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8:00 PM
It's high time we revamped Kirby for the modern, bandage loving youth of today. http://t.co/yTAbKJm4nu
 
@OrigamiRobot "Please help him make the right choice in life by not being gay" ...
that is one of the most self centered and stupid things I've ever read and that person should be seriously ashamed of themselves.
 
@OrigamiRobot Dat name.
 
@FEichinger Who?
 
@OrigamiRobot Author.
 
@FEichinger technically there are two authors there
 
8:03 PM
I don't get it
 
@OrigamiRobot dick-in-son ... "help my son stop being gay"
 
KNUCKLES HERE FOR MUSCLE MILK. ARE YOU TIRED OF BEING A WEENIE? THEN DRINK MUSCLE MILK OH CRAP WHERE IS MY NECK HARG HARG FHFF FHSDDDHDIIIHI
 
Heck, if it wasn't printed on paper, I'd call "fake!" purely for that name.
 
dickinson is actually a name
 
@kalina I know!
 
8:04 PM
@FEichinger Amy Dickinson is the one who wrote the response.
 
@OrigamiRobot I know!
 
and she wasn't the woman who made that statement
and
 
But it fits together too perfectly!
 
I'm not seeing the funny here.
 
...
 
8:05 PM
No problem. Just funny.
A funny coincidence. Coincidences make me sceptical.
PSH. I have pizza. I don't care!
 
@FEichinger My great grandmother's name was McBride. She was supposedly married to my grandfather, but now I'm skeptical...
 
@OrigamiRobot Your grandmother isn't the centerpiece of an image on the Internet intended for scoffing at something.
 
Amy Dickinson (born November 6, 1959 in Freeville, New York) is an American newspaper columnist who writes the syndicated advice column, Ask Amy. Dickinson has appeared as a social commentator on ABC's Good Morning America. Biography Dickinson was born and raised on a small dairy farm in Freeville, New York. She graduated from Georgetown University. She married Anthony Mason, a CBS News correspondent, in 1986. They moved to London in 1987. A daughter, Emily, was born there in 1988. The couple divorced in 1990. Dickinson married Bruno Schickel, a builder from Dryden, New York, on August...
Happy now?
 
I never said it was fake. As a matter of fact, I very much figured it'd be real - if it was any other medium, I'd have a hard time believing it, though.
 
I don't see what the medium has to do with anything.
 
8:09 PM
Alright, third person explanation time.
 
Camera shift
 
Grace enters stage
 
FEichinger is saying that the name, if read in a certain way, is contextually hilarious to him to such a degree that were it in anything (or perhaps just some things) that was not a printed newspaper, it would almost seem like the name was made up just to fit the story presented in the image.
The name is real, the image is real, but it is this sort of matching that just seems so unreal.
 
That's pretty much it, yes.
Thank you @GraceNote. :D
 
I understand all that. I don't understand why it's unreal to him.
 
8:12 PM
@BenBrocka lol
 
Are we trying to understand @FEichinger? That's an impossible task if I've ever heard of one.
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@OrigamiRobot Mostly from the fact that such a coincidence is just exactly that. The likelihood that of all people, the person whose name happens to match this kind of scenario is rare.
If I recall correctly, there's an article about sloths in the history of this Bridge chatroom that includes a dubiously named sheriff that was the "tipoff" that the image was doctored
 
Huh I guess Sega's sticking to 3DS and Wii U with sonic
was wondering if they would abandon that after Lost World. They can't just keep bombing AND focusing on a poor-selling console
 
@GraceNote I don't think it's that rare that in the 30+ years that she has been writing advice columns that someone asked a question like this.
 
Hi Arqade, can I butt in with a question?
 
8:16 PM
@Unionhawk Clearly not impossible, @GraceNote just did! ... Then again, it's Grace who actually understands me, so ... I suppose it's still impossible.
 
Questions are not allowed here, are they?
 
@thatgirldm Don't ask if you can ask, just ask.
 
@thatgirldm Ask away
 
Well, you all seem so terribly focused on your discussion of Amy Dickinson... :)
 
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Q: How does the VIP supply officer work as of the new update?

TinyDeathStarBeginnerAs of the new update (v 1.3), they seem to have revised the imperial levels. Before, each level built one widget, but now they can built multiple types of widgets. If you delivered a Supply Officer to a level, they would begin construction of the widget. But now, you have to pay to start construc...

 
8:17 PM
@FEichinger No, GraceNote understands what you're saying. That's not the same as understanding you.
 
Heh. We only sometimes drown questions in ongoing discussion.
 
@FEichinger @GraceNote is perfectly capable of the impossible. You should know that by now.
 
@Unionhawk Hence why I added that second part.
 
I have a game-identification question that's too vague for the Q&A proper, and Kalina recommended I ask it here
 
@FEichinger oic
 
8:18 PM
@thatgirldm Is it about fish and/or fish activities?
 
@OrigamiRobot That comes from the perspective of familiarity with the author writing for this newspaper. FEichinger possibly didn't, and so even if the cognizance of the name as being a natural name exists, it was overwhelmed by the fact that it just was too contextually hilarious.
 
No. It's at least 25 years old actually
 
@thatgirldm Less leadup, more askinification.
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8:18 PM
@thatgirldm Are you implying that 25 year old or older games can't include fish or fish activities?
 
@GraceNote You and your made-up words ...
 
@StrixVaria Nope, but I can't type faster than six or seven different people to get the whole question out at once :)
 
@thatgirldm A plague on this room in general.
 
When I was very young, I played a basic but difficult platformer on my grandfather's computer. I don't know the type of computer or any other information about it, beyond that it had only green pixels on a black screen. (None of my relatives remember enough about it to help.)
The goal of each level was to acquire a key to unlock the door to the next level; to do this you had to get past the ghosts that floated in your path. If there was a story of any kind, I never got far enough to see it.
 
@thatgirldm Bridge Tip: Don't try to respond to every ping. You will fail.
 
8:20 PM
@ORigamiRobot Hehe, noted :)
 
@OrigamiRobot This is very true.
 
@thatgirldm In fact, most of us just spout nonsense and you're better off ignoring it.
 
I sketched up a mock screenshot of what I remember of the first level of the game; I can post it here if y'all think it'll help, but with the caveat that it's a mock
 
@OrigamiRobot Also very true
 
Green pixels sounds like a monochrome screen. Perhaps an Apple computer.
 
8:21 PM
Possibly. I keep turning up Prince of Persia wtih those search criteria, though
and that game was in color
This was... really basic pixel art
 
Solomon's Key is another option I think... also in color
 
@thatgirldm The Hercules graphic adapter displayed everything in two colours, even games that were in colour if you had a real graphics card.
 
Hmm
So, the game might've been in full color and I was just seeing it in b&w due to the graphics?
 
C'est possible.
 
My dad mentioned that my grandfather used to buy mail-order DIY computer kits
 
8:23 PM
I had a monitor as a kid that had a button to toggle between full color and orange+black. Why on earth it was orange+black I don't know.
 
Yeah, the version of Prince of Persia I played as a kid was basically black and yellow.
 
Does the ghosts+key structure sound familiar to anyone?
 
Odell Lake didn't have keys or ghosts. Just fish. And maybe otters.
 
There wasn't combat, you couldn't fight the ghosts
 
That computer was kinda like a giant gameboy, really.
 
8:23 PM
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Q: How to unlock / build the "Imperial March" retail level?

TinyDeathStarBeginnerI tried to add a new retail level, but it says that no more levels are available at my current progress. The other 10 retail levels have been built, but now it says 10/11 retail levels. The only one left is called "Imperial March" but it has a lock icon and no option to unlock. Has anyone been ab...

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Q: Xcom Enemy Unknown and Xcom Enemy Within mutiplayer

Moonwolf32Is it possible for a player with Xcom Enemy Unknown to play mutiplayer with another player with Xcom Enemy Within?

 
I do not recall off the top of my head a game about ghosts though. But level structure by screenshot might help.
 
@GraceNote You're too old to make a "you sure it wasn't actually a gameboy and you were just too tiny?" joke ...
 
All I've got is a mock screenshot; I can post that though
 
@FEichinger I used to have a Light Boy
@thatgirldm That's what I meant, yeah, sorry.
 
The ghosts moved along the paths indicated by the arrows
 
8:24 PM
@thatgirldm Oh crap.
I know that.
 
ahhh!
:D
 
... Doesn't help you because I don't know its name, platform or anything either.
But ... I know it.
 
@FEichinger pfft... well at least I know I'm not completely insane
or misremembering :)
 
oh... that does seem sorta familiar
 
First thing I thought of was Donkey Kong when I saw the ladders, but that's obviously not it.
 
8:26 PM
@thatgirldm Yea, definitely no fish there.
 
@OrigamiRobot Nope, no fish, sorry
I do remember that in later levels the ghosts would sometimes bounce around the screen in a long chain
but yeah, I've been trying to find this game for years
it was hellishly difficult when I was a kid, and I'd really like to try it again now that I'm an adult
(with more than a four-year-old's hand-eye coordination)
 
I think there's a subreddit for things like this, if you want a larger audience.
 
Hmm, I'll have to take a look
 
I found this
 
8:30 PM
Hmm, does it have a name?
 
@thatgirldm Alfred Challenge
 
@OrigamiRobot @Jason Berkan Neither of those is right; the enemies are different shapes and none of them float. :/
The distinctive thing about this game was the floating ghosts.
(Also the really poor graphics; both those games have much more sophisticated graphics)
 
Mining Dogecoin:
 
...there's a Dogecoin now? Really? Really?
 
8:35 PM
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Q: How do the stats convert into a percental value?

TartoriIn the character overview you can see your stats like Critical Hit Rate. For maxing out dps, healing and damage reduction, I would like to know how I can convert those numbers into a percentage. This would be interesting for those values: Critical Hit Rate Determination Defense Parry Magic Def...

 
@GraceNote It's been around for a while now
 
That makes it worse!
 
A bunch of people used it to pay the way for some luge teams to go to the Olympics.
Dogecoin (, code: DOGE, symbol: Ɖ and D), is a Litecoin-derived It was introduced on 8 December, 2013. Dogecoin has a fast initial coin production schedule, compared with other cryptocurrencies. There will be approximately 100 billion coins in circulation by the end of 2014. Thereafter, 5.2 billion coins will be produced per year. As of the 1st of February 2014, 40,578,746,592 Dogecoins have been mined. While there are currently few commercial applications for Dogecoin, the currency is gaining traction as an Internet tipping system, in which social media users grant Dogecoin tips to other...
 
@thatgirldm Montezuma's Revenge maybe? (Probably Not)
 
8:38 PM
@Sconibulus Nope :/ Still too pretty
(heh, I'm browsing the PlayItAgain project site and apparently there was a game called "Emu Joust"???)
 
@thatgirldm I think that was just called Joust
but yeah, you ride a flying emu and do battle with vulture knights
it's the greatest game
 
Oh... I am wrong
emu joust is a modified version of regular joust :)
 
In regular Joust, you were riding an ostrich.
 
Right now I have to wonder what feverish strategies FEichinger is employing to try and recall the game.
 
8:45 PM
@GraceNote Probably writing to a newspaper advice column.
 
@GraceNote Manual search for just about every resource ever on platforming games in the last decades.
Also, you could actually ping me, you know. :P
 
@fei
 
Yeah, but that would disrupt you from your feverish searching.
 
@OrigamiRobot like you can tell the difference between an emu and an ostrich at a width of a dozen pixels
 
@Sconibulus He can tell. He's seen a few in his time.
 
8:48 PM
I'm starting to feel like this room needs again.
 
@Sterno so spite
many old
 
@Sterno I would add but @badp would un-owner me again.
 
Rightly so.
 
@StrixVaria Solution - make @Wipqozn owner first. Then, while @badp is occupied de-owning Wipqozn, you try to get away with it.
 
8:49 PM
I am not sure how @OrigamiRobot got to be owner but I saved everyone before he realized.
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I think Wipqozn did it because he's promised a few times to make him owner if he was owner.
 
I shoveled and/or plowed snow around my house for a total of about 4 hours yesterday and today.
I'm sad because I just realized I need to go do that at the other house I'm trying to sell.
 
@Sterno In order to get my car out of the snow, I rocked back and forth until my car made it over the snow on its own. Shoveling avoided!
 
I live in an area where snow rarely falls. Shoveling avoided even better!
 
@StrixVaria My car can manage that but my wife's Prius pretty much won't move if there's more than half an inch of snow on the ground
 
8:52 PM
I live at an apartment where they shovel the sidewalks and plow the parking lot for us, so all I have to worry about when it snows is getting it off my car and getting out of the spot.
@Sterno My old Civic would do 180s if I said the word snow while I was in the car.
When one of the dashboard lights came on I sold it instead of fixing it.
Problem avoided!
 
@StrixVaria That would be remarkably useful when being chased by terrorists and you want to suddenly turn. Or if being held at gunpoint by a passenger and you want to surprise them.
Only when being chased by terrorists, though. Everyone else would be able to compensate for your sudden turn.
 
@GraceNote No, LessPop did it. I chose to ignore it.
 
0
Q: Where can the last 8 cd Peices be found?

The UglyI have been playing the game Savant Acsent on PC for 1-2 days now, and I got 4 full CDs from finishing Story and 1 full + 1 peice from Time Attack and Endless combined. How many cd Peices are in TA and endless, respectively, and do I have to last longer than 2-3 minutes to get the endless ones?

 
@OrigamiRobot All the more reason to blame Wipqozn
 
@Wipqozn I have nothing to say to you. I just wanted to ping you.
 
8:55 PM
I'd appreciate it if people would just stop adding/removing me at all. It's pretty annoying.
 
Only 40 minutes until I spend 90 minutes traveling home!
 
sigh Yeh, I'm not finding anything.
 
@OrigamiRobot So noted!
 
@FEichinger Yeah, I've been trying to find this thing for probably over a decade now :/
Still, the fact that you recognize it makes me feel better, as it means I'm not just making stuff up :)
 
@thatgirldm There is always that nagging concern at the back of one's head.
 
9:00 PM
@Grace Note Indeed. It's been so long that I was honestly starting to doubt myself
 
0
Q: Does the 1.3.0 update fix the Android retail dream job bitizen max level bug?

rbf2000Prior to the 1.3.0 release on 2/6/14, there was a bug on Android where the highest level you could get for a bitizen whose dream job was a retail floor was 8. I want to know if you are now able to obtain a bitizen whose dream job is a retail floor with a level of 9 instead of 8 as a result of ...

 
Were it not for my brother also having played the same game, with how there was nothing to find of it based on what we did remember, I might've considered Magical Pop'n a figment of my imagination. It took over 10 years to rediscover it, randomly in an internet chatroom.
 
@thatgirldm If I were you, I'd give up and go play a game with less ghosts and more fish.
 
To wit though in that case, I gave about 50% incorrect information about the game and the one guy there who responded got it right anyway.
 
@Grace Note Well, I shall keep looking, and try Reddit (if I can find an available username, good grief)
@OrigamiRobot Y'know, I'm just really not a fish person, I'm afraid
 
9:01 PM
@OrigamiRobot This just reminds me of how some of my friends over on other areas were mentioning that a game they were playing was about to be updated with fishing, and all I could think of was @FAE.
 
Unless the fish have gold, then sure I will like the fish ;)
 
@thatgirldm I'm not a fish person either. I am a robot.
 
@OrigamiRobot A fish robot?
 
Not that I've noticed.
 
He's not too perceptive though. He frequently can't remember whether or not he washed his hair moments after washing it.
 
9:03 PM
@Sterno i have a dejavu
 
But if he's a robot, and possibly a fish robot, would he have hair?
 
same discussion was posted here 2 weeks ago and i got banned
 
@Sterno It was never determined whether or not I had actually washed my hair.
 
for posting 2 dudes showering
 
@thatgirldm One of life's great mysteries, I'm afraid.
 
9:05 PM
@OrigamiRobot I shall have to rein in my curiosity, then
 
@Wandang Yeah. I remember that.
Note how I didn't post two dudes showering.
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@thatgirldm Nonsense. You should keep asking me. One day I might remember something useful.
 
And by "dudes", I think you meant "teenage boys".
 
Also, I like being pinged. It makes me feel special.
 
@ori
 
9:06 PM
@gam
 
@OrigamiRobot What do you remember that is not useful?
 
46 mins ago, by OrigamiRobot
@thatgirldm In fact, most of us just spout nonsense and you're better off ignoring it.
 
@thatgirldm Dammit, you ruined it!
 
@fei
 
@thatgirldm Constantly.
 
9:07 PM
@ori @gam @iro @bot
The ultimate in three-letter-pinging
 
yesterday, by FEichinger
user image
 
@FEichinger What did I ruin?
 
@FEichinger There's no way you checked the transcript for that.
Also you started it.
 
@SaintWacko It's such a coincidence that my name is 12 letters. @FEichinger probably wont believe it.
 
@Unionhawk I think he's saying he just now ignored you
 
9:08 PM
@thatgirldm @SaintWacko's attempt to ping @OrigamiRobot in parts.
 
I was merely inquiring about what sorts of un-useful information was remembered by OrigamiRobot, on the chance that a nugget of wisdom might be found
Ah, I see
 
@FEichinger I was not pinging @OrigamiRobot's parts!
 
Oh, hey, OrigamiRobot does break into even chunks of three letters.
 
@SaintWacko in parts. Not his parts.
 
@GraceNote Right?
It made me happy that it broke up evenly
 
9:09 PM
So does GraceNote, as it were.
 
Fear not, my parts have been adequately pinged.
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@Gra
 
@cen
 
@spu
 
For a moment there, it felt as if the whole room was in anticipation of who was going to post the "@ote"
Or that may just have been me.
 
9:11 PM
No, I felt it too. Then I decided to ruin it.
@thatgirldm California Cows Won't Dance The Fandango
That's the wisest nugget I can think of.
 
ok
 
@OrigamiRobot A very good nugget. After all, they're happy cows. They'd dance the Funky Chicken.
 
@thatgirldm Only the chik-fil-a cows dance the Funky Chicken
 
@FEichinger I was.
@FEichinger That or whoever would COMBOBREAK the sequence.
 
@thatgirldm It's the mnemonic device for remembering the six stages of laser printing.
 
9:15 PM
@SaintWacko So only the chik-fil-a cows are happy?
 
can some1 link me to arqade mumble server information again=?
 
@GraceNote As a mod, you should edit @OrigamiRobot's message to say "@ote"
 
@OrigamiRobot Huh, I had not heard of that O.o
 
Cleaning Conditioning Writing Developing Transferring Fusing
 
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A: Gaming Stack Exchange Server List

WipqoznGame: Team Fortress 2 Address: tf2.stackgaming.com Password: No Password Host: Marco Ceppi Status: Down Location: Ashburn, VA, USA Game: Minecraft (events) Address: gameon.stackgaming.com Password: No Password Host: Marco Ceppi Status: Down Location: Ashburn, VA, USA Game: Minecraft (Feed The...

 
9:16 PM
@OrigamiRobot Ah, I just knew the last two
 
thx
 
It's in there, scroll down a bit.
 
@SaintWacko Not happening. For starters I'd get credit and I can't ping myself, which is largely why I didn't post @ote in the first place.
 
Cleaning can also be at the end, but I don't have a mnemonic device for that.
 
also that
 
9:16 PM
@OrigamiRobot No, but @thatgirldm does
 
meta has a broken certificate
 
Whether it was on purpose or not, I have no idea
 
is the server corrupt?
 
@SaintWacko My mind is blown.
 
@OrigamiRobot @SaintWacko Indeed, although if you prefer the Fandango they can simply dance it Carefully
 
9:17 PM
@OrigamiRobot Mine too
 
as expected
alone
in mumble
 
@Wandang We told you we don't just sit in there
We just use it while we're gaming together
 
46 secs ago, by Wandang
as expected
if some1 wants to talk or something or if @GnomeSlice wants to play loadout
 
@Wandang Not right now, sorry. Probably won't be playing much during the day for the forseeable future.
 
@thatgirldm But then the cows wouldn't be from California. Or at least it wouldn't be explicit whether or not they were.
 
9:24 PM
@OrigamiRobot "California Cows Won't Dance The Fandango Carefully"
with the implication that they will dance it recklessly, but hey, that's what you get for expecting sense in your mnemonics
 
If Cleaning comes at the beginning, it wont come at the end.
 
Oh, I totally misread it, whoops
(this is why I am not a laser printer expert)
 
I can explain each process, but that's about it.
 
@GnomeSlice That's awesome
 
9:32 PM
@SaintWacko =3
 
@GnomeSlice Very impressive.
 
Voting to close because this is about circumventing DRM. — Studoku 8 hours ago
Backing up a game I own is against the rules? I've seen plenty of Steam related backup questions floating around.
 
People that use checkboxes for questions that only allow one answer need to be shot.
If you have a single-answer question, that's what radio buttons are for.
 
It'd be nice if he would actually read the question. I didn't have for a crack, or anything like that. I just asked how to backup a game.
4k rep, and still doesn't understand that? go figure.
 
9:48 PM
@GnomeSlice Awesome.
 
@KernelPanic yeah, but those are questions about backing up steam while steam is working, not about backing up steam without steam working, which would be circumventing the DRM. Which is most of the time used for piracy
 
THE MASTERS ARE CALLING MY NUMBER
 
WHATDOIDOWHATDOIDOWHATDOIDO
 
@GnomeSlice nice flow
 
9:55 PM
> As the game's protagonist, you'll travel to famous Japanese sightseeing spots in the company of a pair of beautiful young sisters.
@Wandang Thanks!
 
@RedRiderX ... answer it probably? Otherwise you'd just be rude
 
Eh I guess
Well
Actually
I do have some influence right now.
 
Tip: Poro loves poro-snacks... thanks riot, that will change my life.
 
I could maybe even ask for the Masters to see me.
Eh what the heck, let's see what they have to say
 
@KevinvanderVelden I never said I wanted to back it up, and get rid of the GameStop App. I just want to be able to backup my game as a personal fail safe.
 
9:58 PM
@GnomeSlice A thing. Huh.
 
@KernelPanic in case gamestop fails, which requires circumventing the DRM
Otherwise you can just copy it on your harddrive somewhere like any other files
 
Well that was...
Interesting.
 
@Kevin I'm not going to argue the point with you. It's my game digital, or not. If worse comes to worse I can always borrow a friends, and rip a few ISO's. It's not like I don't have the CD key.
 
@mods sorry if theres two identical flags from me, interface derped a bit
 

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