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Didn’t do a lot this weekend, but I’m watching UFC today, and really looking forward to it. Pretty awesome card.
Hyped now for McGregor vs. Aldo in May…Vegas baby!
I finally watched Cormier V Jones…not gonna lie pretty poor event overall in my books
Morning all! Hope your weekends were good!
Here’s some Bloodborne news to kick off your week, along with a reminder that it’s only 64 days away.
New video on the official Chinese Playstation Channel showcases controls and mechanics
Looks great, obviously, but one thing I couldn’t help but notice: the sound bites for enemies sound incredibly repetitive. “I’ll [indistinct] your brains!” seems to be the catch-cry of all the enemies…
We also get to see the health-regen system in action.
Have you pre-ordered your copy? I haven’t yet – still waiting for more places to offer it so I can compare prices.
I’ve now got a grand total of $10 deposited on my CE preorder. I’ll make a decision close to release about whether I get it or not since I don’t see me owning a PS4 within the next 6 months.
Is there actually something worthwhile pre-ordering for? I have been almost universally disappointed in pre-order rewards in the past, don’t bother any more.
Nah. But there are special editions – like the Nightmare Edition – which theoretically could be limited in stock.
I disapprove of the idea preordering as a concept itself, regardless of the preorder incentives. You are making a judgement over whether a game will be good based on tightly controlled marketing.
I think the only legit purpose of a preorder is when it actually serves its originally intended function – to secure yourself a copy on launch day, in the case of limited supply/high demand. There’s plenty of times when you’re able to make a snap decision on whether you’ll want a game regardless of how the marketing tries to steer things.
So hype for this, have my CE on preorder (the ink well and quill look really cool, and supposedly work). Game play looks like the standard Souls affair (awesome) with the the apparent absence of turtling, which is great because even though it was less viable in DS2 it was still a ridiculously strong stratergy which made me lose interest in the meta. The repetitive sound isnt surprising, the other Souls games are the same, it’s just not as remarkable seeing as its all grunts and snarls.
Morning All – How was everyones weekend?
My weekend was full of bloating and indigestion, and agony.
as a way to remedy that I have now been placed on a lactose free diet /o\
hopefully things get better and it’s only temporary\o/
But cheese, oh god cheese /o\ *cries*
🙁
Cutting out certain foods from my diet is one of my greatest fears. (Yeah. Clearly I need better fears.) Much sympathy.
It’s not that bad – Stick to asian style meals and you won’t miss the dairy
The last couple of nights, I’ve done quite a bit of work on Undad, and neglected the PS4. Eventually, though, it’ll pull me back into its orbit.
I’ve finished Second Son, and nearly finished the First Light DLC content, so I’m going to let you decide what I play next. [Polls close when we reach Page 2 of TAY]
Here are the options:
* Lords of the Fallen (votes: 2) (votes against: 0)
* Middle Earth – Shadow of Mordor (votes: 4) (votes against: 1)
* Murdered: Soul Suspect (votes: 1) (votes against: 1)
* Watch Dogs (votes for: 1) (votes against: 2)
* Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii-U) (votes: 2) (votes against: 0)
My list of games completed in 2015:
* The Last of Us* Diablo III
* Swapper
* Octodad
* Infamous: Second Son
Not bad for a year only 19 days old…
I bought Second Son on Friday. Enjoying it so far, playing a good karma run first.
It’s a very cool game. I really enjoyed it throughout. Didn’t overstay its welcome, either.
Yeah, it was just the right length. 🙂
I say Watch dogs 🙂
I played Watch Dogs immediately after playing Second Son and I think the proximity negatively influenced my opinions. I would recommend something else.
My thoughts:
Lords of the Fallen – Solid but not great
Shadow of Mordor – I do not understand the love this game got. I hated it.
Murdered Soul Suspect – Very very mediocre.
Watch Dogs – Just… Terrible.
Mario Galaxy 2 – Assuming it’s as great as it was.
So, uh, yeah. I can’t really help you there..
Maybe Lords of the Fallen? Just remember it’s not Souls.
Lords is pretty damn solid.
On the downsides, there are some annoying (non-breaking) bugs, less-polished layouts, greater margin for error, the art isn’t as refined, it’s missing most of the atmosphere of grandeur and sense of scale that souls cleverly managed to pull off, and there’s no do-over on choosing your magic type.
On the up-side, it’s less punishing (yes, this is both pro and con), there’s some major UI improvements, the narrative is (slightly) better-told (if not as original), and the combo modifier for holding onto your exp/souls and not spending it is pretty fun.
Shadow of Mordor!
seconded!
Ignore Freeze, he has the brain-worms. Shadow of Mordor is poetry in game form and thoroughly deserves the GOTY awards it won from various no-name sites.
And Murdered: Soul Suspect is a diamond in the rough. So much rough.
From what I’ve read about it, it would have been better if it was a pure adventure game rather than what it ended up being.
I especially loved the part where you engage two lone orcs with none other around and 20 minutes later you’ve killed 30 of them and surrounded by another 10 and 2 captains.
So good, right? And after you kill enough of them in rapid succession they all run away screaming and you’re left chasing after them screaming, “MORE, I NEED MORE.”
…Although sometimes the captain is one you want to keep alive and you gotta leg it.
As much as I think Galaxy 2 is inferior to Galaxy 1, I have to vote for that because it’s still a fantastic game (and I haven’t played any of the others)
Just don’t forget that you need the sensor bar plugged in and a wiimote/nunchuk to play it.
I’ve already started it. I played the level where
you get Yoshi to spit spiky guys at the boss Lakitu. So much frustration with camera and controls. Rest of it has been good so far, though.Is it a straight Wii port or has the resolution been upgraded? I’m really struggling to go back and play standard def games. (I will get to Little King’s Story though, @mrtaco. XD)
I understand it’s a straight Wii port. I’m playing it on a miniscule TV though, so it makes no difference to me.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 is brilliant – so is Middle Earth. Watch Dogs was fine, just boring and samey. Haven;t played the other two sorry
How do you find the time? I don’t do a comic & I finished 1 game this year because I did 90% of it last.
Do you sleep?
Five hours of sleep most nights. I honestly dunno how I find the time.
I do minimum 7 & spend over 2 hours traveling.
Yeah, I spent about two hours travelling per day as well, maybe a little more.
You are an awake God!
:p
Gotta be Galaxy 2, for sure.
Don’t worry, it’s already my go-to game for daytime gaming, whenever my kids might interrupt, and will remain so.
Thank you and damn you to the people helping me look at soundtracks last night for pointing me to cdjapan.
I’m about to give in and buy over $300 worth of stuff.
Anyone know what the difference is between Express Mail Service (EMS) and SAL Parcel post? Express mail services is only $5 more so I should probably go with that if it’s better.
EMS is express post via airmail. It’s insured and tracked and when it gets to Australia it will be delivered by Australia Post as if it were registered parcel post (i.e. you will have to sign for it or it’ll get carded). From Japan it’s usually 4-5 days via EMS.
SAL is standard surface post via ship I think. It’s not insured and not tracked and treated like normal post. From Japan it’s usually 12-15 days via SAL.
Given the choice I always pick EMS unless the difference in cost is significant. At the low end, it is, but there’s a certain weight point where SAL becomes more expensive than EMS, around 3kg I think.
#stanlives
Edit: But nearly didn’t, and is very sore. I’m waiting on photographer friends pic’s to come through before writing everything up.
I am very sore.
Have I mentioned I’m sore?
I’m sore.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068473/
Sore in the sternum region? D:
Stannum region. *nods*
Morning folks how are we all?
Had a relatively busy weekend, which is good and bad (didn’t get time to assemble my LEGO AT-AT I got for Christmas :() but on the plus side I:
Had a great lunch with family, pulled pork was involved and it was glorious.
Went and saw Big Hero 6… Great movie, way better then I expected! Dealt with some pretty heavy themes for what I was expecting…
And Sunday we went to the 1 Day International (cricket) against India… I can’t watch cricket religiously when it’s on TV, but it was pretty great being there…
How about everyone else?
Always glorious when pulled pork is in the mix.
Good weekend. I saw Birdman and Big Hero 6 at the cinema. Had a face-to-face conversation with my parents which was very helpful. Just been riding this wave of happiness, actually.
Things are good.
Ya want some rye?
Course I do!
Hopefully today is the day I lose my job 🙂
I don’t understand this statement…
Damn Monday’s…
A weekend of not much at all other than flea bombing the house. Finally got my warlock up to level 32 in Destiny and making steady progress with GTA V again. First person GTA is a whole different experience.
Many thanks again to @beeawwb . Top bloke
Now for a brand new week and as ever, it starts off with a bout of tiredness
My pleasure, glad to be able to help. 🙂
I mentioned this on the weekend, but I genuinely think this would be amazing for you Sydney folks to construct a meat around:
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/dancing-robots-glitter-clad-dancers-accompanying-robot-restaurant-down-under/story-fneuz8zj-1227188308602
That is all.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/01/japans-infamous-robot-restaurant-is-coming-to-sydney/
whaaaaat
I’m in Sydney in June for Supanova. This must happen. This is one of those gotta-try-it-once-just-to-laugh-about-it-in-my-memoirs experiences that I will never have in Canberra.
Says 2 nights only in February, sadly. I doubt the Sydneyers would even be able to get in then if it’s going to be that limited.
Huh. Oh well. *cancels Sydney appearance*
It’s only for two nights in February.
I didn’t read it, okay! I just looked at the pictures.
Reading is for squares!
Maybe I should have read it then…
@shane’s secret shame: He never learnt to read.
*sobs* It’s true, it’s all true!
It’s why I need people to read my books: so I know if they’re any good or not.
Hola Tay
Busy weekend. Went to a mate’s on Friday, he’d had an awful week.
Played board games.
Gave blood Saturday morning, then played Magic Saturday night for the prerelease for the new set. Pulled some pretty neat cards, and went Ok in my matches. I love the FLGS I go to, great atmosphere and the owner is a swell guy.
Sunday went to a board game day. Played Tiny Epic Kingdoms and Marvel Legendary that were new to me, both kinda cool. Probably will append Tiny Epic Kingdoms to the Kickstarter for Tiny Epic Galaxies.
A Monday morning question: what do you look for in a friendly local game store? What puts you off a store?
What I look for: Low prices!
What puts me off: High prices!
Nice, knowledgeable staff are a bonus, but never will be a dealbreaker for me.
See, I used to go to another game store, and I got sick of going in there and hearing every neckbeard hanging around’s opinion on the RPG I was playing.
The fact that one of those neckbeards was on the staff was not great.
I didn’t give a fig what the prices were, I just hated going in there.
Ah right, well you made the classic rookie mistake of talking to people (or listening to them anyway).
Head down, credit card already out. The only way to make a purchase in a neckbeard store. 😛
Was that one down an arcade between Hindley St and Central Station?
Yep, Game Quest. It’s since been replaced by the current one, which is the one I go to.
There’s also infinity, which I used to be able to take or leave but since hearing the vibe that both my ex gf and another female friend have got from the place I now definitely leave.
Yeah, I used to hang out at Game Quest quite a lot back when I lived inAdelaide. Got my fixes of Magic and D&D etc. The climate could certainly be exclusionary / unwelcoming though, I remember that it took me ages before I was comfortable getting involved.
To be fair, the staff at game quest were fine, though I don’t think they were great businessmen. We did go in for d&d game days when they were on.
Spot on, I think. Chris? / Josh? were fine but there was a lot about running a business that they seemed to be phoning in. Still, I had a lot of fun once I got “in” to things, I think at one point I was spending 4 or 5 nights a week there with various activities.
Having one at all would be a good start.
What clan did you pick? I was going to go Sultai for something completely different from the red deck I normally play, but didn’t end up making the pre-release 🙁 Some pretty nifty looking cards in the new set though.
I was in Sultai, In 2 headed giant which runs long it worked pretty well.
We drew two games and lost the third, happy with that
Morning. How was everybody’s weekend. Not much gaming for me, though I did play some Super Mario Galaxy 2. Computer is in the repair store today, they reckon it might be the PSU. In that case it might just be the power supply in my unit that sucks, not the computer.
Morning, TAY.
Nose is dripping like a tap. 🙁
First time TAY poster.
Weekend was pretty jam packed. Gym early Saturday morning, then to a mate’s place where we played a few tabletop games; Age of War and Dead of Winter. I hadn’t played Age of War before but have played a few games with similar elements, the most notable being Elder Sign. Dead of Winter I had played once before. We were very unsuccessful and I now have a 0-3 record in that game. We then went shopping for suits for an upcoming wedding and had dinner at a Korean BBQ restaurant; bulgogi and kimchi FTW!
On Sunday morning I went to Brickvention (a Lego convention). It’s the first one I’ve been to for the better part of two decades and it was pretty cool without being amazing. Probably a bit harsh because some creations were spectacular but nothing really blew me away. Then caught up with a friend for lunch, hit the gym again and, later in the evening, watched The Theory of Everything. Eddie Redmayne totally deserved the Golden Globe and has that Oscar in the bag.
The weekend had it all. Suits. Movies. Gym. Lego. Truly, you’ve lived.
I didn’t really think about the broad range of activities until I was writing the post but yeh, it was a pretty well rounded weekend! Sadly, it was rather the exception to the rule 😛
Went to brickvention last year, lots of fun. Had young kids along so there excitement was contagious. Also kept us occupied keeping track of them.
Then again I’m easily impresses, anything taller than me I find amazing
Sounds like a pretty sweet weekend, welcome to TAY!
@negativezero @transientmind @jocon @novacascade
60 days!
Question, what sort of spending money were you guys looking at taking? We realised we have no idea on what sort of prices to budget for. Was thinking about $5k for the two of us. Excessive or not even close?
No idea. I was thinking even $1500 would probably be excessive for me? I really can’t imagine what I’d spend it all on. I figure I’ll mostly be spending my money on food and seeing things, and a hundred dollars a day on food and bus fares/entry fees sounds like a lot. I really don’t intend to go scooping up tonnes of electronics, souvenirs, clothes, etc. Maybe some expensive hookers, but that’s about it. I might ask Ark what kinds of things he reckons I might wanna buy and add that amount specifically, but I can’t think of anything in particular. Maybe a new tablet, at best, but our cell networks are incompatible.
I had no other expenditure plans besides a few figures but I always panic about running out of money with a few days left.
Plan for extra on the excessive hookers side of things.
I will look after that cash for you, Freezey. *shifty eyes*
Depends on how many used panties you’re going to buy, really.
Is there any other answer besides all of them?
Dunno. A grand or so? Not sure what stuff will cost really.
I’m not big on stuff so I won’t be buying heaps.
I’m going to be looking only for a few specific things, not going crazy since I already import all the figures etc. I want, so just mainly need money for food. I was more around the $2k mark, planning-wise, but might throw a bit more in the kitty in case I see something I really have to have.
@beeawwb
I can haz Japan?
2 adults, 1 kid – 8 days in Japan (Tokyo/Kyoto) we spent $2000 on food, drink, evening trip to Disneyland (plus memorabilia that night cost about $400) and 2 figures for me.
I actually dumped all my coin/notes on the counter at duty free on the way out, split the cost with what was left on my travel card and I think our travel cards have 1800 yen on them now. So we actually spent… $1982…
Late to work this morning.
Reason?
I slept in.
Why did I sleep in?
Because my neurotic cat decided at 4am to have an existential crisis about whether to be in the bedroom door (which we keep shut because it’s the only room with air-con) and spent two hours loudly complaining let her in, she cries to get out, let her out, she cries to get in. FOR TWO HOURS. So when my alarm(s) started going off at 6:15am, I either slept through them or automatically turned them off in my sleep.
Changes of explaining this to my boss?
Zero.
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In other news, had a busy weekend. Saturday: went to TGI Friday’s for a birthday dinner for my wife. It was alright but a bit overpriced for what you get in my opinion. Their Jack Daniel’s glaze is extremely sweet to the point it kind of hurt my teeth. Did karaoke afterwards, I actually participated for the first time in over ten years. Couple of friends came back and crashed at our place, didn’t wind up leaving until 7pm Sunday night.
So glad we have a long weekend this week. I’m only just back from leave and already fgeeling wiped out.
Kermitron’s boss: “Look, I understand all that. I’ve got a gerbil that does the same thing. But hell, at 4am, you could have just left the door open.”
Cats are well versed in subtle torture techniques.
There’s a joke here about being in and out with the pussy for two hours and being really tired now but I’m sure it’s too uncouth for me to make.
*monocle breaks*
There’s no reason for that. I didn’t make any joke. My hands are clean.
Clean, entirely unlike Raphael’s fingers.
Hi everybody, how’s things?
Had a decent weekend aside from mowing in 35 degrees with 85% humidity.
Tried the Evolve beta, it seems like it’ll be pretty good fun, I wasn’t sure how they’d make a whole game outta the concept but was impressed with what I saw. Playing as the monster is pretty great and the humans are tiny like really really tiny. The beta showed off 3 different monsters and hinted at more in the final release and they seemed pretty diverse, one is tanky with lots of area damaging moves, one is more speed and stealth (has a move that lets you abduct a human and separate them from the group) and the other can freaking fly and rains hell from the air . Playing as a human is pretty cool but pretty terrifying when a 3 story monster is attacking you, the humans have 4 classes Medic, Trapper, Support and Assault with 3 variations for each class and they have different loadouts (my favorite going on appearance only is the broad rimmed hat wearing, mutton chop & moustache clad Australian trapper). The arenas seem pretty huge and you spend a bit of time tracking the monster (3 story monsters can hide pretty well). There seemed to be a bunch of different game modes including a dynamic campaign. Will try play a few more games tonight.
Cool, do you know how long it lasts for? I’m almost finished downloading it.
19/01/2015 at 8 PM PST, I think that means 3pm tomorrow for us, not 100%. It only went up at 9am ish yesterday EST.
I will live vicariously through you m9
We can discuss over some zombie killing parkour soon. 🙂
gonna jump on so many zombies heads, I’m pretty keen to try out the invasion stuff too, being that creepy fast zombie looks awesome, curious to see what its skill tree will look like.
Hey buddy! That’s all I got!
Hey dude, how are your 30s treating you? have you gone grey or bald, become incontinent or got alzheimer’s yet?
*shakes fist, hears cracking sound in wrist*
30 is good. Five days in and I’ve left the house three times. THIS IS A NEW RECORD.
Every game I played on the PS4 Alpha consisted of both parties endlessly running for twenty minutes, with the monster getting its meals to-go and hunters completely ignoring the other wildlife in a futile attempt to catch up, then a ten minute battle of attrition at some ill-defined objective, with winning depending on whether the monster targets the medic or not.
I think things’ll probably tighten up if people start learning what they’re actually meant to be doing (eg: trapper), and my personal preference would be to reduce EVERYONE’S mobility so you’re forced to interact with the fauna more (because seriously, if you’re medic, it really is just a fucking jog for ages until you actually need to do something), but at the end of the day, I’m thinking this is going to be a repetitive activity. Much like all the other MP-only shooters or MOBAs I ignore.
I expect that people who enjoy those kind of games, or like CoD/BF-multi/TF2/CS:GO/whatever will love this. It’s kinda pretty in the rare occasions you can actually fucking see anything in the dark. But for me? Less fun than co-op Left 4 Dead, for my money.
I only had 2 rounds and I think the people I was with knew what they were doing, I was assault and just followed the group, led me straight to the monster within 5 minutes both rounds. I think it’ll be great if you can find a group to play with regularly, but like you say it seems repetitive and if multiplayer games like this aren’t your thing it’d be best to avoid it. Also it probably shouldn’t cost as much as it will IMO.
Oh man, the dark sucks.
The few rounds I played were the complete opposite.
We’d track the monster within 5 mins and then take it down with little resistance.
I reckon it’d be way more fun with a party of five (hurr) but I think you’re right, seems like it won’t be as fun as L4D.
Reposting from Old TAY. Previous installment here.
NegativeZero’s Anime Impressions, January Season 2015, Part 2 of Probably 2
Watching the new season so you don’t have to
Kamisama Hajimemashita S2
Aka Kami-sama Kiss. This is actually the second season. I watched all of the first one and greatly enjoyed it. It’s a shoujo (girl’s show) in which a random high school girl, Nanami. Basically her Dad’s a deadbeat piece of shit that ran up gambling debts and then ran off somewhere and abandoned her. The local deity of the land, Mikage, encounters her and decides to pass his power to her, making her the god of the area, and she has to take over running the local temple and dealing with Tomoe, a fox spirit and super handsome guy with a shady past who serves her as a familiar. Yes, this is basically a knockoff of Fruits Basket. Yes, if you’ve seen that, this has the same sort of heart to it. I really like it. The whole is better than the sum of its parts. Nice art, great character designs, and generally appealing lead character. Was really happy to see this get a continuation. 8/10Seiken Tsukai no World Break
So, in our last installment, I concluded that Absolute Duo was a steaming turd and the worst show so far. Just as well I said ‘so far’, because this shit handily beats it in the race to the bottom. Generic action fantasy show, in which everyone has some kind of ‘past life’ and they channel that to get magical powers or some shit. Also the main dude in a past life was apparently badass. And also in love with his sister. And her reincarnation happens to be in his class. Also so does another chick. The bulk of the episode is basically the two of them taking turns to glomp him and then some subplot with an ugly dude that bullies one of them and then gets his ass kicked by Potato-kun. Bad animation, bad art, bad plot, bad everything. Straight up bad. And I know bad anime. I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe… 2/10 avoidJunketsu no Maria
Feels like there’s lots of fantasy stuff this season. This seems interesting. It’s set in France during the hundred years war, and since it makes reference to Joan of Arc, presumably set after she was around. The main character, Maria, is a witch, and she seems to spend her time effectively stopping battles by stepping in and using magic to force both sides to retreat. The show goes out of its way to suggest that she’s a lot more pure of intention most of the other witches we see seem to be, though there’s some off-color jokes about being a virgin thrown in there from her demon familiar (who, naturally, is a succubus.) The art is nice, seems to have a decent budget and the actual art style seems kind of old-fashioned, with clean colors and a certain character style that brings to mind art of the late 80s to me. First episode wasn’t amazing, but also not terrible and I feel like there’s a lot of promise here. I’ll be giving it a bit more of a look before deciding if it’s a regular watch or not. 7/10Yoru no Yatterman
Aka ‘Yatterman Night’. I’ve never seen Yatterman. Recently Tatsunoko have been going through a lot of their popular old franchises and giving them a new take. A few years ago we got a new Gatchaman (Crowds) which I liked visually but couldn’t get into the plot of. Yatterman as I understand it was a fairly standard superhero / super robot style show from the 70s, part of a larger continuum of shows, and I believe that this i the 40th anniversary of that larger franchise. I think the crux of Yatterman is that some dudes basically ruin the planet and Yatterman kicks their asses and becomes a hero. The main character’s mother was apparently a bogan, because she named her daughter Leopard (wtf). Leopard is the main character. For some reason, Leopard, her mother and two dudes live in a sort of post-apocalyptic rural environment. They talk about the paradise across the water, where Yatterman rules, and Leopard’s mother hopes that one day they can live there too. But it turns out that they are the descendants of the supposedly evil group that opposed Yatterman back in the day, and they and their descendants are forever banished. When Leopard’s mother catches a terminal illness and Leopard, while seeking medicine for her mother is chased away violently by Yatterman, she realizes that maybe he was never a hero after all, and decides to be the hero that takes the evil Yatterman down. I really like the premise of this actually, the idea of flipping the table so that the original series’ hero has basically become a villain and presumably his paradise a dystopia is interesting. However I suspect that this will fall short, because the original was a show for kids and full of ridculous shit. Also, Leopard’s voice acting irritated me a bit, and it’s only the first episode. Not sure if she’s a good enough character to carry the show. Suspect not. Still, this has some potential. Will give it a couple more episodes. 6/10.Tantei Kageki Milky Holmes TD
Don’t ask me what TD stands for. Terminally Dumb? Milky Holmes is pretty dumb stuff. It’s also kind of amusing in a hard-to-explain way. Not very good, but kind of aware that it’s stupid. It’s also basiclly a promotional vessel for basically an idol unit or something. I don’t care. It’s hard to really recommend this as it’s crap, but I still like it a lot. The four girls of Milky Holmes are basically bad knockoffs of famous detectives (Holmes, Piorot, Nero Wolfe and Cordelia Grey) and they’re all idiots. They bumble their way through various cases and somehow manage to track down various Gentlmen Thieves. It’s stupid. It’s really stupid. Why do I even like it? I don’t know. One of the bad guys has extremely sharp pointy nipples that he uses as weapons. Yes, really. The plot in this case is that some idol chick’s abilities – personified by cute little floaty people – has been stolen and she can’t sing any more and Milky Holmes is on the case to bumble their way into accidentally finding them all and catching the thief. 5/10 don’t watch thisSengoku Musou
Anime adaption of the Tecmo-Koei Samurai Warriors games, which I’ve never played. Seems like Sanada Yukimura is the main character and the first episode opens with him helping Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s forces conquer Odawara Castle, defeat the Hojo and finally unify Japan. Briefly. I know my Japanese history well enough / played Kessen so I know that Hideyoshi dies after that, the country allies behind two factions (Toyotomi and those loyal to the Emperor, who are progressives, and Tokugawa Ieyasu’s forces, who are isolationists) and they’ll fight a decisive battle at Sekigahara, and Tokugawa wins. So I already know the outcome of this. It suffers from the same thing a lot of Sengoku-era stuff suffers from – the cast is huge and you don’t know who anyone is or what they do because they’ve all got similar names and most of the time the anime’s not accurate anyway. This is a bit over the top but honestly I think it’s playing the conflict a bit too straight. Not interesting. Sengoku stuff needs a twist, like the warlords are all cute girls (Sengoku Hime), or everything is insane and over the top (Sengoku Basara), or the warlords are all cute girls in another dimension (Sengoku Otome) or the warlords are all cute girls displaced into the modern world (Sengoku Collection), or Oda Nobunaga is a cute girl (Oda Nobuna’s Ambition)… Honestly, I think for what this is trying to do, Sengoku Basara does it way better. It’s a lot crazier. Date Masamune wields like six swords at once and his horse has handlebars like a motorbike. Come on. That’s way better. This is just boring. 5/10, dropping it. Also the Crunchyroll subtitles are fucking awful, eg several times referring to Hojo Ujimasa, the Daimyou of the Hojo clan, as ‘Hoho’. He’s not fucking Santa Claus and this isn’t hard to get right! The Hojo were only one of the most important clans in the history of the country…The iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls
Interesting that this is running this season. When you talk about free to play game franchises that are huge among otaku right now, it’s Kantai Collection, and the two Idolmaster card collecting games, Cinderella Girls and Million Live. Idolmaster itself is a big franchise too, with multiple games that I may or may not own all of, and a really top-shelf anime produced a couple of years ago that I may or may not have imported all the blurays for. The original show I heartily recommend. It basically follows 765 Productions (Na-mu-go, get it?) as the troupe of fifteen idols live their lives, improve their craft, and become the top idol group in the country. It’s a rare show where all the characters are likeable, though obviously they’ve been designed that way, and there’s definitely a character in there who will appeal to anyone (Mainly Yayoi, personally, but Haruka and Iori are both fairly appealing). I was actually kind of nervous coming into this. The Cinderella Girls are a whole new group, part of a cynical cash-in on the franchise by Mobage. They’ve sold tons of CDs and stuff with these characters already, but none have properly turned up in anything beyond phone games yet. I didn’t know what to expect. The Producer this time seems a lot less good than the original series, and so far there’s only two characters, but Uzuki is adorable and I’ve found Rin fairly appealing since I saw her design originally a few years ago, so that seems fine. Production values are high and it has a style consistent with the original. I’d also be stunned if fan favourites don’t turn up here and there as side characters, since they should be basically big names in the business at this point. I expect this will follow a similar arc to the original as well. Also don’t think you need to see the Idolmaster anime to watch this, it should be stand-alone. Going to be a regular watch for me. 8/10I really loved the first series of Kamisama Kiss and felt it ended way too soon, so I’m really glad to see a second season. I will have to refresh my memory with a skim through the last ep of season one, though.
Also, I’m loving the moniker potato-kun. It perfectly fits so many ‘protagonists’ (ie: intended viewer stand-ins) perfectly.
I can’t claim ownership of the Potato-kun thing but it is fairly appropriate. Not sure where I first heard it – I think it might have been in reference to the dude with the massive egg-shaped head in Bamboo Blade years ago, but I feel like the moniker might be older than that.
Ah, I was associating it with ‘all the personality of a potato’, rather than a physical appearance thing.
No, that’s what it refers to.
Also to the fact that potatoes are there to provide structure to a dish but rarely are the main event, they’re too bland. They’re good at soaking up sauces and acting as a contrast to the more flavorful ingredients and can end up with better taste as a result of the other elements they’re added to. 😛
Sitting here listening to the Super Mario Galaxy OST while working… BEST WORK MUSIC!
What music do you like to listen to while working?
When writing: the Stargazers album is best.
When at work: anything. I’m watching Dad’s Army on Youtube right now 😛
Oooohh Stargazers is pretty great too actually… Props for Dad’s army bit I think me watching YouTube might be stretching my liberties a bit too far 😛
None. Because if I listen to music then it means I’m not working 😛
What’s “working”? I thought it was enough to just show up?
Haha, well lately it’s started to feel like that around here…
Terra’s theme from Final Fantasy VI is my go-to study music.
Heeeeeeey everybody,
Sorry I’ve been absent for quite a while. New job is taking a lot out of me, and the next couple weeks are going to be even more stressful as my boss is on leave so I’m filling in for his role as well as my new role and tasks from my old role. I’ve got so many roles I should open a bakery.
*crickets chirping* I said I should open a bakery.
*taps mic* Is this thing on?
Luckily, I finally got a *New* 3DS XL which means…. RUNE FACTORY 4! RUNE FACTORY 4! IT’S ABOUT TIME I GOT TO PLAY RUNE FACTORY 4!
I’m already loving this game. It’s everything I enjoy about Rune Factory games. I think that’s the thing with the Harvest Moon / Rune Factory series’ – the best ones are those that don’t mess with the tried and true formula too much.
Summary: If you like Harvest Moon / Rune Factory – Get RF4. If you’ve played HM but not RF, it’s Harvest Moon but with monsters, levelling up, and instead of buying cows / sheep / etc, you capture the appropriate monster and raise them on your farm and then maybe make them work for you watering the plants and stuff. SLAVE COWS. If you’ve never played a HM/RF game and want some basic RPG elements, plus trying to get the most efficiency out of farming, get RF4.
Shhhhh.
You had me at slave cows.
I befriended a “Wooly” who is going to supply me with fur to sell / make stuff, and will (eventually) tend to my crops. How did I get him to enter in to this life of servitude? I gave him a flower. That I grew myself. Now he loves me.
Too hot.
Too cold.
Juuuuust right!
Too just right
Needs more left.
@jocon @distantdrop
WoW update stuff; if either of you still need abrogator stones hold off on doing LFR until after the guild raids. Basically LFR gives one stone per boss (if you’re lucky you get a cluster); normal gives 2 stones per boss and mythic gives 4-8 stones per boss. Basically doing LFR or any difficulty below the highest one your guild can do halves your abrogator stone progress.
Also red I’m going to be asking this off all multi-specc’d raiders; are you able to gear up one of your off specs in time for Blackrock? I don’t envision swapping out healers but its always better to have that flexibility. Personally I’ve already started gearing up Resto on my sham.
Yeah I’ve only been doing LFR imp and waiting to see if we miss any others.
I’d offer to gear up a pally alt I will be making but that may take too long.
Don’t worry about rolling an alt; I need mail dps and if you don’t stay as a hunter no one else in the raid is ever going to roll on ranged weaponry. At the moment you have free rolls on any bows/guns that drop.
Wind Walker actually has the exact same stat weights as Mist Weaver, just a matter of swapping out off pieces.. rings,neck,trinks,cape and weapon.
I’m currently have gear for BM, but I mostly did that so I would have a easy way of trapping those damn elite wolves for the barn.
It makes more sense for a healer to have a DPS off spec but I really don’t know what to choose.
If you’re geared for BM then keep that as your OS; as long as you feel comfortable taking on tanking mechanics for fights that is. I would rather have a backup tank than a back up melee dps!
I did quite a lot of things this weekend – finished two books, finished my second Dragon Age: Inquisition playthrough, Letter Quest: Grimm’s Journey as well as the Unfinished Swan. Started Dragon Age:Origins because why not play the series all out of order, right?
AND I managed to leave the house yesterday to go to Midsumma where I got a wee bit sunburnt. Damn you Australian summer sun!
Hi all, hope everyone had a good weekend. Mine was spent in the least productive manner possible, because it’s impossible to get motivated in a small apartment with no cooling beyond an ineffective pedestal fan, in 30+ degree weather. Played some Destiny each night to keep getting rep with Eris (hit rank 3 on Saturday – the midday shader looks pretty cool); tried playing some Civ BE, but couldn’t get motivated.
Played a lot of AC Unity (picked it up on PS4, cos I doubted my internet would ever handle another metered 40GB download for quite some time) and am actually enjoying it. There are a bunch of problems with it (app integration, uplay on PS4, framerate of about 20fps, controls occasionally not responding during combat; Arno deciding he doesn’t want to fight after killing the second-last nearby melee enemy, and then getting shot to death; the fact that thus far there is a “signature” way to kill each target, and arbitrary side-goals in every mission) but the investigation missions (I hope they get a bit better – they warn you not to accuse the wrong guy, but so far the answer has been blindingly obvious) and the side-quests are pretty cool. I also spent about five hours just doing Nostradamus riddles…
Spent a lot of my time in Destiny listening to Mock the Week reruns on youtube – my cheeks hurt from laughing so much, I’m amazed I could shoot straight XD. Also finally saw Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny for the first time yesterday. Such a great/terrible film. By which I mean, the only good thing about it was the music (ignoring the immature lyrics), which was enough to redeem the entire film. 😛
And, yay… got to work this morning, wishing the weather had gone back to 20 degrees and overcast two days earlier… and found 4000 emails (and counting – they’re still downloading) telling me something fell over this morning. Mondays… ugh.
So… a friend of mine got married back in November. We used to be pretty close but clearly not so much anymore, seeing as I only just realised last night after seeing his (now) wife’s name on Facebook had changed.
I’m a good friend.
#makebunreconnectwitholdfriends
I sent him a text congratulating him… and telling him that I’m sure I’ll congratulate him on the birth of his first child before they can drive.
It probably doesn’t help that his (now) wife doesn’t like you very much…
Huge factor. One of my best mates from high school eventually disappeared off the face of the earth to us after marrying a devout muslim. She really didn’t want us hanging around and made that pretty clear at the attempts we made with BBQs and gatherings. He re-appeared sometime after the divorce, and all was well. Well… apart from his broken heart, but y’know. It was for the best. (No, really. The final straw had been when she’d been screaming at him for daring to remain in contact with some friends who are female; she locked him out of the house and called the cops to have them take him away. The opposite happened after she screamed at them, too.)
Nothing so drastic here. We get on well enough but I wouldn’t be surprised if she bitched about me behind my back. Mostly it’s because since leaving Brisbane, I’ve just fallen out of contact with a lot of people. Laziness has consequences.
double post
One of my wife’s best friends (Tim) pretty much broke contact with her right before his wedding and she didn’t get an invite – no explanation despite being close friends for over a decade. She really nursed a grudge over that for a year or so (rightly so) until she found out via Tim’s brother’s fiancee (Nat) that his wife (Claire) thought that Tim and my wife had had a relationship in the past! My wife advised Nat this wasn’t ever true, and mysteriously Tim and Claire are accepting invites to hang out again…
So, weekend stuff. Saturday morning I saw mention that people were still able to preorder the MM3D steelbox version at JB in-store, since apparently that was separate from the online stock so they still had spots free or something. Went down to one near me to give it a shot, it worked, awesome. But then I went to the EB there and asked about transferring my preorder for the console to their store, and they said they couldn’t. Pain in the arse, now I gotta get around to calling up head office or whatever and trying to get it fixed. Got home and faffed around for a bit trying to decide what to do about this concert before saying screw it, and threw down for the seated tickets before any more got taken. I’M SEEING JUDAS PRIEST! So excited.
That afternoon, it was down to meet up with everyone in Bowral. We were all there to see Pillowmaker in a play she’d been rehearsing for for the last few months, which turned out to be a back-to-back production of Beauty and the Beast and Sleeping Beauty. It was… of varying quality 😛 Some parts were great, some parts were ok, some parts were hilarious, others were unintentionally so. Like when the beast made an exit through one of the doors on the side, but caught his jacket in it when closing it. And everyone was giggling and paying attention to that small flap of material instead of whatever was going on on centre stage at the time, just waiting to see if he’d try and pull it through, picturing him standing there trying to figure out what to do before eventually the door just gingerly opens and shuts again, with much giggling and laughter all round. Then there were numerous bits where props broke and bits and pieces were being left on the floor, etc. Also the whole thing wasn’t on the stage, they were down on the floor in front of it as well. And got rather quite close to the audience, which was a little uncomfortable at times. It was just like… where do I look? Should I be avoiding eye contact? This is weird. People in movies don’t look directly at you.
There were a few points of “audience interaction”, like when Gaston grabbed and violently shook someone while demanding answers of them. They all seemed to go either side of me. Except one, which wasn’t supposed to be one. Maleficent came through her band of minions in one song and as she… uh… “dance move that involves lowering down by bending at the knees”, my knee was right in the way of where she needed to go and I got kneecapped by her. Like, it was still aching after the show. Apparently though she didn’t even notice or feel a thing, as I found out when spotting her on the way out and awkwardly apologising for getting in the way 😛 There was this one girl in the chorus actually who was *ridiculously* cute. Like, this is not even just me being a creeper, I made mention of it to Wingman and even she was like OH MY GOD I KNOW, RIGHT?? I think she had a friend a seat or two down from me, she kept looking over this way throughout the whole thing. At one point she fired off a wink that was just like… holy crap, that thing is dangerous.
Pillowmaker’s house was a bad place to be. Home to two dogs and three cats, and as adorable as the two kittens were, I was sniffling like crazy the whole time. I don’t know if I’m proper allergic to cats or what (at least I don’t seem to be as bad as my mum and sister are), but these ones got me going. Also one of the cats was hiding under the bed and wouldn’t come out, so we just had to sleep there and hope it wouldn’t come out and try to suffocate us in our sleep. Which it did do, eventually. Stupid thing brushed right by my face, woke me up.
Sunday, I made it back home with perfectly calculated petrol usage. Needle was right down on empty, trip meter was right about where I estimated it to be, and I guess I must’ve had about two litres left assuming the tank takes 50 in total 😛 And premium 98 was only 118! So cheap. Had just enough time to duck home and grab my gear as well as a bite to eat, then it was time to head around for this whole piano business for my friend’s proposal. Got there a little late, the others were already getting started. The guy my friend had hired with the ute was this huge German-sounding guy, he had a small wooden trolley with him for us to put the piano on. That part was alright, though I have no idea how we could have managed to lift the thing up onto the tray without him there. I got to ride with him because the other car was too full of stuff to fit, so that was… quiet 😛 Ran into some traffic on the way there with an accident on the M4, but luckily it was right next to the service station so there was a sneaky side route we could take to get around all the traffic. Awesome.
We got to the place right on schedule, and went down to check out what it was we were working with. Well, the driveway itself wasn’t that big to begin with. But then there was a rather narrow path that went down into the backyard, which itself was kind of this valley that went down to a small creek at the bottom. And the sides of it were a whole bunch of narrow paths that zig-zagged their way down the hill. One of them looked wide enough to fit down, but it was still tight. And involved pushing through many branches, a few of which were very prickly. And thorny. Somehow though, it came off much easier than any of us expected. Went to do a brief tuning check while the others set up the picnic, HOLY CRAP THERE WERE SO MANY MOSQUITOES. We had a whole bunch of citronella candles going, but they weren’t doing anything yet. I’m covered in bites now, apparently the others had aeroguard with them but we didn’t. Also while tuning up I accidentally fixed the wrong ones a few times creating more work for myself, bleh. Then had to jam some coins in a couple of the higher strings so that they sound a bit off, prompting him to check inside for “what’s wrong”. Managed to get a pretty good effect out of it, so with that sorted it was time to get the hell out of there. And not a moment too soon either, we passed the others in their car on the way out, just a couple of streets away.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/PianoInTheWoods.jpg
Hung out at the nearby pub for a while, chowed down on some burgers before eventually getting a call. All very happy, she didn’t suspect a thing and was completely blown away by it all, said yes. So hooray for them. Now we had the fun part of lugging the damn thing uphill 😛 Which… actually wasn’t so bad either. Luckily German dude had the bright idea of hooking one of the straps in under the trolley’s wheels and having someone haul that from ahead, that made things much easier. The hardest part of it all was probably searching through the grass for all the little lights we’d scattered everywhere, and making sure we got them all.
All went perfectly to schedule amazingly enough. Even got home a little earlier than expected. Now he owes us dinner 😛
Also I still haven’t gotten around to registering my Smash codes for that soundtrack. And I am itchy.
Y U no tell me? I could’ve tried for MM steelbook ed! 🙁
I did! Sorta! Also I didn’t know you were looking 😛
But hey you never know, there could still be time.
I’ve told @greenius about 3 times & he had an excuse every time
@greenius Call Nintendo.
@mrtaco Call EB.
CALL EB MR. TACO, GOSH!
*averts attention away from me*
Have you called Nintendo yet?
I found a solution online \o/
@mrtaco did you do this this when you saw that petrol price?
No.
I paid by card 😛
SPOILERS MAN! Wall of text spoilers..
Grabbed Just Dance Kids 2014 & Disney Rush for Kinect for the boy.
Same issues of Kinect having no idea what a four year old is etc.
But he lived them, had a ball.
Multi is just jump in, which is nice, but jumping out freaks it out a bit.
Dance sesh at Jimu’s house?
Too old.
We have problems with our Kinect seeing the boy as well, which is a shame, because he loves waving at it. But Just Dance Kids sounds like something I should have in our collection.
Found it for $10 in a Big W throw out thingy.
Can check tomorrow for more if you like.
That’s very nice of you, but no need. 🙂
K
After tallying the votes for and against, the final results are in.
Middle Earth – Shadow of Mordor – score: 3
Lords of the Fallen – score: 2
Super Mario Galaxy 2 – score: 2
Murdered: Soul Suspect – score: 0
Watch Dogs – score: -1
Looks like Mordor is next. Thanks, all.
Ew
The real thanks will come after playing!
I recommend Murdered when it gets nice and cheap. Price of movie ticket cheap.
I got the limited edition for $20. It’s in my pile already. I’m not buying any new games for a while 🙂
Ah, well that’s the price of a movie ticket, right there. (Which is a little mind blowing. :P)
I bought it because I remember you saying some nice things about it. Which means you’ll owe me a movie ticket if I hate it. Or something.
I was contemplating getting it but when I watched a Let’s Play they had a certain mechanic that I didn’t like the look of.
You play hide and seek with some ghost/demon thing.That almost feels like stalling, unfortunately. You work a case. Find clues. Do leg work. Then they pad it out by putting those sections in. They aren’t terrible, just a bit repetitive and there for the sake of being there.
That’s unfortunate.
I’m pretty sure I’ll add Mordor to my Pile of Shame.
Can I sneak one in, late? Super Mario Galaxy 2.
If you and Mr Zeitgeist had voted earlier, Galaxy 2 would have won. Sad days. It’s my go-to game for daylight hours, though (whenever my kids might interrupt).
I would’ve voted Galaxy as well… UGH SHANE
Hope you all had a good weekend!
Mine was pretty decent actually. Made the trip to a far-away land for a friends housewarming. Just a drinks and food dealy, nothing unusual. Played a bit of street cricket which I haven’t done in… multiple years. Didn’t get a chance to introduce them to Cards Against Humanity unfortunately (only 4 people there anyway so it’s probably for the best) – stayed up way too late playing a golf game on PS3. I think I only got 2 or 3 hours sleep in the end…
On Sunday we went and played golf at a local course. I was suitably horrific at it but it was fun anyway. Highlights include literally driving the ball straight into the parking lot 😛 By the time I got home at about 6pm I thought I’d lay down on my bed for a little while before dinner. Ended up not waking up until my alarm this morning 😛
Oh and I played some more of that Monster Hunter demo on the train ride down this weekend. I could actually see myself getting into this game, it’s pretty fun (no one tell Greenius I said that).
I tried a whole bunch of the other weapons but I really like using the Insect Glaive the most. I like having to keep the buffs up as you fight. It reminds me a lot of Melia’s playstyle from Xenoblade. Plus the fact it comes with a cool moth sidekick (which, in keeping with my weapon-naming tradition, I’ve named Georgette) doesn’t hurt.
;D
Did you see my Tweet? Apparently you can feed and level up the bug so it evolves!
Oh yeah, I did see that. Hopefully the evolved forms aren’t uggo buggos.
Morning, repost from Saturday: Buying a new TV this week was going to go with Samsungs UA55HU8500 https://www.jbhifi.com.au/tv-home-entertainment/hd-televisions/samsung/samsung-ua55hu8500-55-ultra-hd-smart-3d-led-lcd-tv/552573/ but I’ve been reading the input lag is pretty terrible on it, 72ms in game mode? I’m not sure how that compares to others, Does anyone have this TV? I’ve also read there has been a firmware update to fix this but nothing definite, any help would be appreciated.
I’ve got a Dick Smith T.V and I imagine the input lag wouldn’t be at the top end, and I don’t notice the input lag. Can you take it in the store and try it out? I’m sure JB won’t mind and it’d be a bit of a laugh for them if you take in your Xbone and play Shadow of Mordor 😛
It seems the newer the TV the worse the input lag, my 8yr old LCD samsung had none that i noticed, when i got a newer LED about 3 or 4 years ago, I noticed it instantly, I changed a few settings etc and gradually got use to it, I’m hoping the same will happen with the new one.
Lol I noticed a little input lag when I was playing Wii games on my Wii U, but it wasn’t anywhere unbearable. As per your last message I’ve been good, I’ve started my mission to get through my games backlog. After finishing Shadow of Mordor it felt good, so I finished Call of Duty’s story mission on Sunday so I’m feeling good.
Good stuff, COD was enjoyable enough, I loved that freeway mission, will be good getting back into gaming. Have hardley touched FarCry4.
what else you got to get through?
Tonnes of games, I fear I will never leave my house if I am to play and finish them all.
Steam:
Wasteland 2
Skyrim
Fallout New Vegas
Valiant Hearts
Dark Souls II
Xbone:
FarCry4
Alien Isolation
FIFA 15 (I’ve played one career mode match, ugggghh)
Assassins Creed Unity
Wii U:
Super Mario 3D World
Monster Hunter 4
Megaman X2
Megaman 9
Zelda: Wind Waker (So damn close to finishing this though)
3DS:
Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Goddamnit I feel physically ill at the thought of playing through them all. How about you mate, have you got anything to play yet lol?
From memory:
Xbone: Sniper Elite 3, NFS, Wolfenstein, FarCry4, Forza5.
PS4: Last of US again (Grounded Mode), Killzone.
I want to get: GTA5, Creed Unity, Forza Horizon 2, MCC and maybe Dragon Age.
There is also The Witcher 3, The Order:1886 and Bloodborne coming soon so will finally put some use to the ps4.
I also bought GTA3, Vice and SA on iOS but I’m in no rush to finish them all.
I’m going to have to hire you to come and play for me man lol.
The thing with input lag is that as long as it’s not huge, it’s fairly constant and your brain will often just adjust to it if the lag is small enough. Up to 40ms isn’t that big a deal. Close to 80 is.
Have you considered the Sony 55″ 4k one? KD55X9000B? Input lag on that is around 40ms so roughly half the Samsung’s. More expensive though.
Also old LCDs used to have input lag too. It’s not the same thing as refresh rate. They fixed refresh rate issues a long time ago.
Na I haven’t looked into Sony’s one, I’ve always like Samsung TV’s, will check it out but the budget already stretched. I have been read few people saying a firmware update fixed allot of the input lag after review models were sent out, but cant find anything concrete.
Worth a read, note its called the HU8550 in the US or UK I think http://www.displaylag.com/low-input-lag-hdtvs-gaming-holiday-2014-edition/
72ms is terrible, but it looks like all the 4k displays have input lag issues. Sony’s the best of the bigger brands but even their lag is around the 40ms.
I’ve been looking at TVs too recently. Need to get something bigger than mine, I’ve got a 36″ Samsung that’s about seven years old now, and it’s just too small. I’m sitting across the room about 4m away and I can’t read text on the screen. The big question I have right now is whether to splurge out on a 4k display to ‘future proof’ it or stick with a good 1080p set for about half the price, knowing that it’s already outdated and in a year or two I’ll probably start wanting a replacement.
If only OLED had proliferated a bit more by now, I’d have my choice made for me.
Yea thats the thing, I currently have no TV as I’ve moved countries so sorta want to get one that will last me a long time, but that input lag has me worried. I don’t know much about OLED, is that better again?
OLED is apparently amazing, everyone that sees it is like “this is the best TV screen ever”. The reason is basically that the contrast level is infinite. Every pixel is a tiny LED that can produce any color in the spectrum, and it doesn’t need a backlight, so you get perfect dark blacks and it can reproduce any possible color correctly.
The issues are that it has some input lag, issues with pixel burn-out, and they’ve struggled to really make it into high enough yield to make large TVs anywhere near as cheap as normal LCD stuff. It’s been the ‘future’ tech for TVs for nearly a decade now but still hasn’t really materialized, though you can get a few OLED sets now. JB stocks one LG one, but it’s like $4000 and it’s one of those fucking bullshit curved things. 🙁
Played a chunk of Duke Nukem Megaton Edition on the ps3 on Friday, it was ridiculous how well I know the first few levels, kept stopping and thinking wait a minute something is here, found so many secrets from memory and even remembered half the door lock combinations without even thinking. Funny how some games just burn into your memory. Hail to the king baby.
Edit: I should point out that I haven’t played it n about a decade.
“Wanna dance?”
“Shake it baby!”
“Hmm… that’s one doomed space marine”
“Hmm… Don’t have time to play with myself”
“This is K.T.I.T, ‘Kaytit’! Playing the breast- uhh… the best tunes in town”
I beat the first 3 episodes & am Duked out for a bit.
Playing Chrono Cross cause it was cheap on PSN
How cheap? Was that on the AU store? Nicole has just done her second playthrough of
Trigger and I was telling her about Cross.
$6 americano
It’s not even on the au store because it was never released here.
I’ll make her make an American account or just give her the deets for mine, cheers for the info.
Also how does Cross compare to Trigger? Is it good?
I think it’s great but it plays different & is an indirect sequel.
A lot of what little that’s reused is pretty different.
Classic PSX squareoft outing, no complaints.
Ugh. That’s it, I’m done here (where I’m living, not TAY :P). The last straw was dropping a glass from a few cm into the bathroom sink and the basin is now in a few pieces. I thought ceramic stuff was meant to be able to withstand, y’know, more than a tap?!?! The glass is fine! So god knows how much that’s gonna cost me. The basin itself is $150 at Bunnings but I have no idea how much they’ll end up charging :l
Sooooo I’ve been looking round and talking to a few people and will promptly piss off out of here and deal with the lease later. I can’t cope here anymore. It’s just sent me into depression.
First, that sink sounds kinda ridiculous.
Second… Hugs?
Thanks 🙂
I miss hugs 🙁 So very, very much.
On a completely unrelated note I’ve just organised to meet with a 21 year old guy named Oliver to look at renting a house together… I… I don’t know.
That should be a maintenance thing for the real estate surely, I’d hit them up before forking out yourself. That sucks, I hope things get better for you.
Oh yeah I’m talking to them, just thought I’d look up approximately how much it might cost so I didn’t faint when I got the bill 😛
Personally, I would think that should count under ‘fair wear and tear’.
‘ey.
It’s funny because he’s Canadian and that’s what they say.
‘Ey guy, I’m going to send you the box this week! Want to chuck me your address on email? Mine is n_s_mclean(at)hotmaildotcom
I shot off an e-mail yesterday or so, did you get it?
Sure did, putting the finishing touches to your chocolates!
Be
Eyyyyyy
Going to send off my application this week for that thing I rambled about a couple of weeks back. Deadline is Jan 30 and I got some advice from people. Now I’m just procrastinating. I feel like there’s nothing to be scared of any more, though. Should send it while I’m riding this happiness wave still. 😀
Stop procrastinating and send it!
You told me you were gonna send it a while ago! :O
SEND IT SEND IT SEND IT! 😀
Best of luck, amigo! 😀
@shane gave me feedback and I wanted to fix things.
I had the time, so thought delaying when I sent it was worth it. 🙂
Ohhhhh, I thought you’d already fixed it up when you last mentioned.
Alrighty them 🙂
Hope it all goes well, bud!
Are we going to get the chance to read it, or too private? 😛
Too private. 😛
Awwww, damn 🙁
Maybe I’ll watch it on TV someday instead 😉
Way too much veiled reality. I was shocked to see that I’d been written pretty overtly as one of the main characters 😛
j/kWrite what you know. But no, wasn’t you. All of those characters represent a different element of me. This is narcissism at its finest. 😛
I know that, I was just stirring. 🙂
Haha! Well you just freaked me out enough to contemplate a complete re-write! 😛
@dc, this is why you should have sent it by now!
/lesson
Edit: also, sorry, I really was only joking. Didn’t mean to initiate a freak-out response. Send it.
It’s just the first time I’ve written something that’s really close to home. Am paranoid it’s too close to reality, so am on high alert. 😛
@dc, what’s are friends and family for if not as fodder for your art?
Free food, shelter and laundry?
Hmmm… Toukiden Kiwami out end of March in English for both PS Vita and PS4, with cross-play. Tempting. I liked what I played of Toukiden but didn’t get very far in on Vita because I am a bad person.
I liked what little I played of it, did a multiplayer game with @greenius then he never played one with me after! (That seems to happen a lot)
So you’re saying that @greenius is a monster? Because I think we established that a while back.
@sernobulus forgot to mention the part where he was Ser Disconnectulus all the time 😛
Root cause fixed. Now to deal with the 80-odd thousand “error!” emails it spawned. Time to see how robust Thunderbird is, I guess.
The answer: “Not very.”
Hey guys. Pixel and Techie came over my house on Saturday and we did stuff including cards against humanity.
And I got to play Spooky Sonic the Hedgehog, it’s like normal Sonic the hedgehog but the speed of the audio was halved and the tone was lowered, sounded really really creepy for some levels.
That music! Especially that bonus level you did… Sounded like an evil carnival or something 😛
I slept okay that night at least.. 😛
Just had to go and ready a friends house after she got broken into. They took the PS4, PS3, Vita, 3DS, laptop, computer and phones and all the games.
They left the Wii U and Wii and all its games sitting there though.
Good old Nintendo. What other company ensures their consoles are theft-proof?
Aw man, that suuuucks. Hope your friend is feeling okay. Atleast she can play Captain Toad? That’ll cheer any one up! 😉
Ugh! Captain Toad is a babby game for casual noobs!
*goes back to playing Captain Toad*
My mate got robbed once & the coppers recovered most of it at a local cash converters.
There is hope!
That really sucks. We got our Sega Saturn stolen once, insurance ended up replacing it with a PS1 if I recall which was nice.
Seriously though, how can you not laugh at the fact the WiiU didn’t get stolen
Ow.
That sucks.
The first time we got robbed was not too long before Christmas, and they unwrapped the presents for my sister and I, then left them there. My Mum was offended.
Ahh, IT.
“Hey Transient, you’ve got an IT background, can you help this client out with this thing? We can’t figure it out and we’re not sure if it’s us or if it’s their desktop support.”
“Sure, I’ll take a look.”
*LATER*
“Well… I fixed it.”
“Oh? How? What was wrong with it?”
“Hell if I know. I didn’t change a damn thing. I poked around and TRIED to change some settings that were locked down by IT and when I came back, it was working.”
“That is… not helpful.”
*shrug?*
Yeah… http://www.quickmeme.com/Programmer/
Normal people don’t realize how true and completely not-exaggerated these are.
121 bugs in the code, 121 bugs
you take one down, compile it around
195 bugs in the code
Completely accurate.
Everytime I hear that it makes me giggle! 😛
We had a fake calendar up at my work for a while which said:
Monday – Write the code
Tuesday – Release the code
Wednesday – Find the bug
Thursday – Write the fix
Friday – Release the fix
Edit: Beat me to it Techy haha
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_original/jcjj7a5ndkfxfepynlsi.jpg
This one hits a little too close to home this week 😛
Also, just came back from lunch since there were no leftovers today.
Wtf is with all this wind and cold and threatening of rain? Bring me back my sunshine! 🙁
No! Don’t listen to him! Keep it nice and cool! I don’t think I can stand another 35 degree weekend! I’ll melt!
THERE IS PLENTY OF TIME FOR COLD IN THE APPROPRIATE MONTHS
It’s not cold, it’s 22 degrees. It’s temperate.
Then it’s less than 23 and still falls under “cold” by my arbitrary definition from way back 😛
Also wind chill factor!
Hmm… Google says it’s warmed to 23C, thus no longer “cold” by your definition. 😛
One can only hope!
No the ratings go:
35+ really hot
30-35 hot
25-30 temperate
20-25 cool
10-20 cold
-10 really damn cold
-5-0 Nordic warm
0-10 nice and cold
Seems to be the only place I’ve liked the cold, anything above is some kind of weird uncomfortable limbo version of cold.
-20 Slight Canadian chill
-30 Canadian long sleeve weather
-50 “It’s a bit cold, ey?”
-273 Canadian winter
*sobs*
So much bleh. Managed to get a cold in this abominable heat which feels absolutely disgusting. It does mean a sick day however I feel like crap.
That twelve hours of playing RPG yesterday in air-conditioning is probably the culprit but oh well. Worth it.
*dances*
Love Never Felt So Good – Michael Jackson/Justin Timberlake
LAST PLAYED SONG GAME:
Wild Nights, Hot & Crazy Days – Judas Priest
Currently buzzing in my head. Even though I finished Turbo just before getting to the station this morning, so I actually got up to Ram It Down before turning the car off.
Dans Dans Dans – Jack Parow,
Last Train Home- Pat Metheny
Damn you Japanese Anime to introducing me to a American 1977 Jazz Fusion group.
Runaways – the Killers
Thanks to the radio: Cosby Sweater
Ditto – That was a most excellent Live at the Wireless
It’s nice to be alive – Ballpark Music
Nine Inch Nails – Closer (Explicit)
The Road to Nowhere – Ozzy Osbourne.
Blood Sugar – Pendulum. One of my favourite Pendulum songs.
Auditorium (Feat. The Ruler) – Mos Def
Gangsta trax, ‘g.
Express Yourself – N.W.A.
Ahhh my ‘g, that’s some gangsta fare!
Something from the SMT 1 or 2 OST(?) Can’t remember
R.E.M. – Country Feedback.
Haven’t been listening to much music today.
Icarus – Deus Ex Human Revolution theme
Still can’t decide whether it trumps the original theme.
Wait, today is the day the suspected “Tyreece” is supposed to get back from their trip! 😮
I have no idea what you’re posting about half of the time 😛
He’s stalking the dude from The Walking Dead.
That’s ok, the viewers do.
Today is the day they expect the “are they / aren’t they” couple “Tyreece” (couple name) to get back from their trip.
It’s like you people can’t read.
What do you mean “you people”?
I’m allowed to say that 😉
Was it a pretty good guess though?! :O
Kind of. In that the “their” technically does refer to a couple of people as in her and my sister (sister’s boyfriend was supposed to have come back earlier for work), they aren’t an “are they/aren’t they” couple. Also it could kind of just be a genderless singular pronoun or something I guess.
Coloured people.
Like @greenius and @redartifice
And MaximaBlue or whatever he was!
The knight of the round Vita?
#shakespeareantragedy
I was so unpleasantly unsurprised when he started tweeting gamergate bollocks
Did he? Well, there you go :\
@Shane I have no idea while I hadn’t unfollowed sooner, but that certainly did it.
Oh.
Oh. I see how it is.
🙁
Let’s start out own colour themed club.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
Nerd party at mine January 31st?
Okay! I’m a nerd, I’ll fit right in
Would love to if I wasn’t going up the other coast for a quick getaway. 🙁
Yes! Only if others agree, though. Hate being third wheel. 😛
I shall be in Sydney watching the Asian Cup final 🙁
OH MAN! Is that on that night!? Oh man… I want to watch that quite badly… cc @freezespreston. Maybe I can be that lame guy who sits quietly in front of the tv while everyone else talks??
Don’t see why not.
If it means you’ll be here, I’ll refrain from making annoying Sportsball jokes too. For you.
Hmmm… somehow I doubt the night would go sans ‘sportsball’ jokes
Don’t forget to remind me to watch it!
Talk about a sausage fest 😛
I wanna hang with Freezy too! :O
Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerds.
jealous.I really need to get out of the house and do stuff, so I’ll try to make it :D.
Seriously when 95% of your daily conversations are internal monologues you probably need to interact with people.
Sounds good!
Turns out I’m a hipster, sorry
But seriously, can’t do Saturday nights no more 🙁
Sick invite.
Have to check what’s going on. I have an inkling there’s something already booked on that date for me..
I cannae do the 31st. Sorry man.
Yeah dawg, sounds good.
G2A has Dark Souls 2 for US$21…
Not much point getting that version when the updated re-release is coming soon.
NegativeZero’s Kantai Collection Update That No One Cares About
I last played back at the end of November. Back then, there was an event on. Four maps, one bonus map. Ultimate reward was German Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen. I hadn’t prepared for the event properly, had no stockpile of resources and no instant-repair buckets. RNG trolled the hell out of me but eventually I made it through to get a baby sister for my Bismarck. The event took its toll on me though, and I basically logged off and didn’t log in for a while. Then it hit December, and things got busy. I play via the API Key method, where you extract a specific URL out of the DMM website and then talk to that directly so you don’t have to use a VPN and can play from other countries. Trouble is, you need to reset this URL every month in order to run the bonus maps (which you need for medals that you exchange for blueprints required for some upgrades). That requires a VPN. And that’s a pain.Recently they discovered you can bypass the VPN entirely by logging into the English DMM site, changing language to Japanese, then issuing some console commands via firebug to set some region cookies. So I was able to do this and refresh my API key and start playing again without dicking around. Yay.
While I haven’t been playing I have kept an eye on things, and it looks like there’s going to be another event starting in early February. There’s rumors about introduction of more foreign ships (I’m betting on Tirpitz or Scharnhorst), some of the as-yet unseen IJN Destroyer classes, another of the Unryuu-class carriers (Katsuragi probably) and maybe a new Submarine, which I really hope is true because I’m sick of having to use Maruyu, she sucks and isn’t even a proper sub.
Anyway, this time I’m hoping to prepare properly. I’ve got I think 3 weeks more. So over the weekend my preparations began in earnest. I want to make sure I’ve got a stockpile of at least 100 buckets. Started out with 8, and now I’m at 36, so going good there. One of the other trends over the last few events has been the use of Combined Fleets, and also a two-tier lockout system where the first map or two requires one fleet and the subsequent maps a second fleet, with no ships participating in one part of the operation able to engage in the other. The November event also had an intermediate map which required a light fleet of cruisers and destroyers, and that was an enormous pain due to my lack of reliable high-level Destroyers that I could split between the two groups. I also had similar issues around light cruisers, at the time only having Naka (48) and Yura (43). I’d been working on grinding out Sendai to a higher level, but hadn’t focused on it as I was mainly working on getting my heavy cruiser Haguro and my carrier Souryuu to their respective remodel levels (70 and 78). Additionally I still haven’t cleared the final map of world 4, and that remains a log-term goal.
One of the first things I did was some large ship construction. I was nearly at zero dev materials, so an attempt at Musashi or Taihou wasn’t on the cards (and I don’t need them anyway) but there’s still a few ships missing from my collection that can be obtained that way, and often you get battleships that are great modernization fodder. Turned out I lucked out in a big way, getting Mikuma, the last of the Mogami-class heavy cruisers that I didn’t have. I’ll probably never use her – I only leveled Suzuya up because I needed a second Aviation Cruiser for some branching rules in one world, and it was quicker than getting Chikuma up to 70 to sit alongside Tone – but nice to have regardless.
Had a tilt at 4-4 but still having the same issue as always. The pre-boss node has a Wo that likes to eat babby destroyers for breakfast and/or knock your carriers out. On the few times I’ve gotten past her, I haven’t been directed to the boss. Quite frustrating. Happened to me again and both Shigure and Yuudachi were badly hit, haven’t had another go again. Instead I focused on clearing 1-5, because I’d heard that there were a few new ships that drop there. Turns out they were taken out of there in the last maintenance, but whatever.
After clearing 1-5, I had a few abortive runs at 2-5 before realizing my carriers didn’t have correct aircraft equipped (filled with unnecessary fighters). Still got fairly damaged, but wiped the boss twice. First one dropped Akashi, which was expected as they’d set it up so that Akashi was a 100% drop from 2-5 if you’d never had her. Akashi is a really interesting utility ship. She’s a repair ship, and when placed as flagship will repair lightly damaged ships alongside her. More importantly she unlocks a new mechanic where you can spend resources to level up equipment. Didn’t do much of that yet, but probably will as it’s the only way to get stuff like the 12.7cm Type-B Naval Gun aside from getting a second Yuudachi to Kai-2.
In the mean time, I started planning further fleet development. Sendai got top billing, as I had gotten her to level 48 and she only needed to get to 60 for her Kai-2 remodel, which is quite a good proposition as all three of the equipment she gets at that remodel are unbuildable and rare – flares (unique to her and I think Ayanami), a searchlight, and a unique night recon floatplane which increases everyone’s crit chance at night. Which is appropriate since Sendai is obsessed with night battles. Also she turns into a ninja. One of the better Kai-2 art upgrades, IMO. So yeah, I got ground Sendai all the way to 60 over the weekend.
Next, I think I need some extra high-level Destroyers. I have Shigure and Yuudachi both above 70, but below that Hibiki at 46, Shimakaze at 47 and Yukikaze at 40 are my highest. I want to focus on a Destroyer with a proper upgrade path, i.e. one with a Kai-2 remodel. This limits my options to Z1, Z3, Ushio, Hibiki, Ayanami, Hatsuharu and with the last update, Fubuki. Z1 and Z3 require blueprints and I don’t really like them very much either. Z1 is better than Z3 but neither are particularly cute or endearing. Hibiki seemed like a good idea, but her Kai-2 level is 70 which is very high and a lot of work for a Destroyer, plus as the first Kai-2 in the game (she upgrades to Russian Destroyer Verniy) she doesn’t have any special gear and her stats aside from anti-submarine are fairly average. Ayanami is a better idea, as she has extremely strong attack stats (only Yuudachi is stronger) and gets rare equipment (searchlight and flares) but she’s also a level 70 remodel and my Ayanami is only at 10. Fubuki is similarly a really good destroyer with her second remodel, but again, level 70. Also my Fubuki is only level 2, I didn’t even have her in my fleet because she was so average before that upgrade. Should have seen it coming when they announced the anime with her as the lead.
Anyway, that left Ushio and Hatsuharu. Both of them are very well-rounded Destroyers, not excelling at any one area but also not bad at any one area either. I ended up going with Ushio as my next target, because her remodel level is 60 (versus 65 for Hatsuharu) and she had a 10-level head start, as I’ve already gotten her to 30. Additionally, that Ushio was the first ship I ever built in the game and early on was my flagship until I got Yura. Hopefully she doesn’t take very long. I may decide to focus on Hibiki again after, or maybe Fubuki.
I’m also a bit light on good heavy cruisers still, so working Myoukou up to her level 70 remodel, currently somewhere in the 50s. If I need more, Chikuma is sitting in the high 20s and Ashigara just got her remodel (my Ashigara is in the mid-teens though).
The other option with the destroyers is to get a few of the higher-performers (Kagerou-class especially) up into the 30-40 range to give me some extra options. I’ve accumulated quite a few of them over time, many are unique from events or rare drops, so I’ll be wanting to do some prioritization there too, mainly between Akizuki, Amatsukaze, Tokitsukaze, Urakaze and Hamakaze. I’d already decided that Harusame would be one of the destroyers I try and boost because she’s incredibly cute and performance-wise she’s fairly reasonable, should do about as well as my Murasame does as they’re sister ships.
I’m also idly working Kirishima toward her 75 remodel, currently at 67. When the Kongous started getting upgraded art, I had all four but my Kongou was the lowest of them, as I had been using Hiei and Kirishima the most. I got Hiei to her Kai-2, then left Haruna and Kirishima in the 50s while I worked Kongou up from the 40s to the 70s. Then in anticipation of Haruna’s remodel I ended up focusing on her, she has a very high remodel level of 80. Kirishima got her Kai-2 earlier but I was focused on Haruna (the better character). And then things shifted and more of the Heavy Cruisers got a look, so the flagship job in sorties and PVP got taken by Haguro, then Tone, and then Sendai, and now it looks like Ushio will take it. So Kirishima will get up there eventually but it’ll be a lot longer at this rate as I’m just not focused on her. She has the best remodel art of the four of them, ironically.
I was actually intending to work on Jintsuu at some point as well, but I realized that there’s not much point yet. She’s going to have to get lower priority. I already have two high-end cruisers with Sendai and Naka, and I’ve got Yura as a backup, plus I’ve got the option of boosting Isuzu from her current high-30s range to her quite low level (55) remodel as well, and it’d happen much faster than Jintsuu would get from 18 to 65, so despite having some great rare materials and a fantastic art upgrade she’ll be on the back burner.
So anyway, that’s the plan. Two weeks from now I’d like to be able to have >100 buckets, have at least 4 and ideally 5 destroyers above 60 and at least 4-5 more in the 30-50 range, have at least two proper level 70+ heavy cruisers and then be able to take a 3-4 day break to make sure my resources are capped as well.
Of course, it’ll probably turn out that they change mechanics and make carriers the important ship type during the event or something and I’ll still be screwed. 🙁
Man that game sounds as complicated to get running as it is to play.
It’s not complicated to get running at all any more. That was my point. It used to be a pain, now it isn’t.
Also it’s actually a really easy game to play. It’s just got a surprising amount of depth for a free browser game.
Oh geesus… sometimes I think about poking my nose into this game and seeing what its all about, but I feel so far behind that I kind of couldnt be bothered 🙁 looks cool though… that youtube vid of the guy getting all excited about beating someone made it look pretty fun (and stressful)
I’m not familiar with this youtube video.
Was a kotaku article… ahhh, think he was beating some impossibly hard scenario, I dunno
Only thing I can think of was this article:
http://kotaku.com/so-i-married-an-anime-battleship-girl-1566961246
Which was him talking about getting the Musashi he got from an event (the Musashi event was harrowing apparently, though the Yamato one was even more sadistic, they’ve toned the difficulty down a lot since then) to level 99 so he could marry her because that’s a thing.
I was intending to do something similar with my Yamato, but she’s so fucking expensive to run and battleship effectiveness has dropped a bit. Also longer-term I’ve realized I like Shigure more.
Here we go, found it! (sorry, shouldnt have been lazy before)… http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/12/man-reduced-to-tears-after-beating-browser-game/
But I wanted to add – I had my eye on a vita port they’ve announced, but I havent followed it close enough to see if it would get translated or not. I’m guessing not, but even so… it would have to be pretty different from how the browser game works right? I like the idea of having a contained handheld game though… *coming from someone who still doesnt actually understand the game though*
The screens they’ve shown of the Vita game make it look like it plays a lot like the browser game actually.
Oh god, that event was the one that nearly killed me too. /o\ I didn’t even try E-4, didn’t have the resources left after spending tons on E-3 getting Prinz Eugen.
EDIT: They did something to the enemies in the last two maps and gave them insane dodging ability.
At some point I should try streaming it or record a short session or something so people can understand what the hell it actually is.
No, please don’t. It might help convince me to play it, and I have the same problem that Sughly has.
So you’re saying that I should definitely make a video then? 😛
EDIT: FYI it’s a free to play game but it’s not lousy with microtransactions. You can buy stuff but it’s actually kind of pricey in a lot of cases. The situations where you might want to spend money are:
– Buying more repair / construction docks (you start with 2 of each and can buy 2 more of each for 1000 yen a pop which is around $10 AUD)
– Buying more slots for your ships and equipment (can only have 100 ships total, but can get 10 extra slots & 40 extra equipment slots for 1000 yen, up to 220 I think)
– Buying a ring (You can ‘marry’ a level 99 ship to raise her to 100 and increase level cap to 150. The game provides you with one. Polygamy is legal in the game but you have to buy more for 700 yen a go).
You can also buy resources, instant repair stuff and so on but it’s so expensive compared to how much you get that it’s more efficient to get it in-game. So far I’ve spent only a small amount – have 4 repair docks and 120 ship slots. One of those extra docks was free too, as I got bonus points from them when I linked my crappy low-limit $300 credit card I use for risky transactions.
So if you’re worried it’ll suck your money out of your wallet, it probably won’t. Just your time and your soul.
(Technically it’s managed to siphon a whole lot more than that out of me if you consider the related Merchandise I’ve bought though)
Yeah, the time’s more the issue than the money, to be honest. I already have enough games to play.
BUT HOW MANY OF THEM LET YOU MARRY YOUR BATTLESHIP WAIFU?
You should definitely make a video.
I just lost my job! 😀
Umm, congratulations…? :\
Did you check behind the lounge?
Nah, that’s where I left the remains of my shattered dreams. I don’t like looking back there.
…
*pats back tentatively*
ooh, can you please lose mine for me, thanks 😛
Uhm..yay? Boo?
…meh?
Boo…. urns?
Morning all I had to get up to go to work for 4 hours tonight. I miss bed, I only slept for 14 hours.
*eyenarrows with envy*
Its Ok my shift is over I can go home now.
One last round of board gaming in Dubbo before we finish packing and leave on Wednesday. Unfortunately, I did not plan for this so our selection is basically Qwirkle, Hanabi, Ghost Stories, Discworld: Ankh Morpork and Munchkin.
Luckily, that’s enough for a game night. Unluckily, I’m used to a slightly more diverse range.
BOARDGAMES!
HANABI!
So, I’ve decided to start recording a Dark Souls play through, because why not?
Oh yeah, also over the weekend, I was injured. First was Friday evening, when I was moving fencing, I managed to drop a support post on my leg, taking away a layer of skin in a line. It sounds worse then it was, but it hurt like heck.
The next day, I was trying to get Sid to eat his tablet when he put used his paw. I wasn’t expecting it, and he scratched me on the eye. Luckily, I shut it in time. Techie said that I could now cosplay Katrina from Lol. I was not amused.
People give roleplayers/video game/anime characters shit about prominent eye-scars, but it really is amazing how quickly your instinct kicks in to shut that eye and yank that head back. If someone’s swinging something sharp your way or there’s a scything bit of metal or whatever handy, that’s the reason for the slash up/down the eye socket that doesn’t actually take the eye out. You got a sunken enough socket, it tends to glance off the bone before continuing along, sparing that precious ball of goop. (And anyone who doesn’t successfully dodge out of the way… well. We don’t see them around much.)
Time to rock an eyepatch! I wish I could but when I tried I looked like someone people would cross the road to avoid.
Also hope you leg and eye are alright
The eye is healing up. I keep accidentally scratching it because I am terrible. Leg is definitely better. I’m not showering in pain anymore
Yeah dont worry im the same I have a cut in my ear and I keep picking at it because it annoys me and then it bleeds..great for getting free shit at places because people think your having brain issues or something but otherwise just annoying haha
People have wondered what happened to my eye, but I explain it was the dog. He didn’t mean it, he was playing and I can’t be angry at him.
Got to work late & having to make up the time.
Booooooo
Why? It’s not like you do anything normally as it is 😛
So much Jimu TAY poop
That makes it worse! If im busy the day goes by quick!
http://www.thewrap.com/paramount-avoids-fifty-shades-by-moving-up-spongebob-squarepants-sequel/
Uh..Is…is there a big crossover in audiences here?
There is, according to my fanfiction.
So, I got my (five year old) cousin to play a bit of Captain Toad treasure tracker over the weekend, and he really struggled with it. Comparatively, he’s finished Super Mario Galaxy (though nowhere near collecting all the stars, he was probably ahead of where I got up to when he stopped playing the game), and plays a decent amount of other (though usually quite simple) games. Lord knows, he actually understands the game design of Lego Star Wars, whereas I can’t make heads nor tails of what it wants me to do.
Anyway, just though it was interesting that a game that made such perfect sense to me mystified him so much.
Hmm, that’s not a funny story, what on earth am I doing here?
*Insert jingle, I can’t be bothered making up a title*
So at work today I was talking with the Nursing Student, and she asked me if I was doing things specifically to spite her, to which my answer was obviously in the affirmative, since nothing makes me happier than destroying people’s hopes and dreams.
So she threatened “to go crying to your Mum, and tell her that you made me cry! How do you think she’d respond to that?
…
Wait, she’d probably just laugh at me. Never mind.”
This sounds like flirting right here!
Hurtful, hurtful flirting.
Cornerstone of any successful relationship!
Obviously wants Blaghs sempai to notice her.
Nah.
Edit: If it helps fuel the fire, I was saying that I wasn’t going to go eat lunch with her, and avoiding her was my evil plan. 😛
Booo!
Is this the same cute new girl person you talked about another time?
Okay, last time I talked about work was the temporary receptionist (who keeps getting shifts, apparently, so maybe less temporary than I thought), the time before that was the Christmas party with the Nursing Student.
Hard to keep track, I know. 😛
Ooo so you have multiple work babes!
So Nursing Student has a boyfriend anyway? FLIRT ANYWAY.
Oh, I do, because I know it’s just for fun. But I’d never admit to it in court. 😛
Ahh the strongest cornerstone of any relationship.
My (now) girlfriend and I met at a party when she was sitting down on a couch at a house party when a bunch of people were dancing. I sat down next to her and introduced myself, when she spilled her drink all over my pants. I asked what was wrong with her leg because she wasn’t up dancing, or was she as bad a dancer as she was at introductions. She gave me an unadulterated offended look, but then turned into a smile and now are together 5 years later. 10/10 would hurtfully flirt again.
‘Playful asshole’ has worked very well for me in the past. K in particular loves, loves, loves it. So, y’know. I’m always keeping an eye out to poke fun. Because… I like when she’s offended-happy.
I like when she’s happy for any reason.
Today workbabe suggested we should go on roadtrips if we’re both still in Melbourne in our next rotation at work.
Maybe I don’t want to go interstate yet… 😛
Use it to go interstate, getting her to help you move.
Smart man!
*grabs popcorn*
Some of the levels in captain toad are tricky, and others have annoying enemies. Batboy is mostly watching us finish the levels and then he watches the cut scenes.
I think one of the hardest things for him was using the right thumbstick to look around. I tried explaining it to him, but he didn’t really seem to get it. He did better once I set him up on the falling blocks/running sort of level (he’s ace at cutting corners, if not staying on the track), but was still having issues.
He also didn’t like the idea that he couldn’t jump. That just wasn’t right at all.
I understand Captain Toad is designed around this, but I agree all games need a jump button its a sin other wise. Every game. Even things like SimCity
Lego Star Wars is like, the worst of the Lego games.
I bought a bottle of Jim Beam Maple today, wow. It’s pretty good, maybe a tad on the sweet side, but it’s quite nice as far as Jim Beam goes 😛
Sounds cray, what is the alcohol content in such a thing?
37% it’s basically the same concept as Jack Daniel’s Honey, I guess. Tastes pretty similar too.
Goddamn I’d be drunk off a single pancake lol
Hahaha, it’s not that thick.., Though, making it into a syrup would be nice 😀
Maple you say – sounds like the perfect addition to a marinade for pork chops!
Yeah. That sounds pretty awesome. I wish Jack Daniel’s would explore further with various flavours like Jim Beam are doing.
Was kinda random me even buying it, I was in BWS and was looking at the spirits and thought why not.. Plus staff discount made it the same price as Dan Murphy’s, which I am far to lazy to walk down to 😛
This reminds me I’ve been drinking alot more and need more Jim Beam
After a months long hiatus, got back on the treadmill.
That was… not awful. and I’ve now had it for one year and in that time have run, off and on, 246 km which must be doing me good, right?
That’s awesome, not many folks would walk 240km in a year let alone run!
@redartifice making the most of his treadmill
Get out of my living room
I got an offer for the uni course I wanted to do at the university I wanted to go to. However the acceptance was from the Melbourne university. Now I need to make an adult decision that will impact my life dramatically. I HAT BEING AN ADULT. /o\
Do it, man. Seriously. Adventure. Do it. Do it. Do it.
And by that I mean, I’m sure you’d make a considered decision. 🙂
I would move to Melbourne. 😛And by that I mean, congrats on the offer. 🙂
Yeah you would, best city 😉
Which Uni and course? 😀
Nursing and Busness Admin at ACU
Hey man that’s my uni! I manage the gyms nationally :p
ACU has magnificent job outcomes and folks love the community feel here.
Pity about all the Catholics*flails arms* 😛
that’s our DC!
I could put a few jones here about shunning non believers, but I’ll just add to a stereotype that’s existed long before I was even thought of :p
Good work, congratulations!
You can always transfer uni to something nearby, if you don’t want to / can’t move to Melbourne.
Moving might be the best thing though 🙂
Sounds like a pretty good opportunity if you can afford to do it!
dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
Do it. You’ll regret it if you don’t.
Congratulations!
The only real advice I can give you is that the western and northern suburbs tend to be cheaper then the eastern and southern suburbs in Melbourne. Around where I live it’s about $360 per week.
So, you’re saying move in with Scree?
Sounds like the beginnings of a crazy new sitcom!
Sure, if I could kick my brother out. =P
Nob can do it \o/
I think we’ve got a Sitcom name!
https://twitter.com/hermitdc/status/557115793893126144
You forgot the “\o/”
Oh man, re-writes are the worst. 😛
Ugh, it’s one of those shows where the writers have no respect for the source or fans and only their “vision”.
I saw this on twitter with no context yesterday and was very confused by it.
This is why I don’t like work, it gets in the way of TAY
Brisbane is great, but Melbourne is too… man. Adventure is so great, too!
@negativezero
Wheres the best place to buy japanese Ggame OSTs?
Illegal internet downloads.
I believe they call it the bit tripping or something like that. IDK ask @blaghman
Pshh, like you even know how to torrent, CJ.
I need an alternative to torrents or a new torrent site…
But I asked Neg looking for a legit answer.
Still, new torrent site?
Torrents tend to be kickass.to
Yep, the SMT ones are too old, no seeds 🙁
Actual CDs seem to be too old too, so expensive.
You’re all criminals and Im reporting you to Abbots cyber police
Its a narc!
!
@cj a downvote?
You blew his cover
Yeah it was ment as a joke for calling me a narc. (But I’ve gone and changed it now \o/) @jimu
tried Usenet with a decent indexer?
Or private tracker… I have invites to 1 if you’re interested… but it’s a bitch maintaining ratio because everyone else is running seedboxes so you need to leave stuff for weeks to get it up.
I dont understand this!
CD Japan or Amazon probably.
Or iTunes with a Japanese account, probably. Hell, all of Falcom’s stuff is up on Australian iTunes which surprised me a lot.
Of all the random…
Only the unreleased in the West Devil Children albums are on our store.
Not the DemiKids that had a US release, not recently released globally SMT IV, just Devil Kids.
Wh..WHY?!
Best album cover: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/TECH-25356
CD Japan is ace, shipping seems reasonable too, thanks 🙂
For old OSTs that is out of stock everywhere else I usually go to Suruga-ya to buy them. They mostly second-hand but are usually in pretty good condition. It is not very straight forward to buy or even search (you have to search using actual Japanese) from them but you can get a proxy to do it for you.
This is what comes up when you search for SMT soundtracks: http://www.suruga-ya.jp/search?category=4&search_word=%8F%97%90_%93%5D%90%B6&charset=SJIS-win
You, ser, are a saint!
No probs, it’s where I get my hard to find Purseowner stuff.
Holy shit @negativezero (and whoever else cares). You know how I said I was considering asking IGN for an industry invite to their awards night? I sent them an email from my work address, and they said it was no problem!!
Next stop GDC/E3?
Now email Kaz Hirai, Satya Nadella and Satoru Iwata and ask if you can use their toilets while in town.
Iwata and miyamoto already said I could when I contacted them earlier, so I’m good.
And you need a Barista come security monitoring guy to accompany you for free. Ok ill do it.
He needs a bodyguard. You’ve seen those crazy journalists and what they get up to…
*que I will always love you by Whitney Houston*
RPGs
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
Last time, @popdart5 and @tech_knight made their way into Aurturi’s Pit! they solved a door puzzle, and made their way through a trapped room, but what awaits them further into the tomb?
WEDNESDAY 7:30 SA Time!
cc @blaghman @novacascade
FIASCO
Will Becky Hardcastle’s hard hitting expose of zoo practices shake up the industry?
FRIDAY 7:30 SA TIME
cc @freezespreston @beeawwb @sernobulus @negativezero
THE STRANGE (@strange?): THE SERIES
if I don’t have your email addresses, can you DM them to me through some means? I’ll send you the player’s guide to have a look at. Aim is to do first session on about the 11th of Feb. Even if you’re not in S1 I’ll send it to you anyway
cc @trjn @beeawwb @quiz_b @freezespreston @sernobulus @blaghman @gingerchris86 @anyoneelsewhowantstojoinin
Whew!
99% sure you have my email.
I’ve gone from never having played pen and paper before to playing several at once and being my favourite games.
I do have yours.
The RPGs have you, and won’t let go 🙂
I’ve gone from D&D only, to a dry spell, to now doing lots of varied RPG stuff, which is grand.
That was the same as me when I first started Numenera
I’d like to play a Pen and Paper RPG some day, but it kind of frightens me and I’d have no idea what to do.
Do you have mine?
not sure. DM me for good measure
DM sent!
I should have internet by Feb 11, count me in. I’ll let you know if I have to back out.
Im keen to do some RPGs this year so ill be in the wings just waiting to sort out innernets
hopefully we get some help tomorrow night, I don’t want to try jumping that giant trap hole /o\
I know you have my email. Do you want Becky’s?
Should be fine 🙂
I’m psychic. Got back to my bag after climbing, found a message waiting for me on my phone. “Will you be keen to climb some mountains soon?”
I dunno though. Last guy I heard of who accepted an invitation to a mountain… things didn’t work out so well for him.
Poor Charlie.
Broke back?
No kidney.
Candy’ll do that to ya
taylor swift is saa pwetty
<3
I was hoping I could quickly find an ugly picture of her, but the best I can do is this: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6a/75/aa/6a75aa802a0a9a02cda7d32f6187e7a8.jpg
Imo you could have just used any picture of her but maybe that’s just me 😛
I’ve hit a point in Tomb Raider where there are just too many stupid decisions happening so quickly that it is really deterring me :\
For starters…
When the crazy people are trying to burn Sam. Lara has a shotgun, a machine gun, a handgun and a bow, so she tries to take on about 20 people with her bow…Then also…Like, she could have finished everything right there and then…
Where Roth is fending of attackers from a wounded Lara and cops an axe to the back. He could have pushed Lara out of the way and ducked himself, but instead moves in front of Lara.Again, you could have both easily survived there :\
Really good so far overall though, except the recommended settings are way too dark, and the voice controls play up a lot trying to say “Shotgun”.
Every time somebody (in any medium) like dives in front of something to catch a blow with their face(or whatever) I cringe. THERE IS ALWAYS A BETTER WAY, UNLESS YOU’RE ALREADY FLYING SIDEWAYS THROUGH THE AIR ON AN OUT OF CONTROL JET-PACK YOU GITS!You ever madea split second decision with a loaded gun pointed at you?
To be fair, the guy is a trained adventurer with years of experience. Surely he would know how to keep a steady head in a bad situation.
Maybe he was too worried about Lara.
I dunno, she fights on I & that’s fine, but someone makes a silly decision & all believability is out the window?
Personally, I can take idiot decisions in Tensei situations, I find it more believable than magic lightning.
To each their own, just throwing in my two cents.
If we are going to inject any kind of realism into the game Lara should have died so long ago. Like, so very long ago.
It’s more that another stupid decision happend just before (trying to take on everyone with a bow).
Seeing another stupid decision do soon after was just, urgh.
And he was the only one with guns too! Everyone else had knives :O
I never notice these little moments because the whole scenario seems so fantastic already.
I’m with you Jim Jim, go with the flow. I didn’t have a problem with those section if tomb raider. With everything else going on those examples seem the most plausible stuff happening.
I was in shock I was enjoying it as much as I was too.
Solid game.
“Hahaha! Charlie went into a cave not a mountain! Promise I won’t take your kidney.”
“Coooome to the mountain [Gooky]!”
Well shit, with a “correct” response like that I guess I’ve got no choice but to go now, don’t I?
Jeez, now he’s got the fellas falling for him! :O
I just realised that Charlie was promised a mountain, how do I know there’s actually a mountain and not just a cave waiting for me too? Also I have plenty of other viable organs.
Suspicions back on alert.
Charlie went to the mountain to explore a cave.
You really should go, you know.
Maybe he’ll steal your heart 😉
Been getting slammed by a crazy intense storm for a while now. Nuts.
Most of the storm passed by here, but what did pass by cooled things down a bit which was lovely!
My mince smells like Chiko Rolls.
Yay?
My mints smell like Chiko Rolls.
Yay?
EVERYTHING IS CHIKO ROLLS
I’ve never liked chiko rolls
when I was about 11, the smith family had a day out to Luna park for disadvantaged kids. I witnessed another 11 year old choke on a Chiko roll. I remember them trying to resuscitate him, but I don’t know whether he actually died or notReset my OR cart on the weekend, doing a boosted run back through with a new trainer name.
4 hours in, 6 badges down so far 🙂
boosted run?
A couple of quick experience injections courtesy of my Y cart… Skipping all the grinding and optional battles to just run through the story.
The Psycho-Pass Xbone game has an English website. I really hope it comes out to the west.
http://psycho-pass-game.jp/en/index.html
Quiet day today.
*tumbleweed*
I was right about to type *echoing cough*. Then at that exact moment, someone behind me did that exact cough.
…
*sudden appearance of a bag of gold*
3D gifs, 3D gifs for everyone!
Gutsoup’s Evolve beta adventure continues. (Spoilered because wall of text)
Last night I got properly stuck into the Evolve beta had about a dozen matches and tried 3 out of 4 classes. I’m pretty hyped about it now, had a mixed bag of matches some we demolished the monster with awesome team play others were a random mess and people just ran around like idiots. I think to get the most out of it you’ll want to play with a decent group, as a human you must cooperate to succeed. Really enjoyed the trapper role, you have a lot of responsibility as you’re the main one tracking the beast and once found you have to try and deploy a temporary arena that traps it in a limited area and lets you deal some decent damage before resuming the hunt. Turns out the arena is a double edged sword too as last night one cunning monster lured us into a spot, our trapper deployed the arena then we realized he’d led us into a nest of aquatic creatures that had us surrounded and proceeded to grab and drag our medic underwater while the monster & his new friends wailed on the rest of us, we went down fast, did not see it coming, thought we had him cornered. Also enjoyed playing the support class, you just try keep your distance and buff team mates with a shield as they’re attacked and can call in area damaging strikes as well a temporarily turn your team invisible (if they’re close enough). I really like how balanced the classes are, I’d say that the Trapper and Medic are the most important but it’s hard to separate them as all four roles play an integral part to winning. I also really like how each class has 3 variations, only tried a couple but they seem to play a lot differently with their different abilities and loadouts. I wasn’t expecting to enjoy it as much as I did, some seriously tense and satisfying moments there. I’m really interested to see how the dynamic campaign works too. You play over 5 days (I’m hoping they mean in game days and there aren’t time barriers) & play 5 matches in different modes (hunt, rescue & evac, point defense & nest kill). Each fight will affect the next, the example they gave in one map if you win by defending a power plant the next round will have powered up turret guns throughout the level to help you fight, if you lose however and the monster destroys said power plant the following match will have radioactive clouds scattered throughout the level.TLDR: I like Evolve more than I thought I would, didn’t expect as much depth to it as there is.
I didn’t get round to playing it in the end, but I watched about 20 minutes of someone’s livestream last night. I really like the look of it, still uncertain though about how long it’d be fun for..
Yeah, not sure on that either, so far from what I’ve seen I’ve been pleasantly surprised, there is more to it than I thought there would be but it still is an online only outing with not much story. I’ve gone from a maybe buy to a definite will buy though.
Edit: I wonder how they streamed it, I couldn’t got told I’d entered a blocked scene.
I think I’m a ‘probably.’ Maybe even more so depending on when Dying Light actually makes it to Australia.
Huh, has Dying Light been delayed? Damn looked at some sites and they’ve changed from the end of January to February. Oh well, more time to try and actually finish some games.
We should have an anime style game of MTG. Lots of shouting, threats, loud gloating, dramatic flourishes and screaming of the card names.
My kids may have been watching Yu-Go-Oh this morning…
I don’t know, what’s the point if you can’t yell out “YOU ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD!”
yeah.. I don’t think “I SHALL PLAY MY RED LAND CARD! And I’ll end my turn!” really gives the same ring to it
I play this card face up!
I shall TAP MY LAND TO SUMMON! *Overdramatic closeup*
Good news! Magic has trap cards these days.
You forgot flashbacks and narrated cliffhangers
Naturally.
Good god this morning is going so incredibly slooooooooow.
Hurry up and get here already, lunchtime. I need a nap.
Screw lunchtime, I want it to be friday already!
Silly Gooky. Lunchtime is for lunch. That’s why it’s called lunchtime.
Work is for napping. Or toilet breaks.
Hhhnnghguhfdxvjff!
Diablo 3 has introduced Ancient Weapons! Hhhhnnnnggghhhhhh! Must. Resist. Falling. In.
DAMMIT FREEZE WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME!?
*launches Diablo 3*
@alexpants and I have been playing through it! We’re level 49 now I think and almost at the end of Act 3.
We encountered one of the new Rainbow Goblins the other night. It was…glorious.
You should play Hardcore mode!
Nah.
You two need to stop fighting it and just accept what is.
We did….
http://imgur.com/a/jFi5u
I love the rainbow goblins. I annoyed @batguy by having to hit every single cloud 🙂
Intriguing!
If it makes it any easier there’s a current community event were all treasure goblins appear in pairs.
I think they adjusted the drops on goblins too, so on Torment and higher they only drop their best gear instead of randomised crap.
Not sure if I have you on Bnet or not, but I haven’t played in months, is there any new content to run or are they just giving us more RNG gear to grind for?
Well, there goes what little free time I had left. Minecraft has dug its claws in once again, thanks to a quick search to see if FTB had started releasing 1.8 packs. They haven’t, but AE2 and Thaumcraft have some nifty new stuff in 1.7 that I want to play with… Last time this happened, there was nothing around to distract me… This time, however, there’s Destiny, Elite, AC:U, and (in a week) Dying Light. I’m doomed. :/
Are you buying Dying Light Digitally? There seem to be delays on physical copies 🙁
I’ll likely grab it on Steam, but gonna wait for reviews – might pick it up a day or two after launch. I’m still a bit wary of anything Techland produces, after Dead Island…
Destiny has completely consumed my free time. I took a pre-DLC break to knock off Stick of Truth which had been sitting around since March, but now I’m right back in.
The only way I’m coping is forcing myself to focus on only one goal. Currently that is “Get Eris to rank 4.”
So, I drop in around reset, run Eris’ bounties twice (still amazed that’s not been fixed…) and should have rank 4 accomplished by this time next week. Then… I’ll drop in for nightfalls (and maybe strikes) on Tuesdays for the exotic rolls and coins, grab the first chest in CE on all characters, and hope for some of my normal group want to raid sometime during the week so I can get the chestpiece and 23 shards I need to hit 32. I’m so close… :'(
Might keep trying to solo the opening on my hunter… stealth makes getting to the bridge a joke, but I still can’t stay alive there long enough for it to complete… but again, hard to find the time.
I just got Eris to 3 last night so I immediately picked up the emblaming orb I needed for Murmur and Runed Core I needed to evolve Husk of the Pit into Eidolon Ally.
Don’t know why I’m bothering TBH, probably never going to do Crota’s End on Hard to get the item I need to evolve it to it’s final form, but I guess it’s a pretty decent legendary auto rifle anyway, or will be when I upgrade the stability node.
What system are you playing on?
Xbone. Most of TAY is on PS4 I think. I’ve got some US buds from my Halo 3 days who I’ve managed to hook up for attempts at VoG and CE while I was on leave with but due to the time difference we’re probably going to have to stick with weekends. :/
Ah, yeah, I was gonna offer to help you out occasionally if you needed, but I’m PS4 :3
I know there at least 2 Xbone Destiny-ers though.
Umm, I think they’re @highperformance and @jackunit13?
@kermitron I do have an Xbone and play Destiny, I’ve been Destiny clean for about a month though with only a level 31 Titan and Level 30 Hunter (Level 14 Warlock there too I think).
Am also clean…however if I were to go back for anything it would definitely be to do a bit of raiding.
@highperformance @jackunit13
I have never completed a raid though my Titan is level 31 (maxed out new legendary armour and updated exotic helms so I can roll Striker or Defender equally). My wife has a similarly maxed Hunter though she prefers Gunslinger to Bladedancer – I think Bladedancer is pritty useless in a raid situation anyway.
If we can get a group of 6 together I’d love to at least finish VoG once and maybe one day dream about Hard Mode. I’ve made it to Atheon but we just couldn’t pull it together on the Atheon fight.
I’ve seen the Achievement Hunter attempt at Crota’s End and I reckon I am competent enough to get past the bridge, but after that I have no idea.
I could do a level 26 VOG raid no problem, when are you hoping top do it? Jackunit13 is my boy and he’ll help out too 😛
My gamertag is highperforma89
Tomorrow night? @highperformance? Me julie is out partying with her friends and I wanna gaymmm.
@highperformance @jackunit13
I should be fine to have a crack at it tomorrow night, I’ll run it by my wife. I might see if I can wrangle someone else too. The wife of one of my old high school buddies was talking about wanting to do Crota this week, maybe she’d be up for VoG instead/as well? She’s in NZ but I don’t foresee the small time difference being a problem if it’s Friday/weekend.
@jackunit13 @kermitron
Sure, I can play tomorrow night I’ll tell the ball and chain to take the night off!
The night off from waiting on your every request eh @highperformance you evil man. Cool, I’ll prob be on from like 7 onwards.
See you for Nightfall late this evening? 🙂
Eris at 4 as of last night \o/
Grats! \o/
Sure, I’m up for a bit of nightfalling tonight 😀
Eeeeexcellent. I was away all weekend and then was summoned for Leaving Drinks by a mate last night who’s heading to Newcastle for a new job, so haven’t had a night in with the missus since Thursday. So I’ll be on around 10:30 most likely. 😀
(Armed with ICEBREAKER \o/)
Okay, that’ll give me time to do Eris’ bounties. Hmm… she’ll have a “majors in a nightfall” one tonight… and the ‘net thinks it’ll be void-burn Phogoth this week, according to the rotation. For only 100 rep and 3 motes, I’m not sure that’s worth the bother of double dipping… :S
My local coffee place (soon not to be so local) is pretty rad. I just walked in and asked for a flat white, a mocha and to fill a glass milk bottle with cold drip.
So my first week in Canberra is going to be pretty good, coffee wise.
Ah, so when we come visit again I should bring with me a bottle of cold drip from my local cafe?
Yes. Most definitely yes.
On an unrelated note, how do you feel about making a trip to Canberra on the first weekend of every month? :p
Ooohhh. EB have a second shipment of Majora’s Mask 3DS consoles available to order.
I don’t know why I’m so tempted…
Because Majora’s Mask is a pretty rad game. I’m really burnt out on Zelda at the moment but MM is just different enough that I’m seriously considering grabbing it.
Then I remember I never end up finishing things on the 3DS.
I’ve already got the game ordered,it is the best Zelda after all. It’s the console itself I’m tempted by. Wife got me a New 3DS for Christmas (the new ones, not another new old one) and it would break her heart if I replaced it.
I need to relax and stop stressing about having everything new immediately. It’s becoming a problem.
I misread that.
Yeah, you have a serious problem. Maybe not Mawt levels but still a problem. Those things are shiny but you have something that does that exact job.
Even I’m not interested in the MM limited n3DSXL.
Mostly because MM doesn’t hold as much of a special place in my heart as it does for others. Also, I already have a lot of DS’s.
Also, regular n3DS lets me buy faceplates! And I want the Kyary ones from Japan, and the MH4U ones from Europe, and maybe the new Pikachu one, and the Mario/Luigi moustache ones, and
and
and
I don’t have a problem.
I want to want regular n3DS but the buttons felt gross so I’ll probably want to be using an XL anyway 🙁
Will probably end up getting a black one once they appear. Because I do have problems.
But it’s got a new hat!
Also, the gold just looks tacky. They should have gone with purple and gold.
That’s the other thing. I really dislike the colour but still I want it. I need to stop buying things full stop for a while I think.
They should have gone with a custom-shaped 3DS in the shape of Tingle. Top screen is surrounded by his head and upper body, bottom screen is his legs and lower body.
Don’t ask where the stylus is stored.
It giggles everytime you touch the bottom screen.
“Tingle Tuner”
Kooloo Limpah!
Hm. Maybe I could get my thing transferred then.
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/01/19/xenoblade-chronicles-x-localization-is-in-progress/
\o/ \o/ \o/
Hooray!
They’d be silly not to get the localisation out as soon as possible. (I’m thinking it’ll be out here in October)
I hope so. It does look like it’ll be this year at least.
Annual performance appraisal done, apparently I am still brilliant.
Opportunity for an internal promotion is probably a year away, so I have that year to ensure my talents as a claims person differentiate myself from my nearest competitor who joined the team only 6 months ago, but has a law degree and experience with medical malpratice suits.
Upon reflection, I have decided to run away and join the circus.
TAY RPG Rogue Trader will not be on tonight sorry guys. I’m still sick and, in the words of my boss, “You sound like shit”. We’ll just have to skip this week and come back in a fortnight.
@freezespreston @tech_knight @rize @sernobulus @gingerchris86
Get Better soon mate 🙂
aww dang. Get well soon man!
Also, THE SUSPENSE INTENSIFIES! /o\
Yessss, Vaethril gets to live for another fortnight.
EDIT: Get well soon man!
Hahaha!
I’d done everything in my power to make sure I’d be there tonight 😀
No worries!
The Monster Hunter 4 demo is a stupid game for jerks.
Why can’t I stop wanting to play it?Um, because
I didn’t want it to be true.
because Monster Hunter is amazing lol the new sub-elder dragon monster in the demo absolutely wrecked me when I tried to lance it, I havent gone back to him with a more mobile weapon
Is Resident Evil: Xzibit Edition getting a retail release or is it digital only? Can’t seem to find physical copy available anywhere to order?
http://www.destructoid.com/new-resident-evil-hd-remake-priced-and-dated-and-it-s-cheap–284563.phtml
Ah, nuts.
I didn’t know it was coming out on consoles, first I heard of it was a steam suggesting I preorder it.
You can get a PS3 disc version from playasia, Japanese with al the dubs etc.
Special packaging too.
I just got the PS4 version, I orders it anyway.
$20 from US, good price.
Been watching a play of Parasite Eve 2 on YouTube when I’m too tired to play myself.
Forgotten exactly what it was like, cool games, sits somewhere in between Resident Evil PSX & Final Fantasy PSX.
2 leans more toward RE whereas 1 was a bit closer to FF. Great games, really should buy digital copies when I’m done with Chrono Cross.
Got my sister started on P4G today, I reckon I’ll get Chrono Cross on my US account and “share” it with her. Remember that time I played Parasite Eve for like 30 seconds, good times.
I told you, I wasn’t there. I turned up later & had a cry.
I know that, just salting the wound 😛
You’ve actually played the whole thing though now right?
I imported it years ago. Was on my second play doing the optional skyscraper (dungeon) when I returned the chipped PSX to where’s wally.
2 had a local release & I played through a few times.
2 had some bizarre riddles gating off hidden areas that needed to be accessed for the good ending. Was pretty cool but I needed a guide.
Oh! & in 2 you could unlock Squall’s Gunblade but it was a shotgun for some reason.
Squaaaaaaall!!!
Leonhart!!!
That’s pretty sweet. Could you use it to stab? I always wanted to use a gunblade for swordfights and shooting outside of a turn based thing.
I think, I can’t remember, pretty sure that was the point.
Vague memory.
It just occurred to me, Xenoblade X is out in Japan in April which might mean it’s the first proper original JRPG on a next-gen system? Wii U has exactly zero other JRPGs. PS4 and XB1 will get Type-0 HD in a few months, but that’s a HD remake and not an original game. PS4’s got a few in the tank (Neptunia VII, Persona 5, FF XV…) and technically Omega Quintet and Natural Doctrine are Japanese-made RPGs, but Omega Quintet’s at least partially an idol raising game and Natural Doctrine’s a weird strategy RPG with a western style to it…
Lot of excuses as to why Xeno is the first. :p
Well if it isn’t then Omega Quintet is. And that game looks shit. 🙁
Looks shit and is shit are different things, Mr Judgey 😛
Is that what you tell yourself everytime you wear those pants?
#bitchyohsnap
Oh, go shave your neckbeard.
<3 U
One of the posters on my wall which I was told I should probably take down was simply black text on white background: “If you see someone crying… ask them if it’s because of their hair-cut.” All the girls would laugh at it while clamping their hands over their mouths and saying, “Oh noooo!”
I put it in the ‘too evil’ category. Similar to when I stumbled across some pretty politically incorrect ‘demotivator’ poster which one of the girls printed out after I linked her to it, but ended up having to keep in a drawer, only to be pulled out and displayed meaningfully while on the phone to anyone particularly annoying.
But not mutually exclusive 😛
Actually it doesn’t look shit. The character art is excellent and it’s bright and colorful and everything. But it is shit.
Some facts:
– “The player plays as Takuto, the manager of the Verse Maidens, an idol group that use the power of song and dance to fight off a phenomenon called the “Beep” and save the world”
– “The game features “costume destruction” in a manner similar to Senran Kagura, which happens when the girls get parts of their clothing torn off as a result of taking repeated damage from enemies”
– It’s Compile Heart, under their silly Galapagos RPG imprint. Compile Heart have never made a game that wasn’t exceedingly average. Neptunia V and Fairy Fencer F are them at their best, and that’s not saying much
– Sold less than 10k copies in Japan at launch (flopped)
So basically it’s a game where you face your enemies in an epic dance-off in an attempt to blow their panties off before you lose yours, and somehow despite that utterly amazing premise, they managed to balls it up.
I love your “facts” :p
Cool. I don’t have to play this then on account of panties blowing off every time I dance.
I didn’t see any of that in the trailer I watched, but I’ll take your word for it! 😀
You’re the Japanese game guy, after all 😛
Bun has just packed all of our tea into a box and now I am sad.
Get revenge by packing all the boardgames in a box!
I did that almost a week ago. /o\
Well, most of the board games. There was still Qwirkle and Hanabi, so we played those last night. \o/
He’s rebelling!
Smack him on the nose with a rolled up newspaper!
Jeez, usually I have to catch up on two pages by the time I wake up, but today you’ve barely made it through one page without me 😛
I wonder why everyone’s so quiet :\
It’s even really quiet on Twitter too…
I hope everyone’s ok :3
Must be hiding from stalkers.
I’ll find them 🙂
All good man, just getting smashed at work so not many posts from me. I have a cool one in mind though which I’ll unleash in due time!
*waves*
Hi, I’m here.
*waves*
Hey Gutsoup!
What’s crack’a’lackin?
Not a great deal, at work making a 2 hour job into an 8 hour job because I’m feeling really unmotivated and lazy. How are things over your end of the country?
My end of the country is quite boring, like usual 😛
Nothing ever happens over here! :O
I like to imagine you’re just being like the guy on FLCL “nothing ever happens” but really it’s very eventful with vespa ladies and face robots.
Ewww, Vespa Ladies! :O
You’ve met me, right?!
have you seen FLCL? I just mean for the crazy eventfulness of it, how else are you gonna get a face robot if a vespa lady doesn’t hit you upside the head with a guitar?
@gutsoup
Is FLCl any good, and is it dubbed?
I’m assuming anime, but much rather watch dubbed anime :3
I know, I know, subbed is “better” than dubbed, but I dislike reading subtitles :3
Oooh, I really like it, it’s a little crazy and all over the place but that’s part of the charm.
I’ve only watched it dubbed, don’t tell the purists 😛FLCL is actually one of the few that I don’t mind the dubs for. It’s been at least a decade since I’ve seen it, but I recall the actors seemed to be having fun with it.
I tried, but being a smelly hipster, no one’s interested in the topics I raise
Have you tried showering?
Real hipster stank doesn’t wash off.
Showering is too mainstream for ol’Jim-Jim.
I prefer dust baths.
Rough day at work 🙁
Sucks to hear 🙁
Hope the rest of your day is / was good though! 🙂
Its been alright I had tacos for dinner..gotta love some tacos
First time in weeks I’ve made it past the 2nd page before new TAY!
*superman pose*
Everytime I see a kid have a screaming meltdown fit in this shopping centre (which is several times a day) I start to appreciate my kids a hell of a lot more. They have never had a public tantrum. Just quiet sulking and refusing to talk to us.
Your kids are awesome Freezy!
One time they sung “Let it Go” for me!
For a good half hour!
At about 8am!
…
Don’t forget the savage beating.
I can never forget the savage beating…
-Flashback-
*in distorted, evil voices*
“Work his kidneys!”
“Take his socks!”
“Sit on his head!”
“Jump on him!”
…
And their evil, evil giggling… :O
-End Flasback-
…Good kids.
What kind of horrible monster would cheer the children on like that? D=
I had forgotten the kidney thing. Bob is an evil, evil man.
B-ob and DC 🙁
They’re both evil :'(
You’re the only one that took pity on me! :O
@transientmind ‘s problem is he has “empathy” and “feelings” and “morals”
Tragically, I can raise no ire against a child, rendering me impotent to protect their victims. It was a grim business, no place for a man of honour… I did not acquit myself well. *shakes head sadly*
My cousin’s daughter got a karaoke machine for Christmas.
Guess which song I got to hear 47 times on Christmas day.
Killing in the Name of (Uncensored)?
P.I.M.P.
So close.
Called EB. Apparently there’s nothing they can do about the transfer dealie for the MM nXL preorder, since the process they use to do it is to cancel the order then place down a new one, which means at this stage I’ll be taking myself off the first shipment and putting myself on the second one instead, so would have to wait til March or something for that one.
Arse.
Hey all. Long time, no post. I’ve been pretty busy the last few weeks with family stuff, especially the last few days. Friday was my little cousins birthday so we spent the day doing things with her and then she and her sister stayed the night here (also they were over from New Zealand). She was turning 8. Then Sunday was their brothers naming day. He’s 2, but he didn’t have one when he was born and since his two sisters did my aunt though he should have one too. Then Monday was my mum’s birthday.
So yeah, it’s been a really exhausting, but fun, few days. Hope everyone else is doing well.
…why are there extra buttons on my firefox now. Go away, you silly little paper aeroplane. You too, face.
I noticed that the other day and had to look twice before just going wtf??
I’m so glad you are allowed to customise it. (Even though I can’t find a way to get rid of the ‘bookmark this page’ button without also removing the bookmarks tab.)
The bookmarks tab is stupid anyway. Wasting my vertical space 😛
Half day at work, played tag with the wife as the kid is sick.
Fell asleep in the car, but was awake as I opened her door when we got home. =|
Now stuck with a sick, tired toddler who won’t sleep… So much for getting any work done from home.
Sick kid takes priority over work though 😛
Hope they start feeling better soon! 🙂
Oh dear. Social Hottest 100 just released their top 10 of what they think will get the top spots in the JJJ Hottest 100.
10 — Mark Ronson — Uptown Funk (Ft. Bruno Mars)
9 — Kite String Tangle, The — Arcadia
8 — ZHU — Faded
7 — Hilltop Hoods — Cosby Sweater
6 — Griswolds, The — Beware The Dog
5 — Peking Duk — Take Me Over (Ft. SAFIA)
4 — Milky Chance — Stolen Dance
3 — Chet Faker — 1998
2 — Chet Faker — Talk Is Cheap
1 — Peking Duk — High (Ft. Nicole Millar)
Bugger, I only got three of my picks to be in the top 10
.
Taylor Swift apparently garnered enough votes to get #75.
Nyet, I’ve got nothing in the top 10.
I’ve never even heard of any of them :/…
Welp, at least I got my League and other games.. sorta 😛
Tunes will make League better, hell if it makes laundry better it can make just about anything I’m sure :p
I know two of those songs (and didn’t know them by name until like 2 weeks ago).
I don’t get to listen to JJJ at work.
The subversive in me wishes Swift had got to number one.
I don’t understand the hate :\
She’s a good singer, and they’re good songs!
Just cause they’re not alternative doesn’t mean they don’t deserve a spot higher up on the list.
I recall the radio playing both High and Stolen Dance to death also.
I still got some of her older songs on my playlist, I haven’t heard much of her latest work but I like the songs she did back then.
I agree, and full disclosure I am a fan of Taylor. My concern with having someone like Swift in Hottest 100 is that she is a bonafide star on top of her game, how many other artists in contention are in the same boat?
People point to the fact the station plays stars like Kanye, The Foo Fighters, Lorde, Vance Joy, The Offspring, etc. but they started off being played by Triple J when they were building their reputation and made it big when commercial radio picked up on their sound (in lots of cases on Triple J). They don’t just boot artists off when they make it big, they continue supporting their music.
There’s a lot to say about the spirit of a competition about whether someone should win or not, it’s like a Miss World Australia participant turning up to a local beauty competition from somewhere she’s not even from, she would win in a landslide based on talent alone. But is it in the spirit of the competition? I wouldn’t think so.
TL;DR: I liked them before they were popular.
Yep. That’s the modern Triple J and it’s listeners in a nutshell.
I used to love the station but as the years went on it disappeared up its own are and got more and more intolerable. Then a whole bunch of bands went public over Triple J demanding they change their sound or not be played and yeah. I was done. It’s all a very carefully manufactured image now and it’s half the reason so many people are upset about the Taylor Swift thing.
I agree that TripleJ has a particular sound, and it’s not the same as in the 90s, but simply, they have to operate a lot more like a commercial radio station, simply so that they can exist. When it started, it was almost like a pirate radio station – they could do and say what they liked with few consequences. Now triplej has a national footprint, as well as a large presence online and on TV. It takes a considerable amount of ABC funding, and if they stuff up, it creates a real threat to the ABC itself, especially with the current government, where they are looking for any excuse to dismantle the ABC in its entirety. They have gained too much to lose it all and they don’t have Kyle Sandiland’s legal team.
I still listen to triplej – I hate the advertising on commercial radio with a passion. I also prefer listening to actual music than highly paid “personalities” promoting other “personalities”.
And also, the moment I stop listening to new things on triplej and just keep listening to the same 20 cds from 1997, is the day that I am officially an old person. Not ready to be old yet.
Funny, I used to listen to the radio for the personalities, the music was inconsequential distractions inbetween that stuff 😛 Then the ones I liked went away and I got sick of the ones that came in to replace them, and got sick of the songs I was hearing so went and switched off to start listening to other stuff (…and before long was just listening to the same set of things endlessly because I’d run out of “new” >.>)
Spoonman was the best. Only good thing about night classes at uni, it meant I got to listen to him on the trip home.
Seems like podcasts are what you need.
And why not start with the best (example of the worst podcast)
http://dankarlszeitgeist.com
@dkzeitgeist Should’ve caught me 5 years ago, too busy listening endlessly to the same 18 albums now.
I know even my Mother in Law can’t stand listening to WSFM anymore and their Jonesy and Amanda soundbytes 24hrs a day. They’re not even live most of the time anymore.
Oh don’t get me wrong. I find Triple J trying to listen to but commercial stations make me immediately turn off the radio. Breakfast radio makes me want to drive my car off a cliff into the ocean.
I’ve been finding YouTube is actually pretty amazing for finding new music. The sidebar thing is fantastic and can burrow a pretty deep rabbit hole.
’97 was a bloody great year for music, though, hey?
Damnit.
Admit it though, those 20 cds from 1997 are the best 😛
Of course! I will be a grandma sitting in my nursing home room listening to Custard.
See, when it comes to propping up the up-and-comers, I thought that’s what the station’s other programs were for. Unearthed, and the like. Not to mention, y’know… 364 days of regular air-time are a pretty damn good opportunity to get some stuff out there. To my mind, the Hottest 100 was always different in that it was meant to be a catalogue of the really listenable stuff of the year for archival purposes – most importantly, as selected by listeners as opposed to the station’s own biases or preferred ‘sound’. And if that means some ‘popular’ stuff, then so be it? Not that I’m the authority on its intent, given that I never really read a mission statement and haven’t listened to it (or any radio) since I left high school.
I’ve always thought it strange to have Triple J, and Unearthed as separate programs. The way I suppose I see Triple J working is being the tier above Unearthed which gets the creme da le creme of their program and handles itself quasi-commercially in playing songs that are popular within the Unearthed framework.
But eh, I happen to like a lot of the music so I am not really complaining 😛
Eh, it depends. I find a lot of her songs are plain awful, like Shake it Off. How petty do you have to be to write a song like that? and others a just lacking something to make it good. Blank Space would be really good if it had better instrumentals and if Swift didn’t ruin it by saying it was an ironic song.
Then again, I have enjoyed precisely two songs released in the last eight years. My opinions are like a cow’s opinions – it’s a moo point.
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
She’s better than any of that shit. How does that Bruno Mars song get in there? I have trouble tolerating him on the best of days, but that song I can’t cope with hearing. It’s just awful. Truly, truly awful.
Ugh. I’m not getting into my thoughts on Triple J again.
PS it might sound like I’m a huge fan on Taylor Swift. I’m not a fan of her by any means 😛
Edit: ugh, I’m such an old man.
That looks like a solid top 10 prediction…
As usual tracks that got extended airplay on Triple J followed by 3 time a day lashing from commercial radio will round out top 10.
Exception to that is probably Arcadia which I don’t remember hitting the Austero network.
So,
Eww, what smells in here?!
Oh, hey Jimu…
Hi, darling.
Hello, dearest 🙂
Oh yeah, that Smash Bros soundtrack thing has to be registered for before midnight tonight.
So I still gotta do that.
So much bored today. The server keeps crapping out so I can’t do any work since it’s all hosted on the website, but then the rest of the internet’s been quiet and boring today too. Been about this close to grabbing my 3DS out of my bag, but I dunno how well that’d go down.
I know! The internet has been so quiet today!
I’m afraid I’ve talked too much today in TAY in place of everyone’s silence :\
Quick question – does anyone else use fitbit? I need some fitbit friends!
A friend of mine was showing me hers the other day. Those things confuse me and I don’t understand them.
Fitbit Flex! Just got it yesterday, I can’t sync it at work at the moment but I’m working on it. Which one have you got?
Same. Mine is orange and looks like a tiny Cylon
After I got mine all set up via the laptop, I just sync it all the time on the phone app. It works fine and I don’t have to use the dongle thing it came with.
You’re an android or iPhone 4s? I think I’m using a 5s which isn’t supported I believe.
Ah yes. I have a Nexus 4, which supports BLE
Hometime yet?
Pls.
Please. My pants can only take so much more damage before I end up looking like a hobo skinny hulkster.
(look at my twitter if you want to know more)
“@Quiz_B hasn’t tweeted yet.”
Well now I know!
https://twitter.com/QuizmasterBrad
Edit: REAL NAME ALERT I know I know considering I just tweeted about how my pants keep ripping a bigger and bigger hole in the arse of them, do you think I care?
Must be all that hiking. Your old pants can’t take your newfound gluteal supremacy.
I really need to work ‘gluteal supremacy’ into a sentence before I leave for the day.
I don’t have time to read all the responses, but I assume the winning reply was something about taking your flannel overshirt or hyper-colour jumper and tying the sleeves together around your waist.
…I’m in a very 90s mood for some reason. Triple J talk/Cookingmama are probably to blame.
It was. But it’s a plaid jacket.
#mightymightybosstonesforever
Well that’s sad, one of our neighbours has throat cancer, probably from his career as a panel beater. He has an 85% chance of survival, which is good but still sucks.
Edit: Ugh, well that’s not something I really wanted as a page get :/
Cancer is rough.
Yeah, sucks, he’s a top bloke. Was only 18 months back a good mate of dad’s passed away due to cancer :/
I don’t know if there’s anyone here that this is applicable to – probably not – but we have some job openings at the moment. Looking for people with Machine Learning and/or Big Data / Data Mining experience and some level of programming ability (C# ideally, C++/Java probably fine).
I understand one of those words.
We’re actually kind of surprised at the lack of people that do. Not many candidates so far, and have been advertising for a while. Might be partially because of the HR person handling it (used to dealing with sales & marketing positions?) but who knows, maybe there’s really no one interested.
It’s not like we’re a tiny fly-by-night software company either.
Ask over on Lifehacker or Gizmodo. One of those. I keep seeing “Big Data” articles and think “that’d be neat if I had qualifications”
No, there’s a good reason I posted it in TAY.
Yeah, there’s uh… a special breed in some of those comment sections.
Tibra?
Microsoft.
Never heard of them.
I know right. Must be some weird outsourcing company.
If I lie on my resume can you get me the job and just teach me it all over night..as long as I stay two lessons ahead I should be fine
Best idea: I’ll just say yes and they can give me lots of money.
A totally flawless plan!
From experience working with people in the mining sector, that’s how 1/2 the people got their jobs.
I just saw the only episode of that Hitler sitcom, Heil Honey, I’m Home. A rather curious specimen. It’s an ‘I Love Lucy’ parody about Hitler and his wacky Jewish neighbours. It’s a rather interesting, if uncomedic watch. I’m pretty sure it was meant to be unfunny on purpose. I’m surprised it even got made. It was quite controversial for the time, but the weird thing is that today it would be accepted if it aired on Adult Swim.
Now check out “That’s My Bush!”.
FTFY. 😛
I don’t know if it would be accepted. Maybe as a short tasteless segment in a more tasteless show, but not in and of itself. Memories are still raw. It’ll take another 20-30 years I think.
This sounds right up my alley.
Edit: Dunno if anyone’s ever heard of Bo Burnham, but he has a great little song called Little Adolf 😛 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA1ZmXmz-7o
Edit: The fact that he doesn’t at least have a German accent ruins it for me. Damn. Give it to Adult Swim and they’ll do a proper job one day 😛
Wait, so Hitler didn’t have a New York accent? Immersion ruined.
Why is Freeze errywhere? 😛
@ash @banderdash @benny @jacksonwryan @jocon @lucifer9783 @redartifice @wilbur @freezespreston
SATAYs! tell me about Snowtown… (except for the infamous murders :P)
I might end up there working on the wind farm so just sussing it out I guess. Doesn’t seem too far from Radelaide either… HMMMM
Wait… What?
http://www.taytags.com/
You’re everywhere (for some reason)
*shrug*
*shakes fist at @Powalen*
My favourite motion!
His too ;D
One of the SATAYbies used to live in or near Snowtown I think?
Hah, yeah 🙂
I was thinking it was you, but wasn’t sure and didn’t want to look like a twit and claim it was you before confirming it haha.
I can go one better. I used to live there, including during the unpleasantness.
It’s a small town, and that’s about the beginning and end of it. Population is 500 or so, including surrounding farms. Not much to the town- school, R-12, is about 200 kids. Local AFL team is the Blyth-Snowtown cats, probably the only winter sport, summer there’s a bit more. Do you have a license? If so, the nearest “big” towns are Kadina and Clare, both about 30-40 min drive, and probably better to live in. Live in Clare if you like wine, live in Kadina if you want to be closer to the beach- beaches at Wallaroo and Moonta are quite good.
Community is split- about half are townsfolk, other half are aforementioned farmers. Not a huge industrial base or anything, though the wind farm has provided some jobs. Not super culturally diverse, but that may have changed in the last fifteen years
About an hour and a half from Adelaide, easy drive, so you’re not too far from the action. Probably too far to commute from comfortably. Of course, if you’re in Adelaide, more than willing to hang out
It’s a sleepy country town. If you’ve never lived in one, there’ll be a culture shock. My best advice, if you’re there for a little while, is get involved with the community somehow.
Dayumn that’s small :/. Sounds like I’d be the only coloured folk there 😛
Never lived in a country town so it’ll be new! Nothing set in stone yet, but this was bought up so it seems likely to be the one I’ll end up with.
As I said, it’s been a long time since I lived there. When I was there it was pretty white, there was an aboriginal family or two and that’s about it, but we left in 2000 (dad got a new job).
The thing I’d remember about any country town too is that many of the families have been there forever, and are related (I’m not implying anything by that, like saying they’re inbred or anything) so can tend to be a little clannish. Until you have it mapped out a bit, don’t slag anyone off. Not that I think you’ll be in danger or anything that drastic, but it’ll be a faux pas.
Also, if you cook, do be aware that you won’t be able to get everything you normally get in the supermarket, it’s only small. anything more you will be able to get in Clare or Kadina. I dunno what the takeaway situation is like these days, used to be a Pizza place, and the roadhouse out on the highway did takeaway burgers. The pub did usual pub fare, and I doubt it’s super gourmet. There’s also the community club, but I’m not super sure how that works.
Do you have a licence? You won’t survive in a country town without one and a car.
If you’re in the town internet should be OK, there’s an exchange.
I’m on my green Ps in VIC but whether that means I can drive normally in SA, I’m not too sure (I’m assuming it’ll be okay).
Maybe I’ll look into Clare or Kadina. One of things I was planning to do was “cook more” and that sounds like it may be a bit hard in Snowtown. Well, I kinda have to cook more if I move, otherwise I’d die 😛
You can cook, you just may have needed to travel to Kadina for a grocery run every now and then.
My guess is until you make friends, you’ll be bored. Adelaide really isn’t far, 150 km on open highway so an hour and a half, and depending on timing March is a great month to be here.
If you’re around in May, check out the Kernewek Lowender (Cornish festival) in Kadina. Weird as: http://www.kernewek.org/
As I said, it’ll be a culture shock, but it’s definitely worth living in a country town. Being able to walk down the street and know people is pretty good. If you go in openly social, you’ll be fine.
IIRC being on your P2s means you wouldn’t even have to display plates there.
Crazy SA.
I think they can get their Ps at 16? *shrug*
Got my L’s at 16, could have had my P’s at 16.5.
@redartifice
wut.
What about full license?
In VIC it’s (minimum) Ls at 16, Red Ps at 18, Green Ps from 19-22
@greenius at the time, it was full licence at 18 or two years, whichever was longer.
I believe the scheme has now changed.
Not often that you hear Adelaide being described as “the action”… 😛
Compared to Snowtown it’s directed by Michael Bay.
And there’s action in Adelaide, it’s just concentrated into festivals. or motor races.
So he can’t complain about not getting invited now 😛
Now I’m just an included afterthought…
Never an after thought for Brisbane meats though 😀
No idea! Never been there.
Also, re the wind farm, it’s got a huge level of community support: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/windfarm-helps-to-erase-a-stain-from-snowtowns-past/story-e6frg6n6-1226645928034
I’ve only had the pleasure of driving through it.
Seemed nice enough…
There’s a BP service station with a good view of the windmills… it’s got a pretty clean bathroom. Minimal graffiti, not an overly offensive odour, few flies… solid B+/A-
Not sure if rural SA gets like rural Qld in summer, but if so, it’d be a few hundred flies minimum following you haha.
Yeah, flies will be a thing
I was referring to that bathroom in particular.
What’s the story behind you looking at Snowtown?
I’m in a Graduate Program at work and as part of the program there are three 8 month rotations.
It’s been nearly 8 months since I’ve started working here, so the talk about my next rotation is wrapping up. I said I’m open to do something interstate and it looks like working with the Wind farm(s) at Snowtown might be something I could end up doing (I could always say no, or other opportunities could pop up) since the higher ups suggested it.
I could still end up at Perth though 😛
It’s only infamous for being the location the bodies in the barrels were found – the actual murders took place in Salisbury and Elizabeth in Adelaide AFAIK.
Which makes SO much more sense.
@redartifice is the expert; I can’t add anything to his answer really, although I do think you’d be better off living in Clare.
Trying to nap on the train, I heard a noise on the seats across from me. It looks like one girl had knocked over her bag or something, or maybe the other girl’s bag. She was apologising, and pointing out that there was a spider on her (now on the floor). Spotting it, the other girl jumped up making this hilarious almost Curly-like sound, and the other one cleared off too. It started climbing up towards the seat and I thought she was about to go and squish it, but she just brushed it to the floor, then left.
It made its way up onto the seat itself by the time the next station was coming up, so I got my lunchbox lid out of my bag an went over to scoop him up. He was a little nasty-looking, fairly sizeable (maybe a 10c piece) and charcoaly black kind of speckled with white. He went for a bungee just before the train stopped, but I got him safely out the door.
Hero to the spiders 😛
He’s a monster! Get him!
Good Guy Gooky.
You’re doing it wrong!
So you’re saying you aided and abetted the introduction of a known demonic presence into a public area?
No, I was only around halfway through my trip at the time.
:’)
Nintendo sent out a promo email a bit ago listing “upcoming titles for 3DS in 2015”, which included the new Fire Emblem as “TBC”. “Ooh,” I thought. “Confirmation!”
They sent an amendment email today which removed the “in 2015” from the title.
Dammit Nintendo, you said! You can’t just take it back! I want it now, dammit.
What is this mysterious “Nintendo email” you speak of?
Can’t wait to force people to make babbies?
I said “Fire Emblem”, didn’t I?
I’m betting 2015, but in Japan only. Awakening was a massive localization undertaking, 8-4 said it was one of the biggest and most time-consuming projects they’ve ever done (and they handle all the Tales games, among many other things). Even if they’re starting now, it’ll probably be ages before it’s done.
Ah damnit. I lost the stylus for the New 3DS already. Crap. It was so nice too.
Oh well, guess I’d better order a Majora’s Mask 3DS then, no other choice.
Ewwww, gold stylus in a normal new 3DSXL.
I’m actually super excited to head back to uni in just over a month 🙂
It’ll be nice to be studying something that actually interests me for a change, and it’ll be good to have a reason to leave the house too! 😀
I’m going to try my hardest to socialise with my classmates for a change also 🙂
I’m determined to try and make the most of uni this go around! 😀
I harp on about this like an old person (SHUT UP I AM NOT OLD), but try to get to know the lecturers/tutors, too, if you can. It does amazing things for both your grades and your understanding. (And social status a little bit, too, depending.)
But man, young and at uni? Clubs, man. Clubs. The uni bar. Student discounts. Pub crawls. Activism. People caring about shit. And doing shit. So very different to the utterly defeated attitude engendered by wage-slavery. Soak this shit up now!
I think the main problem last time around was the type of people the course attracted, to be honest.
Lots of introverts who didn’t talk to each other in the IT courses. I didn’t make any friends, and that put me off clubs and doing uni stuff 😛
I’m hoping the creative people are a bit more extroverted and actually talk to each other, and make friends! 😀
On the plus side a lot of the ‘interest’ clubs are non-faculty-dependent, meaning you can hang out with the business and arts majors even if doing something more nerdy yourself. (I have no idea what you’re doing, did you TAY it or tweet it? I miss 99.95% of tweets.)
In my experience the creative faculties are populated by more networky type people, yeah.
Hahaha, not making any friends in Computer Science put me off going to uni related stuff (clubs, bars, etc) cause I didn’t know anyone, and didn’t want to go by myself 😛
I’m hoping the people in Graphic Design are friendlier, and actually go to events and make friends with each other 😛
Being a not-computing-student-but-in-the-computing-building is the absolute worst. I know what you’re saying. The majority of computing students are vile disgusting people, have their egos so far up their own arses they think they have a halo around their head, or yeah, are extremely introverted. The last one is fine! Getting the opportunity to kinda break through their shell a bit (usually by group work but not always) is awesome because they’re usually genuinely nice and interesting people, but ugh, the other 2 kinds of people I mentioned. Ugh. (This isn’t to say all computing students are like this. I do have a couple of computing friends who are outgoing and not too far up themselves)
The very few other info systems students I know are awesome though. Like minded and happy to talk and they look after themselves.
But in saying that arts/creative students are so much more fun to be around and every single one of my friends that I actually talk to outside of uni are fine arts students. I have no idea why they’d want to be friends with me tbh considering how much I don’t like people similar to me :S
But yeah at UTAS you basically just have to walk inside the arts campus and people will smile at you and come up to talk to you. Makes me wish I was more creative sometimes. You should be a hell of a lot happier doing creative work and being round creative people 😀
The IT bunch weren’t too bad a bunch, but hardly any of them seemed interested in talking to each other at all :\
I hear the creative types are more friendly though 🙂
I’m going to try and be more involved this time around.
I’m treating this new course as a second opportunity for uni 🙂
Good luck!! And have fun!
I decided on doing a sound engineering unit at the music campus in the city so I’ll be able to meet a few creative musician types at least hopefully 😛
Sound Engineering?
Aren’t you doing InfoSec?
Does your course have any sort of outline, haha?!
I think I remember you saying you just pick units at random 😛
Info systems 😛
And no, this year my degree has absolutely no structure at all apart from a single unit 🙂 I haven’t been exaggerating the whole UTAS screwing info systems students over thing 😛 We pretty much just get to do whatever. I have to do one level 3 computing subject to fill the major (social and cultural issues in digital media. Has no relevance at all but it’s the only one that isn’t programming), but as for the rest of the year I’m filling in the blanks.
Edit: I’m actually really looking forward to working with audio though! More so than the other units.
https://github.com/smealum/regionthree/
Neat.
*calls Nintendo*
Haha don’t be silly, we know that never happens. Ever.
Just responded to a Facebook invitation to go to my Sister’s Birthday thing.
Her response? “:O You’re socialising!”
*Sigh* My family has such a high opinion of me.
I find it really odd that some parents don’t like their kids cosplaying. Mum’s only ever been supportive when she’s not whingeing about the mess I’m making
Cosplay Girl’s parents always thought it was kind of weird, I think. I remember once dropping her off home from a convention and I was still wearing my Falcon helmet, her mum greeted us at the door with a kind of bemused “did she talk you into doing this?”, to which she piped up “no he was like this when I found him!”
Good thing they didn’t see me when I was in my Arthur gear…
*swoon*
*grabs popcorn*
AM I DOING IT RIGHT?
NO
I don’t get it. Do they think Disney princesses are weird too? Isn’t it better then going out and getting shitfaced every night?
At least that would be normal! 😛
Shitfaced in cosplay! Nothing says fun like holding Elsa’s hair back while she munts behind a bin singing Let it go..let it go!
Shredder shoving his helmet out the window at the policemen who pulled over his designated driver for a breath test, then running into Oporto demanding to know the location of their restroom (but not before stopping to compliment a guy on his impressively huge blue mohawk)…
Urgh. Why is RerererereREmake $20 on Steam but $30 on PSN? *grumble grumble*
because…screw you? I have no idea
I’m not a huge fan of scary games but I am kinda tempted to give this a go. I remember playing this game with my friend switching out whenever one of us would get freaked out.
It’s one of my favourites. I like games with intimate environments that can be learnt rather than sprawling open sameness.
Aw, 15Gb download. Guess what I’m not playing tonight.
Secret of the Magic Crystal?
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
Because Fatman Scoop and the Crooklyn Clan need their royalty money RererererereReMIX Oh Oh OH OH oh OH OH OH
It’s very simple. PC games are cheaper because there are no licensing fees. For a long time, licensing games for console means a flat $10 added to the price point.
Not to mention that EB/Gamestop pressures publishers to make digital cost the same as physical retail, but they have less power when no-one buys physical retail PC games in the first place.
So apparently my sister and her friend are close enough to Sydney to not bother staying away another night, and are coming back here tonight.
Welp, time to go hide in my room or something.
Huh, Club Nintendo’s going bye-byes.
I was saving up too :'(
Kinda… well, I was holding out for another “Register a 3DS XL to get a free game” promotion but the UK got ALL of them
Yeah, I have a whole pile of expired codes that never got registered. And a pile of to-be-registered’s that never got used because all the items I intended on using them on would disappear before I got a chance to do anything about them. I hate expiry periods 😛
Speaking of which, I should register Smash.
Isn’t the final day for that like today or something? 😛
Yeah, gotta do it by midnight.
But, I like random crap I don’t need!
So I kinda spoiled my dog today, she got a new collar (which I bought last week, it arrived today) AND a new harness. She’s quite happy with her new things, I think. The harness makes walking her so much better she doesn’t pull excessively like she did before and the collar lets us notice her in the house when she decides to blend in with the surroundings of an evening so we don’t step on her hah.
Yeech. Adam Baldwin is at Supernova this year.
Meh.
Although I heard @shane will be at Sydney Supanova – so I might have to go anyway.
Yeech as in Ew. People still want to listen to him?
I’m guessing they’re hoping people will recognise him as “That Guy From Firefly” and not “That Tool from Twitter”
And maybe a “Dude from Chuck”? 😛
I thought y’all were talking about Shane for a second… 😀
Looks interesting.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/334230/
@trjn
seems a bit like Two Rooms and a Boom.only superficially until you read the rules…That game looks like it clearly started as a game where you have to find the witches in the town and set them on fire and then someone pointed out that that might not be received very well and they backtracked a bit, but not far enough.
Pretty much all social deduction games use Werewolf/Mafia as a starting point. This one looks like it builds on the idea much less than others.
Aaaaand Club Nintendo seems to be getting hammered. Can’t even log in. Tried resetting my password and it’s (eventually) telling me that’s invalid too??
It brooooooooooooooke. I’m getting me one of those sweet Mario Kart T’s when it lets me log in.
I got mine last week. They’re pretty big. Mind you, the smallest I could get was medium.
Damn it Holden. Why can’t they just leave the Commodore name dead after 2017. I hope they do not bring it back as a 4 or 6 cylinder FWD mid size car with no ute in the line up like i’m seeing around in the news currently..
My guess is it’s going to be a 4 or 6 cylinder FWD mid size car with no ute in the line up 😛
Well, it’ll almost definitely be FWD and I highly doubt there will be a ute, anyway. They might get away with offering it with a V8.
It’s apparently what’s been confirmed according to the article I was reading. Makes you wonder why the Cruze exists if this is what they’re aiming with the Commodore line.
Is the Malibu or Epica still around? Those are/were even weirder cars to have in their lineup.
Both are still current according to Wikipedia, the Epica is made in China whilst the Malibu is assembled all over the place apparently lol.
Hooray, registered! Smash soundtrack secured.
@jimu someone called you purplerior 😮
That’s so weird… why would anyone do that?
Yeah I don’t get it either.
Hurry up & buy me stuff! »:-[
I gave you Dust and To The Moon! 😛
I clearly said “buy” :p
Oh god I think they’re here D:
Make an appearance being all cool and stuff!
Just sitting here at the computer in my worn-to-the-point-of-having-holes-in-it-and-the-neck-is-half-detached shirt. Totally cool. Because ventilation.
Confirmed it is her, when she burst out with COME TO THE MOOOUNTAIN! Though original source message seems like it may have been a prank from my sister, so who knows where the state of the game is at now 😛
Hm. Ask for incentive?
So far I think I’ve got “won’t take your kidney” as an incentive. So I’m already winning.
You know, as far as bargaining goes, ‘I won’t steal your kidneys’ is about as low as low-balling gets.
I guess you could go for “I won’t steal both your kidneys”
Marathoned Transformers the 80s animated series this week. Plowed through season one, season two – which were enjoyable. Just watched the movie tonight and the first few episodes of season three and.. D:
What the hell just happened?
Rewatching Transformers on DVDs was not great for my nostalgia goggles. Fortunately I burned the DVDs, took the goggles back into the shop, and am renewed in my conviction that it was the best show ever.
Didn’t watch Beast Wars in the same sitting? Casual.
Not sure I’ll have time for that one, or all the other spin offs.
Make time. Beast Wars is the peak of Transformers cartoons.
Truly? Hmm.. Maybe I will make time, in that case.
I’ve had the Generation 1 complete DVD box since 2007, unwatched. Started binge buying Transformers toys the past fortnight or so and then decided to watch it to catch up on all the lore and learn new characters aside from the common few.
I just figured the G1 series was the pinnacle.
Truly. With Beast Wars they went out of their way to find some people that were actually good screenwriters. Graphically it looks primitive by modern CG standards, but it was cutting edge on that side as well. Mainframe actually had to come up with new rendering techniques to achieve some of the stuff they did.
The first season is about par with the better parts of the G1 stuff, but seasons 2 and 3 it gets amazing. I won’t spoil, but there’s some crossover stuff with G1 elements that are fascinating. Also one episode in particular, ‘Code of Hero’, is one of the best single episodes of animated TV ever made IMO.
The movie is so good
Ugh…
Been feeling so…unmotivated….
🙁
What do you want to feel motivated to do?
Anything in particular?
We should do another fitocracy challenge sometime, cause I feel like I’m getting squishy in places I shouldn’t be squishy :O
I really want to lose 3 pounds.
I think your proficiency at Fitocracy was disincentivising people from exercising.
Yeah, that’s what I thought too 🙁
I’ll just exercise by myself :'(
Take that, you good looking, healthy LOSER
Fitocracy is just broken for those people who don’t go to the gym and run or bike or swim for their exercise.
I’ve kind of stopped going to the gym, hence squishy-ness :3
I’ve started exercising at home though instead!
Just thought motivation for others and myself would be good :3
I know that there’s definitely a few people who have expressed an interest in getting fitter. Maybe if we make it a Fast Feb and just have Running/Walking – and see who can chalk up the most km?
…
“Oh my god, what are you talking about?”
“You’re so skinny.”
I’ve watched that movie way more times than I care to admit 😛Urgh, shut up.
I’m so glad someone got it!
I was afraid I was coming across as shallow! 😀
Just played RERERE via REmote Play, classic controls of course.
plays quite well, looks great, will have a go on the big telly tonight.
I miss the really bad voice acting though (as opposed to just bad).
What! They changed the Audio…. blasphemy.
Does it play the same? If so I’ll be awful at it.
What? This is the cube version, you owned it, they changed everything.
Best original version is on DS.
Righto to any computer buffs out there.
Yesterday morning I went to turn on my computer and it powered up but the monitor stayed blank. Reset button did nothing so I had to hold down the power button to turn it off.
I have gotten it up and running a couple of times but after a few minutes the screen goes blank and if it comes back I find the computer has rebooted itself. I started it up in safe mode and the problem continued.
The only recent changes I’ve made to my PC are deleting about 100gb of shows I no longer wanted to free some space. It has been working fine up until yesterday morning. Any ideas??
Ok now it’s doing it when I try to log in. Going to bed for a bit will check back later.
very hard to say what’s causing it without seeing event log info, but I’d try pulling out your graphics card and reseating it to start with. While you’re in there, might as well reseat the ram too just to make sure everything is making good contact. If your motherboard has on board graphics as well as a pci-e gpu, and it still does it after reseating the card, pull the card out and boot it using the on board. See if it’s stable. If it is, it could be a driver issue. If it is stable, check the event log in Control Panel > Administrative Tools to see if it’s recorded any errors relating to the issue.
Righto I’ll give this a shot after I go get food.
i most likely wont be able to reply again til I get home from work, so hopefully others can help you out til then if you run in to any questions! Otherwise, I’ll see how you went once I get back! Best of luck! Hope it’s something easy!
Well I’m on night shift ATM so I’m going to bed soon anyway.
Ok the only things I found in the event log that looked odd to me were something about AODDriver4.2.0 and 4.01. Also kernel power things but I think that’s normal for a restart isn’t it? Haven’t tried booting without graphics card yet. Got to double check my motherboard Has onboard etc.
If you’re not seeing anything in the logs then it’s not a driver conflict causing a restart or anything, it’s something that causes a hard reset when it trips. My suspicion would be the power supply.
Agree with power supply… I now keep a spare around to troubleshoot with.
Trouble shooting is now;
1. Unplug all drives except OS drive.
2. Remove graphics card, reboot.
3. Remove RAM and reinsert one stick, reboot.
4. Swap out powersupply, reboot.
There are more steps but they start to get fiddly… Sometimes easier to just shell for an upgrade if the system is a couple of years old.
AODDriver is something to do with AMD, so if you have an AMD/ATI card, that might be what it is. Also, yes. Kernal power events will usually show up when there’s an unexpected reboots.
I’ve seen a lot of reported issues with the AODDriver failing in some form or another in Windows 8, so if you’re running Win8, I’d maybe look in to that. Kind of hard to say much else at this point though.
Mine did that and it ended up being the psu. The only reason I found that out was when it finally stopped working all together. Restarts are really hard to figure out what it is. I tried changing ram, upgrading drivers and various things.
Do what Welbot says. Good luck.
That’d by a nice problem. Easy fix. Hard to test for though.
Mesas are the highest form of flattery.
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeWait, X-Wing vs. Tie-Fighter AND X-Wing Alliance is now on GOG too?? HHHNNNNNNNGGGGG must stay strong!
You know, I would really appreciate if people could help my ‘no buying any games in 2015’ resolution by not having all these damn sales all the time. I still get the notifications in my inbox! I have to unsubscribe to everything, I think.
Steam announces 2015 special: All games are 80% off all year.
Oh god
I would break my resolution in spectacular fashion.
I delete the emails before opening
Monkey don’t see, monkey don’t do.
Time to join the Dark Side, mesa thinks.
X-Wing Alliance, all time favourite game. So very good, how much do they cost?
$12.50 AUD. from memory, and yes I concur… So many good memories flying my YT-1300 😛
:O
I was so desperate to play it I bought it from Ebay a couple of months ago for $60 🙁 Best part of the game has got to be flying in the Death Star, I don’t know how I did it but I used to do the Death Star missions as ships other than The Falcon lol.
Well, I know what I’m getting this weekend… 😀
YOU’RE MISSING THE POINT PIXEL!
STAR WARS GALACTIC BATTLEGROUNDS!
That’s the Age of Empires 2 mod right? 😛
Shields were OP in that game, made it impossible to destroy walls without siege 😛
I’ve actually still got the CDs (Including the clone wars expansion)
Yeah I only played a bit of it and really enjoyed it… Though I found it a bit jarring when I could even identify some of the maps from AOE2 :P, they didn’t exactly try hard to change the game… Still fun though
I got to play as my own trade federation, sending armies of rolling destroyer droids towards my enemies, 10/10 would destroy all fleshlings again.
To be honest did they really need to? You can make your own maps if you get sick of the current ones and I think there were maps you could automatically generate IIRC 😛
Let the hate flow through…
TIE Fighter’s better.
And it’s on GoG too!
If you see a sandstorm pass over the southeast of Melbourne, that’s just me cleaning the dust off my joystick as I have a reason to use it again
A few weeks ago I went through all the plastic containers of cables and assorted random computer-related shit that was in my Mum’s garage, accumulated over many years.
In it, I found my original PC joystick which I got in the mid-90s to play TIE Fighter. Waxed nostalgic for 5-10 seconds before I threw it in the bin with the rest of the old junk. 😛
Don’t have my first ever joystick any more – it was a Gravis Mousestick II on an ADB interface for use with Pre-iMac Macintoshes (when they dropped ADB for USB) and I got it for X-Wing. 🙂
Elite four down at 6:15 on the clock.
Next up – attempting to catch a shiny latias courtesy of the eon ticket. Could end in tears since I suspect that I’m a little under prepared.
One thing about RERERE, unlike most other classic Resis, I have only finished this once, so I don’t have item location tattooed into my memory.
Was an interesting feeling heading into the (mostly) unknown.
I only just now got what you meant on the previous page by RERERE.
Actually read it kind of as “re-rare” 😛
I thought that was official like Xbone?
I’ve only heard it being talked about here, by like… you and Freeze. So I don’t know what anyone’s doing.
Yeah, I saw it here & Twitter, my entire online world.
It’s good & cheap, one of those proper HD revivals unlike the Prince of Persia trilogy.
REDO 2 ALREADY!
Cautiously optimistic, it’s the best & I still enjoy replaying.
We get Zero next, did you see that slip up?
Nah, they are too busy remaking the first resident evil game, except every character looks like they have aged by 1 year. It changes the entire dynamic of the game, $90.
*preorders*
Yesterday I got my sister started on Persona 4 Golden, last night she spent a solid 5 hours giggling and bopping along to the music, the only thing that stopped her (briefly) was needing to find my charger. I done good :D.
I told her that night at yours. She should have listened!
I’ve been telling her for ages too, I suspect she’ll knock it over pretty fast at this rate.
Yeah, I couldn’t put it down.
Why didn’t you get her into a good game?
Oh snap shots fired! Come at me Purse Owners!
You buy one purse and you’re stuck with the label for life …
Pew pew pew!
A linguistics professor says during a lecture that, ‘In English, a double negative forms a positive. But in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, in no language in the world can a double positive form a negative.’ But then a voice from the back of the room piped up, ‘Yeah, right.’
I’ve got to sit down and work out where I stand.
As I said before, I never repeat myself.
I’ve told you a million times, don’t over exaggerate
How dare you question my ambivalence!
I put my root beer in a square cup… Now it’s just beer.
I heard that Oxygen and Magnesium were going out and I was like OMG.
Man, why is it every time you try to squeeze a sneaky fart out at work it ends up being a miasma of death stink that refuses to dissipate, usually right when a pretty girl arrives on scene?
Hear, hear
I have the honour of producing these in lifts.
Blame Murphy.
Nope, in this case it’s Finagle’s Law of Dynamic Negatives. “Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong, at the worst possible time”.
Years ago dropped one in the stairwell of our unit block, we lived on the ground floor.
Heard someone come in through front doors 2 or 3 minutes later and I could hear them complaining about it through our front door. My proudest moment.
Until a few months later we’d befriended some neighbours and was at their place sinking a few beers and he complains about that day… I just sniggered and said ‘You’re welcome’. He almost punched me.
I really want to find a Big Hero 6 artbook…
Eight bits walk into a bar, bartender says “Ok, I’ll byte”.
Learn to finish your sent
You ‘avin a g,
Ate them in two nybbles.
@trikeabout So tired… but so worth it! Thanks for the group last night! 😀
*moves popcorn marked “@mrtaco” and “@greenius” to the side*
*grabs popcorn marked “other”*
Context-free quotes! *jingle*
http://tinyurl.com/n2du8ow
Get your heads out of the gutter. The mythical beast known as con’tekst can be found on Page 4. 😛
Staying up until 2am playing Destiny on a worknight is never the best idea. However, in this instance, it got me the last piece of gear I needed to hit level 32. Thus, completely worth it. 😀LOL I see the kids are sniggering. 🙂 I think they’re just jealous…
Really was worth it – two characters can now make 32 and the third is only a helmet away from the same – Xur or more raiding should do it. Last nightfall to do tonight.Sure. 😀 Oh man, just did the math – if I can get Eris to 4 this week (2k rep to go), I’ll be 2 shards short – so, level 32 by this time next week \o/ Time to start planning to replace one of my warlocks with a titan, methinks…Oh, woops – tonight might be raid night, if enough of my regular group are online – still two more loot drops untapped this week. If there’s an open spot, I’ll send you an invite, if you like.
What time were you thinking of starting the nightfall? We normally start around 8pm, and we’ve got 2 or 3 32s, so it shouldn’t take too long; should be able to group up for that last nightfall afterwards?
No idea really. Hoping I’ll be about between 9 and 10. If/when I get online I’ll see if you’ve a spare slot on. Otherwise, I’ll be kicking around doing weeky/daily and maybe finishing Eris’ quests on my Warlock. 🙂
@freezespreston last night was amazing. It was so rough and intense that I had to take a shower because I sweat so much. Maybe we should do it again tonight? #nocontextpost
The explosion at the end was so worth it. Took forever to clean it all up.
Hey guys what’s going on in h-
…
Take your oppression elsewhere, good sir.
Sorry, but i’m not going to apologize.
What?
Not like you haven’t seen one before. 😉
[regular Gooky post]
*grabs popcorn*
http://tinyurl.com/n2du8ow
[popcorn comment]
[Indecipherable jimu reply]
[Off colour, inappropriate and unfunny Freeze joke]
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
[quotation of Freeze’s off colour comment sans context]
[Vaguely related anecdote about my own ineptitude]
[something I’ve very likely said before]
[random bullshit about some crap that no one else cares about, probably involving battleship ladies]
I rewarched Predator recently, for the first time in 15-20 years.
Barely remembered much before they attack the base.
never saw all the Gore because I’d always watched it on tv.
And I thought the black guy was Billy D Williams all these years.
It’s good though, probably like it more than Aliens, but not Alien.
It is one of the two films I suggest are the Masterclass On Making An Action Movie.
Good pacing, just enough character building to care but not enough to be serious drama, great set pieces, a couple of memorable one liners…
The other is the original Die Hard. It’s almost perfect.
Die Hard is the greatest Christmas movie ever filmed.
People say that a lot, but Xmas is the last thing I remember about it.
My parents would put it on nearly every Christmas so it’s ingrained in my brain as a Christmas movie. We made Jess watch it for the first time just after Christmas, still a great film. Predator is great some of the best one liners ever. “aint got time to bleed”, “if it bleeds we can kill it” and let’s not forget “GET TO THE CHOPPAAAAA!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN5CSolJvCw
That’s the best thing about it.
Whaaaat?!
It might be a highlight, but that’s a solidly made well paced movie.
Something as trivial as the time setting has little to do with its lasting appeal.
If I were a teacher I would totally show it to a bunch of 15+ students as the end of year ‘Christmas movie’ to tie up their attention while marking and cleaning and shit happens and there is no learning, just free babysitting.
“Now I have
a machine gun
Ho! Ho! Ho!”
Closely followed by that wonderful satire Gremlins, and of course Trading Places. 🙂
Mmmm, Die Hard is good.
I only saw it for the first time about 2 years ago.
Terrible admission: I have never seen Predator or Alien.
Theyre actually good films.
Alien is actually better than most things.
15-20 years ago?
But aren’t you only 24 years old?
*charms*
What? I thought he was about 80!
Even better!
#HeAintNothinButAGoldDigger
I’m 333 this year.
Would you, Jimu, make me the happiest man in the world? :’)
AndWriteMeIntoYourWill…
I am so poor.
Are you so poor that if you write @liondrive into your will… will he owe your estate money?
@sunsoar77
Well, I have a mortgage, wife & kid.
So yeah, I think.
Given I have, like, all the gummi bears in front of me, a Wednesday question:
What’s your favourite gummi bear colour and explain why you’re wrong if it’s not red.
I eat them too quickly, by the handful, to even notice the colours. 😛
The better question is why would you even bother eating gummi bears when sour worms exist?
He’s got a point!
ORANGE BEATS EVERYTHING
I’m not wrong 😛This guy! I like this guy!
I don’t have a favourite colour, but we can all agree that the bst gummi bears come from Germany.
(The German brand that makes them. Haribo I think it’s called).
Haribo is the best!
TROLLI
Fun Fact! I bought a pack of haribo for new years, forgot they were in the car and took them in when I got home – Liquid Jelly Bear, I then mixed it in with a cheap bottle of vodka.
I NOW HAVE HARIBO VODKA!
I like where this is going! I’d totally try that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMjgaa5j_LE
I struggle to comprehend the fact that the force of his dump moved the shower curtain.
Orange, because orange is the superior version of red!
*MIC drop*
Orange is just red that got violated by yellow.
But orange survived the violations done to him and came out better and stronger at the end!
No, now he has a fractured psyche, losing all self identity and lost amidst confusion of his id.
But his fractured psyche forced him to look inwards and realize to beat he’s fears he had to become what he fears the most… So at night you will be able to spot him, donning a yellow costume, watching over all other unfortunate reds and oranges like some sort of vigilante…
…
Wait does that mean I secretly like red? Or yellow? I’m confused
You’re either a commie or a coward, so I don’t think you can win.
Everyone likes Red.
Except for fans of the Project.
They all make me fat.
Just make sure they’re not the sugar free ones.
http://www.amazon.com/Haribo-Sugar-Free-Gummy-Bears/dp/B008JELLCA
That YouTube link up there in response to @jajabinks2 is a guy eating an entire 5lb bag of them in one sitting.
Oh dear god.
Sugar free gummi bears are like low fat bacon or alcohol-free beer. What’s the point?
Clearly you haven’t read the reviews on amazon. Go on, it’s #page6.
Depends on the variety
With the last lot I had it was clearly white. Obviously because I’m a racist.
Ugh. Would appear that Motley Crue are touring in March as part of their final ever tour (I can only see them pulling a Farnsey with it though) was planning on not spending stupid amounts of money in March, but looks like i’ll be going to since I’ve had 3 chances to see Motley Crue in the last 10 years and missed out each time, if it really is their final tour I have to go, since they’re one of many bands I still want to see live before they decide to stop.
Edit: There’s a chance Alice Cooper may be the support act too, which would be nice, missed out a dozen or so times being able to see Alice, last time was due to a mate ripping me off :/
I got Destiny in September but haven’t had time to play it (played the first two Earth levels, that’s all) but I’ve been starting to play it more. Today I completed all the Earth missions (except the raid).
It’s not a bad game, honestly. I’ve played worst. At the moment there seems to be little motivation to do stuff regarding story (so far there’s been total of only 1 or 2 cutscenes, all before mission 3), but it is erly in the story.I have a few problems with it:
Problem 1: Enemies are neverending. At the moment my playstyle is shoot, go behind cover/run around the cramped inside room to getto cover on the opposite side, shoot, run to cover, repeat. Coming from starting to play mass effect, in which everything is fluid and there never seems to be too many enemies, it seems really bizaare and difficult.
Problem 2: Every level seems to be the exact same. It seems like all the levels are reused, changed slightly, and placed on a new spot on the map. Although, if it’s semi open-world and you can travel across the map, then ignore this point (because I did a few patrol missions as well, and that seemed to take up the whole map).
Problem 3: Higher-Levelled enemies in a low-level area: When I was level 5, I died to a level 8 enemy. And I was 9 enemies away from a “kill 100 without dying” bounty. Later, a level 18 killed me as well. Twice. The first when I was exploring underground (admittedly, my mistake), but then came above ground and killed me while I was trying to complete a public event (event was a mining one, the first wave had level 3 enemies, I was the only one doing it, so these enemies seemed a little overpowered.
Also, just before I did my last patrol mission (only did them for bounties), I noticed a green light, so I picked it up and it said “You have stolen the treasure”. Then I ran away from all that back to the open (this was in a secluded area). Later, I checked my inventory, and nothing was there.I hadn’t died, so what happened?
For the five or ten hours that I played, I found single player to be a dull grind and multiplayer to be the more exciting of the two. I only reached Venus, though.
Player vs. Player multiplayer, right? I “got an invitation” (because I think everyone gets one) to that but I’m going to try it later when I’m a higher level and have more experience (since I don’t play shooters often).
Destiny plays fantastically. The gunplay has awesome feel to it, the flow is amazing. The feeling of popping heads off Fallen is unsurpassed in other shooters IMO. The real issue is the lack of content, lack of a coherent narrative linking the content, and the general issues around the structure being so grind-focused.
The reason people rag on it so much is that there’s an insane amount of potential. The game should have been one of the best games ever made, and it ended up coming out like a wet fart.
I’d love to find out what was actually going on behind the doors at Bungie. There’s no way that what they delivered is what they intended to make and I’m not even sure it’s what they were hyping back in the lead-up to it. Big chunks of the creative team running away over the 18 months leading up to release suggest there was some kind of internal politics going, some kind of factional dispute about the direction of the game, or maybe just mismanaged development. It wouldn’t be the first time that Bungie fucked up a big game with poor development organization either – Halo 2’s campaign is a shitshow because they split up into a ton of small teams each working on a different level and no one actually integrated the bits properly or had any overarching insight, so when they went to assemble the bits together they found nothing actually fit properly and they had to largely scrap it and start over and get the game done in about 9 months. That’s also why Halo 2’s Multiplayer is so much more polished than the single player part was.
I agree it plays well, it’s probably more my lack of experience in the genre that makes it seem harder to me than some other games. It’s definitely one of the better shooters I’ve played, gameplay-wise (but then again, I haven’t played many).
At the momentthe game does seem to have a lot of potential. Most of the people I hear complaining about it are generally talking about the lack of story, which I agree with so far. It seems like half of the missions have just been plced there to get some content there, when in reality only half of the have any relevance to the story.
I’d heard that Bungie had basically built Destiny in a few months, but I didn’t realise how many employees had walked away. It’ll probably be the subject of an interesting book/documentary in a few years.
Regarding your last spoiler, pretty sure you found one of 3 of Crota’s minions, you’ll get a bounty some time asking you to find all 3 in the cosmodrome, they’re always in the same places too. They do reuse the same levels over and over, at the moment there is only Earth, Venus, The Moon and Mars, if you do a mission on a planet you’ll get dumped on that planet but you can travel to nearly everywhere on that planet (a couple of areas are blocked and only open during specific missions). The respawning enemies is a pain early on but once you’re grinding bounties it’s a good thing because you’ll finish them faster (still a bit cheap though).
Edit: I was guessing it was a Crota’s Minion thing as well. Beat me to the punch.
OK, thanks. I thought I might have stolen some player’s treasure or something :/
I didn’t know you could travel to basically anywhere on the planet though. It would have been nice to have bigger worlds though, because the sizeof the map compared to the size of the game-world seems off. It could have done with some other locations as well, as opposed to using one location for 3 missions.
I don’t have a problem with the respawning enemies, it’s the fact that there’s generally a level 18 fallen running around, along with one or two other high-levelled enemies, in a level meant for players st approx. level 4. That’s basically a one-hit kill. I’m fine with level 5 enemies respawning, but it would have been nice to not worry about the possibility of a one-hit kill when I’m walking around.
EDIT: hit submit accidentally, just finished writing it.
Most of the enemies you’ll see on Earth range from 1-8 but there are random Hive from 18-20. If you see those high level dudes, run, you are not meant to be there. Honestly their placement is kind of random but they linger near areas where high-level encounters will occur later on (mainly in the DLC). Pre-DLC these were an odd curiousity to level 28-30 players with nothing better to do than explore.
I figured I was in a bad place when I went underground and saw an enemy with it’s level marker being “??”
I couldn’t get out of there fast enough, but I died anyway.
Later on I won’t do the public events and just stick to what I’m supposed to be doing 😛
The public events where you have to eliminate a VIP are particularly annoying because they’re usually a fastmoving bullet sponge. It says it’s level 6 or whatever but your maxed out exotic weapons don’t put a dent in it. The second you pause to reload, the prick scurries off through their checkpoints and disappears. Some are easy, but some are just plain cheats. Best to hope people come along to help because in most cases you want 3 or more people to keep up sustained fire, especially for some of the buggers you get on Mars. I don’t know why they even bother to put a 5 minute timer on it because I’ve never seen a VIP fail to take longer than two minutes to escape if you haven’t killed it by then.
You should totally do the public events whenever they’re in the area. Even if you solo them to start with, maybe someone will turn up to carry you over the finish line. Also, they tend to get harder the faster you kill the enemies, so if you’re struggling, it’s not as bad as it could be. Best case scenario, you die a lot at no cost and someone carries you to completion.
I did one, me (approx. level 4/5 at the time), another level 4, and a level 23. The level 4 and I died several times, fairly sure the level 23 soloed the entire thing. I had to revive him once or twice though.
We still got gold tier though.
Since there’s no penalty then I’ll start doing them.
One thing that continues to annoy/amuse me is that the Moon (which is my favourite area) is one small loop with a vast udnerground cavern. Once you learn to navigate you have no issue going down near the Hellmouth and coming up through Archer’s Line – I always go down there for hive bounties.
However the missions always start you deliberately at the furthest possible point. You have a mission that requires you to be near the Temple of Crota? Bitch, we’re going to start you at Archer’s Line, make you drive to the Hellmouth, fight your way all the way down to the Circle of Bones then back UP to the Temple to fight the boss. The next mission? We’ll just spawn you at the Hellmouth so you can drive to the Temple, go down to the Circle of Bones and find the World’s Grave.
Don’t get me wrong – love the area, love the design, but the padding is so transparent in some places.
That treasure thing is part of the new content that the DLC added – it exists in the world even if you don’t have the DLC (just like Eris Morn and her bounties – she’s also the DLC questgiver). It’s part of a quest where you need to kill the Heart, Hand and Eyes of Crota – stealing the treasure triggers the Eyes to appear. You’ll find the Heart and Hand in other areas around the cosmodrome as well.
Since you don’t have that mission/bounty it’s just a contextless flood of high-level Hive dudes.
OK, that makes sense. Thought it must have been a high-levelled player’s battle or something, but in reality it’s just another quest.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-21/hubble-high-resolution-view-of-the-andromeda-galaxy/6027732
Space is huge.
Really like that they explained some of the stuff seen in the images here. Like the bit about “oh hey by the way this is a WHOLE OTHER GALAXY just sitting there in the background”.
And humans still tell me there’s no other forms of life out there? I call bullshit and will always call bullshit. I’m only sad I won’t get to see any of those systems more closely 🙁
There’s too many systems in the universe for there not to be life.
Some scientists (e.g. Neil deGrasse Tyson, if I remember correctly) believe that we cannot be alone inthe universe.
The aternative is this.
That was a cool read.
Also the Fermi paradox and that whole “great filter” dealie is a scary thought.
The Fermi paradox makes me feel deeply ashamed for not lifting the game of Team Humanity.
After doing some reading on the things you mentioned, there’s a few possibilties (I believe)
1. Humans are the last civilization to exist. Unlikely, given how relatively young the universe is, but possible. It means there would be artefacts scattered across the universe though.
2. Humans are the first to exist. In billions of years, will several alien lifeforms arrive at an Earth colony and discover that we are the earliest lifeform?
3. Humans are an experiemnt by alien life to see if it is oossible to create a new species.
4. The Milky-Way is a no-contact zone to the Universal Alliance, until we bcome more advanced. (There are tribes that live on islands on Earth that are considered a no-contact zone by the developed word).
There’s probably a way to disprove all of those theories, bu I like thinking about this 😀
I can’t remember its name, but the simplest equation involves taking into account the chance of having a planet that can sustain life, combined with the chance of it undergoing something that will give it life (spontaneous formation, introduction from an external source, whatever). Then you need to take into account wherever l whether the life will occur in the correct time period for us to tell. So, you’ve got a very small number, but when you multiply it by the amount of planets in the universe you’ve still got a decent chance of life.
However, for us to interact with them you need to add the chance that they’re in space we’ll have access to (or us them), and then change the time period to interacting, let alone telling, and the chances that humanity ever interact with an alien species become exceedingly small.
Yeah, on balance of probability, life is probably abundant in the universe. It’s Drake’s Paradox. Where are they?
How much of it has evolved to the point we’d consider it ‘intelligent’ though? And even if intelligent civilizations have arisen in the universe before, the other question is when. The universe is billions of years old, and our civilization is at best 5000 years of that, and during that there’s been less than a hundred that we’ve been advanced enough to be detectable from space. And during that period we’ve fucked up the environment and nearly triggered a war of mutual annihilation and are about to run into issues with resource contention due to overpopulation, lack of water, lack of energy etc. And those are just problems from within – there’s so many ways right now that we could be utterly wiped out.
The chances that life has arisen on other planets is high. The chances that an intelligent civilization exists somewhere at the same time as we do is much, much lower. But probably higher than we’d have thought 15-20 years ago before we realized how common terrestrial planets are.
Minor nitpick – the Drake Equation is an estimate of the probability of intelligent life, and the Fermi Paradox is the statement roughly paraphrased as “if they exist, why can’t we see them?”
Great post though. 🙂
Yeah, I thought that was wrong when I wrote it.
The galaxy map in Elite gives me vertigo and nihilism – both at once.
You try making sense of the galactic ‘geography’ and realize there is no sense to be made and you’re looking at an infinite world of infinite worlds where influence and uniqueness is a myth and there is no point to any of it.
And then you go trading some exploration data and take a bulletin board mission.
I wish I was able to replicate the sense of awe I experienced the first time I got to fire that up. First being shown the star system you’re at, and being able to see the other ones nearby. Then zooming out to see what else is around. And then zooming out some more. And more. And more. And moooooooooooooooore. Then you slide on over towards one of the brighter regions of the galaxy, and zoom in closer to take a look around and the whole thing is just swimming in stars.
Mouth agape.
Then you remember you’ve only checked the map on a horizontal level and then swivel there camera around to look up and down as well… Blinds were mowned
Hell, try moving the camera even more than a few centimetres and it hides a metric fucktonne of systems from you. “You can’t handle seeing all this at once,” it tells you. “You’re not ready.”
@Shane Got me thinking about a life philosophy I keep close to my heart. Growing up one of my friends’ Dad was the ‘Everyman’. He could fix a burst car tube with duct tape, work out the square root of things in his head, neck a beer in 3 seconds flat and knew how to write code. I hope that one day I have the knowledge across heaps of areas of life so I can be good in many areas. I like the concept of being a generalist, someone who knows something about a lot of things or can do a lot of things.
TL;DR
I present to you #amateurhour where you write in to share a little bit of knowledge about something you know about. A good example was @tigerion and @quiz_b talking last TAY about siege knowledge or how to stitch a hole in your t-shirt. Please help me be that Everyman.
git gud #amateurhour
(But seriously I don’t know if I have any obscure skills that would help you do anything :P)
Advantage of being a qualified painter/mechanic/locksmith/cobbler means I have a pretty wide skill base. There’s not a lot that I can’t fix or build.
Downside is my days off are never really days off.
Random fact: screen doors, get a pair of pliers on the silver tear-drop cylinder and rock back and forward a couple of times. There’s two bits of 1.5 mm of crappy metal holding it together and will break with no effort. Lift locking bar and door is unlocked.
My Dad used to work for Chubb in his youth and he was able to open a lot of ‘secure’ locked sliding doors with a weird technique where he’d stand outside, grab the handle and sort of lift and rock it repeatedly. Catch would disengage and the door would be unlocked.
Freaked the shit out of me as I had a sliding door in my bedroom facing outside that he demonstrated the trick on. Ended up barricading it with a piece of 2×4 so the door wouldn’t slide open unless I’d unlocked it and removed that piece as well.
Yeah, seen a lot of pieces of wood behind sliding doors & Windows in rental places.
Takes 5 seconds with a coathanger to flick that piece of wood out.
Screens keep the mosquitoes out and that’s about it.
Believe me, it wouldn’t. It was huge and it was wedged into the entire bottom of the runner, took two hands to pull it out. If it could be disconnected with a coat hanger then I’d have used a different fix. I’m talking about a full-sized proper glass sliding door that’s part of the house, not just a screen. Of course it’d be faster to just smash the glass. 😛
And yeah, that’s why the only windows I leave open during the day when I’m not home have fly screens and would require a ladder against the side of the house which should be pretty obvious.
Not sure how I got you thinking about that, but okay!
Though I guess I have a skill set that is pretty broad… provided I don’t need to do anything that involves tools, the outdoor world, or other people. *nods*
I’ll think about what I can contribute.
Your #amateurhour got me thinking 😛
In the event of a personal injury claim against a negligent party wherein a Claimant is unable to engage in sexual relations as a result of the injury suffered, the injured person’s domestic partner may append a claim for “loss of consortium” as compensation for the period they are unable to enjoy the intimate company of the injured party.
This is an extremely outdated legal principle and, with the exception of Queensland, such claims are not generally entertained by the court.
…Although the court may be entertained by the claim. 🙂
Go QLD!
You probably know about these, but to learn code visit CodeCademy, and to learn another language visit DuoLingo.
And if you did know about these, well, I’m hoping someone finds them useful.
Never heard of either of them, they are both pretty awesome sites. Added them to my bookmarks, thanks man!!
There is also https://www.khanacademy.org which has some fairly serious level stuff
* As long as the other language you want to learn is one of the seven or so DuoLingo supports.
Well, yeah. They have most of the common European ones, so if you want to learn French, German, Spanish, or Italian it’s good.
The’re adding Eastern European countries in later, such as Russian.
If you want to learn an Asian language, you’re going to have to find something else, but from what I’ve heard, aren’t Asian languages harder to learn for English speakers anyway?
Regardless, you will probably need an additional source (e.g. textbook) to fully learn the language (@highperformance).
It’s the same thing with Codecademy though, it only supports a few languages, but all of them are good starting points to gain experience. Knowing Javascript will probably help a little with learning C++, just as how learning French will help with learning a different language.
Some Asian languages are hard. Some aren’t. But that’s not really the point, if I had to choose between a language I wanted to learn that was hard, and one that I wasn’t as interested in but is ‘easy’, I’d choose the hard one.
I’ve bought so many Japanese textbooks over the years trying to self-study. Textbooks are all shit. You need a proper teacher.
That’s a good point.
I was trying to say that learning any language makes it easier to learn others. And making an online course for something like Japanese, where there’s 3 alphabets + learning to speak it on top of that, is going to take a lot more time and resources than a single-alphabet European language.
In reality though, learn whichever language you want to. I was just suggesting a resource.
Yes, learning a second language changes the way your brain handles languages in general so it’s easier to pick up a third. Also it helps that languages usually evolve out of each other and there’s a lot of crossover, so once you know one, other related ones can be easier, eg the reason why you said that ‘Asian languages harder to learn for English speakers’ – it’s not that so much as that the Sino languages (Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean etc) have commonalities around grammar, vocabulary and even writing systems (eg Japanese Kanji are very similar/identical to traditional Hanzi in a lot of cases) mean that things are easier for them, in the same way that learning one of the Latin-derived languages like Spanish can make it easier to learn others like Italian.
I would teach you how to dismember and safely dispose of a body, but then you run the risk of having to flee to the other side of the world just in case.
A fire will spread across a surface twice as fast for every ten degrees of inclination, and half as fast for every ten degrees of declination.
…
Or was that fifteen degrees? I can’t remember now, 2007 was a long time ago 😛
Actually, my favourite part about that “fact” was that during a discussion with my then- (or at the time soon-to-be?) girlfriend, she asked me to tell her something interesting so I rattled that recently-acquired one off. Only to be told “I know that already”.
Her dad was like… head of the rural fire service or something 😛
Umm, I don’t have any transferable skills, unfortunately :\
I could try and give you some fashion tips, if you want?
Mustard pants are in.
They were never out.
Mustard is the most vial abomination of a “colour” >:(
It will never be in >:(
Shows what you know about fashion.
Fine, you can all live without my valuable fashion tips then >:'(
Let’s see how far mustard pants gets you >:(
You’ll never have a problem eating hotdogs again.
Fashionable AND practical!
Hit me Stewie!
Ooh, ok!
(match = same / similar colour)
(coordinate = complimenting colour)
Casual wear:
– Coordinate your shoes with your shirt.
– Coordinate your socks to your shoes.
– Match your undies to your shirt (if you think someone’s going to see your undies *wink*)
– Work in a two colour colour-scheme.
– Avoid accesories (rings, earrings, necklaces, etc). Watches are fine.
Formal wear:
– Match your socks to your undies and your tie.
– If no tie, match your socks to your pants.
– Match your belt to your shoes and wallet.
– Work in a three colour colour-scheme (pants / jacket, shirt, tie)
– Dark Grey suits go with far more than Black suits do.
– Tight / form fitting wear is far better than slightly too big.
– “Cocktail attire” gives you free range to dress colourfully. Embrace it.
General:
– Wax for short hair, gel for long(er) hair
– Sizes vary depending on brand / cut. Always try on clothes first.
– Black doesn’t go with everything. It goes with surprisingly little, actually.
– If you’re a guy, don’t wear a necklace. Ever.
– Professional haircut, men! Get a professional haircut!
– Work to what clothes you like.
– Dress for your body shape and your skin tone.
Some tips apply more than others.
i.e, casual tips can be ignored fully, because it is casual attire.
I’m just all about coordinating! 😀
At the end of the day, if you like what you’re wearing though, embrace it.
Confidence carries an outfit far more than coordination does.
Except mustard.
Never. Wear. Mustard.
Match your socks to your undies?
I’ve only ever done that once and it was at PAX last year.
I’m all about coordinating and matching! 😀
Socks to undies AND tie.
A bit of colour for each third (feet, waist, torso).
Mainly applies when it’s a bright colour (I had hot-pink in mind) 😀
I have multicoloured jocks, black socks for work and whites for weekends.
This whole matching thing is not going to work for me. 😛
Ohhhh, you’re one of those kids that let’s the undies show.
Hardly 😛
It’s more for myself in those cases! 😀
I know how subtly matchy-matchy I am 😀
The other day I wore a blue t-shirt with orange writing on it and noticed it matched the orange laces in my grey shoes. I felt so metro.
#LiondriveRateMyOutfit
You’re not the boss of me.
What if the necklace has a cool shark tooth on it? I think it would be okay in that case.
Or dog tags. No one has thought to do that before! 😀
Especially if they’ve never been in the military before. Then it could be like… ironic! Or poking fun. Or a respectful tribute… so many meanings.
Oh, and wanting to look nice isn’t some form of stereotyping.
I like looking nice is all.
Legit though, I wear two necklaces. And it looks weird when I don’t have them on, the neck area just seems too… empty.
I said some tips apply more than others 😛
If you like wearing necklaces then go for it 🙂
Good thing about style is that it’s your own 😉
Man… all the things I’ve been doing wrong!
It’s funny because I’ve always worn whatever jewellery my loved ones buy for me. Sometimes it’s been a polished river rock brought back from Africa, other times a rigid metal chain looped through engraved brass tumblers… once, a hand-crafted turtle made from a fired clay/plastic composite. Wherever possible, I’ve worn them as tight as possible to create an almost collar-like effect, and generally worn them until the chain/cord has worn through or they’ve broken. (Even in the shower, at the beach, pool, or when otherwise naked, meaning that them breaking is an inevitability.)
They’ve always seemed popular before, though. I remember a few instances of women grabbing me by that thick, metal chain so they could pull me down to kiss me. I think they quite liked that. I’ve actually entertained the idea of buying another one, the first time ever buying one for myself. 😛
Most women in my life are desperately trying to get me to wear more jewellery.
I used to wear a lot as a teenager but various jobs have demanded I don’t if I like keeping my hands and neck.
I haven’t taken my ring off in nearly 10 years.
Which is why I always seduce Mrs Tigs wearing nothing but my black boxers
No matter what, Always try rebooting your machine, it will fix 80% of issues. as long as it is a computer based machine.
My skills are generally very arbitrary and useless, unless it’s to do with computers :P… I’m good at recognizing shapes, which means I can promptly identify various cars and airplanes without a hassle… Doesn’t really help much 😛
Don’t forget though; jack of all trades, master of none. It’s great to learn things here and there but don’t get too involved with all facets of life else you’ll have no time to relax, much like the point Freeze made above.
Cool tip from Benny? When cooking, make it a habit to touch everything for a split second on the first touch – your brain doesn’t always remember what’s going to be scalding hot. It was the best thing I learned working in a bakery.
Like it.
This is the trade-off from being involved with different facets of life, you’re right.
I like that one, does it burn your sensory receptors thought?
Not as much as if you’d held it for longer than a split second? I dunno.
I’ve tried it on barbecues, you can definitely swiftly dab a hot plate with your finger without doing damage. So my guess is no, it does not burn.
The chances are high that your microwave oven spends more than 90 per cent of its time not actually microwaving anything. So why not use of it for more than that purpose?
In my case, I tend to use the ol’ nuke as a bread bin; it keeps the bread out of the sun and in a position where it’s handy to grab for toasting or sandwiches, and doesn’t take up any more space than the microwave already does.
144 minutes of microwaving per day.
There are so many ways to pick up crazy knowledge. Almost all of which involve willing mentors, even if only temporary and incidental.
Recommendations: Browse a TAFE course library. There’s beginner guides to moderate competence in a lot of surprising areas. Welding, security, cooking, bartending, languages, maths/science catch-up…
The other thing is ‘sporting’ clubs. And not the typical ones like footy or cricket, I’m thinking more about rowing, abseiling, shooting,
Other volunteer organizations can teach a lot, too. Try working backstage for an amateur theatre group, visiting a prospecting or orienteering club, or sign up with the ambos or fieries. SES, fundraising door-knockers, animal shelters, community radio, they all take volunteers.
And to make you marginally useful, they’ll all usually teach you something.
Tips within a tip, you sir win #amateurhour for today!
Apparently I know lots of things about stuff. But being a pompous asshole that knows everything isn’t really a skill and certainly not a transferable thing.
I can tell you that there is very little in this world that appropriate application of duct tape cannot fix.
I just remembered that a few years back I bought a book called “The Art of Shen Ku*”. It was an assortment of everyday tips and useful knowledge, but presented in a manual that mimicked/mocked the format of Eastern wisdom/philosophy including stylised artwork and broken English that was, to be honest, borderline offensive.
Presentation aside, however, it was an excellent repository of everyday knowledge in an era that pre-dated the “lifehack”. I should dig it up and consult it sometime.
*I linked to the Amazon page up there instead of the official website because the official website is kind of terrible, but anyway, if you see this book cheap, pick it up.
https://booko.com.au/9780399527258/The-Art-of-Shen-Ku
Cheapest is around $20 for a used copy.
I don’t know much of anything outside of cartoons & games.
I can generally understand most stuff but never find anything interesting enough to master.
I <3 Excel… using the functions INDEX and MATCH in conjunction with INDIRECT allows you to create some exceptionally powerful lookup functions for great dashboards.
Also, VLOOKUP is handy… but it’s like comparing a Corolla to a Ferrari.
Also… Conditional Format the world!!!
I think I like Excel too much… although it can make you look like a superstar at work.
You’d get on with the Data Science guy I work with. He swears by PowerPivot.
Pivots are useful… when they work.
When they don’t work I feel like putting my PC under a SpaceX rocket launch for all I care.
The number of people who know how to properly use excel is nothing compared to the number of people who use excel every day and should know it better. I don’t use it a lot but I’ve been gradually trying to learn more complex functions so one day I can do something amazing like it’s no big deal and blow someone’s mind. It’ll all be worth it.
I need to learn the index and match function properly
That said I manage to get around a lot of it with complex nested if else statements
You need to check out Array formulas…
Serious lifesaver… can check upto 255 (I think) arguments using a range instead of mulitple tests…
Instead of =IF(OR(A1=1,A2=1,A3=1… A60=1),TRUE,FALSE) you can imagine how long that’s going to be…
Use =IF(OR(A1:A60=1),TRUE,FALSE) and Ctrl+Shift+Enter… Excel will check every cell from A1 through to A60 to see if it equals 1.
Also, it’s handy to think of INDEX/MATCH as a VLOOKUP that can ‘look’ left… not just right. You get so comfortable copy/pasting and ramming a new column in before your data to use VLOOKUP that you lose incentive to use something else…
Well considering I just copied the introduction to the Astrix comics I might not have been the best example. Or maybe the best #amateurhour example
hahaha let’s go with the best.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/01/how-to-use-a-map-and-compass/
Here you go 😛
If you ever have to do public speaking behind a microphone, three things to remember:
1. P’s and B’s are not your friend. Avoid them if you are writing a speech. If not, remember to take the mic an inch or two off your lips if you have to hit a hard p or b. This takes some practice.
2. If you have never used a mic before, easiest way to get your volume is to put the widest part of the silver mesh/mic top (you’ll know it when you see it) gently just underneath your bottom lip. It’ll pick up your voice pretty good – it’s not like you need good clarity in it (i.e. singing or screaming across a pub) so that should be enough to avoid the dreaded popping of b’s or p’s.
3. Speech? Always open with a good line. I remember my wedding speech opener had the best laugh. “My mum and dad are here today, so I have to mind my p’s and q’s and f*cks and c*nts. …sh*t.” You then get ONE MINUTE of goodwill (seriously, studies have been done into this) where you can ramble before you have to either a) make ’em laugh or b) make ’em awwww. Not sure how strong a bit of your speech is? Whack a joke at the start. It’ll strengthen that section right up.
Do a first aid course. More people would be saved at the hospital if they had good prehospital care, and that includes bystanders at the scene as well as paramedics.
They had way too much fun writing this.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/20/taylor-swift-fans-have-spoken-but-will-triple-js-hottest-100-listen
I only realised upon getting to the end that those hyperlinks were all youtube links, not those randomly generated ad links that I’ve been trained to ignore.
Good tip. It did seem weird that they were capitalizing them like song names or something.
Like?
Well, I only thought they were being cute until I actually saw that they were links… to those same song names. 🙂
Oh great, I have a chance to TAY and it’s all Page Six and dismemberment! 😛
What!?
Who would post such tasteless things?
Shame on you, shame on you all.
(Hi Strange!)
Shouldn’t you be doing holiday stuff, Strangey? 😛
Hope you’re having fun! 😀
I just got back from Downtown Disney where I ate a huge dinner and I’m sitting around waiting for Mr. Strange to bring more food back to our room for eating while watching that newish Keane Reeves movie Freeze said was good.
Over-eating is holiday stuff, right? 😀
The best holiday stuff
but theres a whole discussion on Gummi Bears!
ORANGE!
It gave me lemon-lime…
I expected this from the classless rabble, but you Strange? From you?
Classless? pffft,
Boo!
You have chosen… Wisely
HI @STRANGEIs there Disney magic in your heart yet? If so, you and @dkzeitgeist and I need to hang out and talk ‘shop’… 😛
His rendition of Under The Sea was stuck in my head for most of the week afterwards.
We were wandering around Disney parks for 12 hours straight yesterday! I now hate Disney. 😛
But… I wandered for five days. My feet were swollen. It wasn’t enough.
Moments like these I remember the whole monster gene thing. 😛
A people-trap, built by a mouse.
TBH, page six is really great this week!
Hi Strangey!
My mother bought a new quilting machine, a sweet 16, and I got to look all knowledgeable and stiff thanks to you by asking what arm length it was.
TMI
A sweet 16 is a “mid-arm”, if she didn’t already tell you that. 😀
Also, I’m now extremely jealous of your mother….
Yeah, her first guess was long, but she corrected herself to mid, all the while wondering when I’d learned anything about quilting.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8920613
This guy. I like this guy 😛
Damn the internet. I’ve been searching for somewhere I can get 2 custom embroided velcro patch about 1.5 inches high by about 4 inches wide. As soon as I find something for a reasonable price, the shipping kills it. Best i’ve found is 25 bucks shipped, damn..
I know somebody local. I’ll send you her number.
Cheers dude! I swear you know just about a person for everything 😛
@jocon Did 5/7H yesterday before the raid reset =D got 2 670 ilvl items ^^ Only boss I couldn’t get a group for was twins… D=
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Seriously, why does every group I try to pug in end up a bunch of idiots who can’t get past butcher :/
My PS4 has surprisingly little HDD space left on it, despite not having much on there :\
500GB isn’t very much, apparently :\
Tine to try and free up some space :\
Yeah, I had to delete everything about 3 times now just so I could play new games. It’s not much at all.
I uninstall games as I finish them, because I don’t want the menu bar to get too cluttered. Therefore, 500GB seems like plenty to me 😛
Yeah, I had that too. Saw Destiny was installed and it was the easiest decision to delete. 😛
I had to get rid of Knack and Killzone.
I hate uninstalling games though.
Feels like I’m losing good memories of those games :'(
I’m tempted to whack a 2tb drive in mine just so I don’t run in to any future problems :/
It’s kind of pathetic how little space they give you.
“How To Use A Map And Compass”
I… guess I can see how in this day and age such an article might be necessary. But I still can’t properly fathom it.
Not everywhere is the city with phone reception?
Although if you were serious about wilderness hiking you’d have a gps unit with some solar backup for power…
No I mean like is it really that hard to use one that it needs such a lengthy explanation. Just one of those things that feels like a given, I guess.
You’d be surprised how many people wouldn’t know their East from their West, let alone what topographic lines are.
It’s probably a good thing they changed Minecraft so that the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, instead of North and South like it used to be.
Never Eat Soggy Weetbix!
Ah, dem primary school days
Make no mistake: the apocalypse is coming. When all the cars and GPS units stop working, and it becomes impossible to navigate by the sun because of a thick layer of perpetually scorched sky, you’ll be very thankful that you’ve saved this article on your phone.
Wait…
I learned two things in cadets: orienteering, and that in an emergency situation condoms can hold up to a litre of
cwater.£water? What’s that taste like?
I was confused for a good few minutes after I read it as “Euro Water”…
€? No , definitely a £.
Certainly not a ¥¿
I’ll pound your water in a minute, buddy.
I learned the basics of orienteering from Miasmata. 😛 That game may have been crap for the final third of the plot, but it had one of the most interesting exploration/navigation/mapping systems I’ve seen in a long time, before or since.
TMI page 7!
Post something that will make everyone else recoil with an “urgh, I did not need to know that”!
You first? 😛
This morning was a Bristol 5. Probably due to nachos last night.
You think that’s TMI? I’ve crapped thrice today, and they were a 6, a 4, and a 5. I think I need to analyse my diet.
I used to be like that, but since I’ve changed my diet I often go a day or two without pooping. I’m not sure that’s better.
I am not sure I want to google that at work.
I’m not sure I want to google it anywhere O_O
In case you do want to see an infographic. First I’ve come across this, but will certainly not be the last time I reference it. Thanks, Freeze. 😛
You’re half way to being a doctor now.
The other half is telling people they have an upper respiratory tract infection, to drink lots of water, and get a lot of rest.
Yesterday morning I was quite a severe 6 following the consumption of 3/4s of a bottle of Johnny Walker Black the night before.
I did the other day =(
TM False Swipe
I’m not wearing any panties
Few days ago… finished having a pee, gave it a decent shake.
Or so I thought.
Back in the pants and feel a fair drizzle of piss run down my leg. At work. Stare down dumbfounded… Hope it doesn’t show through pants attempt to nonchalantly walk back to desk.
We’ve all been there.
Pooping in a national park is not fun, especially when it’s hailing and you know your hiking friend is only 5 metres away, humming “Let it go” because she’s a bitch with a sense of humour.
The Internet
#TMIPage7
#page6continues
It’s a small world man.
Went out to meet this Oliver guy to look at renting together. We went out for a drink and his friend came along. She’s friends with one of my other best friends and we’ve been out drinking/getting high a few times before and she was asking how my Oliver was going (they knew each other many years ago) and what he’s doing and wow, it’s a really small world 😛
He was pretty cool though! Gonna talk to management here and break the lease and go from there.
Oh, I didn’t realise it was actually a different Oliver.
I know a lot of Oliver’s
Twist?
I certainly didn’t see it coming.
Shake?
You can’t replace one Oliver with someone with the same name! D:
Another?
Nobody can ever replace my Oliver! He thinks it’s weird too but I swear to god it’s entirely a coincidence 😛
I actually know, including people here, like 5 Dan’s. There’s probably a complicated hierarchy there.
I like how you just throw “getting high” in there…
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That’s how the cool kids do it.
He’s just a narc, throwing it into the sentence like that!
I don’t think you’re using “narc” correctly :\
Guy trying to subtley work drugs into conversations to bust people. 😛 HE’S A NARC!
Oh! I see.
Though suggesting he’s a narc could be you trying to shift suspicion elsewhere…
So… you’re the narc? D:
No, he’s Spartacus
I ain’t no narc!
I love the drugs…
All them drugs…
I do so many drugs…
Definitely not no narc…
Maybe YOU’RE the narc! :O
I’m the narc, already caught neinhandle.
Well, it’s not like I’ve hidden it before. I have different friends for different purposes 😀
Wink.
Don’t mind me, I just find it strange when people just kind of admit to that kind of stuff :\
I’m just a prude is all! 😀
Haha it’s alright. Don’t get the impression I’m a massive stoner or anything though. Could count the number of times I’ve smoked any in the last 12 months on one hand 😛
I could count the times I’ve ever (intentionally) taken any drugs on no hands! 😀
Prude 4 Lyf! 😀
Good on ya
I can count the number of times I’ve intentionally taken cocaine on no hands!
…
I’m not very good at this, am I?
‘Intentionally’ is the very worrying word in that sentence.
@alexpants
Yeah, but it makes for a mildly amusing story!
I DEMAND TO KNOW
PRUDE REPRESENT
You are in Tasmania.. There’s only a few people that populate that island, makes sense why half of them are related or implied 😛
It’s true 😛 Most of the time when I meet somebody new they know at least one person I’m friends with
I found it funny when I was down there my friend who moved down there knew people from all over the place. I wish I was that social at times lol.
Just out of interest with that map conversation up there, how many people here were in the cubs or scouts? I find I mention that I was a cub to some people and I get a look like I was in some obscure society.
It’s kinda obscure in the areas I went to school in. Never knew anybody who did it in the 3 schools I went to (or they just didn’t broadcast it)
City schools?
Small coastal town. Always assumed it was more of a country/city suburban thing.
Surf Club was the thing there.
Nipper?
or sea scout?
Never knew “sea scouts” was a thing until now. Was called Surf Club or Nippers.
But I guess come to think of it now, it was kind of ‘scouty’ in a way. Mostly all water and ocean safety learning when you’re younger. Learning how to run properly on sand, how to handle different surf conditions, all the right signals to use, etc. Then you move onto more rescue type stuff as you get older in the hopes you’ll stay on as a volunteer lifeguard. Plus all the competitions and such (which I wasn’t a fan of :P)
I think they’re different things. I know my cousins used to do Nippers, but one of them used to be in Sea Scouts for a while as well.
Oh I didn’t mean to say they were the same 😛 Just that I never thought of Surf Club as being the equivalent of scouts until now.
I was a sixer.
Dyb Dyb Dyb.
Dob dob dob dob
I think I was the first one in our pack to earn the yellow cord. Co-scored cub of the year because of that, along with someone else who probably actually deserved it 😛
Yeah, I did cubs. Then scouts. It was the ‘sea scouts’, though. Because our clubhouse was literally on a beach. Still part of the Baden Powell-inspired obscure society, though.
Also, I think we were a little different in that we had girls. It was a fantastic time, I tell you. Fantastic. Very formative.
We had girls in ours. I think it was pretty standard by then.
Come to think of it, cubs might have been the earliest possible instance I can remember of having a crush on someone. I always thought that never ended up happening until year 11/12, but now I recall one of the car trips to a camp, being kinda sweet on one of the girls I sharing the back seat with. Pretty sure it was cubs anyway, I don’t think she went on to scouts. Not many did.
Of course, I had no idea that’s what it was at the time so did nothing about it (ha! Like that was the reason!), but in hindsight I’m pretty sure it was 😛
Snowtown didn’t have a big enough population to segregate cubs by gender.
I did Ventures but that was when I joined. Was never a cub or scout. Dropped out before rovers
Yeah, my two best friends at school were in or went into Cubs, so I joined them. Then the one we were at was crap so we all transferred over to another group. Dunno how long I was there for, the other two dropped out but I kept going through to scouts. Can’t remember why I stopped, might’ve just gotten bored with it when things started being less interesting, or I dunno. Actually come to think of it I was kinda bullied by a couple of the girls there. Huh.
Edit: But yeah I kinda got the same thing, if I mentioned scouts at all I’d get weird looks and stuff. So eventually I just stopped mentioning it, and kinda forgot it happened. My assumption was that they just think we’re all victims of paedophilia or something.
I did army cadets. Scouts were mad jealous of our sweet uniforms when we marched together at ANZAC day dawn services.
Sent an email to the uni asking if I can transfer campus’. Apparently you’re not allowed to unless you have finished a semester. Kinda bummed, hoped I wouldn’t need to worry about finding work but I suppose @greenius can get me a job … Right!?
Complete the semester online in-absentia (with lecturers being given advance notice and you getting their blessing, where possible, to get you out of that pesky attendance requirement), even if it means your grades suffer to the point of ‘merely passing’, then take those ‘mere passes’ as academic credit accepted damn near everywhere else?
Course can’t be done online I don’t think. Only fulltime / parttime
Sure, but all the assignments are submitted online, right? Just means the exams are the problem.
I imagine nursing has lots of practical stuff, though. Maybe?
In first semester though?
Good point.
MY JOB. HANDS OFF!
You have thumbs, and Melbourne has plenty of corners.
Just gonna throw that option out there…
And who doesn’t want a bit of Nob?
Me.
I want all the Nob.
One of my besties lives in Melb, and he works for Telstra. I can ask him to keep an ear out for any jobs if you want?
Is it Tech_Knight? ROBO-BUDS 😛
nah not TK. Tis a non TAYbie, but an avid gamer. Does TK work for Telstra?
I think Chuloopa does too? *shrug*
Yeah I do, I’m in the Cloud 🙂
heh cool! my friend works in incident management for stuff like AFL and Presto etc. Not sure what the actual dept is called.
I read that like… somewhere close to 2% of the Australian population works for Telstra in some way or another.
haha wouldn’t surprise me. yet they still outsource their call centres to people who can’t speak english! :0
Move, have fun!
Urgh fine, YOU’RE HAPPY NOW?
Gave into peer pressure (peer pressure being the 5 different voices in my head) and pre-ordered Grim Fandango from GOG \o/
How can i be so hype for a game i’ve completed at least 10 times?
You’re what’s wrong with the industry.
*goes home to play a remade remake of Resident Evil*
You’re both monsters.
*goes to dig out old pirated copy of Grim, and GCN copy of REmake*
…
*sits around and Internets instead*
I wonder if Tim Schaefer would like your Manny costume as much if he knew you pirated the game 😛
I didn’t pirate it, my friend did! Then one day gave it to me saying “hey you should play this”.
I guess I should probably buy this one, to atone or something.
He’s said in the past that he didn’t mind that people pirated it as long as they bought merch or something :P. But this was a few years ago before they had the rights again, I think during the original DFA Kickstarter?
I think of it this way:
If I rebut an awesome game multiple times, that’s sends a message & supports more of what I like.
GOOD.
The artist behind The Oatmeal is doing work for a KickStarter-backed card game, Exploding Kittens.
What’s surprising is how quickly it was funded, 100% in 20 minutes, and 1000% in less than an hour. The game currently has over 1’000’000 dollars raised, and they were asking for $10’000 to start with.
Whoah.
Today me and my girlfriend of over 7 years decided to break up (no bad blood which is one good thing I guess). Also my PS4 has decided it also doesn’t want me either and will randomly power off into safe mode. It’s not helping my cat is being a massive shit right now.
Yay today
That sucks to hear, friend 🙁
Hope you’re holding up alright.
Ah, sorry about the break-up, buddy!
Was that a long distance thing or the one you moved half way round the world for
Either way *Hugs*
Both. It started as a long distance thing back in the day of Myspace (how we randomly ‘met’) and then moved over here.
Shit man…that’s a long time. Good to hear there’s no bad blood, hope you dealing with it ok. Cats can be so insensitive sometimes.
I think the cats’re just excited to have no fleas on them. Should be ok. We don’t know what’s going to happen, if we get back together at some point or not, we just need space to focus on ourselves
That sucks bud, hope your alright, atleast it was on good terms so thats a plus
I like going back over all the TAY posts at the end of the day and seeing all the @masha2932 upvotes 🙂
#Bumasha
#Niceassha
I rarely check it these days unfortunately, but I at least try and get to the last page and read stuff so I can keep up with people’s lives.
Yeah, it sucks that you’re not around TAY as often these days 🙁
How’s Kenya going anyway?
Same old. Unemployment does not do good things to one’s mental state, hopefully that changes soon though. Otherwise just a lot of Destiny and TV
Unemployment Club, reassemble!
You’re unemployed again? D:
WORST CLUB MEMBERS.
Not yet, but soon.
Boo! Why? 🙁
Flirting with the boss’ wife? 😛
@greenius Yes.
But probably mainly that my contract’s up 😛
Yeah, I’m feeling the unemployment downs too :’\
Chin up, bud 🙂
Something will come along, for the both of us! 😀
Watch It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. It’s the secret to success!
@masha2932
So World of Warships is having a beta event over the weekend.
Trouble is that the signups for it are absolutely fucking bullshit. Every hour for 4-5 hours on a forum somewhere they throw up like 40 codes and there’s about 500 people just sitting & waiting. Then you have to enter the code on their site, which apparently can’t cope with the load and just sits there and errors out. People pick a code, spam it, get in, and the codes are gone within seconds.
Absolutely fucking shittastic. Three hours wasted sitting here waiting in the hope I’ll get in, since every fucking time I try and get into anything related to this game, they make it as difficult as possible. Even at PAX, they said they had it there, but their boot was all tanks all the time and apparently you had to ask (yell over the dipshit on stage) to maybe get into a secret line to give the game a go, but they had absolutely nothing externally even showing the game was there so I assumed they’d cancelled that part.
Didn’t get into the alpha, didn’t get into the beta, didn’t get to play it at PAX, missed out on entry to all their beta events so far… I think I’m done trying. Besides, if a few hundred people trying to enter a code on a website causes it to fall over and die repeatedly, I’m not sure they can actually run a game.
I can try to get you a code if you like, but I need your full name and email address. Have to send the details to an internal address and I guess they send the code directly to you? Can’t guarantee anything since the info on the invite process is in Russian!
Nah, kind of soured toward the whole thing. Will just ignore it until it comes out.
Fair enough.
NUMENERA
The party almost got spiked, found a hentai helmet and @blaghman popped something in his knees and then took a flame explosion to the face.
Also, they found a secret passage.
Tune in next time for more TALES FROM THE NINTH WORLD
… hentai helmet?
Does it have tentacles or something?
Yes.
I assume it will make senpai notice the wearer.
Probably not the sort of notice the wearer might want though.
Or maybe it is?
That can be summoned from the back of the head of the wearer, yes. A whole 2.7m of it. Scrappa was using it to sweep for traps. Found it on the carcass of an impaled adventurer in a spike pit that we navigated through.
Which probably means that guy didn’t use it thoroughly enough
That’s either the most or the least appropriate use for a tentacle ever.
Also, fiasco folk, I know we’ve got a big group, but I’ve invited my mate Dan (whom some of you have played with) to join us Friday. If we think it’s too cumbersome I’ll drop out of playing and just facilitate, it’s just I think he needs a night of escapism badly atm. Hope this is ok
More the merrier.
That was tomorrow right? I’m not going to be able to make it so he can take my place.
Next time man 🙂
After looking at the wiki a bit, I started trying bounty hunting just then in Elite:Dangerous. Earned 2 bounties worth <1000 Credits, and one which was ~22,000 Credits, so it worked out well enough for less than an hour’s work when I have NO IDEA what I’m doing. Still not entirely sure of the point of this bounty thingy I attached to my ship, but there we go.
22000 is greater than 1000, not less than. Silly Blaghs 😛
That’s the Kill Warrant Scanner you’re talking about? If you scan someone with it it’ll let you know whether your target has any bounties in systems other than the one you’re in. You can check this by looking at them in the Contacts tab on your left panel, where they’ll come up as Wanted and show their bounty.
But if they have no bounties in your current system, they won’t come up as “wanted” when targeting them, so firing on them will net you a fine in the current system/killing them will get you a bounty. So it’s best to either just use it on already wanted targets, or use it in an independent system where you don’t need to worry about your reputation with them, or in an anarchy system where it doesn’t matter if you fire upon an unwanted target (although in this case you *need* the KWS because nobody will have a bounty to begin with).
Yeah, I tended to wait until I saw the wanted thing, then I’d start shooting them while scanning, because I’m polite like that. >.>
Ugh, more hot weather….
There’s a joke about sheep in there somewhere…
Another night at work. Featuring @gorzilla
So, looks like it might not be lactose at all\o/
Gluten on the other hand /o\
I don’t know which is worse :\
Hopefully it’s not gluten either though!
Told you, lactose intolerance is a lie invented by Jesus to oppress the Chinese. That’s why it stops after 10am.
Gluten intolerance can cause lactose intolerance as well. The gluten inflames your gut and reduces your ability to handle lactose.
My Mum suffers from this, on top of a lot of other stuff. If it turns out you have the same problem, fresh food is your best friend.
Oh, and check EVERY label. I can’t stress this enough. Even a product that was safe one month may not be the next.
Shadow of Mordor is an odd duck of a game. I’m not sure that any of its borrowed mechanics work better than in the games they derived the inspiration from… but it’s curiously compelling regardless.
It’s kind of fun mowing through all the captains – seems like everywhere I go, there’s another one just waiting to be cut down. Even had one die off-screen well out of my range, mauled by caragors. And I’ve already got a couple of arch-nemeses: one that I built up from a plain ordinary orc, and who will be quite simple to kill when the time comes, and one who I can’t even get close to, because he can one-shot me with his poison bow 😛Question:
At present, the orc captain roster is full of bodies. Only about six or seven of them are still standing. I know that some roster changes will happen when I die, and/or time passes, but is anyone across the intricacies of the system enough to be able to predict how it works? For example, if the body is still there on the captain roster, does it mean that they’re not really permanently dead?I haven’t played the game, but I remember an article here talking about how to truly kill a captain you have to basically chop off their head I think?If they’re a body, then they are still alive. The only way to permanently kill an orc is to chop its head off in a finisher. And even then, sometimes they’ll come back but be silent and wearing a bag on their head. 😛 Orcs you’ve permanently killed will be in the roster area as skulls.
Elite dangerous continues to have it’s hooks in me… Last night I decided to move my entire operation roughly 200 LY away… Some shitty policies aside I wanna try and get in with the empire because dat Imperial Clipper!… Also was rather fun seeing a completely new section of the galaxy map, makes me think I should do more explorations…
@mrtaco @trikeabout @os42 @blaghman
How are you liking Elite so far Blaghs?
Progress: ~500 soft resets in, no shiny yet.
Also seems like the reset rate could be faster with a new 3DS. Might need to do some experimentation to confirm this.
What are you doing to try get a shiny? I need to research stuff one day, I have no idea about breeding, perfect IVs or any of them fancy things you crazy pokeymaners do. I just throw my empty balls at the things then throw full balls at other things and then proclaim that I’m the very best like no one ever was.
Enter battle. Not shiny. Reset. Repeat.
I also have a shiny charm from completing the dex that gives better odds.
For the non legendaries, I hatch a few hundred eggs with a foreign parent. Since the hatching is 99% of the work, I get good IVs in place first on the parents so the end result is better.
Edit: Whoa, typos
I’m a o a check one day and ask you to swap the last missing pokes so I too can compete my dex, I’m not far off.
To get that charm, do you need all legendary as well?
Pretty sure the charm and completed status doesn’t need legendaries.
Flame war time! Favourite Pokémon game? Mine is Black/White 2. So many things!!!
Blue! Because tortoise with cannons > flamey dragon
Red! Because flamey dragon > everything
YEAH? WELL… WELL… MY DAD COULD BEAT YOUR DAD!
MY HAWLUCHA COULD BEAT YOUR DAD
Magikarp could beat Pixels dad.
Oh boooo-urnns 😛 that is the most obvious burn that I had not expected :P… Well done sir!
http://s.mlkshk-cdn.com/r/G6S2
This guy gets it!
WHY WOULD YOU WILLING EVOLVE SQUIRTLE?
I didn’t, I just went off which box art was cooler XD
Squirtle is still my favorite by far… Though Wartortle is pretty rad too
No flame war necessary, you chose the correct option.
Yellow!
I haven’t played Gen 5, or the original Gen 3, but so far Alpha Sapphire is my favourite main-series game.
For spin-offs it would have to be Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, followed by Ranger: Shadows of Almia.
Platinum
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness and Time. If spinoffs don’t count, I choose you, Pokemon Gold.
@welbot Spoke to my uncle about ongoing problem. He thinks it could be my hard disk dying.
My unprofessional (well actually professional but you know) opinion I’d say that it’s unusual for a hard drive to cause unexpected reboots… Power fluctuations (take a multi meter to the PSU), overheating parts or bad ram are the most common cause in my opinion… Unless you see an error or something before the reboot? Or does it happen while Windows is loading?
You can download a bootable cd like Hirens to run some checks on the hardware to rule out things too…
It is possible that some data is sitting on a bad sector, but usually if that’s the case, the crash will happen at the same time (like as it tries to read that data during boot for instance.) One way to find out for sure is by looking in the event log, and also running a chkdsk /r.
If your HDD is beginning to fail, you might see some errors in Windows Logs > System.
If you see the odd HDD error in there, it may be on its way out. If there’s no errors however, you’d be best to run chkdsk. To do that (if you’re not comfortable with command prompt) Right click the HDD in Computer > Properties. Then on the Tools tab, click Check Now under Error Checking. Tick both boxes in the window that comes up, and once you attempt to start, it’ll warn you that it can’t do it, and ask to schedule it for the next reboot. Say yes and reboot. During startup, it’ll switch to a black screen and run the check. should do 5 stages. It should attempt to create a log at the end, but sometimes can fail, so try to keep an eye on it if you can. You’ll know if it hits a problem cos it’ll likely start spitting out tons of lines, or if it’s not an indexing thing, it might just have one line at the end somewhere saying it found and fixed errors.
Did you get a chance to try the machine without the GPU installed yet? (Only using graphics built in to the motherboard?)
Doesnt look like my system has built in graphics, certainly no port for it. I’ve currently left my machine at a friends place who does stuff like this as a hobby. He sent a text just before saying that it my HDD is fine. So at least I have that going for me.
maybe see if you can borrow a diff gpu for a day or so to test it then. Have you tried any beta drivers yet, or rolling back to an older version of the driver?
Let’s hit today where it hurts!
… 🙁
Messaging someone on gumtree to see if I can take a picture of their goat.
Just another day.
So that’s what the kids are calling it these days?
Page six forever?
Well that’s a pickup line of I ever heard one
*grabs popcorn*
Anybody have TAYlist requsts for today? Also, my computer is being a shit, I’m posting tis from my phone.
New Order – 1963
Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac
Paperback Writer – The Beatles
Talking Heads – Psycho Killer (Stop Making Sense live version)
Bjork – Joga
Rockin the suburbs – ben folds
Seth sentry – run
Sideways – Citizen Cope
Requests are now closed, thanks for the song picks.
Foiled again!
Mate, do not do that. Speaking from 10 years experience specialising in that field you’ll break it and will cost thousands to fix for that sake of saving $100 now. Just go get it done properly.
Nah, I saw a YouTube video.
*sigh* goddamn people make this job painful.
You’d think the fact I’m telling them not to spend any money with me would say something but apparently it’s all part of a grand orchestrated plan to rip them off.
You’re a shrewd business dood
Changing an automobile water pump?
Oops, forgot I put my drink in the freezer when I got here.
So that’s what the kids are calling it these days?! 😛
Back at work today after three days sick. And I’m bored/without proper work already.
How’s everyone else this *adjective of your choice* Thursday?
The leprechaun is telling me to burn things.
I now have a whole bunch of documentation to do 🙁
Looking forward to the long weekend
I hear that, I should actually try finishing a game sometime this year instead of starting 20 at once.
I did one so far!
(Started a whole bunch of RPGs)
No two! I did Ducktales!!
I think I have around 15 games on the go at the moment, really need to concentrate on 1 or 2 and finish something,
Side note. Nicole’s already racked up around 8 hours in Persona, she’s really liking it 😀
BEST GAYME EVR
So it’s time to pop the question then…
Rise/Chie/Yukiko?
She’s still undecided, be interesting to see who she picks.
I bet it’s Yuki
That would be funnier if she wasn’t bi
Especially since we fucked up somehow and managed to make ANZAC day on the 100th Anniversary fall on a weekend and not give us a public holiday in lieu. 🙁
Yeah that sucks, maybe we should all move to Perth that month.
Fucking arseknuckles, as if you wouldn’t just move the actual day off just like we do for Xmas.
This is Australia, land of slackers!!!
It’s the most important ANZAC day we’ve ever had, it’s the 100th Anniversary, and it’s not a public holiday. It’s insane.
The actual Anzac day itself is a public holiday though isn’t it?
Yes but it’s a weekend.
See based on the importance of this one I’m happy with the holiday being on the actual day. For those who work weekends it gives them the opportunity to go to dawn service and stay for the parade. For people who work during the week they can still do this as well.
For me having more people being able to pay respects on the 100th anniversary of Anzac day is a bigger deal than making sure a majority of people get a day off.
That said I work most public holidays anyway so my point of view may be biased
I get my holidays tomorrow! so nothing can bring me down right now!
Also, glad you’re feeling better 🙂
Looking up rentals in Melbourne despite knowing pretty much nothing about it.
Proud of you, buddy.
Planning on moving here or?
Got a offer from Uni but it’s in Melborune. Seriously considering moving down.
Not to be an enabler but you should… We’re a pretty great bunch down here… Just saying 😛
Which uni is the offer from Nob?
Depending on what it is there might be better places to consider
Uni is ACU which is east Melbourne.
Depending on how far you want to travel there are a few places to look at. Potentially Carlton would have you within walking distance of uni.
From what you are saying you want check out fitzroy, super close and very Melbourne. Kinda bohemian vibe but lots of cafe and that kinda thing. Brunswick is similar but if you can get more towards east brunswick that could work better for you.
Realistically it isn’t far from the parliment train station to get there so as long as the place is near a train station then you are going to be fine. Although if you prefer trams you could even look out as far as Kew but might be less what you are after.
@blackdahlianz has just gone through the rental ring around, he can give you some advice. Where are you looking?
Right now, South Yarra looks pretty good. Basically if I am going to move to Melbourne I want the Melbourne experience (Heaps of cafe’s within walking distance)
Shops pretty close and close to public transport.
Hey mate, living in Prahran just over a km from south yarra been here a month now and loving it, pretty much ticks all your boxes, regarding renting my wife did most of the work in that regard, I’m just off chapel street, lots of cafes and restaurants, transport seems descent, not far from the beach either if that’s your thing.
FYI ‘heaps of cafes within walking distance’ is basically the entire inner city. If you’re within 15 mins drive from the CBD you’re probably in an area with cafes. Basically can go east as far as Hawthorn, South East as far as around Malvern, North up to Brunswick and west out as far as around Yarraville or Maidstone and you’re still in fairly urban, built-up areas with lots of cafes etc.
Hell, even where I live now (southern part of Camberwell) there’s at least five cafes in walking distance. It’s just not as urban as South Yarra.
@beavwa and @princesspipster lived in South Yarra for a bit IIRC, might be able to give you some advice. It’s a good spot though, as long as you’re not looking to get somewhere huge (not to say there’s no large properties for rent there, but you’ll pay a lot for them)
Nah, size isn’t a huge issue. Mostly just looking for bedroom, bathroom & open kitchen with living area.
@sernobulus South Yarra certainly has the location going for it, but it is also mucho cashola – rent for a 2 bedroom shoebox apartment there was only 100 / month less than I’m now paying for a mortgage on a 3 bedroom house and land (miles outta town though)
A good compromise on price to location is a share house – would you consider that or just wanting to live solo?
Would prefer to live solo, not sure I could feel at home living with a random. Maybe if it was someone I knew.
Easier to share with randoms than someone you know, since if you don’t get along, you can just move. Share houses can be dangerous for friendships.
Aleph – @mythamphetamine (hope that tag is right) is currently going through all the pros and cons of finding somewhere to live in Melbourne. They can probably give you an idea of their up to date experiences so far.
Got a few hours into RERERE now. Am out the back, just drained the tank.
Good stuff, plays well, enjoying my time. Definitely worth $20.
Playing on easy with Jill, if all goes well, I’ll do a few replays. Another game I won’t be platnuming because I have no idea how to kill the end boss with a knife.
Stab it.
But he has CLAWS, big ones! D:
Dude doing a speed run & earning the CQC FTW trophy, might help.
Ok, it’s not just I don’t know & a whole lot of fuck that.
I will watch this though
yeah sounds painful to me, *sobs* I can’t even do well with all the guns.
It’s survival horror, your not supposed to do well, just survive!
I’ll admit, when I played REmake on the GC I just ran around and conserved as much ammunition as I could. That included stabbing as much stuff as I could but I never, ever, chose to stab the following: dogs, giant bug things, giant spiders, or any of the bosses.
I still reckon that the Jill side of the story seems more canon in my head because Barry is so much better for story purposes than Rebecca. Also because Barry actually shows up in more games and is looking pretty badass for RE:REV 2.
It seems canon is a mish mash of both parts since both Rebecca & Barry survived.
I’ve spent many years trying to determine canon for 2 but it’s the same story, bits & pieces of all 4 routes need to exist.
It’s probably terrible for me to say it but I think Darkside Chronicles did the right thing in trying to mash together the story as coherently as possible. Sure it still didn’t really work but I feel it’s pretty much there.
I like Rebecca but after playing RE0 and seeing what she ended up being in REmake, kinda took the edge off her character. I wouldn’t be sad if the canon was Chris and Rebecca both got captured and imprisoned and Richard died from his wounds without the silliness of the tank incident.
I didn’t like those games at all. 🙁
I’m a sucker for light gun games so I was right at home. The extra little story content (Wesker for Umbrella, Krauser/Leon for Darkside) also made things pretty juicy for lore. Darkside is my favourite because it had RE2 and CV which are my favourite Resident Evils. Still bummed that they haven’t done a full remake for 2 or 3 yet but hopefully Capcom gets off their arse and delivers for once.
Everyone must buy RERERE then RERERE zero
Barry is the best part of Mercenaries.
GIVE ‘EM THE BURTON BOOT
I never played. Is on my list of things I never seem to grab
HUNK ALL DAY EVERY DAY.
HUNK needs to be in more games.
Tofu.
Hai-a-zumnei!
(Or something)
I can’t remember how HUNK was in Mercenaries 3D, I *think* he was an improvement over RE4? Stupid TMP was useless against Super Salvador. And no necksnapper either.
Iinteresting. A single pixel image, done as a png with an alpha layer is 141 bytes. Done as a png reduced to a two colour palette and then using palette transparency, it came out to 171 bytes. But then that saved as a gif is only 42 bytes.
I thought palette-based pngs and gifs would have been the same, and definitely didn’t expect it to be larger than the alpha png.
… the important thing is you tried
…
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*slowly opens window*
http://tinyurl.com/n2du8ow
I UNDERSTAND THINGS!
There’s a lot of reasons for that. The alpha table you’re adding is a 256-byte table, because even indexed PNG uses full alpha transparency for each color. With GIF it’s just one color is full transparent and the rest are opaque.
The bigger issue though is that if you’re using Photoshop especially, and quite a few others as well, the PNG implementation is a shitshow and they don’t compress stuff properly. On paper, DEFLATE used in PNG (and ZIP and many others) absolutely shits all over the LZW compression in GIF.
The big reason why full-color PNG can get you better results than indexed in some cases is that PNG uses a pre-compression filter called a Paeth filter. Basically with Paeth, for each pixel you predict the color that the pixel will be based off the surrounding pixels (up left, up, and left) and based off that prediction, you encode the difference between the expected and actual values. Pixel-to-pixel most artwork doesn’t vary enormously, so this means the numbers tend toward 0 a lot of the time. DEFLATE compression then works far more efficiently.
Paeth filters don’t make sense for 8-bit indexed colors though so it doesn’t use it.
#themoreyouknow
Interesting about the png table thing there, that seems kind of strange. I mean you can only have one transparent colour anyway can’t you? So why not just store the alpha as a single byte containing the index of the transparent colour?
Also for reference, used super old version of Paint Shop Pro, circa 1998 iirc.
Each entry in the color table can have an alpha value. Non-alpha it’s going to be 256×24 bits, with alpha it stores a 256x32bit table
http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_xwing_vs_tie_fighter
You can all
hatethank me later. 🙂I AM NOT CLICKING THAT!
*hides wallet*
Found it! *hands it to pixel*
AH!
*grabs wallet*
*whispers*
It’s okay my precious, I won’t let that mean, mean website hurt you anymore… For now
Bah. X-wing vs Tie Fighter was multiplayer-focused garbage compared to the rich depth of the Tie Fighter campaign! I shall not be swayed into buying something!
X-Wing is pretty great!
X-Wing Alliance is pretty great too… Just wanted to state some cold hard facts 😛
Yeah, I’m pretty sure you don’t get to fly for the empire in those games, which makes them only suitable for playing by rebel scum.
You can fly in the Simulator Mode and set up the scenarios for playing as The Empire.
Which I’ve never done because A-Wings.
Boooo!
http://i.imgur.com/7LTDPVN.jpg
Is today national hentai day or something? Two articles involving naked anime girls on the front page of Kotaku.
National Hentai Day is so commercialised these days. It used to be about the hentai.
They put the hentai decorations up so early now too. Earlier every year.
Now it’s all dickheads running around with hentai posters as capes trying to bash people without tentacles in their butt.
Blame @redartifice and his hentai hat.
He was ahead of the curve there.
I’m a sucker for setting trends
#hentaipage8
Hah, 8, because tentacles.
Also, I’d never play this, and I’ve no idea who is play it with even if I wanted to, but I’m happy this is a thing that exists.
http://deadpixel.co/2014/08/design-notes-consentacle/
That’s the least rapey Tentacle sex representation I’ve ever seen.
It’s consensual. It’s in the name!
I think it’s just that it’s topical at the moment:
– There’s increasing discontent at Steam not allowing adult content
– A bunch of visual novels have appeared on the service recently that have had adult content cut
– Visual novels are exploding on Steam, but there’s not even a proper category for them yet
– Huniepop was a kickstarter game that launched on the service yesterday
– Steam greenlit the Grisaia visual novels yesterday
– Clannad translation kickstarter just ended, made over 550k
– Grisaia translation kickstarter is currently running, made nearly 400k
I read the thing about Huniepop and that actually sounds interesting. Mostly because from what I understand of visual novels, they really are exactly that – there’s not exactly any ‘game’ to them.
It really depends. The ‘visual novel’ term is applied in the west to a bunch of games that absolutely aren’t.
The term originates way back in the SNES era. Chunsoft released a game, Kamaitachi no Yoru (there’s an iOS localization of a remake of this called Banshee’s Last Cry but it removes the Japanese flavour by localizing everything) which they called a ‘sound novel’. Words set to music. It was pretty popular and it spawned lots of copycats, but Chunsoft had trademarked ‘sound novel’ so they came up with other names for the style. Visual Novel stuck.
Visual Novel really is best used to describe games like Higurashi, which are basically just a bunch of text on a screen set to music and images, no branches or anything. Branching plot stuff is more common, sometimes with more elements to it than that. They’re usually marketed as ‘Adventure’ games in Japan (ADV), and that would go as far as including stuff like Ace Attorney or Danganronpa. Then there’s a big chunk that add an actual game element to the Visual Novel stuff and that runs the gamut from strategy RPG stuff like Utawarerumono, Eien no Aselia, Tears to Tiara, to strategic empire management like Sengoku Rance, to classic RPGs like the other Rance games and many of Alicesoft’s others, through to ‘raising’ games like Princess Maker or Idolmaster. Huniepop meanwhile from the looks of it isn’t really a visual novel at all, just a match-3 game with a visual novel element and in the uncensored version sex that falls out as a reward at the end.
The other important thing is that using the all-encompassing ‘visual novel’ tag we end up losing the distinctions made between ADV games in Japanese. ‘Visual Novel’ implies that there’s actually a noteworthy story in there. The class of games that are basically wall-to-wall sex scenes with a thin plot thread connecting them (which is the bulk of the stuff that used to get localized) are generally referred to as Nukige. There’s also Nakige (‘crying game’, referring to games like Clannad or Air or To Heart where they’re deliberately designed to make you sad – the whole Sad Girls in Snow meme comes from these) and there’s the larger catch-all of Galge, which is actually what most westerners mean when they say Visual Novel – random dude, bunch of branching routes, harem of pretty girls, each route culminates in getting together with one of them, and there’s usually a dumb gimmick like one is a vampire or they’re all dead and in purgatory or something). Galge are the most likely thing to get anime adaptions, and most likely to appear on consoles. Sex, if present, usually falls out at the end of a route rather than along the way. These used to be called ‘dating sims’ a lot too, which is an equally shit term.
I disagree that there’s ‘no game to them’ in a lot of cases though. There’s not a lot of game there, but the best ones have a lot of branching choices and end up being a lot like a Choose Your Own Adventure novel. The only reason I don’t play more, aside from the language barrier (some of the best stuff out there is still not translated, or only fan translated) is the time commitment involved.
So I don’t know if anyone saw the latest humble bundle, but CARD GAMES!!! I can personally recommend Star Realms, its a cool guy 🙂
The 35 tier gets you physical Star Realms and a shirt too. Was eyeing that off.
thats what i got 🙂
I wondered how they work… Do they send you a physical box or are they digital so you have to print them yourself?
It’s all digital card games
That’d make a lot more sense :P… Looks tempting
All Digital, a couple of print and play versions as well as the digital versions.
Some arsehole is sitting behind my shop with two big bags of fresh baked bread. I hate him so much.
When I was younger my Dad used to work down-wind from a massive bread factory. The whole building smelled like fresh baked bread all day. I don’t know how he survived.
When I worked at the scratchies place, depending on the direction of the wind in the morning you’d either get the smell of the bakery (as in huge bread company’s factory), or you’d get the smell of the dump. Sometimes it was hard to tell which was which 😛
Randomly asked Tyreece if she knows where I could find a goat on short notice. Just got a message back saying yeah, then asking if for eating or petting.
Was not expecting that.
Really? Goat meat is amazing in slow cooked casseroles and curries.
I don’t think I’ve ever tried it before, only goat’s cheese.
There’s a reason why the Greeks have so many goat-based dishes. You should try it some time.
Ha, I’m slow.
Was not expecting to be told that she does in fact know where to find a goat on short notice. The eating/petting question was more expected 😛
The only response: heavy petting
Goats are good alive and dead. I prefer alive but they sure are tasty.
@dc
Seems like something you may be interested in.
Hells yes! Thanks buddy, somehow I missed this! D:
I’m thinking this is a re-release and that they’d save big new games for e3, but I’m okay with that. I would love to see Fahrenheit/Heavy Rain/Beyond: Two Souls on one disc. I wouldn’t leave my house for a week. 😀 (I say that like I leave my house anyways. :P)
Seems likely that it’s a Fahrenheit remake / bundle.
That’d be great though!
I missed Fahrenheit and Beyond, and only played through Heavy Rain once, so a re-release would be great news for me! 😀
Edit: damn autocorrect.
I absolutely loved Fahrenheit, no one can deny that it jumped the shark by the end but when it was good it was insanely good. 😀
So few games have necrophilia sex scenes anymore. What has gaming become?
I hope this isn’t a spoiler, little Phlanispo! :O
It’s very difficult to spoil Fahrenheit. I need to understand the plot first.
I very much want that bundle.
I haven’t played any of them to completion, though enjoyed the small part of Fahrenheit that I played back in the day, and I have watched a LP of Heavy Rain.
Thought of you as soon as I saw mention of Quantic Dream, haha! 🙂
I hadn’t seen you fanboying over it, so thought you musn’t have seen it yet 😛
I was reading about something they’re making for the Sony VR only yesterday. That was for next year, though. XD
Oh, VR?
That’s a shame 🙁
I’m not interested in VR stuff at all! Will be good for those who are though, I guess 🙂
I can see their style fitting well with VR though.
I’ll go where Quantic Dream go. I haven’t tried Oculus or Morpheus yet, though. Am keen to see how I cope on the whole motion sickness front. (Since I get sea sick and can’t go on spinning upside down rides. XD)
Oh, that doesn’t bode well for you! :S
I just don’t feel comfortable having a screen strapped to my head, haha!
Doesn’t seem right to me :\
Interesting, yes, but I don’t want gaming to be sitting there all antisocial like with a TV screen strapped to your head while the world happens around you 😛
I think it’d be like the move stuff or iOS app stuff they had for Heavy Rain and Beyond, though. Just an optional way to play that you can ignore. 🙂
This guy knows what’s doing.
It’s not a screen strapped to your head. It’s a whole virtual world!
[/chugging the kool-aid]
The funny thing was only yesterday I was thinking of a Heavy Rain playthrough. I know that as soon as I finish it they’d announce something and I would shake my fist like a mad man. 😛
Seems likely that it’ll be a remake / re-release, so might be good to hold off on another playthrough if you plan on getting it (if it is a bundle) 😛
Though, if you have all three games already, what’s the point of waiting for a re-release, haha?
I’d buy them again without hesitation, Stewie. The mind of a fanboy is strange. 😛
There’s only a few developers I’d buy remastered releases from: Naughty Dog. BioWare. Quantic Dream. 😀
Hahahaha, I won’t question your devotion to Quantic Dream and David Cage! 😉
David Cage is fun. It’s the one thing guaranteed to wind up @dc no matter what.
I’ll fight you, Freeze. Don’t think I won’t. 😉
I thought I handled Beyond: Two Souls pretty well, though. Just stopped talking about it. 😛
Shin Megami Tensei, anyone?
Great global consciousness, when you think about something out of the blue invariably stuff is happening about it. I can’t prove this theory but it’s something I believe.
I remember waking up last year from sleeping with tears running down my cheeks and feeling really distressed, and this nagging feeling to get in touch with a good friend of mine in America. I messaged her and asked how she was doing, and found out she had found a benign tumour in her hip.
It’s definitely a thing!!
Yeah, I’ve had weird things like that happen too. I subscribe to the theory.
So apparently the team at Koei Tecmo who made Hyrule Warriors said that they’d love to work on a Mario game. …Mushroom Kingdom Warriors? It’s just crazy enough to work.
Would be incredibly strange, but I’d actually really like to see it 😛
Toadsworth is OP.
Probably the first non-kart Mario game I’d play in damn near twenty years.
Unless they made it a Nintendo-console exclusive, in which case I’ll miss it. Again.
hahahaha oh @transientmind you think Ninty would let them release on anything but Ninty hardware? Thanks I needed a laugh 😛
I’ll pop over to yours that weekend
Hey, weren’t you just last year saying you were pretty damn close to getting a Wii U? 😛
I buy nothing in 2015! No games! That includes consoles. Besides, it seems like nothing good’s coming out til throughout this year anyway. And given that Nintendo games are never at the forefront of graphics technology, I can comfortably wait.
Meanwhile, Valve announces Half Life 3 with a July 2015 release, in 8K and 90 frames per second compatibility.
Only 90 fps? Reddit would explode.
BLOOOOOOOOOODBOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNE >:(
Well, in advance I allowed myself a couple exceptions. One is Bloodborne, the other is Witcher 3.
There is every possibility that I will consider allowing exceptions to be self-indulgent, half-assed, non-committal WEAKNESS and I will maintain the self-imposed ban in total.
What if some really awesome indie game gets released out of the blue with minimal hype, and becomes a critical darling?
Then I SUFFER!
Ha, could be interesting, they should have made Nintendo Warriors to begin with and brought out new franchises as DLC instead of making us fork out for more new games. I’m still playing Hyrule Warriors pretty regularly.
And while I’ve got you, you played Bayonetta 1 right?
I was really enjoying it but one thing started to really annoy me, those f#@$ing QTEs ruin it a little, it wouldn’t bother me but if you die 3 times you get basically no reward for the level, I’ll fight my way through a level without dying get to the boss and die a couple of times in the QTEs and get no rewards so can’t upgrade anything, seems counter intuitive “oh you’re starting to struggle are you, here we’ll give you no rewards and make you more underpowered with each level”. Maybe I’m just doing it wrong but QTEs that 1 hit you in a game that rates you on number of deaths is a pain in the arse.Nintendo Warriors could be a good new game to use Amiibos for if they did it that way.
Wii Fit Trainer in a Warriors game? Yes!
Actually, just make Wii Fit Warriors. You battle hordes of junk food mascots.
Metroid Warriors
Only I will want it…
There aren’t enough protagonists, to warrant a Metroid warriors game, they’d have to use enemies like Ridley to bulk out the roster and even then I can’t think of enough characters that’d be suitable. Once again they should make Nintendo Warriors then you can have anyone you want 😀
It could work with Samus as the only playable character. Just give her a tonne of different suits!
as long as they had totally different playstyles or that’d get old pretty quick.
Samus, Kanden, Noxus, Weavel, Trace, Sylux, Spire.
Then Rundas, Ghor, Gandrayda, and Anthony Higgs. Throw in an Etecoon and Dachora team for fun.
Now you’re just making up words.
The first ones are all the ones from Hunters yeah? I thought of them but thought they aren’t really a staple in the franchise so I excluded them.
@gutsoup Yeah, from Hunters. The next three are other bounty hunters from Corruption, Higgs is from Other M and the Etecoons and Dachoras were in both Metroids 3 and 4.
Guess you could probably throw Adam in there as well. I mean it’s not like the series has all that many entries to begin with, and even then most of the recurring characters outside of Samus are just enemies.
Oh, you’d have to have a Chozo warrior in there too I guess.
And Master Chief too.
@gutsoup @powalen
Samus, Dark Samus, Sa-X, Zero Suit Samus, the other colours, Fusion Suits & a Metroid
@mrtaco @jimu Okay after actually thinking about it and you guys pointing out that stuff there are plenty of characters. Aside from all the Warriors games I’ve played (never played them gundam ones) primarily being melee combat a Metroid Warriors could work I guess. Are any other Warriors games shooty?
Edit: Part of the appeal to me of the Warriors games is wading over your head in enemies and bashing them with things, not sure if shooting would be as satisfying. Maybe they could make something more like the Old Star Wars Battlefront games *shrugs*
Also playable Baby!
It attacks by Samus yelling “The Baby!” from off-screen.
@powalen I don’t get it…
@powalen We do not speak of that, nor entertain such terrible thoughts.
What about the other bounty hunters? Off the top of my head there’s Kanden, Spire… and some other people. Hang on, give me a minute to look at the wiki
…
Sylux, Weavel, Trace, and Noxus, it would appear.
It’s designed for multiple playthroughs and mastering it. To get better scores you’re supposed to know what’s coming.
I know but it just feels like it’s gimping me early on and I find it really frustrating. Like I said I’ll fight my way through some crazy battles and not die then get QTEd to death, feels cheap and I hate it’s face 😛
Bayo 2 is a lot better in regards to this!
In Bayo 1 I got a Stone Award for just about every level 😛
yep I think I’ve only gotten stone and it’s usually because of QTEs. *shakes fist*
Oh well I’ll quit my bitchin’ and try to git gud.
@gutsoup doesn’t do multiple playthroughs, he platinums everything first try.
So with this documentation thing I have to do, they want to have a decent reference explaining to someone unfamiliar with the workshop and engine how to properly use it, making notes of various quirks and stuff to keep in mind.
But that’s more a request of the head of the department, my boss just said to me that what he finds more valuable is my techniques and how I’ve figured out how to make the engine do certain things, and having those documented somewhere.
That was kinda cool 😛
TAYlist for the 22nd of Janurary 2015
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by warm Whyalla weatherRembrandts – I’ll Be There For You
Elvis Presley – Are You Lonesome Tonight (Requested by a local listener)
Hall And Oates – Private Eyes
Fleetwood Mac – Go Your Own Way (Requested by @cakesmith)
Dire Straits – Romeo And Juliet (Requested by a local listener, who initially wanted to hear Telegraph Road, a 13 minute song, far too long for radio play)
Slow Down Honey – One I Know
Ben Folds – Rockin’ The Suburbs (Requested by @redartifice)
Eiffel 65 – Blue (Da Ba Bee)
Taco – Puttin’ On The Ritz
Talking Heads – Psycho Killer (Requested by @benny)
Murray Head – One Night In Bangkok (Requested by a local listener)
Beatles – Paperback Writer (Requested by @shane, please stop requesting this song, Shane)
Professor Green ft. Sierra Kusterbeck – Avalon
\o/ Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?
I promise, I won’t ask for this song again… until next Thursday.
One of these days, Lucifer. One of these days.
The time zone isn’t conducive for you making a request, I open requests at nine SA time, so 6:30 am for you, and I close them around noon here, three hours later, so 9:30, you’re pretty much SOL, mate.
Though If you could find the request line number, you could call it and make a request that way, I wonder where yyyou could find 5uch a number?
Using phones is scary.
So I just went to a doctor about some headaches I’ve been getting and she referred me to get a ct scan at this place nearby. Told my gf who is a radiographer and she asked me if it was bulk billed. I said it didn’t say it was on the form. She then looked something up and told me it will cost me $370 (-40% with medicare rebate). WTH I can’t afford that shit!
She then looked something else up and found another place that bulk bills ALL ct scans automatically and it’s only an extra 5 minutes away.
Lesson learned: shop around on medical referrals. You don’t have to go where your doctor tells you to!
^^^ This, more times or not they are referring you to a buddy of there’s or the closest place they know. Pays to shop around!
I honestly have no clue how the medical system in our country works. Not even the slightest. Sometimes they get me to pay for stuff, sometimes they don’t. Usually not much. Me being a gigantic dumbass and wallowing in my ignorance could have just cost myself $200.
I was sent to another suburb and put in a room and shot with radiation while a mad man stood behind a tiny shield manning the device. All cause of my doctor. It was free though! (Xrays are a type or radiation arent they? I only barely passed chemistry please help)
I am dating a radiographer. She’s dating me so madness confirmed.
Hmm. Still no further responses on the goats.
Looks like there’s another potential at Villawood. Maybe time to fire off another message.
Pardon my ignorance but what do you need the goat for?
You know, the usual. Satanic ritual, etc.
To test on passing hang gliders from atop of cranes I guess, why else?
Given up on women.
*Hands back the popcorn*
I’m out.
*takes popcorn*
As a Kiwi, I’m In.
If you get a goat, what will you name it?
I’d call my goat Totes. I’d introduce him as “Totes ma goat”.
C.
“This is my goat, C.”
Hey gang,
Latest PSN sale includes GoT season pass and Tales of the Borderlands season pass
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2015/01/21/new-deals-playstation-store-2k-games-indies/
DON’T FORGET TO USE YOUR 10% APOLOGY DISCOUNT FROM SONY (which apparently activates sometime in the next 48 hours)
If my in-my-head maths is even close to right, should be able to get both games for <$40.
It might not be quite as nice as the Xbox’s Telltale Bundle that came out last month, but it’s still a pretty good deal.
Ooh, good spot. I have 30 in psn credit from Xmas which I haven’t touched yet
Currently: 36.3C
… 🙁
Woo!
26 here!
In Queensland!? That’s jumper weather!
27C where I am! Not too bad 🙂
Too muuccccchhh-
*melts*
Wow blinds OP at my work, I would never have guessed… well until I pack up and leave the building to go home 🙁
D: I was melting in 28C on my way to work this morning. And it’s forecasted to hit 34C on Sunday… *faints*
Ringing a supplier to find out price of item they sell. 20 minutes and seven transfers later I get the RRP.
Is that unusually quick, then? 😉
Trying to decide what to play tonight (need to not play Destiny, it’s sunk its hooks into me again 🙁 )
The Choices are:
Bayonetta, Far Cry 4, Alien: Isolation, Pokemon AS, Zelda: ALBW or Shadow Warrior. I’ve started all of them already.
Which to choose?
Bayonetta or Shadow Warrior.
Both are awesome.
I vote for Bayo or Zeldo
Hmm, might take a while to tally all these votes, but I think Bayo is edging ahead.
FC4 if not too late
Pretty close to the end of that actually, I’ve got 1 outpost and 1 fortress left and I think 4 story missions to go.
http://www.smh.com.au/good-food/food-news/waynes-worldthemed-popup-bar-to-open-in-sydney-20150122-12vpwv.html
I wonder if Perth will ever get anything kewl :'(
*cue hysterical laughter*
It is a condition of entry that you must “schwing” at least one person before entering the establishment.
I have never seen Wayne’s World. :\
aww, that’s a shame, it’s best watched as an immature teenager (luckily for me I avoided maturing so I can still get a chuckle out of it)
My teens had Austin Powers, so atleast there’s some Mike Myers.
Yeah, I’m not sure I saw all of it but I didn’t see it til relatively recently and don’t think I really got it/the love for it. Not that I can even remember it really, I might’ve been busy doing something else instead of paying attention.
Still one of my go to giggle movies.
Good man!
Oh man I’m so there.
We’re not worthy!
Random question, but Tomb Raiders “optimal settings” got me thinking.
Do you guys have your TV’s set to Dynamic or Standard contrast for games? :\
I never gave it much thought before…
Never, once I tried it and for whatever reason it just didn’t do it for me.
Umm, never Dynamic, or never Standard, haha?
I’m assuming never Dynamic (so standard), but just want to make sure :3
Dynamic on my Sony Bravia is weird, it makes it look like I’m looking through sunglasses. I have on custom settings, took me a long time to get it looking close to how I wanted.
Lol, never dynamic :p
Dynamic is the devil.
But more helpfully, on my TV I use a tweaked version of the “cinema” setting as I often play in low light.
Leave has been approved. Hotels have been booked. Flights have been…looked at.
The Sydney Invasion begins March 4th…
We’re going to spice up your life
@alexpants, @powalen and myself will be invading the fine(?) city of Brisbane for a few days. Because we can. And something about hugging @dc. I dunno, but I’m pretty sure it’s going to happen.
So far our plans are as follows:
Wednesday 4th March – Arrive in Brisbane
Sunday 8th March – Depart from Brisbane
As you can see, there’s a few blank gaps in that schedule. Things should happen…meaty things…
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__, @janexo, @sunsoar77 – I stole these from DCs Birthday Meat posts. So if I missed someone, it’s his fault.
I’m in! For hugs too! Maybe! If I get drunk! So yes!
Theme parks? Some of us still have annual passes still! Hanging in the city? Yes!
If you wanna call Brisbane ‘fine’ that’s your funeral 😛
With work during normal days and hours, Friday evening or Saturday is best for me
A more in-depth schedule:
Wed 4th: Arrive
Thu 5th: Hoping to go to a theme park this day (Brisbane people are welcome to join)
Fri 6th: Possibly another theme park during the day, depends what we feel like. Again, people are welcome to come. Plus either a dinner with the Brisbane people this night and/or…
Sat 7th: A lunch/dinner with Brisbane people this day (or both!)
Sun 8th: Leave
Super excited!
EDIT: Also, our hotel is near Brisbane Central train station, so hopefully that’s near where you guys usually go for Meats and such.
*flails arms*
The beauty is all you Sydney folks on your own make a meat so you won’t have to do much wrangling to get others to join.
Okay cool, we’re going to continue calling them Sydney Meats then. They’ll just be in Brisbane this time.
Central lives up to the name. Nice and close to everything and in walking distance to everything in CBD as well as West End/South Bank across the river. Might need to train into the Valley if you’re interested in clubs and the like, otherwise you guys have done gooood.
Clubs? Hahahah Oh, DC. It’s like you don’t know me at all.
You’ll fit in nicely, Brisbane TAYbies have gone to the clubs for a meat exactly zero times. 😛
Central is also good for the Gold Coast if you’re taking train. All trains stop there. (If you’re renting a car or something, then… I dunno? *flails arms*)
I wanna be the one to take you to a club! 😀
You’ll be staying very close to our usual karaoke spot…
Oooo Cake Meat!!!! Only.. let’s not celebrate by eating cake! :p
We’re going to spice up your life.
Tagline.
I see how it is, visit Brisbane when I will (probably) be moving. You guys are (possibly) the literal worst!
See, I’m the considerate one.
It’s because we hate you.
But they can all sleep on your floor at PAX!
Ah don’t worry. I’m still working on #NobSlaughter2015
Nob’s Laughter 2015? 😀 Fun!
I asked my friend about jobs at telstra today. He said he knows of a good casual position coming up. He should find out the deets about it tomorrow, so once he links me, I’ll pass it on!
Good guy @welbot!
For reals? Welbot, more like … NiceGuy…bot…?
Let me know if you need my email.
🙂 Check your steam. I msg’d you some of the deets I know at present
I’ve met you like three times. Enough is enough!
Still recovering from when you last saw me?
Not to mention that they did it without inviting me, the jerks.
I can only do Friday nights or weekday lunches in the CBD.
Up for whatever fits 😀
Way to make it all the days I’m at work right before I take six weeks off. *sulks*
Pretty sure it’s all @powalen’s fault.
Certain it’s all @powalen’s fault.
Why are you the worst @powalen?
Maybe I was born with it.
I can confirm it is indeed all @powalen’s fault.
Sat dinner, maybe?
Tried to plan it with enough time before you guys left for Japan! Technically it’s your fault.
We all already know my failings, this is about you!
I’ll see if I can swing the Thursday off. Friday and Saturday nights are usually free.
IN. DON’T CARE WHAT. IN.
At last, our beards will intertwine.
Start of month is usually not good for me in terms of getting time off, so count me out from the theme parks (boooooo-urns) but dinners I can do. Count me in for those.
Haha, turns out the Padstow goats are actually two hours out of Sydney.
The Villawood guy came back saying that tomorrow or Saturday would be ok. I countered saying it kinda needed to be tonight, and he’s cool with that. Hooray, last minute come-through!
I like that I don’t know the context to this.
No one does. D:
How about now?
His work is shooting a movie adaptation of Goat Simulator.
What is the goat needed for exactly? If you’re just after a photo there is a family of goats at Taronga.
Strange players! Email sent!
Reading material!
Huzzah!
*Goes to bed without reading it*
You should know most of the rules anyway
Okay, after a quick flip through this looks really cool.
It’s sweet. I’ve got the first two “episodes” planned
I didn’t get anything. 🙁
Check your google +, may have sent it there. If not I’ll resend
955 unread emails. 😛
Edit: And 1 was yours. But it won’t download the full email on my phone, will need to sign in to G+ so I’ll do that when I get home for some light reading.
Let us know if you’d rather I send it anywhere else
Is fine for now. If it gets annoying I’ll be sure to start throwing a tantrum.
Just had a quick read through it. I’ve already got a character idea forming in my head. Really excited to give this a go!
So… What next?
https://twitter.com/CannonFodderJnr/status/558216704665214977?s=09
Life 😛
Hometown.
Complete shiny pokedex.
Can’t say I’ve got a decade or two to dedicate to that.
Living Dex
EDIT: Suppose I should explain what this is, it’s where you have every version of pokémon that you need for a National Dex. Not just a record, but all of them. As opposed to only having Charizard, say, because you evolved him from a charmander.
Already got that in the bank.
How about a living dex with all pokémon (except lengendaries) having perfect IV’s?
That seems a little excessive. I might go back to hunting shiny legendaries.
That lady sure knew how to talk. Was there for over an hour, just stuck chatting. Probably still would be now if attention hadn’t been broken by someone else coming home.
So I got that invite to GDC that I was hoping for… all I have to do is pay for my flights… and my accommodation… and my food… and my conference fees. But it would be considered work, so no need to take leave.
What a deal! Right? Right!?
I wouldn’t be complaining.
Then again, I have a friend who went last year and the entire thing was paid for by his work, so you could be doing better! 😛
Three people are getting that (all very long serving, including the CTO), but this is a courtesy invitation for us to join them. Nice gesture, but probably not $4K+ worth of nice.
On a very loose understanding of how tax works, you could probably claim part of the trip on tax considering the whole work-related side of things.
It would effectively mean that I don’t have to pay tax on the money I spend on the trip. So if it cost me $4K, it’s like I didn’t actually earn that bit of income for the year. If I would usually pay 50% tax (theoretically, for ease of calculation) on the top $4K I earn in the year, then I would have paid $2K too much tax over the course of the year, and be owed that much as part of my end-of-year refund.
So it’s actually pretty good if you’re definitely going to something and paying for it yourself (like I did with PAX last year), but it’s not awesome enough that you will still spend thousands of dollars for the hell of it.
Also tax deductable!! w00t!
Still expensive 😛
You can survive with one kidney.
Not with the amount I drink.
Hasn’t affected me.
You only have one kidney? I suspect the real story isn’t exciting but im going to assume you sold it to pay the ransom for a village in africa and somehow also donated it to a long lost brother you never knew but needed you to survive.
They cut my mother apart and ripped me out then cut me apart and ripped my kidney out.
Also my remaining one is twice the size.
Without hearing the tone of your voice I dont know how to react to that.
That’s actually what happened. Polycystic Kidney Disease. Born by cesearean and myself immediately operated on to remove the kidney. I literally spent the first 8 months of my life in hospital.
Sounds awful, but it all worked out in the end.
http://www.emperorshammer.org/patch.php?id=4
^3DFX Patch for X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter, usable with nGlide.
Its nice that at work I have time and no distraction to actually check TAY but no one is on at this time. Its like Im a traveller who stumbled upon the wake of the Mongol’s and instead of mountains of bones and corpses and burnt towns as far as the eye can see. Its people talking, usually about stuff I have no context for. But Ill be damned if Im gonna go back in the page and find out.
I may have been listening to Wrath of the Khan’s this week. (Thank you who ever it was talking about Hardcore Histories last week)
Yo, us WA TAYbies are usually on at this time of night 😛
Me and @phlanispo usually take the night shifts 😀
Im heading over your timezone soon. although a bit further north. Hong Kong for the rugby in march. SO EXCITED!! SO EXPENSIVE!! (Also planning to hit up Perth again sometime this year to catch up with some lads I know there)
Ooooh, Hong Kong! How exciting! 😀
Take lots of pictures! 😀
Also, obligatory Perth is the pits 😛
May your time here be short and repressed 😛
Unless, God forbid, you enjoy it here :O
I had fun last time I was in Perth, and I took pictures of hong kong last time I was there. You could stalk them on my bookface if it was public.
Birdman. Watch it. Now.
But I already saw it.
Dont Think I’d watch it again, dont feel like its one of those movies. That said I really liked it and its the sort of thing my photography teacher would of loved to dissect with us back in high school. Glad I saw it, recommend it.
But it’s (past) bedtime. And also the cinemas are closed.
Really want to see it though. Gonna try and bug some friends about it again.
Oh, it’s so good!
Me and my friend went in not knowing anything about it, and left thoroughly impressed!
Very great movie!
I don’t think I could seriously watch the Birdman series after seeing the Attorney at Law animated stuff. Not that I’m discounting it as a movie but my impressions of Birdman are way too zany for a serious movie.
Same, whenever people mention Birdman all I can think about is Attorney at Law.
I was quite interested in the movie American Sniper. Then I found out it is over 130 minutes long.
…goddammit.
That’s still less then two and a half hours.
Yeah, but no intermission for toilet breaks!
Then dont buy a drink or food. Sit there motionless in the dark in a sea of strangers. Transfixed on the light beaming down upon you.
Interstellar was longer and I didn’t even notice.
Until I tried to move at the end.
I only had an hour left now I’m working till 10am. I could of used that time at home to lay in bed browsing crap on my phone.
Still I have this http://i.imgur.com/dNfHaiU.gif and 4 hours extra pay so *shrug*
I think I’m at work too early… There’s like no one here 😛
I start at 7:20 every morning, and feel the same way. Still, it’s a good time for catching up on YouTube or watching DVDs (or in my case writing) and getting paid for it. 😛
TAY \o/
I’ve been here since 10pm office and TAY is dead
Perfect time to watch Tatsu dance for a while. http://xenobladex.jp/character/
Not on mobile!
Long weekend hype! \o/
Working monday, dont start till 10pm upset cause only 2 hours of double time and a half.
So much hype!
To my Secret SanTay. Thanks for the present! I really liked the random drawings of yourself. Sadly, I still can’t figure out who it was =P I don’t blame you for buying a mixed bag, I’m a pain in the arse to buy for.
Happy birthday @virus__!
Happy birthday @virus__ may your day be filled with delightful things.
@virus__ Happy birthday!
Happy bithday m9! @virus__
Happy birthday, buddy!
How long until @virus__ turns into a Super Virus? D=
Happy birthday @virus__, may your day be penicillin free
Stalker :O
I mean, cheers 😛
Happy birthday, @virus__ , may your music be as music-y as ever.
I was in a shit mood this week so I opted out of a work-related harbour cruise function last night. Of course it was awesome and everyone is talking about it today so I’m really setting myself up for a good year.
Don’t worry, we’re going to get you and your wife some exotics tonight 😉 @jackunit13
It must be really hot outside cause I can hear the crickets from this old bunker.
Repost from last night!
Leave has been approved. Hotels have been booked. Flights have been…looked at. Twice now!
The Sydney Invasion begins March 4th…
We’re going to spice up your life
@alexpants, @powalen and myself (aka, The Shambling Corpse of Sydney/Sydney Slicks) will be invading the fine(?) city of Brisbane for a few days. Because we can. And something about hugging @dc. I dunno, but I’m pretty sure it’s going to happen.
So far our plans are as follows:
Wednesday 4th March – Arrive in Brisbane
Sunday 8th March – Depart from Brisbane
As you can see, there’s a few blank gaps in that schedule. Things should happen…meaty things…
A more in-depth schedule, by Pow!:
Wed 4th: Arrive
Thu 5th: Hoping to go to a theme park this day (Brisbane people are welcome to join [Cake note: does this mean Freeze isn’t invited seeing as he doesn’t live in Brisbane?])
Fri 6th: Possibly another theme park during the day, depends what we feel like. Again, people are welcome to come. Plus either a dinner with the Brisbane people this night and/or…
Sat 7th: A lunch/dinner with Brisbane people this day (or both!)
Sun 8th: Leave
We’re staying on Queen St, near where it turns into Eagle St. (according to Google Maps). If it’s a terrible location, I blame Freeze because I ran it by him. I will probably bring board games.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__, @janexo, @sunsoar77 – I stole these from DCs Birthday Meat posts. So if I missed someone, it’s his fault.
Thanks for the invite!
Friends from Canada are visiting us with their new bub that weekend plus they’re all staying with us so won’t be able to make it.
well you guys are a bunch of lame-o’s, I’ll be overseas in March 🙁
Germany? EXCITING!
Ugh!
Sick.
S’all right I suppose.
https://twitter.com/DrinkBoxStudios/status/558369666322923521
HOLY CRAP I WON
Congrats! 😀
Niiiiiice.
I am still so confused by all of this.
Good start to the long weekend 😀
@dc or any other twitterfolk
How do I “DM”?
Little envelope/speech bubble labelled “messages”
Just FYI: you both need to be following each other before the option to message even appears.
Hmm. I think I sent a DM to them even though I’m not following them? This is all super confusing.
Also character limits suck 😛
Everything is better with goats.
Nice one! I think that was one of my favourite games last year. 😛
Nice! That looks like a pretty sweet luchador mask. Congrats!
Kantai Collection anime suddenly got real. Episode 3 was surprisingly good, especially after 2 disappointed me.
One of three things is going to happen. Kisaragi will be dead forever and there will be sadness etc. She’ll be somehow rescued or found by another ship, maybe one of the subs, or she’ll come back in a few episodes as an Abyssal.Or she’ll come back as an Abyssal and then be turned back to good or something.I saw a theory on Reddit that it could be that the ship-girl spirits are reborn in a neverending cycle and it could be that Kisaragi comes back as a brand new ship with absolutely no memories and it will be Mitsuki’s turn to guide her. While I think the idea is good I don’t think they can pull it off in such a short season.
But yeah, I’m happy with episode 3. They were dropping some pretty heavy hints that someone was going down but it’s kinda cool that they’re keeping with the history of the ships to some degree. Can’t imagine them doing the whole Battle of Midway in its entirety though (killing off that many ship-fus would probably piss off too many people).
As a last note, here’s something that I saw someone post that is too good to not share.
“Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?”
“KI-SA-RA-GI!”
There was a Midway event in the game. I couldn’t clear it all though, so I missed out on getting Unryuu and Isokaze. It didn’t turn out like real life. Hell, they’ve done other things in the game that never happened in reality too – the fact that the Fusous and Mogamis can remodel into Aviation ships, there were plans drawn up for that but it never happened.I feel like it would be a cop-out if they just brought back ships as a clean slate. I mean, that’s what happens in the game, but at the same time, in the game you can’t have a ship sink from full health in one engagement.
The way they were talking made it super obvious that there was going to be something go wrong on the mission, but I wasn’t expecting them to actually kill someone off, even if it was a side character no one cares about.
Side note: Ayane Sakura must have spent a ton of time in the studio for this episode. Nagato, Mutsu, Tama, Kuma, Sendai, Jintsuu and Naka are all her, which is kind of impressive since they all sound quite different.
I hadn’t actually picked up on how accurate historically it was that they offed Kisaragi first, and in that manner. She was the second IJN warship sunk in WW2, and the first that’s actually in the game. While disengaging from Wake Island, a flight of four F4Fs loaded with 100-pound bombs spotted her and bombed her. One pilot hit her in the stern with his bomb, which ignited her depth charge storage and blew her apart, sunk with all hands. The F4F pilot won the Medal of Honor for it.I hope that doesn’t mean the show will be historically accurate, though. Because that’ll be harrowing. If they keep it historical, they’ll need a new core cast after the Solomons. Mutsuki was sunk in the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, Fubuki and Yuudachi are part of how Ironbottom Sound got its name, Sendai sank in Empress Augusta Bay near Bourganville, Jintsuu was destroyed off Kolombangara and Naka was the only one to survive that campaign.
Hey @jimu
Nicole has racked up 14 hours on P4G, I think I’ve created a monster.
Persona 4 Golden Spoilers *major ending spoilers* no peeping.
she’s been hanging out with Adachi and saying how useless and stupid he is and how she almost feels sorry for him because he’s always bungling things up, can’t wait for her to get to the end. Just like me she’s pissing herself laughing constantly, she almost choked to death in Kanji’s dungeon laughing at his other self. I think she’s leaning towards Marie as her romantic interest too.Nice!
I forgot about Marie when I predicted Yuki. Makes sense.
She really likes Chie but put her in the friend zone.
Chie Chie CHIE!
Fiasco tonight! Playset?
Figure we will kick off 730 sa time or so?
Cc @beeawwb @freezespreston @sernobulus
I’m realistically fine with any playset.
Same!
I had a pretty surreal experience this morning with a personal training client of mine. Some context; I have decided to give away Personal Training after 7 years in the business and focusing fully on my full time career. This client has over the course of five years of training has lost 20kg with me and has gone from puffing up steps to running triathlons at the ripe age of 60 years young. She has battled various forms of depression, significant family loss and financial upheaval in the time I’ve known her. I’ve helped her renovate her house (albeit over the course of one day) and gave her counsel during some pretty dark times.
This morning when I apologize and that I couldn’t continue to train her beyond the end of February, without blinking an eye “No problem, ‘Ms. X’ can train me starting next week, isn’t that right ‘Ms. X’?”. “Bye Nathan, I’ll see you later” with the nonchalance of me going outside to move my car.
I feel a little flat to be truthful, should I have expected more?
To quote the Doobie Brothers, if I may.
Not that it’s anything even remotely like this, but a dissonance between what significance we place on certain interactions or relationships as opposed to what others do is perfectly normal. Does that mean you shouldn’t feel flat? Absolutely not, you should. But don’t let it eat you up.
That’s very eloquently put, thanks Bob. Reading that has made me feel a whole lot better about this.
Glad to help. 🙂
She’s hungry to train! You’ve done well!
Ha maybe, I remember her being upset when her last trainer stopped training with her and I was asked to replace him so I’m of the supposition that’s why I felt a little let down when she was OK about it. Maybe she just cried because she didn’t want to train with me lol.
Maybe her head’s just in a better place, though. Maybe she doesn’t want to react like that or get her training derailed cause you showed her it wasn’t the end of the world last time. 🙂
Thanks man, externally it would seem in she’s a better place so that I’m grateful for. How selfish of me to feel down for someone not crying when I leave them 😛
Thanks DC <3
But you’re allowed to feel bummed, though. It’s nice that you care enough about your clients for it to bother you. 🙂
Maybe she wanted to respect your professional relationship and not make a thing of it.
Maybe, she has been upset before about another trainer leaving her though. Here I was hoping I wouldn’t cry from her reaction, I had nothing to worry about lol.
Or she is happy that the professional relationship is over and things can now move into unprofessional territory
Is it unprofessional?
Not now that you are no longer her trainer 😉
So I died in RERERE for the first time last night. Got a trophy for my trouble.
I’m going to guess sharks?
Nope, got a few nips. Was a sliding wall puzzle, was a millimetre off pressing the button & got squished
Jill sandwich!
Not that one, but yes!
Had an odd dream last night. Usually my dreams are pretty boring but this one was kind of interesting. Best way to explain it was I was a detective trying to solve a case but my entire dream played out like a TV show. Had the angry boss, the obvious romantic interest that worked in … forensics I think and the sidekick / partner that didn’t really know what they were doing. Can’t really remember the specifics of the case or anything but man it was sooooo weird. Maybe I should take this as a sign and start up a detective agency.
Inspector Nob
I often dream I’m watching a show or playing a game , then it’s like I forget & I’m in the show & then it’s not a show.
Unless I die & then it’s suddenly a show again.
I have recurring chase dreams… Usually haunted house type stuff where I’m running through endless corridors being chased by… Something… That’s a sign of a healthy psyche right?
*nervous laugh*
I have those one too, usually though they are people trying to kill me!
@bish I’m about 17 hours into Nocturne, just beat the Nihilo place.
It’s become easy somehow, is there another difficulty spike soon?
I saw someone say they gave in at 25hrs.
It’s… been a while.
I only got stuck on one boss (Demon in a coffin… can’t remember it’s name) and when I got past that, it taught me a valuable lesson in being flexible with your demon line up.
So if you’re wondering when the next “hard” section is… I don’t know. I think Nocturne’s quite manageable if you’re good with fusing demons. And I think that’s the great part about it.
I think I understand demon fusing enough.
Also making use of buffs & debuffs is working for me.
What was happening before was, just as I gained power the enemies jumped as well, so I always felt on par at best.
Still get the odd random death, but I save often.
Signed up to Stan free trial. Am watching Dawson’s Creek. I don’t know why.
Any good?
…Stan, not Dawson’s Creek 😛
Selection is a bit limited at the moment and the way its organized is not very intuitive, but quality seems decent enough. They also have every episode of Round the Twist, for better or worse. Stan’s probably the one I’ve been least interested in. Netflix or Presto has my attention. 🙂 Got some great shows like Fargo and Transparent.
Also, like all these services, I hope there’s a PS4 app on the horizon. 😀
The thing I didn’t get with Stan when it was announced was the reaction to it.
Everyone on the Gizmodo announcement page was going, ugh, I don’t want a bunch of services. First you complain about Foxtel having a monopoly, then you want Netflix to have a monopoly. Which is it? Even the US has multiple services.
From looking at the iPad app selection looks limited. I’ll probably wait until Netflix AU is released and they weigh the options.
I think people don’t want fragmented content. I don’t mind multiple services as long as I don’t have to sign up to seven to watch all the shows I wanna watch. 🙂
Also, it’s funny. Stan tries to make it sound like you’ve been selected from an exclusive list to use the free trial. Everyone I know who’s signed up has been let in. MANIPULATION. *shakes fist* 😛
Bumbling around trying to figure out how to twitter.
I feel so friggen old right now. Kill me.
Go back to your nursing home grandpa
I will once I have my prize, don’t you worry 😛
#Popcorn
#sugar free cola
@beeawwb @redartifice @SerNobulus
(or Bob’s Red Nob if you please)
Playsets. Four of us. So I’ve picked four contenders. Vote or veto as you please.
Hollywood Wives
Camp Death
House of Ill Repute
Unaussprechlichen Klutzen
2
4
3
1
Wait… that voting is next weekend.
3, 1, 4 and 2
House of Ill repute sounds like a hilarious omnishambles
Actually, that Westminster one would take very few changes to be in Canberra. How about an aussie prime ministerial fiasco for Australia day?
2
4
1
3
So we have a tie between Camp Death and House of Ill Repute.
If @redartifice wanted to do an Australia Day House of Ill Repute maybe we should go with Camp Death?
@beeawwb @SerNobulus
Camp death is fine, let’s roll with that
Actually, if we’re tied, I’ll get dan to cast the deciding vote
Get him to vote on all 4. Final tally was about 1 point difference
Wait, Camp Death was tied for first? I don’t particularly care, but my vote was “4th preference: Camp Death” not “4 Points
GryffindorCamp Death”Yeah same, 4th is lowest, 1 is highest.
Wait, really? Shit. @redartifice and @SerNobulus did the same?
Well that changes things significantly. Assuming Red went listed order by House being favourite that makes House the top if leaving for Australia Day then Hollywood Wives is next.
Camp Death is dead last.
Let’s do house today, get our Malcolm Tucker on
Dan’s keen for Westminster too
Think we have a winner.
Anyone gonna use that 10% discount on PSN this weekend?
As @Shane pointed out yesterday, it’ll get me Game of Thrones pretty cheap so yes
Oh yeah, will wait for the full series to drop price later. I’m behind on my telltale.
For sure. I’ve lined up Tales of Borderlands and Game of Thrones, just waiting for the discount code to drop.
The Game of Thrones …….umm…….game………is very, very good. Multiply that by how much of a fan you are on a scale of one to The Seven. For me it was x 6.4 obviously. Duh.
Need a pause mode for some of those life changing decisions though…………..ammiright??
*looks around …………………….. walks out door*.
There’s a 10% voucher?
Will be, this weekend
An apology for PSN being down over Xmas. Also, 5 days free plus to subscribers
Tempted to get resident evil remake, the remakening.
It’s top quality.
Worked for me because I never bought the cube version.
I haven’t played it since it was released on PS1.
Well, you’re in for a treat.
Is FF Type-0 preorderable digitally yet? Because the answer to that is the answer to your question for me,
I think I read that the code doesn’t work for pre-orders anyway.
Correct
No preorders,
There seriously isn’t a title you’ve been putting off?
Really? Fuckers. They said that it would count for preorders when they announced it.
Nope, PS4 has had sweet fuck all worth bothering with for months. Haven’t played a game on it since Destiny turned out to be the biggest disappointment in years.
Two other consoles?
PS3 only has one game in the works right now that I have any intention to buy, and Tales of Zestiria’s still months away.
I already own every Vita game worth owning right now. I buy them when they come out.
Yeah, I leave things in the hopes of sales etc.
Already own more than I can finish
Shadow of Mordor is offending my OCD-collect-everything sensibilities. My minimap is full of stuff to do, and it will never decrease.
The orc roster constantly repopulates, no matter how diligently I try to whittle them down. Now that I’ve unlocked power struggles, they are always there. Completing one unlocks two more.I know I should just get on with the story mode, but I can’t stop trying to clear the map 🙁
I think that’s one of the reasons I didn’t like it. Also it’s very directionless. After about 10 hours I still had no idea why I was doing anything beside Talion hates orcs and some random ghost dude that never really got explained was angry.
I pushed forward with the story a bit, and there’s not really much more than that to it, yet… and tbh, I’m not really expecting there to be.
I’m undecided on this game. Combat is pretty fun overall, though mobs of dozens of orcs get pretty tedious. The range of activities on offer is pretty good. Targetting for aerial stealth kills is abysmal. Story is practically non-existent.
So far, I wouldn’t call it GOTY material. But it seems solid enough.
The story in the game utterly sucks.
Also it’s yet another game this year with a Troy Baker protagonist. At least he’s using a different voice to normal though I guess?
The spoiler part especially is why I didn’t think the game was that fantastic. Solid, but I found that element of the game incredibly frustrating. Feels like you can never make progress.
Minor gameplay spoilers, not story:
The big thing is to play for long enough to get enough XP to get into the higher tier abilities, and to advance the plot a lot further. Specifically, you really need some of the upgrades that give you things like being able to execute a finisher on a x5 combo, getting 2 finishers each time you get up there, the finisher that drains enemies, and the ability to insta-kill someone by teleporting to them when targeting with an arrow. With those, most of the low-level captains are a complete pushover and even some of the higher-tier guys who are immune to various takedowns, you can just brute force in open combat by repeatedly using finishers on them. I didn’t finish the game, but the point I was up to I’ve had combats where I’d fight 3-4 captains in one big battle and kill them all.Oh man. That sounds like it’s going to be hell. I found it very soothing when my ACIV map was just places to go.
You know what there hasn’t been enough of lately? Tay-preciation… Soooo…. You guys are pretty fantastic!
Actually there hasn’t been nearly enough TAP, SAP or FAP going on so:
@shane and @freezespreston you guys are pretty great too!
No, you.
Rye?
Do!
Naaaaaw, you’re
awfulokpretty swell tooAnd you’re a devilishly handsome version of me (you jerk).
But you’re the handsome, Australian family dad version of me :P… So how does that work?
Don’t ask me… I’m just a dad *titters*
#TAY4Hottest100
Oh thems fightin’ words
You can’t prove anything!
ACCEPT MY LOVE DAMMIT!
😛Y’know what I could go right now?
Lemon Iced Tea… 😀
God damn geo blocking.. I thought the internet was meant to make content sharing easier, I guess not.
Er, it kinda has.
Before this people used to have to send around vhs tapes of adorable kittens!
It does sure. But then you get dick companies restricting viewing in other regions and not even bothering with an alternate source for that region.
I don’t think I’m ever going to see page 18 again at this rate 🙁
*Shakes magic 8-ball*
“Outlook not so good”
Aw /o\
I’ll just have to make every other page dirty then 🙂
If there can be #everypage6, there can be #everypage18 😀
Can’t argue with that logic!
There’s always hope for Blaghspam.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Blaghspam :\
I’ve seen Gooky, Phlanispo, DC and Greenius spam, but never Blaghs :\
Do it, @blaghman!
Green Eggs and Spam*
Nah. I don’t really feel comfortable doing it anymore. I’ve since realised that nobody wants to read pages and pages of my shit.
Then again, I’ll be drinking at my sister’s 25th tonight, so my opinion on that matter may change later tonight.
Oh, I’ve never seen drunk blaghman either!
Do that instead! 😀
I’ve drunkTAYed while you’ve been here. The problem is that I’m a very boring person, so it doesn’t make that much of a difference.
Like me!
The more I drink, the more I just sit around quietly.
I talk more when I drink, and I slip over more easily (though we all knew that), but the biggest issue is that I lose the ability to create long term memories very quickly, so for all I know I could be doing super embarrassing things half the time.
You haven’t seen real TAY spam yet…
You can’t have a page 18 on your own.
Pow, you can definitely have a page 18 on your own 😉
It’s just more fun with more people 😉
And you won’t go blind that way!
You’ll just make those around you blind
http://yourfriendshouse.com/news/justin-bieber-is-getting-comedy-central-roasted-on-march-7th/
I can see that going well….
Is it bad that I want to see him cry over being roasted?
Or at least throw a tantrum.
I don’t see the problem. He’s always seemed to be a totally good sport to me.
obligatory obvious sarcasm notificationPlus everyone loves him and it would all be totes good natured ribbing.
Obligatory Hugh Jackman was the best punk’d ever
For once it paid off to read the comments
The best roasts are for people who aren’t such low-hanging fruit 😛
(That said… if this turns up on youtube at some point I would probably watch it…)
Actually roasted, over a fire? I’d watch that…
http://www.airpnp.co/
So that’s a thing.
Friday question: Would you accept $10 to let a stranger poop in your home bathroom?
Ah, internet. Just when I thought I was totally WTF’d out.
Answer: no. I wouldn’t do this.
Only if someone desperately needed to. Like, if they knocked on my door and said “Sorry to bother you, but I really need to use the bathroom and don’t think I can make it home in time. Can I use yours?”.
Also, do I want to know how you find this stuff?
Yep.
Probably not. Because if somebody had managed to climb the two flights of stairs it takes to get to my front door, they probably didn’t need to go that badly.
I would, but my wife wouldn’t
Have done previously for free so sure, gimme cash
Getting more and more convinced that there is some kind of link between Dr Nerdlove and @transientmind 😛
You can’t link something to itself.
192.0.0.1
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-311/comment-page-10/#comment-3171623
Dammit, so close 😛
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-311/comment-page-10/#comment-3171626
>_>
Nooooooo!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-311/comment-page-10/#comment-3171630
Ok I give up. You win this round, Freeze.
The important thing is you tried.
…is that meant to be a loopback joke?
Cuz then it’s be 127.0.0.1
<_<
It has been a while.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-311/comment-page-10/#comment-3171649
YES?
Curse everything.
…http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-311/comment-page-10/#comment-3171651
AHA!
I DID IT!
IN YOUR FACE, FLANDERS!
And all it cost was your dignity.
@powalen I love a freebie 😛
There’s no place like 127.0.0.1
::1 feels like home sometimes
Well, Nerdlove really knocked it out of the park on the second question in my opinion and I have no idea how to tackle the first one, but the chair-leg reference just means that he has good taste in graphic novels.
It’s a device used by main character Spider Jerusalem in the outstanding series ‘Transmetropolitan’ by the legendary Warren Ellis. He introduces a serial liar to the ‘Chair-leg of Truth’ and speaks for it.
Seriously, though… Transmetropolitan is fantastic. It contains legendary quotes such as: “A Kenyan man once said to me, “you can get used to everything when money’s involved.” He used to stick mice up his ass for twenty bucks a time.”
Or, relevant today: “You want to know about voting. I’m here to tell you about voting. Imagine you’re locked in a huge underground nightclub filled with sinners, whores, freaks and unnameable things that rape pit-bulls for fun. And you ain’t allowed out until you all vote on what you’re going to do tonight. You like to put your feet up and watch [TV]”. They like to have sex with normal people using knives, guns and brand-new sexual organs that you did not know existed. So you vote for television, and everyone else, as far as the eye can see, votes to fuck you with switchblades. That’s voting. You’re welcome.”
In fact… now is probably the perfect time for a re-read.
Left work early, went and bought a boardgame, came home, sat down at my computer, check my phone, and there’s a text from my Mum.
“[Nursing Student] is disappointed you left without saying goodbye. Today is her last day.”
Oh yeah, I knew there was something I forgot to do. *Lies face down on the floor in shame* *Feel the guilt trip flow through me*
*Drinks some coffee milk*
THERE’S STILL TIME
Time to apologise via Facebook message? Well yeah, I guess there is.
See below
If anyone asks why you’re back again you can just say you forgot your pen or something 😛
@blaghman enters room:
“Oh hi. Sorry I forgot to say bye. It slipped my mind. Good thing I had to come back for my penis”
*canned laughter*
*theme tune starts playing*
[Nursing student]
Sorry I missed had to rush off today without saying good bye
Can I make it up to you over coffee tomorrow?
That was so smooth it’d make console framerates look like total shit 😛
Hahaha!
You’re getting girl advice from Captain Denser-than-a-neutron-star Gooky!
Classic.
Can->do/can’t->teach?
What time does she finish?
You could always grab a box of chocolates and head back to say goodbye and give them to her if she’s still there 🙂
She finished at lunch time.
Oh, boo!
There’s my sweet suggestion out the window!
…
Oooooh! You could message her saying “I didn’t say goodbye because I’d like to see you again”
I think we’ve overlooked the important part.
Which boardgame?
I grabbed Betrayal at House on the Hill as a present for my sister (she’s complained that far too many games are only for four players, and I don’t know if she has any of the Pandemic expansions, so I figured it was a decent bet).
I’m sorry I didn’t say goodbye Nursing Student but the thought that the hollow emptiness of grief and loss that your absence would bring did not stand the thought of bearing. Rest assured the only thing greater than the miasma of heart rending loss in me was the gnawing regret of what could have been and my own self loathing.
Coffee tomorrow?
Why are you people all suggesting coffee? I don’t drink coffee.
From what I understand, drinking isn’t necessary to the procedure.
But… *looks at original post*
… Coffee Milk?
Yeah, I drink coffee milk. I don’t drink coffee.
Be the best Blaghs you can be!
That’s horrible advice.
Be the best @transientmind you can be, Blaghman!
Those are just unattainable standards you’re projecting on us all. 😛
Hmm, so someone charming, but also with attainable standards…
Hmm…
Got it!
Be the best DC you can be, @blaghman!
I think he can do better than that.
And also… *blush*
I really, really cannot.
*wink*
*Blaghs stands at girls house with boom box over head*
I missed a guaranteed office-bang one year before we left for the Christmas holiday thanks to leaving too early and not being motivated enough to ditch drinking+gaming with the fellas for a bit of sullying the office showers. I still regret it! Left4Dead LAN is pretty good, but she was pretty hot. Try to salvage the situation! No regrets!
And I agree that meeting up for that coffee you don’t drink, or better: something alcoholic, is a fantastic idea. Gets you some alone time away from the prying eyes and peer expectations. Something like, “I missed you on the way out, but I’d love to hear about your plans and see you off before you’re out of town,” or if she’s staying in town but going to a different workplace (I haven’t read the backstory), offer to catch up to see how she’s settling in at the new place.
#mostinterestingmanontay
Oh, I would think missing out on a casual fling because of boneheadedness (and later regretting it) is pretty common. 🙁
I’ve been having too much fun to ruin everyone’s posts, but she has a boyfriend. My regret here is just that I didn’t say goodbye, because she’s a really nice person, has made work lately more fun since I had someone to talk to, and it was a dick move not to say bye, that’s it.
Awh. Well in that case, the advice to offer to catch up still applies.
Platonic friends are pretty great and even if it’s just that once, it’ll probably be a nice thing to do anyway.
Yeah, I hope I do see her again, if only occasionally, it’s always nice having friends.
I shouldn’t admit to this here, but I totally missed a chance to strike out with the less-temporary-that-I-thought receptionist today, after she was asked if she was doing anything for Australia Day, and it was also brought up that she’s single. But given I’ve never said anything to her that was longer than 2 words (good morning, good afternoon) it somehow didn’t seem appropriate. 😛
Hell, learning that someone’s single and that you’ve barely spoken two words to them is the best time.
Expressing romantic interest in people you’ve known for ages or been friends with is kind of weird. How long have you felt this way? Why didn’t you say something? Have you been nursing a crush all this time? It’s a subversion of expectations and people are very resistant to that.
But someone you barely know? No expectations!
That’s, “Hey, we’ve never really talked, but I like your hustle. Let’s go grab a drink sometime.” It’s decisive, you’re not just sitting on a crush for ages, you know what you want and you’re doing something about it, no shame or nervousness, no big deal. Because asking out people you like is normal for confident, self-assured people. (And even if you’re not, it sure as hell makes you look like it. Which leads to actually being so.)
See, my personal preference would be at the “can (vaguely) comfortably hold a conversation with them” before I’d want to ask them out. Then again, given my general ineptitude in regards to speaking out loud, that means I’ve probably known them for six months.
Goddamit, Blaghs! >:(
Hey, Greenmang knew it, so by proxy everyone else should have.
Obviously.
I sometimes know things!
Hey Monster Hunter people.
How does multiplayer handle people of different levels? Will I be left behind if I don’t git gud fast enough?
…not that I’m interested in getting that game or anything!
I wouldn’t say ‘left behind’ so much as everyone else just doing gestures and cooking meat in front of your big scary monster then smashing it in 30 seconds.
Opens up some mindless derp fun instead of nothing but intense, down to the wire life or death battles.
I don’t know enough about how Monster Hunter multiplayer works to even figure out the question I’m trying to ask here 😛
As long as you guys will still want to play with someone who has no idea what they’re doing it’ll be all good.
Honestly, at least 50% of my time online for 3 was just smashing monsters with lower level players. Good stress relief. Plus I wanted to grind out every armour set in the game.
But yeah, if you don’t git gud fast, other players can git you guder faster. It’s generally a friendly, helpful community.
🙂
I can’t speak for 4U, but I’m assuming it’s exactly the same as 3U.
The quests are broken up by Hunter Ranks (basically difficulty levels). The game groups certain levels of Hunter Rank quests together so you can still play with others above you. You get access to quests at your HR level or below, but in certain situations you’re still able to take part in higher HR quests if you’re still within the “HR group”.
Everyone starts out at HR1. So at HR1 you can only select HR1 quests, but you might have an amazing green friend who is at HR2 which can initiate HR2 quests. Even though you don’t have these HR2 quests unlocked, since HR1-2 are grouped together, you’ll be able to participate AND it will count as being “completed” whenever you unlock them (so you’re not “wasting progress”).
Once you do certain quests (generally the big hunts with monsters) you’ll get an “Urgent Quest” which upon completion will increase your HR and open up the next set of quests.
HR3-5 are grouped together and you have to be at least HR3 to play on them. HR6-7 and then 8+
HR1-2 is “Low Rank”, 3-5 “High Rank” and 6+ is “G-rank” (think of it as easy, medium, hard). There will be exclusive monsters on the higher ranks and monsters will also learn new abilities and behave differently. It’s like a whole new game ;D
Most of my MH3U time was spent playing with others on ranks below me and helping them complete whatever quests they needed to do. I guess the only downsides is that a higher level friend helping out might be super overpowered and carry you through the game, but it’s easy enough for them to swap to some lower rank gear or try out a new weapon (good chance to derp around with another weapon type :D). There’s tons of people on all different levels and most don’t mind helping out!
Part of the fun is not knowing what you’re doing and learning more about the monsters and getting better 😀
So finally worked up the huevos to start playing the final chapter of the first season of The Walking Dead because I didn’t want to feel dem feels that I know I am going to feel… all i can say is – god damn it…
so… I’ve had my arm lopped off. I’ve got one damn arm. Just escaped the attic and am glad Kenny is getting a little less dicky.. but god damn, my arm…HEY LOOPS! 😀
@negativezero and others…
Couple of tech questions.
1. Thinking about jumping on board the Windows 10 preview. is anyone currently using it? Do you need to reinstall every time a new build is released, or is there windows update functionality? Not fussed if i need to reformat for retail build once thats released, but obviously dont want to be doing it every month.
2. Is anyone here using a GTX 900 series GPU? Im running a GTX 970 i bought just before new years and are experiencing some really annoying microstutter. mainly in older game… I dont seems to be the only one either.
Sorry, not replying to either, but is Windows 10 focused on touchscreen? I don’t see much point in me getting a preview until I build a new PC, but worth knowing methinks
No, it works fine with mouse & keyboard as well, same or better than Win8
I’m running it at work on a secondary machine. Flighting installs new builds over existing ones in-place via WU, doesn’t require a flatten & reinstall.
I have a 970. I noticed stutter in Borderlands TPS when I tried to run it at 120Hz, but that felt more like a frame pacing issue, though it’s hard to tell at ~100fps. Other than that, the only stutter I’ve noticed is loading related on newer games, so I’m not much help.
U haven’t got metro2033 by any chance? Standard not redux? Would be awesome if I could compare a couple of games with you. It seems to be mainly the older titles…
Tonight’s plans, get cider, drink cider, Destiny raids on hard mode, drink some more, Dragon Age, drink, stay up til 4am, watch Cambridge United vs Man Utd and shout at the tv much to the annoyance of my housemates, drink til I fall asleep.
What’s everyone else up to tonight?
Croquet Club in the City for a beer and some fare, VoG and Crotas End or FC4 (Desired Friday night).
Go home, Try and play Destiny, Bed by 8.30pm (Probably Friday Reality).
At least be optimistic about your chances 😀
Going to probably ruin the very idea of a democratic government in the Westminster system.
By throwing shoes and eggs at people?
Plans? Finish my LEGO set, consume beer, play Elite
#Fridaynight #doingitright #neeerd
I like these plans
Will be watching the game too. Kick off at 6:55am here in Sydders. Will also be drinking and raiding on Destiny tonight. Woah are you me.
The QLD version of you 😛
Destiny – running Eris bounties… then going scrap my alt-lock and start a titan. I look forward to learning to punch things… many things.
I just got rid of my second Warlock after getting my primary up to 32. I now have a hunter on 28 and my new titan on 29 (after re-using the gear I had from the first titan I had). Punching stuff is great fun 😀
I was planning to do this if the new raid gear dropped frequently enough to sacrifice being able to double up – I’ve seen at least one piece drop for me every run, and got the gear and resources to get my main to 32 this week, so figured it was about time.
I’ve got gear to get him to 27 right off the bat, tho subclasses will take longer; my alt-lock and hunter still haven’t maxed their second subclass… But, yes, considering how much I love Sunsinger for its ability to slap stuff into cinders, I’m looking forward to punching thralls into orbit 😛
Alright on a more serious note I do actually want to say how thankful I am to you guys for being there and supporting me… This last year has been rather tumultuous for me, and I’ve emotionally been circling the drain on a number of occasions and you guys really came through for me…I would do special shout outs now but I fear I may accidentally leave someone out and that’d make me feel bad!
You’re all amongst my greatest treasured friends and I thank you for putting up with me… Even if I don’t necessarily interact that often with you (which I feel bad about) I still consider you a friend… Emotionally since coming back I feel a lot stronger, I still have the odd crappy day but I feel like this year is going to be a great year!
I realise now that this post has taken me half an hour to word and I keep going over it and changing it so I’m just to press submit now 😛
Spoilered for length and sappiness!
Inb4 “GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY” 😛
TL;DR you’re all amazing and thanks
Alright, gaaaaa-
Sonofabitch….
I’m assuming this is referring to me and only me.
Hey Pixel, you went off to Empire territory in Elite, right? I just buffed my FSD, and those bastards owe me 25,000 credits, so we should organise to meet up and derp about in space for a bit at some point.
If we manage to actually get instancing to work the way it should that sounds like a fantastic idea!
Since I’ve never attempted it, wouldn’t the easiest way to be to use the group play button? Or am I missing some critically important and bleedingly obvious issue there?
Apparently even when using group play (haven’t attempted just read other peoples experience) the server doesn’t get the memo, so even if you start group play it might not drop you into the same instance which is kind of a weird bug 😛
Hahaha, brilliant.
Went looking for a PayPal transaction I did sometime the last 12 months…
I… err… hmmm… have a problem.
90% of the transactions from the last 12 months are titled SteamPowered, GreenManGaming, GOG.com
/o\
Make it worse. Figure out how many games you’ve actually played 😛
http://steamleft.com/
Cakesmith
It would take you…
10934 continuous hours
1 year,90 days,14 hours,56 minutes
of gameplay to complete your Steam library
While mine’s only a mere 3000 odd hours, the stat that worried me the most was when it said I could watch the entirety of Naruto 14 times. I need to do something about my games.
Mine told me I could climb Mt. Everest 280 times…
What if you ran?
It lies. It told me I could watch the Twilight movie 328 times. No-one would survive long enough to see it that many times…
Only 2628 hours? It’s clearly not taking into consideration that I can play footie manager for hour upon hour
Between full time work, part time study and family I can count on 1 hand the games I finished last year.
I would probably need a spreadsheet to count the number I purchased.
*stands and clears throat*
My name is Tristan and I buy more games than I play.
I don’t feel better after doing that… I thought you’re meant to feel better after admitting stuff…
It’s all a lie. Never admit to anything 😀
How can I get motivated to play games again?
Gather wolfsbane from Mt Buller in early June. Mix with precisely 34 sesame seeds in a pot of water heated to exactly 56.2 degrees. After three minutes, turn down the temperature to 55.8 degrees. Stir continuously for two minutes. Add salt, tumeric, and a snake tooth. Turn off the water and let it rest for one minute. Serve with melba toast on an ivory bowl.
Simple.
So, there’s a petition to encourage Supanova to uninvite Adam Baldwin because of his association with GamerGate.
My gut reaction was “Yes, wield that banhammer!” but I’ve since started to think a bit differently. Maybe conventions shouldn’t be political venues. Maybe it’s just a place where we leave our differences at the door and celebrate entertainment.
Opinions?
I don’t agree with his politics, but feel like people should just not go see him instead of banning.
Such a weird and divisive person to invite, though.
I’d imagine it’s for shock value, generate some controversy, etc. Cheeky buggers.
The organisers claim they didn’t know about any of it.
Which…. Seriously?
Well they have probably heard about gamergate but I don’t think I’ve seen mention of Adam Baldwin on any mainstream media reporting on it.
Considering Supanova doesn’t have a huge gaming presence what what I know it is possible they didn’t
I wouldn’t be surprised to find the invite has been in the works for 12 months
Yeah, these things are often arranged a long time in advance.
Are you saying corruption is afoot?
You have no idea
I’m confused that people still want to see him.
Looking through the Facebook stuff it seems most people are unable to separate him from Jayne Cobb. As far as they’re concerned he is Jayne and no one else. All his rants and psychotic views are some other unrelated person that doesn’t exist.
I think he’s an ass.
I don’t want him banned. I wouldn’t pay for his autograph, but I accept that some people do.
I’m more interested in how many times Walter Koenig will get asked to say “Nuclear Wessels”
My mind has never connected Chekov and Bester before. This is just odd
It’s the same old argument artist or art.
We’ll be arguing over this into the forevers.
I heard Larry David did an ep of Curb about him enjoying a piece of classical music written by a Nazi sympathiser and he didn’t think it made him the stereotypical self loathing Jew.
Adam Baldwin sounds like the less successful brother of Alec Baldwin.
Declaring war on the post office.
I tried this once, but when I tried to send them a declaration of war, it got lost en route. 😛
*shakes head*
That was terrible!
*upvotes*
I know not a lot of you are on the tennis bandwagon, and one of you isn’t even on the Twitter bandwagon, but this is kinda cool anyway: The Social Leaderboard.
http://www.ausopen.com/en_AU/social/leaderboard/index.html?promo=hp
It’s kinda creepy, really. But cool that they can actually track this sort of stuff.
They should make one of these websites for everything. Like political figures 😛
For those who are interested, I’ll probably be streaming our Fiasco game tonight. Promises to be hilarious watching, and still somehow more democratic than Queensland #oohedgypoliticalhumour
Definitely interested in observing the hilarity xD
Read that tag as “ooo hedgy political humor”
Truly the cutting hedge of comedy
Hey! It was one time! It was only two decades!
😛
X-Wing: Alliance & X-Wing vs TIE Fighter are in my GOG cart…
Why don’t I want to checkout?!
D:
Simple, you haven’t added X-Wing, Tie-Fighter, Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds, Rogue Squadron or Empire At War yet…
#helping!
Edit – *double take* wait a second… Rogue Squadron is out on GOG too?… I’ll be… Right back *runs off*
Whatever Jedi Knight games are missing should turn up next week too! #helping
Sorry to say, but Rogue Squadron and Galactic Battlegrounds don’t look too appealing to me… 🙁
Wait what? As in the 64 game?
That’s the one! I had it on pc back in the day
I had no idea it wasn’t 64-exclusive.
and only $7.39 AUD… not that i’m trying to convince you to do anything
Hmm… I *am* missing it from my 64 collection…
*persuses eBay*
Because XvT is a very average game and you don’t need it if you have Alliance, which has all the XvT features and more?
Okay… I’ve decided on X-Wing: Alliance and Rogue Squadron 3D.
My flight stick shall be getting a good workout. 😀
250mm of rain in the past 24hrs I’ve been informed.
125mm since 9am for Tweed /o\
0mm for Perth 🙁
I want rain too! *pouts*
Has the 10% code arrived?
Has the 10% code arrived??
Has the…
early bird got the worm?
the second rat, the cheese?
10% discount code arrived?
#jimuspam
FIASCO
Stream will be live here: https://plus.google.com/events/ckdaqba6hetv2aja48fntbdugio
In 15 minutes or so!
XWAHacker will let you set the resolution of X-Wing:Alliance to modern resolutions.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xwahacker/
@freezespreston nice pic you posted there of that fashionable work shirt 😛
Thinking I might do a solo trip to the movies tomorrow to see Big Hero 6, since I keep hearing praise for it.
Though I need to draw tomorrow too…
I need to work on my discipline if I want to get better at drawing :S
I’ll try to do both!
I can have it all! 😀
“I can have it all! :D” is what I want written on my Tombstone.
Hey Stewie, what’s up?
Eh, nothing much. No one’s really talking on TAY though.
Yeah, I noticed that too. I bet they’re all pretending that they’re busy, or something.
I think they just don’t like you 😛
Why you gotta be like that, Stewie?! :O
I’m a mean girl 😉
Oh, haha. If you’re gonna be like that, I’m not going to talk to you >:(
No! Don’t leave me! Then I’ll really be alone! :O
… Fine, I’l stay, but you better start treating me right.
I can’t promise anything 😉
Then I’m leaving.
Noooooo! I’ll be good 🙁
Good.
You could click that fiasco link up there and listen into to us.
Sorry, too busy starcrushing hard on Lucy Durack. 😀
I was for a while there, but the video kept stopping and was a little jar-ey, so stopped watching :'(
Plus, you don’t have a webcam going, so what’s the point?
Its not that long of a movie
Wish I had the time to go see it. Also the money. But mainly the time.
I still know nothing about it other than it was censored in South Korea and that there is some affiliation with Marvel and the Michelin man has lost weight.
Hey Stewie!
I sat down at my computer, and was like “Hey Blaghs, you’ve had a few drinks, just got home, you should say hi to Liondrive, specifically calling him by name!”
Then I loaded up the new page, and was like “welp, guess I’m just a shitty copycat now.”
Hey Sean!
Talking with you rather than myself makes me seem far less crazy, haha! If only you were a few minutes earlier :'(
How was drinking? Did you have fun?! 😀
I enjoyed myself, though that may have been because my parents paid for my alcohol and food. >.>
I kid, I had a quick chat with a coupla my sister’s friends, then sat creepily listening in on group conversations because I don’t understand how they work and don’t like raising my voice to be heard. >.>
What have you been up to?
Group discussions are strange, haha!
I’m too afraid if saying something stupid to actually join in fully :3
Small groups are fine though 🙂
I’ve been doing nothing, haha!
Exercising, talking to myself, the usual 😛
I think I spammed TAY wring by replying to myself, but I’m too self conscious to start new posts :O
Pshhhhhhhh.
Okay, so back in the days of Blaghspam, I was mostly reasonable.
Ish.
As it stands, it’s Friday night, only losers are on here over the weekend, so you might as well start spamming.
It is slightly harder to ignore 300 posts in a row than it is 299 nested ones, but at the same time, PSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Fuck it, whatever.
I’ve always been quite clear that I’m happy to ignore people on TAY, so I figure that everyone else should do the same.
And if someone says something important during the spam?
Oh, also, not that you’d care, but there was some great cleavage on display at times.
Of course, since I’m a prude, I see it, am like “Niiiiiiiiiiiiiicccccccceeeeeeeeeee” and then make sure I focus on anywhere else for the rest of the night. Wooo, Prudeghman.
It’s funny. Obviously I can identify cleavage, but I usually judge how “good” it is based on how well it goes with what the girl is wearing :3
I like cleavage on a girl if it goes with her outfit the same way I like a necklace on a girl if it goes with her outfit.
I’ll tell a girl to put them away if she’s showing too much and makes her look trashy 😛
That’s as far as I go with cleavage though.
Don’t understand the appeal, don’t think I ever will 😛
Oh, I can definitely understand that. It’s not just about having it all out on show, there’s definitely an art to it.
But when it’s done right? Beautiful.
It doesn’t matter, because it’s TAY, and they’ll just repost it later anyway.
Hopefully.
Maybe.
Oh Sean, you’re so clever. *Laughs maniacally as he descends into a bathtub filled with blood*
Of course, while I’ve done this one root post, as per usual, I’m following a practice of do as I say, not as I do.
Because if you follow what I do you’ll end up as a borderline morbidly obese man-child who lives in his basement.
Oh Blaghs, you’re a funny one 😛
So a few people have told me, but I’ve never believed them.
Do you mind if I ask, well, too late, I’m going to ask.
Full Disclosure.
Did you dislike me when you first started posting on TAY? Because I may have been a little abrupt and dickish with you.
Obviously, since I’m asking, that’s changed, but I got the feeling that you thought I was a bit of a prat. Mostly because I’m a bit of a prat.
Hahahaha, I didn’t dislike you 😛
When I first joined in, I spent a lot of time figuring out who was who, how each person acted, and where I fit in 😛
I’m not the “jump right in” kind of guy.
That may have lead me to being a lot quieter than I am now, and even less likely to join in a conversation.
I’m a good judge of character, which took a little longer over the internet as opposed to in person, but once I realised you weren’t actually being “abrupt and dickish”, but instead that that’s just how you are, I thought you were a pretty cool guy 🙂
There’s no one I dislike in TAY.
If I ever think anyone is being dickish to me, I’ll tell them where they can shove it 😉
Alright, cool beans, you just seem friendlier around me recentlyish, was curious.
I’m probably just making shit up in my head, so it’s fine to ignore me.
Then again, it’s always fine to ignore me.
I dunno.
I think I’ve been talking to you a bit more in the last few months, but I’ve always liked you 😛
@blaghman @liondrive I have always assumed that everyone hates me but has no idea how to get rid of me. Thats probably why teamspeak is always dead now and everyone thinks im a druggo.
And don’t like, D.C. this, and worry about past you (though I doubt you will), I just tend to… make shit up in my head.
Hahahaha!
I only worry if I think I have something to worry about (which is what I’m sure DC does too :P).
I don’t think there’s anything to worry about though.
Unless there is something to worry about?! :O
@liondrive
I’ll never tell. Muahahahaha.
(Nah, nothing to worry about, unless you want to worry about our impending deaths at the hands of time, that harsh ticking mistress)
@blaghman @liondrive
we gun draw dis weekend? ye? kewl.
@powalen @sernobulus
lara on sun or mon? kewl? ye.
Just over 3 weeks until MH4U! WOO!
I bet I’ll lose motivation for it when it comes out :P. Been in a meh mood lately… Grim Fandango soon though! I keep forgetting about it but I’m hoping it’ll end my “cbf playing anything” mood!
How do you want to draw?
I can put a picture on twitter, if that’s alright?
Also, is it a set thing to draw, or draw anything?
Generally we have a theme (we’ll tablet it, but a picture on twitter should do the job).
As it stands, I haven’t drawn anything in 11 months or something, so I will be utterly rubbish.
I’ll give it a go.
Is there a time limit? I spend forever drawing :O
Some time during the afternoon/evening.
Since I’m rubbish I tend to rush it, so I quickly produce a piece of crap. >.>
Me too!
I was thinking maybe something Sketch Dailies on Twitter says? (just some random theme that we all recognise)
Or just draw whatever, who cares! It’s just good motivation to know that there’s others doing it too 😀
I don’t have a tablet yet :3
I want to get better at drawing with pencil and paper first before moving on to tablet 😀
I’ll still join in though, if that’s alright?
No that’s not okay. It’s not like I knew you didn’t have a drawing tablet and still asked you to draw with us or anything.
Ugh 😛 😀
I prefer paper and stuff too but I don’t draw on it enough (or draw at all anymore). I was pretty gewd. Probably better to get familiar with the techniques and stuff anyway rather than getting a drawing tablet and not knowing how to do anything on any programs and just sort of derping around.
Ok!
Well, tomorrow works best for me, since I’m going out Sunday arvo :3
You guys go ahead and I’ll join in though 🙂
Sunday/Monday works best for me 😛
iSketch?
Only if you remember the most important rule, of setting fire to your creation at the end. >.>
Depends if Blaghs and Bish cheat or not :'(
Ballerinas…
(also iSketch doesn’t seem to play nice with my drawing tablet)
Don’t invite me to draw! That’s okay :'(
I’ve officially logged over 100 hours in GTA V on PS4, oh dear.. That’s just single player as well, just so we are clear.
@jimu et al. The PSN 10% code is live. Just go into the PSN store on your console, and it’s right there.
Thanks, @mashaa sent me a tweet in the night so I was able to do it all upon waking! 😀
Hmmmm!
I’ve been kinda interested in the fitness/activity tracker thingy but they were way to expensive for my liking. Didn’t realise there were cheap reasonable ones for basic functions so I just went ahead and purchased a Xiaomi Mi Band for $20.
Seems to do the whole step count and sleep thingy as well as being waterproof. Extra motivation to not work and do more laps around the office and buildings at work 😛 😀
I’ve been looking at getting one but don’t wanna buy an expensive one but nothing works with Windows Phone 🙁
The fitbit flex has dropped in price because they’re about to/just have launched the new range with continuous HR monitors built in. They’re under $100 now. I got one for christmas and I love it, it also syncs into Myfitnesspal which makes the calorie adjusting very easy.
Whaaaat. Suicune confirmed as one of the fighters in Pokken Tournament (aka. That Tekken-style Pokemon fighting game that was announced a while back)
IT DOESN’T EVEN HAVE ARMS
EDIT: Gardevoir too! That one makes a bit more sense though.
Thats just silly, are there any pics?
Baek style kicker!
I guess My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic has revolutionised fighting games forever.
Jackie Brown was cool.
Pretty great movie!
Leaves me wondering what other Tarantino I haven’t gotten around to catching. I know a friend once lent me a whole stack of DVDs. And amazingly enough, I ended up watching most of them too.
You were cool!
Once!
You are a liar.
You were cool!
Maybe twice?
LIKE WHEN
That time you played Xenoblade, and called Nintendo.
Earned 50,000 credits while bounty hunting, accidentally hit another ship so I earned a bounty, got scanned so they found my illegal stuff, and then I crashed into the space station while attempting a hot entry because I was being scanned again.
So that was a productive loss of 10,000 credits.
You’re making me really wanna jump back in again.
Dammit Blaghs.
I successfully smuggled 16tons of stolen narcotics (they were discovered in a wreckage, it was practically a free for all) and managed to sneak that into a space station… Pro tip, silent running and heat sinks are your friend!
I can usually get in before the scan finishes, but I was at a really bad angle to begin with, and basically had to do a quick 180 to align with the station, and I totally flubbed it.
Haha oh that sucks! I did see a CMDR yesterday attempt the same thing… He nailed the letter box, but a shame he didn’t see the T9 coming the other way XD *boom* *splat*
For all the complaints about being splattered at the letterbox I’ve seen around the place, I can hardly think of any time I’ve had a ship entering or leaving at the same time as me, let alone one being parked in the middle of the thing.
But then I guess none of them really post a problem for a sidewinder anyway, you can slip that thing anywhere 😛
The Australian Parliament Fiasco!
Starring
My Mate Dan as Prime Minister Robert Eagle, leader of the New Workers Party. He had a tattoo
@freezespreston as MP Sir Barry Horschwinger, an MP from Western Australia with an electorate of three people and one dog and a political party (Family Democratic National Republican
Tea Party) not much bigger
@sernobulus as Corporal Lance Hardwood, a former army buddy of the PM’s with a matching tattoo who’s fallen on hard times. He’s now resorted to working as a gigolo, dealing coke on the side and having an ongoing tryst wtih Dr Freeman
@beeawwb as Dr Shaun Freeman, hard, hard right MP for Queensland. Anti-gay, anti women, anti- abortion, anti-immigration, anti- drug, anti – interracial marriage. Also a colossal hypocrite
and me as Sandra DeLaney, chief of staff to the Prime Minister. An incredibly smooth and calculating operator, adept at manipulating the parliament and resorting to less than legal means to get it done
Basically, the PM and I planned to manipulate the passage of our second families support bill by intimidating Sir Barry with a body appearing on his lawn, with Cpl Hardwood doing the dirty work. Of course, when Horschwinger is easily cowed and the target for the body dump becomes Freeman, things did not go as planned
Memorable moments: Dan’s wife walking in while I’m doing my best Alan Jones impression wondering why he’s calling into talkback radio
Freeze ending a scene in one, perfect line of dialogue
Freeze entering parliament with one clear goal: Deal with the neighbour’s dog, which was promptly declared a terrorist
Poor Nob killing a recurring favourite character, Becky Hardcastle, only to find out she’s Freeman’s daughter home from America
Nob, coked out of his skull, revealing his identity to Freeman on his front lawn
Bob playing a conservative ingrate crazy, crazy well
A failed assassination attempt on Nob
The PM getting very fresh with Pippa Middleton
Sandra cowing Horschwinger into doing her bidding, only to find him growing a spine and demanding that Australia change its flag because the stars were “too aggressive and pointy”
Freeman attempting to bluster his way over Sandra, only to find someone who can go toe to toe with him
And the outcome?
Poor Hardwood, convicted of a crime so vile that Australia reintroduced the Death penalty. His crime was so bad it actually made society go backwards
Freeman discredited and unelected, retiring to the crappiest part of rural Queensland
The PM rolled at the next election, but retiring with a fat PM’s pension
Horschwinger also losing his seat, but he dealt with the neighbour’s bloody dog and got to wield real power, even if only briefly
and Sandra continuing on in the New Worker’s Party, relatively unstained and poised for greatness
What a FIasco!
Video Link! http://youtu.be/qKX5Q9pcGF8
I felt so out of place in that game. Oh well, every game needs a fall guy. =P
Sometimes you get unlucky and get to be the plot device. If your character doesn’t want for much it’s weird, because powerful ambition and stopping at nothing is what fits well.
Yeah, there was really no motivation for me from the start, realistically I would have just walked away and not got involved but, oh well. Atleast next time I play I will have a proper grasp on the game.
Should have set yourself up as more of a Heidi Fleiss figure.
Or tried to blackmail the pm over the plot
Yeah, was thinking that. Didn’t quite have a full understanding of the game until half way through which was when I was pretty much screwed. =P
Okay… G’night, TAY.
G’night.
There’s an Indian restaurant near me that’s been open for a long time. I’d been there a couple of times before. Tonight, I managed to get dinner there two days before it shut down for good. Although I enjoyed my biryani, I could shake off the melancholy of the situation.
This restaurant has been open for at least 10 years, and in a few days it will be gone. The poor bastard who owns the place probably lost his house because the restaurant failed. And it probably didn’t fail because of poor business decisions, it probably died because of overly high rent.
My local shopping centre has always suffered from this. The food court alone had the same stall go thrugh 5 business in a single 2-year period. There seem to be new shops every year. The suit store, which has only been open for a year, is already going out of business. Clearly the shopping centre’s management has unrealistic expectations for how many people actually come to the shopping centre, and charge accordingly.
I asked the waitress to give my thanks to the chef. The food was nothing special, but at least I let the chef know he did a good job on his last week at work.
Uh, that’s pretty par for the course when it comes to shopping centre rent. It takes my shop 3 or 4 days of trade to make enough to cover rent.
Also, 10 years is an eternity in the restaurant game. Very rare for one to last that long.
I just discovered two of the things that really irritate me about rocksmith 2014 have kind of been my own fault.
There were options to turn them off and I’d just never found them before.
The most annoying one was the fact that it would take over sound output completely which mean I couldn’t be on team speak whilst playing it.
Also I found an option that was on by default to launch the Ubisoft website when quitting Rocksmith once every 2 weeks. That was driving me bonkers.
This is why I always go through the options before starting a new game.
This twitter dealie is the dumbest thing ever and I hate it.
I have enough tools at my disposal to show off my ineptitude to the world as it is, I hardly need another 😛
Is this a continuation of your goat story?
Yeah, trying to get in contact with them etc.
@cj Better yet, have a trailer! http://youtu.be/Cz73_1Tn0kg
Remember in the original Pokemon movie when Mewtwo takes away all the Pokemon’s power and they start punching each other and everyone is all “This is horrible”. NOW YOU CAN RELIVE THAT HORROR!
Hey guys, are there any card games or board game like cards against humanity? Something that’s nice and simple and fun.
What specific part of cards against humanity are you trying to emulate? There’s one that’s similar but pg called apples to apples, but depending on what you’re looking for in a game there may be better suggestions
Mostly easy to play and fun.
Love Letter, Sushi Go, Coup, The Resistance for bigger groups, One night ultimate werewolf.
All easy, all good for lots of audiences, all reasonably cheap
I will look into them. Thanks
Superfight, Slash, War?
Sushi Go is a nice and lighthearted card game. Very easy to play.
Sounds interesting
Fibbage is kinda like that, but it uses a console and phones as controllers.
Damn =( The Living End aren’t playing any shows this month with Jimmy Barnes, I was hoping they were since they played a heap of dates end of last year with him on his Hindsight tour. Would’ve so gone to at least one of the local shows if that was the case.
Must remember that most other countries do relate to the item of footwear we call ‘thongs’ when I use the term, they’re thinking of underwear and boy does it get you some strange responses lol..
http://youtu.be/5a39fS-82HE?t=16s
Aargh. Since I’ve never played a Mega Man game, I downloaded the demo to Mega Man 9. I’ve been battling with it for a while. I’ve been struggling to beat the elephant robot mini-bosses. I found out a cheap strategy to beat the first miniboss. I figured out the pattern to beat the second miniboss. Then I had a bit of trouble with the third miniboss. His area is covered in pits, so getting hit is a one-hit death, as it will always knock you into a pit. I kept getting beaten in the first 4 seconds of the fight. But then I had a magical super-skill run that allowed me to survive a full minute with the beast. I defeated the miniboss, and immediately fell off a cliff.
Ha ha hrrgh. *twitch*
Mega Man 2 comes highly recommended. And with good reason!
I don’t know why, but megaman 9 seems that much damn harder then when I was a kid.
Mega Man 9 came out in 2008. How did you play it as a kid?
Really? :S lol I could have sworn I was younger!
Maybe just wait for Mighty No. 9?
Ah, poop.
All this Quantic Dream talk has made me wanna play Heavy Rain again :3
Must. Hold out. For bundle.
Hnnnnngggg.
Life is Strange is out next week. Getting Quantic Dream vibes from that. 🙂
Aww, I just read it’s another game with an episodic release 🙁
I’m not a fan of that particular style of game release, to be honest.
Might wait until it’s all released, then pick it up in bulk.
Yeah, my sister is the same. I’ll let you know if it’s good. 😀
Awesome!
It sounds interesting, but I like playing a game on my own time, not “play one part now, play the next 6 weeks later, and then the next 6 weeks later, then the next…”
It’s also why I don’t like watching ongoing TV shows :3
I hate waiting >:3
Yeah, I would prefer to binge ‘play’ too. @shane gifted me The Walking Dead just when season one finished and I absolutely loved playing those back-to-back. I’m just impatient and want to play the new stuff nooooow. 😛
Same, biggest problem I find that by the time the final episode is released I lose all my hype.
It’s soon? D:
Why do all the games come out at once?
I have Zelda in Feb & Final Fantasy in Mar
There isnt enough hours in the day or money in my bank!!!
For me there’s Grim Fandango next week as well! D:
At least that’s cheap. I’m going $200 for FF & who knows for Zeldy
Monsty Hunty!
Ewwww
Just throw a blanket over your head and start crying for the full experience.
Don’t forget to get a recording of David Cage yelling “emotions”
Question for anybody that knows…
Do you have to use a wiimote for Donkey Kong Country Returns on the new Wii U port, or can you use like the Wii U pro controller or gamepad or something?
And if you do have to use the wiimote, do you have to have the stupid sensor bar plugged in?
I speak with little authority on the matter but iirc the gamepad controls only simulate a classic controller? DKCR only played with the wii remote or nunchuk combo, requiring you to shake the remote to roll and stuff. Nunchuk >>>>> sideways remote. But yeah, no sensor bar required, there’s no pointer controls going on. Though the gamepad does have an inbuilt sensor bar, so you can always use that too (though not sure if it’s always active or only at certain times).
Thanks, I’ll see if I can find a wiimote! 😛 I think my Zelda one is hidden away in a box somewhere.
So I don’t appear to have a Wiimote on me, which is kind of annoying. Will have to get my brother to hunt round for it at home.
Considering I have 3 I thought 1 might make its way with me 😛
You’ll have to shake to rroll which broke the game for me.
Was so much more playable on 3DS.
I asked that question at the empty void of the official Nintendo AU account, and someone else responded to confirm that it’s a straight port, waggle and all. Not optional waggle 🙁
@jackunit13 @highperformance
Thanks again for the raid help and apologies for my ill temperament at towards the end there! At least we got the time-travelling prick.
Too easy friend, the time of night was getting to us all! We’ll do Crota soon too if you guys are up for another game?
Would love to take a crack at Crota, I think it’s a bit more straightforward so hopefully less prone to frustration/glitching. Maybe we can organise something tonight/tomorrow since it’s a long weekend.
No probs. Congrats to you for getting it done! I could be down for Atheon if the time is right.
Well, I got a $30 Nintendo eshop card today, so I can get Super Mario Galaxy 2 and the Metroid Trilogy for $13.
Hop onto the eshop, input credit, aaaand it’s $26. I missed the sale by 2 days. I was busy and I missed it. Aaaargh!
I’m going to go cry in a corner now.
Of course, now the question is whether I get DK Country Returns or get a $15 card for SMG2. But if I get Metroid and DKCR, then I can’t get SMG2…decisions are so hard.
TAY, Donkey Kong Country Returns for $13 or spending money again and getting Super Mario Galaxy 2 for $26?
EDIT: Never had a Wii, so I missed all of these and that meansI haven’t played the first galaxy either.
Trade it all in and buy a real console.
#lol
The Wii U is a real console!
Right guys? Guys?
Wait, I didn’t realise Metroid Trilogy was out already. I thought it was the last one being released.
EDIT: Ohhh, I get ya, SMG 2 is $26 now. I personally would say each of those games is worth playing.
Thanks. I’ll probably do some research and then choose one.
It wouldn’t be as annoying if Nintendo wasn’t so stingy with their discounts. If I knew they were going to discount them at the end of the year I would only get Metroid Prime Trilogy when it’s out, but now I have to think.
Anyway, thanks for the answer.
SMG2 is amazing! I’d consider it an absolute MUST HAVE if you enjoy 3D platformers and even at $26, it’s definitely worth buying!
Metroid Trilogy for $13 would be amazing value too.
DKCR is fun but waggle is poo :(. I’m a bit biased though since I’ve spent more time playing SMG/Metroid but I’d rate SMG the best out of the three with Metroid in second. Did you ever play DKCRTF?
Pfffft MPT over SMG 😛
I’ve never finished them 😀
I’ve finished the first and third (100%!) ones, but MP2 is the hardest game I’ve ever played and I’ve never been able to finish it 🙁 I found my disc copy of MPT whilst searching for a wiimote. Maybe I’ll try again when I get one of my wiimotes down 😛
Metroid Prime 2 was supposedly easier in the trilogy versions than the gamecube versions
I only got a Wii U halfway through last year, so I haven’t had lots of time to get stuff. At the moment I have Mk8, Smash Bros, Mario 3D World, Nintendoland, and Skylanders Swap Force (which was included and I haven’t played it yet).
So I haven’t played any of Tropical Freeze. I played a little of the SNES game, but haven’t played much of that either (only a level or two).
I was always going to buy the Metroid Prime Trilogy, but then a friend told me I had to get SMG2. He even offered to lend me SMG1 because I’m the kind of person who likes playing through numbered versions, even though it doesn’t matter with SMG.
At the moment I’m torn between getting DKCR for $13, or just letting that slide. I’m going to do a bit more thinking about this though, because both of them have high review scores.
Do you have a 3DS? I hear that version is better to play because no Wiimote shakey stuff (and extra levels I think?) but I doubt it’ll go as low as $13 any time soon.
Yeah, but you can’t even find the game new anywhere :/
See my response below (waiting for SMG2, since it won’t go in in price). That’ll give me enough to play for a while.
I’m pretty sure I saw mention of it fairly recently as going cheap… somewhere or other. Might’ve been an import place like ozgameshop or zavvi or something though I guess.
I thought SMG2 was “meh”. Although to be fair I played it after beating SMG1 and it (SMG2) is exactly the same thing except they added Yoshi so now everything is different. If you haven’t played Super Mario Galaxy then get it.
I think a break between the two really helps. I played them whenever they launched and it felt the same, but better!
@jajabinks2 maybe it’s worth playing SMG (the original now) and just buying SMG2 later, there could be another sale down the line? 😀
I knew I should have borrowed SMG from my friend :/
I think I’ll get DKCR and Metroid, and wait for SMG2. That’ll give me time to play 1, and it’s not like SMG2 is going to go up in price.
Yo, @greenius, drawing tomorrow?
(and anyone else who’s interested, I guess)
@greenius?
…@gre-
…@greenius?
AHHHH HE’S BEHIND ME!!! :O :O :O
I get so bored sometimes :3
SHH I WAS GAMBLING
Yeah, I might be keen! Monday maybeeee
Zzzzz
I climbed another peak yesterday.
I saw a tiger snake. More to the point, I nearly trod on a tiger snake.
I sang falsetto for easily a minute or longer.
I am dead tired. We’re cleaning out the house and have filled a 4 tonne skip bin. To the brim. And there’s more to put in it.
So you know what would be nice and calming?
Ironman X-Com. OH yeah. Totally nice and calming.
Stupid Stan.
Wait, Metroid Prime 2 was really hard?
I flogged it in a week!
Nah, you’re just terrible at it.
The Gamecube version was, but they made it easier in the Wii version.
I wouldn’t touch the Wii version, hat motion controls.
but the motion controls are supposed to be really good!
Did it have motion controls? Or just pointer controls?
Pointer controls are rad. Except for when you’re forced to use the sideways remote, and flip it around for pointers. That is stupid. Although nowhere near as stupid as Monster Hunter’s insistence in making you use the pointer for things in conjunction with the classic controller. Stupid Capcom.
Maybe to those who enjoy them? Outside of stuff like Mario Party, I can’t stand them. Find them tiring & imprecise. Just give me a controller.
I didn’t finish Prime 3 and I was so excited when I first saw it in action 🙁
Wii didn’t gel with me at all.
Ohhhhh, I got stuck on the GameCube one about halfway through.
SMT collection grows!
Atlus should do me a solid, quit this region locking bullshit & do more local releases!
14k blocks, man 🙁
For IV?
Worth 100x that!
Best 3DS game!
ARGH! Stupid PS4 downloading system. Was hoping to get into some Resident Evil tonight. *shakes fist*
EDIT: All they need to do is make an obvious note saying something along the lines of “This game hasn’t been full downloaded yet”.
Sigh… waiting for Wolfenstein: The New Order to finish downloading…
16GB to go… 🙁
Blergh!
My local cinema has a Pixar Movie Marathon that I want to go to, but it starts at the same time as my uni! :O
I can… Have it… All…
*dies*
Get used to it. I missed Interstellar completely because I was always busy whenever there was a session. And I had 3 weewks Xmas holidays!
Huh, didn’t realise I was allied with the federation. Just got the final (?) naval progression rank, so now I’ve hit Post Commander. Maybe it’s time to move to Empire space and start getting buddy-buddy with them.
Imperial Clipper FTW!
also by joining the Empire you get to say catchy catch-phrases such as:
“FOR THE EMPEROR!”
and
“The Emperor is not a forgiving as i am!”
Haven’t had many chances to see how my Sidey fares against a Clipper. Got one last night though. They’re a tough bastard of a ship 😛 Should’ve been targeting his drives though, he managed to get away before I could take him out.
@liondrive http://imgur.com/gallery/A98bJ this was you wasn’t it? :p
That looks sooooooooo gooooooood!!!
*drools*
Fahrenheit HD
You mean Celsius, right?
😛
Pipe down, you. 😛
Next week is HD Remake Week it seems.
Yeah, it’s crazy and then you have a Life is Strange thrown in for good measure.
Welcome back, games!
Ooo I wanted to try that out a while ago. Should be good!
Pretty cheap too!
I guess hoping for a bundle may have been a little on the optimistic side 😛
Yeah! Haha! We got a little carried away there, but at the very least they’re thinking about making their games available again so we might get re-releases of them all eventually. 🙂
Shame though, I got myself hyped for a HD bundle, hahaha! XD
I’ll still pick up Fahrenheit (and keep fingers crossed for a bundle :P).
Decided to watch 28 Days Later last night hadn’t seen that movie in a looooooong time I think 04 was the last time I saw it. The Blu-Ray version is such awful quality :/
It’s like they didn’t even remaster the DVD version for blu-ray and just stuck it on there in 1080P and thought that was good enough. Hopefully 28 Weeks Later hasn’t suffered the same demise.
Woop! I did a @mrtaco and had a go at pre-ordering the Spesh Ed of MM at JB in-store. It seems to have worked? 😀
Now I gotta cancel my random pre-order at EB. I knew MH was one of the niche games in the past, so I figured I’d pre-order that and MM just in case they sell out or something (unlikely but BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY!).
The guy who served me was pretty shit though :P. I’m pretty sure he was new but duuuuude, knowledge is power! “What console would you like those pre-orders on?” MATE, USRS? Then he gave me a false sense of hope when he was like “oh it looks like there’s some sort of special edition of Majora’s Mask available” before realising it was sold out 😛
The name of the guy who served me? BENJAMIN.
BENS OF THE WORLD CONSPIRING AGAINST ME.
*shakes fist*
Ugh, Bens.
They’re the worst.
Hooray! Spending money!
YAY! \o/
Wait, nooooo /o\
You cancelled your Monter Hunter 3DSXL? THAT’S IT! YOU’RE OUT OF THE CLUB!
When did I say that? 😛
MH N3DSXL is still pre-ordered. I just pre-ordered MH4U and MM3D (the games) at EB the other day so I’ll need to cancel the MM standard ed pre-order if I end up actually getting the spesh from JB.
I thought you meant 3DSXL. Do we even get a good special edition of MM?
Nope! But I want it.
http://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/stg.ign.com/2014/11/specedmajora-720×405.jpg
Initially when it was announced I was like yeah… okay I guess I might buy it. So I waited for it to be listed on EB’s website (indicating availability) but apparently it was never listed online and they took pre-orders for it in-store and it sold out pretty quickly (@jimu :P).
Would’ve been all over Skull Kid edition though!
That’s … really terrible. No statue for EU/AU. =(
TIN!
(statue would have been nice)
Anyone watching UFC Fight Night from Sweden?
I watched the first fight, my girlfriend turned it off after that one 🙁
I guess the next game I’ll finish will be inFamous: Second Son, then I can start the Last Light DLC 😀
I’m making good progress on games this year!
I don’t think I’ve finished one yet.
I’ve finished:
– The Walking Dead Season 01 (does that count as 5 games, or 1?)
– Tomb Raider, and
– Wolfenstein
For me?
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
The Swapper
Next week with Grim and Fahrenheit and Life is Strange will explode this list. 😀
Oh yeah, I still gotta get around to the Swapper too 😀
I guess I’ll get Grim next week also 😛
Still (tryin’) to hold off on Life is Strange though.
I also played Monument Valley + DLC on iPhone, but not sure that counts.
Game is a game, so I say it counts!
That game looks sooo pretty!
I don’t like mobile gaming, but sooo pretty! 😀
Oh, I was meaning to ask (but didn’t want to embarrass you or anything) if you’re feeling better today (in regards to last night’s tweet)?
Yeah, was just in a bad spot last night.
Ah, good to hear you’re feeling better today 🙂
I’ve played one game this year and it wasn’t even one I started or finished this year 😐
GTA V, right?
I still haven’t played that at all :3
I’ve kind of lost interest in GTA these days.
Yep heh. It’s the only GTA i’ve really bothered going and doing all the other activities AFTER finishing the story. I hope they bring out some DLC or expansions like they did for GTA IV.
This is gonna sound obvious but it’s probably the best GTA game Rockstar has done. Second to that would be Vice City, from the music to the throw backs to Miami Vice, Scarface in the story line along with many other classic 80’s things.
Only downside is the radio stations are TOO diverse with too little content. I would’ve liked to have seen maybe 25% less stations with more content. Even the talk back isn’t as good as it once was, then again it’s a lot better than GTA IV’s minus Just or Unjust that was just brilliant. Would’ve loved to have seen a San Andreas version of that!
Apart from a couple of games of Geometry Wars I haven’t touched a game this year… Considering I said I wanted to try and get sorta back into gaming I’m not doing a very good job 😛
I just finished Halo 3 so I guess that’s kinda my first game of this year? (unless you count Episodes 3-5 of The Wolf Among Us, but episodic games are hard to count :P)
I could’ve finished Captain Toad and Sunset Overdrive but I haven’t been in a gaming mood lately. I’m supposed to be finishing Ace Attorney 5 too but none of them are getting any love.
Grim hype!
Psyched for your birthday tomorrow?
Eh! 😛
I want to see what this card says though…
I’ve finished
Last of Us
Diablo 3
The Swapper
Infamous: SS
Infamous First Light
Octodad
Shadow of Mordor is about half done
So far this year finished Danganronpa and just finished Dragon Age Inquisition less than an hour ago. Contemplating what’s next. Leaning toward Mordor since I was close to done in that.
Whew boy, slow day is slow, even for a Sunday!
How are peoples Sundays going?
Any interesting plans on the horizon for anybody?
Tell me stuff! 😀
It’s hot.
I’d say, “YOU’RE HOT”, but I have a feeling that’s what you want me to say, you manipulative man you!
*shakes fist*
I think you think I’m cleverer than I am.
I’m hot…
Ladies….
Gentlemen…
I got up an hour and a half ago 😀 I just had a bowl of Cheerios for breakfast and am about to have a cup of tea 😛
I’ve somehow managed to get another cyst at the top of my eyebrow and it’s giving me a headache so lying in bed is the only comfortable option right now. Seriously I don’t know why I get one like every 4 months or so :S I know how to get rid of them in like 2 days, but it’s an annoying 2 days where I’m stuck inside cos it’s ugly as sin when it pushes down on my eyelid.
So to sum up my Sunday is very average so far 😛 I don’t have anything to watch either 🙁 Been watching The Newsroom this past week and finished it last night
I was shopping for shoes, but the ones I want aren’t in stock 🙁
Someone gave me a birthday card and told me not to open it until then.
So now I’m patiently waiting and I’m curious as to what it says…
Finding a new system to call home is hard. Mainly looking for a highish population high tech system to be either based in or nearby, and they’re pretty thin on the ground. But then to have one that also has other good systems around. My last home was an industrial refinery which had a whole load of stuff available, all the industrial systems around here seem to be industrial extraction. Got some maybes, but still looking around. It’s time-consuming.
Oh and preferably they should have a good and/or funny name. Bang is appealing, but it’s just an agricultural system 😛 Still, might check out what they’ve got…
*backs away slowly*
Cool comedian guy!
Wait that’s not me.
Yeah, he’s funny.
http://i.imgur.com/vt1GyoM.gif
Hey, TAY!
“Framed” is currently free on iOS! You can’t argue with free: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/framed/id886565180?mt=8
Also, from what I played it’s very creative! Really nice game that’s perfect for touch screen.
Thanks Friendo!
@bdkiaf was all “FRAMED LOOKED COOL” at PAX and I was like “OKAY” and then I played it and it was cool.
THE END.
I thought you might be the first to reply 😛 Your bargain sense was tingling!
Well it was something I’ve been interested in but never got around to checking out 😀
Oh man, I’m so excited to cry about only having Android devices.
*goes back to sucking on rocks*
Everone strongly dislikes mobile games, but I think they (rightfully) hate microtransactions.
This kind of game is great for the platform, but there’s so much bad stuff that it’s hard to find the gems, which can (and often are) fantastic.
Anyway, thanks for this. Downloaded.
I bought Saints Row 4 re-elected from the PS store with the 10% discount. I haven’t even got passed the tutorial and I am getting stuttering during cutscenes and the game actually crashed at one point. (Forcing me to start at the beginning of the tutorial). Kinda disappointed at the poor port job …
The whole game is a disappointment compared to how good 3 was..
I’ve heard the opposite. =P
I liked it, but to me it was trying too hard to out do SR3 on all the zaney over the top shit.. And the fact you become way OP by the end of the game made it boring for me 😛
Huh. I got a digital release of it way back when and it was pretty flawless.
Ah wait. That would be on PS3 though. You have PS4 version yes?
Yeah, PS4 version.
@cookingmama I finally got my Fitbit set up, I’m disappointed though it hasn’t picked up any of my workouts from the start of the week when I was smashing it lol.
This is my fitbit profile, feel free to add me: https://www.fitbit.com/user/2C4TXP
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/180151
Anyone want to be my Xiaomi Mi Band buddy? 😛 (I don’t think it has profiles/social stuff like FitBit though)
Get a Fitbit, be one of us!!
When it’s like $50, sure!
Had my eye on the Garmin ones too but… so spensive 🙁
Fitbit flex is under $100 now because the new models are coming out.
I’d love a garmin 620 but I can’t afford the pricetag. Got my fitbit with frequent flyer points.
Yeah, but it’s still at the higher range of the “under $100” and I’m not willing to pay that much for what it does :(.
I think the types of features I’d want is a screen, GPS, heart rate monitor and anything that can still work without a phone. Music/phone controls would be nice too, so a smart watch might be more of what I’m after… but then I just looked up the Garmin 620 and jeez! It pretty much has the features I’m after but dat price O_O
Luckily it looks like wearable tech isn’t going away any time soon and it’s getting cheaper and better 😀
Check out the fitbit charge
They’re like 60 something at Coles…
Will do! Thanks!
I miss the days when there were people on TS who weren’t me.
It’s just so lonely. My voice is hoarse from singing Eric Carmen for the past four days.
God I need a life.
I keep meaning to log in to teamspeak but then I don’t.
Ser Helpulus
I’m all alone.
I keep meaning to log in and I try then the TS server is like “Nah.” then I’m all “okay.jpg”.
Not really sure why I have connection issues to it.
@greenius.
You. Me. Anyone else interested. Drawing. Tomorrow. Grrrr.
Ye boi
It’s good to see you continuing the twitter trend of getting my attention by not mentioning me.
*Openly weeps*
We literally found a lost kitten on the way home.
It was sitting in the middle of the road…
I’m calling it Baymax, cause it’s a hairy baby…kitteh.
Updated with picture:
http://imgur.com/QlbHBDt
Super cute! But literally found it? as opposed to what? figuratively finding it? 😉
Birdman was weird.
So weird! I mean, I love weird but this was weirddddd!
Ha, ha!
Weird.
So good though, right?!
Tell me you liked it! 😀
I almost feel like I’m not sure 😛
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, @greenius!
Thanks Jan Birthday Bud!
Hmm.. I guess my alcohol tolerance ain’t what it used to be damn.. Then again maybe a 1/4 bottle of spirits in 15 minutes isn’t ideal.. Or maybe it is idk…
What are you drinking?
Bourbon here! 😀
I started with Captain Morgan but that depleted fast =( then I moved on to the Jim Beam I had that also depleted fast then I had nothing so I went to sleep lol..
U mixed a eholes bunch I F dyibf! 😀
Everyibidt in thr two oh tei put goir hands in the ayer! 😀
Do yout kniwd what I’m superg bumnedh I never got to olad?
Viva pinsfra.
That gsnff loojdes sick!!!!
Hey, I understand this one!
Yeah, I found it way too complex, and I didn’t understand it, and I wasn’t paying attention during the tutorials so I THREW IT ON THE PILE.
Was a pretty cool guy though, really.
I grabbed the sequel, but it remains on the pile. Got a few of the other post-Nintendo Rare games, but Banjo’s the only one I’ve gone through.
You know what sucks? Getting up at 5:30 to go to work on Australia day… Yeah that bites /o\
Where is everyone?
The kitty is on my lap, repeat, kitty on my lap. He’s sound asleep right now…
:3
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-312/