The Bridge

Why does the Zerg AI player sometimes get stuck at the very beginning of the game and doesn't ever evolve beyond producing drones? This is a mystery for me since I was a child, and now that I can understand some AI, I would really like to understand this.

kalina

10:13 AM

in order to prevent the site from being burned down, I had to eradicate all sources of fuel (the lag tag)

this provided a measure of containment

the fire did just spread to the artificial-intelligence tag though

Twilight Sparkle

Just saw Dragon Age: Inquisition's live demo
it looks so awesome, like a combination of skyrim's open world with bioware's awesome story and voice acting

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kalina

@TwilightSparkle DID NOT WATCH: NOT MASS EFFECT

yay I have my sportsmanship badge back, now I never need to upvote anybody again

Twilight Sparkle

lol dragon age is awesome, you have to try it

at least the first one was

DA2 was disappointing

5pike

@TwilightSparkle D2 was a freaking mess.

Martin Sojka

@TwilightSparkle A hiking simulator with sex scenes, then?

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Twilight Sparkle

10:21 AM

@MartinSojka LOL I wish I could star you twice

@MartinSojka That would be the Witcher 2, though.

Martin Sojka

I liked DA1, despite sometimes wondering why exactly can't I just hang some of my party members from the nearest tree. Until about when I reached the friggin' dwarven mines, at which point it got too boring to continue. DA2? The demo was enough to convince me it's crap. Highly polished, shiney crap, but crap nonetheless.

5pike

@MartinSojka The story of D2 is utter crap. Combat is just "hold down attack button to win"

Twilight Sparkle

@5pike To be fair DA:O wasn't any better: All my battles started and ended with Storm of the Century

@MartinSojka hmm I assume you're referring to Wynne?

Martin Sojka

@TwilightSparkle Mostly Morrigan, actually.

I think I mostly ran with Sten, Alistair, Wynne and my own fighter dwarf though, so thankfully didn't have to deal with her much.

fredley

Wooo! Today is a KickStarter items in the post day!!

Twilight Sparkle

10:36 AM

haha wynne and alistair had hilarious conversations. I remember there was one where she was trying to give him sex ed

5pike

@fredley What do you get?

fredley

@5pike SweetBox

Collision detection will soon be better

5pike

@fredley Sweetbox II, the perfect case for your Raspberry Pi??

fredley

@5pike Yarp

5pike

@fredley I'd buy one, if I had a Pi.

fredley

10:54 AM

@5pike It's pretty sweet :-P

5pike

Comes with heatsinks....wow

badp

Arperum

@fredley refreshing in whatever you are doing to seed right now is hilarious, I just had an extreme amount of cells all over the place, all listening to my input.

fredley

@Arperum Yes

@Arperum It's not doing that anymore...

Arperum

@fredley I'l do another refresh then, it just randomly started doing it with all cells that passed a certain point on the screen.

fredley

11:01 AM

@Arperum Yeah

Arperum

@fredley I get godsmacked across the screen every now and then though, as if I hit something, but nothing is nearlby.

fredley

The collision detection should be better now

Arperum

fredley

@Arperum wat have you done

Arperum

@fredley I moved to the bottom right for a bit.

fredley

11:06 AM

@Arperum No

Arperum

Firefox is used for testing.

The collision boxes are too big too. I get godsmacked if I get in a certain radius of a cell.

fredley

@Arperum Collision detection is still off >.<

Arperum

The evolve button appears at random refreshing of the page, sometimes it is not there.

fredley

@Arperum Well yes, I'm tweaking that radius

@Arperum I know about that

Arperum

@fredley Then it's good, I was just informing you.

kalina

11:23 AM

eugh well, as if I wasn't having a bad enough day

I'm getting disciplined for misconduct, for one mistake and a bunch of other stuff they're trying to pin on me

allquixotic

Anyone want Democracy 3 for 50% off ($12.50 USD)?

kalina

I think I'm just going to pull the pin on it this time and let it explode then take it to tribunal, I'm bored of this shit now

Remember: from the moment you pull the pin, Ms Handgrenade is no longer a friendly

Arperum

11:37 AM

@allquixotic Seems semi interesting, but not enough to pay that much right now.

fredley

Shut 'er down

Lazers

0

Q: I don't have any Minecraft folders!

I can't find my minecraft folders anywhere. I need to open the folder to find the plugin folder but I can't find it! Does anyone know how to get a plugin folder or how to find your minecraft folders INCLUDING the plugin folder? ALSO it is on Windows 7. PLEASE HELP

minecraft

Arperum

@Lazers TOO SLOW

fredley

@Arperum STOP BREAKING IT

Arperum

All I did was keep the move left key pressed forever.

After being bitten/eaten 5 times stuff stopped going away. Everything on the right is static, the whole line thing too. the ones left from that move to the right until they enter the big line and then stop too.

fredley

11:48 AM

@Arperum If you press evolve that will happen

Arperum

I'm assuming clicking "evolve" is allowed to make the whole playing field stop reacting to keypresses? All that still happens is that the background moves on, nothing moves anymore.

fredley

@Arperum INB4

Arperum

@fredley I did NOT click evolve on that screenshot though.

fredley

@Arperum YES YOU DID SHUT UP

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Arperum

@fredley DID NOT. Also: it is reproducible. get hit 3-4 times and then stuff stops moving and new ones start forming a line.

fredley

11:51 AM

@Arperum SHHHH

THERE ARE NO BUGS

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley These are not the bugs you are looking for

Arperum

@fredley getting hit also removes the evolve button.

fredley

@Arperum As it should

badp

@fredley I also didn't

@fredley are you aware of your enemy lifetime bugs

@fredley because you have enemy lifetime bugs

@fredley there's issues with the way you manage enemies' lifetimes.

fredley

@badp It's not spawning bugs, it's enemy removal bugs

@badp SO YOU CAN SHUT UP TOO

@badp STOP MOD-ABUSING YOURSELF

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badp

11:55 AM

@fredley Are you leaking memory with your enemy lifetime bugs?

@fredley Are your enemy lifetime bugs going to crash my browser?

@fredley Why do your enemy lifetime bugs hate freedom and America?

fredley

@badp I hope they do

Lazers

0

Q: Does ctrl+A delay movement in bushes?

Juking around the bushes in the jungle is pretty common where the enemy leaves the bush past you as soon as you enter it.This has led up to people using the ctrl+A method,which allows you to automatically guide your auto attacks within the bush without targeting the champion specifically. What i...

league-of-legends

fredley

@badp Enemy lifetime bugs are a direct result of Obamacare

badp

@fredley Are you going to write to Congress about your enemy lifetime bugs?

Arperum

I like how it happens semi randomly now. some enemies move on properly other jsut stay there, it's in waves now.

badp

11:58 AM

@Arperum Yeah I think he has enemy lifetime bugs. He's probably leaking memory like a colander, with all those enemy lifetime bugs.

Arperum

@badp I just turned into a blue hole, like a black hole, but blueish.

I don't even know how I did that. But it was fun.

And at this size hitting something bigger results in an awesome rollercoaster thing. I was bounced around at least 15-20 times.

fredley

@Arperum Can you try and work out exactly when the lifetime bug happens?

Arperum

Now I stopped moving and my size keeps growing, completely off screen though, but the numbers keep going up.

But at least the evolve button returned!

@fredley In a bit, I'm currently breaking the number in fantastic ways.

It's currently at least 15 digits long, and partially overlapped by the evolve button

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum open it in a new tab?

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden Meh, I got to scientific notation, fun times are over.

Beat THAT.

I'll have a short look at what causes the lifetime bug, then back to work.

@fredley I got the bug this time after being thrown a big distance away for hitting a bigger cell and then moving a very little bit to the left, the times I got thrown around just a bit didn't cause it.

And if you chancge direction when the enemies are not stuck in the "line" they keep moving on, the line just counts as if the centerpart is offscreen or something.

It randomly stopped after turning to four sides, then happened again after I got smacked around some more. Again after a large throw.

Just keep throwing yourself into the same cell over and over and you'll end up with it.

fredley

12:29 PM

@Arperum right...

Arperum

@fredley I am pretty stubborn, and breaking things is easiest if you do unexpected things.

Fluttershy

Oh my glob I am freezing! @fredley, come keep me warm!

fredley

@Fluttershy ...

@Arperum True. I have no idea what could be causing this though, it's very odd

Arperum

@fredley I might have a look around for things I see in your JS code once I'm home, no time for that now though.

fredley

@Arperum Yeah no worries

LessPop_MoreFizz

12:38 PM

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Fluttershy

@fredley I'm not hearing any objections!

fredley

@Fluttershy Why would you?

Arperum

@fredley Because you may or may not want to be used to keep @Fluttershy warm.

fredley

@Arperum Used in what way?

Arperum

@fredley I'm explicitly leaving that open for interpretation, as it is not specified. I was interpreting it as things or ways.

DAMN YOU @fredley and @Fluttershy ! Now my mental image is evolving into things and it is getting more horrifying by the second.

OrigamiRobot

12:53 PM

@LessPop_MoreFizz I don't even like the song, but this is amazing.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@OrigamiRobot You are wrong to not like it but I forgive you

fredley

@arp can you still make it happen after a refresh?

Arperum

@fredley Yup, on the second bounce this time. And a bit of movement towards a third one. I did ctrl+f5, for a proper refresh.

Happens in both firefox and Chrome

Sepia Lazers

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Q: It's time for burnination!

A continuation of The Great Arqade Cleanup of 2012. Call this the 2013 edition if you wish. We've still got some horrible tags. I require upvotes as authorisation of removing them. This post is primarily focussed on tags to delete - rather than tags to fix. A lot of our tags are still in pretty...

discussion tags

Arperum

-3

Q: How do you create or find your Minecraft server folder on Windows 7?

How do you create or find your Minecraft server folder on Windows 7? And if you create one, will it still come with the plugin folder and everything else with it? Because that's what I need.

minecraft

At the closevoters (@fredley , and others): the question is about server folder it seems, not a duplicate from normal folder

fredley

12:59 PM

@Arperum reopen, close as a dupe of another question

Arperum

@fredley No reopen votes here. Best I can do is flag.

kalina

@SepiaLazers call to arms people, I need votes so that I can achieve something productive today

and later, I will start compiling a list of meta questions so we can build up our FAQ

cc @3ventic

3ventic

@kalina Yay, someone's finally interested

kalina

@3ventic you're mistaken

3ventic

Seems like the whole community drops dead whenever someone mentions faq

...and there it happens again.

Kevin van der Velden

1:01 PM

@3ventic shambles around like a zombie

kalina

I'm not having the conversation I need to have to discuss this in here

see Steam

OrigamiRobot

@kalina You're a steam!

Unionhawk

skyrim save games

6 1 1 2

skyrim

That's a specific username

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk and a terrible user

Sterno

@kalina but windowed-mode is such an awesomely helpful tag.

kalina

1:04 PM

@Sterno I will retag all of your questions with rebecca-black if you speak nonsense like that again

fredley

@kalina Imma let you finish, but we should clean up tag wikis too

kalina

tag wikis is a later post

as is the multiplayer tag

Sterno

@kalina @fredley is the top user of rebecca-black.

kalina

not until he gets a gold badge in it he isn't

fredley

@Sterno I never used rebecca-black even once

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Sterno

1:05 PM

@fredley BAM

fredley

@kalina I have the only gold tag badge

kalina

@fredley in minecraft, it hardly counts

get a gold tag badge in a real game and then we'll talk

Arperum

@kalina achievements sounds like a terrible tag too.

fredley

legal is a meat tag, but I'm not sure how we'd fix questions it's on

5pike

While you are at burninating:

0

A: What does this star symbol mean in Pokemon X Pokedex

poop poop bums turd balls, I dun made a plop

kalina

1:10 PM

@Arperum the community decided to keep achievements because it is something you can specialise in

there are plenty of gamers who take achievements as a core part of the game

Unionhawk

@fredley legal may as well be not-blatently-off-topic.

fredley

@Unionhawk We need a site to migrate those questions to.

Arperum

@kalina Sure, but it's not because you see achievements as a core part of your game that you are going to have knowledge about achievements in any game ever. they are not related.

kalina

@Arperum make your argument on meta in an answer of your own specific to achievements, not in chat

Arperum

-3

Q: How do you create or find your Minecraft server folder on Windows 7?

How do you create or find your Minecraft server folder on Windows 7? And if you create one, will it still come with the plugin folder and everything else with it? Because that's what I need.

minecraft

kalina

1:11 PM

you're wasting keystrokes

Arperum

This one would be just as good without that tag.

fredley

@kalina Why don't you just nominate minecraft for removal?

kalina

@fredley it's a game tag, and as such it's a valid tag

Sterno

@fredley meat tags are the best tags. bacon!

fbueckert

Good morning, Bridge

Sterno

1:14 PM

No.

Unionhawk

19

Q: Where can I find EULAs for games BEFORE I purchase them?

After impulse buying NFS: Hot Pursuit for €6.8, I noticed that Steam needed me to accept its EULA. That EULA mentioned I might have to install EA Download Manager Origin to get some content. I was not exactly pleased to learn this — given the previous press coverage about EA and Valve, I thought ...

legal

Dammit, the burn of legal was going so well until now

Sterno

Prediction: Everyone finds a reason to VTC it, delete it, and then the burnination continues.

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OrigamiRobot

dammit @kalina I should be going to work, not looking for bad tags!

Unionhawk

Even still, in most cases where a question has that tag and another tag, that tag doesn't belong.

I guess it's an okay tag on its own. But it's stupid paired with a game tag.

fbueckert

@Sterno Technically, I'd happily use my, "We're not an asset location service" close reason.

kalina

1:17 PM

I didn't expect this meta thread to spawn this many answers

Unionhawk

@kalina We're all in the mood for fire. And @OrigamiRobot is around to provide his input on "X is a bad tag"

OrigamiRobot

All tags are bad!

kalina

There is going to be enough fire caused by this burnination that there won't be much site left

fbueckert

I might have to start being the fun police soon, though.

kalina

@fbueckert you'll have to get me suspended to slow down my burning. I'm still of the opinion it's better to do them all in one go and that is pretty much the way I'm going to action this at the end

which is why I'm going to make a bunch of meta posts outlining the actions needed before I start and before you complain about me

fbueckert

1:22 PM

@kalina I get that you just wanna burn through them as fast as possible. And honestly, we're not in the middle of a contest, and it's a bit of a slow period.

kalina

We're talking "50 actions" required to reset the front page

regardless of being in the middle of a contest, that's not a big deal

fredley

@Unionhawk To be fair, that question doesn't have a decent answer

kalina

It takes 3 hours on average for the front page to reset - using TODAYS numbers.

fredley

> Regarding the search queries: for most AAA and highly popular games, the search query "EULA + <game name>" seems to work fairly well. Even putting EULA and the game name in quotes seems to work well.

i.e. 'Google it'

kalina

Waiting 3 hours once for the reset is better than waiting 3 hours after 50 edits

Unionhawk

1:23 PM

@fredley There are a number of others that make legal a fine tag on its own

But, like I said, it's totally dumb when paired with a game tag

kalina

I believe legal is a special case that has genuine use. It's why I'm not saying "lets burn hardware" or "lets burn networking"

they've got some legitimate uses

Arperum

I can't properly take part in the cleanup though, all I do is cause the review edits que to grow. For the next 5 edits anyway.

Sterno

It's weird how tag burnination always turns into a discussion about which old questions should be closed.

Lazers

-2

Q: Has Rockstar indicated how they will deal with exploiters in GTA Online?

My cousin has a really nice Adder (chrome) and he told me he got a lot of money by exploiting a glitch in GTA Online. I imagine Rockstar can tell when a player does this and I assume they will take some kind of action against that player if they are caught. Has anyone heard anything from Rock...

multiplayer grand-theft-auto-5 gta-online

0

Q: How does patch 1.04 affect mission payouts in GTA Online?

I read that the new GTA Online patch (1.04) reduces the payouts for missions. How has the payout changed?

multiplayer grand-theft-auto-5 gta-online

0

Q: What are the optimal attributes for my build?

I play using a sword, shield, bow, and arrows(and a horse of course). I know intelligence isn't incredibly important because I can just let my companions have the party skills, but what Strength/Agility/Charisma ratio should I get for my build?

mount-and-blade-warband

OrigamiRobot

@kalina The need to be cleaned up, not burned.

kalina

1:26 PM

cleanups belong in a question that doesn't exist yet

this question is for stuff that will be nuked without discrimination

it does say that in the question

OrigamiRobot

Which is why I didn't make an answer for networking or hardware

Unionhawk

@Lazers ಠ_ಠ

Aaand, it's fixed. I'm too slow.

fbueckert

@Lazers Don't care about tag cleanup anymore! Burn!

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk robots man, they're stealing our jobs!

OrigamiRobot

I see that gravatar and know it will need tag cleaning.

I might have edited every one of his posts.

Unionhawk

1:29 PM

@OrigamiRobot Is that the guy who posted in the gta-online meta with "I've been using ALL the tags"?

OrigamiRobot

dunno

Mana

4

A: How to counterattack with Xiba?

This is quite a late response so it's possible you no longer play SCV (which makes me sad, because I love this game), but for the sake of anyone with similar concerns, I'll endeavor to provide an answer. Because of the general nature of your question, I will attempt to cover a large amount of inf...

Unionhawk

Yep, it is.

-8

A: Grand Theft Auto V vs GTA Online

I've been using the tags grand-theft-auto-v and multiplayer in my questions about GTA online

Mana

this answer is pretty incredible

Sterno

@Mana It's long, and you say so, so I'll upvote it without reading it!

Martin Sojka

1:30 PM

Well, that's pretty ~~penis~~ much a definition of someone acting like a dick.

what.

I'd...edit that.

Better now? ;)

Yes.

I don't...what?

1:34 PM

I'm confused too.

But I'm old, so that happens a lot.

fbueckert

@Sterno I'm 30 now, so I should start getting easily confused soon, too.

Arperum

@Mana I think @MartinSojka is talking about the dude mentioned by @Unionhawk

Martin Sojka

@Mana I mean the answer Unionhawk posted, obviously.

Mana

I guess the terminology used to describe the answer was more what confused me rather than the target of your comment.

Sterno

+1

Mana

1:36 PM

but I guess that is what dick means, after all

anyways, gotta do work now, peace

Unionhawk

Ah, yes, the dude who was like "I do this", then we were like "Don't do that please." And now he's doing that still. Pretty much, ayep.

Wait, no, we were still discussing. I guess -10 is us saying "don't do that"

Arperum

How do you exclude certain results from a search on the site?

fbueckert

@Arperum What are you trying to do?

Arperum

@fbueckert get a search for all questions tagged achievements not containing the word "achievement"

fbueckert

@Arperum This works for me.

fredley

1:44 PM

Why the love for tf2 class tags?

They're only used on ~10 questions each. They seem pointless to me

Arperum

@fbueckert I was aiming for this Thanks!

Unionhawk

@Arperum I think this is what you're after

fbueckert

Oh. Square brackets aren't part of the URL.

Derp. That's my bad.

Arperum

@Unionhawk Where do these square brackets keep dissappearing to? your version is the right one.

kalina

@Mana are you available to do a tag merge?

Powerlord

1:49 PM

So yeah, I found out last night that Phoenix Wright's release date is Thursday not today.

Lazers

0

Q: Can I set unlimited ammo for weapons and custom map loadouts in Halo Custom Edition?

I'm trying to reproduce a classic Halo 2 gametype in Halo: Custom Edition. It's Shotty and Snipes, which is what it says on the tin. Sniper Rifles and Shotguns, with no shields, with unlimited grenades and no shields meaning pretty much one-hit-kill at long or close range. I've got unlimited gre...