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Morning all! How did your weekend go?
I managed to finish both Firewatch and Her Story. Played Her Story with my wife and it was really a good experience. I would recommend both.
Apart from that it was actually nice in Canberra for once so ventured into the great outdoors for some sun and adventures
I started playing Her story with my wife as well. I think it broke her brain. Need to find the time to get back into it
We completed it in two big sessions – that helped put everything together. Little bursts might have been too much for us!
Well we did a bit over an hour the first time
Story spoilers
I think the moment we worked out that it was 2 different people being interviewed really broke her brain. She will be fine with it but we just need that time to sit down and work it out. As you say it is probably going to be a bigger session when she is in the mood, rather than little bits and pieces.Good morning TAY
How was your weekend?
Get your votes in? Get a sausage?
I got two, so good!
I’m all caught up on Welcome to Night Vale, so I think, due to withdrawals, and an obsessive nature, that I am going to rebinge listen to it all again.
Last song played game!!
One more Weekend by Against the Current
Who’s a Good Boy Part 2 – Welcome to Night Vale
Who’s a good boy? Is it you?
Ben Folds – Learn to Live With What You Are
Relevant.
Got my democracy sausage although was certainly feeling the price of democracy
Not sure on the last song, pretty sure it was from Tiglet’s playlist
I wish I could get normal sausages over here. They’re all frankfurters or polish sausages or are smoked. I mean, nothing wrong with a good Kielbasa in a bun but it’s not the same. 🙁
Make your own?
Theatrical Delirium by Beyond Creation
Painful weekend of explaining to people how voting works and what a hung parliament is. No sausages, no cakes. What a ripoff.
The sooner we can transition to a benevolent AI dictator, the better.
Affirmative.
The whole bloody world’s gone mad at this point
Morning all. How was your weekend?
Got almost a whole day yesterday to play games. I chose Valkyria Chronicles and got all the way to the desert levels. Unfortunately I’ve discovered I have a compulsive need to 100% this game and even if I beat the level I want that A Rank so I redo it.
Long story short Alivia is an absolute champion and can win most levels solo for mePlayed some RB6V2 over the weekend. I’d forgotten how rough those games are. Enjoying it but I think I’ll only stick with it if I can play some T-Hunt with friends. Debating playing Banner Saga 2 which was also free on Xbox GWG. Apparently you can import saved from BS1 which I haven’t played, or use “pre-set” characters, which I’m dubious about. Also not sure if I’ll even like the game.
Finished watching Community. That show never really got it’s energy back after season 3, huh? I know shows evolve and there were a lot of episodes I liked, but I’m also kind of glad it ended – the ending was pretty good, bittersweet in the right way.
Also finished watching Fury Road, which I started a few weeks ago then got interrupted. For a movie that was one long car chase it was pretty good but I didn’t feel it lived up to the hype.
A lot of the characterisation was really good. I liked how Max and Furiosa recognised that they were working together without having to have a real discussion about it, just mutual respect. Nux’s turn and my investment in his arc was surprisingly well played. But when it was all over and the good guys had control of the citadel and the water I just felt kind of deflated, like what was the point? I really enjoyed the action and I’m glad I watched it, but in the end I kind of felt like the story it told wasn’t that interesting.My first build that I’ll be putting a deposit on today:
CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($306.00 @ Umart)
Motherboard: MSI B150M MORTAR Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($139.00 @ CPL Online)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($98.00 @ IJK)
Storage: Samsung 250GB 2.5″ Solid State Drive ($99.00 @ Umart)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5″ 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($68.00 @ CPL Online)
Video Card: Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 8GB PHOENIX Video Card
Case: Thermaltake Versa H25 ATX Mid Tower Case ($58.30 @ Newegg Australia)
Power Supply: Corsair 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse ($44.00 @ CPL Online)
Total: $812.30
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-04 10:09 AEST+1000
Doesn’t look like it’s included a price for the GTX 1070 (almost as much again…) or the PSU.
Yeah for some reason it didn’t but all good as I sorted that with MSY.
Hola Tayberinos
(Another) busy weekend. Friday night went into the city to get a suit fitted to hire for a mate’s wedding- he’s gonna look pretty swish. Went and drunk gin after, because gin.
Saturday, walked to a local Primary school and exercised my democratic duty. Numbered all the boxes so I could put Cory Bernardi last. School had no democracy sausages so walked to a nearby Masters and had my democracy sausage there.
Sat Arvo went to a mate’s place for his birthday. He wanted old-school gaming, so I took my PS3 loaded with Crash Team Racing. Played Magic and games, then due to a catering mishap had to do a mercy run to a late night supermarket for barbecue meat, and ran into an old uni mate who’s just finished his doctorate in astrophysics. Partied till about 1am.
Sunday, did a spotlight run to get fabric for my waistcoat for my Bloodborne costume, matched the pattern pretty well. Hopefully will start it tomorrow night.
Game wise, played more of Mirror’s Edge Catalyst yesterday. The Plot is frankly nonsense, and the open world has lead to too many cancerous collectables (There’s 5 different types, and most aren’t interesting). Running is fun though, and I don’t hate the combat as much as others seem to.
A Monday Morning Question: Mirror’s Edge has a nonsense plot in a bargain basement dystopia. Which dystopian settings do you think are ludicrous?
+1 for Crash Team Racing, best kart racing game I ever played
Under the new system, it’s better to not number people you hate as if your vote exhausts they get nothing. But it probably doesn’t matter too much if you’ve numbered the lot – if you’ve numbered more than around 30 boxes it’s pretty unlikely the slate won’t be full by that many preferences. 🙂
That said, if he were on my ballot I’d want to put him last.
Think I got to 39 before I stopped.
I had a democracy sausage roll. It was very oily and I was not impressed so I had a Bunnings snag (local girl guides ftw!) on my walk home.
The UK. Australia. The USA. 😉
Oh, my vote will be allocated in like the first 5 preferences. If we’re allocating 64th preferences in a vote count, something’s gone very wrong.
Only 64? We had over 100 this time… and some git had tied knots in the pencil string which meant I only had about half the booth, and I’m left handed so it was the wrong half. “Challenging”. 🙂
It’s pretty expected that most counts will need to go down to the 20s or so for the last spot in a normal senate half-election, but this time with the low quota (only around 7% with VIC’s 12 senators) I’m wondering if they’ll need to go very far at all. That’s why I’m still baffled that Turnbull thought that a full senate election would solve anything, minor parties are way more likely to get through with such a low quota before preferences are even in play.
I think the double dissolution call is going to go down as one of the great political own-goals. Ostensibly to solve his “feral senate” problem, he’s managed to make it…more fractured.
Yep. The funny thing is the Senate’s been working exactly as designed, as a brake on rubber stamping bad legislation and as a house of review. If there’s a major bill that has wide public support that’s failing to get past the Senate that’s one thing, but a minor bill that’s of low profile and dubious benefit isn’t really supposed to be a trigger…
Pauline Hanson. Well if she gets her wish for a Royal Commission into climate science, I’ll be laying on the popcorn. It’ll be about as damning to her denialist matesas the judgement in Kitzmiller v. Dover was to the creationists (“breathtaking inanity” was the money quote from that one…).
She wants a royal commission into Islam as well.
Fuck off.
Does she know what a royal commission is? What they hell does she want the royal commission to work out as far as Islam goes? Is religion true? Does god exist?
Indeed.
@tigerion I imagine by “royal commission into islam” she really means “Go on a hate-filled witch hunt in parliament and bleat and moan about Halal vegemite”
Which, I may point out, is essentially what the Halal inquiry was
Oh! Oh yes!
http://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article/2016/07/04/pauline-hanson-converts-islam-after-accidentally-eating-halal-certified-sausage
The apocalypse rolled around and leveled almost everything. Due to the advent of super-powers in humans, complete annihilation was averted.
Japan is now an ultra-high-tech, police-state dystopia/utopia(depends who you ask), run by teenagers with super-powers who refine their skills in luxury high schools which are perfectly ordinary apart from deciding everything from minor misunderstandings to entire school department funding by way of super-power duels between children.
Trying to figure out if you’re referencing something specific or not…
I’m pretty sure what I described is its own fucking genre by now.
The world(s) of Mad Max: batshit insane (but that’s a very hefty part of what I love about it).
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @beeawwb
No Pathfinder tonight unfortunately. I’ve managed to catch a bug that’s keeping me under the weather. We’ll reconvene in two weeks.
Geez.. everyone’s been getting hit. Get well soon, buddy!
This signal failure in Sydney has annihilated my train trip. Buses for the city circle now. Actual worst.
Boo-urns.
Signal failures there too eh? In Melbourne it’s just expected nowadays. When trains in Melbourne are 100% functioning and on time, you wonder what poor sod was sacrificed to make that possible, because it can only be done through unholy means
Absolute rubbish, there’s nothing unholy about it…
It’s simply the lunar cycle. Trains work on full moons, and full moons only.
So our train network is worked on by werewolves?! Heresy!
Yes. That’s why they’re always talking about the silver bullet for Melbourne’s transport woes…
*gets coat*
No, our train network IS werewolves.
So far so good on the new Stellaris playthrough with the new patch. Many things got adjusted and changed, liking it all so far, embassies made diplomacy way too easy, now you actually gotta try to get other empires on your side since that mechanic was removed. You now gain favour with other races through agreements like non-aggression pacts etc. My holy mushrooms, the “Holy Arm of the Shruumi” are the most peaceful, and currently the most powerful in the galaxy at the moment xD. Can’t wait for my fleet to get strong enough to crush the Xenophobic Fallen Empire while I control almost a whole third of the galaxy.
My space C’thulu race had control of almost half of the galaxy, enslaving all who stood in their way. Laser weaponry beats plasma fire when you jump out of hyperspace right in the middle of their fleet. My first opponent who declared war on me had over 5k more fleet power, yet the surprise attack from my fleet (Completely by accident) just wrecked almost a third of their fleet before they could even land their shots back on me. I watched in astonishment despite them being outgunned, Space C’thulu (Or the “Empire of C’thagn” as I called them) crushed them beneath their boots and begun capturing and enslaving their population in response. They since took their home planet while a combat air patrol was fighting on the side to destroy all spaceports that could be found in their territory.
Decided to revisit a couple of games I’d dismissed a while back – Solus Project and Path of Exile. I’d originally stopped playing Solus Project less than 30 minutes in due to motion sickness, and it was still there this time – the usual culprits (low FOV, motion blur, head bobbing) weren’t the issue, but I think I narrowed it down this time around – your walk speed is directly linked to your viewing pitch. I can’t fathom why the devs thought that’d be a good idea, but I found I had no issues whatsoever as long as I didn’t look too far up or down while moving. Played for about 8 hours, and am completely engrossed by the story.
Started Path of Exile where I’d left off – just before the Act One boss, with a haphazard set of skill gems (for anyone who’s not played, it’s basically Diablo 2, but all of your active skills come from gems you socket into your gear, rather than a skill tree unlocked by levelling up; levelling unlocks points for the passive skill tree). Decided to start concentrating on maximising fire damage, found a fire-weakness curse gem which fitted my plan nicely, and a mana-cost-reduction gem, and curse/firestorm combo’d my way through to the end of Act IV. Still not sold on the “gain skills through item drops” mechanic, as it makes the start extremely dull/slow, makes progression unpredictable, and things tend to steamroll (and hence get very samey) once you get a good synergy. But maybe it’ll lose its effectiveness at higher difficulties, by which point I’ll have a decent selection of gems to make a more viable build.
I quite liked Path of exile, but not enough to truly commit to it
Buh.
Morning, TAY.
I slept later than usual this morning.
Planned to get up at 9am, and it’s 11:45am.
Way to go, me. :/
Good morning. I spent most of my weekend sanding, playing overwatch and drawing.
Here’s the latest image of my WIP in case you don’t have twitter
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmbYwpjUEAAqfTB.jpg
Wow that’s awesome
Thanks. I’m still trying to sand your leg down, but I’ve reached a point in places where it must be done by hand as I’ve managed to sand through the cardboard a bit. It’ll still be fine to fiberglass, I just need to be careful.
I see, fair enough.
I hit a bit of a snag with my final parts, Officeworks apparently have had 300GSM paper on backorder for the past 5-6 weeks and barely any stores in Victoria have any left, though they did say to try the one in QV as they still apparently had some left, I’ll be dropping in there tonight.
Seems like the world is against us making this armor =P Are you happy to bondo while I fiberglass?
I’ve never used it before, so I’m worried I’ll screw it up…
I’ll show you how on the leg I have
=O very cool! A lot more detail than your usual sketches as well!
It’s because it’s a different style of drawing, which requires a lot more detail
Have you been playing Competitive? I started playing and got to level 54, had three games in a row where someone left in my team and we just couldn’t win 🙁
Yeah, they really need to fix it
Someone’s going to have to explain Batmang vs Superman to me.
Explain it to me like I’m Zack Snyder and I literally don’t know anything about the DC universe.
It’s simple, it’s about 40 trailers/pilots released on one handy Blu-ray disc.
They hated each other until a coincidence made them friends.
I guess more specifically:
1. Why is Batmang straight up murdering people?2. What is Wonderwoman’s meaningful function in the film? Apart from delaying the Big Bad for a bit, she could have probably be replaced with an inanimate kryptonian rod to the same effect?
3. How do you find Luthor’s portrayal personally? I was under the impression he was sort of calm, collected but more of a Sociopath, rather than outright insane.
4. What’s the deal with the dream sequence within a dream sequence?
5. Why is Wonderwoman fighting in WWI in her outfit?
6. Can… the sun’s cosmic rays legit heal Superman after being nuked? Is that how it works?
7. Does the world know Clark Kent is Superman at the end?
Like, I’m not being snarky (well, maybe a little), I just don’t understand the significance of some of these things and I feel like I’m missing out on understanding it.
Having only watched the first fifty minutes:
1. I think Batman’s lost it since the death of Robin, so he’s now 100% anger, and 200% fury. The bit I find weird is that he’s clearly been Batmanning for aaaaages, and yet people act like he’s still this mysterious presence. Weird, weird weird.2. Universe Building. Gotta tease all those tie-ins. And in relation to point 5, I think the WW movie is set in WW2, so it’s just a nod to that. This universe’s reaction to superheroes doesn’t seem to make much sense though.
3. He was playing up the “madness” thing as an attempt to manipulate people, so far as I could tell, but it just didn’t work for me. He just doesn’t feel threatening as a villain, despite the fact that he’s clearly manipulating things, and is the film’s villain.
4. Shut up, that’s why.
6. Shut up, that’s why.
7. Shut up, that’s why.
1) Batman’s gone nuts after a Robin got offed. Hopefully it gets toned down now that “Superman has given him hope” because FFS really Batman shouldn’t be a butcher. Shouldn’t use guns, either, because for most of his existence he’s hated using them.2) Wonder woman is there because batman vs Doomsday is an even dumber matchup than Batman v Superman. She’s a heavy hitter and she’s also “look at us we’re franchising!”
3) Luthor is usually smarter and less manic than he was here. Eisenberg was fine, the role just didn’t hit Luthor for me. Spacey is probably my favourite Luthor.
4) see 2). LOOK AT US WE’RE FRANCHISING JUST LIKE MARVEL AREN’T WE GREAT?! The Flash thing probably wasn’t actually a dream but will loop back in Justice League.
5) Wonder woman is old, like real old. She’s made out of clay so is ageless, hence, the WWI thing. The WW movie is going to be set in WWI, presumably Steve Trevor is gonna crash on paradise island during the war.
6) Supes gets healed from the sun, always has. The specific “nuke and heal” thing is yet another thing that Snyder ripped from Dark Knight Returns (which is where most of the Batman stuff here comes from, which doesn’t really work if this is the first Batman we’ve seen)
7) No. Hence the two funerals.
Their Batman is based heavily on the crazier, brutal Dark Knight Returns Batman. The book is a fan favourite and as a stand alone story it’s definitely worth reading. It’s set sort of post-Justice League. He’s quit being Batman, he’s faced all the horrors, he’s seen the fallout, and he’s broken. They actually did a good job of putting that character on the screen, it’s just sort of a poor direction to go in. Like the animated version of Dark Knight Returns it suffers from not having the internal commentary. He says what he’s thinking a few times and they do the flashbacks but the character doesn’t really work if you can’t get inside his head (unless you just want to see a right-wing nuts hyper-violent vigilante fantasy).
I don’t think he’s actually murdering anyone. The same way Superman clears up that he didn’t actually kill that threatening Lois even though he clearly turned him into a smudge on the wall.
As for 7, no, that’s why Clark has a quiet little thing while the rest of the world has huge Superman events. The idea is that the idea of Superman brings out the best in people all over the world. It doesn’t really make a huge amount of sense though considering this version of Superman just rocks up and does a shitty job for a few years. His impact as Superman on this world is mostly just shock, rather than the deep and meaningful impact that he has in comics.
At the very least it inspires their Batman to be less Dark Knight Returns and more The Animated Series. If it wasn’t for that they’d be stuck using a bitter old Batman with no more room for character development before he even got his first solo movie.
When broken up into individual scenes lot of it makes sense on some level. It draws from some really good sources and has some good ideas. There’s just a lot of bad decisions underneath it all and some poor execution. Man of Steel suffered from similar problems. Ie, the basic idea of the Kents in Man of Steel was great, but they way they did it made admitting they don’t have all the answers came across as ‘you should let kids die so nobody ever finds out you’re special’. I feel like a good writer and director could make an amazing movie using nothing but Man of Steel/Batman V Superman ideas.
Personally I just find it frustrating that they went straight for the spectacle fight of Superman vs Batman instead of doing a good, solid Batman/Superman story. If you want to trick some rubes into seeing the movie make it about a fight, but if you want to make something that showcases what people see in the source material make it a Batman/Superman team-up.
@jocon @distantdrop So you guys may or may not be aware there’s been quite a lot going on my end these past few months and I’ve been struggling to kind of find my footing as it were to keep me grounded. In my attempts to do that I keep coming back to WoW and the community we had there last xpac. With everything that’s happened since the last time I visited this topic I think it’s something I’d like to rebuild.
I know both of you have your own views/goals with the next xpac but I thought I’d ask here first before I started the process.
Any good news on the life front for you? Sounds like you need some.
As for wow I’ve signed up the druid I’m gonna boost with the guild my cousin was in for prog raiding. I expect there will be tryouts for the final teams but as the only Balance druid they have so far in a melee heavy community I’m reasonably confident.
But Trenchant or that monk is free for casual whatevers.
The people in the guild seem pretty cool and I expect you’d be welcome even if you don’t want to prog. They have all sorts of players.
In my experience the only good news you get in life is the kind you make on your own. I guess at this point that’s pretty much what I’m trying to do.
Let me know how things work out with the guild come xpac but it’s probably worth sticking with them for progression as you’re likely to suffer burnout if you repeat fights on multiple lockouts. I’ll look at getting the guild up and running and start recruiting in a few weeks; internet’s still being sorted post move.
I’m going to be looking at this as casual progression with a hardcore attitude; 4 hours per week over 2 days/nights. Hopefully once things get underway I’d like to step down as RL and just focus on running the guild/recruiting.
Probably also get a vent/TS server up at the end of this month as well.
I’ve already had the experience of being in a progression guild and i’m too crap of a player to be in a Mythic guild so nowadays I just prefer to stick casual so if you want to hit some walls again with noobs I’m totally down.
See above post about what I’m thinking/looking at and if you’re still keen and if there’s days/times you prefer. I was thinking about one weekday evening + 1 weekend morning/night.
Sounds like a pipe dream, hardcore progression? 4 hrs a week? you’ll need exceptionally fast adapting players and I would assume those players don’t gamble when joining guilds so recruiting them with 0 Cred sounds hard.
Not hardcore progression, casual progression hardcore attitude =P Translation for those 4 hours a week we don’t go into the raid for sightseeing but we go in there to clear a fight and progress. Progression in a casual time-frame. It’s do-able if the group mentality is to tackle it with progression in mind.
Also I’m not going to to look to grow fast but rather look at growing a stable roster with the right people. If this means we pug to start I’m not too fussed. I mean pugging normal is a joke these days anyways, it’s the same as running LFR.
So the weekend, kind of a blur.
Went into work late on Friday as I had to take Mrs Tigs to the doctors as she is still feeling sick. So ended up getting into my meeting about an hour late. Then 30 minutes in I got an urgent call from Mrs Tigs who had a bad reaction to the medication and was curled up in fetal position with stomach cramps. So rushed home and took her back to the doctors. They ended up giving her a different thing I haven’t seen which was originally a paramedic only inhaler thing.
So proud of how good Tiglet was, would keep on checking on her mummy and then just played in her room. Were worried she was going to freak out but dealt with it like a champ.
Saturday we had Tiglet besties’ birthday so was to nice and she had lots of fun. Ended up working until 1am trying to catch up on what I missed Friday.
Sunday we did a morning visit to the cafe and Tiglet was very impressed that there was a doggie in the garden. The rest of the day was just easy, reading books, watching videos and running around. Ended up working until 1am trying to catch up on what I missed Friday.
Queenslanders – I’m in your state from Thursday to Tuesday.
Plans at this point:
Dinner in Brisbane somewhere at some time on the Friday 8th (amenable to changing to Saturday if necessary).
Dreamworld on Sunday 10th. Be there or be square.
Peace out, bitches.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @greenius @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @rocketman @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__Tag anyone I’ve missed.
Also Hi Strange!
EDIT:
HI @blaghman
SORRY FOR LEAVING YOU OUT
And to piggyback off Crackles’s post, I’ll be there from early Wednesday to Sunday, and am happy to hang out with people and have fun at basically any point, since my only plans are for daytime Saturday.
Edit: @thecracks HOW DARE YOU YOU MONSTER!
I’ll be square when it comes to DW. As for dinner, depends where it is and how I feel on the day
Keep me in loop! @blaghman
Could potentially be free but also potentially very busy
Mmm sadly a very good chance I can make it. My son’s mother and all her family are away at a funeral out of state so, got noone to look after him 🙁
EDIT: CAN’T* make it, ugh
I’m sure nobody would mind if you brought him along.
Ohhhh… good point!
In case you don’t see the tweetar – 7pm tonight at Hop and Pickle
I should be good for dinner tomorrow night, yep.
\o/
I aten’t ded.
Stardew Valley good game.
Hi
Yesterday I ran my first half marathon in under 3 hours.
That is all.
Congratulations!
You rock
Nice work!
SATURDAY GOES TO A TWO-DAY MUSIC FESTIVAL. THINGS HAPPENED. IN BULLET POINT.
– ALMOST CRASHED A GOLF CART INTO A FOOD STAND
– GOT ELBOWED IN THE FACE AND BLED FURIOUSLY IN THE MIDDLE OF A CROWD. TWAS PRETTY FUCKING METAL, ACTUALLY. MAD STREET CRED.
– I SPENT 16 HOURS THERE. I DON’T THINK I’VE SPENT 16 HOURS IN ANY ONE PLACE. THAT WAS DAY ONE.
– OH GOD IS THAT A 13-YEAR OLD SMOKING A CIGARETTE OH GOD SHE’S LIGHTING FROM THE WRONG END
– YO DID THAT DUDE CHUCK A FULL 2L OF COKE IN THE AIR? JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
– OH DAMN THOSE COPS ARE BARRELING TOWARD THAT GUY HOPPING THE FENCE AHAHAHA GET WRECKED
– FRIEND COLLAPSED IN THE MIDDLE OF A SET AND I FUCKING FIREMAN CARRIED HIM THROUGH A CROWD. I KNOCKED PEOPLE OVER BUT FUCK’ EM, THERE WERE TOO MANY IN THE CROWD ANYWAY, WHAT’S THE POINT OF CROWDING THAT MUCH IF YOU FUCKING CAN’T DANCE OR MOVE FOR SHIT ANYWAY
– No seriously fashion choices at these events are fucking weird.
– Music was alright. EDM’s not my thing. The big names were good, though.
– WHAT’S THAT SATURDAY GOT A ALL ACCESS PASS LET’S FUCKING GO- wait what I can’t go backstage. Or side of the stages. I can get into the VIP section but I can’t get served there? What the fuck is this pass?
TL;DR: Nothing happened.
I’ve been playing some competitive Overwatch and I have to ask, why are there people who don’t understand the mode? I would think that people playing in this mode would know how the game is played and focus on team composition. Instead I still get Torbjorn players smacking their turret against Reinhardt.
I finished the original Destiny content and it was still the most nothing experience I’ve had in a long time.
I walk through a door and my ghost asks, “Can you defeat a God?”
I’m like, “No? Who? What God? Why am I even here?”. Then I shot 3 statues alongside triumphant music that implies I’m doing something important.
I know a lot of people keep saying that The Taken King fixes all the problems, but I really don’t feel like playing more of this game.
I also finished The Banner Saga. I don’t know, I was expecting more from this. The way people talked it seemed like every choice was super difficult and really made a huge difference, except only a couple did. A lot of fights were really limited and samey, although I did like the maps that changed up the scenery.
Tbh Banner Saga hasn’t aged all that well; in the context of when it was released the game was quite amazing; however I tried to replay it a few months back in anticipation of the sequel and juts found myself fatigued at the experience.
The only thing I can say is a stand out in the game even with age is the artwork and animation.
For me, it was the horrible decisions and the sheer lack of any of the resources I need. I spent nearly all my battles with horrific morale because I’d stupidly trusted some randoms who joined up for a while, only to discover a few battles/missions/story beats later that they’d nicked off in the dead of night with all our fucking food.
Shit got real desperate real fast, after that, and it stayed there. The whole game was basically about clawing our way back from the brink.
You know I seriously don’t get the media. Pauline Hanson is getting more news coverage than either of the major party leaders and she’s a single bloody seat. Yes it boggles the mind she even won but at least she’s not the leader for one of our major political parties like Trump is.
Because she gave a press conference today and her policy positions deserve scrutiny? Because she is likely to be one of the senators holding the balance of power? Because like it or not like 9% of Queensland voted her in and despite our distaste the reasons behind that should be addressed?
But they aren’t really addressing the reasons behind her policies are they? They’re giving her credibility and a soap box to stand on and adding a loudspeaker to the mix. Out of all the articles I’ve read not a one appears to accurately capture how/why she won voters. And if her policies are the only indication then 9% of the state is taking the first steps to creating an Australian Neo-Nazi party.
I would like to know how many people had her has a preference vote just because they’re so completely disillusioned and fed up with the existing status quo. Is she really a representation of the people who voted for or is she just a protest vote by people increasingly losing faith in the system as it is. Do any of the so called news articles actually publish anything to analyze the disease or are they happy to get clickbait attention grabbing articles out for the symptoms.
You say 9% of the state voted for her yet if the amount of time we read about her since this election would make people think the whole state voted for her. There will always be a portion of the population that is bigoted/racist and intolerant. I mean if there wasn’t we wouldn’t have a majority of the world’s religions since there’d be no one to sell to.
My point is her views don’t need the airtime they’re getting as they’re pulling the conversation away from the parties that actually do represent a majority of voters. The news is focusing on her for shock and awe value.
Edit: I also fail to see how her policy on immigration is any less pervasive than the coalition’s; at least she has the gall to be openly racist/intolerant while the liberal party does it passively.
I despair of the reasons behind One Nation’s rise actually being addressed.
People are just rolling their eyes and saying, “Ugh, racists,” without accepting that racism itself isn’t the underlying problem. (It’s A problem, but not the underlying problem.) There are real issues which need to be solved, which are making these people dissatisfied. Racism is the defective thinking that causes them to pick the wrong target to blame for their problems.
Shutting down the racism won’t make the dissatisfaction go away. It will not stop the rising discontent. Things will still be bad for them.
But because there’s this dismissive attitude of, “Ugh, you lot are racists, so anything you say should be ignored,” the real problems causing the protest will go unaddressed.
And frankly, I believe the establishment is a great fucking deal responsible for the rise of this racism. Racism is about casting blame in the wrong place. And who’s responsible for that? A big part of that is in the hands of those responsible for the problems. Those who are actually to blame for the problems of the lower class (the wealthy who are interested only in concentrating all wealth into their own hands) are incredibly adept and very well-practiced at absolving themselves of that blame. So if the people who ARE to blame manufacture a narrative where they won’t be blamed, who IS to blame? Because in the eyes of the affected, there must be blame. The anger, the dissatisfaction with circumstances is real.
The holders of power washing their hands of it all and rolling their eyes, “Ugh, those hicks, amirite?” is the worst denial of responsibility for this mess.
This exactly. And news media is no better in how they look at this issue. Racism is a symptom not the disease; and it’s too easy to dismiss it away with a judgemental attitude. The issue in my opinion is an increasingly disenfranchised lower-middle class looking for someone to blame and they don’t realize how much of this blame and can/should be placed at the feet of our leaders. Since the GFC economies have been held together with spit and duct tape with the wealthy increasingly consolidating their hold on wealth.
Saw this literally 2 seconds later https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/04/pauline-hanson-back-and-the-disaffection-genie-is-well-and-truly-out-of-the-bottle?CMP=share_btn_tw
Maybe warming up a little bit to that FLCL sequel that was announced a while back. At AX this weekend they announced that the character designer (Yoshiyuki Sadamoto – see also Evangelion, Nadia, Gunbuster, The Girl Who Leapt Though Time, Summer Wars etc.) will be back to do all the character design work on the sequel. More importantly, The Pillows will be doing the music. They were a big part of what made the original work so well and be so memorable and they’ve released like 15 albums since FLCL so there’s a huge body of work to pull from too.
Evening TAY people. Any recommendations on Grim Dawn? Diablo esc hack’n’slash I’m currently eyeing off after seeing a Diablo 3 streamer playing it on Twitch.
Speaking of, back to watching SGDQ I go!
It is on my wishlist but haven’t played it. But one of my friends gifted me Victor Vran during the sale so will be a while before I get another clicky clicky death game
Hey phone peeps
Should I get a Nexus 5x, Xperia Z5 or Galaxy S6
The 5X is awesome from what i’ve seen. So my vote is for that.
The bloke at the Telstra shop made the same recommendation. Interesting
They also get the longest standing support from Google. So that’s just another reason why I would go for a Nexus device.
I love my xperias. Great phones
How do you find the camera?
It’s pretty good, but I’m by no means a camera expert
Had a galaxy for a while, will never go Samsung ever again.
Typing this on an older Xperia. It’s not bad but has not aged well and the Sony soft/bloatware is crappy and annoying. Probably gonna go something else next.
Avoid a samsung. Lots of bloatware and the battery dies in a day. It’s what made me go windows phone. I didn’t regret it.
Recommend me a windows phone? Mid range, decent ram?
I’m currently on the 640. Just the normal one, not XL. I haven’t had any issues with it.
However, it’s not windows 10 ready yet. I would suggest going for something newer.
The 650 is the next one up. I would suggest go that. It’s the same price bracket as the 640
Yeah, I’m on a Windows Phone and aside from the odd problem with app availability it’s pretty solid. Although I’ll admit I don’t really do much with my phone beyond text messages, music, e-mail and phone calls. Sometimes I’ll look something up online or use the navigation apps.
For me the main advantage is the calendar synchronisation with Windows 10. I just wish they’d bring the XBOX One into that loop. I’d love to have my phone docked on my desk, transferring all alerts to the XBOX One and Windows 10 PC.
I’m really liking the Xperia Z5 I picked up in December. Only issue really is that the battery life isn’t amazing – if you use the thing hard it’ll give you maybe 8-9 hours. But I was migrating from a Lumia so the only way it could have gone was up, plus it’s not apples-to-apples on the battery life because Windows Phone has no apps you could actually waste the battery with.
Objectively the Samsung is a better specced phone, but the Xperia has a much nicer look and feel to it IMO, plus the OS itself is way less filled with shitty bloatware.
That was one of the main benefits I saw with the nexus that is came with no bloatware
The Sony-specific additions seem to be a fairly minimal theme, Playstation Store app & Remote Play app, and a better keyboard because the standard Android keyboards are shit.
Same question I asked Red, how do you find the camera?
Performs well enough I guess. It’s no SLR but it’s okay. I took some photos on it a few weeks ago when I was sightseeing in Seattle with Mum, can upload some? I have some on Twitter, eg https://twitter.com/Atomstrawberry/status/744667031362908162 Seattle City & Mt Rainier from the Space Needle.
Hey TAY
Last song played game time
Part 1, Chapter 6: Sylvia – Alice Isn’t Dead (podcast)
Heathens by Twenty One Pilots.
How are you all?
What was YOUR last song played?
Leon Bridges- Better Man
I’m tired as all hell. Been a busy couple of days and today’s the only day I have to destress and organize some messy parts of my life before I’m thrown back into work tomorrow.
Pure Sincerity – Devildriver.
Bored. Considering going home way early on account of nothing to do.
All the overwatch!
Maaan, after those two back to back games of competitive control, playing the full 5 rounds, almost every round played full duration, ending on a nailbiting scramble overtime…
I need a break!
Or, do you need more overwatch? =P
Sounds like overwatch – Good fun Have luck
Praise Abort – Lindemann
Doin’ it – Justin Clarke
Which sounds naughty when I write it out like that
Legion of Monsters – Disturbed.
Everybody wants to be a cat: Aristocats soundtrack.
Morning Everyone!
Did anyone catch the Berserk season opener?
As a fan of the books I was very satisfied. :3
Thoughts?
Watched it last night. Haven’t read the manga in a few years – the release schedule was just way too slow for my taste – but I think they captured the tone very well. Not a fan of the 3DCG, tho – it makes mouths move way too smoothly.
Also, it made that wood demon look like a puppy with a chew-toy when it was munching on those bandits, which kinda broke the tension for a bit.Nah, I usually wait for the first 2 or 3 episodes.
Never got into the original but reports have me cautiously optimistic.
So good, used a bit more CG than I would’ve liked but it doesn’t look that bad.
I hate 3DCG anime so much. It’s so stiff and completely throws away what makes anime different from everything else (the limited animation). Plus even when it’s being done with a budget, it still looks really average. The studio doing it is a bad choice too, normally does really bad saturday morning magical girl crap.
I don’t hate the CG, like i think Guts looks okay, but what get to me is bad CG and damn those skeletons were awful looking.
I don’t mind CG in theory but it’s the weird anime/CG hybrid that doesn’t seem to have any artistic style. Like someone chose it because they liked the idea of working with the technology rather than having any real vision for what they wanted to do with it.
There are ways you can use tons of 3DCG in anime and have it look great. Look at ufotable’s recent work especially Fate/Zero and Unlimited Blade Works, for example. There’s tons of 3DCG in that, as well as digital effects everywhere, and it looks amazing.
But when you throw Berserk (which has such a dirty visual style in the manga to begin with) to a studio where the only actual anime production they’ve worked on themselves is several seasons of Teekyuu (a tiny budget 3-minute episode show!) you probably aren’t going to get the sort of output that you’d get from an experienced high-end studio like ufotable.
I don’t understand why they didn’t use the same approach as the movies. That had a reasonable blending of both worlds.
EDIT: And FWIW, there’s no hybrid here. It’s 100% 3DCG. They’re just using some extra shading techniques to hide that and sometimes pull it off.
Heh. Chris Evans (that ginger prick) has stepped down as host of Top Gear. I guess the rumours were true. Also i’ve seen they won’t be replacing him, which would be a good thing since I really enjoy the other presenters and they really seem to work well together.
Good riddance IMO. I refused to watch it while he was involved. Guy’s a smarmy prat and was by far the worst possible person to be the presenter for the show.
Understandable. If you eliminate him from the show and it was a good season tbh.
So I have a question. Been playing Valkyria Chronicles on PS4 and was surprised I still haven’t any trophies so I had a look online and it said one was just from killing am enemy ace which I have done a few times already. Does anyone know if the trophies are bugged at all?
Quick look on psnprofiles suggests it’s working fine? Assuming it’s the ‘Lance of Gallia’ trophy.
Yup Lance of Gallia. That’s alright ill just let it go. See if it shows up.
Becoming addicted to this game!! Alicia is the best.
You’re definitely killing the aces? Not just elite guys. They have special names like “Ty the Immortal” and stuff and are usually hidden.
Yeah, Alicia (and scouts in general) are so broken in that game. Your XP rewards are granted based on speed you clear the map so scouts are awesome for clearing stuff, and Alicia’s potentials are crazy too. It’s actually secretly a puzzle game. Clear the objective / kill the enemies of interest in as few moves as possible.
There’s some crazy stuff you can do with the tank as well. Blocking enemy advances by driving it in particular spots, driving it right up alongside enemy tanks so you can point-blank one-shot their engine etc. You also need to get used to rushing tanks with Lancers to do the same thing.
Yeah I killed that Ty the Immortal guy last night in the forest.
Well just lost all my displays, so I think my GPU needed reseating. I also reseated the RAM just in case. Now everything seems fine. Also happy to see my ghetto fan filters (stockings) & postive fan pressure have kept dust out of my case since my GPU & CPU’s fan & heatsink are 100% free of dust.
You’re having better luck than me atm, one motherboard died a few months ago, got that replaced, now the RMA’d replacement has been found to also be dead. Turns out according to CPL that my Thermaltake Gold power supply is the cause of both motherboards breaking, so now gotta wait another 3-4 weeks for the next replacement to come in while also having to go back to MSY about the power supply…
Jesus dude. That’s fucked.
They were nice enough to start the RMA process as soon as they removed it… though they didn’t tell me lol, doesn’t matter though, means less days I wait for the replacement to come in from overseas. They’re going to take out the power supply tonight so I can go pick that up tomorrow, while I order a new power supply through them since that’s the one and only time I’ll buy from MSY, costed me two brand new motherboards and two months of my life already. Gold 80 certified… yeah does so well it overcharged my motherboard twice or something.
I’d be going for another brand, Silverstone or BeQueit would be my personal pick! Honestly I refuse to touch anything branded Thermaltake they “borrow” inspiration from so much of their competition with case design it’s a bad joke.
This. I always go for more reliable PSU brands like Seasonic, Silverstone, EVGA or Corsair personally.
Yeah. EVGA make some surprisingly good PSU’s or well slap their name on good ones, likewise Silverstone.
Already planning on replacing with a corsair, so way ahead of you 🙂
Playing Overwatch, Inside and Age of Empires 3.
Recently purchased RS Siege but my friends are all still in Overwatch mode, haha
I am waiting on an order for the ASUS Strix 1080, should arrive sometime this week. When I get it I plan on giving the new Total War a shot.
Did anyone else watch Kabaneri of the iron fortress? I really enjoyed it.
I dropped it around episode 4 tbh, wasn’t doing it for me.
Thought Kuromukuro was solid and Macross Delta was ok. Re: Zero was probably the highlight for me – should have been terrible, but turned out excellent.
And that’s all I watched last season.
Kabaneri and the lost village was all I watched and the lost village wasn’t that great
I dropped most of the anime I watched last season. Nothing really grabbed my interest for long enough to become invested.
Yeah, Re:Zero, Macross Delta, Kuromukuro and Flying Witch would have been my picks. And Re:Zero and Macross are both only halfway done, continuing current season. Kiznaiver ended up okay, Mayoiga / Lost Village was an utter waste of time, I also massively enjoyed Haifuri but it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.
@distantdrop I’m trying to narrow down times for raids come legion; do you have a preference? I recall you used to travel to work to come raid with us before?
That was only to deal with lag, I have the NBN now so I can play at home now, generally during tax season I work 9-6 weekdays 9-3 Saturday which I officially entered 5 days ago, tax season usually slows up around the end of November. however remember I’m in Melbourne so our hours might skew by 1-2.
I’m in Sydney dammit we don’t have a time difference! =@
Ok so I was thinking 7.30-9.30 on a weekday and 2 hours on a weekend, from the sounds things Sunday given your weekend hours? Given any thought to a class/spec preference next xpac?
To be honest I have thought long and hard about switching it up this expansion but no other class enthuses me at all, so most likely will be playing Brew or Mist Monk, hate melee DPS so I won’t be WW.
I think playing Monk is just… me?
Edit: Also with hours I told you what I can do, unless you do something batshit crazy like a past midnight time I’m workable.
Sweet, I’ve started recruiting last night and leaving all spots open for the time-being. Once we get closer to legion (maybe 2-3 weeks before launch) we’ll lock specs in. I get the feeling I’m going to have to go resto as my shaman just for convenience sake; hated searching for healers last time around.
Locked in 7.30-9.30 Thurs/Sun; obviously with raiders expected to be online at least 20-30min before raid start. Should have a TS/mumble server up and running towards the end of the month as well.
I reckon getting only a core of 2 tanks and 3 heals would be what you want. Maybe one dps for trick stuff.
Once those roles are reliable and working together well it would be easy to fill with pug dps. And would be easier to manage 6 people than a full 10-16 person guild/team.
Ideally I’m looking at 2 (+1 Offspec) tank and 4 heals to avoid stalling when people want time off or to rotate players out due to fatigue. But yes to start the idea would be having 5-6 dedicated players and just hit away at progression with that. I’m more focussed on building the right player base this time around than getting the necessary classes.
Let’s see how we go; I have a feeling recruitment will be easier come Legion as well.
Even if you just got that team of the core classes and never go bigger.
Think about it.
Heals, tanks and like an rdps for the oddball mechanics. That’s what you need, those are the roles that absolutely have to know their shit and coordinate well or everyone dies.
Everyone else just needs to know their rotation and not stand in fire: easy to pug for that. And if they suck? Just boot the fucker! There’s more where he came from.
And also imagine running a guild that consists of you, red and only 4-6 others. 6 randoms; that’s all you have to coordinate and keep happy.
This, I think, is the ideal for the long term, light schedule but progressive way you want to go.
And it gives you a clear cut notion of what the guild is all about, which will help recruitment come pre-patch.
But not my business I guess.
Should be at the very least easier to recruit tanks, with demon hunter being a melee dps hybrid/tank and since pugs generally shy away from melee dps we should see a large surge of DH tanks.
Oooh, I found an old video I made years ago.
I would have posted it on Youtube, but it contains YYZ as music and I’d get in trouble, so here’s a link if anyone’s interested:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B90_-zJrgbSPNnBFWGdWdjQyT0U
That was amusing
Omg you’re Chip! Of Chip’s Challenge!
I’d recognise that walking style anywhere 😛
Huge weekend. Still kinda recovering.
Ended up running a little late on Saturday, got to voting less early than I’d planned to. Quickly got spotted by an old primary school friend and his brother though, so managed to cut in line while chatting to them and catching up. Still took forever to get in though, and then I still had no idea what I was picking, so took a while with that too. Was off to a great start when I started ordering the ones on the green slip backwards from 6, only to then realise there were just five options listed… Then it was time to head into the city for more blind datery.
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Ol gur gvzr gurl obgu unq gb urnq bss (jvgu gur qhqr qvfnccrnevat engure noehcgyl), vg jnf fgvyy bayl nebhaq 6, fb V jrag bss sbe n jnaqre fvapr V jnfa’g fher whfg ubj yngr vg jbhyq or orsber rirelbar ng ubzr unq urnqrq bss gb gurve qvaare guvat gurl unq ba. V svtherq V fubhyq gel naq svaq n one bar bs zl sevraqf unq zragvbarq ntrf ntb, fvapr V’q arire unq n punapr gb purpx vg bhg orsber fb znl nf jryy qb vg juvyr V unir fbzr gvzr gb xvyy. Riraghnyyl sbhaq vg, jrag va naq tbg n qevax orsber svaqvat fbzrjurer gb crepu naq jnfgr n ovg bs gvzr ba cubar argf. N jbzna jub frrzrq gb unir unq n ovg pnzr ol naq nfxrq vs V unq nal pvtnerggrf, orsber qvfnccrnevat bhgfvqr. Fubegyl nsgre, fur pnzr onpx vafvqr naq znqr fbzr pbzzrag V sbetrg, znlor nfxvat jung V jnf qbvat, ohg V nfxrq vs fur’q unq nal yhpx naq n pbairefngvba oebxr bhg. Nsgre juvpu fur vaivgrq zr gb pbzr bire jvgu ure gb jurer ure sevraqf jrer, juvpu gura yrq gb ure trggvat zber zber qevaxf ng gur one naq ohlvat zr bar. Yrneag ure anzr, naq gung fur’f n obbx choyvfure. Naq gung fur’f 40. Bznv :C Nccneragyl V unir xvaq rlrf. Naq n cerggl snpr. Ohg arrq gb trg evq bs gur orneq. Naq “vs fur jrer gra lrnef lbhatre”…
Vg jnf xvaqn shaal npghnyyl, va uvaqfvtug fur jnf svtugvat na vaare zbabybthr obgu fgevatvat zr nybat naq chfuvat zr njnl ng gur fnzr gvzr. Gryyvat zr V’z gbb lbhat, gung V fubhyq or bss svaqvat fbzr cerggl lbhat guvat, be jungrire. V thrff gb na rkgrag gung sverq hc gur qrsvnag fgernx va zr, gur bar gung nfxf “jung sbe?” Fur tnir zr n xvff ba gur purrx, frrzvatyl xvaq bs n fraq-bss. Ohg gura fur jrag va sbe nabgure, naq uvg gur yvcf. Jryc.
Nccneragyl fur’q orra bhg sbe yhapu naq unq orra tbvat rire fvapr, rkcynvavat gur zreevzrag ng fhpu na rneyl ubhe bs gur avtug. Nccneragyl fur cynlf cvnab gbb, gubhtu zber pynffvpny. Punyyratrq zr gb cynl fbzr Qrohffl, ohg V qba’g guvax V rira xabj nal bs uvf cvrprf yrg nybar ubj gb cynl nal bs gurz. Fur raqrq hc vaivgvat zr onpx gb ure cynpr. “Ohg ab frk!” Bx, svar jvgu zr :C V qba’g rira jung nz V qbvat, ohg nybat jr tb jvgu vg naljnl. Hc vagb n gnkv, naq ba bhe jnl gb Obaqv. Bu tbq abg sevttra Obaqv ntnva. Sebz urer guvatf jrag zber pnergnxre zbqr, znxvat fher fur fghpx gb gur sbbgcngu naq qvqa’g gevc ba nal bs gur oebxra rqtrf be nalguvat, urycvat ure vagb orq naq jvgu trggvat punatrq, srgpuvat jngre fb fur unq cyragl gb qevax, erpheerag ernffhenapr gung gur qbt jnf vaqrrq cerfrag naq svar. Naq pbafgnag frys-dhrfgvbavat bs jung vf rira unccravat :C
Fb lrnu. Raqrq hc fgnlvat gur avtug. Whfg funevat pbzcnal gubhtu, ab shaal ohfvarff. Zbfgyl :C Gura fgnegrq gb trg cnenabvq nobhg univat gb zrrg sevraqf rneyl gur arkg zbeavat, fb V jnaqrerq bss naq sbhaq n cnq bs cncre gb fpevooyr na bireyl ncbybtrgvp abgr ba (yrnivat zl ahzore gbb, fvapr vg qvqa’g srry evtug gb whfg qvfnccrne ragveryl) ohg whfg nf V jnf nobhg gb tngure zl guvatf, fur fgveerq naq jbxr hc fb V raqrq hc trggvat gb rkcynva guvatf naljnl. Naq gura xvaqn fghpx nebhaq sbe n pbhcyr zber ubhef gvy V ernyyl unq gb tb. Fur jnf rira fb xvaq nf gb trg zr na Hore gb gur fgngvba, fnirq zr gelvat gb svther bhg ubj ohfrf jbex be qb n 2xz jnyx va gur vpl zbeavat nve.
Stopped off at Town Hall to get a brekkie burger that I was craving from the moment I stepped on the train, it really hit the spot. Don’t even know why I thought of that place, think I maybe went there once years and years ago, but there you go. Spent the rest of the train trip listening to two girls conversing in what sounded to be Italian, couldn’t follow most of it but there were brief flashes. Got home with enough time to have a quick shower, jump into bed for about half an hour then get dressed and head off to Rosehill to meet with Wingman, Sketchbook and co (Pillowmaker was supposed to come but couldn’t make it) for some laser tag. Still probably the best laser tag place I’ve been to, it’s got a whole multilevel thing going on with all these pneumatic doors that open and close throughout the match. Only thing is it has this one section up the back that is very easy to end up stuck in by yourself with nobody else, and it can be hard to figure out how to get out of there so you can waste a fair bit of time.
Had great fun though. The first match was a free-for-all, and I ended up in a three-way tie for first. I was second on accuracy, but first on XP somehow 😛 Second match was teams, 4v3. I came top of our team but third overall, though our team (the four) won. Third match we got paired up with another group of eight, and had a free-for-all. This time I came out on top, and with 61.4% accuracy too. Flex 😛 Final match was teams against the same group, us vs them. We totally dominated, more than doubled their score. Got third overall. We mostly held control of the upstairs, and I had myself a great sniper’s nest where I could pick off the others as they poked their heads out the doors and crossed the floor downstairs. Even managed a double kill at one point.
Totally dead afterwards though. All that damn crouch-walking. I’m still sore from it now. We decided to head to Parramatta for lunch, that was kind of a mistake. HUGE amounts of traffic trying to get in there, it was ridiculous. I took forever to get in, I don’t even know how we managed to score ourselves a pair of tables. And then a third, once the old lady next to us moved on. I ordered a lamb kebab but somehow ended up with a chicken one with chilli sauce. But couldn’t be bothered walking all the way back over, so just dealt with it. At least I like spicy. For some reason I ended up going back to Wingman’s place afterwards, but I basically just crashed and slept on the lounge. Should’ve come straight home to do that instead.
Tldr, went on a blind date with a dude, got picked up by a 40yo at a bar, kicked arse at laser tag, can’t walk any more, slept forever. Tune in next time for more of Gooky’s adventures through the bumblesphere.
Finally charted up all the Splatoon gear I still need to collect. Gonna take aaaaaaaaaages, what with the shops still only doing a daily refresh. Interestingly the dice rolls seem to be favouring the gear from the 2.3 update only, haven’t had anything from 2.0 show up yet. Also, the E-Litre nerfs still suck balls. And I’m pretty sure burst bombs have been nerfed too. And I swear my ink recovery is slower as well.
I’ve been playing so much Morrowind in the last two days I keep hearing detached bits of the soundtrack and not sure where it’s coming from, thinking that my computer is making weird noises or something.
Morrowind is the greatest.
You are awesome.
Hey everyone, so, I finished the initial sketch for the new drawing I’m working on.
https://twitter.com/scree06/status/750249848247508992/photo/1
Also, Crack posted a link to press start for them working with uniqlo to make nintendo based shirts. They’re asking for people to make designs. I get that it’s probably right up my alley, but I want to work on the stuff I’m already working on. I’m currently working on 2 cosplays (techie’s and my own), a detailed image and the Visual novel script. In between that, my Mum is currently quite sick. I have to keep getting up at night to help her. I don’t mind, it’s my job. But that’s why I’m unsure.
Nice! I am currently buiding her staff.
Re Nintendo shirts, go for it, it is a great opportunity, and if it delays the other projects a little, stuff you come up with may well flow into and benefit your existing projects anyway.
I can’t. Mum may have cracked ribs and collar bone, so she’s my priority.
That is tough.
What I thought was perhaps offload/delay/delegate some of your other projects, and free up a little time.
Or get some help. I’m printing a staff for instance, woud be happy to send it to you when done, as I am only doing it to test the new printer out, or happy to print you any parts you need.
My 3 year old has kept me chronically sleep deprived for the last 3 years, and I also have 24 hour care of my older disabled daughter too, I understand how hard it is to get *anything* at all done, I am always so impressed by the way you get your art out there. I’m not half as productive (or a third as good!)
I forgot to mention that I am also now my brother’s maid because he is too fucking lazy to do things himself.
The dog also is needy
Time for some tontine therapy for brother 🙁
I wish. I’ve got to do the washing up after. I’ve also need to rinse out his containers and put them in the bin because he’s to fucking lazy to
She has arms \o/
She does! It kinda looks like she’s giving the finger
Oh, what a day… what a LOVELY day!
http://screenrant.com/mad-max-fury-road-black-and-white-blu-ray/
Only in Germany 🙁 I wants it.
For now. The news is only a few hours old.
At least the edition is proven to exist, and slated to be released somewhere. I’m positive other regions will follow shortly.
I hope so. Fury Road is one of the best films I’ve ever seen. Every shot is so well framed and crafted. Also holy shit those Black & White pics are amazing.
Well if the rumours of all dialogue being removed are true then the country doesn’t matter
All my Bluray drives are US coded, EU is a different region.
So it’s black and white with all the dialogue cut out?
Ordinarily I’d say that sounds shit but I just watched Fury Road this week and was a bit lukewarm on it. I feel like cutting out all the dialogue and exposition could be a completely different experience.
Bloody hell the LNP has managed to secure 73 seats now. Outcome looks grim.
Well that’s what the ABC says. The AEC says Labor has 71 seats & the LNP has 70.. SO I have no idea what the ABC is on to report that figure.
Considering the ABC’s election analyst has been kicking up a stink about AEC’s counting process, I’m not surprised that there’s such a difference. The whole thing is just a colossal mess at this point.
So business as usual then 😀
Basically the four that are in doubt right now could basically all be called based on first preferences and a bit of logic (i.e. the majority of National votes will go to Liberal, the majority of Greens votes will go to Labor) but the AEC has to do it properly and distribute every preference.
The main difference is that the AEC have rules on what and when they post. One of those is that a certain percentage of preference votes need to have been counted. So even where the vote is clear they don’t confirm it until they reach that percentage of the 2nd count.
AEC says 4 in doubt – Durack and O’Connor in WA, Grayndler in NSW, Higgins in VIC. Durack and O’Connor seem to have barely been counted yet.
However looking at first preferences that are all counted:
– Grayndler should go Labor – it’s Albo’s seat, and first preference he’s miles ahead.
– Higgens should go Liberal – if you total up all the other first preference votes, LNP is ahead by about 2000
– Durack should go Liberal – all the Nats votes would have to go to Labor to pull ahead of Liberal
– O’Connor looks Liberal too
So that would give Labor 72 and LNP 73, with 2 independents (Wilkie & McGowan) and the Greens, Katter and Xenophon parties 1 each. Wilkie’s most likely to side with Labor too, I think, so you’re talking 74/73 to a Labor minority government and fuck me, we’re back to having Bob fucking Katter with one of the power brokers again. 🙁
ABC base their seat calls on a computer model developed by Anthony Green, so they “call” seats before the AEC officially finalises them.
Green is pretty much the preeminent expert on Australian elections so if he’s calling it, it’s probably right.
Long Weekend Report:
– Slept in a bit
– Dragged myself out of the house on Sunday for some fucking good Ramen then went home
– Played all of Nights of Azure up to the final boss, which is impossibly difficult and I gave up 🙁
– Played a ton of Senran Kagura to try and attempt to get it off my backlog so I can feel free to move to something else
– Caught up on some old anime but didn’t watch any of the new season yet so no impressions to give (I hear New Game is cute and people seemed to be into the new Love Live, though these were people that like Idolmaster Cinderella Girls which is fucking awful so not sure yet)
– 4th of July in the US is insane. Fireworks started going off randomly about 2pm. Was like being in a warzone or something.
– Bought USS Arizona in World of Warships. Played some games. I suck so much 🙁
@jocon I agree with the sentiment but the problem with perpetual pugs is they have short lifespans per fight. If we hit a fight like ore-gorger or even think about the butcher/twin ogron where we wiped our first couple of attempts pugs will just quit after the first wipe and we’ll be back in the waiting queue for replacements, summons, buffs, etc.
Additionally there’s also loot; guild raiders will build up frustration if a need/greed loot system is in place unless we start reserving specific items each run for guildies.
@distantdrop @jocon oh and if you’re interested – http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/20745636202
LFM Brack – Bow Reserved 😛
Could always consider personal loot however rarely do pugs use it.
True. Sorry, I’m just talking for the sake of it cause I’ve nothing better to do.
This is going to sound creepy and stalkerish, but does anyone know the girl in the Swinburn ads running on the site? I’m sure I recognise her from somewhere but I can’t tell if it’s like an ad at the station that I’ve seen way too often while spacing out or someone I actually met… For some reason it’s really bugging me.
*grabs popcorn*
Stop hogging it all
My AMD RX480 black just arrived, so I thought I’d bench it against my TitanX. I bought the card for compute, gaming is just a nice side-effect.
For games, it is faster on everything I play than the 970 in the 2nd machine, but not by a huge margin, and the AMD is straight out of the box, whereas the 90 has a reasonable overclock. The 480 is considerably slower than the Titan for gaming, but more than fast enough for my side gaming needs.
However, the little 480 is FASTER than the Titan X on compute!
This I was not expecting, but on Davinci resolve, the 480 slaughters the 970 and is faster than the Titan X in all but one benchmark, and there it is only 1fps slower.
I am stoked, this means I can drop 4 x 480s in the render machine, for what I paid for a single Titan card.
For OpenCL I think the new AMD cards are going to be fantastic value. Very pleased!
Resolve 12.5 results:
480 on the left, Titan X on the right:
Blur:
09 Nodes: RX480: 24fps TitanX: 24fps
18 Nodes: RX480:20fps TitanX: 16fps
30 Nodes: RX480:13fps TitanX: 11fps
66 Nodes: RX480:6fps TitanX: 5-6fps
Neat.
Now if only AMD’s drivers sucked less and they stopped putting fucking crapware in their installers (last time I upgraded drivers I ended up with Raptr and PlayTV apps installed 🙁 )
So uh… I was reading that Paper Mario article, but went to refresh it and now it’s changed to a single picture of Mario? And it has a weird URL: http://www.kotaku.com.au/app/themes/theme-technetwork/misc/kotaku_netflix/metapuzzle/puzzle_4_killswitch/mario.png
Also with the tumbling Pound I am staring down the barrel of a sub-$1k GTX 1080, and it is mighty tempting. It wasn’t that long ago that I thought that kind of spending was absurd, what is even going on 😛
Wait a little.
The 1080 is still way above RRP, and DX12 performance isn’t great if you are looking at a card to last you 2-3 years.
Give it 3 months, there will probably be a RX490 card out, and 1080 prices shoud drop as the initial hype drops off, or in response to a fast AMD card, or both.
Plus, by then, you will probably get a cheaper, faster, quieter 1080 if that’s what you decide on.
Well this one’s supposed to be one of the quietest, and performs pretty well too. And certainly seems to be much cheaper than just about anything else going around, especially locally. Plus that’d be another 3 months of supersampled VR I could be enjoying…
True.
Do existing VR titles take advantage of the new faster 1080 VR API, or do they have to be patched to get the speed adavntage? The 1080 isn’t all that much quicker than the 980Ti otherwise, but is a lot quicker with the new lower quality, but faster framerate VR options that are 1080/1070 specific.
Just finished testing the card with Solidworks and CATIA, the RX480 is over 50% faster than the 980. I’m really surprised. It is however down around 970 performance in AutoCAD.
From what I understand, things like the simultaneous multiprojection which can give a fair boost to VR needs to be implemented at the engine level rather than automatically kicking in by virtue of having the new hardware present, so presumably they’d need to be updated for it. Can’t think what other fancy stuff was on the cards (ha!) at all, that’s the main one that tends to stick in my mind. The extra computing power should make planetary landings in Elite much nicer and/or take out a bunch of the chug though 😛
what card are you running now?
A 970, though I did have a friend who was putting a PC together who said he might be interested in taking it off my hands.
I mean it does get the job done, but knowing it could be done better… also that ever-tumbling pound is making it cheaper by the hour, could very well be looking at closer to $900 by the weekend, down from something like 1050. The temptation grows.
1080 is a very nice card. I’m super happy with mine.
(Also I may be an enabler)
@negativezero As several of the Nendoroids and such that have made their way into my house can attest 😛
I am a pretty bad enabler on my own though >_>
I have to get rid of a good chunk of my Nendoroids at some point soon 🙁 Also a lot of my figures. No room to display them any more and they’re just taking up wardrobe space in my spare room. 🙁
Where are you thinking of getting this card from at that price? A Brittish site I assume.
Well it’s going for a fairly similar price on Overclockers UK, that was going to be my fallback if the other site I was looking at (quiet PC) sold their last one though they got more stock in yesterday so it should be fine. Seems to be mostly ignored by everyone, which is good 😛
@pupp3tmast3r
Figured I’d resubscribe tonight, yaknow do some hrmm and huhing over my two specs and try to see if I can finish the ring before its removed.
Why am I telling you this? figured it be good to dump all my alts on your guild before you get too busy, so would be sweet if you appeared to help me out with that.
Yeah I’ll be on tonight, I’ve been scouring forums on MMO Champ, reddit (ugh) and the wow forums for potential recruits so got about 5-6 chats/interviews I’d like to knock out.
I’ll be online in about 2 hours. Btw I wanted to mention this earlier when you spoke about DH tanks, even though there’ll be a lot of idiots rolling tanks I doubt many of them would even be able to grasp basic boss mechanics like a tank swap. I might need you to go BM this xpac if we don’t have decent tanks come the first/second week of raiding.
Also planning on pulling a 24 hour binge at launch to max out my shaman and work on my heals spec.
I usually play BM to get healer gear because instant queues and easier to carry when running heroics before raids officially open so I will most likely have a bread and butter set available anyways.
@tech_knight
https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/4rcdpz/how_to_play_an_elven_character_when_you_are_not/
*taking notes*
This is gold!
The best idea in there is that of an Elven Anthropologist who is following around the ‘lesser’ races to study them. I’m imagining him writing down everything that happens while dictating it to himself out loud, giving basically running commentary on the adventure in a Faux-Attenborough style voice. It would be possibly the best worst character ever.
Trust me I was tempted with going in that direction when I put Dem’nion together, pretty sure Lungedolph would’ve snapped him in half with all the comments about “the animal” of the team as he took those notes xD
If we ever start another pathfinder game we should all play our pet “out there” character concepts.
I want to play my Half-Orc Bard who is basically Tom Waits.
I would probably attempt a Cleric of Desna that talks basically like William Shatner
I always had a pet idea that was a mage that doesn’t believe in the existence of magic and comes up with elaborate pseudo-scientific explanations to explain everything he and other mages do.
“I reversed the polarity between my fingertips to increase the temperature by over ten times to create that gout of flame you saw before you as ‘Burning Hands’.”
No, creating a voltage differential between the thumb and forefinger to build up a large potential charge and then release it in one go is how you perform Shocking Grasp.
Instead, by performing the right movements beforehand, the practitioner is able to vibrate the fingertips extremely quickly, which causes a sudden differential in air pressure causing the air before them to rapidly move, disturbing the aether and creating an explosive burst of heat due to the sudden addition of kinetic energy that causes things around it – including the oxygen in the air – to ignite, thus creating the flame.
There’s some so-called Magic that I haven’t figured out the natural processes behind just yet but I’m sure there’s a perfectly rational, logical explanation. It’s just that no one’s bothered to do some research and critical thinking and just pass it off as ‘magic’, a wholly unsatisfactory explanation that the feeble-minded use to delay scientific advancement.
EDIT: Oh, and don’t get me started on the so-called Fireball, that age-old trick. The damned charlatans simply throw a compound of Bat Guano and Sulfur, of course it’s going to explode!
So I’m going for a walk at 1230 at night and figure I might as well download pokemon go and try that whilst I’m at it. I detour slightly off my normal route through my park to get 2 pokespots that are close together and realise there is some weirdo standing there at 1230 at night. This freaks even holding his phone weirdly oohhh wait he’s playing pokemon.
too socially retarded to say hiI contemplated going out last night when I caught a Magmar in my apartment that was stronger than all the gym Pokemon around me, but then it started raining. Gonna go see this morning if those gyms are still the same, I think I can take out one or two of them before I head off to uni.
Don’t say “Hi”
Run past shouting “Gotta catch ’em all!”
I was sitting here thinking that pokemon go is very silly. But then remembered that my job takes me all over Adelaide and would be perfect for that kinda thing.
….
No need to say “hi” – lock eyes and do battle! 😛
World of Warships is saying the next patch is going to add the German battleship line. Super hyped for this. The starting point, Nassau, looks like it might end up being the best Tier III battleship simply because she has a uniform battery (unlike the hodgepodge on Kawachi) and the guns are laid out well so you can angle & still get one side on target (unlike South Carolina). Lower gun size than the others though (11 inch vs 12 inch).
Kaiser at T4 ups to 12″ (same as Wyoming, smaller than Myogi) and has a curious gun arrangement but probably won’t be as amazing to play as Wyoming is I suspect. Has the coolest history of them though, since she was one of the main battleships that fought at Jutland, where Wyoming didn’t really do anything ever and Myogi didn’t exist.
Konig at T5 looks rad. Same gun layout as New York and Wyoming, but smaller caliber (still 12″) which probably means higher rate of fire and flatter arcs but less range. Middle gun might have similar arc issues to New York though (I hope not).
Bayern at T6 upgrades to 38cm (15″) guns suddenly, which gives her the same gun size as Warspite and overall she looks really similar to Warspite, which is exciting because hopefully she doesn’t have Warspite’s broken armor.
T7 we get Gneisenau which is an absolutely beautiful ship. I’m not sure why they went with Gneisenau over Scharnhorst though since normally they pick the lead ship of each class for the tech tree, but apparently Scharnhorst is coming as a premium. Presumably Gneisenau will get the planned 38cm guns and extended hull that she never got in real life, where Scharnhorst will keep her rapid-firing 12″ battery which will be an interesting twist for Tier 7 – though to be fair, even 38cm means that Gneisenau is under-gunned as the Nagato and Colorado have 41cm guns at same tier.
Bismarck comes in at Tier 8. Probably going to be the most desirable in the tree since the name’s so memorable. I’m expecting she’ll basically be Tirpitz without the torpedoes. And also look awesome. The Germans built beautiful looking Battleships.
Tier 9 and 10 are paper designs, the H-39 and H-41 proposals respectively. Not sure what to expect from them except that they’ll be bigger Bismarcks. H-39 should have 40cm guns and H-41 should up it to 42cm, making them bigger than Montana but not quite Yamato.
I’d been slowly working my way up the US and Japanese battleship lines (I want to get to Iowa in the US line and Yamato in the Japanese) but when this patch hits I’ll probably drop everything and swap to the German line to try and get to Gneisneau and Bismarck.
POKEMANGS
Turns out my house is near a bunch of landmarks and gyms. I’mma run Bartertown in my neighbourhood
TEAM BLUE 4 LYF
So is team tay team blue?
Should be levelled up enough to choose soon
Dunno but all my Adelaide friends are blue team
I haven’t seen ANY team yellow gyms yet…
So ya’ll know who I’m gonna join ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Red?
Tried out Pokemon Go last night. Dunno what its issue is, but whatever name I tried said it was unavailable, so I deleted it.
It’s a unique username type deal
Yeah, no matter what I tried with whatever combination of numbers it kept telling me it was unavailable.
Australia seems to be all excited about Poke Mongo but it’s not in our app store here in Trump’s America. 🙁
Mongo only pawn… in game of life
On of my friends said it was available. Try searching Niantic just in case
Heh. Popped over the shops this morning to get a few things, as I am exiting Coles I see & hear (over my music) this child throwing a hissy fit and the parent is just blatantly ignoring and next minute People = Shit by Slipknot came on, on my iPod, then I noticed it was my neighbours. Seemed fitting, good job iPod.
Dogsitting for a month, and Max basically took refuge on my bed last night.
Looks like I’m going to have a cuddle buddy for a few weeks.
“Sat.. Saturday, were you flirting with that girl?”
“Yeah, in the vest? She was cute, yeah. She a supervisor, or?..”
“That’s the District Manager you piece of shit.”
RIP IN PEACE SATURDAY
Better start looking for a new job in another province mate.
Screw that, that’s too hard. I’ll change my name and grow a beard and also move to another province.
Go up north & become a lumberjack. It’s the only option!
PLOT TWIST THAT’S ALREADY MY JOB
I’M GOING TO HAVE TO MOVE TO TRUMP’S AMERICA. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
In Trump’s America you’re already a part of it! See if you vote for him you won’t have to move.
Seriously why would you leave Canada when it’s literally the only place right now that has a leader that actually seems like a rad, clued-up, reasonable guy?
SO YOU SAY BUT IT’S BETTER TO BE ON THE WINNING TEAM WHEN TRUMP ANNEXES CANADA
OR SHOULD I SAY UPPER AMERICA
I just assumed he’d build a wall to keep the Americans in once he finishes the Mexican one. The last time the USA tried to invade Canada, it didn’t go too well.
But no seriously she’s one of those “Don’t fuck around with her ever” bosses. One of those, you know. One of those “Why are you even talking to her you shouldn’t bother her for anything other than to explain you’re missing work because of your own funeral” bosses.
The only saving grace is that I visited another warehouse on the island today as part of a group on behest of my immediate boss. I shall now implicate and frame all of my other co-workers, regardless of position or age or sex.
Why, did she respond negatively to said flirting? Maybe it will be like the Soup Nazi thing where everyone else is afraid but you get to be all Kramer and cool about it 😛
On principle, making innuendo towards co-workers, let alone my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss is… risky, at the very least. Especially when HR is involved.
With great risk comes great reward!
@distantdrop Red if you’re on WoW tonight care to run a few dungeons with my shammy? I want to work on my enhance/resto rotation before pre-patch hits. Also take this time to fine/tune my UI.
Could do some mythic dungeons and kill two birds with the one stone with the weekly, but either way I guess I could help. any special reason why I need to be involved? surprised you didn’t just LFR.
I’d rather practice healing with a tank I know than a stranger? 😛
Baw, TMNT game delayed to October. Big surprise 😛
What TMNT game is this? There’s a brand new one on the shelves now, I think…?
Oh. Board game, Shadows of the Past. Kickstarter thing. I am good at words.
Keen on picking up Mutants in Manhattan once the price drops though.
Chevy-nova!
Looked at some of the stuff on Tokyo Mirage Sessions and it seems interesting. As someone who hasn’t played any SMT games and only FE Awakening and Birthright, is this game more than just fan service? Opinions?
Don’t go into it expecting a Fire Emblem game. It’s a weird Atlus game with primarily Persona influence and a bunch of Japanese pop idol stuff in the mix, the Fire Emblem element is barely there.
I think I just outdone myself at work today:
“Some guy suffered a head injury from what appeared to be a ceramic cup, police are suspecting he got mugged”
Welp. Dollar looked like it was starting to come down against the Pound again, so order placed before they could update their prices.
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Neat there’s a website which shows what a nuclear bomb going off over a city would be like.. http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Oh wow. Google went & did street view of a lot of Chernobyl & the surrounding town of Pripyat. Never though that would’ve been a thing.
I maxed out my E-Litre coverage counter. It only goes to 999999. I am sad 🙁
Started playing Overwatch a few days ago. I’m having way more trouble than I should have, for a number of reasons.
1. TF2 is messing with my head. Whenever I play, my mind tells me that if I’m on the team with blue nameplates, then everybody’s character should be blue. Instead of half the team being some shade of red, pink and orange.
2. I seriously cannot aim for shit. Like. At all. Widowmaker is completely unplayable for me because I literally cannot hit ANYBODY.
3. If I’m playing Support, I can’t tell what the fuck my weird doodads are doing. Mercy is obvious enough since she’s the main healer, Symmetra puts down turrets I guess, and I have no god damn idea what the fuck any of Lucio and Zenyatta’s abilities do.
4. The fact that everybody says “Bastion’s a skillgate guy he has weaknesses you just have to outflank him” WHEN ALL THE FUCKER DOES IS SIT IN A GOD DAMN CORNER WHERE YOU CAN’T FLANK HIM.
Lucio is an aura based healer; depending on which buff you’ve swapped to he’ll either passively boost the speed of nearby teammates or give them hp regeneration. His ability is to boost that aura for a short period giving nearby allies a sudden heal or burst of speed.
Zenyatta’s orbs work as follows and can only be on a single enemy + ally at once. The enemy orb increases damage taken and allows a view of them through walls to a degree. The ally orb heals them over time.
Symmetra doesn’t really fit into the support class because she doesn’t really heal as such. She offers a small shield to allies but that’s it. She more like a specialized class that works really well when synergized with the team; by herself with the wrong heroes she sucks.
Bastion is a skillgate guy =P Genji, Widow, Pharah, Reinhardt, Roadhog, Junkrat, Hanzo, Tracer, Mei all have soft or hard counters to Bastion. He’s basically there to teach new players to stop standing still in this game and to make people realize sometimes to win you have to stop hogging the hero you chose at the start of the match and swap over as needed.
What you need to do, right, is play as the TALKING GORILLA
Because even if you still suck, you’ll be A TALKING GORILLA
1. Those colours are status. Blue is full health. Orange is half health. Red is critical. This is so if you’re a squishy character like tracer, you won’t jump in if you see your teammates are all critical.
2. I would suggest going into the practise range and using the robots to get used to the travel time of bullets. I did that and it helped me a lot. For example, Hanzo and window maker have different travel time. I used the moving enemy robots to get used to it.
3. This will be long, but hopefully helpful.
Lucio
Lucio’s abilities are passive, as Puppet said. Anyone in your sight is affected by them. If you see them, they feel it. If you’re unsure though, there is a number by the ultimate gauge, it’ll be left if you’re healing, or right if you’re speed boosting, the number it says, it the number of people affected.
Lucio’s main attack is a weak soundwave attack that works in a burst of 4. It’s slow, it’s weak, but it is very accurate.
His secondary attack is a push back ability. This can be used for pushing people off ledges, or even throwing enemies with short range like Winston, Mei or Symmetra, away from you so they can’t damage you. It uses 4 of your ammo at once and has a slight cooldown, so spamming it isn’t the best option. Don’t be afraid to use it, though.
His ultimate is Sound barrier. It places a temporary shield that quickly fades. The best time to use it is when a whole team is coming to face your team, or when someone has used an ultimate. It’s good for rip tires, Dragons (as it give them extra time to get out of the way) and the graviton bomb.
Mercy.
Left click heal. Right click damage boost. Shift allows you to fly to a teammate. This can be used when someone knows you off the edge. Passive is the slow fall. Use that to give you more time for a teammate to come to the ledge when knocked off. Ultimate is resurrect.
Symmetra
Always make sure your team has shields. It’s only 25, but it regenerates. If you die, they still have it. They only lose it when they die, or when your change class.
Symmetra is best used on defense. Especially on Capture and payloads maps (Kings row, Hollywood, Numbani), and on double capture point maps (Hanamura, Volskaya industries, Temple of anubis). Her teleporter can really help your team lock out the enemy team.
The shift is the turrets. They have 1hp, so they are easy to kill. The trick is to put them at flank points or choke points, usually up high. The turrets are good as the longer they are on a person, the more damage they do. 6 turrets can kill a tracer in 2 seconds. They also slow down the person.
You can 3 turrets in reserve and you can only place 6. Most people use them to protect their teleporters. Pharah’s splash damage can destroy turrets easily, so don’t place them too close together. The turrets can quite a bit of range, so don’t panic. Experiment, and find what works.
Symmetra’s main attack is a beam similar to that of her turrets. It does not require aim, but it only has a short reach. The best thing to do is to get behind them, and then left click. The longer the beam is on them, the more damage it does. A lot of people aren’t actually aware of how deadly a symmetra beam can be. I have taken down Reinhardts by running through their shields and attacking them from behind. By the time they lower their shield, they’re dead. Do not approach a reaper and only attack a D.Va from behind. They have devastating short range attacks.
Symmetra’s secondary attack is the photon ball. It’s slow moving, easily dodged, takes a while to charge up, but does 100 hit points of damage if fully charged. They are best used against stationary targets such as turrets and snipers. Hide behind cover, charge it, and then duck out and release it. It also goes through Reinhardts shield and some geometry. If a Reinhardt is shielding his entire team, throw it at him. Even if you don’t get him, you’ll probably get one of the teammates. It can cause the team to scatter.
Symmteras ultimate is the teleporter. Don’t put it too close to the battle. Back track a little bit and put it somewhere that it’s difficult to see it. Enemies like Pharah can destroy it without ever going into the room if they can see it. Reaper can also wraith form past turrets, so the best way to keep it, is to hide it. I often like using old spawn rooms, but a couple of my enemies have caught on to that =P
Last but not least, Zenyatta.
Zenyatta has very little health and is very easily killed. Treat him less as a support and more like a sniper. He should be at the back of the group. If their is a symmtra or a torbjorn on your team, make sure you get armour or shields. He is best used on attack but he is a good balance between attack and heal. Zenyatta has no mobility abilities, so close combat is not recommended.
Zenyatta’s E throws a discord orb at the enemy. This makes them take double damage the entire time the discord orb is on them. You can take down an enemy roadhog with 4 of Zen’s orbs after throwing a discord orb at them. Zen’s E is great for tanks, healers and pesky players like Pharah or Reaper. If you lose line of sight of the enemy, for more then 3 seconds, the discord orb is returned to you. There’s no cooldown, but spamming it won’t help unless you’re trying to get a certain enemy. It’ll also allow you to see their position through walls until the orb is returned.
Zenyatta’s shift throw a harmony orb. It’ll heal the teammate until they are at full health, or for a certain amount of time, before returning to you. Often, if there is a lucio or a mercy on our team, I will try to keep them alive as you can only heal one person at a time and they are better healers.
Zenyatta’s main attack is his orbs. I think he has 8 at a time before he needs to reload. They are fast, accurate and do a decent amount of damage, which is why you should think of him as a sniper in a way. The reload time is about 2 seconds, which is quite long. Don’t be afraid to spam it though. You’re at the back. As long as you don’t get in face-to-face combat, you should be fine.
Zenyatta’s secondary attack is a charged orb attack. It’s similar to symmetra’s, in that you should hide behind cover as you charge it and duck out as you release. It’s different to Symmtras as it is quick moving orbs, instead of slow. It also does a great amount of damage. It does not go through shields or geometry though. It’s great for Turrets and bastions. I would avoid snipers, allow the rest of the team to take care of them, because they can one shot you easily.
Zenyatta’s Ultimate is transcendence. It makes you invincible, and rapidly heals your teammates while they’re around you. I have used it to heal the entire team when they were in trouble, I’ve used it to hold a capture point, I’ve also used it to prevent the payload from being reversed. I’ve used it to deny Ultimates. It’s quite versatile. You can be knocked back, while using it and your orbs are returned. Be careful on the king of the hill maps with ledges, as opponents will try to knock you back into oblivion to deny your teammates your Ulti.
That’s the supports.
4. Bastion has several counters. It’s about find what works for you. Some people use genji’s deflect. Some people use Hanzo’s dragons. Some people use windowmakers venom mines. Some people snipe. Some people drop down from above as reaper and kill him. Some people use McCree’s flash bang and fan the hammer combo. Some people use Mei’s alternate fire, or her main one depending how close or far they are. Some people use Roadhog’s hook. Some people use Winston’s leaps and tesla coil combo. Some people use Zarya’s alternate fire. Some people use Junkat’s concussion mine, grenades or tire. There are a lot of counters. I personally use D.Va’s shift and E, (boost and defence matrix) to get up close and then unload on Bastion. I have killed two in this way, so I know it works. Another tactic I use is Zenyatta’s E and fully charged secondary fire. Pharah’s rockets also work. Even Mercy, Lucio and symmetra can help as their attacks will all keep moving until they hit something.
Like I said, it’s find out what works for you. The main thing to do with Bastion, is not let him know you’re coming. He is venerable in turret form. It’s just finding a way in that is the hard part.
I hope this helped. I’ve only spent 40 minutes typing it all up =P
Thanks for the help. Also, for number one? I meant the actual character skins. Like, how half the team can be wearing red clothes on the blue team.
I don’t blame you for misunderstanding, I worded it badly. Also, didn’t know about the color being the health thing. I thought that just showed up when you played Mercy.
Any support character or optional on Zyra you can see friendly health status.
The enemy is outlined in red but yeah, any color skins.
I’d seriously recommend playing bot matches and trying out all the heroes there to figure out how they work before jumping into quick play.
As Scree said, the practice range is a good place to figure out stuff like bullet speed and ability ranges.
You can hold down F1 at any time in any match to get an overview of your chosen hero’s abilities. In the Hero Gallery you can see little videos of all their abilities as well.
Bastion is a POS no matter what anyone says. Can counter him sure but still makes any game 100% less fun just by being there. Learn which heroes counter him and then pick one you like and get good with it so you can deal.
Try adjusting your controls if you are struggling. Many heroes have specific control options too.
Ah, sorry! My bad. Yeah, you can pick any colour skin. The names and the enemies will be outlined in Red and your allies in blue.
The health thing shows up for any healer, but you can also enable it on other characters with healing capabilities. For example, I turned it on for Solider 76, so I could heal teammates.
Welp, Bungie Day is here, and the Year 2 Moments of Triumph are official:
Complete an exotic sword quest
Defeat Oryx in King’s Fall HM
Complete the TTK main questline
Complete the Crucible questline
Collect all 50 calcified fragments
Complete the April quests ending in the Prison
Complete an Elder’s Sigil
Equip a fully levelled Y2 subclass
Two shaders, two emblems… Just need to finish the Crucible questline… still need AR kills… *sobs quietly in corner*
OK. I guess I’m screwed then.
So evolve has gone f2p. I wonder if it is too little, too late.
Who played it and is it worth jumping into?
Hey everyone. So Wednesday night I rushed my Mum to hospital as she was in so much agony that she couldn’t walk. She had to be transported by ambulance and had copious amounts of morphine.
I stayed with her until 4 am, meeting another Techie, but this one was Irish and was a nurse. He claimed he didn’t know our Techie at all. Likely story.
I left at 4am because Irish nurse Techie said Mum would be staying in. I went home and got some sleep.
But what’s wrong with her, I hear you cry.
At first they thought it was cracked collar bone and ribs. Then they thought it was an infected gallbladder. A Ct scan didn’t help. They thought it may be her amyloidosis returning but it was a false alarm. She’s having 3 ultrasounds today to try and find out what exactly is infected.
TL:DR my mum is in hospital and i am tired
🙁 hope your mum improves soon.
Thank you. I’m hoping so
I hope she turns out okay 🙁
Wait… the Tech Medic model was released and no one told m-… I mean I don’t know what you’re talking about Scree… so what does that nurse look like me or something?
Almost like your twin. Same build, same hair colour, same hair style, same height, same giant feet and even the same glasses
It’s actually @tech_knight’s mirror universe twin.
BEWARE HE’S PROBABLY EVIL
OR GOOD
AND OUR TECHIE IS THE EVIL ONE
OK THAT MAKES MORE SENSE
But neither of us have a goatee!
Also I’m more Lawful Neutral 😛
What makes a man turn neutral … Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
Are you kidding? He was the best nurse we had that night. Also, his last name was forkin.
Nurse Forkin, Dr Forkin and the whole Forkin family
Pretty much. I asked him if he got teased alot
That really sucks, but at least she’s got a good daughter taking care of her. You might feel a little powerless with all the uncertainty but don’t lose sight of the fact you’re playing a really important role here. You’re not just helping her physically get to the hospital you’re helping her cope with it on an emotional level.
I’m also running around doing the responsible stuff and also visiting to help shower and get updates.
Speaking of free stuff, Elite Dangerous’ Arena mode is free (for keeps) this weekend.
That might mean there are enough people in there to make matchmaking a bit easier… it’s apparently been hard to get a match going recently…
CHeers man, will give it a go. Been wanting to see what their flight controls are like, As in hurr durr fighter jet in space der, or real fly at ludicrous speed ass-backwards and hoping you dont hit anything while pointing the big weapons at your opponent who thinks its a dogfight type deal.
Prepare for disappointment if you’re expecting the latter 😛 It’s more fighter jet in space, but I find that more enjoyable.
SYDNEY I AM IN YOU.
Unexpectedly up for work. Anyone like @os42 or @mrtaco fancy catching up for a quick nosh and possibly an ale of some description? Short notice so understand if not.
Oh dang, missed this. Though was kind of busy excavating my room anyway 😛
Heheh. As I said, really short notice. 🙂
Ugh, today has been the fucking worst. 🙁
Holy crap I was able to upvote something on Gizmodo! Mystery ban lifted!
Oh hey must be time to change track and try sending off another message to someone looking for a pianist. Been a while since I tried that one 😛
Who else couldn’t give a fuck about pokemon Go? All of the coverage here smells like a paid advertorial.
Smells more like people riding the hype machine, same as you get with every big popular release. All my friends are talking about it too, at least those with compatible phones anyway.
…whoa, deja vu. I feel like I made this exact same post in regards to what I figure must have been Miitomo or something ages back.
Batman V Superman extended edition is surprisingly palatable! Things *mostly* make sense! Does actual coherency give it actual grounds as a classic, supremely enjoyable superhero movie? Couldn’t tell ya. Certain flaws are addressed, but, you can only do so much with extended scenes.
No seriously, the extended edition goes out of it’s way to lend credence to the lex conspiracy, but Batman still thinks “HEY A BOMB. SUPERMAN DOES BOMBS, RIGHT?” I do enjoy there are scenes with Alfred saying to Bruce “You’re fighting Superman for no reason,” but it’s not as pronounced as it could be. It should have been plainly and outright said, really. Were there scenes like those with Lois and Clark, considering Clark was chasing Bruce for primarily selfish reasons? It’s definitely not a bad thing that there’s a selfish angle being played to both characters. “SAVE MARTHA” is still stupid. Not as stupid as I originally made it out to be, but still weird. Why does Lex.. well, why does Lex, period.