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Q: Is there a way I can continue to play animal jam play wild without doing the "ask your parents" thingy

12:34 AM

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Many months a go I made a animal jam play wild account but it had a thing where after a set amount of days you can't play until you ask your parents to activate. I am 14 but I don't have an email i just type in random stuff and it works. Is there a way to continue play when my time is up? will ...

Dragonrage

12:46 AM

@StrixVaria did the series live up to the hype?

Q: How do i load a previous save file in breath of the wild after it has been overwritten

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I found a really cool glitch that allows you to save outside of the final boss fight, but the auto save feature erased my older save files. I'm stuck outside of the light barrier in the final boss fight and even if I beat dark beast ganon t reloads me to when im outside the light barrier. Is ther...

zelda-breath-of-the-wild

Unionhawk

@Wipqozn there was another last year or something too

Q: Does Dungeon Siege 2 on Steam come with Broken World?

1:21 AM

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So ages ago I had the CDs of Dungeon Siege 2 and after beating the game it didn't seem to conclude the plot. After looking it and Dungeon Siege 3 up I learned that Dungeon Siege 2 has an expansion which continues the plot called Broken World. I noticed that Dungeon Siege 2 is on Steam under it's...

dungeon-siege-2

@Lazers2.0 looking at @Frank's comment and the noise i removed i question if this is a real problem. from my understanding when parental emails are needed it's because you set your age to be under whatever the sites requires parental consent.

ofcause i don't know how the game works so i din't know if the logic is the same

Frank

@Memor-X The user offers zero value. Just burn and done.

1:41 AM

@Avery did you just change your avatar back?

@Memor-X yup, livin' the single life again.

How does this man get suits made?! "Find me a loud fabric with a colour that matches the HNiC background. I want to keep the audience guessing if I'm wearing Green-Screen green."?

Q: Two chests somewher in the camp

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I see that there are two chests to get in the Resistance Camp, but i can't figure out how. I've already completed the two Sorting quests. You can see the two oddly shaped blue shapes in the upper right of the picture.

Q: How to get to chest near Desert Area?

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As you're heading to the Desert Camp, if you follow the row of building to your left AWAY from the camp and have the chip which shows item locations there's a chest which is locked and you need 9S to open it. I can't figure out how to get to the top of the building on which its located though. ...

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Q: Lost equipment quest?

I got an email near the beginning of the same shortly after starting Chapter 1 saying to check the Abandoned Factory for some lost equipment. I think this is one of the quests (I have completed 57/60, and I know I still need Speed Start and Resistance Recon), but I can't seem to start it. Even ...

1:59 AM

@TrentHawkins what's this?

Don Cherry on Hockey Night in Canada. He's... a man of many loud suits and high-collared shirts.

StrixVaria

@Dragonrage It was pretty nuts.

I could have linked to Wikipedia or something, but the most interesting thing about the man are his outfits. So; google image search.

user15026

@TrentHawkins his suits are special.

@TrentHawkins yes, they are interesting. as he ever worn the same outfit twice?

user15026

2:13 AM

@Frank I understand your point with your comment on Help's question but trust that we would have dealt with it if there was conclusive enough stuff that they were 12.

user15026

Please let that particular one go - there are enough other issues that need poking with a stick.

@Memor-X "I don't wear them for two or three years and people kind of forget them. Some they don't forget. The pink one (he wore at Rob Ford's mayoral swearing-in) they never forget."

user15026

@MBraedley well now apparently the Leafs and the Habs are both out of the playoffs

Q: Re-entering copied city - how to exit?

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2:55 AM

just wanted to confrim something. if you had a laptop with a what you suspect to be a dead battery (but charge cable is plugged in) and no OS installed. when you start it up and hear an internal fan and see the green power light you should still be able to access the BIOS right?

3:06 AM

@Memor-X if the screen powers on, then yes

my old laptop (old acer) would spin the fans when I started it up, but that was as far as it could get

@Chippies well i see a black nothing so i have no idea if the screen is stuffed or if the laptop itself is stuffed

@Memor-X there should be an HDD activity light on the laptop

if it's on/off and not blinking, it's probably dead for good

if it's blinking, it might be a screen issue

you could always try hooking it up to a monitor/tv

@Chippies i'll look for a add activity light before i start moving screen around

my mum brought it for $50 at a garage sale and was told it just needed an OS installed (it says it was built for XP and we just happen to have an XP CD)

@Memor-X if it was built for XP, it probably wasn't worth 50$ today, lol

it probably has less than 1gb of ram, so even browsing the web would be a difficult task for it these days

@Chippies well she brought it because my dad has been waiting for a new PC to play Pharaoh, Age of Empires and Red Alert. she though it would be good enough

Q: How can I play a graphics accelerated intensive Android game on PC?

3:11 AM

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I want to play the Android version of Galaxy on Fire 2 on the PC (because of the DLCs), however I've had some crappy performance results from popular emulators like Andy and Bluestacks. Is there anyway to play a GPU intensive Android game on PC?

pc android emulation

though then again we've brought a bunch of PCs from garage sales for that reason and they all have been screwed up

@Memor-X seems to me like it would've been wiser to take all the money spent on the garage sale junk and put it to a new PC :P

@Chippies after this last one i was just thinking i might as well get an ALDI's one for him

though he'll have to wait until Father's Day

@Memor-X no idea what an ALDI is and google didn't help much

if you want something super cheap that can run those games, there are cheap windows tablets that are perfectly capable at running games at low settings

like, <100$ USD kind of cheap

what's available to you and at what prices is a different question

@Chippies medion branded sold in ALDI Stores. cheapest i've seen a PC go for in there is $400

3:22 AM

@Memor-X is building a PC yourself not an option? Or just going with ALDI's because it's so cheap?

@Chippies cheap mainly. unless my contract is extended i'd be out of a job by August and god knows how long i'll be out of work

@Memor-X you could try salvaging whatever junk you got from garage sales and buying new parts to fit the rest. Might cost you less/same and you'd get better quality

although I won't deny the convenience of buying a prebuilt

3:48 AM

omg it's taken 7 years but Dark Science has maybe finally revealed its plot.

@RedRiderX ... That's a long time to go without a plot.

@RedRiderX when i google it the only i find that could be described to have a plot is something from Transformers

Q: How would someone destroy a dam in a world without explosives?

4:05 AM

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I'm considering the mechanics of a "shock and awe" scene in my novel which could see an old dam being brought down. The era is equivalent to that of the middle Roman empire, so introducing explosives would be far too convenient and would require altering previous work for the simple logic of conf...

science-based architecture ancient-history water-bodies explosions

I'd start with weaponized squirrels and progress into something that can dig... badgers? Bears? honey badgers? — WernerCD 3 hours ago

@Memor-X dresdencodak.com/2010/06/03/dark-science-01

@Yuuki Well the whole thing is only about 80 pages.

It's just taken 7 years to get those 80 pages

But man it's still great

Writer's block OP, pls nerf

(tbh I've only been following it for 6 years)

> only

Kim mark IV is my personal fav

4:13 AM

I'm not sure being there for 85% of the time counts as "only". That's common-law marriage criteria in some jurisdictions.

Though I love how the Hob stuff is both incorporated and refuted at the same time.

Is this fanfiction?

@Yuuki Well the Hob story started in 2007 if you count that as part of the Kim storyline.

@Yuuki He's developed so much over the last 10 years that in a way his earlier stuff feels like fanfiction of his newer stuff.

4:28 AM

Doing well enough in League to have someone actively calling for your champion's removal gives you a unique warming feeling inside.

4:48 AM

@Yuuki removal as in getting you kicked from the game?

Dragonrage

@Memor-X no, removal as in they think the champ you are playing is broken

because you are playing it well enough to counter them

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5:08 AM

@Yuuki i suppose that's the equivalent of people calling you a hacker in FPS games.

@Avery or whining about legitimate tactics line "noob tubing" and "camping"

the latter being something you do in real life

CS: Terrorists plan bomb and then camp. Counter-Terrorists rush to disarm and are picked off one by one by camping Terrorists. Counter-Terrorists bitch about Terrorists camping rather than running around the joint during the bomb countdown

5:23 AM

GodEmperorDune

wat

@PrivatePansy better than saying the squeal is Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

which arguably was better because less JarJar and more Christopher Lee

thinking about Star Trek there's only 14 more episodes left of Voyager on the SciFi Channel in Australia. so in about 3 weeks that's it. which unfortunately doesn't line up with the ads for what's coming on in the next month so no announcements if Deep Space 9 is going to come on

Q: Summon mobs near player/ Move to player

5:57 AM

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I have this code: /summon spider ~ ~1 ~ {Passengers:[{id:skeleton,HandItems:[{Count:1,id:bow},{Count:1,id:shield}],ArmorItems:[{Count:1,id:diamond_boots},{Count:1,id:diamond_leggings},{Count:1,id:diamond_chestplate},{Count:1,id:diamond_helmet}],CustomName:Killer,Visible:1,HandDropChances:[1.0f,...

minecraft minecraft-commands

6:56 AM

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> 2 am
> wide awake

f--k.

7:34 AM

@Yuuki hey I went to bed at 030 =p

Also morning chat

@Ronan I think the dice thought I was taunting them. I'M SORRY DICE I WASN'T TAUNTING YOU :(

@Yuuki Eh, semi-regular thing again for me lately...

@Yuuki less writers block and more big gorgeous, detailed pages drawn by a single person (I think they now have help? Not sure if that's still a thing)

@RedRiderX also now I want to reread dresden codak, again

7:55 AM

@KevinvanderVelden We were rolling so bad another player and me literally exchanged dice to see if that helped. It did, but not on the first rolls.

@KevinvanderVelden i went to bed at 5:50

woke at 6:30

slept again at 820, definitelynotduringclass, woke up at 920

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@Avery You should not do that thing

That sounds like a not good thing

B-but it was productive

The full rotation of the Moon as seen by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter https://t.co/oYGrs3HjjG

Tweeted by WorldAndScience on April 23, 2017 at 11:00 PM

8:06 AM

@Avery that's avebot, my terrible discord bot. You can test it on arqade discord w/ ">help"

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

8:57 AM

[Steam via Total war Access] Man O War Corsair (40% Discount): $17.99 - Reddit comments

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Everyday Carry

Proposed Q&A site for gear enthusiasts and the prepared.

Currently in definition.

Q: How exactly does Power propagate through Power related Blocks?

9:42 AM

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Consider this example setup: How does the power propagate through those blocks? Die the extra 2 Blocks help powering the Turret? (Ignore the fact for now that one would be enough for a turret). I am asking because I had issues powering a Resin Ablater and Liquifier. Then I made a setup like th...

fortresscraft-evolved

10:12 AM

@Avery Still not a good thing. You need your sleep, or productive is going to hell for a long time.

Q: How I can be elidible for war?

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I had in some other clan they take me in war but I leave it to go to my own clan now I m not able to take myself in war plzz help how can I do war

steam

@Lazers2.0 Obviously you need to get seasoned first

10:57 AM

Yay i got my flu jab and my arm isn't hurting.....yet

@Lazers2.0 sounds like Clash of Clans....again

i seem to notice more often people ask clan related questions for it but don't get the tags right

It's because the majority of people asking such questions are 12 year olds

ssh ghost@theshell.xyz

^^ Do it

ytho

It's a better remake than the scarjo one?

No SSH access from work, I think

Not gonna try anyway

11:10 AM

I used an android ssh client

@KevinvanderVelden :(

Remind me when I get home =p

@badp did it work?

@fredley yup

@badp neat

11:17 AM

and I think it didn't send it any funny authentication key or anything

I guess JuiceSSH supports 24-bit colors

@badp Worst it could do is work out your github username, unless of course it's running a ssh 0-day worth tens of millions of dollars.

I mean, that could be the case.

@fredley paranoia

tbf, if I discovered a ssh 0-day, I'd probably use it to make Ghost in the Shell puns.

You would

@fredley Or some sort of over the top Rebecca Black troll.

11:24 AM

@Arperum tru

> New undiscovered zero-day RCE exploit in the wild used to blast Rebecca Black's Friday through unsuspecting victim's browsers

I predict that one day, an Internet™ of Things® exploit of Smart™® speakers will cause this to happen

> the hacker is known only as "@badppls", but sources attribute the attack to ISIS

there must be an echo exploit for that

@MattE.Эллен Just buying some ad time on TV or radio is enough

11:29 AM

lol

@MattE.Эллен curl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0 > ./exploit

rimshot

@PrivatePansy They got rekt by a Wikipedia edit war too

@fredley though it will probably be rickrolling and not friday

@KevinvanderVelden Yeah, I mean, at this point it's almost certainly going to happen, it's just a matter of when

Oh man, I should totally buy some ad time. "Hey Alexa, play Friday by Rebecca Black!"

11:34 AM

is it an exploit when someone does it voluntarily?

to themselves

@fredley didn't burger king just try that?

@KutuluMike yup

Pretty much ensuring nobody will do it again, closing my window of opportunity

@fredley Use Facebook and use demographics to target specific Bridge members

@MattE.Эллен You'd do that to yourself? Disgusting.

@fredley me... no... I'd never coughs

11:36 AM

@PrivatePansy I could probably target you all quite effectively with FB ads, but those won't autoplay audio afaik

HamStare @MattE.Эллен

@MattE.Эллен ಠ_ಠ

you need to get a game onto Steam and send out gift keys.

and the game just plays rebecca black over and over.

making an android app that does that is really easy

@fredley also I don't actually use facebook so

I may or may not be looking up DnD stuff at work, and I can't help but read PHB as Pointy Haired Boss every time

11:52 AM

@KevinvanderVelden You do have an account though :p

I do! But I don't use it

Also fairly sure I've enabled all the privacy things

I'm too lazy to go check what I can see as one of your friends. I know you had to do something so a friend request was even possible.

I 'unno

I vaguely remember something like that, because you had locked down all the things

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12:09 PM

"The life of IT"

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12:21 PM

@BlueBarren for a second there I thought this would be fanfic about the Steven King character

I like this more

@BlueBarren @fredley is that you

@fredley Hmm the site should have the fingerprint listed on it...

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Q: Will my 3ds be fine?

My little sister took my game out of my 3ds while it was on and the game was still on... I am worried should it be fine is there any glitches that might occur after this incident? After I relized she did this I turnt my 3ds off and I didn't put it on charge, Is there anything going to happen? I a...

pokemon-sm new-3ds-xl

12:56 PM

@RedRiderX Yeah I guess

1:16 PM

@fredley But even still I rate it 7 ghosts out of 5 shells

there only was one ghost and a fraction of a shell

so I guess that works out actually

1:33 PM

so my power went out this morning and I thought it was just my building (because it sort of a common problem with too much power consumption) but then when I started driving to work two of the intersections I pass through had blinking red lights on all the lights

You'd think that would've made my drive slower this morning but it actually made it faster

1:49 PM

Goddammit IT, you do not get to summarily restart my machine without warning when applying an update. (And I have the distinct feeling it's going to happen again, too.)

College is having a fun bug to fix. Happens in IE 11.0.10240, but not in IE 11.0.9k-something.

@Arperum Solution: Don't use IE

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And yes, IE is not optional, it's for a silverlight application that is in the process of being replaced, but is not replaced yet.

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

@MBraedley you sure it was IT and not just windows

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Bangla

Proposed Q&A site for bangla (or Bengali in English) is an Indian language. The site would contain all aspects... starting from Literature and culture through grammar, spelling, translation to typesetting, font, encoding, optical character recognition; everything.

Currently in definition.

1:52 PM

@PrivatePansy Except Silverlight and recent browsers are not the biggest friends.

Q: Does the chance of explosion depend on type of ammunition?

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I was playing some games, and I have a feeling that I get ammoracked more frequently when playing vehicles with "Howitzer" guns (tanks with high damage, long reload and bad penetration, mostly firing HE shells, such as the KV-2). The question is: does the chance of destroying an ammo rack depend...

world-of-tanks

@Memor-X Normal windows updates (and most corporate delivered updates) ask for permission to reboot, or at least wait until a deadline.

I don't even know if this will update properly, either.

I've complained about java updates in the past too.

@MBraedley Windows 10 will force start the update after a certain time. the PC can restart a few times during an update before it hits 100% and that's normal

to be honest when Windows tells you an Update is ready you should use the time to save and prepare to shut down then have the update run

@Memor-X There's a whole update framework that IT uses on these machines. It doesn't use the regular Windows Update.

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1:58 PM

Java is the only update that will restart my machine without any warning. Even approaching an update deadline will at least let me defer restarting until the actual deadline.

@MBraedley i think it might be similar to what we have at work. work uses their own update platform which applies Windows Updates and uses it's own notification system where a popup window appears for 4 hours as a countdown

the purpose is ofcause to make sure that any updates doesn't break anything.....which is kinda pointless for the dev team since we install just about anything we want

I have forgotten to restart my computer after an update many a time, only to come in the next morning to see that it restarted itself, and the only person I have to blame if I left something open is myself. The java updates are different because it didn't even give me a warning before restarting.

@MBraedley windows updates are one thing but where does Java get off in forcing an update?

personally i never encountered that

@Memor-X Might be caused by a Java app being open when the update runs

@PrivatePansy does Standalone Selenium Server .jar count? because i ran that almost daily

2:07 PM

> error CS0518: Predefined type 'System.Void' is not defined or imported

Well done

@Memor-X Java itself doesn't force the update, IT does. Java is the single biggest attack surface within the company, since it's required software for every employee (don't ask), and so updates are forced down our throats.

@MBraedley ahhhhh. that explains it

Oh good, it was only the one restart this time.

Q: what is terraria's highest tier armor made from?

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I've been looking around the world and there has always been at least like 10 tiers higher and i want to know the highest tier in terraria. I was really wanting to know if someone could help me.

terraria-console

2:25 PM

@Arperum hm?

Man why do console games never go on sale?

user15026

Because we aren't allowed to have nice things I think.

I want to play ME:Andromeda with my friends on XO but it's $79.99 * 1.13

And it is not worth that amount of money

most games aren't worth that much imo

Why Canadian dollar? Why do you have to be so poopy?

There's also the issue of Arma III being super expensive.

The base game is reasonably priced (while being on sale) at $27.99 or something but then there's the apex edition which is still over $60

why would I buy the regular edition and withhold content from myself?

Oh, looks like some of you have been playing D&D again. Neat.

2:36 PM

JIM WHY

(the latest ep has oni r43)

censored but still

@BlueBarren I care to disagree, since I just put 75 hours into single player, and haven't even touched multiplayer yet. I've gotten my money's worth.

About a meese-buck per hour of entertainment is good value

@BlueBarren $79.99 * 1.00 on PC :P

40 euro on PC over here

For the physical edition btw

(somehow the physical edition is nearly always cheaper then the digital one after a month)

@BlueBarren PSN has regular Steam-like sales

or so I was lead to believe

2:52 PM

@badp forbes pls

also yay thedailywtf

@MBraedley I'm not interested in the single-player because it just looks disappointing in comparison to the ME trilogy

@Chippies There's tax on PC downloads, no?

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@badp I know Xbox has some decent sales every once in a while but I don't know how often

I got Titanfall 2 for 40% off on Xbox 2 months (maybe 3) after it came out on Xbox

@BlueBarren I think it was pretty well done. Most of the bigger side quests were better than @kalina would let on.

because they had some sale

@MBraedley "pretty well done" isn't worth $80 to me

it looks like a $50 or less game

3:00 PM

You also have to realize that it's a different style story. Shepard is already a badass at the start of ME1.

I'm not expect/don't need a badass

I still want things to be compelling though

@BlueBarren You can't get a 10 hour game for less than $60 these days.

@MBraedley game depreciate in value super quickly

@BlueBarren And I'm saying that it is compelling.

so all I have to do is wait a bit

I'm also getting Mario Kart 8 Deluxe at the end of the week so I really don't need to buy another full priced game on top of that

If I didn't already have games to play and games I planned on getting then ME:A would've been worth it on release

But for what it offers and the other games I'm interested in/playing it's really not worth it

3:11 PM

I have a task for you and no, you will get nothing but glory and a good feeling if you actually manage to do it. Talk me into not cheating at Dark Souls (which I'm playing offline anyway) to avoid still more farming.

I wasn't aware that you needed to farm anything in Dark Souls.

Most weapons and equipment are available either through purchase or from chests/looting.

There are some weapons that are RNG enemy drops, but not many as far as I know.

@Yuuki guess what, you need to spend souls to purchase things. So I need to farm souls. And to use spells you need a stat and I need 4 more levels in it and each level is like 40k souls at this point.

@Zachiel I have played Dark Souls so you didn't need to open like that.

Work with what you have, not what you want

So much for going a full armor build and then not being able to beat one boss with this tactic because I'm bad at rolling in the direction I want.

3:14 PM

@Zachiel Which boss?

@Yuuki need, no, can, yes, want to, maybe

@Yuuki Artorias.

Also, Last time I used DS controls was in late 2014

So now I'm worse at the game than when I quit in frustration.

Hmm yeah, Artorias is definitely a tough customer. I actually think I had a harder time trying to spellcast through that fight.

(So, sorry for the frustration)

Since spells don't break poise as easily as heavy weapon attacks so he rushes you down real easily.

3:16 PM

That said, IME I generally got more souls faster by smashing my face into whatever the next challenge is then I did by farming earlier areas, except when the next challenge was a boss

@Yuuki I've seen someone kill him with a single dark chaos firestorm

(also, don't forget that you may have a whole bunch of solidified souls in your inventory)

(I generally looked up what boss souls were used to make and ate those, too, if it wasn't something I wanted)

@ToxicFrog Ah, yes, but some I want to turn into specific items

@Zachiel Usually involves a dedicated build with plenty of min-maxing. So not a tactic you can pursue halfway through a playthrough.

@Zachiel yeah, but the non-boss ones have no such use, and even some of the boss ones may be useless to you

3:17 PM

Although I don't think Pyromancy scaled with any stat in Dark Souls 1...

Q: Dark Souls 3 Fire Fades Edition for Steam

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Is Dark Souls 3: The Fire Fades edition only a deluxe edition of the original game with no additional content ? I've recently bought a game for steam and I noticed that it doesn't contain any subtitle ("Fire Fades") in the subtitle.

steam version-differences dark-souls-3

I think it just scaled with pyro flame level but don't quote me on that

Okay, as far as Chaos Storm goes (which is what I think you mean by Dark Chaos Firestorm), you just need to max your pyro flame.

(and I have no specific advise for Artorias because I never played the DaS1 DLC)

@BlueBarren depends on retailer, I guess. MS Store taxes, because it's also an xbox store. Steam doesn't tax, origin doesn't tax (afaik), uplay doesn't tax (afaik). I don't think GoG taxes either

3:19 PM

I mostly hit and ran while twohanding a claymore-ish weapon.

I also went naked.

but the important part is that steam doesn't tax, so it covers like 90% of the games anyway

I gave up on Artorias. The triple-flip attack drove me to madness.

Because speed > armor in that fight.

@Yuuki yeah, my usual approach (in any game like this, not just DaS) is biggest weapon I can find, rely more on dodging than on armour, magic for buffs/support/occasional panic button

You also have to be sure to nail him when he stops to power up or he gets ridiculous.

3:20 PM

Artorias hits so hard that tanking hits isn't really an option.

@Yuuki pyromancy only scaled with the flame-weapon-thing, so it was great for all builds

@Chippies tbh I never remember who taxes anymore but the tax is irrelevant in my purchase anyways, $79.99 is still a lot

@BlueBarren tax is relevant when it's about as much as a game on sale... :/

(I've bought plenty of AAA titles on sale for under 10$)

that's cute

granted they weren't exactly new releases, but new releases are too expensive anyway

if I can wait a year or two and get games at a fraction of the price, I'm willing to do so

and we got 15% tax, so it's even worse

3:23 PM

@Zachiel But yeah, wearing full armor is generally considered not a good idea against Artorias. Most "cheese" tactics suggest that you wear as much armor as you can and still be able to cartwheel with the Dark Grain Ring.

And some people argue that a naked attempt is best because it forces you to avoid being too greedy.

And Artorias punishes you heavily if you get too greedy.

@Chippies I find tax is only relevant on expensive purchases because it's so small on something inexpensive. Plus tax is irrelevant in this instance because it's not like I can avoid it if I wanted to on XO. Tax should only be 13% for me unless someone changed something and I didn't realize

Hit and run, it's a fight of attrition.

@BlueBarren it's irrelevant in the sense that you can't avoid it on XO, but it's still a fair bit of money added on top of the already high price

but yes, it's irrelevant if you have to get it on console

tax went from 13% to 15% last year for me (NL, Canada)

@Chippies And that's why I said it was relevant on expensive purchases.

@Chippies huh well I'm ON so I hope it didn't, I guess I should check though, eh?

@BlueBarren doubt it changed for you, it only changed for us because shit happened and a lot of shit changed to "help fix the budget issues"

3:27 PM

I'm still confused at the listed price not including taxes

@KevinvanderVelden it's another reason why I don't carry cash with me. I never know how much I'll have to pay for stuff in the store unless I do some serious calculations

if you're buying bottled drinks, you also have hidden bottle fees

@Yuuki my Pyro Flame is maxed. I have the red ring and the crown. I only need to get enough attunement to cast power within and the fireball (3 attunement slots, I now have one). I have tried the claymore route with my +15 claymore but I can't break his buff in time (I'm in light load with dark grain ring). Mostly a matter of finding the key to swap weapon and two-hand while also locking and running to him. I also keep rolling forward instead of right - I guess I need more muscle memory.

one time there was a 4 pack of small soda cans on clearance sale for 1$, when I got to pay for it, there was 4 x $0.08 bottle fee + 15% tax, so it was almost double the price

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@Zachiel I actually didn't use lock-on at all during the Artorias fight. I had a lot of trouble with the involuntary camera changes that I turned it off and I had lot more success that way.

It might be the lock-on though because the camera change can affect the direction you roll if you try to input at just the right (or wrong, I guess) time.

3:32 PM

@Chippies what

Not-netherlands is weird

@KevinvanderVelden whenever you buy a bottled drink, there's $0.08 fee per bottle, regardless of size

@Chippies and that's... in addition to the listed price

@KevinvanderVelden yep

For reasons such as making shopping harder and more frustrating

Even if you get past Artorias, the thing at the bottom of the abyss is even worse.

3:33 PM

@Yuuki I've been spending the week end for watching videos of people who did it. It looks like there's a lot of right strafing (I have no idea if moving around with no lock-on is easier on a joypad, I've tried joypad and I keep trying to use A to attack.)

@MadMAxJr You do not mean the 4 kings, right?

I do not mean those.

I think it's called Manus of the Abyss or something like that.

@MadMAxJr You can easily cheese Manus though so he's not so bad.

Yes, that would have been my next try, I've been spoilered already

He's a bit frustrating.

@Yuuki You mean fletched arrows from outside the arena?

3:35 PM

Or you can cheese him

I cheesed Sif from outside the arena with arrows.

@Zachiel It's boring so bring a movie, but it works.

I admit having killed Havel by retreating at its door and letting him turn his back to me.

@MadMAxJr is that a DLC boss? I don't remember fighting that

@Chippies Yes it is

And in my experience, Manus telegraphs a lot more than Artorias does.

3:36 PM

@Zachiel but Artorias knight isn't DLC, is it?

@Chippies He is.

He is.

Maybe I'm just not good at reading the telegrams

His whole realm is DLC

I killed Artorias knight, but I don't remember fighting Manus. Hmm

3:37 PM

why is it that every single podcast playlist on youtube is in backwards order?

Well, except on PC. Then he's just there.

I blame @GnomeSlice, because he decided we should co-op and we went through that stuff

we probably didn't finish it and I went back to main game

@Chippies A foul beast with a staff and a giant hand he likes to slam you under

I just hate standing outside the gate to Artorias. Cause you just hear the breathing pulse.

@Zachiel I googled a video on youtube before I said I don't remember fighting it :P

I definitely don't remember bosses by their names

3:38 PM

Manus is clearly a Bloodborne boss tromping around in Dark Souls.

@Chippies Maybe I play too few games to forget DS ones

@Zachiel I'm just not good at remembering names in general. I also played DS quite a while ago

@Zachiel If you're having trouble interrupting his power-up stance with melee attacks, try headshotting with arrows?

Speaking of which

Is it "headshotting" or "headshooting"?

@DanmakuGrazer the first one. As in "headshot"-ing

because of english being english, you also add the second t

3:40 PM

It's weird because "headshot" is a noun and so conjugating it technically doesn't make sense.

Yeah but that sounds dumb

if you're using 'headshot' as a verb (which you can't, but ok) it's headshotting

But people understand that more

It's quite a conundrum for me

@DanmakuGrazer That's basically English in a nutshell.

I don't see the problem with verbing words, it's a time honored tradition!

3:41 PM

English: the only thing dumber than the way it sounds is the way it's spelled.

@KutuluMike headshotting though is pronounced different than headshooting, so it's not really a spelling difference as much as it's just different words

@Yuuki tried. I'm too slow at aiming. :(

to me, headshotting makes perfect sense, because it's derived from "headshot". Headshooting sounds weird, because it sounds like it should be "shooting heads" instead, which is still weird, but makes more sense grammatically

Ugh, now I'm thinking about statting up a 5e version of Artorias, Abyssal and untainted versions.

@Yuuki Next goal: finding some people that never played the game and playing a DS campaign. Possibly a solo campaign. RPG system yet to choose.

3:58 PM

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@Chippies "serious calculations"? Isn't it just listed price * 1.[Your tax percentage here] or are there other things you have to account for? Also @KevinvanderVelden it is kinda pointless that they don't include the tax on an item's price but don't worry it's now law to put calories on our menus