The Bridge

badp

5:01 PM

@PrivatePansy oh wouldn't you love that, Yinternet Jiangxplorer :P

Private Pansy

I will star you so hard for that

Rapitor

@JasonBerkan double kill triple kill m-m-monster kill?

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Private Pansy

I will star you until my fiat hurt

Well, fist. Damn you autocorrect!

Rapitor

Private Pansy

@Rapitor Yeah yeah I know shut up don't blame me I'm on my bloody phone

Blem

5:12 PM

@JasonBerkan what about Tso!bq

Batophobia

@JasonBerkan 2 lives remaining, 1 life remaining, game over

Blem

Special offer on Skyrim on Steam, you know that that means, everybody does a shot!

Batophobia

@Blem refraining from saying "to the knee"

Frank

Ooh. Demonic Organs got a higher drop rate, so there's less effort required to actually get the bits and pieces to make the Hellfire accessories.

Blem

@Frank the lack of context is strong with this message!

Wipqozn

5:23 PM

Xenonauts is on sale for $17. Definitely recommend it to anyone who is a fan of XCOM, especially if you disliked some of the changes Fireaxis made in the new one compared to the original.

Rapitor

@Blem lots of demonic/hellfire/drop rate. I'm gonna just guess diablo.

Jason Berkan

@Wipqozn What if we liked the changes?

Powerlord

@Blem No, you're supposed to do it like this:

yesterday, by Frank

@NateKerkhofs Usually a good idea to throw some context in if you're not joining the same conversation.

I just thought it'd be longer than a day before I got to throw that quote back in Frank's face.

Frank

@Blem Diablo 3.

@Powerlord :P Conversation had ended. There was nothing to join.

Lazers

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Q: fifa14: "tactical awareness" is an alias of "interceptions"?

I only find "interceptions" attribute on my FIFA 14, but I notice many guys mentioned something called "tactical awareness" attribute(example: http://fifanow.com/site/ultimate-team/all-fifa-14-in-game-player-statistics-explained/). I think it's an alias of "interceptions" in fact, but I'm not sur...

fifa-14

Wipqozn

5:31 PM

@JasonBerkan You should still check it out. It's a good game. The most notable differences between Xenonauts and the Fireaxis remake is you have multiple bases, multiple dropships, no class system, a more robust attribute system (more attributes, they go up by using them), and aliens assault your base.

Frank

@Wipqozn Fireaxis?

Jason Berkan

@Wipqozn I still play the original. Does it add anything over and above that?

GnomeSlice

IndieGala is giving away free copies of Canyon Capers. Never even heard of it, but it has Steam trading cards, so it's free profit.

Hobo Std logo font

gross

Origami Robot

@GnomeSlice for certain values of free.

badp

wait wat

GnomeSlice

5:34 PM

@OrigamiRobot What? It's free.

badp

IndieGala location: Italy?!

holy shit they're actually Italian.

Powerlord

@badp Why, trying to get a job with them?

Origami Robot

@GnomeSlice Time is money and all that.

badp

@Powerlord No; I'm just surprised to see an Italian company in the wild.

Powerlord

@OrigamiRobot Thyme is monkey?

GnomeSlice

5:35 PM

Today's Listening | club / dance / bass | NSFW cover art

badp

We don't really have a start-up scene or culture or anything.

GnomeSlice

IndieGala sucks ass anyway

Their site is awful

badp

If I were to think of Italian companies in IT, I probably can only come up with Arduino.

Wipqozn

@JasonBerkan I've only played the original for a few hours, and I found Xenonauts to have a much better UI. You can save equipment/inventory load outs for your troops, and they'll be automatically stocked up between missions (if you have enough supplies). Ammo is free and infinite, as are grendaes. The basic starting weapons are free as well. Air combat is more robust (although I just prefer to auto-complete combat). There are more weapon options than the original...

@JasonBerkan... (pistol, shotgun, rifle (burst/single shot), machine gun, sniper rifle, rocket launcher), there are vehicles (I'm not sure if the original had these).

Origami Robot

I am trying to play KoDP and I have no idea what I'm doing.

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badp

5:37 PM

Rome, huh.

Powerlord

I'll be honest, the only reason the US is as big into IT as it is is because the microprocessor was invented here. Well, that and companies can buy/lease politicians here.

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot That sounds about right.

badp

@Powerlord Nah, that's not true.

The US is way more enterprise friendly than anything in Europe.

We don't have as many startups because doing business in Europe is harder.

Powerlord

@badp Well, yeah, that's the second thing I said. ;)

Origami Robot

I have no idea what to do.

Like, how to progress the game.

Jason Berkan

5:39 PM

@Wipqozn It had tanks. Expensive, but didn't level up. And chicken scratchings have a better UI than the original XCOM.

badp

@Powerlord It's not even just about lobbying. If you run a business in Europe and you go even remotely close to personal data, you suddenly have to provide very strong privacy guarantees

Blem

GnomeSlice

@Blem wtf

Frank

@JasonBerkan To be fair, DOS was kinda the beginning of actual UI experimentation.

badp

@Blem WHAT IF I THROW IT STRAIGHT DOWN

GnomeSlice

5:41 PM

@badp Then it probably won't go in the trash can

badp

@GnomeSlice tbh if I throw it straight down and miss the bin, I might have bigger problems

Rapitor

@GnomeSlice get that logic out of here, we don't want that

Jason Berkan

@Frank Yup. And 320x200 ain't a lot of pixels.

Batophobia

@Blem I kinda want to see how it would handle confetti

Jason Berkan

Or was XCOM 640 x 480?

Rapitor

5:42 PM

@Batophobia it would probably be the happiest trash can in the world.

badp

@Batophobia probably not at all

what's the point of throwing confetti if you just trash them?!

Wipqozn

@JasonBerkan Yeah...better UI isn't saying much :P

You should check it out if you liked the original though.

Batophobia

@badp Celebrating the success of the moving trashcan

badp

@Batophobia Celebrating success through showcasing its utter failure. Hmmmm

LessPop_MoreFizz

@OrigamiRob RTFM

Origami Robot

5:47 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz NO MANAULS

Powerlord

Yeah, OK, I got that totally wrong.

400x240 is the top screen, 320x240 is the bottom.

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot If you got it from GOG, then there is a manual.

Origami Robot

@Wipqozn I mean I don't read manuals.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Origami than read the LP I linked above. Or just fail repeatedly until you learn. That worked for me.

RPi Awesomeness

1 hour ago, by badp

Room owners can now administer room-specific bans -- please read this first before you do

Yay! More room for Mod abuse!

Frank

5:51 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz The Dwarf Fortress method of playing?

Origami Robot

@LessPop_MoreFizz I don't know how to fail because I don't know what to do.

LessPop_MoreFizz

But yeah, the KODP manual is actually really good and informative.

FAE

@OrigamiRobot Then you really should read the manual. It's pretty good.

Lazers

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Q: Does it count towards an extraction if you miss extraction?

In Mass Effect 3 there are challenges that want you to extract 10 times with a certain character or 15 times on a specific map. If you die (so really die, not just downed and revived) or miss the extraction (by not standing in the blue circle when countdown ends), does it still count towards thes...

mass-effect-3 mass-effect-3-multiplayer

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot oh, okay. Gotcha.

Origami Robot

5:55 PM

@FAE I don't want to read a whole manual, I want to know how to make the game go.

It's telling me to do things and I don't see those things.

badp

Welcome to the 90s

I still remember "modern" games being configured via that blue-on-white configuration tool detecting soundblaster sounds cards and whatnot

Frank

@badp That brings me back to my 486 days.

Jason Berkan

@OrigamiRobot Each year is broken up into seasons, and you can do a couple of things each season. Say, you want to go to War as one of your actions, you click on War, then Raid or Cattle Raid, fill in the data it wants and click the final button.

Frank

Where hardware configuration wasn't a foregone conclusion.

badp

I suppose my first desktop had something better than a 486, but I can't remember what exactly

It was 233 MHz, or 266 MHz. Probably the latter?

That's about all I remember.

Jason Berkan

6:03 PM

Seriously? Kids.

GnomeSlice

Since when can you do timed kicks from SE chat?

badp

@JasonBerkan Yeah...

Jason Berkan

My first desktop was an 8088 clone that you could double the speed to 10Mhz on.

badp

Well I am discounting my Amiga from when I was 3 here

and technically it was totally a desktop

Frank

@JasonBerkan Dude, I have a Trash-80 at home.

Origami Robot

6:04 PM

@JasonBerkan It's telling me I am under attack and to sacrifice a cow and spend a point of magic

Jason Berkan

It actually had a FAST button on it.

badp

but I don't think I'd be able to tell you what Amiga it was.

All I know is it was white, and it had a floppy disk reader on the side, and it ran some Addams game, and the OS disk got unreadable pretty quickly.

Jason Berkan

@OrigamiRobot So sacrifice a cow, spend a point of magic and see how the battle turns out. Or don't put any faith in your gods and see how the battle turns out.

GnomeSlice

80% off Sword of the Stars: Ground Pounders

Jason Berkan

Though the first computer I ever used was an Apple IIc at school. For nostalgia sake, I got a IIe from a school that was closing about 10 years ago.

Plus all the wonderful educational titles - Oregon Trail, Cross Country Canada, Number Munchers.

Pvt. Grichmann

6:12 PM

Huh. Totally missed that one coming out.

Origami Robot

@JasonBerkan I don't see that anywhere.

I have the option to slaughter under farming.

Frank

@LessPop_MoreFizz To be fair, I can totally understand why that's flagged.

Jason Berkan

@OrigamiRobot That sounds like the raid event already took place.

Origami Robot

Then the tutorial is broken?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@frank there's a reason I linked to the SFW mainstream news website...

@origamirob slaughter is a trap/desperation option.

Frank

6:17 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz I have no doubt that you did. But that's not going to stop flaggers.

murgatroid99

@LessPop_MoreFizz You still managed to mention a sex toy company and an emotionally charged tragedy in a single post. That's going to offend some people.

Origami Robot

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm not saying I want to do that, I'm saying I don't see the options to do the things it's telling me to do.

user15026

@SaintWacko That's awesome :)

Martin Sojka

So, the Fine Young Capitalists' women-making-games campaign just reached the $65k goal. With 16 days to spare. Now let's hope my $100 were well invested. :)

Jason Berkan

cc @OrigamiRobot

badp

6:32 PM

@JasonBerkan "Tap"? "Tap?" "TAP???!!??!?"

Origami Robot

@JasonBerkan What screen is this under?

Jason Berkan

@OrigamiRobot It isn't. This is an event. Once you deal with it, it goes away.

Origami Robot

I have that tutorial message, but I am not on that screen.

GnomeSlice

@badp It's on mobile.

Lazers

6:52 PM

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Q: How to bats move?

(The game is Crypt of the Necrodancer, but there isn't a tag for it yet. Can someone please create it and retag this question?) Is there a pattern for which direction a bat enemy will move, and if so what is it? Or is it just a random walk? I've gathered that bats only move during every other b...

dwarf-fortress

StrixVaria

@GnomeSlice SPOILERS

I just started Season 5 and I haven't seen this yet.

GnomeSlice

Good point. I haven't seen it yet either.

@StrixVaria Can you delete it?

StrixVaria

That show is such a clusterfuck.

It's hard to watch.

GnomeSlice

It's so good though

Bad things just continue to happen

Yuuki

@StrixVaria What show?

GnomeSlice

6:58 PM

@Yuuki Breaking Bad

StrixVaria

@Yuuki Breaking Bad.

user15026

@StrixVaria It and Weeds fall under the category of "bad things happen then more bad things and always bad things" and I can't handle it.

StrixVaria

Finally a good thing happened and it was so satisfying and then they ruined it with the dumbest thing in the show yet.

@AshleyNunn I don't remember much about Weeds, but in this one the main characters are also constantly doing irrational stupid shit that endangers everyone.

user15026

@StrixVaria Yep, it's got that too

GnomeSlice

@StrixVaria Lol, I can identify with a certain character

badp

7:04 PM

you know you've had a good round when you manage to use the buff banner twice in the same life

GnomeSlice

store.steampowered.com/app/214190

This looks super fun

also Runers

Cities in Motion games and DLC are on heavy sale

CC @AshleyNunn

Jason Berkan

@AshleyNunn I felt the same way about the Game of Thrones books. The only plot twist the author knows is "bad stuff happens".

user15026

@JasonBerkan Yeah, I never finished those either.

user15026

I get bad crap happens in the world, but I can't handle watching/reading lots of it

user15026

@GnomeSlice Oh that is very tempting

user15026

7:19 PM

Picked up the Cities in Motion 2 bundle

user15026

because that is a lot of stuff for $8

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn Weeds corrupted my mother

Not in the way you'd think, though

user15026

@SaintWacko How so?

SaintWacko

She had me start torrenting the episodes for her :P

Whereas she had always sort of frowned on me torrenting stuff before

user15026

Hahaha nice

Frank

7:21 PM

@AshleyNunn Finished the Dark Serpent!

user15026

@Frank What did you think?

Frank

@AshleyNunn Finally explained some plot points!

user15026

@Frank Yeah, it did clear up some things.

Frank

And the story is moving forward nicely.

badp

@GnomeSlice Y U NO GIVE REAL SCREENSHOTS

GnomeSlice

7:23 PM

@badp ?

badp

I mean the Cities in Motion devs

GnomeSlice

Where?

badp

gamersgate.com/DDB-CIM2C/cities-in-motion-2-collection

They're all pretty images that say absolutely nothing about the game

> Look me! Polygons

> I've got traffic lights! and reflections!

> There is water in this game! Lookie!

GnomeSlice

Oh, I see what you mean now.

Yeah that's kinda dumb

Frank

And finally they figure out what Emma is, and where she's from.

user15026

7:27 PM

@Frank Yeah, I was like "oh good we are starting to get some answers!"

FEichinger

@badp Actually a in-engine screenshot.

badp

@FEichinger yeah, but why strip all the UI out?

... except for the floating numbers

FEichinger

@badp Because the HUD is fugly.

badp

@FEichinger well it's still part of the game and it describes the level of detail of the simulation

FEichinger

@badp I think the game does allow switching the HUD off, except for that.

So that might actually all be in-game screenshots.

Powerlord

7:29 PM

~The Internet is really, really great.~

Lazers

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Q: Cross saving between android and Pc PPSSPP

I'm planing on playing FF Type 0 using my PC and phone, is there any way to transfer the saves and save states? Can it be done automatically using my wifi connection or do I need to hook my phone to the PC every time?

android psp game-saves

GnomeSlice

They could still have shown the UI in a couple of them

badp

Regardless, if your screenshots don't have the HUD on them, they are not real screenshots as far as I'm concerned. The game does have the HUD in it by default, and it's required for playing, after all.

user15026

@Powerlord ....I am singing that in my head now

Powerlord

@AshleyNunn It's such a great song! :D

user15026

7:38 PM

@Powerlord It is! But now it is stuck in my head!

Powerlord

@AshleyNunn ~Everyone's a little bit racist, sometimes....~

Yuuki

@Powerlord ~Everyone's a little bit lacist, sometimes...~

user15026

@Powerlord That whole soundtrack makes me happy.

Powerlord

Also, yay for IE11 not adding rows to this table using JavaScript

Works in IE8, FireFox, Chrome...

FEichinger

@Powerlord Code?

OKAY, PANIC.

7:41 PM

We are looking into the CDN issues now, hang tight.

Tweeted by StackStatus on September 11, 2014 at 7:35 PM

Powerlord

@FEichinger Probably can't tell you 'cause of bacon.

Batophobia

IE is just the worst

Powerlord

OK, one of my coworkers is trying to convince me it's a stylesheet issue.

Batophobia

I had IE messing up server-side code this morning

Powerlord

DUDE, I'm looking at the code in the DOM Explorer now and it's going <tr class="hide expand-child odd" id="managerTskLogTbl_533"></tr>

I can see the <td> elements aren't there

That <tr> has 12 children in Firefox.

(These rows are being dynamically inserted from AJAX returns)

FEichinger

7:47 PM

Could have a variety of reasons.

murgatroid99

@Powerlord If you're adding rows, shouldn't you be adding <tr> elements?

FEichinger

> 'odd' class

wat.

Powerlord

@murgatroid99 The <tr>s are inserted, IE11 just isn't inserting the <td>s inside them for whatever reason.

@FEichinger Zebra striping.

Yuuki

So it turns out I have $10 on my Nintendo account.

I have no clue where it came from.

FEichinger

@Powerlord :nth-child(odd), and say 'Piss off!' to the browsers that don't support it. :P

user15026

7:49 PM

@Yuuki Who knows! Yay money :P

Yuuki

@AshleyNunn Dunno what I can get with $10.

Maybe DLC?

Powerlord

Also, who thought it was a good idea to let both the office manager/receptionist and big boss's executive assistant leave by 4pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays?

GnomeSlice

user15026

Probably some Virtual Console stuff

GnomeSlice

...wtf?

user15026

7:50 PM

It's usually under ten bucks

user15026

@GnomeSlice So you can't cheat.

GnomeSlice

> The proctor will require access to your computer

how about no

user15026

They want to make sure you aren't like using another browser to look up answers or anything like that.

Yuuki

It's probably just some form of Remote Desktop viewing.

GnomeSlice

ugh

Yuuki

7:52 PM

It's not like they're going to go download porn onto your computer while you're taking a test.

This is an online course, right?

If not, you could always petition for a paper exam from your professor.

GnomeSlice

@Yuuki I'm not worried about that, I have lots of porn on my computer already

This is just some dumb certification thing because I'm going to be working in a place that serves alcohol

But this seems kinda fuct if you ask me

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice I was originally going to make a joke about that, but it seemed too mean-spirited.

GnomeSlice

@Yuuki lol

Mad Scientist

@GnomeSlice Boot up a Live CD or something

Yuuki

@Raven Did someone hack your Wii U account? Because I apparently got a message from you three months ago that reads "hug kiss".

GnomeSlice

7:54 PM

@MadScientist A what?

Powerlord

OK, IE11 is even more stupid than I thought. It's DOM Explorer wasn't showing the <td>s but that didn't mean they weren't there... they show up if you View Source.

GnomeSlice

Okay I guess I'm gonna do this dumb shit

FAE

@Yuuki Huh, that's good to know. One of my guildmates also got that from Raven and was really confused.

GnomeSlice

be back later

Mad Scientist

You can boot Linux from CD/DVD/USB-Drive, so you don't need your actual installation and they don't have access to it. Won't work of course if they require Windows

FEichinger

7:55 PM

@Powerlord ... But if you view source ... that shouldn't show JS-generated code ... wat.

Something is borked big time, and that doesn't look like IE's fault.

Powerlord

@FEichinger Shouldn't, but it does in IE11.

Remember, these are inserted by AJAX and I have the source files and know for a fact that the <tbody> of this table is empty in the JSP.

FAE

@Yuuki Or a message similar. Do you have the exact date?

OKAY, PANIC.

We are working with CloudFlare on tracking down the CDN root cause - please let us know your location if you're still seeing issues.

Tweeted by StackStatus on September 11, 2014 at 7:42 PM

We're tracking down the cause of 503's on the CDN. Those with issues please tweet us the colo= line of this page: http://cdn.sstatic.net/cdn-cgi/trace

Tweeted by StackStatus on September 11, 2014 at 7:47 PM

Can users seeing issues loading #stackoverflow please tweet a picture of hitting the CSS url directly? Link here: http://cdn.sstatic.net/stackoverflow/all.css?v=361a6bce68f0

Tweeted by StackStatus on September 11, 2014 at 7:54 PM

Yuuki

@FAE June 20.

It was followed by a message one minute later that reads "ëöä**********".

Lazers

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Q: SR Editor: How to give the actor that "matrix" look without actually jacking into the matrix?

Question: Using Shadowrun returns editor, is there a way to give actors the cool blue "matrix" look without having them be a decker, possess a deck, or actually "jacking in" ? Reason: As part of a story I am building the player character is working as a corporate wageslave who needs to access so...

shadowrun-returns level-creation

FAE

7:59 PM

@Yuuki The one my friend got from Raven said "séxy baby"

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