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5:00 PM
@Sterno Farmers had Horseplay, but that was only for being in the labyrinth
 
OHMYGODITSSOCOLDINHERE
 
No, the real time passer was the sea.
 
@GraceNote Oh, you're talking about large chunks of time so you could refight FOEs and bosses?
 
@Sterno Yes. Passing time to change from morning to evening and vice versa is easy enough.
 
I'm thinking more of the quest or two that was "Be here exactly at midnight" or whatever
I know EO4 had one like that.
 
5:02 PM
There was one to pick up at the crack of dawn. We just timed it perfectly, it worked out pretty swell.
Also, at least twice now, maybe three times, we have been on late-night harvesting runs in EO4, and the clock hits midnight right when we hit the last gathering spot, before we get the day's harvest.
 
@Wipqozn My two heavy TP users have 10 points in TP Up now, and about 5 in Focus, so it's not an issue for me anymore.
 
Focus?
 
Though it might be time to upgrade my Alchemist the last point in fire/volt/ice attacks and make them cost 20 TP instead of 10 TP
 
@Sterno Focus gives 1 TP per turn per point, right?
 
@GraceNote If you have full health, you get back TP at the end of the round (equal to the number of points you have in focus, up to 10)
 
5:05 PM
@Sterno Wow what.
And I assume that with grimoires, anyone can be getting in on this?
 
@GraceNote Theoretically.
 
Geezers.
 
With a lot of luck and/or grinding
You get up to 5 grimoire skill slots, assuming you find a 5 slot grimoire
I've found 4 4's and 1 5 so far.
@Wipqozn Oh, if you haven't yet, I think some time soon you'll find a box with a grimoire in it that's got Holy Gift level 5
Equip that on someone. Bonus XP!
 
I've never bothered with focus. Peace Ballad is better. No need to worry about needing to be at full health.
The monsters I'd want the gain against are all bosses, and they usually have group attacks anyways.
 
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Q: What are the famous Demos on display in "The Stanley Parable Demo"?

ZibbobzIn "The Stanley Parable Demo", there is a wall of four Famous Game Demos. While I can easily recognize Half-Life and Metal Gear Solid, the other two escape my memory or knowledge. What are these two games that feature on the wall, and do they hold any significance?

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Q: CSGO competitive ranking system

Teo Chuen Wei BryanI'm totally new to CSGO and i have utter crap skills in it. I have approximately played 13 competitive games and i only won 1. My average competitive KD is around 40%. I have searched links on the different ranking they provide in CSGO. However, I've some question regarding the ranking system. ...

 
5:11 PM
I never bothered with Focus because we didn't even have Focus. Plus springs were common enough so TP wasn't really a problem.
 
@Lazers Why would someone start playing using the competitive game mode instead of casual?
 
@Sterno My alchemist is sitting at 5-points in each of the single target spells with 10 points unspent.
 
Oh yeah, something funny happened in TF2 yesterday that I forgot to get a replay of...
I was chasing down a Demo to their spawn on pl_barnblitz_pro when he hit me with a sticky, knocked me backwards into the payload cart, which moved just far enough to finish capturing.
 
@Powerlord The funny stuff always seems to happen on replay disabled servers, or when you forget.
 
(chasing them down as a Phlog pyro)
 
5:16 PM
@Wipqozn Not branching into the higher tier spells?
 
@GraceNote I haven't really had any need to.
 
It's just funny because they had people near the cart area, but it just happened that none of them were on it when I got knocked back into it.
 
Fair enough
 
I'd much rather save my points until I start running into trouble.
 
FAE
@fredley I think I may need to back this at the $75 level.
 
5:17 PM
I airshot a soldier jumping up to the battlements on ctf_2fort (2fort games can actually be fun as long as you say screw the objective), and, sure enough, no replay.
His reaction is what made it though.
 
I wish I could participate in one of these programs.
 
Then again, I was top-scoring as a Phlogistinator Pyro on... pl_swiftwater last night. The enemy team's uber went right past me while I killed the allies pushing with them, then turned around and used my critboost to kill the people who had ubered after it wore off. \o/
 
I don't know if they have a lot of information on how to start one...
 
@Unionhawk ?
 
@GraceNote It was just like "...well shit. That just happened."
 
5:21 PM
Ahha
 
Also, in 5 days something Objectionable will happen.
 
Like he expected to just ruin every sniper's day jumping in, then, just no
 
@FAE I was thinking that as well.
 
FAE
@Fluttershy I can't afford thiiiiiiiiiiiis
 
@Unionhawk btw, have you ever played ctf_shooting_gallery_b8?
 
5:23 PM
@Powerlord Nope.
 
@GraceNote He's on EZMode. Spending points is unnecessary!
 
Bah, I may have that name wrong... I'll have to check it.
 
I haven't been able to play TF2 for months.
Still many gigabytes to redownload.
 
What's the Rest level loss this time around? Still 2?
 
Anyway, BLU is all Scouts, RED is all snipers... basically, the goal is to shoot the Scouts and prevent them from making 5 intel captures.
 
5:23 PM
@GraceNote Yes
 
Speaking of not being able to play, I need to fix my configs. And not be lazy with class.cfg's ever again.
 
It's a whole lot nicer now that it's 2. Makes it a lot easier to just experiment and as well, you can pick up skills that you might not really focus on but hey, until you need to shift things around, the bonus abilities don't hurt.
 
@GnomeSlice At this point, you might as well wait for the Halloween update. btw, if you have access to another machine, you can backup Steam games from it...
 
@Powerlord I had another machine, but when I moved it wanted me to redownload like everything from TF2
 
@GnomeSlice Weird.
 
5:26 PM
@FAE I can't eitherrrrrrrrrr!
 
Well, I probably won't be playing it again
 
Wait, was that earlier this year?
 
@Powerlord Or last year. I forget.
 
Valve packaged a lot of their games into a new format earlier this year... it should have offered to convert it to the new format, though...
 
@GnomeSlice Didn't it take you 6 months to download TF2?
 
5:27 PM
@Wipqozn Off and on, yeah.
It's sitting at 3.1/6.5 GB
Not really worth trying to get the rest of it again
 
It'd almost be quicker to have someone download it, put it on a cheap flash drive, and mail it to you. :P
 
@Powerlord There's no almost about it.
IT would be quicker.
 
I'm not even going to bother downloading any more of it
If I downloaded nonstop it would take a couple of days
But I can't hog the bandwidth like that
 
@GnomeSlice How slow is your connection anyway? :O
 
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Q: How to drain the water in 1.2?

Menno GouwI used to just add some blocks inside the water and once removing them again the water would drain away. But since 1.2 (or at least since i last played) this does not work anymore, the water just reappears behind the block. I currently just want to make a shaft downwards without water in it.

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Q: Is there a downside to losing a battle?

Jack B NimbleSometimes I engage in a battle which I lose, but what is the downside? If I go into the battle with men, then they are dead, but I don't appear to lose money, experience, or anything else of value.

 
5:29 PM
@Powerlord Generally pretty slow. We can get 700 KB/s at peak speed, but that only really happens at like 2 AM
 
@Powerlord Apparently his entire neighborhood all gets their internet frrom some dudes house.
 
(Actually, before anyone gets the bright idea of putting TF2 on a flash drive and mailing it, might be a good idea to find out how big the backup of it will be)
 
I can't really play online games anyway
Not going to bother
 
Hmm, good point.
 
Except for Skydrift.
 
5:30 PM
@Sterno Especially skydrift
I can never see the other racers
after about 20 seconds they appear to fly way outside the track and go off the map
 
One of my friends actually wants to do a stream of Halloween movies on the 31st... except I'm pretty sure that I'm going to host my usual TF2 Halloween event then.
 
I can still see pickups disappearing if they grab them, but I can't shoot anybody or see them
I think people think I'm a hacker because that's probably how I look to them and I always finish so far ahead nobody else finishes.
 
@GnomeSlice Did you turn in that job application for FutureTech or FutureCorp or whatever it was?
 
@Sterno Futureshop.
And yeah.
 
Oh, and the same friend found out the hard way that Spore on Steam does weird things in its installer like not setting certain registry entries... I actually had to create a .reg file for him since he had no idea how to do registry editing.
 
5:32 PM
I've sent in a bunch more to other places
 
Excellent!
 
@Powerlord Steam is bad.
 
Wanted to make sure you didn't fall into the trap of getting everything ready and then simply never handing it in
 
@GnomeSlice Well, in this case it's EA's fault since they wrote the installer.
 
Heh
@Powerlord Steam is still bad
 
5:33 PM
And the weird thing is, it used to work... not sure when they screwed it up.
Also, I've apparently risen to #19 across all of the RUGC TF2 servers. Which just goes to show how many people left for DOTA2 and the like.
 
Nothing you can say is going to make Steam good.
 
Nothing he's said seems to even be going for that direction.
 
Steam is good.
 
@GraceNote I know, I just wanted to be clear.
 
Steam is good.
 
5:35 PM
Steam is terrible.
It slows the shit out of slower PCs, it doesn't work if you have a shitty connection, it keeps trying to hog my bandwidth
etc
 
I'm with @GnomeSlice, steam is not good. It is great!
 
Steam has allowed me to carry games over to every computer I've owned in the last 10 years without having to mess with any discs.
 
I like the idea of Steam.
 
Well, it'll be 10 years in October 30, but eh.
@GnomeSlice Steam has a speed limiter now... have you tried setting it?
 
@Powerlord Yes.
That only applies to downloads
 
5:37 PM
I mean, I'll admit I had misgivings about steam when they shut WON down, But overall, I have no complaints.
 
When you start it up it hogs your bandwidth
 
I love steam!
I rate Steam at 5 SkyDrifts.
5
 
@GnomeSlice You need to learn to like the idea of up-to-date PCs with good internet connections! :)
 
@OrigamiRobot That's only because you're steam-powered.
 
FAE
@GnomeSlice Can you phrase this elsewise please?
 
5:38 PM
@Sterno My PC is fine. My Dad's isn't quite as fast and Steam makes his PC take like 10 minutes to boot up
He hates steam
He only uses it to play Just Cause 2 modded
Because it is required
 
@GnomeSlice He should change it so Steam doesn't load on bootup
 
@Sterno He did. It does anyway.
 
...Steam takes like 30 seconds max for me and that includes the update check when it starts.
 
I know your Dad knows how to do that, because your dad is a supergenius.
 
Then again, my PC was built as a gaming system.
 
5:39 PM
It doesn't launch, but it does a ton of shit at startup
 
Still, even my laptop doesn't take more than a minute or two.
 
I am curious why a PC capable of running Just Cause 2 is having problems with the Steam client taking too many resources.
 
@Sterno Yeah me too, but since he installed steam his PC takes forever to boot up
 
Probably bandwidth like you said, versus any sort of other bottleneck
 
@FAE Sorry, I can't.
 
5:40 PM
@FAE I mod-abused it for him.
 
FAE
@TimStone Appreciated.
 
@TimStone Thanks
There are things I like about Steam but the whole thing is slow and horrible if you have slow internet
 
...then again, I haven't had horrible Internet since the early 2000s, so...
Can it be going home time nao?
 
FAE
Steam on dial-up is completely and utterly unusable, even for just chat.
 
I remember the good old days of dialing up to the local BBS, where they limited you to 30 minutes a day. Except they had a time bank so you could bank up previous day's minutes. Also, a casino, where you could gamble for more.
 
5:42 PM
I remember the good old days of dialing up to the local BBS that had 4 lines and a public chat... then expanded to 8 lines... then 12.
Oh, there were some games there, too, but eh.
 
The biggest one around me was 2 (eventually 4 right around the time I left for college)
 
@GnomeSlice If steam's internet use is unacceptable, but someone only uses it for a single player game, couldn't you use firewall to block it's internet access?
 
@tugs It requires internet to do pretty much everything
 
@tugs Or go offline once the game is up to date.
 
Trade Wars was pretty awesome.
 
5:43 PM
@GnomeSlice I'm pretty sure I can play Just Cause 2 in offline mode.
 
@JasonBerkan @tugs Every few days it requires you to launch online and validate.
 
Wow, apparently said BBS has a forum on BBSmates.
 
But my favorite was Barren Realms Elite
 
@GnomeSlice true, but every few days isn't every bootup.
 
Apparently the (second) owner of it passed away 5 years ago. Can you tell I don't keep in touch with these people?
 
5:45 PM
Does anyone remember what this game was called?
 
@GnomeSlice Every few days is better than every day.
 
(not a door game... normal PC game)
I suppose I could google image search
 
@Sterno ask a question on arqade
 
@kalina No. I can't bring myself to do it.
 
@Sterno then link it to @StrixVaria for maximum lulz
 
5:46 PM
Lords of Conquest.
 
> Steam overlay not working: ... set compatibility mode to Windows 98 ...
wait, what?
ಠ_ಠ
 
...I just realized that I linked to a forum about a BBS I haven't visited since longer than @Unionhawk has been alive (I think)
 
@Powerlord Welcome to the old geezer club
 
I know I haven't visited it since I took on my current username, which was in 1993.
 
@Powerlord There should be USENET posts of mine floating around from before most of these people were born.
 
5:50 PM
@Sterno Lord of Conquest
Oh, you found it
 
I kind of want to play it again now.
 
@Fluttershy Ronan is younger than I.
 
Google reverse image search?
 
@Sterno then, why not?
 
@Krazer ooooooohhhhhh yeahhhhhh!
 
5:51 PM
@Sterno NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
So, to get The Stanley Parable or wait for the inevitable Steam sale...
 
Huh. When I grabbed that off Google, I didn't realize that Kool Aid Man seems to be injuring people.
 
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Q: Pokemon X/Y searching in the GTS

C-dizzleIf memory serves, I thought I remembered reading somewhere that the GTS Pokemon would be filled with all the Pokemon names. But when I'm searching for one that I haven't seen before, for example a Dragonite, I don't see it in the "D" list. But there is an option you can pick to where you can ty...

 
LETS PLAY GAMES!
 
5:54 PM
Now the Honeycomb's song is in my head.
 
You found a truck load of cash, containing $32,165,759,533 inside!
 
@kalina I just took care of all the guards in a framing frame pro job and the host decides to walk through the vault lasers
 
@3ventic heh
did you rage quit?
 
@3ventic slowclap
 
@kalina Yes.
 
5:55 PM
I did that once, I just wanted to test what would happen
I regretted it immedately
once I realised that it despawned the exit point, even though we had just looted the gold
 
I'm not doing framing frame day 3 hard way on hard+ without armor
 
@3ventic Framing Frame 3 is just stupid the loud way.
 
@Unionhawk Did that today too
joined in middle of a normal job just to find everyone in full armor sitting in the computer room
 
I mean, it can be done, certainly. But it's just not worth it.
 
How can I typo 'everyone' as 'anything'..?
 
5:58 PM
@3ventic easy, by assuming they're too stupid to be human and reclassifying them as social experiments
 
Crap. It's snowing.
 
@JasonBerkan There too?
I hate snow
it's just not fun
 
boo, it isn't snowing here
 
That reminds me, once it starts snowing around here, I need to stop parking on the roof level of the parking structure just because it's closer to the stairwell and lift.
 
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Q: I'm looking for an old game I used to play. Does anyone know it?

Emil KistrupThe game is a bit like OGame, except it's more "Travian / Ikariamish". You have to choose between three factions: The green nasty zerg alike aliens The normal humans The advanced blue aliens, again a bit like Protoss. I remember the game is browserbased. Some time ago the developers updated ...

 
6:17 PM
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Q: iPhone Simcity Delux; Pumping Stations Not Working

NeverMy pumping stations I build right next to fresh water (river). They are powered. They have pipes going to them. They say the 'current cap' is 0. Why? What am I doing wrong here? I playe montsh ago and they worked fine. Halp!

 
user15026
 
user15026
This is what I learned to do over lunch. :D
 
New Humble Weekly sale
Deathspank
 
I forgot to bring a book to work today. :(
Now I have nothing to read during lunch.
 
6:23 PM
@AshleyNunn TEACH ME
 
user15026
@ZeroStack I totally would! It is super easy. @ToxicFrog taught me super fast. :D It is just repeating patterns over and over! If I could remember what the particular module thing was called, I would find you a tutorial....
 
@AshleyNunn You did this instead of playing games? >:O
 
user15026
@Powerlord When a cute boy offers you lunch and modular origami lessons, you don't say no ;)
 
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Q: What Salim answers to Jodie?

DracontisI don't think he speaks fiction language, but I haven't any subtitles for his answers. Do I need to turn subtitles on to see translation? Or any other sources of information?

 
6:29 PM
why don't mailto links open in gmail any more...
Paypal better hurry the hell up
 
Finally got my 3ventic@3ventic.eu configured properly
 
user15026
 
@AshleyNunn AWESOME! thanks :)
 
user15026
@ZeroStack No problem! It is really fun. I would suggest those little squares of thicker notepaper that come in those little cubes for this over like...origami paper, because the thicker paper holds the shape better.
 
6:44 PM
@GnomeSlice Your browser settings got changed.
 
Well that's worrying. I think I just booked my shuttle from the airport for this December, but the "payment-successful.htm" page it redirected me to is a 404.
 
@AshleyNunn - What's your username in Fallen London?
 
user15026
@JasonBerkan Aralyn
 
@Unionhawk 404 - money not found
 
@GnomeSlice Totally misread that as "Super Amazing Wipqozn Adventure" and wondered when the heck the turtle got a game made in his honour.
 
6:47 PM
@AshleyNunn I (Xanthe Terra) have invited you to a game of chess.
 
user15026
@JasonBerkan Awesome.
 
I guess I'll have to call them to confirm. I have the PayPal receipt.
 
@ZeroStack awesome
 
user15026
@ZeroStack This just reproves how terrible I am at the original Mario
 
6:55 PM
Oct 11 at 15:18, by Jason Berkan
I've been killed by the first Goomba in Super Mario Bros 13435 times.
 

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