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First?
Second!
Hairy chest!
Fou– wait.
I thought I could see the pattern, but now I’m just lost.
Fish!
Cake!
Third is the one with the hairy chest?
Apparently? Or is that some line from a rhyme or something?
The only one I can remember is “Second is the best, better then the rest, and third is the one with the hairy chest”
I just remembered the other
“First in the worst, second is the best and third is the one with the hairy chest.”
Don’t forget Zero the Hero 😛
Huzzah! Now that I have you attention, the kids and I took their mother picnicking and bush walking for mothers day. We found a bat colony, and stepped in much guano. I think she may have actually enjoyed herself!
On a gaming note, I finished with my first run through of Dark Souls 3, and am now well into a NG+. Is it just me, or does this Dark Souls feel a bit easier this time round?
I think any Dark Souls game is going to feel easier to someone who’s already played a previous ‘soulsborne game. Once you understand the basics of the language that’s being spoken, each iteration is really just about adjusting to that language’s regional dialect.
I think running a melee build as opposed to my usual caster also has something to do with it.
Were you using a longsword build? I’ve read a few times that build is the closest the game gets to an easy mode.
It’s what I used and all of a sudden I realised that I was finding things quite a bit easier than any of the other games, much like when I stumbled on a greatsword build in Salt & Sanctuary and the game got half as hard.
Yeah, currently rocking a maxed out Irithyll Straight Sword.
Try farm up a dark sword. They’re bloody awesome.
Dark Sword has been my ol’ faithful for pretty much my entire first playthrough.
So long as poise is broken, it’s broken for PVP. Fast, strong, and staggers. Maybe after poise gets put back in there’ll be more viable alternatives to quick, strong weapons.
It’s been reliable for PvE…
PvP it’s good enough to swing to win against medium shields – anyone rocking less than a great shield will block less times than I swing. Shields aside, the quick swing speed also really helps the whole lack of poise thing, means even if I get clipped I can often return the favour before disengaging.
And it hits hard, so if you’re trading blows against someone else with a straight-sword, unless they’re running a luck/anri, they’re probably going to come off worse.
@transientmind I ended up trading with someone else also running a dark sword, until we both dropped through simultaneous kills. Still got my shackle so it was fine by me 🙂
I struggled against some guy with a rapier the other day. So annoying.
Now what you gotta try is a challenge playthrough. Like a level 1 run.
I’m doing that and gotten up to Irithyll without too much trouble. Gonna be interesting from here on though.
Good morning TAY
Last song played game time? Yeah it is!
You Have Never Lived Because You Have Never Died by Listener
How were your weekends?
What was YOUR last song played?
Hysteria – Muse.
Worked at the VCE Careers Expo this last week and weekend, if I never hear my own voice again I will probably be happy.
Last played song: Settle – Vera Blue
House of Pain – Jump Around.
Clearly, this is the best radio station ever.
Alien Ant Farm – Smooth Criminal
In Waves – Trivium
Danger Zone – Kenny Loggins
Essential for canyon-flying.
hehehe. Was doing that in my ‘conda. Requires a lot of thinking ahead…
And some big-arse canyons.
Valleys rather than canyons, it’s true.
Burn The Witch- Radiohead
These Things You Can’t Unlearn – 65daysofstatic
Endless Forms Most Beautiful – Nightwish. Not my favourite from that album, but I don’t think there’s a single track on it that’s below a 8/10.
Happy birthday Helen – Things of stone and wood
When I originally tried to reply to this it was Bob Marley & The Wailers – Waiting in Vain
Now it’s Jamiroquai – Corner of the Earth
NESkimos – Courage
Nice bit of video game-inspired rock.
https://soundcloud.com/neskimos/courage-demo
Hachiouji-P/Hatsune Miku – Blue Star, apparently.
I’d like to take this opportunity to announce my retirement from the ‘I’d like to take this opportunity to announce my retirement from’ club.
This probably comes as no suprise to a lot of you, but for those of you who weren’t in ‘the know’ I’d like to take this opportunity to take up an offer to take up this opportunity to announce my retirement from the ‘ I’d like to take this opportunity to announce my retirement from’ club.
Let it be known that this was a long time coming & it’s nothing personal but I feel I’ve reached the moment in my life where letting those of you in the know, as well as those who weren’t, that this has been a long time coming.
Special thanks to pillows & The Pillows as well as a very special thanks going out to those of you who weren’t in ‘the know’ (even if you were).
In conclusion, I’d like you all to remember that cheese is often yellow in colour & that there aren’t enough hours in a day (or was that days in a year?).
Thank you.
I am really confused @_@
Meth, not even once.
I am really enjoying playing overwatch with everyone! =D
But the difference between the bots and the actual human players is ridiculous.
I am enjoying being bad at overwatch with everyone =P
Jokes aside the matchmaking has some serious quirks, I played 3 games yesterday where I was up against 3 level 20+ with my team being all below level 10. Obviously onslaught ensued. I’ve since noticed players connect to a game, and a few seconds later leave probably after seeing which way the teams were rigged.
tl;dr Maybe 10-15% of the games I played were close competitive matches with the rest being steamrolls one way or the other.
I played against someone who was level 45 and my god they absolutely wrecked everything. Mind you, it felt so good when I finally managed to kill them.
It’s probably also worth remembering there are a lot of players out there who would be in their early profile levels but probably had access all through closed beta putting them at a very different skill level.
Pretty much. Mind you, I’m level 16 and not very good =P
On the plus side, at least you’ll sometimes get grouped with those ridiculous human players. 🙂
I found in PUG’ing against Hard AI, we lost more than we won.
It’s a nicely-polished game, that. And very pretty. I don’t think I’ll be picking it up, though – novelty was wearing off pretty damn quick, it really is basically a better TF2.
Yeah I’ll have to agree it’s very polished and love the characters but…. loses novelty quickly (case in point couldn’t play for more than 40-50 minutes at a time over the weekend). That said just atmosphere it creates is enough to have me jumping on for a few quick matches each week.
Would’ve loved to see these characters in a different setting though… pity =[
It has not worn off for me.
I’m terrible D=
I would love to see a racing game using D Va’s mechs. =P
I would shell out so much for the Super Siege Tank arcade game if they made that.
The novelty hasn’t worn off for me yet but I’m curious to see what happens to Overwatch after it launches. I really dig the world and the characters that they’ve made and I want to see more of it.
I would like a story mode
The good news is you can see some of these characters when they get brought over to Heroes of the Storm. 😛
Come buy bastion now! He’ll be OP for the first 6 months where he costs ridiculous amounts of money/gold but after that we’ll nerf for “balance” but release new heroes instead to take his place at being OP!
I’m getting increasingly filthy when you start up a game as attack and everyone immediately goes Hanzo/Tracer/Widowmaker/McCree with someone doubling up on one of the snipers.
Nobody can absorb any damage, there’s no healing and it’s just Team Selfish. Ticks me off. Such a fun game though. Got a few levels on console and level 16 now on PC as well.
This. This pisses me off to no end. I had a team of 3 tracers once. Two I can deal with.
We also played a game with 4 bastions.
This happened at the Blizzcon where Overwatch was announced. I sat down in the public arena to test the game and on defence everyone decided to go Bastion. We had 6 Bastion’s on Temple of Anubis defending.
The Blizz employee watching took a photo, he thought it was so funny.
One person playing Reaper teleported behind and took out four of us and then used an ult to wipe out the remaining two. We didn’t win.
Serves them right. Hopefully they won’t be selfish next time. Probably not though
Yeah I find I can’t play my favourite heroes if I want to win and I can’t win if I play them because the team comp gets fucked.
You’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
So to summarize I’m just damned? =O
Well, you know I also care about team composition. So if you picked an attack class, I would pick up something else.
And even if you do go tank or support, no-one sticks together and it’s wasted.
Excuse me, every time you played a tank I tried to stick to you like glue. =P And then apologised when you died.
Haha, not you. Randoms. You did gud.
So did you!
Eh, I’m very hit and miss.
Sometimes I’ll make good plays and be a solid asset to the team.
Othertimes I play like a dumb useless scrub and drag everyone down.
But what can you do. it’s all in good fun.
That’s it, i still have fun. TF2 I felt completely useless.
Yeah, was fun.
I dunno how much longevity it has for me but jumping on with peeps for a few is great.
I’d like to see more vs Ai options. Like a horde mode or something.
They should add more stuff. I would like to see Mercy with a double jump or some flying ability, because there are a lot of characters I can’t reach if they’re not close to the edge.
Her shift ability is flight isn’t it? Like as long as you have LoS to a corpse or friendly player you can fly to it?
Yeah, you can hover with Mercy if you hold down the jump button (SPACE by default). Shift flies to the nearest target.
If the person is in your line of sight. She doesn’t hover, she decends slowly
I feel like I should clarify. I want the ability to get up to the high spots as Mercy. Unless your Hanzo or widowmaker is near the edge of a roof, you can see they are critical, but you can’t lock onto them unless you can see them. From below, this means they have to be near the edge for you to be able to fly to them. It’s frustrating because a lot of the people that can get to high places will not come to you for healing. You have to go to them.
Like TF2’s Mann vs Machine? That’d certainly be something.
Morning, TAY.
Hyped as hell for DOOM on Friday!
I’ll probably fire up Brutal Doom tonight to tide me over.
Also, it’s apparently supposed to pour today. ;_;
I am looking forward to that. Sadly I won’t really have much of that weekend to myself. Work’s insane this week, and I’ve gotta stop sacrificing sleep for fun…. but looking forward to snatching a couple hours anyway. 🙂
No apparently about it anymore
Looks like overwatch got a 24 hour extension on its open beta, pretty awesome but still not long enough for me to get 25 to try out competitive mode 🙁
Pretty sure they said they’re removing competitive mode at launch while they redo the whole thing.
So… CoD is going into the far future while Battlefield is going into the far past. Hmmmm…. decisions decisions.
I think I’ve had my fill of CoD no matter what they do. Find it just doesn’t have a lot of longevity for me. Same shit, different round.
Bf though is a bit better – games and maps and playstyle options are more varied and has a better progression system and challenges.
Will be picking up Bf1 I think.
I’m actually more interested in CoD now that I have been in years. Blops never really did it for me, and AW was interesting but my interest in CoD campaigns (never the multi – discard it from the conversation utterly) sort of petered out around MW2.
Reason being, the game seems to be one of those franchises whose titles always, always, always stay at AAA launch price for fucking YEARS. The campaign is usually only ever a few hours! That’s not worth $90-100 to me! But it STAYS like that until the technology is redundant and I no longer care.
I picked up Ghosts recently when it was on sale and have been pretty entertained by it so far, but it’s kind of showing its age and even though it’s ‘mostly enjoyable’, it’s in a very pop-corn way. Mindless boomsplosionmanshooty stuff with annoyances well-entrenched in the franchise, like tutorializing nifty features for the entire duration that you use them, and never fucking using them again.
At least with this latest iteration of CoD, we’ll be seeing not only a regular campaign which looks frickin’ awesome if the trailer’s anything to go by, with a very interesting shift to space-fighter combat and segues back and forth between that and on-foot fighting, but we’re getting classic Modern Warfare remastered. And that’s definitely worth a re-visit.
New Radiohead album out today! Have yet to listen but I’ve really enjoyed the two singles so far. They’re the only band I can think of that’s managed to stay relevant for 20+ years and not become one of those ‘legacy’ acts.
I’ve listened to Burn the Witches soooo many times. Love it, but the video scares me (Wickerman on a whole scares the shit out of me too).
NOT THE BEES
Dream Theater (31). Iron Maiden (41). Lamb of God (22). Muse (22). In Flames (26). Alice in Chains (29). Rise Against (17 – still count!).
Judas Priest (48) [/votethrow] 😛
Would Tool Count in here too?
If Tool had put out an album in the last 10 years then maybe they’d count!
Respectfully I would argue that Dream Theater and Iron Maiden are firmly in the legacy category, as they have their dedicated fans but don’t have the widespread respect that a band like Radiohead commands
I guess it depends how you define ‘legacy’.
Sure, maybe they aren’t quite as popular as they used to be… but in this context, I’d say it means that they are still putting out great new music, rather than bands like AC/DC or Rolling Stones, who technically are still active and touring, but no one gives two shits about any songs they have put out in the last 10-20 years.
Plus, like @virus_ said, Iron Maiden’s new album has sold out stadiums all over the world this year, and at the end of the day Dream Theater were never a mainstream band – they released a greatest hits album, which was called ‘Greatest Hit (…and 21 other pretty cool songs)’ because they have only ever had 1 song get any widespread radio airtime
Maiden really aren’t though. I fail to see how a band who releases an album & then plays more than half of it live with the fans loving it is ‘legacy’. Personally I love it when bands go out in support of a new album & then have half the set list dedicated to the new album.
I dunno.. I went to Iron Maiden last week in Brisbane, the band played 6 of 11 songs off their new album ‘The Book of Souls’ to an almost sold out arena & the crowd loved it. Then again The Book of Souls is a fantastic album, so there’s that as well.
They Might Be Giants have been going for more than 30 years and are still fabulous!
Good morning TAYbes!
Omg Uncharted 4 tomorrow, I am literally wiggling around in my seat I’m so excited. Or maybe I need to pee.
Does anyone have any ideas about who’s going to have it cheapest? I’ve got no pre-orders and like, 30 minutes tomorrow lunch to grab a copy. I could download it but I’m confused about what’s in the special edition?
Man, people are so hype about that and I still haven’t finished watching the ‘movie’ version of 2 or 3. (I own 2, but just couldn’t muster the enthusiasm for finishing it.) By the time I get around to 4, someone will have cobbled together a movie for that, too.
But AAA pricing interests me. In general, Big W and Target usually have ultra-low day-one discounts on the big AAA titles, which won’t be price-matched by JB or EB. But at the moment, the only prices I see for the big department stores are pretty much on par with the boutiques – $84’ish for standard. Which is higher than the PSN digital standard of $80, but MUCH lower than the EB price of $99 and a little lower than JB’s $89. At those rates, it’s not actually much more expensive to buy the digital deluxe through PSN at $107.
Deluxe in that instance only includes some multiplayer bonuses (skins, hats, currency) and a SP DLC level (when it comes out). Physical deluxe at EB is $199 for a statue and a teensy mini-artbook. Doesn’t seem worth it.
I reserved mine from the local jibber store so will go and get it tomorrow… reasonably hype.
STELLARIS
Multiplayer sometime?
It’s not out for another few hours isn’t it? It needs to hurry the hell up
Releases at 6pm CEST. So… 2am tomorrow for me. *cries*
Apparently it’s 1800GMT which converts to 4am for me
Really? Everything I’m reading says CEST… There’s a reddit post that said GMT, but it got retitled with “Correction: CEST”… Not that it makes a difference for me – won’t be able to start playing until tomorrow night, anyway.
Ahh I see, I must have misread the post. Still stuffs up the chances of playing it today
I went to start the download this morning, only to find that the release is 1800 CEST – 0200+1 AEST. I’ve never played a grand strategy game multiplayer, I imagine the games would take forever.
Oh, it wouldn’t be an exercise in completion, it would be “lets all tool around in the same universe for a night or two”
I’d be very happy too 😀
(See post below, after 2am tomorrow :>@
Happy Stellaris Day!
I shall give it a try tonight after I’ve helped fix my parents next computer
Remotely. 900Km away
Totally. I’d want to get a single player session or two out first so I have a vague notion of what I’m doing.
But I suspect sessions might be on the long side.
Yeah, might be one of those things where we agree to a time limit for each session of a couple hours.
I’d be happy to. Been a long time since I played EU-IV, and never done MP before, but it sounds like a lot of fun.
GURPS
After kicking around those ideas for an RPG campaign last week, my wife instructed me to just pick one. Super Nazis it is, now I just need to understand GURPS.
In trying to get my head around some of the rules, I’ve been making a few characters and they don’t seem as heroic as I had expected. The rules suggest that a roll should be made when a hero’s health, wealth or reputation is at risk – so, looking (well, not actually – since I’m at work :() at Parachuting, clearly a hero’s health is at risk if anything goes wrong, so a roll should be made – is that right? How do you do 100 training jumps and not critically fail once? That would lead me to think a pretty high situational bonus should apply, or there are some situations where checks aren’t required?
Is there a particular reason you’re going Gurps?
Not especially. The d20 system derivatives that I’ve played in a modern setting have all been pretty unsatisfying; the classless/level-less nature of GURPS suits the campaign pretty well, I think.
Are you looking for tactical combat or a layer or two of abstraction?
I want combat to feel risky, with the players rewarded for good tactics – so definitely some abstraction, but there’ll only be a couple of combat encounters per session. Ideally, with a good application of their skills, players should be able to avoid the most risky encounters, identify and execute ambushes and gain advantage with sound tactical choices – cover, flanking and suppression. If they do get into a gun battle, ideally it should be quick – hopefully achievable if I can describe things well enough, without having to resort to pulling out a battle-mat and minis.
Have you tried Savage worlds?
To add to this, Savage Worlds actually has a supplement dedicated to weird and wacky WWII stuff called Weird War II. It might not have as much mecha stuff or Nazi super-science but you can pull that from other Savage Worlds books as well.
Also Achtung Cthulu
One of these days I’ll play a Lovecraft style game. All of my friends want to be heroic and win at RPGs while I’m totally down for completely and utterly failing in stopping immortal Elder Gods from destroying the world.
I did back Lovecraftesque last year, could be fun to run once it comes out
@redartifice That was 7th edition Call of Cthulhu right? Or was there another Lovecraft game that was kickstarted last year?
@popdart5 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1122788890/lovecraftesque
I haven’t – cliff notes?
It’s fairly setting agnostic, but people have created Settings for it as well.
there are 5 base Attributes that you spend points on, then your skills use those attributes. The skills themselves are quite broad and allow for a lot of different things.
The character creation piece has an Edge(perk)/Hindrance system that helps to balance the character. Here’s a link to the Test drive which gives you basic rules and understanding.
https://www.peginc.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Test_Drive_2015.pdf
If you’re looking at the light end of the spectrum (where Savage Worlds sits) FATE might also be worth a look. Uses Fudge dice which can be faked with d6s
With GURPS, I haven’t played it but I heard that it can get very finicky as there are rules for pretty much every situation and every possible skill.
I’m curious though. Do you want a lot of detail and mechanics or would you prefer something a bit more pulpy and loose with the rules?
I think GURPS, like D&D, can get finicky if the players let it. With my group, a situation will probably progress like:
PC: “Can I do X?”
Me: “I don’t see why not. Do you have [skill]?”
PC: Either “Yes”, “No”, or “Can I use [different skill] because reasons?”
Me: On the spot decision so we can keep playing.
GURPS has a lot of potential skills, but then you can default them to a attribute score or another skill (with a penalty), so I’m feeling that it’ll probably suit my group.
Keeping everything under control with GURPS is advice I’ve heard a fair bit. There is apparently a real danger of getting so bogged down with the rules that the game collapses under its own weight. It sounds like you’ve got it covered so I wish you the best of luck.
On a side note, I’m jealous of your Iron Reich game idea. I’ve never had a chance to play in a WW2 style RPG and your game sounds like a tonne of fun.
My weekend was pretty good. Mother’s Day lunch yesterday followed by setting my new computer up in the afternoon. I had a mild stress session when the network adapter didn’t seem to work but that was easily fixed by updating the drivers.
Saturday was 40K RPG during the day and Game of Thrones at night. Both were pretty great although I really need to learn to stop almost dying every time I play my space marine. Copping a Mega Nob’s power klaw is not good for my health.
Dammit @sernobulus
He was right there! I couldn’t NOT do it!
That’s what he said?
Morning all! Weekend was pretty excellent. My girlfriend has been out of town for the last week for work, and leaves again today to Japan for more work! It’s our 9 year anniversary on Saturday, so we celebrated over the weekend. Had some friends over for dinner and drinks on Friday night, Saturday we went out for super-expensive fancypants dinner ($250 for 2 people, but they forgot to charge us the extra $120 for the matching wine so it wasn’t so bad!) then saw Civil War, then Sunday we literally just sat around doing nothing – it was bliss.
Hoping to play heaps of Witcher this week – I leave for a 2-week trip to Italy on Saturday, so hopefully I can get through it by then!
So many more tickets today. So so many. Constant three-day weekends have their downside ;_;
Speaking of, lost most of this one to Elite. The Engineers beta hit on Friday, and I spent most of my time trying out the new Enhanced Thrusters on all the ships that could take them. Sidewinder, Hauler, Adder, Eagle, Viper, Imperial Eagle, Courier. Total pain in the arse doing it, with the engineer being 2kls from the drop-in point for that system, but she’s on a damn cool planet for it absolutely covered with awesome valleys and canyons to fly through. Stripped them all back to lightweight racing-grade (though with shields) to see just what they could do. Still need to go back through them all and see which ones are combat capable, but it’s possible to *just* squeeze out a combat-capable Sidewinder with them and it sure helps. Haven’t yet been able to try out any Elite Anacondas yet though, but we’ll see. The Eagle’s got no hope though, barely enough power to run a single beam and it overheats like crazy. Imperial Eagle’s the fastest of all of them, and shows some promise although the Courier’s probably a safer bet. Not sure I’d take it over my Diamondback though, while it’s slower it’s still a pretty damn fast ship and feels a whole lot more nimble.
Had one guy at the engineer base ask if I wanted to race, we got in a pair of Eagles and among a huge series of problems trying to drop in on the planet without the game crashing or hanging, flew around for a bit. Not really racing so much as taking turns in the lead while flying through the place, but it was absurdly fun even just trying to follow someone weaving through and around the surface. Would absolutely love to have more places where you can do that kind of thing.
Non-game stuff, sister and her boyfriend came over on Saturday and we went out for dinner for his birthday and Mother’s Day. The local Vietnamese place has been done up a bit, and got a few new dishes too. Great as always. Had a pretty good hazelnut-encrusted cake afterwards too.
Apparently the house next to my grandfather’s place sold for over a million bucks. Absolutely ridiculous, it’s the tiniest shittiest little thing. But hey, I guess it’s good news for his place.
Sunday night, got my weekly “see you tomorrow” message from Aerialist, also mentioning when she’d be free to go to the Lego exhibit. With an added “just as friends” stipulation. Guess that’s that mystery solved then 😛 Experiment succeeded.
Side Overwatch note does anyone else love the little story interactions between characters before you start a match? I once heard Tracer tell Reinhardt he might be getting too old to keep doing this!
First game I popped into, Tracer was telling Tracer that there must be some sort of paradox.
Shame that meant we had two Tracers in the game, and the odds of having more than one good tracer are infinitesimally small.
And which were you? The good Tracer?
I wasn’t playing Tracer that game, I think I was McCree.
…… 2 Tracers and a McCree it’s like every Overwatch game ever =P
BUT WHERE DO WE FIT IN THE NINE BASTIONS?
I really like Overwatch, I wasn’t convinced watching it at PAX (I had the feeling that it would take too long to understand how the game was meant to be played, but I’m starting to understand it now)>
I heard Roadhog tell Junkrat to behave himself on one map. That was pretty cool.
I heard my Widowmaker tell the Tracer “Looks like we’re working together this time”
Tracer responded with something like “I don’t have to like it though.”
Pharah tells Reinhardt she had a poster of him as a kid. To which he replies “I remember the poster! My hair was amazing back then.”
Also hear a few characters mention Lucio’s music career.
Haha yeah I heard one between D.va and Lucio where Lucio was like “I’m a big fan of your gaming career” and D.Va responds “Omg I loved your last album!”
Edit: Post covered in earlier threads
Still, DAMN 2AM DROP TIMEEEEEEYeah. Dammit Uncharted and Stellaris in one week it’s almost like they think that deep thinky space games and shooty adrenaline action games are intended for two different audiences!
So much Dark Souls 3 creepin’…
Don’t mind me over here, just an innocent piece of the scenery. Pay no attention, that inanimate object didn’t just move. You must be paranoid, that isn’t the sound of slow footsteps following you.
I’m having way too much fun with this one.
I’m not good at PvP, but I am good at being a sneaky bastard.
Gotta play to your strengths.
Sorry for more Overwatch stuff but I’m curious to know: who is your favourite character?
Mine is Junkrat. I love how he plays and he’s my most successful character so far despite my consistent ability to kill myself with my own bombs.
Bastion. After that, Mercy. Although she’s really weak, defensively. Has to hide behind everyone else and is (rightly) seen as easy kills, so gets targeted a lot. Gotta make heavy use of that shift key to zoom out of trouble and even then, it’s usually not enough.
If i was any better at the game it would be tracer, for now though its Pharah.
The butt one.
See, but there’s a question there, because Widowmaker is clearly “The Butt One”, it’s just that Tracer is “The Butt Controversy” one.
Gotta be specific. 😛
Or do you? 😛
Which butt one? Tracer, Widowmaker, D Va (zero suit samus edition) or Mercy?
All of the butts.
I like D.Va as a tank, though there are times when her health seems to drop way quicker than you’d expect. I’m having a lot of fun with her in Zero Suit / (Get In The Damn Robot) Shinji mode as well.
If I want to annoy people I play Tracer, I’m not yet good with her, but I’m not longer bad, which makes me better than about 80% of the Tracers I’ve played against, which is nice.
Lucio is also great fun to play, though I’ve only scratched the surface there.
Oh, and Mei.
Mei is love, Mei is life.
Mei is possibly the most annoying character in the game to play against. I love it.
Goddamn Mei is frustrating as hell to play against. Especially when she’s paired up with a Widowmaker.
Roadhog probably, or Pharah.
Roadhog is just so good at disrupting their offence.
Had one game where I just sat in the middle of a choke point and with taybies giving heals and cover fire, caused so much havoc no-one could get past.
Roadhog and Rhinehart are just fantastic tank choices if your team sucks I feel, the other tanks feel like you get punished way to hard for being in the frontlines if the other team is pushing.
Interesting thing is they kinda counter each other.
Hog is great for hooking people around an R shield to break their push formation.
But Hog is also the perfect target for R’s charge.
I like to think I click with Pharah, but ultimately I do well with Rooty Tooty Point N’ Shooty 76.
Offense my favourite is Generic man 76.
Defense I play as junkrat.
Sniper I prefer Widowmaker (or Lavender tits)
Builder, there is only one.
Tank, I like D Va or Roadhog. I agree with Blaghs, that sometimes her health drops way too quick.
Support, I like everyone but Symmetra. Mercy is probably my favourite though
There’s going to be so many people dressed up in Overwatch costumes at PAX that I won’t recognise
Oh man, Brett L Field /Cole O. Duty Guy is so generic. =P
Really powerful if played well, I’ve shutdown quite a few entrenchments with this ult and he’s great at pushing on escort missions with his aoe regen.
He’s just soooo boring and generic though. Ult = shoot people, Shift ability = sprint, E ability = Medkit.
He can run, though. Truly the mightiest of his lot, and that’s why we salute Ten Hut Hut Man.
D Va could beat him
Yeah, but if we didn’t have him, we’d have to have all the characters re-balanced.
Double post?
Symmetra is also considered a builder, nowhere near as powerful as the dwarf though.
She can be but you need very comprehensive map knowledge to use her well, I think she’s better than Torbjorn in Escort missions but the dwarf does better for control points.
But they have such god awful range and die way to easy, unless the other team was heavy on Tracers & Reapers they spend majority of the match doing nothing.
There’s choke points in every escort match, I actually managed a team kill by tricking people into chasing me into my choke points. In the Gibraltar map just before the very first point there’s a slow with a nook on one side and a room on the other. Perfect ambush point =P
Unfortunately because games are so fast there’s entire sections of maps I haven’t never seen or explored 🙁
I think she’ll be very interesting competitively once people know where the hiding spots are for her portals and once you get ambush points setup.
I find Symmetra’s turrets when combined with her own attack stack on damage really well. She’s like an ambush builder so it’s kinda weird.
I set up my teleporter and had turrets down for an ambush. I got murdered immediately after they killed my teleporter.
Mei is the only correct answer.
My favourite to play? Would be Genji
The one I’m probably best/decent with Mei & Mercy. Which I inevitably end up playing cos someone else wants to be Genji/Hanzo/Widow/Tracer/McCree =@
I’m way to aggro to be good at Mei, she seems to involve a lot of patience and baiting.
You ever feel counter intuitive playing Genji? you deflect bullets and throw darts to kill people than all the sudden you pull out a sword and murder everyone, such oddly paced.
Actually I really like Genji’s playstyle, he’s a hit and run kind of hero and works best away from the team by flanking or distracting the enemy team. If things get really ugly or you manage to flank without being detected you unleash your ult and kill everyone before they know what hit them!
All heroes seem to do a server wide voice announcement before it happens, its more accurate to say you know whats going to hit them 😛 just can’t avoid it. I was actually watching a kill vid when I was playing soldier 76- a widow sniper heard the voice and immediately switched the scope to the cluster knowing i would peek out.
Ult denied =(
You want to practise those characters, try an easy AI game. It doesn’t matter who picks what because it’s an easy game
Side note: I keep playing Pharah like I’m playing Quake 3, but it’s no Quake 3 and the splash damage radius is awful so I am bad at Pharah.
Same! I keep thinking the splash does decent damage but it’s like 1% so I just keep missing all my shots =,=
I find it odd because some characters don’t take damage from their explosions (Junkrat) whereas some characters (Pharah) does and the game never tells you if they do or don’t until you explode yourself.
I’ve exploded myself with Junkrat, Pharah, and even Zarya. I just assumed every character can explode themselves if they have a blast radius attack.
Really? I’ve seen junk rats blow themselves up with their mines and be perfectly fine.
It might be because I’m bad at getting the angles right. I’ve died when I rebounded a bomb straight into my face and it counted as a suicide.
You can use the concussive mine to jump. I’m not so sure about junkrat’s grenades though
Junkrat takes damage from his grenades, but not his mines.
Well that makes it even more freaking confusing!
Her special’s pretty deceptive as well. You have to be pretty close to a clustered up team for it to cause the most mayhem.
Depends if your after a highlight reel ult, does its job well enough if the entire team seeks cover. nothing inspires your team to push more than someone blowing an ult lol.
Numbers used it to clear an area. Got them all off the point, allowing us to win. However, she’s also completely vunerable when she does it. I’ve killed her a few times during her Ulti
Game Creation.
anyone here tinkering with anything? What system are you using?
I’ve started having a look at Unity. I also have Game Maker studio too.
What is good for what?
I was starting to go through this here at work, but keep getting distracted by other things. Not so much of it actual work.
here’s a list of 2D game engines
http://www.slant.co/topics/341/~2d-game-engines Pros and Cons of each.
Personally, I’m using RPG Maker. I just don’t have a lot of time
What sort of game do you want to make? What level of programming experience do you have and how deep are you willing to go on it? Depending on the answers to those questions there’s different engines to use.
Oh btw peeps who hate Bastion I came up with a really effective way to counter him, use Genji’s wall climbing & speed to flank him, use his auto attack at close range to get this attention and when starts unloading on you use deflect and have him kill himself! Works wonder’s against the dwarf as well!
Genji only pulls his sword out to ult or deflect, don’t be surprised when bastion players start to adapt to it.
Hmmm… My witty comment didn’t post. Testing
I find Pudge/Hook-guy is pretty solid. Easy grapple onto Bastion, and a ministun into a face full shotgun blasts kills him pretty good.
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Hey all!
How’s all the things going!? It’s been a couple of months since I’ve actually posted here! Hope everyone had a good weekend, I had a … mixed one.
Had a fairly big anxiety attack on Friday, which I would not recommend.
The rest of the weekend was pretty good though. Started a new game in Dark Souls 3 (shut up, I’m not obsessed, your face is obsessed) and finding a melee strength build is super easy, or that may just be because I’ve played through the game once. I’m also trying out PVP and actually kind of enjoying it.
Also played a tonne of Overwatch. I wasn’t going to pick this up but am now probably going to get it on release. So much fun.
I look forward to play it with you!
Morning.
Been watching it raining up my window for 15 minutes. Normal service seems to be resumed now though and rain is going generally downwards again.
Couldn’t get in the Elite: Dangerous 2.1 beta so stayed in 2.0 and did some hauling of hydrogen fuel down to Jaques Station.
Jaques is a cyborg who has somehow acquired a station with jump engines and has decided to move the station to “Beagle Point”, the furthest reachable system from Sol. Something like 10 million tons of fuel needed. Done my bit, carted a few thousand tons, in the top 15% of contributors, and now off doing something else.
Long way to go for that Quinentian Still.
Yep. Probably won’t stay on the rare loop…
Hey, it could up the price substantially. Something to rival Robigo runs? 😛
Pretty sure, based on the non-specific patch notes about smuggling, Robigo et al is dead. Haven’t checked though.
Not dead but rebalanced. 20 mission stack not 100, and missions not worth quite as much. Which seems fair enough.
…people were stacking past 20? 😐
There were a couple out that way that were stupidly broken. I’ve had ones that were “Deliver one slave 420LY for 6 million credits”…
Yeah. I still see advice to “stack to 100 at Roskam” doing Cubeo. Silly.
And that’s a little broken, unless s/he was a REALLY good slave.
Is anyone else getting a weird security captcha everytime they try to post?
Nope.
I typically only get that if the post is a) too long, and/or b) contains too many HTML tags.
My phone wasn’t allowing posting.
TAY Pathfinder on tonight at 7:30 pm ACST and 8pm AEST. You’re back in the icy keep after a chance encounter with an old compatriot.
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @beeawwb
Let me know if tonight does not suit you guys.
All good for tonight. I’m going to be tired as all hell, but I’m there.
Should be good to go!
@tech_knight
I just sent you a pepakura email \o/
Next time would you be able to bring the table? It might be time to fibre glass
I’ll have the put the PC away somewhere but sure I could bring the table.
I could buy a small one from bunnings
I can do it, it’s fine, not a worry, I remember I have room in my closet top shelf for it. I just have to be careful with it.
Mum and I could probably use a foldable table. Let me look into it
Wow, page 2 on a Monday?
Calm down guys.
At this rate we might hits the lofty heights of page four by Friday!
You’ve gone and jinxed it. We’ll be lucky to hit page two by next week now.
It does appeared to have died, hasn’t it?
Dammit you guys! You killed Kenny!.. I mean TAY!
YOU BASTARDS!
So thinking about a few issues we faced in team matches in Overwatch and how to tackle them. The more I think about it the more I feel like voice chat is kind of essential? And because you can change heroes on the fly it would kind of make sense to give people dedicated roles per match especially when grouping with friends? So that if the enemy team ran a bastion the dedicated tank could swap to roadhog, or a dps swaps to genji/widow.
@jocon @scree @distantdrop @transientmind and whoever else played with us, what dyu reckon? I think co-ordination and a balanced team comp is kind of key in this game. Would love to see a dual reinhardt + 1 bastion combo on an escort mission xD
Setting up shop as bastion behind Reinhardt was always an excellent opportunity to earn play of the match. Especially if you’ve got a mercy in tow. I played Mercy for a while doing the payload, just sitting behind it, healing a bastion. When he wasn’t in need of heals, I was able to buff his damage, which proved brutal.
I think that will probably lead to more success.
But it would require taking it a little more seriously than just the odd jump in and shoot things, and ideally by 3-6 regular people.
Which is cool but depends on how people want to play.
I’ve seen a solo widow completely carry a team(On Gibraltar of coarse) so I wouldn’t place skill so much below co-ordination and balance, let’s put in more hours before we over analyse the game.
Edit : As far as comms goes that’s a good idea, always more fun passing the time with tactical discussion and banter.
We used team speak
I completely forgot TAY had a teamspeak I remember using it at the start of WoW:WoD but we needed private rooms and since their were always people in the lobby it felt really rude to immediately enter than switch channels, and we couldn’t use it to raid obviously since we’d be exposing the address to lots of random people.
Is it still running? suppose we could use it again.
It is. You are allowed to change channel. We assume it’s a game, or in my case, I’m drawing and swearing. I often talk to myself when I’m drawing, so I’ll sometimes feel embarrassed and change channel.
Naturally changing channels is okay, still hard to shake the feeling that your shunning or purposely segregating.
Okay, Rize, cakesmith and Pixel often change channels without even saying hi. =P those monsters.
If you just say hi, and leave. It’s fine
The deets are different.
Msg me or something for the new server.
There’s no rush with Uncharted 4 out it’s unlikely i’d play the beta again before its closed.
Plus the only mic I have uses a optical cable which my computer doesn’t have so over the next two weeks I gotta sort out another headset anyways.
So, how about Stellaris Fridays? A TAY Multiplayer thingo on Steam for the next couple weeks?
I might possibly be game. What sort of time would we be looking at?
7:30 to 10:30 SA time Friday?
Sure.
I think I need to buy a mic.
I’ve got a cheap USB Logitech one that has served me well
Tempting.
Tempting.
I might be in on this 🙂
Sounds great! I have colonized seven planets so far, trying to build myself up against an unhealthy sized militaristic xenophobic penguin empire.
So. I tried to skip out of the awards ceremony thing because y’know… I have work to do. Meetings already booked from weeks ago. But my boss and their boss and their boss made it very clear in no uncertain terms that I had to attend, so I re-shuffled some meetings (fortunately with minimal fuss).
Apparently their insistence was because I’d won the big deal. Plaques and trophies and certificates and stuff. Photos, and being introduced to people, etc.
Soooo, in a couple days I also have a new job for a while, and a new office. Apparently there may be some connection between these things. So very, very, very little notice. But hey. Let’s roll with the punches, hit the ground running, pretend we know what we’re doing, etc…
I have no idea what I’m doing*. But it pays well.
* But I bloody well intend to, quick-smart.
Take your victory and celebrate it dude.
one, it’s good for you and your career
two, it’s good for the company, in which case, see one
It’s probably all good. Honestly, I already got what I wanted out of events by knowing that my bosses who I respect thought enough of me to nominate me. I’m grateful for their gesture of appreciation, means a lot. The rest is icing on the cake. I’m wary, though. Always wary. Of the Peter Principle, firstly. But all other risks as well. With luck they’ll be manageable risks.
Wow, way to go!
Gonna invite your friends with the blue combi van? Might need new cutlery by now :p
Ha, it’s been and gone, and wasn’t nearly as fancy – not black tie.
I wonder how those guys ended up…
Now you have a bigger desk and filing cabinets and drawers to store your Pocket Pâté!
Can I borrow 2 grand?
You should never lend money to friends you want to keep, so you should take it as the highest compliment about my value of our friendship when I say, “No.” <3
I’m gon tel everyone you a poopy hed
Lame, internet’s out due to the winds.
Was all set to play wow and Overwatch too.
D= NuUUUuuuUuUuuuuuUUUUUuuuUuUuu
The CFO sends out an email today, saying that no one will get any leave approved between now and EOFY…
… and I’m just like ‘Nah bruh, I’m off for 2 weeks starting Monday. Deal with it.’
Just had a full week off! and it was amaaaaazing!
First full week i’ve had off to myself, that didn’t include either playing a host to overseas visitors or being overseas myself in… 5? years….
It was absolutely incredible. No commitments, no nothing!
Also it was my birthday, as some people on twitter might have caught unto.
Where my missus (somehow) managed to find the funds to give me a PS4 \o/
FINALLY got to play Bloodborne and ZOMG it’s freaking amazing! My favourite souls-game so far for sure!
Got a few other games to go with it:
– Lego Dimensions (came with the Console)
– Tearaway Unfolded (came with the Console)
– Little Big Planet 3 (was $7 so what the hell)
– Destiny
– Diablo 3 (for that sweet sweet couch co-op)
And my brother-in-law gave me Dark Souls 3… So on the plus side, i now have more games to dive into then i know what to do with… On the downside, i’m freaking out with all the stuff to play XD
So many games on PC to still finish and now this!
… Bloodborne is still freaking amazing though!
Download Overwatch
But but… That just add more stuff to my ever increasing pile-of-shame!
Oh posh =P
Bloodborne is awesome, sadly I have to restart it since I have no idea where the hell I was up to or indeed how to play anymore after Dark Souls 3
I am likely to do the same. Also, not fuck up my game too quickly.
The main thing I remember was that I was up to the Blood Starved Beast and that was what I was stuck at when I did know how to play…
Oh man, Blood Starved Beast was the first boss that I was legitimately having issues with, took me about 10 goes and lots of antidote/Blood vial farming… Felt so good when I finally beat him! The other 3 bosses was a breeze so far, 2 i didn’t even die to.
Yeah I ran out of antidotes quite a lot and it was my downfall. I almost got him once, largely thanks to the hand flamer, but then made the traditional Souls mistake of getting greedy and thinking “Just one more hit” and the predictable happened.
I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT CIVIL WAR PLEASE SOMEONE TALK TO ME ABOUT IT
The American Civil War was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865, to determine the survival of the United States of America as it defeated the bid for independence by the breakaway Confederate States of America…
How cool was
GI-ANT MANI literally want to start a fan club
And for a guy with barely any need to be involved his enthusiasm alone is so precious
I really liked
That we didn’t have to sit through any more spiderman origin story. Refreshing!This is honestly the part that excites me most about the MCU and possibly the DCCU.
Not really a spoiler, but something you don’t want to be thinking about during the movie.
I felt a bit weird about Spider-man’s role in the movie. It felt like everything he did had a big ‘if the deal with Sony goes south, cut these pages’ lines on them. It didn’t ruin anything for me but it’s sort of weird now that we’re used to Marvel being so committed to every move they make. It reminded me of why those post-credit scenes mattered so much in the first place. They weren’t just teasers they were Marvel saying ‘no development hell, no ifs or buts, we’re doing Thor’ at a time when most comic book movies were stuck in limbo.It’s so strange seeing something like that at a time when Marvel has more or less stopped flinching.
But
how will they find out who killed uncle Ben? He better be a young adonisAs long as it’s not Martin Sheen again. That threw me out so much. Kept expecting Illusive Man lines.
I HAVE MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT CIVIL WAR AND I DONT KNOW WHY??
IT’S A SLICK PRODUCTION FOR SURE BUT I THINK @freezespreston IS RIGHT WHEN HE’S SAYS IT FEELS LIKE MORE OF A ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCT THAN A CREATIVE ENDEAVOR???
Like, I went in pumped (in a VIP cinema with motorised reclining seats, so comfy) and came out feeling flat, but I can’t exact to put my finger on why.
“I can’t exact to put my finger on”.
So sometimes when I make dumb mistakes here and get called out on it, I retort with”Hey man, I’m foreign. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”
Half of the time they let it slide, and the other half start objecting but can’t exact to put their finger on why that’s a dumb excuse.
But where do you draw the line between creative & money grabber?
Many of my favourite media are created by big corporations that give zero shit how much art is in their products.
Even the smaller guys are doing all sorts to homogenise my favourite shit & unlike a lot of them, the marvel movies are true to the source material.
It’s hard, but all that really matters at the end of the day is if you enjoyed it. You know, don’t over think it, that path leads to ME!!! 😀
For me I had like 0 expectations, after AoU I was completely sick of superhero movies since I literally didn’t seem to enjoy some of the past ones. This one I was really surprised by and I enjoyed a lot of the characters because they actually did things and weren’t just there as fillers or set ups for future movies (though spidey comes with that big question mark)
But after the warm fuzzy feeling of Chris Evans’ bicep gunshow I felt kind of confused by the movie.
Like will they answer these questions further on or are they going to make you watch AoSwhile they save the movies for what feels like to me 45-70% expensive action scenes.
Is it going to delve into the accords cause I really do feel like they might just shove all the questions under a rug. And even though each character had their own reasons that can be justified etc it was really easy to forget what the hell was happening when the action scenes are all going wheeeeeee.And tbh cap’s character is already looking like he won’t really develop any further tbh if all he’s got with him is his America hoorah shtick. Also are they going to make the illuminati or is that too comic book and not enough Hollywood blockbusterness
I feel like there’s all these questions or halfway points the movie left behind which I know they probably will address eventually but I don’t want to have to sit through another Thor or AoU type movie to find out. Like even with the end part with the crappy flip avengers phone you just know they’re gonna reassemble and be like “oh that thing we fought about no problems bro”
I 100% like watching avengers movies for the pretty boys in them.
Civil war needed more Thor.Isn’t he still wading in some pool somewhere idk where did that crazy diamond go
I was (kinda) hoping for a cap death. Would have been a pretty great move because as you’ve said, there’s basically no more development for him character wise. But I feel like Hollywood was all “WHOOOOOA! You can’t kill cap, we need more money out of him.”I want that to happen SO BAD (I have a morbid fascination with
killing characters when it looks like a good time to be the most impact. And like bucky isn’t charismatic as a character enough to take over so it won’t happen anytime soonHow none awkward and none out of place was that kiss between captain and what’s-her-face. SO NOT COMPLETELY UNCALLED FOR!I thought they kinda earned it over the course of one and a bit movies, but also it was probably too long in between Cap2 and Civil War for it to feel as natural as it could’ve. Which is fine. I have some fond memories of awkward, ‘I’m not actually sure when the right time for this is’ first kisses.I was waiting for it because of cap 2, @sernobulos
@sernobulus
Also
with that single kiss I’m pretty sure she impregnated him right. But I agree it was pretty out of place with the entire pacing, I don’t hate kiss scenes but like dude your relative just died lady. It’s just… Time and place**YES** Grandma’s gone and I get her boyfriend in the will!I don’t know, sometimes I feel like Marvel just tacks on the kiss scenes in movies. Like every movie HAS to have a kiss scene.
Like ant man that was legit random
Right, RIGHT!?
I love it, Marvel Studios are doing fun adaptations
Unlike those jerks at DC
Those jerks
Dammit @dc
My favourite bit was Cap’s Butt
Which it had very little of 2/10
Also, the movie has got me excited for more Spidey. Just when I thought Sony had all but killed my love for the character.
Better than Age of Ultron by a mile.
Not as good as Winter Soldier.
EDIT: False alarm, it’s just the flu.
=(
Good Morning TAY 🙂
How are we all?
DOOM this week, pretty keen
Last song played game time
I want You To Know by Zedd
What was YOUR last song played?
What game are you looking forward to?
Me? Next patch in The Division, next patch in Stardew Valley, Homefront Revolution (because I had a soft spot for the first one) and OVERWATCH
Stellaris should’ve downloaded by now, so I’m into that as soon as I get home.
Ohhh, I need to get back into Stardew Valley. I just got married to Abigail and then stopped for some reason.
I’m still not married, Clint asked me to give amethyst to Emily so I did, then decided to make her my wife (once that gets patched in by ConcernedApe)
Sorry to Clint though hahaha
But… I married Abigail!…. THAT’S IT GOOD SIR! Guns at 2 minutes and 27 seconds before dawn 3 Wednesdays from now!
Arctic Monkeys – Do I Wanna Know
I think I’ll be reinstalling The Division when the DLC lands. Patches, in the meantime, are pretty much just band-aids. UNLESS they do something huge and unexpected to revitalize open world PVE that encourages more roaming and exploration of nooks and crannies – preferably at a difficulty level that strongly-encourages without demanding grouping, as a viable end-game-gearing alternative to the DZ. If they pull that off, I’ll probably get pretty excited.
Hm. I’m pretty keen on Homefront Revolution, even though I wasn’t much of a fan of the original Homefront.
Its ideas felt wasted on a game that didn’t take the time to really explore all the themes. It more pointed at them and said, “Hey. There’s some potentially-deep themes. Now, on to the next one…” Homefront never subverted the obvious surface-level jingoism of the premise, leaving its story nothing more than a shallow stars-and-stripes-waving exercise. MURR’CA! It also never addressed the feasibility of the win condition. Stories like this need to make me believe that there’s a reason a handful of ‘rag-tag militia with pluck’ can achieve some kind of major pivotal victory (as opposed to a simply wearying war of attrition that most guerrilla armies fight) that well-drilled, highly-disciplined, well-funded, established military structures can’t. A Republican wet dream where Joe Everyman’s steps in to do what the gub’mint can’t by virtue of their anti-authority/intellectualism stance and their love of the 2nd amendment. All the pre-launch hype was for an unusual and rich ‘what if’ story by a famous author, but at the end of the day it wasn’t great writing, and was over within a couple hours. There was some amazing (for the time) attention to detail in the environments… that invisible walls kept you from exploring. Please walk only within the market areas. Not really sure what happened to that ‘rich story’ or why it never made it. It seemed like maybe the original vision of a strong narrative experience was derailed by ‘we must have X bullet-points to sell X copies’ executives who insisted all the dev time be spent on the (actually pretty cool-looking) multiplayer which (predictably, but still sadly) couldn’t draw away the audience it needed from the BF/CoD competition.Weak Fantasy (Instrumental) – Nightwish.
Stellaris tonight. Snuck in an hour this morning while no-one was looking… got my first colony and may have already pissed off an “overwhelmingly strong” empire. Hopefully they don’t notice what I did/am-doing/will-continue-to-do-because-it’s-so-damn-profitable. :3
Sounds of silence – Disturbed.
Also, I’m looking forward to DOOM and Overwatch.
Volbeat – Fallen
No Man’s Sky.
Loving to see the return of my beloved Space Sims, and this one couples with one of my favourite chill-out activities in games; Exploration!
Also an excuse to get a Space Sim on the PS4 so i can have one on both PS4 and PC XD
See I don’t actually own a PS4.
Maybe in the future
No Man’s Sky will be on EVERYTHING (not really), so you can still enjoy it 😀
https://youtu.be/wWnzfA9AqrA
The Blister Exists – Slipknot.
Stellaris should be fun I hope. I usually get bored of 4x games after a couple games so I’m hoping this will have the depth and longevity.
No Man’s Sky should also be rad.
I think my most anticipated game right now is the new Deus Ex. Human Revolution was so good, and if they manage to hit that level again I’ll be really happy.
What are peoples best guesses of the price drop we should expect on the GTX900 series come the end of this month, and the release of the GTX1000 series? It’ll be nice to upgrade from my 760.
7
Well that seals it then.
Never hurts to help 🙂
I’m not even sure those cards WILL drop much. :/ It’s a little unusual for a new series to come out that’s actually just about the same price with tonnes more power. The ones retailers have in stock they already paid high prices for, and the margins aren’t usually all that great, so it’s not like they have much room to move… MAYBE next financial year they’ll get jack of sitting on that stock and try to fire sale it? I dunno… I wasn’t expecting the 1000 series to be so cheap.
The 1000 series will push the 9xx Titan cards down, otherwise they won’t sell. Hopefully that’ll cascade down through the rest of the 900 series; I’m looking at the MSI GTX970 from PCCG at $500, I’d hope that we see at least a 10% drop on that by tax time.
Don’t expect them to drop much until the GTX 1080 is readily available, which is probably August at the earliest. The May 26 date is a paper launch, they’re going to be seriously supply constrained due to the new manufacturing processes and the need for GDDR5X memory.
Hey Guys, so I made another shirt for @tech_knight
This time Creator Viktor
http://www.redbubble.com/people/luckydog/works/21767602-creator-viktor
AWESOME!
I’ll start on Full metal Jayce soon.
Also, you gonna grab some of those leggings? =P
Lol maybe just the shirts and hoodies I think 😛
…… Where’s my Genji?! :O :@ =[
After Techie’s stuff!
Man I would totally rock a Genji hoodie.
Once Full metal Jayce is done, I’ll probably make a Mercy shirt first. Then some Junkrat. Genji will get one, i just need an idea first
Overwatch conversations.
I heard Pharah say to Reihardt “Aren’t you getting too old for this?” At which point he responded “Never! I will keep fighting for as long as I live!”
Pretty sure that’s Tracer speaking to Reinhardt =P A lot of Pharah’s lines are in reference to her mom and how she was never around.
We didn’t have a tracer on our team. It was Parah this time.
One more overwatch thing. Yesterday we talked about favourite characters, but is there any characters you can’t stand?
For me, I really dislike Hanzo and McCree.
McCree’s flashbang is cheating, I tell you. CHEATING!
Bastion, never, ever deserves play of the game. Ever
He’s just a gattling gun
All of my plays of the games were with Bastion and ALL were deserved! Like that one time on an attack mission where the entire team stacked up outside our spawn and when the doors open, I got a ‘team kill’. WORTHY!
That is worthy. Blaghs got a play of the game for killing one person and dying
Best fail I’ve seen was a Mercy doing a single revive. That was the whole clip 😛
Maybe they should rename it “fail of the game”?
Game: Play of the game
*bastion sits in the corner and holds down fire button and never moves*
There’s a couple of characters that should have POTG weighted against them (as in, less likely to be picked). Bastion and Solider 76 are a couple. You can do well with them, but it very, very rarely makes for a good clip.
The one without the butt.
So, bastion?
I assume that is a thing 😛
Had a McCree keep flashbanging me as Mei. Realised I could bait him in to doing it whenever I wanted, and self-freeze blocked it.
RIP McCree.
I find a lot of McCrees go after me when I’m Mercy. She really needs a health boost or a shield that can regenerate
Or even just some kind of self-heal. It’s kinda crazy that she can ONLY heal others but is otherwise as durable as 1-ply tissue-paper.
I find Mercy’s big defense is mobility and using other characters as meat shields. She is entirely reliant on her team mates so it would certainly be nice if she had something to help herself.
It’s hard when they keep moving or are out of reach. Most characters can one shot her too
She has a passive heal, as does Lucio, but both are pretty weak and the health regen is slow
I know some people adore Mei but she is infuriating. She is deceptively tough and an excellent character for picking off lone wolves which seems to always be me. Also the time it takes to freeze someone seems way too short for how long you get stuck.
You have to be quite close as Mei to be useful. Long range weapons can usually deal with her
Mei is like a ninja, she’s gotta skulk around corners and ambush people to be effective. If anyone gets the drop on her however or she gets caught out in the open its all over.
She’s annoying because her primary purpose is to stun people, she doesnt really do that much damage by herself.
Tell that to the Hanzos and Widows I beat in sniper matches 😛
Mei’s secondary fire does great damage with zero spread, and the headshot damage is mental. You can take out anyone that isn’t a tank with a freeze and a single headshot.
And tanks with 2 or 3.
Reinhardt for some reason whenever he throws up that shield everyone freezes like a deer in headlights all your team mates act as if his shield is unbreakable and try to maneuver around it unsuccessfully
People also seem to think its a wall… you can walk through the thing you know… argg
Amusing when you play him and the enemy does that though. I get the car halfway across the map often just by standing on it with the shield up while they flail around and go fight my team-mates instead.
Even funnier when they do the reverse and try and walk through it, because then you get a guaranteed successful charge 😀
NATE!
SULLY!
NATE!
SULLY!
NOnonononono
*gunfire*
GOOD JOB, KID!
NATE!
ELENA!
=( I don’t have a PS4…or money =P
Get Stellaris instead! CRUSADER KINGS
IN
SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE
but, I don’t have money. (I may not like it either =P)
You’ll love it!!!
WOWWWW THANKS FOR SPOILING UNCHARTED 4
Excuse me, that’s obviously Uncharted 2, get it right.
We should just rename TAY to TAS…. Talk amongst Scree =P
I’M SORRY FOR TRYING TO MAKE CONVERSATION, OKAY?!
Ugh. Stuck in bed all morning.
Took a couple of Ibuprofen and am trying to get rid of this neck pain and headache.
Luckily Max is cuddling up with me.
She’s a good kitty, even if she tends to bite from time to time.
Bloodborne? BLOODBORNE:
Vicar Amelia got taken down hard last night… Took a few goes to learn her moves, but once that was done, landing a few charged strikes with the mighty Kirkhammer made her a breeze… I’m REALLY glad i did a pure DEX build run of Dark Souls prior to playing Bloodborne, because it’s made my skills in dodging and parrying so much better!Also, the Gold Pendant she drops, should i just use it or does it have a hidden meaning/miss-out-on-a-great-story-line-if-you-don’t-posses-it-anymore?
You can use it, it’s fine.KIRKHAMMAR!
Don’t care what people say, i freaking love that thing… No other weapon has given me the pure satisfaction of seeing even the biggest of enemies flattened into the ground with the charged overhead swing!
And the sword is pretty rad too 😛
The Holy Moonlight blade in the DLC is a lot of fun. Also the Buzzsaw club
Yeah i really need to get the Old Hunters as well, just haven’t gotten around to it 😛
How far in the game do you roughly need to be to access it?
Obviously in Dark Souls you needed to get a decent chunk into the game to get access to Oolacile.
You can get to it from where you are now, but it will kick your arse.
Right gotcha… I’ll keep trotting along and probably pick it up next pay
Put it this way. I beat the third to last boss and only then did I feel I was levelled enough for the DLC. and initially it still kicked my arse.
(I still haven’t finished it because other stuff got in the way. up to the final DLC boss)
Haha, After playing Bloodborne I haven’t used a shield at all in Dark Souls 3. Makes me feel way too slow and vulnerable (even though that makes no sense). Technically I do have a shield equipped in my current playthrough of Dark Souls 3 but that’s because it gives me bonus stamina regen while it’s equipped. =P
Yeah same in Dark Souls, i’m 2-handing the great scythe and only have the shield equipped for the stats 😛
Can’t wait to dig into Dark Souls 3, but really want to get through Bloodborne first.
I barely use my shield too. I have it, and I block arrows, but I don’t really hunker behind it.
Flubber
Flying Rubber?
Yeah, was an old Disney flick they remade in the 90s when CG was young
I still enjoyed it. Thought Robin Williams was pretty great, and i still laugh at the basket ball scene because i’m a kid at heart… also…
Weebo :'(I saw it at the cinema & remember very little
Because apparently people still read these, here’s the recap for this week’s episode of Game of Thrones.
Season 6 episode 3: Capbreaker
Jamie and Bronn continue to march into the frozen north where they encounter an army of white walkers. Their battalion is certain to be overrun but Jamie seizes a portable mortar and fires it into the side of a mountain burying the white walkers in an avalanche. During the post-battle celebrations, Bronn passes out what appear to be lemon flavoured snow cones, which prove extremely unpopular.
Arya’s career as a drunken drunk is going so strongly that she opens a school for drunkenness, otherwise known as a bar. Unfortunately running a bar doesn’t leave a lot of time for drunkenness, and Arya is tormented by the drunken carousing that surrounds her night after night as she mixes cocktails with irritatingly smug and clever names.
Jorah and Drogon argue about how they’re going to rescue Daenerys from her new owner. The argument becomes heated and they threaten each other with exile. Since Daenerys isn’t there to break the tie, this is followed by an awkward silence until they both just decide to get an early night.
The church refuses to recognise Cersei and Margaerey’s marriage, putting their joint claim to the throne in jeopardy. High Sparrow Tony Abbott apologetically and bombastically explains that he doesn’t make the rules, he just selectively interprets God’s word to get what he wants. Since there’s no sign of him shutting up, Cersei and Margaerey start kissing until he gets uncomfortable and leaves.
Jon catches Melisandre giving Sam a sad handjob. Melisandre says desperately “let me explain!” and for the first time in the history of awkward interruption scenes, he does. Caught flatfooted by this unexpected turn, Melisandre explains that she thought Sam was Azor Ahai, the Prince Who was Promised, and was having trouble with his legendary sword “Lightbringer”. Jon exclaims “that doesn’t explain anything!”
Tyrion and Varys try some roleplay where they meet up in a bar and pretend to be strangers. The roleplay breaks down when they notice that their previous marriage counsellor is mixing Targaryen Wildfyres and Braavosi Slave-tinis and get reminded of how things were so different back when Arya had Varys tied up in a dark basement with a bag over his head, sighing “Those were the days”. Then they go home and bang.
Is this all nonsense or are there vague references to what actually happens?
I want to read but I’m scared
As far as I know my recaps are the least informative you will find anywhere.
Your summaries are more enjoyable than the show.
I wouldn’t go that far. I hardly have any sexposition scenes and no one has died.
Wondering what to have for lunch. I know I want it to have vegies… I don’t know /o\
Dumplings
So… a pastie?
Stir fry some veggies
Baked potato in this weather is great
Continental side dish with a big chunk of frozen veggies (My go to is curry chicken noodles with peas and corn)
I’m over highpoint so I’ve decided on Mexican.
Now I need to organise dinner. Same issue
Stir fry some veggies
Baked potato in this weather is great
Continental side dish with a big chunk of frozen veggies (My go to is curry chicken noodles with peas and corn)
😉
Man I hate having to think about food.
And then you gotta go buy it and possibly prepare it… So much effort for a 5 minute refuel.
Pizza … that has vegies on it.
Too much cheese
No such thing.
@jordi
Civilian Warriors
So the comic this was adapted from was as shallow as fuck. Mark Millar talked a big game about brothers against brothers, then strung together some punching & explosions.All the interesting emotional & political stuff was showing up in all the tie-in comics & it changed the way the heroes operated for a year or two.
So far, what you’ve seen in the movie, covered a lot more than it’s source material. I’m hoping they follow through by showing the repercussions in all the new movies.
Spider-Man will work for Stark, Black Panther will lie to other countries & hopefully Dr Strange will have to hide or be arrested.
It could also help to set up Captain Marvel.
They’ve already said this was a setup for Avengers 3.
And yes, I’m afraid superheros are perpetually stuck in chapter 2. Nothing ever reaches a resolution, all that’s important is another cliffhanger leaving you hungry for more.
the thing is they said it wasn’t going to go down like the comics (which I think they shouldn’t cause the original civil war had so much garbage it was like polishing a turd not to mention the bullshit ironman did).And this phase 3 shit is what annoys me in the end. Like every event is made to be a set up, which is okay if it made compelling storytelling but it looks so much like cut and paste efforts. I really do want to see the fallout of sokovia but with the current characters too which depending on the film I have to wait for like getting ready for a third guitarist.
Anyway this sounded negative but that’s mainly because I realllyyyy don’t want to watch another Thor 2 or AoU
AoU is my fave XD
BUT WHAT ABOUT THOR’S MURDERCLONE!?
OOH A KICKSTARTER E-MAIL??
Oh, just another STEM update. Eugh.
I get like 5 updates a day from the Dark Souls Boardgame kickstarter it’s ridiculous.
YOU’VE UNLOCKED MORE STRETCH GOALS THAT WILL COST YOU ANOTHER £30 YAAAAAYYYYYYY!
Today is now silly for games.
Stellaris came out this morning (played 1.5 hours – is good)
Picked up Uncharted, I have toplay that at some point.
On top of that I Recieved a new boardgame today (kickstarter one called Paradox)
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/161297/paradox
All The games!
Paradox looks cool. I wish I had disposable income to get into kickstarter boardgames.
every kickstarter I get into puts us further away from owning a house. I should stop at some point.
It does put you one step closer to a house made from kickstarters though.
I’m even happier now I know it has a solo variant. 😀
ooohhhh nice
WOOO, got our bond back from our old place, may be able to afford that PS+ yet this month! \o/
EDIT – Money page-get is best page-get
I’m thinking about some bounty hunting tonight. Wanna wing up?
Where about’s are you located at the moment? Also standard RES hunting or Base Assaults?
At work… :-p
I think I parked up at Hughes Orbital, Kunti the other night. Need to refit my ship for full on pew pew as it was overheating a tad the other night.
Bit of High Rez/Haz Rez? Kunti, Bok, Azrael all good. Or a bit of power levelling empire with some base assaults, if you feel like going in on the ground while the Anaconda rains down firey hell from the skies… Where are you, anyway?
My main place of work is at Shapsugabus due to a decent trade route i have… I can easily get to Cubeo, Azrael and Gende… If we’re full pew-pewing i can go get my FDL currently parked in Gende, it’s been a while since she’s been out and about 😛
Happy to wing up! But i don’t get off work until 7pm which means i won’t be home until 8pm and still need to eat dinner, so i hope something like a 9pm start is OK?
I’m usually not on until dinner and requisite TV With Wife is done. She’s a bit under the weather so suspect she’ll have an early night, and I’ll be on around 21:00/21:30
If there’s a rez site near Cubeo, can mix it up with a bit of ground assault and some res hunting.
Yeah we can work out the details tonight i suppose. I’ll pop in around 9-9:30pm
Sorry dude, going to be delayed… Am on call tonight and things have gone… Quite a bit pear shaped… I’ll be on as quickly as I can
I was on for a while, but no-one else was on. So I refit the ‘conda, and moved her to a combat zone. Then I took a look in the 2.1 beta. Interesting changes! 🙂
Maybe tonight. I’m in most evenings, so just ping me when you see me! 😀
@trikeabout oohh i’m so excited about 2.1… For some stupid reason, the main thing i’m excited about is the “ATC” (talking traffic control)… Must be the flight simmer in me but that part has me really excited…
oh yeah and something something revamped missions, engineers and blahblahblah BUT TRAFFIC CONTROL! 😛
Or Overwatch =P
How much is stellaris on steam anyways? Anyone?
Seven
$40 I think. I bought the $50 preorder through Paradox direct
Yeah it is $40 usd
Anyone a keen emulator user on Android?
I haven’t looked in depth, but is Uber now basically illegal in Qld?
…. No? Has something happened?
*Googles*
A bunch of drivers got fined. Ok, yeah, but that’s no different to other states where there was no regulation in place. Most other states have now made moves to introduce legislation to legalise / regulate ridesharing operations, so QLD will be the last on board (as usual) it seems.
I really hate when our ‘leaders’ go out of their way to seemingly try prove every negative stereotype about ‘backwards Queenslanders’ to be true.
I think his comment about “Why do people need this Uber thing, why don’t they just ride their horse into town like normal people” really summed it up
Was this Bob Katter?
Because I feel like he’d say that.
Hold up hold up @transientmind @tigerion too. I’m not entirely convinced the type of disruption Uber is causing to the Taxi industry is a good thing. At best the conclusion to come to is that it’s a different thing. I question the lack of regulation behind the company and the free market theory it operates on (strictly speaking free market theory is a fairly tale much akin to communism). An ideal situation would be a competitive co-existence between the existing industry and Uber however if I had to choose a regulated industry is the lesser of two evils.
I use Uber for three things
– touchless payments/usable app
– knowing how far off your fucking car is
– slightly cheaper
If a cab company could hit those three things, I’d use one over Uber every time.
I’m not big on the contractor model they use, because I think it’s too easy to disenfranchise people
Pretty much this, but especially the first 2.
The other day I had to get a taxi from the office to my hotel. Because of our travel policy I’m explicitly forbidden from using Uber. So as a result I had to wait over 30 minutes while drivers rejected my request for a taxi, constantly telling the app “Yes, I still need a cab” every 5 minutes. I said it at the time and I’ll say it again. Uber wouldn’t stand for that shit.
There is literally one and only one thing that Uber does that cabs don’t and apparently can’t do which makes me livid.
Get a car to me in a couple minutes, no matter where I’m going.
The, “What’s that, you’re not going to the airport? Fuck you then,” attitude of taxis is why I’m happy to see it all burn down. Fuck you right back, taxi drivers. Fuck you right back.
The number of times I’ve had to call dispatch, noting that it’s been 30-40min and I might as well have taken public fucking transport is no joke. I’m lucky at some buildings which have our work numbers locked in, but from a mobile and/or not in the CBD? Fuggedaboudit.
(I swear it makes me almost as mad as couriers who lie about bothering to attempt delivery.)
Sooooo… Competitive co-existence like they’re getting in SA? And NSW? And VIC?
The problem with this protectionist crap is that when you regulate an industry and impose ludicrously expensive licences for operation, ideally the public should be getting something positive out of that regulation.
What Uber is proving is that we’re getting fuck all benefit from regulation, given that pretty much anything cabs can do, Uber can do equal or better.
Q: Where’s the benefit in regulation?
A: Retirement funds for those who could afford to invest in half-million-dollar licences. That’s literally it.
As with what @transientmind is saying, there needs to be benefits to a regulated industry.
When the service is terrible, there is no investment in improving things, the drivers certainly aren’t happy, who benefits.
I have no issue with setting regulations and forcing uber to live by those. So long as those regulations have a direct and tangible benefit to either the public or the employees. Setting a random price and saying you need to pay this much to be able to operate in this industry which does nothing but line pockets is BS
Last month Katter Australia Party introduced a bill that got passed to legislate against Uber. Is technically illegal in QLD currently but there’s a review due in August that should reverse that.
I believe Rob Katter’s words were “We’re showing them that we’re the ones in charge here.”
I wish I was joking.
Wait, are you telling me a politician in Queensland was stupidly authoritarian?
shocked, I tell you. shocked.
Unfortunately the muppets accidentally stuffed up the bill and, I kid you not, legislated against all non-taxi road passenger services like limos, coaches, and even school buses. They fixed that up pretty quick though but it’s just hilarious that they couldn’t even dedicate enough time to properly design legislation against the evil Uber.
It’s also especially telling that they had to tailor it specifically to fuck one company in particular, and not just every other service which do functionally the same thing.
It means that it was never about the actual service being provided, and JUST about ‘fuck that guy specifically’.
Which surely leaves it open to a legal challenge? Would have thought that deliberately targeting one company in legislation isn’t constitutional.
I’m sure the Uber sharks are ready to hop all over it and take any room they’re given.
…someone got fired for that, right? Surely you couldn’t screw up your job that monumentally and still have it at the end of the day.
I don’t know but that stuff up lasted for at least a few hours before it was fixed. Our state politicians are not known for being particularly intelligent considering they were the ones that tabled the broken legislation.
Had someone respond to a comment I made two years ago. Way to take your time 😛
Also now I’m even getting Overwatch talk from Wingman. It’s almost kind of maybe tempting to sort of check it out. Possibly. Nah.
I’m helping.
I forgot that was even a thing.
Damn I want one of those art books.
Just got a message that we have lamb casserole already in the oven cooking away
TONIGHT WE FEAST!
Oh, my internet is now even better. Downloaded Stellaris in about 3 minutes.
I’m ok with this.
That’s not your internet, Stellaris is just a 20mb picture of a space map.
…I’d probably still pay Paradox for that.
I keep waking up to panic attacks when I have afternoon naps, so I’m thinking I no more naps D=
Try morning naps!
I think it’s just the naps. So I will have to stop them D=
Have you tried listening to some music while napping? Listening to random CDs used to help my step sister.
I have no idea what is triggering it, which is part of the problem
With those new Pascal GPU’s from Nvidia makes me want a new pc.. Maybe tax time i’ll be able to splash out for some parts lol.
Do what I did – build it in stages. You don’t need to stump up nearly as much.
I started just with a new case and power supply, and just moved the system over to the new case. Then got a new motherboard and RAM, then later on a new CPU and cooling, and finally a new GPU. Even then, it’s a pretty shitty GPU that’s just there to tide me over until I can afford a decent one.
Those new 10 series ones from nvidia are awfully tempting.
yeah that’s what i’ll probably do. I’m going to Skylake from Sandy Bridge so yeah. I’m also down sizing to ITX, i’m also looking at modding the case i’m after too, damn thing doesn’t come with a window & i’m thinking it needs a window with a nice piece of glass in it, since all the window mods on the net for it look amazing 😛
Yeah that GTX 1080 it’s TDP is 10w more than my current GTX 760 makes me cry.
If I’ve discovered anything about Stellaris so far it’s that sending your starting fleet out to explore every system around you right off the bat Civ style is a great way to attract the attention of a whole lot of things that probably want to kill you. Including gatecrashing an ancient precursor race who were not happy at all to see me.
LOL if this is what happens to humanity in a couple hundred years.
LOL, then ;_: FML.
Bleh.
Feeling crook in the guts right now, though my headache and neckache appear to have subsided.
The Pirak Foundation (in Spaaaaaaaaaaaace) welcomes you to the collective, friend.
What? We look like blue space cockroaches, sure, but we have winning personalities.
The Tyrnaar welcome you!
May the spirits guide you to your chosen goals.
Individualist fanatically spiritual bird people.
For some reason everyone responds to meeting me with the cultural variant of “Stay off my lawn or I’ll shiv you.”
The Terran Commonwealth greet you, and your odd kin.
Fanatically pacifist, xenophobic, humans.
Humans? Booooooooooring
And it’s attitudes like that make the Terran Commonwealth wary of aliens.
Rightly so. PURGE THE XENOS
Your empire is in the galactic equivalent of Craigmore.
I’m enjoying the tentacle face monsters
The Han’ta’ki Technocracy sends its greetings. I’m sure our cooperation will benefit us both.
We are a fanatic xenophilic materialistic race, and charismatic enough that no-one’s all that bothered by our face-tentacles. Everyone likes us! Except those guys over there… they’re jerks. And those guys are kinda patronising… And whoever considered this world a “holy site” will probably take umbrage… But apart from those… and the pirates… and the drones… and the crystals… and the clouds… and the amoeba… hmm. Well, at least we have two friends… who formed an alliance without us. Maybe it is the tentacles…
Good morning TAY
Last song played game time
Cradle in Love by Poets of the Fall
What was YOUR last played song?
In Parting – Be’lakor.
You mean you don’t know what the last song I played was? You oughta.
Alanis Morissette – You Oughta Know
I’m working on those skills, I promise 😀
I never partake in these, because I can never remember what the last song I listened to was.
Sorry.
It’s ok, you can participate if you are listening to music
I’m either overhearing radio, or I look at my phone and pull up spotify/google music/pandora/itunes.
And if it makes me cringe, I put it away.
Put it away and tell us so that we can mock you right?
Gravity – The superjesus
Fallout Boy – Centuries.
THAT kind of bad.
Bob Marley – Buffalo Soldier.
Fall to Opprobium by Ulcerate
Stranger In A Strange Land – Iron Maiden
How I wish I could go back to last Wednesday night when I saw them.
Similar feeling for when they played at Soundwave, in 2011, but more because I want to see Primus again.
Man Primus would’ve been amazing.
They were a musical highlight.
Seeing Les Claypool’s solo show back in ’09 was almost as good.
Nirvana – Negative Creep
So, any of you folks out there having audio issues playing Uncharted 4?
I started last night and for some reason I’m only getting 2 channel sound. Even in the audio options, I can select TV or home theatre or whatever, I set it to home theatre but still only getting 2 channels. I’ve got my PS4 hooked up to the AV receiver via HDMI, I’ve got the output in the PS4 audio settings to Linear PCM. I also tried the two bitstream options (Dolby and DTS) but got the same result.
Googled a bit but nobody else seems to be reporting this issue, so I assume it’s a problem with my setup, although I get 5.1 sound on every other game, movie, etc that I play on the PS4. There is that 5Gb patch that was still downloading when I went to bed last night, so I suppose it’s possible that might fix the issue after it has installed?
No problems here, but I did notice the volume can be ultra quiet at times, making the dialogue painful to hear.
Games with separate volume control for dialogue are great
Yep. Speech/FX/Music separate sliders. I like the dialogue up, the rest a bit lower.
For what it’s worth, I figured this problem out last night. For some reason the audio settings in the game were defaulting to TV, not home theatre. Even if I switched to home theatre, it would still only give me the option for 2.0, no 5.1 or 7.1 options.
I went poking around in the settings in my amp and found one that was telling it to output audio to both the speakers and the TV. Presumably this was for some reason confusing the game into thinking that it was outputting the audio direct to the TV in stereo. Once I changed that to be speakers only, the game instantly switched to proper 5.1 output.
It’s strange, though. I didn’t even know that setting in the amp was there, it’s been like that since I bought it nearly 10 years ago. Every single game and movie I’ve watched in that time has gone through that amp, and this is the only game (or movie) that has had this issue. Not even Naughty Dog’s own The Last Of Us Remastered had this problem. Oh well, at least it’s fixed now and I can enjoy the rest of the game with half decent audio 😛
Ended up jumping on to try out the Overwatch beta in its dying hours last night >.>
Wasn’t expecting there to be as many characters as there were. Seemed to most like Quickdraw McGraw, Darksiders Creed, Tankbot, Turbo Viking, Menage Afar, Hello Mechitty, Project HAMMER, and Moblin Man. Seemed to do the best with Moblin Man initially, got a little better with others as it went along. Totally sucked with Speedybutt, and Space Eskimo Velma, also every single support character. Same with Insoviet Russia (particle accelerates you), though seemed to get better with her towards the end.
Really wished I could get x360ce working so I could try using my joystick instead of the 360 pad, but I don’t really remember how to work it and it didn’t seem to want to take. Can’t really compete against all those mouse users, especially with sniping 😛
It seemed fun enough I guess, but I dunno if I’d go and buy it. It’s no Splatoon.
Remaining list of made-up names for Overwatch characters I can’t remember (since Wingman seemed to find them entertaining :P):
-Cyber Shredder
-Jo the Condor
-Cylon Steve
-Mitsurugi Hood
-Heath Ledger
-Melvin Kong
-DJ Dubstop
-Palutena
-Turret Spam
-Dhalsimbian
Overwatch conversaions
Tracer – Mei
Tracer: Aren’t you hot under all that?
Mei: Yes, but it’s too late to change!
(blaghs first told me about this one, but it happened to me when I played as Mei last night)
Mei – Mercy
Mei: Dr. Ziegler, You haven’t aged since I last saw you!
Mercy: Neither have you.
Widowmaker – D Va
Windowmaker: This is no place for children
D Va: I’m not a child!
So I was reminded on twitter earlier of a conversation I had a while ago as a hypothetical- someone said to me
“If I held a gun to your head and said you had to give up forever right now video games or books, which do you choose?”
I think they thought this would be difficult, but the video games go instantly. I’ll even help you carry the box out to your car.
A Wednesday Taydrenalin Shot: What’s your choice like that that’s not really a choice at all?
Music or Boardgames
Cheese or Lamb
Don’t give up either, just lie and then knock out the psychopath when they turn their back
Anxiety or no anxiety =P
Video games or *.
…possible formatting error, probably should have been “* or videogames” instead 😛
Security vs Freedom.
Popular Thing vs Convictions. More of a template than specific thing, but one that always seems to come up 😛
To have kids or not have kids… sorry parents but I’m pretty sure the added stress would literally kill me, work stress alone already put me in hospital once.
That is so selfish of you, you’ll change your mind when you’re older etc.
It’s your decision, screw what others say.
I get the impression it’s a different sort of stress. Like when you buy a new car and freak out because someone is eating food near it during the first few weeks, but by the end of year one you’re comfortable with the whole thing.
Last weekend my sister spent 26 hours giving birth and instantly wanted two more. I’d chalk it up to being crazy but I think she just realised that as hard as it was it wasn’t like pass/fail hard. You just keep going and you do better or worse but there’s no ‘go home, you’re fired’ point.
Chocolate vs baked goods
Reply fail
Sorry @trikeabout for missing out on last nights shenanigans.
Ended up having to do work long into the night due to our ordering system falling over :\
Finally finished work at 1:30am, so that was fun.
If you’re planning on doing the same thing in the next few days i will definitely jump on!
Sorry again, really sucked, hope i didn’t leave you guys hanging.
Heheh no problem at all, Shit Happens. It’s really casual drop-in, drop-out stuff. I’m in there a lot, and usually up for chatting on TS if we’re doing different roles. Sometimes I hang out in the Explorers room in Mobius TS and chat to a couple of people out in the Black. They appreciate the company, especially when they know I’ve done a fair bit of exploring myself.
Ah fair enough! I really need to jump on that, but my crippling social awkwardness makes me really nervous about voice chat, so it takes me forever to get the courage to jump on things like that (Ask TAY people how often i’m on TS in general :P)
Also i’m tempted to go back into the black with my Clipper… I’ll wait for 2.1 to drop first though before heading out, it’ll be interesting to see what this whole “Barnacle” debacle will amount to!
It’s quiet. It’s friendly. And there are private rooms for jumping into wing activities. 🙂
I’ll get over it one day and do it! I swear! 😛
It’s not you anyway. It’s COMMANDER PIXEL FERRET, SCOURGE OF SHAPSUGABUS AND DESTROYER OF WORLDS. Get in character, dude. 😉
Also, it’s only me. I’m nice.
*grabs monocle and top hat*
I say, dear sir, that is not befitting for an Imperial Baron such as myself, to be called such things!
Benevolent? perhaps… Classy and better then common folk? certainly… Scourge? certainly not, kind sir, certainly not!
*Lights cigar and twirls moustache*
Don’t worry. If you feel nervous, I can go into a seperate channel with you until you gather the courage
So. Since we’ve nothing else to talk about, do people want to post space logs of their space empires in space?
The Tyrnaar Murder expands… slowly. Since the exalted leader focused too much on economy and science over expansion and military. The latter a particular problem when some citizens turned pirate and started blowing up mining stations while the only fleet was spreading the good word to uncaring neighbours.On that front we are surrounded by xenophobes, making diplomacy an uphill battle. Slowly increasing relations with the least hostile while thankfully? the most hostile (who immediately declared rivalry when met) is separated from us by a band of stars densely populated by hostile space monsters.
Though we have discovered a way to use the crystal space mobs as living signal relays to survey their systems instantly. Which is handy, if impolite.
Now to expand and defend while attempting to contact the other species the Aggro Roach empire has apparently annoyed. Maybe we can come to an agreement.
I don’t have an Empire, but I am ranked Baron in the Empire… Clipper ahoy! 🙂
The Han’ta’ki Technocracy formed on the frozen shores of Tchaa’Pol. When we developed technology to warp between worlds, we took to the stars, and furtively sent our three corvettes to explore the neighbourhood surrounding Tchaa’Pol-Kolse. We quickly found several inhabitable worlds, and rushed to colonise the magnificent Gaia planet to our north, which the colony’s leader insisted on naming “Puerto Gonzalez”… he has since been *cough* reassigned.We also made first contact with an old empire who seemed to regard us with quaint amusement as we made our first bumbling steps into the unknown. We discovered a race of xenophobic bird-men who seem content to ignore us… and a race of primitive frog people on a distant star.
But we also made new friends – fellow tentacle-faced peoples to our south, who were as graciously understanding of our relatively humble holdings as we were of their silly spiritualist nonsense, and odd mollusc-people to the south-east, who admired our technological advances and sought to befriend us. Delving deeper into the unknown, we encountered another group of bird-men, who were rather impolite, but sufficiently distant that we put them out of mind. We saw crystal beings scattered through many systems, giant space-faring amoeba feeding on stars, and formless cloud-like entities drifting around a black hole.
We sent one of our wide-eyed young scientists to survey some of the more promising systems, settled two new colonies, and found a derelict cruiser amongst the wreckage of an old stardock, which we appropriated as our own. It allowed us to fend off pirates, though it was too slow to save a mining station from the wrath of an amoeba.
Emboldened, we sent the fleet to clear some crystal-creatures from a nearby system, only to reconsider when they proved to have far superior numbers. We managed to escape, only to be confronted by two fleets of mining droids. The battle was fierce, and all but two of our corvettes were lost, but thankfully the cruiser survived. After retreating to Tchaa’Pol-Kolse to repair and rebuild, we are now in the process of clearing the system of its automated mining stations while our scientists examine the wreckage of the frantic battle for clues as to the droids’ creators.
Awh, I’m gonna have to miss out on the Stellaris fun for a while. My other priorities are too high!
Haha, sucks to be you with your fancy, high flying, award winning career!
You could be wasting time with video games but instead you’re out there making a life and name for yourself! Haha… ha… hmm.
Good luck on that though. Hope it continues to go well for you.
Thanks man. 🙂
At the moment, it’s meeting. Lots of meetings. And lots of spreadsheets. And a little bit of writing.
…And there’s still plenty of video games, but hopefully ones that I already own. Or have dreamed about for years, like Doom. DOOM!
Sure you can’t join for FRIDAY NIGHT
IN
SPAAAAAAAAAACE?
Uhm. Er… uh… Peer pressure is a powerful thing.
I really hope the release time for Doom is 11pm.
Heh, I got given a 360 yesterday cause I helped put a tv in some girls car when I was over at a mate of dad’s.. I mean the HDMI out doesn’t appear to work, but the component out does so there’s that. But seems the DVD drive doesn’t wanna work, which seems pretty typical for these 60GB models, this is the 3rd or fourth one i’ve acquired where the DVD drive has not worked.
So my brother is still using my stuff without my permission. Mind you, he never asks anyway, he demands.
However, my brother couldn’t find his axe, which we hadn’t touched. He screamed at us (which everyone on teamspeak heard). This is why my Mum and I don’t touch his stuff. It is so infuriating.
Can’t just kick him out?
Not my house, so not my decision
I think it’s time to put him in a car and let him back out into the wild, he’s clearly rabid…
You don’t let a rabid animal into the wild!
You euthanize him… It’s best for everyone!
Euthanising humans is still illegal, putting him into a car saying you’re taking him to the park and letting him out in the middle of nowhere, that isn’t 😛
Ah, i see the distinction, you classified him as “human” 😛
Anything else would be an insult towards that species I pick if I did that, Pixel, sorry, but lots of humans just suck, not all but lots 😛
*sigh* Fiiiiiine, can we at least agree on using chloroform and leaving him in his underwear before we release him? You know, to bring him closer to nature?
Only if you’re good
Wood or human cutting axe?
Wood.
Are they different?
I want to say yes.
Well, that’s been an interesting morning. I have a job interview on Friday o_O
Huzzah! \o/
Not celebrating yet…
Worth a well done if not a celebration. But most certainly worth a good luck
Thank you 🙂
I tried napping. I woke up panicked again but it wasn’t as bad. Mum and I have an outpatients appointment which sucks because there is so many things I could be doing.
Also considering doing Mercy instead of Callie, if I even cosplay. Techie’s cosplay comes first.
I’d be happy to help you make that if you’re going to pepakura it.
It would be similar to yours as I would need a body suit I think
I didn’t want a full body suit under my ME armour (and I wanted pockets) so I’ve bought cycling tights and a cycling jersey with drop pockets for phone/wallet
I checked again. It’s just tight pants and lycra with armour attached
I went through Wiggle.co.uk, was pretty cheap.
I haven’t decided yet. I want to do both!
It might come down to whose shoes are harder to source
Completely off topic to cosplay, but how much is shipping from those guys? i might get some actual long sleeved running gear from them 😛
I paid $9 on a $45 order, which isn’t too bad. All processed in $aud
@redartifice
That is actually a pretty decent price! Will definitely be checking them out.
@pixel_the_ferret_viking Came reasonably quickly. Dunno what they’re like in comparison quality wise, but they seem OK. I have to drop a couple cm round the waist before I wear skintight lycra in public 😉
Quite reasonable, and free if you reach the threshold (I think $75AUD)
Taken my third dump today.
Diarrhea is the worst.
Does it still count as a dump, or more of a… splash?
or an ooze
More like a sludge.
Fronds, let us not forget about our brother @welbot and his hilarious raps. Chuck the man some money – his thank you notes alone are worth it.
https://www.gofundme.com/f6j6232k
😀
Page 4? On a Wednesday?
Like Tays of old.
Not really, we’d be at like page 12 by now if it was like those days 😛
Tays of old, not tays of prehistory.
It wasn’t that long ago was it? I can’t remember…
WE MIGHT EVEN MAKE IT TO DAD JOKE PAGE 6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a time to be alive.
I’m not usually a big fan of the Honest Trailer series but the Deadpool one is brilliant.
Oh damn… I was not expecting what they did with this one. Nice.
This gives me hope that CinemaSins / Everything Wrong With might have a guest star.
I usually prefer Honest Trailers to Everything Wrong With. The latter ends up seriously reaching a lot more than it should. It gets pretty frustrating when you’re rolling your eyes at every other ‘ding’ because it’s not actually a ‘sin’ so much as the writer simply hasn’t bothered to follow the plot or make use of deductive reasoning.
Suspension of disbelief. The writer knows what he’s doing, I find it funny when he is pedantic or follows a clearly wrong line of reasoning. Plus he’s treated some of my favourite movies with respect.
I know it’s different strokes for different folks though. His style of interpretation / pedantry appeals to me.
Ugh. There’s a rumour going around Ozzfest might be coming to Australia with Slipknot headlining with Ozzy (Corey Taylor & Ozzy are due to make an announcement this week in LA about something) & also some ‘Prepare for Hell’ tour posters have gone up in Sydney, which correlates with AJ Maddahs loud mouthing that Slipknot will be touring Australia this year. As much as I like Ozzy & love Slipknot, I really don’t think I could tolerate seeing them at another festival especially if it was out doors :/
I just feel festivals are okay, I like be able to see multiple bands I like in the one day. But i’ll gladly pay extra for a headline show with better sound, crowd & venue.
Really? I’ve always loved going to Soundwave – I have discovered a number of great bands simply by wandering around the different stages, and paying 100-odd dollars to see that many acts is such good value for money.
I’d be tempted – I’ve seen Slipknot twice at Soundwave, and both times have been among the best sets of the day.
I usually always had a bunch of bands I wanted to see and that took up most of my day. I’ve never really ‘discovered’ a new band that I liked at Soundwave, i’m more into the older sound that bands from the 70’s 80’s & early 90’s had.
But saying that, I don’t recall any Soundwave I went to where the bands had decent sound right at the front, it was always muddy & too bassy. Last year with Slipknot, I couldn’t even hear the vocals until I walked up to the back of the standing area in Brisbane, it was appalling. Never had that issue when I saw them at their own headline show :/
God damn, that buy 1 get 1 free at JB is awesome since it includes box sets, wish I had the spare $$ to get a bunch that i’ve wanted for ages and it ends before my next pay day damn 🙁
Stellaris: Tale of the Tyknarr.
And it was all going so well.Our exalted leader’s investments had paid off and resource income increased strongly. New empires met and contacts made. Void Cloud creatures were discovered and declared deities by the priesthood to the joy of the populous.
The ruins of an ancient meta civilization known as the First League were found and scientists begun to search the surrounding space for more clues, uncovering two artifacts and a still functioning shipyard that produced 3 powerful Raiders before succumbing to the ravages of time.
With the construction of a Corvette Yard and 2nd spaceport a fleet of Corvettes armed with tier 3 Railguns began to quickly take shape, silencing the posturing of our irritating eastern rival neighbor the Xeltek Kingdom and local creatures.
The tropics loving Tyknarr have limited options for colonization in the region but nonetheless two more worlds were founded: #3 in a position to exploit many scientific resources and even some Strategic ones. #4 was seeded further from home territory; halfway towards the persistently hostile Zaxxoid Commonwealth clockward round the core, but with an excellent surface layout and several rich systems nearby to be unlocked once the territory expanded just a little more.
A rare technology was discovered and research begun on Psionic Commandos(!). Lacking solid colony options, frontier outposts were built in strategic systems.
Yes, things were going well.
Too well.
The Zaxxoid, not content to let us succeed, aggressively expanded their territory towards Colony 4 – building 3 nearby outposts within days of each other, cutting of #4 from those rich systems and indeed almost isolating it completely.
Meanwhile The Xeltek also expanded, claiming systems needed to study the First League.
Something must be done, but what?
The Zaxxoid began with a starting advantage so are too powerful to take head on and won’t listen to reason.
But the Xeltek… The Xeltek have inferior firepower and are also rivals with the Zaxxoid. If we crush them, not only should it gain us systems needed to increase our power, it might please the Zaxxoid enough enough to keep them off our back while we do so.
Or they might declare war while we’re distracted.
May the gods smile upon us…
The Terran Expansion Coalition requires more guns on the western front. Research continues apace on bigger guns and heavier armour to fit to our destroyer fleets, while we continue to plunge exploratory/invasion vessels into charting the eastern spiral. Those guns need resources, dammit, and those stars better have some.
The damned, dirty apes bordering our western/inner-spiral-arm systems seem benign – friendly even – but it is a facade. They are not to be trusted. The ancient documentaries warned about what ape-men are capable of, and future generations of humanity shall bear witness to our righteous vengeance. Our great society was forged in war, and we welcome it. Any border with an alien species is only a matter of time from being a war-front. The outer arm shall be ours… then the inner… then the galaxy.
Terran Expansion are like Orks – WE NEED MORE DAKKA!
Last song played game time everyone!!
Some Kind of Monster by Metallica
How are you all? What was YOUR last song played?
Man that’s a good song, I don’t care what anyone says St. Anger was an alright album 😛
Last played song, err I think it was an Iron Maiden song on my iPod or one of Mark Tremonti’s new songs off his new album Dust which arrived yesterday 😀
Thank you!! St Anger was alright, especially when you think of it outside the rest of Metallica’s work
*EDIT* Spelt thank as tnk
The way i’ve always seen it, was if any other band that wasn’t Metallica released it, it probably would’ve been praised greatly..
Something from the Okami soundtrack. I was listening to it while drawing and getting frustrated at my drawing =P
Dry Kill Logic – Boneyard.
My last played song hasn’t changed from the last time so still Gravity – The superjesus
I wonder if @transientmind is in the same boat and Fallout Boy – Centuries is still the last song that @transientmind listened to. Did you know that @transientmind listens to Fallout Boy – Centuries
DAMN YOU TIGS.
It’s a lie! Do not listen to this man citing my own words! DON’T LISTEN!
Was listening to a ‘100 greats of the 90s’ playlist on Spotify so…
Two Princes – Spin Doctors
The 90s were the best.
I concur, good sir.
In Due Time by Killswitch Engage…….soooooooo goooood!!!
Hadn’t heard it in a while and then it just randomly popped up on my way to work. That’ll get your blood pumping for a Thursday morning.
I already miss overwatch. =( I guess I may try and play Splatoon until it is released (or I can afford it).
Maybe I could make shirts until then =P
Addicted. =P
Maybe just a little.
Same. Psyched to play again.
Ciiiiiiv VI! So excited for the game, The changes that Fireaxis have already announced look great as well. Soon I will fear the terror of the ages, Ghandi, in the next gen!
Hmm, history has taught me that Civ games are best bought on sale a year after release once all the mechanics and balances have been xpacked in.
Teething is wonderful, just wonderful I tell you *headdesk*
So I went and bought Ratchet and Clank as well as Uncharted 4 yesterday and surprisingly got them both cheaper at EB than JB due to price matching. Win. Also I’m now broke. Also Ratchet & Clank is a very very pretty game.
Also I made it to level 100 on my mage! @jocon going to be gearing for normal HFC on this toon if you’re interested in joining up this sunday?
I’m busy helping move Sunday so I dunno when I’ll be gaming.
Besides, at the moment Stellaris is way more fun than grinding in WoW.
I’ve been trying to get flying in Draenor, but pretty much every other day when I sit down at the machine, I think about the prospect of grinding some more Tanaan rep, shrug, and say, “Fuckit. I guess I get it a day later than I could.”
Yeah don’t try and grind it out it’s hopeless, I just logon for 60-90 min grind out the dailies with friends and log off. To be fair it is invaluable in Tanaan which is so packed with high level hard hitting trash.
Blood DK. Can ride through it all and use vengeance and some of that tasty fel slime to nuke whatever does manage a dismount. It’s just more about having it for all the completionist crap. Treasures in the world, etc. Cheevo hunting, farming.
I’ve pretty much written off Draenor. Anything I do now would amount to grinding for content that will become obsolete and unplayed in a couple months. Tannan? Flying? Status mounts?
Meh.
I was excited for wow again a week ago but after playing Overwatch and Stellaris and reknowing the joy of a game that’s actually fun to play moment to moment?
F**k WoW. Not even sure I’ll pick up legion anymore. Not without anyone to play with.
Fair enough, I won’t be able to afford stellaris till after payday this weekend! D= :'(
Side note did you see the complete revamp to hunters and warlocks? Hunters now have 3 distinct specs – Survival is melee with pet, BM is ranged with pet, marksman is ranged no pet.
Warlocks – Afflication is dots, Destruction is burst damage and demonology is basically like a beast master spec for hunters and they’ve removed metamorphosis (probably given it to demon hunters).
Didn’t check locks as it’s not my thing but yeah. Big changes all round.
Be mad salty though if I mained a hunter and survival turned out to be significantly the highest dps spec. If I wanted to play a melee class I would have rolled one you know?
Yeah and as I play warlock a bit the demonology change is kind of retarded. They should’ve never had metamorphosis to start with =,=
That said I’ve been digging into the legion alpha notes and it looks like this new xpac is essentially tanaan jungle on steroids – i.e. a lot more group content, flying once you grind out an achievement and class orders are basically garrisons but with new names. More and more starting to look like if you don’t have a group you play with you’re going to be left out in the cold.
Doesn’t bode well.
I talked to cousin guy and he doesn’t play anymore but said he could give a recommendation for me.
Looks like a good guild but I dunno, one group of strangers is much like another.
Which server are you on? We are b.net friends now, we can totally do x-realm for group quests. So long as Legion ensures that blood DKs are broken OP, it’ll be easy!
Barthilas.
Shall have to see how we go I guess.
Wow, someone’s offering a $1000 reward for their lost wedding rings here at work. What am I still sitting here at my desk for!
Okay guys, so I have a dilemma.
I want to cosplay as both Callie and Mercy, but I can’t do both. The minute I think I have made a decision, I change my mind and it’s driving me nuts.
Both have their Pros and cons.
Mercy, I feel may be unsuitable for the hotter weather, where as Callie will be perfect for the hotter weather.
I’m also worried that Mercy’s wings, if at full length, may cause an issue.
Callie’s material on the other hand, may be difficult to find. It’ll require a butt load of pattern making and adjustment.
Mercy requires two types of armour building, pepakura and foam.
I think I’m leaning a little more towards Callie.
Mercy also has props, Callie doesn’t.
Do Callie for the warmer part of the year and Mercy for the colder part of the year, avoid having to make decisions \o/
So Callie for Pax, Mercy for Comic Con type ones?
Sure. I couldn’t actually think what events might be on during the colder months, but I assumed there was something 😛
I think it’s only comic con
Mercy sounds like a butt ton of effort.
I’d go Callie for now, especially since you have several projects in the works, and maybe make Mercy a long term project you can take your time with.
@tech_knight said he’d help me. Pepakura isn’t hard, it’s more trying to source the model and such
Left half Callie right half Mercy. Maybe you could Splatoonify Mercy or give Callie Overwatch gear. You wanted more options not less, right?
Don’t give me more options! Then I’ll never decide!
Gandalf.
But Gandalf the Grey, or Gandalf the Tartan?
yes
Did anyone see those Gwent decks from the Witcher 3 Blood & Wine physical dlc pack? I’m pretty sure they were the same sold with the Xbox One version of the collectors editions, considering some of those sold separately online for $300 on eBay that’s a pretty huge blow for whoever paid into that.
@transientmind @jocon Yeah the more I’m reading the more I’m inkling towards either I enjoy legion with a group of friends or give it a pass until I get really really bored. Like I’m in a guild atm that has an average of 40-60 people with a total of 940 something but gchat is completely dead. I mean Barth is meant to be a Horde heavy pop server and even trade chat, complete silence aside from sales spammers (i.e. for Arena, Raids or gold).
Seems like people only let their presence known when the 15 minute timer for a server shutdown happens 😛
Khaz’goroth is pretty heavily populated and talkative. But at this stage, it’s like… 90% trolling. Seriously, the vast majority of the conversations I see in /trade are people I haven’t blocked yet, arguing with people I blocked 2-3 years ago, so it looks like they’re arguing with themselves.
Yeah Khaz is still pretty active, when I re-subbed for a few months trade & general were always busy on Alliance.
To be fair though, the activity level of the game at the end of an xpack’s lifetime will be night and day compared to at the beginning of a new one.
Most people have done it all and just killing time till new content. Not much left to say.
Be hard to tell if a guild is dead or just resting at this point. Maybe at pre-patch things will start to pick up.
NEW TRANSMOG SYSTEM.
It seems that I will finally be able to free up some 300+ bank slots.
Oh the guild’s still active but the activity appears to be a around a core of 20-30 players who are on the mythic roster and on TS. Outside that the remaining casual players don’t speak.
That’s sort of the way mmos go though.
Not really a middle ground. Not since the game is a character progression treadmill – either you are in an end game group and working on the same content or as an individual you are at somewhere different to everyone else.
Stay ahead of the curve, play solo or unsub.
NOOOOOOO D= There has to be more to life dammit! There has to be! We just need to break into the top 5% jo and then things will change.
I just realised this whole beard-growing thing has taken place pretty much exactly a decade since the long hair thing happened. Weird.
Wonder what I’ll end up doing in another ten years.
Cannibalism?
I’m just sayin’, you could probably do real well with offers to ‘get eaten by Gooky’ before the misunderstanding got cleared up.
Actually…
*checks world political news*
Hm. Maybe not so crazy an idea after all. 10yrs from now, right?
Well assuming it’s a ~year-long endeavour then it’d probably have to begin about 9 years from now. But hey I’m always up for trying all sorts of new and different food 😛
Well if the apocalypse happens you might be dressing in rags and hitting people with clubs.
Wait I’ve got it!
One year of fingernail growth. Then ten years after that, toenails. Totally makes sense.
Toe-tally makes sense?
Long chest hair
Still working on it, seems to have stalled.
So, I’ve figured out that after bills and rent and overwatch at $69 (if I can get it that price), that will leave me with about $45 of disposable income left.
…
*cries*
WORTH!
It is. I haven’t bought games for a while. I just feel like I should be saving.
@jocon @transientmind More reading through alpha content, it seems gathering professions now have end quests that are group content. Seems the game is becoming very group-centric.
Which is kinda what you want? Might trigger more cooperation and activity from people?
Jo do you remember the nightmare it was getting a group together for raiding? or a pug? I know it seems like people will want to co-operate but the moment the hardcore players clear the content it’ll be a nightmare finding anyone to group with.
Case in point the current World Boss in Tanaan, you’ll be lucky to find one a group a week doing him even though he drops heroic level raid gear.
There’s also daily group quests, dungeon quests and raid quests (which I imagine would be weekly). And these aren’t instanced quests they’re out in the open for a free for all.
I’m all for it. If you’re playing solo, it’ll make things more interesting. If it turns out to be way too challenging to solo, that’s actually a great incentive to bring someone else or group with randoms.
The only thing which usually bugs me is that everything progression-related kind of stops when you reach the level at which it tells you, “OK, if you want to proceed with gearing, you’ll need to raid, now.” And the tiers of improvement stretch away into the distance ahead of you, along a path filled with groups of fuckwits to be tolerated, possibly on a restrictive schedule. That’s about the time I typically nope out, because fuck raiding. (For me, personally. I did it, enjoyed it, then stopped enjoying it, because it was basically a 2nd job. And screw logging in for obligation’s sake alone.)
If they ever decided to come up with alternate paths, 1-5man content would be my ideal. I don’t care how challenging. Just something that doesn’t involve coordinating with 20+ other people. That’s way the hell past my MMO Dunbar number.
A proper 5 man progression would be dope. Like proper challenging, extensive content, not the forgettable raid prep they are now.
Tell you what. I’ll get legion.
I’ll give the raiding thing one last all in with my Hunter but I’ll reserve the druid I’m upping for grouping with you and transient and Distantdrop. Have a regular time maybe.
I’ll make it resto so we can do dungeons or whatever.
Pug for 5 healers for raiding! =P
My middle brother plays a hunter, his partner plays a discpriest, my youngest bro plays a ridonkulously OP restosham… and I know exaggerated narcissim is sometimes my thing, but I’m actually a pretty damn effective DK tank. (DKs are EZ-mode in the hands of someone who can mash their face into a keyboard, I can manage a couple notches better than that.) With a few TAY DPS, we’re looking at flex, EZ.
Now all of you just need to get your asses to Barthilas =P
Jokes aside I’m tempted to just start up a casual guild where people hang out and those interested can run a pug run until numbers get up. Thinking once a week on Sundays OR Saturdays for a few hours?
Believe it or not I joined a pug last weekend that advertised a “guild run” and the total number of guildies in that run out of 14 players was 3. And they used that as justification to reserve tier drops. Like Dafuq.
@jocon @distantdrop thoughts?
Khaz’ fo’ lyfe. The Elven Raid Alliance is around 8yrs old with a stable of nearly a hundred alts! Ain’t goin nowherez!.
I’m amused by the persistence of the ‘guild run’ reservation system, though. ML rules, I guess.
When I was progression raiding, I was pretty lucky in that respect.
25-mans in Wrath were often taking on just 2 or 3 outsiders if their guilds weren’t quite up to the task of filling a 25 roster. My restoshammy brother and I used to serve as ringers. We were only doing 10s in-guild, leaving us free to PUG for our 25 gear (which then helped us carry our 10s-wearing guildies and free them up to get the 10-man gear we no longer needed.)
Our only condition for joining a raid was that we got loot rolls. No DKP, no reservations. If it was an upgrade, we got to roll, or we didn’t come. And we were so reliably good at heals/MT and the server demographics were skewed such that the GMs/RLs pretty much always accepted that.
It pissed off a few of their guildies immeasurably (especially if we actually won stuff – I remember one hissy fit from an off-heals in particular that resulted in the guild-member getting booted over a heal-trink my brother won), but the luck of the draw in those days was that they needed us to complete a run more than we needed them to waste our lockout on Frost tokens. So that was lucky.
Whatever man, my Druid is at your disposal.
Hunter I’ll try to find a prog guild till it inevitably goes down in flames.
Really depends on how invested you are on the idea just because a guild is casual doesn’t mean it doesn’t take effort to run it.
Apart from that I can give it a try… if it doesn’t work well we can always house alts in it…
Yeah I think I’ve already got a name – The Elven Raid Alliance @transientmind =P
Well shit, it actually happened. Got my VR Covers, but still nfi when the Rift may or may not actually materialise.
*shakes fist in Oculus’ direction*
Iiii…
Have absolutely nothing to add today, but just wanted to let everyone knows i’m around…
so…
HI TAY
*waves*
When are you going to come on TS?
Well i generally only jump on when games are organised… Reason being i listen to podcasts/watch stuff on the youtubes whenever i play single player stuffs, so it makes conversations difficult to have 😛
Plus i’m never very talkative.
My issue as well!
Honestly (and this is going to sound lame to some) my favourite way to chill at the moment
Is making a good cup of coffee,
throw on Elite: Dangerous,
Jump into my favourite twitch or youtube channel
and just dumb out while i’m flying my trade route…
Some call that boring… I call it relaxing 😛
Nothing lame with that. I’ve played Torchlight 2 while I listen to DBZA in the background, and a nice warm cup of coffee on the side 😛
I’m watching a bit too much TFS gaming as of late 😛
Their playthrough of Bloodborne and them doing the Nuzlocke challenge is fantastic 😛
Space truckin’!
Come on, come on, come on
Let’s go space truckin’
Come on, come on, come on
Space truckin’
Yeeeaaah that’s happened on occassion 😛
What can i say? i own THE space truck! 😛
iiNet seem to have upped their low-tier quotas again… “Have another 50GB!” Don’t mind if I do. :3
It’s become truly fucking absurd. I now have terabytes of download that I never use. I really need to drop my plan… I’ve just been paying the same amount for years as they keep adding quota.
Best 100GB plan I’ve ever had – it’s 3yo and now up to 250GB. 😛
I’m also up to 1 Terabyte. They keep increasing it. I am on naked, so I use the net for my phone. I just accepted it
That gold article is an interesting read – mostly because people pile into guild when they have little to no certainty in the markets. The last pile-up of similar proportions was during the GFC. I honestly wonder how much longer central banks are going to try to keep up their QE rhetoric, and how many of them will actually be held accountable when the whole thing falls over.
Does anyone know what time DOOM unlocks on Steam?
*mashing reset button every second from now until it relents*
I’ll let you know.
*mash mash mash mash mash*
Meanwhile, Transientmind be all like; DOOOOM!
God I love that show
I FELL ASLEEP
When I woke up the game had ‘run out of disk space’ because there is a day one patch or something! Several extra minutes and I had to go to work! START YOUR DAY ONE PATCHES PEOPLE
So here’s a question for the TAY hive mind.
I’ve recently started really enjoying watching random twitch streams of people who play random crap i normally never play.
My issue is that most of the ones i like are in America, and therefore stream when either i’m asleep or at work 😛
What’s some good twitch streamers round our timezone to watch?
I normally watch Retrogaijin because i usually like the games he play and the way he interacts with his audience…
Ask @lucifer9783 He watches a lot of streams
Well, I’m pre-loading DOOM as we speak.
RIP AND TEAR!
Combat-ready Sidewinder with peak speeds of 626m/s in a flee situation.
There is going to be so much sinking of resources into re-rolls for these engineers.
>800m/s iEagles are insane.
Yaaaaaay, might mean my Cobra MKIV might finally exceed 250m/s boost speed XD
I think someone mentioned getting it to about 400. Possibly. Also, with the new weapon specials a new strategy came up as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/4ix7rj/cobra_mkiv_i_found_its_niche/
After being down about how it wasn’t a “Better” MKIII, i have given it an honest try and i’m actually really liking for what it is… Yes it’s not a great smuggler, but it has a lot of internal space and can take a freaking beating! Plus the sound of the engines spooling up is amazing! 😛
So the new update lets you re-roll ship stats? Ooh that’s pretty sweet, I’ll have to have a look sometime soon.
Is it actually a randomised stat re-roll, randomised increases or is it more static where the ship can be upgraded a set number of times per ship and then paying a set amount to add a set number of points to a particular stat?
If it was re-rolls which might end up worse then that’s a lot less tempting but if they had a thing where you could pay to roll for a randomised 3-5% increase in speed for example then that’d be well worth it.
It might also be worth it if you could do something like upgrade a Sidewinder a total of 3 times and pay a large sum to add 5% to speed then it’d be pretty cool
Each engineer will have a number of mods they can perform on certain components of your ship, and each mod comes in a number of levels. I guess you need to unlock higher level access by applying more and more of their mods, they’ve made it a bit easier in the beta by having every mod unlock super easily and each one only costs 1x fish. So each mod will have a certain range that it’ll improve or worsen a number of stats by, eg Dirty Drive Tuning improves the Optimal Multiplier by something like 15-29% at the cost of Thermal Efficiency, Power Draw, Integrity, Optimal Mass, possibly another one or two. Although you also get a number of random secondary effects, which can add to any of those stats and sometimes even negate the primary effects entirely. And with weapons, there’s a 75% chance of gaining a special effect like cannons that really knock a ship around at the cost of reduced damage, or beams that vent your heat into your target (but only if you hit them, you get higher heat generation if you miss).
Each roll costs a certain number of materials, which can be found by destroying ships or floating around in a USS or rewarded as part of a mission, there’s also data materials that you get just by scanning ships (the default scan that brings up their name and wanted status, not a manual scan like the KWS).
Separate from that though, one of the engineers has a set of enhanced thrusters for smaller ships. They only come in class 2 and 3, and give a huge kick of speed at the cost of heat and power draw. Pre-mods, my Sidewinder with the new drives would peak out at 512 on a boost. With mods, it now gets to 620, and it has one burst laser that will let damage leak through a shield and another that will impart heat into the target ship. Mind you it took many rolls to get those stats, so in the actual game there will be a LOT of spending resources to get the most out of your ship.
Ooh that sounds kinda cool, definitely looking forward to having a play around with that. It’d be nice if there was some kind of weapon effect that triggered a broadcast malfunction in the target’s IFF or something and acted as an instant kill warrant scanner scan or one that caused an EMP burst that could disrupt the FTL drive, knock out a weapon or something like that.
Someone’s put together a list of known effects here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16Jcb94j4PZ_yWCkOEdsZ-e5zJVRCd6fapdX_j5Lx4wg/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=0
Also recommend reading the link I posted to Pixel above, about the Cobra MkIV. One of the effects on torpedos makes for some interesting changes to the small vs large ship game.
Happy Birthday @markserrels !
Porridge for all!
Sorry to double post.
Can I please get some feedback?
http://imgur.com/cFFKUM0
Does this appear too messy? Can you tell what the pose is?
@tech_knight
Gandalf?
Not gandalf
Yeah sorry Scree, I just can’t put my finger on what bugs me about it. The larger pic did help though
If it bugs you, it bugs me.
I think the complicated shapes make it look warped or something. If I look at any specific part of it I can see that it’s right but at a glance it looks wrong.
I think the pose and prop combination might just be a bad match for the art style.
So, should I outline it or something?
It took me three hours to even get the sketch right. I don’t want to lose all that work
Honestly I’ve got no idea. I’m just grasping at straws as to why it doesn’t sit right with me. Would it be hard to replace the prop with a regular pole? I think seeing it without the complexity of the prop might help nail down exactly where it isn’t working.
What if I put a shadow under the arm?
I think the problem is that the lack of texture or outline makes it hard to tell what his arms are doing without the hammer as a reference.
The minimalist style you do is basically a detailed Silhouette. So perhaps draw it so you can understand the pose if the whole image is blacked out, then fill in detail.
This might be why, yeah…
Why is Samus swinging a mailbox?
Last song played game time!!
Out of Breath by Silversun Pickups
What was YOUR last song played?
Blues Saraceno – Bad Man
…Which is not really a fitting soundtrack for the life I live right now.
*eyes technicolour Outlook calendar*
Amanda Palmer – Ampersand
Nothing Left To Lose – Andy Strachan
Splatoon soundtrack. While drawing
Sooner or Later – Breaking Benjamin. Decided to just put Spotify on shuffle and see what pops up… the random tat in my playlists is astounding (tho Bejamin are still amazing).
Paradise Lost by Krzysztof Penderecki, because I banged my head on the stove hood cooking breakfast and now I’m stuck editing with a bigger headache.
I know you’re hyped about Iron Maiden being in the country and want to get in the spirit of things, but that’s not what they mean by headbanging.
So what do people do when they get sick? On the rare occasions I got sick in the past I’d just take a nap in the bath and wake up fine a few hours later but my apartment only has a shower. I’m pouring snot and it sucks. =(
Sleep
I coop myself up in bed.
Have tea, great way to keep your body warm and as comfortable as possible.
If I’m pouring thin rivers of snot-water from the nose, I’ve found rolling up some tissues and jamming them into each nostril like a horny anime teenager works quite well. They do eventually need to be replaced now and then, but it’s better than the red, raw feeling of too much wiping/drying, and your over-heated breath funneling out at the wrong angle.
Water. Sleep. Powerade. Sleep. Chicken. Powerade. Sleep.
Netflix or other low-impact entertainment when too weary of sleeping.
Daiso actually sells nose plugs that have menthol on them
Usually, I do nothing. I’m sick at the moment, but sadly I need to work because i’m a casual and literally cannot afford to take time off sick 🙁
I usually curl up on the couch watching b-grade movies… Don’t know why it’s kind of become a ritual when I get sick to do that… Only reason why I’ve seen all of the Resident Evil and Silent Hill movies XD
The second one is on Netflix
I find a nice patch of grass to lay down in the sun. It helps to warm me up and I find it also dries my nose out if it’s running like a tap.
Depends on the sickness.
Depends on what it is. If I start to feel that tickle in the throat coming on, then I start chugging honey lemon ginger like crazy.
So that announcement by Corey Taylor & Ozzy Osbourne was pretty cool with that Ozzfest & Knotfest will be sharing the same weekend in California this year, with Black Sabbath headlining the Saturday & Slipknot headlining the Sunday. Some pretty alright bands on the bill too, Anthrax, Over Kill, Slayer, Black Label Society, Megadeth, Amon Amarth, Sabaton, Children of Bodom. Would’ve thought Testament and or Exodus would’ve been included but hey, ya can’t win ’em all.
TAY
IN
SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE
Stellaris MP from tonight 7:30 SA time. Let us know if you’re in
You have my space axe.
Cakes Tay ts server?
Sounds good to me, but we’ll see who else is in first
I’ll be getting this game but won’t be able to play it for several weeks as my PC is without a motherboard. But I so want in on this at a later date if they’re still running.
We can convert int0 night to stellaris night 😛
Then roleplay as alien overlords? That has to be something we do, a GMless rolplay using the Stellarius game, heck I’d even write logs about it xD
Oh holy crap… I like this Idea…
Now to pick between Murloc-English or British-Cockney-Beasty, also known as Ork 😛
I think that without a motherboard, a PC is just a box full of parts
I’m keen, tho I’ve not done MP with TAYbies on PC before.
Sorry, Anton has called date night
Is this starting a new galaxy?
Yeah, we’ll make a specific new one.
Though following TAY MP tradition, I think my Galactic Capital will have to be called “Marraketchup”
Sounds good to me, are names supposed to be puns?
They don’t have to be, it’s just I have used that one in the past in TAY MP games
Holy shit. Yes. Slipknot announced a headline tour for Australia today. But god damn Live Nation can go jump with their idea of a ‘VIP Package’ $299 doesn’t include a meet & greet :/
Am thinking of going to at least 2 of the shows as well. Probably Brisbane & Melbourne, cause I like Melbourne.
Slipknot put on a good show. Saw em here in Adelaide a while back and even though the sound quality was atrocious, still the most fun concert I’ve been to.
Yeah, easily the most energetic band i’ve had the pleasure of seeing live. Last time I saw them which was Soundwave last year sound was deadset the worst, until you were far away from the stage.
Bit of a PSA for all involved. I’ve got a copy of DOOM this morning and it’s downloading, and I’ll be playing it over the weekend.
I’m actually on annual leave for the first couple of days, but if I scythe through the game quickly I’ll put something up maybe on Tuesday at the most. (Just for those wondering.)
Looking forward to reading your validation of/complaining about your divergence from my opinions!
Soooo Uncharted stuff
Mild spoilers relating to chapters 10 and 12
So that Puzzle involving The pirate paintings and the sigils. I’m pretty sure the unknown pirate is Guybrush Threepwood. This is further proven in chapter 12 when you see his statue and sam says “he was a bit of a nobody, but then he became a really good swordsmanI’ve been laughing so hard and excited by this.
Played a bit of Uncharted the other night… completely forgot which end of the complexity spectrum the puzzles tended towards, so spent like ten minutes researching zodiac signs, identifying which were missing and trying to form a sentence in Spanish with the order the room gave, before I found the thing on the wall that said “The answer’s X, you idiot.” :3
Note to self: Do not play The Witness right before Uncharted 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onScwrHP2g0 I feel like this is really on point regarding Star Fox Zero and how it represents Miyamoto’s complete failure to make a case for the Wii U’s primary feature.
Two and a half minutes, that’s it took for me to walk away. If it takes twenty three minutes to loosely amble to a point, it’s not worth it.
I hadn’t even gotten to the one minute mark and wanted to turn off. So much waffle, where is the point already.
Ok yeah I couldn’t make it through all that. Someone tell him to just write it in text so we can skim to the important bit.
So apparently Iron Maiden are staying at the hotel I’m working in today.
There you go.
“Hey sorry can you cover for me? I got to assist in some room cleaning for this one specific room and only this room as they’re short on staff today. What? Iron Maiden are staying there? What a coincidence!”
Screeeeeeeeeeeam for me *insert hotel’s name here*
I am quite jealous. I hope you bump into them.
Hmm, $140 return Gold Coast to Melbourne around the time Slipknot is playing in October, that is very tempting..
@virus_ looks like you get your wish, the knot are doing a headline tour
http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/slipknot-announce-australian-headline-tour/
Haha, yeah saw that. Might get my ticket/s in the Telstra pre-sale on Tuesday, i’m really tempted to splurge for the $299 vip package in Brisbane, especially if I hitch a ride up with mates lol.
So, last night I finally found out just how juvenile my humour is despite my age…
By which I mean I finally got a chance to watch Deadpool and loved every freaking second of it 😛
I hope you laughed and laughed. 🙂
My god, I don’t think i stopped!
And even better, my missus laughed as much as me, which is unusual because usually i’m the one with the crude humour of the 2 of us 😛
But I honestly was surprised how much I loved it, as I was afraid that the humour and 4th wall breaking would feel forced but I don’t believe that it did.
Really was. My wife’s now a fan too.
We still haven’t seen Ant-Man though. :/
Ant-man was a surprise to me… I really enjoyed it the same way i enjoyed Ocean’s Eleven and the Italian Job
I always thought that would kill a Deadpool movie but they managed to do it in a way that didn’t feel like it was trying too hard. I think what made it work was the way they did it so often without making it a punchline every single time. Now I’m thinking of it it sort of reminds me of the Genie in Aladdin or even Bugs Bunny. He was constantly breaking the fourth wall to do something funny, but they’d mix it up between straight up jokes, visual gags, comments, references, etc.
Such a good movie.
All the dinosaurs feared the T-Rex! *Flails broken arms*@jocon @dogman @tech_knight
Is this any better?
http://imgur.com/AAnTHX0
Or this one?
http://imgur.com/lcwTTQ6
This one stands out more
Oh great. DOGMAN, Help me decide!
No Jo’s right, had another look and decided the shadow one is better.
You know you’ve got problems when you’re the person who actually requests my input…
I thought I replied earlier but I must have forgot to hit submit. Not sure which of the two I’d pick. I’m leaning towards agreeing with Tech and Jo. Either way the extra definition fixes the problem on both of them so you can’t go wrong.
Thank you! I will go with the lighter arms one as if I add shadows to one thing, I have to add it to everything else.
Both are clearer. I prefer the shadow one myself.
ELITE: DANGEROUS…
Not only did the entry for Kunti get updated to reflect the Elite: Dangerous Australia faction’s takeover of the system…
…they accepted the group’s request for the text UNEDITED.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/4iznbb/the_elite_dangerous_australia_league_ingame/
So so good. This makes me very very happy.
There are requests in for some station name changes too, so we’ll see if those get approved in the next round of updates. 😀
Uuuuurgh, now i have to move systems to Kunti don’t I? 😛 Any good trade routes? What’s a good export from Kunti? VB Tins?
Somewhat ironically, alcohol is illegal in Kunti. :/ Trying to get that sorted too.
It’s not a great trading system on its own, but it’s close to a lot of good routes. Also it’s one hop from several hi-tech systems, and several good bounty hunting systems like Bok. 🙂
Ah nice! i’ll relocate my assets in the next few days me thinks
I’m leaving the odd Hauler around the place. Couple of ships in Kunti, and the rest at Jameson Memorial.
Kunti works as although it’s Empire, it’s a hop or two from some Fed systems, only a few hops to Alliance systems, and it’s roughly the middle of the bubble.
I have an FDL in Gende, T9 at Shapsugabus, Cobra MKIV as my mission ship/run about and everything else is parked in Azrael 😛
I’ll relocate these to Kunti, and probably park the FDL near where bounty hunting is good
Leave the T9 near the best trading route… 🙂
Yeah pretty much… Actually excited to find a new trade route, that’s half the fun! 😛
Haha, excellent.
Hrrrrrrnnnnngh
http://www.newgamenetwork.com/news/11848/star-trek-online-coming-to-consoles/
…I could so be up for shenanigans in this as Spock Clone One Billion
Quite enjoyed my time with ST:O on PC a few years back… I’ll be keen to give it a romp on PS4!
The ground combat was a bit garbage but the space combat was the best.
Yeah pretty much… Ground combat was very VERY basic MMO affair… But it really did shine when you were commanding your Constitution Class ship around in space…
Time to brush off my old Ferengi Captain Pixel Uldapak!
Why Ferengi? because i assumed no one else wanted to be one XD
You probably assumed right!
I wonder if those ‘visual improvements’ planned for console are over the current PC version or if they’re talking about every upgrade made already since 2010…
*thousand-yard-stare*
My God. I was in the bathroom when I heard someone hurriedly rush into the stall next to me. The orchestra of their ass unleashed a symphony of initially boisterous enthusiasm which – over the space of two ‘solid’ minutes – devolved into an aggressive cacophony of gastro-intestinal catastrophe.
It put me in mind of a brass band trying for an ‘explosive’ rendition of the final two minutes of the 1812 overture, complete with cannon, which – in a surprise twist – had to be put to actual use on an unexpected attack by an army of howler monkeys, all whilst on the deck of the titanic as it sank.
But that was not the horror. Oh no. The human body is an alchemical nightmare designed specifically to defy the concept of dignity. This is known. No… The horror was this: no sooner had the waters ceased churning from the violence did I hear a brief, *swish-swish* of no more than two sheets of toilet paper used to treat the carnage, before the maestro departed the stall.
No… no. No! NO. You did NOT just recover from that with a 2-swipe clean! NO-ONE SUFFERS WHATEVER THE HELL THAT WAS AND WALKS AWAY UNSCATHED.
Now I have to live with the knowledge that they are out there… walking among us.
And now you live with this knowledge, too.
What’s even better is when you experience what happened above, complete with the 2-swipe clean and then you hear the door of the bathroom stall opened… Followed by the sound of the toilet door…
“OH GOD HE DIDN’T WASH HIS HANDS!”
I learned this a long time ago, wash your hands after shaking hands with anyone in the office before you eat anything… ANYONE
All workplace bathrooms should just be separated into individual units, no shared space at all.
“… First, it was the shaking. I saw his feet shaking under the stall.”
“It was, at this point, that I believe that every one of his internal organs was ejected from his haunted bunghole.”
“Then, in the stillness, he said-”
“- No.”
“Not this.”
“Not now.”
I was in the bathroom one day when all I could hear was furious masturbation and grunting. most horrific day ever.,
Well if it was so horrific then why did you do it?
Zing!
Ugh, something is fucked with my car. Took it for rego inspection, the guy tells me I’ve got a brake light out. Which happens every. Single. Time. Always the right side one. Takes it out and looks at it, the globe itself is fine. He didn’t have any spares on him, but we have some at home. Swapped it out, and the new one works. But then I tried the “busted” one in the other socket, and it’s working just fine there. Stupid.
Loose contacts or dirt in the socket? only reason why i can think that one would work and not the other :\
Not that I could see. So the only other possibility is ghosts.
That works! We should start our own garage! you and I would be the best at diagnosing issues… We could even fix cars with exorcisms and healing stones!
But only ever one or the other, not both.
You don’t cross the streams.
“Oh i’m sorry sir, seems to be that the ol’ distributor has become possessed… You’ll need to paint a pentagram on your bonnet in goats blood and only do right hand turns for a while… And whatever you do, do NOT engage 5th gear!”
Can I call dibs on being the techpriest?
I think a lot of time could probably be saved on most troubleshooting if we simply assumed ‘ghosts’ from the get-go.
And just like that, I have a job! Ok, it’s just a casual job in an office doing office-y stuff, but I can walk there, and it’s 20 hours a week in school time (4 days a week). I can still pick up my little guy from school, and that makes me very happy.
Huzzah! \o/
Jobmama! \o/
Six hours left until DOOM finishes downloading! 😀
@aliasalpha @os42 not sure I have you fellows on Steam, I’m (unsurprisingly) red_artifice if you want to add me. also (cc @jocon) do you need Teamspeak deets?
Also @spadge @highperformance @blaghman @transientmind keen to join?
I’m omegastealth on steam, will add you when I get home, and, yes, will need TS deets.
Mines the same as my username here. Not got any teamspeak info, in fact I’m not sure I’ve got teamspeak at all. Something else to download.
CC: @redartifice
I have the TS deets.
Aieee. Fridays are so tight. Do we know if the multi is something we can drop into and make use of an AI race at a later date, kinda like EU4? How long planning on running? A few hours every Friday?
I think a couple of hours is the idea and no idea how it works.
Yeah, I’ll join in, and regret it immensely.
I’m keen! Not sure how to join your game though?
Will flick you an invite
Picked up a copy of The Living End’s new album ‘Shift’ which came out today, it’s not what I expected, but hey I don’t hate it. Already like it more than I did with The Ending Is Just Beginning Repeating. Solid effort & I can’t wait to just zone out to it tonight at work!
TALK AMONGST THE STARS, ON STEALLARIS MULTIPLAYER
I’m gonna build a wall, and I’m gonna make the united tribal confederacy pay for it– @highperformance, chancellor, Trump collective
HOLY SHIT @HAGGIS IT HAPPENED
Why are space rocks better to eat than earth rocks?
because they’re meteor #dadjokepagesix #hi@strange #itsbeensolongWHY DID YOU DO THIS TO US RED WHY?!
YOUVE MISSED THIS ADMIT IT
MAYBE.
My ex-wife still misses me, but her aim is getting better!
#DadJokePage6
What a week it’s been! But the best bit was definitely this morning when a small group of ladies put their heads together and made awesomeness happen for a parkrun anniversary:
https://goo.gl/photos/z6WBoNLtz4KAh9er5
It took far too long to realise while looking at the last picture that those were TeeVee Snacks (or similar?) around the sides. And then it suddenly clicked what I was actually looking at 😛
Yeah, they’re biscuits that are a bit bigger than teevee snacks around the edge of the cake. Here’s another shot https://goo.gl/photos/ayhCs2ZZdfYRw2Kx5
Welp, turns out I have Giardiasis.
All the =(.