You're saying people actually played Pokemon? Jeebus almighty, this is worse than I realized!

@TildalWave I played the shit out of those games. Then I moved to Fire Emblem.

Any good recent offline single player games you'd recommend? Can be RPG, whatever as long as they're not boring and I don't have to share experience with some kids half way around the world?

I have recently started the Mass Effect series.

I tried but somehow didn't tickle my fancy

There's always Crysis if your rig can handle it.

I think it should, didn't try the latest one yet. It's a boring shooter tho, isn't it?

Boring shooter? No, it's an awesome super-human rampage. Turn Maximum Strength on and rip your enemies in twain.

well yes, that ... boring

There's Metro 2033

You live in a post-apocalyptic underground civilization where all kinds of nasties are waiting just to eat your face for lunch.

hmmm that could work I even have a copy of it ... is there much of the narrative where all you can do is sit back and watch like in some S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s

@TildalWave Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative

Or Dragon Age series

Or Skyrim

^ Boring

no no no not Skyrim / Dragon Age ... yup ... boring

Rage, Brink, Borderlands...

@RoryAlsop That's interesting, so it's a bit like Portal?

@DavidFreitag I'll definitely try Borderlands, otherwise I bought them for nothing

@TildalWave same engine, but your guns fire the bounce and speedup paint types

my favourites list

@TildalWave I'm a fan. I get bored and go back to them

and the rest

@RoryAlsop How was Deus Ex?

@DavidFreitag meh. The kids liked it

Hamish can play it - I'm obviously far too old

@RoryAlsop I can't get any of the GTA games to run on Win8 :[

I only got it because it is too easy to click and buy

I wonder if the Win9 dev preview is up for download yet...

@AviD - think I have my plan sorted for the ice bucket challenge at the weekend

:-)

@DavidFreitag I liked it. Even installed both AMD and NV cards for all the bells and whistles (for some reason it also run smoother)

@TildalWave Wait... you had two different brands of GPUs installed??

has a few annoying things in it tho, but it doesn't get boring

I imagined that the drivers for each would just sit there and do nothing but bicker at each other while you were trying to shoot someone

@DavidFreitag yup, only works with some strange combination of drivers but I hacked it somehow, don't ask me how exactly ... NV drivers are some ancient ones before they disabled support for two different brand cards and Catalyst is the latest

^-- And this is why I don't take screenshots of the list ...

@FEichinger Pfffft. Photoshop.

@RoryAlsop fantastic! Dont forget to record it...

@DavidFreitag It isn't even the current count. It's missing a few things I bought since the last time it was online.

Or, redeemed rather than bought.

@FEichinger suresure

@DavidFreitag I'm afraid it's true ...

@FEichinger Yeah but your highest time played for any one game is only 66 hours...

@FEichinger yup. I only have 79 steam games

@DavidFreitag That's because offline mode makes the time count wonky.

@AviD of course!

And since I cba to pipe Steam through my home firewall, most of my time is in offline mode.

@FEichinger No it doesn't... I always use offline mode

@FEichinger we have 2 groups in common :-)

@DavidFreitag My go-to example is Borderlands. Which I've definitely played for more than 4.3 hours.

@FEichinger we only play that on Playstation. Not through steam

Or, more recently, BioShock Infinite. Way more than 2 hours.

It might be because I'm not always actually in offline mode, but logged in and then disconnected.

And then there's time missing that was never synced up because I reinstalled before connecting again ... All those little things.

@FEichinger steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198014991991/games/?tab=all

lemme know if that link is borked.

Does not appear borked.

I still don't understand how I racked up 345 hours on Warframe.

Could be time it didn't realize you were not playing anymore.

Well, that's only ~15 days... I did play almost six hours a day for almost three months

All I know is that, out of those 66 hours recorded time for Eve, I only played max 50. The rest were a night during which Steam didn't realize I had closed the game, and kept recording.

Ooooh @TildalWave Just Cause 2 is a fantastic game - and it's pretty at that!

@FEichinger Wouldn't happen to me, I shut my computer off every night.

I hardly ever shut my computers off.

The only computer I leave on is my work computer

Even my laptop is running pretty much all the time. The only exception being when I'm on the move.

How is your battery not dead...

Or do you remove it when you just have it running on AC power?

Well, for one, this laptop is less than a year old.

And for the one before that, the battery lived for ... I think four or five years.

It died only a few months before I got the new one.

At which point I bought a replacement with more capacity, because I needed that anyway.

The thing with constantly charging your battery is it won't "die" you will get a decline in battery life

To the point where the battery just won't hold a charge

I know. It's just usually not worth the effort to change my workflow for me.

@FEichinger ... You mean it't not worth the effort to reach behind your laptop and remove the battery?

@DavidFreitag Every time I plug it in? No. Not to mention that it's not just reaching behind, it's reaching under and unlocking it.

@DavidFreitag no first-person view?

@TildalWave I can't remember... It's been so long, but iirc I got used to the 3rd person.

@FEichinger I knoooooooow, that's so much work.

It's more work than paying twenty bucks every few years for a new battery.

I can't play 3rd person view shooters it feels wrong shooting at anyone while I'm forced to observe the ass of my avatar

Especially with laptop lifetimes that shouldn't even reach that point in the first place.

I was certainly not planning on keeping my last one going for five years.

@TildalWave justcause2mods.com/mods/other/Gameplay/…

i.e. it makes me wanna shoot my character 1st

@TildalWave dude, Pokemon was THE game on the Gameboy after Mario Bros and Donkey Kong

@LucasKauffman I never had a Gameboy and by the sound of it I didn't miss all that much :P

@TildalWave you never played Donkey Kong or Mario Bros then

@TildalWave Well, at that time the GB was marketed to kids, so this makes sense

I played Donkey Kong sure, and Mario karts

never cared for classical Mario arcades tho

OK, it had shrooms, that's one good thing about them

and hypnotic level-ups

SWEEET. They stocked the candy bowl with bullseye's.

Guise I decided to first try Alan Wake, and if I don't like it then Borderlands -> Metro 2033 -> The Witcher 2 - Assassins of Kings ... mostly because that's what I already have. Cheers for all the suggestions tho!

@TildalWave Alan Wake isn't a game, it's a movie.

@TildalWave If you like Alan Wake, you should go with Metro next.

Oh I didn't say I like it, I'm yet to check it out. But it looks like it'll install the fastest :)

Yeah, I'm just saying that Borderlands is quite a change of tone and format after Alan Wake. :P

OK Borderlands it is then, I just noticed Alan Wake is 3rd person :)

I know borderlands and Metro aren't 3rd person

@TildalWave Oh, in that case you probably won't like The Witcher either.

@TildalWave There's always Gaylo... If you've got an xbox laying around.

translate: שלום עולם

whoa. I didnt know we had a stackbot for translating!

this changes everything!!

translate: hello world

heh

I wonder if it can translate canadian to english. #simon.

@AviD If you used chrome you could set google translate search to the keyword translate. All you would need to to is type "translate שלום עולם" into the search bar.

translate: Sorey aboot that

Oh I forgot the eh, that must be it.

@DavidFreitag how does one go about doing that?

Settings -> Manage Search Engines

Then change the middle column for the search in question to whatever you want to shorthand

huh. cool, TIL.

So my translate looks like this "Google Translate translate translate.google.com/?source=osdd#auto|auto|%s";

heh. they have Urban Dictionary in the suggested list

You can add just about anything. Custom queries work too if you're clever about it.

nice. turns out the default list has it there already, but you would need to type out the whole sitename.

This makes no sense. Somehow this got four stars on Newegg and I've only been able to muster 0.56MB/s over WiFi on speedtest.

newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833127243

@AviD Yup, it populates itself based on your browsing history too. If you visit a site regularly you should see it in there.

@DavidFreitag ahhh okay that makes sense.

I found it surprising to see PornHub in there.

@AviD No, I think that one's built in.

Default to shortcut is just 'p'

@AviD who was holding the camera for your icewater video? Were you on a boat?

@DavidFreitag ha, no, my 8yo. it was a hella more shaky before youtube's stabilization effects.

I was standing in a pool, though.

@AviD Yeah, right ...