The Bridge

8:00 PM

@MichaelDunfield Well the basic concepts are the same regardless of what you want to make, plus I get a neat robot thing if I do this tutorial.

Dammit @MichaelDunfield now I'm starting to watch these.

Michael Dunfield

@RonanForman You want to see my neat robot thing after two classes in 3D?

jmp.sh/v/1frf7LsIHiRLIUvOq0zp

It's terrible.

Well mostly my animation is what's terrible.

Largely because I wasn't able to rig it because of the joints.

I'm actually pretty pleased with my robot design but the texturing sucks

Jason Berkan

I loved my 3D class - it was the only class I had that felt like a real university class. Impossibly long mathematical problems during class, create a 2 minute movie for the first half of the lab, and a fully functional piece of animation software for the second half of the lab.

Michael Dunfield

@JasonBerkan Fuck that.

Now I don't want you to see my robot

Jason Berkan

@MichaelDunfield I've seen your robot - it's fine. I picked fighter planes and tanks for my movie because I didn't want to animate individual parts.

Michael Dunfield

It's so bad

Ronan Forman

8:05 PM

@MichaelDunfield It's not bad. You could have done with making a texture to fit rather than tiling a small one though.

Michael Dunfield

@RonanForman Yeah. Also I used way too many textures.

The animation would have been better if I was able to rig the robot

I even specifically asked my professor in the first class if there was a certain way we should design them to make them easier to rig and he said 'do it however you want, it will be fine'.

Second class comes around 'oh you can't rig that you have to animate it by hand I guess'

ಠ_ಠ

Shut up ~~Meg~~ Math

@BenBrocka ?

A flag

0

Q: Asking a compound question?

Is there a way to ask a question that compounds on an existing question, other than just linking to it? Like, for instance, if someone had already asked a question concerning the base damage rates of several weapons in a game, and I wanted to ask how to calculate their actual damage rates against...

feature-request

OrigamiRobot

8:16 PM

@BenBrocka I missed it and now I have a stuck counter :(

Michael Dunfield

Oh sick I didn't even realize AE could do raytraced 3D

Ben Brocka

@OrigamiRobot just hit F5

I hate the stuck counter

mod flags do it sometimes too

OrigamiRobot

I know, I was just lamenting the need.

Michael Dunfield

@RonanForman Do you know how to tile an image in photoshop?

Ronan Forman

@MichaelDunfield answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110521223635AAucSvc

kalina

8:25 PM

@badp you're confusing me now

I'm probably reading it wrong

but in this:

9

Q: Is Arqade a place for guides and walkthroughs?

Regarding these kalina's (useful) questions and answers about Payday 2: How can I pull off a Bank Heist without the cops getting involved? How can I complete the Diamond Heist without setting off any alarms? How do I stealth the 'Framing Frame' heist? Is Arqade a place for guides and walkthro...

discussion allowed-questions

You seem to both say my questions are fine and that they don't belong on Arqade, in two separate comments

Ben Brocka

Closed as confused by @badp

Michael Dunfield

@RonanForman Sweet, thanks.

badp

@kalina you're assuming I even looked at them!

kalina

@badp that was an assumption I made

badp

now that I look at them they're kind on the line

kalina

8:28 PM

which side of the line?

badp

the community accepted it, so you're on the safe side of the line

I suppose it's a pretty elastic line

kalina

that sounds like technically correct to me

I like technically correct

there has been a couple of meta things recently that have confused me

badp

mind you

I'd love to get better support for epic, long answers

kalina

like, why is @MBraedley being downvoted on that same question

badp

intra-answer links? more control on formatting, opt-in? tables?

kalina

8:30 PM

even though he basically said the same thing I said

but the other one is this one

-4

Q: Is there a 'tag-less' tag?

Is there a tag that we can use for games which we don't already have tags for? While we do have an extensive library of tags, there is no way we have a tag for every single game available on steam, in other countries (not America, I mean), for arcade, for mobiles, for consoles and handhelds and P...

discussion feature-request

OrigamiRobot

@kalina Maybe people like your pony.

kalina

how come I got upvoted and @spartacus got downvoted even though we actually said the same thing

OrigamiRobot

35 secs ago, by OrigamiRobot

@kalina Maybe people like your pony.

Jason Berkan

@kalina You used bold in your answer. He didn't.

badp

@kalina I think his post was more of the "why stop them? they're contributing!" kind

and that's a bad point

kalina

8:31 PM

@JasonBerkan you're joking.

Yuki

@kalina +1 for italics.

badp

if I wrote the ultimate guide to get winpdb to fucking work, that'd be awesome

kalina

@OrigamiRobot if there is one thing I've learned, most people don't like ponies

badp

if I wrote it on arqade... the guide would probably still be awesome

...but not for our site

kalina

the pony is more likely to get downvoted

OrigamiRobot

8:32 PM

@kalina Formatting wins

kalina

@badp I and many others have written much larger answers than are involved here

badp

@OrigamiRobot Formatting always wins

Jason Berkan

@kalina Not really. Good formatting often gets more upvotes, when there are similar answers.

OrigamiRobot

@kalina I definitely don't like your pony. It makes you seem playful and fun. Definitely not the case.

kalina

I'd rather something definitive on writing guides for stuff before I spend time writing more

Ben Brocka

8:33 PM

@badp people like you are why we have character count limits in nominations

kalina

I'm using the word "guides" because that's what I've written

@OrigamiRobot you are mean

badp

@BenBrocka Years went by between my nomination and the enforcement of that rule.

kalina

I am both playful and fun.

3

badp

@kalina You probably have enough of a clue to not get it wrong

kalina

wait, what do you mean "probably"

Michael Dunfield

8:34 PM

holy balls 3D is hard on the CPU

OrigamiRobot

@kalina I'm sure you have fun playing.

kalina

I AM INSULTED

badp

@kalina but are you happy and a ball?

kalina

@badp er... no?

badp

@kalina awww.

kalina

8:34 PM

I am happy when I get to set fire to things

Yuki

@badp Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

Ben Brocka

@badp one year or less

it was in place 2012

badp

@BenBrocka 0.8 years are still years

kalina

I still think something is broken with my account

I have proof

Here is proof:

OrigamiRobot

@kalina Yes, the pony. We just went over this.

kalina

8:36 PM

gaming.stackexchange.com/users/52800/kalina?tab=reputation

no I'm being serious

I know me being serious twice in one day is uncalled for

but, actually, fucking, serious.

Michael Dunfield

@kalina It's fucking serious.

OrigamiRobot

closed as Not A Real @Kalina

kalina

and I only got half way through my questions before I gave up

Yuki

@kalina That's... a lot of upvotes.

Ben Brocka

Serious f--oh wait

badp

8:37 PM

@kalina The rift is closing

kalina

its not upvotes

it's reaccepting

badp

YOU AND YOUR PREVIOUS IDENTITY ARE SLOWLY MERGING INTO ONE MEGA-KALINA

kalina

I appear to be missing all of the +2s you get from accepting answers

ALSO

my reputation number does not equal my reputation

** rep today: 248
** rep this week (2013-09-22 - 2013-09-28): 318
** rep this month (2013-09-01 - 2013-09-30): 1147
** rep this quarter (2013-07-01 - 2013-09-30): 2183
** rep this year (2013-01-01 - 2013-12-31): 12352
** rep from bonuses: 100
** total rep 25651 :)

vs 25,441

ALSO

badp

@kalina didn't you use to hit 30k?

OrigamiRobot

@badp Summon Godzilla

kalina

8:38 PM

THIS CAKE IS DRY

IT'S THE WORST CAKE EVER

@badp no, I was at ~26k when I got my account deleted

But certain things didn't get restored

IE: bounties

suggested edit reps below the rep threshold

badp

Well clearly you need to wait for a full restoration, then you can ragequit again

kalina

tag wiki suggestions below the rep threshold

actually, those things can't be restored

badp

until your account degenerates into a writhing mass of reputation chaos

kalina

I'm fine with that

them not being restored that is

badp

useless like spent entropy

kalina

8:40 PM

I can't recalc my rep again today, it will have to wait until tomorrow

and I gave away 1k rep earlier by being honest

because I'm like that

Tim Stone

@kalina To the data dumps!

OrigamiRobot

Such honest

Michael Dunfield

I have no CPU

kalina

@TimStone well, there are certain things that I'm sure could have been worked out, but I'm just happy that the other Tim spent as much time as he did fixing me

badp

Honest is the best ban reason

2

Tim Stone

8:41 PM

Hooray for Tims!

kalina

like, this site is still littered with edits from user27134

the fact it says user27134 means they could be relinked I guess

but that removes the newgame+ fun from arqade

BY NEXT WEEK I WILL REAPPEAR ON THE LIST OF FREQUENT REVIEWERS IN NEARLY EVERY CATEGORY

< UNSTOPPABLE FORCE OF NATURE

Michael Dunfield

For anyone who missed it:

7 hours ago, by Michael Dunfield

Groupees Steampunk Game, Music, and Comic bundle, featuring (among other things), Vessel, Greed Corp, Jamestown.

Too many commas!

kalina

Too, many, commas, !

Michael Dunfield

Actually there's only one extra comma.

user15026

Yeah, only one.

user15026

8:44 PM

I think.

user15026

I have been staring at the commas too long now

OrigamiRobot

@AshleyNunn ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,,,,,,,‌,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Ben Brocka

hahaha

Michael Dunfield

@BenBrocka I don't think I get it.

kalina

I don't even have the motivation to watch breaking bad or dexter

what is wrong with me

Ben Brocka

8:57 PM

too many and or not enough jelly donuts

Michael Dunfield

@BenBrocka I see what you did there.

Trent Hawkins

Ok, Elona does not like being run off a flash drive.

Michael Dunfield

@kalina I feel like this all the time.

Yuki

@MichaelDunfield It's somewhat subtle and/or would take more than a sentence or two to explain.

fredley

Sup

Anyone won yet?

Yuki

9:07 PM

Has something to do with the commercialization of a Communist icon and the inherent irony.

Powerlord

Valve... why am I getting a TF2 update with no update notes?

Michael Dunfield

@Yuki I think I get the general idea though.

Yuki

Commercial Hummers are considered by a lot of people to be a symbol of the height of American excess. Originally military vehicles, privately-owned Hummers are a sign of people with a lot of money and willingness to spend it willy-nilly (Hummers have a notoriously horrible gas mileage. 8 mph, iirc).

Michael Dunfield

Powerlord

I just got an email dated 15 minutes about an upcoming TF2 update.

Michael Dunfield

9:10 PM

@Yuki I think you meant mpg, but yeah.

Yuki

@MichaelDunfield makes whooshing sounds

Powerlord

Which my client already downloaded.

Michael Dunfield

@Yuki LMAO I was doing that too! wooshwooshwoosh

CC @RonanForman

That's just some extruded shapes in AE. Not bad actually.

I think I'll go with that for now.

Ben Brocka

@MichaelDunfield Oh hey it actually rotates. I hate when people do that and just repeat a single cycle (so the blue tile is always on the right magically)

Michael Dunfield

@BenBrocka Yeah, I caught that before I rendered it. =P

Anyway, this is by no means anything finished.

Yuki

9:12 PM

@BenBrocka That breaks the immersion factor for me. I can't stare endlessly at the animation when people do that.

Michael Dunfield

Still gotta work out exactly how I want to do this.

Maybe I should do a storyboard

This was the original plan:

But now I feel like I could do something a little more impressive.

Yuki

@MichaelDunfield I have an image I want to post as a reply to this. But I'm on the wrong computer.

And I don't feel like going on a Google search for right now.

Michael Dunfield

@Yuki Describe it?

Now you have to because you told me about it

Yuki

It's a cartoon alligator with the caption "Oh, that's nice".

Michael Dunfield

lol

Yuki

9:14 PM

I'll post it when I get back home. Which is in two hours, maybe.

Dear god, what is happening to me? I'm tempted to get GTA V just so I can answer those questions and get more rep. I'm being motivated to get a game not because I'm actually interested in it, but so I can get more fake Internet points!

Michael Dunfield

@Yuki Don't Do It™

badp

@MichaelDunfield very metroy

kalina

This is the biggest load of bullshit ever

Michael Dunfield

@badp It's not going to look like that at the end, that was a mockup I made in like 5 minutes.

kalina

I've just watched the last episode of Dexter

how anti-climatic was that

Michael Dunfield

9:20 PM

10 mins ago, by Michael Dunfield

That's what the green square is representing

@kalina I'm glad you found the motivation.

kalina

I wish I hadn't

Wipqozn

Another dungeon down.

Oracle of Seasons is going quite quickly.

kalina

I'd have rather not known

the ending was so crap

Lazers

0

Q: Restarting the Game (Godus)

I was wondering if there is a way that I can reset the game so that I can start from the beginning? I was thinking about deleting the local content and restarting but am slightly worried that if this is sync'd to steam cloud that it will just reload everything like it is at the moment

godus

Yuki

@kalina INSERT 'Last Episode of Dexter' INTO TABLE 'Things Man Was Not Meant To Know'

kalina

9:24 PM

I joke with the line "everybody dies"

sadly, that's what happens

I'm angry now, I don't think that episode did the last 8 seasons justice

Wipqozn

►

Michael Dunfield

@Wipqozn ಠ_ಠ

kickstarter.com/projects/jeriaska/…

CC @BenBrocka

kalina

@Wipqozn what did I just watch

I feel like you just stole multiple IQ points off me

Michael Dunfield

@kalina More importantly, why did you just watch.

kalina

nobody knows

I clicked without reading properly

Michael Dunfield

9:31 PM

@kalina You somehow managed to miss the neckbeard in the thumbnail?

kalina

@MichaelDunfield I saw pink in the correct layout to be interesting

Lazers

0

Q: What's the difference between Spigot and Bucckit Minecraft servers?

I'm making a small server for me and my friends, on a Raspberry Pi. All the guides I have seen so far use Spigot, but there isn't that much documentation that I can find on what they did to make it more lightweight. What features are lacking? Or did they just make it handle the RAM more efficien...

minecraft server-administration minecraft-server

Michael Dunfield

@Lazers 'Bucckit' sounds like a sex position.

kalina

how many more breaking bad episodes do I have to tolerate before this season ends badly as well?

oh, one

well they still have the whole greymatter thing they reintroduced to tie up

hmm

I suppose it could be explosive

Yuki

@Lazers Isn't it Bukkit? Or is that something else?

Michael Dunfield

9:40 PM

@Yuki Yeah it's Bukkit

spugsley

HI PEOPLES

user15026

@spugsley HELLO

spugsley

@AshleyNunn WOULD YOU BELIEVE I've also lost my spare battery and battery charger

I can't shoot anything now

user15026

Oh no

spugsley

until I replace all the shit I've lost over the last two days

user15026

9:48 PM

that is pretty awful

spugsley

IT IS

WHY IS THE UNIVERSE AGAINST ME

Yuki

@spugsley You got picked for the other team when we were playing dodgeball.

spugsley

but in happier news, since Microsoft is awesome and gave Ian a CRAZAY bonus, I get a fancy remote now!

amazon.com/RainbowImaging-Timer-Remote-Control-Nikon/dp/…

faaaannnnnnccccyyyyyyyy

@Yuki ;.;

Michael Dunfield

@spugsley $30 for a camera remote? how complicated does it really need to be?

spugsley

@MichaelDunfield well, instead of having to hold it in my hand, I can set it to any amount of time between exposures and set as many exposures as I want

user15026

9:52 PM

@spugsley oooooooh faaaaaancy

spugsley

my old remote I had to be within 20 ft. Now I can go as far away as I want!

Michael Dunfield

terriblerealestateagentphotos.tumblr.com

hahahahahahahahahaha

user15026

@spugsley that is pretty awesome

Yuki

@spugsley Huh. It's been a long time since I've seen the words "Microsoft" and "awesome" without the word "not" anywhere in between.

Michael Dunfield

The Dead Linger is coming to Steam.

spugsley

9:54 PM

@Yuki I have serious love for Microsoft because they feed me and treat my husband especially well

Yuki

@spugsley Can you give me brownie points towards getting that Microsoft internship?

FEichinger

@Yuki Oh, as an employer in the West, Microsoft are certainly awesome. Doesn't mean you have to like the direction they take.

Yuki

@FEichinger From what I hear, most West Coast tech companies (especially in the Silicon Valley) tend to be awesome employers.

Yes, Microsoft's in Washington but it's close enough.

Hmm... should I apply for a Microsoft internship if I already have a job?

spugsley

@Yuki I don't think we could help. We are based in Charlotte so I don't think Ian has any pull out west

or at all really lol

he's just a developer/tester

but I say go for it! They are GREAT to work for

Michael Dunfield

That sounds fucking awesome!

Yuki

10:00 PM

@MichaelDunfield You had me at "crafting". Which is actually pretty far down the list, to be honest.

Michael Dunfield

thedeadlinger.com/info

Yuki

The keyword "crafting" increases my interest in a game to a baseline 50 out of 100.

@MichaelDunfield That... actually looks a lot like the DayZ mod.

Ullallulloo

Sounds like Dwarf Fortress until the last line.

Michael Dunfield

So many cool games

gah

►

Proven Lands

Yuki

@Ullallulloo "low price during alpha"?

Michael Dunfield

10:04 PM

dat concept art

Lazers

0

Q: Is there a workaround for the negative balance bug in GTA 5?

After completing a certain mission with Franklin where he pays 50 $ to someone my balance is negative. Receiving payments from selling stocks and completing taxi missions is not added to the balance so it's stuck. This is an issue known and listed at the Rockstar's support site. Was someone able ...

grand-theft-auto-5

Michael Dunfield

Whoa, that character animation looks really nice.

Ullallulloo

@Yuki That's not in the picture...

Yuki

@Ullallulloo Oh, I was talking about the site he linked. My bad.

Ullallulloo

@Yuki But still, it doesn't really get lower than $0.

Michael Dunfield

10:08 PM

Somebody remind me to wishlist The Dead Linger on Steam when I get home

Please.

Yuki

@MichaelDunfield I could always ping it to you in a different room so you have a notification by the time you get home.

Michael Dunfield

@Yuki Good idea, fire away :P

Thanks!

Yuki

If everybody leaves a chat room, does it get deleted?

FEichinger

@Yuki chat.stackexchange.com/faq#retention

Michael Dunfield

It didn't give me a notification on the site either

ah, whatever, thanks for trying

=]

Yuki

10:12 PM

@MichaelDunfield Well, it should appear in the sidebar under "other rooms you're in".

Michael Dunfield

@Yuki Oh, I left the room because I thought it might go away if I was still in it

I should just make a chatroom where I post things I need to remember.

Except it would probably get full of games and porn.

Maybe I shouldn't do that.

Yuki

@MichaelDunfield Probably not a good idea. If it's just for yourself, it's most likely an abuse of the chat system.

If you constantly check your email, you could always email yourself.

Michael Dunfield

@Yuki Heh. I made a room for dumping images to upload and that was probably abuse too

it got closed though because I didn't use it for like a week

Michael Dunfield

10:26 PM

play.google.com/store/apps/…

CC @AshleyNunn

Agh, apparently it was free a couple days ago

bah

Hometime

Jin

10:42 PM

Big uptick in mobile traffic to @stackexchange last week because of #iOS7? Nope, #GTAV https://www.quantcast.com/gaming.stackexchange.com http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grand-theft-auto-5

Tweeted by df07 on September 23, 2013 at 10:42 PM

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badp

@Jin woot, new records

Jin

I think Arqade by itself is probably bigger than Quora already

badp

@Jin now, now.

RedRiderX

BBC test patterns are quite strange looking.

badp

BAWSAQ? Really?

kalina

10:58 PM

@badp that's what it's called

badp

@kalina really?

kalina

100%

you know it's been like a week

I'm surprised you haven't noticed before now

and damn that's like a 50% increase in traffic

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