The Bridge

GnomeSlice

4:00 PM

@FAE Yeah I know.

I am full of nonsense.

So it's appropriate.

FAE

@ToxicFrog Yeah true.

GnomeSlice

????

Peanut

user15026

Someone is star happy.

FAE

OMFG PERSON OUTSIDE MY APARTMENT WHOSE CAR ALARM KEEPS GOING OFF, SHUT IT OFF OR I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL START THROWING MY EXCESS FRUIT AT YOUR CAR AAAAAAAAAAAGH.

GnomeSlice

We know who you are

ToxicFrog

4:01 PM

@AshleyNunn Anyways, from your perspective, the difference with using ZNC is that you'd connect to orias with a different username/password, rather than to the IRC server directly, and it would automatically show you everything you missed. The IRC server, OTOH, would see you logged in 24/7 (or at least as long as Orias is online)

GnomeSlice

you star happy person you

OrigamiRobot

@FAE Waste of fruit.

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn That wasn't directed at you by the way

The thing I deleted

FAE

@OrigamiRobot I am exhausted and cranky, I wouldn't even care at this point.

user15026

@ToxicFrog ooooh yay that sounds lovely! And Orias is almost always online, yes?

OrigamiRobot

4:01 PM

@FAE Eat a fruit.

user15026

@FAE This is a pretty good threat

GnomeSlice

You always do this

StrixVaria

Hey guys, I broke 30k words in my current draft of my novel thing today.

GnomeSlice

why do you always do this

user15026

@StrixVaria Awesome!

GnomeSlice

4:02 PM

@StrixVaria Hey, congrats dude!

StrixVaria

Now I just need to repeat that like 4 more times.

fbueckert

Wat

OrigamiRobot

@StrixVaria I should read more...

FAE

@OrigamiRobot I just went to have my avocado but it is spoiled. T_T

user15026

@fbueckert People are just being shits.

StrixVaria

4:03 PM

@OrigamiRobot Up to you. You're doing me a favor by reading so I'm not going to bother you to do it. I really appreciate if you do, though.

user15026

@FAE Noooo :( avacados are the trickiest.

StrixVaria

Unlike when @spugsley stops writing, which is unacceptable.

Fluttershy

What got flagged? O_o

OrigamiRobot

@StrixVaria I am just forgetful. If the tab gets closed, I forget.

FAE

@AshleyNunn I know, it's so frustrating. Sometimes they can sit a week and a half and never ripen, other times the skin's still hard but the inside's rotten already.

Fluttershy

4:04 PM

Also, to whom it may concern, @GnomeSlice's recommendation of Outer Wilds is worth following up on. It is a lot of fun. And pretty unique.

ToxicFrog

@AshleyNunn orias handles all of my IRC, IM, email, and file serving for the house, and we'll probably migrate mail for the entire Ancilla domain to it later this year

FAE

...that car alarm is going off again.

Sterno

@StrixVaria You really know how to HOW EVERYTHING OUT

ToxicFrog

So yeah, I try to keep running constantly

GnomeSlice

@Fluttershy Something I really liked, but probably everyone else didn't.

user15026

4:05 PM

@ToxicFrog That's what I thought :)

GnomeSlice

I forget which room it was in

user15026

@FAE You have an avocado!

OrigamiRobot

@StrixVaria Fortunately, it's really easy to get back to via address bar search

FEichinger

@FAE Throw the avocado, then.

GnomeSlice

@Fluttershy Isn't it great? Also I answered your question about the Quantum Moon

fbueckert

4:05 PM

Oh, joy. My sales manager just volunteered my time for tomorrow and the day after to be off-site to do nothing but make reports for a client.

user15026

@fbueckert Sounds....fun......

FAE

And now again. This is like the 6th time.

Fluttershy

@GnomeSlice Already accepted it!

GnomeSlice

1

A: Where can I find the Quantum Moon?

The Quantum Moon is definitely not invisible, although it jumps around a lot so it can be tricky to find if you don't know what you're looking for. The Quantum Moon moves around the solar system when you look away from it, so if you find it, you need to keep it in your view as you approach it, ...

Sterno

@FAE Go key "Your car alarm is annoying" into the side of the car. Problem solved! (eventually)

FEichinger

4:06 PM

@FAE Avocado tossing.

FAE

@Sterno Hahaha

GnomeSlice

@Fluttershy So I see! You should probably have waited until you found it though. :P

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn Usually, it is. Most of the time. This one, though, is essentially still in the "launch phase" in the feature creep project from hell.

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot Yay!

Fluttershy

@GnomeSlice Why? You had pretty solid evidence, and you've found it, so I'd consider the information valid!

GnomeSlice

4:07 PM

@Fluttershy I also figured out how to land on it, but I definitely won't spoil that.

I also figured out how to get to the center of giant's deep, but I'll see if you can get it and post the answer.

ToxicFrog

@AshleyNunn well, if that sounds useful, I'll see about configuring my ZNC server so that you can use it :)

user15026

@ToxicFrog It totally does :) you are awesome.

GnomeSlice

@Fluttershy I'm surprised at just how much stuff there is to find and explore.

Sterno

@GnomeSlice I found an interesting answer to that question that didn't seem to be the game-accepted way of doing it.

GnomeSlice

I'm still finding new stuff.

Sterno

4:10 PM

It pretty much involved going really, really fast.

GnomeSlice

@Sterno Did you just like plow into it from space at warp speed?

Sterno

@GnomeSlice I didn't do anything. I googled it. But yes, that's what they did.

GnomeSlice

I managed to get a probe through it once before, but it took it like 10 minutes to reach the center.

@Sterno Yeah there's a game accepted way to do it. There's a hint on another planet...

Sterno

@GnomeSlice Yeah, I saw that in the same thread. I have not played the game. Your question just sounded interesting so I went researching. :)

I do like the idea of only having a set amount of time in the game. Gives me some ideas for a game with the Groundhog Day kind of premise.

StrixVaria

@Sterno Would play.

GnomeSlice

4:12 PM

@Sterno I recommend you give it a play, it's free.

It's not clear if it's possible to save the solar system in those 20 minutes.

Sterno

My time, however, is not free. Despite a 3 day weekend, I got exactly 12 minutes of gaming in.

Whereas I can read stuff about games at work. :P

StrixVaria

@Sterno Are kids worth losing all your free time?

Sterno

@StrixVaria Yes.

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria No. Kids are loud and smell funny.

Sterno

At least, this particular kid is.

Lazers

4:14 PM

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Q: What is the experience required to advance in each level in Payday 2?

I know it requires more experience to reach the next level with every level gained. For instance, going from level 1-10 is much easier than going from level 50-60. What is the exact formula for the amount of experience required to advance in each level in Payday 2?

payday-2

GnomeSlice

For those who need more convincing, here's an article about Outer Wilds

Sterno

From a male-centric perspective, I probably have it worse than most too, since my wife works more hours (and weirder hours) than me. Whereas friends and co-workers tend to have wives who are either part time or don't work at all, and seem to have a lot more free time.

@FAE What frustrates me most about car alarms in those situations is that it points out exactly how pointless car alarms typically are. At this point, you're probably rooting for someone to steal the car.

FAE

@Sterno Exactly. I've pretty much never heard a car alarm and thought "Oh hey, I think someone might be breaking into that person's car, I should check it out/call the cops", it's "OMFG do you know what time it is?! Shut that thing off already!"

GnomeSlice

The best car alarm would be if the car could shout what was happening to it.

HELP I'M BEING STOLEN

vs SOMEBODY BUMPED INTO ME ON THE SIDEWALK

FAE

@GnomeSlice haha, I don't know why but this is a hilarious image to me

Sterno

4:20 PM

@FAE I usually take a peek the first time, not so much for "is it being stolen", but "Is someone being beaten/raped/whatever and they're trying to call for help". Of course, that's never the case. Usually there's a cat running away or something. Or NOTHING AT ALL

user15026

@FAE It makes me giggle a lot

fbueckert

Clearly, the better car theft deterrent is a seat ejector when an unauthorized driver is detected.

user15026

@fbueckert But what if they are just breaking your window to steal your ipod charger and your purple flashlight and to like go through your trunk and not actually drive it away

FAE

@Sterno Yeah, I do look out of my window first, but same as you, it's never anything pertinent.

Sterno

For a long time, I thought the They Might Be Giants song I Can Hear You was saying "This car is protected by snipers" rather than "This car is protected by viper."

Which would be a pretty excellent theft deterrent.

Wipqozn

4:22 PM

@fbueckert I'd prefer poison gas.

NOt kill poison.

user15026

Or what if they are just touching your car to slash all your tires and those of every car in that particular section of parking lot

Wipqozn

Just like knock out gas.

user15026

(My car didn't have an alarm)

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn ...Did someone steal your ipod charger and your purple flashlight and slash your tires?

user15026

@GnomeSlice In two different incidences, yes

user15026

4:24 PM

Back when I had a car

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn ;_; jeez...

FAE

@AshleyNunn Ugh, people suck.

user15026

@GnomeSlice same apartment building I also got my bike stolen

FAE

@Sterno That would be awesome.

user15026

@FAE I'd pay for that kind of service

GnomeSlice

4:25 PM

@AshleyNunn WTF

FAE

@AshleyNunn It wouldn't even necessarily have to be deadly, even just like, a sniper sleep dart or something.

user15026

@FAE Yeah that would work!

user15026

@GnomeSlice After the third thing (it went bike, break in, slashing) we moved

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn that was probably smart

user15026

which was weird because we ended up in an apartment on that street again a few years later, but down like.....three cross streets, and it was the nicest apartment.

FAE

4:28 PM

@AshleyNunn Weird how a few blocks can make a difference.

Wipqozn

@AshleyNunn It was probably just kids who lived in the building.

GnomeSlice

Hey does anybody have a sec

how does this look so far jmp.sh/v/wzdnK6ck4F6AOAE3YFYv

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice It's not loading quickly.

It's taking a very long time.

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn Irrelevant, but I noticed that too.

Which is weird because it's only like 40 mb

Wipqozn

The problem is most likely with the server, not the file size.

GnomeSlice

4:30 PM

Yeah, jumpshare is slow lately

FAE

@GnomeSlice Lack of period after "Smart" in the beginning looks inconsistent.

GnomeSlice

@FAE Ergh, I didn't do that part. But yeah, now I notice it.

Eh, the client didn't notice in the other video

oh also there's some random sound effects you should ignore

Ronan Forman

@GnomeSlice Yeah, what is that?

GnomeSlice

@RonanForman The plane?

Ronan Forman

@GnomeSlice No the voice.

GnomeSlice

4:32 PM

@RonanForman Oh, the Jewelbeat lady? It's in the music.

Hasn't been purchased yet.

user15026

@GnomeSlice A few notes - the words "Simple.Secure.Smart" - don't entirely sync with the voice, also Smart should also get a period after it. Also the images of the other computer/tablet are kinda jjarring, they look like pasted in art and it doesn't look as smooth.

Ronan Forman

@GnomeSlice Ah.

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn yeah those are placeholders

and they literally are pasted in art I googled :P

I'm trying to get the draft out by tomorrow

taking some shortcuts

user15026

Also are the airplane noises gonna go away

user15026

because they are weird

GnomeSlice

4:33 PM

@AshleyNunn No, but it's going to get moved to where the actual airplane is.

I forgot to mute it.

user15026

@GnomeSlice Okay, that works too

GnomeSlice

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user15026

I was like....oh, huh...suddenly, airplane, thats odd

GnomeSlice

Here is what I'm working from

FAE

@GnomeSlice Other than what Ashley said, nothing else stands out to me as problematic.

GnomeSlice

4:34 PM

@FAE Sweet

CG made that one, that's the shorter video. I helped a bit

Oh god the voice they wanted for the first part of that is terrible

they were like MORE ENTHUSIASM

and now he sounds like shit

eh

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice Am I just insane, or is there a women that randomly whispers something every so often?

If there is tell them to remove that.

It's stupid and distracting and I can't focus on the ad.

FAE

@GraceNote I received my new water bottle in the mail today, thank you again so much!

Wipqozn

Seriously, wtf is up with that voice?

Ronan Forman

@Wipqozn We went over that, it's the watermark for the music.

Wipqozn

@RonanForman I see.

Well I hate it.

Ronan Forman

4:40 PM

@Wipqozn Yeah.

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice One thing that stands out to me is the vKey logo.

watch starting at the simple smart part.

Where all the boxes come in to make the logo.

when it finishes it there's a slight jump where the vkey logo kind of shifts. The text part moves slightly to the right.

Ronan Forman

@Wipqozn Oh yeah, I didn't notice that.

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn Yeah, it was worse when I started.

Wipqozn

The only other thing I could say is that the final part of the video, showing the steps, doesn't seem to scale down well. It looks a bit... I don't know, jaggidy? When the vide is small.

GnomeSlice

I fixed it a bit, and the client didn't complain about it.

Wipqozn

4:43 PM

It looks fine when it's large, but a bit odd when it's small.

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn Hm, which part looks jaggedy?

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice Pause at 1:38.

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn Yeah, there is, she's from the music.

it's like an audio watermark

Wipqozn

Jagged might not be the best word... I don';t know. It just looks off to me.

GnomeSlice

Music hasn't been purchased yet.

Wipqozn

4:44 PM

But, once again, it looks perfect fine when it's full size.

FAE

@GnomeSlice I didn't know that was a thing, that's kinda neat.

Wipqozn

So it looks like it's just a scaling issue. Not sure if that's something you can fi. I don't know anything about vide making.

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn yeah it's just shitty and hard to read I guess because it's shrunk

Dunno if there's anythign I can do about that

anything*

@FAE audiojungle.net/item/city-lights/4179767

Wipqozn

Also, aside from those two things I don't have any other complaints. It seems pretty well done aside from that.

GnomeSlice

Yeah, lots of places do it

@Wipqozn Excellent.

Wipqozn

4:46 PM

Although now that @AshleyNunn pointed out that lack of period after smart is driving me mad.

GnomeSlice

Yeah using the screengrabs of the device manager is not ideal but the client is dumb

Wipqozn

Although a missing period is really easy to fix... so no worries!

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn Eh. Client is happy with it.

Also that audiojungle track is the one I used in this

►

$8 is extremely resonable.

Jewelbeat shit is even cheaper, 99cents per track

Soon I'm going to have enough stuff to make a demo reel

Wipqozn

ACtually, if I had to nitpick, and I will, it may be worth it to make that delay at 0:22 a bit shorter.

The one where it's just looking at the guy in the suit.

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn I would too, but the client wants the video to be a lot longer than it's going to be already so I'm trying to pad it out with pauses.

Which they seem to like for some reason

Wipqozn

4:49 PM

@GnomeSlice Those crazy kids.

GnomeSlice

They originally wanted a 50 minute animated video.

Which is... utterly ridiculous.

Maybe if we had 6-8 months.

Wipqozn

Why did they want a 50 minute vide to begin with?

What would be the point of it?

GnomeSlice

Because they're dumb.

Wipqozn

Isn't this suppose to be an ad?

Normally ads aren't 50 minutes long.

GnomeSlice

they want to show it at trade shows and shit

I don't know

Wipqozn

4:51 PM

Then shouldn't shorter be better?

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn Yes.

Almost always yes.

Wipqozn

I don't think people have time to watch 50 minute videos at a trade show.

GnomeSlice

They're dumb.

@Wipqozn ^

Wipqozn

I mean isn't it usually "I'm wlaking by this booth and this ad was playing and caught my attenion. I should finish it."

GnomeSlice

As my professor pointed out, even if it was like a training video and they had employees they told to watch it as ilke part of their job

Wipqozn

4:51 PM

Not "I sure would love to watch this movie, and ignore all other products"

GnomeSlice

they wouldn't watch it

the product isn't even that interesting

Ben Brocka

Proud to unwrap Android KITKAT – find out more at http://www.android.com/kitkat/ http://t.co/8nps9vna8l

Tweeted by KITKAT on September 3, 2013 at 4:40 PM

GnomeSlice

vkey.ca

@BenBrocka wat

Wipqozn

@GnomeSlice Based on the video the product actually does seem pretty interesting.

Sterno

I wonder if we're going to need a separate tag for D3 console version

GnomeSlice

4:52 PM

@Wipqozn It's a neat idea, but it's not interesting.

Certainly not enough to fill up 50 minutes

Wipqozn

Yeah.

GnomeSlice

It's really hard to make this video engaging

when they're talking about business continuity planning and shit

Wipqozn

The people that would sit through a 50 minute video would be people looking at the programming / theory behind it.

GnomeSlice

@Wipqozn Yeah

Wipqozn

and an animated vide wouldn't be best for doing that.

fbueckert

4:53 PM

@Sterno We might, actually.

From what I understand, the console version won't have the same features.

GnomeSlice

@BenBrocka wait this is a real thing?

Wipqozn

OVerall, though, good video @GnomeSlice.

Sterno

Then the question is, do we need one for each console? Probably not, I hope

Wipqozn

You apparently have a talent for this kind of thing.

Sterno

diablo-3-console?

Ben Brocka

4:54 PM

@GnomeSlice Yes, the new android version is called KitKat

GnomeSlice

@BenBrocka Are you fucking kidding me

Sterno

diablo-3-inferior-version?

diablo-3-why-are-you-even-bothering?

user15026

@BenBrocka all this does is make me hungry :(

GnomeSlice

> It’s fitting for an OS that fragments into different pieces.

FAE

@GnomeSlice It's not that much more ridiculous than Jelly Bean or any of the other names, to be fair

GnomeSlice

4:55 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

@FAE It's trademarked and licensed, for starters.

Wipqozn

@Sterno Well, the auction house is gone, and so is always online so diablo-3-superior-version might be better.

user15026

@GnomeSlice They got permission to use it, obviously....

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn Yeah I know. But why?

Wipqozn

So much of the fun from that game was gone the first time I used the auction house.

user15026

@GnomeSlice why not

Sterno

4:56 PM

@Wipqozn The always online thing, I agree. Missing auction house is a negative though. People can always choose not to use it.

FAE

@GnomeSlice They're google, they can.

Wipqozn

The stuff there was s much better than anything I was using.

Ben Brocka

@GnomeSlice There was actually a good article about how Google's fixing the fragmentation today: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/…

Wipqozn

@Sterno It's hard not to use it.

fbueckert

@Wipqozn But you're playing on a console.

GnomeSlice

4:56 PM

@BenBrocka Oh I don't actually care, I just thought it was funny.

fbueckert

Does that outweigh the positives?

Ben Brocka

@FAE Their names were always based on deserts since the first public release

KitKat is a bit weird since yeah, it's a brand name

Hopefully they don't have so spam TM all over their KitKat documentation

fbueckert

@Sterno Eh. The auction house should be entirely optional. Unfortunately, for anything approaching reasonable progression, it's not.

Wipqozn

I remember reading an interview a way back with a game developer who said that gamers will almost always take the most efficient route to victory, even if it's not the most fun. Therefore you need to make the most efficient route fun.

GnomeSlice

@BenBrocka Oh, they're going through the letters alphabetically or something?

fbueckert

4:57 PM

Expect to see people whining about how they can't solo MP10 on the console inside a week.

Wipqozn

so having the most efficient route be really boring was, in the eyes of the interviewed developer, bad game design.

Ben Brocka

@GnomeSlice Yeah, you can see the progression on the site they linked. K was assumed to be Key Lime Pie

GnomeSlice

FAE

@BenBrocka A jellybean's not really a dessert anyway

Ben Brocka

@FAE deserts/treats

fbueckert

4:58 PM

@Wipqozn I think this is what they're focusing on with the Itemization changes.

Which I wholeheartedly support.

kalina

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Q: Is there a catalog of image file names from Deus Ex: Human Revolution?

Through Google Image Search I stumbled upon a JPEG of the in-game screensaver wallpaper found on computer terminals throughout Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I have included a scaled-down copy here: If for any reason the image gets deleted, it's basically a shadowed orange crumpled tin-foil looki...

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"How do I use google image search?"

Lazers

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Q: Is there a catalog of image file names from Deus Ex: Human Revolution?

Through Google Image Search I stumbled upon a JPEG of the in-game screensaver wallpaper found on computer terminals throughout Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I have included a scaled-down copy here: If for any reason the image gets deleted, it's basically a shadowed orange crumpled tin-foil looki...

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Q: Will combining the same two Muppets in Harv-E always give me the same result?

I am too cheap to pay the Diamonds to find out the combinations to get specific Muppets for my stage, so I am just combining Muppets in order to find out which combinations give me which Muppets. I am assuming one comibnation, when repeated, will always give me the same Muppet, but is this actual...

my-muppets-show

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