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Does anyone else remember a link to an article in here that someone linked about the fact that humans like being spoiler'd?

@Wipqozn - I think your gravatar, despite me knowing what it actually is, looks like a walrus at that size.

@RavenDreamer Gimmeh a moment

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Q: Technology boost. What is the benefit and any strategies for maximizing its effect?

@GraceNote Vielen Dank, Freundin.

Lazers

12:45 AM

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I am using v1.0.1.383. When a research agreement is fulfilled, a "technology boost" event occurs. It appears to be 8 turns reduced on the current technology you are researching. What is the benefit? (i.e., 3000 research or 8 turns advanced). Does it overflow in to the next tech in the case th...

civilization-5

I think that's a dupe.

Actually, I don't think it is, come to think of it.

I don't think I've asked-- @GraceNote are you looking forward to Dominion?

@RavenDreamer To what?

League of Legends: Dominion

Can't say I know what that is

na.leagueoflegends.com

It was their big announcement last week

12:57 AM

Ooh, I see

Funky

@CruelCow I'm afraid I don't understand that...

In other news, Google+ now considers me cool because I added @LessPop to my circles.

I'm now cool by association.

@Mana - holy crap, that video is crazy.

bwarner

I'm guessing I'm not going to be able to make the mod town hall. Last time didn't we have a questionairre that all the candidates answered on their own time and then posted? That seems like it would work better.

oracle certified professional

Oh yeah, when is Town Hall anyway?

bwarner

@John It isn't scheduled yet, Rebecca is trying to coordinate a time when most people can make it. Which is hard since we're all in different time zones.

1:12 AM

hurrah, just had a pocket medic drop. just sayin'

@bwarner Oh ok thanks.

I wonder if we'll do two again

Might I suggest a stickied chat message pointing to the 3rd game promotion thing?

@RavenDreamer we have one.

It's the top one. By FallenAngelEyes.

Oh. I think I actually clicked that, thus discovering the topic on my own, anyway.

I'm just going to go sit in a corner and be redundant some more.

1:19 AM

I really need to get more Gaming reps so I can participate, heh.

@TimStone Yeah me too.

@TimStone Rep ain't the only thing - I didn't make it into the 2nd promotion :P

I figured I'd take things one step at a time ;)

That or just skip all that effort and move straight to bribing @GraceNote.

@TimStone That'll be a mighty bribe you'll need to pull off, like buying the limited edition of Sora no Kiseki's English localization for me.

@GraceNote I'm not sure how the economics work on this one, but I'm in!

1:23 AM

@TimStone Then what's the benefit of being in the promo if you have to buy a game anyway?

@TimStone Note that this is only about "bribing Grace to buy a PSP of xir own", not "bribing Grace to get you games"

@TimStone You own the Minecraft room?!?!

@John Your logic has no place here, sir!

@John Yeah, the server is (now) hosted on my box.

My first college professor ever, when explaining about how he did grades, gave the following position.

@GraceNote I'm cool with that, somehow.

1:28 AM

@TimStone Logic? LOGIC?!?! THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!!!!

@TimStone I went on the server a few days ago, and it was kinda empty. Of everything.

"I've had folks slide 50$ bills with their final exam, hoping that that will get them a letter bump. Come on people, that's the kind of stuff that'll get you fired if you're caught. If I'm going to get sacked for taking bribes, from students, it's not going to be something small. I think maybe 10,000$ per letter grade, minimum."

@TimStone It'll be nice that I won't go 3 in a row of "Order a game before I own the appropriate platform"

I haven't really had time to get on, @ThomasMcDonald pretty much runs the show. I think he replied to you with respect to that, though.

@TimStone Yeah he did, but I'd still like to know what the "Game On" was and why it never happened.

I've always avoided that problem by shamefully buying as many platforms as I could get my hands on. Although I tend to stay away from the mobile ones.

SE Game On!

TF2 server is TF2.stackgaming.com Minecraft server is mine.sta...

As for the why, we're all terribly lazy and disorganized.

1:31 AM

@TimStone There hadn't been much appeal to the PSP for me before, but, like before every other such purchase, there's finally enough volume for me to justify getting another platform.

That's why I've been holding off on the 3DS.

Bit.Trip saga is just not enough to make it worth it.

Yeah, I figure I should work through my console game backlog before moving on to anything else.

@TimStone Ah ok.

Though waiting for the $80 price cut helps.

I have one platform. Desktop.

(Well two if you count my Droid.)

1:32 AM

@John - The only one worth considering!

And, well, I've always been looking forward to Trails in the Sky. That its limited edition with Soundtrack is available right now, well, that's really tempting.

@GraceNote I never planned on getting one then one of my b/f's got it for me for Christmas as a surprise and I was all o_o

I would never have gotten one on my own

Well at least not until Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep came out >_>

"Birth by Sleep"?

Wild ARMs XF almost made me want it.

@John Yeah, the KH games have gotten weird plot-wise, but the gameplay is still outstanding

At least BBS's is great. 358/2 was nothing to write home about

1:37 AM

Except that very odd choice in names.

There's a lot of neat games on it though, like Echochrome

I really like that game

Also Patapon

Because I love music/rhythm games

and there's a surprising amount of depth to gearing yourself out in the Patapon games

@Mana That's the most creative use of gymnastics I've seen in quite a while.

And now I need to stop talking about games and go to sleep, g'night all

Night @FallenAngelEyes

G'nite @Fallen

1:40 AM

@John It's less typical gymnastics and more parkour

zonk

Patapon is also a flash game, I think.

@FallenAngelEyes Thanks! I thought it seemed different but didn't quite know what to call it.

Uhoh. The blog spills your beans, Chris.

@RavenDreamer Are you thinking that Robert slipped in the one pronoun he uses which is the opposite of the first pronoun in my bio?

@GraceNote - Nope. Going solely by "Chris". I could still be wrong, but hey, what's life without the chance for surprises?

1:48 AM

@RavenDreamer Well, yes, it reveals my name.

Kind of a part of the job, as it were. But people here know me easier as Grace

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Yeah I was totally confused when you said Chris.

Goodnight all.

G'nite, John