The Bridge

12:02 AM

Some people are so stupid

"hey, I should climb over these two barricades preventing me from getting near this polar bear, and stand right in front of the cage!"

FAE

@Wipqozn lol @ Volibear comment

agent86

12:30 AM

@Fredy31 this is like the Halo 2 ARG or something I think

I Love Bees

I Love Bees (also known as ilovebees or ILB for short) was an alternate reality game (ARG) that served as both a real-world experience and viral marketing campaign for the release of developer Bungie's 2004 video game Halo 2. The game was created and developed by 42 Entertainment. Many of the same personnel had previously created an ARG for the film A.I. titled The Beast. I Love Bees was commissioned by Microsoft, Halo 2's publisher. I Love Bees was first advertised by a subliminal message in a Halo 2 trailer; players who investigated the titular website discovered that the pages appear...

Fredy31

Yes it is. I just got informed of this. And I find it incredible.

FAE

@agent86 Wow, I totally forgot about that site.

One of my ex-g/f's was really into that, though she didn't play the games, she just liked the lore.

agent86

@FAE this is how I feel about most ARG's. I think I got over them for the most part, but I used to think they were pretty darn cool

FAE

@agent86 I did the Perplex City ARG thing for a while, had a ton of cards.

Full set of red->purple for Season 1, but then it died partway into Season 2. :(

agent86

@FAE tiddy was pretty deep into the potato sack/portal 2 ARG. I think he walked away with a full set of valve's games

Nick T

12:37 AM

so not much love for faqgames.com? It sounds obscene when said and can easily be mis-read two different ways which both sound obscene as well.

agent86

that was kind of an interesting one, I participated a bit to hasten the release, although I didn't buy much of the games and I didn't really get many potatoes

murgatroid99

@NickT when I saw that I misread it one of the ways and wondered why someone would even suggets it

FAE

@agent86 Yeah, Powerlord did as well, iirc.

murgatroid99

@agent86 I did that too

I didn't get all the Valve games, but I did a lot of the potato sack stuff

agent86

dungeon defenders is playing itself in the background here. getting to wave 15 on survival is like a 3 hour marathon :/

Nick T

12:39 AM

@Wipqozn VOLIBEAR

FAE

@agent86 Preeeeeeeeetty much yeah :/

agent86

@FAE :| I started this when I got home from work and I'm still not quite at wave 14 2.5 hours later, wtf DDers

FAE

@agent86 Yeah, it's really tedious.

murgatroid99

wow, one of my classes has this online site for asking questions about assignments, and one of the TAs responded to something with a lmgtfy link. It makes me sad

agent86

@FAE at least they don't pose much of a threat, at least at this low level on medium. Every 10-15 mins or so I have to repair things, but that's about it

I don't think I'd want to play some of the harder levels to wave 15 though, the monotony would be killer

FAE

12:42 AM

@agent86 Yeah, it's mostly boring.

agent86

@FAE well, occasionally my wife picks up a controller and lays some smack down, and it keeps my son entertained. but yeah, if I could be playing something else I would be :/

I also would not want to do this as a huntress. resetting traps constantly would get quite irritating

Wipqozn

@agent86 Damn it. that phrase makes me want to play Guild Wars 2.

FAE

@agent86 Well with stats, you can get the activation # pretty dang high

Ben Brocka

1:03 AM

@GnomeSlice were you a fan of warhawk? I really loved the PS3 one

John

1:19 AM

finally caved and installed a DOTA-style game

Nick T

Is it LoLs?

Step 1. Install LoLs, Step 2. ???, Step 3. Beat Koreans and win their money.

John

@NickT Alas, LoL refused to work for me.

Nick T

kotaku.com/5893136/…

John

Okay.....really wasn't expecting the banjo music when I quit....

Ok....I only picked out this UN\PW 5 minutes ago....why isn't it working? o.O

enters email to retrieve username: "There is no record of this account in this game. There was an error, please contact support@heroesofnewerth.com"

That's more than a little annoying.

Nick T

HoN? LAAAAAAAME

LessPop_MoreFizz

1:31 AM

So, there is a production of Hamlet in the bronx this summer

which is set to Pearl Jam's Ten.

Mana

what.

Brant

Sweet.

Thanks, EA!

FAE

Wow, that's like the 3rd time that's been posted in here today.

Ben Brocka

lol, that's a new one. Anti-backwards compatability

Brant

Blah blah IT'S NEW TO ME WHATEVER

Wipqozn

1:34 AM

@FAE Probably more than three.

@FAE how is insanely twisted planet?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Brant Thing is, it's probably not even EA's fault.

Liscenses expired, yadda yadda

Brant

Hm. Still pretty lame.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Mana gothamist.com/2012/04/23/…

FAE

@Wipqozn Really fun. It's got a lot of Metroidvania style elements regarding weapon power ups and where you can go and stuff. The art style is very distinctive and the music's great. I really like it.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Brant Definitely, but labels fault, not EA's fault.

Wipqozn

1:38 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz Isn't EA still selling the game in the app store though?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Wipqozn It's still up, but it hasn't been touched in two years.

Wipqozn

@LessPop_MoreFizz They must have touched it to issue that message though.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Wipqozn Didn't have to go through apples servers at all though. Just a push notification.

Wipqozn

BEsides, they would know when the license would expire when releasing the same to buy them. They bought them after all.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Could they do the same for the store page?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Wipqozn And it's mentioned in the EULA that they can revoke access to songs at any time for exactly that reason.

@Wipqozn Nope. Store page requires a price change or an app update and approval by apple.

takes a little while to happen.

Wipqozn

1:45 AM

Ah, I see. Sounds like it might be more of a problem with apple than EA.

I wouldn't put it past EA to pull this kind of thing quite frankly, but in this situation sounds like it has more to do with flaws in the apple store than EA just pulling a dick move or anything.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Wipqozn Well, it's not Apple's problem per se either. It's more just that there's lots of different parties involved, and they probably aren't talking to each other very well.

Wipqozn

by "apples problem" I mean that it sounds like they did a poor job in designing the apple store.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Brant Price yes, your copy on the store, no.

Wipqozn

From the POV of a developer that is

Brant

(never mind, I was thinking of something else)

Wipqozn

1:50 AM

goes to bed

John

@NickT It would seem that at least 18 people disagree.

Lazers

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