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Last day of work for the week, wooo! Gotta get my Brisbane onnnn
Monday is Friday? Do you live in backwards world? ??
Yes! But no. Working today, public holiday tomorrow, annual leave until the 3rd. GOOD TIMES
Kung Fury!
…Ok!
Best thing on netflix 🙂
Completely unrelated to anything or… COMPLETELY unrelated to anything? 😛
I got Netflix.
I love it!
What should I watch??
Ridiculous Six.
So cruel.
You have no heart.
Everything!
So far we have only watched Homeland.
3 seasons in a week :S
Is this the future of television??
Yes. It’s also the Foxtel Killer.
Yeah I agree. We are planning to cancel our foxtel subscription.
What do you like? I tend to watch a lot of documentaries. Mum and I loved Under arrest but it’s very short.
Oh I’m just curious to see what other people have enjoyed or recommend, then I know where to start re checking things out. There is so much content it can be overwhelming at first.
So there are a lot of interesting documentaries. Generally if you just scroll through them you’ll find something interesting.
I watched FBI files, Joseph Fritzl: story of a monster, Aileen Wuornos: Selling of a serial killer, Jonestown: Paradise lost, Forensic files collection, The new detectives, Hiroshima, Balibo, pompeii the last day and Myth hunters.
These tend to be good shows for me to sew to, as they don’t require I watch it to actually get the story.
We’ve watched several series too. Mum likes The Killing and The Fall.
I might try The Fall for some more Gillian 🙂
That list of titles, and no Making a Murderer?
Not yet. It’s the next one.
I was primed to watch Making a Murderer, but then really didn’t enjoy it.
Pick a direction; grab some snacks; take the month off and binge =P
Like @scree I watch a ton of documentaries on Netflix. Good to sort of half pay attention to when sleepy and good to put on in the background.
I don’t know about the AU range, but the US one has a bunch of documentaries from Nova, which is a PBS general science show that has a bunch of interesting documentaries. Some of the best are on Netflix. I wish it was more comprehensive though. Nova is inspired by BBC’s Horizon series which is basically the same thing, but Horizon is IMO even better.
There’s some fantastic Ken Burns documentary series on Netflix which are great for putting on when you don’t want to pay attention to the screen as much and are doing something else, like the ironing for example. Stuff like the Civil War. It’s very, very dry so great for sitting in the background.
They also have a ton of pulpy stuff that would normally be on Discovery or the ‘History’ Channgel, like Myth Hunters and so on. Some stuff which is quite entertaining but complete shit involving pseudo-archeology or cryptozoology or the like. Don’t watch Ancient Aliens though, it’ll make your brain cells fall out.
Other than that I tend to use it for movies. Not a big TV series person – my spare time goes to anime & games, rarely to TV stuff. The two recent Marvel TV series (Daredevil and Jessica Jones) are excellent though, you might want to try them.
Oh, and if you want to watch a straight up fantastic documentary film: Jiro Dreams of Sushi.
In no particular order, this is the stuff I remembered enjoying…
– Orange is the new black
– House of Cards
– Chefs Table
– Suits
– Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
– Sense8
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Narcos
House of Cards
Bloodline
Arrested Development
Falling Skies
Firefly!
House MD
Brooklyn Nine Nine
I have only managed to watch Daredevil (1st season) that was pretty good. I am currently about half way through Narcos which is also excellent, but It depends what you like to watch.
cant go wrong starting with those ones in my opinion (for what its worth to you)
Sense8! Best show on there.
Seven deadly sins is a good anime to watch. Otherwise I watched the shit outta suits
Loved Seven deadly sins.
Season 2 this year!
Sucks that Netflix has exclusive streaming rights though, means no simulcast.
I’m currently in my trial of Netflix, working my way through a series before I move on to the next.
Just finished BoJack Horseman. Extremely enjoyed.
Daredevil.
Jessica Jones.
Easy A
The Devil is a Part-Timer.
Big Hero 6.
Bojack Horseman.
Easy A
Bob’s Burgers. (Possibly US-only.)
Archer.
Arrow.
Flash.
Easy A
Space Jam.
Danger 5
Dredd
Vikings
Easy A
The Emperor’s New Groove
Tangled
RED
Zoolander
Happy Tree Friends
Easy A
Thing’s more than paid for itself with those in the last year.
I think you forgot Easy A in that list.
Good point. Everyone should watch Easy A more often.
Never seen it. #TrueStory
What, like… not this month yet? That’s a bit poor, mate. Not many days left in it.
Like, ever. Ever ever. The visual interpretation has not passed my retinas at any epoch.
…
I… I’m so sorry. I didn’t even know a condition like that was possible.
If you need help, I’m more than happy to come over and get it started playing for you.
@transientmind – It’s actually on “My List” on Netflix, just working on TV serieseseseses instead.
The important thing is that you’ve admitted you have a problem, and have taken positive steps to overcoming it.
I don’t know what it is.
Dragons: defenders of Berk / Race to the edge
Daredevil
EDIT: Just saw they have The world fastest indian. Watch that
Can I just say how borked it is that we get the Dragons TV series but not the movies?
Well I think we only get some of the TV series as well which is a bit odd
Yeah, we miss Riders of Berk and… I think there’s another one. They’re as bad as Pokemon when it comes to naming seasons.
I think defenders of berk was the 2nd one.
Odd we don’t get the movies but I own them so doesn’t really bother me
Yeah, I’ve got them as well it’s just inconvenient. #FirstWorldProblems
Good morning Australia!
Today is a work day, sandwiched between holidays, uncomfortable like a rough, disappearing g string.
Speaking of, anyone else hitting the beach tomorrow?
*images*
Looks like there’s a fair chance of rain. Might get a couple of friends over, fire up the BBQ, drink beers, play board games, listen to the Hottest 100.
Going to a house party tomorrow for bbq and hottest 100
Nothing really planned for us. Probably a play in the park.
Saw Hateful Eight yesterday and thought it was a little disappointing, definitely my least-favourite Tarentino film. There’s plenty of substance to it and as you’d expect with Tarentino, a high school English teacher could spend weeks breaking down all the techniques and influences from past works – but, despite the ensemble cast, I didn’t feel there was a great deal of depth to any of the characters. And, for a movie that is predominantly shot in a single location, that’s a real killer for me.
I’m surprised he continued with the Western genre after the incredible Django.
Ranking his movies is a task, because they’re so different. Here’s a very non-committal list:
Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Django Unchained, Kill Bill, Jackie Brown, Inglorious Basterds, Death Proof, Hateful Eight.
Very similar to what I’d rank, though I would put Reservoir Dogs number one, Jackie Brown last and the rest pretty much equal. Haha, so nothing like your list, really.
Same, same, little bit different?
It’s a list for the sake of having a list – much less of a challenge to split them into three tiers (Pulp Fiction – Kill Bill, Jackie Brown – Death Proof, Hateful Eight)
Hello everyone. If you noticed I was gone from Tay most of last week, I needed to take a break after what happened.
@pupp3tmast3r thanks again.
Not much has happened over the week.
I finished the splatoon bookmarks
http://imgur.com/a/CxlW6
And I also passed my driving test.
I figured it was the reason we couldn’t get to page 6.
Congrats on the driving test! It took me two goes if I remember correctly.
I highly doubt I was the reason that Tay didn’t reach page 6. I don’t think I post that much.
Also, would anyone be interested in seeing the bases, the beginning of the bookmark process?
Yes I would!!
On page 2. I was told to just post them. I’m sleepy enough to do it.
Did it seriously not get to page 6?
It used to get to 20!
Must be the holidays…
I watched Borat again over the weekend – definitely not as funny as I remember. You reminded me of his driving test and that is probably the funniest part of the film.
Does anyone have any good tips for early progression in darkest dungeon ??
Not having played it myself, I’m only going on what I’ve heard from others, but swapping out characters for lower level characters is apparently extremely important.
Turn on the lights…
I only played early access a few months back but one thing I remember taking away after losing a few times was get a rotation of team members going and don’t over-extend into a dungeon. You’ll know in the first few fights if this is a fight meant for your level.
I’m doing… decently well in my current run (in that I haven’t had anybody die after 1.5-2 hours), and it’s mostly from playing it safe, and keeping the light up. If you’re willing to spend the money you can survive without a dedicated mage through food, but it can be rough. Buffs and debuffs are very strong, but they’re often not worth the damage you lose for that turn. AoE attacks are your friend, but be prepared to use single target ones for pesky enemies, and the way bleed (and maybe blight, I’m not sure) stacks is extremely strong if you’re against a single target.
Whether or not you’ll “scout” is down to chance, probably has something to do with light, and characters you have, and if you’re near the end of the dungeon, and the area’s scouted, feel free to let your light drop because the rewards are much much better, it’s just risky.
Oh, and be prepared for everyone you care about to die.
Thanks all ! Appreciated
So has anyone confirmed if the new Pokemon 3DS is coming to Australia? So far I think I’ve only seen the 2DS announcement. Of course, I haven’t looked at all. BUT I GUESS IT’S TIME TO BUY 3DS NUMBER 3?
Far as I’ve heard, we’re not getting that one. But someone mentioned apparently we might be getting the plates! IMO better to get a black unit and a set of those 😛
That makes me sad. Could I buy one from overseas (assuming stock etc is fine)? Or are there pesky region issues on the Nintendoh’s?
Yeah, still all region locked. Well there is region-free stuff available through homebrew. But I think it might run into troubles with the latest 10.4 system software? And not sure if these new systems would have that on board already or not.
But if they’re coming to Europe then you could get one of those units and still play local games just fine.
Thanks for the info 😀
Are 2DS games not compatible with 3DS? (I feel so out of touch with the hand held scene these days)
They are compatible. But 3DS, yo.
Delicious clamshell.
A 2DS is a 3DS without the hinge, and the 3D capability. Ie, the perfect console for small children.
Yeah I knew about the difference between the 2 units, but I wasn’t aware they were making 2ds only games. 🙂
Neither was I, when did this start happening?
They are? Since whennnnn?
Isn’t this what this whole thread is about? No 3ds version of pokemon?
They’re talking about the special edition consoles that are being released in other regions. Nothing to do with the games.
Correctamundo! The handheld device itself 🙂
ooooh ic! I thought it was about a pokemon game! lol I really am out of touch with handhelds… or just stuff in general I guess these days, but at least I have a valid reason 😉
Morning TAYbies! Thank you once again for your magnificent gift and generosity over the past week! When I last checked, my campaign was up to $2225, and that gift of groceries being delivered to me on Saturday was just totally magnificent!
Last week was such a yoyo week for me. Down due to my health, up cos of the campaign, down due to being told I’m not allowed to work for a month, up cos of the surprise on Saturday!
Here’s hoping for a nice stable week, or at least limited to the up side of things!
Off to see psychiatrist this morning to get reviewed for continued prescription of one of my meds (not related to my cyst) but my wallet will be screaming none the less. Bye bye $300+.
Once again, thank you from the bottom of my heart for your generosity and lovely messages I have been receiving!
As soon as I’m settled into this new job I’ll be sure to give you more money to help froend
Wow! Cheers man! Just make sure you don’t put yourself out because of it! As much as I need help at present, I don’t want to put anyone in a difficult position because of my problems!
Morning!
How was the weekend folks?
We had friends over from Canada visit for a few days. Very very relaxing few days.
Anyone have predictions for the number 1 in hottest 100 tomorrow? I failed to vote this year which is the first time in a long time I’ve missed it.
I haven’t even listened to Triple J much this year :\ Like you, it’s the first year I haven’t voted in a long time, but I figured there’s not much point since I haven’t heard much. I hope Seth Sentry makes it in there though! He kicks ass!
I voted like it was 1998 – Custard, Chemical Brothers and Prodigy all had new albums last year ^_^
Chemical Brothers released an album and I didn’t know about it.. man… I must have been living under a rock.. I’m gonna have to find out more about this!! HOT DAMN!
Born in the Echoes.
The single Go! is old school stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2RPDZkY88
Damn.. 10 seconds in and I’m in love already! Thanks!! 😀
I found a … possibly legal, possibly not… way of listening to the album… damn! I’ll be adding this to my collection some day 🙂
Hotline Bling by drake or A tame impala song from their album currents.
honestly its a pretty open year. Lotss of good tunes this year.
Maybe Magnets by disclosure.
Hotline Bling is one of those songs that makes me feel like an old lady (because I can’t stand it).
You’re not alone there. It’s a very strange song that I don’t like at all.
Oh man, I just started listening to Currents the other day! But of course my favourite track is “The Less I Know the Better,” which I think is distinctly different than.. pretty much everything else I’ve heard of Tame Impala thus far, heh.
If hotline bling gets it I’ll be shitty… It’s such a lousy song.
Given that everyone everywhere has been playing it non-stop for the last 3-6 months (it feels like longer) several times a day, I fully expect it’ll be on the list. That and fucking Uptown Funk.
Uptown funk was on the 2015 countdown
Oh good. Showing off my relevance.
This year is all about Downtown 😉
I actually still kind of like that one, despite the gross overexposure that goes hand in hand with something being popular on the coworkers’ radio.
(Four times a day is too much. Yeah, I know that they need to make sure every demographic gets at least once chance to listen… I should probably get the coworker to switch stations at least halfway through the day so we don’t have to listen to the same songs over and over again.)
Lean On by Major Lazer
yeah this is right.
I don’t have any, cause I know of only 1 song in the voting for the hottest 100 & that’s my mates bands (In Hearts Wake) Like A Version of Vice Grip by Parkway Drive. I’m not a fan of their music (or Parkway Drive for that matter), but I really like that version they did. It’d be cool to see them take #1 but I highly doubt that would happen 😛
You’re not a Parkway fan? I don’t think we can be fronds anymore. Because, you know, if you don’t like the same bands as me, then you’re obviously wrong.
Hahaha. I saw them live at Big Day Out one year if that counts. Didn’t find them overly enticing 😛 Reminded me of Lamb of God a bit lol.
That’s pretty good praise! Being in the pit for LOG last year was possibly the highlight of the whole 2 days.
I think Parkway’s best album was probably Deep Blue, well worth a listen if you’re interested.
I like LoG, always thought Randy was a badass 😛 Not so sure what I think about Chris Adler joining Megadeth though. Hopefully Dave doesn’t abuse his talents. Saying that I think JB was playing the new Megadeth album yesterday, it sounded pretty awesome. Much better than their last 3 or so efforts.
To be honest I’ve never been a fan of MegaDave… they sound like early Metallica, but not as good, so I always end up listening to Ride the Lightning instead of Rust in Peace.
Haha. I really can’t stand Mustaine 99% of the time, he shoots his mouth off about everyone and then cries when he gets called out on it. He’s still the same Mustaine who was booted from Metallica 35 years ago. I’ll agree there early Megadeth really does have that RTL/KEA sound to it. But imo Peace Sells & Rust In Peace are great thrash albums, which hold their own. But i’m still a ‘tallica fan over Megadeth any day of the week.
I’ve also never bothered to see Megadeth live, I don’t really feel they’re worth it, especially after how Dave acted on their Australian tour in 2015 in Brisbane. I’ve also seen Slayer & Anthrax, i’d probably only see Anthrax again, Slayer whilst good. It was only Kerry & Tom since by then Jeff was never coming back to the band & Dave had *just* been booted again.
I’ll say this though, Mustaine is a pretty good guitar player & writes some good lyrics. But he’s such a shitty person.
I think Courtney Barnett is a good chance for number 1. I think she’ll get at least two or three songs in the top 50.
It’ll be a very well played song so maybe vane joy or someone.
I voted number 1 to be downtown by Macklemore
I think Downtown might get top 10, but probably not 1, it’s just not quite as catchy as thrift shop was.
The problem is that without any weighting to the votes, the winner always seems to be a bland song that just happened to be on most people’s list.
So its gonna be doin numbers by Matt and Alex?
I tuned in to one of the ‘stats’ shows a week or two back and they said there is a cloud vote theory – catchy standalone songs don’t do well generally. It’s the big singles off big albums that do well – people keep hearing new singles off a popular album and reminds them of the big single which pushes votes towards it.
Oh eBay you so silly. Got an email this morning telling me that the Star Wars blu-ray boxset had “dropped” in price.. http://i.imgur.com/CqAyGsd.png Yep so many savings, thanks eBay.
Hahahaha, nice. You can buy mine for half that though 🙂
Man what a busy week last week. Ended up out every night except Wednesday. Spent the weekend down in Wollongong with Wingman and co, sat around eating chips and playing games. And got black feet from sooty verandah, thanks to the house being right next to the highway. Gross.
Did surprisingly well with Smash considering how long it’s been since I last played. And even more surprising with Rocket League. Got some ridiculously good goals, and was doing all sorts of awesome headers and stuff and even managed a bicycle kick at one point. I don’t know what I’m doing 😛
Jumped back on Elite last night, to continue my exploration journey. I’d been trying to get as high above the bubble as possible, and had pretty much gotten about as high as I could go. But just as I was starting to explore the nearby systems and start to head back down, I managed to find some systems that were within reach despite not being marked by a route line on the map. I managed to get about 200ly higher than I was to begin with, or so. Eventually got to the actual point of max height with my current setup, so went to make my way back. I’d had to use a couple of FSD injections to make some of the slightly longer jumps. I’m in a Diamondback Scout, with two scanners, SRV hangar and no shields. Something like 27.92 max jump range with no fuel. And I had to make a few of those low-fuel jumps, one of them an FSD-injected one. I think that was to make a 33.82ly jump, when my max boosted range was 33.94.
Then, I ran into a snag. I’d been taking screenshots to mark down all the boosted jumps I had to make to continue on my journey, so that I’d know which points were the key passages I had to use to get back down. Each jump takes two vanadium and one germanium, and I had something like six jumps worth with only four jumps required to get back down again, so I took a detour to check out another cluster of systems. But somehow I’d missed marking one of them, and made an extra boost jump that left me without enough germanium to make the last few jumps of the trip.
Mercifully, I’d made it across the jump to a cluster of systems where I’d found a planet to farm some germanium on the way up, so I went there to collect some more. Drove around for a while, picked up enough to get me back over the jump I’d just made so I could backtrack up to another planet that I’d farmed for vanadium on the way up, and then get me back down again and through the last two jumps of the journey. Made the first jump up, and then… nearly shat myself. I only had one piece of vanadium left. And that unmarked jump that I didn’t note down was lying between me and the vanadium planet. I was stranded.
OR WAS I? I madly started looking around at the systems I could jump to. Solitary star. Solitary star. Four stars and an unlandable planet. Single landable rocky planet (which turned out to be an icy planet, probably no good). Ooh, two systems I somehow didn’t check out yet. Dangit, solitary star. Ooh, eight landable… icy planets. Then right up the end of one branch, and there was a system where the first planet was a high metal content planet. Exactly what I wanted. Praise unto Braben! I make my landing and… god damn this place is lumpy. And 0.94G, better be careful not to destroy my SRV or else I really am screwed. I break open the first outcrop I come across… and it spits out two germanium and a vanadium. JACKPOT, BABY!
And I didn’t even have to grow any pooptatoes.
It turns out that the standard FSD injections only use a single piece of vanadium, so I could’ve used one of those to get back to the planet I was aiming for originally. But I like this version of events better.Thanks to @trikeabout for putting up with the play-by-play as this all unfolded :P
It was pretty funny, and it’s nice to have some company when noodling about. Occasional long silences while some pirate was having a go at me…
My ranks are slowly ticking up – I’ve started doing Empire ranks and I’m now a Serf. So the whole rank card looks like this:
Competent, Merchant, Pioneer, Helpless, Cadet, Serf.
OMG so much Diablo on the weekend. Nice to come back to work to stare at a screen without monsters on it. So glad it’s a public holiday tomorrow… More Diablo. I honestly didn’t thing I could get back in to it but here I am. I haven’t played since the new content came out, really enjoying it. I’ve still yet to figure out how the cube works.
So, still no manager at work. We also don’t have next weeks roster yet >_>
Morning errbody how’s every little thing?
My weekend was filled with congratulations and pain.
Friday I got a phone call while at work to inform me that I got the job I was after so I’m finally working in real estate woo! That night we went to Cathryn’s mums friends house and had a celebratory dinner of Spaghetti and meatballs, garlic and cheese pizza and ceaser salad.
Saturday we went and saw Cathryn’s friend for her birthday lunch where we ended up going to la porchetta and I had the salt and pepper calamari. After lunch we took the dogs for a walk and then went to another friends where we ate Chinese food, watched episode IV of star wars and we baked a cake that said congratulations on it.
Sunday we went on a 40 km bike ride with Cathryn’s mum from Upwey to Donvale and back. I still can’t feel my butt cheeks. After that we got back to Upwey and I played some elite dangerous, brought a viper but as soon as i got it into space I had a graphical glitch where it looked like something is blocking dead ahead of me so anything I’m locked onto I have to aim down and see where I’m going through the side mirrors so I have to fix that otherwise the game is unplayable in anything other than the sidewinder.
A Monday morning question what’s your biggest time sink game?
I agree, the Sidewinder is the best 😛
Used to be Microsoft Flight Simulator X, but that’s probably been well and truly overtaken by Elite Dangerous… It’s been my default game for while, 600+ hours in and I don’t see it slowing down
Euro Truck Simulator 2.
Hopefully soon, it’ll be American Truck Simulator.
Historically, X-Wing v Tie Fighter.
More recently, Metal Gear Solid V.
Probably the civ series as the all time biggest time sink.
I have put a rather scary amount of time into different versions of puzzle quest including multiple games on MPQ
Torchlight games were another big timesink for me
Are we counting MMO’s? Because World of Warcraft would definitely be my biggest time sink.
In a non MMO game, possibly Fallout: New Vegas.
Probably World of Warcraft.
Current record holder? Probably Destiny. Honourable mentions: Anno 2070 and 1404, EU-IV, Rocksmith 2014. Current biggest timesink? Warframe.
pokemon.
Easily.
like 300 hours per game every year or so.
I was just thinking today. It’s been a couple of years since I’ve last played a Pokemon game. Kinda tempted to start a new game (maybe a nuzlocke on the original Pokemon games).
Crusader Kings 2
It’s probably World of Warcraft but it might have been Ragnarok Online – that was far enough back that I don’t really have good perception of how much time I wasted on it. After those it’s probably Star Wars: The Old Republic and/or Final Fantasy XIV.
In non-MMO stuff, Kantai Collection has been a big time sink for me. Also I imagine across all my playthroughs I’ve clocked 400-500+ hours in Final Fantasy VII. Probably in the several hundreds on VIII as well. X would have been over a hundred hours too. My timer for Xenoblade was 110 hours when I finished it so that probably was a fair bit too.
Way back in the day I probably clocked hundreds of hours in Alex Kidd in Miracle World too but your perception of the passage of time is wonky when you’re a young kid.
Dota 1/2.
Dota 2 tracks number of hours played, I think I’m up to around 1,000.
Thankfully, Dota 1 did not track time spent… I imagine it would have been several multiples of the Dota 2 time played so far…. but, a not-insignificant chunk of that time would have been spent sitting in lobbies waiting for players.
Fran: So what’s it like then? The Dota and Dota 2.
Bernard: Well, to be honest, after years of Dota and Dota 2, you do sometimes look at yourself and think…
Fran: Yep…
Bernard: You know, just sometimes, in between the First Blood with coffee in the morning to that four hundredth game of ranked at 3am, you do sometimes look at yourself and think…
Fran: Yep…
Bernard: …”This is fantastic. I’m in heaven.”
Ugh, throat is starting to feel a bit funny. Better not be getting sick.
You better not be, because I’ve been getting something in my throat too, and we have to do opposite stuff remember?
It’s making my voice all deep and gravelly, which apparently people like, but it’s kind of painful.
Tried to spend the weekend getting back into FFXIV… it worked, marginally.
Got a message from Pizza Thief, saying she’d started playing Grim Fandango. And that it was ace.
God damn 😛
She’s a keeper that one!
Also now you can serenade her with things like
It shone pale as bone,
As I stood there alone,
And I thought to myself how the moon,
that night casts it’s light,
On my hearts true delight
Aaaand make up the rest because
And the reef where her body was strewn
Might be a bit too sad 😛
With bony hands I hold my partner,
on soulless feet we cross the floor,
the music stops as if to answer,
an empty knocking at the door.
It seems his skin was sweet as mango,
when last I held him to my breast,
but now, we dance this grim fandango,
and will four years until we rest.”
Hmm, does she have any friends with identical interests?
Lol; red’s decided to chuck the popcorn altogether and get in on this action instead =P
Why eat the popcorn when you can be the popcorn?
Been playing Broken Sword 2 over the last couple of days. Most of the way through it. I surprisingly remember a lot of what to do from last time I played it (something like 15+ years ago). Glad it has a an in-built hint system, though, as some of the point-and-click logic is insane.
I found the second to last puzzle with Nico in the ruin was the worst one in that game. It wasn’t the logic that was the problem, it was the fact that solving the puzzle too forever to accomplish. It wasn’t quite as bad as the goat in Broken Sword 1 but it was annoying.
Blade & Soul is a pretty cool guy and took up most of my weekend! 0 interest in the PvP side of the game (which appears to be 80% of the end-game) but I’m absolutely loving the gameplay; I can’t believe I’m saying this but this is an MMO that’s carrying my interest purely by how awesome it feels to fight =O
I see Korean MMO and instantly think grind, grind, a bit more grind and for something different another grindy thing
Normally I would agree like crazy; but the combat takes the edge off so much of it? It’s actually surprisingly good.
The quests aren’t too grindy; so far levelling has been on par with the latest WoW expacs. Been playing for 2-3 days and I’m already halfway to max and I’ve been levelling very slowly. Also there’s something to be said about an Asian themed MMO; on top of the combat I’m head over heels for the atmosphere ^^
Oh god, that finally came out in English? I’ve wanted to try that since they first were showing it off years ago.
The anime tie-in was really good too, though I don’t know how much it reflected the game.
Yeah it’s out; the F2P side isn’t too bad either as the premium bonuses aren’t really game-breaking (like 10% extra exp and 10% extra gold, faster cd on fast travel, etc). That said I just levelled past the halfway point and the games gone from fun quick bursts of action in quests to overpopulated grind fests that take 20-30min each.
So it’s a Korean MMO then? 😛
That sounds like my experience with TERA too. IIRC TERA was a spinoff from Blade & Soul, like the devs involved left one team and formed the other and there was some legal shit where maybe someone took some code with them or something, I think?
Anyway, that also had some really fun action combat but later on it turned pretty grindy, plus I had lag spike issues which made some enemies quite difficult, not to mention managing aggro at times. I tried all the classes and several were unplayable because of the lag – pretty hard to kite as an archer at 500ms pings spiking to 1500+ at times.
So far my experience with lag has been pretty decent; like around 150-200ms for the most part? If it wasn’t for the fun combat I would’ve stopped playing about 15 levels ago; all the attacks and combos just feel so satisfying to pull of. And my brief stint with PvP was also really fun; because of there being so many different counters to specific attacks I actually found myself trying to predict what my enemy was going to do and how to counter it at the right time.
So far pros – Amazing combat
Cons – It’s a Korean MMO; that said I’ve played Korean MMO’s and its significantly less grindy than those however atm it’s approaching WoW BC level questing with having to kill 8-10 of everything.
Are the servers in the USA? Or in Asia somewhere?
For the english version of the game you have USA or EU
In the event that I try it at some point, what server are you on?
name of the server is – Yehara
Let me know if you sign up and I’ll toss you my in game name =]
Getting hype for The Division as well.
A surprising (to me) chunk of my skepticism has… softened somewhat after watching the various hands-on sessions from youtubers.
It looks pretty, and it looks like there’s going to be enough PVE there to keep me occupied for at least a couple weekends, which is all I’m really expecting from a AAA box price.
Ditto. Granted, I’ve only seen Angry Joe’s, but I started watching that video pre-bummed that the endgame wouldn’t be all that interesting for anyone wanting to avoid PvP… now it actually sounds like there might be a good story, decent cooperative PvE play, decent customisation of weapons and abilities… I’ll count it a win if I get a few weeks enjoyment out of it.
That was probably the mistake I made when going into Destiny, expecting too much.
If it walks like an MMO, quacks like an MMO, establishes a slow-drip gear-grind time-gated reward mechanic like an MMO…
I normally do a terriyaki style baked salmon. But thinking I might try something different tonight.
Anybody have a tasty, easy baked salmon recipe
Yes. Discard salmon. Eat steak instead.
I had some nice aged scotch fillet over the weekend. Was pretty good although I did slightly over-cook it
If a steak is still good even after slightly overcooking, that must have been some killer beef!! 😀
Have you ever had Salmon Tataki? If you like your salmon a little raw in the middle, it’s so lovely. Very quick seer on the outside, and served with a sort of sour/tangy sauce.
http://www.junedarville.com/Salmon-Tataki.html
Ideally I would prefer something in the oven as Mrs Tigs doesn’t like the smell when it is pan fried
Use 1tbsp Miso paste, 2tbsp mirin and 2tsp sugar to make a marinade. Cook under the grill.
I don’t have miso paste. Oyster sauce is probably the closest I would have
Not really a substitute. But get some miso next time you’re at the asian supermarket – it makes a fantastic marinade for fish, chicken and even veggies like eggplant.
Salmon holds up well to strong flavours, perhaps bake it plain and serve with a quick tomato and olive sauce, or even a fresh salsa?
Might have to see if Mrs Tigs can have it
Ended up baking it with some fresh lime juice and ginger syrup. A bit of parsley over the top. Turned out quite well
I like it baked with mustard and dill.
Something along these lines: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/baked-salmon-with-mustard-dill-sauce-5459
So much Warframe over the weekend… Got
carriedthrough my first Sortie-set yesterday – so much fun.Mained Rhino because a) when there’s a Trinity on the team, I can just maintain my Iron Skin and not die in half a second of enemy fire, and b) the stomp is great for defending a point. Last round of the sortie was hilarious – shotguns-only mobile defense against level 80-100 Grineer, and two of our team didn’t actually own a shotgun; we had to make do with the crappy Mk1-Strun, unranked and fresh off the market. Essentially, only two of us could actually damage anything, so the aim was to delay enemies from attacking the consoles we were defending – my Rhino’s stomps, Nyx’s confuse AoEs and enemy stealing, Trinity’s constant energy vampire maintaining us… the two experienced players running around decent shotguns trying to thin the ranks a bit… Somehow we managed to hold them off. Definitely want to get some better gear so I can do these more frequently. 😀Tried my first nightmare alert last night, too – so hectic, but amazing fun. Also started putting my Loki together, so looking forward to giving stealth a try when he finishes crafting later in the week.
I should play some more of that. I found the game kinda odd, really hard solo but pub groups just a massive rush to get to the points and if you don’t know where you are going you don’t see anything. I had early missions where I didn’t see an enemy
Can definitely see that happening – I’m one of the ones who does that now, and I’ve only been playing for two weeks :P. Hell, I jumped into an alert yesterday for a defense mission, and felt completely unneeded – I staked my claim on a mob lane, and someone rushed for the doors in front of me and killed everything as it spawned – all three doors. I tried to contribute, but by the time I’d round the corner to shoot something, it’d be dead. Not fun, at all.
The way I approached it at the start was to go solo on my first run through a mission (except interceptions), and once I got familiar with the tiles and how they connect, or if I found a particular mission absurdly difficult, I’d swap to public groups. There are a few things the game doesn’t really teach very well that make things much easier (ranking up mods, base and elemental damage types, the melee and movement systems, the fact that the mods and weapons you start with are rubbish and should be replaced asap). Once I found some weapons I liked, a frame I liked, ranked them all up a bit, and fitted them with some good mods, I don’t think I felt there was too much of a challenge, bosses aside, until Phobos and Uranus…
That said, it’s not too bad to group up for defense, mobile defense and interception missions – modes that are either hard to solo, or focused on people generally grouping around one area – you’ll get way more XP as a side-effect of other people killing stuff nearby, and the higher mob-density means you’ll get more drops.
Also, grouping up with a mate for the Orokin derelicts and the Void towers means that you basically pool your tower keys; do more towers for half the cost! 😀
The game really is at its best when you’re being challenged, and have a friend or two to back you up if you fail at that challenge – or vice-versa.
Whenever my youngest brother and I play, the sorties and nightmares are the only ones that offer any kind of challenge to 2-man. (Although I’ve been insisting on going public mode as a kind of pay-it-forward thing.)
The rest is just a rush to see who can kill the most in the shortest amount of time, and if one gets ahead, the other pretty much just spends all their time opening lockers and breaking open containers.
So, after reaching level 62 and playing for over 100 hours, I finally decided to go to Diamond City in Fallout 4. Kinda funny how everybody is treating me like a newbie while I’m wearing max armour.
Also, I uploaded a video of the easiest way to kill a Mirelurk Queen, even without firing a single shot.
It’s that time of year again, where you can barely move 10 paces without someone describing something as un-Australian.
Lady at work is talking about how “some people want to call it Citizen’s Day, because Australia Day is offensive to some”, I pointed out that I’ve heard plenty of people say that there are people saying that, but I’ve never heard it said, and questioned if anyone is actually calling for that change. I almost heard the air parting over her head as what I said flew over and she continued with how people should go back to where they came from.
*twitch*
I’ve never understood the logic of Citizen’s day. How can that be any better than Australia Day, it is such a load of rot.
At least if you want to call it Invasion day I can understand the logic, Citizen’s day is meaningless.
But can you find any instance of anyone actually calling for that change? (I mean, seriously, I’m at work and can’t really justify the research). A cursory search reveals hundreds of instances of people decrying the suggestion of a change, but nothing suggesting that it’s any more than a hoax.
It was just an internet hoax.
Australia day tomorrow whatever that means. Seriously has Australia day lost all of it’s meaning in recent years? Is it sad to say i cannot even recall why we celebrate it because it is just known as a day to get tanked and watch explosions (yes my memory is fading). Am i UnAustralian for saying that?
Religion and Patriotism; the great unifying factors of human society. Where would we be without them.
I plan to work on fixing up the house. Painting and crap.
So… this looks like a good idea if you have money to burn…
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/movies-tv-shows/movies-tv-shows-on-sale/tv-sci-fi/x-files-the-the-collectors-set/839459/
Mum and I almost bought them. We’re now planning to get it after the 6 part series.
Um…
Stuff
http://imgur.com/9rTt32r
http://imgur.com/vpxWI5d
Crash? Is that you?
I’m currently working on this stuff. People (aka. @lucifer9783 ) didn’t like the initial pose (from above), so I had to change it.
Blaghs, Freya and I are in the process of dappering up.
Have fun!!
I saw a take-away shop today called Bun. I thought about you!
Did they sell bun?
hahah nah fish and chips by the looks of it.. would have made more sense if it was a bakery, but whatevs!
I was thinking more the Vietnamese bun with the accent on the u that I couldn’t be fucked typing, but either way that’s amusing.
And now I can officially say that I’ve had Max for over a year. 🙂
Feels good, especially when you don’t expect them.
Happy Birthday @greenius!
Thanks bot! 😀
Happy birthday, mate! 🙂
The worst. (Happy bday!)
This promotion XXXX Gold & BBQ’s Galore are running at the moment is handy for anyone who works in a bottleshop. Gotta refill the 6 pack bottles? Well here’s a code for $10 credit at BBQ’s Galore! New spit roast here I come! Also probably a bottle of gas 😛
Follow-up to NegativeZero’s Bumper Edition New Season Anime Impressions
Because I missed some stuff.
Sushi Police
Dumb 3 minute show. CG. In the lead-up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, a group of crazies go around ineptly cracking down on ‘inauthentic’ sushi. The premise sounds fucking hilarious. The execution is dreadful. Don’t waste your time.Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo
What is going on right now? I know that anime tends to happen in clusters where someone does something that’s popular and then a ton of me-too shows appear about 12 months later, but it’s getting crazy. Yes, it’s another dude-in-a-fantasy-world show. Main character is a shut-in that decides to finally set foot outside so that he can pick up a LE release of a game. Subsequently he ‘rescues’ a girl from being run down by a truck, is hit by it and then dies. Of shock. He was hit at very low speed by a tractor and had a heart attack. Arriving in purgatory, he’s greeted by a ‘goddess’ who once she’s finished laughing at his cause of death offers a choice of sitting around doing nothing in heaven, or being reincarnated into a fantasy world. Should he choose the fantasy world, he gets to pick a boon. In retaliation for her laughing at him, the boon he requests is the goddess herself. So basically this is a stupid hybrid of something like Outbreak Company and Ah! My Goddess except the goddess is a useless lazy bitch and there’s pretty much zero redeeming features to this show. If you want this sort of setup, Grimgar and Gate both execute it so much better that I don’t see why you’d bother and there’s no shortage of other, better fantasy anime.Durarara x2 Ketsu
Third cour of Durarara X2. I completely forgot this was running this season. Durarara’s a really good show and if I could find what I said about the previous cour I’d just copy/paste that but google’s being unhelpful. Basically it’s set around Ikebukuro, with gangs, yakuza, russian mobsters and a rag-tag group of loosely connected wierdoes combined with a Dullahan that’s lost her head and rides around on a supernatural motorcycle. The characters all intertwine with each other and the episodes will follow one thread of a plot and then swap to another thread and you’ll see stuff from different angles. Very well written. Great show overall. If you wanted to watch it you’d need to go back to the first season and start there though, this is not friendly for just jumping in.Erased / Boku Dake ga Inai Machi
Redeemed an otherwise poor season for me. This is looking like a top-shelf show. Has shades of Anohana, and I can tell it’s going to have all of the feels. The main character Satoru is a failed manga author that now works as a pizza delivery boy. He has a curious ability – he will suddenly and involuntarily travel back in time a few seconds to a few minutes, and in so doing prevent someone dying, though often he ends up hurt himself in the process. After using this ability to save the life of a boy that would otherwise have been run down by a truck, his estranged mother comes to stay with him while he’s recovering from the accident he was involved in. We find out that when he was a child, there was a serial killer incident in the small town he grew up in, where several of his classmates were abducted and murdered. One of them he has felt responsible for the entire time since, as he was the last person to see her alive and didn’t call out to her. Subsequently while shopping with his mother, he time travels again and they seem to prevent the abduction of a small child by a random man – he notices that the mother saw him and bails out. However this doesn’t end up well, as she recognized the man from somewhere, and upon figuring it out realized that this was the real serial killer from back then and they’d put away the wrong person. Too late to do anything though, because she is murdered, and when Satoru discovers her body he time travels again, but this time not just a few seconds – when he comes to, he is a primary schooler again, at a time before the serial murders took place, but with all his memories of the subsequent eighteen years of his life intact, and he sets out to change things and prevent his classmates murders. I don’t know how this one flew under the radar for me, it’s got a brilliant and interesting premise and is looking fantastic so far. Rare appearance now of Yuki Kajiura as the music composer. Solid staff (biggest credits are Silver Spoon and Sword Art Online) and it’s running in Fuji TV’s Noitamina block which while recently hit & miss is usually a strong indicator of quality. Easily going to be a regular watch though at the same time it’ll have to be one I feel in the mood for as I think it’ll be fairly dark and have a lot of feels.Erased does sound interesting. I’ll have to add it to the list of “Things To Watch When I’ve Finally Finished All Eleventy Billion Episodes Of Bleach”.
How are you finding that, by the way?
I’m enjoying it. I’m about 30 or 40 episodes in, I think. Lots of great characters.
Heh, funny connection of thoughts. With Bunnings allowing dogs & upsetting about 3 people in the nation who is against the idea (I think it’s a silly idea, but don’t really care, since it doesn’t affect me) these 3 people were all “Well i’m going to shop exclusively at Masters!” well how’s that going now it’s certain Masters is going to vanish..?
Also Woolworths are looking to offload the Masters sites to Cost Co, so sounds like we might see more of Cost Co in Australia, that would be cool.
Last I heard it wasn’t Costco, it was Walmart that were eyeing them. Walmart are by revenue the largest company in the world yet they have no Australian presence yet, so buying out Masters locations would be an easy foot in the door as they’re about the right size and in the right locations to act as Walmart outlets. Arguably a tricky market though, since BIg W and K-Mart sit in the same space and are already well established.
Hmm fair enough, i’ve just heard a lot of talk from woolies employees it was Costco who were interested. But honestly who knows. Walmart would make sense though.
I didn’t mind Masters, i’ve only been a few times since they aren’t exactly close by, but I find they have a decent selection & in some cases a better selection than my local Bunnings, then again my local Bunnings is now tiny compared to the new ones popping up. Also Masters entered the game waytoo late, with Bunnings as established & dominating as they are, they never really seemed to have a chance, even more so when Wes Farmers bought up BBC Hardware/Hardware House which gave them quite a leg up that 15+ years ago. Also I know a lot of Woolworths employees who would rather shop at Bunnings, even a staff discount isn’t enough to get them into Masters.
If woolies is actually considering selling Masters to either Costco or Walmart their board of directors needs to be taken out back and shot. You don’t salvage a failed franchise by using it as a foothold for an international competitor. Christ.
They’re not really looking to sell the Masters brand, but more so the sites that Masters are sitting on from what people keep telling me. Since Masters is a failing brand. Expanded too quickly in the wrong places I think.
Without a doubt; Masters was a franchise that was created with the wrong bloody objectives. Instead of putting the customers first and looking to generate value for them through competition that starting goal for the spin-off was to compete with Coles. You don’t get the girl by focusing on all the other guys in the market who might like her.
Woolies has been mismanaged incredibly for the past few years and not a single board member or CEO has been held properly accountable.
Totally agree. It’s just hard to understand how the Masters brand manages to lose tens of millions a year. Then again apparently Lowes their partner in this adventure were all “just stay a few more years and we’ll get it all sorted out & running correctly, these things take time to get a foot hold” but nope Woolies were all “WE WANT PROFIT NOW, EXPAND EVERYWHERE!!!” so now first Woolies have to cough up something like $750 million to buy out Lowes before they can rid themselves of Masters.
I kinda wish they’d invest wisely in the future maybe look at expanding Big W into a better more quality brand. Cause my local one is kinda really shit.
As you said; they were an unrecognised brand with 0 brand power and they expanded disproportionately to their size because of the capital Woolies had. So instead of opening 20 quality sites in the country they opened hundreds over the course of years creating a need for all these stores to be supplied and leased which are costs that aren’t going away just because you don’t have customers or brand power.
What they should have done instead of throwing in the towel is cut the fat; shut down the worst performers, renegotiate leases on the under-performers and entrench the oldest/best performing stores. Focus on those locations with customer service; cut down inventory costs by specializing which home improvement aspects you wanted the brand to be associated with and then launch a multi-million dollar cross franchise marketing campaign. Buy at Masters; get discounts at Woolies and Lowes or vice versa. This way you feed existing customers into a new franchise.
Instead we have a multi-billion dollar farce that investors are going to foot the bill for with a CEO that’s gotten a pretty amazing resigning bonus when the company shares have done nothing but go down under his tenure.
Their other problem, apart from opening too many stores (65 stores in the 4 or 5 years they’ve been around), I found they opened them way to close to a Bunnings, in some cases directly next to or across the road. It’s not going to help get people through the door, I only ever went to a Masters if I was in the area, never went out of my way to go to them lol.
Yep. But, hey why make them perform with a bit of effort when it takes no effort to put people out of jobs & close down the stores. Also they bought up the land a local nursery/landscapers was on (several acres since it used to be an old drive in cinema) the nursery shut up shop put 60 people out of a job, and now Masters came out a year or so ago all “well we’re not expanding to your area now..” I think it would’ve been accepted by the locals since the nearest Bunnings was across the highway & not that easily accessible from that side of town, as opposed to where I live, which is a 2 minute drive away lol.
They also did a 7 year deal with Hills to sell only through Masters, there’s still 3 years left on that deal too. Ha. But Woolworths said they will honour that contract, well of course you have to, it’s a legally binding document!
Playing in my first ever Magic: The Gathering draft tomorrow night. Haven’t really built a deck or played the game heavily since I was about 16. No idea what I’m doing any more.
Braver than I, been playing MTGO on and off since Mirrodin and still never stepped into a store to draft.
You at least know the draft basics right? 40 cards? approx 15 creatures? 16-17 lands?
Not a store draft. After-work group. So it’s a bit more casual.
Oh man found an undiscovered system with a ringed earth-like, a water planet, two gas giants with water-based life and a ringed Y star. I hope it doesn’t get taken from under me.
Don’t forget the most import part of Australia Day
https://www.change.org/p/kotaku-au-mark-marko-serrels-needs-to-read-out-his-australia-day-xbox-controller-post-on-camera
Leaving for 70K again on Friday!
I was trying to figure out what game to take with me when I realised I’d forgotten all about Persons 4! I’ll have to go back to the start because I can’t for the life of me remember how to play it.
I’ve been so busy the last couple of weeks making clothes to wear on the cruise, I’ve almost caught up on my backlog of metal shirts to remodel. I’ll have to buy more on the cruise. 😛
Alright perfect, Blaghs advice time:
Buy TaP Soda every week from the vending machine out the front of the item shop.
Buy TaP Soda.
And don’t forget to buy TaP Soda.
(Most important, I think, is to not stress about your time management, but TaP Soda is second)
Excite! Enjoy the trip!!! 🙂
I hope I’m not too late to chip in – I am so jealous I might just die.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-01-25/sailor-moon-crystal-anime-3rd-season-visual-features-outer-senshi/.97938 :O
Theoretically not part of the target demographic but super excited for this.
It’s been a good weekend (even though today is Tuesday). Had a lovely dinner and drinks with other Taybies on Sunday (thanks for coming out guys!) and then today was a very relaxed day of eating pizza at the beach and listening to the hottest 100. I voted for 10 and heard 7. That’s not a bad strike rate. Hopefully the remaining three will be in the Hottest 200 on the weekend.
It was good fun catching up with people on Sunday…and the Thai food was damned good.
Mmm crispy pork belly
Sorry I missed it! I ended up being sick (again) for most of the long weekend (including ‘Straya Day)
That’s a shame. See you at the next one.
By the way, do you have a twitter?
What’s a twitter?
But seriously, I don’t. Never really saw the point of it to be honest.
1am, can’t sleep… -_-
Update: Now 4am, slept a little bit, but woke up early. 🙁
Sorry for spamming but I finished the bases for the bookmarks
http://imgur.com/a/oKmEw
These are looking really good 😀
Thank you. I know I’ve improved because in 2014, I wouldn’t have even thought about drawing directly into photoshop, which is what O do with all the bases. I used to draw on paper and scan in everything.
Yay for Banjo and Kazooie!
Despite refreshing my sunscreen every half hour or so while out on Cockatoo Island yesterday, my neck is a glowing ring of agony. My arms appear to be relatively unscathed. My nose and ears do not seem to have sizzled away into delicious bacon. Just my neck stands as magnificent red evidence that I spent Australia Day outdoors doing social things with friends.
On the downside, I spent a few hours playing The Witcher 2 and finally sort of think I might wind up liking it, after failing to engage with it sometime last year or the year before. The downside being that because I was out far earlier and longer that I originally planned, I didn’t play jack shit yesterday.
On the subject of friends, are close friends typically open about their sex lives? A girl yesterday who I’ve met like twice got three drinks in and decided to, on top of venting about her struggles dating, shared that she’d booty-called a guy she dated last year because of his excellent sex talents. She then shared her feelings about dicks, which mostly entailed “I like dicks, really big dicks, all of the dicks, put them in me now please”.
I don’t think I’m a prude, but I feel like actively engaging in these conversations will leave people with the impression I am a creepy pervert getting off on hearing them talk dirty. On the other hand I worry by taking an arm’s length or stoic approach to these conversations will make them think they’ve made me uncomfortable.
It’s a weird road.
Depends on the company and proximity of the relationship? If I’m having drinks with a bunch of friends I’ve known for ages yeah we’ll share war stories but if it’s acquaintances obviously there’s a line you don’t really cross =p
I’m accustomed to having friends with (to put it politely) limited experience with relationships and dating and I’m not used to having friends who are pursuing or engaged in active sex lives. The fact that people even have experiences to be open about is a bold new development in my social life.
A friend of mine’s girlfriend found it completely and utterly unbelievable that he and I did not openly and frequently discuss things like that, rather taking an overly coy approach of vague indirect references. If that.
I think she’s the weird one 😛
I called my wife out for openly discussing our sex life with her friends and she denied it, until I cited specific examples. Then she was like “oh well that… yeah, ok, I guess”.
Whereas I don’t feel the need to tell my friends anything.
Ugh. Due to Australia day my pay still hasn’t gone in 🙁 I was kind of hoping it would’ve gone in at the usual time of 6pm on a Tuesday, boy was I silly..
I assume your normal pay day is Wednesday and you get it Tuesday nights (my payday is the 15th but it’s usually in by 1pm on the 14th)? Normally when my scheduled payday falls on a public holiday or weekend they put it in early. Even when the scheduled day is a Monday it goes in Friday night because there’s no processing over the weekend. :/
Yeah, it’s meant to be Wednesday but i’m always paid late Tuesday afternoon. So no doubt i’ll see it tonight.
Most companies I’ve worked for pay a day early when pay day falls on a public holiday. I never get mine at the same time as everyone else though. Always a day later due to my bank. I’m used to it though. 5am the morning after everyone else gets theirs, I get mine.
Was supposed to be out for a picnic yesterday, but it was cancelled due to weather forecasts. Which suits me fine, though just wish I’d found out earlier rather than when I was about halfway there 😛
Instead, spent most of the day in space, continuing my exploration in Elite. Headed down towards a carbon star, then tried to find the neutron star I’d spotted the night before but couldn’t find it any more, so made my way back to the bubble and cashed in my data. So happy to get that system with the earthlike in before someone else did 😛 Also there was a terraformable water world in another system, where someone had scanned the helium-rich gas giant it was in a binary pair with, but left it alone entirely. Rookie error!
I’d heard there was some action going down in Ch’i Lin, which was my home system in Empire space before I’d moved on to work on Alliance rep. Took a while to find some outfitting options, but eventually got there and winged up with @trikeabout, kicking around in the combat zone for a bit and gathering a few credits for the community goal. Pretty good fun, although the frag cannons didn’t seem quite as effective as I’d hoped. Might have to try a few more configurations out.
Actually there was another combat zone just outside the station which pretty much takes place in the planet’s orbit, around 250km above the surface. Fighting there was pretty cool, with the planet on one side and the shining sun on the other. Shame it doesn’t involved the right factions for the CG.
Other Elitefolk should come along and fight 😛
I finally got the game, but I happened to install GTA5 beforehand, and then my sickness has just been terribad, so I haven’t felt like playing much of anything. Can’t wait to get in to it though!
Do you have a Commander name?
I haven’t even installed it yet!
http://www.cinemablend.com/images/news_img/66429/tommy_lee_jones_66429.jpg
I’ve been really sick lately, so I have a reasonable excuse. 😉
Even though I installed GTA5, I haven’t even got to the point of unlocking Trevor yet, as I just haven’t had the stamina to play in the past few months. Also have narcolepsy type attacks sometimes, so I’ll be doing something, and just fall asleep. Kinda rough.
I might be able to make some headway now that I’ve been told I can’t go back to work til at least Feb 22nd though
You have a very very good excuse for not playing games. It’s a terrible excuse for not *installing* a game! I install games all the time and then don’t play them… 😉
Seriously, I hope you’re on the mend. Pace yourself of course. Online games and narcolepsy (or even just being really drunktired and “long blinking”) are not very compatible and Elite is unforgiving at the best of times!
Get well soon. Let me know if you’re firing up Elite, and I’ll come wing up with you and help you out.
I’d like to sometime in the next week or two perhaps. Once I get all my centrelink shit sorted, and I might have to clear up some hdd space. How much is required for fully installed game at present?
@welbot My install folder’s around 5Gb. I don’t know if Horizons is bigger. Benefits of reusable textures, procedural generation and lots of empty space… 😉
Do you have a joystick? I have a spare one I can get to you if not.
Wow! Only 5gb! that’s better than I expected. I don’t have Horizons though. As for joystick, no I don’t have one, but I might manage. I used to play tie fighter and the likes with mouse/keyboard, so I might be able to cope. Guess the only way to find out is to try!
@welbot Checked at home – the largest folder is 6.5gb for the 64-bit version (I have beta, vanilla 64 and horizons), so that’s the outside size plus a little change for the launcher app and stuff. It’s not bad at all.
And I’m serious. I have a Logitech 3D pro that’s sitting here unused – it’s yours if you want it. Can post to Bris or get a mate to bring it up.
Cheers! Will give it a go and let you know if I can handle it without or not! Dun want you to waste money sending it up for nothing 🙂
Was fun! Although we have stumbled on the one time headsets make sense – it’s odd not being able to call targets to the wing leader…
Also, I need to add a chaff dispenser… 😉
Nearest base to our chosen combat zone was on the planet’s surface. After @mrtaco got to hear about my blind planetary landing at night after my canopy was shot out (HUD doesn’t work very well with no glass to project it onto…), he got to experience it himself a few minutes later. I’d just landed from another sortie, so I relaunched and held station 6km directly over the dark base with my wing beacon on so that Commander Gookenheimer could use me as a waypoint from his scanner… I got to see him do what can best be described as a full-bore crash-dive spiral past me and down to land. It was very impressive. We both survived anyway… I got down with a couple of minutes to spare, Gooky had 28 seconds…
Really enjoying Elite at the moment.
I would love to have seen what that landing looked like from an outside perspective. Hell I wish I was running in fullscreen mode so I could’ve had shadowplay running 😛
Absolute worst thing trying to approach a planetary base when it’s right below you rather than ahead of you, and suddenly needing to kill as much speed and distance as you can in no space at all. Also I totally didn’t think of how a HMD with positional tracking would be able to counter the canopy problem. Can’t wait 😛
Oh and also it didn’t occur to me til after I’d finished that I probably could’ve used your wing beacon to drop down to the correct part of the planet, rather than coming in manually. But then it was more fun that way.
LOL I realised you hadn’t realised. I only launched when you said you’d had to go back to supercruise and were running out of time. Anyway, I got a great view… 😀
I try and aim for a 30 degree approach angle, but I don’t think you had the luxury of time there. 😀
Nearly crashing into the wrong side of the planet with maybe three minutes to go = best decision.
Trying to get to other side of planet via orbiting with no HUD and minimal audio feedback to determine if orbital boost is occurring with only two minutes to go = even better decision.
And really, who isn’t glad to be back at work today? Those pesky days off in the middle of the week… so disruptive.
I’m not glad I’m not back at work, but given the way I felt when I woke up, I’m also glad I’m not back at work :p
It was my scheduled day off yesterday anyway 🙁 work tonight, have tomorrow off, then work through till Tuesday again..
Big pile of complaints about changes to the site says that yes I am not glad to be here at all 😛
Especially since I can’t respond to them by saying “yes I agree these changes are shit and a bad idea”.
Guys, All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders is a really good read so far, and it was $5 on Kindle last night.
Haha, this rapper bloke has to be trolling right? I mean, how can someone be so serious about such a thing.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-27/rapper-b.o.b-launches-flat-earth-twitter-rant/7116494
I think he’s just an idiot.
I think you’re right Red 😛
I like how in that last picture of the ocean you can actually see the horizon separate from the red line at its ends.
Some of the flat earther arguments are so ridiculous that it’s hard to distinguish them from satire (which I think is referred to as Poe’s law).
They seem to vastly underestimate the sheer size of the earth and think that buildings 20 miles away should visibly appear to tilt away from us. They also explain away the “boat disappearing over the horizon” as an illusion caused by the fact that as a boat gets further away there is more and more water to get in the way of their line of sight… which, you know, kind of supports the “earth is a ball” theory, if you ask me.
I think my favourite one is the observation that if you look at Polaris from the northern hemisphere, it only appears to move in a small circle – because it’s above the north pole, right? Flat earthers in the northern hemisphere assert that this phenomenon does not occur in the southern hemisphere because the “southern hemisphere” is the outside ring of ice surrounding the earth, and therefore from the point of view of someone at the “south pole”, all stars would move across the sky instead of in a small circle. Any observations by people in the southern hemisphere that this simply isn’t true, by recording the movement of Sigma Octantis, for instance? Obviously faked!
Planets small enough to curve visibly is one of the things that makes Planetary Annihilation such a headache for me to play. That and their shitty camera control that I can’t get working in a way that feels intuitive.
They improved it a little in TITANS. I found it hard to get used to in the original, but feels improved in the follow up.
Titans is when I reinstalled it and came up with that complaint. >.
ahh maybe it’s that I was able to tweak the controls more and found a sweet spot that worked for me. I still haven’t played a lot of it, but at least I’m no longer SPINNING THE PLANET!! Can’t really pinpoint what it is that feels off about the way it handles, which I guess is the hardest part in addressing how to fix it.
I’ve kind of got my hopes pinned on the new Homeworld game being a good mid point between PA and Supreme Commander though. In the vids I’ve seen it looks totally awesome!
@popdart5 @tech_knight @blaghman
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
Tonight 7:30 SA time!
I may have to shorten the session a bit (house inspection tomorrow so I need to do a final run around) but otherwise WOO RPGS
Sounds good to me.
Hopefully I can make it in good time 🙂
If you like puzzle games, can’t recommend The Witness enough. So beautiful. So interesting. So great for exploring. <3
Oh. That’s a shame. I thought you were really looking forward to that :p
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Downloaded overnight. Hopefully if I get my cleaning done quickly tonight I’ll be able to give it a crack after Numenera tonight
It’s unexpectedly addictive. The feeling of solving a puzzle or opening a locked door just makes you want to solve another puzzle or unlock another locked door. Then three hours pass. 😛
Yeah, sounds swell.
Speaking of RPGs, who’s up for a Fiasco next week? @cj?
Not sure how good I’d be at it but possibly could join if you do it your Saturday or Sunday.
Best for you would be our morning, yes?
It depends. Time conversion from AEDT to PST is 19 hours behind so add five hours, then wipe off a day, i.e. 1300 AEDT on Saturday 5th Feb is 1800 PST on Friday 4th, so could play up to anywhere around 7pm to 8pm AEDT on Saturday without it being much of a problem. On your Sunday I’d be okay most of your morning up to around 4-5pm.
But only if it fits in with everyone else – don’t bust yourselves to fit in around me.
WOO! I will confirm my times tomorrow but i think im on day shift
Mornin’ (Just) TAY!
Over the weekend I fell in love.
It’s been a rocky love affair, at first I wasn’t really into it playing Monster Hunter 4 or Majora’s mask. The screen was just too small for me, I tried but it didn’t have the same magic as playing them on a T.V. But after my sister sent our 50gb download limit cap over the edge downloading T.V series for her trip overseas with 25 days left, I couldn’t play most of my games due to the online component.
Enter the 3DS.
I have since purchased Yokai Watch and have almost made it to the 3 star quests on MHU4 😀 My thumb also hurts from playing too much Fire Emblem Awakening ( =( but really =D )
I have a few DSes. Some bought with good intentions, some as hand-me-downs… A PSP, too. But not since the gameboy original have I actually been able to successfully integrate a handheld into my life.
But then people keep bloody talking about this bloody Fire Emblem thing and it sounds really good and when are they going to put the bloody thing on a REAL gaming machine? (By which I mean not a wiiU.)
The art style of the characters is beautiful, BUT there’s moments when the characters are in 3D which look pretty ugly so I could only imagine what blowing it up onto a big screen would do to it.
You need to go Game Cold Turkey to fully appreciate it I think, I’m looking at the Paper Mario game now on 3DS covetously…
They have it on GameCube. The realest gaming machine.
And Wii
I guess that one’s kind of realy.
I got the XL for this reason…
I love my XL. I’d have upgraded to a New XL by now but am still annoyed at how ugly they made it compared to the regular New, and the lack of swappable faceplates.
The Monster Hunter new XL I’ve got is kinda pretty 😛 I kinda wish it had the coloured buttons like the smaller one though.
Let’s exchange friend codes so I can play at different times to you on there too!
You can do it! Reach for the stars and smash everything with your charge blade!
Seriously, charge blade for life. Guard points are the best.I’ve been using the Insect Glaive, I haven’t quite worked out how the holding ‘R’ and shooting thing works yet. I’ve tried the Elite Blade and Longsword so far and haven’t felt an affinity with them yet.
How far along in the Questline are you?
I’m up to the last set of missions for the questline.
Two main ways to paint monsters with the glaive:
First is to hold ‘R’, aim at a body part and release. Now when you send out your kinsect with ‘R+X’, the kinsect will hone in on the paint and take a colour from the body part. This is a decent method for maintaining distance but isn’t always reliable due to the slow speed of the kinsect.The second method, my favourite, is to approach the body part you want a colour from, such as the head, while holding ‘R’ and then press ‘A’ when you’re in position and facing the body part. With practice and timing this method can be more accurate than the first and you don’t have to worry about painting the monster.
The glaive is a fun weapon to main. Once you’re used to some monster behaviours give the sword and shield a try, it’s got a similar agile and aggressive feel to the glaive.
Oh, colour can be taken from any monster, even the small insects that fly around. Good way to sneak in a boost or two before a fight.
If you happen to be with Telstra you can ring them up and beg and they’ll give you your data quota again for free once per year.
I did not know this, that’s a great idea for someone like me haha. I’m actually upgrading my connection to ADSL 2 so happy days 😀
Well it was certainly the case on cable with them. I’ve never needed it but it was something they would put forward as a ‘customer service’ benefit. Once a year you get to basically get your quota reset.
So Rise of the Tomb Raider comes out on PC this week and I can’t wait for PS4 anymore.
Green Man Gaming sent me a voucher for 27% off RotTR that expires on 28th, and so I thought “might as well”.
Spent an hour trying to get their cart to recognise the voucher and for the cart to update properly. Found another email from them with a 25% voucher which expires at end of Jan. Tried it on a couple of different browsers on the WinPC and tried on the Mac.
In the end I just bought it at full price on Steam…
Morning All, Did we all have fun on Australia day?
I spent mine trying to work out the next phase of my life by which i mean changing careers (ahh shoot me now). I made some head way but really not enough to make me feel all warm and fuzzy.
Instead of that maybe i should of focused on my drawing skills for scribbletaku oh well bad drawer makes some of you have to think hard about what it is.
Are you thinking about doing some study? Universities will be closing their application processes on the 29th of Jan until Mid Feb, so if you were hoping to start Uni in Late Feb/March make sure you get your application in! 🙂
Thanks for the heads up.
The study i plan on doing is over east (I live in WA) and i am not planning on moving that way until either mid this year or early next year so i hope to have some time before i go through that.
Oh you’ve got heaps of time then! I only know these things because I work for a University in Victoria, I was hoping you were going to say my Uni here so I could sign you up for a HECS deb– I mean, a degree (¬‿¬)
It depends on what uni we are talking there is one in Victoria i am looking at as that is where i am moving to. So you may end up signing me up for that lovely cost free degree.
HECS debt.. more like life debt these days :\ Education is getting almost as unaffordable as housing!
Life debt, eh… if I could wipe my HECS by taking a life…
Well. Not saying I would. But it’d be tempting. I’m in deep.
lol well the amount you pay for some courses these days, you could end up spending the rest of your life paying it off! Slave to the government!!
I honestly can’t fathom how some of my friends are going to pay of their HECS debt; they swapped courses like 2 or 3 times and ended up in uni for like 5-6 years. Crazy.
I think I got off relatively lightly – somewhere around $45,000 in HECS debt between my undergrad and postgrad. Still, got me a great job so… profit?
I am so incredibly lucky that I did my degree right before the government cut the percentage they subsidize, and my Grandfather left money for me for university education in his will when he died so he ended up paying for 5 semesters of a 3 year course. Ended up with HECS debt for one semester plus my honors year only, and paid it off after working for a year with my first bonus.
I feel lucky. I completed about 3 years of uni all up (enough for a Bachelor of Arts), but across two different degrees with a three year break in the middle and neither of them completed. I don’t know where my HECS debt peaked but I finished paying it off last year. It can’t have been more than 20k.
Anyone living in Ipswich/studying at the USQ campus there?
About to move there for postgrad and wanna say i’m pretty excite! haha
I’ve been to USQ out there for something non study related, but I tend to try to avoid Ipswich if I can! Too far away for my liking, and almost every person I’ve met who comes from there is a hard ass bogan. That’s not to say there aren’t regular people out there, just that I’ve only met one who wasn’t a bogan 😉
I’m sure there’s a lot more students living out there these days due to the UQ campus and such, so may have improved a lot since my last visit!
Glad you’re excited though! It is kind of exciting making changes like that! Especially ones that involve educating yourself!
There aren’t.
http://memegenerator.net/instance2/4012978
Edit: I used to work with a guy that lived in Ipswich. The dude literally walked home brandishing a hockey stick every day, because he had been mugged so many times. True story.
a guy i worked with at my previous job lives at Ipswich. He drove though, so never really heard any of that kind of horror story from him. Mind you, he did have his first kid when he was 13, and I guess that would be horrible enough! :0
He’s a super nice guy though! Would go out of his way to help you if he was capable!
Inala is worse, apparently. I worked with another guy from there… he was out one night, met a girl, got to talking, and everything was great. Then she asked him where he lived, he said Inala, and she literally just got up and left. There’s also that story of the kids from Inala who didn’t have enough money to get home, so the hijacked a bus, held the bus driver hostage, and made him drive them home… it’s not high on my ‘desired places to live’ list.
Yeah Inala is as bad, if not worse than Woodridge. I used to do a lot of work out Forest Lake way, so I’m pretty familiar with the territory, and I know people who’ve lived there.
My dad’s car got stolen last year from Sunnybank. They found it in Inala totally trashed.
Probably the worst I’ve ever physically been in was Acacia Ridge. One of the guys I worked with lived out there, I went over to his house one day, which happened to be the day that he needed to have an interview with someone… like a youth worker, or a parole officer, or something like that. Kid was going places… not uni, but places.
Anyhoo, so I had to wait outside his house. His instructions were as follows: If you see anyone coming, just keep to yourself and don’t look at them… unless it’s a group of aboriginals, they’ve probably been drinking, if you hear them coming you really should hide.
On another note, in retrospect I worked with some really unsavory types.
lol I used to work in Acacia Ridge. It’s much better than it was in the 80’s and 90’s. I skated at the ice rink almost every day for about 13+ yrs growing up, so I saw it got through a lot of changes over time. Mostly for the better!
Hahaha, yeah If I make it through the year without being publicly executed i’ll count myself a lucky man. Although the guys I’m supposed to be moving in with should be a bit lower on the commodore ute scale (one’s a vet and the other a paramedic).
Worst case at least one of those will be able to revive me!
Congrats, you’re moving to a great University!
Ahhh MIcrosoft. My best and worst friend.
Noticed that Cortana has gone live in Australia so thought yeah, I’ll give you a go on my laptop.
Click through a few prompts and then ‘Before I can help, you’ll need to goto Settings and change your speech language to one I speak’. ‘English (US)’ is the only option in the menu.
Try a few options still not working. Too hard, I give up.
you probably need to go to control panel and add an english au language under regional and language settings, (at least that’s what it’s called in Win7 – don’t have 10 here to refer to) cos it’s probably only got US installed by default
Don’t do it! Australian/English Cortana voices are WEIRD.
Go with English US for Jen Taylor. The REAL Cortana.
I’ve been by myself in the dev corner of the office quite a bit lately so I’ve been listening to a bunch of soundtracks. Of all the Studio Ghibli soundtracks I own, my favourite is From Up On Poppy Hill. It’s so good! Making me want to watch the movie again…
There is never a bad time to watch Ghibli movies!
Ghibli marathon.
Same composer also did the music for Ronja the Robber’s Daughter, the 3DCG TV series that Goro Miyzaki directed a while back. Good soundtrack there too from memory. Shame the actual show was a bit of a slog to get through.
Absolutely poured in Geelong, most of the main roads are flooded. 🙁
Saw the pictures yesterday in my facebook feed after having so many Geelong related pages from living these for all those year..
Holy cow, Johnstone Park and the bridge at the station COPPED IT BIG TIME!
I was quite impressed.
It’s done… I’ve requested time off for when X-COM 2 releases next week 0,0
Well played. On account of my FIL staying with us that week, I might take a day or two off the next week.
I’m not entirely certain how well played an idea this might be; looking at the new XCOM game it looks keen to take my soldiers and beat me on the head repeatedly with their broken and twisted corpses.
Have you seen some of the new enemies??? Like W T F >.
I am seriously considering taking a day off when the little one is in daycare and the wife is at work just for some me time.
I’ve never done it before…
I approve of this idea as long as it is to play lots of XCOM-2
…. I….
… I still haven’t played the first one…
Joooooiiiiinnnn uuuusssssss………
https://www.humblebundle.com/
Enemy Unknown is literally $1. I’d say it’s worth it to pay $10 to unlock Enemy Within (plus all the other goodies), but the vanilla EU is still a great game.
Yeah.. i’m starting to think i should have picked up this bundle instead of Space Hulk last night.. it’s a pretty good bundle.
Although i do have the first (newer) X-com, i just haven’t played it yet. Pile of shame and all.
You disappoint me chuloopa.
I don’t think I need to say much more. *shakes head in disapproval*
Well… i own it.. that counts for something, right?
It’s just in that MASSIVE pile of shame…
On the plus side – i played the shit out of X-Com interceptor back in the day.
Well, I’ve just said that I’m an old hat at my work. All this time I thought it was old hat rather than old hand. Silly old phrases.
Old hat is a thing afaik
Yeah I always thought it meant the same thing as old hand. Turns out it doesn’t.
Old hat is when something is stale and out of fashion.
Old hand is when you’re done it so much that it’s almost second nature
I didn’t know this.
#themoreyouknow
I realised after I posted it that no one asked for an explanation =P
It’s actually pretty damn handy.
… you damn know-it-all. 😛
Please. I barely know anything.
Hello All. Now married, *goes back to entertaining family*
What have I missed in the last week and a half? I have not been able to get near the internet or news or anything?
A few stories, a few deaths, some good news, some bad news. Usual stuff. Nothing to be as excited about as GETTING MARRIED!!! I know I’ve said it elsewhere, but congrats 🙂
Congratulations! 🙂
Congratulations! I hope everything went well!
CONGRATULATIONS AND COMMISERATIONS!
#marriedlife
Congrats! 😀
Hope you had the bestest day.
Heh. Spent the evening testing out DBS configs in Ch’i Lin, and cashing in the combat bonds whenever I had to go reload. Before long, there was a guy in a Clipper floating around the system looking to gank. Interdictions are much harder to fight off when it’s against a human. Annoyingly he caught me on my return run when I was heavily damaged and out of ammo, so I couldn’t stick around and fight. He caught me again before I could make it back to the station, so after that escape had to high-wake into another system so I could get away from the planet. Stupid combat zones, stuck in all those gravity wells.
Even more annoyingly though, once I’d managed to repair and rearm and headed back out again he was gone 🙁
Still can’t decide on a good set of weapons to use though. And not sure if hull reinforcements are worth the extra weight or not.
Yeah I’m totally not going to play multiplayer when/if I get around to picking up Elite.
Nah, it’s blown way out of proportion as a “problem” than what it really is. I think that very well could have been the first time I was ever interdicted by another player actually. Hardly ever see anyone at all, only a few dozen occurrences tops in my whole time playing and most of the time people keep to themselves.
There was one time I was tooling around and spotted a guy with a huge bounty on him, and I happened to have an interdictor on me at the time so took him on. In my Sidewinder. “You’re game”, he said. “Or just stupid” was my reply. Then I promptly got vapourised 😛
Playing with others is fun though.
Yeah, it’s not a problem MOST of the time, but when it is, it’s really annoying. So if returning to human space with months of exploration data, might be worth avoiding Open. If recently saved and with plenty of insurance, Open’s fine.
Yes you are, because we want to play with you. 🙂
Do the training missions. Cruise around. It’s only worth avoiding Open if there’s a known area of idiots (so around the alien barnacles at the moment…), or there’s a community goal and the player killers are out.
There’s a bunch of us who play in MOBIUS, the PvE group. Good group, and friendly on team speak.
Eh, I’ll be getting it on Xbone if I get it. My PC won’t run it without a new graphics card which admittedly is long overdue and has been a bottleneck in my system from day one, but I don’t think I can be bothered.
Doesn’t need much in the way of a card. What are your system specs now?
XBone you don’t get Horizons so no planetary landings. 🙁
I have a core i7 something and 8 gigs of ram. It’s a good system except for the GT630 card which I stupidly cheaped out on. It’s been a piece of shit since day one and I’ve been meaning to upgrade it for years.
I have a first-gen core I7, which I am going to keep using until I HAVE to upgrade – Elite sits at around 25-30% CPU most of the time.
Yes, that’s not a great card… New nVidia and AMD GPUs come out soon, so the current-gen stuff should be cheaper in a while. I have a GTX680 which didn’t have problems running Elite on max graphics settings until Horizons came out and the planetary landings appeared… and then I had to drop everything to medium to make it smooth. A GTX 960 would be fine.
I’m wondering how my system is going to go with Rise of the Tomb Raider…
I think either you’ve already recommended a GTX960 this week or you’re the second person to do so, and they’re apparently not that expensive since they’re a few years old. I might have to look into it.
@kermitron I do not recall doing so prior, so I must be seconding or very amnesiac. According to the Tom’s Hardware graphics card hierarchy they’re roughly on a par with older high-end cards like my 680 (one step either way isn’t a big deal).
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.htm
2GB ones are $265-$295, 4GB ones from around $320. And that’s all I have to say about it. 🙂
Ah, seems it was actually someone recommending a GTX580, never mind. 🙂
Cashed in my first round of combat bonds at the wrong station. D’oh. Got the money, didn’t get the CG credit.
You in tonight? I looked for you last night but you weren’t on.
I was on til about 10:30ish I think, maybe nearly 11. I did see Pixel hop on for a bit, but I started to get a bit sleepy plus it was getting late (though despite that I managed to find plenty of other distractions to keep me up later than I should have been anyway).
Probably back on again tonight, and hopefully will settle on a weapons set. 2x c1 Burst seem to be the pretty good, but the c2 hardpoints… multicannons are a lot of fun to use, with the whole leading thing. But they feel a little less effective than I’d like. Though their ammo is relatively cheap, in terms of synthesis materials. Rails are great but run out too damn fast and require vanadium to synthesise. Frags do crap all, even from up close – they’re great in CQC, not so much here. Last ones I tested were cannons, the ammo lasts a fair while and they seem to do decent damage but they’re a little hard to use aim-wise. I think they require tin, which I haven’t found much of. I need to do another run with plasma accelerators, they seemed to be pretty effective and lasted a while. Only thing about them is they take a fair chunk out of the wep capacitor, so can’t fire that fast. Which is another plus for both cannons and multicannons I guess, can neglect wep to keep eng at max, and put the rest in sys for safety.
Also, carrying an AFM is pretty great. Done a number of cockpit repairs/breach preventions already.
I’ve got the multicannon turrets just doing their thing, with beams to pop the shields. Ammo is really cheap, and I’ve not run out yet before I’m going back to base for repairs or cashing in bonds. Cannot be bothered synthing ammo if I’m going back-and-forth from station to combat zone.
Yeah, synth thing is more for a backup I guess if I’m going particularly well in terms of hull or if I’m getting stuck into a large target (like a juicy bounty-laden anaconda :P) when suddenly no more bullets and ugh. Which was mainly my reason for sticking with beams for so long, infinite ammo is rad. But having to pump so much energy into weapons means you don’t get to move around as much, and being in a small ship I rely a lot on manoeuvrability, so it’d be good to ditch that dependency.
Ah, OK. That makes sense.
What are these “small ship” things of which you speak? I vaguely remember those…
I’ve really fallen for my Python. It’s so versatile. Only real downside is the jump range, but it’s good enough.
Oh, let me rephrase.
“Best ships” 😛
*parks Python* What was that funny crunchy noise? Sorry Gooky, did I park on your ship? 😉
I do feel like pulling the Imperial Eagle out for a bit of dogfighting later. That thing’s fun to fly. Reckon it would be awesome low over a moon. Canyon run!
@trikeabout I still dream of flying in a Suicidewinder Squad. I suppose Eagles could be welcome too 😛
Canyon runs are tricky. You don’t really feel like you’re going that fast, but it’s hard to tell just how close you can get without clipping things and yeah. Sense of scale and stuff. Probably need smaller canyons, and the ones that look small are actually still pretty huge.
I need some help guys. Help me pick a background colour
http://imgur.com/a/Gpafh
I added an extra colour into the mix.
I feel like purple’s the one with a black outline to distinguish?
Then again I’m a massive sucker for the color purple =p
I don’t like adding black outlines as it ruins the minimalist style
Like the new color choice more!
First one
First one
Ummmm, okay. I guess I REALLLLLY like the first one according to TAY
Are you sure you like the first one? =P
First one? where did you get that idea? =P
A little birdy called Tay told me
First and second look best. First one is missing claws though.
That’s because it’s the colour of the claws
lol it is too. Didn’t notice.
I like to use a colour in the image to select my background
Hmm you’ve added the 4th one. Which is pretty good. 2nd is still pretty good. Would vote: 1. 4th, 2. 2nd, 3rd. 1st. As top three.
Yeah, i initially ruled out the fourth but decided this morning to add it back in
Is that Spyro? 😀
Yes
Looks awesome. I like the red one 😀
That was the initial colour I went with
Well, it was a good choice! 😀
I’ve added another colour choice
Ooh that’s a good one actually, I vote the red one & the new one! 😀
I actually like the 3rd and 2nd. The first looks too weird with the claws missing due to the colour.
I initially went with the red but @cj complained. So I grabbed the three colours I liked. Yellow and the tan didn’t work. I could use the colour of the back.
I like a background of 32/24/49
But otherwise, the new one.
I…don’t understand, so I’ll just use the new one
4th is my favourite, followed by the 3rd. First one looks weird when you notice the claws and the second makes it hard to figure out his pose.
Last one.
Light Purple looks best, since the silhouette comes out clearer on it.
Started a new game in Civ V as Caesar – for luls, had my legions build a road all the way to Kyoto, then invaded Japan (who had spearmen and archers), which turns out is a reasonable strategy. I got denounced by every other civ straight away, but switched to a science focus (since I’ve got 2x the cities). Now my legions are musketmen and I think I may have a higher military score than everyone else combined.
I love the oddly specific achievements in Civ; “Jupitus: As Rome, conquer a city that contains the Status of Zeus”. It’s nice to have achievements still pop up every now and then.
Hey, @highperformance, how are your adventures in Civ going?
Have you heard about the Roads economic method in Civ?
No…. *google*
Basically you can bankrupt an AI civ on easier difficulties by getting an open borders treaty, then honeycombing their entire territory with roads. As they’re in their territory, they have to pay the per-turn upkeep
Man I want to start a new game JUST to do this.
Oh that’s good.
Seems to be the Australian Federal strategy for eroding the State’s rights… 😉
So, fill an opponent’s territory up with roads and laugh at them paying the maintenance cost?
Edit: you beat my googling
Have you heard of the @cakesmith road method in Civ?
It allows you to go anywhere you want!
Sadly I’m not adventuring with CIV 🙁 I’ve been playing Star Wars Battlefront, Fire Emblem and Yokai Watch lately.
I need to have a crack at playing again soon, I am hoping I’ll be able to sink some time into it this weekend… if only to save the world from Nuclear Gandhi!
Last night @alexpants dragged me along to see Lazer Team.
And that was the last time he got to pick what movie to watch.
That’ll learn ya, son.
From your tweet saying “it’s a movie-length youtube video” I assumed that you liked it! In a “if you like their youtube stuff, you’ll like this” kinda way.
Apparently not… 😛
I’ve never actually watched Rooster Teeth stuff before, with the exception of Funhaus which I enjoy, but nothing from the guys who made the movie.
It is what I said it is. A high production value YouTube video which, in-turn, is a low production value movie. I had a couple of chuckles, but mostly it was poorly paced, poorly acted and horribly scored.
There were people in the cinema who genuinely enjoyed the movie, laughing out loud and applauding at specific points, but I guess I just expected more(?) from these people who are apparently YouTubes gift to comedy.
Also people who are defending it with comments such as “it’s a low budget movie” or “it’s a comedy, what did you expect?” need to go check out movies like “Safety Not Guaranteed” or “Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel”.
I liked Lazer Team but I think a lot more of it would have fallen flat for me if I wasn’t a fan and looking forward to this thing for ages. The forced backstory resolution between Hagan and Herman was simply unnecessary and caused the end of the movie to drag a bit, so much so that the finale felt a bit sudden.
That said, I still had a really good time.
I won’t even argue that. I can’t be trusted.
ALL THE GAMES WORKSHOP GAMES ARE ON SALE ON STEAM!!! \o/
This is one of those times i wish i had unlimited funds… haha.
On the plus side, i at least picked up Space Hulk Ascension, which looks like a heck of a lot of fun.
But all the other games i don’t yet own? I’ll wait till they come down in price a bit more because stingy.
But if you guys are missing anything you want – GO GET IT! NAO!!
PS. I still think everyone should pick up the complete collection of SPAYSH MAUREEN so we can all jump on and play dreadnought assault, if we can get enough people, or at least a few rounds of horde mode.
PPS. I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW THERE WAS A HORUS HERESY VERSION OF TALISMAN COMING OUT?!
SPAYSH MAUREEN
FOR THE EMPEROR
FURR DAH EMPRAHHHH!!!
RAHHHHHH!!!
Small note, currently reading Heroes of the Space Marines.
A lot of them are real dicks, FYI.
Others are pretty neat, though.
Does anyone want Dawn of War (original) + Dark Crusade? I’m going to buy the bundle so I can get Winter Assault and Soulstorm (I’m pretty deep into a playthrough of Dark Crusade at the moment), but I’ll have duplicates of the base + DC.
Edit: Sorry guys, Steam has shot me down. Apparently I don’t receive any extra copies of the games I already own.
That being said, DoW is amazing, and if you haven’t played it you should definitely drop the $10 to get it (with all the expansions!)
Dark Crusade was probably the pinnacle of RTS gaming, let alone just the DoW franchise.
Tell me about it. In the last week I have played through with Necrons (so op), Orks and IG, and previously I’ve completed it with Maureens and Chaos.
Soulstorm is, I hate to say it, a little bit of a disappointment. I think the biggest letdown has been the lack of persistent bases – in DC I loved taking my time in the missions, building up a stranglehold on the map so that I could easily crush anyone foolish enough to attempt to retake their territory. I started playing with Orcs, and literally every mission so far has just been ‘build a bunch of basic infantry and zerg-rush the enemy base(s)’, since a) it’s effective and b) there’s no incentive to build a big base.
That being said, I downloaded the persistent bases mod last night, so I’m going to have another crack at it this weekend.
Horus Heresy version of Talisman? So… Relic?
Man i love relic… takes sooo long to play, though.
It looks quite different in the screenshots, though.
Also, relic isn’t based during HH.
You just reminded me i still need to get the expansions for relic too… damn..
\o/ I just got $100 USD worth of Slipknot merch for the price of shipping, thanks to my friend who gave me a gift certificate to their merch store for my birthday last week ^-^
niiiice
Even better they were having a 60% off selected merch sale 😛
Nice! So you got, what, 2 shirts instead of 1?
haha
Seriously – i was on the Rammstein merch store recently and almost died at the prices.
But holy shit, they have some amazing merch!
Hahaha. 3 actually, along with a stubby holder & bandanna, Shirts were $12 each, normally $25 each. Normally all up it would’ve been $100, but it came to just under $50 which wasn’t bad & $20 shipping was okay too.
I think I need a new mouse. This SteelSeries World of Warcraft mouse kinda really sucks. I don’t like the feel of it, good thing it was free. Thinking about going to a Deathadder, I always loved my Gen 1 Mamba, it was a great mouse.
I still have yet to find a mouse that feels as comfortable for me as the old Logitech MX Revo. One of my two still works and I use it at work in between bouts of charging – the battery’s nearly gone, get about 3 days off a charge where it used to last months.
Yeah that’s the shitty part finding a comfortable mouse. I found the Mamba to be a nice fit for me, which is basically a wireless Deathadder in terms of the shell.
I had a Naga for a bit and really liked its feel but the quality of it was shithouse. Packed up after 3 months or so.
I may have kinda sorta played Netrunner all day on the interwebs. I also may have kinda sorta come out with a winning record. Could it be that the people on the interwebs are, on average, worse than the people not on the interwebs?
Is that through the online card playing gateway thingamajig that the name of now eludes me?
Does it work fairly well, if it is the online card playing gateway thingamajig that the name of now eludes me that i’m thinking about?
I’ve been using Jinteki.net which is pretty rad, despite several hiccoughs along the way. There’s also OCTGN which does games other than Netrunner and I have have basically no experience with.
OCTGN is the one i was thinking about.. hmmm… I may just have to take the blind dive haha
Woah woah woah.
Hold the press,
So if i’m not mistaken, I can effectively play netrunner online for free to see how much i like the game?
In my browser?
That’s bloody amazing!
Yes. You can. Admittedly, it’s not the best tool to learn to play the game but I’m sure if we jumped on TS we could walk through a few games so you get the hang of things.
\o/
Heads-up…K-Mart at Orange NSW has a ton of Amiibos on sale at $4 each.
@dkzeitgeist is right: the last mission of Metal Gear Solid V (45) is hot garbage.
I’ve been diligently upgrading everything I could (prioritising stealth, but also upgrading explosives and rockets just for the hell of it) and I struggled like hell in this mission. Can’t imagine what it would be like if I’d been going for a no-kill perfect stealth playthrough, or if I hadn’t known in advance what was coming and could gear up accordingly.Not gonna bother going for true ending; I’m done. I haven’t really loved a MGS game since Sons of Liberty (though I liked and enjoyed Snake Eater). Sad to be putting this series behind me, but I think it left me behind long ago.
Why not? all you have to do is start/stop all the golden tapes and yellow side ops and it becomes available?
It was my understanding that the prerequisites were: all yellow side ops (done) and Mother Base completely upgraded. That’s gonna take I-don’t-know-how-many hours of grinding. None of my Google searches said anything about tapes…Either way, though, I uninstalled the game last night. So I guess it’s moot. Thanks, though!The mother base requirement is highly contested, I honestly believe its not a requirement some say all level 4.. some say all level 3.. some say they got it with level 2 .. mine definitely wasn’t fully upgraded. but as you said it doesn’t matter anymore 🙂and the tapes i was referring to was the cassette tapes with golden titles, listening to them was the last thing i did to access the mission.
Interesting!
I could have gotten that ending then. I had at least L3 for all my platforms. Haha, oh well.Honestly even if it’s requirements were only “Highlight mission 46 and press X” I still wouldn’t think it was worth it.
It’s crazy to lock players, who have played in an “open world” for way too many hours, into a slowly paced tutorial level for the tiniest bit of “new” info.
That level is a great opener but a terrible closer.
Yeah man.
I can’t believe more fuss wasn’t made about this aspect of MGSV when something like Deus Ex copped heaps of flack for it’s boss battles.
Very strange.
And, look, let’s be honest. Playing MGSV it’s very clear why Konami canned Kojima. It’s a bloated, self indulgent mess. I’m not usually one to get into an “objectification” argument but holy shit, chill out Kojima. MGSV is the most cringey, misogynistic piece of nonsense I’ve ever played. I seriously think it’s worse than when Hitman punches those sexy nuns.
Plays heaps good but.
I feel the same way. Plays well, but incredibly problematic in almost every other respect.
Only… I would level the exact same criticisms at MGS 4 as well 😛
Definitely.
Maybe MGS4’s issues are more obvious because they’re not hidden in cassette tapes or spaced inbetween hours of riding a robot into guards so you can attach them to a hot air balloon.
Jimu made a really good point that I can’t shake too. There’s no really amazingly well designed “levels” in V either. I was seriously jonesing for an interior section that never really appeared. The mansion in the hills was close but there was just something missing.
I dunno.
I really liked MGSV when I was playing it but every time there was a cut scene or Miller had something to say I’d roll my eyes and go make a tea or something.
Also, how Hayter wasn’t the reveal in the “true ending” is mind boggling.
Six days until American Truck Simulator!
My G29, beer belly, and shotgun are all set. Yee-haw! 😛
Do you have the appropriate beard to accompany all this though, like these two gents from the Diesel Brothers show.
He can borrow mine.
I don’t think you understand how beards work 😛
I’m trying 🙁
That’s the important bit \o/
Ergh. when will I learn to not read the comments on articles about women in games.
I’m always so disappointed in people
“There are no women in my bubble therefore women aren’t interested in games”
Maybe your bubble just sucks.
There are no mosquitoes on me right now; therefore the chair is purple.
What color is the chair if there are mosquitoes on you?
That’s not what I was arguing you damn feminist. How dare you put words in my mouth.
We all have our bubbles, I have found people find it easiest to mock people outside of their own bubbles while telling people inside their own bubble to have them reinforce their opinions.
Heaven forbid people from two bubbles have a discussion without mockery.
I used to think this site was different. I mean you guys are literally having a circle jerk about how much smarter you are.
Sorry you feel that way.
The fact of the matter is simple. We have seen this nonsense play out time and time again. People making half assed arguments that women don’t play games. That they don’t see women in the games they play. That they don’t count because the games women play don’t count (be it mobile games, Facebook games or even titles like The Sims). People who want to latch onto the idea that being a gamer is an exclusive identity.
Saying all that only reinforces the idea that women aren’t welcome. What do you think you’re achieving? How are those ideas not worthy of mockery?
I feel like a religious person being mocked by an Atheist, I read the comment back and look at all the points you make and have trouble forming a response that I feel represents how I feel.
I know women play games, I am married to what I would call a hardcore gamer. I don’t consider most mobile/social games “proper” games and neither does Kotaku based on what people generally talk about on here and the amount of articles posted about mobile games.
I didn’t mean to make an argument saying women don’t play games, I was just observing that I never see or hear them. I will just keep my experiences to myself if I fear they might make people feel left out or unwanted.
I doubt I will be able to change my stance on mobile games being real games until the iPad has more games that put gameplay/story over micro payments.
I appreciate you giving up your time to have a proper discussion with me.
The problem wasn’t that you shared your experiences. The problem was that you shared them as a counter-argument to hard data and then didn’t reflect on why your experiences didn’t match what the data said.
As for mobile games, Hayley was right. Games are games are games. It’s a hobby. A thing to do in your spare time. Something to do with your hands or something to immerse yourself in for hundreds of hours. If someone is having fun, let them have their fun. Don’t put too much weight behind the idea of being a gamer.
Is there a word for Hardcore Gamers that isn’t Hardcore Gamers that is acceptable to use?
I mean we use terms like Indie Games and Triple A games without people saying “A game is a game is a game”
There’s no good term because too many people like to define it as “me, not them“.
Gaming is a broad church. People who are interested in AAA games are like people who go to blockbuster movies. People who endlessly grind a single multiplayer game are like gym rats. You can be both or you can be neither and you could still fit into many definitions of hardcore gamer.
Much easier to just say what you mean. Say non-mobile gamers. Say indie game fans or AAA fans. And if you think your point comes across harshly when you say things like that then think about what your point actually is.
Yeah. Sad, isn’t it. Poor little ragers, raging about their rage. There was one commenter doing really well countering the stupid, but I just don’t have the energy today to go there.
I HAVEN’T FAPPED IN THREE DAYS!
THEREFORE I HAVE NO PENIS!
OH NO, I’VE BEEN SUCKED IN. SEND HELP!
You shouldn’t have done that. You make waaaay too much sense in your responses, I don’t think anyone will be able to understand.
I’m not liking the chances of reaching page 6 before I have to leave tomorrow afternoon… (starts compiling list of dad jokes in readiness). Might have to be #DadJokePage4 or #DadJokePage5 again *sigh* just giving a forewarning for those of you, who for some unknown reason, dislike dad jokes in all their glory 😀
Page One! Page One!
In fact, from now on, TAY should be renamed to DADJOKE AMONGST YOURSELVES.
Who seconds the motion?
o/ Seconded
\o/ Thirded!
\\o/ Fourthed!
Then we would need to rename it “Drop Dad sexy”
Maybe we should just invade an article on the main page and make that a dad joke article. Like tomorrow’s “while you were sleeping” post
Or the next “women in gaming” post.
Challenge accepted.
I’m writing about boring board games. The Polish government said that there is a print and play version of Kolejka. The Polish government lied!
You can’t trust those ex-communists.
Found a working link. However I don’t think it’s something I can post anywhere. Oh well.
Never trust an ex-communist. They can’t even commit to communism, so how can you expect them to do anything right?
Say what you will about the tenets of national communism, dude, at least it’s an ethos.
@haggis is it #pagesix yet?
ALMOST THERE!
ALMOST THERE!
STAY ON TARGET!
Talk about slow! Page 3 on a Thursday!!! TAY has slowly died 🙁
Holidays, January blues, 3 day week…
It’ll come back. It has to. It MUST.
Yeah, but it’s dad sexy!
*pun time*
Screw it – let’s just spam our way to page six, as if this was a buzzfeed article.
It’s always #DadJokePage6 in my heart.
The hero this community needs.
10 ways you won’t believe that page 4 isn’t page 6!
#spam26
#buzzfeedthisbiatch
9 numbers between 1 and 10 that aren’t six – number 4 will shock you
#spam26
#buzzfeedthisbiatch
Please don’t
Six times six was spelled as six, rather than six as a numeral representation of six, you won’t believe six!
#spam26
#buzzfeedthisbiatch
23 times Chuloopa took a joke too far and was frowned upon by TAY – What happens next will blow you away
#spam26
#buzzfeedthisbiatch
I believe in you loops! I BELIEVE!
Buzzfeed… Now we truly see the Dark Side of the Chuloopa… 😛
That normally doesn’t happen until i pull my pants down, so you’re pretty lucky.
*BOP*
Bad loops
My sister likes to occasionally, and unsubtly, remind me that she reads my tweets.
Pretty much the reason they invented the block button I believe.
@Chuloopa totally getting in on this spam action (spaction?)
Find out how this Sydneysider managed to get involved in something nobody wanted him to get involved with! You won’t believe how badly it was received by the TAY community!
Bring on Page 6nice
*starts violently beating the dead heart of TAY’s corpse*
LIVE DAMN YOU! LIVE!!!
*lightning crashes in the background*
*wipes sweat off brow*
I… I’m calling it. Time of death 4.10pm 28th of January 2016.
Cause of death – Twitter.
Farewell TAY, we barely knew thee.
Woah woah woah.
People still twit?
Oh man.. i can’t remember the last time i twat.
*commences playing
RocksmithChopin*WAIT DOCTOR WE HAVE SOMETHING!
…
Oh, it’s just @Chuloopa spamming his way to page 6. Never mind.
I can feel it coming back again…
An Irishman was informed by his doctor that he had sugar in his urine, so he went home and pissed in his Corn Flakes.
IT’S NOT PAGE 6 WHAT ARE YOU DOING ARE YOU CRAZ…
*reads username*
Nevermind, carry on.
Hey everyone. Thanks for the help with the bookmark. I am super grateful.
I have something new to ask.
Mum and I are looking at small cars. We’ve looked at Suzuki. The Swift does not fit her walker and the Celerio is on the shortlist. We’re looking at anything under 20k at this point. Any suggestions?
New or secondhand?
New.
I’d look at secondhand or ex-demo- basically, a new car loses value the second you drive it off the lot, for the same price you can get an almost-new second hand car or ex-demo that’s better.
Yeah, we had a lady trying to sell us ex-demo for the price of a brand new car
Haggle like crazy.
Truth about car sales is this. The salesman needs the sale more than you need that specific car. Dont be afraid to walk out
That’s what I did yesterday. =D
By girlfriend has recently picked up a 2012 VW Golf TSi that’s pretty big inside, we don’t have requirements for a walker or anything though.
@morkai
It’s such a pain =(
This should fit the bill.
Where do I fit the dog?
You mean you don’t carry him/her on your head like a normal person???
He’s so heavy…So no.
Honestly, you can’t beat a Mazda 3 – i’ve had two, a hatch and a sedan, and loved them both. Really solid cars.
We had a mazda that died. We’re not ruling out a Mazda 2.
Oh.. so you’re looking in the “insanely small” category.
Why are you looking at such small cars? Any reason you wouldn’t look at roomy small cars (such as the M3)
Mazda 3 is about $20k. We would prefer it cheaper. At the moment, my main concern is safety, suspension and then if the walker fits in the boot.
You can find 2013 models from dealers for around $15,000.
They also have a 5 star ANCAP safety rating, and very very good econemy.
Suspension on both of mine has been fantastic, unlike the toyota corolla i had which steered like a boat.
She doesn’t want used. I think ex-Demo is fine
Mine is an ex demo, got it for about 300 under the advertised price and it had less than 500 ks on the odometer
@redartifice is there a km to discount rule for cars?
@scree no fixed ratio. My previous post should have said $3000, not 300, under the new price. If you haggle well, it can be that dramatic. As @trjn said, under, say, 30,000 km is practically new and can shave thousands off the price. Also have a look at ex fleet stuff, sometimes ex gov cars are super low mileage and super good price
Cars lose a lot of their value the second you drive them off the lot. There are thousands of two year old cars that have been traded in (typically ex-fleet) that are obscenely good value and tend to be in great condition.
@scree I know you said your mum is keen on a new car but if you look in the right places, you can get a car that’s cheaper and better than the ones you’re looking at right now. Take a look and, who knows, maybe she’ll be won over.
What mileage should we be looking at?
@scree Off the top of my head, anything under 30,000km but you should do some research online.
Would it be worth investigating more compact walkers rather than larger boots? I’ve got to imagine it’s a more cost effective option.
I suggested it yesterday
My mum just brought one. I haven’t had the chance to look at it properly yet but it seems like a good match. She does a lot of fairly casual driving and likes to have a lot of storage space in case she needs it, but doesn’t like ‘big’ cars.
Have you looked at the Toyota Yaris? The back seat folds for extra storage and they’re bigger on the inside than they look (we used to call our Echo the Tardis for this exact reason). Also, look at second hand models that are less than 5 years old and you can save a lot of money.
Toyota TARDIS. Unbelievable amount of room for a teensy car. Had one as a rental on a road trip. Had my road bike carry case in the back. 😮
I have had a look at the toyota, Honda and a few others that we weren’t initially considering.
I got my Lancer for 18k and it’s got a big boot!
We’re going to a Mitsubishi dealer. Lancer is currently $19,990 though
You can likely talk them down. I think they were just a touch over 20k when my dad bought it (was the new 2015.5 model that wasn’t even in the country at the time), but he talked them down to 18 🙂
Can your dad come do that for us? Being two females, one looks like a high school and the other an elderly lady. They probably think that we’re easy targets
hehehe I’m sure if he were anywhere near you he might be able to assist. He’s in Port Macquarie last I heard though.
Just don’t take any crap. If they say no, just say “Ok. I’ll take my business elsewhere and walk away. Nothing scares a sales person more than customers trying to negotiate, and just walking out. Every sale to them is important, so if anything, you’re doing them a favour by being there and being interested.
I like my Barina Spark but it’s about the same size as a Swift, you won’t get a walker in the boot. A full size Barina starts at $15k but you’re probably looking at more like $17k if you need an auto.
I’m a manual driver
I’m looking for a small car like that too 🙂
The hatchbacks I’ve looked at are: Mitsubishi Mirage, Ford Fiesta, Hyundai i20/i30, Volkswagon Golf/Polo.
From my experience with Walker sizes I imagine the Hyundai and Ford hatchbacks probably have the best boot space for Walkers!
For some stupid reason, Mum’s is bigger then others.
Sorry for spam.
I had a card game idea last night.It was based on the anime another and I was discussing it with @redartifice
It went from being another card game, to guess who, to a slasher horror card game and then finally I realised that I already have way too much to do and shouldn’t be doing this. =P
So, what are some of your bored game/card game ideas?
I had an idea for a tabletop game that plays like an FPS – fast, fun, easy to pick up, but also deep.
Edit: Also, only you would start a post with “sorry for the spam” when this page was started purely on spam.
That’s what she said? =P
I don’t even know how that will work
OH NO SHE DIDN’T!!!
*explosive high five*
Don’t forget to turn your back on it. All the cool guys do B)
Great.. now you’ve got the song stuck in my head
Sorry
Batboy went to school today. Proper school, with a hat and shiny shoes and a big bag and everything.
He came home with a sticker on his shirt and some colouring in.
I’m really going to miss having my little guy around all the time.Did you cry?
A bit, but he didn’t see. No tears from Mr Confidence
I just dropped Tiglet off for her first day of day care today
So I know the feeling, although I scarcely got a good bye from her as she was off playing
@zambayoshi Sorry. I think they cut off the comments for the Film Victoria article, so I probably just left you with an unreadable unread message notification. On the plus side I wasn’t saying anything important. =P
Yeah, it’s unfortunate that people can’t be trusted to comment on those sorts of articles 🙁
Let’s just say that more women in games be it playing or making them is a good thing and leave it at that.
What do you mean by people cant be trusted to comment? Was some sort of abuse going on that I didn’t see?
I don’t see why if people are breaking the rules that they don’t just get banned.
Seems that some people like to say ignorant misogynist nonsense like ‘there aint no girl gamers hur dur’ or ‘THOSE STATS INCLUDE MOBILE GAMES AND THEY ARENT NECKBEARDY ENOUGH TO BE REAL GAMES ONLY STUPID GIRLS PLAY THOSE AS THEY DONT HAVE THE GENETIC CAPABILITY TO PLAY CoD’
you know, that kind of nonsense.
so it wasn’t about insults or freedom of speech, more about casual passers-by not having their retinas seared by reading such douchebaggery.
I didn’t really see any. I mean there was plenty of chatter and a lot of remarks I disagree with phrased in less than great ways, but nothing seemed particularly abusive. Maybe a few of the threads were talking in circles a little bit too harshly but it didn’t seem that major. I remember an old EB article got a lot more heated and didn’t get cut off.
@Dogman @haggis Really poor form on Kotaku’s part. Talk about censoring debate on a topic! If anyone was out of line the mods could delete comments or even ban users, and all of what I saw was civil. Maybe there were other reasons for it. I’d be interested to know from @markserrels or @hayleywilliams why the decision was made.
What a shame. What the hell is wrong with some people? 🙁
Fortunately, mark as read works for killing ghost comments.
Christ how toxic was the comments section for them to disable it??
I think Hayley said that it was basically 3 comments on topic and the rest on do girl gamers exist and is candy crush a real game
Augh, that’s…that’s just fucking awful. I think Serrels or someone should write an article about how disappointed they are in Kotaku AU.
Like a state of the KotakAUnion?
Sure, why not. It’s be like the United Nations
It was all part of the bigger topic – women in gaming. I think there was some very good discussion happening there, but Kotaku in its wisdom decided that there was nothing of value to be gained in keeping it there. Censorship in its most basic form. The comments didn’t fit the narrative of the article, ergo, they get canned. Extremely disappointing from a site that would have people believe it is in favour of open discussion!
I wasn’t sure on how it went, there wasn’t that many comments from when I saw it.
Part of the overall ‘women in gaming’ was ok but so much of it was missing the point and was totally off topic, and in some cases irrelevant to the topic.
Part of the concern might have been that the article could have been of interest to women/girls who the grant could be applicable for, who could be turned off by the ‘girls don’t play games’ comments.
But as I said I didn’t see a lot of the comments, but barbs were starting to be thrown the last time I looked so if that escalated as it normally does it could have been called for. Although I think you were there to the ‘end’ so you have a better feel for that than I would.
For real, it was not that toxic at all. I really dont understand why they killed the comments, there really wasn’t any nasty comments or shit slinging going on but apparently only one opinion is tolerated on this internet webpage :/
Its pretty shitty really, i mean we’re all adults here aren’t we? we cant handle other peoples point of view? :/
Oh shit. I’m a female and I like games. I also wanted a job in the game industry. =o No way I’m going near the comments section then
But not real games right? =P
Nah, I prefer the niche games. You’ve probably never heard of them. *hair flick*
Yet to see #DadJokePage6 happen; worried that it’s all a ploy, like some kind of bad joke.
Like some kind of… dad joke?
Edit: Oh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk
ELITE CONTENT
Please please please @rize @cakesmith @pixel_the_ferret_viking come to Chun Li* and wing up and help me kill many many Emperor’s Dawn. I was on my own last night and made about half a million in 20 mins but kept getting beaten up by Cutters and need some help and I’d be very grateful. 🙂
*Ch’i Lin, not Chun Li but STREETFIGHTER.
I’m currently about 250LY from Azrael which is where I’m headed at the moment to refuel my SRV and cash in some exploration data, so I guess I might be able to make a detour to Gende and pick up my Viper.
*not invited*
🙁
You need to give us more popcorn-fodder to get back into everyone’s good graces
You can come too. 😀
I won’t be home for another few hours 🙁
I’ll be on when you do.
Just a random thought, so I apologise if this has been covered in the previous four pages.
But, does it strike anyone else as odd that Kotaku has posted next to nothing about The Division in the last week-week and a half?
I would have thought with it being (arguably) one of the most anticipated AAA releases in a couple of years, plus the new updates of the media gameplay event last week and the beta starting tomorrow, that there’d be….something. Anything?
Weren’t they Blacklisted by Ubisoft?
Yes they were, but I figured they would have re-posted others’ content from the media event, for example, as they’ve done before.
Unless Kotaku didn’t want to publicise the event as a result of the blacklisting, which they’re well within their rights to do. As Ubi were for blacklisting them in the first place.
Note: I don’t agree with the notion of Ubi (or anyone else for that matter) blacklisting a media outlet, but I do agree that as a business it is their right to do so.
There was this one, back on the 15th: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/01/oh-hey-a-bunch-of-people-playedthe-division/
I mean, they’re not inundating us with coverage, but I don’t think they’re explicitly avoiding it.
Ah, I didn’t spot that one. Cheers!
There was an article on it last week, wasn’t there?
You’re right, it was 4 days ago, but was just a “Briefly” on (a) beta being announced and (b) PC specs. I just figured they might have posted something from the media event, even if that was re-posting JackFrag’s videos or something. Not a criticism or anything, I just found it strange. Oh well.
Darkest Dungeon > The Division
nuff said =p
What’s for dinner?
We’re having oven baked fish and chips with salad. #spamTAY
Roast chicken in a Southern style marinade with some veggies & cheesy parmesan bread!
Chicken chipies
I’ve eaten like 10 and I’m full.
Its the City of Small Gods monthly thing, so I’m off to that. Pub fare
Something oven baked that isn’t fish. Maybe Kievs or something similar. Probably grab some hash browns or potato gems.
#LetsEatGrandma
#HashtagsforHarli
I’m having Taco’s tonight! while I was organizing my pantry, I found a kit at the back I forgot I bought when they were 2 for price of 1! A little past the best before date, but I suspect if anything is wrong, it’s going to be the soft shells are a little stale. If they are, I’ll just have taco meat and cheese (thanks to you guys!) and tomato and stuff in a bowl with a dollop of sour cream on top!
I had a pint of beer before jumping on the train home but I suspect that doesn’t count?
Depends on the beer, I guess. A pint of stout probably counts as dinner.
See that’s what I tell my wife but she doesn’t believe me.
Apparently she has a piece of chicken breast defrosted so I shall do some magic with that.
I always used to joke that Guiness tasted like potatos and needed to be cut with a knife and fork before consuming.
Pasta. Boring but I love it.
Nothing wrong with pasta, as long as you don’t cook it like one of my exes used to. Her idea of making spaghetti, was to boil the spaghetti in a pot with some stock cubes, then drain the liquid and eat it.. now THAT, is boring!
I put cheese on it. No stock cubes though. That’s friggin’ gross.
It’s seems like some sort of crime to do that to innocent spaghetti
Pasta is great. It’s cheap, easy to cook and you can mix it so many ways. It’s just as good with a bit of pesto as it is with a slow cooked beef ragu.
My favourite lately is cooking fettucine, mixing an egg and basil pesto in a small bowl, and microwave some peas. Then when the pasta is cooked, mix through the egg mixture, combine with the peas and dump parmesan cheese on top.
A very loose interpretation on a carbonara I suppose, just no bacon etc.
That sounds great.
Crash bookmark
http://imgur.com/JOYQzHW
@transientmind You’ll be pleased to hear, I just did my first steam review for the year! Step 1 in living up to my pledge!
Crap, I haven’t reviewed jack.
I better get on that, I’ve definitely played some things.
I actually reviewed a game I’ve got like 750 hours logged on, so don’t feel too bad 😉 Wasn’t exactly a new game! 😉
Well at least one of you is doing New Year’s resolutions right…. =P
Was it a review like this?
Aviary Attorney
I lost my court case by playing poker instead of collecting evidence. 10/10
lol nah it was quite wordy. 😉
Words reviews are the best ones!!
Just saw an article stating that Corey Taylor of Slipknot wants to collaborate with Eminem. All I can say is, YES PLEASE. That would be amazing.
Can’t go worse than the collaboration with Bieber.
Oh god. Please, just no.. Hardly a collaboration anyway, just a crappy mash up 😛
Ok, time for another random discussion to keep TAY ticking over so we can get @haggis to #page6
The Sydney Festival has just finished, and next up is Chinese New Year and Mardi Gras.
My question is: Does your City/Town/Region have any festivals or major events that you are planning to go to this year?
I really enjoyed the CNY twilight parade last year, so I might do that again this year, and I love the dragonboat races (although they’re more fun when you’re doing the paddling). Vivid is good if you can stand the crowds, and the Sydney Biennale is on again this year, so there’ll be some interesting Art around (the installations on Cockatoo Island are always worth a day trip).
I’m tempted to Floriade this year, to try and take some pictures, and I’ll probably swing by the Multicultural Festival at some point, because fud.
Other than those, I’m not sure if Canberra actually does anything. 😛
Geelong has a Beer festival in February, but I can’t say I’m all that interested.
Other than that, there’s nothing to do in this cashed-up shit-hole.
If there are any festivals or major events, I don’t know about them.
I don’t go out much 😛
I’m in adelaide, we’re all about the festivals. I’ll be at the fringe and arts festivals, of course.
I misread that as fridge festival and I was intrigued.
I won’t be going, but we’re having a Nutella carnival soon.
I can’t have nutella. It sets of my teeth’s sensitivity.
I saw that on the news!
The following festivals interest me currently:
Groovin’ The Moo music Festival – Bendigo
Melbourne BBQ Festival – Caulfield Racecourse
Melbourne Knowledge week
I was in Sydney for last years Vivid, but I didn’t know where/what it was lol.
Vivid is a an arts festival that features lights. So there’s projections on landmark buildings, a heap of installations around circular quay and the cbd, and also some performances at the various theatres. The queens Birthday weekend is usually the biggest, and the crowds are comparable to new years eve.
I’ve never been to Vivid, so I’m really keen to go this year, even if it means crowds!
Keen to go to more festival-y things in general this year. 😛 The few I’ve been to have had really nice food! And really that’s the most important thing in life.
They usually have food trucks in the area for Vivid, but last year I just took a picnic dinner, and Batboy and I ate it while watching the display on the MCA (which looked like a giant mechanical game machine/rubicks cube thing).
My favourite food festival is definitely the Norton St festa in October. I go for the porchetta rolls, cannoli and the festival biscuits.
Growing up in Benalla we had the rose festival
Now in Melb and we have a little thing thing called PAX
PAX is a convention, it doesn’t count because you have to buy tickets. I’m talking stuff that’s freeeee!
Well then Moomba is probably one of the big ones
Also have the awesome White night where they basically shut down big sections of the CBD of a night and have art displays and the like.
Had the full range of Elite PvP tonight. First was a guy in an FDL who interdicted me as I headed off to the combat zone. He was cheesing it by flying backwards and trying to shoot me, but I was able to keep pace while strafing and pummelling him with cannon fire. Before long he was just spinning there doing nothing, and soon disappeared via combat log. Coward 😛
Next was a guy who showed up to the combat zone in his Corvette, and joined the opposing side. There were a couple of other commanders in there with me, but none of them seemed interested in being anywhere near this guy. He soon took an interest in me though, so off we went. He seemed to have some kind of weird shields, they were green. I know prismatics are purple, but I have no idea what green is. Couldn’t bust through them, he kept popping shield cells. And I think there was some lag at play, because even though I was avoiding most of his volleys of frag cannon fire, I still ended up getting stripped down. Before long he’d popped my canopy, so I had to bug out. Wished him well as I left, dude said nothing.
Then on my way back to the station, another guy in a Viper interdicted me. I was about to tell him that I wasn’t going to stick around due to the canopy problem, but before I could hit Send he’d already disappeared. And left a message apologising, saying that he didn’t realise I was on low HP. What a swell guy.
In the meantime, I think I’ve settled on a beam+cannon combo. Seems to suit pretty well.
Trails of Cold Steel is out in PAL-land apparently, so you guys have no excuse now. >:(
I can write about niche stuff that interests me any day of the week. How jargon is rad. How boring games are rad. How “point salad” is no more of a derogatory term than “Ameritrash”. I want to know what people want to know.
This is mostly idle curiosity. It’d be interesting to know if there’s another direction to go.
Your fairy bread coverage has been unparalleled.
It’s an important niche that nobody else was willing to fill.
That’s what he said.
So Microsoft sent me a division beta code which I downloaded yesterday and played for about an hour and a half last night. Played the tutorial and the single story mission available (which matchmakes in the same way as GTA Online). I like that you can set what difficulty you want to matchmake at. Four of us at the starting level (4) rolled through the mission with no trouble at all. The game kept us together as a group which I couldn’t figure out how to exit from, I feel like my group was wondering why I wandered off and did my own thing while they stuck together. As it happened I wound up randomly choosing to do the same missions anyway, so I was with them, but late because I was also faffing about. Love the map/mission select interface too.
The missions we did involved searching for McGuffins in an abandoned multi-storey townhouse then uploading data to the cloud via a laptop sitting on top of the building, and clearing an area to extract a soldier being held hostage by homeless rioters.
So it’s interesting. I like the design. It plays well enough. I’m not sure if I need another timesink RPG shooter after spending a year with Destiny, but the beta definitely has me interested. If the story turns out to be substantial enough, I think they might have made another sale.
Yeah I was following the beta on Twitch and everytime I’d look at a stream I’d keep thinking to myself dear god this feels like third person Destiny and then I’d have PTSD flash backs. While I was initially interested in the game I’m now increasingly cautious….
I was trying to watch on Youtube last night but every time the character moved fast the video quality dropped so I couldn’t see what the gameplay was like.
What exactly makes you cautious?
The fact it looks like a cross-breed between Destiny and Watchdogs (in terms of UI elements)? The gear, the combat, the multiplayer setting all reminds me of what a grind Destiny was and how quickly (for a new MMO) it lost its lustre. FPS/Third Person shooter games are meant to be quick bursts of quality entertainment, multiplayers games are meant to have longevity and grinds. They can co-exist in two modes but mixing the two creates conflicts in gameplay styles.
tl;dr – looking at the gear and how it’s color coded and has stats I realized that’s something I want in RPG’s not shooters.
I barely saw any gameplay, I actually came to Kotaku to hope somebody had seen more than me: thank you for sharing.
It’s a third person shooter (I’d call it a cross between Ghost Recon and Gears of War – but more towards the arcade end of the spectrum than the simulation/tactical end) but because it’s an RPG hybrid you start with low level guns that tickle enemies to death and spray bullets everywhere. There are a variety of active skills you’ll unlock (the beta only has a few) that you assign to shoulder buttons. You can have active radar that tags nearby enemies for you, first aid abilities, etc. The city looks good (you know, for a post catastrophic event shell filled with wreckage etc.) and I love the idea of completing missions to upgrade and customise your base of operations to unlock new skills and resources. I like that you can also loot clothing to customise your style on top of what gear you use.
There seems to be a pretty big swathe of the city to explore, but there’s also the “dead zone” outside the borders of the mission area which the game describes as a dangerous zone filled with high level enemies that drop the best loot, which I guess is akin to doing high level strikes in Destiny. There are several parallels to Destiny what with the loot system and all but I think the thing that will sell the Division is a robust story. I think if I pick it up it will purely be for the story rather than an obsessive need to log in every day to shoot for more loot.
Craaaap, I was going to try and download that ahead of time. Ah well, guess I’ll be trying it out tomorrow!
🙁
I got the code Wednesday morning and redeemed it from my phone. Set it to download before I left for work yesterday morning and turned off my Xbox so it was waiting for me when I got home.
I’m going to look into getting a key so I could download overnight, you’re playing on Xbone?
Yup.
So I jumped into Darkest Dungeon and remember why I stopped playing it in the first place; progress in the game is made through knowledge which is annoying to collect without lots of trial and error. It’s definitely a good game but the time commitment needed in figuring out what stats do; how the abilities interact; what’s the ideal balance to spend on supplies is just annoying. A lot of how you improve in multiple attempts is based on walking in blind to a few dungeons getting a rough idea of length and dangers, failing and restarting so that you plan for the knowledge you collected on the last run. As such the most effective way to play the game is to keep using your heroes as meat to throw on new mines to figure out how big the explosion is going to be.
tl;dr – I get too attached to my characters and cant treat them as meat =P
You just described how I play Fire Emblem: Awakening ery time
Which part =p treat em as meat or get too attached?!
Yeah, as an employer, you have the shittiest workplace rehabilitation plan ever.
“Woah, you’re pretty fucked up in the head dude. Like, that many phobias? You know what… I’d fire you, but it’s probably better for insurance if you just die in the dungeons.”
Operation #dadjokewhileyouweresleeping #occupywhileyouweresleeping is now in effect.
So I made the mistake of reading the news today morning to see Tony Abbot and idiot MP’s commenting on same-sex marriage. Now I want to punch someone; ideally Mr Abbott or one of said idiot MP’s
I’m like… if Eric Abetz fell down a flight of stairs, I wouldn’t be sad. At all. Like… the opposite of sad.
If he fell down a flight of stairs and landed on Corey Bernardi, that would just be the best.
I just don’t get it; if something doesn’t affect you and it can make someone else happy why the hell are you spending energy to stop it? Your net effect on the world is negative.
But muh priviliege!
Because Jeebus something something.
I have no fucking idea, but those asshats aren’t on my list of favourite people. I mean… at least Clive Palmer was entertaining.
Just waiting and hoping someone will pipe up and get this sham of a plebiscite shut down.
My nasty side wants a transparent conscience vote on legislation so that we can see who the procrastinating buggers are; sensible side just wants them to pass the legislation however they need to before this shit runs too long and causes more harm.
How about a referendum? Let’s create a binding vote on the matter that politicians are forced to adhere to. I mean if we’re going to flush money down the drain holding a plebiscite might as well run a vote in a way that holds weight.
Referendums are used to change the constitution; marriage law isn’t covered in the constitution so a referendum would accomplish nothing.
Legislation was passed during 2013 in the ACT to allow same sex marriage. It was found in the subsequent case, The Commonwealth v Australian Capital Territory [2013] HCA 55, that the Australian Marriage Act 1961 superseded the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013; essentially saying the federal act precludes state amendments of this sort.
The verdict from that case stated that any amendment to the Marriage Act 1961 would require federal legislation, therefore the onus to enact change rests squarely with parliament.
All the discussion about plebiscites and referendums is purely a stalling tactic, and an expensive one at that. At a political level the message is ostensibly about empowering the electorate a la the rhetoric around how this should be the people’s choice and not the politician’s. However, on a practical level the government just doesn’t want to amend the legislation.
To reiterate, a referendum, while legally binding, would accomplish nothing on this matter.
Been watching the X-Files the past few days. Not the new one, but the classic series as I’ve never seen it before. Just finished the first season and started on the second. It’s pretty fun. I’m enjoying seeing all the old 90s technology.
Finally pulled the trigger and updated to Windows 10. There’s nothing noticeably different about it so far from Windows 7 except for the UI. I guess time will tell if it was worth it. I also got myself a new Razer Naga mouse since my old one’s been having a problem where it’s been registering single clicks as double clicks. It lasted me a few years though so I guess that’s ok. Hopefully the new one lasts just as long if not longer. One thing that sort of bugs me about the new mouse though is that they’ve moved the position of the back and forward buttons. On my old mouse they were next to to the left click and easy to access so I found myself using them fairly often for internet browsing. On the new mouse they’re behind the mouse wheel and a bit awkward to click so I can’t see myself ever using them.
I got a 3 month trial to Presto so my wife was rewatching X-Files – she then discovered a new season was coming out when she tagged the show in Facebook. Now she’s been sidetracked by Making a Murderer, but still plans to try and finish X-Files before the trial runs out.
Hardware people: do I need to upgrade my PC?
Current specs:
– i5 4670K (I’m thinking this is still fine)
– 16gb (4x4gb) DDR3-1600 RAM (Should still also be fine)
– 250gb SSD (starting to feel a little limited size-wise. Motherboard has an mSATA port so tempted to upgrade to a 500gb mSATA)
– GeForce 670 OC (this is probably my biggest issue right now)
I haven’t really been feeling like my PC is struggling with anything in particular but it also feels like it’s not running things as well as it used to.
Obviously the GPU is the part that’s really dated here. Biggest question is probably whether to go with a 970, splurge on a 980 (they’re about double the price) or wait for the next generation of GPUs from nVIDIA (it sounds like Pascal is about 6 months away)
It’s probably already better than mine, so…
Yes
If it’s not causing you any noticeable issues at the moment I’d be tempted to wait until Pascal drops. Even if you don’t fork out for the new-gen hardware, I’d imagine it’d coincide with a price drop in last-gen GPUs.
The current-gen GPUs aren’t too badly priced here in the US. Not sure how much they’ll drop honestly.
Might give Rise of the Tomb Raider a go and see how it runs and use that to decide.
For those that missed it this morning, the American Gods TV show has finally cast Shadow.
Fucking. Nailed. It.
Freya and I are listening to the audiobook in the car and, aside from his non-looming stature, Whittle seems pretty much ideal. Then Freya suggested Geoffrey Rush as Mr Wednesday. I should wife that girl. #makebunpropose
Keith David for Mr Nancy!
Now, see, there’s an article idea. Elaborate geek-related proposal articles always seem to go over pretty well.
Here’s what I’m looking forward to game-wise this year:
– Fire Emblem Fates
– #FE (ie. the Altus game with Fire Emblem/SMT references. Don’t think it even has an English name yet)
– Pokken Tournament (they better announce a Bug type character or I’ll be upset :P)
– Bravely Second: End Layer (going to wait for reviews on this one though)
– Abzu (if I’m not getting my Endless Ocean this will have to do)
– Cuphead (I’m loving that so many games are coming to PC these days – if Pants didn’t already own a PS4/Xbone I doubt I would’ve even bought one yet)
– Valkyria: Azure Revolution
– Persona 5
Of course the new Pokemon game as well, whatever that ends up being. Plus Nintendo NX too – can’t wait to see what’s in store with that.
EDIT: Oh, I forgot about Zelda WiiU. Though I think I’ll wait and see if it gets an NX port before jumping on that.
I approve of this list.
Why did you forget XCOM-2?
Because XCOM is the poor-man’s Fire Emblem 😛
YOU TAKE THAT BACK!
Hmhmhmhmhmhm
To be fair looking at the price structure for the new Fire Emblem I will end up a poor man if I want to play all 3 games.
Also in light of this transgression I’m going to name a Rookie in XCOM after you and have him die horribly in the first mission =@ That or I’ll dress him up all in pink. PINK! NOT GREEN!
Mirror’s Edge
Deus Ex
MASS EFFECT
Tides of Numenera
Stellaris
Uncharted 4
The Witn-oh wait that’s out and awesome
Maaaaaaaaybe Destiny 2.
Hopefully a big year for me.
– The Witness & Rise of the Tomb Raider, lumped together because they’re both out.
– XCOM 2
– The Division
– Firewatch
– Fire Emblem Fates
– SMT x FE, referred to as such just to be different to you
– Persona 5, not that it’ll be out this year in AU (a healthy level of scepticism regarding its release date has saved me a lot of Heartbreak heartbreak, you tell me goodbye)
– Nathan Drake Adventures 4: The Nathan Drakening
– Zelda WiiUUUUUiiiiUUUUUUU (I’d be extremely surprised if the NX was out this year, and I ain’t waiting that long)
– Mass Effect Andromeda
– Deus Ex: Hamfisted commentary on classism and racism
– Dishonored 2, assuming it’s this year, since I need more badly written games
Probably many others that I’m looking forward to, since I’m a shill who buys everything.
I’m taking bets that the first part of NX (either the console or the handheld) will be out this holiday ;D (with the other following up in the first half of next year)
Count on it!
Oh my god I’d forgotten about Firewatch.
Nothing else matters anymore.
Turtle Holding Simulator
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*deep breath*eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
– GAEMS!
For me, I’m not even sure I’ll pick up the games I’m really keen on. Going to have a LOT of other things on this year.
I’ve already paid off Dark Souls 3, so that’s confirmed. Uncharted 4 is probably the only other sure thing.
Right now for me it looks like the year is front-loaded with all the good releases at the beginning and nothing at the end. Is there anything happening after August or so that’s interesting?
– Fire Emblem Fates (LE preordered for ALL THE ROUTES)
– #FE (unless Nintendo fuck it up with their heavy-handed localization style of late)
– Bravely Second (Got one of the US LEs ordered today, sold out in hours)
– Odin Sphere Leifthrasir
– Trails of Cold Steel 2
– Nights of Azure
– Senran Kagura: Estival Versus
– Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
– Uncharted 4
– Quantum Break
– Gears of War 4 (that’s late 2016 right?)
– maybe Project Diva X (depends on the song list, disappointed there’s no cool music video style stuff in it though, apparently all concert-style which are boring)
– maybe Destroyer Trillion (it’s the original Disgaea team that fucked off from NIS after D4)
– maybe Mass Effect: Andromeda (after ME3 and especially DA:I I’m hesitant)
If Final Fantasy XV happens this year and it’s not a horrible mess then I might bite, but probably not. I have zero faith in Persona 5 dropping in English in 2016. Will buy Star Ocean 5 if it’s localized this year but I doubt it. Ditto Tales of Berseria – if it happens, I’ll grab it. It’s not announced but I have strong belief that XSeed will release Tokyo Xanadu in the back half of the year so that’s a guaranteed purchase. Same for Ys VIII but I think that’ll be a 2017 localization. Valkyria Azure Revolution is a late-2016 JP release so no chance of it happening in English until 2017, if it comes at all – Sega are assholes.
EDIT: If Nier Automata drops in 2016 then it’s a must-buy for me too.
Have you seen any impressions of Bravely Second? I haven’t looked into it all that much yet.
Really, as long as it doesn’t try and pull a similar stunt to the last half of Bravely Default, I’ll get it. That’s the only thing I’m concerned about.
36/40 in Famitsu – 9s across the board, two points lower than the first one.
The soundtrack is good, but it’s not as good as the first game. Ryo is an okay pop music composer but not so good at soundtracks. Revo’s soundtrack work for the first game was fucking incredible and it’s a massive shame he couldn’t come back.
The art is just as nice. I have the artbook.
Sales-wise it did worse than the first game at launch – 100k vs 140k – but I think that’ll be because it’s not as novel, and a lot of people would have been disappointed by the back half of the first game.
There’s rumors swirling around for a while now that Nintendo’s dickhead censor brigade are in full force on it, making sure there’s no chance they might offend people and so on. Apparently the Tomahawk class from the JP release (which is a vaguely American Indian-looking class that uses guns) has been made into a ‘Cowboy’. Presumably that means also changing the Tomahawk Asterisk character’s design too, which sucks because it’s pretty cute (see the link).
I have fairly low expectations.
Eurogamer has a preview up (I tend to have a pretty good hit rate with their opinions), and it seems to just be… more Bravely Default. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-01-28-bravely-second-steps-out-of-final-fantasys-shadow
Not a bad thing, of course.
-No Star Fox
Monster.
Never been a fan, honestly 😛 Maybe the new one will win me over if it’s good.
Monster!
I’m burning out a little, so enthusiasm is low. I think the only thing I’m pretty interested in off the top of my head is XCOM2, and I haven’t even preordered that for the goodies. I haven’t even grabbed Kharak. Got other things to save money for instead.
Lesson learned from coming off of no games 2015 is that I have the horrible suspicion I enjoy the idea of all these new games more than I actually enjoy the games themselves.
Also, dopamine burnout is real, and video games are essentially pure dopamine manipulation.
Having played pokken at an arcade already, it’s definitely something I am buying on release. I didn’t think it would be so much fun but it’s really easy to get the hang of
Just give me Heracross and we good, Pokken.
I am excited about gaming in 2016! Mostly because I am horribly cheap, and didn’t play any of the AAA releases in 2015, so I’ll finally get to play Witcher 3, FO4, all that good stuff!
Hell, XCOM2 is an early 2016 release, so I might even get to play that before the year is out! Everything’s coming up Milhouse!
Dropped Tiglet of at Day care. My little one isn’t a babby anymore
And the cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon…
Except it’s the other way around for me at the moment.
Say good bye to Daddy.
Nope, I’ve got all these toys and friends to play with, no time for him
Just a few more milestones to make you feel like you aren’t needed then! =P
Yes, we have no bananas. :'(
And a PSA care of @mcgarnical
Sunless sea is having a free weekend on steam so if you are interested then check it out
@evilmonkey @lamboman @masha2932 @beeawwb @sernobulus
Why yes, yes I am interested. If only I didn’t have so much on this weekend. 🙁
Of course it’s on the weekend when I am actually doing something. ='(
(Thanks for the heads up though)
Best news of the day.
Heads up for people who have purchased Apple devices with wall plug adaptors between 2003-2015 (yeah, really):
http://www.apple.com/support/ac-wallplug-adapter/
Isn’t that just all of them?
Yeah, but you know Apple.
They think different.
Doesn’t seem to include the latest version they’ve been shipping out with iphones/ipads, so I’m all good I think.
Glad to hear you lucked out!
*stares at the 1000+ iOS devices I need to check*
But hey, 1000 new chargers for free!
Honestly, an error like this doesn’t really surprise me, the bit that I find great is that apparently some Apple store employees were replacing the potentially faulty adapters with… potentially faulty adapters.
Quality.
I haven’t logged into Kantai Collection in a while and what the fuck is going on? Apparently they released the ranking rewards for the top 500 players in December last week and they all got…
http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/16inch_Triple_Gun_Mount_Mk.7
That’s the fucking Iowa-class main turret.
Additionally, “this ranking reward is an early implementation of the equipment, while its global implementation would come this spring at the earliest, coming together with the implementation of new kanmusu(s) with this equipment within this year.”
And there’s an event starting early February too. I’m going to end up playing this again. Dammit. I’ve been clean for months 🙁
(I’m also looking forward to the online angst that US ships entering the game will cause for all the Japanese right-wing nutjob otaku that are into the game!)
I don’t think I’ve ever heard such constant thunder as I’m hearing right now.
Also holy shit so much rain. It’s even worse than that storm a couple of weeks ago.
https://www.change.org/p/nintendo-nintendo-of-america-get-danny-devito-to-voice-the-english-version-of-detective-pikachu?source_location=petitions_share_skip
Yes. Yes!
That would be pretty great.
TRASH @greenius
Was that video already uploaded at the time of this comment?
Slowius 🙁
Clicked and it is a “Petition for Nintendo of America to continue their censorship practices”.
WTF? Bait and switch?
Sunova…
Edit: Wait no, it still says the original thing for me. Wha?
The author changed it, got banned and change.org set it back.
The time is fast approaching. I must post Dad Jokes, starting at the latest, 3pm AEDST. Watch out world!
QUICK EVERYONE, SPAM LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SPAMMED BEFORE! WE HAVE 24 MINUTES!
I second taco.
There sure was some thunder.
#strivingforthedream
Oh, and some rain. It’s stopped now.
#DJP6?
Ooh, there’s a potential chance I could move up the career ladder. Or sideways. A direction that isn’t down, at least. Deep breaths, Alex.
*faints*
I believe in you!
If there’s some sort of interview, I recommend dressing in a style reminiscent of that wonderful dancer we saw the other day, and engaging in as many pelvic thrust-like moves as you can.
@freezespreston has some interview advice for you but it depends on how good you are at moonwalking through doorways while your hands are occupied.
Expensive lunches here you come? 😀
I totally spent like $15 on lunch the other day, dang!
So, spam. I’ve never tried it – I’m assuming it tastes terrible, but now that I’m a vegetarian I may never know.
#Page6orbust
As an American I’m culturally required to enjoy SPAM. And I do.
Tastes a lot like luncheon sausage / devon / strass / whatever your region calls it.
Issue is it smells like cat food.
Where the hell is loops when you need him?!?
in your bed where i belong, baby
That’s for when I want you not need =p
I CAME IN LIKE A WREEEEECKING BAAAALLLLLLLLL….
@blaghman @popdart5 @tech_knight
NUMENERA
TAKE 2 HOPEFULLY
TONIGHT 8PM SA Time (so it’s a bit less squeezy a timeline)
Remember, jumping straight through to roll20.net this time yeah?
Time to let Hangouts go I think, the only reason having a Google+ account was actually useful 😛
Yeah, we will. cc @popdart5 @blaghman
Should be good. Brisbane looks like it’ll get smashed with a storm so here’s hoping my connection stays up.
It’s dismal everywhere, but I think Bris is getting the brunt
Hi,
My name is jedimast3r. I have a gaming addiction.
This is my first meeting and I just wanted to introduce myself.
*crickets*…… *looks around nervously*
OK I LIED; I JUST WANT TO GET TO PAGE 6 DAMMIT!
Page 6 happened over in the while you were sleeping article. Also, this page needs 3 more top level posts
…… WHAT =O and it was today morning too?! What blasphemy is this?!
That’s the spirit!
https://managewp.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/spam.jpg
@cffndncr
Spam from a can? It’s terrible, flan.
Oh man. Just…. damn.
http://images.bigcartel.com/bigcartel/product_images/150939358/max_h-1000+max_w-1000/Spamela_Anderson.jpg
I’M FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
IT BEGINS!!!!!!
DROP DAD SEXY PAGE SIX!
That’s what some guy screamed after he got out of prison. Kid in the park yelled back “So what?! I’m four!”
What’s Lady Gaga’s favourite type of Tomato?
Ro-ma, Roma-ma #dadjokepagesix #hiagain @strangeI once shot an Elephant in my pajamas!
How it got into my pajamas, i’ll never knowClassic Groucho
All Groucho is classic
I’m planning a 5th Birthday party.
Best kid party food item
And…Go!
Fairy bread.
Although that just falls into the “best food” category.
Yup! Not a Birthday if there’s no fairy bread!
I can’t believe America doesn’t know about fairy bread
Americans on the internet calls us “poor” & “gross” for fairy bread, cause it’s too awesome for them. Yet they’re the ones who put high fructose corn syrup in every thing they eat…
EVEN IN THEIR GODDAMN FUCKING MILK. 🙁
WHAT THE FUCK. That’s messed up man. So messed up. HFC is one of the worst sugars you can be consuming as well apparently. I thought it was fucked up when I was told the bread is super sweet. But nope, seriously, the god damned milk…
You can get milk without HFCS but if you’re not paying attention then it’s pretty easy to fuck up 🙁
Ditto bread, though I’ve found a brand that’s barely sweetened. The HFCS stuff is like eating cake or something.
and i’m gonna guess the milk with the HFCS is more common than it without?
And a lot of that bread that is sweetened is like a batter bread, yeah? Rather than the convention dough bread we’re used to back here in Aus.
Check. Fairy bread is definitely on the list.
Dad jokes… Food for the soul?
Hard to go wrong with the classics like chocolate crackles and stuff, but knowing you, you probably want something a bit… different~!
http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/pictures/7852/kids-party-food-16-quick-easy-and-fun-ideas
Making food fun in creative ways is great!
oooh, I love the last ones – choc-dipped marshmallows on a stick with sprinkles. They look awesome.
Party pies!
This is cool! If I saw that on a table, there’s no way I could stop myself from grabbing some! http://goodtoknow.media.ipcdigital.co.uk/111/000006eb4/980d_orh100000w614/3712-137900.jpg
This is even cooler, but I don’t have time to do that this year, and it won’t transport to the park well. http://cdn.instructables.com/FER/PVIP/IBFREBNH/FERPVIPIBFREBNH.MEDIUM.jpg
I was trying to do that for Tiglet’s first birthday party but ran out of time
Beluga Whale Caviar!
Oh and cocktail franks!
EVERYONE loves cocktail franks
Do mini sausages count? Probably doing a bbq with mini sausages.
It’s not a kids party if you don’t have party pies and sausage rolls. It should be illegal to have one without those.
Also the biggest, fattest, most food-colouringest cake you can get 😛
I’m thinking maybe cookies and cream
With big cookie shards sticking out of it!
I think I’ll just make one of these for myself 😛
Actually, something more like this
Mars Bar slice!
And a cake from the Women’s Weekly cake cookbook 😛
I have that book. But it doesn’t have enough squirtles in it, or lego, or minecraft.
We had a cookbook when I was very little on making cakes that looked like Play School characters.
I don’t think I ever got a Play School character cake though 😛
Minecraft wouldn’t be too hard and could be pretty effective. Cubes of vanilla and chocolate sponge cakes, a bit of different colored icing…
EDIT: http://www.instructables.com/id/Cool-Minecraft-cake-that-is-easy-to-do-and-will-p/
Sugar cookies. Always loved the hell out of those.
Honey joys & Chocolate crackles
Honey Joys – the only other way to eat cornflakes.
Why wouldn’t Justin Bieber sleep with the fan?
He didn’t belieber story about being over 18who are we kidding – dude’s practically a blue light discoHe tried, but his junk got caught in the rotorsAlmost expected “Cos she was a baby baby baby oh my!!”Why cant you hear a pterodactyl use the bathroom?
Because the P is silent (¬‿¬)I used to be addicted to soap. But I’m clean now.
What do you call a Luke Skywalker cosplayer?
A luke-alike!A Han Solo cosplayer?
Harrison Fraud!A Vader cosplayer?
Darth Masquerader!Reported this comment by accident -_- the internal sighing of seeing a dad joke made me make a mistake
My tennis opponent was not happy with my serve. He kept returning it.
My wife threatened to leave me over my obsession with collecting Red Hot Chilli Peppers memorabilia
She said I’d had to give it away give it away give it away now…..
Walked into a bar and noticed 3 bits of meat hanging from the ceiling. Asked the bartender why is the meat hanging from the ceiling?
The reply “If you can jump and touch all three pieces you drink for free for the week, if not you shout the bar next happy hour, would you like to have a go? ” To which I replied “No way mate the stakes are too high”.
Just been to the gym and there’s a new machine there.
I only used it for about an hour, as I started to feel sick, but it’s great: it’s got Kit Kats, Mars bars, crisps and everything in it.
I’m stealing this one.
What happened when customers complained about the bright lights in a Chinese restaurant?
The manager decided to dim sum.My friend just told me how electricity is measured and I was like watt?!
The roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference.
A magician was driving down the street..
Then he turned into a driveway.
I got an invite to a wedding that said “black tie only”. But when I got there, everyone else was in tuxedos…
Fairly sure this is a common nightmare, alongside “my teeth are falling out” and “what do you mean there’s an assignment due tomorrow? I don’t think I’ve been to any of the classes in this unit. Wait, didn’t I already graduate?”
An eccentric billionaire wanted a mural painted on his library wall so he called an artist. Describing what he wanted, the billionaire said, “I am a history buff and I would like your interpretation of the last thing that went through Custer’s mind before he died. I am going out of town on business for a week and when I return I expect to see it completed.”
Upon his return, the billionaire went to the library to examine the finished work. To his surprise, he found a painting of a cow with a halo. Surrounding this were hundreds of Indians in various sexual positions. Furious, he called the artist in. “What the hell is this?” screamed the billionaire.
“Why that’s exactly what you asked for” said the confused artist.
“No, I didn’t ask for a mural of pornographic filth. I asked for an interpretation of Custer’s last thoughts”
“And there you have it” said the artist “His last words were – Holy cow! look at all those fucking indians!”
My doctor was pleased to tell me my blood test showed no signs of leukaemia!
Uh… good to know, I guess.
I guess the more things they cross off the list the closer they get to an actual diagnosis.
this is the worst dad joke I’ve ever read.
My therapist thinks I’m preoccupied with vengeance. We’ll see about that!
#Page6 #It’sBeenAWhile #OkBye #HiStrange
What did the store attendant at Williams say to the fly?
shoe!What do you call a bunch of dancers in a blender?
Salsa.I went into a bar and asked the bartender for a double entendre as a joke, but he really gave it to me.
Centrelink
#page6
Quick question, do you think Tony Abbot is the bigger joke, or centrelink?
Tony Abbot is just one idiot. Centrelink is a whole government department full of idiots. Speaks for itself really. Plus, we got rid of Abbot. Would be a lot harder to get rid of Centrelink. It’s been around a lot longer than he has 😉 (In the public eye I mean – Prior to being PM, he was just another nobody polititican.)
He thinks he can be PM again
Sif that would ever happen. His own party doesn’t back him, so he’d have no chance even if the public liked him enough to want it.
Not the way he’s talking. Oh, he’s going to get back in and everyone will love it.
He should go see a psychologist because he is seriously deluded.
Failed an exam today. I was sat in the exam hall, and I could do was wonder how Dumbo could fly around on those big flapping ears.
I guess I should have focused on on the test instead of something that was ear elephant.
I saw this bloke with a chainsaw cutting random people right down the middle from head to toe.
I guess he must be bi-sectual.
@trikeabout So I only just left the combat zone. 1.6m credits of combat bonds. And I still had one last cannon round remaining at about 1.2m, along with four shots of chaff. And right up until that last Clipper there, was on 60% hull(made it back with 43). So uh, that went pretty well.
Oh yeah and partway through I got promoted to Master \o/
Also I think I’d been there so long the game was starting to fall apart. Sound kept getting choppy for no apparent reason, and frames would lock up for a second or two leaving any buttons that were released during the freeze still counted as held, all sorts of weird stuff. I blame those for the loss of that last ~15% of hull 😛
Rise of the Tomb Raider looks great, and actually runs pretty well on my aging rig.
Downside is they’ve tweaked Lara’s face again – not just higher res, but she looks different to 2013 and it’s taking me a while to get used to. Just got used to the last look. Leave her face alone!!!
I think they’ve changed it to be more like her remastered face, though I never played that one so I’m not sure.
Ran well on my rig through the first bit, but I’ve had some areas where my framerate plummets, and one bit where it ate 12 gig of RAM and Windows forced it to close. :/
Still really enjoying it.
I did play remastered, although it’s at a mate’s so I can’t do a compare right now.
Yeah, noticed a bit of slowdown, but given how low my expectations were, I’m pretty pleased.
Enjoying it so far too. 🙂
I had an odd dream last night. I had moved to Germany in a search for the super-rare biography of Rodney Eade. After traipsing around for ages for little reward, getting myself into awkward situations and saying “It’s okay, I’m half-German. I can get away with this!” to people who complained about my shit, I finally stumbled upon the library.
I guess it was hot or something, so I took my shirt off and started scouring the well-populated library half-naked. People complained and I shrugged them off, but they eventually called the Library Police on me. I think I was conducting a thesis on the 2010 Western Bulldogs side or something, because I found a 2009 version of Rodney Eade’s biography and threw it away.
Eventually realising that the fabled biography was not there, I dodged the police and escaped the library. Deciding that it was time to leave Germany, I walked into some market or something and bought a sex toy. I soon realised the sex toy was actually controller for a version of Madden that I controlled with my dick. I was struggling with the game, trying to figure out the rules. Apparently this version of Madden had a goal that I had to keep throwing balls into. It was a wide but short set of goals like some sort of bizarro ice hockey. The game was clearly 16-bit, but the balls were 32-bit and quite out of place.
Eventually after failing at it a couple of times, Michael Rischitelli showed up and challenged me to a game of Dick Madden. I woke up shortly afterwards.
The dream was very long and surprisingly boring. How has your day been, TAY?
….
Honestly, all my dreams recently have been about work. Some people have all the luck!
I have dreamed about waiting for the bus before. The bus too me to a train station, and I narrowly missed my train and had to wait for ages for another to show up. Eventually the train showed up and took me to the airport. I went through customs and finally got in my plane.
The dream ended right there. Bear in mind that the dream was in what felt like real-time, and took about three hours. You don’t know what it’s like to have a really boring dream. You haven’t suffered like I have.
I remember in high school… I really, really didn’t want to do the homework for my French class. I decided to play games until I went to bed, and set an early alarm (3am) to get up and do the homework. It was a weird system, but it worked – go to bed, get a few hours of sleep, get up, do homework, go back to bed…. there’s a bunch of evidence about 2-stage sleep cycles, but I digress..
Anyhoo, in this particular instance my alarm went off, I got up, and did the excruciatingly long assignment. Then my mum came in and woke me up – apparently my alarm went off, I turned it off and just went back to sleep, and then dreamed I did the assignment for a few hours.
So not only did I suffer through the dream-assignment, but I also dealt with the consequences of not doing the actual assignment. So don’t even talk to me about suffering 😛
ELITISTS! @mrtaco @pixel_the_ferret_viking @cakesmith @rize @welbot (so you know in case you start playing soon…) Sure I’m missing peeps. Soz.
The Elite Dangerous Australia group’s faction has been approved and we’re in our first choice system. EDA Kunti League in Kunti system, Hughes Orbital home base and it’s a prison colony.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/edaustralia/
I hang out on their TS a bit.
Do they refer to the station as Billy?
I hope they refer to the station as Billy.
Also stupid server needs to stop being dead 🙁
And there it is, hooray!
Be on in an hour or so after Shannara and Mr Robot.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=228786
20% bonus credit rewards when cashing in missions and bounties and stuff over the weekend, as penance for the dead servers today. In case anyone was wanting to make use of a little earnings boost.
@pixel_the_ferret_viking @cakesmith @rize @welbot @aliasalpha @trikeabout
Wow, thanks for the heads up!
This is probably gonna fall in to the ether, so might repost next week, but in case there’s anyone around, I made something!
https://soundcloud.com/welbot/fully-sickbot