The Bridge

I'm going to have to give Pokemon Uranium a shot at some point.

I'm curious as to how they are even operating without receiving cease and desist letters every day.

They're not officially distributing the game

The game itself is only available through unofficial download links and torrents

We’ve removed all official download links for the game.

hmm

/r/pokemonuranium has some good links

Particularly in the pinned FAQ post

Not to mention, their update server is still running.

They can't distribute it, but they can update it.

9:10 PM

Plus, run the GTS and distribute Mystery Gifts

@murgatroid99 I don't see anything referring to a GTS on the useful tips page. What is it?

@Ellesedil The Global Trade System, like they had in the last few official games

NPCs in the upper floor of every pokemon center will explain it

Cool. I haven't played since Silver.

As I remember from the official games, you put a pokemon in, and say what species you're willing to trade for, and you can specify stuff like level range

Yuuki

I'm personally not a fan of some of the original Pokemon artwork that they did. IIRC, I liked the art in Zeta/Omicron.

So I'll have to check in on that.

9:19 PM

I had a Rock/Steel pokemon, and it evolved into a pure Steel type right before the Fire gym, when it was really difficult to change my party

Q: Iron Snout Achievement Light Up the Level

-2

How do you obtain the Light Up the Level Achievement in Iron Snout? (Steam- PC) Its described as doing 'Activate both lamps during a fight' but I cant get any of the lamps to light up.

steam pc iron-snout

What

@Wipqozn who are you talking to?

@GodEmperorDune Myself

let the NPC do lunges if she wants to

9:26 PM

No one was watching so I was lonely

maybe you could talk to her about her lunge technique

Ronan

Poor @Wipqozn.

@GodEmperorDune :(

see what event she is training for with those at work lunges

tbh streaming so I can then rewatch and share clips of gameplayis the best part of streaming

If it wasn't for twitch, who could have experienced the lunging NPC?

Surely your lives would have been incomplete withoutr that

9:28 PM

your plea for viewership is inadequate

cc @badp

perhaps there is room on Mr @badp's wild ride

@TimStone All of these missions in the place after the swiss alps is really annoying due to all the police.

@GnomeSlice that lyrics comment is great

Haha

Anybody down for Paragon?

Damnit even after going home time CPU fan STILL NOT HERE

As of this morning it's in my town but "estimated delivery" is tomorrow :(

9:40 PM

also hydramane.bandcamp.com/album/devilish-trio

cc @Chippies

Facebook is telling me there's new Planet Nine news but it's the same Proxima Beta news as before :|

@twobugs my wife ordered something. It went from a warehouse 50 miles from our place (in southern california) to a distribution center in Tennessee, then all the way back to us.

That's like @Ash's candy that went through Chile

John

Plot twist: @GodEmperorDune lives next to the distribution center in Tennessee.

yeah nothing can top @ash's candy in terms of taking the long way

@John nah i live outside los angeles

John

9:43 PM

@GodEmperorDune Oh that's a long way then

@John and there are distribution centers for all the major retailers near los angeles

DEVILISH TRIO - BURNT UP

John

Really makes me wonder what the reasoning is behind stuff going the long way so often

Seems like something has to be causing it

the only thing i can think of is if the warehouse sent like a pallet full of stuff to the distribution center, then they took our single thing off and sent it back to us

EXTREME BARBIE JEEP RACING 2012

user15026

9:45 PM

@GodEmperorDune It wanted an adventure

People are the best

@Ash and at the end of the day, it learned the adventure was inside of it the whole time

VIOLENT BARBIE JEEP RACING!!

Why are there so many people at this event

wtf

look at that crowd

user15026

I haven't seen the video but the title alone would make me show up :P

@GnomeSlice that looks so fun

9:48 PM

That's hilarious

that one where he rolls and just keeps rolling to the end

I think someone just asked a question simply because our site name is Arqade.

@Lazers2.0, where are you?

Q: Why are prizes on Arcades so bad-quality?

0

I mean, sometimes you need like 1000 tickets for a piece of bad-quality knockoff

arcade

There we are.

djsmiley2k

lol wut D:

flagged closed blah blah

9:54 PM

Like I said... he had a question about arcades and thought "oh, look, I'll ask it on this site called arqade!"

$5000 DRUNK REDNECK BARBIE JEEP RACING!!

These are hilarious

@GnomeSlice 5 grand? nice

lmao the guy who tied the car to his pants and just gets up and starts running and drags it

this mostly seems like a 'run through the mud while carrying a broken barbie jeep' race

Q: What causes mineral classification downgrade?

0

One of my colonized planets has just had its mineral classification downgraded from "ultra-rich" to "rich": What causes this? Can I fix it? Is there a way of preventing this from happening in the future?

master-of-orion-2016

0

Q: Is it possible to unlock new guns without using Multiplayer?

From my experience, the only way to unlock new guns in Star Wars Battlefront is to get them in Multiplayer. Is there a way to get new guns in Solo mode?

star-wars-battlefront

djsmiley2k

10:07 PM

hmmmm

well my wifes friend used to feed her cat ice cream and stuff

from her bowl

my dog eats ice cream

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice To be fair, the other guy doesn't need ice cream either. Dude.

@GnomeSlice i don't get it

user15026

I dunno, shame on them for wanting to be someone who takes cats for walks in stroller type thigns?

user15026

10:22 PM

that's my guess

pretty sure it's not about shaming anybody

It's just a really funny picture

user15026

I see people walking pets like this all the time (there is a lady I see on the number 7 buses a lot with two small dogs in a bigger version of that stroller thing

user15026

So I guess I don't see it as funny because it's something I see often enough it seems almost normal :P

badp

team pls

user15026

10:29 PM

I'm missing the reference for Instinct

What Thor Was Doing During Captain America: Civil War (Comic-Con 2016) Thor Ragnarok HD

@KutuluMike I kinda like the aesthetics of Iron Man.

@Frank I like that Iron Man is wearing red, Cap is wearing blue, and Thor is wearing yellow. it's like they planned it

@KutuluMike Banner hung out with Thor too. Does that mean he's also on team Instinct?

no... Thor says he's starting his own team, just he and the IT guy

Private Pansy

10:36 PM

> Is his name really "Fury", and is it pronounced "Furry"

Thanks Thor asking the question everyone wants to ask, but are too embarrassed to

user15026

@twobugs @arda and anyone else I recommend phone games to - Cascade is my newest fave - it's match-3 ish with a slots mechanic. It's pretty great. (If you've played any Slingo games, its by the same people)

user15026

Also, if you liked slicing grass in Zelda to find stuff, have I got the game for you.

Q: Are pinballs technically videogames?

0

I know they have a screen but why are they called videogames?

pinball

10:53 PM

@Ash Sounds neat!

user15026

@twobugs I like it, its a nice twist on the genre.

Dragonrage

tomorrow is my last day at my current job

Nobody asked for it but you're getting it anyway! WORLD OF WARCRAFT EX-STREAM-A-GANZA!!!! twitch.tv/twobugs

Sterno

@Wipqozn That's so old someone already streamed it for you

Q: Can't launch my Tree Of Savior

-1

I'm trying to launch my Tree Of Savior on Steam, but it just stay on the logo

tree-of-savior

11:10 PM

cc @badp @GodEmperorDune

user15026

@twobugs Aww, I wont be home for like 2 hours

Q: Why do pinball machines/games have a nudge/shake/bump feature?

Are pinball games really off-topic? We have a question about pinballs that has 22 upvotes.

22

I've been playing a lot of iPhone pinball games recently, and I've noticed that almost all pinball games have some sort of a "bump", or a "shake", or a "nudge" feature within them. I've also seen the same thing in the Windows XP game Pinball, and shaking the table often results in the game first...

pinball

Although I guess that's talking about pinball video games.

@Ellesedil They're replicating physical actions in a video game.

That...we can take.

user15026

I feel like it's asking "do pinball machines count as video games"

Questions about the actual mechanical games, though, are definitely not in our skillset.

user15026

11:14 PM

which...to me, feels like it could be on-topic

user15026

They're not asking anything about how pinball games work or anything liek that

@Ash At best, it's a meta question, about whether or not we support them.

user15026

That, yeah, not our jam. But "are pinball games considered video games" kinda works.

As a main site question, it's POB.

user15026

@Frank eh, not really?

user15026

11:15 PM

@Frank Kinda, I guess, but I don't think that's a super strong case of POB

user15026

I'd consider it answerable, honestly

Yeah, my first thought was that it should be asked on meta to see if pinball machines are video games and/or on topic in general.

I feel like allowing some questions about aspects of physical pinball machines means we're opening the door to any pinball game type question.

user15026

This just seems like a general interest question on whether or not they fall under teh same umbrella. I can see a meta question in it kinda if I squint, but I don't think they're wanting to know about them in the sense of our topicality towards them

user15026

@Frank It's not asking about any aspect of them beyond "are they video games"

user15026

11:17 PM

We can kinda squash any further by going "they're not, see this question"

@Ash "I don't think they're wanting to know about them in the sense of our topicality towards them" That's true, that's not the asker's intent.

@Ash Which isn't actually a video game question.

Hence why, at best, I'd make it a meta question.

user15026

@Frank I don't agree.

Is air hockey a video game? It's got electronics in it!

user15026

....*sigh*

11:18 PM

They're surrounded by other video games, too!

user15026

@Frank Now you're just being obtuse for the sake of argument, it feels like

Why do we support pinball games? Why should we support pinball games?

Tim Stone

@Wipqozn Yeah, there are some shortcuts through the buildings you can take for some of it but in general it's just highly annoying

Well, I guess the real question is: Are questions asking if something is a video game off-topic or not?

No, I'm making my point.

Fluttershy

11:19 PM

@Frank I believe we already had a meta question about this, didn't we?

Q: Are questions about pinball machines on topic?

@Fluttershy Did we?

If so, I can shut up.

Fluttershy

4

I've been meaning to ask a question concerning actual real-life pinball machines, but also emulated in some digitized versions such as FarSight's Pinball Arcade. More specifically, the purpose of the loud bang when a replay is awarded. Would this question be on topic in Gaming SE?

discussion allowed-questions

A question that solved... nothing.

Q: Should electronic games be included the site's purview?

Frank can tip the balance right now.

Fluttershy

-1

Generalizing the pinball discussion, should the domain of the side include all electronic games? I'm not sure how far this would extend beyond pinball and other arcade games.

discussion allowed-questions

And there it is.

11:21 PM

@Frank so, ignoring that the question is about pinball games... do you consider "is _______ a video game?" an on-topic question?

@KutuluMike That's what I was trying to ask :p

user15026

@Frank I am not saying we should, though!

@KutuluMike Nope. It's a discussion question.

user15026

So please stop clinging to that.

Private Pansy

@KutuluMike It's not a very good question no matter if it's allowed or not

11:21 PM

I have no opinion either way, but it sounds like that would be off topic regardless of what the subject.

it sounds like "Is Deus Ex a video game?" is off-topic even though the answer is clearly yes.

Private Pansy

And as can be seen from the meta question, for things on the edge like pinball it's almost certainly primarily opinion based

@Fluttershy I'm not sure what example he's referring to, here.

What is an electronic game?

FWIW we generally don't allow "is _____ sci-fi or fantasy?" questions on SF/F unless they are on meta asking about scope.

user15026

I think "help my pinball machine threw up and now there are balls all over my floor" is one thing (and totally I would be like "off topic" wooo) but "is this considered to be a video game or not" is a different animal

so I would agree that "is ________ a video game?" is not in scope either.

11:23 PM

@twobugs rekt

@Ash A different animal, sure. One that I'd close in a heartbeat, because it invites discussion and polling.

@Frank That's a good point, which likely means it's a better fit on Meta.

user15026

@Frank And that's fine.

if there were a single agreed-on definition of "video game" (is there?) you could ask and answer that question and close everything else as a duplicate.

6 mins ago, by Frank

Hence why, at best, I'd make it a meta question.

11:24 PM

Which then ties directly into "Is this in scope?"

user15026

@KutuluMike This is kinda where I am leaning - this could be a subset of "what the heck is a video game anyhow" sort of thing