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12:00 AM
KILLING BLOW
@fbueckert @Wipqozn @RedRiderX Good game guys
 
@badp Indeed.
 
"Needs to complete 1 quest to reach level 6"
 
@badp yay! We're awesome!
 
oh well
btw I've paid the $10 for some reason
 
@badp Holmynath is probably gonna turn though.
 
12:03 AM
Holmynath?
 
@badp The old guy in the Council who always hangs around to spew useful information.
 
I... admit I stopped reading the quest text after a while >_>
 
@badp Yeah, well, there isn't much to do after you make your move and have to wait for your next turn.
 
@RedRiderX That's what I'm thinking.
 
@FAE You're asking the wrong person, I've stubbornly played SMB without a gamepad. That said the spacebar - arrows is the layout I suggest you use on a keyboard; it's slightly counterintuitive as you kick by pressing LEFT (RIGHT is for shield) but otherwise it's usable
 
12:09 AM
Anyone used a Samsung CDMA phone?
 
also, the keyboard makes it much easier to get PERFECTs out of loops
 
I play Runner 2 with keyboard
 
@badp I did too. It was really boring.
 
J to jump, arrow keys to slide/spring/block/kick
 
FAE
For context, I asked badp whether or not Runner 2 should be played with a gamepad or not and if it was as highly recommended a with SMB.
 
12:10 AM
The layout is:
SPACE - Jump, mash
LEFT - Kick
DOWN - Duck
UP - Spring
RIGHT - Block
RIGHT CTRL - Dance
 
Trying to dance is a pain, though.
(It's A)
 
@FAE I'm answering here because Steam went offline :(
 
FAE
@badp Bah, so it did. :(
 
@FAE I use keyboard. I played SMB with gamepad.
 
@RavenDreamer It's better placed in the arrows key config
 
12:11 AM
@badp How do you dance with the arrows keys?
 
Right Ctrl
although so far I've only spammed the dance button at the first boss
yay frequent checkpoints
 
Dancing and Loops are my biggest dissapointment
 
@RavenDreamer Loops are actually hard with a gamepad
 
Because I think Perfect!+!+!+ should be the goal, not "HOW MANY TIMES I SPAM DANCE AND WIN ON SCOREBOARD"
 
@RavenDreamer but yeah, this
 
12:12 AM
And ditto with loop / SPAM JUMP
I still don't know if loops cap
 
they do
 
But I feel bad for my keyboard trying to max points from them
 
I think around seven or eight
 
so I just hit 8, settle for the awesome, and keep running
 
you don't have to mash it very hard to get your points
@RavenDreamer is it the three stars thing?
 
12:13 AM
@badp It's at least 10. 10 gets you a "Perfect", 4 stars
 
I get a perfect (single center star) every time.
 
Yeah, 8 is Awesome / 3
But there are varying degrees of perfect
Like, you can get multiple values for perfect on the same loop
 
my score is always kind of the same. Things go very fast there
 
I just don't know how many presses that takes
 
like 4 thousand something at Hyper
 
12:14 AM
@FAE I'm stuck at work, waiting to meet with a customer from hongkong. How are you?
 
FAE
@RavenDreamer Fair to middling.
 
I suppose that's an improvement
 
'tis a day I long dreamed of
1 hour ago, by badp
@Retrosaur I've fucking finally unlocked dancing. I hope you're happy
 
@FAE Something something Middling.
 
@badp Did you ever find out how to beat the level you were stuck on
 
12:16 AM
Good lord, why is the android SDK so huge?
 
And did you get to 2-2
@RavenDreamer How far are you for the storyline?
 
@Retrosaur World 2
Unlocked Reverse Merman.
 
Ooh nice.
Once you get to world 3, the music gets better
 
@FAE The less said about Reverse Merman... the better.
 
@Retrosaur The turnaround point happened when I decided to use the first gold piece as a reference point
 
12:17 AM
Ahaha.
 
that allowed me to get through the first triple kind of reasonably consistently
 
Reverse Merman is the creepiest of all of them. More so than the guy with the burger.
 
the other triple was still tough but eventually I broke through
I didn't solve the problem, but solving half of it helped.
 
I am having no difficulty. I am playing on Quite Easy
Because I am going to triple fucking perfect every single gorram level!
 
also.
1 hour ago, by badp
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12:19 AM
@badp Ooooh, does that track time since you started the level? That suddenly makes a lot more sense as a statistic.
 
@RavenDreamer yeah
I also broke it :D
 
@Retrosaur Who's the guy after the Tin Man Robot?
Please tell me it's not a female pickle.
 
Does anybody else think the pickle is a reference to the AVGN?
 
I'm so bored right now I'm recoloring other people's sketches
 
@badp le what?
 
12:21 AM
:8318648 *raises eyebrows*
 
@badp Actually, after reading some of Gaijin's dev blog posts, I think they made this game while on hallucinogens.
 
My new monitor is so bright and... colour accurate
 
@RavenDreamer That would explain it too.
 
@RavenDreamer That explains a lot, actually
 
12:23 AM
@RavenDreamer Captain Video
 
 > DUDES!

In the fashion of this blog, we wanted to say something like "For the past 15 months, we have been constipated with Runner2, so get ready for us to poop it directly into your BRAIN ORBS." But, then we thought... That does not sound very professional and we are grown-ups. But this game is THE SH!T!!! So just watch this video!
 
OH SHIT I FORGOT TO UPLOAD PICS
 
Well @NosSC2, We meditated on a mountain for 16 mos, mind-melding with our fore & hindfathers and Runner2 was excreted from our funglands.
 
@badp ...ewww
 
@badp I assume that's supposed to be "Fun Glands" and not "Fung Lands"
 
12:24 AM
Honestly my reaction to that tweet is "fancy post. I know some of those words"
 
"hindfathers"?
 
Drugs.
Wow, my laptop's processor kinda sucks.
 
@Retrosaur Is that Retro Commander Video?
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Fear the tub of CO2!
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone sulphur-hexafloride, obviously
 
12:26 AM
It's actually SF6
@MBraedley Yup
 
@RavenDreamer nope.
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I knew it was Hexa-something. But I gave up remembering.
 
5 hours ago, by Retrosaur
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Apparently one of the skins is also this:
5 hours ago, by Retrosaur
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12:27 AM
@RavenDreamer ya
 
Damn, this phone's memory setup is terrible. I can't find a single way to access it's internal memory.
 
It's a reincarnation of @badp, I swear!
 
okay, great.
Now I have 3 versions of eclipse.
 
Does anyone here know where I can find Steam screenshots
 
Thanks for bundling a program I already had two of, Google...
@Retrosaur I think someone asked that on the site.
Probably me.
 
12:29 AM
@RavenDreamer Gimme link gooby pls.
 
@Retrosaur the game page, scroll to the bottom
@Retrosaur right click the tray icon, pick screenshots
 
@Retrosaur I am not magic. Find it yerself, and if it doesn't exist, ask it.
 
Dec 27 '12 at 5:15, by Raven Dreamer
Shark magic is the best kind of magic.
 
2
A: Where did my screenshots go?

Classified Go to the game where you took your screenshot. Press Shift key and the Tab key to go to the Steam menu. Go to the screenshot manager and click "SHOW ON DISK". Voilà! You have your screenshots where you want them!

 
12:31 AM
@Retrosaur CommandGirlVideo, by the way. Just FYI
 
Doesn't really answer it though
 
@Ullallulloo Bounty time!
 
@RavenDreamer Godammit. I keep getting confused between the two.
 
@RavenDreamer Need to find someone with enough rep first...
 
@Ullallulloo When I'm this close to 100k? Hellz no!
I want a Unicorn Portrait, signed by Joel Spolesky and Jon Skeet!
 
12:33 AM
> The results of the 2012 Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level Examination will be released at 2.30pm on 1 March 2013 (Friday). Do report to the Multi-Purpose Hall in the RI Year 5 - 6 Campus by 2.30 pm for the Principal's address before collecting your results in the two halls.
Breath, Yi Jiang, breath!
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone *Breathe
inb4YiJiangComesToMyHouseAndBludgeonsMeWithAGiantE
 
@Retrosaur *Color
 
@RavenDreamer Wait what? I don't understand.
@RavenDreamer I hope you haven't unlocked Unkle Dill
 
Check: "\steam\userdata\<userid>\760\remote\<appID>\screenshots\" Is it located there? Note: AppID for Civ V is 8930 — mordi2k Sep 10 '11 at 8:52
wait, there it is.
 
You spelled it with a "u" earlier.!
@Retrosaur I have, why.
 
12:36 AM
Damn. I guess it's up to @badp to delivar
 
Well, I already took a picture of his splash page
 
I'm trying to get a high-res version of the screenie where you get the character.
 
If I were at home, I would upload it right now.
 
Ooh, could you send it?
 
If I were at home, sure.
 
12:37 AM
high-res? I play at 960×something
 
@RavenDreamer Like this?
 
that's not what I'd call high res
 
Right now, I am trapped at work.
 
12:37 AM
Perfect! Now to hunt out all the other skins.
Oh wait, we should have someone figure out what skins you get for each level. Damn it.
This is going to be hard.
I honestly believe
that out of all the characters in Bit Trip Runner 2
Only Commander Video and Commandgirl Video have completely sane dance moves
all of the other dance moves that the other ones do are pretty awkward.
Reverse Merman will just....flop around. Like Magikarp I guess.
 
What to do what to do
I guess I'll play a bit more Torchlight. Mindless fun, I guess.
 
20 mins ago, by Raven Dreamer
Drugs.
 
I wonder if you can price identify items the gambler sells in Torchlight
 
That is not a shop btw: arstechnica.com/business/2013/02/…
That's right, the CEO of Groupon, in his final statement upon being fired, compared his company to BATTLETOADS.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz it is oddly lighthearted
 
I hate phone providers.
 
How is it possible for Groupon to lose money? How? Their business model is pure profit.
 
FAE
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1:08 AM
@MBraedley Selfish employees demanding money for food 'n' stuff
 
@MBraedley I wasn't aware you could loose money.
 
Seriously, why do you have to use such a convoluted file system? So bad, that a PC can't even see it without your special software.
 
@fbueckert Does that special software cost money?
 
@Wipqozn No
 
@CruelCow But do they really need that many employees? I mean, they do, what, 5 deals a day in big cities. To me that could be handled by one local sales rep.
 
1:10 AM
@MBraedley Ummm... what? Their business model is anything but profitable. it is a complete disaster and has been from day one.
 
It shouldn't need it, though.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Sell half off coupons and take half that value. For no incremental cost, little to no upfront cost, and (supposedly) little to no overhead. How is that not profitable?
 
@MBraedley businesses that offer groupons have a tendency to go under, when they fail, customers come back to groupon demanding full refunds.
 
@MBraedley They still have to pay employees for stuff like infrastructure and web development
 
Decent writeup on how it all falls apart.
 
1:15 AM
@LessPop_MoreFizz Which is why that money is held (or at least it should be) until the coupon is used. That's when the company gets their half, and Groupons half gets entered into operating budget.
 
@MBraedley Yeah, that's not Groupons business model. Groupon is essentially a very fancy loan shark.
And their customers have gotten wise to what a bad deal it is for them, and so revenue has tanked.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz It was part of their IPO filings
@murgatroid99 They overhired for sales reps, who should be working on commission anyways. They only need a handful of techs and devs, and hosting is basically a fixed cost.
 
@MBraedley Maybe you should be CEO of Groupon.
 
Yay, an old friend's Facebook (presumably) got hacked.
@StrixVaria I can't sell anything. You need to be a con artist to run Groupon.
 
@MBraedley Right, they overhired because they vastly oversold their growth potential. The fact is that only a small subset of businesses that are actually capable of partnering with groupon and making, rather than losing money, and as the various suckers have gotten wise, revenue has corrected itself to reflect that contraction.
 
1:24 AM
@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm not arguing that. Groupon doesn't work for most business. But it should have been Groupon saying "I'm sorry, but given what you sell, you're too big of a risk to us to run your 50% off coupon."
They haven't, and still don't do that, but now the market has flipped on them.
 
I'm trying to access phone files it insists don't exist. But it'll let me look at them.
 
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Q: Why wont my diseases cure

user43141i have Skyrim for play station, and in Skyrim i have contracted 9 diseases, recently one of them has made my screen get considerably dark, and my health drain, they don't appear in my active effects, and no matter what i do, whether i drink a cure disease potion or go to a temple or shrine, they ...

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Q: What is the purpose of the Shinjuku Map item?

KlokworkkOne of the items released via QR codes for Etrian Odyssey 4 is called the "Shinjuku Map." I haven't found anywhere in the game that this relates to, however. Is it possibly for content that isn't released yet (maybe a free dungeon kinda like how Fire Emblem has some free areas)? Or does it serve ...

 
So I'm starting to get a little...irked about this stupid phone.
Can't even send it in a picture message.
 
@fbueckert What kind of phone is it?
 
@Wipqozn Samsung SCH-R351. Which is apparently seriously hostile to giving up the phone internal file system.
 
1:54 AM
Ok, screw it. Spending a total of four hours with no success means I call it.
 
Oh snap, new David Bowie album is streaming.
 
2:07 AM
Why can't I load my space planes anymore? I've tripled my RAM, they should be loading faster than ever!
 
@MBraedley Storm be a coming. Do you need to travel to work tomorrow?
 
@Wipqozn Yeah, but it isn't far. I'll make it. Whether the rest of the office does is another story.
 
@MBraedley At least it'll be quiet.
 
@Wipqozn Too bad that's just a photoshop
 
Oh snap. Mark of the Ninja is only $5 on Steam right now.
 
2:16 AM
@Fluttershy Sounds like a Ninja of a deal! HAHAHAHAHAHA!
 
Oh. Huh... None of my friends have it on their wishlist...
@Wipqozn That's terrible and you should feel just as terrible.
 
@Fluttershy I could add it just to make you spend money.
 
@Wipqozn But now that I know that, I'm not going to gift it to you.
 
@Fluttershy I wouldn't expect anything less from someone that doesn't like cake. You monster.
 
I guess Yahtzee is right. ARPGs are about finding lots of pairs of pants, which you can than compare, put on so that you can go out and find more pairs of pants
 
2:36 AM
 
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Q: Is it possible to toggle ÜberCharge visual effects?

YouDoNotExistIs it possible for me to toggle ÃœberCharge visual effects? or better yet can I bind a key to toggle it on and off? Info. on effects: http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/%C3%9CberCharge#Effects

 
2:51 AM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone That's a pretty accurate description.
 
Oh. Hello gold badge.
 
@Fluttershy Sounds golden!
 
@Wipqozn Turtle, your puns are bad.
 
@fbueckert I'm hilarious, I know. Thanks.
 
So yeah, I'm drowning in pairs of pants right now
 
3:11 AM
@Retrosaur FINALLY!
 
Whee! sacrificed 19 points of magic on my avatar for a 48% chance to not lose durability on weapons!
 
@TrentHawkins Gangrel's dead, the rest of the units still alive are at my whim, due to me wanting the chest.
 
@YiJiang'sEvilClone What game are you playing, anyways?
 
@Wipqozn Torchlight
 
Heh. Cue forced marriage for Chrom.
 
3:20 AM
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Q: Java JProgressBarImage

user1976336I am making a game in Java, and I am using a JProgressBar for a health bar. I want to use an image (instead of colours) for the JProgress bar, but I have not been able to do it. I have tried using the paint method, paintComponent method, making a new class, but it's not working. May someone p...

 
I should've named my pet "Pond". Then I can yell "Come along Pond" whenever it gets stuck behind a wall due to the awful pathfinding
Torchlight's level design is weird. I can hit enemies from platforms that are below or above them using magic spells, and they can't fight back
 
@Retrosaur
Fear my glorious resolution!
 
3:45 AM
> LOL QQ little boy
Best argument ever!
 
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Q: settling a new city civilization 5

JoshI'm pretty new to Civilization, but I'm getting the hang of the rules I think. Recently, I had a settler and was going to have him create a city in this narrow strip land, but was told I couldn't settle a city within 4 spaces of another city. I interpreted that as "not within 4 spaces of the boun...

 
4:13 AM
@RavenDreamer I'm all up in yo' high scores!
@fbueckert What's that from?
 
@Fluttershy Latest response to my bnet thread.
 
Ah.
 
4:27 AM
@Fluttershy OH NO YOU DIDNT
I will beat Nihilist Ronin's score
He will pay (what level was that again?)
 
@Retrosaur I don't remember. But I just beat badp's score on the.. third(?) level?
I think that particular level was the one where you unlock the pickle dude.
 
I'm playing on Quite Easy. (for now)
So if I beat your score, you should be very disappointed in yourself.
Also, I accidentally upped the difficulty to Quite Hard and was confused as to why I was no longer able to beat levels.
 
Anthropomorphism can be really stupid sometimes
 
@Retrosaur one of game grumps' best moments.
 
user15026
@yijiang that gif is very weird
 
So. Time to go. Wish me luck. My hands are shaking again.
I just need to breath and try not to faint
If the results are good I'll probably get a slice of cake to celebrate. If the results are bad I'll probably get a slice of cake to drown my sorrow.
 
user15026
What are you about to do? Good luck with whatever it is. Remember, breathing is good.
 
5:45 AM
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Good luck with whatever it is!
Wonderland complete.
 
I don't know why but this is great
 
@Ktash It's crazy how easy they make it look. o_O
 
6:00 AM
Yeah. They do better than the guy dancing on the game haha
 
user15026
@ktash that is mesmerizing. I would have long fallen on my ass.
 
user15026
@Ullallulloo that made me giggle like crazy
 
@Ullallulloo Taylor Swift looks weird with dark hair. o_o
 
6:17 AM
There are too many of these.
 
6:38 AM
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Q: Why are there so many Bairds?

Zero StackI started playing beast mode today and I noticed that in every wave - every COG hero was a Baird !! After we stopped laughing so hard from wave 12 (Bairds everywhere), we were wondering - why are there so many Bairds?

 
Also, stupid NSFW screenshots for youtube videos. >_<
And with that, I'm off. G'night, Bridge.
 
 
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7:47 AM
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Q: Does ingress have offline mode?

LadinekoI just gotten Ingress for 2 minutes now and already i'm facing a problem. I'm a pre-paid user and that means i don't have internet where i go except for Wi-fi locations. I was thinking that Ingress was a GPS bounded game. Is it possible for pre-paid players to play in offline mode or does it re...

 
8:23 AM
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Q: Where can I find gang members after the game ends?

SeanAfter the main story ends, city police occupy the places where the gang leaders once were and I cannot find gang members anywhere. Are there some places where a bunch of them still spawn after the game ends (without having to go to a different mode like Time Trials)?

 
8:57 AM
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Q: Faction Warfare and Wardec transfer mechanics

cornjulioxIf your corporation is war decced by another player corp, and you decide to join a faction militia, will that war dec transfer over, making the aggressor corp a target for the faction navy and other militia members/corps?

 
*yawn*
 
9:33 AM
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Q: What are all the commands for singleplayer minecraft?

A dude that lives in your buttI want to know all the commands for singleplayer minecraft without mods

 
9:53 AM
Wow it's dead in here today :/
 
I AM HERE FOR YOU @KALINA
 
\o/
 
@kalina o/
 
I'm sorry I was an hour late out of bed
 
@kalina Impressive
 
9:59 AM
and then 90 minutes late for work
and I walked in and all of the systems were down
 
How was whatever it is you were excited about smoking?
 
so nobody can even track it
exciting for sure, it sapped all of my motivation for being awake and then I slept like I was in a coma
my corporation has started growing
I now have 10 different individual slaves to do my bidding
 
@kalina That's pretty good!
 
meh
 
@kalina ?
 
10:12 AM
I have made a mistake, I'm meant to be building ships already
my research process finished lastnight!
brb
 
:)
building ships yet?
:(
sounds fun
 
10:30 AM
There. My first bounty is started
Do i get my bounty back if noone has answered in 7 days?
 
@Ladineko Nope!
 
sends company wide email
"Hi, as per my previous email I am doing a time critical upgrade on <this site>. PLEASE stop logging into this site before I hunt you down and launch you into the sun. With love, <my name>"
 
:D
Just kill the sessions... "lost work?: Oh well".
 
@djsmiley2k no lost work, these are random support monkies logging in to investigate why the system is down
even though the act of upgrading it takes it offline
 
XD
this is when you start screwing with them
 
10:36 AM
@kalina Prevent log in for an hour, display message to logged in users?
 
setup nc sessions pointing back to other monkeys
 
@fredley no, our connection to this server is crap, if I prevent log in I guarantee I disconnect before I finish
 
Thats one fortunate thing about here - there's me, theres my collegue, and theres my boss, who's in ireland
No one touches our stuff upon pain of death
firewall everyone but yourself
change the root password
etc etc
change MOTD to "foad".
 
nobody ever takes me seriously when I'm angry
 
@kalina How do you even update it then?
I wish Apple would stop rejecting my app, it's getting tedious
 
10:56 AM
@fredley with growing annoyance throughout the day, normally
 
@kalina Solution: make server unusable by putting a forkbomb in a startup script. Write off server and buy a new one.
 
the new "hotfixing" system that our development team have created is hilariously stupid
 
@Fluttershy Singapore-Cambridge A-Level results. It's... not as good as I want it to be, but it should be good enough to get me where I want to be
 
they made a choice at the start of developing our new product, that installing said product would install into a folder named after the full version number of the product in the format of \companyname\productname\major.minor.build.hotfix
and then wrote a hotfixing system that overwrites a the product in the previous folder
so now we have products installed in folders that do not match the version number of the product installed in that folder
 

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