The Bridge

@bwarner I don't think you can carry over from 1 -> 3, but that's speculation

I think you have to have a special "cleared" save from the end of the game in order to carry over as well

bwarner

@agent86 Ah, so it only goes 1->2 and then 2->3?

@bwarner I believe that's the case.

bwarner

Hmm, guess I might have to find an ME2 save that matches my ME1 decisions then, just to get the effect.

@AshleyNunn I was about to guess it had to be chocolate

user15026

6:03 PM

@badp Yeah, it is. Would you try it? I don't think I would.

@AshleyNunn I was talking about the white thing too.

user15026

@badp Nope, the white part is cheddar cheese.

@AshleyNunn after analyzing this picture with a specialized "deliciousness scanner" I purpose-built for this occasion, I find it 54.6% likely that this is not delicious.

oh god what happened to the latest xkcd

oh god what's with all the aliasing

my eyes they are bleeding

@badp yeah, it wasn't that way earlier today

user15026

6:06 PM

@agent86 I would have to agree with this assessment.

Oh look, Win8 consumer preview is out

@AshleyNunn I have noted your agreement on my clipboard. the clipboard of SCIENCE

@agent86 I'd try it

then again, as long as there are no insects in it, I'll try basically any cheese

I probably need to make a lot of work to install it though.

Resizing partitions and backing up the USB storage I wanted to use and whatnot

@badp Saw a tweet that all apps are free during the Win8 Preview

6:09 PM

Clever.

@badp virtual machine?

@agent86 That'd be missing the point

@badp I think you meant to say "avoiding the hassle"

Yeah, but... GPU performance.

Mine's already sucky in native code

let alone in a VM

I doubt GPU performance is really going to be that awesome even without a VM. might as well just resign yourself to not doing anything GPU-heavy

6:12 PM

Metro is GPU-heavy

Not UDK-heavy, but certainly not a lightweight either

Neither is Unity after all

(everything based on UDK runs choppily at the main menu on my machine, it's really sad)

@badp what's keeping you from upgrading your GPU?

It's a fucking laptop

@badp lol, that'd do it

so I'm stuck with a glorified 9200M

This website says it can run CS:S at 120fps with all settings maxed out. Even that much must be bullshit.

@badp have you looked into benchmarking it against the supposed averages?

and overclocking?

6:19 PM

Overclocking? This laptop already reached 90°C on average load since day 1

I'm just glad it doesn't spontaneously turn itself off for some reason, probably magic

@badp have you looked into nearby windows, and the approximate velocity you can throw it through them?

@agent86 I'm afraid I lack 120 windows to throw it through

I've got some switchable radeon 4x + 5x chip in my toshiba laptop, and they freakin' locked the graphics drivers down to only allow the toshiba branded drivers for whatever reason

eh, I can upgrade the nVidia drivers all I want

I finally found a reliable method of installing stock AMD/ATI drivers on it, and thank god because otherwise I wouldn't have been able to play skyrim

now the thing screams

if I win the CPU prize in the stackapps competition, maybe I'll upgrade my desktop rig.

6:22 PM

I wonder, why is Windows 8 testing compatibility with my applications

I don't want to replace Win7 with Win8

@badp They did the same thing with Win7, to point out apps that may or may not work with Win8 that you are currently using.

(I had to say something the wall of blue names was becoming daunting!)

yes but this is a preview

Ugh, I have a better answer in theory, but in practice it's so messy and even messier to expand upon.

even the Win7 customer preview was a dead end

the only thing you could do is wait for it to expire then reinstall another OS entirely from scratch

I don't expect Win8CP to be any different

@OrigamiRobot haha, I was thinking of writing an answer to that one that said "use a fall trap for XP farms" but decided that was not a very good answer, even if it is an easier answer :)

@badp Yeah but I would still expect them to want to gather as much information about your system and installed apps and hardware etc that you are attempting to put Win8 on.. cause they like gathering that info.

6:25 PM

That's fair. That's also something they could've done while actually downloading Windows.

Q: Why did enemies spawn around me when I fast traveled after the latest patch?

@OrigamiRobot isn't this just a basic counters problem?

Lazers

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So it's happened a few times, but never anything major, like an out of place mage or something. Well, this time, after the latest patch (from 1.4.21 I believe to 1.4.27), my lady necromancer fast-traveled to Riverwood and was greeted with: "A challenger is near!" "I'll mount your head on my ...

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Q: Is there a bukkit plugin to run small scripts when players (re)spawn?

I'd like to setup my bukkit server to run a small script (like, giving players basic items) when players respawn or enter a world for the first time (or cause every 10th respawn to be in another place). Is there a plugin to do this with bukkit?

minecraft bukkit spawning

@Lazers That question is -awesome-

@badp murder spawning please

can't, busy

6:36 PM

Don't panic about your reputation, changes are here: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/123319/…

changes aren't coming, THEY ARE UPON US

Oh noes, all my fake rep will disappear

prepare for MORSEL COMBAT:

youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZoxUxBnw5q4

the recalcs are already done (:

oh, that's why I'm missing ~500 rep

6:39 PM

@RebeccaChernoff is this like getting a shot, where you freak out about it and then the doctor's like ok, it's done and then you go about your business?

aye (:

okay then.

@agent86 go murder spawning

Aww, I feel all left out.. My rep looks the same it always did.

-10 18:32 unupvote
+10 18:32 upvote
-10 18:32 unupvote

6:40 PM

Font of the day: Geosans Light.

make up your mind anonymous stranger!

@JuanManuel Haha, are they really called unupvote as opposed to a downvote?

@NickT oh, I fought the tags but tha' - tags won, oh, I fought the tags but tha' tags won.

@James unupvote != downvote

@James I think it's removal of an upvote, but not a downvote.

@James they are upvotes that were removed

6:41 PM

@GnomeSlice Oooh, I see I see :)

@IanPugsley Yea but I don't know off the top of my head how to make an up counter with redstone.

@JuanManuel can we change "downvote" to "nonupvote"? maybe favorite = "plusupvote"

oy.

flagging = "plusnonupvote"

deleted questions would be doubleplusnonupvoted

@NickT How about "thatothervote" :)

6:43 PM

All The Rowboats - Regina Spektor on Soundcloud

^ new track from yesterday or something; album coming out May

Fantastic Creations: House of Brass.

I say we should delete 5,000 posts competely randomly to really showcase the power of the system.

@AshleyNunn I remember you were looking for some hidden-object games that weren't horror themed?

David B

so, my gaming rep from my SO profile is 4912, but my gaming rep on my gaming profile is 4886. I presume this means rep recalc on gaming is complete?

@DavidB Yes

user15026

6:47 PM

@GnomeSlice Yeah I was/am :)

David B

ty

@AshleyNunn Check out the one I just linked.

David B

upvote removed = devote

user15026

@GnomeSlice Oh, that looks pretty awesome, and is exactly what I was looking for in terms of just being awesome and not scary :)

@AshleyNunn Lol. I still haven't remembered to figure out the ones my family has played a bunch of , but they were like detective things or something.

user15026

6:50 PM

@GnomeSlice Sounds nifty - when you figure it out, let me know :)

On the less-nazi side of things, the reputation report on your profile page will now also include voting fraud reversals

(...is that 49 downvotes? damn doesn't somebody hate this guy!)

Q: Do Costumes Affect Breast Physics?

Fiora dashes around the battlefield striking random champions 5 times for 500 (+15.5) physical damage. Successive strikes against the same target deal 25% damage.

The first and last attack will be against the same target. Each strike applies on-hit effects.

Is that 500 then 125 125 125 125 on a single target... Or 100 25 25 25 25 on a single target....

cause the +ap ratio is HUGE on that ability...

Lazers

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I've noticed that some of the female characters have two widely different costumes available. Do any of these different costumes have an impact on character breast-physics? The most obvious example would be Hilde who wears a suit of armor in her default costume, but not in her secondary costume...

soul-calibur-5

@Lazers This question makes me want to facepalm into unconsciousness...

@Lazers ... @GnomeSlice I thought you were reforming yourself.

6:53 PM

Oh, leave me alone.

@badp Voting fraud?

I need to come up with 4 more questions.

@GnomeSlice I think it would be us going around and down voting all of your questions and answers to get rid of your rep.. Or up voting, hehe.

How does the system know if a downvote is justified or not?

Yes, it can go both ways, and it is automatically reverted, and moderators have no control about this

Ronan Forman

@GnomeSlice If 1 person makes 4 of one vote against another person.

@GnomeSlice I think it would be more of a single user casting X number of votes all on another single users questions/answers in a pretty short time frame.

6:55 PM

@GnomeSlice We just have various measurements and pattern analysis. We can't clarify on exacts or otherwise, people just dance beneath said limits.

@GraceNote I suppose that's true.

I will say I have seen where that is justified though.

@James Agreed.

Basically, if you're upvoting or downvoting the user rather than his posts

Also, please don't close that question. =[

6:56 PM

@GraceNote speaking of which, if somebody does downvote fraud, does he get his downvotes' worth of reputation back?

There was some guy who posted 'Why does no one ever answer my questions' to which a person responded that even when complete and well explained answers are given he never up-voted or accepted them... and was often a jerk about it all, hehe.

@badp Yes

@GraceNote Hm. Is this reported in the reputation page, or the reputation audit? (@RebeccaChernoff)

Going through and reading them all it did feel like he deserved to have all his questions down voted.. but each on their own merit :)

@badp Ask rchern

6:57 PM

Haha, You already have a -1 @GnomeSlice

That would make it too easy to know whether or not you successfully gamed the system

I can only tell you what things mechanically work. I can't tell you how the new audit page works - I can only see my own, and I don't fraudulently vote

@GraceNote Perhaps you should start. For science.

@GnomeSlice I don't foresee it getting closed, but I would not be surprised if it got downvoted a fair amount.

@GraceNote But why...

6:58 PM

@GnomeSlice Do you really not know?

@GnomeSlice Votes indicate usefulness. I'm pretty sure the majority of people playing the game don't find this to be a useful question to know the answer to, whether or not it is a valid question. Votes aren't for what's answerable.

@OrigamiRobot Who cares if it's silly? It's entirely answerabl.

Holy crap.. someone did go through and blanket downvote a chunk of my posts.

@GraceNote I suppose I can't really argue with that.

@GnomeSlice That's part of my job. ♪

6:59 PM

Hey! my reputation tab doesn't say -3265 any more!