The Bridge

Sounds off-topic to me.

Wait, why was it migrated to us? That belongs on Super User!

Tim Stone

@Mana, get out the tennis racket and lob that one back!

This pretty accurately sums up how I feel as a MineCraft Sever Admin.

12:45 AM

Alrighty, talked to the mod in question, they're going to give it a shot on SU after all.

@GnomeSliceツ I remember running a TF2 server. On slow days, we just messed around with Sourcemod.

1:07 AM

@ArdaXi So, if I delete it here, nothing bad happens?

@Mana Well, we might all die.

Q: Does anyone have any info on an old game called "The Pit"?

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The Pit was an old text based adventure game that was on the Source. The years would have been the early 80s. Any info would be appreciated.

adventure text-adventure

So, no, nothing bad.

@Arda But it won't delete it on SU or anything? Okay good.

It won't.

in Root Access, 25 mins ago, by studiohack

if you don't mind, please flag the question over there to be deleted @ArdaXi - thanks!

A hack told me so.

1:09 AM

So I saw.

Flag weight all the things!

what

what happened to the

to the flag

oh

I guess deleting it took off the flag or something.

Also, bodies. I hide them.

That was you? I just saw it on Reddit.

I had to hide a body after breaking into the morgue and the lab guy figured out I wasn't blonde.

You're the bastard who downvoted it, aren't you. AREN'T YOU

I get out of the sewers, I get shot.

I go back to a previous save, drag the body one room across, I get out of the sewers, I not get shot.

I aren't.

1:21 AM

That looks like a shop.

I would know, I've seen some shops before in my time.

@Mana That was ages ago. Shops have changed, maan.

I can tell you, just look at the pixels. It's real.

No way. Look at the arrow. LOOK. AT. THE ARROW.

Totally legit.

Well, time for sleep.

It's 3:30 ffs.

I was gonna sleep early today.

Deus Ex, this is all your fault.

The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

@Mana And yours. You convinced me to partake in the grant.

You're giving me sleepless nights, @Mana!

1:24 AM

What? I just messaged you saying "DON'T LEAVE ME"

@Mana I don't get it.

@Mana And what did I do?

@GnomeSliceツ He hid the body of his cruel murder, very poorly.

@GnomeSlice The locker has shelves. The body is literally crammed into the locker such that it is popping through these shelves and its leg is twitching

Q: Does anyone have any info on an old game called "The Pit"?

@Mana Well, I see that...

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The Pit was an old text based adventure game that was on the Source. The years would have been the early 80s. Any info would be appreciated.

adventure text-adventure

Also, wat.

"No One In Particular" A sockpuppet of yours, perhaps, @GnomeSlice?

1:26 AM

He needs to provide some info on the info he wants us to info all up in that info.

@Mana ಠ_ಠ

Maybe I shouldn't have taken a paracetamol right before going to bed. >.<

Gonna try anyway. Good night all.

Or don't sleep and play (pirated) Deus Ex. Be like me; it's the cool thing to do!

wait maybe that was a trap

PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCES

steamcommunity.com/id/ArdaXi/stats/DXHR

@Mana ಠ_ಠ

1:34 AM

I still don't get the promo grant. How is SE profitable?

We seem to have endless supplies of money, but that has to come from somewhere.

@ArdaXi Ads and sponsors.

@Mana Yes but what do the sponsors get out of it?

@Mana I thought the advertising was done by the community.

1:35 AM

Also Facebook.

We hardly have any paid ads on Gaming.

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Q: Gamescom 2011 Wrapup

Gamescom is over and it was awesome. I know it's a little late to post the meta summary, but I've also been a bit sick with Con Crud this past week in addition to the regular recovery, so I've just been really tired (hand sanitizer, for the love of all that's holy, use it!). So let's look at a su...

discussion

@GnomeSlice Not on StackOverflow.

@FallenAngelEyes "Big pimping" pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffahahahahahahahahaha

Yi Jiang

@Mana There still is some open source community advertisements

@YiJiang Ah, really? Hm.

1:37 AM

@Mana It's late, it took me like 4 hours to do the Day 4 writeup, so my brain's falling out of my ears, especially after a day of boardgaming. So sue me. <_<

@YiJiang The users do a lot of that too.

"You're trying to build an enterprise-grade login system with absolute security? You should totally drop that and use jQuery."

@FallenAngelEyes Oh, come on! I thought it was amusing. What's with the hostility :(

@Mana I'm not meaning to be hostile! D:

I'm just exhausted, seriously

I'm glad you are amused

heh, fair enough

get some rest yo

It was the first thing popped into my head for that headline so

1:39 AM

Okay, Mana has no humour, Fallen has no energy. Gotcha. :)

I know it doesn't seem like it, but the blog writeups really do take hours to do x_x

@FallenAngelEyes They seem like they take days tbh, they're ridiculously long

@Mana Yeah. Are they too long? I did warn that they were full day diaries, so they'd be way longer than normal posts, but I'm worried people won't read them for the length.

@FallenAngelEyes I read all of them and I have a pretty short average attention span so I'd say they were engaging enough to not feel like a drag

Thursday and Friday night I did the posts the day of, but I couldn't keep that up for Saturday and Sunday. I was just too exhausted because I was up til like 6am sorting and editing photos, transcribing the notes that I took by hand into a digital doc, then doing the actual writing.

@Mana Awesome, thanks, that means a lot!

1:46 AM

@GnomeSlice I am a waste of internet.

3

Hello again chat.

LESSPOP! hi-fives

show me some cool tunes bro

Do you like Rap?

Depends. Hit me up with those dope beats, man.

@Mana Check out Das Racist

(Bonus points: they're really really fucking funny)

1:56 AM

Oh, I know Das Racist.

oh yay new Todd in the Shadows

@Mana Okay then. How about Neutral Milk Hotel?

@LessPop OHHHHHH COOOOOOOMEEEEELLLLYYYYYY

But yeah. Wait, that's not rap.

Indeed.

@Mana No, it isn't.

I'm JUMPING GENRES HERE

Do you know Battles?

Because if not:

Atlas is an amazing song. Also Africastle. And Ice Cream. But you probably shouldn't link the Ice Cream video here.

2:01 AM

Wow, that site has a lot of bugs.

@Mana Indeed.

I would probably get suspended. Again.

Dirty Projectors?

Yup.

recipes with seaweed, you see weed?, you see we'd see weed even if it was C weed, or B Weed, or D weed, we just see dee weed, with no seeds

Tweeted by FakeDasRacist on February 10, 2011 at 6:10 AM

@Mana I <3 FakeDR

@Mana Godammit, not you too...

@GnomeSlice What?!

Nothing wrong with a little C weed.

With no seeds.

2:05 AM

I WILL LINK SOMETHING YOU HAVEN'T HEARD DAMMNIT.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Not that again...

Oh come on. Of course I know Holy Fuck.

@Mana Did you really just Bowdlerize that?

@Mana Zomby?

If I get suspended...wait, what happens if a mod gets suspended?

@LessPopMoreFizz No! I have not heard of Zomby.

2:07 AM

@LessPopMoreFizz:

@LessPop_MoreFizz I've never seen cats used as a kaleidoscopic image before

@FallenAngelEyes Now you have!

@LessPopMoreFizz This is chill.

@Mana Sorry for posting that again.

2:11 AM

@GnomeSlice At least you're not posting that one Portugese rap vid

@Mana ...Which? By Echo Park?

Yes.

I honestly can't get enough of this song though.

@Mana Yeah, it's too bad all of their other music is so laughable.

sleeptime, g'night all

@Mana Also, since I promised you rap, check out Death Grips.

Free Mixtape!

Guillotine is great and a good place to start

2:23 AM

MIXTAPE!!!! saves

The sample on Spread Eagle Cross the Block is inspired too

Q: Avoiding encumberance in New Vegas

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Lately while playing Fallout New Vegas, I've found myself lugging far more equipment than I need. As a result, I'm always either overloaded and can't fast travel or sprint. When I started playing Fallout 3, I discovered that there was far more junk in the Wasteland than I could possibly carry...

fallout-new-vegas equipment inventory

2:41 AM

Whatever happened to the question about junk inside a trunk?

Recycle it.

Make a collage.

Donate it to Goodwill.

Sell it on eBay.

I don’t know. Do you want it?

Consolidate it into a smaller trunk.

Preserve it so that my grandchildren may have a meaningful connection to their heritage.

Shoot it up.

i remember that question - it was about Deus Ex, wasn't it?

also, thanks for the answer, @lesspop

@SteveV I think so. I can't find it on the site any more. I was going to link it as relevant to yours. :P

Bummer.

5

Q: Uses of Junk Food?

During my travels, I have picked up many weapons such as LAMs, 12 Gauge Shotguns and Crowbars. These items have clear uses and need no introduction. Then there are some other items, such as...Soda, Chocolate Bars, and Soy Food? Clearly, these are not the tools of the trade of a hardcore killing ...

items deus-ex

Argh, why was the title edited????

2:47 AM

Sad!

No, it's okay.

Rollback'd.

@GnomeSliceツ Oak.

@LessPop_MoreFizz ?

@GnomeSliceツ You asked why the title was edited. I answered.

@LessPop_MoreFizz It says @Mana edited it though.

2:48 AM

i'm going to post this as a question in a minute (which you're welcome to answer for rep, @lesspop) but how do you use the mohave express dropboxes?

@SteveV Conveniently, I happen to be replaying NV atm.

@SteveV You need to have found more than one.

oh. i have only found the one in goodsprings, i think.

How can I download Frozen Synapse without Steam?

@SteveV There are 5. Goodsprings, Primm, Novac, Freeside, and The Strip

=[

2:50 AM

@SteveV Also, if you don't have a companion yet, get one. They make excellent pack mules.

Better yet, get two!

you can haz TWO?

(next you'll be telling me i can have 40 cakes...)

@SteveV 1 human, and one non-human (AKA, either Ed-E or Rex)

oh, snazzy

Ed-E is avasiliable super early too

Yep, i already found him

2:53 AM

Just need high Science and moderate repair, high repair, or a bunch of junk

He's good for 200 pounds of carrying. (Just don't try to make him carry faction armor. It will end poorly.)

> "Robbed" is such an ugly word. It's more like I took care of a payroll problem for him. I figured it might take him a while to understand his accounting error and... cool down.

> Also, I might have... umm... sort of... plowed his daughter. A little.

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@LessPop_MoreFizz ...Now, when you say 'plowed'..?

Q: In Fallout New Vegas, how do I use Mojave Express Drop Boxes?

3:09 AM

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I've been playing Fallout New Vegas and I spotted the Mojave Express drop box in Goodsprings, but I haven't seen any others. Supposedly you can use these drop boxes to move items from place to place in the Wasteland, but I haven't been able to figure out how. How do you use Mojave Express Drop ...

fallout-new-vegas equipment

4:08 AM

So, where'd this CyberSkull guy come from? I'm not complaining at all, but I'm just kind of amazed. Member for three months and yet suddenly today he comes out of nowhere, gives a bunch of pretty solid answers and wiki tag paragraphs.

I'm pretty sure his reputation just went from 130 to 300 in the past ten minutes or so, unless I was hallucinating

4:26 AM

yep, he or she suddenly became way more active about 2 days ago, it seems

Q: How do I beat the first boss (Barrett)?

5:31 AM

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I'm going into this fight with a single EMP grenade, a stun gun and tranquilizer rifle, and a handgun as my only lethal weapon. I've managed to use the EMP and the stun gun to lock him down and pump two clips of handgun ammo into his head at point blank. This seems to just tickle him a little bi...

boss-fights deus-ex-human-revolution

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Q: Where to buy questions

Are questions asking where to buy games appropriate? E.g. Where can I buy Battlefield 2142 with PayPal? It seems that a question like this is not going to be helpful for all that long as well as generally not seeming like a useful question for this site at all (well it doesn't really fit any of...

discussion off-topic-content

Q: Where does my coat go in DX:HR during "missions"

5:49 AM

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I've noticed that, generally speaking, when I'm in a "city hub" in DX:HR, I've got this nice-looking coat that the general populace seems to admire greatly; however, once I enter a building for some espionage or what have you, my coat disappears, and I have a more armored appearance. I'm assumi...

deus-ex-human-revolution

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Q: How am I supposed to figure out the ingredients for bitter-melon juice?

One of the side-missions (or as they are called in-game, "substories") in Yakuza 3 has you collecting ingredients for making bitter-melon juice. Some old lady is making the juice and she tells you to bring her the following: Goya - bitter melon (though this possibly appears as "Balsam Pear" in ...

yakuza-3

Randall Munroe's xkcd

6:01 AM

8:06 AM

wow, Garry's mod now sells for €25?

user30

8:30 AM

grr.

user30

8:52 AM

so there's a set of validators on the password field, which is good when you're actually using this

Q: Fixing an out of memory error for Star Trek Armada?

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I'm trying to reinstall a copy of Star Trek Armada to my machine, and whenever I try and start it I either get the following error: Sorry, there is not enough memory to continue. Please make sure you have at least 50MB available on your hard drive and that virtual memory is not disabled. or j...

technical-issues crash star-trek-armada

I have 100 bronze badges! woo

user30

but not when you want to import 2,800 records at once, since it run bcrypt each time

2.8k doesn't sound like a huge amount of data

user30

It's not, but it's still slow enough to annoy me

user30

9:06 AM

Anyway, I have a 5k word essay to write today, fun times

I've never had to write an essay so far. I'm afraid that'll change here at VU

10:25 AM

note to self - sap+DR only works at an angle

10:43 AM

You're an angle.

Showed you.

@Mana So, you're a criminal?

11:01 AM

New puzzler from the co-creator of Portal.

uk.ign.com/videos/2011/08/27/…

@badp What.

Well, excluding the current sale

That sale has stopped.

The sale you're looking at is the package below.

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@ArdaXi I love when that happens.

Sure you could buy this game.. or you could buy two games and save money!

Also, I love when you google a company, and the wikipedia article on it has a higher ranking then the companies website.

11:55 AM

@Wipqozn That is often the case.

Wikipedia has a higher pagerank.

I'm aware; I just find it amusing.

I hate boss fights :(

Are there a lot of them in Deus Ex: HR?

Every main-story mission ends with one.

I couldn't get myself to finish the original Deus Ex, I dunno if I want to start its prequel.

12:09 PM

@badp The prequel is more mainstream and all.

@ArdaXi That's one of the reasons I might not pick it up.

I'm enjoying the original quite a bit, but I am fearful the prequel will just be Gears of Duty 3: The Sequel

It's probably more like World of Call of War 2: Episode 1!!!!!

lololol

Oh, right. Once I got the aug to control the turret, that boss fight was easy.

@ArdaXi How does the freedom compare to the original?

12:16 PM

I have no idea.

Have not played the original, or need to play through it a few more times to know?

Haven't played it.

Oh my. I used to think you were cool.

Your mistake.

A: Where can I buy Battlefield 2142 with PayPal?

So it would seem.

tombull89

12:19 PM

user is "offering" a "barely used" CD for battlfield 2142...legit or nuke?

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I have one copy that I don't use anymore if you are interested (it is almost brand new). If so you can send me a private message I guess :)

Stupid hurricane.

I have no power at home for "several days".

I came in to work early just so I could have access to the Internet.

That sucks :/

@tombull89 looks like it was already nuked.

tombull89

Good stuff.

I am also tasked with charging all of our phones and laptops while I'm at work haha

I was unaware that New Jersey was hit so hard.

12:23 PM

Some parts of the state were hit hard; others were barely affected.

I'm lucky enough to live close to the shore.

Not the part of the shore with nice beaches, though.

The part of the shore with rocks and cliffs.

Of course.

I couldn't even play Angry Birds this weekend because I had to save up my cell phone battery in case I needed it to be a phone.

/rant

Were you angry about that?

I just figured I'd tie in my rant to gaming somehow, since I'm in gaming chat.

Sounds good. I was just trying to make a terrible joke.

Terribly awesome that is.

12:28 PM

Oh I get it now!

Man I'm so out of it.

gaming.stackexchange.com/suggested-edits/1269

Is this tag even necessary?

Grace Note

@StrixVaria The vast majority were only for Nethack.

There are only 5 questions with it in total, and only 1 that is not relevant to Nethack.

Grace Note

12:43 PM

Aye, so it seems rather unnecessary

Q: Is there a way to only display markers for the current mission?

12:54 PM

1

I've just got out into the city, and already I have two main missions, and 4 side missions, one of which has 3 different locations which I need to go to. This adds quite a lot of clutter to the screen, is there any way of cutting it down?

deus-ex-human-revolution hud missions

bbl

Q: Tutorials play very slowly, what can I do?

1:12 PM

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My machine can handle Deus Ex Human Revolution fine with the resolution turned down a bit from my screen's native resolution. However tutorial clips play extremely slowly - the audio is very choppy and unintelligible. Is there a setting I can change that's likely to improve things, or should I ju...

performance deus-ex-human-revolution tutorial

Powerlord

> Former HP Director Tom Perkins said, 'I didn't know there was such a thing as corporate suicide, but now we know that there is.'"

1:28 PM

> June, 1956: Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, Bill Hewlett, writes to then-Provost at Stanford and the man widely considered to be one of the “Fathers of Silicon Valley,” Fred Terman, “I have no personal knowledge of computers nor does anyone in our organization have any appreciable knowledge.”

Powerlord

Oh wow, there's going to be a sequel to Monday Night Combat?

This is actually pretty great. I knew there were a lot of really bad Jobs op-eds, but I didn't know any were this terrible.

The one about how Jobs was 'doing Cancer wrong' by continuing to work is horible and hilarious

1:42 PM

I love Chrome.

user30

1:55 PM

@Arda forget to use incognito?

Nah, cache starting to take up too much space.

2:07 PM

2

user30

wat.

Tim Stone

@Mana I had to mute my teleconference because I started laughing

Whoops. Sorry @Tim.

Tim Stone

Well, I don't care too much about the teleconference, so it's OK. :P

Powerlord

@Mana I can't see whatever people are laughing at.

Q: How do I beat the Picus boss?

2:12 PM

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After discovering the truth behind the anchor of Picus, Eliza Cassan, I am confronted by someone with augmentations that match or even defeat mine. Any damage I do seems quickly repaired, and once she cloaks I can't find her any more. What tactics should I use to beat her?

boss-fights deus-ex-human-revolution

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Q: help identify an old PC game (probaby from the 80's)

it was a 2D platform game, and there was a man wearing helmet, passing through chambers and caves,collecting weapons (darts, swords and axes) and gems ( i think). The weapons used him to kill jumping monsters-can't recall what they look like. also there were spears coming from the ground and do...

weapons platformer 80s

Stack Exchange

Stack Exchange Gaming Blog: Bastion

posted on August 29, 2011 by DMA57361

Bastion was released for Xbox LIVE Arcade on 20th July and on PC via Steam on 16th August, and is one of those games that had been on my watch list. So when I spotted there was a demo available on Steam, I gave it a quick spin. As soon as the demo ended, I [...]

2:35 PM

That marks the first time in a year I've asked a question.

user30

No it doesn't?

user30

> asked Jan 22 at 22:25

Q: How do you name something that isn't in your inventory?

Which one is that?

user30

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While exploring the Gnomish Mines, I found a grey stone. I have reason to believe that this is a loadstone, and as such I want to name it without picking it up. Is this possible at all? And if it is, how is it accomplished?

nethack