The Bridge

Q: How can I increase my ranged damage-per-second?

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When I fight a boss, I typically use a Megashark with Chlorophyte Bullets (because I aim poorly). What accessories and modifiers can I use to get the most damage out of this weapon and ammo?

terraria

Luckily it doesn't drop that low at night, but that's the way it used to be.

You know, before global warming.

Apparently, /r/ThomasTheDankEngine is a thing.

I mean, the conspiracy hoax.

6:04 PM

I'm not sure whether or not this is a good thing.

Blem

@kalina Are your people still dying?

Supposed to be 18 C tomorrow, and then -4 C next Friday. Weather, you cray.

Is 18 hot?

I don't know because Celsius has stupid resolution.

cc @StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot 18 is pretty cool.

I have 2 points of reference in Celsius, which is that 0 is freezing, and 22 is the temperature I figured out that I'm comfortable at when I was in Canada.

6:08 PM

Oh, yea 65 is nice.

@TimStone Aren't you in Delaware?

Why are you using Celsius?

SaintWacko

> It's 200 million kilometers to asteroid 9969 Braille, we've got 92 millinewtons of thrust and a tank of xenon,
it's dark, and I work for NASA. Hit it.

He's a traitor.

@StrixVaria I'm Canadian. o_o

...No, I'm not.

I lived there and other non-US places for a long time though.

@StrixVaria 18c is like 65F, I dunno if that's "pretty cool".

6:11 PM

@FAE 65F is pretty cool.

@FAE I know it's 4 degrees cooler than my preferred temperature of 22, and that degrees are bigger in C than they are in F.

Hence my vague guess.

Wow. Our TPP meta is bouncing votes every which way.

@TimStone Your profile says you're in Delaware.

I do live in Delaware. I'm not actually Canadian.

@OrigamiRobot Oh, I'm thinking for like outside temperature. For inside, it's cool, for outside, it's warm, to me.

6:13 PM

If we want to get state-specific I'm Texan, which is just crazy. O_o

@StrixVaria Inside or outside? See above.

@TimStone Canadians don't lie, therefore you must be Canadian since you said you were.

@FAE Car. My gauge is based on car temperature. The ambient temperature at the time was higher than 22F. I may be biased.

@Wipqozn In that case I will be a Canadian Texan.

@StrixVaria Ah okay, yeah, 22C is comfortable for a car.

6:18 PM

Headline: Thousands of online gamers run in circles.

TPP was on NPR yesterday as I was driving home

it was a little sad

USA VS CANADA

@Unionhawk There should be two penalties there. Tripping and too many players

@StrixVaria lmao

@StrixVaria Yeh, the SZ is pretty up to date on stuff like that ... and willing to cover it, too.

6:21 PM

I can't read enough German to determine whether or not they understand well what's going on.

Wait, they forgot Psychic to learn Headbutt?

<sigh>

@FAE They seem to be pretty accurate.

I only read a little because reading German is slow.

@Blem :o

<3 Nigri

@MBraedley You know, all I really know about hockey is that we're winning right now.

Blem

to bad she is currently lesbian

6:25 PM

@Mobile people Fright Fight is now available on iOS and Android. From what I've seen, it looks kind of like super smash brothers. Also online multiplayer.

►

Looks pretty good.

@Unionhawk I like hockey... women's usually isn't that good, but Canada v. U.S. is

other countries don't seem to have all that much infrastructure for it, they look more like Junior teams.

Russian hockey is pretty pretty serious.

But yeah, for the most part, it's North American dominance.

@Sconibulus That's why they've changed the format. Top 4 teams are in the same group, bottom 4 teams are in the same group. It seems to have worked, to some extent, in making the tournament more competitive.

@FAE Pretty well.

@OrigamiRobot no

my population is 66/11/12

6:29 PM

@MBraedley oh... if I'd known that I'd have paid more attention this year... should I still be avoiding Belarus, etc. in the men's bracket?

I mean, hockey infrastructure depends on the area of the United States, too. I think my High School had a club hockey team, but I don't think it's an OHSAA sport.

Oh it is

I expanded way too rapidly in the last year though so I'm probably about to wipe my city out from hunger

Our high school didn't have any sort of hockey team at all.

Duh, we have cleveland, why would it not be.

@FAE my high school didn't, but my college had a club team

it was a lot of fun

6:31 PM

@Sconibulus Um, Belarus didn't have a team in the Olympics this year

Oh, we do have a varsity hockey team. And apparently they're pretty damn good.

Or maybe everyone else just sucks

@Unionhawk Depends on your area.

SaintWacko

@kalina Ah, yeah, that tends to happen

Hockey is fairly popular Oop North, but pretty much non-existent in the South.

@Yuki Columbus area. So, could be either.

(I'm in the cincinnati area, but the tournament is columbus and surrounding cities)

6:34 PM

sweet, I have sheep

@kalina But do you have wood?

well, I kinda have wood

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SaintWacko

@FAE WOOD FOR SHEEP

@FAE Inside, that's cold to me.

I get enough wood to meet demands but no surplus

6:35 PM

So is Banished actually not that deep?

@MBraedley yeah, that was last Olympics, I guess I mean Latvia this year. There's always the 8 or so teams that make it easily (scandanavia, russia, chech/slovak republics, north america) and then the other 2-3 teams

@kalina Be sure to build a max size pasture.

@SaintWacko :D

@OrigamiRobot oh

@OrigamiRobot Yeah, I agree, too chilly if you're just sitting stationary at a PC or something.

6:36 PM

@StrixVaria what do you mean? It's pretty involved and quite fun if a little grrr at times

@FEi ಠ_ಠ

@Sconibulus The Latvian's tournament ended yesterday.

@kalina Reading random comments somewhere on the site and people were saying it's a little too straightforward.

@Unionhawk What? If it was me who starred that, I'd already have made a comment about it.

@FEichinger Liar

6:36 PM

@StrixVaria it's very simple but it's a balancing act

well... "very" is probably a little unfair

@TrentHawkins Your parking space is now open. Hopefully the back lane doesn't get plowed before you get home, and/or it snows some more.

@StrixVaria There are lots of undocumented nuances. Like crop rotation and animal maturity.

@FEichinger Photoshopped. I can tell by the pixels.

@OrigamiRobot You have to rotate crops?

That's...really neat actually.

What do you mean by animal maturity?

6:40 PM

@Wipqozn Tsk! I don't even have PS or an equivalent installed here.

12 hours ago, by OrigamiRobot

3 mins ago, by Unionhawk

@FEichinger Liar

@FEichinger pixlr.com

@StrixVaria Ugh, webapp.

@OrigamiRobot Log goes well with cabbage.

6:40 PM

It's all an elaborate lie to make me look like an idiot.

@Unionhawk Nope. Truth. Honest truth. Best I have is Paint.

I'M GOOD AT LOOKING LIKE AN IDIOT ON MY OWN TYVM

Wait...

@StrixVaria Like the pastures just tell you how many animals are present, but that number doesn't differentiate between adult and baby animals. The game mechanics, however, do.

If I had something better, the pictures on my meta answer wouldn't be fucking pixelart.

@OrigamiRobot If you just alternate between 2 crops, is that good enough rotation?

@FEichinger pixlr.com

6:41 PM

1 min ago, by FEichinger

@StrixVaria Ugh, webapp.

@FEichinger IT'S NOT SHITTY

Honestly, I expected that to get starred faster than that

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BRIDGE, I AM DISAPPOINT

A sheep pasture that just got to 25 sheep will not produce as much food as that same pasture will in 5 years.

@StrixVaria I don't caaaaare. It's a webapp. Webapps are the worst.

@OrigamiRobot How do sheep produce food without dying?

6:42 PM

@StrixVaria Pixlr is great.

@FEichinger Webapps are the future.

Arperum

@OrigamiRobot How long does it take for sheep/other animals to mature?

@FEichinger No, you are the worst

@StrixVaria Webapps are the worst. Worst worst worst. Wooooooooooooorst. Worst. Worst.

@StrixVaria They have babies and the excess are automatically slaughtered.

6:43 PM

Fact.

@FEichinger mondrian.io

@StrixVaria They don't. You set a limit for how many animals can be in pasture, and when the number of animals go over that count some animals are slaughtered.

@Arperum Unsure.

@OrigamiRobot I should play this game tonight.

Also WEATHER STAHP ENOUGH WINTER ALREADY

It's supposed to snow again next week :(

It's 50 degrees here

Arperum

6:44 PM

@OrigamiRobot Because I know that in real life sheep and goats can have lambs/whatever you call it from around 1 year old.

@Unionhawk It's plenty nice here now.

All I know is my sheep pasture produced ~900 mutton in its first year at max capacity and that slowly increased every year to about 1600 mutton.

When I started a 2nd pasture of sheep, I zoomed in after it got to max capacity and could see some of the sheep were babies.

Q: How can I maximize the reproduction rate of animals?

Know enough to answer this yet?

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So I've managed to acquire my first animals, and I'm trying to figure out how to maximize their rate of reproduction. My first thought was to split my animals into two different pastures, but I'm not sure if this will actually help or hurt the rate of reproduction. The help menu states that anim...

banished

@Wipqozn Just do max size, max capacity, and max herdsmen.

Animals seem to reproduce based on how many mature animals exist.

Which, yknow, is how you'd think it'd work.

yeah.

My fully sheep pasture ggrew in count faster as it grew larger I believe, that supports your observations.

6:50 PM

I was just pointing out that the X of Y number does not always indicate X mature animals.

People who have played a decent amount: Is every new playthrough doomed to failure or is there a way to actually "fill the map" sustainably?

2-0 USA

USA USA USA USA USA

I assume there's really no end-goal except to not die.

@Unionhawk What sport?

@StrixVaria You will die hard your first time.

@OrigamiRobot And expectedly so.

6:51 PM

@Unionhawk ಠ_ಠ

@StrixVaria There are some neat achievements for doing challenging things.

@StrixVaria Women's hockey, gold medal game vs Canada

But with dwarf fortress, for example, you know before you start, no matter how good you are, that shit's going to eventually hit the fan.

Like having a population of 300 without ever building any schools.

@Unionhawk Oh women's hockey.

I think the USA is in the semifinal tomorrow in real hockey.

6:52 PM

17 minutes left in the 3rd period

@StrixVaria ...>_>

@StrixVaria Starvation will wreck you. If you have enough food production to support 20 people and you hit 21, 15 will die.

@OrigamiRobot Ouch.

Q: Does the Battle chest have all the data?

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Do CDs 1 and 2 from the 4.0 WoW Battle chest have the full data? I'm getting World of Warcraft Battle chest soon, so I just want to know.

world-of-warcraft

@Unionhawk What's the score?

6:52 PM

@Wipqozn 2-0 USA

damn, that second goal was pretty

My word. This is just horrible.

@FAE Meaning hockey that I actually know anything about vs. hockey that only comes up once every four years for the sake of the Olympics.

Not that they're not actually playing hockey.

@Lazers This thing was a mess pre-edit.

Live results for those of you who can't actually watch it live

(and/or for those of you who don't believe me when I say that USA is winning)

6:54 PM

@Lazers This is a dupe, isn't it?

2 days ago, by OrigamiRobot

This is a screenshot from someone who had early access.

Q: Can I play all WoW content with just the Battle chest?

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I just got the World of Warcraft Battle chest last year, and I just got to play it. So I installed it. It took me to battle.net, I made an account, and clicked some starter edition option. I logged in and played, no problem. My question is: am I playing the battle chest, and do I have everythi...

world-of-warcraft

@OrigamiRobot What would cause more people to exist if you don't have the food to support it?

@StrixVaria People having babies.

@FAE ...I hadn't considered if the asker meant, "all content" or, "all patches".

6:55 PM

@OrigamiRobot can you control that?

@OrigamiRobot So they'll have babies come hell or high water and their entire civilization can pay the consequences?

@StrixVaria If they have their own house, yes.

@Sconibulus Don't build more houses.

@OrigamiRobot I mean, that makes sense. A society that shares food isn't just going to say "Well, we have enough for 20 people, and we have 21, so, everybody draw straws", everyone is going to be a little hungry, and if "enough" is already just "sustaining", then... people start dying.

I simultaneously need both more food, and more people

People are less inclined to bone if they still live with their parents.

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6:56 PM

I think I'ma wipe soon

well, I could pull everyone off all the other stuff

@OrigamiRobot Oh holy shit I just realized the scale of this graph.

@Frank I'm not entirely sure either. I think this one might also be related/possibly a dupe? We have a few questions re: the battlechest and what all it covers.

He went from almost 700 people to like 70.

@OrigamiRobot Well, yes, this is true in real life too.

@Unionhawk Actually, if you don't build a market, you could have 1 house with a surplus of food and the house next door starving.

6:58 PM

@OrigamiRobot Oh, well, fuck those guys, right?

@FAE Hopefully he clarifies his question.

Once someone puts food in their house, it's theirs!

@OrigamiRobot But also: Do build more houses, because otherwise they won't bone at all and end up dying of old age on the same scale.

what does the market do? I built one, but it just seems to steal all the tools from the stockpile

@FEichinger This.

6:59 PM

@OrigamiRobot Is there any kind of money system for individuals?

@StrixVaria No, but a market will help ensure goods are distributed evenly. It also helps with food variety which is very important.

Ha. There's a bet going on between Obama and the Canadian Prime Minister that the loser has to buy the other a case of beer. Heh.

That's hilarious.

The only thing resembling currency comes from trading.

And awesome.

@OrigamiRobot I also just realized the name of the town ... +1 for that.

7:00 PM

@Unionhawk I think they do that every olympics where they play each other.

@FEichinger ಠ_ಠ

@FEichinger Bwahaha I never even noticed.

@Unionhawk I knew you were gonna do that. :P

@Frank Probably. That's pretty awesome.

Oh, they managed to evolve dig rat.

7:01 PM

Oh good.

@Wipqozn BigDig

@Frank One could say that this makes Canada... puts on sunglasses pretty cool.

@Unionhawk We're totally cool.

Have you seen the amount of snow outside?

@Wipqozn would have thought that was hilarious.

@Unionhawk I did.

Puns are the best.

7:04 PM

@Wipqozn loves facedesk jokes.

@Frank It's true.

CC @BenBrocka

@StrixVaria That's quite the Walrus.

@Wipqozn Puns are the best when they're the worst.

@StrixVaria The power of Google.

@Wipqozn No, it's a wordbank, silly.

7:07 PM

@FEichinger You're a wordbank

This pokemon tower

@Unionhawk ... No.

Pokemon tower is kind of a good thing, since it's forcing them to level up something other than Bird Jesus.

@FEichinger Yes.

Oh, they renamed Pidgeot.

7:08 PM

@Wipqozn Except Drowzee forgot Psychic for Headbutt.

@StrixVaria Yeah, that was pretty funny.

still, they need something other than Bird Jesus if they want to beat the elite four.

BigDig knows Swift. I love Swift.

@Unionhawk No.

@FEichinger Oh, you're right. My mistake.

@Unionhawk Good boy.

7:12 PM

@FEichinger ...

I think you've been hanging around @spugsley too much, that was... weird at best.

2-1 USA, 3:26 left

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL‌!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Map of Heavy metal bands per 100,000 people pic.twitter.com/FR3y0okHYR

Arperum

@RedRiderX I'm happy Belgium got at least into orange. Finland leads the count obviously.

I like Finnish metal (from what I know of it).

Spooner just undressed the US defence

7:19 PM

@Unionhawk pat pat Good boy. pat pat

Dat ref holy shit if that went in, I'd have laughed so hard

Travel safety recommendations from the Australian Government http://t.co/QNABW3pQM1

Tweeted by World on February 11, 2014 at 4:07 AM

Twitch Plays Pokemon posters for each day

@RedRiderX Information not available?

US GDP split in half http://t.co/fNrAVip41z

Tweeted by World on February 18, 2014 at 9:07 AM

7:21 PM

EXODUS

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!‌!!!!!!!!!!!!

47 people died from starvation

phew, I can breath a little easier until overtime

Argh!

Did Canada really score twice to tie it up?

7:21 PM

Take that, @Unionhawk

@StrixVaria Yep.

@StrixVaria Yep

@kalina Out of?

@MBraedley high fivE

As a Devils fan, I am used to this.

7:22 PM

@OrigamiRobot ~150

Not too bad.

it's actually still dropping

Take that @Fluttershy! WHERE'S YOUR DOME FOSSIL NOW?!?!

down to about 80 now

Oh

Q: Is enabling Steam features possible for non-Steam copies?

7:22 PM

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This is perhaps an odd or silly question, and it needs a bit of elaboration. I have two copies of a game, one from Steam, and one from the developer's website. This is because I purchased the game before it became part of a Humble Bundle. In the case of Arkham Asylum, there is a mac version of t...

steam achievements batman-arkham-asylum

Oh, that's a beautiful goal Johnson had

@RedRiderX I love it

How much snow it typically takes to cancel school in the U.S. http://t.co/aWVObrrhB0

Tweeted by World on February 4, 2014 at 5:10 PM

@RedRiderX Liars, my county's under 12" when it should be 24". Those jerks didn't give us a single snow day when I was in high school at all.

food time

7:28 PM

@red My kids' school cancels at the threat of snow!

Fluttershy

@Wipqozn I don't even know what you mean.

►

Now that looks like Skylanders for geeks.

@FAE reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1rqab8/…

How do people own PS consoles and not have PS+ honestly

JS console script to remove commands typed in Twitch Plays Pokemon's chat

@BenBrocka Probably a larger number than you'd think!

@Frank dat concept art looks great

7:36 PM

@DavidM No I know the number is massive I just mean it's insane people don't have it

@BenBrocka Ooops. I read it as how many. My bad.

@DavidM This seems like a new concept, I don't think I ever got a snow day unless it was already snowing, but we got stuck at school a couple times because the busses were unsafe

ooh, they're going to the PC again...

now they seem to be cancelling the night before (same county)

Jason Berkan

@BenBrocka No extra money + extra slow Internet...

7:39 PM

@Sconibulus When I was a kid, we sometimes got sent home early. But, they didn't cancel because snow's a comin'!

Footage today of Kiev, Ukraine
http://trasyy.livejournal.com/1294622.html

@DavidM oh, yeah, we also got sent home early sometimes, but nothing ever happened until there was white stuff in the air

well... sometimes we'd get a delay for rain on a 20ish degree night, but that basically counts

@Ullallulloo those fools

@BenBrocka They checked Professor Oak's rating and left.

lol

I forgot that was even in gen 1

Q: What's the target of cookie clicker?

7:47 PM

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I have over 6 million heavenly chips, every type of building 200 times (except cursors, 240 times).

cookie-clicker

@Frank The Titans colors look good on just about anything.

@Krazer Oh, that is shiny.

Apparentl, Meryl Streep has been thanked more than God in Oscar acceptance speeches.

A Wing Zero prototype, if I don't miss my guess.

If I win an Oscar, I will thank the Dome Fossil.

7:51 PM

Welp. GG

> She was thanked by four out of the 47 individual Oscar-winners since 2002, compared with three for the Almighty and two each for Poitier and Winfrey.

@FEichinger Compared to the Academy itself, which was thanked by... 32 Oscar winners?

@OrigamiRobot IT'S ANOTHER IMPOSTER

How do I know you're really you?

> one best supporting actor winner failed to thanked anyone at all: George Clooney, picking up the 2006 prize for Syriana, joked that he would now not be winning best director for that year's Good Night and Good Luck. He went on to praise the Academy for its progressiveness, and promptly walked off stage without namechecking anyone.

Why is that not surprising? :P

7:54 PM

:13881347

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belated GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!‌!!!!!!!!!

cancels edit

@OrigamiRobot You don't, really.

My roommate is blaming all of Canada that he has to go to class now (he was going to skip if it went to a shootout)

Although I must say that slashing penalty to the US was a weak call.

I used to like sports. Then I decided to stop lying to myself.

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7:56 PM

(note: this is the same roommate who frequently plays music such that I can't hear myself think, so you can largely ignore him)

@Frank I think Wing Proto Zero is just another name for Wing Zero

> As a psychology student and a pokemon fan, the fact that this is happening gives me a huge intellectual boner.

@MBraedley woot woot and what not

Also take that @Fluttershy! YOU LOST!

@StrixVaria Dome > Helix

8:00 PM

@Wipqozn (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

@OrigamiRobot WHAT ARE YOU A DEMOCRAT TOO?

30 secs ago, by Ullallulloo

@Wipqozn (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

@StrixVaria No, democracy ruined the stream.

@Yuki was expecting him to fall through the sidewalk. Somewhat surprised

8:01 PM

@OrigamiRobot It hasn't been on Democracy in a long time.

@BenBrocka I just noticed something kinda gross about that gif.

@StrixVaria Yes, but the fact that the voting still exists is ruining it for me.

Everyone is distracted by voting instead of actually playing.

@OrigamiRobot yeah they need to remove it from the input stream

you can hide it from the chat too with that console code I pasted a bit ago

@BenBrocka They've had scripts to hide commands for a while now. I'm not talking about seeing it. I'm talking about it existing.

It'd be a lot easier to ignore though, and I don't think it will go back to anarchy unless they're stuck in strength puzzles or safari zone

8:05 PM

@BenBrocka Yes but the fact that people (or scripts) need to be devoted to ensuring it stays anarchy is the problem.

yeah, I can see wanting to "automate" it instead of having to manually tend to it though

8:26 PM

@Ullallulloo WHERE'S YOUR DOME FOSSIL NOW?!?!

@Krazer Oh, yeah. I built that one, alright.

Q: Will I have the opportunity to catch them again?

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Once I have encountered and defeated Cobalion, Virizion and Terrakion, will I have the opportunity to capture them at a later time?

pokemon-bw2

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Q: Where have all the item set bonuses been moved to in TF2?

Semi-recently, all the bonuses formerly associated with item sets (Saharan Spy, Croc-O-Style Kit, Tank Buster, Gas Jockey, et cetera) have either been moved onto items within that set, or removed completely from the game. Which of these item set bonuses are still around, and what items now giv...

team-fortress-2

This question seems an awful lot like a "why did the devs do it this way" question

3ventic

Yup

@Frank That one's MG. You should check out this one (more here).

Grace Note

8:42 PM

@Strix! Buddy! Pal!

Q: FIFA 14 Player Career Mode transfer offers

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So when I have my virtual pro in career mode and I've submitted a transfer request, once I get an offer, can I get a second offer while still considering the first one? or can I only receive one transfer offer at a time? otherwise, what is the point of stalling an offer

fifa-14

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Q: Mass Effect 3: Can I delete the DLC after I'm done playing it?

I'm running out of space on my 360 hard drive and need to clear up some space. My Mass Effect 3 install is eating up alot of space on my drive. I've played through all of the DLC but haven't finished the game. Since I finished these add on missions; can I delete their DLC from my drive? I'm prett...

mass-effect-3 xbox-360