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A: The Memes of Gaming.SE

GnomeSliceMeme: murder tag. Originator: GnomeSlice. Cultural Height: Probably about Here. Background: How do I poison someone? Related:

 
I'm tempted to add the thing to that.
Except that's generally just me.
Also, Sims 3 stuff on sale on Steam today, including (weirdly) Sim City 4 Deluxe.
 
Does "GnomeSlice's silly question/ question titles" count as a meme?
 
@GnomeSlice Good point...
 
12:31 AM
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A: The Many Memes of Meta

TheTXIMeme: Freehand Circles Originator: TheTXI Cultural Height: TBD See Also: Here, Here, Here, Here

 
12:42 AM
I still find it amusing that I'm listed on one of the memes in the Many Memes of Meta (but not as the person the meme is named after)
So is Grace for that matter.
Also, it looks like... Zero Punctuation reviewed Portal 2! :D
 
1:00 AM
"We were fools, fools to develop such a thing! Sound was never meant to be this clear, this pure, this... accurate." http://goo.gl/H2EXW
^ This made my day, yesterday.
 
 
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2:05 AM
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Q: How long are pro Starcraft 2 matches lasting nowadays? Are they still "ball-fests"?

BillareI consider my days of active RTS gaming behind me, but from time to time in the past I have to say enjoyed watching an active commentary of Starcraft over a spot of lunch. I wasn't what you might consider as continuously plugged into the scene, but over a month or two one could have found me wat...

 
2:38 AM
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Q: How do you make an effective Minecraft mob trap?

Nicholas1024Alright, so what's the best way to go about making a good mob trap in minecraft? Here are some traits I'd like to have in the trap. 1) Easy to build. Although I have (or can easily obtain) whatever materials needed for a mob trap, I'd prefer it to be simple, as I have a talent for melting mysel...

 
Magical 4.6 out of 5 stars (133)
Ripoff 3.6 out of 5 stars (122)
Length 2.6 out of 5 stars (28)
Customer images:
 
 
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4:16 AM
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Q: Clarify the documentation for tag synonyms

Andrew GrimmCannot vote on synonyms has someone confused because "Users with a total answer score of 5 or more, can vote for tag synonyms." Please expand (or hyperlink) what's meant by "answer score" in the tag synonym page. (Alternatively, just drop the answer score requirement!)

 
 
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5:49 AM
@NickT "My cats chewed on this cable and now they can both speak. One of them is gay and the other wants to kill me. I would have rather not known."
 
6:01 AM
@ArdaXi You'll notice Yahtzee agrees with me
Portal 2 just isn't as memetic.
 
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Q: How do gifts work, exactly?

AubergineIn Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, the game tracks your relationship with various characters by a set amount of heart icons signifying how much that character likes you. While specific events throughout the game effect your relationships, the game lets you know pretty early on that it...

 
@Powerlord Fixx0red.
 
 
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7:29 AM
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Q: Radeon 5730m on Windows XP

David26thHey all, I've recently installed Windows XP SP3 32bit onto my iMac via Boot Camp - I'm having some trouble getting graphics drivers for the included 5730m card though - appears official support is limited to Vista upwards. Does anyone know of a third party/open driver that would work on XP for ...

 
 
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8:35 AM
@failbadp It's not as memetic, no. But it's not unmemetic.
And you'll find I often disagree with Yahtzee.
Not this time though. He's spot on.
 
9:36 AM
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Q: N64 game where you attack other vehicles

MelanieI am trying to remember this N64 game where you drive around in vehicles and attack other vehicles. It's a multiplayer game and I'm pretty sure it's not a racing game, but it could have been... just we had played the multiplayer part. It wasn't mario kart or diddy kong racing... it was less "cute...

 
9:48 AM
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Q: text-only RPG - early 90s computer game

MelanieI had this game in the early 90s that I'd sworn had Doom... or something like that, in the name, but I could be mistaken. It was a text only (no images or anything fun like that) game where you were given a storyline and presented options to choose from to get out of situations. At some point in...

 
10:09 AM
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Q: 90s side-scrolling, shoot-em-up, arena game with a green lizard protagonist

vrinekThere was a game I played back in the 90s. It was a demo from a '95/'96 computer magazine CD. The game was a side-scrolling platformer with guns. I remember it being like an arena game (multiple bots and your character fighting it out in a level and most kills win) with different guns as power-up...

 
11:03 AM
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Q: What's the best way to get grass onto a dirt platform?

fredleyI am making some more Biospheres, and need to get grass onto a raised dirt platform. For my previous pair, I created a dirt bridge from a nearby hill that was at the same level, but it took an age to get across. Is there a better way?

 
11:24 AM
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Q: Broken links on the tools page

McDowellThe Tools page has broken links. e.g.: http://stackoverflow.com/tools/new-user-posts http://stackoverflow.com/tools/new-answers-old-questions http://stackoverflow.com/tools/views-hot

 
12:06 PM
I still wrote half of all those starred messages. Why do you guys like me so much? I'm confused.
 
Oak
Must be a temporary lapse in judgement!
 
12:25 PM
@Oak Probably a minor case of serious brain damage
 
@Oak @Fabian Say apple.
Simple word: apple.
Just say 'Apple'. Classic. Very simple. Ay. Double Pee-Ell-Ee.
How would you use it in a sentence? 'Mmm, this apple's crunchy,' you might say. And I'm not even asking you for the whole sentence. Just the word 'Apple'.
 
1:00 PM
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Q: Is there an achievement in Portal 2 for bringing a radio at certain points?

corrodedSimilar to the previous Portal's achievement, do you get an achievement in Portal 2 for bringing a radio along to certain points?

Should this have a tag?
 
@ArdaXi Not sure; I edited it to make the title less spoily.
 
Hmm, Akismet isn't really that useful.
A comment by DMA has stayed in the Gaming.BO spam queue for the last week.
 
Your profile has been permanently blocked from participating in the Steam Community.

Wow.
You must have done something exceptionally dumb, maybe quite a few times.
That wasn't smart at all.

If you think you think you need to know more, %scheck out support%s.

In the meantime, you'll want to %slogout%s.
The good side of being in the translation group is you get to see those strings... safely.
 
Hehe.
For a moment there I thought you found that on my profile or something. :P
 
So many small touches.
 
1:12 PM
Kind of wasteful.
 
Steam never told me I'm popular T_T
probably because I'm not.
 
I've seen that string once, I think.
When the list of invites had to be truncated.
 
hm, Steam is going to let you set custom CSS for profile pages. Or not.
 
> Gelieve contact op te nemen met Steam Support voor bijstand van één van onze medewerkers. Geldige problemen rond de toegang tot Uw account hebben onze hoogste prioriteit.
Err... that's the wrong kind of support.
Bijstand usually refers to financial support, like from the goverment.
So it says "Please contact Steam Support for financial support from one of our employees."
That, and if you capitalize the U in Uw it usually means you're talking to God.
 
1:29 PM
@ArdaXi Didn't you know? God has a Steam account. It has been VAC banned however.
 
@failbadp Well, they did name a cheat after Him. Seems unfair to VAC ban Him.
Same for Buddha of course.
 
Wow, I got lucky there. My boss stopped by when I was doing actual work, rather than when I was working on game stuff.
 
1:49 PM
@Powerlord Does that happen often?
 
@ArdaXi You mean her stopping by or her catching me working on game stuff?
The latter has never happened.
 
@Powerlord I mean you doing actual work. ;-)
 
@ArdaXi Oh. More than you'd think from my activity in here.
@failbadp I just realized what's been bugging me in this screenshot.
Why are they using %s when outputting numbers?
 
2:04 PM
@Powerlord They use whatever
 
@failbadp printf and friends give these characters meanings. %s for string, %d for numbers (digits), %f for floating point number, etc...
 
@Powerlord HOW NOVEL!
 
@failbadp Right... but my point is, to use %s, they have to be casting said number to a string/character array somewhere first...
 
Except, as I said, they use whatever. %1, or %s %s %s, or %formatted text here%, etc. There's just no common ground
 
@Powerlord It's going to be a string anyway, so it doesn't really matter.
 
2:09 PM
@ArdaXi uh, for a %s I'd expect printf to treat the argument as a memory address
 
@failbadp Well, right, maybe not printf.
But since Steam is not a console application, they're not going to be using printf.
 
Sure, sprintf or whatever name the variant they require is
 
Since HTML is string-based, whatever they're inputting the string into is going to cast it to string.
 
Introducing %d!
 
@failbadp %d would be cast to string by the function as well. It has no added value in this case.
 
2:11 PM
at any rate my point is they're not using a *printf compatible version most likely
at least not consistently
(also why do we care?)
 
Valve and consistency are two incompatible concepts.
 
2:28 PM
jesus christ I'm getting backstabbed from the front. wtf
It is now plain to see why engies aren't used in competitive TF2. They're just too weak
Damn useful, but damn weak
 
Poor engineers.
 
Damn right.
 
2:48 PM
@badp I don't think there is any saving this question: gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/21592/…
 
Oh come on
two engies on the same sentry
one (1) grenade comes up
and blows up the sentry and the two engineers
I don't care if spies are hard to play; there are too many good spies already around. The world doesn't need more
 
@tzenes I agree.
 
I don't; he's asking about how battles look and feel
 
feel is subjective
 
is it bad subjective?
 
2:53 PM
yeah
 
"subjective" is not bad enough
 
I didn't think it was necessary to qualify it, but yeah, its bad subjective
 
"Precisely how long are games?" is not answerable
 
It is crucial
 
feel is extremely personal
its like asking of a woman is hot
 
2:54 PM
"How long are games?" provides a useless answer: As long as you want
 
Oak
@tzenes it definitely doesn't feel solid for me.
 
haha
 
There is a length for matches a game is designed for
 
ultimately he wants to know if he'll enjoy watching the game
he's come up with a couple metrics
but they're poorly defined
and they're not really going to encompass all of what he needs to know
 
Oak
I couldn't pinpoint a reason to close it, though, it's composed of 4 things which are real questions, though subjective; but generally it didn't feel right, I own one of the downvotes there
 
2:55 PM
Perhaps it should be 4 questions instead of one? @oak
 
I think the thing that tipped me off was his background story
where he talked about why he didn't like SC2
which is why I said this felt like more of a rant
now he's removed that, but I think the intent is still there
 
Intent (= what a previous revision of a question said) is not a good reason to close a question
 
sure
thats why I said "felt"
 
It's still present in the current revision: "Are my hated Thors still clumping and impeding visibility?"
 
1.21 Jiggawatts is a good close reason. As is .
 
2:57 PM
and "tipped me off"
well, even the idea of Thor's impeding visibility
that depends on how discerning you are
if you're very observent then: no. but I could see how someone who was less observant, knew less of what was going on, might find them impeding to visibility
 
@MatthewRead Isn't "clump" and "impend visibility" technical jargon?
 
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Q: How does light spread in Minecraft

MattI understand that light levels decrease by 1 each block farther away from the source you get, but is that measured diagonally as well as along the axes? Another way of asking this is: does a light source illuminate a square area around it or a diamond-shaped area? Also, does light spread around ...

 
clump is, but impeding visibility isn't
 
"Clump" is technical jargon? So, if my dog's furs clumps, that's technical? :P
 
in Starcraft 2, Clump refers to the natural design of the AI to move units closer to eachother to form "ball" like shapes
 
3:03 PM
@tzenes You are aware that "cluster" is one of the synonyms given for clump in the dictionary?
 
cluster is also jargon
 
@failbadp "hated" sure isn't technical.
 
haha
we could edit out the "hated" part, but I feel like the tone is still there
 
@tzenes Again, dictionary word being used in its normal sense. Not sure how that's jargon.
 
@MatthewRead and it can be easily edited out without altering the question
 
3:06 PM
@Powerlord that would take a longer explanation of what is jargon
@badp I edited it out
 
@tzenes Thanks
 
[OK, as someone who has never played let me answer the question.]

How long are Starcraft II games now, after the growing pains are presumably over, as compared to Starcraft Original? [As long as it takes. If you're asking how long they're intended to be, ask Blizzard. If you're asking how long they are on average, either Blizzard or no one has that information.]

Is there an ebb and a flow, where one side can still make it back after a decisive loss in a single battle? [Yes.]

How decisive is micro in a battle? [Depends.] Are there any documented cases of "hero marines" a la Boxer win
bah no bold/italics?
oh well.
 
I haven't seen any micro on par with Boxer's hero marines from BW, the AI is just too good for you to exploit it like that
ok, I'm going to drift off, bbl
 
An engineer's greatest ambition: have the enemy use one uber for you
 
3:23 PM
Heh. When you encounter an uber, have it destroy your sentry. Then, assuming the other team still sucks, set up a level 3 sentry near spawn and replace it as soon as it's clear.
 
Three exits from spawn
 
Starting to wonder if it would be not totally crazy to buy a Kinect set while not owning a 360, just for the PC.
 
I think I have a blog post ready for "TF2 Engineering 101"
it more or less reads "Don't bother."
actually that's all it needs to say
 
I think I mentioned RPS in TF2 balance before.
 
and the engineer is good vs nothing
engineer guns may be okay vs a number of classes
but you first have to get them up
 
3:30 PM
Provided you build your sentries in places that aren't open, sure it is.
 
@Powerlord I tried the entire game setting up a far teleporter in some sort of close hatchet
there always was a pyro or a soldier or a heavy or a scout or what the fuck ever who could W+1 onto everything I did
 
Engineers are generally strong against Scout and Pyro, and to a lesser extent Soldier and Medic.
If you're not near your sentry gun then yes, you're the weakest of the classes.
 
and when I finally managed to get a tele 3 up, with a sentry 3 guarding it and a dispenser 3
a uber got deployed in 20 seconds and W+1ed on me
and I started from scratch, hooray
 
Yes, there's nothing you can really do to prevent an uber.
If you have enough forewarning, you may be able to pick up your sentry and try to escape with it. If it's a heavy attacking, you may be able to duck behind your gun and repair it.
 
Except get your team to support you with a countering uber
 
3:33 PM
(Doesn't work against Pyro, sadly)
 
@jaminja What for? meatshilelds?
 
Yes, in fact, when an Uber is deployed, Pyros are extremely valuable, as they can airblast the medic and ubered player apart.
 
@failbadp essentially yes
 
Fun fact: pyros don't like to babysit engineers
despite what the TF2 wiki likes people to think
it's just not true
 
I wish Valve hadn't nerfed the Sandman. Being able to stun an ubered player was great.
 
3:35 PM
I don't know, as a pyro it can be quite satisfying to catch all the incoming spys...but for most players W+1 is more fun i guess
 
What to do with answer that provides no more information than an earllier answer?
 
@failbadp They shouldn't necessarily be defending the engineer, but on a defense round (like cp_dustbowl), they should be defending the point, which is usually near the Engineer.
 
@Powerlord agreed...I find the Sandman almost useless now
 
Being able to stun an ubered medic = SUPER WIN! Before the aforementioned nerf, that is.
 
at the end of the day does balance really work if you have like 5 "competitive" classes? The answer is no
 
3:36 PM
Stunned medic = uber breaks on the other person. :D
 
which is why I never cared too much about competitive games too much, the game is just distorted
 
@failbadp 5? I thought they only used 4 classes in competitive... Scout, Soldier, Demoman, and Medic.
 
I thought spy was used too
 
@failbadp Nope.
Spies fail hard versus teams with good coordination.
 
Sometimes the Scouts will switch to another class temporarily if the situation arises where it will be useful
 
3:38 PM
Mission ends in 30 seconds.
enemy captures B
Time has been added.
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I hate being at work while all this TF2 chat is going on...itching to play
(sitting opposite my boss doesn't help either)
 
@Powerlord I'm sure people call that "ghosting"
 
@Powerlord You've got an element of surprise there though. If nobody expects spies, they won't spy-check.
 
I don't play the game, but I imagine for high co-ordination teams, you have a good idea of who is what class and where on the map.
 
Anyway, general rule in 5v5 and 6v6 competitive is that one player CAN switch classes as necessary, but I've heard it's usually to Pyro to airblast ubers away from the last points in a 5cp map.
 
3:46 PM
I figured people just avoided other classes for being too weak
but that would be too simple or something
 
I've never played competitive... I prefer playing for fun.
I've just read about it. Note: Competitive Highlander is a different beast entirely.
Competitive Highlander has one of each class.
 
69 teleports
 
@failbadp: BTW, I noticed yesterday that one of my sentry guns got 15 kills before it was destroyed. :D
er... no, not yesterday. Few days ago.
It was hidden in one of the side rooms at the top of the hill on pl_thundermountain stage 1 (by point A). :D
Our team nearly won that round, too... they managed to kill my sentry in the last 30 seconds before they would have lost. :/
 
@Powerlord I don't know that map.
And we lost.
Time limit.
 
Wait, we still won that map, just at the second point.
Then again, my team was actually helping me.
The Demoman in particular was extremely helpful.
For killing spies if nothing else. :D
Although... it was an enemy demoman who finally killed my sentry.
It's always great seeing ones name as the top scorer on a defense round you won... as Engineer.
(Teleports add a half point to your score, too)
 
4:01 PM
@Powerlord is Competitive highlander the one where you have a 9 player pub server team vs a 6 play competitive team?
 
4:36 PM
@jaminja No, that's Pros vs. Pubs. Competitive Highlander is just where each team has 9 players, 1 of each class (plus alternates if players get disconnected)
 
Pros vs Pubs without handicaps? That doesn't sound like a lot of fun.
 
I think "1 hp" is a proper handicap
You can overheal to 2!
quite the perk to overhealing
 
Okay, fun project. I have a list of strings in a text file, and I need to know which of them do not occur in any files in a directory.
 
solution: put text file in directory. Answer: none. Complexity: O(1)
 
Okay, you convince Valve to put the subtitles_english.txt file in the VPK for maps.
 
4:47 PM
a VPK doesn't count as a folder
 
@failbadp A folder inside the VPK does.
Basically, I need a list of all un-used sound files in Portal 2.
 
@Arda How large is the list of strings? I'm guessing large?
 
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Q: What are the prices of PSP downloadable games and PSOne Classics for EURO region?

sarmackieI do not have any Sony gaming console currently at my disposal, and PSN is down anyway, so I just want to ask if anyone remembers more or less what are the current prices of PSOne Classics and other downloadable PSN titles for the PSP, for the European region? I am mostly interested in prices in...

 
@Lazers temporally too localized.
 
Good thing @Lazers changed its name since I believe we actually now have a user named Bob.
 
5:02 PM
A website thought I made this: escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/extra-credits/… it is very good but not made by me...
 
Did I ask anyone to remind me to whack the SourceMod devs for not explaining the difference between sdktools_sound.PrefetchSound and halflife.PrecacheSound yet?
 
You've asked us to remind you to whack them for not documenting something about Enums, iirc.
 
Oh. Because I asked what the difference was between the two aforementioned commands a week ago and still haven't gotten a reponse.
 
5:19 PM
Is the Source sound directory "sound/" or "sounds/" ?
 
yay, new record for sniper kills in a life: 2
I'm like the best sniper EVAR.
 
@failbadp With any weapon, or just the sniper rifle?
 
any
but I was using the rifle
 
Well... practice!
Although I suck with the sniper rifle.
I've gotten... lucky with the Huntsman bow.
I always laugh when I get multiple headshots in a row with the Huntsman, as it's completely random whether or not you headshot.
Darn, I don't think SourceMod support modulus division.
or at least it's not in the floating point functions.
Maybe it does and it's just an operator, but given there's an operator% function and its description is "Forbidden operators" maybe not.
 
5:37 PM
@bwarner Quite. 2584 entries.
 
5:48 PM
hm, 2nd name label
 
@failbadp I know what that one's for! !
 
wait a second
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
wtf why is this scrap metal not tradable
 
@failbadp Achievement item?
 
the game should've warned me about creating non tradable stuff
 
@failbadp It does.
 
5:50 PM
well I got a non tradable scrap metal without warning
 
It always warns me beforehand.
 
It only warned as I was about to make a reclaimed metal out of it
Well I don't want a scrap to taint the entire thing.
That's an annoying setback.
Ah well, 6 more dupe couples.
However, I hate that «The Gloves of Getting The Hell Outta Here» is one character too long.
 
@failbadp Lose the 'the'. Just 'Gloves of Getting The Hell Outta Here'.
 
No, "The" is mandatory.
 
@failbadp Look at the Facebook.
(Hint: it's a joke)
 
5:57 PM
The facebooks are not The something I am giving The fuck about.
«The Rifle of Giving Up On This Game» fits though
 
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