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Q: Does the purchased double XP and VIP XP bonus stack in Gears of War Judgement ?

I just found out that you can purchase game packs of double xp and if you have the VIP pass (season pass) more XP is awarded when you play under the VIP menu. That sparked the question, if I get both, does the double XP and VIP bonus XP stack?

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Q: In Lego Indiana Jones, how do I free play with other characters in a useful fashion?

I've bought a bunch of the unlockable characters, including the Bazooka Trooper. So now I want to go back and explode some silver! The problem I'm having is, having done that, I can't seem to select the team I want to. I get one choice of character; and when I choose them, they replace Indy. ...

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E_NO_INTELLIGENCE

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OUT OF INTELLIGENCE

MODERATE FLAGS

aw, only three flags

must more tired mod abuse

please to post so I can ban you

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I think @badp is drunk.

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I wish

I so wish

okay not really

but kinda wish

wonk?

I don't even know what's going on right now. o_o

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@badp Why are you wonking in public :P

12:06 AM

E_NO_WONK

okay

Go home @badp you are drunk

@AshleyNunn because if you are in private with your wonk target then you needn't wonk to begin with

@BenBrocka going home is scheduled in a few minutes

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@badp This is true, I suppose :P

Home time. BYE

and you can't wonk when looking at your wonk target then it's just sad wonk and not worthy of further consideration

like fail florting

12:08 AM

I don't think I want to know what the wonking business is about ...

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@badp also true and sad wonking is just not good for anyone

user15026

@badp also terrible.

ashley I'm so happy you can feel the wonk connection

it must be the python

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@FEichinger My mind keeps replacing the vowels in those words

yes. clearly the python

12:10 AM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone My point!

@YiJiang'sEvilClone thats what your mind oughta do precisely

Now to see if my bastardized rocket can hit orbit first shot.

obviously wonk → wink

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@badp yes that must be it. we are connected by the python and thus understand the wonk connection

Ooooobviously.

12:10 AM

AND IF YOU THOUGHT OTHERWISE I BAN YOU

I BAAAANN U

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like german motorways BUT WITH LESS H

the H IS SILENT anyway

damn heiches

heichs

heaches

haiches

Friends don't let friends mod drunk.

eiches

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Go home @badp you're drunk

@YiJiang'sEvilClone home goings will take place after cleanup is a gone

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Q: What triggers disasters in SimCity 5?

In playing SimCity 5 (2013), I seem to have fewer "random" disasters (Tornadoes, Earthquakes, Meteors, Big Lizards, etc...) than my friends. This makes me think that they must not be truly random, but that there is some sort of trigger. Are there specific triggers for each disaster? Or are the...

"SimCity 5 (2013)"? Really? How disambiguated do you want the reader to be?

12:13 AM

@badp I find this horribly offensive.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Well, technically "SimCity 5" could also be Societies.

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@FEichinger We do not speak of that game here

user30

@FEichinger Don't mention that thing

I'm just sayin' :P

Man, my capitalism is working so well.

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12:16 AM

To be honest, SimCity Societies works if you pretend it's not a SimCity game

@YiJiang'sEvilClone The same applies to SimCity 2k13

user15026

Apparently hamster-sized hippos are Death Incarnate.

o_O

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@FEichinger kongregate.com/games/Kongregate/super-duck-punch

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Oooo, a jmbt02 game

12:21 AM

@FEichinger I started buying certain paints from the Mann Co. store and selling them on the Steam Community Market.

Which works for some reason.

@AshleyNunn W...T...F...?!

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@FEichinger It is a wonderful thing

@Ullallulloo Oh, so it's rather this:

@Ullallulloo t3.gstatic.com/…

@FEichinger More so, yeah. :P

@AshleyNunn It looks weird!

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12:23 AM

@FEichinger that too

It plays weird.

It is pretty damn weird.

user15026

@FEichinger yep.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahrgh, they killed me!

user15026

@FEichinger What got you?

Those same hamster-sized hippos. That's insane!

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12:25 AM

I finished the hamster-sized hippo by mashing the jab key

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@FEichinger When they all gang up on you? It's pure evil.

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Oh no wait, I chose the hippo sized hamster

The jab key caused it to flinch for long enough so that simply mashing the key works

The hippo-sized hamster is rather easy.

user15026

Yeah it wasn't so bad

But those hamster-sized hippos all over you constantly hitting you ... Holy sheet.

user15026

12:26 AM

it is the tiny ones that swarm you that really suck

After the duck-sized horses, I totally didn't expect that.

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@FEichinger yeah the duck sized horses were not nearly so terrible

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Teehee

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Q: What is an Eagle Assassination?

I just started playing the second episode of The Tyranny of King Washington and just got past the part where I had to avoid all the obstacles. Now I'm pack at the prison and it's asking me to do an "eagle assassination" but it never introduced me to what the heck that actually means. The first t...

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Q: Can you work out the trial of wits without asking for a hint?

POSSIBLE SPOILERS: Is it possible to work out the first and third trials of wits (part of the temple of trials) without asking the Monitor Bird for a hint? Especially for the third trial, where there are a number of symbols with lines joining them up... I spent a long time looking in my wizardin...

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@YiJiang'sEvilClone This is awesome

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12:36 AM

@AshleyNunn Someone was making a series of these tmbr.biqbox.com/tagged/paper-cutout. I saw fit to animate the latest one

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I like it :)

"...after a man claiming to be the fiancé of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic character Twilight Sparkle contacted a user of online community DeviantArt to demand he stop drawing sexual pictures of his imaginary pony-bride..." This is why pony's aren't fun kids.

@djsmiley2k ... because of rule 34, or crazy dude?

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@djsmiley2k I think that's the third time that's been brought up in this room

I'm going to have to downvote you for reposting... no wait

@YiJiang'sEvilClone hmmm

:D

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12:44 AM

Fine. I'll close your message as duplicate instead.

that's it guys, I'm shutting the internet down.

Nice knowing y'all

/me flips the switch and heads off to bed

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Need to watch some videos about this... I'm not going to get the intersect by guessing

Since we're in the Matrix and thus if it isn't observed it isn't rendered ... Switching off the Internet could actually work!

Does @GnomeSlice still hang out in here? O_o

user15026

@Fluttershy He lurks, yeah

12:47 AM

@AshleyNunn Gotcha. I need him to message me on Steam, but I dunno how to like... contact him. lol

user30

I shall leave that hub in space as the thing that almost was

@Fluttershy steamcommunity.com/id/GnomeSlice + steamcommunity.com/chat works too.

Although he always contacts me over Facebook.

@Ullallulloo I have him on my friends list, I just don't ever see him online.

@ThomasMcDonald Where are you trying to go?

As this may help

Although I find it isn't 100%

@Fluttershy You can message offline people now.

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1:13 AM

Pork chop flavoured ramen is delicious.

LessPop_MoreFizz

"I suppose we could see if she tries to kill us... but that plan has numerous procedural flaws in it's execution."

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@LessPop_MoreFizz What is this?

LessPop_MoreFizz

Neverwinter Nights 2

user15026

@LessPop_MoreFizz that's pretty cool

@LessPop_MoreFizz I only ever played never winter nights 1 - how is 2? is it as good as first one?

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1:18 AM

@simonl substantially better - particularly Mask of the Betrayer, the first expansion.

@LessPop_MoreFizz I should try to look for it on sale some time, as I did particularly enjoy the original.

LessPop_MoreFizz

It's on GOG these days.

1:41 AM

@SimonL It's a lot of fun

What on earth happened to @badp?

Alcohol happened. Definitely.

@FEichinger Lol geez

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As someone who is very fond of alcohol, I concur with this assessment.

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....hmmm. I have most of a bottle of sparkling strawberry wine in my fridge I should drink! :D

Ben. I am home. NOW WHAT.

I'm turning slightly into Retrosaur tonight and it's killing me inside

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1:52 AM

@badp have adventures :D

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Home adventures?

@badp drunken adventures

There were two hooks along the way but I left them there

<_<

<___<

</tmi>

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>.>

Also I feel like I should have a beer so I can no longer say that I did not in fact have any alcohol today

Make it slightly less depressing

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1:59 AM

@badp offers some of her strawberry wine before it is gone

Thanks. Internet cheers to you

That tastes like bytes

user15026

@badp Isn't it lovely?

I love how the only two things in my Netflix "Recently Watched" are My Little Pony and The Walking Dead.

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@Fluttershy That makes you awesome

They should make a crossover. "The Walking Dead Little Pony"

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2:10 AM

@Fluttershy I would be surprised if it wasn't a thing

Zombie Ponies could actually shake up the genre again ...

tumblr.com/tagged/the-walking-dead-crossover-my-little-pony

Daryl pony.

There you go.

@FEichinger I don't see anything with that. <_<

Should show this post, though. o.O

Weird tumblr is weird.

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awww wine is gone

Awwwww

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2:16 AM

I ama sad bean

strawberry flavored wine? or wine from strawberries?

user15026

@Coronus sparkling wine and stawberries

user15026

so like...strawberry infused, I suppose

Sounds nice. I like soaking peaches in red wine

user15026

That sounds delicious

2:26 AM

Oh while I remember, you have 10000000 right? Did you play it much?

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@Coronus I did, and I really liked it

Good I saw it in the sale.

Trying to figure out how ti reply on mobile

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@Coronus you cant link, just @ me

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I would recommend it

@AshleyNunn Thanks.

2:44 AM

@AshleyNunn at least the rum isn't gone :)

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@SimonL but the wine is gone!

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I am debating drinking my chocolate milk but that would be a terrible idea

"TerribleIdea" should be your second name at this point, I would say.

@AshleyNunn Don't do it! Fruity wine and chocolate milk don't mix!

It'd be like that one time I ate a bowl of Trix with Nesquik.

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@Fluttershy That does not sound good

2:49 AM

@Fluttershy That sounds awful.

It was both of those things.

This was a long time ago, mind you. Back when Trix actually looked like little fruit shapes.

That makes it even worse.

user15026

@Fluttershy I miss those days

@AshleyNunn Me too. Me too... Now they look like colorful cocoa puffs.

user15026

@Fluttershy That is way less awesome

2:57 AM

@Fluttershy do they not anymore?

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lame

New Shape! 50% cheaper for us to produce! Totally same taste! Promise!

user15026

That ruins them.

@Fluttershy Those are coloured corn pops.

2:59 AM

Also, @BenBrocka, while you're here... If you're still looking for something to Let's Play, check out Eternal Sonata. It falls in there with your strange JRPGs that you like so much. =P

"Dem filthy JRPGs!"

@Wipqozn Corn Pops look completely different from those. Those are colored cocoa puffs.

if someone wants to play css, tf2 or starcraft2 im up for that

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Corn Pops are all oblong and misshapen and stuff.

@Fluttershy I think corn pops look different in Canada. Those look nothing like the corn pops I know.

3:01 AM

@Fluttershy Where are you? Corn Pops are round circles.

Either that or I'm thinking of a different cereal.

@JasonBerkan THANK YOU!

@JasonBerkan I live in the states.

I KNEW IT WAS JUST @FLUTTERSHY AND HIS DIRTY AMERICAN WAYS THAT ARE WRONG!

You sure you aren't thinking of Kix?

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@JasonBerkan You are thinking of Kix.

3:01 AM

Who knew they were different.

No. I'll go take a picture right now.

@Fluttershy long games are no good for lets plays. That's why I do so many short flash/indie games. Otherwise I usually just do little snippets

LessPop_MoreFizz

Corn Pops is a breakfast cereal made by Kellogg's, described by the company as "crunchy sweetened popped-up corn cereal." Originally called Sugar Pops, it was introduced in 1951 as the sponsor for "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok" radio show. The name was changed to Sugar Corn Pops in 1978, and then to Sweet Nuts in 1982 and finally to Corn Pops in 1986, a time when many cereals dropped the word "Sugar" from their titles. In January 2006, the name of the cereal was changed to Pops, but after a few months of poor reception, was changed back to Corn Pops. Sometimes, this cereal is just ...

Good lord, you're discussing cereal shapes.

> Just months after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Kix offered an atomic bomb ring in exchange for a box top and 15 cents.[1][2] The ring was purported to detect radiation.

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> Unlike American Corn Pops, in Canada and in Europe (in France it is called Miel Pops - meaning Honey Pops) the cereal consists of small, spherical, uniform balls. Both versions are crunchier and have a different taste.

3:02 AM

@FEichinger The bridge has reached a new low.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Basically, Canadians have inferior fake corn pops.

@LessPop_MoreFizz This is accurate.

American Corn Pops are awesome.

LessPop_MoreFizz

AMERICA FUCK YEAH

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@LessPop_MoreFizz hell no we dont

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Canadian Corn Pops are fantastic

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3:03 AM

TAKE THAT CANADIANS AND YOUR TWO THOUSAND FLAVORS OF POTATO CHIP.

user15026

American ones are weird

@BenBrocka Oh, see, my favorite LPs are the 100+ 10 minute episode ones. =P Like what HCBailly or NintendoCapriSun do.

European Corn Pops all the way!

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@LessPop_MoreFizz eats her alldressed chips

Screw the US and their wicked, twisted ways of calling stuff.

3:04 AM

I've had both american and canadian corn pops and don't like either of them.

@AshleyNunn eats his Chicken and Waffles chips

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@Fluttershy You are both wrong, the best LP's are screenshot LP's with tons and tons of words doing deep critical analysis of the game in question.

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@Fluttershy neeeeeeeeeeeeergh

@LessPop_MoreFizz so DnD lets plays?

@Fluttershy eats his all dressed chips (cc @StrixVaria, also buy monster Hunter)

3:04 AM

By popular vote, Canadian Corn Pops now win.

@AshleyNunn They're surprisingly good.

@FEichinger It's true. The stars have decided.

user15026

@Fluttershy sounds weird

LessPop_MoreFizz

@SimonL Something like that. If you have stairs, you might remember Scorchy's KOTOR 2 LP for example?

@AshleyNunn It's incredibly weird. But they're pretty tasty.

LessPop_MoreFizz

3:05 AM

Or Lt. Danger's NWN2 deconstruction

@Fluttershy Eh. Then you just end up saying stuff for the purpose of saying stuff or you have tons of dead air. Plus lots of people bow out after the first video, let alone the 50th

May I bring to your attention that the corn pops image on the American Corn Pops has a Russian filename: File:Кукурузные палочки.JPG

user15026

I want to make pudding

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FEichinger That's a picture of russian corn pops.

Which look disgusting.

@LessPop_MoreFizz I know ;) I just love the Wikipedia oneboxing here. :P

3:06 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz They look like colorless cheetos...

I run out of snark and useful criticism within a couple episodes unless I have something prepared, and if I have to prepare stuff beforehand it makes it far too much effort and generally bleh. Not really what people watch for anyway

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Also, the russian name for corn pops is really fun to say

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@BenBrocka That makes sense. I have zero experience in making LPs. I just know what I enjoy watching. I wasn't aware of the vast differences in LP stuff. But now I know.

That took longer than it should have. Stupid iTunes.

3:07 AM

> Cereal made with the goodness of corn

@Fluttershy LIES!

And not the evils of bran.

@Fluttershy yeah, it's why Revenge of the Sunfish was one of my favorite games to do

LessPop_MoreFizz

I am wondering if whoever starred "DnD Lets Plays" knows what DnD meant in that context. (At least, assuming I'm right and I hope I'm right.)

Terrible game, amazingly fun to record

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3:09 AM

(Because no, it is not Dungeons and Dragons or Do Not Disturb if I am right.)

Stars are usually the result of "this would look really funny out of context", so ... god knows?

Someone answered this before, but what software are people using to make LPs?

That depends on just what part of "making LPs" you're talking about. And the platform. And the ... you get the drift.

Well, in this case, I'd be capturing footage from a PC game.

Oh hey, La Mulana is up for pre-order on Steam

Launches in 3 weeks or so

Well, for screencap, people usually use Fraps or XSplit, depending on whether they also screen and pretty much what they're more familiar with.

3:22 AM

La Mulana Steam

There's also a couple of other utilities, offering different features, but as far as I know, those are the most common.

@FEichinger Hmm, those both cost money, right?

Ahyup.

@Powerlord Fraps is super cheap. But you'll need something to edit and recompress

Though Fraps + Windows Movie Maker would probably do in a pinch. I use Camtasia in addition to fraps but it's very expensive

@BenBrocka To the order of $300...

I wonder if I could bribe someone at TechSmith.

To get it cheaper than that. Probably not.

3:31 AM

If you manage to keep your bribe below 300 bucks :P

It's occasionally on sale. But not often

Did I mention TechSmith is located like 10 miles from here?

Fraps is like $15 though

@BenBrocka $37 last I checked.

I also got an Elgato Game Capture, pretty good capture card

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3:32 AM

OH my GOD I cannot beat these hamster sized hippos

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oh. Still, pretty cheap

@AshleyNunn Er... what?

Fraps is great for recording the game itself, unfortunately it's very stupid about how it records mic audio

@BenBrocka Well, that sucks.

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@Powerlord kongregate.com/games/Kongregate/super-duck-punch

3:33 AM

@AshleyNunn jump away from them after breaking the grapple, punch them until they're close, then jump over them before they grapple again

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@BenBrocka THEY JUST KILL ME

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it is terrible

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I am sad

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@YiJiang'sEvilClone Oh, a new game by the Elephant guy?

@Powerlord it works, but you have to lower game audio IN GAME or it records game audio 10x louder than mic in most cases

@AshleyNunn break the grapple faster. Just use punch

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3:33 AM

@Powerlord yes

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@Powerlord Yes!

though I avoided the levels with the hippos for a while too

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@BenBrocka I did not like them at all. But I will win. I WILL WIN

hippos are at 7:33

they're much worse when combined with the duck/hamster

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@BenBrocka Oh my god, things get combined?

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3:35 AM

SHIT JUST GOT REAL

@BenBrocka The theory is all nice and dandy, but if you just die to them, it doesn't really get that fancy. :P

user15026

Might work better if I hadn't had all the wine

@AshleyNunn You didn't see that yet? :D

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@FEichinger I am still being killed by hamster hippos

I just skipped them.

And I feel terribly sorry for you being stuck there while it just gets worse.

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3:36 AM

I have this completionist thing, I have to beat each section. Or I get all flail

@FEichinger as long as you break the grapple they're not that bad

10 hydras

@AshleyNunn It gets easier with some upgrades, though, so ... going back to them later might just be the only really decent option

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@FEichinger I suppose... :P

Also you can get more upgrade points by replaying levels

with a few punch upgrades they'll die in one hit or two

dunno what the max for an upgrade is, but it's over 11

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You can revive yourself up to 4 times I think

Although that might be a little hard when you're drunk :P

3:39 AM

Huh, I can go back and do more Warm Up stuff or continue on to the Amateur round

The revive bar is super wonky

I've had it stop dead in the center of the red and say "LOL YOU LOSE"

user15026

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Yeah. I suspect that is not helping what so ever

Yay, dance class was fun.

user15026

@fbueckert Yay!

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I am out of wine and trying to kill things

3:42 AM

@AshleyNunn Sounds like a perfect Monster Hunter evening.

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@fbueckert well, they are hamster sized hippos, but essentially yes

also giraffe hydras

My god! I defeated them!

And I only used one revive ... I feel awesome now.

user15026

@BenBrocka Yes can't forget those

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@FEichinger you are a madman of awesome

3:44 AM

pft I didn't even use a revive

I'd recommend staying away from the combined fights with the hippos until you're overpowered for them though

@BenBrocka Hush, you don't have a qwertz keyboard either, do you? :P

@BenBrocka Just got the duck + 20 hippos.

Yeah, revive is definitely buggy

@Powerlord you can see me fail/win clearly in/out of bounds in my video. Repeatedly. It's dumb

@FEichinger just ditch jab then. punch and jump are what it's about

@BenBrocka Oh, it works. Playing mobas and mmos certainly helps navigating the keyboard and breaking fingers in the process.

Also: 50 hippos + 75 horses, check. Now it gets awfully easy for some reason.

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yeah, I think I might give up until there is less wine

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3:48 AM

because my fine motor is SO BROKEN

it's not really a game of fine motor skills

The game bored me too quickly.

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@BenBrocka well, it is a game of Ashley is not good when she is full of wine

And I'm saying that as someone who went through and got everything in his other games.

(i.e. every achievement in Achievement Unlocked 1, 2, and 3)

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oh, apparently he works for Kongregate now

3:50 AM

@AshleyNunn Ashley shouldn't get so full of wine then. :P

user15026

iiiinteresting

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@FEichinger but Ashley likes wine it is tasty and the world is floaty and I am happy and this game is fun

@AshleyNunn just lol.

@AshleyNunn thought he worked for armor games

kong is listed as a dev on the game though

user15026

@BenBrocka Apparently he switched, according to his webpage

3:51 AM

ah

I always liked kong better as a website

user15026

@BenBrocka Me too

most of my flash videos are recorded from congregate, a few from newgrounds

I think elephant quest I played on armor just because armor had some extras

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@BenBrocka Nice :)

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I liked elephant quest. Was one of my most favorites

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@FEichinger headtilt Meep?

3:54 AM

"Meep?" ... It's that bad already?

She's already lost her speech skills

user15026

@FEichinger Nah, I meep sober too

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@BenBrocka Shush you

@AshleyNunn That sure makes it better. o.o

user15026

@FEichinger I am a very special creature :P

3:55 AM

Other people "Shush"ing ... I don't feel like a special snowflake anymore. crawls back to AU.

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@FEichinger nooooo come back

:(

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@FEichinger gives cupcake

=D

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