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12:21 AM
Oi.
 
Io.
 
@Mana ???
33 mins ago, by John
How did today's "Game On!" go?
 
@John Just...saying hi.
 
@Mana Oh. Well then, ih!
 
I wasn't there for today's Game On! so I can't really say how it went.
 
12:22 AM
@Mana Who was?
 
I wasn't
 
@Powerlord How did today's "Game On!" go?
 
I don't own Killing Floor.
 
@badp Me neither. I don't think many of us do. I think that hurt it.
 
also I was enjoying the sat night.
 
12:23 AM
@badp It's always good to have a life.
 
Killing Floor isn't a game for large teams anyway
 
We didn't get very many people.
 
@Powerlord Roughly how many did you get?
 
I forget if it was 3 or 4.
Makes me wonder how L4D2 is going to go over when it comes up.
 
you sure you want to keep KF for tomorrow then? Granted, I can't play with y'all on Sundays
 
12:25 AM
I would suggest running a second game in parallel tomorrow for those of us without KF, but I don't have a server to offer up so...
 
@John TankBall 2
 
@GnomeSlice nods approvingly
 
@John Liked it? =]
 
@GnomeSlice I'm not clear on most of the details yet, but yes, I did have fun.
 
@John It's pretty simple.
 
12:27 AM
@GnomeSlice Is there somewhere I put commands?
 
@John You just type them in to the chat.
 
@GnomeSlice Hmm ok. I missed where chat was...
 
@John Right at the bottom. Key presses other than CTRL, and the arrow keys automatically go into chat anyway
 
@GnomeSlice Oh cool. I didn't notice that because I only tried singleplayer.
 
@John Ah. In multiplayer, you don't die in one shot, either.
 
12:30 AM
@GnomeSlice I think I remember you saying that earlier...
I propose Tankball 2 as an alternative "Game On!" for those without KF.
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12:59 AM
Hello again, Internet.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Hello.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Hi Mr. Fizz.
 
 
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Q: Play n64oid saves on laptop?

dtbarneIs there any way to play the game saves from n64oid on my Win7 laptop? Basically I'd like to be able to hook up my USB controller and take over from a game save I have from traveling and playing on my Android phone. Project64 seems to be incompatible with the game saves, so I tried Mupen64plus wh...

 
 
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4:55 AM
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Q: Is there an optimum guide for spending praxis points?

SighIs there an optimum guide for spending praxis points? For example, when's the first occurrence of a breakable wall or the first time the double take down praxis is useful?

 
5:37 AM
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Q: Game with boy and girl late 80s

user78940I don’t know which console this game belongs to and I don’t know the year. All I know is that they were a blue boy and a pink girl (their clothes, not them), who pushed balls into holes. That’s all I can remember It was probably from the late 80s to early 90s, not before and not after! I’m so de...

 
 
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10:35 AM
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11:25 AM
TF2 can be truly frustrating
just lost 9-0 on turbine
for the first 15 minutes I thought I'd be the engie guarding down
it worked for 3 minutes, then no one from my team cared to stop the demo-kritz couple while they charged up an uber
and I was taken down
then the very fucking same fucking combo took me every fucking single time despite my fucking screaming on chat
so after voting for a scramble I just gave up
after 30 minutes of getting owned the first fucking noob screams "JUST BUILD SOMETHING BELOW"
D:
I don't get why people don't scramble more
it's like "oh no I was just sleeping no really now I'm totally going to stop sucking and be a real man"
NO YOU'RE NOT. THEY'VE BEEN CURBSTOMPING US FOR 20 MINUTES STRAIGHT, EITHER YOU'RE BEING A PYROCAR OR YOU'RE JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH PLEASE LET'S STOP THIS IDIOCY AND LET'S HAVE A REAL GAME EVEN IF FOR JUST 10 MINUTES IF IT DOESN'T HURT YOUR PRINCESSLY EGO TOO MUCH TO ADMIT WE'RE JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH
just remember to whine about "stupid team" once the game's over though.
Then the server switched to Egypt, and I disconnected.
Let's hope the next map isn't Hoodoo.
 
@badp Pyrocar?
 
Like this, but with a pyro.
 
@badp ...the fuuuuuuuck
 
There's a pyrotar too.
 
11:41 AM
@badp ...wow. I... okay then.
 
0
Q: Which actions affect your skill points in the first rookie game?

yx.For example, missing a shot causes you to lose 6 skill points, but what is the complete list of all actions that you can perform to gain/lose skill points.

 
@Fallen do you play minecraft?
 
@RonanForman Yar
Though I'm not into stuff like crazy redstone things and whatnot
I'm not much a builder, I'm more of an explorer
 
Want to join or adventure map team?
Exploring is perfect then!
 
adventure map team? :o
@RonanForman So what exactly is this? :o
 
11:57 AM
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Q: Reviving Game On

Wipqozn The results of badps poll produced the following times: Saturday 1900 - 2215 UTC Sunday 1900 - 2215 UTC Visit this link to have the times converted to your local time zone. Now that we have our own Team Fortress 2 server, I think it's the perfect time to revive Game on!. In terms o...

Scroll down. Mobile site fails blah blah blah.
 
I didn't know there was such a thing as Cyanide and Happiness shorts.
 
Say whaaaaaaaatttttt?!?!?!?!
 
@RonanForman The wool racing?
 
Yup there's a video now, take a look!
 
12:06 PM
Watch Ted Bear it's the best one.
That or hunger tube.
 
@RonanForman This looks super fun, I'd totally be up for this
 
12:21 PM
Yay that's 3 people now!
 
1:15 PM
 
cp_mountainlab
last point
we push with tps to the very end
they manage to defend in their room for 6 minutes
I'm on red
the announcer goes,
 
@badp Y UR server full?
 
three
two
one
Victory!
...the map timer ended a few tenths before the round timer did, and since we were leading 3-0 we got the automatic victory
what a farce
@RonanForman not full now
 
nope.avi
 
1:31 PM
well I just disconnected anyway
getting stopped on the 3rd point of upward is humiliating
so I'll spare myself the 3 minute long defense round
 
0
Q: What building to process iron/gold/bauxite further?

atticaeCan someone give a brief overview which ressource can be processed into what by which industry building? I know for example that you can make jewels out of gold in the jewel factory, but what can you do with iron or salt? Are there ressources that are only good for exporting? Which ressources a...

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Q: What's the purpose of the epilogue's cloud?

Tobias KienzlerIn the epilogue there is one last cloud that doesn't seem to do anything. Since I read1 about that one star where another slowly slow cloud is relevant, I wonder if something similar is the case here or whether it's just an homage to the other castles? 1)but didn't find the motivation to wait ...

 
2:10 PM
@fredley That's 4 in one. A record.
 
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A: How do I get to The Nether in Minecraft?

alexanderpasYou will need to create an upright portal, consisting of an obsidian frame, leaving an 2x3 area free on the inside and use flint & steel to set the inside on fire. After you have set the inside on fire, the inside will change in a purple swirly portal. just for reference, Obsidian can be ma...

Do these pictures not show up for anybody else?
 
According to the history, they were never actually there.
Oh no, the broken links have just appeared.
The image host probably has a time out for when they are removed.
 
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Q: What multiplayer Mario games exist for Wii?

MosheWhat, if any, (local/offline) multiplayer Mario games exist for Wii? (I'd be surprised if there weren't, but I'm interested to know what my options are.) I remember Mario Kart and Mario Party on the Nintento 64. Do those exist for Wii?

 
2:30 PM
@RonanForman Man, @mana's avatar goes with anything.
 
@RonanForman That might just be the finest @mana photoshop yet.
 
Really?
@Wipqozn It sure does.
 
I may not make today's Game On due to family obligations
 
0
Q: What are the differences between difficulty levels in Rage?

Anna LearRage has four difficulty levels: Easy Normal Hard Nightmare What are the differences between them? Do they only affect enemy strength or do they also come into play in racing targets, number of enemies, etc.?

 
Hey, I just realised. That's alot of @Mana!
 
2:51 PM
 
Why! @ArdaXi Why!
 
@badp ...Really?
@badp Also, that looks like a lot of fun.
 
@FallenAngelEyes Jesus Christ.
 
Where're the slimes?
 
3:31 PM
@GnomeSlice Slimes can spawn at any light level.
 
@RonanForman That doesn't seem like a great reason to leave them out...
 
@GnomeSlice Also it's above ground.
 
@RonanForman So?
 
Slimes spawn at level 16 or below.
 
3:55 PM
Yay! I'm the newest Yearling
 
@RonanForman Oh my, I've only been here for 6 months. I thought I was here longer than that.
 
Conversely, I didn't think I've been here for a year!
 
Lol, why didn't I think of that.
@Wipqozn, @RonanForman Up for some Tankball 2?
 
I've been here longer than any of you!
 
@GnomeSlice Homework yo
 
3:58 PM
=[
 
Well, okay, there are ~55 people who were here longer.
 
@ArdaXi they don't count though
less important and what not
 
No, they do not.
 
That's a list of all the people who were ahead of me.
 
4:05 PM
In your face @Mana!
 
2  Geoff Dalgas
3  David Fullerton
4  Robert Cartaino
5  Jin
6  Jarrod Dixon
7  Michael Pryor
8  Emmett
9  Kevin Montrose
10 Ivo Flipse
11 Jeffrey
12 Jeff Atwood
13 ChrisF
14 Juan Manuel
15 gnovice
16 Jaydles
17 Daniel LeCheminant
18 Kevin Y
19 lavonardo
20 Spoike
21 Michael La Voie
22 vitule
23 badp
24 jinsungy
26 Bryan Denny
27 rlb.usa
28 wawa
29 alexanderpas
30 Chris
31 Erick Sasse
32 Mag Roader
33 EndangeredMassa
34 Patrick Ritchie
35 Revoked
36 th3dude
37 JoshReedSchramm
38 Lance
39 antony.trupe
 
@ArdaXi You forgot #1.
 
@RavenDreamer Huh?
 
@GnomeSlice #1 does not exist.
 
Did that Dead Island vid I just linked remind anyone else of the absurd third-person view of DXHR?
@ArdaXi ?
 
Weird.
 
You're weird.
 
Point?
 
Yes.
 
SuperCrateBox is a lot of fun.
 
4:15 PM
@ArdaXi It could be a reference to how the PIDs in the Unix environment start at 2 as opposed to 1
BETCHA DIDN'T THINK OF THAT ONE EH GNOMESLICE
BOOM
 
HEADSHOT
 
@Mana Correct.
How foolish of me.
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Or it could be a reference to how database sequences start at 1, but Community's ID was manually changed to be -1.
 
@GnomeSlice That was actually pretty funny. Just dry enough to strike me as hilarious.
 
Or it could be a deleted user.
 
4:17 PM
@ArdaXi No StackExchange sites have a user #1
Except those that predate StackExchange (StackOverflow, for instance)
 
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@Mana man's a genius.
 
@Wipqozn He gets me, yo!
 
@Mana Successfully butchered for my Twitter feed.
 
4:27 PM
hmm...
I should play TankBall 2
 
@Wipqozn You should.
 
nah, I won't. Never mind.
 
Actually I need to redo the gaming schedule and add in the other suggested games.
 
@Wipqozn How do you determine which of the suggested games get picked?
 
4:29 PM
@GnomeSlice I just use all of them, unless one gets a lot of down votes or someone raises an excellent reason why the game just wouldn't work.
 
@Wipqozn Define 'excellent'?
 
@GnomeSlice I know it when I see it.
Like with that game @John brought up. IT would take several days to play a game, so it just wouldn't work for Game On!
 
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A: Reviving Game On

JohnNeptune's Pride I haven't played it yet, but it seems like it would fit our purposes nicely. It's a strategy game, and it's real time. As in, your fleet might take actual hours to cross the galaxy. Just log in once a day whenever you get some time, issue your orders, and come back later.

Oh, I was just about to link to that.
 
I think it could work for something else, but not for Game on!.
Even if it took 3 hours to do a game, a lot of people probably wouldn't go. I normally only go for an hour, since I have h/w to do
I think the games which will work best are the ones where people can just join and leave the game whenever.
 
Galcon would be good for that too.
Well, depends.
 
4:32 PM
The schedule I made up now is just to test them all. After wards we'll all decide which games to remove.
 
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Q: How do I use a Town Portal?

bwarnerI've built a Basic Town Portal in a town, which states that it allows your hero to teleport from that town to any other town you control. I've got my hero in the town, but how do I make them teleport? If I tell them to move to another town, they just start walking there.

 
You can get into some pretty long stalemates.
 
Yeah, Galcon is planned for next week.
 
this is old but a classic
 
4:32 PM
@Bwarner How is HOMM6?
 
Should schedule DEFCON one day
 
@Wipqozn Flash?
 
@GnomeSlice mhm. Free one seemed the best choice.
 
@Mana have you tried SuperCrateBox?
I linked it in here quite a while ago, but never actually got around to trying it until now.
 
I've heard of it but never tried it
 
4:39 PM
@Mana You should, it's great.
 
Downloading now. God I love long weekends.
 
@GnomeSlice You know what? YOU'RE great. Take THAT @GnomeSlice!
 
@Wipqozn ಥ_ಥ
 
@GnomeSlice Hey now. Turn that ಥ_ಥ into a ಥUಥ! Wait no. No that looks stupid. Nevermind.
 
@Mana - you "prepared answer for comment conversion" and then forgot about it.
So I finished it.
And then I rubbed my victory in your non-present face!
 
4:46 PM
@RavenDreamer I didn't forget about it, actually
 
@RavenDreamer SO @Mana is a lazy moderator who forces others to do his work for him?
 
I just finished writing the comment when you removed it.
 
ಠ_ರೃ
Tag team moderation. Heck yeah!
 
Then I pressed enter and it was like "some guy removed it." and I was like "well, shoot."
 
Okay. Time for lunch.
 
4:50 PM
@RavenDreamer oh snap. I can't wait for my lunch
well, dinner/supper thing..
turkey dinner. Eating around 3. et cetera.
 
@GnomeSlice Oh my god, this game's soundtrack is like the best parts of old-school Sonic music mixed in with experimental electronica. This is so cool.
 
@Mana ...You've never heard of Chiptune?
Also, you can download the soundtrack from somewhere linked on the website.
 
What no, I listen to chiptunes all the time
 
@GnomeSlice You're a chiptune.
 
but like, just the style of this music.
 
4:55 PM
@ArdaXi I guess you don't know what it is, then.
@Mana The menu theme is pretty cool.
 
@GnomeSlice You're a don't-know-what-it-is.
 
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Q: How to use multiple Steam accounts without re-entering passwords?

Tobias KienzlerI'd like to switch between two Steam accounts (from the same windows user account) without having to re-enter their passwords. So basically I am trying to write a batchfile which takes care of the relevant files and/or registry settings, but for that I need to know Which files and registry se...

 
@Mana I like the pause music. :P
 
I just found out that the Disc gun can kill me. :(
 
@Mana Yeah, I did that too.
It's hard to use.
But it can be really useful when there are enemies coming down both sides of the stage.
 
5:11 PM
Oh man, the Minigun. THE MINIGUN.
 
@Mana It's actually not very good.
 
oh.
 
But you can use it to stick to walls, I guess.
Well, they're all pretty good.
But it's one of the hardest to use.
It kills stuff really fast though.
The revolver is where it's at.
The Minigun is really good to use when you're against a wall.
Because it has so much recoil.
 
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Q: What resources will be impossible to acquire when structures are disabled?

OmokoiiI'm considering starting a map with the structures option disabled since I don't really like the villages and the abandoned mine shafts. The mine shafts especially, seems to take over all underground areas to a point where it is hard to find any natural cave systems. I also realized that ravine...

 
Holy cripes. A couple was found dead in an apparent murder-suicide. They were friends of a friend of mine and her family. x_x
 
5:19 PM
@FallenAngelEyes Well, that's unsettling.
 
Yeah...
 
Argh, I can't unlock any of the second-tier character unlocks.
 
Ugh. Dark Souls is one of those games that really makes me wish I had an up to date console.
looks so amazing.
 
Pandora locked down profiles to US-only now too. :(
 
@ArdaXi I thought Pandora has been US-only.
 
5:29 PM
Yes, but only for listening. I could always look at my profile.
 
@ArdaXi What good is a Pandora profile if you can't ever listen to anything?
 
I can look at music I favourited when I had it.
 
@ArdaXi Ah that makes sense.
 
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A: How do I actually start the Peer Review DLC on Portal 2 for PS3?

The Annoying PyroChallenge mode for single-player and co-op is what's introduced in the Portal 2 Peer Review DLC. Simply choose co-op challenge mode, find a friend, and play for times/portals used! There aren't any new levels in either mode as far as I know.

 
Gravatar get.
 
5:36 PM
Is that correct? I though there was a new coop campaign in the DLC?
 
0
Q: Looking fore some good sci-fi adventure game

edemI played through an old Amiga game Future Wars recently and I wonder whether there are some good sci-fi adventure games around which aren't as old as this? I checked some "10 best adventure games" -like list, but I haven't found anything that looked good (except for Beneath the Steel Sky maybe). ...

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Q: Is there a way to reduce texture popping in Rage?

AubergineRage is a good looking game, and it sure runs so smoothly on my desktop, which is far from top of the line. While that is technically impressive, it seems there are no free meals, as I am plagued by some very annoying texture popping. While I understand that loading textures only when you need t...

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Q: How do I actually start the Peer Review DLC on Portal 2 for PS3?

jsnlxndrlvI just downloaded and installed the Peer Review DLC as well as a game update for Portal 2 on PS3. How do I actually play the new co-op mode, though? When I select co-op, all it lets me choose is Co-Op Standard or Co-Op Challenge, and in both cases the only levels I have access to are the original...

 
@Fabian Me and @ArdaXi were playing it, we would have finished but my internet's being buggy.
 
@Fabian It is incorrect.
 
Yeah I just removed my answer. Sorry about that.
 
blinks Oh, you're TAP.
 
5:41 PM
@ArdaXi :P
 
0
A: How do I actually start the Peer Review DLC on Portal 2 for PS3?

Arda XiYou or your partner must already have finished the regular co-op campaign. Once you have, another pillar will appear in the hub which you can portal into. It will have two buttons, if both of you stand on one, you will be sucked into the new DLC.

 
@ArdaXi I considered telling you that, but decided it was more fun not to.
 
@John It didn't take long to figure out.
 
@ArdaXi I knew it wouldn't, but still more fun this way.
 
Guys, I think I'm going to cry.
 
5:44 PM
waits for details
 
I just spent an hour proving that, if you don't call the method you think you're calling, you won't get the behavior you think you're getting.
Head+Desk
 
@RavenDreamer Isn't that kind of obvious?
 
@John Very.
 
This is why we test. This is why we test.
 
@John What wasn't obvious, was that I was trying to call the old method on the only class I failed to properly refactor.
I can just see it now.
 
5:46 PM
Hrmph. As part of a setup's adware: "Fix page not found errors." That would be an impressive feat.
 
Posts question on StackOverflow "Hi, guys, I have some code, and I'm calling a method, and it doesn't seem to do anything."
Class code
method code
Answer (WITH ALL THE UPVOTES): You're not calling the method you posted.
 
@RavenDreamer Ouch. Reminds me of yesterday when I refactored my global constants and acidentally left one class overwriting some of them.
 
headdesk
 
@RavenDreamer upvotes
 
@John What gets me, is that its inheriting from an abstract class, so I should have gotten an error about not implementing the abstract method.
Bloody computers.
 
5:48 PM
@ArdaXi What does it do, look harder?
 
How dare they do EXACTLY WHAT WE TELL THEM instead of EXACTLY WHAT WE MEANT TO TELL THEM.
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I guess...
 
@RavenDreamer I had a feeling you would edit that to make it fit more out of context.
 
@John I do what I must.
 
@RavenDreamer You made the yellow turn black though, so I had to unstar and re-star it.
 
5:52 PM
I must have spent 20 hours over the past two days just refactoring and re-refactoring my code.
Blaaaaargh. And still so much to do.
 
I wish we could actually delete posts here.
 
See?
 
:2128270 I meant on the main site.
And even here, only within like 2 minutes of posting.
 
You just say, "Hey, Friendly Mod! Would you please delete 'x' for me?"
 
You still can.
Of course you can't delete it from my point of view.
 
5:56 PM
@RavenDreamer Wouldn't it still be visible to mods and 10Ks?
 
But nothing can.
 
@ArdaXi That's exactly my point.
I wish I could.
 
You can't delete anything anywhere in that manner.
 
@ArdaXi I know. Again, I wish I could.
 
You can't, though.
 
5:59 PM
@ArdaXi Didn't you just say that?
 
Yes, I did. I like bringing you down.
 

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