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LessPop_MoreFizz

12:26 AM

@Mana If you're a Heideggerean, everyone is a tool.

Powerlord

Small required TF2 update to add yet another preorder item.

Blindfold item for preordering Homefront through Steam

Bob

2:23 AM

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Q: Which happens first, the zombie dying by despair or the spawn?

The answer in this question states that a zombie in the zone may die of despair for every two zombies killed in the zone, but it doesn't state whether or not if this happens before or after triggering additional zombie spawns due to their presence. So if I have two zones next to each other like ...

die2nite

Bob

6:12 AM

0

Q: Can we really hack each pc we come accross in Fallout 3?

In Fallout 3 you can try to hack into computer terminals if you have enough science skill. If you try to hack it you get a list of words and 4 tries to choose the correct password. (rant) I noticed that most of these terminals usually contain some trivia and are pretty useless if all you want is...

fallout-3

badp

6:39 AM

@Powerlord That... sounds like an interesting item.

badp

7:20 AM

Did you see the new users page?

2

Bob

7:30 AM

0

Q: Can a PSP play Final Fantasy VII from PSN?

I'm thinking about getting a second hand PSP, the original one with UMD Drive. I just noticed that the PSN Store has Final Fantasy VII, but I wonder if that works on a PSP, or if it needs a Playstation 3, which I don't have?

psn psp playstation-3

Arda Xi

7:41 AM

2

I have great tags.

Bob

8:57 AM

0

Q: How to pause Civilization IV in OS X?

I know that the pause key pauses the game in Windows, but how do you do it in OS X?

civilization-4 pause

Bob

9:39 AM

0

Q: How to retreat from an unwinnable battle?

I'm a Starcraft 2 beginner (playing mainly Zerg) and encountered some situations where I ran into a much bigger army with an army of smaller size. This usually happens versus Protoss where they retreat a smaller army back to the big one (me following them stupidly) and they immediately reinforce ...

starcraft-2

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Q: I have killed all of the Brotherhood of Steel - what now?

Hi, in FO:NV, i killed all of the Brotherhood of Steel in the Hidden Valley Bunker. I then went to Deathclaw Promontory and picked up the power armour. I try to wear it and it says i have to have Power Armour Training. I've heard that i can only get the training from the Brotherhood, what are my ...

fallout-new-vegas

Bob

10:51 AM

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Q: MW2: Long connection time at first attempt to join a lobby

Hi all, On CoD:MW2 MultiPlayer I've noticed the connection time of your first attempt, right after a fresh restart of the game, is extremely long. Once I've connected to a lobby, the connection time is normal (the game instantly finds several possible lobbies to join). My question is: does anyo...

multiplayer modern-warfare-2

badp

11:17 AM

I love how the screenshots feature lets me have pictures on the background of non-Steam games in the library

C. Ross

@badp it's only a matter a time till people find a way to use this to store random pictures ...

I so love the parody in Magicka. I hope these Arrowhead guys keep it up

and their interviews are amusing too

14 hours ago, by C. Ross

> wankwish these beastmans

their excitement about their game is inspiring

which reminds me, I need to figure out why ssh isn't working

Bob

0

Q: Owners of Epic Games forum

I'm trying to register over at the Epic Games forums, but cannot. They require you to enter the first name of the owner of the forum. I've googled and binged the hell out of this, the info cannot be found anywhere. Plz advise.

unreal-tournament-3

badp

@Bob Your google-fu is weak.

badp

11:50 AM

Bit.Trip beat 50% off

Bob

12:09 PM

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Q: Unlocking Yan Garuga Mask (Monster Hunter Freedom Unite 2)

What materials are needed and how can i unlock the Garuga Mask?

items unlockable psp

Yi Jiang

@Bob Gives @badp a +1 to push him over 10k

badp

\o/

Now to get 10k tools on a site I don't have a diamond for.

Bob

1:09 PM

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Q: What's a good leveling strategy in Gun Bros?

I'm playing Gun Bros on both my Android phone and iPad and off course want to get to the most bad ass weapons as quickly as possible. So I'm wondering, what's the best strategy for leveling up quickly (and gain a lot of Xplodium in the process)? Should I focus on advancing through the highest l...

leveling gun-bros

Powerlord

2:25 PM

@badp Yeah, good luck with that!

Oh, and what this chatroom needs is more (wait for it)...

BACON!

FallenAngelEyes

2:42 PM

Wow, apparently there's been a new trick found in Super Metroid that hasn't been been found til now o_o

That blows my mind

Mana

That's absolutely ridiculous.

What's the trick?

FallenAngelEyes

If you enter ABXY while entering the Golden Torizo room, it gives you every item in the game except the Screw Attack

and apparently since you get the Screw Attack in that room, you pretty much do get every item

discovered late 2010 apparently

Here's the TAS

So old games can still be relevant to us!

Bob

0

Q: Does QWOP have an ending?

I've been struggling with QWOP for the past hour and have finally grown weary of trying to get my character to awkwardly throw his legs outwards while remaining somewhat upright. Can I actually finish the 100m track, or does it carry on forever?

ending qwop

badp

3:01 PM

@Powerlord Just need 1k more on MSO :P

Powerlord

@badp Pssh, it's a Meta.

FallenAngelEyes

@badp Congrats on 10k :)

Brant

Guess you don't need to be a mod anymore now!

badp

@Powerlord meh, so what? :P

@Brant nah, there's the 20k mark now

to be a Trusted User™

until then I guess I'm just a Pesky User.

Or rather, a Pesky Mod.

Steve V.

Or a Shady User

LessPop_MoreFizz

3:05 PM

Hmm... @Fabian and @arda are within 2 rep of each other, and one of them will be next to 10k.

Race time!

Arda Xi

@LessPop_MoreFizz Fabian will win.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@ArdaXi And that is why you will lose.

Because you are a quitter.

Powerlord

@LessPop_MoreFizz No, no, no... the line is "and that... is why you fail."

LessPop_MoreFizz

@ArdaXi Not only are you a maker of terrible mods, but you GIVE UP in the face of moderately challenging odds!

Powerlord

So... I'm going to say that chances of a TF2 patch later today are... 50%.

and rising throughout the week (if there's no patch).

Damn it, let me craft the Sharpened Volcano Fragment and Sun on a Stick already!

FallenAngelEyes

3:12 PM

man, I haven't even played since the store was implemented

LessPop_MoreFizz

And now I am off to go do something resembling work. Don't set anything on fire that I wouldn't.

Powerlord

@FallenAngelEyes All sorts of new items were added to the game. Some need to be rebalanced (coughfistsofsteelcough) though.

Granted, Fists of Steel has been nerfed a bit in the current TF2 Beta.

FallenAngelEyes

Yeah, I'm wondering if I'm just too out-of-date to play :(

Powerlord

@FallenAngelEyes Some of the new items are good. Some are bad.

Set bonuses are kinda cheesy.

Arda Xi

The concept is bad, but tolerable.

Powerlord

3:14 PM

The more powerful set bonuses have some sort of negative effect, though.

FallenAngelEyes

There's set bonuses now? Huh

Powerlord

@FallenAngelEyes Yeah... every class but Engineer has a set. Having said that, the first 5 released (Scout, Soldier, Pyro, Sniper, and Spy) require a specific hat.

badp

Dammit, third time in a row I fail Transition.

On the same point.

This calls for a Question!

FallenAngelEyes

How much of a disadvantage would I be at if I don't choose to actually buy anything from the store?

Powerlord

@badp This calls for an Answer!

Steve V.

3:16 PM

@FallenAngelEyes - I've never bought anything from the store and haven't noticed any changes

FallenAngelEyes

Hm, cool then

Powerlord

@FallenAngelEyes It's hard to say. The new weapons and such can all be crafted... the hats can be too, but honestly, the Spy and Pyro set bonuses are the only really good ones.

Well, OK, the Scout and Medic ones aren't that bad either...

(Medic one doesn't need a hat though!)

Steve V.

Here's the thing. The set bonuses require a certain style of play

If you're willing to change your style of play to adapt to the items, you'll do ok

If you don't, you'll find them more of a hindrance than anything

Most people don't change.

Powerlord

I should probably mention that the Spy set eliminates the uncloak sound.

But it requires you to use the Your Eternal Reward knife, which removes the disguise kit in favor of disguising as whomever you backstab.

The downside of said set is that running into people is much worse than before, as you remain visible as an outline for a half second after they stop touching you.

Escaping is a lot more difficult with the Spy set.

Steve V.

Which i personally don't like, because I've got a lot of hotkeys mapped to various disguises so that I can, for example, cloak, change disguise, and uncloak running the other way

Powerlord

3:20 PM

The Pyro set lets you move 10% faster, but you take 10% more damage from bullets

@SteveV I don't have any disguise shortcuts, but I do have the alternate disguise kit layout setup so I can disguise using my left-hand only.

Unfortunately, when Valve added the Switch Team key to the assignable hotkeys, they killed the simple disguise kit's hotkey for it (which was E)

Steve V.

Really? You can't remap that?

Bummar

Powerlord

@SteveV Yes, you can remap it, but now it can't share a key with the Medic call key.

Steve V.

Oh i see

Powerlord

So, now I've remapped it to R and turned on auto-reload in advanced options.

Which is also why people will likely hear me say "Medics, ignore that" over voice chat... I'll hit the E key with the disguise kit open like I used to. :/

Steve V.

Yeah.

Brant

3:24 PM

you run around with a half-empty clip? tsk tsk.

Powerlord

@Brant No, because I turned on auto-reload.

Brant

doesn't that only reload when your clip empties?

Steve V.

Nope

Brant

I run around mashing R constantly.

Powerlord

@Brant No, it reloads whenever you're not shooting.

Steve V.

3:25 PM

With auto-reload off it reloads when your clip empties

Brant

... you mean that option... gah. goddammit.

Steve V.

Yeah, you really shouldnt be doing that.

Brant

why the hell is that off by default?

Steve V.

I have no idea.

Powerlord

Having said that, it removes one of my Spy disguise skills in doing so... as a Spy, you can reload your weapon while disguised to make it look like your disguised class is reloading.

badp

3:26 PM

@Brant You can answer this one I see

Steve V.

I also don't know why anyone still uses the mousewheel to rotate through weapons. But that's me

Powerlord

@SteveV I have a nasty habit of doing that.

badp

@SteveV I do, but I also turn on quick weapon switch

Powerlord

Which really throws me off when I switch between the YER and Knife as Spy, as it changes how many items you have.

badp

With all of three guns it's really not a big deal.

Powerlord

3:27 PM

@badp Same here

badp

I do it in Quake too where you can have 10 guns so...

Bob

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Q: How to get past the section with revolving lines of dots in Transition?

So I got myself bit.trip beat. And I started playing through the first song, Transition. I had no particular problem, till I got here: I failed hard and fast here, not once but three times in a row. How are you supposed to hit those?

bit-trip-beat

Brant

I read "auto-reload" and think "oh, it automatically reloads when your clip empties. useless! I reload manually all the time!"

Powerlord

Which is why people will see me switch weapons constantly...

Steve V.

I'm not here to tell you guys what to do but what I did was set mousewheel-up to primary, mousewheel-down to pistol, and mousewheel-click to melee.

badp

3:28 PM

(...yeah, I also am used to autoswitch on)

Powerlord

@Brant Auto-reload is a godsend when you're playing Soldier. :D

Steve V.

Because i hated needing, for example, my scattergun and getting Bonk

Powerlord

You never forget to reload your rockets! :D

badp

@SteveV I thought about that, but how about 4? :)

Brant

yeah, I bet.

Powerlord

3:28 PM

The FaN is the one weapon where you lose ammo if you reload early.

Arda Xi

@badp RE: your question, they line up at exactly the right time.

Brant

I play mostly heavy/engy/medic though, so I don't really have to reload that often anyway

Powerlord

If you reload after one shot, you still reload using two ammo. Whoops.

Steve V.

@badp - in what case would that be applicable? Spy and engie, correct?

badp

@SteveV I think so; I only had the game for 3 days now.

Powerlord

3:29 PM

Spy has 4 (unless you equip YER), Engy has 5 yes.

Steve V.

Spy, see above about mapping the numpad to the various classes. Engie, you can just use the now-unused numbers 1,2,3,4 above QWER for the various build commands

Powerlord

@SteveV And 5-8 for destruction commands?

badp

I guess I'll care about it when I'll start caring about playing something that isn't Medic :P

Given how awesome the medic is that'll take some time

Steve V.

@Powerlord I rarely destroy my buildings now that they've enabled "pick up and move"

but yes

Powerlord

@SteveV Never used the Frontier Justice I take it?

Steve V.

3:31 PM

I have but I didn't like the 3-round mag.

Plus i'm a lousy battle-engie.

Powerlord

I use the Frontier Justice with mini-sentries just so I can destroy minis when I have guaranteed crits built up.

Brant

I kinda stopped playing TF2 before the engineer update, so I haven't played with the new toys yet.

Steve V.

@Powerlord that's not a bad idea. I didn't make that connection, because I rarely use mini-sentries. They seem like little barbie toys.

Brant

Plus I hate the idea of having to earn achievements to use them, or for them to randomly drop.

Steve V.

Silly i know

Powerlord

3:32 PM

@Brant The Engy's Gunslinger melee weapon gives you +25 health and changes your sentries to non-repairable, non-upgradable mini-sentries that deploy in 4 seconds.

Brant

Yeah, I read up on them

Powerlord

The gunslinger also has no-crits, but if you hit 3 enemies in a row, the third hit always crits.

Brant

I just haven't really played since they came out.

Powerlord

The Mini-sentry is really good at taking out lower-class enemies.

Steve V.

(Related but immature, I've renamed my gunslinger "The Southern Gynecologist")

Powerlord

3:34 PM

P.S. The sentry gun now has kill and assist counters on the Engy HUD, so you can tell if a Spy is using the Dead Ringer or not by seeing if it incremented when the Spy died.

Arda Xi

@Powerlord It should increment with the Dead Ringer, actually.

(I don't know if it does, just that logically it should)

Powerlord

@ArdaXi It doesn't because that would give you more Frontier Justice guaranteed crits. I wouldn't be surprised if Valve changes it at some point, but... we'll see.

Arda Xi

Frontier Justice?

Powerlord

@ArdaXi The Engineer's alternate shotgun...

Arda Xi

What does that have to do with an arbitrary count?

Powerlord

3:37 PM

3 bullet clip, when a sentry gun is destroyed, you get a number of guaranteed crits based on how many kills and assists it had when it went down.

2 per kill, 1 per assist up to a max of 35.

It was originally unlimited, but Valve quickly patched in a max count.

Steve V.

Can't you use it with the wrangler as well?

I'm pretty sure you can

Arda Xi

@Powerlord That seems weird, to rebalance something that can only have been included to cause imbalance.

Powerlord

@ArdaXi The catch is that you don't keep the crits through death, and if you're dead when the sentry is destroyed, you don't get those crits either.

Steve V.

@ArdaXi - If i recall the dev blog correctly it was included to give engies a reason to go out hunting rather than turtle all day

Powerlord

Oh, and Frontier Justice has no random crits, only the forced ones.

Arda Xi

3:40 PM

The only way to cope with the new updates and still play is to stop thinking of TF2 as a balanced, skill-based game.

Powerlord

@ArdaXi That 3-bullet clip is more balancing than you'd think.

The shotgun spread also means that your crits may do some piddly amount of damage... I hate it when I shoot someone with a crit and it does 18 damage.

Arda Xi

I mean the Mann Co updates in general.

Powerlord

Speaking of balancing, I'm not sure I like Valve's beta which is removing the no random crits restriction on a bunch of weapons and replacing it with 25% less damage.

Particularly since one of those is the Gunslinger, which already auto-crits on the third hit.

Steve V.

This is not the first place that I've heard @ArdaXi 's opinion. I wonder why Valve doesn't create a few stock-only maps?

Or offer stock-only as a settable game option?

Powerlord

@SteveV They likely don't think people will keep playing it.

"Oh look, you can't use any of the shiny toys you got."

Steve V.

3:45 PM

That's what I think too. But if it makes the people who talk about buying skill in the game through better weapons happy, it seems like a solid business decision.

Especially since the technology is known to be available after Degroot Keep

Powerlord

Oh yeah, GDC is this week, isn't it?

badp

@Brant yay, I guessed right about F15 :P

I don't think all Mac keyboards have that though.

Brant

4:01 PM

Nice job plugging your own SU question there. :P

badp

@Brant I'm going to nuke the comments in a hour circa anyway.

...or some other mod is.

Brant

I just deleted one of mine

I wish we could put inline images in comments so I could have just inserted this instead.

badp

@Brant I can edit it in :P

Powerlord

OK, I'm lost. I have no idea what you guys are talking about.

badp

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A: How to pause Civilization IV in OS X?

Pressing F15 (above the Page Up key on a Mac keyboard, in the same location that the Pause key is on a PC keyboard) will pause the game in the Mac version of Civ 4. I just tested this out myself.

Brant

4:05 PM

^

Powerlord

This mean... BACON

er... WAR

badp

@Powerlord in that case I'm going to nuke the comments now so you can switch to bacon ASAP

Powerlord

@badp I can't see the question, 'cause I'm at work, so I can't BACON the comments. :/

badp

> LOL MACS - Changing tried and true shit just randomly just to be different. – 49 mins ago

> I've never once had a game use Ctrl P for pausing. LOL MACS YET AGAIN. – 30 mins ago

Powerlord

....that makes me wonder if there are any PC games that actually use the Pause/Break key for pausing.

badp

4:08 PM

Oh, there are a few.

Don't ask me to name them tho, I can't make a list on the spot.

Brant

A few do, but most people have forgotten that the key even exists.

badp

and anyway I haven't seen any game pausing on right click, yet Bit Trip Beat does. Doesn't mean it's a bad choice.

I'm just glad I guessed F15 :P

Powerlord

That's... interesting. This computer is using a Core 2 Duo 6600... but I thought 6600 was a quad-core chip.

In fact, I have a Core 2 Quad Q6600 in my home PC.

FallenAngelEyes

4:22 PM

argh, I want to fire up bit.trip beat to check out that spot in your question @badp but I can't start Steam on my pc >_<

my laptop monitor just died while I was logged into Steam on it and I couldn't properly shut down

and now Steam won't let me login because it says I'm logged in on another machine

sighs

Powerlord

@FallenAngelEyes That usually goes away after a minute or three.

badp

@FallenAngelEyes eh, that point is quite a few minutes into the song

FallenAngelEyes

Ah, finally. And yeah @Powerlord, took about 10 minutes on this end though, usually I don't have to wait this long

@badp Yeah, I know I've gotten past it though because I've got the second song open

Bob

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Q: What do I do with the stones in the Wending Wood?

In the Wending Woods in DA:O:A, there is an arrangement of stones which go back to some sort of Tevinter enchantment. When you first arrive, there's a stone missing, but I've found the missing stone, put it in place, and played around with activating the other stones that light up to create the l...

puzzle dragon-age-awakening

badp

449k points into Descent.

Oh well.

Powerlord

4:33 PM

@badp Descent into madness!

Brant

Descent was a great game.

badp

I meant the Descent song in Bit Trip Beat, but I did try Descent too

Powerlord

4:48 PM

Speaking of Bit Trip, I hear that the last game in the series launched yesterday.

Bob

0

Q: Where da lazers at?

I visited the site on my iPhone this morning and found it... Depressingly barren. Where did my lasers go? Is this a new mobile stylesheet? Because it feels like the worst of both worlds - all the small targets and poorly optimized page width of the main site, none of the awesome lasers, charm, ...

bug design mobile

Powerlord

but only on Wii.

badp

@Powerlord Runner is also on Steam, 10% off.

Looks pretty meh to me.

but it brought the 50% sale off Beat, which I wanted, so I guess it's fine.

Powerlord

Whoops, I guess Flux launched last week in Europe. I didn't realize that WiiWare had different release dates based on region.

Brant

Hmm, I just re-earned the Strunk & White badge.

Looks like the requirements for it (and the gold Copy Editor badge) were re-jiggered somehow.

I don't remember what it was before, but now it's 80/500 edits.

badp

5:03 PM

@Brant Yeah, they were loosened after the requirements for each individual edit to count has been stiffed.

Waffles has a post about it on Meta.

Brant

where? I can't find it.

badp

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A: Copy Editor with too few revisions?

We counted "title" edits and "body" edits as distinct entities. This badge was awarded to users with 600 cumulative "title" or "body" edits. Clearly this is not intuitive or right so I made some adjustments. Strunk & White and Copy Editor now only count posts, provided: The post is not ...

filtering by user helped

so changes to titles no longer count, changes to tags don't count, changes to posts you own don't count, every change after the second doesn't count, changes to deleted posts don't count

Bob

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Q: How does Martial Cadence (Jarvan IV) work?

Who can explain me the Marcial Cadence (Innate) ability of new champion, Jarvan IV? (Innate): Jarvan IV exploits his target's opening, dealing 8% of the target's current HP as magic damage. This effect cannot occur on the same target for 6 seconds.

league-of-legends

Macha

5:23 PM

New Users page is pretty cool, except it prioritises weekly rep. Bye bye my place there :(

Brant

I don't like how I now have to work to maintain my first-page status instead of just amassing a mountain of rep and then sitting atop it forever, looking down on everyone else, wearing my top hat and feasting on caviar.

Also there's a trained monkey wearing a miniature tuxedo that brings me things on a silver platter.

He has a monocle and a miniature top hat of his own. It's super cute.

When I bore of gazing upon the unwashed masses from atop my glimmering throne of reputation, he dances a jig to entertain me.

Macha

Hey, I never said that wasn't best for the site :P Just that it wasn't best for me :P

Brant

Neither did I.

I just miss my monkey butler.

Ivo Flipse

5:40 PM

oh man @badp I already miss TF2!

Powerlord

@Brant @IvoFlipse Ahaha, my top hat has a bowler below it and a panama on top of it! Mmm, Towering Pillar of Hats.

Ivo Flipse

I miss scorching people with my flamethrower!

Powerlord

Ivo Flipse

just means they can headshot you more easily :P

FallenAngelEyes

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A: How to get past the section with revolving lines of dots in Transition?

For the small groups of 3 dots, you'll want to line yourself up so you're perfectly in the middle of them. By the time they are finished rotating, they'll be lined up to hit your paddle. For the longer ones, which you are having the most trouble with, what you'll have to do is move your paddle ...

There you go, @badp

badp

5:46 PM

yay stalemate

Ivo Flipse

@FallenAngelEyes do you know any shop that sells the squier?

FallenAngelEyes

Not yet. :( My local gamestore here says they're trying to get it in, but there's not a lot of info yet.

AFAIK, looks like there's going to be more EU delays.

Ivo Flipse

argh, you'd almost think they don't want my money...

Macha

[game-rec] Recettear - worth €15 or not? Steam tells me some of you have it.

FallenAngelEyes

EA sucks at EU distribtuion :(

@Macha yes

C. Ross

5:49 PM

btw, thanks for recommending Magicka, is awesome

and whoever recommended Guild 2 ... :-(

Powerlord

I've seen people mention Guild Wars 2, but Guild 2...?

C. Ross

The Guild 2

| genre = Life simulation | modes = Single-player, Multiplayer | ratings = | platforms = Microsoft Windows | media = DVD, download (via Direct2Drive) | requirements = See Development section for requirements matrix | input = Keyboard, Mouse, Gamepad (optional) }} The Guild 2 is a historical multiplayer real-time strategy video game developed by 4HEAD Studios and published by JoWooD Entertainment. It is the second installment in the historical real-time strategy video game series, following Europa 1400. Guild 2 was released September 29, 2006, for PCs. The game uses the gamebryo engin...

FallenAngelEyes

I've never played The Guild games

C. Ross

I don't remember who recommended it

Ivo Flipse

shut up you all, you're making me want to buy TF2, Magicka and pre-order Portal 2, while I already decided I need the Squier Stratocaster!

FallenAngelEyes

5:52 PM

haha

C. Ross

sigh

FallenAngelEyes

There's not any bonuses for preordering Portal 2 other than the 10$ discount and free copy of Portal, right?

C. Ross

I expected The Guild to be a sort of lower level Medieval Total War ...

it wasn't

FallenAngelEyes

@Ivo I really wish they had a pro bass :(

Powerlord

@IvoFlipse Gabe Newell is my dotted-line boss.

Feeds

5:54 PM

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Q: "Tagged Questions" needs more options: Popular, Unanswered, Bounty, etc

This question about meta.SO.com/Questions/custom disappearing due to lack of popularity has me perplexed. I don't mind Tagsets... It's a good idea, but I think it is lacking in options. They don't have the "option" that I've grown to like. Basically I prefer the "Popularity" option for sites I l...

discussion feature-request stackexchange

Powerlord

Amusing anecdotes from the workplace: I just received this in an email:

> Please do not us the kitchen sink right now the9 floor is flooding

Bob

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Q: Where can I get a Venom-Ruby in Echo Bazaar?

I've got the last Keen-Eyed Lapidary card, but I need 5 venom rubies to play it. Where can I find such things? The wiki doesn't seem to be much help in this regard...

items echo-bazaar

FallenAngelEyes

whoop, was so busy acquiring screenshots that I forgot to get dressed

gotta go, later all

Bob

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Q: Make the mothership shoot its lasers on hover.

All trilogy sites, and almost all other SE2.0 sites, have a hover effect on their "ask question" button. It can be argued the "ask question" button looks less "clickable" than how it looks in all the other family sites, it's very close to a decoration and thus really needs some way to emphasize ...

feature-request design

Macha

Hey, I wrote the tag wiki for Left 4 Dead 2 - Can someone with enough rep approve it? gaming.stackexchange.com/tags/left-4-dead-2/info

Powerlord

6:05 PM

@Macha I don't see any mention of Bacon there.

Macha

The body appears to need to be approved desperately.

Powerlord

I'm joking, I can't access Gaming from work, nor do I (likely) have the rep to approve edits there.

@badp: Macha has a request for you!

Macha

@Powerlord Someone else approved the excerpt

badp

@Macha Wish I had more time to read it, kinda busy getting owned

looked epic tho

approved out of trust

Ivo Flipse

btw doesn't anyone here play Gun Bros?

Powerlord

6:08 PM

@IvoFlipse Is that like a cross between Super Mario Bros. and Gunstar Heroes? :D

Macha

I looked at the Starcraft 2 wiki for inspiration :P I'm presuming tzenes was responsible for that one.

Ivo Flipse

perhaps @Powerlord, I don't know the second game

Powerlord

Speaking of which, L4D2 is receiving the other 3 non-Crash Course campaigns from L4D in a patch sometime after Portal 2 ships.

I'm surprised they don't just add Crash Course and make it COMPLETELY pointless to have separate games, as they'd have added everything from L4D into L4D2.

Macha

Because they still want people to have a reason to buy L4D, I guess

Powerlord

@Macha One two-level campaign isn't much of a reason.

Macha

6:15 PM

Also all the people who got grumpy about L4D2 being too soon :P

badp

Oh man.

First game, we get owned, but kinda resist, still kinda suck it along, all the way to sudden death, then lose.

Second game, we start owning, acquire all but the last capture point, start the push for the fin--

"YOU FAIL! The enemy team had more points when the map time ended."

Victory conditions in TF2 are all fucked up.

Powerlord

@badp Most of Valve's newer maps have messed up end conditions.

>:|

badp

@Powerlord This was coldsomething.

Powerlord

@badp Oh... all 5CP maps are like that, so it's not really considered messed up. :/

It's their recent payload maps that don't work like the old ones.

5CP and CTF maps end as soon as the map timer runs out unless the two teams are tied in number of wins.

Sad part is, team scores don't reset if the game itself auto-scrambles teams.

badp

@Powerlord I don't know, "if there's enough map time try overtime for some random amount of time then suddenly give up and do sudden death then give up and everybody loses; otherwise just look at who has more points"

It's a checkpoint game, I figure the checkpoints ought to count somewhere in there

Powerlord

6:23 PM

Payload, Payload Race, KOTH, and Push CP maps (including cp_steel, despite it having 5 points) don't end when the map time runs out, but rather when the map's victory conditions are met. This is why cp_dustbowl can take a freaking long time if BLU keeps winning, because Dustbowl is a 3-part map.

Some servers use mp_maxrounds instead of mp_timelimit for exactly this reason.

Honestly, it'd be nice if all TF2 maps waited until the current round ended, or at least set the round's time based on how much time was remaining... or either end in a stalemate or sudden death if a match is ongoing.

Bob

6:39 PM

0

Q: What is the lowest level at which I can maximize my stats in Elephant Quest?

In the interests of completing the game as quickly as possible, I'm curious to know: what is the lowest level at which I can maximise all my stats? What stat upgrade pathway do I have to take in order for this to happen?

leveling elephant-quest

Powerlord

6:57 PM

@Bob @Mana Another Elephant game from Armor? Weren't This is the Only Level 1 and 2, and Achievement Unlocked 1 and 2 enough for the poor elephant?

Bob

1

Q: How will the changes to Stimpack's research time affect the 3 Rax Timing Push?

As I understand it, one of the core ideas behind the 3 Rax Timing Push is to have your army at your opponent's doorstep as Stimpack finishes, or at least have it completed as your army pushes outwards. However, the 1.3 Patch includes the following change: Stimpack upgrade research time increa...

starcraft-2

Mana

7:14 PM

@Grace Hm, odd. It was showing up as multi-paragraph in the preview, I'm pretty sure.

Also I never did find all four hidden stealth attacks. I think I only found one.

Brant

7:45 PM

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A: How do I heal in a mana-efficient way as a Smite Discipline Priest?

Allow me to preface this by saying that this is not coming from personal-playstyle experience, but leading raids and watching / working with the priests in my guild that run Smite spec, I have a good amount of observation. First and foremost, your most effecient heal is through Atonement procs. ...

Posts like this one really make me wish we had Wowhead tooltips.

Bob

0

Q: Export Dance Central Pictures

How do you export the pictures/animated gifs from Dance Central?

xbox-360

Powerlord

8:00 PM

I bid 4 No Trump... wait, wrong Bridge.

Oh hey, apparently they announced the date that the last Harry Potter movie hits theaters... July 7th in the US.

Bob

8:15 PM

0

Q: Close Quarter Combat in Call of Duty Black Ops

Hello, In black ops, when getting in close to an enemy (ignoring the knife of course), is it better to ignore the scope and shoot from the hip? Or is it better to scope in for the accuracy? I was thinking I'm getting picked off because I'm going to scope and it slows me down, but I'm not sure ...

wii call-of-duty-black-ops call-of-duty

0

Q: 3DS Specifications List

Hey there. Now that the 3DS launched on Japan, I was wondering if anybody knows if there's already been modders or enthusiasts that have done spec testing on the hardware. I'd like to know how much potential power it packs! :D

ds nintendo

Powerlord

8:28 PM

Darn, I can't tell from here if Steam's game update news has an RSS feed or not.

badp

@Powerlord store.steampowered.com/news -- the answer is no

Arda Xi

8:47 PM

@badp If by no you mean yes.

@Powerlord store.steampowered.com/feeds/news.xml

badp

Turns out trying to look at the footer on a page with infinite scrolling is quite the interesting experience

Arda Xi

@badp Just hold end.

Fabian

@badp Chuck Norris could probably do it, you might have to cheat

That Fallout hacking question got an insane amount of upvotes, for a reason that escapes me

It' almost as if it was a Nethack question

Powerlord

9:05 PM

I was looking for a feed for TF2 updates specifically... dunno if there's one just for that.

Oh well, I'll check when I get home if there is one.

"The Supreme Court decided today that AT&T can't keep embarrassing corporate information that it submits to the government out of public view; “personal privacy” writes do not apply to corporations. “We trust that AT&T will not take it personally” concluded the ruling. " Aha. Ahahaha. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Now I wonder which information they meant.

Oh, they were trying to block a FOIA request from other telcos for paperwork that AT&T submitted to the FCC.

Of course, this now means anyone can request a copy of any document that a corporation has submitted to the US Government.

badp

9:28 PM

@Powerlord er, just look at their blog: www.teamfortress.com/rss.xml

Bob

9:51 PM

0

Q: Where is the hidden cut scene in Bit Trip Beat?

According to the list of achievements on Steam, there's a hidden cut scene. Where is it? The achievement is called 'Beginning', which might be some kind of hint!

achievements secret bit-trip-beat

Brant

Portal 2 preorder: confirmed

badp

@Brant Welcome to the club.

@Brant ..unless you got that image for your preorder, then I'm not in the club.

Brant

It's the Weighted Companion Cube!

badp

You are firing lasers at the Weighted Companion Cube?

You monster.

Brant

You're rescuing it from lasers.

Clearly.

badp

9:59 PM

Clearly the prolonged exposure of the Weighted Companion Cube to lasers isn't part of any test protocol.

Brant

Also, what?

2

Grace Note

@Brant Great, you got the Megaman 2 Weapon Get music stuck in my head. Thanks a lot.

badp

11:01 PM

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Feeds

Stack Overflow Blog: Redesigned Users Page

Posted by Jeff Atwood on March 1st, 2011

After 2.5 years of being almost unchanged, we decided it was high time the Users page got a redesign.

The old user page was fine, in a late 2008 sort of way, but it ultimately became a bit monotonous — every time you viewed it, you’d see more or less the same list of top users. At least, on a mature site you would. And we don’t think anyone was using those oldest, newest, and name tabs at all.

The new user page is much more … dynamic. And hopefully more useful and interesting as a destination. …

Arda Xi

@Feeds We've known this for a day and Jeff only just found out?

This sums up my entire experience with Magicka so far.

15 mins ago, by badp

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badp

11:17 PM

coughs politely

Arda Xi

sleeps

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