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3:00 PM
@StrixVaria I like the new Paragon system and it should shut the people who complain "I can't decide on my own attributes" up.
 
@fredley is barely ever in chat since he became a mod.
Another one bites the dust.
 
I have an active world of warcraft account
that is all
 
@kalina That's bad.
 
@OrigamiRobot It's pretty interesting. I logged in for 10-15 minutes last night to check it out.
 
1 min ago, by Sterno
Another one bites the dust.
@StrixVaria Did you start a new character?
 
3:04 PM
oh right, Diablo 3 expansion coming
guess I need to quit my job or quit sleeping to make room for both WoW and D3
 
> Wasp projectiles can now be dodged and blocked
THANK YOU
 
@OrigamiRobot No, I just checked out my WD.
I need to go back through as my WD and come up with a new build, though.
 
@kalina WOW is awful and you should feel bad.
 
What I'm currently doing isn't optimized with the new balance changes.
 
@Sterno can you even say that with a straight face?
 
3:05 PM
@kalina Absolutely.
 
WoW has done so many positive things to your life
 
It is still awful.
 
@kalina How many hours did it take for you to get to level 90?
 
My not-level-60-yet Wizard is paragon level 46, though, which makes me wonder if it's actually going to give me paragon 46 on my brand new Crusader.
 
If I met my wife because we happened to have the same drug dealer, it doesn't mean snorting coke daily is a good idea.
 
3:06 PM
That would amount to about 60 extra strength right off the bat, which might be game breaking early on.
 
@StrixVaria It should.
 
@badp I... dont know? I just reactivated my existing account
 
@StrixVaria ... What's Paragon?
 
@Yuki Diablo 3.
 
@StrixVaria I think so. It says paragon levels are shared across all characters.
 
3:07 PM
@kalina Just wondering, given the $60/level 90 thing.
 
@StrixVaria Oh for some reason, I was thinking WoW...
 
@badp ewww, I'd never do that
 
Besides, early game is already stupidly easy. What's another 60 strength, really?
 
@StrixVaria It will give you whatever the new level based on existing Paragon XP is.
 
@Yuki in that case, Paragon are widely regarded as one of the best guilds in the world
 
3:09 PM
I hate that I'm starting to look forward to Reaper of Souls
I'm worried I'm going to be disappointed
Again
 
you will
 
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Q: How does stacking missile + enchant compare to casting two missiles?

habmalnefrageAdding an enchant to a missile adds to the casting time (previously 0). Due to this, "spam casting" my DD gets tedious. It seems easier to cast 2 missiles during the same time as I cast a damage missile stacked with a second layer of enchant damage. Is there a hidden bonus to stacking a second ...

 
@OrigamiRobot But what I'm worried about is having 46 points to spend before you even get to the first town is probably going to make you OP for a while.
 
@StrixVaria Mantra of Healing with the LoH rune might actually be viable now.
@StrixVaria So don't spend them.
 
3:10 PM
@OrigamiRobot True.
 
FAE
@Yuki Heard about that. :/ Texas has pretty atrocious women's health laws too.
 
@StrixVaria You won't have to start at the first difficulty if you don't want to.
 
@Frank Oh I guess that's true too.
 
Wait? you can spend your paragon points different for different characters? I thought the new system would be a global modifyer thing.
 
Oh hey, Thief is out?
 
@Frank I started at MP 10 with new characters before the changes. AFAIK the difficulties are based on the old MP system.
 
@StrixVaria Are you going to be playing tonight? And by playing I mean messing around.
 
so 46 points will make you OP no matter what.
 
@Arperum You won't unlock Torment until you beat the game at least once, I think.
 
Sure, MP10 was hard if you got a bad champion pack at the start of the cathedral.
 
@Frank If you have 46 paragon points. You have been playing long enough before to have it unlocked I assume.
 
@OrigamiRobot Yeah.
 
@Arperum I believe each character has to beat the last boss, so that Torment is unlocked on a per character basis.
 
@StrixVaria I'll probably join you if I am home :/
 
I was going to play Thief last night but it was only 43% done with the 20gb download when I got sleepy and went to bed.
 
3:17 PM
@Frank You unlock Expert by beating Act IV, and you unlock Torment by getting to level 60.
@OrigamiRobot Sounds good.
 
FAE
@OrigamiRobot Don't sound so excited, man.
 
1 hour ago, by OrigamiRobot
@StrixVaria STAHP GETTING BETTER DIABLO I WANT TO HATE YOU
 
@StrixVaria So you won't have access to the highest difficulties until you hit the old max level.
 
@StrixVaria I think it's Master for Act IV
 
FAE
@OrigamiRobot I thought the whole economy thing made you lose interest?
 
3:18 PM
@Frank That is just "we changed the way we named our difficulties" then, nightmare is gone, hell is called expert and inferno is called torment...
 
@Sterno Whichever one is 1 below Torment.
 
Oh hey, Earthbadge.
 
1 hour ago, by OrigamiRobot
@StrixVaria I know that's why I want to hate it.
 
@FAE Everything else is great, though, which is why he's so conflicted.
 
Giovanni down
 
3:19 PM
When does RoS release?
 
FAE
@StrixVaria Ah, gotcha.
 
@SaintWacko 25th of march.
 
@BenBrocka Sick. I expected them to lose again.
 
Pocket Sand made rydon useless
 
Yay. Extreme windchill warnings for this weekend evening.
 
3:20 PM
they used it about 10 times too many but still won
 
And the radio is play "never gonna give you up" again...
 
Feb 17 at 1:58, by OrigamiRobot
@StrixVaria I want to know how much Sand-Attack has saved them.
 
@OrigamiRobot At least once per gym leader it feels like
except blaine who got completely destroyed
 
@BenBrocka By what? Surf?
 
@OrigamiRobot Zapdos.
In 6 turns.
 
3:22 PM
yeah, zapdos
 
Ughhhh
I'm trying to play Super Motherload and it keeps crashing on launch :(
 
does it use PhysX? I found a couple games that wouldn't play until I updated that
considering how many times Steam has installed DirectX you'd think it could install physx as a prereq
 
@Yuki I'm assuming Zapdos had only damaging moves at the time?
 
I think it still does
 
Does Physx only exist on Nvidia cards?
 
3:28 PM
No, it can be run on CPU too
I think Antechamber needed it
user image
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what the hell, 90s
 
Bela just managed to leap from the back of the couch onto the top of my bookcase. :/
 
I'm trying to figure out how to install it on this computer
 
@BenBrocka Oh my
 
@BenBrocka foot controller
 
3:31 PM
@BenBrocka AFAIK running it on a CPU resulted in FPS of 3-5. It still needed to be installed even if it was toggled of though. (based on PhysX in Sacred 2)
 
Sad, sad truth.
 
It never took off because the scale feature caused depression in gamers
 
@kalina INB4
 
holy guacamole
 
3:32 PM
... by many many hours.
 
@Arperum Depends on what the game uses it for; it's a pretty heavy hit in Borderlands 2 (where it's optional) but Antechamber seems to run fine
 
Argh!
Still doesn't work!
So much rage!
 
@kalina dat onebox
 
@BenBrocka Sacred was a massive hit, it was optional though.
 
@FEichinger if I understand the hover text correctly, this is a visually different image to what it was a few hours ago
even though if you look at it now, they'll look the same
 
3:33 PM
yes
 
@kalina ... Fine, you win >.>
I'm not even gonna bother with this.
 
got you well trained
 
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Q: Where have all the workers gone?

user70284Is it just me, or have the VIP ugnaught workers completely vanished from the game? Is the union on strike?

 
@kalina It has turned since this morning.
 
@kalina It's your loss. We could have such beautiful arguments, you know.
 
3:34 PM
there's no such thing as a beautiful argument
 
Get a room you two!
 

 The Bridge

General Arqade Chat. We tried to leave once, but the door lock...
 
@FEichinger That's terrible.
 
@kalina Kids these days.
 
@OrigamiRobot I remember the times when this was said about @fredley and @kalina, seems like @FEichinger took @fredley's place.
 
3:36 PM
yeah fredley doesn't like me anymore
 
@kalina fredley left all of us to die since he got his moderator powers.
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@Arperum A welcome change.
 
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Q: Reset a player's progress on a server

Tim CokerI have a Minecraft server I've just started for a few friends. We're playing on hard, and I'm going to set it up so that players spawn with a few minimal items to get them going. Some of them jumped in briefly and logged out after less than 5 minutes last night. How do I reset their progress s...

 
@Arperum To be fair, this used to be said about a lot of pairings in here.
 
@Arperum I'll make sure I ask "Are you going to leave us all to die if you get moderator powers?" of candidates in the next election.
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3:42 PM
Speak of the pork diamondchop
 
@ste It's not to do with modernisation, it's been to do with work
 
@3ventic summoned by the power of ping.
 
Very, very big pitch at MWC today (just done)
 
By the power of the ping, I am Captain @3ventic!
 
@fredley A likely story.
 
3:43 PM
@fredley Moderators get a -4 to the LURK stat
 
Normal service will resume from next week
 
Soon enough people will be claiming your untimely social death
 
@3ventic @assventic?
 
...
I'm ditching the ass
 
You'll join the ranks of Oak, Juan and Agent in the Are They Even Still Alive Club
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3:44 PM
@Sterno Actually, I believe @kalina already asked this time.
 
Anyway, I'm going to leave you all now. Whether or not you choose to die is up to you.
 
I saw Oak in the chat today!
 
@3ventic Blame @DavidM for bringing that up.
 
@3ventic Yes, they've all been active all along.
 
@FEichinger I'm too lazy to look so I'll just assume you're wrong and I'm awesome.
 
3:45 PM
That's the point
 
@Sterno I'm not @Uni.
 
@badp reports of my life are greatly exaggerated
3
 
He just popped in to thank me though
Muahahaaa
 
if y'all want, I can go back to posting cat pictures and links to stale topics on a daily basis.
I got cat pictures out the wazoo
 
@agent86 @badp am I allowed to flag comments yet or will they still get rejected?
 
3:46 PM
also out the hoo-haa, but not out the whatzit
@kalina beats me.
 
graaaargh
It won't launch!
So much rage!
 
@SaintWacko hands @fredley's brain to zombie @SaintWacko
 
I just want you all to know that I've made a lunch decision. Panera Bread. Discuss.
 
@agent86 well if you'd all be so kind to discuss it amongst yourselves at some point, Arqade is the only site in my top 5 that I'm not flagging comments on atm
 
@Sterno I'm disappointed at no Qdoba or whatever the name of that burrito place is that you like so much more than Chipotle.
 
3:50 PM
@Sterno I just had icecream for lunch. I win
 
@KevinvanderVelden win, just and lunch combined in a message at this time of the day whan said by a European are just wrong when not negated.
 
now I want ice cream -.-
 
A lunch this late is not a win, that's a major loss.
 
All I want to do is play Super Motherload :(
Why can't I play Super Motherload
 
And I want more food now. :(
 
3:53 PM
@Yuki I can't eat burritos every day.
 
@Arperum well, it would be more accurate to call it a second lunch
 
Damn you @KevinvanderVelden! You reminded me of my now-empty stomach.
 
@Sterno You can't? Or you won't?
 
@KevinvanderVelden That is acceptable.
 
@Yuki I can't. Sometimes I'm in places that do not have Qdobas.
 
3:54 PM
@Arperum It's like the 4th "meal" I had today, I think I'll have a snack before dinner in the train home as well
 
I do have to disagree with @StrixVaria's (I think) assessment that the Queso Diablo at Qdoba is awesome.
 
@kalina ice cream is good and tasty and I think you should get some!
 
But maybe I just needed different burrito components to unlock it's full power.
 
And then you should delete your world of warcraft account
 
@Sterno I tried it on nachos.
 
3:55 PM
@KevinvanderVelden it's the wrong time of day for ice cream
 
Ahhhhh
 
After trying both the fancy new Queso styles, though, I will still be sticking with normal Queso in the future.
 
That may be the key.
 
@KevinvanderVelden no
 
I added it to a chicken burrito
 
3:55 PM
@kalina it is never the wrong time of day for ice cream
 
And Steam Community is down, so I can't get help
 
@KevinvanderVelden no it is
 
RAGE
 
because I just ate, so I'm full
 
Damn it, now I want Qdoba instead
 
3:55 PM
@kalina well, that's what I think. Opinions can differ
 
and therefore eating something as delicious as ice cream right now would be a waste
 
@kalina Hmm, I'd call that a little while ago was the wrong time to eat.
 
well, likely
 
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Q: link midnight club la to rockstar social club?

jake flynnI cant link midnight club to my rockstar social club account and I have done everything a rockstar member of staff has told me too any help?

 
Oh, great. I'm now getting spam from Amazon, based on things I was looking at on their site.
 
4:01 PM
Welcome to Amazon
You must be new there
 
@Sterno muahahahahahaha, i have succeeded.
 
I'm sure you can unsubscribe from those
 
Guys... Two weeks until I disappear for days! You have been warned! Also, hello from my new phone!
 
FAE
@Fluttershy You're such a liar.
 
@Fluttershy Where are you going?
 
FAE
4:02 PM
@Frank Titanfall comes out.
 
@FAE Meh.
I didn't even disappear for Lightning Returns.
 
@Frank Into Origin. I'm scared.
 
@Fluttershy You should be; Origin is the antithesis of Steam, and operated by a company that never deserves money.
 
@FAE I'll disappear from the Bridge! Maybe. But not from Steam or anything else.
@Frank Origin offers refunds. So they're trying! And, we've been over this. I hate EA, but they publish some pretty good games.
 
@Fluttershy wat
 
4:04 PM
@Fluttershy "Dungeon Keeper"
 
This keyboard is tricky.
 
@Fluttershy They try on one hand, and treat their customers like shit on the other three.
That said, what you buy is your choice.
I'm just rabidly anti-EA.
 
@Frank Don't forget the hand that's responsible for ruining great IPs
 
@Kevin I said "some" games. :P
 
It's almost better to pirate their games, and make an anonymous donation directly to the company that made it.
 
4:07 PM
@Frank heh, I like that idea
 
@KevinvanderVelden Cut EA out of the loop entirely.
That would send a message that their antics are not only unwelcome, but actively harmful to their own business.
 
I'm hoping Respawn doesn't stick with EA, if I heard right EA is publishing but doesn't own it, and Respawn was screwed over by Activision so they're pretty tired of publishers
Also the Xbone exclusivity was apparently EA's idea not Respawns
 
@BenBrocka Microsoft probably gave EA a truckload of money to cut Sony for excluisivity, is my guess.
 
FAE
@KevinvanderVelden You should link that to Jochem
 
4:11 PM
@Frank yeah, doubt they can afford to keep buying it though, assuming respawn will even let them. EA though the 'Bone would be ahead by now
 
@FAE I have spamified him in minecraft talk :)
 
@BenBrocka The main problem with the 'Bone is that rather than giving gamers what they want, they're telling gamers what they want.
Which has been part of the problem of their marketing from day one.
 
FAE
@Frank That whole "the console has moved from the basement to the living room" quote really irked me.
 
@Frank They've kind of backed off on that. Now they're mostly trying to say that 720p is basically the same as 1080p and 30FPS doesn't really matter (except when it does)
@FAE Yeah that's pretty insulting to basically the entire industry and market
 
@BenBrocka Which is still saying, "You guys don't know what you're talking about. Go play in a corner and let the adults talk."
 
4:13 PM
@Frank Basically. They're still after that dudebro market that they seem to hope really doesn't look too deeply into their games
 
@BenBrocka Which is still telling gamers what they want, is it not?
 
@BenBrocka "Dudebros" don't seem to look deeply into anything other than red plastic cups.
 
what about fish AI?
 
FAE
@Yuki I had something to tell you or mention to you or something but I have no idea what it was anymore, so now I'm just saying hello!
 
@FAE Hi!
@FAE Given that it's me, it was probably something about Frozen.
 
4:16 PM
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Q: Does "increase damage sustained by target" apply fully or with reduction? Worth a second spell slot?

habmalnefrageIs it worth starting a fight with a stun/CC missile stacked with an area "amplify received damage" before nuking them with my ricochet missiles. My partner (dual wield fighter) and I take down most groups pretty fast unless I get nuked/spiked with arrows. Life + Damage + Time = inceases damage...

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Q: Is there a way to cast some sort of protective spell worth mentioning?

habmalnefrageI found the mana shield spell that redirects incoming damage to my mana but I read that this shield makes my mana regeneration 3 times slower (same amount every 3 seconds or 1/3 every second) while active and it has an extremely short duration... I don't like the tornado shield as it picks up e...

 
Which is really sad when you think about it.
 
FAE
@Yuki I don't think it was, I think it was something else, or else I would've remembered.
 
@Yuki You see that picture I posted yesterday?
 
@Frank The figurines?
 
@Yuki Yep
 
4:17 PM
Yeah, I'm not sure I like the quality of the faces.
Then again, it's a low-res picture and there's distortion from being near the binding.
Either way, I don't have $60+ to spend.
I'd rather get the Collector's Edition first.
 
@Yuki This coming from the guy who's watched Frozen in theaters a dozen times. :P
 
@Frank That's exactly why I don't have $60+ to spend.
. . . . xD
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I think on your 8th viewing they should just give you a free digital copy.
 
@Frank Sorta. I'm not sure what their marketing team was thinking. They clearly had too much confidence in being able to bring in non-gamers for the TVTVTVSPORTS bit ($500 is very expensive for JUST kinet + snap) and also overestimated how much gamers would feel loyal to them after last gen
...in fact Sony and Valve seem to be the only platform holders who HAVEN'T greatly overestimated their customer's loyalty recently
 
@BenBrocka It seems they're still going on that whole, "We know what you guys want. Stop telling us you don't want this." kick they were on when they announced the Bone in the first place.
 
4:22 PM
Probably won't change course until after Titanfall is out, and only if it doesn't sell "enough" units. It will sell a lot, but I don't see it topping the PS4. Maybe for one month. Then again, PS4 is getting Infamous and a bunch of (superior) multiplats next month too
plus Titanfall is on PC and 360, as much as their marketing wants you to forget that
 
@Yuki oh you
 
@Wipqozn me and my silly shenanigans, eh?
 
I no longer have to listen to What Does The Fox Say? 10 times a day for my daughter. Now she wants Frozen
 
@Sterno improvement?
 
@Sterno Is your daughter @Yuki?
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4:24 PM
@fei ...
 
@KevinvanderVelden For now, at least.
@Wipqozn Maybe. I don't know what she gets up to while at daycare. Maybe she logs in here
 
@Wipqozn That would be an improvement for me if that was the case.
 
@Yuki It's your naptime, honey. GO TO SLEEP.
 
Congratulations, you've been promoted from 22 year old student to little girl.
 
@Sterno ... I'm just gonna take a screenshot of that because I think I'll need photographic proof whenever I claim that you called me "honey".
 
4:26 PM
@Yuki Having @Sterno for a dad would be pretty cool.
 
Saved screenshot as "@Sterno called me 'honey'"
 
So much backsass
 
hawt
 
@Sterno You should spank him.
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Q: Is it worth buffing my partner (dual wield fighter) via spells?

habmalnefrageIs it worth buffing my partners strength via spells? It's kind of tedious to target her with my enchant while she runs around in her killing spree. I had the idea of switching to a homing missile + enchant buff to simplify the aiming but I didn't have the time to test that ingame. Adding ricoche...

 
4:28 PM
Ok, this got really creepy. I'mma go do some work.
 
@OrigamiRobot [fanfiction intensifies]
 
@OrigamiRobot Well, that just went somewhere really f--kin' weird.
 
What @Frank said.
 
@OrigamiRobot I don't care this is obvious star bait, I'm starring it anywayus
 
...
 
FAE
4:29 PM
@OrigamiRobot I was drinking water when I read that and just almost literally spittaked.
 
Obvious is the best kind of starbait.
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@OrigamiRobot mutters something about random licking
 
nuzzles @KevinvanderVelden
 
did they ever bet the lasy gym?
 
4:30 PM
yeah a bit ago today
thanks to POCKET SAND
they're attempting the ledge now
check back in 48 hours and they might be past it
 
I'm sure they will revert to democracy before long
 
Okay, question about baseball: If you bat left-handed, do you stand on the right side or the left side?
 
right I think?
 
you stand in the middle
 
No that's when you're batting with your teeth
 
4:36 PM
@Yuki Based on whose perspective? Left handed batters stand on the right side of the plate from the catcher's perspective.
 
@JasonBerkan Catcher's perspective.
There was just this discussion about handedness and how a character who was seen as left-handed was batting right-handed for a scene.
And I remembered that the one time I played baseball, someone called me out for batting left-handed even though I'm a righty.
And that was because I played tennis before playing baseball.
 
Happy now @Ullallulloo?
@Yuki Dominant arm on the side of the catcher.
 
I have to deal with Windows Server 2003 today, and I'm reflecting on all the bad decisions I have made in my life that brought me to this point.
 
@Sterno One of them possibly being adopting me, although that was in the last fifteen minutes.
 
@Sterno it all started that time you were playing Warcraft
 
4:46 PM
@kalina See? I told you it was awful.
 
@Sterno Just be happy it's not Sharepoint.
 
Seriously, though, WOW and every other MMO has a very finite amount of fun units it can produce. I don't know how people manage to keep mining more.
 
@Sterno Well, since Blizzard keeps increasing the caps on the skill levels... What does Mining cap out at now?
It was 450 in WotLK, IIRC.
 
@kalina As a sidenote, doesn't WoW have a global cooldown as well?
 
I'm not sure if what you did there is one step better or one step worse than a pun.
But it's definitely awful.
 
4:49 PM
@Frank yes
 
@kalina So you have no excuse not to play FF14, then.
 
@Frank sure I do, I already own WoW
 
@kalina FF14 currently costs the same as a month of subscription, and you get a month free. So you're essentially getting the game for nothing.
 
@Sterno Then I have succeeded.
 
@Frank but nothing will refund the 360 days of playtime I already have in WoW
 
4:51 PM
@Frank Except that you have to pay money.
 
I've been watching Twitch Plays Pokemon so much our network admin noticed it in the net usage logs
 
also: nobody I know plays it during the hours I play games
 
@kalina You bought a solid year? Ouch.
 
so I'd have to mess up my sleeping pattern
@Frank no, I've played for a solid year
 
@BenBrocka Ouch.
 
4:51 PM
my game client has been logged into my main character for 360~ days
 
@kalina Yea but how much of that is you idling?
Sleeping on rocks, etc
 
@OrigamiRobot probably about half
 
That's still a lot.
 
plenty of sleeping on rocks
roofs
haystacks
 
FAE
@BenBrocka Oops?
 
4:52 PM
you know me and logging out of games
 
@kalina It never happens?
 
@kalina It made me audibly chuckle every time you'd say "nn!" and your character would just flop down and sleep wherever you happened to be standing at the time.
 
@OrigamiRobot ...yeah, sounds about right.
 
@Unionhawk I imagine she sleeps that way in real life.
 

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