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Morning fellow tayters!
The weather was fairly crap here in Brisbane over the weekend, but you cold still see the eerie phone-lit faces of pokemon go players in the parks at night.
I was staying indoors due to an annoying bout of tonsillitis, but the rustling of grass taunted me so.
I did make my player two wii u fight stick, so at least I had company in my misery.
http://imgur.com/YVXACcw
Wow that’s pretty amazing. You should stay indoors all the time. Well done. I’m in Brisbane too. Hope you feel better.
Howdy. Just got back from overseas yesterday, pushing through the jetlag and the backlog of work emails. Thankfully the wheels haven’t fallen off the wagon in my absence so it should be cruisey today.
Serious overwatch cravings though.
And, is anyone really sick of all the Pokemon Go that’s been clogging up the social media feeds? Or is it just me?
Morning all.
I had a smashing weekend. My son turns 2 today so we had a little party to celebrate.
Pokemon Go, I’m ok with the fun people are having. Not too interested in playing it but it’s harmless fun. Better than some other fads that hit the social media.
I asked my friends kid, who’s 13, if he wanted to be Playstation friends and he basically laughed in my face. Told me we wouldn’t play the same games. A year ago he would’ve been keen but now he’s 13 and cool. Man I felt like a tool. I forgot that I’m his dad’s age and very, very uncool to a 13 year old. Made me want to commit the next year to FPS games till I’m I can play against him online and destroy him. But that… will never happen. I’ll just be smarter next time and keep my mouth shut, and remember my age.
You need to rek that scrub! 😀
And at least pokemon go is more respectable than clash of clans, farming, etc.
Eh, if that’s his attitude then you’re probably better off not playing games with him.
I went ice-skating for the first time ever on the weekend. I didn’t fall down, but I was doing laps around the centre while holding my partner’s hand. I feel like that’s a win.
But why do so many bloody people who are standing on the outside watching feel the need to hold the damn hand rails? They’re not at risk of falling over. Everyone on the inside is, and they need the hand rail.
My wife has never been ice skating either. Its something I’ve tried to address several times, but she will fall down and she will get hurt.
And she laughed at my recommendation of a pillow down the pants, but that’s no joke!
It really isn’t. Especially on warmer days when the corners of the rink have more potholes than a standard road.
Dunno where you went, but this reminds me of when I competed at Blacktown. That ring was a swimming pool! No word of a lie, there were 2 inches of water sitting on top of the ice! And that, of course, made it impossible to see the potholes in the surface of the ice! Worst rink EVER!
I was just about to say this; it can actually be harder to skate near the rails because ice tends to melt around the edges and has potholes and is also harder to skate on due to water.
Mornin’ all. Had an okay weekend, didn’t work Friday for once though which was nice.
Also found out I should get my tax tomorrow which means i’ll be putting the $$ towards this to replace my current HTPC/NAS.
Finished Sunset Overdrive. The ending sort of crept up on me because I was expecting to do a lot more of the tower defence parts to level up my various amps, which were all level one. On one hand, I’m glad I didn’t have to do more of the tower defence because I didn’t like it very much, but on the other hand, the fact I had no obvious way to level up my amps was a huge oversight.
Apparently, and I discovered this only by googling afterwards, in each of the four main bases there is a pile of something, and when you walk up to it and inspect it, your amp upgrade dude (Floyd?) will tell you to go collect five of that thing. When presumably you upgrade your vats, do another (presumably harder) run of the tower defence/brewing sequence, and bam, your amps get upgraded. Even though I’ve finished the campaign, I might do that at least once while I’m going around looking for collectibles.
As for the campaign, it was a lot of fun. The missions got a bit repetitive and the game itself made plenty of fourth wall jokes about that, but I mean, at the end of the day doing something while pointing out the irony of it doesn’t chance the fact you’re doing it. Still, I had a lot of fun once I got the hang of the combat, the music was great, it was was bright and colourful, and the weapons were all a nice mix of goofy and effective. I finished the game with a few reliable staples then went back to try out some of the guns I was a bit dubious about and in retrospect I wish I’d given them more of a chance. I didn’t try out ANY of the deployable weapons but the acid sprinkler was surprisingly effective for thinning/weakening the herd and I’m sure I would have benefitted from the turret helicopters and proximity mines too. For some reason I kept the “High Fidelity” record launcher weapon that you start with through the entire game despite the fact that even fully levelled up it barely tickles later game enemies.
In short, if Sunset Overdrive had any failing it was that what it offered was so different to other sandbox games that trying out these new features was something of a leap of faith for me as the player, and in the early stages while you’re learning how to play, it was quite a tough game so I wasn’t open to experimentation. That might be a failing on me as a player, but I think more could have been done to promote the weapon variety. On the upside, dying repeatedly gave me access to a plethora of respawn animations, which because I didn’t die THAT often, I’m not even sure I saw any repeated ones, so maybe there are some I didn’t see at all. Also amusing is the fact that when you fast travel (something that for some reason the game started really pressuring me to do later in the game with my character saying “man, I’m so glad I can fast travel” whenever an objective was more than 1km away) the main character gets black out drunk then wakes up in a porta potty at the chosen destination.
I have to commend the character designs. There was a truly diverse range of characters who all contributed meaningfully to the story in their own ways, even the quadruple amputee scout leader. Despite the fact that most people seemed to take the apocalypse in stride, their character motivations were relatively relatable. I loved the reckless abandon of the protagonist which reminded me, favourably, of Saint’s Row in it’s heyday. Maybe it was because I played a petite female with wild hair in both games, but this almost felt like I was playing the same character, perhaps the wild college years of the woman who’d later become leader of the Fourth Street Saints and later of the free world. The clothing variety was pretty cool, there was some pretty outrageous costume ideas, but I spent the bulk of the game in a stained cheerleader skirt and corset with pink and blue angel wings, which looked equally awesome when I tried switching the model to a huge brute of a man.
Finally, how great was the final boss of the game. So great. That’s how great.
Monster Hunter Generations is just too much fun.
Might be slightly addicted.
Continued mulling over whether to take the plunge and get Tokyo Mirage Sessions… Anybody played /playing it? Is it like Persona? What about the social aspects? There is annoyingly little information online about it…
Almost finished Valkyria Chronicles so I’ll need a new game soon.
I stalled out on it in the third dungeon (this is not an indictment of the game, I had to move my Wii U and I’m woefully slack at playing games). It’s more SMT than Persona, the character stuff is mostly relegated to side missions, as opposed to the time managementy system from Persona, so you’re encouraged to do a main dungeon, then spend some time doing side stuff, and when you’ve cleaned that up go and do the next main dungeon. Its story and writing are fun (but lame, very heavy handed, a good choice if you wish to poke fun at it), it looks nice, and the combat feels fairly similar to Persona’s (though I haven’t played an SMT, so it may be exactly the same there).
Overall, it’s pretty good, I’d recommend it.
So has anyone won a legion beta key yet?
not me 🙁
me neither so far
Morning TAY!
Anyone get hit by the Steam outage over the weekend? We had a player try to reconnect during a game of Dota and ended up waiting ages for him… thankfully the other team was patient and we told jokes until the guy came back…. after which the opposition proceeded to put our mouths on the curb and stomp repeatedly.
YES! YES! POKEMON GO IS OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE IN CANADA. NOW TO BASK IN THE GENUINE POKEMON EXPERIENCE.
“servers are busy”
SO GENUINE.
@distantdrop red just checking in to see if you decided what you wanted to play for legion? If you want to get out of tanking let me know so i can amend our recruitment post.
Holy crap, the EVO Street Fighter V hype vid is so cringeworthy…
TAY Pathfinder on tonight at 8pm AEST and 7:30pm ACST. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @beeawwb
There’s a giant crab outside, you’ve just killed some monstrous crab-lobster things, and Lundgredolph is eating a crab. At least it’s a change from fish.
Let me know if you guys are fine to play tonight.
*Summon Butter*
Yup, I’m in.
Yes; but I get to keep any and all treasure we find.
No, I take that back. That would be very shellfish of me.
We should challenge him to Claw Plock! *Clack clack-clack*
I’ll have to do a recount on what charges I have left in casting since those numbers were saved on my PC that’s still out of commission. I should be there ready for tonight though
… a giant enemy crab?
I hope that @beeawwb used his ability to tell everyone to hit it in its weak point for massive damage.
Well he did identify it, we just couldn’t flip him over, he was too busy greasing up Freeze
And making everything FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABULOUS!
You make things fabulous, then I make them *Jazz hands* FAAAAAAALAMMMING!
Drewan calls it “The Disco Inferno” 🙂
@negativezero – Combo attack: Drewan used Glitterdust to cover the invisible sorcerer with unremoveable glitter, Dem’nion set him on fire once he could be seen. 😀
Hi everyone! Tried Gat out of Hell on the weekend… I don’t remember SR4 being this hard. Tried out the new Vulkan patch for Doom, and couldn’t get it below 100fps on ultra, mostly sticking to 115-120 XD So I figured, hey, why not see how this fares in surround? 5760×1080 on ultra, running a little shakily around 55fps… and gave me extreme motion sickness. Do not recommend. Kinda wondering how they’re going to do Doom’s VR mode, now – seems like it’d be absolutely nauseating…
Did a quick playthrough of Limbo Saturday night before starting Inside on Sunday. More games need achievements that are physical objects in the game – love that aspect of PD’s games. And holy crap, Inside is beautiful. Warning: Spoilers for the both endings, and minor braindump:
So, I guess there are two chronologically different endings following the two different goals – in one, the boy manages to get inside and gets absorbed by the blob, disconnecting it from the mind-control devices and allowing its autonomy; and in the other he finds and disables all the orbs (control transmitters? power cells?) and eventually is able to disconnect himself from the thing controlling him… So he’s clearly being controlled in the same way as the drones, but he exhibits emotion, and has some free will…I’m torn on whether it’s the blob controlling the boy or some external entity who is trying to free the blob – I mean, it explains why the last orb was so heavily guarded – it’s likely (in my mind, at least) the “last” orb was actually the first one created, imperfect, “noisy” and prone to discovery, hence the heavy shielding; the following iterations on the technology would have internal shielding and be more compact to allow their secretion around the different areas. That implies that the person trying to free the blob would be someone inside the organisation – further hinted at by the musical tie to the door for the “secret” ending. And it makes sense that the hub would be in the middle of nowhere, under the field, hidden from just about anyone, but the fact that you never see anyone except drones and “herders” outside the facility implies the bunker was built by … who? Drones under the blob’s control? Maybe… It’s possible that there was more than one person helping to free the blob, which would also explain the advanced tech and the “workshop” feel in the area of the last orb – during its escape, it is helped by a couple of people – which makes me think the whole escape, from infiltration to eventual exit, was orchestrated by more than just the blob itself – that it had a few employees on its side. The fact that some scientists try to lure it back into another tank imply those helping the blob are clearly acting out for their own reasons… The worker(s) seem pretty darn terrified, so if they’re hel;ping, it’s because someone else convinced them to… but the scientist who helps with the “button-on-the-ceiling” door puzzle seems almost cheerful… In fact, he may be the only even remotely happy person in the entire game…Limbo’s story was also pretty ambiguous, but its lovely circular symmetry kinda left me happy to think “things are the way they are because that’s just how they are.” Inside’s story has so many hints as to what’s going on, but nothing to distract from the ambiguity…
So uh.. Someone paid me $104 on eBay for my mum’s old phone, I bought it brand new for $70 in 2012.. Only selling it because it was 2G only & Telstra is turning their 2G off this year.
Yay, a profit! 🙂
Not wrong! Means I can now buy the Lian-Li mITX case I was eyeing off on eBay & a new battery for mum’s new phone with some $$ left over for other PC bits, every thing’s coming up Millhouse!
So the weekend happened.
Was a nice family weekend for me. Cafe and then park playdate of Saturday and then a trip out to Healsville sanctuary on the Sunday. Was nice to get out and see some animals, even if there was a bit of confusion about what certain things were. Surprisingly the dingo was a favourite and the emus also rated rather well.
How much confusion? “It’s a wallaby!” “No, I’m pretty sure that’s a python…”
Well the first time we checked out the Koala’s which she was keen to see because she is all about “koala book” at the moment. We got that it was both a Bunny and a Possum in the tree.
Ah. That makes a lot more sense. 🙂
I shall be referring to koalas as “tree bunnies” from now on.
https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/16/nintendo-playstation-teardown/
Ooooh!
Lewd. This is basically porn for electricians.
Busy busy weekend, spent half of it not at home and the other half asleep or trawling through ancient depths of internet.
Went out to hunt for the Squid Sisters amiibo pack, and while I was out thought I’d catch TMNT2 since it still had a few straggling sessions around. As a far of the first one, god damn that was terrible. Not sure if worse than Transformers 2 (where again I liked the first and third), but this one just… ugh 😛
Ended up at Spawn Point for a friend’s birthday thingo, pretty much just sat there playing Smash all night. For all the characters that game is loaded with, I can hardly find anyone I want to use any more. Pretty much just all Mac, all the time. Managed to find an ok groove with him, shake off some of the rust, and even won a few matches somehow. Ran into CJ there, along with another guy who used to troll a forum I was on. No escape.
Wingman invited a bunch of us around to her brother’s place where she was house-sitting, for barbecue and such. I told her they need to start living in more normal places, instead of out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere like we seem to keep ending up. Crashed the night with Pillowmaker and another friend, something popcorn yada yada.
The rest of the time, I was on a mission. I remembered Mum had an old Galaxy S3 lying around, and according to some quick research it was indeed possible to get Pokemon Go running on that. And I did manage to get that part going. The real challenge was getting it to leech of my phone’s internet, so I could take it places other than within my house. There were several fronts to try this on, but I got pipped at every gate.
Apparently Symbian can only create an ad-hoc WiFi hotspot, which Android can’t connect to any more. So another method I found was using BlueVPN to connect via bluetooth and use internets that way. I did get it to work at one point, with the S3’s browser using my 808’s internet connection but Pokemon still came up as having no internet connectivity. Rats.
My 808 can also be used as a USB modem, but I had no luck in getting that to get detected at all.
Lastly I found a bunch of things saying that you could get ad-hoc wifi working with it, and a number of different custom ROMs from over the years which apparently had it working. Most of which did not have existing copies available any more, except I found one person who put up a mediafire mirror back when the servers went down at one point so it was still active. And it detected my hotspot! But it still wouldn’t connect for some reason, and still couldn’t get any of the other fixes to work with it 🙁
Then I had another thought – what if I could get it working with an older version of Android. And looking things up, Pokemon Go could indeed be made to work with versions 4.1-4.3. I found a ROM of 4.2.2 which supposedly had ad-hoc working with it, but on trying that out it was still not detecting my hotspot. DAMMIT.
I swear there must be a way to make this work. There *are* people who have made this work. Just as is always the case, their methods are too esoteric or just plain not listed to be able to implement yourself (xkcd Wisdom of the Ancients goes here).
Or… or… OR… you could get a real, modern, non-hipster phone.
STOP BEING DIFFERENT GOOKY.
Never stop being different, you’re a great nemesis.That would be taking the easy way out. I HAVE MACGYVERING TO DO!
Actually I wonder if I could use like a Raspberry Pi or something as some kind of an intermediary between the two…
Go all-out. Rig up a VR backpack and incorporate Go into it.
Aaah gotcha! Now I see what is going on. Figuring that out is definitely in the too hard basket for me.
I’ve told myself the same several times now. Yet keep persisting. I have a real problem with solving puzzles 😛 Just cannot leave them alone if they seem like they should be solvable.
I find it hard enough getting Pokemon Go working on the phone I already have.
Went out searching for Pokemon with the wife. Thought it would be a sweet thing to do plus get some exercise after all this crappy weather. Her phone battery got drained in about twenty minutes…
Absolutely beastly night of climbing. Cleared a whole panel! Granted, the 14 and 15 were stupidly easy and nowhere near what those grades should have been, even easier than the 13. BUT STILL! Then went and did another (easyish, though not as much) 14 and *nearly* another 15.
Then got home to Mum freaking out about me not answering my phone, because she waited til I was on the road to call, and couldn’t hear anything. Didn’t even think that a long night at climbing was something to worry about, considering it used to happen all the time. Welp 😛
I caught up on some more new season animu! Still have about 12 more shows to watch. Hopefully by the end of the week I’ll be caught up on all the new premieres. Anyway…
NegativeZero’s Anime Impressions – Summer 2016 – Part 3
Watching the new season too late to actually be useful or informative
Amaama to Inazuma
Aka ‘Sweetness and Lightning’ though I have no idea how that title works. This might be the closest we’ll ever get to an anime adaption of Yotsuba&. Really enjoyed it. Basically it’s the story of a schoolteacher raising his four year old daughter as a single parent after his wife died. Not entirely sure where the plot’s going to go, but I don’t really care. It’s very genuine and works extremely well. They actually have a girl that sounds like a child (probably because she is – ten year old child actress) which goes a big way toward making it work. Definitely watching more of this, and I hope it has enough staying power to keep me as interested.Days
Just to fuck with everyone, there’s a show called Days and a show called 91 Days in the same season and they’re utterly different. This is a typical sports anime from the looks of it, Soccer this time. Seems like it’ll follow the usual arc – talentless mook becomes really good at the sport through perseverance and determination etc. Well executed, reminds me more of something like Big Windup than anything particularly over the top. Does have a strong whiff of BL to it though, especially the OP which could seriously be interpreted as a girl watching as her crush is seduced by a bunch of pretty boys or something. But it was good, and I’m kind of tempted to watch more. Soccer’s not really my thing, but neither is boxing and I’d watch more Hajime no Ippo in a heartbeat. It’s all about execution and entertainment. I suspect this will fall by the wayside for me though.Fudanshi Koukou Seikatsu
Dumb 5-minute show about a guy that is super into reading yaoi despite not being gay. Looks like it’ll eventually have a whole cast of super pretty boys that aren’t gay but love BL comics. I don’t think I’m the target audience. Is this how girls feel when they see some of the stupid male wish fulfillment anime?Handa-kun
Remember Barakamon? Neurotic calligrapher moves to an isolated town to focus on his art and meets a precocious little girl that teaches him how to feel etc. I don’t remember it much either since it was average. But this is a spinoff-slash-prequel. And the first episode was simultaneously fucking atrocious and pretty amusing. Basically, it’s a school comedy. A much younger Handa is basically worshipped by everyone in the school but he’s so neurotic and paranoid he thinks everyone hates him and has it out for him. The biggest issue was that the opening half of the show as well as the last bit was a bunch of fucking mooks that are apparently some kind of fan club of his doing some fourth-wall comedy shtick about not being consulted about the Handa-kun anime that was atrociously bad. When it was actually following Handa-kun’s antics, it wasn’t too bad. But if those fucksticks are going to be recurring characters (seems likely) then I’m out. Their part was seriously that bad.Fukigen no Mononokean
Super average supernatural ‘comedy’. A guy meets a yokai, in this case the spirit of a dog, which possesses him. Then he meets a guy that is apparently an exorcist of some description, and some heartful things happen and the Yokai moves on and now Our Hero has a 1 million ‘en’ debt that he can only work off by being the exorcist’s assistant. It was super average and feels like stuff I’ve seen before, but not executed anywhere near as well. In a worse season I’d possibly watch this, but it’s super average and doesn’t really have anything that makes it stand out, so pass.Mob Psycho 100
This was one of the most promising things going into the season. Adapted from a manga by the same guy that writes One Punch Man, and the similarities are obvious. In a setting where supernatural stuff and exorcists are real, Shigeo aka Mob is a bored 8th-grader (usually has that same blank Saitama face) who is also one of the strongest espers alive. He works with Reigen, an ‘exorcist’ who is actually a con-man that has managed to con Mob into believing he’s actually super powerful. Animation is flashy, comedy is on-point. Works really well, but it’s no One Punch Man. Mob basically unleashes explody rainbow stuff everywhere so it’s not as exciting and action-packed as OPM, but it’s doing different things. Liked it a lot, and think it’ll be a regular.Masou Gakuen HxH
I only watched about 2 minutes of this because it was definitely not something I was in the mood for. It’s porn. No other way to put it. Possibly one of the dumbest premises ever too – girls that fight monsters in mecha-suits that have to be ‘powered up’ by the Generic Male Protagonist molesting them until they climax. Yes, really. This is probably the stupidest excuse for anime pornography since “power up by drinking breast milk” Qwaser (only that was so self-aware of its own ridiculousness that it was amusing). Pass.Alderamin on the Sky
Alderamin’s actually been hitting pretty high in the overall light novel charts the last few years (was #10 in Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi 2015 and #3 in 2016). It’s looking pretty good so far. Fantasy setting. The protagonist is a brilliant tactician but uninterested in being involved in the military, but events transpire that cause him, along with the rest of his group. to be forced to be soldiers. There’s some shades of Irresponsible Captain Tylor in this, though less of the ragtag crew and the protagonist is obviously brilliant and complicated, where Tylor often looked like he was a savant. I enjoyed the first two episodes of this a lot. The only issue I have is the art. It’s a Madhouse adaption and it seems like they basically threw the novel’s art out the window completely aside from hair colors and have redrawn it in their own style, which is to say the characters look like they’re straight out of a super generic mid-00s Gonzo anime. The style does absolutely no favors to anyone, giving all the female characters chipmunk-like puffy cheeks. Amazingly it’s the character designer’s first go in that capacity, which makes it even weirder that it looks so utterly generic. Especially when the novels have quite nice art. But it’s in the end a minor quibble, serviceable art combined with what seems like a really good plot and characters. Definitely a regular.Scar-red Rider Xechs
I think this is trying to basically be an anime Tokusatsu show, like a Kamen Rider knockoff or something. You’ve got a bunch of pretty guys that look like rejects from a visual kei band that transform into power rangers-alikes, some kind of nebulous monster threat, and fucking dumb terminology everywhere (the invading monsters are called Nightfly O’Note which is so fucking weird I can’t take it seriously at all). Animation’s not too bad but the plot makes it impossible to care. Doubt I’ll watch more. I went in expecting something a bit Sunrise-like along the lines of a Captain Earth or a Star Driver since it has a similar feel initially, but in the end, no thanks.Taboo Tattoo
Fairly generic action anime. Main character has been trained in martial arts by his grandfather. Rescues an old guy from thugs, and the old guy ‘thanks’ him by giving him a weird item that puts a strange Tattoo on his hand. Turns out this is stolen technology from the US, which improves the physical abilities of its user several times. He then meets up with Izzy, a US operative sent to Japan to retrieve the Tattoos. She’s a cute girl that’s actually supposed to be much older than she looks? And she speaks flawless Japanese for some reason but let’s roll with it. Anyway, turns out that Our Hero (by the way, his name is JUSTICE, but pronounced ‘Seigi’) has bonded with a Tattoo that no one else has been able to use before (naturally) so rather than take it off him, Izzy decides that he should join her. Or something. Anyway, the action animation in this is extremely good, the plot is a bit eh. I’m not sure about it entirely, but it might be an okay enough watch for an action fix, especially since there seems to be not a lot of action-heavy shows this season and there’s no good long-running shounen stuff right now. So will probably watch some more. Seems like a three-epper at least.Part 1 | Part 2
Stuff I’m likely watching:
Sweetness & Lightning:
Definitely one of my regulars this season. I was a bit leery from the description about ‘a high school teacher gets involved with his student’, but it seems like they’re steering clear of perviness, so I’m on board for as long as it stays wholesome. Feels… not quite as mature in the approach to the struggle as Usagi Drop, but something about fatherhood/parenting anime really gets to me. I wish there were more of that sort of thing.Mob Psycho 100:
I’m skeptical about this one. I have this awful feeling they’ll be reusing the same jokes from the first ep throughout the series, which won’t work nearly as well as it did with One Punch. Tough act to follow, but watchable. The Mob counter makes me wonder if it’ll take an interesting twist. Going to give this one a few more eps to see if it’s not just luluco-style ‘wackiness for the sake of wackiness’ that thinks it’s funnier than it is.Alderamin on the Sky:
To me, this has the vibe of a mash of Valkyria Chronicles and Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero. I dig the lazy general thing, and the story/setting has me buckling in. Definite regular. Especially since it looks like this is coming at the whole… the heroes are actually part of the Evil Empire thing going on. Most importantly, I’m believing the reactions. And I had genuine feels for the Republic squad in Ep2. I dunno how you can complain about character design when all those guys looked so distinct, with visible personality in their designs for what ended up being pure fodder. I rate ‘visually distinct’ very highly when it comes to anime character design, these days. Anyone who can actually be fucking bothered to draw differently-shaped faces/heads gets an instant free point from me, because it seems like it’s the exception and not the rule.Taboo Tattoo:
PAINFULLY generic, I actually found the animation style pretty awful from the first ep. Started watching the 2nd ep, but basically stopped halfway out of boredom. I might pick this back up when desperate, as it seems like one of the better ones of the season, but it’s really not saying much.Tales of Zestiria:
I have the slight disadvantage of not knowing what happens in the game, but if the protagonist was actually the princess I would be hyping the fuck out of this. Pacing, characterization, art were all amazing, and I was surprised at how little the show had to force the characters to be idiots in order for plot to happen. You don’t really notice just how fucking prevalent that trope is until you see something that doesn’t use it. This will be a regular for me. Bit disappointed at the switch to the scion of destiny boy wonder as the protagonist in Ep 1, from the strong start of Ep 0, but them’s the breaks. Can’t have it all.91 Days:
You ever watch Gungrave, and how the starting out part was this kinda thoughtful gangster story? I’m getting a similar kind of vibe from this from the aesthetics, but it looks like it’s escalating really fucking fast to the point that it might not be able to go fully deep. I’m at least grateful for the aesthetic, which I always have time for. I’m glad it exists. A regular for me.New Game:
Ugh. Moetrope fanservicey crap which still has me on the hook thanks to the characters being distinct enough and me scrambling for whatever real life insights it might be able to impart. It’s harmless enough, but definitely regret-laden junk food. I’ll probably keep watching.Kuromukuro is on Netflix in its entirety, which is where I’m watching it. It’s a very servicable take on the ancient mecha vs alien invasion genre, so I’m pretty happy with it.
I’m also watching Ajin on Netflix. Man, these Netflix Originals funding guys seem to know what they’re doing. Just like Kingdom, the full 3D character animation threw me at first and still does occasionally, but the storytelling/acting keeps pulling me back in. Pretty cool ‘what if’ thinkything, and it at the very least lampshades some of the ‘characters have to do something stupid otherwise no plot’ tropes, explaining away what seems like common sense as cultural differences. (Thinking specifically of interrogation techniques.)
Food Wars S2 is a no-brainer. Definitely watching on every airing.
I found Arslan really worthwhile, so I’m looking forward to bingeing on S2 when it’s done.
Thunderbolt Fantasy is recommended? Huh. OK. I was turned off of the Art Style on the ‘box art’ thumbnail. I might have to give that one a watch.
I’ve also been watching a lot of what I assume is previous season stuff.
ReLife took me by surprise. I only started watching it because I was ready to throw all my subscriptions out in a fit of rage if I had to watch one more high-school-focused anime (which is 95% of everything on Crunchyroll/Animelab), and the (curtailed) description started out by talking about a 27yr old NEET dealing with fucking up his career. So I was totally on board for that. I felt betrayed when I realized it was basically 17 Again, but they did enough believable and interesting stuff that I stayed on board and was glad I did.
Also, the first couple eps of Re:Zero took a little for me to get on board with, but once they changed locations and really picked up steam, I was hooked.
Where are you watching Food Wars S2? I really don’t want to spill for another sub at Crunchyroll for one show after paying Animelab.
I’m feeling like AnimeLab seem to have dropped the ball this season and there isn’t a great deal there I want to watch (might start Zestiria). But, still plenty of other shows I haven’t seen yet that might be worth a watch.
Yeah, I’m subbed to both, and Crunchyrolling Food Wars. I cut off other stuff to make room for it. Animelab’s definitely the weaker of the two services, but they have stuff in their library that Crunchy doesn’t and vice-versa, so it’s overall not bad for older stuff.
Animelab seems to get a lot of stuff that is Funimation-exclusive here.
If you want to watch everything in the US you need CR, Daisuki, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime and even then you have to get fansubs for a few things. It’s stupidly fragmented. 🙁
Kuromukuro is *not* up in its entirety. Netflix are fucking scum and decided to pretend that 1 cour of a 2 cour show is a ‘season’ and arbitrarily split it in half at 13 episodes and put that up to shut up the people that complain they’re not fucking simulcasting it except in Japan and how goddamn annoying it is that they’re starting to snap up really good shows. You’re going to get to the end of what Netflix has and have to wait another 2-3 months for the rest. 🙁
Re:Zero is fantastic. I got behind a bit – stopped at the end of an arc – but will be getting back to it.
By the way, Alisha in Zestiria gets shafted pretty horribly in the game. She should have been the protagonist, but gets shoved to the side a little way in and forgotten until the DLC and it’s such a waste since aside from Edna and Lailah’s bad puns she was the best thing the game had going for it. I’m kind of hoping the anime makes shit characters like Rose and Dezel more tolerable but not holding out a lot of hope. Really only watching to find out why Velvet from Tales of Berseria’s in the opening.
Ohhhhh ballllllllls. And I was up to like… Ep 10 in Kuromukuro, too. 😛
gg haven’t subbed past 12 and apparently their translator dropped off the earth so I think I have to wait too 🙁 Absolutely kills my interest in a good show if I have to wait and marathon it. That’s how I watch mediocre anime, not good stuff. 🙁
Worst thing is that Netflix licensed Little Witch Academia. That show’s going to be so great and instead of giving it to us in a timely manner we’ll have to wait while Japan enjoys it weekly then have Netflix shit it all out on us in one giant mass. That might be how they put up shitty US TV but it’s not the established model for anime and they need to leave anime licensing the fuck alone unless they’re going to adapt their binge model to it.
Seemed to work for Seven Deadly Sins, for me… unless that was also hoarded up and binge-spammed months after Japan got it. I thought the ‘Netflix Originals’ tag meant that they bought it and delivered it their way, like they do with Daredevil etc.
None of the shit they put that label on for anime is actually a Netflix original.
Seven Deadly Sins was picked up mid-season so we got halfway in and couldn’t watch the rest for months because goddamn Netflix.
Morning all
Last song played time? Yeah it is!!
Episode 30 – Dana – Welcome to Night Vale
What was your last song played?
Lodged your tax yet?
Kokoto village theme, presumably arranged by Reo Uratani, from MH Generations.
Herbie Hancock – Watermelon Man
Got an appointment in mid-August to have my tax return prepared by a pro. My self assessment has me owing money. It’s time for somebody more knowledgeable to look at it.
From The Pinnacle To The Pit – Ghost
I have! And I got it back this morning too. Was a bit didsappointing how much the ATO was willing to give me since I had only *just* earned over the threshold yet they gave me less than a quarter back than what I paid which made me sad =(
I’m getting less this year than I have every other year I’ve lodged.
I think it is because there was another pay period in the last financial year
Boo. Damn ATO!
I’ll say this though it’s enough to get me components for my NAS/HTPC!
Yes; and because, generally speaking, your payroll department withholds tax based on X amount of pays and this year there’s X+1.
Rainymoods.com app. I like to listen to the rain and thunder and visualize being somewhere else. Somewhere that’s raining. Ergo: Somewhere better than here, where it is not raining.
Today I was imagining being a lighthouse keeper. (A dream that technology has convincingly murdered.)
Yeah. Lodged my tax yesterday. Ended up claiming no deductions because I don’t have the receipts and I felt like being a fucking boy scout this year. So I get a little bit of a refund. Enough to pay for a few months of private health care, so yay, it… balances… out? I have enough, I guess. Enough to be comfortable, not enough to retire in my 30s. Maybe I should be working on that.
Possum Kingdom – Toadies. And I should get around to doing
thatmy taxes at some point. 😛Saw the second part out of context and thought you were talking about doing the song and was a bit perturbed because that song’s pretty creepy.
One of the most fun songs to play in Rock Band though.
Love it in Rocksmith – the missing beat in the verse, the scratchy harmonics, and the simple-yet-eerie bridge riff and its rhythmic bends… so awesome to play. Kinda wish I had a whammy bar so I could play those bends in the right direction, tho. 😛
There’s a Monster Hunter album that is all big band arrangements. How exciting.
It’s called Monster Hunter Swing ~Big Band Jazz Arrange~.
Welp, it’s taken… what, a month of crucible, on and off? Got my last set of hand-cannon kills last night – pointedly not using The Last Word out of principle, tho I did get a few two-shot kills with Hawkmoon – and am now on the home stretch for The Mountaintop quest. 20 more games and my Moments of Triumph will be complete.
I think I understand why that quest is so damn long, tho – you really need to spend a fair amount of time in the crucible before you get to grips with the map layouts, which weapons to use on which maps and how to counter certain weapon combinations/class compositions. Not that I enjoy PvP now – it’s still masochism incarnate – but I think I kindof understand it a bit better, at the very least.
@jocon Just a heads up but there’s a legion invasion event that comes into play just before the new xpac launches; which rewards event only xmogs and a battle pet if you were interested in cosmetics.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/20175681/
Yeah, I’m planning to sub 2nd or 3rd week of August once Demon Hunters and that stuff starts to drop.
Anyone else having a weird issue with Kotaku front page in Chrome lately, where it won’t load the latest stories until you scroll down a bit, and then go back up?
@alexwalker is this a known issue? It’s been happening to me for a few days now, and doesn’t do it on Gizmodo or Lifehacker.. only Kotaku.
Not at this stage. I’ll ask the devs and get back to you.
Actually.. never mind… it looks like my New Tab page has “updated” the link to point to page 2… I usually just click that to load the page, but hadn’t noticed it changed the link. No idea why or how it changed, but yeah.. looks like that’s the reason.. sorry if I worried you for nothing 😉
All good. Doesn’t hurt to ask the question anyway!
I’ve noticed if you scroll down so that it loads page 2, then go back to the top with the “home” key rather than scrolling, it won’t update the url, so refreshing the page loads the start of page 2 – might explain why your link got changed.
Very possible! Might have to keep an eye on that. I really wish there was a way to manually edit the links on the new tab page. That would be so good.
Greetings all. I’m sorry I’ve been quiet the last few weeks. Things have been crazy.
I’ve been planning for Anton’s Citizenship stuff (having family over and such) and planning for a very impromptu trip to the US for Gen Con (I leave in 2 weeks :D) Then week before last my Nanna passed away so the last two weeks have been Funeral and Crying.
Then we had Anton’s citizenship ceremony on saturday.
Gamewise, I’ve been very deep into Dex on the PS4 – very awesome game, I Highly recommend it!.
How is eveyone else going?
*hugs*
We spent the school holidays all having varying severities of flu. Fun times.
Sympathy upvote
Went through that recently ourselves, although for us thankfully it wasn’t flu just random bugs
I wanted to get to Gencon this year but didn’t have the leave available 🙁 Hopefully next year.
Sounds like an emotional rollercoaster. Hopefully it is just the good stuff to look forward to now.
\o/ just ordered the final parts for my HTPC tonight 😀 Thinking about down the track getting an M.2 SSD for it on a PCI-E card so I can free up the 2nd HDD bay in the case I got.
I’ve spent the last two hours trying to probe the pins on this stupid phone’s micro USB port to try and figure out if it’s busted or what (trying to diagnose lack of USB OTG detection). I can’t even get it to show a connection between the pins inside the port and the contacts on the back that are soldered to the board. Despite the fact that the phone charges properly and still transfers data to the PC just fine, so at least ONE pair should be matching up.
THIS DOESN’T MAKE ANY FUCKING SENSE.
Buy an iPhone. Join usssssss.
This is probably the one and only thing I’ll ever disagree with you on 😛
SUBMIT TO THE CULT OF APPLE
THE ONLY CULT I FOLLOW IS THE CULT MECHANICUS!
PRAISE THE EMPEROR… after Jobs.
Pft, I ain’t spendin’ money on this 😛
…although fury levels are almost reaching a point where I’d pay a good bounty to a dev who could make one of these god damn methods work because there’s at least three of them and at least two of them have been demonstrated to work for others in similar situations WHY ISN’T MINE LIKE THAT.
Good morning.
Can someone on here tell me the main differences between Radeon and Nvidia? My PC is starting to freeze and crash and I think it might need to be replaced, but I have barely any money. I’m thinking of saving money by going Radeon, but I want to know if it’s worth it
AMD is low to midrange in price and good price/performance ratio especially in the new 400-series cards.
nVIDIA dominates the mid to high end range in price and performance. They have much better drivers than AMD.
Would it be alright for Adobe products? It’s what I use the most
Yeah, should be good for illustrator or photoshop. Something like Premiere or a 3D modeling tool you’d want to get a more powerful GPU for but the 480 is no slouch.
It’s not often, but I use Maya occasionally. I was also thinking of animating some still stuff in after effects.
I think you should try and look for a 480 or if it’s too pricey, the last-gen 380 as the 480 release dropped the price out on the 380s. You could look at nvidia but the 960/1060 will give similar price/performance so only the 970/1070 would be a step up (and they’re quite expensive cards)
what about for games? Mum plays a lot of hidden object games?
The 480 is extremely good for games. It gets within a hair of the previous-gen nVidia GTX 980 despite being like a third of the price. May be hard to find and may be out of your price range though. The older 380 wasn’t bad but the 380->480 leap is pretty big.
So these ones?
https://www.pccasegear.com/category/193_1837/graphics-cards/radeon-rx-480
Yep, those.
May wish to consult with @welbot and/or @alexwalker for second opinion though.
Couldn’t reply below so I’ll do it here — the RX 480 is perfect for you. If you’re going to be using After Effects and Maya a hell of a lot — like every day or second day — you might want to consider going for NVIDIA, but I think it’s a fine choice. And it’s certainly not going to have any issues gaming at 1080p, especially over the next two years when more games support DirectX 12 / Vulkan.
Don’t forget to use StaticICE to hunt around for deals.
Yeah that’s them. How convenient that they’ve “sold out” of the 4gb models after what was revealed about them last week 😉
I’d hunt around and see if you can get a 4gb one though. Might only be a small price difference, but given the types of games that get played most, and the sort of work you want to do, combined with your budget, you could easily put that extra $ in to other hardware. The difference is enough for a small SSD, which you would probably benefit more from than having the extra 4gb of video mem. That said, if you can’t get one, the 8gb is good value all the same.
Further to what @alexwalker said, nvidia would be a better option if you were doing the kind of 3d work I do, but something tells me you’re not gonna be pushing your system with 1million+ polygons and a mutiple 4k textures anytime soon, so the AMD will do a more than adequate job 🙂
I think nVidia has released three brand new drivers in span it’s taken me to write this whole post, while every time an actual Death Star is destroyed, AMD consider updating their drivers.
Yeah AMD drivers are their biggest weakness.
Their drivers have actually improved significantly in the past year, imo, tho I could be biased as my limited experience with nVidia’s cards have not been positive. Have updated my 390X drivers a 4+ times this year as they released, and have had no issues with them whatsoever.
Well the ones I have for the Firepro I use at work are utterly fucked and crash 2-3 times a week.
And the only reason AMD update drivers then is because it was actually a flaw in the drivers that stopped the exhaust port vent from being covered and leaving it vulnerable to the day zero proton torpedo exploit
My only experience with AMD has been “Oh you’re trying to play a game that was released several years ago? Pfft get with the times, we don’t have time to support running that old… “game” well!” *Proceeds to run Neverwinter Nights at 15FPS, water is flat and flickers constantly, falling leaves become giant green blocks and grey squares come out of the chimneys in the nearby village*
lol hearing that makes me glad I never had one. On top of the driver horror stories I’ve heard from people. Do they have anything like the nVidia control panel where you can forcibly enable/disable functions to help with situations like that?
It came with a control panel (This one was Sapphire) but yeah couldn’t find anything online on how to fix that up, it was a very basic control panel from what I remember. I had this AMD Radeon 4870 back when Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty was the latest installment of that franchise and this card could run that game on Ultra graphics at around 50-60FPS without a problem, then that same hour I try to start up Neverwinter Nights for roleplaying my fighter/rogue with friends and that happened. It was so bizarre, not to mention frustrating cuz moving was so bad.
The hilarious thing was that I did find what was causing the FPS issue… it was my character’s cloak! If I removed the cloak, the FPS shot up to 50+ lol
LOL how bizarre! Must have been one terribly optimized asset!
Computer tech seems to have a tendency to turn against me if anything :(. My PC is still at CPL with the ASRock Z170 in the middle of getting RMA’d (For the second time) after it was found out that my Thermaltake PSU has been the culprit of destroying both motherboards, the one thing I got from MSY (And they’ve refused to refund me btw, only willing to replace it but I’ve already replaced it through CPL instead).
Not helping! O.O
Sorry Scree, but just putting in my two cents of the one and only time I decided to try AMD instead of nVidia.
But I could use the $100 difference for other things u.u
Sorry.
I seriously doubt they’re all like that today and I got a freak accident, this was years ago afterall
It’s okay. Your punishment will be doing all the pepakura! Mwah ha ha!
@welbot i don’t work in 3d often, but if I did it would be for cosplay stuff. I already had a look at some SSDs and I wouldn’t need anything too big.
Good morning all
Last song played game time
I’ll Never Go by Yoe Mase.
@scree I installed Windows 10 on my phone like I said I was going to. Loving it so far.
No issues either, seems kind of cleaner and crisper and more customizable.
Did it warn you first? And you did it anyway? Maybe I should take the leap …
It sort of warned me, but I’d already dived face first with my home PC and thats been awesome
time to update my phone!
I hope you have no issues 🙂
The Smiths – How Soon is Now?
Hasn’t Win Phone 10 been out for ages now? Pretty sure it’s what I was using, though my Windows phone’s an engineering phone and runs the latest Redstone builds (and it actually just sits on my dresser with my AU SIM in it in case I get an urgent text / phone call)
Life got busy when it got annouced for release, and I didn’t know until yesterday that it needed an Update Supervisor app to find the Windows 10 update, so I only did it yesterday
Upvote for Smiths fan!
Not really a huge Smiths fan. That particular piece is pretty different to the bulk of their music.
EDIT: It’s also fucking incredible though. Such a dense sound.
Hey, that was my last played song on my way to work.
Apparently we both have amazing musical taste.
@distantdrop Upto 8 raiders, just need 1 more heals and dps to meet the minimum group size.
If anyone on TAY is interested in raiding come legion let me know!
Also, should I avoid amd processors like the plague?
No, not really. They do great budget end CPU’s. Especially since an Intel Quadcore from the Skylake (current generation) is gonna set you back like $290 for the i5 6500. But the 6500 seems to be the best budget quadcore from Intel.
I heard they are for hackers and terrorists.
So perfect for you then? 😛
I care not for your racial profiling!
It’s the beard, you still have that right? 😛
If you’re on a budget AMD’s your best bet, I’m still using mine from about 3 years ago, 0 issues. Some of them do have a nasty habit of going beyond recommended temperatures but if you’re building a proper rig you’ll have a good cooling setup just for your graphics card.
thanks
Whee, my blu-ray drive I scored for $10 arrived today. Gotta hand it to the seller they packed it extremely well, I am impressed! Bloody Umart, their website said the cooler I want was coming in on the 18th according to their website it still isn’t available since they emailed to tell me they are awaiting the PSU & cooler Q_Q
@scree
War Mum patch! Overwatch tonight?
Also, what phone do you have? A 640?
If so, have you updated to win 10 and has it affected your battery life much?
Was looking at reviews of the 650 and apparently the battery life is much worse than on the 640 and it might be win 10s fault.
I have a 640 and the battery tends to last 1-2 days, sometimes longer depending on certain factors.
Yes overwatch. No competitive as my PC is very unstable
So I just tried out using my phone with Mum’s S5, and the DAMN THING WORKS! Well, sort of. At the very least, it detects USB OTG like it ain’t no thang and plugging in my phone as a USB modem seems like it should work, were I to give the S5 root access so the app for it could do its thing.
Confirmation that the S3 is 100% haunted and I hate it to smithereens.
Anyone here had any experiences using the Discord voice system?
Yep, I use it with friends of mine after Skype completely drained our patience.
We love it as it’s very easy to get a group call going, no dropouts, you don’t even need to sign up to join the conversation as it can also work through a web browser without an account required. Do you need to know something in particular about it?
Just trying to see how viable it is as a raid voice chat, expecting a max of 20-30 people at a given time. Looking over everything I’ve read it seems to be leaps and bounds ahead of other voice programs both in usability and UI. I also noticed they have dedicated AU servers so was just wondering how the quality/latency drain was in comparison to TS/Vent/Mumble ?
Also appears to be leaps and bounds easier to setup, I’d actually happily pay for that app.
One of my friends coordinates with his clan for raids in WoW with high numbers, he very highly recommends it. Very little bandwidth usage, quality’s been great as far as I know. Doesn’t cost you a cent to set all of this up as far as I know, and I don’t know of any room size limits either.
Yeah the more I dig into it the more it seems like its the next generation of VOIP clients. Will test it out this weekend, thanks techie 🙂
Picked up Spintires for $15 at EB, my only complaint about the game so far is a lack of a cockpit view, but apart from that, I’m having fun with it. 🙂
Just tried re-soldering the USB port on the S3, see if it fixed up any dodgy connections or anything. I don’t think it could have gone any more wrong – the solder wasn’t melting properly, the flux wasn’t making it flow properly, the wick wasn’t sucking up the excess at all, then it got stuck and I managed to pull off one of the pads I think. Though it looks like it might’ve been from an extraneous pin I don’t need, and I think I managed to connect the flagging trace that was still attached to the board to the remaining pin with a blob of solder so it should be ok if I ever need it for anything, unlikely as it may be. Yet to piece it together to see just how badly I fucked things up but who knows, maybe something will have gone right for once. Unlikely as it may be.
HOLY SHIT, IT’S DETECTING THE OTG DRIVE
God dammit. So I finally managed to remember my gmail password I used at work, so I could grab the app I need to try hook up to my phone (apparently it can’t be sideloaded like everything else I’ve been using), but for some reason it kept crashing. Alright, I’ll try reverting to one of the older ROMs I tried out. Except now the phone seems to be super unstable, kept crashing in recovery mode. Managed to do the new install, now it keeps crashing before it can successfully load up.
THE RIDE NEVER ENDS.
SO CLOSE!
Managed to get in there, and on here it’s working. Got to “dialling out”, but no connection made.
OMFG IT’S WORKING
I HAVE TETHERED INTERNET
Although it seems that my 808 is leeching power from the S3, need to figure out if I can stop it from trying to charge.
Now to test the pokeymans!
“Why does it keep saying I’ve got no GPS signal?”
Oh probably because you forgot to reconnect that wire when you put the motherboard back in. Dummy.
…Hopefully. And fingers crossed that’s what was causing the system instability too >_>
Ok no, it’s still acting up. Maybe this ROM is buggy.
ASDHSERIUHFKJNSROIHSDNFK now this one’s not detecting anything OTG ;____:
WHY DOES EVERYTHING HATE ME
Ok tried another which was also not detecting OTG, now trying the first one again.
…and it seems like it is indeed still working, the port hasn’t broken already. HUMBUG.
I GOT IT… not working 🙁
That is to say after a reinstall of cm13, everything was stable and ppp widget was behaving itself, Pokemon was getting GPS signal, and I was successfully tethered!
Except this thing still creates its connection through VPN like BlueVPN does, so Pokemon complains about no internet connectivity just the same 🙁
Only hope is to figure out how to get ad-hoc wifi working (/track down someone who managed it), or maybe beg Niantic to make it work with the VPN or something :p
You know it’s probably easier to just admit defeat and jump ship to the smartphone generation rather than trying to hack together this set up 😛
What are you trying to do????
Avoid the present
Talk Amongst Gooky much?!
@mrtaco 😛
@popdart5 @redartifice and other Pen & Paper DMs:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/835614511/role-vs-roll-a-rpg-character-development-tool?ref=category
This seems like an interesting concept. I don’t think they’ll make their goal but who knows?
It looks like an interesting concept. It’s a shame their goal is so high but apparently that’s just an unavoidable part of trying to launch kickstarters in Australia.
Personally, I think it would work much better for the player and GM to work together about the goal and for the GM to offer opportunities. I’ve always been a little iffy on situations where there are meta games running at the same time as the main game but it could work.
@gooky amongst yourselves? 😛
Goddamit virus you beat me to it!
Haha.
For everyone here in TAY: any questions for the Static podcast? Ping me here and I’ll get them asked.
Why didn’t you (whomever the question is being asked of) join Team Valor?
Probably too much trouble but I’ll ask on the small chance it’s doable. I primarily spend time on Kotaku while at work and don’t get a chance to check out the podcasts, would you guys ever think of doing like the odd transcript post for the podcasts? Like how some of the US articles do when talking about certain games or new movie releases?
I’m in the same boat. Would definitely be able to skim a transcript but can’t commit to listening to a whole podcast.
That would be a really tough ask, although I think it might be easier to string a group/double discussion about new game releases or movies like we’ve done sometimes. Depends on what’s coming up.
Yeah, I’m not suggesting it’s in any way feasible. Transcripts take a loooong time.
What Bob said, figured it’d be a massive undertaking so don’t put the team out looking at it 🙂
You could always Airtasker/freelancer out a transcript, that’s what we do at my work
Not that I get a say on anything like this, but in principle I’d rather put money towards freelance writers and paid contributions than paid transcribing.
PC games for 2 year olds. Yay/Nay/Recommendations?
Hmm. Umart emailed me saying the power supply I want won’t be in stock until Sunday, odd day to get stock delivery, but whatever. They offered to let me pick something else, problem is i’ve opted for a Silverstone SFX power supply, the only other ones they have are some no name 300w one or the other Silverstone SFX PSU which is 450W 80+ Gold & fully modular. I don’t need that, plus it’s 2x the price of the 300w 80+ bronze one D=
Pulled a massive splinter out of my finger this morning after getting wood for the fire.
Also still waiting on my fightstick converters from Play-Asia.
-_-
Heh.
Sorry 😛
Unacceptable!
😛
Hahahaha. Oh man have not seen that video in a loooooong time.
Wow. It’s been a long time since I watched an unboxing that wasn’t by Linus at LinusTechTips, I had forgotten how unprofessional 99% of the people doing them on YouTube are. Even when Linus did his quick hand held camera in an echo chamber ones back in the day they were way more professional. Kinda sad.
I can’t understand how unboxing videos are a thing. Damn kids and their strange video habits.
I know right? I’ve used them to gauge what the product might be like and see the stuff that comes with it especially if the presenter of the video does a nice thorough job explaining shit.
All that needs to be said:
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/12/11/
Hey everyone. I now have a new deviant art account, scree06. There’s nothing new on it as yet, but I plan to start posting my stuff there rather then Redbubble.
I also have a patreon now! Same name, scree06.
South Melbourne market dim sims for lunch. Don’t mind if I do
@virus__ Never admit defeat until every avenue has been exhausted! :p
Also I have already joined the smartphone generation, years ago :p If anything this whole exercise has reaffirmed how.much I want to stick with the 808, Android is really pooey. Also the S3 is more slippery than a greased up piece of soap in a teflon pan. Do not like.
Also it would appear that my soldering efforts have removed the phone’s ability to charge. Oops.
Oh, I thought the 808 was not a smartphone my bad, sorry 😛 You’re just on Windows Phone which is just neglected which I find odd.
Yeah Android is that, that’s why I like iOS 😛
Ew, Windows Phone.
I am on mighty glorious Symbian.
Lmao. I had a Nokia E51 with that. Whilst Symbian was okay, I never found it to be the best..
That was only Series 60 though, not Anna or Belle like the 808 runs. Apps be damned, does practically everything out of the box 😛
Haha. At least it has one of them baller Pure view cameras tbh 😛
ELITE: DANGEROUS episode 496
There’s a spot near the planet Maiki 3 where there’s a wreck of a ship, with 20 Precious Gems. Pick them up. Nice. But wait… if there’s another player ship there too, they respawn…
So of course I took the largest ship I could. That would be the Lakon Type-9 Heavy.
http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Type-9_Heavy
It’s rigged for 480t of cargo, with a pair of collector limpet controllers. I can run 4 collectors simultaneously. Park up next to friendly other commander, fire off limpets… and wait. 30 mins later, I have a hold full of Gems.
Now the tricky part… pick a station with a large pad to land on. It’s a few jumps away. Get interdicted by pirates. Escape. Jump to destination. Come barrelling in towards the “letterbox” docking entrance under full boost… fly in. Sell gems to Black Market. 61000 credits per ton. 29 million credits for 40 mins work…
Rinse. Repeat.
My wingman couldn’t believe it. 3 trips, no scans (just as well, ’cause getting scanned would cost 20 million in fines…). Neither could the others in the Mobius chat. “You’re doing WHAT? That’s some hardcore flying…”
I’m SMUGGLING IN A TYPE-9. Yes I am. *takes a bow*
I thought the Anaconda actually had a greater cargo capacity than the T9? Which always struck me as odd. Or did they fix that?
Not that I recall, but maybe it was that way early on.
If you just use cargo bays, no other internal components, Anaconda is 468t, T9 is 532t.
Huh, guess not according to a cursory google. Could’ve sworn people were talking about it being a better trader though, maybe they just meant in terms of cost/capacity ratio. Also speed I guess.
Probably toughness. And that the T9 can take a looooooong time to turn.
Even so, I’m liking it for what it’s good for – hauling vast amounts…
Considering going mining with it.
@shamrocks See page 1, ctrl+f “leech”.
I watched too much MacGyver as a kid.
@spagett win 10 mobile installed
Only just saw this.
@spaghett with a H 🙂
Liking it?
I realised afterwards and decided it wasn’t worth it.
yes, yes I am
@distantdrop you alive?
http://gameranx.com/updates/id/65652/article/the-bug-butcher-banned-in-australia/
That’s a bloody outrage that is.
What the shit? This doesn’t look like it has anything that would get it above an M rating, let alone RC.
Maybe something for @markserrels to look at when he re-emerges from the highlands?
I’m going to take a guess and say it will be a drug use thing. Similar to the morphine in l4d, will have painkiller pills or something
It looks like some of the powerups have syringe icons eg the one that increases your movement speed is a ‘speed injection’. So you’re probably right.
Also it’s an absolutely fucking ridiculous reason to ban a game.
Did Mega Man ice cream ever exist? For some reason I have this image in my head of like a Mega Man version of a Bubble O Bill. I know Donkey Kong had something like that but I can’t seem to find any evidence of a Mega Man one.
Maybe you’re thinking of Sonic? There was a Sonic one.
https://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&complete=0&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1301&bih=615&q=sonic+ice+cream&oq=sonic+ice+cream
Some great pics 😛
Those pictures describe the Sonic franchise better than words ever could…
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-07-21-you-can-play-metroid-prime-blast-ball-for-free-right-now
!
Think they’re all going to complain about it?
Friday!
How are you all?
Last song played game time!
Simmer by Silversun Pickups (a band you should all at least check out)
@scree Did you update your phone?
Yes I did =D
Glad to hear
I am liking it too
Makes me feel like I’ve got a new gizmo 😀
David Bowie – Diamond Dogs
I finally stopped listening to Garbage just to go back to Bowie. I should probably seek help, but maybe it’s just important that I’m happy.
Definitiely important to be happy
It stopped raining? 😛
It can’t rain all the time.
I am good thanks. How about you?!
Basket Case – Green Day.
I’m good man, tired but good
Am having Monday off work, so looking forward to it
😀
That’s the spirit! Long weekend ahoy! Sadly I start back at work tonight, my weekend is over already. I’m working at the BWS in town, the one where the drunks & junkies flock to x.x
Ahhhhhhh! Felt good to have my PC finally home and functioning properly now. Going to continue on XCOM 2 tonight looks like 😀
The company I work for recently paid to replace about a dozen laptops that got wet. They’re not actually water damaged as far as testing can ascertain and all function perfectly well, but we replaced them because their warranties are now void.
They’re 1 year old ASUS 17″ laptops with intel core i7-4540 and a GeForce 830M graphics card, 8 gigs of RAM, Windows 10 installed. They’re going to be going up for a salvage sale in the next month or so. The property claims team paid a replacement value of $1,300 each to the insured but obviously used, with a slim possibility of water damage and no warranty there’s no way they’ll fetch anywhere NEAR that.
I usually don’t bother bidding in salvage sales because it’s usually useless and overpriced (e.g.: a single $5,000 diamond earring) though I did snag an iPad Mini with a minor screen crack for $50 a year or so ago. I’m considering grabbing one of these laptops if I can do it cheaply since I think the risk is fairly minimal. What would people who actually know shit about computers gamble on one of the laptops described above? I’m thinking $350.
How certain are you that they “function perfectly well” ?
I played around with several of them myself, because for some reason the property claims team manager thinks I’m a computer genius and wanted me to see them. Not to assess them or provide an opinion, just wanted to show them off. No issues with function or anything obvious, but I’m not a computer genius, hence me asking for opinions here.
Have you run anything hardware intensive on those machines? Anything that could cause them to heat up? If yes then yeah $250-350 max for a Salvage laptop and wouldn’t expect more than a year’s use out of it (if you get more consider it a good investment :P)
Maybe take the bottom case off and see if there is any residue visible.
$350 max IMO. If you can get them for less it’d be more worth it.
I don’t think they’re i7-4540 as that processor doesn’t exist but it should be a reasonable system.
I might have misremembered then. It was definitely an i7, I’m sure it was 45-something. Maybe 4550.
So $350 max. I might put in a bid for $250-$300 then. I figure if there’s a dozen other people who want them for more than that, good luck to ’em.
\o/ my case for the HTPC arrived today. Scored a Lian-Li Q07B USB 3.0 mITX for $50, the RRP is $175… It’s brand new, just an ex-demo unit from a PC store has a few scratches, but eh.
It’s so tiny, just look at it! http://imgur.com/a/qG3n8
Cute!
I know right?! Takes a full ATX power supply too. But i’ve opted for SFX so I can use double sided tape to stick another HDD or 2 in there 😛
HI TAY
HOW ARE THINGS
I HAVE HAD A BUSY WEEK AT WORK
I STARTED PLAYING GAT OUT OF HELL LAST NIGHT I LOVE SAINT’S ROW
@negativezero not big on those RPG cards, kinda seem like a solution to a problem I’ve never had. can see them being good in a mechanics obsessed group, but not one like our pathfinder group cc@popdart5Important business meetings went ok but not as well as hoped
Tiglet’s birthday this weekend so hyped for that
Happy Birthday Tiglet – may you get lots of toys and cake!
@alexwalker Can we get mark to do another WoW article thread when legion releases? 😛
I’ll ask!
Metroid Prime: Federation Force: Blast Ball
Glad they removed this mode from the full game. Making it free works game as a demo for what can be expected in story mode. The play itself, shooting a ball to move it towards a goal, is a bit drab but both the visual style and controls as indicators of things to come are promising.
Online is nasty due to lag with Europeans (playing at 4am certainly didn’t help), and I couldn’t find a feature to play with friends. Single player mode is a fun dabble.
My favourite part was the interplay of holding L to lock onto an object, and then holding R to enable gyroscopic fine aiming on the object. Great combination of Metroid Prime and Splatoon controls. Of course, you could use either L or R exclusively instead of together, but there’s no reason to hobble yourself.
Started playing MH Generations last night, just unlocked two-star quests… really enjoying it, but having a hard time breaking my mental association between the game’s BGM and the theme song from Keeping Up Appearances…
So I kinda ended up drawing a pic for Splatfest on a whim last night. Pretty happy with how it turned out.
Then I got caught up working on my masterpiece. Eight and a half hours, well spent.
Think I’ll go collapse now >_>
@negativezero @ scree
I just had a thought. Does the free period for upgrading to win 10 count for phones too? Aka, if I order a 8.1 phone online and it arrives in august I’ll be out of luck?
@scree
It’s free. You just download windows advisor
Don’t quote me on this, but as far as I know the 8.1 to 10 upgrade for phone has nothing to do with the upgrade for PC, and is free forever as long as your phone supports it.
Splatfest time!
TEAM CALLIE YOU ARE GOING DOWN!
Thanks for reminding me!
Things are looking pretty dire for Team Marie so far tbh.
I haven’t even started yet!
Oh man. Was going absolutely shit without my Strength Up shirt (stupid Splatfest Tee meant I had five Run Speed Up on my set), so went and found another set of Ink Resistance boots which had a Strength Up. Got Skype to upgrade them, first time I’ve spent any snails, and now they’ve also got Ink Recovery and Ink Saver Main. God shoes!
@greenius I hope you are choosing team green 😛
Hahaha! Like I ever played Splatoon again after being slaughtered by you
:'(
😛
Argh, zombie!
@alexwalker I have a notification that I can’t get rid of. It’s annoying the heck out of me. ^^;;
On your profile page, beside the ‘Notifications’ header should be a ‘Mark all as read’ button that clears all unread notifications.
I wanna know what they said, kinda. Must’ve been bad
Wait, it’s a moderated comment? And you want to read it? D:
I imagine it’s something stupid
Star Trek: Beyond is a cool guy. Better than Bizarro Wrath of Khan was (though I liked that film a lot too). My biggest gripe was that the trailer spoiled
that they were going to use Sabotage in the soundtrack, which meant I kind of knew what they were setting up toward the end. Incidentally, does this mean that Star Trek joins the ranks with Macross as SF involving weaponized pop (lol ‘classical’) music?Huh. The charge light on the phone was on while it was plugged in, but I just checked it and it wasn’t actually charging. Then I turned it off (as it was when I last charged it), and it started charging again.
Something’s screwed 😛
My phone has started randomly shutting down, like when I try to take a photo, or today, when all I wanted to do was send an sms. I was about ready to throw it against a wall.
I guess it’s trying to tell me something.