The Bridge

@fredley heh, I just learned that ubuntu doesn't check if it has enough space to perform an upgrade before starting it

Fun times!

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden I just learned this too!

Fun times!

@AshleyNunn Excellent. I love being a bad influence.

@fredley I'm so popular.

@GodEmperorDune I'll have you know I bought new socks after that incident!

No more dirty socks for me!

@Wipqozn You bought a pair of new socks 10 months ago and you're saying they're not dirty? ಠ_ಠ

10:20 AM

@KevinvanderVelden I have pairs that are newer than that.

@Wipqozn I don't believe you, I will require photographic evidence

@KevinvanderVelden You're insane

@fredley Why are there no arrows pointing away from my name?

And only one pointing to it

@KevinvanderVelden I'm not falling for that again.

@5pike I'm trying to get him to fall for it again but it's not working :(

@Wipqozn :(

10:21 AM

@GnomeSlice One person has blamed you, and you haven't blamed anyone.

Oh, it's the blame thing

that explains it

@KevinvanderVelden FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU. FOOL ME TWICE, I BLAME @STERNO.

@Wipqozn blaming sterno seems like a reasonable thing to do

fredley

@GnomeSlice There are, but I think their origin point is obscured

Though I didn't fool you the first time!

10:24 AM

uh

Positive points:
+ 200 points per floor cleared
+400 points for sheol / cathedral / chest / dark room
+666 points for boss rush / mega satan
+1 point swag bonus for each held pickup on completion/death (bombs, keys, pennies)
+??? for secret bonus points
——–
Negative points:
-1 point per second spent playing (rewards for fast play)
-10 per hit taken from an enemy / obstacles (damage from items/donations/etc don’t count as damage) (rewards for how well you play)
-?? per item taken (still testing this but i want people to be a bit more choosy on what they take and push risk reward a bit more h…

so if you want positive points you must clear each floor in less than 4 minutes without picking up any item?

In fact! You fooled yourself @Wipqozn:

Jul 25 '14 at 11:23, by Wipqozn

My plan to mess with @AUTOGAMICADBOT has backfired horribly.

less than 3 and a half, in fact.

@badp When is the release?

Basically boss rush pace.

@KevinvanderVelden Man, now I miss @OrigamiAutoCad

10:26 AM

200 seconds * 6 floors = 20 minutes

Today's Listening | Electronic / Psychill

so I can simply forget the scoring system exists

thanks Edmund

@badp I'm sure that it'll be tweaked to be reasonable.

@5pike see also: the Lost

@badp Like, after ~3 minutes on a floor, you start to lose points.

10:28 AM

I dunno there's people who can get to boss rush consistently, but I don't know why he feels like he has to cater to his 99th percentile's 99th percentile and just that.

@badp Nothing is set in stone.

@5pike Yes, so if you don't get to boss rush without picking up any item, your score is negative.

@5pike Nah it just feels like a consistent pattern from Edmund

like HOW DARE PEOPLE BEAT MY GAMES I SHALL MAKE IT HARDER TENFOLDS

@badp That's not what I meant.

If you clear a floor in under 3 minutes, you don't get points deducted for time

@Fluttershy 14 books.

But when you go over the 3 minutes, you start to lose some

10:31 AM

uh... no

After you beat mom you have 1,200 points for getting that far

1,200 is the number of seconds that make 20 minutes

@badp You don't have to play the new mode

so the idea is that if you want positive score you must get to boss rush, and keep going on that pace through the later floors.

@GnomeSlice You don't have to tell me I don't have to play the new mode.

@badp I get that. I was talking about an alternative

@5pike oh, oh, okay. Yes, you can change it to whatever.

@badp shrug just offering my opinion

10:34 AM

@badp I agree that the current written system is bollocks, because there are very few people that are that fast consistently.

Not every addition to a game has to be for every player of the game

I'm sure he'll come up with more cool stuff for the next one

BoI already has a shitload of content

@badp Look outside! The sun is shining! The birds are singing! The children are playing!

@PrivatePansy looks outside Nope, no sun here

Just rain and bleh

Q: Player 1 Score Visibility to On?

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I created a Scenario in Age of Mythology through the Map Editor of two Players. The second Player's Score is visible but no matter what I do, Player 1's Score remains invisible. I went through the triggers too but couldn't find a way to make the Scoring visible. How do I set the Score visible o...

age-of-mythology

@KevinvanderVelden Send over rain, keep the bleh.

10:39 AM

@PrivatePansy Outside is where people are.

And here we are, playing the video game equivalent of banging your head against the wall repeatedly

So there's a group of people trying to get Worldcon 2017 to be hosted in Europe

I once looked up the definition of masochism in the dictionary. The box art of BoI was printed there

I think you're talking about Git Gut Simulator 2014gut2016

@PrivatePansy I found a picture of the lost there.

10:43 AM

cc @FAE I feel like that would interest you (look up four posts)

I saw @Wipqozn and his socks

@PrivatePansy You beat any of the "I Wanna Be The" games and tell me about masochism

@badp To be fair, the lost is pure masochism

@5pike if you don't savescum.

10:49 AM

The game even punishes you for loading the game repeatedly.

@badp I don't think I'd say it's masochism, because the enjoyment is from beating the difficult, not the difficult itself. I guess.

So it doesn't make things any less legitimate.

Have you guys played Ascendant

@GnomeSlice Nope, not yet.

fredley

@RonanForman sadomasochistic?

10:55 AM

@fredley But you enjoy inflicting the pain on yourself. So... autosadomasochistic?

@fredley I don't know, maybe, it seems to me that it's just an extreme version of overcoming a challenge, which is just playing video games.

(Which is really just masochism)

This discussion is gross

@GnomeSlice We're talking about a video game, what were you expecting here?

Oh wait, we still have the -games tag. Never mind.

Oh that reminds me

SkyRogue is out on steam

Q: Will greater rift trial keys or ranked keys convert to greater rift keystones i 2.3?

11:05 AM

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I've learned that the following two changes will happen around rift keystones with the introduction of 2.3: Rift keystones (for non-greater rifts) will be made useless. It no longer takes a keystone to open a normal rift. Existing keystones in your inventory will become gray items that can be s...

diablo-3

I've just witnessed the most romantic shit

A heavy... and a medic...

playing together for an entire match...

keeping together through many team scrambles...

but then, when the teams became 4v2, disaster struck!

A pyro (me) killed the medic... and he got AUTOBALANCED!

The medic found himself with nobody to heal and went pyro.

He would never heal ME, after I destroyed his love life, after all.

The heavy turned into a giant spy and failed miserably.

But when the round was over, and teams were 3v2

the medic switched to the heavy team

and when the heavy saw the teams were 2v3

the heavy switched to the other team, too

the lovebirds wanted to reunite so bad, they accidentally swapped teams

in a modern reenactment of Romeo and Juliet

in TF2 team stacking form

This story reminds me why I don't play games with such tiny teams.

(then the heavy rejoined the medic team and I disconnected and just like that the poetry of the moment vanished.)

Still a better love story than Twilight, though.

You can't argue with Romeo and Juliet

except I guess this one got a happy end so that kinda ruined it

11:18 AM

This is true, Romeo and Juliette are just a couple of like 14 year olds who can't be reasoned with

> I cannot be bargained with! I cannot be reasoned with! I do not know where I am! I am a robot, I don't understand anything!

--Romeo, probably.

Probably

That reminds me, Troma has been uploading their full films on YouTube, including Tromeo and Juliet. Very much NSFW, but I already wrote it was a Troma film, didn't I?

Just in case you really don't know what to watch with your significant other.

So nobody told me the service department of this dealership doesn't open until 7:30. I was never informed of this. I blame @fredley

Huh, YouTube has a new player

11:28 AM

Yes

@PrivatePansy Yarb, it's more transparent

Seems like it's been rolled out to everyone now. I have that player for at least a month already, if not more.

Q: Wind direction in Flight Simulator X

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I can't work out the wind direction in a airport in Flight simulator X while looking at a airport in map view. For example does 'Wind at 196°' mean that the wind is coming from 196° or is going to 196°?

flight-simulator-x

Even on incompatible browsers (read: ie) the old player bar thing like, hides itself as if it were on full screen

11:45 AM

Man created Twitter bot to enter automatically enter 'retweet and follow' contests; ends up winning 4 contests per day for 9 months straight

MBraedley

> For anyone that was not an employee on February 16th, so did not work on this date, that employee is NOT eligible for the alternate day off on Monday 3rd August. If you wish to take this day off you will need to use Flex or Vacation.

Wow, that's really inconsiderate of corporate.

I'm only reading that now since I was on vacation (and it doesn't really apply to me), but it sucks for my (relatively new) coworker.

MBraedley

11:59 AM

@fredley I can't tell which lines originate from me and which originate from @KevinvanderVelden. Also, there should probably be a line that comes from me and circles back to me, because I've blamed myself numerous times.

@MBraedley That's because you secretly are @KevinvanderVelden.

@Arperum IS EVERYONE SECRETLY ME? HOW DO I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS?

@fredley Probably

@KevinvanderVelden But what if you are @AshleyNunn? In that case you know about it!

@MBRAEDLEY IS SECRETLY @KEVINVANDERVELDEN IS SECRETLY @ARPERUM: DATA ACCEPTED

12:02 PM

I'm not making much sense.

I blame lack of sleep

@Unionhawk That's my thing. I'm also not as sleep deprived as I was for some time.

I got back into the habbit of sleeping more then 3-4 hours/day.

I know, I am blaming lack of sleep for your not making much sense

@Unionhawk I slept enough today! I slept like 6 hours or something!

@fredley are there alternatives to Apple's €35 highway robbery Ethernet adaptor

As in which one do you use?

12:09 PM

Myeah! This is a stick-up, see? - Apple, probably

@Arperum I have to admit that I do feel sleepy today though.

12:21 PM

@KevinvanderVelden: The rain arrived. Thanks!