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10:00 PM
@AshleyNunn Slightly more decent than oggling them, at least.
 
@AshleyNunn havin' goggle problems? I feel bad for you son. I got 99 problems, but a directx ain't one.
 
@Mana "Go, SNARK GO!" Sounds like @GraceNote is your pokemon: Snarrk.
 
user15026
@Mana You have a very good point there.
 
I'm picturing an aardvark pokemon.
 
user15026
@agent86 giggles
 
10:01 PM
@RavenDreamer That's, like, anti-Bug type, which seems antithetical.
 
So, what's the deal with The Old Republic?
 
Honestly I actually think of something more like a Doll Garork but that's because Garorks are awesome.
 
So why is everyone dead in here? dies
 
I liked KOTOR1 a lot, will I like it?
 
@Mana Best Singleplayer RPG I've played this year!
@Mana That, I cannot answer.
 
10:01 PM
@RavenDreamer :(
 
Though the combat is typical MMO-fare.
Have you played WoW?
 
@RavenDreamer I could say the same about Mana Khemia 2 on account of it being the only single player RPG I've played this year.
 
@RavenDreamer no, I tend to stay away from MMOs like the plague
 
user15026
If there are 3 posts to review, why can't I see them?
 
Oak
@RavenDreamer yo!
 
10:02 PM
 
but this one has piqued my interest
 
@Mana I'd like to think that your gravatar is freaking out because it has to work with a shark and a ninja.
 
@RavenDreamer Part of me wants to just edit that as a reply to itself.
 
@GraceNote oh god, now I can just imagine that guy on both ends of the room, endlessly echoing that sentence to himself.
 
@GraceNote GraceNote Leveled up! GraceNote is learning "Recursive Snark"! Forget a move to make room for Recursive Snark?
 
10:06 PM
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Q: SW:TOR Is there a way to see your progress to the next level?

Ryan BalesIs there a way to see your character's progress to the next level in SW:TOR?

 
Actually, I don't think that works for anyone aside from me.
 
argh, why isn't the latest episode of Mirai Nikki out yet :/
whyyyyyyyy. how am I supposed to procrastinate now?!
 
You could uh...do my work for me?
 
You could learn to dance!
Brooklyn accent It's easy ya hear! Just follow me! First ya' clickety click bah do bah bah
 
@Mana Look at picutes of cats. :3
 
10:16 PM
@Mana Watch all the video on our GSE YouTube channel.
 
@Ullallulloo this is my strategy for procrastination, and I'll thank you very much not to steal it. The cats get less cute each time someone else looks at them.
cute is a finite resource and must be conserved so that I can have it all
 
@agent86 are you by any chance still afraid of cameras?
 
@Mana If you're not finding enough things to keep you occupied and procrastinating, there are some people I should introduce you to.
 
@OrigamiRobot laughs I could tell you why that's funny, but then you'd know too much and I'd have to murder you.
 
Today I somehow made Steam sort by reverse alphabetical order. How do I undo that?
 
10:18 PM
@agent86 beep boop i am immortal
 
@GraceNote Which people are these?
 
@Mana Suppliers. Of the scheming variety.
 
@OrigamiRobot I'm surprisingly good at murder.
 
@John Reverse the alphabet?
 
@Ullallulloo Yeah, that could take a while...
 
10:20 PM
@John try standing on your head
 
@OrigamiRobot Stands on head
 
@John Your inventory or the store?
 
Not sustainable.
@Ullallulloo My inventory.
My game list, to be specific.
Ah!
 
@John the easier method is to turn your monitor upside down
 
Clicking on "Games" at the top fixes it!
 
10:21 PM
Ask it on the site for repz.
Darn.
 
@OrigamiRobot It wouldn't balance like that.
@Ullallulloo I guess I still could...
 
@John Well I can't help if you're going to be picky
 
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Q: How do I make Steam sort my games in alphabetical order?

JohnSomehow, I just got Steam to sort my games in reverse alphabetical order. I don't like that. How can I undo it?

 
@John Ah, you're in list view. That's why I couldn't figure it out.
 
0
Q: Where can I find information on world bosses?

RobotsushiI'm looking for info on world bosses: specifically : what are the respawn times ? is there 1 per planet ? where are they located ? any special quests to summon a world boss ?

0
Q: Crit % vs +Crit vs Power

MufasaWhat is the calculation to maximize the damage bonus that is affected by increase to critical percentage, critical damage, and power? First assume all things considered equal and ignoring ability bonuses that boost critical percentage — like automatic crits after certain situations. Then if you ...

0
Q: How do I make Steam sort my games in alphabetical order?

JohnSomehow, I just got Steam to sort my games in reverse alphabetical order. I don't like that. How can I undo it?

 
10:30 PM
@Ullallulloo Oh, there are more ways to look at my games...
 
@Lazers So I've seen.
 
Wow 3 votes in 3 minutes... :D
 
@John cuz you're nice. :)
Although it needeth freehand circles.
 
@Ullallulloo Aw thanks. :)
@Ullallulloo I usually save those for MSO. Structure seems more appropriate here.
 
@Ulla Freehand circles are only worth things on M.SO
 
10:33 PM
Now all I need is an upvote here and I'll have Wampa Kappa! :D
 
@John up votes
 
oh god. Those energy vampire thingies are terrible to go against
 
Thanks for the upvotes! :D
 
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A: How can I identify to which quest line a specific quest belongs

LessPop_MoreFizzYou can tell by looking at the symbol next to the quests name when viewing it in your quest log. The Bards College does not have a symbol of it's own, but instead uses the generic Side Quest icon. Main Quest Side Quests College of Winterhold Thieves Guild Dark Brotherhood The Compan...

 
Apparently, answering my own question (even though it's not accepted yet) got me the "Quick Draw" hat too! :D
 
10:35 PM
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Q: Dwarves meet Immovable Object

antony.trupeI've got a stone that is blocking construction of a workshop. It's not forbidden or marked to be dumped, there are no suspended builds that might be using it, but my dwarves are apparently refusing to move it and construct the workshop. I've tried marking it to be dumped in a garbage zone, and th...

 
@Ullallulloo Yeah, but they're still worth more on MSO. See:
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Q: Why does this question appear twice in the hot list?

Bob CratchitAllow me to refer you to my freehand circles: I knew Jeff really does like us folks over at Gaming!

 
@John That's because everyone there knows of it.
 
@Ullallulloo True. I guess if more people knew they were worth stuff here, they'd be worth more here.
Although, the Freehand Halo hat seems to perpetuate the "Freehand shapes are for Meta" ideology.
:2880551 But not on our meta.
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Q: The Memes of Gaming Stack Exchange and its Chat

Nick T In the style of The Many Memes of Meta The term "Internet Meme" is used to describe a catchphrase or concept that spreads quickly from person to person via the Internet (see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme_(Internet) for more details) There are a few memes that are starting to get beat to death...

See? It's not there.
 
@John Because that would be redundant.
 
@Ullallulloo Of the other Meta?
 
10:41 PM
@John Yeah
 
@Ullallulloo But @GraceNote said that the sites should exist independently of each other. Hence the reason why we can't close as dupes of stuff on other sites.
 
hmm...the StackExchangeâ„¢ SuperCollider Freehand Circleâ„¢ Editor seems to be broken in FF9. :(
 
@Ullallulloo Is that that freehand circle adding script that broke Michael Mrozeks famous glaring-chess-piece-with-blinking-red-eyes gif?
 
@John Probably
It's hundreds of pixels off.
 
@Ullallulloo You were thinking about adding one to my picture..... weren't you!
@Ullallulloo That...could be a problem.
 
10:45 PM
@John Yep. :P
@John Yep. :P
 
Lol.
 
At least imgur has a built-in freehand circle maker.
Otherwise known as a pen.
 
@Ullallulloo It-it does?
@Ullallulloo Oh that.
Old news.
 
Aviary.
 
Hmm, "Quick Draw" and "Gotta Catch 'em All!" came almost instantly; why is "Wampa Kappa" not here yet?
 
10:49 PM
Hm?
 
Freehand circling a box just makes it giant.
 
11:00 PM
0
Q: How can I find rest areas?

Nick Possible Duplicate: How can I tell if I'm in a rest area? It seems like in other MMOs the rest areas are very easy to find—usually the 'inns' or the entirety of a large friendly city. In SWTOR I have been having trouble identifying such areas and have been wondering if there ...

is "how to find a rest area" that much of a dupe vs. "how to tell if I'm in one"?
 
@NickT Clearly once you know how to tell if you're in a rest area, you just have to visit all the areas, and remember which ones are resty.
 
say I go into a new zone/planet, finding the rest areas seems a separate issue
did I miss any by not exploring some side area?
does every sub-zone have one?
 
Yes, I would agree that they're pretty much separate things.
I was just feeling a little sarcastic I guess
 
so it costs $700 to fly from GRR to ORD (~4 hour drive)...
well, round trip
Train only $60
 
11:13 PM
@Ullallulloo list view? lame
 
@NickT That's his pic, I edited a freehand circle over his boring square.
 
0
Q: How do I beat level 10 in the tutorial?

That 1 GuyI can't seemto beat level 10 of the tutorial. I've tried many times, but haven't found a solution which works.

 
11:26 PM
@Ullallulloo Oh my...
@Ullallulloo I must thank you for that excellent bit of advice to ask a question about it. So far, that question has got me 2 hats (3 when SE realizes I should have "Wampa Kappa" [4 if that answer gets enough votes for "Brain"]) and 75 rep. :)
 
@NickT Yes, because the answer to one is basically, "Are you on your ship? Are you in a Cantina? If so, you are in a rest area.", and "How do I find my Ship" is not a particularly good question for any number of reasons, and Cantinas are all clearly labelled on the map.
room topic changed to The Bridge: Gaming.SE's room for mostly on-topic firing of lazers at videogames and the internet at large. [doorlessness] [hatshatshatshatshatshats] [murder] [wipqozn-gravitation-law]
 
Hmm, we might get another "Why don't I have my hat?!" Meta question soon...
 
@John You have No Idea how tempted I was to tag the next @lazers spam as .
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Don't we already have tag 6 times as good?
 
@Ullallulloo Well yes.
Incidentally, why can I not edit the tag wiki on Meta?
The Create Tag Wiki button is broken.
 
11:33 PM
@LessPop_MoreFizz Meta won't let anyone suggest edits for anything.
You have to actually be eligible.
 
@John I have 20k rep. I should be.
It seems that Tag Wiki editing is broken on Meta?
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Isn't there a tag score requirement also?
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz You also have to have so many upvotes/ answers in that tag.
 
Chat newbie question: Why do you guys occasionally post questions from the site in here?
 
@Sterno That's the feed, @Lazers.
 
11:35 PM
@Sterno To show others them.
Or Lazers, a robot to help show us them.
 
Does it just show all new questions?
 
@Sterno What both of them said.
 
He posts stuff so we see them, because we get too caught up here to go looking at the actual site.
@Sterno Yes
 
crashes through the remaining christmas decorations
 
@Sterno @Lazers posts a feed of all new questions as they come in (with a slight delay)
 
11:36 PM
cool
 
Hello there Gaming.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz thank you
 
Occasionally, one of us will post a link to a question in an attempt to point something out, either to bring attention to it, or to ask for help with close votes, or to start a discussion.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Nope, you don't need a per-tag score, it seems.
 
@badp Was the lack of Lazers bothering you?
 
11:36 PM
That's just to suggest synonyms.
 
@Fredy31 Hi
 
@Fredy31 'sup.
 
Not much. SWTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRR
 
2 hours ago, by badp
SOMEBODY HAS SHUT DOWN THE LAZERS. EMERGENCY!
and following
 
@Fredy31 So you're the guy who recorded the blue team CtW videos?
 
11:38 PM
yEAH
And got destroyed.
 
@Fredy31 I have to ask, what nationality are you? I can't place your accent...
 
Quebec.
 
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Q: Is there a way to turn off the display of helmets for my companions?

LessPop_MoreFizzIdeally, I'd like a solution that allows me to keep helm display on for my own character, but could accept a setting that is all or nothing. As it stands, the "Show/Hide Helmet" option in preferences seems to affect my PC, but not my companions, and Kaliyo looks really stupid in a gas mask.

 
@Fredy31 It doesn't quite sound Canadian to me... but I've never been there so....
Good videos, btw.
 
Hey, I think it's that time of year again where we should be discussing a domain name.
 
11:40 PM
@Mana Woo! Leveledup.com
 
Quebec is FRENCH Canadian. Dont forget the FRENCH part.
 
@John Scratch that, it's taken.
 
@John Quebec is independant from Canada. INDEPENDANT I SAY
 
FRENCH ON BOARD! I REPEAT, FRENCH ON BOARD! SOMEBODY SET US UP THE FRENCH. EMERGENCY!
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@Fredy31 Also the part where you people eat horrific abominations like Poutine. That stuff is disgusting.
 
11:40 PM
@John Everything is taken. D:
 
aims reactivated lazers towards @Fredy31's general direction
 
Hey @LessPopMoreFizz, Poutine is not that bad.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
 
@Mana I take it Toronto isn't french Canadian.
 
@Fredy31 Poutine is disgusting.
 
@Ullallulloo :(
 
11:42 PM
@John It is not.
 
@Fredy31 So long-e, Fredy!
 
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Q: Suggest a domain name for this site

Andrew Possible Duplicate: Write an Elevator Pitch / Tagline Note: We are closing this domain naming thread. It is asking the entirely wrong question. See this blog post for details: Domain Names: Wrong Question We're going to keep the name gaming.stackexchange.com. But we WILL be setting ...

 
@Ullallulloo I like the red mark on the gravatar, makes it fitting for the question
 
@badp Now our stuff will stop breaking, eh?
 
@Ullallulloo Or at least, not crashed through anymore.
 
11:44 PM
@John Oh, right, we still have @badp
 
@Ullallulloo I love that there are four pages of answers with negative scores.
 
@Ullallulloo Yes. You know what with the "badp-breakability-law" and everything.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz how about the page and a half of deleted answers?
 
@Mana You shouldn't have put up that bounty on that stats question, IMO. The answer that's there was already excellent, and the fact that @raven didn't bother to link to someplace else is irrelevant in this case. It's not like he was making outlandish claims, and as his edit noted, everything is verifiable in game.
 
> You didn't sign up to figure out where the 12 chickens are! There are universes to save!
Golden.
@LessPop_MoreFizz I feel displeasure directed at me...
 
11:47 PM
@John Not unless your username is Robotsushi.
 
@John you're welcome
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Oh he was the guy that wanted a source...
Oh well, if that answer can be helpful, it's helpful. But at least I'm now 1/100th of the way closer to that Sportsmanship badge! :P
@badp Thank you.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Fair enough
The edit was pretty much what I was looking for anyways
I was just waiting for a bit before rewarding the bounty.
 
@Mana Well you have to wait a day.
Unless mods get to shortcut that.
 
oh
well I don't want to shortcut it even if I can
since that counts as power abuse.
 
11:53 PM
I'm also thinking that this question should really be closed. TBQH, the more that I think about it, the more I think it's just unwieldy and unanswerable in it's current form.
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Q: Which companions and NPCs are romance options?

SternoSWTOR seems to have many romance options, and many opportunities to flirt with NPCs. Which companions and NPCs can you sleep with? Looking for a breakdown by sex & class where appropriate.

 
I want to sleep with ALL THE COMPANIONS
 
Basically, there are two axes along which it can be narrowed. One is "Which companions have Romance options", which is pretty definable and answerable, since it's a list of maybe 2 dozen names.
@NickT Even Khem Val? Kinky.
But, 'romance' for companions is a fair bit broader than the various opportunities to sleep with random NPC's by spamming the [Flirt] option - as I noted in comments, my Agent is up to 8 notches, including banging 2 Darths, and a Baroness while her husband was in the other room.
And, the thing is, if you're interested in those... well, you're going to have a question that is unanswerably broad at this point in time.
 
@LessPopMoreFizz seems fairly easy to answer: These companions, "and lots of NPCs"
 
@NickT See, but that answer, while accurate, doesn't really satisfy the spirit of the question IMO.
 
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Q: Can't edit/propose Tag Wikis on Meta.Gaming.SE

LessPop_MoreFizzSo, I thought it would be helpful to have a tag wiki for hats here on Meta, because Tag Wikis are a good thing, and Hats is one of those tags that might actually benefit from some explanation. Unfortunately, it would seem that I cannot propose or edit tag wikis here on meta. When I go to do so, ...

 
11:58 PM
You could maybe ask it on a per class basis, or per faction for non-class related NPC's or whatever, but even still, I suspect it would be unwieldily large, and realistically, a good answer isn't going to happen until someone goes and datadumps all of the game dialog and actually reads it all to find all of them. Which, I'm sure somebody will be obsessive and creepy enough to do at some point, but... I don't know that Gaming.SE is the right place to try to figure out that list.
It just feels like a poorly defined problem space and one that doesn't make for a very good Q&A.
 
asking it on a per-class basis seems terrible; do we really need 8 questions that are virtually identical?
or would it be 16
 
That's the problem I had when coming up with it. Asking for just my class seemed too specific to be useful
 
@NickT it'd be 8, AC has no impact on narrative.
 

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