The Bridge

badp

6:00 PM

@Oak :(

Oak

So I can't do anything heavier than general browsing

So I came here :)

Though this chat also occasionally fails

Arda Xi

It's all about ignorance. There was a guy on some kind of forum who had this reputation of being a hacker extraordinaire, yet I managed to impress him by gaining root access to some box by using an upload form on the site to upload a PHP file and then reading a file on that box containing all his passwords.

Oak

@badp well not really dying, I'm just working it to death. I have no server to exploit atm

Arda Xi

I told him he shouldn't be impressed, he should be appalled.

Oak

I could so use some future kilo-core machine

badp

6:05 PM

ah, php.

String concatenation ftw!

Arda Xi

Well, no, the worst part was that it was a flash upload form.

It had a tag in the HTML denoting the whitelisted extensions.

badp

@ArdaXi Shinier!

Arda Xi

All I had to do was use Chrome's Developer Tools to modify it to include php in the list.

badp

@ArdaXi Browser inspection is cheating face the facts.

Arda Xi

I could've modified the HTTP stream on the fly, but seriously, why bother?

badp

6:07 PM

@ArdaXi Burp proxy doesn't even make it that hard.

Arda Xi

Just as much cheating.

I would have to write my own proxy.

I still wanted to write my own Firesheep, but I got demotivated by the WinAPI

Oak

OK chat is starting to die. Laterz.

badp

Later.

GnomeSlice

RT @videogamenews Dreamcast Collection hitting PC, 360 in Feb http://bit.ly/gIt9cF

Tweeted by LevelUpGameGear on January 17, 2011 at 6:10 PM

Mana

oh man what Roland V-Drums HD-1 Lite for only $700

DO WANT :O

badp

6:17 PM

"only"

Mana

well yeah but it normally goes for like $1100 - $1300 in Canada

badp

CAD or USD

Mana

Canadian.

Brant

they're pretty much identical these days

badp

That's like a few pence then right?

ducks

Mana

6:19 PM

strangles

badp

teleports

Mana

:(

but...

Whomever will I strangle now?

stares @Brant

badp

points at @ArdaXi

Mana

oh yeah good one

badp

look at that long dutch neck

Arda Xi

6:21 PM

ducks

@Oak HELP!

badp

steps away from teleport receiver

Brant

xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount=1&From=USD&To=CAD

badp

so the CAD is stronger than the USD actually.

Mana

ja

You didn't know that?

badp

Both are weaker than the EUR.

Mana

6:22 PM

It's always been that way.

For like a while.

badp

...and the GBP is stronger still.

Arda Xi

Closely though.

Brant

Yup! Yet we still pay more because of outdated MSRPs and such.

Arda Xi

EUR is one of the strongest economies.

Brant

Book prices are especially bad.

Mana

6:24 PM

Also the US gets way better deals on Electronics usually

Arda Xi

Mana

through amazon.com, which doesn't ship Electronics to Canada

Arda Xi

Seriously? Wolfram Alpha?

Mana

so we're stuck with amazon.ca and their worse selection + higher prices

badp

@ArdaXi No, it's client-side blocking.

Arda Xi

6:25 PM

I know, but it's based on the idea that Wolfram Alpha is overloaded.

badp

@ArdaXi No, it's based on the idea that you made too many requests, too fast.

Brant

stop holding down F5.

Arda Xi

"It is likely that the server hosting the webpage has been overloaded or encountered an error."

Mana

Sometimes I feel like party-goers speak an entirely different language than me

badp

@Mana please add an event 6 months from now to the Die2Nite room.

call it "End of Season 1"

Mana

6:28 PM

huh what oh man END OF SEASON 1

okay

badp

in 6 months.

Mana

well cool

badp

@Mana sorry

three months

not six

Arda Xi

Short season.

Mana

pfft, marginal difference

Event added

badp

6:31 PM

@Mana Thanks

Feeds

6:53 PM

0

Q: Stack exchange badges

It might be useful to encourage existing users of stackoverflow to cross pollinate other stack exchange sites. While rep-sharing is not useful, as rep is meant to be a measure of expertise in one subject, badges may be one way to encourage participation across many sites. This was triggered by ...

GnomeSlice

7:04 PM

In Focus: Apple Unveils New Product-Unveiling Product http://onion.com/9D9Ghp

Tweeted by TheOnion on January 17, 2011 at 7:00 PM

Feeds

0

Q: Are profession specialties relevant post-Cataclysm?

I am playing a new Death Knight with intent to tank for my guild at max level. As part of this, I decided to take up Blacksmithing. At around 200, the Blacksmithing trainer started asking me about Weapon/Armor specialties. I remember these specialties actually mattered back in Vanilla WoW, but d...

world-of-warcraft

0

Q: StarCraft2: Outmatched: 4 Very Hard AI

How to pass "Outmatched: 4 Very Hard AI" achievement: Win a 1 vs 4 Multiplayer Custom Game with no Allies against 4 Very Hard A.I. opponents. Any tips are welcome. Thanks. P.S. I would probably better to start from easier achievements, but it should be feasible to complete the hardest one too.

starcraft-2 achievements outmacthed

GnomeSlice

@Feeds Dear lord, look at that last tag.

Feeds

0

Q: Badges: shared across all stackexchange sites?

Badges are achievements. Reputation is a measure of their ability to help others in one expertise. It seems that it might be useful to make the two more distinct by treating one's badges commonly across all stack exchange sites. This won't make badges and reputation orthogonal to each other, b...

discussion badges stackexchange cross-pollination

Lynne

Hello

badp

A new challenger appears!

3

@Lynne Hi!

Arda Xi

7:10 PM

A wild Pokémon flees

3

GnomeSlice

@Lynne Hello. :)

Lynne

Heh... what are you guys doing.

GnomeSlice

Nu'n.

Lynne

crickets

Mana

awkward dead turtle

GnomeSlice

7:12 PM

CATS IN SPAAAAAAACE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9XtK6R1QAk

Tweeted by brantb on January 17, 2011 at 7:11 PM

Lynne

hahaha

Unhappy cat is unhappy.

GnomeSlice

"What was the the point of this experiment? Confirming that weightless cats are indeed, hilarious?"

badp

Poor creatures

Mana

:(

Lynne

I'm guessing it has something to do with the whole "always landing on the feet" thing. Maybe they wanted to see if they would always float on their feet.

GnomeSlice

7:14 PM

They are kind of tossing them around, but the cats seem ok.

Lynne

Well they're just dropping them. Basically saying "Watch, really. He'll be fine."

Anyway if that clip pisses you off, you should see the one where they give a cat LSD.

GnomeSlice

Nah.

Lynne

►

It is either funny or heartbreaking...

GnomeSlice

I suspect it will be both.

badp

@Lynne Yeah, a mix.

Lynne

7:18 PM

That's the consensus I had landed on.

badp

When I consider the kind of experiments that were ran on humans a mere 8-10 years earlier... eh.

Lynne

man they gave out LSD like candy

To military.. civilians.. even children.

They probably all had a wonderful time.

Brant

I thought the zero-g cat thing was okay and kind of funny, but I didn't even want to try watching the LSD video.

Lynne

Yeah it's not for everyone

badp

Dec 17 '10 at 7:45, by LessPop_MoreFizz

Related.

Brant

7:27 PM

Dec 17 '10 at 15:31, by Brant

@LessPop_MoreFizz Oh man, meth sounds awesome.

Lynne

I want that costume.

Feeds

0

Q: Age Of Empires III : Lag in Multiplayer game ( LAN )

Hi All I am trying to play AOE3 in LAN. My Desktop and Laptop are connected to a modem through ethernet cable. Desktop Config: 1 GB RAM Intel P4 Processor (1.66 GHz) 512MB NVIDIA Windows XP Laptop Config: 3 GB RAM Inter Core 2 Duo Processor (2.10 GHz) 256MB ATI Radeon Windows 7 ...

multiplayer local-multiplayer aoe

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Q: Associated Account?

Does anyone know what this notification means? Or why I got an extra 100 rep?

support

Jin

Resonance of Fate is so awesome. you guys should try it if you're into j-rpg and gun-kata

GnomeSlice

I are not.

@Jin It was nominated in a bunch of categories on Gamespot in this year's awards though.

Jin

@GnomeSlice i only found out about the game by accident, from some youtube related vid. the battle system is so exciting even though the story isn't

Yi Jiang

7:38 PM

@badp Grace period! Haha... ha... ha... yeah, it's not very funny

badp

erm... erm...

GnomeSlice

@Jin Best Game no one played

It was nominated in that category, which is a good sign.

Jin

@GnomeSlice do you have a link?

GnomeSlice

@Jin That is a link. Unfortunately, as the game did not win the category, they don't really talk about it.

"Stylish combat that is as challenging as it is exciting provides the backbone for this great role-playing game."

Resonance of Fate Review

Jin

hmm Vanquish looks really good, never heard of it

GnomeSlice

7:53 PM

I really want to play it.

It's supposed to be short, and the voice acting is almost an outright parody of Gear of War, but it looks like so much fun.

Jin

i got Just Cause 2 for xmas, really liked it

although i always feel so lost in those sandbox type of games

GnomeSlice

Same here for me, but that doesn't make them any less fun to screw around with. :P

On an unrelated note, this was rather unexpected:

I wanted to see if fonejacker had a twitter.

That top result seems rather odd.

GnomeSlice

8:16 PM

Weary Haitians Shrug As Ragnarök Begins Outside Port-Au-Prince http://onion.com/hjI1Tn

Tweeted by TheOnion on January 17, 2011 at 8:15 PM

Jin

whoa 999 hit combo in resonance of fate. i need me some machine gun scopes.

►

GnomeSlice

@Jin Is that the max?

Jin

@GnomeSlice yeah. you need a lot of upgrades to the guns to pull that off.

i can see why RoF didn't catch on though. The combat system has a lot of learning curve. I didn't quite understand it too well even after about 10hrs into the game

Grace Note

@Jin You could also pull it off with a handgun that has about 8 surplus barrels attached to its magazine

Our first iteration of "Ridiculous guns" involved a machine gun with an extended barrel... jutting out in front of the main barrel and pointing upwards... originating from a complex barrel extension system joining the handguard and the magazine.

GnomeSlice

@Jin Gamespot noted that. :P It was the only demerit they gave the game.

Grace Note

8:26 PM

It was almost more beautiful than what we affectionately call out "Blunderbuss Handgun"

GnomeSlice

@GraceNote How does attaching another barrel to the magazine make the weapon any more potent?

Grace Note

@GnomeSlice It increases your charge acceleration.

Jin

@GnomeSlice youtube.com/watch?v=eBoMxHg23Ik

Grace Note

Which, admittedly, for getting hit counts isn't too important, but it helps for lots of nice Bonus Hits.

Jin

it's so hard to get money in the game though, there's a lot of grinding.

GnomeSlice

8:27 PM

@GraceNote I'm still not sure I understand how gluing extra barrels to your gun makes it more powerful.

Jin

@GnomeSlice each add on gives the gun more attributes, recharge time, accuracy, power etc

Grace Note

@GnomeSlice About the same way adding 3 more handguards to your gun makes it more accurate

GnomeSlice

@GraceNote See, that one makes perfect sense to me.

Grace Note

By Chapter 6, we were already hitting the maximum charge levels during Bonus Hits thanks to a nice 30% acceleration. Our Blunderbuss Handgun currently has 51%

@Jin Arena helps a lot. But really, the big money sink is all the clothing.

Jin

@GraceNote my guys are still wearing the default outfits.... i'm cheap.

@GraceNote i was bummed out after i saved for that first handgun, only to find out my guy was't strong enough to dual weld...

Grace Note

8:29 PM

@Jin Haha, yeah, I did that in my own save. Spent a long time farming it up so I could have it in chapter 1

GnomeSlice

Well, I would imagine it was ridiculously heavy, after watching this video...

Grace Note

@Jin Not a bad idea... the most expensive item we've seen so far is 198,000 Rubies... and it's a skirt.

Naturally we bought it just out of sheer puzzlement as to how this was almost twice as expensive as the aforementioned handgun

GnomeSlice

Se, I don't get how adding a handgrip onto your handgrip improves weapon performance.

Grace Note

@GnomeSlice What about adding a sniper scope onto the back of your magazine? It'll improve your charge speed.

GnomeSlice

And then sticking 4 barrels to this stack of two handgrips.

Jin

8:32 PM

@GnomeSlice WE LIKE BIG GUNS!

Grace Note

Don't forget to add more barrels onto those barrels. I'm not joking when I say the Blunderbuss Handgun has about 40% of the schematic covered in barrels.

GnomeSlice

Make that 7 barrels.

One of which justs out downward from one of the other ones.

Jin

@GraceNote have you beaten the game? i'm only on chapter5 still. saving up to upgrade more parts from Cranktown

Grace Note

@Jin No, we're only on Chapter 8.

C. Ross

sigh Firearms ...

Jin

8:36 PM

@GraceNote how many pieces of bezels do you have? i have 4.75, i feel it's not enough

Grace Note

@Jin It's very slow in the early game, actually. Have you been clearing every red encounter you find?

GnomeSlice

I shit my pants last night, but what worries me is that I wasn't wearing them.

Tweeted by PaulyPeligroso on January 17, 2011 at 8:19 PM

At risk of sounding Juvenile.

Grace Note

As you progress a couple more chapters forward, you'll start to find a whole bunch almost at once. I went to bed one night, and woke up the next morning to find that my brother had gotten 3 full bezels overnight, without progressing the story.

Jin

@GraceNote not all. do red spots give 1/4 shard?

Grace Note

Some do.

Maybe 1 per chapter or so.

But not for the first 2 chapters or so. The other source is just uncovering them with energy hexes

badp

8:42 PM

Does anybody here know Russian?

Grace Note

I wanted to counter with "I know Russians", but that's not even true. All I know are Estonians, Finnish people, and a ton of Ukrainians.

Jin

In Russia, Russians know you.

C. Ross

nope, sorry

GnomeSlice

In soviet Russia, arms fire you.

Jin

►

in Russia, cats are big

badp

8:55 PM

@Jin in my days, one gun shot was enough to bring a man down

if you need ~2,500 ammo to kill somebody you're doing it wrong

3

GnomeSlice

@badp Weren't those the good old days.

Arda Xi

@badp Ammo is not specific enough. That could be 2,500 belts.

GnomeSlice

I feel like asking another question with a misleading title.

Brb.

badp

@ArdaXi okay, ~2,500 "hits"

Jin

@badp in my days, a poison-coated shuriken did the trick.

badp

8:57 PM

@Jin I know, but it seems like those guys just had to get fancy and use guns

Arda Xi

In my days... shit, that's now.

Jin

but it did suck when the guy kept on transforming, and then i had to bust out the Masamune for the final boss form.

C. Ross

@badp Rainbow Six ftw

GnomeSlice

Ok, here it comes...

Arda Xi

Brace yourselves

Grace Note

9:01 PM

@badp Actually, in-game, it only takes one bullet to fire 30+ rounds.

badp

That's with 30 barrels? :P

Grace Note

@badp No, that's firing from two guns.

GnomeSlice

@badp Including the ones stuck on the handgrips.

@feeds Hurry up.

Jin

@GraceNote i wish there were more types of guns in RoF. i love everything except for the itemization.

Arda Xi

@GnomeSlice That tag you created worries me.

Grace Note

9:03 PM

@Jin Aye, it would be more interesting.

Arda Xi

Your highschool Physics teacher told you that your thinking about murder worried them?

GnomeSlice

@ArdaXi Oh that one.

Nah.

@feeds Hurry up.

in Die2Nite, 1 min ago, by Feeds

0

Q: How do I Poison Someone?

This is difficult to ask. Ok, so this guy is really getting on my nerves. He's stubborn, obnoxious, idiotic, and completely driving me up the wall. It's time for him to go. I figured poison would be the best way to get rid of him, because I could probably get away with it and not be noticed b...

die2nite murder

Jin

i love these Gaming questions, when presented out of context, they're just... weird.

like

70

Q: How can I tell if a corpse is safe to eat?

I am playing a human wizard, and I just killed a monster, leaving a corpse on the ground. How do I tell whether it is safe to eat this corpse? I leave the monster unspecified because I am interested in "how can I figure out whether this is edible," rather than whether any particular monster is e...

roguelikes nethack

GnomeSlice

@Jin I'm rather infamous for that.

@Jin Although that one is the reigning champ.

Feeds

0

Q: How do I Poison Someone?

This is difficult to ask. Ok, so this guy is really getting on my nerves. He's stubborn, obnoxious, idiotic, and completely driving me up the wall. It's time for him to go. I figured poison would be the best way to get rid of him, because I could probably get away with it and not be noticed b...

die2nite murder

Arda Xi

9:09 PM

There it is.

Hrm, I thought you just used the cyanide, but I can imagine that could have... adverse effects.

GnomeSlice

I should say so.

Do you need to be a Hero?

Arda Xi

No, Verve did it too.

And it's been done in my prior town before anyone was hero

@ArdaXi wait, what?

Fixed it.

btw, @ArdaXi, 34

9:12 PM

How do you combine those items?

badp

the disciplined badge comes with a cost.

GnomeSlice

Do you need a pharma lab?

Arda Xi

No, you just do it at home

GnomeSlice

Rats, we don't have any corrosive liquid.

I suppose I could just give him the Cyanide and hope he takes it.

badp

...

GnomeSlice

9:15 PM

I wouldn't put it past him.

....And the upvotes start rolling in.

Wait...... rats.

Arda Xi

Upvote me! Not him! Me!

I needs it!

@Jin I still want to start playing Nethack because of that question.

GnomeSlice

Yep, now I'm rolling in the upvotes.

Huh wha? Hahahaha.

Sorry @Brant. The tag stays.

If my rep drops back below 2k, do I lose my newfound editing abilities?

Tim Stone

9:39 PM

In case you haven't seen this, it seems that @GraceNote's Minecraft-centric plans for world conquest may be showing signs of progress...

GnomeSlice

Five emotions invented by the Internet: http://bit.ly/epZPoi

Tweeted by al3x on January 17, 2011 at 6:45 AM

Arda Xi

Commence movage!

badp

→ 90 messages moved to Nethack

GnomeSlice

9:56 PM

MOAR UPVOTES!

swish

GnomeSlice

10:08 PM

There goes another bounty.

Does this mean I lose my editing privilege?

Feeds

0

Q: The Sims 3: Earn 10,000 Simoleons?

In The Sims 3, one of my sims has the wish to "Earn 10,000 Simoleons". Even though she is at the top of the corporate career ladder, she doesn't even make close to that much. Is there something I should do outside of her regular job to fulfill this wish?

sims-3

GnomeSlice

HA!

Feeds

10:33 PM

0

Q: What does the 'Enable Challenge Mode' check box on the ranked multiplayer Find a Match window refer to?

The question says it all. How does the Enable Challenge Mode setting effect match finding or MP game play?

supreme-commander-2

LessPop_MoreFizz

Good Evening Gaming.

badp

@LessPop_MoreFizz Evening.

Nethack

NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs ...

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp But I don't actually play nethack.

like, I have in the past.

but not in a long time.

badp

@LessPop_MoreFizz it's okay, just pointing you in the general direction of activity

LessPop_MoreFizz

The Elitist Jerks forums do not take kindly to cannibals.

sjohnston

10:48 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz ha

Feeds

0

Q: When exactly are you detected as the pursuer?

When my pursuer is doing silly things in front of me, he's detected and a red arrow appears above his head. But how to know when a red arrow is pointed on your head? Does it appear as soon as the controller is vibrating (ie when you're running and in your target's sight) or does it need more indi...

online-multiplayer assassins-creed-bh

0

Q: PS3 games that fully supports move

Where can I find an updated list of Sony Playstation 3 games that fully supports Move. With fully I mean games that has been developed with Move in mind.

ps3 playstation-move

LessPop_MoreFizz

11:41 PM

►

this is the greatest review of any video game ever.

Watch out Yahtzee, Axman13 is coming.

2

badp

@LessPop_MoreFizz Did you play the actual game?

LessPop_MoreFizz

I have now.

badp

Jan 11 at 19:28, by Oak

Instructions:

1. Play the following flash game (it takes like 100 seconds to complete it, don't be afraid to try): http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/495903
2. Are you done yet? If you are, here's one of the reviews:

"...

i reley dont wan to say this, but i have to now.
this game is so esey. i mean, all you do is hit the spacebar. thats it! how is this an RPG anyway? you cant contrail anything but what it says on the screen! what if i didnt want to buy the potion? what apout quests? all you can upgrade is stranth? there is no way you can lose to the boss at the end! this game is crap!…

@LessPop_MoreFizz Actually I looked through the reviews -- his has been deleted

Nethack

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