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I'm looking for a list of features for Madden 11 for the Wii. I understand there will be a franchise mode? Does the franchise mode incorporate all of the usual features of franchise mode (free agency, draft, trading, etc.) or is it watered down? Will there be superstar mode or something simila...

Dexter

@alexanderpas: Madden for Wii is shouldn't be released. It's a sad excuse for a football game.

alexanderpas

I don't have that game, so I don't know.

random

They didn't corner the market, they shut out everybody else with the exclusive NFL deal. No other game company can make a football game that mentions NFL unless it's EA Sports.

tzenes

3:15 AM

well said random

Ivo Flipse

4:27 AM

good morning @tzenes ;)

tzenes

morning

Ivo Flipse

hehe knew you were there :P

tzenes

you know me

Ivo Flipse

hehe no I don't, I just knew that

:P

Mechko

armorgames.com/play/6432/epic-war-4

Ivo Flipse

4:30 AM

oh boy there's a heated discussion going on in the Math.SE...

I don't even know him and he's already on my nerves

tzenes

oh?

the mod?

Ivo Flipse

here's another: meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/504/…

no that 97832123 guy

technically speaking he probably has a point, but you shouldn't try and go on a crusade against a person who was publicly appointed to help guide the site

tzenes

I'd ban them both

97832123 is clearly a shit stirer

and this mod sounds like an abusive ass

Ivo Flipse

for keep brining it up? and not letting it lie down?

tzenes

which one?

wow look at this guy:

97832123

482 2 15

soft-question notation calculus real-analysis big-list books category-theory

45up and 80 down

Ivo Flipse

4:41 AM

the mod: after these two discussions he started one of his own: meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/529/…

tzenes

he has 4 answers with 0 votes, and only 1 with more than 5

how has 97832123 not been banned yet?

I take it back, just ban him

the mod can stay

Ivo Flipse

Kaestur Hakarl ♦, Madison, WI USA

1.6k 5 19

geometry calculus terminology logic big-list soft-question notation

a little bit more positive ey?

oh dear: meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/191/…

I hope we don't reach this name calling

tzenes

"I agree that it's a good discussion to have, but I think that breaking people up into two camps is perhaps not the best way to get it started."

yeah, this 97832123 guys is clearly just trying to cause drama

Ivo Flipse

always nice to wake up with a little drama!

lol 50% of your questions have the SC2 tag

wow it's nearly the biggest tag on the site

tzenes

5:00 AM

it'll die down

I'd say about 2500 of my rep is SC2 related

Ivo Flipse

I'm not worried, I think it's impressive

to me that shows people think they get good answers here

tzenes

I only wrote those answers to promote the site

they're good answers and I link them a lot

Ivo Flipse

I liked every answer I saw so far (didn't check every question)

so you deserved each upvote ;)

tzenes

haha

fair enough

C. Ross

12:52 PM

good meta question

C. Ross

1:18 PM

:69162 This question doesn't seem quite right ...

maybe it's the partial answer

Mechko

Hey any DF people around?

C. Ross

1:37 PM

:69215 present

Mechko

1) how do I kill a rat? :-p

C. Ross

Do you play?

Mechko

I'm just trying to learn as we speak

I have all forms of pests in my supplies (lizards rats roaches etc)

C. Ross

oh, you mean vermin

cats, definitely cats

Mechko

yes. I also haven't been able to figure out a farm yet

C. Ross

1:53 PM

what's your difficulty with the farm?

... honestly I think these would be better asked on the site, you'll get the other guys to look at them as well, and the answers will be around for posterity

Mechko

yeah. I figured out the farm

Mechko

2:18 PM

heh I have more questions. I don't want it to seem like I'm spamming though

C. Ross

I'm for you posting them ... but I'm biased obviously

have you tried looking at the wiki?

@McKay What do you think? Would it be spammy for Mechko to post a whole bunch of his real DF questions?

McKay

2:39 PM

I don't think so.

If they're real questions, then post them.

McKay

2:55 PM

What!?!? Look at that DF Spam!!! :D

He's posted more than zero questions in the past half hour!

Arda Xi

it's not really an exact duplicate, it's a combination of two questions

although I think that 'how do I get started' was more prevalent in his question than 'what is it'

C. Ross

definitely a dupe

Arda Xi

yeah, but of which :)

Downvoter

that's why the community user added both links

Arda Xi

I didn't know it did that, I thought it just went with the most popular one

Downvoter

3:04 PM

nope, it adds all that were voted

Downvoter

up to 5

Arda Xi

obviously :)

C. Ross

cool

Downvoter

Is it @ArdaXi?

Downvoter

is it obvious?

Downvoter

3:11 PM

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Q: Possible race condition with migration

Definitely a bug. One question on SO was migrated with six close votes. It ended up making two questions on meta after migration. Is this a race condition with the sixth vote causing the question to be migrated a second time? Could be fixed by either making sure six people can't close a question...

bug status-completed migration vote-to-close

Downvoter

:)

Arda Xi

forgot about race conditions

:O a goto?!

C. Ross

4:35 PM

:69568 I use those all the time

Arda Xi

6:32 PM

:69799 @CRoss blasphemy

C. Ross

Ever written VB6?

Mana

maaaan, vacation is awesome

lack of internet's kind of lame though

C. Ross

:70212 the only way to do nontrivial error handling in VB6 with with gotos, ie On Error GoTo FAIL

Arda Xi

Oh yeah, I remember VB6

Mana

oh wow.

Arda Xi

6:35 PM

hmm, apparently I'm not the only one who thinks the question "How can I tell if a corpse is safe to eat?" is a tad bit creepy

2

Mana

You could take out parts of the question and it would sound straight from the mouth of a crazed murderer

C. Ross

It's creepy, but an important question in nethack

Mana

The first paragraph of Grace Note's answer is hilarious/disturbing out of context

Arda Xi

nethack has hallucinations?

C. Ross

yes, and then some

Mana

6:41 PM

Nethack has everything. It is a simulation of life in a cavern filled with monsters.

Arda Xi

interesting

and DF is a simulation of life in a fortress filled with dwarves?

Mana

Exactly.

Arda Xi

the older the games the more realistic they are

Mana

Yeah. Pong, man...the physics engine was way ahead of its time.

speaking of...gonna go look up the pong tag on gaming.se

...there is none :<

Arda Xi

awesome, it even supports XKCD

Mana

6:44 PM

oh god not XKCD

excuse me while I bash my head into a wall for a webcomic that was pretty good for a while but has become absolutely awful

Arda Xi

what do you have against xkcd >:(

blasphemy

Mana

Well, for one, the art sucks.

C. Ross

S&A

Noctrine

Alas, 36 Reputation till I get close votes.

Mana

xkcd.com/774 and xkcd.com/775 are practically the same drawing, meaning the only thing left to go for it is the writing, which is generally awful.

I don't know. Are there that many "great" diablo 2 mods based on his specs?

Like, new quests/new maps mods?

I don't play Diablo 2 so I dunno.

Noctrine

6:50 PM

He didn't leave anything that makes great something measurable, so it's subject to interpretation and as such S&A

If he just asks for Diablo 2 Mods, then you have a list. Which could go a few different ways.

Mana

Fair enough.

tzenes

Aren't Diablo mods against ToU?

Ivo Flipse

terms of ?

Kevin Y

Usage / Use, I'm guessing.

Ivo Flipse

doh!

does anyone know a good app/webapp for keep track of your bills and such?

Downvoter

7:03 PM

belongs on personal finance se

Ivo Flipse

hehe it does

Downvoter

or web apps

Noctrine

Or webapps

Downvoter

Gamers blow their money on games, consoles, and accesories

Downvoter

(I know I do)

Ivo Flipse

7:04 PM

I blew it on an ipad

Kevin Y

:70369 You speak the truth.

Ivo Flipse

now I don't have any money for games left

Noctrine

I want one of those

Ivo Flipse

not even starcraft 2

Kevin Y

Heh, it adds the @ syntax now. :D

Mana

7:04 PM

I've stopped using money for entertainment these days

Ivo Flipse

and anyways, I have to safe for Rock Band 3 (with the real strings thing) and Kinect

Mana

fffffff

Kevin Y

Yeah, I'm looking forward to Rock Band 3 as well.

Noctrine

I wonder how close it will approach the actual difficulty of playing guitar

Mana

RB3, I forgot. Regardless of how much I save it'll all be gone when that comes out.

Noctrine

7:05 PM

May finally shut up all of those "stop having fun guys" people

Kevin Y

Lol yeah.

Noctrine

I know someone was working on a kind of reverse where you plugged a real guitar into the computer to play a Rockband-ish game. Gotta find the link again when I get home

Ivo Flipse

same here @Noctrine and it's a nice challenge (from playing idiot songs on expert)

Kevin Y

I want to see how the MIDI keyboard will work.

Like, how the notes will be displayed on-screen.

Mana

haven't they already shown that in gameplay vids?

Ivo Flipse

7:08 PM

haha well it is kind of small (though reducing guitar to 5 buttons is off course worse)

Mana

Yeah.

Kevin Y

@Mana I haven't looked at any of the videos yet. D:

Mana

D:

Ivo Flipse

I think it will just show you a small hint to let you know whether it's left and right

for the rest its just all the buttons

Mana

So, for pro mode, they show 15 keys or so in a lane, and then move five keys or so to the left and right as the song requires

C. Ross

7:10 PM

@JuanManuel Ben really isn't getting it

Kevin Y

Meh, the keyboard looks okay.

Noctrine

So in pro mode it works like an actual midi controller

tzenes

god damn you people and your game-rec questions...

Mana

damn it, is this the same guy

Noctrine

Lmfao

tzenes

7:11 PM

everyday I wake up and think stupid game-rec you're the reason the world is so terribad

Noctrine

I need 4 upvotes, stat!

Downvoter

@CRoss, I hadn't seen the other question...

Noctrine

Maybe RB3 will make Synthesia step its game up

tzenes

wait, someone flagged that?

harsh

Kevin Y

Hmm, I like the the way RB3 is implementing keyboard.

Probably the ideal way to use that little amount of space.

C. Ross

7:12 PM

:70420 I think you're getting the scope wrong a bit :-)

Mana

Each day I mow my lawn so that it says GAME REC in large letters, and then set fire to it

7

C. Ross

:70421 And I need 7 more to get mod

tzenes

I think I was exagerating for humerous results

see, mana has the right idea

C. Ross

sorry, been a bit philosophical of late

did we just hit the vote tick?

tzenes

I just read posts where people say game-rec is necessary to the site and I want to ask if they have a mental disorder

look at this one:

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Q: Are there any PC games like Jedi Power Battles?

There was a game I used to play on the DreamCast called something like Jedi Power Battles. Is there a version of that I could play on the PC not using an emulator? If not are there any other PC games that are like it? (Two player co-op with leveling characters.)

pc game-rec multiplayer star-wars

he wants "Two player co-op with leveling characters."

I should just point him to IGN's website

or better yet

C. Ross

7:18 PM

the google?

tzenes

google.com/search?q=Two+player+co-op+with+leveling+characters.)

Noctrine

I think LMGTFY is a banned link :P

tzenes

lmgtfu

Ivo Flipse

it is

tzenes

oh well

point is, we are not a google service

Noctrine

7:19 PM

List of cooperative video games

The following is a list of computer and video games that feature cooperative gameplay. Note 1. To sort by multiple columns, start from the least-significant column first. E.g., to easily find specific genre results on a specific platform, first sort by genre, then sort by platform.Note 2. Simplified for efficient sorting. Follow or hover over the links to see more specific genre descriptions.Note 3. Available co-op content is limited in scope and doesn't simulate the entire single player campaign. {| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin-left:.6em; |- ! style="background: #CCCCCC; co...

tzenes

yeah

but no, he submits a game-rec instead

Kevin Y

World of Goo is a 1 - 4 player cooperative game? o.o

tzenes

It takes everything I have to not yell at every one of these questions

Ivo Flipse

LMGTFY was being abused to say: google it yourself dumbass

Noctrine

Apparently on the Wii and Linux it is

tzenes

7:21 PM

I think that's what I want to use it for

Noctrine

Yep, Wii Exclusive

tzenes

just to vent some agression

Kevin Y

@Noctrine Hmm, never knew that.

Noctrine

Me neither until just now.

gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=44272

tzenes

sorry everyone has to deal with me beign an ass today

Mana

7:22 PM

Naw, no problem.

What was the original purpose of LMGTFY

?

tzenes

I think to be mean to people

Mana

Other than saying 'google it yourself'

That makes sense.

tzenes

I've never seen it used in any other context

Noctrine

Pretty sure it is

Considering the text it says when it finishes. "Now that wasn't to hard was it"

tzenes

I wouldn't be surprised

Arda Xi

7:27 PM

you can use &nice=1 for a nicer text

if I recall correctly

Kevin Y

Hmm, both result in "Was that so hard?"

Arda Xi

hmm, I don't remember what the variable was

Noctrine

Offtopic, but this is awesome: businessinsider.com/…

Arda Xi

yeah, I still wonder what's the point of those questions

it's n=1

Kevin Y

Ahh.

Arda Xi

7:32 PM

google.com/search?q=nicer%20version%20of%20lmgtfy

I was hoping the chat engine wouldn't do goo.gl urls

tzenes

ok, now that's funny

the moot thing

does caps mean screenshot?

OH CAPTURES

nm

Kevin Y

:P

tzenes

I figured it out as I wrote it

I can't believe this is a serious question:

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Q: Games for someone who loved Godfather: Blackhand Edition

My husband is not a huge gamer, but he loved Godfather: Blackhand Edition for the Wii. He's deleted his save game, started over, and beat the game at least four times since we've bought it and he's finally gotten bored with it. I can't think of another game of mine he's played more - I did try ...

game-rec wii third-person-shooter

Noctrine

My issue with gamerec is its like a human LMGTFY query :p

tzenes

not 'like.' That's exactly what it is

Noctrine

7:40 PM

Strictly opinion, and I hate when people make gaming decisions for others.

tzenes

google may use slightly different metrics, but its the same thing

Noctrine

It's like reviews but without the work.

I think Identify-this-game is great though, as long as the game is obscure enough.

tzenes

Even reviews aren't great, which is why people are trying this "new thing" ie. us

Kevin Y

identify-this-game is basically identifying unique characteristics of the game, the console it was on, and then inputing it into Google. game-rec is Googling "games like" followed by the game name / genre.

tzenes

too bad google links aren't onebox on SE

or all people would do is insert them as the answer

Arda Xi

7:47 PM

well, Gaming SE is useful to people because Google doesn't understand English, only keywords (well it does, but it doesn't leverage that a lot in search)

Kevin Y

I find it interesting when people type full sentences into Google.

Well I'm going to go; later everyone.

McKay

Is this a trollish answer to the Godfather game-rec?
If you're looking for a game with well-dressed men for the Wii, your only choice might be
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney on WiiWare

Arda Xi

Well, games using Mii's are as well-dressed as you make them

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