The Bridge

...I just realized that I've been converting from sh_vector (included with MetaMod: Source) to utlvector (included with HL2SDK), not realizing that sh_vector is in my compile path. @_@

badp

9:10 PM

@RavenDreamer You have to start somewhere

Raven Dreamer

"NOM!" "Tibbers, nooo!" "NOM!" "Annie, nooo!"

This is a very round about way of saying that @GraceNote 's drawing is deliciously cutesy.

Powerlord

You know what, Valve added high-five animations to TF2 a while back. They have yet to make them do anything in game.

Oh, and they had high-five miss animations that they then removed.

Raven Dreamer

Clearly you haven't been high-fiving it up in Portal 2 then.

Grace Note

@RavenDreamer Excellent, we're going through with it. ♪

Nom nom nom ♪

Mana

@Raven Oh. I thought you were saying that you wanted to eat GraceNote.

Raven Dreamer

9:12 PM

@GraceNote - did you draw that yourself?

Grace Note

@RavenDreamer Hah, no.

Powerlord

@RavenDreamer Well, yes, but TF2 had high-five animations before Portal 2 did, Valve just hasn't used them.

Grace Note

I'm just an expert at finding art.

Raven Dreamer

Hear, hear!

Powerlord

TF2 has a lot of excess content that isn't used any more. Very rarely do they remove anything.

Which is great for me, as I abuse some of their unused sounds to signal an upcoming map vote.

Raven Dreamer

9:13 PM

Anyone here read Homestuck?

Grace Note

And I figure, picking a vicious voidborn seemed to be fitting for a site designed for "Exploring the unknown"

Raven Dreamer

I discovered it for the first time last weekend.

Grace Note

@RavenDreamer Isn't Mana's gravatar from it?

Raven Dreamer

I spent the last 5 days reading all of it.

thedaian

Now someone needs to edit a video of tf2 classes on an episode of Hoarders :P

Raven Dreamer

9:14 PM

@GraceNote - It is, in fact.

Mana

Yup.

Powerlord

@thedaian Hoarders?

Mana

Dangerously addictive webcomic.

Raven Dreamer

Here's my favorite song from all of it: homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/sburban-jungle

It's got a heckuva "epic confrontation" feel to it.

Mana

Solid choice, haha.

thedaian

9:15 PM

@Powerlord tv show in the US (and possibly a few other countries) about people who don't throw away anything.

Grace Note

Well, that's that then. Later all ♪

badp

@RavenDreamer I got to mid of season 3

Raven Dreamer

Farewell!

Act 3?

Powerlord

@thedaian Are you making fun of my TF2 backpack? >:/

badp

well, yeah.

Mana

9:15 PM

@badp tsk, you're not even on Act 5 yet!

badp

I saw your reaction when I made a reference and you weren't pleased.

So I stopped.

Mana

what

no I was happy

just surprised

you trolling me bro?

thedaian

@Powerlord if you could somehow wear all those at the same time, then yes :P

badp

Do I look like VALVe?

Raven Dreamer

heh

Mana

9:17 PM

well

I would recommend reading until halfway through Act 5

Powerlord

@thedaian For some reason, I can now picture Weird Al's parody Perform This Way done by TF2 characters.

badp

yeah, then your character dies and the comic becomes worthless, right? :P

Mana

and then re-evaluating whether or not you should keep reading

Raven Dreamer

@badp - Mana's avatar never dies. At least not yet.

Mana

pfft no, the comic is consistently excellent except for Act 1

Powerlord

9:18 PM

I forget, did I post my latest TF2 video in here yet?

thedaian

I stopped at some point in homestuck.. i'm not sure exactly when.

Mana

also yeah he did Raven, in the thing that happened with the thing but then it turned out to not be a thing

thedaian

i kind of blame the long chatlogs for the reason though :(

badp

Jun 1 at 17:23, by Mana

the character in my avatar just got killed :(

Powerlord

15 Backstabs in a Dead Man's Keep that is?

Raven Dreamer

9:19 PM

@badp - It was a trick, though!

Powerlord

Oh well, I feel like posting it again

Raven Dreamer

Also, are you keeping 3 weeks worth of chatlogs?

Powerlord

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Raven Dreamer

Geez, Big Brother Badp strikes again!

badp

@RavenDreamer Search!

chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=avatar&user=296&room=35

Raven Dreamer

9:20 PM

I instead choose to believe that you are a conniving Italian mastermind.

badp

And a terrible heavy or spy, so I'm not going to get to use the new mafia themed sets

Mana

@Raven glad to see there's someone else though who's caught up on Homestuck, none of my friends are and so I'm dying having nobody to talk the new stuff over with

Raven Dreamer

You hear that, @Mana? YOU'RE NOT DEAD!

Powerlord

Someone reminded me last night that all TF2 replays will likely not work after today's update (they mention something about them failing post-major updates), so I rendered it on my laptop.

Mana

yaaaaay

Raven Dreamer

9:21 PM

Nothing personal, @Powerlord, but 15 backstabs is less impressive on DGK, IMO

Mana

Also I'm pretty sure, or at least hope, that we're rapidly approaching End of Act 5

Raven Dreamer

Just 'cause of weapon restrictions

Mana

finally, jeepers.

Raven Dreamer

See, I was going by the fact that because Homestuck Volume 7 was being advertised for, there had been at least 7 acts so far.

Mana

so the plan is that the entire story will be 7 acts

Powerlord

9:23 PM

@RavenDreamer Well, at the time, my previous record was 12 on pl_goldrush (long time ago) and pl_upward (more recently)

Mana

the author usually makes plans for things to be a certain length however and then they end up being longer

Powerlord

But both of those predate replays

Mana

see Act 5 part 1, which was supposed to be maybe a month of updates and lasted five and a half months

badp

you did miss a few backstab opportunities there

Powerlord

@badp Yes, I did.

badp

9:25 PM

At any rate

Those new items are fucking a lot with speed

Powerlord

and there are a few that I wasn't aware someone was near me (like the Pyro to my left at one point)

badp

I wonder if the new game mode, if any, will be what determined this theme.

Arda Xi

@Powerlord I just watched that video. That's awesome.

Mana

@Arda u r

Powerlord

That's the problem showing it in third-person, you see more than you do in the game itself.

Arda Xi

9:26 PM

See, @badp? That's how you're nice to someone.

@Mana <3

badp

Smaller clip sizes dealing more damage for everybody, and just the toomfoolery of quadruple-jumping scouts beeing boosted by soldiers as demomen charge around left and right

Powerlord

@ArdaXi There are several times I should have died before then... like when I decloaked right behind that Sniper.

<3 Stupid people. :D (as long as they're on the other team)

Arda Xi

@Powerlord Yep. And yay for them making videos. ~~I kid, I kid~~

badp

@ArdaXi I've already been nice to him in the comments!

Arda Xi

3 mins ago, by badp

you did miss a few backstab opportunities there

Powerlord

9:27 PM

My biggest mistake was activating the Dead Ringer too late at the end.

Arda Xi

If that's your only response... that's not being nice.

badp

I just said it isn't.

Powerlord

I had 3 hitpoints when I activated it then.

Mana

Oh no. Here we go.

Powerlord

Oh, I should have mentioned in the comments that RED won that round and I topped the scoreboard. :D

Raven Dreamer

9:28 PM

Something happened to my connection last week

I can't play anything which requires a stable internet connection

Like TF2

badp

Besides I've already shown how to do short and sweet spy videos that are representative of the average spy action in normal games :P

Raven Dreamer

I still haven't found a hat through the random drop system yet (Though I did get my 2nd misc. slot item)

Powerlord

@RavenDreamer One of my friends was complaining about that. He has Verizon DSL.

Raven Dreamer

I have....

Mana

@Raven Are you ever thinking of getting a non-default gravatar?

Raven Dreamer

9:29 PM

CoOooooOoOOoMmmMcaAaAaAast

badp

@Mana I approve of this

Powerlord

@RavenDreamer Misc slot drops are on the hat drop system.

Except they're a lot more rare.

Raven Dreamer

@Mana I actually spent some time modifying my default gravatar. I think it got lost when I effectively got downsized from my internship.

Powerlord

(since there's, what, 8 droppable Misc items in the game?)

Raven Dreamer

@Powerlord - one was the Camera beard back when the camera beard drop rates were borked.

Grace Note

9:30 PM

@RavenDreamer Huh. My New Englander Comcast connection has been very finicky, but it hasn't stopped me from playing all that much.

Powerlord

@RavenDreamer That does kinda suck.

Wait, that was years ago... you've seriously only gotten one hat/misc drop since?

Raven Dreamer

Eh. I dunno. In another 2 months I'll be back at college with a nice stable T1 wired connection.

@Powerlord yup.

I am incredibly poor and Irish.

Grace Note

@RavenDreamer Yay college connections!

2

Powerlord

@RavenDreamer How often do you play?

Raven Dreamer

@Powerlord - up until last October... pretty regularly. Then I kinda dropped off because of my ongoing sicknessss (which was pretty bad 'round Halloween)

Mana

9:33 PM

@Grace Seriously. Canadian internet sucks, especially where I live, so I'm happy I can at least get a 500 kb/s download speed over at Toronto

Raven Dreamer

@GraceNote - I'm betting you're in a less rural area than me, so that might explain some of it.

Powerlord

This year alone, I've gotten two Heavy hats from random drops: The Hound Dog and Magnificent Mongolian. Can't remember if I've gotten any others this year.

Grace Note

@RavenDreamer I live on a Golf Course. I'm not sure whether that counts as supra-rural or supra-urban.

Raven Dreamer

@Powerlord - Well ain't that just the bee's knees.

Grace Note

To wit, though, my brother (who lives in the same house as I do, mind you) has a more stable and faster internet connection than I do.

Raven Dreamer

9:35 PM

@GraceNote - Well, do you like golf?

Powerlord

@Mana No TekSavvy there?

Grace Note

@RavenDreamer Wouldn't have consented to such an arrangement if I didn't. ♪

Raven Dreamer

@GraceNote than it's neither. It's supra-*awesome*.

Grace Note

It is a nice place. Though it has its fair share of dangers like wasp-infested stone monuments.

Mana

@Powerlord Nope. Even if it were in Ottawa it most likely wouldn't reach the maaaaaaaansiooooon oooooon the hiiiill

Powerlord

9:37 PM

Ooh, it's past going home time and I didn't notice.

Mana

which is where I live. Surrounded by trees.

Powerlord

flees

Grace Note

@Mana Should look into cyclonic weather systems. Those are pretty good at clearing trees. From my other house, I actually have a nice view now.

thedaian

bees.

Grace Note

Admittedly, the tower parapet was already pretty good at seeing over the trees at that house, but now at least it's possible at ground level.

Raven Dreamer

9:39 PM

So if someone came by to visit, you would have to respond...

badp

nicely done @Thomas :P

Raven Dreamer

"Sorry Gaming.stackexchange, but your moderator lives in another castle"

Lazers

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Q: Tag synonym request: [mtg-dotp-2012] and [magic-2012]

So Wizards of the Coast, not satisfied with having a really long company name, has taken to making video games with excessively long names, too. Last year, they released Magic: The Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers and mtg-duels-of-planeswalker was created as a way to fit most of the title in...

Grace Note

@RavenDreamer I'd rather get rid of the blasted thing.

Mana

@Grace Damn it, I spent the past five minutes trying to figure out just what exactly you meant by "cyclonic weather systems". I'm so dumb.

Raven Dreamer

9:42 PM

Tornadoes!

Mana

so dumb so dumb so dumb so dumb

Raven Dreamer

Or maybe windman.

Grace Note

A house with a tower is nice (and it makes lying on your roof to contemplate very easy), but it's painful to maintain.

Mana

Do people really do the lying down on the roof thing? I thought that only happened in romance movies.

Raven Dreamer

My brother and I used to be able to do that.

user30

9:44 PM

@badp :)

Raven Dreamer

Then we realized we have nothing but trees to view, so that sorta killed it.

I mean, don't get me wrong -- trees are fine.

But there comes a point where you have to say:

"Okay. I'm tired of looking at trees."

Mana

"OH GOD NO NOT THE TREES AAAAAGH MY EYES"

Grace Note

@Mana I'm a romantic, if it weren't obvious.

Mana

@Grace As with most things, I was entirely oblivious to this.

M'vy

Hey there!

Raven Dreamer

9:46 PM

Oh, it looks like the Curse network is back up.

Mana

whassup no vowels

Raven Dreamer

@lunboks made me realize that Terraria 1.05 update is out!

Metroidvania + Minecraft = Terraria.

I wish there was some website that catalogued ironic or funny patch notes.

Sometimes when reading them it's just like...

"Fish are no longer upside-down when out of water"

Mana

I had the worst Terraria experience. I was just starting out and had some wooden equipment, so I was digging down in earth where, unbeknownst to me, I was very close to some Corruption.

Raven Dreamer

I mean, clearly that sounds like a change. But it makes you wonder.

Mana

So I'm digging when I have my first battle ever against a worm-type enemy. Unfortunately for me, my first experience was against a Devourer.

thedaian

9:49 PM

patch notes out of context can be pretty fun sometimes

Raven Dreamer

Rocket boots no longer require mana.

Mana

After killing me, it chased me back up to the surface and started killing everybody in my town. I died 20 times before I finally managed to kill the thing.

Raven Dreamer

Oh, heck yes. Now I just need some rocket boots to enjoy that.

Mana

So. Annoying. :(

Raven Dreamer

there, there.

Mana

9:51 PM

shoves Raven away

Brant

I tried Terraria but I couldn't figure out how to build stuff.

Mana

you're not my real dad

@Brant Yeah...as with Minecraft the game really needs a tutorial.

thedaian

I tried Terriaia, but i decided that I like the ability to have safe areas like in minecraft, so i haven't really touched it.

Raven Dreamer

"Water now evaporates when it reaches the underworld."

thedaian

Plus, I'm terrible with platformers

Raven Dreamer

9:52 PM

@thedaian - your village actually is a safe area* as it reduces monster spawns based on the number of friendly npcs around.

(blood moons excepted)

Mana

My first experience with Minecraft involved me running around jumping off cliffs and spending at least five minutes punching at trees without any results because I didn't realize I had to hold down the mouse button instead of rapidfire clicking.

thedaian

I know that. But for a while, I didn't have any NPCs, and then once I got some, I still didn't like having monsters spawn outside of that safe zone.

Mana

FIVE. WHOLE. MINUTES. :(

thedaian

I've realised that I'm not really a fan of terriria, but that's ok.

Raven Dreamer

I would love to mod the @#$* out of Terraria, and bake it into an oven with many heapings of Dwarf Fortress to make a soufflé of mixed metaphors.

Like most of my ideas, I anticipate this one will not reach culmination.

thedaian

9:55 PM

I'd like to make Dungeon Keeper + Dwarf Fortress.

but I doubt it'll happen, cause I keep gett-- ooh, shiny!

Mana

happens to the best of us

Raven Dreamer

Aight. Gbye everyone. Got stuffs to do.

thedaian

indeed.

though I'll probably actually work on my current project idea. yay monster rancher using websites to generate monsters!

Mana

That sounds cool. I'm working on a school course timetable manager

thedaian

fun.

anyway, time to go home and do fun coding

badp

10:09 PM

It should be appreciatively noted however that none of the new TF2 sets seem to require a hat

user30

@badp But none of them appear to have a set bonus?

user30

Also, I'm not sure if Valve are trolling with their 'We left out the engineer' comment

badp

@ThomasMcDonald Related: reddit.com/tb/i7etc

user30

Related: I hate that Reddit view

user30

How do I get into full-comment view?

user30

10:14 PM

Got it.

badp

Oh nevermind

> These sets have hats, btw. We just didn't feel mentioning them on the update page was necessary.

user30

I wonder, will it hit next hour?

badp

> The text originally said "Don't worry Pyro fans, we're only leaving out Countblanc." but it didn't quite fit in the little pop-out.

badp

10:36 PM

@ThomasMcDonald Check for hidden images!!

user30

@badp awww

user30

:(

GnomeSlice

Browser Game Pick: TinyHack (Rob Beschizza) http://bit.ly/lUMI8x

Tweeted by indiegamescom on June 23, 2011 at 4:46 AM

user30

@badp That was evil.

badp

@ThomasMcDonald the double exclamation mark, man.

Besides there is something hidden

An image, even.

user30

10:39 PM

The new update.

badp

Under div id manncoSpotlight

user30

Yeah I know about that, maaan

badp

Well? It's a hidden image!!

Lazers

0

Q: How to get the "Stats Life" trophy

In Wipeout HD Fury, how to get the "Stats Life" trophy? The trophy says: "Attain and view every stat in the game". Quite cryptic for me. I then checked on trophy guide. They say: After you load up Wipeout with the Fury pack, go to Options, then Extras, and then Statistics. Where ever you see ...

ps3 achievements trophies wipeout-hd-fury

user30

I ~~put my money on a~~ hope it's released in 12 minutes.

user30

10:48 PM

If not, I'm getting some sleep.

Lazers

0

Q: Tag synonym request [trophies] -> [achievements]

It seems that we already have steam-achievements and live-achievements as synonyms for achievements, but there are 21 questions tagged trophies. Since we have the Xbox's and PC's achievements merged, we should probably merge the PS3's as well.

support retag-request tag-synonyms

user30

Didn't call it correctly :(

user30

11:04 PM

@badp Apparently the item servers & store are down

badp

@ThomasMcDonald norepro on loadout and store

I'll restart the game tho

user30

oh.

user30

never mind then

badp

Yup, still up

user30

11:24 PM

SPUF database is chugging along slowly again

badp

Cmon VALVe.

by the way the TF2 blog has some new posts out that aren't published on the homepage it seems

Weekend Deal - Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga 50% off!

Weekend Deal - Homefront 50% off!

user30

Or

badp

Not sure what is with them

user30

http://store.steampowered.com/news/5713/

badp

@ThomasMcDonald Could it be that it just fetches whatever news item from the central Steam site?

user30

11:30 PM

check the ID ^

user30

Just grabs the post from Steam, it appears

badp

So yeah, that is kinda dumb.

user30

but I don't think it used to do that..

badp

I thought I was being clever by incrementing the post ID number!

dammit :P

user30

@badp Heh. I've also tried that.

badp

11:36 PM

I give it 45 more mins.

user30

Bah. Go on then.

badp

It's 0137 already here, just saying.

Lazers

0

Q: How do I get the "Get Lost" achievement in Solar 2?

I've tried running around randomly as an asteroid and a planet, and I've also just tried going on and on and on for miles across the universe, but I haven't been able to unlock the "Get Lost" achievement in the steam release of Solar 2. Any ideas?

achievements steam

user30

> I found a hidden link - the temporary ban button!

user30

Valve employees have taken to moderating the TF2 subforum now

badp

11:46 PM

@ThomasMcDonald where?

Google gives nothing

oh. Sub_forum_

user30

disregard that

user30

I'm too tired

Lazers

1

Q: Square Enix Soundtracks

I've downloaded the soundtracks for Final Fantasy X, X-2 and XII at this website but have noticed that there are some inconsistencies with the naming of tracks between what I've downloaded and the actual track names (based on a few sources ie playing specific tracks on YouTube). Is there somewhe...

final-fantasy soundtrack square-enix

badp

grrrrr

user30

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