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fredley

2:07 PM

Meanwhile, in Lewes

Today in America, we celebrate National Doughnut Day (the second one of the year) during National Diabetes Awareness Month.

Has anyone watched Ash vs. Evil Dead?

@Sterno I think... @murgatroid99 has? Or was that @StrixVaria?

Or maybe @Chippies?

Someone with pink in their avatar.

Or a purplish color.

I've seen Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, and Army of Darkness, because a college roommate forced me to sit through all 3 in a row. I remember very little except that I wanted to fall asleep.

2:14 PM

This is the new series on Starz that started a few days ago

I haven't seen that.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Worst news: Nathan for You is no longer free on Amazon Prime. I don't seem to have a way to watch it at the moment :(

@Sterno I have

Watching Evil Dead back to back with Evil Dead 2 is incredibly boring

@Sterno Yeah it was really dumb.

@TrentHawkins VERDICT?

2:15 PM

@Sterno Groovy

I'll set torrents to "Pirate" then.

Um, I mean, I'll sign up for Starz immediately.

@twobugs I like it as well, just not as much as I like C++ =p

And I like both for entirely different reasons

@Sterno It's a bit of a different beast than the films, but if you enjoy the chainsaw handed, deadite destroying, shotgun wielding Ash, you'll be right at home by the end of the first episode.

Also, it's nice to see Campbell in a starring roll again.

2:35 PM

Apparently Bethesda mentioned somewhere that Destiny's shooting gameplay was one of their influences on Fallout 4? Damnit. I guess I have to buy Fallout 4 now...

a thousand hits in the head

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@Sterno Just one thing to keep in mind, while the first episode seems to get a large portion of its humour and 'feel' from Army of Darkness... Because Universal owns the rights to that movie, the series makes no mention of it - up to and including a distinct lack of S-Mart.

@Yuuki Why?

I DON'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING

Flight of the Bumblebee on 101 Bottles!

2:48 PM

And for different musical talents:

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I'm so happy I don't wathc gravity falls as it airs.

Like wtf

PArt 1 of the fianle airs oct 26... part 2 airs nov 26

Either the producers or the network need to get their shit goether

Yeah, the release schedule sucks.

I'll just continue to wait until the season is complete and then watch it all

or just not watch it

@Wipqozn You should watch it though.

@RonanForman I've watched some of season 2

The release schedule just turns me off

2:50 PM

@Wipqozn If you staggered watching it from now, the finale would be out by the time you're done.

@Wipqozn Networks are good at killing shows with release schedules.

@RonanForman So would your mom

OH BUUUUUURRRRNNN

That's actually a good idea though

@Wipqozn Be out?

I'd wager the majority of kids watching the show don't particularly care

@RonanForman I don't know. I don't come up with this stuff.

@Sterno WEll that's just silly

@Wipqozn Noted.

2:51 PM

My daughter wants to watch the same episode of a cartoon 5 times in a row. In one sitting.

@Sterno What about us fully grown adults though, what about us?

@RonanForman You're probably a small enough percentage of the viewers that their shitty release schedule isn't "killing the show"

@Sterno Yeah in this case, but Firefly and Korra.

@Sterno Do you mean to suggest that the target audience for kids shows aren't adults?

@Wipqozn Isn't this becoming more common now? I think I've heard of other series doing it. Not to defend it, because that's really uncool

2:53 PM

Next you'll be telling me My Little Pony target audience isn't adult males.

@twobugs I don't really watch much tv, so I have no idea

Your mom might though

@Wipqozn Obviously, but moreover I'm saying that presenting it as a serialized drama where you wait week to week for an episode is a super minor concern for a children's cartoon. That's not how they watch TV.

@Wipqozn I don't think I'll ever claim that.

@Sterno I guess that makes sense

Me: "Hey, Skydrift, it's Friday! There's a new episode of PJ Masks on!"
Skydrift: "I want to watch the one with the robots."
Me: You mean the one we watched 5 times yesterday? But there's a new one!
Skydrift: "I want to watch the robot one."

THEY GO INTO THE NIGHT
SO THEY CAN SAVE THE DA-A-AY
WHO ARE THESE HEREOS
TO SHOW YOU THE WAY

I may have watched a lot of that cartoon recently.

Maybe that's why people have children: so they have an excuse to watch cartoons

The best is when she lets me know what's about to happen in the episode, as if I haven't been sitting there the other 37 times she watched it.

3:01 PM

I vaguely recall half the time it was my parents telling me what would happen in an episode... because it was something from their childhood that kept getting replayed because it was at least partly Canadian.

I think I broke Critter Mound. It won't assign a worker to the right spot

Aand, now I have the Rocket Robin Hood theme stuck in my head again.

@twobugs it replaces them where they fit best, although Idk why it chooses to replace weaker workers instead of filling empty slots quite often

perhaps something to do with how the stuff is calculated with averages and stuff

Yeah, I had to replace every other worker before it would fill the empty slot. Silly, but whatever.

I just unlocked the heir hatchery... is this the prestige mechanic?

sounds like you hadn't replaced your workers in a long time

@twobugs I wouldn't know, I'm far behind everyone else in the chat

I'm only at 200 score critters

I've been busy playing MapleStory for the last couple weeks, which is worse than any incremental imaginable

3:10 PM

Ahahaha you have descended into Madness my friend

at least with incrementals you don't have to actively play to progress...

That's right, capital M Madness.

@twobugs AFAIK it's a secondary breeding pair, but fueled by money instead of time, you can pass a critter to the other set as queen/princess king/prince through selecting it, holding shift and then pressing the princess/queen prince/king button.

Nexon has improved the game just enough to get my wife and I interested in it again, but not enough to actually make the game not a chore

Oh. That's not as cool as I hoped

3:12 PM

although I guess the game being pretty much a voluntary job is part of the 'beauty'

@twobugs No, even at max speed (150% income) it seems to barely run at the same speed as your normal pair.

but you can breed for a specific stat in that one I guess?

Also: I looked away for nearly two days. I now have 42million sod. (I have ~4600 score critters)

Fallout 4 in 5 days, guys. LET'S GET HYPED

Another thing to note: once you get a mutation to 100% in both king and queen, it stays at 100%

ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN

@Sterno damn, already? it feels like it was only recently announced

I guess it didn't feel so quick for those that actively followed it

3:17 PM

@Chippies They actually announced it when it was near to completion rather than "Fallout 4 coming sometime within the next century, please enjoy it!"

It only got officially announced a few months ago but it was long suspected

@twobugs but... there wasn't enough time to build hype for me

I mean, I don't even care much yet

@Chippies that's a win, hype just crushes dreams

I don't either, but I'll probably buy it

@KevinvanderVelden I don't get overhyped, I just get hyped enough to actually attempt to complete a game

I'll wait for it to go on sale anyway

or maybe pirate it first

and then buy it on a sale

idk, I probably won't play it much anyway until I build a new PC

my laptop still runs everything at high fairly decent, but I am hyped about building a PC, so not being able to run everything at 2560x1080 at 60fps on ultra makes me not wanna play things

I can't decide what platform to get FO4 on anyway

3:20 PM

@twobugs about critter mound: try to not let a single stat fall behind too much in value, it sucks having to catch it up.

2560x1080? That's a nice wide resolution

@Arperum Yeah, I learned that the hard way :(

@KevinvanderVelden it's actually a really awesome resolution, especially coming from a 17" laptop screen at 1920x1080 :)

I needed a monitor in preparation for my PC build, and my choice was either get an overpriced old tech panel at 144hz or a cheap 21:9 and I went with 21:9

LG 25UM57-P is what I got and it's awesome for the price

Argh, I hate when a new mutation appears in an otherwise bad critter

@twobugs I have the issue that my modified strength is ~1k lower than the rest, and it sucks.

3:24 PM

hopefully, in a couple years we'll have affordable 21:9 144hz IPS panels

@twobugs @Arperum you people play incrementals WRONG

@twobugs Hey, having three new mutations is fun. (I had one randomly plus two from getting the mutagen from the bottom left army)

No, it's just is easy to drift

you see a green score? king/queen it! else fill soldiers and rest into workers

and then change tab to something else

It's almost as if having one breeding pair isn't the best thing for genetic diversity

@twobugs New mutation = fuck everything else. that's most important.

3:26 PM

Yeah. It's just annoying when it forces me to take a stat hit

Also: chigger swarms are fucking huge. I'm fighting like 10+ enemies at the same time. They can't hurt me though.

@Arperum Ladybug swarms are up to like 20.

I think I might get Fallout 4 for PC and then just not play until I get my new computer (that probably won't be until next tax season, though)

@StrixVaria I'm not there yet. I'm still murdering chiggers for now.

My soldiers end up being horribly outdated in no time too.

3:31 PM

This is only a level 6 group.

How many mutations do you have? Did you run into a stat limit somewhere yet?

Q: Does The Walking Dead Season 2 Playstation Plus offering include all episodes?

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I do not have a Playstation 4 yet so I cannot test, but I am purchasing all the games offered on my PS Plus membership for PS4. I was wondering though, it is described that in this month the are offering The Walking Dead Season 2. So I suppose this means that they are including all the episodes o...

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@Arperum 16/16/14/16/15

Each mutation can only go up to 100%, but then stays there.

Yea, I got a couple mutations at 100% already.

Can anyone tell me what's special about the number 61842? And why did I notice what's special about it >,<

3:36 PM

There is a limit on how big you can make each mound.

You can only have up to 9 critters in each.

So my hatcheries and soldiers are at max size, and workers are 1 away.

I'm at 8/8/9/9/8 mutations.

Which actually means that the workers and sod are useless from here on.

It's just about finishing up the soldier stuff.

@Arperum 9/8/9/8/8 for me

@StrixVaria You could throw all sod production into the heir hatchery to get specific stat requiring achievements faster?

@Arperum Oh true, I completely forgot about the heir hatchery.

GnomeSlice

3:38 PM

What game are you guys taking about?

Critter Mound

The annoying part of a war is the part where you have to finish it all up to get 100%, even after you got the mutation and all other relevant stuff.

@Arperum yep

The achievements to gatter 500k/s of dirt/grass and sod are ridiculous too.

especially now that we know the slots are capped

I'm happy I've already stopped playing that game

3:43 PM

True, that makes it even worse. That just requires stupid high stat things.

BLEH. New mutation showed up on a critter lacking another mutation

@twobugs if its not a battlefield mutation, the stat mutation will spawn again in the future if you don't grab it

Q: DCUO Trophies on the PS3 for free players

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When DCUO was part of Sony trophies did not pop for free players. But now that DCUO is owned by daybreak, do the trophies pop? I heard once that Sony does not allow trophies for free to play games, but Defiance from Trion Worlds has trophies for free to play players. What is the current case for ...

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@GodEmperorDune Can you permanently lose battle mutations?

@GodEmperorDune That's good to know. I just had several mutations show up at the same time and I'm having a hard time breeding them all in

3:55 PM

@twobugs Keep in mind if you just save the new critter (shift+click locks him) you can then later try once you completed the other mutations you are breeding, sure he won't have these yet, but exp mutation + no mutation = 100% rec mutation.

I did not know that. Thanks for pointing that out

So that way you now have a critter with multiple rec mutations, and that's perfectly doable to breed in.

Another useful thing: grabbing a boost field on the battlefield completely refills you boost, so use them all before you grab a new one.

(boost fields are the ones with a heart on them)

@Arperum if you lose the queen before you spread it, yes

you need to redo the war to pick up the mutation again

@GodEmperorDune Oh, bbut you can refind it then?

Because redoing a war doesn't have a new mutation field AFAIK.

@Arperum hmm, that's what the creator said on reddit

let me find the link

4:00 PM

@GodEmperorDune You'll probably right, but the field doesn't show up if you already have that mutation anyway.

reddit.com/r/crittermound/comments/2lacoj/…

looks like if its gone its gone

:(

ALso: game: please stop giveing me massive upgrades for queen/king that completely lower my strength and or bite.

i think i finally have all my stats around the same range to stop that from happening

My stats variate way too much, I mostly stopped caring.

NASA is recruiting Astronauts! I can't wait to apply!

> ... and be between 5 feet 2 inches and 6.25 inches tall.

Oh. I'm too tall.

:(

4:07 PM

@twobugs What is that in a reasonable scale? Like in meters?

Between about 1.5 meters and about 1.9m

Astronaut must fill one cubic meter.

That's quite a range, proably excludes 80% of the netherlands though.

I would fit for that criteria, but having a back that is not the best probably won't be good.

Being tall sucks. First I was too big for the bouncy castle, now I'm too big for Space.

@Arperum includes me! Just

4:12 PM

@KevinvanderVelden Yea, but you are probably the smallest person in your office or something.

@KevinvanderVelden No way! I thought Dragons were supposed to be huge?

@Arperum not really, I think I'm right in the middle of the men heightwise

And taller than all the women because statistics

I'm the tallest person in my company. Mostly because I'm taller than my boss, and that's all I need to beat.

That is typically how it works in battles of superlatives

Our code has a nice number of warnings:

@KevinvanderVelden Or when there are only two people in the company...

4:19 PM

Also true

Private Pansy

I'm in the 99th percentile for height pretty much my entire life

Quite sure I still am

I used to be short (and bullied for it), years later I went "Wait, you used to bully me for being short, I'm literally a head taller than you are now"

I'm at the awkward height were everyone says "Wow, you're so tall!" but I'm not actually tall compared to the genetic monsters who play sportball

@KevinvanderVelden Heh. Karma!

I'm at the good height where can still walk through 99.9% of old buildings without having to duck

One of my friends most definitely isn't

Though in Turkey this year there were so many new buildings where I had to duck because of stuff hanging on the ceiling

4:26 PM

Where'd you go in Turkey? I'd love to visit Istanbul sometime

@twobugs Alanya

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@KevinvanderVelden What was the answer to this, by the way? I couldn't figure it out, but I didn't really try either

@KevinvanderVelden Neat!

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Q: What is the difference between a (re)skin and a texture?

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When searching through mods for TF2, I came across some confusion. Creators used the word "skin" to describe a remake of the default skin for objects, including adding sections (see LED Sentry skin). But "texture" was used to describe a change the lighting/colour or overall texture of the objec...

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fredley

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment uwot

4:32 PM

Ahahahaha

IdentifyThis.SE

Has anyone suggested an IdentifyThisGame.SE? It sounds terrible enough to work

And it would take some heat off our backs!

MyMinecraftBroke.SE

911.SE - Your source for urgent medical advice because you are bleeding out but refuse to visit a doctor

@twobugs read it in reverse

@KevinvanderVelden Oh, neat!

Lol, I just crashed straight into the hive of a new war to be able to upgrade my army (by killing it off party, and then replacing the fallen critters)

I ended up having to take the hive for the final murdering of old soldiers.

4:36 PM

@twobugs that was the random port number my IIS dev thing came up with, I don't know why I noticed it

(if you have half your army dead, their xp gets added to the rest of your army, if they all die, you lose all of the saved up xp)

Q: Transfer world from multiplayer to singleplayer and continue with the right progress

4:48 PM

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Not long ago I started a minecraft world on a new 1.9 snapshot and friends wanted to join so I took my world file and dropped it in a server. Now a little later they are losing intrest in it already but I'm still having my fun. I tried copying the world file back in the saves folder but then I ra...

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Well, the beetles were chumps. On to the ticks I guess.

Oh god, I'm so scared that I just bombed my midterm.

If the gradient is zero, that implies the second directional derivative is zero, right?

I reasoned that the gradient is a first derivative, so if it's zero then the second derivative should also be zero.

GnomeSlice

Is this even a game

Hush now, games are off-topic.

GnomeSlice

Not that, the critter thing

I'm sure you did fine on your test

5:03 PM

Oh, that's an incremental.

@fredley I will do as I please

Strix posted it last week I think.

Or the week before that

@twobugs At some point you outlevel everything so bad the first thing you do in a new war is dig a path to the enemy hive, because beating the hive gives you a bonus for the rest of the war.

oh right I'm an alot again

@GnomeSlice Is your mom even a game?

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Go home @Wipqozn, you're drunk

5:16 PM

Your face is drunk

OH BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRR‌RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNN

but seriously though, back to work

@Yuuki That reminds me, I need to remember to do that thing next week

@GnomeSlice Remind me to do that thing next week

I've been trying to work out how Europa Universalis IV works for the 4th time now and I only just notices that there's an option to give myself a bonus... would have been interesting to know from the start

As well as all the other map config options there are

@NateKerkhofs good gme is good

Hard to learn though

Paradox games are always super daunting to learn

I like EU4 more than CK2. CK2 is a little too wacky

Especially that AI difficulty setting is a godsend

Well, time to try and unify Spain again...

DAMMIT ARMY. ONE OF YOU HAD TO SURVIVE.

Jin

5:29 PM

HELLOOO

The legend lives!

Isn't that... the site design guy?

Jin

@MadMAxJr I'm more known as the bacon guy

All I know is this will probably be considered as MAXIMUM OVERJINN

I was there (well, in chat) when you hoisted up the RPG.SE design. Hi Jin.

Jin

5:30 PM

@twobugs that gif still gives me seizure till this day

fredley

@Jin Probably shouldn't set it as your desktop wallpaper

Current situation

Tim Stone

What happened?

Engineering building closed, hazmat on site

Tim Stone

...What did you do?

5:35 PM

I didn't do anything, I don't even have a class there today

FBI, this is agent Two Bugs. Have located suspect on The Bridge. Awaiting command.

@Uni's so toxic, even his lack of presence is reason enough to call in hazmat.

Do you guys mind if I lurk somewhat in chat on my laptop and sometimes ask a question or 2 I have about EUIV?

Agent @twobugs, this is Eagle Actual. You are clear to mod abuse with MAXIMUM OVERPREJUDICE. Do you copy? Over.

Not sure we have any Europa players in here.

5:38 PM

@Unionhawk is chemistry also in engineering?

@Yuuki Roger, will set fire to target as per Director @Kalina's orders. Over.

sets fire to @Unionhawk

@KevinvanderVelden chemical engineering

Q: Is it bad form to answer questions regarding "retired" games?

@Unionhawk so yup

Well this could be "fun"

Sepia Lazers

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So I found myself answering questions in a blitz and then did a search for some of the older retired MMO's (City of Heroes, etc.) As long as the content of the answer was at its last time of being active correct, is it okay to answer such questions?

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