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2:00 AM
@GnomeSlice What's your Steam name?
 
@mordi2k Erm... let me find me. I always confuse login with name.
Why?
Oh, man, I can't accept another free gift.
Fucking paypal.
Maybe I should try making a new account.
 
@GnomeSlice Yes you can :)
 
@mordi2k x_x Thank you sir.
 
@GnomeSlice Just accept my friend invite x)
 
Erm... can I do that without a steam client?
Are you "MATS MANUS"???
 
2:07 AM
Yeah :P
 
Er. Alrighty then.
Askepted.
Only 50 minutes of internet.
sigh
 
"Thank you for your purchase!
Your gift is on its way!"
:)
 
Woo! 12 and 6!
 
x_x I... thank you.
 
@GnomeSlice Don't worry, I'll just drink two cups of coffee less this month x)
 
2:11 AM
@mordi2k Well, now I just feel terrible...
 
@GnomeSlice Lol.
 
It's like in 30% Iron Chef
 
It was meant like: it costs the same as two cups of coffee, and that's not much for me. Usually I drink 5-6 a day
 
Of course I can't find the clip on Youtube.
...Futurama the GAME!?
Well, anyway, Zoidberg takes like 10 dollars from Fry, and then when they're at the 30% Iron chef show, he can't afford a corndog or something and zoidberg is like I AM A TERRIBLE PERSON.
And tries to stab himself.
 
Hah.
You made me two cups of coffee healthier.
 
2:18 AM
He runs on stage and grabs the hosts katana, and bends it in half trying to stab himself.
 
I'm fairly sure I wont stab myself.
Arrrggg, where's the god damn save file for Orcs Must Die!? :(
 
Oh come on I just saw that clip.
@mordi2k That. ^
Maybe I should just install Steam on this computer anyway.
If my parents take it away, then I won't go to school.
Lose-lose so they probably won't.
 
Do it!
 
Hm.
The problem is that I'll have to REDOWNLOAD all of these games through Steam.
Not really feasible.
 
0
Q: Useful Strategy For 2x Ring of Teleportation (+2 Speed)

ashes999Playing as a warrior in Angband, I happened to find two (okay, more than two) rings of teleportation ... with the caveat that they increase my speed by +2 each. This got me thinking about how I can use them as some sort of stragy. The best I came up with is equipping both and ripping through low...

 
2:24 AM
Why not copy them from the computer with Steam on?
 
@mordi2k You... you can do that?
I thought they were like surgically implanted into Steam, and impossible to copy out.
 
Just copy the steamapps folder.
 
@mordi2k dawat.
 
41
Q: How do I move Steam games to a new computer without re-downloading them?

joshhuntI have just bought a new computer and I have everything migrated over except for my Steam games. I looked in Program Files/Steam/ and I found a folder full of the games I have downloaded, but I do not know if it is safe to just copy these folders from one computer to another (seeing as a lot of ...

 
Yeah but.... I'm not supposed to game...
Oh wait.
I probably can't.
My dad turned the traffic monitor back on.
So he'll be like "why is steam in your traffic logs".
And I'll be like uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
 
2:27 AM
Du'h
 
So yeah, probably a bad idea.
He basically records logs of all traffic on my devices.
As well as automatically locking me out every night at 23:00
 
Your home life sounds rather...unfortunate. :/
 
What @TimStone said.
 
They were away on a cruise last week.
It was glorious.
Yeah, I got into a yelling match with my mother the day after they returned.
And every now and then my dad comes in to look at my laptop and see what I'm doing.
He interrupts his own fucking work to do it.
So... yeah.
What @TimStone said.
29 minutes and counting.
I suppose I should have let TF2 download overnight when I didn't have the curfew.
Oh well.
To be fair, when I didn't have the curfew, I was up on my computer at like 4 am a few times.
But to be even fairer, I'm often up at 4:00 WITH the curfew, staring at the ceiling.
Argh... Yeah, I probably shouldn't install steam on this machine.
 
Hah.
 
2:37 AM
Hah?
 
At least you're not up all night working, like I am.
 
@sjohns!!
 
@mordi2k Sometimes. Depends.
 
Hi kids. What's going on?
 
@sjohnston Hi!
 
2:38 AM
Not much man, working on a site for my residence.
 
@Mana, want to play some tankball before the last bit of my internet dribbles away?
 
@sjohnston I'm listening to this over and over again and laughing at the endless NPR in jokes:
 
@Mana Oh. Guess not.
 
Sorry bro.
 
2:39 AM
@LessPop_MoreFizz Hmm, I like NPR, but I suspect I'm not a frequent enough listener to get in-jokes.
 
@sjohnston You'll get them.
They aren't that insider.
If you know the names of various hosts, you'll get most of them.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz I assume that the quotes from other people in reply to Ira are not actually spoken in that context at all?
 
@Mana Pretty much.
The Terry Gross quotes in particular are amazing.
I know several of them are from her interview with Gene Simmons for example.
 
GODAMMIT, I WANT TANKBALL HD.
 
2:41 AM
(In which he hit on her repeatedly.)
 
I'll have to listen to that later. Watching Green Mile right now.
(A movie I enjoy more every time I watch it.)
 
> You say you've had sex with about 4600 people
LOL
AHAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA
 
Wow, I definitely am convinced that I need to download Carmageddon now.
> This game is the best game ever and you really should download it. Go on do it know because you can kill things and if your angry it is a great way to let all your anger out at a game you haven't played yet. Smash into cars who anger you, I know I get angry and smash I have dumped it on someone, So if you don't download this game you are crazy!
 
@Mana Pretty sure that one is from the Gene Simmons interview.
 
2:46 AM
> After a conversation that is a little too graphic for, uhm, public radio, I, I made some progress.
 
You know, at first I didn't like StormWorld, but now I watch it regularly.
It grew on me quite a bit.
 
@Mana The Crotch Thing.
 
> "I think it's just irresistibly...irresistible what's been going on"
oh man this is genius.
 
@Mana That sounds familiar.
Well, what do I do with my last 10 minutes?
 
maaan, I've just done something I haven't done in a while
clearing flags and shit
feels good maaaaaaaaaaaan.
 
2:50 AM
@badp I kept on looking at those flags but I was just so eh about them all.
 
@Mana Absolutely brilliant.
 
@Mana including the one with 4 spam flags? UHHHH?
 
None of them were particularly awful, but...oh.
I...I might have missed that one.
:(
 
It's fun trying to figure out which Fresh Air interviews provided which audio snippet.
 
fuck this
I never know what to do when I have no time to do it.
 
2:52 AM
Like, the 'what are you wearing' stuff about the leather corset, is definitely from her interview with the author of Whip Smart, whose name I can't remember, but it's about being a Dominatrix.
 
hey, we're about to hit 5k flags since ever.
We should ban somebody in celebration
 
@badp hides
Yeah, I posted it before. But it doesn't count because no one actually listened to it.
 
@badp I would consider NickT's answer not-not-an-answer.
 
> Peter Sagel's sex blog, Wait Wait, Don't Come Yet.
 
answer? on topic?
 
2:55 AM
It's asking where there's impossible space in Portal 2. That doesn't have to necessarily be restricted to level design.
 
except if you read the question body, you'll see it's about level design
 
oh.
 
> Soon every connection between any space was a portal. We would even switch them on the fly. Even a simple door worked like the cartoons - just a facade painted on a wall that seamlessly opened somewhere else entirely. Once the game settled down we were able to finalize our path and remove all of the world portals. There's only one impossible space left in the whole game. See if you can figure out where it is.
emphasis not mine
 
well. fuck. hangs self
 
guys, we need a new moderator given Mana's recent departure
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2:56 AM
raises hand
 
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Q: Where is there "impossible space" in Portal 2?

Nick TOne of the commentary nodes by a Portal 2 developer, Eric Tams, said they used "world portals" to quickly reconfigure maps and puzzles during testing, which allowed them to create rooms that were bigger on the inside, infinite falls, and other sorts of impossible geometry, save for the users own ...

@GnomeSlice Are you volounteering for the celebratory ban? You brave man!
 
Once my internet drains away, I'll probably just play Cortex Command or HammerFight or something for a few hours until I'm tired.
 
I nominate sjoggghhhhkkkkkk
 
What was that? I think he meant @Powerlord.
 
@Mana Doesn't exist.
 
2:58 AM
What do you guys think?
 
Oh, @badp's giving out free diamonds? Brilliant.
 
and free bans.
 
And with this, I disconnect.
 
<oprah>You get a ban! You get a ban! You get a ban! EVERYBODY GETS A BAN!</oprah>
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zoink
 
3:00 AM
Too much free stuff.
 
oh well. Feel free to collect your freebies tomorrow.
Nite
 
Nite.
 
@badp clicks link...is disappointed to see it's the previous line
 
@MarcoCeppi context, man, context.
 
3:07 AM
I knew it would be bees.
The gif took forever to load for me but I always knew it would be bees.
3
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Strangely...mesmerizing.
 
Also @LessPopMoreFizz I'm highly disappointed by the lack of any hidden comments in the source code of your website.
 
@Mana They're more hidden than that.
 
> <script src="http://sweepstakesandco DO NOT BE CLICKABLE ntestsnow.com/nl.php?nnn=1"></script>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
 
It appears to be down anyway
 
3:11 AM
Yeah, just noticed that, and it appears to be malware.
Time to change passwords. :/
 
3:23 AM
Man, We Bros is a brilliant song.
 
4:01 AM
Brant! That wasn't worth deleting.
 
Cropped and resized.
 
5:33 AM
@Mana You're not worth deleting!
 
5:45 AM
0
Q: How do I maneuver the jet?

BoraI sometimes get to fly the jet on BF3 near the end of the round, and I almost always fly it out of range of the battlefield and die. How do I turn the bird? It seems to have a mind of its own. I have been trying the maneuver with the keys A, D and the arrow keys LEFTARROW, RIGHTARROW in combi...

0
Q: What are the mechanics of aircraft flares?

BoraI've often seen jets release their flares in dogfight or against ground threats. How does that happen? Are choppers able to do this, too? Does the aircraft do it automatically like in COD: Black Ops, or would I have to press a key? If yes, Which key?* What is the strategy behind it? Aga...

 
6:30 AM
0
Q: Where does Akali get her OPness from in Dominion?

Rafael CelerierI've been playing some draft mode dominion games, and it turns out that almost always the same champions get banned. Now i know that rammus gets banned for his tanky abilities and speed and such. Now i know why Akali gets banned cause the few games i've seen her been played she roflstomps the oth...

 
 
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7:58 AM
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Q: Which console versions do Amazon.com sell?

corrodedSince they are in the US, im assuming the NTSC one? OR do they sell both? I am looking for the PAL version but I don't see any version in their catalog: http://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Hero-Warriors-Bundle-Nintendo-Wii/dp/B003N5ZZ9K If there is a choice, where do I put it?

 
8:17 AM
... Really? I go AFK and find out that I got suspended again?
That said:
gaming.stackexchange.com/suggested-edits/1734 On the one hand, this needs cleaning up. On the other hand, this suggested revision is shitty. On the foot, I'm too lazy to clean it up myself.
So hey, @badp or one of you other Euros for whom it is not 4 AM. Fix it plz.
 
0
Q: What are the must-have (overpowerful) aircrafts in Ace Combat 5?

happy_emiI'm a noobie to this serie (I only played and finished Ace Combat X on PSP) and I noticed that on AC5 you can't have all aircrafts in one "run", This is different from ACX where you could play the same mission over and over to get the money. Now this is not a problem for me but I'd like to avoid...

0
Q: How do I create a empty minecraft world?

DemonicMushyMe and my friends want to create an adventure map, so, I would want to have a empty Minecraft Bukkit Server Map to start with, so there will be nothing other than the things I want to put into the map. How do I do this?

 
9:03 AM
 
9:28 AM
0
Q: Can I download PS3 game updates on my computer?

noodlSo GT5 2.0 is out and it's all terribly exciting. However, my internets suck steamy donkey balls and it's failed 7 times to complete the 1GB download. Given the lack of resumable downloads on that platform, can I download the update with a sensible client (one with Range: http header knowledge)? ...

 
9:40 AM
@drake ma lo sai che ho connesso solo ora che il Drake di GSE e il Drake di STS sono la stessa persona? Certe volte sono davvero lento :P
 
STS? Space Transportation System? As in, the space shuttle? :)
 
@badp Good, you're around. Plz to clean up the english on this question because I should still be sleeping and am going to go back to trying to.
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Q: Why is Akali supposed to be overpowered in Dominion?

Rafael CelerierI've been playing some draft mode dominion games, and it turns out that almost always the same champions get banned. I know that Rammus gets banned because of his tank abilities and high speed. Now I know why Akali gets banned because the few games I've seen her been played, she is extremely bet...

Thanks!
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Thank Drake :)
 
@badp For what? He approved the edit. My point is that even the approved edit, while better than it was, still needs some help. It's why I didn't approve it myself. :P
> she is extremely better than the other champions
for example.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz That's one bit I didn't touch
 
9:52 AM
I'll fix it in 3 hours when I wake up if nobody gets to it before then. I are lazy.
 
"she is better", "she is really better", "she is extremely better"
looks okay to me..
 
@badp Extremely doesn't get used that way. Nor does really.
Extremely is an adverb, but you aren't modifying the verb is, you're modifying the adjective 'better'.
So what you want isn't an adjective but an intensifier such as 'much'.
 
"she really is better"?
 
"the better-being of her is extreme"
 
10:27 AM
@badp Stessa persona sì, d'altronde Drake non è certo originale quindi capisco non sia facile collegare :D sorry for the italian
 
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Q: Is it possible to change the camera view in the FIFA 12 practice arena?

jwaddellIn FIFA 12 (and some previous versions of FIFA) when you first start up the game you can control a player and practice playing against an AI goalie on an otherwise empty warm-up field. This also occurs before each match. My problem with it is that the camera view is always facing the goal, wherea...

 
11:20 AM
3
Q: How can I safely walk through Electric water in DX:HR?

JosefvzIn DX:HR there are certain places in levels, where there is electricity running on the ground, over water puddles or something. Is there any way I can walk through it, or do I have to bypass it every time? Or is there a certain augmentation that I need?

 
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Q: Does Deus ex HR have any easter eggs?

HarpalMy question is out of curiosity. Are there any Easter eggs in Deus ex HR?

This really really stinks of NARQ
Did he ask for one item per answer? No. Is he getting one item per answer? Yes.
for now I'll downvote everyone but Warface, who at least answered with 1+5
 
@badp "NARQ"?
 
not a real question
 
11:59 AM
Well, sounds to me real enough. Like this one.
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Q: Does Hoard on Steam have achievements?

DrakeThe store page description report that EASTER UPDATE Collect 48 Eggs to unlock the "Egg Hoarder" Steam Achievement! but usually games that implement Steam achievements show some of them as icon/title list in the right sidebar. Can someone confirm me that they are really implemented ins...

Or this:
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Q: Does Uncharted have trophies on the PS3?

UllallullooI just played Uncharted: Drake's Fortune a couple months ago, and I noticed that it didn't have trophies. I looked online for more info, and I thought I read somewhere that they added them or something. Does it actually have trophies in some way? If so, how can I get them? I got my copy last Chri...

 
@MartinSojka This isn't asking for a list
@MartinSojka This isn't asking for a list either
 
Unlike both of those questions you linked, the Easter Egg one isn't just getting "yes" for an answer
 
@GraceNote It should, though. :)
 
This is more like "what are the hidden parts of Portal 2"
 
A question is generally a problem if you can't take what is considered a valid answer to that question and say "This concludes the question" (that is, that the answer could be accepted). This is the same issue that plagued game recommendations, shopping questions, and numerous others of the same ilk.
 
12:03 PM
In general, I don't think question askers are exclusively responsible for the quality of the answers they are getting.
 
No, but question style and quality affect it.
And this question kinda shows it with the vagueness of "Easter Egg". Everyone is submitting whatever they want, and some even say they don't know if people consider it an easter egg but they'll post it anyway. The lack of anything there to even narrow it down, this is basically "hidden features".
In fact, this is hidden features.
 
@GraceNote "Does Nethack have any easter eggs?" would be worse. ;) It either does have a ton of them, because half of the game consists of strange effects you can get in uncommon situation, or it has none, because they are all neatly documented in the freely available source code ...
 
@MartinSojka Which is exactly why it's a bad question
 
The only easter eggs Nethack have are the rogue level and Sokoban, which play like games other than Nethack
 
So yeah, asking for easter eggs is not very useful.
 
12:12 PM
why is a cultural reference now elevated to easter egg?
wait, easter egg is actually a hidden feature triggered by an obscure sequence of actions... so it's more like cheat codes.
> Easter eggs are messages, videos, graphics, sound effects, or an unusual change in program behavior that sometimes occur in a software program in response to some undocumented set of commands, mouse clicks, keystrokes or other stimuli intended as a joke or to display program credits.
but regardless - question closed
 
@badp That's a somewhat narrow definition. Easter Eggs can generally be defined as being a hidden feature or joke.
Like, I'd consider the TextEdit icon in Mac OS X to be an easter egg, but it doesn't require any sort of special set of keystrokes.
You just need to zoom in a whole lot.
 
Ok, dear , that wasn't quite what I had in mind ...
There is a total of two trees on that 1-km-squared map. :D
... and 19 floating islands.
 
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Q: Fallout new vegas crash with ASUS EAH6850

Robin Willy RodgersI have an i5 3.2GHZ computer with windows 7 64bit installed. 4GB RAM, dual monitors connected to an ASUS EAH6850 video card. I recently purchased Fallout: new Vegas which installed correctly. But when i start the game it successfully opens the main menu, but when i try to actually play it crash...

 
@MartinSojka Challenge Accepted
 
12:28 PM
@MarcoCeppi Let me generate the map of the full generated area (4km x 4km) first, maybe that's just an outlier. :)
If you have PhoenixTerrainMod 0.9 whatever on a current Bukkit server though, these are the settings and BOBs used: xn--vrnideas-b1a.de/PTM-floaty-settings.zip
 
Ugh waking
 
12:43 PM
It's almost 3 pm.
 
@ArdaXi Best time to get up, bathe, eat something and go to town in time before the shops close.
 
@ArdaXi I know a lot of people who are not discouraged by such a revelation on their waking moment
 
Tim Cain to Obsidian... could be promising?
 
@GraceNote It was not intended as a form of discouragement, merely a statement and clarification for those who are less CET-inclined.
 
Y'all are UTC+1, neh?
 
12:49 PM
@GraceNote Correct Earth Time, yes.
 
But it's almost 13:00 UTC
 
☜ UTC+2 ATM.
 
Almost 15:00 would would be UTC+2
 
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Q: What do those abbreviations mean in LoL?

F.S.I'm quite new to League of Legends but try to improve through reading guides. All too often I stumble upon abbreviations I am not sure what they mean. Some of those are: CS Mp5 Hp10pL mid bot

 
@LessPop So did you report that your GPS system has self-destructive tendencies?
 
12:51 PM
@GraceNote Conference Call in 2 hours!
 
@GraceNote DST.
 
@ArdaXi Oh, I was kinda hoping you didn't have to worry about such trifling things
 
@ArdaXi didn't get to sleep til after 5am
 
@GraceNote We have to worry about the sun, yes.
@FallenAngelEyes And whose fault is that?
 
@ArdaXi We're not using Correct Earth Time.
 
12:52 PM
@ArdaXi Only certain nations actually reset their clocks
 
We're using Correct Earth Summer Time.
 
@ArdaXi In the middle of a medication switch, so that
 
@GraceNote All of Europe does at the same time
 
When does this stupid DST end, again?
 
@FallenAngelEyes You are forgiven.
@GraceNote Soon.
 
12:53 PM
@GraceNote Earlier for us than for you
Which will be... annoying
We switch about a month before the US does because the US changed their policy
 
@badp Man, and I had hopes for Europe
At least Hungary is still cute
 
@GraceNote Hey, at least we switch at the same minute
 
30th of October.
 
@badp Last I checked, Island was part of Europe.
 
What was that state again? Indiana?
 
12:54 PM
I don't care about most midwest states
 
@MartinSojka There's many islands in Europe, many of which observe DST
 
@ArdaXi Have to ramp down and then ramp up again later on a new one, if it even works. I hate this process.
 
BTW, the bigger map looks a bit saner:
 
@badp Indiana I believe, yeah. Also Arizona. Well, parts of Arizona.
 
12:54 PM
@FallenAngelEyes That's just annoying to me, then
 
@FallenAngelEyes "parts of" makes things actually worse :)
 
@badp I know! It's weird
 
@badp Nonsense, it just makes it even easier to decide not to live in Arizona.
 
...is spiked-up hair common in the Netherlands?
 
Full map, whoever wants to try it, generated with PTM: xn--vrnideas-b1a.de/Floaty-4km.zip (4x4 km, 142 MB)
 
12:56 PM
The only moment I'm against DST is when I wake up in the morning and go out and there's some sunlight, then suddenly a few days later it's pitch dark and cold and depressing.
That's the only moment.
 
But yeah, we'll switch at the end of this month, but the US doesn't switch until November
Ah, sorry, there's a week's difference, not a month.
 
Just a week? Used to be two.
 
...pffffffffft, Netherlands is tsundere.
 
I guess things are improving.
Honestly if DST steals sunlight from the early birds to give extra sunlight to the late owls, I'm all for DST
 
user30
GMT is the original and best
 
12:58 PM
@GraceNote I know that long hair on women isn't really as common here.
 
@ThomasMcDonald indeed you're using CET now
 
@FallenAngelEyes What about men's hairstyles, though?
 
you just rename it BST to hide the fact
 
user30
nope, GMT+1. aka BST
 
Hair of my length is something I see very rarely, whereas it's very common to see short boyish cuts.
 
12:58 PM
@badp Sorry, I meant Iceland. Also, see Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
 
@ThomasMcDonald aka CET.
 
@GraceNote What.
 
@MartinSojka Okay, I probably should've said "European Union."
 
Belarus is cute, too, in a scary kind of way
 
EST is Gods One True Time Zone, thank you very much.
 
user30
12:59 PM
@badp just because you relabelled our acronym.
 
user30
 
Hi @BrettWhite! Thanks!
 
user30
Alreet brett
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Erroneous Silly Time? Oh please.
 
@FallenAngelEyes Whu
 
12:59 PM
@ArdaXi I don't think there's much more to explain other than that he is tsundere
 
@GraceNote Hm. Kind of depends. College-aged guys tend to have a mix of both. There's not really any "stigma" per se against guys with long hair here (i.e. thinking that it's sloppy, lazy, hippy-ish, etc.), as far as I know.
 

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