The Bridge

GnomeSlice

11:00 PM

Also true. :P

@RedRiderX I recommend springbreakhero.com

I'm up for some track sharing if you want

You'll see what I mean once you play it.

Tim Stone

Heh, Chrome thinks the downloads from the Greenlight Bundle are malicious.

RedRiderX

@GnomeSlice And what would this be?

GnomeSlice

@RedRiderX A super awesome game.

You need unity though I think.

And you only need one hand

Build your own tracks, the auto generation sucks

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice Those two questions are nothing alike.

one is asking about the plot of the game, and another is asking about the names of levels.

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn They're 'useless' because they don't ask about playing the game

I wasn't even talking to you

11:08 PM

development lore?

@GnomeSlice yea

1

Q: What are the effects of ramming with tanks and how to do it effectively?

I normally play German but I am encountering an increasing number of Russian players who get T-34's and ram my tanks with theirs or roll over my sniper before I can move them. It is the worst when my tanks are rammed because it breaks my main gun and my engine. When I decided to go Russian and ...

company-of-heroes-2

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice Unless I missed something, @fbueckert never said that not about playing the game != useful.

GnomeSlice

Somebody did

What defines useful then

Wipqozn

11:10 PM

Besides, it's not like portal 2 is the only one with plot questions

GnomeSlice

Actually, I don't feel like arguing about it any more right now, sorry.

Wipqozn

5

Q: Who are the Combine?

In the beginning of the game, you are simply dropped into a world, where there are robot-like creatures attacking you. Who or what are the combine? Are they a part-robot, part-human race? Are they new aliens? Are they drones made to replicate an army, or police force?

half-life-2

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn Yeah, I know, it's just the easiest one to find them from at a moment's notice.

RedRiderX

@GnomeSlice Huh, cute.

But the control is terrible.

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice Which is why confirmation bias is a bad thing.

GnomeSlice

11:11 PM

@Wipqozn ?

@RedRiderX Noooooo it isn't

RedRiderX

That might be on purpose I guess.

GnomeSlice

It's boaty

Wipqozn

You claim that we make exceptions for Portal since you only look for Portal questions.

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn That's correct. I'm sure you make exceptions for other shit, but I don't know about any of it

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice Whoevers voting. It's subjective

GnomeSlice

11:11 PM

So I can't make claims about it.

Wipqozn

Some people think lore questions are useless. I don't.

GnomeSlice

I said I don't want to argue about this right now.

You're right, I'm wrong, etc.

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice Which is exactly the point.

You can't claim we're making exceptions when you're only looking at one game. And if we're making a large number of exceptions then there's probably more at work and they're not exceptions.

GnomeSlice

@Ullallulloo We should play atWar sometime, this is actually really cool

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice I'm fine with this.

GnomeSlice

11:13 PM

@Wipqozn Then you're making exceptions for the ones you downvote and close

The point is that I'm pointing out two similar things receiving different treatment.

Either portal is getting the exceptions, or the other stuff is

Powerlord

Bacon!

GnomeSlice

But yeah, let's not get into it right now.

Powerlord

er... I mean I'm back

GnomeSlice

Not really in the mood, sorry.

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice Except as I just said there is a difference between those questions. It has nothing to do with it being Portal.

Powerlord

11:14 PM

I haven't had my laptop on since Valve updated TF2 with a ~1GiB update.

Taking forever to update so I can test the thing I mentioned to badp earlier.

Wipqozn

I downloaded that last question about Portal you linked since I don't think it's a good question.

I didn't give it a pass since it's Portal.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Canadians are terrible drivers.

user20683

Evening

LessPop_MoreFizz

I am glad that the State Department warned me about this.

Wipqozn

@LessPop_MoreFizz Except me.

user20683

11:15 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz Have you driven in Atlanta?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@WorldEngineer Yes.

user20683

@LessPop_MoreFizz how do they compare?

LessPop_MoreFizz

Toronto traffic is like Atlanta traffic, except nobody uses turn signals for anything ever.

user20683

@LessPop_MoreFizz ah, so Gwinnett County

LessPop_MoreFizz

Also people run red lights with abandon.

Wipqozn

11:16 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz That sounds like a terrible experience.

user20683

Walton County

Wipqozn

I've never had that problem in Nova Scotia.

user20683

@Wipqozn aren't you on an Island?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@WorldEngineer Yeah, but with the traffic density of anything inside the Atlanta beltway/loop/whatever you call your circular interstate spur.

user20683

@LessPop_MoreFizz /ominous "The Perimeter"

LessPop_MoreFizz

11:17 PM

my commute from work area to hotel is like 10 miles but it takes like 45 minutes.

Wipqozn

@WorldEngineer No.

user20683

@Wipqozn okay, an almost island

Wipqozn

Part of Nova Scotia is an Island. Cape Breton.

user20683

a 98% of the way there island

LessPop_MoreFizz

@WorldEngineer I live on an island! But we have lots of traffic.

user20683

11:18 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz New York is a hell of a town.

LessPop_MoreFizz

But yeah, Toronto apparantly has the worst traffic in North America - only Mexico City competes for the title.

user20683

@LessPop_MoreFizz damn

LessPop_MoreFizz

@WorldEngineer It's an ArcHipELago of a town.

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz Toronto is pretty bad

tugs

@LessPop_MoreFizz I remember enjoying driving in Toronto

user20683

11:19 PM

I hear Dhaka is like the worst ever

LessPop_MoreFizz

@tugs Do you like sitting in gridlock while three streetcars unload passengers into the middle of the road or something?

tugs

@LessPop_MoreFizz No, but I remember gridlock being at predictable times so I'd just avoid those times.

Haven't been there in a while though, maybe it's changed

spugsley

WHAT IS UP GUYS

LessPop_MoreFizz

@tugs It has been pretty much all day every day that I have driven here.

user20683

@spugsley less than I would like to be up

spugsley

11:22 PM

:(

2

WHY U STAR THAT IT IS SAD

LessPop_MoreFizz

What I find strange is that the traffic is substantially worse along the 401 out of the city into the burbs than in in the morning, and in to the city in the afternoon/evening; I guess it's a case of residential core with all of the jobs on the edges, but it's definitely an unusual traffic pattern.

Wipqozn

I...I can't do it. Starring it just makes me think of John. Then I miss John.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@spugsley Stars for Sadness is the way of the bridge.

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn Did he leave?

spugsley

OMG IT'S AN @AshleyNunn

Wipqozn

11:23 PM

@GnomeSlice No, but he's never around anymore.

spugsley

HI

Wipqozn

Once in a blue ~~mun~~ moon.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@GnomeSlice not in any formal sense, he just kinda... stopped showing up.

spugsley

@Wipqozn sounds like someone I know coughcough @IanPugsley

Ullallulloo

@Wipqozn It was his birthday just recently.

Wipqozn

11:24 PM

@Ullallulloo I know. I wished him a happy birthday.

GnomeSlice

Aw

Maybe we need more struts.

user15026

@spugsley indeed it is a me

Wipqozn

@spugsley Yeah, he was a rad guy too. I really miss his avatar. His avatar was the best thing ever.

spugsley

Right now he is playing Skullgirls

so many boobs

5

like all of them

user15026

<3 skullgirls

user20683

11:25 PM

@spugsley well it's not called "Skull*boys*"

spugsley

:o

user20683

/imagines a weird emo setup with codpieces

spugsley

@WorldEngineer :O can this happen?!

GnomeSlice

Skullgirls doesn't look even half as bad/good as Soul Calibur in terms of boobage.

user15026

@worldengineer I would play it

spugsley

11:26 PM

@GnomeSlice lol I like the bad/good

um @AshleyNunn our mans was at it again on the Dance show :o

LessPop_MoreFizz

@WorldEngineer Isn't this lots of fighting games already?

user20683

@LessPop_MoreFizz mine would be especially emo

LessPop_MoreFizz

Not in the Wildstar Beta? Angry about it? Play the Indie Edition!

user20683

and have especially flamboyant codpieces

spugsley

@WorldEngineer omg yes

user15026

11:28 PM

@spugsley hells yes

RedRiderX

@LessPop_MoreFizz Hah!

That's great.

spugsley

Also, I'm writing agian :3

user15026

@worldengineer can we make that a thing already

spugsley

After not looking at my unfinished story for almost a year

user15026

@spugsley super cool!

spugsley

11:28 PM

yeah @OrigamiRobot half convinced me (and by that he just listened to me whine about it )

user20683

Actually we totally could

user20683

Mugen

user20683

we could do a Mugen mod

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz This actually looks really sweet

> Travel through high-altitude deserts, Eldan secret laboratory bases, and other areas ripped off from Super Metroid.

11:35 PM

@badp So, my Spy Fake Dominations plugin works perfectly. :D

Just "dominated" a Spy disguised as a Pyro and it played the Pyro dominated clip. :D

user20683

It's not bad, not anywhere near done but not bad

OrigamiRobot

@wipqozn I beg to differ

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot I'd rather not know about your hobbies which involve putting ferrets down your pants.

OrigamiRobot

What if I told you I named the ferret @GnomeSlice?

Wipqozn

11:41 PM

@OrigamiRobot What you and @GnomeSlice do in your pants is your own business.

3

You guys would make a cute couple though.

GnomeSlice

=[

LessPop_MoreFizz

> Chinese man tries to board plane with pet turtle disguised as hamburger

@Wipqozn YOU ARE NOT A HAMBURGER. THAT DISGUISE DOES NOT WORK.

Wipqozn

@LessPop_MoreFizz Everything was going fine until someone tried to eat me!

OrigamiRobot

@GnomeSlice why is it humiliating or degenerative?

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot He must hate Robot x Human relationships.

GnomeSlice

11:44 PM

@OrigamiRobot bceause pants

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Wipqozn deathandtaxesmag.com/203084/…

Wipqozn

@LessPop_MoreFizz hahahahah, that picture is fantastic

> “There’s no turtle in there, just a hamburger,” Li reportedly insisted. “There’s nothing special to see inside.”

That's not suspicious at all.

OrigamiRobot

@GnomeSlice pants are humiliating?

GnomeSlice

@OrigamiRobot Yes

Hahahahahahahahaha

OrigamiRobot

Interesting

Wipqozn

11:47 PM

@OrigamiRobot Ugly ones are.

GnomeSlice

Too bad he spelled it wrong

FAE

@LessPop_MoreFizz So true.

GnomeSlice

Papo & Yo is Less than Four Dollars on Steam, but that is Less Than Four Dollars that I do not have. =[

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice I...what?

You mean four dollars more than you have?

GnomeSlice

It is (less than four dollars) that I do not have.

LessPop_MoreFizz

11:49 PM

@FAE The state department issues an official warning on the subject.

GnomeSlice

I don't have $3.74

user20683

@WendiKidd chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/10613370#10613370

FAE

@LessPop_MoreFizz That's... kinda hilarious. Also, no one keeps right, EVER.

Wipqozn

> On the Island of Montréal, it is illegal to turn right on a red light. The rest of Québec had similar restrictions, but these were rescinded in 2003.

TIL Quebec is silly.

WendiKidd

@WorldEngineer @.@ That's a joke, yes? /scared

FAE

11:50 PM

I don't know why, but as soon as I'm over the border, people just like... stop following that rule.

Fluttershy

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@BenBrocka This seems relevant to your interests.

user20683

@WendiKidd actual ad

GnomeSlice

@Fluttershy this is crazy

spugsley

@Wipqozn out of context, this may be the most terrifying statement I've ever read

RedRiderX

@Fluttershy Yeah for SmoothMcGroove!

Fluttershy

11:51 PM

Oh hey! I found one for @LessPop_MoreFizz!

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LessPop_MoreFizz

@Wipqozn No right on red in NYC either. That is the one thing that doesn't seem weird to me at all.

Private Pansy

@Wipqozn You aren't allowed to turn left on red here unless there's a sign saying you can

LessPop_MoreFizz

Right on red is not the best idea in places with heavy pedestrian traffic.

Wipqozn

@Fluttershy I like how his count is like "So tired of this shit"

WendiKidd

@WorldEngineer Nintendo was not thinking straight apparently.

@LessPop_MoreFizz "Some provinces require drivers to keep their headlights on during the day." But why? o.o

user20683

11:52 PM

@WendiKidd Nintendo of the 90s was...weird.

user20683

@LessPop_MoreFizz That's actually common in the US now

FAE

@WendiKidd Visibility

user20683

also Europe

FAE

@WorldEngineer Yeah, we don't have right on red here in the Netherlands.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@WendiKidd DLR's are mandatory on a lot of new cars as well. Improves visibility in lots of situations and also reduces the damage an idiot can do by forgetting to turn them on.

Private Pansy

11:53 PM

> At intersections, directional signs will indicate only which turn is allowed; any other turn is prohibited.

Duh?

Wipqozn

@PrivatePansy It's the opposite in Nova Scotia, Right-turns on red are allowed as long as there isn't a sign saying the opposite.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FAE Right on red makes lots of sense in big sparse suburbs or rural areas or whatever. But in dense urban cores, it is kind of just asking for toruble.

user20683

@PrivatePansy this is not the case in the US.

WendiKidd

@PrivatePansy Yeah I wondered about that one too.

FAE

@LessPop_MoreFizz It'd be a bad idea here with all the bike traffic.

Wipqozn

11:53 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz Must be due to the traffic.

user20683

we generally only indicate turns at large intersections and what turns you can't make

WendiKidd

@WorldEngineer It's not? Maybe I'm misunderstanding it. Other than "no U turn" signs, what do we have?

GnomeSlice

@Fluttershy holy shit the chemical plant one

WendiKidd

hmmmmmm. maybe I don't pay enough attention

> Many highways do not have merge lanes for entering traffic.

I would not survive that

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FAE I am going to guess it is because of all the HOV's being on the right hand side of the road here, which is also dumb.

Wipqozn

11:54 PM

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Yes, yes they were.

user20683

Nerdy Kid with non-Nerdy Kid check

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FAE Bike traffic shouldn't have any impact on whether right on red is a good idea because bikes should not be running red lights. Pedestrians are the issue.

user20683

stupid, stupid, stupid rap check

FAE

@LessPop_MoreFizz Bikes here run red lights all the time.

Also the sheer bike density here is ridiculous.

user20683

@Wipqozn My favorite parody one:

user20683

11:56 PM