The Bridge

8 Hours left for Soulcaster II

It helps if I read that correctly

@ChrisHateZ How is that game compared to Chrono Trigger?

I liked Chrono Trigger up to the Black Omen

@badp ...I'll be honest, I preferred Chrono Trigger over Chrono Cross.

nine or so boss fights in a row was not so great

8:01 PM

@badp Well i didn't play CT actually. But CC is simply epic. The story is really good, there are over 40 characters which you can recruit for your team. Graphics are quite good too for the game of that age.

@badp You know that you can beat the game without ever going into the Black Omen?

@Powerlord I am aware, but I only have one playthrough for most games so I chose to be as thorough as possible

@ChrisHateZ The problem is that they adopted the Xenogears battle engine for no apparent reason and limited you to use magic spells once.

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@MadScientist What's an example of a 4/4/4 chemical?

Once per spell you have equipped that is.

8:02 PM

@ChrisHateZ I'm not the only one who's played Chrono Cross without playing Chrono Trigger?

@WorldEngineer aprilfourthium?

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@GnomeSlice -.-

@Powerlord You had tons of magic spells, so there is no problem with that. The battle system in CC is great and i wish some new RPG's would rip it off.

Didn't particularly like either Chrono Cross or Chrono Trigger.

aprilfourthtwothousandfourium

Q: Is there any substance that's a 4-4-4 on the NFPA diamond?

8:03 PM

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A lot of the organometallics are rather... interesting compounds to work with. The most famous (among those who care, anyway) is tert-butyllithium or t-BuLi. It is the textbook example of a pyrophoric substance, demonstrated to pretty much every chemistry major as an air-sensitive chemical requir...

@WorldEngineer Dihydrogen Monoxide

@ChrisHateZ Some characters did... others only had a few spell slots.

@FAE Yay. I already started to think i was the only one lol.

and then there's the bosses who would totally screw you over if you brought the wrong spells.

Miguel or whatever his name is about halfway through the game, for instance.

@Powerlord Erm... you would unlock more spell slots as you level up. I never ran out of spells when playing CC, not even once.

8:04 PM

@ChrisHateZ Granted, I haven't finished Cross yet either. <_<

And it doesn't help that said boss does extra damage against your main character because he's the opposite element.

(oh, and that's another thing CC added that CT didn't have)

@FAE Got very close to the last boss, lost the save =(

Megabyte Punch is the best.

6 days till final release!

CC @RedRiderX

@GnomeSlice True.

@GnomeSlice Also True.

@Powerlord Personally i think CC is too easy. I don't recall it being too challenging.

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8:05 PM

@badp har har

@RedRiderX I think I might even like it more than Super Smash Bros

Well maybe not too easy, but definitely not challenging.

Anyway i gotta go. Later peeps.

For whatever reason, the SourceMod devs are getting rid of the GuessSDKVersion() command.

So... instead of relying on the SDK version (which the SourceMod devs themselves provide, the "Guess" part of the name is BS), you have to rely on the... game folder name.

if (question.tag == skyrim ) protect(question);

@Sterno or portal

8:10 PM

@Sterno We have thousands of Skyrim questions, not all need protection.

@GnomeSlice Wow, really? I'll have to see what's changed. It's been a while since I've played

I meant protect as in keep newbies from responding, not keep people from ever closing it like you think happens with every portal question ever. :)

Or LoL

@Sterno No I knew what you meant

Portal gets spam too doesn't it?

@SaintWacko Yeah! Final release is adding the last level and the ability to save Megac loadouts

and some other stuff that hasn't been mentioned yet

We should ban LoL questions and make a new subreddit for it.

if (question.tag == league-of-legends ) question.deleteSelfPlusEverythingWithinFiveIdsJustToBeSafe();

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8:12 PM

Mousecraft

@GnomeSlice Maybe when it was new. Not much now.

@WorldEngineer Looks like lemmings.

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@StrixVaria it's basically Blocks that Matter + Lemmings

@WorldEngineer I think it's more like tetris since you don't get to choose the shapes

This is the game I'm waiting for this year

I don't remember playing Blocks that Matter, but I do remember that I did play it and didn't like it. I also know I don't like Lemmings.

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8:14 PM

@GnomeSlice yeah

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Blocks that matter was kind of fun for a while

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got really annoying later on

@StrixVaria I'd play Lemmings if it were ponies committing suicide instead.

The game I'm waiting for this year is this one:

amazon.com/The-Legend-Zelda-Between-Nintendo-3DS/dp/B00CFR7VSU

uh. I got an achievement for finding Vault 34

That cannot be a good sign

8:15 PM

Oh, and this one which comes out in 2 weeks:

@Powerlord Based on this title, it feels like they have something big in mind for the timeline.

amazon.com/Mario-Luigi-Dream-Team-Nintendo-3DS/dp/B00CH923NE/…

@StrixVaria Yeah, well it takes place in A Link to the Past's world... which has two worlds that you play through.

For some reason last night I watched a 40-minute video on the Zelda timeline even though I don't even like playing Zelda games.

You... have played through A Link to the Past, right?!

@Powerlord I started it and got bored.

The furthest I ever got in a Zelda game was beating the Fire Temple in Ocarina of Time.

8:17 PM

@StrixVaria That's a shame... A Link to the Past is probably the best game in the series.

@Powerlord If I preorder now I save $.03

@Powerlord I got to some village or something and there was no direction on where to go.

I'm not opposed to giving LttP another try.

@StrixVaria That video infuriated me. It took it 40 minutes to say what a wikipedia page captured in 3 paragraphs.

@StrixVaria Er... there's a person on the map who tells you that they don't know where the elder went and to (this is a paraphrase) "ask around town" in case someone else knows.

@Sterno Yeah, that's about what I got out of it too.

8:19 PM

Any Sonic fans in here?

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<-

@Powerlord Talking to NPCs? Ugh.

@StrixVaria Yes.

If the NPC doesn't have an arrow over his head pointing him out from across the world, I'm out.

@WorldEngineer Was that directed at me?

8:20 PM

It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.

@StrixVaria Yeeeah, don't play Zelda games then.

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@GnomeSlice yeah

@WorldEngineer Check this out soundcloud.com/psymbionic/psymbionic-chemical-plant-zone

I can't think of a single Zelda game where you can get away with not talking to NPCs. Even the first.

@Powerlord I was being at least partially facetious.

I'm getting through FF7 well enough without such indicators.

Modern games have made it difficult to adjust to going back to that, though.

8:21 PM

@StrixVaria I could spoil it for you and tell you exactly which person to talk to!

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@GnomeSlice I think this was on OC Remix but I can't recall

@WorldEngineer stab

@WorldEngineer When? Because he just released it like four hours ago

Sorry, natural reaction to hearing... those words.

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@Powerlord /pulls the knife out of his mod armor. Why?

8:22 PM

@WorldEngineer You might say I have a... history... with DJ Pretzel.

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ah

@WorldEngineer Powerlord is a hater

Powerlord used to host the OC Remix... something

Read: he is a hater

@GnomeSlice You know it's owned by the guy who tried to steal my own site out from under me, right?

8:23 PM

Is this link dead for anyone else psymbionic.bandcamp.com/track/chemical-plant-zone

@Powerlord Why would I know that

@GnomeSlice Nope.

@Powerlord I haven't heard this story

@RedRiderX ergh

Just me then

Wait, there it goes

@GnomeSlice isup.me can check stuff like that for you.

@RedRiderX So can the bridge

=P

8:25 PM

@SaintWacko He has told it in the past. I don't remember almost anything, but he has. Search might turn up something

@RedRiderX You have to remember, @GnomeSlice doesn't have Internet.

@SaintWacko I don't technically own VGMusic.com. DJPretzel tried to buy it out from my "partner..." and I heard nothing of this until some time later. Then he followed it up by emailing basically everyone who had contributed music to the site whose email addresses didn't end in @vgmusic.com

I'll bookmark it though because I always forget the URL

@StrixVaria Right I forgot.

@StrixVaria I forgot about this joke.

8:26 PM

@Powerlord Wow

Granted, my interest in VGMusic.com has declined sharply since all this happened, but I also don't forget about these sorts of things.

Q: Can I make pistons retriggerable?

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...by any other means than madly pulsing their input? The picture illustrates my problem. The piston was powered up when both spaces between it and the obsidian block were filled with cobblestone. This is perfectly expectable. Now I broke the second piece of cobble, and I'd expect the piston t...

minecraft

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Q: Minecraft Bukkit Server; Blinding Eggs

I have a Bukkit Minecraft PvP server and want people to be blinded once they are hit by a thrown egg. Does anybody know of any good plugins that could be used for this purpose?

minecraft minecraft-bukkit minecraft-server

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Q: Is there a way to quickly wake up all units of one type?

Let's say I have some swordsmen scattered about my kingdom, and I want to bring them all up to one point to take an enemy city. What's the fastest way to do this? I'm aware of th emilitary advisor screen, but I can only figure out how to see their location on the map - not very useful. In Civ II...

CC @LessPop_MoreFizz

@Lazers Plugin rec.

Also, back from lunch. Beautiful day outside.

@LessPop_MoreFizz any preference on when/where to meet?

8:36 PM

@Mana Hi!

@GnomeSlice hey dude. welcome back.

Thanks buddy

Are you meeting up with whatsisname while he's in Canada?

That's pretty cool

@GnomeSlice that bow/arrow shooting looks pathetic :(

@Mana Alpha

@GnomeSlice but come on, it's your main weapon!

8:38 PM

Pretty sure they aren't going to get it funded on IGG ether indiegogo.com/projects/elliot-quest-adventure-video-game

@Mana Yeah, I dunno

What's pathetic about it?

ikes to reply, UR FACE

It only goes like two feet?

@GnomeSlice really short range, no satisfaction

Heh

I might as well be throwing an arrow

8:40 PM

Yeah I guess

the Lucksman is the best bow and arrow experience

fire at empty corridor, headshot a scout

@badp you've become a man obsessed.

@Mana I have luckily a wide range of obsessions.

TF2 is stupid.

Some of those are even thanks to you ♫

8:43 PM

@JasonBerkan is alive!

Jason Berkan

There's some debate on that subject.

Undead is close enough.

Jason Berkan

Zombie Jason is back, then.

I was rather thinking Dracula Jason but that's okay too.

> If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.

@AshleyNunn This book, which he mentions, also sounds fascinating

Even more so for me, because I build and fly rockets

9:09 PM

So, the people I ordered my OS from sent me an upgrade version instead of the full install. The activation key doesn't work. =\

That's quite a common scam recently ...

Q: Is there an advantage to building a road to a city-state before they request one?

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Occasionally city-states will request that you build a road to connect them to your trade network, giving influence when you do. Is there any advantage to building a road to a city-state before they request it?

civilization-5 civ-5-gods-and-kings

0

Q: How can one gain the Dota 2 achievements?

How can one get the achievements listed in the Dota 2 section of the Library? If I click on "View all achievements" I just land on my profile page... Any hint appreciated.

achievements dota-2

@Fluttershy That is just one registry entry you have to change for Windows

@MadScientist No idea how to do that.

@Fluttershy Windows 7?

9:15 PM

@MadScientist Yeah. Win 7 Professional.

@Fluttershy winsupersite.com/article/windows-7/…

If you only have an Upgrade version you just have to change one registry key and execute one command to activate it if you do a fresh install

I just realized I still have never actually bought Windows on its own. I've either had computers pre-assembled with Windows already installed, or gotten the installer through other (legal) means (like when I was a student).

Jason Berkan

Oddly enough, I never purchased a copy of Windows until I bought my Mac.

@MadScientist Still not working. This is the error code it gives me.

Blem

I payed for windows 3.1, but scince then i have either gotten it with the computer or from e-academy

9:26 PM

@Fluttershy Try to activate it by phone, I assume they sold you a license that was already used a few times

@MadScientist I actually got that stuff straight from a Microsoft help line

Oh hey. It says 3 Days until automatic activation...

Blem

NN people

9:37 PM

Wow... The Guild turned 6 years old the other day.

@Powerlord Whoa, seriously? o_O

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Starcraft is 15

@FAE Yeah. Then again, they've had 5 seasons, so....

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WoW will be 10 next year

Ditto. “@sandeepparikh: I miss us :) RT @feliciaday: Six years ago today we uploaded the first episode of @theguild to YouTube."

Tweeted by amyokuda on July 28, 2013 at 12:05 AM in reply to sandeepparikh

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9:38 PM

I played in the beta...

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I feel OLD

@WorldEngineer I was only in the open Beta

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same

@Powerlord same

Do you guys get a free t-shirt saying "I WAS IN THE WOW BETA"/"AND I STILL HAVE A LIFE"/"SORTA"?

9:39 PM

The "we clearly don't have enough servers to support demand, maybe we should delay the game?" "btw, game comes out in 2 weeks" beta,

Phone activation successful! \o/

Thanks for the help, @MadScientist

It's so sad that The Guild is currently on hiatus and won't be launching season 7.

Also, I see I typoed 6 earlier and hit 5 instead. Whoops.

So. Lightning Returns got cheapened by the director.

HELLO MY FRIENDS HELLLLOOOOOO

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@spugsley ah there you are

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9:42 PM

good

@spugsley Hihi lady!

@fbueckert No surprise there. What happened?

@spugsley hola

@fbueckert The increased bust size thing?

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@FAE Yuuuup.

@fbueckert Yeah, read that interview. Super classy. :/

What happened to, y'know, strong female leads? Lightning was fine the way she was.

9:43 PM

@fbueckert Apparently larger bust = stronger woman. And this is the guy directing KH3, ladies and gentlemen.

A: How can I trade fish/bugs between characters?

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bbbbbbbbbllllllllllllllooooooodddddddddyyyyyyyyy*ddddddddddddddddiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiierea

Free flags

It's a wild @spugs!

:o

@OrigamiRobot A for effort.

@FEichinger F for incoherent.

9:45 PM

@OrigamiRobot it's a huge shame that they can't spell diarrhea.

it would have been way more effective

Wait, wait, wait, this is the text for being a duplicate now?:

> This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question.

@Ullallulloo wat

no

This can't be.

@Ullallulloo Yep, pretty sure it is.

@FEichinger That's bad.

starts handing out flamethrowers

9:47 PM

@Ullallulloo Why? Because it a) assumes there is already an answer and b) asks people to ask new questions, still?

That couldn't possibly be it, right?

@FEichinger Because it's the opposite of what people should do.

Q: "Please ask a new question" encourages question repetition for duplicates

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I just had a case of a user who re-posted his question because his first question was closed as a duplicate. And, logically, I closed his re-post as a duplicate of his original, asking him to edit his original and explain why it's not a duplicate, so we can reopen it. This process has worked lik...

discussion exact-duplicates

Apparently it's a little bit different if it's your own question.

@Ullallulloo Ironically a dupe itself.

Q: Duplicate explanation should encourage improvement of original

@Ullallulloo Why not link to the original?

22

The new closed-as-duplicate banner says: This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question. I think it should instead say This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If answers...

feature-request status-completed exact-duplicates information-display

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@spugsley

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9:51 PM

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>:)

> Final Fantasy fans in Japan seem to think this addition was either "creepy" or heralds "the end of interesting Final Fantasy games." One Japanese net user even wondered, "Is it appropriate to call a game like this Final Fantasy?"

@WorldEngineer SANDWICHESSSSSSSSSSS

@OrigamiRobot For one, sarcasm. Secondly, I don't even remember what it originally said.

@Fluttershy Context?

Or should I just assume you were talking about Final Fantasy 11?

9:53 PM

See? Even here I don't see being a sammich connoisseur as being evil.

11 mins ago, by fbueckert

So. Lightning Returns got cheapened by the director.

SAMMICH AND ME GONNA KICK YOUR ARS.

@Powerlord Basically, the lead character designer felt it was necessary to increase Lightning's bust size, and make them jiggle.

Q: Is it possible to "stop" a Minecraft multiplayer server without losing everything?

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I have started my own multiplayer server on Minecraft, and the first time I played, I made a house and actually, y'know. DID stuff. Anyway, I thought I had saved it (typed the command in and all), so I typed in "stop" into the li'l window thing that keeps the server going. Next thing I know, when...

minecraft multiplayer hosting

@badp What's that sammich? KILL THEM ALL? Good idea!

@Fluttershy ...I didn't even know Lightning was a woman.

9:55 PM

@WorldEngineer THANKS ALOT NOW I WANT A BISTRO BAGUETTE

are you going to make me one?! YOU STARTED THIS

Then again, I haven't played FF13

So, apparently Emma Caulfield has been on Wil Wheaton's TableTop show, but I can't find the episode she's in.

I wonder if they haven't shown it yet.

@rbemrose @wilw I filmed an episode a couple of months ago. was awesome. he's super cool.

Tweeted by emmacaulfield on July 30, 2013 at 9:52 PM in reply to rbemrose

Not shown yet.

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@spugsley Were that I had a car, I could theoretically get to Charlotte in about 3 or 4 hours...

@GraceNote Are you still around?

@WorldEngineer that's not gonna cut it

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10:05 PM

@spugsley :)

:p

oh lol

> You may observe the mild reactivity of this gentle substance [Chlorine Trifluoride] as it encounters various common laboratory materials.

@Fluttershy Not for long, what's up?

Are you fucking kidding me

@GraceNote Is there any chance you could, or you could have somebody else, take a look at this?

10:18 PM

I'll toss it inside and see if anyone has any insight.

@GraceNote at the risk of sounding ignorant, do you speak whatever language this is? lost-identity.jp/souvenir/html/info.html

I'm trying to see if Croixleur wallpapers are a thing

@GraceNote Thank you muchly. =D

That's Japanese.

And if there is a patch to fix the controller input

I see 'patch' on the downloads page, but I have no idea what they are

lost-identity.jp/souvenir/html/download.html

> ■ to be properly recognized by the XBOX360 controller

Google Chrome is useless

I'd patch up to 1.13 if I were you.

10:21 PM

Mine is v1.14

er

What

dergh

Ah, I guess the EN patch goes beyond the latest JP release, then.

I dunno, I got it through Desura, which does automatic updating

Anyway, bottommost item under Downloads is a wallpaper. That's all they have there.

That thing about xbox 360 controller makes me think it might have fixed the diagonal stuff.

@GraceNote Oh, I didn't even see that. Cool.

Wrong aspect ratio though, hah.

Thanks.

This controller issue is infuriating.

Heavy is Pretty Princess!

10:24 PM

It doesn't read diagonal input on the analog stick. It reads everything in between except for a tiny range around 45 degrees

When it just stops moving

Hey, Facebook says that it's @JohnTheGreen's birthday toady.

@GnomeSlice That weird 2D sprite in 3D arena style never amazed me

@badp They're both 3D

It walks around and shit

So it's not a walking sprite like, say, it is in Recettear? (IIRC)

I don't think so, no. It turns around and you can look at it from any angle you want.

I'm not quite sure what you're asking me

sprites are 2D right

Yeah, no, I know what you're talking about actually

You're talking like Doom trees

Yeah this shit is all 3D

10:29 PM

okay. Good to hear.

↑ what I was talking about

Yeah I've played it, just been a while

I remembered though, I think

Can't load the video right now

The people are flat right?

That's a way to put it yea.

In KSP News: New KSP Weekly

Another Humble Bundle that doesn't interest me at all. =/

10:36 PM

BUMBLE HUNDLE

3

@badp gif compressed for uploadingness

I think my hunger is taking over my brainnn

Q: Steam account security: list of allowed computers on SteamGuard

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When I login on the Steam website on a new computer, it uses Steamguard to send a code to my email and asks me to copy that code on a dialog on the website. It also asks me to set a nickname to the computer and adds it to a list of allowed recognized computers. Where can I see / edit this list?

steam

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@spugsley umm, eat ye something

@spugsley Bumbles bounce!

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10:38 PM

Where is @LessPop_MoreFizz when I need beer advice...

LessPop_MoreFizz

@WorldEngineer right here

@WorldEngineer my pot roast is in the oven. It smells soooo goooood

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@LessPop_MoreFizz

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beerpulse.com/2013/05/…

@WorldEngineer Don't drink it.

Q: Steam account security: list of allowed computers on SteamGuard

10:39 PM

15 more minutes

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Good or no?

user20683

because it looks amazing

LessPop_MoreFizz

I hate innis and gunn stuff in general, though I've not had that one

user20683

ah

user20683

why's that?

LessPop_MoreFizz

10:40 PM

@WorldEngineer I just don't think it is particularly tasty?

user20683

fair enough

ruda.almeida

Hello. This question has a screenshot in a foreign language. I wonder if anyone of you could kindly provide one in English. Thanks!

2

When I login on the Steam website on a new computer, it uses Steamguard to send a code to my email and asks me to copy that code on a dialog on the website. It also asks me to set a nickname to the computer and adds it to a list of allowed recognized computers. Where can I see / edit this list?

steam