The Bridge

@Wipqozn oh please

Ah the joy of taxes

@Wipqozn Eww, shape tween

so The Pit is... not great

It's okay

but not as fun as Dungeons of Dredmor

2:23 PM

So, three years after joining SO I finally earned the autobiographer badge

Because I finally added something to the website field

grats

Fiddling around with SE's profiles is really annoying

I accidentally pushed my username on Gaming to all sites on the network

I hope the clamav package doesn't add a resident virus scanner

I don't care about that on Linux

Steam needs to install these additional packages:
	curl
[sudo] password for badp:

sigh

...it failed and Steam didn't realize

I'm terrible at being self conscience. I'm afraid if I stick the URL to my site here people will point and laugh at me.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone *confident

2:29 PM

Actually, a bit of both

I'm afraid of what you'd think of me even if you don't say anything

but I already did give you feedback!

Anyway, the only way to overcome the fear is to, uh, post the link here. Then hide under my bed.

meebleforp.com

OMFG WTF ROFLMAO WORST SITE EVER WHERE IS THE BEST SEEN IN NETSCAPE GIF LOL

cough

Can I just say, before you click on that link, that I think I'm a terrible writer, and that post is long, rambling, and kind of pointless

what makes you think I clicked on it :P

2:31 PM

phew

oh! oh! oh!

Feedback.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I'd make the burb at the bottom un-transparent when the mouse enters the footer, not just when it hovers

1024x768: UNSUPPORTED?

Uh...

@badp more like a bug, since it's responsive

2:34 PM

No, the window will have to be smaller than 1024

@BenBrocka it responds to my use of 1024×768 by pointing and laughing at me, so it's entirely appropriate

But yeah, I need to fix that

Oh, the form isn't responsive

Pointing and laughing is generally the appropriate response when @badp is involved

Yeah, that's the problem

My backup monitor is point-and-laugh-worthy

So is my GPU

2:35 PM

Seriously, though, that's not 1024. It's smaller.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone yes of course

borders, menu bars, unity, whatever

My screen resolution is 1024×768 so...

Ah

Yeah, my fault. I should've built it to 960px, which would be more standard, but I chose 980px. Your window is around 5px short of that

Q: I can't find my mw2 multiplayer progress data on my xbox 360

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i have a xbox 360 but i can't find my mw2 multiplayer data, i search on my memory and on my usb i not found MW2 on games folder, please help me! Thank you ! I am French.

0

Q: Can I automatically make Withers?

I know that in vanilla Minecraft it is impossible to create withers automatically by using pistons. Is it possible in FTB?

minecraft minecraft-ftb

It's okay. Who the fuck uses a 1024×768 display nowadays anyway?

This makes me happy:

►

2:39 PM

@badp IIRC ~10% and falling

12.52% of people have a 1024x768 display

I think even the iPhone has a better resolution than that

...wow, it's the second most popular?!

Probably largely because of the original iPad's resolution (the 6% 768x1024 makes zero sense unless those are mostly ipads and other tablets)

@BenBrocka uh. okay.

@badp Yup. 1366 only supassed it around this time last year.

2:41 PM

CUUUUUPERTTIIIIINOOOOOO

What the hell is a 1366 monitor anyway? I thought 1080 and 720p monitors would be much more common

@BenBrocka It's the "default" laptop resolution

Figured laptops might be at fault. They usually have yucky resolutions

@badp For a 13" laptop usually

My laptop's 1366×768

2:43 PM

and I haven't bought one in years, mine's slightly less than that

...and it's not 13" :/

@BenBrocka 1280 is the other popular one

@YiJiang'sEvilClone yeah that's what mine is. Just too small to half-window most sites

1366×768 is also the minimum to snap two windows side by side in metro

1280x800 is the standard for 16:10 laptops

1366x768 is the standard for 16:9 laptops

The next step up is 1440x900 and 1600x900

2:45 PM

I'll be aiming for a 1080p monitor when I replace this thing and the computer running it

...then I'll play games windowed at 1366×768 anyway :P

full screen games now give me claustrophobia

I NEED TO FEED MY ADHD WITH DATA FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD AT ALL TIMES

Wipqozn

@badp I just thought @StrixVaria would enjoy it.

bleh windowed

@BenBrocka read chat while respawning

Gaming Topics From Outside

I only use that for whenI need to record with camtasia instead of fraps

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Q: Best Android device settings to conserve battery & maximize game performance

Creating a multiplayer game and want to ensure that I maximize the battery life since this is for a 1 time event. At the same time I want to make sure my game runs smoothly. Can anyone suggest the best settings to use?

performance android gaming

2:51 PM

@GamingTopicsFromOutside Off-topic and not constructive!

@badp can't you dual monitor with your external one

@BenBrocka shitty GPU

oh wait, for the future

Actually, it might not be entirely not constructive

But still, I'm not sure there's much to Android performance tweaking

I dunno, dual screening a 1080p screen with a 1024×768 screen doesn't sound like... bliss

@badp I'll take all the pixels I can get!

2:56 PM

@badp Why not? They're never going to be perfect side by side anyway since one is a laptop

@BenBrocka I'm not getting a laptop

...if I can help it

Fuck laptops. Fuck everything about laptops.

Oh, I'd ditch the old monitor as well then

Yeah, this isn't just a TV, it's a really shitty TV

...right.

Daylight Savings Time.

I didn't know they made TVs with resolutions other than 480/720/1080

Trent Hawkins

2:58 PM

@fbueckert Hurray! the time on my pvr is correct again!

@TrentHawkins You have a PVR? Since when?

@BenBrocka This is a 4:3 tv from when 4:3 tv was normal tv

when f.lux is fully active on this thing you can verrrry barely tell

Trent Hawkins

it's a dvd/pvr thing that sits under 2nd computer's monitor

whereas it was super obvious on my old actually-a-computer-monitor

those were still usually 480 weren't they?

3:01 PM

@BenBrocka Well, this has a better resolution. Go it?

I'm aware it could've been worse

where by worse I mean completely unusuable

I mean, my Windows 95 machine's CRT monitor had 1024×768

and the 32 MB RAM etc. computer could do more than that, it'd just be painful on the eyes

Q: Baldur's gate original or enhanced for a person who never played the game

3:14 PM

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I've never played any of Baldur's gate games and now thinking about trying the first one. Should I go with enhanced edition or original saga? What's easier to get into? Do I need to heavily mod original saga to enjoy it on a modern PC? How buggy is enhanced edition if at all?

mods baldurs-gate baldurs-gate-enhanced

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Q: Minecraft - decorative and peaceful fish plugin for Bukkit

I'm making an aquarium for the city on our server (a big building with a glass tunnel). I'm going to fill it with water and put Squid and Silverfish in it. But I thought it would be better if we had more variety. So does anyone know of a mod/plugin for being able to spawn various peaceful fish? I...

minecraft mods minecraft-bukkit

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Q: Does it matter where your shots land in Planetside 2?

I know there is a word for this but I just can't recall. What I'm asking is "is hitting someone on the head going to kill them faster than shooting only their legs/torso (like some games) or is it the same damage wherever I shoot (like some others)?".

planetside-2

@Lazers Even if this isn't game-rec, there's too many questions here, and some of which are pretty subjective

Mad Scientist

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I could be made about the differences of the two editions, which would be far less problematic

Mmmhmm, yeah

So apparently both Lara Croft and I 1) are 21 years old 2) stand 5'4" 3) have an octopus plushie

@BoltClock At least it's not an octopus hat

3:20 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone HOUWAR?

Oh

@BoltClock 5'4" is 1.63m for those who don't speak Americanese

CruelCow

Weird, I always imagined Lara bigger than that

@CruelCow In a previous interview Crystal Dynamics said she'd be 5'6" which is just less than 1.7m. I don't know if anything changed but her bio on tombraider.com says 5'4" which is my height

3:25 PM

Now kiss?

CruelCow

So people are review-bombing SimCity on Amazon - no surprise. But the 5 star reviews are kinda awesome:

amazon.com/review/R3OK8V4GUH4WOU

@Lazers I thought we didn't like mod rec questions like this

> Thankfully, the game never actually loads. I was looking for a program where I could zone out, and stare at my computer screen in a meditative state for hours on end with no interuptions.

I'm changing container format (and maybe codec as well), halving the frame rate, running parts of the video at 4x, and keeping the same resolution. It should not be bringing my video editor to it's knees!

What editor?

YouTube has its own editor. Have not used it though.

3:36 PM

NCH VideoPad Pro (free feature restricted version)

@GnomeSlice suggested it

Uh, thanks YouTube

And it worked fine the last time, although I was starting at a lower resolution and wasn't doing as much 2x and 4x sections. Almost all of this video will be 4x because travelling to Jool takes a long ass time, even at KSP's max time warp.

FUCK YOU DST YOU ARE THE WORST

4

@OrigamiRobot Oh, it's that time of the year again?

When I can point and laugh from the equator

Apparently, in the last 15 minutes, it rendered 30 frames. At this rate (2 frames a second, ~600 seconds of video @ 30 fps -> 18000 frames, 9000 seconds), it'll take 2 and half hours to render. And I haven't even done commentary or overlay text because I couldn't even get a preview of the sped up video.

As I said before:

21 hours ago, by MBraedley

AHHHH! I'm turning into an angry squid of angriness!!!

3:47 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone It's extremely limited. Mostly just for trimming the end/start, taping videos together, some motion stabilization/lighting effects and that's it

@RonanForman I think DST borked the server.

DST kicked my dog

@OrigamiRobot DST?

Is that now?

@RonanForman Yes

Tim Stone

@OrigamiRobot The worst + 1

3:49 PM

@RonanForman It is in the US, at least.

@Fluttershy Why are you in a tree?

@RonanForman For North America. UK and the rest of Europe is in a few weeks I think

@RonanForman I'm stumped as to why

@RonanForman A reference to the "Fluttershy wants to be a tree" meme

@BenBrocka That pun was terrible, and you should feel terrible...

3:50 PM

@BenBrocka *slow clap*

@Fluttershy I know, he should really branch out with his jokes.

@OrigamiRobot Also terrible.

@Fluttershy Don't leaf us just because we make terrible puns!

I had to double check to make sure Reddit didn't just introduce real-time comments

@Fluttershy Maybe I should stick to robot jokes. :(

3:53 PM

@BoltClock That'd really spruce the place up a bit, wouldn't it?

@Fluttershy It sure wood.

I can't wait for DST

The later the sunset the happier I am

...even if it means having to pay it with one hour's sleep

@badp The later the sunrise, the happier I am. At least in the summer

@MBraedley The two things aren't mutually exclusive obviously

although

when I had to take the 6:52 pullman

and it was pitch dark

...that was depressing

Bleh, got owned in Sword of the Stars: The Pit twice already =(

3:59 PM

rofl

►

Pro tip: Don't leave frozen toaster waffles on the counter for half a day, and then expect them to be in the right shape the next day.

> wah yeah boom boom boom bam yeah boom boom boom wah yeah boom boom bam

@badp Lol what the..

> He's using the Voidhome unique mace. (+50% atk speed but lower exp/rare items found so useless)

@badp Ooh

4:02 PM

(reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1a0uk6/…)

That's good weapon for beating hard bosses and stuff, where you'll rather kill them faster then bother about exp/loot.

@ChrisHateZ I tried the demo and died in floor 4; searched all the things, opened all the containers, only found ammo and random crap while things got suddenly infinitely harder

@badp I died on floor 5 with first character, and then floor 6 on second.

Normal difficulty lol.

> Shipping restrictions: We cannot ship this item outside of the U.S.

yeah, normal difficulty

4:04 PM

I have to say the game is pretty damn fun. Maybe the best roguelike Iv'e played so far.

You are the bane of my online shopping experience

Nah, I liked Dungeons of Dredmore, Crawl, Brogue and others better

Never heard of Crawl and Brogue. I didn't like DoD so much.

The focus on interactive stuff and the intereaction therewith is kinda interesting, but... success rates are way higher than advertised

Are crawl and brogue also graphical roguelikes or ASCII?

4:06 PM

Crawl is traditional ASCII with tiles support... and webtiles support

Brogue is "opengl ASCII"

Meh, pass.

Your loss.

@badp "success rates are way higher then advertised" i can't agree with that, i even managed to break some things that had 50-60% success rate...

I never failed a check in levels 1-3

Guess you just had luck with success rates then.

4:07 PM

except for weapon misses

A bunch of things failed in a row in level 4 but...

CruelCow

@MBraedley reship.com

badp you're playing PoE?

@CruelCow The problem is that this particular item is considered a food item, and therefore cannot be shipped across a boarder without extra paperwork.

nvm

4:21 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Way to rub it in, Pinkie

Q: Where does the game saves screenshots?

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I took few screenshots in game and i can't find them anywhere. There doesn't seem to be a screenshots folder anywhere inside the folder where game is installed. I also searched My Documents folder and haven't found anything related to that either.

sots-the-pit

Raven Dreamer

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I don't understand. Those do not look like cakes.

Weird.

@RavenDreamer That's their name. The Cake family.

@jeffreylin_ STOS is an acronym. The full name of the game is Sword of the Stars: The Pits.

Where's the option to see what did someone edit in my post?

@ChrisHateZ At the bottom of each post, on the left of your own username and avatar

If someone has edited it, the last editor will appear there. Click on the timestamp for the full revision history

4:35 PM

ffs

Hehehe

This is possibly the best ARPG build I've seen.

jeff go kill yourself, seriously..

Now i can't remember what my original tittle was..

@ChrisHateZ Now now, no need to be rude

And i can't find an option to see that.

4:37 PM

@ChrisHateZ Click on the timestamp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Thx

I liked the old system more.

@ChrisHateZ Eh, what old system?

@ChrisHateZ Easy, dude. He's just trying to help.

agent86

@ChrisHateZ remember to be friendly, please, this isn't particularly nice to say to someone.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone The one with revision history once you enter edit feature.

@fbueckert Why does he edits something he obviously knows nothing about?

I just hate people like that.

4:39 PM

@ChrisHateZ If anything, he's just putting the game name into the title.

SOTS: The Pit.

Missed some capitalization and whatnot, but that's all he did.

@ChrisHateZ The inline editor doesn't have revision history, hmmm. Well, it's not like most people missed that

@fbueckert Which isn't needed at all. Anyone can check the tag to know which game I'm talking about.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I miss it =(

@ChrisHateZ Still no reason to hate on him.

See, there you go.

If you want to get mad, now you can get mad at @YiJiang'sEvilClone!

@fbueckert Haha

While i still think that putting the game name in the tittle isn't necessary at least Yi Jiang put the full name of the game.

@fbueckert Oh dear, random internet wrath. I'm positively shaking in my chair.

4:45 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone You should be!

@ChrisHateZ "The game" is pretty undescriptive. You could rewrite the title such that it doesn't need that phrase in it, but it's 12am and I'm going to bed

 Blork the orc hits you with a runed great mace!
 Ouch! That really hurt!
_* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
 Blork the orc gestures at you while chanting.
 The puff of flame hits you!
 You die...

Oh Crawl.

24 to 0 in 2 turns

(That "really hurt" was for 22 damage)

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I'll leave it as you edited it, doesn't matter much. Sleep well!

(The other attack was for 7)

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Nite

Yeah, I know, SpEn is supposed to be the glass cannon of the game... but...

@badp What you about?

4:47 PM

Crawl.

Have you tried Doom The Roguelike?

Google IME just gave me a popup telling me that it added a bunch of phrase into its dictionary including "exorcist", "brother carrot" and "first admiration" (a pun on premiere, as in the premiere of a movie)

Chinese internet language is weird

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Aren't you supposed to be in bed!?

Photoshop is taking a long time to close

Don't worry it's not 1 am yet

user43095

4:53 PM

Anyone else notice this?

What was that rule about, "Don't migrate crap"?

user43095

Because this seems to fit the bill awfully well.

@jeffreylin_ Same question I'm talking about.

It got migrated from SU.

user43095

@fbueckert I know, but why was the user killed?

@jeffreylin_ Probably because he doesn't have an account on Arqade.

4:55 PM

The user doesn't have an Arqade account. It's not automatically created upon migration

user43095

That makes sense.

Also the user is unregistered on SU

@Unionhawk

@fredley You know you wanna help me build a small sorting system

@OrigamiRobot I do! Is the server alive?

4:58 PM

Yes

@OrigamiRobot Cool, hoppin' in

user43095

Whoohoo!

user15026

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I am mostly curious about "brother carrot"

5:17 PM

3

user15026

@BenBrocka Oh dear :P

@AshleyNunn I have no idea what it is either, but Google tells me it's the name of a farmer who became famous on the internet

user15026

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Huh. Good to know :P

Here's a badly translated Baike entry translate.google.com/…

Basically, this radish farmer decided to open his fields up to let anyone pick the radish for free after he found be couldn't sell them at a profit

Unexpectedly several thousand people turned up, and took more than just the radish. They also stole sweet potatoes from neighbouring fields

user15026

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Ah.

user15026

5:24 PM

Also I like how his occupation is listed as "vegetable"

And after that he got onto China's microblogging site, became a hit with netizens, and got several thousand dollars of donations

@AshleyNunn Vegetable farmer would be the correct translation. I'm not sure how Google Translate messed that up

@fredley How do you connect to the server?

user15026

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I figured that was likely what it was supposed to be. Translation errors like that amuse the crap out of me

The configuration must be different than the last time I tried.

@StrixVaria mine.stackgaming.com

5:26 PM

@StrixVaria You're also not whitelisted.

@RonanForman @fredley whitelisted me a long time ago.

I hope mencoder is doing what it's supposed to be doing, since VideoPad seems incapable of performing the menial task I laid before it.

Maybe that was lost if you restarted the server or something.

It's a modded server, you need the DW20 pack (v5.2.0) from the FTB launcher.

5:27 PM

@StrixVaria You need to launch version 5.2

@fredley Bah, it even updated to launch this.

Man that is a lot of mods... I have never played minecraft with any mods :S

@SimonL Join our FTB server!

Play all the mods!

Google Translate translated '4 or 5 cents' to '45 cents'

@StrixVaria You are whitelisted, just checked.

5:29 PM

Uh...The launcher only knows about v5.1.1.

I just re-downloaded the launcher just in case.

@fredley sure I can give it a try... can you give me some info on what I need to do to connect/download mods etc?

@SimonL Just get the client from the ftb page (google it)

@StrixVaria You need to change recommended version to 5.2 in the dropdown.

I think I may have figured it out.

user15026

@YiJiang'sEvilClone That's special.

5:30 PM

and join mine.stackgaming.com, using Direwolf20 v5.2.0

And '600 000 kilograms' to '60 kilograms'

@fredley FTb is feed the beast - correct?

@SimonL yes

user15026

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Sounds like it struggles with numbers.

Why does the number of frames that mencoder renders seem inversely proportionate (or negatively proportionate) to the progress through the file?

5:32 PM

@SimonL I'll need your MC username to white list you.

Units. It missed the word for 10 000 here, then translated the same word to million in another place

In both places that's several orders of magnitude off

Q: Why are my dwarves starving when there's food available?

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I'm new to Dwarf Fortress, and though I've started a nice fortress, for some reason my dwarves are always starving. According to my records, there is plenty of food: over 100 in the "other" category, over 300 seeds, and over twenty drink plus a well and a river. But I constantly recieve messsages...

dwarf-fortress

@RonanForman While you're at it, can you whitelist me too?

@MBraedley Sure.

@RonanForman Bluesteel2 is my minecraft username.

5:33 PM

no 'M' in my minecraft username, just Braedley

Stupid fabricators

Whitelist Sirtaptap in case I ever play?

The first error was caused by a subtlety in the Chinese language. If you say 'four five cent' that means 'four or five cent'. 'Four ten five' is forty five

I need a client side mod to play though right?

@BenBrocka Just the launcher

5:35 PM

the official launcher or a mod one?

@fredley That's quite a few client side mods, 65 at lastest count.

user15026

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Oh, I see. I can see how it might have misinterpreted it then.

@fredley It the extra bees update a server only one?

It's like saying 'four, five cents' in English, except the comma is omitted in Chinese

Currently reading: tcrf.net/Minecraft

5:36 PM

@RonanForman restart the damn server

@AshleyNunn It'd not a mistake any native speaker would make, though

@fredley I might as well update EB if I can.

@fredley You mean the one you crashed

@OrigamiRobot :-(

@fredley Are you using the fabricators with the enderchests?

5:37 PM

@RonanForman Yes

@fredley Maybe that's the issue, stop it!

@RonanForman :(

user43095

What kinda fabricators?

@jeffreylin_ xycraft ones, they do really cool crafting.

user15026

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Makes sense. :)