The Bridge

Grace Note

4:00 PM

@AshleyNunn I am fine with this assessment.

user15026

@GraceNote @Wipqozn Hurray. Then I shall shout it from rooftops. (may not include actual rooftops)

Wipqozn

I'm trying to think about what I left out, except for more detail of course.

You can always provide more detail.

dammit @GraceNote! This is going to bug me all day now... what did I forget?

This is how I picture you right now.

Ian Pugsley

@Wipqozn dammit I knew it was coming and you still got me

Wipqozn

@IanPugsley I would hope you saw it coming. I feel like I post that video in chat everyday.

Arda Xi

@Wipqozn I've never seen it before.

Wipqozn

4:07 PM

Search says it's only been 14 times, but I think it's lying.

Grace Note

@Wipqozn You only cover one form of speed modification, and only one set of priority modification.

You mention nothing at all about the non-stage speed modification, while the Bulbapedia article on priority only barely touches on non-move effects, and doesn't cover it all that well.

Wipqozn

@GraceNote hmm, I see.

user15026

@GraceNote Wow. Pokemon is complicated

Grace Note

@AshleyNunn Essentially what I'm telling Wipqozn about is a tinge more than what you probably need to know as far as just getting through the game and basically understanding priority. ♪

StrixVaria

@AshleyNunn That's why it's so awesome. It's simple to play, but it's really deep if you want to get into it.

user15026

4:12 PM

@StrixVaria I am learning that! Here I just thought it was herpaderp battle herpaderp catch all the pokemon...

StrixVaria

@AshleyNunn What's your party like now?

FallenAngelEyes

@AshleyNunn People play this game as an e-sport

Grace Note

One of these days I should challenge people here to a battle. Probably to get my behind handed to me, but still.

StrixVaria

@GraceNote I don't even have a full team. I stopped playing after I spent 4 hours trying to breed a Yamask with certain IVs and couldn't get them. The odds weren't that bad, but I was just really unlucky.

user15026

@StrixVaria Hasn't changed much - Simisear, Munna, Herdier, Dewott, Cottonee, and Timburr.

user15026

4:15 PM

@StrixVaria I just beat the 3rd Gym. :)

user15026

@GraceNote I would lose horrifically, I imagine.

Grace Note

@StrixVaria I haven't actually finished my newest team, either, but that's because I forgot where I was. I'm not much for IV aiming but I'm pretty pleased that I managed to luck out and catch a 31 Attack Larvitar.

StrixVaria

@AshleyNunn I played through that game so fast I can't remember what happened in what order, but I don't think you've encountered my favorite from that gen yet.

user15026

@StrixVaria Oh?

Grace Note

@StrixVaria What is it, if I may inquire?

StrixVaria

4:16 PM

@GraceNote Litwick/Lampert/Chandelure

Grace Note

Hee, that is always a fun and lovable one. My favorite is Lilligant, myself.

StrixVaria

@GraceNote I used one of those. Its Sp.Atk. was so high.

I think it was Sp.Atk.

Grace Note

My Lilligant kinda carried me through the end-game. I love her a lot. ♪

StrixVaria

I just remember it completely carried me in some battles.

Grace Note

Yes, they have a very good Special Attack, as well as means to boost it pretty well.

StrixVaria

4:17 PM

I need to play through that gen again.

Grace Note

Mine has Own Tempo, so I use Petal Dance on her.

StrixVaria

Which means I need to load up both my Black and White games, transfer whatever I want to keep, and then erase one of them...

@GraceNote I can't remember any movesets, but I might load up my games tonight and see what I had going on.

Grace Note

She actually isn't part of the team I mentioned earlier, but that's because she doesn't thematically fit. I'm still working on what team I would use with her.

fredley

Can anyone help me find the shark?

I'm having difficulty

Raven Dreamer ♦, Raleigh, NC

64.5k 20 220 367

agent86

@fredley the shark is gone.

Grace Note

4:20 PM

The profile is from his old avatar

agent86

the shark is a lie.

fredley

That was a waste of half an hour

FallenAngelEyes

@fredley lol, I have my browser only filling half of my screen now and the-witcher-2 is half dangling off the profile

fredley

@FallenAngelEyes Me too

Grace Note

@FallenAngelEyes Oh, it's hanging on mine while still being full-screen.

FallenAngelEyes

4:21 PM

@GraceNote How small is your resolution?

fredley

Raise on meta - 'profiles have dangling tags'?

Grace Note

@FallenAngelEyes I don't remember

FallenAngelEyes

@fredley Is this worse than dangling chads?

StrixVaria

For my second playthrough, I bred 6 pokemon and used them all the way from the start of the game to the end. IIRC the team was: Jellicent, Chandelure, Cofagrigus, Lilligant, Crustle, and Braviary.

I like ghosts.

fredley

@FallenAngelEyes worse than changeling dads

Grace Note

4:23 PM

@StrixVaria My final team was Lilligant, Galvantula, Crustle, Larvesta, Pawniard, and Sigilyph.

FallenAngelEyes

Y'all are making me wanna play

Wipqozn

@AshleyNunn: Are you on Season 2 of MLP yet?

user15026

@Wipqozn Almost. Just gotta watch the Gala ep.

Grace Note

I do cycle Pokemon, but I made a point of never swapping Lilligant out of my team once I got her.

StrixVaria

@GraceNote My original team (from a real play-through where I didn't just start with all the Pokemon I wanted to use) was uh: Emboar, Zebstrika, Seismitoad, Krookodile, Ferrothorn, and Scrafty.

Ferrothorn is so good.

He's like Jumpluff but even better.

Grace Note

4:25 PM

I know, I just started training one.

StrixVaria

I'm going to need to play again.

Forget about IVs and EVs because that's so boring and just play through the game.

Grace Note

...also what. I don't see anything between Jumpluff and Ferrothorn. Yargh.

StrixVaria

@GraceNote I built them the same way. Leech Seed/Substitute

Grace Note

@StrixVaria It took until Lilligant hit level 93 or so, but I finally figured out what her IVs and EVs were from my playthrough.

user15026

@StrixVaria I don't even know what that means >.<

Grace Note

4:27 PM

16 4 13 17 31 25
32 200 68 20 12 172

StrixVaria

@AshleyNunn Wait until you finish playing through the game. They're not important until then.

badp

punches those numbers into the lazers aiming system

Grace Note

@StrixVaria Agreed

Raven Dreamer

@GraceNote 31's the maximum, ya?

(For IVs)

Grace Note

@RavenDreamer Yes, she has max SpDef apparently.

user15026

4:29 PM

@StrixVaria ....but when I finish playing through, aren't I done?

Grace Note

Essentially her IVs are pretty nice for her style, but her EVs are miserable.

@AshleyNunn Hyahyahyahyahyahyahyahyahyahyahyahyahyahyahyahya!

Raven Dreamer

@GraceNote EVs can be fixed.

Berry spams!

Grace Note

@RavenDreamer I'm not going to do that. I love her too much to do that to her.

StrixVaria

@GraceNote This.

badp

@StrixVaria and I who thought the Tribes Ascend NDA terms were draconian. That you were in the beta program was one of the two things you could say at all about it!

Raven Dreamer

4:30 PM

@GraceNote I thought the ev down berries made the pokemon love you more.

badp

@agent86 The other thing was that such a program existed in the first place.

GnomeSlice

graphicdesignblog.co.uk/…

badp

Luckily I rejected those terms so I think I can discuss them.

Grace Note

@RavenDreamer It's a matter of pride, I don't want to just treat her like some kind of battle minion who I have to prime for battle. Her strengths were from our journey together.

badp

(Can I be bound to a contract I didn't sign?)

Raven Dreamer

4:31 PM

@GraceNote oic.

Grace Note

From tanking Hydreigon's entire onslaught while the entire rest of my party was KO'd.

agent86

@badp I'm curious what the other was...

@badp sorry, missed that.

user15026

It almost sounds like Pokemon has it's own language

Raven Dreamer

@badp EULAs are a legal gray area. EULAs that are also NDAs are likewise legally gray.

StrixVaria

@GraceNote That Hydreigon :'(

badp

4:32 PM

@agent86 np, I enjoy back-replies.

Raven Dreamer

@AshleyNunn Pikachu! Karp karp meta WOBUFFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET

GnomeSlice

I haven't tried Tribes Ascend yet.

user15026

@RavenDreamer That is totally all I hear XD

fredley

Laputa! minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Villager_golem

badp

@RavenDreamer especially when you read them or, god forbid, reject them!

Grace Note

4:33 PM

@StrixVaria Oh, and I was also out of healing items at the end of the skirmish. That I managed to pull through it all just makes me love her all the more.

Raven Dreamer

@badp Also, it's impossible to prove who clicked them.

"Oh, my cat signed your EULA, so you'll want to be suing him"

GnomeSlice

@RavenDreamer That's just silly.

badp

The NDA was also coupled by a few vidoes on youtube about the NDAd game, so that made perfect sense

and even if the relatively-famous uploader had specifically gotten a preferential contract or some other kind of green light (which I doubt but can't exclude), commentators commentated normally on the video

and obviously there was clause 4, saying that whatever you breach, you can be sued for unlimited damages of all kinds

agent86

I think I got an invite to that beta, but I didn't ever respond. Too much other crap going on :P

badp

and clause I think 9.1, saying that in case of the agreement being terminated, some clauses would survive the termination

namely, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.2

Raven Dreamer

4:36 PM

@FallenAngelEyes I had forgotten how bad the elevators were.

GnomeSlice

30 Extremely Creative Poster Designs For Inspiration

badp

(there was no 10 or 9.3)

so that was also nice

FallenAngelEyes

@RavenDreamer yyyyeah

Raven Dreamer

badp

luckily the bridge doesn't have elevators. Only Quake 3 style jump pads.

So long as you travel upwards that's easy peasy.

GnomeSlice

4:38 PM

badp

If you were wondering what happened to Fredy - he crashed through all the landing pads for downward travel in a row.

GnomeSlice

These are great.

@RavenDreamer Slow elevators in games usually mean it's loading.

badp

I've never seen a game pull that off realistically

Raven Dreamer

@GnomeSlice Yeah. Which is why it makes sense on consoles. They could have sped them up for the PC version.

badp

even Portal's elevators had LOADING pauses.

GnomeSlice

4:40 PM

Depends, some games still have long loading times.

Raven Dreamer

@badp you're underestimating the slowness of the mass effect elevators.

fredley

GnomeSlice

Aquadelic GT takes ages to load each area.

Raven Dreamer

@GnomeSlice Granted, but ME is not one of them, not on my PC.

GnomeSlice

@fredley Haven't gotten to that one yet, that's awesome.

badp

4:41 PM

@RavenDreamer at some point the game is going to have to load everything from disk?

GnomeSlice

These kinds of galleries make me wonder why I'm even bothering trying to get into this field.

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice So you can 1-up all of them?

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn Not likely.

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice Not with that attitude.

GnomeSlice

Also, it's only '1-up' if you're talking about a video game, otherwise it's 'one-up'.

Grace Note

4:44 PM

@GnomeSlice If you're passionate about it, you should stick to it, that's how I figure.

Wipqozn

I've seen some of your work, you've got talent.

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn I appreciate that.

fredley

@GraceNote These things take time. See norvig.com/21-days.html

(Programming, but still - mastering anything takes years)

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn Oh, by the way, who won your last FS game? I don't recall, and I've got the bracket here.

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice I did.

Grace Note

4:45 PM

@fredley I know that it takes time, that's why one should stick to a path

fredley

@GraceNote Ah, meant that to go at GnomeSlice not you!

Grace Note

That makes a bit more sense, then.

GnomeSlice

Heh.

fredley

Reading more than one letter of someone's username is clearly too much effort

Grace Note

Clearly

Wipqozn

4:47 PM

@fredley I do that all the time.

fredley

@Wipqozn How awful, how do you cope?

Wipqozn

@fredley You just have to get through it day by day.

Raven Dreamer

@GnomeSlice remember the 10,000 hours rule.

GnomeSlice

@RavenDreamer 30,000 for me.

fredley

@GnomeSlice Also remember not to do them all at once

GnomeSlice

4:49 PM

It takes three times longer for someone with ADHD to build a habit, etc.

Raven Dreamer

I think you're missing a zero then.

fredley

@GnomeSlice It's not all about habits (though that is a part of it). It's a lot about understanding and insight.

GnomeSlice

I'm not creative enough for this kind of thing, hah.

Grace Note

You shouldn't sell yourself short

GnomeSlice

Why does everyone keep telling me that.

fredley

4:51 PM

@GnomeSlice Creativity is something you can practise. A lot of people forget that.

GnomeSlice

Why is everyone talking about me all of a sudden

Grace Note

@GnomeSlice Probably on account of you selling yourself short.

GnomeSlice

Man, I really need to work on my self-presentation. You should see me in an interview.

fredley

@GnomeSlice Again, practise. Go to interviews for jobs you don't even want, just to get practise.

GnomeSlice

I've only ver had one interview, to be honest, recently.

I thought I did alright, even though I didn't get the job.

fredley

4:54 PM

@GnomeSlice All the more reason.

GnomeSlice

My problem is that I can't get to a job.

Grace Note

I don't actually know if I've had a real official interview.

fredley

@GnomeSlice It's ok to contact afterwards and ask what went wrong

GnomeSlice

@GraceNote What about when SE hired you?

fredley

@GnomeSlice Having a job = money = payment for some form of transportation

@GnomeSlice SE doesn't need to interview, they have everything they could possibly want to know about you on their servers

GnomeSlice

4:55 PM

@fredley The problem is that I don't drive because of my tourettes. I can take the buss, but the nearest bus stop is a good 15 minute drive.

i.e. I need to move in town to get to a job, I need money to move, and I need a job for money.

fredley

@GnomeSlice Bicycle?

GnomeSlice

It's circular.

Grace Note

@GnomeSlice I'm not really sure, most of it happened through talks about other things to begin with, not an actual interview. Likewise, I never had an interview for my first job.

GnomeSlice

@fredley Country roads, so probably a good hour and a half by bike.

Also, not in this weather.

Grace Note

It's also why I'm really bad at resumes because I've never really written one.

fredley

4:56 PM

@GnomeSlice Could at least bike to the busstop, and honestly a 15 minute walk isn't a big deal

GnomeSlice

@fredley 15 minute DRIVE.

Grace Note

@GnomeSlice Can't find a local job?