The Bridge

Yes, definitely

sigh

I am obviously going to be overly abrasive in anything I say so maybe I'll let you launch it into the sun instead

so instead, I will answer the question

@kalina Go you

> And in Scotland, you can't believe how strong the homosexuals are.

Someone actually said this. In 1999. A real person. This line is the preface to Rule 34. Hilarious

Q: Were/are animated portraits a widely used feature in games other than StarCraft?

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I always liked the animated portraits in StarCraft (and StarCraft 2), it makes the units more "alive", not to mention their quotes which gives them personality. Think about what happens when you keep clicking... But I've come to wonder, is SC (or other Blizzard games) the only ones to have anima...

starcraft-series

10:24 AM

Good morning, Bridge.

afternoon

hey I got a gold badge

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Perhaps the title of my question wasn't as clear as it is now, but before stating you didn't welcome list-of-x questions, you could have made sure that was actually the case. When I said I was a moderator on 3 sites, my intention was not to brag about it, so I apologize if that is what came out, but the tone of your comment was not the most welcoming you could have posted.

@Alenanno I am sorry for allowing my excessive sarcasm come across as being bitchy

@kalina It's ok, we all have those moments. It's past for me. :)

one day some genius will invent a method of translating tone and body language across the internet, and I can resume being super sarcastic all the time

10:30 AM

Eheh yes, internet is very dangerous since you assume and interpret things in your head rather than seeing them.

@kalina It's already been done!

@NightExcessive LIES

it hasn't been universally adopted

@NightExcessive Seriously?

so it's irrelevant

@Alenanno Webcams and VoIP? :)

10:31 AM

Ahah lol

:P

Can you imagine if we were all on voip to each other instead of typing

what a clusterfuck that would be

@kalina I can indeed. I was once part of a streaming site whose main method of communication was VoIP; 30-40 people in a TeamSpeak room... it was great.

...yeah

"Great" isn't the word I would use

Maybe it was fun.

:P

@kalina Clusterfucks make for amazingly hilarious moments

10:33 AM

I used to raid in WoW in a 25 player guild

if more than 5 of us spoke at once it just turned into noise

I miss LAN games.

@kalina I've never really had problems picking out many people speaking at once, but I could see that being annoying.

Anyways, I need brunch (which is really breakfast because I haven't yet had breakfast)

Enjoy it!

Q: Does Second Chance work in car?

10:50 AM

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In Dead Island, Purna has a Survival skill called Second Chance (bottom left) which has a chance of instantly reviving Purna upon death. When a player dies in a car, unlike outside of cars, the player dies instantaneously with no chance to be revived. Can the Second Chance skill keep a vehicle-oc...

Q: Does Jackpot actually work?

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In Dead Island, the character Purna has a Survival skill called Jackpot (just before the bottom) which "increases your chance to find rare items among loot." I was wondering how effective this is, like if there's a 20% chance to find greens, does it bump it up to 21%? Or is there an AwesomeLevel ...

hey I just helped first line resolve a case

what a strange turn of events

11:04 AM

@Alenanno I did! Thanks!

11:22 AM

Microsoft CRM really is the worst anything in the history of forever

If Hitler had come up against Microsoft CRM, he would have surrendered

@YiJiang'sEvilClone haha

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Ahahaha

@YiJiang'sEvilClone lol

@YiJiang'sEvilClone response!

11:28 AM

@OrigamiRob!

Awwww

Q: Is there a natural crit. chance?

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In Dead Island, an attack with a weapon, that lands on an enemy has a chance of being a critical hit, dealing more damage and applying the special effect of the weapon if it can do so. People often speak of critical hit chance by adding up explicit bonus values but not a default one, which if it ...

Q: Can legendary firearms spawn?

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In Dead Island, there are named legendary weapons which are an upper class of orange rarity, la crème da la crème. Wikis document named legendary firearms, but I have never seen one spawn nor have I seen anyone with one in my community where modding is not possible. Could I ever find one of these?

Q: Should I let fans of my game continue developing a fan game or not?

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I recently got this message from my employee: A bunch of fans have re-used material from my game about a pirate's adventure in The Scene. What are the advantages and disadvantages of stopping the fans or letting them be?

game-dev-tycoon

11:51 AM

New router has finally arrived, this one supports fancy things like port forwarding

badp

@fredley heh. Who needs that

@badp I know right. Feature bloat.

badp

I hope I won't because the... household owner is changing us to a carrier that's been using CGN since ever

(carrier grade NAT)

They say that port forwarding is one phone call away but...

I'm bored

Q: Which shotgun is better for safe distance dismemberment?

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In Dead Island, there are two types of shotguns: shotguns and short shotguns. In comparison to the latter, the former holds two more shells, is more accurate, shoots fewer pellets, and seems to reload faster. If I want to make sure that I don't miss any pellets with a short shotgun, I have to get...

Q: Which platforms are popular with which target audiences?

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I recently got this sales report: As subtly hinted by my game's name, I developed an Action Sports game for the Gameling platform. Turns out this wasn't very popular with the target audience. Hence, my question: Which platforms are popular with which target audiences?

game-dev-tycoon

12:05 PM

@kalina Come stare at some unixporn reddit.com/r/unixporn

@badp That sounds awful.

Just curious, does any of your ISP offer fixed IP address for your domestic internet connection?

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Mine doesn't officially offer it, but their DHCP server usually gives the requested address

12:21 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone sorry that's a reddit link, I refuse to click it

@kalina Your loss

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I disagree

neatorama.com/2013/04/30/…

@fredley Did you hear this?

@LessPop_MoreFizz sigh at you

@LessPop_MoreFizz I am listening

@kalina I have given up on working at home, I'm now sitting in a sunny cafe terrace instead.

12:31 PM

@fredley what are you trying to achieve?

@kalina Envy

@fredley interesting

you obviously forgot I am nocturnal and thus not a huge fan of the sun

@kalina Also possibly explosions.

@kalina I can't see my screen that well, but that's not a massive deal

@kalina Eat something. Preferably ice cream cake.

either nocturnal or vampiric

I just ate ice cream

it was tasty

12:33 PM

But was it cake?

A nocturnal vampiric arsonist cake eater

@kalina If not, you should eat some cake to even it out.

no it was ice cream

I am sat in a wonderfully air conditioned office

I DID A @BADP

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only problem I am experiencing is that I am in a skirt and my legs are FREEZING

12:34 PM

@kalina I solve this problem by wearing trousers

yes but it's really warm outside

@OrigamiRobot You... abused your power?

@YiJiang'sEvilClone What little power I have, yes.

@kalina So... you actually want to go outside?

@kalina I used to wear jeans everyday when I lived in Bangalore. In April. 40 degrees and 99% humidity.

12:35 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone no but I have to travel outside to get from work to home

@kalina Solution: work and home in the same place

@fredley I can't wear jeans to work. Stupid business casual. :(

most importantly, HR are in the office again today and I wanted to try and avoid looking like I fell out of bed this morning

BUSINESS CASUAL ISN'T CASUAL AT ALL.

@OrigamiRobot Lame. I've never had a job that I had to wear a suit for.

12:36 PM

Also, I just discovered that the performance issue relating to this website I'm testing disappeared the moment I closed Firebug.

Or anything at all.

@fredley No, that's business formal.

@OrigamiRobot our office dress code is "business casual"

I just have to wear slacks and a polo.

24 secs ago, by fredley

Or anything at all.

12:36 PM

WHICH IS THE WORST

I am wearing a denim skirt and a tshirt with a mushroom cloud on it

@FREDLEY GOES TO WORK NAKED: DATA ACCEPTED

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@OrigamiRobot Lame. I wear jeans, or if it's hot, linen trousers. Tshirts

@OrigamiRobot Feels like I'm wearin' nothin' at all!

I'd rather wear a suit than business casual.

feels like I'm wearing nothing at all

@OrigamiRobot a suit you say? purr

12:37 PM

@OrigamiRobot Yeah me too. Either dress up or don't.

@fredley Exactly. Business casual is like the horrible middle ground.

Super uncomfortable and doesn't even look fancy.

In India the dress code was ridiculous: Mon-Tue - formal. Wed-Thur Formal without tie. Friday: Casual, with many, many caveats.

@OrigamiRobot Yeah. Sounds even more oppresive.

@fredley tshirts with mushroom clouds?

my tshirt is completely relevant to my work

@kalina eh?

@fredley I can wear jeans and tennis shoes on Friday.

Sconibulus

12:39 PM

I dunno, slacks are more comfy than jeans to me

whenever I use the product we make, it explodes

@OrigamiRobot wtf are tennis shoes?

@kalina You work for a nuclear power station?

@YiJiang'sEvilClone no

@fredley Sneakers

12:39 PM

@Sconibulus Get jeans that fit

@YiJiang'sEvilClone you were also two posts too slow

The dress code at my place of work is the worst!

@OrigamiRobot I am British. We have 'trainers', that's it.

Sconibulus

I have jeans that fit... slacks are just more betterer

"betterer"

-.-

12:40 PM

@fredley Sneakers or tennis shoes over here, depending on the region.

@Sconibulus nah

@OrigamiRobot why are they called sneakers?

@kalina duh

I would accept "running shoe"

or "training shoe"

but you don't do much sneaking in them

@kalina Hell if I know. Why are they called tennis shoes?

12:40 PM

because you play tennis in them?

Actually, mine might be the best due to simplicity:

No

@kalina Too specialist. Would wear for participating in sport, not for fashion

I don't run, train, sneak, or play tennis in my shoes.

@kalina The term 'Sneaker' comes from the fact that rubber soles tend to be much quieter than leather soled shoes.

12:41 PM

@NightExcessive What's ACU?

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Army Combat Uniform

So, you could sneak around in a sneaker, much more easily.

@LessPop_MoreFizz I don't understand

@LessPop_MoreFizz Loafer

why adopt a language that has words for all of these things and then invent new words

12:42 PM

For... loafing?

@fredley slippers are for slipping

sandals for sanding

@kalina Trousers are for trousing.

@kalina Why have a language where pants and underpants are the same thing?

leggings for... legging

@OrigamiRobot pants and underpants are the same thing

@kalina Jumpers are for jumping

12:43 PM

you are talking about trousers I suspect

@OrigamiRobot It's called abbreviation

@kalina Then what are they under?

@OrigamiRobot trousers, leggings, skirts, jeans, shorts

@fredley That is the worst abbreviation ever.

dresses

12:43 PM

@OrigamiRobot nothin' at all!

@kalina There was no word for Sneakers until long after we split from your silly little antiquiarian country.

@fredley We do, in fact, loaf around in loafers.

@fredley Loafers have leather soles, which are much louder than those of a sneaker typically.

At least, some folks do.

@OrigamiRobot *dances*

12:44 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz we've demonstrated how stupid your naming conventions are

@kalina And pants. Undershirts go under shirts and underpants go under pants. Unless you're a superhero.

@LessPop_MoreFizz So they are louders?

Q: Does Find Rare Items actually work?

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In Borderlands, some COMs like Scavenger and Catalyst can come with a bottom line bonus which is either +1 or +2 Find Rare Items. What's this do?

borderlands

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Q: Does sleeping in a bed provide a benefit?

Title says it all - does having your people sleep in a bed provide an advantage like faster fatigue regeneration?

timber-and-stone

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Q: Is mBox or Playsystem a better platform?

What are the specific differences between the platforms? Which family is better suited for games of a type/genre/audience? Why should I develop games for one vs the other, considering they are very close in market volume pretty consistently? Are games with higher graphics or tech values better on...

game-dev-tycoon

@fredley boots are for booting

@fredley Well, they are a subset of louders.

12:45 PM

@GrumpyLazers subjective

*starts countdown timer till this conversation devolves into Arqadians vs. Arqanoids*

@kalina Sweaters are for sweating

@fredley fleeces are for fleecing

@kalina If you stick a USB device with a bootloader in your shoes you could boot from your boots!

@YiJiang'sEvilClone arqadians obviously

12:45 PM

@kalina No, you've gone off the rails. Things have to be -ers.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone so I could boot my boots while booting with my boots?

@kalina dawg

listen, trainers are called trainers because you train in them

you don't sneak in them

@kalina choo choo

@kalina what if I want to sneak in them?

12:47 PM

@NightExcessive then you'd get something that didn't squeak if you didn't lift your feet on wooden floors

@kalina But I don't train in my sneakers. They are just everyday footwear.

@LessPop_MoreFizz you train to exist every day

Solution to sneaking: lay carpet everywhere

Jigokuniku

@fredley This statement makes me want to make owning a cocker spaniel illegal.

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@LessPop_MoreFizz do you wear a baseball cap backwards when you wear your sneakers?

and "walk with a limp"

12:48 PM

@Jigokuniku Cocker spaniels are for... Oh Lawd!

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@kalina It's called jiving

@fredley But I have allerg- achoo!

@fredley do you speak jive?

@YiJiang'sEvilClone It's ok, we can lay synthetic

@fredley Shiiiiit, maaaaan. That honky muf' be messin' mah old lady... got to be runnin' cold upside down his head, you know?

@kalina Hey home', I can dig it. Know ain't gonna lay no mo' big rap up on you, man!

12:49 PM

@fredley I say hey, sky... subba say I wan' see...

@kalina Uh-huh.

@fredley ...pray to J I did the same-ol', same-ol'!

@kalina Hey... knock a self a pro, Slick! That gray matter backlot perform us DOWN, I take TCB-in', man!

@fredley Hey, you know what they say: see a broad to get dat booty yak 'em...

@kalina ...leg 'er down a smack 'em yak 'em!

12:50 PM

..leg 'er down a smack 'em yak 'em!

COL' got to be! Y'know? Shiiiiit.

I'm... gonna go... over there now...

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Jigokuniku

@kalina Translation: Golly

@kalina o/

@fredley pros

@kalina much more pro

12:52 PM

much pro level: over 9000

I'm sorry, I'll never mix memes again, I swear...

well, that was one way to end the conversation

while scaring off half of the bridge

That was terrible, and now I feel dirty

I was putting on pants.

I'll go shower now...

I was taking off pants.

12:53 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone in acid

I have no pants on

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Well, yeah, you just mentioned you're wearing a denim skirt.

@kalina Risky, with a skirt

@GraceNote yep, still successfully executed star bait though

@fredley American pants

duh

@kalina Still don't understand the concept, I think @OrigamiRobot should try and explain it again

@fredley me too

12:54 PM

And now that the pants are gone, I'm also going to shower!

@kalina I've lost count of the number of times I made Gordon Freeman do that

@NightExcessive you and @YiJiang'sEvilClone are going to shower?

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@NightExcessive get, or get in?

@fredley I fixed it before you caught it :D

@kalina Get a room. With a camera.

12:55 PM

@fredley I'm sorry, Brits will just never stand.

@OrigamiRobot ...

@OrigamiRobot I stand, I assume you mean understand

I AM STANDING RIGHT NOW

It's an abbreviation.

@kalina Yes, you can start writing shipfics now

@kalina Shit no, he's right, I've fallen over and I can't get up

@OrigamiRobot I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE

12:56 PM

@fredley Yes, it was very handed of me.

@OrigamiRobot oh right, you mean like pants is an abbreviation of underpants?

Duh.

so when you say you're wearing pants

you actually mean you have pants on top of your pants

@kalina Double pants, for extra safety.

Before, I didn't have on any kind of pants. My clothes were in the dryer.

12:58 PM

@OrigamiRobot so you were just sitting there hanging loose?

wait, I don't want to know

@OrigamiRobot TIL @OrigamiRobot has one set of clothes.

And it's slacks and a polo

@fredley I put my clothes in the dryer every morning to warm them up. I keep my apartment cold at night.

@OrigamiRobot Do Americans not have radiators?

What is this? The 50s?

What is America, some kind of third World country?

12:59 PM

I have heating, yes.

@OrigamiRobot Place clothes on heater last thing at night, so that when heaters come on in the morning they heat clothes?