The Bridge

7:00 PM

"What's that game where you try to save the Earth from Reapers? I think it's a sequel, it came out in like 2012 or something."

Sterno

@IanPugsley I was so tempted to post that.

agent86

some people feel like ITG questions are useful to more than the asker. following from this stance, they believe they should be preserved.

Sterno

But no, really, I'm not trying to just stir the pot here. I'm trying to understand the purpose of updating old ones. Is the idea that we're providing value to some future googler?

Or is it simply so they aren't deleted, with the attendant rep loss?

agent86

@Sterno I'm not sure how rep loss from deletion works currently, but I don't think it's as severe as it was under previous calculation systems

Sterno

If it's the former, than I really feel like we're trying to create a game database, which seems odd. If it's the latter, I guess I understand it from that perspective.

I think I remember reading that after a certain time period, you won't lose rep if it's deleted.

Found it. Needs score 3 or higher, and visible on site for at least 60 days

agent86

7:03 PM

@Sterno it's score +3 or greater, and visible for 60 or more days

Sterno

So if the reason to update ITGs is the to prevent rep loss, you can at least lighten the work load by a lot by cutting out all the ones that wouldn't lose rep anyway

agent86

@Sterno it's the contention of supporters of this plan that ITG questions are found by, and used by, people long after they are asked and answered

Ben Brocka

@agent86 Lilith FTW

Loooooove phasewalk

Try crawmerax with a team, someone needs to be Lilith

agent86

@BenBrocka I had the sniper guy, and my wife was playing the soldier. I know it's possible to win with Lilith, I just never had a lilith powerful enough.

Sterno

@agent86 Okay. Which brings us back to a "game database". Which I can stop arguing about here, I guess.

OrigamiRobot

7:05 PM

@Sterno YOU ARE DEAD. WERE YOU NOT INFORMED?

Sterno

I just wanted to make sure we weren't creating work we had no need to create.

Ben Brocka

Ack, sniper would be terrible against him, too hard to hit between his claws

Sterno

@OrigamiRobot Zombified

Ben Brocka

Anarchy SMGs are where it's at

OrigamiRobot

@Sterno THIS IS ACCEPTABLE TO ME.

agent86

7:06 PM

@Sterno if people asked ITG questions about every game, then yes, we'd eventually end up with a game database. I think with how sparse the ITG question field is, it's unlikely to get to that point.

this is not something I've researched, and not a position I'm prepared to defend, however

Arda Xi

If ITG is eventually allowed, I'll make an alt and write game-rec questions thinly disguised as ITG

Ben Brocka

I'm certain that at this point, more games are released every year than we get ITG questions, so no we'll never have all of them

Unless we start getting exponentially more ITGs, which would be a huge problem

agent86

@BenBrocka there's probably a bias against "mainstream" games in these type of questions as well.

OrigamiRobot

@ArdaXi I will make intentionally misleading ITGs which 100% fit the proposed criteria.

Ben Brocka

I'm sure there's enough indie or mainstream games to surpass the #of ITG we get anyway

I see @OrigamiRobot has been upgraded to a SIR

Sterno

7:09 PM

nvm

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot "It's a game where you have like a crowbar and a bunch of guns and maybe a crossbow and you go around killing aliens and there are really tall aliens with three legs and you have a gun that can pick stuff up. But it's not Half-Life 2. I promise."

Ben Brocka

the 16th

agent86

@Sterno friday, noon central time. it's in the question.

Sterno

Yeah, I just found it and self-edited :P

agent86

that is, unless I go out to lunch that day. in which case you guys will have to wait.

Ullallulloo

7:10 PM

@StrixVaria Closed. Too vague.

StrixVaria

@Ullallulloo Well, closed for not following the template.

Ben Brocka

looks like (finally) a solid victory anyway

OrigamiRobot

I will also claim that I played the game in 2010 no matter when I think the game was released.

StrixVaria

I honestly don't know what our current "criteria" are for ITG anyway since I just VTC and downvote all of them no matter what.

agent86

you guys and the hate. man. I wish I could bottle all the energy you guys use to come up with ways to troll the system and sell it. Or hell, drink it. probably better than caffeine. I'm not a big ITG supporter personally (you might have noticed) but jeez. It's like they kicked your collective puppy and stole your lollipop.

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Sterno

7:12 PM

I have been wondering where my lollipop went.

OrigamiRobot

@agent86 I was built by @Wipqozn. I run off spite. What do you expect?

Ben Brocka

@agent86 If my hate could kill people, Sage Software would be missing some "designers" and "developers" today

agent86

@Sterno you left it in the admiral's lounge. I confiscated it as payment for peanut theft.

Sterno

I think the hate comes from all the extra work and strife ITGs cause, while simultaneously no one can actually articulate the benefits.

Ian Pugsley

@agent86 I feel like if you could bottle up hate, it should definitely not become a beverage

Sterno

7:15 PM

@agent86 Oh, I'll be back. I'll probably get kicked out again, but I'll be back!

StrixVaria

There isn't anything good about ITG.

That about sums it up.

Sterno

@StrixVaria They give us something to nerdrage about.

Ian Pugsley

possibly a biological weapon or useful super-acid, but definitely not a beverage

StrixVaria

I hate things that are completely devoid of good-ness.

OrigamiRobot

@Sterno Also the fact that multiple pro-ITG people have said they wouldn't mind if it was banned, and yet they fight fervently for them to stay.

agent86

7:16 PM

@Sterno yeah, okay, fine. but if there was a little blood pressure monitor attached to people in here when we start talking about this subject, I could watch the mercury rise in it to the point of veins popping out of their necks.

@IanPugsley it would require a certain amount of distillation, to be sure. I think I could maybe extract the energy and refine the negativity out of it somehow.

Sterno

@agent86 Oh yeah? Want to see something cool? Hey everyone! EA rocks! Microsoft rocks too!

Ian Pugsley

@agent86 Distilled hatred sounds like an even worse idea!

This is how 28 Days Later started, isn't it?

Sterno

I really love the Origin service. I feel it has enhanced my gaming experience.

agent86

@IanPugsley haha, you have no faith in my faux-chemistry abilities.

Ian Pugsley

@agent86 next you'll want to create the superflu from The Stand

or start experimenting on how to reanimate dead tissue

OrigamiRobot

7:19 PM

@IanPugsley I don't have time to find the relevant User Friendly strip.

Ronan Forman

@IanPugsley I doubt it could stay in a bottle without dissolving it.

OrigamiRobot

Someone collected all the distilled hatred from Usenet and it became Hastur.

Ben Brocka

@IanPugsley I believe the technical term is Haterade

Tristan

Why is it so unbelievably hard to draw on an iPhone?

Ben Brocka

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StrixVaria

7:20 PM

@Tristan It's easy peasy on my Android phone! You should upgrade.

Ben Brocka

There I drew an iphone :D

Ian Pugsley

@BenBrocka nah, I grew up on haterade - that stuff is delicious

Ben Brocka

Oh, ON an iPhone

That's slightly more complicated

Tristan

@StrixVaria I had an android and it broke... Three times.

Ben Brocka

They do make styluses/styli for capcitive touch screens

RESPAWN

7:21 PM

@Tristan I'm actually on iPhone #3. The first two were already broken straight out of the box.

point is, I'm not sure the iPhone quality is that great either.

Tristan

@RESPAWN Probably not, but I needed a change.

RESPAWN

In truth, it's the apps that get you. I came from a Blackberry to this and... I'd be lost without my iPhone now.

And now that I've bought an iPad, it's just gotten worse.

I hate to admit it, but Apple has slowly gotten their hooks into me. :(

StrixVaria

If this ridiculous Gaming.SE fan fiction contest picks ME3, I'm going to enter despite knowing nothing at all about the universe. I'm going to name my Shepard Jack and have tons allusions to Lost.

Ullallulloo

@RESPAWN But Android has free ones.

Ian Pugsley

@StrixVaria you just made me realize that I don't think there are any fat people in the Mass Effect universe

OrigamiRobot

7:26 PM

@IanPugsley Space dwarves (whatever they're called)

Ian Pugsley

@OrigamiRobot humans (or whatever they're called)

RESPAWN

@IanPugsley You forget about the Volus

OrigamiRobot

@RESPAWN Yea that!

RESPAWN

They're like little walking eggs!

Ian Pugsley

clarification; I don't think there are any fat humans in the ME universe

OrigamiRobot

7:29 PM

@IanPugsley Multiple character models for one race? Ridiculous!

Arda Xi

@RESPAWN I am so, so sorry. Do you think there is any hope for you?

RESPAWN

@ArdaXi Not as long as I keep working at an office that's 50% Mac. :(

Tristan

@StrixVaria Gaming.SE fan fiction? wat

@Tristan the horrors

7:32 PM

5

Q: Interested in a short story contest taking place in games' story lines?

Some of the games we love on the site have such rich stories and well-developed worlds. Many of us spend good times (and sometimes not as good :) traveling, hacking, defeating and dying in these universes... Would YOU want to participate in a writing contest wherein you pen (with quill or typewr...

RESPAWN

@ArdaXi Love it!

Actually, I had to break down and finally order a new Mac for myself on Monday. This one is 7ish years old and is starting to show its age. :(

Ronan Forman

So I've decided I need that headset.

Ian Pugsley

@BenBrocka I'm expecting "Nick Poodoo, Action Scientist" (for those familiar with Anthony Burch)

Ronan Forman

@IanPugsley You still at work?

Ian Pugsley

@RonanForman I get home around 10PM GMT(/whatever new GMT is)

Tristan

7:37 PM

@RonanForman The headset from the contest? I feel the same about the messenger bag and Xbox.... lol

Ian Pugsley

and on Wednesdays, more like 1AM GMT (comic book day, usually get dinner afterwards)

Ronan Forman

@Tristan Considering my recent work, they should just give me one.

Tristan

@RonanForman If my Xbox breaks, I'll no longer be able to provide valuable input for the site. =P

Lazers

0

Q: What dose the blue cross signify?

I'm feeling a bit silly for asking because I'm pretty sure the answer is very simple, but what dose the blue cross next to credits signify on the Mission Computer screen (in game menu screen)?

mass-effect-3

agent86

@RonanForman considering how awesome I am, they should just give me one of everything.

actually, how about two. one doesn't seem quite enough of a celebration of my awesomeness.

Ronan Forman

7:42 PM

@agent86 I'd totally agree if you'd give me on of the headsets.

OrigamiRobot

@agent86 SIR, DO YOU WANT TWO OF EVERYTHING?

Tristan

@agent86 You're already getting the TV, I'm sure. But if you'd rather take the Xbox and donate it to the "Tristan Needs a New Xbox Foundation"...

Ian Pugsley

@agent86 I will take one StackExchange please

agent86

@OrigamiRobot yes, now go!

@RonanForman done.

Ben Brocka

oh hey, the fanfic thing is real

I'm so serving up some ShepardxLegion slashfic action

agent86

7:44 PM

@IanPugsley I have this shiny new +1 internets for you, sir

OrigamiRobot

@agent86 I NEED YOUR ADDRESS.

agent86

@OrigamiRobot hah, nice try assassin-bot.

Tristan

Something tells me my foundation isn't going to get many backers. lol

Ian Pugsley

@agent86 I've already got one - is this one any better?

@Tristan I'll sign a petition but I'm a bit hard up on Xboxen at the moment

agent86

@Tristan yeah, you should set up a DBA as a children's hospital, and then register for child's play

Ian Pugsley

7:47 PM

@agent86 you're a monster for even thinking of that

Tristan

@agent86 Hmm.. That IS a good charity. Though, I could've just bought a new Xbox with all the money I've donated through Child's Play.

OrigamiRobot

@agent86 SIR, WHERE SHOULD I SEND YOUR REQUEST?

Ian Pugsley

also, holy carp I just found out Aesop Rock is doing an album with Kimya Dawson (artist name is Uncluded)

Ben Brocka

include stdio
unclude unstdio

Ian Pugsley

@BenBrocka I can't imagine that'd be the source of that, but then again, who knows

Ben Brocka

7:52 PM

5

A: What does the blue cross signify?

It's your current amount of Medi-gel

People need to start asking more painfully easy questions so I can get my last +5 posts...

RESPAWN

Apparently I need to stop doing work so I can answer more painfully easy questions...

Ronan Forman

Okay so I'm playing mass effect alone now, you can watch if you like: justin.tv/stackgaming

Blem

@BenBrocka Don't worry, i got some more lined up ^^

Ronan Forman

And if you can join me in mumble!

Ben Brocka

@RonanForman you're using mumble instead of skype then?

Ronan Forman

7:55 PM

Yeah, less lag.

Blem

the sound is pretty bad on justin atm

Sterno

@BenBrocka I think you're going to beat me to Admiral. I've run out of steam.

agent86

@Sterno WHAT?

Tim Stone

@Sterno ON YOUR FEET, SOLDIER.

agent86

this is unacceptable. you get back out there and you answer some questions maggot!

OrigamiRobot

8:05 PM

@agent86 YOU ARE THE ONE WHO HAD HIM EXECUTED, SIR

agent86

@OrigamiRobot oh right. that. MAN WHEN ARE YOU GUYS GOING TO STOP BLAMING ME FOR ASSASSINATIONS I ORDER??

Sterno

I just went through the unanswered list and didn't see any I could answer (without Science!, which I'm unable to perform ATM). I also didn't see a way to improve my +4s.

Oh bloom, why is there no way to disable you?

And, yes, zombies are slow.

Lazers

0

Q: What is a tech burst and how do you do it in ME3?

This is probably a silly question but I can't figure this out. I play as an infiltrator, a tech class, and sometimes will kill an enemy with a tech burst. It generally happens in the heat of battle when I not focusing on every single action my team and me do. What is a tech burst and how do I p...

mass-effect-3

0

Q: How to remove Swarmers from you in ME3

How do you remove swarmers that are already attached to you? They remind me of the Dead Space swarmers. Unlike the Dead Space variety, there isn't a clear visual indicator or action on how to stop them from attacking you.

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