The Bridge

OrigamiRobot

5:01 PM

@BenBrocka This

cc: @fbueckert

Grace Note

@OrigamiRobot I was waiting for someone to do that. And it wasn't going to be me.

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote I will carry the burden for us all.

Grace Note

See, I see the name "Greenheart games" and I can't help but feel a little disappointed each time.

OrigamiRobot

By?

Grace Note

I just have a specific mental image whenever I think about Green Heart~

badp

5:03 PM

"shit team"

doesn't vote to scramble

paijwerpijrpiojwerpoiwejrpoijwe

@GraceNote poison?

OrigamiRobot

@badp Bless you.

Grace Note

@badp ...no.

In fact I actually can't call to mind a game off-hand that uses a heart gauge that turns green when poisoned. I can think of green'd health-bars but not hearts.

OrigamiRobot

Dear USPS, Why does your tracking suck?

James

grumble

In hawaii for 10 days and get swarmed by mosquitoes on the last one... Figures!

badp

@GraceNote Let's ask on the site! No, wait.

SaintWacko

5:13 PM

@GraceNote Minecraft does, I believe

OrigamiRobot

@SaintWacko Yes

Grace Note

I actually didn't remember that there was poison in Minecraft, but there we go then.

Fluttershy

@James First world problems?

OrigamiRobot

cc: @GraceNote

badp

well, the heart bar in Minecraft really is a solid bar painted with hearts

indeed some skins just change it to solid

It's not like in Zelda games where you can have quarter hearts

Grace Note

5:19 PM

@OrigamiRobot This seems like a risky card that could backfire.

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote Yes, I was linking it more for the flavor text.

badp

@OrigamiRobot Do you have to actually come up with two green mana cards or can you use markers or something for that?

murgatroid99

@badp There is no such thing as green mana cards.

badp

@murgatroid99 lands, whatever

murgatroid99

@badp Mana is abstract game units generated by lands

OrigamiRobot

5:20 PM

@badp No, you just remmeber.

I mean, you can use counters.

Grace Note

@badp I read somewhere that some of the Zelda games don't actually use a fractional heart health system, but rather they use a numbered system that is rendered proportionally as a certain amount of hearts. Which feels silly but apparently that is how it is.

Grumpy Lazers

-1

Q: What easter eggs were included in the 3.6 patch?

I've read several comments mentioning new easter eggs that were included in the 3.6 patch. Most, maybe all of them are focused on the new Howling Abyss map. Could anyone provide me with a list of them all?

league-of-legends

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote I suspect that's the case for lots of games.

Grace Note

@OrigamiRobot Oh. Eh.

badp

@GraceNote Well, 80 units of health, 80 quarters of heart, what's the difference

James

5:21 PM

@Fluttershy I am pretty sure every world hates mosquitoes :P

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote It's about someone getting sick from mushrooms! What more do you want?!

Grace Note

@badp Not much other than the former being more identical to the system as you depict it from Minecraft, in that sense that it's more abstracted.

badp

Ah, I was making my point on graphical grounds given that graphic representation is the only difference

although to be fair Minecraft hearts don't split in quarters to begin with so I suppose there's really no practical difference

Grace Note

@OrigamiRobot Poisonous mushrooms aren't like, a part of my The List. There just happen to be classes of poisonous mushrooms that I particularly like for specific reasons, and I also enjoy the concept as a major point but not to an emphatic degree. If that makes sense.

OrigamiRobot

Your face is an emphatic degree. :(

cc: @kalina

badp

5:26 PM

@OrigamiRobot Really, trying to come up with things Grace will like might just be an exercise in futility. Simply present a list of things to the general attention and sometimes she'll throw a "pffffffffft" at you

OrigamiRobot

@badp I refuse. I have been given a task.

Powerlord

@OrigamiRobot I had a new task for you, top priority.

Cook me bacon.

2

nice -20 cookbacon.origami

OrigamiRobot

Ullallulloo

5:44 PM

@OrigamiRobot That is the opposite of cook, I think.

NightExcessive

@OrigamiRobot I like bacon and sundaes, but that looks disgusting.

Blem

@OrigamiRobot will you not get mana burn if you don't use them, or did they remove that?

@NightExcessive was thinking the same

OrigamiRobot

@Blem Mana Burn no longer exists as of 2010

@Ullallulloo I am a robot.

Blem

that just say how long since i use to play

4

OrigamiRobot

NO FUCK YOU

badp

5:51 PM

@OrigamiRobot NO FUN, YOU

Grumpy Lazers

1

Q: How does ARAM random pick work?

Curious if ARAM random pick is based off your owned champions or all 100+ champions. Have only gotten a chance to play 1 game and it seemed like it was based off my own champions but half my team said they were playing champs for the first time.

league-of-legends

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote Did they use the "heart" terms more in Neptunia 1? I'm not sure the * Heart designation was mentioned at all in Mk2 (or * Sister for that matter)

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

@fbueckert Was the person you mentioned "Retrosaur"?

Powerlord

Maybe he meant @badp!

@badp No word yet on the SteamPipe conversion.

Then again, this is Valve we're talking about.

badp

@Powerlord I guess we were both wrong?

Whatever happens, you'll be wronger than I was. :P

Powerlord

6:06 PM

They'll release the update at 11:59pm PDT and it's still technically the 30th... to them.

badp

I think Valve Time can easily extend up to UTC +10,000,000

Powerlord

The dumb thing is, if this IS like the other games, they're just flipping a switch and making content servers start serving out what was the steampipe beta. Oh, and updating the game version in the steam.inf file.

If they're doing more than that, they're going to make plugin coders incredibly pissed as we've updated stuff to work with the current beta.

Yawus

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot I see your interview and raise you a stubborn dev that refuses to believe the mechanics are the same.

Yawus

I'm actually surprised that Spider-Man didn't know Sulu was helmsman.

fbueckert

6:13 PM

Because, and I quote, "that's because you don't know the details on how the games works."

NightExcessive

@fbueckert This is quite entertaining to read. It reminds me of common secondary school bickering!

fbueckert

@NightExcessive It gets derailed quickly, but the poster definitely has a point there.

Yawus

@NightExcessive Every public argument these days is like secondary school bickering.

That's how politics works.

fbueckert

And the dev's insistence on it not being the same sounds more like stubbornness than being reasonable.

NightExcessive

On a moderately unrelated note: what is this forum software? I quite like it.

fredley

6:15 PM

@OrigamiRobot Y U NO play ftb any more?

Yawus

@fredley Because Monster Hunter?

fredley

Sounds dull

Yawus

Your mother. Does she make a good apple pie? I haven't had one in a long time.

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert I don't have time to read all this. Is he claiming that bugs aren't the same in both games? Whether or not the background mechanics are the same, the impact on the player is identical. It's just silly to claim otherwise.

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot I think he's being pedantic about how it works in the backend, and since they don't function exactly the same there, they're not the same.

OrigamiRobot

6:17 PM

@fredley Too many confusing things got added (By that I mean 1) and I got distracted.

fredley

@OrigamiRobot Wat

fbueckert

> Similarly, only because we have three dev stages as well doesn't mean the mechanic of these stages work the same.

So, yeah. He's arguing that they're not exactly the same, ergo he didn't rip them off.

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert Yea, that's silly. Bugs are one of the things that work the same. Regardless of how the backend works, the system is "bugs show up, wait longer at the end until bugs go away". Now, based on one of the questions @kalina asked, it looks like bugs can show up post launch even if all the bugs were "fixed" in development.

But it doesn't look like he's arguing that at all.

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot Not from what I can tell.

OrigamiRobot

The parts he's arguing about are the same from a player perspective and interaction standpoint.

fbueckert

6:21 PM

He's adding extra mechanics on top, and that's awesome.

OrigamiRobot

And that's what counts.

fbueckert

But he shouldn't be defending the fact that because he changed them slightly, he didn't take them completely from GDS.

OrigamiRobot

I agree.

fbueckert

Bugs, especially. They function the same.

If they're willing to go, "Yeah, we got a ton of our ideas from GDS. We've improved, but that's what inspired us." I'd buy it.

I'll happily support small devs.

But not devs that go, "Doesn't work the same! NOT THE SAME AT ALL!"

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert That's what I read from the link I posted. He's just being stubborn about semantics.

fbueckert

6:24 PM

@OrigamiRobot There's a small blurb about it in the interview. What's said there, and in their own turf seem to be two different things.

Any thread started that tries to talk about the similarities gets jumped on and locked.

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert Based on the quantity of them, I'm not surprised. There's no denying that the games are very similar but calling one a 100% ripoff as the threads I've seen are doing is unfair.

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot 100% ripoff, no.

The views are extreme.

Sconibulus

it feels like 80% of the problems would go away if they'd chosen a different name

fbueckert

The thread I linked, though, was trying to be reasonable about it, and got jumped on by fanboys.

OrigamiRobot

Right, and it doesn't look like he's arguing that point in the right way at all.

Sconibulus

6:27 PM

because yeah, they're really really similar, but they're different enough to pass, if it didn't look like they were trying to get fans of game dev story

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert Fanboys and anti-fanboys are the worst.

fbueckert

@Sconibulus With the amount of similarities, it's too much of a coincidence to not see it that way.

kalina

I'm sure I read somewhere that they had played GDS and decided they didn't like the way certain things worked, so created their own

OrigamiRobot

@kalina Yes, that is the article I linked to @fbueckert.

kalina

@OrigamiRobot well sorry for existing.

OrigamiRobot

6:29 PM

I was just letting you know so you didn't waste time trying to find it. :(

Sconibulus

@fbueckert I think it would be far less of a deal if the game was called Gaming Tycoon, or something, instead of using the Game Dev moniker

fbueckert

@Sconibulus Most likely it would be. It really does seem like the devs are being disingenuous about their reasoning.

Sconibulus

Not that people wouldn't see the similarities and such, just that they'd notice the differences a bit more, and not be so quick to jump on the guys

Grumpy Lazers

0

Q: Battle.net Mobile Authenticator won't initialize

I'd like to attach a mobile authenticator to my World of Warcraft account for obvious reasons, but for some reason, it won't initialize. I installed it a few weeks ago and haven't been able to use it. All the error text I see is ERROR Check the reception in your area. If you have a signal,...

world-of-warcraft battle.net

0

Q: What, if anything, can I do with the "progessive" man in the Lansdowne Residence?

I'm wandering around in the Lansdowne Residence, and upon reaching the lowest floor, I came across a man who doesn't seem to want to attack me. He claims to be a "Progressive", whatever that is. I could shoot him and go through his pockets for loose change, but that seems rude. Is there someth...

bioshock-infinite

OrigamiRobot

@fredley That new mod that got added is confusing and I don't really have anything left I want to do.

fredley

6:40 PM

@OrigamiRobot :(

OrigamiRobot

Then Bioshock Infinite came out.

Then I got Monster Hunter

Powerlord

Then he got killed.

Typing skills fail.

OrigamiRobot

@Powerlord I did die many times in both games.

Ullallulloo

Apparently my ISP started interfering with P2P activities.

Powerlord

@Ullallulloo interfere with their billing activities

SaintWacko

6:47 PM

@Ullallulloo Oh, that's always enraging

Ullallulloo

@Powerlord Better than dial-up.

The encryption option seems to get around it at least.

Powerlord

@badp I've heard that a TF2 client update just got pushed

Ullallulloo

Look at all this piracy they're stopping!

Powerlord

boots old TF2 server

I want to see if it throws "server out of date messages"

OrigamiRobot

@Ullallulloo I would love to hear a service call of someone explaining that P2P can be used for legitimate reasons.

Ben Brocka

6:54 PM

Obama chuckled. "You mean the Chaos Emeralds?"

Tweeted by fanfiction_txt on April 30, 2013 at 5:54 PM

I have to see the source of this

NightExcessive

@Ullallulloo Do be careful; obnoxious "rights holders" or their attorneys can still get your IP from the tracker which is almost enough to uniquely identify you.

Ullallulloo

@BenBrocka Not that weird. In the TV show, Sonic had pretty regular conversations with the president.

fbueckert

@NightExcessive Peer Guardian is awesome for that.

"Oh, that IP is from someone who's sue-happy? No connecting to me!"

Ullallulloo

@NightExcessive I don't think that Perfect World or Humble Bundle will prosecute me for using their torrent option instead of their direct download option. :P

NightExcessive

@fbueckert Not particularly. Most use common VPNs or residential addresses, much of which most peer guardian blacklists don't include.

@Ullallulloo Indeed they won't. :P

Ullallulloo

6:58 PM

IP addresses as evidence doesn't even really hold up in court anyway, does it?

fbueckert

@NightExcessive The days of suing pirates seems to be ending; Prenda is eviscerating the entire business model with their shenanigans.

Coronus

@Ullallulloo I remember when I had Comcast and they throttled my connection when I updated WoW.

NightExcessive

@Ullallulloo IP address and datetime means that the ISP can figure out who the IP was leased to. Getting IPs from trackers doesn't usually hold up in court because any IP can appear on a tracker and not be distributing the disputed material.

I may or may not be moderately experienced with pirating. :)

Coronus

Wow, it's been a year since the NY judge said "An IP address is not a person"

badp

@NightExcessive I think nowadays they'll try and grab data from you beforehand

if I've read some court materials correctly they do that now.

NightExcessive

7:02 PM

@badp They have to receive an adequate amount of disputed material from your IP to:

1. Prove that you're distributing it
2. Prove that it doesn't fall under fair use

badp

However, that still doesn't stand because the ISP leaser is not necessarily the pirate himself; if they want to accuse one person in particular, they'll have to prove it was him.

NightExcessive

That's not to say that they won't sue without evidence in an attempt to intimidate or financially cripple.

badp

There was a case rejected lately out loud because the judge decided it was outrageous to simply pick the adolescent male in the household as the must-be pirate

fbueckert

@NightExcessive Nowadays, suing pirates is a form of legal extortion.

NightExcessive

@badp In the US, ISPs are protected from legal threats due to DMCA safe harbor exemptions (as long as they forward notices on behalf of both parties)

badp

7:05 PM

@NightExcessive the ISP leaser or the guy who has signed the contract

Coronus

@NightExcessive Doesn't mean they can't comply with the requests.

NightExcessive

@badp Technically it's anyone who can reasonably prove that they're providing a connection service and forwarding requests in compliance with the DMCA

Sepia Lazers

0

Q: Where to ask questions about the "Wesnoth markup language"?

I have a question regarding the Wesnoth markup language. But I am not sure where to ask: Gaming SE Gamedev SE Where should I ask my question?

support allowed-questions

NightExcessive

@Coronus In some cases the provider has to disable access to material if they reasonably can and the DMCA notice isn't disputed within a certain period (10 days IIRC)

Back to fixing my phone before I get a legalese boner.

Coronus

@NightExcessive Are you talking content takedown notices?

NightExcessive

7:08 PM

@Coronus DMCA notices can function as either, depending on the party who is distributing the content

fbueckert

@SepiaLazers Sounds like Gamedev would be the place to ask.

Powerlord

> We’ve released an optional update to the TF2 SteamPipe beta

> Forcing all clients to convert soon

Grumpy Lazers

0

Q: Paper Mario: TTYD - Stuck in Keelhaul Key

I was going through Keelhaul Key a second time, with Ms. Mowz, to get all hidden things (Shine Sprites and Star Pieces) but I got stuck in the cave where you find the 50-something stranded Toads. On my second run, the switches in the background are missing, and there are no barrels between the pa...

paper-mario-2

0

Q: Candy Crush Saga Facebook Issue

I have been playing Candy Crush Saga a lot recently, and I have created a facebook account just so that I can get the new levels without paying for them (asking 3 friends). However, I have an annoying issue where I can only ever see 4 facebook friends (and 2 of them don't even play the game). W...

ios candy-crush-saga

Powerlord

> We expect to flip the switch to force all clients to convert to SteamPipe in a few hours. (Approx 2:00 PM Seattle time.) At this time, the “Steampipe beta” server which has just been released will become the official server. There will not be another update.

I'm updating my server now

Coronus

@GrumpyLazers Facebook is evil.

Powerlord

7:13 PM

btw, 2pm Seattle time is 1.75 hours from now

:9217011 To be fair, I fixed that before you replied.

Stupid typos

Coronus

@Powerlord You know what? I don't want to talk about it. Look! Bacon!

OrigamiRobot

Bioshock Infinite is $28

Powerlord

@Coronus WHERE?!

OrigamiRobot

2 hours ago, by OrigamiRobot

NightExcessive

@Coronus BAAACOOOONNNN! Wait- is it in a Sundae?

@OrigamiRobot NOOOOOOOO!

Powerlord

7:17 PM

Slickdeals points me at... gamedailydeals, which has an activation code for... Steam

@NightExcessive Why "NOOO" ?

Coronus

@Powerlord Which is, technically, a digital download... I suppose.

NightExcessive

@Powerlord That looks nasty.

Coronus

@NightExcessive I'll have yours.

NightExcessive

@Coronus I'll trade you it for lots of good ol' bacon.

Powerlord

I hope this TF2 server update doesn't break the gamedata

Oh yay, it does!!!!

Coronus

7:18 PM

> Note: Game activates on Steam.

user43095

-2

A: Is Udyr stronger in top lane or the jungle?

Tho tyo tyo tyo tyo tyo tyo tyo tyo tyo

Coronus

@jeffreylin_ That looks thoroughly researched.

NightExcessive

@jeffreylin_ "Please consider adding a comment if you think this answer can be improved." I dunno, it's the best answer I've seen all day!

Powerlord

Shit, I don't have the replay information on my other test server

At least I don't think I do

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

@jeffreylin_ Someones been reading the Book of Hodor.

2

NightExcessive

7:30 PM

@William'MindWorX'Mariager Your comment... I died laughing!

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Hehe

Silly answers needs silly comments.

fbueckert

@William'MindWorX'Mariager That usually encourages the trolls, sadly.

Coronus

@OrigamiRobot Thank you.

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

@fbueckert True.

Trent Hawkins

Watch, a link is provided to a recently edited wiki page that would technically validate his answer.

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

7:33 PM

@TrentHawkins That would be awesome. :P

Coronus

@TrentHawkins That would win +10 Internets. I would laugh.

NightExcessive

The comments on my question on English.SE have blown my mind: english.stackexchange.com/q/112865/43409

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

@NightExcessive You should look at RPG.SE. Most answers are like 400-500 words. :P

They really take their RPG seriously.

Which is pretty awesome.

NightExcessive

@William'MindWorX'Mariager Jesus. I'm terrible at writing, so I can usually only squeeze out 2-3 sentences in an answer or question. (There are occasional exceptions)

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

21

Q: What do you do when a player intimidates your campaign boss to surrender?

So my players recently fought a big bad campaign boss. The (custom made) boss was a kind of solo beserker king, and the encounter difficulty was designed to be fairly moderate until the boss became bloodied, at which point he would frenzy and dramatically increase his damage output and the encoun...

dnd-4e players encounter-design

Second question on the frontpage. :P

Powerlord

7:38 PM

I love how Fletcher Dunn answers easy questions, but skips the question that the lead SourceMod dev asks.

Wait, duh, I have that replay data backed up

It's just commented out in server.cfg

NightExcessive

@William'MindWorX'Mariager Aaaaahhh! Writing! I'm allergic!

Powerlord

...no it isn't, that's the old replay info

fredley

@NightExcessive What is ths?

BoltClock

@Powerlord I uninstalled TF2 so I can redownload it later once Steam Pipe rolls out. Am I stupid or am I stupid?

Powerlord

@BoltClock Stupid.

Seeing as how it's a one time conversion.

NightExcessive

7:41 PM

@fredley On gaming.stackexchange.com/a/115699/7964

BoltClock

Well my experience with updates is that with each (major) update my game becomes much more crash-prone

Even when file validation says no problems

Powerlord

@BoltClock Well, it couldn't hurt to install from scratch then.

fredley

@NightExcessive I meant the image

Powerlord

One thing I'll say about SteamPipe... the game loads faster, and so do the maps.

NightExcessive

@fredley Which image?

fredley

7:42 PM

@NightExcessive The one you replied to...

19 mins ago, by William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Coronus

@fredley That wasn't a reply, technically.

NightExcessive

@fredley Oh, that wasn't a reply. Or wasn't meant to be, at least.

Powerlord

One of the guys I know who plays on a slow laptop and usually joins after waiting for players ends (and we have it set to 1 minute) loaded with 30 seconds left on the waiting for players clock.

fredley

@NightExcessive Oh. I fail at chat.

OrigamiRobot

Neverwinter is in open beta. I don't remember signing up for this announcement.

NightExcessive

7:43 PM

@fredley That image is a joke referencing a character from A Song of Ice and Fire.

fredley

@NightExcessive Right. I intend to watch that at some point.

NightExcessive

@fredley Both the TV show and the books are great.

OrigamiRobot

@fredley Spoiler alert, the porkchop dies.

fredley

@OrigamiRobot So I hear.

Coronus

@NightExcessive I read the books, and loved them. Haven't gotten around to the show yet.

SaintWacko

7:48 PM

@Fluttershy Ffs I just noticed the Recipe 1 Recipe 2 Recipe 3 stuff at the top of the crafting windows

No wonder it seemed like so many recipes were missing

Grumpy Lazers

0

Q: Approximately how often does PWE change specific lockbox type drops? (STO, Raiderz, etc...)

I read that in Star Trek: online and other Perfect World Entertainment titles, the lockboxes that drop (and require keys to open) change types every once in a while. Some people say it's with major content updates, others say around every three months. Any veteran STO player can shed light on...

star-trek-online perfect-world neverwinter-online

0

Q: My Diablo 3 account has hacked items. Can I get in trouble?

My Diablo 3 account was hacked, I didn't care until I wanted to play Starcraft II, I couldn't log in because the hacker changed my password and my e-mail, he even put an authenticator in place. I called Blizzard, and they recovered the account for me. When I started to play Diablo III I noticed ...

diablo-3

0

Q: Don't know why there are Total Freight Orders

I don't understand why the freights sent to commercial buildings. It's fine even if there is no industrial buildings. Of course, industrial buildings create many jobs but nothing to do with commercial buildings and it is more effective when there is trade depots. Leak of Total Freight Orders d...

simcity

0

Q: Scratched xbox dvd, can I download the game from internet and use dvd to launch?

I have CoD:MW3 original xbox dvd, unfortunately it is scratched. I thougth that I could search on the internet for a HDD installation and then use the original dvd to launch the game. Is this legit? The DVD is scratched, but it's playable up to 2nd minute :D

xbox dvd

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote: free rep

Ullallulloo

@GrumpyLazers Isn't it just called "Neverwinter"?

NightExcessive

Can anyone recommend a good click-and-point adventure?

OrigamiRobot

@NightExcessive Minesweeper.

NightExcessive

7:56 PM

@OrigamiRobot Tried it; it was like a blind man walking through a mine field

Ullallulloo

@NightExcessive Broken Sword? Botanicula, Wallace and Gromit, and Sam & Max are supposed to be good too.

Powerlord

Day of the Tentacle

Coronus

@Powerlord Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders.

SaintWacko

@NightExcessive Machinarium is neat

NightExcessive

@SaintWacko I beat Machinarium. Quite enjoyed it!

OrigamiRobot

8:04 PM

Is anyone else playing in the Neverwinter Beta?

Powerlord

wtf is Office 365. :/

OrigamiRobot

@Powerlord That's called a job.

Powerlord

@OrigamiRobot I mean the Microsoft programme.

And apparently

> Office 365 is a subscription-based service which offers access to various services and software built around the Microsoft Office platform.

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

@Powerlord Isn't that the thing where you pay yearly and get free upgrades rather than buying the software.

Powerlord

So my employer, whom is a state government, apparently thinks its a good idea to switch to this?

Coronus

8:06 PM

@Powerlord Switch from... ?

Powerlord

@Coronus and yet, we're going to access it through Outlook 2010. Yes, this makes complete sense

OrigamiRobot

@Powerlord State worker eh? I'm sorry.

SaintWacko

@William'MindWorX'Mariager Yes

@Powerlord Actually, depending on certain factors, it can be cheaper than buying the new versions when they're released

Coronus

@Powerlord Well, Outlook is just the client. You're probably switching from Exchange.

SaintWacko

I can't remember the factors, it's been a little while, but I looked into it for my previous employer

Powerlord

8:08 PM

@SaintWacko Given that we only switched to Outlook 2010 because TFS required it...

Also, remind me to stab NFOServers repeatedly for assigning random FTP passwords

'cause I have no idea what the ftp password is to my other server to get the info I need to set up replay on my temp server.

and of course, the site I could visit that could TELL me what it is is blocked here.

and the third copy is on my home PC, currently unplugged due to thunderstorms this morning.

Ben Brocka

This is where pixels come from, kids

Ullallulloo

About half an hour until it launches.

Powerlord

Can't we all just get in the choppa!

(bored)

Coronus

8:23 PM

@BenBrocka That's an odd way to store Jell-O

user15026

@BenBrocka this is beautiful

Powerlord

@AshleyNunn So is 999, so you need to find it / get another copy.

user15026

I knooooow but I can't afford another copy and right now doing anything that isn't lying down is so bloody painful that looking is not an option

Grumpy Lazers

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Q: Small freezes during gameplay

Whenever actors change their set or finish a take or a movie gets released etc, I get a small freeze of the game which is quite annoying. Is this known? Does anyone have a solution? My Specs: AMD 965 Black Edition Sapphire HD 7850 2GB 4GB Kingston RAM Win7 64bit Edition

the-movies

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Q: Can't get draw something data back after rest

I wiped my phone and can't get my old game back. it wasn't connected to my email or my Facebook, but logging in with user name is not an option...

draw-something

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Q: What's the best way to get money in Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory?

Some of the outfits and other items in the store are very expensive; several for 1 million credits. After a second playthrough I'm now hovering around 600,000 credits. Quest rewards and enemy drops aren't worth that much, so I must be missing something that makes those items remotely obtainable. ...

hyperdimension-neptunia-v

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Q: We want to ship our freights!

Every low density industrial buildings product 9 freight every 2hours 24minutes. And medium density industrial buildings product 9 freight every 1hour 12minutes. And high density industrial buildings product 9 freight every 36minutes. It's going faster. Low and medium buildings are fine if the...

simcity

badp

@AshleyNunn :(

user15026

8:29 PM

I am trying to summon the oomph to make ramen for dinner, and trying to decide if beef or chicken ramen is tastier.

Powerlord

@GrumpyLazers List question?

@GrumpyLazers Is this tagged properly?

Sconibulus

That doesn't really seem like a list

Ben Brocka

@Powerlord There is a single, extremely superior way to do it

Coronus

Nope

OrigamiRobot

BEEF

Coronus

8:31 PM

@OrigamiRobot @AshleyNunn This

Powerlord

@BenBrocka Hack the save file?

user15026

@origamirobot had a feeling you would say that. Debating if adding hotdogs to it is a thing that should happen.

Gaming Topics From Outside

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Q: How to force minimize or switch a video / game - Bug?

I'm comming from Windows 7, and something that I loved there was to Alt+Tab in any Game or video and switch to another app without problem. Here, I tried with Age of Mythology (Wine), that I play it a lot, and saw that it can't minimize it and switch to another app. Mouse pointer is in another s...

video 13.04 games application-switcher

user20683

Time to earn a star:

user20683

grantkirkhope.bandcamp.com/album/perfect-dark

user20683

8:41 PM

@BenBrocka He's released Perfect Dark's OST now

Powerlord

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Ben Brocka

@Powerlord Not so easy with most console games

@WorldEngineer neat, never played that game though

user20683

@BenBrocka nor I really

user20683

I played some MP at a friend's house

user20683

but that was it

Ben Brocka

8:49 PM

Nintendo must have thought their Wii U update was important enough to warrant an email

fbueckert

I need another Kairosoft game to come out.

Ben Brocka

The load times thing is pretty sweet but an email seems like a bit much

fbueckert

@BenBrocka After the first time, mine seems to be at the same speed as before.

It just goes, "Loading software" now instead.

Ben Brocka

You're probably just not noticing it. It's not so fast it's blatant, but there's youtube videos showing it's a significant improvement

user15026

@fbueckert a new one would be nice, yeah.

fbueckert

8:51 PM

@BenBrocka I haven't timed it, but if it's faster, I'm not noticing it.

That's not a big improvement.

Ben Brocka

It's pretty decent. It's shaved several seconds off the load of Might Switch Force HD (noticable because there used to be a long pause after it says "MIGHTY SWITCH FORCE" and now it almost immediately loads the game after the voice clip)

badp

Did the update make the "MIGHTY SWITCH FORCE" clip play 3× as slow in the process?

fbueckert

@BenBrocka The game load itself is slightly faster, yes. The bootup until game load, though, seems to take longer now, though.

Ben Brocka

And since it's something you deal with very often a slight reduction in time is a big overall improvement

James

Ben Brocka

8:59 PM

Are all NESes a nightmare to load carts into? Mine is but I got it second hand (abandoned actually) like 15 years after it's release

user20683

@BenBrocka yes

user15026

@BenBrocka Mine isnt too terrible but that is not saying much

Ullallulloo

@BenBrocka Relevant

That's big.

Ben Brocka

@Ullallulloo Exactly. That chart's a great example of why performance optimizations and UX work are extremely important. If you do something multiple times a day, even if it's a short hold up it piles up like crazy

OrigamiRobot

@AshleyNunn GROSS

user15026

9:08 PM

@OrigamiRobot Thats a no, then? :P