The Bridge

5:00 PM

There are lots of jokes about game culture too. Basically you're debugging an MMO, and that chick on the bottom is running around inside it.

Ben Brocka

Apparently it's an eastern thing

"shooting game" seems like an even worse generic term for them than Shooter

GnomeSlice

Check out Crunch Time. It's free, and surprisingly entertaining.

James

@GnomeSlice You sound like you swallowed a radio ad announcer :)

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Raven Dreamer

@Sterno I handled the x-com tags. Only thing I'm not doing is the x-com-terror-from-deep because tftd is common enough among the target audience.

Grace Note

@BenBrocka This wouldn't surprise me.

Sterno

5:04 PM

@RavenDreamer cool

Jason Berkan

@Sterno That seems like it won't work long term. After 10 grants, you could be giving out a ton of games for each grant.

Sterno

@JasonBerkan Yeah, and I didn't see anything in the original post that said it either. But I guess by that point, 200 people each trying to get 8 questions is going to not be sustainable, either :P

Jason Berkan

@Sterno Yeah - that would be a LOT of questions.

Sterno

I suspect the conditions might get tougher too.

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote I've never heard a westerner say anything but shmup or shooter

Anyway, halp needed, should I break this into separate Qs or is this okay as is:

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Q: How can I beat the True Final Boss of Hitogata Happa?

The True Final Boss of Hitogata Happa is the one part I have extreme difficulty with even on Euridice difficulty. Is there some strategy or set of dolls I can use that perform better on her? The "dolls" part of the fight I understand but I still die a lot on. Does she have a set amount of each d...

also, we had no bullet-hell tag?

GnomeSlice

5:07 PM

@James I... what?

Also, my computer just crashed.

James

@GnomeSlice I had nothing to do with that! :)

Grace Note

@BenBrocka Because we don't really need to separate it from shmups, also because we don't do platform/genre tags on questions unless it's important to the question itself (in your case, it isn't)

Ben Brocka

K, wasn't sure what we did about genre tags, I just noticed we had them

Lazers

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Q: How can I beat the True Final Boss of Hitogata Happa?

The True Final Boss of Hitogata Happa is the one part I have extreme difficulty with even on Euridice difficulty. Is there some strategy or set of dolls I can use that perform better on her? The "dolls" part of the fight I understand but I still die a lot on. Does she have a set amount of each d...

shoot-em-up bullet-hell hitogata-happa

Grace Note

The only purpose of having a separate tag for curtain fire games is to further categorize which games are those, and that's not how tags can (currently) work on the site.

GnomeSlice

5:08 PM

►

I LOVE that sound at 2:54!

OrigamiRobot

Can I used the Round 2 Grant to go back and get KoA? :/

GnomeSlice

x_x

Ben Brocka

seems like it could be helpful to me though, at least strategy help could be given by genre, sort of like how SO tags programming languages

Grace Note

@OrigamiRobot Your options are Mass Effect 3.

@BenBrocka Yeah, but in the SO case, it's generally a requirement on the actual problem given. In our case, it's an inherent trait of the game itself - looking for, say, shmup should bring you hitogata-happa as an example.

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote Can I get it bundled with a TV and a 360? :P

Grace Note

5:10 PM

@OrigamiRobot I doubt it.

badp

@Lesspop I didn't need that retweet

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote true, I guess we don't use tags for categorizing in that way then?

GnomeSlice

Man, that is such a cool sound.

I wonder if that's 100% synthesized.

Raven Dreamer

Is today Michigan's primary?

Grace Note

@BenBrocka It's not currently feasible in the current system, no. Also no one is consistent enough for it to work.

Ben Brocka

5:12 PM

K. Do we have any tags to indicate the type of problem (strategy/tips in this case?)

GnomeSlice

@RavenDreamer Oh, I might have asked this already, but, is there a theme to this game?

theme/mood

James

Can someone answer this question for me: meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/4055/…

Raven Dreamer

@GnomeSlice Other than that everything is made out of Stained Glass, and you're an angry Viking?

The, "Bull in a china-shop" mentality?

No, not really.

GnomeSlice

@RavenDreamer Angry?

I'm just wondering what the mood is.

i.e. horror themed? Cartoony?

I'm pretty worried that I'm not going to be able to do it, lol.

Grace Note

@James The current Grant system is geared towards questions.

Raven Dreamer

5:14 PM

@GnomeSlice Definitely more tongue-in-cheek.

Ben Brocka

@RavenDreamer blurst.com/minotaur-china-shop

James

@GraceNote I surmised that after the last few giveaways.. I am just wondering why since wouldnt good answers be more drawing for people to come to the SE sites?

GnomeSlice

@BenBrocka Great game.

I'm glad someone else likes Blurst.

Grace Note

@James Only the most recent one before this one required only questions.

GnomeSlice

Although to be fair, that game is about trying NOT to break stuff. Mostly.

OrigamiRobot

5:15 PM

Hey, since this question is about buying armor for a horse, shouldn't it be closed as a dupe of this?

GnomeSlice

You can go on a rage for a huge bonus too.

fredley

@OrigamiRobot Oh god, not that question again

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote wait, answers used to count?

James

@GraceNote I thought the Final Fantasy one also was questions only... Let me go look.. swear this is the third one now that was for questions..

OrigamiRobot

@fredley I just want it to die.

It's causing problems.

Grace Note

5:16 PM

@James FF13-2 was in the most recent grant.

fredley

@James Ask it as a question in its own right

@OrigamiRobot KILL IT WITH FIRE!

Grace Note

@BenBrocka Yes, we previously worked on both questions and answers. On less concrete metrics, however.

Raven Dreamer

@BenBrocka Is there a way to not go on a destructive rampage?

OrigamiRobot

@fredley It needed an actual reason to be closed. I found one.

GnomeSlice

@RavenDreamer Yes, you have to be careful.

Ben Brocka

5:18 PM

@RavenDreamer Not with the minotaur's obvious balance disorder

James

@GraceNote meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/3866/… Yeah, questions only for that set of games too (I thought some of those were in their own giveaway which is why I thought there were 3 that were questions only).

GnomeSlice

The game is designed to be nearly impossible to avoid breaking things.

Grace Note

@James Nope, this is only the second one of this grant style.

James

@fredley Oh, ok.. one question coming up.

GnomeSlice

Man, I love Blurst/Flashbang. I really wish they'd continued Raptor Safari HD... =[

James

5:18 PM

@GraceNote I question the new trend then ;)

fredley

@OrigamiRobot well exactly

Raven Dreamer

@GnomeSlice How do I pick things up?

Instead of punching them?

Grace Note

@James It may fare better to post it as its own question.

GnomeSlice

@RavenDreamer I don't remember the controls, been a while since I played it.

Check on the game page?

Arrow keys: Walk
WASD: Attacks
Space: Random attack

Sterno

@James I'd like to see it require both questions and answers. With at least 2 upvotes each, or something. It's easy to crank out crap questions.

GnomeSlice

5:19 PM

Can you pick things up?

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote I'm just wondering if I'll get stuck that much. Is it still cool if there's a question I think people are wondering about and I answer myself (a-la standard SE policy on answering my own question?)

James

@Sterno I dont think it should require both, but I think both should be included ask/answer 8 questions with X number of votes or whatever.

Grace Note

@BenBrocka There is no objection to self-answering here.

GnomeSlice

Jetpack Brontosaurus is another awesomely impossible to play game.

OrigamiRobot

@fredley Unfortunately, the previous closing mistake cleared the existing close votes. :(

James

5:20 PM

If I ask 2 good questions and answer 6 others I think that is a valid contribution to the content of the site for the game(s) in question.

fredley

@OrigamiRobot Ping some mods

Ben Brocka

K. What about specific story questions? I never played ME 1 or 2...

Grace Note

@BenBrocka Check what's already been asked on the subject first.

badp

it appears there's leaked screenies of Doom 4 on 4chan?

Ben Brocka

Is there any time I'm not supposed to do that :P?

Sterno

5:22 PM

The questions I asked as part of the KOA giveaway had very little to do with "being stuck"

Raven Dreamer

@GnomeSlice Just walk close to it, I see.

GnomeSlice

@RavenDreamer Heh. What a great game. Be sure to check out some of their others.

OrigamiRobot

@badp There is now a legitimate reason to close this

badp

but you don't want to open 4chan for it

Sterno

ME3 is going to have a ton of branching story/quest options. Every winner could probably ask 8 questions about those and not run out.

Grace Note

5:23 PM

@BenBrocka Well, we already have ME1/ME2 -> ME3 questions, hence why you searching now actually does anything for you.

If you searched for stuff that no one's had a chance to know even exists, well, by virtue of the aforementioned fact, it'd be quite fruitless.

James

@GraceNote @fredley @Sterno Question asked: meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/q/4059/8581

GnomeSlice

I take it nobody will be bothering to check out Crunch Time?

Grace Note

@GnomeSlice The funny part here is because I'm in summat of a crunch time right now is why I can't investigate, heh.

GnomeSlice

@GraceNote Not enough anime, too many boobs anyway, probably. =[

@GraceNote Also, get back to work.

James

@GnomeSlice Sorry man I actually need to get quite a bit of work done today :D

GnomeSlice

5:28 PM

@James Lol.

Yeah me too, just played it for about 10 mins a little while ago.

Grace Note

@GnomeSlice For the record, Kirby and Armored Core are two of my most played series.

GnomeSlice

@GraceNote I love kirby, never played any of the armored core games.

James

@GraceNote Armored Core is Awesome.

@GnomeSlice You are missing out man.

GnomeSlice

Isn't it an RTS?

Grace Note

No, it's a third-person mecha game

GnomeSlice

5:30 PM

Ah, third person shooters!?

x_x why have I never played those...

James

@GnomeSlice Nope, unless I am thinking of the wrong game, huge customizable robot combat :D

Grace Note

@GnomeSlice Point being - the artstyle of my avatars draws from this style, but it's not something that I particularly demand in a game.

GnomeSlice

I had a Mechwarrior game for PC a long time ago. I should find it and see if I can still run it.

Ben Brocka

Armored Core looked sweet but I never got it

GnomeSlice

Also, I enjoyed Robotech: Battlecry probably more than anyone else who played it.

Most people said it was pretty meh.

Ben Brocka

5:31 PM

@GnomeSlice Earth Siege was awesome, never played mechwarrior but it's similar.

Grace Note

@James There's technically every third-person mecha game falling in this categorization, haha, but I'm pretty sure you're thinking of the right game.

GnomeSlice

Armored Core

Armored Core is a mecha-based video game series developed by From Software for the PlayStation Portable, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Mobile Phone platforms. Armored Core games are Mecha Simulation/third-person shooters, in which the player pilots a large mecha called an Armored Core, or AC for short. Armored Core V is the fourteenth and latest title in the series; it was released in Japan on January 26, 2012. Common elements Story elements vary widely throughout the series but gameplay is generally focused on the player character, acting as a mercenary, com...

Grace Note

@BenBrocka Never had Earth Siege, but I did have Star Siege.

Ben Brocka

hipster glasses

Never played Star Siege myself

James

@GraceNote It has the missions you go out and do and also, if I recall, usually an arena ladder you can climb as part of the game play...

Grace Note

5:33 PM

It came with one of my computers, I think.

@James Yes, this matches a number of the AC games.

If I think about it, actually, I'm not at all sure how I came into possession of Star Siege.

GnomeSlice

Have any of you played the Robotech game?

Grace Note

I just kinda had the jewelcase on my computer desk is the earliest I can recall of it.

GnomeSlice

Robotech: Battlecry

Robotech: Battlecry is a video game set in the Robotech universe, the first video game successfully released for the franchise. It was developed by Vicious Cycle Software and published by the now-defunct TDK Mediactive, in association with Harmony Gold USA. With a story focused on new characters created for the game and with guest appearances of main characters Rick Hunter, Roy Fokker, Lisa Hayes and a part of one in-game mission directly centered on Lynn Minmei, it somewhat follows the Robotech continuum. Overview The game follows the exploits of ace pilot Jack Archer. After servin...

Ben Brocka

I have no idea how I got Earth Siege either.

My parents must have bought it but I have no idea why

James

@BenBrocka I think I signed up for Mechwarrior Online within the first hour of it being announced :D I am also signed up for the Hawken beta :D

user30

5:34 PM

BF3 time

Grace Note

I've played Robotrek, but not Robotech, haha.

Also Wartech.

GnomeSlice

@James Wait, what online?

o.o

Lazers

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Q: Why are giveaways question focused instead of answer?

I am now seeing two giveaways that seem to be focused on just people asking questions and not so much on the people answering them. I understand we would like to drive the traffic for these games up a bit but it would seem to me that good valid answer are just as useful to this as well as good so...

discussion

0

Q: In some zoom levels there's a horizontal line above the top buttons

Using Chrome 17.0.963.56 on Windows 7 with 120 DPI. Appearance at 100% zoom: Appearance at 110% zoom: Going over all possible zoom levels, it looks okay on 25%, 50%, 100%, 150%, 200%, 250%, 300%, 400% and 500% and appears broken (horizontal bar on top) on 33%, 67%, 75%, 90%, 110%, 125% and...

bug design

Grace Note

@GnomeSlice MMO third-person mecha games aren't a big rarity at this stage.

GnomeSlice

@GraceNote I've never heard of one. =[

Grace Note

5:37 PM

Toybox Girl is a character from another one, just to point a second data point.

GnomeSlice

Closest thing I have is some mechwarrior lone wolves thing for original xbox, but the servers have all been shut down.

Grace Note

And I know of a couple others, but none that I can name off the top of my head.

GnomeSlice

Amusingly, the game is compatible with my xbox 360, but the 'try this upcoming game!' demos you can get to from the menu are not, so if you try to run one, it resets back to the dashbaord.

Grace Note

Heh

GnomeSlice

@GraceNote Which?

James

5:40 PM

Oh, I didnt know @Lazers also announced from M.G.SE

Learn something new every day :)

user30

he's good like that

James

So I have seen that you can get almost a raw data feed from the SE sites.. has anyone made up 'forum signatures' that embed those stats into them yet?? :)

fredley

@James What's a forum?

user30

You mean like

user30

user30

5:42 PM

?

fredley

@ThomasMcDonald Interesting mix of sites you've got there

James

@fredley Thsoe things we constantly tell people we are not and close questions of a discussion nature over ;)

@ThomasMcDonald Exactly like that :)

fredley

@James Ah that's right

user30

@James go crazy

fredley

@James You must have at least 37 pieces of flair

user30

5:44 PM

@fredley Same for you.

user30

What is SK?

James

@ThomasMcDonald Very kewl... And @fredley I do not work at whatever that restaurant was called :P

user30

Oh, Skeptics.

fredley

@James Chotchkie's

James

@ThomasMcDonald nice, had one all put together already: stackexchange.com/users/flair/233192.png

fredley

5:46 PM

@ThomasMcDonald Skeptics is a good site, although I haven't been active recently

user30

I haven't really been active anywhere but chat for a while

James

@fredley Is it a Snopes.SE type of site?

fredley

@James Basically. You get crazy good answers in general. Lots of research.

@James To pick a random example: skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/3529/…

bwarner

@James But why didn't you ask 6 more? Asking questions is mostly just a matter of putting in the time to think them up, especially with sufficiently complex games like ME3.

JohnoBoy

Quick question about the game giveaway - Do I have to send a PayPal receipt to be eligible for getting picked or do I send it only after being picked?

James

5:53 PM

@bwarner Because the game did not stump me so all I have are solutions that others could not get past.

Grace Note

@JohnoBoy If you get picked but don't send a PayPal receipt, then we don't reimburse you. Plain and simple. ♪

James

@bwarner Why would I think something that I find a simple solution for is worthy of being asked as a question?

GnomeSlice

Wait, there's another game grant on already?

Well balls, I definitely didn't make the required 8 questions about SCV.

James

ME3

bwarner

@GnomeSlice Yah, but its for some no-name game.

Wipqozn

5:54 PM

@GnomeSlice I think they do them every month now.

JohnoBoy

@GraceNote What I meant is - Do I need to send the receipt before being picked to be eligible for picking?

James

@GnomeSlice I was told, I think by @bwarner, that anyone can enter this one as well, but the people from last round just get an extra leg up.

bwarner

@James So in an entire game you can't find 8 things that you find even remotely challenging?

Grace Note

@JohnoBoy No, because sometimes the game isn't even out yet.

bwarner

@James Well, people that failed their commitment on the last round actually can't participate...

James

5:55 PM

@bwarner Let me go count up my Skyrim questions vs Skyrim answers and Ill let ya know.

JohnoBoy

@GraceNote Thanks, just needed clarification. It can be a receipt for a preorder, though...

James

(Since I have 6 questions to 86 answers overall something is going to tell me no but Ill count anyways)

Grace Note

@JohnoBoy Yes, but not everyone pre-orders. And not everyone preorders without knowing whether or not they'd get reimbursed.

agent86

@James if you have a data-related query, it's usually faster to ask me. I have mad toolz.

in this case I'm probably too late to help you, though

JohnoBoy

@GraceNote Of course. I mean, I intend to get ME3 eventually, not necessarily on launch, but the promotion is a great incentive to get it now.

Grace Note

5:57 PM

@agent86 I'm tempted to bring up yet another "The match was won before it even started" on you now.

agent86

I do wish answers counted to an extent, since I tend to answer more than I ask, but I don't find it a burden to ask questions.

@GraceNote am I still losing that one where I had the will of a housewife?

Grace Note

@agent86 Eternally.

bwarner

If I hadn't been participating in the giveaway, I wouldn't have thought to ask some of the Final Fantasy 13-2 questions that I ended up asking. But that is the point, when you really try, you can usually find plenty of things to ask about.

agent86

@GraceNote you know, I'm married to a housewife, and I would not want to go up against her in a battle of wills. Just sayin'

Grace Note

@agent86 This just reinforces the part where you're losing, you realize.

agent86

5:59 PM

@GraceNote just out of curiosity, who was I losing to this time?

Grace Note

@agent86 @James, in the art of statisticking his Q/A rate for Skyrim, on the grounds that he had his results by the time he looked at the dataset without rigging up any tools or queries.

JohnoBoy

@bwarner In the first few days after the last promotion games were released, I could tell which users were asking Q's just to get the minimum requirement. I mean, some Q's were really general

bwarner

And by asking them, I gave someone else a chance to create a great answer.

Wipqozn

@agent86 The community agrees with you.

agent86

@GraceNote In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.

James

6:01 PM

@bwarner I have 4 skyrim questions, I have 18 skyrim answers.. I think the ratios for the other games I remark on often (minecraft and Terraria) have even more strange ratios since I only have 6 questions overall on G.SE

Grace Note

@bwarner You should totally put the lot of that in a meta answer, or as support to one of the existing meta answers. ♪

bwarner

@JohnoBoy Sure, its kind of hard to require that people ask 8 good questions. Although ones that are bad enough to be closed I believe do not count.

agent86

@Wipqozn yeah, so does Mr. Atwood. You'd think he'd have some sort of residual pull (or pull, period, since this started while he was still the Big Man)

James

Haha @agent86 I just went and counted by hand is all.. Questions was easy, shows me the tags.. Answers not so much I had to click the ones that werent so obvious to make sure they were for the right game :)

Lazers

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Q: Does breeding two of the same dragon always yield an egg of that same type?

In Dragonvale I noticed breeding two Pang Long dragons yields another Pan Long dragon, and advice for breeding Holiday dragons on the Dragonvale wiki suggests you can only get expired time-limited dragons by breeding two of the same dragon. Does breeding two of the same dragon always give anothe...

dragonvale

0

Q: What's a good strategy for completing the "Fly 1750m without collecting coins" mission in Jetpack Joyride

This is the last mission that I have to complete, but I can't seem to come up with a good strategy to complete the mission. I always seem to inadvertently collect a coin or two along the way to 1750m. Is there some sort of winning strategy to complete this mission?

jetpack-joyride

Grace Note

6:02 PM

@James You could use search next time.

James

@GraceNote I can do a tag search only for my own answers?

Wipqozn

@James yes

oh, that's not good.

agent86

@GraceNote he took four minutes. I could've done it faster, you don't know!

James

@Wipqozn Yeah that looked crappy :)

Grace Note

@James [skyrim] is:answer user:8581 : gaming.stackexchange.com/…

James

6:04 PM

@agent86 You sound like a card counter in vegas :D

Wipqozn

That's odd. If I click my link it removes the" [ ] "

just tested it in chrome and it does the same thing

James

Wow, 20.. So I counted wrong.. but still that is a 1 to 5 Q to A ratio...

@Wipqozn @GraceNote's link works though, in chrome..

Wipqozn

test

Yeah,it's a bug when you link through text.

Grace Note

It's specifically a nested brackets issue

Wipqozn

There we go. Just need to escape the brackets.

agent86

6:07 PM

or my way, withoutthesarcasm.com/stackapps/stats

James

Ahh.. and yeah I do not participate in SO much, the questions go by so fast and generally there are a ton of people giving better answers faster than I can :)

@agent86 Before I got to make any selections the page reloaded asking for permission to use my accounts.. That doesnt instill a sense of trust in me :P

GnomeSlice

Oh, I vaguely recall someone saying something about a buttons tag a little while ago.... I didn't cause a kerfuffle over that did I?

agent86

@James yeah, it's automatic. All it can tell is what user IDs you have on what sites.

bwarner

@GnomeSlice Its been resolved, the tag was burninated.

Grace Note

@GnomeSlice The only thing remotely a kerfuffle you caused is that @badp used the word "menage" weirdly to answer the call.

agent86

6:08 PM

and I wrote it, so I can assure you it is safe :)

also it's been posted and reviewed on stackapps.

GnomeSlice

Was that the only question with the tag?

James

@agent86 If you would like people to trust your app man, I would Start with that screen asking for user Ids as opposed to refreshing to it :)

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice I miss your previous gravatar.

bwarner

@GnomeSlice No, someone else reused it, which is why it came up.

Grace Note

@GnomeSlice There were 2

GnomeSlice

6:09 PM

@Wipqozn Which one.

agent86

@James you're the first person who has ever had an issue :)

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice the awesome one you had for awhile.

I think it's still your steam avatar too

Grace Note

@agent86 Criminy, you're turning this down? Count two people with issues!

James

@agent86 I guess its cause I have been working in the webapps development for going on 3 years now (I miss video games).. makes me keenly aware of what will set people off :D

Ian Pugsley

@agent86 @James IIRC the SE API is readonly anyway; it couldn't do anything but read about your account info (which everyone can pretty much do anyway online)

James

6:11 PM

@IanPugsley The untrusting side of me would assume that a page reloading and asking for access to my information might not be using only a read-only API :D

agent86

the access level is "can tell your numeric ID on the network"

OrigamiRobot

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Q: What is the most effective way to build a destruction caster / 1 hander character?

My character has destruction spells and 1 hander sword equiped at all moment. What is the most effective way to build this type of character?

skyrim

So tired of Skyrim build questions!

agent86

and it's on the authorization page.

James

@OrigamiRobot Haha, but that is exactly the character I am playing right now! :)

bwarner

@OrigamiRobot Don't worry, they will soon be replaced by Diablo 3 build questions.

Ian Pugsley

6:11 PM

@James I understand your trepidation if you don't know anything about the API

@bwarner it's funny to say this, but I hope so (if they don't, it means D3 doesn't have nearly as rich a build experience as I'm hoping)

James

@agent86 Here is the other thing that made me go 'Huh what?' The URL you sent me to was withoutsarcasm or the like.. The refreshed page said StatsExchange is a site blah blah blah... So yeah, that is another area of 'Huh What?' that chips away at my willingness to trust.

agent86

@James okay, you're free not to use it :)

Wipqozn

heigh ho, heigh ho, it's off to school I go!

OrigamiRobot

@bwarner At least D3 "Is this build viable?" questions might be relevant. The answer to ll Skyrim questions like this is "Yes. Use the skills you want to use. That is your build."

James

@agent86 Just trying to give you constructive feedback.. Up to you if you want to assume your app is perfect as is or not ;)

Ian Pugsley

6:13 PM

@OrigamiRobot what's the difference?

bwarner

@IanPugsley I think it will, especially once you start including itemization. "Which shield should I use for a witch doctor that specializes in frogs?"

Wipqozn

and also this because I love this song.

OrigamiRobot

@IanPugsley Viability.

agent86

@James I always assume it's perfect :)

Ian Pugsley

@bwarner the removal of runes as items bummed me out a bit, not sure how I feel about them as level-based unlocks

James

6:14 PM

@agent86 Snarky bastard :D

agent86

seriously though, I've posted about 6 apps to stackapps, and at least 1,000 people have used them, and today's the first time anyone's reported any suspicion about the authorization screen

bwarner

@IanPugsley See, I'm actually happy, because I don't play enough to farm level 5 runes of the specific types that I want. Now I don't have to worry about it.

murgatroid99

@agent86 Probably because anyone who uses stackapps knows to expect a StackExchange authorization screen

James

@murgatroid99 was just typing the same thing... How they got to the app vs how I got to it.

agent86

@murgatroid99 actually, most of that traffic came from twitter and the SE blog, when Jeff and Kevin posted about them

James

6:16 PM

Like I am going to trust some crazy blue named person.. even if I voted for em :D

OrigamiRobot

@agent86 I was programmed to trust you.

Grace Note

@OrigamiRobot That's what you do, that's all you do?

James

@agent86 Speaking of stats and such.. Was there a way to see vote counts for the election that you have an app for that? :)

Ian Pugsley

@bwarner I certainly understand the reasoning, I'm just not convinced it's going to have the build depth D2 had

agent86

@James badp did some good stats right after it ended

murgatroid99

6:18 PM

@James On the other hand, though, I guess I would expect that an app would have to retrieve information from my StackExchange accounts in order to give me consolidated information about my StackExchange accounts.

agent86

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote I can do a variety of other things depending on which user asks. For you, I dance.

agent86

and if you'd like to peruse my various apps on stackapps, here's a handy search

James

@agent86 Nice graph, if I wasnt colorblind [grumble]

bwarner

@IanPugsley It seems like the closest comparable thing is Guild Wars builds, where you can pick a couple skills from a large set. And I think Guild Wars had way more build variety than Diablo 2 did.

agent86

6:20 PM

it doesn't include ChatterBox, since it's a script:

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Q: ChatterBox - Userscript that adds inbox integration to StackExchange Chat!

Screenshot / Code Snippet About I like StackExchange Chat, and with the feedbots it tends to be pretty easy to keep up with what's going on with the site. Except for one thing - my inbox. So I wrote this userscript that adds an "inbox" button with auto-refresh to the chat interface. ...

script api-v2 chat

@James election results in text format, too large to onebox

it's a little hard to read the first time through, since it's a) a complex election process, and b) the results are printed across multiple lines when it would probably be clearer as column data

user30

meeeeh

James

@agent86 Thanks, made much more sense in text to me.. wasnt sure what the numbers across the bottom were on the graph :)

user30

I'm not going to get my library finished before the competition deadline

agent86

@James it's a complex election process, so the numbers across the bottom are the rounds in the election

James

@agent86 Yeah the text made it clear it was each tally/recalculate step

user30

6:24 PM

marketplace.mozilla.org

user30

ehh

James

Amusing to see Oak 'won' 4-5 times, hehe.

agent86

yep, he certainly had a lock on the election.

user30

> Today we can announce that the four main developers of bukkit – a community-based Minecraft server implementation – have joined ranks with Mojang to bring you the same flexibility and versatility to the official Minecraft server. The four, Warren Loo (@evilseph), Erik Broes (@_grum), Nathan Adams (@dinnerbone) and Nathan Gilbert (@tahgtahv), will work on improving both the server and the client to offer better official support for larger servers and server modifications.

Grace Note

Crazy

James

6:28 PM

@ThomasMcDonald Ugh, why does that actually make me sad...

Tristan

@OrigamiRobot did the new minecraft update release yet?

James

Hmm.. Probably because I die a little every time I see the code behind minecraft ... :D

user30

tl;dr The team behind Bukkit have been hired to work on Minecraft

James

I fear that people will actually think that is anything resembling good code design.

Lazers

1

Q: I dislike the current head of my dynasty, can I arrange an accident for him?

The current ruler of my dynasty is a bit of an idiot. His heir shows much more promise; is there a way to get rid of my current ruler?

crusader-kings-2

-2

Q: What is the most effective way to build a destruction caster / 1 hander character?

My character has destruction spells and 1 hander sword equiped at all moment. What is the most effective way to build this type of character?

skyrim

user30

6:31 PM

To be fair Bukkit have pretty much the whole shebang sorted out already

badp

@GraceNote I've watched a let's play of the first few stages of BMD and the guy used 'criminy' a lot. I'm going to assume that's you until proved otherwise

while still using mostly female pronouns because of being used to that

Grace Note

@badp I've never done a Let's Play.

James

@ThomasMcDonald THe simple fact that in order to make a mod compatible with both SP and MP you have to write the mod Twice shows how bad the design of MC's code is.. The fact that damage resolution is resolved for fall damage before you even see What you are hitting... just annoyed the hell out of me to no end :D

Ian Pugsley

@GraceNote weren't they called "talking pictures" back in your day?

user30

> The plan is to build a fresh server API, and then extend it to support client-side modding (in one way or another).

agent86

6:37 PM

@James, I've added some text to the landing page, if you click the link directly you'd still be taken to the app (and therefore the authorization page), but perhaps landing here instead would make you feel better: withoutthesarcasm.com/stackapps

user30

@James I think there's going to be a lot of rewriting going on.

Grace Note

@IanPugsley An art thief is someone who takes pictures.

James

@agent86 Very awesome explanation of it all! Thanks man :)

@ThomasMcDonald Hehe, After looking at the code I saw why Notch gave up on a modding API :D

Ian Pugsley

@GraceNote What is the difference between a duck?

Grace Note

@IanPugsley I don't know that one.

Ian Pugsley

6:46 PM

@GraceNote the answers vary (the common one is "one leg is both the same")

Grace Note

Ahha

Arda Xi

@IanPugsley That is the canonical answer, yes.

James

Is anyone else very very confused by @IanPugsley and @GraceNote's conversation?

Ian Pugsley

Arda Xi

@James @IanPugsley called @GraceNote old, then @GraceNote spoke of artistic kleptomaniacs and then @IanPugsley got all philosophical about a duck.

Simple.

James

6:48 PM

@IanPugsley Damnit!

@ArdaXi Yeah it was the whole Talking Pictures to Taking Pictures to a Duck that kind of made me.. well very confused...

OrigamiRobot

@Tristan Not that I know of :(

@IanPugsley AND it bangs its head when it walks.

Ian Pugsley

@OrigamiRobot too far

James

@agent86 " Your average rep percentage for these answers was 54.0%." 54% of what?

Lazers

-2

Q: Kinect for Ubuntu users

Are there going to be games for Kinect device that run on Linux (Ubuntu)? Could you write here some information about playing such games on this platform, if there are some problems. If there is a community around making Kinect games for Ubuntu and place where can I find some more information.

kinect linux ubuntu

Ronan Forman

@Grace YouTube have said we can put ads on our videos, could you get in touch with someone so we can sort a fund out or something. I don't really want to be handling our money.

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