The Bridge

James

9:01 PM

@Wipqozn Star Whale!!!

LMFAO.. it changed it to Wipqozn :D

Wipqozn

@James That's because I changed my name back.

James

@Wipqozn Ah, still shows as You're on the left hand side

and it initially shows that name but when it ungreens its back :)

Wipqozn

@James You need to refresh.

agent86

2

badp

wat

James

9:07 PM

@Wipqozn Hopped channels and all is well :)

Ben Brocka

@Wipqozn what the heck is that from?

Wipqozn

@BenBrocka Doctor Who. It's a Star Whale.

Ben Brocka

Oh :|

badp

okay. I'm scared shitless

in Ask Ubuntu General Room, 9 hours ago, by jrg

This is my kind of camping.

Wipqozn

@badp Oh my...

Nick T

9:22 PM

Wipqozn

@NickT Honestly, whenever I see "oh my" I read i in George Takeis voice.

I can't not read it like that anymore.

StrixVaria

@Wipqozn Hey look your name stopped rendering weird.

Ullallulloo

@StrixVaria He fixed it back.

StrixVaria

Ullallulloo

@StrixVaria It just redirects to funnyjunk.com.

StrixVaria

9:30 PM

@Ullallulloo Sucks for you.

Lazers

0

Q: How exactly does Evokations affect attacking with a pole arm?

According to the wiki: Anything which requires the evoke command (v) uses [Evocations], as does evoking (V) wands and using special abilities (a) granted by items. Attacking units 2 squares away with a polearm like a spear or halberd is done by using e(v)oke. What exactly is affected by you...

crawl

0

Q: How to consistently play Demon's Souls with a friend?

I want to consistently play (co-op) Demon's Souls with a friend online. Assuming we are both new to the game... 1) What is the earliest we can start playing together? 2) How can we play together? 3) How can we ensure we stay connected as long as possible?

demons-souls

Wipqozn

dude

1

demons-souls dark-souls

Such high-quality answers.

-1

A: How much are each of the different souls worth?

go to the wiki of demon souls and check the consumables page each soul having a specific amount of souls gained on their extremely short article stating the in-game desciption of the item and amount of souls gained when consumed

Is this considered "Not an answer"?

I think it should be, but not sure what the official stance is.

StrixVaria

@Wipqozn Probably depends on what mod you ask.

Nick T

I'd say it "is", just extremely bad

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria Probably.

So I just need to find the right mod. tortoise shades

-1

i'm a battlemage and i just went to the valley of defilement to get a morning star to then go to shrine of storms to use the blunt weapon i just acquired to kill the skeletons there if you have a high enough magic skill it might be worth it to just go through and get the crescent falchion as many...

I'm trying to figure out what he is saying so I can comment.

James

9:48 PM

@Wipqozn Ive never played the game, but it looks like he said almost exactly the same thing as the accepted answer did.. just not as clear with level ids

Wipqozn

@James He really, really isn't.

His entire answer is one giant run-on sentence.

I'd take a crack of fixing it but everyone one his answers is like that.

James

Generally you want to plan your route based on your class.

i'm a battlemage

Nick T

I'm Batman

Wipqozn

He's trying to say what he did.

James

That having been said, I would personally go something like 1-1, 1-2 (1-2 is really quick), 4-1 (so you have access to a good farming spot, plus the regen ring and crescent falchion)

if you have a high enough magic skill it might be worth it to just go through and get the crescent falchion as many enemies are weak to magic,it doesn't use your magic,and it regenerates it speaking of regenerating the regenerators ring is great

Wipqozn

9:51 PM

It's a blog post.

James

He is, as far as I can tell, just using the exact level names not the 1-2 4-1 Ids, but his path is almost identical focusing on the items you are getting

Wipqozn

First, the accepted answer is terrible.

fredley

A cat just sauntered into our house

so cute

I want a cat

Wipqozn

So you can't compare his answer to the accepted to justify it.

James

Um

You never asked for Justification

You asked what he was saying

I said he was saying the same thing the accepted person did :P

steals-tortoise-shades-and-puts-them-on

Wipqozn

9:53 PM

He's not saying the same thing the accepted answer is though.

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Q: What should we do with answers containing only a link to relevant information?

Stack exchange frowns on answers containing only a link, even if it's to relevant information, because: It requires extra effort from the reader It is vulnerable to link rot The stated goal of Stack Exchange is to host content, not just link to it A common approach to these answers is to leav...

discussion allowed-answers

His other answer is just a link without the link basically

James

Sorry man, once those shades are on, nothing else can be said. You should know that ;)

Raven Dreamer

@badp I have bested your bit.trip beat: Transition score!

Bam! In your face!

badp

Grats! How much?

Raven Dreamer

1,200,000 ish

(you're at 780,000) for reference

badp

uh...

Raven Dreamer

10:06 PM

It's those blasted pink beats. >:(

Get me every single time.

@badp (my record before was 756,000)

badp

steamcommunity.com/id/badp/stats/BitTrip/…

↑ 10m

Raven Dreamer

steamcommunity.com/id/badp/stats/BitTrip/…

I'm playing on Normal.

badp

oh wait, wrong song

@RavenDreamer I wonder how to translate my 16 million points on easy to Normal then. :)

Raven Dreamer

Also, I'm missing a zero from both our scores

badp

I guess there's only one way to find out.

Yeah, 12m on normal is probably more than 16m on easy.

How many beats was your first streak long?

Raven Dreamer

10:09 PM

600+. I made it all the way into the 6th phase before missing one (boss is the 8th phase)

multiplyer was at 58 when it finally dropped, some time beyond that.

That stuff adds up pretty darn quick

badp

Awesome. Definitely better than what I fared. I am defeated and content.

@RavenDreamer So you got that achievement.

I calculated you can't get the 100× achievement in Transition, it's too short.

or rather, not enough beats.

Raven Dreamer

@badp I should have. Not sure if it popped up or not.

Oh, duh

yeah, "most recently unlocked"

"Adept: achieved a multiplyer of 50+ on Normal difficulty"

badp

Also I'm pissed off that I didn't get ENDURANCE.GAMER when I did play through all thrtee songs in a row :/

I didn't try again though.

I'm also one challenge short of CHALLENGE.MASTER. Stupid Desent :/

Raven Dreamer

For Endurance gamer you also can't lose and restart

Is there a way to check which challenges you've mastered?

badp

not sure

Sterno

10:17 PM

No Avernum: Escape from the Pit questions yet. Sadness.

Wipqozn

@Sterno then ask one, gawd. You kids have no respect!

StrixVaria

I don't have 39 minutes to dedicate to something related to ME3.

Good thing you deleted that. Things that don't relate to me don't relate to anyone.

Wipqozn

Apparently this (maybe nsfw) is a good video about why the ME3 ending was terrible.

@StrixVaria Just wanted to be able to fix my increasingly terrible sentence.

StrixVaria

@Wipqozn Have you tried Crawl yet?

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria I tried it ages ago.

StrixVaria

10:29 PM

In a few minutes I'm about to get on my laptop and play Crawl all night while watching the Devils.

Wipqozn

I just haven't devoted a lot of time to it.

StrixVaria

Ah ok.

Wipqozn

I think I first played it ~a year ago

StrixVaria

Every time I get to the lair, I'm killed by a hydra.

Wipqozn

I just didn't play it for anymore than 30 minutes.

StrixVaria

10:29 PM

I'm beginning to develop a complex.

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria I can imagine.

StrixVaria

Flaming weapons are good against hydras because then they can't grow their heads back.

I had an axe skill of 17 and a flail skill of 0.2, and I was using a flail instead of my flaming axe, because I'm retarded.

Wipqozn

You kids and your melee characters.

StrixVaria

Whenever I play a caster I get slaughtered on the first 2 levels.

Wipqozn

real warriors stay on the other side of the room! very manly. tortoise shades

StrixVaria

10:33 PM

I'm trying to get good as this kind of character and then once I get bored or beat the game I'll switch it up to a caster or something.

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria Yeah, in most roguelikes casters are the one with the steepest learning curve and take the longest to become not complete shit.

Most roguelikes have a point where if you manage to survive to with your caster, you become god like.

James

Haha

Final episodes of Ultra Hardcore S04 from Mindcrack are up

StrixVaria

Yeah from all the stuff I'm reading, melee characters have a tough time with the end-game, and casters have a tough time with the early-game.

Wipqozn

Archers in ADOM are really, really amazing. FAvourite class in the game. They become so effective at higher levels.

Only way you'll die is if you're really careless.

StrixVaria

I tried an archer or two in ADOM.

I had trouble when they closed the gap on me.

I wonder if there are penalties for using ranged attacks at point blank range like there are in D&D...

Wipqozn

10:35 PM

/there probably is.

StrixVaria

Also you're Canadian and I mentioned hockey and you didn't even notice. That's weird.

Wipqozn

I dislike Hockey.

It's so boring.

StrixVaria

:(

I think that about almost every sport.

Wipqozn

Most Canadians like it though. I'm just special.

@StrixVaria I think that about the boring sports. Which is just about anything other than Curling, Squash, Tennis, and Badminton.

StrixVaria

Curling is stupid, squash is stupid (racquetball is better), I like watching tennis, and I've never seen professional badminton.

Wipqozn

10:39 PM

@StrixVaria I normally don't watch sports, and I'm sure pro badminton would be boring to watch

StrixVaria

Probably.

If you're talking about playing sports, then all of those are probably really fun.

Wipqozn

oops, I just added "wathc" to my dictionary.

StrixVaria

I say probably because I've never actually played curling, but I imagine it's fun.

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria That's what I meant.

@StrixVaria Nor I actually, but it's very high on my list of things to do.

Just need to get people who all want to try it.

need ~8 people

since I'd rather not play with a team who knows wtf is going on first time I play.

Ullallulloo

puts up anti-crash shields

Fredy31

10:45 PM

dodges crash shields

crashes through @Ullallulloo

Wipqozn

Stack Exchange Gaming Blog: The Greatest Game You Never Played

tzenes on August 25, 2010

I love that quote

If you’ve never heard of Sacrifice, the title should be a bit of a dead give away. If, by some miracle, you did hear about it, or even play it once or twice, it’s probably only a vague memory. To those few of us who played and loved this game, it holds a special place in our hearts. If you are one of those lucky few, you may skip this article and go with the sound knowledge that you did right. On the other hand, if you never heard of Sacrifice, or did, but never played it, I have a short exercise for you. I want you to raise your right hand (or left for those …

On sale on GOG

LessPop_MoreFizz

Oh shit the Alabama Shakes record finally came out.

Do you like Janis Joplin? Because Brittany Howard isn't Janis Joplin, but you'd be forgiven if you made the mistake when listening:

@fredley I've seen that before. Pretty funny.

fredley

@Wipqozn This is how I picture anyone with a pony avatar

Wipqozn

11:00 PM

@fredley What if they're a woman?

fredley

@Wipqozn Same really, to be honest

Wipqozn

@fredley I suppose they could just use the other end of the flashlight.

fredley

...Or just buy a different device...

I'm about to play Braid, anyone played it?

Wipqozn

@fredley <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

I should play through that again sometime.

I've only played through it three times.

fredley

@Wipqozn I read this and had to buy immediately.

Ben Brocka

11:07 PM

Has anyone gotten Fez yet?

Oh wait, it's 360 only

Lazers

0

Q: Is there a way to save Airi's Father?

So I found Airi's father bleeding on the ground after he accidentally summoned some high level demons. I wasn't sure exactly when the event was opened up but I did it at 1700. My previous save was 5 hours ago (at 1200) and I'm wondering if I could have saved him if I made it on time.

devil-survivor-2

EBongo

@agent86 I think I'm going to hit 10k with this one:

2

Q: How do you breed the Legendary Monster in Tiny Monsters?

There is a quest in the game to acquire the Legendary Monster. Description: Legendary Find and hatch the mysterious Legendary monster, master of the elements! If you want to breed it, what combination of monsters do you use?

tiny-monsters

Ben Brocka

@EBongo surprising for a copycat game

EBongo

@BenBrocka It's on the top 25 free apps on the app store

Wipqozn

►

Ben Brocka

11:12 PM

huh

EBongo

@BenBrocka Did your Bloom question hit 10k?

Ben Brocka

27k

EBongo

Crushed it

I think another thing that makes the Legendary Monster question intriguing is that there is still not an answer, anywhere, on the net.

Ben Brocka

Wow, jeff himself fixed a link-only answer:

gaming.stackexchange.com/posts/62176/revisions

EBongo

There is one guy on Gameteep who claims to know how, but refuses to publicly post, and appears to be a hacker.

Ben Brocka

11:16 PM

@EBongo huh, thats probably why the traffic, in addition to the higjh rank

must be a new game?

EBongo

@BenBrocka I actually think it isn't that new, but they must have made a major update recently. Also, I think it was featured on FreeAppaDay. I think that caused it to move up the ranks a lot. I just found it in the top 25.

@BenBrocka Hmm... details: Tiny Monsters was released before 1.0.2 but was only available to a limited number of people in different parts of the world. Players have noted that in 1.0 and 1.0.1 that there has been price changes with the release of each versions. If you find that the price are not matching to your version then please disregard it. However the breeding of the monsters for Tiny Monsters are mostly the same for all versions.

Ben Brocka

is it actually any good?

James

Hey all

I just got The Yearling badge

Ben Brocka

You mentioned it uses dark patterns which makes me not even want to look at it

@james haha you're old

James

And unless I am counting wrong.. I am like 8 days short?

348 days

murgatroid99

11:22 PM

@James your profile page says you've been a member since april 13 last year

LessPop_MoreFizz

@James Yearling != Fanatic

James

Oh I was looking at teh Visited count.. Not the member since

Well WOoT

Yearling badge on friday the 13th :D

EBongo

@BenBrocka What are "dark patterns" exactly? It is certainly nefarious. It seems a grand social experiment by Tiny Co - note the pricing differences for example. To me it is very equivalent to DragonVale except it is much more boring, and everything takes longer. Even if you wanted to spend money to speed things up you better be rich , because things cost an absurd amount (at least in my version :) )

@James Gratz!

Ben Brocka

@EBongo UX jargon: wiki.darkpatterns.org/Dark_Pattern

@EBongo actually dragonvale's costs are pretty douchey for Dragons, it's like $300 for a Rainbow dragon

Yi Jiang

fez - have a look at the questions and the voting pattern

Ben Brocka

11:24 PM

of course the result is just no one actually buys them that wy

Wipqozn

@BenBrocka Don't have time for a 30 minute video. tl;dr version?

Ben Brocka

@Wipqozn oh, sorry, thought that was the text description: wiki.darkpatterns.org/Dark_Pattern

It's abusing psychology and design to trick people into buying things, subscribing or generally fullfilling a business's goals via manipulation of users

Yi Jiang

Is the accusation of question seeding valid? And should the user be downvoted for it?

Wipqozn

@YiJiang ?

oh, sean.

James

@EBongo Thanks :)

@BenBrocka Yeah I have to say Dragon Vale's pricing scheme, either in game money or out of game money.. is really .. well moronic

They penalize you Heavily for long running tasks

Ben Brocka

11:36 PM

Eh, the pricing is just fine except for the dragons., though food and cash are retardedly expensive in real money

it's a casual, persistant world game, you're supposed to have long running tasks

murgatroid99

@YiJiang I think the problem is that at first glance it kind of looks like he is not writing very good questions (no effort before asking => downvotes)

James

@BenBrocka yeah but your long running tasks arent supposed to be 1/3rd or more less effective than the other tasks

Ben Brocka

@James what, you mean the food? All of these games are like that

you use long running food tasks because you're away for a while

James

@BenBrocka AH hA! So you admit its a dragon skinned Farm Vile!? :D

Yi Jiang

@murgatroid99 Yeah, I thought question seeding is fine, but the questions have to be those which people would actually ask

I just can't tell if that is the case here

Ben Brocka

11:39 PM

@James no, farmville isn't the first nor the best game to have a persistant world with long running tasks

It is however the most retarded by the most evil company, so I guess that's worth something

murgatroid99

@YiJiang It's not that people might not actually ask that. The problem is that he obviously didn't even try before asking, so they're not good questions

James

lol

You sound like an anti-mojang (minecraft wasnt first! Infiminer was!.. or whatever it was called)

Wipqozn

@James That's @ardaxi.

James

@Wipqozn They come in all shapes and sizes ;)

Ben Brocka

@James Mojang didn't spam and completely rip off other people's intellectual property to make abusive "social" games which thrive on annoying your friends

So, slight difference there

Lazers

11:41 PM

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Q: What does this light-emitting pillar do?

I'm playing the Necropolis campaign in Might and Magic Heroes 6, and I noticed this pillar/tower-like thing on the battlefields. It seems to have some sort of light coming from it and landing on a specific square. Am I going to get any bonuses (or debuffs) if I put one of my units there? Would...

might-magic-heroes-6

Ben Brocka

Sort of like EA vs any indie developer

James

@BenBrocka Hmm.. I dunno that actually does sound a lot like the minecraft players I know

Wipqozn

@BenBrocka buuurn

@James ..what?

his comment had absolutely nothing to do with the minecraft player base.

James

@Wipqozn WEll Minecraft is a pretty complete ripoff of its predecessors, it has a huge social following which is the only thing that makes the game viable.. and most of the people who play it annoy me :)

Wipqozn

@James You misunderstood what Ben was saying.

James

11:45 PM

Sooo I guess it is just a slight difference but I thought that was sarcasm :)

And he left... Guess he was taking it more seriously than I thought.

Raven Dreamer

Minecraft started as a clone

But then Notch kept programming, and it diverged.

James

Yup

Does anyone know exactly why Ben hates Zynga to such a great degree? I mean I know they treated the company I worked for like dick so I understand why I hate them, but his hatred seems fairly vehement.

Raven Dreamer

'Cause he's a developer himself?

agent86

@EBongo sweeeet

James

Yeah but there are tons of other developers out there to hate just as much. I am wondering why Zynga.

agent86

11:59 PM

also, apparently I'm going to get a free copy of witcher 2 for xbox 360, as long as I review it :)

James

@agent86 Nice, I hear those games are pretty good :)

agent86

I should probably finish the first one now..... :P

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