The Bridge

FAE

10:00 PM

@Fluttershy It is Jin!

Oak

@FAE I used to have long hair. And then the woman came along and away it went

Blem

Error 37!

Jin

@Fluttershy no it's a demi-god

Fluttershy

@FAE I'm too lazy to fix "person", but I meant to ask if it was Jin. >.>

FAE

@Oak 2 of my boyfriends have cut their hair short even though it makes me sad :(

agent86

10:01 PM

argh, I want to be playing the diabloz now. nobody talk about the game until I can play it.

Oak

Error 37!

agent86

let's talk about something else that does not involve any awesome games.

Fluttershy

@agent86 Diablo 3, Diablo 3, Diablo 3, Diablo 3, Diablo 3?

Mana

@agent86 Superman 64?

agent86

@Oak NOT ERROR 37?!?

@Fluttershy Diablo 3? diablo 3 diablo diablo 3 diablo 3.

@Mana this is acceptably non-awesome

Fluttershy

10:02 PM

@agent86 Indeediablo3.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Jin Goddamnit, you mentioned bacon and now I'm watching Twin Peaks clips.

DAMN YOU.

@Fluttershy Diablo 4!

Mana

@agent86 although to be fair, the amount of fame and notoriety surrounding the game is pretty awesome. We actually have to discuss something so mediocre it's completely forgettable

Jin

Diablo MMO

I almost bought tera, then i found out it's PC only..

Blem

ERROR 75!

FAE

@Jin repost your bacon hugging picture so @Fluttershy can see it

Mana

10:03 PM

So, uh, Jin.

Did you have a fun day?

Fluttershy

@Oak Mine was: I used to have long hair. And then the army came along and away it went.

Mana

Everything going well?

Blem

There is a temporary outage of the Battle.net service. Please try again later.

Oak

@Fluttershy that's why I grew my hair after the service, not before it

@Blem same here

Fluttershy

@Oak You were in the service? O.o

badp

10:04 PM

@Fluttershy I don't think it's optional over there

Oak

@Fluttershy I'm a staff sergeant

Fluttershy

@badp It would help if I knew where @Oak was from...

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Fluttershy Israel has conscription. :P

Oak

Yep :)

Raven Dreamer

Is anyone else having trouble connecting to Battle.net patching (i.e., to download diablo?)

Blem

10:06 PM

getting error 37 :/

Fluttershy

@LessPop_MoreFizz Oh yeah. They do... Which is why some of the most attractive military women are in the Israeli army. I apologize if that is disrespectful @Oak. But... I met some in Iraq. >.>

LessPop_MoreFizz

►

Jin

@FAE hmm i don't think i can find it anymore

LessPop_MoreFizz

Korea.jpg

badp

Apr 23 at 0:05, by Jin

(jin fail)

Jin

10:07 PM

@badp oh that one... i thought she wanted the animated version..

badp

is... is there an animated version?

dammit boys.

FAE

@badp I... was unaware of that

Roflcoptr

Oh

Diablo3 servers are busy :(

Fluttershy

1

Q: Does having extra horses in your inventory speed up your party?

Just what the title says. Does having unused extra horses in your inventory make your party travel faster?

duuuuuupe

James

@badp Is that the bacon jin will cut us with if we steal his lootz that only HE can see? :)

badp

10:10 PM

Rumor is that Blizzard might push Diablo 3's release to next week as to not compete with Serious Sam HD: Legend of the Beast DLC tomorrow...

Tweeted by ForkParker on May 14, 2012 at 4:28 PM

wait wut

Oak

@Fluttershy which country did you serve?

Jin

2

badp

Serious Sam DLC? Fuck Diablo

FAE

@Jin OMG XD

Fluttershy

@Oak The US of A...

Oak

10:10 PM

@Fluttershy oh so a real military, not like ours :)

Roflcoptr

stupid blizzard... they should have been prepared

Jin

hmm that bacon looks phallic.

Fluttershy

@Oak I wouldn't go that far. The US Army is a joke. <.< I got paid taxpayer money to go to work at 6:30, go home at 6:45, and play video games until I had to go back in at 4 to get off 'work'...

Oak

@Fluttershy ok wow that's quite a job you landed

FAE

WHAT THE HELL, KODAK. Kodak kept 3.5lbs of enriched Uranium in a basement in Rochester and didn't tell anyone.

Fluttershy

10:12 PM

Also... Guess I have to run the disk checker tonight since I still can't verify Super MNC's game cache..

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FAE Yeah, that sounds like something a company in Rochester would do.

Fluttershy

@Oak We just never had anything to do. When I was in Iraq I actually did something. When I was stateside, I did nothing.

FAE

My dad worked there for a while... my grandfather did business with them as well.

fbueckert

I have broken down and bought D3.

FAE

@LessPop_MoreFizz Just WTF.

LessPop_MoreFizz

10:13 PM

@FAE I mean, really, was their commitment (along with Xerox, to be fair) to turning the city into a post-apocalyptic wasteland somehow not obvious to you?

It says something that Rochester is basically ground zero for modern day lead poisoning pandemics in poor communities.

badp

@LessPop_MoreFizz Think of all the photos!

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp And all the pent up demand for hastily photocopied bibles!

FAE

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yyyyyyyyyeah. Just... wow.

Oak

Still can't play. Come on Blizzard, you knew how many people were going to try and connect at the same time...

Roflcoptr

@Oak do you have the same problem as me

stupid blizzard

Blem

10:15 PM

lol one of the biggest ISP in Denmark decided that tonight was a good night to upgrade some of the hardware

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Oak Now now, give the hamsters a few minutes to get up to speed.

Blem

but due to D3 being released they moved the upgrade from 01:00 to 03:00

Oak

@Roflcoptr either error 37 or 75

Roflcoptr

@Oak me too

I wonder how many thousands of people are trying to connect at the moment

@Blem good idea

Here at the university no one is going to work tomorrow

Oak

@LessPop_MoreFizz I know I know, and I wouldn't care if it was a sudden thing, but I mean - they knew more or less how many people pre-purchased, right

Mana

10:17 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz oh my god she's beautiful.

Roflcoptr

i assume 80% are playing D3

Mana

What the heck is Twin Peaks?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Mana ... Do you not know Twin Peaks?

Mana

I do not know Twin Peaks.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Do you have Netflix?

Mana

10:18 PM

No.

FAE

@LessPop_MoreFizz Netflix Canada's selection kind of sucks

Raven Dreamer

Well, I'm back to downloading D3 again

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FAE Pretty sure even Canadian Netflix has Twin peaks.

badp

@Roflcoptr I think 80% are staring angrily at D3

LessPop_MoreFizz

Anyway, Twin Peaks is basically the greatest and most Revolutionary TV show ever to air before The Wire.

Raven Dreamer

10:19 PM

Dunno why my dongle wigged out.

badp

I'm the 20%

Mana

@RavenDreamer maybe you should stop playing with it.

Roflcoptr

@badp yes probably :D

LessPop_MoreFizz

@RavenDreamer Maybe if you stop wiggling your dongle, it won't wiggle out so much.

badp

but I am the 20%!

Mana

10:20 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz oh damn it Keith.

always one-upping me.

so I'm bored.

Always.

@Mana Always.

@FAE Haha, Neat article :)

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Mana Anyway, basically, Twin Peaks is the story of this really fucked up kind of creepy town where a woman was murdered and an FBI dude comes to town to investigate.

And everybody is weird. And creepy.

Mana

10:21 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz neat. I just watched a 7-minute summary of the entire series, but it was confusing and barely explained anything at all.

StrixVaria

> the initial rush caused something to melt on the initial login/authentication service

Bashiok talking about the EU launch.

Mana

that's probably because the series is confusing.

Roflcoptr

us.battle.net/d3/en/status

all servers down

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Mana Are you familiar with any of David Lynch's other work?

Blue Velvet perhaps?

Mana

@LessPop_MoreFizz oh dear god, it's by David Lynch?

StrixVaria

10:22 PM

@Roflcoptr Whoa that's useful.

Mana

this explains everything.

Roflcoptr

yes

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Mana Yes. This was the TV show he made.

Roflcoptr

I think i can go to sleep :D

Mana

I knew it was reminiscent of a certain something, but I couldn't put my finger on it.

FAE

10:22 PM

I've only ever heard of Twin Peaks, never seen it

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FAE You should watch it.

It is easy to find on The Internet now.

There are only 30 episodes.

and it is SO GOD DAMNED GOOD.

FAE

@LessPop_MoreFizz Aaaaagh, people keep recommending tv to me to watch

Raven Dreamer

@LessPop_MoreFizz I am not wiggling, I'm wigging.

FAE

Ah, 30 isn't bad at least.

LessPop_MoreFizz

And now, apropos of nothing, here is a dachshund wearing chain mail:

3

Raven Dreamer

10:23 PM

@FAE I know it from a Weird Al song...

FAE

@LessPop_MoreFizz awwww

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FAE yeah, just two seasons.

Raven Dreamer

holy crpa, how is it 6:30 already?

Wipqozn

@RavenDreamer It's 7:30, not 6:30. What crazy upside backwards land are you living in?

badp

it's 0:25 and if you don't agree I keeel you

StrixVaria

10:25 PM

@Wipqozn You are the only person on the planet in that wonky timezone.

Raven Dreamer

@Wipqozn Daylight Savingston.

James

Its 3:25.. and Ill stabby stabby you first @badp :D

FAE

@StrixVaria I have a friend in Argentina who's in the same one I believe!

StrixVaria

@RavenDreamer Wipqozn is further east than we are, so he's actually one time zone over. It's crazy.

user15026

@wipqozn no he lives in a land that makes sense because it is 6:30 at my.house too.

badp

10:26 PM

@James I KEEEEEEEEEEEL YOU

Raven Dreamer

Of course, given that my PC isn't even topping out at more than a kilobyte per second, I think I've got other problems.

James

ROFL

Wipqozn

@badp OH MY ZEUS A MOD IS THREATENING A USER! CALL THE MOD POLICE!!!111ONEONE11!

Lazers

0

Q: Is there a way to prevent Lords from escaping?

I have a quest to capture a Lord from a certain faction, but they keep escaping after I have taken down their armies. Is there a way to prevent this from happening? Or at least increase the chance that I will be able to capture them?

mount-and-blade mount-and-blade-warband

0

Q: Whats a good number of villagers to aim for having in Age of Empires 3?

When playing both Campain and Skirmish, the Computer(s) always seem to have at least 10 villagers on food garthering alone, and they always seem to have lot more doing just about everything. I tend to have a small number, maybe 10 total, and often find im running low on resource until i get abou...

pc age-of-empires-3

James

Why did my webbie just refresh to the channel list page? :)

fbueckert

10:26 PM

For anyone willing to waste ten minutes (and get that much closer to D3 launch), here's the first epsiode of VGHS

Nils Munch

Hi all :)

badp

@James what are you using to browse the internet? is that like something running on a BBC computer or something?

James

Ello @NilsMunch

Nils Munch

anyone besides me having difficulty connecting to Diablo3 ? :P should be live now (in europe)

LessPop_MoreFizz

All of you need to just chill out and remember that @Wipqozn comes from the future. Our primitive ways are weird and scary to him, just as his strange technology and indecipherable motives are terrifying to us. But with trust and perseverance, I am sure we can work together to send him back to his own time.

Roflcoptr

10:27 PM

@NilsMunch me too

James

@badp Just chrome... Was oddness that it coincided with you Keeling me :)

Wipqozn

@LessPop_MoreFizz Finally, someone that understands!

badp

@James yeah, sometimes it happens. It's random, like in three seconds from now.

LessPop_MoreFizz

And the sooner it happens the better, because honestly, that guy is a jerk.

James

@badp Stop that :P

badp

10:28 PM

YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN THAT.

Wipqozn

@NilsMunch I don't think it goes live when it hits midnight your time zone. I think it goes live when it hits midnight some specific time zone.

James

I was typing then back typing, my browser was so confused!!

Wipqozn

I'm just making wild assumptions mind you.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp TIDES GO IN. TIDES COME OUT.

James

Ugh.. Please dont mess up chat! :(

Nils Munch

10:28 PM

according to the site, it should go live at midnight, central european time

James

clings-to-his-working-chat

badp

@NilsMunch that's 29 minutes ago

Nils Munch

yep

but been unable to connect

Roflcoptr

In Europe it's live since 29 minute

StrixVaria

@NilsMunch us.battle.net/d3/en/status

James

10:29 PM

@NilsMunch People have been posting error codes 55 and 75 or 35?? I dont remember what, since it started

Nils Munch

three Terms of agreements appeared, and I thought yeah baby

badp

yeah, the joys of early adopters. I'll just wait til it drops to €5 in 2069 or something

Nils Munch

but nothing happened afterwards

aha

they're just making sure the chineese gold farmers are there from the beginning ;) well played blizz

Roflcoptr

Probably

I'm still getting 075 errors

badp

Hey @BlizzardCS, could you push the D3 release back a few weeks? I'm really busy with work. :(

Tweeted by brantb on May 14, 2012 at 8:56 PM

poor Brant :(

LessPop_MoreFizz

10:32 PM

@Mana Here, have a montage of all the times people have talked about Coffee on Twin Peaks because they do that a lot and it's kind of awesome in that Lynchian, idiosyncratic kind of way:

►

Fluttershy

1

Q: Does having extra horses in your inventory speed up your party?

Just what the title says. Does having unused extra horses in your inventory make your party travel faster?

mount-and-blade mount-and-blade-warband

Duplicate!

Nils Munch

yeah, server is down... sitting here at a huge release event, and we feel a little silly :P

all preordered collectors editions

FAE

@NilsMunch That's hilarioius

Nils Munch

like the good lil' boys we are

and agreed that tonight we would game in HELL!

the best suggestion so far has been "Fuck this shit, lets just play Diablo2... At least thats up"

Mana

@LessPop_MoreFizz what the hell is going on in that last scene. oh David Lynch.

Nils Munch

10:35 PM

rage comic flip table guy

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Mana thats The Man From Another Place.

Roflcoptr

I hope people are going to sleep now so that I can start gaming :D

LessPop_MoreFizz

> The strange cadence of the Man’s dialogue was achieved by having Anderson speak into a recorder. This was then played in reverse, and Anderson was directed to repeat the reversed original. This “reverse-speak” was then reversed again in editing to bring it back to the normal direction. This created the strange rhythm and accentuation that set Cooper’s dream world apart from the real world.

> Anderson recalls that his reverse-speak was not difficult to master as, coincidentally, he had used it as a secret language with his junior high school friends. Series creator David Lynch was unaware of this when he cast Anderson in the part, and had hired a trainer to help Anderson with enunciation. When he found out Anderson could already talk backwards, he cancelled the trainer and wrote more difficult lines of dialogue for Anderson to read.

ahahahahaha

That's so very Lynch

@Mana Also, if you haven't realized it yet, Deadly Premonition is a total Twin Peaks rip.

Mana

@LessPop_MoreFizz !!! I loved Deadly Premonition!

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Mana I know, you'd mentioned that.

Do you not see, even from these scattered clips, the obvious similarities in atmosphere and character?

Not to mention plot, and strange obsessions with coffee - Black as midnight on a moonless night.

Here, have another Man From Another Place scene: youtube.com/watch?v=XjeRCsoufII

Mana

10:41 PM

That's true.

fbueckert

Anyone have recommendations on sci-fi shows to watch?

Oak

@fbueckert Firefly!

FAE

@Oak I didn't actually see that til... 2010 I think it was.

Fluttershy

@fbueckert It most definitely has to be Firefly.

fbueckert

@Oak Seen that.

Obviously. :P

FAE

10:46 PM

I saw Serenity before Firefly

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fbueckert How much of a time commitment are you looking for?

Also, as I've been suggesting to @Mana, you should watch Twin Peaks. It's not sci-fi, but it's super god damned weird.

fbueckert

@LessPop_MoreFizz Preferably the longer, the better.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fbueckert Hmm. Babylon 5?

fbueckert

My roommate and I devour shows at a prodigious pace.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Already in the mix.

StrixVaria

Good thing I pre-loaded this installer so that it could fail and I could re-download the whole 8GB again.

FAE

10:47 PM

@fbueckert Battlestar Galactica?

fbueckert

@FAE Wasn't a fan. Too much political angst, and not enough shooty stuff.

Fluttershy

@FAE Blasphemy.

StrixVaria

@fbueckert Stargate.

I've never watched it, but it's long and I've heard good things.

fbueckert

@StrixVaria Seen it

ALL of it.

FAE

@Fluttershy I hadn't seen the series yet and Jochem insisted on going to it in theatres so I went along.

Needless to say, certain moments did not have the same emotional impact as when you actually know who the hell the characters are.

Fluttershy

10:48 PM

@FAE I guess that's... somewhat more acceptable. But still....

Mana

Like when WASH DIES?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fbueckert Comedy option as I skim through Netflix's offerings: Sliders!

Fluttershy

@Mana That's just mean.

fbueckert

@LessPop_MoreFizz That's also in the mix. :P

Fluttershy

@fbueckert My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic?

fbueckert

10:49 PM

It's what started the sci-fi watching, actually.

@Fluttershy ...I don't think that counts as sci-fi. Does it?

StrixVaria

Oh, what was the name of that show where the guy got the next day's newspaper delivered?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fbueckert Well then, why not Quantum leap, which is basically Better Than Sliders?

Fluttershy

@fbueckert Oh no. It's 'fantasy.' I just remembered it's on Sci Fi and Fantasy SE. >.>

Jin

has anyone played The Last Remnant?

fbueckert

@LessPop_MoreFizz I fell asleep halfway through the first episode

@Jin Yes.

LessPop_MoreFizz

10:51 PM

@fbueckert Give it another try. Quantum Leap was actually pretty great.

Jin

@fbueckert any good? i saw it at local gamestop for $8

LessPop_MoreFizz

You could also pickastartrekanystartrek

fbueckert

@Jin Certainly worth $8. Battles are an interesting tactical proposition.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Seen them all.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fbueckert You are exhausting the canon here.

The Prisoner?

fbueckert

@LessPop_MoreFizz Roommate vetoed that one.

agent86

10:53 PM

@fbueckert HOLY CRAP DOCTOR WHO

fbueckert

@agent86 Currently in the playlist!

agent86

everyone in here is fired for not suggestion doctor who.

FIRED

Fluttershy

@agent86 And you are fired for not knowing the difference between suggesting, and suggestion.

Jin

a lil bird told me something's about to happen every soon

agent86

start with season one of the revival

@Jin a demon attack?

the fires of hell itself?

fbueckert

10:53 PM

We're currently watching Doctor Who, Eureka, Alphas, and Warehouse 13. Andromeda, Sliders, and Breaking Bad are on hold currently.

Jin

@agent86 no we'll rename gaming.se to gamesexchange.com

LessPop_MoreFizz

@agent86 You know, maybe, just maybe, we assumed it was already in the running based on the existing lineup?

agent86

@Jin woooo

StrixVaria

@fbueckert This one is really short, but still really good.

The Lost Room

The Lost Room is a science fiction television miniseries that aired on the Sci Fi Channel in the United States. The series revolves around the titular room and some of the everyday items from that room which possess unusual powers. The show's protagonist, Joe Miller, is searching for these objects to rescue his daughter, Anna, who has disappeared inside the Room. Once a typical room at a 1960s motel along U.S. Route 66, the Lost Room has existed outside of normal time and space since 1961, when what is only referred to as "the Event" took place. Cast and characters * Peter Krause as Det...

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fbueckert You could mix in a bunch of MST3k episodes?

Ben Brocka

10:54 PM

How a Dragon Quest character thinks: "All RIGHT! I found cow poop! Totally pocketing that."

Tweeted by SoapboxingGeek on May 14, 2012 at 7:38 PM

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria I find that sentence upsetting, since you seem to be implying that short == bad.

StrixVaria

@Wipqozn He specifically said he wanted things that were long.

fbueckert

@LessPop_MoreFizz What is MST3K?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fbueckert ...

...

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria Oh, okay. I wasn't paying attention. My apologies.

LessPop_MoreFizz

10:55 PM

Mystery Science Theatre 3000?

StrixVaria

@LessPop_MoreFizz I love this but I still didn't get the acronym at first.

fbueckert

Never heard of it.

You may commence the lambasting.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Do you really not know Mystery Science Theatre 3000?

FAE

@fbueckert I have heard various things about Fringe, but I haven't watched it myself

agent86

@LessPop_MoreFizz I fired you. You're fired. Fired fired fired firrrreeeeedddddd

fbueckert

10:56 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm quite serious.

StrixVaria

Europe servers are up for all those people in Europe.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fbueckert Okay, so, MST 3k is basically

agent86

@fbueckert it's a comedy show where they heckle bad sci-fi movies

fbueckert

I prefer long, overarching story arcs. One shot episodes aren't my cup of tea.

LessPop_MoreFizz

these three dudes watch really bad old B sci fi horror movies

and they make fun of them relentlessly

Jin

10:57 PM

^ is that real? if so, how is that possible?

agent86

@fbueckert at least some of mst3k is up on YouTubez

StrixVaria

@Jin It launched in Asia like 9 hours ago.

Also SPOILERS OMFG WTF ARE YOU DOING :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

agent86

but seriously DOCTOR WHO DOCTOR WHO DOCTOR WHO and then torchwood once you've cleared season one of DOCTOR WHO OMG

LessPop_MoreFizz

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Bookmarked 8 secs ago by LessPop_MoreFizz

StrixVaria

Diablo dies!??!?!??!?!????

But the series is named after him!

agent86

10:58 PM

if you end up liking DOCTOR WHO go watch the bbc revival of sherlock, because it is really really awesome

Jin

@StrixVaria it was posted in this room, blame whoever the original spoiler dude was

fbueckert

@agent86 Up to date on Doctor Who. Torchwood...is a little on the horror side for my liking.

StrixVaria

I'm glad I can't read Korean.

fbueckert

@Jin Level 30 on day one? I feel sorry for those people. No game will have enough content to satisfy them.

agent86

@fbueckert really? the new stuff is really bad, but watching the first couple of seasons of torchwood is worth it, imho

fbueckert

10:59 PM

@agent86 The Whoniverse loses something without the Doctor.

Fredy31

crashes through diablo 3

Jin

@fbueckert DIABLO? Y U NO AIABLO?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fbueckert Honestly, at this point, you've basically ruled out everything ever as far as genre-tv with a long narrative arc, aside from maybe the x-files and Farscape. After that, you're left with a long string of bad macguffin of the week type stuff from the 70's.

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