The Bridge

GnomeSlice

6:02 PM

@alexanderpas Agreed, but it'll have to wait a few days.

Nick T

@GnomeSlice the link is actually to someone trying to tell the Dalai Lama joke to the Dalai Lama

GnomeSlice

@NickT I saw that, thought it was funny, then watched the whole thing. The thumbnail isn't actually in the video.

Arda Xi

Featuring Super Meat Boy, Shank, NightSky HD, Cave Story+, Gratuitous Space Battles, Bit.Trip Runner, and Jamestown: http://www.humblebundle.com

Tweeted by humble on December 13, 2011 at 6:03 PM

GnomeSlice

@ArdaXi Hah, I was right!

There's no way you can not buy that bundle.

Ronan Forman

0.0 Cave story +

Arda Xi

6:11 PM

True.

GnomeSlice

Hm, it's more expensive than the other ones.

Nick T

@GnomeSlice yeah, was fairly surprized when I linked it

GnomeSlice

Still. This is definitely the best lineup so far.

Arda Xi

No EFF?

GnomeSlice

Gah, I've already spent like $40 of my $60 grant reimbursement on games.

Paypal will be the end of me.

Ronan Forman

6:12 PM

Now I wait until my dad gets back and I have games!

GnomeSlice

@Ronan Do you have images of the two team skins for CtW?

I don't mean the skin graphic.

I mean do you have images of people using them.

Ronan Forman

I'll get you them from whatever angle.

GnomeSlice

DAMMIT

The average has gone down more than 1$ since I purchased it.

Arda Xi

@badp Bit Trip Runner is now on Linux!

GnomeSlice

Like... 2 minutes ago.

badp

6:15 PM

3 hours ago, by badp

On the minus side, this means Gaijin spent time porting Runner to Mac and Linux instead of spending time porting any of the other 4 games to Windows

Ronan Forman

@GnomeSlice Can you access minecraft atm?

Arda Xi

@badp I just like to remind you.

GnomeSlice

@RonanForman Uh... possibly.

@Ronan For what?

Ronan Forman

@GnomeSlice So you can get whatever angle you need.

badp

I just need to wait for the average to go down now

Ullallulloo

6:17 PM

@GnomeSlice I don't really want any of those...except GSB or maybe Bit.Trip Runner, but that's not worth it.

badp

which it will, since there's like one mega donation and that's it

GnomeSlice

@Ullallulloo o.o

badp

Gone down $.20 last minute

GnomeSlice

@badp Went down over 1$ between my purchase and my posting about it.

@RonanForman Can I see the ones you used in the videos?

On the start screens?

badp

It's still just about $.2 too much

Powerlord

6:19 PM

@Ullallulloo You don't want Cave Story+ ? :O

badp

$.01 too much

Ronan Forman

@GnomeSlice Join 84.92.163.43 and there'll be 2 people with those skins.

Lazers

0

Q: Can Battlefield 3 be appropriate for a non-serious gamer?

I'm no console gaming enthusiast but I have bought every Call of Duty and enjoy playing them in short spurts. I don't care much about the story or strategy or difficulty levels. I play on the easiest difficulty, hack around and make my way through the game. Once I've gotten through I'll play t...

badp

Thank you PubNub for the realtime stats

Powerlord

I keep getting distracted from updating my flowcharts.

GnomeSlice

6:21 PM

Actually... can I get the skin graphics from you?

A skin viewer would be much more ideal.

Powerlord

First by lunch, now by games

Arda Xi

@badp $95 too little.

GnomeSlice

@Powerlord Also, how's the Scottish Resistance?

Arda Xi

@GnomeSlice Drunk?

badp

Aww, I can't customize the split between developers

Powerlord

6:22 PM

@GnomeSlice It's an item for my second least played class. But yeah, if you can use it properly, it can be a great boon.

badp

That's a step backwards

Ronan Forman

@GnomeSlice You said you didn't want them.

GnomeSlice

@RonanForman I've changed my mind.

I can use them with a skin viewer to get the angle I want.

Powerlord

The problem is that you can only explode the sticky bombs you're looking towards, rather than all of them.

badp

I certainly wanted to reduce Gaijin's, Team Meat's and NightSky's cut. They're not the reason why I'm getting the bundle.

Ronan Forman

6:23 PM

@GnomeSlice They're on the meta post.

Powerlord

@badp Nightsky's publisher is also Cave Story +'s publisher.

GnomeSlice

I found nightsky to be... meh.

Aaron

insert coin

badp

@Powerlord Well if I could've customized the splits, then I would've realized.

Powerlord

1 credit

GnomeSlice

6:26 PM

@Powerlord Oh... that would explain some of my issues.

Powerlord

The Sco Res's other drawback is that you can't explode them in mid-air.

Also, <3 Metal Gear NES's building theme.

badp

@Powerlord Well you can, you just need to launch 'em farther away

GnomeSlice

Hm.. Nightsky HD?

I wonder what the one I have currently is.

Steven Jeuris

@ArdaXi Oh! I didn't figure it would be released just now. K, buying it in an instant. :) Awesome

badp

@GnomeSlice It's not HD

Apparently those in the bundle are the very first HD builds.

Whatever 'HD' means.

GnomeSlice

6:30 PM

Ah.

We should make a game.

All of us.

That would be pretty sweet.

agent86

don't neglect today's steam deal, king's bounty armored princess or she's likely to cut you for staring at her oversized... sword. Also logging in enters you for the contest again today.

I have this game, and I found it to be irritating, but it also could be that I sucked at it.

GnomeSlice

@agent86 There's nothing else oversized about her.

Grace Note

@agent86 That's not very armored

GnomeSlice

@GraceNote No kidding.

Grace Note

"Knight Princess" you could get away with

agent86

6:37 PM

@GnomeSlice ... so I guess it's good then that I mentioned her sword was oversized.

she's armored. kind of. and I guess she's a princess? I don't see a king or a bounty though.

Fabian

Dying a lot in Super Meat Boy is normal, or?

GnomeSlice

@Fabian Yes.

Grace Note

@agent86 Armor seems to be the least distinguishable element of her person.

GnomeSlice

@agent86 Are you blind?

agent86

I played almost all the way through the first game and never saw any king bounty, so at least this game's subtitle is somewhat true

Ronan Forman

6:38 PM

@GnomeSlice Dibs on character design!

GnomeSlice

@RonanForman :D

agent86

@GnomeSlice yes.

GnomeSlice

@agent86 In that era, she'd be considered naked.

agent86

@GnomeSlice the era with magic and dragons and frog people and necromancers? I'm pretty sure in fantasy land, that's plenty of armor.

GnomeSlice

No, I meant the medieval era.

agent86

6:40 PM

she's not taking an arrow to the knee, at any rate.

Grace Note

Didn't look like her greaves went that high

Arda Xi

@badp High Deathcount.

GnomeSlice

I wish that joke would take an arrow to the meme.

agent86

that's almost too much armor for her era. she needs to be wearing a strapless leather bra and a thong to really be "truly" armored where she comes from.

badp

@ArdaXi eh?

GnomeSlice

6:41 PM

@agent86 The amazon?

Arda Xi

You asked what HD meant.

agent86

@GnomeSlice daz3d.com/i/3d-models/-/classic-fantasy-warrior?item=7941

GnomeSlice

@ArdaXi Nightsky doesn't even have deaths.

Ronan Forman

Does anyone know if you can enter ludum dare as a group? Cause that would be cool.

GnomeSlice

Ew.

Steven Jeuris

6:42 PM

@Fabian Yes dying is normal for SMB. :) Even recommended if you want to go for a pretty cool replay after you finish the level. ;p

Ullallulloo

@badp Click the little arrow.

GnomeSlice

You should see people playing Lost Planet 2 online.

agent86

what are these games I just bought in the indie bundle? I didn't even ask, I just went BUYBUYBUY.

GnomeSlice

Since they added a... well endowed female character model, it's rare to see anyone using one of the male models any more.

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice I see them a lot, still.

agent86

6:43 PM

super meat boy and GSB I know about; I think I own GSB already even.

Powerlord

@agent86 Bacon #1, Bacon #2, Bacon #3, and Super Meat Boy.

GnomeSlice

Doesn't help that one of the taunts you can select is an ass self-spank.

@Ullallulloo Oh, you play?

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice Yes, on the PS3.

Powerlord

@GnomeSlice Speaking of taunts, did we mention to you that G is the taunt key for TF2, and the taunt you do depends on your currently selected weapon?

GnomeSlice

Everyone uses the female character with the Jungle top and the Sand people bottoms.

Lazers

6:44 PM

0

Q: Halo: Anniversary Map Packs with Halo: Reach

I purchased Halo: Anniversary recently and was told by a friend that the maps (which run off the Reach engine) can be downloaded for free for access from within Reach, since I own both Reach and Anniversary. I could not find online how to do this, so is this possible? And if so, how?

dlc halo-reach halo-anniversary

Ronan Forman

Someone tell me when the average for humble bundle starts going up again.

GnomeSlice

@Powerlord Noticed that, but it didn't seem dependent on weapon.

For the record, the 'Jungle' top for the female character is the only one that has breast physics.

agent86

@Powerlord mmmm, humble indie bacon bundle

GnomeSlice

And the sand people bottom is basically 'no pants'.

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice It obviously popular, but there's still more without.

GnomeSlice

6:47 PM

I'm not going to pretend I haven't used the femme fatale either, but I do it for different reasons.

The carpetbagger female has long hair things that stretch out like rubber if you spin in circles.

►

Powerlord

@GnomeSlice Well, it is. Certain weapons can also taunt kill enemies directly in front of them. Scout's Sandman; Soldier's Equalizer (everyone around him plus himself); Pyro's Shotgun, Flare Gun, or Detonator; Demoman's Eyelander, Claidheamh Mòr, Scotsman Skullcutter, or Persian Persuader; Heavy's Fists; Engineer's Frontier Justice or Gunslinger, Medic's Ubersaw, Sniper's Huntsman bow, and Spy's Knife, Your Eternal Reward, Conniver's Kunai, Big Earner, Wanga Prick, or Sharp Dresser.

GnomeSlice

Oh wait, the SandRaider breasts have physics too. But not like the Jungle breasts.

It's a tough call between which is more revealing.

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice I just kind of didn't pay that close of attention to that...

GnomeSlice

Judging from the amount of people using them both, it appears to be a heated argument.

@Ullallulloo I don't have xbox live any more, so I can't play online anyway.

I'm no good at it anyway.

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice PSN's free so I can.

GnomeSlice

6:50 PM

I can't even with xbox live. My internet sucks.

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice It's pretty forgiving on lag though.

GnomeSlice

Maybe. Doesn't seem like it.

Maybe I just suck at it.

The first one had that ridiculous somersault damage immunity thing going on.

You never walked or ran anywhere, you rolled.

You could be in a huge robot suit with giant machine guns on each arm whaling on some poor dude on the ground, and not even hurt him because he's somersaulting.

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice I've noticed that it's similar when you're shooting at someone with lag. They're kind of invincible unless they stop moving.

GnomeSlice

@Ullallulloo It was an exploit, in the original game.

Those games are two of my favourite games ever. Nobody else seems to like them.

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice I know, but in LP2 I've gotten hit by explosions that I know would have killed me, but survived without getting hurt because my internet was slow.

user20683

6:57 PM

So Duke Nukem Forever apparently has DLC

user20683

oh god my brain hurts....

Powerlord

@WorldEngineer Multiplayer DLC, or so I understand.

user20683

store.steampowered.com/app/57925

user20683

this one is single player

user20683

also has some maps

Powerlord

6:59 PM

And they want to charge $10 for it?

user20683

apparently

Powerlord

Wasn't Duke Nukem Forever basically the biggest disaster of the year?

Ullallulloo

@Powerlord That's half of the whole game's cost...

user20683

critically yes

user20683

I've no idea about sales figures

alexanderpas

7:01 PM

well, they claim it's a complete new campaign.

the first DLC however, is the same price, and isn't that.

GnomeSlice

The big problem most people have with Lost Planet is that many many things are designed to take control away from the player.

It is a bit much to be honest. You'll often be able to not even move for any length of time if there are explosions and things happening around you.

Lazers

0

Q: BF3: Conquest - where are all of those points coming from?

When playing Conquest, I stay pretty mobile and basically focus on deterring the enemy, capturing flags and destroying vehicles (my favorite). I typically end up with about 3000-4000 points with 15 or so kills. I never camp as it bores the piss outta me. My question: I always see a guy that has...

battlefield-3 experience

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice That one Femme Fatale gun...

GnomeSlice

@Ullallulloo The guns are the same for every character model.

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice No, the one that you unlock by getting like Level 70 as one.

GnomeSlice

7:07 PM

Oh. I have no idea, I never got that far.

I think I got to 30 or something with the Femme Fatale.

badp

@Powerlord The loudest perhaps

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice This one.

GnomeSlice

I definitely have that gun.

The one that makes all of the hearts.

Ullallulloo

It's homing, and if you get shot by a fully charged blast, it'll stun them for like 3 seconds.

GnomeSlice

What about it?

Ullallulloo

7:11 PM

@GnomeSlice Yeah, that one.

GnomeSlice

Yeah.

Ullallulloo

Might be level 30.

You can kill anyone with it.

GnomeSlice

Except it takes forever to fire.

Ullallulloo

If you get hit, you're completely doomed.

GnomeSlice

And you get stuck standing still while firing

Ullallulloo

7:12 PM

@GnomeSlice 'bout the same as the stun lasts.

GnomeSlice

@Ullallulloo Except games are free-for-alls.

I ALWAYS got killed while shooting at someone else.

With any weapon.

Oh man, I loved the Buster Grenade.

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice It's still ridiculous.

@GnomeSlice me too

Food time.

GnomeSlice

@Ullallulloo Yeah. Looks really silly when a big fat Vagabundo guy is using it too.

Ah, and the Gun Sword

Ronan Forman

@GnomeSlice The gun pen is mightier.

alexanderpas

@RonanForman less attention until used ;)

Ronan Forman

7:17 PM

What?

alexanderpas

@RonanForman a gun pen, takes way less space compared to a gun sword, you can easily hide a gun pen.

Ronan Forman

@alex Also you can write with it!

GnomeSlice

How do you link to a specific time of a youtube video?

Ronan Forman

Under the share option, go to more options and click use this time.

GnomeSlice

►

agent86

7:25 PM

@GnomeSlice you can do it pretty easily from the "share" part of the video UI, I think it's just an extra part on the URL

GnomeSlice

No idea. I just googled it and found a web tool to do it for me.

Lazers

0

Q: What determines what is available for sale at the Tavern Item Shop?

What factors influence the items that are available in the Tavern Item shop? I've read that after completing certain levels on the harder difficulty levels the tavern shop seems to have better items, but does anyone have more detailed information about what specific factors are used to determine...

dungeon-defenders

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice It's the "&t=1m18s" at the end

GnomeSlice

@Ullallulloo I got that, but thanks.

Arda Xi

Hm, I didn't expect 3ds max to be this easy to learn.

GnomeSlice

7:31 PM

@ArdaXi It's not.

It's easy to get a handle on the basic tools.

Arda Xi

I beg to differ.

GnomeSlice

Fine. Differ.

Arda Xi

It depends on what you want out of it I guess

GnomeSlice

I don't know why I'm still in this program. I suck at all of it.

Ronan Forman

@Arda I had the same experience with after effects.

Arda Xi

7:33 PM

@RonanForman Well, AE was more daunting for me, for some reason.

GnomeSlice

►

> The Network takes classic arena top-down shooting and adds a twist, you never fire a bullet. Collect packets and direct them into nodes while the AI is on your tail. Level up and grab more packets as you bring the fight to the AI. The Network is a total immersion experience and has a fully integrated story including an unforgettable ending. The Network is a memorable experience thick with atmosphere and flush with style.

@GraceNote Might be interested in that.

Ronan Forman

@Arda Admittedly I probably do everything the worst way.

Arda Xi

Heh, the ends always justify the means.

GnomeSlice

@ArdaXi 3DS max is easy enough to learn quickly, but it's definitely not easy to quickly learn each and every one of the tools, features, etc.

Arda Xi

@GnomeSlice It's not the kind of programme anyone wants to learn every single tool, feature, etc. of.

GnomeSlice

7:36 PM

@ArdaXi Uh... it is if you're a 3D developer...

Arda Xi

@GnomeSlice No, because a game developer won't want to work with extremely high detail and stuff that takes a week to render.

GnomeSlice

Er.... how do you think they make modern games?

Arda Xi

As much detail with as little polygons as possible.

The latter part is extremely important.

GnomeSlice

Yes.

And most of the fancy tools in 3D software is for getting detailed models with low polygon counts.

Arda Xi

Yet, someone who works with an architect won't care about polygon count at all, and only cares about the result.

(Within reason, of course)

GnomeSlice

7:42 PM

@ArdaXi Well, now that you have it, you can submit custom levels for Proun.

Ronan Forman

A Pixar film takes about 3 years to render.

Arda Xi

@GnomeSlice I wish I had the time.

GnomeSlice

@RonanForman ...I don't know where you heard that, but it's... incorrect.

Takes about 3 years to make from start to finish.

stevether

new humble bundle too

GnomeSlice

@stevether Yep.

Powerlord

7:46 PM

Yup, the Humble Bacon Bundle.

Ullallulloo

@Powerlord Now that I might buy.

Arda Xi

@GnomeSlice He didn't specify the rig.

Grace Note

Hey @Powerlord, Abby claims your email ain't right and that an email we tried to send you quite possibly went up in flames.

GnomeSlice

I think it was implied that he was referring to the scenario of the actual Pixar development team.

stevether

I have 3 of the games already though

Ronan Forman

7:49 PM

@Gnome slice there are more than 300,000 frames in a movie

badp

Hopper's Revenge is definitely an interesting challenge and not one you can bruteforce through

Grace Note

On a completely separate note, anyone remember any of the instances where StackGaming tweeted a question before we cleaned it up?

GnomeSlice

@RonanForman Yes. For starters, they render each section as they go. But more importantly, they have things called 'Render Farms'.

badp

@GraceNote chat.stackexchange.com/…

Powerlord

@GraceNote Really? I recently changed DNS hosts, let me double-check the MX records.

badp

7:51 PM

Oct 31 at 0:08, by Nick T

Can you answer this? How to skip intro video? http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/33681/how-to-skip-intro-video #pc

Tweeted by StackGaming on October 30, 2011 at 5:18 PM

Oct 30 at 23:59, by Ronan Forman

Can you answer this? What are "additional points" awarded for? http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/33719/what-are-additional-points-awarded-for #pc

Tweeted by StackGaming on October 30, 2011 at 11:18 PM

Mar 2 at 21:02, by Arda Xi

Strategy for handling the oddities that spew out of a fountain upon dipping http://ur.ly/FuEO #strategy

Tweeted by StackGaming on March 2, 2011 at 8:23 PM

Ronan Forman

@Gnome Even if it took only 5 minutes to render each frame (which is way too short) it'd take 937 days to render.

badp

It's a good assumption that we posted tweets here when Twitter screwed up :)

Grace Note

@badp The first one there was cleaned up before, the other two didn't seem to get significant changes.

Powerlord

Haha, yeah, whoops... what MX records?!

GnomeSlice

@RonanForman Not with a render farm... trust me...

Ronan Forman

7:52 PM

When did I post that?

GnomeSlice

I know what I'm talking about.

Grace Note

I'll use the search to find the good examples, though

badp

@GraceNote The problem is that there wasn't much to clean up at the time I'm afraid, those tags were okay.

Okay, perhaps the October exmples aren't

GnomeSlice

It would likely take a few weeks to render.

Depending on the size of their render farm.

Probably less, actually.

Few days.

Of solid rendering.

Lazers

7

Q: Is it common to die at work?

I downloaded The Sims 3 for my Android phone, and I've played through almost 2 Sim weeks with my character. My sim works Monday-Friday, and without fail, he will die every other day at work. If he survived work yesterday, he will die today. Period. He's been killed by everything from escaped re...

7:53 PM

@ArdaXi ?

You'z trollin

nvm

GnomeSlice

Am not.

badp

uh, so Jamestown is 5 levels? That's probably... underwhelming given the reviews

even though they're definitely pretty levels.

Ronan Forman

@Gnome Okay the first toystory took about that long.

badp

7:55 PM

Also no one on my friend list has posted scores yet.

Grace Note

@badp A standard shmup is 4-6 levels. Not surprising.

GnomeSlice

@RonanForman From start to finish, yes. Including casting, recording, storyboarding, modelling, texturing, animating, rendering and editing.

Powerlord

@GraceNote DNS will be fixed on my domain in the next few hours, so mail to it will start working again. Thanks to you and Abby for letting me know something was wrong.

GnomeSlice

@GraceNote Did you see that game I posted a little while ago?

Grace Note

I did

@Powerlord Gratitude transferred. You're welcome. ♪

Powerlord

7:57 PM

Or at least I hope it'll be fixed in the next few hours.

stabs DynDNS for absorbing the company I used to use for DNS and then canceling their free DNS

GnomeSlice

@RonanForman Most movies don't take anywhere near that long.

Ronan Forman

I wasn't suggesting they did.

David B

you can't mix cpu time and elapsed time

GnomeSlice

Gah, I'm down to $20 in my paypal, from the $60 I had after my reimbursement.

I really need to cut back.

badp

@GraceNote Oh? I wouldn't have guessed

David B

8:00 PM

if 100 machines work for 100 hours, that's 10k machine hours done in 100 wall clock hours

GnomeSlice

I was going to transfer most of it back to my bank account.

@DavidB It's called a Render Farm.

David B

if you want to know the time it takes to render a movie, you have to add up the time taken by each machine

if it took 3 weeks for 50 machines to render the movie, then it took 3 years total cpu time

Grace Note

@badp It usually only takes 2 levels to eat up all your quarters

Ullallulloo

Woah, Kongregate's game ratings are integrated into Google's search.

badp

Fair warning to everybody who has yet to start playing Jamestown:

"To unlock level 5 you must win levels 1-4 at Legendary"

GnomeSlice

8:07 PM

@Ullallulloo Really? Awesome!

badp

I've only been playing at Difficult :/

(the scale is Normal, Difficult, Legendary, Divine, Judgement)

Also: unlock the Gunner ASAP. It is awesome.

agent86

oh, is jamestown a shmup? I thought I'd heard of it before, now the pieces are falling together in my brains.

badp

@Powerlord Do I want the original or the new music for Cave Story?

alexanderpas

gotta love GOG, Playing Dungeon Keeper 2 now.

Powerlord

@badp No idea.

I've only played the original version of Cave Story, not +

FallenAngelEyes

8:18 PM

@badp That's not too bad

I can't remember where I stopped on the diff ramp

@badp Dark Sector on Divine is where I stopped

Just had a lotta trouble getting through it

WesleyDavid

insert coin

har har

I shot my kitten in the face though.

The game wasn't bad either.

Powerlord

insert coin

alexanderpas

we're inserting coins again?

Nick T

@GraceNote you guys (or Abby Miller at least) are getting pushy about TOR it seems

Grace Note

@NickT You can always say no if you just don't want it. ♪

GnomeSlice

8:30 PM

You're trying to pass out TOR for the grant?

Doesn't it need a subscription?

Nick T

How's the grant work; does the 2 games/yr end at 2011 or what? I'd probably play it, but it's not the most interesting game I see in the near future (e.g. Diablo III)

David B

still no TOR early email!

Nick T

@GraceNote trying to figure out if it's economical for you guys (balancing my moochiness vs. usefulness)

Wipqozn

Words cannot describe how awesome this is:

►

A Zelda one:

FallenAngelEyes

@NickT What's going on?

@GnomeSlice Yes. First 30 days are free with purchase, like most MMOs.

Nick T

8:34 PM

@Wipqozn Ozone inhalation hazard

Wipqozn

►

GnomeSlice

You've never seen a Faraday Cage?

FallenAngelEyes

@GnomeSlice I've been in one of those, they're neat

Ullallulloo

btw, for those that didn't see it, Jeff made a post about denying us game tags:

0

A: Make a special tag class for "game tags".

Right now the most popular tag is used as the first word in question page title. This leads to questions such as "pc - how do I kill the orc chief" rather than "orchunter-3 - how do I kill the orc chief". The latter is more informative and much more Googlable. To ameliorate this issue, the f...

Arda Xi

I can no longer count the times I've disagreed with Jeff in that single post on one hand.

3

Using two tags is not even a solution.

> And if you can't be bothered to ask the second question about the game in a six month period either, I ask again: does that game really matter?

Yes, it does.

> Realistically, the site is, and should be, dominated by popular games.

No it shouldn't.

> I am sympathetic to the idea that a new user wants to ask about some obscure game, but realistically ... how often does that happen? Most people are playing popular games and current games, by definition. It's the nature of the business.

GnomeSlice

8:39 PM

@ArdaXi WOW.

Arda Xi

No you're not, and it happens often enough. Look at the most popular question.

GnomeSlice

I agree with badp's answer.

@ArdaXi Which is... uh....

Arda Xi

Also, it seems he went from "game tags are bad hurr" to "any tags but game tags are bad durr".

Ullallulloo

@GnomeSlice By views, it's an Angry Birds question because Joel shared it, excluding that, it's a Skyrim one. By votes, it's a Nethack one.

Arda Xi

Right, I meant by votes.

agent86

8:43 PM

I did my best once upon a time to figure out tags on this site. I think barring any developer support, we're just stuck dealing. It's a system that doesn't fit its use case.

Grace Note

@Ullallulloo Either way still makes the same point

@NickT Do you think you'll be able to ask lots of nice questions for TOR? You could always turn it down for now if you're, say, more interested in ensuring you do get a slot for Diablo 3 or so.

Nick T

@GraceNote I could ask a bunch of questions; I just don't know if I'd be downright ineligible

Grace Note

Take your time in decision, then. ♪

Fabian

So we're back to only using game tags again, or? Still seems to be the solution with the least drawbacks.

Raven Dreamer

What happens to the folks who put in for Diablo III with the brant grants, @GraceNote?

GnomeSlice

8:53 PM

No podcast this week everyone.

in SE Podcast Live Chat, yesterday, by Alex Miller

room topic changed to SE Podcast Live Chat: We're on vacation until 2012 - see you then! (no tags)

Grace Note

@RavenDreamer We don't have Brant Grants.

Raven Dreamer

ohsnowman

Arda Xi

Where's Grant Brant then?

Wait... ooh, I get it.

Raven Dreamer

Brett.

#$*#.

Brett?

I've confused myself.

Grace Note

If you mean the Fall Gaming Grant, that has been and remains parallel to the Cyclic No-One-Applies Gaming Stack Exchange Promotional Grants that I run, and the Targetted Everyone-Wins Gaming Promotional Grants that Abby runs.

GnomeSlice

8:57 PM

@FallenAngelEyes Would you be willing to still play against Joseph Kern in the tournament? He was gone for a while so he thought he was kicked.

Grace Note

So, they should still be in registration with Diablo 3. Unless somehow between now and the release, you fall off the face of the planet, suffer the black plague, or otherwise are deemed unfit to perform the duties. I get all extra copies in that case.

GnomeSlice

I mean, technically he passed the three day limit, but if you're willing, that'd be great.

Raven Dreamer

@GraceNote Perks of the trade. I suppose that's fair.

FallenAngelEyes

@GnomeSlice Yeah that's fine

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