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*flails arms*
Sif you would.
Ugh. This guy. This guy.
I must be a hot dog
CAUSE I’M THE WURST!!!
Someones A bit KRANSKY
Dont knack it til youve tried it!
Hey everyone. Second bookmark done
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Please give me your opinions as I rely and your advice. Yes, you! At the screen!
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Nice, I really like that!
Did you go with bigger boobs in the end? (Asking the important questions!)
No.
Dammit.
Another awesome bookmark I want.
Why do you have to make awesome stuff I want?
When I print the samples, I can put some aside if you want
Ill take one pwease
Okay, um, I’ll need to figure out costs and stuff. I didn’t expect this response
Now that would be awesome thank you.
I’ll need to know which ones you want, so wait until they’re all finished.
Morning all!
I finished Beyond Two Souls last night. I really enjoyed it!
Currently debating whether or not I want to go back and replay some of the chapters to see different outcomes and collect some of the remaining trophies. Undecided!
I wouldn’t. Own your story, Shane! 😀 Glad you liked it, my friend!
Didn’t really engage the Emotion Engine (TM) in the same way that Heavy Rain did, but it was a good story, and well told. And the acting, facial expressions and animations were unbelievably high quality. More than worth the $12 I paid.
There are no different outcomes.
There are.
The outcomes are all flipping jokes >:/
The ending I picked was one where
everyone survived (only I didn’t get the Save Everyone trophy because I stupidly made Aiden put Norah out of her misery) and Jodie went to live with her once-homeless friends, and realised that the kid was one day going to have to save the world.That is the best of the lot of them. Let me know if you want me to tell you the others. I won’t even mock them. Much.Nah. Thanks, though. There’s always a chance I’ll go back and play them all.
Let me know if you do, so we can discuss them!
BUT I do need to say; HOLY HELL DOES THIS GIRL GET WANGED IN THE HEAD AND CRY A LOT. Those aren’t even spoilers. Just two things that happen CONSTANTLY.
and you’re forced to have a boyfriend. Even if you keep rejecting him. The only way to finally get away from him is to kill yourself (that’s not a joke, that’s an ending you can choose)@janexo is that what you mean when you say she gets ‘wanged’ in the head? That she can’t stop having boyfriends? 😛
If you look at the ending credits you’ll see outcomes different from what you got. If you choose the sacrifice ending, the person is still located at the ending scene.
THANK YOU. Holy shit. My whole problem with those endings is like, “And then I chose to date…. THIS GUY! ” and if you choose to be alone, she just effing cries the whole time, like, “Boo hoo, I’m so alone without a man.” UGHHHHHH.Someone actually re-wrote the script to remove all the plot holes and gave it to David Cage, who admitted that it was terrible (he says this about all his games).
It’s so bad that the game had to create an anti-ghost belt. Because they couldn’t figure out how to move the characters through an area they would die immediately in.
Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA_VUoePgrc&list=PL57hJfweW_2ulXc25A-LxxHXMPqLOwrsf
Mate.
Bloodborne in, what? Two weeks?
Far out, gent.
Far. Out.
NINE DAYS.
Holy mackerel.
I need to get that so Mum can watch me play it. She loved Heavy rain
Same, my wife actually enjoyed watching me play Heavy Rain, which strangely enough I never finished for whatever reason, sold it a while ago, I’ll have to grab it again one day.
It’s the only time Mum has asked me to play a game so she could find out what was happening next.
Say what you will about Quantic Dream, but goddamn do they know how to tell a compelling story.
I honestly don’t understand QD hate. Near as I can tell, they’re some of the best storytellers in gaming, and their games are stunning and extremely well-produced.
Is David Cage a massive dick or something, or does he Peter-Molyneaux-overpromise?
Neither. People like to snub QD games because they don’t think they’re “game”-y enough. They also like to laugh at David Cage because he is extremely earnest.
UGH. People. I should have known. >:(
It was much easier being a QD fan back in the Fahrenheit days when no one knew who they were. And it was OK for things to not be ‘perfect’.
David Cage is like a Peter Molyneux that doesn’t lie.
Although…weren’t you on the hate QD bandwagon a while ago? Or was that just to mess with @dc? 😛
I seem to recall you being very scathing about the “plot hole” in Heavy Rain.
Although I don’t remember what I said, I hope I wasn’t scathing. It was a disappointment given the quality of the rest of the game, but the story overall was so well told and engaged the Emotion Engine on so many occasions that I hope I landed on the side of forgiveness/fanness. If I didn’t, I guess I’m a hypocrite. Or a people (ugh).
But I’ve never been a QD hater. I loved what I played of Fahrenheit way back in the day, and enjoyed Heavy Rain greatly, despite the issues those games had.
Edit: and I have been known to mess with @dc in the past. It may have been that.
@shane Ugh, I hope you’re not a people! People suck!
Heavy Rain I enjoyed a lot, except for, well, certain parts (ie, his fricking wife at the start – nag at me for putting out dishes too hard, will you!). Not sure if you ever saw the Taxidermist DLC, but holy hell that was actually terrifying. Like, that felt like survival horror.
I used up about 3 years of QD spectator credit when I platinumed Heavy Rain… I think it’s just about been long enough now that I won’t be risking any major trauma if I fire up Beyond: Two Souls.
Also for some reason the compression of time in some scenes really bothered me.
“You’re TERRIBLE at looking after our son!”
“Well excuse me if it took me half a fucking hour to figure out how to operate a microwave, and I can only perceive one out of every fifteen minutes!!”
But other than that, it was amazing. And I did not know there was DLC. Er… thank… you? I may regret this.
Yeah, the story was really interesting. And yeah, the DLC! Oh man. It’s not long, but it’s good. Kinda like proof of concept in a way, just showing what else they’re capable of.
There was supposed to be a whole season of episodic DLC content but sales of the game/The Taxidermist were underwhelming and Sony pulled the plug. Shame. I really liked it.
Yeah, they were all set to concentrate on the Move stuff instead; what a dang waste.
DOOOO EEEET!!!
I did and I enjoyed it enough. If you aren’t fussed about the platinum then there are a few bits that are a bit tedious (like replaying the desert chapter) that I’d avoid.
Ugh, goddamn, I had to play that three times as it was.
First time, I tried to heal Paul from a distance, concluded that I couldn’t do it, and accidentally progressed the story before I got to him. Second time, I did it right, but accidentally selected the wrong option in the replay chapter bit and the save game wasn’t overwritten. Third time, I saved Paul and saved the game, too.Oh man, that must have been painful. It was OK playing it once, but once you know what is going to happen story-wise, it just becomes so painfully drawn out.
Once I realised that once the talking starts, Jodie can pick default options if left to herself, it wasn’t so bad. It still took 45 minutes to beat the chapter at max speed, but I was really only on call for about half that time. 😛
Blaghs came over on the weekend and we played some board games.
Kolejka is a pretty cool guy. It lets you mispronounce words in Polish and stand in line. Would recommend.
SO @DC guess what? I watched Jane Ng’s art production video for Firewatch, and ooh what’s this I notice – ‘Press triangle to keep whiskey.’
TRIANGLE.
TRIANGLE!
Oooh, me likey.
HEY JANE! You’re still terrifying! That is all!
TRIANGLE, DC. TRI.ANG.LE.
Also, mrow.
Wait, what’s terrifying about her? I didn’t get a good look at the meet. (Spelled properly because the other way would definitely be misconstrued.)
You’re terrifying too.
This leads me to believe that you’re terrified of pretty people. @janexo and @transientmind are both extremely pretty….
Ohhhh YOU. *blushy blush blushing*
You’re terrifying as well, Strangey!
A pattern emerges.
You know exactly what to say. 😀
Feeling a bit sensitive about the word are we. ooooohhhhhh what have you got to hide
Well, it USED to be meat stuck between my teeth, but I’ve got that problem licked now. More on this in a separate post!
MORE POP ROCKS CAME OUT OF MY NOSE AT THIS.
I am disturbed and intrigued by your hobby of expelling foods through your nose. Is it something to do with a different kind of nutrient absorption, or is it more of a ballistics challenge? Going for distance, skill shots and whatnot?
I think it’s that I tend to clamp my hand over my mouth when I’m laughing, and as such, any items in my mouth only have one way out when the giggles start to come.
Once, when I was 10, I got a jellybean stuck up my nose at a sleepover and I panicked like crazy, but then I sneeze and it shot across the room and landed in the host’s bed. No one saw, and I never said anything.
Now I’m doing it, at the mental image of 10yr old Jane haunted by guilt over the nose-bean in the bed.
Mmhmm. I even tried to get her to swap, but she thought I just wanted to sleep in her bed instead of in a sleeping bag.
And I never saw her again after primary school, either. She could be dead. Now I’ll never have closure.
Obviously it was a jellybean-related death. You will take this responsibility to the grave.
In funnier facts, my high school bully totally died. I found out last year. She’s dead. And I was like, “Oh… well, good. Bitch.”
@jimu
Freedom Wars is pretty great. It’s pretty much a modified Monster Hunter game, if you’re looking for an estimation of what’s in store. But if you’re familiar with God Eater on PSP, it has more in common with that, I’d say. It’s pretty cheap, and definitely worth the entry fee – but depends if ‘hunting’ games are your thing.
@jimu apparently didsn’t like God Eater 🙁
I’d probably give Freedom Wars a miss then.
Eh, I do like GEB, just started playing
@negativezero
I don’t like Monster Hunter
Could have sworn you were saying on Twitter that you weren’t enjoying God Eater…
Bad tweet?
I think I was saying I was having fun but the chracters hadn’t grabbed me. Was more interested in the concept.
I think, I was asking if it delves deeper into how the monsters came to be etc.
I’m enjoying the Toukiden demo.
Which is better, Toukiden or Freedom Wars?
& I think I just don’t like the feeling & aesthetic of MH.
These post apocalyptic anime games I do.
Don’t get Toukiden. The expanded re-release, Toukiden Kiwami, is out on the 27th (PAL) or 31st (US).
Yeah, I saw, gonna check the expanded demo.
I’m unsure how to customise bullets in GEB
Morning all. What did you get up to? A mate came around on Saturday and we spent it playing Nidhogg, Mario Kart 8 and Nuclear Throne. Nuclear Throne co-op is absolutely crazy. So much on screen and just 320×240 to play it all in. We died a lot, but had heaps of fun!
Hola mi amigos. How were your weekends? Mine was good, didn’t do as much gaming as planned, but it was relaxing.
Also, how did I not know about this.
Thank you @freezespreston for tweeting it, otherwise I wouldn’t have known about it.
They’re the best thing on Youtube. Do yourself a favour and dig through their pat videos. I especially like their Call Me Maybe and Juat Dance covers.
The Blank Space one was really good, too. The singer owned the role completely. It was an actual performance rather than just a recital like you normally get.
In the post two thouuuusand! In the post two THOUSANDDDDDD.
This is my 2000th post! I wanted to make it in TAY, rather than on some dumb article where I add a hearty and pointed ‘lol’ at something.
lol
I had to go and check just in case this was your 2000th comment.
Looks like it was closer to 12000.
Only the finest content for post #12,441.
Dayyyuuummm I thought we were neck and neck in posts. Gotta lift dat quota!!
I think the slow period here helped me kill it ;D
(Highperformance. MARCH 11, 2015 6:58 PM)
I had a feeling writing this would come back to haunt me.
lol
Do you even post, bro?
Oh, more important: yesterday, my eldest kid came eighth in a Mario Kart race! I think I was more excited than she was. \o/
Good work little Shane.
Had a pretty amazing weekend which, for me at least, started on Friday. I went out to lunch with my parents and uncle and got given two movie tickets as a birthday present.
Saturday (my actual birthday), my landlady gave me a $30 Village Cinemas gift card, then I walked into town for my weigh in. My last weigh in 2 weeks ago, I’d put on 2 kilos, but I’d lost it again. Then I went down to Hobart with a mate to watch Australia play Scotland. The match was disappointing for two reasons: Scotland’s batting and the rain, although that didn’t prevent Australia getting the win they needed.
Yesterday, I had church, which I always enjoy because I get to talk to a lot of my friends. After church, my mate John and I went to Hog’s Breath Cafe and I had Steak and Calamari. Not cheap, but pretty damn good. I also watched A Million Ways to die in the West and Anchorman 2.
I want more weekends like this please.
Upvote for A Million Ways To Die In The West and Anchorman 2.
Best Anchorman 2 scene.
DID YOU GET CURLY FRIES?
How could I not? Curly fries are awesome.
Atta boy 😀
Agreed. We went to Adelaide a year or two ago, and one day we went to Glenelg, awesome I thought, I know there’s a Hog’s Breath here, so we’ll go there for lunch. It came to lunch time and my son was all like “I want McDonalds”, I said “Buddy, there’s a McDonalds where we live, we can have that anytime we want, let’s just have a look at the menu out the front”. So we went there and looked at the menu and said to my son “Hey, they’ve got Hamburgers, and look they’ve got curly fries”, to which he promptly replied ” No, I don’t want Curly Fries, I want straight chips”. So guess where we went.
Not gonna let him get his own way next time, haven’t been to Hog’s Breath in sooooo long.
My son loves Hog’s Breath. Not the food, though (everything on the kids’ menu is godawful), just the place. I reckon he’d even quite happily just sit there while I ate something and he had nothing.
I think you should test that hypothesis.
No offense, but your son is an idiot.
The only time I’ve been to Hogs Breath they were out of curly fries 🙁
WORST NIGHTMARE
I got a giant bag of waffle fries from Costco yesterday and deep fried some to go with dinner. They’re even better than curly fries!
I don’t even know what those are. A thing I hear about on American TV.
A Million Ways would have been a fantastic 90 minute movie but instead it chose to be 2.5 hours and ruin any pacing and made all the jokes outlive their welcome.
I kept thinking yesterday was Saturday, so my alarm going off this morning was a huge surprise.
I’ve actually started setting a ‘bedtime’ alarm for myself, now. It doesn’t kick in on Friday or Saturday nights, but it does on Monday nights.
Still a very unpleasant surprise, but one that sets expectations for the rest of the week. 😛
I should probably do this to stop the oh-god-I-thought-I-was-feeling-tired-it’s-2am weekends…
Exactly my reasoning. I have a nasty habit of binge-gaming on Friday night because it’s not a school night and everyone’s up and being talkative and exciting (peer pressure!) and then I fuck up my sleep schedule for the rest of the day and the day after.
Yeah, my sleep schedule is completely fucked due to my circadian rhythm naturally being slightly out (left to my own devices and if I’m properly rested I don’t feel sleepy until 1am) and the fact my place is really quiet and there’s no one around means I can easily get lost in a game and find it’s way too late. Even during the week, I’ll often not get to bed until after 12 because I just lose track of time and then I’m often up early and get progressively more tired then sleep in way too late on the weekend and it becomes self-perpetuating.
Guys. GUYS.
Go and grab Plug N Play off Steam. It’s $3 and takes about 10 minutes to play through but it’s going to be one of the games that sticks in my head for the longest that I’ve played for a while.
And yes, this is Freeze recommending an art experience.
Someone check to make sure hell is still okay and the pigs are firmly grounded.
No can do, when the pigs start flying Admiral Porky has declared that the end of days for humans and I for one welcome our delicious when cooked overlords
BLOOOOOOOODBOOORRRRRNE
9 days to go.
NINE. DAYS.
Here are some #PS4Share images from the game: http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/03/15/ps4-exclusive-bloodbornes-screenshots-show-crazy-new-weapons-classy-armor-and-beautiful-graphics/
NG+ is going to be a huge challenge. The developers are having trouble beating it. http://www.gamespot.com/articles/bloodborne-new-game-plus-mode-proving-too-difficul/1100-6425894/
Going to the launch event next week \o/
Do you know what’s going to be happening at the event?
Also, #JEALOUS
I don’t. I get to go courtesy of @alexpants winning a pass from that competition.
So keen. So very, very keen.
I have to wait three weeks 🙁
But you’ll be in Bloodborne Central (Japan) when the game is released. There could be all sorts of awesome shenanigans to get involved with. \o/
Except for playing the game. Man. So hype, I need to have a word with my EB peeps and see if they’ll hold a copy for me for a few weeks.
…I may possibly be overestimating the public hype and sales frenzy around what is in all probability a kind of niche title.
I’m seeing a hell of a lot of advertising for it. Not just on the internet (which is probably targeted towards me because I google Bloodborne at least three times a week), but also in store at EB and etc.
Edit: my point was I suppose that even though it won’t sell like CoD, it’ll almost certainly do pretty well for itself. I think it’ll probably be straddling the line between niche and mainstream.
I have never followed any of these links but I appreciate the chugging of the hype train.
Paid off my CE and the PS4 is ready to go.
Hopefully with a decent connection this time around the multi may be less laggy.
Have you seen any news about server related things – will we be stuck on EU servers like Dark Souls? (Dark Souls was Bamco both times around but I thought the Sony published Demon’s Souls got a better local treatment when it eventually arrived)
No word yet, but I recommend you follow this discussion. Some folks are trying to contact FROM about it right now. http://www.reddit.com/r/bloodborne/comments/2ym293/will_the_servers_be_up_on_the_25th_or_delayed/
I did one tweet at Sony/PlayStation AU and got deafening silence in return.
The countdown timer on my PS4 is such a tease. Perfect release timing to ruin my university assessments…
Alice’s potty training is almost complete. She’s going to the door to be let out to pee and not automatically going to the laundry anymore.
Of course, she managed to pee inside twice while Blaghs was here on the weekend and again this morning when I fell asleep on the couch.
Most importantly, my finely honed mopping skills are starting to go to waste \o/
Time to start spilling drinks!
She was just trying to impress Blaghs.
Or copying him :p
im not sure how to feel about CSI: Cyber
I asked this on Twitter last night, and I didn’t get a reply. Focus or Chappie?
chappie
I would probably watch Focus, but given the choice Chappie would win hands down every time, super keen to see it, slightly bummed that we may not even get it here.
I’m leaning towards Focus, as I think it finishes on Wednesday, although I could see both. I’m just trying to decide what I watch today.
Oh! Chappie is silly, but fun. Good animatronics/CGI, Hugh Jackman lunacy mullet. Focus looks too obvious and no chemistry between Big Willy Style and girl who is best friends with someone I used to work with.
*these opinions are not my own, but that of an Internet reviewer I half-listened to*
From what I’ve heard, Focus is a really good movie in the first half, but runs out of steam too quickly. Chappie is apparently a movie of frustratingly squandered potential, but I guess some people will like the choices the director made. Plus, it looks pwetty.
Hola Tay
Busy weekend. Went to a housewarming Friday, which turned into a Big Night, drank a lot and then went to Cafe de Vilis at 2:30. Saturday was a little rough, but retrieved my car then had coffee with the ‘rents and my brother.
Yesterday, I went with my Grandpa to sort him out with a new phone- he has finally entered the world of smartphones. Had one tech support call already (Plan is he gets this phone then uses the wifi hotspot instead of his internet dongle) but it’s not too bad- given how he uses his computer, I figure he’ll play with it and work it out and I’ll take any more calls he needs to sort it out.
Last night went to a Nepalese restaurant with people. I’m pretty sure I’m still full.
In and around all this, I played a bunch of Cities: Skylines. Really cool game, I’m working on a map based on Adelaide, but I’ve had some issues with groundwater- one misplaced water tower near an incinerator killed off about half of my population, and my people were getting sick until I realised that the model of the Torrens river they used was running the wrong direction
A Monday Morning Question: Grandparents and technology! If you could introduce one game to your grandparents to say “this is what gaming is like,” what would you pick? I think my Grandpa would be amused by something like Cities: Skylines, but I’d probably start him with a golf game
JOURNEY
Postal 2.
Did you mean PoRtal 2?
Dark Souls.
Well my grandparents are all dead, so maybe like, The Walking Dead. Holololol.
I’m in the same boat as you, so i’ll go with your answer 😛
People getting sick from the Torrens, sounds like an accurate model of Adelaide to me.
If you’re stupid enough to drink from the Torrens, you deserve to get sick.
Yeah, but there’s getting sick from deliberately drinking from it, then there’s getting sick because it’s not behaving how a river should
My Grandmother was undefeated at Wii Bowling three Christmas’ in a row.
An original GameBoy with Tetris.
No wait. Gramps wouldn’t see the screen even with glasses on.
Daytona USA arcade version.
Grand Theft Auto V
So this is your granny?
Hmmmmm maybe one of the flight sims. WW2 based with accurate aircraft design.
Otherwise maybe on of the sim games, he would probably be all over something like aviation mechanic simulator
I just accidentally said that Captain James Kirk was born in Ohio instead of Iowa; and the fact that I was embarrassed I got it wrong is more nerdy than the fact that I care about it.
Hey guys and gals. So this weekend I went to the fringe festival and saw a show by a feminist ex stripper (Her words not mine).
http://www.adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/adrienne-truscotts-a-one-trick-pony/d3d95459-caa0-4ac3-9d01-ec69757b14d9
I got pulled up on stage to look awkward as the mighty mouse theme ( dressed up like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiu1wfHSU1w) , sing along to Ironic by Alanis Morissette, do the splits with a pancake in my mouth, throw pancakes at the crowd and then wrestle ironically with her on stage for the WWE heavyweight championship.
10/10 Fringe experience would Fringe again. Do recommend.
Now all I have to do is watch out for Brock Lesnar and John Cena trying to reclaim the title.
Hey, another SATAYer!
mmmmmm peanuts…
Cena is chasing the US Championship. Lesnar is a bit more of a problem and there’s always the chance Rollins will cash in his Money in the Bank on you.
I mean I was really the wild card to win. Lets be honest. Circumstance was everything.
Cant count Reigns out with that superman punch, lets not forget there is talks that Rollins MITB could be put on the line against orten at WM
What are your thoughts on the Jeremy Clarkson debacle? I’m not 100% sure what happened, but I think he allegedly went on a drunken rant at his producer about there not being a hot meal available in the hotel he was staying and then punched him in the face.
If it is true he needs to be punished, but at the same time no-one (myself included) would watch Top Gear without him, I don’t mind captain slow (James May), but Clarkson really makes the show.
They either need to make him issue a public apology and dock his pay, or just cancel the show completely.
Also, what’s gonna happen to the Top Gear Festival in Sydney next month? Are they still gonna show up, or will they cancel it?
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/03/bbc-probably-wont-air-the-last-few-episodes-of-top-gear-season-22/
He’s had his chances. If he did punch a producer, they should axe him.
I agree with you… but sadly, it’s more likely that the producer will be fired, and life will go on as it did for everyone else.
If the producer gets fired, he can probably sue the shit out of the beeb.
Oh, I’m sure it would be a generous redeployment rather than an out-and-out sacking.
Like I said, he needs to be taught a lesson, but if they fire him, they might as well cancel the whole show.
Eh, I said this to @virus__, but no man is bigger than the BBC. Clarkson has been warned and warned and warned, yet continues to be a cock then claim he’s being censured. He’s a bully.
I mentioned this in a reply to Tranisent yesterday, why has the BBC, along with Top Gears Producers, Directors, Lawyers etc.. Allowed Clarkson to get away with what he has said & done on the show as well, since that is where 99% of the complaints about him have stemmed from. It’s been things he has said on the show which they let go to air. If it’s so wrong don’t fucking air it, by doing so he gets away with it and it only makes the BBC look weak.
But then again, i’d be certain they do that to keep the idiots who chant for it happy, and their fat Top Gear cash rolling in.
I like Top Gear because it is entertaining and they play around with cars I can only ever dream of driving, and all that fun stuff. I don’t watch it for the racist or bigoted things Jeremy says or does, but apparently too many do if the network keeps letting him be this way.
It’s the international rights, really, that are the most valuable part of the program, but at some point they need to draw a line under it. Especially as a taxpayer funded institution, they really can brook no tolerance for this.
Easily. When you broadcast into 170+ countries every week with 350 million people allegedly tuning in, makes sense.
Sure they do, and everyone who has let Jeremy get away with his behaviour including Jeremy has to answer. It’s not just him who has created this monster, and it would be stupid to just blame him.
I’ve heard so many variations on this story I just don’t care now. I only care that the only motoring show worth watching has been canned for the foreseeable future, and as @transientmind said yesterday we will probably never hear what really went down, only every elses version. Shame.
If the BBC, Clarkson & the producer in question cared for the fans and the future of the show they would sort this out and publicly address it in proper manner. The fact everything we is basically media speculation really says a lot about the professionalism of the BBC.
Also I wonder who own the sole rights to Top Gear, shame it is probably the BBC, would be hilarious if Jeremy, James & Richard did, would mean they could walk from the BBC and take it to someone else.
BBC own the rights.
And “caring for the fans” doesn’t mean giving Clarkson sway over the BBC.
Way to twist my words there, Red. Good work, for once i’m not defending Clarkson and you still spin it that way, what’s the problem?
I’m actually referring to the fact this so called inquiry from the BBC looking into the matter has said nothing on the matter, something which the fans on internet wants to know more about. Staying silent doesn’t look good for them in a lot of peoples eyes.
I’m saying that the BBC need to be a responsible institution and deal with this the way any institution should- as an isolated incident, if someone punches a subordinate they should really be fired on the spot. If they’re going to do it properly, they can’t let fans be a consideration- it’s an internal process, and frankly these things should be investigated and dealt with internally before any communication with the outside world is made. Otherwise you risk the popularity of one man and his program outweigh the proper course of justice and procedure for any workplace issue, which is not OK, especially for a public institution.
and for all we know there could’ve been good reason why he hit him.
Lets just say the producer provoked him and then Jeremy lashed out striking him, so by what you’re saying here Jeremy & only Jeremy should be punished whilst the other party in question gets away with bullying tactics? Sounds like how my first high school dealt with bully’s by reprimanding those who tried to stop it and letting those who initiated it get away scot-free.
I’m not saying that happened, but by your logic here you make it sound like that’s what should happen regardless of what truly happened.
Good reason why he hit him?
Fuck. Off.
It’s a WORKPLACE. It’s not a schoolyard. Unless you’re a boxing coach, there’s absolutely no good reason to hit anyone for any reason. IDGAF how stressed you are, or if it’s been a long day’s filming. Do you really think that’s ever OK?
An investigation needs to determine what happened. If Clarkson punched someone, it needs to be dealt with accordingly, and Clarkson is the one who’s been on warning after warning. Now there may be a mitigating factor here, but I doubt it (though my doubts are no factor in this) and that’s why there needs to be an investigation free of outside influence.
Spot on.
Okay. I’ll fuck off 🙂
One thing that seems to be forgotten in this is how highly sensitive the Beeb has to be at the moment to any sort of covering up of bad behaviour by presenters/staff. There’s a massive ongoing investigation into harrassment/assault/sexual impropriety, and more and more is still coming out about how badly handled things have been right back to the 1970s. Simply sweeping any altercation under the carpet can’t happen any more.
So at the very best interpretation, Clarkson’s been warned before, something happened, he’s been suspended. He’ll serve suspension then all will go on as always.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, no-one is bigger than the show. It’s a tired format, and they need to shake it up. This does not mean being ever more outrageous, offensive and inciting. It means bringing in some new presenters for some segments and gradually transitioning/evolving the show to keep with the times.
22 seasons is ridiculously long. Maybe it’s time to call it anyway?
I just really like the show and want it to continue with Jeremy Clarkson at the helm.
As for the rest… *shrugs*
MORE BLOODBORNE
Still nine days. OMGerrrrrrd.
This NEOGAF thread discusses an article on Bloodborne that appeared in EDGE magazine, and has some information about the game based on their experience with it (take it with a grain of salt, though, as there are some disputes in the comments about accuracy.
Playthrough did not involve Chalice Dungeon or multiplayer.• This is not an official review/no score, despite the cover of the game saying “THE VERDICT”
• “Bloodborne is Hidetaka Miyazaki’s brutal riposte to the section of his playerbase that thinks it has seen it all before.”
• Merchant sells a clip-on lantern (hello Demon’s Souls augite).
• “Yharnam spends the game in the grip of a perpetual night…that can only be brought to an end by the player finding and finishing off the source of the scourge of beasts.” (this could be referring short term like…defeat a major boss, get some daytime, or overall, I guess)
• Description on the first shield they found: Shields are nice, but not if they engender passivity.
• Some enemies in the game can use spells
• Confirmed Bloodtinge stat governs bullet damage
• Transforming strikes and their follow-up attacks give you a way of reaching enemies that in other Souls games might be out of reach because they were pushed back by your earlier attacks – they say stamina management is a more diverse process in Bloodborne than in the earlier games
• Clothes found in the world or from a merchant whose catalog expands when you defeat bosses
• Bloodstone shards = titanite, coldblood = portable souls, most common items are blood vials (healing) and quicksilver bullets, but stocks can grow low later in the game
• Surplus items are automatically sent to a storage box, and if you die your items are replenished from the box automatically
• They say your starting stats are dictated by the trick weapon you choose, which runs counter to the origins shown in the character creator…
• Only found 6 or so weapons and 6 or so guns in 40 hours
• Very few chests, almost all have something good inside
• Enemies only drop upgrade mats and items
• Bloodgems are an upgrade item that allows you to change the attributes of a weapon, ex. increasing physical attack power, adding poison damage, or increasing scaling – all the weapons in the game are customizable with bloodgems
• Did not beat the game but they feel like it is less replayable than its predecessors (this does not count the Chalice Dungeon or multiplayer components)
• You can keep up to 5 dungeon configurations in your Chalice Dungeon stock
• Lantern checkpoints are not “overabundant” like the bonfires of Dark Souls II, you open shortcuts rather than getting new bonfires (ala Demon’s Souls), interconnectivity approaches Firelink Shrine type numbers of access and departure points in a few places
• “Discrete areas flow together to create a believable world” – separating the hub from the main gameworld allows the world itself to be more coherent
• They say in Souls you are frequently scared of dying, but in Bloodborne you are also scared of what is coming to kill you – “There is a moment in Dark Souls that we will never forget: down in the Depths, picking up an item from a corpse and a slime dropping onto our head. We spent the rest of the level panning the camera endlessly for unseen threats, no longer scared of dying, but of moving. Imagine a whole game of that.” – For this reason they think taking the replayability factor to CD makes more sense.
• Torch may be very important for newcomers/first playthroughs
• There is a new mechanic they are not allowed to discuss
• “If you thought From Software was going soft, Hidetaka Miyazaki is about to put you brutally back in your place. And if you’ve been watching this generation from the sidelines, unmoved by the remasters and rush jobs while you wait for the first true essential to arrive, now’s the time. As if there was ever any doubt, Miyazaki and his team have done it all over again.”
And another list of stuff that might or might not be part of the game based on early access player experiences:
http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/03/14/bloodborne-screenshots-and-pictures-appear-online-early-players-talk-duration-weapon-variety-and-more/
My FAVOURITE BIT was the bit where
they said there aren’t that many ‘bonfires’ but that progress hinges upon opening shortcuts. Looks like the world design will be tight and multilayered like Dark Souls 1 <3Hey, TAY.
Fell asleep yesterday watching the F1, woke up with 10 laps to go.
A question for everyone…
What’s your favourite local multiplayer game, that is, one that you can have with multiple players on the one system, not LAN or Internet play?
E.G. Castle Crashers, Worms, Civilization, Smash Bros, Mario Kart,
Rayman Origins is great. Portal 2 is great. Diablo is great. Anything Mario is great. Secret of Mana is great.
Couch MP games are the best, and always have been.
Worms is still one of my favourites
Left 4 Dead! Oh boy, so many hours yelling at each other in close proximity playing that.
I remember regularly playing this in a netcafe with an old highschool mate who I bumped into like… ten years later. It was totally our man-date location. The memories are not so much of yelling at each other so much as screaming for help.
(I’d joke that it was me for comedic value, but really, it was mostly him because he insisted on using a hunting rifle as his primary. He did manage an impressive number of kills with it and uh… probably rescued me from smokers more often than I’d care to admit, but it’s just not great for getting yourself out of trouble – ie: panicking and spraying like a madman – like my preferred assault rifle can. Plus, you can headshot with the AR very, very effectively if you exercise a little restraint.)
Nothing like trash talking your mates while Mario Karting, that or Rock Band with a full band is pretty fucking awesome.
It is sad to say I never really got to experience the full Rock Band experience before it died out.
Never fear, it’s coming back again this year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Band_4
Great! Now all I need is some friends!
*looks around the room*
*looks through cupboards.
Hmm, can’t find any. Think I’ll check the pantry.
What about @thecracks and @liondrive? They live in Perth don’t they.
Yeah, but I’m pretty shit at Guitar Hero / Rock Band 😛
Hey, I was shit to start with too, found easy fairly challenging, after about a week I progressed to medium, then a few more weeks later I was pretty comfortable with it and moved to hard, a few months later I could play a fair few songs on expert. Probably pretty rusty now though, but it’s true what they say practice makes perfect.
This was all on guitar, found the drums way more challenging.
Edit: Besides, it’s not how good you are, it’s whether you have fun or not.
The correct answers are Worms, Mario Kart and Mario Party. Other answers may receive partial credit.
I REALLY haven’t had much cause – or opportunity – for local couch co-op. LAN at best, mostly online with headset mic.
As someone who doesn’t own a Nintendo, that automatically eliminates all of what other people would probably consider the ‘greats’.
Of the couch co-op I have played recently though… it was actually all pretty good. Child of Light was a bit of a surprise. The PS3 launch title, Dead Nation is also pretty excellent. The Halo games are great local co-op (shame about squished screen, but it’s funny how quickly you adjust), and the Marvel Ultimate Alliance games seem obvious winners.
Of course with the advent of PC controllers and Steam Big Picture, I should really look into the catalogue there.
Yes, yes you should. I have awesome times when my mates are free since I have a great Big Picture setup (XBOX controllers, and a nice long HDMI cable from the TV to the computer in the other room) – current party favourites:
BlazeRush
BroForce
Mount Your Friends
Spelunky
and sometimes a bit of Toybox Turbos or Sonic Racing Transformed
of course we still need to get a hold of things like Gang Beasts
Nidhogg is hilarious fun
I was going to say Crash Team Racing, but them I realised that no matter what, nothing can trump Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 on the map Rust for whatever reason. It’s kind of a romantic notion to say a classic couch co-op game, but I have to say I have more fun with the maligned, tired 360-noscope game in Call of Duty.
I feel ashamed.
Magicka, Liero, Mario Kart, Halo, Diablo 3 (console version), Super Motherload, Helldivers, NintendoLand, Mario Party, New Super Mario Bros Wii, Portal 2, Left 4 Dead (1&2), Scott Pilgrim, Mercenary Kings, Smash Bros. & many more.
So I recently got a new shirt (from a kickstarter) and was wearing it for the second time. Last night I was working on gluing some Warmachine models, when I was biting on the dried glue to the end of the superglue bottle a drop shot out and landed on my shirt. It dried quickly and I accidently crushed it, causing a tear in my shirt.
I’m sorry for your loss
Sweet dreams are made of thiiis.
Who am I to disaaagree?
I travelled the world, and the seven seas,
I AM WATCHING YOU THROUGH A CAMERA.
It took me too long to place this reference and I feel so very ashamed.
You bring great shame to your family.
Bringing great shame to your family? That’s a paddlin’
Legal seminars all weekend 🙁
But fantastic catering!
Tell me more about the food on offer.
I’m serious, I want to know. I love reading about catered meals and menus.
Was there cheese. I bet there was cheese
Tell me more
“For the last fortnight you listed ‘floss and gum at desk’ as one of your efficiency improvements.”
“Wow! So these things ARE read by humans.”
“Yeah, and jokes are great between us, but can you redo it without?”
“It’s not a joke though. I don’t know how much work time I used to spend poking at my teeth with my tongue in vain, getting frustrated and stressed and making my tongue sore. This little guy has saved me probably fifteen to thirty minutes a day!” *shakes floss container*
“Well. Maybe call it something else. ‘Flossing’ is a bit ridiculous.”
“I’ll admit that it is part of my ongoing passive-aggressive campaign against the entire thing being ridiculous. I’m happy to call it something else, but I’m still totally claiming it.”
“Noted. Also… could I have some? Floss? I’ve had bacon stuck in here all morning, it’s driving me NUTS.”
“Right?“
God bless you, Civil Servant.
For the last five years, on my annual performance plan, I’ve put “Don’t get fired” under the Career Goals heading. No one has said anything about it yet.
It’s probably super good for them, they can count it as helping you achieve one of your ongoing objectives.
(Edit: Also, I should totally submit this tip to LifeHacker. Keep floss in your drawer. Improve efficiency, AND offer it to coworkers for networking!)
Everyone knows you should store it in your microwave
Hm. I never thought of it like that, but I can see what you mean… it’s space you’re hardly using, after all, AND you can see through the door.
So ok weekend but not everything that was planned. Worked Saturday morning but managed to get out early. Picked up some flowers for Mrs Tigs and surprised her by getting home early without telling her.
Then a fairly relaxing day, played some Epic quest for Mighty loot and generally just kicked about. Did some planning for Sunday.
Sunday we had planned to head out to Healsville sanctuary for our anniversary but Mrs Tigs wasn’t feeling great so we ducked down to do a picnic in the park instead. That was nice relaxing family day out. Tiglet was playing with her activity balls on the rug, the cafe there does a decent coffee (Made great by the addition of a tiny teddy) and the weather was nice.
Got home and was trying to get some work done by just smashed. Cooked tea which was ok and headed to bed after getting a bit more of my work done.
I saw you playing!
… On steam, not through your window.
*Shifty eyes*
Right, not through the window
it’s a good game, nice and quick to pickup, some aspects of p2w but nothing that is over the top. And as it is a single player game it doesn’t get annoying. Is likely to be the only f2p game that I 100% the achievements on
Reach into my handbag at work, fishing around for my lipstick. Hand comes across a few small foil packets. Helllllllo, what’s this.
Score – individual baggies of pop rocks.
Oh no, some went into my nose urghhhhh.
“Pop rocks,” right…
How does that even happen?
(I’m getting a very HowToBasic vibe, here.)
Edit: Oh, nevermind, explained on previous page. Very good. 🙂
This morning my wife asked me to grab something out of her handbag and all I could find was bags of pop rocks. Therefore, you must be my wife.
My condolences.
Husband!
At first I was thinking “There won’t be anything worth getting this year apart from Legend of Zelda”… then I saw Project Cars…
When the hell will it release? D:
Been delayed again till mid may.
Seriously?
🙁 One day
Dude. Kirby
RainbowCandy Curse.GOTY.
Mornin, TAY.
My weekend was uneventful …not! Got you.
Did a whole bunch. Saturday I went to an photography art exhibition in the city. I subscribed to a tonne of those “What’s On” newsletters a while back and figured I’d try and start up Pow Tries New Things 2015 Edition Ultra Remastered again this year. It was okay! I’m not a particularly arty person, but it was enjoyable. Though, like every amateur, kept thinking to myself “I could’ve taken that” 😛
Also went and saw Jupiter Ascending. Eh, not terrible, not great. Just… a movie. The villains were stupid and most of the plot points didn’t seem to go anywhere, but it was visually nice to watch. Just kinda felt like a fanfic movie. Maybe wait for DVD for this one if you’re on the fence.
Then went to Dan’s city-welcoming thingo. Was fun! About what you’d expect from a night at Mojo’s. Would attend again.
Sunday was my lazy day. Got sucked into Cities Skylines. Everybody else’s cities look much more spectacular than mine. And caught up on my TV. You guys don’t understand how much I’m enjoying Helix right now.
Hope you guys are well!
Helix! \o/
Oh man, pretty boy better not get all pustulant and die from that honey!Latest episode
That whole scene I was yelling “What are you doing!? Just lie and say you drank the honey, they’re not going to know the difference!”. But that scene was so cool I forgave him. I really like that they’re using the upbeat-soundtrack-over-horrible-things more often this season. Really cool!I’m thinking he’ll die though. There’s been a lack of core-character deaths this season unlike the first 😛 Or… OR… he’ll become immortal just before the fungus takes over so he’s forever fungi-fied. That’d be gross.
Saw Jupiter Ascending too. 🙂 Utterly beautiful production design, makeup and sfx. The story was stupid. Worth seeing on a big screen. Entertaining brain fodder. I’m filing it with The 5th Element and Flash Gordon. Potential cult classic, mainly for Eddie Redmayne’s *mumblemumblemumbleSCREAM* brilliance. 🙂
WEEKEND!
QNI on Friday.
Cinema on Saturday. Jupiter Ascending. Pretty but very silly. Entertaining though.
Sunday: Gentle bike ride then nice lunch and flop on sofa watching cars drive round Albert Park. Most of the action was before the race…
Gaming content: Elite. Mining is hard graft and not for me. Doing a bit of trading now I’m back from an expedition that netted me a couple of million credits. Chatted to Pixel a bit. Really enjoying just pottering about in space still. Mostly Harmless, Dealer, Pathfinder.
Finally got back to Elite this weekend, had to remind myself of how my new Empire-based home was laid out. Go the hang of it now, launched all the way from Serf to Lord within a couple of hours. Then got knocked down to Squire thanks to some weird glitch where I think I was carrying an old ascension mission after completing the other ones. Worked my way back up again though. The new update is pretty good, so many nice little tweaks to the UI that just makes it that much better to deal with. Competent, Dealer, Surveyor I believe 😛
Yep. Noticed System Map being a bit glitchy in 1.2 (like clicking system map gives you the system you just left or the system you last created a route for) but exit, wait a few secs and try again it’s OK.
What are you flying as your main ship?
I’m currently back at the Pilot’s Federation mucking about with my 2 ships. I’m going to convert the exploration Cobra to a more combat loadout (although I’m quite tempted by Vulture for bounty hunting), got a Lakon Type-6 for hauling, and I’m only a million off getting an Asp which will be my new explorer.
Want to try wings out? 🙂 I believe Pixel is also based in the Empire too.
Still in my trusty Sidewinder! I don’t think I’ve tried the Viper and Cobra since back in beta, before they’ve been rebalanced or whatever. I had a go of the Adder shortly after it got introduced, since on paper it looks like a Super Sidewinder. But I hated it. Didn’t handle that great, and has terrible visibility. Sidey’s way better. I’m kinda determined to reach Elite status in it now, everyone discounts it so much 😛 Although with the latest update things seem to have gotten tougher. I think the AI’s gotten a bit of a workover, although the assassination Anaconda missions now seem to have a lack of system authorities showing up, so I can’t do those any more (need the extra guys to draw some of the fire, even if they don’t contribute much to damage). The Imperial Clipper is a tough ship to fight in it too, that thing’s got some pretty good turning speed. Had no help from the authorities there either, though they did show up in my third attempt they did so way too far off the radar so I lost them. But yeah, it’s pretty good for everything else. Just hit 11 million credits last night.
I’ve set up shop in Mwamen, it’s pretty good spot. It was hard to find somewhere that was Empire, had a station within reasonable distance of the drop-in point, a good selection of ship components, a nearby High Tech system (need somewhere to get stuff for weapon supply missions) and Agricultural for food. Annoyingly doesn’t have a black market, but at least there’s a couple within a single jump.
But yeah, wouldn’t mind giving wings a try at some stage. See what all the fuss is about 😛
Sidewinder’s only crime is being tiny. It’s a dedicated small fighter and there’s nothing wrong with it in that role at all, as long as you can live with the limits of a small fighter – and yes, taking on big vessels solo is one of those limits… 🙂
I’m in my Asp now. It’s decked out with cargo bays as I trade my way to enough credits for an advanced system scanner and then back off into the void…
Will wander though your system on the way back to the edge.
Morning everyone! My weekend was spent swapping between Destiny and Cities: Skylines.
Got two raids in over the weekend; woulda liked to do the third, as my hunter is notoriously lacking a decent chestpiece. I did learn how to solo the opening on hard mode, tho, and got my titan to 32 over the last week – with a full set of raid gear, no less. Plus, got Black hammer to drop on Friday night! Now the only weapons I’m missing are the hand cannon, scout rifle and rocket launcher.City is progressing nicely, too – hovering just under 80k people, a cool $3m in the bank increasing by $25k p/w, no major congestion. Problem is, the city no longer wants anything. I’ve got residential, commercial and industrial zones empty and waiting, and no-one wants to move in. I’m… at a loss… Maybe I’ll lower taxes… that works in Anno, and it’s not like I really need that much income.Also, found this for anyone that’s been reading up on intersection design, as I have. I’m tempted to build the first one, just to see how the game engine handles it…
Nice work on the Destiny! 🙂 I think I’m resigned to not being able to get to 32 until House Of Wolves comes out. 🙁
My main problem seems to be finding groups to raid with – Zephyr and Brad have been great pals in that regard. Gear drops have been fairly reliable on the abyss and bridge drops – for my titan, at least – but then it’s still a huge slog to get the mats for upgrades… I wouldn’t be surprised if my hunter doesn’t see 32 before HoW drops.
That’s always the problem isn’t it… that’s why I’ve been please to introduce the people I’ve enjoyed gaming with to each other. Similar play styles, happy to muck about a little and have some play-time or learning sessions, but competent enough to play well together. That half-hour we all spent just wandering around the Abyss after all the enemies had disappeared was so so useful.
Oh, wow, Win10 is going to use P2P for updates? About damn time. Not gonna say I called it, but I did do a project for uni seven (omg, now I feel old :/) years ago demonstrating bittorrent-style P2P for a scalable, resilient data storage and update/synchronisation system, while everyone else used variations of Client/Server architectures… :3
I graduated in 1996. Still feel old? 😉
Well, yes. 😛 Knowing that there are people older than I am has never really made me feel young – mostly because there were times at high school where I felt I was 15-going-on-40.
But it’s that I… well, I noticed the passage of time in my uni days – every year felt like a year. Every six months was a chance to learn something new, and to expand on what I already knew. It feels like it was only a few years ago that I was designing that system – three at the most. To realise it was seven… /o\
I need to find some time to sit down and start learning again. I feel like I’ve not gained any useless-but-interesting knowledge in a long time… it may be time to rectify that.
Doing novel stuff (to you) makes time pass slower. 🙂
True, though. I’m due a new course or project also.
Hey everyone,
so I was a little sick last week and I went to the doctor on Friday. Turns out I had mild salmonella poisoning. Fatty foods have been bringing back the stomach cramps, so I’m not quite over it yet, as I found out yesterday when I had fish and chips. I ended up in bed playing spyro for several hours. (My anxiety means that I can struggle with nausea as I’m not sure if I’m actually sick or if it’s a symptom on the anxiety. Playing games actually helps me differentiate.)
Glad to hear that you found out what it was and it’s nothing too serious.
Hope you feel back to normal soon.
By the way, those bookmarks look pretty cool, are you planning on doing other ones or just Zelda themed ones? Either way I’d be interested in some.
I would like to also do some pokemon, JSRF, TWEWY and Okami ones. The only issue is that I really love cel shading as well as silhouettes, so with JSRF and TWEWY and even the Okami ones, I’m wondering whether to do them in their more natural state.
Being sick is the worst! I haven’t been sick for about a year and then 2 weekends in a row I’ve been sick. Last week just randomly started throwing up non stop and now I’ve got extremely sore throat and coughing non stop. Stupid sickness. *shakes fist in random direction*
Missed out on #NobSlaughter2015 and everything!
I’m still annoyed about missing that.
Are you sure it’s not a flu?
Which Spyro? I 100%ed the original a few weeks ago. It’s a pretty good game.
The original
Nice. The game has a few problems, such as a repetitive soundtrack, bad boss battles, and some other niggling quibbles, but it is still a good game that holds up today.
I played it as a single digit kid. Happy to relive it.
Undead Swag get
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And yes that “The Fog” item is a 7′ vinyl record of the 1984 films soundtrack (in green no less).
Sitting in class with barely adult kids and listening to them talk about gaming and the industry.
Biting my knuckles.
I remember being at a party not long ago, talking about seminal moments in gaming, bringing up the Half-Life Uplink demo, and how amazing Half-Life was for its time.
One of the younger guys cleared his throat and mumbled that he was pretty sure he had only recently been born when that came out, and hadn’t done much gaming as a 3yr old.
Age is irrelevant. I was born when the Transformers movie came out but it was still apart of my childhood. I didn’t get to play Half-Life 1 until sometime between 2002-2004 and it was still memorable.
But I was talking about their ignorance of the world and giving their opinions 😛
Ahh, I think it’s relevant insofar as they have a different worldview on the great moments in gaming, without the
nostalgia gogglesNO, HISTORICAL CONTEXT! (it’s important, dammit!) that I have. 🙂 (Some people have NEVER played half-life and don’t know what the significance is!)As for opinions on the world and exposure to it… well. Heh. Teens/twenty-somethings. I kinda miss those days. I was a lot cockier then (hard to imagine, I know), but a lot more optimistic, too.
They should be encouraged to try out those games, not looking forward to the same, tired CoD sequences they’ve been walking through. A timeless game is one that can still be played and enjoyed by a different generation years later.
Yeah, but I was always smart enough to be aware of it and didn’t annoy anybody with my lame opinions.
*waves*
I’m not even surprised anymore, Gooky.
You’re such a monster in all things that it’s practically a given that you missed the critical moment of FPS evolution.
What do you mean, I played the hell out of GoldenEye 😛
I wonder if we even had a PC capable of playing it when it came out. Not that I’d even heard of it, the only guys I knew who played PC games at all then exclusively played StarCraft and WarCraft.
Extremely tangential, but I really wish I’d found Uplink (not the HL demo, but the hacking game) back when I was in Uni… Considering I spend my weekdays working with linux servers nowadays, when I play it, it feels too much like work.
I fired that up again recently! FANTASTIC game! Though I kinda… fucked it up pretty bad by screwing up the fast-forwarding controls and wondering why I kept getting insta-traced.
Oh god less than a week to go
I’m gonna pop some tags
You’ve all gone quiet today- What’s wrong TAY? big weekends?
I’m on holidays this week.
Three days to do a week and a half’s work. I’m replying to thinks and only checking back after every few emails. Reward systems at work! 🙂
My work don’t let me innernette. 🙁
-sent from my carrier pigeon-
Late nights.
This weekend I:
– Got up early and went to the bank, got a replacement debit card sent out to me (current one will still function though) and also had them issue me one of those prepaid travel cards, so my debit card expiring in Japan will no longer be an issue \o/ Also grabbed some JP cash. Prepared \o/
– Went and bought some shirts and some new jeans so I have enough half-decent clothes to travel with. \o/
– Decided that I will take my DSLR with me to Japan, and not just rely on my phone camera or buy a new point & shoot. This meant I had to go buy a replacement battery for it since the battery’s been dead for about a year.
– Purchased a printer. Cost a bit more than I was originally going to pay, but I hadn’t realized how much color lasers have come down in price. Got myself a good Fuji Xerox all-in-one color laser. None of that inkjet bullshit. Haven’t plugged it in yet though, don’t have a spare power board. Goal for today.
– Rediscovered an excellent Indian place near my house that I used to go to periodically when I lived in the area previously when I was a teenager. It’s still awesome. Also less than 5 mins drive away. \o/
– Couldn’t be bothered getting up on Sunday so basically sat around the house, played about 8 hours of Assassin’s Creed Rogue on PC (it’s basically what I wanted from a new AC game, none of that Unity crap).
– Caught up on a bunch of anime. For some reason I hadn’t really been watching much recently, so I was a long way behind (eg I was on ep 2 of 10 so far in Aldnoah Zero and that’s probably the best show running right now so I don’t know what I’ve been doing). Downside to going to Japan at the end of this week is that I’ll miss out on the final 2-3 episodes of all the shows this season – I get back just after the Spring season starts. 🙁
– Played a few hours of Kantai Collection. Still haven’t really decided what to work on, but I did the weekly clear-out of 1-5 and 2-5 for medals to use toward upgrade blueprints, finally after about a year half-heartedly bashing against it I cleared 4-4 and unlocked World 5, and I had a few goes at 3-5 but it’s bloody hard and I only managed to clear it once. Friday’s update implemented a Kai-2 for heavy cruiser Maya which has an amazingly good art upgrade, and they dropped strong hints that the next update will see her sister ship Choukai getting the same treatment. I don’t use Maya (mine’s only at 19, needs 75 for upgrade) but my Choukai’s already fairly reasonable level so I’m kind of tempted to spend some time on her. My primary focus right now though is Yamashiro (9 more levels to go) and Hibiki (11 to go). Also used up most of my resources in several ill-advised attempts at building Musashi. To celebrate the recent discovery of Musashi’s wreck they’ve apparently upped her drop rate from large ship construction, but I’ve had shit luck 🙁
I had a hankering to play Dragon Ball Xenoverse on the weekend. Went to look up the cheapest price for a PC Download online.
“50 Bucks, not bad, I think I’ll treat myself. Let’s just open Steam…”
“Oh wait, the price is $70 on the Aus Steam store… Hm… Well, I guess it’s just a bigger treat than I was expecting, let’s buy it anyway…”
“Oh wait, even though it’s listed at $70 here, the price is still in USD. So actually I’d be paying $95 at the moment…”
“…I’ll buy Cities Skylines instead.”
How’s your city going?
Not terrible!
I’m using the map (now on my second city) that has the highway running straight through the middle, which is super convenient because I can have industrial on one side with their own on/off ramps so trucks don’t clog up my CBD. My first city just had a single in/out onto the highway poking into my map which led to some super traffic jams as everybody in the city tried to cram through the one intersection 😛
Kinda want to start a new map with some sort of unlimited money/everything unlocked mod and really focus on the layout.
I’ve hit a point where I basically have unlimited money, so I’m tempted to re-do large parts of my city for efficiency, but it’s probably easier to just leave that hot mess as it is, and build well organised satellite cities.
Remember that funny little trailer for Magicka 2 we saw at E3 almost a year ago.
Apparently it’s due out on Steam and PS4 on the 26th of May.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/238370/
Could be a lot of fun. Who’s gonna pick it up and on what platform. I’ll be getting it on PS4.
Woah, Magicka is coming on the PS4?
I thought the best Blue Screen of Death Simulator would have been a PC exclusive thing only.
I got on the Magicka bandwagon really late. I got to play a little bit of it with @rize @cakesmith and @pixel I really enjoyed what I played and will be getting Magicka 2 when it comes out.
@pixeltheferretviking ?
@pixel_the_ferret_viking ?
We should probably play again sometime!
Our friendships had a good run.
W+A+SPACEOoh, The Raid 2 on DVD from Sanity’s Ebay store for $7.50 with free shipping, yes please.
Hurry if you want it, there’s only 9 left.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/NEW-The-Raid-2-DVD-2014-/291380677019?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_15&hash=item43d7a4499b
Edit: Now I just have to buy the first one.
So much for a quiet Sunday…
Went booze shopping for party… always a good feeling walking out of Dan Murphy’s with a full trolley. Slipped in a little present for myself with another bottle of Gin. 🙂
Got home and a few hours later had friends over with their kids and dogs.
Backyard looked like an adult-orientated day care centre with 3 naked 2 year olds, 3 dogs, 6 adults, beers and wine, snacks, 2 clam shells full of water, standalone slide (at one point going into the water!!), cubby house, kids cars, a swing, chalk all over the drive way…
One of the kids bit another one and I swear it was like a scene out of the Walking Dead. I turned around and saw him gnawing on the other kids shoulder because he wanted to use the toy he had.
Also… Aircon at work is out again today… System is approximately 2.1 billion years old and I think maintenance on it stopped around the time the dinosaurs became extinct. The technicians tell me it’s powered by the equilvalent of a 1954 Land Cruiser engine.
Welcome to the Four Pillars appreciation society.
One of us. One of us. One of us…
My sister gave me a bottle for Christmas and honestly I’m not sure I like it that much. I think there’s an aromatic in it that’s quite sharp that doesn’t agree with the stuff I’m mixing it with or something. Probably should try it straight.
It’s only the 3rd gin I’ve tried… (Berry Bros No. 3 and Hendricks being the others) and I find it strikes a nice midpoint between the two others. But it’s sooooo easy to drink.
My wife thinks I’m crazy but I kept getting rosemary over the top of everything else happening in there.
Now just need to find a good/easy gin cocktail so I can move away from tonic water.
I quite like Negroni personally. Equal parts campari, red vermouth and gin, very small splash of orange juice and some orange peel to garnish. There’s one of the botanicals in Four Pillars (might be rosemary, you’re right that you can taste that in it) doesn’t quite go with the Campari for me, I prefer to use bog-standard old Bombay Sapphire for it.
Thing is, I’d have thought the citrus botanicals are part of what makes Four Pillars perfect for a Negroni. To the point that they even released a “Negroni” specific version of Four Pillars. I haven’t tried it yet, but.
Yeah, they mention it as a good mix with the card included in the box too. But maybe they had to do a specific Negroni mix primarily because their standard mix has a weird taste in it when combined with Campari?
Dunno, perhaps my palette isn’t attuned enough to gin to notice the various differences.
@beeawwb: I can hardly say mine is, there’s just something about it that doesn’t work for me, but my usual poison is fine.
Four Pillars is great in a G&T though.
Classic Gin Martini?
Oooh, closed beta invite? Oh… for a new MOBA?
:C *DELETE*
Ohwait. That’s selfish. *un-delete* Does anyone want a beta invite to Victory Command by Petroglyph?
Ohwait. I better check and make sure it’s actually an invite.
*click linky*
Oh. It’s a sign-up page. How very exclusive!
Does anyone want a link to sign up to a beta which anyone can probably already sign up t—ahh fuckit.
*DELETE*
It’s a roller-coaster here, man. A roller-coaster.
Get me access to Gigantic oh mythical fairy of beta access!
Enjoy a link, MOBA-playing friend!
http://www.victory-command.com/?campaign=PETRO-CB2-B05 oops, I don’t have one to Gigantic, just this unsolicited one to Victory Command; there is a limit to my magical beta powers.I don’t hold you partially responsible for encouraging the latest
cancercraze in gaming at all!😀
Yeah, that’s kinda how I figure it would go if Cinderella’s fairy godmother were modern-progressive and disapproved of sending her to the ball just to land a man.
“Girl, I can grant wishes, and THIS is how you expect me to use my powers? Come on. I mean, OK to be fair: princessing seems like a pretty cushy gig if you can get it, but dude… you don’t know this guy from Adam. That’s a terrible, terrible basis for a relationship, and if he isn’t into you in work-clothes, then that’s a giant red flag right there. Sweet gig, just not worth the hang-ups. Come on… let’s give you super powers or some shit.”
…I kinda wanna see that movie.
…… You’re like one of those “ima teach you to be careful what you wish for” fairies =,=
Like Jafar the Genie
Dammit transient
What the hell do I know Petroglyph for doing. It isn’t there own games from what I can see. So they must have published another devs game. Gah this is going to drive me crazy
The very underrated Universe at War: Earth Assault (late 00s RTS), the also very excellent Star Wars: Empire at War quasi-RTS/4X.
And I probably got signed into this thing for having either Battle for Graxia or Guardian of Graxia in my account or logging into them to try them or whatever. (Yeah, to my shame I had a period of experimenting with MOBAs.)
I know them from empire at war but the logo is associated with something else in my mind. It seems like it is more of a world building thing like populus or startopia style thing. Or a silly thing like magicka or similar. Gah, I don’t know, I know I’ve seen that logo a lot on a loading screen for something I really liked, but none of those games tag the right memory.
Most likely it is an issue of crossed wires in my brain, but no less annoying
Oh hey, new Descent game on Kickstarter!
Oh wait… it’s a multiplayer deathmatch game that may or may not be a MOBA. Because that’s sure what I associate with Descent. 😐
Gabbagabbahey
Descent was difficult for young me, I still remember the cheat codes :P. Shame it doesn’t sound like what fans of the original would want.
Really difficult and easy to get lost in, yep. I played the shit out of Descent II as a kid. It came bundled with the new Mac we got. Had a fucking amazing industrial soundtrack as Redbook CD audio on the disc and I’d often listen to that outside the game too.
Oh hellyes, I got the Descent 2 CD with a graphics card or something, I played the hell out of the audio on it.
For a long time it was impossible to find any info on it as well. No one seemed to know that that amazing soundtrack existed. I was told (and believed) that it was all by Nivek Ogre from Skinny Puppy, but that’s not the case. He only did one track (hint: the one with a bunch of people screaming on it) and the bulk of them were rearrangements of MIDI stuff from the DOS version. Wasn’t until I discovered that the final track was actually an instrumental version of a Type-O Negative piece that I discovered this.
The soundtracks for Descent II, Quake II, C&C and Red Alert got me through my angsty teens. Shame that that style of music’s largely died off since the mid 90s.
There’s single player stuff, too…
Tacked on later as a stretch goal or something. Not a Descent game if it’s focusing on Multiplayer IMO.
There was a promising game called sol contingency – and it looked to be legit until they were served a cease and desist, a month before this came up on Kickstarter.
They are currently re jigging the entire game so that they dont infringe copyrights
https://www.facebook.com/preparefordescent
@markserrels Just wondering were those emails for contacting for the bloodborne things sent out already? Haven’t received one yet.
He doesn’t always check here, try the twitters or email him
@weresmurf is well aware of that, he just wanted to brag in TAY 😉
I wish. My account is also the one I’m meant to receive a lot of stuff on. Not getting any of it lately at all 🙁
http://www.kotaku.com.au/contact/
Not sure if this is related but I’ve received a copy of Bloodborne and a PS4 addressed to a “smudge smudge smurf”, coincidence? =O
Jokes aside as red’s mentioned mark’s easier to contact on twitts and e-mail =P
Oh man what a week… enough so that I’m writing this now, instead of last TAY
Work:
tracking antisemitic content for a report about online hate speech, and finding some really out there conspiracy theories – like how apparently us Jews invented spark plugs to control world traffic… and how Israel is not a Jewish state, but an Illuminati state in conflict with ‘real Jews’, who are actually black people! – this is stuff some people take really seriously! >.<
afterwards I took photos of interesting sticks to post to a friend’s Facebook wall to show his dog… because that seemed like a perfectly sensible thing to do.
Hobby (non-gaming)
got my new Solidoodle Press up and running and producing some deformed little wizards and owls (because who needs a calibration cube?), and of course it’s in the middle of a sizable .2mm resolution job that the Z-alignment goes out and an extruder clog leaves it printing air!
(still, at least I seem to have just about worked out some good temperature/flow settings for when I inevitably start doing terrain tiles for boardgames)
Gaming
So Wolfenstein… dual-automatic shotguns amiright? :p
I got my Wii remotes to talk to my laptop. Soon I shall have the IR aiming set up alongside some old dance mats, and then I can use Borderlands for a workout routine! 😀
Then I started playing Unstoppable Gorg and SpaceRun. I have far too many random gems in my Steam collection I still have to play.
What’s your job?
I currently do work with OHPI (Online Hate Prevention Institute) – we deal with a lot of online hate and cyberbullying issues and try to help with social media policies and the occasional police referral for serious threats and extremism.
Wow. Really admirable work! Not the grueling front-lines stuff and more policy planning & implementation hopefully?
It varies quite a bit actually – I’m mostly behind the scenes working on web development for our Fight Against Hate tool, which is for people to report and classify offensive content they find, with the aim of building a database of hate content we can use to track trends and provide reports for organisations trying to deal with specific issues.
…also to make companies like Facebook accountable to their own community guidelines (because even if they state that things like incitement or rape threats are against their guidelines, it might take several months before reported items are removed if you don’t have direct lines of communication with their local representatives, and we’ve all seen how some of this stuff can escalate from cases like gamergate or anti-Muslim scaremongering to the point of actionable threats)
it gets more complicated than that, but you can find out about the rest of what we do at ohpi.org.au – the current antisemitism focus is because my boss is putting together a report for the Global Forum Combating Antisemitism later this year, so we need to see what’s out there from the madcap conspiracy theories to the neo-nazi hate groups trying to gain traction through social media channels.
How are you finding space run. Opinions are divided here
I find it fits a lot of what I’ve read – it feels very ‘Galaxy Trucker’ but gets really brutal as you progress since there is no FTL-style active pause. Still a heck of a lot of fun though and at least you can replay missions if you need to grind for upgrades.
I think active pause would be the worst thing for that game. You get pre warning what what is coming and from where but much of the challenge and enjoyment comes from the panic and rush.
I’ve completed all missions for BC so far and working on the rest. Wanting to see if I can complete it without redoing missions and just upgrading between them. Getting tough now and think I might have to drop see if I need to redo for cash. Also only getting 2* on average so cash isn’t huge and feeling a bit under levelled atm
Most definitely! Some games should be playable how people want, but others [like this] need to conform to the developer’s vision because they are aiming for a particular concept (like what happened with Brothers, and people whinging about it not playing well without a twin-stick controller)
This definitely goes for the madcap panic angle because, unlike FTL, you’re just a pilot rather than a captain – it’s like the old space combat games where you’re trying to rapidly manage power distribution – there was no active pause in X-Wing when you were siphoning your laser batteries to buff your aft shields when things were going awry.
You. I like you
I like me too
…no wait that’s someone else I was confusing me with :p
Oh I hate having the best internet connection my exchange can support. Because it’s still shit. 28 hours at top speed to upload this video… Sure it’s 10GB but even so…
That’d take my connection about ten days.
@transientmind @freezespreston other TAY folk headed to Japan
http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/03/14/ps4-exclusive-bloodborne-you-wont-see-a-hunter-bigger-than-this-how-tokyo-prepares-for-the-beast/
神聖なたわごと
If someone picks me up something exclusive and/or awesome, I will offer to do all sorts of inappropriate things the next time our paths cross.
Well then! My pocket is ready.
We’ll have to see if we can swing by the area. Maybe if we say we came JUST for the launch we’ll be able to pick up something neat. 😉
If it’s still there by the time we get to Tokyo.
I confidently predict that all of Japan will be in a major Bloodborne frenzy. It will be the defining moment of their culture for decades to come. Enjoy it! 🙂
Order pineapple on a pizza
Cite ‘evidence’ about vaccination causing autism
Wear socks with you sandels
Confuse star wars and star trek
Use a controller to play an FPS
Leave when it finally your round at the pub
Support collingwood
Claim you prefer consoles to PC because the graphics are better
Speak loudly about Gooky in a Japanese restaurant
All except the last one. I don’t want people to think I’m a racist.
Edit: I already do *counts* four of those things.
You dirty Collingwood supporter.
Woah! Jeez! Take that back, please. Right now.
Even on PC I do that…
You are just lucky that you are so darn pretty we can overlook some things
I hate to be that guy, but I’m probably more excited for the other game that’s up on Sofmap’s building and has a 2015/03/26 Japanese release date
Senran Kagura: Estival VersusI had to look up the translation for that phrase. It doesn’t exactly carry the connotation that it would in English. 😛
Personally my only real goal in Akiba is to try and find all the Sakura Taisen games.
Just signed up for Loot Crate, I wonder what goodies this crate of loot will contain.
I keep getting tempted just for the pop viynl figure but if that’s the only reason I’m getting it then I might as well just buy the fugure and not get the rest of the crap that is just going in the bin or cluttering up my house
I wanted to sign up for this as well, but they don’t ship to Australia at the moment.
https://www.collectorcorps.com/
I thought about signing up once, but I figured I’d rather curate my crap than have it parcelled onto me. I’ve already got too much stuff
Yeah, this was me as well. I already buy a bunch of crap I don’t have room for, and I suspect a good chunk of the Loot Crate stuff wouldn’t be especially relevant to me.
Just spent the morning shopping for clothes. So much terribleness in all the shops. Super tight pastel pink with floral designs? Urgh. Pass.
Still, think @liondrive would be proud with what I ended up with and it’s nice to have something which isn’t a scruffy $10 shirt from Kmart.
Even if it was $250 for like four things…. Urgh.
Oh man, you’re going to totally show us all up huh?
Not sure Id go that far. Just a couple of crew neck long sleeve knit tops (which holy shit where have these things been all my life? Super comfortable) and a couple of button up shirts.
More these are cut to fit a human shape rather than the boxy nothing shape I generally buy.
My problem with shirts is my belly. Boxy shape actually works out okay 🙁
My gut sticks out too much and my shoulders are twice as wide as it which means I usually have all sorts of dramas finding shirts that don’t look ridiculous on me.
I probably need to go do some late night shopping this week for clothes. I normally wear jeans & polo shirts and throw on a jumper if it’s cold, but Japan’s going to be cold and I don’t know if I’ll be warm enough.
Wait… People are buying cold weather wardrobes kind of cold? *looks up weather online* Just how cold is it going to oh my. That’s wonderful! Well. Rolled up sleeves are out, but 10-15 is pretty much my ideal. Oh yes, hoodies time!
Yeah, I’m hoping polo T-shirt + jumper will do me since I don’t really do long sleeve shirts. Realized I don’t have a good rain jacket though, might be worth it. And probably worth hitting a 7/11 when we get there and buying some pocket warmers.
It’s weird, I grew up in southern New Zealand so I don’t mind the cold that much. I’m more worried that we’re going to be outside a fair bit and it might be wet & windy, especially since we’ve got a few boat trips on the itinerary (always colder on the water) and there’s also that weather-permitting cable car trip up the mountain to look at Fuji… Need to hit up Kathmandu and get a windbreaker or something.
A bag cover is a good idea. You can buy umbrellas everywhere, but a wet backpack is more of a problem.
And if you’re going to katmandu, I’d recommend getting a decent fleece jacket and thermal layers than a windbreaker. Much easier to wash/wear and lighter to carry around. Unless you’re actually going to be in the snow, rainproof gear ends up being a burden.
I am happy that I am the fashion standard of TAY.
Though I want pictures.
Who goes into a changing room and doesn’t spend 10 minutes taking pictures, after all 😛
I get a phone with a working camera on Wednesday 😉
Hi everyone,
Quick note: EBGames will be running a 15% off sale on Nintendo E-shop cards starting this Saturday. I’ll be picking up a $30 card for sure, because the 3DS E-shop is also running a special on the remastered Ace Attorney Trilogy https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/186259#comment-2621773 \o/
OBJECTIONs?!
Eh, I have zelda to play.
OBJECTION!
TAKE THAT …eShop card and buy games with it.
The Ace Attorney Trilogy actually looks a lot better on the 3DS than I thought it would (it uses the new art from the iOS port, not the DS pixel art). I haven’t played much of it though. Another case of 3DS screenshots making a game look ugly, I guess.
I already own 2 out of 3? And I want the set?
I own 2 out of 3 as well! Which one are you missing? I know it’s not the one that I’m missing, because that’s the one you lent to me! \o/
Once I get the digital (which will be cheaper to buy than completing the collection of cartridges), I’ll probably be looking to recoup the costs/clear some space by offloading the others.
I think it’s justice for all. I have the first and the second. Pretty sure I have trials and tribulations
I thought JFA was the second, and T&T was the third. Which they never released here. So I am also missing it. Jerks.
…not that I’ve even started the second. BUT STILL.
I am definitely missing Justice for all then. Just remembered that I haven’t started it because I don’t have the middle component. D=
Mrs Shane and I have recently discovered The Inbetweeners. So, so good. We just started season two, and so far I think my favourite episode is the season 2 premiere Field Trip. Just for this one line:
(Warning: clip may disturb) “And say what? ‘Help, we caught a fish?!’”Is that a Sitcom about animators?
Isn’t that Keyframe Kops?
Keyframers wouldn’t be as fun as watching the antics of some poor bastards in a korean sweatshop doing in-between animation for some terrible pornographic japanese anime
Oh wow are you in for a treat. Two films as well!
Edit: Quite a few episodes can be found on YouTube if you weren’t already aware.
Yeah, I noticed that while I was searching for this clip 😛
Have already ordered all the DVDs, though, including the films! \o/
That’s a great show, enjoy 🙂
Neil punching a fish to death is one of my favourite Inbetweeners jokes.
I just had three Costco Roti Paratha for lunch. And I wish I’d eaten twice that many. Or even thrice. So damn awesome.
They froze the dough all rolled out between two pieces of plastic so you just pop them in a dry frypan for a minute or so each side (after taking the plastic off 😛 ) and then cram the whole thing in your mouth because tastysaurus. So much better than just reheating already cooked ones.
Noted for next Costco trip. Pretty sure we looked at them but put them back last time.
Just go to an indian supermarket, they’re super cheap from there anyway
Upvote for tastysaurus
Kitten is zonked out on my lap.
Dog is sitting curled up next to me.
It’s gotten really warm due to them… :\
Anyone who might be interested in the MEGAGAME that we spoke about last week It now seems I am in need of teammates. is anyone interested?
http://t.co/eTn7H0z7zS
You’re a one man army!!! High Mage ftw =P
Edit: Jokes aside this does sound enticing; how are people getting there?
I know that Pants, Red and I are on the same team. There might be board gaming happening the night before too. Not too sure how we’re all getting in but I know that I’ll be driving there after I drop Freya at her uni thing.
Shiggy is going to be doing some filming there and I think Doc might be involved in someway (not too sure on that one).
I’ll be driving, so if people want a lift I’m happy to help 🙂
SYDTAYers! Come be fish people! They are inferior to horse people but OK I guess!
I am a massive idiot.
I left a USB stick with all of my work in Melbourne, which I need pretty much right now. So I’ll be taking a 6pm flight to go get it, and then fly back up to Brisbane at 6am tomorrow.
On the plus side, I’m now a Virgin Gold Velocity member lol.
D’oh. But congrats on your new membership status!
I thought all that travel jazz was gonna quieten down for a while now?
It’s gotten worse mayng. Some political maneuverings have meant that I’m working on solidyfing some relationships which could do with some work.
Your candidature for TAY’s Minister of Public Affairs is strengthening.
Hope it all goes well pal!
Wouldn’t it have been cheaper and easier to get someone to express post it to you?
Infinitely. However I’ve lost it reallll good, so I need to turn the place upside down in the hope I find it.
@highperformance do you want to email me your phone number to make it a bit easier to organise tomorrow night?
Sent (y)
Ahh, fitbit. That heart rate monitor has been a real eye-opener.
Over the weekend I wore it pretty much all my waking hours and apparently I have a resting heart rate just under 65’ish. Not bad. Not great, but considering I haven’t been exercising as much as I should, I wasn’t expecting something sub-60. 60 neat would’ve been nice, but y’know. Work to be done.
Work week time! Let’s see how it holds up…
Every time I’ve checked it today it’s been over 100. The hell.
(Edit: WORK IS LITERALLY KILLING ME! Woo? I wonder if I can use stuff like this as evidence for a case for working from home… and finally, finally be freed from the tyranny of pants…)
You’ll never be free from me.
“Alex Without His Pants”
They’re off tyrannizing Transient.
One day… One day.
(Sometimes two days! Those are the best weekends.)
What I’ve learned from fitbit is that people are willing to do laps of the bedroom/backyard at weird hours of the day to try and up their step count.
Everyone fears Skynet.
I fear Fitbit.
That IS weird. Someone else was saying that they knew someone who had one, who would spend their time walking around in circles in the office at 11:45 to get their step count up.
I’m more interested in the heart rate and calorie burning, personally. Steps are ‘enh’. Resistance is where it’s at. I’m thinking the device’s focus on steps is probably due to the fact that that’s what it’s best at measuring.
He’s referring to me. It’s more that I’m aware I need to work on cardio and it lets me chill and listen to podcasts for 45 mins-1 hour without worrying I’ll be killed by walking on the street in our dodgy area.
I’m also making sure I’m doing proper resistance with flights of stairs.
I’ve been meaning to get one of those for a while but I’m slightly worried it’s going to be like OH GOD WHY IS YOUR HEART RATE SO HIGH AND HOW ARE YOU ONLY GETTING 1 HOUR SLEEP A DAY or something horrible like that. 🙁
Which one did you get?
The ‘charge HR’. The one with the heart-rate monitor. Which is terrifying me by how different resting at home and at work is. I don’t FEEL that stressed! Hell, I was even playing video games at home!
Aaaaaand http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/03/bargain-alert-dick-smith-flogging-fitness-trackers-for-cheap/ because of course there is a sale a few days after I buy one.
Fortunately I was probably only out by about $25.
I find it weird with the resting HR because it keeps telling me my resting HR is like, 70-75 (on the program) but every time I check it whilst at rest, it is like 55. Sooo for some reason it’s just ignoring when my HR is actually at rest. It’s okay though because it still graphs the low rate, just ignores it. Happily it is dropping my resting HR so maybe it’ll actually approach what it actually is.
As for work, my HR generally at work is 80 unless I am actually in a stressful situation and then it is >130. ARGH.
Heh. I’m kinda betting we have slightly different outcomes for our work stressors. Mine is people getting upset over pointless bullshit. I expect yours is… a tad more consequential.
(Also, what is das? Goal challenge, eh?)
Mostly just to get you and @kermitron warmed up into challenges! I think you can see the rules on the top right. It’s a challenge to get everyone to hit their personal step goal in a day. (The most relaxed of the challenges, the others actually get you to try to outstep each other).
We’ve been doing weekendly Weekend Warrior challenges too, where @cookingmama proceeds to do 33000 steps while everyone else does 18-25K. Of course, you don’t have to participate.
Man, this weekend’s challenge was frightening. I went to sync my progress on Saturday afternoon thinking I was doing well but oh my god Cookingmama has done 17000 steps I’m outta here!
Yeah, I was all pumped on Saturday morning, was going to go for a walk with family (didn’t happen due to busy lives) and then log in to notice that Cookingmama ALREADY HAD 15000 STEPS. I started trying to catch her but it was never going to happen.
I got up at 6am and walked to parkrun. That’s what done it. 🙂
The amount of stress I’m constantly putting myself under would make it terrifying for me to track my heart rate. Hell, right at this moment I’d estimate 90 something.
WOO STRESS! YEAH! GET PUMPED! DO YOU FEEL IT?!
I think the caffeine may be helping. Might be an idea to tone that down a tad, not pull any all-nighters to make it necessary.
I just measured it and having done nothing but go clothes shopping and picking up the kids it’s 112.
Of course work not paying me and having to nearly empty out Japan spending account to pay everything before we leave (eg rent, pet kenneling) has not helped it. Hopefully they actually do it tomorrow so we can transfer it all back on Thursday.
Went back down to 60s on getting home.
*checks now* 110. No caffeine. Yup. It’s this place.
(Edit: Hrmph. Replyfail, too? Right. Time to bail.)
Transientmind 6.18pm
=D
Superposts bra, post to fail. 😉
This may actually be the best thing I ever read on the internet.
@novacascade
Hey so with this pack from Tegan; is the plane “ticket” this Passenger Electronic Ticket Receipt?
Just show airport people that and the number on it and that’s all you need?
Yep, that’s the one. In theory though you don’t even need that, just your passport and the check in staff can look you up. But it’s always good to have.
@ynefel @@negativezero
sorry, kept trying to respond, kept having to do work(stupid work).
I dunno what it is, perhaps the collective unconscious is addicted to Monster Hunter & has affected me or perhaps I’ve been playing one too many turn based games.
Whatever it is, I suddenly had a hankering for some MH clone, I say that because, even though 4U is freely available, there’s something about Monster Hunter that just doesn’t work on me.
Best guess, I just don’t like the look of it for whatever reason. So, I don’t get that drive to make new armour, because I’m not interested in it, if that makes sense.
Sooo,
I started checking out some vids on Freedom Wars, can’t remember why, just did & I liked wwhat I saw. On Neg’s advice, I grabbed Gods Eater Burst for my naughty PSP & have been enjoying the gameplay, with 2 snags:
1.I’m enjoying the world & characters, but I don’t feel as interested in them as much as I am interested in why theses gene monsters popped up. Cool concept.
2. Someone on Twitter (Brad Gallaway, the Monster Hunter obsessed editor of Game Critics) that the key to winning was bullet customisation. I’ve looked both in game & online & I haven’t a clue how it works, maybe I’m not even far enough into the game?
Also I sparked up the Toukiden demo, I’ve been asking around & popular opinion places it second to MH alongside GEB.
I’m digging the melee nature of Toukiden & may buy the enhanced version.
What I kinda wanna now is, how heavily do guns play in Freedom Wars, I don’t mind the shooting at all in GEB but atm the bullet customisation is putting me off, I feel like I’ve missed something & it’s making the game harder than it should be.
FW’s guns came across a bit more casual, like you upgrade & create new guns not bullets(?) Not sure there.
GEB2 seems like the better game, but we haven’t even got it yet :-s
Ragnarok Odyssey is a fairly fun alchemy lite game, and Soul Sacrifice is also pretty interesting but a bit overly complicated (even compared to MH), but in my opinion they pale in comparison to MH.
\o/ ragnarok odyssey.
I really liked the Ragnarok MMo, my room mate to play & I’d help out & watch. Some reason Oodyssey didn’t do it for me.
Normally a bit of a horror fan, but the horror visuals of Soul Sacrifice put me off, it’s odd.
I’ve definitely narrowed it down to either Freedom Wars, Toukiden Kiwami or God Eater 2.
Just trying to learn a bit more about them before I spend the cash.
Which won’t be for a bit, because I preordered FF Type 0 this month.
Thanks though 🙂
I feel the same. Ragnarok Odyssey didn’t do anything for me and I played the shit out of the MMO back in the day. The awful dub probably didn’t help.
Soul Sacrifice just looks gross and visually unappealing. Also I got really angry at it because it forces you to play about 30 mins before it deigns to allow you access to the menu where you can swap out the terribad dub for the JP dialogue that they make you pay to access.
Toukiden Kiwami’s a couple of weeks away, God Eater 2 not announced for localization yet, so if you wanted to get something right now it’d have to be Freedom Wars.
I’m in no rush, Type 0 Thursday.
You reckon Freedom or Kiwami be best?
I haven’t played enough of either to form an opinion. I played a bit of Toukiden when it came out but didn’t like the way the weapons felt except for the Katana. The new weapon they added (Naginata) looks cool though.
Ha! I didn’t like the katana, too slow. I liked double knives & the chain & sickle dealie.
Have you tried ragnarok on the DS?
It is more like ragnarok online with the style and art layout.
But changes as to what monsters are where to a slight degree and map size.
But still fun.
Also @jimu
The only Ragnarok-related game I got any enjoyment out of beyond the MMO itself was French-Bread’s doujin game Ragnarok Battle Offline:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnarok_Battle_Offline
Now that was rad.
I forgot that existed & now can’t remember if I played or not :-/
I haven’t actually tried Freedom Wars yet. I was buying all the hunter games on the Vita at one point but then not actually playing them so I decided not to get it, esp. as I’ve heard it’s extremely difficult. It was generally positively received and I should probably get it.
Ugh, now I’m feeling sore and stressed out…
Fuck… 🙁
Was it a good fuck through?
Unfortunately, no…
My hand fell asleep halfway through… 🙁
D’oh!
You know what a good “I feel like shit so I don’t really want to do anything” game?
Cities: Skylines. I made a new city and have actually stuck with this one. Good ol’ Nobwood, the happiest place to live. Got a nice little system set up where I have all offices set up on an island, all the residential on a center peninsula (I call it Nob Peninsula) and all my factories on the far side of Nob Peninsula. Sitting at around 50k residents and slowly rising.
Anyway, Monday Afternoon/Night question: What game/movie/book/thing do you go to when you are sick?
Everyone’s stories about the game are really swaying me towards buying it, despite not really having any experience with city sims and worrying that I’m just gonna cause a cataclysm within minutes. But that’s fun in its own way I guess.
When I’m sick I watch old Red Vs Blue. Good lighthearted comedy nonsense that I know back to front so I can drift in and out of napping while watching!
Also, maybe your sickness is #NobSlaughter2015 in effect wohohohohoho
Butt seriously feel better soon Nobs!
Heh, butt
When I’m sick, Scott Pilgrim makes me feel better 🙂
Oh, and lemonade and popcorn too :3
Minecraft. Zone out, dig hole.
Dangerous time sink.
I’ve been sick this week, and have made a fine choice to dedicate the week to watching The Simpsons season three. I usually don’t have an itinerary when I’m sick. though. I just whatever seems cool.
Was just browsing the internet looking at Back To The Future stuff, so I decided to chuck BTTF Part 2 on.
Can’t wait till Nike release Marty’s sneakers. Reckon I’m gonna have a go at making my own replica Hoverboards later in the year too (namely Marty’s pink one, and Griff’s Pit Bull).
Hanging out for BTTF day.
Woo, kickarse climbing night! Been a while since one of those.
Cities: Skylines… decide to hook up second parcel of land with a highway interchange… these things are devilishly hard to build…
*checks clock*
Where did that hour go… and I’ve nothing to show for it…
When I phone TAY, my autocorrect seems to go into overdrive adding extra letters at the start of words & if I notice a mistake mid word & try to delete, it fuses the word I’m fixing with the word before.
Know exactly what you’re talking about, happened to me many times. Stupid fucking touchscreen phones.
I swear it’s more than just the phone though… I think the mobile site for Kotaku (Aus) renders badly and the comments even worse.
I can punch a post/reply into Whirlpool on my phone without a hitch. Try on here and it takes about 9 minutes to type in 25 words.
My autocorrect and predictive keyboard (SwifKey) produces some odd behavious when tryng to comment here…
Yeah, I have much less trouble on Twitter
I recently played & loved The Evil Within D LC The Assignment.
Loved it. Not particularly long but does a fun job filling in what the woman was up to during the game & her backstory is interesting.
There’s very little shooting, mostly stealth which I enjoyed in the main game. Got a bit sick of it here though, there’s even a boss you must stealth oil that annoyed me.
If anyone was unsure about the full game, put off by reviews or only got to chapter 4 ( @doc_what ) I demand you go back & give it a chance.
To me it’s ‘*the real ‘ sequel to Resident Evil 4 gameplay wise. Not just the updated control scheme but some of the situation & level design (like a chainsaw man in a trap filled village). And it goes new places too.
The concept is quite fun, a bit like The Cell, if you ever saw that & it takes full advantage of that situation to keep things interesting by switching up gameplay & locations.
The high point for me overall though is that feeling of dread only the first four Silent Hills gave me. That horrible get me out of here feeling coupled with I must push on & see what happens. It excels at atmosphere.
The 2 biggest complaints I read were undeveloped characters, which I disagree On. There’s enough to go on to set up the world while adding some mystery but explainingwhty they do what they do, given the circumstances.
The second was the way the world can suddenly change location, which for me was actually a high point of the game. It fits the concept & helps keep things moving & interesting.
Anyway,TL;DR: The Evil Within good, you play now.
I WILL FINISH IT!
Maybe…Still haven’t got past that enemy you have to sneak around after you hide in the locker for the first time. Have to get back into it again one day.
For me, the biggest complaint is that it went from being fun about half way through to being incredibly frustrating.
The level 10 boss had me so freaking angry that I almost gave up on it. How the hell does it know where I am when I plant a bomb?! That’s bullshit! I know some people enjoyed the challenge, but you don’t feel scared or dread when you feel pissed off.
Otherwise I enjoyed it. I wish it had more of a definite end though.
Apparently, Christopher Pyne is a “fixer”…
https://youtu.be/Hc9NRwp6fiI
It’s so damn cringeworthy…
When you said Christopher Pyne, I thought you meant this guy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pine
Never heard of this politician guy in my life. Probably because I don’t give a stuff about them, scum of the earth the lot of them.
Lucky. He makes me froth at the mouth every time he opens his smug face…
The poster is damn right. It’s bloody Clarke and Dawe.
(Edit: Who are hilarious and who I am now going to listen to tonnes of while I work.)
@shane
http://ign.com/articles/2015/03/16/kevin-smith-confirms-mallrats-2-will-start-filming-in-2016
INTERESTING!
I’m hanging out for Clerks III, but this should be good too.
After being unemployed for a while Paddy decides to go out and find some work for himself. He starts going around knocking on doors asking if they’ve got any work he could do. At the first house a woman opens the door and he says in a thick Irish accent “‘Scuse me ma’am, but I was wonderin’ if you had any work that needs doin’?”. The woman says, “Sure you could paint my Porch if you like”. Paddy goes away and comes back a few hours later, the woman answers the door, and Paddy says “Well ma’am the jobs done, but I’m sorry to tell ya that it’s not a Porch, it’s a BMW.”
Interesting. So that thing about Hiromasa Yonebayashi leaving Studio Ghibli last week is mistranslated. What’s actually happened is that all of the full-time animation staff at the studio have been ‘retired’ while they figure out what their next step is. That puts an entirely different spin on things. It sounds like they’re probably never going to have full-time staff to the same degree again, and when they decide on their next film (probably whatever Yonebayashi decides to do next) will instead hire people for it on a contract basis.
Yesterday I had $80 in my bank account, then I went to Spotlight so now I have $40.
Today I find out that Final Fantasy Type-0 is out this week…and it costs around $80. 😛
Woah, that was lucky…almost had a pageget with this stupid post!
BLOODBORNE
Somewhere between eight and zero days to go…
because… Streetdate has broken! In Toronto at least. http://www.vg247.com/2015/03/16/bloodborne-on-sale-early/
Bloodborne hands-on and a quick look at Vita Remote Play (!!) http://blog.us.playstation.com/2015/03/16/bloodborne-hands-on/
DIRK SEARLES
I mean
BLEHDBARN
DORK STOLES
GUDCORN
DAWG SALES
PUDMORN
Breaking street date in Canadia won’t effect us in Australia, will it?
I wouldn’t think so. And there’s a huge launch event planned in Sydney, so I’d say the actual chances of a streetdate break are pretty minimal.
Probably for the best. If it broke street date I just know I’d miss my flight and travel with only what I was wearing and a plan to remote back or find a PS4 overseas.
Street date breaks just don’t happen any more.
Hey guys, I need some help with the latest bookmark.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xta1/v/t1.0-9/11073910_911580942195254_1910345362051614759_n.jpg?oh=b40335af0c6d40dd1bd2820e397b2f67&oe=55B6AEB1&__gda__=1434808120_9fa9eb0af5fed00c4e581ed2f0faa812
Not very happy with it. I’m wondering whether to move her hand from her breast to her groin. (similar to how peach poses). Also, I was originally going to make her skirt billow, should I change it to that?
I think the position of her arms now seems more Zelda-like. I would keep it like that. The perspective kinda makes it look like her arms are really short though.
@scree: I agree with both of these points.
Unfortunately, in a side on manner, it has to look short. I adjusted the arm and the pose several times.
I could put that hand down and place the right on her breast
If it was her from the front then yes the hands would be down at her groin.
But being side on it is perfect how it is.
Keep up the awesome work scree 🙂
So wait, don’t change it? I am so conflicted and confused
Yes don’t change it.
But if you had zelda facing front on then the hands should be at the groin.
I am not good with words 🙁
Oh, you mean don’t change the hand placement. Should I change the perspective? (So she is facing this the front a little more?)
Yes that.
But you could do that as another one all together.
Have one side facing front on and the back of it of her facing away.
@rize Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday, buddy. Hope the year treats you amazing!
Eating a big bowl of Coco Pops for breakfast and I just spilt a bit of the chocolate milk on my brand new zombie t-shirt.
#beinganadult
Dropped my PS4 controller so many times, I’m surprised the damn thing works anymore.
Oh, and Happy Birthday @rize.
The J. Arthur Keenes Band.
Greatest Headline you’ll read all day
“Woman who was attacked by rabid raccoon strangled it to death with her bare hands”
http://boingboing.net/2015/03/16/woman-who-was-attacked-by-rabi.html
I dunno, man…
Pilot Draws Huge Sky Cock
(Disclaimer: Headline is from the article feed, not the article itself)
To be fair, NT News is just a gold mine of hilarious headlines. It’s like they’re constantly trying to one-up themselves in the ridiculousness stakes.
Yes, I literally said to myself “How can I best one-up Red’s headline? Oh, I know. Let’s see what NT News is doing today.”
@freezespreston @rize @tech_knight @sernobulus @gingerchris86
Just doing a ring around to see who might be available for Rogue Trader RPG tonight? I understand that it’s a busy period at the moment so we can delay if we need to.
Ah crap. Didn’t even think of that. Having dinner with @dc and @highperformance in Brisbane tonight.
All good. I figured you might prefer a night off anyway what with Japan being so close.
I’m currently sick so I might not be up for it tonight, same with Numenera @redartifice
it depends on if my laptop gets delivered today
Yeah, working late so no RPGs for me! /o\
@freezespreston @rize @tech_knight @sernobulus @gingerchris86
Going to say that there won’t be a game tonight due to real life circumstances for everyone. Hope everyone enjoys their night off.
Blonborrrrrred
The countdown continues… still!
Kotaku UK article: http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2015/03/16/dark-souls-death-bloodborne-killing
Another winning article from Forbes about how Bloodborne will save the PS4: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/03/16/bloodborne-may-be-the-ps4s-salvation-in-2015/
A write-up of a Chalice dungeon: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/taming-the-beasts-lurking-in-bloodborne-s-chalice-/1100-6425911/
I’m pretty sure when this comes out I’ll be using the collapse thread option on Kotaku more than I ever have before.
Sorry, man.
Good news! It will die in a couple of weeks, just in time for myself, @transientmind and @jocon to get back and start spamming it extending it all another couple of weeks! \o/
BROODSWORM
So much spam.
In other more personal news, the price for the collector’s edition has dropped a further $10 at MightyApe. Now $89.99.
https://www.mightyape.com.au/product/Bloodborne-Collectors-Edition/22996823
I’ve sent them a message asking for a $10 partial refund on my order. We’ll see how it goes.
What’s shipping time like from Mighty Ape? I think Bloodborne will be something I NEED to get on release.
I don’t know 🙁
I’m cautiously hoping it’ll be here by mid-April. I’m stupidly wishing it will ship prior to release and arrive within a couple of days of the launch date. I’m fearing it will never arrive.
The site (and the order receipt) offer no indications.
I bought a special edition of the DA:I guidebook from MightyApe. They emailed me telling they were no longer stocking it, and asked if I’d like a refund, so I opted for a partial refund and different hardcover version that they did have in stock. It arrived within a few days of that email conversation.
Tl;dr: Might be due to them trying to make up after failing to stock something they advertised, but my order arrived pretty quickly.
I’ve always had decent shipping times from Mighty Ape – mostly within two weeks or less.
I don’t know if I should be excited for it or not. I really don’t. I liked Dark Souls a lot until the back-to-back horrible that was Sen’s Fortress followed by goddamned fucking Painted World and then culminating in running up the side of the church with the dickhole archers and then O&S being straight up impossible. Never progressed past that. Getting ganked repeatedly and almost instantly when I went human to try and be able to summon help against O&S was the icing on the cake. I still think about going back and I tried to do it a couple of times but the magic was lost. 🙁 All the regrets. 🙁
I’m worried that Bloodbourne will have a bunch of questionable decisions and make me hate my inability to finish it too. 🙁
Might not be your thing, and that’s fine. Tis definitely not everyone’s cup of masochistic tea.
Do you know if Bloodborne will have multiplayer invasions and such similar to Souls and what the trigger is? (human form ect)
AFAIK, MP seems very similar to Souls.
@morkai @cakesmith @rize thanks for the Titanfall games last night gents. Lots of fun…. especially when that one guy was “disabling his firewall”!
Planning on a repeat tonight, give me a shout on the twitterverse if interested!
Quiet day.
Batman Arkham Origins: Blackgate boss battles are intensely annoying. Shame, because the rest of the game is pretty solid and a good deal of fun. Nearly at the end now!
Any one else in Brisbane keen to have dinner tonight in the city with our resident fitness Adonis?
I assume it wont be after 8:30pm?
I’d feel pretty safe in saying probably not.
Yeah, fair enough. You guys have fun though!
Time/place decided?
I’m working from City today so if it’s not too late I could potentially hang around if wifey is happy to collect and deal with the kid.
Not yet. Open to suggestions. And I was hoping for early since I need to get home at a decent time to pack my bags to go.
Little Singapore is alright? No idea on trading hours in city though… Normally goto Sunnybank one.
Or there’s The Embassy on edward/elizabeth st… only been there once but food was alright. Drinks were a bit pricey from memory.
Tentatively. I gotta shop a bit too, and work late. Let me know when and where and I’ll try to fit in, unless you’re going a place needs reservations?
I was going to make a joke about my microwave being full of bread, but…
At least you linked to the original article for people to discover the origin of the in-joke.
For Allure that article must be the gift that keeps giving!
From memory at the time most of the jokes were actually on TAY
I still don’t understand the joke…
Especially at the time, Lifehacker was posting “life hacks” that were at best a bit absurd, this one just tipped it over the line and we all made much hay of it.
Whenever we make a bread in the microwave comment it’s a reference to this.
I think it’s one of those things where you had to be around at the time, cause I can’t figure it out for the life of me :\
It was the fact that people took it and ran with it, coming up with similarly ridiculous ‘advice’ and Alex got really angry about it.
Like I said, I think you’d have to have been there at the time 😛
This:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/03/the-dungeons-and-dragons-session-that-became-a-real-life-phenomenon/
Has me really tempted to see if I can track down English translations of the Sword World RPG system that they came up with to replace D&D once Lodoss got popular.
@dc and other David Simon fans:
Here’s some oldish news that I didn’t know. Perhaps you didn’t know it either. http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jul/31/david-simon-show-me-a-hero-the-wire-treme-hboNah, forget that. This one is much better: http://grantland.com/features/david-simon-show-me-a-hero-hbo-the-wire-treme/
Late to the Party Update:
Took Binding of Issac Rebirth for a spin on the PS4 on Sunday. Good bit of light fun, and considering that I never made it past level 3 on the original, had a good run on the third play and made it as far as Mom (died due to inexperience as much as anything).
Monster Hunter also continues to progress slowly through High Rank. I keep feeling like the game is dishing up unreasonable hunts at this point, but I keep beating them, so I can’t really say that it’s entirely unreasonable. That HR frenzy brach was a bit silly.
Good old Binding of Isaac, I keep coming back to it every so often and do a couple of runs.
Yeah, so I’m discovering a tonne of crap that would be ideal to set up or organize for my absence during the Japan trip which I REALLY should’ve thought of 2-3 weeks ago. But on the plus side, dressed in civvies today for the amount of between-site travelling etc, get called into impromptu ops meeting with vendor, managed to totally pull it off. Totally killing it on knowing where all these balls in the air are. Why does my work-brain switch itself off when I clock out, and personal organization turn to shit? 😛
God I’m the same; I can tell my manager where to find a document for a client who’s been archived for like 6 months off the top of my head but come home I’ll have trouble finding bloody socks =,=
Because your work-brain ain’t being paid big cash money to keep your house tidy and games library sorted in alphabetical order by genre. =P
My games & comics are sorted, everything else though…
…My Steam library categories are very inelegant, it is true. And the console games are on a shelf. In no order beyond what chaos theory dictated.
So there’s a slight chance that when Blaghs, Freya and I played Discworld: Ankh-Morpork on the weekend, I set it up wrong so that all of the powerful late game cards came early and the early money-earning cards came late. Don’t worry, it only completely broke the flow of the game.
ARE YOU JOKING.
NOW I KNOW WHY YOU WON SO OFTEN
Because we were drawing from the same deck and were equally screwed by this mistake?
It never serves to be rational with your mrs; how have you not learned this yet?!
I’m a very, very slow learner.
Random chance in theory: Every body has an equal chance of getting good cards.
Random Chance in real life: one person will get all the good cards because fuck you.
Alienware Alpha i3
Thoughts?
Seems like the ideal way for me to become a steam addict, but 4gb of ram sounds small to me.
4gb would be okay. The alpha’s issue is that it uses laptop parts. Underpowered CPUs. The 5400 rpm HDD is going to be a massive limiting factor for responsiveness and the fact they refuse to actually tell you what GPU is in there (“Custom-built GeForce GTX”) sends off massive alarm bells for me.
I reckon you could put together a half-decent games box for $700 which would easily outperform it. Also even though it’s everything in one for you, it’s not going to be a turn-key solution like a console is. You’ve still got Windows on there, still got to have it auto-launch Steam in Big Picture mode, handle updates and generally fiddle around.
5400rpm HDD is an instant no from me. Means there will be slow boot times, slow load times and general sluggishness.
Yeah, depends on exactly what you put in and how you did it but I spec’d up an 8GB Mini-ITX PC for $527 sans graphics card. Can get a GTX-960-Mini for $299 which puts it a little over the cost of the Alpha but at least you know exactly what card you’re getting. And you don’t have to get Windows 8 if you don’t want it.
Upgradeable? Just throw another 4 in?
Most games these days call for 8GB minimum for Windows… so unless SteamOS reduces the overheads significantly it might be a bottleneck.
Thanks everyone
I will return to my original plan & pay @welbot to build me one.
(Once my goddam craptop dies! It’s like 8 years old, iPod too! Bastards!!)
@jocon @novacascade @transientmind @freezespreston:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-03-17/unexploded-1-ton-bomb-found-near-osaka-otaroad/.86052
Maybe we should stay away from Den Den Town / Nipponbashi after all…
I can think of worse ways to go. 🙂
Blown up during the WW2 American carpet bombing of Osaka… in 2015?
EDIT: I can think of better ways to go too. Many of them.
Statistically, we should really stay there. They’ve probably found all the ordinance there was to find!
Or wait… does that just mean that their particular area wasn’t searched very well, and there’s more likely others undiscovered.
(Just goes to show. Sometimes statistics only mean one thing: what they explicitly show. That a bomb was found. Nothing more. Nothing less.)
It’s not the first unexploded bomb they found in Osaka either. 🙁
Make a good souvenir.
Customs declaration gets messy. Also the luggage fees on a 1000-kilo bomb are probably excessive.
Holy crap I walked past that.
I just imagine you walked past a nuclear bomb in the middle of of path in a city park, and just whistled as you strolled on by.
Soooo… I’ve got that itch that should never be scratched in gaming… MOBA’s =P
Looking to put together a little casual 5 man team for HotS; doing a couple of matches during the week and chilling out over TS. Given the easy going nature of HotS its actually a pretty solid entry point for people curious about the genre and have never played it =]
If peeps are interested hit me up and we can get things underway this week/next week!
Aren’t you supposed to be playing WoW? :p
Did not think you were much of a MOBA guy.
You kidding? My youth was lost to dota =P Played quite a bit of HoN when it came out and then played quite a bit of Dota 2 during its beta days (think I was stuck into that for about a year and a half ). Left the scene all together cos it just became too toxic for me and the games stopped being enjoyable. HotS has seemed a lot more laidback so wanted to get back into it =]
I thought that sentence was going a completely different place at the start.
Yes… that was the idea =P
I’ll play some awesomenauts if you want to scratch that itch
Hahaha I actually really enjoyed that game but got sick of playing matchmaking games that would lump me with 1 other real life player and the rest would be AI; feels like that player base died out by the time I got into it 🙁
Just got home from work and realized I forgot to buy my annual four pack of Guiness. Really can’t be bothered going back out to get it. Regular beer will have to do.
I bought Coopers Best Extra Stout. Mostly because I like it better than Guinness.
A guy I used to work with got me to try half a pint of Guiness mixed with half a pint of Scrumpy Jack (Apple Cider, not even sure if they make that brand anymore). From memory it actually tasted alright.
That sounds like something to try at least once, and I guess it would be similar to a shandy.
I was pondering getting the Magners cider, but I already had beef stew cooking and it really needed the stout.
I’ve been playing a bunch of War Thunder tank battles lately.
I just had the worst thing yet happen to me on it.
There are no artillery tanks but many of the tanks do have an ability that allows them to call in Off site artillery on a spot you choose that then pounds it for pretty decent AOE.
The arcade mode tank battles also give you the option to every now and they take control of a plane for about 40 seconds. Because you only get 40 seconds most people will fly around for 30 seconds then line up an kamikaze run.
I just got penalised for friendly kill when an friendly plane kamikazied a tank I was in the middle of dropping artillery on.
TLDR: There is no justice in the world.
@jackunit13, have you played Ori yet? I just saw it on Steam and thought of you.
Na man, but I’m looking forward to it. I was holding off purchasing it until I’ve completed Rayman. Maybe by then it will be in a sale or something. I’m barely getting any game time atm with my gym routine. However, Borderlands next week will likely make me (more of) a hermit for the following few weekends.
Did you pick up Dying Light? Mactash got that and he has surprised himself with how much he likes it.
Yep, I bought it on the insistence of @blackdahlianz that I would like it. So far I really like the story which people seem to dislike, so I’m happy! ^-^
getting Battlefield Hardline this week so I prob won’t play much else for a while, bit of a battyboy me
Lol is that actually the nickname for BF players?
haha na I dunno, but it sounded right, I’ve always refered to battlefield as batty
A dark skinned lady named Betty goes to the butcher and asks for some beef.
The butcher replies: “Nooooo Black Betty, ham or lamb.
You are a page early Mr Rebel
Or is he…?
@piat @gutsoup if you guys are free can you please help me with my Ukanlos Urgent tonight? 😀
@thecracks – how are you going in MH4U? What Caravan/Guild/HR level are you at?
Anyone else feel like playing tonight? It’s hard to find HR8+ buddies to do my Urgent but if I can’t find’em I’m happy to derp around too
Yup, just grab me on steam later on
I just scored two novacrystals, one from a shiny drop on purple poison bird and then a second one as a break reward. Just need two more and I can finally armour upgrade!
What armour are you going for?
The bumblepumpkin one.
It’s been a god damn long time coming. I’m still in my initial velociprey set.
Mosgharl?
Yeah that guy!
Looks cool. Like the jackolantern of death.
Green Goblin suit.
I see how it is. Hit HR8 and suddenly don’t want to play with ol’ Pow anymore D’:
We can help with your key quests too! the more G rank the merrier
It’s not like I personally asked you on Twitter or anything!
Btw if you wanna get serious about the IG this should help https://youtu.be/6MzM2CqDO-E
Should be up for it, busy farming G Regios, just need 1 regios lens to finish my Regios X set.
I need a Dissenter :'(
Oh man I have about 12 dissenters, more than 50 slavescales, he will not drop a lens, must have beaten him about 30 times and capped about 4 or 5, some drops are stupidly hard to get. I think i could make an entire reg set 4 or 5 times if I had the lenses.
I need to get back to my urgent to get up to G… I have not progressed past 5 yet.
Aaand, roll main story credits in single player.
Now the game begins…
Apex monsters D:
I’m at Caravan 7, and HR5 in multiplayer. Only logged 50 hours or so 😐
Just finished making a HR Tetsu set so that I can actually survive high rank.
Doing the reddit book exchange. Retrieved my match… it’s in the Ukraine. Huh.
Whats the postage like for something to Ukraine?!
I’ll send it through Bookdepository, should be OK.
Check email account when i get home
Steam store Subject: Thank you for your purchase
Oh yeah, I bought a game today. Had totally forgotten about that. Scary how often that happens.
You’re about to go all bad ass on Gaben about how his company is profiteering from hacking your account… Then you remember the Devils Deal.
Far more accurate than I like to admit
Looks like Nintendo just signed their death warrant.
Signing their death warrant seems to be a yearly event for Nintendo, yet they always survive.
They’ll be fine, they always are.
They can’t go back from mobile gaming.
Mobile gaming is big in Japan though, so while it seems odd here, it’s a rational move for a Japanese company.
And it’s not like they’re dropping support for their own hardware, it’s literally just a new branch that they’re taking.
I think people are up in arms over nothing.
If it turns out to be a bad idea, they’ll drop it anyway.
Their shareholders keep whinging about the fact that they’re not investing in that space at all though. Eventually they’d be forced to. Even though it’ll probably kill them in the long run.
People said the same thing when they went with motion controls …
Yesterday there was a thread on Reddit about shuffling. I pretty much dominated the discussion talking about how riffle shuffles are very effective and that a perfect riffle is known as a faro, which is a trick shuffle.
Today, another thread popped up. Suddenly everyone is an expert and they all agree with me. How odd.
For a moment I thought you meant Shuffle as in that horrible dancing trend, and I was about to book a flight to Canberra so I could punch you in the throat.
Uh, one of my cousins was one of the major initial propogators of the Melbourne Shuffle.
I don’t know who they are, but I will find them, and I will punch them in the throat.
Lion Neeson?
😛
Wasn’t Tales From The Borderlands Episode 2 meant to be out today? Can’t seem to find it on the Playstation store.
Might be American time, so maybe try again tomorrow?
Yeah, reckon you might be right.
It’s out now, man. Open up Tales of the Borderlands, and it will check for updates. That’s how to download it! \o/
Cheers, downloading now. Off to bed now, should be done when I get up.
@highperformance is the nicest guy. 10/10, would meet again. Not terrifying.
So much genuine enthusiasm. He is totally nice.
Some people have a natural ability to make you feel comfortable and at ease. He’s one of these guys.
A really good quality for a personal trainer to have!
@jimu
sol
silvr
tehehehe
Thinking about watching a movie, but I’m not sure what.
Help me out here.
Here’s some names I’ve picked out of my collection at random
47 Ronin
Black Snake Moan
American Gangster
Grudge Match
Planet Terror
88 Minutes
Kung Fu Killer
Rocky
3:10 To Yuma
The Grey
The Man With The Iron Fists
Sukiyaki Western Django
These are all movies I haven’t seen before.
You’re doing MQFT wrong.
I choose… Black Swan.
I won’t be annoying (though you should watch Black Swan)
3:10 to Yuma, and tell me how it is after!
3:10 To Yuma it is.
Goddamit! Note to self, never buy an ex-rental DVD ever again, damn thing was freezing and skipping all over the place.
It’s a good movie!
Don’t have that one yet.
But have you seen it?
Nah, not yet.
I can not convey enough how much you should watch Black Swan.
It’s only my third favourite movie, but I recommend it more than my top two movies (Scott Pilgrim and Kill Bill 1/2).
Fair enough, I’ll put it on my ever growing list of movies to buy.
Man With the Iron Fists was alright, but nothing better than that. It’s done by RZA, so there’s some distinctive styling going on, and the music is tight, but it’s not something I plan on watching again.
That sounds exactly what I expected of it. A solid “eh” with great music.
12 Angry Men
Sukiyaki Wester Django! This is essential viewing, do it, do it now, I don’t care if you started another movie, drop that shit faster than Britney Spears drops her kids and put that on.
Umm, firstly, how dare you insult my beloved Britney Spears. You leave Britney alone! :O
Secondly, he’s watching 3:10 to Yuma so I know whether it’s worth watching or not 😛
I thought you looked familiar…
Lol I was expecting this reply from someone, why won’t that meme ever die
Well seeing as how my copy of 3:10 to Yuma is fucked, I’ll watch that instead, kinda too late to start a 2 hour movie though, so I’ll definitely watch it tomorrow night.
I’ve heard some very good things about The Grey, but haven’t seen it myself. Maybe watch that.
This reminded me that I have had Rocky in my collection for a while and haven’t watched it.
ADRIAAAAAANNE!
YES
JUST GOT FIFTH NOVACRYSTAL FROM CARVE
FINALLY
Congrats, now go farm something else
I need brach hammer and tail 😛
Didn’t realise this thing fell short of having Destroyer activate though. And don’t have any talismans with that on them to boost it. Oh well, the other skills will still be handy.
Look up Ping’s MH Dex, it has an armour builder in it, applying decorations is broken for me but it’s good for seeing natural stats and overall materials for the set
Athena’s is another one to use. Let’s you search for armour sets by selecting which abilities you want.
Yeah Athena’s is good if you have no idea what you want. But it has become less useful now that the charm tables are a lot more random
Finally got me a lens from a Regios, FINALLY!!!
Got my whole reg set, managed to negate any negative effects, all element resistances are positive (or at least not negative), Purple sharpness on my self sharpening weapon with half bluntening speed, plus half stamina use and no bleeding, actually feel like I belong in G rank now!
cc @greenius
oh, also nearly G3 😀
What HR? Do you have the fancy purple name yet?! 😀
HR is like 63, not purple yet, I think it was red maybe. What rank are you now?
I jumped to 48 once I broke the limit. I think I’m 50 and G1 now though.
Nice, lemme know if you need a hand with your quests, I was fixated on finishing my Reg set, now I’m up for whatever. Pretty sure I jumped straight to 48 too, good that it seems to record your progress in the background.
Sweet! Do you still check your Twitter? 😛 I never receive responses.
I haven’t done any G stuff yet but I’d love to progress further. I think I need a solid G Rank set first though and I hate farming 🙁
Man, that sounds like some crazy armour. I’m totally bummed the mosgharl set has no gem slots at all/doesn’t actually give enough points to activate Destroyer.
Most of the elemental stuff is from my talisman and decorations, I finally worked out what the hell i was doing with them, didn’t realize I had to get things to a certain amount to activate the skills so I was just putting assorted jewels in and thinking I didn’t notice a difference. Now I’m gonna be tinkering with them all the time :D, have to get to HR100 to get stuff to negate blights, can’t wait. How many points are you off activating destroyer? Maybe you could pick up a talisman with a slot or 2 or if your super lucky one with the skill you need already on it.
Destroyer’s only at 4. There’s a +1 or two +4 gems, though I don’t think I even have access to the materials to craft them yet. Hoping for a talisman, but that’s just down to pure luck isn’t it? I did happen to have a +4 Rec Speed one (no slots), so with that and a +1 gem on my charge blade I can bump up my Rec Speed to +2 instead of just +1. So yay. Anything that keeps me from death is more than welcome 😛
I got the Barch charge blade last night, but I dunno if I’m overly taken with it. Atm I’m farming Gore Magala for another feeler and a tail, so I can make that charge blade since it looks cool and would go well with my outfit I think. And if that isn’t so great, I’ve still got spider blade as a fallback, it’s awesome.
You’d think with the release of the PS4 and etc, it wouldn’t feel weird to refer to the PS2 as a retro console. Yet it still feels weird.
When I was a young one I played the Atari 2600.
That comment made me feel really old *sigh*
so no I can’t call the PS2 a retro console.
PS2 just tuned 15 years old, i think that qualifies for ‘retro’ in my mind.
Yeah, I guess, but the fact that I didn’t get a PS2 until 2006 makes it seem less retro.
Re-downloaded NBA 2K13 to play it, couldn’t remember my My2K login details, got frustrated, uninstalled NBA 2K13.
Way to go, 2K.
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Episode 2 of Tales From The Borderlands is out now as is the final episode of Resident Evil: Revelations 2 including 2 bonus episodes, I wonder if they’re a bonus for digital purchasers or if they’re included on the physical media release too.
Goddamn! Gonna be a full day of gaming tomorrow.
2am, and I can’t sleep…
🙁
Baron rank get! I should get me a Clipper.
Maybe. Later.
Dammit! I’ve been waiting for aaaaaaaages to get the last mission from lord to baron! 😛
Lucky you! I want that clipper!
Have you seen the Courier? Also looks pretty spiffy, I’ve got my fingers crossed it’ll be right up my alley. The Clipper’s apparently got quite a wide spread on its hardpoints like the Cobra’s lower pair, so it’s not that great for fixed weapons which I tend to favour.
Thanks @dc, @transientmind @freezespreston for dinner yesterday. Was so much better hanging out with you guys than sitting in a motel room by myself!
It was a short meat, but some highlights for me where;
– Eating steamed bread (It actually tasted pretty good)
– DC threatening to stab me when I told him he was taller than I imagined
– Being regaled by the most interesting man on TAY about his mysterious left eye scar
– Meeting nice guy Freeze who travelled 180km to share a Tsing Tao with me
You guys live up to the hype, look forward to you guys coming down to Melbourne again!
Oh, so my eye gets a mention, but nothing about Freeze’s eye or lifting up his shirt to show off more? 😉
(Total highlight for me.)
In retrospect, the shirt incident was probably the coolest story about the human body I’ve heard for a while!
I feel like I jokingly threaten to stab people too much. 😛
Was awesome meeting you, buddy. Thanks for hanging with us terrifying internet strangers in a foreign city. 😀
Also this guy is the greatest, he uses Ninja Turtle stories and Shredder metaphors to explain things!
Surprised you didn’t threaten to stab @powalen when he wasn’t taller.
DC has a height complex 😛
That short Pow guy has suffered enough. So short. 😛
Damn! 55″ 4K Ultra HD TV for $799 only at Aldi.
Don’t know what the Bauhn products are like, but damn that’s cheap. For comparisons sake the 55″ 4K Hisense brand TV at JB is $1200.
If only I had $800 to spare.
http://www.bauhn.com.au/product-listing/55inch-4k-ultra-hd-led-smart-tv
I got their $200 23″ TV to use as a second monitor a couple of years back. It was pretty decent, only thing was the colours were a little bluish overall.
Somewhere out there someone interested in blood is hating how much the internet is currently talking about Type-O
Vampires suck!
😀
I hate you so, very, very much.
You have betrayed everything I’ve ever believed in.
Alright. Last day before leaving the country, let’s wrap up all the MANY loose ends at work. No/low TAY today, gonna need every hour.
Wow, that rain’s coming down pretty hard, wouldn’t wanna be out there.
Oh. That’s right… we have a fire drill in half an hour.
Hilarious.
There was a fire drill at my TAFE a few weeks ago. It turns out that only one of the two buildings has fire alarms in it. And no-one thought to use the fire stairs. This TAFE just keeps getting better.
Bleh. :/
Yesterday:
-Freeze and I went to The Beach House in the city and had steak sandwiches for lunch.
-Freeze and I moseyed about the city and ended up in an arcade where we played Mario Kart, Street Fighter, etc.
-Freeze and I saw Chappie.
-Freeze and Transient and I went to a strange bar at the end of a dark alley way.
-Freeze, Transient, HighPerformance and I had dinner at Chinese restaurant.
Was a great day. <3
@tech_knight feeling better today?
@greenius
Pl
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num
Yo Ho ho!
I want Toukiden Kiwami but also Freedom Wars & Resident Evil Revelations 2
It’s a hard life.
Just finished Tales From The Borderlands Episode 2, really want to keep going, goddamn episodic games. Reckon we’ll see GoT Ep 3 first.
I could be wrong, but I get the feeling that the person who rips the photo at the end is Lilith.I met a dermatologist the other day. She said her job was full of rash decisions
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeI thought about going on an all-almond diet….. But that’s just nuts
What’s a duck’s favourite dip?
QuackamoleThe only time you post on TAY is page six. History’s greatest monster. 😛
Either that or to complain about my life 🙁
I’d prefer dad jokes 🙂
What’s something that is red and bad for your teeth?
A brick.My Grandpa has the heart of a lion,
and a lifetime ban from the zoo.
This one I am stealing.
What’s blue and smells like red paint?
Blue paint.Why couldn’t Ray Charles see his friends?
He’s married.R.I.P boiling water….you will be mist.
Hey guys-
“Page Six”
– Bye, guys!
Why do we go to bed?
Because the bed won’t come to us.Man, Luigi’s face staring at me like that constantly is seriously creeping me out. Feels like he’s contemplating what my flesh would taste like.
Could be worse, could be Waluigi’s face … Or Tingle’s face.
Chicken, no pork, maybe like a mix of both. Perhaps a more light flavour like flake. No has to be like chicken. Not beef. But maybe lamb, but probably chicken
Lamb.
The definitiveness of this answer scares me
Pig, apparently. There’s a reason they called it ‘long pork’.
@jimu just get Monster Hunter jeeeez!
Yes, I like wasting money on stuff I don’t like.
Good call, green greeny.
I thought you’ve never played it but just love the clones?
Woh! What?
I played both demos of MH & so far have played a little Gods Eater Burst, Ragnarok Odysey demo, Soul Sacrifice demo & the two Toukiden demos.
I like GEB & Toukiden but have played neither enough to declare my love.
Also, very interested in Freedom Wars but worried there may not be enough variety in enemies & read it’s quite hard.
I’ve been asking around about the genre this week.
Ah, saw the tweets about the clones so I thought you were a fan.
For what it’s worth I’ve finished Toukiden and prefer MH :P. Touki is alright but just doesn’t feel as good. Still haven’t played Soul Sacrifice though.
The MH demos are really bad though 🙁
That’s what I hear, but MH looks fugly to me
I can’t spend hours trying to make armour I don’t like.
It’s just me. I can see why it’d be fun, but my eyes are offended.
I always thought it was the genre, but after much thought and playing the different games I think just boils down to the look.
I was pretty excited abouyt MH4 til I tried it.
I really wish that I could get into the hype & just have fun playing whatever the latest multi game is with everyone else.
But, it’s just not me. I did it a bit in high school but these days. It’s a nope
So… Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines is ridiculously addictive, I can’t remember the last JRPG that’s sucked me in like that o.0 The artwork/animation style is absolutely brilliant, the fact you have to create a family to carry on your legacy really gets you attached to your characters when they die even if their back story is lacking. The combat seems a little shallow so far but I’m only like 5 hours into the game (which in real JRPG time is like 1 hour as I really really really love grinding and exploring in JRPG’s and take my time with any promising ones).
All I can say is for a $30 purchase its giving me as much enjoyment so far as many more expensive RPG’s on this platform. For peeps who enjoy JRPG’s definitely one to keep an eye on =O
I’ve really got to get into that. Was anticipating it greatly but then it sort of disappeared for several months and it came out while I was neck-deep in other stuff 🙁
It’s really interesting what they’ve done with the dungeons and put them on a time limit in a sense; so you really do need to pick your fights to maximize the spoils. Do you skip half the dungeon which has weaker enemies and charge straight to the bigger enemies for better loot? However charging costs your characters health and fighting on low health knocks off a couple of months off their lifespan and given they can only live for a few years every month hurts D=
Euw, time limits? 🙁 That’ll honestly probably kill the game for me.
You can choose to extend and stay in the dungeon for another month; however you’ve got to be careful not to keep extending and exhausting your party; because once again you’ll run out mana to heal or potions, etc.
You’re talking to someone that can’t play Persona because the time constraints and having to make decisions and plan everything stress me out too much.
But but but… PERSONA!! D=
It constantly kills my momentum in the game. Even when I tried to play it with a ‘I’ll just pick whatever’ approach. I have to try and plan a perfect game and do everything. And once that happens I will just seize up with a game like Persona because you can’t play it that way, but my brain won’t let me do anything else. And it stops being fun. These are the elements of the game that everyone but me likes, too. And if you don’t enjoy those bits, then all that’s left is a really average dungeon crawler that you can’t even engage with all the time because there’s a good chance going too often or too little will fuck you up. 🙁
Dammit, I need moneyyyyyyyy
Just got it then.
Do look forward to playing after it has finished downloading.
Ever since seeing Chappie I’ve had this Die Antwoord song stuck in my head.
It’s a good song. And album. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Thoughts on movie, fellow trusted cinema movie watcher?
I loved it. Over the top and satirical and silly, but I enjoyed it a lot.
YOU DIPSTICK.
I’ll second DC’s opinion. Although he’s taking his message and beating you over the head with it and Hugh Jackman’s character wouldn’t have been out of place in Vaudeville theatre villains.
So like Elysium? I can dig that. I enjoyed Elysium a lot.
Was there any moustache twirling?
Hugh Jackman is at his best when he’s chewing up the scenery 🙂
Man, I loved the hell outta that movie, was really impressed, probably gonna go see it again. (I rarely see movies more than once at the cinema)
Shame Die Antwoord made life on set hard, they should have been happy to have been cast.
Nightmares and all that suck, but you know what’s worse? Boring dreams. I dreamt that I waited for a bus. Then the bus took me to a train station. I missed the train. Then I had to wait for the next train. I got off the train, and went to an airport. I went through customs. Got on airplane. Listened to the safety lecture. Sat in the plane for twenty minutes. Woke up. Did I mention that this dream was real-time?
I’m a creative soul.
One of the worst recurring dreams I ever had was when fruit-picking. After several days of nothing but staring intently at the fruit (looking for rot, after heavy rains), it was like getting monitor burn-in on your brain.
When I dreamed, I dreamed of an endless procession of staring at fruit. Nothing ABOUT it, it was just THERE. Not doing anything. Nothing was doing anything. It was just a fucking image of the fucking fruit, occupying my entire vision. My entire world.
This was a big motivating factor behind grabbing the paper and looking for an office job. That, and fights with bogans. And the lack of air-conditioning.
I used to actually have night terrors as a kid so during my teens I used to meditate religiously for about an hour before bed to shut out any dreams; it’s kind of odd but I actually don’t dream anymore, I’ll be lucky to get one once a year if that =\
However I still remember one from when I was a kid, I can actually recall the feeling in my gut while I had it. There used to a sunset and a champagne glass filled with an orange liquid. Not like juice which is see through but more solid like a mimosa and there would be this man made of craggly rock skin, grey in color and everytime he would move his rocks/skin would crumble off. He would pick up the glass or attempt to pick it up and crush it every time and I would wake up. Used to have this dream every night for like 3-4 months… Never figured out why =\
*shrug* OH WELL!
Whenever I start a new job, I stress dream about it. Sometimes I’ll wake up and find my arms and hands physically moving in the motions that job entailed (ie, removing MLBs and hard drives and shit). Ugh.
How about those TAYlists, what would they be without some requests?
Paperback Writer – The Beatles
No, bad Shane.
Rick price – Heaven knows
Paperback Writer – The Beatles
But in all seriousness
Cigarette Daydreams – Cage the Elephant
OR (because that’s a little obscure)
More Than A Feeling – Boston
Chuck Berry – My Dingaling
Fatboy Slim – Weapon of Choice
Don’t Stop Me Now – Queen
What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
Four Non-Blondes – What’s Up
Am I even allowed to do this? Fuck it, it’s my show.
Do I wanna Know? – Arctic Monkeys
One Thought at a Time – Massive Attack
One? – U2
Symphony No. 94 “Surprise” – Haydn
If you don’t have that, maybe Baba O’Riley by the Who?
Too much time together – San Cisco
Melanie – Brand New Key
The Sound of Silence
Edit: Simon & Garfunkel now that I’ve looked it up
Good choice, one of my faves.
Closing requests now, thanks for the song choices.
I really need to reign in my hype for Crimson Peak, but then I read this:
Followed by this:
And I just can’t!
MOtoCYCLE MOtoCYCLE
I want to ride my motorbike
I want to ride my biiiiiiiiike
What kinda bike?
I have a TU250x 😀
Good choice 🙂
Niiice.
Do you want to ride your motorbike, and do you want to ride it where you like?
I want to ride by motorBIKE
I want to ride it where I liiiiiike
So even though The Walking Dead Season 3 (Telltale) had been confirmed, it’s recently been confirmed-confirmed. Though there’s still no release date, there might be a smaller chunk of content (possibly 400-Days-esque) in the slightly nearer future.
While this is (obviously) good news, it gives rise to a whole bunch of speculations regarding the direction of the story, given
the drastically branching endings of season twoHere’s what I think (s2 spoilers):
It doesn’t matter what you chose at the end of season two. Things have gone to hell regardless, all the old friends are dead, and Clem is looking after the baby on her own, or possibly with the help of a new character/group. The player controls one of these new people, not Clem. Season three commences here.Really have to get cracking and start season 2.
No hurry. None of this is likely to happen for quite some time.
But yeah, you should play it. It’s pretty great.
Yep that’s what I thought too. It’s really the only way they can go about it.
Hey guys,
I’m looking for a new PS4 game and would be interested in some suggestions. I currently own, BF4, TLOU, and AC4. Not interested in games like DA:I.
Any suggestions?
inFamous: Second Son
I really enjoyed that. I can see why some people might have thought it was too short, but any longer for me and it’d have out-stayed its welcome.
Bit of a shame that some powers (especially the last one) never got a look in for me. I always, always, always, always, always complete all the side-missions and activities before the main quest, so there was no more reason for me to use it.
Wolfenstein: New Order. It was one of the best games last year and you should be able to pick it up on the cheap now.
+1 for Wolfenstein, loving my playthough at the moment. Got it for $48 from JB!
If you’d told me a few years back that there would be a Wolfenstein game released in 2014 that would have quality voice acting, interesting writing and a well-directed plot with a believable romance element, I’d have thought you were insane.
Yup!
Thanks for the suggestions!
Bloodborne comes out in a week. And Dark Souls II SotF in a month!
I’d also second InFAMOUS – it was good fun!
Diablo III was a great game. Especially in co-op.
I understand the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition is a great remaster of the original (if you haven’t played it).
Shadow of Mordor – also excellent.
+1 for Mordor and Tomb Raider, both really good games.
Alien Isolation
Aside from Infamous and Wolfenstein the other games that absolutely ate away my holiday time last year were Lords of the Fallen and GTA V. Also the Metro re-release pack is a pretty cool guy.
Lords of the Fallen divided audiences, though – it’s less of a sure thing than most of the other recommendations here. I tried really hard to get into it, but I just didn’t enjoy it at all.
Whaaaaa =O It was pretty awesome though 🙁 It felt friendlier than dark souls as well ={
I find Dark Souls easier than LotF. Part of that is, admittedly, that I know the timings, but I found the bosses in LotF to be way too damage spongey, and I cannot maintain the level of play needed to beat them for more than a coupla minutes, and that would only one quarter kill them.
True the bosses were a lot more damage spongey than dark souls but oddly I found that enjoyable? It just meant I had to perfect that bosses dance down to a fine line before I could take em out =] Ah well to each their own =P
Mordor if you like AC, it’s a cross b/w Batman and AC it totally works. Once you’re going it’s pretty simple and the Nemesis system is pretty neat!
@tech_knight @blaghman @popdart5
Numenera tonight? I know techie’s been ill, so if you guys want we can take a week off
I can play but yeah, if Blaghs can’t make it then there’s not much point having a one-player show.
That said, Techie can use a breather considering how much more EXP he’s gotten. 😛
As they’ve not replied, we might have a week off then and readjourn in a fortnight
Sorry, it’s hard to TAY at work.
And whatevs trev, I’ll go with what you decide.
Flogging Molly’s Drunken Lullabies! Cranberries’ Zombie! Other bands’ stuff that I’m less familiar with despite having seen one of them live! 😛
Awesome Rocksmith pack this week for St Patrick’s day. That strumming pattern looks like it might take some time to memorise… Bring it on! \o/
Well I know what is going on my afternoon play list
Ooohhhhh new game from Compulsion, We happy few
Looks kinda like a cross between pleasentville, hot fuzz and brave new world
Beyond Two Souls.
Going for the platinum.
One full playthrough in Duo Mode should do it.
Thanks to helpful wikis, the only one I’m not sure about is
Entity Master, which requires me to defeat all entities with Aiden. The reason I’m not sure about it is that I think it should have unlocked on my first playthrough… but it didn’t.WHY. YOU ARE A MAD MAN.
Shane is pretty great, though. Pretty real great. Not terrifying at all. Unlike some.
OH YEAH? WHY DON’T YOU COME OUT TONIGHT AND SAY THAT?
Uhh, I mean, hey friend…
HEY FRIEND. >:|
😀
Right? Like that DC guy that threatens to stab people. D’=
and punch them in the face!
and put their hand in people’s pockets!
I don’t think I could have replayed Heavy Rain, because I invested really heavily in that story. But this one didn’t grab me as much. I have more a morbid curiosity to see how else things can turn out.
I should really play that.
Had it since release and still have not played it
Hand-over in an hour or so. I’m not READY to hand-over!
I swear to god I’m going to be using airport wi-fi to remote in and continue processing the giant fucktonne of work that didn’t get done and which will fall out of SLA in the period between my departure and my supervisor filling in.
For some reason this is making my ears hot.
Dedication… from a public servant?
*resounding SLAP*
Now go and enjoy your holiday, you fool.
OH GOD IT’S ACTUALLY HAPPENING?!
We’ll miss you guys/rob your houses while you’re away. One of those two. Or both.
shush, we were supposed to wait until they’d taken their plane out to reveal that! Now they’ll actually set home-alone style traps!
I made sure to invite TAY people over a few weeks ago so they’d know where I live too.
Considerate! <3
I didn’t notice any plants, fish or anything that needs maintenance/sustenance but if you did need me to duck around to do something like that it’s only 10 minutes down the road.
My Mum volunteered to clear my mail every few days and there’s not much else.
Enjoy Nippon mayng!
Just Platinum’d Murdered: Soul Suspect, Don’t really want to start anything new with Battlefield: Hardline out tomorrow and Bloodborne next Wednesday. Might just continue with Resident Evil: Revelations 2, only got halfway through the first episode on its release, but now all the episodes are out I can just burn through the whole thing.
What’s a fun thing I can do that isn’t ‘have a nap at 5:30 in the afternoon’?
Have a snooze.
Choke the bishop.
Take that either as a euphemism for masturbation or an incitation of deicide / clergicide. You pick.Is there any way I can marry both of these possibilities together?
You could always give your local bishop a dry heavy handy so he gets rope burn!
This is probably the most gruesome thing I’ve read on here, top effort :p
Everyone, go and see Kingsman.
….nah
*slap*
YES!
Hello night time Tay.
Hey yourself.
How’d the handover go?
Remotely. We’ll see tomorrow whether people are able to delegate the workload where it needs to be, if anyone can step up.
I was wound up, but now I’ve got some drinks in me and some laughs, and the world is a better, less stressy place. 🙂
holidays!!! wooty woot woot!
Sup
Sitting in a hotel room with only Double J for company. You?
Just got back from work. About to play some Tabletop Simulator and listening to some 90’s dance music.
I saw that on sale the other day, I’m not sure how that works. Do you buy games inside the simulator or is a bunch that are pre-packaged?
Free content! Steam Workshop 🙂
Whad da do?
Also, saying night time TAY is cute when you say it at 6pm ;P
It was 10.30pn when you replied! :p
ohai
Sheeeii, you’re up early/late!
New boots. Oh god. I tellya… after a few months of corporate-friendly flat-assed shoes, having something that actually protects, cushions, and supports you feet, like you could kick ass or run or dance or whatever in them? Unbelievable impact. Unbelievable. The feet are key to the entire body, I say. KEY.
Ah, new boots.
Good boots are expensive though, so it isn’t something to be enjoyed very often.
Yeah. Real shame, the replacement tac-boots I ordered not long ago were the wrong size, so I’ve really been missing that feel if comfortable, reliable footwear you can do pretty much anything in.
These are more for hiking, but that’ll work for what we’re up to – a shit-tonne of walking. I really lucked out by leaving it last minute, too… 2nd day of an Easter sale. Winnah.
Although on reflection, I should’ve got something with a side zip for easy removal. Apparently the Japanese aren’t big on wearing shoes indoors? Ah well.
I’m actually stressing out about footwear right now. Have some okay shoes but they’re quite tight around the toes and don’t have any cushioning under the ball of the foot so probably will kill my feet if I go walking for hours on them. But my only other sturdy pair are an old set of runners I use for the gym and they don’t look very good.
Going to go shopping tonight and see if I can find something decent.
Frenzal Rhomb are playing at The Brightside in Fortitude Valley on Sat 18th of April! Anyone here going?
Heh. It’d almost be worth it for the nostalgia blast, but really, I wasn’t actually that much of a fan even when they were huge. You going?
hellz yeah!
Tickets are only $31.65, which is actually expensive for Frenzal, but at least it’s not at the HiFi again! Might be worth the extra money!
Been interesting watching Cracked of late. Check it at 11:30 when new content is uploaded and the titles are usually pretty accurate. By morning they’ve all been changed to Buzzfeedy click bait titles barely tangentially related to the content.
Anyone here picking up Battlefield: Hardline on PS4 tomorrow?
I would have but I pre ordered borderlands for the PS4.
Can’t wait to download it
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Not too sure what the original date was, but apparently the release date for Dark Souls II: Scholar Of The First Sin on PS4 and Xbone has been moved up a bit and it’s now coming out on the 2nd of April, only a week after Bloodborne.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-15755-Dark-Souls-II–Scholar-of-the-First-Sin-EU-Release-Date-Moved-Forward.html
@shane
It’s about a week earlier. Cheers!
Huh. That’s quite soon.
Urgh, starting to feel like I’m not welcome at my own home again.
Come on September (when my sister moves out).
Can’t wait to not be living with family anymore.
Sorry to hear that friend, hope things improve soon.
From Baron to Viscount already!
Though I’m still only neutral with the Empire. Guess I picked a bad spot for it, I’m in one Empire system among independents and Federation, so haven’t been getting much extra rep from the other ends of my trips. Might have to find another spot to move to, or at least check some of the other nearby Empire stations.
I choose to believe this whole thing is a euphemistic reference to your legendary popularity with the ladies
I should really work harder on my ranking 😛
Funnily enough I am friendly with the entire empire yet still only lord
After delivering the next batch of missions, I got another ascension one to assassinate General Sagan. I didn’t know you could get a rank higher than Viscount. Guess we’ll see, if I can pull it off. Or if it’s just a bug 😛
Yeah I thought viscount was the highest… Might be a bug… Also just received word from my group Angeli Imperial that the system we’ve been trying to force into imperial take over has finally buckled! Wangal is now in the hands of the empire! VAE VICTUS!
Nice. I saw something the other day about a guy who decided to try and change a system’s allegiance on his own, helping out the Federation faction there by upping their influence and reducing everyone else’s. Triggered a civil war the other day, managed to win it I think, and has mentioned that pirates in the RES now show up with Wanted tags. Although apparently on the map the place still shows up as anarchy, not federation. Dunno if that’s because bug or the devs need to manually switch it over or it just needs time to update, but still pretty cool nonetheless.
Re-downloading Titanfall to redeem the now free Season Pass.
Oh, it’s free? Cool, extra maps to play on dead servers! Now if only Origin would freaking work…
Getting pretty frustrated with Trials: Fusion, attempting one of the Skill Games, have to get 140m for the gold medal, must have tried like a hundred times and I end up getting .56 of a metre from the gold distance. Keep on trying to beat it with no success, finally decide to call it a night, feeling beaten and down, then I look at the leaderboards, I beat @dkzeitgeist and @fatshady, now I feel pretty good. They probably weren’t even trying, but I’ll take it.
Is that the one where you have to launch yourself off the bike? It took me ages to figure out how to launch myself properly so I wouldn’t just flop over the handlebars and go nowhere!
Nah, it was the one from the Riders Of The Rustlands DLC, can’t remember what it was called. That one was a bitch too though.
I made the mistake of informing Shady I beat him once.
He corrected that anomaly spectacularly.
This is what we refer to as “a foregone conclusion”.
That’s my secret.
I’m always not trying.
I swear it feels more like 4am.
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/221243-minter-txk-t2k-and-stuff/page-6#entry3200463
Wow what dicks. Particularly in regards to the Tempest X bit.
Pretty shitty circumstances for sure. Unfortunately for everyone except Atari, being dicks doesn’t change Atari’s legal rights.
Woo, hanging around in the airport, waiting for a flight to Cairns. Hopefully we’ll dodge the bit of weather they’ve got coming in.
Happy Holidays man! Hope you don’t get hounded too badly by your work!
Woo!
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It’s too gorram early.
Still. HYPE.
Yeah, thinking about a nap.
Have fun! Looking forward to hearing all the stories.
A taste of things to come: Brother and I skipped the queue a bit in business class. Sent a message to Freeze while he was still in customs/security telling him to let me know if his missus got arrested for looking suspicious. Apparently as soon as he got that, she got pulled out of line by security.
Fun times.
Going in a day early?
Yeah, latest flight we could get on a discount package.
Just want to send a shout-out to MightyApe for cheerfully refunding $10 to my account after they recently dropped the pre-order price for the Bloodborne Collector’s Edition!
Good customer service. Good enough for me to forgive the overuse of smiley emoticons in their reply.
🙂They’re usually pretty good like that, I ordered Batman: Arkham Origins from them when it launched, when it came in the mail it wasn’t wrapped in plastic like new games should be and when I attempted to redeem the DLC codes it came with one worked, one didn’t. I tried about five times to redeem the code, but it just wouldn’t work, so I emailed them and they emailed me a new code within 24 hours.
=O =) =D =P =3
GIV DIT BLOD FOR BLOODBORNE
6 days to go, wastes of skin!
Bloodborne saves lives, even before its release!
It’s also the saviour of internet marketing, apparently.
How Bloodborne feels using PS Vita Remote Play
Awesome day of news today. Enjoy!
Actually, I think I’ve already linked to the Vita article in previous days’ updates. Oh well.
Hey, what the hell happened to Dead Island 2? It had a release date of the 2nd of April for ages, now the EB Games site has no date and on PSN it’s got an unlock date of 31/12/2015.
S’pose it’s a good thing some of these games are getting pushed back, there were three games I wanted to buy that week, now two of them have been pushed back, so it’ll be a bit easier on my wallet.
They’ve just released a teaser image for Game Of Thrones Episode 3. Apparently there’ll be Dragons.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-15762-It-Seems-There-Be-Dragons-in-Telltale-s-Game-of-Thrones-Episode-3.html
Shame they couldn’t give us a release date to go with it.
Usually when they do this, it’s just a matter of a few weeks, though. I reckon mid-April. In fact, it may even tie into the Season 5 TV show premiere on April 12.
Less than five hours of broken sleep! Woooooooo!
This week’s PSN specials are just some God of War titles for the PS3 (even though the Vita versions aren’t discounted, the description says that cross-buy on the PS3 versions applies, and you get the Vita versions, too).
Not my cup of tea, but might appeal to you guys! Here’s the link:
https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-au/god-of-war/cid=STORE-MSF75508-GODOFWAR10
Now that @freezespreston’s out of here, I can say how I really feel about the guy…
…
I love Freeze. <3
I knew it! My pockets are now feeling sad.
Don’t be that way, bae.
What’s a bae?
Dutch word for poop! *decisive nod*
Danish… Danish word for poo 😛
That was a test. You passed. 😛
Hi.
Hello.
We’re still online, checking in and seeing your love laid bare.
There’s a deckbuilding game called Star Realms that was the new hotness a little while ago. You can nab a digital version from their website (not sure how complete it is because I got everything unlocked when I bought it in the humble bundle). My physical version should be in the mail.
The digital version seems very serviceable. The biggest issue is that if you aren’t familiar with the game, it’s very hard to keep track of what’s going on. Ongoing card effects and cards that have loyalty bonuses for playing cards from the same faction can trigger without you realising or be ignored, leaving you with suboptimal turns. Not a flaw in the game, simply a hurdle for new players to overcome.
Anyhow, I’m trying to wrap my head around the game and the campaign just isn’t enough. Anyone want to grab a copy (or have a copy already) and want to play? We can hop on TS later tonight to see how it all works.
EDIT: The game has complete cross platform support. Well, almost complete. You can’t carry campaign saves across platform but it all works just fine on Mac, PC and Android (and I assume iOS).
Monster Hunters: Are you meant to be able to kill the Fatalis first run or was it supposed to be like the whole accumulated damage thing on the Cedaeus in 3U?
I went all out with my biggest dragon axe, attack up XL clown suit and all the healing I could carry, and I killed it with a minute to spare.
I get the feeling I could have just let the clock run down on a safer equipment setup and then lined up again to finish it at leisure…
I have no idea what a Fatalis or Cedaeus is, but my Bug Armour is all yellow now and it looks ace #FashionHunter
My day off just became my day on D:
Giggity?
Had some interesting experiences purchasing from Japanese people over eBay, thought I might share.
First I ordered two posters, the package arrived with another addition it was several sample design cutouts (reminded me of wrapping paper designs.) was only a couple inches in length and width, didn’t understand the gesture myself but it was unique I guess.
Next I ordered a T-Shirt (gaming design related), this time the sender sent me in addition pages cutout from a Japanese magazine featuring an article about the game, I assumed the sender sent it to me in-case I wanted to hang it up? dunno either way it was cool of him to do that.
Long story short Japanese people are nice.
I once had a lovely conversation with a Japanese traveller over the niceness stereotype that people hold Canadians/Japanese to (We also came to the conclusion that perhaps a fair amount of Nordic countries are regarded as having a generally friendly population.) In jest, he made a show of his country’s overwhelming kindness, plying me with much free alcohol during our talk. Of course, not to be outshone by this kindly fucker, I responded with equal vigour, and in equal amounts of free booze.
A good $500 spent and a healthy amount of racism towards an astonishingly large part of asia later, and we both agreed that drunken asian people are, if not the friendliest people of all, fucking hilarious to hang around.
I bought a pen from Japan over eBay once. With it, they sent three packs of absolutely divine green tea, that I’ve not been able to find anywhere, even online. I’m sure they meant well, but now I’m painfully aware that such tea exists, and I can’t get any more. >.<;
Is that your calligraphy?
No, not my pen or writing, but same model – I opted for a quick google of the same pen than rifling through past photos. This one‘s actually mine. 😛
Jesus, you’ve practiced your penmanship. My handwriting loosely fits the term “scrawl”
*blush* Thanks! They say there’s no truth to the idea that “a good pen will automagically make your writing better,” however I’ve found a good pen does make you want to practice more. 😛
That said, my writing changes every year or two, taking inspiration from whichever pen I’m using and styles I like (been using stub nibs for the last six months, and that forces some changes to maintain legibility). All in the constant search for capital letters for my signature, so it doesn’t look as crap as it has for the last decade – feels like every writing style has either an awesome M or an awesome R, but never both. -_-;
Last time I ordered from a Japanese ebay seller they sent me a really nice letter along with it.
Type 0
😀
I’m Type-O positive.
Also I may play Final Fantasy at some point too.
I’ll listen to that old band
I have to wait till after work to get mine D:
Yeah, I’m pick mine up at lunch, but irl be at 8pm before I can play
Got my copy downloading. Won’t actually get free time to play it until around 9pm.
Yisssssss
THURSDAY TAYDRENALIN SHOT
Pitch your dream cast for anything!
Your life? An adaptation of your favourite book? Your long gestating fantasy screenplay? Anything!
Saturday- A Day in the Life of a Day
Starring 2000s Brad Pitt as Saturday
Team America’s version of Matt Damon as Young Saturday
And Jackie Chan as Old Saturday
Last but not least Scarlett Johansson circa Lost in Translation as the generic love interest whom Saturday falls in love with at a young age but 20 years later realizes that while he’ll love her no matter where she goes, their relationship will never work out and that perhaps it would be best for them to simply part ways and never meet again.
Serious Answer: I’ve always had a guilty pleasure for indulging in the internet casting of Keanu Reeves as Spike Spiegel in Cowboy Bebop.
If Keanu wasn’t 50 I’d be so up for that. Matrix-era Keanu for sure
I remember reading in a reddit AMA that (Keanu?) said that while the idea of a Cowboy Bebop movie and starring in it would be rad, it’d simply be too expensive. Not sure if he said that age was a factor, but after watching John Wick I’d still like to think he’d pull off a mid-30s Spike.
Does he really have the range to pull off a character like Spike?
Not entirely. In Keanu’s favour, I’ve never thought of Spike as, while well-developed, to be too dynamic in his personality throughout the series. It’s mostly nonchalance or obscenely casual sarcasm that he channels throughout most of the series, with spikes of heavy melancholy and bursts of anger during his more personal moments. I suppose early Keanu could have pulled off Spike’s humour, but I imagine no matter what the age he’d get the rather subdued part of Spike’s personality down right with decent script-writing.
Of course, this is all just conjecture; I’m just going off what I remember of good ol’ Spigel, I’m sure he’s had more emotive moments that I’m sure Keanu isn’t exactly known for.
Scarlett circa Lost in Translation..
*stares into the distance*
Anansi Boys with Idris Elba as Fat Charlie and Spider. The rest of the cast could be crudely drawn faces attached to broom handles for all I care.
This reminds me that we’re due for a American Gods TV series, and that we’ve heard jack shit about it recently. I like Anansi Boys better, but I’ll be damned if the idea of either adapted to television makes my, pardon my french, dick rock hard.
A Dreamcast for anything? How about one that didn’t go bust and we were all playing on the Dreamcast 1080 these days as the dominant home console. *sigh*
You’d be playing the same shitty sonic games
Way to wreck my dreams, Red Stab-in-face. *runs away crying*
Your tears, they are delicious.
Xbox was basically Dreamcast 2
I was going to put something in about “instead of playing the games on Microsoft hardware” but took it back.
Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, and Chris Pratt in “that dream I had last night”…
THE LESSER EVIL:
Alan Alda – Stanley Myres
Bradley Cooper – Inyri Loka
Clive Owen – Angus Baxmerian
Ellar Coltrane – Ross Tillman
Ethan Hawke – Frank Tomhines
?? – Padakan brothers
Will add more if it comes to me.
Karl and I can do brothers, no problem.
Something based on the Impasse world I created would be pretty cool, but ultimately would be crap.
I think a live-action movie based on the Deltora books would be cool if they didn’t try to make it PG. There’s some crazy potential there. Imagine how terrifying some of the monsters could be if it had a good enough budget.
And no, I don’t a Skulduggery Pleasant movie. No Phlanispo. Bad Phlanispo. You don’t want a Skulduggery Pleasant movie. They’d just muck it up, and get rid of the Irish charm by making Skulduggery have an Oxford accent and claim it’s the same thing. And they’ll cast Demi Lovato as Valyrie. No.
Listen live to my show, on air right now.
http://www.5yyy.com.au
Debating whether or not to buy Final Fantasy Type 0, I’m basically new to the series (only played about half an hour each of VII and XIII). Should I or shouldn’t I buy it? Sell me.
It’s probably not going to be the best FF experience out there for you to start on to be honest; that said it seems the old guard of FF fans have retired and made way to the new ones that loved FF-13, etc so bound to get some mixed opinions.
Personally I’m old guard and probably wouldn’t recommend it =P However the FF games from 6-10 were amazing and are definitely worth putting aside time to play! (by time I mean a few years).
If I was going to jump into a “classic (er)” FF experience these days, I’d go with X HD.
I played through that on my vita and didn’t regret it at all. I did enjoy it when it originally came out though so I’m not exactly unbiased.
Type 0 definitely doesn’t feel like a entry level FF game, so yeah as others said try X HD, or something more retro like 6-9, or maybe try some pseudo FF spinoffs if you haven’t already like Kingdom Hearts(gameplay wise nothing like it) or Bravely Default/4 Heroes of Light.
I personally enjoyed FF13 however that’s coupled with an equal amount of hate from everybody else lol, but FF 13-3 is fast paced compared to the other two, so might be worth looking into.
You would enjoy FF-13…. UGH! =@
*note to self get a new tank =P
All the warning signs were there… a warlock named Sunleth… me somehow knowing the name of Harry Styles.
You only have yourself to blame!
I was reading that and was thinking who the fuck is Harry Styles?? And then it clicked and now I hate you even more for making me learn one of the names of 4 biggest idiots on the planet (there are 4 right? could be 5…. maybe 5)
I’m guessing you repressed your memories from that Ko’ragh run when I let loose that name and you flipped out lol. don’t think its as odd as it sounds, listen to any pop culture media you’d learn it the same way I did =/
Devil knew his name.. and the others are prob to shy to admit it. you not knowing might be the true anathema
Type-0 is weird and not like mainline FF at all. It’s a portable game and has a portable game’s structure. So if you get it and like it, then that’s good, but there’s nothing else like it. If you get it and don’t like it then you’ve still really not experienced FF yet.
I wouldn’t start with it because I hear it’s a weirdo spin-off and might not give you the full “Final Fantasy experience”. I also would agree that FFX would probably be the best one to start on! The HD Collection is cheap and it’s also one of the better ones!
FFX was my first FF game :’D
But once you’re hooked I’d make the effort to go back and play the PSX and SNES “classics”. Vivi <3
Yeah, it’s an odd one & a pisspoor excuse for an HD Remaster, get X HD.
VIII is my personal fave.
Oh god, I think I may have re-ignited my fear of needles…
As I posted in the Bloodborne post:
So yeah, screw needles. 🙁
Dude, give blood.
Worst part is the glucose levels finger prick, beyond that, it’s dead easy
Easy for people without a fear of needles, that is.
I’d take a needle over stitches anyday, and I’ve had plenty of both.
It’s an itch in the arm for about 45 minutes, really, then wearing a bandaid for a couple hours.
…and?
I’m petrified of needles, so it’s more than just itch in the arm for me.
Well, what do you think a needle is gonna do anyway?
You’re kind of being an arse, Red.
I don’t like needles, it’s that simple.
Fair enough.
I just think giving blood, if you’re eligible (and I know you’re not) is a) important and b) not well understood by people who don’t give. As I alluded to downthread, I have had family members whose lives were saved by donated blood, and given that my grandmother and uncle have/had blood disorders it’s especially personal.
I had someone try and tell me you had to be sober for two weeks before giving once, that was a fun conversation.
No one *likes* needles, but the problem is that you usually don’t have a choice when you need to have a test or an injection. Learning how to be calm and get through it quickly is a life skill.
@cookingmama
I’ve had plenty of tests in my lifetime, and will continue to get tests.
Each time I need to get a test done, I need my friend to drive me to the doctors and back because I will not take myself.
If I tried to drive in the state I am in before getting a needle, I will cause a car accident.
Last time I got a blood test done I made the poor nursing student cry because I was freaking out so much.
Even talking about needles makes me need to cross my arms tightly so that my inner elbow and wrists are covered, and even bend my head to cover my throat to some extent.
I am petrified of needles.
It’s not exactly hard to see where he’s coming from, surely?
I used to be afraid of needles too. But a blood donation can save three lives. I don’t think there’s enough fear in the world to undermine that kind of importance.
I get that people have irrational fears, I just know that needles, and especially needles in the context of vaccination and blood donation, are nothing to be scared of. It’s perhaps an experience thing, or a way-I’m-wired thing, but I figure in every avenue I interact with a needle, the momentary discomfort I experience is minor compared to either the benefit to myself and others.
And that’s not to say I don’t have a horrible-needle story, because I do. I just accept them as part of medicine
“…as the needle was going into my arm, it broke off of the syringe…“
Yeah, that sucks, but a blood needle is a different needle.
Do you know how long it has to have been since you had a tattoo to donate? I’d do it as often as possible, but as far as I know I’ve always been ineligible.
You have to wait 12 months since your last tattoo.
http://www.donateblood.com.au/ready-to-donate/faq
I thought as much. Bummer.
I take that back. It’s six months, and can be as little as 4 months for a piercing (provided it was done in a sterile manner).
I stand corrected!
Edit: I have been corrected ^
I’ve never given blood. I want too, but last time I had blood taken I fainted, and I’m not sure I’m eager to repeat that experience, selfish as that may be.
If you’re gonna faint, surrounded by red cross nurses is the place to do it.
And if you do they won’t let you give again.
Sadly, I just checked and I think I’m still probably not eligible to donate for a little while yet (but have to check). Stupid medical procedures getting in the way.
You need to get over that.
At some point in your life, you’re going to be faced with the fact that injections are necessary. You have to get immunised before travelling, or before the birth of your child. You need to take a medication that requires daily injections. You need to get your cholesterol and blood sugars tested. You have to get a tooth removed or stitches put in.
Giving blood is one of the few times that you’ll be able to walk away from a needle without it costing you anything and knowing that you’ve made someone else’s life possible. Even just donating some plasma can make a difference.
I have at least three relatives that would have died were it not for donated blood products.
This. So much this.
I’m certainly not excited when I need to give blood/have a blood test – I’d even say I I get very mildly anxious. But once I’m in the seat and the needles in it’s a piece of cake.
Also – if you goto a permanent blood bank you get good free food and drinks! Years ago in Sydney the place I went to did milkshakes!
man, that’d be sweet, best I get is a mars bar and a can of coke.
You’re ahead of me!
I usually have to goto a mobile blood bank… so I get to sit in a car park for 15 minutes afterwards on a fold out chair and get a box of sultana’s/trail mix and a cup of juice. So glamorous.
Here in Canberra, too. MILKSHAKES. They even have sausage rolls sometimes! \o/
Wait, what? Really. Guess I should probably book myself in.
I’ve had some fun conversations at work about bone marrow donation.
It’s potentially one of the most painful things you can do in your life, but if you get that rare at most once in a lifetime call-up, it’s because they need YOU, and if you don’t then someone will probably die.
It’s interesting seeing people wrestle with the concept of excessive pain but directly saving someone’s life.
I got the call once. Agreed to help without even really thinking about it. One of the few times I’ve been genuinely proud of myself.
It didn’t end up happening in the end, because even though I was an excellent match for whoever this person was, they found someone else who was an even closer match.
But still. One of the better times.
If I remember correctly, it was you sharing this that got me to get off my ass and get onto the registry.
Haven’t been called for that yet, but I’ve been asked to participate in 3 rounds of experiments so far since my blood is supposedly quite fun for the researcher types.
That sucks. Phobias are hard to deal with. Fortunately, needles don’t bother me at all. I have completely different irrational phobias… 🙂
I used to give blood regularly in the UK. However, being from the UK they don’t want my blood here. Wish I could.
TAYlist for the 19th of March 2015
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by my phone blowing up with twitter alerts (only 3, but still…)Crowded House – Everything Is Good For You
Rick Price – Heaven Knows (Requested by @tigerion)
Mathew Wilder – Break My Stride
Queen – Don’t Stop Me Now (Requested by @evilmonkey)
Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP – Sugar Man
Matchbox 20 – She’s So Mean
Barenaked Ladies – One Week
Fatboy Slim – Weapon of Choice (Requested by @freezespreston)
Melanie – Brand New Key (Requested by @f4ction)
Boston – More Than A feeling (Requested by @cakesmith)
Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On (Requested by @Redartifice, saw that tweet, I’m glad that TAYbies are listening to the show)
Four Non Blondes – What’s Up (Requested by @lucifer9783 (hey that’s me!), not to be confused with the prior)
Who – Baba O’Riely (Requested by @phlansipo)
Naked & Famous – Young Blood
INXS – Pretty Vegas
A suspicious lack of dingaling in this playlist. 😛
Dear sir or madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write, will you take a look?
I will read your book, as soon as you send it to me.
I seem to keep waking up all sprawled out across my bed pretty much sideways and with the covers half hanging off the side.
Must be sleeping great.
That or you’re falling into bed the wrong way?
Sleeping is traditionally done at night.
Incoming work vent
Just about to publish a report I’ve been working on retooling since the start of the month and man am I glad to see the back end of it. 3 weeks, 7x 12 hour days, 2x times working from home til midnight, 1x nervous breakdown, very little sleep. I cannot wait to delegate the ongoing production of this report to somebody else.Woo!
De! Le! Gate! De! Le! Gate!
Once upon a time, my team was responsible for a three-yearly-report. I started the ball rolling on it, and left it with someone else while I took six weeks paternity leave. Came back to find that nothing had been done on it, and the deadline was only a couple of months away. After working insanely hard (including some weekend work) on it, and making all the insane changes that the management hierarchy demanded (including the request to make it more boring. Seriously. “It should put people to sleep,” was the instruction I received), the report was finally finished.
And then was carefully planned to be tabled at a time when it would disappear without anyone paying any attention to it or ever reading it.
just sent a work memo out….
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Guys,
WHAT THE SERIOUS FUCK?!?
You know that porcelain thing in that small room? ITS CALLED A FUCKING TOILET. Point and shoot INSIDE THE DAMN THING. Ok, we are all guys, i understand a bit of side splash… BUT HOW THE HELL DO YOU GET PISS STAINS ON THE DOOR BEHIND YOU, AND AT SHOULDER HEIGHT TO BOOT???
Workplace toilets are the worst.
So having a Berocca ‘Boost’ at 3pm may not have been the best idea ever… I can’t sit still right now.
Are you sure it’s not because you have a Better off Ted chair?
context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blV61SAoqGQMan that show was great and should not have got canned
Is that one with caffiene in it?
yeeeepp!
75mg ‘naturally occuring in guarana’
and 120mg of guarana…
@novacascade
So where is the group meating up? At the hotel?
Also, just read the bit about reconfirming flights in the paperwork; is that something I should do at this point?
When you Scott and Tegan get to Osaka, neg0 myself and the rest of the people on SQ will only be an hour or so behind. The transfer driver will meet you, probably take you for a coffee or something until we come through, and then we’ll all go to the hotel together.
I wouldn’t wrry too much about reconfirming your flight. Maybe check the MH website to make sure the time hasn’t changed drastically but really it’s not a thing you need to do anymore
Yeah, that reconfirming the flight thing sounded like boilerplate “not our fault if they changed the flight time” ass-covering, rather than actually something anyone would normally do with international air travel in 2015 from a developed country like Japan. Unless you were flying Tiger or something.
Or Jetstar. :\
Dunno if you will get this but our flight out of KL has been retimed and shall be arriving at 9:30
Not sure how that.affects our pick-up.
Scratch that, delayed by another 2 hours at the last minute. Utter clusterfuck, the flight crew were not even told.
NOOOOOO
I had a USS pirate anaconda’s power plant down to 12%, then the servers went down for maintenance. Just needed another minute or two ;_;
LOL Oopsy.
I saw the 10 min warning, and got interdicted by a Python. My new strategy for big ships is engines to max, hit the boost and RUN AWAY… Managed to outrun it Had to save in open space, but near a station. Hopefully I reappear there…
I was hunting pirates for a contract, and dropped into this one to find the conda and two authority vessels. IE a battle I could take, with a nice juicy reward 😛
I saw the half hour and 15min warnings, but forgot.
Time flies when you’re having fun. 🙂
For a second I thought you were talking about World of Warships. @batguy is an awesome dude and got me into the beta for that but I haven’t had a solid chunk of time to actually play it yet. 🙁
Aaaahh that sucks!
Me and my trusty Cobra has been partaking in the battle of Shongastyak, lots of Anacondas and Pythons have been killed for the glory of the Empire!
From viscount to regular count!
But now they’re being all evasive and the USS won’t give me the clippers. Or once they do, they have friends (first a pair of sidewinders, next time vipers :/) and I have trouble.
Anyone here own Helldivers? If I get it, anyone be interested in playing? I have no one to play local co-op.
Also, seen any cheap dualshock 4’s anywhere?
There’s no such thing as a cheap DS4 yet. I actually bought a Vita that can double as a second controller, rather than purchase an additional dedicated controller, and the price difference was negligible 😛
Huh not a bad idea. I was kind of aware of the lack of cheap DS4, I was trying in vain 🙂
I know I voiced concerns about starting an international incident before… I was actually joking.
It’s a conspiracy to keep you guys out of Japan.
Japan doesn’t want to see a massive spike in the amount of babies being born nine months down the track.
In that case I’ll go to Japan. They won’t have to worry.
With their aging population issues getting so bad that they’re having to close down schools and stuff, I think they’d be the opposite.
The problem is that once they’ve been to Japan all the eligible ladies are going to want to leave and follow them back here.
With their current birth rate, they’d totally be happy with that.
EDIT: Damn, Neg made that joke before me.
It wasn’t even like a close call, little Phlanisbro.
Neg made the joke almost 2 hours before you, hahaha! :’D
Oh! And my mid semester break is coming up, soon, so that’d be a good time for me for that clubbing 😉
When are your tafe breaks?
I’m free Saturdays, Sundays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. In terms of actual TAFE holidays… four weeks?
Oh my god, you’re free Wednesdays?!
Wednesdays the Court hosts Drag Factory! (drag shows)!!!
I’m sorry to hear about all your troubles. 🙁
Goddamn, I just caught up on Twitter. What a clusterfuck.
@pupp3tmast3r
I’ve been pondering how to deal with this all week and I’ve finally come to a decision.
You may be unaware but I actually raid at work since it has a number of perks, catch up on stuff in the morning, local shops nearby on breaks, and the ultimate reason – no shared network.
However this weekend their hosting some stupid Iron Man contest around the beach and closing all the roads nearby I’ve decided to not even bother attempting to see if I’m able to drive in – seems fruitless.
I will come to this weekends raid, but I’m at the mercy of my home internet connection, so I might have to leave if it gets real bad :S just a Thursday heads up I guess. I’m sure your seen how flaky I can be on nights and weekdays – that’s the number one reason lol.
I know this all sounds far to tentative to even mention =/ better than saying nothing I guess.
All i know is you’ve confessed to being a one direction fanboy. The end.
Also what the hell is wrong with your home internet?? Anyways don’t stress about this weekend all that much; if you can join us on saturday go for it, but sunday is shaping up to be a big no show for the time being with ark, rail, sat, trench already down and out for the count.
Edit: Separate note I am looking to take raiding times into weekdays and freeing up one of the weekends; will you still be able to join us on weekdays as easily?
Being able to show up isn’t the problem, just my internet at home can be so unreliable at times, DCs, lag spikes, constant lag uptime other times it’ll be fine, it all depends if someone is downloading on the network at the same time. and I have no power to stop them nor would I impose, that’s the whole point of a shared network.
Which causes weekdays to be a problem, because people usually stream or download in the afternoon so I’ll be more susceptible but yeah I can come on weekdays I just might be taken by the elements.
Edit: P.S. I know it really sucks to juggle each individual raiders needs lol, just set your schedule, if if it doesn’t work out than consider replacing me I can take it, don’t forget my Saturdays are about to get monopolized when July hits =/ and that rush lasts until sep/oct, sorry dude out of my hands with all this.
Lol yeah it sucks but its need to get done; no point losing raiders just over raid times. Guild has to work for everyone in it; not expect everyone else to bend for it. With regards to showing up I meant are you able to get access to a stable work connection on Sat cos that’s the day I’m looking to doing some progression raiding.
No chance of you getting your own private connection? via a USB dongle or something? You would just need enough data for a few hours of raiding but that said your call completely. If its economically not viable dont stress; we’ll just have to figure it out.
With regards to July its part of the reason I’m looking moving out of one of the weekends. Don has requested a move from a weekend and to be completely honest I need one of the weekends away from WoW lest I suffer burnout before this xpac finishes up. I’ll run it by raiders on Saturday and see what the consensus is.
Best I can offer is to drive in on Saturday morning and check to see if their begun blocking the roads yet. the roads will definitely be blocked on Sunday though so I could probably tell you the verdict by 9-10 am.
As for the private connection thing I’ll look into, basically depends on what days you decide and how often you alter it etc.
Really good Survivor ep! I wanna discuss but I’ll wait for y’all to see it first 😀
@powalen @sughly @phoenix @masha2932 @f4ction
…@mrtaco ? 😛
Shh, it’s still going!
Yay I knew you were cool!
Did not.
@popdart5:
Kantai Collection Ep 11:
Holy shit, they went there. Akagi has flashbacks, remembering the life of the ship she inherited the ‘soul’ of so to speak. Which begs the question: are the abyssal fleet the same? It explains why they seemed to know what was going to happen before it did, if the girls all have a natural tendency to repeat history and the Abyssal fleet know what that history is…Still, after doing all that work to get Fubuki into the squad, to then just leave her behind was nutty. The entire second half of the episode I was going OH GOD DON’T DO THAT. And then that cliffhanger, goddamn. Obviously Fubuki’s going to sweep in at that moment, or even better we’ll get a Type-3 AA shell barrage from Yamato. No one’s actually died yet which is good.
The other big mystery is who the fuck was standing watching Yamato leave? The silhouetted person they briefly showed. Abyssal spy? Friendly?
Worst thing is I’m going to miss the end unless I can luck into finding it on TV in Japan next week (and the week after? Not sure if it’s 12 eps or 13).
EDIT: Also, Midway Princess! But why is she completely silent? 🙁 In the Midway event in the game where she turned up, she was voiced by Ayako Kawasumi who is already a cast regular (she voices Ooyodo). Them being completely silent is just weird.
EDIT EDIT: Oh my god, that shadowed figure is Taihou.
EDIT Big spoiler:
If you go frame by frame when Yamato launches, there’s an initial spotlight flash, and in that flash the two open doors behind her are illuminated and in there you can see the silhouettes of Shoukaku and Zuikaku…Yeah, I trawl through Reddit after watching and it’s amazing how much people can pull from the episodes. I too was surprised to see Shoukaku and Zuikaku in the background of Yamato’s launch so we’re already going against history there. Probably also provides a bit of an explanation for why the assault group has been delayed.Yay more Kuma and Tama! Yay Taihou! Yay more Hiryuu and Soryuu! Considering that there are so many different characters and they’ve only just hinted at Taihou through silhouette, I think chances are good for either a second season or maybe short vignettes or OVAs or something like that. Ze Germans will probably be introduced if they do a second season (also more likely than not the subs).
I was reading that the Midway Princess more matches the look of the princess used in the Guadalcanal event so that might be why she didn’t talk. I have no clue honestly though so that’s probably just speculation.
I thought it was kinda ironic in a way that Akagi had the premonition about the terrible course of the battle but still ended up getting caught just as she had originally with no dedicated anti-aircraft. Ties in well with the feeling of you can’t deny fate sort of thing. Also that cliffhanger is the hangiest of cliffs I’ve seen in anime for a long time. Goddamn two-part finales. Still mega-hyped for next week and I hope you get to catch it while in Japan.
Yeah, the princess was Henderson-chan for some reason. The Airfield Hime from the first ever event in the game, when they added Yamato and broke the spirit of a lot of players by having crazily hard maps at the end where the boss health regenerated over time so you had to make risky sorties where your ships would end up sinking because within about 6-8 hours any damage you did would be undone by the regen. Ironbottom Sound lived up to its name in the game too. I played in that event but only got as far as clearing the first map and picking up I-19 (who is still one of my faves).No submarines in the anime is pretty sad. Also the general consensus is that the anime hasn’t been that great primarily because whoever wrote the script clearly hasn’t played the game at all, and so everything is history-based. The whole fighting-against-fate thing is a good hook (it also explains the Abyssal fleet seeming to know what would happen next) but they needed to introduce it way earlier.
Remember how Nagato said that they couldn’t sortie Yamato because of a lack of resources? Well if the shithead has both Taihou and Yamato then that explains everything. Blew all his resources on large ship construction. Idiot. (I may have just gone down to 70 ammo just before trying to build Musashi… in my defense I won’t be playing the game again for 2+ weeks). He’s obviously been wasting resources on a ton of stuff – has all the Kongous, both Nagatos and all six of the fleet carriers but he hadn’t cleared the equivalent of World 1 at the start of the show. :\ Also clearly Shoukaku and Zuikaku could have gotten back out if they got sent instant-repair buckets. They showed Akagi getting her 20 hour timer reduced to zero with one at the start of the show so they’re a real actual thing in the bizzaro-world Anime universe, but suddenly they’re not a thing when Shoukaku is taken out because history didn’t work that way? Stupid.
It was also clearly plotted out about 12-18 months ago. No submarines because they weren’t a thing. Focus on Kitakami and Ooi even thought CLT usage has fallen off completely since they nerfed them and buffed artillery shelling through the spotting mechanism – everyone runs heavy cruisers now. A huge bunch of popular ships only mentioned in passing or background dressing, even really popular ones, eg Shigure is just background (she’s more popular on Pixiv than Yuudachi), Tenryuu and Tatsuta not featuring at all (Tenryuu used to be the 2nd most popular by fanart count on Pixiv but was passed by Kongou more recently), Ryuujou and Junyou both belonging to another naval district and never being seen despite both being wildly popular and also both being the only light carriers that were in the game from the beginning that have Kai-2 remodels. No submarines at all.
There will be a second season. The merchandise sells like crazy and the franchise is still really powerful even though this anime was disappointingly all over the place. I think if they continue it they’ll have to ditch the history stuff entirely. Come up with a better overarching plot, like pick an in-game event or two and then do a lead-up to that. Force the writers to actually play the game so that you don’t have impossible shit like sending 7 ships to the Aleutians, or fucking crazy insanity like some of the fleet selections and the way that the shitty TTK has built out his ship selection. Also hopefully ditch the CG. The actual animated bits look great but the battle CGs are off model enough from the rest of it that it’s distracting.
I still really liked the episode too. Looking forward to the end. Hope I get to see it.
I suppose in this instance the anime has worked for me because I enjoy the historical references a hell of a lot and the game stuff came in second. Seeing anime fleet girls basically going through recreations of Pearl Harbour, Coral Sea, Midway, Doolittle Raid, etc hits the right notes for me. I’m a history buff first and foremost and an anime fan second so I’ve enjoyed this season. That said, they really, really should have introduced the core idea of defying fate or done more about the world itself earlier in the season rather than waiting until the second last episode. A core plot that was actually relevant throughout the entire season, rather than Fubuki just getting better, would have been much more preferable.I don’t know exactly how they made this season but they clearly got the heads up on Fubuki’s Kai Ni (although not enough to change her outfit but whatever). But yeah, considering the sheer range of characters that have been on display, including the one-scene only cameos (I swear I saw Shiratsuyu last episode, the destroyer with bright blue hair), this season has jumped around a lot and lacked focus at times. Also having the mid-episode break with the in-game portraits feels really off to me because the style is so radically different to what is in the anime. They’ve tried a little too hard to appeal to both the game and anime fans and ended up being a bit middle of the road. Still a decent anime comparable with Strike Witches and Girls und Panzer in the whole cute girls and military genre but they should definitely rethink their approach if they do a second season.
I think Fubuki is only Kai, not Kai-2. They never said it was a second remodel. Game-wise that sounds right too – she gains a 10cm High Angle gun which is way better for AA, whereas in her Kai-2 gained her radar and an AA fire director and they didn’t mention those. Also her uniform didn’t change to the new black & red trim. Her eye color didn’t change either – Fubuki’s Kai-2 changes her eyes from brown to olive green.Shiratsuyu has been in a few background shots along with Shigure and Murasame. The blue haired one is Samidare (also Shiratsuyu-class but different in-game artist). Those eyecatch artworks are by the original artists and make me a bit sad that some of them aren’t in the game yet, esp. ep 11’s Akagi. Most of the artists contributing to the game were unknowns at the time and they’ve all improved drastically since then. Some of the Kai-2 art is night and day. Look at Maya who got her K2 last week. I never used her because her basic art is so odd looking, but now I regret it.
Since you bought it up, comparison with Strike Witches and contains end of season 2 / movie spoilers:
Strike Witches 1st season was better IMO. Second, a bit less so since it had the same tonal issues as KanColle, and it also wrote them into a corner where Yoshika and Mio both burned out their magic completely, which meant they lost the main character and had to undo that in the subsequent film.There’s actually a third Strike Witches anime in production. No details but it’s the same producer and he’s said it’s a new story & probably new cast. I’m hoping it’s an adaption of the Witches of Africa doujin series that got brought in as an official part of the overall canon. North Africa focused. Toward the end it had Patton, Rommel and Montgomery working together with the North Africa witch group to retake the suez canal and it’s pretty surreal (I have all of the original manga releases because they were released bilingual!).
Good night, TAY.
Good night, Crazy :*
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD Morning everyTAYbe
Yo.
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^o^ (o /o\
We’re doing YMCA, right?
You’re still a babby.
Shush no one knows
That you’re a babby? It’s kind of obvious.
ollllllllllld.
Sup?
We’re getting Star Wars: Battlefront footage on April 16-19! ARRHRHAHHGHAGHHAGHAHGGASM
Huh!? YES PLEASE!
Oh man. I really hope they don’t fuck this up. Been looking forward to a new Battlefront game for ages!
Aw, a friend stole my parking spot at work :’P
Told him about it a while ago and why it was good because of the shade in the afternoon. He tried to take it for the past few weeks but I was always there earlier so he parked behind or on the side of it. But not today…
I bet he’s just sad he lost a bet and owes me a coffee!
Stolen parking spot?
That’s a slashin’
Get good coffee. Go to like, Cup of Truth or something
Just want to thank @pupp3tmast3r, @redartifice, @gorzilla, @distantdrop, @negativezero and @greenius (don’t think I forgot anyone) for your input yesterday, think I might pass on FF Type-0 (for now at least)
All good monkey; you will thank me profusely if you play the older games and then come to the new ones =P You’ll be like “WHAAAAAA?? WTF are square smoking?!?”
Every fighting game that’s come out in the last probably 15 years I’ve played with a controller, and every time I think “God I wish I had an arcade stick”. So with Mortal Kombat X coming out I’m seriously thinking about purchasing one for my PS4. Have any of you guys had any experience with PS4 arcade sticks, or heard anything about which ones are the best?
Came across this one, I reckon it looks pretty good.
http://store.madcatz.com/categories/fightsticks-category/Mad-Catz-Arcade-FightStick-Tournament-Edition-2-for-PS4-PS3.html
I have an older version of the same fightstick. It’s very, very good. Basically, it’s the default option at this point.
Cheers, good to know, I might just grab one in the next few weeks.
Noticed Mr. Serrels was playing Bloodborne last night. Lucky so and so.
BLUDBORRRRRRK
FIVE DAYS LEFT
How to customise your Blonbloord weapons: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2015/03/19/bloodborne-customize-your-weapons/
Bloornbud is “invaluable” to PS4: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-deems-bloodborne-s-importance-to-ps4-invaluab/1100-6426031/
Would you say you’ve caught the bloodborne virus?
You know it!
*contacts the CDC*
Having that claptrap comp only run from 2pm yesterday to 10am today is a good way to avoid the whole sorting through hundreds of entries thing the Bloodborne comp had going for it.
There’s only 16 entries and just over 20 minutes to go. Short day so that Mark can go back to playing Bloodborne. Clever.
Still, it really is bugger all fanfare for a prize supposedly worth so much.
And … that’s it. Time’s up. 16 entries, didn’t even go past one page of comments.
WAIT, WHAT! I didn’t even know about this. That’s a freakin’ awesome prize, but unfortunately I have no time and I’m not artistic in any way shape or form.
I hate the competitions on here, I never have a chance to win because they all have to do with skill or creativity (both of which I have none). All I could think of was a foot kicking Claptrap in the side of the head (get it, sidekick), pathetic I know.
Also, most of the entrants have less than 20 comments so they’re not active members of the community here, all they want is to snaffle the prize and disappear again. Noticed @mrtaco (I thought yours was very clever), and @n0neoftheabove have entered though, so I really hope one of you guys win.
Man, when I posted I was only the sixth entry after Noneoftheabove. Now there’s like a million other ones that have jumped out of moderation. Including one which is just him holding a sock puppet, which was very nearly the direction I took my idea in before going with the mirror instead 😛
From the post:
Looks like it’s actually a week!Just read that. Get cracking TAYbies.
Sanity prevails. Good to see.
I stayed up late for nothing!
…ok I would’ve probably been up about that late anyway, whatever.
I think I might buy Cities Skylines tonight: I am fairly certain my old iMac should be able to run it fairly well. Gonna be a shitty god/town planner, woo woo.
It’s such a fun game. Only thing missing is natural disasters. (Which always extends the length of these games for me. I like destroying and rebuilding.) Really great game, though.
I was just about to look that up! Thinking about getting my Godzilla on. Bummer, but I’m better they’ll turn up in an update or the assets store sometime soon.
Now my pertinent Sims question: money cheat code? Y/Y?
Don’t even need a cheat code. It’s a setting!
Phwoarrrrrrr
I bet there’ll be DLC that implements it, it’s a Paradox Interactive game.
Also, it’s sold really well
Yeah, a 2012 Disaster Pack would be a great expansion. Or somebody could probably mod it in, what with the Steam Workshop support.
I still haven’t bought it (haven’t had time) but I might do it this weekend. Maybe even see if I can get it working on my 4 year old laptop, since I’ll be in Sydney for work next week. Might be something to do.
This is the closest I’ve found but doesn’t look like it lets you rebuild
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=407382213
It’s been a while since I gave in to TAY marketing, but this seems like a good contender.
This might be cheapest: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/187052
That’s how I got mine, good old GMG
Oh snap, thank you!
I’ve been thinking about getting this, never really played much city building games, but wifey saw me looking at it the other day and said that she loves stuff like that, which was a real surprise (the last time she played a video game was Mario Kart 64 with me when it first came out).
Not sure if the lappy will run it though, but if everything goes according to plan I’ll be building a new gaming rig in the next 3-6 months.
Also, morning TAY!
Morning!
What’s new, Jane? Stuff? I bet it’s stuff! How’s the bike?
It’s totally going to be stuff!
So much stuff! Bike is great. I named her Atta (as in Atta Girl) 😀 I’m going to tool around with her a bit at the weekend, see if I can fit a headlight grill and stuff.
How are YOU?
I would’ve called it Corley. Then you could’ve said “Can’t beat a Corley” and quote Full Throttle constantly.
Me? I’m okay! I miss Freeze. And Dan. And Sughly. I’m good, though. Been slow cooking food all week and my house smells amaaaaaaazing.
Oooh Corley is a good idea. Or Mo. Ahh, I just wanna be Mo, who am I kidding.
Tell me what you’ve been slow cooking! I have some venison at home I’m waiting to slow cook (waiting on cooler weather) and for inspiration to strike. Definitely need to incorporate brandy into the recipe.
My slow cooking is pretty modest. Just sausage casserole/beef stew thingy. Still, way healthier than I usually eat.
That still sounds good! Let me know if you want any suggestions or recipes 😀
Friday and only eight pages into TAY. What madness is this?
Of course. OF COURSE.
Your timing is beautiful. 🙂
Last night I had a dream that we were on page 19. No I don’t know why.
Nine pages you doofus.
Part of me wonders if that’s related to the fact that TAY no longer shows up in the “Most Commented” section.
I blame you! >:|
MONSTER.
Look away, I’m hideous!
Mostly Harmless, Merchant, Pathfinder. Slow but steady ranking up.
First Monster Hunt with randoms for a few quick hunts last night.
Wasn’t terrible!
It’s so hard to break Brachydios’ hammer hands in single player to get the material I need. Can’t seem to do it!
Pitfall trap and barrel bombs seems the only way to go. I think it gets ‘easier’ with HR since it’ll soak more damage.
Do Cutting/Blunt type weapons matter? I’d assume Blunt would be better at breaking horns and things? My Glaive is a cutting type.
…Yes?
I think blunt is better for breaking and cutting is better for taking things off like tails. Each monster has different weakness to different damage types in different areas.
Is there any way to know the weaknesses without hopping on the net and looking them up? I haven’t really seen anything of the sort so just don’t bother worrying about them and go slashy slashy til they die. Or I die. Usually the latter.
The numbers are all hidden away, it’s the kind of thing you get a feel for as you fight a monster more.
Or you can just look at the numbers online if you want to affirm / verify theories.
I look up the numbers when I need to farm specific parts just to make sure I don’t waste my time capturing instead of killing, or vice versa.
I feel nothing 😛
I didn’t have too hard a time doing it with the charge blade. Lots of horizontal attacks. Think I had more trouble trying to lop off his tail.
Seregios Dissenter is my new Chilling Beak 🙁
I want to farm Seregios too!
We’ll get you to G Rank and then we can farm the G Rank one!
YEAH GUYS? @piat @gutsoup (please? :P)
I was lucky with dissenters, took me about 30 tries to get a lens, then the very next Seregios i fought I got a lens straight up, :/
But of course now I have my sights set on new armor cause there’s always a new carrot dangling just out of reach.
I got a Dissenter after about 20 hunts. Then I get another immediately after :P…
I’ve played a hell of a lot online with randoms, (must be approaching 100 games) , I found it really hit and miss until I got to G rank then people seemed to know what they were doing and don’t seem to fail as often , made a lot of friends too :). I’ve put a stupid amount of time into it already (not saying playtime cause it’s approaching the realms of insanity for how long the game has been out), first monster hunter for me, I think I picked things up pretty well since I started mostly solo with no clue but now I’m complaining when other people faint and fail quests :P.
I’ve played mostly with randoms online and its been 90% positive, only ran in to one person who was straight up abusive, other than that the worst you get is people begging for you to do their urgent, or leaving straight after you do their urgents.
362 out of 456 hunts in the gathering halls, 163hrs play time, I ain’t ashamed lol
Tell us!!!
I’m at 115 hours I think
I’m replaying The Walking Dead Season 2 at the moment. Really getting a strong appreciation for just how clever and brutally manipulative every line and event in this game really is. It’s a masterpiece of planning and foreshadowing, and also in disguising the on-rails nature of the game. Also, having fun, but you know… that’s a fringe benefit.
I really enjoyed the second season, but didn’t feel as immersed as season one. Really looking forward to seeing what the season one leads at Campo Santo do with Firewatch.
Yeah I enjoyed Season 2 alot aswell, but Season 1 is better IMO. Might have to do with Season 2 getting broken up but going to China. Season 1 I played over a week, on episode every night.
Firewatch has my interest but like No Mans Sky I have no idea what you actually do in it.
Firewatch looked so great in that trailer we saw.
Annnnnnnd it’s gonna be on PS4 😀 😀 😀
Is it? Did that get announced recently? That’s awesome news!
You must have missed @janexo’s “triangle” post.
I guess so.
TRIANGLE, SHANE! THE GLORIOUS TRIANGLE!
They didn’t “announce” it per se, but in Jane Ng’s Firewatch Art video for GDC, there was the “put away whiskey option” (same as in the demo videos), but THIS TIME, it said “Press TRIANGLE to put away Whiskey” 😀 😀 😀
@janexo YESSSSSSSSS 😀
Need to get that
So I feel I should talk about a game I am addiced to and spent my entire night playing last night.
It was a gay dating sim.
Now I’ve heard people talk about these games before and thought yeah sounds funny and interesting, and then I got pointed in the direction of http://obscurasoft.com/
It’s funny and lighthearted but also fairly porny at the same time. I don’t know why I’m finding it addictive?
Have any of you found yourself addicted to a game but unable to work out why?
The ones that spring to mind are Rogue Legacy and Pinball Fx2
I was super dubious about virtual pinball until I tried it out at PAX (on a replica pinball table which helped) but didn’t expect that I would have played much, let alone bought dozens of tables as DLC.
Rogue Legacy is a style of game I dislike and am terrible at playing but that one really just drew me in
I’m the same with rogue legacy, played it a while ago and didnt like it. I Retried it recently on PS4 and am so hooked.
Dating sims are a dark path to tread on, friend. Anyway, I hear No, Thank You is also a decent gay dating sim, but it’s Anime, so might not be your thing. What I find absolutely hilarious is that both these games have a option that I feel should be applied to every single game ever (That is, the ability to toggle facial hair and body hair.)
Anyway, Gay Dating Sims aside, the answer to your question is DOTA. I find myself coming up with counterpoints to why I like MOBAs in general, so I can never fully say “I like playing DOTA for ____.”
I’ll give anything a go saturday, you should know that by now :p
Yes! Facial/Body hair should be a toggleable thing in every game!
I cracked up upon hearing such a option available in-game, but then I realized everything and everyone ever would benefit from beards and body hair.
Game dudes alllllllways look better with stubble/beard. And in real life mostly, too.
AND helmets! On in battle, off in jibber jabber/cut scenes/good stuff.
Gonna head out soon and grab a copy of Battlefield: Hardline. I’m torn whether to get the vanilla version from Target for $70 or the Deluxe Edition from EB for an extra 40 bucks. What do you guys think, is it worth the extra?
https://www.ebgames.com.au/ps4-202607-Battlefield-Hardline—Deluxe-Edition-PlayStation-4
I don’t know! #helping
I’m not sure how important the XP boosts and more accurate weapons are in MP situations. If you need that edge in order to enjoy yourself (or compete on level playing field) then the Deluxe Edition might be mandatory.
But if you can enjoy the game without that stuff, then I would be opting for the cheaper version and save my $$ for the inevitable release of new maps.
I wouldn’t say so, not for an extra $40. Depends how much value you put in getting those guns earlier than you would unlock them normally.
Thanks guys, I didn’t realize you can earn the Battlepacks through gameplay, so I’m gonna go with the vanilla.
Edit: Still gotta go into EB though to put some money down on the Bloodborne Collector’s Edition.
Dang it Kickstarter, why you keep having stuff that looks so good? Backed Shadows of the Demon Lord last night because of Robert Schwalb (love his work) but it isn’t expected to be completed until December. D:
FTFY
Almost panicked about that and went to check the date. Sneaky Tigs, trying to deceive me. 😛
But yeah, I know Kickstarter projects cop a lot of crap for delays but so far the most delayed backer fulfillment I had was about two months. Pretty reasonable, considering I only paid for a copy of a product when it was ready.
Yeah, most of mine have delivered now. Some have been late but most have been pretty good. Then again I have never been hanging out for them to finish so I don’t actually know what the promised dates are.
Although i’m still waiting for my Beaufort to be restored and that is past the due date. The fact they set the due day the month the kickstarter ended means nothing.
Woke up, put music library on shuffle, and immediately on came Maiden’s Sign of the Cross. I have a good feeling about today.
Type 0
So, I like it, guessing I’ll get a good many hours of enjoyment.
But…
Man, it looks poo on TV, I know why they brought it to next gen consoles but they really shouldn’t have.
It’s a handheld game through & through from the empty areas to the soulless golems pretending to be character models.
They don’t animate & during cutscenes it devolves back into psp graphics.
Some npcs actually have blurred faces.
A lot more work should have been done porting it.
If it were on 3DS & Vita I’d gladly accept these failings, but PS4?
Jeez!
You played the FFXV demo yet? I gave it a go this morning before work for 30mins. Really hyped for it now.
Nah, enjoying the game I payed for. Will download it tonight though, should be done next year :p
Fair enough. As I said I only had 30mins to spend playing it so I thought there isn’t much point in starting a new game.
I want to enjoy the demo I paid for! 😛
You can’t have enjoyed it that much, or you would have missed work.
0/10 wouldn’t rent.
Another case solved
byfor Inspektor Nob.See, I don’t mind the shitty character models, and the big areas don’t bother me, but I totally agree with the lazy cut scenes, and I hate (hate hate) its motion blur implementation, because it seems to be overblurring some elements (character’s faces in particular).
Camera blur & sensitivity is nutso
Would this be a huge problem if you were PS4ing on a shitty little TV?
I’m asking for a friend.
I think it’s really down to personal taste. Aside from the main characters, and a few effects, it looks like a PSP game running at a higher rendering resolution, for very obvious reasons.
Will look better, that’s the issue, a game made for psp trying it’s best to look good on a 40 incher shows it’s shortcomings.
I think I saw Aldi selling some 4K 55 inch TV for $800! 😛
Pretty much the exact reason I avoided picking it up; looks pretty solid for a hand held game i.e. something to play when i cbf’s sitting on front of a tv; however when I realized I’d have to sit still and play it I knew I wouldn’t enjoy it as much =\
I don’t feel my enjoyment is any less, it’s still the same game I’ve been wanting to play all these years.
The look is not a reason to skip it Imho
It’s stil an issue worth mentioning tHough
I just flat out could not play a JRPG on a console these days lol
Heads UP
2K Games is having an “Up to 80% off” sale accross their entire catalogue to celebrate their 10th Anniversary over on Steam…
fyi @markserrels
So Board gamers and archer fans – Tabletops current video is Cards against humanity.
http://geekandsundry.com/tabletop-cards-against-humanity-nsfw/
Danger Zone!
How does she even hold the cards with those giant truckasaurus hands?
That’s possibly one of my favourite Archer running gags.
Man, I’m so behind on that series
Noooope.
Nope nope nope.
I got downvoted by a lurker for expressing my hatred of notalwaysright.com and I cannot stop giggling about it at my desk. I’m meant to go to a meeting in a minute and I am not my most professional right now.
I read NAR / NAW every morning to start my day with a giggle or an eyeroll, but I’d never down vote you for dissenting with my opinion.
I just read the highlights that get crossposted to /r/thathappened
Professional? I once attended a site meeting discussing a multi-million dollar electrical upgrade to a popular shopping centre carrying a big bucket of popcorn with a Toopy and Binoo pattern on it.
Oooh, classy.
That site has kept me amused the past week at work.
Among the worst clients are the ones that know a little bit of IT terminology.
Spent 40 minutes on the phone trying to work through an issue with a client. They kept adamantly saying they were getting “404 errors”. Turns out they were actually seeing the login screen of a password protected page…
I had a client keep telling me about their Graphics Drive.
Latest book humble bundle is pretty damn sweet, worth it for Wool alone https://www.humblebundle.com/books
Realised that I forgot to mention Gilmore Girls in the “Rank The Greatest TV Shows Of All Time” article, and now feel like I’ve failed at life.
Edit: should clarify that I don’t actually feel like I’ve failed at life. It’s one of those exaggerations-for-comedic-effect that I employ regularly in everyday speech, but that never translates well to written text.You just mustn’t love it enough. :'(
I loved it as much as I could 🙁
Nonsense, you have children and TWO AUREALIS NOMINATIONS
Think you put the wrong bit in capitals, man. 😛
shanewsmith.com/awards
404 error – well, thanks, man. That makes me feel all kinds of good 😛
Hey, it’s your website, whose fault is that?
I award you with the Red award for “Most good, published comics of anyone Red knows”
I’M AN AWARD-WINNING WRITER!!!!! \o/
Dear sir of madam, will you read my book? Red likes it a lot, you should take a look.
Um, guess what I just done did?
Was just in Target picking up a copy of Battlefield: Hardline, I saw the cover for FF Type-0 sitting there, and me being my usual reckless impulsive self I might or might not have just went “screw it” and bought it as well.
What! Don’t look at me that way.
Should have bought the game, not just the cover. Still… hope it works out for you, man.
……. Yeah everyone just look away from monkey now =,= *shun*
The FFXV demo code is selling for $30-50 on eBay 😮
Damn, really? too late I redeemed it already.
Considering I bought the game mainly for the demo I’m happy to have it!
Just played an hour of it and it’s like a slightly worse Xenoblade! (this is good :D)
Still haven’t taken the plastic off my copy of Xenoblade, kinda too scared to because it’s so hard to find, you never know it might be worth some serious bank in the future (20 or 30 years) if I keep it like that. If it comes back into stock at Ozgameshop or something I’ll buy a second copy to play.
Very seriously considering picking up Chronicles and Chronicles X at launch just in case they all get snapped up quickly and they become as hard to find as the original.
I don’t think they would. Nintendo seem to be showing Xeno some love now so you’d think there would be plenty of copies!
Aaaand Mark’s playing Bloodborne AGAIN. He’s gonna be finished it before any of us even get to start it.
Jelly.
Reviewing is a tough gig.
One does not simply finish a FROM Software game….
I see what you did there.
BLOODPORN
Still only five days to go
Trophy list revealed.
Sony has wisely scheduled network maintenance ahead of Bloodborne’s release. Thanks, lads!
ewww, bloodporn.
If twilight fan fiction gets any one thing wrong (hah, ONE thing) it’s that it overestimates the value of blood as a lubricant.
That shit coagulates.
Being mildly haemophobic I can barely read this sentence without cringing.
Haemophobe?
Oh, like @mrtaco
“Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying “Blood…blood…blood…blood…””
Raz, no 🙁
We’ve talked a lot about blood on TAY this week.
O_o
Hey, you brought it up.
That’s the one thing wrong right there.
And if anyone’s planning on buying the guide book, it’s been pushed back till the 14th of April.
Aw man, I already ordered that. Damn.
‘Bloodporn’ might be crossing some sort of line… o_O
Keep drawin’ ’em in the sand, and I’ll keep crossin’ ’em. *nods*
*hands @liondrive a telescope*
See that marker waaaaaaaay back there?
Yeah that was in memorial to when we crossed the line in TAY many year before that.
And he thought he was ready for Page 18. 😛
Please, I was made for page 18.
Bloodporn isn’t sexy though 😛
You think page 18 is for stuff you find sexy
*pats liondrive on the head*
Agreed. Mudporn sounds so much more appealing.
You know it exists on someones hardrive somewhere
not mineImma get a platinum.
I’m seriously considering getting Cities Skylines.
Please help…
Ozbargain has a link to a good deal. https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/187052
#HELP
Cheaper on G2A.com…. ($23.33 AUD)
Please help… you to buy it? I can do that!
It’s a pretty fun game.
GMG 20-something % off vouchers work for it… worked out to be around $30 AUD
#helping
I’m enjoying it, but it’s a little hollow.
I think the latest Sim City is the better game all things considered. Sim City definitely has more personality. But I think the mod scene for Cities will make it better eventually. I feel like I’ll be playing this one for a lot longer at least.
Don’t know how Battlefield: Hardline multi is gonna go tonight @beardymcmuttonchops and @BDKIAF, my internet’s dropped out 3 times in the last half an hour.
Knew I recognized the voice of your cop buddy at the start of Battlefield: Hardline, it’s (Travis Willingham) Delsins’ brother in InFamous: Second Son (who also happens to be a cop).
CONDUIT POWERS CONFIRMED.
Pathfinder People:
Which would you rather see Drewan do? I’m choosing my extra 2nd level Spell Known and I’ve narrowed my choices down to 3.
Cacophonous Call: “You fill your target’s mind with a blaring cacophony of discordant sounds” – Drewan talks so much that the target becomes nauseated (can only take move actions).
Suggestion: “You influence the actions of the target creature by suggesting a course of activity” – Drewan is so smooth of tongue the target wants to do what he says (Note: As Bard / 2 I get this spell a level earlier than sorcerer/wizard 3)
Whip of Spiders – This spell it too weird to describe quickly. Look at the link. I don’t know when I’d use it specifically (as I need to get in touch range) but it just sounds too cool / hilarious to pass up.
Spiderwhip, spiderwhip, does whatever a spiderwhip does. 😛
Which is 1d6 points of damage plus poison and distraction… 😛
Aight! callout to any peeps who wana jump in for some Heroes of the Storm later tonight, there will be TS, rum and probably lots of swearing =P
And on that note; it’s FRIDAY!!! =D
FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY!
I may be a little excited… =Daww I missed it, tag me next time, I haven’t gotten to give it a shot yet
Brisbane TAYfolk, the Simpsons Best Moments trivia juggernaut is returning to our fair city from 30th April to 2nd May. Anybody interested in getting a team together?
@beardymcmuttonchops @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
Link to event: https://www.facebook.com/TheSimpsonsBestMoments/photos/a.207852839273006.53240.207851849273105/881654081892875/?type=1&theater
YES. SWEET MERCIFUL CRAP, YES.
I’m thinking I may grab a table of 6 for the Friday 1st of May session “just in case” I’m sure with TAY and other avenues there should be no issue filling it.
Do it do it do it we gotta get tickets yesssssss it’s seasons 1-10 yessssssss
It’s Seasons 1-10 because these guys are actual Simpsons fans. 😛
No thanks, but thanks for the invite 🙂
What this guy said! Thanks for the invite, though!
Single player 4 lyf
Definitely keen. I have my gf and my mate also keen as hell too. I always win at Simpsons Scene It 😀 seasons 1-10 I pretty much watched religiously as a student every week
Niiiice, count me in!
So with me, @janexo, @cufcfan616 +2, and @sernobulus that makes a TAYble of 6. $120 for tickets = $20 each.
Friday May 1st?
Team name suggestions: Unsinkable Scrabbleship, Acne Grease & Shovel, Hooray For Everything, Pray For Mojo, ‘Thar, She Blows’, Rag on a Stick, … Stop me, I can keep going with these.
Team Discovery Channel!
Excelsior! That’d be one of my first choices, but I’d prefer to not do a team name that’s been at a previous night.
Team Names
There’s 2 other lists but I won’t link lest I get moderated.
All teams are not called “The Wildcats”, these people are the blurst Simpsons fans.
The Wildcats are over here – They didn’t win
Over like Daniel Bryan.
That joke was always weird for me, simply because of this guy.
Team One-Nuttin’.
Team name should be “KrusTAY The Klowns”
Or KrusTAY Kotaku Klowns!
Krusty Komedy Klassics/Kotaku Komedy Klassics
Pin Pals or the Be Sharps
See lists of team names others have used above. There’s enough around for us to be original. All I have to do is think back on my favourite episodes and possibilities jump out at me.
Schuman Farms
Bent Wookies
Mr Thompson
Icescreamville
Mono-D’ohs!
Precious Antique Cans
It’s The Children Who Are Wrong
Worst Trivia Night Ever
Stupider Like a Fox
Or The Superfriends
Also, my gf broke her ankle on Wednesday so she’ll most likely still be in a cast but it’ll be towards the end of the healing process.
Ironically on Tuesday I put on Bart of Darkness as a bit of a premonition of things to come. Yesterday the same disc was still in my PS4 and every time I loaded it up so we coukd finish the rest of the episodes it kept auto-playing that episode 😀
YUS.
Jealous.
Keep an eye on their Facebook page. The guy who runs the page lives in Melbourne but I know there’s a Sydney event being run soon-ish.
110% but looks like I’m too late 🙁
I might have a second table going with friends on Facebook, for the Thursday…
Picked up Cities: Skylines; goodbye weekend…
@popdart5
Since we were talking kickstarter earlier I came across one of the best written projects I’ve seen in a while. And since it is RPG related you might want to check it out
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1003362494/adventure-scents-special-effects-for-the-coolest-n
Hello everyone.
So I was really struggling with the bookmark and couldn’t figure out what was wrong. I ended up starting again from scratch and I’m still unhappy with it. I’ve taken a break for a few days and will go back to it and hopefully finish it.
Sorry for the delay if people are waiting to see it.
Don’t be sorry scree.
You can do it 🙂
Take your time, try not to stress to much about it
Sitting watching the cricket, Max is snuggling on my lap.
Bloodborne Collector’s Edition ordered.
Decided to order from Mighty Ape in the end. Supposedly getting shipped on Monday, hopefully it gets here by Wednesday. I can handle it if it’s a day or two late, but I’ll be pretty pissed off if it doesn’t get here by Friday and I have to spend the weekend Bloodborneless.
We’ll be in the same boat, my friend. Did they tell you it’d ship on Monday? That’s good news!
Pretty sure it said it ships Monday on the checkout page. Be interesting to see if one of us gets it before the other or if we get it at the same time.
THE RACE IS ON. *dons serious racing goggles*
Tales From The Borderlands Chapter Two. Bueno! Hilarious. Amazing. I love this game.
Bro. Brobrobro. Brobrobrobrobrobrobrobro.Bro-brobro-bro-bro-broI seriously lost my shit during that… So well put together!
“Rejection Mode Engaged”Loader-bot doesn’t really like me… At all! 😛
Me neither! Whoops 😀
You’re both monsters. Loader Bot is the bestest bro.Gonna jump back into Assetto Corsa in the morning.
Until then, goodnight. o/
Man. Just dusted off (literally) the Rift for the first time since either just before or just after Elite hit beta. I forgot how cool that was. So good being able to just freely look around at everything, even if it is all super pixelly.
Accidentally took on a wanted Sidewinder that was in a wing with another and an Eagle, couldn’t really see/didn’t notice the counter beneath. Almost lost to them, being taken unexpectedly by three guys at once like that 😛
Anyone know if @novacascade uses twitter and what his handle is?
Yes.
https://twitter.com/NovaCascade
[/MrStalko]
God Of War III Remastered has just been announced for PS4.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-15791-God-of-War-III-Remastered-Announced-For-PlayStation-4-Release-in-July.html
Day 3 of airports.
I never want to see a other airport again 🙁
Still, nearly finished the trip there.
Bit of Douglas Adams’ words of wisdom for ya!
Sorry to hear about all the troubles… Hopefully the rest of the trip is going to be damned amazing though!
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20140513-the-10-most-beautiful-airports Weeeeee
Thoust shall not sully the holy Adams’ words with facts!
Want to do G rank keys over the weekend sometime? 😀
Pretty pls
@powalen @piat @gutsoup (whoever else is in G rank)
I should be able to do tonight
I’m now up to the last 2 urgents before G rank unlocks.
There are too many large monsters and Elder Dragons in the quests leading up to G rank 🙁
Got carried through a few this afternoon. Lotsa fun anyway.
Did you leave the house hunt?
Oh yes. Very much so.
@gutsoup
I need 2 lenses 🙁
Ugh, good luck, I hope you get them quicker than I did. I made the Arc X set http://kiranico.com/en/mh4u/armor/head/arc-helm-x but discovered that it’s impossible to activate the 2 best skills on the set (no jewels exist only on rusty gear and you can’t remove them only other option is to pray for a talisman with the 2 skills I need ) so that was a waste of time. Falling back on a Chaos set http://kiranico.com/en/mh4u/armor/head/chaos-helm at least I can activate the skills and negate the bad one (but my defense will drop below 700 D:). Sorry I missed your messages, I’ll have to help you sooon, are you on later tonight by chance.
weird I posted this exactly 24 hours after your post.
Oh, we just stopped playing!
I managed to get one lens for the armour but I still need one for the axe. But that’ll be a while away since I’ll still missing some other parts.
You can get these skills on talismans you get from guild quests also I think you can use a mixed set to to activate them, though I don’t think you’d be able to get both. As they give multiple skills already I think they are designed so you can’t get more than one
Are items from guild quests random or is there a way of knowing what you’ll get from the monsters encountered or anything like that?
Weapons and armour are dictated by the guild quest, talismans are random like normal ones, distorted talismans are the ones you want, but I think it’s lvl 126 and above to get them
Do you mean HR126 or guild quest rank 126? Either way it’ll take me a while, haven’t been doing guild quests much, I think my highest is a lvl 51 Ruby Basarios. I’ll see how this Chaos set hold up, if it’s not to my liking I’ll just go back to my Regios for a while. I want blight proof too but the internet tells me I need to be HR100 to unlock the mission to get new trade materials from the Wycoon.
Guild quest level 126, don’t bother levelling LR or HR guild quests at this stage, you can do g rank expeditions to get guild quests lvl 86-90 straight up.
Hey @crazyguy1990 and anyone else that’s interested, Project CARS is up for pre-order on the PSN with a date of 7/5/15 It hasn’t shown up there before, so I think they might actually stick to this date.
Just under 7 weeks to go, can’t wait.
http://en.espnf1.com/germany/motorsport/story/195161.html
So, no German F1 Grand Prix this year… 🙁
F1 seems in more of a disarray this year than it was last year. I thought they’d sort out all their teething issues by now.
But surely whoever’s in charge of booking things can get to it on time?
Oh dear god. It’s my friend’s birthday today. For the past 2 years his birthday has not ended up well for me. I usually don’t get to the “I don’t remember that night” stage of drunkenness but I genuinely don’t remember what we’ve ever actually done for his birthday 😛
Is it just me or has Kotaku been weird lately? Article pictures and thumbnails aren’t loading for me half of the time but then sometimes they just appear after a refresh :/
Sorry if I’m being a turd in regards to Type 0/ XV demo, @greenius.
The best way to explain my overly emotional response is that FF is my local team that I’ve been supporting since High School. Even though I didn’t much like the XIIIs (-2 was fun) I truly believed FF was just having a bad “season” and would be winning again soon.
Somehow that’s translating into me taking offence every time someone says ignore Type 0 & play the demo or saying the demo sucks.
I’m really enjoying both, Type-0 has a few issues being a psp port but overall I’m loving it & having a great time, best since XII ( if you don’t count Bravely Default).
The demo I’m absolutely loving. Obviously my dream game would have been turn based, but I knew action was coming, so no probs.
surprisingly, I’m really enjoying this system they’ve come up with though.
And that world is both gorgeous & TOTALLY believable. Stuff like realistic roads, chairs & tables and npcs dressed like a human is really working for me.
The menu system is really clean & easy to use.
I’m having a blast, can’t wait for the full game.
I’d be all over Type-0 if it wasn’t for Bloodborne. I think it’s better if I don’t start it now so I can get it the attention it deserves when I’ve got time to play it. Don’t really want to swap between two PS4 games or play Type-0 now and ditch it later 🙁
Can I borrow type 0 when you’re done :P.
Glad to hear your enjoying some FF. I’ve not been following the new ones progress so I don’t get over hyped/ disappointed.
Of course
@greenius et al.
SURVIVROAR! (unless I missed it earlier…)
I was so hoping Rodney was going. I wanted to see more of Lindsay. They blindsided me! What a champ Kellie is as well. There was a LOT of blood. I’d be keen to see how far she gets going forward, undercover cop background could help (unlike Dan’s advice when talking to women…)I also want to see how Joe goes further on in the game. Him and Jenn might go a long way. And then there’s the two sneakier white collar peeps (can’t remember their names right now…). Pretty great two episodes though. Blindside, tribe swap, blood, hidden immunity idol, another blindside.I was waiting for @powalen and the rest to post but they totally didn’t! (worst.)
Wall of text of thoughts:
Yeah I agree, Rodney is getting on my nerves and it seemed like they were going to Blindside him, but they might of had the whole “bring the shit people to the end because they’re unlikely to win” strategy. It looks like he’s found a partner in crime for next week’s episode though :P. Ugh, I was starting to like Joaquim again as well :(.That hit on Kelly was brutal and hard to watch 🙁 but now that we’ve seen more of her, I’m liking her! Dan is such an idiot omg loool. I also spent the past 3 episodes wondering who the hell this random Blue Collar girl was. She had practically no screen time and her name was never really mentioned… well SHE FINALLY GOT SOME SCREEN TIME! (I’m talking about Sierra :P). She still doesn’t seem that interesting but she’s a potential swing vote now so she could be somewhat important D:
Those new tribes are totally balanced for challenges aren’t they :P…
Jenn has been one of my favourites for this season from the start ever since she started messing with Vince’s emotions (oh man those jealous stares at Joe… hah!). (Sidenote: probably also my babe of the season too :P). I’m glad she found the idol!
Carolyn is funny too. I love how “who is less annoying?” was a factor in deciding who to keep around. That wart was NASTY
MASSIVE flash sale on US PSN store. Includes a whole bunch of PS3 Telltale games and a lot of other titles for less than a dollar each.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/187222
Also cheap SMT PS2 games, @jimu
DDS2 is on sale! Raidou is pretty fun for $5.
Yeah, I only had $5, so I went for the 99 centers, cheers 😉
Jurassic Park is worth it!
GUYS
OMG
CHAPPIE
OMG
Pretty great, huh?
So good.
Whoo, I loved it so much. Glad someone else enjoyed it.
Everyone I know who has seen it has loved it. Only the critics seem to hate it. It’s strange!
Yeah, I don’t know what their problem is, I was shocked that it was around 2 hours long, felt much shorter & didn’t drag on. I guess it’s a matter of opinion, it checked all the right boxes for me, plus I like Die Antwoord so that wasn’t an issue. I loved Chappie’s personality, he’s like a hyper Johny 5. Shartlo’s acting is so good.
I had no idea who Die Antwoord were, but thought Yolandi was incredibly well cast. She did great!
Plus I’ve had Enter the Ninja stuck in my head since Tuesday. 😀
I avoided them for the longest time because people told me I’d like them, I resisted but gave in, fortunately it led me to discover other South African musicians too. I did read about them being terrible people on set though.
@gutsoup: I try to ignore behind-the-scenes dramas these days. Taints an otherwise excellent movie. So going to stay blissfully ignorant here. 😀
Whaaaaaaa?
How could anyone hate it? Lunacy!
I’ve been bouncing between Cities: Skylines, Simcity 4, and Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition…
\o/
MKKE is fun! I’m about 3/4 of the way through finishing it with each character!
Any recommendations for good “background shows” that have plenty of episodes uploaded on YouTube?
At the moment I’ve been watching Kitchen Nightmares while playing Monster Hunter but since all the episodes are pretty much the same I’m just looking to mix it up a bit 😛
Grand Designs
Man vs Food
I’m not sure I quite understand VPN’s enough. If I get one, will it work by just using it on my computer, or do I need to mess with my router to get proper privacy?
Best to ask during the weekdays. TAY is pretty quiet during the weekend.
Otherwise we can try summoning Welbot. He knows a fair bit about computers.
Here, I’ll see if I can get him for you…
*goes into bathroom*
*turns out lights*
*lights candles*
*looks in to mirror*
@welbot…
@welbot…
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@welbot…
well.. when you say If you get one, you technically already have the capability.. you simply need to configure your network card properly. As for your router config, it all depends on how you need it to be setup
ARGH, IT WORKED! :O :O :O
Hey, Welbot! 😀
lol hey liondrive! sup?
GreenManGaming’s Playfire Rewards are rather nifty – sure the rewards themselves are preanuts, but if you have a ridiculous enough Steam library to give you regular choice paralysis it’s a good way to pick a random backlog item to play, which might eventually earn you enough for a bit of DLC or something.
I got 50c this week because Urban Trial Freestyle was on the list, and it was really fun to play properly since I think it saw some performance fixes since I tried it briefly ages back. Was a fun weekend going back and forth between that and Space Run 🙂
Bleh.
Gonna hit the hay.
See you all in new TAY.
Nighty night, Cray-cray! :*