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6:00 PM
only an hour to go and I have fully inverted my day
 
@Unionhawk "Half-Life 3 Core" is probably a code name for something like a MLP MMO.
 
@Coronus makes sense
 
Because Half-Life 3? Seriously?
 
hmmm
@Coronus did you add me to steam recently?
 
@kalina Yes.
 
6:06 PM
why did you do that
 
No reason in particular.
 
well that's disappointing
 
So. Chroma Squad should have a beta out by the end of the month.
 
6:19 PM
@fbueckert This game doesn't even look that good.
 
EA offers mod support, and then restricts it to the most banal "mods" imaginable.
 
@kalina MORNING
 
mmh
 
Don't grunt at me!
 
@BenBrocka wat
That's from the Shantae kickstarter
 
6:30 PM
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government, created by Congressional statute (see and ), and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the media, public safety and homeland security. The Commission is also in the process of modernizing itself. The FCC was formed by the Communications Act of 1934 to replace the radio regulation functions of the Federal Radio Commission. The FCC took over wire communication regul...
@kalina Good morning, sunshine.
 
stilll mmh
 
@Fluttershy Yeah, 'some US thing'
 
@kalina ...congratulations?
I AM NOT TO BLAME HERE FOR THE RECORD
 
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Q: What's a good way to get started in Space Station 13?

XenoxAfter seeing some interesting questions about space station 13 here on Arqade I tried to give it a try. So far I: Spent half an hour trying to get out of the arrivals shuttle with no luck, then the station self destructed. On my second attempt got out of the shuttle, only to be shot by some f...

 
6:37 PM
Oh good, there's a funeral. I love having my window face a cemetery (no I don't)
 
@Unionhawk Close your blinds
 
@MichaelDunfield No
I don't want to feel like I live in a cave, it's sunny out
 
Close your blinds and take breaks to go out and grieve with the funeralgoers.
 
Except I have to leave for computer science in 5 minutes or so, so...
 
Bit Trip Runner 2 has really nice animation.
 
6:40 PM
Which, interestingly enough, is taught in a cave. Or at least, the basement of the business building. Which is basically a cave.
It's like a cave with computers and internet.
 
@Unionhawk That's the best kind of cave.
For anybody interested, Inverto is likely going to be the next featured game on IndieGameStand. indiegamestand.com/forum/…
And that is awesome
 
I think at $5 I might finally get Runner 2.
 
@StrixVaria I might too if paypal would let me.
 
I really should stop buying games though.
 
6:43 PM
@Unionhawk there is no blame
 
I got runner 2 free with PS+, haven't got very far since I Was tired of the cloud levels...
 
@MichaelDunfield There are a lot of reasons I don't keep a PayPal balance.
That is one.
 
@StrixVaria If I had a paypal balance I would be able to.
It doesn't want me to do a non-instant payments
 
@Lazers lol
 
@BenBrocka You might be interested in this
The developer comments are pretty great
Alright, I'm out
 
6:49 PM
as a result of playing a beta game for so long
I've managed to back myself into a corner that prevents me from progressing twice now
 
@Arperum pretty much
 
> Wonder how the higher tier weapons will look like... bee shooting triple barrelled automatic shotgun?
> That's tier two.
 
2k hits today, I'm a happy porkchop
 
@fredley Any more publicity?
 
6:58 PM
@Arperum I was about to say "It's sunny out... not that a lot of you on here right now would know much about that"
Though, central ohio is fickle about its weather at best
It was really cold yesterday, today, 81 (or, around 30, for everyone else here)
 
@fredley Is there anything to do after you make the hardened armour?
 
looks to the left, then to the right, then whispers Video Games
 
@SaintWacko ALL THE POTIONS
 
@fredley 2k hits to what?
 
@Shiester Video Game
 
7:02 PM
@Coronus I hate video game
also @fbueckert wish I could give you more than one star on your comment about capcom and megaman.
 
they really did him wrong.
 
@Shiester AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
 
@Shiester Also, you whisper in bold Title Case?
 
Pokemon Yellow: Acquired.
 
@OrigamiRobot Page Not Found...
 
wat
Oh, I double pasted somehow.
 
@OrigamiRobot lead is stronger than Iron? in what world?
 
@OrigamiRobot Are you sure about no shadow orb equivalent, I haven't smashed them but I saw some heart-like things where the shadow orbs would usually be
 
oh god
oh god oh god oh god
I now own QWOP
 
7:21 PM
Since my world only has one or the other of each element, I am using the wiki to fill in information for the parallel element. Please correct any wrong information you find. — OrigamiRobot 22 secs ago
 
HOW COULD YOU, WOLFIRE. HOW COULD YOU.
 
@MadScientist My world has Corruption and there is nothing listed on the wiki about a Crimson version.
 
@OrigamiRobot I don't want to correct as I only have partial information. I think there is a crimson equivalent, but I don't know how it is called
 
@MadScientist I would like to think so too, but this is the information I have at this time. I made it CW for a reason.
 
I feel like I just sneezed a sizable portion of my brain out
from thhis I derive I s hould just go back to bed
 
7:23 PM
@MadScientist YOUR GERMAN LEAKS THROUGH INTO YOUR ENGLISH. You don't know "what" it is called. Hah!
Speaking of which, how is your German coming @badp?
 
@OrigamiRobot I'd just remove the part about no crimson equivalent for now, until we can confirm either way
 
@Unionhawk Yea, the new base ores have 1 higher defense each or sommat.
 
@StrixVaria Oh god, don't encourage him.
 
@MadScientist Good enough
 
@StrixVaria "Danke schon", "Schnitzel", "Zwai", "Weißbeer", "Ciao"
 
7:24 PM
@StrixVaria how rude!
 
@badp I like how you misspelled 3 of 5 German words. It really helps illustrate your point.
2
 
also, I saw my new mindcanon of @FEichinger on the tram tonight
@StrixVaria schoen and bier?
Okay I'm stumped on the third
 
@badp And zwei.
 
hm.
 
@badp Well, can't have been real-me, but go ahead.
 
7:26 PM
@StrixVaria there is 6 words there, only an American would make such a miscalculation
 
@badp Ciao is not exactly german ;-)
 
@MadScientist I'm surprised by the amount of people who use it here.
The Ciao to Tschuss (-typo) rate is about 10 to 1
dunno if @FEichinger can confirm or debunk
 
@badp It's about right.
 
maybe there's cognitive dissonance on my end because hearing "ciao" here stands out rather glaringingly from the carpet of uncomprehensible beerspeak.
 
It is rather common in germany, yes.
 
7:29 PM
@badp Tsk. There can't be that much beerspeak out there when half the people in the city right now are bloody tourists.
 
@FEichinger All I know is that I'm always surrounded by varying amount of Italians
 
@FEichinger This makes me glad I live in a place no one wants to visit.
 
@badp Yeeeeeh ... That's part of that problem.
 
even at work, our team is one third Italian.
 
Why would any tourists want to come to Charlotte, NC
 
7:30 PM
@OrigamiRobot well america is a bit shit tbh
 
@OrigamiRobot Don't you live in the capital of NASCAR?
 
oh you were being more specific
 
@OrigamiRobot to visit the world famous local origami robot celebrity's creepy finger-shoes.
 
@JasonBerkan Oh yea, forgot about the speedway. Bah, it's on the other side.
 
@OrigamiRobot I'll be there in 2 summers, if all goes well.
 
7:31 PM
Anyway, I'm not counting events because anywhere has concerts and such.
@JasonBerkan At the speedway? I'm sorry.
 
@OrigamiRobot Charlotte. We may hit up a NASCAR museum, but won't be there for a race.
 
bunch of people driving around in circles for a few hours
 
Oh, and I guess there's Carowinds, but it's not even a good amusement park.
 
Though there has been talk of my wife buying me a drive in a car on the speedway, so there's that.
 
@OrigamiRobot Yeah, I'm in Ohio... so... We've got 2 good ones
Interestingly, that's the same number as the total number of fun things here.
 
7:36 PM
@Unionhawk You have Amish Country (I don't know what the city is called because I've always called it that)
Not fun, but you can get damn good cheese.
 
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Q: When you rename your starting characters in FTL, are those names added to the default list for later games?

JustinP8I manually renamed one of my starting characters Ashley, which is a common name, but in a later game one of the crew members I got was named Ashley. I was just curious if the game adds names you manually enter to the list it pulls random names from.

 
@OrigamiRobot You mean "everywhere that isn't Cincinnati-Dayton, Columbus, or northern Ohio"?
 
@OrigamiRobot You gorram ninja.
 
@Unionhawk shrug I thought it was just one little community.
@FEichinger Eh?
 
@OrigamiRobot That FTL question.
 
7:41 PM
@OrigamiRobot You answered just under a minute earlier.
 
@FEichinger Oh, well you already have the place to change it which I was in the process of looking for so I'll delete my answer.
 
@Unionhawk About the only part of Ohio I know possibly anywhat about is near the Pennsylvania border.
 
@OrigamiRobot That's what cost me time on you, looked through my profile before posting. :P
 
@FEichinger Your link goes to the same question.
 
@OrigamiRobot That's true indeed. Now what screwed up my question ID?
There we go, correct link.
 
7:44 PM
@OrigamiRobot Probably is. It's just... driving through the state is rather monotonous. "Oh look, another 55 road with corn on both sides of the road. How exciting!"
 
time to break some bad
 
@FEichinger Eh, if wasn't already burnt out by my Terraria Q/A and my debit card debacle, I'd complain about them being dupes, but I don't have it in me to care.
 
@RedRiderX Know this, that unless I mixed things up, you still will get what's coming and you will rue the fact that it is coming!
 
@GraceNote Yea, that's the place I'm thinking of.
 
@OrigamiRobot Ah. That's too far east for me to know things about, honestly. But I believe you when you say there's good cheese there.
And that makes sense to be amish country. Pennsylvania...
 
7:48 PM
@GraceNote So are stat up skills and mastery skills a complete waste of points just for the sake of the extra stats?
 
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Q: When are dead bodies discovered?

LandricIn Hitman: Blood Money guards can discover dead bodies, which has the effect of raising general suspicion and potentially blowing your disguise (as well as lowering your rating at the end of the mission). While there are specific "body dumps" (such as freezers or cliffs) these can be sparse. Are...

 
@Unionhawk Sugarcreek/Dover
 
Because it looks like skills which increase your stats don't increase your stats at all.
 
I dunno? In the original, they increased your stats and/or your effectiveness with whatever they were a mastery for.
 
Did the stat changes show up?
Because it looks like 10 points into them doesn't even me a 1 point increase.
In the original that is
 
7:52 PM
Yes, one point per.
 
Oh, so it's only one extra point of the stat per point?
 
Well, except for HP/TP, I don't remember how much those were worth.
@Wipqozn For the not-HP/TP stats, that's 10% of the maximum possible stat just right there, independent of level and equipment. 10's a big amount.
 
@GraceNote Oh, percent.
 
@Wipqozn No, point.
Max stat value is 99.
 
Oh, gotcha.
 
7:54 PM
So, 10 points is (essentially) 10% of the way to 99.
 
Well, that's good to know
Although it looks like either they don't actually work in this game, or the display is buggy.
WEll, looks like I'll need to do some testing in battle.
 
In previous entries, the bonus from skills and equipment was visually distinct from your actual base stat, in the form of different colored bars.
 
@GraceNote In this one there just seems to be one "ATK/DEF" spot. IT doesn't show what contributes to it.
Unless there is a more detailed status screen I'm not aware of.
 
Dunno. Lacking the game I couldn't tell you the UI.
 
Well let's see if I can track down a screenshot of the original status screen.
This is from number 2.
 
8:00 PM
@Wipqozn aaaaaaaaaaaaargh
 
It looks identical. Is the ATK/DEF there spposed to show you what your ATK/DEF is when considering skill points?
Because that does show equipment bonuses.
 
Crappy Tahoma makes my eyes bleed
 
I'm probably going to need to test this in-game, but fiddling around in combat.
 
Also Agatha's not having a good time. ":C"
 
@Wipqozn Oh, I was thinking like STR/TEC/VIT/AGI/LUC
ATK and DEF just show the full values including all whatever bonuses you have.
Also the shopkeeper from EO2 is very recognizeable, heh.
 
8:03 PM
Okay, so either the skills are bugged or the display is bugged.
 
Or the skills give an invisible boost.
I wonder if Medics get Immunize back.
 
@GraceNote Like I said, display is bugged.
If they used to display the boost in the previous games I doubt they'd take it out now.
 
Memory's a little fuzzy on how ATK/DEF boost were shown. I have my maps and my diary entries, not my whole stat analyses.
 
Either way, doing some testing now.
Okay, only just started testing with maxed out mastery but looks like it may just be a hidde bonus.
 
@GraceNote I will undoubtedly match this ambiguous omen with an equally ambiguous dread.
Also, does anyone know of a PotatoEngineer in these parts?
 
8:12 PM
The only potatoes I know are on the other side of the internet.
 
Looks like ~ 115 increase in damage.
Not sure if that's fixed value or percent.
Time to test ATK Up.
 
@RedRiderX I doubled checked the transcript just to make sure, and yeah, you are indeed the one destined for destruction.
 
@Wipqozn does classic mode have a mansion with a maid that makes you ice cream?
 
@Sterno Yes.
 
@GraceNote Ahh, this was the Attack on Titan incident, wasn't it?
 
8:16 PM
Yes, yes it was.
The subject may have come up again elsewhere.
 
> Reuters is reporting that three of Microsoft's 20 largest investors want company founder Bill Gates to step down as chairman of the board.
 
@Powerlord o.0
 
I wonder if Microsoft will lose both Gates and Ballmer.
Also, mandatory TF2 update incoming.
 
Hmm, I have been contacted by one PotatoEngineer so that we might have a discussion about some select dusty stones...
It appears that my campaigns have been effective.
@PrivatePansy @AshleyNunn Do either of you know of a PotatoEngineer?
 
Jin
who's playing GTA V on PS3 here?
 
8:30 PM
@RedRiderX Doesn't he work for Aperture?
 
Am I being stupid and seeing things or did the design/layout of the site change a little bit?
 
@Arperum not yet?
 
@SaintWacko Quite possible, considering the situation.
 
@Arperum Seeing things hardly implies that you're stupid.
 
there's a significant redesign of the top bar coming our way eventually
 
8:32 PM
@Yuki In this case I would be seeing changes were there are none.
 
(wonder how that'll work out for Ask Ubuntu)
 
@badp Will go under theirs.
At least, far as I understand the situation, it would.
 
Okay, so there is a boost,but the boost from the skill is quite a bit more.
 
So, did anyone else play the Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies demo yet?
 
@GraceNote sigh
 
8:34 PM
A bit on the short side, but the ending showed a bunch of characters that are presumably in the game.
 
@FEichinger Not a fan of their bar?
 
@GraceNote A black bar below a light bar doesn't sound like a good idea
 
@MadScientist It's going to break whichever way we go.
 
@GraceNote I think I've voiced my problems with it somewhere in our General Room. But there's also the part where we already had complaints about the multiple-bars-and-totally-weird-layout-up-there before.
 
So to that point I'm going to ditch this question by appointing @Jin as the current source of your answers on this topic, nachos!
 
8:37 PM
And I always like being annoyed when SE changes something network-wide that was in no way broken on AU before the change. :P
 
there is nothing worse than having both desktop and metro skype and android skype running at the same time and all of them ring at the same time and argh
 
@GraceNote Jin will probably flee once we start complaining why the bar does have to be black and can't have different colors like it is now ;-)
 
Jin
@GraceNote wat?
 
@Jin I'm throwing you under the bus, so apparently goes the colloquialism that I never really understood.
 
Jin
@GraceNote et tu, Note?
3
 
8:39 PM
@GraceNote Throwing your only designer under the bus doesn't sound like a good idea, to be honest ;-)
 
@MadScientist Throwing anyone under a bus honestly seems like all it would do is get more people on your case because you just threw someone under a bus.
 
@MadScientist what you really need is a sufficient supply of nephews
 
I've spent the last couple of minutes trying to riff off "throwing someone under a bus" but I just can't come up with something.
 
user30
I would now appear to be objectively bad at TF2.
 
user30
sad times
 
8:41 PM
@ThomasMcDonald welcome!
 
Argh!
There's a merchant selling Seven League Boots!
 
900k
:(
 
@SaintWacko Geezers, work on your negotiation skill more.
 
user30
@badp hi
 
8:42 PM
@OrigamiRobot can you get that as a poster
 
@GraceNote Who do you think @SaintWacko is? @Sterno?
 
@GraceNote It's at 17ish
 
@Blem I have it on a shirt, but with a different image.
 
@Yuki I imagine Sternold would have a lower Negotiation score because he's a creepy old man.
 
^This one
 
8:43 PM
@GraceNote Oh, I'm just replying to you saying "geezers".
 
@GraceNote He gets a a bonus to yelling at kids to get off his lawn.
 
@Yuki Oh, that has nothing to do with old people. It's just following the whole not using certain names in vain and such.
 
weee no more spawn stupidity in granary
 
@badp Granaries are awful.
 
where by stupidity I really mean map exploits
@Fluttershy :(
 
8:46 PM
I need to find more occasions to use silly names like Gee Buttersnaps.
Or M.C. Clap Yo Handz.
Also, I believe I misplaced my headphones.
Which is sad.
 
I need to figure out which songs to focus on for my Bard.
and also spells for my alchemist.
 
@Wipqozn ?
Elona?
 
@Yuki Etrian Odyssey.
 
@Wipqozn Ah, another game I need to pick up but seriously don't have the time or the spare money for at the moment.
 
My hopefully repaired/replaced headphones are waiting for me at home!
 
8:52 PM
Anybody have good suggestions for headphones that will actually fit around my ears rather than pin them against my head?
 
@Yuki speakers
 
Jin
whatever happened to that xiaojiang(sp?) dude here?
 
@Jin @PrivatePansy
 
@kalina That kinda defeats the entire purpose of headphones, doesn't it?
 
Jin
why is everyone changing their aliases here? so confusing
 
8:54 PM
@Jin It's the newest fad, apparently.
 
@Jin he joined the army
@Yuki purpose of headphones is to reproduce a digital signal as analogue soundwaves so you can hear them
speakers achieve this goal with greater fidelity
 
@Jin YiJiang, by the by.
 
sounds like a major victory
 
@kalina With the caveat so that no-one else hears them.
 
I don't care about trivial things such as that
if my entire street has to hear me play payday 2 then it's my team's fault for setting off the alarm
 
8:55 PM
@Jin To wit, I think only a handful of us around here in this room at the moment are using the same names as from when Arqade came into being.
 
Sep 4 at 0:01, by FEichinger
@WorldEngineer Yes, because people who change their names are literally worse than Hitler.
 
Also, it'd be annoying to carry around a pair of speakers as I walk to and from work/school.
 
@FEichinger you are not MarkTrapp
 
I wouldn't have hands free to do anything else. Like open doors. Or hold up an umbrella.
 
@kalina What if he is?
 
8:56 PM
@Jin it's 5am in Singapore. Also, he's been drafted in the army.
 
he isn't
 
He has a little less of two years left of driving trucks for the military
AFAIK.
 
What if @kalina is @MarkTrapp?
7
 
@kalina If I was, I would write it anew every time.
 
I'm not
 
8:57 PM
@kalina A very MarkTrapp thing to say.
 
Wasn't there a minor joke awhile back about @MarkTrapp being YG?
 
there's an on going minor joke that everybody is MarkTrapp
 
@Yuki And then he just kind of walked in shortly after? Yep.
 
Jin
@GraceNote maybe i should change too
 
@Jin Nuuuu stay with those of us who keep our names straight!
 
8:58 PM
@StrixVaria How about "the violence of the system" and "not my real father" and "you're everything that is wrong with SE moderators"
 
@kalina Or is MarkTrapp everyone?? mind blown
 
Name changes would be less of an issue if you could see their history on a user profile page.
 
somebody change @GraceNote to @GraySnote
 
@JasonBerkan But, but, but Priiiivaaaacyyyy!
 
8:58 PM
Or if everyone who changed their name kept their avatar. glares at @Yuki
 
@FEichinger Unless you changed your name to @SexRobot in the past, I don't see how privacy matters.
 
@JasonBerkan I don't see why you gotta bring @OrigamiRobot into this.
 
@JasonBerkan We can. ♪
 
yeah only I'm allowed to randomly pick on @OrigamiRobot when he's afk
get in line and request authorisation
 
@JasonBerkan Don't ask me, I'm just poking fun at that argument.
 
8:59 PM
I WILL SET FIRE TO YOU
 
btw I have not received my $5 million
 
@kalina Yes, yes, been there, done that.
 

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