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Any suggestions on what to spend them on?

user30

@ArdaXi tf2 glasses

8:17 PM

Yeah, but those are just glasses.

Does the prize booth change every day too?

I hope so

user30

I guess not

Odd, the booth page shows 4 tickets for me, but my Steam profile shows only one.

I'd get every ticket, but I lack the financial resources.

And erm, I need more games on my wishlist. Preferably $50 games.

@Arda haha yeah me too

Added Brink.

8:20 PM

I'm trying to add stuff but steam search is choking and dying

@ArdaXi Brink is a sad version of TF2 IMO

Well, yeah, but if I'm getting it for free...

true I guess

Due to @badp, Meet the Medic is on my 'Most Played by Friends' list.

user30

@bad moderator?

8:23 PM

Okay, wtf

Limbo Confirmed for PSN and PC

user30

Does it to me as well sometimes

@badp So it's all in Latin? Weird.

@Rapida Seeing as Toki Tori is only like €1, you should definitely buy it. It's a good game.

Hm, it seems to me like people who have friends like that TF2 is free-to-play, and people who don't hate it.

user30

I like it

8:31 PM

@ThomasMcDonald Are you using at as a counter example, and as such, stating you lack friends?

user30

No, I have lots of friends

Well that's good. Just sounded like you were saying that to disagree with @ArdaXi

@Wipqozn I know right.

@ThomasMcDonald See?

Then again, I don't, and I like it...

Yeesh, 164 messages while I was gone?

user30

I have friends, the majority of which already played TF2

8:33 PM

Anyway, it sounds like a lot of achievements for Summer are in the Potato Pack games. :/

user30

The general opinion is it's good because they all play sniper

@Powerlord Any advance notices?

I see 3/6 in the potato pack atm.

@ArdaXi Well, I'm just commenting on the games people were mentioning.

Also, I guess I'll join that group today.

In the past 2 hours, I've had these games update:

Also, has TF2 been updated yet?

8:35 PM

@Powerlord BTB, Toki Tori and AAAAAA are in the summer camp today.

I've seen updates from Magicka and SpaceChem demo

I know with a new item appearing in the game that TF2 will be.

Together with 3 other games I've never heard of.

Magicka and SpaceChem have redeemable DLC.

Together with some glasses in TF2.

Zombie Driver, Space Chem (demo), Hoard, Toki Tori, AaAaAA!!!!, Mount & Blade: Warband, The Polynomial, Worms Reloaded, Magicka, The Ball, Iron Grip: Warlord, Bit.Trip Beat and oddly enough, the Darkspore English Trailer

I think I'm going to get the Defense Grid DLC

@FallenAngelEyes Most of these have DLC in the camp, or achievements.

8:37 PM

I don't like TF2 and I have tons of...tons of... SOB FRIENDS.

TF2 glasses might be nice for the classes that you don't have Misc items for.

@Mana Sure you do.

@Mana Have you even tried TF2?

Problem is I do have a global misc item

sharpens knife

8:38 PM

@Powerlord no

Ooh, are we going to do this? sharpens gloves

@badp I have three global Misc items, but two of them are identical.

I also have Misc items for Pyro, Demo, Engineer, Sniper, and Spy (unusual no less).

@ArdaXi Yeah but I have a bunch of other games on the DLC list that didn't update, oddly enough

I have shades. I do really need better eyeglasses?

Oh yeah, I forgot about the Professor Speks.

8:39 PM

@badp You should really ask an optometrist that.

Well, time to try BTR

Darn, I forgot to file a bug with Valve's auto-scramble and Team Spirit painted items.

@ArdaXi Have fun repeating levels over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

Sometimes the Team Spirit color doesn't swap on scramble.

Is spacechem for sale?

@badp Thanks.

8:40 PM

I think I'm going to pick up BTR as well

@badp 33% off.

Oh. BTB updated.

brb achievement

It's funny to be a Demoman with a blue outfit, blue pimp hat, and red glasses.

@badp Is the achievement difficult? shifts eyes

Okay. This game is annoying.

Miss one jump and no matter where you are, you get whooshed back to the beginning.

Where do I go in bit trip beat to do the sunbathing acheevo?

8:53 PM

Man I'm having a tough time putting expensive games on my wishlist

@Rapida 1-1

Also, since we have to please PS3 users, we call them achievementrophies now.

lol

user30

@Brant r-r-r-repost

Brant

Pfft.

d-d-d-d-denied

Brant

8:55 PM

It's new to me!

@Brant How are you feeling?

Brant

I've NYANED for 1448.1 seconds. So, better than Tuesday.

cool

Grr, I forgot how much I hate dealing with extern in C++.

That makes two tickets

@ArdaXi Not at all.

9:02 PM

Good.

@ArdaXi That's what I meant by "over and over and over"

Unlike in Beat, one mistake gets you to the beginning. Unless you're in the retro stage, then you just fail.

extern IGameEventManager2 *events; <-- IGameEventManager2 is a class defined in a class I'm including at the top of this .h file. Intellisense has no problem with this class. The compiler complains about error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '*'

Is the final hours of Portal 2 worth it @Arda?

CruelCow

@ArdaXi Remember, it works for non-released games aswell.

Terraria will need more than 25% off to convince me

9:05 PM

@badp Worth what?

@ArdaXi Worth the time.

@badp I was referring to the price.

Hence my reply.

Yes.

Sometimes I wonder if it's possible for @badp and @Arda to have a non-confrontational exchange.

9:07 PM

I have a better idea. Garry's mod at €2

@Mana How was this confrontational.

@badp You didn't have Gmod? Get it.

user30

@man I also ponder this frequently

So, Garry's Mod, Beat Hazard and AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! I guess.

@Arda "I was referring to the price" "Hence my reply"

@Mana I didn't see that as confrontational.

user30

9:08 PM

I have £6 in my bank account. What buy?

@Arda Well fgsbg.

@ThomasMcDonald Stuff.

@ThomasMcDonald Allow me to read your profile as to not recommend such games as are already in your possession.

So was consensus save the tickets for future prizes?

@ThomasMcDonald Of those currently on sale, Recettear is good.

user30

@Rapida I dont think there will be future prizes

9:16 PM

Eh.

Hm.

room topic changed to The Bridge: of Gaming's StackExchange™ AlienOverlord AskQuestion™ mothership, wherein our resident angry mob charges our lazers in the nyarragabaldic attempt to derail all discussion towards Minecraft, TF2 or how all discussions seem to be derailing towards Minecraft or TF2.

user30

interesting moderation tactic

The angry mob don't know they're charging our lazers. They'll never see it coming.

Also I'm glad I didn't buy the Magicka DLC, given that Magicka is perhaps the worst purchase I've made so far. :/

Arg, I hate it when I overthink things.

user30

@badp I'm glad I bought it, I got 5 ref worth of hats from it.

I like Magicka a lot, though it's one of those games that's way way better with friends

9:21 PM

@badp I never speak of Minecraft.

user30

@ArdaXi @bad evidence number 1.

@ThomasMcDonald Evidence of what?

@ArdaXi bacon of course.

user30

@ArdaXi You talking about Minecraft and/or moaning about talking about Minecraft

@ThomasMcDonald No, @badp implied I was attempting to derail discussion toward Minecraft.

9:24 PM

Nope.

user30

@ArdaXi Which you have successfully done now

@badp Yeah you did.

Also why isn't Steam launching now.

> our resident angry mob charges our lazers in the nyarragabaldic attempt to derail all discussion towards Minecraft

user30

@bad Which bit do I have to do for this achievement?

9:24 PM

@ArdaXi A mob of one?

@badp Yes.

@ThomasMcDonald The very first

@ArdaXi What a sad mob. That's why our lazers aren't charging well.

user30

All of it?

@badp Yep.

I sometimes recruit others.

@ThomasMcDonald Up to the first bit where the large color bars swipe through the screen.

It's like 90 beats.

You can do it maaaan.

9:26 PM

It's interesting how much you can do with a piece of bacon.

Here, have a video:

►

I do the relevant part perfectly. It's 1 minute 33 seconds.

user30

Man, I hate BTB

user30

got it now

Hmm, achievements still not showing up on my profile...

user30

Mine are showing

9:29 PM

With any luck, I'll put the finishing touches on the first version of TFVotes tonight.

But we'll see.

user30

Yeah, it's just not updated yet.

I started trying to code things the long way in this file, until I realized I already had all three values I needed and could just pass them directly to the vote handler.

user30

Y'know there's 4 spaces for prizes claimed

Anyway, work over, time to head home.

9:31 PM

@ThomasMcDonald That implies a maximum of 12 tickets.

Only today they released 7 ticket oppertunities.

user30

Indeed, even I deduced that.

And we are all very impressed at how much you won.

user30

AAAaaaAAa, why must you update at 50kb/s?

user30

I am not impressed

user30

I want to get this achievement and go and read my new book.

user30

9:39 PM

I wonder if three tickets will get you a key to a refreshing summer cooler

They won't, though.

@Thomas You say 50 kb/s like it's a slow speed..............

user30

@MAN I usually get about 700kb/s from Steam.

user30

Which I thought was generally pitiful

............:(

user30

9:54 PM

I hate AAAaaaAAA

Gah, finally got the Aaaaaa!!! achievement

user30

Do you have to hit all plates + all kisses + hugs etc?

Plates are key

user30

because I'm pretty sure I just got all of them

user30

sod this, i'm going to bed

Q: Unable to connect to activision matchmaking error 33

9:58 PM

It can be a little frustrating, yeah :/

make sure you hit the 2k plates

user30

> Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to steamcommunity.com

user30

> Other users are also experiencing difficulties connecting to this site, so you may have to wait a few minutes.

user30

Whoa, unexpected information by Chrome.

Lazers

0

I got the error when I tried to play the Call of Duty (multiplayer mode): Unable to connect to activision matchmaking error 33. Has anybody any information about this problem? Thank you.

multiplayer bug

Hey @badp

May want to consider protecting the Toki Tori question

user30

10:04 PM

@FallenAngelEyes badp's new designated ping address is @bad.

@ThomasMcDonald Er, wha? With a . or do you mean just @bad? Either way it should still ping off the first 3 letters, neh?

user30

@FallenAngelEyes Just @bad, I'm kinda joking anyway

Ah. I'm a bit out of it so my internet sarcasm detection levels are rather low at the moment.

user30

Here he is

user30

Ooh, OS X Lion next week, I almost forgot about that

10:10 PM

I don't understand why one needs 50 rep to be able to post comments yet only 1 to post a one-line "answer" that should be a comment.

@FallenAngelEyes Aye. Those two posts accumulated 16 flags

What is the reason for that? I've not been on SO/SE for as long as some of you, so I'm wondering if there's some sort of historical problem that I've missed or something.

The idea is to make the core functionality available to anyone on the internet

Anyone can ask and answer at any moment

(except if suspended)

Commenting is not core.

Also, we removed Herobrine again in 1.7_01

Tweeted by notch on June 30, 2011 at 2:36 PM

Hm, I see. It just seems to me to be a little unfriendly to new users to be able to post an answer that'll get downvoted/flagged because it's should be a comment when they're not even able to do that yet.

10:20 PM

@FallenAngelEyes To be fair, it's only occasionally that it should be a comment.

Many times it should be its own question, and even more many times it just shouldn't have been posted in any fashion at all.

See further, Jeff's statement on why we have a limit.

True, but oftentimes, answers of that quality then get deleted, so any comments left on the answer to inform the user of what they could've done better or point them to the right channel are also lost, potentially before the user can see them. If those were left as comments, at least the dialogue could be preserved to help them see where they need to go.

Q: I'm a moderator dealing with a user asking a question in an answer, what do I do?

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In the moderator queue I see a lot of not an answer flags. Mostly, these are users (mostly new ones) writing questions as answers. How can I best handle this when it's a good question? I want to leave a comment, but deleting the answer also removes the comment and item from their inbox. The w...

support asking-questions moderators moderator-abilities

Already taken care of ♪

To summarize, our comments stick around in their inbox (and can be seen by them since they can see their own deleted answers), so it is not lost to them at all.

Note, however, that out of the many non-answers that badp, Juan and I delete every day, very very few come from anyone who comes back.

After all, all it takes is clearing your cookies to lose access to your unregistered account

@GraceNote Ah, that's good to know then. :)

@GraceNote Clearly Mana needs to be a moderator then; sometimes I just upvote his already present comment when I delete.

That clearly doesn't work as well.

10:30 PM

@badp To be fair, it used to actually preserve those.

But what used to happen... well... you can always ask @MichaelMrozek about comment replies, deletions, and the global inbox. ♪

woah what the what

How hard is the AaaAaA achievement?

@Powerlord Pretty hard for what I've seen

Q: Where is the last 'Lian Clamp'?

Toki Tori sounds easy, BTB sounds Medium, AaaAaA sounds hard. >:/

I want muh 4 tickets, gol dram it!

Also, City of Lansing needs to die in a fire.

Lazers

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A woman in the town of Leedo gave me a quest involving searching through the Lizardo Dungeon and finding 4 of an item called Lian Clamp. I've found three of the four, and scoured the rest (I think) of the dungeon, and haven't been able to find the fourth. These are the first two items, loc...

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10:45 PM

@Powerlord The swords and soldiers one was easy

@Powerlord BTB is really easy.

"Oh hey, we're closing your parking ramp for a month starting tomorrow at 10:30pm. Go park at this other ramp on the other side of town until we reopen."

@ThomasMcDonald did you get it yet?

Note: The city operates like 5 parking ramps and the one I parked in and the one they're saying to park in now are the farther ramps apart from each other.

So Garry's mod takes a long time to load, eh?

Looooong time.

10:50 PM

...was Toki Tori made by Dutchies?

achievement in it named "Harderwijk Fried Chicken"

Two Tribes B.V., huh, it is

Is the Prize Booth for the Summer Camp going to stay the same every day?

I hope not

@FallenAngelEyes We don't know.

I assume it is, but eh.

I kind of want it to stay the same so I have a chance for more of the stuff...

Toki Tori is a very clever little game

11:05 PM

Why is everyone just noticing Toki Tori now?

I'm totally not in the mindspace to want to do a puzzle game at the moment but I want the achievement. Damn you Steam for making me your bitch. :(

@Gnome Due to excessive Steam sales, I have a ton of little indie games waiting to be played that I haven't gotten around to yet.

Toki Tori

|genre = Platform/puzzle |modes = Single-player |ratings = |platforms = Android, Game Boy Color, iOS, Mac OS X, Wii (WiiWare), Windows, Windows Mobile |media = |requirements = }} Toki Tori is a puzzle video game with platform elements originally released by Capcom in September 2001 for the Game Boy Color. It was developed by Two Tribes B.V. and is their first published video game. The game follows a young chick, Toki Tori, and his quest to rescue his younger siblings, still in their eggs. To progress through the game, the player must pick up each egg on a level using a set number of...

I never had a GBC

Also, the modern sequel was released on the Wii a few years back.

Rather annoying to see that even with a boom sales on Steam, they haven't really added any new media to the website.

@FallenAngelEyes If I could down vote that, I would.

11:13 PM

@Wipqozn Eh?

7 mins ago, by FallenAngelEyes

I never had a GBC

I really enjoyed the Wiiware sequel, and I assume the iPhone/PC versions are identical, so I won't be getting them.

ah, lol

That's heresy right there

couldn't afford one

11:14 PM

@FallenAngelEyes then sell your parents or something, not that hard

haha

This is a really great track.

►

^ Looks cool.

Borror0

11:42 PM

@GraceNote Hmm... what do you find problematic in the "pushing phase"?

So as I was saying, @Borror0, the main issue is not so much how I fare in the laning phase, but in a lack of proper synergy with the team (and in some cases, proper coordination).

Borror0

So, you mean just general team comp?

For team fights?

Indeed.

Ah, that was my call to head home, actually.

Well, you can continue on and I'll read when I get back. Look forward to one day playing with you, though. ♪

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