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7:02 PM
@GnomeSlice Talk about quality!
 
7:19 PM
Afternoon, Bridge.
 
@Fluttershy Afternoon, pony.
 
@Fluttershy Afternoon!
And now, off to lunch!
 
@fbueckert See ya!
Hm... My starred list has disappeared...
 
Aloha
 
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Q: Disgaea Story starting place

QuinmaI am considering picking up the dysgaea series because I enjoy turn based strategy with a fantasy background. Is it okay to start on Dysgaea 3: Absence of Justice or will much be missed from the previous games? Are the stories connected or is like Final Fantasy where the stories are always new ...

 
7:30 PM
I really hate the "will I be missing stuff" questions
Not enough to say they should be VTC'd
but they bug me!
 
@Sterno I asked one of those for The Witcher 2 and it spawned a big argument about whether they should be allowed or something. I really don't have an opinion one way or the other on those questions.
Also I lost that countdown timer again. Could you like it please @Sterno
 
Eventually I'll get a new one that is correct to the hour.
Not sure what time the release is yet
I think my problem with the "Will I be missing stuff? Should I play the first one?" questions is simply in the phrasing. The first answer is almost always "yes" and the second one is "Depends how OCD you are"
 
7:45 PM
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Q: Mists of Pandaria Beta - play, ask, answer, win!

LaurenAnd the winners are... dlanod wins 30 days of free WoW Game Time Adanion wins the WoW Hoodie Koviko wins a video card worth up to $250! Congrats to our winners, and thanks to everyone who participated! Winners will be contacted shortly, via the email addresses provided in their profiles. 2...

Victory!
 
@StrixVaria Updated with correct time: timeanddate.com/countdown/…
 
Is a question like "Are invisible enemy players a sign of corrupted TF2 files?" on topic?
Because I got killed by a completely invisible Kritz Demo who reappeared minutes later. Been getting this since the MvM update and it's driving me insane. I'm thinking reinstalling it would do it, but I'm lazy
 
@BoltClock I'd say, yes. But, I'm not a definitive source.
@BoltClock It might be a hacker, too. Ask and see what answers you get.
 
@Koviko That's what I thought initially, but it happens on any server and to various enemy players
 
Honestly, the worst that can happen is that your question gets downvoted/closed. Then, you just delete it or leave it.
 
7:55 PM
@Sterno This is still entirely too many hours.
I like this view so that you can track the time left to launch in megaseconds.
 
Inflation-adjusted prices of consoles on launch - from Atari 2600 to Wii U. Fascinating.
(Look at the bottom graphic)
 
It is 4 am. I really should not be downloading Black Mesa
 
@BoltClock Do you live in Australia?
 
@BoltClock What's wrong with just setting up the download?
 
@StrixVaria Singapore, whose timezone is pretty close
 
7:59 PM
When you wake up tomorrow, towards midday, you'll have it ready to play!
 
@badp I'm not allowed to keep this thing on overnight :(
 
@BoltClock I was trying to think what was exactly 12 hours off, and I thought Australia was 13 or 14, not exactly 12, but I couldn't figure out what was one time zone closer. Singapore makes sense.
BECAUSE MY TIME IS THE ONE TRUE TIME
Earth Standard Time.
 
Huh. A friend of mine who's typically very profane in their tweets just said they stopped watching Ted because its extreme profanity was a turn-off
 
@BoltClock IT IS ALREADY OVERNIGHT.
 
@badp Touché
 
8:03 PM
@StrixVaria The Correct Earth Time blows the Earth Standard Time off the water.
 
@BoltClock Of all the reasons to stop watching that movie...
I thought the whole thing was a big April Fool's joke when the trailer came out.
 
I hadn't even heard of it until my brother told me about it last week
 
(besides "your" time isn't even EST :P you're still using EDT.)
 
@badp I really hate how EDT lasts like twice as long as EST.
 
(and by "told me about it" I mean made me listen to the thunder song)
 
8:06 PM
@StrixVaria does it?
 
I don't know the exact timings, but EDT is definitely longer.
Let me look into it a bit more.
December, January, and February are the only months entirely within Standard time. April, May, June, July, August, September, and October are entirely within Daylight time.
That's actually even worse than I thought.
 
I guess the truth is we as the western society are night owls
so it makes sense to afford ourselves one more hour of "sunshine" than not.
Personally I vastly prefer when the sky's not deep black when I leave home to start my day. :P
 
@StrixVaria Daylight savings time is such a crock.
 
I mean, today without DST we'd have had sunshine at 0603 and sunset at 1828
which means that the sky starts getting bright at half past five in the fucking morning
 
But if it were standard time, then it would have been half past four instead. Right?
I get confused about time shifting nonsense.
 
8:15 PM
@StrixVaria No, this is what'd have happened with standard time
 
@badp I live in the Great White North. In winter, we get very short days.
 
Since we're using DST, we had sun from 0703 to 1928
 
I wake up, go to work, and come home, all in darkness.
 
Oh ok that makes more sense.
 
which is much better.
@fbueckert Sucks to be you :P
 
8:16 PM
One suggestion is to permanently switch to "Daylight" time, make that the new standard time, and forget the old standard time existed.
 
@badp I'm just pointing out that whatever you're bitching about, I can probably top you. :P
So suck it up, princess. :P
 
@StrixVaria Won't that get us in more DST during the summer? :P
 
@StrixVaria What happened to March?
 
@GraceNote Half and half.
Same with November.
 
@fbueckert I'm not interested in races to the bottom :P
 
8:17 PM
@fbueckert Move to a more reasonable latitude.
 
@StrixVaria Eh. I'm used to it.
 
@fbueckert Savor the excuse of SharePoint whilst you can. And then relish when you cannot use it anymore.
 
@GraceNote I'm getting another couple Sharepoint projects, apparently.
 
@fbueckert The fun just doesn't stop coming!
 
I just spent last week bashing away at trying to get a stupid Cross site collection site map going.
 
8:18 PM
@fbueckert Quick, someone get me @Wipqozn's ridiculous laugh video
 
Finally got it, and now I'm just tweaking it.
 
@fbueckert Ah man, I am way too exhausted right now to type as many As and Hs as I need to respond to this sentence. Or really just the first five words of the last six.
 
Googled "wipqozn ridicolous laugh video", was disappointed.
 
It's also @Mana's, if that helps.
 
@GraceNote My sales manager likes to promise things without realizing how long it takes to figure it out.
 
8:20 PM
 
@fbueckert We used to have salespeople who sold things we didn't offer. Now those people don't work here any more.
 
@badp Thank you
 
@StrixVaria Oh, I can do it. The problem is, I don't really know Sharepoint.
 
Does anyone really know SharePoint?
 
So I spend most of my time trying to figure out how to convince Sharepoint to do something.
 
8:21 PM
 
@StrixVaria If you want to focus on it exclusively, it's got good money in it.
 
Wow. Ow. That hurts to look at.
 
But it's a stagnant career path; you're locked in it.
 
Maybe it's cleaner on your end where my messages aren't in a light blue
 
8:22 PM
@GraceNote Nope.
White on light gray isn't that great either.
 
@GraceNote Every question I ask here, I've bountied to get an answer.
And usually the only answer I get is, "You're doing it wrong."
 
@fbueckert That sounds pretty ill luck
Getting SharePoint help is all the reason to which I ever came here.
 
@GraceNote Seems par for the course for most resources I find for Sharepoint.
They assume you know how to do everything, and just need little tweaks.
So finding basic Sharepoint resources is an exercise in frustration.
 
@fbueckert I tried to find a concise description of what SharePoint is and couldn't, so I believe this.
Even the Wikipedia article was not helpful.
 
Hum. I'd help you if I hadn't managed to get myself off that career path and outside the reach of any machine that has access to any tools which I can use to ever interact with a SharePoint configuration.
 
8:25 PM
@StrixVaria Microsoft + CMS = Sharepoint.
 
Closed source CMSs must be a PITA to work with.
 
@GraceNote Yeah, don't.
 
I mean, open source CMSs are already a PITA.
 
@StrixVaria Essentially, it's just a CMS that has weird Microsoft things on it. Designed for things like "automated workflows", but beyond that, I mean, it's just at heart a CMS
 
At least you can tweak them if you need to.
 
8:28 PM
Sep 10 at 20:42, by fbueckert
Bah. The more I use Sharepoint, the more I hate it. Getting it to do ANYTHING is an exercise in frustration.
 
At any rate Sharepoint.SE really needs more question voting
 
Seriously. Search my chat history for Sharepoint.
 
@badp Needs more participation if what fbueckert's luck isn't just his own
 
@badp The only reason I could bounty those work questions is because of my participation here.
 
I'm perfectly fine with believing you just as much as I believed Grace
 
8:29 PM
@badp Most of it is just me raging at Sharepoint's limitations. :P
 
@fbueckert I'm pretty sure I gave a lot of that on my own time here back at the start
 
@fbueckert I feel charitable and gave you a question upvote in order to get you more irritatingly close to the next bounty :P
I mean, 48 is no 50 but.
 
@badp :P Much appreciated.
Now if I could convince some more of you to upvote my questions, so that I could do my job. :P
The irony in a gaming site helping me do my job is not lost on me.
 
So, @GraceNote, does this mean Evan Carrol's about to become a moderator?
 
If he gets the votes, then he is elected, naturally
 
8:32 PM
So our only hope is absolutely no one voting for him. Great
(3 spots, 3 candidates...)
 
1 moderator spot available
 
oh, I read it wrong
phew. Crisis averted.
I wonder if eventually there just won't be one election where only he shows up to the plate though :P
in one of the fifty-odd sites
 
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Q: EVE Online - Turning a profit with Missions

cornjulioxSo I built an alt that's geared towards combat (my main is a miner), but I'm having trouble turning a profit running missions. I can do level 2 for the Caldari Navy, but they payout isn't so huge, and repair costs tend to drive my bills to the point where I actually lose money with each mission I...

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Q: Addon support in Guild Wars 2

edemDo you know anything about this? I'd like to write some mods but I can't dig up any information about the addon support. Some say that it is not planned. Any information?

 
@Lazers This is in the same boat as "Where do I find information about future patches?"
 
@badp I hate Crysis for making me think you made a spelling error there.
 
8:42 PM
I think I need to go find some of Jim Thio's handiwork and do some facedesking.
Anything to numb this headache that Sharepoint has wrought.
 
Go dive into FTL or summat
 
@GraceNote At work for a bit longer.
THEN gaming. MUCH gaming.
 
Get a pocket device, clearly
 
@GraceNote DS and PSP. But books are a good substitute.
 
Comment withdrawn
 
8:46 PM
Yes exact dupe. I don't get good answer there. So I asked the expert here. Is this appropiate. — Jim Thio Sep 14 at 6:01
Headache numbed!
 
Guh, I lost a crystal in the final wave.
 
My neighbors are idiots...
 
@Fluttershy Welcome to the world!
 
@fbueckert So it would seem. They have a "Todd Akin: US Senate" sign in their yard. He's the one who went on record claiming if a woman was a victim of "legitimate rape", her body would prevent a pregnancy...
 
So, I think I won a GTX 560 Ti. i.stack.imgur.com/fBSPv.jpg
Coincidentally, I used to use a 560 Ti. I just recently replaced it with a $500 video card and gave the video card to my gf.
I wonder if Newegg will take a month late return...
 
9:07 PM
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Q: What's the easiest way to gain the Master of Patience achievement?

Andrzej DoyleOne of the Federation Cruiser's ship-specific achievements is Master of Patience: Use only the Artilery Beam to destroy an enemy ship while taking no hull damage. What is the quickest/easiest/safest way to gain this achievement?

 
Hey, anyone remember this guy (10k+)?
I reported the spam link to adf.ly and they just suspended his account. Whee!
 
Oh man, this has Omegalodon in it?
 
@Brant wee
 
You guys should all get Omegadolon! You can get one game for $0.75 in that bundle.
It would be awesome for game on.
 
9:24 PM
@GnomeSlice Two games for $1.50 was the minimum I thought?
 
@Ullallulloo It says $0.75 is the minimum.
Omegadolon is awesome.
Maybe with this bundle, it will have some more players now.
 
@Ullallulloo Nope, sorry.
@Ullallulloo Oh, that's build a bundle 2.
This is build a bundle 3.
Yeah, I did see that when you posted it, actually.
 
@GnomeSlice Oh, yeah.
@GnomeSlice Yeah, it seems you're right.
 
@badp Mists of Pandaria has no winners.
2
 
9:28 PM
@Ullallulloo Oh, you posted the third one too.
 
Jin
so who here's getting Borderlands 2 for PC via Steam?
 
Man, the Dungeon Defenders DLC is really expensive. There's so much of it.
 
@Jin Probably me, because I seem really good at buying games that I'm only moderately interested in and won't find time to play.
 
Jin
@Sterno I feel ya...
I've been playing Eve Offline for the past 1.5 months...
 
My team is ready!
 
9:37 PM
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Q: How can I increase To The Moon's default resolution?

FluttershyI recently picked up To The Moon while it was on sale on Steam. After owning it for a week and not touching it, I finally decided to fire it up and see how it was. To my dismay, the window was tiny! I didn't seen an options menu to speak of, and have tried manually adjusting the window size; no...

 
@Sterno lulz I am so going to die
or, be mysteriously promoted to commander on the first mission YOU NEVER KNOW
 
I fixed @fbueckert's name for him
 
and it's "spugly pls"
 
@badp They should really re-name the video.
5 hours ago, by GnomeSlice
Is anyone here black?
Oh @GnomeSlice, you character.
 
@Wipqozn Shush
 
9:43 PM
@StrixVaria has a Bravery of 10. It doesn't bode well.
 
@Sterno It is realistic, though.
I will kill all of you and then run back to the Skyranger myself.
 
@StrixVaria So brave.
 
@Sterno Really? Really!?
 
@fbueckert You understand that's how most of us in The Bridge mentally pronounce it, right?
 
9:46 PM
@Sterno I really should just switch to my screenname and be done with it.
 
@Sterno I think spugly went for "f*ckbucket" instead.
 
@fbueckert You're already getting the same effect without getting banned for it!
 
@Sterno Whatever. It's not that important.
 
crahse through something.
 
@Sterno You have to take regular screenshots so we can see how everybody dies.
 
9:50 PM
@StrixVaria I concur with this
 
I named my primary HQ "The Bridge"
It's hard to tell with pixelated graphics, but I think it's centered in Kansas
 
What did Sterno do to fbueckert's name?
 
@GraceNote Fixed it, apparently.
 
@GraceNote "F*ckbert"
 
How?
@MartinSojka Ah
I just pronounce it Alouicious, myself.
 
9:53 PM
With the special character inbetween, I didn't "censor" it.
 
@Sterno Oh, I see now. I take it that 8 is the limit on your crew size?
 
@GraceNote I think 20 is, but you only start with 8.
 
Yeah, not sure about the limit, but 8 is what I started with
I suspect I'll run out of names quickly though.
 
@Sterno I'm fairly certain, from my limited exposure to a LP of the game, that you should recruit more soldiers ASAP.
 
9:55 PM
I wanted it to be "S. 'Baby Puncher' Pugsley" but it wouldn't fit
I was going to give her a stun stick and let her be the one to charge aliens to try to take them alive. The little gray ones look kind of like babies.
 
Though I just pronounce it "F-Bückert" in my head (ɛf-bʏkɛrt in IPA), so don't see the connection.
Oh, and you should START with 20 soldiers.
They'll die like flies at the beginning, unless you are very lucky.
 
@MartinSojka "Just" pronouncing a ü is unwieldy at best.
I have to mentally prep myself to say a word with that in it.
And I still probably do it wrong.
 
@StrixVaria It's almost the same as French "u" in a lot of cases ("chute", "su" and so on), if it helps.
 
You should say pyorremyrskyr in true Finnish fashion, then
 
I do feel it's only fair to give you guys input into how I kill you off.
 
10:02 PM
@Sterno What game is this anywho? FTL?
 
@Wipqozn X-Com.
 
@MartinSojka Oh, I see.
 
Well, I just misclicked and failed to equip any guys beyond default before the first mission
2
so this should be good
 
Classic. :D
 
This game has never heard of tooltips
Look at all those buttons along the button. No tooltips on them!
 
10:08 PM
Night mission? You couldn't wait until daylight, could you?
 
@MartinSojka Gotta separate the men from the boys early!
 
@Sterno ... three of them are women.
 
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Q: What are the the different crew member bonuses?

authenticgeekI picked up a crew member of an alien race at a store (I hope he was for hire and not an alien slave...) and I noticed that they had slightly modified stats from humans. Vivimord is an Engi and he has double repair speed and half combat damage. Do other races have different stats? If so, what ar...

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Q: Kill Holy Roman Emperor?

sciguy1121In Europa Universalis 3, as Burgundy, I have been given the quest to gain the vote of Bohemia for Holy Roman Emperor. I figure that the best way to do this, since I already have 200 relations with them, no infamy, and high prestige, is to become the emperor first. I currently have secured the vot...

 
@StrixVaria Sorry dude. You were the first one off the Skyranger and were killed literally with your first step.
 
Anyway, it looks like you don't have to bother with the left map edge much, since you are on that edge, which is good - one less direction to get shot from.
 
10:10 PM
@Sterno And that's the way X-Com goes.
 
Your Skyranger (or any other of your landing crafts) can't be destroyed or damaged by any of the weapons on the ground, so use it for cover This should get you at least half of your crew out alive. :)
 
Alright, I need to find a game manual to tell me what the buttons do. Then I'll give this another shot
I mean, I just wasted all of spugly pls's actions having her kneel and stand up repeatedly
 
Left column: Float up/Float down. Either in UFO elevators, or with a flying suit.
Second left: View one layer up/view one layer down.
Third: View the map / Stand up or kneel.
Fourth: Inventory / no idea
 
My biggest question: What button do I press to make my guys ready to shoot whatever appears?
 
Fifth: Next controllable character / Mark this character as done for this turn, next controllable character.
 
10:17 PM
@Sterno They do that automatically, if you leave them AP when you end their turn.
 
@Sterno If anyone of them SEES an alien, you get a blinking red square in one of the edges.
Pick the character to shoot at the alien, pick his weapon (left or right), then click on the alien.
 
I managed to get agent86 to a good ambush spot. Then when I tried to have him turn towards an alley, I accidentally had him walk into it instead. He didn't make it. :)
 
Turning is right mouse button.
They turn in whatever direction the spot you clicked on is.
 
@Sterno :(
RIP, X-Com agent! you served your planet well, for all 5 minutes you lived
 
Alright, restarting this puppy!
 
10:20 PM
The rightmost column is End turn / Abort the mission (everyone outside of the plane will get abducted by the aliens)
 
Looks like @Wipqozn is my heavy weapons man, with 37 strength.
 
turtles are well known for their impressive strength
although if he and I are on the same squad, it's likely I'll throw a grenade that kills him. we're nemesises. nemesi?
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10:36 PM
@agent86 lolololol
 
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Q: Why does my axe in D3 glow blue when it has no elemental damage bonuses?

Beau CarrilloSo i have this axe. http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/TheMadHatta-1511/hero/4679921 Its my main hand weapon. And i love the particle effects that elemental and specific affixes give to weapons in this game. I can only think of the normal elemental ones that ive seen, and then one given for chan...

 
@Sterno So have I died yet?
 
@Sterno DAmn straight.
@agent86 THis is one of my favourites.
 
@fbueckert Baby woke up. I had to stop
But I'm chasing after a downed UFO in Canada
and so far two people got off the ship without being shot!
 
@Sterno yay! Canada!
 
11:05 PM
@Sterno What am I?
 
@GnomeSlice Nothing, yet. If there are classes, I have no idea to determine what they are or how to assign them. Right now you're classified as "fodder with a gun"
On the plus side, you're near the back of the Skyranger, which means you probably won't get shot getting off, since the aliens will shoot the guys in front first. It's like storming the beach at Normandy!
 
11:42 PM
hmm, I may have to give this a go soon too. I bought the x-com pack a long time ago, but couldn't quite maintain my enthusiasm through the difficulty curve
 
11:58 PM
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Q: Researches on machine vision and game solvers

JinneanI am currently creating an intelligent agent for a game solver. This system will be hosted in a computer different from the host of the game which it will play. Hence, I am looking for similar researches or projects that uses machine vision for a game solver. The game is a board game/involving ti...

 

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