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2:00 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Nope, a good rational consumer ought to see how to consume moar
 
ok so, apparently that scene in the new Tomb Raider is the scene I saw lastnight when my friend was playing it
 
@fredley He does have nice ties...
 
in your quest to consume all the things.
 
which is not how it was described at all
 
Back
 
2:01 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone The purpose of consumption is to drive further consumption.
We continue until China owns everything.
 
however it looks like a quicktime event driven movie
rather than a game
 
@fredley Sounds good to me. I'm still a Chinese citizen, technically speaking
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone A good thing to be.
 
@fredley Not really, no.
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Oh ok then.
 
2:02 PM
Visa restrictions can be rather draconian
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Oh dear.
 
And the Chinese custom seems intent on keeping people in, rather than watching people who are coming into the country
Whenever my father travels between China and Singapore it's always leaving China that's the most troublesome part.
 
Couldn't China use some women coming into the country?
 
I don't think it works that way
 
I am a very happy owner of a British Passport, a travel document with no equal.
 
2:05 PM
:O
 
Huh, Target bought ads on r/games to sell Tomb Raider
 
@fredley I am a very happy owner of Bacon
 
@Powerlord Less handy as a form of identification
 
Of course, Bacon is without equal!
 
@Powerlord I still wouldn't try and get it stamped at customs
 
2:07 PM
So, anyway, has Lauren Faust gone on to make anything new after MLP?
 
Seriously though, China passport holders travelling to places like the US are given extra scrutiny. My father says he's had friends who's visa applications were rejected for no apparent reasons.
 
the US is a joke
 
@Powerlord Galaxy Girls is the name of the series, I think?
It's... about what you'd expect given the name
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone heh. At the Croatian borders, they didn't give a shit about most people passing through - unless they were from Hungary or whatever (I forget the specific example)
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Interplanet Janet is the only Galaxy Girl for me.
 
2:13 PM
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Q: How and when do my Hero Weapons evolve?

Domenik VanBuskirkDo my weapons evolve based on the part of the story I'm on or the Road to Rule chests? Are all the "evolutions" just cosmetic, and do the changes apply to just hero weapons or all weapons? Last, is there any way of knowing what will happen after they do evolve or is it just a "do it and see what...

 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Well, the US is a paranoid police state these days.
If you want to get into the country, you need to be a tech worker, then you can just get an H1B Visa, which I understand are handed out like candy.
 
@Powerlord A lot of high tech countries are
The US watches the borders, the UK watches the interior
@ThomasMcDonald Wait, a queue to play SimCity?
Goddamnit, EA
 
@SaintWacko Queuing to play a single player game. Invented by Blizzard, perfected by EA!
 
@SaintWacko Well, it's expected given that this is launch day crunch. Doesn't make it acceptable though.
 
Anyway, since my Gravatar updated, @AshleyNunn should no longer think I'm "eating celery"
 
2:22 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone No, queueing to play a single player game is not, and should never be expected
If you start to expect that, the terrorists have won
 
(helps if I @ the right person)
 
@SaintWacko It's not really a single player game if the game makes a persistent connection to a server and off-loads some of the processing to it is it?
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Still a single player game, as far as I know
Just like Diablo 3
You pay for a single player game, but only actually get part of the game
They keep the rest, and force you to deal with their servers to use it
 
those servers will be turned off in two years, don't worry yourselves so much.,
 
@SaintWacko I really hope this thing blows up on them
 
2:24 PM
@djsmiley2k Yeah, that's the other problem with this model
 
Also I think there are assorted "social aspects" to the new simcity
 
@BenBrocka I wish someone would show me when gamers asked to be socialable
 
@BenBrocka Yes, but you can do those without hosting a chunk of the game on a server
@djsmiley2k Also, this
 
Everyone knows we aren't.
 
@djsmiley2k and the game will probably become inoperable
 
2:25 PM
WE know we aren't.
 
@BenBrocka Hopefully the companies doing this intend to release a patch before they shut the servers down, that adds the server-side code to the client
 
@SaintWacko I just meant to refute the "single player" part. The always online DRM thing is still horseshit
 
But I kinda doubt it
If they did that, you wouldn't have to buy their new game!
 
@djsmiley2k Steam's level of Social is fine. I can chat with friends, I can easily join games with them. I don't need to beg them to send me cows
 
@BenBrocka Exactly
 
2:26 PM
OH GOD I'VE RUN OUT OF MOTIVATION TO WATCH YOUTUBE
sits here for 3 hours staring at the wall
 
@SaintWacko Doubtful, by that time the game will no longer be generating enough revenue for them
 
@BenBrocka Yep
The same problem is cropping up with games that only allow multiplayer on the company's servers
My friend and I ran into that with Mercenaries 2
 
Did... WeLoveFine just send me my password back in plaintext through email?
 
About a week after we got it, they shut down the mp servers
 
Is that seriously a 30 minute queue?
 
2:29 PM
Yes. Yes they did. Fuck.
 
Fortunately, I was able to run a copy of the EA server on my computer, and modify my hosts file so the game looked to my computer instead of the EA servers
 
Good morning, Bridge
 
@fbueckert Morning
 
bonjour.
 
@TrentHawkins Yeah. It's still snowing. I know.
 
2:32 PM
@BenBrocka ...queues for a game which should be offline? Fuck you EA. Seriously, fuck you straight to the depths of gaming hell.
 
> Once you’ve managed to gain access and start playing you are tied to that server. So, if you leave the game and return to find your server busy, you can choose to play on another server, but EA doesn’t allow you to access your cloud-stored save game.
Hahahahahaha
 
But it's not a SP game
 
@BenBrocka Oh, holy shit
wow
 
@BenBrocka wut o_O
 
They don't even know how to store cloud saves
What fucking retards
 
@BenBrocka The more I hear about this, the more I'm glad I won't buy it.
 
I'm so glad I decided not to give EA any more money
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why are you all only just waking up to EA?
 
@djsmiley2k We're not.
 
2:33 PM
If I want any more of their games, I'm pirating them
 
@tiddy Yes, it is. It's just online for, "OMG! Social aspects!"
 
@djsmiley2k I woke up to them when they assaulted Command and Conquer
I hadn't paid much attention to them before that
 
@fbueckert I was just referencing what PAR stated. Back off
 
@tiddy I can't believe people are lauding them for that. That should have been part of the review, not a separate "oh by the way that was bullshit" post
 
@BenBrocka I'm not sure why they posted the review at all
 
2:36 PM
Why does EA take every good series, and turn it into shit? They whine about having such a bad rep with gamers, and say we should trust them.
 
So what's the stand on questions asking for guides?
 
And then they do things like this. Ugh.
 
Dead Space 4 was cancelled, whether it was warranted or not
 
@SaintWacko If someone's looking for a beginner guide, it's too broad.
We're not a link aggregator.
 
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Q: Minecraft Hunger Games Guide

KubtopsIs there any mc-hg guides out there that will help me do better? I have been reading online forums but is there any official thing that will help me? I have come first twice and have destroyed at kit pvp but lava buckets and external factors are very difficult for me. Online guides just specify b...

 
2:38 PM
@tiddy Already? Didn't 3 JUST come out?
 
It was in pre-production. DS3 sales lead to EA pulling the plug
I mean, AC4 is coming out in Oct....
 
Is it me or is the form at plaintextoffenders.com/submit borked?
 
Didn't meet an unrealistic sales goal, shut it down
 
FAE
@SaintWacko This is a generally good guideline on that note.
 
They probably realised that there wasn't many more ways they could bastardize the series and declared status-completed.
 
2:40 PM
I find it funny they're saying anything less than 5 million sales isn't enough to be profitable yet they massively undersupport Sim City's launch
 
@TimStone The next title will be Call of Space: Dead Duty
 
@SaintWacko Mostly, we should be looking at the underlying problem, and seeing if we can solve that. The underlying problem is that he doesn't understand how the mode works, it sounds like.
 
@TimStone Aside from DS3 they really hadn't bastardized it much. They added multiplayer and made it a bit more actiony in DS2, but that's about it
 
I liked DS2
 
@BenBrocka Oh, I know, I just feel like they went pretty far off track with DS3 to the point where I haven't convinced myself to buy it.
 
2:42 PM
At least Crysis 3 is o.k and Tomb Raider is making every reviewer cream their jeans
 
You know, it's scary that Activision Blizzard and EA are even more into milking franchises than CapCom is.
 
@Powerlord Megaman Xrossover. Rage.
 
@fbueckert Mega Man X Street Fighter what?
 
@Powerlord That's the best thing they've done for Megaman.
 
@fbueckert That iOS game?
 
2:44 PM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Yeah
 
Oh. That. Yeah. *shudder*
 
I probably got the name wrong.
 
@fbueckert Unfortunately, it came within a year of them canceling Rockman World (or whatever it was called) and Rockman Dash 3.
 
@TimStone Its' not a bad game. The microtransactions are annoying but unnecessary to play the game. As long as you put the difficulty on max it's pretty enjoyable. I don't even have as big a problem with the human enemies, except that they're boring. They are very easy and not scary, but so far they've mostly been used either in the tutorial or almost as a joke
Half of the human encounters so far have ended with "WHAT THE ^%&# IS THAT" necromorph starts killing all the Unitologists, which is actually surprisingly satisfying
 
Hmm, yeah, the presence of microtransactions didn't really inspire confidence in me, but if they're unnecessary and the actual gameplay is enjoyable I suppose I should give it a chance then.
 
2:48 PM
I guess that if you want ALL the guns...
 
@Powerlord Sadly, most of the big game publishers have screwed over all the good game series in the name of money.
 
@badp I could say that about TF2 from a new player's perspective.
 
Capcom, EA, Activision, Blizzard, you name it.
 
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Q: What is the cost with accepting global deliveries?

ValamasI have an oil power plant. To keep it running, I am accepting global deliveries. The expense of running is $856/hour The burning rate is 8.93k barrels/day (k? what does k mean?). What is with this $4500 figure? Is it how much it costs to fill my plant or something? I can "recent transactions...

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Q: Minecraft Hunger Games Guide

KubtopsIs there any mc-hg guides out there that will help me do better? I have been reading online forums but is there any official thing that will help me? I have come first twice and have destroyed at kit pvp but lava buckets and external factors are very difficult for me. Online guides just specify b...

 
@Powerlord It wouldn't be inaccurate. I still lack a few of the newer ones
 
2:49 PM
@Lazers And it begins.
 
I was totally suspicious of the microtransactions, but the weapon/upgrade progress isn't much slower than DS2's if you play normally. There's plenty of materials to get in-game. There are no DLC-only materials like Freemium mobile games
 
TF2 Pro-tip: Only 2 of the stock weapons are clearly inferior to their alternaives: The Fire Ax and the Bone Saw.
 
I'll have to wait for Thu for my next chance to randomly drop at least one of those
 
@fbueckert Honestly Capcom pisses me off as much as EA at this point with how they've ignored Megaman to release one version of SF4 per year
 
@Powerlord The wrench is only situationally better than the Eureka Effect
 
2:50 PM
@badp If one of them is the Cannonball launcher, it does a lot less damage if it bounces.
 
@BenBrocka They all piss me off now.
 
@Powerlord I lack that; the rescue ranger; the vaccinator; a few more non-reskins
 
Capcom for ruining and dumbing down Megaman X.
 
@TimStone Also, the story bits in DS3 are pretty cool. If you get it, play single player first (who wouldn't), Iv'e heard Co op is a bit neutered. I'd still like to try co op some time but I don't know anyone else with it on PC
 
@badp Vaccinator is extremely situational, moreso even than the Quick-Fix.
 
2:51 PM
EA for their microtransaction and always online bullshit.
Activision because Kotick.
 
@fbueckert Well agreed about the others, but I never liked them anyway. Capcom I actually liked
 
@Powerlord Fine, but "pay2win" and "I want to try all the weapons" are different things
 
@fbueckert So what's your take on Ubisoft?
 
Rescue Ranger... I like the idea, but mini-crits when moving buildings (even ones you manually picked up) is... bad. And doesn't fit my playstyle.
 
@MartinSojka They're in cautious hate mode.
They gained some standing for abandoning their stupid PC DRM.
 
2:52 PM
@Powerlord well, you have to nerf sentry jumping somehow
 
@badp Getting all guns organically in DS3 would take probably 100x less game time than TF2
 
@BenBrocka The weapon list I saw on your stream was pretty damn long
 
There's also the fact that Valve still hasn't gone back and applied nobuild to most roof locations on maps.
 
@Powerlord to compensate the TF2 maps are full of irritating invisible walls
and I'm like whyyyyyyyy
 
@badp A bunch of those are "developer favorites" which are actually weird-ass junk, not the standard guns
 
2:55 PM
@BenBrocka so? you could say the same of some of the BL2 legendaries
 
When I don't get an answer from StackOverflow, bad things happen:
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A: Compile OpenCV without GPU?

Tom MedleyI have fixed this particular problem in a most horrible way: touch modules/gpu/CMakeFiles/opencv_test_gpu.dir/test/test_core.cpp.o make Compilation then completes ok. This isn't really a solution though, so I'd like to know if there's a proper fix.

 
Capcom, I'll still buy from, as they're releasing Monster Hunter here, and that needs all the encouragement it can get.
NISA is one of the few companies that can do no wrong.
 
@badp My plasma Cutter is already about as overpowered as most BL2 legendaries. The DS3 things aren't nearly as desirable.
I am very glad BL2 doesn't have microtransactions to buy legendaries though
 
@BenBrocka Just wait.
 
@badp That's why I couldn't stand Guild Wars (the original) and like the mobility options PlanetSide 2 gives me (though to be fair, they do have a few invisible walls: Try flying between Leopardwood Nursery and Scarred Mesa Skydock and you'll go splat on one).
 
2:58 PM
@Powerlord They're Gearbox, not EA
Oh I just realized; how long until EA starts monetizing their single player waiting queues? Pay $1 or wait in line for 30 minutes to play your $60 game!
 
@MartinSojka To be fair, the majority of TF2's invisible walls are on stage boundaries. Except they happen where you could otherwise jump onto buildings and things.
 
It's the natural evolution of microtransactions and always-online
 
@BenBrocka To be fair, Gearbox released the shit that is Colonial Marines.
 
@BenBrocka It's a $20 game if you bought the regular edition
 

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