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12:02 AM
My main appeal for Guan Yu comes from the time he gets an arrow in his shoulder, and he plays a board game with another person while getting treated without any pain-dulling medicine
(I can't remember what game he is playing, unfortunately)
 
I think he's playing the chinese version of chess
I've seen it translated as chess, but its hard to tell if that's just a translation decision
 
Xiangqi
At least, that's what we always called "Chinese Chess"
 
it makes me wish I could read it in chinese
 
Hah, I know exactly what you mean
 
12:22 AM
anyone here use vim or vi?
 
I use... Cream
Which is basically a UI for vim and is awesome
 
I could not contribute in neither Q nor A
Sorry~
 
:(
 
I only use it for documentation purposes, not on a high level. I don't have the needs to ask questions, consequently the lack of knowledge to provide answers
 
12:32 AM
G'night GSE
 
G'nite, @Fall Into Bed
 
night @fallen
 
1:22 AM
:1350 Wow, nice title there
 
@Grace Why thank you.
 
Good question, too, so you get an upvote for that.
 
Man, every time I play that game, I end up with Erasure stuck in my head. Some day I'm going to start singing that at work without realizing it. And my street cred will be gone...
 
1:38 AM
does anyone know the ip for the minecraft server?
 
sorry, no
 
2:11 AM
hi
 
hi
 
hhhhhiiiiiiiiiii
 
Hi, @Mechko, @Mana
 
Hey Grace. Enjoying our super special awesome new chat?
 
It's blue
 
2:20 AM
is this the final color scheme, or is this just the "sketchy" theme that all betas get?
 
Sketchy
 
2:37 AM
we should be like pink and purple
:D
and we should get animated smileys
that would be awesome
 
Let me be the first to say that I hate animated smileys with the burning passion of a thousand suns.
 
That's quite a lot of suns.
If we get emoticons, they should all be gaming-related.
 
This is what I got out of the closest pair algorithm
btw, when I say animated, I mean pictures.
they don't need to move
so illustrated smiles?
 
3:06 AM
Oh, wow, Boss-Level soared. It's at a whopping +17/-9 now
 
leeeet's geeeet tooogeeeetheeer and feeeel aalllriiiight
about boss-level
because apparently we have reached a consensus or something
 
Jin
3:32 AM
i forgot this is the new hangout place now.
 
can you guys help me test some new image flair stuff
just link random gaming profiles here in this form:
http://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/flair/18.png
 
4:06 AM
cool, looks like we fixed the concurrency problem on first generation of image and by "we" I mean ...
 
Hi-five!
offers hi-five
 
Hey, the new question feed is on. Saved me the grueling work of copying and pasting that link.
 
dinner, back later
flair it up gentlemen!!
 
Stack Overflow Internet Services is not responsible for damage to your computer monitor that may result from use of the above image.
(You're welcome, @Jeff.)
 
4:07 AM
Awesome, I totally internet hi-fived Jeff.
I'm famous now.
 
:1408 That's nothing. Troll consistently for several months, and you'll win a phone call.
 
I won't talk to anyone without letting them know that I gave Jeff Atwood a hi-five.
oh wow
I was hoping that the users would come rushing in now that we have this blue banner advertising our chat up there
...nope.
 
Oh, wow. I just noticed it for the first time.
And I've been away from Gaming for a long time.
Kinda blends in; the light blue doesn't work as well as, say, Meta mauve or SO orange.
 
Yeah, that's true.
 
Jin
maybe the grays need to be lighter
 
4:29 AM
hey guys
I've added a bunch of potential domain names here, a couple I think have promise:
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Q: Last Chance -- Top domain name: pauseforhelp.com. Speak now or forever hold your peace.

Robert Cartaino Possible Duplicate: Write an Elevator Pitch / Tagline Note: We are closing this domain naming thread. It is asking the entirely wrong question. See this blog post for details: Domain Names: Wrong Question We're going to keep the name gaming.stackexchange.com. But we WILL be setting ...

 
OH my god, its hobodave!
 
lol hi?
what's with the enthusiastic reception?
 
You're the cooking version of me
 
HOBODAVE HAVE MY BABIES
2
 
ag
ah
:1432 10.8k, nice
 
4:33 AM
I try
not nearly as well as you though
 
I kind of like the sound of 30extra
 
Jin
oh yeah. hobodave is the jon skeet of all se sites now
 
lol I wouldn't go that far
if our traffic doesn't pick up you may surpass me soon tzenes
lol someoen actually voted for youhavedysentery.com
 
I did
its a good name
most of my rep is based around Starcraft 2, so its much more "seasonal"
 
30extra and dungeonmap are my personal favs
ah I was wondering what you were doing
it's a lot harder to have comprehensive gaming knowledge than cooking
well, in some ways anyway
 
4:37 AM
yeah, what's worse is that the average person has good breadth but poor depth.
 
on Gaming?
 
on games
most people know a little bit a bout a lot of game, we have few people who know a ton about a few games
I'm the latter
 
I'm not sure there is a game where I have comprehensive knowledge
I don't game nearly as much as I used to
 
I have a handful I really know about: Starcraft, Dynasty Warriors, maybe Halo ODST.
the rest I probably know as much as anyone else
 
I didn't realize pauseforhelp was the front-runner until today, what do you guys think of it?
 
4:42 AM
How do you deal with the problem of people wanting you to recommend a recipe to try?
 
I think it's pretty meh
@tzenes we close it as off-topic
 
:1461 no one seems to like it, its largely the lowest common denominator
we have a similar problem in game recommendations that we have yet to really resolve
though its been diminished lately
 
we set that as one of our core tenets early in private beta
no recipe requests, period
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Q: Swedish Polar Bread

KarinLooking for a recipe there doesn't seem to be any around of the web... Any takers?

 
I wish we had that sort of cohesive vision. Sadly there are many who support game-recommendations
 
it took a few heated arguments to enforce
and some unforgiving moderation
 
5:18 AM
The more I read boss level the better it sounds to me
 
isn't it more a Boss Fight :P
because I don't know many games where the level only has a boss
 
Jin
i love css-s-s-sing. maybe i also like pain.
 
must be something nintendo-I :P
 
Jin
i squatted this twitter name, i thought it's cool
@FinalBossForm
0 tweets, 0 followers, following 0 users
 
if you drop the form on the end, we could abbreviate our name to FB and everyone would follow links to it :P
btw @tzenes, guess what local dinner I had last night? It said: only for real men on the menu
 
5:26 AM
which?
 
bacon, with union and pig cerebellum. Advised to drink down with booch
the latter being very strong wodka
 
haha
nice
 
I don't feel smarter though :\
the wodka must counter balance that
 
6:18 AM
Vodka is pretty good at keeping you from feeling smarter.
 
 
2 hours later…
8:15 AM
:1481 and we'd get sued :P
 
 
2 hours later…
11:14 AM
@CRoss please downvote this answer
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A: So I just broke 2000 reputation... now what?

mxyzplkIt may take a day for them to show up, but I think a "mod" menu will appear up top for you. It's mainly self explanatory. Read A Theory of Moderation. Also, here's the tips I got emailed by Robert Cartiano when I became a mod: Tip 1: When you vote to close or delete, your "vote" is binding...

 
11:54 AM
ARR, Moreno got pwned
 
12:49 PM
Good afternoon GSE
 
'noon
 
Heya badp, how goes it?
 
1:24 PM
2
Q: When will the next episode of Starcraft II be released and will there be an add-on for the current Wings of Liberty?

StampedeXVIf I understand the plan correctly, Blizzard wants to release three separate games (each one for mainly one race). Did Blizzard mention a general plan in which intervals they wanted to release the three packages? Are there informations if the current Wings of Liberty (or maybe all of the package...

Isn't this too localized?
 
I like that answer tbh
take that you tag-haters! :P
 
He's asking now how many games/expansions will be released, which we can't definitely answer as we're not Blizzard, and at the point when the games do come out, the question and answer will be moot.
 
WHAT IF BLIZZARD ANSWERS.
Besides, have you read the current answer?
 
I did, but a good answer to a question that's too localized still doesn't make the question one that fits here.
 
1:49 PM
zomg game rec
Interesting that he calls Zelda an RPG. I've always thought of it and heard of it called more action-adventure-y
though wait, Zelda II, nevermind
 
2:54 PM
Nice, it moved to its own domain now :)
 
3:06 PM
yup!
 
3:16 PM
out of curiosity, if I made a [faq] CW question in the main site would I get burninated?
 
:1763 What kind of question?
 
Q: How do I know if my retail game cd key is accepted by steam?
A: Go look on this page: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7480-wusf-3601
oh boy, the Ubisoft store really looks horrible
just look at the url I am brought to:
http://gc.digitalriver.com/store/ubiemea/it_IT/home/ThemeID.8605700/ccRef.en_IE
http://gc.digitalriver.com/store/ubiemea/ gives a generic error page
http://gc.digitalriver.com/store/ gives a generic error page
http://gc.digitalriver.com/ gives a login form
http://gc.digitalriver.com/store/ubiemea/en_US/home/ThemeID.8605700/ccRef.en_IE brings me to the Italian store
I just can't link to it, the darn thing hates me.
heh, shop.ubi.com worked
 
3:34 PM
It's something from Ubi. Involving the internet. Of course it's horrible. They're too terrified that you'll hack their website and steal their games to give you an easy experience.
 
4:09 PM
I hate working with linked lists so much
 
Let me guess, is sound disabled when playing Minecraft in offline mode?
 
uhh, I don't think so
although I have never tried playing it with sound on
 
Because since when the auth servers went back on, I've lost sound :)
 
hm.
 
Minecraft without sound is suicide.
 
4:18 PM
unless you play safe
I don't go out much at night
 
Actually caves are far safer than just staying in your shelter at night
until you break into large unexplored and unlit areas
 
My shelter is a cave
 
and my large bag is officially full
although I'm not sure about why I'd want to keep 1,102 blocks of earth.
 
oh god
 
holy shit, I found lava right UNDER my shelter
 
4:26 PM
my comp sci teacher just said that the order in which he's doing things is "bass ackwards"
I'm trying really hard not to laugh right now. I hadn't heard that before.
also, you should make a lava reservoir underneath your shelter
 
Jin
just finished an interesting game of Words with Friends..
 
and make like a giant lava bucket system
 
Jin
 
4:43 PM
goddamnit, I've bitten more than I could chew and now my equipment is lost
in the HUGE area right below my spawnpoint
of all points
including at least two lava sources
 
Minecraft life is so unfaaaaair
 
Well, I'm not going anywhere without sound
 
pfft
 
even though I could consider bringing down the difficulty to peaceful
 
Creepers aren't that bad
 
4:48 PM
wait a second
6
Q: Why do I have to authorize my map-editor every time I open it?

Raven DreamerI begrudgingly understand the lack of LAN and the default to "always-on" battle.net connection required to enjoy the single and multiplayer aspects of Starcraft II. But why do I have to log in to use the editor? Sometimes the editor lets me 'map-edit' without an outside verification, but every s...

 
:1796 Have you tried Words With Pirates?
 
Is my answer there appearing over the accepted answer for you as well?!
 
@badp: No, Raven's is here.
 
Jin
@LessPop_MoreFizz no, but i know of it
 
4:49 PM
oh
 
@badp: I see yours over accepted, yes
 
:1814 It is words with friends, but more awesome.
 
wait
 
:1813 scratches head
 
@badp I misread what you said
Yeah, your answer is appearing over Raven's for me
even though it's not accepted
I think it's all the weed, maaaaaaaaan.......
 
4:52 PM
its because Raven asked the question
if you select your own answer it doesn't float
 
oh
 
ah.
 
right, I remember now.
It's like that one Evan question
 
Then I guess you can downvote my answer or upvote his so it goes above mine
 
4:54 PM
:1831 I'm surprised there are still sites he hasn't been suspended from
 
:<
I like Evan!
I don't get why he's suspended.
 
if you or anyone you know uses vim: area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/14187/…
 
I just find him completely hilarious.
 
wow, its like I wrote this answer: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17204/…
 
5:05 PM
:1839 «Using Stack Overflow without a solid strategy to get REPUTATION quickly is a major waste of time. At least, in so much as securing future employment. Everyone, should have fun with the service, but at the same time you need to be comparatively higher leveled than them to stand out.»
 
fml
 
:1843 :(
 
I just had some of the most irritating students
 
:1845 They asked you game-rec questions?
 
lol no they asked questions tagged I-didn't-do-the-work-on-time-but-I-really-want-a-good-grade-if-I-wheedle-you-and-claim-that-I-was-sick-will-you-accept-my-late-home-work-despite-the-fact-that-prof-said-no?
 
5:15 PM
More than 25 characters
ducks
 
:1848 what if he really was sick?
(I'm a student, so yeah, I'm biased.)
 
well he claimed to have gotten over his sinus infection in 3 hours, so he can't get a doctors certificate.
I mean, I accepted it with the proviso that he gets capped at the median/average
and he can't be late again (ie start the homework before the night before/morning of)
 
5:39 PM
gog.com shutdown was in fact a hoax.
they also had the moronic notion to announce that it was a hoax by dressing up as monks.
[insert polish joke here]
on the plus side, as of tomorrow they will have Baldurs Gate
 
:1854 You're nicer than I was. I used to tell my students: I gave you 2 weeks, you weren't sick the whole time. Maybe next time you should manage your time better.
 
It's not actually my decision
I'm the TA
 
ah
Well that is a thankless job
 
6:39 PM
:1856 Worst. PR. Ever.
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I mean, sure, any publicity is good publicity, but they could've done this much better.
 
7:37 PM
Today is an important milestone.
My GSE rep is now higher than my SO rep.
And that's despite not answering anything in over a week because of extreme busyness
 
8:00 PM
Seems like that FarmVille question should've have been closed as off-topic, not not-a-real-question
although off-topic's message is very confusing
 
I close as NARQ when it's not a question
2
 
:1876 It's perfectly on topic, but it is in fact not a real question.
 
off topic can be a question about waffles, but a question at least
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz no sound when playing Minecraft in offline mode, right? :)
Like, when you don't have any internet connection... or don't have a valid login.
 
:1883 Not exactly, but yes, offline mode is connected to the sound issues
there's a bunch of forum threads about it. Basically the client does some wierd check against the server for it's sound resources and it's basically been broken for the last build or two causing people to randomly lose sound
 
8:08 PM
It wasn't really random for me
auth servers down, I have sound
auth servers up, I don't
I guess being a paying customer helps ;)
Oh well, it was a nice demo anyway.
And with creative mode offline I guess I'll play NFS:W
(har har har NSF:W I get it :P)
 
8:23 PM
Perplexingly, my workplace blocked gaming.se for exactly one day.
and now it's back
 
:1894 They realized we're going to get a diff domain anyway :P
 
9:20 PM
anyone here use perl on windows?
 
No.
You're a horrible person for even considering that.
 
Hey, at least he's not using Ruby.
 
has a brain aneurysm RUBYAARGH
 
(Ruby is actually good, I hoped @Mana was a fan :P)
(However, Python is better. For no particular reason.)
 
I've never actually written anything in Ruby, bro.
 
9:24 PM
:1906 Yeah, it was a long shot.
 
Python all the way
 
eh, Ruby is Python with differently stylish syntax and a couple different ideas on classes (and colon-identifiers, which I envy.)
do foo if bar is elegant, the pipe notation not so much.
Oh lookie! Now we have our own favicon!
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Yeah, I just noticed that too
 
what a beautiful favicon
 
:)
it's nice if you're in multiple beta sites. I like to keep my bookmarks as just the favicon with no text, but that gets confusing when you have several [B] icons...
 
9:50 PM
Some person asked on the forums how to hack our security system to play with an aimbot
 
What.
 
Since for some reason we do not allow this kind of perfectly legitimate questions I couldn't send him here and instead had to reply on the forums themselves.
 
which security system is this?
 
> They're based on the way ACPI events cause interference in the way ASGS makes Windows API calls via the DBus pipelines. Combine this with the fact ASGS was built with IE6 in mind and you have a problem.
> First update your system to IE8 or better so the about dialog causes memory corruption on delayed loading of the appropriate dll, then press and hold the power button for five seconds while logging in.
> See, your computer is really a series of tubes and ACPI can clog them so ASGS can't DES the encryption primary key via the Windows Encryption Service. Just clong them enough and bam! ASGS times out on checking its local HTML5 caches and activate your mutex without actually receiving the encrypted three way handshake. ASGS doesn't check your files and you can play with your ubercharged hvy int of doom.
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LOL.
 
9:52 PM
Allegiance Secure Gaming System, it was written by a designer who knew C# and resisted for three years. Some people have been playing without it for a few months now and it's being replaced by a newer, possibly stronger ad-hoc solution that might get open sourced.
 
10:48 PM
Anyone else notice the new fav-icon?
 
10:59 PM
yup.
about an hour ago.
 
I like it :-)
 
I love TASes, they perfectly play classic old games so I don't have to.
 
I used to love Arkanoid so much
still love clones of that gametype
 
:1937 The one I linked to is a perfect run, 3 balls on every levels that allow it and not one ever lost, no warps used
 
I'm watching right now, this is nuts
 
11:08 PM
Isn't it Tool-Assisted?
 
:1943 It is
 
TAS lost their charm on me after a while.
Well, sometimes
 
I'm not familiar with TAS at all
 
TAS stands for "Tool Assisted Speedrun"
It's a speedrun of a game, so something attempted to complete the game as fast as possible
Tool-Assisted means that extra utilities are used to basically accomplish things that normal human gameplay cannot
 
You have the emulator, you have the ROM, you have savestates, now do the game as fast as possible and don't forget entertainment value
 
11:11 PM
Or, in some cases, is difficult to
Like that one Dodonpachi perfect clear of the final boss with no bombs
TAS only really appeal to me when the only alternatives are watching people who frantically bomb to clear all of the hard parts
 
This one for example is an awesome TAS that goes for entertainment rather than speed
 
Ah gotcha
 
But I'll take an awesome human run that doesn't even clear the stage but still shows finesse and skill any day over a TAS
(The above is an extra stage that literally gives you hundreds of bombs, compared to your standard 5 in the normal game)
 
How many damn bosses is that stage?
 
8
Mary, Miria, Mai and Mei, Gates (WOOO!), Girl whose name I don't remember but all of her attacks are named after Gradius stuff, Muse, and some random new entry that no one knows
This video only goes up to that Girl whose name I don't remember [...]
 
11:23 PM
jeez.
 
They're specifically every boss from the first two games in the series, plus aforementioned new entry
Well, also minus Erlicht, but that's because you fight him as the first boss in the normal game
 
I was actually kinda surprised to see those bars go down so fast
Then I noted the "form" meter.
When we get the final design I'll need to make a short video explaining where the add a comment button is.
 
I keep moving my cursor to the top right out of habit to click on the link to the homepage
Gotta get used to it being on the bottom right
 
11:39 PM
Hah, that's amusing. The person who did the above video has a second video showing the next two bosses, accomplished by bombing throughout the first parts and just providing video for those points. It's so much nicer to see the full attacks.
Oh wow... as if Muse wasn't scary enough in her original game
 
nite
 
G'nite, @badp
 
night @badp
 

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