Game Development

Alex M.

10:00 PM

reaching a particular type of audience isn't an opinion based process

and the author is asking about reaching a particular type of audience

Pip

this is so freaking funny: tvids.me/watch69/The-Big-Bang-Theory/…

Grey

"Some people are fixated on the fact you get to throw bricks at God, some get fixated on the fact you are killing cute animals.

Is there a limit to how 'art' a game can be before regular people cease to 'get it'?"

Let's talk about drinking. Everyone has different levels of intoxication just as everyone has different morals and levels of intelligence. Everyone has a limit to something. You're right he is trying to reach a particular type of audience and that audience is those that play shooters. He even said himself "Some people are concerned Some people are fixated on the fact you get to …

The keyword here is some. What if someone said yes there's a limit, because he happened to be religious?

Alex M.

please remove the god part

it's so not relevant here

it's just a type of controversial subject

Pip

@AlexM. tvids.me/watch69/The-Big-Bang-Theory/…

Alex M.

he just noticed he can't reach the god-satire hating people and offered it as an example

Pip

10:03 PM

watch it!

Alex M.

@Pip I never liked sheldon's face

always wanted to smash it with a hammer

Pip

lol

Alex M.

sorry

Pip

"I never liked Sheldon's face.... always wanted to smash it with a hammer." - AlexM., 2013

Grey

@AlexM. It is.

It was his notion of putting "art" in a game.

Alex M.

10:05 PM

alright grey, I'm done talking to you

Pip

no star? why?

Alex M.

looks like byte won't unlock it anyway

so it's pointless to waste any more time

Byte56

The community is free to vote to re-open.

Alex M.

the process to reopen it should be like this:

1) suggest answer

Grey

and wtf does he mean by regular people Alex

Alex M.

10:06 PM

2) answer gets peer reviewed

Grey

regular

Alex M.

3) question gets unlocked if the answer shows the question is not opinion based

as it is right now, I have no idea how to even vote or where to go to vote

@Grey general audience

Byte56

The question should be able to stand on its own, without an answer.

ToddersLegrande

@AlexM. need 3k rep to vote

Alex M.

lol

Byte56

10:07 PM

It's just a sensational question to attract attention to their kickstarter.

Alex M.

well, I bet there's a lot of active "community" with 3k+ rep here

what kickstarter?

Grey

therapistgames.co.uk

6

Profile.

Alex M.

oh naturehater thing

ToddersLegrande

@AlexM. As I know you are aware given by your sarcasm, there is not which is why mods are so quick to close.

Byte56

They're already making the game. What's the problem they're facing? They just want to have a discussion about it and get people looking at their game.

Alex M.

10:09 PM

in that case we should edit those parts to remove the advertising ideas

Grey

"How many regular people can look at painting of Picasso before they throw up"

@AlexM. 1.) His username 2.) His Profile

Byte56

Still opinion based without the advertising.

Alex M.

the rapist games

do what you think is right guys

Christian Careaga

@Pip hey!

Alex M.

I'd do the same in your place too

Pip

10:11 PM

hey @ChristianCareaga

I'm watching this: tvids.me/watch69/The-Big-Bang-Theory/…

Alex M.

@ToddersLegrande this is not always a good thing

see the flag I raised on that guy's question who was asking why unity player was unable to update

ToddersLegrande

I didn't say it was a good thing :)

Alex M.

it got rejected

only after the 2nd flag did the thing get closed

ToddersLegrande

It's definitely something I've noticed more recently and am not sure I like

Alex M.

how is asking why a piece of software can't update not offtopic

Grey

10:14 PM

because the problem is

the power to close the questions is... drumrolls .... subjective.

Because power is placed in the hand of one or two people.

and not the community at large.

Alex M.

that would definitely work if there wasn't a set of guidelines and rules backing the closing process

Grey

Christian Careaga

@Pip I'm at a coffee place doing homework lol

Pip

lol

Alex M.

oh man the DB prof actually went into B-trees in the course

this will be fun. not.

Byte56

10:19 PM

@AlexM. That was rejected because the message said it should be sent to support. I couldn't do that.

Alex M.

I didn't ask anyone to send it to support, what I said should have been read as "This question should be sent to Unity support and thus is offtopic here."

I thought it was obvious

like the question being offtopic-obvious

Byte56

If you like I can paste the exact message here.

Alex M.

I can do that myself

"This should be sent to Unity's customer support instead. "

Byte56

OK, so you know you didn't say it was off topic, just that it should be sent to support.

Alex M.

and the one that got accepted

"Alright, let me re-phrase it. It's offtopic because it asks why a particular piece of software stopped working on a particular machine. For the same reason we don't see people asking why Adobe Flash failed to update yesterday."

who would flag a question to tell a moderator to send something somewhere :\

it makes no sense

I must be dumb or something

Byte56

10:22 PM

The thing is, you're flagging for moderator attention, when really it's just a close vote.

Alex M.

am I really the only one thinking "This should be sent to Unity's customer support instead. " is pretty obvious in representing the reason why I flagged it?

no, I wanted to flag for offtopic but the reason for offtopic was not in that list

Byte56

OK, I guess that's an SE issue then. Close flags don't usually alert us in the same way as moderator attention flags.

Alex M.

I guess I also need 3k rep to vote for closing

those are some serious rep requirements

you don't need to be a master answerer to keep the place clean

Byte56

That's certainly something you can bring up on meta.

Because it's true.

MickLH

s/can/should/

Grey

10:26 PM

too much vim

Alex M.

@Grey it's not vim-localized

MickLH

I rather like perl and sed, I think it's silly to pick one without judging the task first

Grey

I know

Alex M.

fuck perl mickey

sed that shit

Grey

calm down.

MickLH

10:27 PM

@AlexM. jeez bro UNPROVOKED ATTACK

Alex M.

dude you think you got what it takes or sth

you think you got the big cojones

COME AT ME BRO

DO YOU EVEN C++

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

sigh

Grey

^

ToddersLegrande

teh dramas

MickLH

@AlexM. Bro do you even unity doe...

Grey

10:29 PM

GD.SE chat drama.

Alex M.

that's not drama

that's a motherfucking valkyrie

ToddersLegrande

this man speaks the truth

Grey

Seinfeld ?

ToddersLegrande

And yet all I can think of is "Kill the wabbit... KILL THE WABBIT!!!"

MickLH

@ToddersLegrande The truth is forbidden /me kills @AlexM. with physical violence

ToddersLegrande

10:31 PM

That's violent :O

MickLH

It's super effective

Grey

New Blog Post: Fabulous Adventures with GD.SE Chat

First Line: I am a changed man.

MickLH

Fagulous what?

Grey

@MickLH eric lippert reference

Alex M.

physical violence

WON'T WORK ON ME

through years of nerd rage

and extensive otaku training

I have achieved my ethereal form

and this is not even my final form

I have a pet rose btw

plants make amazing pets because they don't poop all over the floor and shut up

@MickLH if JayZ was here, he'd have sued you for that Z

@Grey epic lirrert

Grey

10:34 PM

k

Alex M.

I really love his blog but I always adblock his picture

because he looks like he's staring into my soul

Grey

I want to learn how to byakugan.

MickLH

Nurd-RayJ sounds like an electro/dubstep synth that can be programmed in Java

Alex M.

@Grey neji dies

Grey

no!

Alex M.

10:36 PM

YES

Grey

already knew that

Alex M.

he goes gay for naruto

and dies

Grey

lol

Alex M.

only saskeh can go gay for naruto and stay alive at the same time

everyone knows that

MickLH

Ugh there's all this stupid pain, but the only way to solve it is to eat :'(

I honestly didn't sign up for this shit, I was under the impression that earth would be a LOT different

Alex M.

10:39 PM

@Byte56 what am I suggesting on meta again? to lower the rep requirements for reviewing votes or voting itself

I can't find where it's specified how much rep you need for voting

Grey

Call it viva le revolution

and suggest some radical changes

MickLH

@radical is fine, grey, maybe YOU need some changes

Alex M.

@radical is pretty cool

Grey

yeah hes a cool guy

Alex M.

I really think some @Grey changes are in order

Grey

10:40 PM

no

MickLH

eh?

Alex M.

don't you agree @Grey?

with the fact that we need some @Grey changes

ToddersLegrande

@AlexM. gamedev.stackexchange.com/help/privileges

Alex M.

for @Grey

Grey

@Todders tell them to stop

MickLH

10:40 PM

ooooooh

@Grey I get it, he kills aliens and doesn't afraid of anything

ToddersLegrande

Guys play nice

Don't pick on eachother

Make fun of me instead

Grey

lmao

ToddersLegrande

I need the attention

MickLH

hugs @ToddersLegrande

ToddersLegrande

:D

Grey

10:41 PM

@pip dont you need attention

because you're like attention deprived.

:>

:>>>

okayillstop.ineedtogonow.

MickLH

@TorusLagrange better?

Grey

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Alex M.

164 moderator attention flags
160 deemed helpful
3 declined
1 disputed

22 posts marked spam
22 deemed helpful

3 posts marked offensive
3 deemed helpful

3 comments flagged
3 deemed helpful

well at least my !helpful flag count is still below 2.5%

Pip

@Grey noes

Grey

yes

@pip attention
@pip attention
@pip attention
@pip attention

Pip

10:43 PM

you are annoying

Grey

Ahahahah

ToddersLegrande

@MickLH wat did you call me? D:

Grey

@Pip Sometimes it's important to walk a mile in another mans shoes to understand how he works =)

Alex M.

@ToddersLegrande torus lol

that's new

also lagrange

Pip

@Grey :)

Alex M.

10:44 PM

SphereHorner

Grey

okay thats creepy

Pip

@ToddersLegrande I'm glad that they didn't make the whole show like this: tvids.me/watch69/The-Big-Bang-Theory/…

Alex M.

@Grey sup

ToddersLegrande

Still need a new name... though I don't think I'm going with Torus Lagrange

@Pip I'll have to believe you. Can't watch now

Grey

snap

MickLH

10:45 PM

hehe

I'm glad you noticed, if you can't tell I've been math-ing really too fucking hard today

Grey

. _ .

MickLH

I swear to god I'm gonna write a paper soon

Pip

@ToddersLegrande :)

Grey

curse you markup

loolol\

too many smiles pip

you know what happened to the last guy who did that

ToddersLegrande

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Pip

10:47 PM

go away Mr. U

:P

ToddersLegrande

Pip

jk

Grey

Mr. W

@ToddersLegrande There should be a room just for images.

ToddersLegrande

Then make one

Grey

not in my power. I don't have enough swag points.

You start getting swag points when youre a trusted user

it's not really talked about but you know I have privileged information like that.

According to the SE blog @Todders swag points were created 1/24/2014. Jesus man, try to be in the know sometimes.

gawd.

\o/ #yolo

ToddersLegrande

10:50 PM

Pip

@ToddersLegrande In 25 mins, I will have Chicken cordon bleu and rice :D

Grey

@ToddersLegrande I'd be the only one there

it'd never reach its full potential

Alex M.

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Q: Lowering rep requirement for reviewing activities

I can speak for the situation on GD.SE, where we have few active over 3k rep members doing maintenance work. There are lower rep members who would do it though. I think the 3k rep limit for closing votes and reviewing everything is way too high. You don't need to be a great question asker or ans...