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11:13 AM
‮mhh i test now the RTL Setting under Linux
 
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Q: How to search in or sort finished quests?

PeterCoI would like to confirm that every finished quest is 100% completed (everything green, no red entries). But with every additional finished quest, the list get longer and more confusing. How can I search in or sort finished quests? What is the fastest way to find the last finished quest?

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Q: How to build an Alliance Territory in Clash of Kings?

ProtaisGamersDoes anyone know how to use the Alliance Territory? (It was added in the latest update) Anyone care to explain? I don't really get this part

 
11:26 AM
No, you need to admit the person was a fucking idiot adn point and go "uh, yeh that's why we have a thousand fucking signs telling you not to do that thing that guy did"
"because that's obviously what would happen"
> “How could he know? He was intelligent and competent, but how could anyone know what those waves could do?
anyone that's not a fucking idiot
whoooa! waves are strong?
The ocean can kill people?!?!
 
Heh I was about to quote that
 
OH MY WOW
there's signs all over peggys ocve
also don't be stupid
anyone who lives in my province knows "stay the fuck off the dark rocks near the ocean"
 
And also the "Oh I stood there on june 4th and it was 100 meter from the water". HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD OF TIDES?
 
If you want to put up some safety line sor something go ahead. I doubt it would help, but don't act like this was anyones fault but his own, and don't act like it was anything but your son being an idiot.
 
11:45 AM
 
@fredley Nintendo had some crazy stuff, yo.
@Wipqozn I live in a country that don't even has access to the sea and I'm sure that 90 % know that it can be a dangerous place and kill you.
 
> Your operating system should be one of the following:
Windows XP Home/Professional (SP 1 or better)
Windows 2000 (SP 4 or better)
Windows NT 4.0 (SP 6 or better)
Windows 98 Second Edition
pls
 
@5pike I live in a country that is half under sea level and I know that as well, does that count?
 
@KevinvanderVelden No.
 
11:56 AM
If you find a person in Netherlands that doesn't know that the sea is dangerous, please kick him out for his own good.
> [...] safer environment in the area, whether it means designing bigger signs [...]
 
@Wipqozn There was a beach in Hawaii that had a sign that depicted a person upside down inside a wave. We laughed about it before it happened to us.
 
This implies that there already are signs - Natural selection happened.
 
@GraceNote This is the worst
Salt water everywhere
 
hellote
@Wipqozn riptides are scary things and I don't even think that's what happened here
reads
 
You know how they sometimes comically depict people being washed ashore in movies and cartoons and such?
Well, it is comical when it does actually happen to you. But it's also quite the experience you don't want to have happen again.
 
12:02 PM
Who's the genius who put "recent comments" on a sidebar on this website
> The [local] SWAT Team ... units will conduct training in our building on Wednesday
 
@Unionhawk It's great for shaming idiots I think
 
@PrivatePansy No, it's the worst for me because news site comments are quite literally the worst thing
 
o/
 
Apparently, nobody on /r/Android has a sense of humour.
 
@Yuuki Sounds accurate
 
12:07 PM
I commented on the LastPass breach with "At least someone knows my master password now." and my inbox is now flooded with messages questioning my ability to read.
 
@Wipqozn I mean, people underestimate mother nature all the time. They don't realize how powerful water is at the whole killing people thing.
 
Yes. Yes, I know they didn't actually get everyone's master password. The joke is that I've forgotten mine.
 
@Yuuki Well technically speaking they've gotten a hash of the password, which is what Lasspass has always held anyway
 
See: driving through uncertain depths of water in a motor vehicle, for example
 
@Unionhawk Speaking of, I'm excited to see a lot more dead vehicles on the side of the road today!
University is closed so my test has been postponed by one day.
 
12:09 PM
@Yuuki Yeah, see also: the entire state of Texas
So, apparently parts of my problems from yesterday are VS2012 v. VS2010 problems possibly?
(I need to use VS2010 for now)
But... things may break when it gets to dev and it scares me
2SPOOKY
> this project is incompatible with the current version of Visual Studio
sunuva
k
 
Hah, this guy crawled through my history to find what game subreddits I'm on.
That's... a bit creepy.
 
this is hilarious visual studio
HILARIOUS
GOOD JOKES
WORK WITH ME HERE
 
Reddit stalking is too easy.
 
I know it's easy, but it's funny that he looked through my history to find gaming subreddits to insult me with.
Because he brought up Monster Hunter and I doubt the average person even knows that game exists.
 
I lurk in 90% of the subreddits I read
If you read my history you'd find a ridiculous amount of ponies
 
12:22 PM
All right @Uni, you can do this without starting over
NO NEED TO PANIC
panic intensifies
this is annoying
 
What's really annoying is this Fallout Shelter game. It drains resources in-game for a bit after you exit the game
But you can only collect while you're there
@Yuuki That sucks, I actually had a similar thing happen to me (with Monster Hunter too, oddly enough)
"You play Monster Hunter!" doesn't work as well as they think it does as an insult, though
 
Maybe it was the same guy and he knew monster hunter from you
That's my conspiracy theory, anyway
But I invite you to create your own
 
@twobugs Yeah, but knowing I play LoL is pretty damning.
 
Well, in my case it was because I put hundreds of hours into Monster Hunter but I thought The Last Of Us was an 8/10 game instead of a 13/10 game
 
@Yuuki Truf. I mean, uh
 
12:27 PM
Which should be punishable by death, clearly
 
I ran into glitches and stuff with The Last Of Us and thus did not have a great experience.
 
on second thought no
no @Uni
bad @uni
 
Like my audio was cut for a good quarter of the game or so.
 
I thought it was a fine game, it just got overhyped
@Yuuki This is damning, but admitting you play MOBAs is the first step to recovery
 
@twobugs inb4 strix murders both of us
 
12:29 PM
(I don't really believe there is anything wrong with MOBAs, I just don't find them very interesting)
 
Oh, well then, inb4 strix murders just me
 
RIP Uni
I played a bit of Heroes of the Storm with friends. It's pretty different for a MOBA but it still doesn't really grab me
 
12:42 PM
The Martian is a really good book.
 
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Q: Bought currency for the wrong region - what are my options?

SplashyI live in Australia and accidentally bought a US $20 Xbox gift card. It's my first time buying one so I wasn't really sure what to do. To make matters worse, I've already redeemed it so it's stuck in my account. I've tried changing my locale online to US but when I try purchasing it shows up with...

 
@Wipqozn People in grief tend to be irrational. Don't hate them.
 
Hello?
Visual Studio?
I hit start 3 times
Don't just build
I said start
This is not user error anymore.
This time.
 
12:51 PM
@Unionhawk it will start 6 times, try to delete the same file twice and will shout at you
 
Let's try a clean rebuild and see if it likes that better
yesterday, by Unionhawk
♪ Hold music! ♪
 
Stop trying to execute a class library
 
@Sterno I'm not, and it's not even yelling at me about that
It's just like "OK Built!"
 
@Sterno CLASS WAR
 
There we go
Clean rebuild did it
 
12:56 PM
 
@fredley I'm going to blame Visual Studio 2010.
Before you ask, because what I'm trying to do doesn't work in a newer version
Before you ask, no I'm not kidding
Actually, that's probably why, it built it without the right startup project once
Right
 
"To use our free API, please call our support line"
call
call
Now having an email chat
They have sent through a link to sign up for the service
It times out
 
Subject: "I'm not calling your goddamn support line"
 
@Unionhawk I can't believe it wouldn't be cheaper for them to just provide access to the api
 
Of course that would be cheaper
They're staffing a support line, part of whose job is to provide access to an API for free
By definition, negative money is coming out of this
On the order of, at least one support line guy
 
But just because it makes sense doesn't mean it makes sense
or something
 
it's.. a moba, in halo.
 
I... what?
What's next, are they going to make a Halo MMO?
Halo : Combat Evolved Online?
 
Aw, Horizon Zero Dawn is PS4-exclusive.
 
that's probably the next step.
 
1:03 PM
You know, ESO style, obviously
So, really terrible, full of bugs, and including a NDA beta
 
But they have to market them as LoL and WoW killers, obviously
 
@Yuuki Not sure how much I would actually like playing this, but it looks awesome.
 
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Q: Does reset on Cow Evolution reset the crate's upgrade?

Edson Horacio JuniorAfter I reach Universe cow lvl 4 and reset the Universe, will my crates upgrade be reset? I'm talking about those upgrades that has a chance of showing bigger cows after clicking a crate.

 
1:11 PM
@Yuuki Holy shit that looks cool
 
@StrixVaria Depends on what kind of game it ends up as.
 
PS4 > XBONE
 
If it's just a normal third-person shooter with some dungeoning elements, a la Tomb Raider, then I feel meh. If there's more of a survival element to it, then I'm more interested.
 
@StrixVaria @Wipqozn If you like "hard" sci-fi, you should read The Martian
This movie trailer serves as an excellent book trailer
 
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Q: My Launcher won't continue downloading after a period of time

user23448I recently downloaded LoL and I've had some issues on the "step 2/2 updating league of legends" causing me to (still) not being able to get in. The KBPS keeps dropping to 0 and won't go back up, even after hours. I've looked around the Internet, but nothing seems to work.

 
1:22 PM
@Sterno I don't even like magical sci fi.
Space is boring.
 
You're the worst.
 
The movie looks not terrible, though. Donald Glover was in it for a few seconds, so it's pretty much a must-see now.
 
@fredley This is how my father describes everybody else he works with
 
Yeah. I hope Abed shows up too
 
@Yuuki I am very much the opposite of that. If it winds up being a generic action game where you kill a bunch of cool robot dinosaurs, I'll probably get it. If there's any survival element to it, I'm out.
 
1:23 PM
I kinda agree, @Strix, survival stuff was never that interesting to me
 
was there any more shit about No Man's Sky or Firewatch at E3?
 
Although there is joystick aiming and it seems like you have to hit specific dinosaur parts, so that might still put me out even if it's just an action game.
Aiming with a joystick is the worst gaming experience.
 
No, trying to emulate a mouse is even worse. Thankfully few games are foolhardy enough for that
 
@twobugs Don't play Dreadchase
 
I'm on a bit of a survival kick right now between Skyrim mods, FarSky, and This War of mine.
 
1:25 PM
Cool game let down by horrible horrible aiming controls, even with mouse and keyboard
 
@twobugs I do wonder how well the Steam Controller will work in that regard.
 
If I wanted to give survival games a fair shake, what would you recommend Yuuki?
 
What's a "survival" mod for Skyrim look like?
 
@Yuuki Nothing against other people enjoying survival games. I actually like watching people play them. I just don't like playing them myself.
 
1:26 PM
@twobugs Life is Feudal, ARK, Minecraft.
Maybe The Forest
 
@twobugs I honestly haven't played too many of them, considering I discovered how much I like these games right about the time I decided to not have anything to do with Early Access. And the lion's share of survival games tend to be in Early Access.
 
also Banished
 
@Yuuki Yeah... that's part of what scared me off
I'll check those out, thanks @GnomeSlice
 
Also Don't Starve although I couldn't really get into it.
Everybody else seems to love it though.
 
I mean, I've already played Minecraft but that was a long time ago and there have been a bunch of updates since then
 
1:28 PM
Banished was so boring
 
I got bored with minecraft and now it's too complicated
 
@twobugs The long dark also looks very promising.
 
@5pike Yes, but I would not recommend it in the current state.
 
I guess I just have the impression that "survival" ends up being very openended and extremely sandbox-y, which isn't really what I'm looking for
 
I kickstarted that and so far the developers seem to be working on it but it's not had a lot of progress.
@twobugs In this regard, The Long Dark has a promised story mode kind of like an RPG which is what I'm waiting for, but none of that is in the game yet.
If they finish it, it will be amazing.
 
1:30 PM
@GnomeSlice That sounds cool
 
Shelter 2 maybe as well, but I have only played the first one.
 
I like sandbox elements, but I prefer a context to them. Just building a giant Enterprise doesn't really excite me
 
@twobugs How do you feel about roguelikes
Because NEO Scavenger is awesome, but shares a lot of similarities with those.
Also has an overarching storyline that you can choose to pursue or not.
 
FarSky has an element of that. It's pretty sandbox-y, but your main goal is to find the pieces of your submarine and escape back to the surface.
 
@GnomeSlice Don't even think about playing modded minecraft.
That increases complexity by a lot in most cases.
 
1:34 PM
I've heard good stuff about How To Survive but I haven't played it yet even though I bought it a few months ago.
 
This War of Mine is somewhat open-ended, but the main goal is to survive a civil war. I haven't played enough of it to determine whether it's any more structured than "build/cook/repair stuff in the daytime, scavenge in the nighttime".
 
@Arperum it's not complicated! What are you talking about? Looks at giant pipenetwork, AE storage, computers, nuclear reactors, 20 types of food I'm autocrafting Okay maybe a little bit
 
@GnomeSlice I guess I've never really played a proper roguelike. I thought I disliked the genre for a while because people would call every game ever made a roguelike
 
@GnomeSlice It's not that great, but you can finish it quite fast.
 
well, shenmue 3 has already cleared it's goal.
 
1:35 PM
Stuff like FTL was fun but the difficulty just felt too prohibitive. I made it to the final boss on easy mode and got murdered violently
 
@twobugs Something something rage, something something that's my pet peeve.
 
Sir, You Are Being Hunted is some silly fun for a while too, not too deep but entertaining.
 
@twobugs That's just because FTL fucking hates you and wants you to die.
 
@5pike I have noticed this. Cool game, though.
 
Ugh. To me, procedural level generation does not a roguelike make. In my opinion, the most memorable part of Nethack was the item identification system.
 
1:36 PM
@5pike to be fair, this is how most of that genre treats me
 
That's what defines a roguelike to me.
 
Speaking of Roguelikes
obligatory cogmind post
 
@Yuuki "I hate you die in a fire"~=roguelike?
 
Whieeeee new headset. Music sounds good again :D
 
1:37 PM
a roguelike is defined by how badly the game tries to fuck you over
 
@KevinvanderVelden DOn't you also have some stuff that runs on magic you generate through flowers or blood or whatever the thaumcraft base element thing is called
 
one of these days
 
@Arperum not yet. I was planning on doing that yesterday but got distracted by making better food
 
Hai
 
@KevinvanderVelden All three things I mentioned?
 
1:38 PM
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Q: What are "our strengths"?

Mike RI see "It does not play to our strengths as a site" being used as a justification for closing questions but have never heard what those are. Do they exist? I can think of a few things that are not strengths, so I'm not sure what's left. For finding a specific answer about a specific game, it...

CC @Sterno The drama intensifies.
 
@Arperum ... yes
 
@StrixVaria Is this the E.T. question? Or... no?
 
@Unionhawk Triggered from that discussion.
 
I see
 
1:39 PM
@GnomeSlice Which game is that?
 
Still cogmind
 
@StrixVaria DId you notice the part where he says that we are hostile elitists? (I might be exagerating a bit)
 
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Q: What are "our strengths"?

Mike RI see "It does not play to our strengths as a site" being used as a justification for closing questions but have never heard what those are. Do they exist? I can think of a few things that are not strengths, so I'm not sure what's left. For finding a specific answer about a specific game, it...

 
@fredley's starred description of modding doesn't include mod abuse.
 
@Sterno ... yes it does?
 
1:42 PM
@Sterno It's also pretty stupid. THERE I SAID IT
 
I just watched it again to verify, of course it does
 
@Sterno Cogmind
The one I've been trying to get you to look at for like a year.
 
@Sterno mod abuse is on screen for the longest of all the text
 
@GnomeSlice remind us when it's out =p
 
Alpha is out
But yeah
 
1:44 PM
Early alpha even
 
dammit system, I can see the results you are giving me, but I can't find the table that coantains said data. because foreign keys are stupid or something. And logical tablenames are illegal.
 
@GnomeSlice i backed it
 
Nice. I wanted to, but didn't.
Glad they made it the second time around.
 
i don't remember if i got the figurine or not
 
1:47 PM
Also
I am so buying this when it comes out probably
 
ah dammit, too much bridging, not enough getting ready for work... bbl
 
@GodEmperorDune Yeah same now I have to go to work without having taken a shit
 
Gah. I found a part in this code that puts stuff to the DB You put the value of a field named X in a column named Y, and the value of Z you put in column X (X,Y,Z are not actual names, actual names are more confusing)
 
@GodEmperorDune I guess I missed it while I was having a seizure
The E.T. discussion is the most recent example, but I've seen this many times. Can you please explain the downvote? What is bad about this question? — Mike R 6 mins ago
Anyone know what that's about?
 
@Sterno ET discussion was some guy yesterday exploding over his question being closed in really offensive ways.
The exploding was offensive, the closing wasn't.
 
user15026
1:50 PM
I can't grab a link because I am on my phone but it is referring to a question that was recently asked about why ET is considered the worst game ever.
 
user15026
And the ensuing discussion, debate, etc.
 
Let me pull that for you
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Q: What factors contributed to E.T's reputation as a bad game?

sss4rAccording to a documentary on Atari called Game Over it is stated that "ET" is the worst video game ever made. Why is that? I played the game when it was released, and although very young, I recall that falling into holes was extremely frustrating, and my gaming sessions with it never lasted ...

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Q: Should the E.T. question be reopened?

fredleyThis question about E.T. is currently on hold for being primarily opinion based. Should it be reopened?

 
... WHY ON EARTH IS THIS FUNCTION CALLED "GetDate" if it gets something completely unrelated to a date.
Also: YOUR TABLENAMES ARE HORRIBLE AND YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD.
 
@Arperum In what language?
 
@Arperum Does it return a fruit?
 

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