The Bridge

7:00 PM

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Q: Computer randomly freezes when playing games

My computer just randomly freezes when playing certain games. It has happened to me in Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Call of Duty 4, and Blacklight: Retribution. It has not happened to me with other games like Tribes: Ascend yet, which leads me to believe it is a software-side issue related to mayb...

Ben Brocka

@fbueckert I've only played the original ones I guess, old stuff, off of steam

FAE

@Lazers I thought this was related to Hunger Games, haha

agent86

@Lazers wooo, a question I can answer, yay

RESPAWN

7:15 PM

I was just about to ping you on that one agent86. LOL.

Tristan

Does that mean the internet exploded?

Ben Brocka

No

I'd say you'd have to divide by zero, but I saw that on reddit

Paralytic

gotta say assassins creed revelations is pretty awsome although im struggling with the controls

Tristan

@Paralytic When you're trying to flee from combat, are you locked on to a target?

Paralytic

i dont think so

i honestly cannot tell

OrigamiRobot

7:21 PM

Look what I saw on Stack Exchange!

5 mins ago, by Tristan

Tristan

@Paralytic Hmm... Well, I know if you're locked on, you can't flee. But if you aren't locked on, high-profile movement in the opposite direction should automatically start you on the path to running away.

Paralytic

then i must be locking on some how although i dont try to cause usualy i dont like engaging in group combat way more fun to sneakly assassinate everyone

agent86

@OrigamiRobot you are breaking the internet

@Paralytic I think hitting like left trigger or something toggles the lock on

but it's been a while since I played and I don't have the game in front of me

FAE

lmao wtf @Tristan @ "goooooger"

Tristan

@FAE =D

You finished eating? We're gonna play another game.

Paralytic

7:26 PM

@agent86 i feel like ive tried that but i will definately make sure i do next time

FAE

@Tristan I think I should pass. I hurt my hand yesterday and heavy mouse usage makes it worse. I think frantic LoL clicking would just exacerbate the situation. :(

Tristan

@FAE =(

OrigamiRobot

@Lazers @Paralytic is this specific to the 360?

@FAE =(

Ben Brocka

That's odd, I see a @Sterno in UX's new users. Sounds like a problem user to me.

agent86

@Paralytic I think also many of the bombs break combat (smoke bomb comes to mind)

@BenBrocka ban ban ban ban ban

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man today is not shaping up to be terribly productive

FAE

7:29 PM

@OrigamiRobot My thumb is okay, so I think it'll be a weekend of console gaming for me

Ben Brocka

@agent86 same here

agent86

@FAE this happens to me fairly often. I rock a wrist brace pretty frequently now

tiddy

I plan on hurting my thumbs during a small ssx run this weekend

Paralytic

@OrigamiRobot yes it is

OrigamiRobot

@tiddy I read this wrong

FAE

7:29 PM

@tiddy toooootally misread that

OrigamiRobot

@Paralytic How so?

tiddy

PERVERTS!

agent86

@tiddy I enqueued this on gamefly just now, for great justice

OrigamiRobot

@tiddy I blame the media.

tiddy

little does everyone know it was a typo.......

Paralytic

7:30 PM

@OrigamiRobot it is specific to the xbox because i dont have it for anything else

tiddy

er... how do you do internal monologues in this chat?

agent86

@tiddy by going oshi-- afterwards.

OrigamiRobot

@Paralytic Then the question itself is not specific to the xbox.

tiddy

SSX definitely has a warm up period

OrigamiRobot

You should only use the platform tags when the question only applies to those platforms.

tiddy

7:31 PM

Once the controls click, it's like a parade of awesomeness

agent86

@tiddy well, I've got THPS expertise, which may help me acclimate a bit faster than some

tiddy

Well

Paralytic

@OrigamiRobot o guess i didnt understand what you ment then

tiddy

They have 2 control schemes

one is classic from the previous games

the other is new, and I just can't use it

OrigamiRobot

@Paralytic No perblem.

RESPAWN

7:33 PM

@agent86 I still can't believe you've never played any of the SSX games

you've missed out on a lot

tiddy

Who's this respaw guy

RESPAWN

no idea. i hear he's an incredible jerk, though

tiddy

Lol i thought the app truncated the name, nope it's based on browser size

agent86

@RESPAWN I'm tempted to go hit my local indie used game shop and pick up an old one if this is the awesomesauce

RESPAWN

@agent86 You will not regret it.

agent86

7:35 PM

@RESPAWN you two are like an old married couple

tiddy

SSX3

Personally i'd ignore tricky

agent86

@tiddy Noted.

tiddy

I own both and once 3 came around I never went back

personal choice though

RESPAWN

I got more mileage out of tricky, but I think that's because I was out of college when SSX3 came out.

agent86

@RESPAWN y'know, it wasn't until about a year ago that I played any THPS games. Picked up one on a lark and found it addicting

RESPAWN

7:37 PM

Apparently jobs, girls, and social lives can encroach on gaming time. Who knew?

Ian Pugsley

@RonanForman oh hay - whenever you can get the cuss warning intro put together, I've got BoI LP from @spugsley to upload

tiddy

I got a ton of mileage out of 3. Getting platinum's, maxing every character, and getting all snowflakes/100% save gave plenty of replay

Ronan Forman

@IanPugsley Oh right. I'll get right on it

Ian Pugsley

@RonanForman she'll probably do another tonight

but no hurry :)

RESPAWN

@agent86 I think if you enjoyed THPS, you'll enjoy SSX. I actually prefer SSX to THPS, but I can't speak for everybody on taht one.

agent86

7:38 PM

@RESPAWN well, soon we'll see.

tiddy

Wish they kept monster tricks in SSX

from ssx3

agent86

I think they're going to do a XBLA/PSN HD remake of the original THPS soon

RESPAWN

Heck, I've still got a Best Buy GC from XMas burning a hole in my pocket. I may pick up SSX this weekend

agent86

which has the possibility of not sucking

@RESPAWN did you hear a bunch of best buys are closing?

I think they're shuttering 50

RESPAWN

@agent86 I hadn't heard that. I really hope that means they aren't closing the ones near me.

No Microcenter here. No Fry's here. Best Buy is sadly all we've got.

agent86

7:42 PM

@RESPAWN :( I feel sorry for you. Maybe time to invest in an amazon prime sub?

there's a fry's down the street from work, but I kind of hate it

I can buy one resistor for $1!!!

although their bargain bin has, in the past, given me some interesting scraps - I found a copy of Planescape: Torment in there, once

Ronan Forman

This will be called the spuglsey warning.

RESPAWN

@agent86, I've been thinking about a prime sub more and more lately. If nothing else, I'd probably make good use of their streaming service.

The selection seems to be much better than Netflix streaming these days

agent86

@IanPugsley, a couple of my friends said they got their D3 beta keys, did @spugsley?

Ben Brocka

@EBongo did you mean non-hybrid dragons here? gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/59960/…

agent86

@BenBrocka he's unlikely to respond in chat until late this evening. You'd probably be better off comment-pinging him instead

@RESPAWN yeah, we had it for free from ordering lots of diapers, and then amazon was like "yoink" - they also took away the "bulk" discount we were getting. It was too good a deal to pass up though, so we gave in and bought it

I haven't taken a good look at their streaming service yet though

Ben Brocka

7:48 PM

@agent86 already did, just thought he might be in chat

agent86

@BenBrocka he is, and he isn't :)

RESPAWN

@agent86 lately it seems like they have had almost everything I've wanted to watch available for streaming

I'll probably give it a try soon

Ben Brocka

You know what I mean

RESPAWN

I'm getting closer and closer to dropping cable

badp

Getting oneshotted. NOT FUN.

agent86

7:49 PM

@RESPAWN I really just want 2 things: Sherlock season 2, and the new Doctor Who when it comes out on the BBC

don't make me wait - you wouldn't like me when I have to WAIT

tiddy

Not all movies are available for free streaming via prime

only selected ones

agent86

@BenBrocka yeah, I just have insider info is what I'm saying.

I can violate his privacy much easier than most.

tiddy

:|

agent86

this is starting to sound creepy though.

tiddy

Very

RESPAWN

7:53 PM

@agent86 That's a fair point. I would probably be unhappy without my Who

agent86

@RESPAWN yeah. they're terrible about making that sort of thing available online (legally in the US)

RESPAWN

@tiddy I was always under the assumption that if you could "rent" it PPV from Amazon, then it would be available via Prime. is that not the case?

Ian Pugsley

@agent86 she'll either see this or see my IM - no idea yet

tiddy

They only enable free prime streaming for certain movies

there are a lot, but not all

RESPAWN

Well that's lame

Lazers

7:54 PM

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Q: Is there any reason to keep first level dragons around?

I'm particularly looking at the earth dragons here, who have small habitats and slow earning potential. Do I need them to breed other dragons, or do the become quickly obsolete. Is there any other reason to keep them, other than looks?

dragonvale

RESPAWN

There goes my thoughts about dropping cable.

tiddy

Yeah I'm pretty much paying for non-looping background noise at this point

RESPAWN

Well, the biggest argument on the "for" side is football, but I was beginning to think that I could get away with just going to a bar every Saturday and Sunday during football season.

badp

I think Deus Ex is trolling me

I'm finding ALL the kinds of ammo except for the pistol ones.

and I really buffed my pistol up. I've done all of China silenced headshot after silenced headshot. Laser sights and increased magazines and all.

tiddy

Lethal playthrough eh

First run?

Ronan Forman

8:11 PM

@IanPugsley I'll finish it in the morning, there's just a few little things I need to do.

badp

@tiddy I ran out of darts pretty quickly and none of the non-lethal guns seem to accept mods.

Something I'm not running out of is Nuke viruses. I have like 25 right now

Tristan

@RonanForman How's my character art coming along? >.>

tiddy

Indeed. I dont remember using the tranq gun much

Pretty much all takedowns

badp

@tiddy ugh.

And the cooldown for battery regen?

tiddy

bought 0 cells

Ronan Forman

8:15 PM

@Tristan I'm not working on that right now.

Tristan

@RonanForman Oh. Okay. =P

tiddy

I think I did buy up the other branch

OrigamiRobot

@Tristan He has to finish the spugsley warning

tiddy

As needed

The biggest lesson to learn in DXHR, imo, is not spending praxis until you need to

Wipqozn

@tiddy You normally have so many praxis points it doesn't matter.

I normally had a bunch to spend since I didn't have anything I really wanted.

Tristan

8:16 PM

@OrigamiRobot spugsley warning?

tiddy

Me too, but it was because I didn't spend them as I got them

OrigamiRobot

@Tristan For her terrible swearing

tiddy

..the second time

Ian Pugsley

@Tristan warning: immense cussing incoming

@agent86 so apparently @spugsley did get in :)

spugsley

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Ian Pugsley

8:17 PM

@spugsley @agent86 like I said :P

badp

@Wipqozn I think I have 2 right now

Grace Note

@spugsley ...?

spugsley

also, please don't suspend me

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OrigamiRobot

She can't speak without swearing right now.

spugsley

I'll delete it

Tristan

8:17 PM

@IanPugsley Oh right! I still wanna see that LP.

badp

I might get dermal armor though.

I've been one-shotted too many times on this level.

OrigamiRobot

@spugsley I'll mark it invalid :P

spugsley

okay, I'm done now

AHHHHH

I seriously am

Ronan Forman

@spugsley I hope you'll like my warning.

Tristan

@spugsley o.o I'm not starring that one...

Wipqozn

8:19 PM

@spugsley flags

OrigamiRobot

@RonanForman Now you see what you have to warn about?

spugsley

@RonanForman O_O PLEASE DONT WARN ME. I'm sorry!

Ronan Forman

It's typography! :P

Wipqozn

Did you get into the beta or something...?

Tristan

@spugsley This^

spugsley

8:20 PM

@Wipqozn ha. Did I get into the beta? No. I think you mean "did you fucking get in to that fucking beta?" BECAUSE YES I DID!!!

Wipqozn

@spugsley ah, well. Good to read.

OrigamiRobot

I can only imagine the songs she is singing.

spugsley

@agent86 I am going to write you an epic ballad about how you are the master of Diablo 3 persuasion

Tristan

@spugsley Still no e-mail for me. =(

Grace Note

...um.

OrigamiRobot

8:23 PM

Who flagged her :(

nobody could find @spugsley's swearing offensive if they heard it.

Ian Pugsley

I warned her...(but didn't flag or mark invalid - that would be wrong)

badp

CMON.

Ullallulloo

@OrigamiRobot Me.

badp

I peeked out an instant and KABOOM. Dead.

From 100 to 0.

tiddy

badp, I'd highly recommend looking into the dermal -> shock protection armor eventually

badp

8:25 PM

@tiddy I have taken Dermal.

At least I think I did before I died.

It might not be in this save though.

Hm, yeah, 130 xp to next praxis means I did lost that bit of progress.

tiddy

You're playing on hard?

badp

medium

tiddy

:(

OrigamiRobot

People are too flag happy in here :/

Tristan

@OrigamiRobot This.

Grace Note

8:27 PM

Flag happy or no, some people don't like cursing, and even if it's technically in a fit of joy and thrown rather meaninglessly and jubily, it's still profanity.

Ben Brocka

Erm, the last two problematic posts were...a bit much.

badp

eh. Were they actively offending anybody? Was the "be nice" rule broken?

I deleted them because she said she'd delete them anyway but...

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote Yes, in that instance one could argue it was more warranted. It just reminds me of all the unwarranted ones.

tiddy

Someone was offended? Nooooooooooooooooooo

Grace Note

@badp Some people dislike the language on principle as much as the intent behind the nastier usages of the language.

badp

8:29 PM

@GraceNote Sure, but there's a distance between disliking language and wanting who uses it suspended for 30 minutes.

In my view, anyway.

I'm not the flag police.

OrigamiRobot

Samantha: I just got suspended
lol
worth it
bwahhaha I don't give a [REDACTED]. I'm gonna play Isaac.
and you can tell them I said so. Hrumph

Ian Pugsley

@OrigamiRobot don't enable her!

Ronan Forman

@Origami Make sure she's recording.

Ian Pugsley

also she calls Binding of Isaac "Isaac", which is pretty funny

Wipqozn

@badp I concur.

Grace Note

8:31 PM

@badp People don't want to see that language, so suspension in this case is no different than any other case of people causing suspensions to get people to stop with a disliked behavior.

Wipqozn

@GraceNote This is very true.

badp

@GraceNote I know. People make calls. I know I made mine.

We don't have to agree, that's why the flag system is there in the first place.

Grace Note

If it weren't for the timestamps...

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote I noticed that too

Tristan

►

Resorath

8:37 PM

Apparently this it today:

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Tristan

This is insane. o.O

Resorath

themoreyouknow.jpg

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote huh, noticed that too

Sterno

Inappropriate!

flags everyone

Grace Note

@Tristan Ah, DMC4~

Tristan

8:39 PM

@GraceNote He never takes damage or touches the ground. It's ridiculous!

Grace Note

@Tristan What kind of stylish player gets hit?

Ben Brocka

@Resorath Aw yeah, check this out:

Tristan

@GraceNote I've only ever played the first game... and I was bad at it.

FAE

@Tristan I bought the trilogy when they were sold together for PS2. They've been on my "to play" list so long that there's now going to be HD remakes.

Tristan

@FAE I'm still waiting for the HD remake of FF X...

Anyway, I gotta go. I'll be back on tonight. Later all!

Grace Note

8:44 PM

@FAE Please tell me the "trilogy" is 1, 3, and 4.

FAE

@GraceNote 1,2,3 in this case. I own 4 on 360 but haven't played yet.

Ullallulloo

I can't say that I've done the fourth...

badp

@GraceNote can you actually fill the S bar completely?

I've seen this guy getting quite close to it... but no cigar

Grace Note

@badp The style gauge? It maxes at Smokin' Sick Style.

Ben Brocka

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Q: What's the purpose of offering hearts to the goddess?

commented: Bowchickabowwow

neat

Ullallulloo

8:48 PM

@BenBrocka Comment onebox?

Ben Brocka

(comments onebox now)

Resorath

@BenBrocka aw ya mitosis

badp

not awesomely though. Oh well

Lazers

2

Q: When is it appropriate to farm in the mid-late game?

I've been having a lot of difficulty lately when playing a carry with being caught out of position when the opposing team goes for Baron, especially when we're behind and I'm trying to either shove a pushed lane, most notably bot, or get the money for an item so I'm actually ready to fight. Ide...

league-of-legends

Ben Brocka

@Resorath Cleavage technically

Sterno

8:49 PM

@BenBrocka re: Your exchange with @agent86 in my Disgaea question comments. I think it's a sense of scale that's off here. The fact that by map 4 I'm already finding I probably need to redo an earlier map to level up some guys might be minor on the overall grinding scale of that game, but it's considerably more than something like Final Fantasy, where you almost never need to say "I'll come back here again after I kill a few more dudes"

tiddy

I must be a bad FF player

Cause I said that a lot

Sterno

What's a good level to start doing item world and actually survive to level 10 of an item?

Jason Berkan

@tiddy There's no way to be a good FF player. You won by having more damage and HP than the bad dudes.

Ben Brocka

@Sterno eh, I think part of it is learning how to play and what's important. Disgaea is pretty easy to burn through without much grinding once you know what you're doing, at least the sequels were. D1 was a bit different for me too but I think I just didn't know what I was doing

Jason Berkan

(For the original FF games)

Ben Brocka

8:51 PM

BTW, if you aren't, always use skills and only skills. They do crazy damage compared to normal attacks

@Sterno Don't know, if you're at level 5 there's probably nothing that would be easy enough. I don't know how item world scales that low

tiddy

Pretty much

Ben Brocka

D1 wasn't the easiest to get in to though, the later games may have eased up on the new game experience

Sterno

@BenBrocka Yeah, I've barely used skills at all. Definitely still have a lot to learn

Ben Brocka

Plus it's really weird to think about disgaea levels in the ones/tens

Normal attacks suck for the most part

tiddy

I'm trying to think of the worst game I started that turned out to be one of the best games I've played

Sterno

8:54 PM

do the team combos trigger with skills?

Ben Brocka

I underestimate how complex the system is really

@Sterno disgaea 3 does that with some skills, but no

wait

kinda, but the skills don't mix. It's technically a combo and you get combo points

Sterno

I haven't seen them trigger with skills yet, is why I asked. And I need to do it a bit, so my low level dudes like my healer will actualyl level

Ben Brocka

You have to execute them all at once

Sterno

ah

Ben Brocka

make three characters use skills on one target, then execute

Sterno

8:55 PM

I'm thinking of the thing where it doesn't have to be at once, but they have ot be adjacent to you

Ben Brocka

you'll get some combo points out of it

James

@agent86 Back and we did.. Played a round of Epic Spell Wars before the fries showed up :D

Ben Brocka

oh, yeah, that. Skills don't mix like that, only normal attacks

James

There, NOW I am an official backer of FTL :)

Ben Brocka

BTW, you should porbably focus on your main cast characters, and keep them equipped with weapons they're proficient in

D1 unfortunately focuses on weapon level :/

@Sterno you also know you can attack, then move other characters without ending your turn, right?

Grace Note

8:59 PM

@Sterno This doesn't happen with skills, no

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote you play disgaea?

Raven Dreamer

@BenBrocka Do bears live in the woods?

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