?
What was the last song you listened to??
I’ve been listening to one album by each artist on my phone and journaling it on Instagram, pretty fun
Lola Montez – Volbeat
Been a bit obsessed with Volbeat since my sister introduced me to them 😛
Volbeat? Like… the Pokemon?
Volbeat was one of those Pokemon I could never figure out what to do with in Pokemon Sapphire. Not strong enough to keep around for very long, yet too good to pass up at the point in the game where it is found. Signal Beam at level 25 is pretty deadly.
In all serious, I’ve never heard of this band before, but it sounds pretty cool.
Apparently a danish rockband that’s gained an insane amount of popularity and traction in the U.S.
They’ve even been here last year for Soundwave!… If only i’d known them back then!
They’re pretty rad. Been listening to them for a few years after stumbling upon them at random via Pandora.
Stevie Ray Vaughan (& Double Trouble) – Texas Flood
Lana Del Ray – Video Games. Thanks @dc!
It’s been so damn long since I posted an update on my Dark Souls progress, I don’t even know where to start. I think the last time I talked about Dark Souls I was fighting the Gaping Dragon. Since then, I’ve conquered Blighttown and Quelaag, beaten Pinwheel, beaten Sen’s Fortress, and Great Grey Wolf Sif.
I’ve finally figured out what my character build is supposed to be. I rolled a sorcerer and was trying everything with no direction. I’ve settled on an Intelligence build focused on dealing damage through my magic (now enchanted) battle axe.
I remember beating Quelaag, then dying repeatedly before eventually losing all of my souls trying to get out of there. I didn’t have as much trouble with it as I thought I would, I didn’t even notice that many framerate drops. I had more trouble dealing with the Wheel Skeletons in the Catacombs than I did with everything else. (TIP: Don’t try attacking them from the blacksmith’s room for hours like I did, run around for three hours until you find the hole next to the Titanite Demon that you’ve been walking past without noticing.)
Sen’s Fortress was hard at first, but quite easy once I spent several hours getting my bearings. It’s surprisingly quite short. I also didn’t discover the secret elevator that takes you the top for a very long time after beating it.
I’m a little unsure on Anor Londo. I’m too scared to use the Anor Londo bonfire since I don’t know how I am supposed to get back to Sen Fortress, so I’ve been mostly bonfiring (totally a verb now) on Andre the Blacksmith’s couch, scaling Sen’s Fortress, going to Anor Londo, then attacking the Sentinels one by one for souls and using my homeward bone to get back. I’ve gone further into Anor Londo, (up to the second Gargoyle) but I always get shit-scared of losing my souls and bail. I’ve gone through a lot of Ring of Sacrifices, but I always make enough souls in Anor Londo to pay for new ones. I’m probably at a good enough level to fight most of the stuff there, but I have no faith in myself at all.
I should go back to the Tomb of Giants and do a bit more there, but it’s one of those places I hate being stuck in, since travelling back to Firelink Shrine is a pain.
After rescuing Reah, the wiki recommended I kill Petrus unless I want my rescue to be in vain. I think since I didn’t want to pay Lautrec for his information and I just killed him instead, Petrus’s evil dialogue didn’t happen and he was just completely silent when I would talk to him. His words during his death throes were sad and I feel guilty. Maybe my version of the game didn’t have an evil Petrus?Petrus isn’t evil, he’s just a coward.
Use the Anor Londo bonfire, you can go back to Sen’s via the gargoyles that took you to Anor Londo whenever you like where they dropped you off.
Tomb of Giants is a dead end until you finish Anor Londo.
Finishing Anor Londo gives you the ability to warp between bonfires.
What I’m trying to say is finish Anor Londo.
Stay away from the painting for now.
For gods sake stay away from the painting for now.
Anor Londo = Fucking archers. Have fun when you get to them.
Fucking archers *shakes fist*
And that was where my dark souls journey ended
Fuck those archers.
The painting’s fine.
Particularly under the well.
Definitely fine.
By ‘stay away from the painting,’ you mean to avoid the Painted Worldvof Ariamis, right?
Today was a mixed day. On the one hand, my little boy went and had his santa photo taken, we got some last bits of shopping done, and had a pleasant afternoon out. On the other hand, I spent the morning on the phone dealing a bunch of family crap. Gin and Netflix tonight.
Tiglet was terrified of Santa this year so we have an almost ok santa photo with her on my knee
So that red banner down there is pretty annoying.
I turn off the blocker. It’s alright, I get it, I’m happy to support the writers.
Now articles take 2 to 3 times as long to load. Page stutters and stalls when I start scrolling.
*sigh*
Adblocker gets turned back on.
Um…you can block the red thing
Bless you.
(I block at work, but frustratingly, I can’t UN-block at home. I need to get my actual IT person hat on.)
Started on season 2 of Fargo.
Holy hell is there anyone who ISN’T in this? Spent most of the first ep just playing pick the actor.
Its so goooooood.
Kirsten Dunst is incredible all season, Patrick Wilson is just an upright citizen, Ted Danson is always good.
So good.
I almost went to joke “hey look even Angus Samson is in it.”
Instead I said “wait what the hell is Angus Samson doing here??”
And not only is he there, but he’s great! I hope he gets lots of work as a result.
I know right? I gotta watch the last 2 eps still, but god damn it’s been a brilliant season.
Amusingly, I still haven’t started watching it. Because we must be opposites in all things.
There is a surprising amount of traffic on the highway between Brisbane and Gold Coast at 3am-4am. Actually had to slow down in places.
Got a letter in the mail today from my company which has a leaflet explaining my COBRA benefits.
People always told me I worked for an evil organization but I didn’t realize how right they were.
Cost Of Being Ridiculously Awesome?
It’s related to health insurance.
Wouldn’t have thought Cobra would have health insurance given that the daily grind has a non-zero chance of being murdered by a ninja.
Just because I know what it actually stands for doesn’t mean I’m going to pass up a chance to make up an acronym. 😉
I like Cost of Being Ridiculously Awesome. Apparently MS’s benefits package is the best in the industry.
OMG Trails of Cold Steel III announced. Since we’re getting I & II in English I feel like III is a shoe-in.
Also new Ys confirmed to be Ys VIII and releasing in Japan in mid 2016. Really hope we don’t wait forever for it.
Morning.
*sips bucket of coffee*
I feel surprisingly okay for less than four hours sleep.
Could crash at any moment, but that’s why I took the day off work. 😛
Yeah…I’m at work. I’m going to crash hard later in the day, but for now I’m still riding the high from the movie.
So… was it worth it?
I ask as I haven’t booked tickets yet
Zero-spoilers Review:
Watch it.
MORE BUCKETS
I’m expecting the crash to happen around lunchtime, but yeah… Surprisingly awake for 4 hours sleep.
Three hours sleep and I’m feeling fine.
STAR WARS! \o/
I bought a iced coffee and 2 redbulls.
Still worth it.
The plan was to sleep in because I don’t work until 3pm. Unfortunately my body clock has a different idea …
*twiddles thumbs*
Hmm… internet dropped at work and killed my whinge/rant
So, my mother lives in Cambodia and works for an NGO, which is all very cool. She moved over there after life being pretty shitty for a couple of years after dad died. She gets to help street kids, families and orphans and generally be super helpful, loved and needed. The funny thing is that, after 35 years of mothering starting at 17, she’s doing the carefree 20s thing in her late 50s, doing very little planning, not really taking care of herself and just letting life happen. Turns out that her travel insurance came up last month and she decided it was too expensive to renew, so she let it lapse – a combination of apathy, a lack of planning and a life with very little money making a single large cost look impossible or silly. The drama is, of course, that she has no money or assets, so not renewing her insurance is a gamble with her three kids’ houses and savings. Cue email that basically said “Nope, that’s not too much, bank details pls. Not willing to bet my house on your good health”This happened when my Mum left my Dad. She had married very young and felt like there were a whole bunch of unfulfilled dreams to catch up on (spoiler: it didn’t work out as hoped/planned, and there are actually some experiences you can ONLY have when you are young).
Chatting candidly a while ago, talking about love and loss, she was a bit taken aback at how much more dating experience her kids had compared to her. Like… a whole world of experiences.
Being rejected, rejecting other people, falling for a friend – requited or unrequited, pining for a hopeless case, going through a gauntlet of first dates with no spark, just… a HUGE section of the ‘love and relationships’ spectrum.
She also got a bit blindsided: she’d never really paid her own bills or anything like that. Dad had always taken care of finances. There was a lot of learning to go through.
She fucked over Dad, but then got fucked over by her long-term boyfriend… The cycle of fucking-over continues. Life is sad sometimes. It would be nice if we could all be happy and safe.
Midnight screenings certainly have their ups and downs!
Saw some cool stuff on the way into the cinema, like a bunch of Stormtroopers on rollerblades for some reason, and some people made an archway out of lightsabers for us to walk through before going in. Totally dumb and awesome at the same time. Got in around 11 and they played Duel of the Fates for an entire hour on loop which does get old after a while 😛
Cake and I were super unlucky in that our screening was the one being covered by the media so there were a bunch of journalists and cameramen running around taking photos of everyone. At midnight they got everyone to cheer and holler and all that nonsense.
Then they started a cosplay contest (Powalen you jinxed us you jerk) that went for twenty minutes. And in the end the winner was someone dressed as Where’s Wally because why not. So all up our movie started half an hour late. Really thought our audience was going to riot with all the ads they played in front of the movie. Bunch of dudebros behind us were booing every ad as it started and yelling out all kinds of hateful stuff. So that sucked.
And then the movie played and all that nonsense was totally worth it! 😛
The end.
I was fully expecting to have to watch a bunch of ads at the start (the last time I went to this cinema I watched literally 20 minutes of ads waiting for Inside Out to start) but we had none. A warning came up that the movie was about to start, then it switched to 3D and the Lucasfilm logo came up.
Whoever ran that contest is a failure.
As voted by the audience. They deemed it was hilarious for Where’s Wally to win and not someone who committed to a really cool Star Wars cosplay.
Ugh. Sounds like your audience was a bunch of
shitbricksteenagers, then?About what I expected from a midnight screening haha. At least everyone shut up when the movie started. 😛
The dude who was trying to run it sounded legitimately pissed when he won.
B-ob, Freeze, Rockets and I just got the standard amount of ads before our viewing. Also a heap of nerds. So many nerds.
Well that’s what you get when you go to a post launch screening
I don’t get to see Star Wars until Saturday at 9am….
Jesus Christ – that is just TOO FAR away!
A long time to go…
I…
I could kiss you.
That was amazing.
I don’t get to see it until December 26th!
Holy shit, dude… How.. how can you do it?!
Didn’t want to go by myself to see it, and I’m flying back to AU on the 22nd (get in on the 24th).
For reals, see it by yourself!
Agreed! Going to movies solo is the best way to go to movies.
Han Solo. Hahahhahahahahahahahahhahahahhaahhaahaha.
Page Six is that way –>
It’s booked out at my local cinemas here in the evenings and on the weekend and I fly out next Tuesday during the day. Don’t forget that I live in a city where the biggest employers (Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing…) employ tons of nerds.
Monday 6pm.
Oh man… ohhhh mannn…
Stay strong, brother.
Oh, I have a plan.
*drops electronic devices into bucket of water*
…this may have not been the best plan
Well considering the first thing I saw on kotaku homepage was star wars review it might just be the best plan
*Le sigh* and at the bottom of this page
ha a ah aha ah
s rry the e water i my pho e s m kin typ ng har
Wow, great timing. I just refreshed the page and thought “hey I should check out what’s going on on the other sites”
I am not going to do that now 😛
That article doesn’t really have any spoiler in it, but if you’re keen on going in with as little knowledge as possible you’re pretty much going to have to avoid all of the Internet.
yeah, wasn’t too stressed about it. More that it was literally the first thing I saw online today
This is what I’m doing, no FB, Twitter, Instagram or Reddit until I see it.
Unfortunately, I won’t be seeing it until roughly 8pm Saturday while I’m in Cairns for work.
Friday night for me. *paces house*
Monday 28th…
Massive spoilers for the new Star Wars movie! Don’t read until you’ve watched it!
Hello.‘SupWasn’t planning on seeing Star Wars for a little while, clicked the spoiler anyway. You are a complete monster.
Ahoy hoy.NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I clicked on it! Han Solo is Chewie’s FATHER?! WHAT?!!?!
Ha, this whole time I’ve been thinking “I can’t believe Chewie was Han’s father!”
Yeah but how much did it spin you out when Chewie just starts talking in English suddenly and then has a conversation with R2?
What got me more was that R2 was voiced by holographic Barry White.
How about C-3PO’s sex change though? I mean I always kind of suspected but…
Oh man, I never thought of that. This changes everything!
So, who wants to ruin Christmas with another game of Subterfuge?
Noooooooooooope.
Not Christmas. But afterwards, sure.
Don’t forget to tag gingerchris and his friend who has no tag!
…I only ask the impossible of you because I respect your ability to rise to a challenge. Or some other similar management bullshit.
Elite: Dangerous: Horizons: Subtitle
@pixel_the_ferret_viking @mrtaco @IConstantlyForgetWhoElseOwnsIt
What are the chances I’ll find a
non-rip offdecent price for Horizons any time soon? I like Elite, but not enough to spend $83 on an expansion…Do you already have the base game? Because that should net you a discount, I’m not sure of the price exactly. I think it’s the same as the base game’s discounted cost in the recent sale. Also, buying in EUR looks like it’ll be around $8 cheaper.
But yeah, I dunno about cheaper prices any time soon otherwise, I mean it did just get released and all. Can’t remember when they first ended up putting the base game on sale, possibly around the middle of the year?
Yeah, it gives a discount of 10 pounds which really doesn’t seem like enough. Had I known this I could have held off buying the game at all for a couple of weeks and gotten it and Horizons for (essentially) $40 a piece.
From what I’ve played so far: hold off until it’s on special… It’s added some fantastic things, but being that you’ve only just started playing it won’t add anything noticeable for you just yet other than planetside star ports to land at… You still got all of the content from the 1.5 ships expansion (revamped missions, New ships etc) so you should have plenty to do for a while.
*wave* Commander Trikeabout.
pew pew pew. Not that I have guns. Or shields. Just the best jump drive, a fat fuel scoop and a lot of repair modules. Rigged for range…
You NEED to come home and buy an SRV!
Adds a whole new and exciting aspect to exploration!
I do.
An Ewok strolls into a bar and says to the bartender, “I’ll have a whisky and …… soda.”
The bartender says, “Sure thing—but why the little pause?”
“Dunno,” says the Ewok. “I’ve had them all my life.” #dadjokepagesix #PEWPEWSTARWARS #hi @strangeThe Ewok then turns to the customer next to him and raises his glass for a toast. “Chin chin!”
Then Jabba walks in and everyone toasts “Chin, chin, chin, chin!”
I made a pun recently…I painted a picture of the herb rosemary, printed it onto fabric, and used it to make a zipped pouch thingy for a lady named Rosemary. I’m half ashamed of myself, half proud of myself. 😛Google is really cool today
You are!
Not in Melbourne I’m not *melts*
I enjoyed it very much, my boss and i had a race to finish it. I couldnt remember how moonlight sonata went at all. good fun would waste 10 minutes again.
I started off trying to do them from memory, while actually reading the sheet music.
After about nine seconds I just resorted to listening to them and hoping for the best. >.>
ha my boss exclaimed halfway through “i dont speak sheet music google you ass”
and he started randomly clicking notes 😛
I got the Ninth first go! (I can’t read sheet music, thank goodness for the little soundbites)
Why didn’t Han Solo like his Wookiee steak?
It was chewy.#PAGESIXSTARWARSPUNTIME
#MAYTHEFARCEBEWITHYOU
D:
You’re a monster.
I’m reading a great book about Force levitation.
I can’t put it down.Did you hear about the jedi policeman?
He’s been on the force for yearsI think our Star Wars obsession has now peaked beyond anything we ever posted about Dark Souls.
It’s on par for sure.
We never changed our handles for dark souls
Because Star Wars is way better than Dark Souls.
#itneededtobesaid
But is it better than… Space Marine?
Shit, man.
That’s like asking me to choose between children.
I mean, shit…
So Star Wars?
Fart Holes was just another extremely good video game. Star Wars is a new film in a legendary franchise that we all grew up with and haven’t had a truly excellent outing from since 1983.
Wow, iiNet are pretty awesome. Just got an email from them effectively saying “Merry Christmas! As a gift, we’ve doubled your data allowance, effective immediately. Happy holidays!” Now I don’t have to worry about some random PS4 game downloading a 45GB patch and stealing half my quota. *cough* *AC Unity* *cough*
Oh man.. really? AWESOME! That means i should have the same email, with any luck.
Man I LOVE iiNet. I’ve never been so happy with a provider.
Dammit, no doubling of my quota for me. Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to make do with 1TB.
Did you hear about the perforated jedi jokester?
His jokes were tearableI feel weirdly validated by the fact Fallout 4 didn’t make the top 3 in the Console GOTY. It was a good game but all three of those were much better.
I bet it came fourth.
This is the only year in ages where I reckon I played more than one or two of the really “big” games any time near when they were relevant. Man, there have been some real treats, and next year also looks great.
Yeah, I thoroughly enjoyed my time in the wasteland, but wasn’t a game of the year contender for me. Just a great game. 🙂
I find my time in Fallout 4 very weird in comparison to previous Bethesda games? Where before I would just love exploring in Fallout 4 I prefer just doing the quests and find myself quickly burnt out on random exploration. I think part of the problem is my OCD to pick up everything that’s worth something which ruins the relaxed exploration that came with Skyrim, Fallout 3, NV etc.
Getting rid of weight would go a LONG way to making that game a lot better.
Oh gods yes fuck inventory management what if I need a rocket launcher suddenly Fallout, what then
There are mods for 3 that go the other way and add food and water requirements.
Also adding weight to ammo
haven’t done it but actually makes it really good according to friends. Much more a survival simulator and adds an element of danger to exploration.
Yeah but you can’t take the poll very seriously. I mean really? Bloodborne get’s 3rd place!?
Mark probably rigged it? @alexwalker confirmation? =P
I was more hinting that it should be 2nd or 1st. =P
If I was going to rig anything I’d find a way to put Descent 2 and Mount Your Friends on a GOTY 2015 list.
Mount you friends was this year? I thought it was older than that
It was, which was the joke :p
I set up a Fallout 4 settlement at the Starlight Drive In, setting up water purifiers in the heavily irradiated puddle in the centre. For some reason my settlers were drawn to it like moths to a flame. I fast-travelled there to give them more beds because the place suddenly exploded from 3 to 12 settlers and found them all clustered around the puddle, immobile, periodically succumbing to radiation illness and collapsing in place, only to stand up a minute later and collapse all over again.
Wound up having to fence off the entire area.
Delete the barrels and all the radiation completely vanishes.EDIT: Let’s just whack some spoilers tag on that i guess.
Dang, I thought I got them all. I assumed the radiation was just part of the environment.
In case you wanted an easy fix…
Scrap the barrels in the water.Thanks for the tip.
BLOODBORNE
So, Rom. Any better strategy than beating the shit out of him with the Tonitrus and doing more crowd control?
I have the best luck by circling around the pack for a bit until I get an opening and rushing in and whacking Rom until he teleports, ignoring the mobs.
Cool, just wanted to make sure I’m not missing an obvious silver bullet. I did try ringing for an Old Hunter, and he does OK on crowd control, I’m just not sure if he’s actually helping or it just seems like it.
Spoiler tagged just in case!
Main thing for me was to get the timing of the small spiders moveset down pat so that you can dodge everything they throw at you. I would take my time to clear them all in the first “round” (before Rom starts attacking you back). Once they’re all finished off, I would use all the buffing items I could and just wail on Rom to get as much damage in as possible before it teleports.Once Rom starts attacking back in the next round, don’t bother too much with killing the small spiders unless they’re in the way and focus on dodging/attacking Rom
Cheers dude.
I get the sense I’m a bit heavier on the Gatorade than the rest of you guys here because I am bad at gaems, but I think I’m on the right track here. I’ve gotten good at dodging the spiders I can see.
My super cheap strategy revolves around how the fight’s designed. Rom won’t tele out the first time until she hits a certain health threshold, so you can kill all the little spiderlings first, and then you’ve got free reign to start attacking her. Stop once she’s on about 70% health, regen all your stamina, and then start hitting, and you can drop her to below half health before her first teleport finishes.After that, I found it easiest to draw the spiders to one side, then just run in and hit Rom until either a spider got close or she did the big fuck off attack. Worth noting that the sky barrage attack is really weird, tends to just drop them to the front and left of you (?), and I dodged it once by… standing still. Weird attack.
Also, if it’s arcane stuff that hits you, I think the Bergenwerth robes have pretty good resist, if it’s the spiders or the hair-whip attack, then your normal clothes should do the job. Also, if you recognise the hair-whip attack, it may be worth it to just tank it to the face if you can, and chug some blood.I whip my hair back and forth
Ah Rom. I remember @batguy doing lots of swearing at that guy.
Also
Vicar Amelia.Also
The Shadow of Yarnham.Also
Ebreitas.Also
Watch Dog of the Old Lords.Also
…Amelia took me a bit (went off and did the other stuff) but I found the Supremes pretty easy. Focused on just kiting them away from each other and dealing with them that way.In order of sweariness it was probably 3, 4, 1, 2. #2 was the one of the lot that I finished in a single session.
I beat Amelia 1st tryBeing overleveled after the unseen village made the game not so fun. So I stopped leveling up. Its hard again 🙁Am I meant to be spoilering? I DON’T EVEN KNOW ANY MORE!
Screw crowd control. You’ll go crazy having to re-kill them all each time. Draw some away, run in for some glancing blows, run away, watch for the late stage projectiles and near blasts.However, if/when you get to the chalice dungeon, you gotta do some crowd control because you *can’t* draw them away…
I tended to whittle down the adds until they weren’t fucking everywhere and stabbing you when you wanted to get out of Rom’s artillery. Other than that, run up and smack him a few times, then be incredibly fucking patient as you do exactly that all over again. Took ages, but was the most stress-free way of doing it.
Next year looks terrible. Only a few games I’m genuinely excited for.
REmake Zero
The Witness
XCOM 2
Turtle SimulatorFirewatchStreet Fighter V
Hitman
Uncharted 4
Day of the Tentacle Remaster
DARK. SOULS. 3.
Total War: Warhammer
No Man’s Sky
We Happy Few
Deus Ex Mankind Divided
Yooka Laylee
Telltales Batman
Doom
DragonQuest VII released on 3DS
Eitr
Final Fantasy XV
Horizon Zero Dawn (so hype)
King Of Fighters XIV
Mass Effect Andromeda
Nier Automata
Rise Of Tomb Raider (proper release :P)
Tekken 7
Last Guardian (I’LL BELIEVE WHEN I HAVE IT!)
Zelda U (supposedly)
Torment Tides of Numenera
Unravel
Valkyria Azure Revolution
Warhammer 40K Inquisitor Martyr
What Remains of Edith Finch
Pfft. Joke of a year.
Er, reply fail to @redartifice but works as a standalone post anyway.
I’mma get me
Uncharted 4Dishono(u)red 2
Mirror’s Edge
Mass Effect Andromeda
Tomb Raider
Deus Ex
Telltale Batman
No Man’s Sky
Stellaris
I’ll be a busy man
I’m gonna get all the games I missed out on this year while I play all the games from last year
From what I can see it is missing
Far cry: Primal
The division (Anticipating it will be terrible but shred of hype remains)
Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Tentative interest)
Shadow warrior 2
and even though I won’t play it I have an interested in how scalebound turns out
Also, Tides of Numenera
I have so many cRPG that I need to play it isn’t funny
Yuuuuup also Endless Legend and always always giant Paradox games.
Man, twiddling thumbs indeed. Friend isn’t here today, got very few tickets to deal with and the ones that are waiting for responses need both him and the other lady who is also not here to decide on the appropriate response. I’ve run out of internets to browse, too. Especially without venturing into HERE BE SPOILERS territory.
Maybe I could just wander off and go see the movie…
Looks like I’ll be going to see it Sunday, myself
I’m strongly considering just getting it over and done with as soon as possible.
Though would prefer to see if Pizza Thief is up for it first 😛
I assume you mean the movie? I caved and bought a ticket for 7pm tonight. I hate people, but I’d rather deal with people now, rather than wait a week or three and still have to deal with people, or wait months till there’s no people.
Stupid people.
THE movie!
I don’t mind people in terms of a packed cinema, so long as they’re not being irritating which they tend not to be most of the times I’ve been. Just as long as I get a decent seat around the middle I’m pretty happy. But still considering foregoing all that just to get it out of the way because of the stupid people.
Damn stupid people.
Do you love Dark Souls? Like, really really love Dark Souls? I thought I did but it turns out I have a limit that EB just found.
https://ebgames.com.au/featured/dark-souls-iii-prestige
I just actually burst out laughing. Wow.
o_O
I hear that Christmas is round the corner…
You still have to get through Dark Souls 2. ಠ_ಠ
There you go @batguy, you have 8 days to complete it
*sigh* You just don’t understand football, Marge
Well, maybe it’s a response to those folks who complained that their ‘collectors’ editions’ of games have lost all sense of being ‘rare collectibles’ given that there’s 2 EBs in every shopping mall and each of them ends up throwing out half a dozen deluxe editions 9 months after launch.
Artificial value!
What……..?
Surely it’s a bundle with a console….. nope.
You know what the shitty thing is about working with your hands all day, i have cuts and bruises on my hands constantly and the dirt and crap just builds up even after washing my hands like 15 times a day. I mean its better than when i used to have hydraulic oil all over my body and have to have 40 minute showers to feel clean again, but i have so little to whine about now, this is honestly my biggest grievance at the moment. I really wish that there was some thin breathable reusable gloves i could find that dont feel like oven mits while im trying to solder.
Don’t worry Rocket, eventually the skin on your hands will scar up into an invincible shield, and then you can take on the life of a crime fighter with actually-only-slightly-tougher-than-average-hands.
ONE PUUUUUUUUNCH
Ever tried surgical gloves?
they arent super breathable. and my hands get sweaty and gross.
Ha, good thing I didn’t sneak off. The others all just got back along with the boss, apparently had some kind of workshop on this morning. Explains why it was so quiet around here.
Hahahaha holy shit, I just opened an Outlook window so I could send a message to Pizza Thief and pass on my number, since I haven’t been able to catch her at all today.
Moments later and before I’ve managed to even type anything, I get an e-mail from her containing her number. WITCHCRAFT.
have you arranged a second date?
I swear to god if you are playing it cool and ruining our chances ill never forgive you.
*our chances*
Wow you’re invested here rockets
We are all invested, remember the time freeze had to go into that house when he was collecting? and we were sure he would die, this is like that but the stakes ARE MUCH HIGHER.
Was that the time he got punched? Really nail biter that one.
My life is a constant Bond movie.
This is a great post to read without knowing anything it refers to.
I presume he had to try and collect someone’s soul.
The plan was to try and organise one… well, yesterday. But then the big Scottish dude showed up and ruined things. So then the plan was to do it today, but the trains were screwed this morning so we didn’t meet up there like yesterday, and then she’s been busy running around doing actual work stuff while I’ve been a lazy shit and yeah.
But hey now I have a line of contact so-
Wait a sec… Phone. Me. Bad.
Shit.
@cookingmama we need date plans here stat
I hear there’s a really good movie on at the moment.
Fell in love watching a star wars movie; there’s definitely worse origin stories =P
It’s christmas, so I’ll channel Uncle @freezespreston and suggest you show up to hers wearing a bow and nothing else.
Dude. The naked man is totally a seduction move. Don’t even joke about a weapon that lethal.
She’s thinking of you ^_^
Not just that – she’s stalking me out through the work e-mail system, too! So she’s just as creepy as me 😛
Although not sure how she figured out which one was me, since she didn’t know my surname. Unless she took a gamble with it listing the floor I work on, just as I was about to >.>
Well how many other people are called “Mr Taco” on your floor… honestly, it’s not like it’s John Smith!
Melbourne TAY: anyone want to catch up between Christmas and New Years? I currently have no plans from the 27th of December to the 2nd of Jan, but that will get filled up really fast.
Yes
We should get on that then!
Sadly I can’t host. I’m staying at my mum’s tiny place out in Wantirna and I expect my sister and Dad will be there too.
I’ll speak with Mrs Tigs but depending on what you want we could probably host.
Could do a BBQ with some salads and raid the board game collection. Depending on number that could be ok, you know what my place is like. Or if you wanted to do a beer deluxe or something similar that would be an option as well.
City meeting might be easier, board games would work too though. Depends who’s available I guess.
I’m in for that!
@scree
My (not so) Secret SanTAY gift arrived today, thank you!! 😀
As long as you liked it.
It’s awesome thank you 😀 I’ll put it on display in my room with my gaming collectible stuff, thank you!! 😀
I have no idea if my gift will be liked or not, so glad you liked yours.
What did you get?
I’m yet to open it, i’ve been so busy today /o\
I still have to send my secret santa gift >.< hoping I can get that done tomorrow before work..
I just opened it, it’s one of those Giant Microbe a Zombie Virus plushie to be exact, it’s rad, I love it xD
She bought you a mirror?
:'( meanie
😛
I’m glad you like it! I wasn’t sure if it was the perfect present, or a crap one
😀 haha it’s so awesome & derpy looking, which is kind of adorable 😛
Sorry I didn’t wrap it. I did use ribbon though!
You put it in a shiny box, which is so shiny & awesome though 😀 Also your ribbon skills are on point, mine suck 😛
I was going to wrap it, but I ran out of time. Also, the shiny box is reusable. No point in it going to waste!
Yes! Good point 😀 I like boxes, they’re simple, I also can’t wrap presents for shit. I think you & I had this conversation once actually 😛
We probably did. Being an arty, crafty person, i like to make them look good
Finally got round to watching the anti-cheese edit of Phantom Menace – it’s actually alright.
Jar Jar is a background character, his dialogue is in Gungan (or something similar-sounding) with subtitles, with no “me-sa you-sa foo-sa roh-dah,” he never gets his tongue caught in the power coupling, never breaks anything, and is generally alright. The pod racing is extended a bit, and Ani’s dialogue isn’t present, neither is the announcer’s English commentary. The Trade Federation delegates speak some alien language when conversing with each other, which makes their lines a little less on-the-nose, and makes the TF seem a little more sinister. Ending is a little abrupt, but has pretty decent foreshadowing.Looking forward to seeing what they’ve done with eps 2 and 3.
It’s a really good edit. Improved the film quite a bit, shows that one of the biggest things that Lucas needed was an editor with some cojones.
I firmly believe that one of the reasons the first three films worked so well was of the influence of Gary Kurtz, who had a falling out with Lucas midway into Return of the Jedi and left Lucasfilm.
Yeah, I think Lucas surrounded himself with Yes Men inadvertently. Apparently during ep 3 a bunch of his collaborators actually called him on some of his stuff (not maliciously, just “hey why don’t we do it this way”) and he took it on board.
Yeah but there was also stories of him firing anyone that said “this is shit, George”.
George couldn’t fire Gary Kurtz though, he was one of the best producers in the business.
So, Subterfuge launching Boxing Day. I think we have myself, @freezespreston, @gingerchris86 (+ friend?), @negativezero, @beeawwb and my mate Dan. Anyone else? goes up to 8 players so there’s a slot or two open.
Do we want to define what kind of game we’ll be playing before we start? We can choose a goal of “Mine 200 Neptunium” (the original goal) or “Control 40 Outposts” as our endgame, and can also choose a map type that is “Generator Heavy”, “Balanced” (default), or “Factory Heavy”
Gonna see if we can shorten the endgame. I liked the resource based goal, but maybe generator heavy?
I think shortening the endgame needs the Control 40 Outposts victory condition, but the map shouldn’t matter too much in that instance.
I’ve just had a cunning idea. Board game reviews on Twitter. Most of the articles I’m writing tend to have very brief sales pitches for games in them and 140 characters is a hard limit to get a point across in. Could be a fun little challenge.
On the other hand, it seems like a lot of work.
Burgle Bros: Like if Pandemic starred the cast of Ocean’s Eleven with randomised buildings
Cosmic Encounter – Make the people either side of you look to be the biggest threat and then swoop victory!
I didn’t tell you, I grabbed my own copy of Cosmic at PAX. Fuck I love that game.
Forgot I had a work christmas party on. Considering I work in a religious white collar office, I was expecting a fairly sober affair.
Quite literally the opposite.
I think I’m drunk.
Now’s your chance to tell them what you really think
on a thursday? Blasphemy
Well, they’d know.
Thursday is the best drinking day. No-one else around makes for quiet drinkies.
Based on a single data point I wholly agree with this 😛
Too much sacramental wine?
No such thing as too much when it’s free, but it did make me hungry.
*takes another bite out of jesus*
Prepare yourself you know it’s a must
Gotta have a meal in Jesus
Wonder how that mixes with the bucket of coffee you drank.
Aaahhh Catholic Christmas party, I remember you fondly
Okay so, Star Wars. I have some thoughts.
Isn’t it weird how they mentioned Midichlorians like seventeen times in the film? Okay, so they didn’t, but seriously anybody-who-clicked-on-this-just-to-see, the rest will be riddled with spoilers.I really liked it. May be the best Star Wars film (of course this is my opinion, I should hardly have to state this, but I’m the one who always prattles on about objectivity and generalisations). Yes, I’m serious, and yes of course it will never have the cultural impact of the OT and so on and so forth, but it was a very well made film (dem Disney Dollars). It suffered a little from following the same beats as the previous films, but overall it did a good job of subverting and lampshading, so that’s not too much of a criticism, and whether or not that note of familiarity throughout it is a bad thing or not is entirely subjective. Also, when it wanted to be funny, it nailed it. The early relationship between Finn and Rey was exquisite, and when they’re both gushing about the other’s deeds was wonderful. And Poe stole every scene he was in. It also did a good job of making the characters smart, but endearingly wrong at times. Rey’s choice of the wrong fuses, Han agreeing that Chewy had a better idea with the detonators. That sort of shit does a great job on making the characters more human, as opposed to the prequel’s idea which was to make Obi-Wan make bad jokes (which is why he’s the best), or have Anakin brood.Also, I couldn’t post this without mentioning how it looks. Geezus that is a fine looking film. The nearly B&W shots with a striking primary element look so good, but rather importantly they’re only one element, and it let itself show the whole gamut of colours at times. That said, I’m pretty sure one of the shots of Leia when she was talking to Han was out of focus (and the focus was very slightly off on Han, I think. Camera was focusing a smidge too far back, so his nose was a smidge blurry). Which is kind of funny.
Oh yeah, and I liked that it got the “mystery” of who Kylo Wren was out of the way fairly early, and even though it was obvious what was going to happen from the moment Han stepped onto the bridge, it was… a bold move? I dunno. Not sure how to phrase my thoughts there. And it’s a shame the “secret” of Rey (that she can use the force and her using the lightsaber) had to be kept a secret, because Hasbro has such an appalling history in regards to women in toys. The least they could have done is dropped her in a 2 pack with Finn which had the lightsaber in it.
Finally: Poor Captain Phasma. Had such a nothing part. I will weep for her shiny, shiny armour.
No, seriously, ACTUAL spoilers. No cutesy warning, this is Real.
I’m of two minds about the Finn-Rey relationship. Early was fine, they were treating each other as strangers who they were impressed by (even if Finn’s ‘impressiveness’ was based on a lie). But they took it a lot further a lot faster and that felt forced and wrong. A lot of interactions did, in fact. I thought their gushing at each other was too over the top. Same as the Poe/Finn brodown – I was nearly instantly reminded of that moment in Tales from the Borderlands where the two men descend into bro-speak. And they rushed too much. Half-way through the movie the pace accelerated because oh fuck we forgot to include some stakes: let’s invent a death star then blow it up in about as much time as it took me to write that sentence. Let’s blow up a Republic that the audience hasn’t seen and doesn’t care about (call-back to the absolute non-event that was blowing up Alderaan?) Let’s take a cute moment between Han and Rey and repeat it several times to make sure that absolutely everyone gets the message and can’t possibly miss it.Characters making ‘wrong’ decisions was an absolute highlight for me. Ren’s playing the whole, “We have the girl, that’s all we need,” card, trying desperately to be the ‘all is proceeding according to my plan’ Sith, but then not only does that turn out to be a bad move, but he also gets called on it and reacts like a human, with frustration at himself as much as anyone else and an attempt to make it right. His rage at hearing that the escape was aided by the trooper he had the feeling he should’ve done something about, back in the village.I like Rey as who she ends up as, standing before Luke Skywalker – the next movies should be great – but early early early Rey had me asking why the fuck they didn’t just put Hayden Christensen or teenage Mark Hamill in the role again. So. Fucking. Wooden. So much lost potential. There could’ve been an interesting person there, after all she did learn a fucktonne of languages and lived in an incredibly diverse cultural hub of scavenger/trader aliens. Her response to growing up in that environment, and the relationships she formed there was to… the emotional range of a 2 by 4? She didn’t even START being interesting until she was criticizing Finn trying to lead her around by the hand. It feels like her entire personality is going to be formed by the on-screen experiences and she was just a blank vessel until that point. Utter waste.The nudge-nudge, wink-wink references and damn near 4th-wall-breaking was a bit on the nose. Yes. We get it. They know we’re fans and are expecting to see some callbacks. I just felt like every other instance was me being distracted from a compelling story for the movie to poke me and say, “Hey, you’re watching a Star Wars movie! Isn’t that exciting!” Well, yeah… until you interrupted, it was. Now fuck off and get back to telling the story already.Speaking of Rey, the bit where she went from “man, that Lightsaber sure is messed up, but here I am holding a normalish conversation” to “fuck this I’m out of here” was a bit, err, abrupt. That bit definitely felt forced to me. Oh, but I do like that they mostly left her past a mystery, it’s a shame that they’re going to ruin all that in the later movies (mysteries are so much better than answers, and keeping her uninvolved from the rest of the universe would make everything feel so much bigger).I’m not sure her past is such a mystery, though. I kind of feel like they’ve telegraphed the next movie’s big reveal in a blatantly obvious way. (I’d be happy to be proven wrong, though)My view on the whole “mystery” of Kylo Ren thing is the complete opposite. I think seeing his face kind of ruined his character for me, didn’t really like him after that. He seemed like a really powerful and badass character, but after he took off his helmet for the first time he just seemed to come off as weak. I mean, he couldn’t even get into Rey’s head, someone who has had absolutely no training in the ways of the force.Also
Han dying kinda sucked, but I knew it was gonna happen as soon as he called out to Kylo on the bridge.Other than that, I loved it. Can’t wait for the next instalment.
I kinda liked that once Kylo took off his helmet he just looked a bit like a goofy kid. Felt like it showed up that whole trying-to-be-tough side, especially coupled with the “you don’t even need that helmet” line. And with the Rey’s head bit, kind of a desperately-wanting-to-be-greater-than-he-actually-is vs naturally-skilled thing going on. I think he’s meant to come off as a bit of a Vader wannabe, versus how Vader originally came across as being terrifyingly all-powerful.Biggest issue I had was they didn’t seem to be able to fit the factions into the world properly. So the Republic was the current governing body of the galaxy which would have made the First Order a terrorist/rebel group but there’s the Resistance but they’re fighting on the side of the government but they’re rebelling against the non government of the First Order which would make them law enforcement so what the hell are they resisting *head explodes*Also
Phasma really felt like she was there purely for the toy sales. Was there anything she did besides look memorable that couldn’t be just as easily solved by any other character and more organically?I think a lot of this is sort of a… tertiary issue from the prequels / Clone Wars (well, a problem that is solved by the Clone Wars), in that while the Republic exists, and while they have a parliament and stuff, they don’t actually have any real cohesion, or any sort of army (again, until they get the clones, all they have is a few hundred Jedi). So the First Order can exist (and it’s worth noting that they’re tiny. A quick bit of maths puts it at about 15,000-20,000 troopers who marshall out on the death planet thing, which is an absurdly small number, to be frank), and since the Republic can’t decide on anything as a group, they end up with singular systems/planets supporting a “resistance” against The First Order. But I agree, it’s definitely dumb. Surely the republic as a whole should just send out a token force to take out these drop kicks. Army of 2 million or so people is less than a drop in the ocean for what they should be able to send out (says the guy who’s been listening to Hardcore History and so has a sense for what WW1 battles were like and nothing else).Prediction:
Rey is Luke’s daughter.In their epic undertaking to mirror as many of the OT’s beats as possible, up to and including the cold-blooded murder of the elderly surrogate father by the Sith Lord of the day, I think they’re going to keep this conflict in the family. Therefore, Kylo and Rey are cousins.Rey was dumped on Jakku to protect her from Kylo’s wrath. Anyone talking about her family always said “They’re not coming back” instead of “They’re dead by now.” It’s a little thing, but I think it ties into Luke’s disappearance.Her reaction to touching Luke’s old lightsaber, I think, is something that probably wouldn’t make much sense without a family connection.Also it might explain how, despite the massive coincidence of their happenstance meeting, BB-8 made the decision to stick by Rey. Perhaps the information about Luke’s whereabouts was meant for her… at least in a this-is-your-destiny way, if not a this-is-the-resistance’s-plan way.And the most compelling thing – to me, at least, even though there’s no evidence – was just the look that Luke gave her at the end of the film. There was recognition in that look, and more than a little sadness. I think this is what that look was all about.Bit of a dick move abandoning her to poverty, though.Though:
Why is there a map to Luke’s location? Who wrote the map, and why? And why is it a map with a galaxy-spanning line at all? Couldn’t it just have a single location marked out? This – more than the characteristically incomprehensible political situation – was my primary issue with the film.SURVIVOR!
HOLY CRAP THAT FIRST TRIBAL!!!11!1 (still watching…)@powalen @alexpants @sughly @greenius
That second tribal, I totally thought they had Jeremy played! Was not expecting Keith to go! Yay Spencer!Dammit! I didn’t get home until like 20 mins ago so now I gotta wait like 2 more hours for my download to finish 😛 🙁
HOLY FUCKING SHIT OMG!
@alexpants @sughly @greenius
That tribal was one of the best I’ve seen! Rules overlapping rules 😛I don’t know how I feel about Jeremy winning. On one hand he does kinda deserve it but pulling the whole “I did it for my family” card always sucks 😛 I wish they could find a way of mixing up announcing the winner too. It’s boring when it’s a clean-sweep. Can’t really think of anything they could do though.
Kelley was robbed! Robbed I say!Tooooootally agreed. This season was hers! HERS!@powalen @greenius @phoenix
Also thought it was pretty cruddy that Tasha was completely rejected in the jury questions. Ok, so Jeremy had two idols, sure, but… did he really do that much more planning than Tasha? Wasn’t she just as involved in making calls? I dunno, not always easy to tell from the edits. Anyway, KELLY SHOULD HAVE WON UGH.Why are 3DS games from 2013 still so expensive 🙁
Anyone know where I can find cheap games apart from OzGameShop?
Because they’re just as good now as they were then, right? 😛
why are 3ds games in general expensive.
because nintendo.
Any particular ones you are after?
Bravely Default and anything which would be a good game to travel with I guess
Keep an eye out on here. Sometimes people cull their collections or find stuff cheap. It also depends on the rarity, whether it’s 1st party or 3rd party. Nintendo does drop prices but it takes forever. Your best bet is to go JB, Target or Big W the minute it comes out as they’ll often be on sale for $20 less.
For example, at the moment, Yokai watch and Triforce heroes are currently $47 at Target. Recommended retail pricing is about $60.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure all Nintendo games generally don’t descrease in retail price, unlike MS and Sony.
Hell, you still see Wii games retailing at full whack. It’s inanity.
As stated above – because Nintendo.
Received my (not-so-)Secret SanTAY gift, which is a fantastic post-apocalyptic survival pack filled with an assortment of home made Fallout-themed treats that really lifted my spirits after feeling kind of lousy all week. Thank you so, so much!
Wow! Sounds like your secret Santa stalked you good 😉
Glad you like it. It took me a while to work out something you’d like 🙂 Make sure the bacon jam goes in the fridge after you open it.Well, it was a wonderful job, the gesture and effort is really appreciated. I’ll make sure the jam is probably looked after. 🙂Feel like I’ve got a headache from the heat.
At least I get two weeks off after work tomorrow. 😀
Good news @rocketman I am playing it cool and ruining our chances and second date arranged hooray!
I think my German lass is trying to avoid me!
Mixed vibes! 😛
Did you make her feel a little green?
Wow, phrasing.
:'(
Well it was a nice 10 years or whatever, thanks for the memories & fun times Soundwave. Here’s hoping the bands from 2015 get their $$ they’re owed. Apparently Soundgarden cost 2.2 million AUD & Slipknot 1.6 million AUD 😐
Maybe someone will step up and bring us a new festival of a similar calibre now that Soundwave & Soundwave Touring has folded.
It’s probably because I finally went to one.
Sorry guys.
I went to my first Big Day Out in 2014. I killed that one. We’re the worst. 😛
*fist bump*
What should we destroy next? 😛
Stereosonic.
You’d be doing everyone a favour
God damn it Gooky 😛
You bastard.
Here’s hoping ticket holders get their money back too. It’s not looking too good in that department.
Yeah I was just reading that Eventopia released money to AJ MAddah into some kind of trust account. 8 million dollars in tickets sold, they allege they only released 1.9 million to him though, hmm.
Dear my secret santay person, I have not forgotten, I just need to get to a post office.
Yay, gaming chair arrived. Assembled, and tested. Definite improvement over the dodgy office chair…
So I updated Elite and logged in for a little fly around, and got a little closer to the Core… but I noticed a thing called FSD boost… which apparently if I set it to level 3 gives me over 70ly jump range! Shame i’m nowhere near a shop to buy boost module… 🙂
I don’t think you need to buy any modules from a shop, you need to land on planets and find yourself some of those resources it lists. 1 Arsenic, 3 Niobium, a Yttrbium and a Polonium. Bit on the rare side, good luck finding ’em 😛
…ok. I may need a planetary landing module then… 😀 Nearest shop is not exactly round the corner.
*invokes H2G2 “space is big” monologue*
Right now I am just collecting materials because it happens to be something I can do while driving around planets. Everyone needs a planetary landing module!
Wonder how long til I max out my supply 😛
Man, getting my arse kicked with these high level assassination missions. If it’s not an anaconda that’s just completely squashing me, it’s the security forces coming in to lend the guy a hand because he’s not wanted/refuses to start shooting at me.
Might be time to finally ditch the Sidey and move on to the Diamondback 🙁
Especially if I’m gonna have a landing module taking up my cargo bay/weighing me down.
I found a really great trick to Sidewinder combat in conflict zones:
1. Jump into a conflict zone
2. Realise that one team has two corvettes in the fight
3. Join that team
Fightin’ Anacondas ain’t fun unless you’ve got (big) guns son (since it’s a stretch, this is supposed to be to the rhythm (since it’s hardly a tune) of “Anaconda”).
You can use railguns or cannons,
Just please don’t lose that shield.
I have something like 18 of them on my hit list.
It was fun til they broke the space police, then boosted the AI, then changed how the missions worked 😛
Many moons ago I decided to get a bounty off an Anaconda. Managed to find a dead zone in its weapons, and I could sit there long enough to get a bit of shield back. Took out its shield, and got about a quarter of its health (took forever) before security and AI hunters joined me.
Oh actually I think that might have been before the hardpoint penalty too! Where if your hardpoints are a size lesser than the size of the ship you’re attacking, they take a damage penalty. So a medium hardpoint does less damage to a large ship than it does to a medium or small ship, etc. I run twin beams because of that (since with kinetic weapons I tend to run out of ammo before I can kill them) so it makes it hard to keep up with them thanks to having to shift most power into weapons. And then keep some for shields too.
Stupid overly manoeuvrable gigantic ships 😛
It really is bullshit how much the big ships can do. :p
Yeah, I think the energy balancing (I also use energy weapons) is something that Elite handles a lot better than SC. Having the nice clear system with obvious feedback helps. Lot of fun having to choose what you’re focusing on.
Went to see Star Wars last night. It was a lot better than I thought it’d be. Also shaved off my beard and now my face feels naked.
I’m with you on both points. SW was f***ing amazing, and I wanted them to restart it as soon as it finished.
Also, I always freak out after shaving my beard, stepping outside and catching a breeze, it’s definitely not a sensation you’re used to after having a beard.
It weirds me out every time I shave my head after it’s been a while, just suddenly being able to feel every tiny little movement of air around you.
Gonna be super weird if/when I get around to doing the beard now.
Star Wars Force Awakens discussion here (copied from last page):
SPOILERS HERE. LOTS OF THEM.
Prediction:
Rey is Luke’s daughter.In their epic undertaking to mirror as many of the OT’s beats as possible, up to and including the cold-blooded murder of the elderly mentor by the Sith Lord of the day (who has a troubled past with the mentor), I think they’re going to keep this conflict in the family as much as possible. Therefore, Kylo and Rey are cousins. (PS: I love that Kylo’s RL name is Ben, and that we only hear it once in the whole film. Love that so much.)Rey was dumped on Jakku to protect her from Kylo’s wrath. Anyone talking about her family always said “They’re not coming back” instead of “They’re dead by now.” It’s a little thing, but I think it ties into Luke’s disappearance.Her reaction to touching Luke’s old lightsaber, I think, is something that probably wouldn’t make much sense without a family connection.Also it might explain how, despite the massive coincidence of their happenstance meeting, BB-8 made the decision to stick by Rey. Perhaps the information about Luke’s whereabouts was meant for her… at least in a this-is-your-destiny way, if not a this-is-the-resistance’s-plan way.And the most compelling thing – to me, at least, even though there’s no evidence – was just the look that Luke gave her at the end of the film. There was recognition in that look, and more than a little sadness. I think this is what that look was all about.Also, she looks ridiculously like Natalie Portman.Bit of a dick move abandoning her to poverty, though.Though:
Why is there a map to Luke’s location? Who wrote the map, and why? And why is it a map with a galaxy-spanning line at all? Couldn’t it just have a single location marked out? This – more than the characteristically incomprehensible political situation – was my primary issue with the film.Her being Luke’s daughter feels really obvious, so I’m sort of hoping it’s not true. On your last point, I figured Luke left the map just incase anyone did need to find him.The prediction:
I felt like they made it so obvious that Rey is a Skywalker that they could ultimately take it either direction, as the obvious answer or as a clumsy bluff. I think it’ll be the former, though.Your other point:
I took it as not that someone crafted a map of where Luke went but a record of his jump points to try and pinpoint the final destination based on routes taken. No idea about the source of this information.You know what would have been cool?
If the map made no sense, and was a useless thing that led nowhere. But Rey touches the lightsaber on her hip, closes her eyes serenely, and the next scene is her landing on the world where Luke is. BAM!Uggggggh
Ultimately, the setup given lets them go either way with it. Personally, I don’t think she’s Luke’s daughter. That’s too many family connections and coincidence for the story. I think she is someone who Luke was training, and who was a father-like figure for her. Wiped her memory and left her on Jakku when Kylo Ren started mutiny.I figure the numbered movies will always be about the Skywalker bloodline. So my thinking is that either Kylo survives (and is redeemed) or Rey is a Skywalker, or both.Just had this thought and jumped back here to post it 😛
It would be especially weird because of the massive Solo family focus. Trying to do a similar level of stuff with the Skywalkers would get frustrating to follow. So yeah, youngling/padawan (one of several?) who was hidden from Ren’s initial tantrum.Yeah, if she’s Luke’s kid it contributes to the “small world” feel the prequels had, which I’m rather hoping they’re trying to avoid, but I’ll agree with Shane that the connection to the Lightsaber is a bit damning. I’d rather she wasn’t related, personally, but the option’s definitely there.That’s why a “memory wipe” works. She touched the lightsaber, saw flashes of an Imperial looking facility, Luke and R2-D2 and the Knights of Ren slaughtering people. Nothing there cements that Luke is her father, just that she has some kind of subconscious knowledge of the Force.The only thing that doesn’t make sense to me is her ending up on Jakku. She’s clearly left there in the hands of a slaver (who, fun fact, is played by Simon Pegg). Why would Luke leave her in the hands of poverty, as Shane mentioned? Anakin at least had a master, while Luke was just bored. But Rey, she is literally struggling to survive.EDIT: Man, theorising on this stuff and seeing other people’s thoughts is fun!
Between Rey, Ren, a cool looking mask and a potential memory wipe this is starting to feel a lot like KoTOR.Yep. I had that feeling for much of the movie 😀
To elaborate: The first time I saw Ren’s mask (with the hood on) in a trailer I immediately thought of Revan. So going in to the movie I was reminiscing about Kotor. Then the whole focus on travelling the galaxy to piece together a map, the memory stuff with the saber, the mysteriously adept but “untrained” Force user…This is not a criticism at all. If they un-canoned those games just so they could copy paste some stuff from it I’m more than happy. For me, Kotor is the greatest Star Wars story bar none.Makes me want to replay the two KOTOR games again.
Yes, because you need a reason…
Bad time to point out I’ve never played either?
*runs*
Especially since
Rey starts out as such a blank fucking slate apart from utterly generic independence/honour. She might as well have been a generic video game protagonist. She definitely comes with as much personality as the Inquisitor in DA:I. I can’t believe so many people are calling her a ‘great character’. I’m pretty sure she serves the same self-insertionist fantasy purpose as the equally-bland protagonists in harem anime.…Also because in every KOTOR run, the protagonist is a woman. Because I said so.Holy shit, BB-8 made the movie for me, it’s utterly brilliant how much personality and emotion they can get out of bleeping tin cans…The single best moment though, I absolutely lost my shit when Fin threw him a thumbs up, and he flicked the lighter back in response.
The entire audience lost it at that, myself included 😀I like to think BB8 will use that lighter in the third (ninth?) film to light a stogie as it reveals he is the Sith Lord behind everything.That’d be a great final shot after he and Darth Binks have an epic lightsaber duel.Holy crap that moment was so good. It’s no Big Hero 6 “BAlalaLAlala” but it’s damn close.I think the best part about that last moment is they moved on pretty quickly and didn’t dwell on it, like Bad Joke Eel, mugging for a reaction.
Fun Star Wars fact!
Actual Force Awakens spoiler
The stormtrooper who releases Rey from her restraints, leaves the room with the door open and drops his weapon is Daniel Craig.Citation NeededIf it’s not, it’s a sound alike. Noticed it the first timeI watched it. Was convinced after the third.
The problem with IMDB is that they list a bunch of uncredited stormtroopers, but none of them is him http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2488496/fullcredits/ and as it was a speaking role don’t SAG requirements need the role credited?Not if it’s considered an uncredited cameo.I’m also going off the fact that Simon Pegg said that Daniel Craig would be playing a stormtrooper in the movie.
Funny how the second bit carries more weight with me. Yep. I trustMark SerrelsSimon Pegg more than you. 😛I mean, technically Daniel Craig said he wasn’t, but then so did Eggs Benedict Cucumberbuns about playing Kahn in Into Darkness so…And yeah, like I said, if it’s not, it sounds a hell of a lot like him.And Craig also said that Simon Pegg wasn’t in it and we know that he was soooo… Yeah, ok seems credible enough.Haha, amazing!
I Want To Believe.
It would certainly explain the last line he delivers and how he delivered it.Spoiler buttons, Spoiler buttons everywhere! /o\
I mean, we can post without them if you want 😛
Nope! Nope! Seeing it this Sunday, I can catch up to them afterwards 🙂
This is part of why I decided, “Fuck it,” and booked literally the second-last seat in the midnight session I went to.
It was funny the one I booked, all of the center area was taken except this one seat randomly in the middle, so I took that xD
@pixel_the_ferret_viking I was reading an Elite Dangerous instructional about Bounty Hunting techniques and came across an easy way to explain the importance of warrant scanning:
“You just watch yourself. We’re wanted men. I have the death sentence on 12 systems.”
Then I’m about to be paid 12 times for one job.
Since basically all I did was bounty hunt, I loved it when I’d see an enemy, see they had a moderate bounty, then find out they were worth three times as much to some other guys. All the (trivial amounts of) money.
The people at my FLGS have an interesting approach to Netrunner. They tend to run two runner decks and two corp decks. One of each is made from whatever cards they have available. The other deck is made only from the core set. Not only does it mean that they can play on an equal footing with new players, they’re sticking to core concepts of the game and forcing themselves to play with cards that they may not have thought much about.
It’s actually really clever. I’m going to join in on that nonsense. Of course, I’m going to join in my own way by making the nastiest looking decks I can think of. Why? Because it’s completely against how I play. My current decks are very simple that just want to win before the other guy can. The decks I have in mind win by making the other guy unable to do anything. That’ll be fun. For me. Not the other guys. They’re not going to like it at all.
So Netrunner is fairly good then?
It looks quite interesting, but i feel i already have that void filled with the 40k Equivalent.
If you’re playing Conquest, you don’t need Netrunner. They’re very different games but they scratch the same sort of itch.
Then again, if you don’t have a local Conquest community, you almost definitely have a local Netrunner one. Turns out the game is crazy popular once you start to look for prople to play with.
Work Christmas party this afternoon, I’ve already eaten an entire stocking of gummi candies and there is a small child walking around the office in a business suit and I don’t know if I’m hallucinating that.
STAR WARS STUFF
Adam Driver was a revelation, i loved the flaws in his character, where vader and sidious almost seemed omnipotent, you can see the very real flaws in his character, he is young and unsure of himself and doesnt know what to do. His rage also makes more sense as someone who embraced the dark side in youth is told to embrace his anger and frustration, whereas vader who was told to supress his by obiwan. Honestly drivers whole performance just made the movie for meHe really did drive home the point of his character.Hue hue hue
Wow, Attack of the Clones anti-cheese edit.
It’s still pretty bad. No amount of editing can make Hayden Christensen’s acting bearable, or add fight choreography to a lightsabre battle in the dark.I disagree, attack of the clones had alot of great action sequences.
the movie becomes much better once anakin shuts his mouth.
Star Wars stuff. Yep, another one.
Mentioned on Twitter that there’s only 1 thing that bugs me about The Force Awakens, so I thought I’d expand upon that in a spoiler tag friendly place and invite discussion.The Death Star 2: Planet Boogaloo. So we see them “activate” the weapon, and destroy a bunch of planets. Cool. Fine with that. No issue and it was an awesome scene and the “from the planet” reactions really hit me (stuff like that always does. I love seeing explosions from the point of view of the people being exploded) hard. Then they need to recharge the weapon to prepare for the next firing.
IF RECHARGING THE WEAPON EATS UP THE ENTIRE SUN (“when it gets dark, it’s ready to fire!”) THEN WHERE DID THE “AMMO” COME FROM!?
2 possibilities. Either they moved to a new sun, and they never gave any indication that the planet could move or had engines, or it was a binary star system and they ate up the second sun for shot number 2.
And another thing. SUNS DON’T WORK THAT WAY. If the planet was orbiting the sun then eating the sun would change the gravitational balance of the system. Are there no other orbiting bodies in that system? Otherwise the other planets in the system are going to have a baaaad time soon.
Anyway. I can handwave this away, because frankly a weapon that uses entire stars for ammo is so totally badass that I can ignore the science for the rule of cool.
I interpreted it this way. The weapon doesn’t eat the entire sun. But when it stops eating sun (i.e. when it [“it” being the general sky/atmosphere] gets darker), it’s ready to fire. It’s basically an EXTREME solar panel 😛Or maybe these guys were right after all: http://bgr.com/2015/12/14/solar-farm-soaking-sun/That’s a better way of looking at it. Don’t know if it matches the dialogue (guess I’ll have to watch it again and check) but can be reconciled a little bit easier.Yeah, gotta admit, when I saw energy coming off the sun, I thought, “Well that’s a novel use of near-limitless power.” Then when I saw that it was actually destroying the sun, I was like, “Uh… how come that planet isn’t being suddenly torn apart by gravitational and electromagnetic forces?” That said, if the planet was ‘built to withstand that’ (well, it CAN ‘eat’ a sun, sooo…), then that would be the only consideration, beyond making sure that those other orbiting bodies in the system didn’t hit them before they bugged out. ‘Because fuck those guys and anyone they run into’ would probably be the attitude of anyone already prepared to destroy a star for the sake of destroying planets. When your reaction to obliterating a handful of celestial bodies is, “NEXT!” you probably have made it about as clear as possible that you give zero fucks about collateral damage.MY only objection around that plot point was
how they invented and destroyed a ‘ten times worse than the death star!’ galactic threat in about the time it took me to type that sentence. Stakes? What stakes?First Order: “Mwuahahahah, behold as we use the greatest and most terrible power the galaxy has ever seen to specifically fuck… THAT GUY.”
SMASH CUT TO GUY WE HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE AND NEVER CARED ABOUT.
Republic: *blinking in surprise* “Huh? Wha? What’d I do? What the hell guy, I w–OH SHIT”
Oh noes, a bunch of people we’ve never seen before or cared about died. How horrible. That was certainly a tense twenty seconds. Marvel as life goes on exactly as it did before for everyone we’ve seen in the movie so far and reflect on the horrifying insignificance of your mortality.
MAYBE they could’ve spent some time making us care about that in advance.
Maybe use some of that time that they wasted on ramming down our throats for the fourth fucking time that the newMary Sue‘protagonist’ is every bit as cool and capable as your favourite character and has earned his respect. Seriously. The first scene was enough, they’ve obviously never heard of subtlety.See I first thought that the planet they destroyed (since they gave no context) was Coruscant or Chandrila. Like, how badass would that be? The first planet they destroy is the seat of the New Republic? That would be so supervillain it would make me weep to the tune of the Imperial March.Goddamit! All the Star Wars posts! I hate you all =@
Then you’re not a very good Jedi Master.
I just.. need… to hold out.. until… tomorrow…. GAH!
AHHHHHH Thank you all for putting all Star Wars stuff in spoiler tags. I’m still dying though, probably going to have to go on media blackout until boxing day!
Will talk to you all after Christmas. Have a great time everyone ^_^
Last day of work then 3 weeks off!!!
WWOOOOOOO!!!
Adelaide! I will be all up in you soon!!!
To Celebrate – A final round of Chuloopa’s patented “in my ass game”
You know the rules – the last song you listened to followed by “in my ass”!
My Last Serenade In My Ass
How apt.
empty threat in my Ass
How did you know Chuloopa Jr’s nick name is “threat”?!
Crime of the Century In My Ass
The Man With The Machine Gun in my ass.
#ShotsFired
#ShotsFarted
Such good music.
Have you listened to the Distant Worlds versions of them? Absolutely incredible.
Beyond the original games and some Theatrhythm, I’ve heard nothing. Will have to look it up.
Edit: just listened. It was pretty great, but I love the percussion too much to prefer this version.
Killswitch were going to play Alive or Just Breathing start to finish at SW. Now they are not, and life is just that little bit more shitty.
I know, right 🙁
So many amazing possibilities from that show… all gone.
Disturbed are one of my bucket list bands, so now i’m wondering if i’ll ever actually get to see them live.
Also missing out on lordi is heartbreaking.
Fucking Refused, man. Refused.
And Deftones… I literally can’t even 🙁
All the small things in my ass.
At least you don’t need to worry about stretching
Can’t Cry These Tears in my ass
The Entertainer in my ass.
When I grow up in my ass
Although you just missed out on Temptation waits in my ass
You are listening to an excellent band.
Long white cloud in my ass.
Oh jeez.
Do Not Go Gently in my ass.
Welcome to the Jungle In My Ass.
The last battle in my ass
Holy heck… Everyone constantly talking about rocket league makes me think of how much i should get rocket league.
Christmas money, come faster!
@chuloopa
I grabbed The Great Devourer expansion last night, we really need to start playing this together soon, especially with the Necrons confirmed on the way!
And anyone else that’s picked up Warhammer 40,000: Conquest! 😀
Ohhh nice.
How is it? I still haven’t been able to get that expansion yet.
I’ve got:
1x core
The Scourge expansion
Zogwarts Curse expansion
The Threat Beyond expansion
…. I can’t rememebr if i picked up the howl of Blackmane yet… It’s hard to keep track. haha
So the Tyranids seem to have more cards(Not sure yet), and a different Command wheel. There’s actually two dials on this one, one for the commander, a second one (Attached to the same dial so it’s shaped like a SNES controller) for their own mechanic which is infestation. I haven’t read too much into it yet, they seem to have a lot more going for them, given that they don’t have any allies to call upon in their decks.
I’ve still yet to actually play a match with anyone yet 😛
Yeah, the reason the nids look like they get more is because all expansions come with 3 of each card, unlike the core set.
Where about do you live again? I keep forgetting?
South eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Edithvale, along the coast.
Damn.. that’s quite a distance, buddy. haha
Melbourne CBD has several games shops for us to be able to get a table in. I got my expansion at a good games store I never knew existed on Lonsdale street, it’s so hidden! 😛
Oooo nice – sounds like a plan
@chuloopa how flexible is your Friday night-Sundays? Cuz apparently these can stay open till quite late.
depends on the week, my friend, family obligations and all
A friendly reminder to Bristaybies that Freya and I are coming to town on the 23rd (Wednesday) and flying out on the 29th (Tuesday). All of my old friends are jerks that planned overseas holidays around the same time, so our schedule is amazingly free from Boxing day onwards.
Do things? Do things.
We also won’t have seen Star Wars so that could be a thing. As is visiting the GO Lounge and… I don’t know. Things. Do them.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__ @rocketmanTentatively sign me up. I think I have the week off, at this stage.
(I booked the time off, but like I mentioned at the start of the week, things catching on fire here means they may ask me to cancel that if things get too bad.)
I will be out of town from the 24th to the 28th and then I’m moving on the 29th so unfortunately won’t be able to catch up. 🙁
Say hi to all the cane farms for me.
Door to door greetings of cane farms, check.
if i can find a car to drive, ill take you past my old farm, its only 5 minutes drive from where your staying.
That’d be awesome, make it so.
i can do dinner on the 23rd but thats all i can do im afraid. 🙁 that sucks i would very much like to catch up with you and frey frey.
The 23rd is the toughest day to plan anything around. We get in around 5:30 and there’s both Freya’s sister and one of my best friends that we’d like to see before they fly out of Brisbane on the 24th. Those jerkbags.
eh its alright, im sure ill see you both a few times next year. Ill hug you real good next time i see you.
I have Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday off so should be good.
Yeah, i’m probably out, i’m working boxing day weekend & pretty sure the monday following it too 🙁
I don’t have any time off over that period, except fort he public hols obviously, but I’ll be at the hospital on Xmas eve for a while. I assume not all day, but that might be a possibility for me, depending on what my sis is doing. If she’s having an xmas dinner on that night I wont be able to, but otherwise, providing I have enough $ (which will be very limited given I got paid $500 less this fortnight) I may be able to meet up!
Yay, work Christmas party! *enjoys peaceful, empty office*
They are doing a christmas break up speech get together thing at the moment so my office is super noisy
I just ate too many Xmas snacks & am too full for lunch
#firstworrrrrr *falls into food coma*
Ugh… So close to home time…
Oh man, I have another 5 hours to go! D:
Due to my cushy job I was filling out my time sheet earlier, and so made the decision that I’ll leave at 4. The slacker in me is tempted to shift it closer…
4pm friday is great
The problem with leaving early at the moment is that I walk home, and it is way too warm right now. On the bright side, I can get home and down myself in a sea of cider, or something, so it’s fine.
i think im gonna stop off on the way home and get some cider and then run into jb and get jurrassic world and make nob watch it. 😛
Don’t reveal your evil plan, I wanted an in depth description of the revulsion on his face!
Yeah, I could but there’s no point. Meeting friends after & might as well get played :3
Or payed, but you never know
So on Monday I had arranged for Internet to get connected to my new place. I got a text message and email from Internode at 6pm that night to say it was ready, with my username and password and some configuration details. But there was no line sync. Decided to leave it for the night and deal with it the next day.
Tuesday night I get home from work and it’s still not working. So I spend over an hour on hold trying to get through to their support. Finally I get through and they run tests and they let me know they need to get a guy out to recheck the line. They give me their usual terms and conditions about it etc.
Wednesday I get a message to say the tech will be there Thursday morning.
Yesterday the tech arrives and is super confused. He is the same tech who connected the line on Monday. He double checks everything and confirms with Internode that it’s all working. The moment he leaves I get a text message from Internode saying that the line is now connected and that I need to arrange a cabler to come out and connect the MDF pairing….information that Internode never told me on Monday.
Now they’re trying to charge me $190 for having to send out the tech again to double check it because the connection issue was not “with the line itself”. They never provided the details he gave them in the first place (he even showed me the notes he left on the job, which included the MDF details).
Basically decided if they don’t drop the charge I’m going to cancel my connection with them.
And as an additional note, because they didn’t give me the details I’m going to have no time to get a cabler organised before I fly home for a week and a half on Sunday, and then I get back during the day before New Years when most of the places will be closed. Yay, good job Internode.
That sucks so bad,
companies, what a bunch of bastards.
https://www.tio.com.au/about-us
If they won’t drop the $190 and continue to screw you around just mention that you’ll be calling the Ombudsman to get a proper resolution rather than just going with what the ISP tells you.
It would be understandable if you want to move to another ISP, but half the reason these services are so dodgy is because they know they’ll lose you once you’re done spending money, but they’ll gain someone else who comes in fresh from being screwed by another ISP. By sticking with them and actually calling their crap out instead of rage quitting to their benefit you’re breaking the chain a little.
Yeah, already ready to go to ombudsman if they don’t drop it.
Just make sure you lodge a formal complaint first, preferably in writing (letter or email). The ombudsman will ask if you have attempted to resolve the situation first.
I still don’t understand how this can be screwed up so badly in terms of “confirming it’s active”. There really needs to be an overhaul of getting their techs to prove they can put their certs into practice rather than looking like they got it out of a darn cereal box.
And people said the TPG Experience wouldn’t leak over to iinet and internode…
I have no idea what you’re talking about, Internode is fine.
*quietly closes the Speedtest tab showing my 2.5Mbps connection on my 18Mbps sync*
*quietly complains about the 50Mbps I get on an 80Mbps iinet connection*
*Very quietly, as most people glare at me*
It’s hilarious really when I go onto TPG’s website to “test your internet speeds”, and on the page it just doesn’t load the embedded tool on the web page ever for me, it’s just a blank page.
That sucks, I was about to complain about my internet connection that seems to slow down to dial up speeds every 5 minutes for a few seconds but having a terrible connection is better then no connection
You could always just blame @rocketman and horse porn.
NEVER blame the horse porn.
Fine, 100% of the blame to Rockets then!
rockets is the problem and the solution.
By that i mean he is going to buy a long ass cat 5 cable and some hooks so we can have wired connections to our computers. Our wifi is so poop though.
SO POOP
I got some wall plates and ran the cat5 through the walls and roof so every room has a Ethernet port that wires directly to the router.
Did you electrocute yourself while doing that too????
Yes, I made sure to wire one end of the cable into the mains before I ran them especially so I could get a shock from cat5.
@rocketman As FreyFrey was so insistent to point out that time I stuck a screwdriver into my PSU, it’s only an electric shock, since electrocution – by definition – involves death.
Holidays. How I love thee!
So, now that I am student-free for the next 6 weeks, taybies tell me…
What should I do with this thing called ‘free time?
Buy 300 movie tickets and watch Star Wars in back-to-back screenings for the next six weeks.
Why? That movie’s been on DVD for years now, and it’s not Star Wars, it’s SPARTA! 😛
Try to take over the world?
But we try to do that every night
borrow beavwas ds and pokemon and release all his shinies that should take a few weeks.
Thanks for the suggestion. I would prefer that my marriage last to at least 6 months.
6 weeks holidays is the best.
Teacher five o/
\o
Doing a bit of a run around trying to get an answer for a few issues at work, and there seems to be a resurgence of people talking up CCleaner for totally unrelated things.
That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you about the little miracle that is CCleaner! It’ll fix your framerate, it’ll resolve your routing, it’ll unstick your stickables, it’ll debug your buggables, it’ll impregnate your wife and shoot your brother! It’ll summon the devil himself to wreak terrible vengeance upon this world casting every man woman and child into the fiery pits of hell, and it’ll make you whites look brand new again!
Or it’ll delete a couple of registry entries that may or may not be required and affect little to no impact on your system, then disable some startup applications.
CCleaner can be great…but even as someone who knows that they’re doing and how to use it, every time I’ve ever had to run it I always quadruple check the settings and pray to several deities because it scares the shit out of me.
The idea of people who don’t know what they’re doing using it is just… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viMki4VEaYs
I’ve never seen a personal use for it that wouldn’t be better to do by myself, but as an IT person that’s to be expected. The problem is that it has become this decade’s defrag…the magical cure for whatever a restart doesn’t fix.
Admittedly, I haven’t used it since I worked as an IT tech and people would bring in computers loaded with viruses.
I can’t remember the exact site, but it would give a step by step guide on how to remove specific viruses, and a couple of them required CCleaner. But they would provide every single setting you required.
Runs registry cleanup
Unused file extension .7z
thanks ccleaner you fucking dickbag.
I just use it as a quick way to clean my temporary data.
There’s a simple bash script you can run that does that…
well yes but
shutup
IM A TECH
Yeah, but then you need a client to run bash. Why not something like:
@echo off
cd /d %temp%
for /r %%a in (*.*) do (
del /f /q %~a
) >nul
cd /d “%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files”
for /r %%b in (*.*) do (
del /f /q %~b
) >nul
(I only had to check the reference for “for”. Hooray for being thrown into swarms of Window Core servers! \o/ )
Oops.
Hi Echo!
Whoops, I meant ‘batch’. Been working in bash all day…
I assumed either it was that or they’d quietly added bash to 10 and I missed it 😛
Is that where you bash your computer monitor until it does what you want? I do that.
Welp, I’ve already encountered Star Wars spoilers… on the comments section in a Clarke & Dawe video.
Fuck humanity.
It’s taken me I-don’t-even-know-how-many years, but I’ve finally gotten my way around to memorising a new version of The Entertainer.
The vanilla version used to be one of the billion rags I knew, but I found this kind of fancier version ages ago and tried learning it, but my head just refused to learn anything new at the time. Then I forgot a tonne of the songs I used to know, along with this one. Tried to get into it a few times over the years, but was always too foggy-headed to make any headway. BUT NOT ANYMORE!
*flex*
Nice!
I always found that this method would help me get the simple structure of a song to actually stick in my head:
Thankfully I haven’t forgotten that one.
Neither the URL, nor how to play it 😛
Unrelated piano story: The shopping centre next to my work has a piano sitting there, begging to be played, so I’ve been very tempted to see if I still remember any Christmas songs, and to play & sing over what the speaker system is playing.
And I never learned any form of The Entertainer (considered learning the Billy Joel song at one point, but that’s unrelated), which makes me a rather terrible piano player.
Never mind The Entertainer, get onto Maple Leaf. Then you me and @greenius can do this 😛
I don’t have a piano any more, so it’s a little hard. Oh sweet baby grand, how I miss you.
What about The Deficit Rag?
Had to google it >.>
I thought you were a Simpsons fan.
I was!
Don’t think I’ve seen an ep in years upon years by now 😛 Probably not since before the movie.
One day… 😛
I’m belly laughing at this and I feel terrible for it
Just finished my first ever playthrough of bloodborne.
It’s definitely my GOTY. I regret over leveling my character, it made the last few bosses too easy. Ended up finishing the game on level 77, missing the cainhurst boss entirely (that was the only one I found too difficult and didn’t know I couldn’t come back to it after the ending).
Even though a lot of die hard dark souls fans complain that there isn’t enough diversity in the areas, I think it nailed the gothic aesthetic. I do think there was a lack of weapons and costumes (I practically finished the whole game with just my axe).
Two game mechanics I didn’t enjoy was the farming for blood vials rather than refilling like ester flasks, and the frenzy which killed me more than enough in nightmare of mensis.
Apart from that, I just love that souls games respect me as a player and don’t hold my hand or feed me info. It’s there if I go looking for it, and nine times out of ten I found all the secrets simply on accident.
EDIT: one other thing I forgot to mention was that the game didn’t really force me to use the pistol. It was there but I never got a handle on it like i did with parrying in dark souls. I probably fired the pistol 10 times in the game and just used a double handed weapon or the torch.
Also, I’ll probably play demon souls before I start NG+
I am in Yahar gul unseen village. Fucking chime maidens.
The step up from difficulty there was crazy. I remember spending a lot of time in central yharnam because I was getting the hang of everything, but then I ended up spending even more time in the unseen village.
The guns make the last boss, and… err, whatsisname on top of the roof (I suck at names) a hundred times easier, but it’s not like they’re essential (I only really learned how to parry very late game).
Second date went well 😀
Yay ?
AYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Inb4 don’t make it to bed til 5 again. Friggen night riders.
You’re so rubbish at this, Gooky. You’re supposed to stay out all night. 😛
Oh and good news – I had the presence of mind to realise that climbing on top of the rocket in th.playground would be an extremely bad idea.
@blaghman I think we spent as much time as possible making out outside her house as we could with the old creepy guy watching from the park across the road. Unfortunately she’s moving tomorrow so couldn’t stay out too late 🙁
Ok so apparently the night rider stops at Camperdown instead of Newtown. I have no idea where that is. I’ve now gone St Peter’s to Newtown to Petersham to Lewisham, still haven’t seen a bus stop. Onward!
Oh god that was close. Wasn’t quite at Ashfield yet when the bus came past, thought he wasn’t stopping and gave the double bird. But then he did stop and now I’m on my way home yay!
This is weird, I left later than last time from the same spot but managed to get back way earlier. Must’ve been doing something super wrong last time.
@ynefel @jimu:
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/12/18/bandai-namco-teases-a-countdown-for-a-mysterious-game/
Looks like God Eater 2 localization!
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Yis!
Ran into an old mate of mine yesterday after work, he’s opening a rocker bar in town, I jokingly pitched to him if he needed bar staff i’d be willing as long as I got my QLD RSA. He said sure, so I could possibly have a 2nd job lined up for the night time, heh.
Also to my Secret SanTAY, I *just* posted your present this morning, hope it gets to you before Christmas, the lady at the post office didn’t say it wouldn’t so fingers crossed. Also I do apologise at the lack of wrapping it D=
It’s hot in Melbourne.
I’m going to die in Brisbane.
Help.
It’s not even that bad up this way honestly.. Only 26 degrees on the Gold Coast, and the humidity isn’t even that bad today for once either, only 51%.
Damn! Lucky sum bitch! It’s 34 at my place, even though it’s only supposed to be 29 today 😐
Haha, i’m sure it got hotter. At least the air con was semi-working today at work is all I can say..
Hmm maybe I’m not used to it. We’ll see!
More dry heat here than anything but as long as I get a place with decent air-conditioning I should be fine.
Haha dry heat up here, that’s something I wish we had more of. At least in that you don’t sweat like a motherfucker and drench your clothes to the point it looks like you went swimming unlike the humid heat we see here 🙁
Move to Seattle.
5 degrees right now after a high of 9.
Does it actually rain a lot?
Bit of an update for those who are interested, and don’t have twitter/fb.
Been a bit slack posting here this week cos sick etc. Thursday morning I woke up with involuntary leg movements and twitches. Went to doc and he sent me to the hospital.
Had a rather pleasant experience at the hospital for the first time ever! Was ushered through to the fast track waiting area, where I was seen within 15mins, and then the doc looking after me, came back to update me every 10-15 mins, even if he had no updates. Never had such great service at that hospital before!
After all the tests etc, they were unable to determine the cause of the twitching, but the doc was having a bit of a giggle at my spasms at times. (They did look a bit strange at times, like my calf muscle contracting and relaxing around 100 times a minute in a constant flutter while I was trying to talk to him.) Then he did a nerve test to check if I had feeling/numbness in various parts, and as he got to my left ankle area, i twitched, and my leg just shoved itself straight in to the needle. Must have gone in about 2cm where is was only supposed to tap the surface. That kinda hurt, but not too bad. Made him feel terrible though! Poor guy!
All in all though, they don’t know, but given how many other issues I do have, I’m not surprised.
They ended up calling my neurologist to see if there was anything else he’d like done, but at this stage, no, so they gave me some valium and a script for more, and it seems to have settled down quite a bit thankfully! I can finally sit still for longer than 5 seconds!
Booked in for my colonoscopy on Jan 8, with a pre-appointment on xmas eve, and probably luckily so, as the stool samples I did showed blood in them too. So got blood in my urine and poop 😐 Yay :\ Still, at least I’m finally making some progress!
Potentially related.
Hope they get to the bottom of it. All the best.
EDIT: Reply fail. Haven’t done that in a while.
heh not sure they were related, but even if so, I was just happy to be updated every so often. In the past, I would usually sit in the hallway or room or wherever they dumped me, after treatment, feeling better, all ready to go home, and the doc would be nowhere to be found. In those days, I could easily wait for 3-4 hours just to get released to go home after feeling better. I hated going there. Way better now! 🙂
But, my muscle spasms were quite amusing. Just sitting there doing nothing, at times my calf muscle looked like it was on one of those electrostimulus (sp?) machines. Was contracting and relaxing about 100 times a minute! That wasn’t as bad as the thigh/butt muscles though. They didn’t twitch as often, but when they did, it was quite intense, and my whole leg/body would move. Imagine trying to sit, while one side of your butt was constantly tensing up and relaxing.. not the most pleasant feeling after about the 1st hour when it gets sore from not only that, but also havin g your body weight on top of it 😉
Got around to setting my PS3 up with American Netflix. Disappointed to find out it doesn’t have King of the Hill or Daria 🙁 I was hoping they were on there. Oh well I can watch Dexter, Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad, Burn Notice & a heap of other shows now that aren’t on Australian Netflix at my leisure.
I think that there’s not much of that stuff on Netflix because it’s been made exclusive to Hulu.
Oh right, damn.. Thanks!
Hulu has a great lineup but is a bit expensive ($8 with ads before & after episodes, $12 for no ads) and I feel like Netflix has better video quality. I subscribed to it because it’s got a fantastic lineup of BBC documentaries like Horizon and so on. Also has a better lineup of older anime and you don’t have to wait for stuff to finish before it’ll appear like on Netflix.
Ah right, fair enough. Sounds like a decent service. Wish I could sign up to it, without some trickery 🙁
Also The West Wing.
If you’re into that 😛
Damn it, Summer… Why do you have to be so sweltering?
Does anyone want a copy of Disney Infinity 2.0 with the portal and Merida from Brave figure on the Xbone?
OMG Star Wars is sooooooo good. That is all.
Star Wars viewed. Internet hiatus complete.
I’m meant to be seeing it boxing day I think.. Friend wants to see it, said i’d go with her. I haven’t seen Star Wars since I saw episode 3 in cienmas I think.. It’s been a while.
Fuck you Blaghs!You’re supposed to tag me, so I get the momentary joy of having a notification, only to be let down when I realise what it’s about.
Damn. I ruined it.
Fuck you @Blaghman!You raised my hopes and dashed them quite expertly sir, bravo.