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Mornin’
been playing around with overclocking my new GPU. Got it to almost 2100MHz on the GPU & 4200MHz on the memory.
Also strange transaction on my bank acc yesterday, for a payment to something call “Schokman King, Tweed Heads” was a visa debit, which was Hungry Jacks now I think about it, hat just seems dodgy, right?.
I can only guess that’s the name of the franchisee, and that his primary store is in Tweed? I’ve had a similar thing at the cafe where my sister works, it’s a small chain cafe and the card transactions are always labelled Gosford.
If it is still owned by the same bloke who owns the other one, it’s a National Party member, he’s a total tool. I Googled the name, but got nothing other than the local Storage King lol.
I get a few of those SUCH AND SUCH USA CORP. They usually end up being vending machines.
One chemist I go to has a setup like that. The store is called Chemist King, but the transactions always show IPG. It was a bit concerning the first time I saw it, but then I figured it out.
Ah, the storm of Zelda articles should be winding down in time for the flurry of Mass Effect ones..
I’m still waiting for the end of the Horizon Dawn ones lol.
TAY everyone. Well, back at Xenoblade Chronicles for the Wii for the second time and enjoying it far better than Xenoblade Chronicles X (plenty of promise only to eventually sink faster than the Titanic after 20 hours).
My first run, I accidentally wiped my save file when I migrated my Wii to my Wii U; I honestly though I had been playing the game on the Wii but I was mistaken.
But this is a testament to how good the game is; I didn’t mind loosing the file. It meant I could enjoy the whole experience again! I was only up to the forest (wherever that is on the Bionis).
And so far so good. Though admittedly I am slow because I’m running about doing every little quest I can find (getting money, armour and in some cases even experience) but at least I’m becoming a tank when I’m just steam rolling anything along the way, 😛
Who knows, maybe I’ll give Chronicles X another try after this game but given the sour taste it has left in my mouth, I don’t see myself coming back to it any time soon.
Xenoblade is so good. X is a pale shadow of it, they doubled down on the wrong parts of the game IMO. Really hopeful that Xenoblade 2 is more Xenoblade and less X. Fixed main character, actual story focus. Ideally dual audio again as well since Nintendo’s treehouse dubs are fucking atrocious.
This will make you laugh.
My last play session the other night (work has been busy since) I spent about three hours just refining gems and cleaning out my inventory.
Even if it was only one or two EXP, as I move back and forth I just wipe out any foal along the way and seem to grow faster with the achivements from griding that the actual battles themselves.
Haven’t gotten up to where I was before but I’m at level 31 now at a much earlier stage.
Then again, when it comes to doing quests for the Noppo one soon learns those buggers are very high maintenance!
Do you have the whole cast yet? Because you should learn how to play Melia. She’s got easily the most fun gameplay system and is also pretty OP.
Double post due to trapped moderation.
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Nah, just got Dunban back. In my last play through I was up to the point where I had Melia and the Noppo; I forget the little clowns name.
In my last play through I think I was approaching level 40 but at the rate I’m going doing everything from killing monsters to doing Sharla’s laundry I will be level 404 by the time I get there, :-P.
You can’t remember Heropon’s name?
I only had him for less than an hour before I put the game down for work purposes; didn’t even battle with him.
The following year I migrated my Wii data to the Wii U and overwrote the file.
But I’m actually happy. I’m enjoying the progress and really do hope to finish the game this time.
It took me a while to remember (it’s Riki btw), mainly because I never used him as I always found him to be the inferior party member. He’s a debuff / bleed DPS character and off-tank. He doesn’t tank anywhere near as well as Reyn (mitigation tank) or Dunban (avoidance tank), doesn’t DPS as well as Shulk (melee DPS) or Melia (ranged DPS / off-healer) and can’t off-tank as well as the other character you won’t have yet, and unlike Carna (or whatever her name is in the dub) he’s not an effective healer either. Just a bit of a blergh character overall.
His dialogues with Reyn are great though the translation loses a lot of nuance.
Hey does anyone here know what the deal is with being hooked up to the NBN, a mate of mine who is also a neighbours was telling me his ISP (Dodo) told him that once you sign up for the NBN legally you can wait no longer than 3 weeks to be connected without the ISP getting in trouble. So apparently the 6 weeks Telstra told me is a big no no.. Anyone know how true this is?
That doesn’t sound like a thing. Aren’t the ISPs merely booking the appointments with NBNCo? They would have no control over the availability of appointments or delays caused by infrastructure issues.
Well i’m honestly not sure. I was told by Telstra their tech comes out & switches it over. So who knows. I can’t find anything out online about this honestly.
It is technically a thing, but the NBN installers are so far behind that it’s rare you’ll get it in a reasonable time frame (depends a lot on where you live too.)
If you live in a not so populated area, it’s hit and miss. Either you’ll get hooked up quickly cos the installers in your area aren’t busy, or you’ll have to wait because there’s none in your area to do it.
The initial plan was to get people connected within 12 working days I think (for a standard install) but they also have higher priority jobs which take precedence. (Like if you have a health monitor or one of those things where you press a button to call for help if you fall and can’t get up.)
I looked in to all the actual SLA’s for NBN during my initial month long wait to see if I could get it escalated, but if the ISP’s try to book an appointment, and there’s none available within that SLA period, there are allowances to compensate. My first appointment was actually cancelled without me even being notified, which is apparently a big no-no. They’re supposed to let you know at least 24 hours ahead, but I only found out when I called my ISP a couple of hours prior to the install. It actually got pushed back another month because NBN didn’t have a part they needed, and there wasn’t a damn thing anyone could do about it :\
In my case, NBN would have missed their SLA, and likely had to compensate my ISP for the fail. I’m not certain about those details, but both NBN co and the ISP’s do have SLA’s they must adhere to, but they’re not a guarantee by any means.
As an added extra, if you are looking for this kind of info, it is buried in the NBN Co website somewhere.
Keep an eye out for 12.15.
When did these fuckin video ads start showing up everywhere? I’m getting rather discouraged from even coming here anymore
I haven’t seen any mid-page ads since they started those footer videos, so I guess they’ve just swapped one for the other. If that’s the case I prefer this way where it doesn’t split the article in half.
Same here. Getting to be a bit much on mobile at least. Video mid article, video/gif at the bottom, banner ad at the bottom of the page while scrolling, partner “articles” in the feed and then the everywhere else ads on the bottom of each article. Going to far?
On the weekend I did a thing.
Recommended for fans of Kass. Which should be everyone.
:O
😀
Watching it back now I’m annoyed at how bad I played it when I know I can do much better. Why did I think that was acceptable.
Oh nice.
I gotta laugh at your stare toward though, Mr Serious 😛
That’s Mr Focus to you 😛
Music is good but it’s hard to concentrate on it when the video features your fabulous facial hair.
Or fans of the piano accordian. Which I am, because they are awesome!
Had a real RTS kick lately. I decided to finally play Starcraft 2. I was always kinda put off since it seemed like Blizzard had been designing the game specifically for Korean pro-players. While that did turn out to be true to some degree, I found myself really enjoying the game in general. I was really impressed with how they designed the missions to needing aggression to win. Normally in RTS games I was always just sitting in my base until I had upgraded everything and maxed out my population, then just steamroll the map. The way they designed the missions in SC2 required regularly leaving and pushing with forces while upgrading and reinforcing them. Made a lot of missions challenging without feeling hard.
One thing that bugged me was that the units in general were too weak. I can send 30 marines to attack and barely come out with 10 alive, even if I do steamroll the A.I. Also, Blizzard always does a fantastic job with silhouette design, but here they dropped the ball. Too many units seem too similar to each other. Made organising forces a hassle, especially when I accidentally grab a couple of SCVs. Plus, some of the controls felt a bit dated.
I really loved the ship upgrades, cause it’s pretty much impossible to buy each upgrade. I think I only managed to get half. Really made my choices meaningful with the advantages they bring.
In the end I really enjoyed the game and would like to buy the next two if I currently wasn’t starved for money.
Although whoever designed the final mission deserves a punch to the head. Took me all day to finally beat it. Wasn’t consistent either, sometimes you get rushed and sometimes you didn’t. Sometimes you’d get rushed twice at the same time.
After owning the series for 10 years I finally decided to play through Dawn of War. The first game was pretty standard, had no trouble with it. Winter Assault was a bit better, got a chance to play with other races. Although the level where you could switch races was really weird. You could switch to your friendly race, but was also your enemy. So you could attack yourself, with yourself. Also that level was really unfair for the Orks, for some reason you barely get any resources. Funny enough, the Orks final mission was the easiest of the 4.
Dark Crusade does something very different. Rather than a campaign it’s a conquest game where you fight and claim territory. It can get a bit tiring to defend the same areas time and time, but then I discover that any buildings you create remain if you win a match, so you can organise it so that any defense missions end within a couple of minutes of rushing. The final mission for each races stronghold is the highlight, each ones is different and has its own stories elements. You claim the planet and then get your races ending, but I don’t know why most people would play this more than once due to how long it can take. I think most people would just pick their favourite, or one of the two new races and play it once.
Currently doing Soulstorm and this game feels like a small step back. Mostly in terms of design. I started on Hard mode like I’ve always done and I discover that it’s mostly broken. The A.I. gets double the amount of health and they start each map with multiple forces. Even while doing everything perfect I get zerg rushed within minutes. Even if I hold them off they then start rushing me with the next tier.
The main problem is that the A.I. can’t attack other planets for some reason. So they eventually reach a stalemate where they’re attacking each other at max offense and defense without making any progress. Or they kill their opposing race and just sit at their location building up defenses. The race on your planet pretty much sit at top rank and can’t be budged. So I had to start again at Normal.
In Dark Crusade everybody was surrounded by everybody and were constantly losing and gaining footing. Spending its resources everywhere. But on Soulstorm they just spend it all in one location and save the rest. Really annoying. Kinda want to get done with it and move on to Dawn of War 2.
I found doing the achievements in StarCraft 2 to be pretty entertaining. I’m not great at RTS games so they were hard, but for some reason they weren’t frustrating. When I screwed up it felt like my mistake not the game being unfair. Although I’m terrible at taking care of attacks on multiple fronts, so those missions stung.
As for Dawn of War II I wouldn’t rush on to it. It’s a very different game. If you’re on a RTS kick it might not satisfy. That said I definitely recommend it.
I like the achievements, although it did annoy me that you couldn’t discover what they were until the mission ended or by looking them up. Would be nice if you could look them up on the objectives tab.
I know that Dawn of War 2 is less building macro which is kinda why I want to get into it. It’s kinda annoying in Dawn of War 1 how all the squads get in each others way.
Cool. As long as you understand less = none. It’s almost like an RPG built on a RTS engine. Now I think about it I probably love it because it’s like Warhammer 40,000 meets Syndicate.
Ugh they’re doing that annoying thing now where if you copy highlighted text they insert a link back to the article. Hate when people fuck with my clipboard.
Kotaku pls.
Things like this will eventually strangle the site. 🙁
At least it helped me discover that dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled is a thing, so now I can kill it everywhere 😛
There’s some very curious interpretations of “answer in 25 words or less” on that Gizmodo comp.
“Answer in 25 words or else” would be more effective.
It bugs me when comps like that end up with winners who breach the word count with some lavish gigantic epic tale of wonder. Bit of a slap in the face to everyone who followed the rules tried to chip their answer down so it would fit within the constraints.
Flashbacks of high school English. Cut down an assignment to the word limit in order to submit a (worse) version that follows the instructions, see other students get high marks for their assignments that were double the word “limit”.
Opposite for me. Struggle to get to even half the word limit, pad things out so it’s still under but “close enough”, then submit it and never think about it again til the (low) marks come back again 😛
Feeling a bit salty are we??? 😉
No? I just think that rules should be adhered to in a competition. Usually breaking them is called cheating.
I like to think of them more as “guidelines” 😛
I’m just teasing anyways buddy, all in good humour, I do apologies if I offended you though. Wasn’t my intention.
Oh, I didn’t see your comment below. It makes a little more sense under that context now 😛
Lol I went over the limit and won two tickets 🙂
Not sure if I’m going to bother waiting for a price drop of the 1070 – it looks like when it does arrive, it’ll only be $50 or so. @virus__ how’s the 1070 going for you?
It’s awesome mate. Got it overclocked to 2100MHz on the GPU & the memory to 4400MHz.
I’m not virus, but do have a 1070 and can vouch for it. Great card for the price, even playing at 1440p like I am.
Now I’m inspired to overclock mine…
It’s hot. Send help. Or rain.
I’ll try to send rain. We have lots here at the moment.
Melbourne has stagnated to between 25-35 degrees, everyday. This is not Melbourne weather! What happened to the craziness?!
Send craziness here. I miss the warm.
No, you have the craziness. You send it back.
Fine, I didn’t even want it anyway!
Good, give it back! =P
Please… I’ve barely slept since Christmas.
Hot sticky nights are the worst D=
So PCCG don’t want to take my money for a 1070, they only accept PayPal or money orders because of either low stock or high risk of CC fraud. I’m not even sure how money orders work? I always either pay by CC or transfer cash to people, like a normal person. Called them and the dude on the phone was all like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (my interpretation) “your problem, buddy”.
I much prefer to deal with Australian retailers, anyone have some good recommendations?
If they have an online store that goes to paypal you should just be able to enter your CC details without signing up for an account or anything. Just like any online payment gateway
It can be a little hard to see it. If I remember correctly when you go to pay there should be an option underneath the login form to pay via credit card. It sort of hides in plain sight.
They won’t accept a bank transfer? That’s odd. They used to offer direct deposit as an option.
They still do, but not on this graphics card, apparently.
Oh wait… now I can.
Either I’m nuts, blind, or that’s changed in the last 6 hours.
How about, all of the above?
I wouldn’t write that off as a possibility.
I found yet another distraction before exploring Ruta, taking my flameblade on a trip through Mount Lanayru to keep me warm while I explored that whole area. Though now I’m up to the boss in Ruta and ugh I wish I had never gone inside. Nintendo didn’t learn a damn thing from the complaints about Skyward Sword, holy hand-holdy over-exposition. SHUT THE HELL UP MIPHA. Her VA’s terrible, really wishing I could switch over to one of the other languages but keep the English subtitles. Or just disable voice lines altogether, and make the whole game have the “traditional” voices.
Yeah I was excited that they finally went voiced, but the English dub is high school play level of acting quality. It’s just fucking atrocious.
You did this.
Heh. I keep going to cold places with a weak fire wand and then getting to the boss or whatever and realising I need to equip a proper weapon.
Got my 6600k overclocked to 4.4GHz, turns out there was an automatic overclocking tool in the bios, which was pretty neat. Even though I was gonna have an attempt at manual overclocking. But eh, whatever. Improved my GTA V frame rate so i’m happy.
Woo, using Power Rangers as an excuse to catch up with a friend I haven’t seen/spoken to since 2015 according to my messaging history. Also saw a thing that Fast and Furious 8 is coming out soon, which means I should probably message my friend I saw 7 with about catching that. Kinda joked back then about not seeing each other til the next movie came out. Looks like it came true. Oops >_>
I am bad at friends.
Get to work last night and there’s this new girl in online with us, and I keep getting this feeling I know her from somewhere. We get chatting & just hitting it off, having a laugh about any & everything. Then she’s all “Do you live in such & such street & know a David?” I’m all “Yeah.. But you’re gonna have to elaborate” and she’s “I thought it was you!” then it clicks.. It’s someone I knew & last saw about 10 years ago. In my defence, I suck at remembering people. Plus she also changed her hair, from long hair in a strawberry blonde colour, to short & red. Also she’s still cute 😛
Virus and new girl sitting in a tree……..
Naw. She works at the other store in town. Which I sometimes work at 😛 Tbh, there was something back when we knew each other. Would be nice to stay in touch honestly lol.
GRABS POPCORN
*takes some* ugh over salted, you monster!
Here, try some of mine.
[Wait for Virus to eat some]
It’s Vegemite flavour.
[Runs]
*taps glass*
*looks around nervously*
*Bangs glass*
OI YOU IN THERE DO SOMETHING THIS ZOO TICKET WAS EXPENSIVE
It’s a bit like that these days.. Kinda sad.
I’m sorry /o\ it’s been too hot to be online!
I can take some photos of Techie’s cosplay progress if it pleases you?
That will sate me.
Temporarily.
(Discussed it with him a couple weeks back, are you doing more in foam, or all in pepakura/fibreglass? I thought the shin pieces especially might be a bit more flexible in foam?)
Pepakura. The shins don’t need to be flexible, unlike the cod piece which does need the softness and flexibility
*hurls faeces at Red*
So the long weekend has we well and truly back on the civilization band wagon.
Finished off my learning game and started a new one. Currently playing as Russia aiming for religious victory. Mostly trying to work out how the religion mechanics work as I never really played much of Civ 5 after gods and kings was released.
So far all I’ve manged to do is piss ghandi off
Can we please get rid of those video ads? They consume a fair amount of bandwidth (which sucks over mobile) and stop Spotify from playing whenever you hit a page.
@alexwalker
He does know and he’s looking into feedback
Yeah, we’re passing all the feedback along.
Cheers. Also kudos to listening to the community and taking part in the conversations! 🙂
Almost time for a night of black and death metal. Sydney, you’ve done something right for once.
Caught the end of Departe. They’re still Departe.
Ulcerate played a mean set, albeit short.
Mgła were surprisingly good and their drummer nailed hitting things well. Their fans were not so good.
Gorguts was phenomenal. Entire sections of Pleiades’ Dust were rolling swells of ambience connecting the conventional metal portions. Haven’t enjoyed that kind of thing since early The Mars Volta.
Marduk was, well, I walked out and drove home less than a minute into their set.
Ugh. 6 day work weeks are catching up with me, i’m pretty crook at the moment & i’m rostered on until Sunday 🙁 I’d take them off if I wasn’t a casual :/
Well, I just bought a Sunday ticket to PAX Aus.
I know it’s 7 months away, but I wanted to have time to modify my Link cosplay.
@scree my Mum has started getting into hidden object games but she’s playing horrible free to play ones with phone-style energy mechanics and stuff. I think you mentioned a while back that your mother also enjoys these sorts of games? If so, any recommendations for decent ones that aren’t built to suck away money a dollar at a time would be awesome.
My mum would definitely take a crack at some good ones if you’ve got them. I don’t know what she’s playing now but I’m sure it’s garbage.
Anything by artifex mundi is great. They create the highest quality HOGs I’ve seen.
Avoid anything by big fish. They often have game breaking bugs and charge $20 a game.
https://www.artifexmundi.com/
Big Fish is more of a publisher though. Through them I have played and enjoyed the Empress of the Deep trilogy by Silverback Games.
Often it is taboo to like a hidden object game but those like the Empress trilogy put a lot of focus and effort into their story to offset the stigma of their mechanic.
Yeah, I know they’re a publisher, but I really meant avoid their website. Overpriced and awful, awful customer service.
If you have game breaking issues, they don’t even respond in their forums
OK. Things have changed since I last used them. They were a bit pricy but when I add issues with the final game they did their best to try and resolve the issue and even offered me a refund.
This was about four years ago though and pretty much I just grab those games on Steam later.
My issue was simple; Empress 3 wouldn’t see itself as paid for and activated after I had the main board in my Mac laptop replaced.
Then gain, I didn’t use their forums; I emailed them.
But thanks for the heads up. It always is sad how some things with good in them just wear out over time.
This was maybe a year or two ago. I’d try to trouble shoot things, find the same issue on the forums and after reading the whole thread would end up with no solution as no one had responded to the issue.
A few people had suggestions which would work occasionally, but a lot of the time it was dead loss. Even through steam. I have about 5 games in my steam library that can’t be played. Most of them published by big fish.
Artifex, on the other hand, allow you to sign up for beta testing. They ask if you like the story, the difficulty, what would you change, etc. and then ask for operating system and such. I’ve just never had an issue with any of their games
Alright, got three more Kass songs up. Recording session got cut short when my camera rig toppled over and the mirror smashed on the floor. Stupid thing dislodged the battery on my phone so the video didn’t even get saved 😛 Thankfully had one that was “good enough” in that lot, though judging by how I came back to the “good enough”s from yesterday and thought they were crap, I’m not going to like these ones any more by tomorrow.
Wow, lucky streak. Found a diamond from a regular chunk of ore, then fought a Guardian which dropped two cores, then right after that blew up another regular chunk of ore and got ANOTHER FRIGGEN DIAMOND.
Why couldn’t this luck go towards something more useful 😛
TAY everyone. Just spent the weekend (among other things) playing Breath of the Wild.
Though I don’t think I’m actually getting anywhere with this game. I have activated several towers, snuck into Geredo Town and reached Zora’s domain but haven’t beaten anything that resembles a boss yet.
It’s a good game despite it’s frustrations but I feel the game itself is having an identity crisis.
It feels more like Morrowind but with a Zelda theme attached.
Heck, looking at the game as a whole, there is a lot of potential there for it to have been its own IP and the Zelda tone just feels forced.
Think of it more like an evolution of Link to the Past than Ocarina of Time. The survival aspects are definitely weird but I like the idea of Zelda games blending with others rather than just repeating.
I wanted colour on my switch, but the blue/red is a bit eehhh.
http://i.imgur.com/V2EbonL.jpg
Spice Orange. Sweet Gamecube throwback! 🙂
How’d you do that? I saw Dbrand skins couldn’t seem to get anything to work cause all it did was ruin the joy cons surface D=
Last week for me was full of highs and lows. Good things happened in the way of getting myself out of debt, and buying a new PC (finally retired my 7yr old i7-920!).
But my week was also plagued with a lot of health issues. My foot swelling, pulled muscle in my back causing pain in my back, chest and gut, and then for most of the weekend, I had blurred vision. Normally I can look at the text on my 4K screen and read everything perfectly, but for some reason, from like Friday through Sunday, I couldn’t focus on it for love nor money.
I really started to wonder if I was getting to the point where I needed glasses, but this morning, everything is back to normal again, so I can only assume that it was possibly due to either tired eyes, or perhaps a side effect from medication.
Whatever the reason, I’m glad it’s gone, cos that was super annoying. I wasn’t really able to enjoy the spoils of my new PC cos everytime I’d look at the screen, it just made me feel frustrated that I couldn’t read anything.
Apparently I need to get a new return to work plan drawn up before I can go back, so I’m currently off work (probably til next week) and have an appointment to get the plan drawn up on Wednesday with my GP.
At least now I can finally enjoy the spoils of my new PC while I await finalization of the plan etc! w000t!
You’re still not back at work? That’s crazy. Sounds like it’d be easier to just get a new job.
Well I did go back for a bit, but then I had some other issues. Since I wasn’t actually back doing full time when the issues cropped up, it kind of reset the clock a bit. Most likely I’ll be starting again next week I think, but just need to see what all parties agree on first.
Ahh, that makes more sense. Still sucks though. My girlfriend has been off work with a bone infection since January and it looks like she won’t go back until July at best. In just a few months it’s put almost her entire life on hold. At least like you she’s got a pretty secure job.
Ahh well that’s a blessing! Sorry to hear bout her troubles though. Can be a difficult time for sure. Hope she manages to get fixed up sooner than I did!
Started Nier: Automata on Saturday, finished the main story by Sunday afternoon (about 14hrs). I enjoyed it, but it didn’t feel there was enough to the story to merit playing it through again, so I was slightly put off by the message at the end encouraging a second playthrough, and I left it for a few hours to mull it over. Figured ‘what the hell’ and started from my finished save… very glad I did.
Seems like I’m only getting side-quests I’d not completed before, which cuts down on the extra busywork, and the Dojo side-quest seems to have kept its progress… new (minor) areas, new weapons, new side-quests (some of which are grim as hell O_o)… breezing through a lot of the main quest, too. The story’s getting fleshed out with extra cutscenes, and the added hacking mechanic opens up a lot of hidden story potential.I’m probably not going to try for all of the endings (I hear there’s 26?) but I might take the time to get at least the main five. Might have to put off Andromeda for a little while…
Let’s play a game!
You are head of NBN co. Do you plan to install
A. Fibre to the premises
B. Fibre to the node
C. Fibre to the cable
D. Some other hybrid.
I think I’m on Fibre to the Building. It’s good but my modem sucks.
It gets out that Dogman somehow has fibre to the building. There’s a huge media backlash as it wasn’t one of the options for NBN co!
You now have to smooth over this cluckfuck with the media.
Do you
A. Deny all knowledge
B. Blame a third party
C. Blame the government
D. Admit your mistake and move on
C seems like my style. Those damn fat cats.
The government doesn’t like the way you threw them under the bus. However, they’re too busy dealing with the backlash as they had known about the FttB option, but didn’t announce it to the public.
You probably won’t be able to rely on handouts from the government now and will have to find excess funds to complete 5 suburbs by 2016, as promised.
Do you
A. Pretend everything is fine and do nothing
B. Admit things are bad, but do nothing
C. Recycle old copper from other suburbs NBN rollouts and use it in the new ones
D. Announce to the public that the deadline won’t be met but assure the public that they will be getting the best quaility Fibre possible.
I’ll go with C, but only because taking the cash and fleeing isn’t an option.
You make the deadline with a few weeks to spare. The government is happy with your decision and has forgiven you. They request that you do this for every other area as well and ask why they didn’t do this from the beginning.
You don’t bother attempting to explain the internet speeds to them as they wouldn’t understand it anyway.
Meanwhile, complaints from people are starting to trickle in, saying their internet isn’t any faster.
Do you
A. Tell the truth
B. Dismiss the complaints
C. Cover it up completely
D. Stand down
B. Those peasants clearly don’t understand high speed internet.
D. Some other hybrid that relies on the rotted copper & fibre network from both Telstra & Optus.
The “roll out” is happening and you have the government completely duped. They think that NBN co is doing really well. In reality, they’re just sitting there doing nothing. Telstra and Optus are in on it too.
You need a new yacht though, do you
A. Ask the government for more money for the roll out
B. Demand more money from the government
C. Do some honest work
D. Earn it.
Cup and string.
E. Cup To The Node.
The cup and string method is encountering a lot of problems as the string needs to be completely straight to even hear the person on the other end, let alone use the internet.
The public are calling for your head.
Do you
A. Step down
B. Deny the problems
C. Admit the mistake and try again.
D. Put your foot in your mouth.
D. I tell the public a taut string is too expensive they wouldn’t even use the tension anyway.
The gaffe goes mainly unreported as the media has decided that whatever is happening to some celebrity overseas is more important to the general public.
Several tech websites report what you said and their loyal readers are out for blood.
To calm this small, but passionate, crowd down, do you
A. Apologise
B. Step down
C. Ignore them
D. Shift the blame
Shift the blame, I did nothin wrong.
Surprisingly it works. You shift the blame onto a younger member of your company. They feel it’s unjust, but they can’t really complain without losing their job and they kind of need it to live.
With that under the carpet, you decide to focus on the roll out.
Do you
A. have more cup and strings installed
B. Give your premesis FttP
C. Demand more money
D. Retire
C. These cups and string are expensive, I think we need more money but we’ll also need to use some cheaper less reliable. We’re dropping down to paper cups and twine.
The government is now asking questions as to why this taking so long, and why it’s costing so much. Do you
A. Lie
B. Use pocket sand
C. Tell the truth
D. Summon Satan to handle the situation
All of the above. Truth is, Satan’s already here. He works in HR. Also it was all his idea and hey what’s this in my pocket *throws sand and runs*
Satan is rather confused as it was never his idea. If anything, he feels the way NBN co. Is going about the roll out is rather cruel.
Other CEOs are inspired by what you were able to get away with. They hope they can do half as well as you have done.
Meanwhile, Australia has the third slowest internet in the world, and the media has not bothered reporting it.
A job well done.
I have FTTN but still reach the 100/40mbps
That’s pretty good. It was meant to be a stupid pick your own adventure game though =P
I don’t get NBN for like…4 years? It’s planned. That’s all I know
Thing I don’t understand is I’m barely one suburb over from my mother in-law less than a km away and she has FTTP
The way they did it is stupid. Every suburb around me has NBN.
Every. suburb.
That’s is absolutely fucked
We are like the opposite of an oasis. Around is the Oasis, and we’re the desert.
I don’t question it. It makes no sense, but nothing the government does makes sense.
On a political note, I’ve dubbed Malcom Turnbull the do nothing Prime Minister
I see PAX Aus is sticking with it’s horrible postage methods. Fun fun.
[Edit: Oh wait, they’ve put names on them. I suppose that’s better.]
FTFY.
*Sigh.*
I know this is taboo for help on simple games like Zelda and I am trying to give Breath of the Wild the chance it deserves but I feel I need to get some hints as I am just not getting any sense of accomplishment with this damn game.
Basically, I just don’t feel a sense of accomplishment at all. Things started to look up as I went looking for more shrines for souls to trade for hearts but while I was in the Thieves Hideout trying to get the Gerudo Helm back I finally lost it.
Let’s just say the inconsistency where hits from the heavies means death regardless of hearts only finalises the frustration with the battle system in this game.
Nintendo really need to either patch out the weapons degradation or make it consistent; for example, have it so I can repair broken weapons and said weapons can break for enemies as well.
But I well any hints that might smooth it out. I’m already at a handy cap as I simply have no reflexes when it comes to games. I can manage a dodge or two here and there but nothing consistent.
At least others are enjoying the experience. Me, though. This is becoming a let down compared to the likes of Twilight Princess and others.
Yeah. That Thieves Hideout bit got me too.
You should get a little sickle near the entrance. If not you’ve probably got some bad weapons laying around. Equip them, then sneak up to a guard and use the Right shoulder button to throw them where you want the guard to go. When they walk over to investigate the noise run past them. It’s frustrating because walking while crouched is so slow but it pays off.In the room with the three guards it’s a bit harder, but I found the right side easier. After that you should get into a room with a chest in the middle. Use the magnet power to move a hidden wall (and pick up the buried chests).
Once in the boss fight it’s pretty easy once you know the trick. When he summons a rock hit him with an arrow then smash him while it’s dizzy. For some reason it took a while for me to think of it, but once he goes into the middle and you can’t reach him, hit him with an arrow when one of the rocks is above him. It’ll drop, knock him over, and you can hit him again. The next phase is pretty much the same.
Once the boss is gone head back into the hideout and collect all the items you missed.
Sorry for the double post. While editing to get the spoiler tag to work I tripped the moderation bug.
Whoever reviews these, could you delete the clone, please?
I think there might be an easier way..
Did you ever try leaving banana’s on the ground?
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Once a guard sees them, they do a little dance, look to see if anyone is watching, then pockets them.
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While this is happening, one can even walk around provided there is enough distance.
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There are even YouTube videos of this being used to bring the difficulty curve down. It’s like they forget everything around them and just go for the Bananas.
I actually thought my post didn’t get through because it gave me a page not found error when I posted.
I did try that but I actually found it easier to evade them rather than mess around trying to trick them (outside of baiting the stationary ones with weapon throws). That said I didn’t realise their sense were dulled. I was staying far and keeping quiet even when they were distracted.Well, got the helm. After all the frustation I had it turns out the YouTube video was no joke.
I kid you not, those heavies will run after the Bananas even if they are across the room. Basically survey each room and drop them from above and one is good to go.
The boss fight was also hilariously easy. I might have a chance to finish this game after all – the difficulty seems to be in getting *to* the bosses, not beating them.
[Knocks on desk]
Touch wood.
There is a boss in that area that’s giving me trouble. Find some lightning resistance gear or elixirs. It’s strange fighting bosses with health bars instead of a straight up hit count. It’d be nice if durability was disabled for them.
[Eats whole stash of 30+ Mighty Bananas and turns into Link-Hulk]
LINK SMASH!
Jokes aside, may be try cooking three Mighty Bananas and eating the result. Double attack up for around 10 minutes.
Woo, got to legitimately say “it’s over 9000!”
Kass video is popular 😛
Internet famous
Rolled up a PC:
Abilities (3d6):
Str 12 -2 (10)
Int 13 +1 (14)
Wis 10 (10)
Dex 13 (13)
Con 6 (6)
Cha 14 (14)
Arrn: Lawful Magic-user
Physical Height (17d6+5 inches):
53″ (4’7″).
Hitpoints (1d4): 2hp;
starting wealth (3d6x10gp): 110gp
Ugh IT support. Why is it no-one even acknowledges the fire until half the house is in ashes?
“This is fine.”
Melbourne’s weather has been absolutely crap. I can’t work on anything D=
A complete 180 from last week. It was hot enough to boil eggs at night without the stove top.
It’s still hot, but at least it is cooling down. Still can’t work on the fibre glass though. I guess I could post pictures of what’ sbeen done so far…
FUCK STALKOBLINS WITH A DRAGONBONE CLUB
EVERY GOD DAMN TIME THEY SPAWN AND SCARE OFF THE BUG I’M TRYING TO TAKE A PICTURE OF
Been playing king’s quest because It was just sitting in my PS Plus free games, and to my suprise it has been so charming, absolutely loving it. The outbursts of excitement that Graham has, make me laugh every time, and God damn fucking whisper is just the best.
I’ve heard good things about it but haven’t actually played it yet
Its equal parts adult and equal parts childish, if you get the chance give it a go. Some episodes are better than others though
Nier – finished my second playthrough last night. Wow… really looking forward to playthrough #3, now.
Ha, Bloodstained finally got around to cancelling the Wii U version. Switch here we come.
Also, passed 100 hours in Zelda last night. I’ve explored Great Plateau, Dueling Peaks, Hateno, Lanayru, Akkala and now half of Woodland regions. Feels like I’m tracking for 250 by the time I reach the end, which just seems absurd. I’ve never spent that long on a single player game before outside of GHIII, which is different because it’s a score attack game.
And now there’s a Splatoon comp that I need to try and get back in shape for. Ugh, split attention.
You need to have a team for the splatoon comp I think. They want teams, not single participants
Yeah, that’s the next problem. But I figure I’ll have an easier time having someone take me in if I can prove myself 😛
What about asking super heiro? @eronin
Yo jump over on the AEL Splatoon discord https://discord.gg/SfdEU9V; there’s a looking for team channel there
@cakesmith
What have you been doing in Geelong?
http://imgur.com/aEkE1Vo
😛
Smithing cakes, obviously
Power Rangers was surprisingly decent. A little trite and cringe in places where it felt some of the references were a little more forced or whatever, but ended up far better than I was expecting. Also they had boxes of little figurine keyrings aftwards which was neat. Til I realised they were mini Pop figures. Ew 😛
wtf is the obsession with those damn pop figures?! BLEAH!
You take that back. Pop is great. Pop is life
Nooooooooooooooooooooope! I stand by my statement to the grave!
Ok, just tried to Splatoon for the first time in nearly two months I think. Thanks to Zelda, I seem to now need my x-axis inverted. It broke my brain.
bwahahahaha x-invert is so weird. Sometimes it feels right in a game, and others it feels so wrong.
I mean, I think I’ve figured it out. It’s about your perception of the camera and how it works, either you consider the camera to be a physical entity floating behind your character, and thus to control it any movement will pivot around the character and shift the view in the opposite direction. Or you are considering the view itself to be what you are moving, and are more likely to control this directly (y-axis inversion applies depending on whether you consider the control stick’s y-axis to be up/down or forward/backward).
So if you fall into the first category there, you’ll want the x-axis inverted. But when you are doing aiming, generally that’s a reticle placed in front of you, which places it in the latter category and means you want it non-inverted. And when you get games that use both at once, you can end up in a spot of bother and/or mindfuck 😛
What I don’t get though is how I’ve switched things around. 454 hours of Splatoon vs 102 hours of Zelda, surely Splats should have won out there.
Well that’s what I mean by weird. It’s not always about your natural perspective. Sometimes I find certain games just don’t feel right when they’re inverted, while another does. This NEVER happens with Y inversion for me though. I always have to invert Y, no matter if it’s 1st person or 3rd. X on the other hand, I often find myself playing around with to see which feels more natural to that particular game 🙂
And then neither of them feel right and you just end up constantly switching between the two trying to figure out what the hell is going on…
haha that has happened to me in a couple of games before. Usually I can tell right away which feels right though.
For me it more ends up “hmm, this feels wrong”/”wait no, this feels even more wrong, changing back”/”this still feels wrong but I’ll stick with it til it feels normal”. Sometimes with an extra flip back or two to make sure I wasn’t just imagining it 😛
@tech_knight TAY IN SPAAAAAAAAAAACE
http://www.zam.com/article/1381/stellaris-utopia-preview
You can cybernetically uplift your entire society! It’s what you always dreamed of!
I’m so hyped for this!
There’s even some Mass Effect races you can grab as mods, and the portraits move too! They’ve got the Turians, Salarians, Asari, Quarians and Protheans right now, Krogan, Geth and other races are in development and sadly it’s just their portraits, not their ships, but you can find some of those too :).
Anybody been watching Iron Fist? My wife who is a Buddhist Chinese baggy extraction has decided that i need a running dialogue about all the issues with the characterisation as they appear in the show. Apparently there is a lot! Im not finished yet but the one thing i think is that Iron Fist is the worst part of Iron Fist…
I finished watching it a couple of days ago and my immediate thought after it ended was “what a waste of time”
I was hoping it would get better as the season progressed, but it just doesn’t 🙁
Also i have a baby on the way. How do people get gaming time with kids? It seems like all time will be gone. Don’t get me wrong i am looking forward to having a kid more just a general question or should i give up?
Congratulations! A few of us here are gamer parents.
You can still game, but it’ll change, pretty much like everything else. You’ll have a small person whose needs trump your own. You just try and fit it in. There’s been a couple of nice articles on the subject on Kotaku – go and read them for some reassurance/horror stories.
Newborns – You’ll be awake at night more often than you’d like. I vaguely recall there was a lot of Super Meat Boy and Trials being played while we sat up at night feeding our little guy.
Babies/Toddlers – Work commute is your friend. Naptime is your friend. A sensible bedtime routine is your friend. If you play something while they’re awake, it’s almost certainly mobile and easy to pause – you’ll be constantly interrupted. Lock up your consoles if you don’t want biscuits in your ps4.
Preschoolers – MARWIO! YOSHEEEE! PIIIKAAA! Nintendo is your friend. Time to start gaming *with* your little one.
School+: You now have to share your gaming with a small gamer who will soon be better than you! (Mine loves minecraft, mario maker, pokemon manga, yo-kai watch, zelda, and cosplay at PAX)
TL:DR – your priorities will shift but gaming can still be part of your life.
Oh, and a word of warning/advice.
Something you’ll become acutely aware of is screen time. It’s a really complicated topic and something that causes a lot of debate, and for some parents, a lot of worry. It’s hard for adults to switch off from phone and computer use, it’s really hard for kids. Navigating the use of screens is tricky, and there is a lot of conflicting opinions out there. It’s definitely something to think about now, because even a 6 month old is mesmerised by a TV screen.
So what do you do in your situation?
Shed in the garden. No power. Just some shackles. Let them see daylight for 45 minutes a week.
We’re pretty mean. No TV/computer before school, and generally none on weeknights mon-thur. No unfettered game time on weekends, it has to be broken up with non-screen activities like lego , reading or going to the park. We don’t own an ipad/tablet, games are played in the living room or on the 2DS. Mum and Dad’s phone is off limits.
I like that! I’ll keep it in mind. I have thought how to strike a balance.
Thanks! Don’t worry i read every word!
@alexwalker I’ve had a post here in moderation since yesterday, any chance you can push that through for me
Oops!
http://i.imgur.com/f0Kwv8C.jpg
Haha. Knew you’d cave sooner or later dude. That’ll go nicely with that 6850 😛
hahah yeah. I thought it’d be longer, but just figured wth… Turns out I might be the first person round here to have one too! Only one store had stock, and they only arrived late yesterday! Timing was clearly on my side. Had they not had stock, I probably would have put it on the backburner and not followed through with it for a while.
Damn that’s some good luck. How’s it feel to own the fastest GPU? 😛
hahah well, considering it was a very simple install (given my nice roomy new case) I’m pretty chuffed so far 🙂 I used to HATE changing cards in my old case. Would take me like 20 mins cos cables would be in the way, and I’d have trouble getting it out (there was about 2mm between the end of the card and the hdd bay.)
I haven’t actually played anything yet, but just based on that so far, I’m off to a good start 🙂 If it boosts my 4K performance in a few games, I’ll be stoked!
I tried running Doom in 4K last night on Ultra settings with my 960, and I was getting a solid 30-35fps. Only dipped below 30fps once during my test which was quite impressive. So hopefully I can now get it at a nice playable speed. It’s nice to have a look around at things when you’re only getting 30fps, but it’s just a bit too chuggy to play for long periods. Hoping that won’t be an issue any more 🙂
That’s one of the few things I regret about going down in case & board size, everything is so fiddly & hard to get to. But the footprint of my case is so much better than my old so I don’t mind that trade off lol.
Haha, that’s impressive for a 960 though. I should install Doom & see how my 1070 goes. Nabbed it for like $20 at EB still haven’t touched it lol.
I enjoyed it a lot! I played through most of it at 2560×1440 just cos it was over 60fps, but occasionally I’d bump it up to have a look at some pretty stuff. Really has that old doom feel to it gameplay wise, but they still managed to add a few things to keep things interesting without making it feel too much like something else.
Yeah it looks awesome. I’m just lazy haha. Plus 60GB download on my shitty ADSL2 bleh.
@virus__ lol yeah I downloaded it on my adsl2 at the time… le sigh.. not such a problem for me any more at least 🙂
Just…..wow!
http://i.imgur.com/2knbz5r.jpg
Nice. I should run 3D Mark and see how I go. I finally got aorund to benchmarking Heaven & did okay.. http://i.imgur.com/zWLncmh.png CPU was clocked to 4.4GHz & the GPU to 2080MHz
Nice! I haven’t overclocked anything so far, so I was rather pleased with my results!
Some dude already got a 1080Ti to 3GHz but i’m gonna guess that’s on something insane like LN2..
heh yeah i saw reports of that yesterday. Impressive stuff for sure! I don’t really feel the need to even try overclocking at present. I’m more than happy with the performance boost I gained from the CPU/GPU upgrades. Will save the overclocking for down the track (probably after the warranty period expires)
I figured I’d do a Unigene Heaven run for comparison.
http://i.imgur.com/R7jlxy0.jpg
heh how’s this for weird. I did a run at 1080p for direct comparison, and low a way lower minumum fps!
http://i.imgur.com/RL3aDcB.jpg
What the fuck, that makes no sense lol. Haha.
IKR?! SO weird! It only dipped down to that for a split second when it changed between one of the scenes and another though. Wasn’t a sustained low fps by any means. Still bizarre though!
Wow, had my DS Lite in sleep mode for about three weeks I think before the flashing light changed to red. 3DS can barely do a week, even with wireless and everything turned off.
Also been nearly three weeks since I last turned on my Switch actually. Should go grab that testfire.
My NBN modem showed up yesterday along with another Telstra TV lol.. At least the modem is ADSL2+ compatible so I decided to set it up and utilise it. It’s alright, has 5GHz wifi, so that’s nice means the Chromecast can use that to access my Plex server. Now just to wait for Telstra to turn my NBN on.. or NBNCo whoever lol.
Its webbed hand reached out from the depths. His breath caught for a moment, then went tearing forth:
“YYAYRRRRGHHGFHH IT’S PAGE 3”
Morning peeps! hey does anyone here reside near Ferryden Park SA? apparently its near adelaide CBD
So I just started playing steamworld heist and enjoying it so far. I really enjoyed steamworld dig which was a kinda steampunk boulderdash mining game. The new one is set on teh same earth, but the earth has exploded.
The game plays kinda like a platformer version of xcom battles but themantically is a steampunk version of firefly. With a top notch soundtrack to boot.
Thanks for the gift @negativezero
So the Splatoon testfire’s been… interesting. For one, I’m happy to actually be able to use the pro controller for a change. It’s godly. On the other though, I’m damn near considering just returning the Switch entirely. It’s reminding me of the GB Micro – handy to play slower games on the move, but practically useless for anything more action-oriented. I absolutely HATE the joycons. On their own and in the grip, they’re unusable for me at the moment thanks to sync/lag issues aplenty it seems. But even when slotting them into the Switch so they’re not present, it’s still nigh on unplayable. And the screen is too small, far away and low when set on a table to play with the controller. So basically it’s useless as a handheld and is only good for being a console for anything I’m going to be playing intently on it.