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1:02 PM

@fredley Did my second comment about your plot ID answer make more sense, by the way? I don't think I was clear enough the first time around, sorry about that.

I really don't understand people not agreeing that a question's content should be mostly talking about the game you want information on.

Hmm?

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A: Questions about characters across similar games

I think asking rec questions within a single game (possibly series) is fine, but cross-game recs can get tricky. Try to use information from the game you are asking about. Comparing to other games is fine, as long as that other game is not the bulk of the content. In the case of this specific q...

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@Ronan lol splinter

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@TimStone hahahahahaha. good effort.

1:11 PM

Didn't help that I apparently forgot how to spell there for a moment. I was going to try and illustrate that helper word, but I didn't think any attempts to draw hydrophobia and such would turn out very well, heh.

@OrigamiRobot Ah. Well I certainly agree that additional information to describe what's actually being asked is better than just a cross-game comparison, since leaving it at just that limits the question's utility to people who have played both games. Beyond that, I don't have much opinion one way or the other right now, since I need to head to work.

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Also I have just discovered the cause of my eye pain is a rather agressive looking stye on the inside of my eyelid. >:

@TimStone I think so. Basically what that answer needs is for someone to try it

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And not my teeth.

@ThomasMcDonald uuugh those are never fun

Hot washcloth compress

@ThomasMcDonald styes are the absolute worst

1:17 PM

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A: What is the maximum level a character can reach in Borderlands?

I am level 51 now, without any DLC, so it's at least 51.

I feel like downvoting new answers to old questions like this that doesn't add anything the previous answers have already

The Mass 3 Missions effect even is almost over

@BenBrocka About time.

I want my TV now :(

@YiJiang seems to me it actually contradicts the rest of the answers, so I wouldn't say it adds nothing.

It says at least 51, which is in line with the other answers

1:22 PM

What is this?

@YiJiang "this answer is not useful" is the downvote tooltip text. The answer is not useful. Ergo...

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Q: How to counter Lycan?

So today Lycan has been released in Dota 2 Beta and I am reading a lot of posts of people that are extremely frightened by him. Many say that the only chance is to pick it first or call "gg" at 20/25 minutes when he comes out of the forest. If you play Captain's Mode you can permaban him, but ho...

@BenBrocka Yeah, I just don't usually downvote answers that are technically correct

@YiJiang It's a bad answer though. It doesn't add anything and I suspect it's also flat out wrong, because if you don't have any of the DLC, your cap should be 50.

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@FAE Thank you muchly

1:23 PM

And to be fair, this doesn't do anything in as much as, say getting the answerer to actually delete the answer

@FAE not anymore, it's now 58 without DLC

@JuanManuel I'm trying to clean up the trivia tag. There's not really a good alternative tag for that question, so if it were to mysteriously disappear, I really wouldn't mind :P

@StrixVaria Garbage. I hate trivia

@BenBrocka Ah yeah that's true. Either way, saying "it's at least 51" when we don't know the person has even finished leveling up is... not very authoritative.

I love trivia.

1:26 PM

@StrixVaria yeah, all closed questions (other than dupes) are subject to deletion in some point in time

I didn't realize we had a "trivia" tag

Some sooner than others

@BenBrocka Also if for some odd reason, you haven't patched at all, you're stuck at 50.

@BenBrocka We had for a pretty long time

@JuanManuel Well if this one doesn't get deleted right now, what should I retag it to?

1:26 PM

Some interesting, and a few terrible questions in the mix

It's not keeping the trivia tag.

@FAE I guess, I question the validity of supporting that though

I'm not getting rid of any of the good questions, just the stupid tag itself.

@StrixVaria poof

@StrixVaria What say you?

1:27 PM

for the record, you can vote to delete immediately after closure with 20k

@JuanManuel I can't wait!

@ThomasMcDonald Hot compresses are pretty much the best way to go for styes, should help it drain naturally. If it keeps going for more than a few days or a week after you've started doing the compress stuff, you may wanna call a doctor. They usually fix themselves though.

@BenBrocka Considering how broken vanilla was, yeah. :P Either way "at least 51" is still a poor quality answer.

According to @Oak's comment on the now-deleted question, this and possibly this (but I'm not 100% sure about the second one) should also be closed/deleted.

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Q: How do we feel towards specific questions about the history of a certain game mechanic?

Could not find this on here, sorry if it is. As a specific example, this question about the earliest game with a major escort component. OP even doubts if it fits here, however, the question seems to have a well defined scope and the potential answers, though they might be less specific than som...

discussion allowed-questions

@FAE well honestly I'd say that we should assume all people are on the latest patch when patches are free and easily availible. It's different with old games that have patched copies but you can't update your old copy

I don't think pc is needed here

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Q: What is the maximum level a character can reach in Borderlands?

What is the maximum level that a character can reach in Borderlands for PC without any of the DLC installed, and with all of the DLC installed?

1:30 PM

@BenBrocka That's true.

especially considering Minecraft, we'd have a billion stupid edge cases and bugs to factor into answers if we considered the whole backlog

@BenBrocka You weren't around when we had to nuke like all the minecart questions when they changed the functionality I don't think, haha.

hah, no I wasn't. Man minecarts were a pain in the ass with those boosters

my new fav game: Werewolf!

I'm hoping I can even get the tv. "Everyone is eligible regardless of geographic location, but if you live in an area of the world where it’s too difficult for us to ship you your prize, we’ll figure something else out." has me worried. :(

1:34 PM

@FAE in which case, you can buy the tv yourself, and we'll reimburse you. that should take care of the shipping problem.

@Jin Oh. Oh, okay. I am less worried now!

whoa 8 people beat mission 6..

you guys so hardc0rn

@Jin Though also I'm slightly worried that all of us sitting on the Admiralty now just broke Gaming's budget for the year. :P

@Jin a video game or the mafia-esque social game?

@IanPugsley the latter

1:35 PM

@IanPugsley My friends and I play that as a forum game sometimes. It's fun.

@FAE That is a lot of TVs

i played it for the first time at SxSW, with the best possible group of people.. it was awesome.

@JuanManuel chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3934262#3934262

@FAE They set the # of prizes they were willing to dole out, I'm sure they didn't overspend their budget given they're not even handing out 100% of prizes in any tiers (I think)

And only ONE person is even getting tier 5

lemme tell ya, that Ben Huh dude, (CEO of Cheezburger empire) is a troll master

1:36 PM

@BenBrocka That's true, though they didn't expect to give out any tv's.

@Jin Yeah, the ways you can meta-game that game can be very fun.

@FAE that kind of surprises me

hmm what should I do for Diablo 3 promo??

@FAE Really?

@Jin Give it to people how have unsubed from WoW the longest?

Mar 7 at 15:10, by Grace Note

@Fabian Currently we've got a running pool for 0 TVs.

1:38 PM

@BenBrocka Not if we coordinate more voting!

@Jin Hardcorn? Hmmmm, sounds like PvZ

@TylerShads Hi, my name is Jin. I'm a former WoW addict. been cleaning for 5 years now.

@FAE "Hey people! If you play this video game enough, ask and answer good questions, and get lots of people to see it, we will effectively give you hundreds of dollars!"

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@TomWijsman Nice avatar

I am not surprised in the least

1:39 PM

@IanPugsley Haha yeah

@IanPugsley I like this side of SE. A lot.

@fredley: Thanks. :)

@IanPugsley "Oh, you mean something I was going to do anyway?

@Jin only 1 year, 2 months for me...that's cause I was excited about cata....got to 85 and was thoroughly disappointed

@Jin Wow, you must have really neglected your hygiene...

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1:40 PM

@OrigamiRobot Most people on tier 4 and above are the main contributors anyway

@FAE I think they just meant they weren't buying any prizes before anyone earned them

@TylerShads i had to quit. it was a pick between my wife 'n kids or my guild... tough decision.

though they probably weren't expecting 9

@TomWijsman geez, i just tried to click on your chat profile to see a larger image. how many rooms are you in?!?!?!

@BenBrocka thought we were only at 8

1:41 PM

probably not as many as Tim Stone

my shadowpriest used to top the dmg AND healing meter every raid... granted i had like 70% OH...

@Jin you obviously picked your guild, you just haven't played wow from being kicked out of the house.

@FAE close enough

@TylerShads :D

@TylerShads @TomWijsman Occupy all the chatrooms!

1:42 PM

@Jin ouch, 70%? they kill you now for that much OH (mana wise)

@BenBrocka And technically 7 at that, as @agent86 declined a TV.

@TylerShads well, shadowpriest... i also gave out mana..

@FAE @agent86 Really? I can has instead?

@TomWijsman Aw

@Jin they nerfed a lot of SP stuff into the ground...buffed wars finally though was very giddy about being more than a meat sheild

But now they just nerf everything into the ground because its too hard

@fredley Oops, actually 20, the rest I'm just an owner of.

1:43 PM

@TylerShads well, during Burning Crusade, SP was pretty OP imo. but later other casters got better gear. SP's dmg didn't skill too well with gear

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ooh, BuySellAds released a new version. nice.

the most fun I had with my SP was soloing Stratholme

@Jin I remember that. I also remember I wanted a SP because I was jealous of the damage. Got to level 10 n said fuck it n leveld a lock instead

@TylerShads have you ever seen a 5man with 1 lock, 4 sps? it's pure madness

dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, boss dead.

eyes glaze over due to wow talk

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1:46 PM

@BenBrocka ahahaha I was in the middle of typing the same thing

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@Jin what the hell is that from?

alright i'll be quiet about WoW now!

@FAE a Jackie Chan film

@Jin hah, that's awesome

that boss dude is hilarious

1:49 PM

@Jin lol. I'm sure I could confuse people all the same talking about Trickster, the only MMO I ever played

My AP cat could totally solo tut. Needed pots though.

@Jin yeah. I also remember seeing way back in the day a 3man UBRS run with a war, shammy, n rogue

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Q: What are good strategies for an operator in Armored Core 5?

In Armored Core V multiplayer, one player is an Operator which who acts as the the tactical commander, relaying information and commands. Unlike the other members, the Operator does not participate physically in combat. What are good operator strategies? Gameplay example: ...

@Jin I've seen this a couple times, I really want to see this movie

@BenBrocka I had a friend that would play one of those weird Korean-esque MMOs every week (not sure if they were korean, but he would always buy a new pre-paid card every week for some random MMO that I could find little to no info about)

@TylerShads Likely Korean or Chinese. I know Perfect World International's big enough to have those cards in stores.

Maybe Ragnarok Online too, not sure on that one.

1:53 PM

@TylerShads I never bought anything for it but Trickster sure was fun. Lots of those games give lots of incentives for paid stuff though, and lots have prepaid cards, which I guess are for people without credit cards, so their mommies can buy them for them

@FAE Maple Story, maybe?

@FAE never sure either, I just know I'd get an hour rant on why he loves it every week :)

@BenBrocka Hey, at least we don't have to give our SSNs as US players.

@BenBrocka Good way to get easy money, so I can't blame them for it.

@IanPugsley Yeah, I'd imagine that one's big enough too.

1:54 PM

@FAE I know I've seen cards in stores before

@IanPugsley They don't sell them at all over here, so I'm always kind of surprised to see them hanging on endcaps in like, CVS or something when I go back to the states. o_O

@TylerShads yeah. Good incentives and they really knw how to game it. I was so excited when I got some cash for free, I was fairly tempted to buy more cash points

I'm so out of the loop with asian kung fu flicks..

@FAE CVS has everything

@BenBrocka Always. Set. A budget.

1:56 PM

my fav is still Swordsman 2.

@FAE What's a budget? I have a job now but I don't worry much about money yet...I guess Mint sure does make budgets easy though...

@FAE yeah, it's hilarious

@FAE give SSNs for what?!

@BenBrocka It's so easy to spend more than you intend to on those games though.

@BenBrocka For some Korean MMO's, you need to give a Korean SSN upon registration.

@fredley no, you can't has. :P

1:58 PM

@FAE oh, that I know, it's why I limit myself to one in game/app purchase for the most part

@agent86 Aw :-P worth a try

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^ story of my life

And I usually don't even do one, but if a game is free and I really like it I give 'em a little money

@Jin yup

@Jin SE solves the first problem though!

@Jin Leave your job immediately!

@fredley right. genius! i'll email joel right now!

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