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Arda Xi

3:02 PM

@RonanForman Kill it with fire!

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Q: Device Age VS Downtime relationship

The Problem: Retailer Y dispose for client operation purpose a network of about 3000 devices. The whole network has 10 different models (from distinct manufacturers), aging from 0 years old (purchased current year) to 12 years old. Each device may suffer from malfunction for which immediate re...

games

Ronan Forman

Can someone change the room info? The awesome meter has stopped flipping about like a headless kitchen.

It's now laying on it's side like a headless kitchen.

badp

@RonanForman It's still flailing around

FallenAngelEyes

Do any of you here have the name "Buckminst" in League of Legends? This person added me as a friend and I'm wondering if it's anyone here.

Ronan Forman

@badp No it's not...

badp

3:12 PM

Yes it is.

Ronan Forman

I wouldn't call that flailing, more.... struggling to hang on.

Arda Xi

@StackExchange This is what's wrong with using games cross-site for this room.

@badp Flailing would imply it also entered the MW3 region, which it does not.

badp

@ArdaXi Does it?

Ronan Forman

@ArdaXi How is about games anyway?

Arda Xi

@badp No.

@RonanForman It's about games in the context of the site. Not in the context of ours.

badp

3:15 PM

I figured it wouldn't.

Lazers

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Q: Sykrim : counter a battlehammer

I'm getting massacred each time I encounter someone with a battle hammer, they almost three shot me :/. What is the best approach to stay alive ?

skyrim skills

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Q: Play New Super Mario Bros Wii with Gamepad?

I'm using Dolphin to play my game (it's legal, the rom is mine, but I both my Wii and Wiimote were broken by... er, an accident). So, now the gamepad is all what I have now. Is there a good key mapping for the gamepad to play New Super Mario Bros Wii?

wii emulation wiimote gamepad

Ronan Forman

@Lazers Another one!

@ArdaXi What context is that?

Arda Xi

@RonanForman Game in the statistical sense.

Probability and the like.

Ronan Forman

Ah Game theory.

Wipqozn

@RonanForman Indeed. The issue there is just poor tagging.

Ronan Forman

3:21 PM

@Wipqozn Can they not change it to game-theory?

Wipqozn

@RonanForman I would assume so.

Arda Xi

Why? In the context of their site, games is a perfectly fine way to tag game theory.

Wipqozn

@ArdaXi Except it's called game-theory not games

Ronan Forman

In that tag there are also questions about foosball.

Arda Xi

@RonanForman What, just so it does not interfere with a feed we have in our room which 99% of the time leads us to questions that are off-topic to us?

Ronan Forman

3:22 PM

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Q: Looking for correct distribution for modelling foosball scoring

I'm, trying to adapt something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_association_football_predictions to 2v2 foosball games at our office. For football, they basically have an offense score and a defense score for each time. The game is a fixed length of time. They then use poisson regre...

games

Arda Xi

@Wipqozn There's a standardized way of tagging it? Do they teach that in the course?

Ronan Forman

That is about games.

Arda Xi

@RonanForman And would that question be of interest to us non-mathematicians?

Wipqozn

Either way, I don't see it as a problem. It's not like we are flooded with a bunch of questions tagged with game that don't relate to gaming.

Ronan Forman

No, but they have a bad tag, as it can be used for 2 different things.

Arda Xi

3:24 PM

@Wipqozn We're not flooded, but it's like someone just comes in here to post off-topic stuff.

Wipqozn

@ArdaXi except that person also posts on-topic stuff.

Ronan Forman

If we had 1 tag referencing to 2 different games would that be all right?

Arda Xi

@ArdaXi And we all know how annoying that can be.

@Wipqozn When?

I've never ever seen it. Maybe one or two questions on Ubuntu.

Wipqozn

@ArdaXi I'm not going to start digging through the chat log and pull out every question that was posted with a game tag

Ronan Forman

yesterday, by Stack Exchange

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Q: Skyrim on parallels

Will I be able to play Skyrim in Parallels? These are my specs: http://cl.ly/0o3l2Z2w2I422k2o101D Bootcamp is a non-starter for me (too lazy). Thanks!

parallels-desktop games

Arda Xi

3:26 PM

Alright, one on Ubuntu, one on Apple.

Wipqozn

@RonanForman Except that is off-topic on our site... it would just be closed

so not a good example

Arda Xi

16 hours ago, by Stack Exchange

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Q: Remove automatic Aero disabling in Windows 7

Sometimes when I'm playing games which are heavy on the GPU, Windows decides to helpfully disable aero, causing everything to freeze for a bit and in the worst case, combined with ATI's brilliant drivers, causes the game to crash. So, How do I stop Windows from automatically disabling Aero when...

windows-7 gaming aero

yesterday, by Stack Exchange

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Q: Adjusting performance by opponent skill level in a simple contest

I've struggled with this question for several months and found this website, which is amazing. Imagine a hypothetical league composed of players competing in a simple contest where the object of each contest is to score more than an opponent. Player strategies are simple, existing on a range fro...

distributions normalization games

2 days ago, by Stack Exchange

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Q: Ubuntu Software Centre that it does not work?

the thing is i want to install sauerbraten from the Ubuntu Software Centre but when i click in install does not install the game and i try restarting ubuntu and install another application and is the same thing please help me i want to install applications from the Ubuntu Software Centre i am a ...

11.10 installation software-center games

Wipqozn

If the majority of questions posted by the feed have no relation to Gaming, then I agree with you @ArdaXi that it should be removed.

Arda Xi

Nov 8 at 14:47, by Stack Exchange

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Q: What is the plural form of "weremoose"?

From The Kingdom of Loathing: The Pretty Good Escape Subject 37, in the Cobb's Knob Menagerie, wants some spit from one of the weremooses on Level 2. He also wants to know the right way to pluralize "weremoose."

games

Ronan Forman

@Wipqozn Should @Gnomeslice leave too then? How dare you!

Arda Xi

3:28 PM

Oct 19 at 10:32, by Stack Exchange

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Q: How do C++ programmers get started with game macros/bots?

I'd like to see C++ in action by macroing trigger actions in closed-source video games. For example, there's a game on every Windows machine called Space Pinball. I would like to macro in some key-bound targeting by figuring out the physics of the ball and the force of the flippers. Another ga...

Convinced yet?

This is awesome

@FallenAngelEyes I strongly it when those type of videos don't contain a link that jumps you past the "making of" section

FallenAngelEyes

@Wipqozn You're missing a verb

And also the point of the video is it's a "making of"

Hence why it's called, y'know, Make A Laser Ball >_>

Wipqozn

@FallenAngelEyes Indeed, but I prefer to see the finished product.

I could just be grumpy though, due to being hungry.

Which reminds me, I think my food is burning.

FallenAngelEyes

It's like a complete instructional video, without the necessity of someone boringly droning about what they're doing. I thought it was pretty awesome.

Wipqozn

3:36 PM

It is. I just like to see the finished product.

I just don't understand why they wouldn't put the aforementioned link. It may be a making of video, but I'm sure it only takes all of 5 seconds to make the link.

oh sure, it may take me the same amount of time to skip past it, but still!

FallenAngelEyes

Probably because it only takes like 5 seconds to click to the end if you're really that disinterested in the process :P

indeed

Ronan Forman

@Wipqozn Should I put a link to the result of our RfW map at the start then?

Wipqozn

@RonanForman If I was making the video, I would.

That's just me though. I clearly lack patience.

Ronan Forman

I liked when he was drilling the holes and it kept on jumping round the ball.

FallenAngelEyes