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Morning All!
My weekend consisted of Watching Deadpool (Spoiler: it’s amazing) baking a cake, eating german food, eating slow cooked beef, making a cake, and playing a board game. All in all it was good. How was yours?
That sounds like a great weekend, and yes, Deadpool is awesome. We watched it for the second time and it was just as good on the second viewing. I got to go to 2 kids birthday parties. One had a LIGHT UP tentacool cake, and the other was a star wars party with pool noodle lightsabers.
Those would have been my dream parties as a kid. Kid’s get all the fun!
It was really good to go to an old-fashioned back yard party that had home made food and didn’t feature a paid entertainer.
How much of a thing is that with parties these days? I Never understood that as a thing. surely it’s more special to organise and entertain yourself?
It’s pretty common for people to hire at least something for a kids party, even if it’s just having the cake made or picking a venue. Partly because lots of parents work and just don’t have the time to run around getting stuff organised, and partly because it seems to have become normal that you have to invite the entire class (and more) to the party, so catering and entertaining 20+ kids becomes a big deal.
Fair enough!
At my colleagues kids school you are required to invite every single kid in the class to avoid bullying. Feels strange to me…
I’ve heard of that before. Exclusion is a bullying tactic that girls are particularly fond of, and deliberately inviting every girl in your class except one or two is a particularly nasty thing to do (unfortunately there are adult women who do it too, so no surprises how it happens).
Unfortunately a policy like that isn’t likely to do much other than drive invites away from the traditional paper version to online versions where you find out that everyone was invited to a party via facebook, except for your kid…
Tentacool pics required 😛
This is the tentacool cake. The red circles are made of toffee, and hiding underneath them are discs of remote-controlled LED lights.
https://goo.gl/photos/gCyzcfzrN1ApE4kf6
And this was the excellent Lego Star Wars cake from yesterday’s party:
https://goo.gl/photos/ku68wSqPNBZMBBL9A
Those are awesome!
Mornin’.
Episode 5 of Game of Thrones got leaked last night. I watched a portion of it.
Summary?
All aboard the feels train. Seriously. Some pretty big turn around stuff here.Also, HBO is looking at doing a ‘Jon Snow’ spin-off for once the series finishes. Not too sure how accurate that news article is, though.
Morning, how are you all?
I finished Uncharted in a bit of a marathon.
I thought the ending was particularly weak and a bit hollywood-esque.That said, it was an amazing experience, and if you haven’t picked it up yet, do it.Can’t wait until Naughty Dog do what they’ve always wanted to do, a full length feature film.
Morning everyone.
After stuffing up techie’s leg, I redid it in a week. Ready for fibre glassing without the stuff up this time.
I also helped @sernobulus become more confused about his cosplay. And I helped @freezespreston pick the wrong fabric =P (I said twill, he chose drill, but it’ll be fine. They’re similar anyway)
I also started playing Ukulele again. Trying to relearn
To be fair I get confused about the very simple things.
Do you think you may be able to make the gloves?
Maybe, might see if I can find any that I like first.
It’s not that difficult. It’s actually the basis of the back tentacles for my squid hat. I learnt from the glove making =D
Also, if you do decide to make it, I would suggest buying a 4 way stretch fake leather from ebay. It’s thin and stretchy.
Fun (not so fun?) Ukulele fact: my friend spent $1000 USD on a Ukulele when we were there on holidays.
He knows 5 songs.
I think mine cost $40
1000 would buy a beautiful sounding ukelele.
I’m sure it sounded amazing, I heard him play a few songs and it sounds great. Trouble is with my hideously tone deaf ears I’m not sure I could fully appreciate it.
I don’t have a great ear for music either, but there’s definitely a big difference in sound between the plasticky ukeleles you see marketed to kids and beginners, and the ones sold in music shops that start at $80-100 and go up. It’s the same as with guitars – the better construction and materials mean they hold their tune, and the sound has more depth and texture than an simple “pling”
And just because I love her so much, here’s Amanda Palmer with The Ukelele Anthem
Benefits of being a robot. When I get my leg stuffed up I have to visit a physiotherapist.
Join the club =P @tech_knight
I knew someone would make that connection, not disappointed in the slightest haha 🙂
Good morning TAY 🙂
how are you all?
I loved the hell outta Far Harbor (and still have plenty to do there)
I also bought Homefront and am not regretting it, it’s not pefect sure and I can see what some of the reviews mean.
But I can also see what they mean when they say there is a good game buried amongst it all.
How was your weekend?
Last song played game time!
Sommerliebe by Solee
What was YOUR last song played?
Oh I can do it this time!
Issun’s theme, Okami OST
Stolen Dance by Milky Chance
Ninja edit: Good thanks, how are you? Weekend was pleasant…consisted of some drinks, MUFC winning the FA Cup, Rocket League and about 10 straight hours of Daredevil Season 2 yesterday. Ohhhh BOY. Let’s just say, I had some messed up dreams last night.
I’m good, as I said it was mostly Far Harbor with some Homefront thrown in, some youtube to catch up with my favorite content creators and some yard work
Nylon Pink’s G-Dragon cover Crooked – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8UmBBQxDjY
Bonus song: Still Alive by Lisa Miskovsky (it’s almost here!) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1xyCOE8fNQ
Too Much Too Ask – Bad Religion.
Last played: http://www.rainymood.com
Yeah, I grabbed Homefront and have been really enjoying it. It’s a very competent Far Cry clone, and if anything I’d say it’s possibly done even better than FC3 or FC4 in adding a little illusion of depth to its mechanics.
Of course, when I said as much in a positive Steam review, I was immediately review-bombed into 25% helpful territory. Possibly because I made fun of the rampant ‘MURRICA!’ nationalism (seriously, it’s really, really bad – it’s almost at Killzone levels of not knowing if even the devs were aware that you’re playing as the bad guys). Possibly because I dared to deviate from the, “This game is broken and sucks!” hivemind. I noticed that with XCOM 2. It’s a fantastic game which is better than its predecessor in just about every way… but giving it a positive review at a time when reddit decided it was universally broken is apparently frowned upon.
I am enjoying it, and finding myself wanting to play (right now stuck at work) despite the bugs and glitches and poor design choices (which I feel can be quite evident)
The nationalism is pretty intense but I guess it needs to be forced in a game like this (take back the land from the invaders) as opposed to not being forced in a game like Call of Duty World at War (while the allies may have been invading certain countries it’s generally seen as a means to an end and only way necessary to fight a war and save the world)
I like the illusion of depth you mentioned.
Amanda Palmer – ‘Ukulele Anthem’
For the last few days when blowing my nose it has been coming out blue. This was alarming until I realised why.
https://imgur.com/L6evwqw
Always wear a mask when painting, people.
Edit: Here’s the test fire for the stencilling. I’ve put down the black on the final piece, but I still have to wait to do the white and dark blue. It’ll make sense once it’s done…
http://imgur.com/soEyGio
I don’t know what that is but I’m assuming de Blob and Glover had a baby and it’s rad.
I’d play that game!
But no, it’s lucario.
http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/27400000/Lucario-on-ground-lucario-27415560-750-1000.jpg
Is it that unrecognisable?!
He’s not gen 1 so yes 😛
This is the kind of hipsterism I can get behind. 😀
THERE ARE ONLY 151 POKEMON, AND PIKACHU HAS A MANDATORY PLACE ON EVERY TEAM. Pokefans have spent the last decade and a half spouting pure gibberish as far as I’m concerned.
Pikachu? How mainstream of you.
Says the Charizard user.Yes. He also needs to be in the team.
I was like you once. And then Oshawott and Dedenne happened.
I love Dedenne’s name. I just picture someone accidentally poking their finger in a power plug every time.
Fair point, I still remember even the unlovable gen 1’s like exeggcute.
But lucario is pretty much the number two pokemon behind pikachu, he’s repping pretty hard in smash, pokken, etc.
Here’s the stick now, the final detail paint goes on today before sealing:
http://i.imgur.com/OmFRlRw.jpg
Pretty shweet.
Lucario is number on forced pokemon nobody wants. Get outta here you’re taking Mewtwo’s Smash slot 😛
Number one pokemon is Hawlucha.
Lucario is dog jesus. You shut your mouth!
Also, hawlucha is amazing, and I wanted it in place of pikachu libre right up until the moment I played as her.
Best burst attack in the game.
Cats rule, dogs drool 😛
The lack of Hawlucha saved me a purchase on that one. Well, that and the demo.
Also I’m strongly considering trying to make some kind of a combo pinball/arcade stick controller for VR now, like what Will Smith on Tested made. Though I think it could be cool if it unhooked with some clamps so you could attach it to a desk or something, instead of being fixed to the miniature cabinet shape.
Finally had enough energy to get some Warhammer painting done. Hopefully I’ll still feel like painting tonight and get past the annoying parts of the Fire Dragons or Striking Scorpions.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-99628-51554_Eldar%20Iybraesil%20Guardian%20Defenders.html
@ashigaru I actually prefer your version of the Iybraesil colour scheme. Mine is a bit too green. I like the way mine looks on the Guardians but it doesn’t seem to scale up to vehicles as well as yours.
I like how awesome Eldar can look but my god they are one of the trickiest armies to paint well. I’ve seen some absolutely astonishing paint jobs with all of the different styles and symbols while I’ve basically given up on achieving that level of awesome with my Eldar.
The funny part is when I chose Eldar I thought they’d be easy to paint. Almost no skin or hair. How can I go wrong? I had no idea how painful edge highlighting fifty thousand panels covered in gem bumps would be…
That said I’m improving and more importantly I’m getting used to my level of skill. I’m starting to look at my stuff as succeeding at being table top quality rather than failing to be showcase worthy.
@chuloopa Looks awesome. I can’t wait to get a Wraithknight and use him to turn your demon into a smouldering pile of ash. =P
Hmm – maybe i’ll stick to my DA and imperial knight your ass in that case 😛
I look forward to seeing them on the table – looking great so far, mate
edit:
Once we get to higher point games i may switch to Chaos just so i can field this guy
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-71248-38558_Daemonic%20Defiler%20Project%20-%20My%20First%20Massive%20Conversion.html
That looks pretty fuckin awesome. What is it exactly, a daemon engine, a dreadnought?
I’m running it as a Defiler.
I thought the stock standard one looks a bit tard, so i kit-bashed a Soul Grinder and an Arachnarock to make that.
I love him ever so much. haha
I can see why. It’s the kind of thing that makes me want to get back into the game but that whole issue of spending probably around a grand on armies for both fantasy & 40k and only having 2-3 games in total does tend to burn through the motivation.
This is why second hand armies/models are the best.
There’s a warhammer buy swap sell page on facebook which is also excellent for this. And gumtree. I rarely use retail anymore.. i just don’t see the point
I got some second hand Eldar from a guy who’d had it for about ten years. He had a metal Karandras phoenix lord which I got for a steal considering it was part of a larger set for $500. People are often just happy to offload their old models so they’re not too concerned about trying to make a profit.
Dude – i once got an entire CSM army in a case for about $100.
So much awesome.
It’s just a matter of keeping a look out. Sometimes you get lucky.
Yeah but there’s still the whole ‘never using it’ problem, no one I know is interested in the game anymore.
Do you have a FLGS?
@chuloopa
No idea what an FLGS is so I’m guessing no
hahaha – Friendly local game store, or flagship local game store, or favorite local game store.
Basically a local independant tabletop games store – they’re pretty great for playing just about everything.
If no – warhammer 40,000 conquest is an awesome way to still be into 40k without being into 40k 🙂
@chuloopa
Oooh then no, we used to but it downsized massively and now it’s basically a small cupboard in a tiny walkthrough alley. Think ‘second hand bookshop’ kind of size
YAYYY!!! You remembered to link me 😀 Nice work mate! I agree yours looks better on the Guardians. What are you worried about for vehicles though? Just copy my scheme for the vehicles and keep the rest the same for yours? The only major difference for me is I sprayed the underside half white and then shaded it, and black for the hawk turquoise (whatever the equivalent is now).
Let me know you thoughts. I can take close up pics for you too if you like, still have all the vehicles and stuff at home 🙂
Hello!
Wife’s 40th on Saturday. Good day out, starting with two legs of a pub crawl with one group of friends, and then winding up with a different group of friends at a pub in the city. Messy.
No gaming to speak of, although my Anaconda is now out beyond the Snake Nebula and heading away from the bubble at 36ly per jump…
HI GUYS!
Had Heidi’s 2nd birthday party on saturday. I ate Fairy bread. awesome.
The party wasn’t half bad either – Bee organised a teddy bears picnic at a local park – thank god it didn’t rain! LITTLE VICTORIES!!
Tomorrow is also the release date for total war warhammer. Which also happens to be my birthday. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!!
It actually kills me a little that i’m not buying it, though, as my computer would have a seizure and die if I tried to play it.
It does look pretty bloody amazing, though.
HOW ARE YOU GUYS?!
Surely you’re better off waiting for a few patches to hit on Total War? Then address the computer upgrade in the mean time? It is your birthday after all… *cough*new GPU*cough*
I love kids birthdays – the best food.
I have a laptop.. no new anything 🙁
I KNOW RIGHT?!? mini sandwiches. Sausage rolls. Fairy bread. Pop tops and soft drinks!
SO GOOD
If you did get a new GPU, that’s about half the cost of a new PC right there…
I have literally no space for a dedicated computer, so laptop is pretty much my only choice – And i am no where near able to afford that sort of a layout at the moment, so it’s a case of make do. haha
Ahh just screw the mobo to the underside of a table and keep everything in place with zip ties, it’ll be fine!
I had actually been considering a micro computer (or a cube) – but then i’d still need to be storing/carting around a monitor as well.. Why the hell can’t laptops be affordable?! haha
I watched the original Ghostbusters with my kids on Friday night. It was awesome, even 32 years later. Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd really carried that movie though. The interaction between Bill Murray and the EPA guy played by William Atherton was the highlight for me. All of Atherton’s scenes were great. Rick Moranis also added a lot to the film. It was a bit sad that Sigourney Weaver’s part wasn’t very well-written, and it was obvious that Ernie Hudson’s role was written in as a “crap, we’ve got no black people in this film!” role. Still, got two thumbs up for the brash attitude of the 80s and the ‘triumph of the underdogs’ theme, not to mention the kick-arse soundtrack.
Best line: “It’s true. This man has no dick.”
Rumour has it that they originally wanted Eddie Murphy for Hudson’s role, and when they couldn’t get him it got scaled back dramatically.
Yeah that’s what i heard as well
Yep
Interesting!
I actually kinda liked how it turned out, with Winston playing the straight-man. Every Strike Team should have its Ronnie.
So it’s been a terribly shit 10 days with everything going on. Fortunately for me this means I threw my preset game budget out of the water and bought everything and anything. Stellaris is awesome (stayed up all night Friday playing it and then slept for 16 hours on Saturday).
Now I have Total War Warhammer and Overwatch to look forward to! Still haven’t 100% Doom and not touching Uncharted 4 for another few months. Yes I may have bought a lot of games. A lot. Like double what I’m talking about right now.
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#downwithtrump!
#downwithtrump’sinternetconnnection
I still kind of regret not kissing up to them when they were played by the AI and making them a vassal, just to see the reaction…
I’m 99% sure I have you added red? Not sure what my steam profile name is but last I remember I think it was Reaper?
What time do you guys run your game? Am I able to join mid-game? Won’t I be like 600 years behind??! :O
I’ve presently vassalized my closest and only neighbor (playing on a spiral world so the factions appear to be separated until further tech is researched). Now to spread my evil empire across the cosmos!
Question with world stellaris galactic domination? How many vassals can I have at once without risking massive scale betrayal? What are sectors? How do I control more than 5 planets :O
1) You probably do have me, I don’t remember because I don’t sit on Steam that often
2) You can join mid game, you’ll be given control of an AI empire. We can tell you which ones are worth controlling
3) Vassals etc depends on ethics divergence. if ethics are close, vassals will like you more.
I’m guessing a multiplayer game is similar to the normal game except you can’t pause?
The hosting player controls game speed, which in our case has been @aliasalpha. We’ve been playing at normal speed
We do sometimes go to fast speed, depending on what’s going on
Sectors are how you control more than 5 planets.
You basically create a region, starting with a Planet, that is semi-autonomous. Can control the space station but not the planet itself.
So chuck your crapest planets and any frontier outposts you can into sectors and get new, better ones to control directly.
Certain gov types can have more core planets.
Spent the weekend with friends at a farmstay in the southern highlands. It was refreshing to have no mobile service whatsoever, so all we did was hang out, drink, and look at horses. Beautiful place.
I feel like I’m completely missing whatever it is people are enjoying about Doom. I had way more fun playing Shadow Warrior last year and that was made on a third of the budget this seems to have been.
Actually picked up Shadow Warrior with Doom as well and I find both quite enjoyable. Doom however for me feels much more fluid while I feel like I would’ve enjoyed Shadow Warrior more on a PC.
What were you looking to get from Doom though? I went in expecting mindless but well polished shooting with some story and some RPG progression. Got exactly that 10/10 😀 Love how the maxed out weapons create challenges for you in order to unlock their final upgrade, adds a nice spin to fights just as they started getting stale.
I don’t know, but I haven’t had any fun with the shooting. Maybe i’m too old.
I spent an unhealthy percentage of my youth with the Doom franchise, and Doom 3 was kind of a let-down in its deviation from what I enjoyed about the first 2, and lost potential. Doom 4 is a call-back to what I enjoyed about the originals, with a tonne of polish, so I’ve been getting a tonne of nostalgia value out of it. The way they’ve injected the lore in this one has been ultra-appealing as well. I’m enjoying it in bite-sized chunks, taking breaks after each level so that I can draw the experience out, though. I’m kind of worried I’ll finish it too quickly and then it’ll be over.
For the most part though? There’s nothing to complain about. Secrets are hinted at and revealed in a way that’s satisfying. Weapons are fun to use and the upgrades aren’t over the top, game-breaking, and there’s enough in the way of ammo limitations to force you to switch it up and enjoy them all, so you don’t get a one-note gameplay experience over-using one in particular.
Contrast with Shadow Warrior: the combos were finicky to pull off and pressures to execute them within time limits – losing a combo JUST before finding the next enemy – never left me satisfied with what I’d achieved. Some weapons are clearly useless, the upgrade system left me cold (possibly didn’t reward enough results, soon enough for my tastes), and as someone who never really got into the original Shadow Warrior, it spent a lot of time making references I knew I was missing.
Shadow Warrior was still great, still enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to, but Doom has a lot more polish, a lot more ‘weight’ to its mechanics, a more engrossing environment with more options for traversal (including clever shortcut-openings) that do a better job of hiding the arena/corridor nature of both games.
Feels a little like arguing for Quake when my best friend was all about preferring Duke3D.
I haven’t found or had any hints at secrets, I don’t think. I feel like you guys are playing a different Doom to me. The one I’m playing feels loose, floaty and boring. The shotgun is inconsistent and sounds absolutely pathetic, the level design is confusing and the game’s unstable. I finally got the chainsaw, only to get murdered in seconds when I used it. Positional audio is non-existent and all I hear is constant RARGH to tell me there’s enemies somewhere but no idea where they are. Usually behind me. They’re no fun to kill either. And the music is utterly pedestrian too. I don’t even remember if I’ve heard a guitar yet. It’s more like Trent Reznor’s noise-music from Quake I than anything, at least so far.
FWIW I cut my teeth playing FPS like Doom and Quake. And Marathon, which probably had more time clocked for me due to owning a Mac more. I always kind of preferred Heretic and Hexen over Doom but I’ve finished them all many times as a kid.
I’m not saying Shadow Warrior’s a better game – it’s not, it’s nowhere near as polished or well built and had maybe a tenth of the budget behind it – but I found that fun from the instant I started, and have yet to enjoy myself in Doom. Though it doesn’t help that whenever I maybe start to get into it, it takes out my PC. 🙁
Yet another weekend of heavily abusing my sleep patterns. Too late, no going back now.
Ended up going out Friday night to see X-men Apocalpyse, it was pretty good. Carted my Rift and PC along for my friend to try out, and as a road test it went pretty well in terms of transport. The 380T fits nicely sideways between the driver and rear passenger seat of my car, although its boxiness makes it seem a little prone rolling when going around corners. Might need to figure out a way to secure it better so I don’t have to reach around behind my chair all the time. Didn’t actually get to use it though, since my friend was ready to crash once we got back from the movie. Still, it seems to work just fine without even plugging in a monitor, mouse or keyboard, so that’s good to know. Stayed up late running through most of the free/passive stuff.
Got up early Saturday (well, for a Saturday), then immediately got a message from Aerialist asking about postponing the meetup by a couple of hours, due to a big night the night before. That was fine by me 😛 Except then I couldn’t get back to sleep due to hunger. Bah. Nearly ended up running late, but the suggested time was 1:30/2 and I got to the Powerhouse exactly at 2 so I was totally in the clear. The exhibition was pretty good, although reaching the end it was sort of like “oh, it’s over already?”, even though checking my watch we’d been in there for an hour. Wonder Woman’s invisible jet was pretty cool, as well as the huge batmobile. I loved the little detail of the bat symbol on the hubcaps, that was great. Kinda wish there were a few more bigger set pieces like that, rather than all the smaller figures which started to feel a bit repetitive. Also, we spent a lot of time either laughing or rolling our eyes at the plaques and what the dude had written about everything. Especially his incessant need to measure everything in burritos.
Ended up at this little hipster cafe down an alley for lunch, though all the food was kind of Asian on top too? I ended up getting the green curry hotdog. Also there was a guy who got a wonderfully out of tune rendition of Happy Birthday, which climaxed in someone popping a balloon over him which seemed to be filled with milk. Dinner and a show 😛
Got home and spent more time in VR, this time playing a whole bunch of Lucky’s Tale. The time trials in that are friggen hard, I lost count of how many attempts it took to shave off enough seconds to hit the gold medal. Had to take a break from that, and decided to fire up Pinball FX. Oh man. Man oh man oh man. This is really great, I can see myself spending a whole load of time in here. All the benefits of virtual pinball like impossible tables and having as many tables as you like without needing a ~1.5×0.75 box taking up space in your room for each of them – but then you don’t have the drawbacks like a lack of depth perception or parallax. I mean a real machine is still better, there’s just something visceral about that tangible box of kinetic action in front of you and that extra level of physics that you don’t quite get with a virtual simulation. But it’s still pretty damn awesome.
Rose super late Sunday, and mostly tried to hammer out some forms and stuff with Wingman’s help, but kept getting distracted. Got Mum to have a go in VR again, having only got her to check out the Unreal Showdown demo so far (which she found pretty impressive). But she was pretty well blown away by pinball, really really impressed. I ended up grabbing The Climb since my sister will be over tomorrow night and I’ll need that ready, and began to play through it. It’s pretty cool, but takes a bit of getting used to with the gaze-based aiming of hands. Kinda need to lean back a bit too to make all the upward gazing a little easier. It’s true what I’ve seen others say though, it really seems to make your hands sweat a lot. I don’t think I’m hitting the point of “presence” at all, but it still did it for me too. It’s kinda weird to get used to not fully actuating the triggers for your grip too, but before long I was grabbing holds pretty accurately and swiftly with the correct amount of grip. Now I just need to figure out how the scoring system works, since the game doesn’t seem to explain that from what I’ve seen. Got Mum to have a go of that too, a little bit more of a struggle since it’s more “gamey” than any of the other things I’ve gotten her to try, but she had to stop before making it all the way through the tutorial due to excessive grip on the controller giving her a bit of hand strain.
And now at some point I have five games to get through and write a review for. Blaaaaaaaaaaah.
A third person that enjoyed Xmen! Yissssss
What’s there not to enjoy?
Fun? I dunno. It’s great.
You stay for the post credits scene? My mind was on fire with the possibility!
I did and I totally can’t remember anything about it.
Well
The crew that come in & clean up after Weapon X are Essex Corp. Nathaniel Essex is Mr Sinister, the gene splicing mad doctor that’s obsessed with Jean & Scott being the perfect couple.This makes that whole Wolverine cameo far more important than it first seemed.
Because of history changing in the last flick, it ransom Wolverine escapes earlier with more of his memory intact. Who knows what that could change. It means there’ll be no X1&2 now, not just 3 (or not exactly).
If Mr Sinister is the next villain he could breed Cable in a test tube (X-Man & Cable?) this can then tie in to possible Cable & Deadpool stuff & Xforce movie.
Also, he took gene samples, including Wolverine, which means X-23, which has been hinted at recently.
I’m excite!
Ohhh, right! That’s why I didn’t remember it, most of the details were lost on me. Thanks for the explanation 😛
Any of you fine fancy folk interested in Arma3 at all?
I’m getting a bit sick of never playing it coop and I was thinking we should start a TAY squad. Relatively realistic but nothing stupidly MilSim-y with promotions and dedicated roles, just playing as a decent group working together and having a bit of a laugh whilst doing so.
Decent?
Oh. Fine. Didn’t want to play anyway.
Decent as in not planning to play like it’s call of duty and then getting all pissed off when you get your face opened up by a fusillade of 6.5mm rounds. If you want to play properly then that’d be awesome
Perhaps @freezespreston thought you meant you’d have to wear pants while playing.
Oh well no that’s fine! Pants or indeed clothes of any kind are absolutely optional.
I been grinding away at Elder Scrolls Online again.
It’s funny, I gave it a break because I kept doing uninteresting quest after uninspiring quest. That’s still a thing, but in the 3 days I’ve picked it up again, a main quest opened with some interesting stuff, I ran around saving Lizardmen eggs, which feels good & I opened a new area which was a nice change.
It’s in Skyrim, which I’d thought for sure I was over but it feels good.
I always seem to dig the quests in which you enter a dream & things get a tad weird.
Also, I rearranged much of our house because we’ve been removing carpet & putting floor boards in , a room at a time.
Now my buttock muscles hurt from doing squats & lifting furniture.
We did the flooring thing. We only just finished a week ago. Renovations are an absolute marathon. Just finishing up a little bit of painting in the new kitchen and I hope I never hear about renovations ever again.
Ours is taking forever because we both work , so on weekends I clear a room & the on my wife’s days off (while the boy is at school) she puts the boards in.
Then I clear out another room & she starts again.
I hate it because I’m no good at the handy man thing. The reason we’re doing it is because of my son & my asthma, but moving things that have been in place for years obviously stirs up dust.
It’ll be worth it in the end. But it’ll be a while yet. Two more rooms to go & one is the biggest.
I’m exactly the same. I also have asthma and we had to do salt damp treatment (our house is extremely old) on all the walls too. I was finding it hard to breathe in there often. My wife is paranoid that our kid will have asthma because of me.
Don’t worry about the handy man skills, I am in the same boat except i’m from a family of extremely handy people.
I finally finished the Witcher 3! I think I got a pretty good ending.
Ciri became a Witcher, Cerys rules Skellige but Emhyr gave back Temeria but it’s a puppet state. Geralt and Yen left to go and have baths.I wanted to try out Uncharted 4 but it need a 5gb update so I played Valkyria Chronicles instead. Absolutely loving it! I don’t know it took me so long to take the plunge. If I don’t get an S-Rank can I come back and replay them at some stage?
I got the exact same ending. Such a great game, can’t wait for the new expansion!
Me either! Bloody good game. Best thing I’ve played in the past year!
If you don’t feel up to replaying, I strongly recommend you also try looking up some footage for the other ‘good’ ending. It was so very human. The way it’s revealed to you slowly through a small chain of quests felt really poignant to me. Very true to life, in the way of someone trying to… well. I’d say, just watch it. 😀
Doom is a better game than Uncharted 4.
I said it.
Fight me irl.
#kanyegate2016
They both have shit gameplay so same diff.
(I’ll be waiting behind the gym after school)
OH IT’S ON! IT’S SO ON!
I think I need an extra hard drive.
My 2TB one is running low on space.
I always think that… then realise I have a stupid amount of movies/tv stashed on there.
Right now I think I’d like to bump my SSD from 120GB to 240GB just so I can chuck the games on it as well as Windows… But then I think I should just get a new computer… and maybe turn this one into a NAS/server/media box… then I realise I have nowhere near enough time to spend maintaining them and making it just ‘work’ so my wife can use it…
I have an almost perfect love/hate relationship with computers.
I have a 256gb right now and it’s not nearly enough. Splurge for a 512 minimum IMO.
Weekend was good but busy
Seems liek Tiglet is going though a wonder week so her vocabulary is exploding but she is so clingy and needy. So half her meals are had sitting on my knee at the moment.
Had a deployment over the weekend that went much better than expected so that is good. Mrs Tigs and Tiglet came into the office and we had some fun playing in the beanbags.
Watched both stage 11&12 of the giro, including a bottle of Red on stage 12 so still a little tired.
Gaming wise not much, played some MPQ and fallout as well as a little bit of unravel which I bought Mrs Tigs for mothers day.
Started a new book ‘The goldfish club’ which is story of club members which are made up of people who were forced to ditch their aircraft into water. Just short interesting little stories
TAY Pathfinder tonight at 8pm AEST, 7:30pm ACST. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @beeawwb
Just a reminder for tonight that we’re going to try out using Google Hangouts again for audio and/or video. Roll20’s quality seems to be far too hit and miss recently but we’ll still use the dice rolling and table in Roll20.
Just finished Bloodborne. Managed to take out Orphan of Kos, the last boss, & the secret last boss all in one session. Great momentum, but between finishing that and DS3 this year I wouldn’t want a sequel for a loooonnng time. Realized I actually have a few games to trade in so I’m wondering if I should get Overwatch or put it towards No Man’s Sky.
Went back to work this week. It’s been a while. Was pretty much me re-introducing myself to coworkers, acting as if I was completely new to the place, and asking loudly how everything worked because, of course, I was new there.
I’m going to play golf on the weekend. I.. have no idea how to play golf. I think I’m supposed to wear polo shirts?, and khakis?? and complain about colonialism?? Whatever, as long as I can drink on the green. Is that what they call it? the green????
It’s the fairways you want to drink on, you spend more time on them.
Clearly I’m doing Golf wrong. OTOH, I’m okay with the wedges.
Nah, I always walk down the fairway before heading into the rough to find my ball
I’m terrible at golf.
Until I start drinking.
Then I get better.
Unless I keep drinking.
Then I get worse.
Drinking Golf is the best golf. Lowest score on each hole has to finish their drink, helps even things out.
Sounds like me and women.
I was just on the train when this one kid turned to the other and said “Hey do you know that game store in Bankstown that sells retro games? You know, like PS2 games and stuff?”
Ugh.
Ugh. Young people. You know what we should do? Live selfishly as if there’s no tomorrow, so that they have to inherent a world that’s– OH MY GOD THAT’S WHY
PS2 was 16 years ago, that’s as big as the gap between the SNES and the PS3
Dammit Red I need to drive I can’t be drinking right now.
Hey everyone. I’m still working on my Junkrat shirt.
http://imgur.com/Zo98IWr
Does this look okay? Does the tire look alright? He’s supposed to be balancing on it and trying to walk forwards.
I dunno quite what I’m looking at here, but given the character’s moving and has a bit of attitude, something to make it look a bit more dynamic? Speed lines, some sort of motion, something suggesting haste?
It’s a shirt design, so speed lines won’t really work I think.
I dunno, it’s just for your other stuff the character has been in a static pose, whereas here he looks like he’s doing something
I’m not sure I could do it and make it look good
Sunglasses and a backwards hat.
I think the tire looks wrong, it seems to be much more realistic than the character. It has gone from flat colours to textures and shading so it looks like 2 different images combined
That was a reference image. I was concerned about the angle of it
Starting to feel like maybe video games aren’t a hobby for me any more. Feel left behind. There’s no joy or excitement in it, and I feel like I’m not good enough to be able to get to the supposedly fun part any more.
Try a new genre of game? Take a break? Try a weird challenge in an old favourite?
Someone linked this somewhere the other day… Editorial: An End To “GIT GUD” – You Don’t Need To Be “Good” At Games To Enjoy Them
I’m now at a point where I’m so far behind the curve (don’t have a PS4, want one though) that I’ve accepted I’m only going to play games that match my play style and tastes. My gaming comes in chunks of time of anywhere from 15 minutes to a few hours – dependant entirely on how narky I want to be with my family after not enough sleep.
I know now I don’t need to be good at a game… just enjoy it (which means it needs an easy mode every now and then because I don’t have time to deal with shitty game design).
It’s not about good or bad. I’ll drop the difficulty without a second thought, and fuck the ‘git gud’ idiots. I don’t play games just to wave my dick around about how hardcore I am.
It’s more that I feel like I’m not actually good enough at action games any more so I can’t make decent forward progress. More than anything, I hate losing progress. I hate repeating the same stuff, and I really hate cases where being forced to do so ends up letting you see the seams in games, which happens more and more with AAA cinematic stuff.
There’s your problem. I’m gonna take a guess and say this is coming from playing the new Uncharted?
I hate the genre of “Cinematic” games Uncharted has spawned. Sacrificing actual gameplay on the altar of bombastic set pieces and forced drama until there’s nothing left but a drawn out cutscene made of qte’s and padding. Yes even The Last of Us.
But also you’re just getting older imo, and as you do everything starts to seem like the same old shit. Be picky about your games. Stick to a few good ones and don’t feel bad about branching out to other hobbies.
What red and sun have said, as I get older I find my tastes are increasingly divergent from the established reviewers and status quo. These days I just pick up what I think I’ll enjoy and what I’m happy putting my money behind.
After all you don’t have to play a lot of games to consider it a hobby, just the ones you enjoy 🙂 e.g. The game I’ve played the most in terms of time spent in my life is depressingly and most likely WoW. It doesn’t however represent my fondest games at all which I consider to be KotoR 2, Witcher 3 and FF X. Oh also Sly, Ratchet and one other platforming adventure game I can’t remember for the life of me. Dammit old age.
Edit: Google helped me remember! Jak & Daxter! 😀
My biggest problem is I buy stuff that I should enjoy, but I don’t. And the rare ones I do a bit, I have this weird thing where I end up playing a bit and then dropping them, I think because I’m afraid I’ll end up focusing on them and spending all my time on them and staying up until all hours etc. Because those experiences are just so rare. I’ve played a lot of objectively good games, and they were good experiences, but I still felt like I was going through the motions.
Perhaps the fact that everything I was excited to play the last 6-9 months has been shat upon by bad localizations, content removal, and generally torpedoing my hype right when it should be peaking, to the point that I’m afraid to get excited about playing anything again. I’ve got Bravely Second, Fire Emblem, Xenoblade X and a bunch of others all sitting there, CEs and everything, but I regret even buying them because I’ll probably never touch them now.
Wouldn’t you have enjoyed those games if you didn’t learn about the localization issues? In this instance perhaps ignorance is bliss? Alternatively perhaps part of the reason you aren’t enjoying the games as much as you used to is partly related to the hype build up? Personally I have a rule where if I’m really looking forward to a game I blackout the media on it like I did with the Witcher 3 & fallout 4.
Bravely Second, maybe. The rest: nope, because I’d still have powered them up and found them to be dub-only. At least I knew that ahead of time so I could lower expectations. The localization bullshit was just the final straw.
Just ask myself or @gingerchris86. We were both TERRIBLE at RocketLeague (we had numbers to prove how bad we were) and yet, had LOTS of fun.
You just need to play games the way kids do. Just keep pressing buttons and remember that it’s funny when you fall off things.
I never played games that way, even as a kid.
We should play again 🙂 sooo much fun
Hrm. My old boss and new boss both forwarded me advice today about a sorta in-house job position they reckoned would be right up my alley. High-intensity, requiring adaptability, autonomy, travel, schmoozing, tech-savvy, rapid learning, and organization. Same’ish pay level as this new job I’m in, but longer contract and direct under the CEO. And kiiiiiiinda private sector’ish. It’s a liaison/mentorship thing.
This thing is way the fuck out of my comfort zone by labels alone, even if it kinda seems an amalgam of all the other roles I’ve filled in the last fifteen years. Though I JUST got into a new job on the back of an award and a heavy-ass project… Current project looks like it’s going to go well and when I’m done preparing materials I should probably be able to wrap it up and put a bow on it for someone to take it over easily in time for this other job’s proposed start. I think. Might have to go hard. More than I was planning, anyway.
Really cautious about getting excited. I don’t trust when potentially good things happen. It’s always only a hair’s breadth from disappointment. I’m wary. But… I think I’m going to consider this good news and try for it?
Edit: Oh good. A page-get.
Edit 2: Oh good. 18,000th post.
Worth a shot right? Just remember the Peter Principal ect. And burnout.
Do it. Don’t sell yourself short
When 2 people who know your abilities are both telling you about it then you should have what it takes. Sounds like same-ish pay but if you pull it off could be a nice launching pad.
Go for it
Relatively (relatively) late notice on this one, but, Canberra Meat.
Thinking the 25th of June, exactly the same details as every other year, all invited, tagging the Sydney people (and Freeze & Rocket), but all are welcome.
Unless I don’t like you, but you know who you are, Cakesmith.
@35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @cakesmith @cffndncr @cj @cookingmama @dkzeitgeist @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @harli @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @mawt @morkai @markserrels @mrtaco @novacascade @powalen @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggyninty @bdkiaf @rize @shane @freezespreston @rocketmanPlease party up, otherwise it will just be CJ and I sitting in my house drinking, while I cry into my cup.
Well, okay, the only part there that differs from the norm is CJ, which somehow makes it even sadder.
I am at two other parties that day, otherwise i would seriously consider a road trip
At least Ill have fun
Oh I see how it is.
Ok probsably.
We’ve got three family birthdays that week, including two of the kids – we’ll almost certainly be having a birthday party on that day. Best I can do is “maybe.” Sorry, all.
Hahaha, Shane’s avoidance of Canberra Meats continues. 😛
You don’t mess with tradition. You just don’t do it.
Sick invite
(I can probably go)
Well, as my Grandpappy used to say, you can’t have a good Meat without at least a little Nob.
I’ll be there. Canmeat is always fantastic 😀
I’ll put my hand up for some floorspace for an airbed, but I think this time I’ll take the airbed with me if that’s ok…
Oh.
Does this…
Does this mean you didn’t know?
Oh. Uhhhhhhh…
Oh.
Oh man, I’d love to but I’ve got a shindig the night before so I will be in no state to travel to Canberra.
I’ll be thinking of you all, but.
I will probably be up! or down! something. I haven’t meated in ages so it seems about time.
@blaghman That wasn’t me forgetting to press reply to you. Why would you think that?
G’night TAY.
See you in between games of Overwatch.
I’m thinking of picking it up today. What platform you on?
PC.
I’m on PS4, hopefully the Australian experience is OK. If not, got EB Games’ 7-day satisfaction guarantee 🙂
Good morning TAY
Last song played time!!
The Evil in Me by Combichrist
How are you all?
I’m still enjoying Homefront, and maybe on Sunday during house rules I maybe bought Fire Emblem Fates
And am loving it
Aw man I’m holding out for a restock of the CE for that game…. also I have no time to play new games with all the others I bought last week so probably for the best =P Which FE fates game did you get?
I bought it on my DS from the store, it literally just said Fates, but then I went Birthright when given the choice
Yeah that’s meant to be the easier starting game, enjoy! 😀
Thanks I will
Last song I played was an album by Christopher Tin (guy who did Baba Yetu in Civ4), performed by the Angel City Chorale, named The Drop That Contained The Sea. Tin does some pretty good world music with his own style applied, and the choir group did a pretty decent job of making them come alive. Good watch if you’re into that kind of thing.
+1 Christopher Tin is fantastic. “Calling All Dawns” (of which Baba Yetu is track 1) is a brilliant CD / Arrangement.
Yeah, I’ve listened to that whole album too. Mado Kara Mieru is one of my favourite songs.
The Drapery Falls – Opeth. Honestly have no idea how it got into my Spotify playlist… *adds Opeth to library*
Slowly adapting to more rigorously enforced “start at 10” work hours. Stupid first world problems.
Ignite – Before the Dawn.
Sadly the last song I’ll listen to for a while as my temporary car has no stereo worth the name.
Two Bodies (ft. Emma Louise) – Flight Facilities
Anyone seeing a pattern yet…?
Morning. So Blizzard had my Junkrat shirt removed. They were quick. I’m not angry or anything, but I’m thinking I might change tack. I won’t sell the shirts on redBubble, but I would like the taybies to have them, as requested. So I might post the images here, and then people can email me and I’ll send you the artwork for you get printed up yourself.
Christ that was fast…. that said Blizz have always been protective of their IP just surprising how all encompassing their watch is.
Yeah. Less then 12 hours. You could they that they’re Overwatching their IP =P
But I”ll make an imgur album of the overwatch designs and then people can pick and choose what they want
http://imgur.com/a/rCoqy the two designs I’ve done so far
That second one I suspect they wouldn’t come down on at all, unless you specifically labeled it with her name.
It’s labelled and the description has a lot of references. They haven’t bothered with it yet
FIFY
Not really the game was just released, obviously they want all the hype money to flow their way, totally expected this temporary strangle on the market. doing it a few weeks from now would be totally different.
Nah, it appears they’ve been cracking down on it for a while
They have DMCA lawyers working around the clock for a while now? seems excessive.
Possibly. I had a customer who was grateful to find mercy’s wings as she’s been after mercy designs, but they’d disappeared.
And here I am waiting for cease and desists to appear for lovely butts too. “We here at Blizzard are demanding an immediate halt to this unauthorised copy of the ‘butt pose’!”
… “But this is a male!”
It’s still our pose!
Well we’ve hit the mid-season lull, I expect we’ll see some really thrilling stuff in the coming weeks but this week’s recap was slow to the point of being depressing.
Season 6 episode 5: The Recap
Cersei and Margaerey keep inviting Jehovah’s witnesses inside their manse while they sit around topless in the sunroom, striking elegant poses. The Jehovah’s witnesses eventually get bored and leave. Cersei and Margaerey consider this a win of some kind, but their objective here is not clearly defined. They make out a little bit to give the audience time to finish.
Jon Snow suspects that Sam and Melisandre are onto his cunning ruse about having a long distance relationship, because they keep dropping veiled hints like “you’re full of shit, mate” and “seriously, we know you don’t have a girlfriend, you’re just embarrassing yourself”.
Desperately chasing financial disaster Arya tries to cripple her thriving restaurant empire without tipping off the board of directors, but despite selectively choosing a new business name that is deeply insulting in 14 languages and hiring a homeless man to polish the glasses with his diseased genitals, patrons continue to queue out the door.
Jamie and Bronn find themselves unable to return home until they have brought honour to their families and instead ride for the capitol because this slightly progresses the plot.
Balon Greyjoy finds a pleasant seaside cottage to stay at while on vacation, but is annoyed to find Stannis Baratheon residing there instead. Balon argues about whose house it is, which confuses Stannis because he clearly built it himself and has been living there ever since. Balon offers to pay the iron price for the cottage as is the Greyjoy way, but Stannis confusedly states that the cottage is not for sale and goes back inside.
Daenerys keeps wagering Jorah in a poker game but finds herself unable to lose. Jorah starts referring to himself as her good luck charm, despite her specifically asking him not to.
After receiving the dividend from their investment in Arya’s restaurant chain Tyrion and Varys are quickly running out of excuses not to pay their marriage counselling bill. They hand off the money to a local trader and tell him to return with “as much alcohol as this will buy” in a bid to become extremely drunk like the good old days. Several days later the trader escorts them to the docks, informing them they are now the proud owners of three armed and fully crewed galleons, stuffed with wine, rum, and spices. They wonder why good fortune is so contagious and if it wouldn’t be simpler to go back to being broke fugitives. Tyrion quips sarcastically “those were the days”.
I regret not calling in sick today to play Overwatch.
My watch has to wait eight more hours. 🙁
I need to wait to the 27th =(
So you’re waiting for your watch to be over?
What platform? I’m thinking of picking it up today…
PC. I preordered it and have it ready to go the moment I get home.
oooh, PS4 here, but have fun 🙂
Like… another 12 hours until Warhammer. 🙁
Not going to lie, I kinda want to stay up for Warhammer to unlock but that will completely wreck me for tomorrow. Plus there’s no guarantee that the pre-load will be all that’s required to start playing straight away.
Yeah, seems to be a common thing with pre-loads. Once they’re unlocked there’s usually a follow-up ‘patch’ with a bit of extra download.
And an hour or so of decompression of all the assets.
Chances are that the preload is a digital version of the gold master and you have to download the day one patch after the install because it’s way too much pissing about to constantly update the compressed version
I smeared some vegemite on my mobile & it looks like poo
If your poo is rectangular with a brown yeasty smear on top, I’d be seeking medical advice.
Ooh, lookit posh mister cylinder poo over here.
Help. I’ve been taken prisoner by wombats.
Oh fuck, can’t stop laughing….
*raises hand*
I’ll do the honours. I believe the response you were looking for was, “That seems appropriate because vegemite reeks like poo, too – I can’t imagine anyone willingly putting that in their mouth,” or something similar?
That’s not what you said last night, baby
…I’m disappointed, but not surprised.
Which I’m sure you’ve heard before. HEYO. 😉
Not last night though, HEY YOYOOOO
Ugh. There is nothing left in this for me.
(ALSO SAID LAST NIGHT.)
Called around a few shops yesterday afternoon to see about the Fire Emblem special edition and whether there were any still kicking around. Managed to get lucky with JB, the guy having found out a little earlier for someone else that another store had a cancelled preorder. According to my friend who works there I’m pretty damn lucky and it should have been impossible, since the thing’s actually been deleted from their system or something. So woo I guess 😛
Okay, so now I can’t really sell overwatch shirts, who wants a shirt of what? I figure if I get enough orders I can print them up and send them out.
Anyone interested?
Maybe you could sell Battleborn t-shirts and people will mistakenly buy them instead?
What’s a battleborn?
I think it’s some kind of spaceship.
It’s a cattleborn but with a typo. Cattleborn are similar to dragonborn but instead of riding and taming dragons they ride and tame cattle.
I may or may not have too much time on my hands.
Now there’s an idea for a Skyrim mod if I’ve ever heard one.
Moo-roh-dah?
Giorgio?
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/05/vanilla-ice-and-the-original-movie-ninja-turtles-invaded-the-tmnt2premiere/
Ahahaha, excellent.
That is possibly the best thing I’ve heard all day.
So confirmation was given yesterday that Overwatch will have micro-transactions at launch for the loot boxes.
Which raises a few questions in my mind; if you get a loot box from levelling and you require increasingly more XP to level up wouldn’t you reach a point of grinding where it would be more effective just to pay up?
I wouldn’t really care if it was just the emotes, poses, sprays etc that were locked behind this system but including the skins just pisses me off.
Some skins and things are unlockable too
Aren’t skins cosmetic?
Yes but they’re considered rare drops; as a reference I received 12 loot boxes during the beta which is 60 items. Out of the 60 items I received a low rarity skin for one character. That’s it. One skin drop, the rest were all emotes, sprays, etc.
12 loot boxes was me playing casually over 5 days. Given the rate at which obtaining the boxes reduces over time its pretty annoying that you have to shell out cash if say you wanted a skin for your favourite heroes.
As a reference point LoL, Dota and HotS are free to play games, Overwatch is a fully priced game. Also Dota doesn’t charge a single cent and gives you all the heroes to play with.
I have to admit that the F2P nature of those other games justify the inclusion of cosmetic skins. Even TF2, although it started as a reasonably priced game, didn’t introduce the hat and cosmetic shop until the game had been out for about 5 years.
For Overwatch though, I’m not sure yet. The drop rate seems reasonable enough and I’ve heard that you can trade in duplicate drops for currency to buy something else that you want. I haven’t seen the prices either but if they’re anything like HotS pricing then Blizzard can get stuffed. HotS microtransactions are ludicrously overpriced and I hope like hell Overwatch don’t have the same pricing structure or scale.
https://us.battle.net/shop/en/product/overwatch-loot-box
Pricing for the loot boxes, similar to Hearthstone card packs.
If it helps, I’ve received 3 skins this arvo already, including two golds.
Not for any class I play but still.
Every loot crate has included either a skin or a victory pose.
I think that’s just you being very lucky =P opened 3 yesterday and only got emblems, sprays and voicelines with one rare being a play of the game pose for roadhog.
Ran into an old mate from school today when I was at work & got chatting, always good to see him, one of the few people I liked at school. These days he’s in a band which he plays bass & sings for. A while back they were on Triple J’s like a version where they did a cover of a Parkway Drive song which I thought was pretty rad, was telling him how I thought it was awesome etc, and he was saying to me back when we were in school I gave him some music, one album in particular Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses by Slipknot & he said thanks to me lending him that album he got more into music & now he’s a touring & recording musician.
That sounds like you should get royalties
Brilliant idea, i’ll hit him up for my $0.001 from every album sale next time I see him 😛
Hello, everyone. Long time no see. Sorry for not talking for ages. Every Monday I’d wake up and I’d say to myself I’m going to read TAY, but I never did. This continued for like a year without really posting anything of value before I gave up. Life just sort of got in the way.
Well what’s happened in the year since I posted? Well, I failed TAFE, tried to study at a different TAFE, messed up the forms and was stranded without anything to do for the second half of 2015.
By 2016 I had fallen in ‘the unemployment cycle.’ I was unsure of anything to do in life, and unable to get any sort of work. In February my doctor said to exercise more because I was getting fat, so I took up Badminton, a sport I always wanted to play as a kid but couldn’t since there weren’t any kid’s badminton classes or groups. I was enjoying badminton until during only my second badminton session, I suffered a serious knee injury that to this day I’m yet to recover from.
Just as I was getting better I get an ultrasound on the knee, but re-injure the knee the day after, making the ultrasound results pointless. Now the doctor wants me to get an MRI that I can’t afford so I’ll have to be on a waiting list for half a year.
Realising I was in a rut, my dad offered to get me into a welding course in Broome. I get everything set to completely uproot my life and move to Broome. The day before I’m set to go to Broome, my father decided I should practice welding first, just so he can give me some tips. He quickly discovers that I suck at welding and I’m terrified of the sparks. So he suggests just going to Broome as a holiday. My anxiety acts up and I call the whole thing off. He drives up to Broome alone.
That’s basically been my entire life for the last year, there’s not much story to tell. I’ve just been at home a lot, putting off looking for work or exercising ‘until my knee gets better,’ whenever that is. On the plus side, I use a cane now, which makes me look like a regular Charlie Chaplin. The downside is that I fidget a lot whilst I use the it, so nobody wants to talk to me since I’ll accidentally clock them across the shins with the cane.
Ooh if you need a cane, see if you can get a sword cane, those things are badass! Failing that, you can at least shake your cane at kids and tell them to get off your lawn
Sword cane? How arrested do you want to be?
Maybe around badass/10?
They’d never dare arrest a man so dapper as to have a sword cane! Why it’d be an indignity so shocking it’d make monocles fall out across the land!
Sounds rough. Unemployment’s a bastard, especially starting out.
Might have to just bite the bullet and apply for whatever. At least then you have a resume to look for something better.
Get well soon and all.
Damn dude, sorry to hear you’re having a rough time of it.
The welding thing, you get used to the sparks. I did it back at school and it’s kinda intimidating on first blush
I’m actually feeling a little guilty, though. The reason I’m posting on here is not really to socialise, it’s to vent about DARK SOULS.
So quite a while ago (Last November…ish?) I decided to give Dark Souls another try. I never got anywhere with my original character, so I got a magic guy. I posted about it on TAY a couple of times. I was going great until a hundred hours in a got up to the Crystal Caves and was forced to quit. The Crystal Caves suck, at least Blighttown was doable, this was just impossible for me with my build. So on January this year, my character which I had invested 119 and a half hours into was abandoned. I was so close to the end of the game, too.
Last week I got the itch to play Dark Souls again. Since I was frozen on my previous character, I created yet another character. I wanted to see what it was like to play Dark Souls as a pure tank. Almost all level-ups were spent on endurance or resistance, I only levelled up my strength etc to be able to use the weapons I wanted. I don’t expect to beat the game with this character, I’m just playing for as long as it’s still fun.
I’m going pretty well at the moment, I’ve killed the Capra Demon and I am doing a bit of everything at the moment. I went through the Depths far enough to rescue Laurentius and get some pyromancy, and I briefly ventured into Blighttown to collect the Fire Keeper soul to upgrade my Estus Flask. I made a terrible discovery when I returned to Firelink Shrine:
Lautrec had killed the fire keeper! I knew he was going to kill her eventually, but I thought the trigger for him to kill her was defeating the Gaping Dragon or something, not collecting the Fire Keeper Soul in Blighttown.I know there are long-term benefits to letting Lautrec kill her, but I don’t care about those. Keeping the Firelink Shrine bonfire lit is more important to me. It’s where all the friendly NPC’s gather and it’s pretty much my base of operations. Now Andre’s Forge is going to have to be my base, and that’s in a much less convenient location.
While I’m here, I have to ask a question: Firelink Shrine for me is always pre-kindled. It give me 10 Estus Flasks upon rest, while others give me 5. Is this a glitch or does everyone have a pre-kindled Firelink Shrine?
Seconding Jo. Apply for literally everything, I reckon. Entry level stuff: Don’t know how to do it? Apply anyway and ask if they’ll teach you. It’s OK to be young and trying damn near anything you can to get a foot in the door, right? Aged/disabled care, labouring, door to door sales, call centre cold-calling, security, medical experiments, bartending, waitering, radio announcing, art/writing commissions, theatre stage management, PC repair/building, couriering, tutoring, cleaning, fruit-picking… all sorts of entry level stuff! I did it, and I turned out fine! …ish! Mostly! (I may have unknowingly killed off half a dozen guardian angels in the process.)
Hey, @zambayoshi
I just saw Driveclub for $9 preowned. What would be missing? Are parts locked behind a season pass or anything?
Seems oddly cheap.
The game had a pretty insane season pass (excellent value for money – adding mostly cars and events but at least one track).
It wouldn’t be missing anything per se – the game only costs about $20-$25 new.
There’s not like a packed in online pass or something?
No, but I understand you’d need PS+ for online multiplayer. I’m pretty sure you don’t need it for score/time challenges or anything.
Oh yeah, that’s normal on the ol ps4.
Cool, thanks
Has anyone done the overnight stay, Roar and Snore, at Taronga Zoo? I’m thinking about it as a birthday gift for my wife, but it’s helluva expensive, and considering that Jetstar as a bunch of free returns going at the moment, there’s some steep competition for gifts in that kind of price bracket.
I think Mum might have mentioned one of her friends having done it once (or maybe even she went along), will have to check.
Haven’t done Roar&Snore, but I have been to the zoo after dark (Christmas treat for zoo friends) and that’s when it gets interesting. The animals are super active at dusk. There’s also a camping option at Western Plains Zoo at Dubbo, and I think the Australian Museum does sleepover too, if you don’t mind sleeping in a hall full of skeletons!
The museum sounds good for a laugh, because skeletons; I’d be keen to go to one of the adults-only nights at Questacon, but we’re like 5 or 6 hours away from Canberra.
One plus of Roar and Snore is the view from the campsite – it’s near the lookout at Taronga, and I doubt you could get a hotel room with that kind of view for under $250/night.
The zoo definitely has once of the most spectacular views in the city. And yes, the rates are definitely comparable to staying in one of the fancy hotels on circular quay.
Good morning all
Last song played game time
Soma by The Smashing Pumkins
What was YOUR last song played?
Cellophane by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
Panopticon – Smashing Pumpkins
Saw that live couple of years back when they toured 🙂
Maxine Nightingale – Right Back Where We Started From
Change your exercise routine up, they said, it’s good for you, they said. Switched my morning run for a body weight workout and now anytime I have to do anything with my arms I’m doing my best impersonation of a T-rex.
You’ve reminded me that I have to do my intervals run today.
So after playing a dozen games straight as Lucio cause no-one else would support, I think I’m just gonna embrace the inevitable and main the role.
Zenyatta looks really fun though, if squishy as all hell.
Yeah Zenyatta’s really cool but you gotta keep swapping his hots and dots around to be effective. His charged up normal attack destroys tanks as well.
Yeah played some Ai to get the hang of it. Had fun, pvp not yet though.
Found much use for his wallride? might take some practice before you can use it smoothly in combat and knowing when too.
I honestly didn’t know he could till I saw you do it.
Doesn’t get you much height though, have not found a good situation for it yet.
I’ve seen some Lucio’s use it to get a sneaky knockback or traverse gaps I guess you would have to watch a pro player in a tournament or something to see all its tricks. I think you can also jump multiple times for more height.
“El Niño comes to a close”
“Endless Summer over”
Worst of the forever.
Looks like we might get a decent amount of rain. Better get my new tank installed… 🙂
Winter is coming.
Thank God.
As hard as I google, it seems like the only way to paste stuff into Excel without it bringing in all the formatting and bloating up the cells is to open up a bunch of menus and/or use mouse clicks.
Fuck life. Gonna stab something in a second if I can’t just ctrl+v this shit.
What about control + alt + v, so you can choose to paste it without the formatting..?
Exactly, busting open extra menus that add needless extra steps and keypresses. Also with an awkward shortcut that isn’t nearly as easy to press as the regular one.
There’s a special place in hell for people who mess with default functions 😛
Yes, CTRL-ALT-V, then V, then Enter.
That second V doesn’t do anything for me.
I found the relevant part is up in the URL though so I can pull it from there as plaintext and skip out on copying it from the page, so that’s good. A dozen or so down, some five hundred to go…
*shakes fist* Works for me. Different version maybe. On 2010 here.
I would check my version but it doesn’t appear to have a Help -> About thing so I’m lost.
Google docs are better.
I really wish Google Translate had an option for Excel formatting.
Paste Values
Filter top row, filter to blanks, delete rows.
*blinks*
Right click and select “paste special”
Unclick formatting and the whatever else you don’t need
But mouse use slows productivity by orders of magnitude and should not be necessary!
ALT – H – V – S – Down arrow – Down arrow – Enter
Big week. GTX1080 release, and Elite: Dangerous 2.1 too. Woop.
Pew pew pew, I’m sick again and I’ve dosed up on coffee and neurofen and I may or may not be bouncing of the walls hallucinating.
Also Total War is a pretty cool guy. Also I played 3 matches in Overwatch yesterday and none of them had a bastion! Win.
I love how they’ve done hero units in Total Warhammer. It works so damn well to have a single individual as your general rather the generic bodyguard unit that they’ve had previously. I chose vampire counts and I don’t even commit my necromancers to combat because they just stay back and buff units with auras and spells.
I played the Vampires until I started to get the hang of things, then couldn’t help myself and switched to a new Chaos campaign. It’s a very different style of campaign play, but they just NAILED the army. They just drip atmosphere.
It is a very happy day when you finally replace all your marauders with chosen, so it’s wall-to-wall warriors, knights, and over-the-top-ridiculous heroes. I actually run with the Lord and 4 heroes now in an absurd, terror-inducing, invincible, magic-fueled retinue.
Punch the enemy’s front-lines with that hardened ball of madness, let the enemy fold around it, then flank them with your warriors. Speedy, lethal knights take out the archers/artillery with ease, then close in to flank the rest of the enemy force. It’s brutal. Even fights that the AI considers to be overwhelmingly one-sided impending losses turn into merely ‘convincingly sure wins’.
Recovery speed’s pretty shit though, to the point that if your units only have a couple ranks of experience it’s actually better to just merge them into oblivion and recruit fresh troops.
I have to admit that the style of play for the Vampire Counts is absolutely perfect. I deliberately chose to have Heinrich Kemmler as my starting hero because Mannfred is a jerk and I wanted to try having a hero that wasn’t a melee monster. Having a dedicated necromancer as your hero works so well in keeping your army going after each battle because of their increased army regeneration speed. Heck, I had a pyrrhic victory and lost something like 80% of my forces in one battle but I instantly recovered about 30% from raising the dead of my enemies.
Playing with zombies and skeletons as massive tar pits while I quite literally surround my enemies with overwhelming numbers of undead was a tonne of fun. The one time I battled against the Empire I broke their morale on a single flanking charge with spectral cavalry because undead are very good at weakening morale.
They’ve certainly nailed the theme of playing a ravenous undead horde and it sounds like Chaos also feels similarly awesome. I can’t wait to try out the other races.
Yeah. The atmosphere is something they just nailed in so many ways. Visually, aurally, mechanically… They have those iconic-shaped shields, the fully-enclosed armour with the furs on the shoulders… and they are hard as fuck. There’s nothing like watching a group of warriors take on an Empire cavalry charge and just chew it to pieces. “Fools. Your paper will not work on my rock, for my rock is also scissors!”
They’ve really done every race’s themes well, though. I took a peek at Dwarves and Greenskins and they’re pitch-perfect.
Hopefully you get better so I can force you to play tank meaning I can play Pharah more 🙂
Also I didn’t see you on last night? must of been on before 3pm.
Yeah I was on around 7? But played on the Asia server where I don’t suffer any lag. I swear everyone I played against felt so much slower as opposed to what I was facing during the open beta on the American server. If you guys decide to swap to Asia let me know, killed it last night in 3 matches and got a winning team kill as a reaper 😀
You’re primarily going to play on SEA servers? that changes things… its logical but battle.net is fussy when it comes too friends lists. figured a fix besides readding all your friends?
Not sure if re-adding fixes the issue but will try tonight, also not sure you can play cross-server?
I meant on the same server.
Also did some testing and it seems statistics, levels and cosmetics carry over no matter what server you are on unlike SC2 so feel free to play with us on NA whenever you want aswell.
After my experience in the open beta doubt I’ll ever go near the NA server =P I remember shooting props as McCree watching them absorb the shot and then bouncing around a second later. So nope. I enjoy Genji and S76 too much to play them with any lag =P
Blueberry muffins with 4 blueberries in them are the worst. The. WORST.
Too many? Too few? 4 is unlucky?
No way 4 is enough.
If anyone thinks that it’s too many… well… I guess we can’t be friends.
Thanks for clarification. It didn’t sound like 4 was enough fruit, but people can be weird…
When we made raspberry muffins me and Tiglet got heaps are raspberries but Mrs Tigs kept getting the ones with none.
Isn’t there a European story about goblins or similar that sneak into your house and steal your child and replace with a horrible goblin child?
I think that happened to us last night.
Changelings! Try cold iron, that usually works
Works to burn the changeling, that is. Getting your taken child back is, uh… another story entirely.
Prisoner exchange is totally a thing.
Does anyone know where I can get a roll of graph paper at a decent price in the Melbourne-ish area? My mum needs something about the size of a door for lead-lighting work.
Can’t say I have ever seen it, but my suggestion would be to try craft stores like riot art and craft
Try office works.
They told her they didn’t have it, then when she said she might have to try online they bit her head off about not supporting local businesses. I found that pretty funny considering the place she used to buy this stuff from shut shortly after the local Officeworks opened.
ugh, that’s not their job to say shit like that.
Heh. Complain to management. That’s not on.
What size graphs?
I believe anything will do since it’s mostly about having straight lines. If I can’t find anything tomorrow I think I’ll just buy her the expensive 60m roll online. I’m trying to talk her into teaching a class so having extra supplies might help convince her it’s a good idea.
Try something like this: https://incompetech.com/graphpaper/plain/ then you can spit out a big file that Officeworks can print for you.
Hey camera people of TAY – I need some advice/guidance/starting point…
Wifey has been interested in photography for a while and has a pretty keen eye for good shots. Is getting a redundancy payout and is home for the next 12 months with the baby and said last night she’d like to get a proper camera.
Now last I looked at this for her a few years ago the Micro Four Thirds gear was just hitting the market and looked to fit the bill (albeit, price was still up there) as she is averse to carrying around a DSLR sized camera.
So does anyone have any (re)starting points on my research from 3 years ago-ish?
Might be better off tweeting at one of the Gizmodo writers, it’s their alley.
Failing that, @beeawwb and @blaghman and @shiggyninty are photography peeps.
From what I understand, Micro 4/3rd gear is still pricier than it should be, albeit slightly less so than it used to be, though I’m not an expert in this field. I think Freya and Dan both use Olympus ones, and they seem happy with that choice (I did want to steal Freyfrey’s at PAX, its AF is nice).
Sorry, I’m stuck in Canon DSLR land. That said, nothing against the M4/3 format – there’s plenty of advantages to it, I just can’t personally offer any anecdotes or evidence.
Mirrorless! You get all the interchangeable lens stuff of a DSLR but they weigh way less and handle more like a point & shoot.
YESSSSS!!!
I just bought the Olympus EM5 MKII with 12-40mm f2.8 Pro Lens.
It’s ace.
Thing to remember with micro four thirds is the lens length is effectively doubled due to it’s smaller sensor. So a 12mm is equivalent to a 25mm on a 35mm sensor.
The image stabilisation in the body of the EM5 mkII is freaking insane. I shot video handheld and it looks like it was shot on a steadicam. There’s some noticable stablising artefacts in the corners of frame but nothing that’d ruin it for you.
It’s also crazy handy for handheld stuff with slow shutter speeds. I tested out it’s “live exposure” mode handheld and there was very little noticeable ghosting like you’d normally get.
Shutter lag is barely there. I had a mate who shot portraits on the Fuji XT-1 and he upgraded to a 6D because of the shutter lag. From what I’ve found the EM5 mkII has barely any noticable lag. I was shooting my 9 month old niece crawling around and it definitely kept up.
Downsides are battery life and body size with a long lens. Because it’s mirrorless it has an electronic view finder/screen which drains battery pretty quick. I think my battery grip + body battery lasted for 500 photos? Give or take?
And with the 12-40mm I had to invest another $400 in a grip because for how front heavy the camera gets with a long lens on it. I’ve got real petite hands and it still felt too small without a grip.
Another pro is you can get cool mess around lenses for real cheap. I’ve got the Olympus 9mm f8 fish eye body cap lens on order. It replaces the need for a body cap on the camera so it turns it into a fun, point and shoot camera you can basically put in your pocket when you go out.
That’s my two cents.
My 19,000th Kotaku comment was a threat to wreck @transientmind.
Fair enough
but… but ily
(Edit: I deserve it, of course. I always do.)
I’m only on 17 650. I obviously need to up my game
I haven’t even hit 10k comments yet.
I’m playing the slow game.
I…started playing Bloodborne.
I died.
The bloodborne advice i found useful early on:
there is a place you can drop down from on the lh side of the courtyard after where theyre burning the dead werewolf. Drop down, go left through the house (doors can be opened) and you’ll find a shortcut back to the first lanternooh, thanks. This will help a lot with the dying.
What weapons did you start off choosing?
Blunderbuss and Hunter Axe.
SPIN TO WIN
Only once? Great job
LOL
Sooo GOOD!
Loving Bloodborne!
Started with a saw-cleaver myself and spent waaaay too long on a random enemy that wasn’t even a boss because “oh no, you didn’t!!!!” attitude…
Executioner near the gate?
Yeeeeeaaaah XD
Got him eventually but man did I waste a lot of time considering there’s nothing there 😛
I’m considering upgrading my graphics card.
Currently, I have an XFX Radeon HD 6870 which is okay, but I’m eyeing off a 4GB card, specifically the Radeon R9 380.
https://www.pccasegear.com/products/32279/msi-radeon-r9-380-gaming-4gb
Considering that it’s over $300, would it be worth getting, or is there a cheaper alternative?
Also, Does anyone want to add me to their friends list for Overwatch?
My Battle.net tag is Crazyguy1990#1442.
Done
1080, obvs.
390 is roughly equivalent to a 970. I’d hold off for a short period, and see if with 1080 and 1070 release and AMD’s Polaris approaching fast, whether there are suddenly cheap last-gen GPUs for cheaps.
Good morning TAY
Last song played game time!!
Needled 24/7 by Children of Bodom
What was YOUR last song played?
Errrr…
William Shatner – Together
Electric de Chocobo – FFVII Reunion
Why is this on my phone?
No idea man.
I’m listening to Codec by Zedd right now and before that was Cryptopsy
Elysian Woes – Opeth. Wow… these guys go from “a-wandering-minstrel-comes” to “black-metal-Dream-Theater” in a heartbeat…
Yeah they do that really well, all their newest albums (last two If I am remembering correctly) have dropped the black metal entirely
Yeah, they’re no longer black metal (and neither was their earlier Damnation album which was paired with the very black Deliverance).
I know and I miss it
Devil’s Dance – Metallica and SFSO
Bran Van 3000 – Drinking in LA
I don’t think I’ve heard that song in almost a decade
Hi! My name is Stereo Mike!
Majora’s Mask – Zora Band
I got my Overwatch key last night. I’m pretty happy about it. It’s a good thing because I was feeling a bit down about my shirts. So, yay!
Got the printing done this morning, it’s way faster to get it done in the morning rather than a 45+ minute wait after work like I usually did.
Alright. I haven’t been able to finish the fibreglassing because it won’t stop raining!
I could get it done at mine as I’ve got cover on the back deck but I’d be worried about the local cats screwing with it, they seem to like my backyard a lot recently
It’ll be fine once it stops raining. I have a lot more time to do it, so I think it makes sense for me to keep trying. Did you want to leave Saturday, or do you want to work on the glove?
I’m on recall this Saturday anyway so I’ll focus on getting my new leg put together, then the cannon end pieces. I’ll need to spend time getting the numbering neatened up on the leg piece since the numbers are mirrored, not a big deal, just need to use mirroring on my webcam or something 😛
I didn’t do that. I don’t know why pepakura does it.
You did because you did the left leg first, and to keep it easily symmetrical you mirrored the left leg to make the right leg, basically.
Can’t be. I opened it in Pepakura and redid it. Remember, I had to remove the knee pad part, and I made it less sheets of paper too, so it was pepakura, not me.
Fair enough, bloody pepakura 😛
Sydney Taybies – are any of you heading to Sydney Supernova?
A bloke in my office wants to get the popcultcha exclusive Wonder Woman pop – so i need somone to purchase it from the show and send it over if any of you are willing to help?
Obviously you would be reimbursed 🙂
Jayz2cents just uploaded a video on YouTube showing the 1080 founders edition throttling like crazy! If you were considering an upgrade I would wait for the after market gpus.
I’m not that surprised, it’s a reference design after all. I thought he got some pretty impressive benchmarks out of it though in his review vid, likewise so did Hardware Canucks, DANG IT NVIDIA Y U DO THIS.
Can’t wait to see his watercooling video on the 1080 with that EK water block he got last week.
Yeah I just hate that nvidia can blatantly lie to consumers. During the 1080 presentation they had a founder edition running at over 2000mhz at 67 degrees. Whereas the jayz video shows that within minutes of crysis 3 the card has hit 82 degrees and throttled down to 1670mhz.
Amd needs to do something already to be competitive…
NVidia’s demos have always been more “Here’s what our hardware can do [in the hands of experts given a few weeks of tweaking]…” than “Here’s what the average consumer can expect from it out of the box”. Intel do it with their CPUs, too, but they’re more up-front: “Our new CPU can handle being overclocked to high hell – come see”.
Yeah you’re right and you always have to take these launches with a grain of salt. I just think it’s ridiculous that nvidia will charge more for the founders edition cards with such inferior cooling. You’d be crazy to buy one and not wait for the after market cooled cards.
Mornin’ all. How’s everyone today?
Started watching Bloodline on Netflix the other night, really liking it. Dunno why, but I find it captivating & interesting. Which is good timing since season 2 premieres on Netflix this weekend \o/
I’m cold /o\
But I got my printing done for the leg piece of the cosplay \o/
I’m on recall though so I can’t play any games with friends until Monday /o\
But I’m on leave after the end of this week \o/
That is the family based crime thriller drama one isn’t it?
It kinda turned me off as those sort of shows just seem to drag to much for me
Yeah, one sons a cop, one sons a wanna be criminal/drug abuser, the daughter is a lawyer & the other son just lives a relatively normal life with his own business, so yeah pretty normal formula for one of those shows haha.
Such a good show. I’m parked at the last ep, waiting for the new season.
Yeah I quite enjoy it. It’s not too fast paced and it’s not too slow which keeps me interested but means I can sorta zone out & not get lost 😛
http://thenimbus.tumblr.com/post/144278879286/source-x
Yum. Yum. Yum. Yum. Yum. Yum. Yum. Yum. Yum. Yum.
Total Warhammer has some dark humour which feels so good to ham up as the evil Vampire Counts.
Scenario: An agent is accused of betraying his undead masters. You can take two different approaches: the carrot or the stick.
The carrot: Give him a taste of vampire blood so that he becomes blood bonded and eternally loyal to your cause.
The stick: Snap his neck.
That… isn’t usually how to deal with a vampire :p
Mmm coffee and neurofen. Breakfast of champions.
You didn’t need a stomach lining anyway.
Oh, is this the thing relating to COX blockers, or something?
Receptionist who’s doing pharmacy was telling me about them yesterday, as I giggled endlessly. Something about not mixing BP medication with brofen, which is why I would have failed his assessment.
…Or a liver.
Be careful with ibuprofen. Liver damage is one of the reasons they’re trying to ban the codeine+whatever products. Long-term use to treat chronic pain will kill you, and codeine is addictive enough to convince you to use it long-term.
After a couple weeks of continued pain treatment they usually have to shift you to something more sustainable like paracetamol. Even though it’s (for many people) less effective… just because it won’t kill you via liver failure quite so easily.
I really wish they’d just cut the paracetamol/ibuprofen filler honestly. For those using it with any degree of regularity it’s just there to prevent abuse of the opiate, as the opiate is far and away the more effective ingredient (unless you’re after the anti inflammatory properties).
Those who use regularly will either harm themselves, or if they’re a little safer they’ll remove the paracetamol (I’m not sure if the same can be done with ibuprofen in clandestine settings) which just means there’s increased risk of damage for little to no net benefit.
I think the way things are is pretty much fine, right now. It feels a little nannyish, but the fact is that you can do yourself harm with self-medicating even on over-the-counter medication, and by restricting certain risk medications to pharmacy-only, there can be a consistent, networked monitoring for self-abuse/risk which might result in sending uneducated self-medicating people to a doctor for prescriptions to continue with otherwise potentially-unsafe treatment, or getting them whatever alternative help they need.
The REAL factor there is the access to GPs to verify that the potentially dangerous use is justified. Bulk-billing GPs are frequently restricted to health-care-card/pension only in many areas, or over-booked past the point of timely availability.
Oh absolutely, self-medication (especially without information) is a potentially dangerous path.
I suppose with regard to OTC codeine+x, it comes down to weighing risk of addiction against risk of organ failure.
I manage pain through other means, as opiate tolerance and dependence can very quickly be established. Same goes for other issues and meds.
That said, I avoid GPs when possible. I fear being labelled a drug seeker (because I am? Iunno), so source things elsewhere if/when possible, which further increases risk.
As a reference I’m usually one of those people who will refuse to take meds even during a fever unless things get really bad. I only start dosing up when I have no choice but to go to work and function sick =P
TAY
IN
SPAAAAAAAAACE
Will those weird religious isolationists ever stop hating us? Who is going to create killer robots first (Spoilers: probably me)? Will Highperformance ever connect?
FIND OUT FRIDAY 7:30 SA TIME
If you missed the first couple but still want to join (@gingerchris86, anyone else up for space high-jinks) we can accommodate you
cc @spadge @highperformance @blaghman @transientmind @aliasalpha @jocon @os42
And @pupp3tmast3r because space is big and of course I forgot someone
I feel like I need to underscore for those curious but not yet invested that this game is VERY friendly to late dropping in.
So you can’t play AS machines, you can only create them?
#Dealbreaker
If I can’t bring the terror that are the Replicators myself, no deal 😛
Master of Orion!
You can play as pretty much anything biological though.
SPACE-SHROOOOOMS
I don’t know why but that reminds me of a particular drawn together episode.
Cthulu squid faces! Nasty space roaches! Angry cows! Parrots in bubble head space suits! Unidentifiable tentacled blobs!
And humans, I guess.
Fucking hairless monkeys getting all up in my shit with all this “bipedal walking” shit
Pfft, humans can’t even handle themselves on their own home planet! They don’t deserve to explore the stars.
Hm… I’ll still mostly likely get this after I get my PC motherboard replacement. It’s a shame that I can’t play mechanical races but the game itself does look really cool. I’ll create my own machines anyway to fight beside me 🙂
Materialist ethics type gets a hidden bonus to robotics research.
Thank you for the heads up Jo, your race dies last 🙂
Pfft. The Fun-Gi’s are forged in the sauce of adversity! We shall sacrifice a scientist in your honour and emerge victorious!
Mmmmm…. Mushroom sauce….
I dunno what you’re running on atm, but Stellaris isn’t mega graphically intensive or anything.
I’m not too sure what my friend’s laptop that I’m playing LoL on atm actually has so I’d have to check whether or not I can run it before I buy it.
I can’t imagine it’s more intensive than LoL
Kay, if it works out, I’ll buy and download tonight.
No-one says that your weird fish looking aliens aren’t SECRETLY robots all along!
Or I simply do it Quarian style, focus on AI as a mandate.
Providing Anton doesn’t make us go out that night I should be in this time! I have no plans at this stage!
For this week and next I won’t make it :”””( I’m in Sydney for work next week, and this week is my partners University formal :@
Is there a way we could play another night as well? I just feel sad I can’t declare war on all of these Xenophiles 🙁
The AI for The Trump Collective is disturbingly rational.
It’s a real shame you can’t manually set it to be belligerently self-destructive.
It was hilarious that the first thing it did was end like four rivalries
You heard it here first: Stellaris’ default AI is smarter than Trump.
This game looks so good omg
Get it and Joooooooin ussssssss
I would but that requires a new/functional GPU first, game second haha.
Glad it’s getting some playtime within TAY though!
Also I need to abstain from the call of the TAY marketing machine 😛
*wafts into leph’s house at night*
wooooooooooooo
woooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
buuuuuuuuuuuuyyyy stellarisssssssss
*wafts away like a ghost*
Okay I bought it, tried it, it’s gods darn gorgeous, but I’d be really afraid of joining a game already in progress, it’s a lot of information to take in, and I really doubt I’ll be efficient at first, but I’d be really keen to join in.
Power through some of it tomorrow arvo and see how quickly it clicks. If nothing else we can answer questions
So i bought DOOM last night… Which means it MAY be downloaded when i get home XD.
But… Elite Dangerous 2.1 will be landing some time later…
WTB MOAR TIME PLZ
Oh damn, no more reckless riding around the canyons of Farseer Inc with overcharged thrusters.
At least not til after a bunch of material collecting and re-rolls.
Nice. Am out of the Bubble at the mo, heading out to the Formidine Rift in the Exploraconda.
That’ll probably be my next goal once 2.1 drops… Time to dust off the clipper and get her ready for long range exploration! 😀
Need to go Asp or Anaconda. Hauler or DBS at the very least – there are a lot of places where you really need a low thirties jump range if you’re going across the Rift or out to the edges, unless you’re happy to scavenge for jump boost materials.
If you’re going corewards, Clipper’s fine.
I was going to grind some engineers rep and get a boosted fsd ?
Here’s your clipper, able to explore and be fairly self sufficient, along with minimal pew-pew ‘coz the devs have said explorers will need to be armed:
http://coriolis.io/outfit/imperial_clipper/02A5D5A5D4A5D4C1e1e–0202–3h120n-v6432i2f.AwRj4tRZco==.Aw1-gjKQ
If you manage to get the best possible jump drive upgrade, the Clipper will do 31.04ly. Still need jumponium to get across the Rift, or you go the loooooong way round. 🙂
So last night, as a Mercy, I entered into a gun fight with a McCree. We danced around, taking pot shots at each other. I ended up being the victor! A support taking down the high noon master! It was short lived though, as a bastion turret killed me 5 seconds later.
Nice! I’ve finished people off as Lucio a bunch but never won a 1v1. Unless you count punting people off cliffs :p
Ha ha! I always forget Lucio’s push ability. I think I get frustrated as I have to enter the fray to heal people and it doesn’t heal them enough
Yeah the passive heal is only a trickle but using E buffs it a ton briefly. Just gotta use it at the right time.
He’s a great distraction too since he’s slippery and surprisingly hard to kill unless you cc him.
…I die so much as Lucio
Oh I die plenty but less than other supports.
True, I die so much as everyone.
@smurfydog: IIRC a while back you were saying you (or maybe someone you knew?) really wanted to get hold of that figure of Momohime from Muramasa?
Alter are re-issuing her in December.
So pretty …. I can’t afford it u_u
It’s actually an even better version of the one I have. They’ve reviewed and brightened the coloring, added pearl finish to her kimono and stuff.
Reply fail, should have been @sernobulus
YOU’RE JUST MAKING IT HARDER!
Dammit @negativeZero, stop making Nob harder
Must … resist …
Resistance … faltering ….
Neat. I forgot that game was a thing.
Still one of the top 10 games on the Vita, easily.
And simultaneously one of the bottom 10 games amirite
No.
That’s cool and thank you but it wasn’t me.
I wonder who it was…
So cross realm zones is now a thing in WoW huh?
If I wanted to get repeatedly ganked by level 100 Alliance players from Frostmorne while trying to level I would have bloody well rolled a toon on bloody Frostmorne.
Seriously, I’ve seen maybe 4 people from my own server so far and the rest are just fuckheads from Frostmorne ganking low level players.
ffs.
The reason I have nothing but bad memories of Vanilla WoW is that when I first played, I rolled on Frostmorne to play with friends. What an utterly miserable experience that was.
Yeah. I went with the suggested server which I didn’t realise was PvP. Really threw a wrench in my early days.
I think I’d like PvP realms if in non-end-game areas PvPers just got to control weaker zone appropriate enemies. Like you’d que up for open world PvP, get assigned a Bandit or Spirit or something, then you get to go out and hassle players. People would still find a way to troll each other but at least it’d be safe to assume a level appropriate player for the zone could theoretically win.
Always seemed sort of dumb to me that the aggressors get to set all the terms in PvP and gain most of the advantages.
Yeah, it’s been a thing since Pandaria or some shit.. So like 3 years ago? I take it you’re on a PVP server, yeah? Cause what I like is when you party up and go to the party leaders realm if it’s PVE and your home realm is PVP you go to PVE realm..
Ugh.
I just feel like I want to go to bed and hold the covers over myself for 24 hours and just shield myself from everything… ugh.
So, uh… I did a thing. Which I’ve been vaguely alluding to a couple of times now. And now it seems like it may have indeed become an actual thing.
Bullet dodged! Best possible outcome! Well, outside of however it turns out in the end.GIT YER POPCORN
Helpwatamidoingsomeoneturntheshiparound
One popcorn please!
Ere you go maam, plenty to go around
Light on the butter, heavy on the salt please.
Just keep em coming
So i think my old logitech keyboard is nearing end of life, anyone got any recommendations? Doesnt need to be top of the line but i can spend a little (mainly for web browsing and the odd rts, not for heavy pc gaming). Wireless would be a bonus
I use Corsair both at home and at work. Plus, they use Cherry Red switches. THEY LITERALLY HAVE YOUR NAME ON THEM.
See I saw all of these keyboards with “cherry red” and “brown” etc, what does that mean?
It’s just the different types of mechanical switches in them. Each “colour” is a different type of actuation.
http://www.keyboardco.com/blog/index.php/2012/12/an-introduction-to-cherry-mx-mechanical-switches/
I prefer red switches because of the short travel, light force, and non-clicky actuation.
Ah righto. MSY trip might be in the near future
Okay I tried Stellaris last night, I like it, quite a lot. It’s bloody gorgeous, and using this game I brought to existence the Xylax, a militaristic bird warrior race that are also technologically focused to ensure their homeworld is never threatened by any strangers they come across.
It is pretty awesome.
I’m hoping I get home in time to hop on tonight with the others
It’s pretty much cemented after chatting with Red last night that I’m jumping on one of the NPC races, looking forward to seeing what choices I have, might give the Religious Zealots a pass, not up to fighting on potentially two separate fronts… not yet anyway >:)
Yay! We still get to play games together!
Weeeell that’s fun :\
They really aren’t joking when they call it a series of unfortunate events…
Last Sunday i (stupidly) forgot to lock my car overnight… Getting out to it Monday morning and unsurprisingly, all compartments are open, and of all the things they could have taken they only left with the… servicing book??? Filed a police report just in case.
Tuesday morning, we notice that someone nicked my missus’ License plate 😐 filed a police report.
Last night, my dogs went off their nutter and i went to check the front door, when i spotted someone who clearly was trying to access my missus car and made a bolt for it when i spotted him… filed a police report /o\…
Aaaand to top it off, this morning the lock to our house ceased to work, so now i can’t leave for work until the real estate organises for someone to fix it as we can’t secure the premises….
WHAT A WEEK!
*head desk*
I would think a broken door lock would count as an emergency repair, where you can simply get any locksmith to fix it and send the bill to the realestate.
The real estate itself has an emergency contact for things like this that we’ve called… But if it takes too long i’ll just organise it myself, issue is that money is a taaaad low until i get paid, so i’d prefer it to come out of the real estates pocket from the beginning 😛
As I said earlier
“Weribee” =P
Is it possible to get some of those sensor lights? What did the police say?
We’ve requested permission to put up sensor lights as a deterrent, and just waiting on land-lord approval. I’ve also ordered a “dummy” security cam that i’ll be putting up just as an added incentive because $10 :P…
Police advised to just keep an eye out, and because the missus now has new plates, there’s no association between her car and the old plates in case they get used for nefarious purposes… I asked why on earth someone would steal a service book and they mentioned that some service books has a “valet key” for the car, so that might be why. But i’m 99.9% sure that such a thing doesn’t exist for my car…
Stop ruining my fun! =P
I had friends who lived in Werribee and it was constantly the butt of the joke. =P
As for the dead body in the river, wasn’t that the person who tried to swim across the Maribyrnong drunk? Because that happens anywhere there is a pub and a river.
On a positive note, DOOM is fucking rad!!!
Is DOOM set in Weribee?
Doom Werribee edition. Waste away the low lifes.
Nah, don’t think broken glass bottles is a weapons option 😛
There’s enough dust and sand though… so maybe?
Cosplay stuff!
So as some may have seen, I’ve got the first draft of my PAX cosplay together. If I had to, I’d be happy enough to wear it as is. That said, I think I’ve still got a bit of work to do.
BoJack Horseman cosplay worklist:1: Paint / detail mask
1a: Paint mask
1b: Change hair from brown to black
1c: Add shading / line markings
2: Sew “X” pattern in to sweater
3: Get brown gloves
4: Create props (Jack Daniels bottle, cotton candy, etc)
Step 1: Paint / detail mask…
So… does anybody have any experience or tips for painting latex? From what I’ve been reading I’m going to need an airbrush and specialised paint to ensure the paint doesn’t crack and peel. Good thing I’ve got plenty of time before PAX to figure this out.
Great. Page get. Give me a bottle of something to help me forget my problems.
Scotch?
It’s going to pain me to carry around a bottle of Jack Daniels, even if it is filled with tea.
Could be worse.. It could always be Jim Beam white label.
Yeah, at least that cartoon horse-man has some level of standards.
Exactly. Saying that, there’s some alright Beam products, just not white label lol.
In my head you are cosplaying as Rubi from WET.
Rad.
Whatever floats your boats.
Punished props- Bill Doran is the man: http://punishedprops.com/painting-props/
Heeeeeeeeeeeell yeah. I’ll have a proper look at that when I get home. Thanks!
Well shit. Dan Murphy’s really know me. Got an email with the subject “Hi Marc – Here’s a handpicked offer, just for you!” open it, and it’s an offer for Wolf Blass Chardonnay, uh.. I don’t drink wine, and i’ve never bought wine from Dan Murphy’s so good work there picking out something totally irrelevant for me..
Time to learn to drink wine then. There are worse places you can start than wolf blass
That requires effort & if I was more of a regular drinker these days 😛
I don’t mind the occasional sauv blanc or dry sparkling, but other than that never been a huge fan of wine. Plus I’m more into spirits, cider & beer.
So I found out the other day Big W has 30% off Blu-Rays (in store only) until June 10th I think. Am considering getting Deadpool, The Hateful Eight & The Force Awakens cause of that & staff discount on top..
Woo, ancient VR gear get! Stupid power outages though, resetting everything and making the doorbell come through the intercom to my room. Always forget to turn that damn thing off again.
Jumped on Altspace last night to check it out, pretty cool. Though pretty weird too. Took ages to get myself to talk, despite it being the middle of the night with nobody else around. Timed it pretty well too, turns out Reggie Watts’ show is in *checks watch* just over an hour from now. May as well jump on again and check that out.
So apparently there’s a beta for Paragon on this weekend, anyone interested in trying it out?
@pupp3tmast3r
Hi
No, just feeling good.
He heeee
A rare Jimu in the wilds!
*throws pokeball”
*wiggle*
*wiggle*
*wiggle*…
Alright! I caught a Jimu!
*is reduced to a liquid from insufficient space in a pokeball*
*locks in a box for eternity never to see the light of day*
Well that was… interesting 😛
So they had Reggie up on stage in a full mocap suit (Perception Neuron) doing his thing, at peak I think it hit something like 820 users all watching at once though he was being mirrored to rooms of a few dozen people each, so it was kinda weird watching someone who could only see and react to a whole bunch of people that weren’t there. It didn’t work out so well in our room at least, with the audio being hugely stuttery making it pretty hard to follow along with what was going on, which led to some in-audience banter that was more entertaining than the show at times 😛 Still, neat starting point and it should only improve from here. Got a bit better towards the end too once more people had dropped out, the final song ran pretty smoothly. And will be stuck in my head for a good while now.
So I’ve fallen pretty deep into Android: Netrunner. Canberra regionals is coming up in about two weeks. I’ve put together a ragtag band of misfits to playtest the top decks so that I can (hopefully) top 8. We call ourselves the Levy University Fighting Mongooses.
I also call one of my decks Shining Lizard. I swear, half the fun of Netrunner is coming up with dumb names.
Small background: Mother in law is visiting tomorrow for some reason I don’t fully understand. I don’t particularly like her (unlike my wife’s dad and step-mother who are brilliant and I like lots). This goes back to the first time I met her, and afterwards when my missus asked M-i-L what she thought of me, the only response was “He’s not as fat as I thought he’d be.” Yeah, really. It’s not got any better since, and she wasn’t invited to our wedding… So my wife explicitly said to me “With the week you’ve had, you probably don’t want to deal with my mother tomorrow – why don’t you stay home and fly your spaceship while we go out for the day…”
I would like to marry her again for that.
Proposition: COMMANDERS, MEET ME IN SPACE. Or at least on Teamspeak, either in the Mobius or the Elite Dangerous Australia servers. I’ll be flying around checking out what Elite Dangerous 2.1 looks like. Will probably be there tonight too. Space!
We’ll be on TS IN SPAAAAAAACE tonight. Different Galaxy, different game, but if you wanted to hang out we’ll be on
And tonight “A new overlord has entered the galaxy!” 😀
Possibly two, if @gingerchris86 is in
How did you enjoy it?? Did The Trump Collective rule supreme?
Ah yes. I do not have the coordinates for TayTS. But if someone sends me them I shall join you for a while and say hello.
done
Thank you sir.
Your wife sounds amazing 🙂
She has her moments! 😀
She’s also a huge X-men fan and loves her Marvel movies, so it’s precisely zero work… Me: “Civil War?” Her: “It’s on this weekend. Gold Class, if it doesn’t clash with the rugby…” Me: *swoon*
Man if you didn’t I would have to punch you til you changed your mind.
LOL +1 🙂
You might even get to meet her – she might come to PAXmeat to see who some of these people I talk about are.
And for the wine. Mainly for the wine.
Wine good.
Wine fairies bad.
*flashbacks*
Ha, I just remembered another one – recently my wife’s aunt moved into a new house. When my wife asked her mother what it’s like, “it makes your place look like a palace”.
Seriously, wtf?
Got my R9 390, spent the last hour installing it.
It’s all up and running, just need to get the drivers installed, and we’ll be good.
1080 ordered…
Any thoughts as to the best hundred moments from Scifi that could be thrown together to make an even better scifi.
Why would you want to do that?
Roast lamb & veggies for dinner tonight \o/ smells amazing. Also seems extremely tender from the bit I tried.
I just walked around my Diamondback’s cockpit. The back door was exactly where the door to the hallway behind me is. I opened it and poked my head through.
This is awesome 😛
What, you can walk around the interior of your ships now? I can finally find out where the toilet on my Cobra MKIII is!!!
For some reason I got fixated on that as an absence when exploring the Normandy in Mass Effect and now it’s something I look for in pretty much every game, sci-fi or otherwise. It’s all well and good having a state of the art CC&C facility but if there’s no loo then the whole place will just stink of piss and that puts a dent in the appeal of any fancy setup…
Well, when I stuck my head through the geometry the only other thing I could see that was modeled was the ship hangar down on the floor below. But I mean the Dropship has what looks to be a coffee maker in there, so I’m sure there’ll be bathrooms once the rest of the innards get put in.
Unless it’s just something that gets processed by your suit.
So I think I ordered a GTX 1080 this morning. I say think because I placed an order with a reputable place, but now I look at it it seems like it might have been a backorder, i.e. they’d run out of stock already but didn’t pull sales. When I checked the site again a few hours later it was listing the card as ‘notify when in stock’ though so fingers crossed that it’s just that they’re not shipping until next week.
I initially tried to buy from Nvidia direct, was up at bang on 6am to do it and had it in my cart, but went to try EVGA’s website first and it was down, then checked newegg briefly since I kind of want an EVGA over Nvidia’s own reference card as they have better support, but EVGA’s site was comically overloaded, and then by the time I got back to Nvidia’s site at about 6:05am it was sold out. 🙁 Cue mad scramble for a card somewhere else.
Kind of looks like I should have waited though. There’s cheaper cards from some manufacturers coming in a few weeks that are factory overclocked, and I don’t even know if I got an EVGA reference card (‘founder’s edition’) that’s actually going to ship to me before the factory overclocked cards are available.
Either way it’s a massive step up from the old 670 OC I’m running so it’s not like the reference card will be bad.
In other PC news, I got sick of the terrible instability on my PC and wiped & clean installed Win10. Massive, massive performance improvement. Something was clearly fucked.
Oh nice, hopefully it’s not too long of a wait for you! I am pretty tempted to pre-order one since Umart announced last night they have stock of the MSI & Gigabyte founders edition for $1179 along with Asus & EVGA ones coming for $1199 which isn’t too bad it’s about $200 more than Newegg.
I was looking at getting one from Newegg ($974 AUD) but shipping to Aus is between $75 & $95 which could also subject it to GST and by that point it’s either the same price as local or a bit more so boo.
Yeah, I’m also not sure if mine’s on backorder or not. If it is I may cancel it and wait for the AIB boards to come out in a week.
Cheers again for the game @redartifice @blaghman @transientmind @aliasalpha @os42 @gingerchris86 @tech_knight @imsureiveforgottensomeone
Mid game’s a bit slow but having much fun. So many plans I only think of this morning when I’m not exhausted.
Almost done taking care of business up my way, depending on what os42 wants to do. Then I’ll join the federation and lend my fleets to whatever the combined effort is.
Eventually the order of business will be a second round against a certain fallen empire with whom I totally didn’t provoke a war where my sole objective was stealing their technology from the debris. And even if that had been my objective, I certainly wouldn’t call it a resounding success despite my suddenly having super shields, neutronium armour and tachyon lances…
Besides, I got back the one planet that was conquered and I recolonised the 2 planets I was forced to vacate as part of the surrender without provoking retaliation from the horrifically powerful xenos (who I definitely didn’t antagonise). @os42 eventually got his one lost planet back even though there might be one set of my settlers on it, thanks to the border rearrangement after the mutually agreed and equitable peace treaty it fell inside my territory so I researched arctic colonisation as soon as it came up, colonised the planet with my ships and gifted it back to him. It seemed the only fair thing to do since I felt slightly responsible for it being lost what with that whole ‘starting a war with a vastly superior power’ thing which I totally didn’t do. In the end it was only @redartifice who ended up humiliated which, lets face it, he really should be as a default state so it was all good.
I do like tachyon lances…
Their fleets were around the 25k mark you were saying?
I can take that.
😀
EACH of their fleets was around that, yeah. I’m hoping that the next round will end up with the debris having disintegrator tech, that stuff is awesome.
Did you end up getting a ring world off them?
Not YET but we will. There’s 5 habitable gaia planets for the taking so we could pretty much have one each
The fucking last time i let you talk me in to conflict.
Thems fightin words if ever I dun did hearded em!
Also, you got zero point energy out of it, all those thousands of ship crew didn’t die entirely in vain!
Everything I do now is to set the stage for squaring off against the Hux in the north.
My preferred victory, however, will involve subjugating my major rival to the south first.
@redartifice @blaghman @transientmind @aliasalpha @os42 @gingerchris86 @highperformance
Sorry guys I got completely overwhelmed and completely lost on what to do, so I’ll sit out until next round after I’ve gotten some single player game time in. I finally learned last night about the Sector mechanic, now I know what those white sections of my map actually were and how to make them. I’ll most likely be okay to continue on next session at this rate as I’ll be on leave and capable to play more for the next three weeks on the side
Hehe understandable, it’s kind of like walking in on someone having trouble with a boss in a new Dark Souls game and having them hand you the controller saying “Here, you have a go”. Eventually it’s all quite easy but until you get the experience to know what’s going on, you’ll likely not go spectacularly well…
Good idea, I don’t want to ruin the game mechanics but you’ll see it becomes quite easy after 1-2 new playthroughs 🙂
Bit the bullet and got Total War: Warhammer.