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9:00 PM
ugh, man. some of the things I have to look at.
 
@MBraedley The Black Mesa devs have to finish Black Mesa at some point. ;)
 
this guy had a racial slur for a nickname, with his email address being another racial slur, and then he posted a stream of racial slurs as an answer. stay classy, internet.
 
So, uh, Conclave is free now but won't be anymore when it releases?
 
Whelp, with Gnome out of both my games, I must now face the temptation to start a 4th party.
 
@agent86 Clearly it's trying to tell you something. Like to go to a concert.
 
9:02 PM
@badp I been wondering about that....where did you read that?
 
@John > Vanguard Tier Rewards Includes access to the completed game and its entire campaign of quests; the Founder honor, granting all your characters 100 extra Renown; and the digital download of the Conclave theme "Turn of the Age", by Sam Hulick.
 
@Powerlord I haven't seen this many racial slurs since... last night on xbox live, honestly. and yesterday's flag queue. and the day before that. and so on.
 
@badp Huh.
 
@agent86 Don't make me explain the joke. It's not funny if I have to explain it.
 
@agent86 I don't know how I missed all those then. I've been flagging like crazy over the holidays.
 
9:04 PM
@badp I think they're having a limited set of quests available for free, and Vanguard gets you all of them.
 
@Powerlord well, it went over my head, sadly. I probably missed a reference. :(
 
@John That would make sense
 
I AM DISAPPOINTING EVERYONE TODAY
I fail at internet.
 
@agent86 Every day.*
 
9:05 PM
apply HUG on AGENT86
 
That means we hit the limit now.
 
@MBraedley I think I've offensive/spam flagged 6 times in the last week, but I know I've missed a few in there. I wouldn't say it's unusually high, though.
 
7.99 for ten quests? that seems a bit overpriced
 
@John Agree with us and see if it stops
 
@agent86 I have 3 from earlier in the week, but other than that, it's mostly NAA
 
9:07 PM
@Ullallulloo Nope
 
@Ullallulloo I don't think it works like that I'm afraid
 
@Ullallulloo Oh. Rats.
 
@MBraedley well, the offensive stuff tends to get burned pretty quick. plus I compulsively refresh the flag queue.
 
Yeah we still need GnomeSlice to cast his vote.
 
@agent86 I was making a referenced to Banned sounding like Band.
 
9:08 PM
@agent86 I'm glad to be/have been a mod on much more professional sites :P
Not sure why so many people think gaming site = I should be a douchebag here
 
@Powerlord ah, okay then. I wish I could ban some of these folks, but the low barrier to entry means they can just make up another email address. we should require steam ID's or something :P
 
@agent86 Yeah because those aren't easy to create or anything...
Although using the Steam API, you may be able to find out how many games a Steam ID has.
 
They're a lot harder to create than SE unregistered accounts
 
@BenBrocka shrugs I don't think they're improving the public perception of gamers, sadly
 
@Powerlord $1 gets you four Steam keys during any Humble Bundle
 
9:10 PM
@Powerlord yeah, I was thinking more along the lines of the pre-F2P days when we could ban someone's steam ID on a server and be reasonably sure they weren't coming back.
 
People are lazy, the more steps you put in their way the higher dropout rates are. Just because it's easy to get around doesn't mean people will bother
 
also I don't see why we'd want people asking about (say) PS3 games to own games on Steam
 
it was just nice to be able to ban someone and have it count
 
In short I suggest we rechristen Ben Brocka to Bad Brocka
 
@agent86 Yeah, I wish more gaming sites would be more aggressive in cracking down on that
 
9:11 PM
here unless you care about your badges or rep or getting banned-er, it's a simple process to evade.
 
@agent86 The issue with requiring steam IDs is not every gamer has one. I know, shocker, right?
 
@agent86 yeah, we had someone make about 20 different accounts over 2 weeks on workplace, forgot about that
@badp That's my stage name
 
No you guys, seriously. I am going to use my mod powers now to require steam IDs and there's nothing you can do about it, and there ARE NO DOWNSIDES. THIS DISCUSSION IS OVER.
 
Your face is a downside
 
@BenBrocka your... mom... has a face
 
9:12 PM
Your face has a mom
 
@BenBrocka YOUR DOWNSIDE IS YOUR MOMS FACE
 
> Abstract. A jogger’s ponytail sways from side to side as the jogger runs, although her head
does not move from side to side. The jogger’s head just moves up and down, forcing the ponytail to
do so also. We show in two ways that this vertical motion is unstable to lateral perturbations. First
we treat the ponytail as a rigid pendulum, and then we treat it as a flexible string; in each case, it is
hanging from a support which is moving up and down periodically, and we solve the linear equation
for small lateral oscillation.
 
engineering is fun!
 
@BenBrocka a stalker with a physics degree?
sometimes he's a rigid pendulum, and other times he's a flexible string.
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Nice try but I don't have a physics degree
 
9:15 PM
Please say that paper won an IgNoble
 
@BenBrocka you can be a research assistant. Just sit in the park and stare at female joggers' hair. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG
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Excuse me I just need to follow you around for a couple hours. For science
 
@agent86 even better, run behind each with a whiteboard and a video camera. It's creep shots: science edition
 
@BenBrocka make sure you say "for science" so they know not to be creeped out.
 
I'm not staring at your ass, I'm staring at your ponytail. I swear
 
9:20 PM
Ma'am, you have to stop looking back at me, I can't do my science when you look at me
 
I just want to observe the perturbations in your motion... the lateral oscillations are fascinating to me
 
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Q: Is there a trick to help Winnie the Pooh score homeruns?

wokWinnie the Pooh is a Flash-based game made by Disney and intended to Japanese children. To cite the description of the game: The goal is to make the indicated amount of homeruns with a set amount of pitches and fouls/non homeruns will subtract from the amount of pitches you have. Each ...

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Q: Emulate green-screen monochrome monitor on DOSbox / D-Fend Reloaded

ruda.almeidaI'm using DOSbox to play really old games I had on my PC XT with a green monochrome monitor. D-Fend Reloaded is set to run these games on CGA mode, it has colors, is there a way to make it more similar to the experience of a green-on-black monochrome screen of an old computer?

 
@agent86 Don't fret! You haven't disappointed me today yet.
 
@agent86 You must be a particle accelerator because you're giving me a hadron
 
@agent86 I like watching you bounce.
 
9:22 PM
@GraceNote we are almost all the way through today, so maybe I have a shot at appointing you. (I assume the "not" and "dis" cancel each other out.)
 
Not creepy at all.
 
@badp you get to try out that massive pile of guns yet?
 
whacks the SourceMod devs with a hammer
 
@BenBrocka I've only been home for ~28 hours and I've spent most of it playing Just Cause 2 at ×0.5 speed. :/
 
Why is this string declared static if you're overwriting it every time you use it?
 
9:26 PM
@Powerlord LESS HEAP OPERATIONS DUH MAN allocating memory is expensive.
 
@badp That sucks. =[
 
@badp I almost bought JC2 for PC. But I'm still mad at it for breaking and I don't really want to do the completion all over again
You know if you want I could help you build a gaming PC for like $500-$600 USD
 
@BenBrocka "breaking"? Yeah, 100% areas is kind of not fun even when you have a minigun or a tank with infinite ammo on your hands
 
Or whatever that is in whatever currency
 
@badp Plus, you can't actually reach 100% without a mod.
 
9:29 PM
@StrixVaria tbh I only wanted to know because I've actually eliminated this variable when porting to a different language and wanted to know if I could just junk it.
 
@badp Play it on easy, trust me.
 
Wait maybe not, shipping probably adds a pretty penny
 
@GnomeSlice wow really?
 
It's still pretty difficult.
 
@GnomeSlice too late, I'm on Normal.
 
9:30 PM
@badp There's a watertower that's missing, and 6 boxes you're supposed to get from completing the final mission that aren't there.
 
@badp yeah it's broken, some completion items don't apear
 
@badp How far into it are you? Playing easy will make the later game MUCH more enjoyable.
 
@GnomeSlice 3%, 3 hours.
 
@badp Start over on easy.
Easy isn't even easy later on.
But anything harder is just stupid.
 
@BenBrocka I can probably find similar pieces here honestly. Getting a desktop is my next "big" purchase, but right now it's too close to both my next wave of exams and my Nexus 7 purchase.
 
9:31 PM
That adds the stuff you need to get 100%.
 
@badp It's way worth it for a few hundred
 
@GnomeSlice Can you make a vote, any vote, on the party?
 
@badp that link doesn't work, but yeah, I guess.
 
oh, sure, yeah.
 
@Powerlord how hard would you like me to hit psychonic with a hammer?
 
9:33 PM
Done
 
are we talking "mild annoyance" or "break bones?"
or charlie sheen "CANT HANDLE IT BRO"
 
Yep, we can still play.
 
How is this possible? I actually fell behind on my youtube subscriptions this past week and a half. I may be subscribed to too many channels.
 
@John @badp @Ullallulloo I can do a few more rounds actually
Ah, nvm, he's playing MWO
 
@GnomeSlice I'm here.
 
9:42 PM
Nah, play MWO, I'm busy anyway.
 
I'm here.
Kinda
 
MWO games are pretty short.
 
Playing Spiral Knights
 
@Ullallulloo I'm busy anyway.
 
If we decide to continue, I can get to a safe play to afk
 
9:46 PM
@agent86 Why wouldn't I just whack him with a hammer myself?
 
@Powerlord you could do that, but isn't hiring a hit squad more fun?
 
@Powerlord I'm whacking lots of people with a hammer right now, and trust me, it's a blast.
 
@John Actually, I noticed PeanutButterGamer put the Helmasaur King on his Top 10 Zelda Bosses list solely because you could use the hammer to get rid of his mask.
See? I tied this into gaming!
 
Yay!
 
Not that SourceMod programming isn't related to gaming anyway, since it's one of the main ways to create server plugins for Valve's games.
Also, make a note to stab whomever is in charge of Visual Studio for it not picking up on environment variable changes made between executions. Apparently I'm going to have to log off for it to pick up the changes.
 
9:51 PM
@Powerlord I kinda more liked that bombs worked more than the hammer if you had them.
 
Considering said environment variables were unset the first time I ran this, then I closed it and deleted all the files other than the sln, vcprojx, and vcprojx.filter files and set the variables... and they're still not being picked up.
(Yes, I know it's a wtf that environment variables are being used to locate libraries, but that's how SourceMod's extension .vcprojx files are set up)
 
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Q: How to change killfeed position

user39364So I play tf2 and I have a hud installed. However, the kill feed and chat are in in the same spot. Can someone help me change it? Tyy

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Q: Can I trick the treasure rooms in Brogue?

authenticgeekLevels in Brogue often have a treasure room protected by a key somewhere else on the same level. There are usually 4 or 5 bits of treasure on altars in the room protected by cages. When you pick up an item from one altar, the rest of the cages close and you cannot pick a different item until you ...

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Q: Why is there a [flash] tag?

ChrisFWhat value does adding the tag flash have? Other games aren't tagged with the technology used to make them. I seems to me that if there has to be an additional tag it should be browser-based. Thoughts?

 
@Lazers Burn it with fire
 
@Powerlord the tag or the question?
 
@murgatroid99 The tag
 
9:57 PM
@Powerlord Then how would this question be tagged?
 
After all, weren't and the rest already burned?
 
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Q: Why are my flash game saves getting erased?

RedRiderXAfter installing stand-alone flash games like Machinarium, Dino Run SE, and Space Rubbish (all of which are good games by the way) I find that my game saves keep disappearing. I have read how cleaning programs like CCleaner can have this effect. I have CCleaner installed, but do not have it run ...

@Powerlord I don't think so
> 461 questions tagged ps3
 
@Powerlord We intended to burn them with respect to "this game is for the PS3", but not when talking about the actual platform.
 
HI CHAT
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz HI
 
9:58 PM
@LessPop_MoreFizz Hi Cat!
 
@Powerlord I am not a cat.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Hey der.
 
You shut your face.
@GraceNote I am also not a deer.
I am not any sort of quadrapedal animal.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Hey Muppet.
 
@Powerlord This is acceptable.
 
9:59 PM
@LessPop_MoreFizz It could've been an A abbreviated instead of a second E.
Or maybe it was short for "adder".
 
I love the title of this question so much:
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Q: Is there a trick to help Winnie the Pooh score homeruns?

wokWinnie the Pooh is a Flash-based game made by Disney and intended for Japanese children. To cite the description of the game: The goal is to make the indicated amount of homeruns with a set amount of pitches and fouls/non homeruns will subtract from the amount of pitches you have. Each...

 
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Q: Why does Team Fortress 2 have mini-tags?

Jeffrey LinOk, the title might seem a little stupid because I have no idea what this kind of thing is called. For example, when I click on team-fortress-2, I see in the related tags section: tf2-spy, tf2-mann-vs-machine, tf2-pyro, tf2-engineer, tf2-heavy, the list goes on and on and on. Aren't these techni...

 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Oh, someone fixed "[...] and intended to Japanese children."
 
I'm surprised no one pointed out that is very different than standard TF2.
 
@GraceNote You can blame @Wipqozn for fixing that.
 
10:02 PM
@LessPop_MoreFizz We should fix that tag.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Oi, he didn't even leave a snarky comment about it! Geezers... what to do with a kid like that...
 
The English version's called "Winnie The Pooh's Home Run Derby", but 's too long.
 
@GraceNote I'm sorry :(
 
and the Japanese version has some differences.
 
> Winnie The Pooh's Home Run Derby is a 1 player Animal Sports Baseball free Flash game. Play it now on www.y8.com
This game is anything but Animal Sports Baseball free.
I want my money back.
In fact, it is nothing but Animal Sports Baseball.
 
10:10 PM
 
@badp welcome to the end of used games
 
@badp Why are your genitals in your disk drive?
 
@BenBrocka Guess what happens when you attempt to use a used game on a different console?
 
Does the console do something bad to your "reproduction device"?
 
10:13 PM
Honestly it'd be complicated to be compatible with all "reproduction devices" on the market. You could easily target the most popular ones though.
 
Sony: So, in exchange for ¥5,000,000,000,000 we'll sabotage our own product and give you the market.
Microsoft: Excellent...
 
@badp Lots of stuff gets patented without being used. I doubt/hope they won't use it
Can't believe they wasted time bothering with researching it either though. Instead of you know. Researching things to make a better gaming console
 
@StrixVaria By the way, I just determined that the max boost speed of a certain plane in Skydrift is 567 or something. The point is that I could hold that speed by both holding the boost and tapping the boost.
 
@BenBrocka so basically we're just hoping it's being used for patent trolling? Awesome
 
I don't know if it's more efficient in terms of consumption though, I think it's actually the same.
Because it burns a bit when you just tap it before stopping.
 
10:15 PM
 
@agent86 In this corner, Grump...
 
@badp No, companies apply for patents for crap they even think they might ever possibly use (in no small part to prevent patent trolling). Sony has done this lots before, as has nintendo (made patents they don't end up using, not patent trolling)
 
@BenBrocka Owning the monopoly on something just so you get to not use it still sounds retarded, even if it makes sense in-context.
 
Okay, fuck this game. I got past piglet, and then the Kangaroo is a fucking knuckleballer? Fuck that shit. R. A. Dickey doesn't pitch the Home Run Derby for a reason goddamnit.
 
It's a business decision. So yes, retarded sounds about par for the course
Retarded is also par for the course for anything involving patents, come to think of it
 
10:20 PM
@BenBrocka I heard about that. So stupid.
 
@BenBrocka Sadly, it's going to be the way to go for at least a year, I bet.
Easier to deal with small companies who don't have a patent lawyer on the payroll by shaking them down.
 
@BenBrocka Anyone who does this is despicable and should die in a fire.
 
Until judges get wise to it, anyways.
 
@StrixVaria To say the least
@fbueckert that's the problem with patent/etc suits. It costs to much to even get to a judge. Unless the people responsible are arrested there's pretty much no good choice
 
@BenBrocka They're not going to get arrested. Yeah, what they're doing amounts to extortion, but the root problem is in the patent system.
If these patents had never been granted, this would be a non-issue.
 
10:26 PM
I'd be happy if pretty much nothing but pharmacology and physical devices could be patented. With a significantly shorter validity period
 
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Q: Megacreds farming In Strikefleet Omega

Sheng Jiang 蒋晟In Strikefleet Omega what is the best fleet layout to farm megacreds in survival mode? Right now my layout to farm Megacreds is like following: mining carrier commander Carrier and 2 star fighter carriers with fighters circulating around other carriers interceptor carrier with fighters circul...

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Q: How do I find the Horadric Hamburger and Spectrum Blade?

StephenThese two items are Whimsyshire pops and we'll assume everyone knows how to find Whimsyshire. Are these strictly random drops within Whimsyshire or is there some method that must be followed to get them to drop?

 
@BenBrocka Apparently human DNA is also patentable.
Which makes no sense at all.
 
I should patent a method of suing end users like a giant coward with a method patent and then sue people. If it wasn't so meta they probably wouldn't catch on
 
user15026
@agent86 Is that a kitty in your sock, or are you just...okay, that works a little less well
 
@FBUECKERT How do we get to gataca without patentable genes. I can't wait till you can sue somebody for reproducing with their anti-cancer gene
 
10:31 PM
@BenBrocka Clicking things with your mouse in order to accomplish a task? That's $500 please.
 
@fbueckert 1/5th of them actually news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/…
@StrixVaria Excuse me that's clicking with electronic wired or wireless pointing device
 
@BenBrocka Actually maybe it should be "performing an action". "Clicking" is kind of restrictive.
 
As long as it has the words "wireless" "electronic" "digital" or "software" somewhere in the text you can patent it no matter how obvious it is
"What's this? More computer shit? I ain't readin that just give 'em a patent"
 
user15026
@fbueckert they are giving me a new model Touch (apparently they have made some inner changes ro something) and a $20 credit for books. I think that is acceptable.
 
@sarge_smith Monsato's bad enough with this with their genetic crops. If someone attempts to do this with humanity, methinks vigilante squads will quickly rectify the situation.
@AshleyNunn Until it breaks again. Did you ask them what they'll do if that happens?
 
10:34 PM
yeah, but in which direction @fbueckert
 
@StrixVaria Huh, I just did a race where my time in which I crashed was faster than the time I did afterward.
 
TAKE THAT YOU KNUCKLEBALLING PIECE OF GARBAGE.
 
user15026
@fbueckert No, I didn't, but honestly, I am happy enough with this solution for now.
 
In which @LessPop_MoreFizz is proud of beating a game intended to children
 
@GnomeSlice I've done that.
 
10:35 PM
@sarge_smith Simple. The one where companies think human genetics are patentable will get to directly test to see if they can withstand shotguns.
 
@BenBrocka ...a game to children.
 
@StrixVaria In any case, I beat your S5 Petrol Coast (Reverse) time/
 
@GnomeSlice How many tries did it take?
 
@StrixVaria I dunno, a dozen maybe, (kept getting shot down) but I crashed, then I tried to get an even faster one with a different plane, didn't crash, and was slower.
 
@GnomeSlice I wonder how I got such a fast time on it.
 
10:37 PM
Playing on hard means you have more enemies to shoot (you earn more boost) but you get shot down more.
Easy means you don't get shot as much but it's harder to earn boost.
 
I was just trying to get first because it was bothering me that I didn't have first on everything.
 
Medium is pretty good I think.
 
I've been playing on Medium.
 
@StrixVaria what difficulty?
@StrixVaria I usually play medium when I'm trying to set a time.
 
@fbueckert ever seen imdb.com/title/tt0963194? my money is on them waiting to start enforcing it until they own 50.1% of your genetic code.
 
10:38 PM
@AshleyNunn :P
 
@agent86 What is your gravatar?
 
although I do agree that would definitely be the place for shotgun justice
 
It feels like a Kirby character, but I don't recognize it.
 
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Q: How do I get my Xbox360 controller to work in Ubuntu 12.10?

Pablo ViollierI'm trying to play The Walking Dead Game on Ubuntu 12.10 with my Xbox360 controller like I do in Windows. The thing is the game start and only lets my use the mouse and keyboard. In windows when the control is unplugged it start like that and when it's plugged in it's start in the Xbox360 mode (d...

 
@StrixVaria it's an artist's rendition of my original clan's logo
 
10:40 PM
Oh so it's not something that I should have recognized.
I feel a little better then.
 
Yeah Kirby doesn't have any sunflower snowmen
 
@StrixVaria Up for a race or two?
 
Sean did it during the hatdash - meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/3464/…
 
@GnomeSlice Not right now.
 
@StrixVaria @RedRiderX is playing too.
But alright.
 
10:41 PM
I'm not feeling well and work is about to be over so as soon as the clock strikes 6 I'm going to bum around on the couch and just relax.
 
ooh man, five people online
I hope I don't lose...
The only times I've ever lost have been due to lag.
pleasepleaseplease
 
@Grace thought it was Sinistar.
 
And almost immediately, people are flying off out of bounds. No point playing if I can't tell where anyone is.
Fuck my internet.
 
No way, I don't know where that's been
 
@gnomeslice What game are you playing?
 
10:45 PM
@sarge_smith Skydrift.
What's worse is that I bet those guys think I quit because I was losing.
vbfeljrwbne
 
user15026
Wow. Even on Easy, in the training, Mirror's Edge is hard for me. Will futz with it later - I suspect I am just reacting at the wrong moment.
 
@ashleyNunn you really have to get the feel for it... It took me a few hours to get it right. But it's worth it if you stick with it.
 
user15026
@sarge_smith I am hoping I can get to a point where my fingers and my brain can understand what I need to do at teh same time XD
 
If there weren't people shooting at me, Mirror's Edge would be awesome.
As soon as there were guns involved, I lost interest entirely.
 
You've just got one of those faces people want to shoot at
 
10:50 PM
Okay, I give up, now these pitches are no longer obeying the laws of physics.
 
yeah the guns were by far the worst parts. nothing like a wrong move resulting in all of the bullets to the face
but then you learn about all the other laces yo could have run and it gets better
I liked the challenge maps the best... worth it beat the game just to get to those
 

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