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:(...............
Why hasn't my question been fed into chat yet?
00:49
because you're selfish and your question sucks
I knew that would catch up with me...
01:03
Wizpig race, with Krunch. Montage.
Best game, of all time.
I can't even count the hours I spent on Diddy Kong Racing
@StrixVaria Nor I.
Nothing was more fun than lapping all the computers on lap 2 of Ancient Lake before they even made it around once.
Hovercraft = Beast.
Makes me wish I still had my N64 right now...
01:11
You got rid of it?
When I went to college I left it with my dad...I imagine he still has it somewhere but he doesn't exactly live nearby
Blasphemy.
Greatest system ever.
I do remember watching an entire speed-run of that game when I was in college, though...
My roommate was like, "How the fuck can you just sit there and watch the same shit for two hours?"
Easily, I'm sure.
01:14
I saw a tool-assisted video of Megamen 3,4,5, and 6 all played on a single input.
The entire games.
No lives lost.
I've seen that
Crazy.
More impressive in my opinion was the run of Final Fantasies 5 and 6 on a single input
That finished on the same frame
???!
That is impressive.
01:15
I'm needing to be busy right now.
I'll have to see it later.
I can't say I watched the whole 4 hours of it
But FF5 is one of the most nostalgic in the series for me
@GnomeSlice I'm American and what is this? :) Seriously though, is "beast" a new-ish slang? I've heard it a lot lately, but never before.
I wouldn't call it new slang
Within the last 5 years maybe
@JavadocMD Well, I'm Canadian, but now that I think about it, it's getting a revival.
I've been to Canada once. No igloos :(
01:17
Interesting
@StrixVaria There are igloos in Northern Canada.
I spent most of my time in Mississauga, so not very far from the States
Although I'm glad to see you now believe that I have internet access 'way up here'.
I'm not allowed in Canada.
Did you get exiled?
01:26
the last time I went there, I was told, in no uncertain terms, that any attempt to return across the border would result in my arrest.
This sounds like a fun story
Do go on.
It's not really.
I just happened to accidentally miss a key customs procedure on my way in, and got suspected of trying to smuggle weapons across the border.
What kind of customs procedure could you possibly miss? I handed the guy my passport, told him I was on vacation and leaving in a week, and that was that.
It was actually harder to get back to the USA afterwards even though it's my home country
@StrixVaria You seem surprised at this.
01:39
@GnomeSlice No I know the USA is way too overzealous about some stuff
This was before a passport was required, I was driving across the border, showed the woman my license, explained I was just going shopping, and was told to go to the 'building on the far left' for some sort of further screening - presumably because I had (stupidly) mentioned having a pocketknife.
However, all I heard was 'go to the far left', which was also the road out of the plaza that went to where I was going.
I thought she was being helpful and giving directions, so I just drove on through.
Yikes.
'And the shots all rang out...'
On my return to the US, I was stopped, interrogated, searched, interrogated some more, searched some more, etc. etc. etc. for about 5 hours.
and then told that it would be 'unwise' for me to attempt to return to Canada for several years.
Wow...
Yikes.
Other than that, nice place, eh?
:P
Oh geez. That was an accident.
I wonder why feeds never posted my question.
I'll save it the trouble.
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Q: What Changes if I Hire a Different Plumber?

GnomeSliceAfter completing Super Mario Galaxy with Mario, you gain the option to play through it again as his brother, Luigi. I've noticed some slight differences between the 2 plumbers, and have been wondering lately if I've got the whole story. What I've noticed so far is: Luigi slides on his heels, a...

02:41
Dead chat!
03:08
Heavy is a Trololol!
 
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04:35
"My quantum milk machine brings every boy to all yards."
05:18
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Jin
Jin
06:11
SO. BROKEN.
I can't believe they released the game in that kind of state.
Jin
Jin
pre-order canceled.
I wish I still had time to preorder this game. Just so I could cancel said preorder to SEND A MESSAGE that these kind of exploits are inexcusable.
Jin
Jin
06:27
whoa. i wish i had the game now..
06:49
@Mana Which game is this?
Jin
Jin
07:05
@GnomeSlice Modern Warfare: Black Ops
 
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08:59
Hello
morning @badp
I'm happy
Yesterday somebody serial upvoted me and I lost much reps to the rep cap
Those upvotes have been killed!
No reps were wasted!
want me to do it again ;P
I go through the hottest questions on SE every day
and upvote anything that seems worth it
09:03
No, it was like 50 rep gained in under a minute after I casted a bounty on somebody's question.
Rep cap at +150 kinda sucks :/
 
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@badp I think I got 30 in a day once...
That was pretty cool.
14:51
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Q: How to set a new spawn point?

Jader DiasI am spawning too far from my home

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Q: Is there a way to determine the power of another character in Fallout 3 (similar to borderlands)?

jmlumpkinI'm still somewhat new to the Fallout universe, and really enjoy Fallout 3. I also recently started playing Borderlands as well. In borderlands, characters have their level when you hover over them, and quickly lets you know if you should attack or not (if you are a 3 and they are a 10, you sho...

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Q: Hidden mini game in Call of duty black ops

FishOfPreyI've heard there is a hidden mini game that can be accessed from the main menu in black ops. Something about finding a terminal and entering a code. Does anyone have instructions on how to get to the terminal and what code to put in?

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Q: What Changes if I Hire a Different Plumber?

GnomeSliceAfter completing Super Mario Galaxy with Mario, you gain the option to play through it again as his brother, Luigi. I've noticed some slight differences between the 2 plumbers, and have been wondering lately if I've got the whole story. What I've noticed so far is: Luigi slides on his heels, a...

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Q: Karaoke-style Multi-Vocals on Rock Band 3

crucibleWe're currently organising our staff xmas do, and we were thinking about using Rock Band 3, as I have the previous games, microphones etc. Since I have a USB Mic and a couple of Wireless ones, I was wondering if you could play Rock Band on No Fail and just blast out songs karaoke-style or whethe...

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Q: How does Red Lucy react to women?

John RudyI just beat the mission, "Bleed Me Dry," and Red Lucy had her little When Harry Met Sally moment. What I'm wondering is, does that outcome change if you are playing as a woman? As a man with the Confirmed Bachelor or Lady Killer perk? As a woman with the Cherchez La Femme or Black Widow perk? O...

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Q: Why do PC Games have cheat codes ?

HerculasI always wonder why somebody developed cheat codes for PC Video Games. Is this because of the difficulty in playing the games? If the answer is "Yes" then why do the game makers make the games so difficult to play?

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Q: Why was the Thor's priorities changes in patch 1.1.3?

ripper234From the patch notes: Thor - This unit will now prioritize attacking ground combat units over Medivacs. Medivacs.

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Q: Starcraft 2 -- Application of content rating to skirmish/multiplayer?

RCIXI'm what most would consider a "sensitive" fellow, enough that I don't plan on playing SC2's campaign should I decide to buy it. What portions of the ESRB content rating apply to the skirmish and multiplayer modes (not counting online interactions of course)?

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Q: Do early workers really have an exponential effect?

OakCommentators such as HD sometimes mention that a worker advantage in the early game is of extreme importance since it has an "exponential effect" (here's an example video which mentions that at the start). While I agree workers have a large impact in the early game, it seems to me that Worker ...

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Q: Best Strategy games of 2009-2010 ?

nitinsList of best strategy PC games of 2009-2010 according to users here(gaming.stackexchange.com) ?

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Q: How do I make money quickly in Uplink?

bronzebeardWhat are some ways of making quick money, ( stealing from banks is too dangerous ) Can I make money using the stock market?

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Q: Best place to farm for Wool Cloth

FarinhaIn my server the price for Wool Cloth in the Auction House is very high, considering it's a low level item. What's the best place to farm it?

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Q: Fallout or Fable?

Wolfy87I am struggling to decide between fallout new Vegas and fable 3. I just wondered if I could have peoples opinions of what I should get. I am not interested in reach or black ops because I have hated every other one in the series. So yeah, opinions from people that have both would be best. Thanks.

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Q: How to take a game that is a "File" type and mount it so i can install and play?

Tbell630I downloaded game from a private torrent site "Borderlands" and the files were all rared. The file extentions were like .001, .002, .003....... .066 and i used a program called HJSplit to put them together which worked but now i have a File that is 6 gigs and it just says the file type of it is...

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Q: Best graphics card to use with 10.10

user5821I am a gamer running on Ubuntu 10.10 with a G92 [GeForce 9800 GTX+] graphics card using the binary drivers. It runs alright, but even on simple games like teeworlds and minecraft I find they can max out one of my 3 Ghz cores, making the game occasionally choppy. Is an ATI card likely to be bett...

Posted by Jeff Atwood on November 9th, 2010

As I mentioned in The Horror of No Answer: Revival and Necromancer:

It’s fine — expected, even — for there to be a “long tail” of questions that are too obscure, too narrow, or just plain unanswerable for whatever reason. Sometimes you have to be patient; it takes the time it takes. But seeing the number of zero-answer questions grow by 50% over a 3 month period is definitely concerning.

Part of this is our fault for not adapting the homepage to the massive amount of question activity that Stack Overflow now enjoys. We’re working on it, but it will take some time to figure out the right approach.  …

15:06
Posted by Alison on November 9th, 2010

When I first started working at Stack Overflow, I wondered why the candidate’s work experience is referred to as a CV on Stack Overflow Careers. I honestly thought Stack Overflow might be a European company or maybe they were just being snobs. A resume is your work experience written up on a piece of paper – job sites, employers, recruiters, and everyone else, it seems, uses “resume”.

So, what gives with Stack Overflow Careers? Why CV and not resume? I learned pretty quickly that a CV encompasses your accomplishments in a more detailed format than a traditional resume. In fact, Curriculum Vitae roughly translates as “course of my life”. It’s true that CVs are used widely in academics and medical fields as a way to list accomplishments and credentials that go beyond a specific job role. A CV is updated anytime you have something meaningful to add – maybe it’s the sales from that software you designed or a new qualification or something else awesome that you did.  Conversely, a resume is a document that you scrape together when you’re desperately looking for a new job. …

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Q: deleting logs in uplink

bronzebeardIs going to the console and then "cd log" followed by "delete", different from using the log deleter on each entry?

 
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Q: Whats the best choise to do when in Mr. House's bunker?

MariusRawRIn new vegas, when in Mr. House's bunker. What is the best choise to do, when thinking of future gaming? Destroying the bunker, or help mr. House?

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Q: What are the indicators near players in nba2k11?

pgbI've been playing NBA 2k11 in the Wii, and I've noticed several indicators appear near the players. So far, I've seen some that I can't understand their meaning: A number 3 (you can see it on Paul Pierce, from the Celtics) A strength bar Some other icons I can't even identify! Is there any on...

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Q: What's the source of these classic Nintendo game desktop wallpapers?

ahsteeleI've seen a series of wallpapers similar to the one below. All feature classic NES characters from Mario, Final Fantasy, or Mega Man. I've found some of them at Video Game Wallpaper but was hoping to find the original source. Where did this series originate from?

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0
Q: What are all the special hotkeys in starcraft 2?

Juan ManuelI recently learned that pressing the w would select all my warpgates, and it changed my life. I also read somewhere that you can cycle through your nexuses with the backspace key. What are all the special hotkeys in starcraft 2 (english version) for every race? By special I mean not the ones us...

 
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Q: How can I Isolate the Brotherhood virus?

MariusRawRHow can I fix the Brotherhood of Steel virus inside the computer-lab?

 
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Q: Does playing an older game on a newer console improve preformance?

UllallullooSo, the question is pretty simple. If a game lagged in places on a Gamecube, would a Wii play it okay? What about loading times, would those get cut down too? This isn't console-specific, but I imagine that it'd be mostly the same.

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Q: Start new career for Band hero on Wii?

TandemAdamI am borrowing a friends Wii with there Band Hero game, but it has there name as the "player", and they have unlocked everything in career mode. Is there a way to create my own career without wiping there data? So I can load there user back when I give the Wii back. And will this wipe all the rec...

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Q: Is there any way to reuse a boat?

Nick HI would like to know how to dock or pick up my boat. I've been unsuccessful with this in the past, either breaking the boat on land or just leaving it behind. It would save a lot of time and materials if i didn't have to make 5 boats for a single expedition.

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Q: Where to go after clearing 4 rounds in zelda?

tweshI have just cleared 4th round in zelda the ocarina of time. where should I go from here now?

I seriously need to add Fallout: New Vegas to my ignored tags until I've beaten the game once. >:(
But... beating the game is easy.
Easy sure, but I only have about 20 hours into it and I want to enjoy it.
I think I put at least 80 hours into FO3 before beating it the first time through. Why rush?
22:02
There are two types of game completionists. Those that plan to play multiple times, and those that plan to do as much as they can in a single game. I'm guessing Javadoc is the latter.
I'm definitely the latter
Actually I tend to be less thorough in my second playthrough (if I bother to make one)
I just want to skip to the good parts, then.
@sjohnston Indeed. @badp Same.
If I play an RPG twice through it's usually to try an alternate path... be evil if I was good, etc.
But I don't always complete two runs.
(Or more)
Yeah, I do that too. I've tried doing a fairly quick, fun run first, and then attempting a full playthrough, but it just gets boring if you try to do it the second time around.
I can't really play those kind of open-ended RPGs anymore. I need to do everything, and eventually my mental To-Do list gets so long that I get overwhelmed.
At which point I either give up on the game or just rush for the ending and feel unsatisfied
Everything after Baldur's Gate 2 had just too much stuff in it
@Brant hehe, yeah I know the feeling. At some point you just have to let it go and enjoy the story. :)
22:15
But I CAN'T. There are still things in my journal that I haven't finished.
It's maddening.
I have definitely failed. FF 12 beat me that way
I'm not satisfied until I have an empty quest log. (I wish I could get as motivated about real-life to-do lists)
@Brant In Dragon Age you can never empty your quest log unless you buy their DLC...it was really infuriating for me.
I would like to see developers move toward shorter games (in the 10-30 hours playtime range) for cheaper
Oak
Oak
22:17
I'm 100% with you, @Brant. Too much stuff to do = me giving up :(
Heh, same here. At some point I thought "forget the zodiac weapons, I'm just going to go beat the game now" and I hated myself
Mass Effect 1 was one of the worst for that. Must... visit every planet... with slow clumsy rover!!!
Oak
Oak
That's why I never finished FO3 and Dragon Age
Games I never finished for this reason despite loving: KOTOR, Morrowind, FO3, Baldur's Gate "3", Oblivion
Actually, no, I did beat Oblivion
@Brant How do you deal with Morrowind's journal :P
22:19
but only because I forced myself to role-play and ignore all the stuff that my character wouldn't be interested in.
I try to think of it as gaming progressing to the point where RPGs are more appropriately modeling a real life (albeit in a fantasy setting). If you were really in that world, it would be impossible to do everything, go everywhere, and help everyone. The things you don't do define your character as much as the things you do. And "random chance" has a major factor as well.
@Brant, exactly
Honestly, Oblivion isn't that big. I've had one character who was the head of all the guilds.
Oh, I didn't do any of the shivering isles stuff either.
Morrowind is much bigger
@Brant Blasphemy! Shivering Isles was the best part!
Does the white bit ruin it?
22:21
Honestly the heart needs to be bigger...
Then the white stuff would be perfect
I'll keep it to one white box I guess
The heart isn't big enough.
Needs moar pixels!
Hm true, you coul do a 1-to-1 pixel mapping.
@Brant I'll leave that to @Thomas to expand :)
22:22
Notice, however, if you look at the favicon, that one of the white bits is twice the size of the other...
@JavadocMD and that looks better to me
@sjohnston But not in the header.
@sjohnston I noticed that earlier today and it bothered me that the favicon and the site logo don't match
@badp I am pleased by your epicness.
Oh god those two messages are responses to each other
hmm, you can create a circular reference between lines of chat...
22:24
@WillfulWizard The logo was made by this fine guy
@sjohnston Really? You can create a circular reference between lines of chat?
Thomas McDonald, Derbyshire, UK
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I am pleased by his epicness, then, and your awesomeness for posting it when I could see it.
@badp You are wrong!
@badp No, you are wrong!
@brant I edited my line to be a reply to javadoc's line, which was, in turn, a reply to that same line
@badp very nice
22:26
@Brant which one? quick!
@sjohnston that one
at some point, the universe is going to notice this and quietly collapse on itself
:136770 Does that mean this message will link to a future message only once it is posted?
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
:136765 Somehow the world failed to end as a result of this message.
22:27
we'll just have to see
I tried that, IDs are shared across the whole chat hub :(
And they're not entirely incremental.
One more
Aww, I managed to do it, but I don't get an arrow for it.
please, nobody start trying to post on an exact number...we don't need this thing turning into 4chan
GET 10,000,000
leaves for a couple of months
22:28
@sjohnston I do it the other way around. I first do a quick rush, then I avoid the main quest at all and do all the side-quests instead.
@ArdaXi way to get the conversation back on track
Glad to help
Woohoo, arbitrary rep milestone achieved! And got my first bounty on a question for a game I've never played...
Wow, seems like our traffic has really surged lately. Just shy of 10k hits per day now.
user30
22:51
Right, I will do a pixel->block mapping of the logo
user30
Just not tonight, it shall be tomorrows project
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Q: How much longer does it take to mine blocks underwater or while airborne?

StrixVariaI noticed that when my feet aren't firmly placed on the ground, it takes significantly longer to mine blocks, even with high-end tools. Is there a factor that mining time is increased by for these conditions? What is it?

23:19
I need a name for my low-int, alcoholic, legion friendly FO:NV run.
go.
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Q: Redstone Circuitry - Resistors?

Nick HIs there any way to construct a resistor within a redstone circuit? I was thinking that there might be some properties of cobblestone versus glass, dirt versus obsidian, etc. but I haven't had the opportunity to check it out. Is there any data on this? (I realize that there probably aren't resi...

@LessPop_MoreFizz Dumbascus
Female character? Strippio
Can't be female and side with the legion!
Was thinking Brutus though
since I might just kill ceasar in the end anyway...
Oh, the more you know I guess. :)
Well, technically you can
like, the game won't stop you. it'd just be dumb
seeing as the legion enslaves all women.
23:24
Tiberius
Maybe you could Joan of Arc it. Dress like a man all the time. Cut your hair short.
It's more a case of I can't imagine any woman in her right mind would ever willingly serve the Legion
And then just before you stab Caesar in the coinpurse you're all like "Bitch, I'm a chick!"
Hmm... S:6 P:5 E:7 C:5 I:4 A:5 L:8
@LessPop_MoreFizz I still say go with Tiberius. Or Ignatius. Or Rudolphos
23:30
keeping in mind that I'll get Impants for S,P, E, A, and L, take Small Frame for the +1 Agi...
and will have perma Alcohol boosting Strength by +1 as as well.
don't think I can do better than that.
unless I want to dump Cha just to make Buffout less useful to me.
which I guess I could do. But I kinda like the idea of a roid rager.
To be honest, once you get to the Strip, it's really easy to make money for anything, even those implants. Kinda takes the fun out of that, at least
@ArdaXi Yeah, I'm not worried about the cost of implants, hence the SPECIAL spread above.
This is pretty bad. I only just realised what SPECIAL stood for.
ahahaha "Easier Cazadores Mod: Replaces all Cazadores with Deathclaws".
I never valued perception very highly in Fallout 3.
23:34
Perception is only useful for better Criticals
6, no more no less.
That said, Better Criticals is amazing and worth 6 Per.
And seeing the red blips on the compass, right?
And in theory seeing cloaked units, like that happens very often...
@JavadocMD Ed-E basically renders that feature of Perception meaningless
Yeah.
I didn't know what a cazadores was, so I found this video: youtube.com/watch?v=Q3rYOs1itcg
Full Disclosure: It's a guy with a vaguely hispanic accent killing the bugs and then corpsehumping them.
Cazadores are the worst thing. They are so very very horribly deadly.
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Q: How does armor work in Minecraft?

Kevin YHow much does armor diminish damage taken? Also, how is it's durability calculated? Is it worth making a set of diamond armor or is leather just as good (seeing as leather isn't used for anything else)?

Okay. Time for me to cook some dinner, I think.
Ciao.

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