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    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

    in General Banter

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    Prob. won't play much of Drakengard 2. Kinda crappy, horrific dialogue + voice acting. Astonishing how bad the story is! Yet the original is wonderful, dark story telling, with much better voice acting + story. Gonna skip to NieR instead. You can really tell Yoko Taro was not involved with it.

     

     

    Got Ending E of Drakengard. Yep, dude makes weird games. Onto Drakengard 2.

    Awesome Master Roshi cosplay avatar!

     

    Thank ye!

    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

    in General Banter

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    My coworker, with whom I work with in special accounts (foreign exports, awkward orders, carrier shipping etc), had a major heart attack several weeks ago, and will be off work for a while. There are multiple downsides to this:

     

    1) He's an awesome guy, who works surpremely hard, is willing to do everything he can to help and is always trying to improve himself, even when it's outside his comfort zone. There are few coworkers I would say I like, but he is one of them, and that he has been taken ill like this has made me quite sad. To hear that he's on the mend and survived was news I received happily.

     

    2) He had learned many of the jobs I alone know how to do, and with him off, having holiday days off will be quite awkward. I have not been told I am not allowed time off, but I know what kind of look I will receive if I try to book any.

     

    3) The person I have been given to replace him is totally shit, lazy and deluded as to his abilities as a worker and human being. Not to mention a selfish prick: when told he would be helping me for a while, he said he didn't want to do it because he believes the job is what gave my coworker the heart attack, and that he 'valued his health more than taking on jobs he doesn't want to do' (he said this on the morning we found out the coworker had suffered a heart attack). The lazy replacement spends all of the day making comments like 'no wonder he had a heart attack with work like this' and 'I don't want to die early', and expects me to agree with him. The work he's doing is the same as what he normally does, except he now has to put slips of paper into the boxes he packs. Which I have to help him with, despite being busy with more complicated stuff, because he keeps forgetting what to do. And then asks when he's getting a pay rise for having to deal with the extra 'stress'.

     

    tl;dr: sad about ill colleague, holidays are but a distant dream and his replacement is a wanker. And this is the second time in two years that a coworker of mine has suffered major health problems (last year, my former coworker broke his ankle and took six months to recover). Perhaps I am bad luck to be around? Does my cowanker have a reason to be afraid?

     

    The only plus is that I am again in a tough situation, and might get another huge bonus for dealing with it without complaining (apart from on WATMM, course). Perhaps. Maybe. If I don't get one then there really isn't any plus!

    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

    in General Banter

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    Locked out of my gmail account for reasons I cannot fathom. It's not allowing me to set a new password like it usually does, and even asks me to type in a phone number I haven't used for a couple of years. But even typing that in, it does not acknowledge it's me. Even though I am still accessing the emails from my phone with no problem (and can confirm no-one has hacked my account to use it for shady stuff).

     

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    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

    in General Banter

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    @bechuga - have you played the original Nier? it's a wonderful and weird experience. just be prepared to encounter one of the worst quests in modern gaming (the fishing one. absolute nightmare).

    On my list to get and play. Might get someone to buy it for me for a b'day present. I have heard about that quest, should be fun :)

    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

    in General Banter

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    With NieR ranking as one of my favourite gaming experiences in a while, I am playing Yoko Taro's other games in order. This means I'm playing Drakengard on PS2. Oh boy, this is a step-down gameplay wise from Automata!

     

     

    I'm playing No Man's Sky. still. one year later

     

    Really? What are you getting out of it at this point?

     

    He's scouring the universe for the gameplay

     

     

    j/k, play what you like foil

     

    The Flashbulb - Piety of Ashes

    in New & Upcoming Releases

    Posted

    Even the selected comments on his bandcamp page from fans decry him:

     

     

    The thing that frustrates me so much about Benn's overall tone is that he begrudges the fact that this is ultimately the kind of work that he does best. Success comes to him from sequencing breaks like no other musician on this planet can, and then once he's lured a fanbase in, he drowns them in space music and pseudo-Metheny. https://theflashbulb.bandcamp.com/album/hardscrabble

     

     

     

    That said, I've not yet given Flashbulb a proper listen. Will do so and find out what the fuss is about (that said, the first song I clicked on his bandcamp was about a tree saying 'very mean things' :psyduck:)

    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

    in General Banter

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    wait, is that an official patch? it should be included with Steam updates, if it is.

    Nope, it's an unofficial fan patch you have to install yourself (which has a built-in validity checker: if you do not own a legit copy, it won't work...the irony). But I can vouch that it 1) works 2) does not break or invalidate your copy. I've been playing on Steam with it fine, as have many others.

     

    I can understand the negative reviews on Steam now: the game is excellent but no official patch for this problem is pretty lame.

    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

    in General Banter

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    Earned ending E for NieR: Automata. Great game! Now to get the joke endings and debate getting the DLC.

    I really want to play this. I only recently found out it's a PlatinumGames joint.

     

     

    It's definitely worth it. If you play it on PC, make sure you install the FAR patch and mess with some settings (the GL light settings mainly), otherwise the game is a stuttering mess.

    Now Reading

    in General Banter

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    At work, I finished Cosmopolis by Delillo. Was entertaining, but not overly fond of books where the main character is a prize dong. Some good lines in there made it worth it though (and it's short).

     

    Moving onto: H(a)ppy by Nicola Barker. It looks a little something like this:

     

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    At home: reading Phone by Will Self. Just as good as the previous two in this trilogy, Umbrella and Shark. Gonna be sad when it's finished.

    New countdown, new release? [Aphex Twin Warp Store]

    in Aphex Twin

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    I have not even listened to ANY of these tracks but hope they are still about when i have some money to buy them...

    Better be quick before they sell out

     

    Thats the bloody thing i have 0 pence to my name and as usual loads i need to buy...

     

    There should be plenty of mp3s but flacs / wavs cost too much to make an infinite supply of them

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