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2:00 PM
@YiJiang I'm really tempted to flag that and upvote it for your edit, but that would be bad, and I shouldn't do that.
 
Hmm, the Orange Box for $7.88
@GnomeSlice A bit of trivia, but it used to be that if a post was spam delete the last editor was hit with the 100 rep penalty
That was from a really long time ago I think
 
@YiJiang That's silly.
@LessPop_MoreFizz But you didn't vote to close it?
 
@GnomeSlice I did, it's expired.
Just checked.
@GnomeSlice Well someone up voted the spammer.
 
Hahaha. Well, doesn't matter, just a few more spam votes and it should be gone
> Download Size: 2.45 MB
Well, I didn't know it was going to be this small :P
 
@YiJiang That can't be right.
 
2:05 PM
It's the size of the Steam client installer
 
It's probably just the menu or something, I expect it will want you to download each of the games individually.
@YiJiang AH! You have two different gravatars!
@LessPop_MoreFizz ...I wouldn't know anything about that.
clench
 
Just one. Clear your damn cache, I've changed gravatar for something like a week now
@GnomeSlice You shouldn't do that, hmmm
Huh, bash is using up several hundred megabytes of RAM
that can't be right...
 
@YiJiang That's weird, I usually never get this gravatar thing going on when people switch.
 
I wonder what would happen if I terminate it...
That process contained the desktop manager. Killing it was a pretty bad idea
 
FAE
@YiJiang ahaha
 
2:16 PM
Stupid gnome-shell...
 
Yet another attempt to improve tagging on gaming
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Q: Treat the first tag used on a question as the "primary tag" for that question

badpBy "primary tag" for a question I mean: The tag used in the <title> element The tag used when automatically tweeting questions The first tag in the tag list for a question Currently, the primary tag is the tag with the highest question count as a byproduct of the fact tags are sorted by...

 
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Q: Where do I find things to do in Firefall?

CircusfreakAfter the first missions about the water I've sort of run out of things to do with my accord recon character. Are there more missions available somewhere? Ive heard about the staged content phenomenon where you can push back the melding but how do I actually do that?

 
@YiJiang ?
 
[status-BURNINATION-TIME]
aw
 
2:51 PM
@Lazers Looks like a rather lame question
Especially since the answer is... well, obvious. It's a MMO in beta. What do you expect?
 
@badp You could alternatively just give users the option to mark a tag as primary. Sure, users are generally assumed to not know what they're doing and thus this approach is a worm of cans, but it would address concerns of automated measures mis-labelling primary and could allow for others to clean it up if the user truly marks an incorrect primary.
 
Hey, that new pokemon/nobunaga crossover game comes out next week.
 
@skovacs1 I honestly think "the first tag you think of when you tag a question" is pretty much the best approximation for "the one tag that is the most relevant to your question"
 
Huh, innnnnteresting. Wonder what that'll do to the canon of the games
 
the only exception being when you don't find such a tag and have to stumble around for some time because you can't create it and need to find something else
 
2:57 PM
@badp Sounds like an interesting subject for some SCIENCE, but we don't have to tools to do these sort of things
 
which will get you terribad tagging some 2ker will quickly flix
 
And frankly, conducting these sort of UX studies correctly might even be beyond what SE Inc. can do
 
@skovacs1 Adding another mechanism to retagging does not strike me as a good thing.
 
@YiJiang eh. They could just start tracking this piece of information on a bunch of questions and see how the two systems differ in picking the "primary" tag
then assign victory to one or the other system by hand :P
that is if they can't recover this information from logs or whatnot
 
@fbueckert fair enough. I was just mentioning another approach so do with that what you will.
In any case, I've got to run. Later all.
 
3:00 PM
I think that giving special meaning to the first tag is both an easy and powerful tool that's not hard to grasp. You don't even need to explain it to new users because the effects are admittedly rather minor
it's the by-products of this system that can be interesting
"plz to not prune primary tags automatically" for example
or "plz to raise a flag of some kind when this happens, keeping track of what that tag's name was"
 
Argh, just missed the commit window!
By a few hours!
 
@fredley do you have one yet?
 
Couldn't you still commit? Or ask someone in the private beta to get you an invite
 
@agent86 Just ordered
@YiJiang Yes, the button was non-obvious though!
 
@fredley lucky :( they're so sold out over here.
 
3:04 PM
@agent86 Should be here in a week or two, can't wait
 
Eh, that's where the commit button always is
 
I did manage to score a free ST discovery board.
it's a tiny 32-bit ARM M0
 
@YiJiang Isn't it on the rhs normally?
@agent86 That's pretty cool, how'd you manage that?
 
No
 
@YiJiang Oh ok, I'm an idiot.
How does 'total rep' work on A51?
 
3:06 PM
Takes all of your reps on all sites, add them up
 
For all users it seems to be equal to 'user rep', but for one person it's more than 4x that
 
I think it might subtract the 100 association bonus, but I'm not sure
 
It should be equal. Something's odd there
 
Maybe the referral is worth 50k rep
not a bad rate
 
3:08 PM
Don't think so, unless he's got 50k rep on A51
Smells like a bug. There's always been some weird cases with rep reported on A51
 
@YiJiang Nope, about 200
 
Oh, no, wait, I think you might be right
The person who he referred's reps might be added in
 
@YiJiang A51 nuked my whole flair the other day
@YiJiang Ah, that makes a twisted kind of sense
Anyone want to boost my rep?
 
I would just like to say, for the record: One knife ye hand.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz one knife ye heart
I realized yesterday that the website in that video I've ordered from before.
 
3:11 PM
@agent86 magnificent.
 
they're good for... console accessories. most of it is counterfeit, but it's the only place I could really find a reasonable price on replacement parts for my DS
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz The Bridge is the 2nd top Google result for that query
2
 
@fredley We're famous! Like, internet famous, dude! Oh wait, it's for that voice. Oh god...
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Why do I not understand this reference?
 
@fbueckert Because you have not seen the light.
 
3:14 PM
@LessPop_MoreFizz /video
 
@fredley A video is comprised of captured and projected light!
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz (I haven't actually seen the video, and I'm at work)
 
@fredley SHAMEFUL
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Is it ok to 'watch' with just audio?
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz ONE KNIFE YE HAND
 
3:16 PM
@fredley Yeah.
 
@fredley it's SFW, just really badly translated ad for ceramic knives
 
@Fluttershy ONE KNIFE YE HEART
 
@fredley if you only have audio, you might not be able to fully understand it, but honestly, it's hard to fully understand it while watching it.
 
I'm.. I'm out of here. Before my English starts degrading
2
 
Listening: Oh dear
High grade ove the knaife
 
3:18 PM
@LessPop_MoreFizz this is KING DOUBLE KNIFE. good knife. magic knife.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz It's a purr-fect lie.
 
WHAT A GOOD KNIFE
 
I do think that "mana-fuck-turing" is my favorite pronunciation ever.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Is this the indian take on info-mercialing?
 
if that's not one for the @Mana fanfic, I don't know what is.
 
3:19 PM
@agent86 mana-fuck-turing more like @mana-fuck-turing.
@fbueckert Indian? no, this is Chinese. Very, very chinese.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz THE SURFACE LOOKS SO SLIDAY
 
@fbueckert this is from a hong kong imports company
 
THE TOMATOE PIECES ARE RATHER GOOD LOOKING
 
it-a doesn't-a react-a wis ze foot.
 
@fredley just one cut is enough. no more, no less.
this is too much fun for a silly video about knives.
I think I've played games that were less fun than this video.
 
3:21 PM
@agent86 A knife's not sharp enough until you can just point it at your food and it falls apart into neat, even slices.
 
Just got to ONE KNIFE YE HAND..., almost burst out laughing at work...
 
> After when-a we finish yusing, there ware alvays small fings on ze blayd. What way should do is-a not clean it. By hand, but it put it down the foot for your safty. B-sides, wen gatting rid of ze small tings, avoid to use the front of te blade. It will hurt to the nife. AM I CLEAR????
 
@fbueckert king double knives are not for you then!
 
This is a piece of breef.
 
SHRADDED GINGERS
John-erally speaking
 
3:28 PM
> What is the most-e difficult thing to cut. The wood. No doubt, here is a real wood.
 
It looks stu-perfect
 
I don't know what you barskets are talking about. Keep up.
 
14 mins ago, by LessPop_MoreFizz
 
What a mazy nife!
 
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3:33 PM
Is so eazay
It doesn't need jacking
we only need a softerly jack
 
user15026
Oh, that knife video breaks my brain so much.
 
I am on my first exposure, it's fantastic
 
@AshleyNunn And it's for this reason I don't visit 4chan. Or lolcats.
 
user15026
@fredley That is the part where I had to turn it off because my brain just went "pop" and I figured I have an essay to write this week and I don't want it to be complete gibberish, which I was afraid it might be if I kept watching that video.
 
Then again, I don't need to visit those sites. My roommate gleefully enjoys breaking my brain on a regular basis.
 
user15026
3:38 PM
@fbueckert I have friends that do that for me. I think my brain is perma-broken.
 
Apparently, threats of random violence visited upon his person does not deter this behaviour.
 
@AshleyNunn king double english essay cuts the breef. one cut, no more, no less.
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I'm a breaker, I enjoy giving people their daily dose of WTF
 
I may have to resort to more...extreme....methods.
 
user15026
@agent86 Oh, thanks. Just what I needed. XD
 
3:40 PM
ugh, someone just brought one of those singing fish into the office
 
I bet that's upped everyone's productivity/morale/sense of worthlessness
 
user15026
@agent86 KILL IT WITH FIRE
 
@AshleyNunn OMG YES
 
@agent86 Hack it to shout obscenities at people instead. That'll soon get rid of it.
 
user15026
@fredley Oh, I like this plan....
 
3:42 PM
@AshleyNunn With fire!? Where are your manners? Everyone knows you kill fish by bashing their brains out!
Blunt force trauma!
 
user15026
@fbueckert I like fire. Fire is pretty.
 
> "This means you'll need to have an Authenticator to add to your balance via Battle.net Account Management or to send the proceeds of your real-money auction house sales to your Battle.net Balance,"
 
user15026
Although bashing things could be fun too...
 
@AshleyNunn See: flaming swords
 
user15026
@fredley That is cutting, not bashing :(
 
3:43 PM
@fredley Flaming warhammers. Blunt force trauma and fire.
 
@AshleyNunn Use the hilt/flat?
 
The best of both worlds!
 
user15026
@fredley That might work.
 
@AshleyNunn You never know when you're going to need to get stabby
 
@fredley We might as well use a flaming claymore, then.
 
user15026
3:44 PM
@fredley This is true. And as the Game of Thrones taught me, you stab with the pointy end.
 
@agent86 I think the solution to the singing fish problem is clear.
Replace it's audio with King Double Knife.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Perfect
 
@AshleyNunn "If you don't know which end goes into the monster, private, you haven't been paying attention!"
 
user15026
@fbueckert I feel like I am missing a reference.
 
@fbueckert That is a very important comma.
 
3:45 PM
@AshleyNunn diablo 3
 
user15026
@agent86 Coloured?
 
What colour is Dr Who?
 
He's a colourful character, surely.
 
user15026
@agent86 Oh, that game that I am not playing XD
 
@AshleyNunn I did not get this either. I thought perhaps someone else would know.
 
3:47 PM
@agent86 Dr. Manhattan is blue.
 
It implies Dr Manhatten is not timeless
incorrectly
Also the cross over between light and pigment colour mixing is doing my head in
red + yellow = orange
orange + blue = white!
 
@fredley Why are you applying logic to Dr. Who? There's your first mistake!
 
@fbueckert I'm applying logic to a Venn Diagram, which is a pretty logical thing to do!
 
@fredley The diagram includes Dr. Who, which automatically invalidates any logic that may be derived from it!
 
@fbueckert Fair point
but still
gah!
 
user15026
3:50 PM
Wait, maybe they mean blue like the TARDIS is blue but that doesn't explain Dr. Pepper because it is not blue.
 
@AshleyNunn Dr. Pepper is...honestly, I have no idea what color that stuff is. It tastes good, though!
 
@fbueckert Cherries are blue right?
 
wat Neil Degrasse Tyson and Wu-Tang Clan collaborate on rap album?
 
@fredley Sure, why not? brain snaps
 
user15026
@fredley No, that's raspberries. (I honestly thought as a kid that tehy were blue, because everything raspberry flavoured that I ever had was blue. I was disappointed when they weren't.)
 
3:54 PM
@AshleyNunn Oh yeah of course, sorry @fbueckert
 
@agent86 That is the second coolest wu tang related news of late
 
@AshleyNunn Is there a reason for raspberry things being blue?
 
user15026
@fredley I have no idea. They just often are. To differentiate them from cherry, maybe?
 
@fredley Meh. Honestly, it takes a lot more than that for a brain meltdown to have any serious effects. Its had far too much practice being broken.
 
@AshleyNunn Or strawberry. Or loganberry.
@fbueckert Wheeeee, broken everything
 
3:56 PM
It just goes "Error. Does not compute." crash reboot
 
@fbueckert Do you make the Moss reboot sound?
 
@fredley Nope. Blank look for a second or two.
 
@fredley Godammit... just came to back to this to see if it was finished loading, and it was nearly done. But apparently I can't cache a thirteen minute long video, because when I moved the playhead back to the beginning, it started loading it all over again...
 
@GnomeSlice YouTube logic
 
@fredley You there, computer man.
 
3:58 PM
Retribution then follows for the perpetrator of the crash.
 
user15026
@GnomeSlice That is annoying. :(
 
That's one of the best scenes in the series.
 
@GnomeSlice TNETENBA
Goth2Boss
 
@fredley There's no way I can watch that at work. Just that preview pic is borderline NSFW.
 
@fbueckert Aw, shame
The IT crowd is genius
 
4:00 PM
@fredley Yeah, I've seen some of it. Hilarity ensues.
 
@fbueckert It does indeed
 
@fredley As a sidenote, if you still want that copy of the Ship, you'll need to accept my friend request through Steam.
 
@fbueckert Completely forgotten about that
My life is full of balls at the moment, so may not have time for gaming for a couple of weeks :-(
 
@fredley Well, as far as I know, there's no time limit on copies, so I'll hold onto it for you.
 
@fbueckert Ok, thanks
 
4:05 PM
The IT Crowd rapidly became less about IT related humour and more about... British Slapstick, but it's still a great series.
 
@GnomeSlice Don't you dare say a word against British slapstick!
 
@fredley ...Who said anything against it?
 
@GnomeSlice That's what I'll watch on my break! THanks gnome.
 
@Wipqozn ...For what?
 
@GnomeSlice The implication in your statement is that slapstick is inferior to IT related humor.
 
4:08 PM
@GnomeSlice Making me think to watch the IT crowd.
but it appears youtube is terrible
and lacks the episodes
 
@fbueckert I thought the implication is that it was different, in the context of the show...
 
unless they are actually just 2 minutes long each
 
i.e. they did a lot of really ridiculous things not related to IT or comp uters at all.
 
@GnomeSlice That's a good thing. You don't want to over-egg it
 
4:11 PM
@GnomeSlice Oh April!
 
@RonanForman Blake Robinson always does good stuff.
 
@GnomeSlice Yeah.
He's sort of cheating though. Having all that free stuff.
 
@RonanForman What do you mean?
 
@GnomeSlice He works for some library devs, so he gets them free.
 
user30
I get the distinct feeling the ITV live stream is delayed.
 
4:18 PM
@RonanForman His libraries? Didn't know that. Not really cheating though.
I mean, I have access to a bunch of stuff, and I don't know what to do with any of it.
 
user30
and we should be 1-0 up.
 
@ThomasMcDonald Live streams always are, by 5 minutes or so. It's in case something goes wrong.
 
user30
@fredley No, the internet live stream is behind the TV broadcast.
 
@agent86 Everything. You'll just have to see it
 
@ThomasMcDonald Well that's to be expected I guess, it takes time to stuff all the TV into the tubes
 
4:21 PM
For some reason after hearing about LBP everyone goes "What's so great about this game?" I've never ever heard someone say that after actually playing it
 
@BenBrocka ooh, now I'm excited!
I could use a good family-friendly game. I have to say I've been relatively disappointed with the pixeljunk games, except for shooter.
 
The online play and creating your own levels is pretty sweet though, but even just the single player is very fun
 
most of the rest have just been frustrating for no good reason. the user experience especially is just kind of meh.
 
As a bonus you can play with your kids with LBP; up to 4 player and it's really fun
 
@BenBrocka that's good to hear. I'm looking forward to something pick-up-and-play. I'm also grabbing R&C and Sideway.
 
user30
4:23 PM
@fredley hmm maybe not as much as I thought. Looks to be about ten seconds. BBC is always ahead a couple.
 
@BenBrocka yeah, I've got the Move and a dualshock, so we'll see
 
user30
Needless to say, this means I will hear about any goals before I see them.
 
@agent86 The PJ games are more complex than they appear, but really fun once you get used to them
Though Racers is just meh
 
We should have a newsletter.
@RonanForman Hey, want to do a community newsletter?
 
user15026
LBP and its sequel are incredibly awesome and fun. Family friendly, rather silly and awesome and yay and I don't suck at it - I dont know what sort of recommendation that is, but there you have it.
 
4:25 PM
@GnomeSlice That would say what exactly?
 
@AshleyNunn You own a gaming machine not made by Nintendo?
 
user15026
@Wipqozn It's the roommate's. As is the xbox.
 
@James Interesting questions from the past week, important meta discussions, Stuff about the week's Game On, links to blog posts.
 
@BenBrocka both Monsers and Eden were just frustrating for me, for no good reason. Eden in particular, the color choices made things blend in with the background, and the air acceleration felt off. Monsters was just kind of a meh tower defense game, imho.
 
Jin
someone buy my auctions please! #diablo3
 
4:26 PM
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Q: How to use left click for spells other than signature?

EddieCUsing elective mode, I am trying to use spells other than the signature spells (wizard) for left click. Few spells (except Archon Orb) seems to work well . For instance, I set it to Archon and it never fires. I have tried targeting a mob when I left click and that does not fire it. Can anyo...

 
@GnomeSlice Don't SE already do one?
 
@RonanForman It does.
 
@GnomeSlice Although SG does need a homepage.
 
@RonanForman A what?
 
4:30 PM
So stackgaming.com doesn't redirect and is actually useful
 
@agent86 Monsters is pretty good when you get into it, the running around ads an unexpected strategic element. Eden is actually kinda hard to play, but really beautiful
 
@GnomeSlice Don't think so, I'd say that a little extra client side code should be a much more elegant solution
 
In 30 minutes, AAPL stock will start to drop.
 
@YiJiang Well, anyway, there's a ton of cool stuff there.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Press conference?
 
4:31 PM
@YiJiang WWDC
 
user30
englaaaaaaaaand
 
The only problem with client side code is that some current generation mobile browsers aren't smart enough to download only the images it needs
Also, no mention of font awesome? fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome
 
@BenBrocka yeah, I just didn't much care for Monsters. There are just better tower defense games I could play, y'know? Dungeon Defenders, for instance. Eden is certainly pretty, I got to maybe 30 of the spectras or what have you before I'd just had enough of the quirks.
 
Eden's a lot more fun with 2/3 people, that's the only time I play it now
My only problem with Eden is it takes so long to get all 5 spectra in one level
 
@BenBrocka yeah, I'm solo at this point, so maybe things are different in co-op.
I do wish they would let you keep playing once you have 1, I have to get the first one 5 times in order to fully clear a level, for instance.
 
user15026
4:39 PM
@agent86 That would make me throw controllers at things.
 
user30
pffffffffft.
 
@agent86 That too, the first spectra is quick enough to get, but replaying after 3/4 is just annoying
I usually just went and got 1/2 from each level before going back to the first again so the same level doesn't get stale
 
user30
bloody French.
 
And coop is nice because if one player falls all the way down, as long as one is still around you keep your progress
 
Ah football, making the English irrationally racist.
 
user30
4:41 PM
not really, any occasion is a good occasion to moan about the french.
 
hey guys :)
 
user15026
@spugsley waves Heya :)
 
@AshleyNunn yeah, it's somewhat frustrating. Especially since the controls are a bit quirky, having to deal with the same funky jumps over and over again is a bit frustrating.
 
@agent86 Speaking of tower defense games, has anyone else played Defender's Quest?
 
@BenBrocka yeah, I tended to go for broke, since I had a good idea as to how the level was laid out after running it a couple of times. I've also been maxing out all the seeds to get the trophy for each level.
@fbueckert can't say I've heard of it
@spugsley afternoon :)
 
user15026
4:43 PM
@agent86 Note to self: Stay away from this game. I remember getting so frustrated with the jumping on hippos in the Tarzan area of KH.....I don't think that this game and I would get along.
 
@AshleyNunn I find myself pushing the analog stick so hard when I make a small error in a jump, and then I'm frustrated that my character won't move the way I want. You kind of get a weird amount of momentum, and then can't course correct easily.
 
@agent86 Yeah, I want the trophies too, but some of the later levels were frustrating enough after a couple spectra I wanted to play a different one
 
@BenBrocka lol, indeed!
 
@agent86 if you spin you move faster in the air
 
@agent86 www.defendersquest.com
Indie developer. Interesting story.
 
4:45 PM
You have to get used to how the jumping works, I don't recall it being that complicated though
 
@BenBrocka yeah, even with the spin I still get somewhat frustrated. I think I've ground the edge of the stick down where it hits the edge because of that game :/
 
user15026
@agent86 I would probably get frustrated.
 
I make this "uuurghhh" sound that my son has started to imitate from playing Eden
 
lol
 
he shakes his head, goes "uuurgghh daddy! that's not what you wanted to do!" and I'm all "I know, son. I know."
 
4:46 PM
How far are you in Shooter?
 
@BenBrocka cleared it, I think I saved everyone but didn't find all the gems
that one I did enjoy, although there were a few bits where I went :/ it was an OK game overall
 
Again that one's more fun coop, really liked the second one too
100% completed the first but not the second, then lost my save file of the second
 
Anyone else ever hear of Smite? From the people making Tribes: Ascend.
 
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Ashley NunnIn the game, it sometimes warns you that one of the companies you have clothing from is going to be the next big thing. It tells you to stock up ahead of time so that when they can't keep up with demand, you have enough clothes to last so that your customers leave happy. Problem is, I can't figu...

 
@RonanForman If it was you whom sent me the message in GameOn I can not join multiple rooms while at work. That is the cause of my chat going completely belly up.
 
4:57 PM
@James I see, I was wondering whether UHC is ready for this week or it should be next instead.
 
@RonanForman That bukkit mod won't cut it afterall?
 
@James No idea, I thought you said you'd like to finish yours due to annoying features.
 
Ah, I thought some of the options would be bothersome but you pointed out we should be able to turn them on/off :)
Maybe we should get the plugin on a server and give it a test?
 
@James I'll check it out then.
 
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