The Bridge

It looks like fun, but then I'd have to spend $350 on a system, and then more money on Monster Hunter, then even more money on games if I want to feel like I'm getting my money's worth out of it

Grace Note

Essentially, yeah

Wipqozn

@AshleyNunn You know you want to buy it.

user15026

Yeah, if I get it it would be for the 3ds I have already.

user15026

But I lack the money. So it will likely have to wait a while.

fbueckert

There's gotta be some sort of tool you can use to bounce the 3DS through your router or something.

It shouldn't require a Wii U to do it.

StrixVaria

6:06 PM

How much would it cost to get a Wii U and Monster Hunter?

I don't know retail prices of consoles and I don't have Internet to look it up myself.

fbueckert

@StrixVaria ~$400. Maybe a bit more.

Less if you want the gimped WiiU.

StrixVaria

@fbueckert What's the difference?

user15026

@fbueckert holy crap. I didn't realize it was that much money.

fbueckert

@StrixVaria 8 GB vs. 32 GB of internal memory.

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn Exactly

fbueckert

6:08 PM

The system OS fills up most of the 8 GBs.

StrixVaria

@fbueckert Can you still use an SD card like on the old Wii?

fbueckert

@StrixVaria Yup.

StrixVaria

Hm...

Now sell me on Monster Hunter. I have never seen any gameplay of any games in the series.

I also can't watch videos at work.

SaintWacko

@StrixVaria Monster Hunter is amazingly fun

Essentially: No bullshit

fbueckert

22 mins ago, by fbueckert

@SaintWacko Huge monster size chart

Look at chart.

You are on the left.

Wipqozn

6:10 PM

@StrixVaria: Monster Hunter is $60; WiiU is $350.

StrixVaria

Looks like Shadow of the Colossus, scale-wise. Possibly even bigger.

Grace Note

Don't think that they're regularly on Malus or Phalanx scale, but otherwise, pretty big-ish.

OrigamiRobot

Now @Strix is getting it too? T_T

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot Likely not.

I haven't heard anything about any other games on the Wii U, so the $350 for that is hard to justify.

Grace Note

@StrixVaria This would be my hurdle too.

fbueckert

6:11 PM

@StrixVaria Add in a crafting system made up of vanquished monsters, and you have the game in a nutshell.

OrigamiRobot

I'd need to spend ~$700 to play that game.

StrixVaria

@fbueckert Is there a plot or is it just "kill monsters, make cool shit, kill bigger monsters, repeat"?

fbueckert

@StrixVaria Minor plot. Not a huge thing.

@StrixVaria There's the new Pikmin.

Grace Note

@StrixVaria Mostly the latter, to my understanding.

StrixVaria

I never played any of the old Pikmin games either.

It was a franchise I was vaguely interested in, though.

SaintWacko

6:13 PM

@StrixVaria Same here, but I'd play Wii games on it...

fbueckert

Monster Hunter is fun because it's entirely skill based.

SaintWacko

Can Wii controllers hook up to the Wii U?

Wipqozn

The plot is basically "Kill monsters, make cool shit, kill bigger monsters, so you can kill this really specific big monster"

fbueckert

@SaintWacko Yes.

Wipqozn

@SaintWacko Gamecube ones can't though.

SaintWacko

6:14 PM

@Wipqozn Oof

And I suppose it can't play gamecube games?

Wipqozn

@SaintWacko Nope.

fbueckert

There's no autotargetting; it's all on you to make sure your attacks connect.

OrigamiRobot

Maybe I can convince @IanPugsley to buy a WiiU and Monster Hunter.

SaintWacko

@Wipqozn That makes it a lot less appetizing

Although I guess I have my gamecube...

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot Do it.

fbueckert

6:14 PM

And most monsters have bits and pieces you can break or chop off.

SaintWacko

But still, having to play SSBB with a wii controller... Yuck

Sterno

OrigamiRobot

@Wipqozn Mooching off friends' video games is the best.

user15026

@fbueckert can I use those bits to hit the monster?

Sterno

The Bridge makes me spend money.

fbueckert

6:15 PM

@AshleyNunn Sadly, no.

SaintWacko

@Sterno I suspect that's going to happen to me

Wipqozn

@Sterno Now just fly to Nova Scotia!

fbueckert

You can carve them up and get monster parts out of them, though!

Wipqozn

@AshleyNunn You can make weapons out of those bits those.

Sterno

@Wipqozn I think buying a 3DS would be cheaper.

fbueckert

6:16 PM

@Sterno Yay!

Sadly, there will be no fun gaming together.

Wipqozn

@Sterno Better investment too. 3DS is a good console.

user15026

Stop making this game sound awesome. :(

Wipqozn

@fbueckert Unless he flies to nova scotia.

fbueckert

We may want to make a separate Monster Hunter chat room.

Wipqozn

@AshleyNunn No. I refuse.

StrixVaria

6:16 PM

@SaintWacko I already have a Wii for that.

fbueckert

@Wipqozn Or Manitoba.

Sterno

Well, I'm over halfway through Etrian Odyssey 4 anyway, so I needed a new DS game to keep me from playing Fire Emblem (the first 3DS game I bought)

OrigamiRobot

Farewell to Nova Scotia

"Farewell to Nova Scotia" is a popular folk song from Nova Scotia of unknown authorship. Versions of the song were collected by folklorist Helen Creighton, first in 1933 from Ann Greenough in Petpeswick, Nova Scotia, and then from other singers in surrounding communities along the province's Eastern Shore. It is believed to have been written just prior to or during the First World War. "Farewell to Nova Scotia" brings the listener back to an age when Nova Scotia was renowned for "wooden ships and iron men". The song appears in the Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs. In 1808 a Glasgow newsp...

SaintWacko

@StrixVaria I don't

My sister has a wii

Sterno

If this game sucks, I'm punching someone in the junk, though.

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SaintWacko

6:16 PM

So as soon as I move out, I won't have a Wii

fbueckert

@Sterno If it sucks, that means you suck at it, not that the game sucks.

3

SaintWacko

Is fire emblem on Wii U?

fbueckert

When you first play, the monsters are going to pull dick moves, until you learn how they move.

user15026

@fbueckert not literally, I presume.

SaintWacko

Then you start pulling dick moves

OrigamiRobot

6:18 PM

ahem

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn Not literally, no.

The first big monster is a giant velociraptor.

SaintWacko

Although with some of those bigger monsters, that could be a pretty effective attack

StrixVaria

@fbueckert Oh is it the kind of game where player skill increases? It's not just numbers on the screen that go up?

fbueckert

Weapons also have a "sharpness" rating.

@StrixVaria Very.

All manual targetting. No auto hits.

Grace Note

@StrixVaria Yes, your own performance is pretty important.

fbueckert

6:19 PM

You want the kill, you bloody well earn it.

StrixVaria

That sounds interesting.

T_T

Oh, @OrigamiRob.

@StrixVaria ಠ_ಠ

Monsters also get tired and lose abilities as you damage them.

If they have a tail swipe, and you cut off the tail, no more tail swipe.

SaintWacko

6:20 PM

LALALA I'm not listening

Wipqozn

You do different damage to the monster depending on where you hit them, too.

OrigamiRobot

Ugh

Grace Note

@OrigamiRobot Don't worry. I won't be getting the game.

OrigamiRobot

I need this stupid game.

@GraceNote That's not stopping you from taunting me.

Grace Note

This won't actually stop me from talking about it regularly and chatting with all the people who do play the game.

Wipqozn

6:22 PM

I really hope the entire bridge buys monster hunter.

fbueckert

I recommend we move further in-depth talk about it to here:

Monster Hunter

All Monster Hunter talk, all the time. Or, just about anythin...

OrigamiRobot

Really the "No other games that I want" is the biggest hurdle for me. I've already been looking for an excuse to get a TV.

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot Pikmin?

OrigamiRobot

Never played it and only marginally interested.

SaintWacko

@OrigamiRobot It's a lot of fun

user15026

6:27 PM

@wipqozn would if I could.

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot I bought a Wii U specifically for Monster Hunter.

OrigamiRobot

I can't spend $400 for one game.

user15026

I should try the pikmin games at some point.

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot Yeah that's nuts.

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot There will be more good games for it down the road. Pikmin is the first one that comes to mind, though.

For those on the fence, check out the different types of weapons you can use.

OrigamiRobot

6:29 PM

@StrixVaria I would buy the game if I knew someone else with the console.

StrixVaria

I just went through Amazon's entire listing of Wii U games, and the only 3 even remotely interesting (remotely being a particularly key word) are Monster Hunter 3, Pikmin 3, and New Super Mario Bros. U

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot Two people isn't enough?

OrigamiRobot

@fbueckert So that I can use their console.

StrixVaria

And Pikmin 3 isn't even out yet.

Ben Brocka

Pikmin 3's what I got it for. Nintendoland's good too though

I think I'ma have to skip MH3U to finish some other games

Also WTF Nintendo why you no have Luigi's Mansion Wii U

OrigamiRobot

6:32 PM

You all missed my birthday so you should pool together and buy me a Wii U.

Ben Brocka

Game Boy Horror = Gamepad this shit writes itself

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot I will contribute if you change your name to OrigamiRob.

OrigamiRobot

@StrixVaria ಠ_ಠ

How much and for how long?

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot $30 and permanently.

OrigamiRobot

No dice.

Ben Brocka

6:33 PM

Also your Nintendo ID has to be @OrigamiRob

Lazers

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Q: How do I switch between expansion levels?

When I upgraded to Heart of the Swarm I noticed that it automatically sets Heart of the Swarm to be your default playing level when playing multiplier and ladder. How do I switched back to WoL when playing with friends without HoTs? How do I switch to WoL to do solo laddering?

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Q: Redundant comments on non-answers

I've been going through the flag queue a lot recently and it seems that we get lots of non-answers (comments, other questions, etc.). I see a lot of helpful comments on these posts talking about rep required for the commenting privilege and so on, which is fantastic. However, on some posts ther...

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Q: Do Zerg buildings heal?

When playing the last mission of the campaign my Hive was attacked by some flyers, and was reduced to red. I finished off the attackers and thought my buildings would heal back up, but when the next attack came in a few minutes later my building was still bleeding and in red. It just barely sur...

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OrigamiRobot

@BenBrocka ಠ_ಠ

@BenBrocka What is your contribution?

Maybe I'll start a Kickstarter.

Grace Note

Pfff

Ben Brocka

99 Eridium

Grace Note

I still need to get EO4. Among many other things.

OrigamiRobot

6:35 PM

Donate $5 and I will refrain from starring one mundane thing @kalina says.

StrixVaria

2

Grace Note

@StrixVaria Beneath the image is the one time it doesn't say "OrigamiRob" for me.

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote ಠ_ಠ

SaintWacko

It doesn't ever say OrigamiRob for me

OrigamiRobot

@SaintWacko ಠ_ಠ

SaintWacko

6:37 PM

I feel like I'm missing out

StrixVaria

To be fair, it says "ot" on the next line, but I cropped that out.

Grace Note

Well, you can get the glare just like the rest of us ♪

StrixVaria

OrigamiRob hope you weren't typing something.

OrigamiRobot

@StrixVaria ಠ_ಠ

I wasn't

StrixVaria

:(

Sterno

6:38 PM

@OrigamiRobot Can I donate $5 for you to keep doing it for a year?

OrigamiRobot

@StrixVaria Also that is only when I am on my home machine.

@Sterno One year subscription is $50

Ben Brocka

Does that script eat what you're typing if it ಠ_ಠs while you're typing?

ಠ_ಠ is now a verb

4

StrixVaria

@BenBrocka Yes.

He's complained about it before.

OrigamiRobot

@BenBrocka Yes, if I am typing in the same browser the script is running in.

It also clears pings.

Grace Note

Do you thus run in two browsers, then?

OrigamiRobot

6:42 PM

No, that's more annoying.

Right now I'm at work though.

I could run a browser on a 2nd desktop though.

That's an idea.

Grace Note

That is possible.

OrigamiRobot

I both love and hate Win7's window stacking.

Ben Brocka

the cascade windows thing? Hate that

Raven Dreamer

@aarthi You're in new yrok?

OrigamiRobot

@Lazers @StrixVaria Streak broken.

StrixVaria

6:51 PM

@OrigamiRobot What?

OrigamiRobot

yesterday, by StrixVaria

Woo 72 consecutive hours without an angry post on meta! I think that's a record.

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot Oh wow it made it all the way up to 97 or so too.

Ben Brocka

Once it hits 100 hours someone's legally obligated to ragequit

OrigamiRobot

@BenBrocka How do we decide?

An angry meta post seems like the obvious choice.

Aarthi

@RavenDreamer yes, yes i am

ARE YOU?

Ben Brocka

6:54 PM

@OrigamiRobot we tried to decide on a method for that but just ended up arguing about it for several months

OrigamiRobot

In order to combat everyone having fun in MH3U, more people should start playing FTB.

Raven Dreamer

@Aarthi i AM IN North Carolina

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot The only thing appealing about that game is killing people by removing the atmosphere from the rooms they're in.

Wait.

You didn't say FTL.

ACRONYMS ARE STUPID

Aarthi

@RavenDreamer messin with me.

Sterno

SPACE BEARS

Raven Dreamer

6:58 PM

@Aarthi Honest to Skeet, for a moment I thought I lived in New Carolina.

StrixVaria

I do believe vacuums are a thing that need to be added to Minecraft now.

Raven Dreamer

So I think it is you who is messin' with me!

OrigamiRobot

@StrixVaria Yes, AAS

Aarthi

@RavenDreamer d'aww

ooo ponies

Lazers

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Q: Where did Rasaad go after I kicked him out of the party?

I met Rasaad past the bridge in Nashkell and he rabbited on about martial arts. I had a full group at the time so didn't need him and his rabbiting ways. I did let him join the party, then in the "kick someone out" prompt I kicked him out. He gave some poetic jibbah jabbah about leaving and t...

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user43095

7:07 PM

Who here plays a musical instrument? I play flute.

StrixVaria

@jeffreylin_ I play the piano.

OrigamiRobot

@jeffreylin_ I can make some things produce sound.

user43095

I play piano too.

user43095

@OrigamiRobot I don't think that counts.

OrigamiRobot

I have 3 didgeridoos.

Fluttershy

7:08 PM

@jeffreylin_ I can play bass, some acoustic guitar, and own a violin.

user43095

And because I can play flute, I can play recorder too.

SaintWacko

@jeffreylin_ I played piano for nine years, and trumpet for seven

And I own two guitars, but I can't play them yet

OrigamiRobot

I can play pop goes the weasel on guitar and harmonica.

StrixVaria

@SaintWacko I played the piano for 15 years, and the trumpet for 6.

Biggest regret of college was stopping piano lessons after freshman year.

OrigamiRobot

I can play bass in Rock Band.

fbueckert

7:11 PM

gaming.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/29547

Should we really be approving edits that do nothing but crop an image?

StrixVaria

@fbueckert Sometimes. The benefit is that it lets the image zoom more so it's easier to see what's being highlighted in the image.

Ben Brocka

I occasionally edit images to do that (or I just resize the imgur URL). If it's useful, keep it

Fluttershy

Nice try, EA.

OrigamiRobot

I say this instance is pretty minor.

Fluttershy

@fbueckert Looks okay to me. The extra zoom from the cropped image actually let me read the circled text. <_<

fbueckert

7:15 PM

@Fluttershy I'd prefer to just linkify it, rather than cropping the image.

I only bring it up because that's the third one I've seen in the last couple of hours.

StrixVaria

@fbueckert That guy's gained 6 rep doing this already. We can't let it get out of hand.

fbueckert

@StrixVaria It seems like a minor edit, at best.

If you guys find it useful, then by all means, let him.

I've just been skipping them in the queue.

Fluttershy

@StrixVaria I detect sarcasm.

fredley

@OrigamiRobot Yes...

OrigamiRobot

Eh?

fredley

7:20 PM

@OrigamiRobot You said something about items...

fbueckert

People like this are a waste of air.

Fluttershy

@fbueckert Not to mention a waste of tax payer money.

OrigamiRobot

@fredley Oh, I was just complaining that making filters and such is a pain.

fredley

@OrigamiRobot You got a project table?

fbueckert

@Fluttershy There's no regret there. Just throw him off a cliff and call it good riddance.

fredley

7:22 PM

or a fabricator?

OrigamiRobot

No

RedRiderX

Oh, so Humble Bundle is doing a weekly thing now. Neat.

2

SaintWacko

@fbueckert Yeah, the whole point of life sentences vs death penalty is so if there was a mistake, it's not too late to fix it, but when there's overwhelming evidence...

fbueckert

@SaintWacko And no regret at all in committing them, yeah.

Ben Brocka

@fbueckert Considering the court costs for all of the appeals, life w/o parole is probably cheaper than death sentence (I can't find a solid figure for that though. Costs of execution are so complicated after all)

fbueckert

7:27 PM

@BenBrocka I get that we should give everyone a chance.

This guy's pleaded guilty, though. He admits to doing it, and doesn't regret it at all.

Why would we WANT to try to rehabilitate him? There's nothing there worth redeeming.

murgatroid99

Did you guys know that it costs more money to try and sentence someone to the death penalty than to imprison them for life?

@BenBrocka And I missed that you already said that

Ben Brocka

I'm fine with life w/o parole, I just hate when they allow parole in cases where it's clearly not warranted and drag around the family members every few years to testify at parole hearings. Those people should'nt have to put up with that shit.

OrigamiRobot

@fredley I wish that NEI had a tree structure for recipes.

fredley

@OrigamiRobot Yeah. Pressing R repeatedly is such a pain...

OrigamiRobot

@fredley Then having to go back.

fredley

7:32 PM

@OrigamiRobot yeah

@OrigamiRobot you learn

@OrigamiRobot Producing lava takes too much MJ. 24,000 per bucket :-(

SaintWacko

@murgatroid99 That doesn't make any sense

fredley

I'm only 0.2% complete for filling one tank

murgatroid99

@SaintWacko forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2011/09/22/…

> One startling finding? Death penalty cases are, from start to finish, more expensive than other criminal cases including those that result in life without parole.

SaintWacko

@murgatroid99 Sorry, I wasn't saying I didn't believe you, just that it seems ridiculous that that's the case

murgatroid99

@SaintWacko I know that it doesn't intuitively make sense, so I'm showing that I have unbiased looking sources to back it up

Jin

7:37 PM

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SaintWacko

@murgatroid99 Hm, it says the cases are. But does that also include the money it costs to support the criminal during their life in prison?

Coronus

@SaintWacko It's very expensive to throw someone off a cliff.

SaintWacko

@Coronus Just costs the gas to drive them there

Sconibulus

We could build an off-cliff-throwing trebuchet!

OrigamiRobot

@fredley That reminds me, I'm wasting MJ

murgatroid99

7:39 PM

@SaintWacko If you read the second page, it looks like it's more expensive even if you factor that in

Coronus

@Sconibulus Can we have a ballista too?

kalina

I am home! (...at last)

Sconibulus

@Coronus Well yeah, we could, but ballistae and catapaults inflict more wear on themselves, so don't last as long.

trebuchets are cool in that there's no impact involved in the launch

SaintWacko

@murgatroid99 They're missing some numbers, so it's hard to tell

Grace Note

@kalina Welcome home.

OrigamiRobot

7:42 PM

@kalina I am successfully resisting the urge to star this.

2

Ullallulloo

@RedRiderX There. I finally bought Bastion.

spugsley

blehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Lazers

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Q: How does the water sent to the Arcology affect the region?

The arcology regional project requires 120 Kgal/hr water for operation. Does that water return in the form of sewage, or is it lost forever? If there are multiple cities in the region, whose clock is used to determine if the water supply requirement is met?