The Bridge

12:00 AM

@Powerlord There are people in this world that would gladly pay 2k for one of those cards. Doesn't need much convincing, just good marketing. :P

Powerlord

@FEichinger 1. That's an emoticon, not a card. 2. That's going to become common fairly rapidly once Valve starts adding more users.

user15026

@wipqozn you are the worst

Wipqozn

@AshleyNunn Thanks

user20683

@AshleyNunn I contest that.

Wipqozn

@WorldEngineer d'awwww, thanks!

Grumpy Lazers

12:14 AM

0

Q: Can I repeat DLC maps?

I've been thinking about picking up some of the DLC packs, and I was wondering if the DLC is repeatable or whether it's restricted to one run per save file. For example, I do an early run of the easy EXP map/battle/thing. Can I do another run later in the game when I pick up some new units?

fire-emblem-awakening

Wipqozn

Oh, @AshleyNunn, that reminds me!

How are you liking Fire Emblem via digital? Any problems?

SimonL

12:37 AM

man... its quiet in here.

user20683

yeah, not sure why

user15026

@wipqozn no it works well on digital if you have the space for it

Ben Brocka

@AshleyNunn Lab Zero is streaming animation again. She's doing Val's taunt now: twitch.tv/labzero

user15026

@benbrocka awesome!

Ben Brocka

1:01 AM

@AshleyNunn if I do a test stream would you help me check the quality?

SimonL

@BenBrocka I can.

user15026

I would, but I'm not home til 10ish... :(

user15026

I mean if you can wait I would love to help especially if there is more Neptunia

Ben Brocka

@AshleyNunn what time zone?

user15026

EST

Ben Brocka

1:05 AM

@AshleyNunn I might be. I'll just test quick now since @SimonL's up to it though

Messing around in Skullgirls right now

one moment

user15026

Cool beans, I will ping you later and see what you feel like :)

SimonL

I'm ready whenever you are Ben.

Ben Brocka

facepalm

Powerlord

@SimonL I'll never be Ben.

OrigamiRobot

1:24 AM

@Powerlord golfclap

SimonL

@Powerlord I'm not getting this joke...

Powerlord

@SimonL It's a joke about how punctuation, or lack thereof, changes the meaning of a sentence.

Grumpy Lazers

0

Q: How do I level high-rank units quickly?

I just made Sumia a Dark Flier and I'm attempting to get her to level 15 before I reach Chapter 13 so that I can get a certain build. With the EXP rate being what it is at her rank (I'm gaining roughly 10 EXP per unit killed), I'm going to run through quite a few Reeking Boxes or wait an inordina...

fire-emblem-awakening

SimonL

@Powerlord my grasp on english punctuation is fairly poor as I learned french first - would you care to enlighten me on the joke?

Powerlord

@SimonL Oh. Well, without a comma before Ben, it's an undirected sentence saying that you're ready whenever the person you're talking to is Ben.

Gaming Topics From Outside

1:38 AM

2

Q: need sound card or not for pc, gaming

Recently bought a turtlebeach px21 headset and also a gtx650ti. Do I still need to get a separate sound card for better gaming sound and performance or is there a sound card component in the gtx650ti that I can use via hdmi/dvi? I couldn't locate a PC Q/A stackexchange site, so hope this question...

audio sound-card gaming

Fluttershy

1:49 AM

Steam needs to send me my thing already. =P

OrigamiRobot

@SimonL Read as: Whenever you are Ben, I am ready.

SimonL

@Powerlord as an interesting aside, people that have shorter names, on average earn more money - you may want to change your name from powerlord to ben ;)

user15026

Made it home to my bed. Feel like a rock star. (because of my back, my normal walk took me 30 min instead of 10)

LessPop_MoreFizz

Hotel Internets are the worst Internets.

user15026

Ouch.

Fluttershy

2:02 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz I know that feel.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Fluttershy I left better internets behind to follow the siren song of free beer.

Fluttershy

When I was in the hotel in WA, I was paying $15 a week for them to up my speed to 5 Mb/s... =\

SaintWacko

@BenBrocka My current primary weapons on my gunzerker are a fire splatgun and a slag splatgun, both of which have bouncing projectiles which explode on every impact. I gunzerk with both of those, and the room is very quickly a field of fire and slag :D

Also @EveryoneElseWhoPlaysBorderlands

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Fluttershy Yeah, this one offered me similar for 4 mbps

Powerlord

@SimonL My real name only has 4 letters... in my first name

Ullallulloo

2:05 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz Faster than mine. =/

OrigamiRobot

@LessPop_MoreFizz My upload is faster than that :/

Fluttershy

I stayed at a hotel in St. Louis that had free wifi speeds of 30 mbps. It was pretty awesome.

user15026

@Fluttershy O.o

Ben Brocka

@AshleyNunn I'm streaming now

user15026

@BenBrocka Sweet!

Fluttershy

2:19 AM

7 hours ago, by FEichinger

Steam just went full meta.

user15026

@Fluttershy So Steam is turning into Kongregate of the actual game world

Fluttershy

I don't use Kongregate, so... sure? =D

user15026

@Fluttershy Flash games + achievements/points/badge (that I think get you stuff in the US sometimes? idk, being all Canadian)

Fluttershy

@AshleyNunn Ah, gotcha.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@AshleyNunn It's just MS Style Gamerscore because people have only been asking for it for years upon years upon years.

Also, the achievement to unlock a longer friends list makes me a little angry tbqh

user15026

2:27 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz ???

LessPop_MoreFizz

@AshleyNunn One of the unlockables from steam trading cards is an increase in the cap on the size of your steam friends list

user15026

@LessPop_MoreFizz Oh, I see

user15026

that's kinda crap

user15026

I mean like MS Gamerscore it is useless to me, I don't play enough stuff or play it thoroughly, really, to earn more than like a couple story achievements

spyder

2:50 AM

Morning

user15026

@spyder evening :)

Fluttershy

G'night, Bridge!

spyder

@AshleyNunn globalization :D

user15026

@Fluttershy Good night!

James

3:47 AM

Woah

@AshleyNunn Permanent price drop on Skyrim!?

user15026

@James ???

James

:)

user15026

(nice sneaky edit)

James

@AshleyNunn Thanks :)

haha

At that price I could force it upon @Fluttershy and make him waste hours of his time, Muwahahahahaha :D

user15026

@James That would be....mean and nice?

James

3:50 AM

@AshleyNunn best way to do things, so nothing is ever with out a price, even if its free ;)

user15026

giggles

James

Skyrim is one of those games that I do not regret time spent with it though.

user15026

I am trying to keep myself from acquiring anything new (which worked not so well yesterday when I ended up getting a copy of Radiant Historia from Amazon)

James

@AshleyNunn Why ya avoiding newness?

user20683

@James Brokeness I'd imagine

spyder

3:51 AM

I need advice. Is there a unified messenger for Android? icq, skype, fb, jabber - all in one program

user15026

@WorldEngineer Yeaaaaah

user15026

@spyder ummmm, I believe so, hang on

James

@AshleyNunn Didn't you or aren't you graduating soonish though?

@spyder Trillian? seems to work for em all and I think they have an android app

user15026

@James Ah, yes that is the one I was thinking of

user15026

@James December.

user15026

3:53 AM

So....kinda soon but not soon enough for my bank account

James

@AshleyNunn Ah, no graduation game for you then... yet :)

spyder

Btw, will you buy Google Glass? When the price decrease, of course :)

James

@spyder Friend of mine got into the beta test. Crashing at my place (if plans still hold) and I am his +1.. so maybe Ill just be in the beta :D

user15026

@spyder Trying to figure out how it would work with my high high high eyeglass prescription

James

@AshleyNunn I would hope that would be one of the first things they tackled fixing.

user15026

3:55 AM

@James yeah

user15026

because otherwise that would suck

James

@AshleyNunn Yeah for like a huge majority of people, hehe

user15026

(for reference, I can see about 4 inches away from my face without my glasses before things get hellaciously blurry

James

@AshleyNunn Did ya see that comic about he person who wakes up and uses their phone to look for their glasses?? :)

user15026

@James Nope

user15026

3:57 AM

Although this mroning I did have to crawl all over my floor because my glasses werent on my nighttable. It was unfun

James

@AshleyNunn hehe, Keep your phone near by next time? :)

I can not find it.. was on Imgur or macrowhatever I think :/

Was funny though :)

I think the last frame had a picture of Jordi Le Forge

user15026

@James I need a way to like make them beep or something when I lose them :P

James

@AshleyNunn Oi, wouldnt that drive you nuts at night ?

user15026

@James Yeah...so it would have to be like something I could trigger, like with my phone or something

user15026

someone needs to work on this

James

4:00 AM

@AshleyNunn Could probably do it. I know they have those for car keys.. would just be about making it small enough

user15026

@James Yeah, that would be the thing

user15026

but I know I would certainly appreciate it

user20683

4:14 AM

It's so weird diving through my old forum posts

user20683

it's like reading an entirely different person

Ben Brocka

I don't even know what many of my old online aliases were

I only have a couple active accounts prior to my pseudonym to rule them all

user20683

I've been on Gamespot since 2003

user20683

Myth-Weavers since 2005

user20683

though I'm rarely active on either anymore

user20683

4:16 AM

various other fora, most of which don't exist anymore/aren't active

user15026

I deleted a lot of mine

user20683

okay confession time

user20683

I found some of my old Star Trek fan fiction

Ullallulloo

@WorldEngineer Post?

user15026

@WorldEngineer Niiiiice

user20683

4:20 AM

Let me grab it off the forum its on and put it on my blog

Ullallulloo

@WorldEngineer Get together with @Mana for his Bridge fan fiction.

user15026

@WorldEngineer :D

user20683

due to computer failures over the years and fora dying off there are whole chunks of my life missing

Ullallulloo

That doesn't ping him. =/

user15026

@WorldEngineer Yeah a lot of the RPs I was in have long gone dark, so my early online life is pretty gone. Especially because I also deleted my dA account

Ullallulloo

4:24 AM

I haven't deleted anything of my online activity really.

I just hope no one finds it due to the name change.

Even though I link the names often.

Twelve year-old me is embarrassing.

user20683

@AshleyNunn I theoretically have a LJ

user15026

@WorldEngineer I have one

user20683

given why I created that...I try not to remember

Ullallulloo

What do all of these acronyms mean???

user20683

@Ullallulloo for us to know :)

user15026

4:26 AM

@WorldEngineer yeah, I created my second one, and I still have it but I never post

user20683

;)

Ullallulloo

:(

user15026

and it is pretty f-locked

spyder

@James Trillian is nice, but... it cannot retrieve my contact list via xmpp :(

James

@spyder o.O

user15026

4:30 AM

@spyder that sucks

Ullallulloo

Role Plays
Deviant Art
Live Journal
?

spyder

VK

user20683

pidgin or adium depending on system

spyder

> Is there a unified messenger for Android? icq, skype, fb, jabber - all in one program

user20683

ah, no idea about android

Grumpy Lazers

4:34 AM

0

Q: A way to raise or lower terrain?

I'm trying to build a ferry terminal along my coast. However, when i place a ferry building along the cost, the access road is too steep of an incline and I can't build a connecting road to complete my road circuit. Is there a way to raise or lower terrain to smooth out the terrain enough for me...

simcity

user20683

sorry rather tired

Ben Brocka

I would recommend IMO but they just lost Skype and no one knows why

Trillian should be able to get your contact lists...I never had that problem with it

user20683

@AshleyNunn

user20683

flippingobvious.blogspot.com/2013/05/…

user15026

@WorldEngineer This is actually not bad

spyder

4:37 AM

@BenBrocka successfully logged-in but contact list still empty

user15026

I mean I am lacking familiarity with your source material, @WorldEngineer, but its cool

Gaming Topics From Outside

0

Q: StreamReader Multiple lines

I am trying to figure out how to read multiple lines whith StreamReader. I have a text file with a list of commands inside it that I need to read from. My code works, however it will only read the first line. This causes me to have to move all my commands to a single line with a space between the...

c# text-files streamreader gaming

user20683

@AshleyNunn I don't really remember where I was going with it.

user20683

That was always the problem with those things at that age

user15026

@WorldEngineer Yep. I have a lot of notebooks with stories that never went anywhere

spyder

4:46 AM

Hmm... found another messenger, IM+. May be it better than Trillian

user15026

@spyder I used that for a while, I liked it

spyder

@AshleyNunn what is difference between free and pro versions?

user15026

@spyder I have no idea, I just used the free one

spyder

5:06 AM

@AshleyNunn hallelujah!

works fine

Krazer

@spyder FWIK the pro version is ad-free and it enables the cloud-based chat history storage

Grumpy Lazers

5:49 AM

0

Q: How many times can I feed as a Vampire?

I was wondering if I turned into a vampire in Skyrim, how many times can I feed in order to turn myself back to stage 1? I am under the assumption that NPCs don't respawn, so there must be a hard limit to the number of times I can feed on them to turn myself back to stage 1.

skyrim vampirism npc

user15026

6:24 AM

Bah humbug, awake :(

spyder

This week, Tesla Motors announced that in the first quarter of 2013, it earned its first-ever corporate profit

user15026

@spyder This is a cause for yay, yes?

spyder

@AshleyNunn future is near? :)

user15026

@spyder I know nothing about the company, so I suspect I am missing some information

user15026

Oh, okay, I see now, after some research

spyder

6:30 AM

Tesla Motors

| operating_income = | net_income = | assets = | equity = | products = Tesla RoadsterTesla Model STesla Model X | num_employees = 2,964 (December 2012) | homepage = [http://www.teslamotors.com/ TeslaMotors.com] | footnotes = }} Tesla Motors, Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based company that designs, manufactures and sells electric cars and electric vehicle powertrain components. Tesla Motors is a public company that trades on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol TSLA. After 10 years, Tesla posted profits for the first time during t...

badp

So I just had this mild nightmare where I learned that I was being flunked this current year because I had hit the absence limit at high school

spyder

60 kWh enough for 370 km
1 kWh is about 0.20€
0.20€ х 60 = 12€ for 370 km

About five times cheaper than gasoline

badp

and if the batteries run out the car bricks completely

spyder

@badp electric motors reliable because fewer moving parts. Battery life is something about 5 years. Many people change cars every five years :)

But if you replace ALL cars to electric vehicles, mankind should increase electricity production by 100%

badp

7:01 AM

Regardless, the bricking part remains a problem

and we aren't going to have petrol forever anyway

spyder

7:41 AM

@badp hm?

Martin Sojka

@spyder Now, if only those things weren't either slow, expensive, or without a decent range ...

spyder

@MartinSojka 370km

Martin Sojka

@spyder I drive 1000km per week on average.

Anything that's "below 500km on one fill" is too damn short.

spyder

@MartinSojka with presence of a wide network of charging stations, as in California, it shouldn't be a problem

badp

8:00 AM

so it's a firster than first world grade solution. Great

Grumpy Lazers

8:52 AM

0

Q: How does the game's stealth and detection mechanics work?

I would like to dispatch enemies stealthily whenever possible, and I have these questions to further that goal: Any tips and tricks on staying hidden? What are efficient ways of killing enemies stealthily? How do enemies detect the player character? Do the sounds you make matter? Does walk...

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