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Hardcore. I must have a few hundred games on my PSN trophy list, and not a single platinum trophy. I always get bored well before that point.
One of these days I'll choose a game and platinum it. Maybe.
Edit: Man, just found one of those sites that gives you a trophy card for your forum sig. Given that the last game I played before syncing was Valhalla Knights 3, I get this deliciously tacky abomination:
Hardcore. I must have a few hundred games on my PSN trophy list, and not a single platinum trophy. I always get bored well before that point.
One of these days I'll choose a game and platinum it. Maybe.
Edit: Man, just found one of those sites that gives you a trophy card for your forum sig. Given that the last game I played before syncing was Valhalla Knights 3, I get this deliciously tacky abomination:
I like it! It gives you the presence of a 14 year old boy. Actually I'm not sure I like it.
edit: just to be clear...I am not being serious. I hope nobody is offended.
Hardcore. I must have a few hundred games on my PSN trophy list, and not a single platinum trophy. I always get bored well before that point.
One of these days I'll choose a game and platinum it. Maybe.
Edit: Man, just found one of those sites that gives you a trophy card for your forum sig. Given that the last game I played before syncing was Valhalla Knights 3, I get this deliciously tacky abomination:
mine has goku :smug:
I'm quite comfortable projecting the presence of a 14 year old boy. If I had my Vita with me, I'd fire up Senran Kagura just to see how cheesy the card is.
Ha! My PSN number thing is higher than yours, therefore I must be a man of great standing.
....thank fuck this forum doesn't allow sigs.
Musha_Soturi
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So happy Friday folks!
I've had a pretty sucky week back in work after my hols. Trying to not give a shit and be happy but it's so hard.
Anyway, time for the big question of the week, what's everyone's plans for the weekend?
Tonight I'm meeting up with friends for a belated birthday meal at TGI Fridays in the O2, then headed to my mate's karaoke night, staying over her's and going to the cinema tomorrow, probably to watch Robocop. Saturday afternoon me and Andy are going shopping for a snazzy waistcoat and trousers for him (he wants to rock the Ryan Gosling in Gangster Squad look). Saturday night so far no plans, nor Sunday, weather dependant may head out on the bike.
I've had a pretty sucky week back in work after my hols. Trying to not give a shit and be happy but it's so hard.
Anyway, time for the big question of the week, what's everyone's plans for the weekend?
Tonight I'm meeting up with friends for a belated birthday meal at TGI Fridays in the O2, then headed to my mate's karaoke night, staying over her's and going to the cinema tomorrow, probably to watch Robocop. Saturday afternoon me and Andy are going shopping for a snazzy waistcoat and trousers for him (he wants to rock the Ryan Gosling in Gangster Squad look). Saturday night so far no plans, nor Sunday, weather dependant may head out on the bike.
Yea, but like Goku I'm just hiding my power level. Also look at my 3 (!!) plats!
Fuckin' hell. Just found out a person I met and spoke to for quite a bit at E3 back in 2012 commited suicide last month. I mean, I didn't know him personally but to think I spoke to that person and had a laugh with him and then I briefly thought "Wonder what he's up to these days" only to find out he's dead....man.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
This weekend I am doing nothing in anticipation of doing too much stuff next week (srsly, every bloody night from thursday to tuesday...). Can't wait to do nothing. Band practice on Sunday though, time to start planning this record release party. Perhaps 'big' news on that front soon once I get it confirmed (well, probably only for Mike since he's local haha, but everyone else should clear mid-march if they fancy a jaunt down to the home counties for an awesome show)
dapperbandit
Banned
I've been listening to some 70's stuff, I love Electric Light Orchestra.
As the name suggests they employ brass and string sections into their songs frequently but usually to good effect. Not to everyone's taste.
Here's a couple of their songs I hadn't heard until I did more digging this week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RutgifzwD58
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRyNImChyqk
As the name suggests they employ brass and string sections into their songs frequently but usually to good effect. Not to everyone's taste.
Here's a couple of their songs I hadn't heard until I did more digging this week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RutgifzwD58
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRyNImChyqk
Looking through an old Photobucket account of mine and the images I used as sig, I'll have to agree.
Oo! TGIs is lovely. I love their hot wings. Yum. My stomach just rumbled. Did I say happy birthday? I get confused with all of these birthdays!
edit:
This weekend I think we'll be staying in, although I'd like to see Dallas Buyers Club. Emma's really bad atmo (part of reason staying up was to help her wash and dry her hair this morning (not just to play Outlast, honest)) so it might just be a hibernation one.
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I'd just also like to say that for the first time in my life I've done something I'm proud of. I just scored 91m on Resogun on Veteran difficulty, making me 423rd in the world! My heart was pumping and I didn't blink too often. I can still see all the flashing lights!
Dem buffalo wings with that hot sauce.
Date night tonight. Tomorrow and Sunday is hopefully a combo of tidying the flat, sleeping and vidya games. Spent far too much time outside going to superbowl parties and gigs and baseball practise. Barely had any sleep let alone time to do stuff on my own and recharge my batteries.
Dem buffalo wings with that hot sauce.
Love it! I love hot sauces and Frank's is one of my favourites.
Musha_Soturi
Member
Ah not my birthday, a friend's birthday. But the thought is appreciated all the same!
Oooh good luck on the date shorty, be sure to fill us in on all the excruciating details after!
Danke! We briefly met for a chat earlier last week. We share a lot of interests. Quirky geek girl. I get the sense she's a bit of a shy one because she seemed a bit secluded during our first meetup but then afterwards texted me and wanted to know if I was free next week. Heard there was a steampunk themed bar that's not far from central station so we'll be checking that out. Hopefully catch the late-viewing of Beetlejuice at the GFT. See how it goes
Musha_Soturi
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Danke! We briefly met for a chat earlier last week. We share a lot of interests. Quirky geek girl. I get the sense she's a bit of a shy one because she seemed a bit secluded during our first meetup but then afterwards texted me and wanted to know if I was free next week. Heard there was a steampunk themed bar that's not far from central station so we'll be checking that out. Hopefully catch the late-viewing of Beetlejuice at the GFT. See how it goes
Ugh, steampunk. I don't get it.
Beetlejuice will be cool though!
Neither do I which is why I'm curious to see what all the fuss is about. Now if there were a cyperpunk themed bar I'd be on cloud nine.
dapperbandit
Banned
Cyberpunk I can get behind. Good music and aesthetics.
Steampunk just seems like dorks in top hats and goggles calling you "good sir" every 5 seconds.
Musha_Soturi
Member
It just seems to be a bandwagon that lots of people have jumped on. I reckon it'll fad out like every other fad.
Screaming Meat
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Both are pretty interesting in their own ways. Both are William Gibson's fault.
...and hey, who doesn't like The Chaos Engine?
dapperbandit
Banned
What's the Steampunk-Gibson connection?
EDIT
Just remembered he wrote the Difference Engine as well as Neuromancer
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
The Difference Engine. Co written with Bruce Sterling.
Hmmm. Lot's of Engines in Steam-Punk.
This is pretty good too:
dapperbandit
Banned
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Both are pretty interesting in their own ways. Both are William Gibson's fault.
...and hey, who doesn't like The Chaos Engine?
This is one of those games I vividly remember hearing about as a kid but never played it. You reckon it would hold up?
I dunno if Gotham by Gaslight is steampunk so much as just victorian. But it's well good I'll give you that.
Screaming Meat
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DishonoUred is fairly Steam-Punk. Well, more accurately, Whale Oil Punk.
Well, the remake will be out soon enough. It was god-knows-how-long-ago that I last played it, but I remember it being both balls hard and a lot of fun with a friend... unlike sex. With me.
I'm no expert. Just quite enjoy the aesthetic.
Well, the remake will be out soon enough. It was god-knows-how-long-ago that I last played it, but I remember it being both balls hard and a lot of fun with a friend... unlike sex. With me.
I'm no expert. Just quite enjoy the aesthetic.
The Chaos Engine was great. We had Gauntlet on the Commodore 64 and Chaos Engine on the Amiga was like the next step up.
(I'm ignoring the sex bit.)
Normal sci-fi is great but I feel it always goes through that cookie-cutter formula of "This is the future. Cool shit happens. Look at us in our shiny suits" whereas cyberpunk has that grimy, dirty feel of downtown coupled with futuristic elements/clothing/gadgets that people have grown accustomed to rather than it being like a show-off piece for the author/writer/director. Example: A homeless man smoking an e-cigarette and he's begging to the protaganist for a cola flavoured tobacco filter or something. Or the protagonist orders a drink at a bar it's an automated machine robot that does small talk while you push buttons to make your order instead of a shiny white/silver coloured robot at the back of a bar cleaning glasses "pretending" to be a bar tender. Stuff like that. Total Recall does this right I feel. Especially taking the piss out of it with the robot taxi driver bit.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
JUST LIKE EVERY RELATIONSHIP I'VE EVER HAAAAD!
*ahem*
It was pretty frantic (The Chaos Engine, that is). Loved The Priest and The Gentleman. I loved my C64 & Amiga. You ever play Midwinter 1 or 2?
Cyberpunk is great. Very much of it's time though; that reaction to (EDIT
the fallout of 80s economics/attitudes and advancing technolo-blah blah... Has their been any significant new sci-fi aesthetic in recent years?
EDIT: Thinking about it, the Nostromo in Alien fits your description too, I think that has a grimy, used quality. That predates cyberpunk, I think.
dapperbandit
Banned
Yeah but Cyberpunk has it's own cliches as well. "This is the future. Bad shit happens. Look at our black leather outfits."
There's always hackers and evil corporations in Cyberpunk as well.
I think in the early 2000's there was Dieselpunk which is based around the aesthetics and movements of the inter-war 20's-30's period. So lots of art deco stuff. Google images is the best way to describe it.
New? unsure but it certainly has taken on a lot of realistic approaches...or perhaps it's because today's technology can quickly catch up to sci-fi in comparison to before. Still waiting for my "flying car that turns into a briefcase" mind you.
haha yes. This is true. Forgot about the leather.
Screaming Meat
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NinjaBoiX
Member
Fuck busy days, that van swap was a major pain in the arse! But my speakers don't rattle anymore, yay! But that's probably because the bass is non-existent, boo. The treble is bright as fuck too, proper ear piercing. It sounds like it's playing through a phone in the dash.
It's a sub-optimal auditory experience, I want my farting speakers back.
Also, plain old punk > any subsidiary thereof
And cyberpunk is just steampunk coloured in with highlighter pens.
It's a sub-optimal auditory experience, I want my farting speakers back.
Also, plain old punk > any subsidiary thereof
And cyberpunk is just steampunk coloured in with highlighter pens.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Fuck busy days, that van swap was a major pain in the arse! But my speakers don't rattle anymore, yay! But that's probably because the bass is non-existent, boo. The treble is bright a fuck too, proper ear piercing. It sounds like it's playing through a phone in the dash.
It's sub-optimal auditory experience, I want my farting speakers back.
Also, plain old punk > any subsidiary thereof
And cyberpunk is just steampunk coloured in with highlighter pens.
Erm actcherly I think you'll find that steampunk is just cyberpunk with 75% more brown and pipes
/nerdvoice
Helping my friend make some fancy local scene zines tonight. I've had a bit of a fragile up and down week creatively speaking, so it feels really good to help someone else out with stuff where I don't have a stake in it and therefore will not be freaking out with wild ego-swings. Just editing, giving advice and printing. ahhhhh
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Helping my friend make some fancy local scene zines tonight. I've had a bit of a fragile up and down week creatively speaking, so it feels really good to help someone else out with stuff where I don't have a stake in it and therefore will not be freaking out with wild ego-swings. Just editing, giving advice and printing. ahhhhh
Oooo, I'm intrigued. Do you mind elaborating or is that not for public forum discussion?
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Not at all. I just find that personally, I tend to oscillate with alarming frequency between "I'm the shit, listen to/look at this it's amazing" and "oh god it's all shit, this doesn't sound or look like anything else I can think of, everyone's going to hate it, I've wasted time/money and have an inflated sense of my own self worth".
Listening to people like Marc Maron (esp a couple of years back) he was talking about how someone else's success shouldn't mean that you feel shitty about your own stuff. Classic jealousy basically. But, try as I might, sometimes I do. Even though I know it's childish and futile, and I am genuinely please for my friends, more and less successful alike. It's like comparing penis sizes - I can't do anything about it and it seems to do the trick, but every now and then you'll see a monster and feel inadequate.
I'm super much a heart-on-my-sleeve kinda guy, and it seems my bandmates don't have the same anxieties, or at least if they do they keep it schtum. Johnny is so laid back and confident that I don't think he's ever second guessed himself, and Laura is what we affectionately refer to as a Robot in that she doesn't seem to have any outward emotions towards her art. But me, I'm the emotional idiot that tears up when we play our best songs or is constantly questioning whether what we're doing is legitimately good in a wider context. I'm so inside it, and so much of ME is bound up in it, but I also don't have entire fine control over everything. So I'm constantly judging myself against other people and feeling bad because of it. Or the flipside, I'll listen to or watch my stuff back and feel like a king and be an unbearable ego-monster for a few days. Most of the time I don't think about it, but this quarter of the year is just very packed full of stuff where basically I just want people to say they really liked it. But they might not
I think being emotionally open and spontaneous is a valuable and important part of my personality but damn it can be painful sometimes! It's like getting bruised by the wind.
There, that's the inside of my head right now. This was helpful to write
NinjaBoiX
Member
Jed needs a hug guys, bless.
If it helps mate, you're one of my fav peeps on teh neogaphs. And I think it's because of the very reasons you just stated: you wear your heart on your sleeve and just put it all out there for the world to see. It's an amiable and endearing trait.
And you a funny fucker too!
Love ya buddy.
xxx
If it helps mate, you're one of my fav peeps on teh neogaphs. And I think it's because of the very reasons you just stated: you wear your heart on your sleeve and just put it all out there for the world to see. It's an amiable and endearing trait.
And you a funny fucker too!
Love ya buddy.
xxx
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Not at all. I just find that personally, I tend to oscillate with alarming frequency between "I'm the shit, listen to/look at this it's amazing" and "oh god it's all shit, this doesn't sound or look like anything else I can think of, everyone's going to hate it, I've wasted time/money and have an inflated sense of my own self worth".
Listening to people like Marc Maron (esp a couple of years back) he was talking about how someone else's success shouldn't mean that you feel shitty about your own stuff. Classic jealousy basically. But, try as I might, sometimes I do. Even though I know it's childish and futile, and I am genuinely please for my friends, more and less successful alike. It's like comparing penis sizes - I can't do anything about it and it seems to do the trick, but every now and then you'll see a monster and feel inadequate.
I'm super much a heart-on-my-sleeve kinda guy, and it seems my bandmates don't have the same anxieties, or at least if they do they keep it schtum. Johnny is so laid back and confident that I don't think he's ever second guessed himself, and Laura is what we affectionately refer to as a Robot in that she doesn't seem to have any outward emotions towards her art. But me, I'm the emotional idiot that tears up when we play our best songs or is constantly questioning whether what we're doing is legitimately good in a wider context. I'm so inside it, and so much of ME is bound up in it, but I also don't have entire fine control over everything. So I'm constantly judging myself against other people and feeling bad because of it. Or the flipside, I'll listen to or watch my stuff back and feel like a king and be an unbearable ego-monster for a few days. Most of the time I don't think about it, but this quarter of the year is just very packed full of stuff where basically I just want people to say they really liked it. But they might not
I think being emotionally open and spontaneous is a valuable and important part of my personality but damn it can be painful sometimes! It's like getting bruised by the wind.
There, that's the inside of my head right now. This was helpful to write
Thanks for sharing that. You've actually made me feel better about stuff!
I feel you and for you, sir. Those self-doubting lows can be as crippling as the highs are productive. How do you judge if something youve made is any good when youre right in the middle of it? Its like trying to judge the size of country by standing in the middle of one of cities, right? Its especially difficult when the people youre working with either cant or won't help shed light on it.
Have you ever read Alan Moore's 'How to Write Comics'? He writes about how he used to go through EXACTLY this. I always thought this was a normal way to feel about stuff, tbh. I cant imagine being so utterly confident in my work as to think that everything I made was amazing, yet there are people out there just like that. It drives my band mates insane, to be honest. Im always tweaking stuff, trying to look at it from every angle, and I end up losing all sense of it. Thats the main reason Ive essentially been writing with my band for, what, three years now (I mean, the alcoholic drummer didnt help, but still). Its only recently that Ive managed to get to a point where I think what Im doing is worthwhile myself.
TL;DR - Wed be bloody awful in a band together.
8 Guass guns were never enough, amirite?
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
I liked that image CHEEZ, it suits you.
*clears throat*
Okay so there is a fucking hole in all of our eyes, specifically in the retina. It isn't very big but it is necessary to allow the optic nerve (spindely veiny bits) to exit the eye and attach to da brain.
"But what does it all MEAN Jack?! WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN???"
It means that there is a gap in our actual ability to see that is the exact size of the hole in each eye. Normally this isn't a problem as both eyes cover for each other and thus there is no interruption of vision. HOWEVER if you close one eye, your vision can still appear to be un-interrupted because of our brain's amazing ability to fill in our vision based on surrounding patterns. So we don't really notice the gap in vision, the spot where we can't see simply disappears.
Here is an image for example. Close your right eye and stare at the black dot on the right. You should be able to reach a point (move closer or father away from the screen as necessary) where the cross completely disappears. That's because your eye can't see it and thus fills in the area with whatever is surrounding it (which happens to be blank white space) That's your blind spot.
Science is cool.
Now I don't feel so dumb anymore.
*clears throat*
Okay so there is a fucking hole in all of our eyes, specifically in the retina. It isn't very big but it is necessary to allow the optic nerve (spindely veiny bits) to exit the eye and attach to da brain.
"But what does it all MEAN Jack?! WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN???"
It means that there is a gap in our actual ability to see that is the exact size of the hole in each eye. Normally this isn't a problem as both eyes cover for each other and thus there is no interruption of vision. HOWEVER if you close one eye, your vision can still appear to be un-interrupted because of our brain's amazing ability to fill in our vision based on surrounding patterns. So we don't really notice the gap in vision, the spot where we can't see simply disappears.
Here is an image for example. Close your right eye and stare at the black dot on the right. You should be able to reach a point (move closer or father away from the screen as necessary) where the cross completely disappears. That's because your eye can't see it and thus fills in the area with whatever is surrounding it (which happens to be blank white space) That's your blind spot.
Science is cool.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
I've not read that Moore piece but may have to track it down, he's usually quite insightful about the creative process even if he has become cunt #1 in recent years.
I totally get you about the songwriting thing too. My thing to say at practice (which probably drives the others insane) is "What is the point in this song? What is this music FOR?" Everything needs to be thought about from every angle. Otherwise it really will be shit and you'll have no excuses.
I think we'd be awesome in a band together. We should get Mike in it too and make all the songs be about feelings and stuff. Emo revival v3
Jedeye Sniv
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