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5:01 PM
Not enough cannon.
 
@OrigamiRobot >.<
Why do you think I want 10k?
 
I saw this in an article's comments and lolled
Comedy Central: Best news channel that isn't a news channel.
Fox News: Best comedy channel that isn't a comedy channel.
 
5:20 PM
You guys are boring.
 
← playing Path of Exile
which, as I learned, features the totem equilvalent of "Invulnerable minions". Fun!
 
← Working on a SourceMod plugin, but that tends to get boring.
Wow, wtf? I never implemented RemoveItem?
 
@badp Ugh.
 
OR did I just forget to remove the To Do
 
@Powerlord I'm in the coding zone. Can't talk, working magic.
 
5:22 PM
@StrixVaria Well, it's not quite as bad as "invulnerable minions" so far. Totems are immovable things in the ground that do nothing but buff enemies or debuff you.
 
Oh wow, I really never did.
 
One of the buffs is "Other Allies Cannot Die."
 
Even in my data layer, I only have Add and Insert.
 
@badp I got that far and I dealt with those things.
It was a pain in the ass as a melee character with no AoE.
 
@StrixVaria Nah, you just walk to the thing and smash it thrice
 
5:23 PM
Bows can't shoot through invulnerable minions.
 
@StrixVaria while spamming on potions
 
@badp While getting yourself surrounded in the process.
Overall those encounters were less fun than average.
And since the average encounter was of mediocre fun at best, that's not very fun.
 
Oh hey! Oneshotting lazers!
I must be at the end of act 2, as Strix mentioned.
Fun thing is, I have maximum electricity resistance
 
The thing I didn't like about that encounter was that nothing in the game to that point was able to put out that much damage in one shot.
The game had, essentially, trained me not to give a shit about defense.
And then punished me for being so complacent.
Asshole game.
 
I have 400 armor, 200 evasion and 75% elec resistance
Still oneshot
 
5:28 PM
I had something like 450 evasion, 200 armor, no clue elec resist because I didn't pay any attention to it.
But I'm never going back to play that game, so whatever.
 
(75% being the maximum)
7th death...
 
@badp I think I stopped after 2 because getting instakilled is a waste of my time.
 
Nah, I got her to 30%
Running around like a chicken while you regen health helps
 
There's generally not a chance to regen after you get instakilled.
 
FUCK
2
Forgot to create a portal the 7th time
Sigh
 
5:34 PM
Have fun when the zone is reset because you have to go through 10 levels of pyramid.
 
aaaaand
YES
Zone didn't reset
The thing died the first hit after I backtracked all the way to her lair
I would've been really pissed off if I didn't make it in time
 
Oh, did you get that Gold Amulet?
 
@GraceNote Yep!
 
Trent to the rescue?
 
Aye.
 
5:41 PM
I'm glad that worked out.
 
He managed to teleport himself into the tiny hole.
I tried to pay him back with anything I had, but he refused
 
Ahha
 
I need scissors! 61!
 
@badp Yeah, Trent's like that.
 
@fbueckert Well, he did have 10 levels on me, so all I could pay him with was orbs
 
5:54 PM
@badp Keep him in mind if you find some decent Dex gear; especially weaponry.
 
@fbueckert He still has 8 levels on me.
 
Sidenote:
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Q: minecraft private server registration

user42126Hi I have installed minecraft minerauth. I am able to play offline for single player. However when I try to connect to multiplayer, I am able to connect to the private server. It just I can't play. It asked me to login by typing /login password. I don't really remember did I register on the pri...

Can we assume good faith on this?
 
Good faith by default, unless assuming good faith is insulting to your intelligence
 
@badp I don't know enough about Minecraft to know if the tool being mentioned is legit or not.
 
Let me check the actual answer
Aye, piracy. Closed
 
5:59 PM
@fbueckert I Googled it and it's pretty clear that it's a pirating mod.
 
@Powerlord I was pretty sure, but I wanted to double-check.
 
> MinerAuth is a tool that lets you play Minecraft without having a premium account.
description of the first link
 
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Q: How do you earn bonus Merit Stamps?

TeryxOccasionally when turning in an errand, you'll earn a bonus Merit Stamp ("You earned X stamps... and 1 bonus!"). What prompts the bonus stamp?

 
@Powerlord Yeah, that's where I copied my comment from. I don't know what a premium account entails, though.
 
@fbueckert Buying the game.
 
6:01 PM
@JasonBerkan And now I do.
 
@JasonBerkan Minecraft isn't a free game.
I assume the term premium account is from back when Minecraft Alpha was available for free, but Beta required an account.
 
@Powerlord Makes sense, as I'm quite sure there aren't levels of accounts. You've either purchased the game on your account, or you have not.
 
@Powerlord I guess the idea is that with a "basic" (pirated) game, you can't play MP on normal servers.
Putting these games one step below "premium" (paid)
 
We'll get LOTS of awesome answers from this guy!
 
6:16 PM
sigh
It's been new a couple days since something using dllhost.exe has decided it would be okay to use 50% of my CPU all the goddamn time
I have no idea what is it specifically, or how to find the cause.
 
Ok, that's interesting. Visual Studio is automatically retracting my solution the instant it gets deployed.
 
@fbueckert It's like, once it's deployed it it looks at it, blanks from horror and then back away very quickly
 
@badp Basically.
 
"NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE."
 
Which it shouldn't be doing; it was working fine just a few minutes ago!
 
6:19 PM
@fbueckert Perhaps we would've.
 
@badp I sincerely doubt that.
Not with that kind of initial contribution.
 
The one nice thing of minerauth.com is the CSS-3D-glowing-and-spinning grass cube leading to the Minecraft store
 
...Well, that's stupid. The damn solution refuses to stay deployed.
 
@fbueckert Spy's sappin' mah sentry!
 
@Powerlord Applicable, but not very helpful. :P
 
6:30 PM
@fbueckert Specifically, with the Red-Tape Recorder.
(which downgrades buildings)
 
Oh did they finally add a new sapper?
 
sigh Don't make me ask another question on Sharepoint.SE. I'll never get this fixed in time, then.
...OK. So the problem is the damn retract isn't functioning properly, it seems.
 
It's Friday! I'm looking forward to the weekend!
 
Wait. What order are the days in again?
 
@StrixVaria Stupiday, stupiday, stupiday, stupiday, really stupiday, stupiday, stupiday.
 
6:42 PM
The days aren't stupid, except Monday.
 
@StrixVaria Friday, Monday, Saturday, Wednesday, Baconday, Thursday, Sunday, Tuesday
 
@Powerlord I think this means that Baconday was yesterday. I missed it!
 
Apparently 200+ lines of the same connectionstring makes Sharepoint throw a hissy fit.
 
@StrixVaria er, today's Friday.
 
@StrixVaria Today's Friday. Yesterday was Tuesday
@StrixVaria Like... a year ago, btw (since I skipped this question)
 
6:44 PM
@Powerlord A year already?
Can't be
 
...except Visual Studio is still retracting the instant it gets deployed.
 
@badp No, probably closer to half a year. I was exaggerating.
 
Chat's boring without @GnomeSlice
 
Wait, was koth_king before MvM?
 
Released: August 2, 2012 Patch
Half a year alright
 
6:46 PM
Anyway, the Red-Tape Recorder is one of those "broken" weapons that Valve hasn't fixed yet.
 
@Sterno Chat's sane.
 
@Powerlord I'm always behind the curve with broken items. What's the problem this time?
 
And much less stressful.
 
@badp Downgrades things more quickly than its supposed to.
Valve's "fix" for it was either reverted or never actually applied.
 
@fbueckert Like I said. Boring.
 
6:47 PM
@Sterno Eh. I like it better.
 
@Powerlord You'd think the Bugs section of items on the wiki would have useful stuff like that, rather than "The Red-Tape Recorder does not glow when crit boosted."
 
@fbueckert That's because you always made the mistake of engaging.
 
@Sterno Admit it. Half the fun was watching people run up against the brick wall that is Gnome.
 
@Sterno If nobody engages where's the fun?
 
Can you just scale images up arbitrarily big by modifying the Gravatar URL?
Oh I guess not.
 
6:50 PM
512 is the biggest, I believe.
 
@StrixVaria It worked
 
Oh, wait, it did work. Just took some time.
 
I tried bigger than that, though, and it didn't get any bigger.
 
Then perhaps that is the biggest size.
 
Fun fact: in 6¼ years we'll get the first Reviewer badges for community evals. Maybe
or is it 6½? Damn off by one errors.
 
6:59 PM
@RonanForman Hi
 
@fredley Hi
 
Server member being a dick. Next time I catch them online I intend to warn, after that, ban
 
Who?
 
KingDeath apparently.
 
@RonanForman Server go down for you?
 
I think we need more ram, seeing as there are more people on noew.
 
7:24 PM
@RonanForman How many/How much?
 
@James Of what?
 
@RonanForman People/RAM
 
@James Around 8? And I just need @TimStone to add more to the partition.
 
@RonanForman The guidlines I have seen say add roughly 200-300MB per person
Depending on how spread out you are
 
7:37 PM
 
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Eduardo CopatFrom Janauary 28 update it is now possible to return to Mistlock Observatory in the middle of a Fractal Dungeon run, as you can check in this screenshot: What I would like to make sure is: when you travel back to the observatory, does it reset all fractals did until the moment or the current o...

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Q: What are the ways to manage a large guild in terms of activity and representativeness?

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Q: Does "Search and Rescue" works when your pet is defeated?

Eduardo CopatDoes "Search and Rescue" works when your pet is defeated?

 
@StrixVaria Here is an album of reactions to that.
 
@fredley Please tell me you are aware you can run all IC2 machines off of Low Voltage :D
 
@James You checking his base out.
 
@RonanForman No, his question on the site :D
 
7:49 PM
Don't you have to for most of them.
And higher voltages have less energy loss.
 
@RonanForman Some machines only accept LV.. But you can run Everything, even those matte generators, on LV
And you should actually :)
and EU loss is completely based on the wriing
Always use Fibre cable
 
Really, what's the point of voltage then?
 
@RonanForman Voltage is RP, not EU
erm IC2
 
Yeah, but there still is voltage in it.
 
THey just have different levels of EU :)
kk
There is no point to it then other than certain things can output or input only certain types
But every machine can accept LV EU levels
 
7:51 PM
So just to be annoying, gotcha'.
 
Pretty much
 
@RonanForman Isn't that the purpose of all modern technology?
 
Even with LV though you can still supply 4096 EU/Tick if you want
But it will work safely on any machine
 
@James Exactly, it has no bearing on anything.
 
@RonanForman Just wanted to make sure he was aware of that is all :)
before people tell him to start wasting upgrade slots on transformers and things like that
 
7:53 PM
Wasting? There are only 3 upgrades and 4 slots.
 
@RonanForman Upgrades stack
Apparently up to 12 on your server or where @fredley is playing
 
@James I thought 16 was the max
 
Ah, only up to 12.
 
But.. you can put 3 stacks of the SAME KIND of upgrade in an IC2 machine @RonanForman
@fredley 4 is the max on the server I played on per stack, but you could then have 4 stacks of them.
Whatever the stack size limit is, the machines do not care if you only give it one kind of upgrade in every upgrade slot.. so you can REALLY over power machines.. Compressors that work almost instantly for example
You just have to be able to supply them with a fairly large EU supply
 
7:56 PM
So efficiency upgrades/transformer upgrades == useless, just do your wiring properly :)
 
user15026
@strixvaria that is awesome.
 
@James Not a problem
 
@fredley Kewl :) Then upgrade away :)
Too many people think LV machines can only use 32 EU/t.. when they can use 1000s of EU per tick.. but only if its sent in 32EU sized packets :D
 
@fredley That image frightens me very much
 
user15026
8:08 PM
@fredley that is horrible but funny, and also topical.
 
Apparently Amazon is attempting to patent repeated deliveries of goods such as milk... over the Internet.
Because, we all know delivering milk based on a recurring Internet order is completely different than delivering milk like a milkman did 100+ years ago.
 
FAE
New desk chair get! \o/
 
user15026
@powerlord doesn't grocery gateway already do that?
 
user15026
@FAE yay!
 
@AshleyNunn No idea. Probably.
 
8:09 PM
@Powerlord Yeah, but.... I mean..... there's GOT to be a difference between the two. BUT WHAT
 
@tiddy One is ordered online!
 
Boom. Patent
 
FAE
@AshleyNunn The gas lift in my old one died. :(
 
@FAE How did the interview go?
 
8:11 PM
I didn't think amazon had enough overhead for that
 
FAE
@James You must have me confused with @spugsley.
 
@FAE DOH
 
@Powerlord So in other words, you can take any patent in the database, copy-pasta it into some word processer, tack "on a computer!" at the end and you'll have a new patent, ready for filing?
 
@FAE Well in my defense you both have an E in your name :)
 
@Krazer In the US, more or less
 
FAE
8:12 PM
@James lol
 
user15026
@FAE that us unfortunate, but is the new chair awesome and comfy?
 
FAE
@AshleyNunn It is! Because the lift in the old one had died, there was no give, and I was sitting on it with pillows and ugh, uncomfy.
So I am glad I was able to get the new one. Considering the number of hours I spend a day in front of the PC, I want to be comfortable. >_>
 
user15026
@FAE yeah that just sounds not good. Comfortableness is important!
 
@tiddy Didn't they learn anything from Columbia House?
 
Ok, computer rebooted. If Visual Studio doesn't work now, I'm going to be...irked.
@Krazer Welcome to patent law, where tacking on "on a computer", or "on the internet" is a brand new invention.
 
8:15 PM
There
I have, after 2 years, updated my avatar
 
I like the old one better.
 
@Krazer Well, despite appeals, Apple initially won a billion a few months ago , partly because of pinch to zoom . Sooooo all bets are off
 
@James You're still a cat. This is acceptable.
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@tiddy That design patent has an interesting history.
 
@fbueckert :D
 
The fact that it HAS a history should tip some people off
 
8:17 PM
US Patent Law doesn't have a final rejection process.
They're allowed to tweak it and modify it until it passes.
This one went through something like seven revisions before it was granted.
And then Apple sued Samsung instantly over it.
 
I feel like I could probably patent left-handed phones at this point in our history
 
Without warning, my ISP has disconnected my internet connection
 
Wait wait wait... it took it took five people to come up with this brilliance?!
 
Seething hatred does not do enough to explain my current mood
 
The I would sue any other phone that can be held comfortably in the left hand
 
8:19 PM
@fbueckert Wouldn't pinch to zoom be a process patent, not a design patent?
 
(patent pending)
 
@Powerlord I dunno; I'm looking up the details again, just in case.
Apparently pinch-to-zoom failed on all counts on re-examination.
 
Afternoon guys.
 
man, several times a day I can hear an admin nearby repeating a corporate credit card number
 
oh yeah? what does he sound like
 
8:21 PM
is it bad that I'm tempted to remember it and order some innocuous stuff for my cube? :P
 
Ok, I'm talking about the wrong patent.
 
@agent86 such an action would certainly get you fired
 
@agent86 You should use this power only for good, not evi---- pppffffftttt!! Couldn't say it.
 
Siri went through nine iterations, and Apple sued Samsung over it the instant it was granted.
 
FAE
@agent86 haha
 
8:22 PM
From the NY Times:
 
@agent86 Yes, that's being greedy. You should instead remember it and buy the rest of us gifts.
 
> See all those red dots? Those are times the patent got rejected. See the green dot? That's when it got approved. The black dot that follows right after the green dot? That's when Apple started suing with it. The NY Times even gets patent examiners to admit that their process is more or less random, quoting one admitting that he doesn't really have enough time to "get it right every time" as well as a former patent examiner who notes:

"If you give the same application to 10 different examiners, you'll get 10 different results..."
 
Are we just reiterating the fact that Apple is evil or is there someone who didn't realize already?
Also patents are stupid.
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Apple's evil as far as no other company can get their shit together
 
@StrixVaria hey! we agree on something
 
8:24 PM
@fbueckert Damnit! How did I go from a patent to looking at Jeff Bridges and his wife!?
 
@James Techdirt's image gallery isn't in any sort of order. :P
 
@StrixVaria We should probably say something negative about EA too.
 
@Wipqozn Screw EA! They can die in a fire!
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@StrixVaria They arent actually, They are to protect people who innovate.. What is stupid is how you go about getting them :)
 
Does that meet your needs?
 
8:25 PM
@Wipqozn So, have you play Call of Duty 43: Not another One! yet?
 
@James Except in this day and age, patents hinder innovation.
 
@James Apple has a patent on presenting your music library as a hierarchy Artist -> Album -> Song.
That is stupid.
That is just common sense.
That is the way to present that information.
You shouldn't be able to patent natural progress.
 
@StrixVaria Agreed. But I blame the way they are obtained as opposed to what they are
 
@Powerlord Well, that's Activision, but we can rip on them too.
 
FAE
@StrixVaria X_x Seriously?
 
8:26 PM
@Wipqozn Oh right, EA's Battlefield
 
Its amazing how my mind can tell me I typed those words :D
 
Say all you want about activision but......joystiq.com/2013/02/07/…
 
@StrixVaria ugh, I hate the patent system.
 
@FAE There are lots of patents that are obvious and have prior art. But the cost of invalidating and defending yourself against those patents is less than you pay to make it go away.
 
@tiddy How much of that is attributed to Blizzard, though?
 
8:27 PM
In this day and age, patents aren't used to protect innovation; they're a means to a legalized extortion scheme.
 
@Powerlord Diablo 3
 
> In addition to said Diablo 3 success, Activision Blizzard also lists Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Black Ops 2 and Skylanders among the many reasons that it had such a successful year, with Skylanders as a series having crested $1 billion in lifetime sales.
So, they made most of their money from re-doing the same old thing, over and over and over.
Except for Skylanders.
 
I've never even heard of Skylanders.
What is that?
 
What's Skylanders?
 
@StrixVaria Real life pokemon. More or less.
 
8:29 PM
What?
 
Really? It's become incredibly popular
 
Apparently a 1 billion franchise
 
You collect figurines.
 
@StrixVaria You never go to Toys R Us? Miniatures + video games.
 
FAE
@StrixVaria We've got a bunch of questions on it. There are figurines with codes on them and whatnot.
 
8:29 PM
@JasonBerkan No, I don't have kids yet :P
 
And dump them on a base connected to your console to "teleport" them into the game.
 
How are figurines a video game?
 
@StrixVaria But, LEGO....
 
@fbueckert Wait, so they've doubled the number of CoD games now to 2 per year?
 
@JasonBerkan Way too expensive.
 
8:30 PM
@Powerlord Apparently.
@StrixVaria So is Skylanders.
The game is set up to require basically a full set of figurines to progress through the whole game.
 
@StrixVaria You collect the figurines to unlock the charactesr/areas/whatever in the game.
 
Say what you want about Kotick and Original IP, that man has all my respect for running a massive corporation well
 
How can a game require figurines? That doesn't make sense to me.
 
1 min ago, by fbueckert
And dump them on a base connected to your console to "teleport" them into the game.
 
@StrixVaria They are just a fancy way to input codes into the game.
 
8:31 PM
@StrixVaria They have chips in them that register
 
That's stupid.
 
FAE
@StrixVaria But marketing genius.
 
@StrixVaria Not really, its aimed at the younger crowd. A friend of mine bought the original set (Want to say they go for around $200-$300?) to play the game with his daughter.
 
I would never be a good marketer because I can't think like stupid consumers.
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@StrixVaria I got my nephews Skylanders for Christmas a couple years ago.
 
8:32 PM
She enjoys going through and having the tangible object helps with the transition between physical and digital entertainment
 
@StrixVaria I would never be a good marketer because I have a soul.
 
When I gave it to them, I told my brother, "You're going to hate me for this", and he had no idea what I was talking about.
 
@StrixVaria That's the trick. You never go full stupid consumer.
 
People with souls don't usually climb very high
 
@fbueckert o/
 
8:33 PM
@James Last Christmas, he told me, "No Skylanders. Ever again."
 
@fbueckert Didnt they come out with a new series this year? :D
 
@James Skylanders Giants, yes.
I was debating whether to get them that, but I figured once every few years is enough to annoy my brother.
 
@fbueckert I used to buy my cousins/nieces/nephews the most loud and annoying toys I could.. preferably ones where you could not remove the batteries or turn them off :D
 
@James I just feed them lots and lots of sugar.
 
FAE
@fbueckert You're a jerk.
 
8:36 PM
@fbueckert That only works for a day. Toys have to be lost, and even then, you still hear about it.
 
@fbueckert I do not live within feeding range any longer :)
Nor noise and light range for that matter :D
 
@FAE Hey, he's the one who wanted me to buy him a new van when I asked him what he wanted for Christmas.
Turnabout is very fair play.
Especially when the revenge is so long-lasting.
 
Oh good... @GnomeSlice is blocking the path in Conclave with Defensive Posture and Recover.
 
This weather is so dismal.
It's changing back and forth between snow and rain every few minutes.
 
@fbueckert There's no way anyone could misconstrue pulling up to kids in a van filled with candy
 
8:39 PM
@StrixVaria Is it stupid?
 
I never want to go outside again, just looking out there.
@Fluttershy Did I say it was stupid?
 
@StrixVaria No, but you might've thought it.
 
@tiddy Not if they're my nieces and nephews.
Which I have a surprisingly large number of.
 
ESPECIALLY if they're your nieces and nephews
 
user15026
@Fluttershy if he is bound, that might be his only option.
 
8:40 PM
@AshleyNunn He's not. He's just not playing.
 
user15026
@Fluttershy Ah, okay. I am bound in one of my games, so all I can do is that. (And it is very annoying!)
 
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Q: Dota 2: Increase font size of console

Arthur HalmaIs there any way to increase console font size? My resolution is 1920x1080 so font size avery small.

 

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