The Bridge

12:43 AM

But yeah, I'll look into it.

I'll still have some time this week, no idea how much time I'll have from next week onwards though.

"Preparations for launch of Portal 2 updates this September"

Q: What happens if I do not turn off the signal jammer?

1:00 AM

0

I am naturally paranoid in the world of Deus Ex, so when someone is asking me to turn off a signal jammer so they can 'track me better' my natural instinct is to leave it on. What are the consequences of leaving it on?

spoiler deus-ex-human-revolution

Q: The Pits - who wrote it and where is it now?

1:21 AM

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My last question was closed as too ambiguous. So I have readdressed the question into several specific questions. 1) Who wrote the text based adventure game "The Pits" which was on "The Source" computer system in the early 80s? 2) Where is the source code for this game now? 3) Has it been porte...

adventure text-adventure

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Q: What would be the best solution to import map on 1.8?

Will all know that 1.8 is close and I'm sure lots of us are wondering, what will happen with our maps on this update. With the rivers, tunnels, new biomes, etc... old chunck might broke with the new ones making the map kinda odds. So what could be the best solution to move to 1.8 without having ...

minecraft

1:46 AM

I swear to god making plans is an utterly useless notion for me.

Also, @mana have you heard this new Olivia Tremor Control song?

because oh god so good

I haven't even heard of that band, link it @LessPop

@Mana It's on p4k front page atm

And OTC is one of the original Elephant Six bands. Y'know, along with Neutral Milk Hotel, Apples in Stereo...

ohh, I see

The Olivia Tremor Control

The Olivia Tremor Control is an indie rock band prominent in the mid- to late 1990s which, along with The Apples in Stereo and Neutral Milk Hotel, was one of the three original Elephant 6 projects. The band was founded by the remnants of the group Synthetic Flying Machine (Jeff Mangum, Bill Doss, and Will Cullen Hart) in 1994, went on hiatus in early 2000,, and reformed in 2010. Sound and History The band's distinct sound is a mixture of Doss and Hart's pop and experimental tendencies. This chemistry is evident in their albums given that some tracks are 2-3 minute songs, while others are...

Also, this live session by O'Brother makes me super excited for their upcoming album, not that I wasn't already

Q: Spiral Knights will not start

2:00 AM

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I've recently gotten a new laptop, and am attempting to play Spiral Knights on it, however the game simply will not load. Every time I attempt to start it, I get a "This game is currently unavailable, please try again at another time" error. I've tried verifying the integrity of the game cache, d...

troubleshooting spiral-knights

Hmm. The mobile site seems to have a strange idea of what my favorite tags are

I would ask for a screenshot but something tells me that might not be easy to do

@Mana Screenshot is easy to take, tougher to upload, it's going to take a moment.

2:21 AM

0

Q: Deus Ex - safe storage

My storage is full and there's so many nice things to pick up. Is there a safe place I can drop things off at where they will be accessable later on? What I'm looking for is something like Diablo 2's "stash"...

deus-ex-human-revolution

Deus Ex, Y U STICK PEOPLE IN INACCESSIBLE PARTS OF THE BUILDING? shakes fist

@TimStone Cardboard boxes will get you in, somehow.

Will they get me into parts of the building that don't really exist?

Yes. Somehow.

Yes, I'm already ashamed that I doubted their power. My bad.

2:33 AM

It's okay. The most painful revelation of my life was when I discovered that I couldn't climb onto the tallest building in Detroit through stacking cardboard boxes, because suddenly Jensen gains like 200 pounds above a certain height and can't jump for crap anymore.

I'm still in denial.

That you even tried to do that is probably the coolest thing I've heard today.

Argh, I just want to finish my side quest, but unless they patch the bug it sounds like I might not be able to.

THOSE ARE NOT MY TAGS MOBILE SITE.

Wipqozn Gravitational Law is slowly merging into the main site, starting with mobile...

Q: Why is there a sun above my building?

3:01 AM

0

While playing Tropico 4, I'm noticing that my buildings will occassionally have a "sunburst" appear above them. I'm guessing this is a good thing, but what does it mean?

tropico-4

3:41 AM

Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Give a man a well placed strike to his L1 vertebrae and he’ll eat through a straw.

Tweeted by God_Damn_Batman on August 30, 2011 at 11:39 PM

Also, oh snap:

Maldita Castilla Demo Released http://t.co/DUeA8yX

Tweeted by indiegamescom on August 30, 2011 at 9:06 PM

gaaaaaaaaaaames

Powerlord

> The Steam Special Edition of Tropico 4 includes an exclusive island (Isla Nublar) and El Presidente avatar costume (Luchador). For the first time in the Tropico series, the Tropico 4 Steam Special Edition comes with 50 Steam achievements.

@Mana ?

Powerlord

Isn't Isla Nublar where Jurassic Park takes place?

Also, the grapevine is stating that Barman: Arkham City will require Games for Windows Live on the Windows version.

CruelCow

@Powerlord Google agrees

Impressive memory

3:47 AM

hey @Mana

Hey.

A: Is there a way to take Screenshots from a DS?

a bunch of questions regarding screenshots just got bumped with answers that seem to be advertising the same site

0

Yeah, it's easy for you to use some screen recorder to help you record screenshot. It can capture whatever on your computer screen with high quality, so I often use it to help me record from screen. After you record, it also will help you save the recordings as standart video or image format file.

0

A: How do I take screenshots and video in Halo?

I often use some screen recorder to help me record screenshot when I was playing on computer, and it can help you save the image to standard JPEG format. It also can help you record video games when you were playing on computer.

1

A: How can I record demos of my gameplay?

Yeah, you can use some screen recorder to help you record video games when you were playing. It can help you record whatever movements you made on your computer screen, and you can also capture video to avi, so that you can export it to your portable to discuss with your friends, or upload it to ...

I saw the first of those and thought it was sketchy. Now it seems even more sketchy.

Especially cuz the DS answer doesn't even take into account that it's, y'know, asking for screenshots on the DS, not the PC

Yeah...uhm...

hm. My intuition says that these are probably smurfs, or colleagues trying to advertise their scam/poorly made website

A: How do I take a screenshot in Starcraft 2?

3:52 AM

This answer, from another one of the same users, also seems to link to a random, irrelevant site

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You can just use some screen recorder to help you. It can help you capture whatever on your screen to image and save it to JPEG format, so I often use it to help me record screenshot when I saw the scene I want. With it, you can also get the screen from movies, and you can set it to your wallpaper.

Nick

Spam spam spam

I was just coming in here to mention that

Yeah, cuz I can't imagine they'd be getting upvotes any other way

pretends he didn't upvote that one in a fit of stupidity

I wanted to point it out here rather than just flagging them individually as spam because I wasn't sure if it'd be immediately apparent, especially if different mods saw the flags

LALALA NOT A TERRIBLE MOD LALALA

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3:53 AM

hahaha

@FallenAngelEyes Alt + F4?

@GnomeSliceツ -1

Oh, I thought it was a question you linked, not an answer.

4:08 AM

Okay, accounts destroyed.

All of the accounts.

Q: Does suicide exclude someone from going to Heaven?

> With this in mind, why not just accept Christ and then off ourself?

This almost made me spit out my drink

from:

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First of all, I don't want to set off any red flags here. I am not pursuing a suicidal lifestyle nor have the desire to end my life. That being said... Perhaps the greatest thing a person can hope for is to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. We are told that if a person truly accepts God as their Sa...

bible heaven suicide

Randall Munroe's xkcd

A: How do I beat Endurance levels?

1

The fact of the matter is that actually beating endurance is practically an impossibility. There are, I believe, 512 waves total, and the HP increases exponentially at a rate that is quicker than your damage will increase. And on top of that, the lag will be so awful with all of those monsters wi...

Man, I'm so happy when I see my buddy contributing good answers like this.

Q: On the original Legend of Zelda (on virtual console) for Wii, how can you save a game in progress?

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In the original Legend of Zelda for the NES, there was a trick where you could (if I remember correctly) press up and select simultaneously on the 2nd controller to bring up the Save dialog. After buying the Virutal Console version for the Wii, I tried this trick and it didn't work. Is there a ...

wii old-games zelda

4:27 AM

@FallenAngelEyes pffffffahahahahahaha

actually no that's kind of depressing

but something about it struck me as amusing simultaneously

I'm going to burn in hell. I'm finding some of these questions, answers, and comments unintentionally funny.

But I can't read a question title that says "How come an "almighty" God never defeats Satan?" with the first comment being "possible duplicate of What is God waiting for before He ends the world?" without giggling a bit. :x

What I'm amazed/interested in is how they're getting so much content

well, I guess the fact that a good 75% of it is pretty awful

maybe I'm being overly harsh on them

I dunno

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Q: How do I get more faith?

I'm really terrible at faith. I understand that it's a choice to have or not have faith, I'd really like to choose the former, but my very much neurotic nature often gets the best of me, and often holds me back I think... So my question is "How do I get more faith?"

faith

This does not seem to me like something you should go to a Q&A site for :S

Maybe like... your pastor/priest/whatever but... a Q&A site?

shrug

either way I'm going to bed

sleep well!

4:33 AM

here's hoping tonight's account deleting doesn't come back to bite me in the ass

Thanks!

Hey, everyone needs a good ass nomming now and then

This is hilarious:

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5:04 AM

@Mana I didn't know @arda was your mother?

Oh god bitcoin.stackexchange.com is up

6 days until Bitcoin.SE is revealed to the public. marks trolling opportunity on the calendar.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yeah, and we're Jeff's least favorite site

@FallenAngelEyes Are we still? I thought he'd come around.

Certainly our numbers are still decent...

Nope, apparently on the podcast tonight he mentioned it again

one sec

9 hours ago, by Thomas McDonald

Jeff just said we were his least favourite site

discussion started there

and a few more blurbs later on from here

8 hours ago, by FallenAngelEyes

@ThomasMcDonald Our tag system is broken?

5:22 AM

Aah, same old nonsense.

yar

makes me a bit sad though :/

I dunno, we've worked pretty hard on this site in the past year, dealing with contentious issues, keeping our policies enforced, etc. just kind of disappointing to hear he still feels that way

Yeah, I think some of the current betas embody the problems he's talking about much more clearly.

(i.e. I'm really unhappy with how SF&F turned out.)

@LessPop_MoreFizz Really? How come? I don't really frequent there

@FallenAngelEyes The number one tag, by double anything else on the site is [story-identification]

@LessPop_MoreFizz ...ouch

A: Are book / movie / TV series identification questions allowed?

5:30 AM

> oh god, not the "identify this thing I can't remember" plague here, too

That's Jeff commenting on a discussion of how to tag them

but... yeah.

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I'm going to say no. Clearly, this is going to be a contentious subject, but I'd point you to this discussion over on Gaming.SE's meta to get a sense of some of the arguments both pro and con. The key thing to keep in mind about the Con argument in my mind is this: While 'Identify this X' questi...

I'm kinda curious how many votes that answer has. Because I guarantee you it isn't 0.,

I can't believe there's more story identification than Star Trek questions

Actually, I usually use SA for identify-this-* stuff

Q: What do people mean when they say "Craftable Hat"

7:25 AM

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When someone says "Trading x for a craftable hat" (generally comes in the form of "Trading one refined per craftable hat), what exactly is it that they mean?

team-fortress-2

7:37 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz -4/+4, meta.scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/13/timeline

Q: Repercussions of publicly confronting Bill Taggart?

8:04 AM

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While looking for Sandoval I was sent to the Detroit Convention Center to ascertain his whereabouts, having being told that Bill Taggart should know where to find him. On the way in, Pritchard hinted that I should try to be discreet and that I might be able to find what I need backstage. So I'd ...

spoiler deus-ex-human-revolution

9:23 AM

There's nothing like being on defense on an A/D map, hearing "mission ends in 10 seconds..." followed by "YOU FAIL!" because the map time is over.

There's nothing like it.

I'm telling you.

LOL

Logo of the "Department of Innovation blog run by the Smithsonian Institution", before and after

user30

grr, the moment I can put 'proscout, team leader' on my badge I will be a happy man

M'vy

9:42 AM

They moved the gear?

Too bad I liked the first one

It called to people intelligence to remark that the gears could be on different planes.

Then they would be different colours...

M'vy

10:00 AM

hm

10:17 AM

Portal 2 Update Released
Product Update - Valve
Updates to Portal 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Portal 2
Preparations for launch of Portal 2 updates this September

"new snorkels!"

user30

10:28 AM

yeah, there was a big change to the p2 item schema this morning

user30

http://git.optf2.com/schema-tracking/commit/?id=1c5af3dc2ea481b3c218c6bb1f4d815ce76e7ea4

user30

admittedly, it all appears to be of little value

user30

ooh, this is going to be a fun algorithm to code

user30

naaaat.

Does anyone know what was in the portal 2 update last night?

that is to say have they released those free levels yet

user30

10:36 AM

officially, just preparation for dlc

user30

that's what the changelog looks like as well

user30

humm

@RandallMunroesxkcd Fairly enjoyed today's XKCD.

@ThomasMcDonald Yeah, that's what I thought.

But was uncertain.

user30

badp posted it about 10 messages up

Oh, in my field of vision.

user30

10:39 AM

surprisingly, my term extractor is working well

user30

need to strip punctuation though as it treats words with punctuation as unique words

@FallenAngelEyes trolololololol

Q: How to win the pike proving ground?

0

Even though I upgraded my Brusher's Pike to level 5, I still can't seem to get the 1st prize in Camp Dauncy, the Pike's proving ground. My best is 10 seconds later than the threshold. I know that I don't have to kill all the enemies and that I can throw the pike to clear multiple enemies in a ro...

bastion

@FallenAngelEyes I've argued that point before.

The argument went like "If there are 19 children and you know at least 2 of them are not going to find Christ and go to heaven, if you kill them before they lose their innocence, then while you will go to hell, 19 children will go to heaven, versus 18 or less if you do not."

Q: OnLive alternative for simple, "home" use

I wish Portal modders wouldn't consider their puzzles to be good enough only if the first jump must be a crouch jump

Stack Exchange

10:59 AM

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I have a very powerful PC for gaming ... which is phisically far from me at the moment. Same country, but a few cities far. I've been following OnLive's development and it's a nice solution ... however, I'd like to use MY very own PC with MY games, etc etc. Is there such an application which l...

windows-7 remote-desktop vnc gaming remote-control

user30

grrr

user30

ruby-1.9.2-p180 :076 > Math.log10(11/7).zero?
 => true

user30

does not compute.

user30

11:23 AM

ruby-1.9.2-p180 :077 > Math.log10(11.0/7.0).zero?
 => false

user30

doh.

Q: Diablo 2-like games for Mac OS X

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Are there any hack and slash RPG's, like Diablo 2, for Mac OS X? By Diablo 2-like I mean: dynamic hack and slash, with little thought beyond 'kill everything, because it is, was or will be evil' non-annoying (with going back and forth or changing gear) something that can be naturally enjoyed f...

mac diablo-2 role-playing-game game-rec

@ThomasMcDonald Yay for integers!

For the record, never divide integers. Ever.

Playing around with Android's voice recognition. Tried 'carboxylic acid', got instead 'couples in their asses'

3

The thing doesn't seem to recognise 'carboxylic', or any of the other chemistry names I've thrown at it. Disappointing.

Or maybe I'm pronouncing it wrong. It is car-bor-zee-lic, right?

11:42 AM

That's not how I would pronounce it.

/ˌkɑrbɒkˈsɪlɪk/

Me neither. That's not 'zee', more like 'xi'

(Hrm. Arda Zee.)

@badp In English, particularly American, my name is indeed pronounced like that.

Well, usually z-aye.

But it's car-bork-zi-lic.

Well, I'm sure my pronunciation of 'pentanoic' is correct, but the thing still doesn't recognise it

I'll try carboxylic acid on my phone.

Worked perfectly.

Q: What is an ace in League of Legends?

0

Sometimes, during a League of Legends match, it happens to see on screen and heard a message that says a particular champion did an ace. But what does it mean?

league-of-legends terminology

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Q: What effect does alcohol have?

I have come across the occasional can of beer/bottle of vodka. What will happen if I drink them? Can I get drunk?

deus-ex-human-revolution

0

Q: What does backdoor mean in strategy games like DotA or LoL?

What does backdoor technically mean in strategy games like DotA or League of Legends? Is it an accepted tactic or there are some rules that forbid it?

league-of-legends terminology defense-of-the-ancients

11:45 AM

Man

@YiJiang You're doing it wrong.

I want to ask a question about Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3 on Gaming.

@ArdaXi I'm sure I am. I just tried that, and got a list of results starting with 'belk to lick', 'belk civic'...

Ah ha, finally got that right. Finally...

I dunno, maybe the UK English engine is better than the US English one.

user30

youtube adverts keep getting more and more obnoxious

user30

11:48 AM

@Arda Well obviously, since the UK English one is the proper one, and the US English one is a murdered version of it

Well, I'm fairly sure I'm pronouncing 'acid' very differently to Yi Jiang.

In other news I'm surprised to see that Doom 3 has responded to criticisms about the game lacking light

Short A, short I sounds in US English for acid.

Stress on the first syllable, I believe.

See? Light!

Q: Can we try and recognise game-rec questions before they're asked?

0

game-rec questions often contain words such as "suggest", "similar", "recommend". Can we have a notice displayed when question titles that look like game-recs that explains why we don't have them on the site? At the very least a notice when someone adds the game-rec tag would be good.

feature-request allowed-questions game-recommendations

11:51 AM

@GraceNote Yeah, but I put more emphasis on the 'cid'.

Can't say I've heard the stress on the second syllable but I can't outright judge it as wrong or anything without having heard it.

Well, this is a tablet, not a phone, so the mic might be pretty bad. Still, after three tries, 'enunciation' is still opening up the Gmail app, for some reason.

@GraceNote Not more stress than on the a, but more stress than an American would.

If I use speech recognition I'm always using my RP accent.

@YiJiang I get 'initiation' on my first try.

At least it processed 'Android voice recognition fail' properly

Second try got enunciation.

11:53 AM

It usually has a fair amount of strength behind it. You could slide the "cid" but I think it sounds better with a little oomph on it.

Mostly the 'd', though.

I have problems with D and T sounds at the ends of words. And sometimes in the middle.

Do you know what RP sounds like?

user30

here we go

user30

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11:54 AM

I don't even know what RP is.

user30

this is how you say acid

@GraceNote Received Pronunciation.

@GraceNote Received Pronunciation

Or, BBC English as its known

@ThomasMcDonald No it isn't.

I still use a short a.

user30

@ArdaXi No, I am aware, it's an excerpt from the IT Crowd where he ends up in an awkward social situation and has to then be disabled for the rest of the evening

user30

11:56 AM

Good episode, actually

He used the disabled toilet then rung the alarm.

Yeah, good episode.

user30

Although most of them are

user30

Much like The Inbetweeners

user30

and the movie by the same name

I better get going.

Q: Age of Empires Online Launcher does not start

12:06 PM

0

The Online Launcher for Age of Empires Online seems to stuck. I can not click Play Is this normal?! Only when I start the laucher as administrator it works.

online age-of-empires-online

Stack Exchange

Stack Exchange Gaming Blog: Gamescom Diary – Day 4

posted on August 31, 2011 by FallenAngelEyes

Here we are, finally at the last day of Gamescom. This entry may be way shorter than the others, partially because I’ve found a video of the Guild Wars 2 Lore Q&A, which is way more succinct than the notes I took, and partially because the day ended earlier than the others because it was [...]

user30

@FallenAngelEyes Nice.

Q: Age of Empires Online LF004 error while playing

12:24 PM

0

When playing Age of Empires Online several times an LF004 error message box occurred, saying that servers can not be reached. But I was able to login to the authentication servers at the startup. I'm running the game as administrator in Windows 7. What can I do to solve the LF004 error?

age-of-empires-online

user30

12:43 PM

goddamn n! algorithm

As in, an algorithm that calculates factorials, or do you have a horrendous algorithm running at O(n!)?

user30

I have a horrendous algorithm that's running at O(n!)

user30

currently