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I’ve been dead for the last few days, this man flu is my last. I mean it this time!
I did get to finish my Lucario arcade stick, but my Pokkening was weak.
http://i.imgur.com/yG63Sax.jpg
Regale me with your tales of lives lived well, so I may vicariously draw satisfaction in this, the sunset of my life.
I uh, I played lots of overwatch. >_>
Ok it looks a little more Lucario now 😛
If it’s what I had a few weeks ago it’s pretty rough. I got past the worst of it quickly enough but it lingered forever.
Speaking of Overwatch. I’m having so much fun, but I think I need to relearn to play Mercy as a healer and not an attacker.
I played a bit of Zarya on the weekend and having fun (possibly my favourite). I tried her out during the beta and hated it but that’s mostly because I didn’t know how her abilities work.
I still have no idea how she works.
The more she is damaged while she is shielded or anyone else shielded by her the more damage she deals. The damage she ends up dealing is crazy.
That’s my difficulty – balancing being dealt damage to buff firepower and… dying. It’s great when you’ve got a Lucio or a Mercy around.
Zarya can be terrifying when played well.
She’s my second main (after Zenyatta).
The trick is to hang back at first when you have no stored up energy and to shield easy targets, like a Reaper who goes into the fray, a stationary Bastion, or another tank character.
Once you have some stored up energy (30-50), push up, but stick with someone. If you’re with a smaller character, you’ll get shot at since you’re bigger / easier target, so pop your shield for more energy. They’ll switch to the person you’re with, so shield them next and boom, you should be at about 70-80 energy.
Reverse order if you’re with another tank (shield them, then you).
Then you go on the offence, but don’t go too far ahead that you can’t backtrack of you get in trouble.
The main problems I face are trying to deal with OTHER Zaryas (whoever has more energy wins), when enemies are smart and stop attacking my shields, or when they all group up to kill me (a common situation when you use your ultimate).
I probably need to use her in an AI game then.
btw, I had a 5 player kill streak as Mercy one game =P
Yeah, she’s pretty fun. Better as a bruiser than as a straight tank though.
Yeah, someone said last night you should only use her as a second tank
She makes a great second tank if you’re new to her, but she can be an amazing solo tank if you’re good with her. You just need to keep track of when your shields are ready to use, and when someone needs shielding (shielding someone about to be pinned by a Reinhardt is great for a LOT of energy, and you save them too, for instance).
She can also help to push through turrets.
That last part is a ‘Sort of’. If I had a good position as Bastion I’d usually melt a Zarya pretty quickly. Reinhardt’s shields don’t last particularly long, either. Not a full clip, at least. The dangers with tanks pushing turrets is what/who they bring with them. The tank themselves is liable to be sacrificed in the process.
I’ve killed a lot of Bastions as Zarya, but yeah, it is about how you play.
I’ll usually sacrifice a team mate to Bastion so I can get closer to him and build my energy, get close enough to laserpointer him, pop my shield, build more energy, then I almost always JUST survive while he’s dead.
Torbjorns turrets are cake, so long as you get an angle on them where you can get close enough first.
Maybe try zenyatta? He’s squishy but can do terrifying damage for a support in the hands of a skilled player.
Yeah, but I forget to E a lot. Well, i press E but apparently that isn’t enough for my keyboard =P
Lost count of the number of times I was ambush-murdered by Zenyatta. He can not afford to be ignored.
Zenyatta is life.
Zenyatta is love.
Best anti-tank in the game I reckon.
Playing Mercy really forces me to focus a lot on everything that is happening in the game, since I need to be constantly zip-zapping around the map checking on how all my team-mates are doing. I also get stressed out when I have my ulti ready, and someone on my team dies, and I have to decide not to revive them because they were out of place. Really need to call the shots when I play Mercy (or another support), since I can see where all my team-mates are and so I’m in the best position for it.
If I have my ulti and someone dies, I revive them. Hell, i will fly in, revive and sacrifice myself in the process. You never know if that revive could be the one that keeps the point or moves the payload
I played lots of Overwatch. Now at level 23 having played about 15 hours in total. Got a good spread among the heroes, most played is Soldier 76 at 2 hours, least played is Hanzo at 5 minutes.
Road Hog is one of my favourites. That hook and the self-healing are both awesome. His rate of fire is a killer though. I have to learn to reload before I hook someone because I’ve been caught too many times hooking someone, bringing them down to a sliver of health and then running out of ammo in the clip.
I also made a Thai green curry and brownies 😉
Oh my god a torrent of e-mails from users asking why they’ve had transactions come up as credits from us. READ YOUR BLOODY E-MAILS.
Even worse than that. A whole bunch of people that don’t know the difference between a credit and a debit.
Ugh.
I buy things using a credit card, so when I buy something that is obviously a credit Gooky
Yes. people is smart!
AM NOT
Morning, folks.
Been playing Overwatch, Doom, and Total War: Warhammer.
Also, I bought an extra hard drive along with my new graphics card on Friday, but I am short of a power cable to my disc drive because of it.
The dual input cable from the power supply is too short to reach the drive, so is it possible to get a cable from a four pin plug that goes to the L-shaped end?
An extension like this?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6UM2EP8379&cm_re=right_angle_sata_power-_-9SIA6UM2EP8379-_-Product
Or do you need to split the power between multiple devices (assuming your power supply can handle it)?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4TZ32A7604&cm_re=right_angle_sata_power-_-12-162-011-_-Product
Something more like what’s here, on the left:
http://www.playtool.com/pages/psuconnectors/satano3.jpg
So Molex to right angle SATA like this?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA85V3EB3897&cm_re=sata_right_angle_power-_-9SIA85V3EB3897-_-Product
Or do you need Molex (the white plug in that picture) on both ends like this?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA3913CK9443&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Home+Gadgets-_-Monoprice+Inc.-_-9SIA3913CK9443
This,
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA85V3EB3897&cm_re=sata_right_angle_power-_-9SIA85V3EB3897-_-Product&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-Skimlinks-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=12087162&PID=7932045&SID=skim88665X1541751X79c84945efa268a383ae8f8bf895051d&utm_medium=affiliates&utm_source=afc-Skimlinks
and
this,
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA13Y2YH8705
It basically needs the extra length, as it’s too short to currently reach where I need it to go.
Morning folks my weekend consisted of watching the Giro and Playdates for Tiglet. So pretty much perfect
I would like to retire now, please. I wonder if I can actually do that… I wonder how much super I have. Hm.
Sigh
Talking about super makes me sad, mine is looking very, very sparse
Do you remember when we were young and gung-ho and going to be ready to retire by the time we were 30
I remember thinking I was going to be dead by 30, so hell with planning for the future!
How long have you got? I’ve got some power tools if you need some help…
Help planning for the future? With power tools? Interesting.
(Not help dying, no need for help, there. Cholesterol will do the trick eventually, and I’ll have fun in the process!)
Cholesterol kills slowly, I have a dremel!
I’m 31 and still betting heavily on being dead by 30…
I probably need to do the same soon.
The treads are looking a little thin.
I’m one of those dorks that has been planning his Super pathways since he was 23. I’m such fun at parties.
OK, everything here is borked, let’s read the real-world-with-real-people-in-it news while we wait for un-borking and hope the news is less borked.
***
New Top Gear hated by Top Gear Fans! Well, no fucking duh. If it was possible to bet on that, I could’ve put down a grand and made a buck fifty back.
Kanye West’s recording studio got robbed. Apparently they took his computers. I hate to break it to those well-meaning activists, but this desperate act is unlikely to stop him from making music. Still, at least they’re doing something. What are YOU doing to stop Kanye West?
Johnny Depp… has a fucking trainwreck of a life right now, which he may or may not deserve. Yeah, not going anywhere near that. Wish the media would do the same, but y’know. Blood in the water, sharks etc. I guess on the bright side, these famous peoples’ misery will keep a lot of people employed. Jobs!
A whole bunch of people died. 🙁 Not all at once… But drownings, diseases, car crashes, assaults (and in one surprising case, trampling by horse. Fuck’s sake). Your passing will be noted in summary on page 5, [age][suburb-of-residence][gender]. Wow this is depressing, let’s go back to gossiping about rich/famous people. Or politicians.
Turnbull debates Shorten. Turnbull does an slick job of presenting a wealthy-Australian-wet-dream set of policies, Shorten manages to flubb delivering what should be a fairly simple populist rebuttal. Much to everyone’s surprise, right? Right? Haaaah. Fucking politics.
Sportsball! Things happened. Lots of things! Teams did stuff and celebrity players did things/made decisions about moving or not moving or accepting multi-million dollar contracts to, uhm… sportsball! We care about this. Obviously. Since there’s like four dozen articles about sportsball here. Jeez. Who would’ve thought there was so much of it?
Government continues to jam fingers in ears about the environment, hoping it will all go away. They may soon get their wish, according to scientists. But the government would still prefer scientists stop being noisy about it in the meantime. They put as many of the blighters out of a job as they could, what else can they do to make the complaining stop? According to latest decisions, ‘kill it faster’, apparently. Rip it off like a band-aid.
Holy crap, just about everywhere godamn else in the world is so much more horrifying than here. Seriously! You wouldn’t believe what those foreigners are getting up to! And it’s like, everywhere! Poor Aussies… We have nowhere to threaten to move to when things we don’t like happen. Hm. Maybe Switzerland?
*subscribes*
Note on the debate. It seems the ratings remained unmoved . ie Not many people watched it.
It could also be that neither speaker bothered to try and bring undecideds over but spoke strongly to their comfortable support base. An excellent use of everyone’s time! On account of journalists getting tired of picking apart media releases – debates are kind of a holiday in that regard.
…At least, this is what the journalists say.
Matt Leblanc was alright on top gear. Just alright, though.
And considering that our government seem to be determined for us to become the perfect fusion of the worst parts of both America & Britain with a sprinkling of early 1940s Germany, our only real comfort comes from the fact that there’s venomous monsters everywhere in the dark that might kill us while we still have a shred of humanity…
I feel like I’m living in a Philip K Dick novel.
I liked the bit in the sportsball when the right team put the projectile into the left team’s area and got points.
Woo, the NDA for the GTX 1070 reviews has lifted \o/
But was it an NDA or an embargo?
Both? It seemed no one was allowed to discuss their 1070’s until today, so idk 😛
But either way the video from LinusTechTips was cool, looks like a good solid 1440P card.
Morning, everyone! Because I opted out of Iron Banner this time round due to prolific lag, I actually managed to finish two games this weekend! Two! Uncharted was about what I expected, overall pretty fun, and a good conclusion to the ex-trilogy. Doom was… well, bloody fantastic. The boss fights! \o/ Debating whether to do one more run to find everything – only found one lever, which was mostly because it was in a main room silhouetted by flames, and kinda hard to miss, and missed a whole bunch of secrets in the earlier levels.
I found two levers, I went back and 100%’d the first level and found the hidden level almost out of desperation. The first one I found, which was in the second level, was actually kind of obvious. I pulled a switch that made some boxes drop, so of course I climbed them. Then when I was up there there didn’t seem to be anything else around, so I looked up. And I think that’s the trick to me not missing secrets in Doom. Always check above you.
Yea, only really started actively looking for secrets about halfway through. Annoyingly, I have no problem finding the entrance to the old levels, but could never find the levers.
I think I spent most of the weekend in VR. That, and sleeping. As much as I say I should stop doing so, I keep staying up til 5 or 6 in the morning. Bleh.
After the Reggie Watts show on Friday, I ended up returning to Altspace several times and just hung out there, particularly after everyone had gone to bed so I felt less uncomfortable speaking. Though still pretty uncomfortable 😛 Spent a good while trying to get a good score in the frisbee golf course, managed to crack the top 100 so that was nice. And as cool as it is to have hands there with the Leap Motion, that little fucker is damn heavy after a while, hanging off the front of the Rift there. Really goes to show just how much went into balancing the headset on your head. I feel like I’m having more trouble finding the sweet spot for it now though. Also somewhat paranoid about making permanent dents to my head, I can’t tell if I actually have a flat ridge running down the middle of my scalp at the moment or I’m just imagining it. Maybe I should start wearing a beanie or something while playing, to disperse the weight a bit more.
Spent a bunch of time in Elite, trekking out to get some of those damn meta-alloys for Farseer. Then dreading having to bring a Sidewinder all the way over from my home system (or take one back), I remembered the Hauler takes a class 2 thruster as well. So the super taxi doubled as a module transport too, just took it to my home system and sold it, only to rebuy on my Sidewinder. Awesome. Although it would appear that doing so strips the module of engineer modifications, not sure if that’s a bug or not. Oh yeah, and I was playing using an Aura Interactor that got delivered on Friday. Took a bit of fiddling to get the setting just right so that it’ll still fire off for gunfire but won’t also spit out the ship’s voice in a few places, but once it’s there it goes pretty well. Though I’m not sure it necessarily works quite as well as a backpack. I tried just putting it down on the chair and sitting on it, which was great for muffling the sound more and made it feel a bit better, though it was pretty uncomfortable after a while given its shape. May have to look into modifying it, maybe pull it apart and mount it to some kind of shaped seat or at the very least a flat board and some kind of cushion on top.
Also finally got around to trying the caramel sugar thing I saw on lifehacker the other week, did five little bowls of sugar and took one out at each hour. Seems to be more of a toffee flavour than caramel, but it’s neat enough I guess 😛
Yeah – slightly gutted that I hadn’t spoken to you while I was at Maia with the Anaconda, I’d have hauled a ton of meta-alloys and dropped them for you at Farseer. It wasn’t many jumps at all for me.
And then Saturday night I was flying. Getting tired, thought “ah, I’ll just go the 3 jumps to Wyrd and pay this other engineer his money”. Exited glide a bit steep and fast, tried to pull up and boost too late, hit the deck. Bits of Anaconda everywhere. Fucking rookie error.
Did have rebuy, but have stashed the ‘conda and tooling around in an A-spec Viper Mk IV for now while I try out some of the new content in the bubble.
Have also bookmarked lots of points of interest around the Galaxy so will head out to visit those and hit Elite. At 20% Pioneer now.
I’ve ditched the Diamondback for now and am back in my Sidewinder to see how the new thrusters fare outside of canyon running. Just need to find myself a damn assassination mission already and see if I can keep on the arse of an Anaconda. Only tested in nav beacons so far, and there’s lots of system authorities and bounty hunters that lend a hand and make most of the bigger ships pretty trivial. Dunno what all these people are complaining about impossible AI for, just need to go where the security is 😛
I did end up checking out a barnacle though. Those things are damn creepy. Just a shame it was dead, but at least it was quiet and nobody was lying in wait to slaughter.
Yeah, security has been beefed. Some of the high sec systems, I’ve seen a wing of 3 elite anacondas. This is a good thing.
I’ve not had any problems so far. It’s harder than it was, but that’s ok – it seems to scale well.
It’s a brand new TAY! and the sun is high!
HOW IS EVERYONE TODAY?
I’m great, it’s a new week so it can only be better than last week!
Also DOOM is still rad, continues to be better and better.
And played waaaay too much of the new Elite:Dangerous update on the weekend.
YOu should get overwatch and die horribly with the rest of us
Wow, dark.
I would, except PVP 😛
A PVP only focused game is not something i want to pay full retail for 😐
But … D=
I know, i hat fun apparently… I gravitate towards Co op stuff, rather than straight on PVP… sorry /o\
There is a players vs AI mode… but it’s not really considered ‘the main event’.
(Even though ‘hard’ is hard as balls and I lost more against hard AI than players ever.)
Ah, so the famous “Blizzard Difficulty Scale” is still a thing huh?
I still haven’t ventured above “Very Easy” in Starcraft II 😛
Yeah. Easy is kinda easy, Hard is holy crapnuts hard. Pro players are probably harder, but it was open beta weekend, so I guess most everyone was still learning.
Give it a few months and PVP will be utterly impenetrable. 😀
Funny you mentioned Starcraft 2. I only JUST found out a couple weeks ago that there’s a co-op mode in the latest expansion. I really want to reinstall it for that alone sometime.
It is co op! =P
All the birds are singing that you’re gonna die.
How I hesitated, Now I wonder why
It’s a brand new day!
E:D is gooooood.
Very very good!
Started chipping away at reputation with one of the Engineers, it gives me an actual goal to work towards which is awesome! Also nice to fly my Clipper again after a long time of it gathering dust!
On my way back from Maia with Meta-alloys at the moment.
Just the one ton, or did you load the ship so you can sell the rest at another station in the Farseer system? 🙂
I’m really enjoying hooning around in the Viper IV. Was doing some low level on approach to engineers base. Nice.
Stocked up as much as i could… which was only 9t but you know :P…
And yeah i’ve been keeping the Cobra MKIV as my main mission runner and she is a lot of fun! I have way more fun in the smaller ships then the big juggernauts 😛
The only way to play 😛
I don’t get me wrong, there’s something novel and might about slogging a T9 through the mail slot in a slow lumbering manner that means “business”… But I always look forward to my time in the Cobra or FDL just for the pure joy of flying them.
FDL handles SOOOO WELLL… love that thing!
Love the big ships for mining, loving the ‘conda for exploring, and it was just hilarious at close air support for ground missions pre-missile-nerf.
But little ships are great for low level runs, dog-fights, escort duty. So many ways to play. Love it.
Contemplating swapping the T9 for a trade-aconda, but think I need at least twice the amount of credits I currently have 😛
Last song played time!!!
smoke and Mirrors by Jamiroquai
What was YOUR last song played?
Spin Doctors – Two Princes.
Damn that radio.
I like some nostalgia blasts, but I’ve heard this entirely too often lately and it’s overstaying its welcome as much as it did when it first started getting air-time. 😛
Marry him, or marry me, I’m the one who loves you baby cantchyou see.
No, I didn’t have to look up the lyrics for that. No, the song isn’t playing. Why are you all looking at me like that?
relevant.
Ben Folds Five – Army
“Grew a moustache and a mullet, got a job at Chick-fil-A.”
Well I thought about the army, Dad said “son, you’re fucking high”…
Love Ben Folds and the other two that made Five. Some amazing stuff. Probably my most listened not-electronica of the last few years.
Seen him 5 or 6 times. Got tix to see his next Melbourne gig.
Billy Joel – Goodbye Saigon
Silverchair – Across the Night.
I put the album Diorama on my phone because my wife loves it and when I first heard it back in 2002 or 2003 I hated it. I was working security at the time and while I had a pretty cushy job and could more or less listen to whatever radio station I wanted, I pretty much always listened to Triple M. At one stage they had a segment in the early morning where they would play a full album starting around 2am or something and for awhile they played Diorama almost constantly (mixing it up occasionally with Californication for some reason).
Now I never liked RHCP, sorry, I just really don’t like them very much at all. But Silverchair I did love as a teenager, up until Diorama which bored me to tears. I told my wife this (well she was my girlfriend at the time) and she was incredulous.
So, after years of avoiding the album I was putting new music on my phone since I have a 64gig model now and can spare some space for music other than the bare minimum, and decided to put Diorama on there, determined to listen to it and find out if I actually hate it, or if I just didn’t give it a real chance. I started listening to it on the train and fell asleep after a few songs. I woke up at my station as it had looped back around to the start.
It seems alright.
>.>
<.<
…
Dr. Horrible – Brand new day
That was such a good show.
Eurythmics- Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Windowpane – Opeth.
Welp. Just got a proper talk about what’s going on with my spot here. Looks like I’ll only be around to the end of June, maybe July depending how things go. But probably June.
Not exactly news or anything, but confirmation of suspicions I guess. Ugh I don’t want to have to look for something again…
Also we discussed facial hair care. And tattoos. And board games.
Maybe if you did something about facial hair, or got more tattoos, or brought board games into work, they’d keep you on. Seems like a fairly clear message to me.
Well I’ve got two out of three covered. Guess I gotta get a tattoo!
Wait no I think I am ok with not sticking around 😛
HI EVERYONE.
*disappears for another six months*
SHANE!
HI! o/HI OTHERONE.
Are you a paperback writer yet?
Dear sir or madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write – will you take a look?
Described my weekend to the elderly receptionist at work by saying I yelled at video games a bunch.
She was understanding of my ludicrous levels of salt, saying that basketball often made her feel the same way (though she didn’t yell so much).
I really need to find a hobby that relaxes me, instead of one that makes me describe things on a scale of “cancer to worse cancer”.
And this is why i stopped playing PVP centric games! 😛 makes me waaaaay too angry…
I’ve started savouring the slower paced games where i can lean back with a cup of coffee and just enjoy it… Also Stardew Valley is awesome!
Half my anger was directed at Total Warhammer, because I should really turn it down to normal difficulty (while I’m doing that I should drop Doom to hard), but my immense ego is stopping that.
And my problem with Stardew Valley was that I just hit the point of trying to maximise efficiency, and there was no sense of fun, just infinite turnips.
Haha yeeeaaah i remember that mindset, which is something i’m trying to stop myself from doing every time i play as well…
Although with any 4x or RTS, i am perfectly happy to admit that i’m as good as a wet sock and drop difficulty riiiiight down… Then still rage when i lose 😛
I loaded up some normal mode bots in Endless Space. I made the mistake of not commencing an arms race as soon as I made contact with another race. As a result, I got roflstomped into oblivion as an enemy’s implacable juggernaut of war steamrolled effortlessly over every scrap of resistance I tried to muster.
Any time I find myself trapped into doing un-fun bullshit for optimal efficiency these days, I consider getting a trainer or using a cheat. It’s basically me telling the game, “OK, so I’m doing this tedious bullshit, let’s pretend I kept doing that instead of having fun, and skip the resultant simmering resentment for the sake of going straight to the fun, OK?”
I’m thirty-fucking-four, I don’t have enough years left to grind bullshit.
You need to learn from me bro
I’m straight zen whenever I play video games
My favourite part of playing with you is when you get excited/frustrated enough to yell “Nigger!”
there is no way to make that sentence sound remotely sane.
so.. uh…
yeah.
Have you considered ritualistic killings of drifters? 9/10 TAYbies swear by it.
(…@dc)
I played quite a bit of World of Warships over the long weekend here and I played like absolute shit for two of the three days and then just played average on the third, but got super salty at some of the utterly moronic things I was seeing teammates do as well. Nothing quite like spearheading a push on one flank in a battleship with four or five cruiser escorts, and then suddenly finding myself completely alone and focus-fired by three cruisers, because my cruiser escorts got scared because something shot at them. Or watching people drive right into enemy destroyer torpedo salvos.
Actually started installing last night.
US or Asia?
i.e. the server that Wargaming doesn’t seem to give a shit about (though we are finally getting the Arpeggio of Blue Steel missions next week!) or the server where half the people speak in squares (english client can’t display Japanese / Chinese characters) and most matches start with people yelling POI! at each other? 😛
Jingles’ How To Not Suck is 30 minutes well spent. He gives an overview of what you’re meant to be doing, the ship classes, general tactics etc plus some sage advice like NEVER EVER EVER SHOOT TORPEDOES AHEAD OF A FRIENDLY SHIP.
iChase has a series of useful tutorial videos on various topics too:
Good viewing for areas you’re not sure about.
Asia. I think it was linked to my existing Wargaming account from WoT.
We can’t division up and take your tier 1 patrol ship into a tier 7 match then. 🙁
EDIT: I play on US. I do have an Asia account but I haven’t done anything on it.
Hm. Well, I guess I can look into grabbing the US client… maybe I’d need to set up an entirely new US account? Is lag much of a factor, btw?
I never had a lot of lag from AU to US. Or at least I don’t think I did. The game’s one which is much less affected by latency than, say, Quake. Stuff moves on fairly static courses and doesn’t jump around heaps or anything. Movement’s smoothed out. Aiming involves a lot of leading anyway. The technology underlying the game handles it pretty well (ask @batguy)
With a mod you can use the one client on all servers but you need a US login.
@negativezero The technology underlying the game is AWESOME ™!
Though a large part of the lag being a non-issue is the very nature of the game. It’s more strategic and tolerant of delays, vs a twitch shooter.
Oh and for some amusing WoWS videos, I’ve been really digging atsf’s stuff and keep watching them.
His ‘How to Furutaka‘ is pretty brilliant.
Well last week was horrible. The weekend went better.
Friday night, had an Emergency Pint with a colleague to discuss the week, and that helped. Went home to the wife who had “cooked dinner” by picking up kebabs on the way home. Result. Played some Elite. Chatted to @mrtaco . Ordered a GTX 1080…
Saturday, the wife followed through with her plan to force me to play Elite all day. Unfortunately, my PC didn’t agree, and turning it on made a horrible noise. 😮
Pulled it out from under the desk, discovered one of the cats had sprayed it too. FFS. Spent ages clearing up crystallised pee with Urine Off and cotton wool buds. Then fixed the horrible noise (was a fan that had bust a bearing, I think – swapped out that fan for a spare) and did some general maintenance. Rubbed the PC case and the whole area under the desk with Urine Off and hopefully that’ll be the end of that little ritual from the cat.
Made it into Elite in the end. Good session. Lots going on. Expensive when I stacked the Anaconda into the deck though. Whoops.
Yesterday, watched Carlton beat Cats and went to AAMI Park to watch the Rebels beat the Western Force. The PA did a slip and called them the Western Farce at one point. Snicker.
Hopefully 1080 will arrive this week!
Up-vote because of 1080… Not the crystallised cat wee…
SO EXCITED.
RotTR will be sooooo pretty. 3440×1440 monitor next for Elite.
My 1080 still didn’t ship so I think the bastards I ordered it from were taking backorders when they said it was in stock, or oversold. 🙁 Thinking about cancelling, waiting 2-3 weeks and getting the cheaper factory overclocked one instead of the stupid overpriced founders edition.
Apparently places here don’t get stock ’til today. Mine will hopefully ship today…
Well I ordered Friday, and it was a long weekend, and I haven’t seen any progress today (Tuesday) so going to send them an email and ask what’s up. If the ETA is any later than end of this week I’m cancelling. Can wait. Save myself $50 and get a better card.
Mine’s in transit. Shipping with Umart was half what PCCG wanted, and it’s coming nearly 2000km from Brisbane, not 10km from the Melbourne ‘burbs.
Next job, scope out my machine and see if I can expand the water cooling to the GPUs. *rubs hands and cackles maniacally*
Well mine’s still on fucking backorder despite it being listed as in stock when I ordered with them 🙁
Hmmm. Cancel then, that’ll teach the bastards.
Wait and see approach. If they ship before EVGA has their overclocked one available then I’ll keep it, otherwise will order the better, cheaper card and cancel with the retailer I ordered the Founders from.
Bonjour, mi amors!
‘allo. Pourquoi the outraaaaaageous accent?
Hon hon hon, baguette!
Foux du fafa?
My weekend was good.
Included dumplings for dinner on friday.
Also Stellaris – I think I need to get more used to it before I play it again with other people.
A dumpling feast and Boardgames on saturday
And a lot of walking on friday and sunday.
My feet are killing me from the walking in new shoes.
And this week I see my favourite band of all time 😀
TWICE!!!
Boardgames was fun. Would definitely boardgames again.
Which is your favourite band of all time that you are seeing twice?
New Order. Band show on Wednesday and Chamber Orchestra Show on Thursday.
I saw this tweet earlier today and became extremely Excited
https://twitter.com/trans_com/status/737107943984758784
I think Techie said the same thing? But I actually think playing with others is just as good a way to learn, if not better, because the same tutorial is available in MP as in SP, and if you get stuck with it at any point your federation-mates can help you recover from any colossal fuck-ups, talk to you over teamspeak with a much better fuzzy logic help engine than the computer’s, and – depending on how badly screwed they are at the time (like, say, if they’re getting involved in a losing war against a fallen empire of such technological and naval superiority that it doesn’t register on the scale), provide some resources to help speed things along. Also, you can pretty much just jump in to an AI position that’s already got its shit somewhat together. 😉
But y’know. Being comfortable should be top priority.
I think the biggest problem for me is understanding what I want to do in any situation.
In Master of orion, I pick my victory condition and go. In this I haven’t seen anything yet to tell me what the victory condition is. other than expand or do what your race wants to do I don’t know what to do. which is overwhelming.
I read that the win condition is fixed at ‘own 40% of planets in the galaxy’.
I’m not sure if that can be achieved as a federation. If not… things might get a bit cut-throat down the track. Quick check of Internet says it can’t be, but that there’s nothing stopping a federation from deciding, “OK gang, we’ve achieved what we wanted to as a team, let’s start a new game.”
That, or triggering one of the catastrophic end-game events and trying to survive it.
Thats good to know, But it’s a little disappointing that its only the one. but I can understand that.
Also conquer all other players. Don’t know if federations can do that one tho.
So I’d just started climbing for the night, still warming up. On the second climb I notice the lady doing the panel next to me is just sitting on the mat, watching me. Once I’ve finished downclimbing, she says “if there were music to your climbing, it would be classical”, in kind of a French-ish accent I think? “Very pretty.”
That’s a new one 😛
*grabs popcorn*
WB 😛
You should have asked which composer. Depending on the answer you were either elegant, pretty, all over the place or slow and dramatic
I can’t remember if there was some mention of Beethoven or Mozart in there or not.
Either way, thankfully she was gone before I did a climb that would have sounded more like Florence Foster Jenkins.
Last song played game time!!!!!
Territory by Shiv-R
What was YOUR last song played?
Cage the Elephant – Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked
As popularised in the opening of the original Borderlands. Not a bad album either.
THAT’S what’s missing from my Spotify. *taptaptap phone*
If you’re adding “music that’s been in Borderlands games” you should probably add The Heavy’s ‘How You Like Me Now?’ and ‘Short Change Hero’ as well. Both from ‘The House That Dirt Built’ which is a great album.
Häxprocess – Opeth.
Completely forgot Heritage was a thing. Good reminder.
Looked them up on Spotify last week after stumbling across The Drapery Falls in my song lists, and put their entire repertoire on shuffle. Still working through it, but have yet to find something I don’t enjoy.
I think a lot of people will enjoy this link
http://9gag.com/gag/azj03Az
Yes. I did lol.
As a Bastion player, I assume this is exactly how it goes down. =P
Any Elder Scrolls Online knowledge holders here?
I’ve hit L35 & the lowest quests available to me are 38. Getting smooished.
I went into Cyrodill to do some of those scaling quests but the map is so huge & enemies 10 levels lower than me are kicking my behind.
What have I done wrong?!
Have you tried gitting gud?
Sorry, I’ve never played the game.PVP and dungeons were something the devs were pretty publicly keen on, up to release… maybe their intention was that you’d gain some levels in repeating PVP/dungeons while playing?
Yeah, you seem to gain levels far quicker by questing.
Cyrodill is the PvP area but it’s so flippin huge & if you die, you seem to respawn back in your corner of the map.
Maybe I need to try a different group.
PvP had zero tutorial, I had to look up a guide to even join.
If it’s anything like other MMOs, there may be some dungeon-specific quests (possibly only available once you’re in there? Or still sitting in your log?) which yield a huge one-off reward, and the levelling flow may have taken for granted that you’d done it.
It’s not ideal flow if you have to hunt for exp gains just to survive, though. Maybe check out a guide and see if you’ve hit all the exploration points? I remember when I was playing that exploration of landmarks and those… star shard thingeys(?) yielded some huge boosts – both in exp and in stats/power.
Oh yeah, I could wander about some maps spotting landmarks.
I’m kind of wondering if they aren’t pushing me to subscribe, since you get that exp boost.
There is shit to do I guess, just not particularly fun or hard to organise.
…I forgot about the subscription thing. That’s probably a factor, too.
I wish it scaled like Skyrim so I could do what I want .
That’s one of my favourite features of Elder Scrolls. Not having fun? Do something else.
Yeah. One of the reasons I couldn’t really get into it was all the ways it departs from the strengths of the ‘real’ Elder Scrolls games. There’s a decent MMO there, but it made a lot of sacrificies (probably unnecessary ones, too) because it thought that you had to, to be an MMO.
I was especially sour on the shithouse archery; blocking only working for the special, telegraphed attacks; fixed, rigid classes and abilities; the complete nerfing into uselessness of stealth/stealth-crits.
If you can’t take three hours to traverse a minor dungeon, single-head-shot-stealth-critting enemies and hiding from their companions til they return to their patrols, until you’ve looted everything that isn’t nailed down and stored it for fast-travel collection-and-return, then what’s the point?
@transientmind
Was this early around launch?
The general mmo feel is still there & it levels traditionally, but I think some of the other stuff has been amended. Although that’s subjective.
You can definitely just hold block now & it works. There’s even passives that gain you health or mana from it now.
The classes, although rigid compared to Skyrim, are still fairly customisable compared to most RPGs. I think they need the classes to promote teamwork, so I wasn’t suprised.
What was it about archery you didn’t enjoy?
Archery? The damage is very weak, and it’s very MMO’y. By which I mean it doesn’t follow a ballistic trajectory but instead auto-aims based on tab-targeting/highlighting. No headshots, either.
Yeah, last time I really played TESO for any length of time was after the big ‘crime and punishment’ patch came out that actually allowed you to steal things. Probably… I dunno, a year after launch? Launch was Apr 2014, I think the crime patch was March or May 2015. They did some ‘welcome back try out our new shit’ free fortnight or something. Kind of fun to explore? And the quests were a tad frustrating compared to TES games (either waiting on respawns to count for quest credit, or frustrating fighting your way back through now-unnecessary respawns, mostly; neither of which you have to put up with in TES V or earlier).
I didn’t quite make it a week. The class system, shitty archery, and shitty blocking was bugging me too much. The stealing/fencing system needed a hell of a lot more work, too.
But yeah… I know WHY they felt they had to do these generic MMO-things that robbed them of TES staples. I just don’t agree that they had to, or that it improved the game. Decent MMO game, not a great ‘TES’ game.
(Which – ironically, given my stance – is probably what other people will be saying about FF15.)
But yes, I will keep at it then.
Watched the premiere of the new Top Gear with Chris Evans & Matt LeBlanc last night. Not awful, but Chris is a bit on the annoying side trying to be Jeremy Clarkson 2.0 with the banter and how he tried to present, now that could be pushed on him from the BBC, if so then fuck them. But Matt LeBlanc was great, he was a pretty natural fit.
Also the audience wasn’t feeling it a lot of the time by the looks on their faces..
Rewatch the first couple of reboot eps from Clarkson, Hammond and Jason Dawe. It took a season and Dawe’s replacement with James May to really get the chemistry working. The studio was almost empty.
Chris Evans has always been annoying, by the way, right back to his Radio One and TFI Friday days. Used to see him and the TFI production team down the pub in Hammersmith.
Yeah that’s a good point it was, wasn’t it. I tried to rewatch the first series of the reboot a little while back but got a bit bored of it cause it wasn’t that capturing, haha.
Oh I know he’s always been annoying. I kinda wish he’d tone it down a bit though, the shouting/yelling when presenting was off putting. I think he could do rather well if he wasn’t yelling at the camera lol.
I definitely didn’t think it was awful but I have two notes on it:
1. It needs to find its own identity. There’s too much of the past in it and Chris Evans tried WAY too hard to act similar to Jeremy Clarkson. I really don’t think driving around in Reliant Robins (or whatever it was, same thing really) is the best way to say ‘hey this is a new generation of Top Gear’, considering it’s probably one of old Top Gear’s finest moments.
2. Apparently he’s from Friends and I know that was popular and I never watched it, but god damn the American guy annoyed me. He has no personality :S He’s not interesting and he seemed bored for half of it. I think I’d enjoy it more if they got rid of him. Replace him with Sabine Schmitz (if I spelled that wrong… close enough :P). Her bit was my favourite bit of the show.
Personally I refuse to watch it while Chris Evans is involved. Hate that guy. I think LeBlanc is a great choice and the rest of the cast while too big are all okay fits, but Evans can fuck right off.
Yeah, I thought LeBlanc did a pretty good job, he was a nice change. But yeah Evans can fuck right off. He’s already gotten super defensive over the criticism the show has received on social media.
Man, they’re sure pushing this Cleverman show. Got e-mails the other day about an advanced screening that was going to show, and now I keep getting popups on my computer spruiking it and offering a trailer every few hours. How obnoxious 😛
Also got a call from the Svefg Qngrf lady on the train this morning, to confirm availability and stuff. Apparently gotta wait another two weeks for a call back to set a time and day. So it’s happening I guess. Eek.
That was amazing.
Hey guys – still looking for any of you Sydney Taybies who may be heading to Supernova this year??
Anyone??!?!
Also, HI!
*waves enthusiastically*
First time posting in here. Got an exam in about 2 hours, think I’d be more confident if I wasn’t still feeling so crook.
Hi! Good luck!
You’re doing the right thing procrastinating in here.
Well I have an hour and a half train ride, what else am I going to do, study? Haha *pulls out 3DS*
One of us. One of us.
The Oar?
The Oar.
(wait… It was some time ago… but I thought someone broke the oar?)How did you go?
I actually just got back from my second one.
I feel like I did ok on both, the first one was tough because I did no study or research throughout the semester(I only had two assignments for that unit and they were easy).
The second one was a programming one and I don’t think it’s fair to expect us to write out code by hand, I need the IDE to remind me when I’m doing things wrong.
I remember handwriting code, not too hard and fairly simply logic stuff.
Worst is when you make a mistake and have to try to dodgy lines in further up the page.
I’m kind of new to java so I had a hard time remembering where to use certain identifiers like private or abstract or whatever, I think I got most of it close enough though.
I had some time off to get some reno stuff done (mostly painting) but I also had Uncharted 4, Valkyria Chronicles Remastered and Fire Emblem! You could see my dilemma. I mean, I can paint anytime right? It rained outside so I told my wife the condensation will affect the paint indoors…it may or may not be true I have no idea but please nobody tell her!
Oh the condensation will definitely affect it.
So will the cold, the paint will take to long to dry so you will get slipping effects appearing.
Just to be safe you should wait for a dry that is dry and at least 20 degrees
Sounds like you want to paint so badly you’d almost considering painting under these insane (and probably dangerous) weather conditions. You need a distraction to keep you from making such a terrible mistake. I recommend playing video games. It’ll be tough since you’re so heroically motivated to be productive, but I think if you dig down deep you’ll find the will power and courage to do the right thing and hide under a blanket playing Uncharted all day.
I burst out laughing. I think I will tell the wife exactly that!
Yesterday I had the day off which was probably not a good thing in hindsight because holy crap everything managed to pile up. Still a good day off though.
I played an absolute metric tonne of Total Warhammer which was probably a bit unhealthy but it was really, really good. It’s me versus the world as the Vampire Counts because I unfortunately chose the wrong time to attack which was after Chaos had already been dealt with. The Empire was also quite literally allied with everyone so they all decided to turn on me. The humans cannot hope to fight my undead hordes but the Dwarves are giving me grief what with their high morale and too damn many guns.
Oh man, Vampire Counts are giving me mad grief as the empire. Got into a battle that I had a decent chance of winning (decent unit composition, low level legendary Lord, some artillery, only outnumbered 2 to 1), but my morale shattered, and everything was ruined.
Morale is the greatest weapon of the undead. I’ve won battles of tabletop warhammer without touching the enemy, it’s particularly advantageous when playing against Skaven because they break faster than a pappadum…
Yeah fear is a pretty big deal as the undead. Flanking is probably their strongest suit as well. I literally won a siege where I was outnumbered 3 to 1 because I kept running my Vargulf out of battle and then charging the flank of the enemies units. I don’t really know how you’re meant to defeat most of their monster units, they are ridiculously powerful.
In tabletop, the main things that my monstrous units were vulnerable to were magic, massed archer fire or heroes/elite units. Hitting a monster in the flank with a shock cavalry charge lead by a hero is a massive danger to it
Try telling my vargheists and terrorgheists they’re about to be charged by horses. I just make them fly off and flank again =P
That said having no archers/artillery makes sieges really really painful…. I almost always lose a good chunk of my grave guards in every siege and if the enemy force is sizeable enough I can’t harass their archers/artillery with my flying units forcing me to storm the walls and gate. Also it’s nigh impossible to flank in city streets without spreading your forces too thin.
In city fighting, especially without ranged support, I tend to treat it like playing Space Hulk.
Advance the primary force behind screening element, each time you hit a cross path, break a unit off to act as a blocking force and defend the flank, when the rear guard has passed the cross path then the screening elements collapse back into the line and form the new rear guard. Anything your primary force encounters is still destroyed by a combination of combat & morale depletion and if anything tries to harass your flank, the blocking force can normally hold it long enough for the primary force to reorient or at least reinforce.
It’s a tricky thing to get right when the game is a bit fiddly (somehow no matter what camera angle you go for, it’s always just a bit shit) but it’s an approach that works well for me.
Yeah once I break the gate I reform my grave guard formations and use them to push to the control point. I then have my hexwraits and black knights travel around the city and flank. At this point I only end up using my flyers to engage any retreating ranged units or the annoying as crap outriders. Thing is though because I have to wait to break down the gate and storm the walls by this point my grave guards are already at half strength.
Which is totally different to how I played the dwarves where almost every skirmish/siege if I was at equal army strength I know I could win with minimal casualties thanks to quarrelers and artillery.
ALL SHALL FALL BEFORE CHAOS
Goddamn Archaon decided to solo my entire army for a full ten minutes by himself while I distracted the rest of the Chaos forces with my reinforcements. To say that I was annoyed by his ability to live for so long was an understatement.
ARCHAON THE EVERCHOSEN WILL BRING RUIN TO THIS WORLD.
LEAGUE ONE. The Dons are back in LEAGUE ONE. 14 years after our club was stolen from us because “there’s no future for Wimbledon FC in South London”, and we were told by the FA that the route for a club to come up through the leagues was “too tortuous” for Milton Keynes, and 14 years after we had open trials on Wimbledon Common and got a place in the Combined Counties League (“Division 9”!!!) we’re back in the SAME DIVISION as the “Milton Keynes Dons”.
I’m a bit excited today.
SPORTSBALL ONE!!!!!
Goooooooo sportsteam!
🙂
“Did you watch the ludicrous display last night?”
Indeed. 😀 By the way, our goal that sealed the win last night was a penalty… in the 99th minute.
@transientmind
I’m suprised I like it at all. My previous encounters with MMOs have been to mindless & grindy for my tastes.
Maybe the voice acting & General presentation has some how made up for it. Or maybe I’ve changed, being dead tired by the end of the day has me appreciating some mindless grind, I dunno.
On the FFXV front, I disagree, ATB was certainly a staple of the series at one point, but it went 3 or 4 games before it’s invention & it’s been just as many since its departure. The reality is, tastes have changed & Square merged with Enix so goals have changed.
As long as it contains some other series staples, summons or crazy hair, then it feels like FF to me.
I’m far more concerned about the FF7 remake actually being a XV spin-off with VII skins. It looks to be so far departed from the original that I wish they’d just made a full sequel.
One of those days where I’ve worked on one email on and off for the better part of 3 hours.
It’s been through about 4 major revisions (layout, structure, content), about 17 minor revisions (bullets/lists/paragraphs etc) and now it’s been sent.
What do I do now…?
Some say sunsoar has been fixated on his screen for 18 straight hours waiting for a reply to his email.
Ending Spoilers Uncharted 4
“You want to talk about our history? So, Carrie, honey, this you have to understand. Daddy has killed a lot of people. Like, a LOT of people. Mostly in third world countries.Mum has too”
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/10/19
Ludonarrative Dissonance!
(I smirked a bit when I found out that that’s the title of the trophy for killing 1000 dudes)
Sorry I’m late guys, I kind of forgot about this important civic duty to keep you all updated on Game of Thrones.
Season 6 Episode 6: Recap of my Recap
The Faith finally formally endorse Cersei and Margaerey, as it seems they’re really just tired of everyone calling them demeaning names for not thinking that having two queens is totally hot. To save face, the Faith agrees to sponsor a limited edition run of commemorative pornographic postcards featuring the couple.
Tired of being made fun of for his obviously fake long distance relationship, Jon Snow puts in a request for annual leave from the Night’s Watch so he can go east and visit her. He’s five miles away on a stolen horse before Lord Commander Sam Tarly remembers that there’s no such thing as annual leave in the Night’s Watch.
Sansa is released by her sadistic unknown captor and heads for the nearest town in a concussed daze. She attempts to order some food at a local tavern but her sultry tone and confusing innuendo inadvertently triggers an orgy. For some reason the beautiful pale-skinned redhead with no social boundaries goes completely unnoticed in the maelstrom of dick, so she leaves more confused than ever.
Jamie and Bronn reach the capital and discover that the White Walkers have infiltrated the city and are plotting to kill the queens. They try to warn the people about the threat but no one takes them seriously because King’s Landing is now a fully fledged Matriarchy, and they are only men.
Brienne is at her wit’s end as Podrick no longer obeys orders unless she calls him demeaning names, which makes her feel uncomfortable. Podrick kindly suggests she try whipping him, but something about the gleam in his eye when he says it makes her think twice.
Burdened with a small fleet of wine, rum and spices, Tyrion and Varys start their own trading company and negotiate a lucrative supply deal with Arya’s “Everyone Who Eats Here is a Goatfucker. P.S.: I Seriously Hate You” Family Restaurant. They go home to incorporate sailing terms into their roleplay but mostly argue about who plays the Commodore and who plays the cabin boy. Tired and flaccid they wistfully think back to the time they got shipwrecked and sigh “those were the days”.
@transientmind
Shin Megami Tensei, A Fan Garble:
SMT is Pokemon with offensive demons, before Pokemon was Pokemon.
It is a series that spun out of a series that spun out of an anime that was an adaptation of a pulp novel.
Gameplaywise it’s quite hard. It uses a strict turn-based system that rewards correct use of elemental damage with extra turns. You’re human is part of a 4 being team, the other 3 slots taken up by demons of your choice.
To get demons you have to convince them to join you mid-battle by trying to bribe, scare, bully or convince using simple dialogue trees. Demon likes/dislikes are randomly generated, so you can’t use experience or a guide.
The design is very much late 80s / early 90s 199X style anime. Think Wicked city, Demon City Shinjuku (aka Monster City) & of course Urotsukidoji.
The music is this amazing retro 80s synth dealio that is absolutely eargasming.
The game was infamously hard, it was toned down for the spin off Persona & IV is the first time they added an option for easy mode, which was fantastic for me as a series first timer.
Yes, you’ve heard me recommend Persona, because of the excellently written teen drama. SMT on the other hand, while maintaining many of the same battle options throws out wordy drama & characterisation in favour of meatier, more challenging gameplay & a more mature tale of personal belief, group behavior & how these effect the world.
It’s a story about order vs chaos in its simplest form that I found actually has some deep insights.
I dunno if I’d really suggest buying an entire console for it though. You could always try an emulator of an old one. But then the feel would be diminished by outdated everything.
No, see, I’m pretty sure it would be a Fire Emblem machine. 🙂
*shudders*
Fire Emblem? That’s a funny way of spelling Monster Hunter.
SMT III: Nocturne was excellent and I would probably place it as one of the best PS2 games.
Apart from the dated early 2000s stuff it has, the core gameplay is still probably really solid.
I’ve got it, I like it, but it’s dated & a bad place to start .
I just read an article about Indonesia impounding boats engaged in illegal fishing, and – after court rulings – blowing up those boats.
Like, exploding them. That’s someone’s job. Blowing up boats. Why the hell didn’t my high school guidance counselor bring this to my attention?
Town in SA is petitioning to have an ex navy supply ship sunk off the coast as an artificial reef
They did that for the HMAS Brisbane off the coast of Queensland a few years back. Apparently it’s quite a nice looking wreck and reef now that it’s had a chance to develop.
Where do I apply?
that sounds like a wise career move at the moment 😛
Just scored a $100+ 8200dpi gaming mouse for $20.
Today is a good day.
Oooohh nice, pray tell which one did ya get?
dis one.
http://www.ozgameshop.com/mice/gigabyte-8200dpi-macro-weight-adjustable-aivia-krypton-dual-chassis-gaming-mouse
I have a feeling it may be too big for my hand looking at it, though.
I just hope it works Ok and isn’t covered in muck as i gt it fro mthe cashies webstore.
I’m sure a f*** disinfecting it as soon as i get it though….
Ooohh nice! never heard of that particular one but looks very purdy!
And yes, a nice acid bath would do nicely, just don’t question where it’s… been…
Well, I found Freddy Got Fingered on Netflix….
…
…I wish I hadn’t.
I love that movie…
… but there’s somehting not right with me
“Daddy, would you like some sausage?”
“Daddy would you like some SAUS-AGE-ES”
YOU CAN’T HURT MEEEEE!!!! NOT WITH MY CHEESE HELMET!!!
JAPAN FOUR!!!!!
I’d honestly like to know what Tom Green was on when he made that film.
Because it’d be worth a shit-load to dealers.
The thing is, though, is that is Tom Green ALL THE TIME.
That movie is pretty much what it would be like to be inside his head.
The dude is seriously messed up.
Good morning TAY
How is everyone?
Fallout 4 mods tonight, and I was playing Blood and Wine last night, damn it’s good to have new content in The Witcher again, I think after I finish blood and wine I am going to need to New Game Plus!
Last song played game time!!
Conquer the Galaxy by Delta Heavy
What was YOUR last song played?
Donald Fagen – Miss Marlene
Who knew a love song about bowling could be interesting.
Five Finger Death Punch – Back For More.
Prior to that I’d been trying ‘workout’ playlists from Spotify and Google music and spent all my time being horribly disappointed by all of it. How the hell is Bieber or One Direction ‘workout music’? Listening to pretty boys with autotune complaining about how their girl doesn’t pay them enough attention or that ’emotions are hard yo’ does not motivate me to push past discomfort to exhaustion. Had to switch to just regular itunes music to bring it home. Instant improvement.
First line of ‘Back For More’?
“It’s time to get in the game, you gotta fight til it hurts and then you do it again.”
Now that’s fucking workout music. What the hell kind of workout are people doing to these streaming site playlists? Interpretive dance?
They want to work it out with their girl, apparently.
Should put Hatebreed on, for example
Song is Defeatist
“Defeatist, you and I will never be the same!
I’ve taken this vow of hatred, TAKE THE VOW
A promise to myself to never be my own defeatist
This is my hatred, this is my vow
Never to be broken”
ooooh, motivational.
That’s the typical wishy-washy bullshit they put on in gyms though. 🙁
The Rising- Bruce Springsteen
How you been Red? Thanks for keeping the game alive sporadically during my absence 🙂
I’m Ok, work’s a pain.
It’s such a good conversation starter 🙂
Work? Or my last song played game?
Either would work I guess
Work is a pain, we are getting restructured, my future is in the balance
Remember Tomorrow – cover by Opeth. *swoon*
I’m still not high-enough level in Witcher 3 to get to the first DLC… really need to get back to it at some point. Still plan to finish it some time this year, tho.
I devoured The Witcher on release and then the Hearts of Stone DLC, am only level 38.
Take your time with it, game worth investing time in, game worth not skipping diaglogue in as well.
But I’m tempted to pop it out the xbox tonight and slide Fallout 4 in, try the mods out 😀
I’m… *checks steamdb*… 92 hours in, and I’m still in Act 1. That said, I think I spent the last 15-20 hours or so looking for gwent cards. 😛
Ah, Fallout… another game I might finish at some point. Popped it back in over the weekend on a whim… remembered that everyone are dicks, so trying to figure out how to destroy them all. *rubs hands together and laughs maniacally*
Fallout is one I will just play ad infinitum, like I did with Fallout 3, Fallout Tactics, Fallout 2 and Fallout
Long long time fan, still remember getting the first game shortly after it released and playing before school and hearing “your gunna be late for school”
Entirely unsure how many hours I am into Witcher But I am at least 144 hours deep in Fallout 4
Humble Bundle today is pretty good, you can pick up Her Story and a couple of others for US$1.00. Broken Age is in the beat the average tier.
I thought Her Story was great, been a while since game made me pull out pen and paper to scribble notes as I played.
Thanks for the heads up, might take a look
Been curious about Her story but not enough to pick it up
Now the only question is should I jump to the Shadowrun: Hong Kong level for $10.
Beat the average also has 80 days that I have heard good things about
I beat the average this morning so I could get Broken Age as well, and I was also a huge Fighting Fantasy fan as a kid so Sorcery appealed to me, too. And 80 Days has good reviews.
I did balk at Shadowrun, though, my backlog is big enough as it is.
Well I just went for the Shadowrun level
Speaking of which, does anybody want a key to broken age?
Really liked Broken Age. Proper old school adventure. Played it on my honeymoon on the Vita. 🙂 (While on coaches and planes…)
Her Story is really cool. Never found it all or worked it out, but it’s absorbing
I think it will be a good one to play with the wife, discussing things, hunting clues, working it out together.
Do I buy overwatch this weekend or start saving for a new GPU??
Just built a new rig with an i6 but im still using my old r9270 gpu (was around $200 at the time)
That 1070 is looking pretty good for midrange…
Has the 1070 been priced yet?
Looks like its going to be about $380 aud or $449 for the founders edition (whatever that is)
I was budgeting around $400 so it could be just the card to get
Thanks, considering a PC upgrade if I do end up getting some back pay
449 USD. The supposed leaks of the price were around the 700-800 aud mark fyi,
Still a fair bit cheaper than to 1080 which was out of my price.
Thanks for the clarification though
Hey all.
@transientmind I went back to old areas in ESO & found some quests I’d missed in New locations. So after 3 hours, I *almost* gained one level.
Found a funny one though, in it I teamed with giants & one kicked me over a mountain so I could unlock the doors to a base & let the giants in. I also had to point giants at trees so they could knock out enemy spies. It was all a good laugh.
Spoilered for general shitstorm from life. Thank you life.
So you guys may or may not have noticed I’ve been out of commission from TAY for the past few days. Found out on Thursday that my partner’s visa application was denied so she has to fly back in a few weeks so we can reapply and start the whole bloody process all over again due to a technicality even though we have 3.5 years of being together as proof. 3.5 years for a government department to make a decision based on a fact they had available at the point of application. So yeah I’m now winding down my apartment cos I can’t afford to keep it by myself long term and getting accustomed to the idea that I’m going to be separated from my partner and best friend who I’ve never spent more than a day apart from since we started living together.Oh and a re-application takes 9-12 months because why not.
That sucks the hairiest, sweatiest, most infected balls. :/
… Double-post for variety of testicle descriptions!
Well I’m sure it’s a perfectly acceptable sacrifice to stop all those boats that we’re constantly besieged with. I know I can barely get out of the house without having to shoo away dozens of the damned things, I think they’ve started building a nest.
sorry to hear that man, that department are not the easiest to deal with. I’ve had my fair share of dealings with them *big hugs*
*Hugs*
I’m sure you have explored all options but is this a case where a wedding certificate carries more weight
Nah not when we’ve been de facto for so long. We wanted to wait to get married so her family could attend but with her mom passing away 2 weeks back we’ve looked at the question again and are thinking if we shouldnt just tie the knot before she leaves.
I’m not really sure what to expect or how to handle the eventual emotional fallout from being separated =\
Can you take leave (without pay if need be) and go live with her over there? Are you a natural-born resident yourself? That should be just fine for immigration’s purposes, I think?
Not realistically, given we’re talking about India here a girl living under the same roof as a guy who she isn’t married to will get the whole town talking. Even if we did get married I’ve only spoken to her core family, her extended family don’t even know I exist and that’d be a whole different ball game to get past.
Do you need to consider the pressure of her being unmarried and without a partner for 12 months in India. What sort of family pressure will be brought to bear on her to get married and be a good Indian bride?
I’m sure you don’t want to be thinking about it but, damn, such an all round shite situation
Well her mom and dad knew about us and her mom was really supportive of us when she was alive. Her younger brother knows about us now since her mom’s passed away and her core family is supportive of us so that’s not really a worry. They also know she’s coming back here primarily for me and that the visa is a partner visa.
What really ticks me is the department has had 3.5 years to make a decision and they didn’t. If they made a decision even a few weeks earlier my partner’s mom might’ve not been in an accident and passed away. Even if she had my partner would’ve been kicked out of the a few weeks earlier meaning she might’ve been around to say goodbye to her mom. However according to the letter we received that’s not really their problem so tough luck if they decide to take over 3 years to make a decision. We just gotta suck it up. How unfair of us to expect a decision in under 72 fucking months.Sorry bit of a rant. I’ve just had it with how we treat migrants. Try and come here illegally we’ll ship you off and have your human rights stripped away. Try and play by our rules and we’ll just ignore your existence until you hire a lawyer and then kick you out. @#$!@#.
I have a feeling from discussions with people that although there is no criteria difference between de facto and married, it counts for something in the bias of the department.
Either way it is a shitty situation, feel free to vent on here as much as you like, throw out some invites for games.
Could just get officially married for the Feds sake then have a ceremony and such when you are ready.
Have a mate who did that.
Wouldn’t matter now post decision, short of us popping out some kids and making sure they were physically and mentally disabled immigration isn’t likely to move on their decision. Only reason they would on the example provided is bad press.
@blaghman @popdart5 @tech_knight
NUMENERA
Tonight 7:30 SA Time
What do we think? Hangouts or TS?
I’m thinking Hangouts
It seems like hangout is fairly stable so we could try that. Also I’ve managed to lose the TS details so jumping online tonight would be a little tricky.
& @tech_knight & @blaghman Hangout it is!
“Dear recipient of a 2,000 person mass-mail,
Training is coming up, and these are the time-slots available.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please reply back with your first three preferences, as the early sessions always fill up quickly.”
1,000 replies:
“I’d like the first session on the first day, please.
Signed, PERSON WHO CAN’T FUCKING READ.”
To quote one of my secretly favourite movies: “James Bond never has to put up with this sort of shit.”
…I need to watch that movie again. <3
Getting pretty tired of people who can’t read e-mails too.
*headdesk*
Stop right there! I will decide the route. All right?
“All that awaits me at home is a masturbating Welshman.”
I once knew a girl named Pandora….
“Oh sod a dog, I’ve made the wrong decision, haven’t I?”
That movie always provides me with reliably happysafe feels.
French kiss is my version of this“Dear recipient of a 2,000 person mass-mail,
As per the important note in the previous email please state 3 preferences.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The first session on the first day has now been filled by people who replied correctly.”
What a coincidence, @transientmind seems to be sending emails almost the same as mine
*shifty eyes*
That’s actually pretty close to what’s happening now.
I am, however, significantly more tactful and diplomatic in my job than I am when venting about my job. 🙂
So Tiglet said Dinosaur for the first time last night. It made me so happy. I think she might have said t-rex previously but it wasn’t clear, this was definitely dinosaur.
So that got me thinking, what is a minor little thing that has made you happy recently?
I’m a pretty climber 😛
5 month old son finally started laughing at me.
He’s been doing it with mum for the last 3 or 4 weeks whilst I’ve watched on despondently.
NOT ANYMORE!
Also, getting some new work shirts soon after snagging a deal for one of my favourite shirt brands (T.M. Lewin if you’re interested).
That is awesome.
I know your pain and the next one will be you waiting for him to say Daddy.
I had to wait over 12 months, even to the stage when I asked she would smirk and say Mummy Mummy Mummy.
It also stings because he’s a mummy’s boy and our daughter was/is a daddy’s girl.
Not getting the attention I’m used to.
A work colleague just quoted New Order’s Bizarre love triangle to me. So much smiles.
I think it’s awesome how for the last god knows how long, kids have almost universally loved dinosaurs.
Little, minor things that made me unexpectedly and probably unreasonably happy lately?
1) A new online ticketing system that worked exactly the way it was meant to and provided all the information I needed and more, without being cluttered. An unexpected triumph of design and efficiency that was a genuine pleasure to use.
2) An utterly empty 24hr gym, all to myself.
3) Stumbling across the Animelab app on PS4. Great range, the ad-supported interruptions were unexpectedly brief and relevant (all about anime products/titles), resolution wasn’t too bad, buffering wasn’t awful and allowed me to skip neatly ahead of and back to intro credits… it was just surprisingly pleasant to use. Jumped into a couple series straight off the bat and found myself enjoying Dagashi Kashi (NOT for its intended entertainment purpose, but as edutainment – it’s basically Product Placement: The Animation, an education on Japanese snack food with no other plot to speak of), and Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash or whatever.
4) Working out, actually working as a cure for night restlessness/insomnia. Nothing else matters when my head hit the pillow. Out like a fucking light.
Trolling an enemy team in Overwatch by all of us playing as Mei losing the match until the last 15 seconds then going into overtime and winning it.
This. Dinosaurs are the coolest, and kids who can say dinosaur, or better, spell “Triceratops” are the best. THE BEST.
We have been working on speech at therapy so for the moment I’ll stick with saying dinosaur and leave the spelling for another day. Maybe once she is two.
*waits patiently for PAX 2017*
So my gum has been sore for two days. Rather then put up with it, I’m going to the dentist and having the fucking wisdom tooth removed
Just stick it under the desk.
I wish I could
I’ve had 5 removed, trust me there’s plenty of things that suck more than getting them done.
My last wisdom tooth was infected. I’m trying to get this one done before that happens, because the pain from that waa horrendous
Yeah, I know that feeling sadly, I had impacted ones and they started cracking my other teeth.
Ow o_
That was why I had them removed, well those that the orthodontist could reach anyway. I lost 5 wisdoms and I still have 2 because they were effectively inside my jaw rather than sticking out
How do you have so many wisdom teeth?
I’m MAGIC!!!
Or a freak. One of those, I can’t remember which they used to shout at me while throwing rocks…
It’s okay, I have freak wisdom teeth too. They have 3 roots instead of 2. So weird that my first dentist kept the extracted tooth. =P
Ooh cool, we can be freakbuddies!
I was lucky enough to only have four, but one of them was at a 55 degree angle, pointing inwards. Thankfully I was in the middle of orthodontics, so it was picked up early, and I had the lot removed before they did any real damage.
Thank Lud for being covered under my parents’ private health cover.
Over the weekend I had a chance to watch the Girls und Panzer movie and it’s fucking. awesome. It’s basically all the absurd tank battle hijinks of the TV series but turned up to 11 and spread over about an hour and a half with another half hour or so of plot added in.
Basically all the different schools from the TV series reappear, and it adds some new groups to the mix too. One of them is based off the Imperial Japanese Army and basically they all do suicidal charges at everything. The other group is based off the Finnish, who basically sit around doing nothing for the entire film except being mysterious and elfy, then suddenly out of nowhere pull off one of the best action sequences in the whole thing.
It’s glorious. If you remotely enjoyed the TV show (and everyone should see it because it’s so utterly stupid that it’s hard not to like it) then the movie’s basically the same thing with everything amped up to 11
I’ll have to check it out. The series was kinda odd but in a good Way.
It is removed!
Apperently my top ones also need removing. Amazingly, it was cheap. It weirded me out
The winner is you
Turns out, nearly two years after playing PT, someone faux-shouting “Look Behind You!” during an office anecdote still sends chills down my spine and sets me on edge. That game screwed with my head way more than I gave it credit for…
Oh no. PT has ruined pantomimes. 🙁
It’s called PT Stress Disorder
I think I’ve caught myself a few times lately, in whatever dream-state I’m in while napping on the train, severely leaning over to the side to the point where I must look like I’m intentionally trying to nuzzle the person two seats away from me.
I think I preferred how things were back when I just didn’t seem to dream at all.
Oh no, it’s state of origin tonight. My poor Facebook feed, it’s either people complaining about it, people giving Queensland supporters shit or people giving NSW supporters shit. Then there’s me, I just wish everyone would stop acting like it’s a big deal, even the friends who bitch about it are annoying.. They might be the most annoying actually.
Football!
😉
I saw that SBS2 has Planet Terror & Machete Kills on tonight I love me some Grindhouse & b-grade movies 😛
AW MAN I would’ve watched that.
…Even though I have it on bluray, still sealed :/
What Machete Kills or Planet Terror? Both are awesome so you should watch them. Also Death Proof which goes with Planet Terror 😛
…Grindhouse, I am bad at reading >.>
Hahaha. Yeah the Grindhouse movies are awesome. Machete Kills sorta falls into them since there’s a trailer for it at the start of Planet Terror 😛
Psh, there is only one Grindhouse movie. And that’s Grindhouse 😛
(also technically there is only a trailer for Machete in Grindhouse I think?)
Well the Grindhouse was a double feature, but you can get both Death Proof & Planet Terror individually so there’s that plus it was cheaper to buy them individually than the Grindhouse set, heh.
People complaining about people enjoying something are certainly the worst
Agreed. I don’t complain about the people I know liking Game of Thrones even if I don’t like it (I tried to get into it, but just wasn’t feeling it) I only say that cause one mate who is ragging on the football fans religiously posts about Game of Thrones lol.
@saturday
https://twitter.com/Inoukaami/status/737749763588820995
This is everything you love, you son of a bitch.
Man, that reminds me. I can’t wait for Friday, where I get to watch an anime where in all seriousness a delinquent and his punch ghost punches a plate of spaghetti.
Bloody brilliant.
Finally redeemed my Humble Nintendo codes, but the Retro City theme error’d on me and now I have a redeemed code and no theme. Gotta call Nintendo (@greenius).
Bleh.
I’ve had that bookmarked to redeem for months!
Too lazy… now I dun wanna if there’s the chance i’d have to call Nintendo too!
Also I have very nearly run out of beard oil. I have no idea whether I should order another bottle, or get the clippers and bring a close to this pogonic (@trikeabout :P) chapter of my life.
More oil bro 🙂
GREASE ME UP, WOMAN
Nothing like waking up at 4:30am with the cat between your legs…
Crass joke goes here.
I don’t know if anyone here is still following Telltale as devotedly as I am (which I suppose is only “somewhat”), but the Michonne miniseries is more than 50% off on PSN at the moment, bringing the total to a brain-slurping $9.71 for all three eps (edit: this is a PS+ price).
Is it any good?
I loved the Clem stuff but haven’t kept up to date with it.
Sorry, I dunno! I bought it for $9.71 today 🙂
Last song played game!!
Fall Into The Sky by Zedd
What was YOUR last song played?
Also, Fallout 4 mods works amazingly well, like seamless (maybe because I didn’t have too many)
In fact I only uninstalled one because I didn’t like the lack of a proper reload animation
I only had two crashes and I think (and hope) it is because I tried to resume saves after having removed that weapons mod.
Hours of Wealth – Opeth.
Er,
Quella bella e biancha mano – Antonio Caprioli. Had a thing for Madrigals of late.
I’m watching coverage from Computex 2016, so whatever music the youtubers are using? 😛
Until it sleeps – Metallica & SFSO
Depeche Mode – It’s No Good
Ihsahn – My Heart Is Of The North
Trying to write it out so I can learn it.
FRANKIE SINATRA BY THE AVALANCHES
I think I will be playing this on repeat until the album comes out.
So I had nasty IT issues last night, though my computer seems to have pulled out of the death spiral. THinking it doesn’t have much left to it so it’s time to start looking at a new one.
So, with that in mind, what should I be looking for PC people? I probably want to spend less than 1500 incl monitor, any good deals/stuff to avoid atm?
Does that include building your own (or have a local computer store assemble it)? Cause that’ll be the cheapest for the best available.
Probably be an MSY job, though self build could be fun
Ah yeah, I like MSY, bought my last lot of computer components through them cause they were cheaper by a fair bit than Umart.
But yeah building computers is fun & you learn a lot.
I have assembled bits in the past, never a ground-up build.
I’m not a huge PC gamer though, so I wouldn’t be going top-of-the-line.
Yeah I get that. Something like that Neg said, you could also save a few bucks & look around at what people are selling on the second hand market when it comes to monitors, graphic cards & even keyboards, I’ve bought all those things second hand, all of them were less than a year old in really good condition & picked them up at less than half price! A monitor I got was essentially brand new 1080P ASUS nothing special but I paid $10 for it at a local op shop. Works well as a secondary monitor for my uses.
With monitor as well? You might struggle a little. 🙁
i5 6500 is your ideal CPU unless you’re going to Overclock. 3.2ghz/3.6ghz Turbo. About $285. If you want to overclock you have to go for the 6600K which is $340, and that extra $65 gains you 100mhz & 300mhz turbo so not really worth it. The 6500 comes with an okay intel cooler, which you should use rather than spending extra on better heatsink.
For motherboards, since you’re not grabbing a K-series CPU for overclocking and you’re on a budget, go for something with a B150 chipset, like the Gigabyte GA-B150M-D3H which is about $130. It’ll do what you need it to do, very no frills. Micro ATX form-factor too which gives you more case options.
Skylake (Socket 1151) boards need DDR4 memory. About $100 will get you 2x8gb DDR4 from a good vendor (I like Corsair and G-Skill for memory personally).
Drop about $120 on a 250gb SSD, then drop about $70 on a 1tb storage drive for your extra files. WD Blue is the best choice here, and a Samsung 850 for the SSD.
The current pricing on video cards is such that nvidia is really not worth considering. Their low end cards are shit up to the 960. AMD Radeon R7 370 is going to be your best bet, around $240 for a good XFX board. This is the one area where if you can afford to plump up a bit more, it’d be worth it. The GeForce 960 and the Radeon R9 380 are both about $350 and about the same performance (960 maybe slightly better).
So that’s:
– i5 6500 – $285
– B150 Motherboard – $130
– 16gb (2x8gb) DDR4 – $100
– 250gb SSD – $120
– 1tb HDD – $70
– R7 370 – $240
That’s $945 for the components, leaving you with $555 for the rest.
Case is up to you really. I’m a fan of Corsair and Fractal Design stuff. Corsair’s 100R is a good case, about $80. Has a window if you’re into that. For the PSU you need only about 300W, but getting a good PSU is worth the extra. EVGA’s 500W is 80Plus Gold certified, and about $70, so that’s $150 for the case and power, leaving you at $400.
For monitors, you should be looking to probably need to spend $250-300 or so for a good 24″ IPS panel. Don’t get anything that’s not IPS. Dell’s are good, but are about $350. There’s good LG and Samsung panels for < $300. Shop around on this one.
You’ve got maybe $100-150 left in your budget for other stuff as well. Don’t have a DVD drive you can recycle from an older build? $20 for that if you need it. You might have enough slack in your budget to pick up a better graphics card (the new AMD Polaris GPUs are coming end of June so the existing R9 380/390s might drop in price soon too),
If you don’t have an older Windows that you can install, you’ll need to also factor in $150 for Win10 Home. Also bear in mind that the free upgrade to Win10 program ends at the end of June!
Cheers, that $1500 was a ballpark figure, happy to spend a little more if that’s what it takes. I do have a disc copy of Win 8.1, but I’m not likely to do this before the end of June so a new copy will have to be it.
I’ll upcycle a DVD drive in to it from my current computer, and I have a couple old HDDs I might try slot in for extra storage.
If you can wait until the end of June you should re-evaluate the graphics options. The 400-series AMD GPUs will be out, and nvidia may have a 1060 out.
Sorry, what does that mean?
I mean, nvidia just released the start of a new GPU family (10xx, currently only the higher-end 1080 and 1070 are announced but the 1060 will happen eventually) and AMD have their new line too (codename Polaris) at the end of June, starting with I believe the 480.
Nvidia naming sequence:
XXYY, where XX is 9 (current gen) or 10 (new ones) and XX is 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 etc, so basically the 1080 replaces the old 980, and the eventual 1060 will replace the 960 and so on.
AMD’s naming convention’s similar, so a ‘400-series’ means the 460 (replacing the 360), 470 (replacing 370) etc.
Yeah, but if they’re new aren’t they going to be $$?
Yep.
But the current-gen stuff will have no demand any more so the current stuff could go down in price.
@negativezero ah, right. Thanks man, will start assembling a shopping list
July 29 is how long the Win10 free upgrade lasts.
Ah, shows how much I know (couldn’t remember which J month it was, but I guess July 29 is 1 year after Win10 released)
Morning TAY! On the down side I’ve been having anxiety attacks through the day over the past few days given everything that’s gone down so I’ve started smoking again as a means of self-medication (irony!).
On the plus side I managed to get a play of the game as Lucio last night by blocking to enemy ultimates! =D Yay for Lucio!
Also went up against what I think is an impenetrable defense strategy in a match where we dominated the enemy team in the first 2 minutes by getting the payload to the last checkpoint and they then completely stalled us by going 3 bastions, 2 Torbjorn and 1 Reinhardt. You’d kill one or two bastions to be mowed down by the remaining 3 turrets.
You would probably need multiple Winstons+Lucio speed too break that, and coordination that you wouldn’t find in a Quick-Play. lay down domes and cleave like all hell.
Yeah, Lucio is fairly good at getting play of the game for a support. Punt all the people!
Bastion/Reinhardt combo is stupid hard to break. Only thing I can think of is like 3 Reinhardts overlapping shields and taking turns throwing firestrike through the enemy shield. While maybe a widow tries to throw Poison trap over it or mcree stun grenade.
Help this is scary.
Loose interpretation.
So I’ve been playing Birthright and realise that I am playing it on waaay too easy. I found the first couple levels too hard on hard but now I am at about level 8 I am skimming through partially because I have two healers and Azura making things easy.
Does it get harder or should I restart and try and get through the levels on hard?
I found I couldn’t commit because I was playing on Hard with Permadeath. Should I play on hard without permadeath or Casual with Permadeath. Any opinions?
I find Hard without Permadeath a good combination of challenge without having to spend hours save scumming to undo a silly death.
That said, Conquest gets a difficulty spike around there and I hear from Pow and Nob that Birthright gets one too.
Give me your friend code so we can make babies together!
Bloodborne stuff:
Posted this on Twitter last night, but thought i’d mention it again because why not.Martyr Logarius got taken down hard! Finally took him down once i figured out his gimmick.
Turns out that you can parry the crap out of him in the second phase, especially if he’s done his whole “Sword plunged into the floor and now daggers are flying everywhere” thing, because if you trick him to do that in the corner of the map and run to the opposite side, the flying daggers rarely hit you and he only has 1 weapon! 😛
Such a satisfying fight once you start kicking his arse!
Well done man! Martyr Logarius was a brick wall for me, got @freezespreston to help“Hi Transient, I got your email about training and just wanted to ask about getting a list of morning session times?”
“Oh, sure. I mentioned in the email: morning training sessions are every day at 10am, from the 20th of June to the 1st of July.”
“Thanks, we saw that, but do you have an actual list of times?”
“Yes. Every day at 10am from the 20th to the 1st.”
“No, I mean like an actual list of every time; like, listed out individually so we can pick from them. Like, how do I know if there’s a session on the 27th?
“…”
“Hello?”
“Pardon, I’m here. Well, the 27th falls between the 20th and the 1st, and the sessions are every day.”
“Well. Yes. I know. But… I mean. I’m just saying, a list would be better.”
“Uh. I think I’m missing something. Better for?”
“Oh. Well. I mean, I guess we can list them out ourselves, if we really have to… I just thought it was something you might’ve had and not sent.”
“No. But I’ll bear that in mind for the next round.”
“That’d be great!”
Willpower is a finite resource and I think I’m now overdrawn for the next five years.
Um, why did they think there was a session on the 27th, 27 isn’t a number between 1 and 20???
Honestly, some people just don’t get it.
(20th of June to 1st of July.)
All I wanted was a list! Can you at least list the afternoon times for me?!? Gosh!
I need to just draw up a FAQ page. And the F in that, does – depressingly – stand for ‘Frequently’, in ‘Frequently Asked Questions’, not what I would prefer: Fucking Assinine Questions.
“Hi! What are the times?”
They are in the email you responded to.
“I’d like to book please!”
Sure. Did you read the part where I asked you to nominate 3 preferences? Because now I have to ask you again.
“Oh! Sorry! I’d like this time!”
THREE TIMES. ONE IS NOT THREE.
“Is this training for an unrelated system that I’d really like training on, even though it’s handled by a different area in your department?”
No. It is only for the system that I described in the email.
“Is this training for the system that you said it was for?”
Yes. This is training for the system that I said it was for.
“Could you please repeat one of the facts mentioned in your initial email, because I can’t read?”
Yes. But as I do so, I will be visualizing torturing you with voodoo.
“Hey, can I ask you an unrelated question about something handled by another area?”
Yes, you can. I will not have a helpful answer for you, though. You will need to ask that other area.
“Why is that vein on your forehead throbbing? You should really relax more.”
Because I care deeply, I’m going to give you some time to come up with something better for your epitaph.
Doing this for four days has made me want to set everyone and everything everywhere on fire.
Just to provide a counterpoint: Perhaps, if you’re getting all of these emails back, your original email wasn’t clear enough? Perhaps, despite this training being your priority, it isn’t priority for others so spending time digesting stuff you sent out isn’t top of people’s list?
This was something I was going to add in an edit. Although I was going to frame it in a Principle Skinner quote about the children being wrong.
What’s frustrating is that I ran it through five different people, making it explicit that effectiveness and efficiency of communication was my primary concern; no loquacious waffle like I’m inclined to, here.
Yeah, it’s just that if people get a shitload of stuff across their desk each day, responding in a proscribed format to a training email just to keep some IT guy happy ain’t on the high-brain-real-estate list.
You should be happy people are even responding.
It’s possibly just a function of the numbers involved.
You get 1000 responses, three or four dozen who don’t understand or lazily couldn’t be bothered to read isn’t actually too bad odds as a percentage (let’s say under 5%), but is frustrating to deal with manually, individually.
(And yeah. The demand for it is high.)
Yeah, that’s the case with any program anywhere.
Hold up, I’ll get some marshmallows.
That was a great show, do i qualify?
You’re hired.
Can you give the course prerequisite skills? “Must have passed 3rd grade Reading Comprehension and Kindergarten-level Numeracy.”
“Sorry, your response indicates you lack the prerequisites for this course. Please reread the email and try again.”
So I know a few of you have Total Waghammer, anyone interested in starting up a co-op campaign? Managed to find a mod that allows you to play as the same race (i.e. sub faction of a race) =D
I think @Roguexa was asking me if I was interested last weekend. (Unless it was actually you, and I just have the wrong steam name associated in my memory?)
I said no because I’m super-invested in my long-running campaign. He mentioned the same mod.
Lol dammit transient it was me =P
Your name isn’t puppet on Steam, dammit!
(Yeah, I did remember after I’d posted that it was probably you, though. My bad. Very embarrassing to mix you guys up.)
@gorzilla @cj @blaghman
I know 2 people who tried a campaign and it crashed out eventually. Might need to wait a few more patches
Have just started my 5th listen of Flight Facilities live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
First listen was on Monday this week.
Guys! Gals!
My comics finally got posted on GUMTREE! Buy &/ or tell your friends!
Jimu needs a new computer & he’s selling a few of his favourite things!
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Last one:
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Good luck!
Oh, thanked by transient, how swell!
I’m a bit on-again-off-again with Square Enix, but I remain signed up to their newsletter/promospam partly out of laziness, partly out of curiosity for when they announce discounts, and partly because of stuff liek what they sent out today.
Every now and then they’ll post a kickstarter for a game they like the look of, asking for interest. The team there doesn’t necessarily have any relationship in place (they’ll usually say that they do or don’t for disclosure’s sake) with whoever’s running the kickstarter… they just know they have a potentially-interested audience, and they tap into it to help out some fellow developers.
I think that’s really cool.
Most of the time I ignore it because most indie kickstarter titles aren’t really my bag, but the one that came out today looks right up my alley.
Moonlighter looks like a pretty cool guy, and seems like it’ll meet its (very low) funding goal shortly. (I’m always skeptical about that because it’s apparently ‘the done thing’ now to ask for what you think you can get rather than what you actually need, and hope you can finish it on the sales you get from early access.)
I saw this pop up in the blurb of an update for another project I backed and liked the look of it. Will read campaign on the train ride home and potentially back it.
Although, similar to you, I was a little sceptical around the $40k target. Just seems to low to actually get anything out the door. Unless it’s nearly done by the time they go hat-in-hand to kickstarter.
Kickstarter seemed like a brilliant and shining new hope when Double Fine blitzed the fuck out of it back in the day, but since then, exploitation, failure, and deception have mired it back into the murk of cynical reality. 😛 Is kinda sad. At least it’s an option.
Considering the first thing they say they are going to do is hire 2 new artists, with an expected delivery date of March next year, my mathey senses are tingling
…God dammit, Tigs. >.
Right down the bottom of it, Squeenix is publishing the game. They’ve been using Kickstarter for a while as a way to gauge interest in the smaller games so they don’t fund failures. Small target number simply represents what that interest cut off is. $40k is barely enough for one person to live offoff let alone a team.
Awh boo. 🙁 I could SWEAR the last few I’d got mails about they were making a point of explaining that they weren’t publishing the titles they were pimping.
Oh sorry. Not publishing. A “partner” *hands spread wide with innocent expression*
*sings* We’re all in this together
Once we know
That we are
We’re all stars
There’s something I don’t like about sending start up capital to a company that had a 2015 revenue of US$25 billion (¥167.9 billion) because they don’t want to risk the down payment on an executives new car.
The Squenix Collective stuff has produced some really good looking Kickstarters. I don’t think any of them have come to market yet but it looks like a good model that’s working quite well (people pitch stuff to Squenix, Squenix provides support for a kickstarter to prove general interest, if the kickstarter’s successful Squenix pitches in extra funding in return for publishing rights)
Bloody hell. We harvested out the Hawaiian sweet potato today that we’ve been growing for a while, managed to get 8.5kg’s worth from 1 square metre of space. BIggest one of the lost was 1.35KG with another ones just coming in under 900 grams. We basically neglected that bed it was growing in for 6 or so months.
Now you get why potatoes were so important in The Martian!
I haven’t seen The Martian so 😛
Spoiler alert! There are some potatoes 🙂
Man, Dodo really is the worst internet provider in Australia.
I’m worse.
Dodo, Dodo, Internet that dies?
It still seems a bit unreal that The Avalanches will actually be releasing their second album next month:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/02/the-avalanches-release-new-song-and-video-and-reveal-full-album-details
I know, it’s been so very long, but it’s nearly here! Since I Left You is one of my all-time favourite albums, and the new single is great, although I’m sure it’s just a little piece of the overall album.
I’m just hoping they don’t announce another delay while they clear that one last sample.
@jimu you see this?
https://twitter.com/XSEEDGames/status/738194849875165185
People are jumping to the conclusion that this might mean that XSeed is working on Zero no Kiseki. We know they have finished Cold Steel II translation & it’s nearly done. The ‘thrice over’ suggesting that they’re doing three Trails games at once, doing three is a risky proposition, and the ‘see it through to the end’ could be teasing that they’re going to finish the whole Trails story (so far).
It’s probably a long shot and referring to something else but fuck it, hype!
@jimu false alarm 🙁 Seems like it was a tease for three shitty-looking indie shovelware titles they’re doing instead 🙁
Oh dammit, I’m getting a decent PC soon too. 🙁
How long approx are the two Witcher 3 expansions? I’m thinking it might be time to go back, revisit my last save (I wasn’t happy with the ending I got) and then check those two DLC packs out but I don’t want to jump in if they’re going to be 40+ hours each or something.
About 10 hours, and 20 hours (more like 15 and 30 if you want to do the lot).
Worth noting that (aside from the first boss fight) Heart of Stone was everything I loved about The Witcher, with none of my issues (I’ll always have gameplay issues, but my main issue is treatment of women who aren’t the three main), and what I’ve played of Blood & Wine is similar.
I got the worst ending for the original story so apparently I have to basically re-play the entire last part of the game so I can re-make one decision. 🙁 I can’t see how I could do the expansions off the back of the ending I got so that’s kind of been my sticking point. I don’t even know why I got the ending I did, it was mystifying to me.
Are you sure it’ll only be one decision? There’s like… a tally of about eight, I think? You have to get over the line on 4 of them or something.
Actual spoilers:
The basic idea behind why you get the ending you get is if you play too over-protectively of Ciri and try to do things for her, Geralt basically fails as a father figure. If he lightens her load and offers comfort by making her think it’ll all be OK and giving her some fun memories instead of ‘responsibility all the time’, shows her that he trusts her to make good decisions on her own, and lets her confront scaryish things because he believes in her, she confronts the final boss believing in herself. I thought it was really touching and poignant, really… a father won’t always be there. His job is to raise an independent and happy child, not be a vigilant protector forever. So, I think the ‘right’ decisions were basically: Get in a snowball fight, let her speak for herself when confronting the sorceresses, comfort her when she grieves (the kid who had a crush on her in Skellige, I think), let her vent a little when she loses her temper, and if you take her to see the Emperor, refuse his payment (so she knows she’s not ‘a mission’ to Geralt). Uhm. I think between the two ‘good’ endings, the actual ending you get is determined by whether you take her to see the Emperor at all… and I think tie up all the Redania/Nilfgaard/Temeria assassination plotting sidequests. (Which you should anyway because they’re great.) I found the ending where you do take her to Ehmyr to be much more satisfying, but some people prefer the other ending. Those people are wrong, but you can’t really begrudge them that.There’s five decision points, and I believe 2 are missable. I looked and I definitely did one wrong, but I thought I’d done the rest okay. If re-playing from the last decision and making the correct one doesn’t give me a decent ending I’m probably done with the game, because seriously fuck that.
I actually suspect that my game was bugged anyway. I did everything that should have resulted in Geralt ending with Triss but he ended up alone instead.
Huh. Damn.
I’m doing a fresh run when I get enough time, anyway, because Gerlat ended up with Triss but after reading the books more and experiencing more of Yen’s quest, realized that I needed Geralt to be with Yen. They have a much better working/parenting/loving relationship anyway. More grounded and realistic, less ‘wistful’. No walking on egg-shells – more speaking their minds. (Which probably only makes sense if you’ve had a partner who gives you just the right amount of shit, and occasionally too much.)
If I’m going to spend 80 hours gaming, I want it to be something new and not re-playing the game, as good as it is.
I thought Yen was a bit of a bitch for most of the game and I could sort of see how they worked, but never felt like it was a healthy relationship because it wasn’t mutual – Geralt never had a choice in it. Plus she treats him like an idiot. Additionally she was non-existent for two whole games and at least half of 3 as well, which gave me precious little time and interest in her.
Yeah… I guess it’s the kind of relationship that only really makes sense if you’ve been on-again/off-again with someone for many years, and seen other people in between, but still love your on-again/off-again.
Oh Kotaku, if you’re going to write about the ending to a series that’s been running for 20+ years, could you at the very least use a completely unrelated header image?
Maybe take that pretty little “Spoilers” sign you’ve started including in some articles, and just slap that beauty right into the header space.
Yeah. Seriously bad form.
Alright, so story time.
Blaghs works at a medical center, this probably isn’t news to most, but the company I work for can best be summarised as “at least we’re not Primary” (look up Primary/Idameneo to see why this is a bad comparison).
I mostly scan things at a very busy practice, doing other work as necessary. The area manager asked if I could also answer phones, which I agreed to, and said that she might cut my hours (which, based on my old work load isn’t unreasonable, though it hurts me, but if I’m answering phones I’m not quite sure why I should be working less than the general reception staff, but I figured six hour days wouldn’t hurt too much).
She decided to cut me down to four hours a day, right before the week where a receptionist has just moved to another practice (who was one of our two 5 day per week staff), and where one casual is away, and the other is on reduced hours due to returning to uni.
On top of that, our practice manager resigned the other week, which left a lot of stress on the 2IC (who is incredible, as a note, I cannot overstate her contribution to the team). The 2IC who now has Shingles, most likely brought on by stress in the workplace (according to the two Doctors who had a look at her). Which means that excluding me, we’re essentially on four staff members over the week, instead of the usual seven, maybe even 3.5 since the 2IC has had to pick up all of the Practice Manager’s workload.
And the area manager thinks I should be working less.
Tell me I’m not mad to think that she’s a fucking idiot.
Maybe she knows she’s about to snap and wants you to survive…
I’ve seen this a few times. Possibly doesn’t have the budget. If you have to voluntarily cut staff hours when you’ve already got massive absenteeism, it’s because you can’t afford it. If the absenteeism – for the 2IC or otherwise – is from stress illnesses, they’ve probably been overloaded already.
I remember a few months ago helping my manager collect all the stats we needed to present a case for putting on more people. It was clear-cut. Outcomes will not be met. There are no efficiencies left to squeeze out of what we have. We need more people.
Took it up to the bosses who basically said, “Damn, that’s really convincing. Well. Everyone’s getting cuts, but because of that, we won’t cut anyone in your area. It just means someone else is going to have to lose more people.”
(So, our next side-project is analyzing the budget. Because something’s not fucking right, if we’re getting hassled over being in the red.)
Do more, with less.
It’s the post-GFC corporate mantra.
Definitely sounds like a budget issue which is interesting if you say you workplace is a pretty busy practice. If you’re part of a larger franchise like Primary or Sonic then I imagine the budget problem might be hitting your branch just as a feed through effect which is kind of stupid given you don’t fix the bottom line by hurting a strong practice.
Also I’ve always wanted to know. What the fuck does an area manager manage exactly?
Also quick warning to your colleague who’s picking up the practice manager’s workload, if she does too much they might not look at hiring a replacement and just roll those responsibilities into her role.
From what I’ve seen, the area manager manages somewhere between fuck all and nothing.
Used to be even worse, we had an area manager manager until recently.
And yeah, company as a whole does have cash problems from what I’ve heard, but I can name other practices in the area that are far less efficient than us, and she’s agreed to hire more staff, but is apparently happy to leave us in the lurch until they arrive (which, let’s be honest, at this rate will be after the financial year ends).
@transientmind – Launch trailer that just came out for Edge of Nowhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaY-swcKaL0
Huh, hadn’t seen anything more than the snowy bits before.
Curse you, Gooky! “DON’T PEDDLE YOUR VILE CANDY TO ME, CANDY MAN!”
…Ooo that’s pretty.
Interesting action take on At the Mountains of Madness.
So last night I dreamt that I had managed the Huge Rez achievement for Mercy. It was very realistic, I had to move to get the last person and died immediately after I did it, but I got the achievement. Imagine my disappointment when I woke up =P
Another thing, while I was at the dentist, I suggested that they should try VR on people who are nervous about dental treatments. It makes sense that if they can’t see or hear the drill and such, they may be more relaxed.
So obsessed with Overwatch. =P
I’m not obsessed! You’re obsessed!
Problem is, though, that dentists need to talk to their patients while doing procedures, as dental work is generally done without sedation. Even when you’re off your head on nitrous, they still need to check on you to make sure everything is ok.
Good morning TAY
Last song played game time!!
Death with Dignity by Sufjan Stevens
What was YOUR last song played??
The Future Sound of London – Papua New Guinea
Playlist is being epic today. I’m currently going through about a gazillion firewall rules and doing a full audit. Need the tunes to stop the brain going weird.
It’s hit me with Banco de Gaia, Portishead, Moby, Massive Attack, Bjork… Now The Orb’s Assassin, a 15 minute mix. Just what I need to get me through. 🙂
I went from Sufjan to Katatonia’s latest, then Keeno and now Twenty One Pilots
I’m aiming to download the new Combichrist album when I get home from work 😀
Advent – Opeth.
Dutchies by Shapeshifter
Saw them live when they were touring their The System is a Vampire album (which this track is from) and stays up there as one of the best live shows I’ve seen.
Questlords of Inverness, Ride to the Galactic Fortress! – Gloryhammer
Oh Man, Carrie and Lowell is such a great, great album.
Knights of Cydonia – Muse
Jetstar theme song for the past 30 mins on hold 😀
TAY
IN
SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE
I’m a 50/50 on being in tonight, but don’t let that stop you! @aliasalpha and @blaghman and @os42, keep the dream of the Buderation alive!
cc @transientmind @gingerchris86 @tech_knight @pupp3tmast3r @spadge @highperformance
🙁
More relevantly, @aliasalpha are you gonna try and start it up early this week?
Well, the 1.1 patch landed (apparently) – was hoping “multiplayer joining” would be an issue they fixed, but didn’t see anything in the changelogs. I do, however, see the end of my empire in giant neon letters – “Increased AI likelihood of attacking less defensible neighbours” combined with the giant (and still growing) red blob to my west. With any luck, they’ll attack @transientmind first, given I’m on the good-relations side of neutral with them 😛
All in favour of a coordinated preemptive strike against the Hagramana… Hagelema… Ha.. the red guys to Transient’s north?
The ‘Hux’ I call ’em. It’s something like huxingan or whatever, but they’re hux to me.
I’m just trying to keep them relatively in-check until I’ve had a chance to expand ALL AROUND THEM and steal all their un-tapped resources.
And maybe then make war on the southern neighbours to seize their property and/or vassalize them as recruits to tie up the Hux when war does inevitably break out. (They’ve started insulting me. I take it that’s not a great sign.)
Aren’t the Trump Collective your southern neighbours?
Well. They’re my South-Eastern neighbours, yeah… but they’re not a real threat. They’ll never actually hold a position of real power, the galaxy knows what it’s doing.
You can’t stump the Trump collective.
We, uh… kind of took a few of your systems, btw.
To get the southerners some military access to the north. That’s right. Southerners are coming over your border.
Normally it wouldn’t be the done thing to attack someone offline, but basically Stellaris’ version of the Tyranid swarm turned up and is currently rampaging around assimilating worlds. 😛
@transientmind
You illustrate my point exactly as to why we need to build a great Defence Platform across our southern border, and the Space Morocco are going to pay for it.
It’d be notably more tricky to stump them if they had competent leadership but when they’re only played by something with the most elementary simulation of intellige… Oh I get it, you’re roleplaying!
I did kind of take 4 of your systems but I need to get across your space so I can add my frankly tiny fleets to help fight the endgame threat that just showed up. If & when we win against them, you can have them back fair & square. That’s a serious offer, I did it for @OS42 (if I remember rightly) when he lost a planet as part of the peace treaty with the fallen empire and the border adjustment left his world in my space.
Well your friendly neighbourhood maniac militaristic mushroom men might muse making mercenary moves should that come to pass.
Speaking of. You shotgunned the two empires directly north of you yeah? But the north east ones were fair game?
Yep… tho the four are in an alliance or a federation, last I checked. They spurned the tentacle-faced ones… they shall have to be taken by force.
Let me know when you’re ready to tackle them, so I can join in – iirc I’m building up my first somewhat major fleet in that northern sector.
Oh, and speaking of, I’m not sure we’re all that friendly according to our diplo… might need to fix that so we can join forces up there.
Yeah… I kinda destroyed most of their combined fleet already though <<
If remember right I’ve made the blue guys direct north vassals while the greens to my east hold on via a technicality.
Then there’s that tiny one between us that I released and the two or three north most ones left.
I just want to secure a passage along the rim past you really.
Someone on reddit suggested that I should try letting a lot of the requests stack up before starting any of them. From the description given. it seems like it might be possible to have a load of requests and then start processing them in bulk so we can give that a go
Cool cool. I’ll be online if you do want to get the ball rolling early. Some pause time to try and optimise my planets would be handy anyway.
But without Red, who else will declare the federation’s suicidal wars? 😉
I’m actually thinking about jumping on early, just to get the save transferring out of the way.
Despite the fact that we attacked them, I’m still calling it the war of precursor race aggression
Well. They were certainly pretty aggressive.
It was the precursor to losing a lot of our ships…
No wait, it was part of a controlled and forward thinking effort to streamline and downsize our fleets! In light of the new technology we were acquiring, decommissioning ships is the next logical step.
We didn’t get our arse handed to us, fail to meet any strategic objectives and run away with our tails between our legs, it was a DRAW! Just like the americans had in Vietnam.
Wasn’t even a war, it was a police action
Someone acted up and got fined, hey.
…I think Space Morocco is still “humiliated” at this point
I’ll pop in and say hi, but I’ll still be in different space. 🙂
Well, apparently the AI changes from the new patch means that they don’t make significant empire changes for 10 years after a player drops so it might not change much for you if you can’t make it.
Yeah, might be hanging out with a mate tonight, just depends if he gets called in to work.
Oh good, so we won’t turn up after 5 minutes of un-paused activity to find that the AI has fucking re-zoned all our sectors and built a shit-tonne of farms on energy/mineral slots while the planet already had 10 food surplus.
So these last two weeks I’ve been interstate so I couldn’t play. BUT: Next week Friday, The Trump Collective will rise again and resume the rivalries of Friday’s past.
I will increase military expenditure by 500% and I will stop ISIS- ah, Space Morocco.
Blargh reply fail.
@blaghman reply fail?
All the fail, all the time.
That right there is my epitaph.
So did anyone else have trouble with Battle.Net last night?
It either wouldn’t launch or I could get to a log in screen and then my credentials wouldn’t work (which I then tested on the site and worked fine)
I saw other people on forums also having trouble
It was frustrating because that was my only Overwatch time for a week
Nah, bunch of us were on there fine.
Hmmmm, isolated problem
I was actually glad to see on the forums it wasn’t just me
And none of the error help workarounds worked
Any day now CD Projekt will announce the Witcher 3 enhanced edition and I can finally jump into it with all the content at once. I’ve avoided buying it so far but the wait is a struggle, especially with how good the expansions sound.
I’m not sure how enhanced it needs to be- other than a GOTY package with the DLC included, it’s made a lot of quality-of-life improvements through patches so far.
I thought enhanced just meant all that but on the disk?
The previous Witcher games have had a substantial bit of rework and extra stuff put into the enhanced editions. Witcher 3 is much more complete from the get go
Yeah sure, but releasing a disk version with all the dlc, patches & whatever else would still be enhanced compared to the vanilla version.
And I think it gets ignored/ forgotten that people really still do exist without internet.
I think whether or not the enhancements have been previously been released online doesn’t negate the name.
Also, surely marketing purposes alone would require sticking to tradition. Unless GotY gets better results, I have no idea.
There is a wild ‘been’ loose in that verbal diarrhea.
I’m not saying they shouldn’t release a version with it all as a package, just that unlike previous Witcher games, which have had substantial reworks after release, Witcher 3 is pretty damn complete at this point.
Thought you had an issue with the name ‘enhanced’ from what you’d said *shrugs*
I’m with you, waiting is hard, seeing so much content is hard.
Well. I’m a fucking idiot. Went to coles this morning to get the paper & some bread rolls, stupidly went through the self service checkouts & remembered I needed cash out so went to one that did cash out & selected the $20 and before I finished the transaction I got distracted by something then grabbed my things, ATM card & walked off. I then got chatting to the bloke who runs the fruit & veg shop across from Coles for like 20 mins, then it dawns on me as I am about to leave to go home, I fucking forgot to grab my $20, so I race back to Coles & ask the lady at the self serves if she saw the $20 I stupidly left behind, sadly no she had not, so it would seem some dishonest person took it for themselves rather than hand it in. Oh well. Lesson learned I won’t be doing that again. At least it was only $20 & not say $50 or greater, but it’s still $20 >_> i’d be way more pissed if I was still on the dole & that was like my last $20.
Man, this story would be the best if it ended with “and then I found $10”
Haha, I found $5 the other week leaving work, so there’s that 😛
I’ve done that, but with an ATM – so absolutely no excuse.
But they refunded me. Contact your bank. Ask if they can refund it.
Oh i’ll look into that! Cheers dude.
Just interested: on what basis did they refund you? Seems above and beyond… especially for a bank.
I literally just told them I hadn’t got my cash out of it. That simple. They said ‘these things happen, we’ll put it back’ and it was done. It wasn’t much, though. Like fifty bucks.
$20 could buy many peanuts!
Mmm peanuts.
Ugh, can barely stay awake, been feeling tired and shitty, and Max has been waking me up around 4am.
Good thing I can sleep in tomorrow morning.
Hiyo, some of those comics sold. Dunno if any of you spread the word, but if you did, thanks.
If this keeps up, I’ll have a new putener by end of July 🙂
Can’t wait to play Morrowind, Pillars of Eternity & TOR. + Mannie Moore.
Also, having a working machine at home with internet & Microsoft shit will be so handy. Doing important bill paying & etc on a phone is tiresome.
I’ve spent 13 hours in Pillars of Eternity and thoroughly enjoying it! Knee deep in lore and so so SO much to read. I spent 2 hours purely reading in game books and having conversations with NPC’s. A good world to lose yourself in and explore 🙂
I’m really bad at reading in game books. I know they add to the immersion, but I’ve so little time to play these days, I tend to go for gameplay.
I really wanna get all the books from elder scrolls on my phone or somewhere & read ek on the crapper or something.
Gah. Just got undone in Bloodborne by the targeting system. Couldn’t take my eyes off the guy in front when I could hear the two coming up behind me…
Sometimes clicking it off is the way to go
You are forgetting that I am not very good at this.
BUT – progress was made! I got past the burning thing with the guys around it and now I have a torch!
Spent 11 hours today in one spreadsheet today. :-/
The GTX1080 is still in transit so no PC upgrade this weekend. Just like @mrtaco and his Rift but without the winning.
If it were really like me it would also be a long weekend.
Next weekend is a long weekend!!! WIN.
Retailer I ordered from finally responded to my “where the fuck is it?” to tell me that they have no idea when they’ll get more. :\ Thinking I’ll cancel.
*scowl*
Ah well, OC version in a few weeks then. 🙂
Put in a cancellation request – apparently not automatic.
They’re a reputable retailer (BH Photo & Video), I think they got overwhelmed. I ordered with them because they seemed to have it in stock and EVGA themselves sold out, plus Amazon being in Washington state charges Sales Tax for selling stuff to me. Big issue when it’s a $700 card.
The actual cards from EVGA go on sale on the 16th so I might throw a preorder down on the FTW or OC card if I can. $20-50 less for a vastly better card. Founder’s is hard to justify.
Preordered the EVGA FTW version from the same retailer just now. $20 less. \o/
Nice. Hope they don’t screw you around. 🙂
The MSi version is reviewed here: http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/msi-geforce-gtx-1080-gaming-x-8g-review,1.html
Passive up to 60C. Wow. So should be quiet as when not gaming.
Still happy I went with the reference board though – waterblocks will be easier to obtain.
I’m hoping that since I got in really early, this time they’ll actually get stock in for me. They’re estimating the 16th for it but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a week later. Happy to wait at this point though.
I looked at MSI but I was encouraged to go EVGA because they’re US-based and have great support as well as very solid products.
Yeah, never heard bad about EVGA. I’m sure they’ll be doing similar to MSI. No skin in the game, that was just the first aftermarket 1080 review to hit my desk and I was impressed.
Fingers crossed for you.
Mine’s with courier… it’s somewhere in the Melbourne CBD…
I have a few questions for all y’all Overwatch players, if you’d be so kind:
I’m thinking of getting it on PS4, I like Blizzard games (addicted to Hearthstone), but I’m not sure if Overwatch will play well without a headset? Pretty much I cannot/will not play games with a headset, so is it ok without one? Aka can you still play well?
And secondly, I missed the beta – does it have scaling for new players or am I likely to get dropped into a death pit?
Thanks guys
Randoms don’t talk much aside from emote like callouts so only need a headset if you have friends you want to chat with.
Uhh, bit of both? The matchmaking is not perfect and it’s a pvp game after all so expect a relatively steep learning curve. But there is a co-op vs AI and practice mode you can use to start off with to get the hang of things.
Thanks, that pretty much settles it, gonna have to get it!
It’s a great game, you will have some trouble finding how to best play the game but the learning curve is worth it. Start with an offence hero where you just need to focus on killing people and then you will get a feel for the game, and then you can branch out with the different classes to work out who you will main.
Don’t need a headset, very rarely does anyone talk; usually just an angry little kid who is angry that he’s not one-shorting characters lol.
I don’t think qld could get any wetter right now. It’s been raining non stop for the last 16 hrs
Overslept again today, and I have work in two hours.
Yay. -_-
That was a bit fucken wet last nigh.. Most my area flooded, some places the water go to above parked cars. I was at work, so that was fine. But I felt sorry for the people who knocked off at 7 and couldn’t even exit the car parks cause every exit was flooded to like knee depth or greater.
Saying that, at least i’m convinced the garden got watered 😛