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7:00 PM
is it normal for anyone anywhere ever in the history of numbers to delimit big numbers with periods? like one million as 1.000.000 ?
 
Department reports error. I resolve error and impose process limitation to ensure it doesn't happen again.
 
I might not be using the right word when I say "delimit"
 
Department calls an hour later, asking if they can forego process I just implemented.
sigh
 
@badp Corsair Vengeance K70 RGB has full Lua script language support, iirc
 
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Q: Is there any way to control how fast WIld Gunman fires with Duck Hunt's Down B?

ZibbobzDuck Hunt has a Down B that summons a random Wild Gunman, each of which seem to have their own damage percent and fire rate. Is there any way to make the gunman fire early, or to control which Wild Gunman Duck Hunt summons? Is there any pattern to which Gunman appears when the Down B move i...

 
7:03 PM
cc @Frank
and other SAO fans
 
Starcraft tourney player tweets he's going to rape his female opponent. Gets disqualified from the rest of the tournament.
Good.
 
Was it only because the opponent was female, or would it apply no matter what?
 
@Frank Very good.
 
@Batophobia Man at arms is an awesome show
 
@Koviko I actually remember that this caused drama a few days ago on Reddit because similar comments were made by men directed at other men and no such disciplinary action was taken
 
7:10 PM
@Rapitor Agreed, they recently did the Fierce Deity from Majoras Mask
@Frank So where does this end? If I say I am going to beat a female opponent, is that abuse and require disqualification?
 
@murgatroid99 Reddit. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
 
Hey, rape is rape regardless of the genders involved
so if that did happen and there was drama, it was probably justified.
 
@badp Reminds me of The Grapeist
 
If it applied globally, I'd think it's just good politics. But if it's only male to female, then it's just a bunch of sexist SJWs.
Maybe there was a winky face or something? I think a winky face would justify it.
 
@Batophobia Oof. This comment gave me bad feels but I have no idea how to reply
 
7:18 PM
@MadMAxJr Man, this chat really loves to talk about how bad reddit it almost as much as we like to pat ourselves on the back about how much better we are than SFF
Also, the specific drama I was talking about was this thread, specifically the first response to the linked comment
 
@MadMAxJr Rape is shitty no matter who it's directed at. Using rape as an insult shouldn't be acceptable whether it's against a man or a woman.
 
I wouldn't even say reddit is bad. At least it has downvotes. 4chan, on the other hand...
 
@murgatroid99 I casually surf Reddit, sometimes I enjoy the content, but the niche subreddit discussions are dangerous places where rational discourse does not appear to happen.
 
@Batophobia rape is bad, telling them they will lose is just bluff.
 
@Wipqozn I agree completely
 
7:19 PM
@Wipqozn I came in late to the discussion. I wasn't specifically referring to that, merely reddit as a whole.
 
So, talk me out of renewing my WoW subscription.
 
@Arperum Beating is not necessarily synonymous with winning
 
@Powerlord $15 a month savings.
 
@Powerlord don't renew your wow subscription
 
@Powerlord Stop renewing WoW, save for Steam Holiday Sale
 
7:20 PM
@Powerlord They raised the sub fee in the UK and China. The rest of the world is soon to follow.
 
@Batophobia context is important, and using "beat" as a synonym for "defeat" is common and accepted usage
 
@Batophobia True. But beat someone at a game means that you'll be better at it, ergo, I assume you'll win. rape is not to be joked with.
 
@murgatroid99 "Rape" is also common usage. Just not the "accepted" part.
Not to defend it. Just to play devil's advocate.
 
@Koviko that's why I was specific
 
@Arperum So arresting people that joke about ebola is good as well?
 
7:21 PM
Let's not forget that the word rape is extremely triggering for those who have actually been raped
so tread carefully with your 'devil's advocate' responses, please.
 
@Batophobia "Good" as in "they're going to do it," (like this case) then sure.
 
@spugsley I'm sure this is true of many terms, though
 
Just like talking about bombs in airports.
 
@Batophobia Before we blow this out of proportion, there's a big difference between disqualifying someone from a tournament and arresting them
 
@Batophobia it is and we as a fucking human race need to step the fuck up and stop being assholes about stuff
 
7:23 PM
@spugsley Agreed
So if we want to fight against using "rape" lightly, then we need to expand that to pretty much any term like that
 
The issue for me was that it only applied to a man using it to a woman.
 
I think we should just change the topic of conversation. I feel like this is the kind of conversation which could easily result in upset in the room, and I don't think that's anything anyone here wants.
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Okay, just saying, but the original animated Winnie the Pooh video is quite funny :D
 
@Koviko The opposite is a rare case, but I would hope the result is the same
 
@Batophobia I was moreso referring to man to man.
 
7:24 PM
In fact, speaking of new topics, I finally started playing Dragon Age: Inquisition today.
 
@Wipqozn This right here.
 
I'm heading into work
 
@Wipqozn Solid plan.
 
I hope we're on a new topic by the time I get there
 
7:25 PM
@Wipqozn It's not DA1 or DA2. It's a strange new beast all it's own. The environments have a Skyrim feel. Mostly because I'm jumping on hillsides to see if I can bypass finding a path...
 
So far I'm enjoying it. I just unlocked the first mission you get after defeating the first boss.
The one at the rift.
@MadMAxJr I never did wind up playing DA2.
 
DA2 had a half decent story, but recycled dungeon instances made it feel cheap.
I was not a fan of mages doing ninja moves with staffs to shoot magic. It's less awful in DA:I
Wards don't appear to be a thing anymore, so I can't do giant exploding bubbles of paralysis.
 
@Wipqozn don't bother. It's awful
 
That or I haven't bothered to figure out which magic tree they're in
 
Speaking of Colbert, only 3 more weeks of the Colbert Report.
 
7:28 PM
The complete removal of healing magic took some getting used to.
 
@spugsley That's why I haven't played it. I've heard differing opinions, but overall I just decided not to bother. The only reason I would play it would be to become familiar with the characters. However, my room mate, who is the biggest dragon age fan ever (and really enjoyed DA2) said there's only one good character in DA2 (crossbow dwarf), and the rest aren't that interesting. I'd rather n ot play through a 50 hour game for one character.
@Powerlord Oh right. He's taking over SNL right?
 
@Wipqozn yup. I played through the whole game. I regret it.
 
Or is ti Conan?
 
Varric? Talking to him and asking him about the Hero of Kirkwall can tell you everything you need to know from DA2.
 
I know he's taking over something.
 
7:30 PM
@Powerlord until what
 
@Wipqozn He's taking over for Letterman.
 
@Powerlord right, that's the one
 
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Q: How do i place Mines on the PC?

northkildonanI already had a similar problem with fire arrows and got the helping answer here. I can't seem to find out how I am able to use/place mines on the PC. Thanks for any help!

 
@spugsley Not sure if you saw my message from this morning, but I heard back about my cat. She has a cancerous tumor, and there's nothing they can do. She's not suffering right now, luckily, but I will need to eventually put her down :(
 
@Wipqozn :'(
 
7:34 PM
@Wipqozn I didn't hear. I am so sorry. I can't even imagine. Give her lots of love and cuddles and make her as happy as you can
 
@spugsley That's the plan.
Just make however long she has left as happy as possible
Well I'm going to go eat some food, since I'm starving. Later folks.
 
@Wipqozn ;(
 
Facing Worlds... It's all fun and games until someone gets the redeemer.
 
@Rapitor This tickles my nostalgia bone.
 
7:47 PM
instagib CTF, max playercount. go.
it's like a rave party of death
 
@Rapitor Was indeed a fun map :D
 
The Strangelove mutator took it to a new level. Ride the redeemer rocket.
 
@Rapitor I can't see it 'cause work. Are they talking about Unreal Facing World or the CE version of it?
 
@Rapitor low gravity CTF multiplayer sounds like No Fucks Given Country's capital
 
(CE version moves the spawns behind the tower)
 
7:51 PM
@Powerlord original
 
@Rapitor In other words, they're not right after all? :P
 
pretty much since facing worlds has been in every UT since the first one. it's safe to say they are all the best
 
The reason the CE version is important is because it means you can longer be killed by snipers as soon as you spawn.
 
because they remain relatively untouched
 
People's Republic of Stalemate
(at least UT doesn't have turrets...)
 
7:55 PM
@Wipqozn I'm so sorry about your kitty.
 
Besides which, one could argue that 2fort is the more iconic CTF map... as @badp was alluding to a second ago.
 
@badp yes it does?
 
@Rapitor player-built turrets?
I'm not talking those protecting spawn
I definitely don't remember any in UT03 and UT04.
I don't think UT3 had any either, but we don't talk about UT3.
 
@badp they aren't really playerbuilt. they were in specific spots on the map
 
UT3 served one purpose. Paving the way for Gears of War.
 
7:57 PM
mostly assault mode
 
@Rapitor so none on facing worlds.
 
no, none on facing
 
Assault mode. One of my first experiences with objective based gameplay over DEATHMATCH
 
assault gametypes need to be in other games. UT is the only one I know of that pulls off singleplayer objective style gameplay in multiplayer environemtn
 
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Q: Alternatives to Sword of the Divine

Vogel612Since the latest patch, Sword of the Divine was removed from the Summoner's Rift. To sum up again in short: Stats: +45% attack speed Passive: This item does not grant any attack speed while on cooldown. Champion kills reduce the current cooldown by 50%. Active Unique: You...

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Q: Is it possible to design a loop such that the car can reach an arbitrarily high speed?

Franck DernoncourtIs there any way to design a loop such that the car can reach an arbitrarily high speed in Trackmania Nations Forever's map editor?

 
7:59 PM
 
wait. no. quake wars: enemy territory was another
 
@Rapitor Assault mode plays a lot like attack/defense maps in TF2.
 
I enjoy the Rush / Conquest modes of Battlefield 4, but it's not the campy ROCKET LAUNCHER stuff that UT and Quake did.
 
@badp isn't that just point->point though? (never played tf2)
 
@Rapitor so is assault?
Those maps all boil down to "stay in this area for a few seconds" "now stay there"
 
8:01 PM
no, assault was destroy this, activate that, open this, steal that. etc
 
although by default A/D maps aren't played in stopwatch
 
@Rapitor TFC has things closer to that with things like generators that could be destroyed (Engineers could repair them though), but TF2 simplified it.
 
@Rapitor oh yeah there was the occasional "shoot at this thing" objective.
 
TF2 has a version of assault. It's just the one where you push the cart past one-way objectives.
 
@MadMAxJr that's escort
 
8:02 PM
TF2's Robot Destruction mode also has a nuclear core you could swipe to steal the enemies points.
 
RD sounds like nothing I want to be part of ever, personally.
 
(normally you gain points by... well... destroying the enemy robots)
 
I kinda like rd's take on CTF
 
I haven't played TF2 in a year. I looked at it a month ago and I swear there was some kind of bumper cars thing.
 
well.. the newest CoD did copy Unreal's bombing run mode (uplink), so maybe assault is next to get copied.
hopefully
 
8:03 PM
@MadMAxJr Yuuuuuuuuup
that was a thing
halloween is stupid
 
@badp I'm tempted to try to rework ctf_well into an RD map. Except I have very little mapping experience in TF2.,
 
TF2 I enjoy for not taking itself seriously.
 
@MadMAxJr Yeah, that was this year's halloween event.
 
To no one's surprise, entire maps are popping up as bumper car races.
 
The new CoD I found I enjoy looking at the design and art assets way more than playing the game.
 
8:04 PM
RD is still CTF at its core, but you can't just plant 100 sentries in the intelligence room and win the game by being the last player to disconnect
(except of course with the way rd_asteroid is built, both teams can put 100 sentries on each team's A bots lounge and that sends the game straight down to Stalematistan)
 
@badp I'm still waiting for Valve to implement low gravity in the outside areas.
 
@Powerlord is this a thing that is going to happen?
 
That'd be something different indeed
 
@badp No one knows... but right around the time rd_asteroid was announced, the brush used to modify the gravity of everything in it mysteriously broke.
 
even just a jump pad to get on the upper level on foot from outside would be wonderful.
 
8:06 PM
Took Valve a few weeks to fix it.
Also, there's an airlock sound in with the RD sounds.
(and the RD gates are clearly placeholders)
 
Oh right, that's the moonbase map they put out for testing some time back?
 
@MadMAxJr Yup and they keep updating both the gameplay and art assets of it.
 
rd_asteroid is in a good place, except for the A base
 
I'm amused how much work they still put into TF2 and that it still looks and feels entertaining after years pass.
 
Actually, at some point I need to decompile the map and see if the laser beams are just moving props with trigger_hurt entities attached to them.
 
8:09 PM
@MadMAxJr I find the new cod rather funny. the "die-hard fans" see it as a slap in the face, yet everyone who was on the ropes about it thinks it's the best one yet.
 
Oh right, did I mention the "flag" in rd_asteroid has 3 routes to reach it? Route 1 is a one-way door (which lets people in...), route 2 is guarded by 3 instant-kill lasers that move up and down at different speeds, route 3 is a long-convoluted route that requires you to duck for part of it.
 
@Powerlord Attempting to tell my teammates that I'm holding route 1 open for them NEVER works
 
@badp I've noticed that tends to fail.
 
The best thing about rd_asteroid is that you can choose how many points to steal based on how long you stay on the pedestal
 
Of course, the fact that the intel only fills with points kinda slowly once you touch it (and only fills until you leave the capture zone)...
Risk vs. Reward and all that.
 
8:11 PM
The worst thing about rd_asteroid is that virtually everybody stands on the pedestal until they're almost dead or there's nothing left to steal
 
@Rapitor It's CoD with HATS.... and gloves, and boots
 
"oh yeah let's capture 329 points in one go, what could possibly go wrong"
"oh wait they're scoring a few more points, back to the pedestal!"
 
@Rapitor Though the online matchmaking for PC has some serious issues. Playerbase online is under 16k currently, I think?
 
@MadMAxJr well ghosts did that too, I was talking about how they love/hate the new mobility. double jump is apparently the work of satan to CoD-fans
 
Speaking of matchmaking, ever since the Halloween update, TF2's code makes a lot of references to matchmaking.
Which makes me wonder if this will only apply to Valve servers that you intentionally play ranked... which iirc is what CS:GO does.
 
8:13 PM
@Rapitor I've played enough to see it's a tradeoff. It makes noise, you show up on radar (non-hardcore, that is), and once you're in the air, you're committed to that jump arc, no fall control.
 
@MadMAxJr PC Cod was always shafted. look at console numbers for actual
 
@Rapitor Actually the PC port of the latest CoD seems pretty good.
 
Still no dedicated servers, though.
 
@5pike Even Valve seems to be giving up on them.
Does CS:GO have them?
 
@badp Yes
Server appid is 740 iirc
(game appid is 730)
 
8:15 PM
I wonder if there's pinion servers then.
 
@badp if he likes it, it must be good. he hates pretty much everything. especially if it doesn't have an FoV slider
 
@badp They mentioned that PC will get dedicated servers, but it seems like that will never happen.
 
Having said that, CS:GO's configuration is a bit different than most Source games... it added a series of additional configuration files.
 
In the campaign there were a few problems in the new CoD that screamed 'console port'. Some of the default keybindings aren't set in PC or there are multipurpose keys. So 4 times I saw "Press UNBOUND to do X"
 
"Press UNBOUND for FEELS"
 
8:18 PM
Also, Kevin Spacey was a moderately interesting character in the story. Compared to previous CoD stories.
Though I admit, the lack of a Captain Price in the future made me sad.
 
@MadMAxJr if the campaign didn't have Spacey it would be complete crap
 
@Rapitor Some of the tech in the game is believable. Some is pure tech porn.
The exo suits? Raytheon has something about 30 years away from what the game has.
 
what CoD campaign isn't crap?
 
@MadMAxJr fun fact: they did their homework and research on tech that is either in existence or will be.
 
hell: what CoD/BF isn't crap?
 
8:20 PM
@badp First modern warfare was pretty good.
Then they went over the top with 2 and 3...
 
@Rapitor It's noted in the credits, they got consulting time with a japanese robotics lab at some university.
 
@badp i think they are all pretty good... look at em as micheal bay action movies and they are pretty much spot on
it's not supposed to blow you away with interesting writing and character development. its supposed to have explosions
 
I've tried playing a little bit of it on consoles, and they're all like "I see you from behind, you're dead two bullets later"
Fuck everything about that
 
wut
you die too fast?
 
yeah
 
8:25 PM
Lower the difficulty, mang
 
this was in a local multiplayer split screen 1v1 game with another dude
 
Oh
 
Each CoD story is: HOO-RAH. FIRST COMBAT. TRAGIC EVENT. WAR IS HELL (More combat). THERE IS OUR BADGUY. PRESS X TO KILL BADGUY
 
Oh.
Yeah, I can't enjoy CoD multiplayer.
 
oh. yeah. CoD has always been fast Time to kill. it's a twitch shooter after all.
 
8:26 PM
I'm used to rocket jumping and wallrunning.
CoD is too much... on the ground for me.
 
@Rapitor Quake 3 is also a twitch shooter, but usually no weapon one-shots you -- except for those designed to
 
I forget which one it was.. Modern Warfare 2, where the combat takes place on US soil? I felt really, really uncomfortable walking down a residential street, flagging houses for Stryker fire. Then panicked combat in a burger king while someone is bleeding out.
 
Great, now the power is out
 
same with TF2, mostly.
 
It was... interesting.
 
8:27 PM
The first shooter I ever enjoyed was Tribes. Jetpack = yesplsty
 
THANKS @UNI
 
@badp I think "Arena" shooter is no longer the same as twitch shooters.. thanks to cod kind of taking the name and running with it
 
3 HOURS AWAY
 
Tribes 2: That's cute, you want a hitscan weapon. PROJECTILE EVERYTHING
 
@MadMAxJr then the game tells you to open fire on civilians in an airport
 
8:27 PM
Same state. Your fault.
 
@Koviko I can't play the demoman in TF2 without the sticky jumper
 
@MadMAxJr tribes: ascend. everyone happy
 
@OrigamiRobot this is why underground utilities are the best
 
I BELIEVE I CAN FLYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
 
8:28 PM
(We did not lose power when hurricane whatever came through in 2012)
 
@Rapitor T:A had so much potential.
 
Still, Modern Warfare, Captain Price flashback mission, crawling through the prohibited zone being best sniper buddies. Great level.
 
when people played T:A I could only get 15 fps out of it
 
@MadMAxJr One of the best FPS levels...
 
@Koviko I think Hi-Rez made the right move, actually. if they continued to add content it would start to become bloated
 
8:29 PM
Now that I could actually play it, no one plays.
 
I didn't touch Black Ops or Ghosts.
 
It's not even storming anymore
 
@Rapitor I kinda wish they would have then, instead, worked on fixing existing content.
 
Black Ops I couldn't touch because they do the SR-71 wrong... I grew up around those birds.
 
Being flung a mile into the sky when grabbing a flag and being unable to slow down before smashing into the ground is a bit annoying.
 
8:30 PM
they did say there will be a Tribes ascend 2 at some point. probably when they get used to UE4 and SMITE is continuing to print them money.. so it won't be long
 
Or one team's flag being ungrabbable, but not both.
 
@Koviko rock bouncing wasn't a bug... it's a feature! Just like skiing
 
@Rapitor I didn't understand skiing back when it was just a bug in the original Tribes.
I just liked being able to fly.
 
@DwarfSlice I know what less than half of those letters mean
 
8:31 PM
Not a bug, a feature? You're giving me flashbacks to concussion grenade jumping for flag captures in oldschool Team Fortress.
 
@MadMAxJr there are no bugs. only unwritten features
 
See the problem is the computer does exactly what it is told to do.
I think the only part of CoD:AW I genuinely did not enjoy was the aircraft level.
 
@Rapitor There are no bugs, only Zuul
 
Those controls were not meant for mouse and keyboard.
 
@MadMAxJr they were awkward on conch too, don't worry
 
8:35 PM
@OrigamiRobot The game KO-OP Mode is working on has had its name changed due to a copyright dispute.
 
BF4 has a few touches of advanced tech in the 'Final Stand' DLC/update that hint at things that lead to BF2142.
 
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Q: Friends on The Simpsons Tapped Out

MariI need friends quickly! Please add me maricross51 I add a lot of people but sometimes they are inactive and I've been playing for 3 months and only have 9 friends. How do I do to add more? And all the players out there feel free to add me!

 
@OrigamiRobot Thanks. Thanks to everyone for the sympathy, in fact.
 
why does a question asked a day later, that's a duplicate has more views than the original?
stupid SEO
 
I'm going to bet Google doesn't use ORAS as an acronym for those two games.
 
8:40 PM
@Chippies don't dupes eventually get deleted
 
@Rapitor I don't really know how that works, but as you can see - that one hasn't yet
 
@Rapitor Only if they fulfil certain odd criteria. They are supposed to stick around.
 
how long has rock smash been an HM?
 
I think dupes only get deleted if they don't have an answer.
If there's an answer, they stay forever.
 
@Sconibulus it's only HM in certain games
 
8:41 PM
I thought dupes were explicitly excluded from the community auto-cleanup
 
@JasonBerkan Unless the dupe is downvoted, and has low views.
 
i.e in games where rock smash is required for progression
 
Negative score + no answer, like everything else.
 
I'm not 100% clear on the criteria for the roomba to grab dupes, but I know it happens.
It's more lenient than other questions.
 
8:42 PM
I crafted a question specifically for Google keywords and I think it's the most rep I've ever gotten.
 
I guess I should edit the title of my question for more views then
 
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Q: Why is my World Completion at 99% with 300/303 hearts?

KovikoI just finished World Completion and got my 2 Gifts of Exploration. However, the "Been There, Done That" achievement is at 99/100 and my World Completion percentage is at 99% with 300/303 Renown Hearts completed. What am I missing, here?

 
I still think the auto-delete of dups is a bug.
 
I asked it specifically so I could answer it.
 
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A: Enable automatic deletion of old, unanswered zero-score questions after a year?

Jeff AtwoodJust to formally document the exact policies we have in place to remove old abandoned / dead questions, the Community user will delete questions in the following circumstances: If the question is more than 30 days old, and ... has −1 or lower score has no answers is not locked ...or... it ...

 
8:43 PM
@Koviko and yet this has more views
 
@badp Because Minecraft.
 
It would meet "-1 or lower score and no answers deleted after 30 days", and also potentially the 365 days check.
 
Even Trine 2 beat it!
 
@badp The newer question hasn't had as much time to stew. It's also going to lose relevance quickly.
 
@Koviko One of my oldest answers is this one, I still don't know why it got so super upvoted.
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A: What are the correct answers to The Frog's questions, and what is the reward when I get them all correct?

ArperumThe frog has 6 questions. You can answer as many times wrong as you want. Capitalisation and whitespace don't matter on the answer, y E s is exactly the same as yes. Question 1 First question : do you _really_ love candies? Correct answer yes reward 10 candies Question 2 Second ques...

 
8:49 PM
@Arperum
that's why.
 
@Unionhawk It still gets upvotes every now and then...
 
@Arperum what is this
 
TIL @OrigamiRobot's cats have the biggest cat poops I've ever seen
 
33 secs ago, by Unionhawk
@Arperum
 
lmao
> Candy Box! is an online game about candies and lollipops, and the acquisition thereof. candies.aniwey.net
hokay
 
8:50 PM
@Koviko Code I plucked from a javascript file from an incremental game way before it's time.
That's the first idle/incremental I played actually.
 
@Arperum The gateway incremental.
 
@Koviko Yea, more then a year before the big wave arrived.
 
Time for me to write an incremental about Bacon.
 
Eat bacon. Click. Eat bacon. Click. Eat bacon. Click. Eat bacon. Click. Eat bacon. Click. Eat bacon. Click. Have Heart Attack.
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@JasonBerkan The have heart attack should be the soft reset button/skill/whatever.
 
8:54 PM
Music time.
 
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Q: unkillable mobs

user93021So lets say I'm making a map in Minecraft. No mods, no bukkit, no anything; just command blocks. and I have this one mob that I don't want players to be able to kill. Normally, I would simply give it a resistance potion so that it couldn't be hurt, but I want other mobs to be able to hurt it, ju...

 
@Arperum That is an excellent idea.
 
I'd play BaconClicker.
 
start with bacon bits
 

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