The Bridge

Ben Brocka

12:00 AM

@Fluttershy That's the wrong sport, this is AMERICAN football, with the bats

user15026

@BenBrocka Don't encourage him!

Fluttershy

@BenBrocka Oooh! I thought bats were used for lacrosse...

user15026

I think this is my cue to go back to organizng my house before I throw something at the pair of you ;)

Ben Brocka

Look out I think she's the quaterback

Retrosaur

49ers

murgatroid99

12:02 AM

Oh, I think I see why they did the duplicate thing. It's hard for new users to get old questions attention

Retrosaur

I want the 49ers to win

just so I can watch Ray Lewis pour out buckets of tears

StrixVaria

Can both teams lose? That would be awesome.

Retrosaur

Never seen a muderer cry before

badp

@murgatroid99 so... when a new user... wants to draw attention... to an unanswered question... they make a new unanswered question. Right. Genious.

fbueckert

@badp Or put their own question as an answer because they can't be arsed to learn how the site works.

badp

12:06 AM

1,000 unicorns points to the first person who answers "I don't know" and gets upvoted for the sole purpose of closing a different question as a dupe

murgatroid99

0

Q: We should be able to close questions as duplicates of any question

Today, the behavior of duplicate close votes was changed so that a question can only be a duplicate close vote target if it has an upvoted or accepted answer. I think that this change is not a good one and that it should be reversed, for the following reasons: The purpose of being able to close...

fbueckert

@badp With the current system in place, that's likely what will happen.

murgatroid99

@badp I didn't say I agreed with the philosophy

@badp I argued against it in my question

badp

PS: awarding unicorn points and murder are not mutually exclusive.

murgatroid99

@badp Are they the same thing?

badp

12:08 AM

@murgatroid99 Only one way to know

fbueckert

@murgatroid99 Huh. You're quoting me. Nicely done.

murgatroid99

@fbueckert Yeah, I thought you made a good point

Also, I accidentally preempted this:

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A: Where is the Meta post regarding the "duplicate" feature changes?

There isn't one (yet). This is one of these changes that SE initiated on their own, I'm sure a post announcing the feature will appear eventually.

badp

@murgatroid99 Your avatar may or may not make a difference in the conversion of your Unicorn Points™ into Murder™. I'm pretty sure that you get a nice multiplier whenever you're one of multiple people having the same pony in their gravatar

murgatroid99

@badp Who else has Twilight Sparkle as an avatar?

badp

@murgatroid99 Yi Jiang

murgatroid99

12:11 AM

@badp He's just the hair

badp

NO MATTER

Although I can consider accepting the headcanon where @YiJiang'sEvilClone's just @murgatroid99's sentient hair.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp I don't think pony manes are sentient. Yet.

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone That's the beauty of headcanons.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp ... ewww

Ben Brocka

... sentient headcanons?

badp

12:13 AM

@BenBrocka are best headcanons

fbueckert

Only in the Bridge do we talk about sentient pony hair.

murgatroid99

Wow, I think that is the fastest I have ever gotten 10 upvotes

badp

Suddenly you realize your headcanon says MLP is a tragic story of a young war victim's manifestation of severe brain damage, and you don't care how you got there, your sentient headcanon did all the work for you.

murgatroid99

@fbueckert You should see the pony group at my school. You'd be surprised

I am going to go eat dinner. I'll be back in a bit

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp There's probably a fanfic for that

badp

12:18 AM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I wouldn't be surprised

by the way, doesn't the MLP "fandom" have the concept of headcanon?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp Oh they absolutely do

Too much, in fact, if you ask me

badp

Oh, okay, I was just curious because I saw it usually used in the Homestuck fandom and the Urban Dictionary example was an Homestuck one so for a moment I imagined it could've been an Homestuck specific thing.

FAE

@badp No, headcanon's a pretty broad term that's used across many fandoms

badp

Roger

SaintWacko

@StrixVaria @fbueckert I have enough mana steal that I can use Dual Strike as my main attack :D

fbueckert

12:21 AM

@SaintWacko I just regen everything. Clarity works wonders for that.

StrixVaria

@SaintWacko That's pretty cool. I finally found an AoE skill I can use while dual wielding!

SaintWacko

@StrixVaria Nice!

I just use Cold Snap and Flicker Strike for AoE

Er, Whirling Blades, not Flicker Strike

StrixVaria

Flicker Strike deals AoE?

The one I got is "Infernal Blow".

Raven Dreamer

@FAE My first thought was "why would someone put a cannon in their head?"

StrixVaria

What is the difference between "headcanon" and normal "canon"?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

12:25 AM

Head cannon

FAE

@StrixVaria Headcanon is just that... canon that you decide works for you, that may or may not be compatible/agreeable with the actual canon of a show/series/work/etc.

StrixVaria

That is a weird concept.

I love when PoE logs me out and I have to find my way to the area I was in again.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Well, some shows leave a lot to the viewer's imagination

FAE

Eh, it can let some people have peace with stuff like crappy/poorly handled endings or whatnot.

And what Yi Jiang said too.

Fluttershy

@StrixVaria Isn't always-online ~~DRM~~ stuff fun! =D

StrixVaria

12:29 AM

@Fluttershy It's not even DRM, since this game is Free to Play anyway.

Raven Dreamer

I dreamt I was in a JRPG last night.

There were floating islands everywhere, and you had to go between them by holding onto red balloons.

And all items had the number of uses remaining permanently hovering over them, it was quite surreal.

badp

@StrixVaria Canon is what the story says is true. Headcanon is what you're convinced is true about a story.

Head canon usually fits where the canon refuses to go; see "theorycrafting" and the likes.

A typical example is "My headcanon voice for <character> is <actor>" (if the media is text-only or otherwise without voice acting.)

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Oh, and there's also 'fanon', a set of canon "commonly" agreed on by fans

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp That isn't anything to do with what "theorycrafting" is at all. That word means something very specific and it doesn't just mean "crafting a theory" (i.e. making shit up.)

badp

pardon

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

12:35 AM

-1

Q: Changes to "close as duplicate"

As you may have noticed, Jarrod's been hacking away at some design changes to the "close as duplicate" UI. These are the first fruits of some discussions we've been having internally regarding the "close" UI as a whole, with the goal being a smoother, easier-to-understand experience for all invol...

discussion vote-to-close exact-duplicates

^ Official announcement

badp

by the way the meaning of "theorycrafting" I see on urban dictionary has nothing to do with the word I see used on /r/homestuck

which is whence I'm inferring most of those terms

@LessPop_MoreFizz People appear to do "theorycrafting" when they they extrapolate bits and pieces of canon into one "unified" theory of how things work in the general case; that's got nothing to do with "any game strategy that exists only in theory and never actually put into action."

It might be that people use "theorycrafting" incorrectly.

Extrapolating meaning from context is what I usually do anyway; I don't normally look up words unless extrapolation fails or people straight out tell me to <_<

Allso.

LessPop_MoreFizz

The UrbanDictionary definitions suck too.

Theorycraft

Theorycraft is the mathematical analysis of games to discover the best strategies and tactics to maximize player effectiveness. It uses tools such as statistics, ability priority lists, and simulations to analyze strategies. The term was coined by the community of Starcraft players as a portmanteau of "StarCraft" and "game theory", which studies reactions of players in response to game rules. In video games, theorycraft breaks the barrier between game players and developers, since players try to discover the mechanics that usually are accessible only to developers, such as damage coefficie...

Wikipedia has a pretty good one.

badp

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yeah, that makes 0 sense when applied to a web comic.

Even though the web comic depicts some kind of game.

(I'd rather not get in the specifics.)

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp yeah, it's not my fault that people who read said webcomic are idiots.

badp

shrug

LessPop_MoreFizz

12:40 AM

Who are basically making the same mistake that you made.

But yeah, it basically refers to applying tools of mathematical analysis to videogame mechanics, or more broadly, to 'advanced analysis of a videogame'.

badp

Meh. "Who goes with the limping, learns to limp."

or whatever the English version of that is.

I'll make sure I never use the term myself anyway.

(funny thing is, I've been "theorycrafting" a lot on TF2 as of late and no one called me out on that)

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp I don't know that there is an English version of that expression. I like it though.

badp

It's usually used to criticize who goes with the limping anyway

("It's Your fault fork frequenting the wrong people, now you'll make the same mistakes they do")

I guess I prevented it into the shittiest justification. Go me

Lazers

1

Q: Advantages of filling up all occupations of a building

In Pixel People, you can assign a certain occupation to multiple buildings. For example, a mathematician can be assigned to a university or to a tech support center. This makes it impossible to 'fill up' all the buildings with the correct occupation unless you splice duplicates. Is there any adva...

ios pixel-people

Fluttershy

LessPop_MoreFizz

12:56 AM

@Fluttershy Dad is pretty cool.

Ktash

... So maybe some other person here has asked this question already, but I feel I need to. Why is it that a question that doesn't have an answer can't be duplicated?

fbueckert

27 mins ago, by Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

-1

Q: Changes to "close as duplicate"

As you may have noticed, Jarrod's been hacking away at some design changes to the "close as duplicate" UI. These are the first fruits of some discussions we've been having internally regarding the "close" UI as a whole, with the goal being a smoother, easier-to-understand experience for all invol...

discussion vote-to-close exact-duplicates

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Ktash Go to MSO.

Ktash

Yeah, I know... I upvoted the answer there asking the same question

but I can't downvote the change because I only have 106 rep there :(

Ah, found the good MSO post by @murgatroid99

I never realized how much better my life was without superman lives

fbueckert

1:21 AM

Yay, first meta.SO post, ever!

Ktash

@fbueckert Now with more upvotes!

LessPop_MoreFizz

Accurate.

Lazers

0

Q: How can I get the Caveman2Cosmos mod working?

I downloaded and installed version 28 of the Caveman2Cosmos mod the other day, and am having trouble getting it to run. When I load the mod, Civilization closes down as normal, but never reappears. Eventually Windows tells me "Sid Meier's Civilization 4: Beyond the Sword has stopped working." Sy...

technical-issues civilization-4 civilization-4-bts

0

Q: What do I do in the glass box in The Chase?

In The Chase, I followed the black ghost thing through the level until I got to a point where the only path I can see leads to a glass box. When I walk into the box and turn around, I am surrounded by glass on all sides and I can see the ghost moving outside of the box. The ghost sighting seems t...

antichamber

fbueckert

@LessPop_MoreFizz Depends.

My beard gets really itchy at a certain length.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fbueckert Nobody said anything about beards not requiring proper maintenance and care.

fbueckert

1:29 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz To be fair, it does have a good feel to it, yes.

The fact that I can grow a viking beard is somewhat awesome.

Anyways, off to dance class with me!

murgatroid99

I think that MSO question just got me my fastest Good Question badge ever

Ktash

Yeah, this is the most backlash I've seen for a feature on SE ever

Tim Stone

Nah, it doesn't quite hold a candle to the @mention changes. But it's still fairly negative.

badp

0

Q: What is the most mathematically sound way to define the "damage per second" for a weapon?

Consider a weapon firing shots every $1/f$ seconds. Each shot deals $n$ damage to is target. Consider another weapon firing every $3/f$ second, but dealing $5n$ in damage. You want to determine which weapon has the greatest damage potential, assuming those weapons are equally easy to hit with. T...

arithmetic recreational-mathematics relations order-theory

I have way too many reps on maths so I thought I'd fix that.

Tim Stone

Someone's probably already reported you to the FBI.

@Ktash "The Superman-Stoppa In Metroppa!" - Argh my eyes x_x

Ktash

1:38 AM

@TimStone Having read through that whole thing, I am so happy that never came to fruition

also, I will never fund a kickstarter to have a "documentary" on that crap

badp

@Tim that's clearly a borderlands 2 question in disguise. And a tf2 question. And more

Tim Stone

I don't understand how anyone could hate humanity so much as to attempt to produce this movie.

@badp We know that, but they're mathematicians man. They don't have time for fun like that.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp The answer to this isn't really a math.se answer, but I'll happily answer it for you as to how I would handle the problem (and, which I think is an answer commensurate with how most theorycrafters would)

You usually can only arm so many shots in your weapon at any one time (magazine size)
You can only reload a weapon so fast (reload time)

For those factors, you would measure for one full empty and reload cycle.

So, you calculate how many seconds it takes to use your full magazine and reload once, and then take the damage over that time to divide into the per/second.

Some weapons can do fancy things such as having a chance to set the target on fire
Some weapons are more accurate than others (accuracy and recoil)

For those two, you simply adjust your expected damage values to account for the expected result.

So if your weapon has a 50% chance to set the target on fire for 10% more damage, you can model that as a 5% total damage increase and calculate DPS based on that average case.

badp

Actually I have no idea if I should typically enter random factors to amount for accuracy

LessPop_MoreFizz

Similarly, if your weapon has a 20% chance to do zero damage (a 'miss'), then you can simply multiply damage by .8 before calculating out your per/second.

badp

1:44 AM

like if random () > accuracy then no hit, 0 damage

it sounds too simplicistic

some targets are larger/slower/etc. than others

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp The easy way to handle it is to get a model for what percentage of shots will not hit because of the mechanics of the gun.

badp

so typically I just ignore accuracy

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp When you're theorycrafting, you tend to be talking about some sort of 'ideal' situation which you can use for a basis of comparison.

From there, you can get to situational advantages.

So, for example, traditionally in WoW theorycrafting, modelling is done based on attacking a boss-level mob that just stands still and doesn't move and doesn't do anything that makes you move.

But, in the 'real world', the reality is that you as the player will have to run around often, and that will impede your ability to do the things that would be optimal if you stood still.

The point of the theorycraft though, is to give you a basis for comparison by which to understand just what you gain/lose by having to move.

badp

okay.

spugsley

hallo!

Tim Stone

1:48 AM

It's @spugsley! And she brought us food!

spugsley

@TimStone O-o I did?

LessPop_MoreFizz

So, to go back to your question of accuracy, you can model each gun as if you were perfectly accurate, and then you know, 'if I was a perfect shot, gun X would be better than gun Y. But when I use Gun X, I miss 20% more of my shots, but Gun Y is only 10% worse than Gun X under ideal conditions, so it's probably better for my crappy aim.'

Tim Stone

@spugsley Well, I just said it, so we can only assume it's fact and is in no way related to me being hungry and lazy right now.

Ktash

@TimStone I'm in. What'd she bring?

Tim Stone

Hmm, good question.

spugsley

1:51 AM

@Ktash well, I'm currently eating a bowl of spaghetti with butter and salt because a)I'm lazy and b) I'm husbandless

sooo yeah, nothing special here

LessPop_MoreFizz

@spugsley Did @IanPugsley die? I'm sorry for your loss.

spugsley

@LessPop_MoreFizz yes. MTG has left him pretty much dead so thank you for your condolences

oh, and @OrigamiRobot too

FAE

@LessPop_MoreFizz I figured this may be up your alley

badp

@spu since when is salt actually a pasta topping?!

spugsley

OMG GUILD WARS FUCKING UPDATE ALREADY

badp

1:53 AM

Salt is more like uh implied

spugsley

@badp not in the quantity in which I use it

Tim Stone

I am now afraid for your insides.

spugsley

@TimStone my insides are beautiful. Insert cliche beauty being on the inside not the outside remark here

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FAE It would be if he wasn't so WRONG.

Ktash

* Beauty is found within
-Belle (Beauty and the Beast)

FAE

1:57 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz Not being much of an anything drinker, I cannot judge.

Ktash

There you go

spugsley

@Ktash coming from the girl who gets into an abusive relationship with a (literal) beast

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FAE Beer is pretty delicious.

spugsley

yay Disney is sexist

Ktash

Just a classic case of Stockholm's Syndrome ;)

spugsley

1:58 AM

:p hahaha that too

Ktash

Also, you forget that in the village she was an outcast and "odd" because she read a lot and was smart...

FAE

@LessPop_MoreFizz 'Strue. I drink socially sometimes, but I try not to drink alone.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@FAE Drinking to get drunk alone is stupid. But I see no reason I should deny myself a delicious beverage because I am not in a group any more than I should deny myself some popcorn when I am alone and want a snack.

Ktash

On an unrelated note, tomorrow will be the last day to vote on what type of charity event we want to run so get your votes in now!

spugsley

@Ktash hahah yeah. I'm actually taking a class right now called Racism, Sexism, and Empire in the Disney franchise"

FAE

2:00 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, just that it's not something that works for me.

Ktash

Currently in the lead is the Top Tag Marathon (I'm ruling out the ask a pro one because of potential issues that have been brought up)

badp

By the way the auto-reopen-queuing of dup-closed closed question (sic) is now a thing that exists

Fluttershy

@badp The... what?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp wat.

badp

But why, the auto-reopen-queuing of dup-closed closed question (sic)

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

2:04 AM

The auto... what what of what what what?

badp

I think that means that when you edit a question closed as duplicate that puts the question back on the reopen review queue if it wasn't already

It's one of the other dupe related changes of today's

Ktash

Anyone here play dominion on the regular online somewhere?

FAE

@Ktash I've only used a badly coded and translated German 3rd party program for it.

Ktash

@FAE Sounds... reliable lol

FAE

@Ktash It's pretty on par with the other German board game websites I've used, which is to say, yeah, kinda poorly coded and translated.

LessPop_MoreFizz

2:11 AM

Oh hey cool, someone posted the solution I was about to propose to this dupe nonsense over a year ago.

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Q: Can closing as a duplicate bump the duplicated post if it has no answer?

If there's a dupe question it usually means it's a popular topic, or there's a demand for a solution to a certain recurring problem. Sometimes we close dupes in reference to old, unanswered questions. This doesn't really get us anywhere. I suggest that when a question is closed as a duplicate, a...

discussion feature-request exact-duplicates bump

LessPop_MoreFizz

2:24 AM

MBraedley

Hmm, do I stay in chat for 20-30 minutes, or do I watch Big Bang Theory? Tough decision.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@MBraedley Watching Big Bang Theory is never the right answer.

4

MBraedley

@LessPop_MoreFizz How so?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@MBraedley It's terrible?

MBraedley

@LessPop_MoreFizz It's not terrible. It's not incredible, but definitely not terrible

LessPop_MoreFizz

2:35 AM

@MBraedley You should do what I'm doing and watch House of Cards. It's pretty goddamned good.

@MBraedley It's pretty terrible.

Krazer

@MBraedley It's almost as bad as Two and a Half Men.

MBraedley

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yeah, that's not happening tonight. I'm headed to bed in less than half an hour anyway, then away for a week next week

@Krazer No, it's nowhere near as bad as Two and a Half Men.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@MBraedley No, it really is almost as bad as Two and a Half Men.

Raven Dreamer

Is IMGUR down for anyone else?

MBraedley

to each his own

FAE

2:38 AM

@RavenDreamer Seems fine for me

LessPop_MoreFizz

@RavenDreamer isup.me/imgur.com

Krazer

@RavenDreamer It's up for me.

Raven Dreamer

@FAE Hmmmmm

It's not the site itself, but whenever I try to go to an imgur link

such as

I get "Connection Reset"

Krazer

@RavenDreamer looks fine to me.

MBraedley

And me

Raven Dreamer

2:40 AM

HmmHmmMmmM

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Fine here too

Krazer

@RavenDreamer Maybe it's an issue with your DNS?

Raven Dreamer

@#$* Time Warner Cable

MBraedley

@RavenDreamer 8.8.8.8 google DNS

Krazer

@MBraedley and/or 8.8.4.4

Raven Dreamer

2:46 AM

bashes head against wall

I accidentally shut down my computer without saving part of my code, and now I'm running into issues because I only saved part of my work.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

What sort of editor are you using? Sublime Text has hot saving, where even unmodified work is automatically saved so that you'll never lose anything, even if the process / computer is shut down unexpectedly

Raven Dreamer

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Unity. It's broken down into the scene and then the scripts. I saved the scripts, then shut down my computer, which quit unity without saving the scene.

Which means all the objects that I added scripts to... suddenly are missing scripts.

Ben Brocka

@MBraedley google DNS 4evah

Raven Dreamer

Unfortunately, there were several hours before I started my PC again, so I have no idea what might not have been saved.

@MBraedley @Krazer That fixed it.

And it gets rid of the Road Runner search.

Ullallulloo

I just got an email from Facebook asking me to take part in a class action lawsuit against them.

Krazer

3:02 AM

@Ullallulloo I got that too, the max you can get is $10

LessPop_MoreFizz

Woo hoo ten bux.

Ullallulloo

@Krazer ah

What's this?

Lazers

0

Q: What bonus content is available for Simcity?

I have a developing interest in the new Simcity game coming out next month, and I'm starting to poke around to get a sense of things. I notice that if I preorder from Amazon, I get a "Heroes and Villains" pack. I've also heard rumblings about bonus content in a Digital Deluxe edition. Are tho...

simcity

1

Q: Can gems be gifted across platforms?

A friend of mine recently got an Android phone, and a few updates back DragonVale was released on Android. I'm a long time player on the iOS platform, but I'm wondering if there is a way for us to gift gems to one another given DragonVale's cross platform support. Can gems be gifted to friends ...

dragonvale

Fluttershy

Who mentioned buses on doors in here yesterday?

RedRiderX

@Ullallulloo It's the new automated Community Evaluation queue thing. It's akin to the evaluation beta sites get if you're familiar with that.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

3:10 AM

@Fluttershy Moi

An answer to a DayZ question

MBraedley

@LessPop_MoreFizz Kotaku's article is just a ripoff of this Penny Arcade comic

Fluttershy

0

A: Keeping a long term base in DayZ

What you will need 1. about 30 bear traps 2. a tool box 3.barb wire 4. 2 city buses 5. 1 heli (OPTIONAL) 6. Tents 7. A gun and ammo for protection while building Or this, I went to a building on the north east side of the map and i put bear traps along the tree line and the main exits and ...

Same guy.

Same question, actually. <_<

LessPop_MoreFizz

@MBraedley Less of a rip off and more of an extended riff.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Okay, who the <buy some apples!> upvoted the "put some buses on the door" answer?

FAE

@RedRiderX Not just beta sites, we had one last year too.

MBraedley

3:11 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz Yeah, maybe. Anyway I'm off to bed. Later all

RedRiderX

@FAE Oh right, forgot about that.

@Ullallulloo I think it was rambled about during this SE podcast.

Wipqozn

Electronic Arts Suffers $45 Million Loss

cc @StrixVaria

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Fluttershy Merge the two answers together? They are posted using different accounts, so at least an account merge is needed

Fluttershy

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Oh hey... They are. The gravatar confused me. <_<

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

The reps are different

Fluttershy

3:17 AM

Yeah. I didn't notice that either. I'm quite tired right now.

Ullallulloo

Seventh Custodian at least. :P

FAE

G'night, Bridge.

Wipqozn

@FAE YOU'RE A KNIGHT

Take that @FAE. How do you like them apples?

Ullallulloo

Kim Dotcom put up a €10,000 bounty for the first person to hack mega.co.nz, and Twitter got hacked (probably by the Chinese government).

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

3:51 AM

-1

A: What is the best class to use for a beginner in Dark Souls?

i would go for the fire dude my self because he is a level 1 and takes little souls to level up hope this helped :)

The... fire dude. Yeah.

SaintWacko

@fbueckert @StrixVaria Cruel!

Wipqozn

4:15 AM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone It's a shame his answer is shit, because the Pyromancer is a good class for newer players.

IT would have been nice if he actually wrote a nice detailed post as to why it was good, as opposed to..well, crap.

Okay, so that's making me go through some of my answers, and I just want to show off:

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A: What effect does upgrading a particular skill have on my character?

Stats What they do Vitality determines your health. Attunement determines how many spell slots you have. Endurance determines your stamina and equip load. Strength/Dexterity determines your attack power with weapons that scale with strength/dexterity, and is also required for wielding certa...

I think that's the answer I'm the most proud of.

ACtually, I've got some typos and other grammatical errrors. I should fix that tomorrow.

Ktash

@Wipqozn The answer I'm most proud of is most definitely jiggle physics

Wipqozn

@Ktash I didn't even have to click that link to know that question was asked by Gnomeslice.

Ktash

Haha yes it was

and it is my highest rated answer

user15026

@Ktash So you know a lot about female anatomy, then?

Ktash

@AshleyNunn Well obviously that is what that indicates

user15026

4:28 AM

@Ktash Mental note made. :)

Wipqozn

@AshleyNunn He played a lot of Doctor as a child.

user15026

@Wipqozn It is important to have career goals ;)

Ktash

There are no cheat codes in life, and sometimes you just got to stop talking and find out what is effective

... before you blow up

user15026

@Ktash blinks You made a spreadsheet.

Ktash

@AshleyNunn With math :)

user15026

4:32 AM

@Ktash Man, math is hard.

Ktash

I know, right?

user15026

So I give you full "I dropped being a psych major because it required math and am an English major instead" props for that.

Wipqozn

Fuck yeah, Alligator jokes language warning

user15026

@Wipqozn giggles

Wipqozn

So I bought Ni No Kuni today. I played it for nearly 7 hours straight. To say the least I'm enjoying it.

user15026

4:42 AM

yay my threadless order shipped and it has this shirt in it and I am so excited

user15026

@Wipqozn It makes me sad I no longer have access to a ps3, that game looked awesome

Wipqozn

@AshleyNunn It is.

Well, I'm tired wonderful people, so I'm going to bed.

Ktash

Lazers

5:17 AM

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Q: How do I get into Potema's Catecombs for the Dawnguard artifact?

I'm doing the Dawnguard radient quests that send you to three random locations for three random artifacts, and I've been sent to recover a hammer from Potema's catacombs. However, I've finished the Wolf Queen quest ages ago, so the entrance is once more behind an unpickable lock. Since the dunge...

skyrim skyrim-dawnguard

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Q: How to get good socketed class-specific items in Diablo 2?

I know that if I want to get more socketed items, I should have as few +magic find % as possible, but what do I have to do to get socketed class-specific items with better base bonuses?

diablo-2

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

6:19 AM

*yawn*

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

7:15 AM

*yawn*

user15026

7:32 AM

I am so awake. :(

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Alternatively, watch MSO explode as we all moan about the changes made to closing as duplicate

BoltClock

7:58 AM

Would a question like "What does the 'portal funnel' option do?" be useful for the site?

I've always wondered what the hell it meant, and now that I've finally figured it out through screwing around in the game I want to post a self-answered question

"The computer helps you aim into floor portals." doesn't explain it for me, and the option seems to be missing from Portal 2 altogether

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Portal 2 question? I've never seen the phrase 'portal fennel' after playing through the entire game.

BoltClock

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Portal 1. The option doesn't appear in Portal 2

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I don't remember it being in the first game either, but it was a very long time ago

BoltClock

Yeah, I'm in Portal 1 right now

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Go ahead. Arqade is incredibly slow this time of the day with both the US and Europe in bed

BoltClock

8:10 AM

OK. Come to think of it, it's weird how I'm often showing up here to ask if something I'm about to post is a good fit

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Just ask. I mean, the worst that could happen is we ~~come to your house in the middle of the night and murder you~~ close your question

Lazers

8:35 AM

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Q: How do I earn the "Creamed corn" achievement?

In The Cave there are 2 cans of corn that you find during your journey: the first one at the Miner's puzzle and the second hidden behind a crate on the Island. I tried everything that came to my mind with them: blowing the miner's one with dynamite (it's easy, just leave the can where it stands ...

the-cave

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Q: How do I get the "Weight of the Beast" achievement?

Judging by the name and the description of the achievement, I imagine that I'm supposed to get a weight of 666 on the scale at the carnival. I've tried some combinations of characters, and I've seen that each one of them has his own weight. I've also seen that you need to carry some items on the...

the-cave

winterswift

8:57 AM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Arquade ain't slow when winterswift is in da house.

Okay, so maybe it is.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@winterswift *crickets*

winterswift

@YiJiang'sEvilClone No kidding.

Isn't Europe usually awake by now?

Ktash

I post the crickets video every night, I'm not posting it again

Jan 27 at 5:57, by Ktash

@kalina crickets

winterswift

Oh boy, I'm 2 rep away from Established User.

Duuuuude, people ~~might actually respect me now~~ probably won't have their views impacted by my trivial reputation milestone.

Lazers

0

Q: fifa 13 how do you update your match day squad so your players improve or go down on form?

I'm on ps3 and my squads don't automatically update themselves each week and i have an online pass is there a way to do this manually?

ps3 fifa-13

Ender

9:26 AM

@winter hey man! long time no see! I did it! I beat FTL with Kestral layout 1!! (and the engi ship after that)

winterswift

@Ender Yeah, been busy this past week. Nice job with FTL!

Ender

@winter i had a lucky run, and ended up with 2 mark II burst lazers and a hull smasher. 3x 3shot burst weapons + a weapon pre-igniter. Dont think that will ever happen again lol

between that and a level 2 cloak nothing could touch me. I beat the flagship without ever repairing lol

Now i'm goin for MY OWN PERSONAL FLEET, got most ships unlocked. Still need the slug (came super close 2 nights ago) the mantis, the rock, and the crystal

winterswift

@Ender Not bad.

@Ender Good luck with that bit. I haven't played FTL this week.

Right now I'm playing OpenTTD.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@winterswift Nice! What GFX are you playing with?

Also, remember to turn on realistic acceleration, and increase the station spread number

winterswift

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I'll have to look into that part. That in the settings? I think my graphics are turned on high or whatever highest level it offers.

Or do you mean the graphics set?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

9:35 AM

Okay, first thing you should do is head into advanced settings after you start a game, and turn on realistic acceleration

GFX are like mods for the game. You can install them from the start screen. They add everything from new vehicles to new industries and stuff

Realistic acceleration is very important. Makes using trains much more enjoyable

winterswift

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I was just taking a look at the settings and remembered that part. Disclaimer: I haven't played this in probably 8-12 months, so I forgot a lot about it.

Oh boy, I'm running 1.1.1 and it's now 1.2.3. I should probably update.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@winterswift If you're not playing a fresh install, the game might have been updated since

@winterswift Yup, you should :P

winterswift

@YiJiang'sEvilClone cough Just a subversion or ten.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

From the 1.3.0 beta change log of "major improvements":

> Randomised death counts!

Intriguing...

winterswift

@YiJiang Contrary to my confusion so far, I am (was?) actually a fairly advanced OpenTTD player.

Lazers

9:41 AM

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Q: Pre signals are green when all exits are red - OpenTTD

I have two parallel tunnels (one way) that lead to a station with 3 platforms, since this line is very highly trafficked. When the trains emerge from the tunnel, I would like them to stop and wait (before crossing the track intersections) if there are no available platforms. I figured this was a...

openttd

winterswift

@Lazers Yes, that question is why I started playing OpenTTD again tonight.

Ender

My labtop sucks. I play most games on medium or low.

winterswift

Not that I have a clue what the answer to the question is.

Ender

I really need to finish building my new desktop

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@winterswift IIRC, was it pre or path signals that are always red until a train approaches it?

winterswift

9:44 AM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Well, presignals are supposed to be red unless and until an exit signal in front of it turns green.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Hang on, let me check which type of pre-signal is he using there

winterswift

@YiJiang So, now that I've updated, what am I changing in the advanced settings?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Look for realistic acceleration

Wait, shouldn't the signals in front of the stations be exit pre-signals? He's using normal block signals

winterswift

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Fairly sure they should be.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Yeah, he's not using exit pre-signals, that's why

winterswift

9:48 AM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Heh. I'll upvote your answer when you do.

Dear god, I just got lost in those advanced settings.

badp

@Ender You can play some games on medium? What are you whining about!!

winterswift

@badp chuckles I'm still using an ATI graphics card I bought back in late 2007 (when it was mid-range), and it runs most new releases on high/very high without AA.

badp

:(

I'm stuck with a GeForce 9200M

winterswift

@badp ATI 4670 on a Sapphire 1GB card. I think it has ATI WizardView® technology or something.

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