The Bridge

@Manaಠдಠ that reminds me

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12:26 AM

@Wipqozn They mean well, but that was seriously disturbing on so many levels.

@John Awesomely disturbing.

Hmm, my desktop notification says you're in the incomprehensible room instead of this one.

The what now?

Over on the right: "enable desktop notification"

If you're in Chrome.

And if you're not, you should be.

I was referring to the incomprehensible room

12:28 AM

Or were you referring to the room?

How do I quote things?

I feel like quoting @Mana about now...

Q: What language does the narrator speak in From Dust?

>just add a space

Lazers

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Is it any specific language? The people themselves and their culture seem to be intentionally generic.

from-dust

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Q: How can I hotkey auto-casting?

Is there a way to set an SCV to auto-repair, or a carrier to auto-build interceptors completely with hotkeys? I believe the question is also interesting for standard hotkeys but I use grid hotkeys.

starcraft-2 keyboard hotkeys

a space between > and your quote that is

Ah ok thanks

> YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE A TERRIBLE MOD!!!!

send a message please

testing something

12:32 AM

A message?

@Wipqozn Like this?

Yes, exactly like that.

could you send another please/

@Wipqozn Whatcha testin'?

chrome

I don't use it

but dekstop notifications sound super useful

Aaahh.

They totally are.

But they only work when someone links a message.

when someone pings me?

12:34 AM

@Wipqozn Yes.

good

if it was any message

it would be really annoying

@Wipqozn Yeah I guess but @Wipqozn sometimes it's @Wipqozn useful.

ii had a game launched when you did that

so it didn't work

but I'm guessing I got a message for each ping?

:(

Hmm, idk.

Do it agian, and let us see

again*

Powerlord

12:37 AM

Each ping... each edit to a ping...

@Wipqozn 7

no sir

not that

Well?

I mean ping me multiple times in one message

@Wipqozn Well if @Wipqozn you say @Wipqozn so.

12:38 AM

okay

only once, which it sould

thank you

@Powerlord yeah, I noticed the edit

Nick T

Fun with stars :D

hm

@NickT oh my

I see what you did there

you rascal you

Oh my word

@Wipqozn Story From North America was the most beautiful thing.

Q: Mac: Looking for new(ish) 3D game

There is no tabs mix plus support for chrome it would seem

@Manaಠдಠ I thought you would like that

Dave McClelland

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I've been out of gaming for a while...so don't know what's going on of late...But, I just got a new tricked out 27" iMac (i7) and want to see what it can do with a game. (yeah, I know, "not a gaming platform", "not a gaming OS", etc...well, I'm not talking to you!) Can someone recommend a good,...

mac first-person-shooter 3d

Can we get some close votes on that?

12:46 AM

Facebook'd it

I voted to close on sheer reflex

@Manaಠдಠ Oh wow. Good call on my part for sharing it then.

Go me.

Also, if chrome lacks a plug-in which gives the ability to switch tabs on hover instead of click, I will not be using it.

I like the desktop notification, so that would give me reason to use it. However needing to click on tabs to switch to them? That's crazy.

@Wipqozn I can't imagine a more annoying feature for a browser than switching tabs on hover.

@StrixVaria IT's so useful. I love it.

It's not an instant hover, you put a delay on it.

I would rather just click instantly and change the tab exactly at the moment I want it changed.

12:48 AM

I have about a half a second delay

actually not even tha tlong

I should check

Game-rec closing team assembllllllllllllllllllllllllllllle!

Recent Questions - Gaming - Stack Exchange: Mac: Looking for new(ish) 3D game

@RavenDreamer "Thanks for understanding" My, that's presumptuous of you :P

Lazers

posted on August 20, 2011 by Meltemi

I've been out of gaming for a while...so don't know what's going on of late...But, I just got a new tricked out 27" iMac (i7) and want to see what it can do with a game. (yeah, I know, "not a gaming platform", "not a gaming OS", etc...well, I'm not talking to you!) Can someone recommend a good, hopefully fairly recent, game that with great graphics that's compatible with the Mac…

@RavenDreamer It's already deleted.

I was responding to @DaveMcClelland's request, actually.

12:50 AM

@StrixVaria I switch if I hover over it for 150 milliseconds

Dave McClelland

@RavenDreamer That was fast

I'd still rather the innovative precision of clicking when I want an event to happen. Instead of timing a mouse over 150ms before I want an event to happen.

@Powerlord - would it be possible to write some sort of script to limit TF2 players to 2ndary and melee slot weapons only?

150ms is so small it's nearly instant.

I also refuse to play FPS games on consoles because aiming with the joystick is infuriating, so maybe it's just me.

12:51 AM

In fact to not switch you need to move the mouse over the tab really fast

To your credit though,most people agree with you and can't stand it.

I personally can't stand not having it.

@Lazers Deleted question viewer is awesome!

I just don't view clicking as such a tremendous task that I need to find ways to avoid doing it.

It's basically the simplest and easiest input method on my computer.

Today has been long and boring.

@RavenDreamer I know how it is, man.

And if you're mousing over, your hand is already on your mouse.

12:53 AM

sheesh

I do all the work and @Wipqozn gets all the stars!

clicking on tabs is so much work. Mine as well be working the coal mines or something.

I got lots of drumming in but it didn't even feel that good today, yo. It was such a bland day.

@Manaಠдಠ Real drumming or rock band drumming?

@Mana You play the drums?

Do I want to know why @Wipqozn has staged a coup on the starred chat list?

12:53 AM

Real drums, man.

@RavenDreamer Scroll up

That's awesome. How long have you played?

Snare drum?

Only like a year and a half, haha

@RavenDreamer Apparently I'm awesome.

Are you any good?

12:54 AM

@John Actually, snare technique's what I struggle with the most :/ so delicate

I'm alright. I can cover most of the songs on my mp3 player with little difficulty

I play the snare drum once in a while.

Powerlord

@RavenDreamer Probably.

My technique and improvisation could use a lot of work though

@Wipqozn You're awesome, and you want to know if I'm any good? Gee, that's mighty forward of you.

Whenever I'm reenacting a drummer from the War Between The States.

12:55 AM

Blah. Can't type straight.

@RavenDreamer I'm a very forward guy.

@RavenDreamer Like a shark! If I stop moving forward, I'll drown.

humming just keep swim-ming, just keep swim-ming

@John Love that movie

@Wipqozn Me too. Dori is the best.

Also, 19 hours until elections start.

12:57 AM

Stupid storm. Every other time I try to hit a website I get a DNS look up failure.

omg so exciiiitiing

Eh.

I know who I'm voting for, so I'm ready to go.

It's clear who one of the new mods is gonna be.

@StrixVaria I know how that feels. I still don't know why I keep getting those.

12:58 AM

@RavenDreamer yeah, it's been clear since the get go.

I'm assuming the second mod will be either you, @RavenDreamer, or FallenAngelEyes. You two are neck and neck, and have been the entire primary.

this is that awkward situation where I can't say anything

@Manaಠдಠ pssst, we're talking about you

Well, I wouldn't bet on it.

@Mana Campaigning again?!?!

l o l. In before mana doesn't get any votes at all.

1:00 AM

He's getting at least one.

Well, except for mine. I'm voting for you. so that's at least one vote.

@StrixVaria at least two votes

Not heavily, anyways. I think I have a good chance of winning, but Ivo, Fallen, and Raven can also grab a lot of first place votes.

@Wipqozn Clearly the only reasonable response is for me to marry FallenAngelEyes, thus making us one person under the law, and allowing us to share in the moderatorship. Yay! Everybody's happy!

We'll see how it goes.

Alternatively, I suppose I could marry Mana.

1:01 AM

EEewww....

I still am not convinced that the law is that a married couple only counts as one person.

@RavenDreamer If you married Fallen you wouldn't have her all to yourself, you would need to share her with her many other partners.

Yo man, nothing wrong with marriage between two guys

@Wipqozn - I know. That's why I even had the audacity to suggest it in the first place.

I'm actually really meek.

(oh sorry, I didn't mean to start THAT conversation again....)

1:02 AM

@RavenDreamer I'm still put off by your new gravatar. I'm used to that near-invisible one.

Internet courage man. I can say all sorts of stuff on here that I couldn't even dream of saying outside of the internet.

@Manaಠдಠ Unless @RavenDreamer is really a female

@StrixVaria clearly you missed the part where I was trying to talk to the handsome, witty fellow with the shiny red avatar.

@Wipqozn if I were female, I'd have to be a lesbian. 'Cause I like the ladies.

@Raven ...@Powerlord?

@Mana Isn't that orange?

1:03 AM

@John Close enough??

@Mana Meh. For the purposes of humor, yes.

thaaaanks :D

Oh. I had no Idea what @Mana was trying to imply.

You're weeeeeeeeeellcome. :P

But now I got it.

1:04 AM

@RavenDreamer omg I like the ladies too!! we have so much in common, we should get married

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@Manaಠдಠ You totally shoudl!!!!111!!!one!

I would pin that if I was a room owner.

Actually we have enough stuff pinned already.

Stuff which is actually important.

@Wipqozn although to be fair the Grace Note now works for SE pin can probably go

Speaking of pinning, who pushed off my youtube video? >:(

It was @Wipqozn wasn't it!

Indeed it was.

You and your diabolical pinning!

1:07 AM

well, it was whoever starred all my messages.

@NickT I believe.

Your cohort!

Well we're talking about pins, and the EL&U room is talking about butterflies.....soo.....
Who wants to play (Galcon)[http://www.galcon.com/flash]

So have you been playing SC2 much @Mana?

No

@John you need the http://

I'm trying to figure out how to do the mech build properly

1:09 AM

@Wipqozn I have it. :(

It's not showing up.

or rather trying to get the coordination and awareness necessary to pull it off successfully

@John Galcon

Bah.

@John You don't have the http://

How did you do that?

@Mana Yes I do it's just not showing up.

1:09 AM

@John I added the http://

now you have the wrong brackets

wait what

oh

Link syntax on this chat is all sorts of stupid.

I know I changed the brackets, but when I edited it, it still said I had the http

@Manaಠдಠ half the battle is actually being able to pull the builds off

Galcon

1:10 AM

also brb

there you go !

Now it works!

Man, this song is so chill. I could loop it for days, yo.

speaking of awesome songs...

Meh. I prefer symphonic metal.

@Wipqozn The Sore Feet Song (full version). Mushishi opening.

1:24 AM

@Wipqozn It is quite a good opening. @John This is quite good as far as symphonic metal goes! I like the female vocalist a lot.

@Mana Have you got to the guitar solo? :D

@Manaಠдಠ Nice song. I like it.

@John yay symphonic metal

Epica is very good

they are Dutch too!

:D I know. They're my current favorite band.

formed by an ex-After Forever member, iirc (also Dutch)

1:26 AM

And originally called "Sahara Dust"

Oh, here's the guitar solo

Hello @FallenAngelEyes how's Gamescon?

@RavenDreamer Look at you, mister, talking all casual only hours after you suggested marrying me

pfffffffffaahahahahahahahaha

@FallenAngelEyes Um.

About that...

:D

1:28 AM

Not even! Half an hour!

What can I say? I was young and reckless back then.

He hired a justice of the peace and everything.

@John My favorite metal band currently would probably be Alcest. Ecailles de Lune is a particularly beautiful song; I highly recommend listening to both parts.

So... if I married Raven... would I be... jumping the shark?! YYYYYEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHH!

@Fallen hi-fives

1:30 AM

@Manaಠдಠ hi-fives

Yeah, I'm kinda tired

If I get elected moderator, I'm totally changing my name to "The Shark"

You're missing your subject there

You should get some rest, yo. We don't want you to collapse before the event is done~ totally not using you for Gamescom coverage

Touche, madam.

lol

1:32 AM

Also, for the longest time I thought your gravatar was the bat symbol.

haha

Wait, you mean it's not?

I really should replace it, it's a pretty old .gif

oh, those are eyes

So long as we're linking beautiful songs...

1:33 AM

and a cool FAE thing in the middle

wow

I can't wait to be on not-hotel-internet so I can actually watch videos again

@Wipqozn The Planets. Best suite, or best suite? YOU DECIDE!

Who do I talk to about writing a "Dwarf Fortress for Dummies" blog section.

@IvoFlipse oy! You abouts somewhere?

Gaming Blog Editor room

Wherein we leverage the leak power from our lazers to do this ...

Ivo Flipse

I am

1:35 AM

@Wipqozn how could you forget Pluto, you heartless blizzard!!

@RavenDreamer Pluto wasn't discovered yet.

@Wipqozn The lack of temporal foresight on their part is shameful.

Unless he seen further into the future and seen it wasn't a planet after all :)

Pluto shall never die! It shall live on in our hearts!

As a dwarf planet.

Come on now, a dwarf planet Raven! That's awesome.

1:38 AM

Oh, so that's where Dwarf Fortress takes place. Pluto.

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@Manaಠдಠ I lol'd

My soup burnt. :(

aw :(

:(

ok trying to keep blogging now

1:41 AM

gl hf

What he said

@Manaಠдಠ I could go to sleep to that. :)

hahaha

well, Alcest isn't exactly the most upbeat metal band. But I tend to be a big fan of atmospheric music.

Maybe that's what I need. Some atmosphere.

@Wipqozn I could listen to Mars all day every day.

@StrixVaria I'm forced to agree.

I'm not sure what my favorite piece from The Planets is, hard to choose.

1:46 AM

You're not?

I don't know the others as well as I know Mars.

When I used to play TF2 on servers that let you spam the voice chat, I would play Mars at the start of every round.

Blah, why is my phone not recharging?!

I hope it's not broken.

Broken charger?

@StrixVaria I wish I played on those servers

If anything's broken besides the phone it would be the cord

1:47 AM

Connections between devices and cords are notorious around here for breaking.

This is one seriously long song.

Why is it every time I forget about my Galcon game the AI has taken over most of the galaxy by the time I get back?

Every time I hear anything having to do with taking over a galaxy, I remember how bad Spore was.

I never played that one.

@Strix ooh...that's not the best experience to have going on actively.

(That is a game, right?)

The problem with spore is it wasn't what it advertised itself as.

It was a space simulation game, but it pretended to be something completely different.

1:50 AM

Hello Chat

@Manaಠдಠ Do you like Explosions in the Sky?

Hello @LessPopMoreFizz

Spore was the most hand-holdy sandbox game ever created. I think that's actually a pretty impressive accomplishment.

@LessPopMoreFizz Chat says hi back.

It was a sandbox that told you what to do every step of the way to progress.

@LessPopMoreFizz One of my favorite post-rock bands, and given that they're a staple of the genre it's hardly surprising.

1:51 AM

Is there a pun in there or is that actually the name of a band?

It's actually a band.

It is the name of a band.

Recommend me a good Explosions in the Sky song.

I want to like them, but I could never get into it.

@StrixVaria this is probably my favorite

@StrixVaria Really more of an album band.

1:52 AM

Personally was always more of a GYBE/ASMZ fan than EITS. but that's me.

but I agree with LessPop that it's better to just put on an album and listen to it

@Wipqozn Whoa...totally was not expecting that from you...

I find the last sentence of this to be most depressing. Something about the wording...

I actually have two albums by them...they're uh...

Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever and The Rescue

1:53 AM

@StrixVaria Listen to Those Who Tell the Truth...

Personally, I am listening to Tom Waits.

Will do.

@John I love classical music. In fact, the vast majority of the music I listen to is either classical, or from OC ReMix

@Wipqozn Technically, science unchallenged defines that the fate of the universe that we experience is quite dismal.

@Wipqozn I took classical piano lessons for 15 years growing up. What's your favorite era?

1:55 AM

@Wipqozn Me too. Little known fact: I'm actually in an orchestra.

@StrixVaria Romantic.

Either we have a closed universe, in which case eventually everything will collapse into itself and be reborn, which purports eternal existence at the cost of destroyed all of the past at each iteration (if this were the system, who knows how many "ages" have gone by before this one?)

Of course romantic. It's clearly the best.

One of my proudest moments was performing Liszt's 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody in front of about 150 people.

Or, we have an open universe, in which case everything continues to expand until all energy is expended and all stars become black holes, after which we lack any capability to sustain our life after that point.

Philosophical question: What do you guys think happens after the end?

1:57 AM

@GraceNote Yeah, I'm aware. I actually considered becoming an astronomer for a long period of time.

@John Of the death of the universe, or our death?

If the later, nothing. We rot in the ground (Atheism away!)

If the former, no idea. We don't understand enough about the Universe to even take a guess.

@Wipqozn I was thinking our deaths, since I thought @GraceNote Just answered the other one.

Even after what @GraceNote describes happens, the universe would still exist, it would just be empty.

Assuming the second theory is correct, which is my personal belief.

Without perception, it is as if naught.

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