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“Hey, Saturday, I saw your ex.”
“Wow, I don’t really give a fuck. Where?”
“Moving into the apartment building next to you.”
[UNIDENTIFIABLE SCREECHING NOISES]
I genuinely feel like your escapades should be source material for a Deadpool comic. I’d subscribe the shit out of that.
It’s funny, because while seemingly contrary, both responses are totally valid.
Guys, from what I have learned from observations in this country, the screeching is actually one of the Canadians’ typical mating calls.
I believe what comes next is an offering from their god Tim Hortons, typically a rich maple syrup based dessert. Sometime Maple syrup literally thrown into snow and eaten like a popsicle.
I now want to eat maple syrup popsicles.
funny that’s mentioned. Maple taffy, a.. thing.. in Quebec/Ontario, is simply boiled maple sap poured into snow until cooled and eaten upon a stick. So, for all intents and purposes; maple syrup popsicles.
I understand none of it. It confuses me. I blame the french.
French-Canadian, thank you very much. Vive la société distincte!
[UNIDENTIFIABLE NON-MATING SCREECHING NOISES]
Osti de tabarnak de calice!
It’s only a Canadian mating call when it ends in an apology.
Last song played game!
Night Shift by Overwerk
What was YOUR last song played?
Why was your weekend wet (if residing in NSW)
Within the Silence of the Sunlight Filtering through the Trees – Ao No Kiseki OST
Also, it rained crazy heavy in QLD too. Some minor* flooding.
*when compared to THE flood
(I forgot about QLD) That rain man!
We stayed in & enjoyed the warmth of blankets.
I mostly played Blood and Wine, it was glorious
Yeah, I was Elder Scrolls Onlining via remote play
Marina and the Diamonds- Blue
Colin Hay – Beautiful World
Last album played: Mike Oldfield – The Songs of Distant Earth.
Technically the last song I played is the last track on the album, but composers like Oldfield, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre aren’t really about “songs”. 🙂 I hope my technicality is acceptable.
Definitely acceptable, it’s music and that’s all that counts
Mama Said – Metallica
I dunno man, the gold coast got smashed over the weekend 400mm of rain in 48 hours with major flooding in places. Was just really fucking wet at my place, but surrounding parts of where I live flooded. There was also flooding again last night with high tide almost 24 hours after the rains subsided.
Primo Victoria – Sabaton.
Hadal Maw – Dissent
Woke up to a bunch of texts on Saturday evening asking if I was okay, because the national news was saying my city was getting proper buggered by the storm. I slept through the whole thing.
3/10 storm, could have been better.
Good morning everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend.
I started on the Witcher 3 Blood and Wine DLC. Loving it so far, the intro and tourney quest were really cool, even though i got one of the sadder endings for the tourney. Some awesome new gear, can’t wait to get my new GTX 1070 so that i can stop playing on Medium graphics @ 30fps with a GTX 750! Also played a bit more Fallout 4, i really need to finish that game and get started on the DLC.
I’ve heard all good things about it so far. What do you guys thing of it?
What did you guys play on the weekend? Or what was your highlight?
I did Blood and Wine most of the weekend, Saturday and Sunday.
I loved the Far Harbor DLC (and being I am on console) am loving the mods so far.
Wow i wish i got to play all weekend. Haha. How are you finding the performance in Far Harbour? I have heard some reports of large framerate drops on console.
On my Xbox I am not noticing many issues in Far Harbor.
In regards to all weekend, my girlfriend is loving, nothing is ever on TV during the day on a weekend and the weather was abysmal
Besides would I rather be drenched in rain or hang out in Toussaint
Oh cool. My wife likes to hang out and watch Netflix and go out for coffee on the weekend. We’re currently watching through Suits.
We also had a few social gatherings, best friends birthday and whatnot.
So a dad drove his teenage daughter all the way up to my place in Brisbane north from Ipswich at 8am on Saturday morning, in the torrential rain to buy Deadpool & X-23’s first ever appearances.
Nice to make cash, even nicer to sell to a dedicated fan of a new generation.
Went to a loving home & not an ebayer. Nice 🙂
Overwatch fans!
http://9gag.com/gag/aZM9bOn
Ryuu ga waga teki wo kurauu!
Or as @blaghman says “Ryuu ga waga teki fuck you!”
Didn’t play Overwatch at all over the weekend surprisingly, just Blood & Wine DLC still not done either -.- so probably be another day or two on the DLC until I’m done.
Nuu, teammate down D= Revives appear ineffective!
Played Total Warhammer a shit ton this weekend after deciding to start a Chaos campaign. Lost within the first 50 turns on my first two tries before I got used to the idea of not having bases and realizing I need to run away from a lot of battles before I built up enough momentum and cash to bring out my toughest units. And just as I wiped out the northern tribes and fielded 3 hordes with legendary generals
The fucking Tzeentch rebellion happens almost wiping out all my progress. After 2 20 minute long battles I routed their armies and picked them off with my main general’s forces.Spoilered for story event.Since then I’ve retreated to the north with my 2 vassals and am now rebuilding my forces for a final sweep across all of Azeroth! I mean Albion! I mean…. what’s the Warhammer world called again?
I’m 200 turns in and only just getting around to conquering the Empire with the Vampire Counts. Between Chaos, Dwarfs, Greenskins, and the other human factions I’ve been a little pre-occupied.
Still, I find it hilarious that the Empire is continually trying to sue for peace and I just keep saying no. Altdorf will be mine (soon).
My vampire count campaign has kind of stalled due to the enemy factions fielding like 20 agents which is causing the corruption and subsequently the public order in my regions to drop. I’ve just hired like 6 banshees to go around killing all these assholes but in the meantime my armies are having to run around keeping order in my provinces (aside from the 2 core ones being drakenhof and templehof). Also the Dwarves appear to have consolidated into a giant force rivalling me in military strength which really sucks if I want to finish the campaign because they’re probably the faction I’m weakest against…. Might have to make custom cavalry/monster based armies to take them down.
Two things work really well against Dwarfs: flying units and cavalry. Also always try and outflank the Dwarfs and hit them from all angles as the undead have enough minions to surround them. The only ways that I’ve consistently broken Dwarf morale are cavalry charges and hitting them in the back. Flying units are a must to tie up their ranged units because they put out a tonne of damage.
If Dwarf Slayers are a problem, mob them with flesh ghouls. Being unarmoured makes them oh so weak to the poison attacks. I never really bother with monstrous units against Dwarfs because they just weather the attacks.
Mounted ranged are the most OP units in the game (damn near nothing can chase them down, and they can fire while running away), and most of my ‘starter’ lords are basically 6+ mounted marauders, 6+ dogs, and whatever I want to have left of marauders on foot.
If you really run into trouble with early fights you can pretty much have your infantry rout and flee, and just keep speedy horsemen around in skirmish mode, harrassing forever. The only time they run into trouble is if there’s something fast enough to catch them in melee… and the spoiler there is that practically nothing is faster than mounted archers. Chaos Hounds are about it.
It’s kind of bullshit, and is probably why the AI over-relies on mounted archers. I hate it. They’re faster than my knights, which made an ‘all warrior’ army an exercise in pointless frustration. Now I bring some dogs and six hell-cannons. Shell the fuck out of them as they approach so they break and rout before they even have a chance to get a shot off. Cheap bitches.
Yeah this was kind of why 80% of my battles against the north tribes were auto-completes. I actually had fewer losses doing auto-completes because the AI just uses numbers to determine losses. But if i fought the battles against the horse archers I’d just lose half my army to them running away. Pretty retarded balance given there’s no way to actually lock them down. Even the dogs take decent casualties in just trying to chase them down.
The only trick I managed to find was have 2 units chase one down, have the unit they’re firing on run away and have the other unit smash into melee with them. Which is kind of ridiculous.
Hide dogs in the forest. Dogs fuck ’em up good. Otherwise, make sure your shielded warriors just keep them busy, soaking up the fire (have to be facing them). They’re very resilient and can keep multiple archer units busy while your dogs hunt. Bonus points if you flank charge. Poison dogs are a worthy upgrade because poison actually has a slowing/snaring effect.
Whats kind of really cool is as Chaos you really do get the feeling of mustering this colossal force of destruction however it can be so easily derailed if the humies rally together early on and try to shut you down. I actually spent the last 15 odd turns winning the various quest battles for Kholek, Sigvald and Archaon making all three of them the equivalent of 3 enemy units now.
Now its time to sack and raze some outpost towns and start growing the horde =D Only just managed to unlock dragon ogres on my main force.
I like to roll with a base unit of 4-6 hell-cannons (who do ungodly damage with veterancy and the aura-buff from Archaon, and just plain old unfathomable morale damage), surround the cannons with 4+’ish warrior squads, and let the enemy come to me. One or two forsaken/spawn as the hammer to drop on the anvil if the warriors get engaged. The rest is in cavalry/heroes.
If stuff looks like it’s going to get too close or be a pain in the ass, they get chased by the manticore-riding exalted champions. Heroes get assassinated by the same (which can often break an entire army). Knights get put on artillery/archer-unit hunting duty, and if they’re not lancers, they can actually hold their own against… literally anything else.
At the time of the story spoiler event, I only had my Archaon warband. Won that handily in the first engagement and didn’t have to do too much to recover, thankfully. It wasn’t until I was tired of chasing contentious Northern tribes around that I hired 2nd and 3rd warbands. Just to prevent the enemies from having so many escape routes. They were so weak by comparison at that point, still using only starter units, which is when I started really cheesing it with horse-archers and dogs.
Yeah it’s really a challenge getting new war bands up and running given so much of their growth is from engaging in combat. It’s kind of a tight balance of making sure you create them early enough so that the enemies aren’t too OP but making sure you make them late enough that you have the resources to grow them into a decent force.
Ouch, that hoarder letter to
transientmindDr nerdlove is a bit close to home.Had a very similar argument with Mrs Tigs over the weekend.
It sure made me feel a lot better about my hoarding. At least the only “filth” there is a healthy layer of dust 😛
Yeah, my issue isn’t so much of filth but just clutter. If there is a empty flt space in the house it gets filled and because there is then stuff all over it more stuff just gets dumped on it.
I get frustrated and say I’m going to throw it all out, she gets upset and the pile just grows.
Harder because she knows it needs to be done but because her brain is all messed up from chemo/tumor she has trouble sorting and discarding things.
So I feel bad about making her feel bad and then ignore for a while until I get overly frustrated and crack the poosies again
That’s pretty much where I am. Piles appear, and then they grow. And then they hit their limit so a new one grows next to it. Though I don’t have any contributing health issues I’m aware of to take any of the blame >_>
Bloody freezing this morning.
Been over-sleeping the last few days, because I tend to wake up at 4:30am and go back to sleep, causing me to wake up around 10am.
What’s the best way to get myself out of bed earlier, say 7:30-8am?
Wake up at 4.30 or 5 one of the days and stay up until bedtime, that should knock you out until 7.30 to 8 the following day 🙂
If I can’t sleep (because, say, I’ve only been sleeping one out of every two days and mainlining caffeine to survive), I go to the gym. Work out til exhausted. Guaranteed to sleep as soon as head hits the pillow.
Get to work to learn that a RedHat update broke Virtualbox. *checks VB’s bugtracker, finds that there’s a fix waiting to be published* *makes changes to Virtualbox code on my machine and rebuilds* Problem solved in about 15 minutes. If only I could solve issues on Windows this easily…
*defenestrates Windows machine*
*listens*
…time passes…
*crash*
Solved. Much faster than the 15 minutes it took to solve your Linux issue. 😉
“Leave Windows to its own devices… time passes… *crash*”
The defenestration is entirely superfluous, imo, tho admittedly it does achieve the result much faster. 😛
I am probably going to end up killing myself via awful sleep patterns. Although I guess once this job finishes it’ll be better, since the poor sleep patterns will be constant rather than switching up every weekend…
Decided on Friday to test out just how well the Leap Motion works, by seeing whether I could still play piano while in VR. The verdict: not really 😛 It seemed to particularly dislike picking up my left hand, save for a couple of songs where it was doing a lot of bass+chord patterns with big movements. It was also interesting to see just how varying some pieces are in how much they rely on sight compared to others. For the most part I ended up just using the nose gap to keep an eye on my actual hands, while the virtual ones spazzed out.
Later Friday night, started poking around seeing what’s going on in the land of homebrew since I’d dug out my 3DS the other day. Found out there was a BootMii equivalent though with a far more involved method to implement it, so I figured I’d do a practise run on my XL since it has a hardmod to be able to undo if anything went wrong. And damn it was involved alright. Ended up staying up til 7:30 running through it, and still had Part 5 left to do. All worked without a hitch though, so Saturday I went to do my n3DS. Annoyingly it failed during the downgrade to 9.2, though luckily it was possible to recover from that by updating. Which meant that it was no longer possible to downgrade and implement the thing any more, so after that I figured I may as well transfer my 3DS stuff over to it. Which also took a bit of forever, since I needed a microSD larger than 4GB, and the only ones I had available were a 32GB in my phone and a 64GB that I got intending to replace the one in my phone but hadn’t gotten around to using (might’ve had it sitting there for a year, year and a half). So a whole load of waiting around for files to be moved there. That kept me up til 6:30 😛
Dug out Shovel Knight on Sunday, since I never got around to finishing that and was right at the final level. Died nearly 30 times trying to finish it. Major suckitude. Though then that unlocked Challenge Mode, and spent most of the night bitching about the bullshit of the bosses in that. Got through it eventually though, and am now a decent way into Plague of Shadows. Might keep trying to chip away through that on the morning train trips, not sure whether I’ll give up the afternoon train naps for it though.
It has brought to light some minor grievances with the n3DS though. For one, the volume slider. It’s exactly where I want to rest my index finger when using the d-pad. I’m like the anti @negativezero 😛 I also really hate that you can’t switch off the Super Stable 3D without closing what you’re doing and going into the System Settings, rather that just being able to flip it in the menu with brightness settings and such. Also I really really hate the lack of a physical wireless button, especially when on the other units I can just reach into my back and turn off wireless for both of them in the space of a second when I get to my desk, save some battery life throughout the day. Now I have to dig this one out and open it up, run through the menus, etc. Also annoying having to jump out to the Home menu when you’re about to do something in-game that requires it. Gdi Nintendo always stepping forward with one foot and back with the other.
I have the exact same issues with the volume slider though? When I’m using the d-pad, the first knuckle of my index finger constantly bumps it. Did they move it to somewhere even more dumb on the new model?
Also why the fuck is there a knob at all? What’s wrong with a pair of face buttons and doing it in software?
The slider on the new models is up on the left side of the top section, mirroring the 3D slider. That one’s out of the way for me since I always have it on max though. I never understood your problem with the XL’s slider position since I never touch that spot at all, but I find myself constantly bumping this one (at least while playing Shovel Knight) and it makes me think of our conversations every time 😛
Software based controls are awful and you are a bad person. Worst part of the Micro. I demand continuous volume levels, and the ability to predetermine them at any time before sounds start happening 😛
Also really hate having to try and pre-empt what volume level my phone may or may not be at whenever I’m about to do something that has sound, though at least that only has the one speaker so I can plug that with my thumb fairly easily. So long as I remember to do so, anyway.
@shane Other writers
I’m having an issue. I have an idea for a visual novel and I think it’d be a fun idea to play, but unfortunately, I feel a bit like I have pigeon holed myself.
The main story/aim of the game is to avoid dates. So it’s an anti-dating sim. The main character can’t date anyone as he has been cursed by the gods. If he dates someone, a natural disaster will occur. The gods cursed him as they decided he was too beautiful and should not be allowed to have kids.
I have no idea how to finish this.
The obvious answer is that he builds up an army of prospective wannabe dates and sends them on a dangerous mission to destroy the gods and overcome the curse. The dialogue choices made along the way determine both the size of this army, and the success of their endeavour. Then, after they kill the gods, and send the world into a mad chaotic spiral, they enter into a Battle Royale to determine which one actually gets to date him. (Haha, don’t do this, though – it’s a terrible ending)
Honestly, though, I don’t know. It seems that the anti-dating sim might end up having mechanics functionally identical to a dating sim, or it just becomes three hours of the player selecting “No” in dialogue wheels, over and over.
Out of interest, what constitutes a date? A coffee? A conversation? Why don’t the gods just kill his sperm? Surely that would be easier than sending down tsunamis every time he winks at someone?
I was thinking more like flirting, physical contact in a romantic way. It’s supposed to be tossing up between placating the girls, not hurting their feelings, and trying to keep the death toll down.
https://frinkiac.com/meme/S03E16/1222202/m/IFRocmVlIHNpbXBsZSB3b3JkczogCiJJIGFtIGdheS4iIA==
There’s also a gay guy, so that doesn’t work =P
Plus, I’m sure some people will try to get as high a death toll as possible.
I demand royalties.
What for?
Your synopsis is pretty much a word-for-word summary of @mrtaco’s life 😛
Sorry ’bout the floods, guys.
But there is no popcorn!
Not dating people #popcorn
Does this mean he’s allowed to have one night stands? I mean you wouldn’t technically count that as a date….
Also would you be able to use your powers as a WMD? Go to a country – date a person there – wipe the country out?
Edit: Actually the more I think about it I would just want to steer into the skid and go about wiping out the human race. Suck on that gods! muahahahah!
The disaster happens in a radom location. It would be too easy otherwise
More seriously, in terms of the ending, you need to think about what the main character’s arc is. What single thing does he want more than anything else?
Does he want to break the curse?
Does he want true love?
Does he want a kid?
Even if he wants all of them, you should pick one as the dominant need.
The direction of the writing will obviously be determined by your answer to this question. The narrative will either be focused upon breaking his curse, or finding a true love that transcends (or ignores) the curse, or giving him a child.
* If breaking the curse, the narrative will probably have to focus upon some sort of challenge to the gods, or some sort of a quest to overcome the curse.
* If finding true love, you as the MC will probably have to engage in very flat unemotional conversations with a range of NPCs to determine the ideal match. Maybe true love’s kiss can break the curse (but only from a predetermined soul mate).
* If having children, it’ll be a matter of finding a woman willing to bear a child for him without making her fall in love with him, or getting arrested for harassment.
If something else, the focus will be different.
You might also want to build in an additional mechanic where the natural disaster claims the life (or has other devastating ramifications) for the specific woman involved. Raises the stakes beyond an abstract distant event affecting people who don’t know. Of course, this approach WILL (probably quite rightly) get you strung up by the anti-violence-against-women activists.
Hope this helps.
Ooh, that could be interesting. Like, if that person was randomly determined at the start of a new game and you had to try and sleuth it out somehow. I have no idea how feasible that may or may not actually be, but it seems like a neat idea 😛
I demand royalties.
But there’s also a gay guy.
I think the aim would be to break the curse so that he can have a normal life.
Maybe by helping the people in the school through their issues, he can maybe be freed?
Or a mass murderer, depending on the person playing
Sounds good! Go with it, see if you can make it work on the page! Good luck 🙂
Thanks. I have a feeling that I’ll do the base work and then give up like all my other game ideas
I feel like there’s a manga or something that has a similar premise to this.
So I should just stop this then?
Probably not. Most ideas already exist in one form or another, that doesn’t stop anyone else 😛
That’s very true
No, I can’t remember the exact details but I think it was a bit different. Was more meaning you might be able to crib some ideas. 😛
Oh! Sorry. My bad.
Welp, Stellarus’ AI just crushed my bigoted miltaristic space tortoises of the Snappa Imperium, last time I use the hyperdrive cuz I was really darn limited on where I can go once there were AI on every possible lane to go. One of the larger AIs declared war on me, had a 6.6k armada ready to roll, so I start moving in, in comes a 9k fleet with the higher class ships in tow… crap. Welp, time for the Rugroach Collective to have their chance to shine
Yeah hyperlanes can be tricky. In our Tay game I’ve taken out like a half dozen empires just for blocking me.
However if you make a game where everyone uses hyperlanes, things get interesting. Can set up choke points and such, especially in a spiral galaxy.
Yeah problem was this AI empire completely took over two other AIs before coming to me so I was grossly outmatched in the end. My next game I’ve set the aggressiveness to low to see how I go this time, cuz so far I obviously haven’t gotten the right groove yet in terms of what to do. Still really enjoying the game though playing with the races I created. Even seeing them as AI races is really awesome. I also did see a mod to have a playable synthetic race but it doesn’t look like it’s properly put together yet, where it’s all using robots to grow planets.
There’s a setting in the setup for how many ai’s get a starting advantage – maybe set that low or none cause it sounds like it’s one of those that did you in.
If you set aggressiveness to low everyone will probably be a wet paper bag for you to tear through.
That must be what it was yeah, I was leaving defaults on in normal difficulty, and I got smashed 😛
Heh. Got a mate sharing those “on this day” thing on Facebook & posts one of them with the comment;
and then comments again after he shared it
Personally I think ignoring it, or deleting it would be best rather than sharing it & complaining, but hey, that’s just me & what I do..
Wow, look at these stats, people really love the share previous button, we are getting 1 30% action rate on it
Turns out my contract ended on May 30.
lol
so did they send you home?
No, I just started asking people if they’d seen my stapler.
TAY Pathfinder tonight at the usual times. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @beeawwb
We’re still going to use Google Hangout with Roll20 as that appears to be fairly stable for communication. I just won’t be able to see anyone’s video due to my bandwidth being extremely poor. Let me know if you guys are able to make it.
I’m going ot plug my comp directly in via Ethernet cable, that seemed to stabilise me playing Stellaris the other week.
It actually fired up fine after multiple attempts about an hour after we’d finished playing last week, but I don’t trust it
Oh, speaking of Stellaris.
@os42 I was thinking about what happened last game and I think one of my vassals must have been flagged as still in the federation you declared war on and thus dragged me into it.
If you want, you could temporarily leave your federation and ally with me, we can then war on those guys to your north, grab their territory for you then both jump back into the Tay federation.
Might take a few wars tho as the latest patch increased the warscore cost significantly.
I’m very tempted to load my MP save up in SP mode and try to figure out what to do about that fucking invader swarm that annihilated my northern expansion.
I’m going to flatter myself into coping by choosing to believe that they invaded me specifically because I was the best-positioned to handle it.
The western flank of the galaxy seems to be a favourite for horrifying end game enemies, I’ve seen 4 sets of endgame enemies thus far and 3 of them invaded on the western edge
So I take it things went well in my absence?
There was much exploding.
Wait we invaded you? Whyever did we do that?
AI controlled Blags had the presidency and a grudge for some reason. :/
We are not sure tbh. os42 attacked some guys up my way and for some reason that dragged me into it on the opposing side. Then the AI members of the federation including you, Blaghs, Techy and that powerful mob to the east immediately sent everything they had into Fun-gi space to lay waste to anything they could find before I chased them off and os42 managed to hit enough buttons to make them stop (at unfortunate accidental cost to him).
Didn’t loose any planets thankfully but several maxed spaceports, numerous resource stations and much military hardware was lost.
But alas, such is the space-faring life.
But my guys are pacifists, that’s grossly out of character! The insults against my leader’s mother must’ve been most unpleasant :/
I’d just established a chain of L6 stations in a new sector of maybe a dozen fledgling systems in the extreme northwest which got steam-rolled by an extra-galactic invading alien hive fleet. Because it’s not a formal ‘war’ as such, all my vassals are standing around holding their dicks, but the federation sent me the energy credits I needed to establish a stable front. Kinda got the invaders corralled in that far northwest segment, smashing them every time they venture south. It’s keeping them sandwiched between me in the south and a fallen empire in the north-eastish, leaving them with the only real option being to spill into the greatly-diminished Hux to the East (I think Jo fought them into submission a few times when they attacked his protectorates). Seems the AI would rather push the aliens into my border than the Hux though, for some reason. Probably an anti-player bias.
It’s a shame, because up until that point I was feeling pretty good about economic/military strength, getting ready to tackle the Hux and start claiming all their planets until able to intimidate the southern AI into alliance/vassalization and securing a solo stealth win. Not gonna happen now! Probably.
Yeah, that looked like a kick in the teeth but I gotta say, you’re one of the few non fallen empires I’m not sure I could take in a 1v1.
I’m done dicking about and my war embargo with the hux expired so can lend you military aid now.
Well, once I rebuild half my mining stations from the Tay invasion and get back that 160 energy credits a month I’m sending you. Can’t afford to undock my second fleet as it stands.
I have a whole tonne of unused naval capacity so could build much bigger than 60k strength fleets, but one I get to that point the maintenance costs sends me into the red, making them hard to re-build. I’m currently settling on about 50k and letting that smash up the 20’ish sized fleets the invaders send my way, usually only have to replace 1-3k in losses. I’m probably going to be able to hold the front that I have, but advancing in there and rooting it out? That’s going to be harder.
Harder, but we’ll see if it’s impossible. I’m going to try some SP tests to see if I can actually take and hold some stuff back.
Cool Cool. After the Tay war and two back to back wars with the Hux while also fighting my neighbors I’m down to one active high 20’s BS fleet, a new similar sized one I can’t undock and a 18ish light fleet. And the infrastructure lost in the Tay war is hampering rebuilds.
But I’ll send what I can your way once I carve a path through the Hux.
Sounds like a plan – but I need to fix my economy first. The combo of losing half my northern territory in that war, with losing my entire southern reaches because the Fallen Empire in the south are insecure bastards, absolutely gutted my economy – dropped me from (credits/minerals) +150/+240 to -150/-30. Managed to get it back to kinda breaking even, but it’ll take a long time to fully recover. Even if I fix my economy, at this point the only thing stopping everyone to my north from cornering me in a dark alley and beating me senseless me is my charisma.
When I declared war on them, they were just an alliance of four – no members of the alliance had any vassals, nor were any vassals of anyone, and they weren’t in a federation. I checked that before I started anything with them. They all joined the federation a little after the Eldritch Space-Lice showed up. Speaking of, the Huxganiga and the Theq’laq are in that federation now, along with my rebel states, so… I don’t see me getting those territories back any time soon.
I hope they buff diplomacy at some point – it feels like it’s impossible to expand lategame through anything but force of arms.
Oh I can do the military heavy lifting, don’t stress on ship building.
Only issue is if the Hux have joined forces it will delay matters as I need to take systems off them to get to Transient and you can only demand so much in one war, then have to wait 10 years before you can go again.
Actually, if we give the Hux systems to you that would be better. Can probably manage that and some of your rebels in the first go.
Shall see on friday.
I keep forgetting how powerful some of you guys are now. @transientmind’s fighting off an endgame crisis (admittedly with not-inconsiderable financial support), and you’re confidently talking about taking on nearly every other warfaring race in the game. Meanwhile, my fleets peaked at about 15-20k, and that was purely to intimidate my rebels into coming back (which nearly worked, dag nabbit).
Eh, you’ve had a hard time of it by the sounds.
Transient and I had the advantage of starting on the edges of the TAY cluster of empires which meant we had AI targets to take over and expand past. Whereas you guys in the middle had limited options. But as a federation you guys are probably more powerful.
I honestly feel a little bad about it, so feel free to enlist my help getting more territory.
Yeah, the financial support on energy credits was really useful because it meant my mines could keep functioning, which allowed me to replace fleets really fast. I’ve probably lost a total of 40k fleet strength those invaders and replaced it in time to prevent losing more, just fending off their advances and hunting down some of their apparent ‘seed’ fleets to try keep them getting too out-of-hand. Things have actually calmed down a bit now, but my economy’s pretty fucked, and the only solution looks like devoting quite a bit of micromanagement and time to fixing up what planets I have left, all while keeping a very watchful eye on that border I’ve set up.
Ugh, I’m so bored…
Talk about a slow day…
For those of you interested in the story behind Overwatch – http://www.pcgamer.com/the-hidden-lore-of-overwatchs-maps/
Really interesting read!
Hello all!
So, turns out Italy is pretty nice. Apparently it’s a great time of year to travel there – not too cold, but it hasn’t become stinking hot yet! Wine there is stupidly cheap, and I didn’t think it was possible to eat too much pizza (but I sure gave that theory a hell of a test!).
Then came back to the cold and the wet and the work and the… why did I come back again???
Went to Robowars yesterday – found out about it last minute and all the seating tickets were sold out, so we just went for standing at the back, meaning the view was pretty crappy… but the matches were still awesome. Robot deathmatches are excellent.
Which Session did you go to? I was there for the last two!
Just the first one – I was tempted to stick around for another, but ended up going to the pub instead.
How fun was Citizen Flips to watch!
So much fun. Brutus was prrtty cool too. Ive got video of the battle royale they did at the very end. Every robot in the cage!
Holy shit, that would have been amazing! Can you pop it on youtube or something?
The weather in Canberra right now reminds me of what I had in Italy. :/
Good news was that the rain helped wash away the smell of Venice!
And turned the rubbish piles of Naples into sludge…
So after almost two weeks of constant Overwatch I went back in to a game I just started right before it came out, Wild Arms 3.
I bought this 14 year old game again because despite hiring it back then I never finished the game. I also forgot most of everything that happened, all I know is that the last thing I did involved walking through a laboratory. I think now I’ve just past that point, since I bought a sandcraft and I don’t remember ever doing that before.
Man, I miss JRPGs. During the PS1 and PS2 era, nobody gave two shits that Final Fantasy was the reigning champ, they just went and did their own thing. Had their own themes and own mechanics. The only thing I can think of that JRPGs stole from Final Fantasy was making their main antagonist an emo with long white hair, but even that only lasted several years.
Wild Arms 3 seems to be fairly advanced for its time. The pacing is decent, the combat has some depth and despite being turn based it doesn’t feel slow at all. They even give you coins which allow you to save the game anywhere and can be used at a game over to restart the battle, avoiding losing hours of progress.
Only problem I have found is that you can equip items to summons to get new abilities, which is fine by itself but I once made a mistake and tried to remove it to give it to another summon. Removing it involves either replacing it, or deleting it. As in, fully deleting, remove from the game. I was so pissed off I actually redid an entire hour of gameplay just to get an item back (it was a really good item).
In a time where people are constantly raging about feminism clothing or black representation, it’s easy to forget that videogames just used to do this without thinking about it. The main character is female, she’s on the front cover, she decides to create the main group and nobody says anything about it. Nobody disagrees with her and nobody draws attention of how good it is that a woman is taking charge. It just is.
They even included some humour, like a rival who stores a heavy machine gun in her dress. She even comes back later in a skimpy mage outfit that the other characters laugh at. In battle when you hit her, she stumbles back, remembers she’s now wearing heels, and has an animation of herself trying to balance her feet to avoid falling it over.
Today JRPGs just don’t exist, the only series that even wants to continue the genre is Final Fantasy and ever since FF13 it seems like nobody in the industry has the passion anymore.
Have you tried any of Falcom’s games? Ys, Trails etc. A lot of their stuff is older than FF and has gone its own way. They’re also the only ones outside Namco’s Tales guys that still seem to be interested in making JRPGs that don’t have the FF / DQ name slapped on and aren’t just vehicles for fanservice. And with DQ stuck perpetually in 1997 and FF having crawled up its own asshole, it’s pretty slim pickings. 🙁
Looking at next season’s anime lineup and it looks really shit. 🙁 I guess no one wanted to run something same season as the new Love Live assuming that it’ll be a juggernaut like the previous series. Shokugeki no Soma / Food Wars S2 & Amanchu are the only shows I can unreservedly get excited for. Second season of Seven Deadly Sins might be good except it’s Netflix licensed so no one can stream it in English because Netflix are fuckheads. Oh and we’re finally getting a new Berserk anime! Except it’s shitty ps2-era 3DCG 🙁
Wait… Shokugeki no Soma has a second season coming!?
How did I not know this?!
Yes. July 2nd for the JP premiere. Presumably it’ll hit Crunchyroll within a day or two of that.
12:57:
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16:11:
You bastards. You utter bastards. I want my GTX1080.
Is this Aus Post? because if so… you can only blame yourself =P
No. A courier company who I will not mention but sounds a lot like Blast-hay. No option, that’s who the supplier use.
Parcel Locker.
Skip the delivery man. Pick it up yourself.
Was getting tired of my old X360 wired controller for PC use, was looking at replacements because it’s old and worn. I was really tempted to pick up a Xbone controller because I used one at a mate’s place once and it was such an improvement on the 360. While shopping around I stumbled onto a wireless usb adaptor for Wii U Pro controllers for about $20 so I decided to give that a go. It arrived today and it works great. Has a switch for Dinput or Xinput and there’s a controller shortcut to switch between the standard and proper button layouts(So Xbox ABXY and Nintendo BAYX).
I bought a house.
In Geelong.
I’m going to have a house-warming.
Oh, it’s also a belated 30th since I was in dental surgery on my 30th.
Let’s say… August 20th.
It’s two days after my 31st.
We can play Rock Band and board games and I have a spa outside (it’s undercover, chill).
And four bedrooms. So plenty of space.
So… tweet me @seshakey or something for address?
I also have a new number so don’t use my old one that ended in 344.
Can someone please tag… everyone? At least the Melbourne people but you interstate folk are MORE THAN WELCOME (also I’m sick of flying/driving/bussing to Canberra etc)
This is a pretty big deal for me since in the last few years I’ve had two mental breakdowns and been unemployed for a long time. BUT NOW THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER.
If you play that D’Ream song, things will stop getting better rapidly.
But congrats on the giant uptick in fortune, this is a good good thing. ^5
*hugs*
Thiiiiiiiiiiiiiings can only get beeeettttteeeeerrrrrrrr
Can only get bettteeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
@beavwa @budgieishere @chuloopa @coldcamv @crazyguy1990 @f4ction @jordi @mad_danny @negativezero @pixel_the_ferret_viking @scree @smurfydog @tech_knight @tigerion @tofu @trikeabout @zetrox2k
That’s all the melb peeps on the list.
Thanks, Mama!
oh dang that’s rad. I’m up for a house warming
Nice. Where are you (roughly? Suburb/Metasuburb/general compass direction from the CBD).
I’ll send you a PM on the tweets if I/we can make it. Otherwise, feel free to tag me if you’re in the CBD. Been too long since I’ve seen… anyone.
Oh yeah! I’m in Geelong. Corio, of all places. Mere metres from the Gull Bus drop-off point for the interstaters 😛
KEEN!
Also GRATZ!
AND YAY \O/
All the positives!
Congrats. If I was in Melbourne I’d be there.
I’m not sure. I’ve never driven to Geelong and I’m a bit worried I may need to work on Techie’s cosplay. We’re a lot behind, due to illness and other things. I hope you understand.
Keen but I’m not sure you have given me enough notice 😉
Would need to check what is on as that is getting into birthday season for us, but should be plenty of time to save up my brownie points for a night off.
Out of town that weekend. Congrats on housey goodness though.
So I just read Norway’s looking to ban fossil fuel cars by 2025.
Where do I apply for citizenship?
Sure but Norway is freezing as fuck and bicycles have no heaters.
Pretty sure @saturday lives in some sort of eastern european country that’s always cold. He seems pretty well-adjusted!
Was gonna say Canada isn’t European but then remembered the French.
:pDoesn’t seem to stop them riding all year round.
Also, it’s just sale of new fossil fuel cars they’re heavily restricting. Electric vehicles no worries.
Ranked number one in the Human Development index for a reason!
The Scandinavian countries seem like the only place in the world that have got their shit together nowadays. 🙁
Don’t they also have some of the highest suicide rates because there’s not so much left to do once your shit is all sorted?
I think that’s probably more to do with SAD than anything.
Can’t tell if acronym or word.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder
Basically the ‘winter blues’ are a real thing.
EDIT: Also not making the connection to Scandinavia up – they really do have very high rates of SAD, it’s been an observed thing for centuries.
Ah, right.
It is starting to feel like mopey time 😛
Phew, glad i dodged that bullet!
*nervous laugh*
*Walking into the Supanova article comment section like*
Wise.
I popped in, saw some reasonable responses, tossed out a few upvotes for sane people, checked the front page an hour later and the ‘discuss’ icon is sitting around a couple hundred responses.
Didn’t even bother to fucking check. High discuss rates on shit like that is a near certainty that everyone involved is making an ass out of themselves, digging trenches to defend.
Last song played game time
Call it what you want by Foster the People
What was YOUR last song played?
Banco de Gaia – Shanti (red with white spots edit)
Wild Things by Ladyhawke
BABYMETAL – The One
…
what?
What, what? Babymetal is ace.
Toccata and Fugue – Jennifer Thomas.
The wheels on the bus – On repeat oh god bus bus bus bus bus
Detox – Strapping Young Lad
@transientmind: did you end up playing any World of Warships in the end? Curious what you thought / how you went with it if so.
Yeah, I signed up and gave it a few hours on the weekend on the US server. How do invites work, and what US time are you normally playing?
I’m not sure about shelf-life for me. Progression and unlocks are my jam, that always keeps me hooked for a while… until it gets impossibly grindy, anyway. If I know I’m getting value out of a F2P title, I usually drop a ‘box price’ payment on it, too. But I reckon this is one of those types where it’d be real easy to squander that. I’ll have to look up some advice on how best to spend. Still got a few thousand banked-up ‘free exp’ to figure out how/when best to spend. Tempted to use it to just unlock the next tier in certain lines ASAP.
Game itself… seems like a more drawn-out, careful World of Tanks. Some more map variety would be nice, I’m kind of already sick of those two large islands with a channel in between. I’m a beast against AI, usually manage to top the board. Players are another story. Don’t usually get sunk, but also usually only ended up in the top half of the board. Got the occasional first, which was nice. Not really understanding the complaints about salvo accuracy, mine have been pretty damn accurate so far… must be something that afflicts the bigger guns, perhaps. Mostly stuck to the cruisers so far (and it’s been interesting learning the differences between them; perhaps more specifically the differences between their guns), but did give the first US destroyer a bit of a whirl. I saw some complaints about lack of team-work, but I’m not too sure how much team-work can come into play… it’d really just be about trading places for visibility/prime target status, far as I can see, maybe pulling off some tricky torpedo pincers. The smoke seems handy on that destroyer, but incredibly limited. One-trick pony, maybe twice per sortie if you’re lucky.
If I’m on I play in the evenings (so like, 7pm-12pm Pacific?) and during the day on weekends.
The ‘Two Large Islands With The Channel In Between’ is the Solomon Islands map and personally I really like that map. It’s got nice open spaces for Battleships, cover for destroyer ambushes, and multiple viable strategies. You do see it a lot at lower tiers but IIRC it’s only in the pool until Tier 5.
The worst maps by far are Strait (where your teams spawn split into two groups divided by a big long island – it’s a shitshow because it needs teamwork and the spawns are often not very balanced) and Ocean, which is just an open body of water with no cover and it sucks in slow battleships.
The gun accuracy thing if you know how the info works (shell flight times, how to lead properly etc) isn’t really that much of an issue especially in low-tier cruisers because they don’t have much range. T3 and T4 battleships have awful dispersion and the Japanese BBs are complete shit – Kawachi is like a fat kid with one arm armed with a shotgun, and Myogi is super long range but they built her backward and put all the guns at the rear so she’s at her best when running away, and the long range encourages players to sit back and snipe when she’s just shit at that.
Teamwork is much more important in later tiers. Basically there’s a rock-paper-scissors thing. Destroyers are super dangerous to Battleships, but Cruisers are more maneuverable and can get in closer and wreck them. Cruisers are vulnerable to Battleships. So what’s meant to happen is that Destroyers run out ahead of the team, scout out areas, capture control points and use torpedoes to sink unsuspecting ships that sail in straight lines like idiots (this is why you *always* take the Situational Awareness captain skill in a Battleship, because if you’re detected and there’s no ships in range on the map, it means a Destroyer has seen you and is probably going to torp you).
Cruisers are basically meant to be in between the Battleships and the Destroyers. Depending on the cruiser they can function quite differently but they’re meant to escort Battleships, keep destroyers away from them, and basically provide the utility and speed.
Which tech trees did you try? They all play quite differently. The IJN is about being really sneaky. USN is about having more guns than everyone else. Russians are glass cannons, and Germans trade off armor for accuracy. So generally if you’re not really liking one ship, you can swap to a different tree and might find a better match. Turns out that while I love the IJN battleship designs for example, I found that the US Battleships (and Warspite – though people have realized how to kill Warspite easily now 🙁 ) were more my jam. Especially Wyoming. Leveled through her so fast because I was averaging 3 kills a game. Destroyers that think you’re food, charge in for torps and then get hit with precision HE shots from the main battery and deleted, mainly.
EDIT: US Destroyers are better with guns than torpedoes. If you want to play US Destroyers you need to get in the thick of it and target IJN destroyers with your guns while using torps for area denial, or you want to hug islands right and ambush cruisers and battleships from really close. IJN Destroyers are all about long range hit-and-run torping. Smoke is for when you’re spotted and need to retreat and it’s hard to use well.
atsf’s ‘How to Clemson’ is an amusing look at US Destroyer tactics:
(Clemson’s the US T4 and is very good).
PotG thing
http://9gag.com/gag/aMGpmRX
http://9gag.com/gag/apveR2B
http://9gag.com/gag/aZM91jp Not a PotG but I know it’s something other overwatch players are familiar with
http://imgur.com/gallery/s57ccWf
http://imgur.com/gallery/0aCTX5H
http://imgur.com/gallery/bESqwUw
Like seriously! Level 50 as well. @#@!@!#!@%!$
You don’t need to be smart to get to level 50
Or even good, just persistent.
No but you need to be “special” to have played that much and end up picking Hanzo when the team needs a healer.
Or just arrogant
You’ve fallen down an Overwatch gif blackhole haven’t you? =P
No! It’s just all over the internet at the moment
Final Fantasy XII remaster? Well Square Enix you have been reading my christmas list
Was pretty much a given when they did FFX. Same core engine, just have to port over the system changes.
Sure, but the difference is I’ll actually buy this.
There’s no accounting for taste I guess.
Though to be fair, Balthier. And Fran was okay. And honestly even Vaan at his worse doesn’t piss me off as much as Wakka.
For whatever reason, my alarm volume was turned down to zero, so I was out of bed 25min later than usual today. Left the house maybe 20min later than usual. Yet somehow I only got to Central two minutes later than usual.
I can only conclude that I accidentally hopped on board the BttF train without realising.
IT’S YOUR KIDS GOOKY! WE GOTTA SAVE THEM
I was afraid this would happen.
OH GOD WE FUCKED UP AND
BIFFTRUMP IS NOW A SERIOUS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATETHIS IS HEAVY
WE GOTTA GO BACK!
I KNEW IT!
Trump has the Sports Almanac!
Heavy? why would you use that word? Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth’s gravitational pull?
Peak hour traffic
is a filthy whorehas a lot to answer for.A few weeks back I left at 7:45am and got in around 9am.
The very next day I left around 8:40am and got in around 9:10am.
Nearly an hour later start, only ten minutes later arrive. Because F&@#%^!@*%@#!.
It’s National Nightmare Commute Day today.
Mine wasn’t. I got on my bike at 7, I got off my bike 30 mins and 11km later and parked it in the basement. And that’s pretty much the story whatever time I leave. Today I carried 2 laptops and my clothes for the rest of the week.
The biggest factors affecting my commute time are traffic lights (if I catch a run of greens, it’s worth a few minutes…) and the wind (strong northerly vs strong southerly – around 10 mins difference).
Having a shower on my floor at work is a massive bonus though.
I’m listening to so much (mostly) instrumental music at the mo – working on difficult configuration stuff on a full-on IT project, and need stuff to block out open plan noise without being distracting.
I like “world music”, electronica from the 70s pioneers like Eno, Jarre, Vangelis and 70s prog too, and then dance/techno from the ambient and trance ends of the scale. Who’s got some recommends?
Spotify is your friend.
I would suggest Tycho and Solar Fields
No it isn’t. It probably should be. I’ll introduce myself.
And thanks. 🙂
Unsure if you will like them.
Spotify is very good
Found some good ambient albums by “various artists” the other day
Ambient Spirit, Ambient chill and Ambient 01
Also you can search playlists created by spotify by things like “Mood” or “EDM/Dance” and even “Sleep” (Sleep most likely to include ambient)
EDIT** You are welcome, I have a game called last song played, I am not a muscian but I do not leave the house without earphones, and my interest range from extremes like Cattle Decapitation to Sufjan Stevens
The Ambient Dub compilations were rather good. Awesome mix of Shanti (that I hit in Last Song Played) earlier) on Volume One.
And I have very eclectic taste, although when I’m working I much prefer this sort of thing. I’m not a musician either, although I did play percussion for a few years. I have found that though I used to listen to music on foot all the time, I really can’t anymore as the many years of cycling mean if I can’t hear around me I’m really off-balance and disconnected from the world (and paranoid). As soon as I get on the train/tram, I’ll stick on the music though.
I just don’t like to be outside without earphones, anxiety related
I used to be the same. But cycling I found I need my ears for cars and magpies and balance and listening to the road and the wind, and now I’m the other way round – I’m more anxious if I can’t hear that stuff.
It’s like I’m totally connected to the universe, man. *pulls on tie-dye shirt and lies in a muddy field*
It’s because of this I hate driving with the windows up. Feels like trying to drive with one eye closed.
Solar Fields is great
When listening to Radio Sidewinder, i came past these guys called “Stellardrone”… You should check them out, you might like them…
Very mellow but very awesome stuff.
If you like 70s pioneers then you’re already familiar with Klaus Schulze.
Mainly through Tangerine Dream. Good reminder, will have to hit more of his solo work.
If you haven’t hit up his solo work before, I’m a big fan of Moondawn.
I don’t believe you.
I have some Lego coming (hopefully) and it’s been sitting in Alexandria Hub for the past two weeks! It’s killing me!!!
What Lego? Also: nooooooooooooo why still there????
I have the RotJ Shuttle Tyderium to build the next time there’s a horrid wet day.
Oh man, i totally want the Tydirium, it’ll look nice next to my AT-AT! 😛
Tydirium. Yes, that. 🙂
Wall-E, the Tardis and a Lego City train station. I buy them faster than I can build them. We are going a bit crazy because we know once the kids comes along that’s it for us…
Yeah, no Lego for kids!
Or, the Lego will be the mass mixed bucket. 🙂
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Might post a benchmark or three later.
At once.
SIMULTANEOUSLY PROJECTED!
LOL at work with the courier envelope looking at me.
Patience, Sir Gookathon. Patience.
Game of Thrones! I can’t believe there’s only three episodes left after this one! Such an amazing season.
Season 6 Episode 7: The Broken Recap
Being chased by the men of the Night’s Watch he betrayed by abandoning his duty, Jon Snow flees across the Northern tundra until he reaches the Iron Islands, where he steals a catamaran and, proving wrong the common myth that he knows nothing, displays an improbably high level of sailing ability as he cuts a sick wake against the stormy waves. Lord Commander Sam Tarly wistfully watches him disappear over the horizon as a single tear trickles down his cheek.
Burdened with massive piles of gold that the Iron Bank of Braavos simply refuses to continue secure, Arya commits as much of her money as she can building a giant ass castle in the middle of town. Hoping it will crumble into dust at some point taking her and everyone else with it, she chooses the lowest bidder and tells him to “go nuts”.
Brienne, frustrated by her inability to discipline her unruly squire Podrick without also arousing him, starts trying to keep him occupied by asking him to fetch her “elbow grease”, “a left handed hammer”, and “fifty yards of shore line”. He sets off on his quest and immediatedly falls down a well.
Shunned by the populace but determined to protect the queens from the Night’s King, Jamie and Bronn seek the assistance of their former squadmates from the Imperial Army. They’re prepared to forgive him for not being a natural blonde, as long as his pecs are real and not implants. They take the following awkward silence as confirmation and agree to help.
Daenerys, Drogon, Jorah and Jorah’s unnamed bear-wife feature in a network crossover episode with the cast of Silicon Valley. Jorah hacks into the FBI database and gets everyone arrested. Erlich Bachmann starts offering handjobs in exchange for protection despite the fact he’s only in a holding cell with his friends at the time. Bighead falls in love with Daenerys and asks Drogon for advice on how to ask her out. Drogon gives him poor advice as a prank, but Daenerys is apparently down for his pathetic stumbling attempt at courting by showing her his porn collection which mostly features web links to her own nude scenes. Jorah saves these to a USB despite the fact PCs don’t normally exist in Westeros.
Each morning Sansa wakes up to a small bag of coins on her nightstand and is oblivious as to why. It turns out the local townsfolk have been gathering around her window at night to listen to her talk dirty in her sleep. She feels repulsed by this at first, but ultimately accepts that a girl’s gotta eat.
Tyrion and Varys start trying to shipwreck their fleet as part of one of their roleplay escapades, and for the first time in a long time, succeed at something on purpose. The crew stand around awkwardly watching them make love on the beach for awhile, but eventually start to repair the ship so they can get back home. One of the crew remarks “Remember when we were real sailors and not pawns in an intricate sex game? Those were the days.”
Does anybody who actually knows about such thing have a ticket price for a day on the green?
It looks like the tickets are in presale mode at the moment. What a lineup though!
Apparently on the grass tickets are $100+
Has so much uni nostalgia in that line up, so tempted but think there are other things I would prefer to do with that amount of money.
So I think I have the VN story kinda figured out.
Protagonist goes to a boarding school in the mountains with his female best friend (who likes girls)
They discuss his unique condition on the journey up there.
When they arrive, the school is all female with the exception of one guy, who happens to be gay.
Later by himself, Protagonist laments his current situation and the god appears in cat form. However, no one else can hear the god speak, so it seems as though protag is a little insane.
God declares that if he can help the residents with their issues, the curse will be removed.
This allows for 3 main endings.
Good ending
Nothing changes ending
Bad ending
Waito, remind me what the guy’s condition is?
If he dates it causes a natural disaster
Unlike my dates, which feel like I’m inflicting a natural disaster.
Sounds exactly the same. You should demand royalties.
At this point I will make no profit out of this. D=
This sounds pretty workable and with the right tone would be quite enjoyable as well. The twist part is that you basically set up a bunch of character routes like a normal galge, but every one of them rather than ending in hooking up with someone, is a bad end where some horrible disaster occurs, so the correct path through is to avoid setting any flags. It’s a cool idea.
The only VN I’ve played that had a similar structure was Eustia, but that was slightly different. Five chapters, and the route through each chapter could branch in two ways – either the protagonist ends up with that chapter’s girl (ending at a ‘good end’ but leaving the overall story unfinished) or continuing into the next chapter which usually involved some pretty heartbreaking decisions. I never finished it because they front-loaded the two best characters. And also it wasn’t translated so it was slow going.
I’m thinking that if you try to spare the girls (and boys) feelings, then it’ll end badly. I’m now stuck on what the characters stories are.
Dear TAY I made a friend and their name is TAY and it keeps getting autocorrected to all caps whenever I type it so I’m seemingly exuberant forever now.
Whenever I type out the word “meet” or “meeting” i default to “meat” and “meating”
I love this so much
“I am late for my business meating”
“Oh, off to the butchers?”
“Yes. For business.”
“Aleph, page 18 of this report is just dick jokes and innuendo. You’re fired.”
I have accidentally typed this in work emails a few times.
Well this is a new one or at least not one I have noticed before.
Got linked to a board game kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/903579097/dueling-samurai-a-fast-and-furious-game-of-conques and it has a print and plan option which includes all the models to 3D print the figures and rest of the things needed.
I hate to be that guy because I think it looks kind of interesting and it’s cool to see something out of NZ, but I can see a bunch of issues with it though because weaboo 🙁
Specifically the Oda Nobunaga card says it gives him ‘Mino’ province, but the Oda clan ruled Owari. Mino is the province north of there. Izu was ruled by the Hojo, not by the Imagawa. Imagawa Yoshimoto ruled Suruga (which borders on Izu). The fact these are wrong makes me assume that every detail has been fudged.
The font he’s used for a lot of the game is ridiculously hard to read, too especially with that massive black border on everything.
I’ll stick to my historically accurate card games in which the Daimyo are all cute anime girls :V
I haven’t had a good look at the game, a friend tried it out a Wellicon and was posting about it more for the big pieces rather than the game itself.
My interest was more in the concept of print and play which includes all the pieces rather than just the cards.
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
this report is just dick jokes and innuendo. You’re fired.
Not actually the worst description of TAY I have ever heard
I miss TAY-bar… that’s pretty much all it was, but with more Minecraft! 😛
We should organise another one, I was only able to be one for one but it was fun
It’s probably the most accurate
@cffndncr And for anyone else interested, this is the Battle royale from Sundays Robowar at vivid Sydney
This is up there with the greatest things I have seen in my entire life.
Did you see Deathroll?
Hey Guys. If anyone of you are interested in cross-platform play for Overwatch between Xbox and PS4, you should share and sign this petition I’ve set up to bring it to Microsoft, Sony and Blizzard’s attention.
https://www.change.org/p/microsoft-make-overwatch-cross-platform-compatible-for-xbox-one-and-ps4
While I don’t actually play it on console I am always for cross console supports on multiplayer games!
Cool. Looks like the semi-reunited Guns N’ Roses will be touring Australia in January.
In other news my Slipknot ticket arrived today woooooooo. Now to only wait another 4 months & 21 days..
Visceral attack!
http://gematsu.com/2016/06/rumor-wolfenstein-new-order-2-evil-within-2-prey-2-announced-e3-2016
Wolfenstein New Order sequel?! Yes!
I knew it! Spoilered for new order ending –
I knew blazkowicz couldn’t be dead!I kind of liked the idea of them killing off Blazkowicz , it seemed like a good way to end his whole story arc… I mean, other than the fact that you hear the chopper come at the end of the credits so he’s obviously alive. I’d rather to see the sequel focus on Anya or Becker – they have that super suit, so the idea of another character being able to take the same (or more) punishment than Blazkowicz isn’t that far-fetched, and both characters have the potential for a really interesting narrative arc.I think we can agree that regardless of what they do, if Machine Games are handling it again we’ll be getting something to be excited for!
Confirmed that I’m going to PAX West \o/ Tickets secured. With spares too!
Pffft, who goes to PAX?
Losers, that’s who!
LOSERS LIKE US, WOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Nice. I’m not jelly, nope, not jelly at all
Last night I went to the Matilda’s v New Zealand and Socceroos v Greece soccer games last night in Melbourne.
Some thoughts;
– The Matildas game didn’t have many people, so I could hear the coaches yelling out. Never had that happen at Etihad before.
– Eating a souvlaki before the game was obviously a bad omen for the Socceroos (who lost 2-1).
– 5-10pm watching watching soccer is a LONG TIME
– But it was worth is because of this: http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-07/socceroos-stunned-by-greece-wondergoal-in-2-1-loss/7488550
I went to the T20 double header between Australia and England at the G a couple of summers ago.
I counted 19 people in the stands for the start of the women’s match. My friend and I walked round and sat up behind the Southern Stars’ dugout and cheered from there. By the end of the match there were probably a couple of hundred. Such a shame, it was an excellent match. But then, Friday afternoon. They keep scheduling the women at shit times.
Glad you went though. That Greece winner was a brilliant goal.
You going to Wallabies – England?
I didn’t know we were playing lol, when’s that?
First Test is this weekend in Brisvegas. Second Test is Saturday 18 June at the MRS.
Hooooly craaaap… So as some of you might know, my new shiny PS4 that i got for my birthday, kicked it monday afternoon.
I promptly got a replacement, and of course had to redownload everything.
Now here’s my query/concern/poop-myself moment…
Does PS4 automatically copy save games to the cloud? I haven’t checked yet, but will my Bloodborne save be safe?
Otherwise I have to do it all over again and i might cry 😛
Do you have PS+? Did you set your PS4 as your account’s primary PS4? If yes to both, then yes, it’s uploaded to the cloud automatically, assuming you had Automatic Updates enabled.
Yes and Yes, and i believe so!
Awesome!
Hope restored a little until i get home and discover otherwise 😛
Mine’s just started doing the disc eject thing again. 🙁 Didn’t do it for months, then the last firmware update it started doing it again straight away. Fiddled with it, and it seemed to stop, but it’s back. Grrr.
Well that’s not ideal!
Does PS4’s have a high failure rate or was I just unlucky?
Does that mean you have to send it in for repairs now?
Nah, I’ll do all the fiddling that makes the problem stop. If I have to send it for repairs, I’ll have to find the old 500GB drive and put it back in…
I know your PS4 but my Xbox does all this automatically (see FAQ reference below)
I’d assumed Sony would have done this as well, Cloud Saves is just…I don’t know, great idea, I hadn’t even thought about it not doing it.
“What’s stored on my hard drive, and what’s stored in the cloud?
Your data is stored to both your hard drive and the cloud simultaneously.”
Last song played game time!!
I.E.D. by Killer Be Killed
What was YOUR last song played?
Dead Can Dance – Opium
Mine is now Puzzled by People by The Streets
Did you check out Spotify?
No. I was working ’til stupid o’clock. When I got home I pissed about installing new gfx card and then went to bed…
…but I will.
Robert Prince – E1M1 At Doom’s Gate
When Death Comes Knocking – Primal Fear.
Hmm.
Mmm…
Hrmmmmm…
Still closed…Still closed…
Mmm…
Next year looks to be as good as last, sorry 2016 guys but your year isn’t my cup of tea!
Give it a few months, I hear Spring is going to be amazing.
Other than Tomb Raider 2 coming to PS4 & Pokemon Moon, there’s not a lot of really high level stuff on my list.
Last year had Fallout 4 & The Evil Within & Dragon Age Inquisition.
Sony’s still saying we’ll get The Last Guardian this year…
Although the art in all those games is super amazing, I didn’t find Shadoew fun. Great concept & all but I still haven’t finished it.
Love Ico though. So I’m undecided at this point. Will be keeping an eye on it, but it’s not got me super excited.
I tried so hard to delete that e
What is coming next year that has you excited
Horizon: Zero dawn has been pushed till early next year but that is the only one on my radar
Persona 5 is coming next year.
But 15 this year! Totally this year!
Yes 😀
Last night for the first time in a while I stayed up late to play games (Overwatch if you must know!), and played for about an hour.
It was a fun time, However I couldn’t sleep for around an hour afterwards; I had the sounds of the game still running through my thoughts, and I just couldn’t get to sleep.
Has this happened to anyone else, and if so what are your remedies? I like playing games but I’m not sure if I can do it so much that it impacts my sleep lol.
Clearly you’re not impacting your sleep hard enough. Stay up later so you’re too tired to stay awake once you lie down 😛
Yeah this happens to me when I play fast paced or competitive games before play; they jack up my adrenaline too much. I’d recommend stopping playing games like that at least an hour or two before you sleep. I usually stop playing Overwatch by about 9.30 and then mess around on Total War or watch something on Netflix or Twitch.
Edit: Also worth noting too much blue light just before you sleep can make it harder for you to nod off and also stops you from feeling rested the next day. Ideally you shouldn’t be staring at a screen just before you sleep. Case in point @mrtaco ‘s never ending horrible sleep stories =P
Who needs quality sleep when you can supplement it with naps instead? 😛
I use f.lux on my computers for this, and Twilight on my (android) tablet. Makes the light warmer and redder at night.
I believe Apple stuff does this natively now.
I call it gamerhead. Happens when I spend too much in a game – takes a while to get my mind out of gaming mode.
Best plan is yeah, don’t game right before bed. Watch an episode of something or read a book to unwind first.
I’ve been up playing Bloodborne – a cup of tea is always a good thing before bed (herbal if you can’t tolerate the caffiene). If I’m having a restless night getting to sleep (sometimes just a busy head, sometimes anxiety overloading) then having a shower is also a good reset button.
That’s a great idea, I had a day off earlier this week and tossed and turned from 11-5, I eventually got up, had a shower and then slept until 8.45am. I’ll try this next time!!
https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger/posts/ayXVWrFpQus
Friend linked this to me just before. “Demonically clever” indeed.
I wonder if I’m going to get random emails from clients or prospects about this
It is rather interesting
Similar to the proposal for government agencies introducing backdoors into encryption algorithms – only way to be safe at that point is to use another product… which relies on detecting it, by which point the company that was compromised would be bankrupted by public backlash. As ever, it all comes down to how much you trust the person/company [and affiliates thereof] telling you their product is secure?
Okay, so in light of what I wrote yesterday, I have been thinking about the visual novel more and I think it’ll have to be a hybrid of wacky situations and serious moments. The only problem is that it needs to be natural and balanced. Is this a zombie didn’t balance it too well and it was disjointed.
I’m also thinking of playing on some stereotypes like the wallflower and tsundere. I have a vague idea of what their issues should be.
Wallflower I’m thinking that she’s trying hard to change herself, but she needs to learn to accept herself.
The Tsundere I’m thinking has abandonment issues and needs to learn to accept people again.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE HOT YAOI ACTION?
Also, what if after they make out one of them says “no homo”? Does that un-yaoi them?
Too late. Natural disaster is already in progress.
So, I was thinking, instead of having a character that is cursed you could start the game off as a normal dating sim. The character moves to a new school, meets all the possible date candidates, etc… After the player has met all the people they can date they find out that they are in a school for natural disasters and the player is accidentally sent there because on their previous report card the teacher describes their grades as a “natural disaster”. If the player dates one, a natural disaster occurs but if the player lets one down too harshly / is a jerk to one a natural disaster also occurs.
You could probably work in the “help the residents with their problems” too. Like, each of them doesn’t want to do what they do and you can try to convince them to do something else which will cause the natural disaster to not occur again in the world.
basically it would work exactly as you were thinking before (an anti-dating sim) but the framing of the narrative is different. Depends how wacky you want to go I suppose. =P
It could work either way. I’ll consider both. It just might be a bit hard to come to a conclusion.
“Only guy at a girl’s school” isn’t that uncommon a Visual Novel genre (though usually it involves the guy being super-feminine and posing as a girl). Maybe you could crib some ideas from one of those? Or perhaps the formerly-girls-school-goes-coed trope. A few of them have been animated too – Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru was the big one for the first setup, and I want to say Mashiro-iro Symphony was one of the second? I can’t remember if I finished that, I think it was a bit boring. Otoboku was pretty fun though might be a bit outside what you’re looking for since it’s largely a parody of classic yuri stuff (especially Maria-sama ga Miteru)
It’s not an all girls school, it’s an unfortunate coincidence, which makes the protag suspect that the gods are maybe messing with them
*crickets*……
Not for a few months, unless you’re up late at night watching foxtel. 😉
Good news though, WBBL has prime-time games next season! 🙂
It’s about time that Women’s cricket got the attention it deserves. Especially with the Men’s cricket having been a bit of a snore-fest recently (though I didn’t get to watch much last season, maybe it was good in early 2016?)
I was at Boxing Day. It was awful. 15 degree day after 41 on 25th didn’t help, but the match just wasn’t much cop.
BBL was pretty fantastic for both comps, the women in particular had some great matches and the men’s final was nuts. World Cup I enjoyed, brilliant to see the Windies do the double even though it was at the expense of both my nationalities… Test cricket not so good in the last year, other than Jimmy Anderson’s recent 10 for 45 against Sri Lanka which I did enjoy…
While I didn’t watch any of the WBBL, my sister said the best part of it was that it was clear they didn’t have nearly the same media training that the men had, so what they’d say in interviews or on the ground was wonderful.
Random thought – should guest posting on Kotaku be binned? I don’t see how allowing guest posts enhances debate. I’m pretty sure that there’s a fair bit of sock puppetry going on whenever there’s a social issue article (as well as the same 4 or 5 posters who only seem to post in those articles, usually derisorally).
Or is it all about the clicks? Sigh.
Yeah, it’s pretty awful at times, but most of these systems are prone to sock puppetry anyway
Yeah. Ah well. Just feeling angry with the world and people who don’t treat other people like people.
As someone who despises having to make a new account for any and every little thing regardless of how unnecessary it is, I say nay 😛
Who are you and why are you using @mrtaco ‘s account?
There are times when you may want to post anonymously though and I don’t know if requiring an account makes much of a diff in terms of cutting down trolling and shitposts.
I think it’s just that due to the majority of comments being gut reactions without much proper thought behind them there are a lot of people who feel almost exactly the same way, who only comment when issues drag them into the comments. They pass their simple stances back and forth in a way that makes it look like they’re using multiple accounts. It happens on both sides.
You’ve also got to keep in mind that there are a lot more people reading Kotaku than the comments would indicate. There are a lot of people coming in via social media shares too.
HAPPY BLAGHDAY EVERYBODY!!
That doesn’t sound very happy.
It’s a day about depression and loneliness.
My favourite!
If you have a spare 20 minutes – http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/the-valeant-meltdown-and-wall-streets-major-drug-problem
Absolutely amazing read and actually captures more of the culture in the financial world than you would want to believe. Definitely worth a read =]
Vomit emoticon.
Indeed. Reason #362 why I’m a nihilist.
Well that did amazing things to my blood pressure.
What’s funny is looking at that article from the inside of the industry I’m just nodding my head thinking yeah I can see how all those things could/would happen. Which is scary. Accounting/taxation/finance are in my opinion so long overdue for proper regulation it’s not funny. The 3 regulatory bodies forming the corporations act have little to no teeth and barely carry out the function they were once intended for.
This is why I should never be given any kind of super-power. I’d basically just start murdering a terrified conscience into the corporate world.
Selling my N64
http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/australia/video-games/nintendo-64/1115249111
You monster.
Poor 🙁
I have a whole week of having the TV all to myself. I’ve been bingeing on Falling Skies on netflix and playing Bloodborne.
Luxury
Of course, this is after bedtime. Before then I’ve had to put up with Go-Jetters and Hey Duggee episodes on repeat on iview…
Falling Skies is good. I think I still need to finish the most recent season, though. Noah Wyle really holds the whole thing together.
Selling MGS HD Limited Ed.
http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/australia/playstation/metal-gear-solid-hd-collection-limited-edition-ps3/1115275341
Also No No Kuni
http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/australia/playstation/ni-no-kuni-wizard-s-edition/1115275650
Last song played game time!
Disposition by Etherwood
Brilliant drum and bass on this Thursday morning, the nurofen took the edge off the headache and today is my last day of the week (praise be to flex days)
What was YOUR last song played?
The Nameless One by Volbeat
While zipping on my morning coffee.
Only issue with this picture is that i’m at work and not at home :\
My issue is that you are at work as well
Still, long weekend 😀
Don’t wanna be the one – Midnight Oil
Cloud Connected – In Flames.
Ugh, so tired. Overcast and slightly rainy winter morning – the perfect antidote to waking up. If I had my way, I’d still be curled under a large pile of blankets.
I reckon I’ll hit the sack when I get home, afternoon nap 😀
Warning Call by CHVRCHES
Loving that song.
I made a thing, again
http://imgur.com/a/rCoqy
I’m thinking of doing D.Va next. Anyone interested in a D.Va shirt?
I like it
Nob has requested a change
Isn’t something I personally would wear, but conceptually I like it
SO i changed it, but apparently it wasn’t the change Nob wanted.
http://imgur.com/QfpixxE This is the changed version
Some people are just never happy
He still wasn’t happy. Have to change it again
Holy god, blast from the past.
No wonder i like Elite Dangerous so much.
Does anyone remember a little game from the late 90’s called Sub Culture?
A game where you played as a tiny little submarine in a vast ocean.
You could undertake missions, trade between settlements, do bounties and mine material… Sound familiar much? 😛
Listening to the soundtrack at the moment, and having a massive nostalgia trip.
Now there’s a game i’d love to be remastered!
Should’ve sub(:P)mitted it for a Scribbletaku!
Also my brain refuses to not read that title on the box as “stub”.
Oh man, if only i could draw and hadn’t dropped a massive clue, that would have been a great idea! 😛
Still, now i really want to replay that game! so damn good!
Bloody kids these days. Trying to get into the station and they’re all spread across the whole width of the stairs. Then one of them walks straight into me, not just brushing shoulders or anything but full shoulder-into-chest, didn’t even stop or say anything.
KEEP LEFT UNLESS OVERTAKING
GET OFF MY LAWN
“Uh, it’s hard for us to leave when you’re standing there, Mom.”
“Push her down, son!”
You’re right, I should have pushed her down 😛
I catch the train daily, have done for the last 5 years.
At this point in time I walk THROUGH people (when I believe it is deserved)
You are in my way? I will bump into you
Be prepared for 130 kilos of fuck you
I can literally only do half that at best 😛
Sadly even the beard doesn’t seem to be imposing enough to make people clear out of the way until the last moment. At which point they seem to be surprised that they have to do anything at all. Still, not quite as bad as the idiots that stand in front of the doors when the train stops. Yet to actually yell at any of them like I want to, but I usually spread my arms out a bit and intentionally push past them out of annoyance. Dicks.
I’ll spread my arms out like I’m pretending I am a plane to push through those train door people.
I’m only five five so my 130 kilos is fat.
The beard doesn’t help, I think it is just my weight/I just don’t care/have earphones in so they can’t try to talk back to me.
Like I said, you are in my way and I will move you if I have to.
It’s not just train doors – I see it every day at lifts, too. It’s like people forget that these devices are used for travel routes other than their own, or that entering first will make the thing start moving earlier. “I need to go up one floor; I shall make sure to get on first so that I get there faster”, with the result being they still have to wait for everyone else to squeeze in, then cause the maximum possible annoyance when they try to leave cos they ended up at the back of the press.
tl;dr: In general, people don’t think about people around them.
People. What a bunch of bastards.
The lifts in my building are a little smart and tend to stop people being stupid.
Swipe access card on gate to get to lifts, panel on gate tells you which lift to get into, also then queues up your floor number from access card swiped at the gate. It lumps together a few floors, so most lifts I get in stop only at 21/22/23 – I presume people who work on 18/19/20 generally have lifts that only goto that floor. (we have 6 floors and our own set of lifts)
Also, if you get in the wrong lift you’re in for a walk. There are no floor buttons in the inside of the lift… So if you’re an idiot/oblivous prick you soon learn to get in the right lift. Otherwise you’re the guy who gets out and pushes the panel for the right floor instead of heading into a desk.
Strangely, I don’t think I’ve been in a lift with more than 6 other people.
Our lifts use a similar system, without the cards – punch in which floor you want to go to and it’ll direct you to a lift, and likewise no buttons inside. Only issue is a group might only have one person select the floor, so while the lift thinks there are only a few people, there are actually a few groups.
The most annoying one I found was office drones that stop if someone in front of them stopped moving. So all it would take is one person stopping to read the timetable at the bottom of the escalators during peak time and almost the entire platform’s worth of people would end up crammed into the tiny little bit of space at the bottom of the escalator. Almost the entire platform would be free yet they’d just stand there forming a wall of stupid rather than moving forward.
People who meander down the middle of the stairs so that there’s only *just* not enough room to move past them on either side…
I often wonder what’s going through people’s heads. I mean I can understand being oblivious or being with someone else and being too engaged to realise you’re blocking the path, but a lot of the time it’s people who look like they do this every day. How many times can you use an escalator without noticing that people stand to one side and some people walk up them? How many times can you not realise a line has formed behind you?
Ugh. May have gone too hard at the gym yesterday.
Legs and arms are sore.
Also got MLB 2k11 and Armored Core V: Verdict Day for $19 each.
So… Yay?
I did laugh at this.
http://9gag.com/gag/aqL4L7j
Haha, that’s fantastic
So, @jimu, re: Shin Megami Tensei IV:
I’m digging the art and voicing. Ruined Tokyo is compelling, and that dream-desert is pretty. There’s a lot more voice than I expected and it’s a bit more comprehensive than FE:Fates’ re-purposed canned stuff. I haven’t really got too far into the story beyond the new Samurai engaging in a rush to beat each other on the challenges in some class-based pissing match. (I’m still confused as to why no-one’s yet pointed out to Navarre that ALL samurai are Luxurors, that’s how Luxurors become Luxurors…). I beat them on the one prior to that, rushing through it madly, but now I’m taking my time on the suspicion that it doesn’t actually matter how long I take, that I’m fated by plot-writing to win the challenge anyway.
The pokemon-collecting is more frustrating than fun. It’s the same apparent randomness of pokeballs, but about thirty times as long, infinitely lower catch chance, more likely to wipe your party in the process, and there’s nothing you seem to be able to do to increase your odds of success. After realizing there was absolutely no way to tell from textual cues and responses whether or not a demon was likely to take all your shit then just fuck off anyway, I’ve simply stopped giving them anything and just refuse all requests. Maybe cheat once or twice (seems to be luck stat dependent – that’s been succeeding more that I pumped more into luck; could also be level-disparity) or end talks. Because fuck giving those assholes anything ever again (even life stones. I need hundreds of those damn things for the DLC!). So now I’m basically just in the business of recruiting scottish zombies, bubblegum faeries and chinese bird-men for fusion-fuel.
I’ve died once, and holy shit I’m never doing THAT again. Who the hell approved a five fucking minute unskippable/fast-forwardable game-over cut-scene? Hopefully future deaths go faster than that, but for fuck’s sake… (Seriously, it’s literally faster and less expensive to close the application and re-load it than it is to sit through that game-over sequence.) Fortunately you can save anywhere, so the new tactic is no more letting demons wipe my party while I continue trying to recruit them over and over. If the first couple attempts don’t succeed, I murder then retry. Or re-load if it cost too much in resources (MP for heals etc), or just make sure I’m not too far from the barracks. It’s efficient, but seems like a result of bad design. Need to grind up more AP to get enough slots to have all the starter demons nearly-permanently in the stock, just to keep doing the ‘talk’ option on ones I already have for free loot/heals. Grinding’s pretty time-consuming, though. That AP’s hard to come by, so I’m really having to limit my fusions and re-catches. If the max level is 99 and each slot upgrade costs 5AP, and you only get 10AP per level… I don’t know if it’ll actually be possible to ‘catch ’em all’. I may need to research this on a wiki or something before I invest too much time on it. Especially in case I accidentally miss any chances to acquire must-have skills owing to not having the slots free. 😛 So much grinding ahead. Such potential to dig myself into an inescapable hole.
The UI concept is pretty sweet. Gauntlet + Burroughs etc. ‘Ancient’ future tech with a medieval cult around it. I dig that. Those message-window overlays look really sweet in 3D, too.
I’ve never looked at it in 3D, probably should.
Those game over screens get shorter & that’s where is mode is hidden, if you die twice without a reset, he’ll offer you access to easy mode.
The idea is not to catch em all for reasons other than fusion, you just wanna keep catching new demons to fuse more powerful demons.
It’s a different take than Pokemon & a bit more free feeling because missing one doesn’t really matter.
Each demon is saved to a bank that you can pay macca to remove & fuse.
I came into work because my new airbrush is being delivered today, but Australia Post is taking forever to get here. I know other couriers take time too, but it’s always worth with Australia Post because they’re so absurdly unreliable. There’s every chance that six hours from now the tracking page will update with ’10:30 Unable to deliver’ because the driver saw the front door was closed and drove past.
Think I’ve plugged it on Twitter but not on here, but I’m part of the organising committee for the 2017 Australian Discworld Convention, that’s going to be held here in Adelaide next August. We’re starting to put stuff together about what’s actually happening at the con, but you can find out info (and buy tickets at early bird pricing, if you’re that organised) here: https://ausdwcon.org/
s’gonna be fun. c’mooooooon, you’ll get to hang out with me
Still keen for the family holiday as part of this
That sounds awesome. 🙂
Trying to find a replacement phone for mum is difficult, since Telstra are turning off their 2G network December 1st this year i’ve gotta get her a 3G/Next G compatible phone, all she does is make phone calls, nothing special & her current phone (Samsung flip phone) is perfect, I wanted to get her the same model as dad’s Samsung flip phone but Telstra & Samsung stopped selling it, which sucks. I’ve found a 2nd hand one on eBay, but that’s about it.
So, Mum and I forgot to display our disabled card. It’s in the glovebox because it doesn’t stick to the provided sticker. This means it moves around and is very distracting. The council fined us a while ago for it, We appealed and they sent back a letter that pretty much said “too bad. We’re not looking at it again. Pay up, or go to court.”
To make matters worse, we forgot again today and were fined again. It’s not a cheap fine either. It’s $152. But Mum is with me and is disabled, it’s not like we’re parking where we are not meant to. I’m considering bringing this to my local mp as I think it’s unfair to fine us for a silly mistake which is partially their fault anyway.
I should fight this right? Whether it’s the MP or the court, I should fight it.
Honestly?
You need to work out whether you’re fighting this because you have a case, or because you’re pissed off.
Because if you have a case, fight it. If you’re just angry, it isn’t worth it. Assuming this is fine #2, is fighting it going to cost more than $304? Are you going to improve?
I’m fighting it because I feel a have a case. The council next to us has cards on hooks. Ours uses a Velcro dot that is useless. Because it is a distraction, having the permit sliding all over the dashboard, we put it in the glovebox. We forgot to display it, because we’re fucking human and we forget shit. I thought they would throw it out because apparently, it happens all the time.
It would be a different story if we didn’t have the permit.
Ok, but what’s stopping you getting your own hook to hang the card from if you’ve identified the velcro dot doesn’t work for you? By all means, talk to your local council about changing the method of affixing, but in the meantime it’s still your responsibility to display the permit.
I meant to, but kept forgetting. I have spoken to the council but they just want the money. It’s not like we did this on purpose and now having two fines, it might be easier to just start dropping mum off and picking her up while parking in a normal spot. It’s a hassle but it’s getting too expensive
…Ok, but that’s the council’s issue, why? I’m sorry I can’t give you the answer you want to hear, all I’m seeing is that you’re aware there’s an issue and haven’t done anything to mitigate it. I’d probably waive the first fine if I was the council, though after that you’ve already been notified.
Hold on hold on @redartifice @beeawwb I feel like you guys are missing the point of a law that fines people who park in disabled spots. In principal it’s to keep the spots free for people who need it the most, if scree and her mom have a disability card but forget to display it then that shouldn’t justify a fine. If anything they should get fined but have a reasonable method of recourse to prove they were justified in parking in that spot.
If there isn’t the law places unreasonable burden on the very people it’s meant to serve.
I understand what the point of the law is, but there also needs to be a balance of enforcement. I tend to work on a “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me” – first instance, yep, waive it. After that though, once you know there’s an issue, it’s your responsibility to mitigate it.
But with that mentality aren’t people who aren’t the laws intended target also being penalized?
Couldn’t you then argue that if a shop owner gets robbed twice in a week they should provide the second thief a lesser sentence? Clearly the shop owner should have taken steps after the first theft to mitigate future damage.
Legal enforcement that targets the wrong people is parallel to extortion. If the accused parties have a disability card they shouldn’t be the target of the law. Not when most disabled families/people aren’t exactly rolling around in the top 5% of wealth.
But if the permit isn’t displayed at the time of the offence, how is the council to know if someone is legit?
If the council doesn’t know then they shouldn’t be allowed to assume guilt. There should be an affordable system in place for families to contest a fine, I mean christ all it should take is scree going to court/council with the disability card and the fine should be waived.
A government is meant to be afraid of it’s people, not the other way around.
That’s specious reasoning; breaking in to a shop is a criminal offence. Failing to display a parking permit is a civil offence.
In this case it’s not legal enforcement, it’s civil (council) – they employ the parking inspectors who issue the notices, and those notices cost money to enforce. When you apply for a permit you’re applying for an exemption and those exemptions come with regulations behind them. I’m all for leniency in the case of genuine need / forgetting – begging the question: at what point does simply forgetting become wilful negligence?
From the sounds of things it doesn’t sound like scree has been afforded any leniency? Providing no grounds for the question – at what point does forgetting become negligence.
However lets assume the council in your argument has done exactly that; provided leniency in a hypothetical situation. I don’t see a situation where the existence of a system for a disabled person to argue wrongly provided fines is not justified. In your hypothetical situation with leniency, scree’s only recourse is to be financially worse off than if she just shut up and paid the fine. How is that not extortion? When you create a situation where the only choice for an individual is to be slightly worse off or more worse off even if the government was wrong? How is this not extortion? With your argument you believe forgetting a piece of plastic at home is equivalent to $154.00 . With that kind of pricing I can tell you I should stop looking at stocks and get into the extortion I mean government business myself.
But let’s take this further because I genuinely believe these things are connected and the problem is systemic. We’re happy to charge people who park in disabled parking spots $152 per fault, and happily toss in disabled people who forgot their permit in there as well and provide no reasonable opportunity to argue their defense. However the very same legal system has little to no protection afforded to women if they’re victimized sexually/physically? Where is the same fervor and fanaticism with which the legal system charges fines when protecting a vulnerable part of it’s population? Where is this fervor when it comes to white collar crimes (of which I can safely say I have witnessed quite a few)? The system serves to punish those who can’t defend themselves and shirks away from battles that are too large to fight. But god forbid a family forgets their disability pass, we can’t afford to be lenient with them. That’s insane. Bring the hammer down! That’s not a legal system, that’s a bully.
I’m not arguing the legal framework behind the system but rather the ethical origins it should be derived from. As a starting point I have 0 faith in any of the existing systems in most countries; legal, finance and government. From a finance perspective I know of plenty of ways to screw lots of clients over that is completely legal. Also know plenty of ways to screw the government over financially speaking that’s completely legal. Doesn’t make it right.
Just like in this situation where an assumption of guilt with no reasonable form of recourse to argue this verdict creates an undue burden on a portion of the population that should not have to carry it.
I appreciate my argument was specious but I merely took the ethical concept behind yours to a larger/more sinister scale.
They did not waive the first one. We have finally remedied it. It’s not really something we can afford anyway, both of us being pensioners
I know they didn’t waive the first one; I feel they probably should have.
So the council have covered their arses and made it a law so we have to pay both fines. Mum and i were saving up for a kitchen to make her life easier. Whelp that’s not happening now.
We may as well not park in disabled spots. Not worth the cost
And this is the intended result for the system. You would’ve been better off not utilizing the disability spot which you have plenty of justification to use in the first place.
Freaking bullshit.
It is, but the council cares more about money then people’s rights. It’s always been that way.
They pretty much said and they’ve only changed the law in 2009 (council law only, btw) that not displaying the card is the same as parking in a disabled spot, while not being disabled. I think it should be a lesser fine for forgetting, but they won’t do that. We’ll just have to scrimp and save the $304. I just want to add, I get $1000 a fortnight. $300 is a sizeable chunk out of that.
I’m not talking about the ethics of it, I’m talking about why you’d try and challenge it to little avail.
Presumably there’s a document you sign when you get the permit issued that lays out the Ts & Cs, council will just say “You agreed to it here.” Challenging that with an MP isn’t gonna go far, and with the time and effort it takes you’ll probably spend more than the value of the fines.
I suppose you could make a pretty strong argument for not talking about ethics when talking about the law but that’s not how it should be.
The fact you believe there would be little to no avail means the law diverges from what should be an ethical origin. It shouldn’t cost people more in time/money to contest a fine that they shouldn’t have gotten in the first place. That’s basically extortion/protection money. You should not have to be worse off because the legal system made a mistake.
@scree I don’t know if you can or can’t contest this successfully. What I do know is that it’s wrong for the system to fine you when you have a disability card but forgot to place it. Even if you forgot it at home that justification doesn’t hold. If you have the card you should have the right to park in a disability spot and if the system mistakenly fines you, YOU shouldn’t be worse off for trying to fight it.
And people wonder how we create situations that cause GFC’s and create companies like Valeant. Seriously.
But the fine is for not displaying a permit in a parking spot where a permit should be displayed? I don’t think it’s a particularly big expectation that, if you’re going to park in a disabled spot, you display a proper permit. How is a parking inspector supposed to know if someone is or isn’t parked appropriately?
Now, we can discuss the magnitude of the fine- $152 is a lot, I agree, and it would suck especially on a lower income. I just don’t think that arguing it in a court when you’re likely to accrue much more than $152 in costs (not even lawyer costs, but the stress and opportunity cost that that would take) when you’re not likely to win is particularly productive.
Because they had that the permit is invalid if not displayed in writing, then we know there’s no way to win, so we’ll just pay the fine. Somehow.
Sure but Law and ethics diverged long ago.
There is no right or wrong these days, just the letter and how much you can afford to pay a lawyer to interpret it to your benefit.
Not passing judgement either way, just wanted to say that my experience suggests almost all the people involved in local council are officious, fascist dickwads with zero empathy who are using it as a stepping stone for ‘big boy’ politics and/or a way to line their own pockets.
Oh our council is useless. They have been found out to be corrupt, using public money for holidays and such, but no one did anything about it. We get charged a ridiculous amount for where we live.
I know, my sister lived really close to you for a year or so in Maidstone and was pretty scathing about them too.
Oh, no one is happy about the maribyrnong council. They’ve had one of the lowest approval ratings for 10 years. They charge too much and do next to nothing.
DC & Vertigo comics I’m selling, if anyone’s keen:
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Apparently all y’all started wars without me?
Tomorrow 7:30 SA time!
TS Server deets have changed, hit me up on Steam tomorrow night and I can send you the new deets
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Keen.
Hopefully I can make it to be Pacifistic again. I’ve gotten the “building an empire” down pat now, but I haven’t learned about the “bringing tha dakka” part in wars, and of course capturing planets, which I’m going to guess is “Bring assault troops in transport ships > Clear the planet’s orbit > land your troops on the planet > lotsa dakka ensues > take the planet” or am I way off?
No, that’s about right.
The Trump Collective will rise again at 7.30am SA time.
Jeez, trump collective, you’re up early
I now have Stellaris, and have not ever played it. This may be relevant to my interests. Is it possible to spectate in-game so I can get a feel for what’s happening? Or should I just jump in?
I have a quiz thing at work so won’t be getting home until about 5.30ish WA time, so may miss the start.
You could just jump in, there’s a tutorial voice dude who’s quite good. we’ll pick you out one of the aliens that doesn’t ahve a player yet
If anything, I feel that it’s probably going to be easier if we can tell you who’s who, what’s where, and what to expect, filling in the gaps and giving tips for whatever tutorial-bot doesn’t.
Shame we can’t give Cracks the Prethoryn Swarm, that’d solve most of our immediate problems…
I’d say at least do a few hours of single player with the tutorial-bot first so you get an idea what everything is and what you can/should do. That worked for me.
It’ll be pretty overwhelming but there’s no pressure to succeed or anything so a click all the buttons and ask all the questions approach while chatting on TS is pretty much what it’s all about.
I am hoping I’m still invited to these things… 😕
Um, well, y’see, we were gonna tell you but…
Space is big and I copied and pasted a bunch, sorry for the omission.A Thursday Taydrenalin shot: E3 predictions/dreams?
Never gonna happen but
Sony/Microsoft conference
end of conference, we’ve seen lots of wow exciting games
head of company wraps up
Lights dim
Voice over: one more thing
Lights up on a desolate prairie
soft guitars in background
Man rides in away from camera on a horse at a gallop
pause
4 men ride after him in pursuit
Smash to title card
RED DEAD REVOLUTION
COMING HOLIDAY 2016
-Retro is revealed to be working on a new F-Zero
-Nintendo is putting that clay tech from Kirby to use by making a new Stunt Race game
-There’s also a new Unirally
-The Wii U is finally getting Battalion Wars 3
-The Wonderful 102 is a launch title for NX
-Elite Beat Agents 2 is finally going to happen
-Oculus reveals the first 3rd party headset to be supported by their SDK will be the PSVR (totally not going to happen til after it releases if it ever does at all, but I would dearly love for it to come to pass)
Man I’d love some new Battalion Wars. Such a shame that the first flew under the radar and the second was on the Wii.
Hey the second was pretty great! Though yeah, the first was still better.
I just can’t believe they never did it. After how well Pikmin did the whole RTS thing with the touch screen, it seemed obvious that a BW3 would be perfect for it.
The second wasn’t bad or anything, it was just for the Wii at a time when that wasn’t a good thing. It was hurt by the lack of HD, the lack of precision in the motion controls and the mountain of garbage making it hard to pluck out any of the gems that weren’t major name Nintendo brands.
I still dream of making a Syndicate game based on how Battalion Wars plays…
Also hurt by Nintendo pulling out the LAN play option imo.
My E3 dream is that anything announced will also be available within 3-6 months of its announcement.
No more 1yr+ hype trains!
Red Dead Revolution, available (Looks at watch), any minute…. now!
My E3 dream is that E3 will be closed down this year. The event is a whole lot of pomp and hand waving with very little punch.
Bioware announce a HD-remake of KotoR 1 & 2 and then they go on to release a KotoR 3. SHUT UP IT WILL HAPPEN! *runs off crying*
SWTOR is KOTOR3. :3
Then maybe this year they’ll let us buy it instead of renting it. =P
KotoR3 abridged at best …
I actually think a new Red Dead is quite possible and E3 would be the right timing for it too.
I’m half expecting that we’ll see something Crash Bandicoot related at the Sony conference as their ‘fan pleaser’ a la Shenmue 3, Grim Fandago etc. at previous conferences.
I don’t know which it will be, but I am fairly certain one of them (or maybe EA’s) will show off the new Star Wars game that they bought Amy Hennig on to work on.
I’d buy a Crash Team Racing remaster. Great game.
Heh. Ran into the co-worker who no one likes when I was at Coles today, calls me a traitor for shopping there, yet he was.. Where is the logic in that? God he’s weird. I just laughed and walked off.
The logic is right under your nose: it takes one to know one.
Haha. He’s just a dick to be honest. He’s like my manager, tries to be funny & just fails.
This sounds like an episode of The Office.
Been getting into homebrew of late cause it’s cheap & there’s a variety that me & dad like. We did a ginger beer the other week & it’s just reached drinking point, it’s pretty awesome.
I thought I was living in Ginger Beer purgatory and would need to make my own but turns out that you can pick up imported Bundaberg for like $6/4-pack at the bottle shop near work.
You must take me to this run of the mill Seattle bottle shop which sells the nectar of the gods.
Do you know where you’ll be staying for PAX?
Nah, didn’t want to commit to anything if I didn’t get tickets. I’m only now figuring out what days to take off work and where to stay. Aiming for somewhere in the city I guess, just so I can wander around late at night and grab gross American food if I want to.
There are times I wish I lived in Seattle and times I’m glad I don’t. The inability to walk to food from my place in Redmond sucks. The fact I pay a lot less rent for a bigger, nicer place definitely does not.
Also FYI it’s a chain: http://www.bevmo.com/
Hoorah \o/ Also that’s $6 USD?
Yeah. Well, it’s $7.50 if you don’t have their membership card. Still good value.
Yeah, I honestly thought they’d be up around the $10 a 4 pack kinda deal.
It’s around triple that here >
Do they only have ginger ale over there or something?
It’s all people seem to mention in VR circles when discussing motion sickness cures. And I’m just like come on ginger beer is a million times better.
Who’s going to enjoy E3 by being snarky on Teamspeak?
Being snarky on TS is probably my favourite thing about watching the conferences.
Yeah I was thinking of doing that. I do love snark
I intend to watch the E3 conferences in the best way possible, which is watching them while the Giant Bomb crew provide snarky commentary.
PSA: Big W has this Sherpa Fleece lined hoodie available at the moment, on sale even.
Best clothing related $15 I’ve ever spent.
Is it one of the thicker hoodies? All the ones I’ve seen recently are incredibly flimsy. Winter is going to suck.
It’s lightweight but very warm for it’s weight.
Dunno if I’d wear it out, probs won’t help against wind much. But as a bum-around-the-house garment it fit’s the bill perfectly.
Sweet, I’ve also been looking for that exact type of thing. Cheers.
Hmmm
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Can’t sleep…
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Did you know that the last person over 58kg to ride a Melbourne Cup winner was Chris Munce’s cellmate?
Probably Unpopular Opinion Time:
I don’t want a Red Dead Redemption sequel. I just want to play the first one again in HD with refined systems. Remake, Reboot, whatever you wanna call it.
John Marston – the character – was a huge part of the appeal of that game, to me.
Marston had that Malcolm Reynolds quality of civil if not downright gentlemanly badassery. Humble and understated, at that. One of his defining character traits was restraint; not out of fear or prudence, but honour and the illusion of decency. John was a character trying to atone for his reckless ways, trying to make it as a family man, while dealing with the sinking, disappointing possibility that this awful shit is the only thing he’s actually any good at and he may not be able to – or deserve to – live the kind of life he dreams of.
That character, and that story, was a huge part of what I loved about Red Dead Redemption. Not just ‘GTA Wild West’. Anyone can be the protagonist of that game. John Marston made Red Dead Redemption what it was.
I feel like there’s a good chance they could make another compelling character, but I kind of agree. I never finished RDR (I got pissed off because the game glitched and killed my horse 🙁 ) but I’d love to re-play it. Alas, I no longer have a 360 to do that with. Give me a Director’s Cut remaster. And give it to me on PC.
I figure there’s more than one narrative that can be told in the west. Marston was a great character, but I reckon Rockstar can come up with another compelling one.
I’m sure they can, but that’s not necessarily the character or narrative that I’ll find myself as drawn to as John’s.
I think that they’d be best to do a completely new and separate thing just under the Red Dead banner as opposed to a straight sequel.
You are right in that Marsden made RDR but “open world wild west game” is a setting with plenty of possibilities.
Not one for Remasters personally, and definitely not from just the last console generation. Save that kinda thing for older games that really need it and have faded to distant memory.
I’d play it again if it remastered.
Might just go back and finish the epilogue though… 🙂
I’d entertain a HD remake, especially if it came to PC. I tried to play it originally on PS3 but wasn’t that fussed with it.
I’d also argue that not having many other Wild West games out there helped make it special. Part of the appeal was that it was different and it’s hard to capture that with a sequel.
For another Red Dead game, it’d do well to be a completely discrete game in itself with no connection to the previous one, Marston’s story is closed and should remain so.
I think an essential part of the appeal for me was the fact that it was set at the end of the wild west era. Marston was a guy who wasn’t good but was trying to be and the world he knew was changing around him rendering him increasingly obsolete. The sense of oppressive futility hung over the whole thing and really coloured the narrative, the ending was just a perfect denouement to the end of his story.
It’s the first time I’ve seen anything quite like it since the C64 days, playing Pirates! in the 1680s “Pirate’s Sunset” era. Official naval forces were all over the place, pirate hunters were abundant, everything was heavily guarded, a letter of marque was as rare as hens teeth and even wars were uncommon so there was a serious struggle to find something to do. You could try trading but it was never quite profitable enough, the crew wanted a fight as much as they wanted coin and it was a challenge just keeping them close to content. It really got me thinking how futile it all was but at the same time how important it was to keep going.
I should really dust off the 360 and get around to playing that one day.
@jocon @pupp3tmast3r @anyone else who plays overwatch
What character should I design a shirt around next? If you want one, I’m hoping to eventually get a bunch printed up for taybies. (I want a Mercy one myself =P)
Genji or Hanzo themed one!
Just write Ryuu ga waga teki wo f**k you! on the front and watch passer’s by flinch like PTSD sufferers.
I’d buy this by the way.
Here here. I’d wear the shit out of this; also wouldn’t mind one with just Hanzo’s tattoo on the shoulder of a t-shirt =O
I’ll have to find a place that does sleeve printing
I was going to make one that’s just the dragons with one saying fuck and the other saying you.
Could do a Junkrat one: his grenade bandoliers over the chest and a riptire on the back.
Just remember that whole copy-write infringement thing.
These are only for Taybies. I’m not selling them on Redbubble. I’ll print them up and get them delivered.
Btw, the ryuu ga teki one, japanese characters?
I reckon it’d be better in english so that people reading that would actually get the reference =P Also don’t put yourself through too much trouble for a shoulder/sleeve printed one scree, if its easily organized go for it but don’t do it if its too much trouble.
It looks like it’d be hard. Most places do A4 sized places, front and/or back
Yeah then don’t worry about it! =]
Sorry.
What about a shirt with McCree staring at a clock and it says 11:59
It’s that time again…
If it’s not too complex, maybe do one of Winston with one of those old timey 50s movie fonts saying “It came from the Moon”.
Silhouetted against a moon?!
That would look pretty cool, for sure.
That might be my next one then.
Wife vertical fail.
*phone*
“Hi Trike… did you know your wife has fainted?”
“I didn’t. Where has she fainted?”
“Near her desk.”
“I’ll come up…”
*lift to appropriate floor*
“Hello wife on floor. What happened?”
“I fainted”
“Excellent.”
She’s in sick bay. They’ll send her home in a bit. :-/
Sounds beautifully awkward and mundane, like reading a Raymond Carver short story.
Haha! That’s high praise indeed and put a big smile on my face. Thank you.
She’s all ok now; it seems she was doing filing on a low shelf, stood up too fast and blacked out. Oops.
If you black out from standing up too fast, there’s still something worth getting looked at, I think.
If it’s not happened before, absolutely. We know what’s causing this, it’s being managed by a specialist. She unfortunately was concentrating too much on the filing and not enough on the “getting up carefully”… 🙂
Oh. Right. Yeah. Sorry. I forgot about that.
No apology required! Wasn’t even sure how much I’ve mentioned here.
http://9gag.com/gag/agGr4Pv What a dick move.
Have you seen his twitter? That kid is loaded. Probably didn’t even feel the 50k
He used his parents credit card. I don’t imagine they’ll be too happy
Lol scree he seems to fly around the country hitting up casinos. I don’t rightly think they even care =P
To quote the late, great fictional John Marston: “Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain’t nothing fair. You know that.”
A Tech YouTuber I sub to who is based in Sydney looked into it and did a video about what he found, he couldn’t really see the kid being that much of a dick & there was no real proof to claim it was all true.
I dunno. Sure the kid might’ve donated some large sums & then maybe did do a charge back, but i’d like to see proof from those claiming this. There’s 2 sides to every story & there’s only one side there & it’s bullying this kid & for all we know these might be false claims.
Yeah this too, after doing some digging around a lot of these so called articles provided little to no proof that there were any charge backs. Quite a few streamers also came out with statements saying the same.
ugh, fact checking? Who does that these days?
Someone who knows that companies constantly spin the truth in financial statements? Worth unwinding that spin when you might put a few million dollars for clients in a stock =P
Even outside that you’ll be surprised how much of what get’s published as news is either outright false/wordplay. When I try to follow finance/business news I spend more time filtering through opinion pieces and rubbish than I do reading actual facts.
Well, if it’s not true (I’m not going to go out of my well to hassle the guy or anything), hopefully it’ll serve as a warning for anyone who may try it. I know if someone gave me $10,000 and then said “ha ha, jk” I would feel awful.
Hahaha, that karma though.
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@red_artifice, @alisalpha et al. sorry guys, my game crashed and I haven’t bee able to log back in to Steam lol. Enjoy the game!
Had lunch here today: http://www.moxboardinghouse.com/bellevue/ with some people from the office and played a few rounds of Codewords. That’s a fun game. Also I think that Vlaada Chvatil may be legitimately insane.
As long as his insanity keeps making people joyful, I wholly endorse it.
So Gawker lost their lawsuit against Hulk Hogan and have filed for bankruptcy and are looking to be bought out.
I know that Allure are a completely separate organization, but where does this leave Kotaku AU? I mean, I assume Kotaku is one of gawker’s bigger blogs and is probably safe but since AU relies heavily on syndicated Gawker content, seems a bit troubling.
Next in Lifehacker: How to destroy your business while seeking ad revenue.
Well Kotaku US posted this in regards to their future..
I’d assume it’ll ultimately be business as usual.
A bunch of high up card shuffling, mostly on the US side of things but I think the Kotaku name is too big to just disappear.
Warcraft is actually quite a decent film. Ignore all the media nonsense and make up your own mind. I for one hope we get a number 2 and 3.
Michael J Fox for president!
So apparently the Hulk Hogan case bankrupted Gawker Media (who runs this, Lifehacker, Gizmodo and Business Insider)
http://nypost.com/2016/06/10/gawker-files-for-bankruptcy/
I wonder if we’ll see any articles about that…..
Lifehacker: How not to destroy your business while doing your job.
Nope, Business Insider and PopSugar are both not Gawker. Also they don’t ‘run this’, Allure does (part of Fairfax IIRC?) and they just use the name and syndicate some of the content.
So, the GTX1070 is out, and the price gouging has begun.
Newegg Australia has it at AUD$599, everyone else has it at $779 or $799.
Unfortunately Newegg won’t ship that card to Australia despite featuring it on their Australia page…
NewEgg just finally shipped my EVGA 1080 SC. I only had to order one sixteen fucking times today for the order to actually go through correctly.
At least, they say ‘shipped’ but haven’t given me a tracking number so I dunno.
When you convert the Aaustralian price to USD it comes out at $130 more than the base price that Newegg has which imo isn’t bad when you consider a) there’s no sales tax on the US pricing & b) the cost of shipping one of those things here from Newegg is gonna be between $70 & $100 AUD. So eh. We just have to deal with it that our dollar is really fucked.
Yeah, people forget that the US has sales tax in a lot of states. The tax laws are esoteric too. So like NewEgg is preferred by Washington residents like me because we don’t pay sales tax as they’re not a Washington-based company. The big issue is that a lot of tech companies that sell stuff online eg Amazon, Valve, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo all are headquartered in Washington so everything games-related has tax. And obviously anything in stores. Meanwhile Oregon has no tax, so people often make trips down to Portland to buy bigger-ticket items and save 10%.
In some other states, you have to pay sales tax at tax time on anything you bought outside of the state too.
I still buy a ton of stuff off Amazon but it’s been great in other cases. Plus for new games, it comes out in the wash – I have Amazon Prime so get 20% off on physical preorders & new releases. And obviously for MS-published stuff I can buy for 50% off at the company store. Downside is I’m buying lots of physical copies since it costs more to be digital.
I’m happy with the newegg price, the AUD $599 is fine ,it is the local $799 which is the rort. I’m usually okay with things costing more here, but an extra $200, which is 33% more is a bit rich, and that is $200 more than newegg’s Australian price…
The shipping is AU$49 from newegg on graphics cards typically.
Never has been for me when i’ve looked. I’ve always been quoted around $70 for standard shipping or around $100 for express shipping. For example on the GTX 1080 There’s a $77 AUD option & a $112 AUD option.
So question… Will Gawkers going bankrupt affect Australian Kotaku at all?
I was asking that too, just up the page.
It sounds like Gawker has a firm offer from Ziff-Davis to buy them out, so assuming that goes through, things could be quite interesting. ZD owns IGN. Would they still want to have Kotaku around too?
Assuming it sticks around, I imagine that it’ll be business as usual. Otherwise, Kotaku AU might need a rebranding and have to syndicate a different blog which would be a challenging branding exercise. But of course, this is speculating and who knows what their agreement with Gawker’s terms are.
Indeed, that will be interesting. If that does happen it’ll be quite the sight to behold. But, honestly I’ve little sympathy for Gawker over what happened as a company. The individual staff members of course I sympathise with who may lose their jobs 🙁 that sucks…
I feel like I need to knock something off my backlog, but not sure what to play. Want to do something on console so looking at Quantum Break, Odin Sphere, Senran Kagura EV, Nights of Azure or Atelier Sophie. I stopped chipping away at Doom on PC because I wasn’t really enjoying it and because I started hitting areas where I was dropping to 20fps average, waiting on my 1080 to fix that issue. I could work on my Vita backlog but I kind of stressed myself out in Cold Steel trying to optimize the character links for my first playthrough and haven’t gone back to it yet, and I don’t think I should be pulling out the Vita for anything else.
Damn the new Arma 3 addon is looking gorgeous: https://youtu.be/Tof5R18Xd34
Situational awareness will be a hell of a challenge but a damned fun one…