The Bridge

12:33 AM

The only problem with the Alien Breed games is that it's #2 of a 3 game series.

Yeah :/ And I hate playing things out of order.

And it's only slightly more expensive to buy all 3 together than to buy the other two separately.

(In USD, they're $5 each or $11.49 for the entire trilogy)

€10.49 here

Anyway, I've rearranged my wishlist to put the expensive stuff at the top.

eyes Alice

Haha, that's my #1

Q: Alienware M15x for non-gamers?

12:42 AM

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I have been having a really tough choice deciding between Alienware m15x and a Macbook Pro. I am asking here as the Alienware is primarily being marketed as a gamer's laptop. If some of you own this, how useful do you think it is for non gamers. (Alienware has the best looking laptop I have ever ...

laptop

Evenin' all

@Lazers ooh, yay, computer-rec

When do todays deals (on steam) end for everyone? It says a little over an hour for me, which I find unusual (also looks like the counter is missing a number)

nevermind. I checked the site through a browser, says 16. My steam client has been acting up a lot today.

1:17 AM

pokes Valve

It's getting kind of late in the evening for a TF2 update.

I should have just gone and worked on my extension, but I know I'm going to have some downtime tomorrow due to a DB server upgrade.

So, to get Professor Speks, you need to be friends with someone who upgrades from TF2 F2P to a premium account and they have to choose you when they do so.

Well, now I know where @badp got them. glares at @JuanManuel

"GC sent new item schema; updating" <-- er, what?

Oh great job Valve, you just sent my server an item schema that is apparently missing some definitions.

Item set desert_sniper: Attribute definition "" was not found
Item set desert_demo: Attribute definition "" was not found
Item set rapid_repair: Attribute definition "" was not found
Item set airborne_armaments: Attribute definition "" was not found
Item set black_market: Attribute definition "" was not found
Item set bonk_fan: Attribute definition "" was not found
Item set general_suit: Attribute definition "" was not found
Item set gangland_spy: Attribute definition "" was not found

Although... those sets don't have set bonuses, so maybe they intended that, but still, errors = bad.

1:33 AM

Wow, the last chapter of Ace Attorney Investigations was NUTS.

That was like the longest takedown ever. Why can't all Ace Attorney final bosses be like that?!

@Mana Now to play its sequel.

Oh wait, that's right, Capcom refuses to localize it.

:(

Mana: capcom-unity.com/ask_capcom/go/thread/view/7371/27423285/… <-- long thread about this on Capcom's forums

1:53 AM

asdf well I just spoiled Ace Attorney Investigations 2 for myself. Whoops/

Or at least I spoiled the mega twist.

HE HE HE

C. Ross

@Mana Mu Ha Ha

poisons Mana

Once he recovers, he'll have forgotten.

2:21 AM

@Powerlord Forgotten what?

2:40 AM

@Mana How tasty bacon is.

@Mana That the mega twist at the end of Ace Attorney 2 is...

Oops.

heh

3:21 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz It was all just a dream! No wait, that was Twin Peaks.

Turntable.fm is pretty rad.

Michael Myers

Is Civ IV Complete worth picking up for $6? Even if I might never play it?

@MichaelMyers Civ IV is my least favorite Civ game.

But, that is kind of like saying 'my least favorite bacon flavored product' or 'my least favorite Talking Heads record'

Michael Myers

3:37 AM

My only experience is with C-Evo and Freeciv, so I don't really have anything to go by.

Is Civ V much better? It's going on sale for $16 tomorrow.

@MichaelMyers Civ V is radically different.

Civ 3 probably offers the best 'classic' Civ experience.

Michael Myers

I don't know that "classic" is what I'd like anyway.

This is what I usually play:

Europa Universalis III

Europa Universalis III is a grand strategy computer game by Paradox Interactive. The main game was released for Windows on January 2007, and was later ported to Mac OS X by Virtual Programming on 2 November 2007. The original game without expansions starts in 1453, right after the Fall of Constantinople, and continues to 1789, just past the beginning of the French Revolution. The player controls a nation and handles matters concerning war, diplomacy, trade, and the economy. Europa Universalis III has a 3D engine which requires the system to meet the Pixel Shader 2.0 specification. The...

4:07 AM

whistles

Randall Munroe's xkcd

0

Q: Terraria online?

Does the game Terraria have a dedicated online server (like MMO games) that will save my progress? Or will I have to connect to other people like FPS games? Or can I do both?

terraria online

user30

5:26 AM

@bad I gave up, for various reasons I had to be up really early today

user30

Q: TF2 and shared wireless connections -- impossible for me and my brother to connect to the same Server?

5:38 AM

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It's the summer months, and both my brother and I are home from college for the time being. This means we're currently sharing a wireless network. We tried to play a game of Team Fortress 2 together this evening, and failed miserably; Without exception, the instant I tried to connect to the same...

team-fortress-2 wireless

Q: What was the Win95-era game based around floating cities and shield defense?

6:08 AM

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Things I remember: It was a top-down view Windows 95 era I think you had to use Kali to play it online I think it was multiplayer-only Shields were important and people would layer them in front of each other I looked through this list of Kali games but none of the names jumped out at me and ...

identify-this-game multiplayer windows 90s

Wow, I'm actually casting reopen votes lately, and arguing for questions to stay open. What's wrong with me?

Q: Anyone know how to solve the Missing Mesh sings when using Harvest Flora Mod?

9:15 AM

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I've dug up Oblivion again and installed my favorite mods. Among other things "Harvest Flora". Unfortunately I get a lot of these ugly yellow exclamation marks ingame (they go away if I disable the mod) instead of some plants. My google searches turned up the explanation that somehow the meshes ...

pc bug mod oblivion

Q: Dungeon Hunter offline Achievements

9:30 AM

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I just got Dungeon Hunter 2 http://www.gameloft.com/iphone-games/dungeon-hunter-2/ on my Iphone 3G and I have a Mage: Shadowmancer level 22. I usually play offline when I'm not home and I just noticed that if I play offline and "win" some Achievements, when I go online they are not updating. Do...

achievements iphone

Q: Will "Alice Madness Retruns" run on a 2010 MacBook Pro?

9:45 AM

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Does any of you have experience with "Alice Madness Retruns" on a 2010 MacBook Pro (Windows7 running)? I look forward to buying this game, but are not sure if it will run. related: How is the look and feel (especially the controlling) of the XBox360 version?

xbox-360 mac performance graphics

hum de hum.

Q: A "Find the way out" kind of game.

10:30 AM

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I have played a game years ago. Some properties- It is a 2D game The rooms have laser beams and mirrors (colored and transparent) We need to align the mirrors to deflect the laser beams and find the way to next level I am not sure what game it is. Can someone tell me if you can remember? I w...

wtf?

11:12 AM

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Q: VPS and Garry's Mod Server

I'm curious as to if a VPS with these specs could handle a 24 slot (or 32 slot) DarkRP server with a fairly large map running: CPU: 2Ghz (2 cores) Memory: 512Mb Port: 10Mbit Thanks in advance.

mod server garrys-mod

CruelCow

@badp wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/TF2Ware

12:24 PM

so, um, drops were supposed to reset yesterday right?

because I haven't gotten any yet

Q: How to silence Rock Band drums

2

Is there some product / hack / technique to minimize the noise from hitting the drum with the stick? Or alternatively, are there drum sets designed with minimal noise in mind? Because I find that the sound of drumming can easily drown out the song unless the game volume is cranked waaaay up. I'v...

rock-band-3 peripherals

1:08 PM

Gaaaah I still don't know what to spend my tickets on :(

1:20 PM

Yay, I get to assume the DB server I work with is down until noon.

@badp Did you get a Refreshing Summer Cooler yet?

TF2 item reset is at midnight UTC Thursday, so it reset roughly 37.5 hours ago.

1:38 PM

@Powerlord Nope.

As I said no drops since well before than the professor speks

although if they're going to give a free key again I might not be going to use it on the cooler anyway

unless it's an incredibly great crate

Q: Escape velocity-like game for the iphone

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I'm looking for a game similar to Escape Velocity on the iphone. Ideally, it would be a 2D space-trader game, but I'd be pretty happy with any game where the focus was exploration and upgrading the crappy ship you start out with. The more open-ended, the better. So far, the closest analogs I c...

iphone space

@badp, Plz to kill ^^^ with fire, kthxbye

Oh, finally a drop.

A dupe, too.

bwarner

@MichaelMyers I'd definitely go for 4 over 3, especially if you like the complexity of Europa Universalis (one of the only games that I've ever found that was too complex for me to get into) Don't start with 5, you won't appreciate its "streamlined" nature

2:17 PM

@FallenAngelEyes Me neither.

►

@LessPop_MoreFizz Interesting. "We don't like your question. That said, here's your answer."

@ArdaXi I'm feeling nice today.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Me too! Weird. I haven't even casted any close votes lately.

Did Valve rename this cvar? mp_disable_respawn_times 1 I was thinking it had a different name now.

2:29 PM

The images for 3 and 4 on the Steam Summer thing seem to be broken

Arghlblarg.

I can't remember what I was last working on in this TF2 extension.

So, the vote command processor is in place... is the logic to send the vote screen to users?

@FallenAngelEyes Looks fine to me.

Bleah, I don't know where #GameUI_vote_passed is defined in TF2's translations.

2:54 PM

At what time does Valve's day roll over?

In 2 hours

in theory

in practice, whenever Gabe finishes second breakfast or whatever the fuck and they get around to it.

but nominally 10 am pacific.

Rapida

Will someone come to my rescue and answer this guy's comment? gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/25564/…

Sure. But I'm too lazy to add FAQ/Meta links to substantiate the claims I'll make.

Q: How to interpret voting on identify-this-game questions?

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Voting is meant to separate good from bad answers. However, identify-this-game questions can only have one correct answer or none. There is no (potential) continuous answer quality level. So, should voting be based on probability of it being the correct answer, which is indeed a quality of the a...

discussion identify-this-game

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm too lazy to make claims to substantiate my FAQ links.

Tom Wijsman

3:09 PM

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@ArdaXi Sounds like two great tastes that taste great together.

@LessPopMoreFizz Which reminds me. Do you use ______ for ______ too?

@ArdaXi Oh man, all the time.

@ArdaXi bacon for bathing? I don't know about LessPop, but I do!

@Powerlord Meh, I use ______ for ______. I tried ______, but it just wasn't the same.

3:13 PM

Well, of course Team Fortress 2 wasn't the same as Mad Libs for humor!

3:26 PM

hm

I'm unsure that SE is the best platform for Code Golf

@LessPop_MoreFizz You can just type faq now and it'll autolink to the faq

faq

oh, that's cool!

hah, I just memorized the URLs and was typing them out in full.

er, yeah, brackets around that, didn't realize it worked in chat as well >_>

I believe it works fore Meta now as well.

3:29 PM

@FallenAngelEyes Oh nifty. But it's still too much effort to link stuff on meta!

Oh, LessPop.

laugh track

@Mana I'm sure it isn't.

@Arda Want to make a better code golf website?

@Mana No.

:(

3:35 PM

oh excellent. My law is at 13 stars now

@Mana I haven't exactly participated in Code Golf have I?

Me neither, but that doesn't make it any less interesting.

@Mana Of course it does.

@Mana Why do you think this chatroom is interesting?

Aww, come on. Where's the burning spirit of motivation you always seem to have?

Because it has interesting people.

@Mana Exactly. Code Golf doesn't have me.

@Mana Never has been, and probably never will be.

3:37 PM

@ArdaXi wait, code golf doesn't have you?

2

I better switch over then

2

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH

@Wipqozn Yes. Yes you should.

Aww. Don't be offended, Ardian.

In fact. YOU ALL SHOULD! Especially @Man-

@ArdaXi We could rename "The Bridge" to "Arda Xi and all his friends"

3:39 PM

@Wipqozn That sounds really, really sad.

Imagine if you were all my friends.

eugh. Horrible thought.

@Mana I know, right.

@Mana yeah I'm depressed now

shudders

Yay! I depress people!

That's good... right?

3:41 PM

@ArdaXi We all need goals in life

oh man

It's a Good Life

I remember when you left this chat for a while, you made the most depressing tweet

and I was like oh wow, this is incredibly depressing

yeah you are a depressing person, jeepers

@Mana I did?

Also

Why do you keep thinking bad thoughts about me?!

Yeah but then you removed it

tsk

3:44 PM

tsks

agh, Bit.Trip Runner is not displaying in fullscreen

What, really?

If I alt-tab, I can see it

when it's back in focus, black screen.

hm

Ah, found out why. How odd.

Mumble overlay borks it o.O

3:52 PM

:O

Q: Deus Ex? No One Lives Forever? Anything else?

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Does anyone have suggestions for games which are like the two mentioned in my topic? I have read countless forums which suggest games combining both the FPS and RPG genre, but that is not what I am looking for - the wit and smartness of the conversations between non-playing characters, as well a...

first-person-shooter role-playing-game deus-ex

@Lazers Lazers has a sizable delay at posting question. Never noticed that before.

@Wipqozn It polls for questions every 10 minutes I believe.

jesus this game is brutal

@ArdaXi That would explain it.

3:55 PM

@FallenAngelEyes Yep.

Every time you fail once, whoosh.

If you miss one jump in front of the finish line, whoosh.

@FallenAngelEyes I know, right? Oh man. It was especially brutal since I really wanted to get the coins on every level before beating it.

@Mana That's not hard...

true

but that also included the bonus stages

BWAM

think this is one I'm definitely not going to be able to complete achievement wise :(

@Mana Did you just bwam?

4:01 PM

Yes.

Got a crate! Series 21 :/

AAAAAAGH

4:19 PM

I need scissors! 61!

I swear, I'm going to try saying that all the time instead of bacon.

The lead and gold achievment is ridiculous

only one I dont have yet

@Loktar Your time is running out... there are only 40ish minutes left.

you can still get them the whole time luckilly

otherwise id definitly be screwed lol

I'm content with the two tickets I have

@Powerlord how hard was the AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA one?

up until the last day you can get tickets from any of the others

4:22 PM

@Loktar You sure?

yeah

@badp Easier than I thought I'd be.

'cause the level has checkpoints.

@Powerlord Yes but they cost points.

support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4577-WUSK-4280

And apparently you need a 'perfect score'

4:23 PM

@badp You lose like 250 points per death, but there are some areas where there are two Two Grand plates next to each other.

So, the only way to get both is to grab one, die, then grab the other.

yeah so it makes sense to die purposly to get them

and the 750's

Took me 3 tries all the way through the level to get it.

I made it with only 4 deaths on my run I think

@Powerlord That'd be getting killed on purpose!

the only "difficult" one besides lead and gold, was toki tori

some of those sunbeams were tricky to figure out

4:24 PM

The Toki Tori one was just annoying. :(

yeah I dont think I will be playing that game ever again

Toki Tori's not a bad game, per se, but they keep putting dumb stuff in it like this. :(

Warhammer one was Really easy lol but I felt bad

Oh, I noticed I didn't have the Cold Feet ice block achievement in Toki Tori, so I got that yesterday, too.

I exited as soon as I got mine

4:25 PM

Which is "stand on an ice block for 12 seconds"

I- err... hides

This has alot more than the holiday treasure hunt, potentially over 70, treasure hunt only had 28

I like these compos though, gives me an excuse to try games in my library i never play

Toki Tori was just time consuming

Yeah for bonus 3 I used a youtube vid.

I expect some to pop up from Killing Floor... they were supposed to add new achievements to it yesterday, but that was pushed back to today.

4:27 PM

It's funny how Steam actually had to add that Welcome to the Camp challenge for legal reasons.

really?

Sweepstakes have a No Purchase Necessary requirement.

Since all the achievements require purchase of said game, they needed one not linked to a paid game.

ooh yeah they had that for the holiday treasure hunt too.

Like post a comment on a friends wall, give a recommendation for a game, ect.

Funnily enough, even the Potatoes had one.

Yeah, the treasure hunt had one from each set that could be done without the games.

4:29 PM

You can also get an additional ticket by sending them a SASE.

So, anyway, I need to update my KF server tonight after they shove the update for it out.

I also need to tell Melissa KF updated.

And add the new map to my server's voting list.

and finish my TF2 vote addon... wait, that's already on The List.

Yeah, got a 3 star rating with 8.8k points lost to respawns.

> In the event of sabotage, acts of God, terrorism or threats thereof, computer virus or other events or causes beyond the Sponsor’s control, which corrupt the integrity, administration, security or proper operation of the Sweepstakes, Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, cancel or suspend the Contest or the Sweepstakes

Once I stopped crashing into everything all the time, I managed to get 4 stars.

@ArdaXi Stop planning to sabotage the contest. :/

I think the game Evil Genius should have an achievement in this contest, despite the fact that the game doesn't have achievements.

Something like "Build your first hotel on the island"

(you can build a hotel to stop tourists from trying to enter your evil base)

lol wow.. semi NSFW bras and pantis.

direct2drive.com/10182/product/Buy-Warriors-of-Elysia-Download

Warriors of Elysia

looks absolutely terrible, so I may have to get it.

4:32 PM

@Powerlord The first 2k plate is a PITA.

@Loktar Great reasoning there!

@badp The one near the corner?

Yes, it is.

Not only that, I think you have to hit the speedup plates later in the stage in order to score more points from non-plate stuff to get a high enough score for bacon.

Oh man oh man updated steam sale in 25 minutes

TAKE MY MONEY ALREADY VALVE YOU MAGNIFICENT CASH GUZZLING BASTARDS.

OK, so I have all my functions to send usermessages to users with the voting stuff, now I just need to figure out where in the code I need to have it actually send these messages.

(since some, like Cancel, will be called in multiple locations)

31.8k points now, 3.2k more

and I lost 2k from respawns and missed a few plates.

Perhaps it is doable.

GAH

scored 36k, missed the landing pad.

He looks so sad when I miss the bonus :(

4:41 PM

Interesting fact: if you hit the spacebar too late but land on the plate you respawn and can do a proper landing.

yeah, if you're going too fast when you hit, it'll respawn you

Fire&Sword just updated

42 gold blocks!?!

Okay, I'm officially hooked as fuck on Turntable.fm

argh

don't talk to me about turntable.fm

I'm still depressed about that

4:48 PM

@badp Ouch

@Mana wat. why?

Don't forget that landing in the circle on the landing pad is worth 8k

I am playing Wu Lyf

> We're very sorry, but while we would love to let you in and rock out with us, we need to currently restrict turntable access to only the United States due to licensing constraints.

34,295 points gah

4:50 PM

@Mana O I did not realize you wuz one of dem forrren types.

You know what that is? That is a bitch slap in the face hand-delivered to me for being a Canadian.

Serves you right. Moose-hugger.

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