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10:00 PM
@Frank hm, 275 (approved) + 364 (spam) = 639
 
@badp It should not be including spam comments in the total comments.
 
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Q: Faster way to farm ender-lilies

LFMI've got 5 ender lilies from a dungeon then wanted to farm then.I know end stone significantly speeds up the progress and bonemeal and the Thaumcraft hoe of growth kills the lilies.Is there any way to speed up the growing of ender lilies not including end stone and i m playing direwolf20

 
Spam comments are comments too
 
Anyway that's another mystery solved
fixes an "Arquade" in a comment from 2012
marks all pingbacks from withoutthesarcasm.com as spam forever
bans agent86 to the last century
 
Also, I finally have an evening to myself this week.
 
10:12 PM
@Frank That's good!
You should spend it thinking about how aweosme I am.
 
@Wipqozn I will spend it playing video games and eating junk food.
 
@Frank that's the best way to honor @Wipqozn
 
@MBraedley By ignoring him utterly.
 
Well, the video games part at least
 
10:27 PM
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Q: Minecraft: How to set a VariableTrigger to rank someone up

blue10xI use EssentialsEco as my economy plugin in Minecraft, with VariableTriggers I need to make a Sign that a player clicks (/vtc), when they click this sign, a script is run that tests the player to see if that player has $100, if they do, then it runs more script that runs the command: /pex promote...

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Q: How do I perfect my gemology?

ArperumI've noticed that you need twelve designs to get the acheivement "perfect gemology". But there are only five different kinds of gems with two designs each, so that gives 10 designs to find. I've teached the jeweler a (lvl 60) ring plan, but that didn't count. So how do I get myself these last...

 
Dark Souls is fuct
 
@GnomeSlice Where are you at?
 
darkroot gardens
which isn't too bad
I need to go to the sens fortress though
that place is stupid
 
Yeah I figured you were going to say Sen's
heheheh
 
Sen's is fun to invade
 
10:38 PM
That, and the area after it, are the places where your mettle is really tested most
It's also probably the first place where you're really smacked upside the head if you haven't upgraded your weapon enough.
 
Wow
Worf is one hardcore mother
 
@RedRiderX What did he just do?
 
The light version of his daily calisthenics.
 
Ah, yeah. The skull dude.
 
10:54 PM
dat skull dude tho
 
@GnomeSlice Whaaaaat? Everyone loves Sen's Funhouse.
 
Wife wins a million dollars, divorces husband instantly, and neglects to mention winnings to divorce court. Shenanigans ensue
 
@Frank Whoops
 
GOSHDARNIT I WAS ABOUT TO CLICK THAT
 
this markup is my nemesis haha
 
10:56 PM
hates comment removal
 
i.imgur.com/CRZa7.gif NSFW language
I just wanted to make sure that it wasn't going to inline it first
 
NSFW (kinda sorta I guess) and spoilers
 
@PanicBomb Dark Souls gifs are always fun to watch
 
@Fluttershy those damn things
 
10:58 PM
Easy but annoying to deal with
 
The trick to beating Dark Souls is to just be good at it.
 
Mostly just when you get blindsided by one, then you're (probably) just dead.
 
Breaking news: NPD confirms PS4 #1 in console sales for March - thank you! @LuckyLongworth @yosp http://t.co/pEQCLOQtyG
 
Cool news, but the number of fanboys that I see AWWWW SNAPing over this is a little depressing.
 
@PanicBomb Well it's basically the biggest month for Xbox One--Titanfall was the real test. Will be interesting to see MS's E3 now
Everyone's waiting for a pricedrop
 
11:07 PM
@BenBrocka Yeah, I know, that's why it's pretty crazy. I just don't like the bad stuff news like this brings out in people.
 
Not sure they will/should. Loss leading has not proved to be a good strategy (both MS and Sony are supposedly selling around cost now. Dunno about Nintendo)
 
(FTR, I am going full Sony this generation.)
 
I am just annoyed that Microsoft was conceded the Origami Robot Challenge so easily
 
I'm more interested in how it changes the dev landscape. Last gen had some good points, but probably did some of the worst stuff possible to AAA/retail development regarding costs and expectations
 
Yep, absolutely
 
There has already been a discussion on Meta about this and it was deemed to be acceptable. meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/8133/…shanodin 3 hours ago
 
@shanodin One or two vote answers don't really do much to really decide consensus. — Frank 59 secs ago
 
SEN'S FORTRESS IS FUCT
 
@BenBrocka Sony's more open stance towards indies -- combined with MS's increasing use of dashboard ads, paywalling apps, and other slimy stuff -- has me a bit curious about whether Microsoft will have to change their course in order to stay relevant. (They already did, of course, to some extent with the DRM stuff.)
 
The best weapon I have is still the drake sword and it sucks eggs agsinst these guys
the giant club does more damage but it's slow as shit
 
11:10 PM
@Frank One's a non-answer, the other is positively voted... not much else we can do.
 
@GnomeSlice Sen's Fortress is about the point where you should be ditching the Drake Sword
 
@PanicBomb That's what my friend told me
 
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@Fluttershy I don't think a +1/+2 split is "deemed acceptable", really, but that is just me
 
Literally any standard weapon should be OK if you upgrade it to around +9/10
 
@Fluttershy They're both basically saying, "Vote your opinion."
 
11:10 PM
NUMBER OF GAMES BOUGHT FROM BUNDLES I DID NOT REGISTER ON STEAM: 6 and counting
 
But I upgraded a longsord to +7 and it's still slightly weaker than the drake sword
 
D:
 
Which is why I don't think it should've been mod-reopened.
 
@GnomeSlice Farming up some more mats to get it to ~+10 might help.
 
mats?
 
11:12 PM
uh, titanite chunks or whatever
 
@Frank Oh, he reopened it. I thought you were just pinging a mod to re-close it. Disregard!
 
@PanicBomb Yeah, if I seem fanboy-y it's because of MS's policies--I REALLY want to see that mess reversed, starting with the ID@Xbox parity clause. Ads are lame too, not sure those are going away. But a more dev-friendly landscape, especially lower/middle budget devs, is my top priority. Nintendo and Sony are embracing it, I want to see MS commit without BS
 
Also I foudn the elite knight armor
it's not very elite
But it is slightly better than what I had before
 
@Fluttershy Well, NOW I want him to reclose it, yes.
 
@Frank Right. But I was going off of partial evidence. (read: I hadn't viewed revision history to see that it wasn't a 5-vote reopen, because reasons)
 
11:13 PM
I wouldn't have pinged him specifically if the community had re-opened it.
 
@badp Which bundle did you buy?
 
@GnomeSlice None. I'm going through all 392+ of the games I own on Steam.
 
@badp you monster. I try to at least play everything once just to see if maybe I misjudged. Found a couple gems that way
 
@BenBrocka I try to do that as well.
Well, more like strive.
 
I've bought so many Humble Bundles for 1-2 games with zero intention to play any of the others.
Maybe someday I should install the unknowns just to see what they're like, but it's getting to be a pretty daunting list at this point
 
user15026
11:16 PM
I've stopped buying bundles because I rarely play what I have
 
@badp 400? Damn and here I thought my 250 was impressive. Then again I spent most of college ignoring Steam except for Portal 2
I've only really had a gaming PC for a few years of highschool and since 2012
 
I've never really had a gaming PC
 
@AshleyNunn Me too, but if there's a game that I was planning to buy anyway and I can get it for $3 or whatever, I'll go for it.
 
NOW THAT IS AN UGLY FACE OF DEATH
 
I'm 75% through with attaching a price tag to each and every one of my games and my average is downwards of €0.25 per hour played
 
11:17 PM
@badp They are nice. Fussy. So fussy. But nice. But fussy
 
it's probably going to be €0.20 or so, the remaining 25% is all bundle games priced at full retail
 
I rarely have a problem but when I do it's always at the worst time and often kills my desire/ability to play a game
 
@AshleyNunn At least it's no Mailman Simulator 2014
 
the termite demon is fuct
 
11:18 PM
I used to be really into PC enthuasist/tuning stuff, but now I just have zero patience for that stuff just to get marginally better FPS or more pixels
 
@AshleyNunn Why am I envisioning a Kairosoft-esque mailman game like Paperboy?
 
So, consoles ho. I can play older/non-demanding games on my inexpensive PC just fine too
 
"inexpensive"
 
MISSING WORDS
 
still, "expensive" is my main issue with consoles
The most I've ever played on a single game is €23 for Serious Sam 3.
 
11:20 PM
@PanicBomb I love both...but wish PC were less fussy. A lot less fussy
 
I'm a long way off being able to accept spending €60 into a single game that I may or may not like.
 
@AshleyNunn Also, after watching the trailer, I can sum it up easily: Sim-Mail.
 
@badp get older games and price is much less a problem for consoles. PSN has almost Steam-like sales, and standard used ranges from $5-20 for most non-rare stuff
 
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@Frank Which makes it sound extra awesome to me
 
@AshleyNunn It's out now!
 
11:21 PM
I don't play that many AAA games, really, aside from a handful of the big ones, so most of my costs are cheaper downloadable stuff
 
Splurge with your first paycheck, to reward yourself!
 
@BenBrocka I am kinda thinking that who isn't getting a PS3/XB360 now is going to have a hard time reliving through that period of gaming later
 
Also PS+ is an insane value. But might be less so if you have 400 games...if y ou're actually planning to play it
 
And I've been getting much more into deeply-replayable games lately, so when I want to drop money on a shorter retail game I can still afford it
 
@BenBrocka How much per month again?
 
11:22 PM
@badp how so? Digital store shutdowns? IIRC, OG Xbox is the only console to have it's store shut down
 
@BenBrocka Emulation hardships
 
@badp $50 a year, but often onsale--on black friday I got 2 years for $25 each. You get an INSANE amount of games on PS3, a solid amount on PSV, and a nice bonus on PS4, but I'm sure it'll shape up
 
I just don't see getting even near-native performance out of those exotic architectures through emulation.
(Black Friday is not a thing here.)
That said, $50 a year I could stomach I guess.
 
You could use US PSN--amazon gives you a digital code anyway
 
@badp It'll probably happen eventually, but not for a while. But the same is also true for those services getting shut down.
 
11:24 PM
Though EU PSN, assuming all countries are the same, has fine deals too
 
@PanicBomb I don't believe Moore's law is going to hold up for long enough
but I'll be glad to be proven wrong
 
I KILLED THE TERMITE DEMON
 
@badp there are, for basically the first time ever, emulators that run commercial games for PS3 AND 360 this year. It's an exciting time (they run at completely unplayable FPS, the PS3 one is less than a frame per second, but they all start this way)
Besides, the consoles themselves will be around for a while. And PSNow might make emulation less necessary. Like VC COULD HAVE but didn't glares at Nintendo
 
"Emulating" PS4 and XB1 games should be infinitely easier
 
You'd THINK that wouldn't you
 
11:26 PM
I expect something to come up before the end of the consoles' lifetimes.
 
We still can't emulate OG Xbox. PS3 emu support is better than Xbox emulation. Think about that
 
@BenBrocka There's not actually much to emulate!
 
(Xbox was x86, but poorly documented)
 
@BenBrocka uh. That's, um, weird.
 
There's the API, which alone is a big problem. I think that's what kills the Xbox. Despite being a "direct X box" it's apparently an undocumented nightmare to emulate
 
11:27 PM
I would've expected the biggest blockroads to be legal in nature
 
And the PS4's 8GB of GDDR5 is going to through a pipewrench into most emulator's plans for quite some time
 
@GnomeSlice You go girl fingersnap fingersnap finger-snap-snap
 
@badp Only the BIOS is usually a problem for that. And only some emus/systems seem to require it. PS2 and PS1 do, GBA too, Wii/GC don't, 16 bit and earlier don't
 
@BenBrocka Technically speaking, any emulator could be written to not require a BIOS with sufficient work, it's just usually not considered worth the effort
cf. Bleem!
 
WOOHOO THE RETURN OF DATA HOLMES
 
11:30 PM
@BenBrocka generic blurb about DMCA here
I would love to be proven wrong about PS3/XB360 emulation.
 
@badp You can legally dump your own BIOS. And BIOS found from the internet are bit-by-bit identical to the one you would dump. It's an...interesting area
 
@BenBrocka even without the BIOS stuff, the emulator makers themselves are going to be sued to hell and back
 
But buying an actual PS3/360 will still definitely be better than emulation for a few years at the very least
@badp Not sure I've ever heard of an emulator maker being sued. It's sharing the ROMs/ISOs that's illegal
 
On a scale from 1 to bad, how bad is killing the blacksmith
 
It'd probably happen more often if commercial emulators were still a thing for contemporary platforms
 
11:33 PM
Technically the Emulator is doing something ENTIRELY different to the actual HW, it just happens to reproduce the end result, that's generally fine. Off-brand physical consoles are even sold for 8/16 bit era stuff
 
@GnomeSlice Real bad
 
@PanicBomb shit
I hit him by accident
and had to kill him
 
@PanicBomb commercial emus are seeing a big resurgence on mobile
 
@GnomeSlice There are other blacksmiths later on but you're sort of SOL for a little bit
 
Right but only he can use the Ember right?
 
11:34 PM
Umm, certain types, I think.
 
@BenBrocka You build a tool to run PS4 games natively on PC right now without signficant performance losses and see if you won't get Sony lawyers breathing heavily on your neck.
 
Android has been (mostly) fine with them even
 
Different embers go to different smiths IIRC
 
I gave the ember to him though
 
@GnomeSlice Well, yeah, any ember that you gave to him is basically wasted now I think
 
11:34 PM
I was just swinging my sword arond, didn't know you could hit him
OKAY FINE I WAS TRYING TO BREAK HIS BUCKET
 
If you get creative with other weapon upgrade paths you may be just fine though
 
@BenBrocka mostly because the FOSS ones have been unmaintained and are mostly stuck in the Android 1.1 era
 
@badp I dunno--the DS, from NINTENDO, who, by the way, tried to shut down a Melee tournament at Evo this year, that DS, was emulated in it's prime, as was the Wii. Both projects are readily availible
 
I tried Dolphin. It wasn't exactly... good
 
@GnomeSlice You didn't have to kill him. <_<
 
11:36 PM
Killing the blacksmith is a really bad move. A really, really bad move.
 
You could've gone to Oswald of Carim.
 
@Fluttershy He already killed him.
 
I also tried a DS emulator on Android and it's extreme pain.
 
@Fluttershy He's dead.
I hit him by accident too
 
@BenBrocka Yeah, I meant emulators for contemporary platforms. Emulators for 8-bit/16-bit systems are probably not really worth litigating since the cat has been out of the bag forever.
 
11:36 PM
@GnomeSlice ... You killed Oswald of Carim? O_o
 
@badp really? It's one of the best emulators I've ever used. Perf requirements are high, and games aren't perfect, even compared to PCSX2, but it's hardly bad
 
@Fluttershy I had to, he came after me
Actually he might not be dead
But he doesn't like me any more
 
@BenBrocka I guess the catch is "Perf requirements are high"
 
@badp DS emulation isn't as good as even N64 or PSX
 
@GnomeSlice Came after you? Or did he scare the bejeezus out of you when you came off the later?
 
11:37 PM
@GnomeSlice After you attacked him.
 
I was trying to kick him and I accidentally hit him with a sword
That happened with the holy girl in firelink too
I had to kill all of her groupies
 
also the controller is super awkward to emulate with anything less than the real thing
 
@badp yeah, I bet that's your problem. You will have some issues even on a beefy PC, like I do, but Dolphin is pretty impressive, as is PCSX2
 
Dark Souls is one of the harshest lessons in "actions have consequences" in video games
 
@badp Gamecube? Yeah that controller was a trainwreck. And for wii games you really need a wiimote in most cases
 
11:38 PM
The moral of the story is to never let @GnomeSlice babysit your children.
 
@BenBrocka wtf the gamecube controller is my second favourite after the 360
 
though nothing beats the N64 for "unplayable without actual controller"
@GnomeSlice The bumpers. The C stick. The puny D pad. The weird, weird, weird facebutton layout.
 
Trackball games in MAME are up there
 
The gamecube had, for it's time, good grips and a good analog stick, that's really about it
But it has the worst d pad on any Nintendo platform ever and I won't forgive it for that
 
@BenBrocka There was only one bumper.
I loved the c stick
The face button layour was weird, but I liked it, it was comfortable
I loved the c stick
 
11:39 PM
The GameCube shoulder buttons always felt really, really cheap to me
Like, you could hear the plastic sliding on plastic loudly every time you pushed them
 
K so I have a blacksmith hammer now
at least I got something
K so I have a blacksmith hammer now
at least I got something
dinnertime
 
Someone's having internet trouble.
 
@GnomeSlice The "triggers" then, they were awful and required insane amounts of movement to actuate. c stick was bad, should have been the same stick as the left analog
 
Number of games I forgot to add to my Steam library: 7 and counting
 
WOW I WOULD LOVE TO BE DATAS WATSON
 
11:53 PM
Imfamous's photo mode is neat
 
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Q: I'm wondering where to find Moonstone Ore in Skyrim

TheSockNapperI've been looking throughout caves and such but I can't find any moonstone. Is there a special place that I can find it (Besides blacksmiths)?

 
BTW, the Humble Double Fine Bundle has (recently?) added all of their prototypes as Steam keys
It's an handful of those, so it might be a nice boost to your Steam Rank if you care about that
 

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