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12:00 AM
This is clearly the best one
Hawking's first assault is amazing.
 
12:13 AM
@OrigamiRobot They cost $30 apiece.
Winnipeg still has some it seems.
 
Androoiiid
 
12:44 AM
What was with the flood of crappy YouTube videos? O_o
 
@Fluttershy grumpybot shares your opinion
@GnomeSlice agree
 
STOP CALLING ME GRUMPYBOT I AM PERFECTLY HAPPY
 
@OrigamiRobot <3
 
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Q: Which Limited Edition features are exclusive?

ERJIn Need For Speed: Most Wanted (2012), which Limited Edition features are exclusive to the LE? I have heard the two cars, 2012 Porsche 911 Carrera S and Maserati GranTurismo MC Stradale are obtainable with the Standard Edition, but are not available from the start (as with the LE). As far as I ...

 
1:01 AM
nn
 
GOOD NIGHT
 
Whew, the roads are nasty
 
So, with the exception of Dungeon Defenders and Offspring Fling, does anyone want anything from the latest Humble Bundle?
 
1:24 AM
@Fluttershy I can't even remember what else is there
 
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Q: Am I able to redeem a Borderlands 2 shift key without launching the game?

MBraedleyGearbox released a shift code, but unfortunately I am not in a position to redeem it in the normal way, i.e. launch BL2 and enter the code. Is there a way to redeem this code if I have access to the Internet, but not to my installation of the game?

 
@Lazers about time :P
 
@Fluttershy I'm assuming that flag was a misclick.
 
@Wipqozn Huwha?
 
1:26 AM
@Fluttershy sorry, I just accidentally flagged your post. Stupid meat fingers
 
@Fluttershy that was flagged.
 
Ah.. o_o
 
Asking if people want things? Yeah, that's a flaggable offense.
 
@MBraedley Accident? Called it.
 
This is why we need a tablet specific version of chat
@Fluttershy what I was going to say was Binding of Isaac and Shank 2 look interesting, but not really of or me
 
1:29 AM
@MBraedley You should upgrade.
 
You can buy Binding of Isaac for < 2$ on steam currently
 
@MBraedley Won't happen, unfortunately. Well, I suppose if I create a custom stylesheet the developers might consider it, but otherwise it's
 
@OrigamiRobot upgrade my fingers? Mine aren't even the meatiest of those I know
@YiJiang :(
Mind you it's not all that often that I use chat on my iPad
 
@MBraedley You need robot fingers
 
I know, I have a tablet too, and the mobile interface is too small, while the desktop interface is too big.
 
1:32 AM
@OrigamiRobot pssh, having fingers is overrated.
 
@OrigamiRobot which won't work with capacitive screens
 
@MBraedley They will if the tips are conductive.
 
@OrigamiRobot purely conductive isn't good enough. You need something that changes the capacitance.
 
@MBraedley Which a conductor does
 
@OrigamiRobot ungrounded and in free space? Don't think so.
Caveat: as long as there's no significant electric fields present
 
1:39 AM
@MBraedley Your fingers aren't grounded. What are you talking about?
 
@OrigamiRobot my fingers aren't conductive. They're a decent dielectric though.
 
Look, I'm doing it now.
You just need a decent amount of surface area.
 
@OrigamiRobot which defeats the meat fingers problem. As background, big buttons for meat fingers was the variable name in one of our touch screen apps a while back
 
Oh, were we trying to solve a problem? I was just advocating you getting robot hands.
3
 
@OrigamiRobot I think you need an upgrade to your memory. It's obviously not large enough to store enough information.
 
1:45 AM
I have no idea what you're talking about.
All you said was "stupid meat fingers"
 
@OrigamiRobot yes, I suppose that's true. However, it was because there were no big buttons.
 
I propose an alternative: Since the problem was actually that the fingers are too fat, why not just chop off half of each finger off?
 
@YiJiang This sounds reasonable to me.
 
Or just replace your fingers with capacitors! There is nothing wrong with that plan.
 
7 hours ago, by MBraedley
Arg, chat needs a big buttons for meat fingers option. It's hard to hit the reply and star buttons.
See, I knew I brought that up
 
2:15 AM
 
NEVER PLAYED WORMS
 
YOU HAD A STILTED CHILDHOOD
 
SCORCHED EARTH OR NOTHING
 
@OrigamiRobot Pretty nice of the college, though.
 
2:28 AM
Pretty nice looking student, too.
 
RAVEN
 
@RavenDreamer This too.
 
@OrigamiRobot Hey! There's nothing wrong with complimenting strangers on the internet.
 
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Q: Ascendancy ships not availible

bspymasterI recently picked up an old copy of Ascendancy for DOS (Installed DOSBox to play it). However, As I got farther into the game, I realized I was falling WAY behind in the amount of ships I had, as compared to the AIs. So I go to a planet with open population, but I can't build a ship (and I alread...

0
Q: Why can't I download DLC in the background anymore?

agent86I've been having this unusual issue lately with my Xbox and certain bits of DLC. Typically when I start to download something, I can press B or the Guide button to send the download to the background, and then I can check on the status of the download and the queued downloads by using the "Act...

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Q: Can I Assassinate my queen?

C. RossI'm playing Medieval 2: Total War and my king has cuckold as one of his many attributes. Cuckold reduces his authority by two. Given that he is the king and has assassins at his disposal, this has raised the question of whether it is possible to assassinate or otherwise "deal with" this trouble...

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Q: How can I train Assasins?

C. RossIn Medieval 2: Total War assassins are useful, but only if they achieve some level of proficiency. Newly trained (no experience) assassins tend to have a very low likelihood of success when attempting to remove any worthwhile target. Is there a reliable way to get assassins to a useful level of...

 
Oh good lord, what the crap.
Toooo much lag to use chat
 
2:31 AM
@RavenDreamer I... what?
 
@OrigamiRobot Yes
 
 
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3:34 AM
1 hour without anything posted? For shame!
 
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Q: Which world is each playable character from?

75th TromboneI'm playing Chrono Cross for the first time. I'm on Disc 2; I've just beaten Fate and had the Terra Tower rise into the air. Chrono Cross is the first RPG I've played where I really, really feel like I should have been taking notes the whole time. In particular, I'm having a terrible time trying...

 
NOW EVERYTHING IS CONFUSING
 
Mmm, beer
 
Good evening, Bridge
 
3:50 AM
Good evening, Bridgegoer.
 
@fbueckert how's the weather west of here?
 
@mbraedley Something like -30, with the windchill.
 
But no snow? It got messy here
 
@Lazers How do I format the table like he wants it? x_x
 
4:05 AM
Little bit of snow
 
@Fluttershy He shouldn't be telling you how to format it in the question in the first place. Give it in whatever format works best for the data.
 
Since when did pixel switch to kalina?
 
@fbueckert Since today.
By the way, welcome home.
 
12 hours ago, by pixel
I'm not happy with my new choice of name, but I will pick a new one when I have the care to do so
 
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Q: Black Ops 2 Zombies permanent perks

0x7fffffffI've seen many articles online claiming that there are permanent perks in Tranzit that can be unlocked through challenges. I've managed to earn permanent quick revive by reviving the same player 15ish times. However, there are supposedly other permanent perks that you can earn such as phd floppe...

 
4:14 AM
@origamirobot Not home yet. Parents finally have internet.
 
@fbueckert I meant The Bridge.
The Bridge is home.
 
Heh. True, that.
 
Fine, I don't want your stars anyway.
 
@OrigamiRobot Good, because I decided against staring that.
 
Mobile. Can't star.
 
4:16 AM
@Ullallulloo Star hoarder.
 
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Q: Can we get a better chat UI for tablets?

MBraedleyCall it the big buttons for meat fingers option. This Christmas break, I've been living my digital life primarily through my iPad. With the mobile UI, I'm severely limited in what I can do in chat. With the desktop UI, I find it difficult to hit the star and flag buttons. Trying to do so, I a...

 
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A: Which world is each playable character from?

FluttershyEach character's Origin can be found on this site, including more detailed information (Weapon, Element Grid, Innate, how to recruit, etc.): Doc (Another) Draggy (Another) Fargo (Another) Funguy (Home) Glenn (Another) Greco (Another) Grobyc (Unknown) Guile (Another) Harle (Another) Irenes (Home...

The formatting look okay on that?
 
@Fluttershy not in chat
 
@MBraedley Obviously. <_<
 
Wow, that's a long list
 
4:37 AM
@fbueckert Good to see you're still alive.
 
4:51 AM
I have to be cognizant in 6 hours. Later all
 
5:13 AM
0
Q: Xbox 360 console Installation

KennySo I have a video game for my Xbox 360 console, I installed it so where it loads from the hard drive not the disc. I am wondering If that disc got scratched (the one I installed) would it still load everything perfect?

 
5:29 AM
Just saw Django. Pretty great.
 
6:01 AM
you know what's not pretty great
fucking SUPER HEXAGON.
HATE THAT GAME. HATE IT.
 
@Mana Okay then. I won't play it.
 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
 
Instead I will go to bed and dream of Jaime Foxx killing all the white people.
 
Super Hexagon is actually a pretty good game
I recommend it since it's only $3
 
@Mana But you just told me you hate it.
 
6:02 AM
but...geez. it is horribly difficult.
 
And that it's not pretty great.
MAKE UP YOUR MIND.
STOP TOYING WITH MY EMOTIONS.
 
sorry.
 
@Mana Speaking of Django, What do you think of Django Django?
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Mana's such a tease.
 
I think I drove @Mana off. :(
 
6:14 AM
:(
 
Woooo, 120 MSO rep in like... 5 minutes.
At this rate, I'll make it to 1k this time next year.
Which is all I really want. Polling vote counts is just something I'm annoyed not to have - especially on a meta site. I could care less about edit/closure/moderation privs.
 
My favourite MSO priv is the 20k delete vote.
Sending completely off-topic questions into the abyss is just so therapeutic.
 
@TimStone I like doing that on Arqade, but I don't use MSO enough to care about that.
I just want vote counts because I don't use MSO enough to care about much else.
And not having those is really frustrating sometimes.
Which is the only reason I ever put my occasional efforts into asking/answering on MSO.
 
Fair point
 
99% of my MSO activity is the result of me being annoyed by not being able to see a vote count when I searched for some old post, and going to look at the new questions feed to snipe a quick answer for a few upvotes.
Ever so slowly I'm creeping towards 1k.
 
6:31 AM
0
Q: Simple Python issue

Zhall'Initialize variables' population = 0; 'population' firms = { 'production': 34, 'sales': 0, 'housing': 0, 'civic': 0, 'transitnetwork': 0 }; #firms for planet constructionresources = { 'Tools': 0, 'Lumber': 0, 'Stone': 0, 'Glass': 0, 'Steel': 0 }; #Resources for planet consumerresources = { 'Wate...

 
6:52 AM
0
Q: How can I get my citizens to craft bread efficiently?

victoriahI have a town with 18 citizens, a bakery with 6 ovens and 6 tables, 3 mills, and a 5x5 wheat field. All of these things are close together. I have production set to +3 Wheat and +15 bread. My citizens have no other tasks except to keep creating food, yet they somehow always seem to have the bare ...

 
7:04 AM
0
Q: How can I export a previous installation under Wine to the PlayOnLinux folder?

EdocastilloI have some programs and games installed with Wine and I wonder if it's possible manage this applications with PlayOnLinux. There was a plugin called "Wine Import" to do this, but seems to be obsolete. What can I do? Should I copy my Wine folder and paste it in the Playonlinux directory?

 
7:25 AM
0
Q: How will a mod that modifies the rate at which skills increase, affect or stack with the in-game skill rate modifiers (e.g. Standing Stones)?

galacticninjaI have installed the 2x Skill Increase mod (it also has a 'half-increase' version), which claims to "double the skill increase rate for all skills". I was wondering how this will affect or stack with in-game skill rate modifiers, like Standing Stones. For example, if I have The Lover Stone's eff...

1
Q: What are the symbols on the top of The Witcher 2's screen mean?

AbhishekOk, so I get that these are active effects that you are currently under, and the timer is straightforward and what not, but the symbol itself is nigh meaningless, and I don't know what effects I'm under... I've installed the game vanilla through GOG, and I let the installer patch itself to 3.2 a...

 
7:58 AM
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Q: Noveria: Lorik Qui'in - Broken Quest?

IsziAfter completing the main questline in Noveria, I still have one quest in my Journal which seems like it cannot be finished. That is the quest involving Lorik Qui'in. Early on, I found that I needed to get a garage pass to proceed outside of the Noveria port. Gianna told me that Lorik Qui'in m...

 
So this is the time of the day when everybody is asleep again, eh?
 
 
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9:01 AM
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Q: Can `repeat +∞ [ smelt(cobblestone) -> stone, mine(stone) -> cobblestone ]` be efficient for gaining xp?

Alvin WongSince 12w22, smelting yields experience orbs. Stone, when mined with a normal pickaxe (without silk touch enchantment), yields cobblestone. Smelting cobblestone yields stone and some experience orbs (according to the wiki it's 0.1 xp). So if one keep smelting cobblestone to stone, then mine th...

 
9:17 AM
@YiJiang I am here
 
9:27 AM
@kalina You're late.
 
yeah whatever, I've already had it from my boss and I told her how little I give a damn
 
9:38 AM
is it home time yet
 
10:07 AM
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Q: Station Stop Failed?

kalinaSomebody thought it would be funny to recommend this game to me, so I've played it for several hours during which time I have universally failed at everything it has thrown at me. During a typical journey to London Victoria station I received the message "Station Stop Failed" at each stop without...

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Q: How can I recover from losing my construction yards?

kalinaPlaying with friends, I built multiple bases across the map in a tactic aimed at constricting resources for everybody else on the map. My base defences were pretty solid on land, but then I got attacked from the water by a pretty large fleet of cruisers. By the time I responded, I had lost all o...

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Q: Allied Mission 5 - Rescue Tanya

kalinaI've on Allied mission 5 in Red Alert, where Tanya has been captured by the Soviets and I am sent in with one spy to rescue her. The Soviet base is full of soldiers that I have no problems in killing, but the dogs keep hunting me down and failing the mission for me. What is the best method of re...

 
apparently I look tired, somebody just bought me a coffee
 
10:22 AM
more spam votes on this
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Q: Where can you buy Diablo 3 Gold get free Extra 10% Bonus ?

cherrychang12Amazing! With year-end promotion comes to its zenith. Diablohome is now giving a huge thanks to everyone who support us with extra free 10% bonus for diablo 3 gold. You must be eager to know some details. Just let the following reveal the answer. Free Extra 10% Bonus for Diablo 3 Gold Buying Yo...

 
10:40 AM
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Q: Torchlight 2 - Item Quality

Big_JoeDoes Multiplayer or Game Difficulty increase the Loots Quality or Amount?

 
10:54 AM
@Lazers Well, I guess I can write you off on GW2...
 
@OrigamiRobot I doubt it
 
Once you go , you never go back.
that's how that goes, right?
 
...ok
I need 175 rep
I feel anything I do from here is going to be forcing myself to ask questions I don't need the answers to
 
Yer not gettin it from me you hat farmer
 
11:13 AM
0
Q: Is there a way to split items in a stack in Torchlight 2

carleetoHas anyone found one? Lets say I have a stack of 10 health potions and want to sell 3. Can I do it?

 
@OrigamiRobot you just hate me, is all
@OrigamiRobot incidentally, since you obviously missed me mentioning it last time
your method of raising one question to cover multiple issues results in not getting an answer
while my method of raising one question per issue resulted in getting answers
now I have several questions that will never get the answer they deserve and it's your fault
 
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Q: Defense Zone Lite 1.5.2-0ubuntu1 won't start on Ubuntu 12.10

user1145808 $ /opt/defensezone-lite/Defense\ zone\ Lite Found path: /opt/defensezone-lite/Defense zone Lite Mono path[0] = '/opt/defensezone-lite/Defense zone Lite_Data/Managed' Mono path[1] = '/opt/defensezone-lite/Defense zone Lite_Data/Mono' /dev/input/js0: driver version: 2.1.0 (20100) /dev/...

 
11:46 AM
0
Q: Does toughness help to mitigate damage while in a "Downed State"?

Marcello Grechi LinsOnce you are put into the "Downed State", will damage reduction from toughness still apply?

0
Q: Why don't my Sims move in together when they get married?

victoriahThis has happened to me with two different sims now. I have every EP except Seasons and the stuff packs. My sim will get married, but no dialogue will pop up to combine the families - I have to do it manually from Edit Town, which kind of ruins it.

 
12:16 PM
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Q: When is the "Attack Damage" calculated?

Marcello Grechi LinsContext: Take three players as example (call them: "Buffer", "Attacker", and "Defender"). In a very brutal battle Attacker jumps with his hammer towards Defender, but part way through the attack animation, Buffer helps Attacker out by giving him 12 Stacks of Might. What will happen here? Two...

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Q: Changing Thane's fate in Mass Effect 3 with 'Gibbed Save Editor'?

user38995In Mass Effect 3 I've missed the meeting in hospital with Thane and now the Salarian Councillor is dead. What should I change with the Gibbed Save Editor to save him? I didn't romance him. Thanks for answering

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Q: Can a shiny Pokémon be identified apart from the sparkle and colour?

Jonathan DrainSuppose you play Pokémon with the sound off, and without paying much attention to the screen. Suddenly you notice a wild Pokémon battle has started. You think it might be a shiny, but you didn't see or hear the sparkle at the start because you weren't paying attention. Worse, you don't have Bulb...

 
Chat is really slow this time of the day
 
yes it is
I'm surprised @badp hasn't been around
oh, he's not even in chat
 
12:31 PM
@YiJiang Are you trying to taunt me out of hiding via ponies? Because it won't work.
3
...
damn it.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz :D
 
Woah, I rep capped on MSO.
Well, actually, I thought the Accept bonus didn't count towards rep cap?
8 Upvote + 9 Upvote + Acceptx2 is exactly 200 rep though. So I guess the hat checks for 200 rep and not rep cap.
Also, wheeee, almost to 1k MSO rep.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz I thought there were two metrics... "rep capped" and "rep capped through upvotes"
200 rep through any source (including association bonus) counts towards mortarboard
 
1k is kind of boring, actually. I mean, 4 digits significant symbolically, but otherwise, the actual privilege it unlocks is fairly useless
 
I need 6 more upvoted questions, and a whole load of upvoted answers for my next two hats
I need ~100 rep today to get the monarch hat
and then everything else is probably out of my reach due to lack of interesting questions/answers to attract large numbers of upvotes
 
12:36 PM
6 hours ago, by LessPop_MoreFizz
Which is all I really want. Polling vote counts is just something I'm annoyed not to have - especially on a meta site. I could care less about edit/closure/moderation privs.
6 hours ago, by LessPop_MoreFizz
I just want vote counts because I don't use MSO enough to care about much else.
6 hours ago, by LessPop_MoreFizz
99% of my MSO activity is the result of me being annoyed by not being able to see a vote count when I searched for some old post, and going to look at the new questions feed to snipe a quick answer for a few upvotes.
Basically, 1k priv is the only one of value to someone who is not really interested on being active on a particular site, but who occasionally looks things up on it.
 
Fair enough. I don't think MSO has that many votes, and anyway the results of any such votes are usually clear in the end. The really fun one to have is 10k, seeing dead posts
MSO has a lot of funky history.
 
seeing deleted posts on arqade is boring
 
@YiJiang Yeah, but :effort:
@kalina You just need to know which ones to look for.
 
they're normally annoyingly illiterate dribbling or gold spam
 
12:40 PM
@StrixVaria I think not that long ago I spammed multiple SE sites with a similar picture to get the 'disciplined' badge
oh no, the other one
peer pressure
 
@kalina Have you ever seen the saga of Prashant P?
 
I got so bored lastnight I considered posting a troll question and seeing how long I could string it along before people realised I was trolling
 
Be sure to look at the revision/edit history.
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Q: How do I download an embedded flash game from a site?

PRASHANT PI would like to play Super Mario 63 on my work laptop, but not in a browser. I have only found the game embedded on a site. How can I download it?

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Q: OpenTTD Jukebox?

PRASHANT PI'm enjoying OpenTTD a lot more than Transport Tycoon Deluxe, but I miss the jazz jukebox from that game; there's a poor variety of music in OpenTTD. Does this feature exist in OpenTTD? If so, where can it be found?

Same advice about edit history applies.
 
Goddamn it. My solution to Project Euler #15 works at a reasonable speed for n=17, but the question wants n=21.
And of course the algorithm is O(n!).
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz looks like a poor quality ITG question tbh
 
12:44 PM
@kalina Well yes, but the level of bad is truly stunning.
has MIDI music !

MORE EDIT :

can play male female any class many option

begin game in DUNGEON

remember easy to equip weapon with click

easy to by mistake disrobe in inventory :)

is all i am remember now maybe more later
MIDI MUSIC!
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz I only judge people's ability to communicate in English in chat, as a joke, it's a little too judgemental to assume everybody on the planet can communicate in English :P
 
@kalina It's not theenglish skills, it's the complete lack of value of the details provided.
It was easy to equip weapons!
The world was big!
 
I like the mini edit war that started in the Mario 63 question
fixed tags 63 => 64
I just got a hat on movies & tv
 
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Q: How to wake up stunned parrot in deponia?

BanditoBunnyHow to wake up stunned parrot in deponia? The parrot was stunned with laughing gas and needs to be wakened up, how do I do that?

 
Hmmm, Magicka doesn't appear to work on Windows 7 x64...
 
Is Freeware game-download-location offtopic?
@kalina lol
 
@Ender I don't see why it's any more on topic than payware purchase location, which we generally don't welcome.
 
i had no idea of any policy regarding either, hence going to chat first :)
 
Shopping advice is shopping advice.
 
I've had a really good idea for new functionality for stackexchange!
<incoming background noise>
Make it so that if your accepted answer percentage drops below 90%, you're unable to post more questions to the site until you fix it!
 
1:06 PM
i think thats a horrible idea
 
But also change the way this percentage is calculated, so that only answers that have the at least half the number of upvotes as the question, and positive upvotes, are included in the percentage calculation
<no more noise>
 
even more so with ur vote idea
you cant control votes, so often they dotn make as much sense as they should
furthermore i should not feel obligated to accept an answer that didnt help me, just because I want to ask more questions
 
no but you can guarantee that bad content has low votes or negative votes
 
no, you cant.
 
are you serious? we have @fbueckert, he makes sure all bad content gets downvoted/flagged
 
1:11 PM
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Q: How exactly does Force translate to Damage?

LessPop_MoreFizzSo, for some reason, the Mass Effect series likes to express the potency of various abilities - particularly biotic powers, in Newtons of Force, rather than the amount of damage they deal. Unfortunately, there is absolutely no mechanical transparency given as to how any given amount of Force wi...

Two answers, a +15 and a +6, neither answers the question.
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Q: Can the Galaxy at War readiness multiplier exceed 100 percent?

LessPop_MoreFizzGalaxy at War's "Galactic Readiness" meter is... a bit controversial. You increase it by playing ME3 Multiplayer, and by playing an iOS game that acts as a tie in. The 'Readiness' score that accumulates from these activities has a floor or 50 percent, which functions as a .5 multiplier on your tr...

^ Same number of upvotes as the question itself, totally misses the point of the question,
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz answers the actual question as per the title though
 
I'm sure there are more where I accepted an answer purely to get my accept rate up, but I'm too lazy to go digging.
 
counterpoint: this is why I said 90%, not 100% - it would be a better system than the current one where you see people at 75% or lower accepted answers, the people who turn up, ask questions, and then never accept answers
the +4 answer on the second one answers the question "can the galaxy at war readiness multiplyer exceed 100%"
the rest of the stuff in your question was not taking into consideration that it was possible to get 5000 readiness by completing everything in the game
 
@kalina No, it very much was taking that into consideration.
 
that first question is mind boggling, how people got that many upvotes without even answering the question
fortunately, it was before my time here, so I'm just going to say you all suck and need to learn2vote
 
1:17 PM
The whole point of the question was basically that I was aware of the various threshholds at which endings triggered, and, in order to be able to see every ending without replaying content, you would need to trigger the endgame at a certain low readiness, and then be able to adjust the multiplier up ti 143% (and various points in between) to see them all
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz that answer was answering the title, rather than the wall of text you had in the question. It was a title that doesn't reflect the content of the question
@LessPop_MoreFizz I could be pedantic and say "percent by definition never exceeds 100%" but so many people break that definition these days it's a pointless argument
 
@kalina It's also not true. You can have percentages over 100 when talking about multipliers.
"We increased production by 200%" is a perfectly cromulent construction.
It means "We tripled production"
 
I don't want to have this discussion
blame society for breaking definitions
I still think the forcing people to use the system is a good idea
since so many people don't when given the free will to make the choice
 
@kalina That's what shame is for.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz people on the internet don't feel shame
 
1:22 PM
If you systematize it, you remove my occasional opportunity to shame people. And shaming people is fun.
 
they only care about getting what they want, take away what they want and they'll do what is required to get it back
 
> Although percentages are usually used to express numbers between zero and one, any ratio can be expressed as a percentage. For instance, 111% is 1.11
^ per wikipedia
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz you can't trust wikipedia, I edit articles on wikipedia to put purposely incorrect information into them
plus, in this instance, it doesn't agree with my point of view
so it's wrong.
;p
 
@kalina As fond as I am of Wikipedia vandalism, in this case, I happen to know it is correct.
 
incidentally, the sentence after that... "Although this is technically inaccurate as per the definition of percent"
which kinda flies in the face of your "correct" statement
I can accept being technically correct
 
1:25 PM
@kalina Pedant.
 
technically correct is the best kind of correct
 
I think my favorite wikipedia vandalism is still the person that switched out all the 'r's for 'w's in the article about Special Relativity.
 
lol
 
so that it read like a lecture by an awkward german professor
 
don't you mean special welativity?
 
1:27 PM
@kalina Yes, exactly
 
lol
@Wipqozn :(
 
Trying out various builds in Dungeon of Dredmor... unsuccessfully
The Communist-Necronomist-Banker-Paranormal Investigator didn't make it out of his third room
 
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Q: Should I sell my guitar for a complete SNES Earthbound set?

Ray WeissI have this guitar, its an airline with 3 humbuckers, cream, and kind of cool looking. I never play this thing, just been sitting in my house for years, I have 2 other guitars that I use for the most part. A friend of mine wants to trade me the holy grail of all SNES games for the guitar. Its a...

"wtf" comes to mind
I am not sure why such a question is gaining upvotes either
 
1:42 PM
On the other hand, the killer vegan + fleshsmith combination actually worked. I might try it again.
 
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Q: Should I sell my guitar for a complete SNES Earthbound set?

Ray WeissI have this guitar, its an airline with 3 humbuckers, cream, and kind of cool looking. I never play this thing, just been sitting in my house for years, I have 2 other guitars that I use for the most part. A friend of mine wants to trade me the holy grail of all SNES games for the guitar. Its a...

Nuke It
O, kalina already mentioned it
Hi Kalina!
 
@Ender o hai der
 
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Q: How sensitive is tagging on the PC version?

kalinaI have noticed that Jet Set Radio is now available on Steam as Jet Set Radio HD. I was wondering how well this works on a PC using a keyboard - the reason I ask, I have played this game extensively on a Dreamcast, and one of the key points of the game is to 'tag' various parts of the environment ...

 
@Wipqozn "it takes a mighty brave man to run over turtles" - truer words were never spoken.
 
2:10 PM
Dammit @kalina! Why couldn't you have waited to post that Jet Set Radio question until I was home? =(
 
@Fluttershy I very much doubt it will be answered by the time you get home! :p
 
@kalina I hope not. I also hope it can hold out until I've played my fill of Theatrhythm... >_>
 
@agent86 Turtles are pretty scary.
 
Morning, Bridge
@agent86 Oh, you read AP too?
 
@Fluttershy Still not very far in, but this Batman game is reminding me of Metroid in the way the world is presented.
 
2:17 PM
Oh, nevermind, I see
Just read that on AP last night
 
@fluttershy you will enjoy Barkley: Shut Up and Jam Gaiden. You will not regret downloading it.
 
@YiJiang I usually do vampire, dual wielding, and various combinations of smith, tinkerer, accuracy, dodging, armor, and some others that I can't think of at the moment
 
@YiJiang pyromancer+assassin FTW. Most of the rest of my build was meh, I think I took thieving, piracy, alchemy, magic training, staves.
(but I won!)
alchemy was less useful than I thought. at least now you have a pocket dimension to store supplies.
I used my pyromancer pet the whole time, I even distracted dredmor with it
 
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Q: Is there a way to tell my horse to get lost?

agent86I've got a horse that I'm trying to keep alive for a particular achievement. Unfortunately, this horse seems a bit suicidal. Several times he's stepped out in front of my shot during a gunfight and taken a rifle round to the head. In other instances, he blunders into the wilderness when I stop...

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Q: Can I change my Deadeye level?

agent86While progressing through the game, I've unlocked 3 levels of Deadeye: Free targeting mode, where time essentially slows until I take a shot. Auto-mark mode, where time slows and any target I land on with my crosshairs gets a bullet Manual-mark mode, where I get to press a button to mark target...

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Q: How can I get into the subway without killing NSF?

kalinaI am trying to go through Deus Ex without killing anybody, so far I've managed to get through the Liberty Island mission and most of Battery Park. However, now that UNATCO have cleared out the approach to the subway in Battery Park there are still some NSF in the entrance to the subway; How d...

 
2:35 PM
@StrixVaria Is that a good thing?
@LessPop_MoreFizz How long is the game?
 
Is just me, or this answer edit is not needed ? gaming.stackexchange.com/a/47472/12936
 
@MichelAyres which one
 
@kalina they only changed are for is
 
@MichelAyres well, it is minor but valid
 
@kalina why valid? the are is not wrong
 
2:40 PM
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Q: Multiple virtual box set up

AdunatoAs I'm planning to get a new system soon I'm exploring ways to optimise the balance between the gaming / office aspect (on windows) and developing aspect (Linux distro). I would also like to get the benefits of isolated virtual machines to be able to back-up / snapshot each environment into a ce...

 
@MichelAyres "the garden stuff are not interesting" is incorrect grammar
 
@Fluttershy Yeah I really like the map/exploration style in Metroid.
 
@kalina Ok, not english native here, but... "the garden stuff are not interesting" is saying that all stuff in it is not interesting. while "the garden stuff is not interesting" is saying that the garden itself is not interesting.

No?
 
no
 
btw why I have the number 7029 under my avatar in the chat o.O ?
 
2:45 PM
"the garden stuff" is saying "stuff related to the garden is not interesting"
using "are" is saying the same thing, but using the wrong word
 
@MichelAyres that's your network rep
 
@MBraedley thanks =0
=)
 
@MichelAyres you use 'are' for plurals - ie "they is correct" is wrong, "they are correct" is correct - "they" is considered a word describing a plural
"garden stuff" is singular, even though it is potentially talking about many things
if it said "garden things" or "garden stuffs" (stuffs is an incorrect word in this instance) then you would use "are"
 
@kalina except you say "you are a person" not "you is a person". Exceptions to every rule in English.
 
@MBraedley true story
you wouldn't say "tomorrow are going to be an insane day"
but you also wouldn't say "the next few weeks is going to be insane"
even though the latter kinda reads correct
you would use "tomorrow is" and "the next few weeks are"
 
2:49 PM
@MBraedley For even more fun, US and UK English treat certain entities differently. For instance, "Apple are producing a new iPad" is correct in UK English, but "Apple is producing a new iPad" is correct in US English.
 
damn those Americans.
 
@Powerlord and in Canada both are correct (although the American version is preferred)
 
So... I think that applies to all groups of people, but I'm not sure.
 
Yay mixed grammar!
 
Canadians are just as guilty of breaking languages though cough Canadian-French
 
2:52 PM
@kalina actually, Canadian-French is too generic. There's Quebecoius, Metis, and Acadien
 
they're not too generic to the French, since they're all "wrong"
 
> Virtual women are more likely to be naked than virtual men, researchers at the Canadian University of Laval have revealed, after publishing a scientific paper on the topic.
I'm glad people are wasting money studying how virtual people are dressed.
 
sounds like a well spent research budget
 
@Powerlord ah, greater Montreal, the only place such research would come from
 
> Their solution was to measure nudity on Second Life.
 
2:56 PM
just ask @Jin about his mesmer
 
wears less clothes than I sleep in
 
I figured I'd just link the article I was reading
 
@Powerlord That's because people would rather see naked women than naked men
 
@Powerlord I notice that the research didn't cross section how many of these virtual women were actually women
It's somewhat biased and pretty much invalidates the results if you consider that men of course will want naked virtual women
 
2:58 PM
@kalina Probably because they have no idea.
 
so not only was is a poor subject to research, but they did it wrong.
 
@fluttershy ~8-10 hours playtime.
Add a little more if you feel like messing around with Victorian Steampunk Mode
(Which is the New Game + equivalent.)
 

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