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Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

12:02 AM

It's like the Silly Season on reddit

Raven Dreamer

@YiJiang'sEvilClone ...eh?

Lazers

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Q: How do I play Secops (custom scenarios) in CO-OP over LAN?

I'm fairly new to ARMA but I've created a mission in the single player scenario tab using the mission wizard. I then copied that mission file to the multiplayer mission folder however when I play it with my friend over LAN one of us spawns on the ground alive while the rest of us fall from the he...

SimonL

If you see an answer to a question that is slightly old and want to update it with more relevant/additional information, should you post another answer or update the answer? I read the meta question/answer for this (meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/4333/…) but no answer was marked as accepted - what is the policy?

badp

@SimonL Is the answer your own? Edit. If it's not, feel free to write your own answer (just please do start from scratch with your answer if you do).

If the part that's outdated is a small detail in a three-pages long answer, consider editing it instead.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@RavenDreamer r/mylittlepony, like a lot of subreddits, is dominated by images. Mostly fanart, gifs and screenshots of the show. So to give other types of content some breathing room the mods decided it would be nice to have image submissions banned every other Thursday

SimonL

12:06 AM

The answer I am looking at is this gaming.stackexchange.com/posts/93038/edit - it has already been marked as an answer and has a lot of useful information - I would just want to add in things that have been added into the game since the answer

as well as edit things that have changed

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Raven Dreamer

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Ah. "no pic thursday" was not processing as one term.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

So instead of fan art you get submissions like these instead ^

badp

@SimonL If you suggest an edit you'll still get 2 reputation for your trouble :)

SimonL

I do not care about reputation.

Raven Dreamer

12:07 AM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Please tell me "pmv" is not "pony music video"

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@RavenDreamer It is.

badp

@SimonL Well, it's there to sweeten the deal. Feel free to suggest an edit, though.

SimonL

Ok - I will make an edit - thank you.

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone "No-pics Thursday pic thread" WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

That is so retarded

I don't even

why

no

stupid

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp fanfic, not pic

badp

12:09 AM

stop

@YiJiang'sEvilClone so why aren't they being submitted individually anyway?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp Fanfics don't do well on the subreddit. Not even when there's no images to compete with them.

badp

Why do people hate the idea that people submit links to a link sharing website

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I don't think a lot of readers care for them, so they never get upvoted

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Good.

Lumping them all together in their own ghetto text post that gets sympathy upvoted isn't going to do much good to the subreddit

StrixVaria

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badp

12:12 AM

@StrixVaria what the hell is a spawner minecart

StrixVaria

I don't understand anything that guy builds.

I just like explosions.

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Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@RavenDreamer Cut up snippets of the show to make it look as if they're singing the song. Depending on the quality the result can range from completely unwatchable to hilarious

Here's Princess Celestia singing C is for Cookie youtube.com/watch?v=hTP_Af8xYxs

SaintWacko

@StrixVaria That is wonderful

fbueckert

Ok, there's no meta on usage of expansion tags.

Am I correct in assuming they should be applied like platform tags?

Raven Dreamer

@fbueckert what scenario are you thinking about?

fbueckert

12:17 AM

@RavenDreamer Edit war on this question.

Raven Dreamer

@fbueckert Unless the expansion changed the item under discussion (no, in this instance) it isn't used.

fbueckert

@RavenDreamer That is my understanding. Wanted to clarify, as I can't find anything on meta about it.

And he's insisting on keeping it in the comments. I'm not sure how to handle that.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@fbueckert Don't continue the argument in the comments. Don't.

fbueckert

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I'm not.

Powerlord

Ah, ah... you have to sing the sleep song before you go to sleep!

StrixVaria

12:21 AM

I can't even consistently make it to 8 seconds in Hexagonest :(

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@StrixVaria Yeah, it's... madness

StrixVaria

My record right now is 14 seconds and that's significantly better than my second best attempt.

badp

Raven Dreamer

@fbueckert Stio resoibdubg,'

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@fbueckert Stop responding.

fbueckert

@RavenDreamer That sounds like a plan to me.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

12:24 AM

@badp Atlatl?

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Wikipedia says, "spear thrower."

fbueckert

@badp A primitive pre-cursor to the bow, I believe.

Raven Dreamer

really, Bridge?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@RavenDreamer How did you even manage to type that out? :P

fbueckert

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Right hand shifted one key left.

badp

12:26 AM

@RavenDreamer <3

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Ah

Coronus

@RavenDreamer :D

Fluttershy

@RavenDreamer emoticon

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

With regards to naming, what would happen when the new SimCity gets a sequel?

Ullallulloo

@RavenDreamer urd/

StrixVaria

12:30 AM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone SimCity 2.

There is no 2, technically.

badp

@Ullallulloo wasn't that orz?

StrixVaria

They should probably call it SimCity 2000 to make sure to maximize confusion.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@StrixVaria That's not confusing at all. Oh no. Wait till they get to 4.

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone SimCity Offline

fbueckert

@badp Heh.

I would buy that.

badp

12:31 AM

...one can dream right?

Fluttershy

@YiJiang'sEvilClone SimCity 20XIII-2

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp 囧

Ullallulloo

@badp It probably should have been "ues/", but I thought that would be too normal.

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I suppose that's a fancy way of saying ";D"

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp Not really, no

Jiong

Jiong is widely used on the Internet as an ideographic emoticon representing a range of moods, as it resembles a person's face. It is commonly used to express ideas or feelings such as annoyance, shock, embarrassment, awkwardness, scorn, response to silliness or the internet meme "Do not want". Jiong (Chinese: 囧; variant: 冏; Hanyu Pinyin: jiǒng; Jyutping: gwing2) is a Chinese character originally meaning a "patterned window", "as bright as the light peering from outside the window", or simply "brightness". Internet emoticon The character for jiong is nowadays more widely used on the Int...

Ben Brocka

12:32 AM

@StrixVaria First they will release a game titled Sim Ant where you feed an ant real money until the credits roll

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fbueckert

Dammit, people! Quit eating the hamsters!

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone okay, I had to zoom in real close to see that the left eye and the right eye weren't the same

fbueckert

We need them to keep Arqade going!

Ben Brocka

But hamsters are delicious

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MBraedley

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Q: How can I use Jool to put a spacecraft into a solar polar orbit?

I'm trying to use Jool as Ulysses used Jupiter to insert itself into an extremely inclined polar solar orbit with a fairly modest amount of delta-V (direct solar polar insertion from Kerbin escape would take something like 15000 m/s of delta-V). However, regardless of how I seem to tweak my Jool...

kerbal-space-program

I think I've found my project for tonight

fbueckert

12:34 AM

@BenBrocka Then find other ones!

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@BenBrocka Although the fur is icky

MBraedley

That'll take my mind off meta for a while

Wipqozn

@fbueckert I feel like I missed something.

fbueckert

@Wipqozn Arqade died for a couple minutes.

Wipqozn

@fbueckert Oh, okay.

Fluttershy

12:35 AM

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Q: Bad video card drivers error in Minecraft

My Minecraft won't work and this error report keeps showing up. Here's the whole error report: Bad video card drivers! ----------------------- Minecraft was unable to start because it failed to find an accelerated OpenGL mode. This can usually be fixed by updating the video ca...

minecraft

I'm wondering if my comment, though genuine, would be taken as rude...

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Fluttershy It looks fine

badp

I have no idea how the hinting borked so bad there

SimonL

Is there a way to make the textarea input bigger when editing a question?

MBraedley

@Fluttershy I'm fine with that

Sterno

The most important countdown that will ever be linked in chat

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Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

12:36 AM

@badp Chinese text requires a much bigger font size to display properly than Latin

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone okay, but that's mangled really bad.

Ben Brocka

That's still pretty bad hinting

Lazers

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Q: How can I use Jool to put a spacecraft into a solar polar orbit?

I'm trying to use Jool as Ulysses used Jupiter to insert itself into an extremely inclined polar solar orbit with a fairly modest amount of delta-V (direct solar polar insertion from Kerbin escape would take something like 15000 m/s of delta-V). However, regardless of how I seem to tweak my Jool...

kerbal-space-program

0

Q: Bad video card drivers error in Minecraft

My Minecraft won't work and this error report keeps showing up. Here's the whole error report: Bad video card drivers! ----------------------- Minecraft was unable to start because it failed to find an accelerated OpenGL mode. This can usually be fixed by updating the video ca...

minecraft

Tim Stone

@BenBrocka I never get captchaed, unless I hit the 2 minute rate limit as a low-reps user.

StrixVaria

@Sterno That is still a long time off.

Wipqozn

12:37 AM

@Sterno Did you make this, or did Gnomslice?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp Not really, it's just what they have to make do with.

Sterno

Me. I miss him. He kept chat sane!

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Chinese characters actually do get simplified in the process of scaling down

Ben Brocka

@TimStone Really? Huh, I figured it'd murder you for all the repeated posts. You must not copy & paste

StrixVaria

According to Google Translate, "囧" means "囧" in English.

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Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

12:38 AM

Curves get straightened out, some strokes are removed altogether

Chinese type design is hard, m'kay

@StrixVaria "Jiong (Chinese: 囧; variant: 冏; Hanyu Pinyin: jiǒng; Jyutping: gwing2) is a Chinese character originally meaning a "patterned window", "as bright as the light peering from outside the window", or simply "brightness"."

Ben Brocka

@badp Huh, my hinting (in chat's font) is much better

Sterno

Hrm, that countdown made me remember XCOM, which made me remember Xenonauts. Which is almost to beta!

badp

(This is the part where you tell me to fuck off and draw the entire Chinese alphabet like that)

Ben Brocka

@badp Yeah I see the right one

badp

@BenBrocka I did the right one by hand by using the paint tool

Ben Brocka

12:40 AM

well something close to it

Tim Stone

@BenBrocka I do, but I Ctrl+V and I think that's sufficient keystrokes. Even the one minute between answers on Meta was obnoxious today though, especially when you have to click through the stupid "OMG SELF-ANSWER" box.

badp

...and one move operation

Ben Brocka

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Q: Don't ask high-rep users if they're sure they want to answer their own question

I've been answering a lot of my own Meta questions lately and I'm really tired of seeing this: I'm a moderator and 15k rep user. I know when to answer my own question. Especially on Meta where self answers are particularly common. Can this prompt please be hidden either when you have X rep or...

feature-request self-answer

Tim Stone

+1 x 1000

Ullallulloo

You looked right to me.

user43095

12:43 AM

@fredley @Unionhawk @RonanForman Is the FTB server down?

badp

@Ullallulloo When I copy paste 囧 in Paint I get what I posted

with two straight lines

the font is Microsoft YaHei

@Ullallulloo I used copy paste straight from his post.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

It's the difference between cursive (serif) and heiti (sans-serif)

Unionhawk

@jeffreylin_ It was down for me

Ben Brocka

I get this

badp

I... suppose it is possible for this glyph to have these two completely different and still correct drawings?

Ben Brocka

12:45 AM

user43095

@Unionhawk Yeah, that's what I figured. The server seems to be up, but maybe minecraft.net is down.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp They're not completely different. The strokes are the same

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone ...one's a hook and the other isn't

Ben Brocka

also, chat does not zoom gracefully

badp

I will accept your superior knowledge as correct - it still seems strange to me.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

12:46 AM

@badp That's just cursive. You don't have that when writing, and the "hook" doesn't appear until you increase the font size massively

Ullallulloo

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

But yeah, that is a little odd

badp

I mean, especially if you want to use them as emoticons...

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp Well, they aren't originally meant to be emoticons

badp

(who woulda thunk? Unicode is hard!)

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

12:48 AM

It's just a historical coincidence that they do

badp

you could say the same of the colon and the parenthesis

StrixVaria

:) looks absolutely terrible in some fonts.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Ben Brocka

especially the ones with the super short colon

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone The second one is definitely happier

Ben Brocka

12:51 AM

The last one is horrified

Coronus

I'm confused about minecraft-redstone. Is there a simple answer as to why we have this that you can point me to?

StrixVaria

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Third one looks embarrassed.

@Coronus It's significantly different from generic minecraft questions and has significant volume on the site to warrant its own tag.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Hmmm, I was going to talk about the various forms of Chinese calligraphy and how they evolved into the fonts you see up there, but never mind

I guess y'all are too busy assigning emotions to abstract Chinese ideographs :P

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone You'll delight us another day I'm sure. Keep that in mind next time I find myself bleeding your eyes, for example

Ben Brocka

I think I am going to lie down before my head explodes

badp

12:53 AM

Nite gents

user43095

@Coronus Its similar to tf2 and tf2-spy. Why should we have them? Because we have enough that they need to be sorted.

StrixVaria

@jeffreylin_ No.

We don't have tags "because we can".

We could have a tag for lsdkfjalskdfjd but that's not a useful tag.

Coronus

@StrixVaria Are the questions all about the material? Some of the questions don't seem to mention it at all.

StrixVaria

minecraft-redstone and tf2-spy are useful.

@Coronus They should be about building circuits and "electricity" in Minecraft.

user43095

@StrixVaria Fixed

Coronus

12:56 AM

@StrixVaria Light bulb Got it.

StrixVaria

Ok I really wanted to get to 20 seconds on Hexagonest but I'll have to be satisfied with 19.55 seconds for now.

Coronus

Thanks for explaining it.

fbueckert

Wow. Prenda's really trying to keep itself hidden.

One of it's owners gave seven hours of testimony, and gave no useful information whatsoever.

...Star Wars 7 will have appearances by the original actors for Luke, Leia, and Han.

Coronus

@fbueckert Link?

fbueckert

@Coronus arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/03/…

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

1:02 AM

The Chinese translation of My Little Pony is 彩虹小马 which literally means Rainbow Pon[y/ies] (Chinese doesn't distinguish between singular and plural)

Fluttershy

Oh snap! I just made it to Square and just kinda zoned out staring at the colors before realizing I still needed to like... move. <_<

StrixVaria

@Fluttershy This sounds familiar.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Ooooo... pretty colors.... "Game Over"

Fluttershy

@StrixVaria Yeah... I was playing some Super Hexagon.

StrixVaria

You have to kind of not focus and try to view the entire screen at once with your peripheral vision in order to even stand a chance later on.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

1:10 AM

How do you even get to 10 seconds on Hexagonest?

fbueckert

Free offensive flags

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

It's not possible, I swear

StrixVaria

14 mins ago, by StrixVaria

Ok I really wanted to get to 20 seconds on Hexagonest but I'll have to be satisfied with 19.55 seconds for now.

Coronus

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Step 1: Go insane. Step 2: Play the game.

Tim Stone

@YiJiang'sEvilClone You tear out your eyes and become one with the game.

StrixVaria

1:11 AM

You have to just stop thinking and learn to play automatically.

You can't see, comprehend what's coming, choose a path, and then go for it.

There isn't enough time.

You have to just instinctively go.

fbueckert

Somebody's trying to sell Xenoblade Chronicles for $135.

Is it really that rare?

StrixVaria

Super Hexagon didn't come out this year but it's my personal game of the year so far.

Lazers

0

Q: How does the alignment system work?

I currently have 1150 dark side points, and 900 light side points. How long will it take me to reach dark side tier 1?

swtor

fbueckert

Oh, never mind. This guy's selling tons of stuff for inflated prices.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fbueckert That said, Xenoblade is relatively rare, so it's not going to be cheap afaik.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

1:14 AM

Huh, I alt-tabbed out of Bioshock, and the game switched to windowed mode

fbueckert

@LessPop_MoreFizz Really? It just came out last year.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

But I can't make it go back to being fullscreen again

fbueckert

It can't be that rare, can it?

StrixVaria

I also highly recommend "finishing" hexagon before even attempting hexagoner, and finishing hexagoner the same before attempting hexagonest.

Tim Stone

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Hmm, something else I've played used to do that and I wanted to punch it in the face.

LessPop_MoreFizz

1:15 AM

@fbueckert It got a very small print run.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Hmmm, looks like I have to restart it

fbueckert

@LessPop_MoreFizz Huh.

I got a sealed copy on my shelf.

Paid $50 for it. Doesn't sound right that it would triple in value in a year.

I don't get that lucky.

Wipqozn

@fbueckert They only imported a small number of copies in NA.

and only then because of the huge fuss operation rainfall caused.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fbueckert amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B007RNWUC4/…

@fbueckert Hell, even Gamestop charges 60 for a used copy - more than they would charge for a new copy, if they had one to sell.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Hmmm, I'm not getting any sound here

Yeah, no sound at all.

The intro cutscene had sound, but nothing after that

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Q: Bioshock has no sound in Windows 7

I just bought a new PC with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. Everything is peachy except Bioshock: it has no sound after the game starts. I've searched on Google but can't find a definitive answer; or else the definitive answer doesn't work. I tried changing the configuration file to use a differ...

technical-issues windows-7 bioshock

Fluttershy

1:24 AM

Is @Sterno still around?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Fluttershy According to Steam he's currently playing Tomb Raider

Fluttershy

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Drat. I don't wanna disturb him during his limited gaming time.

fbueckert

@LessPop_MoreFizz Huh. I guess that's one game worth holding onto, then.

Brant

PSA: Natural Selection 2 is still awesome

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Ugh, still no sound.

StrixVaria

1:28 AM

@Brant Oh yeah, that exists.

Sterno

@Fluttershy aye

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Also, windowed mode has noticably worse performance

fbueckert

Finally! The guy got back to me about the Wii U.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Great, according to these answers I need to go out and find a mic to plug in

Fluttershy

@Sterno Was just curious if you still had any of those games you were trying to give away available. <_<

Brant

1:32 AM

@StrixVaria Damn right it does.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Mmhmmm, let's try compatibility mode

spugsley

Yeah. So. I just got thrown out of a bar

and I wasn't even drinking

fbueckert

@spugsley Huh.

I can't honestly say that's something I've never experienced.

spugsley

@fbueckert stupid drunk ass friends

Fluttershy

@spugsley What'd ya do?

fbueckert

1:34 AM

@spugsley Ah, your friends got you thrown out.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Oh, it's working now. Wonderful!

StrixVaria

@spugsley Oh, @OrigamiRob

OrigamiRobot

@StrixVaria ಠ_ಠ

spugsley

@Fluttershy my friends were drunk off their asses and singing "Kissed by a rose" at the tops of their lungs

Fluttershy

@spugsley Oh. Gotcha.

fbueckert

1:34 AM

@spugsley I'm thinking much yelling was in order.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fbueckert TBQH, it's probably at the peak of it's value.

fbueckert

@LessPop_MoreFizz How can things like that be determined? I'm always bad at figuring out if prices go up or down.

spugsley

@fbueckert never being the DD again

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fbueckert Well just think of why it's priced so highly right now: It's a well regarded game that is very difficult to acquire, that's playable on a variety of non-wii hardware thanks to Dolphin.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Although... switching to compatibility mode did break alt-tabbing

fbueckert

1:36 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz Dolphin also doesn't care if it's downloaded or burnt.

LessPop_MoreFizz

That said, I would be incredibly surprised if the game made it through the Wii U's lifecycle without becoming availiable as a legit download.

fbueckert

...Wait.

Does Dolphin work on other consoles?

Or just PC?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fbueckert No.

Just PC.

/Mac

fbueckert

@LessPop_MoreFizz Ok. So then the point stands. People can download it for $0.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fbueckert Right, but those people who want to buy it legit have no other option right now. That is going to change.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

1:38 AM

I guess I'll play in windowed mode now

fbueckert

@LessPop_MoreFizz There's a sequel in production right now, right?

LessPop_MoreFizz

Prices on original Chrono Trigger carts crashed once the Playstation, and later DS reissues were widely availiable.

@fbueckert There's another game from the same dev. I don't think it's a direct sequel.

fbueckert

@LessPop_MoreFizz Ah. So you're speculating that it will become available in some other format, and that will drive the price down.

spugsley

@OrigamiRobot what time you off work tomorrow?

fbueckert

@LessPop_MoreFizz Original SNES carts of FF6 still command a high price, though, even with the PSX re-release; why wasn't that affected?

Fluttershy

1:40 AM

@spugsley Two.

spugsley

@Fluttershy should I be concerned that you know this?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fbueckert FF3 carts for for 30-50 bucks. That's waaaaaaaaay down from the height of that market.

Fluttershy

@spugsley I dunno... should you?

fbueckert

@LessPop_MoreFizz Really? That's still pretty darn high, for any SNES game.

Earthbound goes for stupid amounts, and that's because it's not available in other format, correct?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fbueckert Eh, it's on the high side, but it's not an unusual number - cartridges tend to hold value better than optical media anyway for a host of other reasons. And it's way down from the $3-500 mark that I remember seeing a decade ago.

@fbueckert Correct. Nintendo has almost released it for VC on several occasions and always had to pull back for some reason or another. A Japanese Wii U release is slated for 2 weeks from now, which might be the beginning of the end there.

fbueckert

1:44 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz Mm. I never really followed the collector crowd; I like to play my games, not just put them on a shelf.

LessPop_MoreFizz

But yes, Earthbound carts go for like 200 bucks.

@fbueckert And yet, you have an unopened copy of Xenoblade Chronicles.

Play it and flip it IMO.

fbueckert

@LessPop_MoreFizz I also have an unopened copy of Disgaea 4.

I have too much to play, and not enough time to play them all.

Fluttershy

@fbueckert To The Moon only takes about 3-4 hours and should therefore be moved to #1.