The Nineteenth Byte

GamrCorps

00:00

lol

Alex A.

That's a lot of Counter-Strike.

Cyoce

I'm at 1500 now

Alex A.

Dam Son

Cyoce

Half of those were on a 4 year old macbook air with 2GB of ram

GamrCorps

^

Cyoce

00:01

RIP

GamrCorps

Im at 2000

mınxomaτ

@Cyoce RIP in peace.

Alex A.

If I have CS:GO (I can't recall whether that's the version of Counter-Strike I have; it might be Condition Zero), I've only played like 2 hours of it.

Or it might just be Counter-Strike: Source.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

mınxomaτ

I played like a whole 0 hours of any CS version. And I have a staggering number of 0 Steam accounts.

Alex A.

Whoa, 0 whole accounts?

Shit, dude.

mınxomaτ

00:03

(Lies. I have one steam acc to play Portal (and only portal) on my hackintosh).

Alex A.

Have you played Portal 2?

Cyoce

It's great

mınxomaτ

I probably have way more than 5k hours on TMUF. But that account is also almost 5 years old.

I remember buying the first TM (before it was renamed later to TM Original) in a physical store. On a DVD. No internet multiplayer mumbo-jumbo.

Cyoce

@AlexA. condition zero is the crappy single-player port that nobody plays. If that's the version you have, I recommend buying another

Alex A.

Oh, I don't think I have that

It's probably Source

Quill

00:13

I added a few of you on Steam yesterday

I was surprised at @Cyoce's CSGO hours

Cyoce

@Quill why?

Quill

because it's rare to see that many hours, I suppose

Cyoce

Yeah, there are only a few games I play

It started when all I had was a crappy macbook

I could only play FPS (the genre I like) that are available on mac and could run on a potato

GamrCorps

Can Silly Putty Protect iPad Air from Extreme 80 FT Drop Test?

►

Cyoce

Hence 1500h CS:GO, 700h TF2, 500h insurgency

Quill

00:16

that's where I'm at basically

Arma 3 is Mac compatible now

I'm yet to see if it will actually run

quartata

@Quill I've seen many people with 2k+ hours in CS:GO and b4nny has about 11k hours in TF2

1k is not that unusual it just means you like the game

@Cyoce I was under the impression that Insurgency was actually fairly hardware-intensive

Cyoce

@quartata that is partially true. But insurgency runs on the source engine, so turning the graphics settings all the way down actually improves performance

For most games, it just makes everything look worse with no benefit

quartata

That's because Source and GoldSource were actually designed to run on potatoes

Read the paper thing on lag compensation on VDW, and it'll show you how much effort they had to put into the engine to handle people's 1998 dial-up connections

Also I appear to have the highest Steam level here

mwahahaha

@AlexA. I kinda like Source better than GO too bad it's dead

Quill

who has the biggest library?

quartata

@Quill Mine's pretty small only 68

Alex A.

00:24

Mine's even smaller, like 10.

quartata

@AlexA. lol pleb

GamrCorps

I have 26, 30 including software

quartata

sacrifice some money to gaben next summer sale

Quill

oh btw the current humble bundle is good

quartata

@GamrCorps If we're counting tools I have more since I have every single version of Source SDK Base installed

Alex A.

00:25

@quartata I'm holding out for HL3, dawg.

GamrCorps

lol

quartata

Please somebody have more games and a higher level than me

I don't want to feel like a no-life

Quill

I have more games, just a lower level

quartata

ok that's better

How many?

Quill

168

RikerW

00:28

@AlexA. And portal 3....

@Quill woah dude

quartata

@Quill nice

feersum

I have 2 games. Therefore I have the most life ever.

Quill

CIV is on sale in the humble bundle atm btw: humblebundle.com

quartata

@RikerW You think that's a lot: steamcommunity.com/id/palmdesert

4k games

Alex A.

My girlfriend has 204 games in her Steam library.

quartata

00:29

@AlexA. Steam level?

Alex A.

get rekt, @Quill.

@quartata What's that?

quartata

@AlexA. Steam level.

Quill

that's taking otaku to a whole other level

quartata

It's a measure of how much money you've sacrificed to gaben, essentially.

@Quill He pretty much owns every game on Steam.

So he's like a Valve employee except he actually installs the games too

Alex A.

@quartata 11

I'm level 4

quartata

00:31

@AlexA. not enough money sacrificed to gaben

Alex A.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Cyoce

@quartata that's not how sacrificing money to gaben works, silly

quartata

@Cyoce It's one of many aspects though.

Trading cards are the most useless thing so I think they count the most

Quill

lol

quartata

I have an idea for a challenge but I'm not sure how interesting it'll be.

Sp3000

00:33

Gonna go check mine now, plus Martin's

Quill

tears shed is how I measure gaben love

quartata

@Sp3000 ?

Doorknob

... my dog just spent a minute walking in circles in his beanbag, gave up, and walked away

quartata

Anyways, the idea is a very literal "string distance." You take the charcode of each letter in two strings, put them into ordered pairs, take their distance and take the average of the resulting distances

Alex A.

@Doorknob #thuglife

quartata

00:35

So for instance:

Alex A.

They'd have to have the same lengths, yeah?

quartata

"HH" vs "ee" -> (72,72) (101,101)

@AlexA. Yea.

But they wouldn't have to be even length. If they're odd length the last one would just be (charcode,0)

Sp3000

@qua Steam guard's making checking my account from phone hard

quartata

@Sp3000 I hate Steam Guard.

The Steam Mobile Authenticator basically made it so I can't trade anymore

Those stranges and that unusual will ferment in my inventory forever

Alex A.

@quartata wth does that mean

quartata

00:40

@AlexA. TF2 item qualities

Roujo

TF2, yeah

Alex A.

I never got into TF2. My girlfriend likes it a lot though.

Sp3000

Got it: I have 274, Martin has 179 games

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. GET INTO IT.

quartata

@Sp3000 Martin has a steam account?

Sp3000

00:41

Martin's lev 27 o_O

Roujo

I liked it some years back, but moved on for some reason

quartata

I thought he was smart enough not to fall for the scam that is Steam.

Alex A.

Scam?

Cyoce

steam is amazing

Roujo

I'm L30, should I be scared? =P

quartata

00:41

Once you start sacrificing money to gaben you can't stop

@Roujo no

that means it's working

Quill

okay, my inv is now 188

Sp3000

@qua Hint: Sokobond, TIS-100, Infinifactory, Human Resource Machine

Cyoce

quartata

@Sp3000 Huh.

Roujo

@Sp3000 TIS-100 is awesome

quartata

00:42

He's level 27 dammit

I'll have to play catch-up

Quill

I actually uninstalled csgo recently

good decision

quartata

@Quill lololol

Quill

grumble grumble lost ranks

feersum

Now if only I could uninstall the Nineteenth Byte.

7

Alex A.

lel

The Nineteenth Byte is basically a computer virus.

feersum

00:44

It is.

You can't get rid of it because it hijacks web browsers, which one cannot possibly afford to go without.

Quill

10/10 trojan

GamrCorps

@feersum delete system32, destroy router, and blow up the ISP. That should do the trick

Quill

I'll go report it to AVG right now

mınxomaτ

> AVG

Quill

@GamrCorps sounds like an excellent Tom Cruise film

GamrCorps

00:45

lol

Quill

where's that gaben wallet gif when we need it

Dennis

rm -rf /system32
rm: cannot remove ‘/system32’: No such file or directory

GamrCorps

Linux instructions: uninstall Linux, install Windows, then do the steps above

feersum

I heard Steam for Linux deletes all the files in your home directory if you anger it.

quartata

@feersum I did have a panic moment years ago when I did --clean with Steam and Control-Cd it.

Dennis

00:47

Good thing I don't steam then.

quartata

It looked like it had wiped my entire Steam directory

feersum

No I mean rm -rf ~.

quartata

As it turns out it had just moved it to a temp directory

Quill

3

theoatmeal.com/blog/fix_computer

Dennis

That's pretty much how it was 15 years ago.

feersum

00:49

news.softpedia.com/news/…

Dennis

LOL

That is some bad coding.

quartata

@Mego Does Seriously have splice?

Anonymous

@quartata Depends; what do you mean?

quartata

@Mego Splice in perl takes two lists and replaces the elements of the list with the other at certain offsets

So splice([a1, a2, a3, a4], 2, 1 [b1, b2]) would give [a1, b1, a3, b2]

Anonymous

@quartata So like splice([1,2,3],[4,5,6],[1,2]) -> [1,5,6]?

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