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Morning all. Has anyone managed to find any leaks about Microsoft’s presser last week? I’m guessing it’s mostly just a slew of popular back compat titles, but I’m astounded that Reddit or Twitter have come up with empty for tidbits. :/
Morning all. Today’s my last full day in Tassie before I head over to WA for my sister’s wedding. Spending two weeks over there, mostly in Bunbury, but will be spending the weekend of the 11th to the 14th of March in Perth. So, I’m going to try to arrange a Meat on either the 11th or the 12th.
Can’t do the 13th because I’m going to Mandurah to have lunch with my sister and brother in law, and the 14th is out because I’m having a birthday dinner with a friend of mine who I haven’t seen in 20 years or so, and we share a birthday.
So, @fled @grandmasterb-funk @liondrive @phlanispo @phoenix @platinum-urchin @thecracks, which night suits you better for a meat? Friday the 11th or Saturday the 12th? And I would appreciate some suggestions for venues as well, as I haven’t been to Perth since 2010, and have no idea what (if anything) there is to do or where we can go to eat in Perth.
WHO AWAKENS ME FROM MY SLUMBER?
This guy?
Respawn is a thing on Friday nights. #helping?
At this point I’m thinking Friday may be better.
I can do Friday the 11th. My recommended venue would be Han’s Cafe everytime. 😛
How was everyone’s weekend?
Either I’ve been playing too much Diablo 3 or RNGeesus is making up for his treatment of me in Destiny. Got at least 5 pieces of all the wizard sets and now farming torment 8 with an eye on 9.
Hit a bit of a survivability wall now tho and not sure how to proceed.
If you have me on your friends list and play D3, check your game mailbox – sent pretty much everyone a couple of gifts.
Also have spares of several set pieces and stuff like leorics Crown if anyone wants them.
So… as someone who hasn’t played D3 since launch, is it worth getting back into now? I get I’d have to pick up ROS, but how much grinding would it take to get a character torment-ready? They were max level for vanilla, not sure if ROS bumped up the level cap?
Level cap is 70. My Wizard was level 40 2 weeks ago, you make mad progress if you just bump up the difficulty whenever it starts getting easy.
The game is way better than it used to be. So much to do in adventure mode.
We are playing on ps4 fyi, which I like better than the pc version actually.
#masterrace
Might give it a go at some point, but I still need to sink about 5 million hours into Master of Orion first.
D3 has vastly improved since launch. It’s basically improved in every aspect. =P
I went to jump in your game yesterday afternoon…and then I noticed you were on Torment IX and RNGesus does not like me in Diablo so even on my wizard I can only currently hang around Torment IV/V at most.
EDIT: Cheers for getting my DH to the level cap in a stupidly fast time.
Yeah, got pretty lucky with gambler lady and upgrading rares. Very few of my sets actually dropped.
Do you want any wizard set bits? Or are you focusing on your demon hunter? A leorics Crown maybe? – Double socketed helm gem bonus, great for magic find.
Edit: no worries, I remember it being tortuous doing it with my Wizard.
Congrats! Might have to hop back on this week. Which setup are you running?
5 tal’rasha 2 firebird (will be 3 when I can get a hold of the boots)
Fire lasers, double lightning hydra, blizzard and force pulse tp rune to make up the element stacks.
Can kill things real good but too squishy to move up.
Tried experimenting with Delsere’s set. In theory it could be good but man the skills you have to use are kinda crappy. Haven’t been able to make it work.
You weren’t kidding – you got really lucky! I’ll have a dig through my stash – I think I’ve got some spare Firebirds stuff – might be something useful 😛
Feeling pretty much the same with a similar build – mammoth hydra + explosive meteor, electrocute, black hole and blizzard make my elements, with ice armour for survivability (not that it seems to do much :P), 5TR/2FB+Ring of Royal Grandeur, Tasker and Theo + Hellfire Ring + something I can’t remember in the cube. Still need some appropriate bracers, and cycling through whatever weapon I have that has the highest damage, but it’s not all that important given most of my damage comes from meteors. Still very squishy, tho – ice armour and Firebird’s meteor on death + unstable anomaly for survivability, and I still get crushed by yellow and blue packs in T9.
I hear Delsere’s is meant to be pretty powerful, but the skills just don’t look like fun – it sounds way too defensive for my taste; and never been much of a fan of archon, so not too enthused by Vyr’s. I dunno, I might have to give Delsere’s a shot – the game seems to love handing me Delsere and Vyr gear for some reason.
Heh, my only defensive skill is Tp with that passive that refreshes when you get hit. + as much life on hit and attack speed as I can stack.
Found a hat that gives auto diamond skin though so might throw that in the mix.
What I really want is this shoulders that give 25% damage and damage reduction while channelling disintegrate.
I think you need a very specific bunch of legendarys to make Delsere’s work. I tried but ttk was real low and I still got chunked despite all the damage reduction due to having to be in melee range all the time. And yeah, just not fun. If I can find the last few pieces to flesh out my theoretical build i might give it another shot though.
We should team up sometime.
We definitely should – just get together and fill some rifts with meteors. It will be glorious. 😀
😀
I’m on most nights so hit me up if you see me.
I’ve hit T10 on my Demon Hunter (max level Greater Rifts too). I’ve actually switched over to my Barbarian whom is on T4 I think. I didn’t realise that bloodshards carry over to other characters.
Nice! Do Grifts have a cap? I thought they went up infinitely.
Might dust off my Monk to join up with your barb, @cakesmith DH and @thabananaman crusader.
ohhh, nah they don’t have a cap. I just thought it would cap at the T10 equivalent.
Ah, yeah. My goal is to do a T11 equivalent. So 50? Up to 43 so far.
I’m up for doing some coop on any character really. I’m finally starting to enjoy my Barb too. Leaping on top of a group of enemies and causing them to explode is fantastic.
For anyone looking for a new gpu. Centrecom has some very good prices including the Asus strix 980ti for 999 and Msi 390x for 549.
Morning everyone. I worked hard on the Garden on Saturday and Sunday I went to the Japanese festival. I kind of regret it as Mum and I both got sunburnt and people were bumping into Mum and pushing her around, despite her having a walker. I got very angry and frustrated. I did get a goldfish bag though, and some lollies.
Also
http://imgur.com/a/6CEby
I went to Costco yesterday and now I have a PS4 because they were doing the 1TB model bundled with the Uncharted collection for $449. Based on a cursory googling the console seems to still be going for $549 by itself (or in one case, bundled with AC: Syndicate) so I feel pretty good about the deal. Also picked up Until Dawn for $70. I considered the Wii U instead but those were $419 bundled with Mario Maker so the PS4 really felt like the better option, even setting aside the fact there are fewer Wii U games I’m interested in than there are PS4 exclusives I’m interested in, though if I’m honest the games I’m most interested in at the moment (with the exception of Until Dawn and the upcoming Uncharted 4) are ports of PS3 titles, like The Last of Us.
Horizon Zero Dawn = Post apocalyptic robot dinosaurs = No other exclusive matters.
*reads Wikipedia article*
It would seem you are correct.
Closest thing we’ll ever get to the Dino-Riders game we truly deserve. 🙁
I would fucking love a Dino-Riders game.
Anyone with the remotest amount of taste would.
I mean, design brief: DINOSAURS THAT YOU RIDE AND PUT LASER CANNONS ON. How is it that it’s not been a thing since the 80s?
My Big W has the Wii U with Splatoon for $279 currently.
That’s a way better deal, even if you weren’t interested in Splatoon.
Hey, TAY.
Anyone else watch the X-Files last night?
Spoilers below, don’t click if you’re going to watch the last episode.
So… either Scully got abducted… and Mulder’s gonna die… or the aliens dropped off her and Mulder’s kid to try to help save Mulder… those are the only two explanations I can get out of that ending…There are three options for who is behind the wheel. 1) The people behind the virus, who are there to kidnap Mulder and offer him another chance. 2) The group responsible for the ship in the first new episode. 3) Actual aliens who are for some unknown reason using human technology (their ship is different according to the crash).I think the most likely outcome is that whatever is on the ship will offer them some sort of reset. They get abducted and mysteriously wake up pre-apocalypse putting them in a race against time to save the world using something unique to their son. It’s a cop out but I think it’s the only way to keep going without completely changing the premise of the show (which I’m not against, I think it worked well for Fringe).
I mean even if Scully saved the world with a handful of IVs everyone played their hands. If everyone was just magically cured there’s still so much fallout that’s not really compatible with the existing formula.
Hola Tay
Quiet weekend. Went and saw a mate down South friday arvo- him and his wife are recovering from surgery, so going a little bit stir crazy in their house. Saturday, went to a mate’s house, then went to a quiz night for Essentials 4 Women SA, a good cause. Came equal 4th, so we were pretty happy. Sunday spent all day working on my N7 armour, have pretty much finished assembly of the chest piece (pics hitting my tumblr later today, http://www.redartifice.tumblr.com . Hoping to scale and begin the back plate tonight, but it’s going to be a pain, lots of small fiddly bits.
Started Firewatch on Friday, it’s very pretty and i’m interested to see where it goes, and tied and tried the final challenge in The Witness
The bloody black and white square panels are killing meA monday morning question: I’m making this mass effect armour out of foam. What foam cosplay stuff would you make with the time/effort/skills?
A foam monster! Mostly cos of the time/effort/skills limitation =P
Added bulk for Zangief? 😛
Just use your V-Trigger dammit.
I think I lost it 🙁
Tyranid Swarmlord Probably.
If I had the resources, probably an epic pokemon cosplay – something with wings.
Protoman Cosplay!
http://images.sgcafe.net/2014/05/Bnz0R_VIYAA4Obh.jpg though I’d probably suffocate and die inside it.
Uhhhh I know you guys are in Australia and I hate to be that braggy guy, but I’m in Dunedin NZ and we just got gigabit fibre optic internet. I went from this http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4916237742 to this http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5125656129. That’s over wifi….
This is over ethernet http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5125712751
😛
Solitary tear.
I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my bragging go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will download all the things.
Good luck.
A guy goes to the doctor’s office and he doctor asks him “well, what can I help you with today?”
“Well doc, I went out last night and this woman came up to me. Knockout, beautiful woman, I couldn’t believe she was interested in me. We got to talking and not only did she look incredible but she was smart, articulate, and funny. We just really hit it off. I was just wondering to myself how I was going to get her number when we were joined by her friend. Equally amazing looking, smart, funny – it turns out they’re students and on the university gymnastics team. Anyway, it suddenly becomes weirdly competitive and they’re both openly hitting on me, and flirting with me. It’s no longer a matter of how I’m going to chat these girls up, it’s become a matter of which one is going to win and take me home. I couldn’t believe it, but eventually we just all go back to my place for a few drinks, one thing leads to another and we all start making out. Next thing I know we’re in my bedroom and just going at it non-stop. It was so thrilling we made love all night, in every possible configuration. It was incredible. Then after we fell asleep for a few hours, we woke up and they politely excused themselves and left.”
There was a long pause while the doctor tries to figure out the medical aspect, and after it became clear the man wasn’t going to add anything else, the doctor asks “well, why are you telling me this?”
“Shit doc, I’m telling everyone!”
Yeah but you’re still in Dunedin 😛
I’m only bitter cause I knew a girl from there who was a bit nuts it turned out, ended up stalking me & a mate online, also tried IRL but failed. Could be worse though I guess lol.
I think I married her! You win some you lose some I guess
Hahahaha. I sincerely hope that is not so, this girl was seriously mentally unstable. Everyone who I knew who knew her thought the same.
Yeah but you’re living in Dunedin. You need high speed internet to avoid going insane from boredom.
I’m sort of kidding. I was actually born there.My Grandfather lives around there. He probably has better internet than me.
Just while I study! Then I’m gonna make like a baby and head out 😛
Otago is a damn fine University so you’ve made a good choice there. Shame it’s in Dunedin 😛
Beach was pretty epic on Saturday! It’s been a good while since I’ve been involved in proper barrels.
Also my quest to make smartwatches watcher continues. This time a homage to the Goldfinger Rolex:
http://i.imgur.com/SA3vR2Q.jpg
And a vanity light disguised as a picture frame is in the works, to combat the horrendous power saving lights in my bathroom. Just need to tidy up the wiring tonight and mount it to the mirror.
It’s all Ikea, so I call it the vainfraim.
http://i.imgur.com/tjAgmxb.jpg
Should I buy Zelda Twilight Princess HD or just get a copy of the Wii version?
Big W will have it for $68 which is quite tempting. I do collect amiibos and the soundtrack will be a nice bonus. Does any know if the soundtrack is actually on a CD?
So say the amiibo is $15 and the soundtrack is worth $10 which means I’m paying $43 for the game.
However my bro has a copy of the Wii version of Twilight meaning I can play it for free.
Is $43 worth it for a HD remake as well as the extra dungeon challenge?
In my extremely biased opinion, the GameCube version was a million times better than the Wii version, and the Wii U version is the next closest to that. So you should probably get that instead and avoid the Wii version forever. Because yuck 😛
That’s another reason I’m tempted in getting the Wii U version as it’s not mirrored meaning I’m playing it the way it was intended.
TP is looking pretty fugly these days, the upgrade is going to help it significantly.
Still a great game; zant and midna are both fantastic, and the ooccas are weird as hell.
And it’s being done by an Aussie company!
Yep, I went for an interview there once. Didn’t get the job but they are a great bunch of guys. I’ll be picking up the Wii U version!
I’m doing the same. It was Tantalus right?
Yup, great guys. Aussie studios need all the help they can get!
I think my friend worked there. Think being the main word
I did see a few comparison videos a few weeks ago and it does look fantastic. A big difference compared to the Wind Waker versions.
Also the stupid soundtrack CD is suddenly making me tempted to grab it for some reason and I hate it.
Mornin’ all.
My weekend was kinda average, I enjoyed it though. Bathed Chilli, who now smells awesome like coconut & manuka honey lol, which in return gives her a lovely soft & shiny coat. I also washed, vacuumed & polished the car over the weekend, then it rained so GG there. I guess it’s a good thing it rained since we need it anyway. Had work Sunday which was dead quiet, though the other bloke I work with managed to drop a bottle of rum whilst dusting the bottles (not his fault, the stupid security tags we have on the caps catches the duster, i’ve had that problem before as well). So the spirit section smelt of gold rum my entire shift which was nice. Also one of our fridges started leaking a lot of water, so that was fun. I was just lucky I saw it before some customer slipped in it & sued us all to kingdom come or something.
Now i’m sitting here playing WoW’s version of Pokemon. Which is kinda weird, cause I never liked Pokemon at all growing up (still don’t) but I like this..
Nooo don’t get into Pet Battles! It’s how they trick you into selling your soul to the devil!
tl;dr – It can get real grindy at higher levels but there’s a sort of zen like simplicity to it….
Yeah I started the other week when they were offering 200% exp, so I farmed about 15 pets to level 25 with ease lol. I never really bothered with it when they introduced it in Cata (that was then yeah? I forget) but yeah it’s kinda soothing for some reason..
I know a fair deal about battle pets, sunk dozens of hours into its understanding.
Some battle pets worth getting would be Undead Val’kyr, Iron Starlette, Pandaren Water Spirit, Anubisath Idol, Chrominius, darkmoon zepp, mechanical dragonling, almost every whelp…
Just realized theirs a good 30 or more must haves so I’ll try not to drown you just take it slow, do some reading and pace yourself, burnout is a real thing =)
I have most of those, i’ve got something like 300+ individual pets lol.
Based on my previous post, I keep wondering why this event which has marginally less people then pax, seemed so much worse. I actually think that gamers/nerds/geeks/otakus are some of the politest people around. At Pax, I saw people move out the way for those with wheelchairs and difficult cosplays. At supanova, I saw people move out the way for elderly people with walking apparatus’ and allow those with disabilities to go through.
There was none of that at the Japanese festival. People didn’t care if you had a walking aid, or a child, they would push past you.
Sorry, need to vent a bit more
Bit like metal concerts: everyone might look like an antisocial psycho but actually treat each other right.
“normal“ people though, often ugh.
Cannibal Corpse concert was the most respectful crowd I’ve ever seen for a bunch of skinheads trying to kill each other, if you wanted out they made damn sure you got out safely.
Muse concert was one of the few times I was genuinely worried about being in the crowd.
I was at a Devildriver? concert once where the whole centre of the mosh tripped up and went down. Everyone nearby immediately stopped what they were doing, helped them up and made sure they were ok.
Good people.
I remember a few years back, I was living in the Valley and just wanted to grab some stuff late at night.
There was some kind of concert going on (there nearly always is), and the little 24hr convenience store on the corner had a little bit of a line up. Fella in front of me was all metal’d up for one of the big bands. Spiked hair, leather pants, cuffs and spikes and other bits and pieces. Very much constumed.
He’d just grabbed a bottle of water and was waiting in a lengthy line at the store for that. I was just behind him. The fella was mortified, when he finally got to the counter, to discover he had reached for a wallet that wasn’t there. Dem leather pants, yo – no pockets. Keenly feeling sympathy pains for his extreme embarrassment, I stepped in front and put a note down for him. He thanked me profusely.
Sheepishly, after he had mentioned his wallet was in his ‘normal’ pants, he suddenly seemed self-conscious about his get-up and felt compelled to mention that, “I don’t normally dress like this. I’m a lawyer. I normally dress respectably! But these guys haven’t been in the country for years, see…”
Also, the labelling of non-metal folks as ‘normal’ is kind of amusing.
I drink at a metal bar every now and then. I like to get there close to opening time, when it’s nice and quiet (relatively speaking – the metal is usually pretty loud, but there’s just the music and not much talking-noise; you can actually manage a chat with the bartenders who don’t have much to do at that point). The owner/manager was talking shop and mentioned that security’s not really necessary most of the time, apart from sometimes when they get ‘normals’. Or, ‘white-shirts’. (Because try finding someone in a metal bar not wearing black.) Manager reckoned that the only time security actually has to do much is when ‘normie’ dudes try hitting on metal-girls and it doesn’t go well.
Yeah, the people at the festival were quite rude, just pushing past without saying sorry or excuse me. I didn’t expect that sort of thing that’s for sure. The event itself wasn’t very well organised either. Far too little space and it was packed.
A huge focus on buying and god forbid if you wanted to get anywhere near a food or yukata stall. There was just no chance.
We couldn’t see the main stage, which was another let down
Spent most of the weekend binge-watching the 2003 TMNT series, got through nearly four seasons of it. It’s pretty great.
Went out for birthday brunch on Sunday with some friends, including a couple I haven’t seen in a long time. Such a long time that they now have a kid. And she’s something like two years old. Dang.
Oh yeah, it’s been kind of funny seeing just how little they use their weapons against enemies (mostly defensive/attacks are blocked, only blows landed are with fists or feet) and the switch made when combating against non-sentient creatures. Also, mildly horrifying what happens to Baxter Stockman over the course of things, kinda surprising they went with that considering how family-friendly things tend to be for the most part otherwise actually. But yeah, rad.
As a kid it always bugged me that Leonardo never actually chopped people up or stabbed them with his swords.
One of the kids that had to have an eye kept on them 😛
I like that as a kid I could readily accept without question that the classic foot soldiers were all “just robots” and that it was a totally reasonable state of affairs. Conversely, I now hate that I see something like that and think things like geez they had such state of the art electronics and programming that they could build these things en-masse with what amounted to a maybe four-man operation and supply enough resources to keep churning out armies upon armies of them as they continue to get destroyed. Also they must have an incredible salvage crew to be able to clean up all the broken pieces of exploded robot to both remain undiscovered by the general populace and keep this tech out of others’ hands.
Brains ruin everything.
We had a perpetual construction site in our area for years. Lengths of rebar are why Ninja Turtles was – for a time – banned in our household.
Morning all! I hope everyone had a weekend that was suitably epic 🙂
Mine was good, My 3 year old son is having a few sleeping issues again at the moment so Friday night was a bit rough, lots of waking up so not much sleep was had but we still had lots of fun Saturday together, lots of running, lots of car playing and bike riding.
I went to the a housewarming in the evening which was a nice relaxed affair with a BBQ and some yummy pulled pork action. I was meant to navigate from there to between 2 birthday parties that night but I was way too tired after the lack of sleep from the night before that I just stayed at the housewarming instead. Great to catch up with friends 🙂
Sunday was great too, went to the Shrine of Remembrance with a bunch of others and walked through the exhibition inside. Made me a bit sad reading through and seeing all the things the soldiers have had to go through and the impacts on them afterwards. Makes me realise how lucky we are to have what we have today.
Afterwards I had a date with the lovely lady where we went to the Japanese summer festival at federation square (which was ridiculously busy and not very well managed from what I saw) and then had lunch at a cafe near the river followed by a walk through the Botanic gardens.
Also managed to fit in a fair bit of Star Wars Battlefront too, up to rank 42 of 50 now.
A great weekend really 🙂
So was that date 4?
Yeah, date 5 is already arranged for next Sunday 🙂
So far so good!
Let us know when you get to the Netflix and chill date =P
*grabs popcorn*
Spent a lot of my weekend swapping between watching the first season of the X-Files and working my way through Bitterblack Isle. Currently sitting around level 75 with a magick archer, have reached what seems to be the final boss, given his far more obvious explanatory lore. Tried him about 10 levels ago, and got him nearly down to half health, but feeling very squishy still – most bosses can one-shot me.
Saw a lot of hate for Hellhounds online, but I think I’ve seen them maybe twice? I’m more cursed (thankfully separately) with Garms that one-shot me (tho ricochet bolts absolutely shred them in confined spaces :P) and that Rotwood Depository – my character is short, and the area is filled with water up to my waist, so my lantern gets submerged and goes out five seconds after I light it. Resorted to raising the game brightness just so I could see what was attacking me. 😛
So had a pretty good weekend; Saturday was with the mrs; managed to get to level 5 with her in Diablo 3…. something tells me we’re like a year away from level 60. Oh well! As with all relationship arguments it’s a war of attrition not overwhelming force =P
Played Danganronpa all of Sunday (man that game is really easy to get lost in!) and also started up some Dawn of War 2. That game has aged surprisingly well. @coldcamv If I’m remembering correctly I wholeheartedly recommend Danganronpa if you’re looking for a story oriented game with some detective work (there is a fair bit of hand holding though). If you enjoyed the social aspects of Persona games then this comes with a very high recommendation. It’s kind of weird but you actually get kind of attached to the cast as you make it through each chapter.
If it didn’t have all them weird puzzles during the murder trial i’d of liked the game a whole lot more, but yeah highly recommendable.
Yeah I’m on Chapter 4 now and the last puzzle dragged on for a while longer than I would’ve liked. The mini-games are more annoying than enjoyable; but given they’re like 5% of the whole experience so far I’m not complaining.
I found DOW2 seriously underwhelming. The base building was the highlight of the DOW series for me, with Dark Crusade being the pinnacle of the series. Soulstorm was a bit shitty, but at least I could build stuff damnit!
I loved the original DOW but yeah, the expansions weren’t great I thought. There was a massive difficulty spike in one of them which killed it for me. I’m not sure which one it was though.
Yeah the biggest issue with the 2 series was the first game was essentially a RTS however the second is more like a squad based RPG. If you look at them as two separate genres it’s a lot more enjoyable. My only gripe is no Tau race 🙁
There IS a Tau Commander in Last Stand who is extremely fun.
Yeah. Dawn of War 2 is a fantastic game but as a sequel it’s not right. Sort of like Zelda II.
Dark Crusade is what introduced me to the Necrons, and I haven’t played any other race since then, I’d pick them every time in the game. Getting relics with any other race, yeah you get a big unique unit that’s pretty cool, but the Necrons? Nah! Their headquarters becomes a fricken d(r)eadnought that’s slow moving and creates almost screen sized green explosions everywhere!
I dunno man… the Squiggoths are pretty cool, and Baneblades are pretty boss.
But yeah, Necrons are so broken in that game. Run an infantry army in > soften the enemy up > lose army > resurrection orb them all back to life > watch people cry. Never gets old.
Necrons are broken?? Please how broken were the Sisters of Battle or w/e they were called. That shit was ridiculous.
I never got into Soulstorm… it just struck me as a step backwards from DC – more annoying, not as fun.
What did the Sisters have? I know on the campaign they had the invulnerability aura which was annoying to deal with.
I always ran infantry with tomb spiders in the back collecting corpses and making more to add back to the front line infantry. I never used the resurrection orb (Didn’t even know it was the powerful)
I think I played maybe two or three hours of Retribution – the one billed as being DoW’s take on Dark Crusade – as Tyranids, with its so-called improved focus on base-building. Pah.
I actually regret that purchase. Whatever I paid, it was too much.
So Master of Orion is super exciting. Sure, it’s in early access, so it’s a little buggy and there are a bunch of features missing, but there’s a lot to love there. The fact that it comes with the original 2 games (plus the third one, of which we shall never speak again) is just icing on the cake.
I can see why there’s been a bit of backlash – introducing star lanes rather than being able to travel anywhere from anywhere (depending on fuel range) is a bold choice, and not everyone will like it, but I think being able to plan around chokepoints offers a strategic aspect that wasn’t in the previous games (where you basically had to militarize every system).
Sooo pumped to see how this plays out. The voice acting is some of the best I’ve heard in a game, and I can’t wait until the new race voiced by Robert Englund is patched in.
Hrnnnnnnnhhhhhhhh…..
*Throws wallet at screen*
That was me on Friday. CBA had a problem with Netbank, so I couldn’t log in to see if I’d been paid and I was freaking out because I’d set aside all of Friday night to play it. Luckily I got to an ATM, saw my pay there, and rushed home and bought it straight away.
Like… I don’t know if I’m seeing it through rose-tinted glasses because MOO2 was such a big part of my childhood, but I am in love with this game. Wargaming seem to be taking the right steps to make it a bit more accessible without toning down the complexity too much, so yeah… for the moment, tentative 2 thumbs up.
Ok Bought. Wait’s til home time
Now I have this lingering existential dread that you aren’t going to like it and I just made you waste $50 and OH GOD IT’S ALL MY FAULT WHAT HAVE I DONE!?
It’s Ok I like other space strat games (GalCiv 3 for example)
Just kidding! You’ll like it =)..
… or else.
I never played the original stuff but the voice cast alone makes me want to get it.
I know right. I am picking races based on who voiced them. Next up – Psilons, featuring Alan Tudyk! After that, the sultry tones of Robert de Lancie will guide me through a terran playthrough, before finishing with the sci-fi big daddy – Mark Hamill and the Alkari.
What a time to be alive.
It looks great but I’m not forking over $60 to help test their alpha.
I was going to buy MOO2 anyway from GOG, so I figured why not. I also want access to the bonus race, because Robert Englund is boss.
Morning Everyone,
What a weekend hey anyone watch that sportsball game yesterday with that alien from the planet Curry? Fantastic effort hey.
Great news is the new pokemon games look good one day i will get around to finishing the originals though (i am a monster i know) not sure which one i should fully sink my teeth into first though red,yellow or blue thoughts?
Sadly the better half and i had to start a gofundme page to get to Melbourne for medical treatment for the older child, Hate asking people for cash makes me feel like a failure as a worker and in some parts a man (although not being able to do most manly tasks probably eliminates me from that anyway). Brighter side the quicker we get the funding the faster we get the said treatment and we can live our happy lives.
So like… does this gofundme page have a link?
Yes it does sorry i probably should of linked it.
https://www.gofundme.com/connorsmedicalmove
Anyone that does fund it thank you so much it means a lot to my wife and i and if you cannot at least think about and discuss organ donation with your loved ones.
I honestly can’t understand why you wouldn’t be an organ donor. They’re no good to you once you’ve expired, but they could save someone else’s life.
Another thing I remembered. I unknowingly put the chain on the door of our house on Saturday night. My brother couldn’t get in and started bashing on the door. My mum got up but by the time she had gotten to her doorway, my brother had broken the door frame.
I ended up fixing it. I usually end up fixing my fathers DIY mistakes and now I’m fixing up my brothers crap.
Why not just try calling someone in the house? I thought mobile phones were invented a few years ago? =P
Logic + Scree’s brother = Tear in space time continuum
I think I’m starting to understand why her name sounds like a never ending scream.
*Internal Screeming*
Think of it as less of a scream and more of a screech
My competition drought is broken!!!
I just won a Legacy Megazord from Banai Namco!!!
OMG ALL THE EXCITE!!! *sqquueeee*
-_-
Nice!
so I had medical lasers shot at my eyes. By a doctor, even! and now I have 20/20 vision. But I didn’t gain the ability to shoot lasers out of my eyes. So, really, it was a waste of time.
I’ve been told (admittedly, years ago) that you need to have had a stable prescription for some time else your eyes will just continue to degrade and the surgery is wasted. That doesn’t seem to be a concern these days and people seem to just accept that their eyesight will probably not stay perfect and they may have to have another surgery in a few years. As someone whose prescription has never stabilised and my eyes are only getting worse every year, I can’t say that the prospect is not without some appeal to me, to just do it.
Can you share your thoughts/experience in this area, and provide some insight into the cost?
There’s an ideal time, which would have been about 10 years before I did it but they didn’t want to touch people with my prescription back then…
I’m just hoping for 3 or 4 years before reading glasses enter my life. 🙂
I’m a young’un, so I was told the same thing by my optometrist. I got a second opinion and went to a pre-operation assessment and was told that it’s true that prescriptions change, but it’s not a steep decline as it is a slight curve over time, and so laser eye surgery wasn’t out of the question.
Considerable thought should be given if you’re going to strain your eyesight considerably after the operation (being at uni, for instance. All of the people I know in uni that have thought about eye surgery has been told to consider doing so after school. Heavy work in front of a computer is also a toss-up, as well.)
An upside to doing it young is that you’ll heal far quicker than if you’d be doing it at a younger age (My situation: one day completely blind, but otherwise cleared for everyday activities, and the next few weeks are full of eyedrops and wearing sunglasses 24/7. They have a specific schedule laid out for you on what you can do day after day..) So age definitely plays against you.
The eventuality of your vision degrading again after surgery is definitely considered, and mostly accepted, as you said. It’s definite that I’ll need reading glasses in the future, at the very least. The very good thing is, at no additional cost am I insured for future surgeries should my eyesight drop heavily, but I’m afraid I’ve no idea of how steep the decline has to be before I’m cleared for another surgery (and consultations to determine so cost you.)
I went for bog-standard LASIK, although my operation was slightly different as my eyes (MY SPECIAL EYES) had to undergo a slightly different procedure, which I’m sure bumped up the cost a bit, sitting at a pretty 3 grand. Quotes I got from other places were pretty much the same, actually. A grand plus per eye is to be expected.
I’m happy with it; I’m treating it as a investment, etc, etc. And since I’ve now put actual monetary worth on my eyes, I’ll be treating them far more carefully in the future. Better lifestyle choices and all that.
also;
MY BRAND
Thanks for the comprehensive response. 🙂
Definitely something to think about.
I had LASIK done when I was 22 (I’m now 35). At the time my prescription had been stable for about 2 years. I made the trip to Bondi Junction with my Mum (we got LASIK at the same time) and it cost about $5,000 neat. I’m glad I had it done when I was younger because it was easier to bounce back.
My vision was 20/20 for about a year before I started getting headaches. I’m an accountant so I work with computers a lot so that obviously didn’t help. I had to get reading glasses but my distance vision was still ok.
Over the past 13 years my eyes have deteriorated but it was gradual. Compared to when I was a teenager and couldn’t focus more than a few metres away I’m still doing good.
You should ask for a refund and that you’d like your old eyesight back.
How are the eyes? 🙂
God. I can see things in the distance and I’m all like “Wow, I can see things in the distance.” It’s something, for sure.
heheh I was all like Wow I can see… stuff! That’s several feet away!
I had a low base to start from…
Can you at least bleed from them – because that could be really cool.
I mean, you can sit in a food court, turn to a child and go “Hailll satan”…. *eye blood*
I *could,* but I’ve been told if that were ever to happen, things would get pretty, as my doctor so casually said, “fucking bad.”
I wish I could do that. Instead I got bright lights and yellow fluid dropped in mine for an hour then had to take a week off work and I still can’t see right. 🙁
I came third in the small Warmachine tournament. Was expecting to come fourth.
Been playing a lot of Smite as well. I kinda see the appeal of these types of games but I find the maps to be very limited.
Oh nice.
Still haven’t had a chance to try Warmachine – might give it a go at PAX this year if anyone is showing it off.
What army were you playing?
Menoth.
and I doubt if it will be at PAX. It wasn’t last year. Good thing too since I didn’t bring my case.
I thought i saw some Warmachine set up on a couple of tables?
I know at the first PAX Aus they were doing A LOT of tutorials for it, which was cool.
I really like the look of menoth. really cool knights templar vibe to them.
Cryx are the ones that first caught my attention though. Except Bonejacks looks fucking stupid. haha
I checked around and I don’t remember anything.
You choose Cryx if you don’t want friends anymore.
http://gonintendo.com/stories/253000-rumor-the-motherload-of-nx-rumors-surface-hardware-ability-s
Whoa. The return of force-feedback joysticks??
I loved my sidewinder FF pro.
Does it actually work with anything? Or at least, anything made after [some point in time around its release/discontinuation which I assume is a good while back]?
No. Hence the past tense. I still have it, but as I don’t have a discrete sound card with “game port” it’s a chocolate teapot now. It was brilliant for Combat Flight Sim and Freespace back in the day.
I use an X52 Pro now for the space-based pew pews.
Hey I think I have one of them game port thingies probably 😛
Haha would you like a Sidewinder FF Pro with a UK power adapter then? 😉
Maybe. I do kinda have a thing for peripherals 😛
@tech_knight @redartifice @beeawwb @freezespreston Unfortunately I have come down with a cold so I won’t be able to run Pathfinder tonight. Sorry about this guys.
Oh shit- that reminds me – i need to pick up that humble bundle!
It wasn’t because of the goblin puke was it? 😛
All good Popdart, get well soon man 🙂
@tech_knight @redartifice @beeawwb @freezespreston: you guys need to give me a summary of what’s gone on in that since our last session together.
SO MUCH FISH
Say this in one deep breath as fast as you can.
We accepted a contract to investigate some whales that were being beached. Whales don’t belong on land. We got on board a whaling vessel, which was not on the moon, but they did carry a harpoon. Drewan likes to climb to the crow’s nest. Climbing is fun. On our way there we got attacked by a giant squid. There was lots of fighting and Lundgredolph jumped on top of the squid and was about to get pulled under when a team effort for attacks of opportunity between … Abelas? Lundredolph? somebody … and Drewan – he clawed the squid for 3 damage. HELPING! \o/ killed it. Then we made it to the beach. Also did you know that whales are mammals, not fish? Drewan does. Drewan also thinks that the whales are being thrown on to the beach and then dragged inland by a tribe of villagers who want to corner the inland market for whale goods like blubber and oil. It’s not inefficient. It’s inewhalent. Because mammals, remember? We went inland and there were lots of symbols of the fish tribe and also some writings in Druid which nobody knows how to write or speak. Silly druid people, why don’t they share? There’s stuff further inland that we need to investigate.
So equal parts Moby Dick and Shadow Over Innsmouth?
With a few lightning bolts including one that got the squid inside its mouth for major damage!
Wow, my TMNT DVD set got here already. US$10 shipping, it left on Thursday and got here already. I don’t think I could even get a single GameCube game off eBay delivered that cheaply or quickly from over there. What.
Good get.
It is pretty cool. Bit annoyed that the box is damaged, but it’s not like it’ll stay in there I guess.
Would anyone be interested in playing a boardgame over Tabletop Sim?
I want to play XIA but my normal group aren’t interested.
Honestly I’ll play any thing at any time.
And that’s how I got syphilis.I will keep that in mind
And That :pSo congrats to @Batguy, @Mrtaco, @Beeawwb and any other TAYbies I might’ve missed for winning the Triple 9 passes.
You bastards.
Wasn’t me. Was @cakesmith in disguise. He hit me, officer! He hit me and stole my username for 5 seconds!
Neat.
So Leo finally won an Oscar. Man, I was kinda hoping the jokes would continue for at least another year.
I got a free month of Presto thanks to some shop-a-docket I had. The website is so clunky wtf.. But hey, it has Penn & Teller: Bullshit along with Russel Coight’s All Aussie Adventures & My Name is Earl, so there’s that… Next to see if there’s a PS4 app, I bet there isn’t though..
There is, but be prepared to be frustrated
Oh, it’s that good? 😛
I only got my PS4 two days ago so all I’ve done is download the app and log in, but it can’t be worse than the website or iPad app, can it?
Just the fact we can now watch Presto on our TV will be a relief. My wife has tried to airplay from her iPad to the Apple TV but it’s really, really bad.
Oh good, i’m not the only one who thought the website was atrocious. Like they have some alright stuff to watch, but holy shit what a lag fest. Like my PC isn’t a beast, but it’s still pretty capable for something that’s now 4 years old, and i’ve never lagged on a website or anything. Only time I did was when I tried to play 4k YouTube 😛
Netflix and Stan have no issues, but Presto chugs and the video streams simply aren’t as good. The iPad app seems better optimised by when you airplay you get periodic dropouts.
If the PS4 app works well though I might actually keep the sub up once my 3 month trial runs out. My wife is slowly ploughing through X-Files and I’ve been enjoying Mr. Robot, plus there’s a bunch of good movies on there that aren’t on the other services.
Yeah, like I saw a few shows i’ve been wanting to re-watch that aren’t simplly available to buy or watch elsewhere that Presto have which is cool, likewise there’s some movies there which are for some reason hard to find.
All Aussie Adventures is awesome.
Have it on DVD ^_^
I remember watching it every Friday night back when I was young. Was such a great show lol.
Busy weekend – best bit – Hawaii holiday booked for May. 16 days.
So TAYfolk who’ve been to Hawaii, what thing(s) are on the must do list?
I haven’t been, but most of the people I know who’ve been are crazy types who go for paddling, surfing or running, so you can do all of those things 😉
Oh, this is perfect, I remember my time in Hawaii really well.
I checked out all the sights at the Honolulu International Airport, between two AM and five AM. I can tell you that some of the grey walls there are definitely different to other grey walls.
Wear a coconut bikini.
Longest continuous climb/descent on paved roads in the world. Ride a bike up/down it. 🙂
Longest continuous climb/descent on paved roads in the world. Ride a bike up/down it. 🙂
I went when I was 10, so memories are fuzzy but:
– Go Snorkelling, I can’t remember where we went but it was a short drive towards the Honolulu Volcano. Even as a 10 year old the beauty of the experience wasn’t lost on me, definitely worth a look.
– Eat a gigantic burger, I had two in ten days and both were really tasty.
– I went surfing with my Dad along Waikiki, a really nice stretch of beach (lots of people) but worth seeing at least once.
– I went to a Military museum (was it the Pearl Harbour one? I’m not sure) which is a shortish drive out of the main hotel strip, was awesome seeing fighter planes and seeing the stories. I imagine it has aged a lot in 10 years (I remember it looking aged then) but if you’re into war history this might be up your alley.
– Eat french toast from Jack in the Box with a chocolate thickshake (thank me later)
Where in Hawaii are you staying? Big island?
The obvious thing to do on the Big Island is to visit Pearl Harbor. There’s the Arizona Memorial, plus you can go onto the USS Missouri that stands guard nearby – she’s a museum ship. There’s also a submarine there, USS Bowfin, which I think you can go into but when I went there last it was closed. There’s an aviation museum there too if you want to go see a range of cool old aircraft. Big range of stuff. I think one of the Australian F-111s ended up there even.
You can visit a few of the volcanoes I think but going to the most active of them requires a tour.
Other than that: don’t buy anything in Waikiki if you can avoid it. Huge tourist trap, designed primarily to suck the money out of Japanese tourist’s wallets.
Holy crap. I wonder if this will be in cinemas over here too.
Got to get out and see Deadpool last night. That was fun 🙂
Wasn’t it? Saw it on Saturday. My wife loved it. I laughed muchly.
The only problem I had with Deadpool was that two of the pre-roll ads had clips directly taken from the movie. Thankfully one of them was an alternate line of dialogue but still, the impact of those jokes were sort of ruined. I’m about to watch this movie, please stop ruining it for me! Part of the reason we’re even here is because the internet won’t shut up about this movie and I’m worried about being spoiled, don’t do it once I’m in the theatre!
It is interesting though, in the last two years I’ve seen more movies in cinemas than probably the 7 years prior. I can’t remember when exactly I stopped going to the cinema but I know when I got Gold Class tickets and used them to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, it seemed like it had been a long time. That was what, 2007? Then I didn’t go to the movies again until 2013 for Pacific Rim. Then I didn’t go again until Avengers 2 in 2014. Since then I’ve seen Tomorrowland, Star Wars, Lazer Team and Deadpool.
I feel like internet spoilers have actually driven me back into the theatre just so I don’t have to keep my guard up.
I made the mistake of turning up too early and had to sit through 20 minutes of ads and trailers. 😐
The ability to buy tickets for $10-11 through phone portals and the hoyts membership thing definitely makes it easier for us to get to the movies. Wouldn’t go otherwise.
Yup. Free tickets or heavily-discounted tickets is usually the only reason I go.
(Exceptions made for Star Wars and Deadpool.)
Edit: Also, I’ve found that turning up five minutes after the movie ‘starts’ (by the advertised time, anyway), usually means you miss the 20min standard product advertising line-up and just get to see the (much more interesting) movie trailers before your movie.
It depends on the movie. I’ve been in some where there were only 2 minutes of ads, others where there was (I kid you not) 40 minutes of ads.
I asked an usher, and apparently they time it so that multiple movies get out at the same time – it makes it alot easier to schedule cleaners etc.
This is the thing though, we’ve come so far that we need ‘proof’ as to why we should see a movie/play a game.
When we don’t see any content/gameplay we are suspicious of it because we want to make an informed decision. On the other hand some movies use their best jokes/content and we feel flat when they are the highlights and we’ve seen them already.
TL;dr, we can never win.
I’m writing some Diablo 3 fan fiction at the moment if anyone’s keen on some light reading.
https://tgallows13.wordpress.com/
Let me know what you think
Too hot to really do anything today… 🙁
It’s raining here, first time since mid January D=
Hey BrisTAY, I managed to swing an extra day after a work thing this weekend. Wanna get some dinner/drinks on Saturday night (5th March)? Any suggestions on where to go?
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__ @rocketman
Also Rockets, Nob, Jimu, (possibly) Sughly and I are going to see The Boy and The Beast at 2pm on the Saturday if anybody else wants to tag along for that.
I’d love to say yes, but I’m guessing it’ll be in a central location, which will probably be a bit far for me to travel safely. Will see once suggestions are made though.
@greenius – are we moving things at 2pm? I feel like we will be moving things at 2pm…
Is this a question or an excuse to get out of movie watching? I don’t think stuff will arrive by then!
Oops ^^v but now I think I might be going to port anyway so *shrugsssss*
I’m unavailable cause work, even if I wasn’t i’m meant to be going to a mates out Chapel Hill I think that’s where he is anyway.. I can never remember.
Pls add me to QLD TAY tags 😛
IM IN . But you know, i was in before.
Maybe southbank??
Bars and foods aplenty
Ooh, can you please tag me on Twitter when details for the dinner/drinks thing are decided?
Bah. Went to top up my train card, got “processor declined” message. Thought that was weird, I got paid last week and haven’t moved money around so should have plenty available. Spent a while waiting for phone banking to get going, and sure enough there were plenty of funds available. Went to try again then realised the expiry date on my keycard was for Feb. No good as of today. God dammit. I don’t think I’ve even noticed the expiry on that card before, only one I know is my debit card I use for online stuff since that always asks you for it. Figure I should go find a bank and see if I could get it replaced. Hop back on internets again… fucksake. “Oh hey it looks like you’re on a mobile browser so we’re going to strip out all functionality and tell you to fuck off and use an app instead. Even if you can’t use said app”. All I want to do is punch in a location and look at the list of five nearby locations it spits out you dicks. Bring back graceful degradation.
Spent ages on the phone going through the automated system, punching in numbers then talking to a machine then waiting for a guy then grumbling about the website then asking for a nearby branch and then he’d only just said “well it looks like there’s Haymarket” when the call dropped out. Christ. Then got to the bank and it still wasn’t open yet, and didn’t open til like 10mins after they were supposed to. And apparently the new card will take 5-10 business days to get mailed to my house. I got a big box of DVDs from America in less time than that.
Everything is stupid.
They didn’t give you a temporary card to use while they’re mailing you your proper one? Weird!
Apparently that’s not a thing. The lady was just like “are you sure that’s enough money to take out? If you try to use an ATM it’ll take your card.”
Are you for real? My bank just automatically mails me a new card like a month or two before my current one expires. I’ve never had to actually organize a new card before =\
That said I’m surprised the bank didn’t have an interim process in place while you wait for a new card.
We once had our credit cards cancelled by the bank because of suspected fraud. No warning, no phone call, and it took them two weeks to get the new ones out. They also didn’t get new cards out until within about 2 weeks of the old ones expiring. Not good when direct debits can take a month to be updated. Needless to say, we’re not with that particular bank anymore.
My bank called me within 10 minutes of suspected fraud, and had a new card to me by the next day. The new PIN arrived the day after. I was pretty impressed. They also said on the phone that if I went into the branch and showed enough ID they’d issue me a card in the meantime if getting it the next business day wasn’t quick enough.
That’s so weird. I usually get a phone call if there’s any unusual spending. Even if I’m the one who’s been doing the unusual spending. (Don’t judge me! Ohwait. I didn’t say what it was. Well. All the same…)
Yeah I was thinking that with my last card it just kinda showed up and I didn’t really have to do anything about it.
Guess I should check my mail when I get home, make sure I didn’t miss it.
Really? I’ve been given temporary cards before for use on EFTPOS/ATMs etc
They’re all like “When the new card comes you have to destroy this temporary card!”
Little do they know I just shove them in a drawer.
When I had to cancel a card they enabled me to access my $$ through a function on my credit card before the new debit card came
My bank offers temporary ATM cards when you need to cancel your old one for whatever reason.. They also give them out when you open a new account. The bank you’re with sound like twits, your new card should’ve shown up a few weeks before your old one expired.
Thank god for cardless cash.
…You’re probably with some weird indie bank that doesn’t do that, aren’t you.
The bank of me.
I used to be a heavily cash-only kinda guy. Always making trips out to the one ATM to fill up the wallet, try and reduce possibility of getting skimmed or whatever. Plus the whole perception of actually giving money away rather than having all these aethereal numbers taking place in the background there gave a greater sense of actually spending. But then excessive online purchases pretty much killed that I guess, and up until this bank visit I’ve been without cash in my wallet for probably a good month or two now. Oops.
Same thing happened to me yesterday with Myki. Went to touch on and it told me to piss off. I had no idea these things could expire. The irritating part is that I put money on it the other day so that’s like $35 down the drain. Normally I wouldn’t care about wasting $35 but I hate Myki so much.
Also yeah, that whole ‘we can tell you’re on a phone so even though you obviously went out of your way to set it to use desktop mode we’re going to force mobile mode on you anyway’ thing is ridiculous. If I went out of my way enough to set it to desktop mode there’s a good chance it was a move prompted by a website like yours.
Oh yeah eBay was doing that at one point recently. I didn’t even try the whole user agent switching thing this time, but that one really pissed me off. Especially as it only offered iOS and Android, too bad if you’re a Windows Phone user. This one didn’t have all the images load properly, but at least it looked like there were three of them.
Take you myki when you get a new one and they should transfer the balance over
I don’t understand the hate Myki gets, sure it was super expensive and an off the shelf system probably would have made sense but considering our specific ticketing system that was always going to be hard to get an existing one to work.
So much better than other tickets we had, auto top-up and I never have to worry about tickets at all
My problem with Myki is that it’s crap. The old system wasn’t fantastic either but Myki took the bad parts of the old system and crammed in a bunch of the bad parts from automated road tolls. If you catch the train a lot and don’t really care about how much you’re paying then it’s fine but overall it’s design was very one sided, if it doesn’t benefit them it wasn’t a concern, and created a lot of barriers for people who don’t catch the train often.
Well catering to the people who always use the system just makes sense from a business perspective. They are the ones who pay a majority of the bills. Myki is far superior in that regard to any of the other systems that have been used.
I understand that it is much more difficult for people who don’t use it often which is the price of privatisation sadly.
I dunno if anyone else here has been watching Mick Jagger & Martin Scorsese’s new show ‘Vinyl’ but I think last nights episode was my favourite, mainly because it had Alice Cooper in it. I also seem to have quite the liking for these period shows mainly the ones set in the 70’s & 80’s lol.
@jocon – you mentioned you were after some Firebird’s boots? Check your mail. :3 After you left last night I found four of them, among which was my near ideal roll – ancient, high Int, high resist all, and +14% meteor damage. 5pc Tal’Rasha + 3pc Firebird + RoRG and I can survive T-10! Managed a T-10 rift, and four bounties before I realised the last one was “Kill Malthael.”. Now all I want is an ancient serpent sparker so I can have two mammoth hydras… the world will burn. :3
Haha, nice! Also cheers!
The best trump related article I’ve read all day –
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-02-29/the-die-hard-republicans-who-say-nevertrump
Yes even better than the John Oliver ones!
As a staunch left wing advocate, I often fear that I’m only seeing confirmation biased media – things I already know. My biggest issue with John Oliver’s piece was that, due to his core demographic, it wasn’t going to reach the people who really needed to hear it.
Sounds like a good portion of them already have. That’s reassuring. (Oops. More confirmation bias.)
Oh for defs; this article is made up of replies from people who would’ve seen the twitter tag nevertrump which means it’s asking for replies from a specific portion of the population already. But it was just fun to read =P
You can’t stump the Trump!
It’s the one vein of hope I’m clinging to as Trump sweeps the Republican primaries – that he’s turning off so many Republicans and all the swing voters that the turn-out in November will be epic and he’ll go down in flames. Thing is, the only one of the five remaining Repubs who isn’t a demagogue, irrational or a hollow man is Kasich.
That article gives me hope that some sense will break out…
Well they have spent decades setting up a process where you can buy elected officials and elections. This is basically kept in balance by both sides receiving the same amount from people and it staying balanced between the big 2. Lobbyists put in as much as they can in order to make a return on that by getting favours done.
Trump is the wild card, somebody who has huge resources to drop in the campaign and then has the greatest chance to recoup that ‘investment’ or just doesn’t care if there is a huge loss made if he gets to be president.
I have a tiny glimmer of hope that maybe they will consider enacting some level of controls around payment to elected officials and parties but somehow I don’t see that happening. However considering 33,000 firearm deaths and no reaction I doubt it.
That is what I thought about Abbott, but he got in, so the whole Trump thing scares the shit out of me.
Yes.
And yeah yeah Godwin’s blah blah blah, but this whole “ah he’s a joke candidate, no-one takes these thing he says seriously” is what the press were saying in the early 30s.
The parallels are horrific. Economics and widening inequality, authoritarianism, racial and cultural segregation and fear-mongering. *shudder*
Please America wake up before you drag the rest of us into your nightmare.
Just loaded up Pokemon Sapphire to get this months event Celebi and realised my character is holding an egg. I haven’t played this version in ages and I have no idea what it’s in it or what I was even doing when I left (going to Bike Town?), so now I’m riding around like a maniac waiting for it to hatch. It’s oddly exciting even though I know it’s probably just some random Fire Pokemon I transferred over from Y because I thought it looked cool.
It was Wynaut… I have no idea why.
Why?……
Because Wynaut!
I’ll show myself out.
So I’ve started doing some exploring in Elite Dangerous mostly to see what’s out there. I loaded up a DBX (cause why not?) and took off towards a bright looking star over towards the Witch
Head Nebula:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=635314405
Cut to several hours later and I’m finding some pretty amazing things. My favourite so far would have to be a single system with 11 stars in it:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=635315136
Even weirder was that many of the stars had rings:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=635315480
Oh yeah, I also stumbled across a neutron star. Unfortunately, they make for pretty unimpressive screenshots 😛
Good money on the neutron stars. 🙂
I saw you on last night. I’m in Teamspeak most nights so if you want some company when exploring let me know. I’m usually in the Elite: Dangerous ANZ group. Kicking around Kunti still. Or I can join you wherever you lurk.
Loving the exploring. I’m trying to decide whether to refit the Asp for a final explore and push to Elite, or hold on for the Anaconda that is tantalizingly close. 🙂 I want to do the Crab Nebula…
I’ve actually been taking the opportunity to catch up on movies during my flight, but if I start feeling lonely I’ll jump on there 😛
I have a combat Conda (nowhere near A rated…yet) and plan to switch it over for exploring the outer reaches of the galaxy in the future, mostly cause it feels right to take a big ship out that way. In the mean time, the DBX is good fun to fly and runs stuuuupidly cold.
Not flown a DBX yet. Will give it a go at some point.
Do you call your Conda, Anna and then play the Nicki Manaj song on repeat?
Yep.
While slowly flying into a star.
Woo Diamondback club! What’s the jump range on the Explorer like? Managed to plant your name on anything yet?
Mine has more of a load than it needs to (4G planetary hanger and some guns cause I was doing some stuff in the bubble), and it’s still about 31.5. It’s very comparable to the Asp Explorer but I wanted to leave my Asp as a smuggling ship.
Haven’t found anything unmarked yet, but after checking out Barnard’s Loop etc I’m going to start going out towards nowhere to hopefully find something.
Hmm. Trying to remember how much I had in my Scout. I had all the internal slots filled, with a hangar, two scanners and fuel scoop, no shields or weapons. I feel like I want to say 31.5 was pretty much my max jump with next to no fuel. Nice comfortable range, either way.
Yeah, you CAN use the scout to explore but the Explorer has 1 more Internal and you can push it to something like 35LY on a full tank.
Thinking about taking the clipper out to do the same… Been a while since I’ve seen all the cool shit out there
Going to see Hail Caesar tonight. Fuck I love the Coen Brothers.
I forgot that was out now.
Totally would’ve gone to see it with Pizza Thief, she loves those guys too.
There’s just something about how they construct their films that amuses me greatly, even if they’re often rambly and don’t have a real narrative arc.
Not to everyone’s taste, of course.
Why don’t you go and see it with her?
Because she’s in Melbourne atm 😛
Saw a preview screening last week. I really enjoyed it. It’s not the best Coen Brothers movie, but it was fun.
Also relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UE3jz_O_EM
Things I’m learning about board game development #6238:
Getting basic rules down on a notepade is pretty simple as ideas flow.
Structuring those notes into coherent and legible draft rules for people to read is like quoting pi to 300 places.
Dear god… BRAIN WHY YOU NO MAKE SENSE!?
Yeah I have that problem when I go back to one note after 5 weeks and go, what the fuck was I thinking?
Yep happens all the time – especially when i’m jotting stuff down on the fly for Pen and Paper RPGS like shadowrun. Damn it.
It’s things like this that have delayed me going back to my game too. But I’ll get there eventually
You forgot to roll the dice after using an exclamation mark! BOOM HEADSHOT!
*rolls dice twice*
If you need someone to do an edit, happy to have a look. I can come in from the “I play board games what’s all this then” perspective, but you should also find a total muggle to do a pass.
Cheers mang 🙂
The only board game I have played is Scrabble, so if you are looking for a muggle….
You need to think of it the way you’d explain to someone how to play if they were sitting around the table with you.
– Basic summary of theme (“What you’re going to be doing and why this game will be fun”)
– Game setup (“What are the bits and where do they go”)
– Structure of a turn (“How do I play?”)
– Game End (“How do I win?”)
– Detailed Explanation of your rules and parts (“What are these bits of plastic and what do they mean?”)
Consider also whether you have rules that aren’t necessary to introduce immediately and could be ‘advanced’ rules. Have a look at some other board games that have good rules explanations (i.e. not a Fantasy Flight game as their rules are horrid).
I has paid off all my credit card debt! Yayness!!
Grats. Great feeling, isn’t it! 🙂
yep. Second time i’ve done it now. Just a bit of money owing to dad now, and I’ll be debt free again completely! w00t!
I have $300 sitting on my card, first CC debt in 15 years. I hate credit cards.
HECS debt however… eek!
I’m lucky I dun have HECS. I got a company to “sponsor” me through my course. They paid my fees, and I made websites for them in return for their kindness! 🙂
Bored.
here’s a short Grim Dawn review:
7 years in the making. it shows.
not the best clicktastic ARPG going. Torchlight 2 is still better.
Still, it’ll scratch the itch until Umbra drops.
Other things.
I am so confused about uni this semester. apparently this is week 1, but one subject started posting lectures / work 2 weeks ago & they’ve got 4 weeks of content up. the other subject started posting content last week & have 2 weeks up.
I DONT KNOW IF ITS WEEK 1,2,3 or 4! D:
Regardless, i’ve done the first 2 weeks worth, so i might be two weeks in front or two weeks behind. I DONT KNOW.
trying to quit smoking. I fucking suck at it. I hate how weak-willed i am. brain lies to you, coming up with excuses to justify smoking. fucking hate it.
still… just gonna keep trying. wish it was easier though. really dislike those jerks who can just say ‘nope. gonna stop now.’ and then actually stop for weeks on end. my brother can do that. jerk.
anyway. whats happening with you lot?
Torchlight 2 is still hard to top with Synergies, I’m still playing it today.
Dealing with that horrible day I said was coming. Has affected me more than I thought it would. Very angry at the world today. and of course work stuff starts going bad too. Not a good dayYeah on the smoking I’m one of those people who went from a pack every 2 days to cold turkey a few years back. I only smoke a cigarette now on my birthday and the company christmas party =P
That said I have friends who are the exact opposite, that is if they start with even one they’ll end up getting well and truly back into the habit. I think there was some research done a few years back that showed that different people achieve different levels of addiction based on natural genetic tendencies.
My advice; take it a day at a time. The first few weeks you’ll keep noticing cigarette butts everywhere and every single person on the street smoking will be like a fire alarm in your head. But get past that initial hump and it becomes a lot easier. The hardest thing after that is making sure you don’t relapse during your rituals (i.e for me it was coffee and a smoke in the morning and a smoke after a few drinks on a Friday). Those smoke inhaler things also help if you really need a hit while you’re quitting.
RPG peeps, I hate your wallet.
The Cypher System is the system that Numenera and The Strange (@strange?) is based on, and they have a new kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/montecookgames/worlds-of-the-cypher-system
This is a setting agnostic version of the rule system, and the books have a bunch of settings including one that’s a knock-off of Dino Riders. Dino Riders!
It certainly gave me a Terra Nova vibe. I’m not certain if I want to shell out for a physical book for this one.
Even Dino Riders won’t overcome the utter dreadful blandness that is the Cypher system.
I like the cypher system.
Stardew Valley is awesome and I recommend it. I reviewed it favourably. It’s Harvest Moon’ish, but a lot less restricted. Freeeeeedoooom!
Been following this one for ages (kind of glad they didn’t go early access, TBH) – so glad they’re living up to the promise. Just gotta pick it up now. 😛
I saw that ages ago, and noticed it popped up on steam the other day! Tempting to get it now I have no credit cards to pay off any more! Should reward myself with something! 🙂 Just a shame there’s a few really good looking games that I want.
This one in particular! http://store.steampowered.com/app/427520
Looks so great!!!
So all this talk about Trump and the Republican nomination got me thinking about my dual citizenship… I’ve just kept my US citizenship for convenience, but I wonder if I’d have the stones to put my ideals where my passport is and renounce my US Citizenship if he ever got the actual Presidency (heaven forbid)…
Nah. Way too convenient to keep it.
Fucking yourself over for the sake of politics is basically just fucking yourself over for nothing.
Hi, I’m Bob. I thought we’d met? 😛
Oh! My mistake. As you were.
What transient said; if you have it then keep it. Only make sacrifices when they can have a genuine impact to what you’re sacrificing towards.
Also if Trump gets presidency you might want to hold on to it; for all you know he might start declaring war on anyone who doesn’t carry that passport =P
Haha, yeah true on that last point.
For me it’s more “what benefit does it gain me” … none? I haven’t been back to the USA since getting my Aus residency (2004) so … dunno. I just feel like any country that could elect Trump isn’t a country I want to be part of. Even more so than “re-electing” Dubya. Still, no bridge to burn just yet. Still a few months left for common sense to kick in.
Look on the brighside; if Trump gets elected the chances of us playing a real life Fallout game go up exponentially.
But I don’t want to set the world on fire. :'(
If you ever have kids and they want to go back to the USA they can use your citizenship to get a green card far more easily. That alone makes it worth keeping.
I plan on remaining childless. 1 of me is bad enough.
Why let one megalomaniac ruin it for you?
The thing about governments is they get voted out. Sure, for four years it would suck, but there’s a lot of steps between here and there.
Yes, that’s future B-ob’s problem. And future B-ob also knows that all things pass.
And that you, and everyone you love, with one day die. And not just us, but all of the human species. This century, next century, or after a near-galactic colonial expansion that is curtailed by another galaxy deciding to smash right through the middle of ours, as sometimes happens with galaxies.
In the meantime, I’m thinking I should load up on petrol while it’s so cheap.
I’m totally cool with my own mortality and the mortality of every thing in existence and the inevitable heat death of the universe. You ain’t got nothin’ on me, son! 😛
Hey, it’s future B-ob! Hi future B-ob!
Definitely keep it if you can. Those of us with single citizenships are envious of you and your ability to zoom through the airport.
Huh. So here’s a thing… Far Cry Primal has an ‘Australia Tax’ on it… of a buck.
$59.95US got marked up to… $60.95US for our region.
And that’s like… only a few hours from launch. Kinda uncharacteristic for Ubi. Normally it’s cheap for first-week pre-orders when it hits the store, then goes up by a good $20-30US when someone points out that they forgot to fuck Australia a few months before launch.
The person following instructions is a bit hard of hearing.
The decision maker said “Fuck Australia”
They heard “buck, Australia”. So they added a buck.
Ok, so just remembered to check my mail and found a letter from back in January telling me my ATM card was going to expire 😛 Just dismissed it as a statement I guess. Though it says in there “just visit any branch to pick up your new card”. Wtf is with this 5-10 business days BS the lady was telling me today? Buh.
God damn. I went to purchase a Phantom Glass screen protector for my new phone, with postage it came to $55 AUD D= I don’t care that they’re made from Corning Gorilla Glass whatevernumberwe’reuptonow or that they’re like 0.2mm thick & that the protector attaches itself once placed on the device in the right spot or even the lifetime warranty.. Or really I guess they’re all good points & worth the $$
I figured for a $1000 device $40 or so isn’t a huge investment since I found a 15% off code 😛
Ok, @os42 @sernobulus I issue you a challenge. Greater rifts: who can go the highest?
My Highest Achieved is 52 thus far.
52? Damn… I’ve got some work to do – only just scraped by a 47 last night. That said, I think your luck’s rubbing off on me –
foundobtained a serpent sparker last night from the cube. \o/ Been looking for this since I started RoS endgame! Crappy roll, drops my “statistical” DPS down by 200k, but still… two mammoth hydras… :3Nice. Could you extract it instead of using if it’s a dps hit?
I managed to get a Mantle of Channelling last night as well as a tal’rasha amulet so I could swap set pieces around to use it. Combined with a skill tweak, a couple new powers and some enchanting Min/maxing I’ve patched some weakness in my build.
Also got pretty lucky with the last Grift. Excellent layout chock full of mobs and choke points.
I could – would probably be a better option than continuing with my Scourge (tho I extracted a Furnace last night that I’d like to try out)… This is the first SS I’ve seen drop, so I don’t want to be too hasty in scrapping it – think I’d rather reforge it to try for an ancient version. I do need to tweak my build, tho – still extremely squishy.
The passive that grants a shield if you have not been hit for 5 seconds is pretty handy I’ve found out. Saves your bacon when you get surprised.
I’m too wary to try reforging. That’s a lot of Forgotten Souls to risk on something that might be terrible.
Holding out for a Deathwish myself. And a Zodiac ring. Maybe some bracers too :p
God damn it, Facebook is suggesting I add my boss. We have no mutual friends or whatever. I really would like to know how they figured I should add her.. I mean the only piece that connects is we both work for BWS..
How good is Facebook at location stuff? If you’ve both had messenger open/running it pings your location every now and then.
Facebook sees you both spending a lot of time in same place and that you work at the same place… Aren’t you friends? What are you trying to hide?!
As cool & awesome as she is, I just am not down with the idea of adding my boss on Facebook. Hell I don’t even wanna add my co-workers 😛
Pulled the email or phone number off your phone?
Yeah maybe, probably more so since I have her number in my phone.
*brrrrr* Screw you social media; stop collating my personal information. They’re watching me right now aren’t they….
Haha.
Something, something, chemtrails, something something, CIA, something something, aliens.. Am I doing it right? 😛
Facebook is suggesting I add my boss too. I don’t have any of my coworkers on FB, how does it know I might know him? >:(
GPS data. It recommended my barber to me, and I can only assume that since we have 0 friends in common it’s because it knows we both spend time regularly in the one spot (his shop).
I guess if it’s a matter of employer name + GPS data, it’s still uncanny that it selected my boss of all people, and not, say, someone in accounts or underwriting. Presumably because my title is Casualty Claims Specialist and his would be National Casualty Claims Manager it narrows the field even further.
Aaaand that’s why I don’t have social media apps on my phone and only turn on GPS when I need it.
No, no you can’t track my every move for advertising purposes.
Suggestions on what to do in Brisbane and its surroundings?
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
Got a friend coming up in a week or so and what we have in mind at the moment is:
– theme park (is Dreamworld the best for non water/swimming things?)
– beach (best beach? Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast?)
– night out in Brisbane I assume (any cool places that cool young hip people can go to… :P)
Anything else? Nature-y things or any must see tourist stuff?
Thanks!
not a while lot in the way of naturey stuff in Birsbane itself, but plenty of options north and south (glasshouse mountains, Malaney, O’Reilly’s, Natural Arch (aka Natural Bridge) etc.
There is a waterfall at Mt Cootha too. I think it’s called Slaughter Falls? Mt. Cootha is a good place to get a good look out over the city, and it’s only about 10-15mins from the CBD.
Sounds like they have money to spend? I usually take visitors on the last, cheap bit of the trip. So shit like Brisbane Botanical Gardens or My Coot-tha Botanical Gardens, the museum, possibly Southbank, city hall & lunch/dinner. That sort of thing.
Usually, by the time I see them, they’ve already organised the payed for stuff.
Give ’em what I call the Freeze Deluxe Package. Pick up some soft serve cones from Maccas drive through then pull into the car park for 6 minutes in the back seat before booking an Uber to take them home.
Or, of you insist on not being as caring a host as me, Dreamworld is the best although Wet n Wild is the raddest and water never gets above your knee so swimming doesn’t really come into the equation. As far as beach/nature things go Gold Coast is far better than Brisbane. Burleigh Beach is best beach and if you can hiking out to Natural Bridge is a gorgeous area. O’Reillys out at Binna Burra is great too, they have a treetop walk.
How come I never got Freeze’s package
You just didn’t get the Deluxe package is my guess.
You still got his package right?
Is it a girl, if it is a girl, just make out in sughlys house. Preferably in his room, on his bed. If not, well still do that anyway.
Hey!
It’s a babe
So it sounds like Bravely Second has been heavily censored for the English release. In addition to them wholesale changing the Tomahawk class costume into a Cowboy, Just about every costume has been changed so that it exposes zero skin. They’ve also made huge changes to the sidequests in the game. In the JP version you would make choices toward the end of the quests and there would be different outcomes and consequences. In the EU release, the choice doesn’t matter – you always get the ‘good’ outcome regardless.
Disappointing. I just don’t get it. Why does Nintendo think that everything has to be dumbed down for 12 year olds? Do they not realize that adults play games too? 🙁
Kind of considering cancelling my copy. Not sure I really want to be rewarding them with money for that.
The worst thing about it is that the actual legitimate concerns people have about stuff being censored have been picked up as the latest crusade for the gurmergooblers and that basically ruins any chance of people that are actually upset about stuff being changed all over the place being listened to, because it’s going to be associated with ‘actually it’s about ethics in game localization’ and harassment of random female Nintendo employees. :\
This is probably the most frustrating thing about ANY thing that is deserving of some criticism.
Take Star Wars: There were plenty of things wrong with that, but because of the MRA/GG/racist uproars about there being a female protagonist or a black dude, you can’t complain about shitty characterization, poor pacing, nonsense science plot-holes, rushed endgame, and excessive 4th-wall-breaking nods to the previous trilogy without that putting you automatically on the ‘wrong side’ of a completely fucking different argument.
Holy shit, they even apparently have censored the CE artbook, modifying all the art so that it reflects the sweeping changes to the in-game costumes.
Tha- just… Do they really think…
I am lost for words
Lost for English words
I am going to learn Japanese now
I’m really glad I have the real published artbook: http://www.amazon.com/BRAVELY-SECOND-Design-2013-2015-SE-MOOK/dp/B015GZAN1O
‘Does not ship to Perth’. Nooo!
I can’t be too fussed though because I only started the first game back in January. Now the Japanese splatoon artbook on the other hand…
Yay Perth!
Getting none of the things!
If you really want it (I recommend the first game’s over the second) you can get it from Amazon.jp. Expensive shipping though since they only offer DHL courier.
I just don’t care about the lame censorship (lame as it is) Plays much the same with some more tweaks that I’m enjoying. The new costumes may be different, but they’re not just boring coverups, they fit the design.
My biggest disappointment so far is that it’s too similar. Forgetting the size of the new story, it plays more like an expansion pack. Not necessarily bad, but not as innovative as the first game. Not surprised really, we did actually play For the Sequel & not Flying Fairy the first time.
Essentially it’s about what I expected. Which is why, although happy to see it & willing to buy & play, I haven’t been super excited.
It’s still about a million times better than most games. For my tastes anyway.
I’m kind of glad it’s not until April for the US. Gives some time to finish Cold Steel, Senran Kagura and Knights of Azure first.
Don’t really care about the costume changes. The quest changes are a big annoyance for me though. Changing/censoring the story is really crap and a big no-no for me.
Well, I was wondering if I should buy Bravely Second and now I have my answer.
Yeah I’m the same. I’m iffy on major dialogue changes (Fire Emblem), but I’ll put up with it. Actual changes to story content is a complete no-no for me.
The answer is yes, it’s still good.
Pretty sure Square Enix handled the localisation of this.
And? You think Squenix is behind these asinine changes? I can’t think of any other previous examples of Squenix censoring costumes or changing dialogue options to remove consequences in an RPG or anything. Changing art and story structure assets is a non-trivial amount of work for the original dev team (which, by the way, is not Squenix either – the Bravely games were developed by a contractor). Why are they suddenly doing it for a high-profile localization on 3DS? The obvious conclusion is that Nintendo required them to.
Got linked by a friend to this rant yesterday. Can’t really disagree with much of it.
Yep. Nintendo of America / Treehouse range the spectrum from apathetic to fucking awful when it comes to localization and they don’t care. It feels like they’re staffed by people that cut their teeth working for Nelvana on the Cardcraptors localization.
They used to seem to do such a good job back with Paper Mario and those earlier Mario RPGs though.
Those weren’t exactly challenging localizations though. You’re not talking something of the text size of Fire Emblem or the complexity of Xenoblade.
(Incidentally Xenoblade was NoE, Fire Emblem Awakening was localized by 8-4)
Who is 8-4? Are they just a group within Treehouse, or are they someone separate?
They’re a localization company in Shibuya that specialize in Japanese to English but also do some English to Japanese translations:
http://8-4.jp/gameography/?lang=en
Set up and headed up by Marc MacDonald and John Ricciardi from EGM / 1up back in the mid-00s. They’re generally very good and have done a bunch of high-profile stuff. All the Tales games from Abyss through to Hearts R (and Ricciardi worked on Tales from Symphonia on before 8-4 was founded). Nier and Drakengard. Xenosaga III & Xenoblade X. Quite a lot of others.
If I had a horse in that race, the thing that would shit me the most would be the removal of plot branching/endings.
I mean, for fuck’s sake, plot-branching is an automatic positive back-of-the-box bullet-point for ANY game. Why would you bloody remove it? It’s what I want from games! It’s one of the few strengths that games have over movies!
Amethyst is done
http://imgur.com/a/6CEby
Still working on Pearl.
They look fantastic! 🙂
Thanks. I’m always worried that I’m annoying people with them
As a new PS4 owner, here’s my obligatory Until Dawn post, spoilered for spoilers.
For the record, really enjoying it. Sat down and played it about 4 hours straight last night. Only stopped because I caught up to where my wife had gotten to and she didn’t want to be spoiled. Also, sleep because I have to, you know, go to work.
So in the prologue I opted to let go instead of dropping Hannah, fulfilling the doom totem I’d discovered. Of course I assume that the death of both Hannah and Beth were inevitable, as the psychiatrist informed me during my counselling session that only from that point on would my choices matter.So far I seem to have completely screwed things up. I snooped Chris’ phone while playing as Sam which immediately caused her to lose points for honesty, which is one of her key traits.
I tried to take Emily’s side as Matt while she was arguing with Jessica but apparently no one really cared.
I wasn’t heroic enough to impress Jessica as Mike because I was convinced that heroically leaping into a mineshaft was guaranteed to result in an untimely death. I took all of the shortcuts/risky moves while chasing Jessica’s attacker through the woods and succeeded on all but one, but I assume Jessica is now dead as I found her in a pretty messed up state on an elevator that then collapsed. As Chris I found Ashley and Josh chained up in front of a circular saw. I accidentally said I would save Josh while fiddling with the controls looking for a hidden third option, but I have no idea how much that mattered because I refused to choose which of them would die (assuming taking no action might give me a third option) and this just killed Josh be default. Mike amputated his fingers and still has a useable machete, which I take as an overall positive, though perhaps next time I’ll try to avoid the bear trap altogether. Later on I continued to support Emily as Matt and she berated me for “finally” supporting her even though I had been the whole time. 🙁
After that scene I think I got up to Sam’s bath, and apparently my wife is mid-way through that scene and asked me to stop, which I did reluctantly.
As to the psych consultations, I find these way more tense than the action scenes in the game, where all the jumpscares are fairly predictable and I feel in control. Of course, I have to keep choosing things that scare me more (so now all the enemies look like clowns and there’s a snake on his desk) and what traits I value and people I like/dislike more. Somehow the things I’m saying are contradictory to my actions, though this could just be the game trying to mess with me.
The most interesting thing about this game so far is the way it tracks and reports on my choices, which has me really keen for a second playthrough because at the moment I have a complete clusterfuck.
Emily is the worst.
I mean if I had to choose between her and Jessica I’d… hmm.
Hmmm.
I’m probably as far in as you are, and I’m wondering if the Actor for Mr. Robot (forget his name in the game) is messed up because of what happened to his sisters. Did you wake him up when he was passed out drunk or did you go get everyone else? Because I swear he has gone crazy because I didn’t wake him up.And those consultations are the best thing in the game so far. Reminds me of Silent Hills:Shattered Memories
Josh aka Remi Malek and no, I didn’t wake him either, I went to find the others. :/The psych consultations are incredibly good. They got the perfect actor for the role.
I’ve watched a video of the first … 30 mins or so, and one thing that rubbed me the wrong way (especially during the doctor sequences) is the slightly subpar animation. The arms move through complex actions while the torso stays perfectly still.
Like it’s actually a machine below the ‘skin’.
I guess my uncanny valley is a little wider for things like body language.
The animations did feel a bit rigid and unnatural but didn’t bother me. The facial animations/captures are really well done but of course aren’t quite right. That uncanny valley factor in effect. Noticeable, but didn’t bother me. Generally, the game has some really solid performances.
Awesome. Just found out Black Stone Cherry is touring in June, which would make it their first Australian tour. Only took them 5 albums to come out here. Now to buy a ticket & remember to request that day off work.
Is that Eagle Eye Cherry’s goth brother?
Naw, they’re a Rock band with southern influences lol.
I looked them up and I swear I’ve never heard of the band by name but I feel like I’ve heard of the albums before – granted, Magic Mountain and Devil and the Deep Blue Sea are not phrases unique to the album titles, but still, I’m sure I’ve heard of those albums specifically. Odd.
What immediately jumped to mind for me seeing the title was Sleep’s Holy Mountain.
Kinda feel bad that the only song I’ve heard from them is Lonely Train, even if it is a great song.
That whole self titled album is awesome.
Star Wars Humble Bundle II!
Consolation for Force Awakens not taking home any awards this week.
And I guess the consolation of all that world-record-breaking money. 🙂
(Makes sense, though, when you see what TFA was nominated for and what it was up against. There isn’t really a category for what it truly excelled at, which was being popcorn fun and an iconic franchise.)
And lightsabers. Don’t forget the lightsabers category.
I just love the fact that in 2015, the music category was headed by John Williams and Ennio Morricone.
Morricone deserved the win as well. It’s pretty stunning to realize that a guy who’s written some absolutely iconic film scores had never won an Academy Award for any of them. Also the Force Awakens soundtrack is really solid but it’s more of the same Star Wars stuff from Williams and he already won the award for Star Wars back in 1977.
$1 Galactic Battlegrounds! Time to lure (uh “invite”?) as many friends as I can to that deal.
What. What!? WHAT?!!?!!R)(!U!#R
Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba to headline the new Dark Tower movie.
Be still, my beating heart.
Edit: I can’t help but think that this is a direct result of Mad Max breathing some life into that whole post-apocalyptic cowboy genre.
I like the character that New McConaughey plays these days, but Elba’s been doing some really impressive shit. I’ve taken peeks at Luther and Beasts of No Nation on Netflix recently.
He will always be Stringer Bell to me.
I still haven’t seen The Wire.
…He’ll always be Heimdall to me. (A role he hated.)
Oh dude you what? Not your cup of tea, or have you been avoiding it because you like your life being a bleak and miserable experience?
I think it’s objectively one of the best shows I have ever seen… you need to give it a season to get its claws into you, but once it does you are done.
I don’t want anything to unseat The Shield/Firefly as the best TV series ever, thankyouverymuch.
I’ve heard it’s good, though. All the ‘film/TV people’ really liked it.
I said objectively though. I mean… I think The Wire is for all intents and purposes a better show than Firefly, but it’ll be a cold day in hell before Malcolm Reynolds stops being one of the best damn characters in the history of everything.
The Wire was very good, but I still preferred The Shield. Have you watched Oz or The Unit?
Oh yeah, I liked both of those. Had DVDs for them too, but never actually watched them in full before passing them along. Weirdly I kind of preferred just catching them on TV. Missed quite a few bits and pieces here and there.
I’d totally watch that.
Everyone’s over zombies, bring on the Space Western!
See, I kind of agree with you, but kind of don’t. Everyone’s doing movies about viruses and whatnot making zombies, and I’m still patiently waiting for someone to remember that the original zombies were voodoo magic and run with that.
15-20MB/s on this download. Work internet is great.
About 12 smoke signals per minute over here. Fringe metropolitan internet is great
Isn’t it funny how being with a group of people can make you feel lonely…
I’m sorry u_u
No need to be. 🙂
I hope it’s not us
No, just a weekly social group I’m in…
Maybe time to leave said social group
Seconded. Sociality shouldn’t be forced. Kinda defeats the point.
Ahh I remember the first time I truly realised that. Was a significant moment in a year full of them. But coming to terms with it led to a better understanding and acceptance of who I really am.
Wishing and trying to be something you’re not is the path to misery.
depends on the company, I used to find that my mind would drift and that would cause a sensation of loneliness. Trying to stay in the moment really does help with that feeling.
So I’ve not been having the greatest week. but am finding some solace in gaming, which is nice.
I started playing Master of Orion, at the suggestion of @Cffndncr Which is helping me to escape everything. Loving it so much even though my advisor keeps saying “BRAWWWK!”
So much fun
How is everyone elses weeks going?
I’m continuing my first serious adventure in coding (well, scripting, but let’s only get into semantics when they make me look better, not worse), and it’s like playing The Witness. I am alternating between feeling like a genius and an idiot of the highest caliber, to the point where I’m now procrastinating at maximum (minimum?) efficiency.
I’ve also been playing Superhot, which is rad. Some of the levels in the challenge modes are a biiiiiitch.
If you need someone to bounce logic off, I’m good with logic.
Less so syntax, but I’m great with loginc
What kind of scripting?
I’m attempting to make a turn based RPG in Unreal Engine, though currently I’m at the “bunch of elements that might eventually make something, but currently don’t interact at all” stage.
You’re enjoying Master of Orion? That’s good! Spread the word! Make everybody buy it so that the company buys us all Porsches or something!
Already on it 😀
I was really excited with the article yesterday about how the CEO of Wargaming is a billionaire. “ahead of the company’s anniversary he’s got a rather nice bonus”, they said. I got all excited. What will it be? Fly all employees to a big party? Segways for all? Shower everybody with physical cash? But no: “he’s now officially a billionaire”. That’s good and all, and an indicator that I’ll probably continue to have a stable job for a while yet, but where’s my segway?
Glad you like it bud! I’m still having heaps of fun with it, but have run into the issue where the AI is just not hard enough. I know it’ll be fixed soon, but for the moment I can’t play on larger maps because if I use my traditional aggressive expansion strategy then I get so big that I single-handedly vote myself into becoming the galactic leader.
I just love that it’s a balance thing, I’ve gone Expansion and can see where that is a problem. I don’t quite get the AI Reactions to things though, they seemed to go from loving me to pissy after I abstained from a vote.
Triple 9. Sydney people. It’s looking like I won’t have a +1 for the screening tonight. If you wanna go and can meet me at the George St cinema around 6ish, let me know!
Haha, I was wondering whether I’d end up doing this. Had one friend that couldn’t go, then another that decided that they couldn’t, then another that wasn’t responding to my message. Got there in the end though.
Disappointed that the bar doesn’t extend into the cinema. Your +1 isn’t missing out on heaps so far.
NEW PLACE GET! \o/
Soon it’ll just be Mr and Mrs Pixel again and it’s going to be awesome!
House party at pixels?
Once we’ve settled in, FOR SHIZ!
Doggie house party? =D?
Doggies are more than welcome!
Huzzah!
Hey all!
I bought Pokemon Yellow on monday and have been having a nostalgia overload! So great playing through this game again. I decided to do a Nuzlocke run and see how far I can get. I’m doing pretty well so far, I just got to Lavender town.
My party consists of:
Brass Toys (Wartortle)
ChairsRHrd (Charmeleon)
BowlOfSlaw (Ivysaur)
PickleChew (Pikachu)
Sandwich (Sandslash)
CutSlave (Diglett)
Diglett is your cut slave!? But Dugtrio is a monster in RBY!
Seriously one of the best Pokemon! 😛
Sandwich is better.
Oh, @os42
You might already know but I just discovered that this was a thing: get 2 unity rings, give one to a follower with an immortality token = you now take half damage.
I did, but haven’t found a Unity yet, let alone two. 😛
Btw, that tip about Galvanised Ward really helped – on higher tiers where I’m not killing things quite fast enough to maintain Dominance, it makes a lot more sense. Might swap between the two based on which difficulty I play on, as on T-VIII and lower Dominance makes me basically unkillable (or at least that’s how it seems), given enough red-bar mobs. 😛
Also also, the co-op monster-health buff is insane. I didn’t notice it so much when we played together, but was playing with a friend who was coming back after a six month hiatus (paragon 1200-ish but didn’t have any gear sets, so pretty tanky but extremely low damage), and took on T-X bounties together. Enemies took so long to kill – felt like I was in a 48 grift. 😮 Ended up dropping to T-VII after the first one, just to get through them in a reasonable amount of time.
Looks like Mass Effect 4 is going to be a Q1 2017 release. I’m okay with this.
I would’ve been quite surprised if it made it out this year given they’re released next to nothing about it. EA/Ubi usually start their hype train quite early.
I finished pearl
http://imgur.com/a/6CEby
I’m so paranoid that everyone hates me posting these, but I rely on the feedback to make sure the design is fine.
Don’t be! Someone probably would have said something if it did!
I doubt that. Taybies are too polite for that
I don’t know, there are some jerks.
Have you met that @sernobulus guy?
I dunno, he seems pretty chill, expect for when it comes to praising the sun
SOON I WILL BE ABLE TO PRAISE THE (POKEMON) SUN!
I hate when you don’t post them.
*spannerworks*
Stop messing with my already messed up head! /o\
If you didn’t post these I wouldn’t be ordering a whole bunch of them from you, so I mean… why would you rob me of those opportunities?
I’m sorry D=
Page 3… on a Thursday *cries* :'( WHY TAY!? WHY?!??!?
Because you touch yourself at night 😛
Yes but that still doesn’t answer my question.
I thought it answered everything, damn 😛
Twitter.
So what you’re saying is: we need to kill twitter.
I see, I see.
This has to be the most intelligent thing I’ve read all week.
Count me in.
Seconded.
I’m sorry. My life isn’t that interesting
Sure it is! Just the other day you had an interesting story about your brother and a door frame remember!
And then I fixed it. Ugh.
I haven’t even finished trimming the front lawn and I have to work on the back lawn. I can’t work on everything D=
@tech_knight Seems they’re adding a Necron lord to the last stand mode in DoW2 =P
As fracking DLC no less…
Edit: Apparently it’ll be free if I download it within the first 5 days of it out, hopefully it stays available afterwards
Yeah if I read it correctly it’s free if you purchased the game within the first 5 days of it being released. So I’m guessing if you already own the game you should be set =O
Let’s hope so, cuz a Necron Lord would be great to get me back into playing Last Stand.
last stand games this weekend? I want to check out the Tau Commander :O
I’d be up for that, but Sunday will be when I’m available, or Friday night
Sunday morning to arvo works for me
Until Dawn update time because I got really close to finishing it last night and feel like killing ten minutes before a meeting instead of working.
Spoilered for spoilers up to 2 hours Until Dawn.
Didn’t attack the deer surrounding Matt and Emily which my wife tells me kept Matt alive – that was when things started to “go badly” for her, apparently. Emily kept the flare gun she found in the ranger tower then called for help, which accomplished little. The tower then collapsed when someone or something cut the guide wire. Realised that Matt trying to save Emily on the collapsed ranger tower was futile and jumped to safety. My wife quipped “she’ll probably be fine”, to which I responded “she’s unlikely to be happy”.Apparently escaped from the psycho in the basement (a trophy for this unlocked, the first one I’d seen the whole game) but then she was immediately captured and subdued anyway.
Discovered a gutted pig while searching for Sam as Ashley/Chris and figured out Josh had staged his own death about 5 minutes before this was revealed. Chose to shoot myself as Chris instead of Ashley, but of course, the gun was loaded with blanks. Ashley stabbed Josh and got a black eye for it, something Chris paid him back for later.
Refused to shoot Emily when she was bitten by a Wendigo, and had Ashley admit while reading the journal that the bite is not infectious, as I’m committed to honesty.
Mike redeeming his relationship with the wolf earlier paid off when he joined me for a jaunt through the Sanitorium. Mike remembered he still had a useable machete because he amputated his fingers, but promptly lost it to a Wendigo because I badly muffed the QTE where he used it. Blew up a number of Wendigo with flaming barrels, probably. The wolf apparently survived this.
Flamethrower guy died, I managed to keep Chris alive by blowing up more shit to keep the Wendigo off him. I guess by not choosing to shoot Ashley she had a good relationship with Chris and let him back in the house when he was being chased. Really interested to know how differently that could have played out.
A cutscene told me Jessica was still alive, but Ashley died investigating her voice because I stupidly opened the first trapdoor I came across which of course contained a Wendigo who brutally beheaded her and dragged her corpse away. First confirmed death of the game!
And that’s where I had to go to bed so I’m not quite done yet. My wife finished it before I got home last night and is dying for me to finish so we can talk about stuff freely. Apparently you can replay chapters when you finish which presumably modifies your butterfly effects. I also have a lot of undiscovered totems and clues which I am determined to root out.
Oh, Ashley… She was my first death… and my only death that was due to lack of caution. I knew Jess was alive, and thought it was plausible… :'(I can’t remember who it was that I saw say something along the lines of “programming is the easy bit, it’s setting up the environment to do so that’s the hard part”, but I am all up in the middle of that right now. Nothing works, errors all over the place, every alternative to try and get around them doesn’t work either, seemingly simple instructions don’t match up to reality, etc.
Everything into the bin. Give up forever.
It’s sounding more and more like SMT x Fire Emblem is going to be dub-only including dubbing all the music. Apparently they’ve been looking for actors and actresses that can sing as well as ‘act’ (I use the word act loosely since it’ll be the usual crowd of awful anime people)
Whaaaatttt….. Why won’t there be a jap audio option 🙁
Because Atlus are shits and NoA don’t care
So 40k people: This gave me a good chuckle this morning.
http://9gag.com/gag/azjddem?ref=android.s.email
Cereal with such a bloody and violent crunch!
Probably the best variant i’ve seen of that joke – it’s been around for a while, though.
Still would be awesome to see it in shops 😛
It’ll be sold in Games Workshop for $40
For now. In 12 months it’ll be $60, and the quality of the materials will fall.
You’ll also need to buy paints to color in the box at a further $80 for a set.
Edit: Correction $6000 for a paint set.
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-AU/Citadel-Project-Paint-Set
I’m actually fairly certain it will only be available in a $280 box set as an “exclusive” model.
…THEN they’ll release it as a stand-alone for $60
Controversial opinion – Foo Fighters are totally over-rated.
I am not inclined to disagree.
Had a couple of alright songs but otherwise seem to be pretty take-it-or-leave-it.
My thoughts exactly. They maybe had 6 or so songs i really liked
Nah, Dave Grohl is the best. If only we could clone him so we could have an actual band consisting only of Dave Grohl.
http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/4609918/Dave+grohl/
Game over. Dave Grohl wins.
I actually love Dave Grohl as a person- he’s hilarious.
Just… kinda “meh” about the fooies these days
He probably feels the same way. The first FF album is 21 years old.
I remember watching him drum when Them Crooked Vultures were in town. I’m not saying he phones it in for Foo Fighters, I’ve always loved their shows and they clearly put a lot of effort into it, but you could just see that he was over the moon to be doing something creatively different and playing drums again.
On a side note I think Probot is under-rated. It’s seen as a weird Dave Grohl side project but it’s sort of fan fiction that’s actually good enough to work. The album itself isn’t super impressive, but if you take any track off it and slip it in with the original bands work it blends in perfectly.
The episode of Sonic Highways where he & Taylor Hawkins drum the same track, one of them did cymbals the other did drums at the same time in different rooms for a particular sound. He seemed way more interested in that, than singing/playing guitar tbh.
He’s definitely a drummer who happens to be able to play the guitar. His drumming in Queens of the Stone Age is similarly awesome.
And I also like the drum track he recorded for The Prodigy on Run With The Wolves.
I don’t care enough about the Foo Fighters to agree or disagree. That probably means you’re right, but then I’d be falling victim to the “my experience is everyone’s experience” fallacy.
I liked their last album Sonic Highways, then again I . But other than that, i’ve never really found them to be anything of value to me.
I once saw someone call them the popular version of Nickelback and had a good chuckle at that.
Nah, they are totally overrated. Dave seems like an okay guy but it’s always felt like his claim to fame was ‘competent musician who used to be in a band with Kurt Cobain’.
One By One is a masterpiece of an album. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, but god damn do I respect your opinion.
@sernobulus and I had this very same discussion.
We both decided that they are a very good rock band, there problem is they don’t have anything else. They make good music but nothing revolutionary, But there isn’t anything really wrong with that. In the same way that having toast is still pretty good. It still is good by itself but it isn’t anything you would talk about later. BUT by being toast they are also really easy to like, nobody hates the Foo fighters.
I hate the Foo Fighters.
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1xzbjx/til_the_foo_fighters_promoted_aids_denialism_and/
They are one of my favorite bands ever, take that back!
Nah that’s fine mate, everyone has their own likes and dislikes 🙂
I happen to love their music, although the last few releases haven’t been the greatest in my opinion.
ELITE!
So I thought I had enough to go Anaconda. I didn’t, I was a couple of million short (which means I was really several million short, ’cause who flies without rebuy insurance… and who wants to not be able to do any upgrades at all to a new ship…).
So I’m flying an FdL for the first time. Fun!
Expert, Broker, Pioneer… 🙂
I’m not sure I’ve tried the FDL since it got its handling boost. It did seem to move quite well for a big ship though. Also, Space Ferrari.
Wow. Just got an SMS ad/sale notification thingo out of nowhere from this laser skirmish place I went to years ago. Like, I think possibly 2009? And only that one time, haven’t been or heard anything from them since. Weird.
Why are cotton single bed sheet sets so hard to find? And then when I do find them, they’re stupidly expensive.
Because if you’re single and looking for cotton sheets you gotta be loaded?
Being single and having disposable income tend to go hand in hand imo.
Not for me. I’m a pensioner. D=
Not if you’re a Uni student aswell!
*moth flies out of wallet*
…
DAMMIT! I was gonna sell that moth!
Or EAT that moth…
or your current sheets are covered in load!
HEY-OOOOHHHH
Have you looked in the kids’ manchester sections of places like Kmart and Big W?
Where else are you going to buy Star Wars bedsheets!?
Spotlight.
I tried BigW but they sell their sheets seperately
Kogan has some decent sheets for not much money.
I also buy sheeting material and make my own.
Define expensive?
Ikea has 144 thread count cotton sheets for pretty cheap. Not in packs over there apparently but flat sheets are $10, fitted are $10, pillowcases are $5 for a pack of two, so $25 for a set. Dvala is the name of the range. Comes in a bunch of colors.
Brisbane TAY! I’ll be around this weekend!
Two events are happening!
1. Food! Dinner at New Shanghai (Queens Plaza) at 7:30pm on Saturday (5th) followed by drinks afterwards somewhere in the city until whenever you get sick of me.
2. Movie! We’re seeing The Boy and the Beast at 2pm on Saturday at the Myer Centre Event (then probably just hanging around for a while until dinner time)
Hope to see you at at least one of these!
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__ @rocketman @greenius
I’m a possible for the dinner but not the movie. I’ll let you know closer to the time because it will depend on how I feel.
Hmmm, I might be able to catch up with you guys after the film, probably stick around for dinner.
Blaaaagh might not be able to make either!! Might be going to nsw to help my sis move her stuff there. I’ll let you guys know if anything changes, but bummed I *still* wont meet the pow 🙁
You’re doing this on purpose!
Yeah ^^
@sughly is not just a big shot developer, he’s an award winning big shot developer now. He can’t be seen rubbing shoulders with plebs like you or me.
He’s not that special.
Doubt I’ll be able to make it given it’s all happening in the CBD. bit far for me to drive, plus it’d likely be way out of my price range at present. Would love to, but my abilities and funds are limited when it comes to social outings. I might have a sushi date coming up with Shazman111, so gonna save my spendable cash for that, cos no doubt I’m gonna stuff myself stupid since it’s been so long since I ate sushi! 😉
No problem!
Can’t wait til my surgery happens and I’m able to drive as much as I want again. Or even walk for that matter! 😉 Maybe soon! Hospital rang my ENT this morning to confirm some details, so sounds like they’re finally getting around to arranging it! w00t!
Please tell me this one is for this year and not last 😛
What a coincidence that I posted about a trip to Brisbane on this exact day last year 😛 http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/03/talk-amongst-yourselves-317/comment-page-3/#comment-3238789
For the last week or so I’ve been barely capable of much more than laying around watching anime and playing brainless iPad games. I just grabbed Gems Of War and was wondering if anyone here plays it? I want to join a guild but not with scary other people. 😛
Yeah I’ve got it. I haven’t really played it in a month or two though.
Upvote for laying around watching anime cos that was my whole weekend last week =D
I have enough trouble keeping up with MPQ without starting another one
I just read the ad where Kotaku is hiring. I think they should hire a proofreader first, but hey, I can “by a day-to-day sales lead” with the best of them. Hire ME!
Oh yeah. Recieved my copy of funemployed yesterday. Might have to do a boardgame night next weekend. anyone interested?
\o/ my boss is bumping me up to 4 shifts a week. Downside is i’ll be working every Saturday until 7pm, but that’s okay, money is nice, it keeps the bills paid & all that stuff.
If anyone has any spare work, throw it my way…
I know this much, it sure won’t be Woolies, since they’re cutting back on staff cause of Masters..
They might have to cut more than staff after that venture. I still can’t get over the renumeration O’brien received for succeeding in screwing up. Christ I’d love to get paid $10mill for destroying shareholder value.
At least I know I am safe for the moment, cause our store can’t function with any less staff as it is which is nice 😛 But yeah wouldn’t surprise me in the least. The nightfill manager was telling me his boss was telling him to cut back on staff cause he was overspending on wages, his response was “I can’t get it done with less staff & I don’t care.” I guess you get like that after being with the company for 20+ years lol.
They’ve also managed to apparently unload them too.. How is beyond me. I do know Bunnings is looking to buy up a bunch of their sites, presumably where there isn’t a Bunnings currently within a stones throw lol.
So I need to bump off some Woolies employees?
Even then, Woolies would probably be all “meh, just one less person to pay, now everyone work harder to make up for this or you’re next!”
They would be complete fucking morons to start cutting corners at Dan Murphy’s; if I’m remebering correctly it has contributed significantly to their profit margins historically and it’s one of the few places they got back market share. In fact the head of Dan’s is now the CEO so yeah; cost cutting is nice and all but it spit and duct tape for a problem that requires a complete rework of how they look at the company. I’d start by firing half the board and renegotiating the pay-packet for the last CEO.
Agreed. They’d be stupid to do anything to Dan’s, other than make it better imo. Since they have such a stranglehold on liquor retail over Last Choice. Hell, I even find BWS is better than the local Liquorland. Then again I dunno maybe i’m bias lol. But I do prefer Coles over Woolies for a lot of grocery shopping 😛
I feel they’d just be better to ride this out and they’ll be right in a few years, but nope. They’re all about instant porofit & revenue, rather than do the right thing, which is why Masters flopped so hard. Also didn’t help their bright idea was to open next to as many Bunnings as possible, whoever thought people would choose Masters over Bunnings because they were next to them is an idiot and deserves to lose their job.
What’s your background?
Did sales and support at Autodesk/Kinetix for a few years, moved into film restoration, game design, 3D modeling, animation and SFX for feature films and commercials, general computing/tch support, have a B/Gen degree (primary teaching), my original degree was Comp-Sci, but that was when we were using DEC-VAX machines and COBOL, so probably not much of that going around.
I just got Digimon Cyber Sleuth & it’s fackin great, cobber. Strewth!
I could never get into DIgimon.. it was just…. too….. well, rubbish.
Liek Spayse Maureen?
Nah, same. Never played one before, only just watched the 2000 animated movie for the first time a week ago.
But when you get the developer of Chaos Ring, the character designer of Devil Survivor, mix in some Pokemon knock-offs with the battle system from Final Fantasy X, you have just made the perfect game to get jimu’s willy at attention.
Vita or PS4?
I was looking at getting it for Vita just because it felt like a handheld game to me… but I also think I might be grasping for reasons to use my Vita.
Good stuff, would recommend?
You’re talking to Mr Handheld.
But yeah, looks lame on PS4.
It’s a good grind out infinite variations game. Get the sorta kick I get from Demon Fusing in you-know-what.
Ah brilliant. My replacement D Drive is now on the decline, I suppose that’s what I get for ripping it out of an external HDD… Plus it’s also a WD Green. Gonna pick up a simple 1TB WD Blue next week, just to tie me over until I get the money together for a new PC later this year.
We went to the Triple 9 screening last night. Spoilers: It was a film.
I didn’t know there was a Lord of the Fries on George St. That shit was heaps exciting. So much food.
There’s one down near Central Station now too, at the Railway Square end of the Devonshire St tunnel.
Movie was pretty good too, yeah.
Sweet. I’d heard there was one elsewhere, but I only get up to Sydney a handful of times a year.
I’ve tried not speaking of the film too much because I’m already a fan of Hillcoat’s work. Theme wasn’t really up my alley, even though all the pieces were there.
The one in Central delivers to my house.
In other news, I now have all of the obesity-related illnesses. All of them.
Well, with a few rubber bands, I’ve turned my Logitech Driving Force Shifter into a sequential shifter… and to bring it back to h-shift, I just take the rubber bands away. 🙂
Nice!
I have nothing to add to any current conversations. And now..a song..
Hello from the work site!
That’s how I am!
so… No Man’s Sky.
other than ‘procedurally generated’ galaxy and ‘looks pretty’ do we know anything else about the game? like… is it a minecraft sorta thing where you build shit? is it a walking (interstellar spaceflight) simulator thats just there to explore?
seriously. I’m getting the feeling that they’ve dropped the ball in promoting what type of game it is & why should give a shit.
That’s the million dollar question everyone’s asking. Which is gonna hurt it with its unexpected price tag.
I’m expecting Elite x Minecraft basically.
Edit: I hear there is a deep crafting system, survival elements, factions and an ultimate goal of reaching the Core. (everyone starts on the outer rim)
I’m expecting to be exploring the galaxy as I slowly make my way inwards, gathering data, resources, upgrades and allies along the way to help me do so
WIKIPEDIA TO THE RESCUE
weird state of affairs where you’ve gotta go to wiki, rather than trailers etc to find out what a game is.
Honestly, i’m 60% inclined to pick it up, even at AU$70. might wait for the day-one reviews though & grab it soon after if they’re reasonable.
I’ll definitely grab it – it’s one of the very few upcoming releases that interest me.
Undecided on platform though. Probably Ps4.
… Count me in. As long as there’s joystick support… Elite kinda spoiled most other flight controls for me 😛
NmS looks more arcady so I imagine the ships will control more like a plane than a true 6DoF spaceship. Also the walking around bits you’d have to switch to kb/m. So controller would be fine for me.
Although it sounds like there might be typing involved with naming stuff? So maybe a keyboard would be good?
Hmm
Being slightly facetious – I have no idea how it handles/controls. Will probably be fine with KB/M+Controller for wandering and flying respectively. As long as it allows freely swapping between input methods, all good. 😛
At first I thought this was that other game with the crazy budget until I googled “space sim crazy budget” and realised I was thinking of Star Citizen.
I have no idea what No Man’s Sky is trying to accomplish. I know it’s had some impressively pretty demos but I need to know a lot more. I’m sure people who’ve been following the development closely will be more excited, but I’m going to have to wait for reviews.
I’m expecting the game to be at it’s core about exploration; like jo said minecraft x elite. Given I like the artistic direction of No Man’s sky more than Elite definitely something I could get behind and sink many hours into for some zen like exploration.
I thought it was an exploration race to the center of the universe?
(note thats without clicking wiki)
It seems like it’s basically a walking simulator with spaceships and procedural worlds. If it was a $30 downloadable I’d give it a go. At full price though? Nope. Maybe when it’s a PS+ free game in 2017.
WTF Melbourne. 37 in March? It’s never usually this hot
OH SHIT!
I thought my wife said 27 today, not 37!!!
I’m wearing jeans!!!
No way in heck am i leaving the office until midnight!
Yeah, it was supposed to be 27, but then the weather went nuts and decided to go up to 37.
What’s the deal with Melbourne’s sun? It has more bite to it than Sydney (I moved to Melb 3 weeks ago). I’m allergic to sunlight and it’s being a real jerk to me.
Don’t worry in the cooler months it’s basically overcast & rainy 24/7 from my experience 😛
That’s what I’m looking forward to. How else will I wear my matrix jacket… Half joke
It’s not normally this bad. =/
You are at the thinner end of the Ozone layer in Melb, so you probably cop more UV than Sydney does.
There’s less smog and hot air from all the Syndey people to filter out the UV.
That made me grin, people say Melbourne is better because of the human element. So far it seems true…
We’re all too busy drinking coffee to filter out UV
Woke up with a headache, and called work to let them know I wouldn’t be able to make it in today…
I think I’ll make today a me day, just looking afted my own well-being.
Get some use out of that shifter then.
If I can keep the inside temperature down, then I’ll do just that. 🙂
Chest ache or heart ache?
Chest ache = check it out
Heart ache = Hospital. NOW!
Neither, thankfully.
Duh.. i don’t know why I read Headache as heart ache… was worried for a moment haha
Good choice. Drink plenty of water, and rest/sleep a lot. Look after yourself!
So my birthday happened yesterday and I have officially entered the middle of the mid 30’s. Funny, I don’t feel any different although any injuries I get are taking a little longer to get better 😐
Anyway, I had a great day with my 3 year old son yesterday and he sang me happy birthday, it was a heart melter that one 🙂 He wanted me to have a cake, although it wasn’t blue which is the color he was asking me to get. I wouldn’t have had a cake otherwise :D. Too cute!
I then finished off the day by playing tennis comp and winning the match with my 3 other team mates. Overall, great day 10/10 would repeat again.
Happy birthday for yesterday, Haggis!
Whoooo happy mid middle 30’s! I don’t think I know anyone else who’s ever reached that age before! =P Jokes aside happy birthday man! You have one extra party to celebrate this weekend on top of the usual 3-5 you have lined up 😉
Haha, I’ve actually got my birthday party this Saturday night with 50+ people coming at this stage 😀 It will be one huge night that’s for sure. I have to follow that up with a date on Sunday night too. Hopefully, I pull up OK!
Of course you probably just lost my invite in the mail somewhere; all good I’ll see you on Saturday at the yacht!
Happy Birthdat mr Haggis 🙂
Middle of the 30s, man you are so ooooooooooolllllllllldddddddddd
Just stay off my lawn you damn kid.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Bappy hirthday!
Happy birthday Haggis! hope you had an awesome day
I’ve been playing a new playthrough of XCOM: EW the past week or so and finally started using MECs, holy shit… oh my goodness they look so badass, but one of my MECs must have as shitty targeting software as Imperial Stormtroopers. Enemy right in front of him, less than 10 meters away, not even in cover, 55% hit chance, really? 😛 At least my primary MEC gets 80% chance if that happened to him. The randomised stats have made it interesting at least. I enabled everything on Second Wave, including randomised stats AND ability choices. I’ve got a heavy with an Assault’s free reaction shots if enemies run within 4 tiles of him, another heavy has no aim penalty on overwatch reaction shots as well as Assault’s ability to flush enemies out of cover, and a sniper with suppression capability so they can lock down big health enemies from afar so that my closer range guys can fight it more safely. Really really loving this playthrough, only irk is I keep running out of funds too quickly, haha xD. Still gotta buy the highest tier of weaponry for the soldiers after I finally managed to get powerful aircraft ready for the future and the toughest armour for soldiers.
However, MECs have alternatives, if hit chance is too low, just bob down and shoot a grenade out of its back to explode them AND the cover. If I got a group of Chrysalids running at my team (Last time this happened it was 3 at once in a small area, just run in front of them and douse them in glorious flames.
Spoilered for a council mission that’s EW only:
Also one of the special missions, with the Chrysalid infested docks where you had to set the cargo ship to be bombed while Chrysalids were constantly bursting from the whale carcass as well as hanging shark bodies. My first attempt ever of this, only one of my soldiers got out alive. This time, didn’t lose a single soldier, I’m very proud of this 😀Yeah goddamn when that mission first happened to me I was like screw you game! This shit don’t end! Next time I had like 5 people on overwatch and just charged my assault in for the button and rang back throwing out rockets the whole way.
I used my MEC since he could get up there first with jump-jet boots (Which is also bloody awesome to do!) while the others huddled in a group not too far away from my MEC so they can give covering fire, worked like a charm, even if the bullshit rolls hit, it’s 5 total shots, eventually something will hit! 😛
I barely used MECs in EW. Something about going “hey solider over there, we’re going to cut off your arms and legs…maybe replace some organs or something, I dunno” felt a bit wrong.
FYI that mission is in EU too, and I love it 😛
Sounds like someone is afraid of providing the gift that is “The Machine Evolution”… 😛
Huh… I never got that mission in EU, ergo my assumption there.
It’s most definitely an Enemy Within thing: http://xcom.wikia.com/wiki/Site_Recon
Could have sworn I went through that on my first playthrough. I guess it’s been long enough that it’s all blurring together 😛
Knowing what happens in that council mission makes a massive difference to the way that you set up your troops.
Who else caught the Nintendo direct? Wasn’t really anything fantastic or any bombshells but it was nice to see a couple of things.
The good
Star Fox Zero is looking pretty great
New Rhythem Heaven game for 3DS
SMT x Fire Emblem is looking very, very good (and has original JAP audio)
New characters for HYPErule Warriors.
Super NES VC finally being released for (new) 3DS
The bad
2 MONTHS UNTIL FIRE EMBLEM!? REALLY!? REALLY!? ARGHGJSHDHDUIFKKDHSHHS *collapses ontop of keyboard*
Worry not friend, 2 months is ample enough time for me to crunch the data so that I can give you objectively correct eugenics advice to optimise stat growth for all characters and classes for units and their offspring.
I expect a multiple worksheets all with the maximum amount of rows used by the time the game is released here.
Yeah, there’s three games worth of babbies to optimize this time so we need the extra time to make sure everything’s prepared for you guys.
I really don’t like the visual style of Star Fox Zero. It’s big and colourful, but it looks to me like they got a less colourful game and just whacked the saturation up to 11, and called it a day. Feels like a missed opportunity to really nail a style there. I’m hoping it plays well though, I never really got into Lylat Wars when I played it at a friend’s house.
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Didn’t see this, that’s so cool.
I love rhythm heaven so that is good news for me!
I haven’t actually played it but heard good things about it (from you actually I think =P)
It’s TMS #FE now, not SMT xFE. They flipped it! Also I am so excited for that, esp. since afterwards i can throw my Wii U in the bin where it belongs.
Don’t care about anything else.
This and Xenoblade are the two games I’m planning on getting with the Wiiu at some point this year. Then put it in storage until similar games come out.
So, Division has posted a roadmap for their first year. Three events coming in the first few months, followed by two expansions later in the year. Sounds eerily familiar… player trading aside. :3
I still haven’t decided if I’m going to get it or not. I enjoyed what I saw in the beta AND it’ll have Australian servers, but I really don’t like the way they’re handling DLC. Tying events to the season pass feels wrong.
I am in full hype mode at the moment.
So… we gonna get past page 4 this week?
Maybe?
NEVVERRR!! Hey loops Conquest related question; did you double up on the various expansion packs to get multiple copies of cards?
You only ever need one of each expansion as they all contain 3 of each non-warlord-related card. 3 is the maximum of any non-special card you can have in a built deck.
The only thing you would ever need multiple copies of for tournament level games is the core set, as the core has only one copy of a lot of good cards.
Which is why I won’t need it for my Necron deck that might consist of Space Marine or Ork slaves, we’ll see. 🙂
Aha that makes sense. So the expansion packs (big and small?) have all the copies of their respective cards already? So if you wanted to have max copies of all the core cards you would need 3 core packs?
Well 3 copies of all the more powerful cards in the core races, yes you need 3 core packs.
Yeah, what Techy said.
For example, a couple of the best cards for the Space Marine faction (Honored Librarian especially) have only one copy of that card in the core, hence you need 3 cores.
But it also depends on the deck you want to build – for some you may only need 2 cores.
For example, another good SM card is Blood Angels Veterans – you get 2 copies of this in the core.
Long story short – one of each expansion, at least 2 cores, but 3 is preferable.
I still only have 1 core and most expansions and have been getting my ass handed to me in most games in my league where everyone has 3 cores and all expansions. I’m averaging 1 win for every 3 games. Although there was one round where i pulled off 2 wins for 3 games, which was nice.
@tech_knight thanks peeps; sounds like that 3 core packs base is kind of important. Might just keep playing casually and look to get the collection setup over the next few months 🙂 Stupid necrons being able to ally with any race =@
The latest expansion has an ork warlord that lets you use any SM or IG vehicle as if they were ork vehicles.
Impressive stuff and great for making a speed freaks themed deck.
Orks and Leman Russ/Predator Tanks?! Ouch!
It’s not as simple as that, especially if I want to do two other races (You can only use one other race per round, the other race you haven’t got selected actually won’t do anything if they’re out in the field), but if I go only one slave race… yeah I can ally with technically anyone and it’s always usable, but it’ll all come down to what card types are officially included as compatible with the slave mechanic. Nothing is really locked in until the rulebook comes in to tell me.
Edit: This will lock in which race it’ll be, if I can take SM units with AoE, I’m slaving them up, otherwise it’ll be Orks cuz they’re deadly fighters and great cannon fodder for Necron abilities
The blood angels assault squad are awesome for some aoe with 2 damage per hit. Most aoe only do 1 damage
@chuloopa Why do you think I want them so bad in my deck? AoE is boss on my combat strategies xD
Hey look over there, is that a… Dad Joke?!
#DadJokePage4 #RIPDadJokePage6
Everywhere I drive I keep seeing signs that say ‘End Roadworks’, yet there seem to be more roadworks than ever.
That particular campaign obviously isn’t going too well…
The Egyptians started the pyramid scheme, they are in the Nile about it, people who lost reckon it sphinx, however the investigations are ongoing which is pharaoh enough, mummy’s the word!
My wife told me she thought we’d have less arguments if I wasn’t so pedantic.
I told her ‘I think you mean fewer’.
I’m planning on selling a lot of birds.
Everything going cheap.
I’ve been thinking of adding a bedroom and a bathroom on top of my house, but that’s another story.
Finding a woman sobbing that she had locked her keys in her car, a passing soldier assures her that he can help. She looks on amazed as he removes his trousers, rolls them into a tight ball and rubs them against the car door.
Magically it opens…….
“That’s so clever,” the woman gasps. “How did you do it?”
“Easy,” replies the man. “These are my khakis”.
So much folklore has accumulated around that whole big ship/iceberg set-to (You know the one. They may have made a movie or two), but one that’s quite remarkable is the behaviour of the second fellow manning the radio room.
Very early on, they knew they weren’t going to survive, and so they locked themselves in. While the first one sent out SOS signals to anyone within distance, the second broadcast music and announcements over the PA System.
Between songs, he’d remain calm and positive, delivering such messages as “If we remain calm, we can all get out of this” and “There are plenty of lifeboats for everyone. You’ll be safe soon.”
His only negative announcement was his final one, made to those still trapped on board in cabins or air pockets as the ship finally went under fully.
“For those who can still hear me, the ship is now fully submerged. I think we might be in a bit of trouble.”
And that, my friends, is what we call a Titanic Under Statement.
Went out to dinner last night. When we’d finished the waiter asked “Would you like a box for your leftovers?”
I said “No, but I’m happy to wrestle you for them”.
I’m so broke, I cant even pay attention.
I once forgot to bring my wallet to a funeral, couldn’t even pay respects.
I thought my dad would be angry when I told him I had lost my wallet, but he told me not to worry, that it was in my genes.
something something press x to pay respects, right? 😛
After a long day of work, Kanye West goes to his Kanye Nest to take his Kanye Rest. He wakes up feeling his Kanye Best. Then he’ll get Kanye Dressed on his Kanye Vest to go on a Kanye Quest. He goes to church and becomes Kanye Blessed, then to a hotel room to be a Kanye Guest. Then to school to take his Kanye Test. He forgot to brush his teeth. Did he run out of Kanye Crest? His neighbor stole it, what a Kanye Pest.
So the Presto App on PS4 is a joke. I can’t even log in because they for some reason don’t include a full list of keyboard characters for the password field, forcing me to go to a computer change the password to something that will work & then painfully re-enter my details cause that’s just god awful how they expect you to navigate the text field.
Cancelled my sub & they asked me to fill out a survey, well I sure let them know how I felt about it ha.
So 10/10 Keyboard missing letters would sub again?
Yep. At first I thought I was mistaking | for ! nope, they’re missing ! and quite a few other symbols, it’s weird. That’ll teach me for having a password with uppercase, lowercase letters along with numbers & symbols >_>
Ugh people. What a bunch of bastards.
Bloody great. A page get..
Here here! To people! *clinks glass*
Damn I just ran out of beer to cheers. Hmmm I think I better grab another
EDIT: *cheers*
work, neighbours, shopping or news?
People hating on the NSW Police for supporting Mardi Gras & the LGBT community. But yeah, all those above fit in as well, minus work 😛
Just got my replacement card from my bank.
…and it looks like the woman’s sent me out a replacement visa debit card, instead of a replacement for my expired ATM card. What. Also it has a different number to my other/previous debit card, unlike the one before that. And now the banks are closed too. Bah.
Banks still issue just ATM cards? I thought you could basically just get a VISA/Mastercard debit card and that was that..
Shrug. The letter I got still specifically mentioned my ATM card and having it replaced, so I presume they’re still a thing. That’s the one I keep in my wallet and use for shopping/getting money out. The debit card I keep at home and only use for online purchases. Figure it’s safer to keep the two separate in case something happens.
The way most banks do it now is you get a debit card that can access your linked savings / checking account via normal EFTPOS or via ‘Credit’. Very rare to get a bank card that only does EFTPOS.
Yeah this. It’s been about 5 or 6 years since my bank offered another method, unless you wanted a ‘temporary’ card that was EFTPOS only. If you’re my dad you just use that instead of activating the debit card with paypass lol.
I do wish banks would offer debit chip cards without paypass though, I don’t like it & don’t like using it. Yet here I am stuck with a feature that is all too easy to accidentally use when paying x.x
Look at you guys with your fancy-pants complaints about paypass.
Over here in ‘murica we don’t do that mark of the beast bullshit. We still swipe the magnetic strip and sign for shit like God intended.
For serious, I was stunned recently when I went to Target and they required me to insert my card and enter a pin. That is literally only just rolling out here nowWow 😐 I like the security the chip gives, but man. Paypass is honestly annoying, EB Games & Woolworths take a full week before they actually take the funds from your account, I find it’s so backwards.
Yeah, it was big news this week when ALDI US announced that they were *accepting credit cards* as a form of payment.
I saw that on Facebook and was all “Huh, but Aldi already do that..?” Then I got to read the article & it eventually said it was the states, my confusion subsided then 😛
I wonder if they’ll be charging the 0.5% (or is it 0.2%?) there on credit transactions like they do here. I didn’t see any mention of that.
I’m not going to recommend it since I’ve never tried it, but apparently you can locate and drill out the antenna on the card which disables the RFID while leaving the chip 100% functional. I guess the worst case scenario is you ruin your card and have to wait for a new one to arrive.
You can still use the magnetic strip if you break the chip though 😛
I’m wondering if it’s possible to kill it by punching a hole through the antenna set in the card.
The main thing for me is I don’t want another wireless card in my wallet. I have my Opal card in one side, and my work security pass in the other. There’s enough cards and leather between the two to stop any interference from the one on the opposite side when I put my wallet on the scanner, but having another one in the middle will screw things up.
You’d be better off getting an RFID blocker slip for it tbh.
Those cost money though. This is free!
So is my dads method of foil & some tape 😛
Or maybe it was laminating sheets & some foil. Either way he make a little holder for his paypass card lol.
Huh, didn’t think to try that. I guess if I do get stuck down the track I can slip a strip of foil in the pocket behind it or something. Awesome 😛
You can probably get your bank to send you out a ATM card and keep the Debit card active if you call them up and ask. That’s what I did. Although now I use the Debit card pretty often. It speeds things up a lot on the self serve checkouts.
I like nightfill, getting paid to listen to my iPod and not deal with customers, what could be better!
I got Devil’s Third for the Wii U yesterday. I paid full price, and you know what? It was totally worth it. It’s one of those games that I’m not entirely sure why it got reviewed so badly. It’s a good, B-game with nice controls, ok visuals, but most importantly, it’s a LOT of fun. The frame rate sucks at times, and some of the textures are iffy, but that’s pretty much all the bad I can say about it. I haven’t been able to put the game down – it’s doing something right.
It reminds me of the whole Zombie U thing – American press reviewed it badly, but the Euro press loved it. Except nobody seemed to love Devil’s Third.
I think it’ll definitely become a more desirable game as time goes on, just like God Hand on the PS2 – that game was savaged by the critics of the time, but has developed a cult following since then, and is now generally well-regarded.
If you’ve got a Wii U and you like action movies (seriously, the game is very much a late 80’s/early 90’s Cannon Action flick in game form), then I’d say go for it. It’s super-fun 🙂
I thought it seemed like one of those reviewed-bad-but-actually-enjoyable ones. Definitely wasn’t going to pay full price for it though 😛 Grabbed it for I think $30 or $35 off Beat the Bomb’s eBay store, seemed like a fair price. Haven’t actually played it yet, but my other friends seem to be enjoying it.
Huzzah! Plain old eftpos card get! The guy told me they’re getting pushed to give out visa debit cards instead, so they don’t have many left. But I’ll worry about that in another few years 😛
Heh, I sound so bitter in that article about Apple & the Oculus. Personally I don’t see why a company who sells computers aimed at the idea they’re for the most part for content creation. Especially the likes of the Mac Pro, Apple don’t (never seemed to) care about computer gaming. So why should they now?
First spiny leaf insect hatchlings came through. There were casualties.
Hehe, the street view icon on Google Maps is a little Link 🙂
Would’ve posted a commentearlier this evening, but I’ve been too busy playing Twilight Princess HD.