« first day (663 days earlier)      last day (4376 days later) » 

user2334
8:00 PM
And what genius decided that alpha sort needs to be broken up into multiple sections? Let me browse through everything, not "A-L", then "M-Z"
 
Hm. I hope Anna asks more dwarf fortress questions
 
1
Q: Shank installation problem

Francescoafter several attempts I was not able to install Shank.I've download the bin and .deb (for 64bit architecture) files. The bin shows this message on launch: "No such file or directory". The Deb not installed correctly. If someone managed to find a solution or workaround to install this game I hope...

 
user2334
@Wipqozn fecundity?
 
@MarkTrapp Yes.
 
user2334
8:02 PM
fantastic!
 
@Wipqozn you are now at -2 for today. At this rate you will get animated gif in NEVER years.
 
oops
 
gonna have to work harder.
 
I have a had habit forgetting to press ctrl+c to copy things. Too used to working in Putty
 
8:09 PM
@RavenDreamer Thanks.
 
@Wipqozn Ok Stop that, I must work.. You are trolling me with comics that only give half chuckles :P
 
@James That's why I keep this chat closed at work. It's too distracting.
You people are too wonderful.
 
@Wipqozn am I too wonderful?
 
@agent86 Yes.
 
8:16 PM
you earned it
 
-1
A: Finding lost Ocelots?

user25102I have a question regarding how to get rid of snowgolems in your house. Can you please answer?

 
@agent86 My word! There was a gif!
 
@Wipqozn with explosions!
 
No! My chat has been working all day and now it kerflewies! :(
 
-1
A: Finding lost Ocelots?

user25102I have a question regarding how to get rid of snowgolems in your house. Can you please answer?

Why is this answer still here.
 
8:20 PM
@GnomeSlice A mod hasn't got around to deleting it yet.
 
@GnomeSlice because you posted it like... 30 seconds ago.
 
@agent86 4 minutes actually. Burn.
 
testin' testin' testin'
 
o.O Did you subscribe to my youtube @RonanForman? :)
 
turns out neon abuse makes maps slow to build
 
8:22 PM
Whaat?
 
who woulda thunk adding a ton of light sources would do that
 
Crazy lighting?
Insanity
 
indeed
 
0
Q: How can I display fps count in STALKER:SoC?

F.S.I already found the console and tried things like fps 1, show_fps, /fps and /fps on, but nothing worked yet. I guess there is some command to display how many fps I have but how is it named? I use no mods or something.

 
8:23 PM
@Wipqozn You just posted that.
 
I'm drawing a strange pleasure from making a maze where the floor is entirely portable but neons in the ground means you can't portal anyway
 
@GnomeSlice Damn it!
 
"but it's WHITE!"
 
THERE! ARE YOU HAPPY NOW COPY BUTTON!?!?!?!
 
8:30 PM
@GnomeSlice flag it, and then wait for someone to handle flags
screaming at people is not generally the way in which you get them to do something for you :P
 
@agent86 Isn't that what you're supposed to do?
=[
 
@GnomeSlice handle flags? yeah, when I get a minute, I handle the flag queue.
 
I don't think the user is coming back anyway, he hasn't asked a new question.
 
yeah, we get probably... a dozen or so of those a day.
 
spoile
 
I work in the nerdiest place. We've got this puzzle down in our break room
 
Is that what new magic cards look like?
 
@GnomeSlice that's what Planeswalkers look like
 
Because I have no idea what the +1, -2, and -8 mean.
Oh.
Uh.
Okay.
 
@GnomeSlice Planeswalkers are a different type of permanent - they have loyalty counters (lower right displays the initial number), and their abilities (which can only be used once per turn, at sorcery speed) either increase or decrease their loyalty counters.
They cannot use abilities they do not have enough counters for, and if they hit zero, they "die" (are destroyed).
Any creatures your opponents attack you with can either attack you or any planeswalker you control.
Damage dealt to planeswalkers causes them to lose loyalty counters.
 
8:43 PM
Oh, but you can still block them?
 
Additionally, any non-combat damage that is dealt to a player can be redirected to a planeswalker that player controls.
 
That's confusing.
 
Planeswalkers cannot attack or block.
 
@IanPugsley By the player? Or the attacker.
@IanPugsley Block with other monsters
 
@GnomeSlice yeah, attacking and blocking is normal
 
8:44 PM
@MarkTrapp prices are down to 1$ now
 
So it's like you are more than one player?
 
user2334
@RavenDreamer nice. Will have to see which ones I don't have yet
 
@GnomeSlice Non-combat damage is damage that is dealt outside of combat (i.e. not by damage assigned and dealt as part of the combat damage step).
 
But you still only get one turn.
@IanPugsley Yes. 'attacker' was a bad word.
'whoever caused it'
 
@GnomeSlice yeah, sorta - historically players have been considered planeswalkers by the lore
 
8:45 PM
I'm hoping the real Diablo 3 contest gets announced soon so we can publicize it a bit prior to release.
 
I think I'm going to be following Blizzard's advice and going internet free on Monday since I'm hardcore anti-spoilers.
 
@bwarner ...don't look it up then?
 
@MarkTrapp Of the four on sale, the only one I didn't buy was racers
 
@RavenDreamer None of my business, but what's this?
 
@RavenDreamer ...Don't you already have 'Eden'?
 
@agent86 I jus tlooked at your message on the starred list, and misread it as "play D&D for a chance at prizes. Now you've made me sad.
@GnomeSlice Nope! Only have a PS3 as of... two months ago?
 
@RavenDreamer Steam, dude.
 
It's glistening black carapce lays dormant and empty.
 
Are you not the one who mentioned when it was on sale last?
 
8:48 PM
@GnomeSlice Well, now I have it for the PS3.
I was not
 
@GnomeSlice Exactly, no Diablo related sites (which includes this one since I'm sure people will immediately start asking questions once the spoiler sites are up)
 
Oh, maybe it wasn't you.
PixelJunk shooter looks awesome, I heard about it a long time ago.
I don't have a PS3 though. =[ Well, my dad does.
But he doesn't like the PSN store, and I don't blame him.
 
I find it pretty straight forward nowadays
 
@RavenDreamer What's your name?
 
@Ullallulloo RDreamer
 
8:54 PM
wat
 
bah
this room's been compiling for the best part of a hour now
at 100% too
cancels
 
@RavenDreamer :( maybe you need to head over to board and card games?
 
Hey guys, we need your help backing Two Guys from Andromeda's SpaceVenture over on Kickstarter!
 
ugh, I love the voice actor for Kyon in the dub of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, but Haruhi is so bad.
 
9:00 PM
@agent86 brain getting soft, old man?
 
@IanPugsley hm? what's that, sonny?
 
Argh.
They're going to have ruined Gravity rush with stupid touch and motion controls...
 
@Wipqozn My only experience with that was a short scene from when Haruhi bullied the computer club into getting a computer via threats of sexual harassment suits.
 
@RavenDreamer It's a really good show.
 
@IanPugsley Would you be interested in meeting me sometime in the next few weeks?
 
9:03 PM
@RavenDreamer ...The computer club didn't have a computer?
 
@Rahul mmm, I don't know. I'm tempted. Not as tempted as some of the others, but tempted.
 
@agent86 What's stopping you?
 
@GnomeSlice No, she bullied the computer club so she could take one of their computers
 
Oh.
 
@Rahul I fear either the world or my tastes may have moved on :)
 
user2334
9:07 PM
@IanPugsley can emblems be destroyed? Reading the official rules (PDF), it makes it seem like that they are untargetable (since they're not permanents or cards). If that's the case, the card GnomeSlice linked seems a bit OP.
 
@IanPugsley More than once I've asked a question on RPG and gotten blowoff answers along the lines of "Make it up!" or "Don't worry about it!". Frustrating!
-1
A: How can I make sure I'm awarding the right amount of honor at the end of a session?

SevenSidedDieThe per-level guideline is just that: a guideline. It's a self-check after the fact to make sure that something hasn't gone wrong. Just award honour after each session as you deem appropriate, according to the guidelines in the chart. If after a level you find that the amount of honour given out...

 
@MarkTrapp I thought draw3cards got shut down?
 
@Rahul you involved?
 
user2334
@GnomeSlice No, just the Area 51 proposal they made. They have been allowed to run through 2012 while they figure out what to do
 
9:10 PM
@agent86 That's entirely possible :)
@badp Yep
 
@Rahul what are you doing for it?
 
@agent86 I'm with Q42, the company mentioned all the way at the bottom of the page
 
@Rahul ahh, gotcha. very cool.
 
@RavenDreamer Yeah, definitely.
 
@Rahul well, I'll tell you what, count me in :)
 
9:13 PM
@MarkTrapp They cannot, but activating the "ultimate" (highest loyalty cost) ability of planeswalkers is very rare.
 
@agent86 Awesome, thanks!
 
@Sterno RPG has some interesting scope issues as well
 
once upon a time I owned all the SQ series, although I misplaced my disks long ago.
 
@IanPugsley It's just weird to see a 14k user give an answer that basically dismisses the entire question.
Although at this point it's making me think it's probably a problem with the question.
 
@agent86 Yeah, same here. I rebought all of them from ebay for like, $5 each
 
9:15 PM
A lot of it comes down to people who don't have experience with the system/medium, but you get that with any answer.
People without personal experience just taking a shot at an answer usually leads to bad answers.
 
Yeah, I really wanted to ask "Have you even played the game?" but that would have been rude(r)
 
user2334
@IanPugsley Ah I see
 
:4526561 I mentioned earlier - a planeswalker's abilities may only be used once per turn, at sorcery speed (so only during your main phase, with nothing on the stack)
 
user2334
Yeah, just saw that :P
 
I've got a green deck.
 
9:17 PM
@RavenDreamer we should try to do something for HeroesCon (in late June)
 
Oldish, though.
 
@Rahul I at one point owned a "collection" CD, (2 CD set?) but I have probably misplaced this as well. Seems like (if you didn't care about "authentic" disks) that would be the cheaper route.
someone a few weeks ago was asking SQ1 questions, and I learned something about defeating the Orat I never knew was possible...
 
@agent86 I just wanted the original boxes with the manuals and such
 
SQ?
 
@Rahul indeed. I think I may still have the SQ4 hint book, ordered direct from Sierra.
@GnomeSlice Space Quest (old school Sierra adventure game series)
 
9:19 PM
@agent86 Yes! And the Space Quest Companion book :D
 
0
Q: How can I have multiple Minecraft installs?

tombull89I'd like to have at least three different Minecraft installs - one Minecraft Vanilla, one FiniteWater modded, and one the latest snapshot (where everything is ran as a SMP server). Is there a utility or method to have the .jar files for each stored in different places, or some soft of install man...

0
Q: Most efficient method of getting Crobat in Pokémon HG SS?

Garmen1778I would like to know what is the best efficient method to get Crobat in Pokémon Crystal, Gold, Silver, Soul Silver or Heart Gold. I have tried to make my lvl 51 Golbat happy, but it don't evolves, and I don't know what to do now. I need a form of getting a Crobat in less than 2 days. Thanks.

 
I had a friend who rage-quit Space Quest when he found out that he couldn't beat a puzzle because he forgot to pick up a piece of glass from his crashed shuttle's windshield early in the game
Good times!
 
@Sterno That's a terrible decision for the devs to have made.... why did they do that?
That's just dumb.
 
@GnomeSlice this is back in the day, mind you. There were lots of ways to lose the old school Sierra games by missing something early on
 
Hay wait a minute!
 
9:24 PM
I remember Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, you had to buy a cheese sandwich in the pub and feed it to a dog in the first half hour, or you'd lose right near the end - and it was a totally random thing to do in the game.
 
My dad's got this. I tried it when I was a kid.
It's one of the SQ games. Cool!
Couldn't figure out how to get past the third room or so.
 
@GnomeSlice that is indeed a space quest game, given that it's written in big bold letters on the top of the box.
 
I couldn't figure it out.
 
actually it's probably my favorite game of the series.
 
I remember it had an energizer bunny in like the first room though.
 
9:25 PM
I love the "you didn't get that one thing back there so you can't continue" thing in Space Quest. It's terrible game design, but it's also part of the nostalgia/puzzle style
Same thing with the maze monster in SQ2. What an asshole.
 
@GnomeSlice well, I bought the hint book, so that should tell you how well I did at it :)
 
The SQ2 remake actually made fun of that pretty well
 
@agent86 Really? What do you do in that room where the zombie comes and screams at you, then you get zapped?
I don't have the game installed, just curious.
It's like the second or third room.
 
You don't, you have to avoid the zombie
 
@Rahul you know - that's actually something I used to answer a question, back when we did identify-this-game questions. That maze monster is the only way I knew what game they were talking about.
 
9:26 PM
He was the stuff of nightmares for me when I was 9 :D
 
@Rahul Yeah, he scared the shit out of me.
 
By the way, my colleague created sarien.net where you can play the first game in each Sierra series online with multiplayer
Nice trip down memory lane if you're interested
 
YES, THAT GUY
JESUS CHRIST
 
and holy crap, this is on steam. okay, marking that for the summer sale...
 
9:29 PM
@agent86 Wait, no it says it's a different game at the top.
 
@GnomeSlice yeah, SQ4 had time travel
 
Space Quest IV actually doesn't take place in Space Quest IV
at all
except in the intro
 
so sometimes you were in SQ12, and sometimes in SQ4, and sometimes in SQ1
 
Lol, what?
Wait, does the zombie guy come back?
Also, what's with his hand in that pic.
 
@GnomeSlice go play the game, and you'll figure it out :P
 
9:30 PM
SPACE QUEST X: THE LATEX BABES OF ESTROS I had no idea what that meant as a kid. Now... I get it
 
it's kind of a joke
 
@agent86 Not sure where it is.
@Rahul What, the 'estrogen' reference?
...Not sure where latex fits in there.
 
@GnomeSlice That and a lot of the other stuff they reference in SQX
I didn't even know what latex was
 
so it seems this thing doesn't want to compile at all
 
I just figured it was a planet or something
 
9:31 PM
@Rahul Adult in nature?
 
@GnomeSlice Yeah, but adult in the sense that as a kid you just don't get the joke
Not adult in terms of R rated or anything
 
Right.
 
@Rahul, what remake of SQ2 were you talking about?
also, the black cauldron, man... I sucked at that game so bad
 
@agent86 The fanmade one that came out in January: infamous-adventures.com/home/index.php?page=sq2
 
I think I finally finished it long after it's prime, on a dosbox emulator
 
9:33 PM
The Black Cauldron was weird! No typing, just pressing F buttons? Wth?
Oh man, Space Quest 0 was so great too
 
@Rahul yeah, whoever designed that interface should have been shot.
I think I wrote up a review of that game for HOTU
 
Yeah, I'm not sure how I'd even play it now.
 
and okay, I need to play this SQ2 remake.
@Rahul I feel like I saw that, but didn't really get a chance to play it
okay, nostalgia overload :D
 
Imagine how I felt when I found myself on a skype call with the two guys
 
@GnomeSlice probably dosbox, although getting it off the floppies might get tricky
@Rahul drool
 
9:36 PM
@agent86 We have it on a CD, I'm certain.
 
I think I said something about that when we started getting all these adventure game greats on kickstarter
Apr 2 at 18:01, by agent86
@LessPop_MoreFizz Now we just need Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe (are they still alive?) and we can start this party.
I believe back when Al Lowe announced he was bringing LSL back
 
LSL?
 
@GnomeSlice then it's probably just a matter of DOSBox'ing it.
@GnomeSlice leisure suit larry
 
@agent86 Have to figure out what this is first, then.
Lol... they're still making those?
 
Colonel's Bequest was the best Sierra game
You could go through damn near that entire game without ever figuring anything out
 
9:39 PM
I'm superunhyped for the LSL remake
 
@GnomeSlice dosbox.com - DOS emulator (like a console emulator, but for DOS games)
 
The art doesn't work for me and I don't want a LSL remake, I want a new one
 
You could also think you'd figured stuff out and the game wouldn't really tell you you were wrong
and then you could find out the real story
 
@Rahul yeah, I did not/have not/will not back that one.
 
Games were cooler back then (before the Internet and GameFAQs!)
 
9:40 PM
Sierra always had really inventive copy protection puzzles
Also, trying to get to play LSL1 as a 7 year old or something taught me a lot of general knowledge, like who the president of the US was in 1970
 
I also have quite a collection of lucasarts games
 
And my friend learned English from typing all of those commands
 
I love the list of actions you can do.
 
@GnomeSlice that's not really SFW, can you not one-box it?
 
Including 'codpieces' and 'gigantic erection'.
 
9:42 PM
I wonder which LSL that is. I don't recognize it
Though I think I only played 1 and 3
Man
 
I attempted to play 1 once, and just couldn't get into it.
 
Now I want to play Police Quest
 
@Sterno I think there is a kickstarter for a new one to be made.
 
I played a decent amount of the PQ series, all the SQ series, and bits and pieces of the others
 
Oh god, there are LSL animated .gifs......
 
9:44 PM
In Police Quest, you have to make sure you walk all the way around your vehicle and perform the safety inspection (as the game manual says police officers always do!) or else at some point in the game you get a flat tire and lose
I also liked that if you didn't check in your weapon before entering the jail, a prisoner would grab it and shoot you
good times
and firing your gun in the methane filled sewer made it explode!
and a cane-gun!
BEST GAME EVER
 
@Sterno yeah, there was some crazy attention to realism in that game
I think my parents walked in at one point during the "birthday party" scene
luckily in the 8 bit era, a stripper wasn't really that exciting
 
Yeah, I learned a lot about policework from PQ
In PQ2 you had to do required training with your service weapon or it wouldn't be calibrated correctly and you'd miss the target in a shootout
I never managed to play PQ3.. I should get on that
 
I think PQ3 featured the return of the villain from PQ1
 
No, that was PQ2
 
Hrm
Was 3 the serial killer one?
 
9:47 PM
oh yeah, the main character's girlfriend Marie was a prostitute!
I dunno, I didn't play it :P
 
I guess you probably can't answer if you didn't play it
 
PQ4 might have been the serial killer one, but that one was way different
and then they got all weird and started making tactical SWAT games
 
Hrm, all 4 PQs on GOG for $10
The amusing part is apparently I already bought them there and promptly forgot.
Yeah, PQ4 tried to be photo-realistic or whatever
which looked way worse
I remember that! You could knock the bikes over and start a fight.
 
Guhhh what have you done now I'm on gog.com
heeeeeelp
 
@Sterno PHOTOREALISM
 
9:53 PM
@GnomeSlice Photorealism!
 
Oh right, that stuff.
With animated images of real people.
 
pretty much
 
Does anyone remember the Bill Nye game? Stop the Rock!
 
In retrospect, maybe I should have chosen a less racist screenshot.
 
9:55 PM
Never played it, sadly. Seems awesome!
 
Man, the Bill Nye game was hard.
And kind of scary.
If you failed the Earth was destroyed by a meteor.
Lol.
 
OpenID must be done. Can't log-in via OpenID
 
I am right now...
 

« first day (663 days earlier)      last day (4376 days later) »