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Good morning tAY
Last song played game!!
Episode 7, History Week – Welcome to Nightvale
How was your weekend?
A year ago today my nan lost her battle with emphysema and her pain was finally over.
Fuck cigarettes
That’s entertainment – The Jam
Weekend was good, fairly casual and laid back. Brunch at cafe and and shopping.
Although we did work out what Tiglet was saying when she was saying what sounded like Sausage. She was after my Pop Viynl figures and was actually saying Colossus. Epic taste
Excellent song.
Beneath the Mire – Opeth.
Weekend was pretty relaxed – played a bunch of Diablo while listening to the rain. Very zen.
Yo, we dove back into Destiny, mostly doing POE (260 light level) to get gear to drop to infuse stuff.
I’m still only pushing like 309 light.
But god is it good to be back in hahaha
Glad to hear you’re enjoying it! I played a bit last night – helped a friend get the last 15k points he needed for his Challenge card; but mostly just waiting for the new week to reset the modifiers.
Like I said last week I’m old guard, loot cave, beta, all the sexy stuff
I’m still salty about Gjhallahorn and my mythoclast being left behind.
We got to the point we were playing weekly but then somewhere we just….stopped.
Morning.
My mom died 1st July last year of breast cancer. Not really looking forward to that anniversary so my thoughts are with you.
Had my mother in law pass away 29 March this year 1 month after finding out she had cancer.
It has been a shit fuck of a year
My condolences on your loss, it’s a horrible loss.
Ah man, I’m sorry for your double loss. Cancer truly is a monster. My mom had recovered 8 years earlier but it came back stronger than ever with breast, bone and brain in the mix. I got to say goodbye and we were close, so at least there’s no regrets.
I was thinking this weekend, with the steam sale approaching, that Steam sort of helped me find some escape this time last year. It was the first time I’d discovered the Steam Summer Sale. Kinda gave me something else to think about so every morning I’d check what crazy sales there were and feel a pocket of joy when I bought a great game for $2 or whatever.
It’s the little things, isn’t it?
It is the little things 🙂
Even before my MIL passed away I was playing Dying Light and just pretending the zombies were cancer, also did the same when destroying furniture
Great idea! I went the opposite and played That Dragon, Cancer and made myself really sad.
I don’t own that nor was I near my PC, but I was near my Xbox One and I do own Dying Light, and god damn was it good
My mam died from breast cancer in September of last year.
Much thoughts, hugs and well wishes coming your way, I know the feeling.
Last year can go eat a dick.
Thanks man,
Right back at you.
Garbage – Empty
I bought the new Garbage album on my phone while sitting by my wife’s hospital bed following her gall bladder surgery (she’s recovering nicely) and because I worked from home last week didn’t really get around to listening to it except while driving to run short errands, so I really only heard a song or two here and there. This morning I listened to the album in it’s entirety while commuting to work and it looped back around to track 2 (Empty) as I arrived at work this morning. I found it thoroughly enjoyable. Preliminary opinion so far, I would rank it squarely in the middle of Garbage’s discography.
Version 2.0 > Garbage > Beautiful Garbage > Strange Little Birds > Not Your Kind of People > Bleed Like Me
It may creep its way past Beautiful Garbage on repeat listens, but at the moment I’d be pitting the combined strength of Empty, Night Drive Loneliness and Even Though Our Love is Doomed versus Shut Your Mouth, Androgyny, Cup of Coffee, Silence is Golden, Cherry Lips and Breaking Up the Girl. That’s a tough call.
Interesting, I haven’t actually had a good listen to that yet. But your ranking looks similar to mine album wise so I might need to check it out today
I’d say have a listen to Empty and Even Though Our Love is Doomed (both are on youtube) and see if those do anything for you. I actually think my favourite song on the album is Night Drive Loneliness but again, it’s early days. Even Though Our Love is Doomed seems to be the song that the band is pushing as the track’s signature (I think the album title comes from a line in this song), but it never really takes off compared to the previous album, Not Your Kind of People. The album overall is slower and darker than previous efforts and not necessarily in a bad way, but it may not be to every Garbage fan’s taste.
Bought Strange Little Birds this afternoon.
Keen to listen to it.
TAY everyone.
This is more for @weresmurf and those still following the FNAF franchise.
I don’t know how long this has been there but Cawthon has updated his site showing a new animatronic that I can only describe as a lazy rip off from the end of The Matrix: Revolutions.
And on a related note, someone found the Puppet in the Sister Location video. Look at the Foxy style animatronic and you can see the Puppet’s reflection on the plating.
Looks interesting but I can’t help feel I’ll be less interested in this than the main series tbh. I loved the lore of the original, but this does feel like a ‘me too’ kinda project.
I also think that his choice to not open the box will have some coming to Sister Location thinking he’ll have a change of hear and explain the main franchise there and then show hatred when he doesn’t.
Cawthon is going to have a challenge here as in theory it looks like a spin off but lore wise, I think it will fit in.
A while ago, I made a thesis for FNAF 2 being real (in lore) and the rest the fevered dreams as the bite of ’87 victim dies.
But Scott’s use of the term Sister Location already has me thinking of alternatives. Just humor me for a second.
In the whole lore, once you take the hints away was there anything solid that confirmed the locations we were in had anything to do with the Bite of ’87?
I’m starting to think ‘no’; what we are seeing is damage to the company brand and Sister Location might take us to the location of the event.
I even think Cawthon planned this form the get go. In FNAF 4 one of the tapes clearly identifies a spring lock failure at a sister location.
What if the spring lock failure was not a staff member dying in the suit? What if the actual failure was when a party at a sister location went horridly wrong when a crying child’s head was put into the mouth of Golden Freddy?
But I will admit, due to me being easily stressed and having high blood pressure I won’t be playing Sister Location (or any of the FNAF games) and will only see it in action from Markiplier and MatPat’s theories.
— EDIT: —
The Guys at 8-Bit gaming just covered how someone took a long line of characters in the page’s source code and has deduced a week long time table supposedly for the animatronics.
I’ll admit that I’ve watched a lot of lore videos without actually playing the games but I think the franchise is kind of chugging along without a clear direction at this point. Scott tried to branch out into a different style of game and got slapped down pretty hard by the community.
I wonder if he still has the passion to make more FNAF games or if he’s just cashing in on the franchise he’s built. Either way, I can’t imagine he’s having an easy time of continuing the lore as I kinda felt it ended quite nicely after 3. 4 was a nice epilogue to the series that expanded on a number of things but I don’t think it was entirely necessary. I’ll reserve my judgement for Sister Location once it comes out but I don’t think too many outstanding plot points will be resolved.
You’ll never believe this, I’m sick!
What a suprise.
In the head or in the body?
If the latter, best of health to you.
If the former, don’t worry; I’m like that all the time and I turned out alright, 😛
I don’t believe you.
Me too. 🙁
I put in some solid dark soulsing, and died like 30 times or so around the cathedral to the random knights.
My number of souls would climb in a zig zag until eventually I died to some unfortunate circumstance on my way.
Then start over again…
FUCKING SILVER KNIGHTS
GUH
(I also spent yesterday fighting them)
The silver knights run the gamut from easy to “holy God what just happened”.
That one golden knight near the start just rolled me so hard, i’ve been avoiding his friends ever since.
Yeah, I can own the knights on the steps up to the cathedral a dozen times, but then one time I’ll get my ass utterly handed to me, use up most of my estus and be trying to figure out what the hell just happened to me.
The ones leading to
Aldrich?Yup.
That bastard with the spear destroys me. his strike down the stairs is longer than I expect, every time.
First day back to work after 3 weeks, 900 emails to read through. It’s been 45 minutes since I first logged in and only now I can click around inside Outlook. Try to open the first email… “Outlook is no longer responding” and had to be restarted. Still waiting for it to be usable again, this is going to be a long day…
I dread to think what mine will be like when I get back to work. 6 months + away… hopefully I won’t get a flood that long :0
It’s the weirdest thing, I love technology but technology seems to want to disobey me every step of the way by crashing, having weird errors like this or inexplicably break (Which I think a witch is screwing with me at this point…). Almost 4 hours after turning this on this morning and I can now use my email… geez!
My graphics card at home seems to actually be okay now and not broken afterall. Apparently my chipset drivers that I got from the ASRock vendor site were the cause as that came bundled with HD Graphics Drivers from Intel (Onboard) and was conflicting with my NVIDIA ones. Been able to play XCOM 2 again which is great, already Tech Knight Alpha has bit the dust (Bloody Vipers!), but never fear, there’s still another 7 models of the Tech Knight soldier-bot! XD
So long story short, I’m trusting Windows 10 picked drivers over vendor drivers right now 😛
Heh yeah Intel drivers and nvidia are a weird mish mash. Especially when it comes to the new cpu’s with gpu’s built in. When it comes to desktops, it’s always better to disable the intel ones to avoid conflicts, but when it comes to those laptops with hybrid display, you actually NEED to have the Intel driver installed before you can even successfully install the nvidia driver! So stupid. Glad you got it figured out though 🙂
I just made the jump to win 10 myself last week via full format method. I don’t have a choice but to let Win10 handle my mobo drivers, cos my board is so old, the manufacturer isn’t updating the drivers themselves.
Hope everyone on the east coast is going alright with the wild weather
Morning everybody, how was your weekend?
I managed to play a bit of Witcher 3 – starting over on PC now in preparation for getting a 1070 whenever they make an appearance in Aus (the rumour is this week). Managed to get the physical copy of the expansions with the gwent set so look forward to teaching the SO how to play.
How did you all go?
Watched Le Mans on my computer whilst sick in bed.
Was really crook the other weekend so I sympathise. Feeling better now?
Nope, still in bed with bad sinuses. 🙁
Actually managed a couple of solid sessions of Overwatch. Man that game is rapidly taking over…
Hobby 1 – Adult responsibilties 0. Rematch sometime this week….
It’s good stuff ey?
What you playing on?
http://9gag.com/gag/aopz5RX =D
PS4. I’ve been encountering some frustrating connection issues. it’s quite intermittent – some days its sweet and I can pull a long session with no disconnects. Other times, I cant even get a single game in. So the fact I could go for several hours on Saturday night was just bliss.
Join us
Scree I think it’s time to admit you have a problem……
The only problem is we’re not playing overwatch.
In all seriousness, Distant is prestige and you say I have a problem
Yeah but red’s always been elitist/completionist in any game he plays. You should see him in Destiny and WoW. Dude used to min/max faster than anyone else I played with.
I’m talking about Distant =P
Sorry I call him red cos his Destiny name was redrathi =P
Ah, sorry
Morning everyone.
So, I had my wisdom tooth out almost 3 weeks ago. I caught a cold, and now my gum is inflamed and so are my lymph nodes. This make sit hard for me to eat. I so sick of this and I just want it to end!
ARGH!
In other news, I was supposed to make some overwatch posters for you people, but instead I just played Overwatch. Sorry
How dare you try to relax and have fun when you are sick.
But…The ideas D=
Ouch. Wisdom teeth extractions are nasty if done later in life. I had mine out a few years ago, but they were really impacted and already quite developed. So what on paper was fairly straight forward, ended up leaving me pretty bruised up.
Incidentally, one of my stitched came out early, so i got a infection in the wound. Had a void space even after it healed that would occasionally get inflamed when crap would get stuck in it.
I’d already had one infected one, so when the gum became inflamed initially, I knew it had to be removed. I didn’t want it to get infected. It’s just really annoying when I try to eat, or bring up phlegm.
Damn. Are you at least taking time off work? If so, I recommend large doses of Overwatch!
I’m a full time carer for my Mum. I don’t get time off work =P
I do get afternoon naps though so, it’s pretty cool
Overwatch posters?! :O
Yup. Overwatch posters. Had an idea for a Mercy one and was going to make the “it came from the moon” Winston one
I can’t wait to see them!!
It’ll probably be a week, simply because by the time it gets to 3 o’clock, I’m in a quite a bit of pain.
Sorry
how dare you play Mercy and revive us
Sorry.
Had a pretty lazy weekend. Cleaned up after the builders on Saturday – they have a skip out the front but left 2 wheel barrows of busted concrete just sitting on my lawn. Plus a few soft drink bottles, tuna tins and chip packets. Then hit Bunnings and Ikea to try and figure out if what, if any, furniture we can squeeze onto the little deck space we got built.
Also, builders left a shit load of screws and nails around the carport where they were doing a lot of cutting. Thought we got most of them… but the car found one we missed. Now a hex head screw has made it’s home in our front right tyre. Those tyres are about 8 months old. Fingers crossed it’s only a cheap repair job and the tyre isn’t shot. 🙁
So wife and I have finally caught up on GoT. Watching last weeks episode last night;
Then the girl with no name is chasing Arya I got these massive Terminator vibes. No name is the T1000 just ruthlessly pursuing Arya. And when she ran along the sea wall and jumped down, it was like the truck/bike chase in the storm water canals.Also, happy that Clegane is back. He is good fun. Taking the boots off that guy hanging from the tree before he’d even stopped twitching – quintessential Clegane.
Hope everyone stayed dry through yesterdays down pour!
How was your weekend?
Played some solid chunk of strategy games this weekend with Total Warhammer and Hearts of Iron IV. Good times all around but goddamn dwarfs feel really cheap in Warhammer. Their basic unit seems to be the best out of all of the races and their morale is stupidly high. My greenskins really struggle to smash them aside but I’m slowly making progress.
Yeah I felt that as well, it’s really annoying to win against them cos you’re bound to take high casualties due to the lack of routing.
Combine that with the fact that almost all of their units are armoured and even their ranged units being quite good in melee and they are a very solid army. The only thing that I’ve found that manages to make them rout consistently are repeated cavalry charges, siege weapons, and units that cause terror. You have to kick the absolute crap out of them before their units even think about fleeing. Heck, I’ve taken more cities by capturing the flag than bothering to rout all of their units.
My other problem at the moment is goddamn slayers. Stupid stunties just refuse to die and even without any armour they’re quite good at tying down my units. Thankfully my night goblin fanatics have a good time smashing into them with their poison.
Yeah Cavalry and monster units seem to be the most effective against Dwarves, probably the odd flyer or two to harass and lock down their artillery.
That said from a morale perspective even Vampire armies can be really annoying if the enemy general decides to run off and hide.
FOR CHAOS
Eldritch Abominations who happen to be really, really good at killing runts do an excellent job of routing them. Also, 6x hellcannon bombardment. Very effective.
Been playing Fire Emblem Birthright. Got the 10% off voucher for Nintendo eshop so I’ll get Revelations stayed this week. Haven’t been able to play the PS4 because Netflix now has Korean Dramas which are basically like crack for my Malaysian wife…
Ha ha! My Taiwanese wife loves the Korean dramas too XD
I don’t know if you guys recall but a few weeks ago I mentioned my partner’s visa got rejected so we’re reapplying again. She leaves the country in 2 days and needless to say it’s wearing me down like crazy. So much shits gone wrong in the past month that at this point even if a flying bus where to be hit by lightning before it crashing into my face I’d probably just shrug and be like “yep bring on the next disaster”.
I had to bring my wife over on a visa, was fucking ridiculous.
I ended up working a lot of overtime & saving up the cash so I could pay someone to decipher all the paperwork & shit.
There were all these little touches they told me to do that helped smooth the whole process.
After lots of money she was allowed here temporarily. Now she’s a citizen.
Fuck I miss overtime now. :-/
I wouldn’t even mind the re-application that much if the bloody wait time wasn’t 9-12 months and still costs a small fortune to apply for. It’s literally wiping out all our savings to put another application through and to hire someone to put it together.
I’ve just found out that there was an Alone in the Dark movie that was made a few years ago.
From wikipedia, I’m glad I never saw it. But I am curious as to why i’d never heard of it before.
Eugh, can we please never talk of that movie again. It was directed by Uwe Boll, so it was guaranteed to be absolutely fucking godawful…. which it was. It’s a shame – I’m kind of partial to Christian Slater, but even he couldn’t save that trainwreck.
I mean, at least the Boll is consistent in that every single movie he’s made has been a steaming turd.
Yeah, I’ve heard he’s an absolute crock of a film maker. Thankfully, I don’t think I’ve actually ever seen any of his movies, so I can’t say from experience how bad they are.
Oh god you’re lucky! I have seen a few of them, and every single time I’m like ‘oh, this one can’t POSSIBLY be as bad as the last one!’ And each single time, my expectations of clusterfuckery are surpassed.
Apparently there’s some loophole in German law where you get massive tax writeoffs if your movie bombs, so people go to him to make a movie knowing it will fail so they can reduce their tax bills. At least that’s the word on the street, ya dig?
I still want to see Postal.
Mornin’ all.
Weekend was busy. Worked 2 shifts Saturday one in liquor the other in nightfill & also helped a mate of dads dispose of some palm trees at his sons place since the local council was giving out free entry to the tip due to the flooding & horrendous winds we had a few weeks back, which left me feeling knackered come Sunday when I was working again \o/ at least I got a bit more than 3 hours sleep last night so I feel mostly refreshed now ready for work this afternoon. One more day until my weekend starts so that’s nice.
Also turns out our new neighbours that moved in Friday last are not nice people, which is not something I wanted to be. They’ve already abused one neighbours 15 year old daughter for walking on their nature strip by saying “Get the fuck off our grass” which they have no right to because that’s the local council’s property. Also my mate who used to live next door his mum was telling me that he knows them & that a few of them there are known thieves, just what we don’t need. God damn it.
Just call the police ‘advice’ line (not the 000 one) whenever shit happens. House 2 doors down from us, we could often hear the husband verbally abusing his wife and kids. Torrents of profanity and threats. Several times a week. Sometimes multiple times a day.
Every time it happened we’d call Police Link (as it is known in QLD) and let them know we could hear what sounded like domestic violence directed at spouse and kids from 2 houses away. Did it half a dozen times. One time I called, police said they were aware of it and had visited the house earlier in the week.
Do what you can, which may include chaining anything mobile to the house.
Funny you should say that. The troublesome neighbours have the cops here every 1-2 months for exactly that, last time (3 or so weeks back) they arrested him (again) for normally fighting & all that. But he always manages to be let off with a warning or released the same day on some sort of bail, which never changes anything.
We have a 6 foot fence around the property with a locking gate, we took that stance almost 10 years ago to prevent other thieves in the neighbourhood who had been caught trying to steal before from whatever in the yard.
Damn mate, that sounds far from fun.
From my experience (fyi, I’m 5-0/bacon/the filth) we generally don’t have too many avenues to deal with people that do what they’re doing. I’ll preface this by saying my advice differs depending on where you’re from. I generally get people to get an personal safety intervention order from court outlining the behaviour of the neighbours, with some fairly basic restrictions in place. This gives the police some legal footing to be able to start doing some more once breaches occur.
If the breaches are persistent, it becomes more serious. If the bloke is on bail and it’s considered persistent, it becomes a breach of bail due to committing an indictable offence while on bail.
Which screws him in his oopity-pooper.
I’ve also had neighbours from hell and in the end I just had to move.. but I was renting to it really didn’t seem so bad.
Good luck mate :-/
Long story short. He’s a repeat offender had a criminal record since the age of 8. He’s now 35 or whatever… His mother is no better nor is his girlfriend or children. They’re dept of housing, yet dept of housing what nothing to do with the problems they cause for the neighbourhood despite them breaking a lot of their rules which would end in termination of the lease, we’ve had 2 avo’s out against him/the family. Also the local state member wants nothing to do with the issue, not even the police here care enough to do something that will fix the problem.
I’ve called in reports to the local station a few times, and nearly every time they were already en route. Flashing lights within minutes. Seems like more sensitive/less-oblivious neighbours were already on it. Either that, or the actual participants. …That or they take domestic violence fucking seriously and get there in a couple minutes.
Morning TAY,
I purchased Dragon Age: Inquisition from the Playstation store for $15. I’ve always wanted to play that game but was too scared of epicness of it. I played and finished The Witcher 3 in January and it helped me to face my fears of huuuuuuuge games. I have a 2 year old boy and another baby on the way… so I thought why not get a game that’ll keep me company on those long sleepless nights. I’ve created my character; a Qunari Mage who doesn’t give a shit, and I’m ready to play this game till I’m in a financial position to buy VR (2023?)
Also watched a fantastic film this weekend called Midnight Express. One of those movies that are best watched without any prior knowledge to what it’s about.
Mad love to you all, TAY.
I am pumped for that movie – all the trailers have been great.
The 1978 Alan Parker film written by Oliver Stone?
Or do you mean Midnight Special?
Haha. Special! Definitely Special. Express is also awesome though.
It was a very well crafted and well made film…
…and I didn’t know anything about Midnight Special until this post, and it looks like I need to see it.
Similar position, my wife thoroughly enjoyed DA:I with small child in tow. I had a shot as a Qunari Mage and was so friggen OP, never finished it though because she kicked me off her computer. Enjoy it man!
Well, my sinuses are playing up, and I’ve been in bed since Saturday night, also I have a bad cough. 🙁
Started a Demon Hunter and a Witch Doctor on a whim on Saturday morning… Sunday night they were running through T9 with 2-3 full gear sets each. My DH in particular had ridiculous luck – first Manticore and Bombardier’s Rucksack that dropped were both ancient. Meanwhile my crusader is still trying to find the other half of the damn Invoker set for my “don’t touch me” build.
Blargh. Still hurting from the weekend. Ended up hanging out at Supanova on Saturday, Wingman had a table there with Sketchbook and another friend so went to visit them and see how they were doing. Took the opportunity to take Zangief out for another spin, what with the beard still being around and all, sorta hoped to try my luck at getting a spot in the comp but ended up way too late for that. Oh well 😛 Also generally hoped to kinda get into a good social/confident headspace in prep for Thursday. Which maybe kinda worked. Sorta.
Sunday was screwed though. Woke up after only four hours sleep, despite spending the previous day running on just two and then staying up way too late reading stuff. Couldn’t get back to sleep, so tried doing stuff for a couple of hours before feeling too shitty to continue so had another shot at sleeping. That time managed about five hours 😛 Then this morning went and woke up an hour early for no reason… also still super sore. Legs, from stomping around all day (thankfully didn’t get myself any more toenail bruises like last time) and arms from carrying around the bag. And back kind of… just because. Climbing gonna suuuuuuck tonight 😛
But yeah. Time to stress out about Thursday now. Afdwhefosfiolkefdsduibakjd.
What is happening Thursday? Do I need to pre-order popcorn?
Either way good luck
Blind date D:
And yes, probably.
And thanks, I’ll need it.
Just make sure you don’t step on her guide dogs tail and you will do fine
Morning TAY! So I continued my on-again/off-again love affair with Witcher 3 over the weekend, didn’t really feel like killing anyone (!!) so just decided to get some gwent action going, won a few of the unique hero cards which was nice. Then got a bit bored and downloaded Rebel Galaxy.
Holy shit, you guys, Rebel Galaxy! It’s fantastic!. Just don’t go into it thinking it’s a full 3D space sim a la Elite/Freelancer/NMS/etc. Rather, think of it as naval capital ship battles, but IN SPACE! So you have turrets to take out fighters, but fighting bigger dudes is done via broadsides, and you fly around on a 2D plane. It’s insanely satisfying knocking out the fighter escorts, then putting your burners on to get up close with the enemy capital ships and unleashing hell with your broadsides.
Also, the soundtrack is another level. When you get knocked out of warp speed by an enemy ambush, and the guitars start strumming as the fighters close in on you…
Guys, I think I am in love.
I know somebody else has been smashing out a lot of Rebel Galaxy, maybe @rize
Yup, finished* it on the weekend! It’s a hell of a lot of fun, and considering I got it for $10 and got something like 35 hours out of it it was a pretty damned good investment.
*Purchased and fully upgraded a Dreadnought and finished the story
Huh, hopefully that’ll come on special during steam sales this week.
Soon as I watched the Rebel Galaxy trailer I immediately looked up the soundtrack on Spotify. There’s like… apparently whole genres of that stuff. ‘Dark Country’ and ‘Garage Blues’? Right up my alley.
I didn’t even know it was a separate genre. I normally can’t stand country music, but this stuff is my jam.
Also Swamp Rock/Blues. Seriously, the music is amazing throughout the game.
I know! I’ve been checking it out on google play and it’s so my jam.
I just wish music streaming didn’t destroy phone data caps so I could listen to it in my car which is the only time I really music 🙁
Oh yeah, Rebel Galaxy is the bomb. Possibly my game of last? year.
Early on I discovered Corvettes and spent most of the game in a tricked out Barracuda interceptor, speed tanking overwhelming odds while I ducked and weaved, delivering devastating point blank laser blasts beneath their fields of fire. Paid for by running blockades deep in deadly dangerous sectors delivering millions in illegal goods.
Good times.
My weekend adventures in Games With Gold
The Crew
This is a rolling billboard for the Wild Run DLC. Presumably it launched as a full game but now that it’s free on XBL you get reminded every five minutes that unless you buy th Wild Run DLC you’re not getting the complete The Crew experience.
It’s a cool enough game and I enjoyed playing it for awhile but I quickly got tired of it as it reminded me why I don’t really like racing games. You can lead the whole race but the second you screw up even a little bit, you drop back to 7th place and have to start over. It’s reasonable, that’s what racing games are, but it gets tiresome repeating shit over and over.
Sunset Overdrive
I didn’t give this game any attention when it came out, it just didn’t look like my type of game at all. I was pretty wrong about that as I’ve really been enjoying it. The humour is a bit “obvious”, like lots of 4th wall breaks and snarky commentary. The thing is, it makes 4th wall jokes about how silly game tropes are, but still has you doing those things, like escort missions, fetch quests, etc. It’s lazy writing in some ways. That said, I’m having fun with it. I want to blaze through it but the sidequests are surprisingly worthwhile so it’s taking longer to progress than I thought (that’s a good thing from a value perspective). Movement is fantastic, once you get your rhythm really going. Combat takes awhile to get the hang of, there are some weird difficulty spikes as well, but no major quibbles as the game is pretty forgiving with the checkpointing. There are a plethora of respawn animations to keep you amused but sometimes I do get frustrated with how long I have to watch my character do something amusing (like a Bela Lugosi rising-from-the-grave impersonation) before I’m given control again.
The only problem I have is obviously that it was going to be this multi-media experience, meaning that when the game was new you’d be receiving regular updates about the world via in-game billboards yuou could interact with to watch the latest “episode” of some update program. Now these in gmae billboards have a video basically saying “yeah, so we’re not really updating this anymore, you missed out” which I feel slightly bad about.
Anyway, if they make a Sunset Overdrive 2 I’ll definitely jump in straight away.
Noticed of late Rammstein has been gaining a lot of popularity amongst friends who never seemed to show an interest in them or such music & the internet in general is also getting excited over them, it’s weird..
Did they suddenly get a soundtrack on Game of Thrones or something?
Maybe they got used in a tv ad or something for a game or an iphone or whatever. 🙂 That always seems to blow up a band’s popularity.
No idea. Can’t even speculate what might be the cause lol. Maybe some celeb wore a Rammstein shirt & people got excited over them. Like when one of the Kardashian or Jenner girls wore a Slayer shirt & people got excited over that..
I got more excited over the ‘Kill the Kardashians’ response.
Meh. Sure it’s annoying when people who don’t listen to the music wear that bands merchandise, but responding like that wasn’t a good idea. All it does is drive & reinforce the negative stereotype that is associated with the music I like with those who have never taken their time to listen to any of it.
I see your point, but I doubt that having Gary Holt treat the Kardashians with a bit of respect is going to encourage non-thrash people to listen to Reign in Blood
It’s more about the reinforcing negative stereotype. I get enough shit for liking what I like. Which makes me think people just suck.
Pretty much bang-on. When I tell people I listen to metal I get that ‘oh, so you worship Satan too, right?’ look at least half the time.
Sooooo tiiiiiiired! but no regrets!
Watched (most of) the Le Mans 24hr race + F1 Quali and race… that’s almost 30 hours of motor racing over the course of the weekend 😛
Nice little tradition I have with the missus and brother in law… Good fun!
Now excuse me while i go
dose offWORK VERY HARD at work.Oh Le Mans… so so cruel. So cruel.
Haven’t seen the whole F1 yet, went to sleep around half way.
Yeeeaaah I barely remember the results from F1 for that reason XD…
And yes, poor poor Toyota, that was absolutely gut-wrenching! and the look of the team manager… That’s what you call poor luck!
Still very good event, highly enjoyed watching it and looking forward to next year!
Been a nice steady day here today, although I’m stuck inside for the next month or so on light duties -_- I think I’ll go stir crazy.
ACL?
Umbilical hernia. Not fun, still got healing to do and can’t wear operational gear on top of it due to the pressure on the stomach.
ouch, sounds nasty.
But you might go stir crazy but one of those have to behave now or it is going to be an ongoing problem which you certainly don’t want
TAY Pathfinder on tonight at 7:30pm ACST and 8pm AEST. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @beeawwb
You now hold a verdant green orb in your hands, however there is a rather disgruntled halfling and a giant enemy crab just outside the room. We shall see what happens next.
Let me know if you guys are unable to make it tonight.
I flip it onto its back for massive damage
*points* Replicant.
Pick up the halfling and chuck him at the crab and let him deal with it while you saunter past. Problem solved.
Internet is still running dialup-grade. Fix it already, Telstra.
Telstra hasn’t counted any downloads against my quota since 21st April… I’m wondering how long it’ll take them to realise.
Hopefully never 😛
Tonight’s Pathfinder: A two-course seafood buffet butchered by myself and @freezespreston and cooked to perfection by @tech_knight.
Also @beeawwb got sticky
Thanks for GMing @popdart5!
Cooking on a stove is too mainstream anyway 🙂
Hey hey hey, Drewan killed a lobster too.
Hey guys
Tayfrond @masha2932 is trying to join the current console generation. Unfortunately, the Kenyan job market being what it is, he’s having trouble raising the cash. If you’ve got a couple bucks you can flick him, he’d much appreciate it, and he’s the finest Destiny sherpa I’ve ever had the great pleasure to play with.
Deets here https://lifewithmasha.wordpress.com
Don’t feel pressured, Mash knows it’s weird, but I’m sure once hes employed and eventually comes back to aus #gaytimefriday is on him
I would but I’m pretty strapped myseld. I gave @welbot $25 because it’s all I could really afford. I’m…actually putting off the dental check up because I need to pay off the credit card before I can get it done. Sorry for the rant. I would love to help if I could
Don’t worry about it Scree. Take care of your health and Welbot’s health too 🙂
It wasn’t a rant so no need to apologise.
Best of luck to @masha2932! As scree pointed out, I’m on the hunt for donations for my own issues, else I’d be happy to give him a helping hand. Hope all goes well for him though! Much love for the Mr Mashaaaaaaaaa!
Don’t worry about it man. I even looked to your Go Fund Me page as inspiration. I’ve seen your retweets and that helps.
Hopefully things improve with you, I’ve been seeing your posts on how the hospitals keep pushing your appointments etc.
Dunnnnn!
You were the first Shane. Thank you for kicking it off
Happy birthday to your cute kids too.
Thanks for this man. I’ve been away from TAY for too long.
I still can’t upvote posts so it kind of takes away from the casual reading of TAY
Probably going to be in Brisbane around the weekend of the 9th of July give or take a few days.
Get ready, Queensland.
I would sure love to meet ya for reals. Will depend entirely on where, and how I feel on the day though.
Getting an uncomfortably long hug from me
Couldn’t wait until the 23rd?
😉
Also, cousin just had a baby, and I haven’t been up in close to 10 years. Gonna get me a steak at the Breakfast Creek Hotel, methinks.
Also, just wanted to remind all you boys and girls that I’m fucking awesome.
Does that mean no Overwatch with Cracks? Also, sorry I’m not so great at the game. I love it, but I can get frustrated when I feel like I know what I should be doing but can’t do it.
Don’t worry – you do pretty good.
Also, I only look half decent because of Hanzo’s generous hitboxes 😛
What is it with you and Nob being all “I’m not very good at Overwatch” and then you all get PotGs
Cheese. So much cheese.
Mostly get PotG as Hanzo or Junkrat, which is easy if the other guys line up right.
Or just let all of you die so I get my Mercy cheevo…
Happy to help!
And yeah, looking forward to getting in some Ranked games when that drops.
You like my tweets when noone else does, so I whole heartedly agree! 😉 Also goodguy @jimu. You guys get me! 😀
You’re nucking futs!
^_^
Squirtle!
Damn straight.
Can confirm.
Last song played game time
Episode 15, Street Cleaning Day – Welcome to Night Vale.
How is everyone?
What was YOUR last song played?
Or podcast for that matter?
Last song played by me was MC Who? – Who Am I
No link, cos I haven’t finished it yet :0 Shhhh Secret Squirrel!
Soldierhead – Newstead
I wish Jason would come out of hiding & put another album out. His first solo album was awesome.
Steely Dan – Aja
Harvest – Opeth. Although I’ve had Famous Last Words by MCR stuck in my head since I woke up, so I’ve been listening to my brain play it on loop since 6:30.
My Brother, My Brother and me episode 305…
I listen to more podcasts than i do music at the moment.
Fever Ray – If I Had A Heart
(the intro music to History Channel’s Vikings)
New workout music. Just pretending to be rowing in a viking longship!
Tether by CHVRCHES
Stupid jerk brain woke me up early again, so came into work early. Woo only staying back half an hour now 😛
My stoopid jerk brain woke me up at 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 5:30… grrrr
Stoopid jerk brains are jerks. Kill ’em all.
*opens hip-flask*
Fair enough.
Sorry I didn’t get last week’s recap out on time, I didn’t get around to watching last week’s episode until last night, so I’ll be posting recaps for episode 8 and 9 pretty much back to back for all my loyal fans of 100% accurately made up spoiler free reading.
Episode 8: No One Reads These Recaps Anymore
Arya’s castle continues to expand as she spends gold with reckless abandon, building over the top of the surrounding town and incorporating the dwellings into it’s superstructure. Every fifth house becomes a new link in the “The Drinks Here are Literally Horse Piss, I Hope You Die” chain of restaurants and family play centres.
Jamie and his squad of rescuers infiltrate the Imperial Palace to rescue the queens from the white walkers, using the tricks they picked up during the training montage earlier in the season, which is terribly convenient from a plot perspective. Jamie orders Bronn to dress like a sexy concubine to distract the guards. Bronn refuses and they get into a heated argument. The argument successfully distracts the guards, and the squad commends Jamie for his tactical brilliance.
Still oblivious to the threat of the White Walkers taking up strategic positions around the palace, Cersei and Margaerey have a deep and intensive discussion about taxation. While nude, because this is still HBO after all.
Jon Snow experiences a montage wherein we watch him turn from pale-skinned frozen emo to bronzed god and weathered man of the world. This is particularly impressive because he’s only about 400 yards from the shore and has only been on a boat for about ten minutes, going round in circles. Such is the power of sailing.
Brienne uses the opportunity of Podrick being down a well to tell long rambling stories about her childhood while occasionally lowering food to him in a bucket. Podrick is confused as to why if Brienne has a rope she doesn’t just rescue him, and she says it’s because his legs are pinned under some debris. Podrick insists that isn’t true, but Brienne asks who the squire is here, and Podrick reluctantly admits it’s him. Brienne smugly concludes that she therefore knows best in this situation.
After getting their fleet back into the water Tyrion and Varys start plotting their next big adventure. Some of the crew overhears their plans to continue putting them at risk for the purpose of their silly games and decide to mutiny. When faced with the reasoning for this, Tyrion and Varys are forced to concede that they probably should have seen this coming, and that they no longer live a carefree existence in poverty where the only thing they had to worry about was not being stabbed, or starving, or being eaten by rats. Actually quite a lot of concerns. Varys quips drily “those were the days”.
Shouldn’t these be spoilered or something? 😉
Hey man once the episode has been out for more than 5 minutes it’s fair game.
This week’s episode of Game of Thrones may have consisted of some of the most pointlessly bland and timewasting scenes in the show’s history, and has been critically panned. I might take some liberties with the facts just to jazz it up a bit, but I know my loyal fans won’t mind.
Season 6 episode 9: The Recap of the Bastards
Jon arrives in the free cities of Braavos, his stolen catamaran gliding gently onto the beach on the high tide. He heads for the nearest market with a determined look on his face, clutching a fistful of letters from his long distance girlfriend, all signed in an elegant hand by Girl Ijustmadeup.
Arya’s castle now encompasses 90% of the city. Against all expectations the lowest bidder builders did not simply steal her money and run, instead hiring consultant engineers to reinforce the foundations of the city and make the walls completely impregnable. Based purely on the fact that Arya occupies a large bedroom at the top of the central spire, the townsfolk name her Queen of the Eternal Empire of “Dirty Farmers Dip Their Balls In the Soup, Stop Eating Here”. Arya wakes up from a lengthy hangover to find that she is now protected by a well regulated militia funded by self-imposed taxation. Her first proclamation to her people is “what the fuck?”.
Podrick is now so tired of hearing about Brienne’s childhood that he can no longer find her the slightest bit attractive, ensuring he is no longer distracted when being punished for failing to carry out orders or do something stupid. Brienne finally rescues him from the well and suggests they work on his ability to carry out orders, and not do stupid things, as soon as he brings her some elbow grease.
Jorah, Daenerys, Drogon and Jorah’s Bear-Wife return from their network crossover to find a new castle standing in the middle of Mereen, and all the Mereen signs have been painted over with the offensive name of a popular family restaurant. Feeling rather displaced they stand around awkwardly for awhile before Jorah breaks the ice and says “well I don’t know about you guys but that soup sounds really good”.
The Night’s King breaks into Margaerey and Cersei’s private chambers in the Red Keep and is startled to find them fully dressed. Jamie and Bronn burst in just behind and confront the Night’s King, taking advantage of his confusion to gain the edge in a fierce duel. The King’s superhuman strength and swordsmanship pushes Jamie to the limits of his ability so Jamie flees onto the rooftops to regroup but the Night’s King corners him. Just when all seems lost, Bronn arrives with some conveniently placed Wildfyre. Jamie scrambles aside just as the entire upper level of the Keep explodes in all consuming green flames.
Tyrion and Varys are returned to port and left behind by their mutinous crew, watching their ships disappear over the horizon with an appreciable amount of stolen cargo. They warmly embrace and suggest that maybe it’s all for the best, but now they have to come up with a new way to keep things interesting. Tyrion suggests they try marriage counselling like the old days and Varys snaps “don’t start with that shit”.
Hello TAY,
Not a bad weekend, we won in soccer on Sunday in a tough game so I ended up treating myself to a $38 copy of Metal Gear Solid V 😀
If you lost, you’d have paid full price?
If I lost, I would have had to Seppuku myself.
My Weekend
– Played Board games (Molecular Strategic tile game, Ticket to ride, Tsuro, Quantum, Space Cadet) Sub Note: our Helmsman fell asleep during space cadets, so I had to do 4 stations instead of two.
-Cooked things, made Cheesey puff parcels, and Golden Syrup Dumplings
– Made Beer. (Orange and Coriander WitBier) it will be ready in 6 weeks.
– Finished Mirrors Edge. it was OK.
– Cooked more things last night for Anton to take to work made an Orange, Poppy and Chocolate shortbread and a Peanut, Pretzel and Chocolate Slice.
No Idea what I’m doing this week.
It has been too long since I have played board games
It really sucks that belowtheline.org.au won’t be available for this year’s election. That said, forcing me to directly look in to each party that’s running and decide how low I want to put them (With Family First = Last, all the time every time) is quite worthwhile.
So much effort though.
Yeah, it’s a lot of effort when ultimately my vote will eventually flow to Greens and then eventually Labor, but it’s still worth knowing where I want my “1” to go.
I’ll make my Excel file available for anybody who wants to vote like I do. 😛
Will that file have notes against each party/group?
My own personal file
does have notes against each, but it’s just categorising them as “Good” (i.e. support majority of my policies), “OK” (support some of my policies and are not against my “Major” issues (Marriage equality, immigration, health, NBN)), or “Bad” (Damaging views, e.g. racist, anti-vax, etc)has been updated below with notes on pretty much everybody.Mainly because it’s my file and I’ve looked at each party, so they’re just notes for my own organisation. I can expand them later once I’ve ordered things, sure.
OK, so this is only relevant for QLD voters, but I’ve created my own “How to Vote” workbook with links to each party / independent. Details available on my Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beeawwb/posts/10153814813722983
Bernardi last for me
Just to jump on this too, but there’s an SA one here generated by Friend-of-Tay-peeps @finishedlast https://t.co/7wcuvhFrYk
Come on Victoria lift your game so I don’t have to do the initial grunt work
Double post in moderation.
My “party” notes should line up, at least. You’ll need to figure out the independents on your own though. Please take these with a grain of salt as they are heavily biased towards my own personal views. Your views WILL vary. Blah blah blah, disclaimer disclaimer disclaimer.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jlm993zt602qcid/HOWTOVOTE2016_RBNotes.xls?dl=0
Thanks for that, I appreciate it
Primary critical issues are a little different for me but good starting point
Combine with the link from @trikeabout and I should have a good start
I’m postal voting so I can take my time.
Also my vote will mean sweet fuck all because my electorate will never elect someone outside the liberal party, ever.
I’ve got a couple of friends in Wentworth – walking around Bondi, I saw one poster for the ALP candidate. I can only assume that his mum paid for and put up that poster, because the ALP certainly can’t think they’re a chance of toppling the libs there.
I’m in Paterson, which has gone from one of the more marginal seats, to a safe Lib seat over the last 12 years. This time around though, the incumbent has retired and the boundaries have been shifted heaps (10% shift to Labor using 2013 votes), which should have us electing the Labor candidate. It might come down to preferences though – greens vs Rise Up/One Nation/Fred Nile.
I last lived in Kooyong electorate, which was held by the Liberal party since before they were the liberal party. Menzies was the first liberal representative and Peacock was the second, so it’s pretty much LNP heartland and there’s no doubt in my mind they’ll win. Current representative is Josh Frydenberg who as far as I can tell is a class-A wanker (seems to go with the territory) but isn’t as offensive as some of them.
EDIT: (I’m living in the USA now but still registered to vote in Australia for a bit so have to vote in my old electorate)
There’s https://www.clueyvoter.com/ which does similar. Not quite as good as below the line, but does the job.
Something that could have been brought to my attention yesterday!!!
😛
(That said, it’s good for generating a printable list of how to vote, but doesn’t contain links to the parties for research purposes, so I’m still glad I put mine together. Plus they default treat all independents as one block. NOOOOOOPE.)
Wasn’t here yesterday!!!
:-p
FYI there is a step 2 of the process for ranking individual candidates
Yep, I know. It just bugs me that they keep all of the independents as 1 “group” given that there’s so much difference between them. I understand “why” they’ve done it, it just doesn’t match reality.
Yeah, but isn’t that how above the line voting will work this election
I have no idea, but I bloody hope not! I thought group “UG” was “Ungrouped” for voting purposes.
Huh. So swapped my crusader to a temporary 5-pc Akhan-set (with RoRG to get the 6pc bonus) + Norvald’s weapon-set, still with about 30k thorns and 2pc Invoker bonus. Bumped it up to T8 and wrecked face by combining Akkarat’s champion and infinite steed charge – hitting for about 900mil. Spammed Kadala with shards until I got two more Invoker pieces, and can now run T9 with my w.i.p. thorns build. Completely forgot about the thorns legendary gem, too, which should up my damage by 50%. Still way too squishy, tho… even with Boon of the Hoarder and Goldwrap I die way too quickly… need to focus more on block chance than armour, methinks… especially as every time I block things tend to melt around me.
This sounded like Destiny for a few parts, I was scared I was that far behind with the game lol.
Well, when you strip it down, the core gameplay loop is the same – fight stuff, get cool loot, use said loot to fight stronger stuff to get more/better loot; occasionally taking a break from the action to make agonising decisions on what to dismantle when you suddenly run out of storage space :P. Would love to see Destiny embrace PvE-oriented gear sets and set-bonuses, tho – they’ve already made steps in the right direction with PvE-specific gear perks.
YO @saturday CHECK YO DANG TWITTER DIRECT MESSAGES OR MESSAGE ME YOUR NUMBER OR SOMETHING ‘COS WE GOTTA TALK ABOUT PAX ACCOMODATION
He shouted out, using one of the most inefficient ways to grab someone’s immediate attention, short of tying a hand written letter to the leg of an pigeon.
I feel like I’ve just shouted really loudly at a shopping center or something and now everyone is staring at me and now I have to sheepishly ask how the rest of you are doing as I slowly slink away from everyone’s focus.
“Security? Yes, I think he’s stopped now… Oh. OK. See you soon, then.”
HOLY CRAP WHO LET BISH IN HERE?!
…
…
HI BISH!
You should know we don’t care =P
I’m sure Saturday will be here soon
I had a friend who couldn’t be arsed with spending an entire 3 seconds texting me at a shopping mall so he passed me off as a lost child and proceeded to get mall staff to call for me over the PA.
Is @saturday coming to the awesome PAX where the super cool people hang out too? Instead of the plebe PAX the rest of these people go to?
Tentative yes, if he gets time off work.
He said maybe only the weekend since he’s so close to Seattle anyways, so I’ve been trying to find a place on AirBNB that allows for one person and for another to crash for a few days; so a good sofa or sofa bed.
As it is I’m going for Saturday/Sunday for sure, HR be damned. If everything works out at work though I’ll swing for the four day extravaganza. There’s also a personal issue that *might* affect me, but I’m not too worried about that.
Ungh. I am just loving Starfighter: Eclipse…
Last song played game time!
End it All by Chimaira
Podcast to come a little later, get me through the day
How is everyone?
What was YOUR last song played?
Wreith – before the dawn
And blegh.
Thorn – Blind Guardian.
A whole shitload of remixes of the Zelda theme. The recognizable one.
Man, there’s a tonne of people hyping up all these Zelda tunes that I do not recognize at all – probably because they weren’t in the only Zelda game that actually counts, Link’s Awakening.
Another morning, another inexplicable 6am wakeup. Bah.
D-day tomorrow. Any tips on how to converse with a total stranger like a regular human being? >_>
Must have woken up a dozen times for no reason last night, perfect for a 5am start.
Considering how many pretty and interested ladies you seem to meet I’m sure you’ll be fine.
Why do I feel like I can’t think of anyone fitting that description 😛
It probably works better when it’s come up out of nowhere so I didn’t have time to think about it beforehand and begin panicking. If only I could have somehow taken myself by surprise.
Order the second cheapest drink on the menu, the cheapest are only there to weed out the tightarses. Avoid fire and bears – while alluring, they can cause permanent damage to the genitals. The same goes for Lindsay Lohan. Discuss the weather but keep it vague, focusing too much on the exact humidity percentage for instance can be slightly offputting in a “is this guy a serial killer” kind of way. Also don’t be a serial killer. Are you a serial killer? If you are you have to tell me otherwise this date doesn’t count.
Serial killer means you have to kill more than once, right?
Yes, and on separate occasions otherwise you’re just a filthy mass murderer.
Ok we should be in the clear.
For now.
Yes. Talk to them like a regular human being.
Open ended questions like “What was it like where you grew up?” or “What do you look forward to doing with a free weekend?” are better than “Where do you work?” and “What’s your favourite film?”, although a few of those shorter questions can help get you started.
Also, good luck. You’re a funny guy and talented. Someone will notice. 🙂
How does this help him break the news about being a potential serial killer though.
No I meant how do *I* talk like a regular human being 😛
Oh god I’m going to get a whole bunch of those open-ended questions too aren’t I. Questions I either can’t answer or will answer with something so short and succinct as to stop conversation dead in its tracks.
If I ever meet Past Me I am going to punch him in the face.
Make strong eye contact, if not with your conversational partner, then with someone else.
Use your words to describe the weather, politics, sports, or popular topics of the day. Make sure to cover the LEFT (luminosity, energy, feeling, and texture) of each subject, but don’t be afraid to go off course: What you’ve FELT is just as important.
Whoa whoa whoa is this the advanced course or something? 😛
My words suck, translating thought into speech is hard mode. And I legit have no idea what that LEFT thing is, never even come across that one at all before.
I do think I have trouble with eye contact though, like I spend a lot of time avoiding eye contact. And the very moment I become aware of what I’m doing with my gaze I have no idea where I’m supposed to look and it all falls apart.
Oh, yeah, don’t take my earlier advice, it was bastardry satire. Seriously, forget that acronym even exists.
Go for eye contact when either of you are talking, break it up a little by occasionally glancing at something.
Had a 4-day weekend because my Mum’s here. Back to work today though. Touristed it up in Seattle for the first time since I moved.
Friday we ended up heading into the city. Pacific science center, watched a documentary movie at the IMAX there (thing on the national parks, was interesting) and then did the Chihuly glass garden. Not sure what the proper name is for it but it’s basically crazy blown glass sculptures and stuff. Went to head up the Space Needle but it was going to be a 90 min wait and we wanted to get back before peak hour rush.
Saturday we mucked around in Redmond a bit, then headed into the city again and went to the Aquarium (it’s okay but Osaka has pretty much ruined aquariums for me) and Pike Place Markets. Bought some utterly amazing Baklava from a greek vendors on the street. You could spend hours there I reckon. Headed back and went out and saw Finding Dory at the theaters. That movie is absolutely great – somehow they managed to take a film that never needed a sequel and make a continuation that feels essential, as well as hitting the same quality level. And it’s not the first time they’ve done it. Witchcraft.
Sunday I got dragged to Church. :\ Went out for brunch – first place I had been wanting to try in Kirkland was completely full with people waiting outside so we aborted and did a place in Redmond. Weather was absolutely glorious aside from a bit of wind, so we decided to head back into the city and do the Space Needle (had skipped on Saturday because it was cloudy). Had a bit of a wait to get in so went through the EMP museum which had a bit too many people but has some cool exhibits. Feels like someone really rich started stashing movie props and memorabilia and then turned it into a museum that kept growing and growing (which given that Paul Allen set it up might actually be the case). Cool museum to go through for an hour or so. Space Needle was rad. Great views – Olympics were a bit clouded over but Mt Rainier was clearly visible and could see the Cascades too. Had no idea that they’d built the needle so long ago (1961!) and that it’d gone up in only 1 year. But I bet @dc knew that even if I didn’t 😛
Monday we didn’t really feel like doing a lot of sightseeing so slept in a bit, went shopping in a few spots and I took the chance to finally get around to getting my eyes retested and getting new glasses made, which was fucking expensive (US health care and health insurance situation is nowhere near as good as Australia, sadly) but it’ll be good to finally have glasses that are correct for my eyes.
Sounds good, always good to do the touristy things even if you are living in the place
Yeah but it kind of sucks doing them alone which is why I hadn’t done them yet.
At work and bored
What are you playing recently?
I’m playing Destiny, Overwatch, The Crew, Mafia 2 (when I’m near my PC)
I’m interested in playing Paragon.
I’ve been watching Season 3 of Brooklyn Nine Nine with my SO.
And we have been watching House Rules (her choice)
Overwatchmostly. Also started up X Rebirth again, apparently patches have improved it immensely and I feel like some pew pew.
Sounds good to me
Favorites to play in Overwatch?
Junkrat tops my played toons list. Nary a game goes by when I don’t think “You know what we need? More explosions!”
Roadhog is my next go to, though my hook accuracy has dropped sharply lately, need to work on that.
Or I go support, love Lucio – punt all the people! And I think I do a solid Mercy.
Otherwise I fill the gaps with Reinhardt, Mei or Pharah generally.
How bout you?
So your top three are literally my top three, with my most played being Lucio.
I also use Solider 76 when I feel it necessary
I played Sunset Overdrive on the weekend. I want to get back into Doom but my wife is kind of struggling with it and hasn’t been in the mood (what wither recovering from surgery) so she hasn’t overtaken me yet and I don’t want to risk spoiling her. I’ll probably try and get into Wolfenstein: The Old Blood soon since she’s already finished that.
Main lining Elite: Dangerous, Destiny, Bloodborne and DOOM.
With a side smattering of Diablo 3 (Season Character), Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project CARS and Homeworld 2 remastered when i feel like something different.
Watching: Game of Thrones (durh!), One Piece and Gilmore Girls (
my choice, she’s forcing me to watch)ELITE!!!
Sorry not been in Destiny. But should wander back in.
Wife is going on holiday for a week so I’ll be online more while she’s away.
Started making headway to the Crab Nebula now, although i’ll be pushing past Merope just to witness some of the weird things people encounter there and i want to check a few things near Barnard’s Loop as well, as part of my own little investigation. The going is slow though, as i haven’t been exploring for a while i really enjoy my time just checking out planets etc, so i’m not just going from a -> b as quickly as possible 😛
3 Water Worlds and 2 earth-like first discoveries last night alone… I missed exploring!
I drop in and out of Destiny every few days so feel free to hit me up if you see me online!
Destiny and Diablo, mostly. Challenge of Elders is hilarious this week for Voidwalkers with Nothing Manacles; my group ran a Nightstalker (Black Hole), Defender (Orb generation) and Voidwalker (energy vampire setup with scatter grenades and the Manacles) composition. Hunter and Titan feed each other orbs while the warlock generally runs amok with “purple radiance” – infinite tracking scatter grenades. I think we averaged about 53k per run. 😀
And I love being a voidwalker, I however love my Obsidian Mind 😀
your on PS4 right? Damn
Yep, I guess you’re on Xbox? :'(
Mostly suggest Nothing Manacles cos “catapult+grenade kill bonus” – you want to be killing with grenades in there for the points, NM give you a second scatter grenade, and if you can get at least one kill with your grenade, you essentially get it refunded, and then some. Run out of grenades? Punch something with soul rip, and you’ll have your grenade back near-instantly. Running low on health? With The Hunger, all your ability kills will regenerate your health.
Only time I used a gun was to wear down the bosses a bit – everything else died by space magic. XD
Obsidian mind plus Bad Juju though!
Your right, I had nothing MAnacles but prefer Obsidian Minds versatility, so choose it instead, will need to buy a pair of Nothing Manacles from the Blueprint Vendor then
Yea, anywhere else, Bad Juju + Obs Mind is a lot of fun.
That shit is my jam, I hardly play the other subclasses.
In a good round with trickle on I can super three times because Oblivion and Juju (I need to get good again haha)
I tend to swap around a lot, choose whatever’s best for what I’m doing, but I’ll generally default to sunsinger for most stuff – self-rez is super handy, and allows me to play super aggressively without needing to be revived.
Fallout 4
Hand of fate
MPQ (Hey @quizb did I tell you I got Moon Knight?)
80 days
Defense Grid 2
Beyond Tow Souls/Heavy Rain on PS4 when I get a chance. Never played Beyond Two Souls when I had it on PS3 so figured I may as well play it & I rather liked Heavy Rain so it was a no brainer plus EB had pre-owned copies for like $30..
A Link to the Past. I understand now.
Morning. I’m finally starting to feel normal again.
So, I decided to look at the other candidates in my electorate…
“‘Citizen’s Electoral Council’, that’s kinda vague, I wonder what their policies are.”
http://cecaust.com.au/main.asp?sub=policy&id=energy_policy.html
…
I don’t even.
Read one sentence.
I now know which party gets voted second-last!
That’s contentious with a list of candidates like:
One Nation
Rise Up Australia
Greens
Labor
Citizen’s Electoral Council
Liberals
Christian Democrats (Fred Nile Group)
I think I’m putting the Liberals third?
Where’s family first? They deserve to be in the bottom of everyones list..
I don’t think they’ve got candidates in very many lower house seats?
Oh good point. Nvm then 😛
And if they did, I think I’d preference them higher than Fred Nile Group (but lower than Satan).
Who has your last preference?
Probably Family First. But these guys might actually give them a run for their money. I bet they’re anti-vax too.
Ding ding ding we have a winner
My old e-mail address somehow ended up on their mailing list years ago. It was always amusing to see what came through on the monthly newsletter or whatever it was.
Then sadly they stopped putting the content in the e-mail itself and just made you click a link through to the website, far more effort than I was willing to put in for a chuckle.
Oh, for those that don’t want to click:
I came across this nugget of gold when researching them yesterday for my own list.
http://cecaust.com.au/main.asp?sub=culture/video_games&id=2008_02_01_international-fascism-microsoft-will-kill-more-youth-hitler.html
Not up to them in my list yet, though I am having flashbacks about researching their sordid shit for the 2013 election.
So many dodgy parties.
they’re the dickheads who brought out a noose at a climate change talk a couple years back and thought they were clever
So I have a question: why is this site called Kotaku? My wife says kotaku means box in Bahasa but I am not sure whether that is the answer…
It is a combination of the Japanese ‘otaku’ (obsessive nerd) and the prefix ‘ko’ which means small. Not sure why the small bit.
It’s Japanese. Otaku is the term used for the modern Japanese Geek, and from memory “ko” has a use as a prefix to mean small. So, small geek.
From what I’ve heard while those words inspired the name to an extent, the name doesn’t actually “mean” anything.
Yeah, I was originally going to make a joke about it being a reference to the small minded geeks that seem to comment here, but was worried it would fall a little flat.
After 678 pages I’m out of toner apparently. The last dozen pages full of text that I printed came out looking great, but my stupid Brother printer is insisting there’s no toner left in the cartridge and is refusing to even try to print anything. I went into the service menus and manually reset the toner’s page count, printed a page, and shockingly it came out looking just as good as the first thing I printed. Who wants to take bets on how many more pages I can get out of this thing before I have to shake the toner cartridge?
http://9gag.com/gag/aVeQZ9P Overwatch stuff!
Pretty funny memes, however one had a still image of the Columbine Massacre with Reaper over the top
I’m not usually sensitive, but damn, thats rough
Yeah, but the rest were amusing
Yeah they were and thanks for posting
I don’t get a lot of meme browsing time at work
I liked the Pharah ones personally
Those were the best, especially when it’s going to rain 😉
I told @sernobulus that there’s a new movie coming out. Cloud with a chance of justice!
That’s classic, maybe the community will make a fan vid titled that
Whenever I hear her ult I try to “Pump up the volume” or maybe even “break it down”
I usually die
*Edit* Spelling
Audio medic!
I love me some Lucio, I know I’d told you earlier from the beta that I’d love Junkrat and Roadhog, but once I played Lucio, I couldn’t go back (unless someone is already a healer)
9gag, sensitive?!
When did this happen?
I don’t know haha
Like I said, I don’t feel I’m easily offendible, at all.
I just think that was really over like seven lines.
Well it is a site that casually mentions Hitler, be judgmental towards all tragedies when really they should just shut it and show respect to those impacted by the horrifying ordeals, and other things that they simply have no say over.
I hope the hairdressers won’t be as stupidly busy as they were last time I tried to go get tidied up. Might take 3DS along just in case. Finally started chipping away at Kirby Triple Deluxe, been using my early mornings in bed to work through it too. Feels nice to actually be playing games again, I don’t know why I keep stopping.
I refuse to believe TAY hasn’t had another comment in 4 hours…
We’re going glacial, folks.
Spaghett is listening to Lamb of God now..
Wait, why did I talk of myself in the third person??
Who cares
It’s a comment 😀
I’m sitting at work trying to not fall asleep, lethargic as all hell…
So I don’t have anything particularly worthwhile to say XD…
Whatever you do, don’t blink
0.0
…
not blinking REALLY hurts!
I’ve been working
Sorry, I was napping.
Once again I wonder if it might be better to move TAY to reset fortnightly or even monthly instead of weekly.
I started working on stuff last night, but I realised I stuffed up. So I guess I’ll start again tonight.
Oh well.
That reminds me. Earlier today I was at McDonalds and a man came in and started going through the trash. I kept looking at him. He found a half eaten packet of Fries and started eating them. I felt terrible, but I knew I didn’t have much. Eventually I thought, Fuck it. I can’t afford much but I can at least get him something. I went over tot he counter, bought a cheeseburger. Just after I paid, the customer in front of me handed the homeless man a bag full of food. He was really grateful.
I couldn’t eat a second Cheeseburger, so I had to ask for a refund. The employee was happy to oblige when I told her I was buying it for the man, but someone had beaten me to it.
@trikeabout did you get around to having a look at that PC you were telling me about?
I’m looking at it right now! But I haven’t had a chance to plug it in – my week went utterly feral (lost an internet pipe in the middle of a migration to Office 365… oopsy. Stress!). 🙁
Could just post as is and see what you can make of it? It’s been stripped of graphics card (has onboard but disabled, I think), HDD and DVD. I’ll have a look and see if there’s RAM…
Yeah that’s fine by me dude, where should I contact you for payment for the postage & such..?
OK, had a chance to pop the side off. RAM’s gone too. DDR3. Might not be worth it. I’ll see what I can find about the place today and if I can check if it’s working and I can get it to POST. Otherwise, I’ll happily help you spec something up.
Yeah no worries dude, was cool of you to even offer honestly! I’ve got a few ideas for some builds but it all depends when I can even afford to throw some cash at the idea :S
Yeah, no point throwing good money after bad if it won’t boot. 🙂
No worries, I like speccing new or upcycling old. Often an older machine with a reasonable GPU can be a great media server.
Yeah same here. Might just keep with my idea and nab one of the many new old stock of 1155 mATX motherboards that are currently available and use my 2500 & current ram when I upgrade soon.
I was reflecting on that crazy bullshit Kojima trailer from E3 and this is probably old hat for everyone by now but I realized that it has exactly zero to do with the game he’s making. It’s just a tech demo and effectively Kojima having a big sook about his current state of affairs. You have a man (Kojima) cold, destitute and alone surrounded by dead crabs (I’m not sure what the crabs are all about – vanquished video game bosses?). He finds a baby (Metal Gear Solid). The baby was his, but it’s been cut out of his manwomb and it dies in his arms. The man is Norman Reedus for some reason. His name is funny. Anyway, he has a handcuff tied to his wrist, but the other end (where Konami would have been) is empty. He is also wearing five dogtags. Fallen comrades. Could be 5 MGS games, but IMO – Snatcher/Policenauts, Metal Gear, Boktai, Zone of the Enders, Silent Hills. All killed by Konami. Handprints are all over Kojima, all the hands of all the different people pulling him everywhere, and the baby disappears and turns into black paint (not sure why the black – depression?). He looks up and there are five figures watching him (Five MGS games) and there’s stranded whales everywhere, tying into the name which appears just after the five figures representing the MGS games all disappear (signifying that this is the next thing after MGS)
Dangit, the lady who cut my beard last time wasn’t there and the dude was too busy. Got a tidy-up by the lady who doesn’t know how to do beards apparently, think she might’ve taken a fair bit off. Maybe. Not sure. I think it’s alright.
Still need to figure out what to wear. Far as I can tell, everything I have is in violation of the guidelines – though they seem so broad that they would cover basically everything that exists :/
Just turn up wearing the Zangief costume.
Well they did say to dress for warmer weather…
I’ve forgotten who responded to politely tell me to sod off last time, so I’m afraid there’ll be some unwanted tags here:
@bdkiaf @rize @shane @35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @cakesmith @cffndncr @cj @cookingmama @dkzeitgeist @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @harli @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @mawt @morkai @mrtaco @novacascade @powalen @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggynintyBut, a rather late reminder: Canberra Meat this Saturday. Exactly the same deal as ever. If you feel like drinking and playing board games while I shout at Rock Band from an adjacent room, then this is the place to be, I guess. Rather specific requirements you’ve got there, but who am I to judge?
*realises he doesn’t have a way to finish this post*
Yup.
*impolite cough*
Sick invite!
Unfortunately can’t come this one anyway but hopefully next time!“Next time”
Ha, cute.
Are you telling me there will be no further Can’d Meats! :O
Not in the foreseeable future. Only reason I can have this one is because my parents delayed me being kicked out until after they got back from a holiday (and because I’m virtually unemployed so I can’t afford to live in Canberra right now).
Ooooooohhhh that makes ridiculous amounts of sense and i feel bad for not knowing this…
Yes, how dare you not psychically understand the intricacies of my life, you monster.
And I thought you were my friend.
Is Canberra really as expensive to live in as they say? When I was considering moving up there to work for Signals I was told it’s generally more expensive to rent than inner-city Melbourne.
Our property value highs aren’t as high as cities like Sydney or Melbourne, but there’s next to no such thing as a ‘cheap’ house, no matter how far out you go. This is an unusually uniformly middle-class city.
It’s not as bad as Canberrans say (since I was looking at prices recently, if you can take an old, small one bedroom unit, then you can find something for about $250 a week in Mawson (coupla ks south of Woden, if you did enough searching to know the city centers)), but it doesn’t help that our general living expenses are relatively high across the board as well.
And my main problem is that I have worked five hours in the last fortnight, so unless there’s somewhere that would cover all of my living expenses for less than $120, I’m out of luck.
I’d like to, but we’re in the midst of birthday central here (three in one week), so there’s pretty much no chance. Sorry, man.
Yeah, you said something along those lines last time I mentioned it, but I was hoping that I could guilt-trip you into turning up. 😛
I’ll be there Friday. Not sure of specific time, maybe like 8pm?
*screams*
Thanks for reminding me, 26 hours til the Steam Summer Sale kicks off.
Good morning TAY
Good Destiny session last night, and Swift and Shift Couriers is now on Aussie Netflix.
Last song played game time!
Episode 34 A Beautiful Dream – Welcome to Night Vale
What was YOUR last song/podcast played?
Mystic Land – Elferya.
Dead Oceans by Ulcerate
Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project by… Adam Savage?
Fascinating man to get an insight into!
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/06/22/amazing-photo-shows-likely-alien-planet-1200-light-years-away.html?intcmp=hpff holy shit.
Neat.jpg
Niiice.
@jocon As a roadhog user, I think you’ll appreciate this
http://9gag.com/gag/agG03px
Nawwwww.
?
On further inspection, hairdresser lady seems to have butchered my moustache. Humbug.
Stage one complete, got all my clothes secretly ironed and everything and made it out of the house without arousing suspicion. Alibi for late return home in place.
Also, *hyperventilation*.
Gonna be cold tomorrow, and I’m home with a virus…
I can’t find a gif of Homer trying to psych himself up to enter the hospital and donate a kidney before just screaming and running in.
But that.
I think I grabbed the wrong shoes for these pants. Or the wrong pants for these shoes. Idk.
INTERNAL SCREAMING INTENSIFIES
Wish me luck. Or a swift death. Whichever is easier.
To be safe, just go without both! What could go wrong?
#helping #ladiesman #pleasedontactuallydothis #HashtagsForHarli
I’m bored
hurry up and be over work day
Hey that’s what my work is like…
…
*GASP* DO WE WORK AT THE SAME PLACE????
Maybe, we could even be the same pixel/ferret/viking/spaghett!!
… Blind… Mown!
Looks like a big day in world politics
Brexit vote in the UK tonight and NoBillNoBreak happening in the US congress
Interesting times to be sure
So many bitter people.
Put a dash of baking soda on them, should counteract the bitterness. Otherwise salt can sometimes help (oh yes, salt for the bitter people), or if you cook them with some celery it can often absorb out some of the taste.
Don’t forget the vinegar. 😛
Bitter does go very well with gin, however.
I’ve worked really hard to get to this point, thank you very much.
Your post contained manners and pride.
Back to square one for you.
You can be politely and proudly bitter. I’m sure the British have perfected it.
You’re welcome, I applaud your work.
Mischief managed.
Including stealth change on the train :p90 minutes, folks.
May your wallets be unemptied.
“Man I am exhausted, can’t wait to just sleep until forever.”
*wakes up at 5:30, 6:00*
Fffffffffffffffffffff…
Good morning TAY
A good FRIDAY morning 😀
Last song played game time!
Episode 45 A Story of Them – Welcome to Night Vale.
How is everyone?
Plans for your weekend?
Whats YOUR last song played?
Tell Spaghett, let’s start a conversation 🙂
No “W” – Ministry.
Eh, can’t complain too much.
Some house stuff – putting up doorway curtains to keep heat in my lounge room. Maybe other things but I suspect I’ll be lazy.
Games, possibly Warcraft movie.
Carolus Rex – Sabaton – the Swedish version.
Tired… intended to get an early night last night, then remembered Rocksmith had an Incubus pack this week. So many seventh chords… Ended up playing til 1am. Oops. :S
Nothing much… looks like it’ll be cold and wet outside, so that probably means I’ll curl up with a cup of tea and a blanket and play some Diablo. Of course the only thing the weather changes in that is the blanket, I guess 😛
Might continue working on the crucible questline in Destiny, seeing as it’s looking likely to be a requirement for the Year 2 Moments of Triumph…
I’m keen to see what Xur has on this blessed Xursday
I want Telesto, and I want it now
As a friend of mine is fond of saying, Telesto is the best-o. At least with specialist 😛 Bloody infuriating to die to in Crucible, too.
The one weapon I still don’t have is one of two(?) weapons he still can’t bloody sell. :'( I have seen five people get a Zen Meteor while in my fireteam… I’ll probably be blowing most of my coins on glass needles in the hope of converting my Light Beyond Nemesis into a good Int/Str roll.
Bleh. Granduncle’s funeral today. Kinda wanna go, but feel like utter zombie. Will probably crash in an hour or two.
Zombies at funerals are generally frowned upon.
It’s just hard to tell with all the other frowning going on.
Okay Guys, so I need a little help/advice. As you know, I mainly work in fanart. The reason for this is that I have learnt that no one wants my original stuff. Redbubble have sent me a note letting me know that because they had received a few complaints lately and they want me to review my stuff.
Now, if i remove all the fanart and leave only OC, it’s going to be largely ignored. For this reason, I’m considering just asking them to shut it down
Probably not much you can do tbh.
From a legal perspective fanart is fine until money is involved.
Most of the stuff on places like redbubble are like merch for webcomics and such? Might be better off trying to sell original stuff on etsy or the like that is specifically for that kinda thing.
Edit: or if fanart is what you want to do, start up a DeviantArt account, post it there and maybe with a note on the side about doing unofficial prints or T’s ect.
Redbubble is supposed to be for OC but it doesn’t sell.
This is pretty much a universal experience of artists. Fan art sells (despite being illegal)… but original content, not so much.
Achieving spontaneous sales of any creative content without extensive marketing efforts is pretty much a pipe dream regardless, but once you strip recognisable characters out of the equation too, it becomes even harder.
For most artists – especially those who haven’t yet built up a significant and loyal audience – the only option for getting sales is face-to-face at conventions… and even then, it’s an incredibly uphill difficult sale. Fan art and/or established IPs are pretty much what people want.
Does RedBubble charge you to keep your OC products up there? If not, you might as well leave it up, just in case.
I will remove the Fanart, but I haven’t done much OC due to it not selling. It’s not really any good. Maybe I should shut it downa nd come back later as Scree as opposed to Luckydog.
Sorry, I didn’t reply sooner because my phone wouldn’t let me.
Surprisingly had one of my comments deleted for the first time, journalists really don’t like being accused of excessive promotion.
In kotaku? Oooh tell us?
It was nothing harsh, just on that “five Australian Women are making a game about sex” I just made a sarcastic Tl;Dr summary that hinted the article was a oversell of whats actually happening.
I would have thought it was that article that was literally trying to sell foxtel subscriptions just for a fast and furious marathon.
Yea… that was an odd article to write during JB’s DVD/Bluray sale… Hmm, I could give Foxtel $126 and stream it in crap quality if at all, or I could give JB $40 and watch in on Bluray in 1080p. Decisions, decisions… 😛
Lol I didn’t even bother checking out the comments on that one; whenever women or a minority are featured in an article I just avoid the comments section since it always devolves into a gather for the KKK.
That said I get what you mean about it being an oversell however I just viewed the article as an abstract thought piece on women in gaming.
Since the article was most likely not sponsored the author probably thought the same as well.
Can’t help if I felt the article was heavy handed.
I love cosplay..
…BUT – lets’ be real for a moment.
SOME cosplayers are seriously one step of basically being Burlesque acts or strippers.
Ie. The ones that consistantly take outfits that are either not skimpy or slightly skimpy and then turning them into what is essentially lingeree…
This is done by both men and woman, but boy-o-boy do women ever seem to do it more often.
Is it just me, or do these people do it less for the craft and more because they are attention whores (again, men and women inclusive)?
*sheepish look*
I’d patronize the shit out of any burlesque show that involved Zangief cosplay like that.
Holy shit – how good was @mrtaco Zangief!
Glorious.
Definately not what i’m talking about here, though, as Zangief already wears very little.
LOL he was wearing even less the day before – some boxer shorts and a lance. 🙂
…as in the weapon-kind of lance… right?
“Jousting stick”
(“Tell ‘im ‘e’s dreaming”)
Nah just some guy I found on the way there.
WHY’D YOU HAVE TO SHOW SO MUCH CLEAVAGE MR. TACO?
I couldn’t focus on anything else!
Maybe they are, maybe they aren’t. Even if they are… *shrug* Live and let live. People do what makes THEM happy. If someone doing cosplay (or going to a club in the middle of winter…) wants to dress skimpy and reveal skin, that’s their choice and their comfort level.
Oh – i’m not saying as a completely negative thing – i mean, more power to them.
It just seems to be an increasing trend i’m seeing – just an observation
Cool mate. Seen a few too many “shamey” posts recently, sorry I read yours through that lens.
Maybe it’s a reflection of them feeling safer at cons recently since there’s been much better enforcement etc?
Well, I’m planing as going as Callie if I can. Sorry.
That didn’t feel like a real sorry scree, try again =P
=(
I kind of know what you mean but I usually focus on the details on costumes to kind of differentiate if this a cosplayer who loves what their doing or someone who just wanted to wear tiny clothes. A good example is Tifa cosplay while it looks really easy there’s heaps of detailing that goes into her gauntlets which kind of separates the posers from the cosplayers.
Edit: On that note people who follow cosplay will usually be able to tell when a costume has been hastily put together and when someone’s put a lot of effort into it. And I think that’s kind of where the appreciation for the work comes in over whether someone looks good in skimpy clothes. As with any creative work the type of beauty you see is in the eye of the beholder?
Look up ANY costume store and see what female costumes look like – they’re all sexy ones. Tons of pressure on any woman in costume to look sexy. Add to that the stereotypes that female characters are also generally sexy, or at the very least, skinny, and again, you have this intense pressure that only models can/should be cosplayers, because heaven forbid that a woman who’s overweight/over 30/not a model would want to cosplay.
Here’s the thing. There are plenty of awesome cosplayers who attend cons that wear great costumes, and don’t try to look like a stripper. The problem is that the professional photographers ignore them, they don’t win competitions (or even bother entering, because the sexy cosplayer will win everytime), and they don’t feature in articles about cosplay.
It’s not about being an attention whore, it’s about getting any attention at all.
This is also true; a lot of the source material cosplayer’s draw from is from the start over-sexualized. Case in point Widow from Overwatch or Kerrigan’s high heels even though she’s in Zerg form.
Apparently natural selection according to Blizzard deems nine inch heels a tactical advantage in combat.
Zarya’s pretty sexy tho 😛
Hmm. Oculus Summer Sale. Fair few titles I was interested in, though the discount basically brings them down to what the prices should be without Australia Tax so I’m stuck between saving and remaining salty. Though also still curious about whether you can get away with geolocation circumvention to get US/CA prices instead.
@redartifice I don’t know why, but for whatever reason I bought Crusader Kings II. I’m not sure exactly why I bought it, but I did. This will either be a game I play for 150 hours or one I play for 3. I’m coming off a series of massive Civ 5 binge sessions, so this may inadvertently make Crusader Kings II harder to get into.
I heard that Ireland is the best civ/kingdom/whatever they call it to start as, so I might start there. I don’t know whether I should watch YouTube tutorials first. I think I’ll just dive in and look at YouTube later, since sometimes that can make the prospect of even booting the game in the first place more difficult. Wish me luck.
I don’t know if starting something like this the day before SupaNova is a good idea.
It crashed in the first minute. Not a good start. To be honest Civ 5 is having the same problem, but I just bought Crusader Kings to fill the void instead of looking for a problem. On the topic, my computer has been acting strangely ever since my SSD got full. I don’t think it should be a problem since everything bar Windows is running off my Hard Drive, but it may be affecting everything else and I don’t want to address or deal with the problem right now.
When I tried to boot the game again, I got this message:
http://i.imgur.com/bAUGKOj.png
Weird, since I was sure that this game was saved to the D: Drive, the hard drive I usually put things on.
C drive will always be used for personal game profiles for many games on PC, which have things like settings and save game files, etc.
Damn, what do I do? My C: drive has been slowly filling up ever since I upgraded to a better version of Avast. I knew only getting a 32GB SSD would backfire in the end.
I might have to take it to the old computer shop I used to work at to get an idea of what’s wrong.
Step 1, get rid of Avast(Personal opinion based on being a tech in a tech bay for years)… It was great, 5(?) years ago, but has increasingly been getting pretty terrible… Use Windows disk clean up to clear out temp files as well as Windows does not always do this and that can hog a lot of stuff… Move your personal folders to a seperate drive (Pictures, Music, Documents) can also save space.
But yeah, 32GB is pushing it for a modern OS, i’m on a 64GB and thinking about upgrading as it keep filling up.
Currently running 240GB on mine 😀
Yeah i need something like that XD
But urgh, effort of cloning my drive across, or re-installing 😛
Do you by any chance have an NVidia GPU and haven’t formatted in a while? Chances are good that if you’ve been diligently updating drivers then the junk data NVidia can’t be fucked to clean up is taking up half your drive space.
Open windows\system32 & get properties on the DriverStore and see how much space it’s taking up.
I’ve got a nVidia GPU, but I haven’t updated the drivers in two years because GeForce keeps crashing mid-update. But that’s a good idea, I’ll check it out when I get home from SupaNova.
Any OS drive should ALWAYS have free space, as games and other applications commonly extract files/writes logs/ saves settings etc on to this drive while it running… I make a habit of keeping at minimum 10GB available on an OS drive so this sort of thing does not happen…
Also Page files (from memory) runs off the OS drive too, so if you got page files enabled, you require more free space.
Dive in.
The guy you want to play as is mulchean? Mulhear? Something like that, in one of the irish provinces in 1066. Get him married to someone with high stats asap and go from there. Dont worry about systems not making sense, theres systems i have never touched (I’ve never played really as a muslim ruler, for instance, and i dont tend to curry favour with the pope).
Dont worry if things go terribly, thats some of the fun- theres no preset win conditions, its a sandbox.
And play on Ironman. Loading is for wimps.
Murchard Ua Briain of Munster is the guy.
If you want a good streamer to watch, quill18 on the youtubes has done a bunch including tutorial stuff.
Jeez. I feel sorry for my friends in the UK who were hoping the public would vote majority to stay in the EU.
Man tell me about it, I’m still shell shocked by the decision. I can’t believe they voted to leave. It seems… surreal?
Yeah. It’s bad enough with the impending doom of the 2016 presidential election & then ours next week. This is why we can’t have nice things.
There’s no way of knowing what’s going to happen next for UK, I just hope they don’t end up regretting it.
I’m sure they will when they find out they have to adhere to new rules when travelling across Europe with increased air fares, then things will be more expensive to import into the UK from the EU, the way I see it, it’s only a backwards move.
It actually benefits the ruling elite though because increased globalization means the existing political parties have less sway within the country, however if you take a step backwards you then have increased wiggle room to consolidate and benefit your own power base without scrutiny from a larger party.
Oh yeah of course it does. It’s like that anywhere, where the worse off option normally always benefits the rich class & suffocates the working class.
I kinda feel bad for Scotland.
I hear the large majority of Scotland and North Ireland voted to stay and it was mostly the English voters who wanted to leave. Which must be a kick in the teeth so soon after the Scotts voting to stay in the UK.
Yeah it looked to be that way. Also certain parts of England swayed to remain rather than leave too.
I get the feeling they may go to another referendum now that everything has changed.
I feel so wrecked, running on 4 or 5 hours of sleep been a busy day. Especially after last night got called in to work because the freezers had stopped working, something blew up in the circuit breaker box power board thingo & they couldn’t fix it right away because the parts needed were in Melbourne, so we had to empty every freezer including the walk in one, and load it into the back of a semi that was rushed down for us. Fun times.
and i’m doing another 5 hours tonight, whee. Then back into the liquor department tomorrow and then probably back into nightfill for Saturday night as well. At least this weeks coming pay will be a decent one & let me pay off the power bill 😛
So, I’m one person doing my best to make the Overwatch community a better place. I tend to chat to my opponents, be nice to the good ones and disapprove of the salt shakers.
I’m a bit weird =P
Trying to be nice to people?? You monster!!
I am the worst D=
Talking to people? Especially strangers?
What a weirdo 😛
Seemed to work well last night, had some great games.
I dunno. The widowmaker was a jerk.
One week away from the next anime season. Which is good because outside a few shows the current one sucked. Not sure the next one’s shaping up as an improvement though. 🙁
Upcoming Highlights IMO:
– Berserk (sequel to the Golden Age films. Potential Downsides: very little Susumu Hirasawa, janky 3DCG on everything)
– Love Live! Sunshine (New LL series. First series was a juggernaut. Potential Downsides: all new cast, not sure if they can bottle lightning twice)
– Tales of Zestiria (Anime adaption of the game. Potential Downsides: the game plot and characters were shit)
– Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Ilya 3rei (More of the dumb magical girl spinoff of the Fate franchise. Only thing we’re getting until Ufotable finishes their upcoming movies. Potential Downside: you end up on an FBI watch list if you watch it)
– Amanchu! (Adaption of a Kozue Amano manga about a girl that goes scuba diving a lot. Potential Downside: might not be as good as Aria, but what is?)
– Arslan Senki (Season 2. Adaption of the FMA author’s Manga adaption of the old Novel series. I heard the first one’s okay. Potential Downside: the first ep of the first season left me cold and I never went back)
– Shokugeki no Soma S2 (First season was awesome. This should be a straight continuation. Potential Downsides: I can’t see any)
– New Game (Adaption of a cute fluff manga about a girl who joins a video game company. Potential Downside: may be more of a Cute Girls Doing Cute Things show than anything else)
– Rewrite (Adaption of the visual novel from Key. Potential downsides: It’s supposed to be a special arc focusing on one of the other characters not explored in the game, so fans-only? Also Rewrite was nowhere near as well received as, say, Kanon or Clannad)
– Danganronpa 3 (This confuses me – there seems to be two different shows? One of them looks like it’ll spoil the new game, the other seems to be a bridging story between the first two. Potential Downside: may ruin the upcoming sequel. Adaptions of the first two games were mediocre)
There’s also your usual pile of mediocre, trashy-looking Otaku / Fujoshi-pandering stuff but nothing else that particularly stands out. Noitamina’s show seemingly replacing Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress is an adaption of a baseball light novel that sounds dreadful, but Noitamina-block stuff is usually worth a look. In terms of the really notable studios, PA Works are still busy with Kuromukuro (continuing), Ufotable are doing Tales of Zestiria (so at least it’ll be well-animated). Trigger are just finishing up the disappointing Kiznaiver and their next project is a Little Witch Academia TV series (YES!) which is a while away. Kyoani don’t have a show this season, but they’re gearing up for a second season of Euphonium in October. Gainax have dropped off the planet. Bones have a couple of the less notable entries but Bones haven’t really knocked one out of the park in a while. Shaft are likely busy with the rest of Kizumonogatari and gearing up for their October show (adaption of March Comes in Like a Lion).
Oh man. Picked up six VR games and a couple of cosmetic Elite items last night, because sales.
Online shopping is far too easy 😛
Did you get any of the ship mod packs? Those are the only things I’ve been remotely tempted by
I picked up one of the Diamondback packs to add a few more colours to the lineup, and the Toku bobblehead to restore my Sidewinder to its former glory. Figured with the savings made on the Rift games, I could afford to toss a few bob in Frontier’s tip jar 😛
I haven’t yet picked one up, but I am absolutely tempted by the Sidewinder ship kit.
I’m on the train to SupaNova Perth right now. I don’t know what to expect, I’ve never been to a convention. Wish me luck.
Oh.. Friends who I played WoW with went to see Warcraft without me. THANKS FOR THE INVITE GUYS.
LEEROOOOOOOOOOOY…!
Ha! 😛