The Bridge

11:00 AM

So there's now a My Little Pony comic series. Unfortunately it's published in the US, so to get a copy of it here you'll need to import it

You can also get it on the Comixology app or on iBooks, but both are DRM'd, and on launch day they are priced the same as the physical copy

*waves @BoltClock*

BoltClock

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Hey

Steam was a total asshole when it came to downloading Tomb Raider

At least, on my PC it was. I had to resort to downloading it on my dad's PC then moving the files over

So much for pre-loading

"Hey I have the preloaded files can I start playing now?" "No, I'm trying to download it" "But I have them!" "But I need to download them." "But you just did that last weekend!" "I don't remember."

It also had a world of trouble downloading some TF2 update, but when it was done I was presented with Genuine promo items from Tomb Raider. So that was a pleasant surprise - because the update surfaced only yesterday

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

11:21 AM

I looked at GnB Comics and Comic World. The former didn't have stocks, and reservation is member only. It does have copies of the Adventure Time comic, though, for S$20. The latter have all of the currently available issues, though stocks are low.

kalina

tomb raider is full of quick time events from what I've seen of it so far

EVE Patch \o/

user30

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user30

what the fuck?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

So yeah, I grabbed Issue #1 Fluttershy variant cover for $7.20. And now I think I'm going to frame it.

user30

just cancelled my pre order. also props @badp for that ars review

badp

11:33 AM

@ThomasMcDonald oh wow, I hope that is "29 seconds 46 cents"

user30

@badp top link on r/games reddit.com/r/Games/comments/19p4ks/…

user30

unfortunately not

user30

Well, it at least saved me £35

kalina

@ThomasMcDonald wow

fredley

@ThomasMcDonald I don't want to play this game, because EA.

user30

11:35 AM

I want to play it. But I want to play a proper Sim City title :(

djsmiley2k

lol keep buying children

ea will huggle your money for you.

kalina

@ThomasMcDonald Not sure which one I'd rather prefer to see, MMO style "please wait" or this:

because it takes many days for all of those megabytes to arrive in the UK

-.-

user30

hmm yeah

fredley

@ThomasMcDonald 1. Play SimCity 2000 2. ??????? 3. Profit.

user30

I preordered through Amazon

djsmiley2k

11:38 AM

@fredley was 2. rage quit and go to work instead ?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@fredley SC4 is superior /hides

fredley

@djsmiley2k Possibly.

badp

11:59 AM

@kalina clearly british localization is taking a while to change those z's

you don't want to play a localised game do you?

LessPop_MoreFizz

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Console players

Proposed Q&A site for console players, Xbox360, Playstation 3, Wii etc.

Currently in definition.

user30

@badp It should have been developed in proper English anyway

user30

hm, I don't have matlab on my laptop. this is problematic.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@ThomasMcDonald Proper english utilizes Oxford spelling. We realize here in America that your most renowned institution of higher learning was onto something when they organized their dictionary to spell words using the mighty Z.

Martin Sojka

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yes! Get this console "player" (if you can call them that) rabble off my lawn! ;)

badp

12:05 PM

Reorganising things takes bloody ages better spent refining your tea making skills.

LessPop_MoreFizz

Oxford spelling

Oxford spelling (or Oxford English Dictionary spelling) is the spelling used by Oxford University Press (OUP), including in its Oxford English Dictionary (OED), and other publishers who are "etymology conscious," according to Merriam-Webster. Apart from OUP, British dictionary publishers that use it include Cassell, Collins and Longman. In digital documents it may be indicated by the language tag en-GB-oed. Oxford spelling can be recognized by its use of the suffix ‑ize instead of -ise: organization, privatize and recognizable instead of organisation, privatise and recognisable. The spell...

Good enough for Oxford, Good enough for America. Z.

OrigamiRobot

user30

@LessPop_MoreFizz TIL 'en-GB-oed' is actually a language tag

badp

I use the z versions because in most cases when you can -ise and -ize, Italian uses -izza so it's just more natural to me.

e.g. organizzare/to organize

I could care less about who endorses what spelling honestly

but not much

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp This is because Italian borrows from the same Greek root as English, which uses a Z.

S spellings are dumb uptight prescriptivist bullshit.

Alternately, crazy Australian language-muckery.

Either way, NOT TO BE APPROVED OF.

badp

12:09 PM

I dunno, does saxon actually have greek roots?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp The words that end in Ize do.

They tend to be rooted in french, which in turn is rooted in Latin, which in turn comes out of greek.

@badp English is like 1/3rd romance language don't forget.

Particularly many of our more polysyllabic words.

badp

Well, I can think of non-ize alternatives for most -ize words (memorize/remember, visualize/imagine/show, etc.), except organize. Maybe "sort"?

Martin Sojka

@badp English is not the same as Saxon ...

badp

@MartinSojka O RLY

Martin Sojka

@badp Depends on context. Prepare, create, construct, establish.

... not that "prepare" is any less French.

badp

12:18 PM

This is my headcanon

I dunno how close to reality it is

Martin Sojka

Oh. You meant "Germanic".

badp

I studied that "English" is an "Anglosaxon" language without really understanding what it actually meant

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp Brief History of the English Language: Once there was an island, where people spoke languages similar to Gaelic. This island was conquered by Germans, who spoke an ancient German language not terribly dissimilar from modern German. This was old-Anglo Saxon English. Eventually, the island was conquered again, this time by French people, who spoke a variant of French. These French People tried to make the native Germanic people speak something more like French, but the best they were...

able to achieve was to get everyone, themselves included, speaking a horrible bastard mutt language that was part French and part German. This was English.

Incidentally, this is why most of English's "vulgar" or impolite words are short and vaguely German sounding. They are considered rude because they are language German peasants would use, rather than their educated French noble lords.

badp

@LessPop_MoreFizz frolic those words

Martin Sojka

To add to that, the Germanic-speaking lads came in many different waves, from two different places: First from (today's) Lower Saxony, later increasingly from Denmark and Norway.

user30

12:32 PM

You would have thought OUCS could have made it a little easier to set up matlab...

user30

Although I guess that's more of a fault of MathWorks than OUCS.

user30

Decided I'll spend my money on Arma III rather than SimCity

LessPop_MoreFizz

@MartinSojka I was simplifying for @badp

badp

danks

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp I could've just linked this:

►

Ben Brocka

12:38 PM

Fuck everything about EA

Watch them learn nothing after filling a game with microtransactions, diluting the core of the game and then seeing reduced sales (though seriously, 25% less than chart topping sales, which still topped charts, is enough to shelve a AAA series?)

djsmiley2k

@BenBrocka did you buy it?

they are the tesco of games.

Tesco only stocks 1 or 2 of any product, the top ones, and nothing else.

Some products they simply don't stock at all (Jam Tarts for example).

Ben Brocka

Yes, Dead Space is the only thing I was willing to purchase from them at all at this point

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I'm reading 334 by Thomas Disch. I borrowed it from the Central Lending Library

djsmiley2k

Any good?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Which was stupid, because I could've reserved it and have it delivered to a nearby library. It would cost $1.50, but it would still be cheaper than the round trip fare to the Cental Library

djsmiley2k

12:51 PM

Do you have to go back there to return it too?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

No, I can return it at any library.

badp

Truth is, if EA fails, the world loses one game company and gains little in return. What's worse, the assholes that made EA evil become unemployed and get to infect other companies too.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

It's ostensibly a novel, but it reads more like a set of short stories set in the same universe. Well, the same apartment building, which is where the novel gets its name from.

Ben Brocka

@badp No, if EA fails the industry gains a HUGE precedent not to release disgustingly cynical games and completely ignore fan feedback in all possible ways

badp

@BenBrocka If EA fails people will simply stop pouring money into videogames

Ben Brocka

12:55 PM

They're also one more step towards killing Bioware too

Despite what EA may have told you, EA is not the entirety of the gaming industry

They're been putting more and more into shitty mobile games and I couldn't care less if that crap fails

badp

@BenBrocka They are destroying much of it, however, and that discourages others from entering it I suppose

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

It's quite neat. Written in the 70s, contains a good many common dystopian scifi troupes.

It reads a lot like Stand on Zanzibar which I was trying to finish last month, except it didn't have the fragmented narrative structure of that novel, which prevented me from finishing it

Ben Brocka

@badp If EA dies, those people and their money will mostly go elsewhere. EA is not the only company making games, AAA or otherwise, and plenty of series still get great sales and reviews

Martin Sojka

Right now, there's a rather short list of names I have to remember never to buy stuff from: EA, Ubisoft, Activision are the top three and there's little more, basically. If any of them splinters, it'll be a mess sorting out which parts continue their abhorrent business practices and which deserve a chance.

badp

I mean, it isn't as bad as Apple's hold of locked-down, dumbed-down, puritan-friendly, money-eating, air-quotes-magic, non-computer computers. :P

Ben Brocka

12:57 PM

I seriously doubt there are many gamers out there legitimately thinking "Man, if EA doesn't exploit me I just don't know, I guess I'll stop buying games"

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I'm probably using the word neat a little too much now

badp

@BenBrocka Typically buyers only give their money after the product is made, you need funding beforehand in the first place however.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@BenBrocka BioWare SF isn't really Bioware.

badp

I'm afraid that those who are supposed to do this kind of investments may be really put off by a failure of EA

LessPop_MoreFizz

Bioware SF makes the Facebook games and Mobile games that you so loathe.

badp

12:59 PM

also something has been the cause of empty notification bubbles on Chrome for a few days now and I'm having that thing.

Ben Brocka

@LessPop_MoreFizz I know it's not the Bioware, hence "step", but it's part of the brand (at least as far as EA is concerned)

LessPop_MoreFizz

@BenBrocka It's the part of the brand that makes Facebook games.

Ben Brocka

Great, I said the word "buy" on Twitter and I'm getting all sorts of spam

Martin Sojka

The other step was Ray Muzyka and that other guy walking out.

Ben Brocka

My complaint about EA clearly meant I have home loans to get rid of

LessPop_MoreFizz

1:00 PM

@MartinSojka Yeah, the docs leaving was a much bigger deal.

Ben Brocka

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm sure there's no connection with that, microtransactions and lower Dead Space 3 sales. Better add more microtransactions

Martin Sojka

... right, and Greg Zeschuk. Who the hell invented their last names?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@MartinSojka Sounds German

badp

masswerk.at/google60/?q=list%20games

Martin Sojka

@YiJiang'sEvilClone "Zeschuk" only looks German, but there's no German word with a similar structure. "Muzyka" is simply Polish for "music", which I still think is silly as a last name.

LessPop_MoreFizz

1:09 PM

@MartinSojka Possibly an Ellis Islandization of some more complex Germanic or Slavic name.

Michel

8

Q: Where can I train my Pokemon in HeartGold/SoulSilver after Kanto?

I have been using the Elite Four to train my Pokemon while running through Kanto. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of defeating Blue in Viridian City without leveling up my Pokemon enough, so now the upgraded version of the Elite Four is very difficult (All their Pokemon are lvl 60-70). Where ...

If I remove the tags soul-siver and heart-gold am I doing right? I got confused in this question o.O

StrixVaria

@Michel No, it needs those tags.

Pokemon is all messed up.

There's a tag for pokemon-fourth-gen but this question doesn't apply to all the 4th-gen games, just the 2nd gen remakes that are on the 4th gen engine.

If you look through pokemon questions in general you'll find a lot of tagging issues.

I guess we could have a meta discussion about it...

LessPop_MoreFizz

@StrixVaria I swear, if you title it or in any other way make a "Gotta Tag 'Em All" joke, I will downvote it out of spite.

Just sayin'.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Now I regret not actually poking at that Fix It Felix machine to see if it actually worked

It looked legit enough, though the coin slot was sealed.

Michel

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Q: Pokemon tag problems

I was looking at this question and got worry, should I remove those two extra tags ( soul-silver heart-gold ), or is just not needed? So I asked in the CHAT and got a good point from @StrixVaria Pokemon is all messed up. There's a tag for Pokemon-fourth-gen but this question doesn't apply ...

discussion tags questions

@LessPop_MoreFizz I should have done that....

@LessPop_MoreFizz So...

LessPop_MoreFizz

1:27 PM

@Michel Downvote cast.

THE RECKONING BEGINS:

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Q: Do "story-id" questions actually bring in new users that stick around?

The story-identificantion questions do an excellent job as a way to bring in new users, which is important for us to continue to function as a community. While the core regular users are important, a constant influx of new participants is essential. (from @Beoffet's answer on moderator candida...

discussion identify data-explorer

Michel

@LessPop_MoreFizz Was not in the question, was not @StrixVaria and was a quote of yourself =P

kalina

@LessPop_MoreFizz I like their meta design

Michel

You are mean T_T I'm digging for +6 posts with 2+ scores =P (badge)

@kalina You and me both

kalina

@Michel ok your avatar already made me double take who you are once

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Michel Pfft, meta downvotes are worthless anyway.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

1:31 PM

The "one winged angel" always looked a little unbalanced to me

LessPop_MoreFizz

@YiJiang'sEvilClone It's just in perfect profile you philistine.

badp

Honestly I have no clue about Pokemans so I'll just ignore the relevant meta question

David B

Simcity update: download complete, patching complete, servers up. off to work I go.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Don't you know Angels are two dimensional?

badp

@DavidB Don't worry, they'll be offline by the time you're back home.

Michel

1:33 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz not for the badge =P hahahaha

David B

@badp I understand the pessimism, and my 1AM self that was refreshing the digital download screen agrees... but for now - excited

Michel

@kalina Interesting fact... my image on the chat is diferent from the ARQADE =P so... I'm unique =)

badp

@DavidB I was just making a shitty half-joke half-prediction informed by the Diablo 3 debacle

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@LessPop_MoreFizz @kalina may want to have a word with you

badp

whistles

LessPop_MoreFizz

1:36 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I think she'd be quite flattered if I called her two dimensional.

Or was that flattened.

kalina

har har

so... funny

Michel

@badp meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/6957/… I will downvote your posts in spite if you keep using backticks to quote people, too. :P or "I will downvote your posts in spite if you keep using backticks to quote people, too. :P" or "I will downvote your posts in spite if you keep using backticks to quote people, too. :P"

badp

@Michel STAHP

Michel

<3

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Michel Must.. resist... urge to... flag

Michel

1:38 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone What kind of flag it should take o.O?

kalina

somebody is eating something that smells like feet

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Offensive. Your formatting is offensively poor.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp NOW YOU SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina Cheese, perhaps?

LessPop_MoreFizz

MOD ABUSE. MOD ABUSE.

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kalina

1:39 PM

no, feet

djsmiley2k

/me dies

Lazers

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Q: Pokemon tag problems

I was looking at this question and got worried, should I remove those two extra tags (soul-silver heart-gold)? So I asked in chat and got a good point from StrixVaria: Pokemon is all messed up. There's a tag for Pokemon-fourth-gen but this question doesn't apply to all the 4th-gen games, ju...

discussion tags questions

kalina

like, six month unwashed old sweaty boot feet

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Well yeah, some cheeses smell like feet. Or is it some feet smell like cheese?

kalina

it's... eugh

"funny" in the same way that @LessPop_MoreFizz is

I knew I shouldn't have smoked that joint before work

Michel

1:40 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I'm a poor person... I'm a developer T_T

djsmiley2k

@kalina why did you then?

kalina

@djsmiley2k because... meh, work

badp

@LessPop_MoreFizz for great justice

djsmiley2k

Sorry. I don't get it.

kalina

It's not my role in society to ensure you "get it"

djsmiley2k

1:41 PM

....

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

She... consumes hallucinogenic substances to get through work?

djsmiley2k

@YiJiang'sEvilClone sounds like a sad life

kalina

never smoked, right @YiJiang'sEvilClone?

tiddy

Pot isn't a hallucinogen

kalina

^

djsmiley2k

1:43 PM

well, yeah. :D

LessPop_MoreFizz

If your joint is making you hallucinate... you have some scary 'weed'.

Okay. back in a bit. Need to go run an errand or three.

djsmiley2k

my brain does that.

So, i guess my brain is scary.

kalina

no, I just have an overwhelming desire to sit here and watch youtube all day

djsmiley2k

I have that without smoking

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Hmmm, no. Like I said, where I live weed can get you killed. Though not by you consuming it.

djsmiley2k

1:44 PM

then youtube makes me loose all faith in humanity.

And I cry in a corner.

kalina

normally I have enough multi-tasking capabilities to arqade + work + play EVE + watch youtube

Michel

@kalina At the SAME time o.O?

badp

@kalina We should probably fix that and nominate you Chancellor of the Getting of the Its Office.

kalina

@Michel multi-tasking

badp

@LessPop_MoreFizz is kind of over-taxed in his position and could use a little backup.

kalina

1:45 PM

@badp I would reject such nomination

Michel

@kalina I know... I was trying to make an emphases here ¬_¬

kalina

@Michel well it's easy

Michel

You are a woman, you have extra gens to do so many tasks

it's like mens to open bottles of mayo =)

kalina

Youtube sits on one screen playing in the background, EVE in an RDP session mainly on autopilot with only some input required, Arqade is just clicking on stuff and downvoting people, and work is whatever brain cycles are left

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Michel Jeans. They have extra jeans, those lucky ladies

kalina

1:47 PM

-.-

@Michel are you suggesting it takes multiple men to open a bottle of mayo?

Michel

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Yoga pants > jeans for women =)

OrigamiRobot

@Michel What a useless gene. I have no reason to open mayo. Can I get a refund?

kalina

because that's just a waste of resources, when you could get squeezy bottles of mayo instead

Michel

@OrigamiRobot uAHuahuA

We have a better geo location than women too =)

badp

but then you don't get to swipe bread on the inside of the bottle to reclaim the mayo stuck on the glass.

tiddy

1:49 PM

Wow Singapore's Misuse of Drugs Act is pretty insane

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@tiddy Yup.

Ironic that it's not the weed that kills you, it's the law

tiddy

Good luck with all that

Michel

sweet part =)

I need to eat some mayo this week to try this again... so long I don't eat mayo =(

badp

honestly I'm surprised that people anywhere feel confident enough to openly claim they consume the stuff on the internet

@tiddy except maybe people in Netherlands?

tiddy

It's legal in 2 US states

and multiple countries

kalina

1:51 PM

@badp the law in the UK states its illegal but unless you're dealing with quantities that pass as intent to supply it will just get confiscated on the first warning

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp Well, merely claiming to have done something on the internet usually won't result in anything, since it's hard to trace back to a real person and impossible to verify the claim

OrigamiRobot

I am confident enough to openly claim to have crossed the street without looking both ways first. Take that authority!

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Resources are better spent investigating elsewhere for criminal scums to catch

BoltClock

scums

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Halt, criminal!

tiddy

1:53 PM

It's not illegal to say you've done drugs where I come from

kalina

OH NOES

THEY'VE FOUND ME

THE LIBYANS!

RUN MARTY RUN

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

So yeah, I have a physical copy of MLP Issue #1.

I guess I should feel happy, for I have consumed, and HAVE TAKEN PART IN THIS GLORIOUS CAPITALIST ECONOMY

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kalina

damned capitalists

fredley

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Consume eh?

OrigamiRobot

@tiddy Where I come from, it's probably illegal to hold hands unless you're married.

kalina

1:56 PM

@fredley yes, he ate it

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina Not before licking off all that delicious ink

tiddy

@OrigamiRobot Sounds insane

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I don't know, if I were to know kalina "in real life" and I knew she did illegal things and this was proved in tribunal and I failed to denounce her, wouldn't I be held as an accomplice?

tiddy

fredley

@kalina weebls-stuff.com/wab/cheese

tiddy

1:57 PM

I didn't make that btw

kalina

@tiddy Jurassic Park?

tiddy

Yes

My second favorite park

kalina

what is your first favourite park?

tiddy

parks and rec

fredley

@kalina South Park?

Nick Park?

kalina

1:59 PM

parks and rec?

tiddy

SP is 3rd

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

But seriously. I do feel rather happy I have obtained this comic. Now I just have to evaluate if the amount of utility I have gained from the consumption of this comic is sufficient to justify it's hefty price tag, like the good rational consumer I am suppose to be.

fredley

@tiddy Nick Park must be first then

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