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5:00 PM
Thanks
 
@badp Sure, let me just tell my boss I'm leaving, head home, log on, cap the point, log off, head back to work, realize I forgot my badge, head back home, grab badge, head back to work...
 
Good remix is there.
 
Wait, no, I decided I'm not going to do that.
 
I'm so obviously not asking you @Powerlord
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what team?
 
5:01 PM
@badp On my way.
 
@RonanForman Join BLU
 
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Q: What is new in The Witcher 2 new & improved 2.0 version?

WesleiAs this game is on sale today on Steam, I checked it out and I saw the following message: "The Witcher 2 new & improved version 2.0 coming on September 29th!" What is new on this new & improved 2.0 version?

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Q: What game is this? I remember playing it in elementary school back in the 90's

Sergio Any name for it and possibly a download link if it has gone free?

 
@Lazers Is there a picture or something included at least?
 
@Powerlord Yes. That ^
 
5:05 PM
You mean that ^
 
@RonanForman No.
 
Noted.
 
How does one get a screenshot for a game that one doesn't own and can't identify?
 
Dang it, @Strix
 
Oh. Now I get it. That's a DX reference, isn't it.
The icon.
 
5:08 PM
@GnomeSlice I didn't ask for that
 
@DaveMcClelland ???
 
Search for "I didn't ask for this" and look for DX:HR references
 
All these purists, claiming that we're tampering with human rights, when all we've done is unlock the potential of the human race, Gnome!
 
@bwarner There was another ITG question like that and I managed to find out what game it was by Googling for elements from it.
 
@Powerlord Sure, I just wonder where the heck they got the screenshot
 
5:10 PM
@bwarner I was wondering that too, haha
 
@bwarner That's happened to me on rare occasion.
 
Maybe it was attached to some article or something and they said "Hey, I recognize that" but couldn't come up with the name
 
@Mana I noticed my feed full of a crapload of your achievements, lol
 
@bwarner ...Yeah, that.
 
Always fun to 1v1 TF2.
And remember, if at first you don't succeed... you fail, and the test will be terminated.
 
5:14 PM
@ArdaXi Meh
That reminds me, if anyone wants Dueling minigames, I have a tonne of them.
(I don't do dueling)
 
I didn't think gunslinger engie would be that effective vs pyros. Well, that one pyro. I kinda wanted to go for a regular sentry but then I'd have had to change my loadout
 
@Powerlord I have one of them, but I suck at limited-use items.
Too afraid to waste a shot.
 
@badp If it has a long sight range, it is.
Oh, and I found a great new mini-sentry spot on pl_hoodoo stage 1.
After point 1, there's a staircase... build a teleporter in the back, dispenser blocking the stairs, and drop minisentries on the ledge.
 
@badp Well, I couldn't get past it. Not that that says anything, I suck.
 
(I was using a mini after helping another Engy build a level 3)
 
5:19 PM
I just figured I'd go scout so I could use bonk.
 
So, anyway, what to equip for a second Misc slot for various classes...
I think Made Man as Spy.
 
Anyone know what happened to Ivo? Doesn't look like he has logged on in almost a month.
 
Possibly the Summer Shades or Deus Specs for Sniper.
 
@bwarner Vacation
 
@bwarner We scared him away when he lost the election... darn it GraceNote!
 
5:21 PM
@GraceNote For a month? Man, that is one nice vacation. Crazy Europeans
So @Grace, what do you think about posting the signup for all the gaming grants now, to help solidify where the rep cutoff will be for the top games? Obviously we wouldn't actually decide the top 10 until it was time, but its unlikely that the rep cutoff would go down at all.
 
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Q: Dwarf Fortress: Is there any way to get rid of wall grates?

Tadeusz A. KadłubowskiI'm trying to build a nice, dwarfy waterfall in my main dining hall, which so far resulted in plenty of mudy Fun in my fortress. I've designed the waterfall well to be surrounded by wall grates, mostly for esthetic and security purposes, but all in all I'm not satisfied with this layout. The pr...

 
I actually think our problem is less about people "saving up", and more about people being completely unaware of the grants to begin with.
 
@bwarner I haven't thought on it on account of there being a whopping 11 games and not a whole lotta people to handle that.
 
@GraceNote Only 10 if you agree with Jeff that Diablo 3 can't possibly come out this year. But still, it is possible that some low or middle rep users are waiting and hoping to get into one of the top games, when it would be better if we could get them signed up for games like Rage.
 
@bwarner He's in China atm
 
5:28 PM
@bwarner If so many people want a specific game, maybe the number of copies should be increased for that one, if there is some room due to the less popular games not reaching the maximum number.
 
@Fabian I guess that is another option, but it seems like there is a point of diminishing returns in terms of number of copies given out. We'd get more impact by spreading out across more games than by giving out a whole bunch of a single game.
 
user30
@bwarner Yah, he's on a pretty nice tour of China
 
I... I just found out that Bruce Campbell played Autolycus in Xena and Hercules. Holy crap.
 
@FallenAngelEyes that was the only reason I watched the few episodes I did
 
@Beofett I never knew this before now! I thought Autolycus was hilarious as a kid.
 
5:33 PM
@FallenAngelEyes "... as a kid."... /goes off to check the IMDB record for when the show aired. /whimpers
 
@Beofett Haha, I was 12 when it started airing :P Some of our users weren't even in elementary school back then.
 
Quick, @Arda! Make @Beofett feel old!
 
@GraceNote too late!
 
@GraceNote I think Ronan's comment in the starred posts should suffice
 
@FallenAngelEyes Wow. You weren't even born when Evil Dead was released :/
 
5:37 PM
@bwarner Numbers don't really have the same impact as memories do
 
@GraceNote yep
 
@Beofett Nope, but I have seen Evil Dead: The Musical
 
@FallenAngelEyes now I'm jealous!!!
I really, really wanted to see that!
 
Stop making me feel old!
Granted, I was only 2 when Evil Dead came out
Any time now, @ArdaXi will whip out the xkcd chart.
 
@Beofett I sat in the first row and got covered in blood, it was amazing. :D
 
5:41 PM
I beat him to it!
 
That chart is mean :(
 
Speaking of which, was there an Evil Dead 30th birthday thing?
 
3 guesses where I fall on that chart....
 
I fall in "Home Alone" on that chart.
 
I haven't seen 'Shrek' until recently so the chart fails to affect me
 
5:45 PM
@badp ಠ_ಠ
 
I've only seen the first Shrek.
 
497 sentry kills...
Man, I'm not getting them as fast as I'd thought
hah, sun on a stick
 
@badp What is the worst weapon in the game? I'll take TF2 Items for $400.
Oh wait, I'm supposed to wait and see if my answer is right before choosing the next question.
I don't think I'll ever be on Jeopardy. I take too long to think of the answers/questions.
 
Woah, I left while StarCraft 2 was downloading. When I came back, my screen was black and my computer was making... noises.
 
@ArdaXi It's haunted.
 
5:53 PM
I saw the Blue Man Group in New York city.
 
wat
 
wat?
 
That QR code doesn't look like it would work, by the way.
 
Personally, I would target posters at a mainstream audience.
@GnomeSlice It does.
 
5:54 PM
@ArdaXi Even with the heart in it??
 
You can cover up roughly 30% of a QR code.
If it's generated with H.
 
That's weird.
 
Error correction.
 
@ArdaXi What do you mean by that?
 
5:55 PM
Would that work too?
 
Yup, that's valid
 
@GnomeSlice Checking.
 
it goes to minecraft.net
 
No it doesn't.
It's SSSSsssssSSSsss.
 
Well, maybe not that one... I know I have a QR code lying around with a creeper face that does, though.
 
5:56 PM
@ArdaXi It's what?
 
@RonanForman Mainstream audience won't be interested in the answer to a die2nite question.
 
user30
oh, that qr code has a sneaky user link in it
 
@GnomeSlice The data contained in that QR code is SSSSsssssSSSsss.
 
@ArdaXi It's about being funny, I think.
@ArdaXi So... what does it do when you scan it?
 
@GnomeSlice Show me that text.
 
5:57 PM
Destroy your home?
 
I have protection.
 
Lol, Mailchimp links the most random stuff to me.
 
@RonanForman So you want a question people are actually interested in seeing the answer to.
And don't enclose the link in brackets.
 
@ThomasMcDonald I just clicked the link button, is that what it does?
 
@RonanForman Yes.
 
5:59 PM
Yay!
The point was it was a funny question, any questions that have actually interesting answers wont say like that for too long.
 
Yes, but would you scan a QR code just for a funny headline?
You want to accomplish this: "Oh, that's a good question. I'd like to see the answer to that. Oh, I can scan this to see the answers? Cool."
 
Well maybe...
 
QR codes are actually pretty popular in the Netherlands.
I never noticed because I never go outside, but they're everywhere.
 
@ArdaXi Yeah I see them on bus stop ads a lot and stuff
I don't have a smartphone so I can't scan them though
 
I saw them in a gracht in Amsterdam. (Try pronouncing that non-Dutchies!)
 
6:03 PM
Anyway, it also serves as a link to the site.
Next creeper poster.
 
@ArdaXi I doubt that will happen often.
 
@GnomeSlice Exactly.
So you need to try hard.
 
I'd actually go with eye-catching questions instead.
 
If you find me some questions sure!
 
Like that one
Most gamers just google stuff they have issues with.
 
6:07 PM
@GnomeSlice But would you care enough to scan this one?
 
You don't actually know where the link goes, so maybe people will to find out!
 
@ArdaXi I don't even know how to use those.
But I'd be more inclined to than say 'how do i beat call of duty'.
Then again, it's my question so...
 
@GnomeSlice We're talking more technologically advanced countries.
 
@ArdaXi ಠ_ಠ
 
Who should these be sent to?
 
6:19 PM
@RonanForman Hm?
 
@RonanForman @JeffAtwood. Just for the trolololz.
 
So, I'm going to be my class rep.
Oh joy.
Oh 'arpiness.
 
@Brent was talking about it earlier, so maybe him...
 
@GnomeSlice Uh oh.
Two misc slots now? So does that mean I can wear a Portal badge and a Grizzled Veteran?
 
6:34 PM
@ArdaXi Yeah, I was wondering what exactly that'd do.
I'm not sure I want to install tf beta just to find out.
(Since you have all your promo items in Beta...)
 
@Powerlord I have it installed, I should try.
 
user30
 
Oh @GnomeSlice did the sweat clear up the issue?
 
@RonanForman I guess.
 
Why can't I start the SC2 tutorial?
 
6:44 PM
@ArdaXi You must construct additional pylons.
 
@ArdaXi You require more minerals.
 
@Powerlord I'm sorry, the answer for that would be mantread
 
For a Q&A site, you guys suck at answering questions.
 
@ThomasMcDonald A service unavailable in my country now integrated with the largest social network I cannot join! I'm so excited
(I imagine Facebook has a names policy pretty much identical to Google +'s)
 
@badp You imagine incorrectly.
 
6:49 PM
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Q: What items can be farmed fully automatically?

Dan RasmussenCacti have always been farmable completely automatically. With pistons in 1.7, sugar cane can now be farmed in a fully automatic fashion as well. Mobs and animals can be farmed as well in giant mob grinders. To my knowledge these are the only items that can be farmed in a fully automatic fashion ...

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Q: How do I start over in EX Mode?

lunboksOkay, so I've beaten Hard Reset. I heard that there's something called "EX Mode", which would allow me to re-play the game at a more challenging difficulty while keeping all my upgrades. Now I'd like to do this, but I can't really figure out how. After I've beaten the final boss, the credits ro...

 
btw
I wonder when youtube will begin requiring Google Profiles.
 
@badp Doesn't it already?
 
@MarcoCeppi It doesn't.
 
ORLY?
It requires a Google Account
 
I'm "banned" from Google Profiles so I have a pretty clear idea of what does and doesn't require Google Profiles.
(I deleted it before they could properly ban it.)
 
6:52 PM
@MarcoCeppi No it doesn't.
 
Why are you banned?
 
@RonanForman I don't want a company to give my surname away to the world
 
@MarcoCeppi You can use your google account to log in, but you wan also create a youtube one.
 
@RonanForman Nope, I know this for a fact. You'll need to associate your Youtube login with a Google Account
 
6:53 PM
Other pieces and bits of myself I'm pretty happy to share, I can hide
the one bit I really do care to hide from the world, I can't
So I put in my nick instead of my surname
Which worked til somebody flagged me
Then I got under review, and then everything was read only and then I decided to pull the plug
 
@MarcoCeppi Oh okay, they've change it.
 
Yeah, it happened a few months ago IIRC
 
What's wrong with your surname?
 
I don't want anybody in the world to send me an email with my name and surname
given that I don't keep my email a secret (who does?), it's critical for telling targeted phishing
besides, why do you care about my surname? What information about me does it reveal? What do you gain from knowing my surname?
Nothing.
That's what.
 
EVERYTHING
 
6:56 PM
I know @badp's surname. It's...
 
So I don't see why I should be compelled to "give it away"
 
user30
> bacon
 
user30
really?
 
Exactly! I can't get anything from it, so why do you care? Also what's the difference bettween targeted phishing and regular spam?
 
@MarcoCeppi Nope, I know this for a fact, you don't.
I have a YouTube account with no Google account associated to it.
 
user30
6:58 PM
ffffffffffffffu
 
@RonanForman So why require it? And why force it to be public?
I needed years before I'd be comfortable with 'giving away' my real name, you're not gong to force my hand and start requiring me to 'give away' other personal details like surname or my photo
When I'll be comfortable, I'll share
In a world where what gets out can't be tucked back in ever again (provided somebody cares), I see this as a big deal.
 
@badp Can't say I agree, but I understand nonetheless.
 
user30
I guess your surname isn't particularly common then?
 
Neither my name or my surname are, although googling for them gets you the "wrong" person
btw do we want to have a community Trello board for... er... anything?
 
Why do I have the Goonies 2 game (and its music) stuck in my head. :/
 
7:02 PM
@badp Basecamp does seem quite useful, according to people who've used it.
 
It's also not free :)
 
@Powerlord Why do I now have the Goonies 2 game and music stuck in my head!?
 
@badp Well, yes, but Trello is a carbon copy of Basecamp, so it seems fair to draw the comparison.
 
@GraceNote Because of that video? :D
 
7:04 PM
Hey googling my name comes up with nothing but me! Yay!
 
@Powerlord No, it's because you mentioned it.
 
@RonanForman Same here.
But only if you put quotes around it.
 
I don't actually know your name... Oh well!
 
I imagine that's intentional
 
@RonanForman Who, mine? Or @badp's?
 
7:06 PM
@RonanForman Ross Bemrose, if you meant @Powerlord.
 
Mine isn't hidden. You can probably find it in the election 1 stuff on Gaming.
 
@badp I get what you mean
 
I searched without quotes and got your twitter...
 
user30
yeah, there happens to be a pretty active web developer who's name is also Thomas McDonald, so that works out pretty well for me
 
user30
7:07 PM
also some poor kid who got hit while he was riding his bike
 
@FallenAngelEyes Well, that could be awkward for physics
 
@sjohnston I'm trying not to think about it too hard or I think my brain will implode
 
I'm so celebrating if we've broken physics
 
To be fair, we've previously done it on a fairly regular basis. We're a bit overdue
 
@FallenAngelEyes well then, that is rather awesome is true
 
7:19 PM
Hmm. Wikipedia says this, on the topic of quantum entanglement: "In another experiment, the measurements of the entangled particles were made in moving, relativistic reference frames in which each respective measurement occurred before the other, and the measurement results remained correlated."
 
Hm, Sonic Adventure DX for €2.5
 
am I understanding correctly that two things happened, and each one happened before the other?
 
would it be worth it?
I've never actually played Sonic
 
@badp No Mario and no Sonic, what did you do in your childhood D:
3
 
There, I think my Vote Handler class is done. Now I need to code the corresponding vote classes (BaseVote, OBVote, L4DVote, and L4D2Vote)
Well, the names aren't exact, but they express the use of each of those vote classes.
 
7:23 PM
@badp ah, I remember playing Sonic on the gamegear. One hour of play followed by four hours of charging. Good times.
 
@RonanForman I love the look of terror on his face
 
@sjohnston That's why I had the battery pack!
 
@badp you were a deprived child
 
@sjohnston If handhelds keep going like they've been going, that kind of stuff will be back next handheld generation!
 
@FallenAngelEyes PC, I imagine.
 
7:25 PM
@GraceNote Atari 2600 ftw!
 
I don't know about the PSP to Vita, but the DS Lite to 3DS had a 75% or so decrease in battery life.
 
did someone say atari 2600?!
 
@Loktar I had one of those!
 
They were awesome :P
 
7:26 PM
First video game I remember playing was Adventure on the Atari 2600
 
indeed!
Adventure, Pitfall, even Human Cannonball
 
Pitfall was way too difficult to actually win.
I never actually owned Pitfall II, but one of my neighbors did, so I borrowed it. SO much better than the first.
 
@sjohnston Yes.
 
Then there's the "Worst Port of an Arcade Game Ever" version of Pac-Man for the Atari 2600!
It wasn't because of technical constraints because Ms. Pac-Man didn't have that problem.
 
@Powerlord Yeah, I love my DSLite's battery life. I wonder how many people never turn the screen's brightness down from "blinding day star"and lose out on battery life from it.
 
7:29 PM
@FallenAngelEyes I used my Lite as lowest or second-lowest settings depending on the ambient lighting (less light = lowest)
I treat my DSi the same way now.
 
Yeah, I always had mine on the lowest.
 
Although the DSi is more annoying to change the brightness level on, iirc.
 
Ah really? I never got one of those
 
I got a DSi XL when my DS Lite's buttons stopped working properly.
 
I cant bring myself to buy a 3ds
im having a hard time with any handheld game systems tbh
 
7:31 PM
I'll buy a 3DS if they start making good games for it.
 
Im most likely getting a galaxy 10.1 next week
 
How do you like the XL? One of my b/f's was pondering getting one because he can't play the DS Lite without his hands hurting, as it's too tiny
 
Since that hasn't happened yet, there's no point.
 
lol yea
 
@FallenAngelEyes XL isn't that much bigger.
 
7:32 PM
the new psp seems very cool however
 
I guess it is a little better, though.
 
Ah :( So probably wouldn't help someone with large hands then?
 
but its hard getting back to paying $30-40 per game where mobile games are like .50-$5.00
 
@Loktar I hear you, especially as that's usually €30-€40 for me
 
@FallenAngelEyes Probably not.
 
7:35 PM
Ah well
 
@Loktar The $30-40 games do tend to be longer, though... although I guess that depends on the game.
 
Yeah I agree the $30-$40 games for handhelds are generally more polished and provide more content than mobile games
 
Oh yeah, I mentioned worst arcade port ever earlier, but I failed to mention worst console to console port. I've heard that one of the Sonic the Hedgehog ports gets that, but IMO Super Mario 64 DS was pretty bad. That game really needs an analog stick, which the DS doesn't have.
 
but the gap is thinning for sure
 
@Powerlord Ooogh, I heard terrible things about that
 
7:41 PM
Wow, the RenderMenu command in this MenuManager takes up like 3/4 the .cpp file
 
Anyone played the 1.9 prerelease?
 
I'm trying to figure out if I need to implement it or not.
 
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Q: Hamachi vs Windows 7

pvpoliceI'm trying to get Hamachi to work on a friend's really awesome computer so it can act as a server for Minecraft. When he and I had set it up, we were originally on LAN through his house. It seemed to work fine there, but I noticed when I went home and when he went up north that neither one of us ...

 
I'll be honest, if I do implement a RenderVote command, it's just going to call a method on the vote object it's passed to do it.
Since each game this extension supports does its votes a little differently.
 
Quantum Bogosort sounds like a very good idea.
To sort a list: Shuffle list randomly, check if sorted, if not destroy universe.
 
7:52 PM
what? Sonic Adventure DX is 1.8 GB?
I was expecting a few hundred megabytes at most
...now that I think of it... the control scheme won't have been ported
Phew. Only one analogue stick
...ew
thedailywtf.com/Articles/… first story is very ew
 
old, but funny
another old but funny one, language warning
 
@badp DreamCast used GD discs. While not the 4.8GB that DVDs were, they're larger than a CD.
@Wipqozn I loled
I keep hoping I'll get an email saying "Class is canceled"
 
8:14 PM
@Powerlord I was unaware you were still in university.
 
@badp Now that is something worthy of the name of the site.
 
I thought you already graduated, with a job and what not. Or are you working torwards a masters?
 
Ah! @BrettWhite Do you want me to send you the full sizes?
 
I think Steam is trying to tell me something
 
8:24 PM
Well that's helpful.
 
Look at my art already!
 
@RonanForman Nice avatar.
runs for his life
 
@RonanForman That avatar looks like a comic version of Weird Al. With the hair.
 
I was talking about the poster damn you!
 
8:38 PM
@badp A v2y i9g r2d.
 
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abjuratory | abnormally | abominably | abortively | abrasively | absolutely | absorbency | abstractly | abstrusely | abundantly | acceptably | accessibly | accurately | accusatory | accusingly | adaptively | adaptivity | additively | adequately | adjacently | admiringly
(62 possibilities left out)
 
@Wipqozn You just simultaneously made my day, and ruined my childhood.
 
@GnomeSlice well that just made my day too
 
@GnomeSlice You may have botched that in a way you really don't want to have.
 
8:44 PM
@Wipqozn, also, one of the people I had sign up for airmech got into the alpha today.
@GraceNote Oh boy...
 
reads history, actually laughs out loud
 
@Wipqozn, I saw this a while ago as a 4chan screenshot, but can't find that particular link.
Crap, well here's an almost unreadable image of it:
 
Teehee.
 
@GnomeSlice You actually linked at rat.ee/hotlink.jpg btw
 
@badp What.
Hahahahahaha.
That's great.
@badp Wait, I can see it.
 
8:52 PM
@GnomeSlice I'd already fixed it
 
@badp Oh.
It's pretty tiny.
 
With my free weekend I plan to implement this as an Android game, only so I can then ask a question about it, only so I can use the bacon tag:
Bacon, sometimes called American Euchre, is a trick-taking card game which resembles a simplified version of Euchre. It differs from Euchre in that it uses a full 52-card Anglo-American deck, has a slightly modified scoring system and trump selection system, uses a normalized card ordering to make it easier to learn, and adds the aspect of permission. It originated in the mid-to-late 1900s and is somewhat popular in the Eastern United States. It is one of the simpler trick-taking games and is a good game for introducing the concept of trumps to inexperienced players. Object The obj...
 
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Q: What can I do with Villagers?

fredleySo there's these villages (called TESTIFICATE?!) inhabiting my villages. Can I interact with them? What happens if I kill them?

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Q: How do you craft the new nether blocks?

fredleyThe nether now has awesome structures, built out of nether brick, fence and stair blocks. Is it possible to craft these or do I have to mine them?

 

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