The Bridge

fbueckert

10:00 PM

@Wipqozn Oh, and it's retroactive to 2008, so, pay up!

FAE

@Wipqozn I don't understand this at all

fbueckert

@FAE What's there to understand? Apparently, music is now a tax.

Grace Note

@fbueckert Is Molten more or less annoying than the Lightning-Enchanted monstrosities of D2?

fbueckert

@GraceNote Less. You can avoid molten.

Grace Note

Did they actually take out Lightning-enchanted?

fbueckert

10:05 PM

@GraceNote Electrified.

But it does a ton less damage.

Tim Stone

It's like getting an electric shock, instead of being struck by lightning.

Grace Note

No more instant death of a thousand volts because you deigned to be in the same room?

Tim Stone

Mortar and arcane enchanted are the ones that make me rage the most now. Also any advanced monster(s) of the Burrowing Leaper variety. For some unknown reason they tear my Demon Hunter to pieces.

badp

Cort writes to say that he's leaving for a month-long trip (?) in 9 hours and that's probably not enough to download 30 GBs of Max Payne 3

(I don't think he'd be terribly mad if that just meant skipping the next round of giveaways however. I mean, I had to drag him to sign him up for this round anyway.)

GnomeSlice

poof

badp

10:18 PM

Ben Kuchera reports from Far Cry 3.

Good: this game has an African American female character! Bad: She's introduced when you grab her breasts.

Tweeted by BenKuchera on June 4, 2012 at 10:15 PM

GnomeSlice

@badp Heh.

@GraceNote I've been meaning to show you a link to some music I think you might enjoy.

But you've been dead.

@badp Who is that?

Wipqozn

@FAE Greed.

I don't understand the dancing thing. It's just stupid.

The playing music? okay, yeah, blah blah blah ou work blah blah blah should be compensated.

but how does people dancing make any difference?

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn WTF what happens to DJs now?

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice They charge more money.

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn I'm talking about DJs not doing shows. Just doing a club or a party or something...

Wipqozn

10:30 PM

@GnomeSlice Charge more money.

GnomeSlice

All they do is spin tunes from other artists.

@Wipqozn Those guys often don't charge at all...

Raven Dreamer

@spugsley gorramit, woman, way to crush my hopes. All I wanted was a mouse, lol. Keep your Act 3 and Act 4 prizes, just give me a nice gaming mouse! lol

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice Huh? Don't chargE? That doesn't make any sense.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Wipqozn This is actually not all that new a thing. Traditionally though, that sort of fee is borne by the venue.

Wipqozn

Then again, I don't go to many clubs (See also: I never go to clubs).

GnomeSlice

10:32 PM

@Wipqozn Lots of DJs just do parties and stuff for free, it's good promotion.

@Wipqozn Neither do I.

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice ah, I see

GnomeSlice

Usually at clubs, they're contracted.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@GnomeSlice Traditionally, the venue is paying a monthly fee to the publishing companies.

ascap.com/playback/2009/09/features/member_education.aspx

Raven Dreamer

@spugsley @IanPugsley And don't think I don't see the Pugsley D3 Mouse-rub-it-in-Raven's-Face crowd.

Fluttershy

I agree with @James. I feel like this question/answer should be made into a community wiki.

LessPop_MoreFizz

10:33 PM

ASCAP fees and other compulsory licenses really aren't terribly onerous if they're well administered and they make perfect sense.

Wipqozn

@RavenDreamer At least you get a shirt?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@RavenDreamer Well what about those of us in the D3 Headest-rub-it-in-Raven's-Face crowd?

@fbueckert Actually, it has nothing to do with the RIAA, and most of the money probably does go to artists.

The only thing that's weird about this whole arrangement is that it doesn't seem to be targeting the venues but rather individual events, which is... horribly inefficient as these things go.

Wipqozn

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Q: How does the Zombie Dogs rune Life Link work?

I'm uncertain on some of the details of Life Link, specifically: Is it 10% damage reduction, or 10% damage reduction for each dog? How is the absorbed damaged divided amongst the dogs? (evenly, one chosen at random, et cetra) If the dogs don't have enough health left to absorb the full 10% ...

There's a bounty on that folks!!

Don't you all want to know the answer?!?!?

LessPop_MoreFizz

Performance rights organisation

Performance rights organizations (PROs) provide intermediary functions, particularly royalty collection, between copyright holders and parties who wish to use copyrighted works publicly such as shopping and dining venues. Legal consumer purchase of works, such as buying CDs from a music store, confer private performance rights. PROs usually only collect royalties when use of a work is incidental to an organization's purpose. Royalties for works essential to an organization's purpose, such as theaters and radio, are usually negotiated directly with the rights holder. In some countries PROs...

@Wipqozn Not really.

Also, sorry for prior tirade, I just get a little sick of "OMG THE MUSIC INDUSTRY WANTS MONEY, THEY MUST BE EVIL JERKS."

They do a lot of stupid and malicious shit already, you don't need to go after them for the perfectly reasonable stuff.

Wipqozn

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm mostly raging at the dancing part.

That's just stupid.

LessPop_MoreFizz

10:42 PM

@Wipqozn Cry me a river. Dancing has been illegal in New York City since 1926.

@Wipqozn Anyway, the reason for the dancing part is that it indicates that the audience is there for and engaged with the music, and that it isn't just background noise. Therefore, it is presumably of higher value to the venue.

Wipqozn

@LessPop_MoreFizz See, I can't tell if that's true or not, becausae there are so many stupid laws that were implemented waaay back.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Wipqozn Not only is it true, but bars still get ticketed for it.

Ronan Forman

@James Have you UHC 5 up? I can't remeber.

Wipqozn

@LessPop_MoreFizz ...wow

I thought it was just "It's too much of a pain to reverse this stupid law"

There are a lot of stupid laws in Canada that aren't enforced, it's just a pain in the ass to undo the law + costs money. So no one bothers.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Wipqozn That was the case for most of the 60's-80's. THen Giuliani decided that enforcing them would be a good idea.

Bloomberg has dialed things back and has commissioned studies to 'repeal' them, but so far, in 10 years in office, has not done so.

James

10:45 PM

@RonanForman Not, Will so tonight, and 6 hopefully. Go ahead and make yours public though man, a few hours one way or another shouldnt stop everyone from doing it

Ronan Forman

@James I'm on my iPod, can you do it? Just copy the text over.

GnomeSlice

Crazy Finnish... (slightly nsfw)

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LessPop_MoreFizz

But, yeah. Dancing has been illegal in NYC since prohibition, so forgive me if I lack sympathy.

James

@RonanForman I do not have the login information man. I used it once but I definitely do not have it at work :D

Ronan Forman

@James I'll do it in a bit then.

GnomeSlice

10:55 PM

Moar Art (slightly nsfw)

Fluttershy

11:17 PM

Any mods around?

user2334

No, but the mod squad is:

user2334

Fluttershy

@MarkTrapp They are of no help....

Wipqozn

@Fluttershy I can pretend to be a mod.

user2334

Quit your jivin', turkey.

Fluttershy

11:22 PM

@Wipqozn Pretend to community wiki this guy trying to profit on the work of others?

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Q: How to collect all Diablo 3 conversation achievements?

I want to collect all the conversation achievements in one thread so it is easier for people to find all the different threads. Usually when people want to do these achievements they will be doing them at the same time and instead of trying to search up all the different threads they are all coll...