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10:00 AM
@John It's not bad, but you pretty much have to use mumble to get anywhere.
 
10:26 AM
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Q: Can you download and play Realm of The Mad God from somewhere else other then Steam?

ChrisHateZI'm not a big fan of steam,and i hate playing over my browser even more,so is there a way to download the game client from somewhere else and play it without third-party software like steam?

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Q: Is there a way to increase your inventory slots in Realm of The Mad God?

ChrisHateZFrom what i see the first 4 slots are for equipment and other 8 slots are for items.Now I'd want to know is there a way to increase the amount of inventory slots,because 8 slots is really low.

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Q: How much money does it cost to play Fifa12 (PC) online?

WoltanAs the title suggests: How much money does it cost to play the PC version of Fifa-12 online?

 
10:53 AM
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Q: What is the optimal 'loadout' for Lydia?

EnderI'm aware that Lydia's preferred loadout is Heavy Armor and a One Handed Weapon with a Shield. I didn't know this when I first got Lydia, and somehow managed to equip her with a two-handed weapon and have only given her this type of weapon since then. Lydia is currently PWNING FACE with her Two...

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Q: Blood on the Ice Won't Start - I killed Nilsine

GwaelaurienI can't get Blood on the Ice to start, no matter WHAT I try. I did kill Nilsine for Dark Brotherhood, and now people talk about murders but there is no dialog option with anyone for me to help. I tried Jorlief, Viola, the wizard, and Nilsine's father. Got the key from her mother's body (suicid...

 
11:20 AM
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Q: How to get Barricade Blaster-Achievement?

JunjiruI've gotten all the achievements of the game, expect this one. It says 'Clear 20 stone slaps using long chains', and I'm pretty sure I've cleared as much by now. Do I have to clear them with ONE chain? Or in one Level? I figured it couldn't be that difficult as some 43% of all players on steam ha...

 
11:32 AM
one of the few upsides of a massive leak of plain text passwords: laughing at those passwords
 
less than 5 hours of sleep, woo
 
although... some of these don't actually look bad
I mean, 3kpm1858 looks fairly decent
how come it's supposed to be that popular?
 
@badp They look somewhat implausible, some of the more popular ones I can't really believe
 
@Fabian and qwertyytrewq that small? Yeah. Size must be rather random
That, or somebody's got a lot of sockpuppets!
 
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A: What is the feasibility of playing EVE Online for free?

the Nine of SpadesThe idea is this with method 2 on this thread: find resource with demand create source of said resource buy out market of that resource, so as to increase demand when you've raised the price floor enough, sell what you have stockpiled. I don't play EVE, but this is how the economy works. Est...

As an economics student I find this rather funny
Anyway, with the in game currency measured in millions I wonder if the EVE economy has significant amount of inflation
 
11:52 AM
Oooh, Aion US is going F2P as well
 
Hey guys i have a quick question
Any Skyrim fans here?
:3533173 I bet Torchlight 2 will be 10 times more fun then Diablo 3
 
n/m, that was apparently a severely out of context quote
@ChrisHateZ I will be purchasing that game over D3, so it will be for me at least, most likely
 
@FallenAngelEyes ^_^
I just hope you will be able to fish out rare equipment in T2 like you could in Fate
Because after all Torchlight is pretty much Fate-copy went wrong
Hm,i hoped someone will enter in a discussion about it with me,but ah well =p
Bleh I'll just come back later when there will be more talkative ppl
 
12:08 PM
@ChrisHateZ Yeah, chat's not the most active place around this hour
 
@YiJiang owl kitty?
 
Huh, apparently in GW2, if you're crafting several of the same item, it'll take a shorter amount of time to craft them.
that's so handy
 
You're handy.
 
@badp A Snow Leopard, technically speaking
 
@YiJiang Pffft. Mountain Lions are all the rage now.
 
12:14 PM
The spots sort of smudges together when the image is small
 
goes play more ME
 
12:41 PM
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Q: Skyrim - Killed a chicken in the first town, how screwed is my game?

arothSo I just started playing Skyrim, and I got to the first town with the mission to talk to Alvor. I also happened to decide that it would make sense to practice my archery skills on one of the chickens that was wandering along the city streets. Apparently this is a big no-no, because the next th...

 
"If I leave town for a bit will they forget that I killed a chicken (and then all the people who rushed to avenge the chicken) and talk to me again?"
Man this guy is a legend (the one who made "Killed a chicken in the first town,how screwed is my game")
 
1:09 PM
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Q: Please identify this NES game for me

Imran AhmedI played a 'kick master' like game when i was 10 years old.In the game player can punch and kick and occasionally can use the gun or knife if you hit a weapon carrier enemy. Player can enter into a room and go out.When finishing all enemies in a room there is a gift for the player pops in the ce...

 
@YiJiang There are many ways to destroy money in EVE, the most important one flying around in expensive ships and blowing them up. The economy seems reasonably stable to me, but I'm not playing that long. There is a constant price increase in the recent months, but that is driven by changes in the mineral supply as far as I heard.
Hmm, is seems there is more inflation in EVE than I guessed, you can see a development of the prices here: community.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=3295
 
1:36 PM
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Q: How can I find out what missions are available in Borderlands?

Marty WallaceAs I make my way through the main storyline, Claptrap will randomly appear in the top-right and say something like: Greetings, Person X has more jobs for you at Place Y. Or similar to that. Unfortunately because I mostly play late at night and my room is adjacent to someone else my dad boa...

 
Oh god
Tribes Ascend has so many upgrade paths it's mindboggling
and scary
 
1:51 PM
Considering I was such a rabid Tribes 2 fan back in the day, it's criminal that I haven't dug into T:A yet.
 
The NDA on the Guild Wars 2 beta seems silly.
You're not even allowed to say that you're in the beta if you get in.
I can see an NDA if you have access to source code or inside information, but as a gameplay tester it just doesn't make sense to me.
 
@StrixVaria The first rule of the Guild Wars 2 beta - you do not talk about the Guild Wars 2 beta
 
@DaveMcClelland I haven't signed an NDA yet. You'll know I got in if I stop talking about it altogether.
"What game? I don't know what you're talking about."
 
@StrixVaria Guild wars 2? Yes, I play Guild Wars, too
@StrixVaria That... doesn't work when not spoken
 
I actually haven't played the original, so I'm going to just have to feign utter ignorance.
 
2:03 PM
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Q: How do vehicles become disabled?

ApocI noticed sometimes that when I hit a vehicle it becomes disabled. I'm not sure if it has something to do with the HP they have left or where I hit the vehicle. Does anyone know?

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Q: How can I improve primary statistics in Fallout 2?

RegentAside of using perks, what can I do during the gameplay in order to change my primary statistics?

 
2:15 PM
Peanuts are confusing.
 
@GraceNote "Peanuts are confusing." is confusing
 
@GraceNote Are you trying to out-random random?
 
No, it's just that I had some peanuts (still in shells) in my fries when I heated them up, and it got me thinking.
They were discovered (invented? founded?) by Carver as a means to stop the Evil Weevil problem. They've got a shell that's... really only hard enough to stop insectoid predation, however.
Between the animals who don't give a care about the shell and just eat them straight up, to us who just pipop the shells off, it's not actually all that defensive a benefit to the plant.
 
@StrixVaria This is pretty standard for NDAs
 
good morning wonderful people.
 
2:28 PM
@Wipqozn NO.
 
@Mana Okay, good morning to all you wonderful people + mana
 
@Wipqozn thank you.
 
@FallenAngelEyes That's fine but the existence of an NDA at all seems silly.
 
@StrixVaria blahblah protecting IP blahblah unfinished product giving wrong impression of final product, potentially damaging sales blahblahblah
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@FallenAngelEyes I was typing out something that meant the same thing, but I prefer yours.
 
2:30 PM
@FallenAngelEyes Blizzard doesn't seem to mind.
 
@StrixVaria ...you really think anything is gonna impact Diablo III's sales negatively?
 
My oh my. What music should I listen to as I do some programming?
Baroque music it is!
If @fallen gets into the beta it will be fairly obvious though, because we won't see her again until it finishes.
so if @FallenAngelEyes just vanishes one day, we'll know why.
 
@Wipqozn Baroque is really good background music. It's infuriatingly boring if I'm actually listening to it, though.
 
@FallenAngelEyes No offline?
 
@Mana That's been known for well over a year. I'm pretty sure this game's still gonna sell millions on fanboyism alone.
 
2:35 PM
@StrixVaria I agree with your first sentence, but not with your second.
 
Being way too addictive for anyone to play without forcing them to abandon all their dreams and hopes and loves?
 
@Mana If this was an issue, WoW wouldn't have 10 million subs
 
Well, these are the reasons I'm planning on not buying it, anyways. And a lost sale from me is a lost sale from me.
and that's a big deal, yo.
 
I'm not buying it either.
 
My cat walked on the keyboard...
 
2:38 PM
Also @Strix, you decry EA yet still buy from Activision? For shame. :P
 
Aeo
@Mana This is one of the two reasons I'm avoiding it. That and realid is offensive to me.
 
I probably won't buy it either, but that's because I didn't like the beta.
 
@Aeo They don't have that anymore, admittedly. You can use the BlizzardTag thing now.
 
@FallenAngelEyes I don't know enough about Activision to decry them. I do know that Blizzard has somehow retained some amount of autonomy under them, however, since they're allowed to keep pushing back D3 however long they feel like.
 
Aeo
@FallenAngelEyes Oh? This I will have to look into. The forced online connection is still a concern, but not as big for me as realid was.
 
2:41 PM
@StrixVaria Bobby Kotick is awful. He's literally said things like he wants to take the fun out of making games and that he's focused more on monetizing and quantity over quality.
 
Just look at that picture. You can tell the guys an asshole.
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Hopefully indie games continue to thrive and giant asshole companies like Activision and EA realize that they're giant assholes and start to change.
 
That's bobby kotick, if anyone is unaware/
 
@Wipqozn I like Ars Technica's version better :P
 
> In part [the controversy over Bobby] can be attributed to advocating a business strategy focused on only developing intellectual property which can be, in his words, "exploited" over a long period, to the exclusion of new titles which cannot guarantee sequels
 
2:44 PM
@StrixVaria I'm hoping that the success Double Fine has had will help smaller games see that there's potential for funding outside of publishers that want to crush your soul
 
a couple good deals on PC games on SlickDeals today: slickdeals.net/permadeal/69570/…
 
> Kotick also created a stir when commenting on Activision Blizzard's peripheral-driven franchises. During Activision Blizzard's Q2 2009 financial results conference, Kotick was challenged over his "comfort level" around high prices attached to "new games that have some expensive controllers" and said, "if it was left to me, I would raise the prices even further."
Just to show you some more of the reasons this guy is an asshole.
Robert A. Kotick (born 1963), also known as Bobby Kotick, is the CEO, president, and a director of Activision Blizzard. On February 16, 2012 he was elected a director of The Coca-Cola Company, a job he now performs in conjunction with his role at Activision Blizzard . Early career Kotick began his career in 1983 while he was still in college at the University of Michigan, Kotick credits Steve Jobs for advising him to drop out of college to pursue his entrepreneurial interests in the software business. In 1987, he tried to acquire Commodore International. He planned to remove the keyb...
 
the GW2 hardware analyzer app is called "Scannertron", lol
 
@IanPugsley Yup. Pretty much awesome.
 
@IanPugsley One thing I love about ArenaNet is their great sense of humor
 
2:52 PM
Well, going back to Toronto. Peaaaaace.
 
For example, in their GW2 Asset Kit that they offer for download with images and stuff for places like fansites, in the "Graphic Design Guidelines", they have guidelines/recommendations for how to use the logo, like on what color backgrounds and stuff. There's this in there:
@Mana Safe trip!
 
okay, since you guys disagreed with me last time, let's play "dupe or not dupe!"
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Q: How do vehicles become disabled?

ApocI noticed sometimes that when I hit a vehicle it becomes disabled. I'm not sure if it has something to do with the HP they have left or where I hit the vehicle. Does anyone know?

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Q: What happens when a vehicle is "disabled" in Battlefield 3?

SkippyFireIn a tank, it seems to slow down and catch on fire which will slowly "bleed" the tank. Is that all? Does this happen right at 50%? Does repairing above 50% relieve the affects? Are the affects the same for all vehicles? It can definitely be frustrating to disable an air vehicle, yet watch it...

 
@agent86 I'd call it a dupe
 
@agent86 I believe the latter question covers the first one fairly thoroughly, as far as I can tell
 
VTC'd
 
3:01 PM
@agent86 yes
> Does this happen right at 50%?
@FallenAngelEyes: Watch yagscast spotlight video for the Neceromancer yet?
 
@Wipqozn You need one more edit before that's completely comprehensible, but not yet.
Ok, 3 edits, but yeah
 
@FallenAngelEyes I'm just testing you
 
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Q: How can I tell if a game will run on my machine?

VivartI just bought my first 13" MacBook Pro. Before purchasing new games for my Windows notebook, I used to check the compatibility with this site: http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/. But that site doesn't list Mac compatibility or requirements. Is there any other website where I can check game c...

 
> World of Warcraft was completely original with the arena, and now what does Guild Wars 2 have? An arena.
 
@Wipqozn loool
 
3:13 PM
I love all the people raging in the comments.
 
Wait a second.
 
I love how he starts by basically telling everyone "I'm a troll"
 
How is there GW2 footage from Yogscast if the beta is going to have an NDA?
 
> Guild Wars 2 is a game being made by a company called NC Net and Arenasoft.
 
@StrixVaria press
 
3:14 PM
@StrixVaria different beta
 
Press beta was this past weekend and the press embargo lifted Monday
 
Having an NDA after the press embargo is lifted is even stupider than I thought before.
All that being said, if I get in, I'll gladly sign the stupid NDA and not talk about it.
 
it's gonna lead to some extreme silliness
 
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Q: How can I make water flow into a 1-block gap?

Matteo PagliazziI have some water blocks (the first line of blocks are directly placed water-sources while the others are flowing water) s - water source f - flowing water d - block e - empty sssss fffff fffff ddedd Is possible to flow the water in the empty block?

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Q: When can I beat His Royal Ripeness?

ShinraiI barely made it through the forced battle and he seems to have gotten significantly stronger now that he's just sitting arond. It does seem like I should be able to beat him without doing the actual mission, since he's not invincible, he's just very strong. Should I just come back after I be...

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Q: How do I know who attacks first?

Ashley NunnI have been playing Pokemon White for a while now, but no matter how hard I try, I do not understand how the game calculates who attacks first in each round of a battle. At first I thought it depended solely on your Pokemon (maybe type and level?) so I though that if my Pokemon started out goin...

 
@IanPugsley I'd still advise using such circumspection on somewhere that's uh, not google-indexed
 
3:25 PM
@FallenAngelEyes lol, yeah, I wouldn't actually do that
well crap, if I do get in then I sorta already did...I'm gonna delete that, lol
great, too late...
 
NDA doesn't apply to statements made before signing. GW2 sucks! <-- see :)
 
oh good point
 
so, you should announce you got a beta invite to the world, and then agree to the NDA (ehhheh)
 
things were a lot simpler when I didn't have anyone to play with in the betas I've been in that had NDAs, lol
 
@IanPugsley did you need something removed? :)
 
3:41 PM
@agent86 sure, can't hurt; can you kill 3535338 for me (just before Lazers last post)?
 
@IanPugsley nom nom chat message nom nom
 
@Wipqozn Sorry to tear through you but I had to cringe at your last paragraph.
 
@GraceNote By all means.
ah, okay. I see. THanks. I'm currently editing the question to add more detail, so I'll make sure to fix that now.
 
user15026
I love how I get awesome, detailed answers here. Love it. <3
 
@AshleyNunn @Wipqozn is a stupid jerk who stole my checkmark.
 
3:53 PM
I'm almost tempted to just post my own answer holding even more stuff than what Wipqozn mentions
 
user15026
@StrixVaria wishes she had checkmarks for everyone
 
@GraceNote Like I said, I'm not done yet :)
 
user15026
@GraceNote Do it! :) (I love having lots of info)
 
user15026
It will be a battle royale for the checkmark XD
 
user2334
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Q: Summarize the plot of Final Fantasy Tactics

FractalI've been playing FFT for some years, passing through over and over again, but I can't seem to understand perfectly what's happening in fact. What is the main plot, chapter by chapter?

 
user2334
3:54 PM
Overfly broad question, self answered but only the first two chapters. Last active: over a year ago. Broken window, n'est-ce pas?
 
user15026
@MarkTrapp Agreed, VTC.
 
@Wipqozn That all? (Also, you still missed X-Speed)
 
@GraceNote That's crazy talk.
 
user15026
@GraceNote That sounds like a challenge XD
 
3:57 PM
@AshleyNunn It does.
 
I'm looking at a single page that already contains more information than his entire answer, nahaha, and his answer is drawing from several pages!
 
tries to think of what else he missed
 
user15026
Can I just say you people are crazy, in the most awesomely delightful of ways?
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@AshleyNunn Yes.
I'm never going to be satisfied with my answer if I try to hold it up to @GraceNote standards.
 

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