@AshleyNunn She's one of the most popular though, IIRC.

Cheerilee and Celestia has the same VA. I'm not sure why it took me so long to notice.

@Mana Also I completely missed this reference :/

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I saw her and Big Mac walking together in the background of one of the S3 eps and it made me smile. :3

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie are also the same VA. As are Rainbow Dash and Applejack.

@badp as in, didn't see it in the chatlog, or didn't realize it was a reference to DBZ?

googles DBZ

@AshleyNunn If you take her and combine her with Diamond Tiara, that was pretty much my best friend in HS.

@Fluttershy Yup. I'd never know how they manage that. It's pretty ridiculous.

I guess it should've been obvious, in hindsight, that AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA‌​‌​AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA‌​AA‌​AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA‌​AAAA‌​A is a Dragon Ball Z reference

So I have kind of a high tolerance for it in entertainment seeing as I dealt with that kind of BS for like 15 years. <_<

@badp Yes

I don't get the.... I just don't get it.

anyways g2g

Hi Bridge!

@Mana laters.

oh woah

it's AARTHI

:D

@Aarthi Welcome to the PonyBridge.

*AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA‌​A‌​AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA‌​AAA‌​AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA‌​AAAAA‌​ARTHI

I HAVEN'T SPOKEN TO YOU IN YEARS

o/

GUYS look at this non-insulting article about older gamers in the WSJ: online.wsj.com/article/…

@AshleyNunn Yeah, it wasn't exactly the healthiest of friendships.

@Mana RIGHT?! STOP HIDING.

@Fluttershy noooo

@Aarthi It's okay @Aarthi, we don't think you're old.

oi

@Fluttershy Sigh...

who is Aarthi?

C'est moi

Soy yo

Watashi wa

@kalina chat.stackexchange.com/users/19082/aarthi

(pronounced moe-ee for all you non-French people)

@Ullallulloo you know, I had gotten that far by myself

evidence suggested otherwise

@Mana Talking about champagne?

@AshleyNunn Your mistake is thinking that newspapers report news.

@Ullallulloo Ah, another pony

@AshleyNunn that particular section is the "human interest" article. there's always one on the front page

@Aarthi Are you seeking to join one of these groups?

They just provide literary entertainment for your eyeballs

I'm afraid I don't know anybody who can help, sorry.

@badp negative! but our audience here at SE skews towards these 2old2game people

new plan: the Bridge version of a redditbomb

@kalina Aarthi is the one who stole the Applejack gravatar from @Wipqozn and beat him to death turtle with it.

sure, that's the story.

@TimStone aaa, my eyeballs

@Aarthi I'm not sure about that...

@kalina Stack Exchange Community Manager that comes here every so often.

@AshleyNunn shrug America?

@Ullallulloo mostly to harass @agent86 for Civ 4 tips

great, so far I've been linked a profile, given a job title, and had an avatar pointed out to me

gives up

Maybe ask a more specific question? Otherwise: Closed as NARQ

@Aarthi uh... okay... I'm not... sure... the standard for "old" here apparently is 30yo

@kalina What are you looking for?

@Mana I've looked at too many CNN articles, my eyes are scarred from all of the grammatical abominations.

@kalina She's a female. Does that help?

@kalina She's someone who opened a door for me once.

@badp :P

@AshleyNunn because a lot of people who aren't us believe that video games are just something that kids waste their lives on

See, now it's time to make Regina George jokes

my hair is insured for $10k

which is pretty true. but also older people waste their lives on them sometimes too.

@Mana Yeah. Toys are for 5-yos, why are you still playing games?

@TimStone Yea but who wouldn't open a door for you?

@badp I think it's my job here to make everyone feel old by reminding them that I'm 19.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone wow...you're...what...?

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Job failed: you're just excessively young

I thought you were like 26....

@OrigamiRobot Are you suggesting @TimStone's inability to open door atonomously?

@YiJiang'sEvilClone meh. we have a mod that's 14.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone You aren't doing a good enough job.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Not the youngest we've had though.

@Mana See, that's what everyone says

@Aarthi Newspaper...non-insulting...gamers. That can't be right

@BenBrocka ikr? ridiculous

@badp I'm old? :(

@YiJiang'sEvilClone You have dishonoured this entire unit.

Just because I turn 34 in a few weeks

Are you sure they didn't accidentally introduce some typos in a case about how video games kill more people each year than old age and Satan combined?

@badp @YiJiang'sEvilClone and the cow

@Aarthi Ask Ubuntu, right? Yeah I know that one

@badp We have you surrounded, at least from this side!

@badp Not at all. I am suggesting everyone else's desire to open his doors.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone no, actually, RasPi

@Powerlord ...no, you're just... expert

@BenBrocka ...how many studies have been done on the number of people killed each year by Satan?

@OrigamiRobot It's true, people are clambering over each other to open doors for me. It makes going out in public pretty awkward, which is why I try to avoid that.

@Aarthi oh geez, 14 year old supergenius moderators wielding RasPis.

@GraceNote Does being killed in the earlier stages count?

@GraceNote You don't need to quote actual studies when you write an article condemning video games.

@Mana basically

@JasonBerkan pssh responsible journalism

@GraceNote Studies? Billions of people fall to sin every day

@Mana RasPis had enough supporters to at least get a Beta? o_O

@badp welp, this got too heavy

@GraceNote Exactly. We need more research!!112

Possibly all 7 of them.

Phew, deflected that one for another election cycle

@Aarthi Cool. I'd love to get my hands on one, but I think the shipping is going to be as expensive as the actual product

@Powerlord I'd probably think not, unless he had a hand in it.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I...honestly wouldn't know. I can't tell a RasPi from an Arduino so

~(Robotic Sweetie Bell voice) Yes I love my sister, Applejack~

@Aarthi lol, don't worry about it, I wasn't being serious. I thought "billions" was enough of a jest giveaway and didn't go for more obvious italics, double-excl-points, etc.

@Powerlord weirdo, I'm leaving

@Powerlord Applejack is not Sweetie Bell's sister. <_<

@Powerlord Sweetie Bell is Rarity's sister... <_<

@badp :D

@Fluttershy She could be talking to Applejack.

The comma is kinda ambiguous.

Good talk, team! /waves

byeee

Leave it to Grace to identify and cherish on language ambiguity

@FAE @Fluttershy It's a reference to a parody of the Sisterhooves Social episode

@Aarthi byyee

@GraceNote Your momma is ambiguous!

@BenBrocka You take that back.

@BenBrocka That was bad and you should feel bad.

@Powerlord Ah, have not seen.

Essentially, it's a song sung to the race part of said episode.

Thanks, Google. I really needed that.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone uuuuuh

@YiJiang'sEvilClone by the way, why are you using Opera?

@badp He's not, he's using Chromium O!

Oh wait, that is Opera.

@badp Chrome and Firefox don't work very well on this tablet for reasons unknown

@Powerlord It might as well be

btw, I'm going to call Opera "Chromium O" from now on since they're dumping their own rendering engine in favor of Chromium.

It's kind of sad to see them dropping the ball with the Presto engine

And fired most of their staff in the process.

@Powerlord Yup, that. It's just... sad

...and dropping all the developers with the ball

@YiJiang'sEvilClone 99 is a LOT of tell-tale signs

@BenBrocka Depends on the tell-tale signs

@badp wish they switched to Gecko instead

"Does your husband sigh deeply?"

"Is your husband occasionally too absorbed in thoughts to listen to what you're saying?"

Opera fired (er... "lost") 90 employees during this. Who knows how many they employed to begin with.

I had no idea they were that big either

"Have you noticed an increase in your husband's happiness lately?"

"Those may be signs that he's found a replacement for you! CALL NOW 1-800-FUCKYOUJERK for a free demo!"

Here's hoping Webkit doesn't become the next Trident.

@Powerlord Every time I hear that name I can only hear it as if it were said along the lines of... CHEMICAL X.

> "You get these 12-year-old kids swearing and being obnoxious online," says Mr. Abel, a father of two from Detroit. "You wonder where their parents are."

@GraceNote dramatic chord

That made me smile.

@Wipqozn Some of us 20 year olds wish they'd piss off too

@BenBrocka mean while the 29 yr olds wish everyone would get lost.

@djsmiley2k Eh. You get five minutes. After that, if you're still annoying, you can go away.

@fbueckert Hold up, did I offend, or is that your view of online people?

@djsmiley2k I'm 29; I'm pointing out my view on people.

@djsmiley2k At that point there's not much point in multiplayer

It's not directed specifically at you.

@fbueckert Sadly I've mostly worked out people before they actually notice, and then talk to me.

@BenBrocka I think everyone who isn't a 12-year old would wish they'd piss off.

however, advice for all gamers - best way to shut up the annoying kids is tell them your wearing no trousers

@djsmiley2k He's saying that rather than wishing "everyone would get lost", he gives people 5 minutes to prove he shouldn't desire them to get lost.

It's had a 100% success rate so far for me on cod when i randomly played.

> Mr. Abel says he is still stinging from an especially harsh beat-down at the hands of "some 12-year-old girls from Japan" in a giant-robot game called Chromehounds.

Those 12-year-old girls can be pretty scary.

@RonanForman Server crash?

chromehounds is old o_O

So what's going to happen to the StarCraft 2 tag once Heart of the Swarm comes out?

@Wipqozn Chromehounds can be pretty scary

@fredley No idea.

@RonanForman I can't connect

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Do you mean in terms of the stuff in it or in terms of the label?

The labelling

I mostly play solo jrpg's while chatting to friends online

Is it going to be like WoW?

Well, first off, starcraft-2-hots looks terrible.

@GraceNote Yes... Yes it does

@RonanForman Are you on, or do you concur that it's down?

Second, I was going to look up what we did with Brood War and suggest we do the same. And, it turns out, we don't even have a Brood War tag.

@fredley I'm not on, I just restarted the server though.

I'm having issues downloading the pack atm. Might be throttled though...

@GraceNote Not as bad as legend-of-heroes-tits

@SaintWacko Legacy of Heroes.

@GraceNote Oh

@GraceNote No, wait, Legend

I think?

Oh, Heart of the Swarm will be an expansion. I thought for a moment that it might be a standalone

Eh, whatever

@GraceNote Oh, that's perfectly fine then

Oh, right, it is Legend. Criminy, I even have my own bracer badge and I misnamed it. Bleh.

And yes, I had much desire to physically strike whoever came up with the idea to put that tag the first time around.

@Wipqozn These are japanese 12 year old girls though. Most of them were probably magical girls or gundams or something

@GraceNote I really hope it was someone just not thinking

I'm surprised no one has claimed the R:TW code

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I just assumed someone had and the sticky hadn't been removed.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I believe Retrosaur did

He was talking with tombull about it last night at least.

Hmmm, so we can unsticky it now?

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Looks like in general we don't do a separate tag for a Blizzard expansion.

@SaintWacko That's from RA3, right?

Man Goku had some work done

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Yep. Yuriko Omega

@fredley It's a mystcraft bug, I just saw the error.

@RonanForman What happened?

@fredley Apparently there's a memory leak when loading worlds.

@GraceNote Wouldn't that depend on the game type? WoW doesn't have expansion tags because expansion changes change the game for all players.

@RonanForman Oh dear

That would explain a lot

@RonanForman Oh christ... Mystcraft bugs are the most fun bugs.

Does the pack have the new mystcraft.......?

Whereas, for Blizzard's RTS games, you have to chose which single and multi-player game types you're playing.

@GraceNote Well, WoW is a MMO, and the original StarCraft is very old. I don't know, we'll need someone with a bit more knowhow to decide. The game (and whatever event that's suppose to come with it) is going to be released soon though

@Unionhawk Yeah.

i.e. choosing Original for multiplayer in StarCraft 1 means no Terran Medics, no forget the other expansion units since SC is so old that no one plays original any more.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I also checked Diablo 2, but I was not very thorough and I do note that we do have a Frozen Throne tag for WarCraft 3, but that's so far our only one on that side of things.

Don't overthink the tags. Start out with "starcraft-2" and let the question contents sort 'em out. At this point, most new SC2 questions will be about HotS and not WoL.

@RonanForman That might be doing it... Mystcraft is totally new now, so who knows how backwards-compatible the ages are... probably not very, if I had to guess...

Just a guess though

@AnnaLear Doesn't that defeat the entire point of the tag system?

@Powerlord Devourers, Corsairs, Valkyries, Lurkers, and Dark Templar access.

@Unionhawk I assume they would be converted.

@Powerlord Not necessarily, and again, practice defines how things work for us better than theory.

@Powerlord Arqade defeats the entire point of the tag system.

@RonanForman Maybe... I dunno. I had a similar error with my old single player world on the last update too, so I really don't know.

@AnnaLear Well, we already have a StarCraft hots tag

@Powerlord Well, no. You still have the important tag - starcraft-2. If there's a need to disambiguate Starcraft 2 2 (it's not really an expansion, it's more like a terribly named second game in a trilogy), it'll become clear quickly.

(and yes, the tag name is silly)

@YiJiang'sEvilClone This is easily fixed. We can easily both mesh it back into starcraft-2, or create a new tag.

@RonanForman Server still down?

@AnnaLear In terms of multiplayer it's an expansion because its going to introduce new units not present in the Original multiplayer and SC2 strategy questions will change based on which multiplayer mode you're playing.

After all, we only have 1,099 SC2 questions if and when we do decide to disambiguate right? It's going to be easy peasy; a three minutes job.

@fredley Just putting it up now, I also upped the RAM.

Just like it did for SC Brood War and War 3 Frozen Throne (which has its own tag)

Wooo.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I would assume so

Is this "marathon" idea being taken seriously

@tiddy Yes, why?

Grr... I can't get the pack to download. Trying manually...

@Powerlord Sure. But presumably the question will say what mode is involved. The tag system helps categorize things but it's not the only way to describe a question.

@AnnaLear No, but one of the points of tags is to make questions easier to find.

Huh, apparently the Ubuntu and HTC announcement that were scheduled one minute apart is a complete coincidence

@YiJiang'sEvilClone They be trollin'

@Wipqozn Very little voting going on, and the games decided on don't appear to be games focused on generating viewers

I'd love to do a proper games mathron charity thing

but I am one... stuck here. 2. on linux. 3..... :/

@tiddy I'm not sure what you mean by games not generating viewers...

I could setup a webcam pointed at my screen :DDDD

Definitely. My point is just that most WOL questions have already been asked. Questions that'll start coming in in March will say "Heart of the Swarm" or HOTS somewhere in them, or at least they should. If someone is searching Google for answers, they'll still land here. (Although if we were to do a tag, I'd go with starcraft2-hots... but then, do we rename the first one to starcraft2-wol just to be consistent? This gets complicated fast.)

@AnnaLear You know, there would be a way to make things easier.

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Oh yeah!

Guess my N7 is getting a new OS!

@djsmiley2k You could run Minecraft, if that gets chosen

@YiJiang'sEvilClone It was chosen.

@Fluttershy, Well you have borderlands 2, a 20 hour or so game

@badp There are probably several.

@djsmiley2k Team Fortress 2!

@Fluttershy, you have an open world victory condition game

@SaintWacko My silly old tablet doesn't have enough RAM, apparently grumble grumble

@YiJiang'sEvilClone :(

@Fluttershy A mp focused game with better and more thorough coverage

Is it already available?

@tiddy If you find the options lacking, perhaps consider making some suggestions on the Meta posts?

hehe

TF2 segfaults for me atm, and no sound. Minecraft is a possiblity.

@FAE Seems like voting is already concluded

@tiddy IT is, but you may want to bring up your concerns with @Ktash, who is running it.

I'm still failing to see how these games aren't going to attract viewers.

@tiddy If you make a compelling case, I'm sure @Ktash would be welcome to any suggestions.

Looks like no one likes any of the potential marathon goals so far: meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/6898/…

Honestly I don't see an obvious problem with starcraft-2-hots; the acronym is unfortunate but it's no TIT/TITS

@AnnaLear starcraft-2-wol would be rather silly since it's a requirement for its expansions. Plus it'd set a nasty precedent... because you'd also be advocating by proxy that warcraft-3 should be renamed warcraft-3-roc

@Fluttershy His argument is that they are not good for a marathon, not that they are not popular games.

also, I suppose HoTS is what people are going to google with

@Wipqozn I know what he's getting at. But he hasn't really explained why.

@SaintWacko It'll arrive "this week"

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Hm, okay

@badp it's not all that unfortunate, really. more amusing. at least from where I'm sitting.

If the problem is we neglected to tag a DLC you can not-own (= it is possible to have a game but not that dlc) with its own tag, then we need to fix the problem, not make more problems like it

Ah, Thursday for the N7

So you all know what I'm saying but you need convincing that Arqade users playing Borderlands 2, Minecraft, and Starcraft II won't be entertaining for people to watch

@tiddy Well... Yeah. I mean... If you're going to try and argue a point, an explanation is kind of important.

@tiddy I think you misplaced the negatives there

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Did you watch the video?

Sidestage looks amazing

I guess I would just point everyone to youtube to watch Let's Play's of Borderlands 2, Minecraft, and Starcraft II. Not including high level competitive SCII play

@tiddy I assume SCII will be the campaign, not multiplayer.

@Wipqozn No one has suggested that yet

@AshleyNunn What would go for any marathon

@tiddy People could just watch LPs.

However, they wouldn't get the ecstatic comments from @BenBrocka as soon as burning faces are involved.

now I wanna test this out and see if it works!

/me needs to dig out his rather bad webcam.

My point with the LP's was to show how boring certain games, particularly borderlands 2 are to watch

@badp This. Mario Marathon and Zeldathon aren't successful because of the games they play, but because of the people playing them.

/me hasn't really watched any of these marathons. :/

@Fluttershy The problem is, are all runners as interesting?

@AshleyNunn My point isn't you could be watching this or that. It's that certain games are fun to watch and engage viewers

@badp Oh man I just realized unless we do a level 50 run I won't have my Hellfire :( now I am sad at the prospect of slightly less efficient face melting

@badp I see no harm in trying to find out.

@badp They don't need to be. If it's a multi-player affair, you just need a critical mass (some 10-20 people) for their interactions to become interesting by itself.

@MartinSojka BL2 is a 5 men game.

Oh, okay, I guess people will be joining and leaving the room; not just the runners

@AshleyNunn I think the point of a marathon is to raise money by providing entertainment to the most people you can. If you think watching 20hours of borderlands2 and minecraft meets that goal, then that's an opinion I disagree with

10-20 people in voice chat is a very tall order even in games that actually support them