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Ok, who’s seen suicide squad? Let’s talk suicide squad! I’ll go spoiler free:
Jai Courtney tried to take the crocodile hunter out of his character, but went with chopper instead. Also noted was the mysterious supply of cheap beer and the thinnest implications of character depth with pinkie.
I also played a bunch of injustice, so this has been a DC weekend.
Spoiler free:
Bit thin on the ground for most of the movie but overall I enjoyed it. Unfortunately ensemble cast movies means that someone has to lose out which I felt pretty keenly.
Spoilers:
The slo-mo sequence in the climax looked absolutely terrible. Whomever thought that was a good idea probably should take a good long look at themselves. That gun toss from Harley to Deadshot was so blatantly obvious as a movie trick that it was corny.I actually enjoyed all of the characters. I’m on board with Leto’s Joker and Captain Boomerang was interesting in that his actual lines were pretty average but his actual acting was pretty darn good for building a character. I wanted to see more of Killer Croc and the special effects for Diablo were pretty cool.
Will Smith completely steals the Morpheus scream from the matrix. I lold.
I feel that all the hate was a bit unfair. I actually really liked it. Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang and Diablo were standout in my opinion. Was a bit surprised that i didn’t much care for Deadshot, felt a little bland maybe when compared to note over the top characters.
i was hoping for a more Arkham Asylum Joker but felt i didn’t get it. Someone crazy but still amusing. This guy felt too serious and organised and i enjoy my Joker to be a bit more chaotic even if he is organised. If you know what i mean?It wasn’t as bad as I was expecting. But I’m in no rush to go watch it again.
I’ll probably accidentally spoil something, so I’ll just put it all here:
I think this is the first movie where I didn’t hate Jai Courtney, His Cap Boomerang was really over the top but I kind of loved it. Diablo was a surprise too, his transformation was badarse and that fight was my favourite part of the movie. Amanda Waller was probably the only thing I think they got 100% right, Viola Davis was so good. Will Smith was good, Harley was ok, wish they gave Croc more to do than grunt occasionally and go for a swim. I really didn’t like Joker.The first 40 minutes of the movie had SO much licensed music. It was like one of those late 90s so fresh cd’s. I liked the music, but it was a lot.
Oh yeah, how about the nameless guy they exploded?! They didn’t even try to disguise that plot point; he was the most obvious red shirt ever!Yeah, I imagine the “official movie soundtrack” probably comes on 20 CDs.
I forgot Slipknot was supposed to be in the movie, and as soon as Digger started chatting with him you knew exactly what was going to happen haha.Hm? Oh, “The Harley Quinn (& friends) Movie?”
Not too bad, not too bad.
For those who don’t have twitter, I posted a preview of the next artwork thingy
https://twitter.com/scree06/status/761907609859350528
Nice details! Zenyatta looks like he’d be a pain to draw up (especially the neck and arms)
He is. The worst thing is that the images I used fromt he reference kit are sightly different to the actual in game model. I’ve decided to go with a kind of Hybrid. Just stuck on the hands.
Your stuff is always so good. It’s like how i imagine my drawings, but it actually comes out the right way! :p
I want to commission you to do some fight stick artwork. I have two naked cases, some idea of the designs, and a complete inability to wield photoshop.
I have no idea what you’re on about, but I’ll try my best?
Err, by naked i just mean without art! It’s all innocent stuff, just two pokken themes.
I’ll add you on twitter.
Alright, so you just want stick figures? Or you want me to turn stick figures into other things?
I think he means like arcade cabinet fight stick controllers. Like the decals you see on this:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/street-fighter-4-tournament-edition-fight-stick-/331931316419
No no, a fight stick is an arcade stick, a joystick controller for fighting games. The top panel is clear plastic so you can insert a design underneath.
Like this:
https://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/sfv-stick.jpg
No stick men are involved, just a stern blaziken.
Ah okay, If you get me a template, some reference art, then I can probably do it. I’ll even do it before my other projects. Did you want Vector, or Raster?
For example, Mercy is Vector. The Zenyatta base is raster
Something like the 4th one of these would look pretty sweet.
http://wallpapercave.com/blaziken-wallpaper
There’s a cool picture of the three evolutions all doing the same kick in the Google Image results (beware, there’s also a whole lot of Blaziken butthole scattered in the mix).
This whole line of conversation gave me a hearty chuckle 😛
Hi, TAY.
Had trouble getting up this morning because Max was curled up on my bed.
But I’m up and out of bed, at least. 🙂
I be playing the Pillows of Eternitys. Is good.
I be watching the Chronicles of Shannara. I’m not comfortable saying it’s “good”, it certainly isn’t bad…it seems to be aimed at a younger demographic than old man jimu.
I’m enjoying it anyway.
So much elf sex.
And really, isn’t that all anyone really wants?
I need to finish that series off. I was enjoying it but it’s not great, as you said. But a lot of that is because of starting from pretty average source material IMO. Still, it’s nice to see some older fantasy stuff getting okay TV adaptions. Gives me some hope that the eventual Wheel of Time one might not be shit on a biscuit.
I get the impression they fixed the casual racism & sexism that went on in the olden days. It’s still a lot of whities & a handsome young man in a love triangle with two hot brunettes though (not that I’m complaining).
Your tolerance of the show would come down to how much young adult angst you can stomach.
The fantasy concepts although obviously heavily inspired by Tolkien are interesting enough that I’ve only got one episode to go.
It’s OK. Gets better as the series goes on. Definitely aimed at my wife, who loves that sort of thing. She was very happy I recorded it for her.
The books get better, and hopefully season 2 will improve accordingly.
It really is Fantasy By Numbers though.
Yeah.
Has a second series been confirmed?
Yeah, MTV ordered a second series back in April, IIRC.
Sweet
It’s monday, I’m not at work and I have a lot of washing to do today.
I worked out how to set my Hunter Axe on fire. That was fun. I want to buy more fire paper.
Other than that, I spent a considerable amount of time over the weekend running. A good idea, seeing as I’ve bought myself an entry in a Half Marathon in 6 weeks’ time 🙂
If you’d like to give some money to The Black Dog Institute, here’s the link:
https://bsrf2016.gofundraise.com.au/page/SarahHudson?utm_source=GoMail&utm_medium=BSRF2016&utm_campaign=6WTGI
I hurt my back watching anime this weekend. I’m definitely going to die alone… =S
How? Or maybe I shouldn’t ask.
I moved the table so I could do something, then later instead of moving the table back I just laid on the couch in an awkward way so I could still reach my Big M and see the TV. It’s like I went out of my way to avoid sensible solutions to the problem.
Sensible solution? Don’t be daft. No one does that =P
Depending on what the anime was this might be acceptable behavior.
Hi-ho people.
More Overwatch questions, I’m sure people aren’t sick of those yet!
1. What Hero are you most reluctant to play? Mine is Lucio because I legit can’t figure his shit out.
2. How can people believe in the existence of a kind and loving god when Torbjorn exists?
3. Is it even worth bothering to use Winston’s energy shield? Because everyone just walks through it and then kills me anyway.
4. How the fuck do you hit ANYTHING as McCree?
1. McCree because I can’t play him. He requires a lot of accuracy.
2. I like torbjorn. I usually set up my turret over an objective as a last defence and then move forward and go into the fight.
3. You’re supposed to duck in and out of the shield. It’s like Reinhardts where you can walk through it. I still haven’t mastered winston in the slightest.
4. Press Q, apprently.
1. Junkrat because for some reason I just can’t use his weapon properly.
2. He’s a very situational hero, ironically junkrat’s one of the hero’s that shuts him down pretty quickly. Mei does a good job as well, put a wall in front of a turret and its done.
3. Well they’re meant to walk through it and you pummel them with your ultimate ability, alternatively its great for zoning since it forces enemies to get into the shield to deal with you. But no don’t stand in the shield if the entire enemy team is charging towards you.
4. Flashbang – Fan the Hammer, whine about him getting nerfed 😛 Jokes aside without his abilities McCree can only get one clear shot without having to re-aim due to the recoil. Short range you just FTH and hope you kill something.
You don’t need to use his weapon, just throw the concussion mine at everyone.
Aiming is overrated.
1. Bastion, because I feel dirty and require a shower after I’ve played as him
2. Torb is great on some maps. But easy to counter. Play as either Genji, D.Va or Junkrat or indeed any snip and you need not worry. Just stop running out into the open once you know where it is.
3. Think of Winston Shield not as a tool for yourself but a tool for others. The shields in this game are for guarding an area, not guarding your character. This is especially the case with a Mercy/Lucio on the team who can follow you around. Drop the shield on the point to keep someone alive for example, or drop it on a Bastion to be fucking annoying. 😛
4. Short answer: Point your target reticle at an enemy and press lmb
Long answer: McCree is more of a mid range sniper now than anything. You need to sit behind your line and pick off targets rather than running in. The point of flashbang is if you then get flanked and you need something to get you out of a jam. Only problem is if most chars are full health, they can take a full fan the hammer and still be upright. We worked out you need a headshot, and then a fan the hammer to kill reliably. My strat is flashbang, fan the hammer, dodge roll reload and then go for the headshot/fth again. Takes a bit of practice but once you get it down you’ll be a beast again. This is why McCree is getting lots of love in defense maps because he can pick off people running to the point/cart, and can keep himself alive in a crisis.
Also, side note, Lucio is EASY. You heal by just standing there, so all you have to do is blast people until you’re ult is ready then boom! Also remember, every capture the point map has enviro kills lucio can take advantage of.
Well, fuck.
Apparently my cooking class is finished, and I get told that on the day we were supposed to resume it after having two weeks off.
Fuck.
That.
So I pre-ordered one of them Gears of War Xbox One consoles.. This is why I shouldn’t be allowed money >_>
Woot, unlocked 5-star quests yesterday.
Now tasked with taking down two big scary things that surprised me in earlier hunts (tho not the one that beat the crap out of me cos I tried to fight it – presume he’ll be the 6-star urgent) and the mate of the rathian I’d killed repeatedly last week – I can’t imagine he’ll be happy. *eep*That said, Yian Garuga was a fun fight (poison aside), and his armour looks pretty badass, so might deck myself with that before taking on the big/mid-size scary stuff.
Also, I may have spent two capture quests thinking my game was bugged when I couldn’t throw any of the tranqs I had in my inventory, before I realised they weren’t tranq bombs. So… still definitely a noob at this 😛
Only up to 4 star stuff online myself, still on 3 star offline because I’m taking my time. So far the jump from low to high rank hasn’t hurt as much as it used to, maybe I’m better at the game now(Hahaha, yeah, right).
The Garuga is such an annoying monster to fight, only a little more annoying than the Kut-Ku and the Gypceros.
What weapon/style are you using? My main is Great Sword/Adept which I really love but I keep trying to switch it up a little with Long Sword and Switch-Axe.
Really? Maybe it’s because I’m doing the offline quests (I hear the online ones are tougher), but I found the Kut-ku really easy, and the Garuga not much different (tho he does hit a fair bit harder). Only quest-objective monster that’s really given me any problem was Shogun Ceanataur, because he keeps inflicting this annoying pink status effect that saps my health when I run… but my palicos have been doing a pretty good job keeping me alive.
Mainning Aerial style with an Iron Switch-axe and the tier 2 offensive skill – my main tactic for most things is “leap up off monster’s body, bring switch-axe down on head, repeat.” I was running Guild Longsword for a bit at the start, but aerial switchaxe is just too hilarious to swap away from. Been meaning to give aerial daggers a shot – I’d imagine it would be pretty chaotic 😛
I should probably try more of the online quests… still HR1, tho I’ve soloed a couple of the online hunts out of curiosity. But been preoccupied with the offline stuff thus far, and only really playing on weekends, so slowly working through it.
Oh yeah, they’re not difficult to fight, just annoying. Since I main the Great Sword, they move around a bit too much for my liking, makes it hard to line up charge shots.
Aerial Switch-Axe is a lot of fun, I love the extra uppercut you get in sword mode when you jump.
I mostly play on the weekend and little bits throughout the week with @scrumptatoes
I thought this was a response to me, could not figure it out.
@os42 Yeah, we punch birds. Always happy to have new people punching birds with us.
I love the feel of impact you get with the heavier weapons – the hammer especially – but find I can’t hit anything with them, and moving with them is so slow. The switch-axe’s flexibility is kinda great in that regard. I’ll generally only use the sword form when I’ve knocked the monster down, and don’t have to worry about incoming damage – the extra uppercut you get with aerial is awesome, but I find it doesn’t offset the huge loss in mobility that comes with the sword form.
There are so many interesting-looking weapons, tho – I kinda want to try them all. 😛
My go-to combo with aerial switch axe is to run up and draw attack straight into sword, then evade into aerial attacks.
Back in MH Tri on Wii, I mostly used Sword and Shield because of the speed/mobility but eventually I got confident enough to try the great sword, and once I got used to it and learnt some patience, it was hard to put down.
@jocon @windwaker peeps I’ll be rounding up the group this week after invasions launch for us to hit the content as a guild. If you can jump on in the evenings in game and on disc, would like to use the event to build up some rapport with raiders.
For what it’s worth looks like in the first week invasions will occur only once every 4 hours.
@distantdrop Goddammit :@ Stupid multiple names wind 😛
Been thinking about this for a few days and tried to think of an excuse without sounding flaky, realized that’s impossible.
I decided I no longer want to play in Legion, the hype just got to me and when i had time to cool down I realized I made commitments i shouldn’t have, too a game I no longer want to play.
Sorry dude. you might think this might be due to the new pressures of the guild but it really isn’t.
Not going to lie, definitely disappointed but I appreciate you letting me know a few weeks in advance of legion. If you decide to return down the line feel free to hit me up.
Back to vetting recruits again lol, already got 3 apps to go through.
Got a rough time in mind?
Ill probs be on after 6.30-7 every night?
I have come so close to re-subscribing to WoW recently. If only I was in your timezone 🙁
So I’ve been kind of conflicted on this whole ABS census kerffufle thats going around. On one side I’m very pro-privacy, pro individual rights vs government etc. And while I would normally be completely on the side of boycotting this data gathering I keep coming back to this backlash from the public. People are happy to give up rights to privacy to companies like Twitter, Facebook, any social media in exchange for a more convenient way to broadcast and connect. However we’re going to refuse to do this for our own government when the data might actually be used to better the country?
And don’t get me started on security concerns, any data anywhere stored remotely that can identify you has the potential to be hacked, regardless of whether its government controlled or corporate. Am I missing something? We didn’t even make a whimper when the government passed legislation to effectively track where we are, who we speak to and what we might be doing 24-7 online but give data to the census we rise up in protest? What the @!$# people.
Facebook/Twitter doesn’t have your exact name and address, your suburb (For facebook) potentially yes, but not address. Plus it’s all completely optional how much you put in, Census made it mandatory.
Eh. You can add & list your street address on Facebook so yeah..
Again, optional, not threatening you with a fine for not entering it
Optional if you turn off location services 😛
As frustrating as that is I’ll take protest against this sort of crap where I can get it. If the census is the thing that actually motivates people to get off their butts and do something, well, at least they got off their butts eventually.
I think it’s due to the more active roll required here. People roll over when it’s a faceless group like ‘the government’ or Facebook because we’re used to them dictating policies to us and ignoring reactions that they deem inconsequential. This time they’re actually asking us to hand them the power rather than simply granting themselves the power. It’s about as close as we get to opt-in participation.
Personally I’m really conflicted. I understand the importance of the census and agree with it, but I feel like by participating in the census this time I’ll be playing an active part in creating a very unnecessary weapon. I don’t believe anyone currently has any intent to use it as a weapon, the ABS almost certainly just want to do their job ‘better,’ but when you build this sort of database it creates pressure to use it.
I’m very aware that Australia has a long history of fucking over Australians for the sake of some vague threat to stability so I feel like my participation in the census actually stands a reasonable chance of hurting people.
The very objective of what Census is trying to do, saving name and address is completely unnecessary. It’s meant to guide the government on the numbers on age groups, religions, etc, so why does my name contribute to policies? You mean to tell me you’d make a new renewable energy policy if my name was “Max Power” or something? Because if that’s true, then I’ll do just that, cuz screw your coal industry! 😛
Exactly, it’s the sort of information the census is designed to avoid. It’s meant to be free from the potential bias that’s introduced when you know the participants by name. I don’t think Jack’s data is going to be given more weight than Jill’s, but saying they need names is just ridiculous.
Yeah, see the only entity on the internet that has my personal details are those that need to ship me physical goods. Beyond that no, not even Facebook knows more than my name and city – the account only exists to keep friends/family happy, I don’t even post to it.
Besides, I KNOW what FB, Google ect will use the info about me for – advertising. And I also know that they are competent about digital security.
But our Government does not have the best track record lately for smart, well thought out decision making. Will that info end up being accessed by institutions that will misuse it, even if the ABS doesn’t themselves? I betcha.
And for sure they don’t know sweet F**k all about digital security. I literally bet you $50 that database will be hacked before the next census. Hey, just like Turkey’s was.
I’m all for the census, but holey crap did they not think this through. Anyone could have see this would be the reaction. Which is why, you know, they tried to quietly change it without telling anybody and hoped we wouldn’t notice.
If you are gonna make changes like this that has such a impact on something every citizen is FORCED to be a part of, the least they could have done is do it above board, well beforehand and with actual consultation on the effects. Then we wouldn’t be having this conversation a day before the Census is due and the results wouldn’t be completely skewed due to negative fallout.
And regarding the last bit? People did whimper. But were ignored because short of a riot there is nothing we can really do that actually has an affect on legislation. But this can be protested in your own home with a pen and the effects will be seen.
Oh AND they made it an online thing for the first time? They seriously are asking 90% of the population to log into the same site at the same time without having done a digital rollout of even a fraction of the scope prior as a test and expect it’s gonna work fine? Has no-one at the ABS paid attention to the launch of an online game in the last 10 years? Games made by people who’s literal job it is to make services designed for that kinda load and who still regularly mess it up.
And these are the people who are asking us to trust their judgement…
I tried calling multiple times for a paper form, not even their automated call system can handle the load and just says “Please call in at a later time, thank you” *click*. So yeah, they really know what they’re doing… totes
I managed to get through and order one. It said thankyou, it’s on it’s way.
That was over a week ago, still has not arrived :/
See I hear you on all of those points and I have to come back to the meta-data legislation. Do you really believe the government doesn’t already have access to information that tells them who you are and where you go at any point in time? We’ve already surrendered this information to them. It’s done, gone. Yes its stored and collected by our local network providers but come on, do we really think their security is on par with global social media companies?
So the question I would like to ask is – we’ve already given access to these pieces of information if not directly then indirectly via extrapolation of existing data to companies/governments and organizations. Seems kind of stupid and pointless to gather in protest when the coffin’s already in the ground and is half filled with dirt. There is nothing the census is going to find out about you that cannot already be found out through collation of your digital footprint.
With regards to protesting, here’s a counter question. When was the last time any individual anywhere in any developed country in the last 10 years felt like their politicians had the nation’s best interest at heart? Or possibly even heard a fraction of what the public wanted? For crying out loud we’re carrying out a plebiscite on gay marriage and we already have politicians who’ve come out saying they wont abide by it. So I say to you protesting when the system no longer cares or is unable to care is waste of effort.
We gave up our right to privacy a little bit every day since social media launched. Trying to claim it back when they’ve pretty much got all the data they would already need for a profile is creating noise for the sake of it. We agreed as a majority that privacy doesn’t matter when we allowed changes that violated our civil rights on the basis that it brought security to the nation. The census is considerably less sinister.
I guess my point to make in all of this is – too little too late.
The meta-data info is different. It’s not specific information nor is it directly used to shape policies that affect how I am able to live, nor is it available at the press of a button. But yes, it is BS.
And yes, various organizations have information about me, but not all in the one place and collated into a profile.
People can’t just type my name in a search field and have everything about me displayed in a spreadsheet. But that’s what they are trying to do.
And again you go back to info on social media. But again, I don’t do that. I care about my privacy and security.
And protesting? So you are saying “Well, we didn’t do enough about it last time so lets not bother now or in the future.”? “Well our government’s always been a bit shit, so let’s just let them keep at it.”?
As @dogman said, If the census is the thing that actually motivates people to get off their butts and do something, well, at least they got off their butts eventually. Better late than never.
And if the census gets borked because of it? Well if that’s the thing that gets the Government to get off their butts and actually listen, better late than never.
So we should just quit? We were mislead into letting the King become a tyrant, so the story is over? Star Wars would be a very different story if Leia had of sat around going ‘well, nobody spoke up sooner so I guess we all deserve this’.
I dunno, I feel like you’re confusing ‘people’ with ‘some people’ and ‘let’ with ‘didn’t understand what was going on well enough to know they should fight it’. It’s hard not to blame them or ourselves for the current predicament, and the disinterest on these topics from the general population is extremely de-motivational, but you’ve got to ask yourself if you believe this is wrong. That’s the important question. It doesn’t matter where we are or how we got here, what matters is that I believe this is wrong and needs to be corrected.
We’ve finally got a situation where the general public actually cares about privacy rights enough for politicians to actually talk about it. We can either sit here feeling sorry for ourselves or take advantage of this opportunity.
That sounds all well and good in principal but the reality is the general public will be up in arms about it today and forget about it tomorrow and be up in arms about the next new craze. That’s just how we work in this day and age and the media help reinforce that thought process.
The fact of the matter we live in a democracy, which means as much as you or I might care it doesn’t matter until the majority cares. And the sad truth is these days the majority can’t care for anything beyond themselves for more than a few days.
Worth noting my comments aren’t directed at TAYbies who I know understand their privacy and whats involved online but rather towards the general public that refer to meta data as the information on the envelope of a letter.
Do you really think the government will do anything even if the census data is screwed via majority protest? The reality is they’ll just take the incorrect data and roll with it, and make some promises about how they’ll try and do things differently at the next census. Lo and behold by the time the next census comes around the general public will have forgotten all about it.
The difference between the rebel alliance and the general population across most developed countries? The alliance had conviction and believed in something beyond themselves. I still recall one of the guys I studied with a few years ago saying he didn’t want to vote for Gillard because she was a read head. In my experience that thought process isn’t the exception, its the rule.
Here’s a nice little example. Every piece of economic data I have studied since the GFC shows world economies including ours is heading towards a massive global market catastrophe on par or surpassing the great depression. Would you be aware of this? Would any average australian know this? Would you care to know that in our lifetime we are likely to see a market collapse unlike any other? Or how about climate change. In under a 100 years 70% of the worlds landmass will be uninhabitable. A 100 years. Do any of these topics get any coverage whatsoever? We just don’t care as a species/as a people. I care, you might care, everyone in here might care. But WE i.e. the majority. Do not care.
But that’s exactly why we need to take advantage of it while we can. Politicians are actually speaking against this because for once there’s enough weight behind the backlash that they can safely say they disagree with their party. That won’t save the world, it won’t have a massive positive impact, but it might disarm one negative impact and to me that’s a lot better than rolling over.
I think you’re being way too cynical here. It’s understandable, I don’t have much faith in people as a group either, but I think the cynical attitude that nothing good can happen because ‘everyone is stupid, lazy and self-centred’ is the exact reason why people come across as stupid, lazy and self-centred. We see one fragment of a thought by a person and jump to the conclusion that the fragment defines them.
If I didn’t know you from TAY it’d be incredibly easy for me to look at you and think ‘oh, this guy is just some lazy asshole throwing a tantrum because nobody will save the world for him’ but that’s not true. If you stop and think about it the idea that you’re this avatar of everything I hate about people in general is ridiculous.
It’s rarely true about anyone but it seems like they’re everywhere because we live in a world that fixates on assholes. We subconsciously treat YouTube comments like they’re an accurate representation of the population and not just a place where idiots go to fight. 350,000 people watch a video, 1,000 people make stupid comments, and for some reason that makes us think everyone is stupid. 99% of the comments are dumb but the comments only make up a fraction of the people involved and almost all of them are by people who don’t know how to express their opinions clearly in a comment.
The reason for that is depressingly simple. You and I quit on the news. Channel Ten’s ‘news’ insulted us so we stopped watching, leaving only the easily manipulated behind. So they now openly pander to the easily manipulated. We did the same thing with political parties. They were willing to endure the headaches we caused them so we gave up, and now they’re free to be casually self-serving without even a little bit of a headache.
We’re not quitting to move on to the next phase like everyone else, we’re pre-emptively quitting to move onto nothing.
I actually do think they’ll have to redo it if it’s significantly broken. The ABS have a job to do and they need accurate data to do it. This is one of those rare situations where we actually have some power to push back.
That’s where I have a problem and I think it’s where democracy fails. In order for democracy to work the population as a whole needs to be engaged in the democratic process, you need an engaged and informed electorate in order for the country to move forward. However what we have at the moment is more akin to Rome using wars/conquests/free entertainment to dislodge the public from what’s really wrong.
It’s worth noting I rarely assume anyone to be of any intellect until I get to know them, and if my collection of friends/acquaintances is anything to go by then the majority really don’t care and conform to that stereotype. In fact across the 20 odd people I can think of off the top of my head I think maybe 2 actually keep abreast of current events. Other are busy planning trips, social events, possibly weddings, etc. Heck I still remember at the election just gone there was an asian lady in the elevator with me telling her friend she wasn’t voting coalition because they’re cutting medicare. Like what the hell people. You can’t reduce an election campaign to a single bloody sentence.
To be fair I also avoid social media like the plague for this very reason, the entire concept makes it too easy to constantly focus on your life, your friends, yourself. I much rather prefer focusing on everyone; especially the people/points of view/ideas/experiences that I’m not aware of.
It doesn’t really need to be said, but just to be 100% clear on this I get that you’re not directing your comments at me/TAY specifically and likewise I’m definitely not trying to get on your back about anything I’m saying.
All the “but Apple/Google/Facebook/similar” things annoy me, since I take no part in those either 😛 And certainly would never give them my name and address, or even phone number. Basically the same as Jo, only use those for having stuff shipped to me, otherwise the only thing you’ll get out of me online is a first name.
Actually, basically the same as what Jo said for everything 😛 Zero faith in them being able to pull it off, both in terms of performance on the night and keeping it secure. “Better mascots than you have tried”.
They annoy me because why the hell would I let them set the standard here. It’s like saying ‘well, coke is full of sugar and caffeine already and tons of people drink that, so what’s the harm in dumping a bunch of sugar and caffeine in the drinking water’.
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere’s Spaghett
Last song played time
Hello from the Magic Taven – episode 13 Boy’s Night.
Loving it so much
bought Rainbox Six Siege on the weekend, bit late to that party but am enjoying it so far.
Played a lot of Borderlands 2 and The Pre-Sequel.
Also purchased Shadow of Mordor, The Evil Within, Oblivion and Call of Chtulhu Dark Corners of the Earth on Steam.
Also went to the dog lovers show and it was great.
Puppies!
Schism by Tool
CoC is still one of my faves, such an unusual game.
I played it years ago, I think around launch. Loved it.
I saw that somebody seemed to add a reverse convict tax to shadows of mordor so grabbed that as well
It was massivley on sale so I snapped it up 🙂
The rest of those steam games were on sale because of Quakecon.
ooh – I have one!
Grease Lightning – the Glee Cast version
My little boy is doing a dance to it at school and wants to practice at every opportunity ^_^
Edit: I’m not good at replies today.
Played a bit of Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death over the weekend. It’s one of those third person melee games, a la God of War.
Even though the controls feel a little imprecise and the game is certainly lacking the sheen of its AAA counterparts, there is an odd charm to the middling script and the visual design of the levels that keeps drawing me back.
ELITE: DANGEROUS
Stuff Is Happening.
There are more and more rumblings of Strange Events. A crashed ship with a weird message, more and more wrecks, and the Unknown Artefacts and Probes are becoming pretty easy to find in the California Nebula, Pleiades, Witchhead, Orion Nebula and so on.
What does it all mean?
ALIENS.
I’ve been attempting to reach the famous wandering Jaques Station which wound up 22,000ly from Sol after its failed jump to Beagle Point. I was planning to deliver some power generators as part of a 4 week community goal. It ended on Sunday with my Anaconda still with 10,000ly to go.
I’ll finish the journey this week but miss out on 13,000,000cr of bonus from partaking in the community event.
Still, there’s activity in a pristine area of the galaxy now – lots of miners out there, and there’s already plans for a new surface outpost and another station. If Jaques does get his engines fixed and move on then there’ll be a permanent waystation 4000ly from Sag A*.
Cmdr Trikeabout reporting from deep deep space.
I haven’t played in ages but it’s been interesting following the threads. I don’t know which would have been more impossible for me, the probe signal decode puzzle over there or the Stranger Things puzzles over here 😛
Trikeabout right now
Yes indeed. Except more like
https://imgflip.com/i/18n0hb
I had to laugh today. Saw some fool run a red light (which they had stopped for initially) today when there were 2 marked highway patrol cars right behind them, at least the cops didn’t ignore it and pulled the twit over. That’s a special kind of stupid right there.
So I had two Warmachine tournaments on the weekend. Which was enough to determine to me that I don’t like the new MK3 rules and my Faction is now worthless.
Also fell asleep twice while driving home.
3rd edition is always the upset. It’s the first time you see bloat and 1st edition rules that no longer exist trickling down to influence current edition rules in stupid ways. I wouldn’t stress too much though, it seems like Warmachine has too much invested in being a playable game to let it fall apart.
Plus you seem good enough at this stuff that after some more playing around with it you’ll find a place in the new meta.
Yeah, they skipped an open beta to avoid any sales loss.
The real problem is that I hate the new meta. MK2 wasn’t 100% balanced, but the idea of non-existing lists was appealing. There were a wide selection of lists people could make, even adding in some personality to it. But infantry and solos all got a wide nerf while ‘jacks all got buffed. Now the meta is a whole lot of ‘jack spamming, or range spamming. Infantry and solos are worthless because they’re easier to kill.
It’s worse for my faction of Menoth, who had their best models nerfed to be lame, and our worst models buffed to be lame. Everybodys already making ‘jack spamming lists (because Menoth lacks good range units it’s all we have).
So, Rimworld has devoured the fuck out of my time.
It’s basically Prison Architect as a colonization sim, and it’s remorseless. It took me about six failed colonies before I really figured out the systems needed to make these little guys survive, but man does the game still like to shit in your daily cereal. Winter is a thing to be feared.
\o/ looks like it’ll be a good few weeks hours wise for me at work! One of the guys I work with in BWS is on holidays for 2 weeks so I pick up some of his hours (8 hours on fridays & sundays fuck yeah) & the Nightfill manager in the Woolies is away for 3 weeks on holidays and it just happens the two guys running Nightfill for those 3 weeks always like giving me hours so that’s awesome. Also the co-worker in BWS on holidays might have to take 5 weeks leave at the end of the month too for an operation so even more hours are possible, which would be nice because I could then start putting money into a new PC 😀
Eww eww eww. Why is the a maggot in my tin of tuna?
Must’ve been eaten by the tuna. Possibly. To be safe you should ask the store you bought it from.
Edit: Also feel free to let us know which store/brand it was so I never buy anything from there ever.
Haha, Woolworths/Greenseas. To be fair though, this in one tin in thousands that I’ve bought from them. And, as gross as maggots are, when they’re brined with tuna and chilli, it’s hardly going to kill me.
Shot an email off to Greenseas, it’ll be interesting what their response is.
Man, if I encountered that, I’d swear off eating dolphins forever.
If it was wriggling, I’d have more of a problem.
I just rewatched the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy, I can think of a few things they’d say to that 😛
OK lets talk pokemon go
I just got my 500 pokemon captured medal this morning so I figured why not see where other people are at
My stats
Level: 19
Poekmon caught: 505
Pokedex: 61
Highest CP: 1071
Most caught: Pidgey or Rattata
Most recent caught: Bellsprout
How I play: I mostly play on my way to work. Tram ride in can work quite well and passes the time. Including my walk from the tram stop to the office I generally clock around 2 km of egg hatching time. I also get around 25 pokestops during that time, mostly on the tram.
I also often take a quick lunch time walk around to see what I can find as an excuse to get out of the office.
Otherwise I wait until Tiglet says ‘turtle on” or “mouse on” and then have her on me as we scroll through my pokemon with her randomly calling out which one she want to see. Big mouse, crocdil, little mouse, big mouse, little mouse, bell, star, big turtle, turtle, so on and so forth
How about you?
I caught one! I did! I caught one!!!
And then work happened and I haven’t been able to play.
I can’t see all my stats because I’m on the 29th floor and get no GPS signal here, which means I have a red bar across the top of my screen, but here’s what I can see:
Level 15
Total caught: ???
Pokedex: Seen 49, Caught 49
Highest CP: 779 Pinsir
Most caught (I assume this is just from memory): Pidgey
Most recent: Staryu
Best medal: Bird Keeper (currently my only gold at 202 bird-types caught)
I only play during the week when I go for walks on my lunch breaks which is probably twice a week at most. There are a TON of Pokestops in the Sydney CBD and a lot of them have lures meaning there are a ton of players. I occasionally whip my phone out while walking to and from the station or while out shopping but there aren’t usually many pokestops where I’m walking so at most I might leave it out for a little bit to progress an egg, but mostly I don’t bother.
Level: 3
Poekmon caught: 7
Pokedex: 7
Highest CP: 151 Pinsir
Most caught: Doduo
Most recent caught: a cp53 Doduo!
Last song played time?
Lost boys by The 69 Eyes.
currently listening to Hello from the Magic Tavern Episode 25 – Eagles.
How are you all?
Water from a Vine Leaf – William Orbit
Eminem – Bad Guy
Started listening to the Marshall Mathers LP2 just as I got to work.
Solved the Kotaku riddle last night with a bit of assistance from @trjnrabbit, @beeawwb and @fatshadylive
Great competition, a lot of fun
One of us. One of us.
I can’t wait for this all to be over and to find out we were completely wrong every step of the way :p
I spoke to Jung today. The Enigma Room people will be posting an article once it’s all done. Can’t wait to see everyones comments in that!
Dreading it.
“What do you mean this had nothing to do with shellfish?”
We all got “Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you?” as the final answer, right?
Right?!
I’ve made a huge mistake.
Haha, got an e-mail from Aerialist telling me to apply for this job at the zoo. Nice to be thought of, but super not keen on doing more helpdesk stuff 😛
Also the trip from here to the zoo looks pretty awful for a daily commute.
Counterpoint: You’ll work AT THE ZOO WITH THE AMINALS ALL OF THE AMINALS
Oh yeah the animals. And the animal smell all the time.
*double bins*
Ed: Dammit Firefox
Er… something something [/monster]
Damn you YouTube! I wanted to link to the You Belong In The Zoo ad for Taronga Zoo, but apparently YouTube is too good for Australian classics. =(
I have no memory of that one. Must be pretty old? 😛
@jocon I don’t know whow else to link you this so
http://9gag.com/gag/apLgKPW
Another busy weekend. Ran around Friday looking at portable pianos, went to five different stores (six if you count visiting one of them a second time – nobody there on either attempt :/), but only two of them were of any use. Funnily enough they were the only ones that seemed to have anything other than Yamaha…
That night, went around to my friend’s place to catch up and let them try out the Rift. Haven’t seen them since their wedding last year (this was the one I helped move the piano for the proposal), so it was good to finally see them again 😛 Had a whole bunch of problems with it though. Firstly, it turns out the 1080 only has a DVI-D port on it while the DVI-HDMI converter I had (previously used and worked fine with the 970) to hook it up to the TV was DVI-I for some reason. So we were stuck doing it all without being able to see what was going on outside the headset. Beyond that, everything just kept glitching in ways it never has before. The headset wouldn’t turn on, games wouldn’t start, there would be complains about hardware problems. So many resets to try get it to work. And then the Xbone controller’s batteries ran out, and all the disconnection problems necessitated a bunch of game resets. Even at one point the Oculus remote wouldn’t connect to the headset, which has never happened before.
Got there in the end though, they both loved it. Especially his wife, we were all a bit worried about how she’d go with it since she suffers from really had simulation sickness but she was totally fooled by it, and was “there”. Squealing and squirming at every little thing, looking all about the place and just amazed by it all. So great. In terms of sickness and locomotion, she was pretty much fine with the movement in Lucky’s Tale, though couldn’t do Windlands at all. What did we run through… Dreamdeck, Lucky’s Tale, Windlands, Radial-G, Pinball (briefly controller started spazzing out before anyone could play I think), The Climb. Oh, and Henry.
So yeah. For the most part, a successful showing. And my first outside of immediate family, too. Gotta get around to doing more.
I think I sensed something was up on Saturday. Started to check out Batman vs Superman, then got a message from my school friend seeing if I was free, and wanting to go check out Suicide Squad. Only made it halfway through my movie before having to run off, oh well 😛 He got me on Hearthstone, working through the tutorial missions so we could play each other. Despite it being the time we’d usually part ways once getting back from the movie (which was pretty good – nothing amazing, but certainly no gigantic stinker like some seem to say it was), he pushed on and we played a bunch of matches. Did alright for the most part, but then ended up kinda breaking my deck and losing horribly. Also I think we were playing til like 3:30 or something. Oops.
And because of that, Sunday was almost entirely lost to sleep 😛 Then internet catchups. Then checking out AM2R, which I stayed up late playing. Pretty damn good! Just finished it now, actually. There’s some niggling things about it that bug me, like the overly MIDI-ness of some of the musical lines. And some of the animations and area layouts feel too “that’s not how an actual Metroid would be”. But otherwise very faithful to the series. Good show.
This is carrying on from my discussion with @weresmurf on Star Trek; I’m deviating too far from the other page’s topic.
Anyhow, in terms of DS9, I actually do have that boxset waiting for me when I’m done with TNG but I might take a break first as there is so much to cover and take in.
Truth be told, I’ve dodge that franchise all my life yet I’m really enjoying the journey so far. I even studied AI back in my undergrad thus if I provide a list of favourite episodes you will see they are Data-centric.
I also think my experience is going well because I’m starting with TNG. I originally did because I was going by actor stock and Patrick Steward is a strong bet (in my book). I did think about stopping and starting with the original series because some elements were just throwing me (a Klingon in the the Federation? No sign of a Vulcan? WTF?!) but the first season still filled in some of the gaps to keep me going.
But like I said, it’s going to be some time before I get there. If I try to cram it, I might ruin the ride.
Data filled the role of the Vulcan in TNG. They have a ‘Trill’ in DS9, also a Shapeshifter, they both fill the “Vulcan” roles pretty well. Odo played by Rene Auberjonois is utterly fantastic in DS9. Like all Trek shows though, it does take til season 3 to really take off, the first 2 seasons are a bit shakey. I love Picard but Avery Brooks as Sisko really gives him a run for his money. Whereas Picard was your diplomat, Sisko was your hands on, wild west frontier Sheriff, mess with the bull get the horns kind of guy who I really dug. Didn’t mean he wasn’t without a brain though. It was also one of the biggest shows around that pushed genuine diversity. Gay characters appeared frequently (albeit later seasons) sexuality was not an issue, men and women were mains equally and got equal time with storylines, young people got genuinely great storylines (Jake and Nog in later seasons got some particularly deep storylines going for instance).
And now I feel I wanna burn through DS9 again… *sigh* thanks @Wisehacker lol
But Chief Obriens there from the getgo, from TNG, but another TNG character hits from season 4 onwards and when they arrive, hoo boy does it pick up in a massive way.
I think I know who you mean; Worf is on the cover of some of the DVDs. Haven’t watched the series but I did run the disks through a integrity tool to make sure they were OK.
Reason being is I had to take my TNG BluRay boxset back four times because I got a different bad disk each time.
On the fifth, I just got another copy of the season in question as after four tries it is safe to say there isn’t a completely proper boxset of TNG.
It’s a lovely effort that CBS scanned the raw negatives and completely recomposed all the episodes (like they did back in the day) using newer tools to avoid upscaling. It’s just a pity they didn’t bother putting more money to the ****ing BluRay quality control!
If it weren’t for the $300,000+ fine for ripping disks, I’d keep all my movies and cartoons on a server. Some are now gone because the disk has perished and the DVD in question is no longer manufactured.
Aaaaaah you got TNG blurays from *that* printed batch. There was a batch that was printed that indeed had bad blurays scattered through it but DAMN 4 in a row. Wow.
OK, that I didn’t know. I know there was an uproar over Season 1 because the audio wasn’t properly mixed but I never heard about the bad disk batch.
Still, I have a full complete set now (fingers crossed).
OH I TOTALLY FORGOT
My sister and her boyfriend came around for dinner on Sunday. My sister brought me a present. A packet of Carolina Reaper chillies she found in the supermarket. How kind of her.
Doubly kind was to get me to try some that night. I got one of the smaller ones and cut it more or less in half, taking out the two seeds that came with it. It was interesting actually, it was really soft and the flesh was quite thin. And it was so fragrant! Very floral and fruity.
No guts no glory, popped the whole half in my mouth. It hit pretty hard straight off, but was bearable and I tried to concentrate on the taste. The hypersalivation kicked in though, and then I had to swallow and that’s where it was all over. Throat started to constrict and the fire was at it’s worst right back there, got the sweat going and the nose running and the eyes watering and everything.
Stuck it out for a fair while, but then had to start downing the milk. We only had about a third of a bottle left though, and it wasn’t doing much. Asked if we had any cream, there was a tub of cooking cream and tried a couple of spoons of that to see if it was any better, but no. Not wanting to leave everyone without milk to use the next day, I switched to the 1/3 bottle of iced coffee we had left instead. It seemed to be slightly more effective actually 😛
Spent the rest of the night dying and regretting everything, nursing the ball of lava that was still rolling around in my stomach. Though funnily enough it seemed to bother me most when sitting up straight or leaning back, leaning forward on the desk had me alright. On top of that being full of pork belly from dinner and all the glasses and glasses of milk, it was not pleasant. But I lived! I guess.
I do not understand you people who like spicy things.
Just trying to stave off the winter chill 😛
It is pretty strange though when you stop and think about it. Almost like some kind of perverse self-abuse, especially once you get into the higher-tier stuff. Definitely a limit on how hot it can get while remaining in the realm of enjoyment though, and this was waaay beyond that.
I think they might be *shudder* summer folk
Holy shit. Someone just reminded me that Tripod (the web host) was a thing, and that way back at the end of high school I made a site on there. Figured I’d see whether it was still there, and tried to remember what I named the damn thing. 404’d the first go, but then tried an alternate spelling and BOOM! NOSTALGIA BOMB!
Cannot believe that thing is still around, it must be going on 12 or 13 years old by now. Totally made my night, cringe-worthy as it is.
Just went looking to see if my BlogSpot blog was still around. Not as old but might as well be given how long ago it was when I last wrote there.
Still there too; used to try my hand at game reviewing but the effort proved too much for me.
Ha, I wonder if I can take mine down. :/
Haha as bad as some of it may be, I wouldn’t do that unless I’d stupidly revealed information I would no longer want out in the public space. In which case I’d just edit out those parts and leave the rest :p I’m a bit of a warts-and-all guy like that I guess.
It’s more that I think my administrative login is an email address that no longer exists in a country I no longer live in.
On a planet you no longer live on 😛
*trailer voice*
IN A WORLD….
#talkamongstgooky
the way Tay is going, it might just end up that way =(
All the cool kids have gone to twitter! *yech*
They’re the worst
They’re worse than that!
I might end up leaving TAY eventually, just not enough here anymore. It’s been a good run
Nuuu, don’t leave me!
Y’all gonna leave me 🙁
Not me!
Last song played time!!
Episode 35, Earth Stuff – Hello from the Magic Tavern podcast.
How is everyone?
I don’t think I’ve ever been so entertained by social media until last night
The census?
The very same, I almost fell out of my chair laughing last night.
One of my favourite comments of that evening:
“According to Census data on August 9, 90% of Australians were at sitting at home screaming at their monitors in frustration”
Sounds about right.
I have added hands.
https://twitter.com/scree06/status/762942328508080128
Anyone know how reliable GOG is as a digital distribution platform? Considering getting NMS for my son and I on it but never used it? Thoughts? Is it another Uplay or is it decent?
Speaking from personal experience I have not had much trouble. I don’t use Uplay so if I may, I’ll use Steam as a comparison. And sorry in advance if I cover known knowledge (seeking completeness over assumptions).
Now, with Steam one can buy games manage a library, host multiplayer games (based on the game) and there is a chat facility.
GoG.com’s answer to that is Galaxy but at the same time there is a big difference; everything is optional.
For one, if you wish to purchase games you can do so either directly from the site or through the Galaxy Client. If done though the site you’ll have to go to your account page and download the installer while Galaxy does it for you.
But you can also still download the stand alone installer through Galaxy so if the app ever becomes unmaintained if (heaven forbid) GoG goes bust you hopefully will have a copy of the installer somewhere.
Unlike steam, all the games are DRM free and don’t need the Galaxy client to run. In fact, depending on the game, if you have existing GoG games installed and later install the Galaxy client it will try to find and add them to your library for convenience.
There are auto-updates but again you can turn that off if you are like me and prefer to manage downloads manually.
Finally, while there is a chat system I admittedly have no experience with it as I don’t know anyone else using GoG (the rest of my mates use Steam).
But I get the feeling you are speaking of a multiplayer game (don’t know what NMS is). Sorry for saying this at the end of a lengthy post but I mostly play by myself so I have no idea what multiplayer servers are like with GoG.
In terms of distribution, GoG is basically a service where via Galaxy you can set up an external drive and fill it with GoG game installers and extras that will always be accessible even if/when GoG goes belly up.
Ta to you and @redartifice , just bought 2 copies of No Man’s Sky on it for my son and I 🙂
Worth noting that No Man’s Sky isn’t really multiplayer in the “multiple players in the same game” sense. Shared universe, shared database, but not shared game instance.
Jumping in late here, but GOG is absolutely fantastic. You might not always get the greatest price, but the support and amount of add-ons you get minus the bullshit is tops.
Oh man, the add-ons are great. Soundtracks, backgrounds, original manuals, it’s great.
I still have an avatar of XIII as my steam profile pic
Gog is great, you’ll have no issues. Don’t need the client if you don’t want it.
@jocon how’re the invasions/demon hunters? I take it they should be live by now?
@jocon
http://imgur.com/gallery/Uci98 Has nothing to do with what puppetmaster is saying, didn’t want to spam
You damn kids! Get off my lawn! *shakes fist*
No idea, too busy playing No Man’s Sky
The worst
Invasions are pretty sweet. I pre-ordered a physical copy of Legion thinking about cancelling it and getting a digital one so I can go play a Demon Hunter already.
I’m thinking about picking up a 360 now that I have a Xbone on pre-order. A few of the local EB’s apparently have the Gears of War 360, I remember wanting that when it came out thinking about nabbing one of them since they’re only $140-ish..
Anything specific you want to play? Backwards compatibility should have you covered for a lot of them.
Just wanna add a 360 to my collection really haha, plus I can pick up games for next to nothing from all the op shops around.
Glenn Stevens provides the first piece of rational advice I’ve seen from him on how to dodge the doomsday economic collapse I’ve whinged about a few times on TAY. It’s sad he had to wait till retirement to speak his mind – http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/take-on-more-debt-says-rba-governor-glenn-stevens-in-his-final-public-speech-20160810-gqp6q2.html
Ironically we need this now and needed it 2 years ago when the coalition took power. Unfortunately avoiding the economic pitfall central banks have led us into is going to take some pretty ballsy leadership that is going to have to sacrifice their popularity in the opinion polls. Something I don’t think any major party can safely say they would be willing to do.
tl;dr – in the current economic climate we need to take on more government debt that needs to be efficiently allocated to boost GDP growth. Interesting to see how a party that pretty much campaigned on the country having too much debt to start with is going to walk that tightrope.
Bring back keating, I say.
Mother#$@# http://www.pcgamer.com/dota-2-forums-reportedly-hacked-usernames-and-passwords-exposed/
Seriously valve you STILL don’t fricking let your users know this shit?!?!
WOO! Just opened up a loot box in Overwatch – got three legendaries at once! McCree’s Vigilante, Roadhog’s Islander, and Symmetra’s Vishkar, along with a pile of cash big enough for me to buy D.Va’s Junebug skin. In the space of less than two minutes, I’ve gone from 0 gold skins to four, not including the ones you get just for owning Origins edition.
Hey Gale Breeze, you’ve been posting quite a bit lately. Why don’t you make an account?
Also, if you’d like to play Overwatch with me and a couple of the others, I’m scree#1257
I play most nights from 7pm to 10pm EST
You saw nothing >.>
Congratulations!
Continuing to experiment with the nutella hot chocolate. This time I took out the chilli powder, and put in maybe a pinkie nail sized slice of Carolina Reaper.
This is now a DAMN hot chocolate.
Coles sells ghost peppers now if you want something for dipping
I think odds are good that I’ll end up with a packet of those once my sister spots them.
RIP my stomach.
Morning all.
I’m back in australia (Arrived tuesday morning) and now back at work, What did I miss over the last few days apart from No Mans sky being awesome and the government being shit at load testing?
Trump said something stupid.
Ah yes I heard about that.
In other news, did you get to test anything out at GenCon?
Heard great things about Oceanos. Then again, all I needed to hear is that it’s another Bauza game with drafting.
Didn’t do any demo’s but I did buy a couple of games, Got https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/162315/mouse-guard-swords-strongholds pretty cool game. And Red Flags,
I was pretty tame for the weekend and didnt have a lot of time to play other peoples games. Plus Jetlag sucked balls. I did get to meet a lot of High ups for various game companies though.,
That seems sufficiently rad. I’m kind of hoping I can do it next time.
I’ve told Anton I want to go next time and He’s agreed. It’s a lot of fun and I highly recommend it
Also Shutupandsitdown Live was pretty bloody awesome 😀
Morning errbody hows every little thing?
I am in suprising pain after doing a boxing class and don’t want to move however I need to work today.
Anywho onto games! Whos playing No Mans Sky? Im enjoying my time with it just being a trade mogul and saving for new stuff how are you guys going with it?
I already want to restart after not realising how to do some stuff. but I’m really enjoying it 🙂
I’m playing! I met a parrot alien called a gek and he was my friend and I defiled a religious monument and I got shot at by robots and then I went flying and I got to another planet and I’m naming all of the planets after monsters from D&D and Magic the gathering and I found a crawly little thing that hated me and the ice planet which was the second on had mean robots and I made another Gek friend
I’m gonna be real happy here
I met a lot of Vykeen, to the point where they like me lots. I’m also learning a lot of words. The words mechanic is pretty bloody awesome 🙂
Yeah, I learned like ten words of Gek
I reckon, the second planet I went on was a radioactive planet with alot of robot men I think they vykeen i dunno but ive learnt about 40 of their words
Twitter story time!
I didn’t enter the Stranger Things competition.
@jocon – http://www.pcgamesn.com/world-of-warcraft/world-of-warcraft-legion-gear-guide
A worthwhile read for getting prepped for legion raiding, best collection of worthwhile information I’ve seen to date. Was also going to put this up on disc for the rest of the group (if you’re at home could you do the honors?)
Are these big arse ads really fucking up page loading for anyone else? Every time I think something has finished loading so I can actually look at the thing I clicked on, the page refreshes or at least stalls whilst it loads more and what is it? Something critical? Ohh it’s that watch that’s disrupting a 13 billion dollar industry…
They’re really acting as a deterrent for my coming here these days.
Makes me wonder if the browser wars go the way of PC-vs-console and start discriminating themselves by framerate on ad-heavy sites… Inevitably, there’ll be one platform saying “anything below 60fps induces motion sickness”, another saying “you don’t need 60fps, 30 is all the brain can register anyway,” and ad-blockers saying “well, if we remove all these annoying moving parts, we get buttery-smooth 120fps, ner ner”? 😛
Taboola is one of the better reasons for Adblocking software. Always the last thing to load to make sure that you can never accurately click on something.
Ever since the video ads went live in the middle of Kotaku articles I don’t even bother reading any of them anymore. I used to start my day with checking out all the interesting articles from the last day and then finally loading up TAY. These days its just load up TAY and go browse news/game news somewhere else.
To be completely honest I would prefer to sub and have 0 ads, 0 taboola crap, old layout back. I think its also a major reason a lot of TAYbies left, with a lot of people coming on TAY on their phones.
But they walked up to a dog that had been chained up and left to die and you won’t believe what happened next!
I certainly wouldn’t believe it if the dog got released and immediately mauled the next guy who was the owner of taboola…
Oh, wow. Congrats, @beeawwb!
I take it he won the stranger things comp? 😛
Nah he brought a paddlepop and instantly won a free paddlepop dudes going places
The free paddlepop won him another free paddlepop statisitically he effectively has infinite paddlepops now
Well, for shits and giggles, I bought a one-year MLB.com subscription.
I get every game for the rest of the season, in HD.
It was $50 USD, but as a Yankees fan, it’s worth much, much more. 😀
@beeawwb @popdart5 @tech_knight @freezespreston @blaghman @negativezero
https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/4wuhj4/i_figured_out_why_i_hated_suicide_squad_so_much/
Always good to see stuff like this. It’s like when someone described Guardians of the Galaxy as being an RPG played by the Avengers.
The Suicide Squad would actually be a sweet set-up for a short-run campaign
Agh, I haven’t seen it yet so I guess I’ll pass on this
I wish I’d read that BEFORE I saw it.
Can you explain why?
Haven’t seen the movie and normally would ignore things like that until I have
As it was, I just didn’t really enjoy the movie very much.
Red’s link is basically a run-down of the Suicide Squad cast, but explaining them as D&D player types. Looking at the characters and their actions in that light actually makes a lot of sense and is kind of hilarious. And I feel like if I’d had that comparison in my head when I saw it for the first time, I’d have been experiencing some (albeit unintentional) enjoyment from watching the comparison play out in front of me.
Oh, god, The Chaser’s article on the census – perfect.
You should see the Simpsons Against the Liberals facebook page, they’ve been just killing it.
Also wonderful:
http://www.theshovel.com.au/2016/08/10/australias-population-now-48-abs-confirms/
http://www.goodsmile.info/en/product/5730/figma+Samus+Aran+Zero+Suit+ver.html
God dammit.
@negativezero Why didn’t I hear about this already? 😛
I’m sure I would have RTed that when it was announced.
Ah, the twitters would explain it 😛
Kinda sucks it had to be the Other M version. And she looks kinda weird with the solid torso and stuff, but I guess that’s the lack of belt or anything to break it up like the others usually have.
I can let you know about Nintendo-specific stuff I see announced directly if you’d like. I think the only recent one was a Fire Emblem Fates nendoroid Elise.
Hey, I know I asked before, but I’m writing a script for a visual novel, does anyone have time to read it to help me with the development of the characters?
@sernobulus and numbers are helping me, but I’m still having difficultly.
If I post the link here, would people give it a read through and give me some feedback
Post it up and I’ll have a look over the weekend if you would like.
Hassle me on steam over the weekend if I don’t give you any feedback
https://1drv.ms/w/s!Aj_vhpEm7xJZhqEU3Aqw8B0OJIMjFg Here’s the link for it.
WIP notes
The curse isn’t well explained at the start. Dating apparently causes natural disasters which is why they are going to such extreme lengths but the only example is a small gas explosion.
Cat god seemed really rushed when that is the primary purpose of the game
Matt just rolling with it seems misplaced when he has just changed his entire life because of a curse
Hey, that’s me!
Well it is hard to deny the cross generational appeal of pokemon go
I just had an interesting conversation with half a dozen schoolgirls on the tram into work becasue they saw me playing pokemon go. Discussing who plays, what pokemon they have, who the mean teachers are, evolutions, family and how to take down gyms.
The jet turbine pretending to be a PC under my desk is NO MORE.
I successfully transplanted X58 mobo, RAM, GTX 1080 and the rest of the guts out of the TJ-09 the size of a house, into a new Be Quiet Silent Base 600, with a new PSU and a Corsair H75 waterblock. Despite the highly risky manoeuvre, involving 2 ancient gen 1 Kingston SSDs in RAID 0, it was largely a success and I have a very quiet PC now.
Next step, reinstall of Windows, and find out why the hell my D: drive is not visible – that’s got my steam library on it. And Elite: Dangerous. Hopefully I can get that drive up long enough to copy everything off it onto a newer device…
Once Elite launches on PS4 I’m seriously considering getting into it, how hard is it to jump into?
I want to say it isn’t as hard as people seem to make out, but then I stop and wonder just how much I’d actually read about it before I got to play it and how hard it could be just going by the in-game stuff alone.
But regardless I’ll never understand how people find it so hard to dock 😛
Space is big. Really big.
It’s a sim and it’s truly open world. The story is largely meta or told through the community events and news. So it can feel a bit “empty” if you’re just flying around, and if you want to smash out all the upgrades it could be a grindfest, but if you’re happy to just play the game and take your time getting reputation and rank, it’s rewarding. And the views from planetside and in some of the systems are to die for.
Like Commander Gookenheimer says, it’s a hard to remember how I learnt to play (7 weeks playtime… 😮 ) , but I’m still enjoying playing because I’m in a couple of groups and watching favourite local factions – The Order Of Mobius and the EDA Kunti League (Australian/NZ group) are factions I know other pilots in and fly with, plus I hang out with Mobius on Teamspeak/Discord, and also the EDEX (Elite Dangerous Exploration) group in their Discord.
I don’t know what it would be like on console. I can’t imagine playing without a HOTAS and it very much feels like a PC game to me.
But when you’re ready, there are commanders here who will help you out for sure. I’m one of them.
…also, the OSX and PS4 versions might be base game only – the planetary landing stuff won’t work with OpenGL at present. 🙁
Is it that it won’t work with OpenGL, or that it needs a later version of OpenGL than what is supported by Macs?
I can’t remember which was the case for Rift and which was for Elite now.
Actually, you have a point – OSX doesn’t support compute shaders, but PS4 does so Horizons/Engineers might be fine on PS4.
And apparently quite a few HOTAS’s work on PS4 too.
Holy crap @redartifice. I think we need to try out Dog Bear at some point. It’s like a stupid Metal Gear plot but played kinda like Fiasco with cards.
Oh my god.
I’m so in
We should play a session with the TAY MGS experts. Like @shane
Wow… I briefly thought that I might grab no mans sky since I was bored & not in the mood for anything I have now. I remembered that earlier in the week, the GOG price was mentioned as being au$60 and I thought I’d JUST bring myself to deduct that much from my savings. I load GOG up and… $80! a $20 price hike the day before the game releases… I double checked the kotakau post & it definitely said it was $60 (or us$45) so it wasn’t my memory playing up. GOG really are getting into the big leagues if they’re starting to pull this kind of shite.
Eh? It’s still showing as AU$61.99 for me, even in a private browsing window. And US$45.79 when switching the currency.
Edit: Oh weird, it changes to $81.09 once I go to checkout. That ain’t right.
Shows as AU$61.99 for me at checkout.
Weirdly it’s back to that again now for me too
Bugger. I had high hopes for the new Green Day song after I had heard people saying it sounds like it’s off Dookie, yeah it’s no where near that. It’s over produced for a start & has a cheesey chorus.
So still shite?
Wouldn’t call it shit. Just bland. Also don’t understand their obsession with making everything sound so perfect it’s weird.
I haven’t liked anything since american idiot
They’ve had a few good songs I thought, but it’s all too over produced and perfect sounding which just sounds meh.
I actually think a lot of their newer stuff is really good, but it’s so good on a technical level that it totally fails to resonate with me. Sort of like a pixel perfect printout versus a raw painting.
PSA No Man’s Sky players.
Beware of Black Holes: sometimes they send you away from the core.
I recommend setting a way-point to a nearby system. Then after using a BH, immediately check your map and make sure the route to the core is in the opposite direction to said way-point.
Don’t end up like me and travel 1500 light years in the wrong direction.
How could flying into a black hole possibly go wrong? =P
Its going to be a criminal offence to portray any criminal Act in film, television, comic, or video game in Australia after 2016.