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10:00 AM
@badp Why? It's just pouring upsidedown
 
Is shadow of mordor good? I mean for a 50€ Game
 
@fredley Look at the thumb
 
@Jutschge I have tons of fun.
 
@5pike And it's not significantly worse than paying a trivial amount of money for the perfect tool!
 
If you don't hold that... hinge (?) down, the juice will splash on it.
 
10:01 AM
@badp Seam?
 
tab?
 
Pretty sure it's not a hinge anyway
But yeah.
 
@Jutschge I bought the game for ~23 € from a Brazilian (I think) website. They still have this deal.
 
I'd rather use an extra hand and avoid splashing everywhere.
(that was starbait)
 
@badp @Sterno
 
10:03 AM
@5pike hmm is english or german audio/text available? I'm really thinking about buying it because I have nothing to do once Season 4 ends until Warlords of Draenor is released
 
@Jutschge You get the steam key
 
and that's legal? for 23€? I mean I could also download it (legal in switzerland) but i usually don't like these shady deals :P
 
@Jutschge Yeah, it's legit. This site even has a subredit
 
oh sweet thanks^^
 
Paid with paypal.
 
10:06 AM
@Wipqozn
 
@fredley I like the horse was just being a super chill guy, just wondering what was going on, and the turtle is just "fuck you horse. fuck you right to hell."
 
@Wipqozn That's quite an impressive turn of speed. Especially mid (post?) coitus
 
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Q: Can play Shadows of Mordor in first person (à la Skyrim)?

Bram VanroyI have been looking (and drooling) at Shadows of Mordor for some time now, and the only stopping me from buying it on PC is the third person view. I don't own a console, and spending that much money only to play SoM seems a bit much. Therefore I was wondering if anyone can confirm that you can ab...

 
@Jutschge Also get the Enhanced Steam pluggin (firefox / chrome). It shows you the currently lowest price on the games page.
 
10:50 AM
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A: Can a furnace light things on fire?

Doctorsnake1224I want to play minecraft 1.8 but there is missing in the minecraft

> there is missing in the minecraft
 
@fredley Us Turtles are quicker than you think.
 
@Wipqozn What about UK turtles?
 
@fredley Probably faster still than Canadian turtles
 
> You know what fucked with my head the first time I heard the story of Solomon? The would-be baby snatcher wanted half a baby. The mother, the real mother, was "don't hurt my child, give it to anyone instead of cutting it in half!". Fair enough, makes sense. The other? Fuck yeah, I want half a baby!... why?! Because it's crockpot-sized?!?!
I laughed so hard. Le lol if you will.
 
@badp wat
 
@badp Stockphoto ahoy
 
11:15 AM
apply the heatsink before putting the processor in the motherboard. that's the best way
 
@Arperum Is that like ghost in the machine?
 
@OrigamiRobot Not a clue.
 
Probably Herobrine
 
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Q: Any reward for defeating Cuccoos?

KaiI first encountered a Cuccoo in the Great Fairy Fountain of Faron Woods. Zelda logic dictates that attacking a Cuccoo is a very bad idea. However, Zelda logic also dictates that thou must. For giggles (Link, Hero of Hyrule!). So I set about carving myself off a drumstick and, inevitably, soon ha...

 
Whatever happened to [-] Removed Herobrine
 
11:39 AM
@badp Microsoft actually removed him for good
 
11:57 AM
@fredley Just so long as it doesn't start showing up in WIndows TP build notes.
 
Anyone know what this means?
Does it mean that if I download it within the next two days I get to keep it? Or is it just a trial?
 
@RPiAwesomeness trial
 
ah
Welp, not wasting the time
back to vvvvvv
ooo..343 deaths after 2 levels. Embarrasing
 
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Q: What parts/tuning should I be using for off road cars?

RapitorIn Forza Horizon 2, you spend quite a bit of time off-roading, especially in free-roam. If I wanted to build a purely offroad car what should I go after. My main questions are in the tires, suspension, and weight aspects. As well as tuning these parts to be the most effective. So far the only t...

 
@badp @RPiAwesomeness Not so much trial as free weekend
You could see it as a limited time trial I guess
@AshleyNunn That is incredibly cute
 
12:23 PM
@RPiAwesomeness It's a good game.
 
@Yuuki Yes.
 
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@PrivatePansy It makes me so happy! When I saw it I was like "THIS HAS TO BE MINE"
 
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12:39 PM
@PrivatePansy I can totally see people wanting to play this...
 
12:54 PM
@PrivatePansy I was not prepared.
 
I wish I were playing Shadow of Mordor right now.
 
@Sterno Me too. It's a lot of fun.
 
I haven't played it. I don't even own it.
But it's got to be better than work.
 
@Sterno It probably is.
@Sterno You should buy it online now so you can get started on not playing it right away.
 
1:07 PM
I think I'll buy a PS4 first so I can not play it for the most money possible.
 
I wish I was home, decapitating uruks.
 
@5pike Stop making me want to buy a game I'll barely play because I have no time.
 
@Arperum But it's so much fun
 
@5pike That doesn't exactly help to stop my desire to buy the game.
 
1:12 PM
I had to wear my winter jacket and toque to my son's football practice last night. :(
 
@Arperum I'm trying to stop it, I'm trying to stoke it.
 
And there is a 30% chance of snow this morning.
 
Apr 26 at 1:15, by MBraedley
no shit, Sherlock!
 
@Sterno Wouldn't it be more money to buy a top of the line computer and then not play it on that instead?
 
@5pike I think you missed a word.
 
1:15 PM
@JasonBerkan Sounds about right for Regina.
 
@Frank Ha, yes
 
@Wipqozn I already have that.
 
@5pike Confusion, go!
 
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@JasonBerkan I am still in flipflops. Mind you I wore a sweater this morning, but my feet are still free
 
@AshleyNunn Awesome.
 
1:18 PM
@Sterno Yes, but now you can have two to not play.
 
@Frank Well, it was not intentional.
 
@Wipqozn I actually have two, since my wife has one too
But I guess I could have three.
 
@Sterno Yeah man, you never can have enough top of the line computers to not play.
 
What I wanted to say: I'm not trying to stop it, I'm trying to stoke it. (but that's obvious by now)
 
@Sterno Or four. So your kids can both actively not-play.
 
1:19 PM
@Sterno Speaking as a father of young children, you need an extra computer for @SkyDrift.
 
@5pike It was obvious even before.
 
In fact, I'm almost at the point where I need to create a second Steam account and buy a second copy of all the Firaxis games.
 
argh! The Tower level on VVVVVV is uber hard...moving levels. Ugh
 
I'm not contributing enough to the community
 
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@fredley What.
 
1:22 PM
@AshleyNunn I know! Appeared out of the blue
 
@fredley ... maybe for your sock?
 
@fredley That's for evil fredley, isn't it?
 
Oh wait, it is for the sock
Damn evil fredley
 
Apparently not
 
@fredley hahahaha
 
1:24 PM
Sigh
None of my games aside from VVVVVV work :(
VVVVVV, Minecraft, and Wolfenstein:ET it is for now
dangit I need to finish that PC :P
 
@RPiAwesomeness Implement all other games in Minecraft, problem solved
 
@fredley O.O The lag...
All that redstone...phew
 
@RPiAwesomeness By the time you've finished, computers will be fast enough to play those games in Minecraft with no lag
 
@fredley lol
I was referring to my pc
 
Happy Smash 3DS day!
 
1:27 PM
bbl chaps and chapettes
 
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@Powerlord Oh yeah, that's a thing.
 
@RPiAwesomeness oh hey I "got" you a working game!!
 
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Q: Can I change my starting spot before a race begins?

Zero StackIn almost every race I'm in, I have started in last place. It becomes a pain to navigate around the AI (especially when they brake-check you) when racing. Is there anyway I can start in 1st place before the race begins?

 
Restarted my 3rd ascension with 95 instead of 88 hero souls <3
and Athena's already gilded thrice
 
1:44 PM
And I thought I was doing decent with ten souls.
 
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Q: Does your Karma level affect random encounter rate?

AtaxiaIn Fallout, you'll come across insects, raiders, random enemies, etc. Does your Karma level affect how many times this happens, and does it affect the type of enemy you encounter?

 
Ooh, Ars Technica didn't like Alien: Isolation saying the AI is terribad.
 
1:59 PM
@Powerlord That's upsetting.
 
Oh no
 
I got a free copy of the game, so I'm still going to try it out.
 
Of all the things to screw up
 
@AshleyNunn You might be interested in / would like to follow rarijackdaily.tumblr.com
 
> Verdict: Find a Let's Play of the PC build, crank up the resolution, and watch someone else have a terrible time in this beautiful game.
 
2:03 PM
@Wipqozn ...free copy?
 
@Powerlord Came with my video card
 
@Powerlord that's two games in a row then
 
@Powerlord At least it looks pretty...
 
NEVER FORGET
 
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@PrivatePansy Ooh, this I like.
 
2:05 PM
@Powerlord Is this related to that Aliens Colonial Marines game?
 
IGN seems to think it goes on way too long.
@StrixVaria No. It's a survival horror gme. I don't even think it's made by the same company.
With some FPS forced in which apparantly doesn't work well
> Rather than throw a new gameplay twist at you, Isolation, like so many games before it, simply spends hours making you run a fun-less gauntlet and contend with everything it’s thrown at you so far simultaneously, including human, android, and extraterrestrial foes.
 
@Wipqozn Ah ok. I figured since apparently everyone hates it that it was by the same people who made the last one.
Survival Horror is my least favorite kind of game to play.
 
> It may seem strange to complain that a game’s too long, but when the genuine scares of being hunted by an unstoppable predator are so diluted by repetition and padding, Isolation’s epic length really does work against it. Someday, someone is going to make an incredible Alien video game that checks every box. But, sadly, Isolation is not it.
 
So it sounds like @Wipqozn is going to Let's Play it for us all
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@fredley Why not hold your carton properly and pour slowly, which is all this switch in position does anyway
 
2:12 PM
@Sterno Maybe I will!
I'll try the game for sure, and maybe I'll Let's Play it at the same time.
In fact IGN's italian site seems to disagree with the US version.
 
@PrivatePansy SHHHHH LIFEHACK
 
@PrivatePansy Because then they couldn't make a #LIFEHACK. cc @Sterno
 
I watched the stupid video of the guy opening his banana from the bottom and can't figure out how he's smart enough to work video recording software but so dumb he couldn't get a banana open from the top. He tries and fails for like 10 seconds.
 
I like the verdict Ars gave the game:
> Find a Let's Play of the PC build, crank up the resolution, and watch someone else have a terrible time in this beautiful game.
 
2:18 PM
@Sterno 10 seconds of both your lives wasted
 
@fredley Every lifehack wastes my life.
 
@Sterno Except for that juice one
 
Gamespot seems to gree with IGN that the game would be a lot better if they didn't try to shove in a bunch of filler crap to drag out the main story, as well as toss in poorly executed action sections.
Maybe I'll just play the Survival Mode.
 
@Sterno To be fair, monkeys open bananas from the bottom. It really is easier.
 
@MBraedley A) I'm not a monkey. B) I'm not against it in principle. C) Opening it from the top is still ridiculously easy.
 
2:21 PM
Depends how ripe you like them. Opening from the top with less ripe bananas is hard.
 
It's kind of like saying it's a lifehack for guys to sit on the toilet when they pee because it's easier to not make a mess. Yes, this is true. But you could also, you know, spend an absolute minimum of effort to aim.
 
Very fibrous up there
 
@Sterno I just watched it too. The guy was talking about sticking your teeth into it and struggling. I was so confused. I've never done ny of those things. How does he have so much trouble?
It reminds me of how informericals always have the most incompetent people on them to make it seem like problems exist when they really don't.
 
@fredley Anyone who likes green bananas is a monster.
 
2:25 PM
@Sterno I can't each a whole bunch at optimum ripeness. Compromises must be made.
 
@Wipqozn Just watched the review on gametrailers. Seems like you get only 1 survival map, the rest you have to pay for.
 
@5pike Oh, well that's dumb.
 
@MBraedley How monkeys do things is definitely the best way to measure how effective it is.
 
That kid is going places.
 
2:26 PM
Just got a call (on my cell, none the less) that my student loan payments have lapsed. I've never had a student loan. Oh, and this call was from somewhere not in North America.
 
I'll just play the one survival map and then never play the game again.
@Sterno He really is.
 
@StrixVaria I'm just saying they've likely learned the easiest way of getting at food.
 
@MBraedley Not having a student loan rocks.
 
@Sterno why sell milk in such a package to begin with
that looks more like a tank of fuel
 
There are many varieties of milk container.
 
2:29 PM
@badp 4L jugs of milk are becoming increasingly popular over here in NA.
Costco is probably a large part of this, since it's the only milk they sell and it's a lot cheaper than anywhere else.
 
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We still hardly see milk in big jugs, it's cartons or bags
 
@AshleyNunn I haven't seen bag milked in a long time.
 
@Wipqozn Capitalist America, where there is One Brand of milk that comes in One Format and by golly you will like it!
 
@AshleyNunn bags?
 
I'm a fan of big jugs.
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2:32 PM
@Sterno It's okay to be wrong.
 
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@Rapitor Yes. Canada has milk in bags. (Someday this will stop being shocking to people). They go in a pitcher.
 
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And no, you generally don't reuse the bags.
 
@AshleyNunn It is pretty shocking. Here it's either plastic bottle or tetrapak.
 
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@badp We've just discussed it here SO MANY TIMES. :P
 
@AshleyNunn Yes but DID YOU SEND ME THE MEMO?
 
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2:33 PM
Like I figured by now it was common knowledge that according to the rest of the world, Canada does weird shit with milk :P
 
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@badp DID YOU CHECK YOUR INBOX I AM PRETTY SURE I PUT IT THERE
 
@AshleyNunn Latvia has milk in bags as well, it's cheaper than boxes
 
@AshleyNunn WHICH ONE
 
wiat, what? Canada is the only place that does milk in bags? I thought everyone did it.
 
@Wipqozn Milk in bags? wtf?
 
2:34 PM
36 secs ago, by Chippies
@AshleyNunn Latvia has milk in bags as well, it's cheaper than boxes
 
I haven't seen milk bags since I was a kid. And at that point in time, the milk bags were delivered to your door.
 
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@Wipqozn Very few countries do, hence the confusion here
 
How do you store it when it's open?
 
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@fredley Put he bag in a pitcher, place pitcher in fridge.
 
Milk bags are plastic bags that carry milk. They are usually stored in a pitcher or jug with one of the corners cut off to allow for pouring. A typical milk bag contains approximately 11⁄3 litres of milk in North America and 1 litre of milk in Eastern Europe and the Baltics. == Milk bags in Canada == In some parts of Canada, milk comes in bags. They are sold in central and eastern Canada, but not widely in western Canada (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia) and Newfoundland and Labrador. Three bags are sold together in a larger bag containing a total of 4 litres of milk. The bags...
 
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2:35 PM
THe opening you maker in the bag should be pretty tiny.
 
@fredley or just roll it up and use a clothpin
 
also, brb, food
 
at any rate, the bigger WTF is people buying perishable goods by the 4L
@Sternold is the real WTF.
oh nevermind that's a 4L bag of milk
@Wipqozn ruined this again
 
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2:36 PM
@badp It's actually 3 or 4 smaller bags in that big bag
 
@badp When I was younger, my family would go through 4L of milk over the course of a day or 2.
 
@badp 4 kids. I go through 4L of milk in a couple of days.
 
I go through 3-4L of milk by myself over the course of a day if I'm home the whole time...
 
@3ventic wat
 
I don't tend to go through 1L of milk in a week...
 
2:37 PM
where L = liter
 
@3ventic That's... too much milk
 
I like to use it for coffee and sometimes cooking, but seldom have it around because some of it always ends up going bad
 
I don't drink anything else
 
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I don't drink a lot myself, but I know my sister just bought 2L of chocolate milk and 2L of homo milk yesterday and that will be gone in just over a week
 
1 min ago, by MBraedley
@3ventic That's... too much milk
 
2:38 PM
sometimes I'll take a glass of juice but it's milk most of the time
which reminds me... I'm out of milk, I should go buy some
 
@Sconibulus Pretty much the same here. We buy the longer-holding kind of milk, because we really only use it for coffee.
 
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(I should point out she lives alone, so she will drink that herself)
 
@3ventic wat
 
Milk is delicious.
 
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@StrixVaria Only when it is very cold
 
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2:39 PM
the moment it gets remotely warm it is icky
 
I could only drink milk, if I didn't have anything else to drink.
 
It takes me about a week to go through 3L of milk, and that's even if I have cereal 4+ days a week.
 
I don't do that, because milk is more expensive than other things, but I could.
 
@StrixVaria I'd also prefer drinking milk to death by dehydration.
 
I'd drink milk over water.
 
2:40 PM
I don't like milk in other countries though
 
@StrixVaria Most people are wrong about water anyway.
 
It has to be Finnish milk
 
Everybody was and probably is bloody wrong about water in Germany!
 
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@3ventic I am very particular, I only like certain milk brands here. If I can get raw whole milk, I do, but that is super rare because you can't legally sell it here
 
ALL OF THEM
 
2:41 PM
@3ventic Is it pasteurized in a sauna?
 
@badp Explain please.
 
@5pike Still unflavoured unsweetened uncolored water or bust
 
@Wipqozn We had milk bags in Michigan until the FDA said "stop doing that!"
 
@StrixVaria I don't know
 
@badp I still don't quite get it, but I agree with you.
 
2:43 PM
 
Dear coworker, if you don't like the way I'm doing your job, then stop forcing me to do your job instead of my own!
 
@fredley I'm afraid your ant is running low on blue ink.
You probably installed black ink instead
A common mistake
 
@fredley oh jeez nostalgia, sim ant.
 
@Rapitor ikr
 
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Q: I think I levelled up too quickly in skyrim

user88319Like a noob I spent a lot of time exploring and doing side missions and not really leveling my smithing or my enchanting and now I'm a really high level but LITERALLY any enemy can kill me and none of the items that are spawning are good enough to help is there any way to restore the balance in m...

 
2:47 PM
game was actually pretty terrible, but them nostalgia goggles.
 
Oh, good, it's time for wikipedia donation banners again
Milk bags sound inconvenient
 
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@Sterno I think they are more manageable (for me) than big jugs, they are easier to hold and control in the pitchers than the jugs are for me.
 
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I mean it's the extra step of needing the pitcher and a pair of scissors, but it's not that big of a deal
 
Googling "milk bag animated gif" at work was a bad idea
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@Sterno Oh god, I can only imagine.....
 
2:51 PM
They also sell smaller, more manageable jugs.
 
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Yeah, but those little handles are hard for me to hold, I find (I mean I am weird, I have nerve issues and crap that make holding onto things sometimes trickier than I want to be, so I don't know if my opinion matters :P)
 
I think the real solution here is to avoid the terrible stuff in the first place. Milk is awful.
 
@AshleyNunn Oh, are we talking about Canadians having milk bags?
is late to the party
 
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@TimStone Yeah, it's been in discussion for a while now :P
 
This is what milk looks like:
 
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2:53 PM
@Sterno I rarely like to drink it unless it is very cold. Not-cold milk is gross.
 
Or maybe this:
 
@AshleyNunn I can vouch for the fact that it's not that bad. Plus it's less packaging, which is a plus.
 
@TimStone Glass milk bottles are the best, as they are reused.
 
Best milk product is frozen milk product.
 
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@JasonBerkan Truth.
 
2:56 PM
(random brand; not an endorsement)
@fredley or the worst, if you have to deal with pfandt.
 
@badp what's that?
 
I never bothered with pfandt in Germany
@fredley A thing in Germany when you pay 105% or so of a product so you can wait in a long line to recycle the container at a supermarket and get that 5% back.
 
@fredley bottle deposit (that's what the translation site says)
 
@badp ugh
 
@fredley yeah, I mean, yay recycling, but this way of doing it is fairly terrible
 
2:59 PM
@5pike In civilised places the milk bottles are placed on (and empty bottles removed from) your doorstep by a milkman
 
@fredley You have that in the UK?
 
@5pike yarp
 
wow
 
Not everywhere, but most cities have it
 

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