The Bridge

@badp It was about 30-31 today, gonna be that way tomorrow and the next day too. It's cooler now, but only cooler outside. In here, as in my living room, it's still like 26C. We don't have air conditioning or anything.

badp

11:07 PM

@FAE We do but it's not working :D

user20683

@LessPop_MoreFizz A great many people are pissed that they killed City of Heroes

FAE

@WorldEngineer Wasn't so much that they did, it was the way they did.

Gaming Topics From Outside

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Q: What RAM should I get?

Well I have a laptop with Linux/Ubuntu on it and it says that I have 1.9 GB of RAM... I need more RAM to run games smoothly and stuff so I was wondering: What RAM should I get for my laptop? Processor: Intel® Celeron(R) CPU 900 @ 2.20GHz Graphics: Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset x86/MMX/SSE...

FAE

@WorldEngineer Also the way they work their general business model kind of sucks. There's no guarantee that the money you spend on any one game of theirs will actually go to the game you're supporting.

So they can take earnings from GW2 and spend them on Lineage.

@WorldEngineer But mostly it's CoH. It was a really awful way to shut the game down, the devs didn't even know until a week before they did it.

user20683

yeah

badp

11:12 PM

Apparently Gearbox did the same redirecting fundings from Aliens to BL2

FAE

And they had one of the most communicative dev teams in the business.

fbueckert

@FAE And this is one of the reasons I refuse to support NCSoft. Ever again.

Fluttershy

@badp See, this is fine. Redirect funds from a universally hated game and put it toward making a sequel to a critically acclaimed game. NCSoft does it the other way 'round.

badp

@Fluttershy The game probably was universally hated because it had its funding cut

FAE

@LessPop_MoreFizz This looks very cool.

Fluttershy

11:14 PM

@badp I'm not so sure. <_<

badp

ARGH THE PLATFORMING SECTION IN THE SECOND LEVEL OF ARES IS THE WORST THING

and it is unskippable

so. bad.

there's a part where you must jump off a moving platform over a pit then back onto a crate that you didn't see falling until it's too late

Fluttershy

I want to find whoever keeps starring @Lazers and remove their ability to star...

2

FAE

It is 1:20 in the morning but I don't care, I'm eating an ice cream sandwich

LessPop_MoreFizz

@fluttershy just for that, from now on I am going to use up my daily allowance of stars on Lazers right before the rollover every day.

Ullallulloo

2 days ago, by Ullallulloo

Stop starring every question.

LessPop_MoreFizz

11:25 PM

Also that star isn't even @lazers it's GTFO.

Who is like Lazers mentally deficient cousin.

Wipqozn

25 hours.

badp

damn, this means I won't be here :(

user20683

@Wipqozn how goes the terror in space?

badp

I have an exam the day after Tomorrow relatively early so I'll have to go to sleep early

LessPop_MoreFizz

@WorldEngineer he found Polito.

Anna Lear

11:31 PM

Thank you everyone who tried to help me with my Flight Control HD launch issues this weekend. Conveniently, it seems to run like a little trooper on my work laptop, so... I can still get my one last achievement. =) #GreatUseOfSEHeadquartersOfficeSpace

user20683

@LessPop_MoreFizz when?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@AnnaLear seems like an ideal use to me. Beats going home in this weather.

Fluttershy

@LessPop_MoreFizz I didn't mean that one. =P I meant:

1 hour ago, by Lazers

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Q: Do I need to be influential with my human teammate to win Tourism Victory?

I'm playing a game with a friend where I'm doing my best to stack tourism. I've noticed that I'm still "exotic" to him and he has a TON of culture. I also cannot generate many tourism bonuses for him because "open boarders" does not exist. Do I have to become influential with my human ally (team...

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Anna Lear

@LessPop_MoreFizz It's like a million times cooler than it was last week and I brought an umbrella. It ain't so bad!

badp

wait what. ARES gives you character bonuses as your "character rank" increases?

so since I got two Cs in a row, now I have 20 more health

LessPop_MoreFizz

11:34 PM

Yeah, I will take rain over that heat any day of the week.

Wipqozn

Rain is awesome. It's so relaxing.

LessPop_MoreFizz

I have to drive down to DC tomorrow though ugggghhhhhhhhhhh it's gonna be so awful

badp

@AnnaLear I didn't think I'd mention that, but you do know that SAM is a thing that exists right?

Anna Lear

@badp The what? I know several things that could be called SAM, but I've no idea what you're referring to.

And some of those things are people.

badp

@AnnaLear Steam Achievement Manager

Anna Lear

11:36 PM

Nope, never heard of it.

badp

You open it, it gives you a list of games. You click on a game, you get a checklist of achievements. You check achievements and that unlocks them.

StrixVaria

Why does everyone in Dishonored have such a dilapidated face?

Lazers

0

Q: Being Invaded in Crusader Kings 2

So I'm building up my empire nicely. I'm King of Wales and Scotland, soon to be King of Ireland, and then slowly move into England – and become Emporer of Britannia. I've done it before (though started off as a Count of Ireland) until I owned 30% of France too, 30% of Hispannia, 25% of the HRE an...

crusader-kings-2

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Q: Advantages of using Venetian (Venice) Civilization?

I am having a difficult time understanding how to effectively use the Venetian (Venice) Civilization. At first glance, the Venice Civilization immediately seems weaker than other civs: with the primary reason being that they CANNOT build/buy settlers. In place of the settler and Great Merchan...

civilization-5 civ-5-brave-new-world

badp

Technically that means you can also un-earn achievements, but games tend to reaward achievements if the save file says you've earned them

Anna Lear

@badp Meh. I like to earn my achievements.

badp

11:38 PM

@AnnaLear If you can't earn them because of technical reasons and that bothers you...

Just bear in mind that it is a thing that exists.

Anna Lear

In that case, I'd rather whine forever. ;)

But thanks. Good to know.

badp

I've used it in the past years for those achievements that were tied to items in the previous sales

but the people at Valve realized that SAM is a thing that exists and came up with something different

...thankfully

Anna Lear

A surprising number of my Steam games are Mac-compatible. (Work laptop is a Macbook pro.) This is dangerous.

user20683

@AnnaLear A surprising number of games run on my ancient Macbook.

Anna Lear

This macbook beats my desktop at home on every possible level.

(I also have a real monitor, keyboard, and mouse going with it, which helps.)

RedRiderX

11:46 PM

@AnnaLear I was very impressed until I saw the beverage sitting in the middle of all that, now I'm just unnerved.

Anna Lear

@RedRiderX I stopped working at 7. ;) Also, it's a decent beverage.

RedRiderX

@AnnaLear It does seem like a nice beverage, but a drink that close to a computer always makes me twitchy.

I should probably see someone about it.

Anna Lear

@RedRiderX If I manage to spill it on the laptop... I dunno, I'd give myself bonus points or something. Could probably ruin the keyboard easily enough. But to be fair to me, I've never spilled anything on any of my computer peripherals ever.

(I realize that I just jinxed everything forever.)

user20683

@AnnaLear /witch doctor unjinxes

Anna Lear

thanks!

user20683

11:54 PM

@AnnaLear I hang out with @LessPop_MoreFizz and @spugsley. I figure I'm a witch doctor by association or proxy or something.

badp

So Gnomeslice is pointing out that the SAM homepage is down and the copies of it on bit torrent are old

I have version 63 of it and here it is.

user20683

@badp is this legal?

user20683

in US, because that's the only legal that seems to matter these days.

badp

@WorldEngineer the only possibly illegal part of it is that I'm distributing a free piece of software that's still not mine

the tool itself might get you VAC banned but hasn't gotten me VAC banned

also holy fuck cards added to 32 games

BIT.TRIP RUNNER
Anna
Beat Hazard
Call of Juarez Gunslinger
Cherry Tree High Comedy Club
DLC Quest
Dark Fall: Lost Souls
Day of Defeat: Source
Defend Grid: The Awakening
Divinity: Dragon Commander
Ether Vapor Remaster
Eversion
Expeditions: Conquistador
FLY’N
Fortix
Fortix 2
King’s Bounty: Warriors of the North
Krater
Magical Diary
Mount & Blade
Noitu Love 2 Devolution
Nuclear Dawn
POSTAL 2 Complete
Retro/Grade
Retrovirus
Retro City Rampage
Rush Bros
Secret of the Magic Crystal
Skyward Collapse
Sol Survivor

FAE

@badp Thanks, was trying to see the article and it kept giving me an error

RedRiderX

11:58 PM

@badp Secret of the Magic Crystal FTW!

badp

In the meantime, all $.26 and $.27 skyrim cards are gone

RedRiderX

I'm sure the price for those will be high.

badp

we're now in the $.32 range