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1:00 PM
Come to think of it, it would be hilarious if you handed up an analysis of a Matlab ad
 
@PrivatePansy that'd be cool :o
@Wipqozn Oh gods, I haven't watched Naruto in years
So much filler shudders
 
@KevinvanderVelden They had a year or two of pure filler iirc.
 
@Wipqozn yeah pretty much, then they went fuck it and relaunched the show several in-universe years later under a new name
 
@KevinvanderVelden That's what the manga did.
 
Aah, that makes sense then
 
1:03 PM
The manga does a time jump after the let's run and help sasuke arc, during which time naruto/saruka/sasuka were all training with one of the senin.
 
The anime did a ton of filler since it was a natural stopping point while they waited for the manga to get far ahead.
 
They just can't keep their mouth shut, huh
 
@BenBrocka Of course not.
They want to be the Sony of this generation.
that is, saying really stupid things for the first year or two of launch.
 
@BenBrocka le sigh
 
1:06 PM
I don't recall sony doing that except for the PS3. Granted I don't remember much of anything of game marketing before gen 7
 
The PS3 is what I'm referring to.
They were so arrogant during the PS3 launch, acting like their were no problems at all, when their were countless problems. I still remember an interview where a PS3 rep said they'd give someone a $100 if they could find a single store with a PS3 in it. Which, of course, was followed with people posting pictures of stores with stacks of unsold PS3s.
It's part of the reason I held off so long on buying a PS3. I was worried they actually were completely oblivious to the fact the PS3 wasn't doing well, and therefore wouldn't try to improve the situation.
speaking of ps3, I really need to find the time to give MGS another try over the summer.
 
lol
One of these is not like the others
 
@BenBrocka "The gaming console has moved out of the living room and into the kitchen" (special Fruit Ninja themed press release)
 
@BenBrocka Why would they need sunlight?! They've got an xbone
 
@BenBrocka The XBONE looks so sad. Shoved in the back.
 
1:15 PM
Where it belongs
 
It's like that kid at the party no one really likes and tries to get into the picture but just gets shoved behind everyone else.
 
Was going to Room Owner @Wipqozn so he could be de-ownered, but then remembered I can't. Self-trolled.
 
> It's not clear what other products the Xbox One beat out to claim the title
Well done survey that.
 
@Sterno Scumbag @badp.
 
@BenBrocka Oh man, how did they manage to beat candy corn?
 
1:23 PM
Suggested edit queue looks different.
er, the notification for it
Was it always that color, or am I crazy?
 
@Sterno It definitely changed.
Threw me off just now too.
 
So, Banished players
Let's say you've got your city rolling along nicely.
What, exactly, is the end goal?
 
What's the end goal of Sim City, or Dwarf Fortress, or Prison Architect?
 
@Sterno Get more citizens without your city collapsing.
 
I think the point of the game is to start over and try to do difficult challenges (based on the achievements).
 
1:27 PM
@StrixVaria That's effectively what I'm asking.
And I'm not trying to be rhetorical
 
@Sterno Yeah it's a good question.
 
9 hours ago, by Frank
Suggested edits is now blood red, apparently.
 
Once you can consistently get a town on its feet, what next?
 
If you want specific goals, look at the achievements. Otherwise you just try to do the best you can before dying.
 
I haven't played the other two, but in Sim City back when I played it way back when, the beginning was always exciting and difficult but you eventually reached kind of an equilibrium beyond which you could expand or upgrade, but there wasn't much risk involved. And that's where it got boring for me.
And I'm wondering kind of how people overcome that.
 
1:28 PM
@Wipqozn Guess they couldn't pay for as prominent placement as...Eggland's Best eggs
 
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Q: Diablo 3 tag cleanup

z  -There has been some major changes to this game with even more to come once the expansion is released. This invalidates a lot of questions/answers that's on the site right now. For example, once the AH closes, all the auction house questions will become obselete. I'd like to propose a cleanup e...

 
Achievements sound like they might be the answer.
 
More importantly, there's starburst candy corn?!
 
There's apparently Sour Apple Peeps now too
 
@StrixVaria For reference, I have 28 hours in the game. I'd say 20 hours on my current town. I'm at about 400 population. The highest population achievement is 900.
 
1:31 PM
I tried to go for too many achievements at once with my first and current town.
It's...not going as well as I had hoped at the moment. |:
 
Is it a game I can play forever? No, but if I can get 100 hours out of it, I'd say it's done more than its share.
I can't think of any games I could play forever.
 
That implies you can think of at least one. Name it!
 
@StrixVaria I think this will be the biggest shortcoming of Banished. I find it sits somewhere between Anno and Dwarf Fortress. It's definitely a city builder, but it has some bits of Dwarf Fortress thrown in as well. However since it's a city building it's going to fall victim to the "What next?" problem that most city builders have.
 
@OrigamiRobot well, possibly minecraft if you count mods as the same game
 
All games fall victim to "What's next?" for me. It's all about how long before that point comes.
 
1:37 PM
Yeah, I agree.
 
@KevinvanderVelden I still get tired of it after a while.
 
I just think the "What's next?" will come sooner in Banished then Dwarf Fortress.
 
@OrigamiRobot true, but the mods keep adding new content that sucks you (or at least me) back in
 
Well, some games have a definite ending, so often the "what next" is "nothing, you're done".
 
A game can have infinite content. That doesn't matter if it doesn't engage me and make me want to play it.
 
1:37 PM
With that bit of negativity said, I can see myself throwing down 100 hours on Banished.
 
It's harder to identify that point with certain game types, such as city builders
 
@Wipqozn no nobles to "accidentally" put in lava
That makes any game less awesome :(
 
I don't think anyone was complaining about Banished's content or length.
I'm was mainly curious what you guys do to keep it interesting a bit longer.
 
@Sterno Any game is over when I get bored of it. That's regardless of whether or not I've gotten to the "ending" or not.
 
@OrigamiRobot well, new content as in, new engaging content. The thing about infinite content is that it starts to become same-ey after a while (by necessity) good PCG makes that take longer but still
 
1:39 PM
Oh, I think they managed to get inside the gym.
 
@Sterno I can't answer that because I haven't gotten to the point where I don't think there's anything more to do in this town. When I do get there, I'll probably try harder starting conditions.
 
Also, @Sterno, making a game with new settings can make a huge difference. The different climates will (mild, fair, harsh) will impact how much food your villagers bring in. The Mountain terrain is also harder to work with, as are smaller maps.
 
Why is there no digital version of Arkham Horror yet?
 
@Wipqozn I don't know that I'll ever be able to do Mountains/Small/Harsh
 
Somebody, ping me please. (Yes, you can all ping me now.)
 
1:43 PM
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A: Diablo 3 tag cleanup

ArperumI applaud any effort and/or time spent into updateing updateable questions. Closing now irrelevant questions is not something that should happen though, since that would be against the current site policy of leaving old questions for dead/outdated games open. Look for example at the questions a...

 
@FEichinger
 
@FEichinger @FEi?
 
@FEichinger Really?
 
Yes, thank you.
 
@FEichinger What were you testing?
 
1:44 PM
@Arperum Trying to figure out how chat does its pinging.
(Not how the sound is triggered, how it highlights it and the like.)
 
Digging around in the javascript?
 
@FEichinger piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggg
 
@Arperum Yep.
 
@FEichinger
 
Huh, interesting.
 
1:52 PM
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Q: League of Legends: Does Caitlyn's Trap still reveal invisible targets?

Bat'Tal Vior'LaI was just wondering, when you step on one of Caitlyn's traps (or any other champion skill reveal) does it still affect skill invisibility? So, if I stepped on a trap, and I went invisible as Kha'Zix, Teemo, etc, would I still be revealed to her and her teammates? Or would I still go invisible?

 
@FEichinger Wait, really? THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER
 
Good morning, Bridge
 
Good morning, Bridge.
How are you gentlemen
 
Reading through these patch notes for D3, I am super excited.
 
Any news on Banished modding?
 
1:59 PM
@StrixVaria I heard they made a lot of changes. Only one I'm aware of though is the removal of the AH.
 
@Unionhawk too late
 
They rebalanced every class, removing shitty runes and adding new ones.
 
@FEichinger Well, I'm still going to ping.
 
The offer is no longer valid.
 
2:00 PM
It sounds like there are going to be more viable build options, reading through.
 
WELL TOO BAD @FEichinger
 
<insert nested quote of ignore image>
 
> These include Toughness, Healing, Splash Damage, Cooldown Reduction, and Resource Cost Reduction
That's good.
 
You wouldn't, and I daresay you didn't.
 
More stats were needed badly.
 
2:01 PM
Not buying it.
Nope.
 
So anyone have ideas on doing a Phantom of the Opera cosplay?
 
> Life Steal has been redesigned and is now less effective at higher character levels

At level 60, Life Steal is reduced to 10% effectiveness
Ew.
 
Unfortunately it will be expensive.
 
but do you still not do anything at level up? That was my biggest complaint with diablo 3. No sort of stat assigning at level up system.
 
@FEichinger shouldn't that by now be "<insert nested quote of <insert nested quote of ignore image>>"?
 
2:02 PM
There goes every single viable Inferno build.
 
@KevinvanderVelden I dunno. It's nested too deep already
 
I'm pretty sure @FEichinger has ignored me somewhere in the 20 times range. For usually around 5 minutes.
 
@FEichinger well, just ignore him permanently then, problem solved.
 
I'm not as big of a threat to his sanity as the others, he tells me
 
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Q: Is there any point in crafting the same tool multiple times?

NolonarAfter beating the main game, I have unlocked School mode. The purpose of School mode is to... I can choose to craft tools, which "double the number of materials collected". So far so good, but I was wondering if the tools' effects stack. If I craft 2 Microscopes, for instance, will the number...

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Q: League of Legends: Quadruple gold stacking on Minion kill

Bat'Tal Vior'LaIf I was Gangplank, and killed a minion with my Q on Twisted Treeline while we have both altars controlled, and had the Avarice blade, with Twisted Fate's passive in effect, would I receive gold for all of the above bonuses? Or would some of them cancel each other? How many gold passives can st...

 
@Wipqozn Good effort, but -1, straight lines
 
@Wipqozn You get a warm and fuzzy feeling as you hear the "ding" sound.
@Frank Life on Hit ftw
 
was that Giovanni TPP just blacked out on?
 
@Sterno LoH was only good for lower levels of Monster Power. Life Steal was where it was at.
 
This is making me want to play D3
 
2:07 PM
I'm glad I don't have a baseline "want to play D3" for any of this to make me want to play D3
 
Gold can no longer be traded. Weird.
And the decision to remove NV seems weird.
 
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Q: Does it matter how healthy I am?

NolonarAfter beating the main game, I have unlocked School mode. The purpose of School mode is to... When I collect materials or clean the school, I lose health. Through resting, I recover health. Once my health reaches 0, I can't act for 3 days, so I obviously can't afford to not pay attention to m...

 
@badp That'll teach me to use that straight line feature.
@Sterno Oh fun.
The next time I feel like playing one of those games I'll probably just play Path of Exile.
 
@Wipqozn We're never done learning
 
Wait so The Green Arrow is like Batman with a Bow?
 
2:11 PM
Aww, they nerfed Barbarian's Revenge skill.
 
My very own path towards True Art is not yet over.
 
@RedRiderX I think he's less of an ass than Batman.
 
Yes very much so
I just started watching Arrow
 
@StrixVaria Breath of Life no longer costs Spirit whatkjabe;irvba;ierbvai;erv
 
Is that really the Oliver Queen origin?
Because I suddenly think that Green Arrow is way cooler then I had previously thought.
 
2:15 PM
@RedRiderX I'm not sure what Arrow uses as the origin story.
 
Oh, this patch is also Loot 2.0.
 
My answer about how to build a Barbarian for Inferno used to just be a little outdated.
Now it's pretty much worthless.
 
@StrixVaria STAHP GETTING BETTER DIABLO I WANT TO HATE YOU
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@Wipqozn Shipwrecked for 5 years, came back with what I believe is a vendetta from his father to clean up the city.
 
@OrigamiRobot I know right?
@OrigamiRobot You should try out the core came now, even if you don't get the expansion.
 
2:17 PM
@RedRiderX That's what smallville used.
I bet google knows the answer.
 
@Wipqozn wat
 
@StrixVaria If I'm gonna play, I'm gonna get the expansion.
 
Hmm
 
I just want Diablo II's economy :(
 
@OrigamiRobot Well I already know I'm getting the expansion.
 
2:17 PM
Wait a minute. There isn't even an Inferno difficulty anymore?
 
Diablo 3 isn't even going to have an economy any more.
@Sterno They just renamed it "Torment".
Essentially.
 
@StrixVaria I know that's why I want to hate it.
> Combination Strike - Increased bonus damage from 8% to 10%
<3
 
Set Items and Legendary items can't be traded. Weird.
"Hey, dude, I found this piece to complete your set. But suck it, because Blizzard says you have to go find it yourself"
 
@Sterno None of the things worth trading can be traded.
 
Fuuuu
Super Motherload is DRM-ed
 
2:20 PM
Is this their "If you aren't buying it from our Auction House, we're making sure no one anywhere on the Internet is selling it either" solution?
 
@StrixVaria I should preorder it. I can preorder it for 25 euro instead of the default 40 euro.
 
@Sterno From one extreme to the other.
I like what they're doing with this patch, mostly. But I refuse to support a company that treats me like a criminal.
 
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Q: What is the best Quickscoping class set-ups for Call of Duty Ghosts? Since they've been nerfed

Andrew ConwellI seem to have trouble to "quickscope" in Ghosts. I believe that this is because they have nerfed the snipers in this game. Although I go to youtube and people are quickscoping a lot (I.E. Darth Super and GG Nine). So it confuses me as a sniper.

 
Green Arrow seems a lot more comfortable with smoking fools then I would have expected.
 
2:23 PM
@RedRiderX His sense of justice seems to change if it's a low level minion or the boss guy he's going after.
 
@Frank Indeed
 
Low level minions: kill and not even worry about it.
Boss guy: Scare him into doing what he wants, but make sure he doesn't kill them, because that's not justice.
 
I want to say things but they'd be spoilers :(
But yeah you should watch Arrow cause it's pretty cool
 
:O
Yeah I think I'm going to be watching a lot more
 
@StrixVaria Monks look like they're going to be a lot more flexible with their healing skills.
 
2:25 PM
OH WAIT WHAT
THE NEW SEASON HAS ALREADY STARTED
 
Kotaku posts an article about a guy stalking a girl, she blows up on him, and all the comments seem to be more on the guy's side.
The internet: stunting social skills since it's inception.
 
@Frank Lol Kotaku commenters
 
@Frank this is not new in any way, shape or form
 
@KevinvanderVelden Nope. But it's still sad whenever it happens.
 
Kotaku commenters are dumb.
 
2:28 PM
@Frank true
@Unionhawk if it was only kotaku commenters I'd be much happier
 
Actually, blanket statement, the internet at large is dumb.
 
@Unionhawk I wish! Danger Mouse is Awesome!
 
OMG THAT EP1 ENDING
 
There are three David Ms in the overall system. I'm the third.
 
2:30 PM
Wow, yesterday must have been a slow day; my Good morning Bridge is still on the star list.
 
I really really hope the PS4 keeps selling strongly in Japan and gets some developers back into consoles. Or PC. Anything but mobile
 
@BenBrocka Same reaction I had with Breath of Fire, except replace mobile with browser.
 
I thought breath of fire was a mobile one too and the onimusha one was a browser game
A browser card game or something
 
I remember the time Kotaku commenters were all "ZOMG A SPEEDRUN USES GLITCHES? NOT LEGITIMATE."
That was fun
 
@Frank Someone cleared the stars on your current good morning :(
 
2:33 PM
@Unionhawk that's pretty sad. Though some games do have glitchless as a "category" that people do, since lots of runners don't care to do glitches either
 
Especially since it happened around when ZSR happened, so I would just say in the chat "ZFG, your run is not Kotaku approved."
 
STAR ABUSE
9
 
Star clearers are literally worse than Literal Hitler.
 
@Sterno This.
 
@BenBrocka What they don't realize is that, a lot of the times, performing a glitch correctly is a whole ton more difficult.
 
2:36 PM
Now I had to star it just to make up for star clearing. That's the worst.
 
@Sterno I couldn't restar because my star was cleared. I feel abused.
 
@Unionhawk they are, and lots of glitches are really cool. OoT has lots of categories because there's so many cool glitches that are no longer in other categories
probably that and the fact that Any% is like 20 minutes and 100% is like 5 hours
 
@BenBrocka To be fair, the any% run of OoT is boring
 
... Which stars were cleared this time?
(Seriously, this is getting annoying.)
 
@FEichinger All of them.
 
2:39 PM
@Unionhawk That is either completely accurate yet unhelpful, or entirely inaccurate, depending on how you mean it.
 
Is it so hard to just leave the star list alone?
 
@Unionhawk It really is. It's mindblowing the first time and incredibly boring once you know what's happening
 
6 mins ago, by Arperum
@Frank Someone cleared the stars on your current good morning :(
 
My pity star just got removed too
 
@BenBrocka Yeah. The void warp part of it was really cool when I first saw it.
 
2:40 PM
@badp be trollin'
 
@Sterno They hatin'
 
(I was there when Cosmo got this Void Warp:)
 
though collapse skip, if they got that working, seemed like an interesting...4th or 5th trick in the run
 
@BenBrocka I think there are extra words here that are making this hard to parse.
 
@GraceNote just "ps4" instead of "japan"
 
2:41 PM
My first pinned message. I still feel abused.
 
@BenBrocka This would be a lot easier if we could just transform Japan into Lastation.
 
@Arperum Oh is it cheaper to preorder?
@OrigamiRobot Everything looks like it's going to be a lot more flexible with all of its skills.
 
@StrixVaria No, I still have two codes for 15 euro discount if I buy via the mini-shop of the magazine I'm subscribed too. They have a very limited offer of games for subscribers, and when you subscribe you get two codes for a discount.
So they'll then send me a physical copy of the game.
 
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Q: ePSXe & Brigandine in Win 8.1

ScottOk, I'll try to keep this from getting long winded but bear with me and thank you in advance. I recently built a computer for my dad to replace an aging Win. XP sp3 machine that I had built him years ago. It's a really nice little machine with the following relevant specs: AMD A10 6790k APU 2x4...

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Q: Two Worlds 2 - cheaper missiles by adding an enchant carrier

habmalnefrageThis is part of a numer of questions found here: How do I make good custom spells work in Two Worlds 2 I found some pretty old info on the web but I couldn't reproduce the results ingame (patched to current version) Claim 1) A missile spell is cheaper if you use a section 2 enchant carrier to...

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Q: Leveling up mundos w while using it, does the damage increase?

Ibrahim ApachiWell let's take mundo's w or ulti. Would the damage of the w increase when you have it activated and you are leveling it up at this moment ? and if you activated his ult and you apparently hit lvl 11 and skill it up would you heal more for the rest of the duration ?

 
@StrixVaria Talk me out of being stubborn about the economy that didn't exist before anyway so I can possibly have fun in the game again.
 
2:48 PM
@OrigamiRobot Just think of the last two years as an extended beta, and now the real game comes out!
 
@GraceNote WAT
 
30,000,000 now
 
@OrigamiRobot Just think of how much fun any other single player ARPG would be, except you can play with friends!
 
@GraceNote ...
 
2:49 PM
But trading is what made Diablo 2 fun after there was nothing left to do!
 
@OrigamiRobot And you can even have lag in single player! What fun!
 
@OrigamiRobot You can still trade out stuff between the people who are in the same game when you get the drop. So that way you can then pass it on to some other character of a friend.
 
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Q: Two Worlds 2 - earthquake spell not as strong as people say?

habmalnefrageThis is part of a numer of questions found here: How do I make good custom spells work in Two Worlds 2 I found some pretty old info on the web but I couldn't reproduce the results ingame (patched to current version) Claim 2) Single target enchant earthquake owns... I can't make this happen ...

 
@Arperum I don't want to give items to friends, I want to trade for items I need.
 
@OrigamiRobot Isn't the good stuff rares these days?
 
2:53 PM
@Arperum Depends.
 
FAE
Good afternoon, all.
 
@FAE o/
 
FAE
@StrixVaria I don't know if you were keeping an eye on it, but it looks like ticket sales for Hedwig and the Angry Inch are open now.
 
@FAE Nah I decided it was too expensive.
 
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Q: How do I stack enchant with area for spells?

habmalnefrageI found some pretty old info on the web but I couldn't reproduce the results ingame (patched to current version) Claim: Stacking S1 missile / S2 area / S3 enchant gives the best results. I tried this yesterday but somehow the enchant carrier gets removed if I apply an effect card to S2. Is th...

 
FAE
2:59 PM
@StrixVaria Aw. :( Understandable. If I had the money, I would seriously fly over just so I could see it.
 

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