The Bridge

badp

9:00 PM

@BenBrocka Well, they're certainly spamming something

various multiple things in fact

Ben Brocka

yeah I can't read it at all but I think there's a chain of commands

badp

@BenBrocka I think they're all bogus, really

Ben Brocka

b5right7down3right9down2left5up5right2up5left4up3right4up3left2up4a

badp

yeah, he fixed democracy so the first vote is wait

Ben Brocka

yeah that's spam

a THOUSAND input votes?!

badp

9:01 PM

let's see where it takes them

Ben Brocka

that has to be bots, CRAZY bots

fredley

@badp eh?

badp

HOW COULD THEY POSSIBLY THINK A LEGIT COMBINATION STARTS WITH B

well

okay

there's menus

Ben Brocka

prevent start9 I guess? ...though start9 is pointless with the new vote system

Origami Robot

I'm not crazy :(

Ben Brocka

9:02 PM

Sure you're not

MBraedley

@OrigamiRobot You're sad that you're sane? That seems like an odd thing to be sad about

Sepia Lazers

0

Q: Flag quantity refilling?

I just flagged, for the first time, a recent question as an advert. I noticed that, when I did, it said that I had 9 flags left. Could someone explain to me or point me to info about how flags work and at what rate they replenish? I did read a few other questions but didn't really see anything...

Tim Stone

Sepia Lazers looks a little...greyscale.

badp

orly

Ben Brocka

Gameboy Lasers

badp

9:06 PM

blame it on those noob mods

user15026

I never touched it. :P

Ben Brocka

I knew a noob mod once, name of @ba...hm.

MBraedley

oldschool lasers

Ben Brocka

low ink lasers

badp

balpha?

He's pretty new to chat, yeah.

FEichinger

9:13 PM

@MBraedley inb4.

MBraedley

@FEichinger I know. If you hadn't updated with the quote, I would have left mine

FEichinger

I was looking for the flag-weight MSO post at first, but then I figured I'd just link the help center page ... And there it was, the section I was trying to find.

Ben Brocka

shhh flag weight doesn't exist*

Tim Stone

It actually really no longer exists, we don't even have to pretend.

Pretending is fun though, so.

Ben Brocka

oh is it no longer there even in the background?

FEichinger

9:17 PM

@BenBrocka Yes, but that post included the new flag count metric!

@BenBrocka Yep, it's completely dead now.

Not just hidden, ded.

Arperum

@Sterno EU servers are still up, if you really need to play.

Ben Brocka

MBraedley

@BenBrocka Hmm, why is work blocking that domain?

Ben Brocka

I have no idea what the domain is, just a sales chart

MBraedley

> Your request was denied because of its content categorization: "Mixed Content/Potentially Adult;File Storage/Sharing"

FAE

9:21 PM

@MBraedley It's imgur, if that helps?

Tim Stone

@BenBrocka People finally started buying WiiUs?

Arperum

@FAE Now it is, it was abload.de or something.

MBraedley

@FAE No, it's fine now. The direct link didn't work though

FAE

Oh, didn't see the first one.

Ben Brocka

@TimStone assuming that's the holiday bump showing

Tim Stone

9:22 PM

Ah

Ben Brocka

I dont' think they've shared numbers since, nor has the 'bone IIRC

MBraedley

But where's the comparison with the XBoxes?

Tim Stone

@BenBrocka I decided that the ugly box is a ploy to sell special promotion units by the way, since the Titanfall bundle has its own box as well.

Arperum

If I want to buy a controller that will only be used on a pc, so no console specifics required, what WOULD BE THE BEST THING TO BUY,

Tim Stone

Why that makes sense is irrelevant because Scroogled.

MBraedley

9:24 PM

@Arperum 360 wired is the de facto standard these days, I think

FAE

@Arperum Xbox ruined everything with Xinput so it'll probably get you the furthest, if you don't mind a D-pad that's awful.

Origami Robot

@Arperum What does "No console specifics" mean?

@FAE i.e. if you don't play fighting games.

FAE

@OrigamiRobot Right

Arperum

@OrigamiRobot I don't care if it's compatible with any console. so I don't mind xbox/ps/randomotherthing.

Origami Robot

1 min ago, by MBraedley

@Arperum 360 wired is the de facto standard these days, I think

Arperum

9:25 PM

I've never owned a console, so any controller will be a learning curve.

Origami Robot

@Arperum Prepping for DS2?

GnomeSlice

Arperum

@OrigamiRobot maybe. And I might want to try DS1 again, but with a controller, because keyboard/mouse resulted in ragedelete.

FAE

@Arperum You'll want wired 360 then

@GnomeSlice Are you looking for feedback?

Ben Brocka

@TimStone I was kinda thinking that too. The Day One box is nice, better than the PS4's for sure. The green one is ...awful

Arperum

9:27 PM

I don't mind my games being stupid hard. But I want to be able to play and not be looking into a wall because I lack a third hand.

GnomeSlice

@FAE Not really, I just wanted to post it

badp

I hope you were looking

GnomeSlice

@Arperum Get a controller.

FAE

@GnomeSlice The delay between landing and the L extending feels a bit long.

Arperum

@GnomeSlice That was the plan.

Tim Stone

9:28 PM

@FAE Yes, especially considering the animations are so quick

FAE

@TimStone Yeah, it's all fwoosh, then... dot dot dot

Tim Stone

@BenBrocka Yeah...while I shouldn't have any real reason to care about the box, I am glad that I have the Day One one sitting in my closet instead of that abomination. >_>

Ben Brocka

@TimStone I keep boxes too...though I'll probably have to collapse the One's GIANT box if I get one unlike the others

GnomeSlice

FAE

@GnomeSlice That feels better.

Origami Robot

9:32 PM

I keep console boxes in case I wanna take the console anywhere.

FAE

@OrigamiRobot Same.

My PS2 one was pretty worn because of hauling it to and from college and stuff.

Fluttershy

Sixty-four. That's how many games Steam added to my library today. I had to put them each into a separate category so I could hide the category and not have to scroll through those extra games.

Origami Robot

I kept the box for Steel Battalion because it's neat.

GnomeSlice

@Fluttershy wtf

FAE

Though I take my Wii on my carryon for traveling because it's made of Nintendium and I'm fairly confident it won't break.

Fluttershy

9:33 PM

@GnomeSlice It decided to put all of the free-to-play games in my library.

Origami Robot

@FAE I take a mental picture of everything that was in the box the way it came so I can make sure not to forget any cables.

Lazers

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Q: Can I copy my personal emblem to my platoon?

I have an emblem on my soldier that I really like and I would like to use it a slightly altered version for my platoon. Can I somehow easily copy the emblem over so I can then make those slight adjustments? I really would not like to have to create the whole emblem again.

battlefield-4 battlelog

Origami Robot

@Fluttershy That's weird

Fluttershy

@OrigamiRobot Yeah it is! I saw a bunch of games I'd never even heard of. <_< My memory's bad, but I don't think I'd forget 64 games.

Origami Robot

I HAVE NO NEW GAMES IN MINE

@Wipqozn IS PLAYING D3

WHAT A JERK

Ben Brocka

9:41 PM

@Fluttershy that must be what hell is like

@FAE The Wii never felt very sturdy to me. It's certainly no gamecube

user15026

@Fluttershy O.o

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot Just installing updates. Servers are still down for another hour and a half.

Arperum

@Fluttershy I didn't get any new ones (yet).

FAE

@BenBrocka True, but it's way sturdier than I'd trust my PS2/3/360 to be on a plane ride.

Wipqozn

@BenBrocka Gamecube was a beast.

user15026

9:42 PM

Short of actually moving to a new house, I have never taken my consoles anywhere.

Ben Brocka

I only cart my handhelds around. But I also hate traveling so I haven't done that much since highschool and earlier

user15026

My 3Ds is the only thing I take places

Garan

Traveling consoles? You mean my laptop?

Wipqozn

I've taken my Wii to a friends house on occasion, but that's it.

user15026

I have a PSP too but I never use it

Wipqozn

9:44 PM

Not counting handhelds of course.

Fluttershy

@BenBrocka No, hell was having to sit and set a category for each of them individually.

user15026

I should sell it, it is kinda useless to me

user15026

I've got a bunch of games for it, and it is modded with a bunch of emulators on, but I just...eh, I dunno.

GnomeSlice

I gave my company in toronto a new quote and they accepted

FAE

My PS2 and GameCube went to college and back with me quite a few times and had to go transatlantic when I moved here, and my Wii's gone transatlantic a few times now as well.

GnomeSlice

9:45 PM

excited

FAE

@AshleyNunn I keep mine for games that aren't on PSN yet that were really enjoyable on PSP, like Patapon.

user15026

I found Patapon too tricky. :(

user15026

In most cases, the PSP controls made me wanna throw junk.

GnomeSlice

@FAE You should get Crush

user15026

And the games never really held my attention.

Ben Brocka

9:46 PM

Patapon 1 is a good idea executed in a god awful fashion. Patapon 2 and 3 are fantastic

FAE

When I moved over here, I had to disassemble my PC and I brought it over in disparate parts, motherboard, graphics card, everything, in a box in a suitcase.

user15026

So I suspect I will likely sell it, once I figure out how and for how much.

FAE

@AshleyNunn Yeah, I can see how it'd be challenging for you. :(

Ben Brocka

I could never touch a PSP again after playing PSP games on a Vita though. Glad I got the latter half of them digitally

user15026

@FAE Most stuff people recc'ed is too hard.

Ben Brocka

9:47 PM

Patapon 2 and 3 are much more forgiving, but might still be too tricky, especially to get Fever

FAE

@GnomeSlice I love anything Escher-inspired

Ben Brocka

but patapon 1 was so hard even I had a hell of a time timing inputs right and permadeath is just unreasonable in it

FAE

@BenBrocka I still haven't finished 1 yet because I kind of hit analysis-paralysis on min-maxing their equipment

Wipqozn

@Garan I got the feather earlier.

Double jumping is quite handy.

FAE

@BenBrocka Also this. I had a lot of trouble getting Fever in 1 when starting out.

Wipqozn

9:48 PM

Also, I should go shower.

Ben Brocka

@FAE ...how? You can't really do much until pretty late to grind better characters/equipment

Garan

@Wipqozn Indeed it is. You have the boots, right?

Wipqozn

@Garan Hermes boots, for increased movement speed? Yes.

FAE

@AshleyNunn Obviously, they need to go through the FAE-to-Ashley Recommendation Filter 1000™.

Ben Brocka

Patapon 3 is a bit simpler regarding equipment, just four characters. Though leveling some abilities is unreasonably slow

Garan

9:49 PM

@Wipqozn And the axe?

Wipqozn

@Garan No. Only weapons I have are the knife and the starting whip.

user15026

@FAE Seriously. You rock at knowing what bits I need to know :)

Garan

@Wipqozn I'm not going to tell you where it is, but get it. It will make your life a lot easier.

badp

@BenBrocka fun fact: since xkeeper brought his restream to hitbox.tv, he's now ahead of the actual stream for quite a few people (including me)

Ben Brocka

It's a shame patapon 1 was so poorly implemented, I know it turned a LOT of people off. Heck, I'd never have gotten 2 if it weren't $20 at launch

Wipqozn

9:50 PM

ALso, @Garan, if you like La Mulana you may enjoy Volgarr the Viking. They are quite different, but similiar in that they are both fairly old-school action platforming games.

Ben Brocka

@badp huh, must be because of the ever increasing lag as you leave twitch open

Wipqozn

I ahve yet to play Volgarr, but it's on my to play list.

FAE

@BenBrocka Because I was looking at a walkthrough guide thing and it was getting into the details about stuff and I just went all waugh. When I get a new game, it takes me sometimes a couple hours before I can even start it because I'm checking out achievement/trophy things and trying to figure out how to maximize efficiency for getting stuff in as few playthroughs as possible even though I know I probably will barely finish one. :(

user15026

I mean I have the PSP2000, its modded, I have a pile of games. I feel like it would be something someone in the world might want for a decent price, but I have no idea what that would be, nor where to sell it from.

badp

@BenBrocka actually I've been opening and closing it multiple times, whereas xkeeper hasn't.

FAE

9:51 PM

@AshleyNunn :D

Ben Brocka

@badp I'm not sure hitbox has the gradual delay issue Twitch does

Wipqozn

@AshleyNunn I'd buy it from you for $5!

wait, it probably can't DL games from the PSN store. Nevermind!

Garan

@Wipqozn That looks closer to the Castlevania games than La Mulana.

badp

that said xkeeper only has like 175 viewers

user15026

@Wipqozn Considering what I paid for it....no.

user15026

9:52 PM

:P

Wipqozn

@Garan Yeah, the recommendation is because they're both pretty old school platformers.

Ben Brocka

@FAE Eh I usually avoid that stuff. I'd spend more time looking shit up than I would stumbling into the correct way in most games. I just look up guides when I know I need them

Wipqozn

supposed to be really difficult, with good bosses.

FAE

@BenBrocka I get anxiety about permanently missable stuff in games.

Wipqozn

@FAE I hate missing stuff. It's the worst.

Ben Brocka

9:53 PM

I hate that stuff, but very few games actually have that anymore

I absolutely despised FF X-2 for that though

It was basically the worst of both worlds linear/non-linear wise

FAE

I get a lot of anxiety about gaming sometimes. :(

On one hand, I don't want to look stuff up because I just want that fresh experience.

On the other, I don't want to miss things.

Ben Brocka

It was non-linear so you didn't know what to do but linear so that if you accidentally progressed you lost huge swaths of accessible quests/items

FAE

And I don't often have the attention span to replay games really.

Ben Brocka

@FAE It's important to remember it's really not necessary in most games that aren't RPGs and stuff

user15026

I rarely finish things, never replay them.

FAE

9:55 PM

Yeah, what was it, like 70% of FFX-2 was optional?

Ben Brocka

Part of the reason I avoid them, RPGs are generally...very poorly designed in regards to respecting players' time

GnomeSlice

fiverr, what the hell is taking so long to 'upload images'?

@BenBrocka try sanctuaryrpg.com

you can play it for like 2 minutes at a time

Ben Brocka

@FAE wouldn't surprise me. There were only a few super major things, but IIRC there's an entire storyline with the spheres to miss out on

FAE

@BenBrocka I stress about missable achievements and stuff too. :(

@BenBrocka Yeah, there was quite a bit that you could just skip over completely and not even realize.

spugsley

HI BRIDGE

FAE

9:58 PM

@BenBrocka I like RPGs a lot like... theoretically. But because of aforementioned anxiety about missing stuff, they take me forever to finish.

Tim Stone

@spugsley HI

Ben Brocka

I love RPGs as an idea. They've just...really never grown up UX wise. They're slowly getting minor niceties like auto-save though

FEichinger

@spugsley o/

Ben Brocka

One thing I absolutely love about Disgaea is it really knows how to let you cut through the time-wasting BS (slow animations, cutscenes, leveling) if you're an advanced player. Though it's replay/multiple ending thing is pretty annoying stull

spugsley

I GOT SOME COOL NEWS TODAY GUYS!

FAE

10:01 PM

@BenBrocka I'm one of those people who also obsessively keeps a bajillion save files for RPGs.

Blem

►

Grace Note

@BenBrocka I dunno, I consider the whole matter of the Item World and item maximization to be every bit the opposite of "Cutting through time-wasting BS"

spugsley

there's an artist in NYC getting ready to show for a mental health benefit and she's doing a video installment showcasing artists around the US who get inspiration from their own struggles and some of my pieces are going to be included :)

7

Blem

also incase no one has posted it yet

►

Grace Note

It's fun but it is beyond the definition of a monotonously tedious time-sink.

Garan

10:02 PM

@spugsley Congrats!

spugsley

yay brain spiders (copyright @AshleyNunn) making me famouser

user15026

@spugsley eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

user15026

I mean having brain spiders is a sucktastic pile of suck, but hey, art! fame!

FAE

@spugsley Congrats!

spugsley

also @AshleyNunn @SaintWacko @FAE @DavidM I'll be ordering prints soon so if you know which you want, let me know and I can shoot you an email and get stuff going out

@AshleyNunn yay art! Boo brain spiders!

user15026

10:04 PM

@spugsley Augh, I forgot the part where that meant I would have to make actual decisions

FAE

@spugsley Oh hey, yeah, when should I do that why?

spugsley

@AshleyNunn bahahahahahahaha

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote You can plow through the item world at reasonable speed, and at least you're making progress the whole while (since by the time you're Item Worlding you should be leveling up with basically every attack in a good item)

FAE

@AshleyNunn This, lol.

@spugsley Also is it anything or just stuff from x date or...?

spugsley

@FAE whatever you want :)

FAE

10:04 PM

Okies!

spugsley

you've got time. Maybe just try to think about it over the next week week and a half or so?

user15026

@spugsley Yes. Deadline. Deadline is good.

spugsley

@AshleyNunn lol you're so cute :3

Grace Note

@BenBrocka A day per item is a reasonable speed if I didn't have several items needed for the whole regiment.

Garan

@AshleyNunn Deadline? More like recommendation.

GnomeSlice

10:06 PM

Blugh, you have to sell 10 gigs on fiverr before you can add extras

spugsley

@GnomeSlice what are you selling?

Grace Note

Between resets for mystery gates and clearing out default innocents to put my own stuff in there, and the nature of even getting the loot that I want to level up... the hours add up fast and with what time I have available, it's why I've never really finished any major item projects.

GnomeSlice

@spugsley basically this: fiverr.com/toni_iii/create-logo-animation

user15026

@spugsley I totally am.

spugsley

@GnomeSlice cool :D

James

10:09 PM

... Brain Spiders?

Is that like ass-burgers?

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote I've never really level 100'd that many items, and you can Puppy Paw Stick clone stuff lately too

James

:)

user15026

@James ......

Grace Note

@BenBrocka Class/Chara world is also time-consuming agony after a while. Especially if you're trying to learn a particular skill.

GnomeSlice

@James Hahaha, one of my friends who actually has aspergers loves that joke.

James

10:10 PM

@AshleyNunn grin

FAE

@spugsley Are they tagged at all or nay?

I can't seem to find tags

user15026

I am trying really hard to try to interpret this in a way that doesn't make me want to flip my desk, build a fort in it and hide from the internet and eat cookies.

James

@GnomeSlice Haha, That is awesome man :)

Grace Note

Even duplication is in itself timeconsuming. Less time than it takes to create a scratch copy, naturally, but EGADS.

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote well, point I was making is you're at least spending time playing the game, grind or no. Compare to "oh look unskippable cutscene...long battle intro...slow...turn...based...attacks...okay I won....okay walked two steps so that's another battle"

Lazers

10:11 PM

0

Q: food shortage I had a lovely town

I built brilliant town had 52 people and then all of sudden people were starving even though I had 2 hunters and gatherers plus 1 fisher I had 3 big farms to and chickens plus I split the chickens up when it reached certain amount so that was making double and also people started dying of old age...

pc banished

Ben Brocka

There's a reason I played FF 4 through 6 on my phone with 4x speedup most of the time and holding A through most of the battles (it...works quite well actually)

Grace Note

@BenBrocka I happen to like flashy attacks, so, actually, skipping those is not really on my list and I only really do that in the same vein that I might want to, say, SKIP THE TRUDGERY.

user15026

@GnomeSlice I could spend so much of my money here.

Grace Note

It's not even really playing after a point, it's practically just going through the motions.

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn ;_;

Ben Brocka

10:12 PM

I love Disgaea's attacks a LOT. But I love even more the ability to turn them off

Grace Note

Which is why I don't like the length of the grind in the Disgaea games. It loses its status as playing pretty fast.

Ben Brocka

one word: supernova

It's cool the first time then the worst part of the entire game the next 5 times he uses it

James

Not My Caps but does this mean that Photoshop and illustrator can not open a JPG or PNG file!?: THE FILE OF THE LOGO YOU WILL SENT ME MUST BE IN .PSD,EPS or .AI FORMAT ( THAT MEANS IT MUST BE FROM PHOTOSHOP OR ILLUSTRATOR)
IF YOU ONLY HAVE .JPG or .PNG PLEASE WRITE ME FIRST WE WILL WORK IT OUT SOMEHOW :)

Ben Brocka

Though waiting for ATB is often a worse problem than attack animations, especially early in the game (even at max speed)

Really liked that about FFX's battle system, would have appreciated another spin on that

@James I think they just want to preserve layers, photoshop can open jpg/png/whatever

In fact photoshop itself nags you if you try to save to not-psd because you lose the nice editable information

GnomeSlice

@James Layers are important

James

10:17 PM

Ah, I miss Macromedia... They used PNG.. Could be opened in Anything and would act like a png.. open it in Macromedia and you got your multiple layers, filter settings, vector graphics, etc :D

Still so happy that I got a copy of Studio MX before Adobe bought em out

Lazers

0

Q: The ring of Resurgence

Because I sold my one of my dragon masks, I'm having to go back from an old save (I'm PS3) to get them, so it kinda feels like I. Starting again. It's level 37, so it's not too bad. I have most of the stuff I really want, however I do t have the ring of resurgence, which regents magicka 80%. A...

skyrim

Ullallulloo

MechWarrior Online gets DX11 support! :D

user15026

Huh, apparently Words of Radiance is out today.

Ullallulloo

Also, it got a Banshee.

Frank

@ash Indeed!

(I'm in a chapters right now)

user15026

10:27 PM

@Frank grins well then. :P

user15026

My Tumblr dash is just exploding with it.

Frank

Since I'm here, I might as well pick up more than just one book.

user15026

@Frank What else you gonna get? :D

Frank

Not a clue! Giant store, lots of books!

Garan

@Frank Yes! Lots of books!

user15026

10:31 PM

@Frank ALL OF THEM

Frank

Also, this new book of Sanderson's is bigger than the last, if that's possible.

user15026

@Frank Dude writes monstrocities.

user15026

Have you read any Scott Lynch?

Frank

Name doesn't ring a bell.

user15026

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

user15026

10:33 PM

go find a copy of the Lies of Locke Lamora. GO GO GO GO GO

Frank

Book in hand.

user15026

His books are amazing if you like heists and trickery and general chaotic awesome and thieving

user15026

I just like for once it is me recommending you a thing

Wipqozn

holy snap, I want this set

> Sentries cast your equipped Hatred spenders.

3ventic

Free flags

MBraedley

10:44 PM

@3ventic that went fast

3ventic

♦ saw it

user15026

@MBraedley It helped I just swapped back to chat

James

ROFL.. I have set up a minecraft server called Tech Wars and some new people have joined in.. Its hilarious as one of em keeps dying and the other is now yelling things like "Stop Feeding the other Team!" :D

MBraedley

Anyways, Castle is a really good show, and everyone should watch it.

James

Pft

Like anything with Nathan in it could be bad

Though when he plays truly bad guys, he is a bit creepy

MBraedley

10:47 PM

I would say this weeks episode is on par with the first part of the Paris two parter

Arperum

@spugsley I am going to have a stab at paypall later this week.

Zero Stack

Thanks for the edit @3ventic. I see you just started bf4?

MBraedley

Just thinking about it, my favourite episodes of both Castle and Firefly are the serious ones. Out of Gas is my favourite episode, followed closely by Objects in Space and War Stories. And it's usually after the serious episodes that I come in here and say everyone should watch Castle.

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