The Bridge

FAE

12:00 AM

@MBraedley If you want a PC beta key, I have an extra.

Fluttershy

@Wipqozn No you have a probably!

MBraedley

@FAE does it need Origin?

Fluttershy

@MBraedley You should at least try it out. It's fun enough for me to put up with Origin in small bursts. :P

FAE

@MBraedley Yes.

badp

@Arperum Apparently they offer "Humble Pricing" where the price is a direct price conversion updated every day. Publishers can opt out of it.

Wipqozn

12:01 AM

@Fluttershy I hate you so much (but I actually love you and think you're great)

badp

> While we love the simplicity of Humble Pricing, we recognize that it doesn’t make sense for every developer or publisher. We also give them the option to provide an MSRP for each currency or region. The flexibility of offering either Humble Pricing or industry standard pricing means that we can bring you more awesome games at awesome discounts worldwide.

Fluttershy

@Wipqozn <3

MBraedley

@Fluttershy but that means installing malware

FEichinger

@badp Read: "We recognize that people want to rip off Europe, so we're letting them."

Arperum

@badp In that case at least the devs from starbound went moneywhoring and Europe-extorting.

badp

12:02 AM

@Arperum Like almost everybody else out there.

FEichinger

I'm really not seeing the advantage for the consumer - you still get to see the price in your local currency before checkout.

Fluttershy

@MBraedley S'why I use an anti-malware program. :P

Yuki

FEichinger

Aaaand I just had a déjà vu ... Naptime!

Arperum

@badp Which is a system I really hate. It's one of the worst parts of steam for me.

badp

12:02 AM

My bank has really reasonable conversion rates (I don't think they charge anything at all for the service), so I just pay in USD whenever possible

FAE

@Arperum Yeah, I used to be able to pay in $, but not anymore.

badp

@FAE Not even with a US-based payment method?

FAE

@badp Correct. They said I can't use my US bank account.

And to use a European-based payment method.

badp

Wait, bank account? Do you mean debit card?

I could use my Italian card in NL and Germany just fine.

But they're all EU-based.

MBraedley

The US banking system is weird

FEichinger

12:05 AM

Okay, is it just me or is the SE app randomly firing off hours-old notifications?

Arperum

If I ever get to the point of selling a game, I'd make sure everyone payed the same price. Because fuck you location based price differences.

badp

@MBraedley The more I read about it the less I'm impressed.

FAE

@badp Yeah, debit card. Because my card had an American billing address, I can't use it. It'll error out when I try from here. I contacted support and they said nope, had to use an EU payment method because I'm located in the EU.

badp

@FAE even if you set ?cc=us before buying and set your billing address to the US?

FAE

@badp Correct.

MBraedley

12:06 AM

3 hours ago, by MBraedley

Go home Stack Exchange mobile app, you're drunk

Yuki

Huh. Daniel Craig now has a lifetime supply of Aston Martins.

badp

@FAE Quite less than awesome.

FEichinger

@MBraedley I figured that was related, yeh.

badp

I'd open a free bank account in a Tier 2 country just to show them your appreciation.

FAE

@badp Indeed. I wasn't very happy after contacting support and having them tell me that.

badp

12:07 AM

(Perhaps not Italy)

FAE

lol

David M

@Yuki What did you ultimately decide last night with regard to becoming a rebel vs. a good student?

badp

Surprisingly enough, for some reason, all prices in the homepage of the Humble store end in ",99"

Yuki

@DavidM Went home and finished my project. And unfortunately, my sister had to be picked up so I couldn't see the movie.

David M

@Yuki In the end, you probably made the right choice.

badp

12:08 AM

I guess that's clearly a coincidence

@FAE ...or perhaps Humble Pricing rounds to the nearest half-euro.

FAE

@badp Starwhal is 7,49

David M

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Lazers

0

Q: Can't download Second Assault

Second Assualt came out right now as it says in battlelog but I can't download it?

pc battlefield-4

GnomeSlice

"Your character has died at level 2"

=[

Unionhawk

@FAE Starwhal is $9.99 US, which is about that.

David M

12:11 AM

@GnomeSlice "The Most Ambitious Text Based RPG of 2014"

Yuki

GnomeSlice

@DavidM So far it's actually pretty good.

David M

As opposed to the thousands of other ones,

GnomeSlice

I just died.

@DavidM I think that's the joke.

StrixVaria

David M

12:12 AM

I'm sure it's good.

@Yuki That's great!

badp

@StrixVaria Scientists suspect that internet trolls may, in fact, exist outside of the internet as well.

LessPop_MoreFizz

yesterday, by LessPop_MoreFizz

I'm not sure why they needed a study for this, but okay. "Internet Trolls are Machiavellian Sadists."

There's a link to an article with more details about the study being reported on.

MBraedley

@StrixVaria there are two headlines there that should be no surprise to anyone.

David M

Was Frank Miller at all involved with the new 300 movie?

StrixVaria

@GnomeSlice Windows 8 prevents me from running Sanctuary.

Fluttershy

12:16 AM

@DavidM It was supposedly based on his graphic novel, "Xerxes."

David M

Yet, I don't see his name on it anywhere.

Doesn't bode well.

Grace Note

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FAE

@DavidM Not that that would help much...

David M

0

Q: What does this humor mean?

Why is this caption funny? "Faster! By God, you will earn that tip yet!" Source Since this is about American humor, I'd appreciate an answer from Americans.

humor

@FAE I enjoyed the first one!

Everyone look at this question and don't read my comment. See if you can spot the flaw.

StrixVaria

@GnomeSlice Ok, Sanctuary doesn't run. I gave it a try, and now I'm giving up forever.

I'm glad I didn't pay money.

David M

12:19 AM

Ah nevermind. The flaw is me.

user15026

The SE android app keeps spewing old notifications over and over......

FEichinger

14 mins ago, by FEichinger

Okay, is it just me or is the SE app randomly firing off hours-old notifications?

3 hours ago, by MBraedley

Go home Stack Exchange mobile app, you're drunk

user15026

@FEichinger Not just you!

user15026

I kept thinking people actually liked me and wanted to contact me

FEichinger

You have no idea. My phone vibrates for Stack Exchange, Steam, E-Mail, Messages, etc.

badp

12:21 AM

The SE app has been behaving for me

FAE

@badp Same

FEichinger

My tablet, usually three seconds later, does the same.

badp

Oddly, but behaving

Fluttershy

I haven't been using the SE app.

FEichinger

It's buzzing all around me.

Fluttershy

12:21 AM

There we go. I think we covered all the bases!

badp

@Fluttershy I only use it for the notifications

@FEichinger ha! Nexus 7s can't vibrate.

FAE

@badp He has an iPhone.

badp

@FAE The iPhone app doesn't have push notifications?

FEichinger

@badp ... I have so much starbait for that ...

spugsley

FROZEN YOGURTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

badp

12:22 AM

I mean, iOS apps spam that area reagularly. "HEY! YOU DIDN'T OPEN THIS APP TODAY, FEBRUARY 15TH!" "HEY! YOU DIDN'T OPEN THIS APP TODAY, FEBRUARY 16TH!" "HEY! YOU DIDN'T OPEN THIS APP TODAY, FEBRUARY 17TH!" "HEY! YOU DIDN'T OPEN THIS APP TODAY, FEBRUARY 18TH!"

Unionhawk

I disabled notifications on the app...

I can't trust you people enough to not ping me a million times at random every now and then.

Yuki

Unionhawk

inb4 pings

FAE

@badp the iOS app isn't out yet

Fluttershy

@Yuki DayZ

FEichinger

12:23 AM

Why do you think we'd ping you a million times at random, @Uni?

user15026

@spugsley yum!

badp

@FAE I thought the alpha was out for limited testing.

FEichinger

Could it be that you have some reason to fear that might happen, @Uni?

user15026

@FAE I thought it was in alpha?

spugsley

@AshleyNunn Yeahhhh with hot fudge and whipped cream!!!!!!!!!!

FEichinger

12:24 AM

Maybe, because you do that to people yourself, @Uni?

user15026

@spugsley ooooh fancy

badp

I think @LessPop has it.

FAE

@badp My main point is that @Fluttershy's not using it

Fluttershy

It's true.

Unionhawk

@FEichinger See, if I had SE notifications on my phone, that would be really annoying

spugsley

12:24 AM

@AshleyNunn YUS

FEichinger

But, @Uni, why don't you want to get notified about me pinging you?

Unionhawk

I do, just not immediately

Well, actually, usually immediately

But that's another issue

FEichinger

Could it be, @Uni, that this is somehow inherently annoying?

StrixVaria

Twitch Plays Super Hexagon

Unionhawk

Nope.

StrixVaria

12:25 AM

Next up.

Unionhawk

Not annoying in the slightest.

David M

@spugsley WTF?!? I thought you were supposed to be a starving artist.

spugsley

@DavidM I have a fancy husband so nah :p

badp

@DavidM gotcha!

David M

@spugsley That explains all of the pictures of him wearing a top hat.

spugsley

12:27 AM

@DavidM HAHAHAHAHAHA cc @OrigamiRobot

Fluttershy

@DavidM That's not her husband. :P

spugsley

@DavidM not quite :p Top hat man is just my best friend

FAE

@spugsley He is going to yell so hard

OrigamiRobot

@DavidM That's me in the top hat. I am not @IanPugsley

spugsley

@FAE I can't wait for it

David M

12:28 AM

Hahahahahahahahahaha! Misunderstandings are funny!

spugsley

@DavidM yes they are :) I am very amused

FAE

@DavidM We're not laughing at you, it's just that @OrigamiRobot usually gets yell-y if people assume or imply anything scandalous between him and @spugsley.

So we're laughing at him!

spugsley

@FAE and it's hilarious

David M

@FAE I was sincere in my laughter at my own expense.

FAE

@DavidM Wasn't sure, so wanted to clarify. :)

OrigamiRobot

12:29 AM

@FAE Thinking I am her husband isn't scandalous, it's an honest mistake.

spugsley

@OrigamiRobot boooooooooooooooooring

David M

@FAE Much obliged ma'am.

OrigamiRobot

@spugsley It's not the first time it's happened.

spugsley

@OrigamiRobot it isn't?

David M

@FAE yell-y . . . I like it.

Yuki

12:31 AM

@OrigamiRobot isn't @spugsley's husband. He's her wife.

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot I'm pretty sure you and @IanPugsley are the same person.

spugsley

@Wipqozn u dum

StrixVaria

The first time I saw @IanPugsley and @spugsley in the room at the same time I thought, "Oh man, what a coincidence."

OrigamiRobot

@spugsley I'm the only one wearing a top hat at your wedding. People have assumed I was Ian.

user15026

@Yuki No that is me

spugsley

12:31 AM

@OrigamiRobot oh yeah!

@AshleyNunn YES HI WIFE

user15026

@spugsley HELLO WIFE

StrixVaria

Also @OrigamiRobot THEY KEEP GOING TO THE WRONG MAZE UGH

David M

@OrigamiRobot Dude, that's like a chick wearing a white dress to another woman's wedding! (BTW- an ex of mine did just that!)

FAE

@Wipqozn No, @Ian plays way more Spelunky.

OrigamiRobot

I KNOW IT'S INFURIATING

Unionhawk

12:32 AM

It's okay, they're pause-buffering it, so you know it's going to work

Yuki

spugsley

@FAE Ian plays a lot of Spelunky

OrigamiRobot

@DavidM I didn't wear it during the wedding, just at the reception.

And the photographer asked me to wear it for pictures.

Wipqozn

They've been stuck at this rocket base all day.

David M

@Yuki She looks like she would smell . . . good?!?

Ian Pugsley

12:33 AM

Fredy31

well, just took a look a twitch plays pokemon

thats some random shit

StrixVaria

@Fredy31 THEY KEEP GOING INTO THE WRONG MAZE

Fredy31

lol

do you know how many badges they have?

StrixVaria

They have 4 badges.

OrigamiRobot

@IanPugsley Total playtime?

FAE

12:34 AM

@IanPugsley 2726 plays and only 8 wins? That's it, I give up, I will never win that game. :(

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp I do have it, and yeah, it's been sending me hours old notifications today.

spugsley

@IanPugsley HELLO HUSBAND

Ian Pugsley

@FAE naw, I don't bother trying to win that often

LessPop_MoreFizz

@IanPugsley Have you ever gotten a group together to play Spelunky Drinking Game?

Ian Pugsley

@FAE I'm aiming at no-money right now

Fredy31

12:34 AM

trying to see what was their starter

Ian Pugsley

@spugsley u weird

@LessPop_MoreFizz I don't know what this is but I'm fairly sure it would be lethal

FAE

@IanPugsley It would be.

StrixVaria

@Fredy31 Charmander named ABBBBBBK(, which they released earlier today.

Fredy31

god damn

FAE

@StrixVaria So tragic.

Fredy31

12:35 AM

trolls had their way

StrixVaria

@FAE Flareon is a travesty.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@IanPugsley Basically, the current player takes a shot every 4 (or whatever you choose levels.) When that player dies, everyone else takes a shot and the controller is passed.

FAE

@IanPugsley I don't know how you can even do this.

Ian Pugsley

@FAE it's one of the achievements

@LessPop_MoreFizz jaysus no thanks

FAE

@IanPugsley I know but it still baffles me

LessPop_MoreFizz

12:36 AM

@IanPugsley IT IS THE BEST THING.

StrixVaria

I wish I could find a game I like as much as @IanPugsley likes Spelunky.

Ian Pugsley

@FAE it is extremely hard

spugsley

@StrixVaria don't we all

Unionhawk

That just sounds like death

Ian Pugsley

@StrixVaria it's my jam

FAE

12:37 AM

@IanPugsley I saw your tweet about Artie ruining a run

Wipqozn

Oh, they managed to get the helix back.

Fredy31

and a save

Unionhawk

You know, priorities

Ian Pugsley

@FAE ugh, more than one - he's the worst

FAE

@IanPugsley Haha, what does he do?

Ian Pugsley

12:38 AM

@FAE either jumps in front of my monitors or jumps into my lap when I'm holding my controller

all it takes is accidentally picking up any money at all to ruin the run

StrixVaria

Oh Artie isn't an enemy in the game.

FAE

@StrixVaria lol, no, he's their cat

Ben Brocka

Ian Pugsley

@StrixVaria he's my fatso cat

FAE

Which, IIRC, was formerly @OrigamiRobot's cat.

Ian Pugsley

12:38 AM

@OrigamiRobot 259 hours

@FAE we adopted him together

spugsley

@StrixVaria I will never stop laughing at this

RedRiderX

FAE

@IanPugsley Ah okay, you just ended up with custody.

StrixVaria

2 hours ago, by StrixVaria

spugsley

@RedRiderX INB4

RedRiderX

12:39 AM

dang

Wipqozn

...did they ever get the lift key?

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot They're in the correct maze now.

Wipqozn

It just occurred to me they may actually have been at the wroing maze for the past 10 hours.

StrixVaria

@Wipqozn No because idiots keep going to the wrong maze.

Ben Brocka

Damn it eevee

Wipqozn

12:40 AM

hahaah oh my zeus, they've been at this maze for so long, I figured they did the otherone

but it occurred to me I haven't seen the key in any of the 100 times they've opened the inventory

Yuki

LessPop_MoreFizz

Seeking an explanation of a New Yorker cartoon caption is often a fools errand. They can be just as incomprehensible to us Americans as they are to foreigners. — LessPop_MoreFizz 19 mins ago

Wipqozn

oh my zeus, this is glorious

spugsley

@AshleyNunn when you are on steam next, I am having a stupid art crisis and I could use an awesome-whisperer

FAE

@Yuki D:

StrixVaria

12:43 AM

BACK UP THE STAIRS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

badp

2

@StrixVaria thanks for saving me a trip to twitch

Unionhawk

Literally, at this point, sub mode is the only way this is happening ever.

MBraedley

Wow, mobile app is really drunk. Just got two notifications from yesterday

Unionhawk

(yes that stupid thing has a sub button)

FAE

@Unionhawk sub mode?

Wipqozn

12:45 AM

I fully expect to wake up tomorrow with them still stuck in the headquarters.

badp

@FAE heh

@FAE subscriber-only mode

Unionhawk

@FAE Where the only people who can chat are mods and people subscribed ($4.99/month) to the channel

FAE

Oooooh

badp

that would alienate most of the watcher real fast.

FAE

Yeah, that's not where my brain went at all.

2

StrixVaria

12:47 AM

@Unionhawk You've been the biggest pessimist in the Bridge so far. I think they'll get it done just fine.

Eventually.

Fluttershy

@FAE Get your mind out of the gutter!

FAE

@Fluttershy Like you care. :P

Fluttershy

<_< >_>

spugsley

@Fluttershy NO NEVER

badp

In sub mode the pokemon cries come from the trainers. Also a few other changes.

Unionhawk

12:48 AM

There are, seventy-five thousand people in that chat.

FAE

@MBraedley also apparently Titanfall is in open beta mode at this point, so you don't even need a key

user15026

@Fluttershy But it is fun in there

FAE

Just download Origin and it'll be in Demos and Betas or something

Yuki

Generally content graffiti.

Fluttershy

@Yuki Ooooh. "Content." I thought you were saying "content."

spugsley

12:50 AM

@Yuki I love it

it makes me happy

Ben Brocka

@Unionhawk they mentioned maybe doing that for safari zone or other tough parts

user15026

There is a wall on my street that says "I love...." and I just want to write random stuff near it in chalk or something

badp

@AshleyNunn install a whiteboard

user15026

@badp Someone would steal it

Unionhawk

@BenBrocka Yeah. I mean, there's the classic "My chat experience" gif, and then, there's TwitchPlaysPokemon. We're on a whole new level of "chat experience" here

MBraedley

12:51 AM

Hmm, where does the android steam app keep the notification sound file?

OrigamiRobot

@Yuki I like Great Big Sea

badp

@AshleyNunn they aren't loving enough

user15026

considering the random stuff people here steal from garbage piles

user15026

(poor neighborhood)

LessPop_MoreFizz

@AshleyNunn Paint a big open space on the wall next to it with blackboard paint.

MBraedley

12:52 AM

@OrigamiRobot great big sea is awesome

user15026

@LessPop_MoreFizz ....that would work.

OrigamiRobot

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user15026

I mean it is a public building so I would get in trouble, but it would work.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@AshleyNunn And leave a bucket of chalk on the curb.

user15026

@LessPop_MoreFizz :D

user15026

12:53 AM

Although people would just likely use the chalk to draw penises on everything

badp

This is not why people are always looking at their mobiles.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@AshleyNunn ten bucks says that if you do that....

@AshleyNunn Yeah, what I was typing.

user15026

@LessPop_MoreFizz Hahaha yeah......

user15026

@badp It's why I look at my phone in the grocery store....I often use it to hold my grocery lists.

badp

@AshleyNunn but you don't look at it to get spammed by the grocery store itself.

or for instructions to the milk fridge.

FAE

12:55 AM

@AshleyNunn One of the main chains here will give you a list that takes you through the store in order of aisle walking convenience

If you use their app, I mean.

user15026

@badp I dunno, if it is a grocery store I don't know, it could be useful

badp

@FAE That's cute.

user15026

(I really suck at mental mapping)

badp

@AshleyNunn Not a common use case

user15026

@badp Yeah, most people aren't me ;)

FAE

12:56 AM

So if you put in milk, bread, cheese, flour, gravy, based on the layout of the specific store you use, it'll give you the easiest route to take.

@badp Yeah, it's Albert Heijn, it's a neat feature.

badp

@FAE huh.

@AshleyNunn I mean, yes, it's not fun looking all over the place for, say, toothpicks. But typically you can get away with asking the staff.

MBraedley

Fluttershy

@badp I had to do this a couple weeks ago. Looked up and down the grocery section, because hey, you use toothpicks after eating, right? Wrong. They were over by the bath towels.

user15026

@badp Yeah, mostly they are helpful. I mean sometimes I still confuse them... "WHere is your marshmallow fluff?" "The what?" "marshmallow fluff! like....nutella but marshmallow?"

user15026

@Fluttershy What. Why.

Fluttershy

12:57 AM

@AshleyNunn Because Walmart.

user15026

@Fluttershy That is messed up

FAE

@AshleyNunn Yeah, it can be frustrating if you hit a person who either hasn't been working their long or just... does not know what they're doing.

user15026

@FAE Or the store doesn't carry the thing

badp