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6:00 PM
@kalina Most of them are probably
 
Something is wrong when playing Tomb Raider at 720p in windowed mode gives me motion sickness
 
@BoltClock I'm not getting any motion sickness
but stupid quicktime events are driving me insane
 
I'm not getting motion sickness either.
 
@BoltClock have you got to "the scene" yet?
 
@kalina The camera is too shaky for my comfort. Even running makes the camera like an earthquake
@kalina Which one? There's lots of "the scene"s :|
 
6:01 PM
reports of its contents were completely miscommunicated
 
@OrigamiRobot Pfft. I have more than that.
 
Oh, that one huh. Yeah I'm way beyond that now
I got to it in my first hour of play
 
the one in the camp that was reported as crimes against women but is actually lara croft brutally knee'ing a guy in the balls
yeah
I've been playing about 40 minutes
 
Someone downvotes one of my Crawl answers about once a month without telling me what's wrong with the answer. It's kind of annoying.
 
6:02 PM
@JasonBerkan Which one?
 
I started yesterday. I really should not play it for 6 hours in one sitting
 
@SaintWacko Bad English - every month, a different answer gets downvoted.
 
@OrigamiRobot You link that like I care.
 
@JasonBerkan Wait, I may have misunderstood Crawl
 
@BoltClock I hope it starts getting better, I was intending to play it in one sitting but this isn't engaging enough for me to care
 
6:03 PM
What did you mean by that?
 
The first hour of the game is crammed full of QTEs but you don't get as many of them later on
 
I'm apparently 11% through the game according to the save screen and I've already seen enough quicktime events to make me want to quit and watch a movie
 
@fbueckert You do. It is confirmed.
 
@kalina Yes, I downvoted your Zelda hearts question. Other than that, I don't remember downvoting anything of yours.
 
6:04 PM
Oh, guess I didn't
 
@OrigamiRobot Nah, I'm more interested in the comments on my OTCGN question.
 
@fbueckert you know, I largely don't care about individual downvotes due to people not liking my questions
It's the clusters of downvotes due to people not liking me that I care about
 
@fbueckert Eh?
 
Why do you even care about that
 
@kalina I don't downvote users.
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Q: What is OCTGN, and why are we providing tech support for it?

fbueckertWe just got a question about something called OCTGN. I did a quick Google search, and I came up with this site. From what I can tell, this isn't a game, so much as it's a PC card game platform. For the most part, no big deal. Maybe it should belong on Board and Card Games; we'll deal with tha...

 
6:05 PM
Hm, I hadn't ever heard about whips being useful with dexterity...
 
@OrigamiRobot I love the comment on that.
 
The guy arguing sorta rage quit, from what I can tell.
And deleted his comments.
 
he did iirc
 
@Wipqozn I know. It's beautiful.
 
@SaintWacko Pretty sure it says that in the item description. It definitely says it on the wiki.
 
6:07 PM
That'll be the first port of call once I hit 10K.
I'm curious as to what he said.
 
@fbueckert deleted comments aren't exposed by having 10k rep
 
@fbueckert The fellow with the only deleted answer on that question?
 
oh, an answer
 
@Wipqozn That's the one.
I read the answer, but deleted comments don't appear?
Boo.
 
@fbueckert If the comment was deleted you can't see it. However, if the answer the comment was attached to is deleted, but not the comment, you'll be able to see it.
 
6:09 PM
what @Wipqozn said
4
 
@Wipqozn There are comments that SevenSided was responding to that I was interested in seeing.
 
Ahhhh, that felt good. I love starring useless things.
 
@OrigamiRobot I thought that was you.
 
But, eh. I'm curious, but not to the point that life is meaningless without that.
 
You're the best robot, @OrigamiRobot.
 
6:10 PM
@fbueckert well you best be curious enough to look at what I linked!
 
@Wipqozn I was the 2nd one. I assume you were the first.
 
@OrigamiRobot Yes.
 
@kalina I responded multiple times to that answer.
 
@Wipqozn Hot damn, we are the best.
 
I didn't read it, I just linked it
 
6:11 PM
Or only once. Eh.
 
DON'T HATE ON ME I AM ONLY BEING HELPFUL
 
@OrigamiRobot I concur. tortoise highfive
 
@Wipqozn turtle*
 
@Wipqozn He's also the only @OrigamiRobot.
 
PERFECT
 
6:11 PM
Which means he's the best by default, not through any quality measure.
 
@fbueckert Fixed.
 
@Wipqozn Punctuation! It helps!
So what privileges do I need to see deleted comments? 20K? Mod-ship? Community member? Need some long term goals.
 
@fbueckert Modship?
 
@OrigamiRobot Become a moderator.
 
once they're deleted, they're gone - afaik
 
6:14 PM
Shortened it. Keep up.
@kalina Boo.
 
@fbueckert No, I got that. I was offering an unsure answer. You keep up.
 
@OrigamiRobot Context! Important!
 
both of you keep up, your endurance is TERRIBLE
 
@fbueckert Moderators can see deleted comments.
 
@kalina You wish.
 
6:15 PM
I AM THE BEST ROBOT YOU KEEP UP
 
@Wipqozn brb nominating myself as a moderator
 
@Wipqozn Damn. That's an awful lot of responsibility just so I can see deleted comments.
 
I think everything is shown to the mods, including user emails.
 
brb... changes real name
 
I pledge, if I am elected a mod, that my first action will be abusing my new privileges in some fashion.
 
6:17 PM
We've all assumed as much.
 
@kalina Change your gravatar back while you're at it. I prefer the grape juice stain.
 
@OrigamiRobot die in a fire, preferably one hot enough that it prevents you from being recovered from such fire
 
@fbueckert Modship comes at a price. You can't cast normal close votes.
 
@JasonBerkan Have to make sure to live up to expectations!
 
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Q: What abilities do %health damage?

Peter JessenI like to play as Dr Mundo, stacking health. Its not uncommom for me to reach 6k health. However, there are some champions that have the ability to do damage equal to a percent of your health. I was wondering if i could have a list of these champions so i know who to watch out for. Idealy, i woul...

 
6:18 PM
@OrigamiRobot I know! That's what saddens me.
 
@kalina It was a compliment!
 
@fbueckert pledges that if he becomes a moderator he will half the userbase of Arqade each month
 
@kalina Good.
 
no it's not good
 
Solar 2 is fun
although aggravating sometimes
 
6:19 PM
@kalina Starting with a dartboard filled with usernames.
 
@fbueckert as long as either I'm not on it, or I'm the bullseye
 
@kalina You realize I fluke out at stuff like that at the best times, right?
 
@kalina I think being an active member of the Bridge should confer immunity
 
@SaintWacko The only immunity is to be my minion.
 
@SaintWacko I would think being an active member of the site is more important than being an active member of the bridge
 
6:21 PM
@fbueckert How many are there?
 
@Coronus So far, none.
 
@fbueckert There are better people here to be minions for.
 
All I have is a deputy.
 
@OrigamiRobot this
 
@OrigamiRobot Well, alright. Onto the dartboard you go!
 
6:22 PM
like me
 
@fbueckert So... no one is immune. Got it.
 
I am the best person to be a minion for
 
@Coronus Except my deputy.
Because it's too much work to do on my own.
 
@kalina I'll be your minion! I already hate men!
 
> Purchase Tomb Raider on Steam before March 12th at 10AM Pacific time and receive three exclusive TF2 items!
So they're extending that beyond the preorder period
 
6:23 PM
WOO DESPERATION
 
But the last time I was someone's minion, I got banned. THANKS @WIPQOZN
 
@BoltClock That'll cause some backlash.
 
"oh crap, we've sold 15 copies of Tomb Raider... QUICK PUT A SALE ON, ADD BONUSES"
@fbueckert doubtful
 
They better give the people who pre-ordered something more.
 
XCOM's preorder bonus was made available as a cheap DLC about a month after it was released
 
6:24 PM
@OrigamiRobot Good times.
 
@fbueckert Not the first time
 
@fbueckert Yeah I hope they do
 
Borderlands 2's preorder bonus... cheap DLC
 
Trine 2 keeps awarding the TF2 preorder bonus to this day to all people buying the deluxe version
 
For instance: making The Fortune Hunter an actual melee weapon
And not a "Cosmetic Axe"
 
6:25 PM
I guess TF2 hats are in a special category?
 
hats are hats
 
Everyone feels warm and fuzzy while wearing a face hugger.
 
only TF2 players care about hats
and most of them aren't human
 
@kalina I haven't played TF2 in forever.
There's so much other stuff to play.
 
I didn't even get flagged
 
6:26 PM
@kalina And what did you care about during Hat Dash?
2
 
what is wrong with the world, I make a comment about Christianity and get 5 flags in a few seconds but I say TF2 players aren't human and nobody even blinks
@OrigamiRobot different kind of hat
that was a competition against everybody else on stackexchange, it was fun, I made a game out of it
 
@kalina Fake hats are fake hats.
 
it kept me happy over the christmas period
and then I started playing EVE
 
@kalina And you will never know happiness again?
 
@SaintWacko now my life is so bitter, sad, and revolves around spreadsheets
I don't know where I went wrong
last year I was killing dragons, now I'm browsing through spreadsheets
 
6:28 PM
@kalina Does it orbit at 15k?
 
@SaintWacko I have orbits at 200K.
 
@SaintWacko much closer than 15k
 
@kalina When you abandoned me.
 
@fbueckert Hmmm... KSP and EVE would be cool
 
@SaintWacko You caught the reference. Nicely done.
 
6:30 PM
@OrigamiRobot you abandoned me
I was staying up every night, until silly o'clock, when you couldn't even be bothered to come home from work early, and then you took like 3 days off and I lost all of my focus for guild wars 2
 
@kalina You never wanted to play GW2 with me. You were only using me for hats.
 
@OrigamiRobot wow, that hurts
 
You're right. It did hurt. T_T
 
@fbueckert how old are you?
 
@Michel he's 42
 
6:33 PM
@kalina o.O
 
@kalina Going on 49. :P
 
ROLF!
 
@Michel he's grooming you to be a mini-fbueckert, you must shake off the shackles of @fbueckert and reclaim your freedom from his oppression
 
@kalina do you need a pet?
 
@Michel Seriously, though, I'm 29.
 
6:34 PM
@Michel She was just saying how she wanted a minion.
 
I'll be unemployed if I quite @fbueckert tutorship =P
@fbueckert Thank you =) I'm not the older one here =D
 
@kalina Oppression? Oppression!? I don't oppress anyone!
Note: Start working on oppression. Evil villain requirement.
 
That looks terrifying
 
DO NOT WANT
 
6:54 PM
0
Q: Can the disc form of Simcity be used on Origin?

Rob Avery IVBefore I explain, let me make some facts (As far as I know they are): When you download a game on Origin, you able to get access to both the Windows and Mac OS versions. Simcity will be released on Mac OS in the coming months. Whether it's disc, download, or both, I don't know. I would figure ...

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Q: Can I save my game locally?

KareenI read in an article dating from December that SimCity games would be saved online. I have not yet bought the game, and I wonder if this is true. It would be bad enough to be forced out of the game if my connection is lost, but I would be edgy to not be able to save my game after I notice a lost ...

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Q: How large can a NPC village be?

Cody MortonI would like to embark on a massive Minecraft build that includes NPC villagers. Now i would like to know how large of a "village" i can make. I was reading that they have to be within 16 blocks horizontally from a door to register. Also, i read that to transplant villagers to another village the...

 
7:07 PM
@RonanForman @fredley I've tried to look up what bees are good for, but I just don't see how they are useful.
 
@OrigamiRobot Why? I'm making emeralds with mine.
 
How? Nothing I've found says anything about that.
 
Super Hexagon drives me insane.
 
@OrigamiRobot Extra bees addon, but standard forestry has some good stuff too.
 
@RonanForman Standard Forestry seems the most useless.
 
7:09 PM
It adds lots of excellent food too.
@OrigamiRobot Forestry in general? How dare you!
 
@RonanForman For bees, it looks useless.
 
sigh One of the local towns is challenging the anti-bully bill, saying it infringes on their religious freedoms.
 
Mar 1 at 18:30, by Wipqozn
> Some religious educators and others have argued that the proposed law infringes on their religious freedoms.
 
@fbueckert The religious freedom to bully people?
 
Mar 1 at 18:31, by Wipqozn
So... anti-bullying clubs infringe upon the rights of religious people to bully others...?
Deja vu
 
7:13 PM
@OrigamiRobot Don't blame me!
 
@RonanForman The religious freedom to discriminate and persecute those that are of non-standard sexual orientation.
@OrigamiRobot This is that same bill.
And this is coming from a town that's smack dab in the middle of traditional religious territory.
 
@RonanForman Maybe if the FTB wiki had any link from the page on Bees to Extra Bees, I wouldn't be so confused.
 
@OrigamiRobot Yeah, the wikis are crap.
 
@fbueckert I know, I'm pointing out the repetition.
@RonanForman So how am I supposed to find out?!
 
@OrigamiRobot I watch LPs.
 
7:14 PM
Ugh
 
Oh, bees can be used to make lava and glowstone, that's standard forestry.
And enderpearls.
 
good news, Evernote passwords need resetting
 
@OrigamiRobot I expect it to continue until the bill passes. Then there will be uproar, something will give, and we'll get either a watered down version, or lots of discontent from the intolerant Christians.
 
@badp They get released in the morning, it's really weird that people only mention them around now (including the EC twitter)
 
7:18 PM
@RonanForman I guess the youtube subscription box hits again
 
@RonanForman Not from what the awful wiki says.
 
...although it published on RSS properly. I suppose I didn't check RSS because I slept a lot today
 
@OrigamiRobot Demonic bees, for the lava (it makes phosphor that needs to bee squeezed into lava) and glowstone and endic bees for the enderpearls (it makes pulsating propolis that needs to be processed)
@badp I understand why you haven't said anything, but you think EC would know when they post episodes.
 
The First Nations here in Canada scream when we try to hold them accountable to the same standards as the rest of the population. They keep saying their rights are more important than the country's. And then stuff like happens
 
@RonanForman Oh look, Pulsating Propolis doesn't even have a page!
 
7:24 PM
@OrigamiRobot That's quite funny.
 
19
Q: Pokemon tag problems (Gotta Tag 'Em All)

MichelI was looking at this question and got worried, should I remove those two extra tags (soul-silver heart-gold)? So I asked in chat and got a good point from StrixVaria: Pokemon is all messed up. There's a tag for Pokemon-fourth-gen but this question doesn't apply to all the 4th-gen games, ju...

Now that we've decided what to do, how do we actually get it to happen?
Can mods do magic tag renaming?
I know mods can set up synonyms.
 
Mods can do all sorts of deep magic.
 
@StrixVaria What, what happened now? We decided something. Like, agreed?
 
@StrixVaria Yes, by creating a new tag and then merging the tags
 
@JasonBerkan I have to consider 24 upvotes and no dissenting opinions as consensus.
 
7:25 PM
@StrixVaria It's too much work for me, especially since I don't know anything about Pokèmon
 
@StrixVaria That's unpossible.
 
@RonanForman Even the Extra Bees wiki itself has ZERO USEFUL INFORMATION
 
...and what little I do know about the game kinda confuses me
like
> pokemon-first-gen (This gen has no meaningful subdivisions.)
 
We need a pokemod!
 
Wasn't there pokemon-red and pokemon-yellow?
 
7:27 PM
@badp Yeah, I was actually thinking maybe pokemon-yellow should get its own tag.
 
@OrigamiRobot Load up MC, search combs in NEI and you can see what they can make, that's what I do.
 
(stupid money grabbing techniques)
 
It was kind of different from red/blue.
 
There was like 5 different pokemon, do they really need separate tags?
 
@RonanForman but the newer gens get synonyms!
 
7:27 PM
@StrixVaria Was there? More than the starting pokemon?
 
pokemon-hgss (For questions specifically about HeartGold/SoulSilver)
Synonyms: pokemon-heart-gold pokemon-soul-silver
@Coronus What I do know is that the yellow version has extra glitches
 
@Coronus I never played yellow. This and making pikachu happy were the only things I know of that were different.
 
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Q: Why is it considered correct to answer a similar question in addition to the question asked when there is a better alternative?

kraftydevilProblem Definition I see a ton of specific questions getting answered along with non-essential stuff not actually asked. From a data perspective, this creates false mappings where one question is asked and what you really get is an answer to 2 or more questions. This method seems to be rewarded ...

 
(I only know that because of having watched the two-minutes TAS)
 
Oh yeah, maybe we should have pokemon-red -> pokemon-first-gen
 
7:28 PM
I don't remember anything about Pikachu's happiness... I'll have to pick it up again.
 
@badp I assume they're different in some way, I've only played red and sapphire and not in ages.
 
Oh, I think pokemon are in different areas, possibly gym leaders are different, but do these minor differences need a separate tag? It is essentially a mod of red/blue.
 
I added synonyms to my post for gens 1-2.
I think that makes sense...
@Coronus No, trivial differences shouldn't warrant a separate tag.
But having different tags for Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald vs. FireRed/LeafGreen is important, IMO.
They're essentially entirely different games.
 
@StrixVaria Definitely.
 
I know this isn't related to Gaming
but could someone take a look at this
Even though we've settled that this is off topic, I'm still curious as to why so many people answered it but didn't think to flag it or VTC. — David Zaslavsky 29 mins ago
In response to this question
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Q: Why do bullets in a magazine go up instead of down?

RetrosaurI've been curious about this, and it might not belong here, but I'll ask anyways. For most modern weaponry that I've seen or used, it appears that the magazine is always placed below the barrel of it. Instead of the magazine going on top of the gun, per say, the magazine is placed below the gun...

 
7:34 PM
@OrigamiRobot I hate bees
 
@Retrosaur It's off topic. It's not like the bullets are defying gravity or anything (oh, but are they?)
 
Yeah, i understand it's offtopic
but why didnt people flag before
 
Because they'd rather whore for rep or answer your question I guess
 
Ahh.. okay.
So how was TombRaider @BoltClock
Sidenote, should i call you boltcock or annoyingpyro
*boltclock
 
Either works
Misspelling included. I'm used to it
 
7:44 PM
Can I spoil it for you
So basically, you end up fighting merasmus
 
Don't spoil it for the rest
 
And you get a free hat
for TeamFortress4Alpha
 
Nice work spoiling it for everybody
Nice
 
I was surprised Valve would even make one of their own bosses a boss in Tomb Raider
clever of them to do so
Hell, you want to know something
This is a huge spoiler
EVERYONE WATCH OUT
 
Why would you ask that and the proceed to spoil it before you even got a response?
 
7:46 PM
IN Tomb Raider 2013, at the end, you learn that
Lara is pregnant
with Nathan Drake
Because Sully is actually his dad
Also, Sam, the other girl you're with
guess who she's pregnant with
Jason Brody.
 
@Lazers This sounds more like sour grapes than anything else.
 
@fbueckert If you read the above statements, you will be spoilerized
 
@Retrosaur I ignored you once. I can do it again.
 
Obviously, someone has no sense of humor.
 
@Retrosaur I have a fine sense of humor. I don't tolerate trolling, though.
 
7:50 PM
Define trolling
I'm not egging on any other users
 
@Retrosaur What you're doing.
 
Define it? You're just giving me vague ambiguous answers
 
Feb 14 at 15:59, by Retrosaur
Also, I'm trying to be less obnoxious here
 
2 mins ago, by Retrosaur
@fbueckert If you read the above statements, you will be spoilerized
That is trolling.
You're fishing for a response.
Quit it.
 
@OrigamiRobot If so, then they read it, and realize it's one huge joke.
 
7:52 PM
37 secs ago, by fbueckert
You're fishing for a response.
 
Do you really think Lara Croft becomes pregnant with Nathan Drake after the events of Dead Space 3?
 
After all that she goes through I wouldn't be surprised even if she did
 
The Virgin Lara, with her mute surrogate husband, Gordon Freeman.
 

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