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2:00 PM
@Arperum ok
 
Although, one of these three is quite weak and might not survive, after three hours it still couldn't stand for longer then 2 seconds. And it had drank a grand total of two or three mouthfulls of milk.
 
Some friends of ours have a field of sheep
They raise them exclusively for meat
 
or some other stupid tiny amount anyway.
 
I have a picture of me bottle-feeding last year's Christmas Dinner
 
Ours are aimed for milk.
@fredley We don't bottlefeed, we teach them to drink from a box/container. Sure, first day or so is pretty damn inconvenient, but after that it's way easier.
 
2:02 PM
@Arperum Yeah that's good. We just had a couple that were rejected by the mother
 
Bottlefeeding one or two lambs is not an issue, bottlefeeding 20 is a stupid amount of work.
@fredley Ours are taken away at birth, because we kinda need the milk...
@fredley Some people can't stomach the idea of doing so. "But you grew them from tiny little animals... How could you do this?"
 
@Arperum haha
yeah
Om nom nom
 
A porkchop carrying a lambchop, hmm
 
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Q: How fast does time elapse when you're not actively playing SimCity BuildIt?

DeaneIt seems to me that when you you're not actively playing (so, you don't have the app open on your phone), time elapses at a different rate, not in real-time. I've started production on things that claim to take 30 minutes, but when I go back to the game more than 30 minutes later, they're still i...

 
The first couple days the milk can't be used for anything but feeding lambs yet, but letting the lambs with the mother for a couple days and then taking them away results in the lambs flying back to their mother for drinking even months later if you let them in the same area... So that's not exactly wanted.
 
2:08 PM
@PrivatePansy So I go away for 24 hours and come back to MOD ABUSE
 
@PrivatePansy oh hye, I was just thinking about you
We were talking about singapore in the office, so naturally, I thought of you.
 
@Arperum What do you feed them?
 
@fredley First days the milk from the mother, because it does contain a shitton of stuff they need.
 
@Arperum Ah I see
labour intensive
 
After that partly goatmilk, partly powdered goat/sheep milk.
 
2:10 PM
@Wipqozn What were you talking about?
 
@fredley Yea, tiny farm though.
 
@Arperum How does this end in a net gain of milk?
 
I would not judge, but @badp seem to have a strange obsession with nipples. Just sayin'
 
@fredley The powdered stuff is bought.
 
@PrivatePansy well, you did come to the bridge. Mod abuse is the expected result of that
 
2:11 PM
@PrivatePansy I don't even remember. Iwas too busy trying to remember if you were from singapore or something else.
 
@Arperum Ours are just a 'pet' project of a friend.
 
@Wipqozn For the record, not originally, but have been living here for more than 15 years
 
Did someone say mod abuse?
 
@StackExchange silly @fredley, that's not @Wipqozn!
 
2:12 PM
Oh yeah
 
Needs more owner removals.
"Motorola SB5101 specifications" seems to be coming up fairly regularly.
 
@Yuuki Some are disturbing indeed, I've seen "google api php" several times now
 
2:14 PM
(Sorry for triple ping, AND IT STILL DOESN'T WORK)
There, ALL THE PINGS
 
 
No.
You can not go to canada, you are forbidden
 
@KevinvanderVelden You can be barred from the US for drugs offences in other countries
 
@fredley Someone had to link him to lmgtfy for that question, that person should be forbidden from entering anywhere just for that
 
Anyone who links anyone else via lmgtfy is a terrible person
(unless they deserve it)
 
2:21 PM
wat
 
@fredley yes, no disagreement there
Even if it's just the fing slow animation
 
@TimStone There are some rather disturbing NSFW ones
 
woooooooooo i beat issac
 
You know your versioning system is good when it makes you wish you were using CVS instead
 
> Some of this stuff is bizarre. Disturbing, even. Welcome to the internet.
@badp Perforce? I had to use Perforce once.
 
2:26 PM
No, Serena Dimensions
 
I...what?
The hell is that?
 
I believe Perforce requires you to write commit messages while keeping track of the history of the entire folder as opposed to doing so only on a file-by-file basis
So there's that
 
@djsmiley2k Go you! Now do it five more times to complete the polaroid.
 
@badp Is...is this the SharePoint of development?
 
@TimStone I don't know. I don't know Sharepoint
 
2:29 PM
@TimStone Perforce is a special, twisted kind of evil
 
@badp Oh, well at least you were spared from that.
 
... But we are now faced with the non trivial task of manually checking out the version of each file from this thing separately
 
We had to use it because it was for a Government project, and that was their approved supplier of version control software. Or something, I don't know. Maybe the project manager had some weird fetish for developer frustration.
 
Perforce is at least buzzword compliant, damn
@fredley this is when you create a separate git repository that auto syncs to their perforce thing
 
2:32 PM
Empty message?
 
Start with release, work back to design, then forward to release again. And again. And again.
 
@Arperum yey
 
@fredley Witchcraft I say
 
Witchcraft! THE PORKCHOP IS A WITCH!
 
Oooh
delicious witchcraft
 
2:33 PM
@KevinvanderVelden No, no, he's been marinated in witchcraft. There's a difference. A sweet, tender difference.
 
@KevinvanderVelden I wish I could
 
1 min ago, by fredley
Start with release, work back to design, then forward to release again. And again. And again.
 
@fredley That looks like it goes backwards.
 
@badp you could manually, create a git repo you work from, and a git repo you push/pull when you've committed. The second one is also a perforce repo
 
2:36 PM
@Frank Pretty accurate depiction of what it's like to work with Perforce
 
I am King of asking Sunless Sea questions.
KING, I SAY
 
@KevinvanderVelden unfortunately I don't think there's a portable version of git
 
@TimStone hmmm, porkchop marinated in witchcraft. So tender you can build bridges from it
Also cygwin is portable by itself I think
 
@KevinvanderVelden wat. Really?
 
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Q: How and when do the sisters at Hunter's Keep change?

SternoI like running around the Zee with my lights off as much as possible to conserve fuel. This has worked out pretty well so far because on the way back to london, I stop by Hunter's Keep and have lunch with Lucy, which reduces Terror by 10. I always save my "Recent News" for here so that I can imme...

 
2:37 PM
Yeah, github.com/CybeSystems/CygwinPortable is a utility to manage it even
 
@Sterno you go girl
 
@Wipqozn NO, NOT QUEEN
 
@Sterno TOO LATE
 
@badp yeah, should be
 
Is Sunless Sea any good?
 
2:38 PM
@JasonBerkan I like it, though if you hated Fallen London I'd steer clear
I was "meh" about Fallen London but I like this
 
@fredley Don't forget the part where you get nauseous from all those loops
 
I loved Fallen London (at least the writing/world). I just got bored with the gameplay.
 
You'd probably like Sunless Sea then. It's basically sailing around trying not to die while doing Fallen London stories
 
@TimStone Especially given how they're clearly stretched circles. The line width changes. It upsets me.
 
They are the worst
 
2:39 PM
The only real problem with it I see so far is that it has permadeath, which I kind of like, but which means your next guy ends up repeating a lot of stories. Though I guess you can make different choices
But by the 7th guy I could see that getting old
Honestly, though, it's kind of hard to die
I've played about 6 hours and died once, mostly because I wanted to see what happened if madness hit 100
 
@Sterno spoiler: you die
 
Well, you kinda die. Depends on what choices you make after going mad.
 
I shall leave it on my wishlist, then, and wait for magical money to appear.
 
@fredley Not necessarily! I just failed the check to defend myself against my insane, mutinous crew
 
@Sterno Permadeath + the same plot every time seems weird. I guess ToME has that but the plot in ToME is irrelevant if you want it to be.
 
2:47 PM
@StrixVaria Yeah. I'm not sure it's a problem yet, but it seems like it could be.
 
@fredley is that a perverted version of "ask why five times"?
If a bug isn't a design bug it ain't worth fixing?
 
@badp All bugs are design bugs
Mostly due to the design of Javascript
 
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Q: Do you know any game that is easy to make mods or scripts or build terrain ingame?

QueoeerI played garry's mode ofcourse i dont like that. I mean, San Andreas multiplayer is based on home made server scripts that everyone can make. That's good but pretty old game and arent many obj or effect features and boring sometimes. Or for example Sw:jk jedi academy (best game ever btw) there is...

 
3:02 PM
Huh, I just got the enlightened badge for an answer when it reached 13 upvotes
 
@KevinvanderVelden Enlightenment takes time, you can't rush it.
 
Something like that, I'm guessing it's a relatively new badge or something? That would explain it
 
@KevinvanderVelden Nah, not that new. It's been around for at least a year or two.
 
Huh, weird
I figured if it was a new one it might only be checked on upvote or something (I just received the 13th upvote for it)
Also nice, that answer was from 8 december 2011. It just got accepted
 
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Q: BF4 Night Maps Without Premium

BerkayOzturki know that we can play night maps on BF4 with CTE but are there any servers on normal Battlelog too? Just wondered if any private servers exists.

 
@djsmiley2k uwot
 
yah
:/
 
> design and build a small drone capable of intercontinental flights able to navigate itself to it's destination and back safely. In other words, we want a drone to be able to fly from coastal California all the way to Pyongyang
nope
 
@fredley uwotmate
 
@SaintWacko ufinwotm8
 
3:21 PM
@fredley And if you pay $1k you can choose the payload.
ANd they expect to get around with $10k? I don't even.
 
@Arperum If this succeeds I will eat a tesla coil
 
If this succeeds I will build a tesla coil
I'll also do that someday if they don't, it's on my list of things to build
 
@KevinvanderVelden For $55 you can have a miniature solid state tesla coil kit.
 
@Arperum for slightly more I can build a large one
Which has the advantage of me having fun by building a tesla coil
 
True. ANd you not backing a group of complete nutters.
 
3:24 PM
@Wipqozn That is so awesome
 
@Wipqozn I want to get Evolve, but I doubt it'll be anytime soon. Maybe when they release a version with all of the BS dlc included. But that'll be a while.
 
@Fluttershy Seeing as how it was built as a vehicle for DLC, yeah, that's going to take quite some time.
Get Homeworld Remastered instead. Much more value.
 
@Frank I'm still so disappointed I missed the collector's edition
 
Microsoft Lync is still the worst IM client ever for not letting you rebind keys
 
@Sterno Lync*
 
3:29 PM
@SaintWacko The game itself is still pretty awesome.
 
@Frank Oh, trust me, I know
 
Seriously needs missile pod ships, though.
 
THAT TOO
 
@Fluttershy If you want to hunt monsters, get MH4U.
 
@Frank That would be so cool
 
3:30 PM
Or an Honor Harrington-esque mod/clone/whatever.
 
@Frank I'll bet it would be possible. There are already a ton of cool mods
 
But yeah, I kinda want Evolve too. Doing my best to resist getting it because I just don't want to support that kind of business model.
 
All you'd have is podlayers and ammo colliers.
 
@SaintWacko Doesn't really tell you much about what the mod does.
 
3:32 PM
Although that one hasn't been updated for a while
 
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Q: Torchlight 2, what is the keyboard shortcut equivelant for the zooming mouse wheel?

eLouaiIn Torchlight 2 what is the keyboard shortcut keys for players who don't have a scrolling mouse wheel (or in my case who use a pen and tablet instead of a mouse).

 
@Yuuki I'm not buying a new 3DS just to play MH4U. If it were coming to Wii U, I'd get it. But I'm not playing it on my tiny 3DS.
Besides, Hearthstone has its hooks in at the moment.
 
@Fluttershy Aww.
 
I wonder if the initial sales for Evolve do poorly enough, will they release a complete edition sooner?
 
@Yuuki If for no other reason than to squeeze the most cash out of a dying game.
 
@Yuuki Looks it.
 
Knowing Squeenix, it's probably a pre-rendered cutscene though.
 
@Yuuki Is that a bad thing? The game still looks gorgeous.
 
@Fluttershy Just saying it's probably a pre-rendered cutscene rather than in-game footage. Not good or bad, just saying what it mostly likely is.
Also, trying to convince myself to not get a PS4.
Between FFXV and Persona 5, I'm really tempted.
 
I will get a PS4 once KH3 comes out.
 
3:43 PM
@Yuuki And X/X-2 Remastered! And The Last of Us Remastered!
 
@Frank That too.
 
I haven't played any of the Persona games. :(
 
I think I'm just going to live at my friend's house (he has a PS4).
 
At that point, they should be cheap enough to not worry about the cost.
And the PS5 will probably be announced, and/or released.
 
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Q: How do i force-skip Unsafe Working Conditions - Fallout 3

Joshua van der VeenSo...i'm playing Fallout 3 and i'm at the part of Unsafe Working Conditions where you have to listen to Ashur's speech, but he's not talking and it wont let me pass, and i have no clue how to help, do you know something?

 
3:45 PM
@Frank You see where the a Goofy VA said his lines were complete?
 
If anyone wants to read nerd rage today, just google for people complaining about sunless sea getting a 10/10 on Eurogamer
 
@Fluttershy I did not, no.
 
Nintendo has released some Valentine's Day cards:
 
@Frank Yep! He said, on record, that his voice work was finished and the game was slated for 2015. Squeenix shot it down, but it's still a promising rumor.
 
@Fluttershy I'll believe it when I see it. :P
Until then, I'm replaying through the other games in the HD remix.
 
3:46 PM
@Yuuki Valentine's Friendship Day.
 
And attempting to complete everything in-game.
 
@Yuuki bowser what are you talking about, your castle is a mess
 
@Fluttershy Well, it does cater to their target audience.
 
@Yuuki Your mom's a monster. OH BVUUUURRNN,.
 
@Wipqozn Bvurn?
 
3:49 PM
@Fluttershy Yeah, I'm concerned about their bullshit DLC. I like the idea of it... but not the price tag...
As of now my plan is to buy it, but avoid the DLC until it goes on sale
@SaintWacko Yes. IT's a new word I just made up.
 
@Sterno Where are people complaining about it?
 
@Wipqozn I'm thinking I should just not buy it until they release a complete edition or something.
 
@SaintWacko Steam forums. Reddit. Any website that has a review for it
 
Whoa
Whoa whoa whoa
Wait
There's a new Star Wars Battlefront being worked on?
 
3:55 PM
@SaintWacko Yup!
 
Hi guys, I have put up an ad through community promotions for a game that I think deserves way more attention than it has gotten over the years: meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/a/10270/101490 ; it recently got onto steam Greenlight, and I think if it did well there, that would be huge for it :)
 
@SaintWacko By EA, so expect it to fail at launch
 
Upvote it, downvote it, but let me know what I am doing right or wrong by posting it!
 
@twirlobite Our stance on random people coming into multiple rooms and posting the same thing comes to mind; it feels kinda spammy.
 
@Frank actually, I am a fairly regular SE user, and I have only done this on scifi/gaming
 
3:59 PM
@Batophobia Damnit
 
user image
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@twirlobite I don't think I've seen you around here before.
 
someone on scifi suggested that a way to get people to vote (up OR down) on the ad would be to mention it in the chat
 
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Q: MINECRAFT testfor problem

nektaarsHow can I test for mob who has a name with two words? For example villager named Grumpy Bill.

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Q: How Can I Stop Game From Stopping After 3 or 4 Social Policies?

M KeithI get the icon saying adopt a policy and I do, but after I adopt the first 3 or 4 that are unlocked, the game will not progress and I'm stuck where I am. No more turns, no more production. I am new to the game and being there is no real manual to consult, I am at a loss. Do I have to adopt a S...

 
3:59 PM
@Frank I have not been here before, as far as I remember.
@Frank Actually, scratch that, I have definitely not been here before.
 
@twirlobite a tip: everyone here hates outsiders.
 
@Frank I only took up the chat suggestion today, after the whole weekend went by without anyone voting on it (not even voting down).
@djsmiley2k Everyone hates outsiders everywhere.
 
@djsmiley2k You're a tip.
 
@Arperum rt
 
@djsmiley2k I don't get it. You might want to give a tip about what you mean.
 
4:04 PM
@Rapitor I don't think I'll ever tire of internet memes rendered in Beseige
 
@SaintWacko Welcome to Star Wars Battlefront III
 
Wait. It's out?
 
No, people are psychic when it comes to new releases that require internet these days
 
@djsmiley2k Not really. We just tend to have a pretty sensitive spam kneejerk reaction.
 
It's missing something about how you can pay $3 to use their premium servers that are never offline (except whenever those are offline, too)
 
4:18 PM
@Sterno $3/day
 
@Arperum per connection attempt
 
@Sterno Wait, server uptime is now a subscription service?
That's...incredibly bad.
 
@Sterno uwot
 
@Frank Well, I'm making this up, which should be obvious BUT, there's file download sites that do that
 
@Frank Yeah, QoS is something companies pay a lot for
 
4:20 PM
Wait in line for 60 seconds at this shitty server all you scrubs use, or subscribe to our service and download now!
It will come to gaming one day, and it will be EA or Ubisoft that brings it to us
 
@Sterno 'wait in line' - lies
 
@fredley For enterprise services, yes. For gamers just trying to play the game they paid for? They expect it to work.
Or are already paying for an Xbox gold/PSN Plus account.
 
@Frank Yeah. The amount of times you have to pay to play a game you bought is ridiculous these days.
 
The justification will be "Well, we didn't want to raise the price of the game to $70 for people who didn't care about reliable (they'll use another word here) service, so we decided to let those customers who feel it is important to pay a little more every month"
 
@Sterno I fully expect those games to die incredibly quickly, then, as gamers hate being nickled and dimed.
 
4:22 PM
Pay for game, pay for XBone/PS online services, pay for DLC, pay for premium content, pay for premium servers, pay for in-game currency, pay to win
 
@Sterno That will result in "WOOOO! Piracy!" from me.
 
@Arperum Well, these of course will be the DRM'd-up-the-ass games that pretty much don't work online if pirated
 
Play browser-incrementals, never pay, never have fun.
3
 
@Sterno Who cares? If you're pirating, chances are good you know multiplayer is one of the things you don't get.
 
-1
Q: Minecraft Servers not working

Kieran BairdOn my minecraft server I edit something and when I tried to get on it I kept on clicking refresh and it said Can't connect to server every time.

 
4:33 PM
@fredley I'm still addicted to my Tower Defense one
 
@fredley I'm actually really enjoying this one.
 
This starts off with a lot
 
@Frank me too
it's really complex
 
My favorite game type is Pay To Not Play
 
4:35 PM
I died the first time without building a single thing because I didn't know you were supposed to click on the Station tab.
 
@Sterno You are game publishers best possible customer.
 
@JasonBerkan Well, if it's a good game, they'd probably rather I play it and convince other people to do so. But yeah, I'm pretty solid
 
OTOH, I'm their worst nightmare.
I wait until a game is two years old before I even consider buying it. And then I wait for a sale.
 
@fredley I don't like how it doesn't let me close it, come back after three hours or so, and get progress.
And also, I don't like the constant population growth. Really puts a cramp in the idle part of incrementals.
 
@Yuuki You can lower that to a pretty slow rate.
And/or just straight up pause the game.
 
4:39 PM
@Yuuki I just imagine a roomba spinning around before it leaves the room saying "I'll be back"
 
@JasonBerkan I'm getting better at this, but I still have moments of weakness.
 
@Frank When do you get that? I only just unlocked the Fiscal Sector thingie.
And promptly spent most of my credits instead of putting in an investment fund.
 
The more times I buy brand new or kickstarted games and then they're terrible or not what I wanted when I play them, the less often I'm going to repeat it.
I didn't buy Darkest Dungeon on launch, even though it tempted me to!
 
@Yuuki You need to upgrade the station committee to...level 6 or 7?
Gives you a population control.
 
@Frank Ooo.
 
4:43 PM
Doesn't allow you to drop it to 0, but you can certainly lower it to make it more manageable.
 
@StrixVaria I got all excited when my son purchased his 3DS and I went out and bought Bravely Default at full price. I'm now forcing myself to play the stupid game as punishment.
 
Bravely Default was pretty good for the first half.
The story was awful, but the combat was fine.
 
@StrixVaria and ten you had to play it 5 more times!
 
@StrixVaria Yeah, I hate the combat.
 
BADUM-TISH
 
4:44 PM
@Yuuki I wish I could send workers straight to air/food though
 
@JasonBerkan Did you like any of the classic FF games?
 
@StrixVaria Yes, at the time. Today, they are awful.
 
I still like a good turn-based RPG.
 
"I'm going to wake up slightly early this morning." wakes up with 15 minutes until class "Well dammit."
 
I did try replaying the DS remake of FF4 last year and it was really bad, though.
I'm afraid to go back to FF5 in case my memories of it don't hold up.
 
4:46 PM
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Q: My friends can't conect to exeral micraft pe sever

Iris1002I have been researching for days but I did everything correct I think I set it up I gave my ip to my friend I even tryed closeting minecraft with the double tap on my iPad nothing seems to help so if someone thinks they can please do

 
I'm still not seeing much of a need for much beyond dumping all your workers into ore.
Research has a bit of a use, and so do corporate workers, but the rest seem to be pretty useless.
 
Bravely Default is great until you get to the endgame.
 
@Yuuki I really should just stop. I hate it now and everyone who likes it, hates the ending.
 
@JasonBerkan The good ending itself isn't bad. It's the "getting to the ending" part that's annoying as f--k.
Hopefully, Bravely Second will be much better in this regard.
 
4:50 PM
@Yuuki That's what I meant.
 
Bravely Default got really boring for me in chapter 4
or 5.
Whenever you basically do all the same stuff again
 
I don't even know what chapter I'm in. I just finished some town where everyone was concerned about how they looked.
 
@JasonBerkan Watch the ending cutscenes on youtube or something
 
@JasonBerkan Chapter 2 or 3.
 
@StrixVaria 2, I think.
 
4:51 PM
I think you have two more chapters until it gets boring
I never did kill that damn vampire though
 
@Batophobia Honestly, the story is awful. I really don't care about the ending.
 
Chapters 5+ are so stupid.
 
Speaking of terrible Kickstarters I should never have backed, Rock Paper Shotgun has a nice article about how awful Godus is turning out
 
Wait, you backed that?
 
I assume so. I backed a lot of stuff back then.
 
4:55 PM
:(
 
Heh. I've never understood God games. Everyone I've played is just a click-fest.
 
Nostalgic memories of Populus
A quote from Molyneux
> “There’s this overwhelming urge to over-promise because it’s such a harsh rule: if you’re one penny short of your target then you don’t get it. And of course in this instance, the behaviour is incredibly destructive, which is ‘Christ, we’ve only got 10 days to go and we’ve got to make £100,000, for fuck’s sake, lets just say anything’. So I’m not sure I would do that again.”
re: Kickstarter
 
I've also never understood Molyneux. The guy is a dreamer, not a designer.
 
I read that as: "I'm not sure I would blatantly lie to people again. I might, but I'm not sure."
 
@Sterno And this is why Kickstarter isn't a very good platform; there's zero recourse for when developers overpromise and underdeliver.
 
4:57 PM
Kickstarter is an excellent platform if you're cognizant of what you're backing
 
@Sterno He's such a monster.
 
But I really don't want to have that discussion again @Frank :)
 
> He goes on to explain that his new game will, “build on feelings and emotions untapped so far.” The site also appears to attribute to Molyneux the statement that Godus, “lacked in narrative, progress and reward.” A fascinating use of the past tense for a game still being sold, for £15, as Early Access.
 

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