The Bridge

Ben Brocka

05:00

I'm still not jumpy, but damn is it an excellently put together game

And some of the worst parts are when you know it's coming. Needle in your eye, sawing off your arm in Extraction, the Hunter chasing you...

user15026

@BenBrocka Ick, ick, ick. twitches

user15026

@BenBrocka Oh, this just gives me the heebiejeebies like mad

Ben Brocka

It was actually very well done. As much as I hate on-rails shooters, I have to give Extraction credit for a quick-time event where you saw off your fucking arm

FEichinger

@BenBrocka The actions themselves are no problem for me whatsoever. When they come out of bloody nowhere, or I expect something to come out of bloody nowhere ... well, I better not ate that day.

user15026

@BenBrocka That is pretty fucking crazy

FEichinger

05:05

Heck, sometimes even the occasional Splicer-around-the-corner in the original Bioshock was enough for me to call it a day.

Ben Brocka

@FEichinger I'm not very jumpy at all. It's just how they put it together

A corpse falls on isaac and he flails around, throwing it off and yells "FUCK!". They really put work into those

FEichinger

Definitely. And they have insane objective value as gameplay mechanics.

But they're absolutely not my thing.

Ben Brocka

I'm glad I didn't see too much of that erode in DS3. Though there really wasn't a raise-the-stakes moment to compare to the arm-sawing, eye-needling past

Unless you count the ending, which is just damn depressing

They built up "cross my heart and hope to die, stick a needle in your eye" so perfectly

FEichinger

See, I can appreciate Dead Space for what it is, even though I don't buy or play it. And I flat-out disagree with bringing any game away from what made it special in the first place, in favor of something that is just meant to grab more sales.

I also see no reason to invest huge budgets into games that have to do that to break even.

There is no reason whatsoever to be so god-awful at budgeting that games cost millions of dollars.

And most of our advancements in the last decade were graphics - which I personally don't even give a shit about -, physics - which the original Red Faction got almost perfect already - and story - which should never cost that much.

("almost perfect" meaning that we took tons of steps back in between, just to move towards setpieces now that have next to no dynamic gameplay to them anymore)

Ben Brocka

@FEichinger Yeah. Some stuff is made for mass-appeal, but Dead Space is never going to be mass-appeal. And that's not a death sentence either...God of War certainly isn't mass-appeal either, but it's a damn good game and it gets plenty of sales

FEichinger

05:17

@BenBrocka And yet EA tries that. It doesn't work, but that doesn't stop them from trying.

Ben Brocka

They just can't expect every single release to sell >10 million units or whatever. They had 2 previous releases to base sales on and they knew the formula. If they stuck to that and kept quality up (and gitched microtransactions) I bet it would have sold better and been better

but EA has dumbass policies like always including multiplayer (It's a HORROR game FFS)

Some games should be played with a buddie, some games should be played alone, in the dark. There's little overlap

FEichinger

@BenBrocka Yep. They just look at other, entirely unrelated games, come to some ridiculous conclusions and think "every game needs to have [arbitrary feature we decided is responsible for game X's success]".

Ben Brocka

@FEichinger I do have to wonder if any of EA's executives have ever actually played a video game

You can say all you want about managing a business being it's own skill, but if your heart isn't in your product, it's going to kill you in the long run

FEichinger

@BenBrocka Riccitello actually did. And that's the sad thing.

Riccitello used to have great ideas that would've worked wonderfully. And then the shareholders looked at the numbers.

On that note, when I first heard about the vision for SimCity's online features it sounded great.

Ben Brocka

Sim city's online stuff seems like the stuff that would be neat if it were optional

FEichinger

05:22

World-wide economy, travel, persistent cities ... That would've been great.

What they did was not that. It was forcing the previous regions into an online setting.

That doesn't work.

Ben Brocka

It was forcing a tiny fraction of the previous regions into an online setting...

FEichinger

@BenBrocka Well, don't get me started on the "limitations" ... I'm already looking forward to the city expansion DLCs.

I would have completely forgiven them for always-on DRM, if the online features were what they originally promised. That actually was an MMO, even.

FAE

@BenBrocka Me too!

(Sorry, don't mind me, reading backlog because it's 7:30am and I woke up from a dream and can't get back to sleep)

Ben Brocka

@FEichinger yeah, they're playing the MMO card and they just can;t

No one in a million years would have called WoW or Guild Wars 2 Always Online DRM. They're not single player games. SimCity, even the new one, still is

FEichinger

@BenBrocka And, sadly, it's only because they failed to deliver. Sure, Sim City was traditionally single player, and this would definitely have pissed people off, but I understood the vision they presented back at E3.

Ben Brocka

05:30

I'd never trust a vision like that coming from EA knowing their policies

If it has online features or microtransactions it's because EA pushes for it, not because some designer thought it would work

FEichinger

@BenBrocka Which is part of why I didn't buy SimCity either.

Heck, I haven't bought an EA game released post-ME2, as far as I remember.

Ben Brocka

I'm just glad Dead Space has always implimented it in a relatively quiet way...I've still never played multiplayer in DS2 or DS3. Despite 4 playthroughs of DS2

Though Mass Effect 3's multiplayer was actually alright, I just couldn't take the grinding

But that's not even their fault, online multiplayer grinding is the industry standard thanks to CoD. God forbid you play a game for fun, not because in 14324 more games you get the pistol with SEVEN bullets

(And that's coming from someone who will GLADLY farm for Borderlands guns which shoot various kinds of/amounts of bullets)

FEichinger

Borderlands is ... different.

It's mad pointless grinding ... But it's fun.

Ben Brocka

Yeah, Borderlands is crazy special. And there's no one thing that really differentiates it. It's everything

Borderlands is one of the few games I'd play just for the story but just for the graphics but just for the gameplay but just for the co-op...

FEichinger

And I am still torn on whether I love or hate Gearbox for financing Borderlands 2 by friggin scamming SEGA.

Ben Brocka

05:35

They got money for Sega from that?

Wait, Sega has money?

FEichinger

@BenBrocka They got money from SEGA for A:CM. Which they instead used on Borderlands 2, if the sources are to be trusted.

Ben Brocka

Oh, I've heard some conspiracy theories. Not sure I believe that, but Gearbox sure as hell puts 10x as much work into Borderlands as anything else

And I don't begrudge them a bit for it

FEichinger

It just takes gigantic balls to pull that off.

FAE

@BenBrocka I dunno, I love BL's gameplay, but their storytelling ability is not the high point for me. I think the writing is great and characters are hilarious, but for like, narrative arc, that's not super strong, IMO.

FEichinger

@FAE BL's story doesn't live on arc, though.

It lives on character interaction.

And boy is there character interaction.

Ben Brocka

05:37

@FAE Tiny Tina. Mr. Torgue. Handsome Jack. Face McShooty. It's not the story in the book-telling sense. It's the characters, the world

FAE

And I'm okay with that, honestly, I play more for the gameplay than the story really.

user15026

@BenBrocka adiask;jvkld;sjbl I watched that crazy video you linked on twitter

user15026

I AM HORRIFIED NOW

Ben Brocka

It's the sort of thing people shit on games for, but it's stuff a book could never do

user15026

its a good thing I am not sleepy.

Ben Brocka

05:38

@AshleyNunn you haven't even seen the eye one

user15026

@BenBrocka I don't plan to

user15026

that one was horrible enough

FEichinger

lol

Ben Brocka

@AshleyNunn It was even a cheaply produced one!

I wonder how much money Dead Space spends on vocie acting for screams alone

user15026

@BenBrocka Hey, it did its job well, as far as I am concerned!

FAE

05:39

@BenBrocka I think there's a difference between creating a good world and creating a good story, but maybe that's just me. I think BL's strength is more its world and setting and characters than its narrative, that's all, and like I said, I'm okay with that.

Lazers

1

Q: My kids won't "go to bed when it's time"

My children in Skyrim (I'm a mother) sometimes do not follow their commands. I told both of them (Lucia and Blaise) to go to bed and they said "Yes, ma" and just stood there. My home is in Whiterun, with the name Breezehome. It gets quite annoying, especially when they block the entrance of th...

FEichinger

@Lazers You're a terrible parent.

Ben Brocka

@FAE I prefer a good world to a good story though, honestly. I don't care that oh hey, intrigue, double bluffs, whatever (unless you're The Prisoner. You're not The Prisoner, though. Ever.), it's just a bunch of crap. A whole world I can experience and imagine all this amazing stuff happening, a world where Pandora is real, that I can respect

FEichinger

In this day and age, being able to pull off that much lore with working continuity is getting rare outside of RPGs.

user15026

@BenBrocka All the story in the world doesn't save a world I can't immerse myself in.

Ben Brocka

05:43

Borderlands honestly doesn't have that much lore though. They leave so much unsaid. But it's so beautiful. It's all the little things that make you realize Pandora is special

YouDoNotExist

How does arqade detect "subjective" questions?

Ben Brocka

Like the fact that you never see the pandoran sun; Day is just sunlight off the moon. The sun is that overpowering

YouDoNotExist

I think it is pretty cool, but how does know what to look for?

Ben Brocka

@YouDoNotExist Did it nag you for your title? IT just looks for stuff like "what is the best" "what's the best way" I think

It applies less on Arqade than other stack exchange sites, though

YouDoNotExist

Ya. I am guessing it is looking for words like "What is the [blah, blah]"

FEichinger

05:45

@BenBrocka That does qualify as lore. Having this reasonable but special explanation.

FAE

@BenBrocka Yeah, I understand that, I'm just saying I greatly appreciate a game that has the ability to both create an engaging world and tell a compelling story. I'm a huge Guild Wars fan, but I long ago realized that Anet's strength is not in arc-style narrative (the main campaign stories in both 1 and 2 are, frankly, mediocre) but they create characters, lore, and a world that I love.

FEichinger

And rolling with it, over the course of two hugely filled games.

FAE

An engaging narrative is important to some people though, and I can respect that viewpoint as well.

Ben Brocka

@FEichinger Yeah, but they don't go into too much detail, just enough IMO. You see amazing things like Digistruct stuff. They don't explain it too hard, but you just realize how well that fits in this world where they manufacture a bajillion guns

FEichinger

Not to mention that they had to pull all of these explanations out of their arse.

YouDoNotExist

05:47

So has anyone played Bioshock Infinite yet? (like a substantial amount of time)

Ben Brocka

They don't really explain all that much. How space travel works is never even referenced, just that trans-galaxy travel/communication is possible

FAE

I've got a few friends who were really turned off by the ending of BL1 and it kind of soured them on 2 because they felt that the narrative arc and ending was weak, and I can understand that.

FEichinger

Borderlands was the result of a rushed production. It wouldn't have gotten this artstyle, these half-assed explanations and all that, if they had finished it. And that's why it is so impressive.

Ben Brocka

@FAE Actually they tie that up * spectacularly* in BL2 IMO. But yeah, like he said, it was a rushed production

YouDoNotExist

So... no love for Bioshock? well I liked it anyway...

Ben Brocka

05:48

But honestly the only thing I gave a shit about at the end of BL1 was that they left the door open for more Borderlands

FEichinger

@YouDoNotExist We try to avoid discussions about such recently released games here. Spoilers be bad and stuff.

FAE

@BenBrocka I've heard varied things about the ending for 2, reserving judgement on it until I get there, but I've muchly enjoyed playing it so far.

FEichinger

There is love for Bioshock Infinite, but for the most part it's a "just ... let's just wait, alright?"

Ben Brocka

The Destroyer was a weak boss though

BL2's final boss is better

FAE

@FEichinger You can always make a separate chat room to discuss stuff.

Ben Brocka

05:49

...I still kinda miss Crawmerax though. He's better than Terra I'm afraid

YouDoNotExist

I was wondering if anyone else was having trouble with FPS. I was going to talk more about the technical side of it not so much story wise.

Ben Brocka

I didn't get Bioshock Infinite yet, I have the first two but I'm still ~1 hour or less into them

FAE

@BenBrocka I never got to beat him.

Ben Brocka

plus it's still full price and I have other games to beat

YouDoNotExist

I can only get 40-50FPS with everything turned down - then again it doesn't really help that I am using a GT430.

FAE

05:50

Ugh, I hate everything right now. Why do I have to be awake.

FEichinger

@FAE I don't disagree, it's just usually not exactly the best way to come into the bridge and ask "So, about [recently released game X]..." or similar. ;)

Ben Brocka

@FAE I soloed him. He drops okay loot for the reward, but fighting him is too frustrating. Mostly because of the slow-ass elevator

YouDoNotExist

@FEichinger Since when did it become bad to talk about recent games? if I were to start blathering out the ending then I could understand, but I've mainly talked about FPS issues so far.

FAE

@BenBrocka I don't enjoy playing BL as much solo. I still like the game well enough, don't get me wrong, but playing co-op increases the fun for me so much more that it just makes playing solo feel a bit more "meh" to me.

Ben Brocka

we just recently had some troll-y issues with people talking about end-game spoilers for very recent games

user15026

05:53

@FAE :( Having had crazy sleeping patterns lately (fell asleep at 5 am, woke up at 4 pm today) I feel your pain

FAE

I never actually even finished all the DLC for BL1.

Ben Brocka

@FAE Same here. I had more of a chance to play him solo since I was on PS3 (knew no one else online) and my friends were too scared to fight craw

FAE

@AshleyNunn I've only had about 4 hours of sleep. I could live with it if my pattern was broking, but I hate being up after A-a short perid of time and B-in the morning. I hate mornings.

Ben Brocka

It's easier to gather people now that I'm on PC (and it's not using goddamn Gamespy)

The majority of my playtime in BL2 is probably coop still

FEichinger

@YouDoNotExist Since we've had ... incidents. I'm not saying that it's inherently bad to talk about recent games, I'm saying we try to avoid it, because it easily spoils stuff just by mentioning it in a slight sidenote.

FAE

05:54

@BenBrocka Aaah, gotcha.

@BenBrocka Oh god yes. I'm really thankful that they're just using Steam for 2.

Ben Brocka

@FAE Also, Phasewalk is awesome against him

user15026

@FAE Yeah, I totally get that. Nothing you can do to soothe yourself back to sleeping?

YouDoNotExist

Well regarding Bioshock why did they swap from plasmids to vigors? (I'll avoid talk of the story line)

Ben Brocka

I still miss that skill, though I think Phaselock makes more sense in general. More tactical, more options for coop play

They did? I always like Plasmids because it's such perfect terminology for it

YouDoNotExist

Someone mentioned it and that is what reminded me: gaming.stackexchange.com/a/112386/41419

It came up when we I asked a question about flavour animations (or idle animations)

*I not we

Ben Brocka

05:57

Is Bioshock Infinite in a different time period? that might explain it

FAE

@BenBrocka Haha nice. Maybe one day I'll finish going back and taking my solo Siren through, I'd like to, but honestly it's difficult for me to go back to earlier games in series after experiencing the QoL improvements in sequels.

YouDoNotExist

Not really sure what time period it is supposed to be from, but everything looks to be from the 1940's (and lower).

Ben Brocka

Yeah, Borderlands 1 feels a lot rougher after playing 2

Even the damage numbers just feel so...weak

FAE

@AshleyNunn Laid awake for an hour trying to get back to sleep. I know myself well enough that I know it'll just be fruitless to lay there longer, so I got up.

user15026

@FAE Fair enough. :(

Ben Brocka

05:58

typographically speaking, not the actual numeric value

FAE

@BenBrocka They were really skinny, iirc.

YouDoNotExist

All of this talk of BL2 being weaker is making me want to play it less and less. :(

Ben Brocka

skinny and transparent

BL2 isn't weaker O.o

YouDoNotExist

Maybe I can trade it for hats.

FAE

@YouDoNotExist No, we're saying it's better!

Ben Brocka

06:00

BL2's a masterpiece. It just makes the rough edges in BL1 more noticable

FAE

@AshleyNunn Yeah, having something to eat now and trying to figure out what to do.

YouDoNotExist

@FAE Well in that case I may play it.

FAE

@BenBrocka What are your criticisms for 2?

YouDoNotExist

Then again I feel more inclined to try and get hats for TF2... this is a tough call.

Time to install the NoHats Modification!

Ben Brocka

@FAE Endgame, how the raid bosses were handled, less backpack space (granted I'm a packrat), too easy to over-level yourself by playing all the sidequests, legendaries are a bit too rare. Could use more gun parts to differentiate guns more. Elemental DOT is too weak by the end of playthrough 2/playthrough 3 (though The Bee seems to exaggerate the advantage of bullet damage a bit)

And some of the skins are vastly rarer than others, like the ones that are rare boss drops, which is lame. Verimivorous is too rare to spawn

It's mostly endgame stuff really

And stuff I notice because I mainly use elemental guns

YouDoNotExist

06:04

So Alienware's new computer can play over 25 games? that's what they are choosing to brag about... wow. I know that it is using Linux, but still I find it funny they are using that as advertising.

Ben Brocka

Yeah that's pretty sad marketing

FAE

@BenBrocka I'm definitely feeling the backpack pain, I'm a packrat as well. I've been carrying around an SMG of each element and a Sniper of each element, but I've recently dropped it to just a SMG of each and whatever element my highest damage Sniper is due to space limitations. I still carry around a bunch of mods though, even though I don't switch that often. I just want them there. >_>

YouDoNotExist

I think that Gabe said something about source games performing slightly better on linux computers though.

Ben Brocka

Also I find it annoying that, while the gun manufacturers have way more personality now, I find myself avoiding more manufacturers than in BL1. I Avoid Jakob's (no element), Torgue (EXPLOOOOSION doesn't do DOT), Dahl (burst fire is gross) and Bandit (overall weak stats despite the good ammo capacity)

FAE

I've noticed the sidequest thing as well too. I think we're like 5 levels above the story mission right now because we're doing all the sides.

Ben Brocka

06:06

So that mostly leaves me with Vladof, Maliwan (<3) and Tediore

FAE

@BenBrocka Yeah, same, I carry around mostly Maliwan and Vladof.

If it has no element, I'm all "meh".

Ben Brocka

Valdof seems a bit OP really, they have good ROF and no real downside (other than using up ammo)

YouDoNotExist

So is the stackexchange chat basically a overhauled IRC [web] client?

Ben Brocka

Whereas Bandit just kinda sucks in many senses

FAE

@BenBrocka I had this amazing Vladof sniper with a 5.2 firing rate and 21 rounds in the clip. I'm really sad I outleveled it.

Ben Brocka

06:08

I still keep around a crazy vladof Corrosive Sniper

Eats badass constructors for breakfast

FAE

@BenBrocka Is a Chulainn SMG worth using at all later on for the double elements? I'm worried about the self slag effect screwing me over too much in later playthroughs.

Ben Brocka

That's the one that slags you right? I wouldn't use it personally

FAE

Yeah. Just seems like it'd be too painful on playthroughs 2-3, though playing multiplayer, you're not always the target and all.

Ben Brocka

Yeah, but it persists for a few seconds after swap too. And enemies hurt enough in playthrough 2/3

Plus I usually count on surviving the most, so I can heal everyone else

Since Jin stopped playing I've never had another siren to insta-res me/heal me

FAE

Yeah, that's true. I'm looking forward to the later playthroughs mostly for the fact that it'll feel more challenging. Because we're doing all the sides, we've been overleveled for a lot of the encounters.

@BenBrocka Haha, yeah, I've got Res now and I got the No Time to Be Lazy achievement last night.

challenge, whatevs

Ben Brocka

06:14

yeah, I hate feeling overleveled

FAE

@BenBrocka I feel like my gameplay ability suffers for it, because the average encounters feel too easy, so then I feel like I have less practice/skill to address stuff ramping up later on.

Like, it's been easy-ish so far, so I've gotten into lazy habits, you know?

Lazers

0

Q: How exactly blizzard nerf down zolten kun abuse?

Before there is a way to gain level quickly. Keep repeating zolten kun quests again and again (usually with a friend). I've heard it no longer works. What changes did Blizzard make to make sure it doesn't work? I also want to know if repeating the same quests again and again can help us gain l...

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Ben Brocka

I tried not to do too many. I do wish they'd include an option to always scale stuff to your level off the bat

I'd rather not ever have the level advantage

FAE

@BenBrocka Well my problem there is I don't really consciously realize what lazy habits I've gotten into until all of a sudden I'm getting my ass handed to me unexpectedly.

@BenBrocka Yeah, same.

Ben Brocka

@FAE you'll be forced to wake up in Playthrough 2

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

06:31

►

FAE

@BenBrocka Haha, so I hear.

Lazers

06:52

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MBraedley

07:06

So I was at the Blue Jays game, and they lost :(

user15026

07:43

Boooo

Ullallulloo

07:53

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Ben Brocka

@gracenote Ermagerd HDN V has little babby IF

Gaming Topics From Outside

09:26

0

Q: Minetest not working

I'm running uberstudent on my ultra old pc, a P4 2.4Ghz CPU with 1gig RAM and intergrated graphics card, I downloaded minetest, but it doesn't work. It just flashes briefly on the screen and then disappears, does anyone have any idea why it isn't working?

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Lazers

09:53

0

Q: I've triggered an alarm, what does that mean?

In Sword of the Stars: The Pit, I occasionally trigger an alarm - e.g. when failing to unlock a door. What are the implications of an alarm? Should I care?

sots-the-pit

Lazers

10:29

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Q: Customer Support within a Webhosting company

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kalina

eugh

Blem

good morning people, or i guess mostly @kalina

kalina

hi

don't honestly know why I am up here instead of snuggled up in bed though tbh

badp

10:52

afternoon

Blem

hey @badp

Lazers

0

Q: Bioshock Infinite won't launch, goes to background everytime

In my PC, Bioshock infinite doesn't launch properly. 9 out of 10 times it minimizes itself on launching. Repeatedly attempts may lead to successful launch, but even after that after 1-2 hours it automatically reverts to Desktop(Game still runs in background though). I have disabled my Windows Def...

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Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

11:12

*yawn*

Blem

morning @YiJiang'sEvilClone

RedRiderX

Howdy, y'all.

Blem

hello @RedRiderX

Wipqozn

11:43

@spugsley When I saw this in the starred list I thought you were trying to mock my kitty cat song.

kalina

somebody tell the sun to stop shining in my eyes

and my hair to behave and stay where I brush it

and my coffee machine to be quiet

Lazers

12:20

0

Q: How does friendly fire work?

Will I take friendly fire from allies, units summoned through a tear, or possessed enemies? If I will take friendly fire, what is the AI behavior when they are firing and the player character is in their line of sight? Do they stop firing when the player character is in their line of sight? Or s...

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Q: What is this key for? Where is it used?

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Q: mobile access layout request

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kalina

12:34

mission accomplished; Mass Effect trilogy completed twice, both 100% completions, one full renegade, one full paragon

now I never have to play Mass Effect ever again

well, I suppose I could play it as male Shepard, since I've never done that, kill Ashley instead of Kaiden, save the collector base and kill the council

fredley

@kalina Nice try

You have not completed ME until you've taken every possible route through the story

kalina

I pretty much have, except those ones there

fredley

@kalina Fair enough

kalina

assuming that the switch to male shepard doesn't completely change the game

sadly, I expected the most annoying part to be playing through Mass Effect 1, with its antiquated controls

fredley

@kalina It affects which toilet is accessible in the Normandy, and some romance options

kalina

12:44

but it was in fact the ME3 multiplayer grind to 100% military strength

fredley

@kalina I never even tried that

kalina

which is extremely annoying because it seems everybody who can point and shoot went to play something else, leaving a bunch of dribbling incoherent wrecks who wouldn't be able to coordinate getting out of bed in the morning trying to play through on gold and platinum even though they'd fail on bronze

incidentally, the ending still sucks

hmm

I suppose I have to kill wrex on virmire too

I have never played through that story

fredley

Sounds like you've got a lot of ME left to explore

kalina

its not really a lot

fredley

I want to play Bioshock Inifite, but it would require a new computer :(

kalina

12:48

and its not really exploring, since I know what happens

I still haven't made it past the title screen of bioshock infinite before getting bored and playing something else

fredley

That dull? I'm surprised

kalina

I don't know, I haven't played it

I heard it was good, just cba to play it

I found out that if I have any of the mass effect games open on my PC for more than a day, I have to reboot my PC when I want to quit them because they won't exit by themselves

fredley

@kalina Task Manager?

kalina

nope

nothing will make it quit, including taskkill and plenty of time

fredley

@kalina I am surprised.

kalina

12:53

you should be

the new ME3 dlc is quite good too

fredley

Never tried that either

Too much time required for Minecraft

kalina

lol

nobody stands between us anymore

fredley

Minecraft takes up all the time

kalina

I am coming for you!

fredley

@kalina Potential star candidate

Lazers

12:57

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Q: Weapons will not equip after arrival on South Island in Far Cry 3

On the max difficulty I went to the South Island and after I jumped from the plane I died. When I jumped again and landed safely my weapons would not engage. Also, the second time the pirates were not on the beach. So now I am running around the island with no weapons. Is there something I can...

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Q: Is there a difference between Adventure play after pass 2 In Plants vs. Zombies?

In Plants vs. Zombies, after you pass all levels of Adventure Mode the first time, and start playing them a second time, there are 2 big differences: The game pre-selects 3 plans for you in advance for each level, that you can't change. There's a Yeti Zombie on a later level. Are there any di...

plants-vs-zombies

kalina

@fredley 1100 internet numbers left until I pass you

fredley

@Lazers shhhhh

@kalina :(

My internet numbers feel so worthless

kalina

and on that day, there will be cake

LessPop_MoreFizz

Hi chat.

kalina

o/

hardly 'chat'

fredley

12:58

@kalina For me?

LessPop_MoreFizz

I don't wanna go to wooooorkkkk

kalina

its just me, fredley and lazers

fredley

@LessPop_MoreFizz Saturday

kalina

@fredley no, why would you get cake, you didn't achieve anything!

@LessPop_MoreFizz It's Saturday afternoon

fredley

@kalina I achieved 22k before you!

kalina

12:58

...

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fredley Yeah, but I didn't work Thursday so I need to make up the day

kalina

@fredley you have been a member of the site for a period of time measured in years

fredley

@kalina So has everyone

kalina

don't star me -.-

LEAVE NO EVIDENCE

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LessPop_MoreFizz

Wasn't me. Can't originate stars on mobile chat.

kalina

13:00

oh its exactly 60 days until I have been here a year

you're not doing a good job of leaving no evidence

tbh, the way the ending of ME3 plays still supports the indoctrination theory as being possible

Ronan Forman

@fredley How are your demanding chat mock-ups coming?

fredley

@RonanForman Still at my parents', on a Photoshopless machine

I am building a wood display instead

Ronan Forman

@fredley Okay, I might make some, and then we can compare!

fredley

@RonanForman Ok!

@RonanForman Do I need to generate new chunks to get Quartz Ore?

Ronan Forman

@fredley Yeah, I don't think I can force generate it in old chunks.

fredley

13:10

@RonanForman Ok, np

Ronan Forman

I suggest mystcraft, you've been hoarding pages right?

fredley

@RonanForman It's ok, I've got a descriptive book for a good age, just making another

Lazers

13:33

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Q: What are those silvery punpkins in this Plants vs. Zombies screenshot?

When reading this question, I noticed something on the screenshot of the accepted answer that I never saw in my own game despite collecting 100% plants: silver-colored pumpkins. What are they and where do I get them? My PvZ is on a PC.

plants-vs-zombies

OrigamiRobot

13:58

HELLO BRIDGE. THIS IS RAVEN DREAMER. I HAVE HACKED THE ORIGAMI ROBOT!

Tim Stone

YOU CROSSED THE STREAMS, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@OrigamiRobot Great. Can you please permanently destroy the caps lock key on his keyboard? kthxbye.

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kalina

oh that's retarded

stupid game

Tim Stone

@LessPop_MoreFizz Hmm, that reminds me that I wanted to actually build my mobile chat client mock-up...

Someone remind me to do that.

OrigamiRobot

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I never use caps lock at home anyway.

FAE

14:07

@TimStone Do that.

Tim Stone

Thanks!

Fluttershy

@FAE I do this to my family all the time, and they always yell at me for it.

badp

@OrigamiRobot HELLO RAVEN DREAMER. THIS IS SCOUT. RAINBOWS MAKE ME CRY, OVER.

FAE

@Fluttershy This surprises me not.

OrigamiRobot

@badp Too late, I have slain the intruder.

Fluttershy

14:12

@FAE My family has no sense of humor.

badp

@Raven Dreamer has been slain? Quickly, we must find a mod abuser in chief while we organize new elections.

Tim Stone

@OrigamiRobot He forgot to disable defense drone mode, amateur mistake.

FAE

@Fluttershy I more meant the fact that you do it, not their reaction. :P

OrigamiRobot

@badp I would be the best mod-abuser. Allow me to show you my owner-abuse resume?

Fluttershy

@FAE Oh. <_< Yeah... That too!

badp

14:13

@OrigamiRobot Your second tranche of owner abuse was quite disappointing.

OrigamiRobot

That was me trying to be responsible and was still removed. I will make sure to do better next time.

NO! HE LIVES!

Raven Dreamer

I'm not dead yet!

Fluttershy

@RavenDreamer That's because you haven't eaten @spugsley's cooking yet.

Wipqozn

@Fluttershy What a funny pony.

Fluttershy

People need to get Terraria on Xbox!

Wipqozn

14:19

No. I refuse.

Fluttershy

@Wipqozn I said people, not turtles.

Wipqozn

@Fluttershy Did they improve upon Terraria in some way or the XBOX?

Because I already own the clearly superior PC version.

Fluttershy

@Wipqozn New content.

And a world map.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Fluttershy Those might be backported

Fluttershy

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Emphasis on might. Again, the creator is working on a new update for the PC version, but it may not be the same as what's in the console version. The console port was handled by a different company.

FEichinger

14:44

@Wipqozn Sadly, the PC version isn't all that superior. Which is why there was that massive backlash when it was announced to begin with.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

AoE II HD doesn't scale UI elements properly on high DPI screens reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1bslgq/…

Wipqozn

I wonder if they'll fix that.

If not I'll never buy it.

I'll just play the original when I've got the itch, and deal with some of the bugs it has on newer systems.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

There's also complaints of poor performance, but that's fixable with a graphics driver update, and the developer have publicly acknowledged the issue and say they're developing a fix

Let me comb the IAmA reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1br1cx/…

Okay, let's see...

- No LAN play
- The game has problem running on XP
- Quite a number of report of choppy framerates
- Lack of UI element scaling option as mentioned above

Wipqozn

I honestly don't understand the last one. It just seems like a case of either incompetence, or not enough time spent in testing.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

The performance and UI problem will probably be fixed sooner or later.

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