The Bridge

6:00 PM

@AshleyNunn someone will have to study it and disprove it, so that we can all go back to sleeping comfortably in our air-conditioned comfort boxes.

user15026

@agent86 I do not think I am up for this kind of research.

fbueckert

@agent86 And you don't want me to study it, because I'd recommend everyone go outside for at least a short while.

user15026

Is it wrong that I am bouncing off the walls excited at the announcement that Gameloft is going to be making an iOS/Android MLP game?

QAna

Yay, nerd stereotypes!

spugsley

@fbueckert I wish I could dance :/ but I have no rhythm

QAna

6:03 PM

@spugsley Take up a rhythmic instrument!

agent86

@fbueckert we've already concluded your unsuitability for any such endeavor, as you are clearly insane.

QAna

It's not that bad, you just need to keep at it and you'll learn.

fbueckert

@agent86 So I should fit right in with all the rest of you crazies!

agent86

@fbueckert woooooo! And I run the asylum >:D

Alok

@agent86 He does part time work as a jungle gym; so he has to go outside

agent86

6:04 PM

COOKIES FOR EVERYONE!

user15026

@agent86 YES COOKIES

Alok

Cookies & Fried Chicken = chicken biscuits?

user15026

user15026

They're sugar cookies!

user15026

@FAE I don't know if you have access to a 3DS, and I also don't know if it is just an NA thing, but I did download a KH3D demo today.

agent86

6:10 PM

@AshleyNunn did you see they announced another 3DS revision? 3DS XL

I'm hoping this means a price cut on existing 3DS'es, eventually I might want to own one

fbueckert

@agent86 I'm hoping they'll finally integrate the second analog INTO the 3DS.

user15026

@agent86 Yeah, but I figure unless they added the second circle pad (which they did not) it is not worth spending $200 on

user15026

They might drop the price, I know that the DSi did get a bit cheaper when the DSiXL came out. I dont think it was a giant drop, but it was one nonetheless

user15026

So few games use it though

agent86

@fbueckert nope

fbueckert

6:13 PM

@agent86 Then I guess I'm not getting it.

agent86

and I think the existing circle pad accessory is no good for it

ickleislands

I want a KFC so badly now :(

user15026

@agent86 It is terrible

ickleislands

I have a massively overwhelming desire to play through Deus Ex: Human Revolution again but I know I will be bored pretty much immediately after the intro sequence...

Yi Jiang

The entire Deus Ex collection is on sale on Steam right now

ayckoster

6:16 PM

@ickleislands do you have time to help me with belial?

ickleislands

still doing work :(

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn It seems that everyone who originally bought a 3DS was treated like a beta tester. "Oh, you want this extra analog stick? You'll have to buy an attachment for it."

ayckoster

ah ok.

user15026

@fbueckert Yeah. Its pretty sadface

Alok

@YiJiang What was the context for the quantum computing story that is starred? I'd read it long time ago, agree it has a great concept :)

agent86

6:18 PM

@ickleislands you didn't ask for this!

ickleislands

@agent86 damn straight

LOL

Yi Jiang

@Alok @spugsley was looking for stuff to read

Alok

Ah ok - this chat has such random stuff whenever I join; whether its philosophical stories or fried chicken :D

Yi Jiang

Below it on the starred list you could see my other recommendation, The Meaning of Liff

user15026

This is part of what makes the Bridge awesome.

spugsley

6:20 PM

@Alok lolololol this comment is brilliant

Alok

Meaning of Liff? It looks good to pick some char names in future :p

fbueckert

@Alok You should know better.

Gamers are dangerously random people; you never know what sets them off.

Alok

Have you read Flatland, if you liked the Timmy story then should read that too :)

Yi Jiang

@Alok All of those words are actual names of places

Alok

@fbueckert: Actually I haven't seen people here get really upset often, you guys are way more civilised than all the trolls on D3 bnet (only other 'gaming' site I visit regularly)

@YiJiang That makes it so much more funny ;)

agent86

6:25 PM

so... we are seriously doing more LoL stuff?

Yi Jiang

You'll find some more well known places too. See Chicago :D

agent86

like for serious. we did not learn that lesson?

Yi Jiang

@agent86 Looks like it, unfortunately

user15026

@agent86 Apparently not

fbueckert

@Alok Sets them off = passionate. We're just more civilized and rational.

We actually managed to have a respectful conversation about opposing viewpoints the other day!

Yi Jiang

6:26 PM

I just hope it would only be sponsorship and not a full fledged contest tie-in this time

fbueckert

There were no threats, no swearing, or screaming fits.

agent86

sigh Okay, let me go get my cluebat, and prepare to whack some sense into people

fbueckert

We sounded like.... adults!

Alok

Yea that is such a rare occasion on the general Internets, you actually remember when it happens :(

@agent86 I wasn't around for the last LoL event, whatever it was - what is so bad about it (short summary only please)? I mean, the D3 one was nice def. made me get more involved with so many actively asking & answering questions.

agent86

@Alok well, we attracted a ton of really low quality content. Not only was it particularly low quality, but without sort of a rudimentary education in the game and its terminology, it's hard to separate questions/answers into "good" and "bad" quickly, which is important for community moderation

Yi Jiang

6:30 PM

Yeah, the players all seem to speak a different language from the rest of us.

agent86

as opposed to other game contests which brought about a large number of excellent questions with many views, which contributed to the popularity/knowledge base of the site, the LoL contest gained us relatively few questions that garnered any views

so the short version is "it was a ton of work without much in the way of gain"

Yi Jiang

It also didn't seem to create many real contributors

The number of LoL questions dropped like a rock after the contest was over

user15026

Yeah, it was a lot of headache and mess for very small apparent gain

Yi Jiang

When did the contest start exactly?

agent86

@YiJiang I've got a bunch of stats on the LoL time period, stand by

Alok

6:34 PM

Hmm interesting - I def. find it hard to even read the LoL questions as I haven't tried it; heroes are good 'junglers', fast in some lane etc. >_< Re. the contest, I just wonder if there is no other game that hasn't been covered earlier?

QAdley

3.5 hour bus journey. Someone please kill me.

Yi Jiang

It started on March 16. I remember it overlapped with the ME3 contest

agent86

so for the entire contest period, (2 whole weeks from mid march to the first of april), during which there were 3 2-4 day contests) there were 311 question downvotes, and 241 answer downvotes

QAdley

Next stop: Milton Keynes

Yi Jiang

@agent86 On LoL posts?

agent86

6:36 PM

85 of those question downvotes were on LoL questions (27%)

stand by, work calling

user15026

@QAdley That is a long time to be on a bus

QAdley

So many roundabouts

user15026

@QAdley O.o

Yi Jiang

In 3.5h you can go from one end of Singapore and back

More than a few times, depending on your mode of transport

QAdley

In 3.5 hours I can get to Paris from my house

And it's a considerably more pleasant journey

user15026

6:39 PM

In 3.5 hours....I can get not very interesting places. I think I can get to Niagara Falls or various border crossings but that is really about it

QAdley

Singapore traffic is alright, mostly due to the extreme cost of car ownership I think

Alok

I think the important thing is bus vs driving; you can doze off or play on portable/cell

QAdley

Also no roundabouts

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn In 3.5 hours I can get home, start gaming, and be sipping happily on wine while committing demon genocide.

QAdley

You cannot doze off while going round roundabouts

Yi Jiang

6:40 PM

@QAdley Yup. It now cost as much to own a small apartment as it is to buy a large car

@QAdley There is a huge one near where I live, but generally no

QAdley

Wow, that's a lot

Alok

@QAdley Play through the previous night, and you can

user15026

@fbueckert This is a pretty decent plan, I do think

James

@AshleyNunn The falls are interesting :P

Yi Jiang

Oh, the prices dropped again

fbueckert

6:42 PM

@AshleyNunn Except today is Friday night, which means I'm going out dancing, as always.

QAdley

I've fucked up my body clock considerably this week, but even now I can't sleep

user15026

@James They're pretty interesting but when every Dutch relative ever wants to see them, they get old XD

user15026

@fbueckert This is also a decent plan.

Yi Jiang

James

@AshleyNunn Well that is where you take the relatives under the condition that they have to walk under the falls :D

Yi Jiang

6:42 PM

This is the price for a permit to buy a car

Add on top of that the actual price of the car, and, yes, you really can buy a small apartment for the price of a car

user15026

@James Haha this would be a good plan

fbueckert

@YiJiang Holy crap. I'd never get a car for that price.

James

@fbueckert Me neither.. I thought I had a pretty nice car but I paid like half that USD for mine

fbueckert

I bought mine for $10K.

James

... And I do have a pretty nice car :)

user15026

6:45 PM

@YiJiang O.o And I thought me not having a car here because they are too expensive was a big thing

fbueckert

@James Mine's not fancy at all; the only requirement I had was that it had to have great mileage.

Yi Jiang

1.3 Singapore dollar to a US dollar / Euro, do the math

Tim Stone

Oooh, the Mass Effect DLC is coming on Tuesday....wonder how much head shaking I'll have to do.

fbueckert

Then I lucked out and found a three year old car with all of 40K kilometers on them.

QAdley

I may buy a car soon, so I never have to do this fucking journey again

Alok

6:46 PM

gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/74288/… - so this has 3 close votes now, though it has a finite and clear potential answer. And, can't people atleast try to answer it :(

Yi Jiang

@TimStone Is it the one where they give you the "director's cut" of the ending?

Tim Stone

"Extended" cut. Apparently there's some actual additional game play, although nothing in the way of a significant change to the ending.

fbueckert

@Alok Ehhhhh.....that's basically asking for a list answer. With the amount of legendaries, it would be very long.

Yi Jiang

The joke I heard the other day when they were talking about car prices was

Remember you can always sleep in a car, but you can't drive your apartment to work

Alok

@fbueckert 'Answer would be long' isn't the same as 'not a real question', which is what the close votes are under. I can go hunting for long answers on the site to use as counter examples, I'm sure they exist (cf. special snowflakes)

Tim Stone

6:52 PM

Hmm, where's @FAE been to speculate with me on what the additional content will be? :o

Yi Jiang

@Alok Would it pass the usefulness test?

Alok

@YiJiang Would anything asking about lore?

Yi Jiang

Generally yes, in games where lore plays a big part

agent86

ahem, sorry, where was I. Ah, yes

Alok

gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/69437/… Why is this at +18, it does not affect any gameplay

agent86

6:54 PM

during the LoL contest period, which was a 2 week span containing 3 contests, LoL questions+answers garnered 40% of our downvotes, while contributing 13% of our views, and were 34% of our overall questions asked

fbueckert

@Alok That's in game lore; you're asking for item references that are entirely out of game.

user2334

@Alok Would likely work a lot better on SciFi.SE. They're looking for more video game expanded universe lore questions

user2334

But I would split it up into three separate questions, you don't need to conserve question IDs by consolidating related questions

user15026

@agent86 Those are some pretty sad stats

agent86

the numbers are somewhat inexact since I can't tell when a question or answer got viewed or downvoted, so those are cumulative since they were asked/answered till this point

Yi Jiang

6:58 PM

I remembered that a large percentage of them were closed too

Tim Stone

@agent86 You can tell when they got down voted if they're in Data Explorer (what day, at least), though not the views since that's not even tracked internally.

agent86

for diablo 3, 72% of our questions asked were on the tag during the promotion, giving us 94% of our views, and garnering 63% of our downvotes

Alok

@MarkTrapp Didn't think of scifi.se being more appropriate than here; will look there later. I don't see 3 different questions to split into though, pretty sure there is only one?

agent86

wait, I think I might have screwed that up, stand by

Lazers

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Q: Can I buy some airports miles away from where Im based and get passengers wanted to go to them airports only

In my game, I am based in Europe at the moment. Can I buy two airports in the US and have passengers just wanting to go to those airports? I know that I would have to buy cheap planes and locate them there.

ios

0

Q: How does Pound of Flesh bonus work with Health Globe drop rates and bonuses?

There is a very good answer to a question about generic drop rates, but how do those changes if you are using Pound of Flesh? How does P.o.F. effect drop rates if you are playing in a group setting? Would Elite (Blue) monsters go from 60% drop at 50/0% life up to a 70% or 85% chance to drop a g...

diablo-3 diablo-3-barbarian

agent86

7:00 PM

that's better. Copied the wrong number for question percentage at first.

user2334

@Alok You're asking for the backstories on three + n separate items. Also, check out SciFi.SE's video-games tag

Yi Jiang

Wait, 94% of this site's views during the contest went to D3 questions?

agent86

@TimStone yeah, I don't think I can access data explorer for diablo 3 yet (too soon, I think...) but the numbers are kind of sadface even considering I'm counting stuff that happened afterwards :(

Alok

@MarkTrapp Ah, I see what you mean - those were examples, I am actually asking for other similar items where I am unaware of their pop culture references

Yi Jiang

The data explorer's last refresh was right before D3

agent86

7:02 PM

@YiJiang 4,050,119 total question views from questions asked during the contest, and 3,820,148 total question views from questions asked during the contest which were tagged diablo-3

tiddy

Surprise!

user2334

@Alok Do your homework beforehand and ask specific questions about specific items: don't expect people to do the legwork of identifying all the items out there that might possibly have a pop culture reference

Yi Jiang

I seriously don't know why they won't update it more often. It should be an automated process

@agent86 Wow

Tim Stone

@agent86 Was updated on the 12th or 13th of this month, I believe, so about a month's worth of data right? Yeah, they are. :/

agent86

@TimStone that's true. If I was more adept at data explorer, I could probably give some more accurate numbers for both of the promotional views. The stats are "accurate enough" for the point I'm trying to make though, which is the previous LoL promotions were kind of a lot of effort for not a lot of gain.

if anyone feels like using Stats-Exchange to check my math, I can dump my query list, although I doubt it makes enough of a difference to anyone :P

Tim Stone

7:05 PM

Yeah, fair enough. :P

Alok

@MarkTrapp Ok, I was hoping someone would have already done that work (and save me the trouble). There hasn't been any useful answer so far, even if its not closed I will likely delete that Q. in a day or so.

Yi Jiang

@agent86 I... cannot stop reading that as stat sex change

tiddy

@YiJiang I'm curious to where your mind goes when you read it like that

Yi Jiang

@tiddy Extreme confusion

agent86

@YiJiang indeed.

spugsley

7:23 PM

@YiJiang like a really really really quick sex change?

Tim Stone

I think it's more like a 50/50 chance on what you come out as.

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