The Bridge

fredley

11:21 AM

Arperum

@fredley That's somehow logically more sound then hammering at one single spot to build a whole castle.

fredley

@Arperum Water both deep enough for galleon and shallow enough for horse

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley naah, they just walk on the lily pads, whatever works in minecraft right?

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden Hah

Arperum

@fredley Horses can swim, probably not all that well when a heavily armored knight is on top though.

RPi Awesomeness

11:24 AM

@KevinvanderVelden aaww...doood. You no haz baby Toothless

Arperum

@RPiAwesomeness Which is good, now he is recognizable.

Kevin van der Velden

@RPiAwesomeness the porkchop couldn't even tell the difference between me and a turtle!

@Arperum True

lol

11:25 AM

These things are great, because AoE is great

5pike

@fredley Indeed

Arperum

@fredley AoE III was not that good. I really liked the II and I though.

fredley

@Arperum Yeah. AoE II was my favourite

Arperum

I remember making a random map script for AoE II way back.

5pike

@Arperum 3 was OK. The "build your own town" thing was weird, but was quite fun upgrading.

Arperum

11:27 AM

AoE I is actually the very first PC game I ever played...

Martin Sojka

@fredley That things work when you remember that cavalry members can and do dismount for things like "storming boats".

Kevin van der Velden

@MartinSojka NEVER, cavalry is forever glued to their horses, see also: any game ever.

fredley

Let's all take a moment to remember the sounds of AoE

> Rogan?

> No.

> Shhhhhh-haaaaa

11:29 AM

@fredley 20

My GPU order was cancelled :(

5pike

@OrigamiRobot Oh no. Why?

Wipqozn

11:39 AM

@OrigamiRobot You should flip a table.

Origami Robot

> We're writing to inform you that your order 002-4962156-8953812 from Global Beats International has been canceled because the price for the item(s) was not set correctly by the seller.

I remember when pricing mistakes were honored.

fredley

@OrigamiRobot Aren't there laws against that kind of thing? There are here

Origami Robot

Also, it wasn't even that big a mistake.

fredley

If you see a price on something, you are legally entitled to buy it at that price. If the seller screws up they take the hit.

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley aah, but when ordering online the user agreement says you waive that right

Wipqozn

11:42 AM

@fredley There probably are, but that only matters if someone actually calls them on it.

Also, I love my new gravatar <3

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden I don't think it's legally allowed to in this country

@Wipqozn I hate your new gravatar, and I haven't even seen it yet

Wipqozn

@MBraedley I move into that Killiam Building by the Canada Games centre tomorrow.

@fredley It's the one I currently have. I switched it yesterday. I think.

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley it's not much different, just slightly less dark

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden Hatred: confirmed

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley also: apparently not: telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/money-saving-tips/… (Myth 5)

-ish

MBraedley

11:48 AM

@Wipqozn I hope that's not you asking for help moving

Wipqozn

@MBraedley Oh my no

I'm just excited, and was like "oh hey, look, it's that fellow nova scotian"

Origami Robot

The worst part is I was charged and now I have to wait to be refunded before I can order another one

Wipqozn

I've got 8 people helping me move, so I'm quite set.

@fredley It's Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, aka the new love of my life <3

Private Pansy

I must be the only person in the world to complain about getting off duty

Kevin van der Velden

That's new?

Arperum

12:01 PM

@PrivatePansy I'm confused. Didn't you want your time with the army be done with already?

Private Pansy

@Arperum In this case, doing duty means getting off my day job in the army. And my day job in the army sucks

Wipqozn

@Arperum Maybe he's recently acquired a taste for blood.

badp

@PrivatePansy that seems backwards

Private Pansy

They needed non-Muslim drivers in a high security clearance camp, and as it happens we ran out of Chinese and Indian drivers

Kevin van der Velden

@badp it's the Singaporean army

badp

12:06 PM

@PrivatePansy ooooh. That almost sounds like fun.

Private Pansy

I'm filling in a position that would require me to stick around for 7 days in a camp that prohibits phones with cameras

On the other hand, the job is incredibly relaxing because the driver is almost never called upon except for emergency

So it's just 7 days of slacking and reading books and catching up on studies and stuff

I did that for 24 hours, then my superiors called me and told me they found a replacement and I have to go back

badp

Private Pansy

Well it is an image of an Xbox One VCR. Sort of.

user15026

Good morning. Bridge.

Lazers

1

Q: What patch is played at worlds of Season 4?

In the notes of 4.14 they said: As 4.14 is potentially the patch we'll be playing the World Championship on Which on is it finally? 4.14 got updated once more after the realease.

league-of-legends

Private Pansy

12:11 PM

I'm not sure this is how the Steam music thing is suppose to work

Wipqozn

@AshleyNunn Good Morning. Nunn.

user15026

@Wipqozn Excited to move?

Pvt. Grichmann

@PrivatePansy Not very well at all.

MBraedley

So apparently, there was this Loot Cave in Destiny, but Bungie shut it down last night. People would do nothing but empty clip after clip into this cave (or more precisely, the enemies emerging from the cave), and get a bunch rare engrams out of it.

Wipqozn

@AshleyNunn Yes. Very much so.

Rapitor

12:21 PM

@MBraedley people have already found other "Treasure Caves". not as effective as the first, but still pretty good. In a loot driven RNG mmo(sorta) game, people will find the most efficient and effortless way to get said loot.

Pvt. Grichmann

It just scans your files directly (you can set which directories it has access to in settings) and disregards tags/steamIDs entirely. Probably not worth using yet.

Private Pansy

It doesn't even recognise any of the Soundtrack DLCs I've previously purchased

Lazers

0

Q: What changes in my observatory do when I upgrade it?

From the workshop I can upgrade the observatory via the "Astrolabe" upgrade, which has as description: Improves Observatory effectiveness by 50% There are multiple things that an observatory can do, that are the following four things: Increase max science Increase science output Auto-obse...

kittens-game

Pvt. Grichmann

Are the games with those soundtracks installed?

Arperum

@Rapitor And blocking them from doing so will only result in a) people going away, b) people finding a new way. repeat until no players left.

Private Pansy

12:28 PM

@Pvt.Grichmann Yes, and the files are all right in the Steam folder, yet somehow it can't seem to find them

Pvt. Grichmann

Odd, that. Just keep using what you were using before until they sort it out, I suppose.

badp

@MBraedley EXTERMINATE ALL FUN

Private Pansy

Okay, figured it out: Steam only recognises the original Steam folder by default

The problem is it now thinks every single snippet of sound is music

Lazers

0

Q: Is the light/heavy armor buff in enchanting worth using?

I've learned both increase heavy armor skill and light armor skill enchantments from breaking items, and I would like to know whether using them has a noticeable effect or not when enchanting a piece of armor (or ring or necklace), say in the formula used when calculating the damage reduction. ...

skyrim

Pvt. Grichmann

@PrivatePansy Were your soundtracks in a different library folder?

Private Pansy

12:33 PM

That includes the bits of sfx from various games, and even the short narration read out for wonders in Civ V

@Pvt.Grichmann No, most of my games are in a different location

It only recognises the original Steam installation in Program Files by default

Rapitor

@Arperum Bungie is very inexperienced when it comes to MMO style games. They haven't grasped at the fact many players would just rather farm than play "content". It doesn't help that their content gives virtually no rewards.

Private Pansy

It's... pretty awful

Pvt. Grichmann

Ah. Word of warning: Steam music recognises media buttons. So if you have anything in its playlist, but use a different player that also recognises media buttons, you'll get a mix-up.

Private Pansy

How did this feature made it out of testing

Pvt. Grichmann

And no, you cannot tell it to stop doing that.

It's the twenty-first century, man. We are the testers.

Private Pansy

12:37 PM

This... this is hilarious reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2hdd3i/…

> so the music function kinda picks up on custom songs you've downloaded from Garry's Mod servers. So now I can listen to such classics as GET NOSCOPED! and the WarioWare: Smooth Moves soundtrack.

> I think I may have found the weirdest one, it's all just french words meaning "congratulations"/"well done"

FAE

good afternoon all

user15026

@FAE heya :)

Private Pansy

ALRIGHT GRAVITY FALLS TIME

FAE

@KevinvanderVelden Around when will you be getting there? I was thinking of arriving somewhere between 4 and 4:30

Kevin van der Velden

@FAE eeh, I've got work till 5:30, so 5:45 or something

FAE

12:44 PM

@KevinvanderVelden Ah okies. I've got an hourish train ride and I don't want to have to sit in the middle of the spits so I want to leave a bit early.

@KevinvanderVelden Also I just saw on twitter that EpiCon's winter edition was canceled :/

Private Pansy

Oh god, Mabel is a shipper.

Actually, I don't think that was ever a secret, now that I think about it

Kevin van der Velden

@FAE heck, the website is even removed =/

FAE

@KevinvanderVelden yeah. :/ They made a statement on FB, but I was surprised that their website was taken down already. On the upside, there's apparently going to be a Dutch Comic Con in the Jaarbeurs in March.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FAE hio

Martin Sojka

Heh. So ... that viral marketing firm (Rantic) tried to gather public attention via a hoax "Emma Watson nudes will be leaked" stuff, and turned that into a "Shutdown 4chan" stuff. In return, 4chan hacked their servers, obtained full marketing data on past stuff and future plans, seemingly got into their mail accounts and so on. I guess somebody just found out why you don't attack /b/. ;)

Arperum

12:48 PM

@MartinSojka Most solid plan ever.

FAE

I get to play games todaaaaay :D

Rapitor

@MartinSojka people still haven't figured out to just leave /b/ alone

user15026

@MartinSojka I am amused that people kept trying to link the bash stuff to the Emma Watson stuff.

user15026

@FAE That is pretty excellent. I am going to a hockey game tonight!

fredley

@Wipqozn Somewhat acceptable

Arperum

12:49 PM

@AshleyNunn Wait, what? Why? That's so for reality it's pure nonsense.

FAE

@AshleyNunn Woo! Leafs? Or amateur?

Martin Sojka

@AshleyNunn Oh, it's quite likely CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169 were involved somehow. They make hacking even slightly not perfectly administered systems damn easy at the moment.

user15026

@FAE Local Junior A team

Wipqozn

@PrivatePansy Oh, right, new episodes. I'm caught up until the Bill episode.

FAE

@AshleyNunn Have fun! :D

user15026

12:50 PM

It's their home opener tonight, which, here, is a pretty big deal. :D

badp

@Rapitor what about my master plan to leverage the /b/ social platform to brandvertise Arqade's viral feedback loop?

FAE

@KevinvanderVelden Do you have any SE/Arqade t-shirts? And where do you want to try to meet up?

badp

@FAE You'll recognize @KevinvanderVelden from his "Half Life 3" cover art.

user15026

Man, we left a line open for two days after a match and like...no one took advantage of it (we'd've caught them and cancelled the bets, but still).

badp

@AshleyNunn Poor match.

Was it like a table tennis under-16 pre-qualifier warmup match or something?

fredley

1:02 PM

@AshleyNunn whoops

Kevin van der Velden

@FAE I have 0 SE/Arqade shirts* =[. I have a hat and a white shirt with a (slightly faded) kirby with headset on it

user15026

@badp It was an e-sport match

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FAE Did you by chance listen to two more thrillings last night?

Long enough to hear PFT as Croach?

FAE

@KevinvanderVelden Gotcha. I'll be the short Asian girl in glasses wearing a Lazers shirt!

@LessPop_MoreFizz I had to stop just before that one. I'll definitely listen to it today though.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FAE enjoy hearing the best sparks theme ever

FAE

1:05 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz hahaha I look forward to it

Kevin van der Velden

@FAE Look for the LAZERS (with only 1 eye of course, need to keep that remaining eye safe), gotcha

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