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Morning TAY!
How was everyone’s weekend? I got all DIY and build a shelf to sit my guinea pig cage on, it’s handy being able to wheel that bugger around!
Also played through some more of the Battlefield 1 campaigns. Tried playing the Black Bessy missions again being all stealthy and glitched out again, so third time round just went in all guns blazing and managed to get the mission to trigger, so… yay?
Also got creamed again in the Dota 2 battlecup, the other team for some reason decided to target me hard during drafting, banned out 3 of my most played and picked another 1… we basically got steamrolled by an early push draft backed by a BH so they just snowballed out of control after 1 good fight. To add insult to injury, they picked the BH right before we were going to, so that kind of sucked… but hey, you can’t win em all!
How big is your guinea pig cage?
I’ve recently taught my piggies to NOT scream the house down every time something is rustled, or when they see or smell food. I bought a bell that I sound whenever it’s feeding time, so now they only scream the house down when they hear that bell.
It’s hilarious too, seeing them stare at me when I have a hand full of vegetables, then going berzerk and running to their bowls when I use the bell.
Not that big – we use the modular cage stuff, so 3×2 on the bottom level and an L shaped 2nd level which is basically 2×2 with 1 of the corners missing.
How old are your piggies? We got 2 from a research lab rehoming service maybe 8 months ago, so I think they’ve about 9-10 months old. They start screaming whenever they hear a knife hit a chopping board, because the know 9 times out of 10 its us making them breakfast/dinner.
Good morning TAY!
I hope you’re not feeling the post-PAX depression if you were lucky enough to go. It was cool getting to meet a bunch of you guys briefly on Saturday, meeting; Red, Blaghs, CJ, Cookingmama, Scree, Tigs, Numbers, Alex, Cracks, Gooky and Tegan for the first time was really cool. I was bummed I didn’t get to hang around much more but I’m sure you guys would have had a big night all the same. Was good to see Freeze again too.
Cheers Techie and Scree for inviting me!
Backlot was definitely the highlight of the convention.
*peek*
Was good to finally meat you. You joined around the time Tiglet was born I think so I haven’t made it to any meats when you were there.
Hopefully we get the chance to catch up again soon.
Thanks for coming!
I really need to pay closer attention to TAY… I don’t visit anywhere near often enough these days…
Turns out that I walked straight past you guys dressed up as Bloodborne characters, and didn’t realise until I saw pictures on Freeze’s facebook 🙁
We scared some children. It was fun 🙂
Thank you all so much for an amazing time on Saturday night. It was the highlight of my entire weekend.
Just ask Serrels, I bounced up to him this morning and couldn’t stop waxing rhapsodic. You’re all the best and it was so lovely the be included.
I can’t wait to catch up with you all again!
I’m expecting to see a few more ads around here after all the money you two spent on popcorn. =P
The Sydney Taybies are overdue for a big catchup, so I’ll make sure you get an invite when it happens. How do you feel about picnics?
Welcome to the family Tegan
Thank you! It’s bloody great to be here!
Was great talking to you (and Alex)! Worked out being a top night, but of course Sunday was slow going… 😀
Thank you! We had an awesome time!
It was a pleasure to have you. Thank you for coming
It was an honour to be invited and included 🙂
Alex half-assed his singing. I am disappoint. 😛
He’s a monster 😀
Might not have gotten down to PAX, but I did get out to Bitter and Twisted at Maitland, and tried lots of beers.
Discovered a couple of good beers, and Cheap Fakes, a (ska-ish) band from SEQ. Good combination in the sun.
So now that we have our profile back n stuff. How are we meant to see notifications of replies or mentions? D=
@alexwalker halp?
I think they’re doing something with it now. I just had a weird bug where I’d get an error when I went to post. Turns out I was showing as logged in on the header bar but when I went to my profile page I was actually logged out.
It’s a feature not a bug, well that’s if it was Microsoft 😛
Ah cool. Cause I can’t even keep track of my posts so yeah 😛
Morning all, how was your weekend?
I finished Titanfall 2’s campaign (it’s excellent) and bummed around in PSVR for a bit. I’m excited to get the PS4 Pro this week, hopefully developers take the opportunity to help it along a bit.
Found a purse on the train but the owner doesn’t have a Facebook account. I’ve got her name, address, bank and credit cards, RACV card, medicare card, a few appointment cards from the dentist and an ambulance membership card that expired 10 years ago. I’m thinking I’ll just express post it back to her but I’d like to send her an e-mail or something so she knows she doesn’t have to stress about replacing her license or losing the money. Any ideas? I was thinking about calling the dentist and getting them to forward a message but it feels super stalky/scammy.
Hand it in to the dentist/bank, if it’s not too far out of the way.
That’s probably the smart thing to do, but there’s a fair whack of cash in it so I’m a bit nervous about handing it over to someone else.
You can always take it to a police station and hand it in.
Yep, this. Hand it in to the police.
Brains? In tay? What is this madness
Good guy @dogman!
This guy just doesn’t quit 😛
You can look people up in the phone book you know, provided her number isn’t unlisted…
But police is the other option. Just make sure when you fill out the lost property report, the amount of cash is listed. 🙂
Hi, TAY.
Was unwell for most of the weekend, probably due to Friday’s unexpected warmth, but I think I’m recovering. 🙂
And there’s only three weeks til cakeday! \o/
I feel your pain mang. Was 39 at my place yesterday 🙁
Last week was one of the more shit weeks i’ve had in a while. It’s been non stop since last Friday when I went to Slipknot, and i’ve been at work every day since then apart from Friday just gone which was busy AF anyway. So it doesn’t feel like i’ve had a day off. But! Today is my first real day off since I dunno. Wednesday 2 weeks ago I think?
Also saw a mate from school has been up since Tuesday from Melbourne asked him if he wanted to catch up, he never responded to my message despite reading it as soon as I messaged him according to Facebook and he ended up going out Friday & Saturday night with other mates. Thanks for the invite guys, I would’ve liked to have caught up.
As much as I like that work calls me first for extra shifts it’s a bit tiresome at times. Like Saturday night 2 guys decided they didn’t wanna show up for nightfill so I got asked to come in, which I was more than happy to since i’m good mates with the guys who run nightfill on Friday & Saturday they look after me. But i’m sick & tired of these 2 who decided not to come in AGAIN, i’m glad that at least one of them won’t be getting any more shifts with us on the weekend.
Then come Sunday I got a text from the Woolies manager asking me to come in for a few hours before I started in BWS, which I was more than happy to do since he’s been pretty good to me recently in giving me hours. But I was pretty pissed that again people decided not to come in. It’s pretty bad when the store has *just* been relaunched after a 3 month long renovation & it’s gotten rather busy there.
Then when I went for my shift in BWS the bloke who was on Saturday night left so much work to do, when he had 5 customers in the last hour & a half. I ended up putting away over 50 bottles of wine, 10 cartons of beer, multiple 6 packs, several bottles of spirits & a bunch of RTD’s. and he gets away with it because the boss makes up excuses for him.
On top of all that my friend in England hasn’t got a phone at the moment so I haven’t been able to chat to her which sucks.
That sucks dude. Hopefully the shitty employees don’t stay employees for long. But yay for extra $$$.
You planning on going to Killswitch next year? I’m pretty indifferent towards KSE, but I think Fallujah are one of the best bands out so I’m probably gonna go just for them. Also super-psyched for The Ocean / NeO at the start of December, between the 2 shows its almost enough to offset the crushing disappointment over the ongoing lack of Soundwave
Well when the girl I work with comes back from maternity leave next year, hours are going to sparse in BWS, so either he’s going to have to move on or i’ll just find another job and see if I can keep Sunday in BWS and Friday/Saturday night in nightfill in Woolies. As for the nightfillers, hopefully the dept manager wakes up to himself and tells them to fuck off. Cause it’s just trouble otherwise.
Nah never been into KSE, I do have a bunch of gigs coming up i’m interested in, Airbourne & Halestorm in January, Wednesday 13 in March, Alter Bridge & Black Stone Cherry in April and Green Day in May.
Man, I didnt know Airbourne or Halestorm were coming back to aus. I saw Airbourne back when their first album came out, at a pub in Freo. Dont think I’ve ever been to a gig like it since, it was wild. Time to find out if they are making Perth and getting some tickets
Don’t know if this is the right place for this, but whatever.
Does anybody else have a problem with that auto-playing video ad for the Underworld movie that’s showing up on every Kotaku page at the moment? I was on the bus to work this morning, listening to music whilst web browsing. Even though the video is muted by default, it would always hijack the audio on my phone anyway. Meaning that every time I loaded a Kotaku article, my music would get paused due to the video on the page which got very irritating very quickly.
Can we not have any more ads like this one, please? Thanks.
I have that problem with most websites on my phone. If the content can play sound my phone’s browser assumes it is playing sound. I’d love a volume mixer that let me mute specific apps or give an app highest sound priority.
Or, failing that, just not have the videos play automatically.
That’d be nice, but I think it’s one of those things where too many websites lowered the bar in order to offer a competitive advertising platform so now they all have to do things like this just to get advertisers on board at all. If Kotaku doesn’t offer to shove the ad right in our faces there are plenty of other websites the advertiser can go to who will.
I feel sort of bad for the websites that live off of advertising. It must be rough trying to sell ad space in such a flooded market.
The frustrating part is that I suspect there’s a big bubble that’s going to burst when advertisers figure out they’re paying more for less effective advertising methods simply because the websites are reluctant to offer the space. I mean getting one of these auto-play article interrupting ads costs more because Kotaku doesn’t want to do it, not because readers are more likely to respond positively to the product being advertised.
Kotaku and the advertisers would probably both be better off with less intrusive ads but neither side can be open to that idea without hurting their ability to negotiate prices.
Started happening when the Stranger Things puzzles and ads were running. It’s ruined my morning commutes to the point I’ve give up reading Kotaku on my phone if I’m listening to music (despite the new layout being waaaayyy more responsive on mobile).
Now I just skim a handful of articles each evening or at lunch if I’m not too busy with work.
@teganjones @alexwalker Would you be able to pass this feedback onto the right people?
I sure can 🙂
I brought this up in our ad-ops meeting today 🙂
PAX was awesome.
5 stars, would PAX again.
The annual crazy-taybies-early-morning-park-run going to be a thing?
I’m pretty sure that should be a thing because I held up WAY better than I expected!
Maybe? You might have your 50 shirt by then…
No.
The cult, they are coming for you Trike. But you can’t escape, for if you run from them, you have given them what they want
I have a bicycle. This is enough for me.
Well, the second one was. Wait… fourth.
I’m looking for a new bike at the moment, by the way.
🙂
As a reformed cyclist (well, dad with no time…) the optimal number of bicycles is equal to n + 1. Where ‘n’ is the number of bicycles you currently own.
…or S-1 where S is the number at which your spouse/partner/significant-other blows up.
I ride to work. That’s my excuse.
aaawww but… but!…
Running is fun!
No. It’s not. It hurts and I can’t walk for days after because my knees seize up. Every now and again I forget this, and race after someone or something – usually surprising all with my turn of speed – and then I pay in pain for a day or two. Drinking and dancable music has the same effect…
Velocipedes for me. 🙂
Running, Cycling, Paddling – it’s all good, as long as the result is a coffee afterwards 😉
That’s a funny way to spell “beer”. 😉
I laughed when the two cultists from the nerdpartment had to get up early hahahaha.
Cracks liked the PAX.
5 Stars.
Double Monkey Island bonus!
I heard that Cracks liked the PAX and the Meats
5 stars
You just won the internet for today.
You guys and your PAX meat make me jealous.
I’m going to hold my own Seattle Meat. Very exclusive. Only the coolest people on TAY get to go. I’ll call it PAX Even-More-North (It’s also a thing).
Hopefully one day I get to do PAX Even-More-North
Seriously if you’re ever going to be in the area I’d be happy to host.
Wasn’t stabbed in my sleep by @blaghman.
11/10 would PAX again.
Well that’s a bonus.
PAX! COSPLAYS! PANELS! MEAT! PEOPLE! FIASCO! ALL SO GOOD!
Major post-PAX blues at the moment, being back to the daily grind…
Hope everyone had as great a weekend as I did… you guys rock!
Sounds like you guys had a blast at PAX. I’ll have to try come out next year!
Had a pretty busy weekend as my Mrs has picked up a christmas casual job so I was running around a bit more than usual. Extra cash is so worth it though.
We gave up 7 runs in the first innings of our game on the weekend but ended up coming back to win 12-11. For people who understand, I went 2/2 with an RBI and 2 runs in half a game.
Other than that it was moving kids between home and nana’s for babysitting, church yesterday morning and then having to tend to a job because I was on call and then just looking after kids.
Goals for this week:
Prune tree that is tangled up in our fibre and electricity feeds into the house
Weed the front garden
Get to the gym 3 times
At first I though you were talking cricket and wondering why you quit after 2 or 3 overs
Victory!!
So PAX was great and exhausting a usual.
Managed to get some child free time this year which was nice. Otherise much of my day was spent kid wrangling. Tiglet’s first sleep over without Mummy and daddy went without a hitch so there can be more of that on the cards.
A few photos up on facebook but didn’t actually manage to take that many shots but that is fine.
Got to have a one on one chat with the designer of the upcoming Hand of fate board game after have talking to one of the defiant devs and us telling them home much we liked the game. Also scored a hand of fate 1 steam code which we handed off to one of my staff members.
I am loving the fact we are now getting a bunch of little traditions forming around PAX, arrival BBQ, dapper meat, PAX meat, TAY table and who knows, potentially group cosplay and parkrun added to that list.
PAX meat was awesome, got to play Fiasco although a little late watching @chuloopa prove that anything you can do, TAY can do better. Even failing.
Exhausting Sunday although I did have the offical PAX twitter account call my daughter cute, so I guess that is a message from everybody at PAX.
@chuloopa’s good, but nobody fails like I do 😉
He got a zero in Bop it
Thanks for pointing that one out.
I’m still trying to live down the horrible shame…
Hey, at least you went for it. It’s more then what any of us did.
He thought he survived Uno, went all woop-woop-woop along the stage, tripped and fell off.
Only to find he’d usurped someone else’s turn.
He had to sheepishly come back for another minute before he *actually* survived Uno.
How many times do i have to explain this – i didn’t trip! hahaha
I leapt off the stage in unbridled joy then heard “IT’S NOT YOUR TURN!!!” – and i collapsed in a heap of shame.
Yeah, but the trip story is better 😛
Everyone is all loving my failure but no one remembers my dominance in Raskulls… le sigh…
Oh, btw, it turns out that the dueling game does not use a DDR mat like DDR does. It registers as wrong.
Missed that one 🙁
Ahhhhh PAX. Brilliant.
Much easier catching up with people this year, helps so much when you know a few faces.
Friday wandering the halls and panels much of the day. Saturday running round with TAYbies then MEAT! Great fun. Sunday traditional best intentions to get in by 10:30 and arriving precisely as @tech_knight was leaving… heheh. Afternoon of pottering about. Wonderful.
Bought some games. Finally got a Catan set. Bought vanilla Love Letter, and a Quirkle set. Bought Joking Hazard for a friend who’s having a tough time and is a huge C&H fan. And also bought the gaming monitor I’ve been lusting after for months – I had a decent bonus from work so suddenly had some discretionary spending. Elite: Dangerous is going to look amaaaaazing. 🙂
Fab to see you all again. Catch up with some of you over the xmas break I hope!
You got the monitor? Niiiice! So jelly for your new setup!
Will be sent today… Will have to take a wall down to get it in the house. 😉
Oh man we should’ve sung I Am Elite.
Holy diiiivvveeeeerrrrr
Hi all! Hope everyone had a good weekend, doubly so to those who made it to PAX.
I had a moment of self-awareness last week – realised the last piece of gear I needed to get my third character to max light was a titan mark, and realised the final step, after killing alien gods and slaying the greatest threats to the last vestige of humanity, would be grinding the Archon’s Forge for a butt-towel. So, as half my raid group was away for PAX anyway, I went looking for something else to play.
And so I hopped into The Division to see what was new with the 1.4 update… and everything else that had happened since April. I think I started playing at around 170-ish gear score… bumped the world difficulty to tier 2, and the first red-bar enemy I killed dropped a 180-something set item. Huh.
Tried a couple of Underground missions, which were… stressful – five minutes to get to the boss room, then another ten minutes of frantically fleeing from cover to cover trying to kill the boss, constantly one poor decision away from death, but got some good high-end gear for the trouble. Did one of the Hard dailies (I swear they used to be doable solo, now it only game me the option to matchmake), and got more 180-something high-ends. A few hours later, I was running around world tier 4 in (mostly) 229 gear, wondering what I should be focusing on that I can do solo – seems like Search&Destroy missions are infinitely repeatable, and reward high-ends/set items, but they’re extremely repetitive. Feels like there’s a bunch of activities I’m not seeing/finding… but I guess they did delay the other expansions to put 1.4 together…All in all, it’s very reminiscent of Diablo’s systems… but still trying to find something like Grifts to keep me interested…
Sorry to abandon you. 😉
Warlock is 381 now though…
oi @ynefel do you still post shit here?
think you need to go to this show.
We Lost The Sea. playing Departure Songs in full for the last time for the foreseeable future.
also, other people should go watch them too. they’re pretty rad.
Check em out
Hey @pupp3tmast3r I finally got around to making a character on Barth. Anyone in particular I need to hit up for an invite?
So I’m now back after three weeks of honeymoon.
It was amazing, and was awesome to spend time with Taybies at PAX at the end.
Love you guys so much 🙂 We both had a blast!
Nice to finally meet you dude!
You and Anton seems awesome, and I feel bad for not introducing myself in the past.
Also great game of Fiasco!
It was nice to meet both of you.
So I went to PAX. It was great as usual. This time I went to my hotel first, just to park my car but I find out that my room was ready at 10am. So I was able to leave some stuff there.
I participated in the 2pm Overwatch PS4 tournament. Overwatch tournaments are great but do not play in casual tournaments. It was kinda random matchup, you just organise a team while there but the problem was that the game went on to 5pm. I managed to carry my team to the finals but they didn’t know how to counter pick and lost the final round. With no real indication of when my games were I couldn’t walk about the convention. So it kinda feels like I lost 3 hours at PAX.
Then I signed up for the 6pm Halo: Reach tournament (I still love the fact that only Bungie Halo game tournaments are run). Managed to get into the finals again, and the organiser recognised me again. It’s gotten to the point that he doesn’t even need to check if I moved on to the next round.
After that until 11:30 I wandered around the gaming area. One change they made from last year is that console freeplay now has limited time for everybody. Previously you only had limited time if there was a line, which allowed me last year to play through the Halo 5 campaign. Probably did this to prevent people from doing the same thing. One game I couldn’t to work was Star Fox: Zero, apparently this was a problem only with this game since each Wii U was trying to connect to each other. Eventually they removed that game from the list.
Second day I tried a Halo: Fleet Battles demo. The guy also said he had a free demo kit to give away the next day at 4pm to the first person to ask for it.
Then I signed up to the 2pm Overwatch PS4 tournament. Had fun but only got to the semi-finals. The problem was that the other team were friends who all played together (also no headphones made chat almost impossible). Games went on for way too long, my first game was at 3:30pm. Kinda glad I lost cause the finals started at 6pm, which is when my next Halo: Reach tournament was.
Didn’t make it to the finals for Reach (first time too). The organiser was pretty bummed about this, after chatting with him we determined that he should have removed grenades for King of the Hill. It really turns it into an RNG victory system. Especially since secondary weapon was random too.
However when the tournament ended he asked me to help him design custom gametypes for the next day (since he always uses default settings), so we spent an hour doing that. Then I bummed around until 11:30pm playing games. Even played Battletoads in the classic area and remembered where all the secrets were.
The next day I signed up at the 10:30am Halo: Reach custom made tournament. First game was Slayer but with double damage. Everybody had fun playing that. Second round was melee only, which I lost (second time too). We agreed that this gametype needed some tweaking, probably needed a better a custom close range map too. The third round was KOTH on a custom made, where the rules were players outside the zone were invisible and invincible while people in the zone had half movement and died in one shot (Concussion Rifle was the only weapon). The organiser also made a rolling death ball appear at random times in the zone. Was funny watching the players get stressed out.
Final round was a basic Slayer match.
I then tried a demo game for Halo: Ground Battles. I returned later at 4pm and the guy gave me a demo kit for free to start up a community. Was real nice of him.
This is also the first year I didn’t meet any Rooster Teeth members. The line was like, 2 hours long. Considering I had a demo kit to pick up at 4pm I couldn’t stick around.
Then to finish off the day I went to the final Omegathon round, which was friggen hilarious. A shame my friend wasn’t in the final round though.
Considering I was playing a lot of competitive I didn’t get much time to play games or even take that many photos. Ubisoft didn’t really have anything that interested me this year. Nintendo had a Shantae demo that I tried, since I kickstarted it. I tried Gears of War 4, which was yeah, it’s Gears of War. Didn’t really stand out. I tried Halo Wars 2 and the controls just confused me. It was a survival mode where you use cards to determine what units you get. Once I realised you couldn’t win I just left. I only noticed at the end of PAX that Sony had a Last Guardian demo, kicking myself I didn’t put time into that. I played the Dragon Ball Z game, which was fun. Wasn’t that interested in FF15 since it was the demo everybody on Youtube had already uploaded.
On top of all this, and thanks to the bonus mode, I managed to fully complete every puzzle in Mii Pass! Only took me 3 PAXs.
I think I fell just two pieces short of completing every puzzle. Must’ve been too many people with flat batteries at the end of the day.
*checks watch impatiently*
Ooooohhh, it’s not PAX 2017 time yet!
HURRY UP
We may have to do a mini food truck meat to help stop the shaking.
Shut up, you have withdrawal not me
Food truck meat does sound like a great idea!
No, it really doesn’t. This is one time we should revert to the original spelling and have a “food truck meet”. 🙂
Now, now trike. If we can all enjoy nob meat we can all enjoy food truck meat
*cough*
Geez, lemme get over 2016’s first.
Ok. I’m busy uploading photos and I’ll share a link to a google album soon. There’s a bunch of blurry photos from the PAX Meat (ha!) and some of the awesome cosplays.
I’m already thinking of all the improvements I can make to my Hunter between now and next PAX…
Are you thinking of huntering again next PAX?
Absolutely – it was a very fun cosplay. Some little girls saw us on the walk back to the Nerdpartment and were a little bit frightened of the “pirates!”
Going to be a tough sell to Mrs Tigs but I guess I have a year to work on her
And then I growled out a ‘yarr!’ and they ran off screaming hahahaha.
Photos from PAX: https://goo.gl/photos/JNwpJdmgqCbnr46e6
Ping @teganjones and @alexwalker
Holy carp, you actually managed to catch a photo of me where I do not resemble a Magikarp!
Also fantastic photos in there!
Sooo many photos of the back of my head. At least I was wearing a hat 😛
Also I like how I’m just sitting there watching so much. “Yes, good show good show.”
Ha, classic Gooky Peek in that fourth group shot.
Ugh. My RSA is due to expire in a month & apparently the office, liquor, gaming & racing was meant to send me an email & text about it 2 months ago along with the link to do the online refresher course. I only found this out today.. My details have not changed since I got my NSW RSA back in 2011. So hopefully they will respond to my email about it and I can do the god damn thing tomorrow or something. Considering I need it for work it’s kinda important.
Bah that sucks. Good luck, hopefully you get it sorted quickly
Eventually found out that Service NSW offer this on their website. It was hidden though, $35 & 45 minutes of my time then go get my mugshot taken for the competency card after it all gets approved.
Great news, losing that was the last thing you needed right now
Overwatch TAYbies:
Have you seen Sombra in action?:
After watching, I’m interested to see how she’ll change the meta of the game. I’m thinking it will be RIP to Reinhardt and maybe Pharah. What do you guys think?
Seems like a total PITA to shoot, just like Tracer 😀
Morning. I feel dead. I did a lot of driving and took 3 different routes to the airport over the weekend.
I took 4 different routes home again.
Pax meat was good. I would have liked to stay longer, but I was pretty tired. Thanks to everyone for coming, and those that couldn’t come but paid anyway.
Kitchen demo isn’t going too well
Thanks for organising!
Can we help? 15 TAYbies could demolish ANYTHING.
Numbers and Ess helped me remove the sink. I found rotten masonite underlay, ripped that up. Found rotted floarboards. Ripped that up. Found a rotted joist. Argh. Life hates me.
Now I have to repair a joist, replace the flooboards, which allows me to level the floor at least, then add the kitchen cupboard while the plumber fixes up our crappy plumbing so he can install the sink and Gas cooker.
Lots of work
Ugh, sounds like it’s been wet back there for a looooong time. We’re going in behind the bath in a few weeks. I suspect it’s going to be the same… in fact there’s a whole stud wall that’s probably screwed.
Okay, so rotted Joist sawn off. Not too much damage yet. I’m just worried about lifting up the joists. I don’t know if I have a jack for it
Back to reality today after an incredible first PAX.
I don’t know if anyone here was an Enforcer at PAX, but I feel like I need to give a shout out to every Enforcer there. I didn’t encounter one that was grumpy or unhelpful, every single one of them was awesome. I only encountered one over-zealous Security guard too.
As far as I’m aware @f4ction was our only enforcer.
Good session in Archon’s Forge last night, @os42 – I saw eccentric “patrolling plaguelands” so jumped on with him. 1h15 later Little Miss Titan had gone from 376 to 381…
Also did a couple of other quests. Should be going into Prison soon. 🙂
I’m just so in love with the Mass Effect: Andromeda trailer. Not even the CGI one, I’m not going to watch that! (Attempting a media blackout!) I watched the Andromeda Initiative one and was filled with so much excitement, though. I can’t wait to go exploring. I’m intrigued at the new details. Essentially, I’m in. Sign me up. Let’s do this! *decisive nod* Got the same vibes I had when reading about the original Mass Effect!
Dare I hype? DARE I?
I dare. HYPE!!!!!
*choo choo*
I really am hopeful for it. I loved Mass Effect until the last 5 mins of ME3, but I really wanted more along the lines of the first game.
My worry is that it becomes another DA: Inquisition, which I hated.
I’m really not sure how to handle Andromeda. I want to love it the way I loved Mass Effect or Mass Effect 2/3 but I just don’t know how to go about repairing the damage. I can’t figure out if I should dive into the promotional material and hope that between now and release it’s enough to rekindle the flame, or if I should avoid it and just naturally ease back into it while playing. The latter requires some faith that it’s going to be on par with the rest but I think it’s the way to go.
God, it’s almost like getting back together with an ex…
Yeah, I’m super keen on it!
Is it bad that I’m looking closely at all of the armour designs…
You’ve got a serious case of cosplay fever!
I think I have decided that the next one I take to PAX won’t be as armour based. Bit of a pain to transport.
Have they redone spawn points with the latest pokemon go update. Seem to be catching much more useful things and lots more of them
PAX! What a rollercoaster!
-Oh shit I left my badge at home
-Oh good I can get it replaced if someone can destroy my old one
-Oh crap turns out not a single person who should be able to get into my house can actually do so
-Oh shit @dogman is a god damn hero and saved my whole weekend
-Gdi this bloody hair spray is taking forever to wash out of my friggen beard
-Oh crap it’s late and my costume isn’t finished yet
-Oh good my Guybrush doll is finished and it’s only 4:30am
-AHAHAHA THIS BIRD IS LOOKING SO FRIGGEN AWESOME LET’S KEEP GOING TIL IT’S DONE
-Aaaand it’s 7:30am. Crap.
-Ok feels like 2.5hrs is enough sleep, lets go. After maybe an hour of prep.
-Wait what do you mean @quiz_b is here dressed as Stan? That’s awesome let’s go!
-Oh cool there was enough time in this panel to cut out some fingernails to finish off the costume
-WHAT DO YOU MEAN RON GILBERT WALKED PAST HERE FIVE SECONDS AGO
-HOLY CRAP I MET RON GILBERT WHILE DRESSED AS LECHUCK AFTER NEARLY WORKING MYSELF TO DEATH TO FINISH THE OUTFIT TOTALLY WORTH IT
-Oh sweet I won a go at the Omni at the PLE booth!
The craziest ride. Still recovering.
Both you and Quiz looked amaaaaazing! :’)
I need the full story for this one because this sounds like entry-in-the-highlight-reel-of-your-existence stuff.
Basically I was just wandering through the exhibition hall with a friend when one of the Hands of Fate guys came up to me, “hey could I get a pic, your costume’s awesome” etc, then after a moment it twigged for him – “oh, actually – you just missed Ron Gilbert walking by here like five seconds ago.” I think my eyes about bulged right out of my head. “WHAT? WHERE? WHICH WAY DID HE GO??” I think the guy was a little not keen on sending me away because he hadn’t got his pic yet, but priorities 😛 After a bit of looking around we spotted him over on the other side of that block of booths, and I went over to say hello and ask if I could get a picture with him. Totally didn’t check my camera settings first, so it was on 4:3 instead of 16:9 so my friend with a total lack of camera skills cut us off at the ankles, and regular flash instead of anti red eye so blah, but eh. Had a bit of a chat there with he and his wife (she took some pics too), asking a few things about the outfit and they seemed to quite like the Guybrush doll, Ron was poking at its hair and ended up taking a picture of it in his hand (which my friend took a picture of, still waiting for her to send the damn thing) and yeah. Thanked him and went off to find the guy who tipped me off and thank him too, and get him his pic 😛 He was kind of amazed at how long I spent with him or something, saying he’s usually not all that sociable so I must have managed to impress. Neat 😛
“It’s Gooky!”
…
“Maybe we shouldn’t be yelling that too loudly in public…”
I think settling on fishgief was the best idea.
Hahaha. This refresher course for my RSA has the best animated videos. The one for an intoxicated person was great “This is Brandon, he likes flannelette shirts, moustaches, writing poetry on typewriters & enjoys espresso Martini’s served in jam jars.”
and the closing line was “Brandon is now intoxicated and causing a stir, he is now not allowed any more espresso martini’s served in jam jars.”
Pfft, they wanted me to renew my RCG as well. Haven’t used it and don’t really intend on going for a job in a pub, club or hotel tbh. Plus I only got that 2 years ago, so it has another 3 years left >_>
Huh, just noticed that the comment counters on the front page seem to highlight pink when you’ve commented in an article. Neat touch.
Edit: Nope, looks like it’s just highlighting from having clicked the comments link earlier 😛
Just hit the “Good enough” point on my Cosplay photos from PAX, so: https://goo.gl/photos/McpwEdJaAYA4U8Q39
I was a bit slack this year (still ran out of space on my card), but it was great fun as always.
Really need to get better at screwing my courage and asking for photos.
Also, this year I did a lot less editing (last year’s were, admittedly, over-graded), which I’m happy about.
Oh wow that photo you got of me turned out great.
Really wish we could have found a Guybrush to go on the ship with and recreate the box art, that would’ve been awesome. Love the ones with Stan though. Also the Bloodborne ones look awesome too.
I did a basic Guybrush last year
Heh, nice Reaper photo.
Cosplayers love it when people ask for photos. Seriously, it is like the greatest compliment.
JUST DO IT MANG!
You could always set up in a corner with a tripod and umbrella and let the cosplayers come to you :), even better if you have a particular style of shot in mind.
But then people might think he’s some kind of professional.
I can specialise in the shots that everybody loves. Landscape, standard zoomed eyes-at-upper-third point, hard DoF.
Everyone looks good that way. Everyone.
I bought an Xbox One off @sernobulus so if any games I play on PC make me sick, I have the xbox back up. However, looking at the indie store, my god the games are expensive.
Yeah, digital titles are a bit rough pricewise. A Gold membership nets a pretty fair mix of indie and retail titles as well as weekly discounts that bring a lot of indie games into more reasonable price ranges. That said it’s not really worth the subscription cost if you’re not using it as your primary platform.
Keep an eye on http://www.majornelson.com since he’ll list the sales with both the Gold discount and the regular discount, as well as all new releases.
I’m Commander Shepard, and Taybies are my favourite people on the Citadel.
I’m only sad I missed seeing that in person. I was ready to salute you with “Commander” and everything
Do you mind if I use my photo to tweet the Commander’s endorsement of Aetherworks?
Sure
Still should have done the Aston Challenge.
Shepard
Wrex
I kinda feel like I should go to PAX next year just because. I also hope it’s not the weekend leading up to Melbourne cup, since everything is basically booked out in Melbourne already o.o
They shifted it specifically this year.
I’m actually kind of wondering if I should try and make it back then, but I’ll probs stockpile leave so that TAY Magical Japan Spectacular 2018 can happen.
It’s always been a bit tricky booking for pax, but basically, book very early or very late and you’ll get a good deal. There’s also the option of staying further out and getting transport in, rather than trying to find a spot within walking dist. of the MCEC.
We did that this past weekend, ended up booking an AirBNB out in Box Hill, it was a 20-30 minute train trip into Southern Cross or Flinders (then requiring a tram)
Much easier than a CBD hotel I’d imagine.
I’ve always managed to get a city hotel, and being able to walk in certainly made it easier to cosplay 🙂
User profile link now takes me to a blank page. Is it being worked on? Notifications?!
Same for all. Just the ability to setup an account so far.
Hassled Alex and Tegan at PAX meat and it is coming
BIG QUESTION:
SUN?
or
MOON?
It’s my birthday next week. My wife wants to know… 🙂
Moon for you, Sun for her? 😛
She has no 3DS. She wants no 3DS. 🙁
Will you be buying her the other one for Christmas? 😉
She won’t game. 🙁
This is mainly because she bought herself a PS3 a few years ago before we got together for Little Big Planet. 17 hours later she realised she hadn’t showered, dressed or eaten. She then sold all her games and had a very expensive BluRay/PVR…
Fair enough. Good thing she didn’t play Diablo III…
In that case, pick which legendary you like the look of better to buy at launch, and then buy the other when it’s cheap at target.
Yes. Yes it is. 😮 She has said she’d like to do Until Dawn with me over the hols though. So there’s that.
Or trade with the rest of you… 🙂 I picked up Y because more people had X…
I’m wondering if/when we’ll reach a point where this line of thought will be so common that the logic will have to flip… “I’m gonna get Sun, because most people will think the most people will be getting Sun, and therefore they’ll choose Moon…” I tend to pick one at random, lest I get sucked into that logical rabbit-hole.
Hah, I literally flipped a coin in Big W to buy Y
WINNER.
Actually, I’ve told She Who Is Buying The Birthday Present to get me one. Or the other. So essentially the same thing.
Yeah. I went with Y over X for the same reason. I think I came to a similar conclusion with Sun and Moon but I can’t remember which one I thought would be more popular. I’m going to guess that I went with Sun because night is cooler than day. I guess I’ll find out when I go pick up my pre-order.
I’m thinking moon for myself personally. Maybe find out what everyone else has?
Bring on the weekend already…
Feel absolutely shitty and just over things at the moment.
Post-PAX withdrawals.
Missing all of you fine folks.
🙁
🙁
Awwwwww.
We love you too
MISS YOU TOO CRACKS
(come back!)
It does make me want to do more TAY visit trips
Edit: well that explains why the reply wasn’t going through. *snip*
One of the things that happened at PAX was the First Church of the Holy Sweet Roll. The super keen pilgrims lining up for #HisRolliness every day were very creative with their box towers, box hats and box suits (decorated with lanyard bits).
My question is – has anyone tried the Sweet Roll recipe yet?
I would be willing to give it a crack if I had enough taybies to eat them.
So I’ll definitely be going to PAX again next year, but wifey and I will be living down in Melbourne by then, we’re aiming at moving down in February next year, hopefully living around Brunswick, just north of the CBD 😀
My manor. I’m in Coburg. Drink in Brunswick. 🙂
Schweeet! We were looking at Box Hill where a friend of mine lives, or Ascot Vale/Moonee Ponds where my cousin lives, but we spent a few hours walking around Brunswick on Sunday and really liked the area around Barkly Square, so we’ve been monitoring the rental scene there for the past few days since we got back to Sydney.
Ascot Vale/Moonee Ponds is very expensive. Especially for a west/north area
If you’re looking for 3-4 bedroom with backyard yeah, we were only looking for 2 bed apartment/town house etc.
Seems to be plenty of places under $450 which is the top end of the bracket we’re looking at.
When You’re surrounded by much cheaper places like Braybrook and Maribrynong, it’s still expensive.
True enough, but price wasn’t the only concern. We like being near the pubs and shops etc, plus where we were looking around Barkly Square in Brunswick is close to massive parks etc.
Pubs, shops and massive parks are sort of everywhere around here. If your heart is set on Brunswick that’s fair enough but if $450 is approaching your limit be careful as the area itself can be a little more expensive to live in.
I live in Maribyrnong. I live opposite an off lead dog park, Highpoint shopping centre is 5 minutes for me, and there are several pubs hiding everywhere.
As Dogman said, it’s like that everywhere. Keep looking around, because a lot of places are underquoting prices. If you want brunswick, go for it, but have backups.
Bit further north round Blyth Street or up into Coburg can be a bit cheaper, still really easy to the city by public transport or bike, and still an easy trundle to great cafes, pubs and shops.
The pocket in between Sydney Road and Lygon Street just north of Sparkly Bear is great though. Pro-tip: some of the rentals in the area are only listed with old-fashioned agents who don’t do this new-fangled computer stuff… 🙂
I just spent 5 minutes googling “Sparkly Bear”… Then it clicked…
s’what the locals call it. 🙂
Hrmm, I’ll need to blend in… *takes notes*
Fixie, beard, plaid. 😉
I will demand you go to pax meat.
I just slept for 3 hours. I didn’t realise how zonked out I was. I think all the work caught up with me
Wow, new Kotaku AU is weird.
So, uh, I realize it’s been a while (except for those cursed by my ever-faithful presence on discord) but I’ve only really two things to say
1) Fuck ya’ll and your PAX
2) AMERICA. CALM DOWN. AMERICA. STOP. STAHP. SSSTTTAAAAHAHHHPPPPP
Too late. It’s all going wrong. 🙁 What the fuck. What the actual fuck.
GOOD NEWS, I’M EMIGRATING TO CANADA
(on a unrelated note the canadian government’s website on immigration page is down)
Huh. Cleaning up all the costume construction mess, I had a pile of receipts so took count of just what I spent on LeChuck.
Red trenchcoat –
$25$12.50Red jacket –
$14$7$5Dark brown felt – $8.63
Linen – $4.08
Gold fold braid – $11.69
Gold fringe loop – $5.87
Cardboard – $6
Glass beads – $3.49
Twine thread – $3.49
Knitting needles – $3.29
Boots – $20
Chicken bones – $0
Expanding foam + nozzles – $10.10
Coathanger – $0
Wadding – $0
Discarded trouser leg cutoff – $0
Coarse white fabric – $0
Leather scrap – $0
Paper clip – $0
Gold thread – $3.49
3D-printed buttons – $0
Quill feathers – $4.99
10g Feathers – $4.99
Belt – $1
Pants – $4
Blouse – $4
Scarf – $3
Total: $119.61
Wasn’t expecting it to be so high. Also add to that the years I took off my life racking up a gigantic sleep debt 😛
Huh. Looks like the Last Edited thingo doesn’t update itself on a second edit? I just did one now but it still says 4:19. @alexwalker
Not sure about anyone else, but I’m not receiving email notifications when someone replies to my posts or tags me… and profile pages are 500’ing. I feel blind.
Coming Soon™
*makes ‘free hugs’ sign*
Any one need a hug?
No but I’ll take one anyway.
*hug*
Is that even a question?
*mental hug*
You know, in all honesty I really do have to make an effort to come up your way at some point!
You’re one of the few people in TAY I am yet to meet, but really want to!
Also I’ve only been to QLD once… in 2005… 😛
One day I might go to a PAX, too. *day dreams* (We did have a PAX North gathering this year, though. Went to get German food and steins of beers! :D)
Next year.
PAX 2017. The PAXENING.
LOCK IT INTO YOUR COLANDER.
Come to pax! REAL HUGS
So, the world is fucked… Who want’s to move into the outback and start a new community?
We can call it “Megaton”
If that nuclear waste dump in SA gets approved we have a perfect location too.
Trump isn’t actually the problem – more a symptom. One that tells us that once again, populism is the dominant political force and democracy has failed us again. Here’s hoping Elon can hurry up with some kind of benevolent AI dictator.
Lol. America you so crazy. So who has the industrial size bag of popcorn we can all share for when the shit starts to get real?
I think I might know a guy.
Is it Alex Walker? After all the popcorn he and Tegan bought at pax meat
If you want popcorn, you only have to ask.
ROLL IT OUT, FRANK!
[Cement truck slide rolls out into Gooky’s lap and a steady stream of butter popcorn rushes out.]
OK, So on a whim I bought Va-11 HALL-A for both myself and CJ. Since then we have discovered it is basically CJ the game.
Though I am actually quite enjoying CJ simulator.
Hahaha YES! Just survived watching first ep of First Dates, Mum was staring right at the TV when the moment came up and totally missed it. Now just need to scan through all the other eps ahead of time so I know what to look out for, if anything 😛
https://twitter.com/theclimbgame/status/796359386537070592
Fuck yeah no more undersampling!
Current mood: Apocalyptic. 🙁
I keep having moments where I remember/realise what’s happened and go “hahahaha they actually did it!”
Doesn’t feel like real life.
I have to live here. People around me are like “you’re a straight white male so you’ll be fine” which is fucking horrible but also true to an extent.
Issues I see:
– I’m on a temporary Visa. If my company decides to shed staff I’d probably be one of the ones on the chopping block, and if Trump fucks the economy then that might actually happened. If I lose my job I only have like 10 days to leave the country.
– I’m on a temporary Visa. If they decide to not allow me to renew or kill the quotas or something I may have to go home anyway.
I’m going to start paying more attention to the Immigration people now and get my applications all sorted out ASAP so I can at least get residency.
I’m thinking when my kitchen is finished, that maybe I should have a board game afternoon/night at my house to celebrate. People can meat my Mum and Mum can meat more taybies \o/
Sounds like something we would be interested. Can bring games if required
I’ve got a couple of card games and Cluedo. =P Tiglet would be welcome, if she’s not scared of dogs.
Cool, I’ll load the car up with a selection.
Tiglet is a big fan of doggies, will just need to make sure she doesn’t drive Sid crazy
Sid is very placid. He will put up with a lot so I’m not too worried
Can bring games too!
Been looking for excuses to break some of them out such as Dead of Winter and Sentinels of the Multiverse 😛
@alexwalker Just a quick note if it hasn’t been reported, when it hit reply it doesn’t focus on the text editor.
So I end up running page searches on the page when I try to type
Also if you hit reply there doesn’t seem to be a way to start a new thread
Well, America, enjoy your last two months before shit hits the fan.
Good morning TAY
Sorry for my recent absence.
I have since last I was here been deemed “excess” by the organisation, so I am redundant, and my last day of employment is tomorrow.
Last song was Letter to the Unborn by Lamb Of God, what was your last song played?
Sorry about the job. 🙁
Last song played for me is Joanne by Lady Gaga.
Thanks bro, miss you
Last song: “Slaves Beyond Death” by Black Breath \m/
Good luck finding a new job!
Last song was Moves Like Jagger by Maroon5. I was trying to cheer myself up on the walk to school pickup yesterday.
Thanks 🙂
“Lying In State” – Megadeth. Somehow Spotify hit the nail on the head this morning.
And on the way home, first up is “Who wants to live forever”, Breaking Benjamin. :S Now I’m worried…
Breaking Benjamin are rad.
Gonna whack their stuff on my next car USB set.
Last Nite – The Strokes
Indie Rock playlist on Google Play. Last song I proper played was The Traitor – Leonard Cohen
Sorry to hear about the job man, hope you can get back on your feet soon.
You still with the gf?
Yeah I am man, with the GF I mean, and thanks for the support.
Sorry to hear about the job, hopefully you can get another one quickly
Last song was Reflection – Mulan soundtrack
Thanks
Well that’s a bit shit!
Hope you get back on your feet soon my friend!
Also
My Evil Ways – Blue Saraceno
Dayum. My sympathies.
Hope a bigger and better job turns up for you.
Rough Landing, Holly by Yellowcard.
Sorry to hear about the job, buddy.
Welp, missed out on mini NES. Got there later than I wanted, and thought Mum was working so didn’t ask her to check the online orders when I left (and stupidly messaged Dad instead while I was out, when he turned out to not be home). Target was packed, a good two maybe two and a half dozen people, and they must’ve only had a small handful handed out before they announced they were all sold out so sprinted back to my car and got to Big W to wait for them to open. About ten past, the guy opens the door (the other door, where people hadn’t been queuing) and everyone gathers over there “we’re not opening yet. We’ve only got 14 and we have tickets to hand out to the first 14 waiting”. So of course the actual order had dissolved by then, I missed out but am second on his callback list if he manages to find other stores with any.
Tried to zip around to another out-of-the-way Big W near me but got held up by lots of slow people and traffic (also was a bit overzealous on a damp corner >.>), figured I was too late once I got there but was just in time to see a dude absolutely flipping his nut at the manager, calling him a fucking prick/dog/can’t do his fucking job/spits on the floor/my wife’s been waiting since 6am/etc. Hysterical. The guy was nice and calm in the face of it (I don’t know how, I could barely contain my laughter), and another was standing nearby who I figured was the original target til the manager stepped in. I just went up to him and go “Classic NES?” “Yup.” Apparently they’d only got six at this store. Ah well.
Best was as the angry dude was leaving he had to bust out another tirade – “fucking useless prick, couldn’t even get my wife her Classic N.E.S.!”
Dying.
Just took a look at the completed listings on eBay and wish I hadn’t. Wtf are all these people paying so much for.
A plastic shell around a glorified Raspberry Pi… speaking of… *wanders off to order an RPi*
RRP $50, Ebay $200-400. Sounds about right.
Yeah but, it’s a classic thing & it’s a Nintendo classic thing, and people wanna be nostalgic even though it’s never gonna be as great as they think they remember.
Also people are morons. Someone paid me $100 for my Fallout 4 Nuke Pack without the game.. It was a fucking metal tin, the bobblehead & poster along with the EB exclusives which were the soundtrack & another poster..
Here’s another story for you and it’s from me.
Back when it was first announced I gave my email address to Amazon so they could notify me if they got the NES Classic (as it’s now called) in stock.
Yesterday I got an email saying they were getting a limited number and if I was quick I could place an order. All I had to do was wait for 2 PM Pacific Time which was 9 AM today.
Anyhow, 9 AM rolled around and I saw the ‘Add to Cart’ button. Just when I was about to confirm the order I got an error message saying the item in my cart was not out of stock.
Infuriating I know but it gets worse. My mother was doing the same and when she loaded the page after me mere minutes later, she saw the page was up and the button back.
I though ‘Maybe it was a glitch’ so I tried again. Only this time I couldn’t add it to the cart.
When I checked the page again the stock was there but there was one detail changed: it was now saying it did not ship to Australia.
I’m not joking; after Amazon opened to take orders for the bloody thing they later decided to block overseas sales of it and did so by faking an out of stock error so they could change the item details.
It cost twice as much but I saw listings for the Japanese version of the unit so I thoguht ‘Fu*k it.’
I’m learning the language anyway so why note make Zelda part of my learning materials?
In a week where I need some video game distractions, I’m thankful that Tyranny, Dishonored 2, and Planet Coaster are all on the horizon. Going to hermit it up. *flails arms*
Woo Dishonored! Picking mine up today!
I thought it was released tomorrow? (I know it unlocks on Steam today, though. *strokes beard*)
Edit: Oh man, you’re totally right!
I’m just going by the text I got from EB. I was a consumer sheep and ordered a fancypants edition because Dishonored.
I swear Dishonored is just “things red likes: The game”
Also, if you can, look up the panel on Gamespot that the art director for the game did, it was really, really cool
Aww, EB won’t let me pick mine up til tomorrow…
Good. Play Iron Banner with me. 🙂
Sure. Have no intention of playing it alone, but I had a great time with you last IB… whenever I go in alone, I seem to only get matched against prescient shotgunners.
Got home late. Had a run in banner with zephyr and skywarp, then they left for bedtime and I carried on. Had a really good run with some fun matches, and Titan’s now 388 and I’m very close to rank 4… 🙂 Should rank 5 soon.
Also I’m starting to feel like I’m getting the hang of crucible. I’m holding my own, K/D is usually round 0.8 now and I’m getting plenty of kills in and being useful – finished second a couple of times tonight, once during a winning match. 🙂
Gawd, realised how late I posted that. Whoopsy.
Yes, prescient shotgunners. You know what’s really improved my game? 1) I’m getting familiar with the maps and can both escape a lot more situations and cut people off when I see them heading one way. 2) Patience – knowing a couple of pinch points in each map and knowing to STOP, peek, and shotgun rather than running straight through. Still not amazing with a sniper so I don’t bother at all but loving Genesis Chain – it’s nearly as good as pre-nerf Suros.
Best moment last night – lobbing my last titan hammer speculatively towards a checkpoint 70 metres away that I could see was being captured but couldn’t see over behind scenery and getting a double kill. Muahahaha.
If it’s any consolation, I was asleep by 11:30 last night – was trying out Robinson on VR, and while I’m getting used to the motion, it did make me extremely tired… and I spent today feeling slightly queasy. Amazing soporific, but it needs a strong hangover cure. :/
Oh no! Not this again!
[Ties DC’s arms to his sides with iron bands, used for making beer kegs.]
Phew. Safe no…
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So tired… So so tired…
Pax is fun, but my god is it tiring
I didn’t even go! Kids my man. Kids.
Take the Kids to Pax, problem solved
Oh god the exhaustion. Kid singular at PAX is hard enough
Yeah, if he’s tired now he’d be dead post PAX with kids.
I wonder if Kanye West will run for president in 2020 like he said.
America has hit rock bottom and is trying to get out by digging deeper.
I dunno, I reckon Kanye would be miles better than Trump.
I doubt it. One interesting possibility I did see mooted though was Michelle Obama. I don’t know if she’d actually be willing to throw in for it but she’d do a pretty good job I think.
Elizabeth Warren?
Tyranny hasn’t been on m radar at all, but damn, it seems like a cool concept. Might have to add it to my “after dishonored/finish my dlc” pile.
Also, speaking of smaller scale games, I picked up Volume in the current PSN sale, it’s sweet. original MGS-style top down stealth-em-up with no guns from the guy who made Thomas was Alone, get on it.
I keep seeing it and misreading it as ‘Tranny’ and thinking it’s some kind of LGBT slur, not a game title. 🙁
The nicest man on the internet, @shane, is kickstarting his latest comics anthology! By foregoing the cost of a nice coffee you could have 700 PAGES of comic to read with the next coffee! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/all-the-kings-men-a-massive-anthology-for-sci-fi-f
ELITE: DANGEROUS
Had a short break from exploring while PAX was happening.
Got back in last night, and picked up where I’d left off. I recently made it to Colonia (the burgeoning “second bubble of human habitation” in a nebula 22kly from Sol) in my beaten-up Diamondback Explorer. Great little ship. I’ve been flying it for a while, and fancied a change so I swapped back to the Anaconda that I’d left at Jaques Station last time I was in the area. Massive range and has cargo space, guns and everything the discerning explorer needs.
Set off for a neighbouring nebula, just 1100ly away. One the way I discovered a system with a black hole and 2 neutron stars, and other systems with water worlds. Best find of the leg was an undiscovered earth-like with a single moon. Nice.
Next leg is nearly 6000ly towards the Core to catch up with the Galactic Nebula Expedition, and hopefully reach Sagitarrius A* before I go on holiday. 🙂 This will be Commander Trikeabout’s last expedition for a while. Certainly the last long range one. There’s STUFF HAPPENING back near the bubble – alien crash sites and ruins to visit, and I don’t want to miss First Contact if it happens soon!
DESTINY:
It’s Iron Banner week! Couple of hours last night, and my Titan went from 382 to 386 light. Great fun although Crucible is hard when a team of 360-385s goes up against 395+ team…
Really need to get back onto that. So much neglect.
After coming back from checking out the ruins, i’m really enjoying just space trucking in my T9 again 😛
There’s something so tranquil about trucking.
Really need to try and get out to Colonia though, it’s just so far away 😛
Huh. Just went through old e-mails and found Humble Indie Bundle 17 happened back in August, and I didn’t hear a thing about it. Totally would’ve got it for Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime. Also Octodad.
OCTODAAAAAAAAAD is the best.
Speaking of Humble bundles is anybody interested in keys to killing floor or the vanishing of ethan carter
*goes home ready to play Dishonored 2*
*inserts disc*
9GB FUCKING PATCH
Well, guess I’m starting this tonight instead of last night huh
Day 1 patches. Blergh
Nob gave a heads up on that. All the attention here will likely get me to finally play the first one
Or you know, just play civ
I did a HDD swap into my PS4 Pro, and figured no PlayStation last night while it downloaded fucktonnes of stuff. Also Thursdays are WoW nights. Hopefully will try Dishonored 2 when I get home from hockey tonight.
It’s Friday! i have about 2-3 hours worth of work then all the thumb twiddling.
Baseball this weekend and my family usually puts up the tree on pageant day, but things are chaotic enough as is at the moment.
Someone give me some motivation to go to the gym today. Only been once this week due to myriad things getting in the way.
Still tired.
A quick workout will give you a nice shot of endorphins and you’ll sleep better tonight. That’s a good reason.
Your logic is sound. I’ll do some core and cardio because of baseball tomorrow methinks.
I have read this kind of thing a lot and even after taking on a daily exercise thing remain rather sceptical. Or maybe I’m just immune to it like I am apparently immune to the magical effects of coffee 😛
“I worked out on Friday, which justifies me being able to slack off for the entire weekend”
He thinks to himself while he eats Doritos in bed on a sunny Sunday morning, fresh from waking up at 11am.
(Snapshot of my life)
I missed out on the minutes silence and I don’t want to be disrespectful, so Lest we forget the sacrifices’ of those from the past. They fought in a war they usually didn’t completely comprehend, or were too young to be able to, ripping families and lives apart.
A minute is not a long time, but it is long enough to remember and we will remember them.
I missed it as well – lest we forget.
Today feels slower than an elephant’s balls for some reason.
Also, Leonard Cohen passed away. RIP.
Leonard Cohen died.
Fuck this year, I’m out. Call me in 2017 when you’ve all sorted this shit out.
Fuck 2016.
I wondered if that was one of the Cohen brothers for a moment. I am good at culture.
Your penance is to go and listen to 10 of his songs, starting with Hallelujah.
So Long Marianne
Famous Blue Raincoat
The Traitor
Democracy
First we take Manhattan
Chelsea Hotel #2
If it Be Your Will
Hallelujah
I’m your Man
You Want It Darker
There’s an instant Cohen playlist
Ooh, and Bird on a Wire, that’s essential
Nevermind was the best part of True Detective Season 2
Melb folk, any body interested in another boardgame con meat
http://con.meeples.org.au/
Early Dec, we will be looking at going
I need to tell Techie about this.
Dishonored 2: “Stupidly Large Box Edition ™” acquired. Now, to figure out how to get it home and get my grocery shopping done tonight.
Apparently not many people have been picking up their D2:SLBE(tm)’s – the clerks at Broadway are complaining that they’re taking up too much space.
A large drone? A ute? A fork-lift?
Drones are only for picking up snags from bunnings
A perfectly logical answer to “Name three things os42 doesn’t have at his disposal.” 😛 I do have access to a small drone, but I doubt it’d handle the weight of either the SLBE(tm) or the groceries… especially since I’m fairly certain one of the propeller motors is busted, so it can barely lift itself atm. Should really get around to fixing it at some point…
I offer solutions. I rarely offer practical solutions.
Here’s one though: go home. Set Dishonored install off. Go shopping and/or order takeaway.
Do the shopping and pay the bit extra for home delivery.
Don’t be so sensible 😛
Do online shopping so don’t have to leave the house at all hurrah!
After spending pretty much every waking moment for the last month dedicated to getting LeChuck done, I feel completely lost now that it’s over and have no idea what to do with myself.
*knocks on door*
Good evening sir, have you heard of Bloodborne? It’s a most wonderful way to spend all of your not-cosplay-making time…
Do they have that on Nintendo? 😛
There’s so many games I could be playing right now. But it’s one of those annoying moods where none of them seem like they would be at all satisfying.
I’ll be back in the bubble soon. We shall buy cheap sidewinders and race down canyons until we crash and die.
Hmm, which is faster – an enhanced thruster Sidewinder, or a fighter? Though with the latter there’s the 30km limit which is a shame. Stupid motherships can never keep up 😛
Probably an Imperial Eagle with max thrusters – i’ve seen some really silly speeds out of those.
Well, yeah. They’re not quite as disposable though 😛
I have been invited to the steep closed Beta. I just hope I do a lot better then I did at Pax, because I did terrible.
I couldn’t even jump of a cliff at one point. Just kept face planting.
I went back and had another go. Still not convinced, but started to see more to it.
I didn’t know Tea was so hardcore!
It is when you’re in a wingsuit!
Hey all, long time no talk, I’ve been slack on that front I know but I’ve got a question.
It’s late notice but is anyone in Sydney who’d like a ticket to disturbed tonight? I’ve got a mate who pulled out and we can’t find a replacement.
I made this comment at 4:20 but apparently I’m still in moderation. So unlikely I’ll hear back from anyone.
Morning.
How about that Conor McGregor?
What a guy
Quiet morning 😛
Apparently I am still wrecked from the weekend. Ended up going around to Wingman’s for dinner and fire, ended up having waaaaay more than planned to drink after one of the others brought a craptonne of drinks and others were perhaps a little overzealous in their mixing proportions. Barely slept, mostly just hovering in that halfway zone between sleep and consciousness getting up just in time to stop by the fruit shop to get stuff for a salad, then get home and shower, make said salad and head to another friend’s for a barbecue. Another couple were there with their two year old daughter, so most of the night was just watching her be stupidly adorable. Especially once the bunny came out to play.
You forgot to pay Techie. =P
He forgot to remind me!
He didn’t stay very long!
Mornin lads and ladies. Busy-ish weekend. The mighty Div 7 Red Sox were triumphant once again on Saturday morning. One of our blokes tripped running to home and cracked a rib though, so that sucks. I went full Don Burke mode and pruned this massive tree that had grown up through the electric feed-in, and more importantly, the fibre. With a handsaw too. Also weeded the whole front garden earning billions of points with the Mrs.
Sunday was a bit quieter, church and then some gaming and chilling out. Powerlevelling my druid through Draenor atm using garrison XP potions and treasures/bonus objectives. Got 3 or 4 levels in a couple of hours.
Date night tonight, yewww. Going to go see Arrival, which looks pretty solid, then probably somemore gaming once we get home.
My weekend involved injuring myself all over while working on lifting the joists in my Kitchen.
I also spent the weekend downloadign the steep closed Beta. I finally loaded it, tried to start it up and found it needed a 15 gig update.
Oh joy.
I’m still wrecked as all hell from Pax and the Kitchen Reno. I had 3 naps yesterday and still slept in.
End up getting everything done ok? Sounds like quite the project!
No where near D= Our stupid old house has the Joists nailed down and they’re rusted to crap so I have to saw them all. I can’t get to two of the joists due to the oven being on top of them, so it needs to be disconnected.
I need to raise all the joists by 3 cm to make the kitchen floor level. I think it just hates me though. =P
The worst thing, the kitchen cabinets are all made and everything. Just the floor is an issue atm. And pipes. Our stupid, stupid pipes.
I’m thinking of switching from Windows Phone 10 to Android and I might as well get dad a new phone while I’m at it. Anyone have any suggestions for a baby proof Android phone for dad and a good one for me? I’m thinking a Samsung Galaxy variant like I buy for nan and mum.
Don’t know about baby proof but for yourself why not consider an Oppo?
But…windows phone D=
It’s the only phone OS I actually like. =(
Same. I tried android and didn’t like it
You can just install a shell that makes it act like Windows. I used to use it on my old Galaxy S3.
I don’t think babyproof and phone can ever be in the same sentence.
I have an Xperia in a gel case and she hasn’t managed to break it yet but I am very careful about when and how she can have it
For a nice clean Android with no bloatware, go for Nexus 5X, or 6P. Still reasonably priced (oh god the Pixel is expensive), but as with almost all new phones these days, get a decent case and screen protector for it.
Everytime people talk about the new Google phone I instantly think people talk about me… And damn straight i’m pricey! beauty like this don’t come cheap!
Hey, you’re so much better then that imitator phone!
+1 for the 6P. I have one and love it. Got a spigen case and tempered glass screen protector and it’s sweet as.
I got a Galaxy S5 for me. I’ll give it a shot for a month then either keep it or give it to dad. Seems ok but it’s a bit weird going back to icons and having everything so fragmented.
Pretty sure I’m as bad with Pokemon games as I am with WoW xpacs… every time a new comes around, I get curious to see what changes there are, and get excited, go buy it (after deliberating between the two versions of course) play it for a few hours, then it sits on a shelf while my 3DS goes flat, not to be used until the next Pokemon or Mario game comes out…
*saunters off to EB*
Same
Oh Gods, Pokemon and Watch dogs in the same week? *throws wallet at screen*
I have a simple solution to this dilemma. Be broke and you can’t buy anything *cries*
Well I bought the latest humble bundle mostly due to dangerous golf.
Tiglet has been right into pressing the ‘big button’ which is the space bar. Figured I would remap the controls so she could press that to hit the ball and have fun breaking stuff.
Loaded up the game and found that you can’t remap keys so that is either locked to mouse or gamepad.
Figured since Mummy was out we would have a go and see if she could be able to use the gamepad to play. Well evidence is up on facebook for those who haven’t seen it but yeah she worked it out.
So much happy laughter as she caused chaos, crashes and destruction.
As for actual gameplay she managed a gold medal, ricochet achievement and a signature smash.
Oh, wow, FeedTheBeast has released their first modpack for Minecraft 1.10.2… I… uh… may be gone for quite some time…
So Steep beta.
I quite enjoy the skiing and ai did fairly well in the wingsuit this time. Having to discover your own trails is pretty cool too.
My main gripe is the trick mechanic. I find it’s a little counter intuitive, especially to those who has played any of these types of games before. The release of the jump is unforgiving. If you’re a little off, no ollie. If you are using the right joystick to steer while crouched and then jump, you don’t spin, just jump. You have to forgo steering to do rotational tricks, which just seems counter intuitive to me. Everything has to be pressed after the jump, after it’s allowed to go back to a neutral state.
It’s doable, but it’s a pain in the arse when every other extreme sports game uses the generic controls. If it isn’t broke, why fix it? Why introduce this brand new mechanic that requires people to learn when a lot of people have the other one mapped to muscle memory?
Also, they didn’t explain updrafts in paragliding. You have to figure that out for yourself
I’d be interested to give it a shot, but from memory, a lot of people said similar things about the controls in Skate VS the prior Tony Hawk games, and most have come to prefer Skate now (after all, there’s no real demand for more Tony Hawk games, but there’s huge petitions for another Skate)
I wanted a new Tony Hawk up until they actually released one
*thousand yard stare*
I’m still waiting for one.
I haven’t played skate, I know it’s something I need to recify but I just really struggle with the controls. I seriously cannot do tricks due to the control scheme and when I do pull off a trick it’s kind of like “Cool! I have no idea how I did that”
The game is more about movement than tricks. It’s not like the arcade style THPS stuff where you want to get a high score or chain together something massive. I love the sandboxy side of it but it makes the game a bit direction-less if you’re not loving the physics of it all or constantly challenging yourself. If you pick it up again just focus on manuals, kickflips and ollies while skating around the place. You’ll build up some muscle memory and then you can start doing the more precise stuff.
I meant the control scheme in steep. As I said, I haven’t played skate. Sorry for not being clearer
Arse. One of the cover plates that got cancelled on me was the white Smash Bros ones, a friend who placed his order after me is still getting his. What a bastard 😛
And then I ended up with the Mario Maker plates I grabbed because lol cheap redundancy even though I already had them. Curses!
Ooh, I just saw a thingie saying I have 77 notification! And can view all my comments across the sites! (They also seem to return more characters than previously, which is nice)
OOH AND THERE’S A SWITCH FOR LIGHT AND DARK THEME YESSSSSSSSSSS
Hmm. Not quite sold on the dark theme yet, the colours kind of clash a bit.
I have no notifications yet D=
Here, have one!
And I think it mightn’t link you to page 4, but page 1 instead. [/@alexwalker bug report]
They also don’t seem to be clearing for me properly either, despite visiting the post several times.
Nor I. So lonely. 🙁
Ping!
Clicked notification. Didn’t take me to correct post. Teething issues. 🙂
Yeah, I had the same issue. I’ll flag it, thanks everyone.
Forget PAX, this is the gaming event of the year.
the switch?
The *next* year.
Ha ha. =|
Oh. Ohhhh, I get it now.
\o/ I can see again!
…is the mobile site not working for anyone else?
It was working for me last night
Ooh that dark theme is nice. I’m not blind now \o/
Also my boss surprised me today with a 6 pack of cider for topping the $10 gift addon thingies the last 2 months at work. Was pretty cool of him. I was honestly just doing my job so yeah, but it’s nice to be recognised for it!
So, EB Games have sold out of the NES Classic.
One really has it hand it to EB Games.
They are the only company that needs two tries to sell out a popular console!
😛
I was talking to a worker yesterday and even they thought the way they did it was stupid. But really, this is Nintendos fault. They made it limited release.
Actually no, Nintendo have every right to make limited numbers of the unit. Nintendo have done this for years.
The Wii, Pokemon Yellow, the N64 memory Expansion Pack, even Majora’s Mask.
This is what I’m pointing out; EB Games (and others) absolutely dropped the ball on handling the demand for the limited supply.
See case in point; EB Games and Amazon shoppers having instances where the item is in their carts and then “disappearing” when they go to check out.
My case is very rare but more extreme; I had the item in my cart and (long story short) Amazon faked an out of stock error so they could update the item details to keep out overseas shoppers.
That aside, given the demand they should have adopted a similar system to airline booking sites. Once added to one’s cart, that item becomes locked (for say 30 minutes) and is only successfully added to the cart if a lock is obtained.
From there have some token or something in a browser cookie so even if the site buckles those who managed to add the item to the cart can resume the transaction.
The point I’m making is once in the cart there should have been a commitment to ensure the consumer completed the purchase. What we saw as basically a free for all with no guarantee that even if the money is deducted from one’s account, one has the item.
An absolute mess that doesn’t even need Nintendo illogical decision to limit stock dragged in.
But that’s my $0.02.
Ah I guess that makes sense. Mind you it seems most shops didn’t deal with it well at all, either.
Anyone get the number of that bus that hit me?
Holy hell PAXPox is real and it hurts! 😛
I mean, no regrets about PAX, PAX is awesome!
Just remind me to actually get my flu shots next year instead of skipping out on it like I did this year 😛
On the plus side, being constrained to the couch means I got a fair chunk into Dark Souls 3 finally. It took a while for me to get into it, coming off the high of Bloodborne and all. But it really is a very very good game in it’s own right.
Just took out
Aldrich, devourer of godsAnd maining a Astora Greatsword in my Dex build…
Bloodborne is still my favourite Soulsborne game by far, but I am really enjoying this and all it’s call backs to DS1.
I may attract a bit of hate for this, but exactly how different is Bloodborne to DS?
I’m getting a PS4 Pro as a combined Christmas/bday present (huzzah for being born on Christmas Day!) and while I know BB isn’t get an update to use the additional hardware, I haven’t owned a PS4 up until now, so haven’t had a chance to play it. I’ve watched a bunch of videos and live streams, and it seems to be a bit faster than DS, which I found really chunky/sludgy feeling most of the time. Having said that, I only got up to the Capra Demon on PC, and basically gave up, so there’s that.
Aesthetics aside (Victorian style Lovecraftian horror vs. Medieval Fantasy) I think Bloodborne is best described as “Everything Dark Souls 1 did but better”.
The combat is slightly more aggressive due to the lack of shields to rely on, and the “Rally” mechanic that allows you to recover some of your health if you retaliate after being hit, makes the combat feel very fast and rhythmic…
Also I feel weapons are done better in Bloodborne in that, in DS1 there was quite a fair few weapons, but once upgraded only a few felt usable until the end. Where as, in Bloodborne, while there are a lot fewer weapons to choose from, each of them that i’ve used so far has seemed viable to carry me through (KIRKHAMMER!).
The story/lore is hidden in item descriptions and your surroundings in a similar way to DS1, so you could go through the entire game and not understand what the hell is going on or why. But once you start reading into it, it’s absolutely amazing (again if you’re a fan of H.P Lovecraft stuff, it definitely helps)
Obviously I speak as a fanboy of all Soulsborne stuff. Dark Souls is easily one of my favourite games of all times, but Bloodborne managed to surpass that.
I dunno, it’s hard for me to describe the game without gushing over it, so maybe someone with a bit more objective perspective might be of better use 😛
I’ll chime in as someone who is playing Bloodborne with no experience of playing Souls games. I never ever thought I’d play one of these, but oh boy, I love Bloodborne and I’m 5 bosses down now. 😀
The combat definitely rewards an aggressive style of play (or as I like to call it, Button Mashing). Hiding behind a shield is not an option, but instead you learn to stagger opponents with well-timed firearm shots (your secondary weapon), or from charged up attacks using your main weapon in it’s transformed state. The trick weapons all look wonderful, and yes, it’s absolutely possible to finish the game with your starting weapon, so just keep upgrading it as you go (spin to win!).
There’s also little advantage between the different clothing sets (there really isn’t any armour) so you can happily whack on a top hat and look cool while smashing beasties. Bloodborne is all about style 🙂
This interests me quite a bit actually. From the sound of it, it’s leaning a little more towards Devil May Cry or Darksiders (though I doubt with the same ridiculous acrobatics)
They may be a dime a dozen these days but the latest Bundle Stars bundle looks pretty good
https://www.bundlestars.com/en/bundle/indie-legends-5-bundle
Never Alone: Adorable platformer with a bunch of info about a native people (Based on on of their traditional stories)
Castlestorm: Amazing game. Kinda tower defense / fort building mashup.
Papo and Yo: Older game but still very cool
Plus a bunch of other games (grey goo, memoria, 12 is better than 6, etc) for around $5
Hey TAYbies, any network engineers around? I’m deliberating between career choices atm and pondering moving more towards network management than server management and want some input from both sides as to what the jobs entail. I’m currently an IT Admin for a managed services provider but have reached the point where I want to start focusing on something I think.
I’m in the same boat, I work at an MSP too, and I’m looking at jumping ship early next year.
Keep that under your hat though 😀
I don’t have a hat but I can keep it under my beard!
As a software engineer making similar career choices at the moment, let me throw another option at you – people management. Rather than continuing to focus on the technical side of things, look for a role managing technical people – it might give you greater career mobility. Rather than always needing to look for another, very specific, technical position, you could look for a broader range of leadership positions.
The thought of managing people until recently had been off-putting. I am warming to the idea however. At this stage I still like being a problem-solver. Current job is just too much break-fix with no real meat being thrown my way.
I’ve been told that it’s a really difficult line of thought to get over – “I’m good at my [technical] job, so they promote me to a leadership position that I feel less competent at and that I don’t get to implement my previous [technical] skills very often”. The reality for me though is that either:
1. Do nothing, stagnate.
2. Do a bunch of professional development in something technical and specialise further. This will earn me more money, at the expense of making me potentially less-employable as I’ll be over-qualified for other jobs.
3. Do a bunch of professional development in management. Either move up at my current company, or move elsewhere with those skills. Technical managers are sought after, either in team leadership positions where they can apply their technical skills, or in project management positions.
4. Do something something, sales? I guess. Nuts to that.
I don’t know how your position lines up, but I’m gearing up for a MBA or similar mid next year.
Yeah, I’m in a really small outfit at the moment, just 6 people including me. I’m currently not certified in anything and have a perm position, so it’s a good opportunity for some training. I’ve been thinking network admin because I enjoy fiddling with cisco configs and servers can be a pain in the arse. It’s also kind of a dark area for me and if I was to move into project management it’d be a good thing to be familiar with.
Are you me? Holy shit…
Haha, perhaps! It’s nice to meet another like minded person. Where’s your firm based?
I hope you’ll forgive me if I don’t say anything more than “Sydney” 😀
Haha, that’s all I was expecting. I’m in Adelaide. Been a touch busier the last day and a bit which is nice. Less web browsing time to explain away.
Also, I can’t respond to your most recent comment directly. Has there always been a limit?
Pretty sure there has been, comments normally nest down about 6-8 times then stop.
26 in two weeks…
Fuck.
-_-
31 in 4.5, quit your bitching! 😛
Oh yea, my 29th would be coming up sometime soon… *checks date* This weekend. O_o That snuck up outa nowhere…
My 43rd on Saturday…
Mine’s Sunday – I plan on enjoying it by disconnecting from the rest of the world and losing the weekend to a combination of Rocksmith and Minecraft.
I mean, that was probably going to be my plan for this weekend before I realised the date, but now I have a proper excuse. 😛Typical Scorpio.
😉Happy Birthday for Saturday!
30 in less than two.
Changing the alarm to Shang Tsung announcing “It has begun!” seems appropriate.
26 is a great time of your life! Don’t avoid it, embrace it, it won’t be as bad as you think. After you turn 21, age is just a number anyway.
Saturday 19 November. My birthday. Melbourne TAYbies especially PAX survivors – we’ll be in the Mitre Tavern from 3pm (so peeps with kids can pop in…) until the beer runs out or we move on for dinner. Open invite for you and yours, no RSVP, just come if you want and don’t if you can’t! Twitter message to @trikeabout if you turn up and can’t find us. There may be games…
@highperformance
Bugger, we have a wedding on that day otherwise would have been keen
Good thing you gave @negativezero that extra notice, he will probably make it if he heads to the airport now
Oh and I see how it is, edit it to only invite the best looking of us
Edit took out all the tags. *shakes fist*
@beavwa @budgieishere @chuloopa @coldcamv @crazyguy1990 @f4ction @jordi @mad_danny @negativezero @pixel_the_ferret_viking @scree @smurfydog @tech_knight @tigerion @tofu @trikeabout @zetrox2k @highperformance
Also, whoever runs taytags needs to add a “Seattle” section just for negativezero…
That would be @powalen!
it might be a little late notice for me. I really need to get this kitchen Reno done, so I’ll probably still be working on that, sorry.
Understand!
Thanks. I need to try and get it finished before december ._.
Also, if the wedding’s shit, come along later. 😉
Might be possible. Is there post dinner plans?
…there are barely pre-dinner plans… 😉
Drink. Talk. Watch Victory out of the corner of my eye. Eat. Drink. Kebab. Gutter/Uber. 🙂 That’s as far as I’ve got.
Will catch up with you when I get back from foreign parts in a couple of weeks anyway. Plan on getting the road bike out!
After some handypeople advice…
I need to put a ramp behind our side gate – it’s right alongside the house and drops straight down around 200-250mm into the backyard which, at the point, is probably a 1:8 – 1:6 slope and pretty sandy soil (or slightly dirty sand, depending on how you look at it). We’re pretty coastal, and our experience is that anything bar marine-grade stainless just rusts immediately, there’s plenty of termites in the local area (not at our house, touch wood) and it gets heaps of sun.
I’ve seen what I think is fiberglass-reinforced plastic used as access ramps before, and it looks pretty good. Unfortunately, a cursory search seems to show that FRP is damn expensive. So, ideas? Also, securing the ramp? I can probably get away with bolting into the concrete wall the gate is on, which might save me from needing to secure it at the other end – or, I could bury it deep enough to just concrete it in, or bolt a couple of pylons onto it and concrete them in.
Maybe look at using marine grade ply, which you could also coat with fibre glass resin for extra strength/protection.
If it’s getting sun I’d avoid stainless. You wouldn’t think it’d matter but it’s really annoying how hot it gets in the sun. It’s also probably a bit heavy for the job. Is the soil better deeper down? Would it be worth cementing in some long stirrups?
What are you going to be using the ramp for? Just wheeling the bins out or something more demanding?
Oh, and be weary of bolting it onto the wall the gate is on. That may elevate the project to the point where it needs approval.
Wheelbarrow is about it, really. It seems that any time I do work out in the backyard and need to haul something from the driveway, it tends to be heavy. I was (reasonably) content with the big step, except when I did some concreting and had to haul the wheelbarrow over it – then my damn FIL came and put a bunch of gravel there with a pegged-in piece of canvas over the top. Now I need to fix it, else I’m going to fuck a knee carrying a load up or down there.
When I say the wall the gate is on, I mean the wall the gate is on top of. The ramp would be on the downhill side of the wall, not visible from the road.
Bunnings sells some portable metal ramps. i would suggest asking one of the people there. They’ll usually point you to the person who knows more. They helped me with scissoring the joist under my kitchen floor.
Anybody had experience with generic phone batteries.
My old phone battery is stuffed but Mrs Tigs is considering using it rather than buy a new el cheapo phone. It needs a new battery and looking around a generic HTC battery is about 30% of the price of an actual HTC battery.
Is it a case of get what you pay for or is it a case of paying for the same thing with a different sticker.
Not sure who is in the know but I guess @rocketman and @freezespreston might have experience
I hear great things about Samsung batteries!
Both my parents phones (Samsung flip phones) needed new batteries, I ended up getting generic ones for $10 a pop from https://batteryexpert.com.au/ that was like 6 or so months back haven’t had any issues with them yet. So yeah. Plus free quick postage!
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
It’s here. It’s HUGE.
Hahaha nice! Not jelly at all! Elite must look magnificent on it!
I wouldn’t know. It’s sitting under my desk at work and I’m trying to work out how to get it home…
TIL that Trike has a huge package under his desk 😉
Phrasing!
It’s GIGANTIC.
That’s what she said!
Said Ripley to the android Bishop.
So, is it possible to split mail accounts into different shortcuts/apps on an Android phone? Having them all clumped together in one app sucks.
@alexwalker So this is how Kotaku looks on my phone since the profile update yesterday: http://i.imgur.com/HKxal2G.png
Top are with user agent set to mobile, bottom two are desktop. Articles and front page are all just header and footer, with nothing inbetween. This is on Opera Mobile, but Opera Mini comes out the same as the top.
Interesting that there’s actually a difference between the two, before it seemed like I just go served up the mobile site no matter what but this shows the “mobile” one still carries the old Gizmodo link at the bottom. Either way, something got buggered.
Oo. That’s weird as shit. I’ll let dev know.
OH MY GOD NOTIFICATIONS.
They don’t handle multiple pages properly though but still, I can finally have conversations again \o/
More importantly, we can organise meats! \o/
I should just declare YOU ALL COME TO ADELAIDE AND SEE RED MEAT
Well that is about the limit of where I can drive so not outside the realm of possibility
You still keen on the discworld convention?
Absolutely
That is late next year right?
August 4-6, West Lakes Resort Hotel
http://www.ausdwcon.org
Well considering I just had to import a discworld colouring book from the UK for Mrs Tigs I think she will be keen as well.
Might have to break out the family cosplay again, although may need to start from scratch for Tiglet
@tigerion once she gets old enough Tiglet gets to be Tiffany?
Maybe, although Mrs Tigs has already claimed that.
We might just go as feegles again
I like Adelaide. There’s wine and cricket.
I’m in the Barossa Valley, and wine is almost its own form of currency around here !!
Adelaide is the bees knees. Modbury represent yo.
Western suburbs atm, though my Grandpa is up in Fairview park (and Fairview Park was my first PS).
There’s not many of us SATAYers
I’m in the Barossa Valley now, but Fairview Park was my first primary school too, mid 80s I would have started there.
I was at f’view park for 6 months in 1992
Ha your only a young pup then mate !!!
Who said that?
Plumber is coming today \o/ We’re hopefully going to get some stuff done.
Just watch out for your mushrooms… Those plumbers have a tendency to eat them and jump around the place punching bricks.
Funnily enough, mushroom used to grow under the sink I ripped out.
Release the Crack-en
No crack here, surprisingly
what about @cracks?
He’s a great guy but not present when we were getting our plumbing done
C’mooooon, give him a chance
He needs to show up first!
Really?
Are you sure they are a qualified plumber
Pretty sure.
Just bought Planescape Torment, The Movies, Black and White, Fifa 2001, and Age Mythology + Expansion, all for under $20 altogether. 😀
I love everything about Planescape Torment except actually playing it, which is why I’ve never got more than four hours in
That’s my feeling exactly. Don’t say it too loudly, lest you be treated as a gaming leper (or n00b, I guess).
Black and White! I remember lobbing fireballs at another god’s temple because I couldn’t figure out how to get my influence any closer. I got really good at the fireball pattern after a while.
New Metallica music videos every 2 hours. I think it’s cool they’ve made a video for every song on Hardwired To Self Destruct. Also new album tomorrow, hoorah!
Very keen to hear the newie, Spotify is downloading it now.
Deluxe version comes with tons of live tracks too! 😀
and a reworked version of The Lords of Summer! Which imo is way better than the version they released 2 years back.
My local JB are useless though, I expected them to have a display up advertising it, yeah no, nothing. I’m sure the manager of the music dept will be happy about that, the biggest metal release of the year not out on the floor on release day…
Shading!
50% done, but ran out of time for today so that’ll have to wait a couple of weeks.
Suuuuper happy with the result so far, but god damn my arm feels raw 😛
Posting from Firefox 2.0.0.20, because investigating other things on the old PC and got curious. Win98 says hi 😛
Hahahaha, that is some mega chug with javascript enabled. Though possibly still not as bad as using the old desktop site on Opera Mobile 😛
Welp, guess replies don’t actually work.
Well, I can’t get Black & White or Fifa 2001 to work on windows 10, but every other game I’ve bought today works fine.
I went and got a wrist band so I could pick my copy of Pokemon Moon up at EB’s midnight launch, but now I’d really rather go to bed. I should have just left it and picked it up tomorrow morning.
Chug an energy drink and a coffee, you can do this.
I’m the one adult on the planet that doesn’t drink coffee or energy drinks. I’ve got a big glass of water with some ice in it but I don’t think chugging it will help.
Plus I’m not super tired, I’ll probably stay up and play it, I just feel like going to bed instead of dragging myself down to a big loud event.
Sadly, your not the only adult who doesn’t drink coffee or energy drinks. People actually get confused and don’t know what to do when I tell them I don’t drink coffee.
Offer you a beer 😛
Although if it was early I would probably ask if you wanted hot chocolate
Beer is an awesome idea. Bit socially unacceptable to have a beer at 8am when people rock up too work. Although come to think of it, would make the day easier
I drink Coke, but can’t abide coffee. Nice cup of tea please. Or a hot chocolate.
Or, as has been skillfully pointed out, a BEER.
Dating is the worst. Every time someone asks me if I want to go out for coffee I slip and say ‘yeah, but I don’t drink coffee’, which sends a stupid mixed signal.
LOL “tea” is an early evening meal in much of Britain.
“What are you having for tea?” “Fish and chips”. *American heads explode*
I feel you on the “yeah I’ll come for coffee but I don’t drink coffee”, took me YEARS to learn to just go with it and order what I want (that’s not coffee)… 🙂
When I was at uni, people seemed to take it as a personal insult when I told them I didn’t drink…
Nah, I don’t drink coffee or energy drinks either. I even hate the smell of coffee, and it kind of freaks me out watching otherwise sane people get a bit desperate and batshit when they can’t get their hit when they need it.
There is a bit of a dystopian society vibe to it when you watch them. I can understand smokers, smoking is cool when you’re in high school, but I’ve always felt coffee is like crack. You don’t casually take it up. You have to sort of make a choice to power through the rough part to acquire a taste nobody really wants.
Liking it so far. Seems like it’s going to be a bit of a change from the standard Pokemon games.
Played the demo last night… and now I’m bummed I have to wait for next week cos EB decided to post it from freaking Queensland.
Yeah, I rarely pre-order from EB they suck at postage, but then I realised I live near one of the biggest EB’s in the country so I pre-ordered in store. The event was a bit annoying but as big as the line was it took about 20 minutes for them to process a ridiculous amount of orders at midnight.
The demo is pretty cool. Have you got to the riding part yet? It’s not having your Pokemon follow you but it’s still one of the more awesome additions to the series in a long time.
The demo was pretty short – unless there’s more after it cuts to credits after the trial, or somewhere else to explore before the trial? Never saw riding in the demo (tho I saw some in the ad for the full game at the end – is that actually something you can do anywhere?).
Was never a fan of having your pokemon follow you around (partly because when it was introduced, they were limited to 16×16 and 4 colours. so always looked like caricatures or monstrosities)… Now that they’ve got the tech, I’d love to see the ability to have a member of your party ride on your head, tho. One day…
There’s more to it once you’re done. It’s still not a particularly meaty demo but I liked what was there.
I’m hoping the next gen has enough power to recycle this gen’s battle models into over world models for following. Stuff like Lapras in XY and Sharpedo in ORAS rules.
Ogawd not the popcorn truck. Friend’s talked me up with a friend of his, and has now given me her number I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THIS.
Also got an e-mail from my friend’s little brother, just starting year 12 and asking if I can help him with his software design project, do some tutoring or something. I don’t know what to do there either but at least I have more of an idea how to bumble through 😛
I’m pretty sure you know what to do with a phone number. Not exactly rocket science. =P
You’re right, I heard about one of my friends doing exactly this just the other day!
*crumples it up and throws it away*
*crunches popcorn loudly, throws a couple pieces at taco* GET ON IT SON
https://twitter.com/NintendoEurope/status/799255026740830208
NIKKI IS BACK! 😮
>free-to-start
Nikki what have they done to you 🙁
Ok so I’ve worked through pretty much all the lessons or whatever I think, unless there’s more once you write or send a certain number of letters. All it’s done is made me sad about what we lost with 3D Letterbox (especially after opening 3DS Camera earlier to find all the photos and videos from my original 2011-13 unit), it’s just a pale imitation with limited features locked behind paywalls.
I used to friggen love snapping random shit in 3D and then spamming my friends with it. Which I now realise was basically Instagram before that was really a thing, or at least a thing I’d heard of 😛
I’ve been catching up on this season’s anime the last week or so. Drifters in particular got me thinking: wouldn’t this be a rad setup for a pen & paper RPG campaign? The PCs and principal antagonists are all famous people from earth taken just before they’re about to die into a standard fantasy world. It seems like a really obvious thing. A bit like the concept of The Strange except in reverse. @popdart5 @redartifice know if anyone’s done something like this before? I really love the idea that random people from Earth history have been brought in at various times across decades or centuries and shaped the setting (eg
they strongly imply that the previous Emperor of the country the protagonist and his group started out in was Hitler)All I care about this season is Natsume Yuujinchou go =P
I could never get into that – nothing ever happened. Though someone was telling me that suddenly five seasons in they decided to have a plot?
The plot started in season 4. It’s less of a plot and more of an overarching background threat.
The anime is more about Natsume trying to balance the yokai world and the normal world. Also as the anime progresses you see more of Natsume’s and Reiko’s past, the latter through her Yokai interactions.
That being said, if it’s not your thing then I respect that
Sounds loosely like Riverworld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverworld which wiki informs me has a GURPS splatbook.
Would be easily doable with the Cypher system, or something like FATE as a system.
Riverworld sounds pretty different.
I really don’t like Cypher but it would probably work quite well. You’re talking about people that were exceptional, but not magical. Most fantasy P&P systems expect magic to be involved.
FATE and Cypher aren’t fantasy based (i specifically included them because they’re narratively focused and generic), but another really good candidate might be the Apocalypse World ruleset, which is really hackable and focuses on archetypal characters. Look up the “Powered by the Apocalypse” games to see what can be done with it
Also, Apocalypse World has specific narrative things which engage when characters sleep with one another, which is really quote interesting.
I’m not aware of any specific RPGs that work off a similar concept but that’s certainly an intriguing premise. I’ve been a bit starved for anime this season so I should probably check Drifters out. It actually reminds me of Overlord a little bit what with people being plucked from one world and scattered into the next that influence and shape the setting over a long period of time.
I’m surprised that Drifters isn’t getting more interest in western circles since it’s the Hellsing guy.
I’m always surprised there isn’t more overlap between anime and pen & paper RPGs. There’s something about the way anime structures the story telling that makes a lot of them a really natural fit for custom game campaigns. There used to be a lot of forum RPGs based on various anime series but they died out when the internet outgrew forums. It always seemed strange to me that they never made the leap to D20.
I would think things like Bleach, Naruto, One Piece, Fairy Tail, Full Metal Alchemist, etc would gather a pretty solid followings as roleplaying games.
There are specific “anime based” systems like BESM (big eyes small mouth) that jumped to D20, and there was also heavily anime influenced stuff like Exalted that’s still going (apparently the 3rd ed got kickstarted a year or two ago).
I guess it’s more that there are so many systems these days and so much niche stuff that “anime RPGs” need to be either exceptional or highly tailored to make any splash, otherwise people just hack other systems into them.
Ryuutama is one RPG that is very heavily inspired by anime which has done quite well. The Monsterhearts PBTA game can also get fairly anime at times.
But yeah, it’s so easy to slap a coat of paint on any system and make it play like an anime.
I backed Monsterhearts 2 this week. I may never play it, but I love that it’s a thing
The Ryuutama guys also did a Naruto-inspired one called Shinobigami.
So apparently for a long time one of the big issues for pen & paper games over there was availability of dice outside the 6-sided ones. The most popular system for ages was Sword World, which was an offshoot of D&D put together by the guys behind Record of Lodoss War for their Lodoss campaigns. There were a few popular shows that were adapted to that same system (Scrapped Princess was probably the highest profile one).
But yeah, there’s not really a good ‘anime’ RPG system out there. BESM tries its best but it always felt like an American-Otaku-Take-On-80s-Anime. It tries to throw everything together at once and I think that’s the wrong approach – I would be intrigued to play a Naruto-inspired RPG or a classic Magical Girl RPG but not both at the same time. You need a core system and then some kind of modular or customizable addon to that that’s more tailored, because concepts change so much. Admittedly it’s been a long time since I looked at BESM so maybe they fixed it.
Yeah, anime is a pretty wide net. I can imagine both Ghost in the Shell and Pokemon as table top games but they’d be nothing alike. I guess you could break it up into sub-genres.
Anyone else catch the FMA live action movie trailer?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/11/the-live-action-fullmetal-alchemists-debut-trailer/
Can anyone recommend any PSVR games that are worth getting? Ones that are easy on the motion sickness, I’m still struggling to adapt too it. Which is weird, I’m fine with Gear VR.
I like the idea of Eve Valkyrie, but I’m not much of a multiplayer person. I don’t come back to them often enough to get to a skill level where I don’t die the second I spawn.
I did like the COD VR thing, although I spent far longer trying to get it to accept the terms and conditions than there was actual game.
@sernobulus
I don’t know if I could do EVE in VR… Wifey already gives me heaps of shit when I’m playing Battlefield games that I angle my head side to side to try and keep my eyeline level to the ground, so I’m not sure if that would be better or worse with a VR headset on.
Valkyrie would be a killer app for me if it was a proper single-player dogfighting game. Was very disappointed when it turned out to just be a bleh PVP thing. IMO Lucasfarts/EA are sitting on a TIE Fighter shaped VR goldmine, incidentally.
The best VR experience I’ve had so far has been Rez Infinite. SuperHyperCube is cool (I love that it projects your controller into the view) but you’ll grow sick of it after a bit. Batman Arkham VR is a fun little thing but it’s limited and I wouldn’t pay more than $20 for it. Battlezone is okay but you’ll get sick of it fast. And get sick playing it fast.
If you’ve got a group, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is great, but what makes it great isn’t the VR.
Tie fighter VR would be awesome, I agree with you there 🙂
I’ve got Rez Infinite, which is where I discovered VR makes me feel really sick.
I’m really hanging out for the xwing experience, although I’m starting to think it will last about 2 minutes of actual gameplay.
The biggest thing you should avoid is trying to ‘push through’ simulation sickness. It’ll make it worse and your body will associate the headset with nausea. Once you feel sick, take it off and do something else ASAP, come back to it later. It’ll help improve your tolerance, where pushing on anyway won’t and may do the opposite (as well as making you puke).
I know that @freezespreston recommends headmaster if you want to damage both the headset and your coffee table
Can we talk about the ridiculous price tag of the Newly released PS4 Razer Raiju Contoller! $260… 260! what can it do that’s $180 better than an official PS4 controller? are we just paying for the “Esports” branding that comes with it?
That it looks like an Xbox One controller? I dunno. I really don’t get the point of these third party controllers. The official Sony & Microsoft ones are great & they’re wireless with out the need for adapters…
Yeah looks like an X-Box one controller which I’m not to worried about as I find the Xbone controller comfortable besides the asymmetric sticks but the Raiju has corrected that issue. Wired is meant to have less input latency? which is “why Esport players promote them” I’m sure it has nothing to do with money.
Only advantage I see is the four extra buttons – if you’re competitive on console FPS, it can really help to be able to jump/crouch and aim at the same time, for instance. I mean, I’d not pay $250 for it when a Scuf controller costs around half that, but I do think controllers could stand to have a few extra rebindable buttons by default.
*Razer*
Don’t buy Razer. Their shit would still be overpriced even if it was made well but if you just cobbled together your own controller out of a bunch of old broken ones using duct tape and superglue you would end up with better build quality and reliability than anything those jokers have ever made.
So Sid has become such a fixture at our local shopping centre that he is getting people waiting for him to show up. In particular, a little boy. Apparently he got very upset because Sid wasn’t there yesterday, because we ended up going late. He did get to see Sid, and he got to pat him too!
Famous
Haha, that’s great! Chilli has a following in our area, it’s kinda funny.
And with the new Red Dog movie out next month, I predict an influx of people being obsessed with Chilli when I walk her because of her likeness to Red Dog lol.
Shouldn’t that say, again?
Yeah it probably should 😛 But she wasn’t around when the first Red Dog movie came out lol.
Yeah, but they still thought she looked like Red Dog
I’m dog-sitting for a week in December. I’mma be that dude with the boisterous Labrador
I’m looking after mum’s pets in December. I’m going to be the guy with big fat deaf border collie that refuses to do anything other than run forward as fast as she can. My arm is sore just thinking about it.
Try a gentle leader? It worked for Sid
I might get her one for Christmas, but ultimately my mum anti-trains her pets. I had the dog to the point where she’d only pull a little, and only try to run if I was running, but she doesn’t really have any rules around the house so without me there to take her for a walk every day she goes straight back to misbehaving.
That would drive me nuts. Border collies need training. Deaf is no excuse either as my neighbour has a deaf Blue Heeler who is one of the most well trained dogs in the park.
Yeah it’s pretty frustrating. She’s a good dog, she doesn’t misbehave in any bad ways she’s just a bit hyper. I’d have no problem trusting her to go off the leash in the park with other dogs and kids but when she’s having fun she’s oblivious to her surroundings and doesn’t respond to her hand signals.
Ah yes. That does make it hard. You need to have them looking at you
I chose Rowlet, when I swore I would give Popplio some love just to spite the haters.
I feel like I’ve betrayed something. Or someone.
But Rowlet is a little round fat bird and he’s cute as hell. Plus his evolutions look decent – Popplio’s are….. something. Then there’s roidLitten. I can’t.
I think I’ll find a way to make peace with my decision.
Pray for me.
I plan to go Popplio when I eventually get it
He needs the love. Be kind to him.
It’s a sea dog AND land dog in one animal! What’s not to love?
I’m pretty tempted to keep Torracat from evolving. I’m not a fan of any of the final evolutions.
It turns out FFG is having a holiday sale with some pretty serious discounts on a whole bunch of LCG, board game, and RPG stuff. Unfortunately shipping is ludicrously expensive but I managed to pick up some RPG books for about $25 each even after shipping so it’s not too bad.
https://holiday-sale.fantasyflightgames.com/
Man, I wish Baron Munchausen was a) released and b) in this sale.
I am so in love with FFG right now. X-Wing is great, but more importantly their support is really good. My dial upgrade pack was missing one of the clips, so I sent them an e-mail and a day later the replacement part is in the mail. No big song and dance over 9 cents worth of plastic.
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
Oo. That’s weird as shit
“So, uh… hi? :P”
10/10, great start.
Now to resist the urge to turn off my phone and pretend I don’t exist any more.
*boop* Achievement unlocked
Ring, Ring
Actually made the call, good on you
*munch munch munch*
Hang on, finished my popcorn
*unwraps choc top*
Proceed.
Maybe we should’ve surrounded Gooky at Pax Meat when we had all these snacks =P
Nah it was just a message. I’m not that hardcore.
I think it’s almost finished
https://twitter.com/scree06/status/799561633404100608
I’m not happy with the black at the top, and I’m wondering how I can fix it to make it more interesting, but not so interesting that it takes away from Zenyatta.
Ugh, I caved and got the pokey mans because cheap Big W and friends’ hype. Now need to figure out whether to go with Robin Hoot or Wrasslecat.
In the meantime though, gonna see how terrible I can be at Overwatch.
(also SMS convo yesterday went well, despite outgeeking her to an awful degree)
Weekend plans got scuppered. XCOM it is then.
Ok, finally caught four hours of shut-up. Ready to take on the day 😛
Also I am just as terrible as I thought at Overwatch. Possibly worse.
Do you mean “Shut-eye”?
…yes
Is this Current Tay or not? It doesn’t seem to have been reposted in a while and I’m so confused.