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AusGAF 9 - F*** Off, We're Full (Of People With Different Ethnic Backgrounds)
- Thread starter Kritz
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There's one in each of Gazunta's "Blow the Cartridge" comic books. Buy them!
I told you I'd bring my SuperMagic DS card with it if you wanted!
BananaArnie
Member
Guy on the first night said the phrase was "a few roos loose in the top paddock" didnt even need to find them all
FormallyMegadrive
Member
Thanks, I look forward to my 2x2 Rubik's cube
BananaArnie
Member
Come say hi. Im listening to clipper teach munchkin to people and just renting games I might want to buy.
yeah towards the back on the left. ended up just standing as we had bloody pillars in the way so couldnt read the subtitles lol.
but... TORTIMER!!!!!!!!!!
Planet_JASE
Member
The other night I watched Man of Steel. If nothing else, it can proudly stand up and call itself a movie; that is an achievement that no one can take away from it.
I don't think I'm spoiling anything. I don't really say anything specific about the movie, just themes and stuff. It is probably likely that I say far less specific things about the movie than the trailer probably did. just in case, I'm going to create a wall of black.
All in all, I rate it 10/10 FREEDOM AND GOD FUCK YEAHS!
I don't think I'm spoiling anything. I don't really say anything specific about the movie, just themes and stuff. It is probably likely that I say far less specific things about the movie than the trailer probably did. just in case, I'm going to create a wall of black.
I've often been accused of thinking way too much about movies but I really had trouble dealing with a movie that was basically telling me an allegorical tale of how science (at least eugenics-wise) and socialism is EVIL and freedom and God is AWESOME which is why America is pretty fucking rad and why both of those things (God and freedom) will always prevail. And there is no grey area or middle-ground there and no further discussions will be had. Heck yeah, muthafuckers!
Snyder and Goyer (and I'm not sure how much of a part Nolan played) were hell bent on portraying Superman and some pseudo-modern day-Jesus (and not subtly, either)... A modern day Jesus where he had a higher body count and caused more destruction than those that he sought to oppose, that is.
If you take all the changes they made to Comic Superman and added them to what remained you basically watched the story of a defenseless newly born that was sent by negligent parents to a random planet in a hope that he would be found by some hopefully-pretty-okay-in-the-least-people where he was raised by farm hicks to hide who he was and what he could do, be told that he probably shouldn't help people and should most likely fear them which messes with his head and turns him into a hobo (or fisherman, I couldn't tell if it was one in particular or just a weird hobo-fisherman hybrid) until he is confronted by Evil-Science-Eugenics-Communism guys who try to bring their non-American ways into Planet America so Superman, in order to avoid everyone being killed, most likely is directly and indirectly responsible for tens of thousands of people (or more) being killed/injured and billions of dollars of damage.
They then top that off with perhaps one of the most ham-fisted moral choice ending and placed a cherry on the top of that a really weird voice-over reasoning to try and get the Superman character back into the more traditional comic book status quo.
Snyder and Goyer (and I'm not sure how much of a part Nolan played) were hell bent on portraying Superman and some pseudo-modern day-Jesus (and not subtly, either)... A modern day Jesus where he had a higher body count and caused more destruction than those that he sought to oppose, that is.
If you take all the changes they made to Comic Superman and added them to what remained you basically watched the story of a defenseless newly born that was sent by negligent parents to a random planet in a hope that he would be found by some hopefully-pretty-okay-in-the-least-people where he was raised by farm hicks to hide who he was and what he could do, be told that he probably shouldn't help people and should most likely fear them which messes with his head and turns him into a hobo (or fisherman, I couldn't tell if it was one in particular or just a weird hobo-fisherman hybrid) until he is confronted by Evil-Science-Eugenics-Communism guys who try to bring their non-American ways into Planet America so Superman, in order to avoid everyone being killed, most likely is directly and indirectly responsible for tens of thousands of people (or more) being killed/injured and billions of dollars of damage.
They then top that off with perhaps one of the most ham-fisted moral choice ending and placed a cherry on the top of that a really weird voice-over reasoning to try and get the Superman character back into the more traditional comic book status quo.
All in all, I rate it 10/10 FREEDOM AND GOD FUCK YEAHS!
FormallyMegadrive
Member
Clip I may or may not be standing right next to your table. Are you near a giant connect 4 game? I see a munchkin briefcase type thing
BananaArnie
Member
Mega show yourself. Im the guy on tje table who doesnt give a shit about munchkin
roosters93
Member
In the Xbox one thing now. The montage was great, and they showed off the kinect thing very well.
Man Even with the kind of lame lack of Xbox one playable i was hoping from Pax Aus, Sony dropped the ball significantly. Don't think i've seen any mention of PS4 the whole time i've been here.
Man Even with the kind of lame lack of Xbox one playable i was hoping from Pax Aus, Sony dropped the ball significantly. Don't think i've seen any mention of PS4 the whole time i've been here.
Good effort on their part. Nothing like paying to attend a shit show and then being insulted for vocalising the fact. Fuck them indeed.
If the best part of the show is tables where you can play your own game then it's awful, or to use their words, "the definition of a shit show". There's plenty of other places where you can do the same thing and it costs nothing or very little in comparison.
Nintendo to buy atlus?
International Business Times
Will Hardware Maker Nintendo Acquire Software Publisher Atlus?
http://www.ibtimes.com/atlus-prize-...nufacturer-nintendo-acquire-software?ft=c69n9
International Business Times
Will Hardware Maker Nintendo Acquire Software Publisher Atlus?
http://www.ibtimes.com/atlus-prize-...nufacturer-nintendo-acquire-software?ft=c69n9
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Cosplay show at riot both was cool.
Hey cods, what code did you want? Tell me I can have a look for you...
Hey cods, what code did you want? Tell me I can have a look for you...
pieatorium
Member
just crazy speculation i think based on not much other than working with nintendo. Other companies I guess they are going to buy are Namco and Platinum.
I wouldn't expect one of the hardware manufacturers to be interested in the company as a whole because they would be buying a bunch of publishing shit they don't need.
Maybe if it gets down to a thq style ip sell of they would get in there but nintendo has plenty of it's own franchises that have the sales potential of atlus games that they already don't makes games of.
More likely to see somone like gungho, Marvelous or even koch media buy them imo.
They're not showing it
BananaArnie
Member
I think I met all the ausgafs at pax?
Did I miss anyone? Need to fill out my collection.
Did I miss anyone? Need to fill out my collection.
vook and hamchan.
they were toocool for us
but they were there.
i got a streetpass from vook.
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
Thesis work in progress:
Lots of randomly generated spiders
Need to fix up relative abdomen positioning, curvature, fangs and some other minor shit, but it's coming along well so far.
Lots of randomly generated spiders
Need to fix up relative abdomen positioning, curvature, fangs and some other minor shit, but it's coming along well so far.
So do you have any photos from PAX?
Why would you do that? And this:
is totally a tick not a spider. Which makes it worse.
You're here? Where are you and what do u look. Like.
BananaArnie
Member
PFft whatever man I met vook got a sweeet vook pen.
hamchans just trolling he never left his house this weekend.
Soups jelly
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
Why would you do that? And this:
is totally a tick not a spider. Which makes it worse.
1. So I can graduate from Honours!
2. They're different each time you F5. But yes, the Abdomen offset is something I'm working on now. I might put the Abdomen underneath the cephalothorax too.
Yeah, I tried to get a page with no ticks and couldn't. Spiders I don't mind any more, I've gotten over my phobia, mostly, I can pick them up as long as they are not large, I can trap and move them as long as they are not aggressive or poisonous, so much better than when I had to leave the room for anything larger than a daddy longlegs. But ticks? Fuck that.
Anyway, cool thing, I guess. Was the project doing procedure generated content in general, or arachnids in particular. I need to know who to blame for the ticks
show grounds, set up accross multiple halls.
dont mind the bitching from people. its better set up then any video game / anime / comic / nerd expo aus has ever had.
reptilescorpio
Member
Xbone was a waste of fucking time. Same shit we have already seen.
ZERO FUCKING AUSTRALIAN CONTEXT
Not shocked they had empty seats to it on Friday night.
Halfbrick panel was good though!
ZERO FUCKING AUSTRALIAN CONTEXT
Not shocked they had empty seats to it on Friday night.
Halfbrick panel was good though!
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
Anyway, cool thing, I guess. Was the project doing procedure generated content in general, or arachnids in particular. I need to know who to blame for the ticks
The project is using an interactive genetic algorithm (IGA) as a treatment for spider phobias. Basically a "genome" is generated, like "40543636456", a string of characters. One component of the code I'm writing (which you just looked at) is the mechanism by which each genome gets converted into a solution, in this case meaning a picture a spider. Each character in the genome corresponds to some characteristic, "leg length: 9, abdomen size: 4" etc.
A normal GA has a "fitness function", a way to determine how "good" each generated solution is. Then it selects a bunch of genomes to "survive" and pass on their genes to a new generation of solutions, mutating and breeding the solutions along the way to mimic evolution by natural selection. An IGA is like this, but it deals with things that have subjective fitness value, like art, or in this case, how scary a picture is. A bunch of spider images will get generated, people will be asked to pick which of them are scarier ones. Then, their selection will act as the "fitness function" and determine what the next generation will be. This means the next generation will be "scarier" than the last, and you'll get less stupid looking spiders over time as they get culled from the population.
Exposure therapies for phobia introduce people to a hierarchy of stimuli, the idea being you start out being not very scary, and then ramp things up from there as people get used to it. This system will act in an analogous way - running the IGA through it's paces is more or less the same thing as getting an exposure treatment. If it works, that's awesome because we don't have to build stimlus hierarchies or track down pictures to use, since its autogenerated. It also means that hierarchies are tailored to each individual user, since they might select spiders with different characteristics as being the scarier ones based on their own individual fears.
Okay, that's cool. Hope it works, exposure therapy is painful enough for people who are severely phobic. I approve this use of ticks and spiders
BananaArnie
Member
Kritz either check steam or pm me or something
FormallyMegadrive
Member
In the console area. Where's gaf
BananaArnie
Member
Board games
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Last I saw most peeps they were playing board games at the free play area. Back left corner.
reptilescorpio
Member
There are like 4 Rifts around the place, try the Indie area!
GoddyofAus
Banned
The LNP are planning to bring "Cracker Night" back to Queensland:
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...ol-closure-plan/story-fnihsrf2-1226682703226#
Give with one hand, take away with the other. This is probably the one good thing the LNP have proposed since they came to government.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...ol-closure-plan/story-fnihsrf2-1226682703226#
Give with one hand, take away with the other. This is probably the one good thing the LNP have proposed since they came to government.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Good god my leg is sore.