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8:04 PM
@QAdp The fact that you know what they're called, and I don't, bemuses me.
 
@fbueckert I looked them up on the wiki hoping to find enlightenment
 
@QAdp Did it help at all?
 
I forgot everything it said
 
So...no, then? :P
 
I guess that means there was nothing helpful
 
8:07 PM
< can that go as well?
 
@GnomeSlicE Are we bringing up site design stuff? I still don't see the Ask Question link with images off, I think that's a bigger issue than drop shadows :(
 
@Alok Not talking about this site, but... what do you expect? There's an image for the Ask Question button...
 
It works on SO w/o images on; if you try it there
 
 
@QAdp That means...?
@Alok Ours is animated. That's probably why.
It's a .gif or something.
 
8:20 PM
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Q: What's the strategy to dealing with hosts?

QAdpHosts. They've got white skulls and red bodies. They only open when you're at the very wrongest angle with them and shoot three bullets at you. Get two of them to opposite sides of the room, throw in some spikes in the middle and you've got quite the situation on your hands. What's the right, ...

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Q: Cover penetrating powers in Mass Effect 3?

RobVCertain powers in Mass Effect 3 are able to penetrate cover such as Shockware and Smash. These powers are incredibly useful for spamming enemies without exposing yourself to damage. Are there other powers in Mass Effect 3 that have similar properties?

 
@GnomeSlicE Kill yourself
 
@QAdp I suppose it was directed at me due to my question - but I can't see it because, I have images off right now :p
 
@Alok uh?
no, it wasn't
 
Gah, why is chat doing that thing again where I have to refresh to see new messages...
 
The image shows Magdalene finding the Rosary in a trasure room. It only gives you three blue hearts. It's captioned "ESC ESC ENTER"
 
8:23 PM
@QAdp ...Why would you kill yourself in that situation?
 
because it's one of a few really crappy items to start with.
PHD (better pills!), Rosary (three blue hearts!), Mom's eye (every two shots, you fire one backwards too), they're all pretty useless items
which could've been damage up or health up or range up or tears up or piercing tears or lazer tears or any other actually useful item
 
I played BoI a number of times, but I don't think I ever found most of the items.
I never actually finished it, but I got to the last area pretty much every time I played.
 
Most items are locked behind "achievements"
 
@GnomeSlicE That vast majority only start unlocking after beating Mom a couple times.
 
Eh, the thing that made the game stand out for me was the soundtrack.
 
8:27 PM
unlocking them is not necessarily a good thing. I recently unlocked Mom's contact and I'm not happy because now actually useful items have lower chances of dropping
 
@QAdp Wait until you get the D6 for Isaac.
 
loooooooooooooooooooool, yeah, that's a good one
you're so funny
 
No harder than killing Mom with ???
 
I still have to beat mom once
 
New ME3 ending comes out tomorrow?
 
8:35 PM
@Sterno ...Why did they change it. Fuck everyone who complained about it, it's not their game.
 
Someone should play it for me and give me a full report.
 
@Sterno The game, or the ending?
 
@GnomeSlicE They didn't "change" it. They added to it. And they probably did it because it was shit.
It wasn't just some grand, misunderstood artistic vision that people complained about
It was an actual crap ending
 
How to properly deal with hosts: bomb the doors and get the fuck out of there
 
Bets on whether the new ME3 ending is just a rickroll!
 
8:38 PM
@Sterno trust me, I will
@fbueckert 99.9999999% certain it won't be as good as the fanmade indoctrination theory
 
@ickleislands Also known as tinfoil hats!
 
I has question
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Q: As Megabeth, on what Endorsements and Products should I focus?

user12190The title states the Question. I just bought myself permanent access to Megabeth, leaving me with the Question which Endorsements and Products would be the best setup for agressive but supportive Gameplay within this game. As explanation: I love to kill many bots but also engage players direct...

This question is the only one with the SMNC tag
It is the only question by that user
The same user has posted exactly the same question here on the SMNC forums
what would normally happen?
 
Since you noticed, just answer the question on our site
Do not copy their posts though
reword them into one comprehensive, coherent answer
 
still pointless theft
;p
 
@ickleislands copyright protects forms, not facts
it's not pointless, it's one less unanswered question on the site
 
8:42 PM
well I guess it gives me the chance to remove the MOBA tag while I'm at it, which is why I was there in the first place :P
 
@ickleislands too little too late. Now answer
 
Too little too late is a terrible song
I demand you go listen to it as punishment
 
I'm the one dealing the punishments here!!
 
do not make me start reciting the lyrics!
 
hey. I will turn this chat around and nobody gets ice cream.
>:|
 
8:45 PM
@agent86 Good. I don't like ice cream anyways.
 
@ickleislands But Jojo is so cute.
 
not really my thing
 
@agent86 I'm diabetic. I don't eat ice cream. :-P
Unless it's sugar free...
 
THEN YOU WILL ALL NOT GET SOMETHING THAT YOU LIKE MORE THAN ICE CREAM
STERN GAZE
 
I'm Italian. Your icecream would be a punishment
 
8:46 PM
Oh man. I haven't seen Jojo in years. When did she get so hot?
 
@agent86 ...Work? I like work more than ice cream.
You're going to take work away from me?
 
Wow.
 
@GnomeSlicE Who is that?
 
@RESPAWN Jojo.
 
@GnomeSlicE Who?
 
8:49 PM
Yeah like 8 years ago
 
@QAdley Jojo.
 
@QAdley A singer who was getting a lot of attention a number of years ago.
 
Looks kinda like Sasha Grey
 
@QAdley I lol'd
 
I didn't realize how hot she's gotten.
 
8:49 PM
I have never heard of this Jojo chick
 
@GnomeSlicE you're drooling, sort it out
 
@fbueckert something you like way, way more than ice cream? How about "I'll turn this chat around and nobody gets videogames."
 
@RESPAWN I haven't either.
 
Must not be the type of music I listen to.
 
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Q: I can't connect to any minecraft server's with Ubuntu

AlekOkay, so for the past few weeks, I've had a problem with my minecraft. The problem is, that when i play on a new server, i log in, and everything is fine, but after about like, 4 or 5 minutes playing, the game kicks me from the server and i can't reconnect. In the server list, it says "Can't reac...

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Q: Does cold damage count as slow?

NovargI'm playing as a Demon Hunter and recently I was looking at the passive skills when I saw Cull the Weak skill that increases damage against slow enemies by 15%. The question is: does this skill only work with the effects of the other skills(Caltrops, Rapid Fire with Web Shot rune, Entangling Sho...

 
8:50 PM
She's probably just a figment of gnomes imagination.
 
Is she a country singer? :-P
 
be real, it doesn't matter
 
I should play some Civ V
 
I have no idea, but she's only two years older than me, I remember a lot of the reason she was getting so much attention was because she was so young.
 
or read...
 
8:51 PM
And yeah, I haven't heard anything about Jojo on the radio or news or whatever in a long time.
I just recognize the name.
 
@agent86 gasp Not the video games! Don't take the video games!
 
@Wipqozn ...Why's that funny, lol. Just because she looks like a former pornstar?
Although I thought Sasha Grey was still doing adult films.
 
I see Mario Marathon is still going on.
Thought ti was supposed to be over yesterday.
 
...And can we get off this topic? It's straying into NSFW.
 
8:52 PM
@fbueckert that's what I'm trying to do.
 
@Wipqozn I take subtlety and hit it with a sledgehammer. :P
 
@QAdley Didn't realize you were into that sort of thing. :P
 
@agent86 Oh collegehumour, how I can't stand you.
Maybe 1 in 50 of their videos are amusing.
The rest make me cringe.
 
@Wipqozn So don't watch. I unsubbed ages ago
 
They're like Mad TV
 
8:54 PM
@Wipqozn I liked the one they did about the Tetris Gods.
 
@fbueckert you're at work?
 
@GnomeSlicE Yes. A rare gem
 
@QAdley I don't, but I'm not going to be rude and not at least look at agents video!
 
@ickleislands Yes. But that's besides the point. At even given moment, at least one person in the bridge is probably at work.
So it should be kept SFW at all times.
 
@fbueckert I just wanted to say 'awww poor you'
 
8:56 PM
@Wipqozn your loss then, turtleface. I don't watch much of their stuff, but I like their batman ones
 
Ugh. Now I've got to watch this batman video, don't I?
 
@agent86 I find most Batman sketches annoying, if for no other reason than they all use christian bales terrible Batman voice.
kevin conroy is best Batman
 
@ickleislands Nah; my job is awesome.
 
@Wipqozn VAL KILMER
 
The only way it could get better is if they gave me a lab and told me to go have fun.
My dream job is mad scientist. :)
 
8:59 PM
You people and your collegehumour.
THIS is true comedy:
 
@Wipqozn well... well.... NO YOU ARE
hah. that'll show him.
 
@fbueckert what do you do?
 
@ickleislands Programming. Mostly web stuff.
They give me the complicated stuff and tell me to figure it out.
 
see that sounds like my least favourite job ever
its not that I hate web design or anything
 
the battery is an awesome item
best 15¢ spent ever
 
9:01 PM
I hate cross browser testing
 
@ickleislands That's why I have a tester. :P
 
well that changes a few things
 
I still do a reasonable amount of testing, but it's more of our designer's jobs to make sure it all hangs together in all browsers.
 
Also, wow
I don't know who voices Bane there, but he has no right being a voice actor.
 
My job is to make sure all the bells and whistles are functioning.
 
9:03 PM
do you make pretty things? :p
 
@ickleislands My code is elegance incarnate! :P
 
:D
I think is another one for the bonfire
 
9 hearts, 16 bombs... I can make it I guess?
nope, I can't. I got destroyed pretty badly indeed
The strategy the wiki suggested doesn't work
standing just by the door still gets you the boot and the hand
:(
fucking hell
This was one of those "I'll never beat mom if I can't beat her in this run" times
blech. begone
 
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Q: Wheres my saved profile in Dirt 3?

TimI have an online Windows Live Game account and use it when playing. Recently, when I log log into the game it welcomes me as if it's the my first time playing the game. Where did my saved profile go?

 
9:30 PM
Can you link to other tags in the tag wiki?
 
@ickleislands sure, why not? just not in the excerpt
usual [tag:foo] syntax should work
 
kk :)
clean up meta thread says destroy teams
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Q: How to criticize a teammate?

WeegeeRecently, several friends and I have been playing more competitively in StarCraft 2. Unfortunately, we all have our issues, but in an effort to try to better ourselves, our MMR, and move up in the ladder, we're trying various things to help. This has risen a big question which I have run into m...

what should I retag that as?
 
@ickleislands Probably
 
retagging it as SC2 would make the question more off topic
 
@ickleislands This isn't really a gaming issue; this is off-topic.
 
9:46 PM
k
 
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Q: Mass Effect 3 Tech Combo Timings

MaxWillmoWhat is the time limit between setting up a Tech with Energy Drain and Detonating with Incinerate? Thanks

 
on the clean up thread, should I be editing it so that tags like , that have been nuked today go until the 'Burninated' section?
and goes under the 'fixed' section?
 
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Q: What are the best weapons to use in Modern Warfare 3 survival mode?

iraSenthilI have started playing MW3 recently and have completed 13 rounds in Resistance map. I have been using the Assault Riffle ACR 6.8. What kind of weapons I should use for survival mode where I can get more bang for my buck?

This should be closed, not only because it's a completely subjective question, but because... something about the answers.
I forgot what I was going to write.
 
10:02 PM
@GnomeSlicE It has an excellent answer. Just because it's subjective doesn't mean it's bad.
That said, it should be protected, not closed.
 
updates to "Fifa 11 is the 90000th game in the Fifa series by murderer of awesome games companies - Electronic Arts. It is a simulation of grown men chasing after a ball."
 
@fbueckert Alright, granted, but it needs a new title.
Edited.
 
@ickleislands At least it's not the LFL.
 
the what? googles
SIGH
 
That's NSFW
 
10:08 PM
Also, does anybody know what a half sock gun is?
 
That's why I didn't link it.
 
@GnomeSlicE huh, odd, normally LessPop "Subjective != Bad" senses would have activated by now.
 
@Wipqozn It has.
I know subjective doesn't necessarily mean 'bad' anyway.
 
@fbueckert it's ok I lost interest the moment I found out what it stood for
 
@fbueckert That would be much more interesting.
 
10:09 PM
@GnomeSlicE It's like DOA, except for sports fans!
 
Tempting fate on a subject I'm completely uninterested in
But from a technical standpoint they'd probably need to borrow Valve's physics engine
 
I'm just pointing out that as bad as annual iterations of a sports game is, it could get worse.
 
@ickleislands Why Valve's?
 
@GnomeSlicE I don't think EA have murdered a company that has made a decent physics engine yet
Their ragdolls still feel a little pre-animated
 
maaan
Batman The Animated series has some of the best voice acting ever. Period. Double Period.
Everything about that series was excellent.
Heart of Ice is easily one of the best animated productions ever.
 
10:14 PM
@ickleislands Valve isn't the only company with a good physics engine.
 
@spugsley @Jin And other DH players - I found a 1H 700 DPS magic crossbow, if anybody wants it.
 
Oh I'm sure they're not
@fbueckert not bad, haven't seen a 1 hander above 600 dps yet
plenty of 2 handers above 1.1k, really enjoyed when I was leveling with 1 handers though
had danetta's rage and fury, was fun
 
@fbueckert Hey, volleyball is a sport...
Hey. Hey guys guess what my current bandwidth is with my wireless high-speed.
 
@ickleislands It's only magic; I have no use for it, but maybe somebody will want it.
 
NOPE.
About... 4 kbits/second.
Hasn't gone above 10 in a while.
It took me 6 minutes of trying to post that fucking message about Volleyball without timing out.
 
10:18 PM
@GnomeSlicE That's .5 KB/sec. That's murderously slow.
 
@fbueckert It's been like this most of the day.
I think we should just switch back to dial-up because it would be faster.
 
Requesting opinions: Would a question on the highest possible critical hit chance from items fall more under these existing questions?
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Q: What affixes are available on items?

NiQAlas TWhat affixes (prefixes and suffixes) are possible on items in Diablo III? What are the level requirements associated with them (a.k.a. when would I start seeing them drop or available in a store?)

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Q: Does Critical Strike chance have a cap?

DrakeIn similar way to Dodge, Critical Strike has a certain %X chance to occur. Can I ever reach a 100% critical strike or is there a maximum limit that cannot break? If there is a limit, what is it?

 
@OrigamiRobot Unanswerable, maybe.
 
@OrigamiRobot Second one.
The cap is the max affixes across all items.
 
@fbueckert Yes, but legendaries make this difficult to search for.
 
10:22 PM
@OrigamiRobot You mean searching for the answer? Or searching for items with the cap on the AH?
 
@fbueckert Both
 
Why the crap do I have 22 revisions? O.o
 
@GnomeSlicE Quite answerable.
 
@OrigamiRobot Someone should throw another answer onto the second question with the max crit chance per item slot.
 
@OrigamiRobot Depends on the game, hence the 'maybe'. I wasn't sure, and you didn't specify a game, but some games don't tell you the max crit chance.
 
10:24 PM
@OrigamiRobot What's the question?
Because I agree with @fbueckert that it would likely fall under the section question, but without knowing the actual question I can't say for sure.
 
@GnomeSlicE ...I linked two Diablo 3 questions. I thought it was obvious.
@fbueckert That's what I was thinking
 
Oh, I thought you were talking about a category or something.
 
@OrigamiRobot Do you wanna write it, or shall I? :P
 
@fbueckert Because of legendaries, I dont have the information handy, but I was basically asking if I should ask a new question or answer that existing one on my own.
 
ARGHHH
 
10:26 PM
The normal caps are pretty easy to find.
 
Just posting more evidence for how awesome Batman TAS is
 
Sorry, just my reaction to people asking what the cap to a percentage based statistic is
 
@Wipqozn Tool Assisted? :P
 
It's like the idiots on Blizzard's forum saying "why did you reduce the % value of IAS rather than reduce how effective it is another way"
 
@ickleislands ...Why? The cap doesn't have to be 100.
 
10:26 PM
look up the definition of PER CENT
 
@GnomeSlicE Having two letters of an acronym refer to one word is disgusting.
 
its always a scale capping at 100%
any number above 100% is mathematically invalid
 
@ickleislands You realize Blizzard could just put a cap of 50%, right...?
> Can I ever reach a 100% critical strike or is there a maximum limit that cannot break?
 
@OrigamiRobot I think it's 'Tool Assisted Speedrun' or something.
 
sigh
 
10:27 PM
You should think more carefully before insulting the intelligence of other people.
 
@ickleislands It doesn't mean you can always reach 100%. Maybe the highest chance you can get is 60% in a game. That would make the cap 60%.
 
@Jin I haven't. Is it any good?
 
@ickleislands The difference is diminishing returns would have only hurt the people stacking it to extremes while not hurting someone with, say, one 15% ring
 
Not including legendaries: Crit can be found on:

Shields, up to 10%;
Gloves, up to 10%;
Amulets, up to 8.5%;
Bracers, up to 6%;
Helms, up to 6%;
Rings, up to 4.5%.
 
You know, I'm not as dumb as I act...
 
10:28 PM
DR still isn't a cap @OrigamiRobot
 
@fbueckert Yea I got that much.
 
@OrigamiRobot Searching legendaries is going to be a pain.
 
@fbueckert Exactly
 
@ickleislands It could be anywhere from 0 to 100...
 
@ickleislands I am replying only to your comment about people complaining.
 
10:29 PM
@Wipqozn I didn't "insult" the person who posted on arqade, did you see my comment regarding the blizzard forums?
players asking Blizzard to change the scale of attack speed
me = 100% valid in my statement on that
 
4 mins ago, by ickleislands
Sorry, just my reaction to people asking what the cap to a percentage based statistic is
 
There's gotta be a way to troll Blizzard's database to gather all the affix data.
 
@ickleislands dumb joke about being 100% correct
 
Anyways. I'm going to go do something productive.
 
@GnomeSlicE ty
@fbueckert surely you could just data mine it like everybody else
 
10:31 PM
In Diablo 2, Block Chance was capped at 75%.
 
MPQ editors are easy to get hold of
 
@ickleislands What's 'IAS' referring to, in that comment?
 
@Wipqozn Needs more of this guy
 
@ickleislands Why bother decoding an entire file when a website can just be scraped that has the same info?
 
@RonanForman Are you here?
 
10:32 PM
@GnomeSlicE when the attack speed nerf went live, people on the Blizzard forum said "I hate Blizzard for changing my 15% to 5%, why didn't they just make 15% attack speed do less"
 
@fbueckert But 35% isn't too shabby on it's own.
 
@OrigamiRobot Oh, definitely not.
 
@ickleislands Because they probably didn't want to change the cap... they just wanted to lower the effects of the current equipment. Maybe they have plans to patch it with faster weapons or something, you don't know. And besides, changing the number makes it easier for everyone else to understand.
 
@fbueckert Another 10% and I'd have a new passive to use :P
 
@GnomeSlicE uhm, you can't rescale a percentage
@GnomeSlicE 15% IAS is 15% IAS, you can't make 15% IAS become 10% IAS while still reporting 15%
 
10:34 PM
I still don't know what IAS means.
 
increased attack speed
 
@ickleislands Maybe they raised the cap then.
 
No, Blizzard changed the numbers
D3 forum dwellers didn't like it and asked them to rescale a percentage based modifier
 
Still, 100% can be deceptive.
 
@ickleislands If they made the max attack speed, the current ones would have a lower value.
 
10:34 PM
so they could keep their numbers but it do less
no they wouldn't, 15% IAS is always 15% IAS
 
I thought you said the numbers changed?
 
I'm not sure if you're trolling me
 
@ickleislands Oh, right, it's relative to the attack speed. Of course.
@ickleislands Fuck off, I'm not as smart as you.
 
@ickleislands Welcome to @GnomeSlicE
 
10:36 PM
hence my hilariously incorrect initial reaction to crit, considering I spent 300 hours playing a demon hunter with sharpshooter so I already know that crit caps at 100%
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Give me like 5 minutes to load it.
 
was based off the general stupidity of people who dwell on the D3 forums
 
@GnomeSlicE It's just words, so hopefully it'll load quickly.
 
Ah I'm not reading that
that particular word is something that bothers me
stopped @ title
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz I appreciate the gesture, but I don't need you to keep trying to 'teach' me about this shit, okay.
 
10:37 PM
Hey, a level 59 1H crossbow with tons of Dex, Vit, and Crit damage.
Only 300 DPS, though.
 
@GnomeSlicE In this case, it's more "Hey, this is important in general, and also really really good, but it's especially important in light of recent discussion."
 
I have very close friends who are victims, it's not like I have no idea at all of how it can affect people. But I'll read it anyway.
 
@LessPopMoreFizz Hullo, sir. It's been a while.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Hey, this links to another article that I read about the trailer, also on the escapist. escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/op-ed/…
 
@QAvenDreamer Hi!
 
10:41 PM
@fbueckert I have a 980 dps crossbow. Thanks though!
 
@LessPopMoreFizz Quick queston. You remember your ME3 TV, yeah?
Did it come with a wall mount?
 
@QAvenDreamer It did not.
"Do I remember it"
 
Heh :P
 
@fbueckert 1) Ewwwww, 1h Crossbow.
@QAvenDreamer It is three feet from me
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Eh?
No good?
 
10:51 PM
@fbueckert No, 1H Xbows are terrible.
 
They are what you wield if you want a shield, and never anytime else.
 
@fbueckert The Archery Passive with 2handers is too good, + you can typically get +12-15% attack speed from a Quiver in the offhand, meaning the DW bonus is basically nil.
 
A shield? On a demon hunter?
 
@QAvenDreamer And since you probably don't want to use a shield in most cases, 1H crossbows are basically worthless.
@ickleislands I could see using something like a Lidless Wall on a gloom tanking build maybe, but it's a stretch.
 
So hey guys I got a really nice staff for my barbarian
 
10:52 PM
@LessPop_MoreFizz this is incredibly hard to read but one of the most well-written, thoughtful pieces I've ever read.
 
@LessPopMoreFizz By the way, have you seen this?
Not really related to the thing that's still loading, but still neat.
Oh hey, it's done now. Reading.
 
@GnomeSlicE I hadn't, but am familiar with the author, and yeah, pretty par for the course.
 
I like her
 
@StrixVaria I am thinking of using a shield with +Crit%
 
@OrigamiRobot Blasphemy.
 
10:58 PM
@Gnome I am now, what's up?
 
@RonanForman Do you know if blender can save to any of Softimage PIC, RLA, RPF, OpenEXR, and Electric Image EI formats?
 
@StrixVaria The main reason I wasn't was for the dodge bonus of Guardian's path
 
@Gnome I can't check right now, why?
 

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