The Bridge

@RavenDreamer Not exactly.

I just keep refreshing it every 5 minutes hoping it's back up.

I have questions I need answers to, and only GSE can provide them!

@badp classic somethingawful!

@Wipqozn yeah, this. I think it is self refreshing every few mins, but I just posted an answer to something that I want to reference in my own game :/

Gigili

I want an online multiplayer interesting arcade game, does anyone know one?

@Gigili What do you mean by arcade game?

Gigili

8:11 PM

Never minding the arcade part, do you know one?

@Gigili League of Legends; Spiral Knights

Arda Xi

@Gigili You're asking for an interesting online multiplayer game now?

They're both free multiplayer games.

Can't hurt to try out.

user30

So, I'm listening to the fourth live set of the afternoon/evening.

user30

Fun times.

Gigili

8:14 PM

@ArdaXi Yes, I'm asking for ... now.

@RavenDreamer I'll try now. Thank you.

Sterno

Oh, bugger. Just found a new faction in KOA

I was almost done!

WHom?

@RavenDreamer Join the Game On to give us a 5v5!

@StrixVaria hm?

We have 9 G.SE members in a custom game.

With uneven teams.

It would be sweet if we had 1 more.

8:22 PM

oh, okay

@RavenDreamer So are you joining or just acknowledging our predicament?

@StrixVaria I poked FAE to send me an invite

@RavenDreamer You got mumble

Ya

We need mo' fools in here!

Sterno

8:35 PM

"Get caught committing a crime 25 times" is a stupid achievement. How about not getting caught 25 times?

cmon wifi stop acting up

user30

I got some serious user shifting going on here.

user30

Which is frustrating.

user30

oh.

user30

I see.

user30

8:46 PM

damnn.

OH THANK ZEUS

the site is back

user30

been back a while

@ThomasMcDonald I've been afk though.

Wow, this girl I know saw Zeds Dead last night. And they let her go in the VIP room. And they signed her arm.

user30

@Wipqozn NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

user30

8:47 PM

MUST TRY HARDER

@GnomeSlice I don't know who Allison is.

user30

I know who she is

user30

it's that lass that Gnome is always on about

ZEDS DEAD. SIGNED HER ARM.

user30

Well, it's no good now, because Zed is dead.

8:49 PM

lolwhat

just got an event notifacation for game on

"An event is starting 2 hours ago!

What's this weeks game on?

I got one too.

user30

Yeah same

user30

wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/42776/…

I thought mine said 'in two minutes'.

user30

^ typical question for WPA

user30

8:50 PM

oh. the API hasn't come back up

THEY SIGNED HER ARM.

LORUKHB,K.FJKVBHELKVLBEHSFEVSFBJGEVF

oh emm gee!

ZEDS DEAD is the shit man.

user30

I could pretend I was interested.

Gaming and its Meta - Stack Exchange: What are the different tiers of armor? – gaming.stackexchange.com

Jesus Christ, why can't she just move to Europe or something... =[

user30

8:54 PM

She does have to, y'know, wash at some point, ergo it's not a very practical signature.

Lazers

posted on February 18, 2012 by Sterno

I've been noticing as I progress through the game that I see different tiers of armor. For instance, in the Might tree, I used to run into Azurite armor often, then later Sylvanite, and now I'm ...

Gaming and its Meta - Stack Exchange: How to change FOV in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Multiplayer? – gaming.stackexchange.com

posted on February 18, 2012 by DIMEDROLL

How to change Field of View in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Multiplayer?

user30

yay lack of API.

this is beautiful, nothing is actually using the wifi but it's still completely unplayable

now let's see what ports TF2 uses

user30

hmm. I wonder if tickets for SBTRKT are still available.

I hate my life.

user30

9:03 PM

pjax_rails is the best thing since Rails.

user30

or something like that.

user30

You see, this is annoying.

user30

I spent perhaps 2 hours this morning getting MSO data imported into my QA engine.

Let's see if setting QoS properly helps stuff

user30

and I just found a bug in the reputation event awarding code.

user30

9:04 PM

and I can't be arsed to run it all again, because it practically kills my laptop for 2 hours

user30

>:

user30

ah, I guess I could switch database and use something smaller.

user30

@GnomeSlice What's up?

uh... when I want to give TF2 packets higher priority

user30

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

9:06 PM

I need to make the rule affect destination ports 27000-27040

not source ports 27000-27040

right?

user30

er.

I've never found that QoS on my home network did much to help

the problem tended to be on the ISP side and not my router

It can't hurt? Unless I set it up incorrectly

you might have better luck than I

I just would weigh the time invested vs the possible benefits. If you don't have anything better to do, then by all means :)

@badp I think destination ports are the correct value, btw

nope, my connection today still fucking sucks. Even if I don't want to cross the pond

9:10 PM

Blue people party!!!!!!!

Arda Xi

coughs

Damn it Arda.

Man I saw those guys in New York.

It was sick.

@GnomeSlice I remember you mentioning that. Also hey, I'm back in Ottawa now.

Nope, still managed to run to an engie and stab the sentry instead then sap the sentry except I got killed by it

9:26 PM

Hello from Chicago! =P

tzenes

9:37 PM

if anyone needs me let me know

@Tristan you just missed the best LoL game ever :/

@tzenes whargh!

Where did you come from?!

tzenes

I was on for saturday gaming

we played lolz

Oh cool!

and then did Ultimate Bravery for the lolz as well

9:38 PM

leviathan/atma's morgana too strong

It was the weirdest thing ever to see her critting

@Gracenote You around?

Okay, I'm officially fucking shit up with Cervantes.

@GnomeSlice Was never a fan of him.

I tried using him a few times, but just didn't like his play style.

It's a shame because he looks like a total bad ass.

He's so awesome. I'm still probably better with Astaroth.

Cervantes isn't really about setting up big combos, he's about evading and doing a ton of damage with single attacks.

9:43 PM

I'm still pouting over them removing Kilik.

I'm pretty sure that's not the word I meant to use there.

Wait, maybe?

I don't know.

Isn't there another guy who is basically the same.

The point is I'm still whining about it.

@Wipqozn They removed Kilik?!?

@Mana No, worse.

They turned him into a mimic character.

Next thing you're going to tell me is that they removed Talim.

9:45 PM

@Mana They did.

Oh my god I'm amazing with Cervantes again.

@Mana That's a joke right?

WHAT.

@StrixVaria No, I've only played SC2

@Mana didn't someone mention that like a week ago?

@Tristan YOU'RE ALIVE

9:46 PM

Yeah, they took out Talim.

@Mana mhm indeed

@Tristan You missed LoL.

also, food, brb

@StrixVaria Yep. Waiting for my flight from Chicago to St. Louis. I made no friends in the TSA today.

user15026

Hm. Is there a relatively simple way to take DS/3DS screenshots?

9:47 PM

Well, at least Maxi's still around.

user15026

Other than taking them with my iphone camera

@AshleyNunn Use a camera.

T_T

user15026

@RonanForman All I have is my iPhone - I tried that, and it looks terrible

@RonanForman so you want mah footagE?

user15026

and it is really hard to see the thing I want to point out.

9:48 PM

@RavenDreamer Which game?

@AshleyNunn that's why we have freehand circles!

A: Help identifying a PC robot shooting game from early 2000s

@RonanForman the only game I've been in

Sterno

-1

Ok not sure about the warehouse thing, but I remember two remarkable Microsoft shooters from early Windows era - Fury3 and Hellbender. I linked youtube videos for your convenience. You can also check out Hover!, Deadly Tide, Urban Assault and Outwars.

Am I being a jerk here?

@Sterno No and that's hilarious.

user15026

@Tristan Fair enough. I just think that an answer I got on a DKR question is wrong, because it doesn't actually mention the faces I am talking about, but I can't find actual images of what i mean anywhere

user15026

9:49 PM

so I will try to take my own.

@RavenDreamer The ultimate one? Not really, my footage was terrible so I stopped recording, and Rapida had to stop too.

You can edit if you want..

@RonanForman Weeeel, I have no sound.

Ah.

I suppose I could put it at 3x speed and add the Benny Hill soundtrack.

@AshleyNunn Sounds like a question of gaming.

9:50 PM

@RavenDreamer Did you get the part where I stayed <10% health for 15 seconds straight in a 5v5 team fight where we aced?

I'd like that.

user15026

@RonanForman Is that a legit question?

Probably. I don't see why not.

Even if it isn't it'll just get closed.

@StrixVaria I was in it, so probably.

I just don't know when it happened.

@RavenDreamer I think the Benny Hill sped up version will suffice.

user15026

@RonanForman Ah, turns out someone already asked it :)

9:53 PM

Okay, I've gotten worse again.

Oh, is it Sunday according to the site?

@Tristan Not for another 2:10.

I can understand @Tristan's mistake, though, since he's time traveling today.

Crap. Gonna be pushing it to keep my consecutive days up.

@Tristan Visit the site now?

9:55 PM

@StrixVaria does chatting not count?

@Tristan I'm 2 weeks away from 600 consecutive.

user30

No.

@Tristan I'm not sure, but I don't think it counts.

user30

You have to visit a non root page to get a visit, I think.

@RavenDreamer I get 1 year consecutive in 9 days. I thought that was impressive :/

9:56 PM

@StrixVaria @Raven's our king of rep, sharks, and free time

@FallenAngelEyes you jinxed me for this flight...

@Tristan Lies.

I've never done the full body scan, or been pat down in an airport until you said not to let the TSA violate me. Now I've been scanned/pat down three times now. O.o

Wow, okay never mind, I'm not good with Cervantes at all.

@Tristan Wow, you've never had to do the full body scan?

Well, til now...

user30

10:00 PM

At Manchester you have no option.

user30

Well.

user30

If you get red lighted by the metal detector you have to go through the back scatter

@FallenAngelEyes Til now. And on the third time, I may have said something to the tone of, "You guys really like looking at my <word> don't you?"

@Tristan pfffft

Did they say anything?

Not a word. Just sent me on my way. I should probably consider myself lucky. O.o

10:03 PM

Wow, I can't even beat Nightmare in arcade mode on normal.

Anyway, I'm gonna try and find a place to nap around here. See you all later. =P

Arda Xi

@Tristan That's a big risk to take.

user15026

Woot. Added a pic to my Diddy face question. Hopefully it also makes it even clearer that I am not talking about the N64 version.

@Tristan Stay safe!

This sucks.

I guess it's a good thing I can't play online if I can't even beat the solo arcade thing.

I suck at this.

10:04 PM

@FallenAngelEyes I only should be king of two of those things.

user15026

@Tristan Have a good nap, if you find one :)

:(

@StrixVaria do you have any idea what part of the game that teamfight took place in?

This is pointless.

Q: Xbox LIVE xbox.com Member Profile URL Broken. What's the New URL?

Eh, what do we think about the time localization of this?

0

For example, http://live.xbox.com/member/Xonatron no longer loads. Anyone know the new URL?

xbox-live

@OrigamiRobot I think it's fine, if nothing else, we can direct them on on how to proceed in terms of contacting Microsoft.

10:10 PM

@OrigamiRobot Remove 'new'

"What is the URL structure for Xboc LIVE member profiles?"

@StrixVaria I guess I can just send you the whole footage, and then you can try and find it?

it's a perfectly valid question, if perhaps a bit to general referencey

Eventually, the live.xbox.com/member/[Gamertag] will be forgotten and the question will be useless.

@OrigamiRobot Exactly.

The question is too localized.

Plus it's just a bad question in my opinion.

10:15 PM

With edit it can become general reference.

►

@OrigamiRobot I don't disagree that it's a bad question, but I don't think localization is the issue at all.

@LessPop_MoreFizz I think it is an issue. Maybe not the biggest one.

user15026

Bah! Paid real money for Astroslugs when I could've gotten it with my Gamehouse subscription. To top it all off, its Gamehouse's free game of the day today XD

There's a difference between 'someday this will change' and 'I am asking a question that is only relevant during a 14 hour window immediately following a solar eclipse when venus is rising.'

Even if it doesn't change, the question is still only relevant until everyone realizes the new format.

10:19 PM

There'll always be links to the old format somewhere.

OK, I can see a constructive version of the question.

If it is asking how to convert a live.xbox.com/member/[Gamertag] to the current format.

@OrigamiRobot Not every bad question deserves to be closed. Closing should happen for specific reasons. If a question doesn't meet the criteria for closing, but is just stupid, you should downvote it. That's what the button is for.

2

We don't have a General Reference close reason. You could make the case that we should on Meta, but I think the experiment with that on SF&F and Lit was deemed... unsuccessful by SE folks IIRC.

@LessPop_MoreFizz That doesn't seem to apply to my questions.

@LessPop_MoreFizz I think "This link is broken what is the new one?" does need to be closed, but "How do I convert to the current format?" is a lot better.

@GnomeSlice I tend to downvote your stupid questions and not VTC them.

@OrigamiRobot That's what he's asking right now. He just happened to provide an example URL.

10:25 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz I know. I said I can see a constructive version. It's just worded so that it seemed close worthy to me.

@OrigamiRobot So you're claiming his question would be better if he hadn't provided an example? I'm sorry that you skimmed it and didn't read closely, but no.

It's not just the example. The example is the entire body. The title is what made me look at the question.

Now the answer needs to be worked on. It answers the question, but one link answers are bad.

@RavenDreamer Past the mid-point of the game. If you send me the footage I'll look through it.

I don't know how big it is though or how you'd send it.

does markdown in questions/answers not support tables?

@IanPugsley You have to use the code markdown and space by hand

10:39 PM

@FallenAngelEyes hargbargl

@IanPugsley Yyyyyeah

Q: Do I need to start the game from the beginning to be able to use Kasumi DLC?

eff it, unordered list

Lazers

0

Do I need to start the game from the beginning to be able to use Kasumi DLC? I started playing ME2 and I am just starting the second act – just finished the Horizon part. Then I bought Kasumi DLC. Will I be able to use Kasumi in this game, or do I need to start again?

mass-effect-2

2

Q: Does Shen using his ultimate on a character in stealth show either?

I had a surprise visit from Shen when fighting against Shaco. Shaco used his Deceive to become stealth and then suddenly ninjas. I suddenly had a Shen taunting me while Shaco stabbed me to death. Did I just miss the Shen approaching or is stealth a way to hide Shen jumping to a person?

league-of-legends

@IanPugsley You better be asking something about SCV I already know the answer to.

@StrixVaria answering the damage types question, sorry :)

Brant

10:42 PM

3

@Brant I wish I could spend all my daily stars on this image.

zeus dammit -_-

Don't you hate it when you type out 70 lines of code, then realize you could have done it in 2 lines?

@Wipqozn I think I improved that question.

@OrigamiRobot I agree with @LessPopMoreFizz the original questions was fine, provided you removed the word "new"

I didn't at first, but his argument was sound.

That said, it's a terrible question.

I didn't disagree that "new" needed to be removed, but it needed to be changed to not only mentioning that one specific profile.

10:48 PM

@Wipqozn There is a place for close votes and a place for downvotes.

@LessPop_MoreFizz I agree.

@OrigamiRobot It never was asking about that specific profile.

@LessPopMoreFizz: I didn't mean to suggest otherwise.

I won't deny that you made that fact more clear with your edit, which is a good thing, but let's be honest here.

@Wipqozn @RonanForman made me see the value outside fixing the URL for your own profile link.

If somesome else has a link in the old format, being able to fix it it very helpful.

@LessPop_MoreFizz replace "asking about" with "mentioning"

10:54 PM

@StrixVaria figured out your Super Dragonfly K.K timing :)

@IanPugsley Awesome!

@StrixVaria posted

@IanPugsley I'll check it out after this LoL game.

Can you do it consistently?

►

@StrixVaria not every time, but every other

11:02 PM

Still can't believe ESPN published this:

(Yes, they've since issued an apology, but GOD DAMN)

@LessPop_MoreFizz ...wtf

If I read that, I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't said something.

Don't they have an editor.. or a review board.. or...someone who should not have let that get by?

@OrigamiRobot Only because you don't pay attention to basketball I'd wager

@LessPop_MoreFizz ...woooooow

11:05 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz No its because that's not a term I often hear used around here. There a way more instances of certain other terms.

@OrigamiRobot I'll admit, it took me a bit it get it as well.

I live in Canada though. We don't hate people...

We love everyone...

yes...

I only noticed it this time because I was looking for it.

@StrixVaria I'll just upload it all to youtube, and let you watch it that way, then you can tell me what's what.

Q: Genre name for real-time, 2D games where you create soldiers that automatically advance to the enemy base?

@FallenAngelEyes Yeah. It's almost certainly the product of ignorance rather than malice (cf. @OrigamiRobot), but nonetheless. Wow. Just... wow.

Lazers

0

I've recently noticed some games emerging in a certain style for which I know of no name. I'm curious if there's any name for this style of gameplay - such a name will allow me to more efficiently search for more information about this genre. I'm guessing it's some subgenre of strategy gaming. ...

terminology

2

Q: Is there any way to invert the flight controls?

I really hate flying the plane. I am not very good at it, especially when I have to remember that pressing up makes my plane go down and down makes my plane go up. Is there any way to invert this on the DS version? It would probably make the flying races a lot easier for me.

ds diddy-kong-racing

11:11 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz I wasn't excusing them. I imagine this got past a lot of eyes without being noticed. Like @Wipqozn said, they have review boards to catch this type of thing.

@OrigamiRobot No, it probably didn't go through many boards. This was a news headline. It was posted within minutes of the event in question. After the fact though... there is definitely a review board firing people right now.

Papa John's gave all of their members a free 1-topping pizza / 2 liter of pepsi because of the superbowl coin toss.

So I'm getting a free 1-topping pizza.

If I wanted to add one more topping to this... $1.35.

Brant

There's no pizza like free pizza.

I am not paying $1.35 per topping.

:(

@Brant The best pizza, sadly costs money.

11:23 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz The best everything costs money.

There are no pinned messages.

3

Brant

Diamond abuse!

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm... still looking at it

@raven I can't recall chainmail, I put it in there but I can't remember seeing it. Couldn't find it on the wikis either. been a good number of hours since I saw armor at that level, however. I edited it in for you <3

@badp Because you don't get it? or because it's that outraegeous?

The former

11:29 PM

Jeremy Lin is a basketball player for the NY Knicks.

Before coming to the knicks, he was cut from 2 teams, after being undrafted out of college.

The only theory so far is that the green shirted guy had a crotch-buffer, which could also be construed as the armor that gave away.

He came off the bench 2 weeks ago and has been on a tear for the past 9 games, scoring over 20 points per game, putting up superstar-level numbers, and generally making NYC and the basketball world in general go crazy.

Last night was the first time since that game in which his team lost.

Thing is, Jeremy Lin is Chinese.

(Well, Taiwanese to be exact.)

@badp Lin is Asian. Chink is a derogatory slang term for Chinese.

@badp now do you get it?

Well the subtitle also tries to blame Lin for the loss

so there's nothing that makes me think the word play wasn't intentional

11:31 PM

@badp Yeah, it was largely his fault. 9 turnovers.

I guess that doesn't mean "he played last 9 games"

but "he lost control of the ball 9 times"?

@badp No, it means 9 times he let the other team take the ball from him.

Okay, so it's intentionally offensive.

Don't worry @badp, took me a minute or two to realize it too.

(Unless the guy didn't know about what Raven just said.)

I... I guess I get it now.

Sorry for making you explain it

11:34 PM

@badp No problem, I had a feeling someone here wouldn't get it.

what with so many euros

btw @LessPopMoreFizz 20 more questions have been looked at and 17 closed.

@badp Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

@badp Make 'em go away!

(I'm trying to give three of those the benefit of the doubt as they didn't mark the upvoted answer as wrong.)

@badp Could just mean they abandoned it before the upvoted answer showed up.

One guy even complained this time! I dunno if he did anything about it though.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Well if they abandoned it they can either react to the comment and mark it correct, thus fixing the problem, or not and see their question closed anyway.

11:38 PM

@badp Oooh! Ooh! Link the complaint!