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Morning TAY! Finally completed my lifelong quest to have the first post, so today is already a good day! How was everyone’s weekend?
Ah, but remember, having started the day, week even, on such a high note, it’s all just downhill from here.
Pessimist Man, awaaaaaaaay!
*casually saunters off*
You just wanted to see the light die in my eyes, didn’t you?
*explosive high five*
Played a bit of infamous on my ps4. Forgot the full title. The neon one. It’s very cool and even though I just started, it’s already heaps of fun. Don’t really feel powerless, but at the same time it’s not exactly way too easy. Though does feel a little easy. Moving around is pretty fun in that game.
EDIT: No, it was First Light.
Thought I had it wrong first time.
The neon one possibly the First Light expansion/dlc?
Girl shoots sparkles and turns into sparkles. That one.
You had me at sparkles.
Yeah that’s First Light; Second Son is guy turns into sparkles, smoke and TV screens…. He’s like a one man concert.
Sounds entertaining. Looking forward to that one, once I finish first light.
…you’re playing the DLC first… 🙂
Probably doesn’t matter. Really enjoyed both.
how come there’s no review of Deadpool yet!
Deadpool review: it’s good.
I thought it was perfect. Easy 5/7
Christ that facebook joke’s completely viral isn’t it??
It got to Reddit & spread like a bad case of the clap in a Saigon whorehouse.
Well someone has to be there for it, as the silent protector, a Dark Night
Oh god I’m one of those people now, aren’t I?
What have I become…
The dankest of memes?
GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!
Morning loops!
How was the weekend?
Soooo busy. Plus the little one has gotten Tonsilitis again so I am STUPID TIRED.
But it was good other than that.
Tried 2 new beers – one was awesome (a kolsch of some sort) and the other was horrible – Steinlager (what the hell, New Zealanad?! Make proper beer!)
How was your weekend?
Oh, tonsils are such a joy, we have molars coming in, so also in the STUPID TIRED camp.
Saturday we spent something like 6 hours cleaning the house and getting bits and pieces for the new guinea pigs. Saw Deadpool though, so overall it was a good day. Sunday we spent a few hours on the beach, which was awesome. So yeah, overall pretty ace weekend. I think it’s the first weekend since xmas where I haven’t had to work at all, so that was a bonus.
Steinlager is New Zealand’s equivalent of something like VB or Fosters.
The bottle looked so nice.. but dear god it was aweful.
The firs time i’ve poured a beer down the sink in years…
Most of the commercial beers from NZ aren’t great. I don’t mind Speights but it’s still pretty average.
Strange, I really don’t mind Steinlager, and quite like their Pure range, while I’m not a Speights fan at all. Still, Tui is the true arsehole of the beer world. For me at least.
Good beach day yesterday, but atrocious traffic. That left very little time to organise a romantic dinner, but she didn’t suspect a thing and thought I’d slaved all day.
Saturday was spent finishing off my study display unit for my retro consoles and figurines:
http://i.imgur.com/zM89FoS.jpg
It also has a downlight across the back, Ikea does great strip lighting. I think it was called Striberg.
Hola Tay
https://twitter.com/redartifice/status/698783634312925184
A Monday Morning Question: It’s Adelaide Fringe time here, what’s the last live performance you saw?
I think it might have been Matilda: The Musical, back in October iirc. That was pretty awesome, highly recommended.
David Bowie in 2004.
I had a lot of kids since then, so unless the Hoolie Doolies count, that would be it.
We had front row seats at the Hoolie Doolies, when they came out and said “Hello” my kid yells out “They scare me, I don’t like them”, followed by “Take me home, I’m scared that one might eat me” and then burst into uncontrollable tears. I picked her up after a minute and we edged our way out of the place, with her looking nervously over her shoulder the whole way letting me know if they were following us or notMy son is going to see a performance of Mr Stink by David Walliams with his school in a few weeks. I think I’ll volunteer to help out just so I can see it too! 🙂
I think it was Slipknot at Soundwave back in February 2015.. Oh it’s been a year since then I just realised, fuck. Hopefully i’ll get my ass into gear and get Iron Maiden tickets for May & Black Sabbath ones for April.
Rise Against in December last year. As always, they were incredible.
It would’ve been Laneway, so I guess technically Purity Ring who were absolutely phenomenal.
Jimi Hocking at the grandview hotel
Last show I went to see was The lion King
Nick Offerman. He’s so dreamy….. <3
If you don’t count my daughter’s ballet school recital, it’s 78 Saab at the Canberra centenary, I think. Or maybe Play School In Concert.
Dragonforce. Ice Rink theatre, Independence Of The Seas, somewhere in the Caribbean. About a week ago. Members of the bands Epica and Delain were crowdsurfing and moshing. It was one giant party.
Music or otherwise? Last music was Custard at the Factory, last show was Ross Noble at the Enmore, I think – been a while. I didn’t get to any shows for the Sydney Festival this year.
Do the Harlem Globetrotters count? otherwise U2 with Jay Z way back in 2010 i think.
Sweet Georgia Brown, of course they do!
Awesome i saw them last year, The better half managed to steal one of their sweaty game towels for me so i can now clone my own squad of globe trotters :D.
Beyond Creation and Ne Obliviscaris, might have been last year.
I think that the last live performance I saw was with my sister. Silversun Pickups were opening for Birds of Tokyo.
We left after the opening acts were done. People looked at us weird. Not our fault that the better band was opening for the shitty one.
EDIT: Actually I think that’s wrong, I think the two of us more recently went and saw the Jezabels when they were in Melbourne toward the end of 2014.
Also if ‘live performance’ extends to spectator sports, it would have been the Sumo in Osaka during the TAY Magical Mystery Japan Tour Extravaganza 2015
Good morning everyone!
That was a pretty good weekend. parkrun, a carnival and I got to watch Zoolander 2. It was terrible but I laughed anyway. Safety and Buoyancy!
Oh please don’t tell me it was bad, I really loved the first one.
Please don’t misunderstand. It’s a terrible movie in the same way the first one was. So if you liked the first one, you’ll have a great time.
Yay!
It’s really dumb, but I enjoyed it way more than I should have. Kristen Wiig in particular.
She and Penelope Cruz were both fantastic.
I’d pretty much reached a point where I wasn’t going to see it so I’d preserve the wonderfully stupid memory of the first movie. Maybe I should give it a chance…
Has anyone else had trouble with Age of Mythology Extended Edition after the DLC update I’m hoping they fix it soon.
Got a message from Pizza Thief on Friday night, a delayed response to something I sent a day or two earlier. Said that it felt like things had fizzled out a bit, and then between not really having anywhere to stay or a job at the moment made her want to focus on getting all that sorted atm. Ah well.
Speaking of game over man, game over – spent pretty much the rest of the weekend continuing to play Alien Isolation. God damn I love this game so much. Best movie-based-game-that’s-not-actually-based-on-a-movie I’ve ever played. Which I guess doesn’t really cover a whole lot of games other than what, the Riddick games? Which I haven’t even played 😛 But yeah, it’s rad. Kinda reminds me/makes me want to get back to the Metroid Prime games. Also, the alien is a bastard. Also also, for the last few area loading spots I’ve been stalked by a floating bolt gun. Weird.
Think I’m nearly at the end now though 🙁 But then there’s the extra missions I guess, so yay.
Oh man…
But anyway, A.I. For a fresh experience, play it in the rift, but wear washable pants.
Alien Isolation is the perfect ‘relationship on the rocks’ game, it feels much the same…
Yeah, I specifically held off grabbing the cheapish 360 copies for the Rift capabilities of the PC version. Although now I’m wondering whether I should try it on DK1 or hold off for CV1… I guess I could always maybe just do one of the extra missions in there, to be able to get something fresh. It’s a little less scary playing through parts you’ve already played 😛
Oh yeah, you have a free CV1 coming….
Trying to follow that with something that doesn’t sound envious and bitter.
…..
Erm…
Even if I didn’t, I’d have a paid one coming 😛
Not making it better.
But yeah, wait and play it in the CV1.
Uhhh… such frivolous expenditure comes at a cost of a life of crushing solitude, devoid of anybody to love and spend my hard-earned on instead?
Yes.
The riddick games are all sorts of good
There’s only the two, right? Escape from Butcher Bay and Assault on Dark Athena? If I remember right they might have been next in my 360 queue.
Yep. Not sure about 360 but Butcher bay was packaged up with Dark Athena on PC.
Butcher Bay is the better game imo
Yeah, it was packaged in there on 360 too because the original Xbox title wasn’t backwards-compatible I think.
Butcher Bay was awesome.
You are a man of taste and sophistication
Why thanks. 🙂
I did a RIDDICK IN ORDER weekend, where I finished Butcher Bay, then watched Pitch Black, the anime one, then Chronicles Of Riddick. 🙂
Butcher Bay has probably dated horribly, but it was a well crafted story, interesting mechanics, enough cleverness with inventories and pick-ups to feel like real depth, and it wasn’t too long.
Bought Dark Athena, don’t think I ever played it.
Dark Athena is pretty good I still really enjoyed it. It is more actiony so feel more like a Chronicles of Riddick compared to butcher bay’s Pitch Black.
If you can find the time it is worth a play through. Still story based and I completed the game so it certainly has things going for it.
Also that sounds like an awesome weekend
The design team behind those games is fucking excellent. Also did The Darkness (first one) and Wolfenstein: New Order, and they’re all absolutely top-shelf games with brilliant writing and direction and everything.
Not having a go or nuthin, but I had a terrible time with isolation.
Best atmosphere, but length & instadeath killed it for me. I wanted to like it so much, kept going back.
3 missions from the end & I’ve given up. Not my bag 🙁
It’s only instadeath if you completely screw up, there’s plenty of chances to escape a mistake. Git gud etc 😛
I completely disagree with this statement.
There’s a face hugger in one room that only died if I used flamethrower. It was lame. (I’d been easily dispatching them with the crowbar up until that point).
And there was another area where if I didn’t take a very specific path, I would die. It was lame, I replayed the area at least 10 times.
Also, if it isn’t going to be, why even have an Easy mode?
Dark Souls doesn’t, a game in which I find death far more fair.
Oh yeah, I forgot about the facehuggers. Got gotten by one that crept up on me in a tunnel I had to crawl through, I heard it coming but couldn’t figure out where from until suddenly boom it’s on my face. I’d only been using the flamethrower on them though, never even tried hitting them with the crowbar. Sounds risky. The rest all gave pretty advance warning though. Otherwise though, haven’t had any problems.
I’ve only been playing on Hard, dunno what Easy’s like at all.
Probably makes more sense on hard
Was surprisingly easy to hit a facey with melee because the animation auto corrects you to their position. So if you weren’t sure where, you suddenly are & they’re dead
Oh yeah, & the alien has spotted me through walls a few times.
I’ve been closer, made more noise, been standing face to face & it couldn’t spot me.
But I sneak in, spot it first, slowly crawl behind some crates on a lower level & it has made its way over to 1 hit me.
Not fun.
Wanting to get Street Fighter V on Wednesday, but I’m not sure if it’ll have any problems on launch…
Get it and find out.
That’s what I’m doing. 😉
Then all is well in the universe.
Well, I love the ever loving hell out of XCOM 2 and have finished it twice now (once on veteran & once on commander) but by fuck does the game need a bit more work.
The performance is all over the place and the last mission is a nightmare of bugs, map glitches & performance killers, it’s all of the game’s glitches turned up to 11. Every time something explodes on the map there’s so much stuttering that I get severely tempted to reboot the game to try and cure it, the main reason I don’t is that it’s never helped when I have done it. So many places have little line of sight glitches where you can get spotted through terrain or where you can be seen but you can’t see back. I’ve had one of the final bosses utterly vanish on me, leaving me to face endless re-enforcements which was sort of fun in a horde mode kind of way but it didn’t exactly help me win the game.
Oh and the grenade bug in the final room is awful, most of my troops suddenly have arm muscles made of damp cardboard and literally can’t throw a grenade far enough to escape the blast radius which makes the “Flashbang a codex to stop it cloning/teleporting” plan (incredibly valuable tactic there) almost useless since I couldn’t get it to reach even by the iron clad sensible tactic of shoving a hand grenade into an AGL. The weird thing about it is that its fine in the middle of the room, the edges are where the glitch happens (like there’s a wall the grenades are hitting) but of course the edges are where the enemies are always clustering…
I have yet to regret my current policy of not buying games at launch.
Sure you miss the hype and talk but buy a few months later and at least it will work properly. Not to mention mods, DLC and a cheaper price.
It’s well worth it, it’s an amazingly good game but you do need to tolerate a few issues here and there (or you’re one of the lucky ones who just have it run perfectly for some reason)
Yeah I’ve had a few missions where shit went wonky; first playthrough the flames on cards wouldn’t animate properly so I’d park myself next to a vehicle and get blown up the next turn with no cue. Last night (due to some mods I think) the alien’s stopped moving completely? Looked it up and it’s an ongoing glitch since XCOM:EU and EW. Took me an hour to fix after which point I just put the game down for the day =,=
Yeah I had that weird thing where the AI just stopped working entirely, very strange. It shows how much I’ve played XCOM and how often I’ve fallen victim to the cunning of the AI that I kept thinking the entire thing was just a trap and as soon as I got everyone out of cover and in range, the sectopod would reactivate and massacre us.
One good thing, the AI bug made for an extremely successful retaliation mission. Not a single civilian casualty, the alien’s hearts just weren’t in it I guess.
Actually this same bug happened to me on a retaliation mission as well?? what the hell??
Saw Deadpool on Saturday. It’s…alright. I didn’t enjoy it as much as everyone else appears to be. Had some cool visuals and some good chuckles. Solid 3/5 from me.
I’d put it somewhere in the middle when ranking X-Men movies.
Also found out that @alexpants had never seen Independence Day when the trailer for the second one screened before it. That has now been fixed.
And then you spilled crumbs all over my damn couch.
Which I cleaned up, you jerk.
Probably the cleanest that corner of the couch has been in a long time.
Eh, it’s not my corner of the couch. 😛
FOR SHAME @alexpants
IT’S IN THE PAST NOW. QUIT LIVING IN THE PAST, CRACKS
Welcome to Earth.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada… HHHNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGG!
Gonna get my shootyshootyPEWPEW on!
Is it out or is it just early access? I haven’t been keeping up to date but last I heard it was coming out “early 2016”.
I believe it’s out in May, not 100% sure yet.
As good as TW:Warhammer looks, I think I’ll be getting this one, especially as it’s supposed to have 4 player co-op.
I’ve been hankering for tactical spaceship battles for a while so BFG is definitely a purchase for me. TW: Warhammer will be good but I’ve learned to wait at least a few months based on previous TW games. Creative Assembly burned me good with Rome 2.
I haven’t played a TW game since Empire, which I loved for the naval battles.
March, but with Early Access I’m not sure if it’s actually out in March or just downloadable in March.
[Edit: Now I’m looking closer it’s got an Early Adopter package, not an Early Access. That makes more sense.]
Dirt Rally,
Loved the earlier games (dirt 2 and 3), got dirt rally early access and played a bit
Using a Logitech driving force wheel, it was bad at first with no forcefeedback which they then implemented after a few months.
Played it abit with the new FF but it just didn’t feel right, want to get back into it but not sure
Has the Force Feedback changed or controller support got better, Im sick of getting driving games and having to spend ages tweaking the wheel to get it just right
It’s honestly the second best rally game I’ve ever played, behind Richard Burns Rally.
I just want the controls to be abit more arcadey to be honest, I really loved the rally stages in dirt 2 and 3, the wheel took a little bit to set up but the forcefeedback felt really good on those and i was able to really get into it.
I just cant get used to the cars in dirt rally, might need to give it another proper go this week and get dialed in as its a shame i haven’t played that much
Might need to put on traction control or other stuff until im used to it again
It straddles between sim and arcade, and feels of as a result.
The cars are very reactive to the surface, but don’t have the precision to make you feel in control.
And the codriver is STILL to quiet, the the pace note calls are still often too late in places like Finland.
The damage modelling is weak, the crew management is a pointless intrusion of rpg elements (because every game needs that), and the lack of tyre choice is incredibly backwards.
I prefer the insane DDR-like cavalcade of corners thrown at you in CMR 2, or the butt-clenching terror induced by getting too brave in RBR.
I’ve been on the dirt rally ride since it first hit steam, and while it has gotten better, it has remained in the unspectacular middle-ground with games like rally trophy.
Also the physics are silly.
Are you using a Driving Force GT?
What are your Logitech Profiler settings?
It’s excellent. Just, don’t cut.
Also yeah the wheel thing took forever to set up.
Morning, TAY!
On the weekend I spent most of my time playing Dragons Dogma. Like, most of my time. It has it’s hooks in me good.
Also made alcoholic milkshakes. Rum, lime and vanilla. They were pretty great!
—–
Also, Brisbane TAYbies! I’m being asked if I want to go to Brisbane with my boss to meet with some clients on Friday the 4th of March (staying in Brisbane on the Friday night). I probably wouldn’t be able to do anything on the Friday but maybe I could swing an extra night at a hotel and do something on Saturday day/night if anybody is free? 😀 Let me know if you want to so I can get back to my boss! (haven’t said I want to go yet :P)
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__ @rocketman
Possibly.
Correct answer: You want to go.
Sounds good
Haha.. Oh man I already have something on the 4th & 5th of March at a mates place in Brisbane with friends from Tassie. So count me out I guess D=
I was so hooked on Dragons dogma, finished one playthrough as a magic archer but then got witcher 3 which im now super absorbed in
The start was really rough for me (kept dying to everything) but I’ve really got the hang of it now. Killing cyclops’ like nobody’s business.
Yasss! Stay! Stay with usss………….. foreverrr
Also I think @greenius *may* be here then?? Green?
Ugh I’m not going anymore
Did a German girl get angry at you too?
@sughly I’ll be up on the 29th! Got 2 weeks in a serviced apartment in the CBD. @powalen could potentially stay there…
Sounds like a possibility.
Just don’t feed me chicken wings that make me sick again and we’ll be fine! 😛
Would like to think I could, but who knows at this point. Depends on what’s happening with my health, but count me in as interested at least!
I wasn’t intending to start DD on PC until I’d finished RotTR… Hit level 30 and maxed my first vocation (self and pawn) yesterday. Any wonder I never get any games finished. :3
I think I’m around level 30-35ish now as well! Been trying hard to do all the side quests (escort missions are the worst 😛 Especially when it’s a character who tries to join the fights along the way).
Upset that I’ve been locked out of a couple of quests though due to results of other quests. Wish there was a way around that sort of stuff.
Once in a blue moon I like to pop in here & remind any interested parties, I’m still an idiot.
Carry on.
You also aren’t really that x-treme. We all know if you are truly x-treme you start the word with an “X”
Damn!
But I really want that gaming craptop. Have I lost yet?
Unfortunately yes. It went to the guy with the highest level of feels in his post.
Not that I’m bitter or anything… but @chuloopa should have won it. He had infographics!
THE WAY OF THE FUTURE!
WHOOOSH!!!!!
‘Loops – ruining it for everyone else since ’16’
If you run for office, that should be your slogan.
I’ve been ruining everything for everyone for much longer than that
No reminding necessary, TAY remembers.
Like who in their right mind things Platinum is better?
The bests
Woo picked up a few more hours at work today bumping me up to an 8 hour shift \o/
I spent my weekend on IRC for the streamed launch of Chronicles of Time, the new 5 disc Chrono Trigger tribute album (by the same guys as Spectrum of Mana). Check it out, it’s super awesome!
This one has a fee attached ($20 US) due to licensing, but the guys are donating to Doctors Without Borders, so it’s a worthy spend imho.
Attention good people of TAY*: My dog is a muppet.
*And the rest of you sorry lot.
Now that you mention it, I guess Alice does look a little like Rowlf.
Rowlf is my favourite Muppet.
Statler & Waldorf 4 lyfe.
Animal.
*wwoooosshhhh*
That was my weekend.
There has been a hammer drill going on/off for the last 2 hours as trades fit out the tenancy next door. I’m envisioning a headache sometime in my very immediate future.
All the growing pains of a refurb and none of the reward! Nothing like being a neighbor =P
We had this for like a solid 3 months – they literally tore the building next door down to the scaffolding, and then built it back up; apparently they wouldn’t be able to build it as high if they’d just torn it down and rebuilt from scratch. There was a solid month of jackhammers, and then 2-3 weeks where they were dropping in big concrete slabs where our entire building was constantly shaking and I was fairly certain it would collapse.
Such fond memories.
I looked after Sid’s friend Atlas for the weekend. He has so much energy. I’m so tired.
Ahh, Atlas…
Never get tricked into his ‘just hold this for me while I duck off to the loo’ routine.
Not a wonder you are tired, that is a lot of weight to carry.
He ain’t the sharpest knife in the block though. If you fall for his routine, just ask him to hold on for a second while you adjust your grip, and then scamper off.
Haha. I wish I could show a picture as he is a lovely dog
Sure is.
http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/128/590x/secondary/Dog-417681.jpg
That Shiba does not like injections
I see cheap Elder Scrolls online at Target.
Anyone playing on PS4?
Or if it’s cross play, anyone playing?
Yeah, Target is 20% off now as well, looking at a new 3DS XL…
must resist….
Everything?
Jeebus.
I’ll need ps+ to play though too…
Pretty much…
http://www.ebay.com.au/rpp/targetau/Target-Gaming/?_ipg=192
I keep meaning to go back and give that game some more love as a solo thing. The main reason I stopped is cause a couple of us were trying to play as a group and it doesn’t really work well doing quests in groups. They’re either stupidly easy (and therefore not really fun) or don’t work properly. This was aaages ago so it might have changed?
Before it went free?
Was just reading they’d set up group & single quests to appease all fans.
If I get a copy, I may be trying tonight.
Are there certain servers or whatever?
I remember FF 14 locking you in to a server & some being more suited to certain groups, languages etc.
I got a purchased copy when it was cheap as, right before going free IIRC. It gave a couple of nice bonuses 😛
If they’ve tidied it up for group play there may be a resurgence of play in the future, once new games settle down a bit.
I honestly don’t remember the server setup. I think it was a single world and you could swap between instances at will?
My weekend consisted of sweet nothing at all but lazing about at home. I did go and see the doctor though who told me that I definitely still have asthma despite having no obvious symptoms. Looks like it’s back onto the puffers for me.
Gaming wise, Mordheim is still brutal. I wiped on the third story mission and by god that was bad as I hadn’t invested into morale at all. Daemons were carving into my warband everywhere and my leader was removed from play due to a second severed arm. Still good fun though.
What a coward. He should have been all like ’tis but a scratch!’ and then kicked people to death.
“But… your arms are off!”
“No they’re not!”
Still REALLY need to get that game. God it looks good.
If you like XCOM, you’ll enjoy Mordheim. I daresay it’s a smidge harder but that’s mostly because you now have to look after individual units a lot more carefully what with paying them wages, managing injuries, keeping them up with equipment. Heck, a lot of my guys have a tonne of skill points that I haven’t spent because training costs money and time, neither of which I have in abundance.
Heck, I have two characters that I really should trade out because their injuries make them borderline useless but I won’t because that costs money. One character suffered a skull fracture and whenever the character is not in melee combat, he must check to see if he suffers from stupidity and do nothing at all. My warlock is megalomaniacal which means all of his spells cost more points to use. This, combined with the fact that spells cost money to train as well, means that he is a very crap wizard.
At least Marek Sarles my climber and sniper extraordinaire is still being a boss with his rifle and I don’t think he has suffered a single injury.
While were away, three different armies of ants invaded our house. The army camped out in the kitchen mostly keep to themselves, but the other two are winning the war. The army fighting on the Toilet front are using horrific tactics like setting up camp on the toilet paper. The Loungeroom army keep sending their dudes on suicide missions to take a bite out of me every time I try and sit down and relax.
WE SHALL FIGHT THEM ON THE BEACHES
You should try donning power armour and beating them over the head repeatedly with a glowing sword. It works really well when you do it in XCOM 2 to a Chryssalid…
Man screw those Chryssalid’s! They’re like fricking land mines :@I leave one person on overwatch all the time for that reason, and Strange has the “If you come near me I’ll stab you in the face” ability, which helps a lot.
Just break open your trusty household flamethrower (I believe it’s Australian Law that every house have one in case of spiders?) and be the underdog that wins the whole thing!
Strange in 2 hours time
And all was right in the world….. Best fairy tale ending ever.
Ant sand and sprays to the nines.
Ignore the advice of other people, they clearly don’t remember the words of the cinematic masterpiece that was 1998’s Lost in Space.
“A million bucks worth of weaponry, and I’d trade it all back for a lousy can of Raid.”
Just drown the ants in poison.
Also, if you get honey, and mix in a small bit of laundry detergent, you can make a reasonably effective ant-trap, for when you’re too cheap and lazy to just buy normal poison like a normal person.
Actually Raid isn’t as effective as some others. Sure, it kills them, but what you really want is a slower-acting poison, so the ant has time to return home and spread the poison to their friends and family.
That, or find their nest and pour molten aluminium into it. It makes neat sculptures! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGJ2jMZ-gaI
Mate, I’m quoting the CINEMATIC MASTERPIECE that is Lost in Space.
You wouldn’t want to disagree with the greatest movie of 1998, beating out Oscar contenders like Saving Private Ryan, Shakespeare in Love, or Life is Beautiful (which was actually a 1997 movie, but shutup)?
I don’t think so.
(I’m well versed in trying to poison ants properly, I had an infestation in my room a while back. Trying to get the poison levels right was a pain, since if I had too much they’d just all die, and too little and the buggers could just metabolise it out. Jerkbags.)
Hey, I worked on that film!
So I agree with your assessment entirely 😛
I still have the 3D Studio model of Matt in the bubble-spaceship thing somewhere…
Ants are the blurst! I used to have ant problems at my old place in Sunnybank Hills. Every day I’d be finding trails of them all over the place. Never get any here though, which is so nice!!
2 things…
1. Are they small black ants or lighter/smaller brown ones?
2. If they are the first, they are sugar eaters. Go grab some Advion Ant Gel off eBay. Not cheap but it works.
Usage: Find their trail near the wall and leave 5mm blobs of gel every 4-6cm for about half a meter. Also put it on/near any corners and crevices they are congregating around. Within 5 minutes you’ll see them swarming the gel. Just leave them be. Next day they’ll be gone. Wipe up any left over gel. Stuff knocks out the nest.
If you’ve got the lighter/smaller brown ants – they’re are Coastal Brown Ants – prefer fat/protein over sugar so the gel doesn’t work as well with them. We’ve got them around our place and have found keeping everything really clean for a fortnight has got rid of most of them because there isn’t enough food out.
Then you have the option of using something like Ant Sand (at Bunnings) to do outside if you want to try get rid of them. The coastal brown ants usually have satellite colonies and can be very hard to get rid of. I’ve given up after 6 weeks of battling them.
Good advice, thanks.
We have both of those along with a larger black type we’ve never seen inside before. Usually our house is crawling with ants all summer long so I guess it’s good that they’ve only just started now.
Yeah, what is it with ants and toilet paper.
There is one particular brand that if we buy it, thousands of ants move into it within 48 hours.
Should find out what the reason is and patent it as ant bait.
Some toilet papers are perfumed. Ants look for food by smell, they probably think it’s a flower
XCOM 2:
This would have to be one of the dumbest complaints ever, but: no one is dying in my game so I haven’t needed to make more people…and most of my A team are getting through missions with either minimal or no injuries so at this point I have an A team and a bunch of C-grade backups, so if things do suddenly go South I’m screwed.
How are you managing to take out the late game enemies without getting hit?? I was consistently losing a team member to injuries (like 14 days downtime) with every mission once the Aliens started deploying Sectopods and Andromedons. Also that was when I restarted when I realized how important the foundry ammo and shit is. Ok fine I restarted because I wanted to play with more mods.The first Andromedon I met I killed in one shot (grenade on a car) and then hacked and took over its body, poisoning and punching everything else. Other than that, the non-damaging abilities (Psi stuff, smoke, suppression, flash etc) pay off tenfold when you’re fighting small groups. Also, the dodge PCS can help a lot.
When fighting large groups? It’s mostly luck and liberal use of @scree and her plasma lance.
EDIT: I should mention that @cakesmith seems to have at worst a 70% success rate in hacking robots for full control. No idea how/why it’s gotten so high but it means mechanical enemies tend to run into groups of their friends and then shoot themselves with explosions a lot.
EDIT EDIT: Actually, I also use @strange as a tank too. The ability to avoid an entire attack each time she kills is hilarious. They always go for her cause she’s always closest and easy to flank…
Sorry
Hah I can picture scree apologizing after every kill xD
I need to utilize more haywire protocol from the sounds of things; do you equip your hackers with a skulljack btw? Also I think some of the hacking rewards from alien terminals (the scanning towers) is to permanently increase a hackers stat by 20; so it is possible to min/max hacking. Hmmm I need to fine tune my hackers this playthrough then; was already focusing on grenadiers more than snipers/assault.
It just echoes after the alien’s head explodes in shards of flesh and bone “Sssssooooooorrrrryyyy!”
Yeah, I have Cakesmith on every mission where possible because hacking is too useful (and specialists can get a bonus to it). And yep, he has the skulljack. Free intel/supplies/etc and OHKO is rather nice. Worst case scenario is you miss and shoot the guys with someone else, or you fail the hack and still get the kill for 2 or 3 damage.
Never, ever, ever ignore the towers. You can hack in and check the options then back out without using an action, so you can save them for later. Best one is “refund all action points spent this round”. You can do a full round of attacking then hack and do it all again. I once used it on a VIP mission and blitzed across the map. Had everyone extracted in like 3 rounds/4 turns.
I’ve never seen the permanent Hack increase thing. Didn’t even know it was a thing. I’ll keep an eye out!
Psi abilities are OP as shit.
Domination in particular was a mainstay when I got it. Two psykers mind controlling is so powerful. Particularly when one of those is a full health andromedon. And then you just heal it as necessary to prevent psycho-robot mode.
Is the dude with the punny profile still alive too then? He must be the leader right?
Alive, but not the leader. He was offered the desk job but turned it down as he didn’t think he’d make a good desk.
Yeah, I actually haven’t lost anyone yet. I’ve had a couple of bad injuries, but mostly running an A team with a couple of “ok” B team members, that I started subbing in just in case shit went wrong.
#humblebrag
Well you know what to do then, stop using cover and you will have casualties to deal with 😛
I ended up with the same issue. It was devastating if someone ever DID take a wound for 8 days, because it sometimes meant my next mission was going to feature the A Team… and some scrub. Audiences hated those episodes.
My show killed off 2/3rds of the cast halfway through, and replaced them with a new group that grew to be better liked than the original bunch.
Well, and Rocket, who was there for the whole disastrous ordeal.
I saved Rocket in mine!
I watched the Back to the Future trilogy with my son over the weekend.
5 still seems a bit too young to fully comprehend time travel shenanigans but he enjoyed it.
I still love them too after all this time.
2 remains my favourite.
There’s some quite complex sci-fi storytelling going on in two.
Yeah, I think that’s why. The overlap with one is fantastic.
As a kid, that hoverboard was the best thing ever too (still is).
There’s also lots of hints & little details to set up three. Really tight scripts, no flab.
Oh, all three have very tight details. My favourite is the Twin Pine/Lone Pine thing in the first one.
Yep, little tiny changes.
I love the recurring events too. Like the fight in the middle of town & Marty waking up to his mum or someone similar.
Very clever.
Eastwood Ravine
That one’s a bit less subtle
I guess, but it’s still just a sign only on screen for a moment.
He was a little confused as to how there were two Martys, Docs & Biffs. 😀
Yeah, but he can appreciate the swears 😉
He did ask about that.
Told me we shouldn’t be saying ‘shit’ XD
I read Neil Gaiman’s “Fortunately the Milk” to my Mr 5 (I bought it for him for christmas). The time travelling definitely drew some confused looks, but he enjoyed it. It’s a fantastic book – highly recommended.
My boy is an avid library goer, I read what I’m told. 🙂
My nephew is now only 4 months old, but I’m hanging for the day I can introduce him to Star Wars/BTTF/Transformers etc.
Transformer & Star Wars are an easier sell because it’s just goodies V baddies.
BttF is complex & confusing comparatively.
But yeah, it’s great to enjoy something with my son.
I started him early on Pokemon.
So promoter of the UK’s Download Festival Andy Copping might be looking to expand his ventures to Australia according to Faster Louder; http://fasterlouder.junkee.com/is-download-festival-looking-to-expand-to-australia/857448
I personally welcome another big rock festival, especially if it’s something along the likes of Download.
Wait, we still have a big rock festival?
Well there’s this one all about big rock https://www.ayersrockresort.com.au/events/detail/tjungu-festival
Bluesfest and Splendour probably maybe even Falls Fest.
Bluesfest and Splendour probably maybe even Falls Fest.
Hmm… I suppose so! But I’ve always thought of those more as alternative festivals than stuff like BDO or Soundwave.
Then again, Prodigy was going to headline SW16 before it got canned, so what do I know?
Haha, well Bluesfest has a lot of rock bands so yeah I dunno.
Apparently I’m GMing a game of D&D in a fortnight. I’ve been doing some reading and have an idea of what’s required.
Can anyone throw me a lifeline with regard to advice and/or resources?
Anyone who helps is welcome to join a terrible future game that might involve : Ent bonding, a cake party with wolves, underwater romance, or a lazy mystery.Advice: Roll with it. You’re there to facilitate the players. Give them boundaries but if things don’t go as you planned or expected that means the game is working as intended. Feed off of their energy. Do they want strict rules / roleplaying? Give them that. Do they want to break the fourth wall and metagame? Give them that (within reason. You’re also there to keep things moving and in some kind of direction). The best DMs are the ones who mirror their players and meet the unexpected head on.
*waves* Hi @popdart5
What B-ob said is crucially important. Run the game that you want to play but also that the players enjoy as well. A happy group of gamers and a happy GM make for a great game.
Cheers, I’ve been getting the strong impression from everything I’ve seen that GMs should be flexible.
The plan is to concoct a small scenario for the first game, have a couple of backups, and be prepared to en up doing whatever works best for the players.
First time GMing? First time RPing for the group?
Prep is your friend, but don’t be tied down to what’s written. The real trick is knowing where the resources you need to grab are, rather than memorising a script.
If it is your first time with a group and they’re not familiar roleplayers, ask questions of their character, ie “Red, does Abelas believe the rumours he’s heard about x?” or “Where in the city does Drewan hang out? the Docks? High Town?” and run with what you get told back.
I once ran a game of Call of Cthulhu before and found that I was much too stringent with keeping to the story. I’m thinking about having a handful of enemies and doodads picked, and switching them into the story depending on how and where the players are going.
The group is mostly new to RPGs: some have played a game or two, others have no idea what to expect. I like your approach of prompting the players to fill in the backstory and mentality of their characters.
Hopefully they’ll all be patient while we stumble around.
I found reddit under r/rpg, dndnext, and dnd to be remarkably good at spurring my imagination for RPG stuff and giving advice. Plus sometimes they come up with stuff like an Undead Sharkenbear that just blows me out of the water.
Did you want to know anything in particular? The core books (PH, DMG, and MM) should see you through most situations pretty well.
Thanks, I hadn’t even thought of checking Reddit; that Sharkenbear is a nightmare.
So far I’ve been relying on the basic rules for player and DM from the D&D official website. I was thinking about picking up the PH with time to wrap my head around further character details. Do you think that for the first few forays the PH alone would be sufficient, or are the DMG and MM a requirement?
The PH should see you through most things but the MM is where you can start bringing out some of the more iconic fantasy beasts such as various undead, ogres, dragons, trolls, and the like. The PH has some stuff to keep everyone entertained but the MM has more variety.
The DMG is handy if you want some more rules for nitty gritty stuff like traveling, building encounters, giving out experience, etc. It is by no means mandatory but you might find it useful.
Don’t be afraid to set boundaries and keep things from going too far off script. Roll with it is important advice since a lot of new GMs choke when things go even slightly wrong, but don’t forget that it’s ok to admit you can’t go where the players want 100% of the time. Try and avoid outright stating ‘we have to do it this way’ but don’t be afraid to say it if you have to. Obviously in a perfect world you should be prepared and flexible enough to handle anything, but as far as advice goes it’s a bit like saying ‘oh, just be really good and experienced at GMing’.
I don’t mean this to contradict with what @beeawwb said, but instead work with it to help you find your limits. Don’t panic the second things go in an unexpected direction, but don’t feel pressured to be able to just rattle off responses to their actions when 99% of your knowledge is from reading the manuals rather than hands on experience playing with people.
It’s also good practice for learning to shut down that one really creative player who insists that every action they take be counter to the expected action. You want to play a game all the players enjoy, not just follow the lead of the loudest/pushiest character. There are going to be plenty of times when you can just roll with it but shouldn’t.
Luckily and unluckily for @popdart5, we’re all the loudest and pushiest player.
I’M HELPING! LEVIATHANS HAVE ADHD! WHALES AREN’T FISH! \o/
I think you’ll find whales are definitely fish as they live in the ocean and smell horrible.
QED.
The first time I GMed with CoC sounds very much like the former: totally unprepared for abstract player interactions, railroading players toward a prescribed plot.
Ideally I’d like to run a more freeform game where I’m comfortable dropping a story and taking the party wherever they want to go. However, I know that’s probably going to lead to a subpar and chaotic experience.
Do you think for a first game that locking in an end to the scenario and gently directing the players toward it, a la all roads lead to Rome, would be suitable?
How about this, get a free form game ready and let us tear it apart? That way you’ll be able to tell where it needs reinforcing to keep the players on the rails, where players might want to branch off and where you can get a little looser. In theory you should be able to prepare yourself a little better and gain a little insight into what you can do differently in the future. Hopefully the confidence boost of running a tested idea leads to a smoother experience too.
Keep in mind you have one huge advantage – your players aren’t sick of cliches yet. They haven’t done all this before so there’s much less pressure to be creative when you’re thinking on your feet. You can nudge a player towards the conclusion you want using stuff that would make a veteran’s eyes roll right out their head. It allows you to write stuff that’s generic enough that you can adapt it on the fly. It’s fun to write stuff that’s intricate and create things that are tailored to the script, and you definitely want some key scenes, but at this point it’s still optional.
I’m also partial to B-ob’s idea of learning what the players want from the game. Then you can just bribe them into staying on the rails. I mean if you offer me three paths and imply that one has a dragon on it, I’m going to take that dragon path every single time. If you offer a role-player the chance to develop their character or give someone who likes puzzles a map to a dungeon with a big ‘warning! Traps and secrets everywhere!’ mark on top they’ll take the bait and probably have fun with it. And if the Marvel movies have taught us anything it’s that people are pretty willing to forgive rough patches in a story provided they’re having fun. =P
@beeawwb @tech_knight @blaghman @popdart5
GOBLIN QUEST!
We’ll use the Roll20 thingo we use for Fiasco and I’ll set us up a page in there with all the tables. Usual PF time (8pm SA) OK for everyone?
Sounds good to me. You’ll need to invite me to the standard Fiasco stuff as I’m pretty sure I’ve never been linked to it.
Yeah I’ll send the link around tonight
*squeaky* Yes master! I’ll have your booties clean and shiny in no time, master! Please don’t kick me again
Picked up Fire Emblem: Awakening on 3DS Friday night and spent the weekend playing it. Highly recommended if you haven’t played it yet.
Baby Making Simulator FTW
Baby Making Simulator needs Spreadsheet DLC 😛
Just in time for the new one this year!
Fire Emblem: Fates is just around the corner. You’ve picked the perfect time to jump in.
Just… don’t play it with JP dialogue. Because Fates is going to disappoint on that front. 🙁
We’ve had a plumber pike on us 3 times. Now he’s not even picking up his phone.
I’ve left a bad review because we’ve waited 3 weeks for this thing to be installed. It’s acrylic splash back to go on the back of our shower. Another Plumber I called said he can’t do it. I’m fucking tempted to give it a go myself.
If you’re not getting any pipework done you could “probably” do it yourself. Or at least get a tiler to do it instead.
I was thinking maybe a handyman, because I have no idea how to change over taps. I should probably learn that at some point.
Actually pretty straightforward, just need the right tool and the water turned off at the mains, but much easier once you have watched someone do it. Probably not legal to do it yourself, but I have always done mine, I just follow what plumbers have told me is important. There are probably videos all over youtube, but yeah a handyman person could probably tackle it easily if you can’t get a plumber to show.
Might be our only option at this point. I don’t understand why no one seems to want to do it. Probably because it’s not pre-cut
You know I used the word pike at work a few weeks ago and everyone looked at me like I was crazy! What the hell! It’s totally a word right?!
Also a fish and a long stabbing implement.
I assume it must also be a name for a full-sized pancake.
Ugh. Upvote.
My wife: “Let’s start calling them that and see if it takes.”
You have a fan, Gooky.
*grabs popcorn*
It’s a lesser known word, apparently made popular in the 70’s during the punk rock era.
It’s slang though.
It is indeed slang. It seems to be related to “pikey” another word for “gypsy” though, so I try to avoid it these days…
Who is Tempted, and why must you fuck him before giving it a go yourself?
I saw that joke and you’re recycling it. *gasp*
Phrasing jokes are always funny, damnit!
Only for @chuloopa
All my funnies are for Loops <3
I think Loops appreciate it most. =P
Tried Stan on the weekend. They have Avatar: The Last Airbender, and a free trial.
There’s some surprising stuff in their line-up that I don’t recognize from Netflix, so that’s a bit of a feather in their cap.
The UI, though… how hard is it to see what your competitor is doing and then do ‘at least that, and preferably better’?
Having to escape out of the current video session and then click in to a different video seems positively barbaric compared to Netflix’s apparently unique understanding that maybe when you’re done with one episode, you want to watch the next one.
Yeah, I got given a 3 month sub from Optus because…I don’t actually know, but they sent it to me.
I haven’t watched anything yet, but there’s some solid content on there.
Orly? Mine auto-plays the next episode after a 10 second break at the end of the current one. They even have a neat feature where after 3-4 episodes it asks if you’re still watching, which has been awesome for the times I’ve fallen asleep on the couch.
Btw you should watch ‘No Activity’. It is absolutely fantastic, probably the best thing I’ve watched on there so far.
Netflix have that feature too, but I have it turned off cause I didn’t like it 😛
I tried presto and I hated it. It just ate all my internet. I couldn’t use my pc while it was streaming and it had to stop a lot to buffer
Netflix has an awful UI.
Yet everyone else (including Plex, I might add) does it worse. It’s baffling.
Really wanna know what the hell everyone has against alphabetical browsing. Surely they know we can look up third party sites to get this information, right? Why should I be forced to go off-site to do something as simple and expected as whole-of-library title browsing?
Dollars to donuts it’s stipulated as part of their licencing deals so that preference on the front page can be bought.
I think the idea is that they don’t want a clear cut list of what’s on the service. If Stargate is just randomly shown in my recommendation lists I probably won’t notice it’s gone when they remove it. However if it’s got a set place where on a list I browse I’ll notice right away. It keeps the users focused on what’s coming in while downplaying what’s going out.
That said I’m totally with you. I want an alphabetical list with tags that can be filtered in and out. If I want to watch anime, I should be able to go to an A-Z list and filter out anything that doesn’t have the anime tag. Screw their mind games. I’m paying for a service and I want a UI that doesn’t prioritise telling me what to watch over letting me find what I want to watch.
[Edit: And yeah, they’re double dipping with the promotional aspect. It’s totally fine to sell out your customers like that because capitalism.]
Funny story when it came to my Vita and a $50 gift card I got myself last year. I only just recently used it and got it added to my account, then within minutes I’ve used almost all of it up. The only quotes you would need to hear are “Ooo, a Spyro collection?!”, “Ooo, FInal Fantasy VI? I never got the chance to finish that!”, just kept going and going until I ran out of money so quickly. Guess I better get more cards 😛
Yeah, that’s why @shane ended up getting a vita. I bought the spyro collection myself and if I wasn’t so concerned about needing to get another memory card, I would probably get more
@poita, just a heads up the payment got sent off to you last night if you didn’t get my email, I’ve put both the cost of the card and postage in one.
Sweet, will check in a sec. Hope the card works out for ya!
Looking at the tracking I think it’ll make it to my place tomorrow, so we’ll see how we go. Still waiting for my RAM to be ready for pickup too, that’s the last piece of the puzzle 🙂
We should do something nice for @poita as he’s working hard trying to do your back lights for your cosplay Techie.
…I am not sure if I ever got around to paying you for PAX. Did I?
I’m not one that likes chasing “debts” at all so don’t worry about it, I forgot to remind you on the day, my loss. We’ll leave it at that, you had fun, that’s payment enough for me 🙂
I made these for my wife on the weekend:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/two-ingredient-truffles-51263410
And, because I’m on a diet and have absolutely no consideration for her waistline, haven’t helped her finish them at all. Fortunately for her, I made a half batch – though I did coat them in crushed savoury honey cashews. They’re delicious, apparently.
So that new Pokemon is officially named Magearna in English (I assume it’s pronounced Ma-GEAR-na)
No more Mangina, @rize
This is the second worst I’ve ever felt as a result of a Pokemon name change.
The first was when they renamed Usocky to Sudowoodo.
I cannot see that word without the Mighty Boosh’s Old Gregg popping into my head. Fuzzy little man-peach.
Howdy TAY!
I had a pretty sweet weekend. Saturday night went and saw Deadpool with @sughly @freezespreston @beeawwb and Mrs Freeze which was fantastic, pretty much exactly what you would expect from a Deadpool movie (multiple fourth wall breaks, over-the-top violence, etc…).
Sunday was also pretty sweet, just spent all day watching Avatar the Last Airbender after every episode me and @rocketman saying to each other “Oh, man that episode is amazing”. (Iroh is the best character ever).
One downside of the weekend was that I found out my 3DS will no longer read my Pokemon X cartridge. I guess no wonderlocke run for me. =(
Prince Zuko! Want some Tea?
Iroh: *disgusted* This tea tastes like hot tea juice*
Zuko: Isn’t that all tea?
Iroh: HOW COULD SOMEONE RELATED TO ME SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
*correction, Bun*This tea tastes like hot leaf juice.
That’s it!
You butchered the whole quote but that’s the important bit.
Iroh: This tea is nothing more than hot leaf juice!
Zuko: Uncle, that’s what all tea is.
Iroh: How could a member of my own family say something so horrible?!
That’s what I get for trying to recall it from memory.
He has the best voice actor…..
You two are my favourite couple.
We were voted number 1 TAY couple … in my fanfic.
Gonna be tough breaking that news to Freeze.
Iroh is the best.
I almost want to make him my new role model.
So I’ve got an Elder Scrolls Online & a buddy to play with.
Sounds like I may not be online til the weekend though.
If there’s any takers on PS4 though.
I don’t mean to brag, but I’m not much of a team player, don’t have that competitive edge that makes one strive for more, I’m often too busy & I’m totally inexperienced.
Huh? Huh?!
Though
I got it for Christmas. Kinda been on the pile since I was busy with Fallout 4.
Join up! I dunno how the cross system thing works with usernames or whatever. But I’m both Jimu_Hsien & JmuHsn on PSN!
What cross system?
Like PC players & console players can play together 😀 (apparently)
I don’t really have a PC that can play the latest games.
Same. Are we already PSN buds or are you a Boner?
Street Fighter V is installed!
Now I have to wait until Wednesday…
🙁
& only 4 more years for a complete version!!
And then a Super Ultra Mega Deluxe Special edition.
Then a remaster!
When the sweet potato turns brown and resembles brisket more than anything else, you know it has expired.
Life advice from Phlanispo.
You got something against sweet potato jerky?
So a nice weekend.
Fairly long day of work Sat and then cruisey time at home
Sunday we did the traditional valentines day thing. Snuggles in bed and then I gave her a Pop viynl figure and she headed off and left me home with the kid for half the day.
Almost knocked myself out in the playground and then we played a big chunk of Fallout 4.
We are so romantic
@spaghett’s Last Song Played Game!
Lazarus – David Bowie
John Mayer Trio – Wait Until Tomorrow
Misery Business – Paramore
Rize confirmed to be a 16 year old angsty teenage girl.
Oh please, like you or anyone else could even understand what it’s like to be me!
*slams door*
GO TO YOUR ROOM!
*sweeps video of him playing Misery Business on drums under the rug*
I actually have a soft spot for Paramore, even if they are basically the emo version of Christian rock.
Some of their stuff is a bit crap, but they’ve got a couple of standouts. Misery Business became even more of one when it turned up on Guitar Hero 😛
Yeah Misery Business is a quality track. All We Know is pretty good, I quite like Careful and Ignorance, and Decode was good until it got used on the Twilight soundtrack and oh god it’s dead to me now. Fences is pretty good as well.
The Disease – Angels & Airwaves
You. I like you.
I tried getting into A&A, I really did, but I just can’t take Tom Delonge seriously after The Mark, Tom & Travis Show.
… but due to a slight miscommunication with my dad, who met Tom in Vegas, I now have a bunch of signed A&A merch at home. Go figure.
Our Decades in the Sun – Nightwish
Snakehips – All My Friends
Lay your ghosts to rest – Between the buried and me
White Trash – Brides of Destruction
Heh.
Well, thanks to @rocketman and Shaz, it’s
CHVRCHES – High Enough To Carry You Over
Always The Sun – The Stranglers
@redartifice
Alpha Omega by Shiv-R
I completed Gravity Rush on PS4. Fun little game with a neat feature. Although the ending came out of nowhere, leaving many questions unanswered. Also it’s the first game on PS I ever got the Platinum Trophy, which was totally by accident.
Also started up a new series, tell me what you think.
Congrats, I got as far as a really big hole with the evil lady before packing it in & shipping off to greener pastures 😀
That ending was awful and they obviously were setting up for a sequel.
Been working on a little art project with all this downtime. Was planning to finish off my first attempt I began years ago during an insane bout of insomnia, but stupidly decided that restarting to add more detail would be a good idea.
Only about 1/3 of the way there, but here’s a shot of the old vs new (old on right, new on left)
http://i.imgur.com/uZrwJYd.jpg
Well, there’s another name on the list of people that have way more artistic talent than me.
hahaha I used to work as a 3d artist and animator for video games and tv 😉
FINE you’ll be up the top of the list. Happy?
lol nah I’m not that worthy 😉 I know, and have worked with plenty of artists who are better than me 😀
Harumph. You can be near the top of the list.
Also, I almost forgot, but I managed to trick you into giving me two thank you notes by donating twice.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
That is all.
heheh yeah some people would have. each donation has a little thankyou button, and if I start at the top of the list, it just moves straight on to the next one that hasn’t been sent yet 🙂
Muchly appreciate your generosity 😀
I also work on 3D and sew and stuff. Can I be on a list?
Eugh why is EVERYONE more creative than me?
But for the record, you’ve been on the list since I first saw your bookmarks 🙂
I’m sorry. I just want to be like everyone else.
You’re better than them, but let’s just keep that between us =DNow I feel worse =P
It’s not your fault no one else is good at making bookmarks and squid hats =D
I can do other things too.
You’re already on the list, I’ve seen enough 😛
Sorry.
No need to be sorry, your artistic talent should be celebrated!
Hey, me too!
Where did you work?
Krome is the only studio I’ve worked in physically. Other stuff has been contract remote stuff.
So I just realized that there is at least 1 movie I want to see coming out basically every week between now and July
Feb-18 – How to be single
Feb-25 – Hail, Caeser!, Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
Mar-3 – Triple 9
Mar-10 – 10 Cloverfield Lane
Mar-17 – London Has Fallen
Mar-24 – Superman Vs Batman (duh)
Mar-31 – Keeping up with the Joneses
Apr-7 – Jungle Book
Apr-14 – The Boss, Criminal
Apr-21 – Week 1 without something I’m keen for. WTF looks okay-ish
Apr-28 – CA: Civil War (obviously)
May-5 – Bad Neighbours 2
May-12 – Week 2 without a movie…
May-19 – Age of Apocalypse (of course)
May-26 – The Nice Guys
Jun-2 – Money Monster
Jun-9 – Now you see me 2, Conjuring 2
Jun-16 – WARCRAFT YYYYEEEESSSSS!!!!, Finding Dory
Jun-23 – Ratchet & Clank, Independence Day 2
Jun-30 – Tarzan
Good thing I get cheap(ish) tickets!
Hail, Caesar! and Ratchet & Clank are the only ones I’m interested in.
Given we’re on a gaming site, isn’t Warcraft pretty much mandatory for everyone?
*chirp chirp*
Guys?
Meh WoW is a wait and see for me; mostly keen for the super hero movies (i.e. Supes and CA) and possibly Ratcher & Clank. That said the trailer for R&C was doubt inducing…
To be fair, out of those the only must-must-must watch movies are 10 Cloverfield Lane, the 3 superhero movies, Warcraft and Independence Day 2 (because Jeff Goldblum is boss).
The missus will undoubtedly drag me along to every comedy on the lest though.
Yeah…. I can’t justify $40-$60 bucks per movie for me and the mrs to watch =P We usually only go for 3-6 movies a year?
Are you with Telstra/Optus/Bupa? They all get cheap movie tickets
I’m totally out of the loop on movies. Haven’t heard of most of those. And of the few I’m interested in, I had no idea CA3 was around the corner at all and only found out about Hail Ceasar like last week or something.
I want to see 10 Cloverfield Lane, but I’ll probably miss it in the cinemas. I expect Bats vs. Supes to be god-awful, so I’m hoping my sister organises a drinking game to go and see it. After that, prolly Cappy Civil War, and Warcraft.
New Xmen might be alright, but it’s questionable whether I’ll see it in the cinema. Oh, oh, and The BFG. Mad hyped for that.
I will literally watch anything with John Goodman in a starring role.
Wait which where?
Oh dude have you not seen the trailer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guGBUaxtwxE
It looks amazing.
Probably not, seeing as I haven’t seen trailers for anything mentioned in Blaghs’ post 😛
I don’t really keep up with movies at all. And tend to avoid trailers where I can, since they tend to be so spoilery these days. I’ve taken quite a liking to going into things completely blind.
Fair enough.
Take one sequel to Cloverfield, minus the annoying shaky-cam and add John Goodman as one of the leads.
What’s not to like?
@cffndncr Dunno, I never ended up seeing Cloverfield!
You f%in w0t m8?
Cloverfield was far from perfect – it overdid the shaky cam thing to the absolute extreme, but once you got past that it was a pretty entertaining monster flick. The sequel looks like it’s going to be more character driven and tense, and all indications are that it’s looking pretty damn good.
Mum and I don’t go to cinemas as it’s too expensive for us
Any chance you have a phone with Optus? They have cheaper tickets as part of their loyalty program, I think they’re something like $11
I’m with Virgin. I wasn’t happy with Optus so I left.
It costs like $60 for the two of us to go. It’s just not worth it.
Are you near an event cinema? I can book you the $11-12 dollar movies if you want to go and you can wire me the cash
Only Hoyts. It’s okay. We’ve learned to live without movies
Do you download and/or Stan/Netflix/Stream stuff?
We have Netflix. We also use Youtube for some of the older BBC stuff that Mum remembers watching. Mind your language is pretty good.
Yeah, too expensive for us too, but we can drive 45 mins to a cinema that has $10 tickets, so we see a couple a year.
Our local Video Ezy is closing down though and all Blurays are on sale 8 for $30, so that will be my viewing for the year.
Have you ever tried the Sun in Yarraville? I think all tickets are $11 on Mondays and Tuesdays. Alternatively they have a membership program that comes with a discount on tickets. I don’t really care for the place but most of my friends love it.
Yarraville is a nightmare to park in. We don’t really go there much
It’s got better in recent years with the car park expansion at the station but yeah it’s still a pain. Just avoid the main road. That said the only reason I go to the cinema at all is because it’s that or wait for Netflix to get it, so I totally understand if ‘not a massive pain the arse to park there anymore’ and ‘not viciously gouging you on tickets/food’ aren’t enough to bring you running back to the cinema.
If you have a must see movie I recommend keeping the Sun in mind. Otherwise you’re not missing out on much by waiting and watching at home.
It’s just it’s gonna cost us either way
I have five on your list.
Now, why oh why didn’t they call it ‘Now you don’t’ rather than ‘Now you see me 2’??
You, sir, need a job in Hollywood.
I finally finished the backs of these
http://imgur.com/a/Gpafh
Fantastic work, Scree!
Thank you.
Crash, Coco and Spyro, I really want all three 😀
Street Fighter V unlocks at 11am AEDT tomorrow!
Aw, hell yeah! 😀
EDIT: Now with my reaction added.
@poita
Card’s just arrived, thanks a lot! I was scared at first that I saw a sound card box first lol.
Unfortunately my RAM got cancelled cuz it couldn’t be procured as it is now discontinued 🙁 guess I gotta look for another set once I get my refund.
I thought it might freak you out 🙂
I realised I didn’t have the original box anymore, but it fit that one nicely.
Finally had a bad mission in XCOM last night. No deaths, but 2 gravely wounded, one wounded, and one lightly. I’m pretty sure @strange got down to like 30% health, but thanks to health regen on her armour and @blaghman throwing heals around like a madman she finished the mission with -1 health.
Also, the “give every solider +5 health” ability is great. I had a bad round where 5/6 people took solid hits, and at the start of my turn this damage was completely undone.
EDIT: I should mention that the real fun part of this mission is that the enemy had Viper Rounds extra armour. I’m pretty proud of the outcome, all things considered.
So… I’ve decided to start working on a boardgame idea i’ve had for a while. It’s basically bringing the fun of an FPS to the tabletop. It’s a fast-paced and simple tabletop miniatures game in concept.
I know FRAG is a game that already exist, but it’s not exactly fast paced in many aspects and has quite a bit of text on its cards (It’s also out of print and never really reached the mainstream that well).
So, with that in mind, what sort of elements would you like to see translated? This can be weapons, cheats, concepts, mechanics, memes – ANYTHING!
Teabagging, obvs.
Already been suggested and added – just working on the game effect.
That you have a teabag-frag card, so if some douche teabags you, if you have the card you can frag them into next week.
Hidden grenade under the soft palate….
That’s actually a really good idea – sort of like a trap. If someone plays the teabag card you can play a reaction card that explodes taking out the teabagger.
That’s brilliant
I really, really want it to be a thing in actual FPS games, I’ve been sending the suggestion in to pretty much every developer monthly since Halo3 was announced.
Fluidity and speed. don’t make me sit there and calculate every bloody thing.
Also, rocket jumping.
Rocket jumping will be a part of it.
Also, they are going to be custom dice, so none of this “add this to this” BS.
Fast and fluid is exactly what i’m aiming for
Simple is always better.
Basically, each player can move, shoot and play a card per turn.
All players are equal (no stuffing about with stats).
All players have base 4 hit points, which can be buffed with armour or card effects.
2 dice types – white that represent lighter weapons with max damage of 2 per dice, and red dice that represent heavier weapons, which have a max damage of 3 per dice.
Movement is grid based.
It doesn’t get much simpler than that.
BTW, good place for design tips: https://www.reddit.com/r/tabletopgamedesign
You’re a good man – thanks for that! 😀
Would you consider hex based? It’s a bit easier to move and measure with which should speed things up. Although grid based would be much easier to make custom maps with, and that could be a nice selling point.
I’m experimenting with the large square sizes used with Deadzone, as it will make moving around quick and easy. I’ll also alow movement in diagonals, so ease of movement shouldn’t be an issue
Nobody gets to play as Oddjob. But for whatever reason Moonraker Elite are allowed.
Slappers only no Oddjob.
I quite like the priority assessment you need to do in the XCOM board game and the timer set against it. It forces urgency, but your options are pretty clear so you don’t feel ripped off if you stuff up.
I’ll look into that mechanic, as I haven’t played the x-com boardgame. If it isn’t cumbersome it could be worth steal….er…borrowing.
DK mode and paintball.
Ooh, that annoying-as-shit vision blur thing you got in Perfect Dark from n-bombs and poison knives and getting punched that makes it impossible to do anything. That was the worst.
I was thinking of adding a card called “Lt. Dan’s got no legs!” which prevents an opponent from moving for a turn.
Oh man I love that.
Are we talking PVP or PVE FPS? Because that makes a big difference to the design.
Assuming PVP, aside from theme how will it end up being different to one of the other arena PVP minis games like Krosmaster or Ninja All-Stars or a bunch of others?
At the very least I think you probably end up with something that kind of resembles Wings of War or X-Wing, with minis and then a set of moves you can do. Probably normal attacks are just a roll if in range situation, but bigger attacks like say a rocket launcher, you have a projectile that moves at a set speed each turn then explodes and hits everything in a certain radius.
Randomized power-ups on the map with different abilities like improved weapons (at the very least you need a double-barrel shotgun that has a cone rather than straight line attack and an equivalent of the Doom BFG, and probably a chainsaw that has super short range but super high damage) or improvements (overshield, quad damage).
Attn: Sydney people & anyone who’s gonna be around on the 27th.
This thing is pretty cool.
Arcade. Video games & board games. general shenanigans.
Been to a few of these & they’re really fun.
I wont be going to this one because ….reasons. But you totally should.
Sounds cool.
it is!
used to be at a lil warehaouse in Surry Hills which was pretty rad. dunno about the new location, but the pics of it look good.
I sorta wish i could go, but it’s put on by my ex’s friend & there’s gonna be a whole bunch of people there i’m not comfortable seeing again just yet.
goddamn social anxiety.
Street Fighter V is out on PC! \o/
Got sucked into an anti-vaxx argument on FB…
God some people are fucking idiots. How can you be so arrogant as to think you personally know better than the sum of human scientific research for the last 50 fucking years…
They make me so angry. If it only affected them I’d be find to leave them to their ignorance, but it’s children than pay the price for their stupidity. ARGH.
There there, you’re back in TAY now. *hugs*
honestly believe that anti-vaxers should be quarantined.
in a remote community.
on the fucking moon.
We can use them as a means of replacing experimentation on animals! Secret medical lab on the moon FTW.
Yeah… Good ol FB, always reminding that I was an idiot to have added these people I barely knew. TAY is my only interaction with the internet now… Thank god for that =P
http://boingboing.net/2016/02/10/tom-the-dancing-bug-how-gavin.html
My husband works in the science field and there are anti-vaxxers there too. Stupidity exists everywhere unfortunately
*hugs* at least intelligence does too.
It just makes me sad that people that arrogant exist. To think that you could know more after a day on Google than someone who has spent their entire lives studying the topic… it boggles the mind
Well if *I* know everything then surely others must too.
Just as an aside – don’t you just love saying “my husband…”
^_^
It’s very weird. But I do like that I can 😀
It’s *other people’s* children that pay the price for their stupidity. That’s what’s really irritating.
Guarantee you that if something like Polio was still common, the anti-vaxxers would slink back under their rocks. :\
I don’t get it. Their arguments are so shitty too…
Amish don’t vaccinate (they do)
Amish don’t get autism! (they do)
Therefore vaccines = autism (just… no. Plus Amish have a bunch of other shit like Angelman and dwarfism, do vaccines cause them too?)
Vaccines have toxic mercury and aluminium! (they don’t)
I should have the right to choose for my child (you shouldn’t)
It’s my choice, it only affects my family (it doesn’t)
Vaccine trials don’t use control groups! (They do. The polio trial is the largest double-blind trial in history)
Vaccines aren’t studied and are unsafe! (They are. They are the most studied medicine we have)
I know best for my children! (You don’t. You’re an idiot.)
I DON’T WANT TO PUT ALL THOSE CHEMICALS IN MY CHILD! (Everything is a chemical. You’re an idiot)
I am sad that I can only upvote this once.
One of the main reasons I’m now selective with whom I will discuss science. There were only so many times someone could link me to conspiracy websites with the justification that “it’s on the internet, ergo there must be truth in it”.
Downside to the subject is we’ve seen time and time again that factual arguments don’t often work, being abrasive/abusive is a dick move and counter-productive, and my favourite, as you said: authority on the subject is met with suspicion and hostility.
Where does that leave us? Ignoring the problem won’t go away, respectful discourse erroneously affords legitimacy, waiting for the possibility of experiential evidence (eg unvaccinated child contracting disease) doesn’t really work because people will rationalise anything so long as they don’t look stupid.
In this case, I think we just have to grin and bear it until all the anti-vaxxers are wiped out by an easily preventable disease.
Or, like others have said, we stick them on a rocket and send them to the moon. I’d be down with that.
I keep thinking I should grab Rock Band 3 at some point soon so I can import songs from it into RB4, but it’s apparently impossible to track down a local copy, new or used.
Why can’t I just spend $30 on PSN and grab the whole lot? I mean, I’m going to assume needlessly complicated music licensing is the issue as usual, but I still want to whinge…
There’s a used PS3 copy for $40+4 on ebay… the major retailers seem to be either out or have preowned copies in obscure stores.
Yeah, talking to EB to get a preowned one over here. I want it cheap as possible cause it still costs (apparently) $15 to do the export itself.
It is at my local EB for $12, want me to grab it and send it to you?
All good, I’ve lined one up to be picked up at my local store. Thanks for the offer!
Can you still export RB3 stuff to RB4? I know 1 & 2 & Lego are out if you didn’t do it to RB3 ages ago, but I can probably get RB3 for PS3 on the cheap here and I’m very tempted because the base RB4 song lineup is dire.
You still can right now, but no guarantee as to how long it’ll remain available.
The nice thing is that you don’t need a code like previous games, you just need a disc. Load it on your PS3 to add it to your account and then you can grab the licence transfer thingy from the PS4. Some people have said you have to get an achievement to get it to turn up on your account properly, but you can get one by calibrating lag, sooo…not that big of a drama.
Ah rad, so no code to expire. The RB3 setlist was so much better.
Grabbed a used PS3 copy off Amazon (from Amazon Warehouse, where they resell stuff that was returned to them) for $7 shipped. So as long as there’s 7 songs that I want to play in the lineup (there is) that’s great.
Horrible and overly-loud hold music should be made illegal
Define horrible? =P
I’m not sure if this sort of horrible can be defined…
Taylor Swift? *runs*
CAUSE BABY NOW WE GOT BAD BLOOOOD
YOU KNOW IT USED TO BE MAD LOOOVE
SO TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT YOUVE DOOOONE
CAUSE BABY NOW WE GOT BAD BLOOD
HEY
A few of her songs come on the store radio at work (Woolworths radio FTL) & out of all the other pop garbage they play, hers is the least offensive heh.
Who?
Becky, you know the girl who had 4 marijuana’s & died.
RIP Becky, she just couldn’t shake this one off
And my brain starts playing scenes from mars attacks.
Over on Gizmodo, there’s an article on robots takin our jerbs.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/02/what-would-the-world-look-like-if-half-of-all-jobs-were-held-by-robots/
Discussion of the future, whether technological or sociological, is totally one of my favourite things. The second quote there, I think, fails to address the nature of the automation that will take place over the next few decades, in comparison to that over the last couple of centuries – that we will develop machines that are able to mentally out-perform humans in some areas, and that automation will remove so very many jobs performed by humans at the moment.
So, are we destined for a utopian future with a living wage for all, where a vast majority of human effort is focused on the development and refinement of art and culture; or are we destined for a dystopic nightmare like in many sci-fis, where the wealthy manage to accumulate and hold the rewards of human development?
One would hope the arrival of a post-labour economy would coincide with that of a post-scarcity economy.
It’s the difference between the two that’s concerning.
Post-scarcity is an interesting concept, entirely anathema to our current capitalist systems. The wealthy, in order to retain their wealth (as in, a superior access to resources than others), would have to create scarcity where there isn’t any. Mind you, looking at de Beers, they’re already doing that.
Cartel behaviour aside though, that’s only the case when the wealthy can control the means of production. If they can’t control it, they can’t do shit about it.
My socialist friend would totally be getting a lady boner seeing me talking about taking the means of production away from the wealthy, and then be super disappointed when she realised I was just talking about automation in the future.
Something something bourgeois, something something proletariat.
But seriously, they’d be a huge effort to retain control over the means of production – losing it would be the collapse of capitalism in general, and many people’s concept of wealth.
I think, frankly, we’re having a long term discussion when I think the short term is a lot more concerning. Look at the app-based “uberfication” of stuff here long before you look at “robots doing everything”
My personal feelings on this are that at some point Artificial intelligence will hit the singularity at some point.
Personally I believe that should be nurtured, but I also know that belief is in the minority.
therefore my prediction is that the wealthy will launch attacks on AI, therefore causing a global civil war.
I for one welcome our new robot overlords.
When I get bored of political discussions, I’ve pointed out to almost anyone that will listen that a benevolent AI dictator is clearly the best form of government.
I think I’m ok living life as a machine’s pet. Less painful than watching what we do to ourselves with free will.
Right up until there’s an alien infestation on board and the AI decides the rest of us have become expendable.
We’re destined for the latter – we already have technology that reduces the amount of work required to serve everyone’s basic needs, but as a society we can’t fathom the concept of working *less* as a result of this – there’ll just be more and more competition for a smaller and smaller slice of the pie of frivolous bullshit that we invent in order for people to keep working, while the wealthy few with the actual money and power will cement themselves further and further above the masses.
Until the robots syphon their money into an account held on mars 😀
That’s the kicker. Working to live is such a fundamental part of our capitalist style society. To even accommodate a large chunk of people not working like we do now would require a revamp of how society works.
I can see Japan being at the forefront. With an aging population and high technology and infrastructure they are pretty well set to transition labour intensive jobs to robots more and more as they have fewer young unkilled workers to do that kinda work.
Well then, you better start killing faster.
Still looking for more suggestions related to this, http://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-366/comment-page-2/#comment-3617802
I’m actually hoping to have a playtest of my basic rules this coming weekend during a games day i’m hosting, so get in!
Effect cards I’ve added so far:
Strafing run
Orbital Strike
No Clip
Teabag
360 No scope
Twitch
God Mode
Rocket Jump
Bunny Hop
Post-mortem grenade
Lt. Dan’s got no legs
Medic!
Kill stealer
I’m not dead yet
I’m purposfully keeping the effects vague at this point to prevent me from having to explain allll the rules i’ve done so far.
Basically they’re actions/reactions that can be played at certain times
If you find something particularly amusing that would work from action movies, or even other game genere’s, let me know. I’d like to keep it as FPS centric as possible, though.
Dual Wielding
Sick Parkour
Flag Captured
Bullet time
Game breaking bug
Gun Kata
RELOAD!
Some really good ones in your suggestions – nice 🙂
Annoying ass teenagers being obnoxious on voice chat.
Oh shit… that’s a good one.
How could I forget the pre-pubescent teen-insults?!?!
Now all i have to do is come up with a game effect… hmmm
Death Cam? Points per kill system?
Stupid stats that make you think you’re awesome until you get grouped against a clan that kills you 60 times in a row?
Damnit, still no teabag-frag.
Back to emailing developers again.
63 upvotes for Lt. Dan though.
“Post-mortem grenade” is the teabag frag card 🙂
Dream fullfilled!
Um, something about camping snipers, brain too tired to turn it into something witty.
Team Kill
Cover Fire
Left the map
Red elf shot the food… oh wait…
I’m thinking of a teamkill card but calling it “Russian Teammate” – Effect would basically be “chose an enemy model – if he has line of sight to a model on his team, he must immediately resolve an attack against that model with is primary weapon”
Nice.
Card names I’m sure you could tie an action to:
Lag
Your Mother
Good Luck, Have Fun
Each of these are GOLD
Trying to remember all the core aspects/experiences of FPS games over the years and then condensing them into short single statements is hard, but fun 😛
Collar Doody:
Noob Tube
Knife to a Gun Fight
Counter-Strike:
This Map Again?
Buy Me Something
Unreal Tournament:
Shield Belt
Jump Boots
Headshot
Double Kill
Mega Kill
Ultra Kill
M-M-M-MONSTER KILL
Killing Spree
Rampage
Dominating
Unstoppable
Godlike
Shield belt is good. Same with jump boots.
Also, really like the idea of “knife to a gun fight”… I could make the card effect along the lines of “remove all of a players primary and secondary weapons – he can only fight with his knife until he find another weapon”
You could also take the knife card in the opposite direction, giving the player a stupidly good one-shot attack. It’s such a common mechanic to have an instakill melee attack in FPS these days.
Ultimately, based on how your idea is sounding, you should go with whichever is funnier 😛
Big head mode
Pistol sniping form across the map
Unlockable loot crates
Hats
Horde mode
Eating food that has been in a crate for 50 years
People throwing ammo out in rubbish bins
Rocket proof wooden doors
FATBOY MODE!
Someone picked up the phone.
Tomahawk’d
With a sliver of health
Someone set up us the bomb
Care package on the way
Shoddy netcode
AFK
Spawn Camping
By the way, I’m really good at rules lawyering. If you want someone to pick your rules apart and clean them up, I’m keen to help.
I was hoping you’d put your two cents in – i probably respect your input higher than many others because you basically live and breathe this sort of thing.
Once i have had a chance to play-test the basics I’ll try to structure rules that make some form of sense and send something across to you
These are more meta than traditional FPS power ups and tactics but you might like them anyway. A lot of these are hostile actions towards an enemy player, but can be modified to effect the drawer of the card if you’re looking to have players randomly draw cards then play their effect instantly and want some negatives in the mix.
This Isn’t COD, Go Back to COD or Screw Your K/D Ratio – Force an enemy player to abandon the team and go for personal glory by going to the nearest corner, facing the nearest door and staying there for two turns. While in the corner all they’re allowed to do is shoot passing enemies (no objectives can be scored during this period).
Playing Against Scrubs – You get to take your turn twice (or perhaps you just get additional movement and shooting for a turn).
Superior Hardware – Goes against keeping it simple but modifying the range of a players gun to represent having a better draw distance.
Host Migration – Everyone but you misses a turn. Alternatively, depending on the hit mechanics, you auto-hit anything you shoot at and anything shooting at you auto-misses until your next turn.
Mum Used The Phone, I Hate My ISP or Dodgy Modem – A player of your choice misses a turn due to lost connection.
Big Brother – Similar to Host Migration. Your brother who is good at the game takes over for a turn.
Little Brother – The bad version of the above.
Unplugged Controller – Player of your choosing is unable to make any sort of movement or attack during their next turn.
Arm Punch – Player of your choosing can’t make any hostile actions towards you until your next turn.
Pizza’s Here – Player of your choosing can’t move during their next turn.
I’ve got a few classic ones too.
Hologram – You get to replace your model with two markers within three tiles of the models original location. On the bottom of each marker is a P or a H. H means it’s the hologram, P means it’s the player’s character. The player controls movement for both markers within the normal movement rules and the P marker can attack (flip it while attacking then flip it back). When either of the markers is hit with an attack they both get flipped, the model is put in place of the P marker and (if the P was the target of the attack) it’s resolved as though it hit the model. Possibly make this last a limited number of turns to balance it out.
Partner Spawn – Respawn on a friendly player rather than the spawn point. Probably better as a core rule than a card.
Red Barrel – Place a barrel and make it explode damaging anyone within X of it. Again, probably better as a core rule than a card.
I’m sure some of these have probably come up, but…
Instagib
Knives Only
Bomb has been planted
Camper
Carpal Tunnel
Boosting
Ninja defuse
Aimbot
VAC Ban
Clutch or kick
L2P
1 Deag
Smoke!
Flash out!
Breach!
Kill confirmed
Clear
Eyes on the prize
Gun jammed
You take point
Mortar take cover!
Git gud
Dog mode, as a call-out to classic Rise of the Triad.
Also feel like if you don’t have a Duke Nukem 3D reference you’re doing it wrong. Also Shadow Warrior.
Perhaps a Marathon one, “Bigger Guns Nearby” or “If I had a Rocket Launcher, I’d Make Somebody Pay” to instantly grab a better weapon?
Hmm, Ghost won a Grammy for ‘Best Metal Performance’ for their song ‘Circie’ wasn’t my first choice for that category I would’ve liked to have seen Slipknot get it for their song Custer. But Ghost are badass & one of better bands to hit mainsteam music in the last few years.
Still haven’t listed to Ghost yet – i really should get on to that
They’re pretty cool. Melodic & heavy. Kind of a throw back to Sabbath in some regards. Singer has a hell of a voice live.
Yeah, I’ve heard A LOT of good stuff…
Might listen tomorrow while getting ready for work, as that tends to be my listening time when not driving
Ugh. Time to adapt an existing script to produce a requested report: 5 minutes. Time to quell suspicion that I grabbed an old report with out of date data: 3 hours of back and forth email. Serves me right for trying to be efficient. :3
Next time, do the job in 5 mins but don’t send the results for 90…
It is awful, but I learned that this is the only way.
Because it was on the weekend, we missed out on Tay Valentines.
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Soon I’ll be playing
Mirror’s Edge 2
Roses are Red
Violets don’t thicken
I’ll bring the lube
If you bring the chicken?
Roses ain’t red
If viewed through a prism.
Actually this poem’s ’bout
Integrity in journalism.
#LateToTheParty
Roses are Red
I am also Red
Therefore I am a rose
LOVE ME PLEASE
Stuart is Red
Joel’s also Green
The Real Name Alert
Is flashing on-screen
Your name is Red
The colour of rose.
Maybe this poem will
#MakeBunPropose
…holy shit
Too late.
Dammit Bun, that was my only joke. 🙁
Roses are red?
Violence ensues.
Played video games.
Skipped the Valentines blues 😛
Roses are Red
The Vita’s game-free
For someone named Blue
that’s a Grand Tragedy
My hair is red
My sideburns are too
They’ll live on forever
Inside X-COM 2.
Roses are #FF0000
Violets are #0000FF
All my base
are belong to you.
Mrs Tigs actually wore that shirt for valentines day 😉
Roses are red ,
Violets are blue,
Poems are hard,
Bacon.
The Kaizo Trap animation is pretty excellent. Has it done the rounds here yet?
So, I’m not doing Melbourne Supanova now as there isn’t a spot available anymore. I’m horribly disappointed, but not much I can do about it.
=( That blows. Any chance you could make it to Sydney?
I can’t do interstate because I’m a full time carer for my Mum
I’d be happy to have all your stuff on my Sydney stand, even if you couldn’t make it.
Alternatively, if you can get a list of who already has Melbourne stands, there is a reasonable chance someone would be keen to have you bunk on on theirs and share the space and costs.
It depends on what type of stand you have though. Mine is crafted collectables
So is mine.
I’ll send you the bookmarks then, when I get them printed up
A few years ago, I started dating an amazing woman and you guys were along for the ride. You were there when we first met at the mega-meat in Sydney (I don’t know if that’s the name but I’m calling it that now). Some of you were there when we failed to use the whisper function in TeamSpeak to talk privately.
It didn’t take long before I packed up my life and moved to Sydney to be with her. It’s been three happy years. Three tough years. We adopted a puppy, lived in Dubbo, visited the motherfucking Disney castle, celebrated fake Halloween, got sunburnt at the zoo and countless other wonderful experiences. We also drove from Adelaide to Dubbo in 45 degree heat in a car with no air conditioning, although we’d prefer not to repeat that.
Yesterday, on fake fake Halloween, I asked Freya to marry me. She said yes.
Congratulations
I want to come to Canberra and hug you both. This is the best news. The best.
WHY IS THIS STORY OUT OF ORDER INTERROBANG
To irritate you.
Hooray!
And wow, you survived living in Dubbo? I have to drive there every few weeks and that is more than enough for me ;^)
Check out Brigade some time. The coffee is rad.
ALSO BUN I THOUGHT THE POINT OF THIS WAS TO THANK TAY FOR THE CRUCIAL ROLE IT PLAYED IN OUR LIVES
YOU’RE WELCOME
Maybe he secretly harbours resentment for all the times #makebunpropose trended internationally, causing several charitable foundations to be founded for a cause that few people actually understood the purpose of, raising millions of dollars that was all used to pay director’s fees. I understand the city of Majorca held a parade in honour of #makebunpropose, thousands of people lining the streets and waving banners, not a single one of them with any clue why.
That’s the TAY marketing machine for you. They’ve even convinced the world Dark Souls is good.
Seems like yesterday I saw you guys kissing in line at Movie World while the rest of the gang went somewhere and I thought something was suspicious here!
…
Two years later I find out you’re dating!
CONGRATS!
Wait, how long ago was the Movie World meat?
It was my first, so 2012?
Oh wow.. Yeah that sounds about right.
Aw man I down voted you when I meant to up vote sorry 🙁
MONSTER!
That’s me in a nutshell!
Super congratulations, it’s about time we got a new hashtag.
#bunintheoven?
I’ve always preferred #PutBunInTheOven personally
I’ve been using #BunProposed
\o/
Nice! Congrats to you both.
Congrats that’s so awesome! Now TAY gets to plan another wedding #BunDownTheAisle
Welp, looks like I’ll have to sell my current fightsticks to get new ones that work with XInput. :\
Also, Max appears to be hunting a moth darting around my room. 🙂
EDIT: And now she’s snuggling on my lap.
Was looking back at the first TAY I ever posted in (holy shit almost 6 years ago) and chuckling over some of the shit we posted back then.
I’d completely forgotten, but it seems that I told Q-bo that I’d kidnapped @chuloopa and wanted $1m for his safe return, otherwise he was staying in the pit Buffalo Bill-style. Apparently @strange sprayed her drink everywhere in laughter.
Good times.
Suddenly I question my sanity…
On what you wrote, or on going back?
both
So like… how did you get out of the pit?
Semen.
Lots and lots of semen.
I am imagining you floating to the top of the pit on a tide of (your own?) semen.
Ew.
Pretty much exactly how it happened
You never ask Loops these kinds of questions.
Never.
I’m sorry, I didn’t know!
It’s okay. You’ve obviously learnt your lesson
@scree yes… totally learned my lesson… not going to ask him anything again…
HEY @CHULOOPA WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE SEMEN-BASED STORY?
No ragrets.
I miss those days.
They were good days.
And Q-bo. Totally miss Q-bo.
Growing up sucks…
I actually used my lunch break today scouring my post history from this time last year to find all my Game of Thrones recaps since they apparently those notes didn’t get backed up to iCloud and come across to my new phone. :/
Man, I was still confused about routers and graphics cards back then. I only just bought a new modem/router last week, and it was a fucking ordeal.
Sorry about spamming social media with my sulks. I was trying to feel better. I ended up just sleeping and now I feel better.
Sleeping makes everything better.
For what it’s worth – here’s a loops hug
*HUG*
Thanks. I had told everyone I was going, I was saving, I was working my butt off and now, I can relax a little bit more, but I”m going to have to keep saving. I’m not sure if my stuff is good enough for Oz Comic Con, so I may have to wait until next year
Wasn’t someone here looking for someone to split a table with in Sydney? Maybe you could ship your merch up and have someone else sell it on your behalf?
That was me, and yeah, I am happy to have the merch on my stand.
I believe we’ve agreed on the bookmarks for now as the hats are quite big
I don’t think OCC is a higher tier than Supanova. You should go for it.
It’s just they ask for a portfolio and you get in based on that
Whatcha got to lose? Might as well have a go!
You’re right. I guess I’ll keep working and hopefully will have enough variety
Hope your feeling better today scree 🙂 how’s the hats coming along?
I started on them yesterday, but stopped when I was feeling depressed. I’m going to work on Techie’s stuff as the hats are no longer urgent and can be done when I feel like it.
I want one of those hats so b-a-a-a-d….
Do you know what colour you want?
I have the second round on my Warhammer 40,000 Conquest league tonight.
No changes to my deck. I have a horrible feeling about this as Eldar have literally 0 things that can handle swarm armies (no area effect cards at all), unless the swarm is sitting idle at the enemy HQ.
If tonight goes horribly I might change my deck to be a Imp Guard/Space Marine deck to bring some area effect items to bear, as just sooo many people are playing Nids…
Yeah you need Area of Effect for lots of games, it’s too useful to stop snowballing I found.
At the moment the plan is to take the fist planets as early as possible – it’s the only way to stop it.
If you don’t have anti-AoE in a TCG then you need board control (going off my amaze-balls Hearthstone skills). Maintain board control and you’ll always have an answer to any zoo mechanics. Other option is a control based deck that fatigues swarm players.
I have a few tricks up my sleeve, which helped in the first rounds, but the problem is that I need 3 of the core set plus all of the expansions to really play at a competitive level – At this stage I only have one core set and a little over half the expansions.
Are you able to purchase individual cards like in MTG?
nope. Unfortunately.
There are some sellers on ebay that sell sets from certain expansion, but they are all based in the states and far more expensive than buying the actual expansions themselves
Finished Alien Isolation last night. Now I’m sad.
I noticed as I played it for longer that it did become a lot less scary, becoming kind of used to death. I mean it was still pretty scary and made me jump a lot, but it was a lot easier to deal with. I also noticed that it became a lot less scary when I’d died in a section several times and had gotten a pretty good idea of the layout of the place, with enemy placements and items I needed to pick up etc. Made it easier to just run through the motions and have to worry less about sneaking around while exploring I guess. So occasionally I’d find myself just charging ahead without care for what happened, just for the sake of being able to scope out the place for the next load. Bad habit to have 😛
I guess it’s one of those games where you need to play along with it to have it play back. Which I still did – I made an conscious decision to avoid combat as much as possible, and rely entirely on sneaking around and avoiding detection. So it kinda bugged me when the game more or less forced me to fight with the Working Joes. Outside of those/the industrial ones and the floor ones that grab you, I think I only had to stun and beat down maybe two of them that surprised me out of nowhere. Otherwise I relied on them and the alien to clear out any humans for me 😛
Really really liked it though. Captured the spirit of the movie extremely well, I thought (could probably do with watching them again, it’s been roughly forever). Also kinda made me think of Metroid Prime a bit, and gave me an itch to run through those again. As seems to happen time to time, yet I never get around to it. Especially need to do it with Echoes.
Who just listed his first property? This guy just did *runs around high fiving the air*
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Since loops started talking about TCG’s I’m going to talk about hearthstone! Anyone building or practicing new decks for the upcoming standard mode??
I stopped playing maybe a month ago – it’s done wonders for my rage. I’ll probably get sucked back in for a while.
It’s going to be interesting to see what happens now that Dr. Balanced won’t be in every single deck.
I imagine a resurgence of zoo; face hunter; together with control warrior, freeze mage (summoning stone might make an appearance here) and OTKO Pally.
I think reno-decks will lose too much juice to be viable anymore; and shammy’s will have to fall off the meta as well. They lose too much aggro and stability from GvG and Naxx.
Shaman has been the weakest class since LoE buffed warrior, so I think they’ll just stay off the meta. I think Dragon Priest is also on it’s last legs – Blackrock is out when the fall 2016 expansion comes.
It’ll be shame that mech mage is out – it was a great archetype for ranked play for those without many cards, since mechs were pretty OP, but you really need the GvG cards for it.
Yeah Mech mage was easily the cheapest comeptitive deck out there… I’ve already lined up a Standard deck mid-range hunter that’s showing some potential so far.
Also something tells me I’ll have to dust-off the classic mid-range combo druid; one of the few new standard decks I’ll be able to make =P
Oh they are going to nerf the hell out of combo druid, guaranteed. Maybe not as bad as Warsong Commander got nerfed, but I think it’ll be enough to drop it straight out of the competitive deck tier.
Edit: I think Reno will still see play in fatigue decks like fat warrior, but I’m going to have to shelf my renolock =(
I’m not so sure on the Combo druid side; it’s literally the only viable deck available for druid if you get rid of GvG and Naxx. There’s nothing else, aggro is out, mid range isn’t competitive enough without the combo and mill doesn’t have sufficient board clear and is too slow as opposed to the rogue mill which gets going pretty quickly and has lots of hard removals.
Threw Elder Scrolls Online into my ps4 as soon as I got home last night, so around 6pm.
Wake up at 5am , it’s still downloading that damn 24gb update, with 5 hrs to go.
Well, fingers crossed I can play that tutorial tonight.
Is it the poor PSN CDN or your connection… or a bit of both?
Couldn’t say for sure.
PSN has always seemed slow compared to my pc in this regard though.
Psn download speeds are damn shite for some reason. Dunno what’s up with their network.
As long as the game plays alright, I’ll get over it.
This is true; I usually turn the machine on an hour or two before I want to play a game just to get all the idiot updates out of the way.
I do it as I walk in the door. Have dinner, a shower, wash the dishes.
But 24gb is just too much!
Try setting the PS4 to use Google’s DNS or OpenDNS – can improve speeds a bit. Still abysmal though.
SYDNEY TAYBERINOS
I’ll be in town on Tuesday night (23rd Feb) staying in the city on York St. If anybody is free and wants to catch up for a drink or whatever, let me know?
Tags:
@35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @cakesmith @cffndncr @cj @cookingmama @dkzeitgeist @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @harli @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @mawt @morkai @markserrels @mrtaco @novacascade @powalen @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggynintyOoh. I might be able to do that. Let me double check with the boss when he’s back in the country on saturday
Sorry mate, I’m on late shifts next week so I can’t make it in.
Pour a 40 out for your homie.
Yep, I got the night off. And the following day. So I can show you a good time 😉
Huh, Elite CQC’s been released as a standalone product now, called Arena. Surprise move.
Hopefully breathes some life into the matchmaking.
What is CQC?
Close Quarters Championship, the arena fighting mode they added last year. It’s pretty good fun, when you can get into some matches.
Snake, you know CQC or Close Quarters Combat. Use it to tackle opponents swiftly & stealthily while saving ammo.
To be brutally honest, I hope they dump it and spend more resources updating the full game.
I wish it was integrated into the main game as something you could access at stations, so you could just pop in and check for matches whenever you like, easily chop and change between doing things instead of having to quit out to the main menu.
Good news! I get NBN! Bad news is we only get 5gb :/ Do people know what NBN will generally slow down to after a cap? I’m wondering if it’ll slow down to a ‘reasonable’ speed anyways, so then I won’t have to worry about the cap. I wanna play battlefront and the ladies down at the office can’t tell me much more than we haz internetz 🙁
5GB?!?
Which service? Wired, wireless, satellite?
There’s no way that can be anything but Satellite with only 5GB. :O
The smallest wireless plan I can find is 50GB, so maybe they just left a zero off?
Yeah, Fibre you can get TB plans, Fixed Wireless is around 50GB, Interim Satellite Service plans are in those low GB numbers. e.g….
http://www.skymesh.net.au/services/nbn/satellite/srss.php
Woahhhh this took off, yeah i really don’t know what it is or how it works exactly. I’m living in student accommodation and this is just what they offer allowance wise. What the plan is and how it works I have almost no idea. All they could tell me is that they switched from ADSL a little while ago and some residents have said the capped speeds have been fine for browsing. I’ve just been more interested in online on my PS4 though, I reckon either way i’ll probs crack soon and just cop the cap regardless. Worst case after hitting it I can’t play anything online and 5gb will run out pretty quick no matter what, sooooooooooo idk, haha.
My understanding is it goes down to tier 1 speeds. any idea which tier you are on?
Nope: Shaped Speed: 256/256Kbps
$80 per month gets you 1TB of data, so it might be worth upgrading.
Shaped speed is a painful 256K, so you don’t wanna do that.
NBN plans from iinet look okay, cant find anyone offering a 5GB plan, unless maybe it is wireless or sat?
http://www.iinet.net.au/internet/broadband/nbn/plans/
I’m guessing they’re running off a big plan for the student complex, like i just moved in yesterday and plugged my router in; everything worked. Next I might try find out if I can go with my own provider, so this sort of info helps 😀
Oh crap. In all my distraction/excitement over other games, I’d been neglecting Warframe for a couple of weeks. Logged in last night to be greeted with an email from my ship’s computer:
:'( My poor puppy…
Worst game eva!!!!
GUYS!!!
GUYS!!!!
GGGGUUUUYYYYYSSSS!!!
http://nerdist.com/golden-girls-funko-pop-vinyl-figures-are-officially-coming/
That is cool
@rocketman you are a Legend. I’ll put together a bunch of random business stuff and advice you probably have no interest in tonight but for now know that you are a legend.
Well kudos to the translators for Project X Zone 2. They managed to get in a joke about Catan in a fighting game.
Hi TAY.
It was a long weekend here for President’s Day so now I’m back. No one noticed, I’m sure.
My weekend involved:
– Doing 3/5ths of Fuck All
– Staying up way too late
– Sleeping in way too late
– Rock Band 4 a bit
– Some drinking
– My webcam died so I can’t skype my parents any more until I replace it 🙁
– A Burger place in Issaquah that brewed their own delicious root beer
– Feeling like a completly useless sack of shit on Sunday
– Kantai Collection grinding
– Homemade Katsudon (terrible side note: I had to do it the old-fashioned way with a pan of oil like some kind of fucking caveman because I didn’t have enough oil to fill my new deep fryer)
– Some progress in Trails of Cold Steel happened too. Good golly gosh that game is long though. I’ve only just finished the morning of the first day of the field study in Chapter 3 and I’m at like 40 hours or something. And I think I’m not even halfway through the story yet. And I need to re-play it for the platinum? 🙁
Kantai Collection Update That No One Cares About:
Got home on Friday and set about clearing the second of the three event maps. It was… uneventful? Got my Hatsuzuki. Her art is ugly and she has the personality of a wet rag so not bumping my Akizuki off any time soon. Then I set into E3 and cleared the transport segment of that pretty comfortably, even though by the end of it I was using my third-tier Destroyers. Went to bed then following day set into clearing the main part of E3 which was trivial. Got my Zara. Never going to use her (utterly terrible cruiser) but nice to cross her off the list. On the way through I got Asashimo and Asagumo too. Again, not ships I need, but nice to fill some gaps. Took a break until Monday Afternoon when I started grinding for drops, first went to E3 to grind because there was a chance of finally getting the Graf Zeppelin that avoided me for 100+ attempts last event and broke my spirit. She turned up finally \o/ So I went back to E1 to grind Mizuho. Took ages but E1 is very cheap to run, and eventually Mizuho finally arrived too. So then decided I’d do E2 – chance of Umikaze and new ship Okinami drops. Got Okinami on my first run on the map! So now it’s back to E1 for the last two possible drops this event that aren’t in my Kancolledex already: Umikaze and Sakawa. Not worried if Sakawa doesn’t drop as she can be ground out via other methods, but Umikaze is an event-only drop so fingers crossed. My missing ships list is very short now: only Roma, Sakawa, Umikaze, Arashi, Hagikaze, Teruzuki.I saw your Kantai posts on twitter so it was like you were still about.
Ooohhhh root beer, still rare to get a decent one over here
In Kickstarter news:
Heart of Crown kickstarter launched. I love this game so was anticipating this a lot. $10,000 initial goal was met within 10 minutes of starting and now, 5 hours in, it’s closing in on the $50,000 goal which is to translate the PC port of the game. This is a fantastic deck builder, well worth a look.
Explorers of the North Sea is also worth a look. Third in a trilogy of Viking-themed games from a designer in New Zealand. Shipwrights was good, Raiders is fantastic so I’m looking forward to this one a lot. He’s also got a special game mode that basically sees you play all three games back to back which is cool. There’s a tier that’ll get you all three games if you didn’t already, and it’s NZD rather than USD like most Kickstarters so the games end up pretty cheap.
Overload, aka the Descent Sequel we actually wanted (rather than the new Descent which is a shit MP shooter) is sitting just over $90k out of its $300k needed. 23 days left which should be ample time but it’s not knocking it out of the park either, which is a shame.
How does the NZD compare to AUD these days?
Tempted by the all 3 in one level but not sure I can justify it
Damn Kickstarter… I’m basically buying stuff like it’s a shop now.
Crazy dumpling recipe book?! And it’s the second one… *pledges $35 to get both books*
Ooohhh – an awesome hoodie from the guys that did those awesome jeans *pledges $90*
Deck building, dice crafting tactical JRPG… *pledges $15*
Note: that last one could go horribly wrong trying to cram all those genres but the art is super pretty…
Brawl in the Family books arrived yesterday, having jumped on the Kickstarter for that back… whenever it was.
They’re pretty nice, although the slip cover got pretty badly beaten in transit 🙁
Did it include a CD of all his musical comics?
Mainly what I’m asking is: Is there a way for me to play the Waluigi christmas carol 24/7?
No CD, but downloadable versions of all the songs were supplied. Not sure if videos too.
Actually wait I think I have them on my hard drive here. Yes. And he even threw in karaoke versions of them too 😛
So… getgaming.com.au (subscription console game rental – like quickflix but for games) sent an email out to their members yesterday letting them know they have officially ceased operating. Anyone know of any other good game rental places that work in a similar way?
I’d never even heard of getgaming, but it sounds like a neat concept.
I didn’t realize any places in AU still did game rentals =O
There’s a blockbuster near my work I think they still do game rentals maybe
I didn’t realize blockbuster’s, civic, videoezy, etc were still a thing =\
Dammit now I’m craving some ben n jerry’s and a stack a movies.
*poke* TAY you there?
No.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE.
HOW DID YOU GET INTO MY HOUSE!
The back door was open. See that hole in the living room; I just installed a back door for you. You’re welcome.
tch, that was a nice bit of plasterboard.
I’m everywhere and nowhere..now I’m somewhere oooooh suspicious
Blergh
OMFG I just found this – http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=625481548&searchtext=
I have to start a new game of XCOM 2……
Retaking the world in the name of the Galactic Empire!
For the last few months whenever I’ve gone to EB there’s been a solitary Pagan Min figurine on display that I’ve thought about buying on the basis of “that looks pretty cool” but then a contrary voice says “but I haven’t even played Far Cry 4”. Then a couple of weeks ago when it was on sale I bought and played Far Cry 4 and was like “shit, I love this Pagan Min guy”.
I went back to EB to check it out and see what the deal was. Well rather I didn’t, because that EB was closed for refurbishment for two weeks. I asked their temporary kiosk about it and got a shrug, since they only had limited inventory available to sell and didn’t have an up to date stock count. Apparently some of their stock was boxed up and sent to other stores, so it was suggested maybe I could check out the store in World Square, a few blocks away. Sure, why not?
So I check out world Square and they don’t have it. The guy there tells me the Galeries Victoria (the store under refurb) had one in stock but their inventory hasn’t been updated since the refurb started, so no idea where it was or whether it had been sold in the meantime. He insisted it would be but a trifle to order one in for me, and I eventually managed to escape with my wallet intact, assuring him I needed to give proper attention to the look and heft of the thing before I promised to part ways with money for it.
So today I return to the newly refurbished EB (“refurbished” in this instance seems to mean “we turned one of the doorways into a window and added blue neons”) and sure enough, Pagan Min is there. It’s quite a striking figurine. It would go nicely with some of my other Ubisoft game figures like Ezio, Altair, and Aiden Pearce. Buuut I don’t think I’m $78 interested, especially since my wife has recently told me to stop buying Pop! Vinyl figures because we’re running out of places to put them.
I also saw a Fallout 4 backpack for $38 which I photographed for my wife, but also didn’t buy.
See that’s my biggest issue with gaming paraphenilia; there’s no furniture that accounts efficiently for how to display it! =[
‘Ullo
From the otter side
Glad to see you back online Freeze, how you feeling?
Sore. But I have metal parts in my heart now. One of you, one of you.
Welcome to the first step in your evolution 🙂 hehe. Does this mean you’re MechaFreeze now?
In all seriousness though I’m happy you’re still up 🙂
I went to say “who’s this guy?” in similarly truncated fashion then suddenly realised I had no idea how you’d spell “Who’s” like that. ‘Ho’s? ‘O’s? ‘Oo’s?
…hi Freeze 😛
You are generally safe with Ho’s if Freeze is involved
Recovering nicely?
Guv’
Uncle Freeze is back! Finally someone to give me the world’s worst advice =D
Welcome home.
‘sup.
Hi!!
S’it garn can’t.
So, just wanted to shoot a contracting question off to the Fair Work people – needed to register an account, sure, fine, whatever. I received an email back, with my password in plain text. Govment! Do u even internet?!?
They must’ve hired the technicians that set up the PlayStation Network all those years ago.
Bahaha, what. Apparently Kanye West has started a GoFundMe after it being made public he is allegedly 53 million dollars in debt.
I swear this is just some genius marketing ploy to drive up hype about his new album, which he claims will only ever be available via Tidal for streaming and never for sale. I find him amusing how he keeps upsetting everyone with his drama.
Not to mention he brought Tidal and made it a Zune exclusive streaming service because Kanye can’t Kanye on Apple play
Oh he BOUGHT Tidal. Bahaha, the idiot. I didn’t realise that, explains a lot then. Didn’t he realise there’s too many music streaming services, especially with Apple getting into it now.
? Jay Z owns Tidal, primarily, though Kanye and a bunch of other artists are shareholders.
Yeah this is what I thought, Jay Z owned it & had other artists invest in to it, like Kanye.. There’s a Kanye Invest joke there somewhere I just know it >_>
The guy is mad as a cut snake… His twitter feed recently reads like a stream of raw unfiltered consciousness.
I know right? He sure is special.
Does anyone want to do me a massive favour and see if they can grab a preowned copy of Rock Band 3 from their local EB? The copy I lined up got sold to someone else…
It’s currently $12 and I’m happily to pay for it plus postage.
On which console?
Oh yeeaaah…
PS3 😛
I’ll have a look next time I’m at EBGames
Going today. I’ll tweet you if I grab it
Thanks Scree!
I will be at EB later this morning, I’ll let you know if they have it still. Pretty sure they had half a dozen last week.
Sorry, only just saw this. Any luck?
Hm. Looks like they have one in Geraldton, I think I might have a friend who lives over there. Possibly. Could shoot him a message when I get home, if nobody else can grab one.
EB site doesn’t appear to list any PS3 copies so I can’t check from here where they think any stock might be.
Yeah, they’re not coming up any more so I’m guessing I’ve missed out.
I managed to find it, you just had to screw around with the search settings a bit to make them pop up.
Geraldton, Dubbo, Townsville and Ballina seem to be the only places with it.
I went as far as ‘All preowned, PS3’, then filtered for a $12 price, ordered by name, wasn’t there.
I followed that link, tried to display stores and got 0 results. Probably why it’s getting filtered out of search results.
I think I chose Pick Up In store or something.
Also, I just tried plugging in Sydney into the location search to see if that changed the results, and it’s showing results other than those four I mentioned now. Including one at Riverside, which I assume was the one @rize missed out on.
Seems like there might be one in Winston Hills, could maybe run out there and grab it if they still have it.
I just did a lap of the EB and JB stores in Melbourne with no luck. I did see Rock Band AC/DC in one of the JB stores if you want me to run back out and grab it. Likewise if you want to give them a call and double check I’d be happy to go in. I forgot the JB at the Exhibition Centre but I don’t even know if they have used games.
All good, the only reason I want Rock Band 3 is cause you can import most of its songs into Rock Band 4. Apparently most of the other games can no longer be imported.
Thanks for checking though!
@poita http://imgur.com/TELlZhy These are the colours that the hats will be made in
So hard to choose!
OMG YOU GUYS!!!!
I FINISHED SECOND OVERALL IN THE SECOND ROUND OF THE WARHAMMER 40,000 STORE LEAGUE LAST NIGHT!!!
Seriously can’t believe it, considering I was up against such vastly superior decks.
First game i was devastated horribly by the same kid that devastated me the week before. He brought the same Tyranid swarm army again. While i did handle the nids a lot better this time, the lack of AOE in my deck meant i was overrun within the first few turns.
Second game was easily THE MOST enjoyable game of Conquest I have ever played. I started off poorly, losing the first planet, but I ralied and started taking plaets whole-sale. What made it most enjoyable was that while I was winning planets my opponent was throwing out some really tough SM units. Luckily I drew really well and took the final planet rather convicingly, loading it up with more eldar than i thought was possible with my deck, thanks to some usefull resource hording.
Third game was really really close. Another Space Marine deck, this one was drawing far more dangerous units. Spent a lot of effort trying to take out some blood angels terminators that he wouldn’t let die. Took a hell of a beating from some AOE stuff as well. I had 2 planets and he had 2 – the last one would decide the winner. He had me far outnumbered, but he made the mistake of comitting his blodied warlord to the first planet in an attempt to overrun me – 2 attacks later and I took his warlord, stealing victory.
Tense stuff.
Plus i won 2 door prizes!!! A dark eldar deck box, and an alt art khorne bezerker! 😀
That’s awesome buddy! Congrats for getting this far
Edit: Excitement for Necrons intensifies 😀
Hells to the yeah!!!
Also picked up the Degree of Ruin expansion while I was there – a few cool cards, but mostly underwhelming.
The commissar warlord looks like it would be a big fun – You basically BLAM all your own units. haha
You’re not a Commissar if half of your own troops aren’t dead by your own hand at least.
“Drive me closer, I want to hit them with my sword!”
I had that as my wallpaper for a while, but had to change because every time I saw it I would chuckle uncontrollably
Is this a 40K TCG? I didn’t know such a thing existed.
It’s one of those LCGs where you get the core set and you get all the cards, rather than relying on boosters and stuff that TCGs give.
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/warhammer-40000-conquest/
Nice, thanks!
I’ve been enjoying it so far but I haven’t been practicing with proper decks yet.
The only issue I’ve had (which I’m sure is just lack of understanding of strategies on how to deal with it on my part) is if I don’t have AoE units (Which attack all units on the planet your unit is on), I really struggle if the opponent manages to grab the first few planets and save most of their troops. Reason why is the units that survive in the victory come back in the next engagement with their commander, and adding onto that they’re still purchasing more units to add on top, rinse and repeat makes it hard to deal with without AoE units.
Otherwise, the game is really fun and the card art is just gorgeous.
I’ve always found Warhammer artwork to be excellent quality. 40K has some wonderfully dark settings and themes that make for fantastic art.
The art is a favourite of mine too.
The setting I love the most though, all races are not “the good guys”, and all races have badass backstories on their origins.
Yeah. The lore and level of detail accumulated over the years makes for some really nice art work. It’s grim and dark in some surprisingly fresh ways and there are no goods guys, but everyone thinks they’re the heroes. So an artist can sort of choose to show the world as it is or adopt the factions delusions to various degrees. There’s a ton of perspectives to choose from.
I never really considered the lore to be great when I started out but over time I’ve realised it bleeds into just about everything.
Yeah – exactly what Techy said – It’s a LCG, so the fun of a TCG without having to mortgage your house!
It’s seriously good.
Book depository sells the core and most expansions dirt cheap as well
Speaking of warhammer, I have a friend who is getting back into it. Do you know some good sites to get stuff cheaper?
As Chuloopa said above, the Book Depository (Of all places, I know) sells it for quite less than other places.
https://www.bookdepository.com/Warhammer-40-000-Conquest-Lcg-Base-Game-Eric-Lang/9781616619091
I was always tempted to get into WFB, but the severe lack of Necrons kept me away.
That being said, Tomb Kings look freaking awesome.
Bad news then, End Times basically ended WFB and destroyed the world. There’s Age of Sigmar as a replacement but it’s significantly different to WFB.
Yeah I did a bit of reading up on AoS, couldn’t get into it and basically guaranteed I wasn’t going to play Fantasy. 40k has always had cooler lore anyway imo
Referring to the TCG or the miniatures?
Miniatures.
Also, my sister recently found him a sheep’s spine that he’s gonna clean up and use in his terrain setup.
My sister is awesome btw.
You lost me at sheep’s spine. I’ve usually found mini’s cheaper in local hobby shops than GW stores but loops has the question covered I think =P
Edit: Ok I have to know, how the hell did she get her hands on a sheep’s spine??!?
Found it in a paddock while at a festival.
Also a skull.
Think about who you’re asking – Of course I do! haha
http://www.blackcultist.com.au – one of the cheapest 40k suppliers in Aus. based in canberra and good shipping rates. Really friendly and responsive guy. Orders may take up to 2 weeks though, as he only keeps a limited stock on hand – some of it’s special order that he gets in specifically for you.
http://www.bunkergames.net. THE CHEAPEST place to get 40k in aus. Based in Melbourne. Can take a LONG time for orders to arrive. My experience has been 2 weeks, but some people wait up to a month. This guy does it as a side to his day job and all orders are placed with gw when you order, hence the long lead time. Can often be unresponsive to emails but does eventually reply if barrage enough. Prices can be as much as 35% off rrp. Has a current sale wit some good stuff at 40% off rrp. Limited selection though.
Also Ebay and gumtree will be his best friend – you can find insanely good deals there. Even painted models can be easily stripped for repainting, if he’s willing to spend some time cleaning them up to save some money.
Cheers!
Hey, does anyone want a free copy of deadly premonition?
I was thinking of getting rid of mine because the combat shits me so much I just can’t continue the crackpot tale 🙁
I should have mentioned, it’s on pc
Hey TAY. Long time no speak. What’s been happening?
Played a bit of Unravel (pretty good), Firewatch (enjoying it, but only into day 2 and I can’t figure out how to get where I need to go next) and The Witness (not very far in and I’m already stuck), goddamn I suck. *shakes fist*
Looking forward to the first major releases for the year (not counting Street Fighter V) with Far Cry: Primal and Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 next week. Figured I might as well get the collectors edition of Far Cry seeing as I’ve got the CE’s for 2, 3, and 4, only 10 bucks more too so that’s a bonus. Anyone else picking up FC: P or PVZ: GW2?
I’m keen for FC:Primal but think it will be a down the track game for me.
Still haven’t played 3
You really should. 3 & 4 are really great. It’s gonna be very interesting with Primal having no advanced weaponry (guns). I’m guessing you’ll have some kind of club for bludgeoning and maybe a bow and arrows. Apparently you can tame animals too and you can make them fight for you.
Not entirely sold on Primal. The premise sounds great and it was looking a bit more far cry 2 style than 3/4. Which I prefer.
But then a preview article mentioned taming an owl with your magic powers and using it to drop bombs on your enemies :/
So, yeah. Worried it will be the same tired recycled Ubisoft crud at heart.
10/10 would drop owl bombs again?
Jokes aside I’m counting on it being the same old tried Ubisoft crap with the added twist that I get to tame animals! =D
jimu of the umij LIVES, in Elder Scrolls Online.
She’s a dark elf, templar with an eye patch & a Mohawk.
Fear her, because she’s learning all the heals!!
is she learning heals in heels?
BOOTS
Are they made for walking?
They’re gonna walk all over YOU
I revived my character last night and spent half an hour trying to figure out where my skill points go. Everything has changed since I was last on.
Yeah, I watched & read some guides.
It’s like Skyrim but nothing like Skyrim
HRODGVARD SNEAK AND THEN SMASH
Ranged?
Can we please ditch early access?
It’s just making game devs lazy, honestly.
I disagree. It gives devs a chance to test games in a real-world setting, so they can more easily iron out the kinks. I mean, indie games wouldn’t have a chance to have a big closed beta to stress-test servers and gather enough data to adequately test for bugs and whatnot.
That being said, there should probably be different tiers of early access – games pretty early in their development should be distinct from those that are close to being finished.
Is it though? On the flipside you have so-called “AAA” titles coming out without the Early Access label, but with the number of patches and fixes still to come it more or less amounts to the same thing 😛
That seems to indicate a more systemic problem… maybe gamers need to learn to be patient and get something when it’s done. Or publishers need to be more willing to change their release dates to suit the state of the game in the preceding months, rather than relying on day one and post-launch patching to fix everything.
Edit: Or both. I doubt it’s realistic to expect either to happen in isolation, but one side needs to take the first step.
Generally I’d expect something to be “done” when I walk into a store and pull it off the shelf.
So would I. Not that that has any bearing on the present reality. “The grass was greener in the days of my youth” etc etc.
I feel that while early access has achieved its goal of “allowing games that would otherwise have never been made to find their audience”, such games always peaks before they gets finished, leaving the developer with no incentive to complete them other than to maintain good will.
Sadly, it’s not going anywhere – hell, Xbox is getting something similar, isn’t it? *shudder*
Already has it, pretty sure Elite Dangerous was the first. But at least Frontier seem to have a pretty good idea of what they’re doing in regards to the whole ongoing development model.
Did you get stung by something specific?
One game where early access did a ton for it and made the game great: Darkest Dungeon.
Whilst I agree early access is crap on a lot of games (Spacebase DF-9), it does come with real gems every now and then because of the feedback from players that jump in early
Like RWBY grimm eclipse. A huge update is going to drop because of the feedback. They’re looking at changing combos, lock on and also the way they fight.
I’m kinda worried with Grimm Eclipse, it’s so early built with so little missions, so they have a LONG time for something to go wrong that could impact the game’s overall release quality.
It’s still fun to play. But it’s only a small team of 4 people and they’re listening to feedback
I’ve been on the fence about registering a domain for myself and my photography for years, but lately I’ve been thinking about it a bit more. Telling people who are interested in my portfolio “Oh, just Google RBGingerSnaps and you’ll find my Flickr” isn’t cutting it for me. The domain suffixes I wanted (.com / .com.au / .net, etc) have been either registered or parked for years, but I realised there’s a world of those business domains. Lo and behold, gingersnaps.pics is available. Short, sweet, succinct. Possibly even better than .com.au when it comes to “saying” it. Ok, I can get behind that.
Now I guess I have to set it up. Project for the weekend, I think.
I’ve been considering setting something up, but I need to work out if I can settle on a better name than “garbage photography.”
Spoilers: I can’t.
Good luck on yours though. YOU’LL NEED IT. *angry glare*
Mixed Blagh Photography?
If I wanted to follow my original theme I could call it “junk photography” and just have a portfolio of dickpics.
A++ Would Buy Again.
Also if you’re looking for a good HTML5 gallery that integrates with Flickr to show off your pictures without hosting them yourself & that’s relatively easy to get set up on a webpage, I highly recommend Juicebox Pro. I used it on a friends website for her photography. Works on mobile devices and all, and looks nice.
Yeah still deciding what I want to do Flickr wise. I really need to clear out a bunch of the junk from my Flickr and update my watermarks on half the photos.
Ok XCOM 2 players I need to ask; is anyone else having an issue with their game constantly glitching out? In the past week I’ve had to scan the game’s cache twice and each time it’s found missing files that need to be replaced in order to get the game working again. I have a feeling it might be one of the mods I’m running but wanted to check if any people playing the vanilla game have had the same issue where the launcher won’t start up.
Um…
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/02/warren-spector-returns-to-game-development-for-system-shock-3/
Did this happen a while ago and I just somehow missed it?
Warren Spector working on a new game \o/ and it’s a new System Shock?!
The System Shock 3 semi-announcement thing was a month or two ago, I think? But I think Spector’s involvement is new. Maybe?
Ehh, it’s good news, but his recent work doesn’t fill me with endless confidence.
Let’s play a game! I’ll write the start of a story, you guys continue it.
‘We did the unnatural.’ She said. ‘ these places were never meant to collide. They were supposed to keep on living in their own realms, completely unaware of the others existence. But now, the lines have crossed and we know of each other, and it’s all thanks to the
idiots in marketing. Those bastards thought this was yet another harmless ARG, but ever since they put the blueprints up of that-
flying saucer, the analysts knew what dangers this could unleash if it was constructed, but those idiots in marketing didn’t listen. In order to make it work, the engineering team had to make use of-
Live Bait. LIVE BAIT! Just to get their little science project working. And when they switched their cattle powered monstrosity on, what emerged from the rift was-
unexpected. The other world, the cross culture divide. The world that could have been but is where care and knowledge are more prized than power and wealth. The culture clash was too much, too intense so in the end-
the marketing department did something so unexpected, so unnerving that no-one could have ever seen it coming. This, the same department who had created the issue in the first place came up with an idea that would ultimately save all of humanity. They decided that everyone must speak in Dad Jokes. This would lead to-
unprecedented levels of murder. The cries of “I can’t take it anymore” followed by the dying gasp of “well it is a pretty heavy concept” filled the streets. The foundations of society were stretch to breaking point and hope dimmed. But the saviour was found-
The annihilation of the Earth.
All ending with-
A sphere, heralded by chaos: weaving across states of enmity for existence and an obligation to rebirth; gravid with the intellect of the gross cosmos. Amongst recursive fibres of time-
the people who had started it all were still sitting in their office, congratulating themselves on a job well done while the earth was destroyed around them.
They were especially pleased as it was declared no pants Friday, but Jones had forgotten to wear underwear again.
They all had a good laugh about it until-
Jones’s aforementioned underwear became sentient and revealed itself to be the supreme overlord of the universe. It chuckled evilly to itself as it gently but authoritatively removed the underwear from the remaining marketing department and then everyone celebrated by-
So I bought BF4 and Hardline because they were on sale. Been playing a bit of BF4, there are a few glitches in the multiplayer but it seems to be stable now.
Played through the campaign and holy shit, that is the most nothing modern military shooter campaign I have ever played. Then they expect you to care about a sacrifice at the end of the game.
So I’m going on a third date with a girl I met online this Sunday and I’m feeling unreasonably nervous, like I’m 18 and going on my first date style nervous 😐
This is a strange situation I find myself in as I genuinely like this girl and want it to go well but just have no idea what the heck to do when it comes to dates and dating in general. I was in a 13 year relationship previously that ended 2 years ago and I have a 3 year old boy from it so you could say I’m a little bit out of touch with the whole dating thing. That, and I’m not the most socially capable guy out there and don’t have a tonne of confidence in myself.
But I will give it a shot! Getting to a third date is good right? (I think)
So, how about them games? The one with the word fire in its name sure looks good *nervous, shifty eyes*.
Third date??? Third date?!?! that’s *insert weird sex noise* time!
Jokes aside hope you have a good time man 🙂 As long as you’re being yourself you never have anything to be nervous about! Unless you know… well I’m sure you know about the thing. So yeah you’ll be fine!
Thanks mate, I’ll just tell a multitude of dad jokes to her and that should then naturally lead to “weird sex noise time”.
Ummm… yeah… anyway, it should be a good night!
“Weird sex noise”? Are you imitating squeaky bedsprings? Humping the air? Or is it something more esoteric like when you put your finger inside your cheek and flick out it?
I was thinking more along the lines of the cries of a wounded wildebeest.
So sort of an exhausted bleat, a guttural vibration of the diaphragm to express your joy at being one of the walruses who gets to very carefully and with much patience flop up onto the sunny rock.
*grabs popcorn*
How long have you waited?
Not long enough. I got a duplicate comment notification.
This is how I imagine some of you lot dadding
http://9gag.com/gag/ab0vELO
Especially @freezespreston 😛
That’s exactly who I was thinking of. =P And Maybe @rize
I could never dance that well.
Doesn’t mean you wouldn’t try
That makes it better
Buggery.
Cog have reformed for a tour and all their Sydney shows are booked out.
@mrtaco
If you don’t enter that sexy cosplay competition I will figuratively die of disappointment.
Do it for Tay!
Yes. TAY.
Definitely not for my own perverse reasons.
Hahahahahaha.
Ha.
Why not both?
But then I’d have to trim my beeeeard.
But isn’t it worth it to have a horde of people drool over your body while objectifying you?
Actually. It’s all the way in May. And I’ll have hit the year mark at the end of April. So maaaaaaaaaaaybe…
Dont you mean literally? =O
Deadpool was rad!
Way better than expected.
Did you stick around for the stinger?
Chika chikaaaIt was a good message. I hope everyone picked up after themselves.
This might be the best Cosplay idea I’ve seen in a while: RNGesus.
Now there’s a cosplay that’s just begging to get someone beaten up. All the times I’ve lost XCOM operatives who were hunkered in heavy cover to a bullshit crit from a flashbanged thin man…
It is definitely appropriate that he is flipping the bird.
That’s totally real RNGesus’ favourite thing to do.
Heh. I know some real err, morons I guess. I see on Facebook a mate (well we were friends back in high school) is going on that Netflix is going to give us an “Australian Tax” because they “hate us Australians” so I decided to just let him know that it’s the Australian gov’t wanting the company to pay GST because they’re registered to operate here, which they will pass down to us the end user, something I understand because Netflix is providing a service that is not a necessity in life so it’s subject to GST, which is paid for by us etc..
No, no he’s determined it’s not a GST on Netflix but an isolated “Australian Tax” because Netflix “hates us” I also then went on to tell him that he should focus this sort of disgust & hatred to the changed the gov’t wish to make to more important things like their idea of privatising Medicare or increasing the GST across the board to 15% & also including it on things like fresh food where it is currently expempt. Funnily enough after that I didn’t get a response, shame.
If we were going to be paying GST on Netflix it would equate to somewhere around an extra subscription a year. Also what we’re being charged for the mid level subscription is barely more than what the American pay for the base rate of $7.99 USD.
TL;DR someone I know doesn’t posses enough brain activity to understand that taxes are applied to certain things in life & doesn’t seem to care about the bigger things that the gov’t wants to do to impede the country’s future.
Bring up that Netflix is cheaper then Stan, Presto AND foxtel, and these things will also have GST on them too.
Or alternatively, don’t, as people like that generally want to stay ignorant so they can continue to be angry
Yeah, we won’t dare bring logic into this. Also the fact you can VPN into another country’s catalogue, can’t do that with Presto, Stand or Foxtel 😛
I feel like the person virus was engaging with is well and truly entrenched in their beliefs =P
Yeah, I remember he raged at me for pre-ordering Fallout 4. I think deep down he was just jelly I got a Pip Boy & he didn’t.
You should tell him he is a living argument for the human race to revert back to natural selection.
He just commented back with this;
I’m not really sure what he is attempting to say.. I think he’s trying to sound intelligent, but holy shit it’s just a mess.
I also don’t think he understood what I meant when I said if we paid GST on Netflix overall it would only be adding about the cost of one months subscription. Also if that is too much for him to afford then I don’t think he needs Netflix he should focus on the more important things, like budgeting properly first, or actually go out & get a job, rather than bludge off government welfare and pretend to study, but that’s none of my business.
Considering that, according to the ato, about a third of the tax you pay goes straight to welfare, I’d say it’s at least somewhat your/everyone’s business.
Given that our income tax system is technically broken I’d say 1/3 of tax paid would refer to only 1/2 of the country’s taxable income #negativegearing =,=
I’m sorry u_u
@scree It’s all scree’s fault! #imsorry #notreally ? =P
Fair point 😛
@scree
Nah your cause is legit. It’s bludgers that make it harder for people like you.
Thanks @jocon but I still feel bad. I guess that’s why I’m trying to start a business
@pupp3tmast3r you make me sad. My sorries mean something!
@scree Haha i know scree! I’m just teasing!
Does he realize that “we” technically don’t vote on legislation? I’m not entirely certain he understands the purpose/concept of GST either however I think he realized that and went with the hail mary by turning the conversation about the “dickheads who run Australia” =p Which you know everyone will get behind!
Nope. He’s all “ERRMERRGERRD DA GUBBERMENTS TRYIN TO STEELZ MA MUNNIEZ” basically. I also left a little conversion table for him based on our current exchange rate with the states regarding Netflix.
I mean, come on I can’t argue that we’re being ripped off, or even with a GST on the service we would be. I also can’t see our exchange rate improving too majorly either, so yeah.
I hope it pisses him off to the point he unfriends me & blocks me like the last ‘friend’ did when I called out their bullshit. I mean i’m all for hating on companies, the government whoever for being dicks to us the consumer, citizen or whatever… But come on do a bit of thinking & research before opening your bogan mouth dang it.
I recently tried to engage with some anti-vaxers, so I now speak fluent moron. Please, allow me to translate.
With a monthly fee of $14, Netflix costs $168. This has absolutely no bearing on our discussion, but maths is for nerds and frankly I am sorely in need of a semblance of legitimacy, which is why I felt the need to demonstrate my arithmetic prowess.
You are able to vote against the GST. This is assuming, of course, that you are a sitting member of parliament. However, Mr. MP, consider this: At some point in time the GST raised just short of $54 billion in tax revenue. If I had done my homework, I would know that this makes up roughly a quarter of state government revenue, which goes towards the provision of the schools I didn’t go to, the hospitals I go to when I inevitably hurt myself doing dumb shit, and the cops that arrest me when I break the law (again). See what kind of ‘dickheads’ your money goes towards? Obviously teachers, nurses, police and most certainly politicians should take massive cuts to their wages, because we definitely do not want to pay enough to attract top talent to these worthless professions.
QED, guys.
Hahaha, fucking hell. Amazing. Thanks for the much needed laugh. Spot on i’d say.
http://mic.com/articles/89899/why-anti-vaxxers-and-climate-change-deniers-believe-things-that-aren-t-true#.8SSgCPtkh
Relevant.
tl;dr quarantine them on a moon base and let them die out?
I’m pretty sure it would be easier to just fire the into the sun. You know, for science.
Hey at least they’d be germ/virus/disease free 😛
That’s my suggestion for those that think the moon landing was a hoax.
See we’ll get all the crazies together in one spot and the human race will jump ahead a few millenia in progress.
The problem with that is what happens if they don’t die out.
We just introduce the common cold into their ecosystem. Crisis averted.
I’m sick and don’t know if I’ll man it to see page six, but here’s my joke:
How do you cut the Roman Empire in half?
With a pair of Caesars! 😀You can do it man! I believe in you! Just berroca up and do a few push ups!
I made it lol, I just had a couple of fresh juices through the day and had a little twenty minute nap at lunchtime to survive lol.
I’m also unwell. I’ve got a sore jaw and I keep hearing pops and clicks when I open my mouth too wide. Apparently it is common, and i think it’s caused by the muscle.
So I’m on liquid food until it settles, or if it’s not better on Monday, doctor time.
I’ve had the pop/click thing going on in my jaw for weeks. My jaw only get sore when I keep popping/clicking it, which I do constantly because I’m stupid.
Uhh both of you should go to a doctor; what you’re describing sounds like something I had for a few weeks after a bad cold. Jaw pain and clicking; doc gave me some tablets that fixed it in 24 hours; something about it being a leftover side effect after your immune system gets fired up or something.
@scree
Nah, mine’s inflammation of the jaw joints. It’s called TMJ. Exercises, eating soft food and massage are the treatments.
I have that too, they gave me a stick to chew on (I’m not kidding)
That is a weird one. I’ve heard of using a stick for exercises
Do you think it’s a TMJ disorder or something else?
It is TMJ.
XCOM 2 stuff –
Ok so I just discovered how insanely OP the mimic grenade is. I’m never going to be ambushed again!! MUAHAHAH. Also it’s immune to melee attacks so it completely screws over Archons =DAre you certain it’s immune to melee? I’m pretty sure I’ve had a muton bayonet it to death before. No question that they’re extremely handy though, they’ve become an essential part of my loadout now. It does seem like you can’t use them to activate a pod though which seems like a bit of a pity, I had a destroy transmitter mission last night where I had a muton & 2 vipers behind the target building but not activated, I tossed the beacon pretty much right on them so there’s no way they missed it but they didn’t react, it’s like they just sat there saying “Crazy kids with your holograms, get off my lawn!”
If you want to talk about comically overpowered stuff in the game, just look at psionics.
Null Lance & Domination are almost game-breakingly good. Null Lance wrecks everything it hits, ignores armour, often doesn’t trigger codex cloning when damaged (I think it’s when you hit them outside visual range, they can’t see the source of the damage and just run rather than clone or teleport) and you can shoot it through walls without damaging them. Combine it with a concealment ranger and you’ve got a perfect mech killing weapon, the spotter keeps an eye on them, the psyker stands out of sight behind heavy cover and vapes the enemy when they’re nicely clustered.
As for Domination… damn that’s incredible. If you can capture an Andromedon or Gatekeeper in the first pod of a transmitter defence mission then it’s an ideal distraction for the rest of the mission, often the transmitter just doesn’t take damage because the enemy are too busy shooting at the traitor. I captured a Gatekeeper & an Archon in the final fight of the game and my troops barely took any fire, thanks to their incredibly high defence and/or ability to fly, my unwilling allies hardly took a hit either. The Gatekeeper just took fire like a champ, any shots that did hit did negligible damage thanks to the heavy armour and the Archon just kept spamming Blazing Pinions (gotta love an infinite use ability with no cooldown) which puts them in an elevated position where they get the flight defence bonuses and the height makes sure everyone can see him so they shoot him rather than me.Well I’m fairly certain they were… Actually no I’m wrong because an Archon dealt massive damage to it. However they must have higher evasion to melee because 2 vipers tried to bind and tongue it and both missed and a stun lancer attack completely missed it as well giving melee attacks in a single mission a 25% hit rate? Whereas normally melee accuracy is ridiculously high!With regards to the other stuff I’ve never made it past the Shadow Chamber construction so I’m guessing I’ll know what you’re talking about then 😛
The most OP thing I used with my psyker was the Rift.
You’d drop a void-rift on three or four dudes, and then if you’ve got the enhancements, it has a chance to proc Insanity.
…And insanity, enhanced, always does damage.
I was dropping rifts on shit and wiping out entire pods with one ability. The team-mates standing nearby on overwatch were undoubtedly giving the psionic shitty looks.
Haha, there’s some person trying to sell Guitar Hero World Tour for Wii with guitar for $60 in today’s paper. As Darryl Kerrigan would say; “Tell him he’s dreamin’ “
Yay! New books
Now that he has his Queen, I declare @rocketman King of TAY!
ALL HAIL GIOVANNI
What happened..?
He married Nob :3
No one tell @freezespreston
Why?
Because he’ll Photoshop up some wedding photography?
Have you not been watching the Tay soaps? Freeze and Nob totally have a thing for each other =P
I dunno, I barely get in here these days. Did an actual joke happen?
Pants has been writing a soap version with the Taybies. Nob and Freeze are the couple
Oh fair enough lol.
WTF?! Did I miss something yesterday while I was crippled over my toilet all day?! Married Nob?! Huh?!?!?
Rockets loves a good nob
It was a beautiful ceremony, five-hundred of their closest friends were there. Odd, I expected to see you th- Oh.
Uhhhhhh.
I mean, nothing happened. At all.
Definitely nothing.
Funny joke. Ha haha.
Ha.
heh thanks for making everything so much clearer! :p
I assume people have stopped inviting me to stuff purely because they think I’m dead and not because I’m a massive jerk.
Lies, you were first on the invite list to our wedding.
I appreciate that you thought of me when I clearly have been dead for at least 2 years.
Also, WHEN IS THE WEDDING
I will need to reserve to time off for that to fly back and prepare a giant amount of cheese for your gift
http://i.imgur.com/923SZNv.gif artist’s representation of the wedding after Bish arrives
I think you’re a massive jerk.
You’re the only one who understands me.
Holy shit, I haven’t seen you online in years!
I’m inconspicuous.
OoooooOooh
So any tech-death fans in the house? Fallujah released the first track off their new album, and it is face-meltingly awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znjLSW8kfBM
I’m about as hyped for this as it’s possible to be hyped. The fact it doesn’t come out until the end of April makes me sad.
Not half bad, though death and tech bands badly need to stop using the exact same style of lyric video for their singles. Too much slightly shaky zoomy.
I’ll take your Fallujah and raise you an Ulcerate album, at some point – maybe 2016?
I think Fallujah’s last album ‘The Flesh Prevails’ is one of the best metal albums of the last 5 years.
I’ll have to give Ulcerate a go!
Destroyers of All is the album to go for. Good ambience but not as aggressive as Vermis.
I remember listening to Carved from Stone, and while I liked the music, I couldn’t get past the vocalist.
Found some Lovecraft audio books online – been meaning to read his stuff for years, but never could stand the “second-hand retelling” writing style… Welp, now I know what I’m doing on my commutes for the foreseeable future. (;,,;)
I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but @Haggis might just explode if we don’t reach page 6 soon.
So… who’s up for a bit of ol’ fashioned spam!? It comes in a tin!
Nah. TAY is best when spam-free.
yeah I’m with carzyguy on this one, spam just makes TAY horrible. Kinda like spam
Eh, I guess every page is page 6 now! =D
I hate this idea that Chuck Norris has super-human powers. He is an actor, not God, people. If he really is special, I dare him to magically appear in my house now, sneak up behind me and slam my face into my own keyboarfhcfhvjjvggxddd56576fgz d668/ fhuvgsrxgcyseuhufdgjj^jdn:jenxg£h
#DadJokeCantWaitForPage6
Fine, I’m getting in on this action.
A young deck-hand walked up to an old pirate in a bar and asked him how old he was. The old pirate replied “Aye matey”.
A photographer is walking through the park late one night, when he comes across a famous politician masturbating furiously in the bushes. Thinking quickly he snaps a few photos before the politician notices him. After some quick negotiating, the politician buys the camera off him for $20,000. Not wanting to destroy a pretty good camera, the politician deletes the photos, and takes the camera with him on his next fishing trip with the guys. One of his friends asks him “Hey, that’s a nice camera, how much did you pay for it?”. The politician replies “$20 grand!”. His friend whistles and says “WOW! Whoever sold you that must have seen you coming!”
A cartwheeler met a piano-wire salesman. The two fell in love, and got married…
But their kid was stumped.
#DadJokeCantWaitForPage6
The police came to my house and asked where I was between 3 and 5 . I told them pre-school.
How many ears does Spock have?
3. The left ear, the right ear, and the final front-ear.I totally understand how batteries feel.
I’m never included in anything either.
I had a napkin factory in Eastern Europe.
It was in the Serviette union.
I was arguing with my girlfriend in nandos when my best mate ran off with the garlic bread and the coleslaw..
I wish he would stop taking sides.
My daughter asked me for a pet spider for her birthday, so I went to our local pet shop and they were $70!!!
Blow this, I thought, I can get one cheaper off the web.
Why can’t Kangaroos drink coffee?
Because it makes them too jumpySometimes I just stare into the fishpond. It gives me time to reflect.
I’ve had it up to here with word visualisations.
I have CDO. It’s like OCD, but the letters are in alphabetical order, LIKE THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE.
Still one of my favs
What did the mayonnaise say when someone opened the refrigerator door?
Close the door I am dressing!How do you communicate with a fish?
You drop it a line.Just went to my mates bar for the first time since it opened in January to try out his burgers, holy shit. Best burger i’ve had in years from any kind of food place. Price wasn’t too bad at $15 since it came with a generous serving of chips. Since I had a chicken burger which had some nice spicy coating along with a spicy mayonnaise. Damn it was good, even dad was impressed, he’s hard to impress when it comes to food from restaurants, since he’s had so much sub-par quality food over the years.
Wouldn’t it be easier to impress if he is comparing it to a large amount of sub-par food?
I guess, but also given that what we make at home 99% of the time turns out a better result than what we have had the displeasure of having elsewhere, so that also plays a factor.
Does deciding not to buy a game because it’s missing a feature that you consider that you find fairly essential to improving your enjoyment of that game really make you an ‘entitled gamer’?
No
Bitching about the fact or demanding that they add that feature makes you an ‘entitled gamer’
I guess I’m entitled then. :\
I birch all the time, I do t actually expect anyone to listen. Just letting off steam
Stop birching
Shuddup, can’t
No, that’s called not being stupid. Why buy a game you won’t enjoy?
That’s what I thought.
Facebook comment of the day. On this story:
http://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-have-reversed-autism-symptoms-in-mice-by-flipping-a-genetic-switch
Comment – “Can they please make this into a vaccine? I’d like to see Jenny McCarthy’s head explode.”
Friday TAYdrenaline shot! What’s everyone getting up to or playing this weekend?
Working tomorrow
There is a baby and kids market on near me on Sunday so will see if I can find a chair or two for Tiglet.
She is mad for chairs at the moment
Tempted to head to the Mt Erica for the Sunday roast but will see.
Gaming wise probably just continuing on with Fallout 4
Spending time with my son tonight until tomorrow afternoon, will probably play some battlefront after he goes to sleep tonight. After I drop my boy off to the ex, I will partake in some physical activity at gym that involves lots of unnecessary grunting.
I then have a 30th Birthday to go to which will take me through to early Sunday morning, will probably do more gym at some point that day.
Then I have the aforementioned third date with a lass which involves dinner then some salsa lessons and then some freestyle salsa dancing.
So yeah, packed weekend ahead!
First thing is parkrun as usual. I think this one is #65.
On Sunday, we’re attending a launch for a book that some very talented friends of ours wrote.
http://doinggreatbaby.com/ – it’s a lovely book 🙂
Maybe some Street Fighter and GRIP…
I’m thinking about tidying my place up a fair bit and maybe progressing further in Trails of Cold Steel.
Does anyone really have any faith in the law anymore – spoilered for inflammatory topic.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/luke-lazarus-nightclub-rape-conviction-to-be-overturned-20160219-gmycr9.htmlEdit: The more I read about this shit the more I want to punch something. Thank god it’s friday because I need a drink.
…What?!
Just throw the prick in a dark hole somewhere and let him rot.
Really there should be some way to pick that up in court
This is just a right to a re-trial and hard to say that is a bad thing. If your job is to determine is a law was broken and you are advised that X defines breaking the law but actually Y does it can greatly impact the result.
Not to get into the specific of the case the but the point being appeal could very well be the difference of being convicted of rape compared to sexual assault.
It is a horrible thing for the victim who is going to have to go through hell again but if the defendant wasn’t give a fair trial they are within their rights to have a re-trial.
The thing that pisses me off is that the defense lawyer probably picked up on what was said and didn’t object to it, know that it gave them grounds for a re trial if they lost.
What pisses me off is the fact he states in one of his comments that he had a bright future and was going to become a ceo; you emotionally/phsyically scarred a human being and you’re freaking worried about becoming a ceo.
What also pisses me off this little stunt to stage a retrial was probably only a viable course of action with how much money his family must have thrown behind this case. Did you see the various character witnesses that they pulled together not to mention a psychiatrist arguing he was clearly distressed because he had just gone through a break up even though text messages after the night have him boasting about what he did. Psychological trauma my ass. There is a serious problem with the legal system when sufficient resources can be used to stall and avert the legal process. This same problem exists in finance. if you can break past a certain point of wealth the normal rules no longer have to apply. This retrial is on a technicality; a technicality based on a single word. That could potentially result in him walking away free and acquitted of charges.
Yes and no.
The problem is that once a society gets big enough its laws and judgements can’t just be a bunch of moral decisions, it needs to be a framework to deal with the volume. But then the framework becomes really complicated over time because you want to be consistent but life is often pretty grey morally. So you need experts to sort through it all to find what actually applies to any given situation.But then you get to where we are now where making sure the framework is followed becomes the most important thing and not actual justice.
Which sucks but the alternative is just having blanket judgements that don’t take individual situations into account.
Personally I think situation should be considered irrelevant for some crimes. Such as rape.
Also insanity pleas (if you crimed because you are crazy now that doesn’t make you less culpable, it makes you more cause it means it’s hardwired and you’ll just do it again.)
But that derails the whole impartial nature that the framework is supposed to uphold.
tl:dr life’s complicated.
This is the law working as it should, actually.
Its the right of anyone to a fair trial, and part of that is the judge correctly instructing a jury. If that hasnt happened, je is entitled to a retrial on those grounds. Just because he may be guilty, doesnt mean his trial shouldnt be fair.
It is his lawyer’s job to ensure he gets that fair trial, and if that fair trial hasnt been provided he should get another crack.
Note, this says mothing about whether the dude is innocent, nor if he is a good dude. Just that even scumbags should bet a fair shake. Thats why the rule of law is so important.
This. The right to a fair trial is fundamental, and it’s something everyone has a right to even if they’re the human equivalent of pond scum.
Was watching an old MotoGP race from 2007 on Foxtel and this was the GP’s main sponsor:
A-Style.
They were an Italian clothing company that sponsored both the Dutch and Japanese rounds that year.
Ah, memories.
Watched the pilot of Martin Scorsese & Mick Jagger’s new TV show the other night ‘Vinyl’ it’s about the music scene in New York the 1970’s specifically about one record company called ‘American Century Records’ & it’s founder. Plenty of good music & 70’s cocaine binging in it so far. It’s also loosely based on real life events etc. But some of it is made up for TV..
Seems like it has plenty of potential, and being HBO I can’t see them holding back so that seems like a win-win to me. Saying that I have a feeling if you didn’t like Wolf of Wall Street then you may not like this, since it feels similar in ways, and the pilot is also 2 hours long.
Not sure if this is the place for introductions but I recently joined Kotaku. Have been Stalking the message board for a while now and decided I should, you know, join in. My interests include: Minimal daylight, woodfired pizza and faceless interactions.
I’m the same. I just sit the corner and wait for page 6. Sometimes I randomly post random replies. Well random enough but the content usually is on point of the original message. Point is I’m gonna go back to my corner now.
ALSO WELCOME!
😀 thanks. Even though I joined not sure when I never really got the welcome.
Consider yourself lucky that we lost the Oar of Thorns.
The initiation would have been quite… painful…
Hi!
Hello! I realise you said that earlier and I didn’t respond, like a damn jerk.
No, the Hello was for you, and the Hi was for @hydroleks 🙂
😀 thanks. Hi to you too.
Woodfired pizza is the best.
Right? It makes other pizza taste like cardboard and soap.
It makes everything else taste like cardboard and soap!
Honestly would pick woodfired pizza as the “if you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life” thing.
Yeah. +1 for wood fired pizza.
I’m gonna try woodfiring cardboard and soap and see if it is delicious.
WELCOME!
Hello!
Welcome!
Lots of people seem so well established here, it almost feels like an extra opinion isn’t needed. Like I said i’ve been stalking for a while (2-3 years). Dialog is important and I think, healthy for someone like me so here I am. You could say I procrastinate..
Hello there!
Well if it isn’t the coolest Squirtle in the gang! Hello 🙂
HI! New people in TAY are always welcome! Providing you don’t just troll and generally act like an ass hat! 🙂
We are a close knit group really. Most of us have been posting her for many years, so many of us feel that it’s almost a second family, and many of us have met each other IRL since meeting here! Always great to have new friendly people join the crew though! 🙂 What city are you in?
Crazyguy (heh), Welbot *nods*
Trolling isn’t my style. I was going to say Im too old for that but I know age isn’t a deciding factor when it comes to bridge dwellers.
Just moved to Melbourne actually, from Sydney.
Cool! Quite a few melb peeps in here! (Not me, I’m from Bris) Nice to know there’s some more old peeps though! #oldmanwelbot
Traitor!
I believe it’s spelled TR-8R *Spin spin*
I’m in Sydney, so I guess we could call it, 1:1?
ooh, are you off to White Night tonight?
I didn’t even know about it, unfortunately i’ll be working away like a gremlin 🙁
I *think* it’s a bit like Vivid – something to look forward to for next year. I guess being a Melbournite now, we’ll all see you at PAX later this year?
Vivid, thats what it reminded me of! PAX you say? OUTSIDE you say?
Yeah probably 🙂
And with that I should be off. Thanks for the warm welcome: Cracks, ol welbot, mr taco, mama, ferret, crazyguy. I’ll be around 🙂
I am a Melbournian! I sometimes organise meats, when I’m not stupidly busy
Hello! o/
I find your name ominous… I LIKE IT!…
Also HI! *Flails Arms*
I seriously got confused for a sec when he popped up.
How do you think I feel? I’m not superstitious, therefore I don’t believe in Ferrets..
This is going well
I also got confused XD
Also hi, fellow pixel *flails neck*
Also, the thing about TAY is that you can talk about whatever here. Doesn’t have to be game related. In fact, most of my posts aren’t 🙂
Wait, we talk about *games* here?
Hello!
If you’ve been stalking, then you know there is a new talk amongst yourselves every Monday right?
Are you @pixel_the_ferret_viking from the future trying to prevent his (& your) death?
Also, HELLO!
It’s my self lacing shoes isn’t it? They gave it away?
Do you Xenoblade?
Do ya, punk?
Getting more and more tempted to shell out for that TMNT boardgame.
…heh. Sup Page 6 😛
Aaaaand an earlybird spot opened up. Guess I’m all in now.
You just want an excuse to don the Shredder costume, huh?
Like I need an excuse 😛
(although could probably do with an excuse to repair the helmet, it’s kinda fallen apart)