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12:00 AM
EO3 is awesome, because not only can I have Ninjas, Pirates, and Robots all on the same team? But I can have Robot Ninjas, Robot Pirates, and Ninja Pirates.
Putting aside, of course, the fact that my favourite classes are actually none of those 3.
 
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A: How can I tell which layers there are in an in-progress fortress in Dwarf Fortress?

tzenesOk, I'm going to give you a crash course in Geology. In traditional Geology there are three kinds of Rock: Sedimentary, Metamorphic and Igneous (actually that's an over simplification, but pretend its true). Dwarf Fortress is modeled on this system but it further breaks Igneous down into Igneou...

Geology, not Geography
whoops.
 
12:11 AM
@Grace indeed, still awesome.
@mana thanks! I haven't yet played DF, but the questions are always so entertaining.
:9916 That answer is just amazing.
 
And my party hasn't camped or slept for 4 days!
 
 
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1:29 AM
Sweet, just got my Fanatic badge on Meta. :D
 
2:00 AM
@ Kevin Which one is that again?
 
:9916 Good god, that just blew my mind. And to think I thought Dwarf Fortress was complex when I played it a couple years ago...
 
:9934 100 days
 
2:19 AM
how does a question like this stay open? gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/8933/…
 
:9937 Not enough anti-rec who are motivated to close it.
 
its so bad
even the pro-rec argument fails because of the shear volume of answers
it has both one game per answer as well as multi game answers
 
"Too broad" is a faulty logic that doesn't really make sense in a Q&A site, anyway.
 
I've fought that battle before
 
Isn't it counterintuitive to only allow questions which stand the least chance of getting answered?
 
2:23 AM
there is no real reason they choose that, the just do
or, why does: on Mac suddenly deserve to be an question but on PC doesn't because there are more answers
 
I have to wonder how many times I've pointed out the faults in that one
 
I can't help but some how blame Jeff for all this
if he hadn't said that procedural question was a good one...
 
If we recall a discussion from our private beta, wherein we were concerned about the relatively poor answer rate, it was pointed out that Gaming has a specific issue wherein even the most well-rounded of experts can be completely lost on a question which otherwise should be in their domain, by the simple fact of not having played that specific game.
Let us then conjecture an "acceptable" game-rec on the "too broad" scale as one which only has 10 or less possible answers.
It is exponentially more difficult for this to ever get an answer because you need the people on the site (not that many) to find that question (good luck on that) after having played one of 10 specific games (especially fun if you think about the vastness of the niche/import market)
 
I don't think such a question is likely to be asked. To get below 21 answers I think you need to be so specific as to almost describe a single game
 
Ah, but here's the even more fun part - you can't just provide one of the 10-20 fitting games. You gotta try and find the one the author would actually want to play!
The more fun questions are the ones that ask for something and then explicitly exclude a large quantity of the qualifying games. For example, the one about character choice affecting hitboxes that excluded the genre which makes the most use of this technique.
...whoa, Moderator Elections are on November 5th?
 
2:32 AM
?
 
is there anyway to see who set an event?
 
I can... delete an event! But it doesn't look easy to see who scheduled it
 
I don't know why but for some reason I'm owner of this room
maybe badp gave that to me
 
Only Bad Dood or a diamond can add you in there. So probably badp.
 
2:38 AM
ooo, I can ignore people
there are some good features in here
recent replies
interesting
I should really spend some time playing with chat
 
I wish I had the time to spend on that
 
given how much time I spend in here you'd think I would have
 
Alas, the siren's call of the bed is sounded~
 
night grace
 
Jin
3:23 AM
i just learned about ustream.tv/day9tv do any of you guys watch it?
 
@jin yes I do
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A: Great ways to learn StarCraft II?

tzenesI learned large portions of my knowledge by watching the Day9 Dailies. I believe he not only offers a steady supply of high level play and in depth analysis, but he also highlights issues that newer players often have. As a starter I'd suggest the following: Idra's solid ZvP opening Brat_OK's...

 
Jin
I've been playing these SC casts in the background while I work at night. it's pretty relaxing. I get my SC fix that way..
is it just me or he says "LADIES 'N GENTLEMEN" a lot? :)
 
every episode
you should watch #100
also try to find his 3 masturbation stories
they're great
 
Jin
lol. just found out about day9tv tonight. i've been watching youtube.com/user/HDstarcraft and youtube.com/user/HuskyStarcraft
 
hi @tzenes and @Jin
 
Jin
3:38 AM
hi @ivo
 
I wish that guy would join our site too
btw nice work on the new designs @Jin
 
Jin
@Ivo thanks! it's been busy for me...
 
I can imagine, I've been busy taking pictures and driving over 3000 miles
 
hi @ivo
 
How you doin'?
 
Jin
3:50 AM
@ivo those are nice photos.
 
Thanks, though off course this is just a small selection
So the ugly pics didnt make the cut
 
4:07 AM
Alcatraz pics incoming soon and probably me in a SU shirt over at Jeffs place
 
Mag Roader
Hooray! I got the fanatic badge! I can finally rest.
 
4:55 AM
:9889 so I'm still #2? :D
no, wait, I'm number #1. For shame!
:9904 what about CW questions with many answers? :)
:9956 launch + 30 days
:9959 I made it
:9955 hey, since when was this site about easy questions...
:10000 grats on the 10th message :)... fail.
*10,000th
 
 
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7:42 AM
Damn.
 
 
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1:19 PM
Community wiki is now basically mod only
what's that going to do to the game-rec's you do allow?
 
as I've reported already, check the sidebar :)
:10031 Under my model of a link per answer, everything's fine
 
Awful lot of rep going to be generated from that ...
 
Why do you think so?
Linking to a list isn't as "exciting" as linking to the game
 
Oh, you mean linking to a list of games, nvm
 
You aren't going to say "woo portal!" when looking at a link to gamasutra...
 
1:29 PM
Good afternoon all
 
anyway, @CRoss we're trying to get the point across here:
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A: Questions every good C/C++ Developer should be able to answer?

PaulA bit meta, but I think still worthwhile: "What are the questions every good C/C++ Developer should be able to answer?" :) I'm serious - a good developer should be able to suggest these.

 
hmmm, indeed
 
Oh wow @ CW change :o
also yay Fanatic badge \o/
 
 
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2:35 PM
AGGGGH
I slept through 2-hour Calculus lecture again :/
oh well it's just our teacher writing out proofs from the book
no big deal
 
 
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4:25 PM
I keep going to edit/close-vote/etc. questions I see in chat, only to realize that they're not from Gaming...
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:10033 The problem is getting people to adopt this model
 
:10055 Makes you appreciate the high standards we have here, huh? :P
 
100 ballpoint GOT!
 
:10056 Let's try and see how much influence does the asker have then
 
@Badp I think its a good model, but changing human behavior is tough
people tend to like one game per answer
 
4:30 PM
I now just need one very generic game-rec
 
:10063 first person shooter.
 
we could conspire to create one
Create a question which we prefabricate the list for
 
here's a real game-rec question I will ask here, though.
Is there anything for the PC like Yuusha 30?
I like the concept.
 
maybe be more specific on what you like
is it the 30 seconds? the rushed leveling?
 
both, actually.
 
4:33 PM
ok, that works
 
They're unique enough, aren't they?
 
very much so, I just think you should be explicit about them
making a question look good is also important
 
err
 
I've got to go to work
 
later
 
4:36 PM
but I think you should come up with a good question, and have someone come up with the answer
that way we can lead by example
 
half minute hero huh.... who came up with the battle system?
 
I'd link to the Yuusha 300 gameplay, which is in English and gives a nice feeling to the game
but that'd be spoiling it.
 
3 second mode is crazy...
 
what's awesome is you have time to grind!
this one is in english
 
4:52 PM
first he skips a town, then he needs to try trice bebore his time is replenished.
 
:10093 That's because he got two extra random encounters.
 
trailer:
also: WTF! multiplayer support!
 
I dislike the trailer
the game is awesome for its pixelated feel
well, for that too.
 
currently pixelated can mean two things: high quality or utter crap, there is nothing in between anymore. this is a case of high quality.
 
5:28 PM
'noon gents
Feel free to take note of the pinned items in the sidebar :)
 
5:56 PM
@badp Thanks. Those are useful.
 
 
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7:06 PM
NO!
STUPID WINDOWS!
BAD WINDOWS!
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NO DINNER FOR YOU TONIGHT!
I SHALL REBOOT WHEN I WANT TO REBOOT!
DO NOT ASK ME 10 MINUTES INTO A PURSUIT --JUST DON'T ASK ME AT ALL.
 
7:51 PM
Hmm, does anyone know what the requirements for a Beta badge were? I can't find it on the webs anywhere.
I thought it was >0 question and >0 answer like the trilogy betas, but apparently that wasn't enough.
 
:10113 BUT BADP! TEH SPYWARES WILL GET YOU! AND VIRUSES! AND INTERNET GREMLINS!
:10113 Surely the user cannot be expected to have any responsibility for their own security
@Brant Some speculative info here:
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Q: Are we going to get the beta badge for participating in the private beta of Gaming?

ArtemisDo we get the beta badge or is that for Stack Overflow alone?

 
Hmm.
 
:10122 I know, not that helpful, but it was all I could find
 
8:20 PM
:10125 I could have sworn there was a question like that already. I was just playing around with boosters last night.
 
8:31 PM
Evening all
 
howdy
 
How do we handle questions like the most recent, that ask about stuff that goes against the TOS of the game?
I used to play Ikariam, they do not allow botting in the TOS and you can get banned for it.
 
hum
I was wondering about that one myself.
 
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Q: How to handle questions which may require a seedy answer?

RobbIn regards to this question, I am not sure but I feel the answer requires a 'hack' of some sort. At least something that would violate a ToS. That fact that nobody has answered it makes me think it is not something easily done or intended and would cause a violation. In handling questions like...

 
Ah thanks, I thought we'd discussed that somewhere
I'll leave the quote from the TOS I found as an answer then.
 
8:34 PM
:10139 Sounds like the way to go
 
hmm, unicode arrows look lousy at small sizes.
 
8:57 PM
All these Civ 5 questions like "how do I do X (that I could do in Civ 4)" are kind of depressing. Two steps forward and one step back...
or rather, the depressing part is that in most cases, the answer is "you can't do that anymore"
 
Yeah, I'm glad I [use a mac|can't run civ5|got addicted to minecraft instead] (pick one).
Civ4 was plenty enough awesome for me.
 
I still need to check out Fall From Heaven 2 for Civ 4. I have heard many good things.
 
9:30 PM
Yeah, I always think of that after I'm done talking about it
 
Happy, @FallenAngelEyes?
 
now it looks like nothing gets done here!
 
:10190 You say that like it's just an appearance. As thought something does get done here.
 
:10192 As if exchange of ideas was worthless.
 
9:39 PM
@Brant but Civ 5 has a hex grid! It fixes everything!
 
Civ 6 will come with hectagrids. It'll be extra cool, because it's, like, hecta.
 
I only play strategy games where the grid tiles have a number of sides that is prime.
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It's hard to tessellate those :(
 
triangles aren't hard to tessellate at all.
 
Somehow I only started at pentagons in my head and moved up
 
9:43 PM
You can tesselate triangles into groups of hectagons for example.
and if I'm not making an off-by-one error, the area between four regular hectagons should be an hectagon still...
 
a hectagon has 7 sides, right?
 
100 sides.
The 7 sided one is the heptagon.
 
i made an off-by-one error there
just with letters
 
yeah, understandable.
 
now i see what you're saying
it wouldn't be a regular hectagon, but still a hectagon
 
9:46 PM
hrmm, not sure.
 
the things one talks about in the dying minutes of work...
 
Won't test with 14 and 16. Powerpoint only goes up to 12. Sue me.
 
It's tough because sometimes they intersect at a vertex and other times at an edge
if you had them all intersect at vertices i think you could make it have the same number of edges on the inner shape
 
10:25 PM
@Gaming: Off-topic? Sounds more game-dev
 
10:39 PM
:10226 deleted
 
:10225 "how do I make an auto-clicker"
 
Oh, ha, I didn't realize that was the same guy who asked about Ikariam.
 
11:24 PM
grumble grumble
 
:10233 Oh snap I actually own that game
3
 
:10234 That needs to be highlighted for posterity. We may have to bring it up during mod voting. :P
 
hi everyone
 
I think I had that game too
Heya @Ivo, back from the US or still there?
 
11:39 PM
still there @FallenAngelEyes
 
`Hey, @Will, @Ivo, @Fall !
 
hiya Grace
How's your vacation going?
 
currently in Monterey (near Pebble Beach)
great
 
glad to hear :)
 
Haha, finally! Reputation! It's been so long!
 
11:41 PM
and I visited Jeff to pick up: amazon.com/…
 
:10247 Neat!
 
o.O the hell
Customers buy this item with Robin Hood: Unrated Director's Cut (Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy)
 
how's that for being a dedicated stackexchange user
SU t-shirt, eating waffles with Jeff Atwood ;)
 
Are those blueberries?
It sort of looks like something defecated on your breakfast
 
blueberries yes
or somebody took a crack on it
this is how nice it is @FallenAngelEyes: picasaweb.google.com/ivoflipse/…
 
11:57 PM
picasaweb.google.com/ivoflipse/… This is nice, where's this one?
Prairie dog!
 
That's Vegas baby!
 
Nice
Lotta great landscapes
picasaweb.google.com/ivoflipse/… I really like that one a lot
 
we don't like pics of ourselves
 

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