The Bridge

Welp... we have a rockstargames-social-club tag...

Can I burn it?

@Fluttershy Yes.

You have my permission.

Unionhawk

I think I may have overdone this programming assignment... a little.

Yuki

@Unionhawk I, on the other hand, may have underdone my programming assignment a little.

12:16 AM

Ballerina wears knife shoes to do a thing

wat

That seems really painful, all of her weight is resting on the back of the blade

Yuki

@MichaelDunfield That's... really unnecessary for them to do on top of a piano.

@Yuki Yeah, no kidding.

Sterno

Shadow Warrior starts with my guy listening to "You've Got The Touch! You've Got the Power!" Instant GOTY

8 hours ago, by Michael Dunfield

@BenBrocka also this [nsfw]

12:35 AM

RavenDreamer approved that tag... But do we really need it? I mean... really?

@Fluttershy Now that I know what it is... I guess so.

@Fluttershy You should make a meta about it.

I just noticed a piece of my ear was missing.

@MichaelDunfield FINE

@SaintWacko :D

YAY

So Sky Nations is just Minecraft?

12:45 AM

@Wipqozn No.

Every game with voxels is not Minecraft

I'm pretty sure it is.

@Wipqozn I hate you.

I'll admit Sky Nations has a lot of similarities in the gathering resources and crafting stuff bits. But it's still pretty different. And then stuff like 3079 is more like fallout than Minecraft.

@SaintWacko indiegamestand.com/store/314/sky-nations

...please tell me we're not using "voxels" as the term to describe the Minecraft aesthetic.

@GraceNote No, but we can start doing it if you'd rather we didn't.

@GraceNote That's what most people use, so that's what I use. What would you say instead?

12:49 AM

Something that isn't the equivalent of calling tiles in a 2D game "pixels".

phr00t really likes voxels

Sep 24 at 23:00, by Michael Dunfield

Give me a tl;dr on Sky Nations @MichaelDunfield.

@GraceNote Heh.

I think it's just a buzzword.

I'm popping through a video and it just looks like minecraft with a different UI

Call them voles if you want. Yes, I know a vole is a furry mammal but considering we already have mice I don't have a qualm with that.

12:50 AM

@Wipqozn Guns of Icarus meets minecraft. Build an airship, fly around and collect resources to make more advanced parts and armor and stuff, get other people on your ship, add cannons, fly around shooting things

Nifty.

It sounds like that game with whales.

Yeah it's actually pretty sweet.

@Wipqozn I'd probably see it as more of something built out of Minecraft, rather than it being Minecraft, so to speak.

Still has bugs and a lot of content to come.

But it has reminded me why I used to like Minecraft.

Building ships is really fun. :)

I hollowed out a floating island to make a dock for my ship

also you can join a 'nation' which is like a group of players. Currently it doesn't do much but show the name

But yes, it is a lot like Minecraft in a bunch of ways.

And unlike it in others

Minecraft didn't know the meaning of teamwork

It's Minecraft in engine, not as a game, far as I can see.

12:54 AM

@GraceNote Except it's not Java. But I think I know what you mean.

@MichaelDunfield Do you have to have other people, or can you make a ship advanced enough to be run by a single person?

automatic turrets and such

@SaintWacko Oh yeah it's perfectly fine to run your own ship.

And are there npc enemies?

No automatic turrents, but you can put your cannons in range of your steering wheel if you want to be able to use them yourself

No NPCs

It's all online

what's the word I'm trying to get. For a world tha- persistent. It's a persistent world.

If you leave your ship within a couple thousand blocks of spawn it will probably be gone next time you log back in

well within a thousand I'd say

Ships go pretty quick though, usually.

Starting ship goes 4 units per second.

The max is 10

Mine only does 1... unless I turn on all the engines. Then I can do 9

shit's heavy

Sterno

♫♬ You've got the touch... ♫♬

12:59 AM

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inb4 @Wipqozn says this is Minecraft too.

@MichaelDunfield Oh, there's only one server?

@MichaelDunfield that's just a clone of Sky Nations.

@SaintWacko One official one, but you can host your own

@MichaelDunfield Hm, okay

The most players I've seen on it at once was 22

1:00 AM

Ha

It's not too crowded usually.

The launcher is .net

Game is still pretty new.

Is the game .net?

@SaintWacko I don't even know what that means

I'm talking to the dev in the IGS IRC channel though, I can ask him

1:01 AM

@MichaelDunfield The language it's written in

At least I'm pretty sure that's what that symbol is

".NET isn't a language :P"

YOU ARE WRONG

@MichaelDunfield Heh, he knows what I mean, though :P

> It's written in C# which uses .NET

It's a group of languages, sort of

Yes

.NET is a framework

blahblahblah

whatever

.net can be a burrito for all I care

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1:03 AM

and the symbol that the launcher uses is the .NET symbol

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Q: Annoying Pop-up Every Time LoL Store Page is Accessed

I've gotten League of Legends to work in Ubuntu 13.04 using PlayOnLinux. I've had this bug for a little while and it's starting to annoy me. Any time any page is accessed in the store, a pop-up comes up saying that "there is a problem with this websites certificate" I click ok then another window...

@SaintWacko I'd love to come help you out at the spawn, but I'm nowhere near there any more

@MichaelDunfield How often do you run into other people?

And which direction are you from spawn?

1:05 AM

@SaintWacko Out where I am? Haven't yet. Onlybeen out that far for a few days though.

And how hostile are other people?

I am... erm.

Q: Are there any mini games like TBoGT "Drug Wars" in Grand Theft Auto V?

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I really enjoyed the "Drug War" mini-games in "The Ballad of Gay Tony". They were an endless series of randomly generated missions which involved stealing drugs and money off rival drug dealers. They took place in pre-assigned locations all over Liberty City and got harder as you progressed thro...

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@SaintWacko Depends. Some of them are kids. There was one guy going around the other day telling everything he was a 'parite' and shooting everyone

I disassembled his ship though.

:P

@MichaelDunfield Heh

So pretty much build a basic ship, and strike out in a random direction?

1:09 AM

Yeah, pretty much

I can give the coordinates of where I am

or I can build a little ship and come meet you halfway

Sterno

Just noticed I had a 10% off coupon for the game I just bought on Steam. After buying it. Doh.

@Sterno Better buy it again

@Sterno Was it Shadow Warrior?

Where is @AshleyNunn when I need to send her adorable cat pictures

Before^

After ^

1:28 AM

Bridge! This is the second time in two days that I've entered and seen kitty pictures.

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I continue to approve!

Also, @OrigamiRobot You got a cat?

I did.

About 3 months ago

@RavenDreamer Dog Pictures > Cat Pictures.

@OrigamiRobot So post-my-last-visit.

That said, Cat Pictures >>>>>>>>>>> Pony Pictures, so I am mostly okay with this state of affairs.

@OrigamiRobot I feel compelled to visit again.

1:31 AM

@RavenDreamer I don't have a couch anymore D:

@OrigamiRobot This is true. I believe Sam offered her house, though.

Her whole house?

Something about "if you don't mind the floor" to which I responded, "Get me drunk enough it won't matter".

And then a couple months later, I convinced her she should get Ian to dress up as a fairy.

Those two thoughts aren't necessarily related.

Sounds accurate.

@RavenDreamer I honestly don't know much about the Rockstar Social Club, but does it really need its own tag? <_<

It just seems like one o' them pointless meta-tags to me. But, again, I don't know much about it. =P

1:33 AM

@Fluttershy I think there was a meta discussion on it

That said, (since it seems there is not), I don't see how it differs from Uplay or Games-For-Windows Live questions

@RavenDreamer I never knew those tags were a thing either, so that doesn't help me much. =P

I have only a few hours left to order a Scary Deer shirt. Should I do it?

user15026

@origami I was in a three hour class that had me watching a silent movie. It was boring. Seeing adorable cat pictures makes me happier though.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yes! Be a good little capitalist and SPEND

@LessPop_MoreFizz I see no reason why not!

1:42 AM

Relatedly: Is our Government shutting down?

Haven't been keeping up with the day's happenings.

@RavenDreamer Probably!

House Republicans passed a budget with a No Obamacare clause again about an hour ago.

Because I guess voting a lot for the same thing over and over makes it look like they're trying to accomplish something.

I wonder if I will be trapped in Canada and unable to cross the border to return home

Brant

It's better here. We have health care.

I can get sick and not immediately think "oh shit am I going to be destitute?"

@Brant Too many french people IMO

@LessPop_MoreFizz Did you hear? My state is getting sued by the Feds.

@RavenDreamer Yeah, VRA stuff.

1:45 AM

For racial... profiling? In passing laws restricting early voting in a state where 70% of early votes where ethnically black.

@RavenDreamer profiling is the wrong word.

Racially discriminatory election laws would be the favored term of art amongst those who are opposed.

@LessPop_MoreFizz I am aware of that, but I can't think of the right one.

Discriminatory! that's it.

Honestly, thelawsuit is just business as usual by other means.

Hope it's resolved by 2014.

Or at the very least, a fed. judge puts a stay on the new requirements

An injunction? w/e they're called.

Q: Skyrim: Sahrotaar missing / no-show

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I'm on the last level, Chapter VI, of "At the Summit of Apocrypha"... http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Dragonborn:At_the_Summit_of_Apocrypha#Chapter_VI I just killed the two seekers and a lurker, went to the wall, learned a new word...and nothing. Is there a console command that I can use to fix this?...

skyrim-dragonborn

1:47 AM

Prior to the SCOTUS decision striking down the provisions of the Civil Rights Act that required jurisdictions with a history of discrimination to seek pre-clearance from the DOJ before implementing any election laws, this would've been handled administratively.

Since that decision a few months ago however, states that previously needed to seek pre-clearance (Texas, NC, Alabama, Etc.) have been engaged in a mad dash to pass as many new election laws as possible; And the DoJ is suing to block those laws, because they still violate the CRA, it's just that now there's no prior restraint of state legislatures.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Oh, NC is getting sued over that? Good.

Well I ain't gettin' any work done. Guess I'll bust out Monstarrr Hunter

@SaintWacko Crushed me.

=[

I played some of the best TLoU multiplayer evar tonight. :3

user15026

I watched a super racist silent movie!

1:57 AM

@OrigamiRobot Yup, announced today.

@AshleyNunn Birth of a Nation?

It's super racist, but it's also a super important movie in terms of a lot of the techniques used; absolutely revolutionary filmmaking. :/

user15026

@lesspop yep, and watching for the exact reason you describe.

@AshleyNunn Suuure :P

Like, I don't think there's a single thing done in Birth of a Nation that wasn't revolutionary and new and exciting, other than the horrific racism.

@LessPop_MoreFizz Accidental? Or Django-style racism?

@RavenDreamer It's a movie about the founding of the Klu Klux Klan. It's tone is... quite adulatory.

user15026

2:03 AM

@lesspop pretty much, yeah. It was interesting from a film history standpoint.

@RavenDreamer Nothing in Birth of a Nation is accidental. Which is it's strength. And very much it's weakness.

But seriously, this is the film in which brain-dead basic ideas like panning the camera were used for the first time in history. It's a Very Big Deal.

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Q: Ni No Kuni Errand 78

So I need Kaleidostones and Scrolls of Truth. Online the best recommendation seems to be grinding in Glittering Grotto and trying to random encounter Golden Dragamuffins and Golden Bedraggles then defending till you get a gold glim for Swaine. This is a lot of grinding. Does the wisdom of stack e...

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> The Birth of a Nation is not a bad film because it argues for evil. Like Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will, it is a great film that argues for evil. To understand how it does so is to learn a great deal about film, and even something about evil.

Ebert nails it:

And if clicking on any word pops up a site-search for articles about that word, I will close all windows in a panic and never come back.

Oh god yes yes yes yes yes

user43095

Guys, I have a gambling problem.

user43095

And I'm not even eighteen yet.

2:18 AM

Eh?

@JeffreyLin Lemme guess: Saltybet?

@SaintWacko What are your coordinates?

@LessPop_MoreFizz inorite

GOODNIGHT BRIDGE

2:35 AM

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Q: How to get more stamina

Do I need to sprint (i.e. tap the run button) in order to train up my stamina? Or is just plain running by holding the button down enough?

grand-theft-auto-5

user15026

@Fluttershy Good night

@SaintWacko If his keybinds are empty, he'll need to go to "%LocalAppData%/SkyNations/GameData" and delete his KeyBindings.xml and restart the game, that should sort it

@MichaelDunfield That'll reset it, but how do I actually change them?

Dunno. He's not responding again

> What? Just go to options click Controls, and click the action and press the key you want for it

@SaintWacko

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Q: How can I record demos?

I want to record some of my Source Engine games, but when using Fraps or some third-party recording software, I see screen tears and FPS issues. I have heard of "demos", which is a built-in feature to Source Engine games that allows you to record your game with almost no issues. How can I record...

source-engine recording

2:47 AM

@MichaelDunfield Yeah, that wasn't working. When I clicked the action it just cleared it. I just changed it in the gamedata and restarted

@SaintWacko working now?

Q: Is it possible to restart the game?

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I've got myself stuck by spending diamonds before realising that they'd be needed to purchase all of the resource cards required to progress to the bronze age, so want to restart the game. It is not immediately obvious if this is possible - how can I restart the game?

godus

Q: Can you take a enchantment off a weapon

3:35 AM

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Is there a way for the enchantment to be taken a way form the sword because the enchantment is not the best, o and that it gives me my XP back so I can in chant it to something better.

minecraft-xbox

user15026

3:53 AM

Yay I have Fraggle Rock all downloaded now so now I can watch it forever.... :D :D :D

@AshleyNunn Have you played Paradise Perfect Boat Rescue yet?

user15026

@MichaelDunfield I haven't yet - this is the first time I havent been busy :)

@AshleyNunn Ooo nice. :)

I am going to bed though.

Goodnight. :)

Ullallulloo

Ready for bed. Warning: Sloth

@Ullallulloo these things are pretty creepy

okay peace

pc technical-issues pes-2012

4:17 AM

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Q: runtime error in PES 10

There is a runtime error everytime I try to see my player rating after a match in Become A Legend. It crashes and says runtime error - floating point support not loaded 6002, what to do to fix these problem?

Q: How can I make a new home base?

4:54 AM

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I came home to the base at the church one day to find several NPCs arguing over whether to move to a new base or not. After that cutscene ended, I opened a dialogue with one of them, where I had the option to ask him to come and look for new home bases with me. He said he had a specific place in ...

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Gaming Topics From Outside

Hm. We did see about a 170k jump on No.9 since this afternoon but the remaining 430k left for the Call stage is... that's a lot for 19 hours.

5:53 AM

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Q: Play COD4 multiplayer behind proxy

At our college we have a good wifi connectivity. I might sound silly but I would like to play call of duty 4 online using the wifi network. But since there is no way to configure proxy in cod I am unable to do that. I have seen people suggesting to use proxifier. But I am not sure how to use it. ...

networking wireless-networking proxy gaming

6:26 AM

What does it even mean to shutdown a government?!

@badp It means that the current government gets replaced by another one

Also: Morning

I don't think even the ultimate authority in ridiculous politics, Italy, has ever gone that low

Q: Why can't I comment in the review queue?

It's always amazing to see, that people will NEVER EVER learn out of past mistakes.

Sepia Lazers

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I recall being able to comment in the review queue before. I liked this since it let me leave helpful, personalised comments to guide newer users in the right direction. However, it seems like it's recently been removed. This seems especially odd, since the guidelines say that you can complete a...

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Mad Scientist

@badp It's only a partial shutdown, but dumb enough anyway

6:33 AM

Politics makes me sick

Q: How can you duplicate block in minecraft

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I have Ben tolled that it was easy to duplicate blocks and they won't tell me. Is there an easy way that you can tell me it would be nice.

minecraft

@5pike Never let learning get in the way of what your lobbies' principles are

Trent Hawkins

So from my (admittedly limited) understanding of this situation, various 'non-essential' government jobs are put on hold until the issue is resolved. Putting many employees out of a job for this time period. But the lawmakers that created this situation are still being paid. Wouldn't a better solution be to not pay them until they resolve it?

@TrentHawkins lobbies would fill in the gap

(protip: never get corporations in your parliament to begin with)

@badp Good luck with that

Trent Hawkins

6:48 AM

@badp true I guess, those who are in league with deep pockets would outlast the others.

@5pike Italy has 99 problems, but private financing of parties ain't one

sure, some morons wanted to fix that, but it's just the dumbest idea ever

parties are supposed to serve the country, not anything else, and not anything else should fund parties.

'sides, corporations still get to lobby - through strikes

Trent Hawkins

... CTV, Y U air The Daily Show but not Colbert Report?

try changing taxi laws

@badp Yeah "supposed", but all they do is lining their pockets and following their own interests.

@5pike More like, their owner's interests

6:55 AM

@badp Both are correct

Blem

morning people

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Q: Great RPG for Kinect?

This is my first post here, I hope it's relevant :) I have been fascinated by the XBOX One Kinect functionality in one of their videos, and have heard it is really not that expensive. I do worry about whether the type of game I usually play CAN be nicely played on it. My favorite games: 0) Eve ...

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@Blem Morning

7:10 AM

Morning

@3ventic morning

7:26 AM

Morning everyone!

@Arperum Morning. Are you excited?

@5pike Mostly tired >_> I'm going to die tomorrow. Since I'm going to be playing terraria tonight.

@5pike, the morning-reply operator..?

@3ventic what?

@3ventic Someone has to do it. And the non-pony people don't get scared by ponies immediately.

7:28 AM

@Arperum Thanks for reminding that I need to install Terraria

@Arperum Anyways - Today is pretty exciting: Terraria 1.2, GTA: O and Battlefield 4 beta (but who cares about that).

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Q: Minecraft 1.6.2

Well I have always wanted to see Herobrine and I go into the versions of Minecrft that he isnt removed from but I never seem to spawn him can anyone tell me how to spawn him wil NO MODS that would be great!!!!

minecraft

I'm going in mostly blind into the update, going to have fun playing without wiki or anything and just discovering things as I go along. Other people interested in playing together tonight? @3ventic @5pike @anyone else interested (EU times of course)

@Arperum Yes

I

am

@Arperum Yes

I

am

What was the max players for server in terraria?

7:34 AM

Dammit, I want to star the combination of the six messages, but that's impossible.

@3ventic Whatever the server can handle IIRC

I haven't played since they announced no more updates

I played the leaked version to death, then I lost interest.

Never found people to play it with

So this should be interesting.

From the very start?

@3ventic I never beat 1.1 properly, downed the wall a few times, got to the point where the destroyer died horribly, but never succeeded in beatring the twins or that skeletron upgrade.

I suggest we play from the start yes.

@Arperum Good

7:37 AM

Since there are new things added all over the place.

Because I have almost no clue about the stuff in 1.1

I don't think I have any characters left anymore

@Arperum I guess you need my steam account?

@5pike That's mostly after the normal game, after you kinda beat hell and the dungeon. And then hell became a little peacefull paradise compared to the rest of the world.

I played the whole of 1.1(.whatever the last version was)

7:39 AM

Dungeon kept raping me though.

@Arperum "Then hell became a little peaceful paradise compared to the rest of the world"

That's gold right there.

And now there is suppossed to be "hardmode dungeon". I'm going to die in the most horrible ways.

It sucks when people go and kill the wall before you're ready for hardmode..

I'm arperum on steam.

@3ventic I'd play together as a team, and advance together through whatever the game throws at us.

When the wall was first added, we just went and killed it with the worst equipment possible to kill it with and that was a horrible idea.

7:41 AM

@3ventic Yes. Yes it was.

@Arperum Yeah, we usually split up with my friends and that wasn't that fun all the time..

@Arperum Fun to kill the wall, yeah, but not fun to return to the overworld to face hardmode with silver/gold items..

@3ventic I really rarely play a game competitive, mostly together.

@Arperum I don't even play MOBAs competitively..

@3ventic How did you beat the wall with silver/gold equipment?o_O

@Arperum Lots of time and some long range stuff to help

7:43 AM

@3ventic And a really extremely long bridge with no gaps I assume?

@Arperum Pretty much

Kevin van der Velden

Morning

And if you get unlucky and the new corruption goes through your hellevator, pain is all that is left.

I made one of my worlds full of corruption, it was great

(spoiler: not really)

I once started removing a whole corruption with a friend. We made the error of waiting until after hardmode though, so it dug itself in pretty badly. And gave up after making it impossible for it to grow any further(we did have a couple screens of only a couple dirt blocks left though).

The border of that zone ended up going to around the lava layer of the underground.

We blew up a regular crapton of dynamite on that. At least 5-10 inventories full of dynamite, and not even close to done...

7:53 AM

Large world, eh?

10 minutes til the BF4 beta starts...I'm in work for the next 9 hours D:

@tombull89 WHAT?!

Damn I have too much stuff to play!

As it's only the beta it's just Siege of Shanghai in Conquest and Domination, but when I see that skyscraper coming down I'm just gonna stand there and watch.

Yeah, October is exciting this year.

Watch Dogs will be out soon, too D:

7:55 AM

@3ventic medium IIRC, we just started way to late with trying to contain it. We blew up the part to the second or third corruption chasm.

Indeed - and I think the Bioshock Infinite DLC/extra bit will be out before the end of the year.

And I've bought about 80 games in random indie bundles (damn you @MichaelDunfield) that I should play, too.

Same, I've still got a couple of half-finished games on Steam.

@3ventic That's the right person to blame for these things yes.

I hope BF4 beta isn't a large DL..

7:57 AM

5GB, not as much as I was thinking.

If you pre-ordered BF4, or have BF3 premium, beta starts today. For everyone else, Friday.

spyder

Morning

BF3 premium

So, order of service (for me) - Terraria, GTA: O and then maybe BF 4 Demo

this beta will decide if I'll buy BF4

If I get BF4, I see to it that EA doesn't get a cent.

7:58 AM

@3ventic Exactly. That's what I'm gonna use it for, to see how well my machine plays it (shouldn't have any issues) and to see if I like it.

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum he's the right person to blame for all things, especially for the disappearance of @GnomeSlice

phew.. BF4 beta is just 5.6 GB

@5pike Order of service for me: Terraria. And then there is still Minecraft to be played, and Civ V.

My BF3 installation is 34.2 GB :s