The Bridge

GnomeSlice

8:00 PM

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Nick T

If it was some chick, scantly-clad in some armor I doubt it would be

Pyrodante

question asked

Ronan Forman

@Nick You'd be supprised.

GnomeSlice

@NickT Care to bet on that?

Ar, Pixelry got updated again...

@NickT That game sucks eggs.

I tried it because a friend of mine and I were looking for a free MMO to play together.

It's so slow.

Ian Pugsley

waits for flag...

GnomeSlice

8:03 PM

Okay, my turn.

Image with large assets

Jason Berkan

@NickT Worst ads ever.

Pyrodante

Most anticipated... that amount of false advertisement deserves a flag in and of itself :D

Grace Note

Can we not turn this into a competition about the stupidest possible thing you could compete on at this juncture?

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Nick T

Soft-core porn?

GnomeSlice

@GraceNote Okay, that settles it, you must not be male.

Ktash

8:04 PM

I leave chat for like 5 minutes and it turns into a boob off?

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Ian Pugsley

@GraceNote "I'm gonna get flagged first!" "NO ME!"

user30

hey guys, keep up the the good work

Pyrodante

So it has come to this.

(hey that actually fit quite well)

GnomeSlice

@NickT lol wtf, that has nothing to do with the game at all, does it.

Ullallulloo

NickT wins?

GnomeSlice

8:05 PM

RAH, WIZORB IS COMING TO STEAM.

I KNEW IT.

Raven Dreamer

@Wipqozn because of the manner in which it was asked.

GnomeSlice

@Ullallulloo Oh dear.

@GraceNote Can you convert that to a text link for me?

Pyrodante

hey, if that pic can be used to advert all over the internet, it should be ok here headdesk

KitFox

Someone say soft-core?

Raven Dreamer

@GnomeSlice I take offense to this.

GnomeSlice

8:06 PM

@RavenDreamer By which I meant 'men argue about really stupid things'.

Roland Taylor

Let me guess,

user30

ughhapi.

user30

I have now seen enough of you in one day

Roland Taylor

nvm

Grace Note

@KitFox I shouldn't have been surprised that you showed up

Ben Brocka

8:07 PM

Wait...@Wipqozn....dilbert?

GnomeSlice

I'm hesitant to copy my blog about art and indie games to the GSE blog, because to be honest, it's pretty poorly written. =[

Pyrodante

@GnomeSlice managed to alienate both genders in two statements... impressive

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Ben Brocka

@GnomeSlice I don't argue about stupid things! You argue about stupid things!

badp

oh man

now I know the #1 reason to switch to Win8

Pyrodante

oh?

Raven Dreamer

8:08 PM

@BenBrocka Yes. That is the origin of his username.

KitFox

@GraceNote Now, now. Two flags from the Bridge within two minutes will always have me peeping.

jrg

WANDA THE FISH

GnomeSlice

@badp What... is that what it looks like?

Ronan Forman

@Gnome Where's the blog so far?

Ben Brocka

@badp FISHIES

Ullallulloo

8:09 PM

@badp I don't see it.

Ben Brocka

Fishies.

Grace Note

@KitFox Heh

GnomeSlice

@RonanForman Oh, it's done, it's something I handed in as a school assignment.

Raven Dreamer

@KitFox Wunderbar.

badp

Let me show it better

Roland Taylor

8:09 PM

@badp the big, fancy colours?

Or the white icons?

badp

user30

Oh, Nick got suspended for an hour.

GnomeSlice

@badp That's a clincher for me.

badp

XBOX LIVE SOLITAIRE.

ONLY IN WINDOWS 8.

Pyrodante

wait, nick got suspended for posting a picture that is posted all over the internet in advertising blocks on family websites?

Ian Pugsley

8:10 PM

@badp it's actually GFW Live Solitaire, and you have to have XBL Gold to play it :P

user30

@Pyrodante yep, that's the one

Ullallulloo

@badp How is this different from the Solitaire that's been around since 95?

Pyrodante

badp

@Ullallulloo It's... like... uh... XBOX LIVE.

Roland Taylor

^must never forget that moment :D

badp

8:11 PM

@RolandTaylor wat?

Ronan Forman

@Gnome Paste it in, don't publish it and get someone to clean it up a bit.

jrg

@ThomasMcDonald Oops. Forgot that marking a chat flag as valid suspended the account.

Tim Stone

@badp It's also better with Kinect.

GnomeSlice

@badp Seriously though, is this what the Win8 interface is going to look like?

badp

@GnomeSlice Where have you been in the last year?

Ullallulloo

8:11 PM

@GnomeSlice yes :(

Pyrodante

@GnomeSlice yes

Roland Taylor

@badp I had to save that one :D

Grace Note

@jrg Well, so goes the case when something happens to get flagged.

Ben Brocka

Samus is flaggable?

Roland Taylor

Who do you play against? Yourself?

badp

8:12 PM

You might've been confused by the fact that mods don't get suspended when their messages are flagged

Ben Brocka

@badp couldn't find the Penny Arcade comic about the guy with XBLA on his phone

what's your score

Sterno

@GnomeSlice That video looked interesting. Have you played Out There Somewhere? Any good?

GnomeSlice

Art, and the indie game

badp

(I don't have Win8 yet. It's just the screenie of the desktop from ArsTechnica.)

GnomeSlice

@Sterno I haven't, but I want to.

James

8:13 PM

@Pyrodante I'm named Early. I'm known to some.

GnomeSlice

@RonanForman ^ ^ ^

Roland Taylor

@badp yet?

Ben Brocka

@badp the consumer preview is out but I dont' have a spare PC to run it on

badp

@RolandTaylor Going to install it at some point

Roland Taylor

So I should reassign my assassins to locate you as well?

badp

8:14 PM

probably tomorrow or the day after

Roland Taylor

Aight

Lazers

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mass-effect-2

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At what point does the games story become separated from the game itself. Some games are used as mediums to tell stories in the same vein as movies and books. Would questions about the plot be more fitting in Scifi.SE. What about a story that expands past the games? If a book is written about a g...

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Q: How do I know who is talking?

In Mass Effect 3 multiplayer, I have run into a few screaming 12-year-olds. And while they are just a delight to talk to, and so well mannered, on occasion I feel that their mature and thoughtful discussion might distract me from the tasks at hand. In the ME3 multiplayer interface, is there any w...

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Roland Taylor

sending

badp

@RolandTaylor Dude, Steam don't run on Ubuntu. I tried. Sorry

Roland Taylor

:D

It ran fine for me :)

But then... I'm me.

Ullallulloo

8:15 PM

@badp John got it to work.

Grace Note

@Lazers I think there may actually be a pre-existing question on this subject on Meta

GnomeSlice

Wizorb is coming to Steam.

badp

I'm sorry if my standard is higher than "runs fast enough that I can't count frames per second by hand anymore"

Pyrodante

I am not 100% on what an upvote on that question means. Its a good question? or a vote for stories about game worlds being part of this site.

Sterno

What actually happens you direct a message @Lazers?

Roland Taylor

8:16 PM

@badp lol well for me AlienSwarm was very playable... except it was boring. So I removed it...

OrigamiRobot

@Sterno @Lazers fires!

Roland Taylor

:P

Jason Berkan

@Pyrodante That it's a good thing to discuss.

GnomeSlice

@badp Don't ever talk to me about fps.

Pyrodante

ah ok

GnomeSlice

8:17 PM

What did you guys think of that blog I linked?

Ben Brocka

@badp Gotta go fast

Roland Taylor

@GnomeSlice you linked a blog?

GnomeSlice

Wizorb is coming to Steeeeam.

@RolandTaylor docs.google.com/document/d/…

Roland Taylor

k

GnomeSlice

I said I was hesitant to post it to the GSE blog, because it's poorly written, ish.

Ronan Forman

8:18 PM

Stop saying that, we know.

Roland Taylor

@RonanForman well, I'm not sure that's the issue. The question is, do we care?

Grace Note

Probably should care, it'd be a bit rude otherwise

Ronan Forman

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OrigamiRobot

@RonanForman did [person] agree to host the server?

Roland Taylor

@GnomeSlice interesting post :)

@GraceNote twas a joke :P

GnomeSlice

8:21 PM

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Ronan Forman

@Origami It was @Thomas, and he hasn't said.

Roland Taylor

k, I'm out, bye all :D

user30

@Ronan I said probably. I haven't tried running two simultaneous servers, so I dunno how it would hold out.

user30

and I haven't got time to tets it tonight since I'm attempting to finish this wrapper

Ronan Forman

Do you not have multiverse?

OrigamiRobot

8:24 PM

@RonanForman I have no problem running it. I can even put it up right now.

Grace Note

Oh boy, here it comes~

GnomeSlice

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This is like the best game trailer ever.

Ronan Forman

@Origami Would you be running it all the time?

OrigamiRobot

@RonanForman Mostly all the time. Mostly.

Ronan Forman

Well we ought to do that then, we'd have more control that way too.

Raven Dreamer

8:27 PM

Blaargh.

Sterno

New ME2 message about ME3

user30

Lets play the guessing game!

Grace Note

We've got a feed that'll eventually post that, y'know

user30

Yeah, but it's slow.

Grace Note

It's faster than the one in the Teacher's Lounge (somehow)

user30

8:31 PM

Still slower than I was. :+1:

user30

Although I only noticed because it came through in StopPress.

Grace Note

Ima pin yours, though, because you're better than the Feed and it's actually... incredibly relevant to us.

The Stack Exchange Blog

blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/02/lets-play-the-guessing-game

user30

^ Y U NO ONEBOX

Grace Note

I knew it came out because Jeff and I have been talking about that blog post for weeks.

user30

8:33 PM

Is this Jeff's leaving post? :(

Raven Dreamer

@Sterno I'm calling it now.

Grace Note

It's a post done by Jeff shortly before he leaves, you can call it that, but no, this isn't Jeff's farewell.

Raven Dreamer

How did the turian counselor refer to them?

Juan Manuel

@TheStackExchangeBlog nice legacy... we should link to it in every question as we delete them, while we sing... la la la la la

Raven Dreamer

airquotes reapers airquotes

Prediction: Commander Shepherd offered chance to become dominant personality of a Reaper.

badp

8:34 PM

@RolandTaylor I'm talking about Steam itself

Jason Berkan

@ThomasMcDonald Jeff is trying his hardest to drive me away from SE, isn't he.

user30

@GraceNote When is the party?

badp

@RavenDreamer meh, they should pull a Quake 4 and make him become a Reaper.

Dave McClelland

@ThomasMcDonald "All users that have ever asked an identify-this-game question have been banned and Stack Exchange Sucks. Later, Losers" - Jeff Atwood

badp

Then he can subvert things from inside.

Grace Note

8:35 PM

@ThomasMcDonald Well, @tzenes brought the champagne for the rec party, so we're gonna need a supplier of some sort before we can start planning this one.

StrixVaria

GAME OVER GUYS LOL I WIN ITG SUCKS

badp

@TheStackExchangeBlog at least they're 5th, not 2nd or 3rd

OrigamiRobot

@RonanForman what is @John's MC name?

user30

@GraceNote Has the VC money run out? :(

Raven Dreamer

@badp How's that different than what I predicted?

OrigamiRobot

8:36 PM

@StrixVaria What did we win?

agent86

@GraceNote back in the 90's I had this really good wine with a picture of a bunch of grapes on the label. I'd bring a bunch of it if someone could help me remember the name. identify-this-libation

user30

I thought this was the sort of event that stuff was made for.

badp

@RavenDreamer "offered a chance"/"forced"

Grace Note

@ThomasMcDonald I think the office mates would destroy me if I took the Friday Beer Bash stash.

Raven Dreamer

@badp Yeah, but Mass Effect is a game all about choice.

Choice is kinda their thing.

It's Bioware.

Ben Brocka

8:36 PM

No Shepherd, you are the Reapers

Raven Dreamer

You have 3 separate ways to say "yes".

Ben Brocka

And then Commander Shepherd was a Reaper

Raven Dreamer

(And all of them are corny)

Ian Pugsley

@RavenDreamer and two of them say maybe

Ronan Forman

@Origami Musicman93

badp

8:37 PM

@RavenDreamer Oh, so it's like "No please don't do that oh god no" "You are in violation of the international treaty of interracial transmogrification" and "Do I get dental?"

OrigamiRobot

@RonanForman Server is up.

Ronan Forman

Reavers! We're doomed, they're going to wear our skin as coats!

Ian Pugsley

@RonanForman it's not very hard to play your Shepard as a space cowboy, TBH

Ronan Forman

@Origami No playing until Saturday!

Raven Dreamer

@badp Sometin' like dat.

OrigamiRobot

8:39 PM

@RonanForman FINE! SERVER DOWN!

Ktash

Woah! When did the front page get an AJAX updated feed?

Raven Dreamer

@IanPugsley "What are we, EDI?" "We're Big Damn Heroes, Commander."

user30

@Ktash Has that rolled out network wide? Awesome.

Grace Note

@Ktash Yesterday

We had our recalc today, so ours probably came in as a result.

Ian Pugsley

@RavenDreamer who would Wash be then?

Ktash

8:40 PM

@GraceNote That's awesome to see :)

Raven Dreamer

@IanPugsley Joker, clearly.

Pyrodante

Raven Dreamer

@IanPugsley which means it should be, of course, EDI, not Miranda.

Ian Pugsley

@RavenDreamer lol I was gonna say

Ktash

@Pyrodante Wait, I have to catch another one? Where the heck to catch him?

Pyrodante

8:42 PM

You have to defeat Andross

badp

@Ktash With castle-shaped pokeballs.

Dave McClelland

@agent86 Synonym request: identify-this-libation->identify-this-booze

Raven Dreamer

But how does metroid ball?

Ktash

@Pyrodante Haha, Andross? Might be a little too obscure compared to these references ;)

Pyrodante

but... but... you'll never defeat him!

Ronan Forman

8:45 PM

Make your time?

Ben Brocka

This is the easiest room ever to get the Outspoken badge in

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Ktash

Ha ha ha

agent86

@DaveMcClelland approved.

GnomeSlice

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Pyrodante

Not sure why that's in reply to me but ok.

Ktash

8:49 PM

@Pyrodante I think it would be because of the stupidity involved in the image ;)

OrigamiRobot

@GnomeSlice That would be a high-four. Maybe even a high-three if it's a stool. Rarely a high-five.

James

@Pyrodante Probably for the same reason the image you linked exists :)

Pyrodante

ah yes

I accept that

Ben Brocka

My chairs have 5 legs

Ronan Forman

Well your chair is wrong.

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James

8:50 PM

@BenBrocka Mine have spokes and wheels :D

bwarner

Ah, the ITG gauntlet has been thrown down.

Ben Brocka

@RonanForman You wanna say that to my chair's face?!

Ian Pugsley

@OrigamiRobot wheely chairs often have five "legs" (branches from the root that hold the wheels)

GnomeSlice

Man, I love you guys.

Don't ever change.

Ian Pugsley

@GnomeSlice Now I'm gonna, just to spite you!

Sterno

8:52 PM

Now I really want to play a game called Star Fighter XXIV: The Star Fightening

GnomeSlice

@Sterno Please tell me that's real.

Ronan Forman

You should use alternative medicine and call crazy people sacred. Is that enough change? Innit.

murgatroid99

@Sterno Are you sure that's not supposed to be a movie?

GnomeSlice

@Pyrodante What does the small print say?

Ian Pugsley

@murgatroid99 you're thinking of The Last Starfighter II: The Laster Starfighter

Raven Dreamer

8:54 PM

@RonanForman By definition, Alternative medicine is either that which has not been proved to work, or that which has been proved, not to work.

user30

Did we delete all game-rec questions in the end?

Raven Dreamer

You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proven to work?

Medicine.

Grace Note

@ThomasMcDonald Yes, we did.

user30

@GraceNote sound

Grace Note

Well, I did.

Pyrodante

8:54 PM

@GnomeSlice MUST INVESTIGATE!

user30

WordPress is about to have the discussion re. plugin-recommendation & theme-recommendation based off that blog post.

murgatroid99

@RavenDreamer I love Tim Minchin

Grace Note

@ThomasMcDonald Hooboy. I wonder if I'll have to drop in on that.

Sterno

@murgatroid99 Okay, let me rephrase. I would play the game, watch the movie, and read the book of Star Fighter XXIV: The Star Fightening

user30

@GraceNote I doubt it.

user30

8:55 PM

I'm planning on compiling the best bits of the discussions from Gaming and dropping them into one long answer.

Pyrodante

"Which is a squeal to Metal Gear Solid"

user30

The only issue is that we have 400 plugin recommendation questions.

murgatroid99

@Sterno I would too, but I think I would want to get caught up on the previous 23 of each first

Sterno

So does this mean that ITGs are going away, or just that Jeff is making rehashing what everyone's already discussed.

Grace Note

@ThomasMcDonald Well, I'm no Wordpress guru, but if my understanding is correct, a lot of plugin-recommendation type questions can actually become useful questions by just changing to focus on not "What plugins do X", but instead on the problem of doing X.

user30

8:56 PM

I dunno how many Gaming had at the time of burnination, but I would expect a few can be salvaged.

OrigamiRobot

@IanPugsley Wheely Chairs is a good band name

Ian Pugsley

@OrigamiRobot not bad, not bad

Ronan Forman

@Raven Not quite the quote. But yeah.

Raven Dreamer

I saw an opening to insert Minchin, and I took it.

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